need some allowance; you yourself, old comrade, acknowledged this but a short time since." "My colonel," rejoined Maurice, speaking very low," it is a trick of war. Ah! ah!" said he, coughing again; "when I see my own son angry with his, I feign to be in a still greater passion, and by this stratagem peace is soon re-established amongst us." "And it is one, colonel that I wonld now no sooner forsake, than I would have done that which I held formerly." I believe it. In what engagement were you thus maimed?" strange expression to his face. A glass eye, in! At this moment the group had arrived at the entrance of a long gallery, which was only imperfectly lighted by reflectors; here father Maurice stopped.tary salute, and then interupting his father, with "Dost thou not see Cyprien ?" asked he, gently admirable presence of mind he said to him pleasantly, of his son. "No, father," answered he, in a sad tone, and looking around him. "I warrant the rogue has obtained permission to go to bed without saying anything to us about it." 66 Suppose," said Napoleon, in a composed man. ner to the veteran," that, as this M Cyprien has proved truant, I should supply his place? Let us go on, your son and I will assist you to mount the stairs; the wind blows fresh, and at your age it is not well to mount guards by starlight." "Oh, upon watch at Hochstett, in the time of his late majesty Louis 14th, I have stood sentinel six hours at a time, before the enemy's lines, and at a half gunshot of the sentinels of the Duke of Marlborough. The corporal made me forgetful of every thing." Corporals were very capable of doing that in the days of Marlborough," said Napoleon, smiling ; "but you had a hundred years less then than now, and that, you will allow, makes a difference." "Ah! colonel," said Maurice, attempting to disengage his arm, which Napoleon would not allow him to do. "Well, well, father," said Jeronie, "since the colonel desires to show you this kindness, profit by it. The wind is rising; you have coughed much already-beware of the tisan to-morrow." The old man, leaning upon his son, suffered himself to be conducted by the emperor, and they had already ascended some steps of the staircase leading from the gallery, when Jerome called out, There he is !" "Cyprien?" inquired Maurice. • Yes, father,” replied Jerome, muttering between his teeth the epithets," Vagabond, villain!" "Do not scold him too much," resumed Maurice, gently," do not scold him too much; he could not come any sooner." "Where do you see this Monsieur Cyprien ?" inquired Napolcon. { 46 Napoleon smiled at this remark, and said. "The battle of Fleures, did not that take place on the 26th June, 1794 ?" 66 Yes, colonel, and it was warmer there than it is here, I will answer for it." "That was since the time of Bonaparte," said Maurice. "Grandfather," said Cyprien, with animation, say, if you please, the Emperor Napoleon the Great-these are his baptismal names, and thus he is always called in the Hotel." Papa papa! be calm you should not judge without hearing, as the illustrious Dugommier, my old general, used to say. I was not here, it is true, when I was called, but listen to me. I have no. ticed that when grandpapa has passed, as he has done to-day, a great part of his time at the chapel repeating his ancient prayers and catechism, a glass of wine more than common strengthens him, and gives him natural legs with which to ascend to his dormitory. Ah! well, I who have only artificial legs, went to look for my chamber neighbor Godibert, that I might obtain from him his al. lowance in exchange for my mounting guard for him to-morrow, before the quarters of the marshal. Look! here it is, this cup of comfort! now com- Pray, grandfather, have done with that old plain if it gives you any pleasure, though I am monarch who made war only in his wig and silk really innocent. I am very sure that this time stockings," said Cyprien, impatiently, and pivograndpapa will not do me any injury." Saying ting upon one of his legs. "Your Louis 14th was these words, he drew from his pocket a wicker {a ribboned and plumed king, fit only to command covered bottle, and presented it to the veteran. Jerome did not answer, but Maurice, looking at his grandson with an affectionate expression, said to Jeroine, “Well, did I not tell thee that Cyprien was not to blame? But my child," added he, taking the bottle with a trembling hand," is there not here more than the usual quantity?" "Yes, like his late majesty Louis 14th." 66 the veterans of the camp of Venus; and would you compare him to Napoleon the emperor of France and king of Italy? Napoleon is truly a monarch, he wears boots, a great-coat short hair and a hat like our own! He is a genuine hero, made according to the regulations! is he not, colonel ?” At this question Napoleon drew down his eyebrows, and in that grave voice which gave laws to the world, said coldly, 66 "There is, grandpapa; my own fell into the bottle accidentally. You would not be very fat You mistake, M. Cyprien, Louis 14th was a with a single allowance?" and Cyprien, taking great monarch. It was he who elevated France from his pocket some bits of sugar and a crust of to the highest rank amongs, the nations of Europe; white bread, added, "I have profited by the op- he was the first who had 400,000 men on foot, and portunity of purchasing from the provision room of a hundred vessels on the sea. He added Rousillon, the infirmary, some of prohibited colonial supplies. Franche, Conite and Flanders to France; he seat. I will manufacture for you a fricassee, after theed one of his children upon the throne of Spain; and fashion of the parrots; this will be for your poor to conclude, he built the Hotel des Invalides. stomach, a little chilled by age, a genuine night-Since Charlemagne there has been no king of gown of Utrecht velvet." France that could compare with him." "It is well! it is well!" said Jerome, calmly; "but whilst waiting for you we have been sadly "Parbleu! down there, colonel, he is just be- embarrassed, and without the aid of the colonel, hind you." The emperor looked on all sides to see this bad boy, this vagabond, this undutiful child, and he perceived, at a distance, only one of the Invalids, whose silver chin shone in the light of the moon, and who approached them as quickly as two wooden legs would permit. This was a rascal, the villain, against whom the recriminations of two generations had been so oddly levelled. At the sight of this victim of war, Napoleon could not repress a sentiment of pity mixed with admira. tion. Invalid, No. 3. appeared to be sixty years of age; his countenance was horribly mutilated. Besides the chin with which the art of the silver smith had repaired his loss of that feature, he had a glass eye, the immovable glare of which gave a who kindly offered to assist my father; I do not Cyprien saluted the emperor again. At hearing Napoleon pronounce this eulogium upon a king, towards whom he felt a sort of adoration, the centenarian made an effort to hold himself erect, and with a glistening eye and a voice strengthened by feeling, 46 Bravo! bravo!" he cried; "oh, colonel, you are worthy of having served under his late majesty Louis 14th. In his time merit was appreciatedhe would have made you marshal of his camp." Cyprien, more rebuked by the tone in which Napoleon had expressed his thoughts than by the words of his grandfather, held down his head, attempted to excuse himself, stammering out, "Pardon me! excuse me, colonel, I never knew "The distance is not great, papa," resumed he, "and the road is good, it is all paved." Then raising for a moment his only eye, sparkling in the star-light, to the heavens: "This weather reminds me of the illustious Dugommier, my old general," then passing to the left of the old general, "I will now take my post of honor-it is enough." "Yes, M. Cyprien," said Napoleon, with-draw.grandpapa's king; I have only heard him spoken ing a little, for he had continued to support the of by the ancient comrades of the Hotel." grandfather whilst listening to the justification of Cyprien, "this place is truly to you a post of honor, which you may well be jealous of yielding to any one." sight which surrounded them with so much magnificence, and not say that Louis 14th has not given them a proof of his generosity and his power?" At this moment a strong light appeared at the other end of the building, and at the same time a mingled sounds of steps and voices was heard. Rapp approached, conducted by marshal Serrurier, accompanied by his staff officer, and by several of the Invalids who carried torches in their hands. [Concluded in our next.] ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. For the Rural Repository. BY ISAAC COBB. TRUE Friendship is a flower of perennial growth. It is an Amaranth expanding its petals to the glo. rious light of Youth's gentle summer. The winds of adversity may blow around it, the cold dews of affliction's night may descend upon it; but they cannot mar its quiet beauty, its unobtrusive elegance. Nay! though the pleasant Summer depart, resigning the sceptre and the crown, the blade and the sheaf, to the control of fair Autumn; though November's frosts cause the daughters of Flora to droop and languish in death, to restore their balmy spirits to the fountain that produced them; yet she, the superb, the enduring, will continue to delight the imagination and refresh the soul until the stern brow of Winter, the winter of age, shall frown upon the creations of Nature, and destroy with relentless hand the darlings of the poet. Oh Friendship! thou sister of Love, is there a mortal who has not experienced, ay! felt No! no! it was not such. Angels bright as the Clara feared that she, also, might be summoned "Amiable Maiden! worthy to be called the MISCELLANY. THE GOOD ANGELS. Papa hasn't come home yet," answered Ady. "No, dear, but it's getting late, and is time you were in bed. He may not be home for an hour." Ady laid aside her work and left the table, and Jane closed her books and put them away in her school-satchel. "You can light the little lamp on the mantlepiece," said Mrs. Freeman, after a few moments, and looking around as she spoke, she saw the children had both put on their bonnets, and were tying their warm capes close about their necks. She un Sylva Forester and Clara Linton were friends, friends in the most enlarged sense of the term. Socy needle-work. devotedly attached to each other were they, that the united artifice of enemies could not sever the ties which bound mind to mind, spirit to spirit.From the dawn of the golden morning to the time of the rosy evening, they were wont to be together. They read, sang, played, for one another. To the touch of their fingers strain of unrivalled harmony responded from the strings of the glorious harp, or from the wires of the full-toned Piano. Mozart would have admired their skill, and Beethoven would have been enraptured by the sweetness of their voices. But most of all, they excelled inderstood well the meaning of this, and therefore did deeds of benevolence. Not a day passed which witnessed not these "Sisters of Charity," in the act of relieving the pains of the distressed, or min. istering to the wants of indigence. Rich were their hearts with sympathy, and oft stole the tear adown their cheeks when they beheld the suffering And the two little ones went out, before. their writhing with agonies which they could not alle-mother, whose feelings were choking her, could say viate. not ask a question, although the tears came to her "It is very cold out to-night, children." pressure, hurried on the way they were going as fast as their little feet could move. The streets were dark and deserted, but the children were not afraid. Love filled their hearts, and left no room for fear. They did not speak a word to each other as they hastened along. After going for a distance of several blocks, they stopped before a house, over the door of which was a handsome ornamental gas lamp, bearing the words, "Oysters and Refresh ments." It was a strange place for two little girls like them to enter, and at such an hour; but after standing for a moments, they pushed against the green door, which turned lightly on its hinges, and stepped into a large and brilliantly lighted bar room. "Bless me!" exclaimed a man who sat reading at a table," here are those babes again." Ady and Jane stood still near the door, and looking around the room. But not seeing the object of their search, they went up to the bar, and said timidly to a man who stood behind it, pouring liquor into glasses "Has papa been here to-night?" The man leaned over the bar, until his face was close to the children, and said in an angry way'I don't know anything about your father. And see here! don't you come here any more. If you do, I'll call my big dog out of the yard and make him bite you." Ady and Jane felt frightened, as well by the harsh manner as the angry words of the man, and they turned back from him, and were turning to. wards the door with sad faces, when the person who had first remarked their entrance, called loud enough for them to hear him "Come here, my little girls." The children stopped and looked at him, when he beckoned for them to approach, and they did so. "Are you locking for your father?" he asked. "Yes, sir," replied Ady. "What did the man at the bar say to you?" "He said that papa wasn't here; and that if we came any more, he would set his dog on us." "He did " "Is he?" And the children's faces brightened. "Yes, he's at the other side of the room. I'll wake him for you." Half intoxicated, and sound asleep, it was with some difficulty that Mr. Freeman could be aroused. As soon, however, as his eyes were fairly open, and he found Ada and Jane had each grasped one of his hands, he rose up, and yielding passively to their direction, suffered them to lead him away. "O, dear," exclaimed a man who had looked on with wonder and deep interest. "That's a temad-perance lecture that I can't stand. God bless the little ones," he added, with emotion," and give a word. As they closed the door after them, and Alas! they, too, became fit objects of sympathy. Consumption, that perpetual adversary of Health, deprived them of their joy. Sylva was the victim. "God bless and reward the dear children!" Daily she became more delicate, more beautiful, It was a bleak winter night, and as the little to appearance; yet it was a frail beauty, a tender ventures stepped into the street, the wind swept delicateness, ah! too much so, long to last.fiercely along, and almost drove them back into the Death, Death, Death, the insatiable monster, laid door. But they caught each other tightly by the his hand upon her brow! Monster, did I say?-hands, and bending their little forms to meet the them a sober father." "I guess you never saw them before," said one of the bar-keepers, lightly. "No; and I never wish to again, at least in this who have shown in so wonderfully a manner their place. Who is their father ?" "Freeman, the lawyer." "Not the one who, a few years ago, conducted with so much ability, the case against the Marine Insurance Company?" "The same." A little group now formed around the man, and a good deal was said about Freeman and his fall from sobriety. One who had several times seen Ady and Jane come in and lead him home as they had just done, spoke of them with much feeling, and all argued that it was a most touching scene. "To see," said one," how passively he yields himself to the little things when they come after him. I feel sometimes, when I see them, almost weak enough to shed tears. "They ate his good angels," remarked another. "But I'm afraid they are not strong enough to lead him back to the paths he has forsaken." love for you, conjure you to rise up superior to this act. Half bewildered, though with a new hope in his heart, Freeman arose, and suffered the man, who drew his arm within his, to lead him away. Before they seperated, both had signed the pledge. have different interests. He labors for you! He lives for you. His interests are in your welfare.His honor is in your progress; his happiness is in your highest good. If you could disturb his plans, and hinder his success, you would triumph in your own defeat. You must not tempt others to do wrong. It is enough to lose advantages for one's self; to fail of the great ends of all education. To be the occasion of misleading and injuring another-to set about corrupting an innocent mind-to lure a guileless, confiding child from the path of purity— to estrange an affectionate nature from the love of truth and the sacred endearments of home-there is deep, deep guilt in this unnatural, malignaħt in That evening, unexpectedly, and to the joy of To you let me say, be punctual. If a scholar is late, the whole school is disturbed; his own progress is interrupted; the order of the day is interfered with; and what is worst of all, a habit of "You will never have to come for me again." The children then lifted their eyes quickly to his face, but half understanding what he meant. "I will never go there again," he added; "I punctuality is not formed-a habit essential to the always stay at home with you." Ada and Jane, now comprehending what their father meant, overcome with joy, hid their faces in his lap and wept for very gladness. "You can think what you please about it, gen-will tleman," spoke up the landlord," but I can tell you my opinion upon the subject: I wouldn't give much for the mother who would let two little things like them go wandering about the streets alone at this time of night." One of them who had expressed an interest in the children, felt angry at these remarks, and he restored with some bitterness. "And I would think less of the man who would make their father drunk!" "Ditto to that," responded one of the company. "And here's my hand to that," said another. The landlord finding that the majority of his company were likely to be against him, smothered his angry feelings, and kept silence. A few minutes afterwards, two or three of the inmates of the bar.room went away. About ten o'clock on the next morning, while Mr. Freeman, who was generally sober in the fore part of the day, was in his office, a stranger entered, and after sitting down, said: "I must crave your pardon beforehand for what I am going to say. Will you promise me not to be "I was at Lawsan's refrectory last night." "Well ?" "And I saw something there that touched my heart. If I slept at last night, it was only to dream of it. I am a father, sir; I have two little girls, and I love them tenderly. O, sir! the thought of their coming out, in the cold winter night, in search of me, in such a polluted place, makes the blood feel cold in my veins." Words so unexpected, coming upon Mr. Freeman when he was comparatively sober, disturbed him deeply. In spite of all his endeavors to remain calm, he trembled all over. He made an effort to say something in reply, but he could not utter a word. My dear sir," pursued the stranger," you have fallen at the hand of the monster intemperance, and I feel that you are in great peril. You have not, however, fallen hopelessly. You may yet rise, if you will. Let me, in the name of the sweet babes success and happiness of life. "A LITTLE TOO LATE" is a fit motto to be inscribed upon the tombstones of half the unfortunate in the business of this world, and of more than half who fail of the Low us all this had been said, every word reach-happiness of the future. Take pains to comply exactly with the regula tions of the school. Do not take for granted, that what is required is unreasonable. Confide in the teacher; respect the opinions he has deliberately formed; suffer him to rule within the sphere of his duty. Be not in haste to advance. Cultivate carefully the ground you go over; be sure you obtain dis. With a cry of joy, she sprang to his side, and his arins encircled his wife, as well as his children, in a fonder embrace than they had known for years.tinct, clear ideas; and dwell upon a thing till you The children's love had saved their father. They were indeed his good angels. ADVICE FOR THE YOUNG. master it. Then, and not till then, you may safe. ly advance. Let others be in this class or that, upon this or the other study, using such and such books, it matters not to you; if you are not prepared for them they are not the class, or the study, or the books for you; to be put into them would only embarrass or confuse you, and tend to defeat the best objects of a good education. For, next to not knowing anything, and, I have thought some. times, worse than not knowing anything, is the crude half knowledge of persons who have been urged forward faster than they are qualified to go. Carrying a burden, too big for one's leg may make CHARACTERISTICS OF AUTHORS. You must not be ashamed to be polite. A You must not find your best pleasures away BY E. P. WHIPPLE. JOHN DRYDEN, had a clear perception of moral truth, and no natural desire to injure species. He was an eminent professional author, during the reign of Charles II. The time in which he lived was one of great depravity of manners. The public was ravenous for the witty iniquities of the brain; and, to use the energetic invective of South, laid hold of brillant morsels of sin, with fire and brimstone flaming around them, and thus, as it were, digested death itself and made a meal upon perdition. * Dryden was placed in this age, and for a long period of his life, was its pandar and parasite. The author of Alexander's Feast condescended to write You must not take pleasure in inflicting pain. comedies, whose ferocious licentiousness astounds It is the spirit of the devil. and bewilders the modern reader. Yet had he lived You must not imagine that you and your teacher in the reign of George III, Le would not have been No one can filly reverence Milton, who has not studied the character of the age of Charles II, in which his latter fortunes were cast. He was Dryden's contemporary in time, but not his master or disciple in slavishness. He was under the anathema of power: a republican, in days of abject servility; a Christian among men whom it would be charity to call infidels; a man of pure life and high principles among sensualistists and renegagades. On nothing earthly could he lean for support. In his own domain of imagination, perhaps the greatest poet that ever lived, he was still doomed to see such pitiful and stupid poetasters as Shadwell and Settle bear away the shining rewards of letters. Well might he declare that he had fallen upon evil times. The genius of Milton is indeed worthy of all the admiration we award narvellous intellectual mental endowments; how.much more do we venerate the whole man, when we find it riveted to that high and hardy moral courage, which makes his naine thunder rebuke to all power that betrays freedom, to all genius that is false to virtue! Dante, Schiller, Shelley, Milton-poets, heroes, martyrs -must the mournful truth be forced from our reluctant lips : * "Their mighty spirits, * Lie raked up with their ashes in their urns, And not a spark of their immortal fire Glows in a present bosom." * WHERE THEY LEARN IT. "I DON'T See it where my children learn such things," is one of the most common phrases in a mother's vocabulary. A little incident, which we happened to be an eye-witness to, may perhaps help to solve the enigma. We smiled a little at the time, but we have thought a good deal of it since, and we trust not without profit. Bub," screamed out a little bright-eyed girl, somewhat under six years of age, to a youngster who was seated on the curb-stone, making hasty pudding of the mud in the gutter, "Bub, you good-for-nothing little scamp, you come right into the house this minute, or I'll beat you till the skin comes off." Why, Angelina, Angelina, dear, what do you mean? where did you learn such talk? exclaimed her mother, in a wondering tone, as she stood on the steps, courtesying to a friend. Angelina looked up very innocently, and answered, "Why mother, you see we are playing. and he's my little boy, and I am scolding him, just as you did me this morning, that's all." SONG. OH, marry the man you love, girls, if you can get him at all; if he is as rich as Cresus, or as poor as Job in his fall. Pray, do not marry for pelf, girls-'twill bring your souls into thrall; but marry the man you love, girls, if his purse be ever so small. Oh, never marry a fop, girls, whether he's little or tall; he will make a fool of himself client but whether the court considered the authorand you-he knows nothing well but to drawl.-ity sufficient we have not yet learned. But marry a sober man, girls, there are but few on this ball; and you'll never rue the day, girls, that you ever married at all. OMNIBUS POLITENESS. THE following extraordinary instance of politeness on the part of an omnibus conductor, is related by Pasquin. The omnibus is in progress, when-the following dialogue takes place: Passenger Stop at two thousand three hundred and thirty-four. Conductor-All right, sir! (Omnibus pulls up in the middle of a dirty street.) Here you are, sir. Two thousand three hundred and thirty-four! P.-Drive a little closer to the pavement. C.-(To the driver, but in a voice loud enough to be heard by every one inside)-You must pull up werry close to the kerb, Bill, as the gentleman cleans his own boots. DOGS AND MEN. WE overheard two gentleman in mustachios, as they walked Broadway, talking about that dog who committed suicide by springing from the fire tower recently. One remarked that the dog must have been insane to commit an act so singular, to which the other responded historically, saying, “ I remember reading that a man once jumped from the Duke of York's tower in England, and killed him sell." "No soup for me," said the gent. "But you have it," said Barney; it is the rules of the house." "Confound the house," exclaimed the guest highly exasperated; "when I don't want soup I won't eat it-get along with you." "Well," said Barney, with solemnity, “ all I can say is just this; it's the regulations of the house, and blow the drop else ye'll get till ye finish the soup!" The traveller gave in, and the soup was gobbled. "Mr. Smith, account of Brown, Jones & Thomp. "Brown! What Brown is son, this morning?" that?" "Bill Brown," said the collector, as he poked his account under the nose of the aforesaid Smith. "Oh, that's very likely," said the first," I can see how a man might commit such an act, but for "AINT you afraid you will break while falling a dog to make such a fool of himself, is incompre-so?" said a chap in the pit of a circus to a clown. hensible."-N. Y. Paper, AN ABSTRACTED MAN. "Why so?" said the latter." Because you are a tumbler," rejoined the wag. The clown fainted. OLD bachelors do not live as long as other men. They have nobody to mend their clothes and darn their stockings. They catch cold, and there is nobody to make them sage tea, consequently they ONE who puts the boot fitting the right foot on the left, ties a stocking about his neck for a hand. kerchief, comes in collision with people as he passes through crowded streets, mistakes servant girls for their mistress, goes into an eating house, gets a hearty meal, and walks out without paying the bar-drop off. keeper, lights a segar with a one dollar bill, lends his money to his friends and forgets which of them borrowed it, gives his wife all the money she desires, and never asks how she is a going to spend it, is indifferent whether he has any buttons on his shirt or not, and don't complain if his collars are not properly starched. NEW LEGAL AUTHORITIES. AT the trial of a recent case before a Justice of the Peace in New Orleans, recently, some rather novel authorities were cited by one of the learned counsel;-"The court will observe," said he, " that in the case of Shylock vs. Antonio, though judgment stances prevented the execution which had issued was rendered in favor of the plaintiff, yet circum from being carried into effect." "What case did the court understand the gentleman to refer to ?" asked the magistrate, slightly puzzled." Shylock vs. Antonio, 2d. Shaks., p, 235, Johnson's edition. The court will there find the case reported in full. The next authority is of rather more ancient date. It is the case of the King vs. Shadrach, et la., 1st Daniel's Reports, p. 155." The learned counsel went on to apply the cases to that of his Letters Containing Remittances, Received at this Ofice, ending Wednesday last, deductin the amount of postage paid. Miss H. L. Whitesides Corners, N. Y. $4,00; W. C. J. Kocomo, Ind. $1,00. MARRIAGES. In this city, on the 5th of June, by the Rev. Mr. Tuttle. Mr. Wm. B. Coleman, of New-York, to Miss Cornelia B. Allen, of this city. In this city, on the 27th ult. by the Rev. H. Darling, Mr. James Killmer of Claverack, to Miss Margaret Irwin, of Hudson. In this city, by the Rev. Dr. Gosman, W. H. Hollenbeck to Elizabeth Mittereggar both of Hudson. On the 25th ult. by Rev. Mr. Marks, Mr. John Macy, to Miss Mary Finks both of this city. By the Rev. Dr. Gosman Mr. Sylvester Kline to Miss Catharine Lasher. both of Germantown. At Mellenville on the 29 h uit. by the Rev. Mr. Himrod, Mr. Charles Platner of this city, to Miss Lucy Phillip, of Mellenville. DEATHS. aged 1 year, 9 mouths and 19 days. In this city, John L. son of Lewis B. and Harriet E. Curtiss, At Niver Ville, Columbia county, on the 10th inst. Thomas T. Lightbody, in the 25th year of his age. At Taghkanic, on the 8th inst. Jane, wife of Robert A. Roraback aged 31 years. At Spencerport, Monroe Co. Aug. 3d, Mr Moses Y. West, aged 38 years, son of the late David West, of this city. At Claverack, on the 2d rust. John A. Stow, aged 19 years, 3 months and 9 days. Original Poetry. For the Rural Repository. BY ISAAC COBB. THE last of the Roses of Summer is blooming, The tints she is gnyly and proudly assuming, Oh! seek for the region where blossom the flowers, Secure from decay; That ye may repose in the shade of the bowers, Which pass not away. The last of the roses of summer is blooming, And I am forlorn! The tints she is gayly and proudly assuming, Must fade ere the morn. Gorham, Maine, 1850. THE DOVE. THE following lines were composed by Miss Townsend, of Philadelphia, after hearing Edgar A. Poe's" Raven" readHer own situation of blindness and entire helplessness is most touchingly alluded to, and the contrast in the spirit of the two poems is very striking.-Vt Chronicle. 'Twas midnight! solemn, dark und deep! And vainly I had courted sleep, When worn with pain, with anguish tossed, Hope, faith, and patience nearly lost, I heard a sound, a gentle sound, Breaking the solemn stillness round; A gentle, soft and murmuring sound, I hushed my breath!-again it came!- And strangely fraught with memories dear. A flood of clear and silver light Then burst upon my raptured sight, Filling my little chamber quite And in that light a bird was seen; Not "grim and black with stately mien." But purely white and beautiful, Than heathen God, and holier; "They tell me so," I faintly said, Why comes not comfort from above?" I started up "The world," I said, I would I were again a child, My wings are clipped, I cannot sonr, I strive to mount, but o'er and o'er My feeble wings I raise in vain I flutter, sink, and fall again!" In low, but earnest tones. the dove Shall past omissions be forgiven, I know, I feel, that "God is love!" THE OLD MAN'S CAROUSAL. DRINK! drink! to whom shall we drink? 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Marble Paper sides and Lettered on the Back, for $1,00 single, or Seven Copies for $5,00. The Postage on the Stitched Volumes, will be about 16 Cents; the Half Bound, 18 Cents to any part of the United States. We have also on hand any of the Volumes above mentioned bound in Double Volumes (two Vols. in one) for $2,00 single or Three Double Volumes for $4.50. These are bound in the neatest and most substantial manner. Postage about 40 Cts. each to any part of the United States. NOTICE.D The Medicines of the late DOCT. GOODRICH, may be had at E. P. L. ELMER'S Book Store, N. J. CADY'S Oyster Saloon and II. H. CRANDALL'S Drug and Chemical Store; also at the Rural Repository Office. DOCT. GOODRICH'S VEGETABLE OR BOTANIC MEDICINES, Prepared according to the Reformed or American Practice as adopted by the most Celebrated Botanic Physicians. The Botanic or Vegetable system of Medicine heals disease with remedies more in conformity with the intentions of nature and re-establishes health without destroying the source of life:-"If," says a respectable physician, "all the sick relieved and cured by the Reformed or Vegetable Practice could be assembled together, a fair statement of their cases and continuance of their diseases made out, I am convinced the world would be amazed at the multitude and the results; and at the victory obtained over sickness and death, so signal and triumphant." And may I not with propriety add. could all those who have been made the dupes of the Mercurial Practice be assembled together, and a fair statement of their cases and the mode of treatment to which they were subjected made out, I am constrained to think that very few would present sound and healthy constitutions. The world would be astonished at the multitudes with Exfoliated Bones, Ulcerated Gums, Carious Teeth, Swollen Tongues, Scrofulous Nodes. Feted Breath, Mercurial Eruptions, &c. Another Physician says. "I have one objection to the Botanic or Vegetable It gives me Practice-it destroys disease to soon. opportunity to make a bill." Perhaps this is an objectionbut a good one for the public. Any Person can tell when a Medicine gives them ease, as well as a Physician; and if they only know the name and dose of the medicine, and the nature of the disease, it is sufficient to perpetuate the fact. no These Medicines are prepared from the result of long experience and great research, and the materials have been I have availed collected from a great variety of sources. myself of all the information worth preserving, contained in every botanical publication which has issued from the press of this country, and the improvements I have made myself, after baving been for a number of years engaged in connection with my Father, one of the oldest Botanic Physicians in Massachusetts, and obtained a thorough knowledge of the Reformed or American Practice. (of which I can show satisfactory credentials.) wish to inform the Public generally, that I have opened an Office in connection with another person, for the sale of Botanic Medicines of all kinds, (not one boasted nostrum for all diseases,) but Medicines peculiarly adapted by nature for the cure of every curable disease, prepared and put up by myself in Bottles and Papers, with full printed directions for use, and warranted of the very best quality, among which are the following: SYRUPS.-The Vegetable Purifying or Alterative, Bowel Complaint and Vegetable Anti-Mercurial Syrups. CORDIALS.-Dysentery and Cholera Cordial, 3 kinds; Children's and The Mother's Relief or Female Cordials. ELIXIRS & TINCTURES.-German Anti-Bilious and Anti-Dyspeptic Elixir; Asthmatic or Anti-Spasmodic and Tonic Tinctures. COMPOUNDS & BITTERS-Diurectic and Aromatic Compounds; Restorative, Tonic and Compound Bitters. DROPS & BALSAMS.-Carminative, Anthelmintic, Vermifuge. Diuretic. Sudorific. Magic Toothache and Hut Drops; Pulmonary, Hungarian, and Cough Balsams; Anti-Spasmodic, Expectorant and German Cough Drops. LINIMENTS & SALVES.-Nerve and Rheumatic Liniments; Healing and Yellow Salves. OINTMENTS & PLASTERS.-Vegetable, Green and Discutient Ointments; Strengthening, Adhesive and fritating Plasters. POULTICE & POWDERS.-Compound Ulmus Poultice; Composition, Emetic and Cough Powders. VEGETABLE PILLS.-Anti-Bilious, Anti-Dyspeptic. Hepatic or Liver, Cough, Nervous, Stimulating and Female Pills. ESSENCES &c.-Wintergreen, Anise, Lemon, Cloves, Cinnamon, Peppermint and Hemlock Essences; Spirits of Camphor, Castor Oil and all kinds of Crude and Pulverized ROOTS and HERBS by the ounce or pound. |