Able and sensible men are constantly either going out or keeping out of such, in the general, ill-recompensed employment. of her chamber, giving way to anguish their intelligence and right appreciation of guish. uncontrolled and uncontrollable. Refusing the importance of the periodical press, than the earnest prayers of her women, and of her by their honor and general uprightness, even physicians, to suffer herself to be disrobed, in those minor concerns of life where self- As regards that class of subscribers who and to recline upon her bed ;—feeding on tears interest or reputation is ever so little at stake. never mean to pay for a periodical, I shall and groans alone ;-uttering no sound but By these men, and by them alone-and it is say but little about them. Every publisher the name of Essex, in one plaintive, and oft- no mean encomium upon their characters-at the present day is as much to blame for repeated cry-mocking at all consolation: is the periodical press of the country sup- opening an account with a man whom neither acknowledging no comforter except despair; ported as well as it is. All other self-named he nor his agent knows any thing about, as -ten long days and nights, she lingered thus patrons not only obstruct the operation of the man who trusts him for any other article a thousand times more intolerable than those this great intellectual engine of the age, but of trade. There must be a reform in the which she had inflicted on her Scottish rival; are the occasion of embarrassment and pecuniary system upon which most periodand, when, at length, the council of the state blasted prospects among an intelligent and icals are conducted as well as among their assembled, in her last moments, around the industrious class of men, which if shown to subscribers. death bed of a sovereign truly, and not their view would make men of no more metaphorically, lying in dust and ashes,moral purity than themselves even tremble to she named to them as her successor in the contemplate. kingdom, the son of that same rival. Who shall say that the death of Mary Stuart went unavenged? PRIZE ESSAY. Periodical Patronage. BY GEO. W. LIGHT. I HAVE this moment received a two dollar note for a year's subscription to one of my periodicals-the first subscription money I have received for a little age, of no small amount, which as truly belonged to me some six years ago, more or less, as ever a note of Mr. Biddle's did to our worthy President. Therefore I am in a little better mood for writing this sermon than I thought of being when I sat down. But I may be considered a little too severe, without some qualification, upon a certain class of the community which needs to be noticed apart from others of the non-paying or pay-any-time subscribers to periodicals. This is a class of men who have honor and moral principle, and who exhibit them in most of the relations of life-but who, nevertheless, are so influenced by the too general opposition to an editor's breathing through the usual preliminary means, that they care little about giving him his due in time to keep him out of the limbos, and are indifferent at least whether he hears from them at all, except by way of clainorous communications because the paper doesn't come.' These men mean no great harm. They would dislike as much to see a poor fellow of an editor starving to death as any body else. Of another rather numerous class of patrons to periodicals-namely, the ladies-I will say a word. Respecting them-and I need not say they are the last individuals that should be insulted by flattery-I have the pleasure of being able to testify favorably. They belong, so far as my knowledge extends, as a body-I mean those who are intelligent enough to want a periodical-to the class first alluded to,-who pay sufficient proof to a printer, bachelor or no bachelor, with no matrimonial arguments in addition, that they are the best gift of heaven, whether first or last in the order of creation-a matter he cares little about if he but finds them enrolled on his list of patrons. The excellent conductor of the Ladies' Magazine can tell me if I am mistaken on this point. I trust not. It is not necessary to discuss at large in this essay the general subject of the press. Every body feels its influence and acknowledges its importance. Especially in the form of the periodical publications of the day, it must be considered as the most powerful engine of this broad republic for the promotion of good or of evil. Take it from the landimperfect and ill-supported as it is-and you blot out the great intellectual sun of the nation. Through the Reviews, the Magazines and the Newspapers of the day, it collects the scattered beams of knowledge from the farthest regions of religion and philosophy, and spreads them far and wide over the hills and vallies of the land, enlightening, ennobling and gladdening all-even the most humble of our citizens-who come within the pale of its influence. A large number of the patrons of the But a five dollar bill-what's that?-a sum periodical literature of this country are among like this will make no great difference, sent the best men of the community: I mean, one time or another, or not at all. Let him too, periodically speaking-notwithstanding a wait my convenience! Individuals of this laxity in canceling subscription accounts is stamp prove the greatest enemies to many a one of the great besetting sins of the land. printer's success. He confides in their They pay. They are none of your men that general good reputation-lays out his plans subscribe to patronize merely-and therefore with referent it-and goes on in the either are dumbfounded or run mad at your execution of them with as little fear of famine want of gratitude in sending a bill for a work before his eyes as any good citizen who is they simply wished to see flourish, and on willing to work hard and maintain a good that account alone were willing to lend the conscience. I need not detail the whole influence of their names to. They don't need story. At the end of the year he has received to have it proved to them that a printer is a man about half the amount of his expenses. of flesh and bones like themselves,-though About double what he owes is due him, with that's not always the case,-and is sus-half a dollar on each subscription besides- Yet it is with a poor grace that the people tained, whenever he happens to be sustained, which he may whistle for with the principal of this country boast of the freedom of the by the same system of sustenance with all amount-because not paid within the year. press, while it meets with such comparatively other men :-nor that a man is less likely to No paper, perhaps, is to stop till all arrearages ineager support from the majority of its run into bankruptcy when hardly any body are paid up-though few moons pass before votaries. The future cultivation and elevation pays him for working at the press, than an it has to stop, from the fact that the type of our literature, science, arts and politics, individual most of whose debtors prove to be founder, paper maker, et cetera, are too wise must depend upon that popular portion of bad pay in any other department of business. to support the establishment a great while for mankind-the people. Let a pure and exalted When they buy a journal of a man-receive the public merely to subscribe. In some standard of the press in the periodical form it, read it, have their happiness increased and three years he receives possibly a quarter be encouraged by them, and call forth their are made more intelligent and better by it- part of the sum due him :-and if he isn't in united support, and such a standard will soon they think it is the part of a man to let it be jail, poor fellow, it is because he was not fool be raised, and it will stand as long as the seen that they have some understanding of enough to continue to work for nothing and banner of freedom shall wave above the the means by which an editor as well as find himself, and has sought some less specu-mountain tops and over the blue rivers of the any body else is obliged to live, and without lative employment. I hazard nothing in land of our fathers. which a man can no better write for their saying that a large number of respectabie edification than he can perform the labor that citizens are every year driven towards bankpromotes their own emolument. They pay, ruptcy in this country, mainly through inditoo, in season. They don't wait till the viduals counted good men in all other respects, printer is dead, or is obliged to run away to not paying promptly, or at all, their subscripget rid of the constable-or till he has used tions to periodicals. The misery, and vice up more paper than the amount of subscription it may be, created annually by this, which in writing polite, imploring and perhaps to should seriously be considered one of our them insulting duns. They learn the terms, crying national sins, can hardly be calculated. buy their intellectual goods, and then like Does not this subject demand the serious any other gentlemen hand over the cash. consideration of the good people of America: These men as the facts above stated abund-In the way which has been described, are our antly prove-are no less distinguished by literature, science and arts suffered to lan And why should not the press call forth this encouragement and this support? Is it not the most influential and powerful agent among mankind? Is it not far more extensively so in the periodical than in any other form of its action? Does not this country present at least as ample and important a field for its operation as any other nation on the globe? Then why should it not-as it does in some other countries so far as its freedom is allowed-call forth and embody the talents and opinions of the best and the ablest men of our republic? BIOGRAPHY. From the American Magazine. THE HERO OF POLAND. LIKE that of Washington and La Fayette, the name of Kosciusko is familiar and dear to Americans. His noble efforts for our independence are recorded in the history of the Revolution. To recapitulate and dwell upon them here, would be a pleasure; but the design of the American Magazine will not permit us to furnish more than an engraving. and brief memoir of that illustrious patriot. Containing some particulars which, we believe are not generally known, our sketch will not fail to interest the reader. The press-the medium through which the 1st of April he left Cracow at the head of in the streets, wringing their hands, beating religion, the liberty, the honor and happiness 4000 men, armed mostly with scythes, and, their heads against the walls, and exclaiming of the nations are secured and preserved-on the 4th of the same month, encountered in despair, "Kosciusko is no more; the unworthy of support! Allow to every de-a body of Russians, more than thrice his own country is lost!" In fact, the Poles seemed partment of life its due weight of importance: number, near the village of Raclawice. The paralyzed by this blow. Warsaw capitulated but let not the glory of the land, the only battle lasted for five hours, and victory in a short time after; and the soldiers and safeguard of the people, the only hope of the declared for the brave Poles; 3000 Russians generals of the revolution were either killed world, call forth the disrespect and the being killed on the spot. This success or dispersed-immured in the prisons of ingratitude of those who are enlightened and confirmed the wavering patriots, and accel- Petersburg, or sent to Siberia. warmed and invigorated by its heaven-like erated the developement of the insurrection The death of Catharine, on the 17th of agency. The light of the press is like the throughout the kingdom. Wilna and other November, 1796, delivered the Poles from light of the sun. Its voice is like the sound cities threw off the yoke. The patriots, a detestable tyrant. Her successor, the of many waters. Its results are like the however, suffered a defeat near Chelmn, and Emperor Paul, commenced a new era in rising into existence of a new creation. Cracow soon after fell into the hands of the|| Russian history, that of clemency. His enemy. By this time the Russians and their behavior to Kosciusko was almost heroic. allies began to approach Warsaw. Three He visited him in prison, embraced him leagues from that city, at Praca-Wola, Kosci-warmly, and told him he was free. Paul also usko was encamped. It was here, that one proposed to present him with a high military of his brothers in arms found him sleeping post; this was declined. He then gave him on straw. The picture he draws of this 1500 serfs and 12,00 roubles, as a testimony extraordinary individual in his camp, is an of regard. But Kosciusko, determined to go interesting view of the hero who upheld the to America, returned these presents. He fate of Poland. We passed,' says Count then proceeded, by way of England, to the Oginski, from Kosciusko's tent to a table New World, when, having spent some time under some trees. The frugal repast made with his old comrades in arms, he went to here with a dozen guests will never be effaced Paris and settled near Fontainbleau. from my meniory. The presence of this great man, who had excited the admiration of all Europe; who was the terror of his enemies, and the idol of the nation; who, raised to the rank of Generalissimo, had no ambition but to serve his country and to fight for it; who always observed an unassuming, affable and mild demeanor; who never wore Thaddeus Kosciusko was born on the 12th any distinguishing mark of the supreme of February, 1746, at the chateau of Sien-authority with which he was invested; who niewicze. Of a noble, though not very was contented with a suit of coarse gray cloth, illustrious family, he was early initiated in the and his table was as plainly furnished as that science of war, at the military school of of a subaltern officer; could not fail to Warsaw. In his youth, his affections were awaken in me every sentiment of esteem, engaged to the daughter of the Marshal of admiration, and veneration, which I have Lithuania; but, crossed in his love, he saw sincerely felt for him at every period of her married to another, Prince Lubomirski. || my life.' He then went to France, and on his return ap- The enemy continued to advance towards plied to Stanislaus for a military appointment; Warsaw, but the city resisted all their attacks. but was refused, because he was a favorite of At length, Wilna yielded to the soldiers of Adam Czartoryski, whom Stanislaus hated. Catharine, and the rest of the province soon Kosciusko sought to dispel his disappointment shared the same fate. On the 10th of October in the labors of a martial life. The American Kosciusko fell upon Fersen. The battle was Colonies were, at that time throwing off the bloody, and fatal to the Patriots. Victory yoke of their unnatural mother country: their was wavering, and the expected reinforcement cause was that of justice and liberty, and one not appearing, Kosciusko, at the head of his dear to the heart of a young, proud-spirited principal officers, made a furious charge, and Pole. He was cordially welcomed in the plunged into the midst of the Russians. He New World, and served in the ranks of Gates fell, covered with wounds, and all his comand Washington ;-and was appointed aid-panions were killed or taken captive. The de-camp to the latter great General. When General lay senseless among the slain; at the glorious struggle of the Rebels' was length he was recognized, notwithstanding crowned with success, he returned to his the plainness of his uniform, and was found own native land, where he found an equally still breathing. His name now commanded glorious field for his exertions. He held the respect, even from the barbarous Cossacks, rank of Major General under Joseph Ponia- some of whom were about to plunder him. towyski, in the campaign of 1792, to which They instantly formed a litter with their office he had been raised by the diet, and gave lances, and conveyed him to the Commanderample earnest of what he might have accom-in-Chief, who ordered his wounds to be plished, had not his ardor been checked by the King's irresolution. When the sword of insurrection was drawn at Cracow, in 1794, the garrison and all the troops proclaimed him Generalissimo; they took an oath of allegiance to him, and by deed appointed him Dictator, in imitation of the Roman custom, on emergent occasions.His power was absolute. He had the command of all the armies, and the regulation of all affairs, political and civil. Never was confidence so fully and unscrupulously reposed by a nation, in a single individual never were expectations better grounded. On the dressed, and treated him with the consid- It was in 1798 that he touched at England on his passage to America. Dr. Warner, who saw him at the house of the consul at Bristol, says, I never contemplated a more interesting human figure than Kosciusko, stretched on his couch. His wounds were still unhealed, and he was unable to sit upright. He appeared to be a small man, spare and delicate. A black silk bandage crossed his fair and high, but somewhat wrinkled forehead. Beneath it, his dark eagle eye sent forth a flame of light, that indicated the steady flame of patriotism which still burned within his soul, unquenched by disaster and wounds, weakness, poverty, and exile. Contrasted with its brightness was the paleness of his countenance, and the wan cast of every feature. He spoke tolerable. English, though in a low and feeble tone, but his conversation, replete with fine sense, lively remark, and sagacious answers, evinced a noble understanding and a coltivated mind. On rising to depart, I offered him my hand: he took it. My eyes filled with tears; and he gave it a warm grasp. I muttered something about brighter prospects and happier days! He faintly smiled, and said, 'Ah! sir, he who devotes himself for his country must not look for his reward on this side of the grave.' When, in 1806, Napoleon felt what powerful allies the Poles, fighting for liberty, would be against Russia and Prussia, he used many arts to engage them in his cause. There was one man then living, near Fontainbleau, whose name alone would have raised the whole population of Poland--Kosciusko. Buonaparte made him the most pressing invitations to share in the campaign, again and again, to address his fellow countrymen, and call upon the Polish nation to embrace the present opportunity of regaining their liberty. But Kosciusko was not dazzled by the splendor of Napoleon's career; and he divined that a military despot might be as treacherous as hereditary tyrants. He seemed, too, to share in a degree the feelings of those who, being set free and mildly treated by Paul, imagined it would be an act of ingratitude to appear in arms against him. He never ceased however, to hold the welfare of his native land most dear to his heart. On the 9th of April, 1814, after the allies had Peter Pindar. entered Paris, he sent a letter to Alexander, || permits, have their attendant mercies, and offered one, which the owner said was first in behalf of the Poles. The Emperor are blessings in disguise. The bruised reed rate-excellent. The price was paid, and on returned an autograph answer, promising that will not be laid utterly prostrate. The trial the purchaser found that the dog would his wishes should be accomplished. He wounded heart will not always bleed. The neither hunt 'coons nor any thing else.again wrote to Alexander on the 10th of June, voice of consolation will spring up in the Returning to the seller, he accused him of 1814, at Vienna, calling upon him to fulfil midst of the silence of these regions of death. deception. Why, aint he a good dog for the promises he had made to him. To this The mourner will revisit these shades with a 'coons?' said the seller. No, not worth a no answer was given, and Kosciusko, certain secret, though melancholy pleasure. The cent.' 'Well, that beats all nature,' said the that his apprehensions were well founded, on hand of friendship will delight to cherish the seller, I tried the 'tarnal critter for every the 13th of June announced his intention to flowers, and the shrubs, that fringe the lowly thing else, and he would do no good, so I retire to Switzerland. This determination grave, or the sculptured monument. The thought he must be good for 'coons.' he soon put into execution, and went to earliest beams of the morning will play upon * reside at Solecure, where he ended his || these summits with a refreshing cheerfulness; illustrious life, on the 16th of October, 1817. and the lingering tints of evening hover on His corpse is deposited in the cathedral of them with a tranquilizing glow. Spring will Cracow, in the same chapel where Sobieski invite thither the footsteps of the young by and Joseph Poniatowski had been laid before its opening foliage; and autumn detain the him; and on the summit of the artificial contemplative by its latest bloom. The votary mountain, Bronislawa, national gratitude has of learning and science will here learn to erected a monument to his immortal memory. elevate his genius by the holiest studies. The devout will here offer up the silent tribute of pity, or the prayer of gratitude. The rivalries of the world will here drop from the heart; the spirit of forgiveness will gather Cemetery of Mount Auburn. new impulses; the selfishness of avarice will contains a view of the entrance to this repository of the be rebuked; vanity will let fall its plumes THE Universalist and Ladies' Repository of the 6th ult. be checked; the restlessness of ambition will dead, with a general description of its arrangement, and a and pride, as it sees what shadows we are, lengthy extract from the address of Judge Story, at its dedication. The Address is an interesting production, and what shadows we pursue,' will acknowland its perusal cannot but chasten and improve the feel-edge the value of virtue, as far, immeasurably far, beyond that of fame. MISCELLANY. ings. We make the following extract: AND we are met here to consecrate this spot, by these solemn ceremonies, to such a purpose. The Legislature of this Commonwealth, with a parental foresight, has clothed the Horticultural Society with authority (if I may use its own language) to make a perpetual dedication of it, as a Rural Cemetery, or Burying-Ground, and to plant and embellish it with shrubbery, and flowers and trees, and walks, and other rural ornaments. And I stand here, by their order, and in behalf of this Society, to declare that, by these services, it is to be deemed, henceforth and forever, so dedicated. Mount Auburn, in the noblest sense, belongs no longer to the living, but to the dead. It is a sacred-it is an eternal trust. It is consecrated ground. May it forever be inviolate! What a multitude of thoughts crowd upon the mind in the contemplation of such a scene. How much of the future even in its far-distant reaches, rises before us, with all its persuasive realities. Take but one little narrow space of time, and how affecting are its associations! Within the flight of one half century, how many of the great, the good, and the wise, will be gathered here! How many in the loveliness of infancy, the beauty of youth, the vigor of manhood, and the maturity of age, will lie down here, and dwell in the bosom of their mother earth! The rich and the poor, the gay and the wretched, the favorites of thousands, and the forsaken of the world, the stranger in his solitary grave, and the patriarch surrounded by the kindred of a long lineage! How many will here bury their brightest hopes, or blasted expectations! How many bitter tears will be shed! How many agonizing sighs will here be heaved! How many trembling feet will cross the pathways, and, returning, leave behind them the dearest objects of their reverence or their love! And if this were all, sad, indeed, and funereal would be our thoughts; gloomy, indeed, would be these shades, and desolate these prospects. But that, which will be ever present, pervading these shades, like the noon-day sun, and shedding cheerfulness around, is the consciousness, the irrepressible conscious ness, amidst all these lessons of human mortality, of the higher truth, that we are beings, not of time, but of eternity-That this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.'That this is but the threshold, and startingpoint of an existence, compared with whose duration, the ocean is but as a drop; nay, the whole creation an evanescent quantity. TOM PAINE Once asserted in the presence of Peter that the minority, in all deliberative bodies, ought at all times, to govern the that the proportion of men of sense to the majority. Peter smiled, 'You grant me, ignorant, is not more than twenty or at most thirty, to a hundred; consequently, the majority of mankind are prone to error; and if we would act rightly, we ought to be guided by the sense of the minority. Peter who had listened with great seeming entirely convincing. As it is rather a subject attention, now mildly replied, I will not say but your arguments are cogent, though not out of my line, I will not attempt to argue the point, but merely hold the negative of your proposition and leave it to the good Paine, who saw himself surrounded by his company which is right.' Agreed,' said admirers. Well gentlemen,' said Peter, with all the gravity of a Speaker of the House of Commons, you that are of opinion that the minority, ought in all cases to govern the majority, please to rise in the affirmative.' Paine immediately stood up himself, and as he had foreseen, the company all arose in his Peter, I am the wise minority, who ought favor. Then I rise in the negative cried in all cases to govern your ignorant majority; and consequently, upon your own principles, carry the vote, let it be recorded.' This unexpected manœuvre raised a hearty laugh. Paine retired from the presence of triumphant wit, mortified at being foiled by his own weapons.-Vt. Free Press. The Will. Let us banish, then, the thought, that this is to be the abode of a gloom, which will haunt the imagination by its terrors, or chill the heart by its solitude. Let us cultivate feelings and sentiments more worthy of ourselves, and more worthy of Christianity.Here let us erect the memorials of our love, and our gratitude, and our glory. Here let THE following curious and interesting cirthe brave repose, who have died in the cause cumstance occurred lately in France :of their country. Here let the statesman Monsieur***, a gentleman of handsome forrest, who has achieved the victories of peace, tune, and a bachelor, died rather suddenly, not less renowned than war. Here let genius and as no will could be found, three nephews find a home, that has sung immortal strains, (with whom he had held but little intercourse) or has instructed with still diviner eloquence. laid claim to the property, as heirs-at-law. Here let learning and science, the votaries On the first news of his illness, a young man, of inventive art, and the teacher of the a distant relation of the old gentleman and philosophy of nature, come. Here let youth who was entirely dependent on him, had and beauty, blighted by premature decay, burried up to Paris in order to render him drop, like tender blossoms, into the virgin every care and attention in his power. An earth; and here let age retire, ripened for the orphan, brought up and educated by Monharvest. Above all, let the benefactors of sicur***, he had ever regarded him as a mankind, the good, the merciful, the meek, second father; and, indeed the latter had the pure in heart, be congregated; for to always said it was his intention to provide for them belongs an undying praise. And let us him. He arrived, however, too late to take take comfort, nay, let us rejoice, that in a last farewell of his respected friend ere future ages, long after we are gathered to the death had closed his eyes for ever. Finding generations of other days, thousands of kind-himself thus at once blighted in all his worldly ling hearts will here repeat the sublime prospects, deprived suddenly of his protector, declaration,- Blessed are the dead, that die whose apparent unkindness and neglect had in the Lord, for they rest from their labors: left him in a forlorn and destitute situation, it and their works do follow them.' might naturally be supposed that the bitterness of his feelings would have found vent in murmurs of reproach; but grief for the loss of one whom he had ever cherished in the light of a father appeared alone to absorb the faculties of ASTONISHING DEFICIENCY.-A man once wished to buy a good 'coon dog, for which But, thanks be to God, the evils, which hell he would pay a liberal price. He was soon Consider me always your affectionate this exemplary young man, and he retired to refusal experienced by Frederick the Great the owner. King of Prussia, and the Miller. THERE was near Potsdam, in the reign of Frederick the Great, a mill which interfered with the view from the windows of Sans Souci. Annoyed by this eye-sore to his favorite residence, the King sent to inquire the price for which the mill would be sold by For no price,' was the reply of the sturdy Prussian; and in a moment of anger Frederick gave orders that the mill should be pulled down. The King may do this,' said the miller, quietly folding his armis, but there are laws in Prussia; and forthwith he commenced proceedings against the monarch, the result of which was, that the Court sentenced Frederick to rebuild the mill and to pay beside a large sum of money as compensation for the injury which he had done. The King was mortified, but had the magnanimity to say, addressing himself to his courtiers-I am glad to find that just and upright judges exist in my kingdom.'The above anecdote is well known to every reader of Prussian history, but it is necessary to be related here as an introduction to that which follows. About three years ago, the present head of the honest miller's family,his name is Frank-who had in due course of time succeeded to the hereditary possession of his little estate, finding himself after a long struggle with losses occasioned by that war, which brought ruin into many a house besides his own, involved in pecuniary difficulties that had become insurmountable, wrote to the King of Prussia, reminding him of the MIDNIGHT VIGILS.-The clock strikes twelve-it is the knell of the departed year-what busy thoughts crowd in upon us, what strong emotions swell the soul, as slowly falls upon the listening ear the melancholy sound! All now is still, as silent as the grave-as noiseless as the place of sepulchres-all around and every living thing seem hushed in dread repose!--All, save the restless invalid and the lone watcher at the couch of pain, or some sad group of mourning friends gathered beside the bed of death, to catch, for the last time, the soul-thrilling glance from the eye of one long and fondly loved, now that it is about to close forever upon terrestial things-to hear, for the last time, the sweet accents of affection faintly murmured from lips soon to be closed in all the rigidity of death-or haply some little band of pious devotees, who, joined in holy prayer, have congregated to watch the meeting of the years-and some perchance who, reckless of these sad and solemn scenes, have laid their serious thoughts aside while bidding the old year adieu, and with mirth and revelry do hail the infant year. And are these all that now the midnight vigil keep? No-the pale student solitary sits and wastes the midnight oil while poring o'er the lore of ages past-the gambler and the debauchee amid the haunts of vice still linger, unmindful of this most solemn hour, and all unheeding too of the anxious ones that wait strings and wearing inch by inch their life away, watch their coming, and, while grief is tugging at their heartthe long and weary hours to hear their well known step. But time doth fail, so fare-thee-well, departed year fare A Tough Story. 'GENTLEMEN,' said a man who had been traveling west to a motley company in the sitting-room of a tavern, It would do your hearts good to see the game in the western country. Why, a man needn't trouble himself about his dinner; if he finds that he is short of provisions, all he has got to do is to load his gun and fire it out at the window of his house, and he is sure to give a quietus to something of the eatable order. It is a splendid sight to behold a stag, bounding through the woods with antlers six feet apart at the tips—all you've got to do is to level at him, and he's a gone case. Tho' in fact, there's some little trouble attending these hunting excursions, for the woods and brambles, are so thick that a thunderbolt don't Received at this Office, ending Wednesday last, deducting know where to strike, and a man may have his flesh pretty considerably torn.' 'Humph!' exclaimed a listener, 'that's no go; how in the name of common sense could a stag with antlers six feet apart at the tips, run through such woods?' I say stranger'-replied the narrator, rather stumped by this interrogatory, 'you're as big a fool as I've met with for many a day. While I was at the West, I'd business enough of my own to attend to without inquiring into the manner in which stags ran through the woods-they did it and that's enough. Balt. Visiter. SUICIDE.-Dr. Johnson, having expressed a decided opinion against suicide, Mr. Boswell said, suppose a man is absolutely sure that if he lives a few days longer, he shall be detected in a fraud, the consequence of which would be, utter disgrace and expulsion from society.' Then,' said Johnson, 'let him go to some place where he is not known; don't let him go to the devil, where he is known.' FRENCH POLITENESS.-The following compliment was lately paid by a Parisian dentist to a lady. He had made several ineffectual attempts to draw out her decayed tooth, and finding at last that he must give it up, he apologized by saying-The fact is, madam, it is impossible for anything bad to come out of your mouth.' MANY persons become agreeable to others, without designing it, or using any express means to gain their end; but few fail to be agreeable when they take wise measures, and use sensible pains for that object. well! The hopes and joys may ne'er return that have to dread oblivion with thee gone down; yet, so strange a thing is Hope, new hopes, as 'Alps on Alps do still arise,' and, phoenix-like, upon our buried hopes spring up, and so may other joys our path illume. Letters Containing Remittances, the amount of Postage paid. P. M. Black Brook, N. Y. $2,00; W. W. Auburn, N. Y. $2,00; W. C. P. Troy, N. Y. $1,00; J. S. W. Bethlem, Ct. $1,00; G. B. Montgomery, Al. $1,50; D. C. D. Richland, N. Y. $1,00; M. S. Ballston, N. Y. $1,00; C. B. York, N. Y. $1,00; A. D. Marathon N. Y. 81,00. In this city, on the 17th ult. Mrs. Elizabeth Foster, at the advanced age of 84 years. On the 30th ult. Sarah H. daughter of Mr. Theophilus E. Beekman, in the 10th year of her age. On the 14th ult. John Howard, aged 3 years, and on Friday last, Elizabeth, aged 9 years, both of the scarlet fever, lovely children of the Rev. Mr. Hatfield, (Methodist Clergyman.) 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