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money enough. [Takes out a roll of bank notes.]| How much is the bill?

Pr. Dev. [His eyes glistening at sight of the money.] Three dollars, Sir.

Twist. I hav'nt any thing less than a

dollar bill.

ten

Pr. Dev. Shall I take it and get it changed? Twist. No; I wont put you to that trouble. Pr. Dev. It's no trouble at all; I can do it in half a minute.

Twist. No; I'll get it changed, and send the money early to-morrow morning.

The devil being fairly beat, returned; and it is presumed the ten dollar bill is yet unchanged, as neither the money nor Mr. Twistificator has yet appeared.-N. Y. Constellation.

does, where the Indian ladies go to bathe, he used

"To check improvidence in parents, your Com-vide for the annexation of parts of the Indian terrimittee conceive that it would be prudent and proper

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assess a yearly tax, perhaps of five dollars for all tory to different counties in the state, are omitted. children between the ages of three and thirteen "An Act to add the territory lying within the chartered limits of Georgia, and now in the occuyears. This would prevent persons from too carelessly incurring the responsibility of parents, while pancy of the Cherokee Indians, to the counties of it would be oppressive to no one, inasmuch as the Carroll, De Kalb, Gwinnet, Hall, and Habersham, and to extend the laws of this state over the same, expenses of a child at home in the poorest and most miserable manner would much exceed that amount. and to annul all laws and ordinances made by the "This tax alone, if adopted throughout the repub-Cherokee nation of Indians, and to provide for the lic, would furnish from ten to fifteen millions annu- compensation of officers serving legal process in said ally, to the Public School Fund. territory, and to regulate the testimony of Indians, "In what manner the surplus above this amount and to repel the ninth section of the act of eighteen may be raised most beneficially, your Committee hundred and twenty-eight upon this subject. "Sect. 6. And be it further enacted, That all the think it unnecessary, at this early stage of proceeding, to inquire. Convinced they are that no appli-laws, both civil and criminal, of this state, be, and cation of public funds is so essentially beneficial to the same are hereby extended over said portion of the people, or would be more willingly sanctioned territory respectively, and all persons whatever reby them than this, and that the expense to the na- siding within the same, shall, after the first day of tion will be but a drop in the bucket, compared to June next, be subject and liable to the operation of said laws, in the same manner as other citizens of The following curious story of a murderer is told the national benefits therefrom to be obtained. this state, or the citizens of other counties respecin the Nottingham Review: "Among the chief preliminary difficulties, your Committee remark the deficiency of competent teach-tively, and all the writs and processes whatever, "Some time ago, a man was hanged at Calcutta, ers, and suitable school-books. The first, your Com-issued by the courts or officers of said courts, shall who was a good swimmer and could remain a long mittee conceive, may be surmounted by the establish- extend over, and operate on the portions of territory while under water. Availing himself of his abilityment of a Model State School, where teachers may hereby added to the same respectively. to slide himself into the place enclosed with palisa-be trained; and by rendering the office of public "Sect. 7. And be it further enacted, That after to seize one, without being seen by the others, and teacher so honourable and desirable, that the best the first day of June next, all laws, ordinances, ordrown her, and then rob her of the jewels which talent in the country would be enlisted for public ders, and regulations of any kind whatever, made, these ladies never lay aside, even when they are education. To meet the second, your Committee passed, or enacted by the Cherokee Indians, either in general council, or any other way whatever, or by bathing. The other ladies, seeing one of their friends suggest that government should offer liberal predisappear suddenly, believed she was carried away dium of the useful and liberal arts; the exact sciences, are hereby declared to be null and void and of no miums for the best set of school books, a compen- any authority whatever of said tribe, be, and the same by some crocodile. At last it happened that a young and every other branch of an accomplished and eneffect, as if the same had never existed; and in all lady, who was attacked by this robber, succeeded in cases of indictment or civil suits, it shall not be lawescaping from his horrible attempt; and to the lightened education. great ful for the defendant to justify under any of said surprise of every body, she told them that she had "In conclusion, your committee would express laws, ordinances, orders or regulations; nor shall the been attacked, not by a crocodile, but by a man. A their firm conviction, that in proportion as the Me-courts of this state permit the same to be given in search was made for the ruffian; and, on being taken, chanics and Working Men of our city, of our state, evidence on the trial of any suit whatever. he avowed that he had followed that trade for seven and of our republic generally, interest themselves in "Sect. 8. And be it further enacted, That it shall this subject, in proportion as they take a firm, deci-not be lawful for any person or body of persons by years past." sive stand, and adopt enlarged and liberal views in arbitrary power or by virtue of any pretended rule, regard to Public Education-in the same proportion ordinance, law, or custom of said Cherokee nation, to prevent, by threats, menaces, or other means, to endeavour to prevent any Indian of said nation, reTHURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1830. A new satire is in the press at Charleston, S. C. It siding within the chartered limits of this state, from enrolling as an emigrant or actually emigrating, or is intended as a touch at the poets, and is from the removing from said nation; nor shall it be lawful for EDUCATION. We have received and read with pen of a writer of some note. The following synopsis any person or body of persons by arbitrary power or pleasure, the report of the sub-committee of New of its character is from the Charleston City Gazette. by virtue of any pretended rule, ordinance, law, or custom of said nation, to punish in any manner, or York on the subject of education. It advocates a "We have been permitted to peep into a few of to molest either the person or property, or to abridge national system, by which the children of the poor the first pages of "The Age of Rhyme, or a Glance the rights or privileges of any Indian for enrolling and rich shall be fed, clothed, and educated at the at the Poets,' a new satire, now in press in this city, his or her names as an emigrant, or for emigrating, expense of the nation. This project is enforced by shod and graceful ease about it, coupled with a good from the pen of one of our citizens. There is a slip-or intending to emigrate from said nation. "Sect. 9. And be it further enacted, That any the most powerful and convincing arguments, which deal of bitter poignancy, which, in literary affairs, person or body of persons offending against the prowe only regret our limits prevent us from reprinting. admirably spices and makes the dead letter of com-visions of the foregoing section, shall be guilty of a The following are the suggestions in relation to rais-position palatable and exciting. The dexterity ex-high misdemeanor, subject to indictment, and on ing sufficient funds for the support of this system: for melee-is such as to pursuade us of the severity common jail of any county of this state, or by conhibited in the introduction-the preparatory parley conviction, shall be punished by confinement in the "Your Committee conceive, that education is and keenness of the stroke which follows; and, we finement at hard labour in the penitentiary for a emphatically THE BUSINESS OF THE GOVERNMENT. doubt not, that the lady-like scribblers of the Ame-term not exceeding four years, at the discretion of What is the first and chief end of government, if not rican Athens will feel rather sore under its infliction. the court.

LITERARY PORT FOLIO. will be the ultimate success of their cause.

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to produce peace and harmony among men? And The whole herd is roused by the hunter, from Jem- "Sect. 10. And be it further enacted, That it shall what means are so effectual to produce peace and my Percival to Johnny Neal. Willis is made to offer not be lawful for any person or body of persons, by harmony, as an enlightened public education? Is it up his devotions to L. E. L. (his pet puppy) on the arbitrary power, or under colour of any pretended not the magistrate's duty, if he knows that a crime spirit of a bended knee-and from Robert Walsh rule, ordinance, law, or custom of said nation, to prewill be committed, to prevent its commission? And to James M'Henry, the game's afoot'-and the vent, or offer to prevent, or deter any Indian, head do we not all know, that to leave twenty thousand chase is inveterate and unsparing. The work, we man, chief, or warrior of said nation residing within children, as we do now in this very city, to the edu- understand, is in forwardness, and will appear in a the chartered limits of this state, from selling or cedcation of chance, in our streets and alleys, will lead few days." to the commission of crime? Is it not, therefore, clearly and positively, the magistrate's duty to provide for Public Education?

ing to the United States for the use of Georgia the whole or any part of said territory, or to prevent or THE INDIANS. As a subject of interest we pub-rior of said nation, residing as aforesaid, from meetoffer to prevent any Indian, head man, chief, or warAgain, is it not to protect the helpless and op-lish below, the law of Georgia recently adopted by ing in council or treaty, any commissioner or com pressed, that governments are instituted! And who the legislature of that state, by which, it will be per-missioners on that part of the United States, for so helpless and oppressed as a child whose parents will not, or cannot procure for it a useful, rational ceived, that the Cherokee Indians must either leave any purpose whatever. education? Is not this a species of oppression from the state or submit to the laws of Georgia. It must "Sect. 11. And be it further enacted, That any which it will probably never recover? which may be remembered that one of the requirements of the visions of the foregoing section, shall be guilty of a person or body of persons offending against the proleave its blighting effects on mind and body, while Constitution is, that no body of people shall be suf- high misdemeanor, subject to indictment, and on life remains? If to protest from such oppression, be not a sacred, binding duty of government, what duty fered to enact and enforce laws within the jurisdic- conviction, shall be confined at hard labour in the Is sacred and binding? tion of the Union, distinct from those enforced by penitentiary for not less than four, nor longer than "We hold the opinion, therefore, that there is no the state in any of whose sections they locate themsix years, at the discretion of the court. call for the public money, more strictly, and imme"Sect. 12. And be it further enacted, That it shall diately, and essentially for the public benefit, than in selves. A dreadful outcry has been made in refer- not be lawful for any person or body of persons, by the case of public education. And we are further ence to this law of Georgia. We suggest to our arbitary force or under colour of any pretended rules, convinced, that there is no expenditure of the peo-readers a full investigation and knowledge of the ordinances, law, or custom of said nation, to take ple's funds that would be more cheerfully sanctioned the life of any Indian residing as aforesaid for enby them than this; provided they were satisfied with case, before they form any hasty judgment. It is as listing as an emigrant, attempting to emigrate, cedindispensable that the rights of our citizens be pre-ing or attempting to cede as aforesaid, the whole or "Your Committee are of opinion therefore, that served as those of the Indians, although we are not any part of said territory, or meeting or attempting whatever expenses may be necessary for the esta-advocates of any oppression of that people. to meet in treaty or in council as aforesaid, any comblishment and support of National Public Schools, missioner or commissioners as aforesaid, and any perThe five first sections of the act, which merely pro- son or body of persons offending against the provi

the system of education itself.

should be borne by government.

sions of this section shall be guilty of murder, subject stay, during which Lucy was not at home, asked had now grown to woman's stature--tall, though to indictment, and on conviction, shall suffer death if they would let him have lodgings with them she scarcely seemed so, except when among her by hanging. for a few months, a single room for bed and playmates; and in her maturing loveliness, ful"Sect. 13. And be it further enacted, That should books, and that he would take his meals with filling, and far more than fulfilling, the fair proany of the foregoing offences be committed under co- the family. Enthusiastic boy! to him poetry had mise of her childhood. Never once had the young lour of any pretended rules, or ordinance, custom, or law of said nation, all persons acting therein either been the light of life, nor did ever hero of poetry stranger-stranger no more-spoken to daughas individuals or as pretended executive, ministerial, belong more entirely than he to the world of ima-ter, father or mother, of his love. Indeed, for all or judicial officers, shall be deemed and considered gination! He had come into the free mountain that he felt towards Lucy, there must have been as principals, and subject to the pains and penalties region from the confinement of the college walls, some other word than love. Tenderness, which herein before prescribed. and his spirit was expanded within him like a was almost pity--an affection that was often sad, "Sect. 14. And be it further enacted, That for all rainbow. No eye had he for realities-all na- wonder at her surpassing beauty, not less at her demands which may come within the jurisdiction of ture was seen in the light of fancy-not a single unconsciousness of its power-admiration of her a magistrate's court, suit may be brought for the All was spiritual qualities, that ever rose up to meet insame in the nearest district of the county to which object at sunrise and sunset the same. the territory is hereby annexed, and all the officers beautiful within the circle of the green hill tops, struction as if already formed-and that heartserving any legal process, or any person living on whether shrouded in the soft mists, or clearly throbbing that stirs the blood of youth when the any portion of the territory herein named, shall be outlined in a cloudless sky. Home, friends, col- innocent eyes it loves are beaming in the twientitled to receive the sum of five cents for every leges, cities,-all sunk away into oblivion, and light through smiles or through tears,-these, mile he may ride to serve the same, after crossing Harry Howard felt as if wafted off on the wings and a thousand other feelings, and above all, the the present limits of said counties, in addition to the of a spirit, and set down in a land beyond the sea, creative faculty of a poet's soul, now constituted fees already allowed by law; and in case any of said foreign to all he had before experienced, yet in his very being when Lucy was in his presence, officers should be resisted in the execution of any legal process issued by any court or Magistrate, Jus-its perfect and endless beauty appealing every nor forsook him when he was alone among the tice of the Interior court or Judge of the Superior hour more tenderly and strongly to a spirit awa-mountains.

court of any of said counties, he is hereby authorized kened to new power, and revelling in new emo- At last it was known through the country that to call out a sufficient number of the militia of said tion. In that cottage he took up his abode. In Mr. Howard-the stranger, the scholar, the poet, counties to aid and protect him in the execution of a few weeks came a library of books in all lan- the elegant gentleman, of whom nobody knew his duty. guages; and there was much wondering talk much, but whom every body loved, and whose over all the country side about the mysterious father must at least have been a lord, was going --in a year or less-to marry the daughter of young stranger who now lived at the Fold.

"Sect. 15. And be it further enacted, That no Indian or descendant of any Indian residing within the Creek or Cherokee nations of Indians, shall be deemed a competent witness in any court of this state to which a white person may be a party, except such white person reside within the said nation.""

SELECTIONS.

LUCY OF THE FOLD.

FROM BLACK WOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE,

Every day, and when he chose to absent him- Allan Fleming-Lucy of the Fold. Oh grief and self from his haunts among the hills, every hour shame to the parents—if still living-of the noble was Lucy before the young poet's eyes-and boy! O sorrow for himself when his passion dies every hour did her beauty wax more beautiful in-when the dream is dissolved-and when, in his imagination. Who Mr. Howard was, or even place of the angel of light who now moves beif that were indeed his real name, no one knew; fore him, he sees only a child of earth, lowly but none doubted that he was of gentle birth, born, and long rudely bred, a being only fair as and all with whom he had ever conversed in many others are fair, sister in her simplicity to his elegant amenity, could have sworn that a maidens no less pleasing than she, and partaking Many a tame tradition embalmed in a few pa- youth so bland and free, and with such a voice, of many weaknesses, frailties, and faults now thetic verses, lives for ages, while the memory and such eyes, would not have injured the hum- unknown to herself in her happiness, and to of the most affecting incidents to which genius has blest of God's creatures, much less such a crea- him in his love! Was there no one to rescue allied no general emotion, fades like the mist, and ture as Lucy of the fold. It was indeed even them from such a fate,—from a few months of leaves the heart-rending grief undeplored. Ele-so,- for before the long summer days were gone, imaginary bliss, and from many years of real gies and dirges might have well been sung amidst he who had never had a sister, loved her even as bale! How could such a man as Allan Fleming the green ruins of yonder cottage, that looks now if she had slept on the same maternal bosom.--be so infatuated as to sell his child to fickle youth, almost like a fallen wall-at best, the remnants of Father or mother he now had none,--indeed, who would soon desert her broken hearted! Yet a cattle shed, shaken down by the storm. Twen- scarcely one near relation; although he was rich kind thoughts, wishes, hopes and beliefs prety years ago-how short a time in natural history in this world's riches; but in them poor in com- vailed, nor were there wanting stories of the -how long in that of private sorrows!-all parison with the noble endowments nature had olden time, of low born maidens married to tongues were speaking of the death, that there lavished upon his mind. His guardians took lit- youths of high estate, and raised from hut to hall, befel, and to have seen the weeping, you would tle heed of the splendid but wayward youth, and becoming mothers of a lordly line of sons, that have thought that the funeral could never have knew not now whither his fancies had carried were counsellors to kings and princes. been forgotten. But stop now the shepherd on him, were it even to some savage land. Thus, In spring, Mr. Howard went away for a few the hill, and ask him who lived of old in that the Fold became to him the one dearest roof months-it was said to the great city of London, nook, and chance is, he knows not even their under the roof of heaven. All the simple on- and on his return at Midsummer, Lucy was to be name, much less the story of their afflictions.-goings of that humble home, love and imagina- his bride. They parted with a few peaceful That farm-house was inhabited by Allen Flem- tion beautified into poetry; and all the rough or tears, and though absent were still together.-ing, his wife, and an only child, known familiarly coarser edges of lowly life were softened away And now a letter came to the Fold, saying that in her own small world, by the name of Lucy of in the light of genius that transmitted every thing before another Sabbath he would be at the Fold. the Fold. In almost every vale among the moun- on which it fell; while all the silent intimations A few beautiful fields in Eastdale, long mortga tains, there is its peculiar pride-some one crea- which nature gave there of her primal sympa-ged beyond their fee simple by the hard working ture to whom nature has been especially kind, thies, in the hut as fine and forceful as in the statesman from whom they reluctantly were passand whose personal beauty, sweetness of dispo- hall, showed to his excited spirit pre-eminently ing away, had meanwhile been purchased by sition, and felt superiority of mind and manner, beautiful, and chained it to the hearth around Mr. Howard, and in that cottage they were to single her out, unconsciously, as an object of at- which was read the morning and the evening abide, till they had built for themselves a house traction and praise, making her the May-day prayer. a little farther up the side of the sylvan hill, beQueen of the unending year. Such a darling What wild schemes does not love imagine, and low the shadow of Helm Crag. Lucy saw the was Lucy Fleming, ere she had finished her thir- in the face of very impossibility achieve! "I Sabbath of his return and its golden sun, but it teenth year; and strangers who had heard tell will take Lucy to myself, if it should be in place was in her mind's eye only, for ere it was to deof her loveliness, often dropped in, as if by acci- of all the world. I will myself breathe light over scend behind the hills, she was not to be among dent, to see the beauty of Rydelmere. Her parents her being, till in a new spring it shall be adorn-the number of living things. rejoiced in their child; nor was there any reason ed with living flowers that fade not away, pe- Up Forest-Ullswater the youth had come by why they should dislike the expression of delight rennial and self renewed. In a few years, the the light of the setting sun; and as he crossed and wonder, with which so many regarded her. bright, docile creature shall have the soul of a the mountains to Grassmere by the majestic pass Shy was she as a woodland bird, but as fond of very angel--and then before God and his holy of the solitary Hawse, still as every new star her nest too; and when there was nothing near altar, mine shall she become forever--here and arose in heaven, with it arose as lustrous a new to disturb, her life was almost a perpetual hymn. hereafter--in this paradise of earth, and if more emotion from the bosom of his betrothed. The From joy to sadness, and from sadness to joy;— celestial be, in the paradise of heaven." midnight hour had been fixed for his return to the from silence to song, and from song to silence; Thus two summers and two winters wheeled Fold, and as he reached the cliffs above Whitefrom stillness, like that of the butterfly on the away into the past; and in the change, imper- moss, lo! according to agreement, a light was flower, to motion, like that of the same creature ceptible from day to day, but glorious at last, burning in the low window, the very planet of wavering in the sunshine over the wood top, was wrought on Lucy's nature by communication love. It seemed to shed a bright serenity over to Lucy as welcome a change, as the change of with one so prodigally endowed, scarcely could all the vale, and the moon glittering waters of lights and shadows, breezes and calms, in the her parents believe it was their same child, ex- Rydelmere were asan image of life, pure, lonely, mountain country of her birth. cept that she was dutiful as before, as affection- undisturbed, and at the pensive hour how pro

One summer day, a youthful stranger appearate, and as fond of all the familiar objects, dead found! "Blessing and praise be to the gracious ed at the door of the house, and after an hour's or living, round and about her birth place. She God! who framed my spirits so to delight in his

beautiful and glorious creation,-blessing and and on--and away--and returning--was heard mould in which she formed him; and yet the praise be to the Holy One, for the boon of my the buzzing of large bell flies, attracted by beau- internal sympathies of the world are deeply inMary's innocent and religious love." Prayers ty in its corruption. "Ha, ha!" starting up, he terested in the personal history of this suppos crowded fast into his soul, and tears of joy fell cried in horror, "What birds of prey are these, ed anomaly of nature. The obscure and dofrom his eyes, as he stood at the threshold, almost whom Satan has sent to devour the corpse?"- mestic incidents of Voltaire's existence, those afraid in the trembling of life-deep affection to He became stricken with a sort of palsy, and few voiceless days not sung in glory's legend, being led out to the open air, was laid down, are not sought with that inquisitive ardour that

meet her first embrace!

In the silence, sobs and sighs, and one or two seemingly as dead as her within, on the green impels the multitude after the haunted reveries long deep groans! Then in another moment he daisied turf, where beneath the shadow of the of Rousseau. The latter deeply participated saw through the open door of the room where sycamore they had so often sat, building up beau- in those half physical traits that are attributes Mary used to sleep, several figures, moving to tiful vision of a long blissful life!

and fro in the light, and one figure upon its knees The company assembled, but not before his of nearly all the race of man, the most common who else could it be but her father! unnoticed eyes; the bier was lifted up and moved away tation of his feelings, all brilliant and glowing bosoms thrill and sympathize to the represen he became one of the pale faced company-and down the sylvan slope, and away round the head|

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there he beheld her on the bed, mute and mo- of the Lake, and over the wooden bridge, ac- as they are, tinged by the magic of his genius tionless, her face covered with a deplorable companied here and there, as it passed the way there is a chord in almost every heart that beauty-eyes closed, and her hands clasped upon side houses on the road to Grassmere, by the echoes the language of his passions. But acher breast! "Dead, dead, dead!" muttered in sound of Psalms--but he saw, he heard not,- curately to appreciate Voltaire, requires an inhis ringing ears a voice from the tombs, and he when the last sound of the spade rebounded from tellect subtle by nature or refined by study, fell down in the midst of them with great violence the smooth arch of the grave, he was not by, but and a predominance of the moral over the phyupon the floor. all the while he was laying where they left him, sical passions. In this age of religious liberty, Encircled with arms that lay round him softer with one or two pitying dalesmen at his head the fanatical deism of Voltaire appears extraand silkier far than flower-wreaths on the neck and feet. When he awoke again and rose up, vagant and absurd; but let it be remembered of a child who has laid him down from play, was the cottage of the Fold was as if she had never that he lived at a period when the young De he, when he awoke from that fit-lying even on been born-for she had vanished forever and aye, la Barre was beheaded for a trifling insult ofhis own maiden's bed, and within her very bosom and her sixteen years smiling life was all extin- fered to a wooden image of the virgin, during that beat yet, although about to beat no more! guished in the dust! a moment of accidental intoxication, and the worthy and respectable Calas broken on the wheel for a mere heresy of opinion.

At that blest awakening moment, he might have Weeks and months passed on, and still there thought he saw the first glimpse of light of the was a vacant wildness in his eyes, and a mortal morning after his marriage day, for her face was ghastliness over his face, inexpressive of a reaturned towards his heart; with her faint breath-sonable soul. It scarcely seemed that he knew "Did (they) not this for France! which lay before Bow'd to the inborn tyranny of years? ings he felt the touch of tears. Not tears alone where he was, or in what part of the earth, yet Broken and trembling to the yoke she bore." now bedimmed those eyes, for tears he could when left by himself, he never sought to move have kissed, but the blue lids were heavy with beyond the boundaries of the Fold. During the The writer thus remarks upon the ephemesomething that was not slumber-the orbs them first faint glimmerings of returning reason, he ral nature of that celebrity which is based selves were scarcely visible-and her voice-it would utter her name over and over many merely upon talents for shining in society. was gone, to be heard never again, till in the times, with a mournful voice, but still he knew I am haunted with a peculiar sense of the choir of white robed spirits, that sing at the right not that she was dead-then he began to caution brevity of life; it seems as though a consciousthem all to tread softly, for that sleep had fallen ness of this brevity should silence all prejudi

hand of God!

Yet no one doubted that she knew him-him upon her, and her fever in its blessed balm might ces, predilections, tastes, even the simplest acts who had dropped down like a superior being, abate; then with groans too affecting to be borne of choice, and that a serene and ignorant nonfrom another sphere, on the innocence of her by those who heard them, he would ask, why, chalance is the only reasonable mode of existsimple childhood-had taught her to know so since she was dead, God had the cruelty to keep ence; images of the illustrious dead present much of her own soul--to love her parents with him, her husband, in life; and finally, and last of themselves, particularly those who were unfora profounder and more holy love-to see, in cha- all, he imagined himself in Grassmere Church-tunate in their earthly career; what are they racters more divine, Heaven's promises of for yard, and clasping a little mound on the green, now, with all their impassioned aims and intense giveness to every contrite heart-and a life of which it was evident he thought was her grave, studies; they float phantoms over the mirror of perfect blessedness beyond death and the grave! he wept over it for hours and hours, and kissed imagination and memory; and they, in whose A smile that shone over her face the moment it, and placed a stone at its head, and sometimes that she had been brought to know that he had all at once broke out into fits of laughter, till the path of life flowers were strewn, what are they come at last, and was nigh at hand-and that hideous fainting fits returned, and after long con- brilliant geniuses, that shed such lustre over but traditionary shadows. Where are all those never left it, while her bosom moved--no, not vulsions, left him lying as if stone dead! As for for all the three days and three nights that he con- his bodily frame, when Lucy's father lifted it up radiance, warm, joyous, and extatic, over their Paris in the days of Marmontel; who cast a tinued to sit beside the beautiful corpse, when in his arms, little heavier was it than a bundle father and mother were forgetting their cares in of withered fern. Nobody supposed that one so care-defying circles; there, not the feeblest ray sleep, that smile told all who stood around watch- miserably attenuated and ghost-like, could for of intellect, not the most sterile desire to please, ing her departure, neighbour, friend, priest, many days be alive,--yet not till the earth had were lost; they were eagerly caught and reparent, and him, the suddenly distracted and de- revolved seven times round the sun, did that body flected back as in a hundred vivid mirrors.— solate, that, in the very moment of expiration, die, and then it was buried far far away from the Was Marmontel sincere were these people she knew him well, and was recommending him Fold, the banks of Rydal water, and the sweet seducing as his gay pencil portrays-was the and his afflictions to the pity of one who died to mountains of Westmoreland; for after passing torch of friendship inextinguishable-the loves save sinners. like a shadow through many foreign lands, he of capricious youth perpetuated to frozen age?

REFLECTIONS AND TALES.

BY A LADY OF PHILADELPHIA,

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Two days and two nights, we have said, did ceased his pilgrimage in Palestine, even beneath No-in these fallacious descriptions, it is the he sit beside her, who so soon was to have been the shadow of the Mount Sion, and was laid with novelist, not the biographer, who writes. But his bride--and come or go who would into the a lock of beautiful hair, which from the place it where now are all these votaries of learning room, he saw them not--his sight was fixed on held, strangers knew to have belonged to one and the arts, above all, of the art of happinessthe winding sheet, eyeing it without a single dearly beloved--close to his heart on which it where is their pathway, their home? what tear from feet to forehead, and sometimes look- had lain so long, and was to moulder away in avails that facility, clearness, celerity, eagleing up to Heaven. As men forgotten in dun- darkness together, by a Christian hand and in eyed penetration and wit, their painful laborigeons have lived miserably long without food, so Christian sepulchre. ous route to the pinnacle of intellect? "They did he, and so he would have done, on and on to the most far off funeral day. From that one won and passed away," to the darkness and desolation of the tomb; and is it for this we chair close to the bed-side he never rose. Night| after night, when all the vale was hushed, he children of the moment refine ideas, give subWe find the following notice of a work entitled as never slept. Through one of the midnights above, in the New York American. It is now in the stance to phantoms, and labour for a precarious there had been a great thunder storm, the light course of publication in this city. possession? Impressed with these ideas, all ning smiting a cliff close to the cottage; but it the monuments of genius and industry fade inseemed that he heard it not; and during the The pages that we have seen, with some in- to insignificance all is vanity." floods of next day, to him the roaring vale was evince a good deal of thought and originality, stances of false taste, and want of judgment, «The why-the where—what boots it now to tell?” silent. On the morning of the funeral, the old people-for now they seemed to be old-wept to expressed with tenderness and vivacity. The That true but chilling text rebukes my ardour; see him sitting unconscious beside their dead following notice of Rousseau is sketched with even now it censures what I write. child-for each of the few remaining hours had spirit, and is a favourable specimen of the style now its own office, and a man had come to nail of the book:

down the coffin. Three large specks suddenly Rousseau was a being of very rare organizaalighted on the face of the corpse-and then off, tion; he himself believed that nature broke the

The following excerpts from this new publication may prove entertaining.

WIT AND HUMOUR.-Wit is abstract and refined; it resembles a delineation of Nature in

some of her eternal forms, recognised in every what an assumed contempt of France, and last of many attempts to compel him to fast. He age. Humour is more conventional; it is an proud devotion to the minutest of her customs took up the coals, blacked his face, went out, emblem of the fleeting fashions of the day. —and then the perpetual rivalries, and tasteless and lay down. At night he did not return into FRIENDSHIP.-When friendship is altoge- struggles for pre-eminence through every the lodge of his parents, but slept without. In ther an affair of taste, and founded on the basis branch of society-the author of Pelham and his dream he saw a very beautiful woman come of caprice, it resembles the craving felt for pe- Vivian Grey, has some faint glimpses of the down from above, and stand at his feet. She culiar fruits, flowers, or beautiful toys; this truth, which he announces with the tone of a said, 'Ono-wut-to-kwut-to, I am come for you; species of friendship springs from the refine- first discoverer-but surely the story of those see that you step in my tracks.' The lad obeyment of independence or the recklessness of novels is every way unnatural. ed without hesitation, and stepping carefully in

terests.

obscure poverty; the struggling aspirant for LOSING CASTE. That class of persons to her steps, he presently found himself ascending consequence finds it too unprofitable to meet whom nature has been niggardly in the gifts above the tops of the trees, through the air and his views, he requires a more solid foundation of mind or body, have always the means of beyond the clouds. His guide at length passed -but the common friendship of the world goes equalizing themselves in society; let them de-through a small round hole, and he followed her and found himself standing on a beautiful and for something, and its bonds should not for tri-scend a single step in the scale of rank, and extensive prairie. fling perfidies be severed; this error of sensi- they will be received with esteem and considbility is too common in early youth, where the eration by those below; but alas! how rare is a large and rich looking lodge; entering here, "They followed the path which led them to self-love of one party, wounded by the self-love the spirit that dictated the choice of the Roman they saw on one side pipes and war clubs, bows, and self-interest of another, recoils as though (first in a village, rather than second at arrows and spears, with various implements and appalled by discoveries hateful and horrid, and Rome;) these slighted people, who seem to be ornaments of men. At the other end of the vehemently renounces all social ties-but what fashioned in mind and person for the foils or lodge, were the things belonging to women. a dream is life without society or extended in-appendages of society, live in contented inferi- Here was the home of the beautiful girl, who ority, and regard forfeiture of caste as the only had been his companion, and she had on the LOSS OF BEAUTY.-The world affects to mortal disgrace. sticks, a belt she had not finished weaving. She commiserate the wounds of the heart, and to EGOTISM. The fanciful, the boundless ego- said to him, my brother is coming, and I must disregard those of vanity.-What a division tism of genius flows from the same obscure conceal you.' So putting him in one corner, she of ideas is here produced by two phrases, that principle that inspires the insipid garrulity of spread the belt over him. Ono-wut-to-kwut-to, are in reality synonymous. With what su- the unlettered, superannuated valetudinarian however, watched what passed without from his perficial frivolity the loss of beauty is treated who forever prates of disease. It is an inherent concealment, and saw the brother of the young by authors of great merit in other respects, and propensity, ripened to an unwonted exuberance woman come in, most splendidly dressed, and also in those gossiping conversations in actual by the prevailing fashions of the day-for how take down a pipe from the wall. After he had life which mean nothing; and yet, to the indi- little is known of the secret emotions that thrill-smoked, he laid aside his pipe and the sack convidual, how immense is that loss what conse-ed the bosoms of Pope and his contemporaries? taining his pah-koo-se-gun, and said, When, my quences it involves! Often glory, honour, re- But to the wits of the present era a Boswell sister, will you cease from these practices? Have spect, consideration, esteem, power, love, ex- were a superfluous appendage-the moralist you forgotten the greatest of Spirits has forbidden you to steal the children from below? You tinction of influence, either for good or evil; it will perhaps derive new lights from this universtrikes at all the moral part of being, and if sal confidence. suppose that you have concealed this that you have now brought, but do I not know that he is

these are not wounds of the heart, what are? A CHARACTER. The contour of his head here in the lodge? If you would not incur my Circumstances or disposition sometimes render and face was intellectual and majestic, and his displeasure, you must send him immediately down beauty a thing indifferent to its possessor; but features handsome, though not perhaps symme- to his friends.' But she would not. He then often it is so identified with being, as to make trically regular, wore a look of penetration and said to the boy, when he found that his sister was the destiny of the individual; and its destruction sensibility that could never be mistaken; yet determined not to dismiss him, 'You may as well unhinges the whole order of life, bringing more there was a shade over their meaning, and the so- come out from that place, where you are not piercing ills to the heart of sensibility, than phisticated eye of society might have deemed concealed from me, and walk about, for you will perfidy, calumny, or even penury. his history too intensely written there. In those be lonesome and hungry if you remain there.'

every day, he was absent, and returned in the evening; his wife, also, though not so regular in the time of her departure and return, was often absent great part of the night.

FRENCH WOMEN are gifted with so redun- countenances where benevolence is strongly He took down a bow and arrow, and a pipe of dant a share of genius and energy, that in them conspicuous, there is usually an accompanying red stone, richly ornamented, to give him. So common sentiments become passions: of this na- look of imbecility. I have noticed this effect in the the boy came out from under the belt, and amuture was Du Deffand's friendship for Walpole, portraits of philanthropists and saints, whether sed himself with the bow and pipe the man gave and the love of De Sevigne for her daughter. sketched from nature or imagination-but his him, and he became the husband of the young For nearly two centuries France was embellish- was at once benign and intellectual. His po- woman who had brought him up from the woods ed by a succession of resplendent women; their liteness was invincible--it resembled inspiration, near his father's lodge. "He went abroad in the open prairie, but in decay was, indeed, "impregnate with divinity," and had its source in the heart-there it emawhich shone with great lustre as life's frail ta-nated, and from the most rare and amiable of all this fair and ample country, he found no inhaper waned; their youth was crowned with wit weaknesses,-tenderness for the feelings of bitants, except his wife and her brother. The and gayety-their age consoled by devotion, others, and boundless indulgence towards hu- plains were adorned with flowers, and garnished or philosophy, brilliant recollections, and above man frailty. He commented on life and its va-mals were not like those he had been accustomwith bright and sparkling streams, but the aniall, by the early acquired habit of happiness; rieties as on a drama too hacknied to elicit se-ed to see. Night followed day, as on the earth, the friendships of youth were retained and ma- verity of criticism; and the charm of his address but with the first appearance of light, the brotured by these amiable old people, and youth arose from the delicate flattery of manner rather ther-in-law of Ono-wut-to-kwut-to began to make sought admittance to their venerable coteries than phrase,-enforced by the tones of a voice preparations to leave the lodge. All day, and as to the repositories of the wit and grace of exquisitely modulated. other days. In our land, old people have no influence over sentiment or fashion; custom AN INDIAN TRADITION. prescribes to them a dull, cloistered, monoto- Au-do-me-ne, an intelligent Ottowwaw of nous life, which withers the mind ere the frame Wawgunukizze, in answer to my inquiries conloses its vigour; there exists no good without cerning their opinion of the sun and moon, re-all the time of their absence, and he obtained its attendant evil, and our happy government, lated to me the following fable: from his brother-in-law permission to accompany which ensures to youthful industry the certain- "Long ago, an old Ojibbeway chief and his him in one of his daily journeys. They went on ty of independence, re-acts on age in the form wife, who lived on the shore of Lake Huron, in a smooth and open path, through prairies, to of cold neglect or reluctant obedience. had one son, a beautiful boy. His name was which they could see no boundary, until OnoENGLISH SOCIETY.-What unimaginable Ono-wut-to-kwut-to, (he that catches clouds) wut-to-kwut-to, becoming hungry, asked his aristocrats the English are! they firmly believe and his totem, (family name) after that of his companion if he did not think he should find that all their plebeians come hideous from the He would have been a great any game. father, a beaver. 'Be patient, my brother,' said he, favourite with them, for he was, in the main, af- this is my road in which I walk every day, and hands of nature; then the solemn frivolity of fectionate and dutiful, except that they could at no great distance is the place where I contheir distinctions, and the solemn pedantry with which they are displayed; would not the him charcoal, instead of his usual breakfast, he you shall see how I am supplied with food.' never persuade him to fast. Though they gave stantly eat my dinner. When we arrive there stoic laugh to read that the use of the fork in would never blacken his face, and if he could They came at length to a place where were eating, and the disuse of cheese, are deemed find fish-eggs, or the head of a fish, he would many fine mats to sit down upon, and a hole the surest tests not only of gentility, but of all roast them, and have something to eat. Once through which to look down upon the earth. the finest qualities, and this from authors of they took from him what he had thus cooked in Ono-wut-to-kwut-to, at the bidding of his comlearning and reputation. What exquisite spe- place of his accustomed breakfast, and threw panion, looked down through this hole, and saw cimens in their Tremaines and De Lisles-him some coals instead of it. But this was the far beneath him the great lakes, and the villages,

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LICKING MOLASSES.-A rustic of very sin-| not of the Ojibbeways only, but of all the red| skins. In one place he saw a party, stealing gular ambition, wished to be a king, that he silently along toward the hunting camp of their might do nothing all day, but "lick "lasses and enemies, and his companion told him what would swing on a gate." If licking molasses were to be result of the attack they were about to make. be taken as a proof of royalty, kings and queens In another place he saw people feasting and may be seen on our wharves as thick as flies dancing; young men were engaged in their on a summer's day-children, from three to sports, and here and there women were labour ten years of age, each armed with a straw or ing at their accustomed avocations. small stick, which is inserted through the bungThe companion of Ono-wut-to-kwut-to call-hole of the molasses hogsheads into the tempted his attention to a group of children playing beside a lodge. Do you see,' said he, that ng sweet, drawn up, licked of its contents, A part of each active and beautiful boy? at the same time again inserted, and so on. throwing a very small stone, which hit the child, draught, in discharging into the mouth, is lodged on the face, until the filching sprigs of roywho immediately fell to the ground, and presently they saw him carried into the lodge. alty are daubed from ear to ear. But these little bipeds are not the only creaThen they saw people running about, and heard that she-she-gwun, and the song and tures whose ambition leads to the licking of prayer of the medicine man, entreating that the molasses. We saw a drayman's horse the other child's life might be spared. To this request day, which seemed to be infected with the same his companion made answer, send me up the desire for sweets. He had made good his posiwhite dog.' Then they could distinguish the tion, beside a hogshead, the contents of which hurry and bustle of preparation for a feast, a were overflowing by reason of the heat, or white dog killed and singed, and the people, the agitation of unlading-and there he stood, who were called, assembling at the lodge. industriously licking molasses, and smacking While these things were passing, he addressed his lips, as happy as the sweetest toothed biped himself to Ono-wut-to-kwut-to, saying, 'There on the wharf. are among you in the lower world, some whom you call great medicine men; but it is because their ears are open, and they hear my voice, when I have struck any one, that they are able to give relief to the sick. They direct the people to send me whatever I call for, and when they have sent it, I remove my hand from those I had made sick.' When he had said this, the white dog was parcelled out in dishes, for those that were at the feast, then the medicine man, when they were about to begin to eat, said, 'We send thee this, Great Monito;' and immediately they saw the dog, cooked, and ready to be eaten, rising to them through the air. After they had dined, they returned home by another path.

SELECT POETRY.

THE WATER-SPOUT.
FROM FALCONER'S SHIPWRECK.
Tall Ida's summit now more distant grew,
And Jove's high hill was rising on the view;
When, from the left approaching, they descry
A liquid column towering shoot on high:
The foaming base an angry whirlwind sweeps,
Where curling billows rouse the fearful deeps.
Still round and round the fluid vortex flies,
Scattering dun night and horror thro' the skies.
The swift volution and th' enormous train
Let sages vers'd in nature's lore explain!
The horrid apparition still draws nigh,
And white with foam the whirling surges fly!-
The guns were prim'd; the vessel norward veers,
Till her black battery on the column bears.
The nitre fir'd; and while the dreadful sound,
Convulsive, shook the slumbering air around,
The wat'ry volume, trembling to the sky,
Burst down a dreadful deluge from on high!
Th' affrighted surge, recoiling as it fell,
Rolling in hills disclos'd th' abyss of hell.
But soon, this transient undulation o'er,
The sea subsides; the whirlwinds rage no more.

THE EXILE.—BY J. G. WHITTIER.

"In this manner they lived for some time, but Ono-wut-to-kwut-to had not forgotten his friends, and the many pleasant things he had left in his father's village, and he longed to return to the earth. At last his wife consented to his request. 'Since,' said she, 'you are better pleased with the poverty, the cares, and the miseries of the world beneath, than with the peaceful and permanent delights of these prairies, go. I give you permission to depart; not only so, but since I brought you hither, I shall carry you back to the place where I found you, near your father's lodge, but remember, you are still my husband, and that my power over you is in no manner diminished. You may return to your relatives, and live to the common age of man, by observ-Death ing what I now say to you. Beware how you venture to take a wife among men. Whenever you do, you shall feel my displeasure; and if you marry a second time, it is then you shall be called to return to me.'

"Then Ono-wut-to-kwut-to awoke, and found himself on the ground, near the door of his father's lodge. Instead of the bright beings of his vision, he saw about him his aged mother, and his relatives, who told him he had been absent about a year. For some time he was serious and abstracted; but, by degrees, the impression of his visit to the upper world wore off. He began to doubt of the reality of what he had heard and seen. At length, forgetful of the admonitions of his spouse, he married a beautiful young woman of his own tribe. Four days afterwards she was a corpse. But even the effect of this fearful admonition was not permanent. He again ventured to marry, and soon afterwards, going out of his lodge one night, to listen to some unusual noise, he disappeared, to return no more. It was believed that his wife from the upper world came to recall him, according to her threat, and that he still remains in those upper regions, and has taken the place of his brotherin-law, in overlooking the affairs of men."

He died upon a sunny isle,

That lifts above the Indian sea,
Its verdant face to catch the smile
Of sunshine, radiantly;-
The land of sun and fever, where
lingers on the breathing air,
Where every grove is beautiful
With fruit and flower which time must cull,
Where through the green veranda's walls
The chastened light of summer falls;
And every breeze which steals along

The melting waves and blossomed bowers,
Is musical with nature's song,

And fragrant with the breath of flowers!
He came for gold-for yellow gold-
His dreams were full of wealth untold;
Of stately barks that hailed to him;
Of gorgeous halls and grottoes dim;
Of streams rejoicing in the shade,
By bower and trelliced arbour made;
Of smiling servants gathered near
In grateful love but not in fear;
And more than these-his own loved one-
With her white brow and soft dark eyes,
Fair as the new-born flower, whereon
Never hath looked the noon-day sun,
An Houri in his Paradise!-

Yet his was not a sordid heart,
He did not love the merchant's mart,
His finer soul revolted when
He mingled thus with selfish men.
Yet long and wearily he bore

The burthen of incessant care-
Unfriended, on a stranger shore,
While Hope still hovered dimly o'er

One object which he valued more
Than all the wealth he gathered there-
The loved one in his native land
More dear than gems of Sarmacand.
And he had wealth-the wealth of gold-
But oh-it came too late for him-
The sunken cheek the eye grown dim,
The price of its acquirement told.
The fever of that fatal isle

Cours'd madly in each burning vein-
And Death came o'er his spirit, while
Delirium revelled on his brain.

Yet in his ravings there was heard
With many a wild and dream-like word,
The whisper of his loved one's name,
So soft and full of earnestness-

It seemed as if that dear one came
The pillow of his fate to bless,—
A visiting of spirit-even

As angel-ministers may come
Down from the crystal walls of heaven

To sooth us in our darkened home!

He dies; and there they buried him
Where bowers of tropic loveliness,
With bloom and perfume cast their dim,
Still shadows on his resting-place!
There bent no parent o'er his bier-
No sister, pale and beautiful,
To deck his grave, and drop a tear
For every flower her hand might cull.
And who is she-the loved and young!
Moveth her step as buoyant now?
Does music melt upon her tongue,

And sunshine tremble on her brow?
There is a green and pleasant grave,
In Carolina's sultry air-
The funeral flowers around it wave,
The loved and beautiful is there!
Ask of her father-why he sits

So lonely in his gorgeous hall,
So still and sad, yet wild by fits?

And wherefore does he vainly call
His lost and buried child o'er whom,
The funeral flowers in freshness bloom
As if the mocking voice which comes
In echoes from the darkened rooms,

And from the cold and empty wall,
Were like the soft rich voice of her,
Whose dwelling is the sepulchre?

Old man!―thy own stern pride hath brought
This misery on thy later years,
Thy own perverted feelings wrought

The curse that turn'd thy life to tears-
The pride of wealth-the pride of birth,
Vain phantoms-light as idle breath-
They drove thy daughter's lover forth,

And gave thy lovely one to Death!
Alas! that gold hath power to burst
The strongest ties of human trust,-
To bind the glowing wing of Love
To earth, it fain would soar above,-
And poison all that God hath given,
In earnest of the joys of Heaven!

MARRIED,

At Baltimore, on Tuesday morning, by the Rev. Mr. Nevins, the Rev. SAMUEL G. WINCHESTER, of Philadelphia, to Miss GRACE, youngest daughter of Alexander Mactier, Esq. of Philadelphia.

On Thursday evening, 10th inst. by William Milnor, Mayor, GEORGE GOODMAN, to HESTER ZANE daughter of Jesse Zane, all of this city.

On Thursday evening, June 10th, by the Rev. J. Abercrombie, D. D. Mr. DAVID HILL, to Miss ELIZABETH, daughter of Mr. Thomas Desilver, of this city.

At Alexandria, on Thursday evening, by the Rev. Mr. Reese, Mr. PETER HUNTER, of Philadelphia, to Miss JULIA ANN DENEAL, of Alexandria.

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