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A. A. EARLE, PUBLISHER. I
3M"o More Compromise tvitli Slavery.
ITKK3IS, 81,25 IN ADVANCE.
NUMBER 2;J.
VOLUME 1.
IRASBUBGH, VERMONT, FRIDAY, JUKE 6, 185G.
Citcraru Selections.
THE GAME AT CARDS. S
"The darkies are mine," says the game-'
ster, striking his fist upon the table;
"show them up, and let us see what they
look like."
The young planter, who had lost sent
the boat servant below fcr John and Hel
en. The passengers awaited the appear
ance of the servants in silence, for a long
time, but they came not. The servant
had informed them of the change . of
owners, and they dreaded to see their
new master t X'JeJ were attached to the
young planter and his wife, and did not
like to leave them ; besides they had chil
dren of their own at home, and what was
to become of th em ?
The winner began to wax impatient at
the delay and exclaimed :
" Come, Danton, hurry the niggers.
They must be quicker than this when I
send for 'em, or they'll never know what
hurt 'em."
The young planter's aristocratic face
flushed crimson at this rude and brutal
exclamation, but he made no reply. He
was about to send another servant for
John and Helen when his purpose wps
stayed by the appearance of Mrs. F . n-
ton. Her husband had been parr.::. and
ger. "They were brought by my moth
er's fataily ; besides they have children at
home, from whom it would be cruel to
separate them."
The gamester and the slave dealer ex
changed sneers at Mrs. Danton's senti
mental reasons for not letting the slaves
go, and her husband iaid :
'It can't be helped now, Mary, let us
go to our room."
"O, Missus, don't go and leab me wid
dat man," shrieked Helen ; "I shall die or
jump overboard. O, don't leab your own
true Helen ; who sabed your life when
you fell in de byoo."
"I shall not leave you Helen. Do not
be alarmed. I "
"Bressde Lord for dat," interrupted
Helen ; I know we'er safe now ; kase
you allers does jest what you say you
will."
'I think it's about time this nonsense
was stopped," said the gamester, rising
from his seat. "You acknowledge Dan
ton, that these niggers are my property ;
consequently they are mine, and I've a
right to do what I please with them ; no
Kill of sale is neeessary between two gen-
tkmen. And now, you, just come along
with Eit. and don't make a uss, or I'll
have you logged and put in Sons."
The scne was now extremely exciting.
quaintance, on the score of having been
one of the most enthusiastic partizans on
the night of his well remembered triumph.
He had prospered in business and be
come rich. He was making his annual
pilgrimage to the family hearthstone a
stone which has more potent charms for
good, than that at which kneel Mahome
dan devotees in the city of their prophet.
He said he had never touched a card
since that memorable game ; that the
thousand dollars he then risked was the
sum total of his savings for many toil
some years, but that he staked it, and
played the game with a perfect conviction
of success.
Danton had sought him out, and kept
up the acquaintance ever since ; and Mrs.
Danton could now travel the world over
with her husband, without fear, for he had
forsworn gambling from that never to be
forgotten nijrht.
she had peen weeping ever since the boa: Jobn drew IIelen to his side and clenched
left Cincinnati ; and we were now far
down the Mississippi. No wonder, then,
that she was pale and wan, and that her
eyes looked as though they had been
nearly wept away ; but she was extremely
lovely, nevertheless.
Although many years have passed
since that evening, I can see the sorrow
stricken young wife now, as she glided
unto the table and looked her husband in
the face. He could not bear up under
her gaze. He had lost all their money,
and in a fit of desperation had also staked
and lost the two slaves. Laying her lit
tle hand on his arm she said :
"Is it true, Charles, that you have lost
John and Helen ?"
Her husband ma le no reply ; he could
not even look up.
The passengers were fast gathering
around and the scene was growing painful.
My father (who had come north to fetch
me from school and, was taking the long
est possible way home.) was holding me
by the hand, and I knew by the tighten
ing of his grasp that he was becoming
much excited.
As Danton did not seem inclined to an
swer his wife's question, the gamester
roughly said :
"Yes ma'am ; John and Helen are mine ;
and I want too see 'em quick."
Danton sprang to his feet, and stooping
across the table, hissed in the teeth of the
gamester :
"Villain ! don't you presume to speak
to my wife again."
The look with which this menace was
accompanied was perfectly blasting, and
made the swarthy and pitted face of the
gamester turn white.
How inconsistent is man ? That ac
complished and high born husband could
deliberately jeopard the property and cor
rode the happiness of his wife, hour after
hour, day after day, and year after year,
but he could not bear that the man whom
he had chosen for a companion should
even as much as speak to her.
"Yes, Mary, John and Helen are lost,"
' he said at last, a3 he let the sramester from
' under his gaze ; "they are lost, and it
can't be helped now ; so don't let us have
a scene about it."
"I shall not let them go," said Mary,
firmly, "and I shall have a scene about it.
I did not say a word about the money ;
but now that you have palved them away
Oh Charlie !" and she leaned her head
on her husband's breast.
"Ah ! here they come !" said the game
ster, as John and Helen approached.
John was a powerful and fine looking
mulatto ; his face indicated unsual intel
ligence and kind heartedness. Helen was
mneb. whiter than her husband, and re
markably handsome. The jramester's
evil eye gleamed as he surveyed her, and
turning to a savage looking man near him,
he said :
his teeth and fists, while their young mis-
tress stood close in front, as if with her
feeble arm she could protect them from
the clutches of the gamester! A bloody
fight seemed inevitable ; when a young
New Englander, who had been very
quiet during the whole trip elbowed his
way to the table, and asked the gambler
at what sum he valued his slaves,
"Two thousand dollars, said he, "do you
want to buy?"
"I have only a thousand dollars," the
young man answered, "I will give you
that for them."
"No, sir, but I'll stake 'em against a
thousand dollars, and play you a gamo of
poker for the pile-"
"I don't understand the game," said the
New Englander.
"What game do you play ?"
'I have played a few game at all fours.
but I never gambled for a ceDt in all my
life."
"Av ell, I'll play you a game at all fours.
then, if you like, and stake the niggers
against your thousand dollars."
To the surprise ef very one present,
the young man. excepted the challenge.
called for a new pack of cards, staked his
thousand dollars, and the game com
menced the gamester having the first
deal.
As the company drew more closely
round the table, it seemed as though a
watchmaker's shop were in our midst.
so distinctly we heard the ticking of the
watches.
The first hand the New Englander
made three to the gamester's one, at
which a buzz of pleasure ran through the
group. ' The second hand the gamesrer
had three to his opponent nothing ; the
third hand they each made two, which
left the New Englander two to go, while
the gamester had but one to make, and
it was his turn to beg. This was a
great advantage, and everybody seemed
to give up the the thousand dollars as
lost.
The New Englander dealt the cards
with a steady hand, however, and turned
up the jack of hearts, which placed him
even with his antagonist ; but when he
raised his cards I saw that he had not a
single trump in his hand, and his adver
sary was hesitating whether to stand or
beg ; if the former, the game was hi3 to a
certainty ; if the latter, there would be
another chance for the slaves. After
drumming on the back of his cards for a
short time, he looked at the New Eng
lander to see if he could determine by his
manner what it was best to do, but the
young Bunker Hill met his gaze without
flinching, and there they sat a long time
gazing into each others eyes.
"Run the cards," said the gamester at
last I could have hurjred him for his
mistake.
Bunker Hill again dealt, and the queen
"I'll sell you John in the mornin" i " ePades was tamed. Every heart stood
Hammond ; but Helen I shall keep at 33 cards were for the last time
THE TRAP VOTE.
In the year 1847, the Legislature of
Ohio granted the citizens of certain coun
ties the privilege of voting upon the Li
cense question. In many towns there
was an earnest opposition to the measure,
and the friends of No License were called
upon to act dilligently and energetically.
I was at that time doing something for
;the cause" in the northern part of the
state of Ohio, and I made a tour of Erie
county for the purpose of assisting to call
out the opponents of License on the elec
tion day. I visited Castalia, a little town
near Sandusky city, and lectured to a
large audience, one Saturday evening,
and I announced that, at the close of the
lecture, the sense of the meeting would be
taken upon the License question. The
traffickers of the village heard this, and
three of them, each with a right-hand
man, came up to the church and seated
themselves in the' first pew from the pul
pit. When I stood upon the platform
they were directly before me. The sec
retary of the meeting hinted who they
were, and I suspected for what they were
there, and determined that if they voted
in behalf of their cause, it would be under
a "big load."
After presenting the advantages of to
tal abstinence and arguing the evils of in
temperance in a general bearing, I spoke
of the question at issue, and proposed tak
ing a vote from which something could be
told how the people of Castalia regarded
the licensing of men to degrade and im
poverish their fellows.
I requested that every person in the
house who was in favor of such action at
the polls as would diffuse blessings thro'-
out the community, should rise to his or
her feet. All the ladies and about four-
fifths of tho men present, stood up.
Then, said I, if there is a man in tbl
house who would vote for an increase of
taxation for the support of crime and
pauperism for the breaking up of fami
lies who would make kind husband,
cruel who would see wives and mothers
driven from their fire-sides into the piti
less storm who would hear orphan chil
dren weep for bread if there is a man
here who would vote raiment from prat
tling babes, and see mothers poison their
dearest children, and have father's rob
theirown fire-sides of the fuel which made
them cheerful and kept their little ones
from chilling frosts in short, if there is
a man before me who wishes to vote for
the destruction of all that is lovely and
happy in society, let him stand up !
Not a man arose, and I remarked, "
conclude that all the voters of Castalia
present are opposed to License." Then
up sprung the rumsellers who sat the end
of the pew before me, and crowding his
hat on his head with nervous energy, he
stamped up the aisle as if he were tread
ing on reptiles which it was necessary to
crush with his heels ! His compatriots
did not follow him, but one of them was
heard to say, "Mean, d d mean ad
vantage ;" and another one muttered, "If
that fellow comes down town to-morrow
he shall be licked."
I went down town, but the flogging was
not forthcoming. Castalia gave a
spectable majority for "No License," but
whether on account of the trap vote, "de
ponent saith not."
THE CHARGE OE THE BRIT
ISH LIGHT CAVALRY.
From Colburn's United Service Mag
azine, printed in London, we quote the
following thrilling description, by a sol
dier, of the memoriable charge of the
British cavalry at Bakiklava, the charge
which has been immortalized by the
muse of Tennvson :
"Captain Nolan, who bad gone to the
redoubts, now halted. I next heard a
heavy fire, and he galloppedbact towards
us. "We were by this time M motion,
and Lord Cardigan was piepar-ug tn act.
The trumpet sounded 'stand, to horse:'
then rapidly foUWved 'meum, walk, trot,
gallop!' and again the trumpet finally
sounded the 'charse " aid we were oft.
had just time, and no iiore, to see the
effect of the first fire of the Russians.
Captain Nolan, who had lifted his hand,
as I thought in signal, w close upon us.
His hands were up, outstretched. He
eemed to reel and rock In his saddle ;
out of his breast there poired forth a red
treamincr tide and he locked as if his
chest had been broked in. I saw him
no more. The brave fellow none bra-
ver in the army, nor a bolder lrjrseman
was killed! Down the defending
slope, over ground that seemed poughed,
we went like a rushing hurricaiy, with
Lord Cardigan at our head, and e 'went
in,' a regular 'buster : (a forcibleand fa
vorite expression of our friend ;) I felt,
he continued, 'as I found my ho'se be
gin to bound under me, and gripping my
sabre, which I had fastened to Jiy wrist
with a twisted silk handkerchief I felt
at the moment my blood thiclen and
crawl, as if my heart grew still ind qui
et like a lump of stone within, me,
was a moment paralyzed, but th snort
ing of the horses, the wild headbng gal
lop, the sight of the Russians btfore us
becoming more distinct, and the irst hor
rible discharge, with its still more horri
ble effects came upon us, and emptied
saddles all about me. My heart now
began to warm, to become hot, to dance
: least for two or three day
"I'm agreeable," said the slave trader,
for such he was ; "but I'd like the gal as
soon as possible."
A look of indignation ran around the
group at this brutal colloquy. My fath
; er's grasp grew tighter still ; and encour
aged thereby, I whispered to him to buy
John and Helen himself, but he shook
ha head and motioned me to keep silent.
' "I tell you I shall not let them go," re
stated Mrs. Danton, addressing the stran-
jffifted.
"They are mine !" shouted, the New
Englander; or rather they are yours
madam," said he in a milder tone, to Mrs.
Danton, as he threw down the ace of
spades.
The beautiful and jmpetou3 southron
threw her arms around the winner's neck,
aud three deafening cheers (in which
even the slaveholder joined) to the satis
faction of the audience.
Many years after I met the New Em
lander in Mississippi, and claimed his ac-
Coxscmptiox Feesb Aie. Dr.
Marshall Hall, an eminent English pby
sician, says, "If I were seriously ill of
consumption, I would lay out of doors
day and night, except in rainy weather.
or mid-winter ; then I would sleep in an
unplastered log-house." He says that
consumptives want air, not physio pure
air, not medicated air ; plenty of meat
and bread. " Physic has no nutriment
gaspings for air cannot cure you ; monkey
capers in a gymnasium cannot cure you.
and stimulants cannot care you."
again, and I had neither fear ror pity !
I longed to be at the guns. I'm sure I set
my teeth together as if I could have bit-
he gave his lance a slight quiver and that
ie seemed to know how to use it too. I
bent down slightly on my saddle, receiv
ed his lance on the back of my sword,
which passed over my shoulder, at tho
ame instant the point of my weapon,
through the mere rush of the horses pass
ing each other, entered bis breast, and
went clean through him, coming out at
his back so that I was forced to draw it
out with a wrench as he rolled over the
crupper. A Cossack was now upon me,
but I reined back in time, his aim failed,
andheshotby my horse's head, and I
then after him, wounding hint in the
shoulder, and knocking man and horse
over with my own, so that I was all but
unseated, and then my 'busby' was
knocked off with a ball, but I hardly miss
ed it then.
'I now heard Colonel She well's voice,
and saw the old man waving his sword
on the other side of the guns, as if call
ing us together, and we got round orthro,
the best way we could, and formed in
line, every Russian that was at the guns
being cut down, and the cavalry that had
ventured to come to their help being
driven back, some across the aqueduct,
and even to the Tehernaya, but only to
renew the charge, for that they would let
us return without a trial to stop us was
not a likely thing. As we were in line I
was just saying " Sergeant Riley you're
out of place," (he was on the left, and
ought to have been on my right) but he
did not speak. I looked up at him, his
eyes were fixed and staring, and his face
was rigid and white as a flag-stone.
saw he was dead, though yet seated on
his horse, and that too was shocking to
think of and look at. I hadn't time to
say more, for the Colonel sings out " Ser- I
geant, sergeant, just look there, there are
reinforcements," as a body of Lancers
came right upon us, whom I took to be
our own, the 17th, and the sergeant
shouts out, " By they're Russians !"
" Keep together, men," cried the Colonel
ah! he did show himself a man, ill,
laid up as he had been, and I'm sure fitter
then to be in his tent that day, but he was
too plucky "keep together," he said,
FLAGELLATION.
Among tie rtlijunis absurdities of a
former age may be reckoned the severe
penances inflicted by the church for the
purpose of purifying tho spirit by morti
fying the flesh ; and of these perhaps the
most extraordinary was that of then-lla-
tion. This was admini-lcred freely by
the priests and was submitted to even in
public, with much apparent fortiudo and
humility, by the most powerful nobles in
the land, and in some instances, bv crow r. cd
heads. These flagellations were setup-
times extremely severe. and iuu.huia.but
an excess of relLrtous enthuainstn, or
keen sense of one's own inL'retl, could
have induced tho serfs and nobles of Eu
rope in past ages to submit their nuked
shoulders to the lash.
Among the most remarkable Litanee.-.
of sovereigns who have beeu publicly
flagellated, may bo mentioned that of
Raymond, Count of Thoulouse, whose
WILL IS POWER.
ITcw frequently we bear doubts ex
pressed as to the possibility of ncjuiring
knowled; without assistance!
One morning in the year IS 19, n young
peasant girl obtained an interview with
the great vicairo of the cathedral of one
of the western cities of France. In a
manner thr.t was at once modest and firm,
she tohl him that having heard of his
kindtuvs in procuring situations for gov
ernesses, shohud Come to Linyn the hope
of obtaining sonic employment.
. Hut my tW n.w),u
At)!k;, you cannot ter.eli without a diplo
ma ; and in order to obtain a diploma,
you mu-t go through nn examination.
What instruction have you received?"
" In my childhood, Mon.-ieur l'Abbe,
I learned to read and write, and then 1
served my apprenticeship to a imn'uu
maker. I am now constantly emplovcd
in working with my needle, mid earn
about three pence a day ; but this does
ov-
regul authority extended over a very con-!
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For having given protection to the Albi- einess."
genses, i'ope Innocent HI., much in-, " My poor child, to read and write i..
censed, published a bull of exeomtuuniea-j something, it is true ; but it is not enotih.
tion against. His dominions were seized j You must know bow to spell ; and you
nor could he succeed in effecting their! mu-t know dammar. reomm!v -n.1
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ten a pieeaat-of one.,,- Ev"" r.i.n wn ap.d' death or glory ! but we'll ride them
seized with a cannibal huiiger, and could
have eaten a squadron without salt.'
Imagine, reader, if you can, seeing
like this man, a 'Vision of Sudden
Death,' like an awful apoca'ypse, break
ing upon the eyes of GOO men imagine
what those unutterable sensations of his
must have beeu, for they cannot else be
conveyed. Death exultant and howling,
reeking red-hot out of the front battery,
hurling shell, grape and round shot
death from a battery on the left flank,
hissing and demonic deatk from a bat
tery on the right, tempestuous and insa
tiatedeath from thousands of infantry
whose fatal precision of aim was only
embarassed by the smoke and movements
of the riders. An unquenchable hell of
fire bursting forth with the roor of rend
ing volcanoes, and doing the work of hu
man lives with approximate effect and
above all, clear and shrill, above the
thunders of the vomiting cannon, and
the volleying fusilades, rose the shriek of
men and horses in pain and agony, the
trampling of hoofs, the shouts of defiance,
the wild grand jubilant 'hurrah !' of men
who, having cast aside all fear, only de
sired to grapple with this ghastly 'Death'
in any form more closely, and in the thirst
for vengeance for their fallen comrades,
had ceased to care for wounds or pain,
and in their utter dreadlessuess had ac
quired an invincible contempt for every
other consequence imagine all this if
you can, and follow our soldier into the
scene which now took place among the
guns.
'The first thing I did, once within the
guns and 'following my leader,' was to
cut clean off, the hand of a Russian gun
ner who was holding up hi3 sponge
against me. He fell across the gun car
riage glaring savagely, but I cared little
for that and I had seen too much in the
first few minutes of the 'charge' to soften
me. Bodies and limbs scattered in frag
ments, or smashed and kneadud together,
and blood sphslied right into my face
were now no novelty. It was something
more than kill or.be killed.
whether or no, and any way, don't mind
'it,' and I didn't. I had now my hands
full of work, I can assure you. I had
three Russians to deal with at once, who
evidently meant me miiscLief. A Hus
sar made a desperate clap at my head,
and with 'cut number two' gave him. so
tremendous a slash in the neck that it al
most sickened me to look on, quickly as
it was done. I had now to wheel in or
der to meet a Poliih Lancer, who was
down !" and slap into them we went again,
cutting, parrying, slashing right and left,
and then the flank batteries opened, and
the riflemen picked us off, and the firing
grew hotter, the smoke thicker and den
ser, while the Russians in blind fury were
killing their own men as well as ours, as j
if they didn't care who they hit, so long
as they could hit at all nor what they
sacrificed, so long as they could sacrifice
us and they didn't often miss, I can tell
you. I hen the trumpeter sounded, and
"three about" was the word, so I knew
that Lord Cardigan must be at hand, and
if going " in," was like charging a legion
of devils, and the devil's imps cannona
ding us, the getting back was ten times
worse, and I almost gave it up a gone
game, as did many more, but all deter
mined, I'll vouch for if, to make every
drop of blood worth a Russian life.
We seemed already to have cut and
hacked our way through thousands, and
were going at it once more, as if we
meant to ride down the whole Russian
army, with the old Colonel ahead of us,
and through showers of grape, and can
ister, and Minnie balls, we were fairly
cutting our way as a man would cut thro'
a thick-set hedge with a bill hook ! A
regular avalanche of cavalry had burst
around us, thinking no doubt, that where
we had got to we ought to remain, having
done quite enough for one morning, ami
we were quite of a different mind. Hor
ses were running about without riders,
and while men that had fallen wounded
were endeavoring to catch them, they
were shot down like dogs. We could not
help them we could hardly help our
selves, and the Russians did not seem to
care about any prisoners. One thing I'll
mention worth notice ; as we went back,
Major de Salis caught up a wounded
bandsman, and lifted him on to the sec
ond charger he Lad brought him, and
bore him safely back through the light.
" I hardly know Low we pot Lack to
the brow of the hill from which we had
started, for every now and then I was
faint, and the pain of my hand was hor-
It was kill irible at times, at others it grew numbed
again. We got to the top, Lowvr, in
small detachments, and at Lt-t the Com-raisi-ary-General
Crook-hanks served us
out some rum, which was a God-send to
us wearied, wounded, and knocked about
as we were. We then formed in two di-vl-ious,
and Lord Caidigan rude hi front,
and counted u, and made but 13 i men
out of the C07 sabres that had gone
down with hiiu ! So I leave you to ?uess
j the slaughter that Lad been made of m
in the short hall-Lour all Lad beeu U-un
and finished not to sjieak of the Icus-
! sians liiat Lty piled aiuotiz iuc cuiw and
restoration until he submitted to bo flagel
lated by the Legato of the Pope; who
stripped him to the waist, nt the entrance
of the church, and drove him up to the
altar in that situation, all tho while beat
ing Lint with rods ?
The penance of Henry II. of England,
is well known. The whole body of the
priesthood were deeply inecii.-cd at the
murder of Thomns-a-Becket and strove
to spirit up the i eorilo to a revolt the
Kins; was obliged to submit to public
flagellation in order to preserve his king
dom from which it would appear that
it is a desirable thing to be a King. The
manner in which he expiated his errors
did not differ materially from that im
posed on Raymond, Count of Thoulouse.
Thts last instance of a sovereign who
received this kind of correction from the
church, was Henry IV. of France, on the
seventeenth of September, lo.)'i; tlus
was to absolve him from excommunica
tion, and free Lim from heresy. t But t'li.x
Prince was allowed an indulgence, then
seldom granted viz : to receive JlugdUt-
tion hy proxy and it is universally al
lowed that this is by far the most com
fortable manner of receiving thi : salutary
chastizenient. His proxies on this in
teresting occasion were Messieurs D'Os
sat,and Du Perron, who to recompense
them for having suffered for good of the
church and state, were afterwards made
Cardinals. During the performance of
the ceremony of absolution in the church
of St. Peters, and while the choristers
were singing Miserere met Ueus, the
Pope, at every vcrs, beat, with rod,
on the shoulders of the two proxies. But
as a further indulgence to the King, who
was thus disciplined by proxy, the two
gentlemen, who represented him on this
occasion, were suffered to keep their coats
on during the operation, and the lashes it
is said, were not laid on with any degree
of vigor. And sometime afterwarua, a
report having been spread that these gen
tlemen had been compelled to strip them
selves naked in the church and undergo
a dreadful flagellation, M. I)'0.-at con
tradicted it in a document since published,
in which he stated that the dicipline w:io
merely a nominal operation, necessary in
order to comply with the rules set down
in the rontificial, but, " they felt it r.o
more than it had been a fly that passed
over them, so well coated they wre.
Be this a it will, it is a matter of his
torical record, thai Henry II. of England,
and Henry IV. of France, lling of the
two most powerful States in Europe, ul
licly submitted to the dicipline of flagel
lation, the one to preserve his crown the
other, to qualify Lim to take possession of
it.
ie piano or
something more than the first four rules
of arithmetic, all thoroughly; and you
must abo Lave some idea of composi
tion." " I think, Monsieur l'Abbe, that I coul.l
pass nu examination in these things tol
erably well ; for when my day's work
was over, I have always devoted part of
the night to studying the books which 1
contrived to buy out of my savings. On
Sundays, too, I could read. 1 have come
on purpose to beg that you will be so
good as to examine me, and tell me
whether I may hope to obtain the diplo
ma of the first d-groe."
"The fir.-t decree! but you do not
know what it is my poor child; it would
be impossible. The examination is very
difficult ; you must know arithmetic per
fectly, aL-o something of geonu try and
cosmography ; you must understand mu
sic, LoUi ciuiiig and playing on mi in
struiiient. It is not likely you have
learrsed the pumo or tho burp."
"I Lave not; but, Monsieur l'Abbe,
does the law say positively th.
the harp i"
"No! the law says simply that it is
necessary to know enough of music to !e
able to play on an iiif Iriuiient. Those I
mentioned are mot usually learned at
school, that Li the reason I imined them ,
but 1 think that perhaps they might be
satisfied with the guitar."
" Well, Mouoieur, as the Jaw docs not
name any particular instrument, I am
satiVGed, for I have taught myself to play
on one instrument."
"And what is that?"
" Here it is nud the girl look from
her pocket a flageolet.
At this sight the Abbe burst into n peal
of laughter. She colored deeply ; but
imagining, no doubt, that lie did not be
Love in her musical powers, .he raised
the instrument to her lips and the Abbe
stood amazed.
The excellent priest, who had himself
been one of the people, judged rightly
that a peasant, who Lad tamrhl herself
riot only to play, but to .lay mi well,
could be no ordinary person. lie Jinked
her nge. She was twenty-five.
" I will examine you now," f aid he.
'lhe replies of tlm young peasant were
astonishing ; and he wondered, but in oi-
L.rx-e, at the knowledge which this pixji
country dre -rnal.er had obtained by her
own unaided effort:,.
" You may," In: said, " with perfect
confidence present yourself before the
commission of examiners; I will arrange
that you nlmll not be requiied to day.
This fhigculct, on w hich 3ou jM-riorm so
we'!, would exei!': laughter and witti
cisms which liiUit be avoided,"
Habits. Like Hakes of snow that fail j The youeg iasaiit w ent before the
unperceived upon the earth, the seeming- j C'.mmi.-.iorier-, and nil were tuimztd at
ly unimportant events of life succeed oiie I the variety of real and profound Inowl
another. As the snow gathers tog.-ther,! edge which the Lad acquired in her eve
are our habits formed. No single flake j 0,1,1 I ordered on during her long
days of toil. Received by acclamation,
the now Li at tho head of an establish
ment. We Lave heard iLU i-toiy related Wit
Ly the grand vieaire, ami by a lady, the
Lttitiiftte friend of our heroine, who Lu3
often heard herfcay to Lerpup'Is, " WltL
IS 1'OWI.H."
that is added to the piln produces a tei.
lible change ; no single action crenio,
however it may exhibit, a man's charac
ter; but as the tempest h'.irl ti e ava
lanche down the mount-tin, and rrcr
whelms the inhabitants and Lis habitation,
ojpa-a-ion, acting upon the elements of
mischief, which pernicious habits Lave
brought together Ly imp?rceptiL!e ac
cumulation, way overthrow the ediiice of
truth and virtue.
ToiiA'.co. The distinguished Dr.
Warren, of Ikntou, fays, " In the course
! of nijf experif.net aud observation, I have
Why u coiieiuo like tl strep not found one individual who begnn to
on th inside of wi omnibus? Letatu: UMt tobaeeo largely and freely, and per-
just charging zae full tilt. I saw that im the plain, to bctwea 2,000 and 3,W inward Lk to- the utuid I tLsted Li it, who Lad s mkiu! brain or
the butt was fixed agiwait hii thigh, tLAt'tiejJ, u I hiaxi." - Jj&aa. - ' oiind fpiiu! marrow.