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Poetry.
Original.
Ode to Winter.
List totba bowbnic wind, iheir piercing nou
- ' Is bMid (root distant hills; first Bmnerint
And as mey nearer come, more brill ttoirtoae
v 1'aJla ob the Mine car; Oil fierce, almoagn
' Tbay may hars rote1 lliouMitd foreta through;
-. And anedaair 'war o'er many a ragged hill
- nighladthahawcrsoreliUliagaltetandaac
Which aa tbey co, tbey keen a aeatterine arill
Sppadinf a partlea ret oVt evsrv Talc and hilL
-' Tbc trees hart lost their verdant covering now;
' That beaoteoasrnbe of tender leaves did fade.
Which daring Kramer, sheltered ererr bough
Fiora raio and aon; and lent a cooling ahade.
The faded teal bow on tbo groaad u laid
By stern old "inter1! piercing wind aod frost.
Now icklaa the bough bear in the stead
Of tboee fair lea res the parent item baa iost.
And on the ground bf every passing breeze are
No more thaaongofrtmefal birds we bear,
When from the East the sun pots forth bu rar.
A il afiigbted wbea the leaf did sear.
They all have flown to regions far away.
Where foliage and flowers do not decay
fosooa . and where they may continue still
Their melody, throughout the litre-loan day;
And on the flnwry banks of some clear rill
Still court the dim that do their hearts with rap
lure 11.
Tbe fadedroead where fed the snowy flock.
When insects dined upsn ths nurturing blade;
The Utile bush along the murmuring brook
Stripped of its kites, its bouglis down wrhihtrd
With masses of collected snow ; also the glade.
how tabbed by the of every blooming flower ;
a. The forest leaves, plucked from tbe boughs, and
. laid
Lone on the ground by thy all withering power.
All plainly tell, Eerti's fount thingt maypmtk in
as hour.
Although, Old Winter, thou with cruel hand" '
Dost rob the earth of many a dazzling hoe.
Yet thou bast many a feature blithe and bland.
And many a charm that's likewise pleaant too
How beautiful unto tbe school-boy vi w.
To see the soow-fltkas fa! 1 in waving train?
How pleasant, too, by fire to read anew
Tne tales of other days! Yea we would fain
At each year dose. Old friend, still welcome
thee again.
ZETETES ALETHES.
MORRISTOWN, Ohio, December, 1856.
From the Athens Messenger.
Future Life.
Shall trees. live forages, and garnish tbe ground?
In greenness and beauty, and gladness abound!
Shall they enjoy li'e for a thousand long years.
Unburdened with sorrows, untroubled by reari)
Aud yetman, ihe nubieM of earth. Sea and &kit-s.
Tbe upright, the thoughtful, the Gul-like and
wise.
Shall he, like a flower, but live for adny.
TJnlold, like a toss; and tl.cn wither awsj t
Or dance, like a bubble, a while on the wave,
Lookjojous a moment then sink in the crave !
Oh.no! for eternity calls him his con;
His circuit of glory be ever slm'i run ;
The heavens present him their iiiliu ite store.
Tbe years ol the Highest are his evermore.
Released Irom the clay, the immortal fh .11 ri.
The rarlhCoalx beneath hiin.a &p ck in l lit; skits
Tbe bright stsrs ol evm shall golden tiros be.
And he nh til ascend to the realms of lix free.
Sic Transit.
How many tMy ones
Winh tiny were huohiiy;
How in.-. brggarmeu
Wish they were wealthy;
How many ugly onis
AVish they were pretty ;
How many stuied ones
Wis-hlhey were iny;
How many bachelors
Wish tl ey weia marrit.d;
How many benedicts
Wish thrr bad larrieJ ;
THE APPLE-TREE TABLE;
OR ORIGINAL SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS.
"When I first sawthe tahlf, dingr and
dus'.j, in the furthest corrrer' tif. the old
hopper-shaped garret, and set ont with bro
ken, be-cruated old purple vials and flanks,
And a ghostly, dismantled old quarto, it
aeemed just such a necromantic lit'Te old
table as might have belonged to Friar Ba
con. Two plain features it had, significant
of conjurations and charms the circle and
tripod; the a! ah being round, supported by a
' twisted little pillar, which about, a foot
from the bottom, sprawled out into three
crooked legs, terminating in three cloven
feet. A very satanic-louking little old ta
ble, indeed.
In order to convey a better idea of it,
erne a. count may as well be given of the
p.ace it came from. A very eld garret of a
Tery old houe in an old-fashioned quarter
of one of the oldest towns in America.
This garret had been closed for years. It
was thought to be haunted; a rumor, I con
fess, which, however absurd (in my opinion),
I did not, at the time of purchasing, very
vehememly contradict; since, nut irnproba
' bly, it tended to place the property the
more convenient!)' within my means.
It ws, therefore, from no dread of the
repu'.ed goblins aloft, that, for five yeais
after first taking up my resideoce in the
house, 1 never entered the g'.rret. Th---e
was no -special inducement. The r of was
well dated, and thoroughly titiht. The
company that insured the lious-, waned al1
visitation of the garret; w hy . then, 6honll
the owner be over-anxious about ill parf.c-
tilorlv. as b had no use lor it, t ie iiuuse
having ample room bel-iw. Tnea the key
ol the stair-dour h ading to it was lost. Tne
lock was a huge, old foshion-d one. To
open it, a smith would have to be cal'ed; sn
unnecessary trouble. I thought. tsesi:e.
though I had taken some can" to keep my
two daughters in ignorance ol the rumor
above-mentioned, still, they Imd, by onie
means, sot an inking ol it, and were well
enough pleased to s- e the entrtice t the
baunted ground clostd. It might have r---
fnaiaed so :or a still longer tune had it not
been for" btv acidentally discovering, in
corner of our glen-like, old, terraced garden,
a large and curious key. very old and runy.
which I, at once, concluded must belong in
the garret-iloor a supposition which, upon
trial, proved correct. Now, the possession
of key to anything, it onca provokes a
desire to unlock and explore; and this, too,
from mere instinct of gratification, irres
pective of any particular benefit to accrue.
Behold me, then, tui ning the rusty old
key, and going up, alone, into the haunted
garret.
It embraced the entire area of tbe man
sion. Its ceilirg was formed by tire roof,
bowing the rafters und boards on which
the elates were laid. Tbe roof shedding the
water lour ways from a high point in the
centre, the space beneath was much like
that of a General's marquee only midway
broken by a labarinth of timbers, for braces,
from which waved innumerable cobwebs,
that, of a summer's noon, shone likeBagdud
tissues and gauzes. On every hand, some
strange insect was seen, flying, or running,
or creepine.on ralter and floor.
Under the apex of the roof was a rude,
. narrow, decrepid step-ladder, something like
a Gothic palprt-sUirway,leudingtoa pulpit
like platform, froth which a still narrower
ladder a sort of J acob a ladder led some
wsvs higher to the lofty scuttle. The slide
af this scuttle was about two feet square,
D.THOBUM EDITOR & PROPRIETOR.
NEW SERIES, VOL., I,
NO 8.
ST.
HE -WHO LOYES NOT HB: OOfnHTHT; CAN "iOYE HOlHINi
CLAIRSVILLE, OHIO;
THSQAY, FEBUARY
TERMS
19, 1857.
$1,50 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE
WHOLE NO 965
all in one piece, furnishing a massive frame
for a single small pane or glass, inserted
into it like a bull's-eye. Tbe light of the
garret came from this sole source, filtrated
through a dense curtain of cobwebs. Indeed,
the whole stain', and platform, and ladder,
were festooned, and carpeted, and canopied
with cobwebs; which, in funereal accumu
lations, hung, too, from the groined murky
ceiling, like the Caro;ica moss in the cy
press forest In these cobwebs, swung, as
in cnal catacomus, myriaus ui bu uiues oi
iiijoimied insects.
Climbing the stairs to the platform, and
pausing there, to recover my breath, a curi
ous scene was presented. The sun was
about half-way up. Piercing the little sky
light, it slopingly bored a rainbow tunnel
clear across the darkness of the garret.
Here, millions of butterfly moles were
swarming. Against the sky-light itself,
with a cymbal-like buzzing, thousands of
insects clustered in a golden mob.
Wishing to "shed a clesrer.1 light through
the place, I sought to withdraw the scuttle
slide. But no sign of latch or hnsp was vis- j
ible. Only after long peering, did I dis
cover a little padlock, imbedded, like an
oyster at tbe bottom of the sea, amid matted
masses of weedy webs, chrysalides, and in
sectivorous eggs. Brushing these away, I
fount! it locked. With a crooked nail, 1
tried to prick li e lock, when scores of small
ants and flies, half-torpid, crawled forth
from the key-hole, and, feeling the warmth
of the sun in the pane, began frisking
around me. Others appeared. Presently,
I was overrun by them. As if incensed at
this invasion of their retreat, countless bands
darted up from below, beating about my
head, like hornets. At last, w:th a sudden
jerk, I burst open the scuttle. And ah!
what a change As from the gloom oi the
grave and the companionship of worms,
man shall at last rapturously rise inta the
living grenness and glory immortal. so, from
mv cobwebbed old garret, I thrust forth my
head into tbe balmy air, aud tounl myseif
hailed by the verdunt tops of great trees,
growing in the litre garoen Deiow trees,
whose leaves soared high abve my tupmost
s ate.
Refreshed by this ouMoik. I turned in
ward to behold the garret, now unwcntedly
lit up. Such hiimj-ed maf-ses of obseieti-
ftirniture An old fsrnlmr, trom uhosr
pii'i-on-holrs sprang m'C e, and from w hose
secret drapers cume siiUierriinean sqeakin-js.'
as from r hir-muncks' hides in the woots:
and tiroker-iluw n old chairs, with strange
carvings, which teemed 5: to seat a con
clave of conjnr.Ts. And a rusty, iron-bount!
chest, lidless and packed full of ini!deei'
old documents; one of which, with a fad?d
red ink-blot at the end, !o. ked as if it might
have been the original bond that Doctor
Faust gave to Mephist ipheles. And, finally
n the least lighted corner of all, where was
a profuse litter of indescribable old rubbish
anion" wbicn was a oros,e:i teiesc pe,
and a celestial globe staved in stood the
little oM table, one hoofed foot, like that
ol the Evil One, dimly revealed through the
cfibelIIyVht thick : dust..lialf paste,
hid settled upon the old- vials' and 1 fla-ks,
hpv their oEce.luia .-cootMt iiad'cakerl,
and how' strangely 4oqked 04" mouldy old
book in the middle Cotton Mather's" Mag
nolia.;" s.- r .- '- ' "
Table and book I removed below,.md had
the dislocations of the one and the tatters
of the other repaired. I resolved to sur
round this sad little hermit of a table, so
long banished from genial neighborhood,
with all the kindly influences of warm urns,
warm fires, and warm hearts; little dream
ing whtt all this warm nursing would hatch.
I was pleased by the discovery, that the
table was not of tbe ordinary mahogany,
but of apple-tree woud, which age had dark
ened nearly to walnut. It struck me as
being quite sn appropriate piece of furniture
for our cedar-parlor so called, from its be
ing, after tbe old fashion, wainscoted with
that wood. Tbe table's round slab, or orb,
was so contrived as to be readily changed
from a horizontal to a perpendicular posi
tion; so that, hen not in use, it could be
snugly placed in a corner. For myself
wife, and two daughters, I thought tt would
make a nice little breakfast and tea-table
It was just the thing for a wbist table, loo.
And I also pleased myself with tbe idea,
that it w uld mak a famous reading-table.
In these faacies, my wife, for one, took
little interest. She disrelished the idea ' ot
so unfashionable and indigent-looking a
sti anger as the table intruding into the pol
ished society of more prosperous furnitur.
But when, after seeking its fortune at t!ie
cabinet-maker's, the table came home, var-nisln-d
over, bright as a gumei, no one ex
ceeded my wife in a gracious reception ot"
it. It was advanced to en honorable posi
tion it; the cedjr-parlor.
But as for my d:ugiter, Juli i, she n?-er
got over her stran-ie emotions upon first
aevideiiially rncoun ering the table. Uu-
furicnatrly, it was just as I was in the act
of bringing it down from the garret. Hold
iuir it by the slab, I was carrying it be'or.
me, one cobwebbed boo! thrust out, which
weird object, at a turn o! the stairs, suddenly
touched my girl, as she was ascending;
whereupon, turning, and seeing no living
creature ;or I wa quite hidden behii d my
shield seeing nothii.g. indeed, but the
par :icn ol the Evil One's toot, as it scented.
siie rriei out, and there is no knowing wha'
uuht bare followed, had I not immediately
sp ken
From the impresion thus produced, my
poor girl, ol a very nervous temperament,
was long recovering. Superstitious'y griev
ed at my violating the forbidden solitude
above, she associated in her mind the cloven-footed
table with the reputed goblins
there. She besought me :o give up the
idea of domesticating the table. Nor did
her sister failtoaddherentrealies. Between
my girls there was a constitutional sympa
thy. But ti'V matter-of-fact wile had now
declared in the tabh's favor. She was not
wanting in firmness and energy. To her
the prejudice of Julia and Anna were simply
ridiculous. It was her material duty, she
thouMit, to drite such weakness away. By
degrees, the girls, at breakfast aud tea, were
induced to sit down with us at the table.
Continual prosimity was not without effect
By and by, they would sit pretty tranquilly.
though Julia, as mucn as possmie, avuiueo
glancing at the hoofed feet, and, when at
this I smiled, sne wouiu iouk aime seriously
as much as to say, Ah, papa, you, too.
may yet do the same. She propliccied that,
in connection with the table, something
slranse would vet happen. But I would
only smile the more, while my wife ind g
nantly eluded. -
Meantime, I took particular satisfaction
in my table, as a night reading-table. At
a ladies' fair, I bought me a beautifully
worked reading-cushion, and, with elbow
leaning thereon, and hand shading my eyes
from the light, spent many a long hour
nobody by, but the queer old book I had
brought down from the gairet.
A i went well, tiil the incident now about
to be given an incident, be it remembered,
which, like every other in this narration,
haopeneJ leng before the time of the "Fox
girls."
It was late on a Saturday night in De
cember. In the little old cedar-purlor, be
fore the little old apple-tree table, I was
sitting up. as usual, alone. 1 bad made
more than one effort to get up and go ta
bed; but I could not. 1 was, in fact, under
a sort of fascination. Somehow, too, cer
tain reasonable opinions of mine seemed
not so reasonable as belore. I felt nervous.
The truth was, thai though, in my previous
night-readings, Cotton Slather had but
amused me, upon this particular night he
terrified me. A thousand times I bad laugh
ed at sucb stories. Old wives' fables, I
thought, however, entertaining. But now,
bow different They began to put on the
aspect of reality. Now, for the first time,
it struck me that this was no romantic Mrs.
Radcliffe, who had written the'-Magnolia;"
but a practical, hard-working, earnest, up
r glit man, a learned doctor, too, as well as
a good Christian and orthodox clergyman.
What passible motive could such a mn
have to deceive? His st Ie had all the
plainness and unpoetic boldness of truth.
In the moststrightf'irward way, he lnid be
fore me detailed accounts of New England
vitchcralt, each important item corroborated
by respectable townsfolk,- snd, of not a few
ol the most surprising, he himself had been
eye-witness. Cotton Mather testified where
of he had seen. But, is it possible! I asked
myself. Then I remembered that. Doctor
Johnson, the matter-oi-fact compiler of a
liictionarv, hai ")een a believer in ghosts,
besides many other sound, worthy men.
Yielding 'O the fascination, I read deepe
into the night. At last, I found myself
ttariing at the least chance soond, and wish
ing that it were not so very still.
A tumbler of warm punch stood by my
side, with which beverage," in a moderate
war, I w s accustomed to treat my 'el!
every Saturday night; a hi.bit, however,
agiinst w hich my good wife had long re-
cutn:rated; pwd. cting that, unless I g.ive
it up, I would yet die a miserable sot. In-
ik'ft!, 1 wav here mention trim, on me oun
ii.!V warning u lo.viug u:y Saturday night.-,
I had vo be ex:ee3 ng y cautious how 1 gave
way to the fciigiitest :iii;i:tl;e:ite at any a-
liiieutul annoyance; b-ciuse such impa-
. n t.. ku nnnrj it i.irit-t to
L til suiC l" v -( - . ..... '-"
evidence of ih uielan.hoiy c-nsenuenc.es of j
over-night 'nsulg nee. As Ier my wire,
she. uever sipping punch, cou"d yi' Id tiany
little passing peevishness as much as she
pi-1; bed.
But, upon tbe night in qust:on, I found
myself wishing th it, instead of my usual
mild mixture, I had concocted some pot,-nt
draught. I feit the net d ol ttimulus. I
wanted something to hearten me against
Cotton Maihcr do eful, ghostly, ghastly
Cott n.S'ath rJ grew more" and mure ner
vouiv ;C,N olhingV- but - fa.-cl -iatLu ' a:ejt te
frouf; jfleein? the 3 ' 6mVT;The candles burnt
low, with king anuBe,- and nuge winding
sheets. ' But I durst uot.nise the smilfers
to them. It would make too' much noise.
And yet, p eviously, I had been Wishing for
nose. Ire id on aud on. My bair begin
to have a sensation. My eyes felt strained ;
ibey paiued me. I w&s conscious of it. I
knew 1 was inj tring them. I knew I should
rue this abuse ol them next day; but I read
on and on. I could not belp it. The skinny
hand was on me.
All at once Hark!
My hair felt like g-nwing grass.
A faiutsoit of inwo.rl rapping or rasping
a strange, inexplicab e sound, mixed with
slight kind of wood-pecking or ticking.
Tick! Tick!
Yea, it was a faint s rt of ticking.
I looked up at my great Strasbourg clock
. i ,1. i i i
in Oi e corner. It was not mat. i ae ciock
had stopped.
Tick! Tick!
Was it my watcH!
According to her usual practice at night.
my wife had. upon retiring, carried my watch
off to our chamber to hang it up on its nail.
I listened with all my ears.
Tick! Tick!
Wis it a death-tick in the wainscot!
With a tremulous step I went atl round
ihe room, lolling my ear to ihe wainscot.
No; it rauie i.ut irom the wahiscut.
Tick! Tick!
I shook myself. 1 was ashamed of my
fright.
Tck! Tick!
It grew in precision and au.'ih'eness. I
retreated from the wainscot. It seemed
advancing to meet me.
I looked round and round, but a'.v noth-
in"-, ou'v one cloven fout of the little apple-
tree table.
Bless me, ea-d I to myself, with a sudden
revulsion, it must be very late; ain't that
mv wiie calling me? es, yes; I must to
bid. 1 suppose ail is lock d up. No need
to iro the rounds.
The fi.scina'isn haJ departeJ, though the
fer hid incr-as-d. With trembling bauds
pulling Cotton Miiher f-ut oi" tight, I s.-on
found myself, candle-stick ill fcand, in my
chamber, with a pecu.iar rearward feeling,
such as some truaul dog may ie. 1. In my
eagerness tu gel well inta the chamber, I
s'umbled against a chair
'Do try and nuke less noise, my dear,"
said my ile fcvin the bed. "You have been
taking loo much of that pu ich, I fear.
That sad babii grows on you. Ah, that I
should ever see you thus staggering ai n ilu
into your chamber."
"Wife, wile, hoarsely whispered I,
"there is is something tick ticking in
the cedar-parlor."
Poor old man quite out of his mind I
knew it would be so. Come to bed; come
anJ sleep :t off."
"Wise, wife."
"Do, dj come to bed. I forgive you. I
won't reuiiud you of it to-morrow. Bu you
must give up the punch-drinking, my dear.
It quite gets the better of you."
"Don't exasperate me," I cried now, truly
beBide mysel '; "I will quit the house!"
"No, no! not in that state. Come to bed,
mv dear. I won't say another word."
The next'morning, upon waking, my wife
said nothing about the past night's affiir,
and, feeling no linle embarrassment myself,
especiullv at having been thrown into such
a panic, 1 also was siieui. vou-c'iuuiiny,
i . .i
my wife must still have ascribed my sin
gular conduct to a mind disordered, not by
ghosts, but by punch, r or my own part,
as I lay in bed watching the sun in the
panes, I began to thiuk that much midnight
reading of Cotton Mather was not good for
man; that it had a morbid inHueocs upsn
i
the nerves, and gave rise to hallucinations,
l resolved to put Cotton Mather permanent
ly aside. That done, I had no fear of any
return of the ticking. Indeed, I began to
th'nk that what seemed the ticking in the
room, was nothing but a sort of buzzing in
my ear.
Aa is her wont, my wife hnving preceded
me in rising, I made a deliberate and agree
able toilet. Aware that most disorders of
the mind have their origin in the state of
the body, I made vigorous use of the flesh-
brush, and bathed my head with New Eng-
land rum, a specific once recommended to
! me lor buzzing in the ear. Wrapped in my
dressing gown, with cravat nicely, adjusted
and finger nails neatly trimmed, I compla
cently descended to the little cedar-parlor
to breakfast. ;" -
What was my amazement to find my wife
on her knees, rummaging about the carpet
nigh the little apple-tree table,' on which
the morning meal was laid, while my daugh
ters, Julia and Anna, were running about
tbe apartment distracted
"Oh, papa, papa!" cried Julia, hurrying
up to me,.' I knew it would.be so. Tbe
table, ihe table!" ' r
'Spirits! spirits!" cried Anna, standiug
far awa; from it, with pointed finger.
"Silence!" cried my wife. "How can I
hear it, if you make such a noise: Be still.
Come here, husb md; was this the ticking
you spoke of! Why don't you move! Was
this it? Here, kneel down and listen to it.
Tick, tick, tick! don't you hear it now!"
"I do, I do," cried I, while my daughters
besought us both to come away from the
spot.
Tick, tick, tick!
Right from under the snowy cloth, and
the cheerful urn, and the smoking miik
tosst, the unaccountable ticking was heard.
"Ain't there a fire in the next room,
Julia," said I, "let us breakfast there, my
dear," turning to my wife "let us go leave
thti tab e tell Biddy to remove the things.
And so saying I was moving towards the
do r in high self possession, when my wife
interrupted me.
"Belore I quit this room,I will'see into this
ticking," she said with energy ; "It is some
thing that can be found out, depend upon it.
1 dun i believe n spirits, especially at break-
fast-time. Biddy! Biddy! Here, carry these
things i-ack to the kitchen," handing the
urn. Then, sweeping off "he clotl, the lit
tle 'ah!e lav bare to th? eye. -
"It's the tab'e, the iabl!" cried Julia.
Norsense," ;ail my wife. "Whoever
heard of a ticking table! It's on the floor.
Btddy! Julia! Anna! move everything out
of the ro'jin tabb aad all
Where is the
tack hammers!"
"Heavens, mamma you are not going to
tal:e up the cfriiet!" screamed Julia.
"tlere's the h immers, marm," laid Biddy,
a Ivancing tremblingly.
Hai dthem to me, then," cried my wife;
for poor Bi.iry was, at long gundistanee,
ho'ding them uu. as if her mistress had the
p'agua.
Now, husband, do you take, up lhat side
of.the (farpet, and I wilj'tlifs. DWn
ter''knees-fitlB!B-: tjrfnhTt?! "follow-
eo suit. '
The carpet removed, and the 'ear applied
V tbe naked floor, nut the s'ightest tickling
cauld be heard.
The table after all, it is the table,"
cried my wife. "Biddy, bring it back."
"Oh no, marm, not I, please, marm," sob
bed Biddy.
"Foolish creature ! Husband, do yeu
brinsr it." -
"My dear," said I, we hava plenty of
other tables; why be so particular!"
"Where is that table cried my a-ife, con
temptuously, regardless of my gentle remon
strance. In the wood-house; marm. I put it
away as far as ever I could, marm," sobbed
Biddy.
"Shai: I go to the wood-bouse for it, or
will you!" said my wife, addressing me in a
frightful, business like manner.
Immediately I darted out of the door, and
found the little apple-tree table, upside down,
n one of my chip-bins. I hurried'y return
ed with it, and Once more my wife examined
it attentively. Tnk, tick, tick! Yes, it was
the table.
"Please, marm," said Biddy, now enter
ing the room, with bat and shawl "please,
marm, will you pay me my wages!"
"Take your hat aad ehalw off directly,"
said my wi'e; "set this table again."
"S.'t it," roared !, in a passion, "set it, or
I'll go for the po'ice."
"Heavens! heavens!" cried my daughters,
in one breath, "What will become of us!
Spirits! Spirits!"
"Will you set the table!." cried I, advan
cing upon B-ddv.
"1 will. I will yes, mirm yes, master
I will. Spires! Holy Vargin!"
Now. husband," said mv wife, "I am
convinced that, whatever it is that causes
this licking, neither the ticking nor the
tabl' can hurt us; for we are all good Chris
tians, I hope. I am determined to find out
the cause of ft, too, which time and pati
ence will brinrr to light. I shall breakfast
on no other tabie but this, so long as we live
in this house. So.rsit down, now that all
things are re-'dy again, and let us quietly
breakfast. 5!y dears." turning to Julia and
Am a, "go to your room, and return com.
p se I. L -t m:; have no more of this childish
ne s "
Upon occasion my wife was mistress in
her house.'
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'! he Way to Make a Poor Pastor.
1. Pe very careless and irregular in at
tending church. Never go except when
you can find no excuse for staying at home.
2 When at church be either asleep or
staring about. Uo not listen to the ser
mon. 2 When you go home complain of the
srmon ns light and chaffy or dry and un
lnt"rest:ng.
4. Treat your pastor with a cold uninvi
ting civility, and then complain of htm for
not visiting you.
6. Neglect to pi ay for a blessing on him
and his labors and then complain of him
because the church does not prosner.
6. Be always finding fault with your pas
tor, and regret that be is not more popular
with the people.
7. Be very lukewarm and worldly-mind
ed and yet complain of him for want of
zeal.
8. Neglect to provide for his necessiry
wants, and then complain of him because he
wants hie salary.
Do these things, and you will never fail
to have a poor pastor. Independent.
(rTbe population ot Minnesota is 180,-
OOt.
A Short Story.
onJt9'ft&'lSi'
,We ntust work. Many 'who have been
fortunate in business, and having early ac
quired wealth, have retired .from the active
pursuits of life, to find what ibey call ease,
bare found instead, accumulation of cares
and-evils, real and imaginary, which they
ue?r supposed to be connected with a life
of idleness. ' There, for instance, is our
friend Coffee hi many years one of the firm
of Coffee, Rice St Co., wholesale grocers in
South street. Coffee commenced business
in early life, anJ being enterprising and en
ergetic, and 'a? busy as a bee, the business
and the Srm became wi k ly known j
by their successful trading. Alter Con'e
had been in business for about twenty years,
he concluded that he would retire from ac
tive, life, and spend the rest of his days, (he
was only forty-five) in some secluded spot,
wherCthe fluctuations of pork and molasses
would disturb his quiet soul no longvb He
wotJd not be an anchorite not I?--1. He
We? good livin" and good socie-y too much
for ft riri9,Vou1d bwahiauelfa mansion,
in lh2 country? far away from the noijy
soucaS eeBiiioisomt smell of South street.
He VouR. provide ample aceoronfsdations
for bUj fcien'S who.migbi.come to partake bf
his got ' i,Lef, aud Jae would lead a pleasant
and e r life. Sach were bis plana. But
las, j -f Cuffte; whilst thou wast acquain
ted w :i Ve ins and outs of trade," thou
waat ' aorant. of th Hie own self
Tt artijrkh'ip weadisolved. the site for
hoe selected, . and, ro Imb, spJendidfUbosa
mansion was bailC' It ras the. most, ele.
ganmansion iaalUbose parts. ; The .hon
est v tics gated fi) tstooishmenton tbe evi
dence, of wealth displayed, ihe country store
keeper congratulated bimtelfoa the proba
ble acquaintance of a customer, the village.
docljorcalculated on a3dditionaI "patiegt,
while tbe poor naasof rejoiced in. hufieart
hai. there was, a proTiamwyw a retuea mer
chant.::. For thetfirsl, month '.every thing
wefct on admirably. . : ; - '. -!
Coffee had enbugh lo keen.lum at work v-A
rapjfag matters around the ( sew place, and
getting ewrvthing ". W proper 'orde for per
mafcise:.B9tb
ntIT.trr JrTrft! hojiir tiAwi Itf -Ait-hts --tsenJa.-'
Tfcete, wasnothioff to keep -birnifci jst.
wokcjr h4jcefwa8 dvhe'feyl;
hired luWs,f.,i'U'jemined to be ,
man.
versee;cxef'?he tfb.ofey--..yke gum total
i?.CoffeeJAr4V 'occtiptiefi was, eating.
faikir and sleeping; jrtrJi a little read iug
and ao occasiohaVride.: It was nol long ber
fuVa symptoms "otdy.spepsia ahd-lof gjut-ap,
peafed,and after suffering nonjh.ijr rjritold
agotty, he left his s plead d mnsron. for -the
narrow house appoinjed for all livinir.' Poor
lillow !.- He died, becaust he ad nothing else
Tien there was'his,.neighlh)rt Lapstone,
H'hoV tried bard W keeg souls in the" bodies of
himself and wife and.eight.chi ldrebrby daily
dIvSW his honest: ' trade-' of .sboemaking.i-".
Lapstone's hutpble bousfrwas almost under
the&hadow ofjlbe great, mansion, and he of-
sea-sand saw the ricn-CuffeelnrlridTy-by
bis splendid coach.and was as ofien tempt
ed to break the tenth commandment, and
wished himself away from his wax ends
ai.d awls, and in possession of some of his
neighbor's rii lies." True. Lapstone was in
comfortable circumstances, though he was a
poor man. He had a little garden patch
where he could labor an hour or two every
dayjtnd while providing fur his tible, he
prepared himself by nut-door exercise for
tbe inn-door onfinement of his trade. Then
wife was a perfect model of a. woru.n,
frugal and industrious, while the young Lip
stones were hearty and robust, and some of
them old enough to help in the shop. But
Ltpstone hud fancied, as he saw the uealth
and show of bis neighbor, that it vas a fine
tWngo be rich and take the world easy.
Therefore he had sighed when his neighbor
rode lazily along in a carriage, while he fat
ten hours a day hammering sole-leather.
But when, at length, he saw the funeral
train which carried rhe rich idiert-i his !on
home, he came to the c inclusion that hea'th
was better than wealth., and contentment more
be desired than riches. And that's the mor
al of this story.
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appears it is for man alone, to watch from
the other side of the material panorima that
surrounds him, the great and amazing real
ities with which be has everlastingly to do
it is for him, so locks J up in nn im;.-risou-rrrent
of clay, sn I with nj other loholes
communication between himself and all
that surrounds him tliaii tne eye and the ear
it is for him to light up in his bos im a re
alizing sense of the things that the eye hath
never sjfen and f ar hath never heard.- It is
for man, and perhips for man alone, to trav
in thought over the ruins of amigh y des
olation, and beyond the wreck of that pres
ent world by which be is encompassed, to
conceive the future world on which he is to
expatiajg forever. But a harder achieve
ment perhaps, than any it is for man, in
the exercise of faith, to observe that most
appaling of all contempUiions. the dee.-iy
and the, dissolution of himelf; to think of
ihe time when his now animated framework,
every part of which is sensitive and de.ir to
im, shall fall M pieces; hen the vital
wurmih by which it is so thoroughly perva
ded thill take its departure, and leave to
coldness and abandonment all fiat is visa
bid of this moving, and si ting, and thinking
creature- when those limbs with which he
steps so firmly, and that countenance out of
which he now speaks sp eloqueiuly when
thut whole body, tor the interest and provi
sion ol which he now lubors so strenousiy,
as if indeed it were immortal when ell
these shall be reduced to a mass of putre
faction, and at length crumble with the cof
fin that encloses them, into dust. Why, my
brethrtn,to a being in the full conscious
ness and possession of its living energies
'here is something, il I may be allowed the
expretsioi, so foreign and so unuutu-a' in
death, lhat we ought not to wonder if it
scare away the mind from that clheri-.il re
gion of exis.ence to which it is hastening.
Angels have no such transition of horror
and mystery to undergo. There is no screen
darkness interposed between them and
the portion of their futurity, however dis
tant, and it appears that il is for man only
drive a bridge across that barrier wh-ch
looks so impenetrable, or so to surmount the
power of vision as to curry his aspirings
over tbe summits of all that revelation has
made known to him.-Dr. Chalimrs.
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A ssrtwet. The Ladies May their
virtue exceed even the inuguitude of their
skirts and t'ueir faults be still smaller :han
their bonnets.
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Sounds from Home.
A REVERIE OF THE PAST, BY AN OLD MAN.
fair summer evenings, when all round
The fire burns brightly on the widehe&rtt
belore me. The red tlames ruh whistling,
singiug, up the great black chimney, that
swallows them carelessly, and gapes for
more. 1 have seen youth as bright and
sparkling as those flames, rush like them
into the black gulf of ruin, and like them.
too, leave behind them naught but ashes,
but the ashe3, alas! of blasted hopes, and
fond hearts stricken by despair. I am an
old man; I have run my race allotted by
Heaven to all of earth. My head is bowel
down towards the dust, which will soon
claim me as its own. I should be alone,
alone in this great iron worid, had I not one
good faiih'ul friend, who I thank God hum
bly, is still spared me. O! it were worse
than death .worse, worse a thousand times
to lose that friend. Men call it 'memory.
I call it a good angel, for it brings back to
me those whom I loved and lost.
As! sit befur the wild flames, that throw
a trembling, stooping shadow on the wail,
this spirit -one is singing io my eas strains,
sweet though aadVthe melodies of by-gone
days. Oh, dearly - do I juravie' -hear that
song, to listen to those 'Sounds from Home."
What sound from the home of m boyhood
is floating touo.d'Tae' now! Hive 'you "ever
heard a village church bell fill the quiet air
with its sweet plaintive sound", on -one of
there is such a still and ho'.y calm, that It
seems as if heaven itself were slumbering on
earth! r Such to me this T sound has always
been.-' I knew it well; it is toy mother's"
voice. I had a another once, and I loved her;
to4Tfcseoa'Bot! I ;fememher, when a'
ittre chtlQ'i tried -"to- pray, I first would
th ink pi her, ' to 611 ray ' heart with love to
God.3 Shd'wai- my-': stepping stone 'frjan
iirth to heaven!: Ohiwhat is there .like a
mother's love! or wtrre th love sd pure-aa
that we bear to herT 4 When wearer .fresh
frcun God,then"ft is strongest;" ';for. as we
grow older, and the cold and sneering devir;
caliel tbeW8Tlu''ietl!e- on ,aita .rank.
wltIieringhreften"dosxouTj5ove for her .
who five "Ss Srrlhr- ii'ri3er -amid aa. many
fcikis pission h .t their bl tck a iad-
owidim'ts. urrglf ttesy il at Ii it- burns
within. eArr 'lie.irts, and.-w con'ess it, loo,
when -iHEiib is in out homes and weJare .
motherless. - " i'v'V.- H
.,But .;em ryv iestfeSep ritstng.i no.v to
me knotlierKr'sia.'v.I'hesr anotherf ound
frornbouw.' TbiO.Lie simple strain,
tung ImoQj b4' was dearer to m? than "all
the world besHesi'--' Ljog years ago there
crossed my path Hi life a girluh form; sumo
called it 'pretty pprlinps It ivai; 1 Taeveif
thought of thafe Ix.-as.'' very-' fair, wtih a
delicate ;rame,'ond voice-in which was a
strain aVmusicai'as-the; notes of ahirp,
which I once had wicn -a child, ths chords
which were taove'J. by the y:hdas it pass-
over theni.' By eloi degrees this1 girlish
form gre pewerAiI tn Us rhistery over me.
I snrugledv'"afnSrv'this-
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co I stal near, w.is at mv side, and in
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love 1 was happy. Shtt died: See there,
where the moon beams re it on a plait, nnr
stone, as if they Ijvc V'f walcl- ov.-rthe i
grave of one as pure as themselves. She
lies there, and I am tot at her side! For
awhile my bosom, on which her head was
wont to rest, was as bold ks the arib en
which she now lumbers. But Time is
friend indeed, for he yes, lie comforted
me.
Pshaw! what is this dream we call I've,
after all! a toy to whi'e away an hour, a
theme for boys and girls tr prattle ubo-it. 1
dreamed like other foo's once, ut no I
have learned to stare reality in t ic f e , mJ
bear uuflinchly iu cold hard gaze. But I
must ta:k of her. Siie died, and died when
were poor, and I curs.'d mysel: tin t I
had taken her from her borne, and had no
re to give her. I', was selfish, was it not?
But selfishness holds the kep of ail me:.'s
heart's; yes, 1 was selfish to love her as I
did. She died, and died blessii g aie. Well,
well, it what wise and good men say be true,
shall sec her again; lhat tiiit may be, is
constant prayer to heaven. Another
sonnd troia home an infant's cry. Trie
tiny voice of my first born is ringing in my
ears Alas! that sound from hom? hid been
stilled. Heaven tojk what it had g ven mo,
earth hid time to wither it with its ac
cursed breath. Tnere is mo e t'.an one
s'eeping beneath that cold white stone. The
baby is lying in its mother's arms, and ti e
muoii-boaius watch over my lost tieasures.
am alone in the world, alone with meiii'iry,
alone with the thought of the part. Oh,
mother, wife, and child! your voices come
me like messengers from the read to tiie
living. Sli.l do they roue to uie, sounds
from a far oil, ha; py home, a home beyond
the grave!
master.
b:irn power.
whom f loved, and wl.o loved me oum have (
turned to other things It is an old story ti.at it
am telling. I c. led her wife, and then ,
there burst on me the auger of a parent, and
r a tuna l left mv fathers hou?e. ana wan- u
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Comes all this piliiul . world. in?ss iio'ig
led "goo.l men!" Vih.-nc' among
them those ui.ti-y ''innorei.t weaknesses,"
thuec n.ce shrinking evations.whea U .l wj
quires a new burnt oU'eringori the aliar of
truth, iiecau-e they have made their virtue
thems -Ives, that like a convenient and
pleas.iut pillow they may shift it now lo this
side, now to lhat, to prop their e.tnh y
umbers. Because ihoy have planted a sha
dy park in the desert at the tout of Sinai,
which conceals the mountain from their
sight, w hile they wander up and down
through blooming paths, satisfied if they do
not stray so far that their companions in
the park can no lojiger nv -cu io them as
their fellows. Verily this generation re
ju r ?lh '.'u' burning mirror oi tho Itw, to
consu ne to ashes the tares which :hev call
o d seed, hi,t which cannot even hide the
uked soil. Tie lltiiiq.
A Juvksile CaniiaAL. A lud unly twelve
years old, by the name of Patrick lh Goo,
I.ish parentage, living in tin village of
Ashtabula, was lodged in t io county jail
lust Saturday for thctt. tin Thursday night
stole one hundred dullirs in money a id a
pair ol bouts from the ft re of Mr. Hum
phrey, al the depot, and took the next iiioru-
!ug express train for ('leveland. where he
wasapprenenueat!) tne consiau wno went
pursuit. He has been in jail twice be- lhl,
fore this, on charges of burglary. Whot !
of parents has tins young boy, that he
thus early sn a.lOj.t in cnmHAs-Mmhu- '
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From the St. Louis Central Christian Advocator.
Emancipation in Missouri.
cheerlul.y lo pursue our v0,alion td-
.r .a a r.lvious denominatioa; whose L-heers
knotvn pr.ncp.es and usags tia subje, t j
oteht lo save us th-, l.Vr of even so much
a: rx.) niiiton. In iK.a
This su'jet't Ljs for several dava oast en-
grossed the attention and time.ijf the Legis
lature oi mis elite, to the xciusi;..n c al
most everything else. The discussion bos
been incidentally called up in ihe election
ot ouiccri by the joint session, but has.
nevertheless, been discussed with a thor
oughness and spirit which shows the thrill
ing interest felt in th s great question by
the citizens of Missouri.
The dignified fearlessness with which a
number of the members grapp.ed snd han
dled the t!;ing. wnul 1 do credit to any delib
erative body in the land. We would tc
pl re any strife or vicious teelin wM.-h
might arise from the agitation of this snh-
jecl at ibis or at any time. There is no ne
cessity lor stnle among neighbors and fel
low citizens in the consideration of this or
any oiner grave question involving the wel
fare of ths State. We are not wii!in to
acknowledge tbe free, infjliigsnt citizens of
Missouri incapable of free , discussion, even
of this subject, without vicious- strife. Bui
If the nurmTtarlBg" fact shouts 'bu found to
exist, we would ever abide, the Divine rul.
iirstpwre then peace .We." . as 'me try 6(
mo bd.?,i ex,-ocUir 07 our a- r.or.af and
commercial i iuresis is iie Stte; firmly -be-
ucve, me einancipaviou or ins -comparative
ly few s ave in our uvdt would add immense.
ly to the aggregate weallh and prosperity of
viio auu iiwr ueiraywg au wig eapenss in
cidental to such a. ehanger ia: tbe increased
value and productiveness of property wit'ain
our bound : why not take 4eciaive step in
that (Jirectjon? , I noh can of -Ae rwder
icieuiB;icc Bu i patriotisra or -Slisskori, we.
ass r way jiott
ytuer states: of c r gloriaus crfifiJercv
hne emanctpa ei, iod the: civilized world
commena tnem; w.y miy notwo!' ,1s there
loss of rntelligeneet- less uctVr h iea fove
of prdsf with us tl.an witJho i :Let who-
evor thinks, so, no v speak. T.'e do net be
lieve it, bat, on the contrary, r believe the
pe pie of Missouri fully competent and cava-:
ble f they ahUl:Umtk welt, peacefully; and
iriinoui me miriageBient ot the riirhu.of
jy.t emano pst &ak shves; ai ta.io
so, we oeiiei e.-ivouid ' ajserve ja ihe'&iahv
est Kcibiet:;ree,-v.5;nteresis of the
Bit thre are ctWiBad Lirjher arrd
censideratiops which read-'trs to 'desire if ta
Gi' p ovidence it may e accoaiplished
emir eipation. .Vyabolieve sUvery to be a
'great evil, anl ran: ot,. therefore, so long as
we have a hart ta If el for other' woj a
Christian h?art cease to Jesir? ihe removal
the evil 1,4-t not ear friead4 be alirined.
areur eneaj-oa, i! we have.them, rfjoice at
me iranx avo.vsi of o " s'utiments; enter
taining them, tvo hes : - . -t to.avow tbemr
have nothing to d..j; Jt in. W . matter;
wejhold no srntimeats,' arjvov " t no meas
ures-, pursue oo policy which ' we would not
hold, advocate and pursue anywhere io-thi
.iiWic. -:;''';- -.':..' ' . -.;
Ve are not here to in'crmeddle, ar lh(s
Vnnior.any a !.er
-med oriii w
r.b -to-rvdrelsfl',ir
ters, we produm tu the wund, -we defraud
man. However deep'y we' ni-.v dpiore
existing evii, and howevtr urJemly we
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may desire its- reti.ov.il, we rei'trJ ourselves
.li0aljd,as Cbristiun citizens
to promote
necessary change in a lawful, p.'.c!"til
uiann.-r. Vet si rely as a rolig jiis journal,
wecannjt ignore a titled of tuh nura
mouul imparlance, as a question of Chris
tian morality.
In the altitude this s.ihject is here assu
ming, an attitude, as it should be, given it
our own people ana representatives, uuin
fi ienci-d by foreign elements, there ere just
these two ies whicn may be taken, thos
two position- assumed: S:uvr, as it exists
among uj, is either &u evil or a blessing; i;
forsier, let it be ubulishc
n the lutu-r,
il be lo.-ter.d.
Let us have no cV'ging, r,o gtde iesue.
wrung !.n. The scheme by which this is to
cffect--J, ia all its details can. by the
wisdom of our statesmen and philanthropists,
wrought out in due time, and the means
neces-ary to the accomplishment of so "rand
i;lorii;ti a rot:-umm t'i n a consiumaa-
;ii . ver which chrisiian men and apgels
waj'.d s!i-.iut chii be secured.
r.. .l: . .. ii .
iu i.-iis we wuiiis noi, were we new rea.lv
if, saTer ourseivjs tv dictate, b-.it would
simply sug j-st. Lhat tk? Metiio list Episco
pal Cnurch, ith other evangelical churches.
continues still the elcadlast friend una p
I Iron f ooioiil?. ilio;., until something more
ttasihle shail be presented. Our a ;ont are
still in the li.'ld, fundi .ir: being collect.
and other ellieient means are being emp! 'V-
to cairy oi. mis gi.irious worU.
We ieclare that here every m.-in is with
out excuse. If any d- rime to fav.T eui.ui
ripation. we suppose it must be fr.nu one .'f
two coitsiucratior.s: ojtlier ihjy have not ih
cuurage to declure tho.r wi.-,i-.e, le-t t:i.-y
incur t!ie displeasure o.'' so-.ie. -r ihev do
cousiJ-T slavery an evil but a blo-siii",
tl.erei'ore do not desire its extinction.
Will l!io rrijji.,un press of the -State s.ieak
ijon the si.hjj'jt.' We wait wilii a.-.i-iety
tJ see; not lii it we U-ar the coiisf -ju-u-cos
lor nuselves if ihev hvMiid uot coiai' to
? reseue, fer we uniiv.-it atingly ass.-r; thit
henever we lini.k we may i. rw -ird ihe
caus" ol emaaeipati.m by s-i d-iiny, we s!.:t!!
speak, regardless a Iu" ut'i.-rs iu.iv u i it
to do; but weaie i-,.ol;Je:-.: thai. sUi.u'.il
religious prer-M's ::..i the c'luri ii-. ol
Ms.;iri g.ve th-":.- dec itiuuence for
ini i.iation. it will go very S-ir toward tho
accompMshmet.t of this u.osl disiraoie object.
Wl.oks ,infe , tto;lIlT. ou llmi by
nimu of Clarke, engaged in tmi.in'iu
siiolby f tiled in bieins andra ..!e airas
kind ;., t l. rUr next week be as in the
(tlrAs is t'i i!
c'.ij:uoi:4 :tio,'
virtu nmo.ig ti
. r-ravos.
(i..'- eni'.svivanu ri ;ii:is the honor of "r
gi..at ng th-fi i Aricoliu al S-cietv in
oui.try alter tkf I, voii.iion. V as
ii.ded iu 17S5, and J d;e 'i ih .r.i I'cter
ms President, a. tivo 'remoter a::d pa
tron Lake SrrEmo Suvra A m:: of pure
soliil silver, weigh ng . y-five pound-, h .s
been tke.i Irom the 31 nnesorii n, ne.
I..vke Si.j tfrior. At in current tirirki", val
ue, ST per ouuco, this mass wei.ld ho wortli
l.04t).
Kaiid Tkairof
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-About
Lunatic Asvl.uu. and now h
gr,T,. MmnsMi U-rt j.
alsej's in the
Anecdotes of Avarice.
The great captain, tbe uke of Marino,
ough, when he was in the last stage of life,
and very infirm, would walk from tbe publia
room in Bath to bis lodgings, on a cold, dark
night, to save a sixpence in coach hire. If
the duke, who left at bisdsath, ra .re than a
million. and a half sterling, eould have fire
seen that all his wealth anJ honors were to
be inheritad by s grandson of Lord Trevor's,
who was one of bis enemies, would he save
always saved s sixpence.
Sir James Lowther, after changing t
piece of silver in St. George's soffe house,
and paving for his cup of coffee, was helped
into his carriage for he was lame and in
firm and went home; aoroe time a.ter, he
returned to the same c. Cee bouse, on pur
pose to arrjuair.t the woman who kept It.
that she had given him a bad halfpenny,
and demanded another in exchange for It.
Sir James bad about 48,630 per annuts
and was at a loss who to appoint his belr.
Sir Thomas Colby killed himself by rising
in ths middle of iha i.ight, when be was ia
a profuse sweat, the effect of medicine which
he had lak n for that purpose,- and aikiDg
down stairs to look for the ty of his cellar,
which he had inadvertently left on ths table
in bis park-r; ha was a,ire henaive that his
servants m glil seizj the k-y; and rub bia
of a b-Jlt!" uf "vi'.e. This man died intts
late, and iefl morn than ! 00.000 in the
funJ.t. which ware shared among five or six
day laborer, which ware bia nearest rs'a
tioris. "
Sir William Stgvtbe, when near seventy,
was w-iid'y deprivsdVwf his sight; he was
per:-uadeJ to b couched by ta oculist, who,
Ly agreement, was to hava sixty guineas If
be restored h'i patient to any degree ot
sight. Tii oculist succeeded ia his opera
tion, and -ir W .Uiaia was able to read and
write without the use of spectacles during
thu rest of his li'e, but aa a ;on as the opera'
iiun was performed, mud Sir William saw
the good t ilct of it; instead of -being over-
jsyed, as any other rysoa wou'd have been,
he begat to lament the loss of his sixty
gaineas. Ifis contrivance, therefore, waa
bow to cheat the oculist; he pretended he
could n t see anything perfect; for that rea
son, ths bandage on bis eyss was continued
a month fonger than the usual lime, ly 4
this means, he obliged the oculist to core--poticd
the bargain, aad accept of twenty
jfdineas for a covetoua man thinks ' ne
method dishsnest, which he may lsgally
practice to save bis money.
Lord Ilardwich, who was said te bs worth
JE8CO,CO&, 'set the same value ea half a
crown then, .as be ilid wbea be was wrU
aotioo;.-r ' A- r?. :. "
Inauguration Anecdote.
Tut cd Ca4rie vcr0PM t:ring tL
f,r ihe go-.d. b.t teller ma.ner.
pMSi ,ad M? B .diwo stepped out of hie
elent cquioage. aud et.tered the side gat.
ts
wia .til. .
' Daring the inauguration of Ocn-.Taylor,
March' 4th, 1849, the police regulations, ae .
usual required that alter, the speech of tho
new President had commenced; tbe gates of
tire Capital oroouds should be closed, aad no
carriage of any kiodattaod i to pass until
tbe speech finished, to prevent coafBsion.
The tfutistrjLof all the Busaiaa. ft. B. '
disco, was veraie, and after the spesctt
. i j ; i " . . - - r -j t k - . . .
naa oeguu aruve irrrre gv im grriu. $is,
the harse'coTeAvith Jomai, sjjjesi'the
coachman stuteutofe&ej guariliOpti tt
jaiJ, j 'fm piea-je,'' VThs jum J ahok his
bead and stood rJU. - Tbe foet'man next
called out:?'Wil! yoti epen it Z'AbJer ze
ft.isatsr lliriif ter!" " Tiie guard again (hook
his head, without answering a-wor4 Hext.
tbe gram MinWvar put, his bead out of the
carriifg.e wrnuow ind'callej to the guard:
.upea ze Jil-s lo ze grana .inaitrrer oi an
iw lvosa:cs, juuivi-.er rieipuirui arj, ja.
Bod;so'! am ze trfbtter. . . :
LTheirkyas a griatrovJkyaound the gates
within .aud without, snd &!Uiia tuss areated
i,h guardSJtrew Linaacif up.
.tit 'ftv irrjiitJ niPictrf n.anncr vpi.tiati
Cvd i;Ui:tcrAirurK,yoaiUa
P-
tna:ll li' e-ati-S
re v r.
uiiiil
all
tne ssrsuiomes
Thrilling Incident in the Life of an
Inventor.
E..n ia.i:.j. A rorrsp- in
Xjtio.inl lr.leliijexzer, (D. C,) n.ticis tbe
eort? thut were mat's some years ago by
O. 31. Coleman, t'na iuvent. r of ths .Eiiin
Attschrr.snt, to direct attention to it, a-n-T.
tho i!.Ls-c&l circles t--f London, and
co:;-. ludcs with ti:9 iolljiri;) r anecJotr:
"Hut ta trlr.g niV lefer So a clcae. Af
ter I'elcman hudebtatned u' Cru'-ean pal
en'.;, and his invn:it.n had attained tie
highest point in the estimation of the pub
lic, lie still found a 'lion in the way. The
cele rated Tb iibarg, then and yei jui!y re
g.i iled as t':s first pianist in tl4 w.-r.J. w ha
a tbuu sn the Coritinsnt, had n t yetseaa
or iiparil the instrument, iiar.y eminent
mu-ticisns, a:id especially the p:ano manu
lct;.rrs, vtood aloof until Thalberg sl;e.:ld
g ve his I'pir.i.'n. (-le:ii-sn fell ths! the fata
of uis i:.ve:.tii:i kun upon t'ue Cat of ihe
crcadeol ri:a'lejj. It w.-.s W:t li'.t Tiiil-b-
rg comes, until t!i very name ot
Thaiiirrg t-ei-n:n hateful. The great mas
ter arrived in London at it, and a d :v was
appointeu sor I; s . xatu nation of the iua:ra
me!:?. A liro ro.Mn was select'J, int
!.i,u urn'r. ::;;:J i number ef ths S:t
ma-ii-'al ert-al.a.
ll-neJ
sst ilmn an ! p'avF-i iu hia bet
s'.ylo. Ths.licr stood al a distance, with
in. a:iu- t" Kl.-ii ani Lack lurked, lie lis-
tei:J for a time ia '
tht n init on. and liien
turned h s fjce tow:.
.rJs ihe irlru.i.eat.
He m-.ved - 'tly r.crss ti e il er until he
eIo.-J ! th side ot" Ke.ud l. wl.ie he
ugiiii :ejij-i ai.J 1 s:ej.k. An eves ion a I
nod oi ti.e t ea1 was '! ih.'Cc ti u ha ca
trsvrJ. ti.. .dei.lv,: wi.lle Hi:. -lot was iu
the verv mii.-t : a s;ion )i j j:ta, he laid
i i s- ii ii.J un :. his arm. an i a .i:, a i.at v
gentle pu-;., val-J. titt otTtliat stvaii seat
ing hlini, he di-hi'd vat at i inimitable
st it', and ciat ini'i t play f'rsj u; li.re
w:i;n ..'t interruption, elo.-ri'v t'lemau
and th-. other auditors by an e:'t:r-!y new
sppllca'ion tiie inv. nlor. SuJ'Ija-
1 Uo . !.!. au.1 tr:ii i ' 1 1 15 oli. t.
seijcs.i
th.'V, n .
and T:i.
.-I." t-!!;
I ii ni tu g. t a cor a o p ero o: Cess
- ro:n the 1:1).-irv. Vols was done.
Ix-r ; play el it through. Then,
his ictri'.:ae.:t vr.' h taxi anJ
pointing to t!:
very m-lruiu
w ie:i he w
ip-isii- h sii: Tiu i th
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i 'v -ii ii i i n hi m.rti
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iCUid t :k
::!vriin aski-u a n.'
a p nch f -r jir.
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h.?y ti" a
N .' re, i d
o s rot tua-
ery-
lTi'e t.ix lovy in N'v Y.'tk c:'y for
t'.iecir Ii57.ro u'aes S7.IS4:-i. snJ mi'
proballr i P ' virfht m.liiona Sve hna
dred th. usiiid dollurs.
(JT I'iio lion. J. Tl. litsnisGs has return
c.l home. We ho;e his death wi 1 be too a
reinstated. Mr. ti . has (might a gnt d tight,
and we trut his arm will be preserved ia
s ren'S to ttrika winy a slew far Frs-