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She mourned them all with patient love, But since hor eves had shed ' Far bitterer tears than those which dewed The faces of tho dead. The child which hud beon spared to her, her darling and her pride, The woeful mother lived to wish she had al?? died !? Those little ones beneath the snow, Not. lost, but gone before \ Faith taught her all was well with 'them, , And then tho pang was o'er; But when she thought where Katie was, she saw ? ' the city,s glare. The painted mask of bitter joy which Ned gives ? Sin to wear. Without the snow was thick and white, No step had fallen there: ' Within she sat beside her fire, Each thought a, silent prayer, When suddenly, behind her sent, unwonted noiwe she heard, ? 1 As though n hesitating hand the rustic hitch had stirred, She turned, and there the wanderer stood, With Biiow-flnk.cn on her hair A faded woman, wild and worn, The ghost of something fair. And then upon tho mother's neck the withered brow was laid, "Can God and you iby-glVo me all? An- 1 have \ sinnod," she saidi* .;. & ? ? .; \ Tho widow dropped lipon her kriee.?, Ilofore the fading fife, .... a And thanked the Lord, whose loving hand Had granted her desire. The daughter Kneejcd beside her too, tears stream ing from her eyes, And prnyod, "Gad help me to be good to mother ere bIio dies!" ' They did riot talk about the sin,.? . The shame, the bitter w?ct ? They *noko about those little graves, A *d things* oflon'g ago. ? ' ? And then tho ^ughtor raised her eyes, and said in tondcr tcW; . -Why did you keep the oV01' unbarred when ypu "wero quite alone?" '?My child," the widow said, nad smiled ?A smile of love and pain: "I kept it so lest you should come, And tarn away ugnin:. I've waited for you all the while?a mother's love is true; Vet W'U but tlio shadowy fypc' of His who died for you.'" LITERARY. S E LEGTET).. * ? ? MUSTAPHA THE PHILANTHROPIST. A TALE OF ASIA MINOR. ./?\. ??._ Mustapha Bcu Mustapha,- Ben Ali, Ben' Kalcd, thou wast well-known, long-loved, and deeply-lamented. Tears arc still shed upon the turban stone that marks the spot "Where thy re mains'sleep the'sleep of the holy ; the young men pray to bo like thee, brave, beautiful, and beloved; the old men thank Allah, that thou wast the light or their infancy, and the glory of their land.' Yet thy sun was k>ng clouded by sorrow, thy name was long stained by calumny, atnd anguish long bowed to the earth the brow that was yot to wear the heron plume of power, and the diamond chclppck of Ihc favor of the Sultan, king of kings. Tho father of. Mustapha was ono of the beys of Karnmnnia, the chief of a tribe, the lord of a hundred villages, and crowning alljbis honors with the glory of having made tho pilgrimage to Mecca. Thtts rich, powerful, and a lladgi, be-.had obtained the.highest rank of felicity allotted to mortal man; his name became a .proverb throughout Anatolia for prosperity; and when the Mol Iah blessed the marriages of 'the Moslem, hd alwayB added, 'fMay thy good fortune be as tho good fortuuo of the Boy Mus tapha, and may thy head bo as firmly fixed/on thy shoulders; may thy purse as.long escape public robbery, and mayst thou, like him, sleep on tho pillow of security, till thou gnost to the world where men are neither plundered, be headed, nor boWstringed, because they aro richer, hotter, or longer-lived, than their neigh bors." But all havo i^.oW .troubles. There never was a sky which will not show a cloud now and then. There never was a lake without a rip ple. KVon the Bey M ustapha had his t roubles. They caipe in the shape uf a son; that sou was tho finest youth in all Karamania, handsome, generous, braVc, and- beloved. Tho old B?jr gazed on him with -prido, the tribe,-with vcno rotioo; he - Was tho theme of the poet's song, ?of tho story-toller's talc, uiul of tho warriors' carousal. But in the midst of thoso bright prospects, there was u spot which .looked full of storm, to the. eye of the sagacious father. His sen \\ was genius; the Bey was a man of sonso, his son was a speculator; the Boy was content with the world as ho found it, his son w&b a philosopher; but the Bey pointed, towards the distant towers of Constantinople, and asked whether philosophy could keep him out of their dungeons? At length his time was comedos it comes to all. ? Pr?in his pillow, which over looked one of the mast smiling prospects of Asia Minor, ho gave his gallant aud sorrowing, son charge over his inheritance; finally he put into his hands an emerald siguot, wrought with a mysterious inscription. "This," said the old man ; "is tho talisman of our house; it haB kept us safe even Under the scym'etar of the sultan, for nTiundrcd and fifty years. Keep it, until, you must give it up, like me, with all things human." His son took tho talisman with tears aud awe, prcssoa it. to his lips, and then attempted to decipher the inscription. It was totally unintelligible to him. "The lan guage," said .the' Boy; "in which those words are writton, is not capable of' being read by one in a thousand, of any time of life; nor by ono in a milliou of yours. If you shall die without learning it, you shall die in a tlungbcn ; therefore learn it, son of my "heart, as soon as you can." The Bey's, voice had already sunk to a WJiJspoT. 11U son clasped his hand in filial' anguish, and knelt beside the couch of the dying chief. ""Where," asked he, "is this sacred language to be learned. 0 my father?" They Bey was silent; speech had perished on" his lips; bid. he pointed to heav.cn, and then, with his hand on tho head of his son, gave his spirit to the angels >Mustapha was proclaimed Bey by the'accla mations of a thousand of the linest horsemen in Anatolia. The world- spread around him a prospect of beauty. (Jold aud jewels were liko sand before him.' Tho morning.rose on the prayers of. his people for his prosperity, and the 'evening heard .the cry of , tlie ^U^.aii^rc l urn cd by the songs' of the Knriunnihn shep herds from the hills, in praise of Mustapha the | flower of-the land; but tho acclamations of the thousand horsemen were more grateful to the .car of the young warrior*,. Their squadrons, galloping on the plu.n before the palace, the flushing of their seyinctars, their adroitness with the pistol and the spear, kindled the pas s'?n which finds a place in the bosom of every Anatolian voutb, In his glowihg.tcmpcramcnt it blazed into. * devouring (lame. But the flame must wait for a ven? In tho meantime, he set his vivid iuvontiou to work: his quick eyo saw a hundred defects in the equipment , management, and manoeuvres, of bis troops. He introduced remedies for them all. But the troops Haw no necessity for their being wiser than their fathers. Like them, they could shoot an eng!? on winS> and cut through u turban at a stroke.?-rom up ? charger in full gallop, and slice n Persian or CP*"'w*?n 8kirm' ishcr from the crown of the head to Tu? chin; But. their chieftain must be obeyed He was obeyed, and his popularity instantly fell' fifty degrees. Mustapha keenly felt the difference between the faint .cry with which ho was welcomed in his next exercise of the squadrons, and the ar dent acclamation that hailed his former pres ence. But his conviction of the true impor tance of the improvements was too strong to suffer him to go back. "They arc my chil dren," said he, as he rot urued. dejectedly from one of those djiys in which his horsemen bad manoeuvred incomparably on the new plan. bad suffered him tit depart from the field with out the waving of a sword. '?! must treat them as-such, bear with their follies, and leave them to have more sense jis they get more knowledge. But it is unfortunate that we have no war. A week's real work would teach them the use of those changes, und they would then know how to value them as they desorvo." As ho was reaching bis palace, in a gloomier mood than he had ever-felt, before, be saw a horseman riding down the neighboring bill at full speed. As he approached, the yellow cap. and the imperial dragon on his breast showed thai, hin was one of the Tartars of the Porte, lie brought dispatches. They announced that the Muscovite dogs bad dared to bark at the sublime Father of the faithful, and, what wns more, to bite; that the Sultan had already con descended to retreat before the Infidel* for the mere purpose of destroying them within his own territory, and thus fertilizing his fields with their bones;.that the Muscovite dogs being inspired by Satan, and not seeing the purpose of this discreet movement, bail follow ed his Mightiness the Vizier, had dared to at tack him two several times,?for which might their souls be speedily given to tho black an Lgcl Monkiar, aud their bodies to the ditches of j Bulgaria,?even had the additional, insolence ' to seize his cannon and baggage, aud'actually ' iJSL. ' ? ' ' g ' " * piiabfea1 their madness, to thc^ extent of. threat en imjf*to march on Constantinople. The dis patch- concluded , with ? b command that the thousand cavalry under the ordors of tho Bey Mustapha, should instantly march to join this faithful army of iho Padishah, in driving the Infidels .Into the Danube. The dark eyes of Mustapha flashed fire as he read tho words. He VtOo/how in the path to honors unbounded; his quick-' imagination saw before him fame, commands, national hpmage. He ordered the trumpets instantly to sound, recalled his Jiorse men eagerly, and told them tho tidiqgs. The Karnmani?n is brave by nature. Ho loves plunder, victory, gold-Kilted scymetars, and fiho horsgfj* ajid he expected to find them all on the west of tho Propoutis. The squadrons 'were..weary of tlicir days of discipline. They flourished their pikes and swords rejoicingly, and.rave.tho young Bey the first shout that ho had heard from them for a month. '? In fpur and-twenty hours he was in march, and .the march, nevef halted until he was in view of the bright waters of tho Bosphorus. All? hitherto was cxnita?on. The showy Bey and his Arjib charger shared tho praises of tlip* whole "Moslem populace* who thought it worthHheir while to. leave their coffee cups, to sec t|ic handsomest soldier mounted on the hands?mer-t horse in the Ottoman dominions. ? His cavalry won the noxt praise. Never had the idjers of Constantinople seen such dashing rider?f so capitally equipped, with turbans so rich, -':caftans so embroidered, and boots so. worthy ? t\\c Sultan's body guard. The Eu rOpca? Spahls looked on with envy; but tho Delhis who always come from Anatolia, and go, fa|e only knows where, triumphed yi so hrill'urnt a body of comrades, and swOrc that they were worthy to fall into their rear. Noth ing eojnld he a higher compliment. SB . .? ? ThOir. trial soon came. From the summit oi a low'jrangc of barren hills in Bulgaria, Mus taphafpne day sa'w a mob of foot and. horse rambling about the country, some quarrelling, some robbing, some cooking, and some with their fogs, loose, looking for game. Ho iu qriiredf?f a peasant what this strange medley meant^j To his utter astonishment he wus told, that tlrjs was the Turkish army. This wis onor^P^Ui'^?iiise of-their defeats was evident. What could he done against the "Muscovite bayonets and guns, with an army one half of whom -were forced to rob for food, and tho other to rob robbers? His geuious was instantly on the alert. Ho conceived a plan for at once restoring their discipline, and supplying their food; and determined to take the first opportu nity of earning immortal fame !>}? enlightening the brains of the blundering Vizier. But what was to be done with a commnndcr-in-chicf who had been a slippcr-makcr, and had never known thcAi.se of steel but in his own awl ? His high ness listened to the plan of the young Boy with a smile; said that it was excellent, but im practicable; that the Ottomans had been in the habit of conquering heir*enemies without these new inventions, and by the blessing of Mahomet, they would cououor them still. The Vizier having said thus much, made a sign to one of his attendants, and dropping his head on the sofa, fell asleep. "*J;>stapha indignantly returned to his tent. Sonic ot his offiuC!? came round him on his en trance. ''Comrades," said he, "I havo failed. My infallible plan has been thrown away.oil the ears of that hog of a slippcr-makcr. He was drunk when I .went, he was asleep when I came away. So, fight or fight not, we must be starved." He rushed into the tent, and un buckling his scymctar, began to meditate on the first fruits of his gl<>ry. A sliglit noise roused him ; and he saw one of the Cnpidgis, with the Vizier's order for his head in one hand, and the bowstring in the other. It was clear that he had not yet learned to read the language of tin* talisman. The Capidgi came forward, to teach him a lesson on the liberty of speech. A true Turk would have given his neck in return. But Mustapha was .too new to lifo to have acquired its perfect courtesies. He was a mountaineer, and rude in proportion. His only answer to the respectful salutation of the Capidgi. was a blow with the hilt of his loosened scmytar which brought the Sultan's officer to the ground. He then tore the, order, and kicked the unfortunate, instrument of jus tice out of tho tent.' He was on the point of mounting his charger, to lay the whole affair before the Divan, when a most flattering mes sage arrived from the. Vtzier, apologizing for "the misconduct of the officer, who was on the point of being bastinadoed for his error," and requesting tho company of tho Bey to take coffee, and receive tho command of a brigade .of cavalry. Mustapha was instantly appeased, lie flew to tho Vizier's tent, was welcomed with remarkable graciousness, and-was in the act of smoking Uie pipo of honor, when he felt his bands bound, and was marched, with out another word, to the rear of the tent, wlwre, on looking for his accusers, he could sec nothing but tho .same Capidgi, bowing with habitual grace, and half a dozen mutes, ready to per form that ceremony upon h'im whielj supersedes all others. - This comes," he murmured bit terly, "of attempting to put knowledge Into the heads of asses*, Let'ino escape but this once/ and the world may fool itself after its own way for the rest of my. existence.''. The reflection was tardy, for the mutes were. fn. the act of. fastening the string round his neck", Another moment would have extinguished the man of genius. But at that moment a shell whizzing through the air,, dropped into the centre of the group. Tho applicant of the string was Crushed into mummy. Three other were shat tered into fragments by the explosion. Mus tapha stood a free it nb again. Tho Vizier's tent was set in a blaze, and he rushed through it in the confusion and regained his.own; in in finite wrath with blunderers Of all kinds; but not yet including the teacher of tactics to slip per-mukers. [To bp Continued.'} ? i M TS C ELLA .N* E- O U S . Pertinent Questions Answered. The New Orleans Times contains the follow ing pertinent buT of catechism^ which will, puzzle the Radicals to confute: Bid the Northern States ever-have- tho in stitution of slavery t Yos. , Did they free their slaves ? No,. How did they get rid of the accursed things? They sold ? their slaves-to tho people of the | South. Why did they discontinue slavery in their midst ? Beoausc it paid .better to sell their slaves thau to keep them. i Did they make any provision .for the future freedom of their slaves when they sold them ? ?No. .* . ft - . \ ' ? . .. ; r.j What' States whero chiofly engaged in the slave trade ?. Tho Northern States. Did they continue the trade.after slavery was abolished in their midst ?? Yes?they con tinued it until tho commencement of the war. - ? Which of the Northern States had the great est number of vessels ongaged.in this trade and made most money by kidnapping poor Africans and selling them into bondage ? Massachu setts. Could not Congress have, passed,a gradual emancipation aud colonization act^ allowing a moderate compensation for slaves ?? It could. ? Would such au act have been accepted by the South ? Undoubtedly. .What prointcd the rebellion in tl\e South ? An assurance that tho very men from whom originally the Southern people pnrehnsod their slaves, alter they had been stolen from Africa;* were determined to release' them ? without a restitution of their own ' ill-gotton gains in.the premises, and to make use of the F reed men as tools, in order to perpetuate their own political supremacy: Have the fears of tho South been realized ? Yes. - ? *. , ... . ? ( m . It is unnecessary to make further extracts from this suggestive and retrospective cate chism. If order is to be brought forth from the existing chaos, the people of the whole country must forget-their bickerings, and ex-, hihit a spirit of mutual forbearance. I ?-i-?? A Heurt-I* ending Episode.' j The Loudoh Morning Herald's military cor | respondent gives the following story i u\ farmer, living in a hamlet near Possnitz." had a wife and two children, and such was j that woman's terror of the.' Prussians, when* she heard they were coming, that her husband, to satisfy her, placed her in an underground collar, with her two little ones, and built up the doorway, leaving somo food inside. Tho Prussians cntored the place, and, among others, obliged this poor man to .accompany them, with his horse and cart, for a day's journey, they said. But tho man was brought.on from place to place, and at last, when he was suf fered to roturt and reach his own house, several days had elapsed. Oft the way hack he began to calculate. howMlttle food he had loft with his wife and children ; .and' horror stricken at the dread Ail thought that their cries might not be heard, his hair is said'to have turned white on his homownrd journey. His fears wero but too I real. Ho toro down tho masonry, searched for those so deur to him, but only found thrco life less bodies half devoured by rats, Benson left him at the dreadful sight, and he is now in the hospital a. lunatic." . . ' * Tiik Good Wifk.?She. oonuuandeth her husband in any equal matter, by constantly obeying him. She never crosscth her husband in the spring-tide of his anger, but stays till it be eb bing-watcr. Suroly men contrary to iron, aro worst to bo wrought upon* when they arc hot. Her clothes arc rather comely than costly.. and she makes plain cloth to be vclyct by her handsome wearing it. . ? Her husbnnd's secrets sbo will not divdlgo; especially she -Is enroful to conceal* his infirm ities - -.In her h'usbnnd's absence she" is wife and deputy husbandS which iSvW^liw 15 files of her diHgtacc. At Mb -tteturVrhid find? ' all things 80* well, that he wonders-to see >.im.' j" sei/at fcoiae when he was abt?nt - ; ; - "Her- ehildreii.thoogK many-in ? nniribtfty *f&... ^ fidno" in* nouaj" steering*' t&eia # U$n%-. ?,, whither.she Ksteth.'1- ' .. Tho heaviest work of-be? eotvO?? 3 she fnii keth light, by ofclerly- tffid seasonably enjoin-' ing St. ? ' ' .. ? . . In her husband's sickness. bTio feefe more> grief the* she BhWsv-r*?>/v FaUefK ? . ? T .' 1 rn ? ra fi? 7 ~. | :,| , ? ' . I '" ?.? ?? ?\< - [i -What's best to. prevent old ftien ft?in de spairing? , ,Echo.: "Pairing." '!'?' j dfr*.' <" K -x.- ?. * f i Tho new India rubber ears for ladies ftfe* boxed every night. . , - ?* ?? * ' * ?*?* It is well enough that men should bo tilled v . by love. Ma? borni ot woman should die of j woman.' ? An excliange say? that "bridal envelope*,?* ?> so extensively advertised for sale, ruga us simply nighl gowns. ? ties should remember that tattle begins' with hi* \j"". -;" *":' 'S:' >:s ^ cake was given to a- ?sipflisi fefti^aS W Bairlingtotf, Vf3.r to ?e given, by a vote at tett cents eaoh to the-handsoTnest ladyii* the room-. . A "colored lady''got.it. " John,'you seem to gain flesh1 eVe*y day; the'.. , printing business'must agree with-yoUf; ? W&atf did1 you last weigh?" "Well, Bob,- -1 really don't know, but it strikes me it was npomidof . type;" r '"?' ??- J v." ^ In Washington a woman sfio? #ifiaW&&i)fi3e* he did not marry her^ in Cincinnati ?nbthc?^ * shot one because ho did. What cat^ a bacn$r ~' lor do to save his bacon'?/ A oitkeu. of Montgomery GdnbjiyV. I miinnaV \ married recently for the sixth, ftwc'.-. He has. w lost two-wives, jby*.death, ime by eiope^eMji and two by divorce^ He still thinks inatrK moiiy'Wgood'ins?t?lron, like the fellow who1 : was so piosly inclined that he joined the church* four or five times. ?.?? . *, Afc UnfoutunaTe Stran?eu>?"Catf you* ?tell me,'"Boid a stfangor'to a 'gentremdn in tf --- ball room, "who that lady is near tho . window ?-that plain-looking lady?" ?. *:'?'-& \ >~ "That ia my sister, s:.e," replied' thV- pore?rt* addressed; with a very formidblHy lbolc.jj . - "No, no, I mean her," said' fite unfortunate' interrogator, "I mean that ugl'y woman leaning . against the piano; there's about no much cr i prossion in hor face as there is in a Bowl of . bonny-clabber," uThat, sir, is my wife'/'' ?? . "No,- no," gaspod the miserable stranger, tfio" perspira^en starting from eVery pore. uGao^?. . gracious, I wish I could make you understand'; me} ? I mean that bleay-cyod;. object! in the pink silk, the one se*awfully homely. I should' be afraid sho would splinter a looking-gfoss by looking in it. There she is looking at us now." t ?? '?That, s'r," said tbe gentlern..n' with fierce1 calmness, "is my eldest daughter.^ Tho stranger .darted from..the Toom nnd> cleared the preimscs, as though he had" been4 struck . with a presentiment that a powder' magazine-was going to explode in that room1 ' in less than three seconds. ? ' 1- llM?y~ I, ; .? A Tail of Emoshnri.;. The nitc wuz klaro without a.fog, Sail Bet's"' . and I sat on a log. Her izo wuz kast upon. the ski and her breast did hevo with many rt . sigh. Her haire wuz az black az tho bidekeff cat, and her lips, Jerusalem ! hold my hat! Mi arm wuz around, her little wa is to, a od I got- reads' dy her lips to taste; but whenecver I do a' thing so chaste, .1 never am in much uv a! haste. ? 'Tis sado when you kiss the Nu York girls/ ? with pretty bin izo, and hair that curls, they ask you what you. aro about and give you a; slap right on the snout. . Tho western girls tha make no bother: if you kiss them on. one* cheek, tha turn to you the other. But pHva'- ? mo a Virginia gurl fur kissin-r-tha beet aw$ others clean to nut hing. Whenever yu gi* wun uv 'em a smack, tha pout up their lips and kiss you bnck. B.ut tu nii stori; mi deerest rccder, dont gif> woario; for If I du git off my track, I've noW % vith trouble, found mi way back, -and ray thcom again I'll never lose, assure ax this \f poetry or proze. I pressed Sail 1 Jet's form tu mine, and look Oil down in her ue, and as I took hor .hand hi mine I couldn't speak fur size. Nccfor, nccrer, mi lips to herze did snook.;. I -felt her warm bicth on mi.cho^k; I giv. her little hand,a squeezef when razing up hor her head, she fled? "Take kaTc, Sm>ok8, till J sneeze t"