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newly acquired honors with as much propriety || promote the cause of virtue. To effect this
of character, as most other men who have object, he managed to have Sir William
risen to sudden fortune. Dressed in an elected president of a society, which he had
elegant suit of English broadcloth, from the recently instituted to support the gospel, by
store of Mr. Henson, he really looked the raising a permanent fund to pay his own
gentleman; and it was difficult to decide which || salary.
was most to be admired, his dress or his
address, so perfectly were his manners
adapted to his new station in life.

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It could hardly have excited more profound regret, had his departure been final, instead of for a few months. Sir William had become a warm friend to the Americans, and intended to persuade several of the young nobility of England with whom he should become acMiss Deane, the heiress apparent of all the quainted in his visit, to accompany him to accumulated wealth and dignity of the family,|| Milford, when he returned for his family. became at once a conspicuous object of This latter event was anticipated in the village If the gentlemen of Milford, had formerly attention among the young lawyers, doctors with the most delighted expectation. The been deficient in paying him respect, which and merchants, the rising nobility of the good offices and influence of Sir William we are sorry to say was the fact, they now incorporated village of Milford. She was now would undoubtedly induce some of these appeared eager to make ample amends for about seventçen and a girl of excellent quali-young noblemen to marry in Milford; and past neglect, by paying up all arrears, both ties. Her education was rather limited; but more than one mother of a beautiful daughter, principal and interest. This, common justice in fashionable life it is not necessary to be a resolved to improve the interval by accomrequired of them. Every one was now blue stocking,' or a philosopher. She had plishing her at a dancing school, and thus anxious to do him a favor. Is there nothing hitherto been known by the soft, poetic name prepare her for the style of life she would I can do for you, Sir William ?' was inquired of Betsey,' but more frequently was she enter upon in England. This ambition was again and again. Each individual was inces-designated by the far more pastoral one of not confined to the mothers and daughters. sant in his efforts to gain the particular Bets.' Remembering the words of Solomon,The fathers, also, entered with spirit into the friendship of the heir, and to defeat similar that a good name is more to be desired than attempts of others. great riches, the people of Milford, as if by The moral character of Sir William under-universal consent, changed the name of the went a transformation as great and unexpect-gentle lady in question to that of Miss ed as that of his pecuniary affairs. It is ELIZABETH.' true that he swore just as often, and just as profanely as he did before; but some how or other, though I am not philosopher enough to explain the reason why, yet the effect was entirely different. Even the Rev. Mr. Polyglot, the worthy parson of the village, who had hitherto expressed the utmost horror of his oaths and immoral character, now declared, that Sir William was really become a moral man; and though, to be sure, he sometimes used language that was a little profane, yet he did it from mere thoughtlessness and habit, and meant not the least irreverence in the world.' Intention, alone, renders any thing evil: it follows, that Sir William, having no evil intention, was in fact, a moral man.

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The principles of gentility and taste must have been innate and inherent in the mind of Miss Elizabeth Deane, in defiance of the theory of Locke; for in a surprisingly short time, could she display all the airs and affectation of high ton, and cut the acquaintance of her former associates in the most approved and fashionable style.

It was certainly presumption in an untitled republican, to aspire to a connexion with a British knight; but what will not disinterested love dare to hope? To give a detail of the rivalry for the smiles of this young heiress, would fill a volume, and we will, therefore, leave it all to the imagination of the reader.

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plan, and having read in novels that English noblemen are excessively fond of the chase, and of hounds, many a good, honest, brindled dog, who never dreamed of any higher employment than that of guarding the house and sleeping in the shade, was put in training for the expected occasion.

At length the farewells and adieus were all said and wept, and Mr. Henson accompanied Sir William to Boston. In that town, as every where else, the legatee was an all engrossing object of attention. Every body had heard of his good fortune, and every body was eager to pay him respect. This they had no vessel in ample leisure for doing, as Boston would sail for an English port in less than ten days. Politeness required that Mr. Henson should wait and see his friend set sail, and he concluded to employ the intervening time in laying in his annual supply of goods. Teams were in readiness, waiting his orders. His first purchase was at a wholesale dry goods store, at which he had long been in the custom of trading, and frequently on a credit. On the present occasion, he selected goods to the amount of more than thirty thousand dollars. Mr. Henson,' said the merchant, I fave long dealt with you, and have always found you punctual and honest; but, really, sir, thirty been published, urging his immediate depart-thousand dollars is a large sum to credit to ure, and confirming all the particulars of the first intelligence, beyond the possibility of a doubt, had any existed. But none did, or could exist; for Mr. Henson was a man, of all others, the least liable to be deceived. He had once been an importer of goods from England; had often been in that country, where his acquaintance was extensive, and had likewise a deep knowledge of mankind.

Six weeks had scarcely elapsed since the intelligence of the death of Sir Robert had He was intoxicated, perhaps, rather oftener reached the village, when Mr. Henson had than formerly; but from entirely a different every thing in readiness for the departure of cause and motive. Before his elevation to Sir William to England. The family were to rank, his intemperance was charged to mere remain in the elegant mansion in which Mr. sottishness of disposition, but he immediately Henson had placed them, till the return of laid aside this degrading propensity. Now, Sir William, who would come prepared to his intoxication was in consequence of having remove them, in style, to Deane Hall.-Other accidentally drank upon an empty stomach-letters had arrived, extracts from which had or the liquor had an unusual effect on account of his being out of health-or hospitality and politeness to his guests required it. I said that he was intoxicated,' but people generally gave it another name, that of being in good spirits. In a word, it was universally acknowledged that Sir William Deane was temperate, and drank not a drop more than a man of his rank and wealth ought to drink.

To do him justice, he had not a fault in the world. He laid them all aside the moment he heard of his elevation. Not a doubt existed in the mind of the Rev. Mr. Polyglot, that his wealth and influence would essentially

It was decided that Sir William should sail from Boston, which was one hundred and fifty miles distant. Numerous and expensive were the parting dinners made on the occasion.

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any country merchant! I do not, in the least, doubt your honesty or your ability to pay me, but really sir, you must pardon me for asking security.' Mr. Henson replied that he was about enlarging his business in Milford, and also about establishing another store in Waltonville; and that to fail of obtaining the goods would break in upon all his plans, and greatly injure him. As it regarded security, he had not the least objection to giving it, but there was no man in Boston acquainted with his circumstances, who was able to secure that sum, except his friend, Sir William

The next morning, Sir William embarked for England. Mr. Henson paid his passage, and just as he stepped over the side of the vessel, already getting under way, was seen to put a thousand dollars into his hands.

accept the hand of lawyer Harvey, when she
had the opportunity. Such is "THE MAGIC
OF WEALTH."

BIOGRAPHY.

Thomas Moore.

learning and talent; and it was soon followed by a volume of poems, chiefly of an amatory complexion. Some of these pieces are neither loose nor indelicate; but others seem to require the apology which the author made for them, alleging that they were the productions of an age when the passions very often give too warm a coloring to the imagination,' which may palliate, if it cannot excuse, the air of levity that pervades so many of them.

Deane, and he felt extreme reluctance to asking such a favor from him. I will willingly take Sir William.' was the reply of the merchant, who had been previously introduced to him, and with whose good fortune he was well acquainted. At length, the extreme reluctance' of Mr. Henson to asking such a favor, was overcome, and Sir William taken POETRY is almost coeval with the origin of in security. A note, payable in six months, society. Nations in general had poets, even was given. At three other mercantile estab- before they were acquainted with the elements lishments in different parts of the town, about of literature. This assertion may seem the same amount of goods was obtained at problematical to many; but, if we reflect on In 1303 he procured an appointment which cach, and the security of Mr. Deane reluct-the nature of the case, it is not so surprising gave him an opportunity of visiting the antly asked by Mr. Henson, and cheerfully as to be incredible. An occasional elevation United States. Being a strenuous advocate taken by the merchants. The goods, which of thought, a fit of animation, or a strong for freedom, he anxiously observed the nature amounted to nearly one hundred and forty excitement, will lead the speaker into a of the government and the state of society in thousand dollars, were safely placed on board course of diction superior to the tameness of the republic. He then repaired to St. the wagons, and Mr. Henson accompanied ordinary conversation. Figurative and meta-George, one of the Bermuda Islands, and his teams a few miles on their way, and then phorical language, forcible allusions and apt began to act as registrar to the vice-admiralty returned to Boston. comparisons, drawn both from nature and court; but he did not long execute the office from art, will offer themselves to the mind of in person, being content to resign one half one who unites imagination with talent; a of the emolument to a deputy, by whose measured cadence will soon follow; and this imputed acts of embezzlement he was afterspecies of amusement will at length become ward subjected to trouble and vexation. an art. Thus poetry may be supposed to have arisen. Sometimes it was left to make its own impression without accompaniment. On other occasions it was aided by the rude music of early times. After the introduction of writing, it necessarily became more regular in its construction, more elegant and refined. The earliest poets of whose genius we have any remains, were those of the Hebrew race. The Greeks subsequently became famous in the poetic art, and were apparently the first nation that reduced it to precise and systematic rules. But a servile adherence to rule is disclaimed by many modern bards, who think that poets are privileged to soar above all critical laws. Genius, indeed, ought not to be closely fettered; yet every branch of literature may be improved by rules, because, in general, they are founded on common sense. The writer who now demands our notice, is well acquainted with the dicta and the maxims of Aristotle and Longinus; and, if he does not always observe them, it is because he ventures sometimes to think for himself.

Reader, our story is rapidly drawing to a close. The teams, instead of taking the route to Milford, went directly to Montreal, in the province of Lower Canada, out of the reach of the laws of the United States. Mr. Henson was there, ready to receive them, and had adroitly managed to convey all his property in Milford, to the same place. He opened a large store in St. Paul street, with the fruits of his ingenuity and the credulity of his creditors, which he enjoyed in perfect security, as no law of the United States could reach him. SIR WILLIAM DEANE WAS NEVER AGAIN HEARD OF. Mr. Henson, having often heard the drunken boast of the tailor, that he was the heir of Sir Robert Deane, etc. contrived his plot to correspond with it. Deane, hating his wife, readily entered into it, on condition that Mr. Henson paid all the expense, and gave him a thousand dollars at the moment of setting sail. The letters were written, and all the subordinate parts of the drama performed by Mr. Henson. The wife and daughter of Deane were really the dupes of this imposition. Great was there astonishment when the title and estate all vanished into thin air.' How rapidly does human character change. In one day after the plot was known in Milford, lady Deane and her daughter, in despite of their exalted merits,' had dwindled down to the level of common mortals, They once more became the tenants of their former residence in the basement story, which fortunately remained unoccupied. Miss Elizabeth has again become simply Betsey, and even a syllable less. However, she still adverts with an air of pleasure and triumph, to the time when she reigned indisputably the belle of the village; but regrets that she did not

Mr. Thomas Moore was born in Dublin, about the year 1780. Being the son of a respectable merchant, he received a good education, first under Mr. White, an able instructor, and afterwards at Trinity College, where his attainments as a classical scholar distingished him above the generality of his fellow students. In the year 1795, he became a member of the society of the Middle Temple. It was then his intention to study the law; but he did not find it necessary to practice that profession. His inclinations leading him into another course, he devoted himself to poetry and elegant literature. His translation of Anacreon, published before he had completed his twenty-first year, evinced his

Continuing his literary pursuits, he at length established his fame by the beauties of Lalla Rookh. His illustration of a variety of national melodies, by appropriating characteristic poetry to each, highly gratified the public; and the subsequent productions of his muse did not-as is sometimes the casedetract from the prevailing opinion of his merit. He has also distinguished himself as a biographer. His Life of Sheridan is marked by spirit and ability, as well as by the graces of style; and it is free from that partiality which is too frequently shown where the life of a selected individual is the object. His acquaintance with the history of his native country is displayed in the supposed Memoirs of Captain Rock; and his satirical asperity is as conspicuous in that work, as in the account of the Fudge Family,

But of all his works, the one which we think most worthy of his genius and reputation, and which will be a durable monument to his fame, is The Epicurean,' published in 1827. Although written in prose, this is a poem, and a masterly poem, alike valued for its lustre and its purity. The style has all the liveliness which usually marks his compositions, and abounds in those sparkling illustrations which give animation to his poetic prose. Take, for example, some at random-' fountains and lakes, in alternate motion and repose, either wantonly courting the verdure, or calmly sleeping in its embrace'-' though Melancholy, as usual, stood always near, shadow fell but half-way over my vagrant path, and left the rest more welcomely brilliant from the contrast'-'I could distinguish some female tones, towering high and clear over all the rest, and forming the spire, as it were into which the harmony lessened as it rose'—

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'I saw the love-bower and the tomb standing after the other as a person ascends or

side by side, and pleasure and death keeping hourly watch upon each other.' The design is simple, and exhibits no remarkable mechanical ingenuity; but it is executed with a flowing pencil, and in warm and brilliant colors. There is no straining after vehemence and sublimity; but there is, throughout, abundance of poetical thought and imagery, grace and refinement.

The chief features of Mr. Moore's poetry are grace and tenderness; yet he is not deficient in animation nor in force. He seems to pour forth his whole soul when he treats of the enchanting passion of love; and if the other feelings of the heart are not so well delineated by him, he at least touches them with an elegant pencil. He may be styled the minstrel of the day; for he is at once a poet, singer, composer, and instrumental perforiner.

descends. In each of these doors there is a
little round glass peep hole, for the porters
to take a deliberate view of all persons desirous
of admittance, in order to keep out or let in
whom they choose.

An unsophisticated person would naturally
enough suppose, from this account, that none
but those of great courage would dare to
penetrate into the heart of these establish-
ments; but it must be explained that there is
nothing like gruffness or jailorism in the
keepers of the mansion. The whole placed
on an easy and genteel footing. No civility
can equal that of the waiters, while the
condescension of the proprietors, or bankers,
the refreshments and wine, all combined, have
an interesting and deceptive influence upon
the inexperienced and unreflecting mind.
But what kind of people are they who keep
these houses? are they born of a particular

TRAVELING SKETCHES. class? By no means. In London there is

always a great number of individuals, the
refuse of every rank, and the natives of every
country, floating on the surface of society,
ready to engage in any hazardous undertaking,
provided it can bring money into the pocket,
and indulgence to the passions. The pro-
prietors of these houses are composed of a
heterogenous mass of wornout gamblers,
black-legs, horse dealers, jockies, valets,

MISCELLANY.

The French Girl Among the Arabs. THE Semaphore' of Marseilles gives a letter from Algiers, dated the 22d ult. containing the following episode in the late military excursion to Blida :-'It will be recollected that a settler and his wife were massacred by the Arabs in the rear of the army. They had their daughter with them, a girl of about 11 years of age, but of whom, though every search was made, no traces could be found, and no doubt was entertained of her having been conveyed by the barbarians back to the mountains. She, however, has returned to Algiers, owing her safety to her own presence of mind. The following narrative of her escape is from her own recital. She was seized by the hair of her head, and the inexorable ytagan was raised to strike her, when the brigands suddenly observed the driver of the wagon, from which she and her parents had been taken, running to conceal himself in the bushwood. They instantly abandoned their prey for this new object of their ferocity, thinking, no doubt, they should easily find the destitute child on their return. She seized the propitious moment and hastened to hide herself in the marsh, and from her hiding place watched the Arabs seeking the man who had escaped them. When they

From the People's Magazine. Gaming Houses of London. The gaming houses of London-at least those on a great scale-are all situate in the nodern and elegant quarter of the town, and are among the greatest wonders of this world of houses and of human beings. In the slang of the town, such dens of vice and plunder are designated Hells,—a name too applicable pettifogging lawyers, low tradesmen, men in were at a distance she regained sufficient business, who have failed through their de-courage to come out and give a last embrace bauchery, and others of a similar stamp. to her murdered parents, and was not deterThey dress in the first style of fashion, keep red from performing this act of filial affection, country houses, carriages, horses, and fare either by the dangers to which she was sumptuously: bedizzen themselves out with exposed, or by the revolting sight of the fine gold watches, chains, seals, diamond and mutilated bodies of her father and mother. other rings, costly snuff boxes, &c.-property, || Alarmed, however, by some noise, she again with but little exception, originally belonging plunged into the marsh, and having wandered to unfortunates who have been fleeced of about for several hours, found herself near an every thing, and who, in the moment of distress, parted with them for a mere trifle. Some have got into large private mansions, and keep first rate establishments. Persons, with a very superficial knowledge of the world, can easily discern through the thin disguise of gentlemen they assume.

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to the nature of the business transacted
within. We are credibly informed by the
author of Life in the West-a recent pro-
duction, that these houses are fitted up in a
style of extraordinary splendor, and that
their expenses are enormous, though nothing
in comparison to the profits realized. One
house is supported at an expense of a thousand
pounds a week. The next in eminence costs
an hundred and fifty pounds a week, and the
minor ones vary from fifty to eighty pounds
a week. Each house has a regular compliment
of officials, who are paid extravagant salaries.
The inspectors or overlookers, are paid from
six to eight pounds a week each; the crou-
piers,' or dealers, three to six pounds a week,
the waiters and porters, two pounds; and a
The degree of blackguardisın, villainy and
person who keeps a look out after the police wasteful profusion which characterise these
officers, to give a timely warning of their infamous establishments, will doubtless, appal||
approach, two pounds. The money disbursed the minds of thousands of our respectable
for secret information, wines, &c. cannot and industrious readers; but there is a use
be easily ascertained, but must be very large. in thus unfolding scenes capable of scaring
Every thing in the interior of these mansions the unwary man of property, or those in
is elegant; but certain things betoken the desperate circumstances, from the gaming
dreadful and hazardous nature of the estab-table, while the virtuous portion of community,
lishment. The doors and window shutters in reading such accounts of what is hourly
are fortified with strong iron plates, so that transacting-night and day, Sunday as well as
ingress by violence is a tardy and difficult
matter. There is one of these iron doors at
the bottom of the stairs, one near the top,
and a third at the entrance of the gaming
room, These are opened and closed one

every other day in the week-in the metropolis,
will draw closer together, and learn to be
thankful that their simple and honest occupa-
tions do not lead them into the way of such
unhallowed temptations,

Arab hut and sat down exhausted. 'She had not been long in this position, when a child, about her own age, came out of the hut, and inspired by Providence, the orphan threw herself upon its neck-the Arab child answered her caresses. In a few minutes she was surrounded by Arab women, who wept over her tears of commiseration. Their maternal feelings dictated to them their duties on the occasion, and they endeavored to conceal her, but the husbands returned, and she was discovered. These barbarians reproved their wives for granting hospitality to a Christian; and one of them had the brutality to throw an iron bar at the head of his wife, because she gave two eggs to the famished child. She, however, was preserved and remained with the tribe two days submitting to her fate with patience and resignation. The murderers, in fact, reflected that the exasperated French might again return and take vengeance, and that the sparing their infant prisoner, would perhaps be a means of

appeasing the wrath of their enemies. At

The Head.

Washington.

He spake, and surrounded the rose-bush || always plain and modest. And thus we have length, a Moor, while the Arabs were absent, || with tender thorns. Then the spirit of the impartially described the external parts of a got possession of the orphan, and having rose-bush said, Why these weak weapons: person, who had tried the smiles and frowns concealed her in one of the baskets slung They will not shelter the beautiful flower. of time, not puffed up in prosperity, nor across his mule, brought her on the 16th of The angel of the flowers answered him, shaken in adversity, always holding the September safe into Algiers. Immediately They shall only keep off the hand of the golden mean. on her arrival she was taken to General inconsiderate child! Resistance will be a Viorol, who bestowed upon her the most strong allurement to the offender. That which anxious care. Her return becoming known, is holy and beautiful has its defence within HOWEVER his military fame may excite the she was the general object of curiosity and itself, therefore nature has given the rose the wonder of mankind, it is chiefly by his civil attention; every one wished to hear from her most tender weapon, which admonishes, but || magistracy, that his example will instruct own mouth the narrative of her sufferings to does not wound. For the tender only unites them. Great generals have arisen in all ages which we have not added a single word. M. with the beautiful. of the world, and perhaps most in those of Sappetty, Director of the Carantine Hospital, Thus innocence possesses modesty and despotism and darkness. In times of violence has adopted the child, whose name is Lucino retirement. and convulsion, they rise by the force of the Buretto, and will be to her as a second father; whirlwind, high enough to ride in it, and his kind treatment will no doubt soon alleviate direct the storm. Like meteors, they glare the pains which she has suffered. The THE head has the most beautiful appear on the black clouds with a splendor, that officers of the garrison have opened a sub-ance as well as the highest station in the while it dazzles and terrifies, makes nothing scription, the product of which is to be human figure. Nature has laid out all her visible but darkness. The fame of heroes is deposited in the Savings' Bank at Paris, which art in beautifying the face; she has touched indeed growing vulgar: they multiply in every will accumulate to form a dowry for the it with vermillion, planted in it a double row long war: they stand in history, and thicken orphan of Algiers." of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and in their ranks almost as undistinguished as blushes, lighted up and enlivened it with the their own soldiers. But such a Chief Magisbrightness of the eyes, hung it on either side trate as WASHINGTON, appears like the pole with curious organs of sense, given it airs and star in a clear sky, to direct the skilful graces that cannot be described, and sur- statesman. His presidency will form an rounded it with such a flowing shade of hair epoch, and be distinguished as the age of as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable Washington. Already it assumes its high light. In short, she seems to have designed place on the political region. Like the milky the head as the cupola to the most glorious way, it whitens along its allotted portion of of her works; and when we load it with a pile the hemisphere. The latest generations of of supernumerary ornaments, we destroy the men will survey, through the telescope of symmetry of the human figure, and foolishly history, the space where so many virtues contrive to call off the attention from great blend their rays.-Fisher Ames. and real beauties, to childish gewgaws, ribbons and lace.-Addison.

From the Hartford Pearl.
Sleighing.

We love sleigh riding. We love to have a full cutter-full of girls. We love to see all wrapped up warm, and the fiery chargers darting on through the shaved ice, gloriously! we love to have all the girls laughing, and enjoying themselves beneath the cold moonlight; and the sleigh mounting up and dancing down until we drive up to the door of our grandmother or aunt. What joyfulness is there then, in entering the warm room and finding all merriment! This is one of our domestic blessings; and we sincerely pity those who have no good aunt or grandmother, or relation towards whose house to wend in the winter evening when the snow is fairly beaten down, and the moon is at her full.

Glorious winter evenings! We hail ye with delight! We enjoy ye in raptures, and there is a peculiarity and poetry about ye that is only known in lovely New England.

From the German of Krummacher.

F.

The Defence. WHEN nature had formed, with her allcreating breath, the loveliest of flowers, the rose, the spirit of the rose-bush thus address-|| ed the flower-angel, Will you not give to the gentle plant a defence, which will protect it against injury and insult? And yet nature has given the thorn-bush large and pointed thorns.

The thorn-bush, answered the angel, does not belong to the noble, but is ranked low in the kingdom of creation. Its office is to defend the slender plants from the irrational brute, and for this purpose nature has given it the pointed thorns. But your wish shall be gratified!

John Bunyan.

A description of his character and person was drawn by his first biographer. He appeared in countenance, to be of steru and rough temper, but in his conversation, mild and affable, not given to loquacity or much discourse in company, unless some urgent occasion required it; observing never to boast of himself, or his parts, but rather seem low in his own eyes, and submit himself to the judgment of others; abhorring lying and swearing: being just in all that lay in his power to his word; not seeming to revenge injuries; loving to reconcile difference, and make friendship with all. He had a sharp quick eye, accompanied with an excellent discerning of persons, being of good judgment and quick wit.-As for his person, he was tall of stature, strong boned, though not corpulent, somewhat of a ruddy face, with sparkling eyes; wearing his hair on his upper lip after the old British fashion; his hair reddish, but in his latter days time had sprinkled it with gray, his nose well set, but not declining or bending, and his mouth moderately large his forehead something high, and his habit

CONFESSION OF AN IRISH PEASANT.-Luke M. Geoghan being at confession, owned among other things that he had stolen a pig from Tim Carrol. The priest told him he must make restitution; Luke couldn't-how could he, when he had eaten it long ago? Then he must give Tim one of his own. No; Luke didn't like that-it wouldn't satisfy his conscience, it wouldn't be the downright identical pig he stole. Well, the priest said, if he wouldn't, he'd rue it, for that the corpur delictum, Tim's pig, would be brought forward against him at his final reckoning. 'You don't mane that, father?' Indeed but the father did. And may be Tim himself will be there too? Most certainly.' Och, then, why bother about the trifle this side the grave? If Tim's there, and the pig's there, sure I can make restitution to him then you know.'-Monthly Magazine.

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A COUNTRYMAN, a short time ago, on being liberated from St. Augustine's gaol, walked into a neighboring ale house and asked for a pint of beer, informing the landlord, at the same time, he had no money, but that if he would furnish the supply, he would tell him something greatly to his advantage. Boniface

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hesitated, but finding the man's countenance lifted them up, these I think must be either
to wear an honest sort of appearance, placed dates or nuts; how reviving they will be
before him a tankard of mild.' A few With these sweet anticipations he opened and
minutes elapsed, and the beer had vanished, looked into the sack, but exclaimed in a
and with it my host's patience, for he eagerly mournful tone, Alas! they are nothing but
demanded the promised information. Hark pearls.'
ye,' responded the newly released delinquent,
If you should be unfortunate enough to get
ou the tread-mill, the casiest birth is against

the wall.'-Kentish Chron.

arrive at a point not twenty rods distant. These are some of the oversights of those, who, should they pursue a

different plan, might confer far more honor upon themselves,

and double benefit throughout the reading community.

We mean, at all times, to select according to our taste and

judgment, and trust we shall by our skill, give merit its

due and genius her just reward.

AMERICAN LITERATURE-We were thinking a few days LOVE. When she learned the vocabulary, since of the utter stagnation into which the literature of America was falling. It seems as though all the mastershe did not find that admiration meant love; spirits had resigned their noble occupation, and laid she did not find that gratitude meant love; themselves down to slumber, while the mildew of death she did not find that habit meant love; but in was fast creeping over it. Our fancy is no more entertained process of time she began to suspect that ally the savage imagery of Cooper, and we but scarcely these put together produced a feeling very much like love.--Rank and Talent.

BUTTERFLY IN A CHURCH.-Let it flutter, whether in the little church or in the great temple of nature; it praises God too.

indulge in a smile, created by the facetious Paulding.

Bryant, Halleck, Sprague and others have hung their

harps upon the willows. One is swinging the pen in the turmoils of a political life, another resigns Pegasus for the yard stick, while another presides over the precious coin in his vault. Our country may properly be termed a land of facts and realities—a land where cash ranks higher than

genius-and where, as yet, no superfluous recompense was ever bestowed for means to please the mind and transport the imagination.

A MAN who has the appearance of order and economy in his family, who does not permit his sons to 'hoe corn in silk breeches,' nor roll logs in ruffled shirts, nor to wear their best clothes on common occasions, nor suffer his daughters to make cheese and butter in chintzes and muslins, nor sweep the kitchen in silks and laces, will sooner be trusted and stand higher in the estimation of all sensible people, than any other man of equal quality who sets up for gentility, with a family of smart sons and dashing daughters, the beaux and belles of the neighborhood— the former calculating to live on their wits, and the latter expecting to be maintained by their beauty, and all but worshipped for their in the vast garden of the mind. When the winds are high yet, in case they transmit to us one dollar (free of postage) accomplishments.

THE QUAKER AND THE JUDGE.-A Quaker having been cited as an evidence at a Quarter Sessions, one of the magistrates, who had been a blacksmith, desired to know why he would not take off his hat. It is a privilege said the Quaker, that the laws and liberty of my country indulge people of my religious mode of thinking in.' If I had it in my power,' replied the justice, 'I would have your hat nailed to your head.' 'I thought,' said Obadiah, drily, that thou hadst given over the trade of driving nails.'

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The Rural Repository.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1884.

WINTER. Loud blaw the frosty breezes,' as the
Scottish bard- expresses it, and the vast vegetable world
lies shrouded in a white and beautiful garment. Our

patrons may find this a suitable season for mental culture,
and by improving it, may raise up an addition of flowers
along the hills, and heavy clouds of snow go whirling up
into the heavens, how the heart beats in gratitude, as we
sit before the bright and crackling fire. It seems as though
the mind grew more strong, as if its whole force became
concentrated in the small circle around us. If we take up

the imaginary works of Cooper, or the efforts of a Scott,
we appear to unite our mind with theirs, and follow them
in their romantic and interesting pathway. And why is
this?-It is because there are no flowers abroad to catch
a wandering imagination-the forests are leafless and
drear-the hum of the bee is hushed-the voice of the
cataract is muffled-the calm, blue heaven has not so
bland a moon-but nature-the wide region of nature, has,
like a strong man laid itself down to rest, and prepare for
the glory of a coming Spring.

There are beauties attached even to our Winter season. The scenery of nature is, in some cases, of a most gorgeous aspect. Who that has visited our forests, when the brawny arms of the trees were incased in their icy garb, could not see beauty there. We see the beams of the sun play upon them, reflecting in magic tints the most lovely THERE are people in the world who are hues;-while the coated shrubs below appear like the continually speaking of ill-luck.-Every little spirtings of many springs congealed in their ascent into mishap is considered by them as a special the air. The hills shine like banks of silver, the vallies are hard and polished, and all other objects abroad conspire to dispensation for their evil. They are satisfied contribute a splendor to the scene. Thus it is, that every with nothing. If, by accident, they do hap-season wears a peculiar garb of loveliness and casts its pen to meet with a little good luck, it is nothing mite into the general sum of our happiness. to what would have happened to some favored

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AUTHORS.-It is a source of gratification to us at all times to encourage real merit, by admitting communications into our columns, but the idea that we are to countenance any thing and every thing, we cannot ourselves entertain. Numberless communications have been forwarded to us, some of which would confer everlasting infamy upon their authors, were they not anonymous, and others whose

penmanship would defy the ingenuity of the literati of the

whole world. We do not believe, even if men possess a
natural bias,' that their effusions are to spring forth from

their brains spontaneous, as the waters boil up from the
clear depths of the mountain spring. But we believe it
necessary to cultivate the germ of genius, and to curb its
extravagancies, that its productions may be brought within
the scope of the general community. Some, to succeed,
must scrawl a strange band, because it is characteristic of)

Irving and Willis. Others must have their ideas wrapped
up in a mystification, for to express themselves in the
simple dialect of life, would be too common, and far

beneath their noble aspirings. Others, again, mistake
words for ideas and ramble through the whole universe to

TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS.-It is time, we think, to remind some of our subscribers, that the stipulations on which our paper is furnished, have not been complied with. Our expenses are heavy, and we, of course, look to the proceeds of our journal to liquidate them. The terms upon which we deliver our paper, are one dollar, if paid within three months;-if not, one dollar and fifty cents. We would mention, that although many have received it even six or eight months without forwarding us any of the 'needful,' immediately upon receiving this notice, no further charge will be enforced upon them.

Letters Containing Remittances, Received at this Office, ending Wednesday last, deducting the amount of Postage paid.

G. M. Child & M. Barnes, Bridgeport, Ms. $2,00; J. Allerton, Cairo, N. Y. $1,00; A. Chandler, Coirain, M. $1,00; A. S. Vandusen, Victor, N. Y. $0,814; W. M. Bunker, Ghent, N. Y. $3,34; J. Bunker, Ann Arbor, M. T. $1,00; D. Kellogg, Ann Arbor, M. T. $1,00; E. W. Morgan, Ann Arbor, M. T. $1,50; S. G. Cole, Victor, N. Y. $1,00; R. M. Walker, Orville, N. Y. $1,00; James Sherman, Perry, N. Y. $0,89; H. N. Risdon, Salina, M. T. $1,00; C. C. Davenport, Watertown, N. Y. $1,00; Augustus M. Brown, Honesdale, Pa. §1,00.

SUMMARY.

CHEAP ANTIDOTE.-There is not a house in the country that does not contain a remedy for poison, if instantly administered. It is nothing more than two tea-spoonsfull of made mustard, mixed in warm water. It acts as an instantaneous emetic.-Making this simple antidote known, may be the means of saving many a fellow creature from an untimely end.

Mr. B. Brewster, printer, of Concord, N. H. has invented a new method of lettering and gilding books, which will save to publishers at least ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS PER YEAR, if adopted.

The fire engine that first reaches the place of confiagration at New Orleans, is entitled to a premium. Our firemen require no incentive to action.

MARRIED,

At Newburgh, on Wednesday evening the 29th ult. by the Rev. Mr. Johnson, Mr. Aikman Spear, to Miss Eliza R. daughter of William G. Hubbel, of this city.

In Hillsdale, on the 27th ult. by the Rev. Philip Roberts, jr. Mr. David L. Becker, of Claverack, to Miss Sally Truesdail, of Hillsdale.

At Stuyvesant Falls, on Sunday the 2d inst. by the Rev. Mr. Sturges, Mr. William H. Chace, to Miss Cornelia Jane Gardinier, both of the above place

At Claverack, on the 4th inst. by the Rev. J. Berger, Mr. James Lowe, to Miss Mary Pixley, both of the above place. At Saratoga, on the 5th inst. by the Rev. Mr. Fletcher, Mr. Ezra Hall, merchant, to Miss Martha B. Crawford, all

of the above place.

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