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THE WIFE'S PUNISHMENT;
on,
BY aENNY WOODB[LNE.
---o
CIIAPTER II.
Hour after hour
Day after day ;
Some gentle flower
Or leaf gives way
Within the bower
Of human hearts.-Motherwell.
"But Clarence does not like Julie Clare,
Monia."
Mary Hilliard occupied her old place as
counsellor.
" Well, who cares for that, .Mary-Mrs. Clar
ence likes her."
It sounded so like the Moina of old, that
Mary Hilliard could scarcely repress a smile.
"But I tell you again a wife should have no
friend, that her husband dislikes. It is a part
of the duty that you owe him, 'to obey him
there."
"Oh! fiddlesticks with duty, and obey. 1
detest the words. I like Julie, she is ao amusing,
and- clever. And then Clarence is too much
like his amiable mother, he wants to rule every
thing; and I shant let him, that's the amount
of it. Why if I countenanced 11 his silly
whims,'I should sink into a slave. I will tell
you wrhy he dislikes Julie. Every time she
comep here, her brother comes with her; and
some meddlesome old somebody has told him
that George Clare was an old love of mine.
Oh! it's too rich Mary.-he is jealous, ect'wlig
jealous; and of George Clare. who is an amu
sing fool, and brings me all the latest intelli
gence,-so I countenance him for the. sake of
being amused."
"Moina, you are an idiot; and I dont wonder
that Clarence grows vexed with you. And so,
for the sake of being amused you are willing to
displease your husband-a sorry anzusement."
" Oh ! Mary you are so sarcastic; and look
at every trifle in such a serious light. Now, I
don't trouble Clarence about his friends-and I
don't grow jealous of him."
"No, because he never looks at any one but
you. Suppose he wer e to change suddenly.
Suppose to night ho takes Julie to the opera,
and leaves you at home."
"Take Julie to the.opera-leave meat home !
You aretrazy Mary Hilliard. Why if Clarence
were t, mention such a thing Id go straight
home to brother Hal, as fast as my feet would
carry me." .
"And yet you went with George Clare last
night, and left him at home."
"So I did-but George i nucrh ra /dJ * fei,,d
otmine."
' So is Julia an uZN: friend gj' :ci. ; for it yru
will believe ijer he was once en the point of
maning1:er Mrs. Staten."
" Stop, Mary Hilliard, you madden me. I:m
possib!e ! Clary never could have loed her, a
little, -illy, flirting, freckle-faced thing."
" And yet so clecer, so am. ing," a dded Mary
iilliard sarcastic.lly repeating he r own word
Shortly aftewards her friernd d.epartedI leaving
poor lit tle silly Moina as jeal'.us a pc.-ible, and
of Jiulia Clare. Oih incon.sistent woman ! When
Clarence camne in to dinner he met noting bu:t
frowtns. A poor reward for his morning of pa
tient toil!
" Ihere, pet 1 have brought you! :a new book."
"1I don't want any new book."
" Here is a bunich of flowers4 too."
SI don't want any flowers."
Clarence couldl not fancy what was the mat
ter ; nor did he trouble hims~elf to inquire.
But the " business man" felt very sad, and lone
ly as he sat in his offIke that af ternoon. In the
bower of his heart niany flowers had perished.
" Hour after hour'' he had 'watched the decay~
of some early dream. W here was the bliss his
boyish fancy had painted ? Oh ! where was
that happiness lie had pituredl to himself ?
There camne back to that thoughtful man, a
drea of his boyhood--he had fancied it dead,
but it wras not. .lHe saw before him the pale,
sad face of one he had loved, and cruelly de
serted. Lena Vese! Hie started at the sound
of t/at nam -it had been so long unspoken.
Wnere was she now '? 7Teoce ,f his al-the
being of his he .r!, ad intril'et, not the one who
merely pleased the eye and fancy. Oh! it was
no common thing to have won the love of that
proud, glorioudy intellectual creature; and to
hace los it. That calm, tearless face, bearing
its proud, silent agony, it haunted him now.
And the little note w.vhere she bade him "hbe
happy, and think of her alwayvs as his frind."
His friend! Yes: she could never be more to
him noer. -And yet once, his smile was her sun
shine ; once she called him " Dear C.larence ;'
conce she severed a silken tres from tihe many
that floated over her brow, and gave it to him,
not playfully, but earnestly. She would have
died for him then-she would have torn her
heart from her bosom, and placed it under his
feet, if the gift had given him phansure. Kw
oh ! how bitter was the thomght, all that love,
that devotion, was changed to one feeling, con
tempt!
Hie was on dangerous ground. I pity the
married woman, whose husband pase to thuink
of " an 01(d love"-it does nvt argue well for Ler
future'happiness. And yet Lena Vese, brilliant.
gifted woman though she was, had been forg~t
ten ; and if Me'ina had been wise, memory
would never again have stirredI the ashes of a
d'ead past. As it was lie felt his ardent love f'or
his young wife rapidly departing. It wvas as
though he had stood before a gorgeous painting,
exquisitely beautiful in appearance, and watched
some unseen hand draw aside vel after veil,
exposing hidden deformities. He was losing
too his faith in womankind. He began to look
upon them, not as the angelic creatures boyhood
ad
had painted, but as something'made of common!
clay-inferior creatures, unworthy the love of a
true man. So apt are we to judge all by one
standard. True, amid the thick mist which
enveloped everything, lie saw one face shining
on him-a face, whose purity made all things
else look dim. a face which had made the sun
light of his boyhood. And this time he drcw
{ that silken tress from its hiding place, and'
kissed it almost unconsciously. He started,
for her eyes, Lena's eyes, seemed to reproach
him with infidelity towards his young wife;
t here was nothing she scorned more than unfai t 1i
fulness.
Thus did the afternoon wear heavily away,
business was neglected-secret cells of the heart
were unlocked ; and ever and anon a voice !
whispered, " Thou art learning to despise her, !
and she thy itwf%."
When he returned home wearily, it was his
time to be cold and careless: and Muina ob.
serving this exerted herself to be as disagreea
ble as poo.ible-and succeeded beyond her most
sanguine hopes.
CHAPTER IV.
Oh! when the heart has once been riven,
The wound wil. firmly close no more;
Let memory's searching probe be driven.
i! bees. and quivers freshly sore."
Eli:a Coo..
Months passed away, and found Clarence
Staten and his wife still estranged. Moina! poor
hapless child, Made herself miserable. and every
body~ else around her. To her caprice, and
peevish discontent, she had added jealousy;
for she argued thu., " If he luves not me, he
loves some one ele." And she grew jealous
first of Julia Clare, then of Mary Hilliard
almo t her wnly friend-and lastly of anybody.
C'arenice .seemed in a stupor ; lie no longer
sought for peace at home ; and was found
oftener any where else, than at the place love
had once made so beautiful.
To own all, he saw Lena Vc.ec daily, she
having by a stnuige coincidence made the saie
city her hone. True, lie did not dare to love
her again, her cold, proud look, and haughty
gaize of un~.recognition silenced such aL feeling,
stili we all know that memory never die:,; and
he often caught himself saying, "I Lave made a
life-long mistake."
Moina grew, daily, more capricious, more
fretful, and more unhappy. Her petty wilful
ness, frequently gave way to bursts of anger;
and every time Clarence displeased her, she
threatened to "go home to her Brother Hal."
And as it seems that "misfortunes never
come singly," there came a letter from the
mother of Clarence, informing them that she
would soon pay them a visit.
" If .de enters the houe, I leave it," was
Moina's indignant exclamation.
"But, Moina I cannot close my doors against
may own not her."
" Your own mother ! F:dlesticks. I have !
no grc:t reason to re.pect your not her. ll: ii't
sh b'.en trying to puit you against me : It the
time. Do on o;u supo-e I havi't seen her letter- ?
1 tell you e e fur all, Clarence Staten, if she
enters the hou~se I leave it, and f~recer."
Leave it then--aid the sooner, the b<.tte'."
was his aigry retly; and he shut the door w ithe
To, throw on her bonniet, and order a carria;;e
was thie work of a imom'ent with Mina ; anid in
half an hour the pretty house on - treet
was; dese-rted and the beaiut v who had presided
oiver it was on her war " to brother Il:al."
Oh ! wi::at a scene rshe made of it-how shet
went otl* into st rong hysterics, and caune too
again. How :she toll ' brother Hal" she was a
forsakeni wife; and had been been driven from
her own dor, to make ro o e ubn'
mother; anad h~ow 11Halirton .stormned, raged,
and alternately pettel L hr; and vowed ven
geance on the de.,troyer of his sister's peace;
and how, in an hour, lie n:arched olr to town
laden with great wrath on his barow, anml a re
volver ini his pocket.
After he left, Moina was frightened to death,~
SHal will kill himi, or he will kill Ilal-in eith-1
er case I am miserable.".
She felt, thbat child-like, she had stuck a
lighted match to a barrel of gunpowder; and
was suflering the consequences of her own act.1
No pen can describe her wretchedness. A t one]
nioment she would cry " Poor, dlear Clary," at
the next, " well, let him suilter.'' She paced the
room up and down, she clenched her hands
together, and committed all sorts of extrava
ganCies.
How long the hoursi scenmed ! The suspense
seemedc~ so dreadful to bear. And at last-ehl!
how hier heart beat ! Hal entere:l the door,
and said with perfect nonchalance,
" Wellt little si-ter., set your heart at ease. Ii
have ii-mkhed hlim."
"~ Finishe- him !" Clary was dead then, and
her brother had killed him! With a sharp cry
sh~e fell senseless Oil tile Iloor.
When she came to her senses she was in a
p~leasanit little room that overlooked a river.
Willow branches waved on the imargiin, and a
tiny boat was fastened at the wvater's edgse. The
scent of magnolia came to her through teopeni
windowv; and a tame mockinig-bird sung ini a
tree near her, as thoughl to waken her with his
morning song.'
" Where am I--where is Mary Ililliamrd? T
Ithought she was near me."
"Not Mary illiard," and a pleasant spoken
lady emerged from her conce.dmecnt, and stood
before Moina. a~ I am your nurse for the tile
being, nm I hlope you ivill like meI."
"Who lire youl ?" said the sufferer faintly.
" I am Lena Vese of whom you have piroba
bly heard ; and' this is my contry home. You
are to stay with me, until--"
Here Moina wvas restored to consciousness ;
and tile awful past stood in array before heri
She was a u-idow, and ' brother Hal,' her hus
band's murderer, had placed her here !
Bitter was her agony, unbearable her self
reproaich! During tlie day, Lena told her,
ta hal wished to see her.
No Never let me see his face again. He
has killed my Clary-ny own, dear Clary."
Lena faithfully delivered this message to the
waiting brother; and strange, and incompre
hensible as it may seem to the reader,he laughed.
"Well Miss Vese, it works well so far. She
is not dangerous is she ?"
By no means, this illness has saved her life,
the paroxysms of pain deprive her of reflection."
"If after all we make her happy, we will be
Forgiven, will we not ?"
"I hope so for the sake of all," and the young
murse returned to her labor of love.
Hal Barton caught himself wondering, who
tould nurse him, it he should be taken sudden
y ill; he looked around at the charming room
de occupied, giving evidence of the refined taste
)f a pres:ding angel-thought. how lovely Lena
Vese looked in her tasteful white morning
.ress, and ended by saying, ( Who'd be a
machelor ?"
In three or four days Moina was able to sit
ip. Poor child! how pale and thin she looked
md how mournfally she folded her white hand-,
mni looked o'ut of tlc window.
Inena Veee enterel rather abruptly, " oh, you
egin t> look better, little invalid-we shall
;oon have the roses blooruing on your cheek
gain, nothin,- like country air, my dear. In
he mean tinme will yo see a visitor."
"You mean Ilal, poor fellow! No, Lena, I
ould not iCt to look at hi..."
"Not exactly lihi. but soen one you will ie
;lad to see."
She opened the door softly anl Moina was
olded to the heart of-Clarence Staten!
"Oh Clary! I thought yon dead. I have
ffiered. oh so much. Didn't 1ill kill you?"
No darling. or I should not lie iwr."
Lena Ve e waved a .:eekoning hand, and IIal
urton aplieared on the ?cene of action. 3Ioii;a
nade an elfort to ri-e, and he caught her to l.is
>soin.
Hal flushed a little, disengaged himself, made
flourish of hand., and began,
"As T am the orator of the d::y, I may as
vell proceel. You see my beloved little sister,
-ou hve been the victim of a hoax, but all for
our ;ood. von httle vixen. T own that I wenti
o town "on hontile thougm.hts intent"-T pro
eeded to Staten's ofie 4ith "malice afore
hought" to murder him in a wholesale manner;
ut there I learned that he had gone to the
Iotel--and what for do yen gues ? why to
,n -, and leave for "parts unknown." But
s good luck would have-it, he fell into the
ands of Miss Tee, her.., who with the priv
age bf an old frien:l, ridiculed his intention=,
d entreated him to go b::ck to yon'
" f .l 1 bess you, Lena." and aloina presseed
ter new friend's hand affectionately.
Don't interrul;t me, ladies, fur I am not yet
lone. At the IHotel I met the o:ject of my
rath, and this young htdy, where matters
vere 'xplained rati.-factorily ; ;:nd I conclutdd
t.t to kill your ii-ge lord. On tho contrary
ve lec~ae..od friends. But 2-"" were to ibe
aoled. Thn:k:; to woman's rea:ly wit in the
rson of Miss vete, you were to be puniished,
Mil cured, through your c.l uis. which are
e hest part of you1. So, I was I( lreten.
hat Staten was killed-vou know the ra.-t.
mour sul.ln ill:e.s frightened us all. But 3ik.=
Ve-e is a good- pihyeliia n. S" she had you ie
l.2ed1 he'e-..but paha ! I have sa~c id enogh."
"I de.:erved. m~yI p ient,-" s:ddl Moina;
ofily, " and I not only forgzive, but thank you
dl., for your we'll-mneanit kindncese."
A t this jumnct are, MikI Ve-'. and her guest
I 'l Burton, vani-shed ; and the wedded pair
were left a!one'. Roit I were loving each ot her
rery tenderly just then. Even Lena's b'right
yes seemed less fascinating to Clarence, than
the paile features of his suffering wife. Yes:
he lasi love was dearer than the tirit. Let us
bope that this r'econc.iliaition, unlike the others
e have witnessed, may last always.
Monia did not speedily turn inito an angel;
mlh hasty tran.,format ions are never seeni in
real life, whantever nove! writers may my to the
ontrary. But whenever she felt like ' teasing,'~
id her old toramentor, lempo-,.atruggled to us
:ape its bonds. the lashes of conscience drove it
back; and she thought of hecr well-merited
iunislnnt. Neither were so happy as they
aght have been, had both been wise at the bee
;inmning, for memory, when pirobed, contained
many a atinig ; but they wer .far happier than
they had been.
heina even tried to be gracious with her
mother-in-law, and succeeded to far as to visit
her occasionally, and sit on a chair while she
was there. I will not paint an impossibsility
and say that they learnmed to lbcr each other
they did not; but they ceasedl their perpetual
jarring, which was as much as could be expected
from natuores so dissimilar.
Poor ~Mary Ihillicard ! a deserted wife at
twenty-two! she can never- be happy herself,
but she loves to see others happy ; and is rejoiced
wvhen they escape those schoo!< and quicksands
iif life, where her freighit of happiness was early
wrecked. She is still Moina's fast friend.
And Lena Vese? she, ,whom we shamefully
neglected in the beginning of this story; aftd
who came among us so unearemonmiously--Lenla
Vese and Clarence Staten, have mutually ceased
to love each other; and Moina dloes not know
that sh owes her present happiness to her lhus
lband''s first love!
~ena Ve.-e is married to Hal Burton-didn't
you know it would be so? And she allows
him to snmoke in the parlor ; for it is hard to
f'orsake one's early ways--eh, ald bachelor ?
Moina has given up) ' teasing;' and she, and
Clarce as well ats Hal and Lena, although
they deplore the cause, do not regret the young
wife's punishment, and Lena's stratagem!
AUGUSTA Ghi.
As ]rishman whn lives with a vegetarian
writes to a friend that if he wants to knows what
ligant living is lie must comec to his house,
wvhee the brealkfat consists of nothing, and
thmmespe is of what was loft at breakfast.
For the vortiser.
THE WIFE TO, E HUSBAND.
AO- 0o7s.
Ahi! come beloved to y y wood where oft in
childhood's hou e strayed,
E'er yet with plighted wo stood beneath yon
bending willow's: ade,
And I my early drea wits tell and blush not
though thine ey ehold me
I feel thy voice's ai51 spell-thy loved and
loving arms enfdl e.
Al little did'st then dream how long I loved thee
with a hiden he ,
When e'en amidst som.buching song my sighs
would breathe an tears would start;
Thou could'st.not deem t this weak breast which
in thy joy'stood te beft re the
Long'd but to share thy itl's unrest when sorrow's
nit! was deep'ni g o'er thee.
And then die sullen yea drew on when thou must
part yet leavq no keu,
And I must bear ishar alone a grief which yet
might not he sp' ; .
Al! love, it was a featfr time, but all is past
forgotten now
Yet soaething of its yeas iful prime has fled frot
this devoted brow.'
This grieves re not, forrwell I know thy spirit
would iot love tie ess,
Thou th time upon this 1ead should snow or on
thi cheek too rtdly press;
I fre that thou wonld'st dearer be if ought to me
could make thee d'arer,
When the spring leaves o life's young tree around
thy brow are growmg serer.
Years waned and thou ' iember'est yet tl.e hour
tiat led thee haek to me
When sickened with the World we met and each
was cha- ged yet Loth were free ;
Not changed in soul, but sa lder grown, and touchel
as by the wand of rrow.
Or doomed like huds too erly blown t-, greet with
wasted bloora the morrow.
Thea once again I dared to dream, but now no
T .n re a Idea r of td dre s;
Thy spirit soothed my- 1f's rnth s:ram and
led Inc back to youth an. ..laadness;
.nd somethingdild.ourhearts sub:ue: a yearning
thought, a thought of home,
As thotul our soub. moe closely drew, c'er yet
the darker days s(ld come.
Now let them come, I fea; them not, for art not
thou beloved one e,
And is not this -time-h4Iud shot the alt'tv of.a
love divine ?
0, may the lamp that liglhts us t.ow f.:revcr on
that alt~lr burn,
And ne'er through life our spirits know one sev
. ered hour o'er which to monrn.
A coan SiDRY.
The hanner of, Nashville of Sunlav, contain
the ibllowing story:
In a re tant inmber of the i3ton Pot we
ll a veriv int r..-tin; ilat. r from its corres:pou
d.. I:, -' 1i as b r," ivingr couog 1ti(! :n-emt~::: (:of
lnl'.iS :Ins! ph''-'es ab ouit Naihvill'. Wet arse
rrmeed to omit: all of the letter emcept the co,
elutding parnraih. in which the tUllowing pl-as
storyv is roldI it certain polditicatl nol b1i lities of
or it mate. 'The ineidetnt has~ niver bethre:pre
gishied umembelr of onr Siate Seunto' ir its en
tire acenracy. This IRamler wve suspect to bte
Jhn C. Samx'e. the New Erngland poet. and the
complimient of the soeird qjualities' of our nih
bor,'Major Eastmann, contained in the r-oielumiinig
paagraph, we most heartily eimiorse. and ats to
the political sins which he ha~s committed, we
canut a ey tor. his eincouirgemn
"While the Ismnp hul out to burn," &tc.
And now for thec story:
In conclusion I nmust tell you an anecdote
whi-h, as it particularly concerns the spirit mal
welthre 4.f your ol tirirnd Major. F-'nmtman. yon
willh rend with intercst. Not more thtan tour years
ago Andrew .Johnsonu, (popnlarly c-all'.~ 'Andy')
now in the United States Senate, was the dimi
ortie' candidat~ for gover of' Tennessee
agintst Gentry, ..mecrica n. .son lnhownhow,
the notorious " fighting~ .\ethodist," of the Knox
ville Whig, wvas 'the warum partisain of' Gentry.
Eastma. as the c-ondneatOr of' the leading demo
eratie, journal, wams, of course with Johnson,
and, as is his wont, gave the enemyv vigorous
and telling btlows. Gentry was tdefeated. but in
honor of his "brav'e associates, partners of his
toil," he celebramtei thme event byv a gruad supper,
tt which Browinh~w was present. When the
copanitiy lhad got pretty deeplyj into their eups,
adwere growing rathe'r boisteromus, the par.,oni
(who happens to be am teetotaller) thought hae
aitd better retire, and was nmaking a movement
to that e-ffect, when he was stopped by Gentry
with the ob~sermvation that no minister of the
Gosdell should edme into -his house' and enjoy
his hospitality and go ott' without praying in the
family. Br-ownlow felt the rebuke anal at once
set ma'hont his duty. H~e recad a chapter in the
Bile, suing a haymn, aind commnecedm a prayer.
lie prav:1ed ihr Geintry anmd his househol andm
f-ieds;' for the welfar-e of Tenunesice, of the
national confederaey, tAbe American eagle, and
the star spangled banner ; for Chmriste-ndom ad
heathendomn ; for the universe "and the rest of
makinid4' "Anrd fmnally," said thes pgson, " we
pray thee, 0 Lord, if it be :possible, in the plen
tte of thy infinate mercy. to p)ardon and save
Ady .Johnson and E~. G.. Eastmnan." "Stop!
Sop I" exclaimed Gentry, "dont let him do
that-it acould exhaust the plan of salvatlion !,
My letter is already too long, hut I cannot
close without expressing iny' cordial thann for
many kindinesses to the final subijects of Brown
lows prayer-a genial, noble hearted gentleman,
whose fie, manly face would, go fhrther with
the janitor of Heaven than the most flattering
certificate of all the "self-electod saints" who
(as Hloodl says) think they've "cribbed the im
pression of St. Peter's keys in wax."
A grave' digger, who buried a Mr. Button,
~laedt the following iteni in a bill which lie
sent to the widow of the deceased: 'To mnak
ing a JButton hole, $5.'
A SPEareH FROf BILI.y BoWLF.s--iowlegs
has been making another speech at New Orleans
Here is the document:
" I statnd up here big chief, brave war-rir. I
kill heap your people belore, I can do him again
easy ; give Billy seven good nien to follow on
the war truck, and lie lick all the United States,
sclig fa athe at Washikton! Whoop!
TIlE EMPTY CRDE
The death of a little child is to the mother'.
heart like the dew on a plant, from which a bud
has just perished. The plant lifts up its head in
freshened greenness to the morning light ; so
the mother's soul gathers frot dark sorrow
which she has passed, a fresh brightening of her
heavenly hopes.
As she bends over the empty cradle, and fan.
c brings her sweet infant before her, a ray of di
vine light is on the cherub face. It is her son
still, but with the seal of immortality on his
brow. She feels that Heaven was the only at
mosphere where her precious flower could unfold
without spot or bleiSh, and she would not re
call the lost. But the anniversary of his de
parture seems to bring his spiritual presence
near her. She indulges in that tender grief
which soothes, like an opiate in pain, all hard
passages and cares in life. The world to her
is no~longer filled with human love and hope in
the future, so glorious with heavenly love and
-joy ; she has treasures of happiness which the
-orldly, unchastened heart never conceived.
The bright fresh flowers with which she has dee
orated,her room, the apartment where her infant
died, are mementoes of the far brighter hopes
now drawing on her day dream. She thinks of
the glory and beauty of the new Jerusalem,
wheruthe little foot will never find a thorn among
the flowers, to render a shoe necessary. Nor
will a pillow be wanted for the dear head repo
sing on the breast of a kind Savior. And she
knows that her infant is there in that world of
etiernal bliss.
She marked one passage in that book, to her
emphatieally the World of Life, now tying closed
on the toilet table, which she daily reads: " Suf
for little chiildreni to come unto nme, for such is
the kingdoa of Heaven."-- ood News.
WRAPn'- DE W.Y TO CANAAN? --Mrs. Stowe'
book ' Dred,' teaches many a lesson'to white
folk.s through a dar k medium, and not the lea-t
pointed one is the rebuke given Christian de
nominations by 1,Old Tiff;' for their mints, anaie,
and cummnin' wranalcs, while inrpirers asking
the plan of salvation. Old Tiff has the care of
the children of his dead nistres, and having
told them that their nother had gone to the
land of Canaam, one inquires Rs fillows:
"1 ncle Tiff. where t4 the hnd of Canaan 1'
1"e Lord a-einery, child. dat a's what I'd
like to know nyself.- I's stuldin' upon tint ar.
l's gwine to campi-mcetin' to find out. l's been
to plenty of drei ar-. and never could quite see
clar. Pe:rs like dey talk about everything else
muor'n de dues about dat. Dere's de Methr,
dists, dey cut up de I'resbyter'ans, and de
Prcsbvter'ans pitches into de Methodists; and
den both on 'ena down o' de Piscopals. My
ole miss' era;i a Piscopal, and I never see.d no
harm in it. An do Baptists think dev a'nt
none on 'em right ; and while dev's a blow.in'
out at each other dat ar' way, I' trnderin'
citer's der :ry to Canaan."
A coquette is a rose-bush, from which every
young beau plucks a leaf, and the thorns are
left for the hu-band.
Mr. Singletiek mystified .a tea-party by re
markinr, that women are fhcts. When pressed
to exphaiin his meaning, he said " Facts are stub
born .hinigs."
A fl!e coat may cover a fool, but never con
c-als one.
W::.,. dill DIr. Mlott ray, "The finished gam
blur hr no heart; he would pl:iv at his broth
er's funeral-l:e would gaamblc upon his mct her's
coffin." Ie ource Walpole ment ions an anecdote
of a man'. haviing, in his time, dropped down at
the door of White's Club-House, into whit-h he
wa.: carried. The imemzbers of the club inmnue
diateh- made bets whether he was dead or not,
andi uipin its bting pr roI.o-el to f.leed him, the
ware:(r" fir his dIatii intLih'u--ed, alleging that
it would ive tnf:.iea.< to the bet.
W '.nu-r o lhDors.-The poor creature, Crock
- et, who is to ie hung shoity ti foer his participa.
tion un the m-~urde~r of old M\r. Landirumi nat .\t
hante, for- the .-an nof,/i//fi ce ecu/sq, was biroughit
to his unfor-tunait end be~ habits. of idiene-ss and~
dis.<ipationm.-.Judge llull, in passing senti-nce
i upon him.ii coijures-d the y-oung men psresenit to
t~ike watrninig. Tlhey eannot he' too often wvarned.
Iriier.cs i.<* er:iuue! In the parabile of the ten
tahi-ints this doctrine is clearly developed. It
does not a ppr~ar t hat the servanit who buried his
talent was iniCl l:hhabt ofi comminitting crimes
andl vm lie is (:al!led " wiecd. Why? Jheause
he wras lizr--idle.-.f/ens 11i:!e/nwan.
.\iftuN1osM Priu~n-ot Carolina is a
kimd Sttie tioi midge in umore thanz one wife. At
Cuimberlaind Supreme Court last week, II. C.
lhari let, couivict-d of bigamy, was se-nteniedl to
lie brawiled oin the left dce k wi;h the letter B,
to receive thirtv-rline lashes on his bare back, to
be iminprisoned 'thirtmy davs andI then to, receive
thirtyv-ine lashe-s niore, und to be het loose, le
had inarried four wi v-s. -
A Giw.rr Rtiiac FeATr I: C.ui.w~~l.An .-A
great riding t'eat was acconmplishedl on the Union
IR1ace Couirse, neai- Sacranmnto, Cal., on the 2nd
inist. .Iaek Powers, an Irishman,.whio has been
in C.aliforniia a gre-at nmany years, and hais be.
cioiun almost half Spainish, ride 1.50 mijles in 6
hor n 1 inuntes, or at the rate of a ile in
2 iniute-s andl *0 .seconids. The best tine was
the' first milie in :2 minutes and i8 seconids and
the worst was the Utlth nmile, which was made in
10 mlinuites and 241 seconds. Hie used 24 hiorse~s,
all of Califoruia stock. aind rode none more than
four mileA nor less than one mile. He mounted
72 iimes in the course of his race. Ten thou
sand persons were present. Powvers had a bet
of 82.500 that he would ran li hi 5f miilesq in
eight hours. anid the result showed that lie haid
an hoiur and seventeen minutes to spare. To
wards the end of' his task lie began to spit hhood
anad show signs of weakness, but it'is said these
wereenily tricks to get bets ouit of tihe green
ones. Ho weighs 150 pounds andl rode upon a
full ilgged California satddle stogenough to
boll a bull by the pommel, and weighing forty
pounds.
Thero is a cockney youth who every time lie
wishes to ge't a glimipse of his sweetheart, calls
out " Fire!"' directly nuder the wiudoiv. In the
alarm of tihe moment she plunges her head out
of' the wvindlow, and inquires. " Where?" The
lover then poetically slaps himself on the bosom,
andi exclaims, 'tre, rmy Hangellina!I"
A.RoMANeCi.-Laur-a is a daughter of a weal
thy fturiier for whom Tonm Barnes was' plough
hoy. Tonm, the rogue, stule Lauira's heart and
then hersei lf.lThy ran away and by legal pro
cess got spliced. Old Lee offered five. hundr'ed
dollars fori the~ recovery of his daughter. The
young couple concluded to go hack and take the
mniey aind the curses. Wh'Ien they arriv-ed, they
we-re agreeably astoniished to find themselves
heartily forgiven by the old man, and awarded a
homestead anid finrm of sixty neres, T4herq wa-s
common sense all round,
A TRAIu ON A OaalrT-DA.-Mlr. Makeweighit
has gone into the country. We asked him
whether Ito was going to take thme eleven o'clock
A. M. train, or the three o'clock P. M. boat.
"Neither," he replied; "I am only going to
ta a calnet-hag."
Tuc CTUone: CHWRcnt AND SLAVERY AITA
TiON.-Tie Archbishop and Bishops of the
Catholic Church, recently assembled in provin
cial Council at Baltimore, issued before the ad.
journment of the Council, a pastoral letter to
the Catholic clergy and laity of the United
States. We take from that letter the following
extract in reference to the agitation of the sub
ject of slavery:
"Altnough history plainly testifies that the
church has always befriended the poor and la
boring classes, and effectually procured the miti
gation of the evils attached to servitude, until
through her mild influence it passed aw.ay from
the nations of Europe, yet she has never dis.
turhed established order or endangered the peace
of society by following theories of philanthropy.
"Faithful to the teachings and example of
the apostles, she has always taught servants to
obey their masters, not serving to the eye merely,
but as to Christ, and in His name she commands
masters to treat their servants with humanity
and justice, reminding them that they also have
a Master in heaven. We have not-, therefore,
found it necessary to modify our teaching with
a view of adapting it to local circumstances.
Among us there has been no agitation on this
subject. Our clergy have wiselyahstuined from
all interference with the judgment of the faith
ful, which should be free on all questions of
polity and social order, within the limits of the
doctrine and law of Christ. We exhort you,
venerable brethren, to pursue this course, so be
coming "the ministers of Christ and the dispen
sers of the mysteries of God." Let the dead
bury their dead. Leave to worldings the cares
and anxieties of political partizanship, the strug
gles for ascendancy, and the mortifications of
disappointed ambition. Do not, in. any way,
identify the interests of our holy faith with the
fortunes of any party; but, preaching peace
and good will to all innkind, study only to win
to truth the deluded children of error, and to
merit the confidence of your dlocks, so that, be
coting all to all, y.u may gain all to Christ.'
A G~av AFFAI.-A rich manufacturer
namned Oppelt, died about fifteen years since at
Reichenberg, in Austria, and a vault was built
by his widow and children in the cemetery for
thle reception of the body. The widow died
about a month ago, and was taken to the same
totb; but when it was opened tr that purpose
I the coffin of her husband was found open and
empty, and the skeleton of the deceased discov
ered in a corner of the vault in a sitting posture.
A commission was appointed by the authorities
to examine into the aflitir, when they gave their
opinion that M. Oppelt was only in a trance
when buried, a!.d that an coming to life he had
forced open the coffin.
LAnos FIEL OF PINEAPrr.a.-In Liberia, a
few miles northward from Monrovia, towards
Cape Mount, is a tract of land about a mile
from the beach, of more than ten miles in extent,
entirely covered with pineapples. The fruit buds
out in April and May, and ripens in August and
September. It is of a delicious flavor. The
apples are taken to Monrovia in considerable
gnattities, where they are sold as low as two for
a cent. Pineapples grow wild in the woods, and
thousands of them are seen in half an hour's
walk. Mr. Bowen, a missionary, was in Liberia,
and in his book "Central Africa, 1857," says the
pineapple flourishes very well in the woods of
Liberia, and is superior to any we can prpcure
in this country.
i,nsn R.tcixr, IN Axamnrct.-The Boston
Tran:rrip( claims that horse racing may now
be regardel as one of the "ins-itutious" of
America, as it long has been of England, and
if racing is not considered an institution in
a country where the number of races averages
three a d'ay, Sundays included ; where more than
fifteen hun:dred horse" are kept in training for
the ;:.urpose of making miloney and affording
antu-muunt : where upwards of a million of dol
lars is yearly expended in its support; and
where f rtunes are mnale and lost in tl:e course
of' "the s~mson"-we cannot imagine to what
extent it is necessary to carry the business, in
order to have it regairded as a " popular anmust.
mnent, or "national sport."
Caos.;.-EtmxAio.--"Mr-. witness, you
stated that niy client mainifested great astonish
ment when you told him the facts you just sta
ted. Now hmow did lie manifest astonishment ?"
"lie looked astonished." -
" But what were the mndications of astonish-.
mient, sir ? You seem to be a very smart wit
ness and ought to he able to tell me this."
" O,1 merely judged of his feelings by his
general appearance."
" That won't answer sir. If you can't de
scribme the appearance of my client: when as
tonished, in order to give the jury anm idea o'f it,
suppose you look astonuishft/, once yourself!"
" That I will do, if you will show -nme some
thing astonishing."
" Well, now, my sharp fellow what would
astonish such an astonishing witness as your
self, hecy ?"
" Why if you want to paralyze me with as
tonishmnent, just show mae an honegt lawryer!"
"Th-the--wi--witness can take his seat."
I-r is said some babies are so small that they
can creep into a quart measure. An Alabama
cutempjorary makes fun of this, and says the
way adumlts in that State walk into such meca
sur-es is astonishing. H[is word is good, if expe
rience can be relied on.
A COMPraO>:se WohmAN.-The Richmond
Seuth says: " Our pen recoils from the duty
yet it is otur province to record the revolting
tact, that a wbite woman in Mecklenburg county.
Virginia, buecamne the mnother, a few dlays since.
uf tibur ehildlren, two of wvhom were cf her own
color and the other two black."
CAu~tronYIat Sromsr.-The Marysville (Cal.)
Herald girrs the following account of somuething
new under the sun:
IA wvhimling match lately came off at Moke
liumn Hill. Two whistlers commenced at 9&
o'clock in the fvening, and kept it up till ten
minutes of two the next morning, when one of
them caved in, and was forced to stretch his
mouuth in all sorts of shapes to get the " puck
er" taken out of it. lHe "allowed" his lips felt
"like they was the toe of an old boot, with a
large hole in it."
The best cure for hysterics is to discharge
the servant girl. Some women think they
want a physician when they only need a scrub
bing-baush.
THIE Brs-r PL~ACF FOR BABIEs.-" Mother,"
said a little three-year-old, whose nose had
been " put out of joint," by the recent arrival
of a baby brother, "Muther, if the baby should
die, wouild it go to heaven ?" " Certainlym
child," responded the parent, " Then I thin$
heaven is the best place for him," was the affee
tioinate sister's conclusion.
THE Isl.AND OF CCHA.-There are sixty sea
ports in Cuba, and last year there were thrbe
thousand six hundred and eighty coatwise arri
vals, and three thousand six hundred and fifty
nine clearances. This will give an idea of the
trade of this beautiful island, which is not more
tha.. halr onitvatad ndera the nresent regm.
SENATOR HAMIOND.
The following is the official report of Senator
Hammond's in reply to Senator Tombs of Geor
ria, who, while the report and resolutions of the
Committee on Foreign Affairs were under dis
cussion, said that he wanted the British cruisers
captured :
I wish to say. Mr. President that I -differ with
the honorahle Senator from Georgia. I. think
there is much substance in these resolutions; I
think the resolutions for the committee on For
eigh Relations have taken high, strong clear
and true ground ; and that if it is maintained
earnestly and faithfully by this (Government and- -
by the country, they will accomplish all our pur
poses. It is not a small thing to resolve that we
are determined that England shall abandon the
right of search. I think it will probably bring
war. I hardly believe that England will aban
don the right of search without a war.
I am not for making a declaration of war by
indirection. If it is the intention of the Senate,
if it is the will of this country, .whether we are
prepared or not. to go into a war, let us make a
formal declaration of war. It is a momentous
matter. Let it be done with all proper form. If
we intend to abandon the ancient usages, if we
omit the " Feciakc" of the romans, and send: no
messengors for explanation; let us at least cast
the bloody spear in due and solemn form. I am
not willing to be swept by the very first wave of
public excitement into so great a war as this;
still less am I willing to be smuggled into it by
an amendment to an amendment. If we intend
war let us declare war. I do not say that I am
opposed to it. We have just.and ample cause
of war.
We have receieved the most flagrant insults ;
and I repeat that if this country is prepared to
into it and will make a solemn declaration 6#
war, I shall not stand back, nor will the people
whom I represent. But a war with England
will be the most momentous event of the last
three centuries, if not in any century sine the
world began. I am not blind to the disasters
and calamities the earlier periods of it will prob
ably inflict on us ; yet I believe that if Etgland
provokes us to it, she will be rushing on her fate.
It is perhaps inevitable, sooner or later, and
thenever she sets her time for it, that must he
our time. But, sir, let us adhere to these reso
intions : let us giv.e her a chance to postpone an
event which, whenever it comes, will -change the
whole face of human affairs.
A correspondent of the New York Times,
writing from New Orleans, says:
" Bad as we of the North believe slavery to
be,.1 have yet to see the first sign of the squalid
wretchedness, poverty, and degradation among
the blacks here, which we daily see among the
blacks and the foreigners of the North.
"I have been in several of the chureles built
for the slaves, and I have seen crowds of -them
worshipping with their masters in the same
great congregation. They are wonderfully im
pressible, uttering their feelings in the very
midst of the services-.sometimes by. a simples
"Yes, yes;" sometimes by a long low wail, or
a sweet plaintive musical sound that goes all
over the congregation, and often a. shriek fr'ma
some female voice, followed witha.spasmodic
uplifting of the hands; and then asligbt swpon,
which draws together a crowd of sympathizing
negroea, who attend. to the subject until she is
restored to consciousness. All the' while .the
services go on as if nothing was the matter, the
preacher evidently satisfied with this evidence
of his power over his audience." -
TaEc Srcs.-The Baltimore Republican
notices three things which have just come .to
band that are strong signs that sectional agita
tion upon the slavery question has had its day:
"1. The speeches of Mr. Pryor and others in
the Southern Convention against the revival of
the slave trade.
" 2. The refusal of the National Tract Socie
ty to lend itself, through its publications, to
the objects of Abolitio.nists.
"3. The refusal of the California Legislature
to receive free negroes within the limits of that
State."
When Kean first played Sir Giles Overreach,
(June 1816,) he made as groat an impression on
ui., fellow-~actors as on his audience ; insomuch,
that they agreed to present him with a silver
cup. When Munden was applied to, he replied
in his peculiar manner, "I've no objection to
your cupping Mr. Keen, but Ill be hanged if
you shall ideed inc."
THiE Cmt.p.-The first mention of it to he
found in any Anmerican diocumnent is ina the fol
lowing advertiswement, from a Boston paper pub
lished about the year 1760:
" Brought from Havana, a box of Cigaros, a
very rare' article. The best of tobacco, roll'ed
nyp to the size of a small Finger, and of about
!ive inches in length, Tor smoking. They are
preferred by the Spanish Dons to the Pipe.
fhose who may wish to enjoy such a Luxury,
will please call and try them.
" WILLIAM STOCKTON."
AN IvNIDE CONVERRED.-Th~e English corres
pondent of the Zion's Herald writes:
"Thonias Coope, the noted sceptie, and author
of '"The Purgatory of Suicides," has recently be
come a convert to Christianity ; and after having
spent thirty years of his life in lecturing and
wvritinig againstt the Bible, he is naw striving to
.nake replaration for the mischief he must, have
Junme, by lecturing in defence of the Sacred
.scripture~s."
On.a NAToN~u. DEFEN~Crs.--The Washington
Union urges the importance of strengthenmng
-he national defences. It is persuaded that,
whileahe admintistration is deeply sensible of its
ituty to protect the people from actual aggression,
or in the anticipation of danger, there is gross
inetliciencey in the preparations for the contin.
gency of a war.
QUEER DuciszoN.-A judge of Evansville, lad.,
has discharged Richard Webb, aceund of hav
tng two wives because it was proved that one of
ais wives was over 14 years ot age. According
to the construction the judge placed upon the
law, a man may marry as many wivea as he cho
s, provided they are not over fourteen years of
age at the time.
An editor, who has probably sufer~ed some
tells people how to stop a paper. He says:
"call at the office and fork up arrearages, and
:,rder it stopped, like a man, and not retuse to
:ake it ont of the post office, and sneink away-like
a puppy."
OmancnD 'ro nE Ct~osD.--It is stated that the
Vice President has ordered the refectory attaecd
to the United States Senate to -be closed on ae.
count of the obvious injury to the progress of leg
islation from it, besides the fact that it crestes -
personal difficulties..
G EN. IHousvoN.--A Washington remer baa 'it
that Gen. Hlouston is about to head.56,000 men
and immediately invade Mexico, -with -the vicw
of " Texasizing" another slice of it, and bring-it
into the Union, and with it Houston intoth's Sen.
ate. Rather adoubtfunlstory. e ec
Cream msay be frozen by simply puitting it ina
to a glass vessel, and ~then plaeang theirlile .ia