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POETRY.
Woman A Fragment.
BY THE LATE REV. C. WOLFE.-
Gone from her cheelis the summer bloom,
And her breath has lost its faint perfume;
And the glos3 has dropp'd from hergolden hair,
And her forehead is pale, tho no longer fair.
And the Epirit that sat in her soft blue eye-.
Is suil!: V2 M mortality;
And the smile that piayeu 99, h?F lips is fled,
And every grace has left the dead.
Like slaves they obeyed in height of power,
Dut left her all in her wintry hour;
And the crowd that swore for her love to die,
Shrunk from the tone of her parting sigh
And this is man's fidelity!
'Tis woman alone with a firmer heart
Can pee all those idols of life depart,
And love the more, and soothe, and bles3 '
Man in his utter wretchedness.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Hebrew form of Marriage.
Major Noah of the New York Evening Star,
gives tho following as the form of marriage,
observed in the Hebrew Church. It is sriven
at the request of a fair correspondent, who had
rxaiiiitu d tiic Old Testament without success.
The lid it or says:
Tii? ''form" of marriage in the Hebrew
Church she will find In the Old Testament,
although the institution of marriage is there
noted as an affirmative precept. In ancient
Iays it is prt bahle that the mere consent of
parents and parties were alone necessary,
tor.ictiiing alter our Uuaker fashion, 'I'll take
thee to be my wedded wife,' and there ended
ti e ceremony: but after laws and governments
were instituted, it was deemed proper to have
some !rg:il document to certify the marriage.
Accordingly we rind, in the Babylonian Tal
mud the following copy of a dowry or' mar
r :e contract which is used to this day:
'Tpon the sixth day of the week in the
f.urtii of the month Sivan. in the vear five
thousand two hundred an
: .. ,.c -11
-
tien which we ue here at 3IassiJia, a city sit
uated near the shore, the br idfgrvmii .1 . t
?on r,f y said unto the bridewife ,
diughter of , bo unto me a wife: accor
ding to the laws of Moses and Israel, and I
according to the word of God, will worship,
honor, maintain and govern thee, according to
t!:e manner of the husband among the Jews,
which do worship, honor, maintain and govern
their wives faithfully. I also bestow upon
thee the dowry of thy virginity , two hundred
den'ers of silver, which belong unto thee-by
1 .1,-. P . .1 , ni-ta-sif " nvA
law; ana moreover, my ioou, iuj aiaici, u,i.u
uilk-ient necessaries: thus
became the bride of
rested and
, the bridegroom.'
Our fair correspondent will perceive, that
his form had n uch more gallantry than the
Christian Cannons ihere the lady swears to
love, lienor and obey, but in the Jewish Church
the bridegroom pledges himself to 'worship,
honor, maintain and govern' he does all the
protecting and the lady signs nothing, but ihe'
contract is confided to her, she keeps the evi
dence in her own possession. -In very old
times the bride and bridegroom were crowned
nrir.r to the ceremonv- He wore a crown coin-
posed of crystal salt and sulphur, to remind
him how the sins of the city of Sodom, were
punished, and to teach him to cleave unto his
-the bride wore a golden crown in the form
of a Tower." We read cf this in the Scripture;
flo forth O ye daughters of Zion! and behold
King Solomon with the crown, wherewith his
mother crowned him on the day of his espou
sals.' IIe has put a mitre on my head as on
u bridegroom." We cannot conclude without
informing our fair correspondent , of one fact
related in the Talmud.' - Celibacy avus in such
bid reoute among the Hebrews,-that it was
net deemed immodest in the Jewish maiden?,
when dancing in the vineyards on the days of
the expiation, to declare publicly, 0 young
men lift up your eyes and see which of us you
like best. Look not upon beauty for that is
deceitful, nor upon riches, for they make them
selves wings and fly away: but approve of ecb
union" us as fear God. t)ar ladies could not
be brought to follow this invocation but there
few old maids in Israel.
were
V- r :r Curious Law .Case -
case was tried recently at New Orleans,
-as we learn from the American, involving the
uestioti of the . ownership of six geese. So
!ontradiaory was the evidence, that the ven
crable Judge, in order to settle the question,
ordered the geese to be turned into the street,
and appointed two officers of the Court to
watch their motions, if the geese went to he
house of plaintiff he was to be considered the
owner; if to the defendant, then the case was
tu be decided in the defendant's favor, lhe
geese on
ne'
-inbut.made their way 10 u.
die where : they regaiea
;intell:gcnce
"ched - the
The Young Bride.
Observe that slow and solemn tread, when
the young bride takes her wedded one by the
arm, and with downcast looks and a heavy
heart turns her face 'from home,' and all its as
sociations which have for years been growing
and-brightening, and entwining so closety
around the purest and tendcrest feelings of the
heart. How reluctant that step as she moves
towards the carriage, how eloquent those tears
"L!'JtIcn from their fountain!
She has just bid adieu io her home! she has
iven
the parting hand the parting kiss!
With deep and struggling emotions she has
pronounced the farewell! and oh, how fond
and vet mournful a spell this word breathes!
and perhaps, . a last farewell to father,
mother, brother, sister.
Childhood and youth, the sweet morning of
life, with its .'charm of earliest birds," and
earliest associations, have now passed. Now
commences a new -a momentous period of ex
istencc! Of this she is well aware. She reads
in living characters -uncertainty, assuming
that where all was happiness where home,
sweet home, was all in all unto her. But these
ties, these associations, these endearments,
she has yielded, one by one, and now she has
broken them all asunder. She has turned her
face from them all, and witness how she clings
to the arm of him for whom all these have
been exchanged.
See how Bhe moves on, the world is before
her, and a history to be written, whose pages
are to be filled up with life's loveliest pencil-.
lings, or perhaps, witlrincidents of eventful
interest of startling fearful record! Who can
throw aside the veil, even of 'three-score years
and ten, for her, and record the happy and
sun-bright incidents that shall arise in succes
sion, to make joyous and full her cup of life
that shill throw around those embellishments
of the mind and heart, that which crowns the
domestic circle with beauty and loveliness;
that which sweetens social intercourse, and
softens, improves, and elevates the condition of
society! Or, who, with firm and unwavering
hand, can register the hours and days of affec
tionate and silent weeping of midnio-ht watch
ing 7 Who pen the blighted hopes the instan-
d fifty-four of the ere! j ces u"re(lu'te love the loneliness and sor
ding to the computa- t row of the confiding heart the deep corroding
cares of themind, when neglected and forgot
wtV wj - uiiirwuo is uearer to ""her
than life whpn all around is sere and desolate
when the ga rnere.d , stores are wasted , ''and
the wells dried up, and the flickering blaze up
on the hearth wanes and goe3 out! and leaves
her in solitude, in silence, and in tears! But
her affections wane not,' slumber not, die not!
The brilliant skies may shed down all their
gladdening ; beauties; nature array herself in
gay flowers, -bright hopes and friends, kind
friends may greet with laughing countenances
and - glad hearts but all avail nought. One
kind look one soft and affectionate accent,
unequivocal evidence of remaining love; one
smile like that which wooed and won that
heart, would enkindle brighter, and deeper,
and lovelier emotions at its fountain, than
heaven with all its splendor, and - earth with
its beauties, and gay associations. ' r
" Oh! young man, ever be to'the young bride
what thon seemest now. to be: -disappoint her
not! What sweet ties that bound heart to
heart, hand to hand, and life to life, has she
not broken off for thee! Prove thyself worthy,
of all she. has sacrificed.,. Let it ever be her
pleasure' as new. to cling with confiding joy
and love to that' arm.:- Let it be her" stay, her
support! and.it shall be well repaid. Hers is
an enduring an undying' love!' Prosperity
will strengthen, it--adversity r vy ill brighten
and invigorate it, and give to it additional lus
tre and loveliness.' , Should the hand of dis
eases fall upon thee, then wilt thou behold wo-
wan's. love-woman's devction! for thou wilt
never witness herspirits wax faint and droop
ing at thy couch! When thins own are Tail
ingi.she will cling unto thee.liko a sweet vine,
and diffuse around thy pillow those sweet in
fluences and attractions. "that shall, touch , the.
master-springs and-nobler passions of thy na
ture that shall give new impulse. to life! Uer
kind, voice will be like music to thy falling
heart like oil tu thy wounds!;. Yes! she will
raise thee, restore thee, and make thee happy,
if any-Icssthan.an angel's arm can do it!
Mortality and sentiment. ,
Union op New Brunswick and No
va 'Scotia: A report has just reached
us that a proposition for the union of these
provinces has beeii made, and that inqui
ries will immediately, be instituted to as
certain the best means of doing so. T St.
John is named as" tlie capital oflhe united
provinces! The late hour 'at which the
information readied us prevents our mar
king any "comment, but we hasten to lay
theimportant news before our readers:.
'St, John Courier. .
' An extraordinhrv machine, called the
rElectric Telegraph, has been tried on the
Great Western railroad wi h complete suc
cess. Intelligence is'conveyed through it
at the incredible rate of 200,000 miles per
second, and 8,0J0 timesquicker than light
travels during the same period! -
England. "
An American writing from Liverpool, says:
the principal things which struck me in Eng
land in the way of improvement since my last
visit, were the Rail Koads.the Galvanic Tei:
egraph, the Budo Light (truly a new one,) and
the glass and silk manufacture for curtains
and drapery.4 Of the first, the rail-roads
they may be said I think, to approach per
fection as nearly as possible. They are built
for ages, remarkable for their massiveness and
magnificence architecturally, for the taste,
comfort, and solidity of the cars and Iocomo
tive. I travelled on all that are yet opened?
the Liverpool and Birmingham, the Birming
ham and London, the London and Southamp
ton, and as far as finished, the Great Wes
tern, which is much superior, in every . point of
view, to any yet constructed. I travelled at
the rate of forty miles ah hour upon it, break
fasting in Reading, Berkshire, at half past
eight, and walked the streets of London before
ten! It was not without interestto me that,
on a branch road from Birmingham to Chel
tenham, just opened, I was whirled along by
a locomotive made by Norris in Philadelphia.
The Galvanic Telegraph is injuse on the
London and Black well railway ;the cars on
which are worked with a rope and when full,
a galvanic wire is touched, and successively
rapid as two ticks on a watch is the signal and
motion of the cars. The distance is four miles
and were it .'our thousand, J am assured, the
signal would be as instantaneous and faithful,
1 bey are laying one down to . mdsor for
state purposes, and it is expected they will be ;
in use all over England. Do we not live in an '
age of necromancy, and are not the men of
science the only pure and lawful aristocracy i
of human nature
The Bude Light is a beautiful thin" in its
. .
way. Jt produces an atmosphere of J Mit,
concealing the means bY which it is done. Pas-!
sing by the Horse Guards, I exclaimed: 'How
brightly the moon shines! You can read the
clock by if.' Oh!' replied my friend, as cool
as moonshine, . 'that's the Bude Liirht.' I
begged an explanation, and, apparently aston
ished at mv ignorance, he P-avc it.
f o
Lime and gas are brought into some pecu
liar contact, and the effect, as it struck me,
was that ol intensely bright moonlight. The
IIous!. ?i:orit tilt Mvs
atres It is very beautiful a ndulp not think
me moonstruck'-when I tell you that the
dullness and repose of moonshine reminded
me sensibly while regarding it, that Juliet's
apostrophe, 'Come thou day in night, is now
realized. Alas! for the imaginative race, if
matter of fact people upset every thing in this
manner. - " -
The new manufacture for curtains and oth
er draperies is a very gorgeous affair. The
rich damask pattern " is woven in glass and
silk, producing a dazzling effect, beyond sil
ver or gold in richness of display.
A capital invention is used for the founda
tion of houses, an invention, too, the more
valuable on account of its simplicity. The
clay that is dug out of the foundation is mix
ed with a preparation of lime on the very
ground of the building, and thus hardened or
'calcined' into a strong substance, makes the
best and certainly the cheapest materials for
foundations yet discovered. ' It is now. univer
sally used in England. " "j, '
r Homes and Graves.
There was an ancient tyrant once, who, as
a punishment, linked o live man to a corpse,
where he remained until dead. from disgust and
horror. It is possible that some experience of
his owujife wa9 at the bottom of this detes
table act we mean so far as the conception of
the idea was concerned. Wo all bear about
us the dark moral of his act, for . we, warm,
fresh and living, have all some cold; pale form
lying dead upon our hearts'. ' The chill of the
grave is oyer us and our cherished homes
homes, made perhaps even more dear by corp
ses or tne joved ones, tied to: our - memory.
Boyhood has hope and manhood fears, and we
too soon learn that every joyous spot but a
musing place for anguish, and a cradle for the
tomb. - Childhood looks at home, glorious with
present forms of life; but age turns to that
"same homej and loves it because there are the
graves of those cherished in his youth. ;
"Thus graves and homes are sadly blent y
Wherever spreads the Jirmameht,' '
A few short'years and then, the' boy "
' Sha'l miss, beside tho household hearth.
Some treasure from his store of joy, - ;
: To find it riot on earth; - '
A, shade within its saddened walls- VV
Shall Bit,-in some beloved's room, .
And one dear name, he vainly calls,7 " 1
; ' Be written on the tomb ' ;
And he have learnt, from all beneath,
Mis first, dread, bitter taste of death!
And years glide on, iill Manhood's comet
And where the young, glad faces were,
Perchance the'once bright, happy home .
Hath manv. a vacant chair:
A darkness, from the chuchyard shed, '
. Hath fall'n on each familiar roomi
Arid much of all Home's light hath fled,
And household gifts that Memory saves
But help to count the household graves.
. . ' CttKSCENT Cty,
; PUBLIC LANDS;
The statistics below, in reference to the
Bulletin, and are very' in terestin ' -The
interest of the vast fund, that might be ob
tained from their sale would be su fficien t
for government expenses. ' " i.
'Public Lands. It was Jefferson, ive
tliink, who declared that our public lands,
if iudiciouslv manasred, would constitute
a lund siulicient to support the ; general
state government throughout all time.
'I'he idea can scarcely be deemed extrava
gant, when the vast extent of this domain
is taiven into consiaerauon -. -j? rom a re
port of the Secretary of the Treasury, made
last year in obedience to a call from con
gress, it appears that the whole amount of
tlie lands ot the united States, to wnicrt
the Indian title has been extinguished is
3 19,530,232 acres, a The deduction of the
quantity sold and granted away leaves
229,811,000 acres now owned by the gov
ernment of the United States, which would
at the minimum price of $1 25 per acre,
amount to $287,133,000 upwards of
two hundred and eighty-seven millions of
dollars. 1 lie lact must also De Kept in
view, that the domain of the United States
to which the Indian title has not been ex
tinguished, is vastlv larirer than the abovre
esijmatc. The Indian title is not vet ob-
tained to all within the states and territo-
rics; but beside these, the Commissioner
m the General Laud office in 1S27 esti
mated the amount beyond the new states
and territories at 7o0,000,000 of acres
The COSt of these lands in our ffOVem-
nient has been S 123,359,272. The reve-
nue paid into the treasury as the proceeds
OI the sale ot the public lauds, IS set down
at su 'JUO.UiiO, 1 lie cost ot these lands
therefore exceed the receipts 'from their
coin v-..r-- i, eos nnnnnn. Uif a
"a" o,uuu,wu, w
i s oaiauce, we nave nearly a inousana
mimon oi tana unincumbered, and worm
more than that number 'of dollars. From
these facts a correct opinion may be for
med of the immense and incalculable val
ue of the public domain. Judiciously
managed and husbanded, it will prove a
productive land for the people, and an
ample patrimony that will not fail for
ages.
"JfCrs t-i.f1u'S,ftsrnf(J almost dying excla
maijfon of the voluptuous novelist, Hoffman.
Sucli was his love of life of what he called
the sweet habitudobcing.JlIedie,d.,at .
Berlin by piecemeil dictating his wild stp
rivs to the last. Strange stories they -were
indeed for a dying man to w rite,..,, The closing
scene was striking and instructive. His feet
and hands, his legs and arms, had for 'months
become perfectly paralysed and motionless. At
length he lost a 1 sensation -though , his fan
cy retained its creative power. Feeling no
more pain, he said to his physician, (thinking
he was about to recover) 1 feel no more pain,
it wiil soon be over.' '. Yes,. said the medical
man, giving another and i more impressively
solemn meaning to his words, will soon be
ocr." When made fully aware: that" he was
dying he called his wife to his bed side and
begging her to fold his motionless hands to
gether said, lifting his eyes to heaven, toe
must then think nf God also)' Shortly afteHieW'.of'-Mr.' Vail Burcn, . WOllld
the expiring fla me of; life glared up again
within him, and fancying he might still post-,
pone intrusive thoughts of God and eternity
he said, 'I shall be well enough in . the eve
ning to go on vtth the tale I have been indi
ting.' 1'e asked for the reading of the last
sentence, and Just as it was finished, expired,
Thus passed to its solemn account a;human
soul, ricnly, gloriously gifted, - but utterly
faithless to the high trusts of the stewardship
of genius. It , is worth a student's . while,'
s;iys a popular writer,-'to observe how' tobac
co, wine and midnight did their Vork upon
the delicate fra'meof Hoffman.' It is worth
one's while also to observe how is profound in
difference to the concerns of the soul ' is
strengthened by habits of sinful ' indulgence',
and the" postponement: of "all serious -'thoughts
J 4
of the claims of religion, tHl even the 'death
bed lai Is lo be 'a detector of the heart,' and
the infatuated spirit 'departs to its high audit,
amidst' the appalling, gloom' tf an j hi penitent
and reprobate state Gambier Observer,
-. . . -Ancient Books. ' V
v Pausanias': relates that a : book ' by llesiod
was written on. leaves oriead'ard Herodotus
mentions the' use of tkintf. by the lonians,
when papyrus was' scarce, which seems to show
that he wrote on papyrus,or tho manufacture
of the paper reeds of Egypt,', which grew by
the brooks. Pliny mentions . linen books, and
Virgil alludes to books that were made of the
inner rind of thevelm. The waxen hand ta.
blea of tho. ancients' are well . known,' which
were inscribed upon the point of the style, and
smoothed with its flat end.
u111180 Put uPsro;vu. Pickles."
-1 he housekeeper at tho .White House,
a lew days ago, came to - Van Buren to
know how manv.Dickles and rtf lrlint envt
be would have put un for -ftmihr:crt .
The answer'she received, was 'letHarri-
o put up nis own pickles; :
Philadelphia Standard.
USEFUL BECIPE.
Tsend you below, Messrs. Editors, a
xecipe for : making a composition which
wii i renuer wooa entirely lncomDustiDic.
It is very simply prepared arid easy of ap
plication, being used the same as paint
with an ordinary brush. A good coat of
it applied to the floor beneath stoves would
be an excellent precaution; . u--
. Take a quantity of water, proportioned
to the surface of wood you may wish to
cover and add to it as much potash as can
be dissolved therein. . When the water '
will dissolve no more potash, stir into tho
solution, 1st, n quantity of flour paste of
the consistency of common painter's size;
2nd, asuflicient quantity of pure clay to
render it of the consistence of cream.
. Wben the clay is well mixed apply the
preparation as before directed, to the wood;
it will secure it from the action of both
fire and rain. In a most violent fire, wood
thus saturated may be carbonated but will
never blaze." '-'"V -: '''''-ii . '
If desirable, a most agreeable color can
be given to the preparation by adding a
small quantity of red or yellow ochre.
It might also be useful for you to men
tion in your paper especially at this sea
son of high winds, that a handfull or two
of floiir of sulphur thrown on the fire,
when a chimney, is burning out, ' will al
most instantly extinguish the flames.? L.
xtujy aio commercial tiavcriisr
i BOSTON AND S t. LOUIS.
The western people probably, are not'
generally aware that the great enterprise
of connecting St. Louis and Boston, by a
chain of rail roads, is going forward with
prospects of speedy accomplishment. ThJ
distance from St Louis to Boston As about ;
twelve hundred and seventy eight miles Of
this will be completed next year from Bos-
ion to litmaio, nve nunarea ana mirty.
five miles in Ohio on the shore of lake
Erie, sixty-three miles in Michigan near
the south line, sixty-five miles making
more than half the whole distance, em
bracing two-thirds of the whole expense.
The works in the west, are for the present
suspended , by the want of funds; it is ex
pected that operations will be resumed at
an early date. Here is enterprise exhib
ited on as rranda scale .as. th wUoct-iv
a plan to connect Boston with r St. Louis,
would have been regarded as visionary as
a scheme to bridge the Atlantic ocean.
But a few more years will witness the ac
complishment of the project, , and the ex
tension of the road, perhaps many miles -westward.
Wheeling Gazette.- -
USE OF THE STANDING ARMY.
Mr. John Mann, states over , h is own .
signature, "'m'the Susquehanna, (Pa.) Re-
gister, ot the 22d instant, that during the.
election in Choconut township, on. the-
13th inst., a troop of about sixty locofocos,
many ot them trom New; York state, mar
ched up to the polls in military, army, -with
drum beating and fife playing, and
GUNS ON THEIR SHOULDERS, to
overawe the citizens, many of whom were
desirous of voting the Harrison ticket, but
did not, for fear of losing their lit esl
This is the purpose to which the 200,000
doubtless be devoted, if the people" had all
been frightened out- oflheiri choice of a
more honest and republican President.
Freemen of the Union!-you have made a
fortunate escape from I an Buren , and a
military.de&'potism.MaV. ? -
I Children are never tired of asking ques- .
tionsj anc funny ones they ask too some-timesf--hear
this little girl now
Mother, do horses wear shoes?
-Yes, child.'. . ," ' "
r What kind of shoes are they, mother!'
: 'Iron shoes, child , r Ij c
Vi'IIow.do they put them on, mother?1.
; 'They, nail them on with iron nails, '"my
dear.'." ; ; ' ' ; ' - -"
: 'Do horses take off their shoes when
they gt) to bed, inolher? ' , '
4U, go away, child don t you see I m
busy? What a tongue you have got
Many of our renders will be abtcto'tcs
tifytothe truth of the following extract
from the Nantucket Inquirer.-
; ;"orowing:wuu variations.
It was remarked by one of the speakers
at the Avhig meeting on Saturday evening
that such was the happy elasticity of spi
rit manifested, if not felt by the locofocos,
at tlie result ot tne recent elections, as they
are successively disclosed, that the more
they are beaten - the louder they crow.
This crowing however," has assumed a 1
new tone it is ho longer crowing,' but
screeching yelling, howling, like rerout
ed horde of bandits, infuriated at the pros
pect ot being driven lorever trom their
fastnesses, stripped of their spoils-end
forthwith brought to justice!'' ,;;
Cr-Cork wood . cut in small particles has
been founa an excellent -substitute : for hcrtu
hair, in stuffing sofas, chairs, 5cc. The in
vention has been patented in "England: it U
used at a saving of two hundred per cent.
"NVe suppose that' s, man who uses a 'cork
leg by day can, If he wishes to be economical
make a bolster cf It at night. Pic, "