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It wiujd rtiav v' .;1)cl-h tbti#hi?J^pioof tkJ(J?y. bad oof ;Kan iov#?^tiy'' from the nj^ponB' gtv / - eribj^-tfit'ia eviiient tliatrthose wbpiiave" ypo JtVfjjjtWken So' notQtand aUiiK-. and aro jM-obablV ?i ibo. majority. Coiiirrcsij.wi]^ not cnunteiltittci :""^iV*T"*?a ?'ncaifiwttba Mormons, under present <ir ?amitAi^cea.?The Utalf expedition,*ua?W"C?1 w?pij.jcBt?J oud undert(flrth^jjb> Execjitf?e,' ahd without, any partiefp'fttifti }W*i UiAoucation nowift brought aSHin original tfHf hefdr*- <Wiiyi'e? jjre&ffifK jh e v w&ilurvjtot any ptopoai w*i<liDg*g>n army to Utah, uttfer tli of a potfc coinitatus, ofc, on v, other, j TIi i rafef*? rjtmUniwixiiM fitted out n? a TTlUi tlhit it bas cost thjree millions ?' ^^^fll^Pcg^HWMDrd^v'J v^^*eh6^y^lij6tt MmMBBK^BRMB^JaZ\X.iiMA st - ^KMUH?v From Porter's Spirit of the Times. " ,j -An Old Field School in Georgia, Thirtj v- * Years Ago. '' FIVK cnAPTEHS OF A HISTORY?DY PHILEMON PEKCIT *-" ClfAPTI3U I:"" n- u Books/"?There is nothing at all terri g'j ble in ll)i8'snn*j>le iv|j|rj. On the contrary e- it-is a ino^l 'harmless word. It always sng , gests quiet and contemplation ; and. thougl d ittfs true that books do often.procure agita ^ tions in the minds of tpfeo .'and in lliu state I- of sycietv itself, sometime^ even eflectinj; great- revolutions therein, yet, the simplt '' enunciation of tha.? won], it would stein >r would never be adequate to the production )0 of the smallest amount of excitement; and iO i?s little would it appear in looking upon il from almost any point of view at which one 10 could get oneself, to be capable of nllnyimj excitement, and causing instantaneously llu iO most perfect stillness. I never could exactly tell why (T, Philemon Perch, win- am 0 about to devote five chanters to the record 0 ing of a few incidents which transpired on?' 0 forenoon in a country school house, in Geor 0 f?ia,-thirly years ago.) I sav, I never could o w () ti;ll exactly why it is, that, as often as I haw 0 thought of the old customer in England ol J[ reading during the progress of a riot the n Kiot Act, and hegun to wonder how in the naroe of common sen^*, it could quell a riot, r) my mind has as often recurred at once to n " Hie scones i nin about to relate, and admit ) ted, but reluctantly, that the reading of the j act aforesaid might be about as proper a i tiling as could be done on such an occasion | ?for there was one point of view, or rather a point of hearing, from which one could observe the la*t mentioned phenomenon, | occasioned by the enunciation of this word : twice a,day for fire days in a week. It was the word of command with which Mr. Israel . Meadows was wont to announce to the pupils of the Goosepond school house the opening of the school, rooming and after The Goosepnnd was situated in one of the counties of Middle Georgia, on the edge of an old field, with original oak and hirk' ory woods on three sides, and on the other 1 a dense pine thicket?through this latter ' there went a path, which led to tile school house from a .Neighboring planter's house, xvhere.Mr. Meadows boarded. The school house itself was about one hundred and 1 twenty yards from the edge of this thi.ket, atjlhc place where the path emerged from I iL i On a cold, frosty mornincr. cnrlv in the month of Dcccmber,in .the year 182,7-rabout K labors ami girls wye assembled, as*. / Jrsual, ?? llio Goospp6ndij waiting fur the" j1 faster?some of both nexes conning their :lti^u>ns, and some playing?the buys at bull>*?< the girls at. jumping rope?but nil th^m; with one exception, those playing id those studying?the latter though the OS erly?watching the month of the th at which the master was expected. ie studying were the most anxious. The ayafci^ecined to think the gameAvorth the udle; though the rope jumpers jumped itlir0ifif faces to tlie thicket, and when a y about to throw a ball, he^vould HCto tlie corner nearest the thickefj and, ? "? 11 moment, would turn s f?ut& nn^dbtantly throw in the opposite^ eet&p. The students, they walked to d?o before the school-house door, nil i/TyTpp aloud, anrl apparently exhibiting jiteoyprontest anxiety to transfer the se1 yrets oM$jowle<lge wfikh their hooks contirtned'to t^eir little heads. There was one * hoj^nj^fftiy 111 a r, w h oso eagerness for the acqaiaEion of knowledge seemed to amount ^ -tetf?.e,riio.st violent patsirirh. lie was" a ravy. " ;boned hoy, of fifleer^x-ars; vjjfth very light, I. con: e hair, nnfl a freckled face- H? wnr.. w-* 7r?5"* y* ^ |j?- a roundnbdut, twd pants of ^Krorn^ walnut[> dyed, hoibeapuu clulb, ragged sealskin, cap, * and red,coHrwbrt^ans.wthoiitRcftika., lie e had d?Bno up, afu>'r nearly nil thq otf?*Wu:i<l 3 gotten there?the lived three ^mile* and a ^ half from tlie School house, nnd?fcalked the y ^vay back nVd foyth evor/'d'a^. llo'came t n palavering and ?tudying,;^and performing 8 .bofb of these a ppi^epolo n si s t e i > t operaU iiono wUli great violence. ,, '^Hnljow, Brinkly " fihouted half a dozen Qot in jntiuio this morning* | ha! hftj Why you .are" tod Rooftf royjbjty? Jue. viop\ bs l&re for a qttartar^&idiAUr vil. amount of risibility?yit contains a sini] r truth, and expresses it in simple terms. A yd, so it was, that. Mr. Alien Thigpen bu into a tremendous roar of laughter; anil, if lie understood thai the proposition li been submitted to liiin for ratification, denial, answered : , "Well, iirinkly, 'spozin'it is. Who the dickens said it weren't? I didn't. I , yon. Sum Pate ?" r "Do what ?" said Sam, pausing in the ; of throwing die ball. "Dili you say that a empire wan'ta-?wl | I3iinkly s;ii<] il was ?" "A what Brinkly said it was?" "A empire*." "1 <Iiil?'t hear what Urinkly said it wa Allen strode up behind Urinkly and, lu< ing over his shoulder,said sjowly : "Acoi trv POVL'l-ni'd hv ill! lumiornr " ' No, I never said notliin' about it, no don't luir notliin' about ity^Kioither," a away went the ball; but Sam liar! thro it too suddenly, after looking towards t mouth of tlie path, and lie missed his in: Allen laughted exceedingly at this effi at humor, but Brinkly did not even not il'e interruption ; lie walked to and fro, a shivered and studied, lie bowed to the bot *5T lie dug into it, he grated his teeth, not anger, but in his eagerness to git what v\ in it, as he called it; he tried to fasten it his head, whether or no, by slightly char ingthe words and making them, as it we his own to command. "An-yempire," said be, fiercely, but. r over loudlv, "is a ke-untry, ge-uverned by , v-v.emperor." * "And what is a y-vetnperor, Brinlcl; asked Allen, and lie laughed a<;ain. ft- ? ? "0I?, 'Allen, please go way and let I alone. I most had it, and you've put i out, and it' I don't know it, you know ^ Meadows will beat me. You know he lot to b^at me anyhow. Now let nie alone ; jist sorter begins to c.ume to mo now, am. could git it," and he went on shivering a studying, and shiverin?rly nnnouneii among other thiugs, that "an y-yempire w a ke-untry ge-uverned by an y-vemperoi emphasizing each one of the polysyllables their turn ; sometimes stating the propo tion slowly and cautiously, and rather inU .rogatiy^-ly, as if half inclined to dmihtj at otlnns, asseiting,it with a vehemen which "showed it to bo his settled convict it that it was true, and that whoever doubt it, it was plain, did not know anything all a'cSout the subject. Allen Thisrpen looked at him with a ha pitying, half-ludicrous expression of fa< and turning from him went up to where rosy cheeked- little fellow of eight years w sitting on a blufhp with a spelling book | his la]), uikJ willi a pin in his right hati spelling and dotting every fouth word, aft retfilintj llie following : ' 'Betsy Wiggins, "Honeriltur Bangs, * Mandy Grizzle, ? '"Mine, (dot)*A a, l-i-g-}pj?light?aligl "Betsy Wiggins. "Henerilter Bangs, "Mandy firizzlo, jiMine, (dot) D-e, de, 1-i-g-h-t, de-ligh and so ori. Allen laughed again. I, yi, niv littlo Mv. Asa, and 'spos'n Bel Wiggins misses her word, ur Ileneritt Bangs hern, and Mandy Grizzle hern, th who's goin* to spell 'em ? I want to kne Anrl what'll you give me," continued Alii placing hift-rough hand will) ironical fun uess on the child's head, "what'll yott gi ine, not 16' tell Mr. Meadows that yo've be a gUtin' your own words ?" ^ "Ob, Allen, now pleaRQ don't." 2 ''VWiat'I! vou?iye me?" - 1 >., > ? -f "Tfcenty ehesiuulB;" and *tbe littleTelli dived into-bia pocket?,'"and coupling c ttfen^y, bandied them" to .Allen. "Got any more?" asked Mr,. ,Tbigp< cfackjng one with .his teeth. ' "Oh, Alien, please douU take 'ein all." "Out 'em, ypu little w3rd-jfjjfer." Asa disgorged to tlio . last one. >A11 ate oti^ ojr two, looking qU^jeally;; cbijd's face, and then bonded theriivback H?CTake.-frou'r cbesfrfrrfn, 'Asa Boat right, a ???# *u??? & i*?i. - Jmmatyui you aiWBrinkly Gfc?pfe)4 [>li? ' Allen Tliig|H*n, I am no more afraid ?>f ad liiin llian you arc, nor than I am o' you. ist I aint wail'u' to git a man, to pay him hack , as for the beat ins he has giv me. Do you iad tliink that's what makes me stand what I or do? If you do, you are mich mistaken. Allen I'm a tryin.' trying' all the time hard in to keep down, on mother's account; I've )id (old her of some o' his treatment tome; and that I wouldn't stand it, and she's alnct ways a cryin' and takin' on about it, and l<*lliuT mo shu'? so anxious for me to git a jiit filMention, and that this is my owrilv chance ; anil it do seem like it would nigh an in about kill her, if I was to lose it ; " ^Uiat I have been a tryin' all I could to yet s". the lessons, and to keep from fightin' him jh when he heats me, ami I could got 'etn if "i- I had a chance. But the fact is, I a'nt got on fur enough in rend in' to a been put > T in litis j<?graphy, and la-'s just put me in nd it before I learn to read right, jist to git. *n out o' mother the extrv pay fur j'igraphy, he and I can't git it, and I bait learnt nnthiu' v: t? . l ' ... ' - Mnce i ve ricen put in it; anil 1" tell you, >'"t 'Allen Thigpen, again, that I ain't goin* to i? e stand it much longer, nur I ain't goiu'to lid pay you chestnuts not to tell liitn 1 said f.o, >k, neither." Ilooraw," shouted Allen. "Give me ,,,R your hand, Brinkly." In a lower tone: ,n uIiy jingo, I thought it was in you. I seen 'n" you many a time, when I thinks I to inyrc'> self, "wouldn't take much to make Brinkly Glisson fight you, old fellow." Then, ta 101 king him a liitle way off, hejwliispered : an '-You've stood enough already, and too much , too. My hlood has biled many a time, r ' when he's beaten you ; and I tell you, don'i stand it no longer. Ef he beats you again, pitch in him; try to ride him from the inj gwine; he can maul you, I expect,buflook at this," raising his first, of about the sizo of a mallet, "I'm here, and I'm some." I ^ Brinkly looked at the big fist and brawny , arm, and smiled dismally. . f nd , "Books!" shouted a voice, and Mr. Tsraol Meadows emerged from tho ticket, with a n handful of hickory switches. In an instant, I here was an immediate rushing of boys and girls into the schoolhouse?all.exi'fnt Alli?? wlm ?n?A- iiiu il - J ' 1 ' " "" jt. j Master Asa Boat right was the last to get in. ^ Ho had changed his position, and was walk,n '"o-huok in hand,- apparently all-absorbed I in its contents, though his eye was on the mouth of the path of tho schoolmaster, whose notice he was endeavoring to attract. " ' ?r If lie walked, though with, more rapidity than Allen, with less than lhe$98t?;book in hand, ^ bowing,'and digging, and diving intoit, when, lie looked up and seeing him,suddenin '-v P"vo one wore dive into hi* book, and |tj darted into the school-house. er . It was a rule in the Goosepoi)d school, . tlTat the scholars should all he in and i:t their seals wjten Air. Meadows arrived. His ituiii, nils hj anuiu duuksi iroin me niouui of ilie path, nnd to walk then w{jl?.great rapidity Lo the house. Woe to the boy or girl who was ever too lute, unless it was - Allen Thigpeu. ilu had, somu months before, been heard to sn? that, "dmg any such (?? rule; he did not intend to break his neck forMeadows,, nor nobody else," and bo was^wout to tako his time., rjf lie got in ?y behind the master, which seldom happened, or that gentleman was kind enough not tfrno en .liceit, an illa$(rntiqn of an exception to the (Wi, .fine^list'iplin <>? schoolmasters, which was Bn> ^uile romifoiftf tr the generation'in which rj. -Mr. Meadows, lived and flourished. . iVe . OUi'jWi.oddSsio.n't when Mr.'Meadows mw' en Allehf Rnwing thnt Uie gait at *fcrh|ftfi he kW.is walking would. twice hhn irisido the school-hou<ia before . Allen^coukl get in,'be l halted n-Jiule, and faking If stop'or two, stooped dfiwn and having untied one^of his* nlfoe-8(rin<Tft^ho-tipd it VH?ft3fcffrtif' ,ul __ a - ' - " * Jperaiion^^fc going on, Allen went iny Mrv gjj - Mt^do4?, ria\n g. ite ipediaVeIy, struck into,a. : . very brink *alk,?aifto apologise for his der lajf, andxheo'ipniored ihto and upon the. . rgpm ?, y;-; v. SfiJ ^ '&'attjjy Is^pOrtst^i ^\VI?ifeyb^a*W'tV?i ' in M&Jeo, Gnn., T-^-r?'^f? ummmam Married Man's Lament. BY J,,A. TURNER. Oft in the stilly night, Before I had got married, I till the morning light In i$roc?*rieH often tarried, I there did drink of punch and gtn, And with my friond grew merry ; But lung alas the time has been Siu?e I sipped port and sherry. Thus in tliu stilly night. Ere Sully's chain had bound me, I drunk till morning light. Communions nil around mo. Whfen I remember all The friend* that drank together, In grocery, or at bull. In hot and wintry weather, r r _i IM-. ?* - ? ? i jvci line one wno ireuus mono Sotno grocery deserted, Whose Impes are dead, whoso brandy's fled, Aud he to hoinc departed. Thus in the stilly night, ( Since Sally's chain has hound me, SaJ memory brings the lisjht Of other nights around mo. A Soft Place. ''I was flown to see the widow vesterdnv," s;ii< 1 Tim's undo, "and she gave ine backli.mes for dinner. I went down rather early ill the morniup; we talked and laughed, and chattered and run on, shy gyin<r oiift and in occasionally to see to things till din* nor was ready, when she helped me graciously lo backbones. Now I* took it as a symptom of personal approbation, everybody knows I lovo backbone*, and I Haltered myself site bad cooked thcimon purpose f??r me. So I grew particularly cheerful, and 1 thought I conlil see it in her too. So after dinner, while sitting close beside the widow, I fancied wo both felt sorter comfortable like?I know I did. I felt that I had fallen over head and cars and heart in love with her, and I imagined, froiu tho rny she looked, she had fallen teeth and toenails in love with me. She appeared just for.all the world like she thought it was a coming?that I was ? going to court her. Presently I couldn't help it, I laid mv hand softly on her beautiful shoulder, and I icmarked, when'I .had placed it there, in my blankest to no, Tiin, for I tried to throw tny whole soul in tile expressiyjp, I remarked then with my eyes-pouring love, truth and fidelity upon her, "Widow, this is the nicest, softest place I ever had my hand in all my lire." * Looking benevolently at me, and at the same time flushing up a little, she said in melting and winning tones : "Doctor, give me your baud, and I'll put it on a much softer place." "In a moment of rupture I consented and taking my hand, sjje gently, very gently, Tim, and quietly, laid it on mv head ? and hurst into a laugh that's ringing in my earsxvet. "Now. Tim, I haven't told this to% living soul but you; but I couldn't hold it any longer, so I tell you ; but mind, it mustn't go any further." N. V. Spirit "of the Times. The "note and query" department in newspapers?especially the hebdomadals? furiii^hes a tedious amount of ignorance, imbecility, verdancy, impudence and non* m*nse. The BiiIIhIo Republic, devotes a half column, in burlesque, of this sort of literature and gives a lot of answers to imaginary questions, whie.b are exceedingly amusing. The fact of not publishing the questions, but leaving the reader to inter them fiom the answers, greatly heightens tho fun of the thing. Ilere are some specimens ofthe Republic's.replies to ^correspondents : Hnqufrer. The foa'ith of July^loes not occur on the 22d of FeUiuilry?jio>r is it, ns you suppose, commemorative oT anything that ever happened to the Rochester "Union.' . Rflberlson. ^Ile was not in the slop pail. Hu was tindftr the bed. ** Mother.,' Reverse and spank. Brid^. ^ictoria.pius cau be Ua^atS.O. BariininW -* > " Statistics. ?Sev^u times five are'tbirty* rttr.f- v ' "V ra-fiiffi * . J V1** Il?lpn. Yott- can keep -thorn up with "elastic*". .. -" .... ' Mediciis. . ^p|5ly shoemaker's 4/nx, and 'then, sqtieez ite' 1 . ' Geographer. Roehestor is on tho c%n<ii, enfit of Lncknort. ^ . Siumtiijcnko. Fifteen droffs enoli of Ih?<|hi>u spa camphor, and rub it?^y. ^ . -'AmbitWiiu>~V?ry few meii will descend so far. be epoken of for Aldi-rma^ iiir volves l(A?df reputation, . friend* .and citi zei?hhip. You can imagine. wjiHtji man mpst beMo^be elected?* such. * v $ gr -*Jiruipj i? IJU ojjcuujiiuvu ttu v?:uwuru with tiiose who itf .yaluo 4?nd ItJiHfWi deeper fftirpdap, .and ils .pafh b?corrfea district jntd easy* in proportion a? ft* in e*if^3jf*|ly and fallj&pftrsuod. The rqdest or tSV most, refined pursuit, if adapte^o1! the w^nte ?nd^rtpm:iMe? of (lui pi|?uer, J};is ^u.I^0r.: conpy u__.ll i Lonokviiy of Literary Men.?The" j concluding lecture of the series of Smith i soniun lectmes delivered bv Dr. Wynne, I was confined to the eftuct ofleisure and literary employment upon th?j duration of life. The lecturer <1 ivw his examples of a life of leisure chiefly from English r&cwls which embrace a class among the English nobility who are placed above the necessity for labor, and necessarily freed from the ordinary stimulants which in the usual walks of life move men to exertion. Until the last few years tiro members of noble families were supposed to ho placed in circumstances bi?rlilv Aivm-ul.ln t,-,r.~....:i.. o-v l?nt carefully collated facts, derived /ruin the most authentic tourers by Prof. Guy, or King's College, London showed lliitt, with a few rare exceptions, such as those of Sir Ralph de Vernon, who is said to have attained the age of one hundred and fifty years, and three Misses L<'gge, descendants of the Earl of Dartmouth, two of whom dieil at 105 a<M one at 111, t lie duration of life was le? among them in any other class and far below those embraced in the list of friendly societies, made up entirely of the wot king classes, Of the members of the priviledgfd classes in England kings w< re found to have the shortest length of life, next peers of the realm, tlien expectants of titles, and highest on the list those noblemen whose grade of title placed them near <*?t Miu ma>s ol'tlie whole population. From this it would appear that labor formed an: essential requisite in producing those conditjiton necessary to n length of days, and Uio^o who were plnrud alibva its contingencies were rather to be pitied and envied. Among those were embraced in the literary class were some who, like natural philosophers, generally attained great length of days, ana others as poets, in which the duration of life appeared to be short. Between these two classes were many grades who<e position in the scale was generally defined by the absence orpresenco of the imaginative faculties in tlie production oftheir works. As a general rule the calm anil fvalt??rl si miii?3 nl fliiif. *! ? - - r.. though pi Ion severe, were found to bo longevity, while the developement of that imaginative by'means of which the poet was enabled to weave his conceptions into verse vwa? found to abridge its deration. In addition to tho effect produced by different species of literary labor lipon their prosecutors, there was no doubt that individual peculiarities had much to do with inducing a favorable or unfavorable result, /ri.i* was especially the ca?e with poels, who were as a class men of'irregular lives. The instances of burns, Cowpi-r, Bvattie and Byron were cited as examples of this position, and many, of jlieir personal peculiars ties were detailed showing them to have lived either in a state of great excitement or of the deepest melancholy. The scries of led ures'just closed embince in vast fund of valuable information upon an important and hitherto neglected subject, anil was listened to by. the aUdience with great attention. They furnish a substantial contribution to Science, and manifest the practical value of tlie institution under \vho?B auspices they have been given to the public.?National Intelligencer. ; Va , * Thrilling Scone. Mr. Thomas Kingston, who for> several years has followed the business of putting up lighting iods which of course requ'rjs steady nerves and a firm brain, met with an accident recently, by whicb, but for the most singular presence of mind, or ratlier supernatuftil-iristinct, ho would have fallen from a dizzy height, and been dashed lo pieces,,v IIu is compelled to climb roofs, over chimney?, and up spire?, nnd fix a rod, with perfect coolness and precision, hundreds oj>f<?et above the Idvcl of the *arth t On tho occasion to which we refer, Mr. K. I>nd ascended St. PaulVCathedral, whoso spire is about two hundred aod thirty five feet high, near the Broad way, and gone to the very top, where having lef&hts ladder below; he clung {by his arms and leg*, fas tuned the last foot of tho rod and* attached its point;?quite a heavy piece of metal? socOrely, asdio stipposud, to tlio .orOss surmounting the steeple. *Uo hnd ju?t completed this difficult and dangerous tnsk.f watched by a number of persons iu. the street belowt>4ind while looking at the work and experiencing thai*. satisfaction,,which results from hnzurd pasM;d and labor accomplished of a sudden something strudfe -.him nrfd ,'m'ado his brain^Wel'uritil Jii co'ald hardly see. Iiytcad^f iossinghis hold as *?9}jld Mem to havo^je natural nnd ir^vitftjfrle rtauft^Uo clang with a^pow^r jttinself^knd ^ will superior.Jk?l>$ .fijjfa, -pldjtor and iOBtinctivfly to '' "fcoejj? not' whnikVlMd confused, sense it''appeared^tha^tiie wR8;^i.win?F; ^ ng6 <^a?e* one foot ctuitiousjy, tnejftiis a |in van^mihjL moved thq other foot, and After a lfalf rjjl0[- wv-jj utg of exyjrlion, and tfie.greatest danger, |.t# touched the to^ftiast round of tbe"hld&0>? *' ! and in. a few sc^oYms more was inside of I the fitcple and safe". " ' Then it was Mr? K.Vgreat courage ap^ ) strength forsook him ; his nerves a&d niut** c.les relaxed; he grew , sick unto death { his knees gave way, his vision awam^ 'and - ' he sank upon the platforjTi . uibtioi^lesi an^ insensible. lie must have lain.there:half? nn hour before he could rise and walk, and ** u? .cj ?-? -?^ -t' - vaiu uui icuuvcr iiuiu me 6D00K ior mora than a fortnight nfterward"?' ' " ^ The people gazing up. at himfrom'thf street describes lite scene as painful and exciting in '.lie extreme. When they served llie rod fall, ft: thrill of ' h'OrrOr TU. <vV ; V through their hearts, and twp.ri women swooned aWay? for they expected: to;behold him the next"inoirient dashed to p|ece*:?t th^ir feet. Destiny had oi^r^! and Mr. K. still puisuea' bi?&|Mjg{ffoi^^^ | % cation: but Im R?*7n if* l?? ?i2v?K Vx 2k?ik*j?* ?? ? w-v; ~ thousand years be .never would ^forgetyifc. ' intense hofror- of those centur^'-like mo,? meiits when he seemed ta hang upoi^tbe v aif more than two hundred', feet above th# earth, and to be m om e n tf?ri 1 ydescieridifi|f46F a dreadful d c aih. ?-Cinci^natyEnq^iiret. ? ' j- ^ "t> --A Tal? of JBooUW^d*, '- - , A pnrly of trooperf-entefred the house of a flrido'w,"-and demandedrand received, refresh in c^iit. A wellgrown lad/the, widow'# son, waited upon ibem?the^ijidpjr h?^i* $ pitahly offcriog to Iheiivwants all she,likd | to command. ^ ~ "'3.'.. . "And how do you Jive in - the troubloua times, Goody!' askedsone ofthe merocma?? rieB with an air of kindness. "7 ' 1 "Well I tliank n?aven,"i aftswered tb# poor widow, "my goofj man-left we a oovf-r and a garden with-that bit of-field l ^o not complain. _ v "Indeed 1" ejaculated the ruffian. "Oorr> poral-Spiedgelt, what, say you -tft- try;^. Heaven help's her wiihout a cow t$-;'* ? " Aclr f tyeifuGott! der carten is enooftx Mit it zome verlaohen-7-lflrl balM and' "tbv( fellow laughed. Kill der echuchtern roaclien, (tlio coHf.,) and- spoil ter milch and terlcase, (cheese !)" * ^ .? " ,'f\r "Avquotltfthe fello^, .jritb.a.hoarea laugh ; "and so it will. So Goody, ,bera goes with the honors of war?ta*r^l?^Qd ho drew his sword. J'What are you going to do T^ crifd the youth, tpringirig forward, with tear? in hia eyes and terror in bis face. > 1 Strike the bNtt, bob," said the. trooper, ns one smote the bojr on the mouth, v while (Ue.troopar.p?ssed^his8Word;;;UjK^aghvtb? nrontln hr>>n<it t\f thn minamm o ..;v 6?_,.v.V???VU,^.?S^l'r the.puor cow?anil to add to tUU. sd^jU'a deed, mowed down all the kale in thtfgar'den. Th^lroopers then departed; <*. . ' \ Widow and child were at o i/cfc detiitati^ of every pource of existj|pce. She 8qoo> sickened and died, lieart*prok|PQ^Qd boy wandered away, and was not' fe<^?j>or heard of for many a year .a.ftejv , ?..* & During the wars in TTIanders, a party of -i soldiers wero one afternoon ?eated round a camp fire, and'flushed with wine and victory, were renting some deed of ;tha pMt, till ihey seeVned to ftlce a.Uarh,^nJTi?ing^ _ . jl. witli each otjjer tor :%?rv ^ v details.* v ,* . ? HH "I once starved an old^d^nfe Carlisle." ttid t^Rnd'cournge. fer, and, egad! destroy^' to know a roir a c 1 eb u t fatitiri :.'? 'vX^.:^kv :'S^:; *.- " ? -..it*.. :_' /- *T-?# " iV* -*