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She was closely veiled, and the keener could not imagine who she was, nor that any one of such proud bearing should be an humble suppliant to tlie prison door. However, he granted tho boon?led her to the dungeon, o; ened the massive iroudoot? then closed it again, and the lovers were alone. He was leaning against the prison wall with a down-cast head, and his arms folded upon his breast. Gently he raised tbe veil from her face, and Emmet turned fn nra?o iiiwn oil iKof ?v upfu Ull M41IV ^<(1 1.(1 WlUtllllCU IUI him?the girl whose sunny brow in the days ofboyhood had been his polar star? the maiden wbo bad sometimes made him tbjnktbe world was all suhshine. The clanking of the chains sounded like a death knell to her ear*, and she wept like a child. Emmet said but little, yet he pressed bcr warmly to bis boson, and their feelings held a silent meeting?such a meeting perchance as is held in heaven only, when we part no more, in a low voice lie besought her not to forget him when the c<>ld grave received his inanimate body?lie spoke of bygone days?the happy hours of childhood, when his hopes w<;re bright and glorious, and ho concluded by requestting her sometimes to visit the places and scenes hallowed to his memory from the days of bis childhood, and though the world might pronounce nis name with scorn and coutempt, he prayed she should still clfog;to him with affection", and remember him when all others should forget. Hark ! the CbiSfrch bell sounded, and ho remembered the hour of execution. The turn key entered, and after dashing the tears from his eyes, he separated them from their long embrace, and led the lady from the dungeon. At the entrance she turned and their eyes met?they could not say farewell ! The door swung upon its heavy hinge#, and they parted forever. No ! not forever : Is there not a heaven ? At sunrise irett morning he suffered gloriously ; a martyr to this country and to nueixy. And one?o'er her the myrtle showers Its leaven by soft winds fanned. She faded'midst Italian flowers,? The Inst of their fair land. Twas in the land of Italy ; it was tlie gorgeous time of Bunset in Italy ; what a magnificent scene ! A pale emancipated girl lay upon the bed of death. Oh 1 it was hard for ber to die far from home in tbis'beantiful land where flowers bloom per enniftl, ahd the balmy air comes freshv to tbe pining soul ? Oh ! no ; her heart was broken. Wfypn ties have been formed on . earth, close, burning lies, "what is more heart-rending and agonizing to the spirit than to And) at last, the beloved one is snatched away, and all our love given to a pawing flowrM." Enough ; she died the , bethrolhed of Robert Emmet; the lovely Sarah Curran. 'Italy contains her last remain* V'it* flofers breathe their fragrance ovefhergrave, and the lulling notes of thaa&eperd e lute sound a reqiuena to her jjygm, - " . The Complimentary Coachman.?A j^upg UfSy, returning late from a concert 'afr'H wac faining, ordered tlie coachman tc drive close to the side walk, but was still uni^to step acr6? the gutter. - ' M&oan liflTyoa over" said^oaohy. KSsa?a#e?to lifting barrels of sugar." ; Tbevoachman took the lady for : n barrel of sugar because she vras hooped. ino Jt-aiimui bonlinol. AN" INOIUr.NT OK NAroLt:ox'H TIMH. The French army lay encamped only about a day's march from I>vtlin. It was on the y.'ld of October. Thy sentinels were doubled, and the most strict orders given, for the Prussian and Austrian spies were plenty and troublesome. At midnight Pierre bancoin was stationed at one of the outposts, lie was a stout, bold, shrewd man, and a good soldier. The colonel of his regiment was with the sergeant on this bout, laving requested to lie called at midnight, that he might visit the outposts. "Pierre," he said, after the man had been posted, "you must keep your eyes opeti. Don't let even a stray horse go out or conic in without the pass. Do you uu UerstamJ ' " "Ay, moil colonel, I shall be prompt." "The dogs me all round us," pursued the officer, "and you cannot be too careful. Don't trust meu or brutes without good proof." "Never fear'' was Pierre's answer, as he brought his iirelock to his shoulder, and moved back a pace. After this the guard moved on to the next post, and Pierre Saneoin was left alone. Pierre's post was one of the most important in the camp, or rather around it, and he had been placed there for that reason. The ground over which he had to walk was a long knoll, bounded at one end by a huge rock, and at the other sloping away into a narrow ravine, in which was a copse of willows, lievond this copse the ground j was low and boggy, s=o that a man could i not pass it. The rock was to tlie westward, ami Pierre's walk was on the outer side. The night was quite dark, huge masses of clouds flouting overhead, and shutting out the stats; and a sort of fog seemed to be rising also from the marsh. The wind rnoarned through the copse in the ravine, and the air was damp and chill}*; with a slow stead}' tread, the soldier paced his ground, ever and anon stopping to listen, as the w illows in the ravine rattled their leaves, or some night bird started out with its quick flapping. An hour had passed away and the sentinel had seen nothing to excite his suspicions, lie had stopped for a moment close by the rock, when lie was started by a quick wild schreech from the wood, and in a few moments more a large bird flew over his bead. "Pvryleu lie uttered, after the night bird had flown over; could mortal man have stopped that fellow from passing?" ile satisfied himself that he had done nothinf wrnnnr in suH<>iinrr ?1... <?" O - =? o w J...OO. lie had walked the length of his way two or three times and was just turning by the rock, when lie was sure he saw a dark object crossing the line of the copse. "Hold !" lie cried, bringing his musket to his shoulder. "Hold, or I fire!" And with his piece at aim, he advanced towards the spot where the object had stopped, but as lie came to withiu a few yards of it, it started to move on ngnin towards the camp. "Diablo!" cried I'ierre, "move any furI tlier and I fire! What, 1'ardieu! Lo Prince? I Ho, ho; why, L'rince !" I Tl.ft II..W.X.I .".I ?. ' > - - - n.i.ivu miu iiitiuc u motion as though lie would leap up on to the sentinel's bosom, but the soldier motioned him ott". "]5ravo, l'ritiee," l'ierre cried, reaching forth his hand and patting the head of the great shaggy beast, which had now sot upon i its hutichcrs. I'ierrs recognized the intruj ?!er now as a great dog of the breed of St. i I Bernard, which had been owned in the regi' incuts for over a year, and which had been j now missing for about a wcelc. lie had 1 disappeared one night from the pickets, aud I all search for him had been unavailing. ! "i'arbleu, mou grande Prince," l'ierre uti tercd as though the dog could understand i every worn, "the man will be happy to see l.you ; w here have you been so long The dog made no answer to this save a low whine, and a familiar nodding of the | UCilU* "Now, moil ami, you just keep your sit! ting position there till the guard comes, ami i then we'll go to the camp together. Mind that, will you I" And with these words uttered with solemn emphasis, and due meaning, Pierre started on his bout again. lie bud not got half way to the rock, when the idea of looking around struck him, and he did so. Le Prince was moving towards the camp again. "Ila! Prince, that won't do! Stop! stop! or I'll shoot! iJiable, the colonel was posi I mu in ins oruers. i was to let nothing pass my post without the countersign. A dog is I some thing. You can't go, l'rince, so now lie down. Down! Down, I say !" With this the dog lay flat, upoD his belly, and stretched out his lure paws. Pierre patted him on the^iiead again, and having duly urged upon him the necessity of remaining where ho was he resumed his march once more. During the next fifteen minutes, the animal IftV rmrfi?*.t.lw nnift nn#l o?<>. "-1 ?v 4 -v >?uu vtvi auu auun the sentinel would speak to him by way of being sociable. But at length the dog made another attempt. to go into the camp^ Pierre had nearly reached the rock when he heard the meov^ment, and on latining he could just see his uneasy -.companion making off. 4 * r "Diable!" the honest fellow^tltlered, "I must obey orders. T.hQr^oIonel's word was plain, llere! Parbluel Come here! Here, l>_: i ??- tv . - - . x iiuue; won jjieu i you must die if you don't r ' - ?* With n few quick bounds the soldier had ' gotKuear enough ,-tbe dog tt> fire, and as the lattor stopped, he slopped. Mou cher ami, y.cjp must stay with me! Ilerei Come i>ackl?$'niust shoot if you don't Parbleq 1 what a thing to' start th< Trht'iT r>ifrp fir f-"?m | But by coaxing JU9d'tb?6atening, ?n ' "tinol got t^e dog bf^jpW^W jk??, uod tlieW the eoldi?r, stopping near the do#. "Yoi slall go and Wco your u!d ffrondsv* The tramp of the euirfwg gaartf drci near, ami Pierre was preparing to hail them, when the dog took a new start, and in a new direction, this time starting towards the ? Viaek ! IJaek! llherc!" 1 "(. rand l.)ieu !*' This last exclamation j was forced from Pierre's lips, by seeing the ji | dog leap to his hind legs and run thus ! In t an instant the truth burst upon him. Quick f as thought he clapped his gun to his shoul- c der and took aim. lie could just discover I the dim outlines now, and he fired. There s was a sharp cry, and then Pierre had to j turn, for the guard were approaching. "Qui est la ?" (who is there ?) he cried. ^ ' lielief guard," was the answer. ! x ' And having obtained the countersign, he f 1 informed the officer what had happened. j ! "A dog?" cried the officer, "Prince,did f 1 von snv ?" I J ? J ' t I | "lie looked like l'rincc; but, (liable, you j : sliotiM have seen him run oil' on his hind ( leges!" | "Kh ! Ilind legs 2" j, "Yes." 'Then come, show us where he was." n Willi this llio otlioer of the mounted l | guard pulled out his lauteru from his n , breast, and removing the shade ho started u i 011. l'icrru led the way to the corpse, and 0 there the dog was found in the last strug- t gles of dentil. c The officer stopped and turned him over. c "Grand Dieu ?" lie cried, what logs for v | a dog, oh!" ,! And no wonder he said so. The hind c legs of the animal were booted, and have 0 every appearance of the pedal extremities f; of the genus man. JJut all doubts were'., removed verv nnicklv*- for tlio nffliw I _ vi j ? ? | a turned the body again, a groan eaine up, j s : and the words "(Jod take mo !" in the j| Prussian tongue, followed. p j "Diahle ! here's an adventure !" uttered t | the officer, and he made Pierre hold the lan- j, j tern while he ripped open enough of the j dog's skin to find the face. But they con- 0 | eluded not to stop there to investigate; so s | they formed a litter by ciossing their mus- t j ket?, ami having lifted the strange animal c j u]>ou it they proceeded on tlieir way. v j \Y lien they reached the camp, they found ^ | half the soldiers up, waiting to find out why , the gun was tired. j Lights were brought and the body placed 0 j upon the ground. The dog skin was re- j moved, and within was found a Prussian s drummer, lie was a small fellow, though j apparently some twenty years of ago, hut . he was dead, Pierre's ball having touched s his heart, or somewhere very near it, llis f pockets were overhauled and in ono of . them was a cypher, but no one could make j anything of it. The colonol took it, and , directed that the body should be placed opt ^ ,.f r.- 1 :_.i ?i.~ ui ai"iu lor uuriiii uii mu murrow. i Hut litis was not the end. About four j o'clock, just before daylight, another giui j was fired on the same post where Pierrre ;l had been, and this time a tuan was shot v who was trying to make his escape from the t camp, lie was shot through the head. ;| When the body was brought into camp, it was fuund to be that of a Bavarian trooper, ^ who hod been susjiected of treachery, though no proof had ever been found j sigainst him. On his person was found the key to the cypher, which had been taken ^ from the person of the Prussian drummer : | and now that the colonel had taken them i both, he could translate the tnvstic scroll. j it proved to be a direction to tho lSavarj ian to lay his plans for keeping as near | Napoleon's person as possible, after he ( I should enter Berlin, and then wait for fnr- ? llicr orders. The mystery was cxplaiiit.*<1. The Bavarian had contrived to call the great dog ? away from the regiment,and delivered him { up, to enemy, and his skin was to be mado the cover for a spy. to enter the camp .. under. And the spy would have got in, too, but tor the sportive order of the colo- j nel, and tiic willfully faithful obedience of l'ierre Sancoin. On the next day Pierre was pr omoted to the rank of sergeant, and the Emperor said no him as he bestowed the boon ; "If you only make as faithful an officer, you have proved yourself fafthful as a sentinel, I can ask no more." An Example foii Students.?When I PmIav first. ivi>nt tr* romlvM.Lo !??? f?H ? ? ?. v>?? w v/i>mvMU^V HV> tu> llliu n society of young men far richer than him- ' self, to whom liis talents and conviviality ' made him an acceptable companion, and he ' was in a fair way for ruin. One morning * one of these comrades came into his bedn > room before he was up, and he, as usual1, vi thought it was to propose some plan of pleas- ; ure for the dav. His friend, however, mud. | "Paley, I have not slept a wink this night, i I for thinking of you. I am, as you know, l | lioir to such a fortune, and whether I ever ] look iuto a book at Cambridge or not, does < not signify ono farthing, liut this is not i the ease with you ; you have only your abili- i ties to look to, and no man has better, if you i do but makes the proper use of them. But if you go on in this way you are ruined ; 'and from this time forward I am determined not to associate with you, for your own sake. You know I like your company, and ,. it is a great sacrifice to give it up, buL^ve it u^ I will, as a matter of consoionce." raiey lay iu oea toe wnoiudiiy ruminating ' on this. In the ^evening be rose and took i bis tea, ordered bis bed maker to ma|ce bis fire over nigbt, and call bim at five io the ' morning; and, frodi Urol day forward, rose i always at thai hour, went out first wrangler. ! and became the fortunate rcflWiu was'. This he related to his intiii}at#frieod, Mr. Sheep*1 t sbants; from him it came to Mr. Broorae,i .and he toW it to tne tbia evening October > .'611^4808.? Sou they. "3.. . * The Committee of Arrangement* requtet. i 'alK???Bons who intend exhibiting pt tbe i a|Vroach#g Agricultural Fair to inform ^ -them ofthoir iIjefore^ th? ^ A Patent kas beep iafcen tH*y?fj BortoiS, Jbrxk^oing fish, by giving ibem snuff, wlwl v they sncezu^their scale* otf. [Krom Uio Syracuse Journal.] John Godfrey Saxe. The world is not disposed to give .1 man :redit lor more than one thing at a time.? kyant is known as the pout rather than the mhlisher. Thero arc plenty of people who ire aware that Longfellow was, for years, mo of the most popular and successful Pro- ' ussors of Harvard College. Doctor iiitch:ock writes and preaches excellent sermons, jut fame has covered I hem with geological trata; and when Percival died, the World nourned the poet and not the geologist. John (J. Saxe supports, in the motly ranks >f life, the title of "the witty poet;" which vas loll"' siiifi':nv?ril<?il liim l?v murlnmnfinti iml a title which?unlike hosts of others? j 1 s richly deserved, lie is, indeed,spoken of iccasioiially as tlie "editor of the 1 ferlingtoti Miiitiiielbut lie might have edited that lebdomadal for a century w ithout having >een suspected by nine people out of ten, of ' laving a finger in its pi, or its leaders. Saxe 1 s known to the public as the witty poet, ,nd title is a barnacle that will cling to his natoinical timbers until they are shivered >y the bomb of death?a missile that makes io noise when it explodes. l>ut, like every ither son of genius, Saxe lives an inner life f which the world knows but little, so that | hose who love and admire the poet may be i ; onstraincd to admire and love the man. 1 Saxe is a conversationalist?a word that j arries its own superlative with it A Q Ctli-l. f < re have rarely met Iiis peer? jr his su- ' erior. lie brings to bear upon his forte of onversational pow>r the effeetivo artillery ; fa comprehensive itelligenco, an opulent 1 nicy, the keenest wit, the readiest repartee, n<i possesses that faculty of adapting him elf to a trivial, or wrestling with a lofty uhject, the envy of which is as common as i is lack. His language is ever fresh and | liipiatit?never stale and unprofitable, lie = idks as easy as a brook flows; and, like the rook, the wide marcriris of bisronv^rsntiniw re beautified by violele and clover blossoms I if simple and elegant rhetoric. One of the ^ ecrets ol" his power in this respect exists in I he fact that Saxe is a thorough scholar. The lassies are his playthings, lie remembers rliat lie has studied, and can quote the knot- 1 iest Greek sentences with no more trouble I ban he expends in the act of respiration.? ' Ie knows every spear of grass in the field 1 if belles lettrcs. Metaphysics arc never a ' lose to him. and his love for the natural ciences is almost unnatural. He is a well ; nforinod man?to adopt a conventional I >hrase which really means more than it < ecms to mean?able to cope with the proessor, the divine, the savant, and sum tn i 'hold l?is own" with the bust of them. Ilis ' lower is nn educated power, allied to gen- "i us of no ordinary character, and controlled ' ?y the strongest good sense, the most, reined good taste, and the nicest sense of iropriety. lie makes no show of his learn- i ng; he never attempts to air his vocabuliry , but it is impossible for aim to con erse at all without evincing the qualities vhich we have here set down:tO> his credit tnd renown. Saxe i?ossesses the attribute of geniality o a remarkable extent. The secret of this tossession lies in his own heart. The teart is a gushing fountain, and not nn Artesian well. Its emotions flow forth pontaneouMy, because they must; they ire hot drawn up in buckets. He is not onred by care or suffering. Through them ill?and lie has had his full share?lie has reserved an amiability, a feeling of fraternty that beams from his honest face like a noming sun. lie loves and hates most cordially?loves the good, the beautiful md true, and hates their opposites. lie is )erfeetly familiar with the acids of sar:asm, but he never employs them?upon he vitriol thrower's principle?to gratify my private pique or animosity. His wit is ittie; it never grovels in the basement, t is ever ready to flow, and of its flow ho limself is unconscious. It might be supposed that one wlia hail limbed to the pinnacles of popularity? vlio had been flattered, as the world loves to latter its favorites?would be in danger >f entertaining a self-conceit which would ender him repulsive to his less favored felows. This is not so. Saxe possesses a just ippreeiation of his own abilities'?and he is o be pitied who docs not?but it ;s a$j {liferent from tho feeling of self-conceit as Thaf* ' >ere's "Last Rose of Summer' is different ' _ J_!? 1 /% ? 11 iuiu h urieu nower. i> 01 ono wno reany cnows Saxe can fail to credit iiim with modesty as well as with genius. Readiness isoneofSaxe's prominent chartcteristics. Tax him as you will, you will dways find hiin equal to the emergency.? As a pretty instance of this quality, let us Tientiott^he fact, that when he was last in iiis city, and just as he was preparing to leave, a literary gentleman?one of his warrant admirers?becrored his aiitncrranh. Saxe instantly seized a pen?literally the pen ofa ready writer?and dashed off the folfowing impromptu:? My autograph! 'tie pleasant to reflect? Although the thought may cost n single sigh ; That whttt a blinker would with scorn reject* Mny find a value iu a scholar's eye 1 * la not that neat and pointed I The career of Joh#0. Save, marked though it has been by glorious achievements and signal honors, tins but tmrly begun, it kind heaven continues his life and health, his future will be lit by the rays of stantbat the world has not yet discovered, and'by beautifol flowere^rhose gems have' not yet sprouted. Fun ^oes not bold its courts 1b vain?and ifr is n^, irtean. honor to be its Prime Minister. , ? ' . * * ^ $ & t ' The Newark Dafly Adveitli^wt; The crop odrtf*wberriea in lf?w JcraSy-^kjf year has lMin tMtuallyJnrg'e., It is catenated' Uiat the five steamera rubnyjgjfom Sofltlv. Jeracy to NeWCity laoddajly'on an average. 1, 800 barrel^ and-that tlie"rttiIc.)GdB bfS??- j'n <mo?gh tosw?li.{he Mggra^aW to at ifaat a,. BBSMMM Kich b**rel g?ntilD9 blfkeU-rccpiivflent-forthc whole ?nujnber to 600,000 baskets. These sold ai 3* aents each, wotllij'bring $21,000*3 the 4?Xy expenditure ' in tUfi'city for this single luxury. "All Aboard." Tho insignificant word couplet, "aliaboard,"?uttered thousands of tinier, every day iu depots und upon docks?is always the prelude to a long psalm of sorrow. Ol itself, it is a mere business behest?in its bearings, it revolves regret, sutiering, and olteu-tiiues despair. Not an hour glides into the great sea of the past?not a 1110 merit leaps to tho surfaco, and then it is lost forever?but some ere listen to the knell for the last time ! If your heart has beconic dissatisfied witli its treasures, and you are disposed to gropt moid the shadows of despondeucy, go when friends arc parting. We know not of a sur er recipe for kindling the flame, of sympa Lliy, and making "Richard himself again,' than this. No one with a fragment of i heart in his bosom, cau see the warm em braces of those who are fo go and those wht are to stay, or hear the tremulous but earnest "good bye" and "(Jo<l bless you" uttered by lips that tremble with tho freightage, with out a bles-sing of his own. A few weeks a go we were witness of i partinir which touched us nearly. It was between two who were newly wedded, and who, since the sweet day of their nuptials had not been parted for a day, hardly foi an hour. Nothing short of sheer necessity could have called the husband from his ido now?but the necessity came between them and he must not shrink; wc saw the lon^ und wild embrace, heard the clear whisper, "Be of good cheer, I will lie home soon"? und in a few moments more the billow* rolled between the hearts that so lately God had joined together. "1 will be home soon." Tlicso were the words?the only consolation left, and sc much bitterness, 1'eihaps the pangs o parting were sharpened by the vague pre sentiment tlmt they might never meet again And so he turned from the spot, that sai young wife, went back to a home whose light had departed. "I will be home soon." And so lie was before lie expected?home ere yet the tears ivere dried from the t'ves of the weepei whom be left behind, lint alas!?how die be come ? Encompassed by a shroud, em [traced witliiu a collin, cold as the perpetua ;now that crosses the monarch mountain A JSwitzerlaud. Sure enough?he wai 'home soon." They dug but one grave then?but, since another was demanded?and now the young liusband nnd the young wife sleep ant dream together. We shall all t"l>o home soon." Wlia l hat hom? will be rest for us. 'Uie dead o virtue will secure a passport to golden pal ices?the enormities of vice will end it horse than dungeon darkness. "Home soon." So he was?and having waited but a little while, she went hnmi iil.so.?/Exchange. -? A MothKit's Mkmouy.?The earliest llie fondest, the most sacred recollection! are entwined around tlie memory of on Mother. What indescribable, undefiuubl feelings steal over the- senses as we rever in memory to the days when our tottering and cautious steps were guarded by a Mo ther's watchful eye?when our incoheren prattling were heard and understood none but lier whose natural instinct antici pa'-ed every want and necessity ; and a c.hildhorMl mlvmipml ntifl fln? fnni nf invito cretion attempted to wander into danger ons paths, who?ever watchful?so gentl< guides them aright! Mother ! Who doc not revere that sacred name 1 It impiie more than a mere parent. It is the em bodiinentof love, of affection, of gentle ness. of kindness. The concentration c the warmest impulses, the most hallbwe< sentiments of the heart. A sister's love i gentle enduring?the fraternal bonds tha unue logetncr members ot the iiouselioh are not easily sundered but that the aftec tion that endears one to a mother, is i higher, ^ holier sentiment, mingled with i degree of reverence and awe, next in de greo to that due to our Creator. 1 (tit all earthly ties must sooner or lato be severed. She is at rest, ary] the fines tendrils of many hearts are entwine< around her memory. Dignity, Gravity ?tc.?Professor Boyle of the Dublin "Freeholder." savs : u I have Been gravity of parsons in tli< pirtpit ; lawyers in eourt-SJudges on tin bench QrtSkers at conventical?dema gogues at .public meetings?the chancelloi in the lords?tho speaker in the commom ?soldier?. at drill?doctors near a patien f~dienls at law 8iijtlfc-auctione?rs pnffing i woWKIess daub1? antiqUarintw. ovotfa bras lathing?rold gjjntltfmert^ltlljrtlrafcsfejouni cer.tlsmen at tailor's biI goca cut ion?and the lmngmaFe^ttojgglldws^I linvc Recti the gravity of a'ry^ufnor ^ntllei his play was damned, and -of~^?rcoxcoml taking his place at twelve faces?of An at torney drawing out bills of qostfl, and of ai Alderman adjusting Yiis napkin at a citi feast; i have seen Mr. liogers and Belx enPs mummy ; but the gravity of each an< all taken together, does not equal the grav ity of"h C3w chewing her "feud. Lieut. Joseph Abney (2nd Lieut. Com pany D., Pahnetto-Rcgiment) in an articl mine Advomser unngs Mr. iveiu severe!; to Uisk-lbr that "narrative in his usual by perbodical scarcely cumbered with a siti fact," witlf which be regaled the Palmett Association at their late meeting in Colum bia. Mr. >bnev thinks the remarks < Mr. Keitt, in wliich he alluded to the hard ships Arid dangers through which "old Jo?j tt\o servant ot VYtntebeld Butler Brook passed, in ntte&diag to' his gall?nt mast< while wounded', nnd iq conveying bin when dead to his and bia* irjend reflect toroowhat upon himself, wlro'?Sfl tlhat time in, command : of Mr. Ahney testiraa. to the^ate^.talcdiL < younf Btookfi by. hte conr^dw, 'rffcd v state agents. / ' r B ** " > , The Music of the Winds. Oh ! many-voiced in that giant lyre, Swept by the viewless fingers of the wind, i And rounding nature's harmonies combined F in mood of joy or sadness, love or ire. ' At noon, at eve, among the summer leaves, "C The gentle winds awake a melody cl< ' That liniment to pain and sorrow gives, co. Soothing the air in lulling symphony. > as 1 When from the mountain eaves, t|, When from the ocean waves, i A r-lormy choral chant is swelling, w] i i;oW grand the harmonies that sweep re i Across the foaming deep, hi Ami thronuli llw? D J...b I til j And flying mint, nnd rnin-fraught clouds : ! w While the loud thunder tones nre knelling g, 1 Around the tempest-ppirit's lofty dwelling 1 0| j And now the mingled music deep and shrill, Streams o \*r the sloping .shoulder of the hill, 8' And in the vale beyond, in Bilenee dies ; nl When, from the cloud-barred western skies, ^ The setting sun a crimson glow '.r V Pours on the sea-cliffs beetling brow, i And shimmers on each curling wave's white i , a< I crest.-*, ^ , j And on dini sails of ships far in the lowering J r I liiwt. 'I'll* nf tllA n-inilj !j tillJiftil " I ? ? And o'er yon valley, where it died away, u ' Steals the long shadows of the fading day. The darkening hills repeat no other sound tl ' But the mi!d murmur of the flooded river, o j And ocean's distant boom, that ceaseth tr | never. M Honxchold Word*. w r< A Magnificent Project. s i- The Charleston Courier of the I7lb, un- ii der the caption of "A Magnificent Project," u , reviews at length a paper prepared for and ? j before the Massachusetts Legislature, by n 4 Mr. Elih Burritt, otherwise known as tbe w "Learned Blacksmith." The .^object of q this paper is to effect in Mr. Burritt'u own ti ' WAV. tli? nhnlilinn nf Snntliprn Klavorv ?. j ?J ? JI ^ which Mr. Burriti'8 holds cannot be done ti j by any of the means which short sighted o philanthropists have yet attempted. Mr. n I Burritt being a christian, one of the great n Peace makers of the world, we arc not sur- q s prised to learn that the plan he proposes ft will effect its desired end and without that *g turmoil and bloodshed, which we of the tl } South would naturally look for upon its u j perfection. Mr. Burritt does not wish tb u deprive us of our property without giving f( . us full pay for the same, so he proposes e that the Government of the United States ,1 shall become the purchasers of all the j slaves in the South, at an average price, ^ which slipll be paid out of the public Treas- ^ r ury ; this price will be $250 per head, in- ^ I eluding all classes and conditions. That g) it may be the more equitable, Mr. Burritt ^ proposes that the public lands consisting, tI without including our Mexican possess- n 5 ions of 1,TOO,000,000 acres, be sold, and p r the proceeds invested in this philanthro- { 0 pliic undertaking. Mr. Burritt shows that ^ t this can be done ; for the land at serentyr five cents an acre will bring $1,200,000,000 and the three millions and a half of . t slaves only $875,000,000, leaving after the f abolition of Slavery and the sale of the K Public Lands, a surplus in the Treasury of ^ * $325,000,000,. ? Mr. Burritt shows that a considerable ? !. portion of the Public domain lies in tlie ' e Slave States, where through tlio banetul in- " s fluoncc of their peculiar institution, there is -v s little demand for them. By the sale of the 0 . lands thus loeated, and the devotion of the 84 . proceeds to the purpose indicated, the ^ waste and wilderness would in a short time ? ] become the residence of living, breathing? . s Yankees. Missouri is instanced with Iter f t 13,000,000 unappropriated acres, worth, n j Mr. liurritt says, almost nothing, but which a Mr. Burjitt also says if sold will purchase IT ? all the slaves in that State. ^ This is a slight sketch of Mr. Burritt's . plan, and we think we will do but justice ! it* u-n t.rioflv Rt/itA tlio obiections ur?red a ?? w *" "v*mJ " W ?? ## ^ O fly r gainst it I?y the Journal to which wo owe t the sKctch we liave given. And first j (which might well from its completeness be first and last) the fact that the money ? proceeding from the sate of the public ei i, land*, will not buy the whole number of lo slaves in the Soutfi. tli 0 B The Female Temper.?No traitof char- ^ . acter is more valuable in a female than the 0j r possession of a sweet temper.?Iloine can nj 9 never be happy without it, it is like the j t .flowers that spring up in our pathway, re- u, t viving and cherishing us. Let a roan go 9 home, at night wearied and worn by the a| t?ils of day, nnd how'spothing is a word 8t ' -4k:tated by a good disposition ! It is sun- ^ s siilr\e falling on his heart. lie is happy, a i njid the <$Mes of life are forgotten. A [, sweet temper has a soothing influence over j r the minds of a whole family. Where it is (j ! found in the wife and mother, you observe ^ ir kindness and love predominatinor over the *i . natural feelings of n bad heart. 8miles j, ] kind words and looks characterized the j . children, and peace and love*'' have ' their dwellings there. Study, then to ncquue |j and retain a sweet temper. It is more val- n liable than gold, nnd it captivates more ? 0 than beauty, and to the close of Jife it re- n y tains all its freshness and power. ,t| |# How Many Mils# a Printer's Hand * Travels.?lt?ough a-printer may be sit- . : Me all day,'yet;ra b? own way be is a *f great traveller, (or M least Lis liand is,) as r. we ?U?H prove. A good printer will set m eight tfitfUMind ema a day, Or about twenty- ^ g fqut Ihouwnd letters. The distance travel- * T led over byfcte hand wjM average ;Aboqt \ n one foo&$St letter, going to the <,bcg0%.jfo r , which they are contained, and of coUJppv ft^ * . turniniir. malfiMktirnliwt fnr " tArSt' * I' be ?et? Xkis jrfeul?$ mnke a ?pph" ,J ,f c!W fitly-eight ihonMn.l t Uitffi uincjnll^ ^ and in the cfcufoA 4 .year,luaviog out Sundays,. fliAj, nwftb# ^ ^ UaTeteabout throe tjjtnftand >fo* ^ |j < j^pptl^fiHVe been expdfad^r visiting |j ????????? Novel Reading. A WOIID TO COLLEQE BTUOKNT8. Upon do class of persons, perhaps,- does ^habitual reading of that hranch of our Qrature, denominated, by way of diatine>n,"yellow covercd," exert a more porni>us inlluenco than upon the young men nnccted with our colleges and other intutions of learning. We have heard jt sorted by those whose positions enable em to judge intelligently in this matter at there is scarcely an instance on record Warn a ?1 1 1 *' " .. jvuujj limn, who naoituauy and gularly pursues works of fiction during a uudergrnduate course, ever received at degree of mental discipline which is nessary for a successful entrance upon the cat duties of life, and which it is the aim 'a collegiate course to furnish. And in? icd, it is hard to couceive how the case lould be otherwise; for, besides the enoriour waste of time, which is the necessary 01 any considerable indulgence i novel reading, the mind, accustomed to illow some sentimental Lero or heroine irongli all sorts of silly and unheard of Jventures, and to revel amid scenes of mcicd pleasure and happiness, takes little ulight in attempting to grapple with the lore profound truths of philosophy and latheinatics, even when it is not wholly icapacitated to do so. f It islamentablo fact that at least half of le young men who graduate each year at ur colleges, hardly possess even the rudi* lents of a sound and substantial education. lanv, after spending three or four years ithin the walls of a university, possess, in jturn for their time and money, little heides their "diploma," to which, certainly, i our day, no great importance can be atiched. JJow, all this mav be the corahin. 3 effect of many causes, into which it is ot our province to inquire ; but we think 'e hazard little in saying that the evil is uestion may, to a very great extent, be aced to the "popular novels," which form > important an element in the compoaion of the student's libraries in many of ur colleges. And so long as our young ten are content to spend the precious mo* tents which ought to be devoted to the (tc* uisitions of substantial knowledge, and to itter away the knowledge which God has iven them, iu poring over books worse lan profitless ,to the neglect of all that is seful and instructive, just so long are we > expect superficial thinkers, instead of pro>und thinkers,ruen triflers, instead of men. We admit that it is very important that iq imagination be cultivated, and we are uite willing to grant there may be, and ndoubtedly are, works of fiction which ave an elevating rather than degrading mdency, and which are calculated to lengthen rather than impair the* intellect, tut such wordu, we apprehend, are ex'eraely rare. And the direct tendency of ine-tenths of the popular novels of the resent dav, is to inculcate false views of fe, ami to corrupt instead of cultivating jc imagination. And we should say to students, whose at* jrition we wish at this time, more particuirly to arrest, that is a most erroneous lea, to suppose that it is necessary for a 'oung man, while pursuing his academic ourse, to become acquainted with the 'hole range of general literature. Better, ir better, to confine your attention to the jxt books, which liave been chosen for ou by your superiors in knowledge and xpenence,?with perhaps a very few well jlected voiuiacs each term, than to waste our prccions hours over a confused maw f "miscellaneous trash." . The elegant indingsand illuminated covers of this itter cla?s of books, msy serve as ornalents to the shelves of your libraries, "fend vsist in making a display on "commencoicnt occasions," but their contents are ill-I A. 1IUUI1UCU lAJ IUI man " iiviuoviuo ?wu iui mind duly impressed with the value of mc, and the infinite importance of a lorough preparation for the great duties hich our Creator designs ua- to perform. ' 4 Great Time at the Land Sales.?The ?rrespondonf.of the Cleveland Plaindeal t writing from Osage, Iowa, gives the folwing description of the great crowd at ie late land sales : 1 ?i?1 ... If mn .? 'mm i ~cn sauiruuy nigut, may iu aooui Iiten men stationed themselves at the door ' tho Land Office, and held their positions ight and day until Monday rooming, lie crowd of hungry speculators, to the umber of 1,000 or 1,500, gathered round icsg few who were on the "Anxious seats," [id disgusted at the means thus used in ealing a march upon them, they wished > retaliatedspine way, b6 they oomnxened crowding and surging making the door le focus for jamming. Woe to the j osiers niieh'tliu commenced^.*Tlitf' afoot At be offi^ Tfad to be prtftffrf&l on; Ufr^toside :> prevent ita being broken jrr. In*&" sljiofjt ime cries went forth Uiat men wetq 1aia? ig. The people cried, w&J* tnt .both toJeare such a chlocFffc ,nafc. ig"money dfcey t^uglq tfetiwtiJ try a ttle longer.jig* tad uda a mmach tn Um nmoATKIHBR jtiw ien were feintijtg,'an<3 reqoestfS^S^S* Otto crowd. The people Ofted, "Ut hose who faint f?U back r and hcMllge of he Inquest of the Register, and regardless f the lives and limla .of those unfortunate asiders, they snftged forward with renewed J nergy, Ry tliia time the sun. .was poor- ?f ng its beat upon the deroUd crowd f'\ acn *, it was considered a amall edition of ^ liHt p^ee We.rwS of in >$?radise Lo?t* , n undertaking to Ret the crowd from the ] looe Dr. Downs had his leg fraetarwL | iome four or fire fainted, awl the onjjr * ray their lives *ere saved was opening Ujji j 4tioe,door and hauling them in, And wl|J|? ] Off UDon the floor DonrtMr <mb?t ?vJifc. t tfpo* them. Kfftrn&mFjflf 1 L^bo of Crawford hit# three rib* frRctercd ^... ^ ' / ' - ^ ' ,, V?<- A