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ntoir.miller &co.,proprietors.J An Independent Journal: For the Promotion of the Political, Social, Agricultural and Commercial Interests of the South. |lewish.qbist,pubuiher. I VOL 3 YORKYILLE, S. C., THXJRSLA.Y, MAECH 5, 1857. NO. 9. p Cjmice fjodrg. "FATHER'S COMING." Father's coming! father's coming! How I love to hear the sound, As the little ones dash by me, Round the circle with a bound. Father's coming !?Minnie's shouting : Nothing'now at home could bind her; "Daddy's tummin," prattles Nannie, Toddling, tumbling just behind her. Open wide the gate is swinging, Patient Carley, quief stands; While they climb by father's finger, Clinging with their little hands. Minnie seizes whip and bridle, Nannie grasps the flowing mane? Oh! it gladdens every bosom, Hoaring "Father's come again!" Baby hears the noise unusual, Coos and jumps to show his joy? - "'Laughs and crow? his baby welcome? Welcome from his "father's boy." Oh, it half repays his absence, k Lone and gloomy tho' it be, w When I hear this bird-like music, And the joyous welcome see. - Sweeter far, than when a maiden -* Oft I'd for his coming wait. Till I heard his footsteps passing Thro' the little garden gate, 19 the welcome now between us, Pree from every doubt and pain, Heralded by baby voices, Telling "father'scome again." The Mai'sk, Oct. 81, I80G. "Matronal 1 fairs. ^ ^ "rr- ! From the New Orleans Delta. 1 ClIiT-FlST 1 PflOT. e- ** > I BY J. H. CLAIBORNE. Speculations iu relation to the incoming nobinot nwv h<? unnrofitable. but not unDleas J r , 4 ( ant. It gives every one an opportunity to have "his say," _or his fling, at this or that _ man. B The importance attached to the cabinet is very much exaggerated. Those who are curious as to the origin of the departments may refer to Laws of the United States, vol. 1., Bioren k Duane's edition. In England the cabinet is everything and the crown a symbol, an effigy. In this country, with a ! great man for chief magistrate, cabinets are mere conveniences for administration. Gen. Washington was a firm, safe and prudent man, with Jefferson, Hamilton, Pickering, Wolcott and Knox in his cabinet?in spite of the jealousy and counter-intrigues of the two first?the early and trying stages of a new government were passed in safety, j John Adams was a self-willed, crotchety, \ suspicious, impulsive, egotistical and ambi- j tious man, but full of the stuff of which pa- i triots are made. He was "never," as he ; said of himself in 177^, "much of a John Bull." "I was Johu Yankee, and as such j I shall live and die." This bold, high-spir- j I ited, but pig-headed man, got on badly with j his cabinet, flis jealousy of Hamilton made i p him distrustful of every one about him. Thomas Jefferson threw his cabinet into deep shadow. There were very able men j in it, but his views, not theirs, were stamp- ; ed upou the administration. James Madison was a closet statesman? a philosopher?pure but timid to infirmity ?ignorant of men?unsuspicious and confiding. He required bold, energetic advisers to counteract his idiosyncratic tendency to hesitate. For the most part his ministers were, in this respect, as deficient as himself, and hence the blunders that occurred during his administration, both in our financial policy and in the war with Great Britain. President Monroe was a dull, weak man ?singularly so; a man of phraseology and ceremonial; elevated by the traditional ascendancy of Virginia, and a combination of factions comprising the highest talent of the nation; all jealous of each other, but willing to put him in power as one easily moulded ^ to' their own personal views and aspirations. B The consequence of this state of things was a cabinet of matchless ability. John Qttincy Adams, Wm. IT. Crawford, John C. Oal- j houn, William Wirt, were members of it? all struggling for the presidency. There was but one point in which those distinguished men resembled each other?insatiable ambition. In everything else?figure, countenance, manners, temperament, opinions, tastes?they differed. The first was low, swart, cold and repulsive, irritable and eccentric; more deeply read than his father, yet knowing even less of mankind ; a splendid writer, a master of rhetoric, defiant in his opinions, easily inflamed, brave to martyrdom, vet so frigid, formal and saturniue that few could approach, and none could love him. His political opinions were erratic and variable, and were, all his life, controlled, more or less, by personal resentments. His first * great ape.- lacy maybe traced to this source, a. and to the same feeling may be justly attribK uted the war that he waged against domesY tic servitude in his latter day:-?a war utterly at variance with his recorded and deliberate opinions when Secretary of State Mr. Crawford was a man of colossal Mature. and of massive intellect. Iii astronomy or mathematics he would have been preeminent. No man in this or any other country had a more thorough and orthodox knowedge of political economy, and especially of finance. He spoke with great cogency, and wielded a luminous pen. A Virginian by ^ birth and education, he carried the political opinion? of the renowned commonwealth into Georgia, and, until he was stricken down by paralysis on the threshold of the Prcsi* dency, she never wavered from the true JcfI fersoninn faith. Her subsequent career has been one of inconsistency and error, until lately she has taken her stand as the empire State of Democracy?great in her resources, great in her moral and physical development, treat in the ability and reputation of her sons. The third on this list?the proud and sen^ ,-ltive Carolinian?was tall, but not stately; rather with the slight stoop of a student, than f the presence of a soldier: with strongly-lined intellectual features, and manners simple and winning as a child's. The young loved him most, for his noble heart and generous affections were fenced in by no conventionalities, but were freely and often injudiciously bestowed. Few public men have suffered more from ill-timed confidences, or paid, without flinching, heavier penalties for the indiscretions of others. A man of purer scntiments-of simpler habits or more irreproachable morals?never lived. The atmosphere of the metropolis, its syrens and seductions, had for him no taint. Calumny itself never imputed to him, during a lifetime of temptation, a single lapse from virtue. Yet he j viewed with no ascetic eye the infirmities of others, and never pursued error as a crime. His most intimate friend?the late Warren R. Davis?one of the most gifted men of his day?was proverbial for his frailties and in- j discretions. Mr. Calhoun was fixed, rigid, and immovable in his notions of right and j wrong. lie early adopted certafn great j principles for the regulation of his political j conduct, but, with singular blindness, lie i constantly wandered from them. His in- j tellectual vision, miraculously acute in all other respects, was notoriously obtuse when studying himself. To the last hour of his life he was pursuaded that his political career had been uniform and inflexiblej when to every one else his inconsistencies were transparent. lie was less deeply read than j Mr. Adams; he knew less of mankind than Mr. Crawford; nothing of the management or discipline of party. But he had more in- j tellcct?more individuality?more coneen- , trativencss?more enthusiasm?a higher and purer appreciation of truth, than either of J them, or any other statesmen our country has produced. Mr. Wirt, the attorney-general, was of large stature and heavy cast of features? with little, at that period, to indicate the vivid imagination that colored and exaggerated his early productions. lie was either too florid or too jejune; always too elaborate, lie was an excellent man; a little too saint-; ly, perhaps, in after life, in atonement for ; early discretions, as the feudal barons found- ! - o - il i ed monasteries in compensation ior tiynr crimes; a delightful companion?very susceptible of flattery?very didactic?very i credulous and very ambittbus, as his accep-1 tance of the anti-masonic nomination for the Presidency, at an advanced period of his life, demonstrates?a nomination a truly great man would have scorned to accept ; and which ended?as it deserved to do?in j disgraceful abortion?a complete eclipse of . Mr. Wirt's political sun, and he soon after! died of vexation and disappointment. This cabinet, it may readily be inferred, j was the government. They made of Mr. j Monroe a mere pageant, lie travelled from city to city, and from State to State, while ! his ministers conducted affairs. In this respect they anglicised our government, for , the time being. The splendid diplomatic 1 correspondence of Mr. Adams, elaborate, highly finished, and full of national spirit, the luminous treasury reports of Mr. Crawford, and the powerful impetus given to fortifications, internal improvements and manufactures by Mr. Calhoun, withdrew public attention entirely from President Monroe.? The cabinet was everything. The game was for the Presidency, and each of the triumvirate played a bold hand for it?Mr. Calhoun the boldest and most hazardous, full of ' promise for himself, but prolific. His policy favored centralism. lie pushed the eonIstructive powers of thc.government to the i farthest boundary, but lived to atone for this ! fundamental error by consecrating his into) lect, in its meridian glory, and his untiring energies, even to the closing scene, to the defence of States' rights. The cabinet of John Quincy Adams was only remarkable because Mr. Clay conductled the .Department of State. Mr. Adams, ! avowing from the first his intention to stand ; for a second term, of course shaped the poli: cy ot the administration, sometimes, no doubt i against the advice of his illustrious premier, J and shaped it to bis own defeat and the exI elusion of Mr. Clay. Had their positions ! been reversed?had Mr. Clay been the chief : magistrate, and Mr. Adams the minister? I Ccn. Jackson, in all probability, would not ; have been elected. Our country, at this i moment, might occupy a very different atj titude. What was called the "American I system"?the rapid development of home ' manufactures, by a schedule of exorbitant, | and in some instances, prohibiting duties, i concentrating vast capital in few hands: national banking, in close connection with the j federal treasury; the Federal Government penetrating the States, and controlling their ! legislatures and popular suffrage, by internal ! improvements, involving large outlays of ! public money: and a close-listed policy in relation to the public lands, holding them at fixed prices, refusing the rights of pre-emption, and impeding, as much a.> possible, the flow of immigration from the manufacturing i to the agricultural States?this vast machinery would, doubtless, have been engrafted upon the national policy, had the chief magistrate been a really great man, of popular .attributes, like Mr. Giny, in toad of a political cntlnwnst, who, obstinate as his distinguished sire, never kin-w when to retreat, j and regarded I'abius as a historical coward. ; Gnder this policy we should have grown oom: pact, formidable, very aristocratic, very itlng; lish. The four great events most memorable in our annals since the devolution?ilie .-o; pa ration of bank anil state?the metallic enri rcnoy?the annexation of 'IVxas, and the 1 conquest of California, would yet have been 1 in the womb of time. A scholar and not a j statesman?a creature of passion, not of purI pose?a man of intense and unquenchable ambition, who uevert 1mless lived in an at. tnosphcrc of ice?consumed l?y his own lite, but chilling and repelling sympathy and [ confidence- -was chief, and the government; i by popular forms, but by what was, morally, a revolution, passed into the hands of the Democracy?a Democracy, not contingent upon the mere triumph of its lender, or the duration of his official term, but, to all in- j tents find purposes, a Democracy under eve- j ry administration, and by whatever name the prevailing party happens to be called. Andrew Jackson, though lie knew little of books, still less of national law, and nothing of diplomacy, had less need for a cabinet than any of his predecessors. Chiefs of bureau, or a few competent clerks would have been enough for him. Nature stamped him Great, and the most sagacious in his councils, to pass current, and to be recoined from the same die. A transfusion of ideas flowed from him to them. Tie astounded experienced politicians and jurists by his intuitive perception and masculine grasp of the most complicated subjects, lie converfn<l nmn tn his views as much bv this irreat *# "" # * *' . I faculty as by an indomitable will. The timid felt his inspiration, and the powerful and , factious were subdued by a sublime constan-! oy very different from the insane obstinacy ! of the Adamses, or the dogged courage of Gen. Taylor. He, however, surrounded himself with able men, but be moved them about like Ggurcs on a chess-board, transferring them to other spheres of duty, or kicking them, unceremoniously, overboard, to rise no more. Van Burcn, Forsyth, Cass, I Livingston, Berrien, McLanc, Taney, Bar| ry, Dunne, Woodburry, Eaton, Dickerson, Ingham, Branch and Butler, were his cabi! net at different periods. Mr. Van Burcn had played a masterly I voir in the political drama. Regarding polij ties as a game, his great fort'- was in stockI ing the cards. His peculiar trait was caution, properly termed non-committalism. It was something more comprehensive?forecaste and sagacity. Under the mask of great moderation, and with something of the air of a petit hiai(<T, there lurked a vaulting i ambition. His faculty for governing men, I his untiring energy and imperturbable cool- j ncss, enabled him to achieve great results, without apparent effort. Thus this nccomnli'eliofi fnntinJnn while Adonisinor before his fUI",VVI " a looking-glass*, and toying with the squarerigged belles of Albany, or the more voluptuous beauties of Washington, was dethroning Dewitt Clinton, checkmating Clay, Webster and Calhoun, and scattering roses in his pathway to the Presidency. When news of the advance of Napoleon upon Waterloo reached the Puke of Wellington, he was in the ball-room of the Puchess of Riehmond, at Brussels, and with undisturbed composure escorted her grace to supper. Thus, while the great tribune of the Senate was -hurlhig'lfls IfiimderfootTs at- Vive-President j Van Bureti, threatening his political fortunes I with every blow, that gentleman sat with a quiet smile upon his face, and with inimitable *tth/ fmitj sent his snuff-box to Mr. Clay the moment he resumed his seat. The good humor of the Senate was restored, and ! the great orator himself perceived that his mighty effort had been fruitless. The little magician was "up to snuff." The late John Forsyth was one of the most accomplished men of his times. As an impromptu debater, to bring on an action nv 1 I to cover a retreat, he never had his superior. ! rie was acute, witty, full of resources, and j ever prompt?impetuous as Muratin a charge . adroit as Soult when out-flanked and outnum! bcrcd. He was haughty in the presence of | enemies, afTahlc and winning among friends. llis manners were courtly and diplomatic. ! In the times of Louis XIV, he would have rivalled the most celebrated courtiers; under {the dynasty of Napoleon, he would have won J the baton of France. He never failed to j command the confidence of his party; he j ! never feared any odds arrayed against it: I and at one crisis was almost its sole support ( ! iii the Senate against the most brilliant and . - ' ' ! lormninnie opposition ever oig?iuz.cu ug.iuw-i,. an administration. With tlie ladies ho was ! irrcsi.stablc. During his diplomatic residenco 1 J in .Spain, the demand for duennas could ; j scarcely lie supplied, and even royalty sniil- [ j ed more indulgently than he wished. This j gallant and high-spirited gentleman died ! ' suddenly, in the enjoyment of great popu- j larity. J Cleneral Cass 1 have, on a former occasion, j j elaborately sketched. His massive intellect, j his highly cultivated tastes, his consistent [ political career, the landmarks he has loft on l our foreign and domestic policy? -arcalimati tors of history, lie was a prominent feature of the .Jackson administration, and, by a single but. masterly article in the North American S'evicw. brought to a satisfactory conclusion the Indian question, Mlie great; parly and moral excitement of that period? an excitement which, lip to the appearance of 1 hat article, bad marshalled the press and pulpit of the North, and much of the conscience of the S'outh, against the administration. Subsequently lie went to Franco, i and the influence he exerted there upon mo1 mehlous issues lias never been exceeded in the history of diplomacy. J i is career thenceforth is a household word to the nation. Mr. Berrien and Mr. Livingston were both very eminent at the bar. The one was ' an able lajyyer; the latter a great jurist.? The one had the sharpness, the plausibility, : and the acute but contracted grasp of the ' technical attorney; the other was com pre-j hensive, eloquent, and learned. Mr. Berrien could split hairs like Mr. Tazewell; Living- ; .-ton grappled with generalities like Lord | lirougham. The mind of one resembled a i dictionary; the other a code. Berrien was a conscientious man, whoa I ways meant to do right, but, by an unfortunate process of rati-. oeiuation, usually got wrong. Livingston j was unscrupulous, but from policy generally j cli?l what his discriminating judgment de-1 , ci<lcd would he right. He was courtly ami ! insincere, prone to intrigue, with no fixed principles, political or moral j and the stain I of official defalcation will ever shadow the ; lustre of his fame. 1 ?otI? Mr. McLane and Mr. Taney had "When Mr. Van Daren was elected President he rold (ho lease and furniture of Ills house, in the j " Thirteen Pudding," to a distinguished Senator. With him I inspected the premises. K very thing was found iu perfect order, and nearly new, except the carpet before a his French mirror iu dressinjj-ronm--that warworn ihret/rf-hari'. belonged to the ancient federal party, but i since its extinction bad acted with the dciu-1 ocrncy. In one respect their fortunes were j not the same. The former, at every period ! of his career, lias been singularly exempt i from political vitnperatiou, while the latter,; before lie became chief justice, literally j walked through the fiery furnace?an ordeal j that he sustained with unshaken equaniini- j ty. .Air. Woodbury shared theopprobium that was cast upon Air. Taney. Kvcry fonu of detraction was exhausted upon him. lie was a man of strong sense and clear perceptions, but an.awkward and involving style by no means expressed th? impressions of his mind, lie thus, while in the treasury, had the reputation of being obtuse; but j when he resumed his place in the Senate, I and bad the opportunity of explaining his re- j ports, and vindicating the financial policy in-1 auguratedby (Jen. Jackson, his reputation! rose to its proper level. Unhappily, in the ! full vigor of a well-preserved life, he died,! with his hand upon the Presidency. Tfis mansion at "Washington was noted for its liberal and elegant hospitality?always crowded by the young and gifted?and adorned by a household of incomparable grace and beau- j tj- ' . Of the other members of the cabinet, Mr. Dickerson was a sensible and amiable man, but too inlirm for bis place. Mr. Parry was a man of talent?and on tor cultured in the great controversy of the old and new court . parties of Kentucky. Tlis voice, his man-1 ner, and his declamation were of the school j of Patrick Henry, but be was utterly unfit1 for the post office department. Mr. Duane was fantastic and feeble, though he fancied himself profound. Mr. Ingham was stolid and treacherous: Mr. Praneh honest, but impracticable; and Major Eaton?lately dead?could not be classed above mediocrity. Pcnjamin F. ]Hitler, attorney-general and J secretary of war?a political saint?studied i finance, I believe, under Jacob Parker at j Sandy Hill, and psalmody and the prayer book' with Henry Ward Pcccher. He nev-1 er took a questionable step in politics or 1 speculation without first finding a precedent or a text to justify it, precisely as Peechcr pretends to find, in the New Testament, a i warrant for Sharpe's rifles, insurrection and massacre. Of succeeding cabinets?of (be policy 1 likely to be pursued by the President elect? and of the duty of the country, and cspc-; cially of the South, without distinction of party, in the crisis before n-. T may treat in my next number. PK.vnr.ixiiTox, Miss., Jan. 1st. Select ileifting. l iMin i he Charleston Cmnier. LIFE IN WASHINGTON. \\ AsmxmON, I'l'U. I 1. The slrnngcr visiting th.o pal!cry of tlu* House of Representatives, will not fail to notice a compact, clastic figure, with regular features, and a keen Mue eye. which seems in perpetual-im.linn, as one of the most hustling and important personages in that busy scene. His look?his h.?t , n*tml.h?are those of an "active" member of the House. In his dress there is move attention to fashion than is usual among the busy members, but then this gentleman has always been a person of mark in ladies society, and said to exercise much influence in drawing-rooms? indeed, it is whispered that lie has withstood as many sieges as the "Hook of Uihraltar" ?and they do say that lie counts the names of our loveliest belles one by one, on his lingers, and bangs their locks of hair on his l><ih /of, after the I ndian fashion. You perceive at once that lie is a prominent member; and if you follow bis movements, you will not fail to discover bis competency, his business-like habits, his acutoncss, his fluency of thought and language, and above all. his versatility. He seems to go daily through a quantity of business which would be sufficient to wear down an ordinary constitution, and you naturally suppose that the remaining portion of the day must of necessity he devoted to repose; hut heievou will he mistaken, for should you fed disposed to drop into any one of I he levees, receptions 01 parties that arc almost nightly held here, to a certainty y n will find this eenllcman there before von, acting a eon .-pinion* part in tin* fo>tiviti.\* of the evening. Any one who lias seen this active, multifarious person we have been describing, has no occasion to inquire his name, he may he assured that he is, and ran bo, no other than the indefatigable member from North Carolina, (Mr, Ci.inouan.) This gentleman has for some years hold a prominent station in the "House," and established there a character for business efficiency. There is not, we apprehend, a single member less liable to be taken by surprise upon any unexpected point, lie is evidently quite at home on all subjects that conic into daily question. Cool, ready, armed and defended on all points ; be seems to begrudge 110 labor, however weighty, for the good of his constituents, for the technical details of Representative business, he is, perhaps, the most competent on the floor. He has all the requisites from uature?sin gular clearness, promptitude, and acutcness. We were unfortunate in having hoard only the conclusion of a prepared speech delivered by this gentleman during the past week. .Strong, cogent reasoning?plain, but deep sense?were the distinguishing features i of the portion we heard. In speaking, he is not so glowing or so imaginative as Col. Iveitt, hut is more sober in style. He makes I every now and then a noble leap, and then | subsides into a quiet and deliberate pace.? ; Soaring and imagery is seldom introduced, except to press the reasoning or to illustrate it; he by no means rejects ornament, but he uses it severely and sparingly. The contrast between the dull sameness?the tame language, and too often silly tone of ordinary specchifyiDg; and the energy, the grasp, the freshness, and the boldness of this gentleman, is immense. In his extempore remarks on the floor, he is prompt, orderly, correct and fluent. If our readers arc tired with the din and declamatory tumuUof the House, and desire to take a refuge from the stirring complexity of its ever shifting combinations, they will cross over to the more dignified body in the other wing, and ask you to notice the distinguished gentleman from Virginia, Mr. Hunter, to whom we had only space to briefly allude in our last. We can only judge of this eloquent.speaker from fragmentary remarks, as we have never enjoyed the privilege of hearing him in prepared speeches. We heard him, how- ] ever, on the melancholy occasion of the death of the late Mr. Brooks. His remarks on that occasion reached our idea of a funeral eulogy. It is a eulogy, indeed, which can rnxitivA r?n nrfominta nritiniam Vint tr>nr<i J-fia 1?? ' - ? _ delivery, the ease with which the finished sentences succeeded each other like a shower of pearls ; the elevation nf the sentiment, the purity of the composition, the deep solemnity of his manner, all these taken together produced the cfi'cct of thrilling every heart and enchaining every countenance.? The melting of the opening, its solemn tone left the impression that the speaker had turned his attention more seriously to the solemn future than is usual with our public men. This gentleman's style is a smooth succession of short and simple sentences, each clear as crystal, and none even distracting the attention from the subjec t to its own construction. It is beautiful without even descending to the pretty ; elegant, without approaching the n^at; simple, hut never weak. While listening to him, we find ourself caught up from the level of life into the atmosphere of mountain summits?a rarer, purer, prouder element, lie seems to combine exquisite diction with the powers of a manly understanding, and the accomplishments of finished scholarship. Mild elegance added to acutoness of understanding, seem the leading properties of Mr. 11 'smind. Asa speaker, his tones are easy like gently flowing streams and an earnest quiet of manner seems to comport with the mild tone of his character, and is certainly in keeping with his personal appearance. M. J. \V. From the Homo. JniirnstL. The fi.lliivving sweet and touching lines are from the pen of an accomplished and a 1 ittAmAit it*/.11 hitAirn tit tin) III 11 III ? "Mldli, 1> L" 11 iVllUt) II III iiiw iUHplV circle of good society They refer lo an ac j innl scene, which she very pathetically narrates. Her little boy was dangerously ill of I fever. At midnight lie suddenly awoke i from a troubled sleep, and called wildly for ! his mother. Perceiving that she sat near j him, he beenme calm, and soon afterwards j uttered a little prayer she had taught him in i his cradle. The lady had already lost two children, to which. atHicliou she alludes in i her own supplication tu heaven. This child ' recovered, and still lives. If our readers regard the lines as we do, they will thank us i for giving them a place in the JfomeJour! nal. "H*e are gratified to learn that our fair I correspondent has yielded to the desire of j her many friends to preserve what she has [already written in a volume soon to be issued | from the press of this city. . , TI1E MIDMGIIT PRAYER. i , 1 .MI.! the deep ami stilling sndne-s, the stillness and ilie "Wan, That hung a veil of mourning round my dimlylighted room, I lizard a voice at midnight, in >tin?jre tones of anguish, say, ' (',,me near me, dearest mother! Now, my God ! oh, let me pray." I i And, soil as ve-por music, wailing sadly through the air, j In plaintive utterance, then tolled forth his simple evening praji-r: i The siime sweet hynui his lisping tongue so oft to me hud said. When, hut nn infant still, he knelt beside his cradle bed. Met bought the Almighty's love must bless that graceful little vine. Whose building tendrils I had taught around 11 is thri.no to twine. Melliitiight an angel's gentle hand the-ilverohime .ii.l ! !!. That called to pr.vtcr raeh thought within tlio temple of his soul. Viol I'V the IiTni hfiiistitiv '.i hi.- i\v? I seemed to f i The -pifitiiiil w..t lt'j.f.oi- within thai holy place. A* M'li'iiiii light will sometime.- through ratio dral window* i*oiir. And reveal the )>:ile linns kneeling upon a marble Hour. : A radiance seemed to gather u'er his mournful face the while, : Like f-.ui lijrlit stealing sadly down a consecrated aisle, f Aiul, I'uiiml his pale, high I'mehend, hung a hnlo, soft and faint, As falls from holy tapers on the image of a saint. | And that frail, suffering, patient child, so full of faith divine, Mis soul lit up with holiness?that saint-like hoy was mine; And, like the broken chrysalis, my heart was only probed j To see its nursling heavenward spring, in shining vesture robed. ! lie prayed?and, dumb with anguish, did my trembling spirit wait, ' Till that low wail had entered at the everlasting gate: And then I cried, "Oh ! Father, thfoiuj* of angels dwell with thee, And /-'* is thine?but leave him vet a little while n i in I'm . : -'Two buds hns Azrncl plucked from out the garden of my love, Ami placed them in the living wreath tlmt spans thy throne above: Twice o'er love's consecrated harp have swept his cold dark wings, And when 1 touch it now. alas! there are two broken strings. "Twice Lave his strong, sharp arrows pierced the lambs within my fold, And now in his unerring grasp anotlrer shaft be"hold!" Two prayers went up at midnight?and the lutt so full of woe, That God did break the arrow set in Azrael's shining bow. Cnnfon Pfuc, F'timniy, 18R7. Rose. BEGINNING LIFE. I began life by running away from home. "Botleau, we are told, was driven into his career by the hand of fate and the beak of a turkey. Atilla started in life with no other cause and capital than anwold sword, which he was adroit enough to palm off for the divine weapon of Mars. And llobespierre owed his political career to wetting his stockings, and there heard "the words which burn" which fired his soul and determined his course in life. My running away from a minor mortification, caused by carrying a pretty girl over a brook. Donald Lean and myself were good friends at fourteen years of age, and we both regarded with a little more than friendship, pretty Helen Craham, "our oldest girl" at school. | We romped and danced together, and this I Irjctnrl fnr auoli n In north of time thnt it is I with feelings of bewilderment that I look back upon the mystery of two lovers continuing friends. But the time came as come it must, when jealously lit her spark in my bosom, and blew it into a cousuming flame. Well do I remember how and when the "green eyed" perpetrated this incendiary deed. * It was a cold October evening, when Helen Donald and myself were returning with our parents from a neighboring hamlet. As we approached a ford where the water ran somewhat higher than ankle deep, wc j prepared to carry Helen accross, as wc were accustomed to do, with hands interwoven, "chair fashion," and thus carried our pretty j passenger over the brook. Just as we were in the middle of the water?which was cold j enough at the time to have frozen anything | ! like feeling out of boys less hardy than ourselves?a faint pang of jealousy nipped my heart. Why it was I knew not, for we had i carried Helen fifty times across the brook ere now, without emotion, but this evening I thought or fancied that Helen gave Donald an undue preference by casting her pretty ann around his neck, while she steadied herself on my side by holding the cuff of my i jacket. I No flame can burn so (juickly or with so little fuel as jealousy. Before we reached the opposite bank. I was wishing Donald at the bottom of the sea. Being naturally ini i pctuous, T burst out with : J "Ye need na baud sae gingerly, as if ye | feared a fa.' f can aye carry ye lighter than I Donald can the half o've." j Surprised at the vehemence of my tone, I our queen interposed, with an admission that I we were both strong, and that she had no I idea of sparing my powers. Jink Donaldjs. ire was kindled, and he utterly denied that! I was at all qualified to compete with him in I feats of carriage. <>n such topic? boys arc ; generally emulous, and by the time wc had j reached the opposite bank it was settled that j the point should be determined by our singj ly bearing Helen across the ford in our arms. Helen was to determine who carried licr mast easily, and 1 settled with myself privately in advance, that the one who bad obtained the preference would really be the i person who stood the highest in her affcc; tions. The reflection stimulated me to use ! every effort, and I verily believe to this day j that I could have carried Donald and Helen j on either arm like feathers, lint 1 most not j anticipate. j We suffered all the rest of the party to i pass quietly along, aud then returned to the ford. 1 lifted Helen with the utmost care, and carried her like an infant to the middle of the water. .Jealousy had inspired a wanner love, and it was with feelings unknown before that I embraced her beautiful form, i and felt the procure of her cheeks against j mine. All went swimmingly, or racier wadingly, for a minute, lint alas! in the very deepest part of the ford, 1 nod on a trenchj erous bit of wood, which rested I suppose, ! ou'a smooth stone. Over I rolled, bearing ! Helen with me, nor did we rise until fairly ' soaked from head to foot. I 1 need not describe the taunts of Donald j or the more accusing silence of Helen. Both i believed that I had fallen from mere weakI ness, and my rival demonstrated his superior | ability by bearing her fjr a long distance on i our homeward path. As we approached the | house, Helen, feeling dry and better humored, attempted to conciliate me. But I porj severed a moody silence, f was mortified ! beyond redress. That night I packed up a few things and runaway. .My boyish mind, sensitive and irritated, exaggerated the indignity it had received, and prompted me to a course which fortunately led me to better results than usually attended such irregularities. I went to Edinburgh, where T found an uncle, a kind hearted, childless man, who gladly gave me ; a place in his house, and employed uie in his business. Wealth flowed in upon him. I became his partner?went abroad?resided four years 011 the continent, and finally returned to Scotland, rich, educated, in short, i every thing hut married. , One eveuing, while at a hall in Glasgow, , I was struck by a young lady of unpretendi h'g appearance, hut whose remarkable beaui ty and high toned expression indicated a mind of more than ordinary power, f was introduced, but the Scottish names had long , been unfamiliar to my ear, and I could not ? - 1 1 , catch hcr.s. It was lielcu soroetning, ana : there was something in the face, too, that ' seemed familiar?something suggestive of I pleasure aud pain. ! hut we became well acquainted that even: ing, and I learned without difficulty her history. She was from the country, had been educated, her parents had lost their property, | and she was now the governess of a family of the city. I was fascinated with her conversation, and was continually reminded by her grace and refinement of manner that she was capable of moviDg with distinguished success in a far higher sphere than that which fortune seemed to have allotted her. I am naturally neither talkative nor prone to confidence ; but there was that iu this young lady which inspired both, aud I conversed with her as I had never conversed with any. Her questions of the various countries with which T was familiar, indicated a remarbable knowledge of literature and air incredible store of information. "We progressed in intimacy, and as our conversation turned on the causes which induced so many to leave their native land, I laughingly remarked that I owed my own travels to falling with a pretty girl into a ford. I had hardly spoken these words, ere the blood mounted to her face, and was succedj ed by quite a remarkable paleness. I attributed this to the beat of the room?laughed ?and at her request proceeded to give the details of my ford adventure with Helen Graham, which I did, painting in glowing colors the amiability of my love. Iler mirth during the recital became almost irrepressible. At the conclusion she ! remarked : ~ t "Mr. Roberts, is it possible that yon hay* forgotten me ?" I gazed an instant?remembered?and was durafounded. The lady with whom I had became acquainted was Helen Graham *" . | herself. i I hate, and so do yon reader, to needlessly prolong a story. We were soon marriedHelen and 1 made our bridal tour to the old place. As we approached it in our carriage, T greeted a stout fellow working in the field, who seemed to be a better sort of laborer, or perhaps a small farmer, by inquiring particulars relating to the neighborhood. He ans- '* i wcrcd well enough, and I was about^to give I him a sixpence when Helen stayed my hand ! and cried in the old style? "Hey, l>onald. n?on. dinna yc ken y'er old i friends?" ' The man looked up in astoushment. It j was Donald Lean. His amazement at. our i appearance was heightened by its style; and it was with the greatest difficulty that we could induce him to enter our carriage and answer onr numerous querries as to old | friends. : Different men Kstart in life" different ! ways. I believe, however, that mine is the | only instance on record of a gentleman who I owes wealth and happiness to rolling over j with a pretty girL in a stream of water. FACTS ABOUT FRIDAY. ' From time immemorial Friday lias been frowned upon as a day of ill omen. And though this prejudice is less prevalent now I than of yore, when superstition had general j sway, yet there are many even in thismntter. of fact afic of ours, who would hesitate, on a ! day so auspicious, to begin an undertaking ; 'tf momentous. im{kjxi_.AuiLhms_uiaiii:iiiav?. - mariners, whase hearts unquailcd could meet ! the wildest fury of their ocean home, would i blanch even to bend their sails on Friday ? Hut to show with how much reason this feel! ing is indulged, let us examine the following | important facts in connexion with our setI tlcment and greatness as a nation; .and we ; will see how great cause, we Americans have ? to dread the fatal day: tz ; On Friday, August 3, 1402, Christopher i Columbus sailed on his great voyage of dub j covery. On Friday, January 4,1493, he sailed on j his return to Spaiu, which, if he had not J reached in safety, the happy result would never have been known which led to the j settlement of this vast coutinent. On Friday, March 12,1403, he arrived at | l'allos in safety. On Friday, November 12, 1405, he arrived at Ilispaniola, on his second voyage to America. . y On Friday, June 14, 14114, lie though nn! known to himself, discovered the continent i of America. On Friday, March 5, 1405, lfenry Yll of England, gave John Cabot his commission,. I which led to the discovery of North Amerij ca. This is the first American State in j England. On Friday, September 7, 15G9, Meledrez i founded St. Augustine, the oldest .settlement in the I'nitcd States by more than 40 years. On Friday, November 10, 1620, the Mayi flower, with the Pilgrims, made the harbor j of Providence-town. And on the same day j signed that august compact, the forerunner ! of our glorious constitution, j On Friday, December 22, 1620, the pilj griins made their final landinjr on Plymouth v j Hock. On Friday, February 22, 1732, tieorge i Washington, the father of American freedom was horn. On Friday, June Hi, 1776, Hunker Hill was seized and fortified. ' On Friday, October 6, 1777, the surren-' dcr of Saratoga was made, which had such a powerful influence in inducing France to ?!?v elare for our cause. On Friday, September 22,17S0, the trea ! son of Arnold was laid bare, which saved us ! from destruction. On Friday, October 19, 1781. the hurrcuj der at York Town,, the crowning glory of the / J American arms. On Friday, June 7, 1770, the motion was ! made in Congress by John Adams, seconded ! by Richard Henry Lee, that the United ' Colonies were and of right out to be free j and independent. Thus, by numerous examples, we see that ; however it may be with.other natious, Ainerij cans need never dread to begin on Friday j any undertaking, however momentous it may be. Deacon Tot>d.?'What does the devil I pay you for swearing? said the deacon to jone whom he heard using profane language, j 'Tic don't pay me anything,-' was the reipb*. , ' 'Well, you work cheap ; to lay aside the character of* a gentleman ; to inflict so much I pain on your friends and civil people; to i suffer, anu lastly, to run the risk of losing | your own precious soul, (and gradually rising j In emphasis,) and all for nothing?' You J certainly do work cheap?very cheap inI deed. . . 4###> I^Why are sinners ljke corn and potatoes ? Because they have eyes, yet see not, and ears, yet hear not.