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' *i ! ) linger around the home of the departed,
to indulge, in the luxury of grief. \ ou might j
find them scattered over the little precincts of
the church, kneel.ng over the graves of those
who were ilear to them in life, praying for their
souls, and bewailing their own bereavement —
There are many things in the Catholic religion
and its customs, which serve to call up a deep
reverence for that air of sinceritv which cha
raeterizcs their ceremonies, the sacrifices of
comfort and of (he best hopes of this world to !
the expectations promised by another. What ;
lady of onr Protestant religion is there, who !
could not hut shudder at relinquishing the plea
'tires oi the world lor book, and bell, and a
nunnery, even for the sake of that religion?
“ »*#■•#*•* ,*
As I strolled homeward, I could not but shed
one tear to the memory of the nun, and to re
grel that so much loveliness and accomplish
ments should have been secluded from the
world as were possessed hv her. IJer charac
ter was well summed up in the few pathetic ant ;
touching rematks of the priest, as lie held up I
Iter virtues for the imiiati >n of his dock. At
the. conclusion he remarked “ that she died
calmly in the faith which she had professed, and
in the belief that she would receive a crown
adorned with imperishable gems, from the band
of her Creator in the world to come.”
\ Host on Spectator.
THE GiJ.KIaAND.
SAI l IU) \Y I'.VI'AIM, SKi’Tl.MllKH 1, 1 I T.
t".r f2* L’llf r-C t ’> > ( ' »r « v. ■ '1 . -
nn irregularity in the dates, hut none in tlie num
bers. The v hole month of August is omitted; but
subscribers wdl receive t!»cir complement of 52
numbers, In complete the volume. The present
volume, therefore, wdl end, (sh:;’:hl no other una
voidable ii.terrujjli >!i occur,) on the loth of June, j
A VV’hsTi.HN' Novn.—Tiic admirers r>f our ftr *
correspondent “ !>,'* (Mrs. 1). o >j»t, of \ . la
•liana,) v ill lie gratified to Irani that she lias in aiiv
completed for publication, a historical Talc of con
mdrrahlc length, the hero of which is the cell brat
eil Indian Chief Tt mis,;i;. We have the privi- !
lege of offering, in mir [ r ■-■■nt i.timber, a short !
.specimen of the w ,ik ;—.ml whether v.e regard ;
the character of the ■ \li.ict, or tiic general merits
of the a i :ler, as exhibited m the numeraii:, produe- 1
lions to her pen (in pra.^e ai l verse. winch have I
adorned the columns of t'/mnh', ’ '
ai.d the late ‘ l,iternn/ .t'—«e are confident 1
that the proposed addition to nor Western I.itera- ■
lure Wol be looked tor with '.vgerness, and perns- !
c 1 with pleasure. —' Ciu. S-:f. /;• n. ( !.. ■;i,-/e.
_ :
Mrs. Sigourney lias recently published another ,
volume of fugitive poetical pieces, which will add \
much to her already diM.r.guished character as a 1
poetess. This work is entitled “ Poems, by the
author of Moral Pieces;" and it is composed of
-iioit poetic effusions on a great variety of subjects,
vv*'i\t dii’erent ncri .
EXTRAC T [ROM HOPE 1_ES*E
Home can never be transferred j-never repeated ;
t the experience of an individual. The place con- i
secrated to parental love, by tip innocence and ;
sports of childhood, by the first .cquaintance with
nature; by the linking of the 'eart to the visible
creation, is tiic onlv home. 'Here, there is a liv
ing and a breathing spirit infued into nature; every
familiar object has a history — he trees have tongues j
and the very air is vocal There the vc turn of de- ;
cay doth not close in a . 1 ctntroul the noble fane- 1
turns ofthe soul. It sees, and hears, and enjoys, .
without die ministry of gsiss materia! substance.
“Who can convert to 1 ethe the sweetest draughts
of memory ”
RF.IDKSF1- s I-l'TTT.nS.
Tim Mosers, f'-rviile have lately published
new transla'''11 liom the German, made in
this couutrv hy a foreigner of distinction and
talent, r*r the correspondence and diaries of
General Ueidesel and his wife, connected with
thi' history of our revolutionary war. linron j
Ueidesel commanded the (ierman legions, in the
pay of the lirili-li crown, during that struggle,
and was taken pi isoner with (ieneral llurgovne,
on whore conduct he comments freely, in these
extracts from his priv ate papers and journals.—
Ills lively and affectionate wife followed him
through many dillicnliies, the particulars of
which arc faithfully recorded in these pages,
from Germany to this country. Different por
tions of these letters and memoirs hav e hereto
fore been translated, in General Wilkinson's j
“ Memoirs of my own times;' and in Preles- i
- - S'.lli.■ 'I ••1.1 ... 0.1.1,tun. i hi W l!..j
lirst translation of the entire work The lady
is, of course, sometimes a little out of the way.
in !wr latitudes and longitudes; and perhaps
unnecessarily partirulnr in recording the price 1
ol her hoard and lodging; which, in times of
ir-stj|ity. is liable to great fluctuation Cut alto
gether, wc know ol no book which furnishes a
more amusing collateral illustrationof >ur revo
lutionary history than this.—[„V }'. Coin. .Mr.
[I-r’i’a the Jhs‘ i C.-unW of .lug 30.]
(, KI.KSTI A! I'll I'.N'OMKXOX
I he Heavens exhibited a wonderful and most
splendid phenomenon on Tuesday <w -mug. which
attracted, \vc- behove, very general notice. It was
a subject of general conversation > .'stertiav, though
there was considerable discrepanev 1:1 the dcscrip
tuns of different person*, owing probably to the
d hem nr e of itnie at which it was first observed.—
Ue first noticed it within a few minutes of ten
oVloeh Ajt that time a brilliant stream of white
hfrht n ng fiom the horizon m awt-stcri} direction,
subtended itself nearly to the zenith, and, in a few
minutes, w as extended quite across the Heavens,
forming a perfect arch, or belt, apparently of seve
ral yards it; width at the centre, but narrow er at the
extremities. Imagination might’ believe the ap
pearance then to be like that of the ring of Saturn
to the inhabitants of that planet. The arch gradual
ly declined from the zenith towards the south, the
liglr growing fainter as it receded from the tneri
.lian. We have heard no conjecture as to the pro
fable cause of this sublime phenomenon from any
gentlemen of science The aurora borealis, which
was unusual!;, blight on Monday evening, was, from
our position, hardly perceptible,when the pheiiome.
non above described first attracted our attention, but
a-the obliquity of the arch increased, the aurora bo
realis seemed to grow more brilliant. There was not,
however, at am moment, any apparent connexion
between them, but a broad space intervened, across
which no ravs of light intermingled We have not
witnessed, since the total eclipse of the sun, in 1S06,
any celestial appearance, so awfully and yet so ad
mirably indicative of the magnificent operations of
the Creator. In less enlightened ages than the
present this phenomenon might have inspired ter
ror, and been considered as the precursor of de
struction to the physical universe. I'be researches
of philosophy and the discoveries of science have
shown us that almost every phenomenon can be ac
counted for and referred to natural causes, while
they have taught the enlightened to view them with
admiration, and the pious to exclaim—
When time shall in eternity he lost,
And hoary nature languish into dust,
Forever voting THY glory shall remain,
Vast as thy being, endless as thy reign.
When full of thee, the soul excursive flies,
Through earth, air, ocean, or thy regal skies.
From world to world, new wonders still we find.
And all the Godhead Hashes on the mind.
MONKS.
It is certainly to solitary Monks that we owe the
preservation of the most precious remains of an
cient litiratu'c. We must consider their silent
mansions as having afforded the only retreat to sci
cue ? and literature ; in ages when an universal ig
noranee threatened to banish from Kurope everv
species of learning. “ The sublime productions of
the greatest geniuses of Athens, and Rome, found a
secure asylum in the retreats of religion. The
church, which has adopted the (.reek and I.atin
languages, alway s employed them, and without this
c rcumstance an universal ignorance would proba
b,\ have prevailed Men were wanted, who, sc*
eluded from the world, would dedicate themselves
to retirement bv choice, to study hr taste, and to
labour by duty ,—animated by the same genius,
and by the same zeal; living in common under the
same regulations, and who were willing to employ
the leisure of their solitude to the laborious occupa
tion of endless transcription. It is fortunate for let
ters that tliis body subsisted; no individuals w hose
molds would have been dissipated bv public mat
ters, could have given themselves up to such long
and puinlul labours; and tins is one of tile great ad
vantages which we derive from those industrious
and learned solitaries, who, from the depth of their
retreat, enligl.l red the world which they had quit,
ted.”—( uth. jli' ch'uit
Ladies worth wooing. — In Rath, Maine, Mrs.
I (annuli LioIjcj spun 122 knots of woollen yarn on
a common reel This was doing- well; but a
young lady in the tow n of Hector, spun on a large
w heel, 220 knots and '27 threads, between sunrise
and sunset Daughters of Columbia, imitate the ex
ample, and we will promise you husbands as the re
ward.