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SUnz^s.
BY SUTflflE SOUTHRON.
Tts sweet to seek alone, alone,
At even-tide some pleasant sj?ot,
Where moss o'er root and rock linth grown.
And springs the sweet for-get-me-not
When leaves flap idly to the breeze,
And shadows qniver on the ground,
And sunset lingers 'mid the trees,
And hidden music floats around.
There, where the heart is sore oppress'd,
And Faith and llopo doth faint and fail,
When life's frail bark may find 110 rest,
Swept be misfortune's chilling gale.
One hour, one precious hour alone,
With llim whom winds and waves obey,
May hush the spirit's grieving moan,
And drive the clouds of gloom a way.
And when the enp of misery's passed,
And joy?drops in its depths once more,
Doth sparkle bright, or gushing fast,
In clustering sweetness droppctli o'er,
Tis rapture still to seek alone,
The source from whence each blessing flow'd,
And in thanksgiving's joyous tone,
Praise for the happiness bestovr'ed.
O yes, 'tis swoet to be alone.
With nature, ami with nature's God,
Whether to laarn " thy w til he done,"
iteneath the Father's chastening rod,
On Messing Hiin for mercies past,
Seek grace and strength for days to come,
I'ntil the soul is moor'd at last,
Safe, safe within its heavenly home.
[Anderson Gaxettt.
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lUuiilutiunarq ^kctrlj.
DANIEL MORGAN
AND HIS AMERICAN RIFLEMEN.
The outposts of the two armies wero very
near to each other, wbeu the American commander,
desirous of obtaining particular information
respecting the positiou of his adversary,
summoned the fained leader of the
lliHcmen, Col. Daniel Morgan, to headquarter*.
It was night, and the chief was alone. After
his usual polite, yet reserved and dignitied
Salutation, Washington remarked?
'I have sent for you, Col. Morgan, to entrust
to your courage and sagacity a small,
bgt important enterprise. I wish you to reconnoitre
the enemy's line, with n view to
your ascertaining correctly the position of
their newly constructed redoubts ; also the encampments
of the British troops that have
IaIhIv arriiwit :?
niiu UIWVV ?' MICK 1SCBBIHII
auxiliaries. Select, sir, ftn officer, non-commissioned
officer, and alxuit twenty pickedmen,
and under cover of the night proceed,
but with all caution ; get as near as you can,
and by day dawn retire and make your report
to headquarters. Bat mark mo, Col. Morgan,
mark roe well; upon no account what
ever are you to bring on any skirmish with
the enemy; if discovered, make a speedy retreat
; let nothing induce you to fire a single
shot. 1 repeat, sir, that no force of circumstances
will excuse the discharge of a single
rifle on your part; and for the extreme, preciseness
of tbe&e orders, permit mo to say, I
have my reasons.' Fining two glasses of
wine, the General continued : 'And now, Col.
Morgan, we will drink a good night, and success
to your enterprise.'
Col. Morgan quaffed the wine, smacked his
lips, and assured His Excellency that his orders
should be pnnctuslly obeyed, and left
the tent of the Commander-in-Chief.
Charmed at being chosen as the executive
officer of a daring enterprise, the leader of the
woodsmen repaired to his quarters, and calling
for Gabriel Long, his favorite captain ordered
him to detail a trusty sergeant and
twenty prime fellows, who being mustered
and ordered to lay on their arms, ready at a
momenta warning, Morgan and Long stretched
their manly forms before tho watch-fire,
to wait the croincr down ofthe moon, th? ?<*
?, ? ?r -f
ual of depart ura.
A little after midnight, and while the raya
of the aetting moon still faintly glimmered
in the western horizon, 'Up, Sergeant,' cried
Long, 'itir op your men,' and twenty athletic
figure* were on their feet in a moment 'Indian
file, march,' and away they all sprung
with the quick and yet light and stealthy ste?
of the woodsman. They reached the enemy
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GREENY
| line, crawled up so close to the pickets of the 1
Hessians as to inhnle tho odor of their pipes ; i
j discovered by the newly-turned eartn the <
| position of the redoubts, and by the numer- j
I ous tents thnt dotted tho field for, 'many a ?
rod arouud, and showed dimly, amid the 1
light haze, the encampment of the British ?
and German reinforcements, and, in short,
performed their perilous duty without the i
slightest discovery, and, pleased with them- J
selves and the success of their enterprise, pre- <
pared to retire, just as a chanticleer from a j
neighboring farm-house was 'bidding sain* j
tation to the morn.'
The adventurons party reached a small
eminonce at some distance from the British i
camp, and commanding an extensive prospect
over the adjacent country. Here MorSn
haltod to give his men a little rest, be e
taking up his liue of march for the American
outposts. Scarcely had they thrown
themselves upon the grass, when they perceived
issuing from > the enemy's advanced
pickets a body of horse, commanded by an
officer, and proceeding along tho road that
led directly by tho spot where the riflemen
had halted. No spot could be better chosen
for un ambuscade, for there were rocks and
ravines, and also scrubby oaks, that grew
thickly on the eminence by which tho road
which we have just mentioned passed, at not
exceeding a hundred yards.
'Down, boys, down,' cried Morgan, as the
horse approached; nor did the clansmen of
the Black Roderick disappear more promptly
amid their native heather than did Morgan's
1 woodsmen, in the present instance, each to
his tree or rock. 'Lie close there, my lad9,
till we see what these fellows are about.'
Meantine the horsemen had gained tho
height, and tho officer, dropping the rain on
tho charger's nock, with spy-glass reconnoitred
the American lines. Tho troops closed
j up their files, and were either caressing the
noble animals they rode, adjusting their
equipments, or gazing upon tho surrounding
scenery, now fast brightening ih the beams
[ of a rising sun.
Morgan looked at Long, and Long at his
superior, wlnle the riflemen, with panting t
chests and sparkling eyes, were only waiting i
seme signal from tlicir officers 'to let the ruiu i
fly.' <
At length the lunrtia! nnlor of Morgan ?
overcame his prudence and sense of military t
suborbination. Forgetful of consequences, 1
reckless of everything bat his enemy, now J
within his grasp, lie waved his hand, and t
loud and sharp rang the report of their rifles
aiuid tho surrounding echoes. <
At point blank distance, tho certain and <
deadly aim of the Hunting Shirts of the Rev- ?
olutionary army is too well known to history t
to need remark at this time of day. In the j
instance we have recorded, the effect of the
fire of the riflemen was tremendous. Of *
the horse, some had fallen to rise no more, \
while their liberated chargers rushed wildly r
over the adjoining plain, others, wounded, ]
but entangled with their stirrups, were drag- 1
ged by tho infuriated nuimnls expiringly 1
along, while the very few who were unscath- i
ed spurred hard to regain the shelter of the 1
British lines. 1
While the sinokeyct canopied the scene of t
slaughter, and tho picturesque froms of the 1
woodsmen appeared among the foliage, as 1
they were re-loading their pieces, the coloe- t
sal figure of Morgan stool apart. lie seemed 1
the very genius of war, and gloomily he eon- j
templated the havoc his order had made. He >
spoke not, he moved not, but looked as one t
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nuourucu in uie intensity of thought. Tlio 1
martini shout with which ho was wont to
cheer his comrades in the hour of combat,
was hushed ; the shell from which he had
blown full many a note of battle and of triumph
on the field of Saratoga, hung by his
side; no order was given to spoil the slain,
the arms and eouipments, for which there
was always a bounty from Congress, the
shirts of which there was such a need at that,
the sorest period of our country's privation,
all, all-were abandoned, as with an abstracted
air and a voice struggling for utterance,
Morgan, suddenly turning to his captain, exclaimed?'Long,
to the camn, to the camp.*
The favorite captain obeyed,' the riflemen
with trailed arms fell into file, and Long and
bis party soon disappeared, but not before
the hardy fellows had exchanged opinions on
the strango termination of the late affair.?
| And they agreed, ncm. < <>?., that their colonel
was tnoked, (conjured) for assuredly after
such a fire as thev b?/l
, r MIV VllCIU^f 1
such an emptying of saddles and scattering >
of the troopers, he would not hare ordered f
his poor riue boys from the field without so *
much as a few shirts or pair of stockings bo- t
ing divided among them. 'Yes,' mid a tall, t
lean and swarthy looking fellow, and Indian i
hunter from the frontier, as he carefully placed
his moeoasined feet in the footprints of the j,
file-leader, 'yes, my lads, it stands to reason, f
our oolonel is tricked.' 1
Morgan followed only on the trail of his
men. The full foroe of his military guilt r
had rushed upon his mind, even before the <
report of his nfiei had oeased to echo in the r
neighboring forests. He became more con- *
vineed cf the enormity of bis offences, as, c
with dull and measured strides, he pursued 1
his solitary way, and thus soliloqnizcd : c
( 'Well, Danied Morgan, you have done for
yourself. Broke, Mr, to a certainty. You t
fiaay go borne, sir, to the plough ; your sword "
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IELE, S. C,: FRIDA
will be of no further use to you. Broken,
sir?nothing can save you ; and there is the
snd of Col. Morgan, tool, fool?by a single
ici of madness, thus to destroy the earnings
jf so many toils and of many a hard-fought
battle. \ou are broken; sir, and there is an
And of Col. Morgan/
To disturb his reverie, there suddenly apKtared
at full speed the aid-de-camp, the
ercury, of the field, who, reining up, accostid
the Colonel with, 'I am ordered, CoL Morgan,
to ascertain whether the firing just now
beard proceeded from your detachment f
AIt did, sir,' doggedly replied Morgan.
irru n.i u * *" ' *? '? *
mpu, KSUI. jnurgno, WilliIIueu U1C UlU, \l
im further ordered to require of you your
ramediate attendance upon Hia Excellency,
who is fast Approaching.
Morgan bowed, and the aid, wheeling hia
;hnrgcr, galloped back to rejoin the Chief.
Hie gleams of the morning sun, shining
ipon the sabres of the horse guard, announced
ino arrival of the dread commander?that
>eing who inspired with a degfee of awe evil*)'
one who approached him. With a stem,
pet dignified composure, Washington adircssed
tlie military culprit:
'Can it be possible, Col. Morgan, that my
ud-de-camp has informed mo aright ? Can
t bo possible, after the orders you received
ast evening, that the firing we have heard
proceeded from your detachment ? Surely,
iir ; my order* were so explicit as not to be
insily misunderstood.'
Morgan was bravo; but it has been often,
md justly, too, observed, that man was never
jorn of woman who could approach the great
Washington and not feel a degree of awe and
feneration from his presence. Morgan quailid
for a moment before the stern yet just disI.:.
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Mvnvuao vi inn viiui, nil ftruilMIl^ <111 U18 Pllirgies
for tho effort, he uncovered and replied:
'Your Excellency's orders were perfectly
inderstood ; and, agreeable to the same, I
proceeded with the select party to reconnoitre
be enemy's lines by night. We succeeded
sven beyond our expectations, and 1 was rooming
to headquarters to make my report,
irhen, having halted a few minutes to rest
be men, we discovered a party of horse coning
out from the enemy's lines. They camo
ip immediately to the spot where we lay consealed
by the brushwoUi. There they haltid,
and gathered together like a flock of pnrt idjres,
affording me so tempting au opporumty
of annoying my enemy, and may it
ileasc your Excellency, flesh and blood could
lot refrain.'
At this rough, yet frank, bold aud manly
explanation* a smile was observed to pass
iver tho General's suit. The Chief remained
mmoved ; when, waving his hand, he coninued
: "Colonel Morgan, you will retire to
four quarters, there to await further orders.'
Arrived at his quarters, Morgan threw himself
upon his hard couch, and gave himself
ip to reflections upon the events which had
10 lately and rapidly succeeded each other.
!Ie was aware lie had sinned against all
lopes of forgiveness. Within twenty-four
lours he had fallen from the command of a
egiment, and being a special favorite with
lis General, to be, what f?a disgraced and
jrokcn soldier. Condemned to retire from
ho scenes of glory, the darling paRsion of his
icart?forever to abandon the 'fair field of
ighting men,' and in obscurity to 'drag out
.he remnant of a wretched existence,1 negected
and forgotten, and then his rank, so
lardly and so nobly won, with all his 'blusbng
honors,1 acquired in the march across
lie frozen wilderness of the Kennebec, the
itorraing of the Lower Town, and the galant
and glorious combat at Saratoga.
The hours dragged gloomily away, and
light came, and with it no rest for the troubed
spirit of poor Morgan. The drums and
ifes merrily sounded the soldier's dawn, and
he sun arose, giving 'premise of a goodly
lay.1 And to many within the circuit ofhis
videly extended camp, did his genial beam
five hope, and joy, and gladness, while it
:heered not with a single ray the despairing
leader of the Woodsmen.
About ten o'clock, the Orderly on duty i
e ported the arrival of an officer of the staff '
rom headquarters, and Lieutenant Colonel 1
Iamilton, the favorite aid of the Comrnan- <
ler-in-Chief, entered the marque.
'Be seated,1 said Morgan; 'I know vour 1
irrand ; so be short, my dear fellow, and nut
no out of my misery at once. I know tliat 1
am arrested; 'tis a matter of course. Well, here
is my sword; but surely Ifi* Excelency
honors rae indeed, in theso last mo- i
nenta of my military existence, when he sends 1
or my sword by bis favorite aid and my \
nost esteemed friend. Ah, my dear Hamil- i
on, if you knew what I have suffered since '
lie accursed horse came out to tempt ine to
ny rain.* I
Hamilton, about whose strikingly intelli- 1
jent countenance there always lurked a play- 1
ul smile, now observed?'Col. Morgan, Ilia
Excellency has ordered rao to * i
'1 know it,* interrupted Morgan, to bid :
ne prepare for trial; but pshaw, why a trial! |
Jtrilty, sir, guilty, past all doubt But then,' ]
eoollecting himself, perhaps my services (
night plead?nonsense?against the disobe- '
lience of a positive order; no, no, it s all over {
vlth me. Hamilton, there ie an end to your i
Id friend, Col. Morgan.* i
The agonized spirit ofJtlie hero then moun- ,
ed to a pitch of enthusiasm, as he exclaimed ,;
?'Bui my country will reineinbor my ser- ,
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Y MORNING, OCTOB
vices, and the British and the llessians will
remember me; for, though I may be far
away, my brave comrades will do their duty;
and Morgan's riflemen will be, as they idways
have been, a terror to the enemy.'
The noble, the geuerous soutcd Hamilton
could no longer bear to witness the struggles
of the brave unfortunate; he called out,
"llear me, ray dear Colonel; only promise
to hear me for one moment, and I will tell
. II
jun ail.'
4Go on, sir,' interrupted Morgan, despairingly.
4goon.'
4Then,' continued the aid-de-camp, 'you
mnst know that the commander of regiments
dine with His Excellency to-day.'
'What of that!' again interrupted Morgan:
4what has that to do with me a prisoner
and?'
4No, no,' exclaimed Hamilton ;4no prisoner?a
once offending, but now a forgiven
soldier; my orders are to invite you to dine
with His Excellency to-day nt three o'clock
precisely; yes, my brave and good friend,
Col. Morgan, you still are and liklv long to
be the valued and famed Commander of the
Regiment.'
Morgan sprang from this camp-bed, upon
which he was sitting, and seizing the hand
of the great little mail in his giaut grasp,
wrung and wrung it, till the aid de-camp literally
struggled to get free ; then exclaimed :
4Am I in my senses I but I know you, Hamilton
; you are too noble a fellow to sport
with the feelings of an old brother soldier.'
Hamilton assured his friend that nil wns
true, and gaily kissing his hand, as lie mounted
his horse, bidding the now delighted
Colonel remember three o'clock, and be careful
not to disobey the second time, galloped
to head-quarters.
Morgan entered the pavilion of the Commander-in-Chief,
as it was filling with olficers,
all of whom, after paying their respects
to the Genera),-Jlled off to give a cordial
squeeze of the band to the Commander of the
Hille llogiinent, and to whisper in his ear
words of congratulation. The cloth removed,
Washington bid his guests fill their glasses,
ane gave his only, his unwavering toast of
the days of trial, the toast of the evening of
his time-honored' life amid the shades of
Mount Vernon?4 All our Friend*? Then,
with his usual old-fashioned politeness, he
drank to each guest by name. When lie
came to 4Col. Morgan, your good health, sir,
a thrill ran through the manly frame of the
gratified and again favorite soldier, while every
eye in the pavilion was turned on him. At
an early hour the company broke up, and
Morgan had a perfect escort of officers accompanying
him to his quarters, all anxious
to congratulate him upon his happy restoration
to rank and favor, all ploastsl to assure
him of their esteem for his person and services.
? 3 to qpd iiqifolr.
A writer in the Methodist Protestant puts
tho argument in favor of legislating against
the manufacture and sale of liquor into this
littlo nut-shell.
As one of tho sovereign people, we may
be allowed to say a few words to legislators.
It is known that great difficulties in here
in some questions of legislation. In such
cases, a trust-worthy legislator seeks to guide
his opinions by /acts, from which he may
form a general proposition, or a gewerul
maxim suited to bis purpose. Of course he
has constructed a syllogism.
General Maxim.?When the manufacture
and indiscriminate sale of any article is found
to be, more than all things beside, so injurious
to individuals, families, and the State, as
to be justly denominated "the curse of curses"
to this generation, as it was to every proceeding
generation, from the time of the settlement
of the State to the present day, the
indiscriminate sale of that article should be
prohibited by law, and, if need be, by the
physical power of the State in aid of the law.
Particular Case?The manufacture and
indiscriminate sale of distilled spirituous and
fermented liquors have, by their general use,
caused more suffering and crime?more ruin
and anguish?caused more premature deaths
more widowhood or orphanage, the. alienation
of more property, more woes, lamentations,
and wailing, in every part of each State
ai uiese united states, than any oilier cause,
?or than all causes together.
Prmrtical Conclusion.?Therefore, the
manufacture and indiscriminate sale of distilled
and fermented intoxicating liquors
should be, by the laws of each State, prohibited,
not in words only, but also in deeds and
forever.
Gi.ass Unions.?Among the more recent
inventions patented by manufacturers, we
bear of one Vjr Mr. Suramerfield, of the glass
works, Birmingham Heath, England, for
what are termed chromatic glass, or glassFaced
grooved bricks. By Mr. Sunamorneld's
process, red or any other olsv can be cornLined
with glass, and this will secure durability,
entire resistance to moisture, and give
sn ornamental appearance to the building.
The form of the brick is also, by means of s
groove at the side and end, made so as to
add greatly to the strength of the erection,
the joints by this means being brought
jlose together, and the morter acta as a dowsll
from the shape of the groove.? The London
Builder.
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3 C'rnt ' nlr.
I he MiOoto's Mill.
bt REV. A. M. SCOTT.
It was a bitter night The snow- had
been falling in fleecy flights din ing the greater
portion of tho da}-, und the cold was so
intense that no business of any kind had
been prosecuted by the industrious and intemrisinor
citizens of the villus k?i
s -"ftunmu
succeeded day. The snow aud sleet were
still descending, and the spirit of the storm
seemed to howiaround the house, nnd through
the fields and orchards and forests, and among
the distant mountains.
Mr. Rowland had returned from the
counting-house at an earlier hour than usual.
Sapper had been served and the family
had gathered around tho sparkling fire.?
Tho children had been put to bed in nn adjoining
apartment, Hnd tho infant was sleeping
in the cradel under the immediate notice I
of its mother. Mr. Rowland was reading a
newspaper, and a? the fitful blast moaned
round uis commodious dwelling, he would
make some remarks relative to the severity
of the weather. Mrs. R. was parting the
flaxen curls upon the head of the sleeping
babe, and occasionally she imprinted the
warm kiss of maternal affection upon its rud-1
dy cheek.
Suddenly some one rapped at the d?x>r. i
It was opened, when a little girl of alsnit i
seven years old was admitted. Iler scanty I
dress were tattered ami torn, a rugged quilt;
thrown around her slender shoulders, and a j
pair of miserable old shoes upon her feet.? j
She was almost frozen.
uYou arc tho widow Watkins' little daugh- |
tor i" said Mrs. Rowland, iiKjuhingly.
The little girl answered in the nffirmn- j
tive, and added that her mother was sick, j
and wished Mr. Rowland to step over and :
see her, for she thought she w ould surely J
die.
Mr. Rowland owned the place on which!
tho sick woman resided. She was very indignant,
and but poo'rly able to pay the extravagant
rent which the unfeeling owner
exacted. The property was once lier husband's,
or rcther her own ; being a gift from
her father on the very day of her wedding.
Mr. Watkins was wealthy when a young man,
and educated for the bar, and 110 one seemed
more likely to be successful in his profession.
lie and Mr. Rowland wero early associates.
The latter, a few years l>efore the'
period at which we now find him, had commenced
the nefarious trnfie in ardent spirits
?had grown rich?had induced Watkins to
drink?made liiin drunk, and by the degrees,
a drunkard; and when the poor besotted
victim was unable to pay his debts, contracked
niostl)' for ruin, but partly by neglecting
his professional duties, he, his former
associate, his pretended friend, his destroyer,
was the first to decry and oppress hiin. His
horses and oxen were sold by the sheriff,
next his household aud kitchen furniture
WArA unil finollit ? ?
.. ^M.vv( mm Iiutiij J n UlUll^agV was
given to Rowland upou tlio homestead of
the drunkard, to secure the ruin dealer in the
payment of a pitiful balance in his favor.
This calamity did not check the prodigal
career of the inabriate. lie still quaffed the
liquid poison, and still did the heartless dealer
holdout inducements to prevail upon him
to sink lower into wretchedness and shame.
A few weeks after he was one mourning
found dead in the street, lie had left the
grocery at a late hour the preceeding night,
in a state of intoxication. The night was
dark, and he probably missed his way?fell
into the gutter?found himself unable to get
out?and being stupified with rum, he went
to sleep and froze to death.
Rowland in a short time foreclosed the
mortgage, and the home of the drunkard's
wife became tho legal property of the man
who had destroyed her |K*acc, and reduced
her to beggary and want. lie permitted
her to remain on the premises, exacting an
extravagant rate of rent. Mental anguish,
excessive labor, want of projier nourishment,
and exposure, had well nigh worn her out,
and she was fast sinking into the grave,
where the werry are at rest No one had
been near her; no one seemed to care for
her; in fact it was not known even to hei
nearest neighbors, that she was sick.
Mr. Rowland felt only anxious ouly for
his rent, there being at that time a small
sum due. And perhaps it was owing to this
circumstance, that he so readily consented to
accompany the little girl to tho room of her
sick mother. 11a drew on his overcoat, tie*]
a woolen comforter round his neck, drew on
his gloves, and taking his unhrclla, sot out
through the driAing snow and sloet, ar.d
went hi* way to the widow's uncomfortable
home.
He found her lying on her miserable bed
of straw, with her heaad slig.'illy elevated,
the only chair belonging to the house being
placed under her pillow. She was pale and
ghastly, and evidently near the hour of disso
luuon. air. ivowiaou oein?j Heated on a rude
woodnn stool, she said in a feeble, but decided
tone of voice:
MI have sent for you, air, to nay me a
visit, that I may male? you the )u)r of mv
estate. My estate 1 f know you are ready
I to ask what estate 1 have to bequeath ?? 1
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And woll you may ask that. I once was
happy. Ibis house was once miue ; it was
uiy father's gift?my wedding porting
had horses, and oxen, cows and sheep,
charda and medows. Twas you that in- * '
duced my poor erriug husband to drink.?
It was you who placed before him the liquid
poison, and pressed him to take it. Twas
you that took away my horses aud cows,
and medows and orchards, and my own
hotne. Twas you that ruined my peace,
destroyed my husband, and in the very noon
of life, sent hiui down to a drunkard's dislinnnrA/l
r?mvo 'T????* *1?4 1
.......VU ^>?<n * nwi juu Hint I1KU1U Uie A
l>eggar, and cast my poor starving babes upon
the charity of a pitiless world. I have
nothing left but these ragged quilts; them
you dont want?yet I have determined to
bequeath you my estate. Here, air, is my
last will and testament; I do bequeath you
this vial of tears. They are tears that I
have shed?tears that you have caused.?
Tukc this vial ; wear it about your vile person
; and when, hereafter, you present the
flowing bowl to the lips of a husband and a
father, remember that you are inheriting another
vial of widow's tears."
An hour more, and the poor widow, the
widow of a thousand sorrows, the once favored
chihl of fortune, the once lovely and
wealthy bride, the once affectionate wife and
devoted young mother, lay cold and senseless
in death, and her soul had been summoned
to that God who has said, "Vengeance
is mine and 1 will repay."
J he $)ccisibe ^ofoonf.
A few years since while travelling in an
aincent State aloiif the hunk* of n
river, a friend pointed to the flourishing current,
and related the following incident:
Not long before, when the spring rains fell,
the broad channel with a surging flood, a
lumber man ventured out in a boat upon a
bay, to save timber which was breaking
from its fastening, and would soon be swept
down the stream if not secured. In his absorbing
interest to prevent the loss lie went
too far into the rushing tide. His little bark
was caught by the curreut, and amid wild
cries for help, he was born away, arrow like,
before the tumultuous waters. The alarm
spread, and a neighbor recollecting there
was a bridge several inilcs below, mounted a
horse and hastened to reach that only place
of rescue. Onward in helpless calmness,
the imperiled boatman sped ; and on the
shore his deliverer rode with the fleetness of
a courier towards the bridge. Reaching the
structure, which trembled to the voilence of
the flood, he called for a rope, and throwing
it over the arch, waited tho approach of the
pale and anxious man. He saw the swaying
cord, Hud as he swept beneath it, grasped
with the energy of a last hone, the thread of
life. In another moment, lie was in the
embrace of friends. And I have thought
when I have seen men concerned for their
soul's salvation, and on the current of depravity
sweeping them away, there must
come a decisive crisis?a last offer of mercy ;
and who shall say when the friendly haud
of a Redeemer will be withdrawn forever?
"I might have been saved," will be the
keenest pang in the agonies of the second
death, while the vision rests on the moment
which deeidod the entrance upon the infinite
deep of retribution.?N. Y. Observer.
Tiib Right ok Election by Hotel Keepers.?This
question had a very practical decision
in the Police Court yesterday. Mr.
Weston Mcrritt, one of the landlords of
Wilde's Hotel, in Elm-street, was arraigned
for an assault upon Mr. Augustus C. Blodgett,
dry good jobber at No. 38 Kilby-street, and
formerly editor of the New Hampshire Statesman.
It appeared that Mr. Blodcrett former
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ly lK>ftrde<l at the hotel, but having some
difficulty with the landlord, changed his quarters,
and was ordered never to enter the
house again. A few days since, however, he
went there for the purpose of examining the
register to see if an acquaintance had arrived,
w lien Merritt attempted forcibly to put him
out, and indicted upon him several blows.
The counsel for the defence argued that the
complianant, having been previously warned
not to enter the house, had no right to remain,
and his being there was a trespass, and
consequently the defendant was justified in
his doings. The court held that the premises
being a public house, every ]>ody had
the rijjht to enter, provided no trespass was
committed; therefore the ejection of tho
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ruiuviMnwii who iiiuuwuii, aua Wie. defendant
was fined t8 and costs.?Boh ton Traveller,
9tk in*t.
Touching Gratitudk.?A poor Irish
woman applied, a few* days since, for relief
to our well-known citizen, Mr. Longworth,
who, iu.poinplianco with her urgent appeals,
finally handed her a dime. Sinking on her
knees devoutly thanked God, and then, turning
to Mr. Longworth, continued, "and when
in another world I see you in torment, I wiH
remember your kindness, and give you a cup
of cold water for this that you nave done unto
me." Mr. Longworth felt more obliged
for her good iutcutions than complimented
by her anticipation of his futurity.?Cin 0?hnnbiun.