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: ' :. 1 ... ...fill-;; m m' tf ifffi f 1' 5 . 1 . .. : : ' .! i : . ' -7.,. -.' vIi t-j: T. B. KnrOSBUET, Editor. 1 ; '-:.'.'-t ' ' inYT?riT:'-:nTtll - -yi'i'- . , 1 ... V: , r.JLBTEOTnBR, Proprietor. T OXFORD, Ni C. MAHCH 25. 1858. ' . : Vm VA W 1 r - i r " ! r r ; '- r : 7 1 . - - . . 1 -v EXTRACTS FROM THE Address of the Hon. Edward Everett, buuriixD a iron 1 thi iiw Totx itati Aamcct ' tuait lociiTY, ocToum 9, 1857. . "Tbere Is a teroptiUon when men as.emble On occasion of thU kind, to exaggerate the Irn jfiorUnce of the ptmuit in which they are en gaged, In comparison 'with the other callings of lifa When farmera, or merchants, or mana f vrtarers, or teacliers, or professional men, come together to celebrate an annimsary, or an im portant trer.t, or to do honor to some distin guished Individual, it is almost a matter of course that their .particular occupation or pro fession ahould he represtnted by those on whom the duty of npeaking for1 their associates de volves as the Jmost important profession or calling. No great hirm Is done by these rhe torical exnggertion which, in the long run, must correct each other; and which, if they hare the effect of making men more content with their own( pursuit, are not rery pernici ous, eten if ihey remain uncorrected. Although these claims which men set up, . each for the paramount importance of his own occupation, can not, of course, be oil well founded, it may bo maintained that o.ich of the great pursuits of life is indispensable to the properity of all tho rcst. y Without agriculture and manufactures, the merchant would have nothing to transport or exchange. Without commerce, the j farmer and the manufacturer ould be confined to a barter trade, in a limited home circle of demand and supply. In this respect, all the great pursuits of life in a ciriliz ed community tney be deemed of equal Import ance, because they have each and ail for their object to supply wme one of the great wants of our nature; because each is necessary, to some . eitent at least, to the prosperity of every other; and because the are all brought by the natur al sympathies of our being into a harmonious system, and fjrm that nolle and beautiful whole which we call civilized society. But, without derogating from the importance of any of the other pursuits and occupations, We may safely, I think, claim for Agriculture In some respects a certain precedence before them all: It has been said to be tho great and 6nal object of gOTernment to Ret twelve impartial and intelligent men into the jurybdx ; by which, of course, Is meant that the administration of equal justice between man and man is the pri mary object of eivilized and 'social life. But the teacher, secular or spiritual, might plausib ly urge that it is of prior importance that the community should have the elements, at least,. or mental and moral culture, and be taught the . obligations of an oath, before any twelve of its membeni should, take part in the administration of justice. The phjsici in might contend that health is of greater importance than the trial by" jury; and with greater reason it might be claim ed for agriculture that it supplies the first want of our nature; the daily call of the great family of man for his daily bread the call that must be answered befuro tho work of life, high or low, can begin. Pfnintiff and defendant, judge and jury, must break their fast before they meet in court; ar.d, if the word of a witty poet can be taken, certain very important consequences sometimes happens to culprits, in order that , jurymen may get to their dinners. j But, to speak In a more fitting and serious strain, I must confess that there has always seemed to me something approaching the. aoDiimein ims view or agriculture, which (such is the effect of familiarity) does not produce an impression on cur minds in proportion to the grandeur of the iea. We seem, on the con trary, to Uke for granted, that we live hv m kind of mechanical necessity, and that our frames are like watches made, if such a thing were possible, to go without winding un. in irtue of some innate principle of subsistence Independent of our wills, which I, indeed, in Other respects true. But it is not less true that our existence, as individuals or communities, must be kept up by a daily supply of food, di rectly or indirectly furnished by agricnlture; and that, It this supply should wholly fail for ien aays, ait tuts multitudinous, striving, ambi tious humanity, these nations and kindred and tribes of men, would perish from the face of the earth, by the most ghastly form of dissolution. Strike out of exigence at once ten days supply of eight or ton articles, such as Indian corn, wheat, rye, potatoes, rice, millet, the date, the banana, and the j bread-fruit; "with a half-dozen oihcrs which serve as the forage of the domestic animals, and the human race would be extinct. The houses we inhabit, the monuments we erect, the trees we plant, stand in some cases for ages; but our own frames the stout limbs, the Skillful hands that build the houses, and set up the monuments, and plant the trees fare to b built up, recreated, every day: and thia must be done from the fruits .of . the earth gathered by agriculture. Every thing else is luxury, convenience, comfort food is indis. pcnsable. j (-. - . Then consider the bewildering extent of this daily demand and supply, which you will allow mi to place before you in a somewhat coarse mechanical illustration. The human raca is utnaTly t!taatd tt about ere theusiuid miK I .. . .... - . -i r i uona or individuals. II tne sustenance of a portion oflbeae multitudinous millions is de rived from other sources than agriculture, this circumstance is balanced by the fact that there ia a great deal of agricultural produce raised in excess of the total demand for food. Let, then, the thoughtful husbandman who desires to form a just ides of .the importance of his pur suit, reflect, when be gathers his little flock about him ta partake the mornin&'a meal, that one thousand millions of fellow-men have awaken ed from sleep that morning craving their daily bread with the same appetite which reigns at his family! board ; ar.d that if, by a , superior power, they could be gathered together at the same hour for the same meal, they "would fill both sides of five tables reaching all round the globe where it is broadest, seated side by side, and allowing eighteen inches to each individual ; and th4t these tables are to be renewed twice or thrice every day. Then let him consider that, iri addition to the food of the human race, that all the humble partners of man's toil the lower animals is to be provided in like man ner. These all wait npon agriculture, as the agent of that Providence which , giveth them their meat in due season ; . and they probably consume in the aggregate an equal amount of produce; and, finally, let him add in imagina tion to thi untold amount of daiiy food for man and bdst the various articles" j which arp fur nished directly or indirectly from the soil . for building materials, furniture' clothing, and fuel. l 1 '.'...- " ... ' :-- : I The grand total will illustrate the' primary importance of Agrienlture, considered as the steward-" the commissary charged with sup plying this almost inconceivable daily demand of the Human race and the subject animals for their daily bread; a want so imperative and un compromising, that death in its most agonizing form is the penalty of a failure in the supply. But although agriculture is clothed with an importance which rests upon the primitive con stitution of our nature, it is very far from being the simple concern we are apt to think it. On the contrary, there is no pursuit in life; which not only admits, but requires, ; for its foil de velopment, more of the resources of science and arti-none which Would better repay the pains bestowed upon an appropriate education. There is, I believe, no exaggeration in stating that as great an amount and variety of scienti fic, physical, and mechanical knowledge is 1 re quired for the most successful conduct of the various operations of husbandry, as for any of the artSj trades, or professions. I conceive, therefore, that the Legislature and the' citizens of the great State over which, you, sir,1 (Gover nor King,) so worthily preside, have acted most wisely in making provision for the establish ment of an institution expressly; for agricultur al education. There is a demand for systematic scientific instruction, from the very first steps' we take not in the play-farming of gentlemen' of leisure, but in the pursuit of husbandry as! the serious business of life. ! J ' , I In the first place, the earth which , is to be' cultivated, instead of being either n uniform or; a homogeneous mass, is made up of a variety of materials, differing in different places,! and pos sessing different chemica' and agricultural pro-! perties and qualities. A few of these elements, j and especially clay, lime, and ; sand " predomi nate, usually Intermixed to omoextent by nature, and capable of being so mingled and treated fertility by art, as to produce a vastly increased The late Lord Leicester in Encrland. better k hownas Mr. Coke, first carried out this idea on a large scale, and more than doubled the productive value of his great estates in1 Norfolk by claying his light soils! ; To conduct operations of this kind, some knowledge of gcologyi mineralogy, and chemistry, is required. The enrichment pf the earth by decaying animal and vegetable substances is. the. most familiar operation perhaps i husbandry ; but it is only since its scientific principles have been explored by Davy and Liebig, that the great practical improvements , in this branch of agriculture have taken place. , It is true that the almost boundless natural fertility of the soil supercedes for the present, in some parts of our country," the importance of artificial enrichment. I in quired last spring of a friend living in a region of this kind, on the banks of the Ohio, how they contrived to gel rid of the accumulation of.the farm-yard, (a strange question it will seem to fanners in this part of the world,) 1 and he answered : By carting it into the stream.? In another portion of the Western country,: where I had seen hemp growing vigorously about thirty years ago, I found that wheat was now the prevailing crop ; I was informed that the land was originally "so rich as fo be adapted only fop hemp but had now become poor enough for wheat, i. X " j r ; j ,These, however, are not instances of a per manent a.nd normal condition of things. 1 In the greater part of the Union,, especially in those portions Which have been for some time under cultivation, the annual exhaustion- mast be re stored by the annual renovation of the soil. To accomplish this object, of late years every branch of science, 1 every resource of the laboratory, every tingoom or nature, bssbeen placed under eontribnt BHttle fields have been dug ever I - ' 1 . - I - 1 ? y ' 1 . for the bonea of their victims; geology has furnished lime, gypsum, and marl ; commerce has explored: the remotest seas for guano, and has called loudly on diplomacy to assist her efforts; chemistry has been tasked for the pro duction of compound,' which in; the progress of science, may supercede - those of animal tr vegetable origin which are prepared by nature. The nutritive principles developed by decaying animal and vegetable organizations are! univer sally diffused throughout the' material world, and the problem to be solved is to produce them artificially on a large scale, i cheap enough I for general use. j In the mean time, the most. simple and familiar processes of enrichmenti with the aid of mechanical power; and a moderate appli cation of capital, are producing the most as tonishing results. The success which has at tended Mr. Mechi's operations1 in England is familiar to us all. j By the appjication of natur al fei tilizing liquids sprinkled by a steam-engine over his fields, they have been bade to produce. n is saia, seven annual crops of heavy grass." TO BE COKTISCE, ' From the London Athenaeum. i : j h !!: .it' 'ip 'if ' ' ' I s Douglas Jerrold. j J .. i . . - - i- ii - .; UEXin nas taken trom among us a man of vast and peculiar force. Heroes dwarf in the eyes of their yalct ; distance lends enchantment to the view ; but Douglas Jerrold was the greatest marvel to those, who khew him best His reading was wide, and his memory for what he read; prodigious. He j knew the whole of Shakpeare by heart, asd" every noble line or beautiful image in Faust and the Inferno slept within his lips (like the charge- of a gun. ; He delighted in Eddas and Zendavjjstas, in the lore or the Kabbis, in science, and in j the mysteries Ot llie schoolfraen. Lightfoqt! was familiar to him as Rabelais and Montaigne, Bacon. as Ful ler and Donne.' Yet the powers which I made his fame were native. He was most Widely known, perhaps, by bis wit; for wit catches the sense like a torch in a ravine, even though the Told mines may lie unnoticed close by. I Proph ets wno bear torcbes through the streets Will draw a crowd sooner than those who 'leach the wisdom j of Solomon. And his wit was: ; very nimble, crackling, and original. No man' could resist its spontaneity and sparkle, and it Wrote its daily story jin London life as a thing apart and institutional. "But his wit! however brilli ant, was not his 'finest gift. Indeed, iri his se rious moments he would; laugh at his own re partees as tricks as a mere habit of mind which he coulq teach any dull fellow. in two lessons ! His wit made Dnlyorie side of hisge ni us sprung Wdeed from a central characteris tic the; extraordinary raDiditv of his arjDrehen sion. He ,saW iinto the heart pf things. He perceived analogies invisible tp other ;menJ AucBw uitiugies homeumes maae mm merry sometimes indignant. And as ,he never hung fire, dull people often saw his trath before they understood his reason and they blamed fhim, not in truth because he was wrong, bu because they were slow.., . j.' ' .: i His wit was so prodigal, andjlie prized it so little, save as a delight to others', that he threw it away like dust, never caring for the bright children of his brain, and smiling with compla cent kindness at people who repeated to him his jests as their own 1 At the least demur, too U . .! ' 1 I '"' - t .. . ' ! -. ue wouia surrender nis most nappy allusions j , 1 ' i it . ' 1 . . and his most trenchant hits. In. one of hia plays anf old sailor, trying to isnatch a ki&a- from a pretty jgirl-j-as old sailors wilt got a box on the ear. i "There," exclaimed Bjue-jacket, "like my luck.; always wrecked on the coral reefs " The manager When the play was read in t the greenroom, could j not see the Am, and Jerrold struck it out. ; j A friend made a captious re mark on a very characteristic touch in a manu script comedy and the touch went out: a cy nical idog, in wrangle with his much better-half. said to her: "My notion of a Wife of forty is, that a man should be able to chiange her, like a : . . ' l - - . ii . .: i ' ! - Dank-note, lor two twenties.'! j . . . y ; 1 The best pari of many years ;of his life was given up- freely to these theatrical tasks for his genius was dramatic his family belonged to the stage and his own pulpitj ashe though stood behind the; foot-lights. JHis :father,;his mother; and; his ; two sisters, all adorned the stage; his sisters older than himself, had ma r- nea iwo manasers one, tne late Air. Hammond an eccentric humorist and unsuccessful mana ger of Drury Lane the other Mr. Copeland. b the Liverpool Theatre Royalt y He himself for a moment retrod jthe stage, ptayiiig in his own exquisite drama, "The fainter of Ghent. But the effort of mechanical repetition wearied a . brain so fertile in invention; ianq he happily 're turned to literature and journalism, only to re appear as an actor in the plays performed by the amateurs at St. James's Theatre and Devon shire House. - - !l " j, ; Contemporaneously, he bad worked his way into notice as a prose-writer of a ; very brilliant znd original vtyppiefithMjigh: the periodi cals.' ' His passion was periodicity-the' power ot beingable to; throw hislernblUbna daiiy,"or weekly, into the common reservoirs of thought. Silence; was to bi'm a pain i likel ;hungerV t Be m nst tal kcf upon merA-brieflyy TfcpidlyVjr- resistibly. ' For raary years he brooded, over tc wougu oi iwtctu He even found a Dub-1 isher "nrl . LUAv,i A runch rich jo -rt'v uiB'puoiiaoer was lesai or six numbers the h. ml w rL rr v.6,., u itt . ater. his son-in-lawV Mr Mh,. a Vi Pf!(T our mer7 companion, ) now of wide-world fame appeared. , All the chief wri tings of 'our author except WA Man made of M?nfyTw:the ught in imigaauies, an were written; with the devil at the door. Men of Character? appeared in Blackwood's Magazi. -Th, ChronicU, of CITornJot" io JUL ine and editor-"SL GUes'and St ljam5 in .hi and editor and the Punch's Letters to his S pn and the VCaudle Lectures. in P,, ti. , jA "r? wuicu appear in iunci's AC-1 trim r mm - . ' j - m 1". lue Presenvyear, ixom his hand- i brands of famous vintiiges, testifyinir to certain accidenU of carriage, attests also the viW and richness of, the soil from which they come. For several years past, he, had devoted hitri- i.wuaitiji luau uviom io po itics. ! aim as ! 1 oliucs, indeed, had always attracted they attract. the strong and the suscepti pie. In the dear old davs, when Leigh Hunt u'as sun denrn thA FrvnptK a j : l .J. "7 i"" " -h1 j y i J the like crimes. h nnmnnaA n il I Most 'of these- work-' K UJ:L..:Jl tJ i""?jurrr?l, i . . i MuuY.uiar irom disease of the henrL lt upon them the broad arrow f Knl- 1 ;.,. ; ,....,11 . " . . , , "o" i i.urevrie piace, ill burn Pr orr but the mazarine hrand in k J p9 t;L uL V.', r- . ' i y, , V -f : i u : wo, iiko iuc i n Kin nr nnn i ':: - tn , u" . 1 7 , . V i wwin,l Pew why should therebe'less ibr in the heart ma spiritwhlchwouMprobabIy,inoUdays1kf the bride of Atherto ithK uuve, seni mm to iNeweate: The hrthk no. .r,i . , , i t . . . it was on v to ba hsid in sorot n,.t , copies are extant, Of late years he . had "return . - - " . ' ,.T" v ":.; JCV ed to polities, as a writer for the BMo under Air. Wakley, and as sub-editor of the Exami. tier, under Mr. FoTiblanque ; returned to find his opinions popular in the country, anil trium phant in the House of Commons; 0(1 his ef forts as a journalist, we need hot speak. He found . Lloyd? Kevxpaper, as it were'in the street, and he annexed it to literature He r , f . ' I ' ' .... K , I I i i I ' iound it comparatively low in ran kJ and he spread it abroad on the wings of his genius, un til its circulation became a marvel of tlie press w'1 I ' -i ,1' IJ I J We have neither time nor heart at this mo-1 ment to draw the portrait ofithe deceased. , An auipier luiograpiier win - nociong be wanting; in which those who knew and loved him and those. knew nun beat InvAri hirti . mArfLm able to paint him as the index and interpreta- ,i -- ; , ".va.-n- ... wc t.vu vi vui t,. xei even &v a glance the deplhsof his insight the subtlety of his analysis, me vividness ot nis 'Dresentation mnst nfriu . i t i i f place amonff tne wits of our, own time is clear enough. He had less iruiio man x neoaore nook, less elaborate .I.-- mLL: 31 XT' , , -- V " J -I humor than Svdnev Smith.'less fauihMff and quaintness passed ' all than Thomas Hoock i But !,.,. ' 1 T- ho sur- these in . intellectual - flash; ou; aim, ok strength. His wit was all steel; points 'and his talk was like squadrons of lancers in evolution, Not one pun, we have heard, is to be found in his writings. His wit stood nearer to poetic fancy . thanj ; to 'broad, humor. . The I 4jtquisite confusion of his tipsy gentleman, who, alter scraping the door for an hour with liis latch- Key, leans oacK, and exclaims : "Ey Jove ? ouuic M.UUUUIU. nas -fcwien sioien tne fee-J holeT, comes as near farce as any of lis illqs- trations. His celebrated definition of Dogma- tism as uPnppvismcome to matiintv" !n,.t-c like a happy pun but is something jlar more , , - , I - w ... u deep and pmiosopnic iietween this,1 however ; 1 ! " i. " H L . j I . ' i- .- and such fancies as his description of Austra. lia MA land so fat, that if ycfu tickle it with' a: straw, it laughs with a harvest' the ; disUnce is not great. In his earlier time, before : age and success la iiau uieiiuweu iiim io nisj Dest, he lines accused of. ill nature. 1' charee was" sometimes which" he seemed on vehemently resented; and which y ludicrous jto thosej privileged with his friendship. To folly, pretense, and as- sumptioni hegavenoquart fight;: and some of those who tried lances with him; long remembered hisj home-thrust; i We may give two instances without offense, for the; combatants are all gone from the scene; One of those playwrights who' occupied Old Drury, "rr. t . wt asaii v wnom ne iwaged ceaseless war of eniirram. waa! dpWrihW Mm. it- " ' i j : " self as suffering from feverof the brain.; Cour- age! my good tellow," &iys Jerrold, there is no foundatbn for ot Ouizot and Louis Phillippe from Paris, was ut iiuwu, nruer w no gieai parts was abusing the Revolution; and pitying Guizot: "You see," he observed, "Guizot and 1 are both historians we row in the same boat, Ay, ay, - says Jerrold, fbut not with Uhe same sculls.' i Yet such personal encounters were but the pl y of the panther. No m.n ev er, used such powers with greater gentleness. purse -when he' had a onree-Ai-was t .rw - , - , 1 1 ., . - ... -ir . mine union1 .lAt.:. : . i ' T " r"' -"T? ' - C4C 'f luue ms Pen' and .hivinflaeneeiD the v6riil!fbeposiess frori Mm 1 H. a . li-r I . 4 , : . ll . ?. g Ol WWCO mary took advartara. T.il J saw Tom Dibdin . BQnz - wnter mud tn him r . r-icr. nave y tu L - m , T. r lcoa a author of Rfrfc Eyed Susan," ! have all the conSdeoee, bt I havent A guinea ctaetositv which kr-w no 'limitl-iiol even the lUrnt1 athia led him Info trials which a bolder man would have easily escaped. I To gife all that be pos- Tbi. nothin, iOT, "D"l i? ' """" j" TT mn T0OM i : , s i j.Mii ii every one who received a ilindnL.!!.' m. i'.j-J hnnuUJ -J.: :"T7 i" :,WK1S -Jr va i"J? loso, 4 mountain of resting place of Donalna .T0.m . The .Wm 1 A'A W frw days illness, his residence, on Monday last; .- . The Four Piles of GoldRings; or, The f . Voiceof Old Time, r i ; -; It was with mingled 1 feea'nii that Marion Ellesmere retired to her room the night before her wedding. A light cloud of self-reproach rested on her mind; a cloud bo 1 light that she scarcely knew whence itjaroSc, or .would have u . . i r1?" yF sisier 9 Smile. as she bade her g6od Sight, had been allbrieht y. . . . . f u cu auungni ' A , , t . I ! 11 vyw uer snouiaers. and her eves ahfuiPi! K : j ;f i j r iT ttr cnair, auu gave nerseit up to thouehU- Ao-morrowi day long honed for. and vpt jbalf dreaded I I am at last indeed on the eve of that great change which mlust alter the whole current ot my hie l . What new duties: what TesponsibiJitiesI But ho will ever be hear, to uide, to encourage, to make the! path' of duty delightful, to me. I shall leah oil him and trint him, 1 am indeed the; most blest of women his love, j I would not change my lot, no, not in jw oe empress ot the world. And yet "Marion heaved a deep sigh; then almost started at the' r S . onf as sue was, with the still niht around her:' the lnnl rn cheek, as'if in indiguation at herself "and tpI Ham notorthy to be his wife! He whose spirit is Jsq purej so lofty1, so farabove the world 1 l ; 'i ki.i.-- LJ f. , 1 uuu. u touiuco, tuuiu unes. or rirnpa on thing raise him? When I am beside him how I deeply Irteel this; I seem to breathe a purer J ftaiosphlre, toseethinU as they really are- bat nhPri T nm Dnn.n,,;vi . i ou.4wuuucu iFv ULiirn. inun i know not how' it is bull there ia ian'.?nflnno which they exercise, ah almost in.UR;M l ' V . ' . r, ":' ' i - ' I .1 ,1,1 " " " I r tnnes move me: I know them o be folly and I VatlitV. V(Et T O.m nnt. doaniea i a J J : - v - vKWV tUCUl as I , ought j to do. Ohl how weak I am, how! worldly; how 1 nnwnrtli nf l, I'l if..: ' 1 ', , i f 1 chair, arid her loner lashes-were moist witfc 0l ""v.vuj uiwi idaiiiu saus DECK on hpr tears. !! Iv ; ' j j'jj J . , ;. She sate long, her light burned . low, every isound in -the house' was iistilled. presently : the walls of $er apartment seemek to recede aroun4 her, with the Wange iniistinctnei of a dissolV- ing view; marble pillars on either side, i trradut a7 assuming form and size, while the carpet MP"" wncn manon's teet had rested spread into wide pavement of mosaic. An Marion was no longer alone ; a strange form was beside her, of more than human atjatnrp. Lnd i;! I pat of mortal man. 'His long1 silver hair ffave 1 , ; j, . , - - - j ""I uujiaB h it ' 1 ' .nr. J. .! ''Hi I I . i .- ! I Famm appearance of ageL but an unearthlv 1 re SlowH in his deep set eyes. froW. beneath )te hito eyebrows which overhung them. His flfess waf dim and indistinct, everj changing in aM nue i now aark as the lowering- thun- j , 1 r !" vue wim ,misi wnicn curls und mountain, anon tinged: as with th4 ?PnS tmts of the rainbow. In his hand the old I H11 grasped a cy the sharp and glitterin?: j Marior < she was in the presence of old . . ,. . 1 ! j'Look! there I" fie exclaimed; and the strange tones of his voice sounded like the'wind through the arches of a ruin, j Marion beheld before her what. appeared; a 'white ! altar : of marble sculptured, and festooned with imancolored f y wers iragrance not like those of earth, S xeui xii' 1 .ll .i . i .tuakecc juu.ueiore youx f said lime fwhatglitrs onyondefniarfile?' ;' 4' I i1"Iseenothinirbut oihU of felld it:. Marion. It was strange that U the presence of such a companion, she felt nether 'wonder nor fearij : : J H ! : :) ' : :':' : M PAnd are thevaH alike ? said Lt; 'J. fl '"All aire alike, save that they are dirided into four' different heaps."-; ! ! x ' - 'i ' ' -: 'A 1 ' I I be old man laughed : how, wild and unear thly, sounded that laugh I "They have been framed different makers,?, said he; "I carry !iwm tion0 i4 l..,.:'!-: , i . , i wiier me iora noweri 1 i '3 . -i m - - , t f 8na' Jatterert and the flattered draw torn i that ile; i v w uuv. - - i ' auch'ai these. .nA U. v,L J .l. ' - ; - -j u ieei 01 ru maacc loving damsels, who look upon life as 5rama, of which they themselves are tke 'hero. jes. Standback-AUheaapproachev-aheanjt have a nog from that pile" ; t Then Marion beheld advancin tnwvL Jfyouthfhl couple, radian with happioea tnd love. The maiden was nrr..:- r- , surpassing fiur, aef wniuait half - coneaaled ki-.vj teance, but her soft eTs wens fi.-rf v companion, whose every look andtnn.-V.. ovethe most ardent and (devoted. Ue kiss4 wuumoiiDg nand upon which he pbi. ce4. the rinff. and Marion Wr W . firas they slowly retired to a more remote rgrt of the temple. "Surely they are happy taught ahe. ; She was roused by the voice old Time. : ' f'Mark yoh the second heanr t-i.. ' in with his scythe 'Those rin,s L " loned by WorldhWe versing m iT" tj,e Earth, was yoang. Those who seek , ' those who seek rak, whenthem,elrea'for a w. .-..aiaena: who dread to become o,d maids, the fortune-hunter, the ambitious. ' eproud-these choose from the second heap! Mtsuch is Julia, whose bridal d-awmg near. Jewels upon her bmw. i within her heart, she gives herself awav tr, - carnage and a mansion, and strives to forcct : Marion, sighed as the precession t. a jickening sight to behold beauty sacrificing -r r ...... -.-(.. - - - - . : !And wt( formed the rings' that Mn .V v. third heapr said Marioh to her mvsterioui companion.' :- V. r - .- - IThey are framed by Self-Will,'and the Evil One has breathed a spell over them. Vhen the fifth wmmadment is broken, when a parent's is clandestine wooing, and the wedded ones dare not ask God'a blessing upon them-tbenthose'rings are worn." ,ETenas he Poe, with fearful, hesitaUng step a maiden approached the pile, led on, half reluctant, by one of graceful form, who was whispering soft words in her ear. . OhI could it bet love that led him to act the part of tempter M the woman who trusted him, or did he fondly hope to find the faithful wife in the nndutifol daughter?. . ; . :.t. j ,- ivAnd what is the neglected cluster of rings which no finger yet has touched ?" said Harion. ! The voice of Time sank to the soft whisper" 5f the western breeze, and milder hght shone in his ey's, as he replied They are for those whose marriages have been made in heaven i every circlet of gold has been formed by Esteem. . rueu iwo uevoieu io one service meet- heirs of fe. hoPe followers of one Lord; when loving ahd beloved, they would share each other'. joys, nor shrink from the burden of each other's $orroys ; when, helping ach other on a heav enward road, they would j press on in the same ; strength, the same bright goal above, then those rings unite them here, emblems of that eternity which will unite them in bliss never ending V . ; . ' . . A voice behind Marion seemed to echo the jast words ; she knew that voice, it thrilled to her heart ; and she knew the hand that pressed upon hers the pledge of connubial love. Could -ajl the diamonds' of Goleonda make it more pecious to the heart of the you'hful bride t ".' ?Then, again, the tones of old Times rose; af the.roshing sound of the angry blast. I corns Tt1 come 1" he cried. ; ."Thrones melt as snow before me j the peopled jcity, the obscure vil lage, the home pf the peasant, the palace of the monarch, bear the marks:of the deep footprints of Time I , And mine is the tonchstone that tries the gold , it is my hand that draws back the vail of Truth: I touch the bubbles of FoU Iy, ahd they break, and f leave bat a tear be hind." ;:. i -';! .;;.. - ;;? Marion watched, as "with -irtealtty but rapid step approached Althea and her husband. Now lines appeared on the fair smooth brow , th6 glassy ringlets were streaked with gray; the fairy form had lost all its grace. Andthe ar dent lover, how cold was his look howchang e fron the bridegroom? was the huihand I Time laid bis heavy hand upon the "ring which stpi glittered on the finger of Althea ; at once th circlet lost "ail its j brightness, the eolor : anged, the gilding vanished j naught re main'ed but the doll, worthless metal beneath i He ring had never been gold I 1 - . . ;.;glanghtj, Julia 1 ' amid thy . wealth and thy state, Time also is stealing on thee. 'Bars of gtd will not bolthim out he tramples earth's trjeasuresT beneath hu 'feet. He touches the " rig on : the worldlings ;hand, : and " the . dull, huavy, fall of ' iron is heard. '- Man may ; tea nrfnght but the loop of .gold, but the wearer feTelsihe galling chain. Hopeless and nnpitied nost she drag its weight she has chosen her faie, and she must bear itft her ring hai never -ben gold.-,; - :. ."' 4 ' : : I With mournful i nterest; Marion watched the steps of the wedded4pairj 'who had sacrificed duty to love. There were Jooka of suspicion. and words of reproach," as the shadow cf Time I " - w . f-. ,, , , . toacned tne latal ' ; . . . ring, a .faint cry escaped from J the wife' rife's pallid lips i a viper was coiling where irclet bd rested : her rinj had never been 1 -' .J i. ""', t ! 6 1 1 t'1 " "ii' 1 I : ' . ;i 1 .'V ! - i. s .--! -: -- -A : r- - - -
The Leisure Hour (Oxford, N.C.)
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March 25, 1858, edition 1
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