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,V \ _ % 1 r * . K jShpnttf llfntiiru witlT (he Ideal beings of Il la-pleasant, likewise to gaze ^piil Wbfn some high crag, end watch a uf chiWren, gathering pebbles and and playing with the surf, mimn ?IQ ocean's hoary bear*. Nor ' ^1*'l Infringe upon my seclusion, to see' TOgfcr atr.anchor off the shore, ; <jMuilf?||ifnilngly lo and fro, and rising aiflFainking with the alternate swell; ^ utfclfe iht^>rew?four gentlemen i? round abtMdjftckoU<-iire busy with their fishingllfiK But, with an inward antipathy and a niad long flight, do I eschew'the pie* sence of any meditative stroller like my* self, known by his pilgrim staff, his sauntering stop, his shy demeanor, his observant yet abstracted eye. From such a man; as if another self had scared me, I scramble hastily over the rocks and take refuge in a nook which many a secret hour has given mc a right to call my own. 1 would do baltlo for it even with the| cHgrl that should produce the title-deeds. Have not my musings melted into its rocky walls and sandy floor, and made them a portion of myself? It is a recess in the line of cliffs, wall eu round by a rough, high precipice, which j ?)most encircles at|d shuts in a little spa.c of sand. In the'rear, the precipice is broken and inclinging and twining shrubs, but to trees, that gripe the rocks with their naked roots, and scern to struggle hard for footing and for soil enough to live upon. These arc fir Irees; but oaks hang their heavy branches from above, and throw down acorns upon the beach, nnd shed their withering foilage upon the waves. ' At this autumnal season the precipice is decorated with variegated splendor; trailing wreaths of scarlet flaunt from the summit downward; tufts of yclloivflowering shrubs, anil rose bushes, with their reddened leaves and glossy seed-berries, sprout from each crevice, at every glance I detect some new light or shade of bcautv, all contrasting with the stern gray rock. A rill of water trickles down the cliff and fills a little cistern near the base. I drain it at a draught and find it fresh and pure. This recess shall be mv dining-hall. And what the feast? A lew biscuits, made savory by soaking them in sea-water, a tuft of samphire, gathered from the beach, and an apple for the des?sert. By this the little rill has filled its .reservoir again; and, as I quaff it, I thank God more heartily than for a civic ban-j quel that 11c gives me the healthful appetite to make a feast of bread and water. Dinner being over, I throw myself at length upon the sand and, basking in the sunshine, let mind disport iUolf at will. The walls of this my hermitage have no tongue to tell my fullies, though I sometimes fancy that they have cars to hear them and a soul to sympathize. There is magic in this spot. Dreams haunts its precints, and flit around me in broad sunlight, nor require that sleep shall blindfold me to real objects, ere these be visible. Here 1 can frame a story of two lovers, and make their shadows live before me, and be mirrored in the tranquil water, as they tread along the sand, lea. ving 110 foot-prints. Here, should I will it, I can summon up a single shade, and be ipyself her lover. Yes, dreamer? but your lonely heart will be the colder for such fancies. Sometimes, too, the past comes back, and finds me here, and in her train como faces which were gladsome when I knew them, yet seem not gladsome now. "Would that my hiding place were lonelier, so that the past might not find me! Get ye all gone, old friends, and let me listen to the murmur of the sea?a melancholy voice?hut less sad than yours. Of what mysteries is it telling! Of sunken ships, and whereabouts they lie? Of islands afar and undiscovered, mivoo ia u ti.J VU11U4UII aiU UIILtM!M'UMI> <11 other islands and of continents, and deem the stars of heaven their nearest neighbors? Nothing of all this. What then? Has ft talked for so many ages, and meant siothing all the while? No; for those ages iind utterance in the sea's unchanging voice, and warn the listener to withdraw his interest from mortal vicissitudes, and let the infinite idea of eternity pervade his soul. This is wisdom; and therefore, will I spend the next half hour in shaping little boats of draft-wood, and launching them on voyages across the cove, with the feather of a sea-gull for a sail. If V the voice of ages tell me true, this is as wise an occupation as to build ships of five hundred tons, and lnnn/?h flinm fnrih upon the main, bound to " far Cathay." Yet, how would the merchant sneer nt me! Ant), after all, can such philosophy he true? Methinks it could find a thousand arguments against it. Well, then, let yonder shaggy rock, mid-deep in the surf?see! he is somewhat wrathful?he rages and roars and foams?let that tall r0ck be my antagonist, and let me exercise my oratory like him of Athens, who bandied words with an angry sea and got the victory. My maiden speech is a triumphanConc; for the gentleman in seaweed has nothing to offer in reply save an unmitigable roaring. His voice, indeed, will be heard a long while after mine is hushed. Once more I shout, and the cliffs . reverberate the sound. Oh, what joy for a shy man to feel himself so solitary, that he may lift his voice to the highest pitch without hazard of a listener. But. hush! slJ?nt, my good friend!?whence comes | V f * thai ilifori taughftarf It^rta bow hpi^id ,there tr tucb hhmjc in rojf Boliludel Luuliing upwards, 1 retch glii ?pse of three faces, peeping from the suraTitft of the clUF, like angels between me and their native sky. Ah, fair girls, you may make yourselves merry at my eloquence, but it was my turn to smile when I saw your white feet in the pool! Let us keep each otner's secrets. * The sunshine has now passed from my hermitage, except a gleam upon the sand just where it meets the sea. A crowd^Aj gloomy fantasies will come and hannt ifl If I tarry longer here, in the darkening^ twilight of these gray rocks. This is a| dismal place in some moods of the mind.l Climb wc, therefore, the precipice, andj pause a moment on the brink, gazing i down into that hollow chamber by the deep, where we have been, what few can be, sufficic t to our own happiness How lonesome looks the recess now, and dreary too like all other spots where happiness has been! There lies my shadow in the departing sun-shine with its head upon the aea. 1 will pelt it with pebbles. A hit! a hit! I clap my hands in triumph, and see my shadow clapping its unreal Jiands, and claiming the triumph for itself. What a simpleton must I have been all the day, since my own shadow makes a mock of my fooleries! Homewaid! homeward? It is lime to hasten home. It is time; it is time; for as the sun sinks over the western wave, the sea grows melancholy, and the surf has a saddened tone. The distant sails appear astray, and not of eaith; in their remoteness amid the desolate waste. My spirit wanders forth afar, but finds no res ting place, and comes shivering back. It is lime that I was hetic . But grudge me not the day that has been spent in seclusion, which yet was n>?t solitude, since tne great sea has been my companion and the little sea-birds my friends, and Unwind has told me his secrets, and airy shapes have flitted around me in my liermhagc. Such conipenionship works an effect upon a man's character, as if he had bc? 11 admitted to the society of creatures that arc not mortal. And when, at noontide, I tread the crowded streets, the influence of this day will still be felt, so ( that I shall walk among men kindly as a brother, with affection and sympathy, hut yet shall n??t melt into the undistinguishnble mass of human kind 1 shall think my own thoughts, and feel my own emotions, and possess my individuality tinviolated. But it is good at the eve of such a day, to feel and know that there are men and women in the world. That feeling and that knowledge are mine at this moment; f >r, on the shore, far below rue, the fishing party have landed from their skiff, ami are cooking their scaly pr? y bv the fue of drift-wood, kindled in the angle of two rude rocks. The three visionaly girls are alto there. in the t\v?l?j-r?t. woilu til. auof to .In .1. | ing near their hearth, the ruddy gleam of the fire throws a strange air of comfort I over the wild eovc. bestrewn as it is with, pebbles and sea wed, und exposed to the i 41 meiancholy main" Moreover, as the I smoke climbs up the precipice, it brings with a savory smell from tlie pan < f fried fish, and a black kettle of chowder, and reminds mo that my dinner was nothing but bread amf water and a tuft of samphire,' and an apple. Methinks the party might1 find room for another guest, at that Hat rock which serves them tor a table; and if spoons be scrace, I could pick up a clamshell on the beach. Tliey see me now; and?the blessing of a hungry man upon him!?halloo. Sir Solitary! come down and sup with us! The ladies wave their handkerchiefs. Cm 1 decline? No; and be it owned, after all my solitary joys, .L . .L!- !- -I niiiv uiis i8 me sweetest moment ol a Day by the Sea-Shore. ?????? Not long si:;ce, two sniinrs, j>rt88i i? g l> v a Tailor's shop, and observing a tailor at' work, with the hark <?f his waistcoat made of different colors of cloth, one of then) rrilul out to the other, ' Lock there. Jack; did ye ever see so mativ sorts of| cabbage grow on otie stalk befc re? Courtship of tiif, late Dr. R.~ "Dear Sir: 1 am. sorry I canno accept your kind offer, as I am already engaged: but 1 am sure my sirster Ann would jump at it! "Your obliged, Ei.izt L " "Dear Mi'-s Eliza: I bf g your pinion, but wrote your name in mistake; it woMiss Ann I meant to ask, and avc writ 10 ner 05 me nearer.? Hoping soon to he I your affectionate brother. J R." The Doctor and Miss Ann were married, and, ns they say in the fairy tales, ' lived very happy all the rest of their lives." Pleasuhf. of Publishing Papers.? In an article on the stern necessity, and that unkind inattention of subsc-ihers and advertisers, which compel the publishers of papers to dun their patrons, the Kditm of the Wheeling Times, very justly and feelingly makes fliese remarks. "There is a mania for ptibliseing newspapers in this world ?f ours, that is more iatul than the small pox, the cholera or the yellow fever' Ninety in a hundred meet their destruction in it; yet, as fast aone dies another takes his [dace, gels innoculntcd with the writing fever, think of gold nod glory, turns newspaper publisher, drags on a worthless life, half fed, half clothed, toils day and night, heart-i?k and weary; the public slave, yo. wielding an engine, which properly re strfcled WjUil move the worhl, or snake its inhabifefta tfe?nbi?s The be free or useful wltlle it if ijmjtlbtelled with poverty and dogged with <|||mu Ho situated, it will, it must he, mi-tit^back of every whippersnapper who haa money enough to keep the printet's aould and body together.? This' state of things will not do. We move that the Printers of the United States divide off in halves and *'jeff" to I see which ahull g<? lo digging ditches and Luicking stone-coal for a living.- It would n prove (habituation ol both- halves mightily. We^ok upon every new paper that is started, very much as we do upon every new murder that is committed. We think, there is another man lost to every thing useful, lost to hims< If, lost to the world, and doomed to a purgatory from which salt cannot save him. We thin -, that the last days of that man will be worse than the first!?but all must live and learn. We have become a little hardened to the business, *?ut if we had life to go over again, we rather adopt the trade of fishing lor minnows with a pin hook, than that of publishing a paper in the United Elates." . j SSlgnees of the Declaration of Independence. Ol the fifty-six signers of the Declaration o'f Independence, it is slated that nine were bor . in Massuchnsettes; eight in Virginia; five in Maryland; four in Connecticut; four in New Jersey; four in Pennsylvania; four in South Carolina; three in New York; three in Delaware; tw > in Rhode-Island; one in Maine; three in Ireland; two in England; two in Scotland; and one in Wales. Twenty-one were attorneys, ten merchants, four physicians, tcree farmers, one clergyman, one printer, and sixteen were men of fortune. ? .? . ? . nnu gi amours 01 uravard College; four of Yule; three of Now Jersey; two oi Philadelphia; iwo of William & Mary; three of Cambridge England; two of Edinburg; and one of St. Ornors. At the time of their deaths five were over ninety years of age; sevi n between eighty and ninety; eleven between seventy and eighty; twelve between sixty and seventy; eleven between fifty and sixty; seven between forty and fifty; one died at the age of twenty seven; and the age of two is uncertain. At the lime of signing the Declaration; the average age of the members was forty-four years. They lived t> the average Hgc of more than sixty-five years and ten months. The youngest member was Edward Ruth dg of South Carolina, who was in his twenty-seventh year. He lived to the age of fifty-one. The next youngest member was Thomas Lynch, of the -nine state, who was also in his twentyseventh year. He was ca ?t amay at sea in the fall of seventeen hundred and seventy-six. Benjamin Franklin was the oldest meml/i a Hi' v? iiu a 1 - - ? -j ? %? .? * % when he signed (he Declaration. lie lived to 1700, and survived sixu en of his younger brethren. Stephen Hopkins, of Rhrdc Island, the next oldest member. was born in 1707, and died in I7b5. Charles Carroll attained tie greatest ag", dying in his ninety,sixth year. Win. Eilery, of Rhode Island, died in his nine ty-third year, and John Adams in his ninety-first. A Hairless Ilonst: ? A horse which is I now exhibiting at Tulter?*nlls is certainly, a ureal cniosiiy. There is imi a hair *?? a y pari ??f his body, from his ears t<? his tail nor on any of his limbs He i> a perfectly fi rmed and docile animal, and his skin is as smooth and as soft as a lady'-, or as the ureal anaconda's. Starth n .t lair dames, at the combination, for we mean no disrespect to you whatever. It is sai l that the dam was frightened almost to death at thi' si^lil of an clcphamt, and Iter fwa! resembled lite objeet of Iter dread, in color, and sonoftlt ti in his mode ol standing. lie is said to he it quirk walk* er and a I :st trotter. His oiivio.il proprietor, it is reported, was a.- much fr'gh tenet) at his hairless <<pp? .trance as his tlam was ,it the elephant, and was so anx ions to get rid of ain:, that In gave him away to a neighbor, who kept hio. until he was three ye irs old, md s hi hint to hi> present owner lot $2,H0(). - [N. Y# Mm-. Adv. llOki; Bid- A: FA SR. A slip from the hire of the l.pnisvilli Ydvei '!? r ciatiti; * ih<- del. its f tin attempt to r- b t: r Mechanics" Sating I; stit itioti of thai | lace, which ended in minder ?nd suicide. The Tri usurer. II. S. Julian, had gone to dinner, leaving the drst rlerk, O. M. Parker, in the hank. After the Treasurer left, it seem* Calrendcn E. Dirks was an milled into the institution by Mr Purkcr, who had been acquainted with Dirks frou boyhood. Under what pretext Dirks enli red, 01 how he acted immediately after obtaining admission, must be niuttrr of conjecture. It appears, however, that Mr. Parker was killed at his desk by u blow with lli?4iatnmer used in cancelling notes paid. Me was struck?on the top of the head, and the hammer buried to the handle in hia brain. At this instant it is supposed Dirks commenced his search for money, in a drawer, in which hank notes are anally kept was found partly drawn out, when Mr. Julian, the treasurer, arrived i"il knocked at the door of the building. iliekB opened- the door admitted Julian, hut the door again, and commenced an uack upon him with tho hammer with Ahirh Parker hud been killed. Julian, unapprised of whut had occurred, parried th* blow* atoed gilrifti, end begged Dicks; Cr pause, assuring him that he was mis- j taken. Dicks continued his assault, mak-| lug blow after blow, until Mr. Julian had an opportunity to selsa the hammer, when i in struggling with bis adversary Julian, ? fell, but not without wroeting the ham mer from Dicks. Deprived of the hami mer, Dicks began to feel for his pistol.? P The aim of Dicks was seen, and as Julian i rose from'the floor, he discovered barker I lying dead in the room. Suddenly Julian I raised a chair, threw it at Dicks, and thus > gained time to^rush out of . the door, and gave the alarm to some two or three peri sons in the immediate neighborhood* At tliis moment, Dicks, finding detec tion was inevitable, raised his pistol to > the side of his head, and shot himself. Mr. Jujian, though badly wounded on u?.1 1 r. J- ! i' ? ? III? Iicuu OII'I iarr, m uui consivicreo uun- | gcrous. Parker was cut off* ill the prime j of life, leaving an interesting wife ami < three children, the former in n state of I mind that beggars description. The cause ol a'l this is gambling! Dicks, having lost j everv thing at the gaming table, w.is dri-; ven by desperation to commit the dread-> ful crime of murder. For years he had been an hoiust and rcspeclubk clerk at ; . Louisville, but, overcome by the in la ton* [ ting vice that proved his ruin, he acted dishonestly, .and found it impossible to j obtain employment, llis sad end is al- : ready told. ' Control of Mind uver Matter.?We: I give an extract frbm Gov. Everett's Ad-1 dress before the Mechanic Association, j It is from the opening pages: " Man is a rational being, is endowed by his Creator with gr< at prerogatives. One is the control over matter >ini interior animals, which is physical po.vcr; the other the control over kindred mind, j ! which is moral power; and which, in its lower forms, is often produced by the coni trol over matter; so that power over the material world is, practically speaking, a most important element of power in the social, intellectual, and nigral wot Id.? Mind, all the time, is the great mover: but surrounded?encased,?as it is with matter, acting by material organs, treading a nicleriui earth, incorporated and mingled up with matter,? I do not know that there is any thing but pure, inward thought, which is not dependent upon it; and even the capacity of the mind for the pure t ought is essentially affected by the combination of the materia) body, and by external circumstances acting upon it. | This control of mind over matter is ! principally efl* cted through the medium j of the mechanic ai ts taking that term in its widest acceptation. The natural faculties of the lunnun frame, unaided by arliiic:al means, are certaii ly great and : wonderful; but they sink to nothing com. pared with the power which accrues from ; the skilful use of to ds, machines, engines, and other material 11 * Wiki hi* .nit ugiri, Can 1111 but one 'or two hundted weight, and thai but for a moment; with his pulleys and windlasses, he sets an ohelisk upon its hnsc,? <i shaft of solid gra. itc a hundred feet high. The dome of Hi. Peter's is one hundred and twenty feet in diameter; its sides are twenty-two feci in thickness, 1 and it is suspended in the air at an eleva- i lion of three hundred and twenty fe? t i | trout lh" ground,?and it was raised by < hands as feeble as these. The unaided ' 1 for<c ol the muscles of the human hand is I insulin if nt to break a fragment of mar- ; hie, of any s ze, in pieces; Lut on a recent visit to the beautiful quarries in Sh< f- * field, from which the columns of the (Ji- I; ram v>ouegc ai I'niiailelplua are taken, 1 saw masses ol hundreds of ions, which hud hcen cleft -from the quarry b) a very t simple artificial process. Three miles an t hour, for any considerable space of time, t ami with ample interval* for recreation, , lo rd, and s1e< |>, arc the extreme limit ol < ill; locomotive capacity of the strongest , frame, and this confined to the land. f The arts siep in by the application of g one pOi'Mon of them lit flu purposes nf ua- j ligation; ir.yn is wafted night and day, x alihe awake and sleeping at lhc rate of s eight or ten miles an hours, over the un- r | fallmmed ocean; and, by the combination v o. another portion of the arts, he flies at t (In rate of fill- en or twenty miles an hour , and if necii he, with twice that rapidity, s without moving a muscle, from city to f ? it\. The capacity ol imparting thought (j by i- tellihle signs, to the minds of other , men- the capacity which lies at the foun- ( dali< it ol all our social improvements? d while unaided by art, was confined within r . i. _ i:...:. . r - I unburns <>i orai communication and me- j m?ry. The voice of wisdom perished, I [ not merely, with the sage by whom iljj, was uttered, but with the very breath of; r air of which it was borne. Art came to , s the a'ui of the natural capacity; and. af- j( ter a long series of successive improve- ,, mem, passing through the stages of pic- l( toriul and symbolical representation of things,?the different steps of hieroglypliiral writing (each occupying, no doubt, long periods of time for iis di^rov^rv n??d 'j v application)?it <levis?*?l a method of irn- t| priutins on a material substance an intel | ligihle sign, not of things, but of sounds, 8 forming the names of things, in other i\ wonts, it invented the A. B 13. '| With this simple invention, and the tl mechanical contrivances with which it is " carried into eflVct, the mind of man, was, tl I had almost said re-created. The. duy d before it was invented, the voice of man, in its utmost stietch, could he heard hut I by a few thousands, intently listening for h an hoqr or twTCduring, which alone his C slrcnght would enable him to utter a sue- y cession of sounds. The day after the art tl of writing ioveuud, ho stamps hi? thought* on a roll of parchment, and thoy reach of ery city and hamlet of tbe.largest empire. I he day before this investigation! and the mind of one couqtrv was estranged from the ftiind of all other coun.tries. For almost all the purposes of intercourse, the families of man might a& well not have belonged lo one race. The day after it, and Wisdom was endued with the gi t of tongues, and spike by her ^Interpreters lo all the tribes of kindred man. The. day before this invention, and nothing but a fading tradition, constantly becoming fainter, could ho nrpscrvnd l,v the memory of ali thai was spoken or acted by the greatest and wisest of men.? The day after it, Thought was imperishable, it sprung to an earthly immortality; it seized the new found instruments of record and commemoration, and, deserting the Undy'as it sunk with its vocal organs into tho dust, it carved on the vejfy grave stone, "The mind of man shall live for ever." Morses's Klcctric Telegraph.?It is witii some degree of pride, that it falls to our iot first to announce the complete succc-s of this wonderful piece of mechaistn, and no place could have been found more suitable to pursue the course of experiments necessary to perfecting the detail of nuchiuery, than the Speed- ? well Works Replete as they are with e\< ry convenience, Professor Morse quietly pursue it the great object, and has fstially succ edi d. Others may have suggested the possibility of conveying jhlellige ce b\ electricity, but this is the first instance of its actual transmission and p? r uaneiu accord. I si Telegraph consists of four parts: 1st. The liatt cry?A Cruickshank's galvanic trough of (K) pair of plates, seven by eight and a half inch each. 2. The l'ortrule?An instrument which regulates the motion of the rule. The rule answers to the stick of the printers, and in it the tyy representing the nnmbtis t<? be transmitted are passed beneath the lever which closes and break.es the circuit. 3d. The Register?An instrument-which receives and records the numbers sent by the Porlrule irom tiny distant station. 4lb. A Dictionary, contuning a complete vocabulary ol" all the words in tbc English language, regularly numbered. The communication which \vc saw mat e through a distance of two miles, was the folio wing sentence:? " Rail Road cars just arrived?315 passengers."? I hese words were put into numbers from the dictionary, the numbers were set up in the telegraph type in about the same time ordinarily occupied in setting up ti n sail e in a printing office. They were tin n passi d complete by the Pcrtrulc in about half a impute, each Portrule at one c .,cr.?.v,. hi ine other, a distance of two miles, instantaneously. Wc watched the spark at one end and the mark of the pencil at the other, and they were as simultaneous as if the lever itself had struck ihp mark. The marks or nnmhore mnm rusiiy legible, nncl by means of the dictionary were rCsrilvtd again into words. The superiority of this telegraph over ;t 11 hitherto invented is, that day or night, in cl? ar or in foggy weather, intelligence t*un be sent instantaneously. The advantages to the Government and the country of such n means of communication trc incalculable.?Morris town Jerscyman. [The cost per mile for constructing an dectric telegraph is estimated at about jtfjOO.]?N. Y. Coin. Adv. Stories of Spanish life.?A work by his title has lately been translated from he German of Ilubcr, which combine he intertaining and instructive qualities if c/trnn nf i!?a a ?L wu.llv ?/i ?i?v ucgl uuriuiu aucuuiuo ui Spain and the Spaniards, with those of he most attractive romances of that all 'oniantic land. The stories, though mere krtchcs, frrm a marvellously striking >icture ol the scenes and the time to vhich they refer. His characters arc all trirtly and strikingly Spanish. One night swear to them in the dark?whether vc meet them at the tenia or the fair, in he cathedral or the mountain pass, warnaking or love-making. Some of the cenes are powerfully worked up, and very point of the story has its picturcs|ue effect?communicating some striking lational characteristic or accepted scrap d information, while it incites and kinlies us to the fid* pitch of romantic intccst. Hero is now a description embodying he daring and devotion of a Spanish tur'tilent, who is no better, indeed, than a obbcr and murderer, and of the exquiitcly simple, childish, and confiding ave, which a Spanish damsel bears hi in von to the end?a love that almost tends i> make our faith in the reality' of the lie, Suddenly, a deep voice from the crowd diich surrounded him cried, 44 Down with he constitution! to the seventh licll with tiego'" And at the same time, a n?an topped forward, wrapped up in his man*, le, and his Large hat pulled over his fuce. 'he "flicor, uncertain what he was to link of this unexpected opponent, cried. Who are you? What do you want? lit ho name of the king and constitution elivcr yourself prisoner." At the first word of the disguished man lolorrs wan on the point of springing to im, with the words, ** Jesus Maria! It is )hristovul!" But her brother, and the oung gipsy girl who had joined heT in he meantime, held her back. Christoval