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I tref br about m t mcmorv of tba
teany olcmn hoffr I thus ipent alone with
tU uifttr tf the II. use of Uahtr. Yet I
houlil fait io nj attempt to conitf an idc of
the eiact character of the studies,' of of tho oc
copationa, In which be ioroired mejor led me
the wa.- An excited and highljrjdLste rape red
IJealil threw a aulphure.oua lugtre over alL
1IU long IroproTlaed dirges will riftg; foreyer in
mjr ear. Among othor things, I hold painfully
ia mind a certain inuular peryersiao and am
plification of the wild air of the last waltz of
Von Weber. From the paintings oyer which
bis elaborate fancy brooded, and which grew,
touch by touch, into yaguenessea at which I
ahuddcred1 the more thrillir.gly, because I ahud
dereJ knowing not why from these paintings
. (mid a tholr images now are before me) I
would in vaijn endeavor to educe inore than a
'mall portion which ahould lie within the com
paM of merely written words. By the utter
aimplicltjr, by the nakedneM of his -designs, be
arrested and overawed attention. If ever mortal
painted an ide, that mortal was Roderick
Ualirr. For me at least in the 'circumstances
,thn aurrouidi.ig melher arose !out of the
pure ahtraclions which the bypochondriic
conuivtd to throw upon his c;invass, an tnleii
aity of intylurable awe, no shadow of which
felt I ever.ytt in the contemplation! o( the cer
tainty glowLng jet too concrete reveries of
One of the phantasmagoric conceptions of
; my friend, partaking not so ridjidly of the spirit
raunlradwn, may be shadowed fortli, although
fvebly, in word. ' A small picture presented
the interior of an immensely lon add rectangu-
lar vault er tunnJ, with low wlls, amooth,
' whiti, and without inten option j or device.
CcrUia aocry poinU of the design served
well to convey the idea that .this excuratiou
ly at an exceeding depth below tlie surltico'of
the earth. No outlet was ob-erved in any por
tion or us vat extent, and no torch, or other
artificial source of liht ws dierjiible ;J yet a
flood of intjiiis rajs, rolled throughout, and
bathed the; whole in a ghastly and inappropriate
sp.eudur. ' ' ' j
I have just pokcn Of that mortiid condition
; of the aud.tory nerve which rendead aH iuuMc
intoltrabltf u the nufTerer, with the exception
of certain e fleets of stringed instrument. It.
was, perhaps the narrow 4imils to which he
thus conlined bimielf upon the guitar, which
gave birth, in great measure, to the fantastic
character of his performances. But the 'fervid
JmcUily of his impromptu could not be so ac
', counted for. Tney mu-th-ve teen, and were.
in the notes, as well us in the words of his wild
fantasia (for be not unfrequently accompanied
himself itb rhjmed verbal improvisations),
the result or- that intenso menial Collcctcduesi
and CQuceotrat ion to which I have previously
, alluded as observable i oulj in particular mo
ineots of the lgbet urtiflcial excitement
The words of one of these rhapsodies I have
easily remembered. 1 wan, perhaps, the more
. forvibly Imprcaned with it, ns be ga,ve it, be
' t-su4.', in the under or mystiu current of its
. meaning, I fancied that I percrived, and. for
the tlrst time, a fuU'connciousness ou the part
of Usher, of the tottering of hia lofty reason
upon W throne. The verses, which! were
entitled "The Haunted Palace,;", ran
nearly, if not accurately, thus: ! I
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In the greenest of our valleys, I
By good sngals tenanted, i-
Once a fair and Stately pulses i j
Uadiant palace reared its head, i
In the monarch Thought's dominioo -,
It sW'id there 1 I;. " I ' " ' j
Never seraph npread a pinion V j
Over fabric baif so fair. -' " i
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Banners yellow, gtorious, golden; - j
On its roor did float and flow '
(This-dl this as in the olden !' f
- Time lon ago) . , - . . j.
And every gemleir that dallied, . i
In that aweet day, "
Alonj the ramparts plained anJ pallid,.
A winged odor went away, j
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i TVanderers in that happy Talleri
- Through two luminous windows saw ;
' Spirits moving musically ' ; ' . ' - (
To a lule'a we'l-tuneU law,, i ... -Round
about throne,, where Billing i
(1'orphyrogKiie !).' , - . . r ' '
Irt sUte his glory well befitting,,
The ruler of the realm was seen.
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And all.with pearl and ruby glowing ' .
Was the fair palace door, , ,- 1 , '
Through whirl, came flowing, flowing, flowiag
And sparkling' evermore,... .
A lrp of Echoes whose. sweet duty
v a DO. .0 Bin, . . - .. . . ,
" In ylJ8 of surpassing beauty,
The v it and widom of their King.
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But evil things In robes of sorrow,- !
Assailed the monarch's big-h e-itate ;
. (Ah, let us mourn, for never morrow
Sliall dan upoo him, desolate !) ; t ;
And, round about bis borne, tha glory
That blushed and bloomed ,;..';
Is but a dim-reiuembered story -:
Of ibo p'd time entombed.
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"And travellers now within that valley, ,
Through; the rcd-litten windows, see
Taat forms that moveXintastically
Z To a discordant melody ; .
' -While, like a rapid ghastly river, -' , ' j
T.'iroogh the pale door,
JL hi Icous throng rush out fortrer, "j
AaJ la;h but aailla po more.
I well remember that soggestions arisin?
from this ballad led us into a train of thought
wherein there became manifest an opinion of
Uslier's which I mention hot so much on ac.
count-of its noyelty, (for other ' men have
thought thus,) as on account of the pertinacity
with which he maintained it. This opinion,
In its general form, was that of the senlience
of all vegetable things. iBut, in his disorder
ed fncy, the idea had assumed a more during
character, and trespassed, under certain condi
tions,, tipon the kingdom' of inorganization. ! I
lack words to. express tfio full extenL or the
earnest abandon of his fiersuasion." The belief,
however, was connected as I have previously
hinted) with the gray stones of the home of
his forefathers. The conditions of the sentience
had been here be imagined, fulfilled in the
method of collocation of these stones in the
ordeii of their arrangement, as wull as in that
of the many fungi which overspread them, and
of the decayed trees which stood around above
all, irt the long undisturbed endurance of this
arrangement, and in its reduplication in the
still jwaters of the tarri. fIts evidence the
evidence of the scBtiene was to be seen, he
aaid, (and I here started as he spoke,) in the
gradual yet certain condensation of an ' at
moxphere of their Own about the waters and the
walls. The result was discoverable, he added,
In th-t silent, yet importunate and; terrible in
fluence which for centuries had moulded tho
destinies of his family, itnd which made him
what I now. saw him what" he I wax. Such
opinions need no comment, and I will make
none: . ; " ";'vj ';.--..::.
"Our books the books which, for years, had
formed no small portion of the mental existence
of the invalid were, as might be supposed, in
strict keeping with 'this 'character' of phantasnn
we pored together over such works as the Ver-.
vert et Chartrene of Cresset ; the Be'phegor of
Machiavelli; the Heaven and Hell of Sweden
borg the Subterranean Voyago '1 of Nicholas
Kliihni by Hotberg j trie Chiromancy of Robert
Jrlml, of Jean D'ludaqine, and of De la Chainbre ;
the Journey into the Blue Distance of T'eek
and the City oHhe Sun of Carupnnella. One
tavonte volume was a smart octavo edition of
f the Dirtctorium InquisUorivm, by the Domini
can! Eymeric de Gironne; and there, were
passages in Pomponius :Me1a, about the old
African Satyrs and (E'ipans, over which Usher
would Hit dreaming for hours. His. chief de
light, however, was found in the perusal of an
exceedingly rare and curious book . in quarto
Oohic the manual of a forgotten churdh the
igiliae Mortuorum secundum Chorum Ec
clisiae ifayuntinat. '" ' T I ' -L: " ; (''
' i could not help thinking of (he wild ritual of
tins work, and of its probable influence, upon
Uie hypochondriac, when, one evenine. havimr
iiifermed me abruptly that tlie lady Madeline
was no more, he 6tated his intention of preserve
ing her corpse for a fortnight,! (previously to
its final interment,) in one of the numerous
vaolts within the main walls of the building
The worldly reason, however, assigned for this
singular proceeding, was one which I did not
fed! at liberty to dispute. The ! brother bad
been led to his resolution (so he told me) by
consideration of the unusual character of ' the
malady of the deceased, of certain obtrusive and
euger inquiries on the p irt of her medical men.
and of the remote and exposed situation of the
burial-ground of the family. ; I will not deny
that when I called to mind the sinister counten
ance df the person whom I met upon the stair
case, on the day of my arrival at the house. I
bad' no deire to oppose what I regarded as at
best but a harmless, and by no means an un
natural, precaution. ' J ;
j At the request of Usher, I personally "aided
him in the arrangements for the . temporary
entombment. . The body having been encoffin
ed, we two aioue bore it to its rest The
vault irt which we placed it (and which bad
been so loug unopened that our torches, half
smothered in its oppressive atmosphere, gave
us little opportunity for ; investigation) was
small, damp, and entirely without means of ad.
mission for light : lying, at great depth, imtne
diately beneath that poUion of the building in
which was my jown sleeping' apartment. .'It
had been used, apparently, in remote feudal
times, for the worst purposes of a donjon-keep,
and, 111 later days, as a place of deposit for
powder, H or;, sonic,, other highly, combustible
substance, as a portion of its floor, find ' the
whole interior of a long archway through which
we reached it, were, carefully sheathfed with
copper. . The "door, of massive, iron, hid been,
also, similarly protected. , Its immense weight
caused an unusually sharp grating sound, aa it
moved upon its binges. . - .,, .
, Having deposited our mournful harden upon
trescls within' this region of horror, we partial
ly turned asido the yet unscrewed lid . of the
coffin, and looked upon the face of the tenant;
A striking similitude between the : brother and,
aiater. now first afresCed , iny. attentiod ; and.
Usher, divining, perhaps, my thoughts, murmur
ed out some few , words from which I learned
that the deceased and himself bad been twins,"
and that sympathies of a scarcely - Intelligible
nature had 1 always existed f between ' themV
Our glances, however, rested notlong upon the
dead' for .we could Tnot'regard her nnawed.
The disease which had thns ehtombed the, lady
in the matuiily of yootb,; liad leA as "usual in
all maladies of a strictly cataleptical 'character,
the mockery of a faint blush upon - the" bosom
and the face, and that "suspiciously lingering
smile upon the lip which la so terrible in death.'
Watson, . Dr. ' rerxiyal, ; Spallanzahi, and
especially the Bishop of ta'ndafll eo '-Chemical
taiay-ii't vol, v, r ' -' .
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We replaced and screwed down the lid, and,
having secured the door of iron, made our way,
with toil, into the scarcely less gloomy apart
ment of the upper portion of the house,
And now, some days of bittej grief : having
elapsed, an observable change came over the
features Of the mental disorder of s my friend.
His ordinary manner; bad vanished; His ordi
nary occupations were neglected or forgotten.
He roamed from chamber : to chamber ' with
h urri.ed, u nequaL and . objectless step." The
pallor of his countenance ' had assumed, if
possible, a more ghastly hue but the luminous-
nesa of bis eye had utterly ; gone" out- The
once occasional huskinesstf his tone was beard
no more ; and a tremulous quaver, as if; of ex
treme terror, habitually characterized hia ut
terance. There were ' times, indeed," when I
thought bis unceasingly' agitated mind was
laboring with some oppressive secret, to divulge
which he struggled for the necessary courage,;
At times, again, I was obliged to resolve all
into the mere inexplicable vagaries of madness,
for I beheld him gazing upon vacancy for long
hours, in an attitude of the profoundest atten
tion, as if listening jto some imaginary sound.
It was no wonder that his condition terrified
.that it infected me. I felt creeping upon fme.'
by slow yet certain degrees, the wild influences
of his own. fantastic yet impressive: supersti
tions. :"' :-.. 1
. TO BK CONCLUDED SEXT WEKK.
An Arab, Horse.
A Bedouin, named Jabel, possessed a mare
of great celebrity. Hassan Pasha, then Gover
nor of Damascus, wished to buy the animal, and
repeatedly made the owner the most liberal
offers, which Jabel steadily refused, f The Pa
sha then had recourse to threUs, but with no
better success. At length, one Gafar,' a Be
douin .of another tribe, presented himself to th6
pasha, and asked what he would give the man
who' shuold make liitfj master of Jabel's mare I
"I Will fill his horsVsnose-bag with gold," re!
plied; Hassan.'. Tlie ' result of this interview
having gone abroact, Jabal became' more watch
ful Uan ever, and always secured his mare at
night with an iron chain'one end of which was
f.tstened to her hind fetlock, whilst th- otherl
aner passing ibrough the tent cloth, was at
t ached to a picket driven in the ground under
the felt that terved himself and his wife for a
bed. But oqe midnight, Gafar crept silently
into me tent, and succeeded in loosening - the
chain. Just befor starting off. with bis prize
be .caught up Jabal'a lance, and poking him
with the butt-end, cried out, " I am Gafui ; I
ave stolen your noble mare, and will give you
noticenn time." This warning was in accord
ance with the customs of the desert, for to rob
a hostile tribe is considered an honorable ex
ploit, aud the man who accomplishes it is desir
ous of all the dory that may flow from the
deed.
Poor Jabal, when he heard the words,
rushed out of the tent and gave the alarm
then mounting his brother's mare, accompanied
by some of the tribe, he pursued the robber for
four hours. The brother's mare was of th
Bam stock as Jabal's, but wae not equal to
her; nevertheless,; he out-stripped those of all
the other pursuers and was even on the point
or overtaking the robber, when ; Jabal shouted
to bim, " Piach her right ear and give a touch
of the heel." Gafar did so, and away went the
mart like lightning, speedily rendering further
pursuit hopeless, J The pinch in" the ar and
the touch with' the; heel were the secret signs
by which Jabal had been used to urge his mare
to the utmost speed.' Jabal's companion's were
amazed and indignant at his strange conduct
44 O thou father of a jackass," they cried. thoU
hast enabled the thief to rob thee of thy jewel."
But he "silenced their upbraidiugs by saying
" 1 would rather lose her'tban sully her repu
tation. ' Would you bay me "suffer iff to be
said amons the tribes that another mare had
proved fleeter than mine? -'I have, at least,
tnis comfort left roe, that I can say she never
met with her match" . 8. Rareyit'jirt rof
xiorie laming,
; Influence of Female Society.
It is better for yoa to. pass an evening- once
or twice in a lady's drawing-room, even though
the conversation is slow, and " you I know the
girl's song by beak, than In a club,' tavern, or
the pit e fa threatre.' ;AU amusements of youth
to which virtuous women are not admitted,
rely on it, are deleterious in their nature. 4 All
men who avoid female society 'have dull ' per
ceptions, arid are stupid, or have" gross ' tastes,
and revolt against what is pnre. Your club
awaggerers " who! I aro sucking : the' bults of
Tbiniard cues all night, call female sociefyirisipid,,
Poetry is insipid to a yokel ; beauty hasT no
charms for a blind man ; music does not please
a poor beast who does riot know one tune from
another ; and as a; true epicure i is . hardly " ever
tired of water sancby and brown ihread and
butter, I protest can -sit for 'a whole iiigbt
talking to a well regulated, kindly woman, about
her girl coming out, or her boy at Eton, and
like the evening' entertainment.'. One of thef
great benefits a man mayT deriye froco i women's
society is thatbe is bburtd toHe refepec-fui to
them. The habit is of great, good to "your
moral man,- depend, upon' it' Our." education
makes of iis the most emmentiyselfiah men in
tbe world. ' We fight- for' ourselves, we' push
for ourselves, we yawn for ourselves, we Ikht
our pipes, and say we won't go out; we prefer
ourselves, and Our'ease; and the greatest rood;
that comes to a man from a woman's society is
that he has to think of somebody 'besides him
self, somebody to whom he is bound tobe con-
staotlj aUeaUve aad respactuLnway;
, - From the Scottish Guardian.
. The Pass of Death.
t It was a narrow pass, j '. . ,'
: i Watered with human tears,
;Tor death has kept the outer gate '
'" Almost six thousand. years. -
And the ceaseless tread of a world's feet
.Was evej in my ears ' , ,
Thronging, jostling, turrying by,
Aa if they were only born to die. r "
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A atately king drew near, . v ' " .
s This narrow pass to tread,1
Around him hung a gorgeous robe," , "
: f And a crown was on his head; 41
s But Death, with a look of withering acorn, '
. j Arretted him and said,
: "In humbler dress must the king draw near,
. For the crowu and the purple are useless
" here." ' . - .
Next came a man ef wealth, i ' ; h , .
T AridThis eye was proud and bold,
And he bore in his hand a lengthy scroll,
-! Telling of sums untold; -
But Death, who careth not for rank, .
- Careth as little for gold -
Here that scroll I cannot allow, '
; For the gold of the rich is powerless now."
Another fi.llowed fast, : 1 1
1 And a book was ia hi&bacd,
Filled with the flashes of burning thought
. That are known in 'many a land ;
But the child of genius quailed to hear .
DeathV pitiless demand 1 i i . .
"Herjs that book cannot enter with thee,
5 For the bright Bash of genias is nothing to
me." r:,--prr:-i 1. A i-rr -y,
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" Next came a maiden fair, s t
YVittKthat eye so deeply bright, ; ;
: .That stirs within you strange sweet care,
Should you meet on a summer night;
But Death, ere the gentle maid paused thro','
Snatched away its light; h - . v -
j" Beauty is power in the world,' he saith,
I' But what can it do in the Pass of Death !"
J A youth of sickly mien ' , '
" Followed in thoughtful mood. '
AVhose heart was filled with lore to God
And the early brotherhood ; '
Death felt he could not quench the heart .
That lived for others' sood ! ;
4" 1 ""ed he, ' the power of love,
; I must let it pass to the realms above I ' .
4 I From the Pittsburg Morning Post,
j ! The Fate of Genius. ! -; -'
A ftfW years since we met thje gifted, but
waywaxd, bummer Lincoln Fairfield. ' The un
fortunate and wretched jstrild of song was at that
time travelling toithe';SouthJ with a view to
the improvement of his health. 4 He was ac
companied by his son, a remarkably bright and
beautiful youth of ten or twelve years of age.
In a" conversation with the poet, we remarked
that the lad seemed to possess genius, ' and
gave promise of a distinction : and usefulness.
With a deep, heartfelt aigh, the unhaDnv father
replied, U I fear your words are too true.. 1 The
boy has fine parts, but I would rather he were
an idiot than a genius. As an idiot, he would
be obscure and comparatively happy ; as a ge
nius, be would be envied, hated, eccentric, and
wretehed. It is, to most parents,! flattering to
be told that their offspring is gifted, but I would
rather.see my poor boy in his grave than know
that he is the possessor of that fatal thing' call
ed genius." A4 few weeks after, in looking
over ai paper published in New Orleans, we saw
the announcement of the death of poor . Fair
field, j The unfortunate and brilliant man died
in misery and want in the: very prime of life,
tynd was, we believe, buried at the expense of
his fiend and scboolfellowr George 1). Pren
ticeVEsqv of the Louisville Journal.' .(Fairfield
was a man of fine education and splendid po
etic endowments, but misfortune marked bim
for its own, and now, far from his native hills,
he lies in an obscure corner, with no hand to
Scatter flowers upon his grave. ' and no eye to
vuu jjiciwua .ear 10 nis memory.;
Thus it ia too often
with met of
genius.
Proud, sensitive and
aspiring,' they- become
soured and chagrined. ravoid their fcllnwa
frequently die inlwabt.aQd.- 'tia.sery.It is said
that between bis fortieth and sixtieth ' year,
Sir Walter Scott realized by the productions
Of bis peo at least 4half a millioi i of money,-r
Then : .followed a terrtble i reverse and "the panic
of 1826 came, leaving; the great magician in
debt to tlie amount of one hundred and, thirty
thousand pounds! The gentla and genial old
man labored hard Ho relieve himself from jbis
fembarrassmeriti Hisp roductioslylded him
during six years "some; eighty thousand doljars
a year, but bis health failed and at last he per-
1 "t . ... ' . : - . '
isneajn a gtani-UKe ettort to satisfy his credi-
"John Keatsi f
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Who sparkled,' was 'exhaled, and went to
r Heaven," '.-.f- '4. r; r"j ; p:f: v .-;' .
lived long enough to dazzle the world with
bis geniua.'and then died' from 'the' effects of
poison, administered by' a heartless yiperish
re viewer. vl'.'t,' 'rj V' f-iiJ'X'.&-J'
1 The fate of Cbtatterton, the! marvellous boy
who perished ml his pride "--is'! also too weU
.iivwuf afroaigaiiy. enuoweo, witn -wonaertut
inventive powera, a dating Jaocy,' and an intel
lect aa brrlUaut as it was original and vigorous
ne experienced cruel -.neglect, .suffered from
bnnger and finaJlyiba a moment ;.f despair,
pensiied ny nis own nana. ; :hua passed away
onewhose jouthfui productions have made h'w.
nqme immortal, and whose more mature efforts
would doubtless have ranked bim second only to
him .who; ' first exhausted.woiids, and then in-
jtcuieu upw.efxiis uiograpner tens tis tnat ns
was buried wllbout ceremony, amonff , paupers.
n ?Bpe lineV e'nti.1 with difficulty
no estawisned wtiea tbe jaet was knewniv
I n l is " lives of the Poets; William Howitt
says:vBy one Of those acts which neither
science er curiosity . can excuse, - the skull of
IPepe is-Bovr in the priTata collectioa ofa phra
noiogist 1 , Ine manner , in : which it wal ob
tained is said to have been this: W some occa
sion of alteration in 'the church, Or burial of
some one m the same epol the xoflirj of Pope
was aisinierred and opened to see the state of
his "remains j that by a bribe to the Sextori of
the time, possession o the skull was- obtained
for a nigh VaM another skull.j returned instead
of it. . I have hoard that fiW tnnri. ..U. nM
. V j"f- wav ariu
to manage and carry through; this transaction.
Be that as it may, the skull of Pope figures in
a private museutn.fi 1" ri - f-: b i
There's fame lor yon; aspirinjr. verse-writinff
reader. Think of it 1 Tha 1U Af "-.wkA-
of the Essay; on Criticism; and (translator of
tho Iliad of Homer, is now 4o4the ; private col
lection of a phrenologist. The skull of the
companion of Bolingbroke, HalifaxAddison
and Mary Montague, ialn a private museum.
" The palacerwhere a god;might dwell nay,
did dwell, is now the- property olT mounta
bank, and vulgar eyes gaze at, and filthy hands
toss about, that which was the dome Of though t,
the seat of learning, wit and poetry. Verify,
in this there is much to consol the ; admirers
of the logical, poliahed,- pungentf and poetic
Pope. 1 ' . 1 . ' .
The woes of genins meet na ht every ' turn.
Byron, Burns, Hcmans, McLean, Poe ond bln
ers rise op before us, and their faults, sufferings
Md misfort unes claim and receive our pity and
onr tears; - - " v: . -if ' V-v.-: j- f---U-,
' Rather "than endure what Chatterton and
Keats endured, suffer what Uemans and Shelley
suffered, and die as 'Burns i and Byron" died,
would it not be better to watch flocks through
Efe itnd die as did the hind ; who thought the
world was bounded by his native hills f j
- An EffTBtian Prinft' Han-m
One of the largest rooms ' we entered had
some fourteen or sixteen medallions along the
wall, with Ismail Pasha's initialsVracei in dia
monds upon each. The letters appeared from
eight to ten! inches bight; Every thing was in
the same style.:flt would be impossible to de
tail tne gorgeousness of all ; we saw. ( Every
room ! had different hansinjrs.' but all ' of the
richest silks, and in keeping' with ; the rest of
the furniture. In some there were soft arid
beautif u I carpet s, and in otiiera '' the floor was
of inlaid marble. In many there were elegant
fouutains, and the cei ings in all were of pol
ished wood, arranged in mosaics, or exhibiting
the gram in beautiful combinations. When
the gentlemen were scarcely locked oat, at
Which they grumbled not a tittle, Ismail Pa-
sha'a wives and attendant ladies were introduc
ed, arid we were conducted into one of these
apartments. ? The two, princesses are Circas
sians. :They were bought"as slaves when only
fourteen or fifteen fears old. Thev are both
under twenty, and one of them is very lovely.
Large; dark, soft, melting' eyta," shaded by long
blaek eyelashes, a well-formed nose and mouth,
teeth of pearly whiteness and an exquisite
complexion, perfectly realized U we bad ever
conceived of a Circassian beautvi'tha nihr
princess was yeuriger,sand her features "were
equally faultless,' but she lacked the sparkling
animation ot the elder. Hers was a sad. tho'
far from uncommon, history. ' She had bad two
lovely children, and had lost ' them bo th in one
..guv uu xare weeurrence in a xurKisn liarem,
but she had never recovered -from the shock ;
she is, wa were told, the favorita with Ismail,
for the time; beiuff, I suppose, .but ; neither of!
the wive seemed jealous of the other. Sweet
meats made by the iadiea. of .the harem, were
first handed round, and pipes and coffee follow
ed. The music in this harem, though deafen
ing and discordant was infinitely ' superior to
" up umiu iiu jg pw. Auere ; was a.
greater Variety of musical instruments : there
were three flat " kanoons" ior dulcimers, more
agreeable to look at" than tbjisten to; they
were maue .oyenetreo t walnut-wood, inlaid
with mother-of-pearl ; there ; werW also some
loods," or lutes f this has been for many een-
uuvo, mo insu Huicat wupt couiiooiiiy used oy
the :.' Wst.;4fab 'mUfticlanjL Iu' name (ihe ori-i
giaal signification of whicfi is f wood with
the " el ?T prefixed to it, is the aource whenc4
are derived the termsiirfo ni ItaliaBttrfi fnt
urencn, iule in tngrish, etc There was also a
hautboy, ajtambouriney aind a iVirrafetifco. Four
girw aooufc ien years 01 age,and aoetne.r abou
"i tvici nc a vuy jn scarie. cioines, were
made to dance for at least two hours. I thought
ihc poor enliven would.: Jrave dropped from
exhaustion, for - it requires ; no a mall degree o;
physical force to keep up the shaking of the
limbs which seems to constitute ilie chief . part
vi au Xioteru oancc. . i ueir - last ;j enormance
was to turn over and ovvr; on their hands like
awheel; the one dressed Ys a boy going head
over neels. , lbese flatter evolutions delighted
the princesses very much, Many -of the slaves
were bid nd( ugly and anting" .the jounger
there was only one who bad ii:e; Uast preieur
sions to 'good looksj and h in cvnequ ence
enjoyed'a share of Ismail. Pal sWaV aectlohar
':;fi Spugeba at Belfak.3 1
v;;Mr, Spurgeonmade hie first appearance Jim
Ireland, on the 17th of August. ;in one of 1 the
Presbyterian ; churcies Yt JJeifast. Ilia audi-
enee ja described asj being j' numerous and - re
spectable'; but to judge from -the-tonel of the
lootl journalsy'bia" fuccess is preacher :has
noiftpi' beeo'inp1letfclie ioirtlterp'
'Whig concladea : a notice of hia jsermon, whieh
is reported at aome lengthr in these terms : . ' ;
: Jtyfi eanttot denyvthatlMr. Spureeon is a
remarkable man, and' we do- not wish la deny '
mat at jut eiemeats of power and forcible ex
r ' -v, - .i.V -: ,'" "I t 1 SI . a M -C . - I - ..-. .1 . 1
pression which command i the
attention ' of his
r""! a oi wnicn many more reverend
m ni)iHA. - 1 m . - If -
divines may envy .him the possessIonTha
incar, howeyer, by which he! bai atUmed hia
celebrity anCquestienable anar:wihout harsh
ness, we may be permtlled to suspect. that "this
jwarld has full as much to do wi Mr. Snur-
geon s mimstrationB aa the riexL Froni Dnlnit
discourses such as his we eannot hope for "any
j-eal or lasting benefits to iiciety, or: to tbe
caus of ChristUnity,-ifanctions of the
Apostle are fa him! too much bverlaid with the
iantica df the mountebank to! be productive: of
;any permanent impression, j The briinant pass-
g iu uis sermons ana the hnrsts of eloquence
to which he occasionally i gives : utterance,' are
sadly marred by dramatized kcenea of volgar
irreverence; and, .Hast! night's discourse be
assumed as a fair sample, the' thoughts of self
intrude too constantly to impress the ' congre
gation; with any belief in the absolute sincerity
of the preacber'a declaraUtmsL We are bound.
therefore, to repeat; that in jour pinion Spur
geonismis an extraygai.ce.i-.Ve should re
joice, indeed, to see among ! certain sections of
""r'w," "waaemng to jtne comprehension I
of tapir trim fim,ftnn r--i . . 1
- -V..U..I, ao uyopei ministers. - A 1
revural among om- modern preachers is sadly I
wanted, but Spurgeonlsm will not do. : Such a
styla of pulpif preachlns wonld." irt th A J,
demoralizing tos
progress of pure reliinoua truth." - Everv ftxeit. I
reacuon, and u everybody were j
to jo in ibr Spurgeonism, the reaction would I
be terrible.'!
j i; A WomatfsSeYenger"
'Onca upon a time, " she 'went on? sattlin
t " """"'"k uvreoiuen nair. "an
offieer in the Guards was travelling by the ex
press night train to Southampton. . Io the same
hrst-class carriage there was 4 ladF.verr voun
and very handsome,' and I an) afraid that before
thejr reached Winchester (there were no other
persons m the carnage) ahe permitted this bold
vocne euardsm&r. tn
and she aOowed frormore-itipoQ her
WM "-ear; a caprice, a bit of fuft.
a caprice, a bit df fuft-
just bke the kiss which he beautiful Duchess
l)f risrnn,1.ni. 1.- .
ofJJevonshire gaie i weep( when Mr. Fox
Was beinaptlptp.fjwY nri-:. r.r r- -sv
, o .v. ,i coiiuiu&ier. jjus ane
made him take a solemn oath' that' he would i
never reveal what had Uken1 place.-It fen out !
that onr guardsman, 'about- six months "after-
wards. AA in ina ehAir:r.Lu'-".i -
St James's-street, break his oath,r and, ; with
thja boastful, lying qualities common to men.
gave the storywith some Addition iWiti
and wantonly false, j A fortnght afterward, he
i,i ft ".. t'
had an InThationto stay a week with a disitnt
charming villa on' the banks bf the river lichen
itas cu,w ' , r u . , . . nen
close to Southampton.. He had never seen this
relative hetat. ht -i, s.4w.a. - v. - . -
- - - -.. VIU ouuiini, woo uvea in a
be arranged, ard went down. 1 He was rV
- ..luuj uiMiicr oaa vo
eeiveuwh the most cordial hospitality especial-
.Bd ,;rrT ! " i as yooDg
acd.verv hanflRnnriA nn1 .okn. ! u--: I
;i,.' L.u"Z?,ZL r'."
. T . wunu, turned on. to be the iden-
tical lady w th whom h hAtnA :v.
i - v i . ...sucu1 uigu. i
jtcbs iram, irom London to Southimoton
She gave him he Jwnd ungloved this time,
amiied apon hira very sweetly, and just before
dinner drew him on dne 'side, and, with a
sweeter smile than ever, told him. in a dincrit
whisper, that if he would come round at twjlve
- ui6u wj vervain - window at the
baiJc of the house, overlooking the
e nver. onlv I
aenarated trmiU t,V;v -
lep
h
Kw 7k:X 7.
opened : ind a Udv in ii. tL
iiny.- ine winnow tmh
- ; u a u" , - . 6, wvnvucu
a tall and handsome cavalW Ca t h ,l;.
:i 3 . . . . v ' " j
LB M.n TflnPA In haw A ..U- 1; ? -l
the whWZ i7Z ,
KliMHtv ' n -'. -ri rUWJtl''
x,L V-ia-i.' 2 -TTXV
uau, rigu. m. me centre ofjiis forehead
mtddle; and she ; blew his brains out,' and Cap-
tain larell fell into the river lichen, W Va.
firand there' ;"neit dav 'w wot 'JLj
-Haddington Peerage.
' B ' '".
Tie Oracles of God.
It is a matter of congratulation that the ' Bi.
ble haa passed triuraphautly through' tke ordeal
ef verbal criticism Eiurl.. 5fi,ti. i.-i...
t . , w .
century raised a premature ptean over '..tha A.
c. ' - c : .-.'-.
The i7Tw7r7 -
Sv;?.? Z W. mind
-w- i; ua worougniyAial.en, , that
tsusuivy woaid De placed in .mnnaent Peril
-..v. ... vuirvu wouia oe
dispersed and .Wt
suit has blasted all Xheirhorjes-and tha tiruU.
rrlj .-.i' j : . f, ' ,
ra u5Wuu,,v nave; neen preserved in
o'"-J - ao ovwilu wilicn EnaK.
1 5-."-Vr; :U"V - eanarouud tta
yT - o.eee enao es taetree loanae
v' r?
?(:7 :
6-piic. uuuou u a oense cieud oi wit -
;v .'- "- . - . . i "o r ' b to l' i t;u con
es, from the ramsot hinevehand the val-l :T-.?f .1.- j .
v i t7" ' i i '- -" " tuonumeBw
"""-V"'V . vuco parapar
J!! oifista f from the cellsd
nes iBonastie scribes, and tbe dry ; id-
dusty labors of aeholara and antiquaiB. , Oaewsv Town-'aadall
preseatuibteeare UDdilHted by the lapse: ef
age. these Oracles, written amid aucb. str
ange diversity of time, place and condition I
among the saad and clLTa cf Aiabuu tla U
ahd fll&arjf Pate'atibe in fha palace "of Baby
luuiuuia ue onngeons or Kome have come"
down to us in atrcb? unimpaired fullness and ao
curacyj iat We ar placed as" advantageously
toward taemr a the generation - which gazed
npoa the book of the laW. 'othose crowds
which hung on the hps ofJesns as he recited a
parabla on the ahoires- of the Galilean Lake,
thusfl C&nreflAa wli
r-n ffwvu I VVVITCU 11 vu A aui v -fc sy
ter one of their epistles of warning exposition, 1 j
YesI driver of life which issues outfirora ' L
-5?A..a5KCrc4..a4 of .the;Lam6 f.
may it flowaj through ao .nlaay - eonntri . i
sometimes bar with it the earthly evidences of ! I
its checkered progress but the greaj volume af v f
its water has neither been dimmed in its tians
parencyj nor bereft of iu healing virtue.- ;
: British JtwieW:
yr. - .lawyer m. lawyer. - f 54 ; "j
i 'PoJfl'on Independent (Texas) rives the I
lollowfDg racy letter from a lawyer of its town4 i
who baa been favored with an offer fa, cheap Y
nevertheless fell constrained to decline. . Tae :
leuer is as follows -.: ? .v. r-.- :
- Usoac rrowr, -Jane 3. 1853. 1-
v TMT t .. ' -.. a. ' . - - .1
' j -iii-Mfui cm.iuu atQT JQM'
Tours came safely to hand. -' With a toembfintr
iand, and a beating heart, I seized the latter, !
I thinking from Its 'size ' (hatTl tad ;nl ' '1
merch-"
"the most proper nerson to W tbron ' j ' V
"u , iiguuung une,"noi only the Ueorgev j j .- ,
w" "chanta, but those In aU the surroond-; ; j "
I mg counties, and visions of a "pne" realized by
iv per cent, noated through my mind,- tiagad .
with all the gorgeous hues of aix rainbowp I but -j
alas l uttc transit gloria mundi T,TJpon ope- '
ning it the yision fled, and I found nothing but
your most flattering attempt to do ma. out' of ten
dollars.' You.tell me lhat" my' nkme fcai 1
been inserted for my tounty in your' Catalogui -j
of Lawyers in Texas and elsewhere.n - '.
By whose authority John, wai thia" donef '
Our acquaintaoce,! don't thlnk would'justify. j
uws noeny on your part, and did I not believe
U at.lt WM wA tie desire alone .of '
?87 mtereat, I should feel disposed.
io rewai uw noeny. i teel flattered. Johnr ai
una mars: ot your esteem and confidence, aadl
wouiu nave leit more so Had you not' sent the
very same letter teairmy aiqujaiotancea among i
tne bar. 1 don f understand Una my lear iel
Iow. Xow, suppose' John; that I should ""seni
you 410, and the balance- ef the profession here
should do the aamej flank of the deiieMe 'situa'
tion in which "you would be placedt-Sil or
. - " :be ,Merted 7r
. ' ' m ' J.
Vw "iwyers,
as th most reliable lauT-:
fh tuuamson couJcxu. . j
-ST , ? JF?
the place is too small to afford but
bfe L.,-! i,
We ,WTerv won -do, Join,
have made the same promise to all ofuat and"
r tfMwvoa uck wctwu ua i l rra i
one tlia'
The thins.
7 "!
ioTw It h SSSTS
wn8e this
. ..." ".w.yreki
througknhia;
'da as nlam M th.Wnilmtw: ..:..uit
, . -. e- . .
joan,-, v
Cannot,; or could yoa not, devise same slio
ker method of putting us through T aomethiner
mas we couio not see UirougU 7 'Ton say tha
ten dollars will be my -'Just proportion of kg
expense of publishing and circulating said cata
w!, -
are mistaken; Johnthe rascally
publishers have fooled vou tou W.V 1 tV- mj
..v. :v. . . ."-
' iFBuioaaana -reliable- -
United States, and t tea. doW
,g. joursett,. John all
t. . .. . .. .. "
bound iu calf, and have enough left beside to
, & w sesiue u
1 -uciter ail aroend." x ion aae v lu cMi, '
I - - s '
arithmetichere,- John, and, barest our
besides." - We don't bkmeyoa''JohoJ
to for,altb.ug
U8 eUnok to TOaeh for na to anrmarwho
1,. f, t : .V..1 j " .
only reliable lr incJl"!
TOn don't
- f - f HvncTCi-F
or you never would have attempted to Simon.
ougga us in tbis way. 1 behave I am : capable
and hope I at hosestyr bat Johnyou'do- no
know the fact to be so, and, therefore, accord
ing to Polly, when yoa say so,: you lie! John
A - "
Ion say in yoat postscript that if you cant
i v us iw icu uvuar. i may -fo i emoni tc
I iLl -- -n. . b - .
i .aiu.-jow amau tavora
raceived-largeronea in proportion
Iiee I will pass the iWronnd fco
the game goes.
I. ?nrn - r.- .n 1 -
i row to lake ut dbh.. i nrn. iv
1 1 Wisi" Jiif bi published almoet in a horsed
u . Al; . . r-
uere, na neo a man i name is-
seen ther.V" .n. U),.. .il
I 1it. m.tui v m Iua. .I - u .
Txtleof a Un dollar jeputation, and leia of a
man whe prize, it enough to buy it.; I coRiVdr
yelf injured, John, by the fit . insertion
and if it ia continned. abaU be compelled ,
1 sort to Ml mM. t,- : j . ?
ooae Witt his : authority. I. would, Ufare
i cjose, aayise you : alwavi ta end a
'sUmp to pay postage with, did J eot i
WaVnot a part of your aU"to do
pOEtc
Ieow
at. present as your atte m
to dwindle me.
la conclusion, allow tie to s-'.-t"
vtj .earoaa..-.x-iour rt-:.' i in a 7, --i
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