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POETRY.
: L'Auto-Da-Fc.
In tho hush of the winter midnight?
In tho hush of tho sleeping house?
? When no weird wind stirs in the gloomy firs,
Tho spirits of storm to rouse.
?\Vhcn never n glint of moonlight
Glcnms from tho grcnt black sky,
IVy the red firo's glow, ns it smoulders low,
We crouch, my letters nnd I.
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My letters, they lie whcro I tossed them,
?,. On tho crimson'hearthrug there,
Still, vivid, nnd bright, in the ruddy light,
As cobras in their lair.
T-push the hnir from my forehead,
That burns nnd throbs so* fnsl,
Thinking tho while, with n strange dull smile,
Of the task I must do at last.
Who knows but I, the comfort
Those foolish letters have been ?
The depth and scope?the strength nnd hope?
Of those 'deaves" that arc always "green"?"
Who knows but I, how sadly,
To-morrow, I and my dream,
Ily the nshes grey will weep and say,
"Woe's me for that vanished gleam.
"The gleam of idle gladness,
The glimmer of memories bright,
That hid in each line of those letters of mine
Those letters I burn to-night V
Ah well! tho dream was a folly;
Its joy was an idle thing,
Itshopo wns a lie, nnd its loyalty
Died of a whisper's sting.
So a kiss?the last?to my letters,
A resolute hand, and?there !
Do the Bad dark eyes of my Paradise
Meet mine through the tierce flame's Hare?
?Tr.Mri.k IJam.
LITERARY.
S E L E C T E J) .
INITISTA I> II A.
Tin:
P HIL AN TIIR 0 PIS T.
A TALK OF ASIA MIXOK.
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lie was in tho right. Tho con trovers}'
spread through the ship, until the pilgrims
would neither cat nor drinlcwith each other.
Fortunate for them if they had been deal";
still more fortunate for them if they had been
dumb. Every man had a different opinion,
and every man disputed in its honor ns if it
were necessary to his existence. The color of
the camel branched into a hundred controver
sies, and each made at least a pair of orators
ready to strangle each other.
Muslnpha, irritated and impatient, at last
proposed to the Scribe that they both should
go among them ; and explaining the absurdity
of their quarreling on points for which no hu
man being could be the better or the worse,
recommend thorn to pass, at least, the remain
der of the voyage in peace. "Arc wo strong
enough, said tho Scribe, simply, 'do throw
one half of them overboard every day, until
bu.' you and I are left ?" "No," replied the
Bey; "but they must 'be tired of fighting by
this time." "Nonsense is indefatigable'," ob
served his companion. "But " said the Bey,
"I shall rebut their nonsense, satisfy their
reason and compel the fools to see that nothing
but mutual concession can ever produce cither
general comfort or general safety." "Try,"
briefly said'the Scribe.
Noxt morning, when the war of words was
at its height, and tho deck was covered with
knots of enthusiasts, all descanting on their
own wisdom, and the folly of the whole human
race besides,?M?stnphn came forward with
his proposition for laying aside all quarrels on
creeds during the voyage. His Hgnre, lofty
and commanding, his fine countenance, and
e;'en his embroidered robes and jewelled weap
ons, h.;d a powerful effect on the bystanders :
tjic pilgrhu8 paused in their disputes, and all,
forming a circu; round (he glittering preacher
of peace, declared"ti.'eir readiness to adopt any
plan which ho thought hi to offer. Mustaplia,
elated at the prospect of tliicccs?, spoke long
and eloquently; the man of genius broke out
through the habits of the. Osiiianli, aiid a!) his
audience were ci.raptured. .Shouts of approv
al soon began to follow every sentence; iiO
spoke of tho original fraternity of mankind,
and was applaude d; of tho dignity of truth,
tho supremacy of conscience, and tho purity of
reason,?und was applauded still more; he
then powerfully described them as combined in
tho act of exhibiting to others tho same free
dom which wo claim for ourselves ; and in re
membering, among all tho ^differences of opin
ion, that tho man who possesses a spirit of good
will for his fellow men. holds the masjor key of
I_=
all the virtues. An uproar of admiration fofc
lowed tho speech ; and the whole circlcjr cried
out that neither Stnmboul nor Smyrna c?iutTpro
duco his equal. He next proposed that every
manjfjshould conic forward, and pledge Himself
to general harmony. A tall Turk iystatfhy ad
vanced :?"Illustrious Sonnitc," ho began his
declaration?"Illustrious Sonnitc !" exclaimed
a dwarfish, but richly clothed Persian * '(why,
son of a bliud father and a deaf mother, who
told you that ho was a Sonnitc'( All tho
genius and virtue of mankind are wfch the
children of Ali." A blow with the slipper of
a disciple of Omar told tho Persian tllat his
opinion might not be universal. Mustapha saw
his project broken upjjnt once, and cam? for
ward to restore peace. Put the tide had
turned; and he himself was assailed by enqui
ries into his faith.. '"Do you believe in the
holy waters of the Zem/.em ?" cried one. "If
you do not worship the foot of Fo, cried
another, "we only insult our cars in'listctiihg to
you 1" "P/o you twist three hairs of the holy
cow's tail of the Hedjaz. round your (urlvm ?"
screamed another. "Po you believe in Hpodh?"
was the outer)- of a fourth. The clamor grow
horrible. "By the print of Adam's slipper!"
yelled a gigantic Ceylonese. f:thc fellow is
nothing better than a spy; and he deserves to
be impaled on the spot." "By the krecs of
my fathers, he is a heretic," howled a ferocious
Malay; "I would rather drinl^his-blnod than
a bowl of arrack 1" All now became clamor
and confusion; daggers, knives, scymctaraand
atnghans, flashed round the throat of tho un
lucky Mustapha. But he was bold, was mas
ter of his weapon, nnd the sight of the naked
poniard in one hand and his scymctar wheeling
round his head in the other, partially repelled
tho furious crowd. '.Hear me. madmen!" he
exclaimed. "Can 1 believe all your croons to
gether V "You believe none 1" was tiioroar;
and they pressed closer on .him. "I believe
all that reason tolls me to believe." was the
daring reply; "but this too. I believe, that all
opinions have something in them ;??//</." i The
sentiment was partially applauded. tAnd
also/' added he. "something in them i r^iy."
This was oil on flame; tho whole crowd J^rst
into rage; they rushed tfpon him in n^ioSy*1)
ho struggled desperately, but a blow from be
hind struck the seymular from his hand, lie
glanced round, and saw the Malay at hi.- had.,
with his krecs uplifted to strike a mortal blow,
in the next instant he saw the countenance of
the savage convulsed, heard him shriek, and
felt him falling :;( his feet. In the place of the
Malay stood the young Scribe, with the dag
ger in his hand, which he. had snatched from
the ruffian in the moment of f:-.:?'; and had
dyed i;i his heart's blood. Mustapha cast a
look of tii.inks at his preserver; and side by
side they retreated to the poop, where the pil
grims dared not approach them. Hut the lire
arms in the cabin were soon in the hands of
his assailants, and certain death seemed to
await him and his young companion. In'this
emergency, Mustapha prepared to die; but the
Scribe, repeating the famous lines of Amrou,
at tho battle of Tcrnara?
"Tlic eagle takes an cable's llight,
Tlie hero must not die in night-'*
sprang on the deck before him ; and making a
sign of parley, proposed at once that they
should leave the ship to the pilgrims, and be
sot on the lirst shore they saw. Mushipha's
blood boiled at the idea of compronii.se. But
iiis preserver was already in the midst of the
infuriated crowd, ami he felt that hesitation
might cost (hat preserver his life. He com
plied, with bitterness of soul. The boat was
hoisted out. and the (wo exiles were rowed in
the direction of (he coast. They soon saw the
hills above Beyrout; and (rod the famous soil
of Palestine. "And this comes of preaching
peace to pilgrims,"said Mustaphn. indignantly,
as ho looked on the parched and ruined face of
the country round him. "'['his is my last ex
periment ; may (he Arab pluck out their
beards! Dut we run the groatesi possible
chance of being starved."
"My lord, may you he happy," said the
Scribe; "but if wo had remained on hoard, we
should only have added to the possibility el
being starved (he probability of being drowned,
or something net very far from tho certainty of
being shot.
"!>;ii to be thrown into (bis place of desola
tion for (he mere attempt to prove:.t a parcel
id' hotheaded bigots from cutting each Others
heads oil !" angrily murmured the IJoy.
"The man who'attempts to drive back the
ocean when if rises before (he gale, will lind
that his labor is wasted, even it' he escape
being sent to the bottom, lie sh mid take it
in tho calm."
" Hut, that such follies and furies should
have their origin in religion !" retorted the
Boy.
"Look on that Heaven." said the young
Scribe. And well might they look on that
Heaven with delight and wondor. Ton thou
sand star* blazed above their head.'., with a pure
intensity of light, an essential glory, to which
Mustapha, had novcr seen the equal even in
the serene skies ef Asia Minor The. ky was
m ?
showorcd with stars, a shower of diamond. A
few faint clouds, slightly tinged with tho last
hues of evening, lingered on tho wostcrn hori
zon, like the last incense from some mighty al
tar. The air was still, and breathing the odor
of tho sheets of wild jessamines and myrtle
which clothed the sides of the mountains; all
was richness, solemn splendor, and sacred re
pose. The vivid eye of the Bey, made to re
joice in all that filled the imagination, roved
over the boundless field of the stars of Heaven
with a delights which kept him silent.
"From that sky," said the youth, "which
looks one vast palace of holy trauquility, from
this fragrant air, which breaths like an offer
ing of all the treasures of nature to the .Sov
ereign of Nature, descend the thunder and the
tempest, the bolt that strikes the mountain pin
nacles into dust, and the hurricane that swells
the sea into destruction. And shall we wonder
that religion, bright, holy and boundless as
those skies, should have power, from time to
time, to fill the earth with terror, to dazzle the
weak, to overwhelm the bewildered, to give an
irresistible impulse to nlrthat is bold, imagina
tive, untanieable, and soaring, in the heart of
man.''
'?But what has the dagger, or the pistol, to
do with this impulse? yet those sticklers for
their contradictory follies would have flung
me to the sharks which carried off the doctors
of the black and white camels."
The young Scribe smiled, and simply said,
"My lord, while nine-tenths of mankind are
fools, why wore we to expect that our pilgrim
ship contained none but sages. While all man
kind are creatures of the passions, why wore we
to suppose that a crew of enthusiasts alone
were incapable of being frenzied by scorn.
But let us not lay the blame oh religion. To
produce great effects, we must lind great pow
ers. Where universal man is tobe stirred, the
evil will be stirred with the good. But if the
Nilo, when it poms down its Hood of fertility
on the burning soil of the Delta, brings weeds
into life with the harvest, is the fault in the
Nile'.'' Or when the mighty orb that has but
just finished his. course of glory in yonder
waves, rises to circle thblworld with light and
life, ave'we to extinguish his beams, through
fear of the insects which he quickens in the
marsh and the wilderness?" The young
speaker of these word.- had been roused b}' the
subject into unusual fer,vor. His pale counten
ance had suddenly lighted up. and as he gazed
on the firmament, unconscious of all things
but {lie glory which had awoke his feelings,
the Hey found it impossible to withdraw his
eve- from its animated beauty. The expressive
features (lushed with new intelligence. The
glance, always powerful, seemed to catch, new
brilliahey from the splendors above. Even the
voice seemed to be changed. Always sweet, it
wai no;-,' lofty and solemn, yet it touched the
spirit of the he.rot niOre than in its softest
moments. It was oucc nni.de to his ear ; it
was now conviction to his soul. The haughty
warrior, the pmud philosopher, the conscious
superior of every mind that he had till now
encountered, all gave way ; and Hinging hint
sell' on the neck of his friend, Mustapha
pledged himself by every light blazing in that
sky of serenity never to part from his
young sage, his counsellor, the tamer of his
follies, and the guide of his existence.
The Scribe suddenly disengaged himself
from this impetuous instance of friendship,
and with one Struggling hand .-till held in the
grasp of Mustapha. and the other pressed
closely to his forehead, turned away in silence.
??Hear me now," said the impatient Bey "ont o
for all; I abandon all eagerness to interfere in
other men's concerns. This voyage, this hour,
have given me wisdom worth a life. And if ever
Mustapha,Bcn M ustaphn troubles his bra in about
making fools wiser than nature intended them to
be; about giving experience to slaves incapable
of thought; or teaching toleration to traders in
bigotry; may he go the way of the doctors; or
worse, may he be parted from his first and last
of friends, even from his young philosopher."
The young philosopher answered this burst of
sentiment only with one of his quiet smiles,
and drawing his t urban st ill deeper on his brows,
and wrapping his mantle closer round him, re
marked, that the night was at hand, and that
some village should bo sought for, where they
might find shelter and entertainment. Mus
tapha. in the ardour of the moment, would
have despised the aid of man, and remained
gazing on 1110 stars, and listening to the wis
dom of his companion. But a gust from the
sea. followed by the rising roar of thunder
among the hills, awoke htm to the realities of
the wilderness ; and, anxious for the safety of
80 fragile a frame as that of his fellow traveler
he followed the sounds of the baying dogs, and
an occasional blast of a horn which sounded on
the night air, until he found himself suddenly
called on to stop. Ho was in the front of a
troop of Arab horsemen. "Fly, or surrender
at. once," whispered t he Scribe. '-The panther
i^ lord in tho desert."
The lion never flies." was the bold excla
mation of the Bey. as ho drew his scymoter.
The Arabs seeiujj the flash, returned it by a
general fire of their muskets, and rushing on
in the smoke, to their astonishment, they found
that instead of a troop of some hostile tribe;
they had but a single enenvy, the handsomest
of Moslem, who still defied thorn. They burst
out into laughter at his presumption, und at
the same moment a dozen fellows leaped from
their horses, and threw themselves upon him.
Ho struggled desperatcly, but a feeble voico'
reached his car, which totally unmanned hint.
By tho gleam of a torch ho saw his friend in
the hands of a crowd of tlpo Arabs, who were
carrying him away j and to his still deeper
terror, Ire saw a long line of blood trickling
from beneath his turban. He felt himself in
stantly powerless, and flinging away his weapon,
yielded at once. The captives were carried in
triumph to the camp; where Mustapha's jewels
were infinitely admired and plundered to the
last stone. But his true sorrow was fur the suf
ferings of his wounded friend; The Bey was in
consolable for the misfortune, which he attribu
ted entirely to his own rashness. "Well was it
said by llafiz," he cxclr.'mcd in bitterness, "that
he who takes the wolf by tho throat, should
first sco that his tusks arc plucked out." Tho
young Scribe pointed with his slight finger up
ward, and said with a faint smile. "The skies
are as bright above this tent, as they were on
the sea shore. The sun will rise to-morrow, as
ho rose yesterday. We arc in hands stronger
than the hands of the Arab. The first refuge
of the fearful, but the last refuge of the brave,
is despair."
[Concluded hi our Ncxi.'X
M ISC 10 I, L A N K O U S.
The President at Uosion.
During the President's speech at Boston,
which was confined to thanks to the public for
courtesies to him as a citizen and Chief Magis
trate, three cheers for Congress wore call^tfor
from outskirts of audience. The cheer.*torero
not given. During Mr. Seward's speech three
cheers for North Carolina were called for.
Mr. Seward said you may well givo three
cheers for the State of North Carolina. Sho
was the first Slate to put forth the Declaration
of Independence in the Devolution against
Great Britain. You may well give three
cheers for North Carolina. Sho was the State
of eleven who seceded last, and wont most re
luctantly out of the Union. You may well
give three cheers for North Carolina. She
was the first of the eleven who seeeded to come
back again to the family fireside of the Union
?and. to day. nothing is wanting for her to
resume her ancient, honorable and most patri
otic position in the family of the Republic, but
the consent of the people of Massachusetts.
Now. I know that all that is coming about, k
coming about very soon. I have seen the
earth and the skies full of tho elements of fer
tility of health and of vigor, and I saw in
North Carolina the Cotton spring up which is
to supply, next year, the mills of Massachu
setts. I have seen in Now York the wheat
growing that is to supply the West Indies and
the Southern States. I know that nature de
signs that this whole continent, not merely
these thirty-six States, but this whole conti
nent, should be, sooner or later, within the ma
gic circle of the American Union.
Bismarck's Private Secretary.
Dinner is over. It is well nigh midnight.
Putbus is sleeping. Only a single light still
sparkles through the autumnal trees of the
Park. It leads us to the pleasant villa near
the Prince's kitchen-garden.
Count Bismarck is still awake; but he is no
longer the same gay talker, the amiable, witty
companion; such as wc have seen him at din
ner. In the dead of night he is again Prime
Minister'.
He who has come to R?gen to repose, from
his toils, sits at a desk covered with papers:
his right hand is closed ; his face looks almost
gloomy; the thoughtful brow is clouded; the
iroii Count is at work. He reflects long and
profoundly; and then he dictates a dispatch.
But where is his private secretary, to write
what be dictates 'I
The Prime Minister has not taken a private
secretary, nor any of tho officers of his depart
ment with him tollugcu; but at a side-table
' with n lamp, sits a lady, modest, plainly drcss
I cd ; her brow beaming with great intelligence
She quickly writes what tho minister dictates
to her.
"We know this lady; we. learned already to
esteem her ; now we r.dmiro her. The Coun
tess Bismarck is not only a loving wife to him,
an excellent nurse to him in his bodily ailments,
a devoted mother to his children ; she is, bo
sides, the iron Count's faithful, indefatigable
assistant in his grave toils:
When King James' '?tutor lay upon his ex
piring pillow, his majesty sent to inquire how
ho dm. "(lb toll," said lie, "my royal sover
eign thai 1 UUl going where few Kings go."
HUMO R0TJ8:' ' "
? ? Etil ?
? '? ' ? ' *
One of the Alabama frcedmen applied Ui
to Governor Pat ton for a divorce on' tbo ground '
that his wife couldn't i bo coming home every
week, and he knew another woman who would
do very well.
"Come till America,jj'nt 1" writes j n/S(V|i "of
the Emerald Isle to his friend in Ireland';;' ^tis
a fine country to get a livin in. All ye7- have .
to do is to get a three-cornered box and
Wie
wid bricks, and,carry it .till (he t<-j> of a throo
story building, and the man at tho (op docs all
the work." . , >.,- [j
An Irishman entered a barber1 shop" !Whllc
drinking ate with the brush a cup of lather,
dug.out the ball of soap at the bottom Withe
cup. at that, and sat down to Wartivhis feec.'-'
"How did you liko your lunch ?'"? asked a
bystander. ?
"The custard was illegant/hut by my soul. I -
b'lnvc the egg was a little to Jong in the w?t- ',
"Well, Jane, this is a queer world,' said a
"brute" to his wife, after breakfast recently.
"A set of woman philosophers have just sprnng
>? ? '" " ?' *'V *
up.
"Indeed," said Jane, "and what .do they
hold ?"
"The strangest thing in nature," said lie;
"they bjpld their tongues."
..? - ' - .
Sharp'promising littlo hoy, just learning to
talk well: . : ? :,-?..'.
"Father arc j'ott going to:sc6-the1 race lo
day?" " ' >? ??>..?
Father, brightening op-^"\VJi:?!: rrtcd,-' 'my
son, will there be ?" ? . 1
"The human race."
Husband to wife-?"Mary Aim,'that boy will
be an editor's pet."
Wife?God forbid/'
ti .1
oiaVil
A Guekn Customeu.?A few days ? since n
gentleman called upon some lady .fnoud?,vjatal
was shown into-the-' parlor by o. ^efvant I girl.
She asked him what,name she should announce,
and he, wishing to take them by surprise, re
plied, "micus," (a friend.) :The girl seemed
at first a little puazled, but quickly regained
her composure, and, in the blandest manner
possible, observed, "What kind of n etwa did j
? ort !<! fvViul ;orur
you say, sir ("
-idt
A provost marshal writes : One of Ine pro*
vost guard brought a colored man into the
ofiiee, charged with stealing watcr-anelons. As
he was being led away, I said to him:
"I hope, Tom, that I may never see "ou
here a'jrain." , ,
He turned to me with a pccpJia?,. shrewd
expression, and wtid:
"You wouldn't ha' seen me dis lhae, eap'h,
if de sogcrs hadu't a fetch.me.'.' \ :i .
- im . ?ii hi.im I t ,
A certain green customer, who wa*-? stronger
to mirrors, and who stepped into* cf.'c eabin of*
one of our occuu steamers, stopped 'i? front' W
a large pier glass*, which he took; lor a'door,
and seeing his own reflection, he said:!''' '"It
"I say, mister, when doos this ere boat,
start?" ^ ?? ? ?V ti
Getting no answer from the dumb roUeetioii
before him, ho again repeated: T|yi;?rt \
"I say, mister, when docs-thi? ^?^[bo?t
start?" "
Incensed at tho silent figure, he (hen broker
out:
"Go to thunder 1 ye cursed Bassafms'cotorcd,>
shockhcaded hull c ?.lf; you don't look as if ' jto
knew much anyhow I"
A Ratheb IxquisitiveYankkk.?;Ayh[y|
Lord Grosvenor was traveling West, he w|
one day waiting at a country station Ibra tardy
train, when one of the fanners of the neigh
bovhc d entered into conversation with him :
"Been about these party,considerable, stran~
"cr?" ' ? -
o1-' - ? ?tOpl<
"Vcs, for some length of Ihne/, :
"Like 'cm pretty well, eh ?" ?. ^
" Vcs, pretty well." (
"How long haveycr bin here?"
"A few weeks "
"What's ycr business Vr .
"I havo no business,""
"What, arc ycr traveling for then ?
"Only for my own ploasure."
"Don't ycr do any business ? How do ycr
get ycr living, then ?"
"It isn't necessary for me to work for my
support. My father is a.man of property, an??
gives me an allowance sufficient for all my
wants."
"But, 'sposo tho old man should die ?"
"In that case I daro say he'd leave me
onough to live upon."
"lint, 'spotc he should bust up?"
Hero.-tho conversation ended, and Loul
Grosvenor walked away, evidently struck with
a now idoa. i