"But we are not going to send our children to a school," suggested Mrs. Gresham. governess, and you can also understand that I, Joseph Byfield, hope you will take one of my recommending." The sisters looked at each other, as well as to say, "What shall we do?" Is she a good musician?" "Better than most women." "And a good artist ?" "This was not in the bond; but she does confound perspective, and distort the human body as excellently as most teachers of-the art that can immortalise-—” her to possess. We placed her at a first-rate seeing her at Mrs. Hylier's had irritated him more school,' as it was called, and thought we had done than he cared to confess, even to himself. Mrs. our duty; but this going from her home loosened Ryal entertained a corresponding animosity tothe cords of love that bound her to us. And when wards Mr. Byfield; she had resolved, come what a sudden stroke of good fortune converted a poor would, to "sit him out ;" but she was afraid if she into a rich man, and we brought our child to a remained much longer, that Miss Stack, the daily Mrs. Hylier assumed a cheerful, careless air, and splendid house, we found that our daughter's mor- governess, whose mother was ill, might go a few replied-" Well, sir, who is your governess ?" als had been corrupted through the means of her ninutes before her time was up, and she had more "Who she exactly is, Mrs. Hylier, I will not companions—an evil the most difficult of all for a than once caught her shaking the hour-glass-so tell you; and she does not know, though she imgoverness to avert-and that she had imbibed mor- much for the honesty of one party and the consid- agines she does; what she is I will tell you. She al poison with her mental food." The gentle-eration of the other; she knew perfectly well that is handsome, without the consciousness of beauty man became so agitated, that he could pro- as soon as she was gone, she would be abused "by-accomplished, without affectation-gentle, withceed; and angry as the ladies had been with him the old monster;" for she was conscious that, if out being inanimate-and I should suppase patient; a few moments before for a plain-speaking which he had gone, it would have given her extreme for she has been a teacher in a school, as well as amounted to rudeness, they could not avoid sym-pleasure and satisfaction to abuse him. The old in what is called a private family; but I want to pathising with his feelings. gentleman had not spoken for several minutes, but see her patience tested." continued to walk up and down, pausing every now and then to look at her over his spectacles, as "I know that, madam," he replied; "but I if to inquire, "when do you mean to take your dewant to convince you, by comparison, of the bles-parture ?" Mrs. Ryal was too exalted to notice sings that await the power of cultivating both the this; but after consideration, she rose with much intellect and the affections under your own roof, dignity, shook hands with her two " dear friends," and so argue you into the necessity of paying hon-dropped a most exaggerated curtsy to Mr. By field, estly, if not liberally, the woman upon the faithful who, the moment she was out of the room, threw discharge of whose duties depend the future hap. himself into an easy chair, and drew a lengthened piness or misery of those dear ones whom you inspiration, which said plainly enough, "Thank have brought into the world. It is now twenty-two heaven, she is gone!" years since I saw that daughter; I shall never see her again in this world; I thought I had strength to tell you the story painful as it is, but I have not. I would have done so, in the hope that I might have shown you how valuable, past all others, are the services rendered by a worthy and upright woman when entrusted with the education of youth; but when I think of my lost child, I forget every thing else. She stands before me as I speak. Myerness." blue-eyed lovely one! all innocence and truththe light, and life, and love of that small four. roomed cottage; and then she loved me truly and dearly; and there again she is most beautiful, but cankered at the heart, fair, and frail! Lay your children in their graves, and ring the joy-bells over them rather than intrust them to the whirling pestilence of a large school, or the care of a cheap governess!" And now, ladies," he exclaimed, " finding that "I expect you will treat your governess hardly as well as I treat my dog," was the ungracious reply. "Really, Mr. By field" "Psha, ladies," interrupted the strange old man ; "no words about it; I have not been so long your opposite neighbor without knowing that your last governess did not sit at your table; that when you had the hot, she had the cold; that when a visiter came, she went; that she was treated as a crea ture belonging to an intermediate state of society, which has never been defined or illustrated-being too high for the kitchen, too low for the parlor; that she was to govern her temper towards those who never governed their tempers towards her; that she was to cultivate intellect, yet sit silent as a fool; that she was to instruct in all accomplish ments, which she must know and feel, yet never play any thing in society exccpt quadrilles, because she played so well that she might eclipse the young ladies who, not being governesses, play for hus bands, while she only plays for bread! My good madam, I know almost every governess who enters Kensington-by sight; the daily ones by their early hours, cotton umbrellas, and the crowed, de. jected air with which they rise the knocker, uncertain how to let it fall. Do I not know the musi "He certainly is mad," whispered Mrs. Ryal to Mrs. Hylier, while the old gentleman, folded his hands one within the other, walked up and down the room, his thoughts evidently far away from the three wives, who were truly, as he had said "mere women of the world.". And yet he was right-they all loved their children, but it was after their own fashion; Mrs. Gresham with the most tenderness-she wished them to be good and happy; Mrs. Hylier's affection was mingled with a strong desire that they might continue in a state of innocence as long as possible, and not grow too fast. Mrs. Ryal had none of that weakness; she did not care a whit whether she was considered old or young, as long as she was obeyed; so she determined her girls should have as little of what is called heart as possible, that they might be free to accept the best offers when they were made. She was continually contrasting riches and poverty.-cal ones by the worn out boa doubled round their All the rich were angels, and all the poor thieves; there were no exceptions; those who married according to their parents' wishes rode in carriages, with two tall footmen behind each; those who mar. ried for love walked a-foot with draggled tails, and died in a workhouse. Of all women in Kensing. ton, Mr. By field disliked Mrs. Ryal the most, and throats, and the roll of new music clasped in the 66 My dear sir-——” "Ay, ay; half a dozen chalk heads-a few tawdry landscapes, with the lights scratched out, and the shadows rubbed in-a bunch of flowers on velvet, and a bundle of handscreens—" My dear sir," interrupted Mrs. Hylier, "these sort of things would not suit my daughters; what they do must be artistic." "Then get an artist to teach them; you go upon the principle of expecting Hertz to paint like Eastlake, and Eastlake to play like Hertz. Madam, she is a well-informed, prudent, intelligent gentlewoman; with feeling and understanding; consequently doing nothing ill, because she will not at tempt what she cannot accomplish. She will not undertake to finish (that's the term, I think) pupils in either music or drawing, but she will do her best and as she has resided abroad, I am told (for I hate every language except my own) she is a good linguist; and I will answer for her accepting the five-and-twenty pounds a-year." "Very desirable, no doubt," muttered Mrs. Hy. lier, unwilling, for sundry reasons of great import connected with her husband, to displease Mr. Byfield, and yet most unwilling to receive into her family a person whom, judging of others by her. self, she imagined must be a spy upon her menage. Very good; but to what purpose? you know you will take her ?" 66 Any thing to oblige you, my dear sir; but has she no female friend?" "Some one of you ladies said a few moments ago, that a governess had no need of friends." "You are aware, Mr. Byfield, it is usual upon such occasions to consult the lady the governess resided with last; it is usual; I do not want to insist upon it, because I am sure you understand exactly what I require." "Indeed, madam, I do not pretend to such extensive information; I know, I think, what you ought to require, that is all. However, if you wish, you shall have references besides mine," and Mr. Byfield looked harder and stiffer than ever. He walked up to a small water.color drawing that hung above a little table, and contemplated it, twirling his cane about in a half circle all the time. The subject was ugly enough to look at a long chimney emitting a column of dense smoke like a steamer, and a slated building stuck on one side, being a view of the "Archilles saw mills," which Mr. Hylier had lately purchased, a considerable portion of the purchase-money having been advanced by Mr. Byfield. "No matter how odd, how rude, how incompre. hensible our old neighbor is, Caroline," Mr. Hylier had said to his wife only that morning; "no matter what he does, or says, or fancies; if you contradict or annoy him, it will be my ruin." Her husband's words were forcibly recalled to her by the attitude and look of the old gentleman, and she answered-“ Ob, dear no, sir, not at all; one cannot help anxiety on such a subject; and I must only endeavor to make the lady comfortable, and all that sort of thing, although I fear she may complain to you of” "No, no, madam," he interrupted; "I do not desire her to be treated in any way better than your former governess; I wish to see how she bears the rubs of life; I particularly request that no change whatever be made in her favor; if I wished her to be quiet and comfortable, I should have sent he to my gentle little friend Mrs. Gresham." Mrs. Hylier bit her lip. "Good morning, ladies; when shall Miss Dawson-her name is Emily Dawson-when shall she come?" "When you please, sir." He shut the door; Mrs. Greshan rang the bell; and Mrs. Hylier, in a weak fit of uncontrollable vexation, burst into tears. Marry, indeed; would any man that could prevent it, permit the woman he intended to marry to be a governess? No. I'll trouble my head no more about it; let her come; one is pretty much the same as another; the only thing that really gives me pain is, that Mrs. Ryal should have heard so much of it; she's a regular bell-woman; likes to have the earliest information of whatever goes on in the world, so as to be the first to set it going. She was the means of the dismissal of five govern-nesses only last winter, and there is no end to the matches of her breaking. She will declare the girl is-the Lord knows what-if she finds all out." "Well," said Mrs. Gresham, musingly, "after all, it is very odd; only fancy Mr. Byfield taking an interest in a governess at all. Still, I must insert my advertisement, and I think I might substitute dancing for Greek; they are about equally useful, and one must not be too unreasonable." said her sister; " but believe me, the more you "Mr. Gresham says the whole system, or as he I am sure I do not know." Why, good wives and mothers." with some difficulty a simple gown of black bombazine was procured for her. The care of her nusical education was left to an able master, Mr. Albert Berg, director of the song-school of the opera. Some years later, at a comedy given by the eleves of the theatre, several persons were struck by the spirit and life with which a very young eleve acted the part of a beggar girl in the play.Lovers of genial nature were charmed almost fright. It was our poor little girl, who had made her first appearance, now about fourteen years of age, frolicsome and full of fun as a child. A few years still later, a young debutante was to sing for the first time before the public in Weber's Freischutz. At the rehearsal preceding the reprcsentation of the evening, she sang in a manner which made the members of the orchestra once, as by common accord, lay down their instruments to clap their hands in rapturous applause. It was our poor, plain little girl here again, who now had Both ladies laughed, and then Mrs. Hylier ex. claimed, " to think of my taking any one into my house under such circumstances! But at all events, I must prepare the children for their new gover-grown up, and was to appear before the public in ness." [To be Continued.] JENNY LIND. BY FREDRIKA BREMER. THERE was once a poor and plain little girl, dwelling in a little room in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. She was a poor little girl indeed then; she was lonely and neglected, and would have been very unhappy, deprived of the kindness and care so necessary to a child, if it had not been for a peculiar gift. The little girl had a fine voice, and in her loneliness, in trouble or in sorrow, she consoled herself by singing. In fact, she sang to all she did; at her work, at her play, running or resting, she always sang. was the role of Agatha. I saw her at the evening rep- From that time she was the declared favorite of the Swedish public, whose musical taste and knowledge are said to be surpassed nowhere.— And year after year she continued so, though after a time, her voice, being overstrained, lost somewhat of its freshness, and the public, being satia The woman, who had her in care, went out to work during the day, and used to lock in the little girl, who had nothing to enliven her solitude but the company of a cat. The little girl played with her cat and sang. Once she sat by the open window and stroked her cat and-sang, when a lady passed by. She asked the child several questions, went away, and came back several days later, followed by an old music-master, whose name Crelius. He tried the little girl's musical ear and voice, and was astonished. He took her to the di-ted, no more crowded the house when she was rector of the Royal Opera at Stockholm, then a Count Puhe, whose truly generous and kind heart was concealed by a rough speech and a morbid temper. Crelius introduced his little pupil to the Count, and asked him to engage her as "eleve" for the opera. "You ask a foolish thing!" said the Count, grufly, looking disdainfully down on the poor little girl. "What shall we do with that ugly thing? See what feet she has! And then her face! She will never be presentable. No, we cannot take her! Away with her!" singing. Still, at that time, she could be heard singing and playing more delightfully than ever in Pamina (in Zauberflote) in Anna Bolena, though the opera was almost deserted. (It was then late in the spring, and the beautiful weather called the people out to nature's plays.) She evidently sang for the pleasure of the song. By that time she went to take lessons of Garcia, in Paris, and so give the finishing touch to her musical education. There she acquired that war. ble in which she is said to have been equalled by The music-master insisted almost indignant-no singer, and which could be compared only to ly. that of the soaring and warbling lark, if the lark had a soul. "Well," exclaimed he at last, "if you will not take her, poor as I am, I will take her myself, and have her educated for the scene; for such another car as she has for music, is not to be found in the world." The Count relented. The little girl was at last admitted into the school for cleves at the opera, and And then the young girl went abroad and sang on foreign shores, and to foreign people. She charmed Denmark, she charmed Germany, she charmed England. She was carressed and counted every where, even to adulation. At the courts of kings, at the houses of the great and noble, she art. was feasted as one of the grandees of nature and She was covered with laurels and jewels. But friends wrote of her," In the midst of these splendors she only thinks of her Sweden, and yearns for her friends and her people." One dusky October night, crowds of people (the most part, by their dress, seeming to belong to the upper classes of society,) thronged on the shore of the Baltic harbor at Stockholm. All looked toward the sea. There was a rumor of expectance and pleasure. Hours passed away, and the crowds still gathered and waited, and looked out cagerly towards the sea. At length a brilliant rocket rose joyfully, far out at the entrance of the harbor, and was greeted by a general buzz on the shore. There she comes! there she is!" A large steamer now came thundering on, making its triumphant way through the flocks of ships and boats lying in the harbor, toward the shore of the " Skeppsbro." Flashing rockets marked its way in the dark as it advanced. The crowds on the shore pressed forward as if to meet it. Now the leviathan of the waters was heard thundering nearer and nearer, now it relented, now again pushed on, foaming and splashing, now it lay still. And there, on the front deck, was seen by the light of lamps and rockets, a pale, graceful young woman, with eyes brillant with tears, and lips radiant with smiles, waving her handkerchief to her friends and countrymen on the shore. It was she again-our poor, plain, neglected little girl of former days-who now came back in triumph to her fatherland. But no more poor, no more plain, no more neglected. She had become rich, she had become celebrated, and she had in her slender person the power to charm and inspire multitudes. slightly shadowed out; the expected guest, the MISCELLANY. A DALECALNIAN LOVE STORY. "What a field would there have been here for He went to the still unmar. ried, the still beloved Anna, and told her the wish And she answered, of his late wife, and his own. "The young man obeyed the exhortations of the serious damsel, obeyed that of duty, he married Kerstin; and, as they were both truly good and excellent people, they were happy together. They lived happily together for four years, and had three children, when the wife died. But as she lay on her death-bed she said to her husband, I would ask one thing of thee, and that is, that thou, after my death, wilt marry Anna, who was once, and is still, dear to thee, and who, I know, still loves Some days later, we read in the papers of Stock-thee, and that thou makest no other the mother of holin, an address to the public, written by the be- { my children.' "The husband mourned sincerely for his wife; loved singer, stating with noble simplicity that, as she once more had the happiness to be in her native but, when the customary period of mourning hađ land, she would be glad to sing again to her coun-expired, it was not difficult for him to endeavor to trymen, and that the income of the operas in which fulfill her last prayer. she was this season to appear, would be devoted to raise a fund for a school where eleves for the theatre would be educated to virtue and knowledge.The intelligence was received as it deserved, and of course the opera-house was crowded every time the beloved singer sang there. The first time she again appeared in the "Somnambula,” (one of her favorite roles,) the public, after the curtain dropped, called her back with great enthusiasm, and receiv. roar of "hured her, when she appeared, with a rahs." In the midst of the burst of applause, a clear, melodious warbling was heard. The hur. rahs were hushed instantly. And we saw the lovely singer standing with her arms slightly extended, somewhat bowing forward, graceful as a bird on its branch, warbling, warbling as no bird ever did, from note to note-and on every one a clear, strong, soaring warble-until she fell into the retournelle of her last song, and again sang that joyful and touching strain: "No thought can conceive how I feel at my heart." She has now accomplished the good work to which her latest songs in Sweden have been devoted, and she is again to leave her native land to sing to a far remote people. She is expected this year in the United States of America, and her arrival is welcomed with a general feeling of joy.— All have heard of her whose history we have now • Thou art still as dear to me as formerly, and wil- "And by that reply Anna stood fast, spite of all "Quite distracted came the young man one day to me, and implored my counsel, and begged me to talk with the girl, and to endeavor to persuade her to become his wife. "To seek to persuade her I cannot promise thee,' I said, for in so solemn an affair a woman should make her resolve in freedom; but speak with her I will, and tell her what I think and ad. vise in the matter.' I sent to the young woman, talked with her of her future duties, and succeeded in pacifying her all-too sensitive conscience. Soon afterwards I had the pleasure of uniting the two lovers. It "A few years afterwards I came on an official "Then what in thunder do they call ?" you "Well, Ragged-tailed Bill Hoss, what time of day was this you speak of!" "I don't know egzakly; about ten miles after sunrise." "I hope the court will oblige this witness to answer my question." Court." Bill, explain to the gentleman what you mean." "Well, I had drove ten miles since sunrise, and we go about two miles and a half an hour; let him find it out by his larning." "What business does plaintiff follow ?" "I don't know any such a man." "What, don't know what plaintiff means." "No, no more nor you knows what time of day ten miles after sunrise is." The laugh began to be against the counsel, but he brightened up, and made fight again. "Now tell me, Bill, where all this happened?" GETTING THE WORTH OF THE MONEY. WE heard a good one of a green sprig from the Emerald Isle, who the other day entered a boot and shoe store in Lowell to purchase himself a pair of "brogans." After overhauling his stock in trade without being able to suit his customer, the shopkeeper hinted that he could make him a pair to order. "An' wha-what will yer ax to make a good pair iv 'em?" was the query. The price was named; the man demurred, but after a "batin' down," the thing was a trade. Phelan was about { leaving the store, when the other called after him, asking—" But what size shall I make them, sir ?" "Och," cried he, promptly, "niver mind about size, at all—make them as large as ye convenient. ly can for the money. WATCH THE ENTRANCE. pas Ir is related of Louis XI. of France that he was one of the shrewdest of monarchs in gaining over to his purposes men of the most opposite characters. He acted constantly on the maxim that the sions of men are so many roads open by which they may be taken captive, and the first question he was accustomed to ask concerning any one whom he wished to win, was, "What does he take plea. sure in ?" Human nature is the same key unlooks the avenues to the heart.-Find out the man's chief pleasure, and you know how to approach and cun. trol him. And where is the man who has not some chosen pleasure which watches to play the part of a Deliah? Ambition, vanity, avarice, the love of ease, sensual appetite, and various other characteristices, are the avenues through which the soul is approached, made captive and destroyed. Let us see to it, each one for himself, that none of these besetments and weakness succeed in handing us over in bonds to our Philistine foes. Who among us, if he saw a suspicions person examining the entrances to his dwelling, would not take care to leave no unguarded access. Much more when the enemies of our soul's peace and purity are seeking entrance to our heart, should we set a double watch. Let us put to ourselves the decisive question, "What do we take pleasure in ?" And as the answer indicates our weak place, there let a double sentry be posted. A DELIGHTED MOTHER. A MOTHER who was in the habit of asking her children, before they retired at night, what they had done through the day to make others happy, found her young twin daughters silent. One spoke modestly of deeds and dispositions founded on the golden rule, "Do unto others, as you would that they should do unto you." Still those little bright faces were bowed down in serious silence. The question was repeated. “I can remember nothing all this day, dear mother; only, one of my school-mates was happy, because she had gained the head of the class, and I smiled on her, and ran to kiss her, so she said I was good. This is all, dear mother." had repeatedly dreamed that a certain number was "Well, Molly, two happy events in one day. Molly, who thought he was beginning to banter the old subject, replied "Don't say any more about that. I thought how it would be, I never should hear the end on't, so I sold it to the baker at a guinca- profit-so you needn't make any more fuss about that." A farmer dropped in here a few days since, to pay his rent, putting on a long face to correspond with the times. On entering the house, he told his landlord that times being so bad, he couldn't raise the money at all, and dashing a bundle of bank notes on the table: the body from whom they parted; and this persecuting spirit arose, not only from the bitterness of retaliation, but from the merciless policy of fears. It was long before the spirit of true piety and true wisdom, involved in the principles of the Reformation, could be depurated with the dregs and feculence of the contention with which it was car. ried through. However, until this be done, the Reformation is not complete; and those who think themselves good Protestants, from their aninosity to others, are, in that respect, no Protestants at all. MAXIMS. WHEN flatterers meet the devil goes to dinner, We never now the worth of water till the well is dry. To whom you betray your secrets, you give your liberty.-Italian. Wealth is not his who gets it, but his who enjoys it. When a man is not liked, whatever he docs is amiss. Who will not keep a penny, will never have many. We are bound to be honest but not to be rich. MY WIFE-IN-LAW. "Going to 46 There," said he, "that's all I can pay." "GOING the wrong way, John," cried a young The money was taken up and counted by mechanic to his friend, as he met him in the street. Mr. the landlord, who said-"Why, this is twice as much as you owe!" "Dang'ee, give it to me again," said the farmer, "I'm dashed if I ain't took it out of the wrong pocket!" REFORMATION. "Got hungry," rejoined the other. "No! but she don't know how to cook.-Yesterday she boiled the lettuce and radish, and dished the turnips raws; this morning the eggs were cooked as hard as butter; if they would go into my two-barreled gun, I could shoot crows with them. An ever since I was married I have lain under the inverdict of the children of Israel in the wilderness. I have had no leavened bread." THE Condition of our nature is such that we buy our blessings at a price. The Reformation, one of the human improvement, was a time of trouble and confusion. The vast structure of superstition and tyranny, which had been for ages in rearing, and "Well John, I am in the same predicament.which was combined with the interest of the great Lucy don't know how to cook, so I tried it yesterand of the many; which was moulded into the day, but had no luck; and she says she'll try laws, the manners, and civil instutions of nations, to learn, and I shall send her forth-with one quartand blended with the frame and policy of states, er to school to my mother, for I verily believe that could not be brought to the ground without a fear-half I carry into the house is wasted." ful struggle: nor could it fall without a violent concusion of itself and all about it. When this great revolution was attempted in a more regular mode by goverment, it was opposed by plots and seditions of the people; when by popular efforts, it was repressed as rebellion by the hand of power; and bloodly executions (often bloodily returned) marked the whole of its progress through all its stages. The affairs of religion, which are no longer heard of in the tumult of our present contentions, made a principle ingredient in the wars and politics of that time; the enthusiasm of religion threw a gloom over the politics; and political interests poisoned and perverted the spirit of religion upon all sides. The Protestant religion, in that violent struggle, infec. MATRIMONIAL SPECULATION. ted, as the Poqish had been before, by wordly inSOME years ago, when the world was mad upon terests and worldly passions, became a persecutor lotteries, the cook of a middle-aged gentlemen drew in its turn, sometimes of the new sects, which carfrom his hands the savings of some years.-Herried their own principles further than it was conmaster, curious to know the cause, learned that she venient to the original reformers; and always of The other spoke still more timidly; "A little girl, who sat by me on the bench at school, has lost a little brother, I saw that, while she studied her lesson, she hid her face in her book, and wept; I felt sorry, and laid my face on the same book, and wept with her. Then she looked up and was comforted, and put her arms around my neck, but I do not know why she said I had done her good." "Come to my arms, my darling!" said the mother, "to rejoice with those that rejoice and weep with those that weep, is to obey our blessed Redeemer." "If your wife is willing to learn you'll do well enough, and are a happy man. You have a wife, whereas I've only a wife-in law, for a women who takes no interest in her husband's welfare is not a wife indeed, or a wife in need. She is only a wife. in-law. Emma is'nt willing to learn to cook or mend either. She says her mother told her it was quite vulgar now-a-days to knows any things about domestic concerns, especially for a young wife. That the latest fashions is for wives to be ladies, and have their servants. That she must tell John she was not made to be a drudge, and he must not be so selfish as to want her to work.Fine times these, George. A man that don't stand ready to support his wife, two or three attendants, and as much company, in extravagance, is directly a niggard. Don't know what will be done Men can't all be thriving business men and become independent at once; we must have some laborers and they, poor mer, must all take the I had a little place when I was married, but it's mortgaged now, and now I must not open my mouth to say a word. If I do, I am a niggard, and want a wife on purpose to do my drudgery. VERY EXPLICIT. "Thomas a Becket may have inherited a romantic turn of mind from his mother, whose story is a singular one. His father, Gilbert Becket, a flourA YANKEE riding up to a Dutchman, exclaim- ishing citizen, had been in his youth a soldier in the crusades, and being taken prisoner. Became slave "Well, stranger, for acquaintance sake, what to an Elmir, or Saracen prince. By degrees he might be your name ?" ed: obtained the confidence of his master, and was ad "Vy my name ish Hauns Hollenbeffenheffen-mitted to his company, where he met a person who graeffensteinerpurg." "Cape Cod! It's as long as a pumpkin vine! Well, I haint no time to lose-I'm on a speculation. Tell me the way to Harrisburg." became more attached to him. This was the Elmir's daughter. Whether by her means or not does not appear, but after some time he contrived to escape. The lady with her loving heart followed him. "To Harrisburg? Vell, you see dat roat 'pun te She know, they say, but two words of his language, hill ?" pointing the direction. London and Gilbert, and by repeating the former, she obtained a passage in a vessel, arrived in Eng. "Vell you must not take dat roat. You see dat land and found her trusting way to the metroplis. roat py te coal pank?" "Oh yes, I see it." "Yes." "Vell dat ish not de roat too, put you must go right py te parn, and ven you see one road crooks jist so, (bending his elbow and describing it at the same time) and ven you git dere keep along till you gits fudder. Vell, den you vil turn de potato patch round te pridge over te river up the stream and te hil up, and tirecly you see my podder Fritz's parn, shinkled mit straw, tats te house mine podder lives. He'll tel you so petter as I can. And you go on a little pit fudder, and you see two roats -you musn't take boat ov um." "But you say, Must close on Saturday.' "To be sure; you would not have me open on Sunday, would you?" She then took to her other talisman and went from A COUNTRYMAN was very sick, and was not expected. to recover. His friends got around his bed, and one of them says-" John, do you feel willing to die?" John" made an effort” to give his views on the subject, and answered with a feeble voice"I think I'd rather, stay-where- I'm better acquainted." The Rural Repository. SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1850. THE CELEBRATION. THE 4th of July was celebrated with uncommon spirit, in this city-the military display was exceedingly fine. The streets were thronged with strangers from the country. The The day passed off very pleasantly, and the procession was conducted with the greatest order and precision-On no former occasion have we noticed so few accidents, so little disorder, or rowdeyism. The procession proceeded to the Court House, where a suitable oration was delivered on the occasion, by the Hon. John T. Hogeboom. The display of Fire Works in the evening was brilliantFrom eight to nine in the evening we enjoyed an elevated position in the observatory of a high building, in a central part of the city, where we could survey the whole scene of pyrotechnic splendor many miles around. The whole sky seemed to be filled with balls of flame, of all conceivable shapes, sizes and colors, whirling in all directions above and around, while the roar of crackers beneath, and the dazzling glare of the streets far down, made up a mixture of sight and sound almost to go through every street, brought her at last to the painful, by its intensity, to both eye and ear. dal bed, his far come princess with her solitary fond word." INNOCENCE and virtue, though totally different, are often mistaken for the same thing.-Innocence is hardly to be found in this world our specimens of it are to be seen in the lamb, the dove, the infant; it consists of ignorance of evil. Virtue is alone attained through a knowledge of good and evil, and determined strife against the latter in all its forms. The innocence of this world may often go astray from very ignorance. Virtue knows both the good and evil path, but adheres to the former, Virtue then is by far the noblest attainment of the two. “My boy,” said a wag to a sharp featured little SUMMER. How beautiful and calm is the first burst of the invigorating appearance of Summer; the green fields are dyed in their natural color-the shrubbery is sending its sweet odor upon every passing breeze -the feathery tribe is delighting all nature with its sweet tones of melody. Upon every side the gladsome echo is heard, proclaiming contentment and happiness to the dwellers of our bountiful land. The mind is fascinated and the eye is dazzled. Summer; it is indeed a theme for contemplation, Now gaze on Nature-yet the same- Fresh in her youth, from God's own hand. The general blessing; fresh and fair As glad the common joy to share. With trembling drops of light is hung. DOCT. GOODRICH'S MEDICINES.. urchin, with a saucy twitching of the muscles of had at the Book Store of E. P. L. ELMER, and N. J. CADY'S A CLERGYMAN happening to get wet, was standA curious scheme this to entice, if not to entrap, before the session-room fire to dry his clothes, and the unwary. Letters Containing Remittances, MARRIAGES. In this city, on the 23d ult. by the Rev. Leroy Church, Mr. Henry Titus to Miss Elizabeth Hollenbeck. By the same, and on the same day, Mr. Alex. B. Meesick to Miss Mary Squires. On the 20th ult by the Rev. Polhemus Van Wyck, Mr. Franklin S. Ford. of Canaan, to Miss Mary Jane, daughter of Robert R. Hallenbeck, Esq of Greenport. At Kinderhook, on the 13th ult. by William Kip, Esq. Richard Pruyn, of Stuyvesant, to Sarah Ann Hicks, of Kinderhook. DEATHS. In this city, on the 28th ult, after a brief tllness, Ellen D. McKown, wife of John C. Campbell, Esq. and daughter of the late Hon. James McKown, of New-York. www |