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THE PEARL KIVEIt HANENR.
IS Fl'DMSilED EVEIIY SATURDAY,
XTX G. 7. C02I2SA & D. CASJEIIQN.
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t :n dollars and for comity five dollars each.
IVtage on letters must bo pai l to receive attention.
tuts ghees wood shrift.
Outstretched beneath the leafy shade
Of Wlndson Forest's deepest glade,
A dying woman lay j
Three little children round hertyond,
And there went up from the green wood .
v Awoful wail that day.
"0 mother !" was the mingled cry,
"0 mother, mother, do not die, .
And leave us all alone." -'.My
blessed babesPshe tried to say,
'But the faint accents died away -,
In a low sobbing moan.
And then,Iifosrrug-Iod bird with death,
'And fast and strong she drew her bieath,
And up she raised her head;
And pooling through the deep wood maze
With along, sharp, unea;tlily giae,
. "Will he not come?" the said.
Just then, the parting boughs between,
A little trinjd's li-jht form was seen,
All breathless with her speed (
And following close, a man came pn, v
(A portly man to look upon)
Who led a pouting steed.
"Mother!" ihe little maiden crieil,
Or, e'er she reached the woman's side,
And kissed her clay-cold cheek-
'I have not idled in the town,
i. But long went wandering up and down,
The minister to seek.
"They told me here they told me there
I think they mocked me every where ;
And when I found his home, ,;,?',
And begg'd him on my bended knee
To bring his book and come with me,
Mother! he would aoiowe
ttI toMliimhow you dying lay,
.ud could not go in pence away
Without tho minister ;
I begged him for dear Chrit his skf
But oh ! my heart was fit to break
Mother ! he would not stir.
-o though my tears were blinding me,
I ran pack, fast as fast could be,
To come Sgiin to you ;
And here close by this squire I met,
And asked (so mild) whatmado me fret;
And when I told hurt true.
"I will go with yo'.i, child,' he said,
God sends me to the dying bed.' ,
Mother, he's here, hard by."
While thus the little maiden spoke,
The man, his back against the oak, ,
Looked on with glistening eye.
The bridle on his neck flung free,
With quivertng flank ans trembling knee,
Fiess'd close his bonny bay ;
A statelier man a statelier tteed,
Never on greensward pai:ed I rede,
Thau those stood there that day.
So whih the little maiden spoke,
The man, his back against an oak,
Look'd on with glistening eye
And folded arms; and in his look,
Something that like a sermon book,
" rjeachcd"AlJ is vanity."
But when the dying woman's face
Turned toward him with wishful gai-,
lie stepp'd to where she lay;
And kneeling down, bent over her,
aying, "I am a minister
My sister! let us pray."
And well without even book or stole,
ft ;d'i words were prii.ted on bis ju!)
UN WED BV POWER lNSEDUCED BV FLATTEftY -WE BATTlr
MQivricuLLo,
Into the dying ear
lie breathed, as 'twere, an angel's strain,
The things that unto life pertain, '
And death's dark shadows clear.
He spoke of sinners' lost estate,
In Christ renewed regenerate
Of God's most blest decree,
That not a single soul should die
Who turns repentant, with the cry
"Be merciful to me."
. Ho spoke of trouble, pain and toil,
Endured hut for a little while
In patience, faith and love -Sure
in (tod's own good time to bo
Exchanged fr an eternity
Of happiness above.
Therjrr-as the spirit ebb'd away
He rai ed bis h.uuls and eyes to pray
That peaceful it might pass;
And tlu e orphan's sobs alone
Were bt..d as they knelt every one
Closed round on the green grass.
Such was the sight their wondering eyes
Beheld in heart-struck mute surprise,
Who rein'd .heir coursers back,
.Tun as they found the long astray,
Who, in the heat of chase that day,
Had waudered from their track.
But each man reined his pawing steed,
And lighted down, as if agreed,
In silence at his side;
And there, uncovered all, they stood
It was a wholesome sight and good
That day for mortal prido.
For of the noblest of the land
Was that deep hush'd bare headed bind;
And central in the ring,
By that dead pauper on the ground,
Her ragged orphans clinging round,
Knelt their annointed King.
From the Fo'.itical Works of Thomas Taine.
The Future Futc of America.
A thousand years hence, peihaps in
lees, America may be what Europe now
is. The innocence of her chaiar teT, that
won the hearts of all nations in her favor,
may sound like a romance; and her inim
itable virtue, as if it had never bren
The ruins of that liberty for which thou
sands bled, may jut furnish materials for
a village tale, or extort a sigh froir ru-tic
sensibility, while the fashionable, of that
day, envelloped in dissipation, shall de
ride the principles and deny the fact.
When we o:iteinnlate the fall of em
pires, and the ex inction of the nations of
the ancient world, we see but little more
lo excite tur regret than the mouldering
ruins tf pompous palaces, magnificent . a marine. &u eff rr Oil the part
monuments, lofty pyramid, and walls I J , "i, y' 'T H?U,J not ofmtidical gentleman, who al
and towers of the most cosily workman-1"" nJaioney, Isaac' . ,:.., m '
ship. But when the Empire of America
ha fall, the tub ect tor contemplative
sorrow will oe mnniteiy greater man
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cruipblini! brass or marble can
it will not ihpn be said, here
pie of vast antiquity here rose a Babel
of invisible height or there a place of
sumptuous extravagance; but here! ah!
painful thought! the noblest work of hu
man wisdom the grandest scene of hu
man glory and the fair cause of Free
dom rose and tell'.!
POMPEY'S PILLAR,
f n one of his lectures last week, Mr.
Buckingham related some singular facts
respecting the monument known as Pom
pey's pil ar. It has lately been discov
ered that this is a misnomer, as it was e
rected in honor to Dioclesian When
literature emerged from the dark ages in
Europe; and the Egyptian antiquities be
gan to attract atteution, learned men vis
it d the country to examine the ruins and
decypher their inscriptions. The char
acters on the pedestal of this pillar are
much defaced, and scarcely legible.
The most conspicous word is PompceuB,'
and they very naturally concluded that
Pompey the Great, he who disputed with
Caesar the conquest of the world was the
individual intended, and that this monu
ment was rasied for him. - Jin English
traveller; wuo pursueu nis antiquarian
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studies in Egypt, under the countenance
and protection of the Pacha, has since
uecypnereu aimoi uie entire inscription,
and discovered that it was erected to Di-
ocletian, in commemoration of its having
brought into Alexandria a supply of corn
during a season of great scarcity, and
that the Pompey named was only the
mayor or chief officer of Ihe city during
whose magistracy the work was done.
This is at the prf sent day the largest
colunm in Ihe world, although there are
obelisks of greater size. Its dimensions are
as follows: The pedestal is sixteen feet
high, and twenty feet square. The shaft
is ninety-two in length, from rim to rim
a single piece, ten and a half feet in
diameter, it is the rose granite from a
quarry six hundred milei distant ihe
tiarueii anu mosi compaci Known, ana
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Jiississiiwi, dkccuki: so, issr.
so highly polished that on a unny day
you may see your face in it Tins was
one of sixteen similar column which for
merly eomjtoed tti p-irtico of the Tun
fileofStrapij, Filtten wre destroyed
by the coflqum r of Egypt, and this on
subsequently re-erecttd on a new pedes
tal as stated above.
The obelisks of Cleopatra are of the
same granite. anJ completely covered
with hieroglyphics, cut with great preci
f ion and beauty--many of the incision,
being two inches in depth. A friend nf
Mr. Buckingham' a .Member of Parlia
ment, v .siting the British museum, ohsr
ved a stone mason making an incision in
to the "diouldtr of the stjiue of Memnnn,
cent out by Belzoni. which is also of the
roe gnnite. Seeing that the man wa
fatigued, he remarked that he had a
tough job, and the mason replied, it vr
the hardest stone he haj ever met with,
lie had spoilt all his best tools, and could
find none in London lo answer his pur
posf. And after winking five days, he
had not proceeded farther than an inch
an J a half in depth. N. Y. Eve. Tost.
Sublime A fellow giving an accoun'
of his being chased by a mad hull said,
"The bull roared like thunder, and I rai,
just like lightning, and on jumping idp
tence, as quick as the stars fall from the.
galaxy, tore mv breeches and as
Ihouii the heavens and earth were com
ing together.
A DIALOGUE.
DELECTABLE AND DEMONSTRABLE.,
'Isaac, have y ,u pain the printer?" ni'jui
rtd an old lady of her husband, who was
delighting tue family circle by reading
to them a fine looking newspaper ex
cuse our bluses, for editors are as modest
as maidens.)
"No, Kebecca; I have not,' answered
the old genlleinan, adjusting his spcrra
cles "hut yoi know it is only a trifle.
The printers, 1 see, give a very polite
dun, but they cannot mean me, as J am
one of their political - friends, and at all
events, my five dollars would be but a
trifling moiety o ihem,'
"Well, Isaac, il all iheir subscribers
were to say the same thing, the poor fel
lows would starve, unless thpy could con
jure their types into corn, and the press
into a flour mill. Jad surely von, as
p v ; YbTm f n're rurTual
paj ing tUem, than if you were their
liiical enemy: besides, it wn,H h
your attachment to ihem and the goodjlence; twenty-five of the ;revv
cause which ihey advocate. j were together a fflicied by the
hin i "E :?g'."V":p,lnn;
wincine from ih- r,,i, i,. '.
O ---w.wvkUl inn niviiri
which 1 received for my produce was bi t-'
ttr thanusuaJ, and i disl.kedto pari with
it.
iny Uear, but sometimes I am ohli-i
scu 10 l" uncurrent paper, and l preler'
greater than -i"""" 'j d with mat when Iran
can inspire: s;1 ,l , - f'."; bark
stood Mem. iJTaJ Uiat Sl,rI win s"it the printers,
n. a Rah.l!j"t as well, as Ihev don't keen it me. i
liailn r ..... Al.m .t.. ' i I
t"v "m mat wnen i ran
:Jl'sl as we"' 8S "y don't keep it long
Aly neighbor Jenkins said he parsed off
some on them which no body else would
lane ana tliey did not refuse it
'"Shame on you, Is id' exclaimed the
good old lady "you would not, f hope,
imitate the example of that miserable fel
low Jenkins why, he would Jew the
paisonout. of; half his stipend, and pay
the balance in trade.'
Yet he paid the printers, grandma,' in
terrupted a little flaxen-headed girl that
stood beside her grandfather's knees.
'Well, well; I'll call and pay them,'
said the old man, not a little nettled
"for an article I read in their paper ilie
other day, was worth twice the amount
of the subscription.'
Andjyou know, granJpa, you said that
that piece about the counteifeittrs saved
you twenty dollars; which yu would
have taken from (he Yankee pedlar,' a
gain interrupted the little girl.
'Yes it did so, Mary and for that whon
I go to town, I'll pay off the old score,
and next year in advance, into the bar
gain. Mr. Isaac - kept his word, like
.
an honet man. whether his eon
science smote him about the murrf
money, or whether he was convinced of
the excellence of the arguments of his a
miable spouse and rosy cheeked grand-
child, we cannot say; be that as it may,
we assure you, our readers that our pock-
ets rang with the tangible proof of friend
Isaac's probity and patronage, until we
paid niur debts. Now, we feel assured,
that if the good ladies in the town and
country, and "throughout all creaiion.,,
as that veritable nondescript Major Jack
Downing would say , only knew how the
heart and band of every poor printer is
gladdened and warmed by the welcome
salutation of such a Mw as Isaac, Ihey
would read this paragraph to their hus-
bands, and sy in th language of the
g0d oM book, Go tuov aso do ukb-
wise." ..
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IN OUR COUNTRY CAIJSC.
From the Dublin Freeman's Journal.
AltCnO JtKUlON'.". ,
7"hp conrace and (huntless
intrepidity with which the ship's
company endeavored to sur
mount ihe obstacles opposed to
their rfforls by the climate, and
the fearful and dangerous con-s-t
quenr-es ri'siihiiig from ijiese
exertions, were ilmnst incredi
ble; and, indeed, their return al
ter an abseiK-eof tw v months
iliK'gre.itcr part of th- lime
liemmed in by one wi le empas
sable sheet of ice, appears aij
but miraculous. The hardships
endurrd, the dangers encounter
ed it net triumphed over .are of
such a character as must render
their history at once affecting
and interesting.
On Sunday night last the ship
put in at Lough Swillyin an al
most sinking condition; the men
incessantly lab"iiriiii.' at tlrc
pumps, and the bull of the ves
sel secured b chains and cables
tu tee, i her together, It ap
pears she was encompassed ly
the ire at the latter end of Au
gust, 83G, at which time her
erew consisted of sixty souls, in
clu ling the officers, who were
at various times exposed to the
most immeneni perils from th"
constant concussion of huje
m isses of ice, which were d ish
e.d agriinst the vessel vith tre
mendous violence, threatening
either a vilent and sudden de ith,
o.i in the event of of escape from
thi! danger, to await slow but
certain destruction by the appal
ling means of famine and cold.
Deprived of fresh provisions or
j vegetables of any kind, disease
'"Ispread among them with a ra-
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llHtyonly equaled by Its virtl-
urvy. to wh.ch three of them
ifll viciiuis, D inaldson the gun-
,M'ri a seaman named James
Walker, and Alexander Young
' r" ,t M umavr,, u,c
ciJiist.qufiiiCf s ; and, oppressed
by an accumulation of suffering
which they were unable to en
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(l,,rc tlley t,,4, ",(,er (is'
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rjy ail accumulation ol MllierillJIS
ease. I he vessel lay in that
perilous situation for four months
drifting to and fro near, Cape
Comfort; driven by the current
of ice alongSoulhampton island.
as far as Sea Horse . Point, off
DaTin; then at the mercy of the
wind and tide, through Hudson's
Straits by Charle's island, along
the Labrador coast. On the
tith of Aug. they passed Resolu
tion island.
From the 20th Sept. they lay
surrounded exposed to all the
horrors of the Arctic climate,
which the themometer 40 de
grees below zero, until the ice
commenced breaking in Febru
ary, I H37. - On the 15th of
March they experienced the
greates shock they had yet en
countered, a mountain of ice
striking the ship with the great
est violence, and rending away
every interm.'di'rtte banier,wit fl
out the slightest perceptible ef
fort. The decks were obliged
to be lashed to each other to
prevent their separating, & the
planks rising from their fasten
ings; the stem posts, dead wood
und after part of the keel, were
knocked away. In consequence
of the repeated, colljssiont, the
water gamed on ship, and she
wasshaken Horn stem to stem;
a chain cable was passed round j
her to keep her together, the
tmcn constantly at the pumps to
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lime was seven feet in the hold.
Every exertion was bf iug made
at this time to prevent her fall
ing peices; men and officers all
emulous, and working as labor
iously is they could, knowing
their Scife depended on the re
sult of their exertions. So uii
remitting an I f ttiguing were the
toils they endured, that till wero
excoii itffk ,-;::re or less, v
The sb'p was built purpose
ly for the expedition, being eight
feet in depth through the bow
and stem, ten feet seven inches
ia the sides, with five addition
al bulkheads athwart-ships, of
four inch oak plank, ami two
extra-l'ore-atiil-uft ones of the
same thickness, of two feet from
the side, e;tch side filled up
with 25 t ns of coal, for further
strength and security.
By the imptm of the ice the.
bow was lifted clear out of the
watr, as far as the mainmast;
her stern, as far as the seven
foot mark, was placed in tho
same predicament. In his con
dition she continued for 100
days. At the expiration of that
time they got a US-foot ice saw
worked by shears, and com
mence I the fatiguing operation
of cutting through the bulk of
ice under, measuring in thick
ness more than 30 leet. On tho
1 llli of July they had completed
so much of their task as but two
or three feet at the stern remain
ed, when she righted. Immedi
ately on this they made sail oil
the vessel, but a " tremendous
wedge remained stuck to her
starboard side between her fore'
and main chains, an i they were
compelled to to have rec.airso
to the saw again, not being able
to free themselves by any other
method. By means of purchase
applied lolhe vnst lump, it rose
from under the bottom ash was
freed and, according to the
laws of gravitation, floated a
bove. the water, being ihe light
er body throwing the vessel on
her be. im-ends, keeling her over
fully 27 degree, the water pour
ing in in alarming quantites and
with frightful rapidity. All
hands, without distinction, were
immediately called in requisi
tion; some proceeded to saw
through the peice of ice, the
cause of the first misfortune, and
some ran to the pumps. With
unremitting labor they' contin
ued these fatiguing but unremit
ting operations until five oV lock
on the morning of the 14th when
the men were so totally exhaus
ted and disperited by their in
cessant exertions that they could
work no longer, having to this .
period cut tiirougii to within ten
feet. They were then called
in for rest and refeshment. They
hail had not been more thnn a
quarter of an hour removed from
the work when a suden disrup
tion of the ice took .place, and
the mass, separated from its
bed, crashed with terrific vio-
ence against the ship's sitet
tearing to pieces' the ' lashing . .
and spars that intervened to
protect her against this casual
ty, which had,.in some decree.
been foreseen ; the strong shores
of logs, atuL three-and-a-half-inch
ropes, where snapped like
packthread; and, but for the
merciful interposition of Provi
dence, not a single being out o"
the. entire shin's crew would
have lived narrate the circum.
stance ; for, had they not beo.
called in but a few minute hn-
lfure, all inevitably would havo
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