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VOLUME II. LANCASTER, C. II., S0UT1I CAROLINA WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 26.1853. NI1 Mil Ell 38
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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