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I ----- I. $2< PET? ANNUM CHAINED TO NO PARTY'S iffisSS WE CUSAVE TO TRUTH. WHERE'ER I XT \ TW A \Tpl7 ?U?W? m. Xvilfc I^xYA. N ARBITRARY SW\Y r^nhh^mOS^ SHE LEADS THE WAY." 1 i> l\ 1 9 V i\lNVvll< \ , I ______ NEUTRAL IN POLITICS?DENTED TO LITERARY, COMMERCIAL AGRICCLTBRAL, SCIENTIFIC, GENERAL AND LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. VOLUME II. LANCASTER, C. II., S0UT1I CAROLINA WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 26.1853. NI1 Mil Ell 38 ^ * * | too freolv. would :it nnoo 1w? ho- I for? to 1?? ? = 1 * ma vl'ujjuii WRITTEN EXPRESSLY FOR T TOT T A ^ clnJu laflu J oi TBI W'lftD BY MRS. Fi.a* from llie bright and sparkling bowl, Throw fur the tempter from tliv hana, Its touch leaves but the foul plague spot, T hat sweeps its millions from our land, The foul destroyer walks the earth, From east to west, front pole to pole ; All countries grant him leave to slay, Their subjects with the mafnlng bowl, Wars deveataling sword nt ty lay, * Its hundreds o'er tho battle-fields : But what is this to thus* who fall, By tho keou blade intenioeran.'*. wi?M Almost two years had passed away since.Louisa lienson had become the wife of young Ilenly ; a little boy, but a few months old act on her knee ;? need I say she was happy?as she caress- J ed anil kissed the little dimpled cheek that was turned up to her ; though he slept, a smile ever and anon played around the mouth, particularly when the lips of the mother gently touched his cheek, that ] might well make one believe in the old Irish trudition, of children seeing ami con- ( versing with angels, when they smiled in ( their sleep. Tile table was neatly spread for supper, , which had evidently been waiting some- ( time. Mrs. Ilenly at length arose, and laying down the babe, walked to the street window to watch for Mr. Ilenly, but her vigila were not long, in a few moments a step was heard on the pavement, and Joseph Ilualy with a light heart and a lighter Step, atinooS LunnrWt tlirrtiluh lh? sage. "Don't scold, Louisa !" I hare bsen de taincd late ; but lot me sit down to supper. I will tall you something ; a new society is about to be foi tiled in our town?but first a kiss from little Joe, and the hanpy young father bent over his boy, proud as a king of his treasure. 'Now, Joseph, tell me al>out the society ; said Mrs. Ilenly, rather seriously;?"I hope it is nothing that will detain rou from home. You can't think how lonely 1 have been to-night, it is the first time since our mat rings that you have bean out so late without inc. "I plead guilty, Louisa, but we were nil detained rather late to-night at the counting house; the firm has done a fine business to-day, and by the by, I will hnve to go back to night, to finish packing soma goods, and assist in making out the bills. "Hut the society, Joseph !" "Ah! curiosity !?well it is nothing more nor less than the establishment of a Lodge, by the Sons of Temperance. Two of the clerks in the store intend joining tomorrow night, and they were persuading me to become a member also. Of course I thought it right to consult with you about it, before promising, and have your opinion about the use of such a society." "Indeed, Jo?epli, I see no use in any auch societies, except for diuukards ; you J?:?1_ - - J 1 1 r uniiK, ana i wouiu consider it an inault for a parson to ask tne to join any such a society." 'Louisa, youtnistakn the intention of the 8ociety. At least fifty member* will go in to-morrow eight, and not one of them drinks ; the head of our establishment in tends joining." M That is no reason that you should join," persisted Mrs. ilenly ; " it will only , draw you from home, and do no good. 1 j ai??ei heard of such &>lly, as a parcel of j sober inen joining the 8oos of Temper *Mce. Why do you not get up societies ! Ao prevent stealing, and other vice*, for : /ear some day you will all become thieve*?*' "iincjuiao the law lays its hands on the perpetrator* of other crime*, all but the ?riine of druukcnucss." *Mr. F the gentleman who Itaa wrisitod our town for the purjKme of eetaLdish no the \jx\<ro wmIim first to wt not 0 0-f ~~~ B" *"t oply sober men, but lh? most influential men of the place, to take bold of the teinjMrtnts movement; it would be useless <4o attempt forming a society out of the -drunken and ouleast aloiie. Indeed Louisa, you have no conception, and no female can form an idea of the amount af misery, in n large towu that is bronght on by intemperance.. "it ia strange, Joseph, tbat yon never Ubought of tbk before. Mr. F ? lias pre irhed you all crazy, the thing can do ?H> good, and 1 do not wish yeu -to join ; though 1 will not oppose you, if you wish | , to do ao, if you drank I would then think "Then Louisa. 1 will net join ; you ahways hare desisted from doing anything at my slightest Wish, and surely I ought -to do the stuns." r 11m heart of Mrs.Uealy aosoinher ; she eegretted oupoeing her husband, lie was so JMod, hut she bed spoken what she really iu ?>mn{. HE "LANCASTER LEDGER." r PLEDGE, Mfi IMS. C. LAPP. thought?the Society was a new tiling in the place?she knew nothing of its Items fieial effects, and therefore did not wish to lose the company of her husband one. or porhRjw two urening* iu a week, for the mere hope of reforming a parcel of drunken men, that neither slio nor her husband knew anything about. Of course a man could drink if lie pleased, and could ?in the mind of Mrs. llenly?as easily let it alone?therefore, a society of sober men could h ive no effect upon those who wished to drink. Mr. llenly had, when lie first returned home, really wished to join, merely to lend ill. ihrili..". .1 .1 * ... ? ........1.11.3 iu 4in- c?usc ; mai ue woul.l ever drink or that the Society would ever bo any restraint on himself was never thought of. Ho hail laughed at the verv idea, when it was advanced by one of the young men w ho had been pursuading liiin lo join. llenly ami George Bennett had entered the counting house of Messrs. Mount ?fc Go. t< >gethcr ; they had been as brother*. ' and llenly, for the lint time?the day after thoconversation with hie wife?avoid- ! ed being alone with Bennett, flu felt how i hard it was to refuse so simple a request | from his earlv frigid. v Bennett waa not to be avoided. As the door closed, he called Ilenly, saying : 1 "You go with uv to-night, of course ?" | "I believe not, Bennett ; in fact it is of ? ?....? .lri.,1- <>iul mr intluenee ! cannot avad much. Your influence can don great deal, Ilcnly : I do not urge you on your own account, yet you, as w?ll aa myself, are in I the habit of taking a glass with your ' fri?nd?, and I am well pursuulcd it is a growing evil." "I do not dispute that, Bennett, but | surely a man can drink or not drink, as he pleases. I moan one who only drinks , as we do, occasionally a glass of wine. 1 j admit, the habitual drunkard should have j some restiaint upon him, and even then, ' unless the man lias a nice sense of honor, i the pledge would be but little restraint or. i him." "Well, llenly, I hope you may nover think otherwise. You have a wife, and the charms of home may keep you Iroin mingling with those, who might, perhaps, induce you to taste loo freely of the winocup. 1 have no homo but the hotel. " That is no one's fiu't but your own ; why, half the girls in town would have you. if you would give them half a chance.'" Thank you, llenly, for your good opinion, could 1 think so, I would try some of thcin, but the fear of a refusal w ill surely add me to the bachelor's list." And thus the friends parted. Time passed on, nnd brought but little change to Hetdy, in the eyes of the world; but the eyes of love could mark tbat change, that wu likely to bring sorrow to a then happy home. Louisa could ace that her husband was indulging too freely in tho wine cup?and once or twice he had returned home suftiiient'y under the influence of liquor, to make the wife and mother dread the future. Mrs. llculy now mentally wished that she had urged, instead of opposing hi* joining the Sons of Temperance ; but who could hare foreseen such an i?aue.? She foil siio was (oU?lD?^?J resolr- d, in as gentle a inaunor as possible, to ptirsuudo her husband to become a member of the Sons of Temperance. Hut how was she to do this, without exciting in the mind of her liUMhaiid, a suspicion of her fears.? This for some days kept her silent, but the accidental mention of Bennett's name at the breakfast table, in connection with the Society, was too good an opportunily to lose. M By the by,w said Mrs. Ilenly to her husband, in as careless a manner as she could IMUID6?"how comes on the Society ? I think I would like jrou to join. I believe all the clerk* in the establishment belong to it, except youraelf, to do tell Mr. Bennett you will make on* of the number.M Lienly gated a moinaut in the (ace of hie wife? "You have changed, Louisa, I would have joined once, but will not now and rising from an almost untested breakfast, he left the house. He was out of humor. With a glance he had read the thought* and fears of his wife, but lo?e for the iatoxleatiag bowl,? was rapWtly acquiring an ascendancy over hits. The voice of the tempter whispered to him that he could refrain if he pleased, but to go now and join the Society when is friends knew he waa in the habit oi ktiowlcdging that lio had no*, moral courage sufficient to restrain himself, and nced! cd the trammel* of the pledge, to bind him to his new-born resolution, for ho had made a firm resolve in his mind, as he | wended his way to the store, not to touch the wine cup again ; then in two or three ! months, or after his friends had seen that j he had firmness of character sufficient to restrain himself, he would join the Society, but not till then, Thus was the voice of the teirptcr listened to, calling all the false pride in the nature of man to his aid, that he might wreck, eventually, and bring to ruin the noblest work of God. It is useless to follow the downfall ol mail, or mark his course from virtue to i vice, in some cases the descent is rapid,? I hut generally it is almost by inipereoptaj blu degrees. The first step has been | made from the lop of the hill, every step \ but accelerates his motion, and ere he bej comes conscious ol his danger, that motion has increased beyond bis power of stopping. How seldom does man stop halfj way in his career of vice ; never, till the | bottom of tho hill is reached, will he attempt to look bavk, or strive to ascend to I ine pointtront which lie l>n<l fallen. Fight yc?r* lia?l flown away since the commencement of our narrative, and Hcnly was discharged from the tirm thai lie had beun employed in from a boy. lie had staggered the streets, and shame was gone. lie considered himself an injured man, and llung back in defianec, all words of warning and remonstrance from the few friends he had left. Debts accumulated ?sunshine friends deserted?and Hcnly, the once happy and respected man, was a common drunkard. Fortunately, they hud hut two children, the youngest a fairhnired girl of but thrco summers. The wretched mother saw nothing before her but hopeless misery, Hcnly would not ask for employment, for fear he might he again refused, and the man who could he Reen nightly in the lowest haunts where the stimulating poison could l>e obtained, talked of his pride, and a determination not to stoop to solicit employment. Sometimes the better feelings of Mr. Henly's nature were aroused?then but for that false pride, w hich so often urwouia'/.a'W^g^ friend, Dennett?acknowledged his weakness and irresolution, and with his aid tryto regain the confidence of his early associates. His resolutions were of too short a duration to he even put into effect ; and finally, believing he could he belter if away, lie sold the little that was loft, and with his uncomplaining wife and two children, lie left his native city, for the bustling and busv metropolis of our Southern world. A wretched hovel in the outskirts of the city,soon became the liotne of Louisa Hen I ly and her children?matters became worse and worse?Mr. Hcnly noon gave ' up, as d'lHcultiosbegan to increase. M>-*. | ileuty being an utter stranger, knew not ! where to apply for work?day alter day j the little money they bad was rapidly decreasing. Whole days, and sometimes i half the nights were sjicnt in the low I haunts of that noted city; every noble and .i.~ i ..r ia?i? - I 111*1111 v iv;*r11111^ ill IIIU uiVim ui AAUIIiy OCUlll| ed dead?he was desperate. The look of I wretchedness, but uncomplaining agony on tho face of his wife, the wasted and mca1 gre forms of his once beautiful and joyous children were unheeded?he was dcapu rate. Their scanty store of furniture was pawned, and even the most of that found its way to the retailer of the scourge ol our land. Henly had left his home with the last remaining article,except the scanty clothes wrapped around them ; he piomised to buy food?not a crust was in the hovel, but the night wore on?lie came not ;? then the day went slowly by, (or time flies rapid only with the gay and light of heart. The piteous and plaintive api>eal of her boy and girl for bread fell ou her car like the knell of the doomed. The shades of night had began to wrap a!! nature in it* gloom?still Ilenlv came not. For near two hours she had sat like one parylized. Her children had crouched down on a little straw, and wept themselves to sleep. Must they starve I must she again hear their appeals for bread I? The thought was madness. She sprang to her feet?while they slept aha would beg?ves hog ! She could not see hei children perish with hunger?their fathei had left them to starve. Who can teli the agony of that moment t who that has not known or seen it, can tell tha utter wretchcdneaa and miacrv endured bv the wife ol the drunkard. Vea, that fntlior had left them to starve?that father, who before he had given himself up to th? demon ol intemperance, would have sacrificed hit life for the little beings who were in real ity starving; that he might indulge hit insatiate appetite. With a bound hire. Henly sprang U the door. If there was a heart iu the citj alive to the voice of suffering, she wouk be heard, bread she must have, no mat i ter how lowly she implicated for the scan i ty pittance of charity. As she opened the door, Henly reachet > it. He was sober, for be had not anothe I cent left to purchase a drop of theliqtth , Are. There was a haggard look ea bfc t 1km ; with returning reaeou he remember r ed that ha had left home the night be - - j- ?. w ?v-Mi mv vaiuj^ \T,'|S , I) pnwntd?tlio money gone end no food. n He began to feel tlio rapid gnawing* of \< hunger?mechanically he turned his steps h hontoward. lie w?: sober, reader, yes, tl sober, and thoughts were busy. e< lie their natural protector had loft them I to perish, but he did not mean it?no, ho U , \ only intended to take one drink-M-os, one si i drink only; then purchase fool and re- w turn, that first drink was all his coufusod n : brain could remember. Tlio right was iv II gone?so was the small sum ho had re- ti ceivod, credit ho had none, aid after tl wondering some hours about?h? gather- : In ed courage enough to seek thosi he had tr so cruelly neglected. He had laltcd at fa i the threshold to listen if he ctnld hear : what was passing within, when the dour sj ! was opened l?v hit almost frante wife. c "Honly, my husband:?tliankiiod you w i) have come; say, say have yoi brought; h I tliom bread??they are starvng. Mv si | children have not ta*t?d food aiico yes- ; r< j terduy at noon I am not hungry!?misery | I has taken away tlio cravings ol| nature, li I uuiuu not^ici liieiu starve'?Slictould any | S no more. The horror of that hour, who)cau por- I w tray ? the full title of their wrejehedusss ' ol swept over him, 't camo like the' mighty j rush of the cataract?he was bowtd to the i c: earth, crushed ami humbled?he could w I not speak, the pleading and wild look <>f v his wife was upon hiio, he was Oo add to V his other sins a murderer, they were < ly- | fr ing, dying for food, and lie had done the b deed. T Do not curse mo Louisa, was all ke b could utter as he sank by her side. n "Never." She murmured "but my tl brain is almost on fire?save them if you jc can?then a sudden thought sprang in cs her mind?"yes, we can get relief for this w one night?my ring, my wedding ring? a 'tis heavy?here she exclaimed, drawing ?< it from her finfier?quick ere they awake" t< ?another moan?another cry for broad, v "Oh my husband will drive me mad. She si saw llenly was cool and felt she could c' trust him. t! llenly moved not 'till tho ring was a second time with eagerness extended. "Never Louisa, never will 1 part with tho last link that acquis to bind me to you. I will bog to night and P*r. k look so hard on TiW. Mt wile this a time I will not deceive you, ouo long hour at farthest I will return with relief." Ho s rushed from tho door and tho miserable d wife did not bear tho concluding worJss, t "or never return." v llenly rather flew than walked 'till he tl rcachod the. more crowded parts of the b city ; lis bad formed no definite purpose 'till h the broad glare of lights streaming from the St. Charles Hotel?roused him to the ^ full horrors of his situation. The suppii- i a eating look of his wife was before him.? 'i The erics of his children and the wor4 n "food" seemed to be re-echoed around I him by ten thousand voices. Ii A group of gentlemen arc at the door, k He must beg?yes, Joseph llenly was a i beggar, lie approashed thein?one face t | ...... VAI..A iirrAitn.1 I.ia o ...... . ...... .?.v.. ... .......... ...o .MWHUUH mill j a I a wild stream of joy, lie sprang past the t . astonished group. "Bennett" he exclaim- ' I ed, his feelings had lieeu wrought to the 1 | highest pitch. The sight of his ea-ly and ' I long tried friend, brought a relaxation ? j he could say no more, but sank exhausted j c on the pavement. Bennett had recognised in die squalled I I and almost ragged man, the featurnes of 1 llenly. Aid was i nmediately procured ! and he was conveyed to Mr. Bennett's ! r room. As soon as the exhaustod Henly could > i s|>eak, he insdo known his situation. One , year and a half only had elapsed since ho i had started from the home of his youth, t but that had been fraught with enough c of misery to his family, to hare served for a long life lime. a One hour had elapsed?noarly two? c 110 hope?no aid. Why hud she thought ' so?death would hare been a relief? , death in any form. I lor children were i i mowing?wild thoughts rushed through i her brain, she had ceased to pray. Death, ' death was it a dreamless sleep?if so how j happy?her hands were pressed before , her eyes, as if to shut the horrid images I that fancy scorned to lend shape to?hut, hark, the awful stillness is broken, it is the sound of wheels?faster and nearer it cornea?it stop*?Bennett and Ilenly :ir? there?sho saw all, and the husband re\ ceived the form of his wife in his arms. , She greeted him with no sinilea?but the wild hysterical laugh that escaped from f her as she sank exhausted, showed that . the mental agony sho had endured for i the past two hours, had been too much f for her exhausted frame. i The family was immediately conveyed to the Hotel, for matyi days Mrs. ilenly i hoverod between litiPlnd death, a brain fever had succeeded, and then in her pile- < > ous appeals, the husband found out how r much more she had endured than even I he bad dreamed of, or could imagine. Four years have passed since that eventful night, and reader where is Joseph Ilenly?follow me to the counting ) mom of Mount A t;o., there at his old r desk i? Henlv. True be looks somewhat ! older than his years would indicate, for I the gray hairs begins to fleam among ? on<? black and ahiuing locks ; but he is + happy--bis old home has been purchased <* '? acK, niul the happy face of Uncle Hei ett as the children call him, help to en r?n the cheerful fire side ; he boards wil is friend llcnly, and lik?lv no to dr tough an old bachelor, 110 kinder hea iuld bo found throughout the vast city "Tie smiles of olden times have returiu > the face of Louis* Ilenlv, if it were po ble to greet her husband with a warnn eleome than we commonly meet on h turn lioine, it it when he came from tl leeting of the Division, with the, gla ding* that another has been added t ieir list; another father or brother In ecn drawn from the foul days of pollutic > gladden the hearts of Ids sorrowin itnily. Joseph Ilenly is one of the most coi licious members of that noble Societ rer seeking to reclaim the outcast, an hen despair has seized its victim an ope lied?then lie relates his own stoi lowing fully that it is never too late t storm." "Ah !" said Mrs. Ilenly, one evening 1 er loved and kind Pastor, 4 do join t! ons of Temperance ?" "Am I not a member of the cburcl liv should I seek to become a inembi f a 111010 inferior Society." "True my dear sir?but, because yo in, and have entered the Holy o! Holin ouhl you scorn to be seen, in any of tl rstibules leading to that sacred place.011 would not now pick up the drunkai 0111 the streets and usher him into tli cAMiiiiu i;?uvrii?cn? 01 v#ou ino. oliurc ho Sons of Temperance must first tal ini up, they cnn try him and if ono ren ant of the noble nature of man is lefticy will arouse it, then you have a su >et to listen to your voice, when it preael i of redemption through a saviour. () ould that you could look upon it as I <1 nd view tho society in the light that ;e it; as a lowly but beautiful hand-mai > the church of God. It is tho gro; estibule through which the inebria lould pass, before he lifts his voice < Inims membership in the greatsanctuar he church of God." A Cute Yaakee. Tiik following good ono is published hteS "lVivlvtK.'\vj"X?'K of. lljiruer's Mag igns himself "Tiuimins." Among our passengers coming lion aid lie, was Mr. II ,not long ago loputy collector in our port, at tho en omhousc; a most entertaining genilenia rho has no idea that lis is telling an liing, amusing, until he is reminded of y the loud laughter of everybody abo lim. When I was Deputy Collector in Nc fork, says he, I was sitting in my otli< lie hot afternoon, when a long, alabside 'ankee-looking fellow came in with a kii f guilty look, his hat dangling in h land, his head hanging on one side, at lis eyes cast down, but with a curiot and of a smile, too, as I thought, sues ng fitfully across his face. He stood I he door for a minute, twirling his lif md seeming to be afraid to come fuwai o where I was sitting. "Well, sir, "I asked, "what is wanted "Ho you .Mr. II ?"said be. "Yes, Mr. II is my name." "Yes; but be you the Deputy Collect >f New York State?" I answered that I was tlio Deputy Ci ector of the Customes of the city of No fork. "Adzactly," says he?"yeas; the ve nan I want to see." lie hesitated again, and twirled his h nore rapidly tl an ever. "What is your business with me? sta t," said I rather sharply. "My time oo valuable to bo waited in useless tal >r delav." "Yes," said he; "'dzaetly so. Well j< oo, I've got into a loetle trouble; and ome to see if you couldn't help ine out ittle." He fingered hie hat again, and I grc inpatient and nenrouit. "Go on," said I, "and get through.H'Aut in your trouble! and how can 1 he rou? or wh?t have I got to do with il "Well," he went on, "I was down lAvana the other day, and being fond >mokin' I bought a few cigars for inv ov ise; and when wc got back to 'York, lidn't know that there would be ai iurt in bringing a few; but as a man w bringing on em up llroad street, they w irrestcd?'for dewtiea,' the man said Jew tie*,' and he said they muit all brfeited, or 'confiscated, and that I con jot have none ou 'em?none on'etn,' I taid, unless I could git cm entered. \nd he told ine I couldn't get none em entered until you had givo permit*i ind that he rat .or thought you wouldi io it, dewty or no dewtjr. I was struck with his simplicity?1 /rtenriett I thought at the time?ai was disposed to overlook what might ha U- ll? : UW11 All AVtUIIIIJl. At ?IIlU??IIIIg, 111 CUUB eration of the fact, that after all it ? probably pure ignorance. So I Mid: ''As you seem to bava be igrorant of the revenue laws, I will eni your cigars, and you can have them up the payment of the duty. IIow ma had youf1 "Twenty thousand on 'em!" "Twenty thousand cigars for your o utef This alters the case entirely." i- ell not 'dzactly for mv own use, but li- I war.ted sonic for my friends to smoke, Lli tew. That's all." >; "Well, sir, on payment of the duty, the rt cigars may be taken away." ." "Dewty! not arter they're ,fn<erW,' d there ain't no dcwty, is there? That's s- what the man said that took them oil the er cart." is I explained to him that the cigars must ic pay a duty, and that it was a great favor ,d to himself to be permitted to take them to awav at all. is "Well," he said, putting on his hat, and m holding the door ajar, "I hain't got no g money to pay dewties; hut I'll go up town up to street, to see a friend of mine, ri- and maybe he 11 take'em out. Good-ary, ternoon!" ul The next day, ju?t as I was about id leaving my desk, t!ic Yankee "operator" y came in, bringing with him a dark, Spanto ish-looking person. "I've come to get them cigars," said lie to "that was arrested for dewties. My ic [ friend, here, will pnv the dewties.*' Tim necessany ]?rf!in;iri?s were gone li, through with, and the cigars were taken . r away. Early on tho'morning of the next day, u as I was sitting at my desk, 1 felt a faint s, tap on my shoulder; and looking up, who ic should I see hut my Yankee customer ? standing over me! rd 441 low de du to-ff<i>vJ,,said he. at "1 am <juite well thank you! hut what h. do you want of me mom*? ce "Nothih'," said he?"nothin'?out a- done!" ? And he gave a wink and leer that none h- but just such a Yankee as himself Con Id li* g'V?. h! 44Wo did that thing wj> handsome, did' nt o, we ?" said ho. 1 44 What thing !" I asked. id "Why, them cigars," said he. 44Thc\j it was'nt Cnha cigars; them cigars was te made in Connecticut! I got a factory there ur myself,, and 1 had them 44took up," on y, suspicion. Hut folks," he added, "will like 'em just as well as the choicest Ila v aim as. Fact is there's a good dea! ol deception practiced about cigars!" 1 showed the impudent, destaging un in scrupulous follow the door, and lie won! a- out winking and laughing. 44 IPr diii i C '"""fsntiip !" as if I mvscll ami beoti a iMrtr ?o t]i<. nnf,,. ic, Hon. U1L "ctmiow transacs The Conjugating Dutchman. >ii, y- Two English gentlemen once stepped it into a coffee house in l'uris, whore they ut observed a tall, odd-looking man, who appeared not to he a native,at one of the taj idea, and looking around with the most ;e stone like gravity of countenance upon evd, ery object. Soon after the two Englishid men entered one of them told the other is that a certain dwarf had arrived in Paris, id At this the grave looking personage above us mentioned opened his mouth and spake : k "I arrive, thou arrivest, lie arrives, we >y arrive, you arrive, they arrive." i\ | The Englishman, whose remark seemed rj to have suggested this mysterious speech stepped up lo the stranger aud asked :? ?" "did you speak to rue sir ?" "I speak," replied the stranger, " thou speakest he speaks, we speak, you spcali or they speak." "How is this?" said the Englishman,? >1- "do you mean to insult me ?" w The other replied, "I insult, thou instiltest, ho insults, we insult, you insult, they ry insult," "This is too much." said the Englishm man, "1 will have satisfaction ; if you hav< any spirit with your rudeness, come along t0 with me." |8 To this defiance tho impeturable strank gor replied : "I coino, tlion coined, lie comes, wo >u . come you coino they come;" and thereupI I on lie arose with great coolness, and fob a lowed liis challenger fn those days,? when evorv gentleman wore a sword, duiw olt were speedily despatched. They went into a neighboring alley,ant tbe Eiurlisliman unsheathinir liis wennnn ,|p said to liis antagonist : j1 "Now, nir, you mint fight mo." to The other replied, drawing his sword of " 1 fight, thou tightest, he fights ; we figli ?n fhore he made a thrust,) you fight, the) I tight, and here he disarmed his ad versa uy ry. as "Wall," said the Englishman, you hav< as the bast of it, and I hope you arc satisfi ? ed." bo "I am satisfied," said the r iginal almaild thing his swoid, " thou art satisfied, he it he satisfied ; wo are satisfied, you are satis?* fied, they are satisfied." on "I am glad everybody is satisfied." sanl on the Englishman ; but pray leave off quizn't zing me in this strange manner, and tell me what is your object, if you have any, his for doing so." nd The grave gentleman now for the firs ,vo time became intelligible, id- "I am a Dutchman," said he, and am ras learning your language. 1 find it ver difficult to remember the peculiarities <] ieti the verbs, and iny tutor has advised me tor in order to fix them in my mind, toconjn on gate every English verb that I hoar spol ny en. This I have made it a rule to do.I don't like to hare my plans broken i upon while they are in operation, or wn I won Id hare tokl you of this before." I The Englishmen laughed heartily i # . ' this explanation, and invited the conjuga, j tin if Dutchman to dine with them." "I will dine" replied he, "thou wilt dine, lie will dine, you will dine, they will dine, we will all dine together." This they accordingly did, and it was ditlleult to say whether the Dutchman ato , or conjugated with the most perseverance. ! Iniiinni HUniliiig j Servants of Cod in joyful lays, Sing ye the Lord Jehovah's praise. .Montgomery. Tho Infant in Heaveu. Dr. Chalmers furnishes the following touching expressions of his opinion in the subject of infant salvation. It is expressed iu strong and beautiful lan? I guage: ! ' "'l l/.c ..... .1 -.1- 1 liimk, souiounng more : than a dubious glimpse into tin* question ! that is o I'll mi put 1?y a distracted niotlier wlun lnjr l>alio is taken away from her ; when ail the converse it ever hail with the worhl ainountei! to the gaze upon it | of a few months or a few opening smiles*, I which maikeil the <lawn of seif-enjoymenl ; atnl ere it Iwul reaehei], perhaps, i the li>p of infatiev, it, all uneonseious of ; death, had to wrestle through a period of ! sickness with its power, and at length bo overcome hv it. < "Oh, it little knew what an interest it had created in that home w here it was so passing a visitant, nor when carried to its ; early grave what a tide of emotions it would ra'sc among the few acquaintances it left behind ! There whs no positive belief in its bosom ; no love at all for the darkness rather than light, nor had it yet fallen into that great condemnation w hich will attach itself to all that perish, because of unbelief, that their deeds are evil. "When we couple with this the known disposition of our great Forerunner?the love that He manifested for children upon earth; how lie suffered them to approach His person, and lavished endearments and f kindness upon them in Jerusalem ; told the disciples that the presence and cotrt puny of such as these, in heaven, formed f I one ingredient of joy that w as set before I him ? till us if Christianity does not f throw a pleasing radiance round an in . funis tomb? And should anv parent itig remembrance of a IigTit tnn?\-?. a few short months under his roof, and ut the end <>f this little period expired, we 1 cannot think we venture too far when we ( sap he is otilv to persevere in the faith " ! and in the following of the Gospel, and I that very light will again shine upon him - in heaven. ) "The blossom which withered here up' on its stalk has been transplanted there to ja place of endurance; and it will then . I gladden the eve which now weeps out the agony of affection that has been sorely wounded. And in t'te name of llim who, i if on earth, would have wept with them, 1 do we hid all believers presmt to sorrow 1 not even :us those which have no hope, . ) but to take comfort in the thought of that " | country where there is no sorrow and no j separation. i ! "And when a mother meets on high The babe she lost in infancy. Hath she not then, for pains and tears, The days of woe, the watchful night, | For all her sorrows, all her tears, An overpayment of delight." Help your Ministers. r, You are to help your minister by distinct efforts of your own to lead the impcneient to Christ. Not only are you to pray earnestly for them, to hold them as a burden upon your heart in communion : with God, t? feel that you cannot l>e dej nicd thorn, to follow with supplications evI ery public address to them,saying fervent. j ly, "Amen" to each appeal of a preached gospel, but you are to go farther. You I j are to seek them out, to take hold ofthem, , to converse with them, to be very kind,? very urgent, very tender and very persevering. If you And one of them serious, . ; you are to follow iiim up, t<? give him no ^ rest?like that devoted servant of *k>d,? , Harlan Page? to keep on his track day j and night, to allow the world no oppor i tunity to get now hold, the. feelings no 5 ! time to subside, the seriousness no space ! A.s .liouii.atiAn #<? l.oltv t l?o ^ I ? MM I|T-?|? HIC illlll IIIO trutli lead tlie soul into the kingdom. In this way, can you lie if you will, an J , if God bless you, most effectual helpers of . his servant ami yours, who stands before you a* your religious teacher and guide. I Now, not to go further in Sj>ecifying modes | in which you may co operate with your pastor, and help on in the cause of Christ, | let me ask you as if addressing you one by one, what you say so tar f Will you I ; take up, if you have not, all these activi; tiesof serving God, and advancing Chriat'a , kingdom aud glory !?Conyreyationalut. >f | Information has l?een received in Gal; yeston, that a man named ShulU has i i lieen arrested in this Rtate, charged with i- J he vlng*m ordered, about ten year* affo, two - men named Simeon ltateinan and Msthew r Jo t, in Galveston oountv. He ?M ai* I reeled on the affidavit of Edmund Betting* ler. of Gonzales, who is now in tbis \i j State. 1 ; ? 1