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paper devoted to literature and masonry. Mr. morse, and the strong power of love as the chief to bring home the meat procured by his arrows, Brooks enjoys a creditable reputation as a poet, and influential agent of the moral universe. There is to relieve her of a part of the burthen by taking will no doubt contribute to the circulation of the little attempt at incident or description-the tale it upon his own manly shoulders. In due time, Craftsman. To be adjunct editor of a weekly news-depends for effect on the masterly way in which the she gave him a son; a sure token that however paper is, however, but a contemptible vocation for two characters, Lord Danvers and Cloudesley, his many more wives he might see proper to take, he would never put her away. The boy was one who enjoys the celebrity that Mr. Brooks does, valet, are delineated. The Earl is a man naturally the idol of his old grandmother, who could never and who has presided at the editorial desk of a print of high and refined feeling, but ambitious and fond of suffer him out of her sight a moment, and used of such rank as the New York Courier. a title, which weakness induces him to supplant his constantly to prophesy, that he would become nephew, (the rightful heir of the Earldom) and usurp a brave warrior and an expert horse stealer; a his family honours. For eighteen years he retains prediction that his manhood abundantly verified. these possessions, during which period he knows not In little more than a year the youngster was able to walk erect. About this time the band one little interval of repose. He marries, becomes began to feel the approach of famine-Buffaa father, but finds his children drop, one after ano-loes were supposed to abound on the river Des ther, into the grave, and himself solitary in his old Moines, and thither Payton Skah resolved to go. age. Borne down at last by such accumulating visi-| His mother had cut her foot while chopping tations; shuddering at the past, and doubtful of the wood, and was unable to travel; but she would

WM. LLOYD GARRISON.-We rejoice to see the unanimity of sentiment which prevails throughout this country, in reference to the imprisonment of this philanthropist, who is now confined in the Baltimore jail, charged with a libel against Francis Todd, of Newburyport, Mass. Todd was branded by Garrison in no mild terms, as being an abettor

in the barbarous traffic of human flesh-in other future, his mind relents-he confesses himself a vil-not part with her grandchild. Tahtokah unwords, with being a slave dealer. A suit was in-lain-restores his estates to the rightful owner, and willingly consented to leave her boy behind, at

stantly instituted against Garrison, who was, in our view, unjustly, convicted of a libel, and in default of paying the fine, cast into prison. Garrison is doubtless enthusiastic in his advocacy of universal eman

cipation, to a degree beyond the bounds of prudence; but it is a noble enthusiasm, and one for which he should scarcely be punished with such severity. The Groton Herald, in alluding to this gentleman, says:

the request of her husband, which indeed she dies. The young man thus restored, has been never thought of disputing. One other family brought up from infancy under the care of Cloudes-accompanied them. They soon reached the ley, Earl Danvers' valet, who was accessary to the Des Moines, and encamped on its banks. Many usurpation, but who, won by the affectionateness of wild cattle were killed and much of their flesh the boy's disposition, eventually resolves to befriend cured. The young wife reminded her spouse that him and secure him his legitimate possessions." his mother must by this time be able to walk, and that she longed to see her child. In comThe work is replete with interest, and every way pliance with her wishes he mounted his horse, worthy of perusal. and departed, resolving to bring the rest of the band to the land of plenty.

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PAYTON SKAH.

His hopes destroyed, his heart-strings broke,
No words of wo the warrior spoke,
His bosom heav'd so high,
"Thine be the fair," the hero said,
Then proudly rear'd his lofty head,
And turn'd away-to die.

At his arrival, his compatriots, on his representations, packed up their baggage and threw down their lodges. A few days brought them to where he had left his wife and her companions. But the place was desolate. No voice hailed their approach, no welcome greeted their arrival. The lodges were cut to ribands, and a bloody trail marked where the bodies of their inmates had been dragged into the river. Fol

"We think we are thoroughly acquainted with the disposition and temper of this gentleman-and his character, from the earliest period of life, has been, exemplary. Though a little in advance of ourself, we have watched his career since he first entered upon the public field-and more than once, since we have been sailing as it were, on the same course, our memory has led us back to earlier days, where the name of Lloyd Garrison began to fill a conspicuous place among his class-mates. We have since known him to be a bold and intrepid writer, mainWe have before intimated that we cannot lowing the course of the stream, the corpses of taining independence with every breath, and promulgating his sentiments of equality in every station he pretend to much accuracy with regard to dates. all but Tahtokah were found on the shores and has been called to fill-and we regret that so able a So we are not certain that the events we are sandbars. Hers was missing, but this gave her writer should suffer incarceration, for defending a about to relate did not happen five centuries husband no consolation. He knew that neither cause into which he has entered with so much sin- ago, perhaps more; but it is probable that the Sioux nor Mandans spared sex or age, and sup. cerity and devotion. But the result is what might time was not so remote. Be that as it may, we posed it to be sunk in some eddy of the river. be expected in a court in the state of Mary land. Mr. shall give the facts in the same order as tradition And Mandans, the marks the spoilers had left G. has dared to go into the very land where slavery hands them down. behind them, proved them to be. constitutes the greatest trade in the market, and The Dahcotahs were at war with the Mandans. Now Payton Skah was, for an Indian, a kind where almost every white man is an owner of slaves. What more could be anticipated than conviction and Many were the onslaughts they made on each and affectionate husband. The Sioux mothers punishment, as soon as a single sentence of his other, and long were they remembered. Among wished their daughters might obtain partners writings could in any way be rendered libellous? the Sioux warriors who struck the post, and took like him; and it was proverbial to say of a fond But this, we trust, will not stay his course; his mind the war path, none was more conspicuous than couple, that they loved like Payton Skah and is formed for nobler objects, and the slaves in this Payton Skah, or the White Otter. He belong- Tahtokah. Yet on this occasion, whatever his country will still find him defending their rights with ed to the Yankton band. When he returned feelings might have been, he uttered no sigh, he unwearied exertions." from the field with his head crowned with lau- shed no tear. But he gave what was, in the Since his confinement he has written a letter to rels, or more properly with his bridle rein eyes of his co-mates, a more honourable proof of Mr. Todd, through the columns of the Boston Cou-adorned with Mandan scalps, the seniors of the his grief. He vowed that he would not take tribe pointed to him, and exhorted their sons to another wife, nor cut his hair, till he had killed rier, which does not tend to elevate the character of that individual. Indeed we cannot well conceive like Payton Skah. ride, to draw the bow, and to strike the enemy and scalped five Mandans. And he filled his quiver, saddled his horse, and raised the war how he can derive gratification, from imprisoning Payton Skah was a husband and a father. As song immediately. He found followers, and dea man who, he must know, has written nothing but soon as he was reckoned a man, and able to parted incontinently. At his return but three the truth. His feelings, in reference to this matter, support a family, he had taken to his bosom the obstacles to his second marriage remained to be cannot be enviable, and Mr. Francis Todd, of New-young and graceful Tahtokah, (the Antelope) overcome.

buryport, Massachusetts, in linking his name with thought to be the best hand at skinning the In the course of the year he fulfilled the conslavery, and incarcerating those who decry its inhu-Buffalo, making moccasins, whitening leather, ditions of his vow. The five scalps were hangand preparing marrow fat, in the tribe. She was ing in the smoke of his lodge, but he evinced man purposes, will not elevate himself in the opinion not, as is common among the Dahcotahs, carried no inclination towards matrimony. On the conof good men.

an unwilling or indifferent bride to her husband's trary, his countenance was sorrowful, he pined lodge. No, he had lighted his match in her away, and every one thought he was in a con"The Wilmington Gazette," of a late date, pub-father's tent, and held it before her eyes, and sumption. His mother knew his disposition lishes as original, with the signature of W. H. K., some beautiful stanzas, beginning

"He seemed to love her, and her youthful cheek."

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she had blown it out, as instigated by love to do. better. Thinking not unwisely that the best And when he had espoused her in form, her af- way to drive the old love out of his head was to fection did not diminish. She never grumbled provide him a new one, she with true female That article appeared in the Philadelphia Album at pulling off his leggins and moccasins when he perseverance, compelled him by teazing and more than a year since. returned from the chase, nor at drying and rub-clamour to do as she wished. bing them till they became soft and pliant. A So the old woman selected Chuntay Washtay greater proof of her regard was, that she was (The Good Heart) for her son, and demanded CLOUDESLEY.-All who have read Godwin's Caleb strictly obedient to her mother-in-law. And her of her parents, who were not sorry to form Williams, or witnessed the drama for which it has Payton Skah's attachment, though his endear- such a connexion. The bride elect herself ments were reserved for their private hours, showed no alacrity in the matter; but this was formed the groundwork, must feel a desire to peruse were no less than hers. No woman in the camp too common a thing to excite any surprise or the latest work which an author so reputed and gifted could show more wampum and other ornaments comment. She was formally made over to has given to the public. The object of Mr. God- than the wife of the young warrior. He was Payton Skah, and duly installed in his lodge. win's present novel is, "to paint the working of re-leven several times known, when she had been! He was not formed by nature to be alone.

Notwithstanding the contempt an Indian educa- unwilling guest. This last had now arrived at in spite of his Indian nature. He had not come tion inculcates for the fair sex, he was as sen the conclusion that he was to die, and he had to kill any one as on former occasions, but to lay sible to female blandishment as a man could be. screwed up his courage to meet his fate with down his own life; and he remained constant in Though his new wife was by no means so kind the unshrinking fortitude of an Indian warrior. his resolution.

warrior had returned from the hunt. Then the

as the old one, yet as she fulfilled the duties of He ate, therefore, in silence, but without any If it be asked why the Mandans left their vil her station with all apparent decorum, he be-sign of concern. When the repast was ended, lage in this defenceless condition, we answer, gan to be attached to her. His health improved, Payton Skah produced his pipe, filled the bowl that Indian camps are frequently left in the same he was again heard to laugh, and he hunted the with tobacco mixed with the inner bark of the manner. Perhaps they relied on the broad and buffalo with as much vigour as ever. Yet when red willow, and after smoking a few whiffs him- rapid river, to keep off any roving band of DahChuntay Washtay, as she sometimes would, self, gave it to the culprit. Having passed from cotahs that might come thither. Payton Skah raised her voice higher than was consistent with one to the other till it was finished, the aggriev- sat in the lodge of his enemies till the tramp of conjugal affection, he would think of his lost ed husband ordered his wife to produce her a horse on the frozen earth, and the jingling of Tahtokah, and struggle to keep down the rising clothing and effects, and pack them up in a the little bells round his neck, announced that a sigh. bundle. This done, he rose to speak. A young Yankton who had asked Chuntay. "Another in my place," said he to the young White Otter prepared to go to whatever lodge Washtay of her parents previous to her marriage, man, "had he detected you as I did last night, the Mandan might enter, and die by his arrows and who had been rejected by them, now be would have driven an arrow through you before or tomahawk. But he had no occasion to stir. came a constant visiter in her husband's lodge. you awoke. But my heart is strong, and I have The horseman rode straight to the lodge in He came early and staid and smoked late. But hold of the heart of Chuntay Washtay. You which he sat, dismounted, threw his bridle to a as Payton Skah saw no appearance of regard for sought her before I did, and I see she would squaw, and entered. The women pointed to the youth in his wife, he felt no uneasiness. If rather be your companion than mine. She is their silent guest, and related how unaccounthe had seen what was passing in her mind, he yours; and that you may be able to support her, ably he had behaved. The new comer turned would have scorned to exhibit any jealousy. He take my horse, and my bows and arrows also. to Payton Skah and asked who and what he was. would have proved by his demeanour "that his Take her and depart, and let peace be between Then the Yankton, like Caius Marius within the heart was strong." He was destined ere long us.' walls of Corioli, rose, threw off his robe, and to be more enlightened on this point. At this speech, the wife, who had been trem-drawing himself up with great dignity, bared his His mother was gone with the child, on a bling lest her nose should be cut off, and her breast and spoke. "I am a man. Of that, Manvisit to a neighbouring camp, and he was left lover, who had expected nothing less than death, dan be assured. Nay more: I am a Dalicotah, alone with his wife. It was reported that buf recovered their assurance and left the lodge. and my name is Payton Skah. You have heard faloes were found at a little basin in the prairie, Payton Skah remained; and while the whole it before. I have lost friends and kin by the at about the distance of a day's journey, and band was singing his generosity, brooded over arrows of your people, and well have I revenged Chuntay Washtay desired him to go and kill one, his misfortunes in sadness and silence. them. See, on my head I wear ten feathers of and hang its flesh up in a tree out of the reach Notwithstanding his boast of the firmness of the war eagle. Now it is the will of the Master of the wolves. "You cannot get back to-night," his resolution, his mind was nearly unsettled by of life that I should die, and for that purpose she said, "but you can make a fire and sleep by the shock. He had set his whole heart upon came I hither. Strike therefore, and rid your it, and return to-morrow. If fat cows are to be Tahtokah, and when the wound occasioned by tribe of the greatest enemy it ever had.” found there, we will take down our lodge and her loss was healed, he had loved Chuntay Courage, among the aborigines, as charity move." Washtay with all his might. He could vaunt of among Christians, covereth a multitude of sins.

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The White Otter did as he was desired. His his indifference to any ills woman could inflict The Mandan Warrior cast on his undaunted wife brought his beautiful black horse, which he on the warriors of his tribe, but the boast that foe a look in which respect, delight, and adhad selected and stolen from a drove near the they could have truly made, was not true coming miration were blended. He raised his war club Mandan village, to the door of the lodge. He from him. as if about to strike, but the Sioux blenched threw himself on its back, and having listened Though one of the bravest of men, his heart not; not a nerve trembled-his eyelids did not to her entreaties that he would be back soon, was as soft as woman's in spite of precept and quiver. The weapon dropped from the hand rode away. example. At this second blight of his affections that held it. The Mandan tore open his own

His gallant steed carried him to the place of he fell into a settled melancholy, and one or two vestment, and said, "No, I will not kill so brave his destination with the speed of the wind. The unsuccessful hunts convinced him that he was a a man. But I will prove that my people are buffaloes were plenty, and in the space of two doomed man; an object of the displeasure of men also. I will not be outdone in generosity. hours he had killed and cut up two of them. God; and that he need never more look for any Strike thou, then take my horse and fly." Having hung up the meat upon the branches, good fortune. A post dance, at which the per- The Sioux declined the offer, and insisted he concluded that as he had got some hours of formers alternately sung their exploits, brought upon being himself the victim. The Mandan daylight, he would return to his wife. He ap- this morbid state of feeling to a crisis. Like the was equally pertinacious; and this singular displied the lash, and arrived at the camp at mid-rest he recommended the deeds he had done, pute lasted till the latter at last held out his night. and declared that to expiate the involuntary hand in token of amity. He commanded the He picketed his horse carefully, and bent his offence he had committed against the Great women to prepare a feast, and the two geneway to his own lodge. All was silent within, Spirit, he would go to the Mandan village and rous foes sat down and smoked together. The and the dogs scenting their master, gave no throw away his body. All expostulation was brave of the Missouri accounted for speaking alarm. He took up a handful of dry twigs out-vain; and the next morning he started on foot the Dahcotah tongue by saying that he was side the door and entered. Raking over the coals and alone to put his purpose in execution. himself half Sioux. His mother had belonged in the centre of the lodge, he laid on the fuel, He travelled onward with a heavy heart, and to that tribe, and so did his wife, having both which presently blazed and gave a bright light. the eighth evening found him on the bank of the been made prisoners. In the morning Payton By its aid he discovered a spectacle that drove Missouri, opposite the Mandan village. He swam Skah should see and converse with them. And the blood from his heart into his face. There the river, and saw the light shine through the the Yankton proffered, since it did not appear lay Chuntay Washtay, fast asleep by the side of crevices, and heard the dogs bark at his approach. to be the will of the Great Spirit that he should her quondam lover. Payton Skah unsheathed Nothing dismayed, he entered the village and die, to become the instrument to bring about his knife, and stood for a moment irresolute, but promenaded through it two or three times. He a firm and lasting peace between the two nahis better feelings prevailed, he returned it to saw no man abroad, and impatient of delay, en- tions.

its place in his belt, and left the lodge without tered the principal lodge. Within he found two In the morning the rest of the band arrived, awakening them. Going to another place, he women, who spoke to him, but he did not an- and were informed what visiter was in the villaid himself down, but not to sleep. swer. He drew his robe over his face, and sat lage. The women screamed with rage and

But when the east began to be streaked with down in a dark corner, intending to await the cried for revenge. The men grasped their gray he brought his horse, his favourite steed, entrance of some warrior, by whose hands he weapons and rushed tumultuously to the lodge to the door of the tent. Just as he had reached might honourably die. The women addressed to obtain it. The Mandan stood before the it those within awoke, and the paramour of him repeatedly, but could not draw from him door, declaring that he would guarantee the Chuntay Washtay came forth and stood before any reply. Finding him impenetrable, they took rights of hospitality with his life. His resolute him. He stood still. Fear of the famous hunt-no further notice, but continued their conversa- demeanour, as well as the bow and war club er and renowned warrior kept him silent. Pay- tion as if no one had been present. Had they he held ready to make his words good, made ton Skah, in a stern voice, commanded him to known to what tribe he belonged they would the impression he desired. The Mandans rere-enter, and when he had obeyed followed him have fled in terror; but they supposed him to coiled, consulted, and the elders decided that in. The guilty wife spoke not, but covered be a Mandan. He gathered from it that the men Payton Skah must be carried as a prisoner to her face with her hands, till her husband di- of the village were gone on a buffalo hunt, and the council lodge, there to abide the result of rected her to light a fire and prepare food. She would not return till morning. Most of the fe- their deliberations.

then rose and hung the earthen utensil over the males were with them. Here, then, was an op- Payton Skah, indifferent to whatever might fire, and the repast was soon ready. At the portunity to wreak his vengeance on the whole befall him, walked proudly to the place ap command of Payton Skah she placed a wooden tribe such as never before occurred, and would pointed in the midst of a guard of Mandans, platter or bowl before him, and another for his probably never occur again. But he refrained and accompanied by the taunts and execrations

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of the squaws. The preliminary of smoking cases which contain the enamelled amber. The his bed-curtain, for the sake of decency; that's over, the consultation did not last long. His Tusuk bazaar (the Paternoster row of Constantinople) easily said, child; but the truth is, that for the last new friend related how the prisoner had enter- is well worth visiting; several hundred scribes are fortnight the jade Fortune has been in a most spiteed the village, and unarmed, save with his to be seen there employed in copying; and even those ful humour with me. Faro, and all his host to boot, knife: how he had magnanimously spared the persons to whom the Eastern character is not legible have been most unmerciful. The sum is but a may still admire the neatness and beauty of their trifle of thirty pistoles.' 'A trifle! thirty pistoles! women and children when at his mercy; and manuscripts. The Koran, with its commentators, is If I had only one, I might take advantage of a lucky how he had offered to negotiate a peace be- the chief object of their labours, but they condescend vein which I am positive was going to begin just as tween the two tribes. Admiration of his valour sometimes to fancy works, and the little illuminated I left off last night.' But in eight days I am to be overcame the hostility of the Mandans. Their almanacks which are to be bought in this bazaar are married; and it's no use talking; you must in the batred vanished like snow before the sun, and it not without elegance. The workmen of Constanti-mean time find wherewithal to pay your debt.' ‘Ah! was carried by acclamation, that he should be nople excel too in embroidering on cloth or leather you are going to be married! then it seems you have treated as became an Indian brave, and dismiss-with gold and silver thread; but their designs, though money; for alas! if you count upon my thirty pisrich, are unvaried; and, whether owing to pride or toles' 'I lean upon a rotten staff, is that your ed in safety and with honour. indolence, they have not the faculty of working cor- meaning?' 'Not exactly, child: I will assuredly At this stage of proceedings a woman rushed rectly after a model. A large bazaar is appropriated pay you one of these days: some morning when you into the lodge, broke through the circle of to the sale of Cashmere shawls; and another to the chance to find me in possession of the vein that I stern and armed warriors, and threw herself into embroidered silk handkerchiefs which are made in was forced to abandon last night. But, a moments the arms of the Dahcotah hero. It was Tato- the harems, and are sometimes very rich and beau- thirty pistoles are not your entire portion?' Cer kah, his first, his best beloved! He did not re-tiful. The Misr Tcharchi, or Egyptian bazaar, is tainly not: by dint of washing, and scouring, and turn her caresses; that would have derogated occupied by drugs and spices from the East, and a plaiting, and starching, I have amassed about a cou from his dignity; but he asked her how she had neighbouring quarter is devoted to the sale of con-ple of hundred ducats. The devil you have! fectionary, an article of great consumption in the Jeannette, you have indeed starched and plaited to escaped from the general slaughter at the Des Levant, and which is to be found in the greatest some purpose. And who is the bridegroom? An honest Norman coachee, who has promised to maMoines, and who was her present husband. variety and of the best quality in the metropolis. Fuller's Tour to the Turkish Empire. nage our little household matters as carefully as he She pointed to the Mandan to whom he had offered his breast. He it was, she said, who The Abbassides.-The caliphs of the house of Ab-drives his master's carriage.' 'A coachman! Fie! had spared her, and subsequently taken her to bas thought it necessary to render the distinction fie! a girl like you might do better.'-'Whom then He now advanced and proposed to Pay- still more marked between their predecessors and would you have me marry? a duke, I suppose?' 'In ton Skah to become his kodah or comrade, and themselves, by a splendour in the appointments of truth, Jeannette, there are dukes who do not deto receive his wife back again, two propositions their court, and a munificence in the disposal of their serve you, and who are incapable of amassing in a funds, which would have seemed incredible to the century the two hundred ducats which your little to which the latter gladly assented. poorer and more frugal princes of the house of Om-hands have put together in so short a time. What The Mandans devoted five days to feasting miyah. And it must be admitted, that the eastern say you to me, girl, for a husband,—his majesty's the gallant Yankton. At the end of that time writers have recorded largesses of these prodigal valet-de-chambre and comptroller of the royal gar he departed with his recovered wife, taking monarchs, almost, perhaps entirely, unparalleled in dens? You, M. Dufresney! you marry a washerwith him three horses laden with robes and Occidental history. Among the other schemes de- woman?' 'Why not? my great-grand-mother workother gifts bestowed on him by his late enemies. vised by these indefatigable spendthrifts, for emp-ed in a garden.' A slight whispering of ambition His kodah accompanied him half way on his tying their coffers and commanding admiration, may tingled in Jeannette's ear:-'I don't exactly refuse,' return, with a numerous retinue, and at part- be mentioned their splendid pilgrimages to the holy said she, with a downcast look; you are his ma ing received his promise that he would soon city, in themselves remarkable enough, but render-jesty's valet-de-chambre, and comptroller of the ed still more striking by the contrast with the sim-royal gardens?' 'Even so, child.' return. We leave our readers to imagine the plicity, and even meanness, which their predeces- of accidents, mayhap you could become valet-dejoy of Tahtokah at seeing her child again on sors considered it a duty to display on similar occa-chambre in some other great house, or gardener?' her arrival among the Sioux, as well as the sa- sions. Almost all the early princes of the house of I don't promise that,-but-I am a poet.' 'Oh, tisfaction of the tribe at hearing that its best man Abbas performed the hajji in this novel style; Al- for the matter of that, your trade is not worth much. had returned from his perilous excursion alive mohdi may be fairly said to have eclipsed them all; I wash for twenty poets, not one of whom pays me; and unhurt. In less than two months Payton for in addition to immense stores of every other but Well! have you made up your mind? Skab was again among the Mandans with six kind, he carried snow enough across the desert, mot Here I am-quite dressed; give me your arm;only to allay the thirst of his vast retinue, both go- we'll have the banns published immediately.' With followers, who were hospitably received and ing and returning, and to astonish the Meccans with all my heart,' said the washerwoman, taking the entertained. An equal number of Mandans ac- the phenomena of icewater, but to preserve fresh poet lovingly by the arm; and in a fortnight the fair companied them on their return home, where an incalculable quantity of Syrian Mesopotamian starcher, whom we must now call the grand-daughthey experienced the like treatment. As the fruits, which formed a part of his provisions. Yet ter of Henry IV., was obliged to scrub and plait intercourse between the tribes became more amidst all this glittering profusion, it is curious to harder than ever to gain another couple of hundred frequent, hostilities were discontinued, and the observe how inefficacious wealth and its immediate pistoles, her husband having spent the first in a feelings that prompted them were in time for consequences are, to refine the rudeness and soften fruitless search after his vein of luck. But in a the asperities of social life. It is impossible for us week afterwards, Dufresney made his appearance gotten. The peace brought about as above reto go into the small details which would be necessa- with a thousand pistoles, which Louis XIV. had lated has continued without interruption to this ry even to illustrate this remark; but the rich store given him; his majesty good-naturedly observing, day. As to Payton Skah, he recovered his of anecdote preserved by the Arabic historians, that his relation, Jeannette, must not be suffered to health and spirits, was successful in war and the seems clearly to evince, that the manners even of starve for the crime of having married a great mochase, and was finally convinced that the curse the higher classes were, at this time, in a sort of narch's illegitimate grandson." The Passover of Jews.-On Wednesday morning fluctuation between the coarseness of half barbarism of the Almighty had departed from him. and the elegant effeminacy of a luxurious age. This at nine o'clock this important religious festival to [Tales of the West. fact may be attributed in part to the natural influ- the people called Jews commenced. The following ence of the Mahomedan religion, but still more to curious ceremonies are observed on the evening the infancy and insignificancy of Arab literature. previous to the Passover. The master of every fa The peninsula Arabs, it is true, have ever been en-mily searches the different apartments of his house From late Foreign Journals received at this office. thusiastic lovers of poetry: but preceding caliphs for leavened bread after the following manner:Bazaars of Constantinople.—The bazaars and be- were, with few exceptions, little able or disposed to Being lighted with a small wax candle, he takes a zesteins of Constantinople are very extensive; a day afford efficient patronage to genius; and what is still whisk, gathering up all the leaven lying in his way. would scarcely suffice to walk through them all. more to the purpose, there was an almost total want As soon as he comes to the first piece of leavened Some of them are merely open streets, but the greater of those materials, books, schools, and men of pa- bread, he says "Blessed art thou, O Lord, our part are lofty vaulted cloisters, lighted from the roof, tient industry, without which the only sure founda-God, King of the Universe, who hath sanctified us and closed, when the hours of business are over, with tion of true learning and a lasting literature never with his commandments, and commanded us to clear away the leaven." While he is gathering the pieces iron gates. Each trade has its particular quarter, and can be laid.

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each of the many nations which are collected at Con- Bossuet. The expression of Bossuet, to one who of bread, which are purposely laid for him, he does stantinople has certain trades assigned to it by ancient found him preparing one of his famous orations, not speak; when done gathering the bread he says use and, prescription. Those low-fronted shops, with the Iliad open on his table, is finely character- as follows:-"All the leavened or leavening that is in my possession, that I have not seen, and which I without glass in the windows, and with a shutter fall-istic of the lofty and magnificent genius of the man have not received, shall be null, and accounted as ing half down, and serving in the day-time to place I always have Homer beside me when I make my the dust of the earth." He then ties the spoon and the wares upon, which are now fast disappearing from candle in a linen rag, with all the leavened bread our English towns, are the true representative of the sermons. I love to light my lamp at the sun!” Royal Descent: an Anecdote. We extract the gathered, which are kept until the next morning stall of a Turkish artificer. On this shutter he sits at work; and though his tools are very rude and in- following from the third and fourth volumes (un-(the morning of the Passover,) after breakfast, and ferior, he uses them with great dexterity. As he published) of the “ Chroniques de l'Œil de Bœuf." burnt. If the master is not at home, he annuls the sits cross-legged his bare feet are quite at liberty, "Dufresney, a descendant of Henry IV. by the leaven wherever he is. If the eve of the Passover and habit has made them as useful to him as a second left side, has just taken into his head to marry; but happens to fall on the Sabbath, the search is made on pair of hands. I have often stood to admire the skill only see to what excess a poet may carry his origi- the Thursday evening previous, and the leavened with which a Turk, with no other instrument than nality. A young and comely washerwoman, whose bread burnt on the Friday before noon, and every a very long gimlet, which he turned rapidly by means account with the wit might be compared to a thea- utensil used for leaven removed on the Friday before of a bow and catgut, would bore the tube of a pipe trical piece without a denouement, made her way the Sabbath commences, receiving only two meals through a cherry or jessamine stick, perhaps more one morning into the author's apartment, and in a for the Sabbath. After breakfast on the Sabbath than six feet long. The pipe bazaar is a favourite positive tone demanded, once for all, as she termed they shake out the cloth on which they have eaten, Your account!' and put away the utensils, with those not to be used place of resort; and many a Tartar and Janissary it, the settlement of her account. may be seen there looking wistfully into the glass exclaimed the poet, slipping on his clothes behind during the festival. The above festival lasts eight

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SELECT POETRY.

TO A BRIDE. Farewell! sweet cousin! ever thus

Drop from us treasures, one by one, They who have been from youth with us, Whose very look, whose very tone Are linked to us like leaves to flowers They who have shared our pleasant hoursWhose voices, so familiar grown, They almost seem to us our own, The echoes, as it were, of ours

clear days, during which time the Jews are enjoined war, when it was opposed by the puritans, a race of to refrain from entering any house of public enter-men morose, stern, and inflexible. During the intainment, and drinking any kind of malt liquor, terregnum it flourished with difficulty; and by untheir only beverage being rum, shrub, or raisin ceasing obloquy and reproach, was at first persecutwine. The rum must be in the same state in which ed into unpopularity, and at length to extinction. It it is purchased at the docks, and on which the seal revived at the Restoration, and in 1660 Charles II. of the High Priest is placed as an attestation of its licensed two companies, Killigrew's and Davenant's. being genuine, and is termed "Cosher rum."-From this period it continued gradually to improve London paper. in interest and importance, till at length it attained A Monkey Trick.-In 1813, a vessel that sailed its present state of perfection. between Whiteheaven and Jamaica embarked on her A Curious Will.-A worthy and wealthy tradeshomeward voyage, and, among other passengers, man, who died a few years since, had the following carried a female, who had at the breast a child only extraordinary item in his will-as may be seen in a few weeks old. One beautiful afternoon the capDoctors' Commons-"I bequeath to my youngest tain perceived a distant sail, and after he had grati-son, Thomas, two thousand pounds, and all my luck fied his curiosity, he politely offered his glass to his in the lotteries; and recommend it to him to advenpassenger, that she might obtain a clear view of the ture at least five pounds in every scheme-such a object. Mrs. B. had the babe in her arms; she wrap- pursuit being the means that enabled me to comped her shawl about the little innocent, and placed mence trade. it on a sofa upon which she had been sitting. Scarcely had she applied her eye to the glass, when the helmsman exclaimed, "Good God! see what the mischievous monkey has done." The reader may judge of the female's feelings, when, on turning round, she beheld the animal in the act of transporting her beloved child apparently to the very top of the mast. The monkey was a very large one, and so strong and active, that while it grasped the infant firmly with the one arm, it climbed the shrouds nimbly by the other, totally unembarrassed by the weight of its burthen. One look was sufficient for the terrified mother, and that look had well nigh been her last, for had it not been for the assistance of those around her she would have fallen prostrate on the deck, where she was soon afterwards stretched apparently a lifeless corpse. The sailors could climb as well as the monkey, but the latter watched their motions narrowly; and as it ascended higher up the mast the moment they attempted to put a foot on the shrouds, the captain became afraid that it would drop the child, and endeavour to escape by leaping from one mast to another. In the meantime, the little innocent was heard to cry; and though many thought it was suffering pain, their fears on this point were speedily dissipated when they observed the monkey imitating exactly the motions of a nurse, by dandling, soothing and caressing its charge, and even endeavouring to hush it asleep. From the deck the lady was conveyed to the cabin, and gradually restored to her senses. In the mean time, the captain ordered every man to conceal himself below, and quietly took his own station on the cabin stair, where he could see all that passed without being seen. The plan happily succeeded; the monkey, on perceiving that the coast was clear, cautiously descended from his lofty perch, and replaced the infant on the sofa, cold, fretful, and perhaps frightened, but in every other respect as free from harm as when he took it up. The humane captain had now a most grateful task to perform; the babe was restored to its mother's arms, amidst tears, and thanks, and blessings.— Macdermid's Sketches of Nature.

The Drama.-The earliest patent for acting comedies and tragedies is dated 1574; and such was the rapid progress of this rational amusement, that early in the next century, not less than fifteen licensed theatres were opened to the inhabitants of London. The best plays, especially those of Shakspeare, were acted chiefly at the Blackfriar's theatre, or at the Globe in Southwark. A flag was hoisted on the front of each theatre. The price of admission to the best places was a shilling, to the inferior ones a penny or two pence. The critics sat on the stage, and were furnished with pipes and tobacco. The curtain drew not up, but was drawn back on each side. From the raillery of Sir Philip Sidney, it is doubtful whether there was a change of scenes. It is probable this deficiency was supplied by the names of places being written in large characters on the stage; stating, for instance, that this was a wood, a garden, Thebes, Rome, or Alexandria, as the case might require. The stage was lighted with branches like those hung in churches. Before the exhibition began, three flourishes, sounding, or pieces of music were played; and music was likewise played between the acts. Perukes and masks formed part of the stage paraphernalia: and the female parts for the first hundred years were performed by young men. dramatic piece composed the whole entertainment; and the hours of acting began at one in the afternoon, and lasted about two hours. The audience, before the performance, amused themselves with reading or playing at cards; others drank ale or smoked tobacco. For some time plays were acted on Sundays only; after 1579, they were acted on Mondays and other days indiscriminately.

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Such continued the state of the drama till the civil |

They who have even been our pride, Yet in their hours of triumph dearest

They whom we most have known and tried,
And loved the most when tried the nearest-
They pass from us like stars that wane,
The brightest still before,

Or gold links broken from a chain
That can be join'd no more.
What can we wish thee? Gifts hast thou,
Richer than wishes ever give-
Gifts of the heart, and lip, and brow,

Gifts that thou couldst not lose and live-
Better are these than aught that we,
This side of heaven, can wish for thee.

Well then-ever may these increase-
Deeper thy heart-richer thy tone-

Still on thy brow be written peace, Still be thine eye's kind spell its ownStill may the spirit of thy smile

Have power, as now, all cares to lighten, And may thine own heart feel, the while,

The sunshine in which others brighten. Life be to thee the summer tide "Twill seem to others by thy side!

POETICAL PORTRAITS.

SHAKSPEARE.

His was the wizard spell, The spirit to enchain: His grasp o'er nature fell, Creation own'd his reign.

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THIS DAY is published, by JESPER HARDING, 744 South Second Street, and 36 Carter's Alley, THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPALIAN AND CHURCH REGISTER. Devoted to the interests of religion in the Protestant Episcopal Church. Edited by an Association of Clergymen. Vol. 1. No. 6, for June, 1830.

CONTENTS.-The Hardening of Pharaoh-The Dream of Life-"As thy day, so shall thy strength be"-Divine Provi dence-Public Worship-Bishop Ravenscroft-Atheism and Infidelity-The Pious Nobleman-False Reasoning-The Trinity not the only Mystery-Salutary Hints-A Brief Account of the Armenian Church-Watching by the DeadEarthly Pleasures-The Land of the Dying and LivingVows Broken and Renewed-The Goodness of God-Validi ty of Ordinances-An Appeal to Beauty-Errors of Modern Education-Convention of the Diocese of PennsylvaniaBishop White's Address-Bishop Onderdonk's Address-Annual Report of the Female Episcopal Tract Society-Sunday School Celebration-Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society-IntelligenceSummary.

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Published every Thursday by JESPER HARDING, 36 Car-and it was my office, at those times, to endeav-thoughts, and our conversation, consequently, ter's Alley, and 74 South Second Street, Price, $2 50 per our to convince him, that it was not permitted desultory and irregular. I seldom disturbed Agents who procure and forward payment for four sub- he should perish everlastingly, when he tempt- his reflections when he was in those moods of scribers, shall receive the fifth copy for one year; and so ined such a doom, but rather that he should live silent abstraction; and this evening I was the proportion for a larger number.

POETRY.
STANZAS.

BY THE LATE ST. GEORGE TUCKER, ESQ
Days of my youth,

Ye have glided away:

Hairs of my youth,

Ye are frosted and gray;

Eyes of my youth,

Your keen sight is no more:
Cheeks of my youth,

Te are furrow'd all o'er;
Strength of my youth,
All your vigor is gone:
Thoughts of my youth,

Your gay visions are flown.
Days of my youth,

I wish not your recall:

Hairs of my youth,

I'm content ye should fall;
Eyes of my youth,

You much evil have seen:
Cheeks of my youth,

Bathed in tears you have been;
Thoughts of my youth,

You have led me astray:
Strength of my youth,

Why lament your decay?

Days of my age,

Ye will shortly be past:
Pains of my age,

Yet awhile ye can last;
Joys of my age,

In true wisdom delight:
Eyes of my age,

Be religion your light;
Thoughts of my age,

Dread ye not the cold sod:
Hopes of my age,

Be ye fix'd on your God.

SELECT TALES.

THE CONFESSIONS OF A SUICIDE.

BY THE AUTHOR OF FIRST AND LAST.

and repent. I strove to calm his terrors by re- less inclined to do so, because I was rioting in
calling the words of consolation, which had the luxury of my own meditations inspired by
bound up the wounds of a heart stricken more the glorious scene which encompassed me.
deeply than even his own: "If thou return to We arrived at our bench, and seated our-
the Almighty, thou shalt be built up; thou shalt selves. The ascent had wearied us a little, and
put away inquity far from thy tabernacle." I was still gazing with an untired eye, and de-
It was one in the many conversations we lighted spirit, upon the gorgeous landscape be-
had held together upon the subject, that I ven-fore me, over which the sun's setting rays
tured, (I hardly know under what vague im- had spread a mantle of dewy light, when he
pulse or desire,) to touch upon the cause of his addressed me.

crime, and to glance at the fearful nature of "Do you remember," said he, and there was
that awful tempest of the passions, which must a slightly tremulous faltering in his voice, “a
surely precede and accompany self-murder. Istrange wish you once expressed, to know the
could perceive that I had flung open the por-cause, and all the miserable circumstances-'
tals of a scene from the harrowing visions of "I do!" I exclaimed, interrupting him; " and
which his spirit recoiled with horror; his coun-I was heartily ashamed then, as I have been
tenance underwent a distressing change; his ever since, of my depraved curiosity."
lip quivered, his eye dilated, his brow was knit "I thought it strange," continued my friend
forcibly together, his breathing was quick and in the same faltering tone of voice, "to wish
spasmodic, and his whole appearance like that to tear open a ghastly wound for the sake of
of a man who had been suddenly accused of a seeing how hideous it looked; to stretch me on
crime he could not deny, but which he believed the rack that you might count my groans, and
no human tongue, save his own, could declare. take a special note of the very order in which
I deplored my rashness, and at that moment I each nerve and sinew cracked; to gauge the
would have given half the remaining years I depth of that anguish which hurried me to the
had to live, to recall my words.
abyss of perdition, and of that tenfold greater
He was silent; gradually the pang I had so anguish, that unutterable agony, which follow-
wantonly inflicted subsided, and I resolved, in ed the delirium of the moment when I sprung
my own mind, never again to let my curiosity from its brink. But I have learned to know
kindle at a flame so unhallowed.
that every pang that I suffer here is but a part
It was several months after this occurrence, of an offended God's appointed penalty for
that he called upon me one evening, and pro- guilt; and though, with the timid shrinking of
posed a walk. He had often done so before; the flesh, I would have shunned the infliction
but on this occasion I thought I perceived an at the time, I trust I have bowed myself meek-
unusual anxiety in his manner not to be denied. ly and submissively to it since. You can never
It was high summer, the evening calm, cool, know what it has cost me to trace the pic-
and beautiful; and as I looked upon the rich ture, and I shall never seek to know with what
landscape from my window, bathed in the sun-feelings you have contemplated it."
ny haze which so commonly succeeds to a sul- He put into my hands a small roll of paper,
try day in our climate, I felt that it would be and added with great earnestness, "I have
"a blasphemy against nature," (to use a poeti-borne my punishment. Such portion of my
cal expression of Milton's prose) not to wander atonement as that is meant to satisfy is relcas-
among her works.
ed. Let it not be again exacted!"

I knew a man, some years ago, who at one
period of his life had attempted suicide, but| We set forth. The walks round,where It was with a sense of deep humiliation I re-
failed in his intention of self-destruction. The I then lived, cannot easily be surpassed, upon ceived the roll from him; for I could not enter
mere verbal critic may quibble at my designa- a small scale, for picturesque beauty and varie- into his impressions, which invested with the
tion of him; but it morally expresses himself, ty. On every side rose sloping hills of grace- character of a propitiatory sacrifice what I con-
and his act. Had immediate surgical aid been ful form, their sides covered with thick woods sidered only as a confession wrung from newly
unattainable, or its application ineffectual, he whose masses of dense foliage contrasted finely awakened remorse by the prurience of a diseas-
could have suffered no more. He had gone with those portions of the ascents which were ed curiosity. He had read me a severe lesson.
through all of bodily pang, and of mental anguish, either under cultivation, or left as pasturage and turned my eyes inward upon my own mo-
which consciousness could make horrible. for cattle, and which ran shelving down, by a tives with a stern but searching scrutiny.
What remained of life would have been slowly gentle declivity, to the rocky banks of the The writer of what follows is now a partak
extinguished, with no more perception of its mazy Severn. In every direction, there were er of the great mystery of life-its end! I saw
feeble and final struggle than there is of the spots so lovelily laid out by the hand of nature, him die. His death was perfect resignation to
convulsive tremblings of the trunk, when the consisting of woodland, meadow, orchard, hill the decree of Heaven; but doubts and fears dis
head has been dissevered by the axe of the ex- and valley, that they required only the addition mayed his spirit as the curtain fell upon this
ecutioner.
of greater space to confer upon them the high- world, and he hung trembling over the impene-

I knew this man. It was full twenty years est character of diversified landscape. From trable obscurity of the next. after the event of which I have spoken. He one or two of the surrounding eminences, in- I know not with what emotions others may was then religious, with something of that deed, prospects were obtained of considerable peruse what he wrote. For myself, I may truly gloom and austerity in his religion which gave extent, and the eye ranged with delight from say, the remembrance of my own is, and must it a tinge of fanaticism. This was, perhaps, the rich and luxuriant scenery immediately be- ever be, among the most painful recollections the natural consequence of his situation. His neath the feet of the spectator, to the far out-of my life. It ran thus mind was of a superior order: his sensibility spread level of waving corn fields, which was "I can easily imagine that the vague conacute and morbid. The former would not al- terminated by a bold outline of lofty hills. templation of suicide as a last and certain relow nim to disguise from himself the enormity As we sauntered along, beneath the shade fuge, when afflictions become intolerable, has of his transgression; while the latter heighten- of a noble avenue of stately trees, consisting of presented itself to thousands, who have never ed his sense of enormity to a feeling of despair, walnut, oak, elm, and ash, to our favourite seen the moment when the burden of their sorwhen he reasoned upon the possibility of ade- seat under a large yew tree, which crowned rows could not be borne. But wo to the mise. quate expiation. It was sometimes frightful to with solitary and sombre grandeur one of the rable wretch who at last says to himself, Now bserve the agony with which he doubted of for- graceful sloping hills I have mentioned, my I will lay my burthen down, for I faint, and can giveness hereafter. I enjoyed his confidence, companion seemed absorbed in his own go no further!

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