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had, by the bright and terrible eyes, discovered the entertainment, But now, alas! there could Geraldi!

Waldemar instantly sprang from her detaining arms, and ran to the cottage; but Geraldi was al. ready fled! He had suspected that Ethelind had discovered him; and throwing off his woman's apparel, he, ready dressed for flight, jumped through a window near the bed, mounted the horse in readiness, and made his escape.

Waldomar was immediately surrounded by a band of friends, followers, and grateful peasantry offering to join in pursuit of the villain who had thus endeavoured to make an act of mercy the means of destroying the performer of it.

not be a greater contrast to the gaiety of their
guests, than that exhibited by the appearance of
Waldemar and Ethelind; and glad indeed were
they when the midnight bell sent all to their re-
spective habitations.

on the minds of all three; Geraldi had aimed that bullet, had failed, and would aim again! In an instant, therefore, Ethelind's brother flew out of the gates of the park, though hopeless of securing the assassin. But Waldemar, clasping his arms round Ethelind, and bending over her as she lay The morning rose-but not to them with that in powerless terror, unable to remove from the spot welcome brightness with which they had expected exclaimed,-" Now fire, barbarian, if you will!"— to greet it; for it awoke them to care, to anxiety, and awaited in helpless suspense the menacing deand to the painful consciousness that they were struction. But Geraldi, though prepared to fire again going to be involved in expenses which must again, had been forced to fly as soon as he had at length force them to those further retrenchments fired his first pistol, as he saw a troop of horse apin their mode of living, of which the imprisonment proaching at full speed, and had only just time to of Geraldi, had, they hoped, precluded the necessi-mount his fleet Arabian, and gallop into the neigh. "But surely my foe was kind there," said Ethe-ty. boring forests, to the safe shelter of the caverns lind, smiling through tears; "while engaged in an Ethelind, indeed, wished Waldemar to take no there-consequently all that Manstein saw on runact of mercy, was it not the best time to appear steps himself to discover her enemy, but leave himning to the hedge, was a man on horseback disapbefore the throne of mercy ?" to be sought after by the magistracy, for their own pearing in the distance, who had, no doubt, fled on "What can we do?" said Waldemar; "whith-sakes, as it was for robbery and murder that he had seeing the troop advancing. er shall we go in pursuit of him? Over my belov-been imprisoned once, and he might be found and ed Ethelind's life I am inclined now to believe he imprisoned again. But Waldemar could not rest, has no power, but over our daily comfort, much.- unless he, as a husband, took every means in his No, my kind friends, I thank you; but till I have power to put a stop to the danger of a wife so justly communed with the magistrates, I will not accept beloved; and he was resolved to make every other your proffered services, nor take any steps whatev-consideration yield to that. er, except that I will secure the cottage girl. In the meanwhile, continue your rejoicings, now changed in their cause. Rejoice now for my dear Ethelind's fourth deliverance from danger and from death! Yet no," added Waldemar, deeply sighing," I summon you all to join me previously in thanksgiving; and I invite you all to follow me to the chapel."

The priest was at hand; and the lord and lady of the castle, in the midst of their children and the thoughtless crowd which they had gathered to. gether for other purposes, bent in humble thankfuluess before the throne of grace, for the signal deliverance from danger and from death of the beloved wife, the tender mother, the adored mistress, and the accomplished friend.

"I believe," said Ethelind, as she arose from the affecting service, "I believe that this has been the most touching yet gratifying moment of my life."

But few were the moments of joy which succceded it. The gardens were lighted up, the festivities continued; but Ethelind, by her husband's desire, and even by her own, was a prisoner in the house, and was never left but with friends to guard her-for was not the destroyer loose again ?-and nothing satisfactory could be gained from the girl, who, though she must have been privy to Geraldi's disguise, might not have been the confidant of his bloody designs, but might have even been the unconscious agent of his artifice.

And probably, indeed, she was so. It was likely that he escaped from prison, and assumed as soon as he escaped the dress of an old woman; and so disguised he might meet the wandering girl; and having hired the cottage, might prevail on this girl to live with him under the name of his granddaughter. And so artlessly did the girl describe her alarm and astonishment at seeing the seeming old woman, on Ethelind's departure, jump out of bed, tear off her woman's clothes, and appear equipped en cavalier, and, then sticking a dagger in his girdle, jump out of the window, that Waldemar believed her entirely innocent of the worst part of the deception; and she was set at liberty immediately.

It was now evening; and fire. works concluded

Full of anxious deliberation, therefore, he wandered into the silent park, so lately echoing with innocent mirth, and gazed with a look of painful consciousness on the scenes around. "We were so happy here yesterday!" he exclaimed; "and now!" As he spoke, his eyes rested on the faded flowers which hung drooping on the trees on which they had so lately bloomed; and Waldemar felt that the hopes which hung them there had now faded like them. Still his heart reproached him for every murmur as it rose, since the life of Ethelind had been again preserved; and gratitude and faith commanded to trust the future and the present to the care of that Providence which had so often saved her.

"But human means of safety must not be neg. lected," said Waldemar; and in a few hours he had not only convinced Ethelind that it would be the wisest plan to reside in Prague in future, because she would be less exposed to attack there, but because the expenses of living would be less in a city-and preparations were begun for removing thither, as soon as a house could be procured. The governess and the tutor, also, to their great grief, were to be discharged; and Waldemar and Ethe. lind dismissed as much of their household as circumstances admitted of; for, like provident and wise persons, they thought it better to contract their expenses while the necessity for so doing was not absolutely pressing on them.

It was, however a trial to them all to leave their beautiful residence and live in a city; and they still hesitated to fix a day for taking possession of their new abode; when Waldemar and Ethelind. accompanied by Ethelind's brother, who was on a visit to them, set out to take their last walk round the extensive grounds.

But what a change, a mournful change did this event make in the feelings of this afflicted family! While Geraldi attacked the life of Ethelind with a dagger only, he could not assail it unless she was alone, and he was in actual contact with her; but with a pistol he could take distant aim, and might in time succeed in his attempt. All feeling of security, therefore, seemed now vanished for ever except Ethelind doomed herself to perpetual seclusion, and gave up the necessary enjoyments of air and exercise! This circumstance reconciled her, however, entirely to a residence within the walls of a city; though she felt it painful to reflect that, unless Geraldi were once more taken and then executed, it would be impossible for her ever to leave that city in perfect safety again; nor was the journey to it wholly devoid of danger to herself and her husband.

That journey took place the next morning.Manstein, armed, rode on one side of the carriage which held Waldemar and Ethelind, (who, fearing for their children, chose to travel alone,) and Maurice, armed, rode on the other; while Waldemar, having wrapped a thick mantle over Ethelind's person, and reclined her head on his bosom, clasp. cd his arms closely round her; and bidding the postilion drive at full speed, exclaimed, "Now, Ethelind-now, my beloved no bullet can reach thee but through my heart."

"Is that said to comfort me ?" replied Ethelind reproachfully; and she experienced not one moment of peace till they had entered Prague, and were safe within their own house.

Months of quiet succeeded, as Ethelind never went out; but months of increasing demands on their own impoverished purse, from the means Waldemar took to effect the seizure of Geraldi; while constant anxiety fevered the frame, and utterly destroyed the bloom and the cheerfulness of Waldemar. Ethelind, too, though for his sake she endeavoured to keep up her spirits, felt borne to the earth by the consciousness that she was an object marked out for destruction by an unrelenting assassin; while a degree of poverty, which long habits of affluence had ill prepared her to meet was in the back-ground of every picture which she drew of the future hour-and she often gazed on her children with anxious though unavailing forebodings.

A ha-ha separated one part of the park from a hedge, on the other side of which was the road; and while her brother was standing a little way from them, pointing out a particularly fine tree to Waldemar, who was pressing forward to look at it, the report of fire-arms was heard close to them; and a bullet whizzing past Ethelind so near as to Still, when she saw those childen preserved to touch her hat, fell a few paces off. her-when she found that the hand of the assassin The same conviction instantly forced its way had never aimed at the life of her husband, for

even the bullet had exclusively been directed at her,) she felt gratitude unutterable again take pos session of her heart; and she owned, in its deep. est recesses, that misery cannot long remain where the exercise of the affections exists in its fullest force; and though she was unable to mix in the world as formerly with what comforts and with what blessings was she not surrounded at home! But Ethelind had not, as I said before, to fear for the life of any beloved object. The case was different with Waldemar; and in proportion to his affection for Ethelind, was the force of his anxiety and the destructive power of his incessant fear. Poverty with Ethelind he could endure ; but should she die at last by the hand of the assassin, and he, in fruitless attempts to save her, have impoverished his children-what then would be his fate, and what his agony! Still, he humbly endeavoured to teach his soul a lesson of resignation; and when he least expected it, his situation was altered.

A distant relative died, from whom he expected nothing, and left him not only a very considerable fortune, but an estate near Brussels, with a large mansion belonging to it; and but for the dread of Geraldi, thither Waldemar would have removed directly; for Ethelind would have made it her duty to conquer her aversion to return to that spot where all her sorrows had originated. But Waldemar dared not expose the life of Ethelind again to the dangers of the road; and he was forced to content himself with sending an agent to look over the premises, and take all the necessary steps.

The terror of poverty for her children was now removed from the mind of Ethelind, and she regained her health and her tranquility; but not so the anxious and affectionate Waldemar; for he felt that increased riches would impart no happiness to him, if he were deprived of Ethelind; and that, as he could not enjoy any good which was unshared by her, even this augmentation of fortune lost its charm, because the life of Ethelind was still threatened.

At this time of still-increasing anxiety to Waldemar, the public papers announced that Geraldi Duval and one of his associates in iniquity, who had escaped to England from the pursuit which had long been making after them, and had taken up their abode in London, had killed two men. there in a drunken fray; and that, being taken in the fact, they had been committed, and would be tried the next week.

I will not attempt to describe the joy of Waldemar at this intelligence, though it was of a mixed nature; for it was painful to his benevolent heart to be forced to rejoice at the probable death of a fellow-creature; and Ethelind, spite of her wrongs mourned over the impending doom of that being whose youthful hopes she had been the innocent means of blasting.

"I have the happiness to tell you that the news is true. As soon as I received your letter, I hastened to London from my country residence, where I then was, and went to Newgate; and on inquiry I found that Geraldi Duval was the name of one of the men confined on a charge of murder. I then begged leave to see this man, whom, though I had only seen at a distance while struggling with poor Carlo, I was almost sure that I should know again. I did see him, and I had no doubt of his identity with your determined foe.

"Is your name Geraldi Duval!' said I.

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beloved by, his pupil Heloise, the young, beautiful and accomplished neice of Fulbert, canon of Paris. Their imprudent intercourse gave birth to a son. They were at length privately married; but the lady, with a singular perversion of judgement, prefer. ed being considered as the mistress of Abelard, and denied the marriage to her uncle. Irritated at Abelard, who had placed his wife in a monastery, Fulbert basely hired ruffians, who broke into the chamber of the husband at night, and emasulated him. The unfortunate victim then hid his sorrows and and his shame in a cloister, and Heloise took the

'Why do you want to know?' he replied in veil. His subsequent life was not more tranquil. French. His theological doctrines were censured as hete"I am the friend of Madame de Waldemar,' rodox; he was condemned by a council; was drivI replied, significantly. en from place to place; and was even imprisoned. The tempestuous existence of Abelard was closed in 1142, at the monastery of St. Marcellus, near

"Then you know,' he answered, with the look of a demon, that Geraldi Duval is her eternal enemy-Are you answered now ?" "I am.'

"And left him with a lightened heart. The next day he was tried, and condemned; and at this time he is preparing for execution. Hateful as such sights are, I, for your entire satisfaction, am resolved to see him dead.

"I am returned-sick at heart-but no matter, as you will now be as happy in future as you deserve to be.

"I saw Geraldi die-I saw him DEAD! Would I could tell you that he died apparently penitent! But he seemed to reject the priest's attendance; and Geraldi discovering me in the crowd, gave me a look of such malignant and ambiguous meaning, as I cannot explain to myself; but he is dead, Farewell! I hope to visit you when you go to your new abode," &c. &c.

"Then he is dead! and we shall be happy again," exclaimed Waldemar. But Ethelind, overcome by a variety of emotions, could not articulate one word, but sank nearly insensible into the arms of her husband; nor did she regain her composure, till prostrate at the foot of the altar, she breathed forth all the feelings of her pious soul at the throne of her preserver.

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BIOGRAPHY.

PETER ABELARD. PETER ABELARD, celebrated for his unfortunate "But is this intelligence true?" said Ethelind; love, was born at Palais, near Nantes, in Britanny, and Waldemar echoed the words.

"I will soon know," said he. And he wrote immediately to Mr. Meynell, (the Englishman mentioned in the beginning of this tale,) who was in London, and begged him to ascertain the truth of the statement in the paper.

At length, after what appeared to them a tedious interval, a letter from Meynell arrived; and was as follows:

in 1079. Devoted to learning from his infancy, he early acquired all the knowledge and science of the age; scholastic philosophy was especially cultivated by him. After having studied under William de Champeaux, and other eminent masters, he opened a school of theology and rhetoric, which was soon attended by more than three thousand pupils of all nations. While he was thus in the zenith of his popularity, he became enamoured of, and was

Chalons.

MISCELLANY.

YOUNG MEN.

THERE is no moral object so beautiful to me as a conscientious young man. I watch him as I do a star in heaven; clouds may be before him, but we know that his light is behind him, and will beam again; the blaze of others' popularity may outshine him, but we know that, though unseen, he illuminates his own true sphere. He resists temptation, not without a struggle, for that is not virtue, but he does resist and conquers; he hears the sarcasm of the profligate, and it stings him, for that is a trait of virtue, but heals with his own pure touch. He heeds not the watchword of fashion, if it leads to sin; the Atheist, who says not only in his heart, but with his lips, "there is no God!"-controls him not; he sees the hand of a creating God, and rejoices in it.

Woman is sheltered by fond arms and loving counsel; old age is protected by its experience; and manhood by its strength; but the young man stands amid the temptations of the world like a self-balanced tower. Happy he who seeks and gains the prop and shelter of mortality.

Onward then, conscientious youth-raise thy standard, and nerve thyself for goodness. If God has given thee intellectual power, awake, in that cause; never let it be said of thee," he helped to swell the tide of sin by pouring influence into its channels." If thou art feeble in mental strength, throw not that drop into the polluted current. Awake, arise, young man! assume that beautiful garb of virtue ! It is difficult to be pure and holy. Put on thy strength then. Let truth be the lady of thy love-defend her.-Mrs. Caroline Gilman.

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WOMAN'S TEMPER.

No trait of character is more valuable in a female than the possession of a sweet temper. Home can never be made happy without it. It is like the flowers that spring up in our pathway, reviving and cheering us. Let a man go home at night, wearied and worn out by the toils of the day, and how soothing is a word dictated by a good disposition! It is sunshine falling upon his heart. He is happy, and the cares of life are forgotten. A sweet temper has a soothing influence over the minds of a whole family. Where it is

found in a wife and mother, you observe kindness and love predominate over the bad feelings of a natural heart. Smiles, kind words and looks, characterize the children, and peace and love have their dwelling there. Study, then, to acquire and retain a sweet temper. It is more valuable than gold; it captivates more than beauty, and to the close of life it retains all its freshness and power.

CHOOSING PARTNERS.

A CORRESPONDENT of a Southern paper, gives the following account of a visit, to Lafourche, La. some years since, together with his adventures at a ball in that region.

"We were received with the cordiality and politeness peculiar to the French race, whether in the saloons of Paris, in the camp, or in the wilderness. The master of ceremonies presented some court cards, and invited us to draw. The ladies had drawn previously, it was understood that we were to go round the circle, and whoever matched our card was to be our partner for the night. I drew the queen of hearts; I made my bow round a circle glittering with youth and beauty, hoping that each lovely Creole whom I approached would be mine for the evening, but every card turned its back upon me, till at the very end of the row, an old lady, in the costume of the last century, presented me, with a smile, the king of hearts! For a moment I was shocked. I hesitated; but recollecting myself, I made my best bow, led out my partner, and in two minutes we were whirling away in a waltz, I almost fainting, and she abso. lutely out doing her great grandchildren, twenty. three of whom were on the floor at the same mo. ment! Such grace, such agilty, such" poetry of motion" never was seen before in one so old, and ere we had finished our third bowl of gumbo and eausucre, I thought her one of the most charming

AN IRISH BOY.

PETER DOLAN was sent by his master a short distance, early in the morning, and desired to return at 7 o'clock for breakfast. Peter did not make his appearance until 11 o'clock, tired and hungry. His master said to him

"Wait a bit, Peter, and you will get yonr dinner in half an hour."

"Dinner, yer honor; wouldn't expect a boy to ate his dinner afore he got his brakfast!"

} defiance to have waged war with our kind, to have put on the terrific attributes, to have done the dreadful deeds, and to have died the awful death of the ocean robber-How many affecting relationships of humanity plead with us to pity him. That head that is doomed to pay the price of blood once rested upon a mother's bosom. The hand that did that accursed work, and shall soon be stretched cold and nerveless in the felon's grave, was once taken and cherished by a father's hand, and led in the ways of sportive childhood and innocent pleasure. The dreadful monster of crime has once been the object of sisterly love and all domesNo expression that we are acquainted with, tic endearment. Pity him, then. Pity his blighted grates so harshly upon our ears as that of "old hope and his crushed heart. It is wholesome senman," when it comes from the lips of a son, speak-sibility. It is reasonable; it is meet for frail and ing of his father. It is irreverent, and shows a lack of some kind of training of the child. The person who habitually uses the expression is either intimate with low characters, or he does not feel that respect and reverence due from a child to a parent.

"THE OLD MAN."

Old man is used as a term of reproach, a sort of by-word, and a bugaboo to scare bad children, and in the manner used expresses a sort of contempt, or don't care.

sinning creatures like us to cherish. It foregoes no moral discrimination. It feels no crime; but feels it as a weak, tempted, and rescued creature should. It imitates the great Maker, and looks with indignation upon the offender, and yet is grieved for him.-Rev. Orville Dewey..

PLEASURES.

SOME, like the horizon, recede perpetually as we

There are several stages to be gone through be-advance towards them; others, like butterflies, fore the old man is brought on. Pa, pappy, and are crushed by being caught. Pleasure unattained father have had their day, and as the young swell, is the hare which we hold in chase, cheered on by the ardour of competition, the exhilarating cry of lazily rolls his cigar or end of tobacco to the other corner of his mouth, strokes his goose-down chin, the dogs-the shouts of the hunters-the echo of he replies with a curl of his lip, of the gentleman the horn-the ambition of being in at the death.— of whom he is interrogated. "That's nobody but Pleasure attained, is the same hare hanging up in the sportsman's larder, worthless, disregarded, desthe old man." pised, dead.

Young chaps that frequent oyster cellars, beer saloons and fashionable wine-shops, who have learned to say "damme" with a grace, who can smoke a "regalia," or chew "ladies twist," without making them sick, or walk a crack with three glasses of champaign--these are the sprigs,

The keenest pleasures of an unlawful nature are poisoned by a lurking self-reproach, ever raising up to hiss at us, like a snake amid the flowerswhile there is a secret consolation, even in the heaviest calamity, if we feel that it has not been incurred by our own misconduct. Upon this sub

companions I had ever met with. She was, by who talk of the "old man" who don't know they eject the great and golden rule is, so to enjoy pre

the rules of the ball, my partner the whole evening, and we waltzed till the clock struck three!

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IMPORTANCE OF STUDY IN YOUTH.

If it should ever fall to the lot of youth to peruse these pages, let such a reader remember, that it is with the deepest regret that I recollect in my manhood, the opportunities of learning which I neglected in my youth; that through every part of my literary career, I have felt pinched and hemmed in by my own ignorance; and I would at this moment give half the reputation I have had the good fortune to acqnire, if by so doing I could rest the remaining part upon a sound foundation of learning and science.-Sir Walter Scott.

UNDOUBTEDLY.

out.

We have also heard these same characters speak of their mothers as "the old woman." True, it's no heinous offence, yet it shows-and it shows as plainly as any other silly swagger, what company they keep, and the estimate they place upon their parents' love and care, for so many years.

They know it's wrong, and generally use more respectful expressions when in the company of ladies, and no more call their parents "the old man" and "old woman" to their faces, than they would kiss a pretty girl with a quid of tobacco in their mouths, or without disguising their breaths with a "pinch of cloves."

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PITY AND CHARITY INCULCATED. THE very pirate, that dyes the ocean wave with the blood of his fellow-beings-that meets with THE boy stuttered badly and the father was by his defenceless victim in some lonely sca where no no means a good reader. The old gentleman, cry for help can be heard, and plunges his dagger however was fond of reading the Old Testament to the heart that is pleading for life, which is callaloud, and he often gave some curious pronuncia-{ing upon him by all names of kindred, of children, tions to the long list of proper names in the book of Numbers. One day the boy put a stop to it. "F-f-ather!" said he, "d-de-dont you f-f-eel

afraid?"

Why?" asked the father. "C-c-cause if them old ch-ch-chaps could ge-get at you they'd give you a th-thundering licking for calling 'em s-such b-blasted names.

and home, to spare-yes the very pirate is such a man as you or I might have been. Orphanage in childhood, an unfriended youth, an evil companion, a resort to sinful pleasure, familiarity with vice, a scorned and blighted name, scared and crushed affections, desperate fortunes,-these are the steps which might have led any one amongst us to unfurl upon the high seas the bloody flag of universal

sent, as that they may not interfere with future pleasures. Burns has happily compared sensual pleasure to

"Snow that falls upon a river,

A moment white, then gone for ever."

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ter, without one good quality to recommend him. There is little or no display of charity, beneficence, or even benevolence, during the whole course of his pilgrimage. The sentiments of CHRISTIAN, are narrow and illiberal, and his struggles and exertions wholly selfish."

In proof of the latter imputation, mark with what a heartless indifference to everything but himself he abandons his wife and family." Now he had not run far from his own home, but his wife and children, perceiving it, began to cry after him to return, but the man put two fingers into his ears and ran on, crying Life! Life! Eternal Life! So he looked not behind him, but fled towards the middle of the plain."

So uniform are the results of fanaticism, even when engendered by different views of religion, that a precisely similar trait is related of the Catholic, St. Francis Xavier. "It is well," says Sir Walter Scott, speaking of his general character,

as given by Dryden, "that our admiration is qualified by narrations so shocking to humanity, as the account of the Saint passing by the house of his ancestors, the abode of his aged mother, on his road to leave Europe for ever, and conceiving he did God good service in denying himself the mel. ancholy consolation of a last farewell."

EMPLOYMENT.

ONE of the greatest necessities of our physical and moral nature is employment. It is alike essential to health, virtue, and contentment. It is one of the hardest things to do nothing. A lady in Connecticut, not long since, employed a stout young woman, fresh from Ireland, for the service of the kitchen. When Sunday morning came, Bridget hung on a large kettle of water. "What are you going to do, Bridget?" "I'm going to wash, ma'am." "But we do not wash on Sunday." "What shall I do, then ?" "Nothing at all; we do not work here on the Sabbath day." "Dear me! I shall be tired o' keepin aisy."

A SERIOUS THOUGHT. WERE a ship, in mid ocean, to be overtaken by a storm; to be dismantled, dismasted, and reduced to an unmanageable hulk, and while its crew were famishing and in momentary danger of foundering, were another ship to pass within hail, but to refuse all succor and deliverance, should we not justly regard that deed as an enormous atrocity? But what moral difference does it make, whether we pass by our perishing "neighbour" on the sea or on the dry land? The pitfalls of perdition on shore are deeper and far more terrible, and are inhabited by direr monsters, than any occan caves.

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"Mr. Dow, I am told you know a sinner by

his looks and can tell a thief from his countenance -Now, Sir, I have had an excellent axe stolen from me, and I shall be forever grateful if you will point out to me the rascal who took it, as in all probability he will be at meeting to-day, judg. ing from the crowds that are coming."

Lorenzo was not the man to deny the possession of any wonderful faculty that the people chose to ascribe to him; so he told the farmer he would get

his axe.

"Murder

Lorenzo mounted the pulpit, took out of his pocket a stone as big as his fist, laid it beside the bible, and commenced the exercises of the day. His sermon was the subject of all sins mentioned in the decalogue, and he went on to give proofs from history of the retributive justice of Providence in punishing in this life transgressors. will out," said he; " guilt cannot conceal itself; and I am about to give you, this morning, my dear hearers, an example of a terrible vengeance to follow the breaking of the eighth commandment. Two nights ago a fellow stole John Smith's axe; and I have been commissioned by an authority which none of you will question, to knock down, drag out, sacrifice, destroy and utterly annihilate

the miserable wretch, and send him body, soul and breeches, to the pitchy realms of an awful eternity! Poor sinner, you turn pale before the rock has crushed you!" continued Lorenzo; he grasped the stone, and raised it in the attitude of throwing. "Don't dodge, you rascal! You can't escape me, don't dodge."

He paused a moment, and pointing his long, crooked, significant finger at a poor fellow in the audience who appeared to be in an-ague fit, with his hair standing on end like the quills of a fretful porcupine,

"John Smith," cried he "there's the man that stole your axe !"

The eyes of the whole congregation were turned upon the conscience-stricken fellow who looked as if he wished the mountains would tumble on him.

"You will return to Mr. Smith his axe, and steal if I forgive you-won't you?" asked Lo

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THERE happened to grow up between Patrick and a bragging downeaster, a very fierce contest as to the comparative size of different animals, and insects in this and the "ould country," when Mr. O'Flaherty declared that in Ireland the “baes ed Ichabod," but how big are the hives ?" were as big as a shape." "Very well," interruptbig as yours, be jabers!" "Then how do the bees get into their hives?" Paddy scratched his head, and after a few moments' reflection, replied, “Och

that's their own look out."

"As

A YOUNG lady engaged in writing, observed to a clergyman present, that she was a Scribe; to which the man in orders with a sagacity and discernment truly creditable replied-" and fair I see"--(Pharisee.)

ROUSSEAU tells us, that to write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have said.

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MARRIAGES.

In this city, on the 1st inst. by the Rev. Mr. Collins, Mr. Charles Prentiss, to Miss Maritta, daughter of Joseph White, all of this city.

On the 29th ult. by the Rev. Mr. Coles, Mr. Harlow Weed to Miss Eliza Ann Schemerborn, all of this city.

On the 30th ult. by the Rev. Dr. Gosman, Mr. John L. Williams, of this city, to Mrs. Betsey Best, of Glenco, Livingston,

DEATHS.

In this city, on the 26th ult. Walter Francis, son of Capt. Francis and Maria H. Best.

On the 21st ult. Clarinda, youngest daughter of Hamilton B. and Harriet Geary, aged 15 months and 2 weeks.

At Stockport, on the 27th ult. Solomon Beebe, aged 76 years.

On the 1st inst. Mrs. Susan, relict of the late Capt. Barzillai Jenkins, of this city, aged 68 years.

At New-York, on the 29th ult. George Wawne, aged 21 years.

POETAI.

"INS AND OUTS."

I'm out of cash, and so, of course,
I've pocket room to let;
I'm out of patience, just because
I'm never out of debt.
Besides, I'm dreadfully in love;
And more than half in doubt
Which is the greatest evil, that
Of being in or out.

I'm deeply in my tailor's books,
But I don't mind a dup;

And if I wasn't out of funds
I'd pay him out of fun,

He always gave me "fits" he said,
But Heaven bless his
eyes!
"Twould put HIM in a fit I
He'd be in such surprise.

guess,

I'm out at elbows, in distress-
Ah! mine's a sorry tale!
I'm out of favour, out of sorts,
But then I'm out of jail.
My landlord says my TIME is out,
And thinks I'd better "skin,"
I'm such an "out-an-outer," he
Won't have me in his inn.

I'm out of office, but in hopes

To get put in some day;

If I don't "run" for something 300n
I'll have to run away.

I'm out of spirits; and I'm out
Of more than I can think;

I'm out of temper, hang the pen!
Ye gods!-I'M OUT OF INK!

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"Hail, thou, long watched and long expected, bail! Six years agone, these courts, with lofty sound Of rapture, trembled, when, in, yon far vale,

We saw thee-weeping o'er the rugged groundMeet suddenly the cross, and lowly bow, And rise with mystic signet on thy brow. "Effaceless seal! in earthly mists oft dim ; Now kindling glory, as the burnished gold Drinks liquid sunlight. Earth's arch seraphim Alone, the chosen of God's son, may hold To rank this pledgeth! Then we sang thy birth To life immortal; now, thy flight from earth!"

Thus slept she, thus she woke, and thus

That cheering vision of beatitude!

uprose

A boon God grants, when he transfigures those
We love as Christ his kingly glory showed
To Peter, James, and John. And thus a year
Hath gone: swift triumph there; slow sorrow here.

O God, 'tis well! I know my vision keens
With upward straining; and I love the Lamb
She follows, now intensely! and it weans

My soul from sordid comforts; and, with calm
Resolve, I can do aught-but mother these
Two little ones she left upon my knees.
Fling back the mantle of her gentleness

To wrap me in; within my breast secrete,
If not a mother's milk, the rich excess

Of love that prompts it, that in me may meet
Father and mother, and they never know
The keenness of their loss, a year ago!

The touching pathos of the following poem, combined with its exquisite simplicity, renders it one of the best specimens of the ordinary ballad yet produced in America. It has been set to music, and is well known, we believe; but nevertheless there may be some of our readers who have not seen it; and if there are such, their sensibility must be stnall indeed, if the perusal of Ben Bolt" does not bring tears to their eyes.

BEN BOLT.

BY THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH.

DON'T you remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt?
Sweet Alice with hai: so brown,

Who blushed with delight if you gave her a smile,
And trembled with fear at your frown.

In the old church yard in the valley, Ben Bolt,
In a corner obscure and alone,

They have fitted a slab of the granite so gray,
And Alice lies under the stone.

Under the hickory tree, Ben Bolt,

That stood at the foot of the hill,
Together we've lain in the noonday shade,
And listened to Appletou's mill.

The mill wheel has fallen to pieces, Ben Bolt,
The rafters have tumbled in,

And a quiet that crawls round the walls, as you gaze,
Takes the place of the olden din.

Do

you mind the cabin of logs, Ben Bolt, That stood by the pathless wood?

And the button-ball tree, with its motley boughs,

That nigh by the door-step stood?
The cabin to ruin has gone, Ben Bolt,
You would look for the tree in vain;
And where once the lords of the forest stood
Grow grass, and the golden grain.

And don't you remember the school, Ben Bolt?
And the master, so cruel and grim?
And the shady nook in the running brook,
Where the children went to swim ?
Grass grows on the master's grave, Ben Bolt,
The spring of the brook is dry;

And of all the boys who were schoolmates then,
There are only you and I.

There is a change in the things I love, Ben Bolt;
They have changed from the old to the new;
But I feel in the core of my spirit the truth,
There never was change in you.
Twelve months twenty have passed Ben Bolt,
Since first we were friends, yet I hail
Thy presence a blessing, thy friendship & truth,
Ben Bolt of the salt sea gale!

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