beautifully laid with snowy cloth and napkins, abacco-and some think butter is hurtful,and sugar, "My dear husband did not, but the look he gave me as we sat down to the table I shall never forget as long as I live It was perfectly evident there was a violent struggle within for external equanimity. Of this, however, I took no notice, but without the slightest explanation or apology, fell to conversing in the most voluble manner upon mat. ters and things in general. 666 666 The P. A. S. Y. H. I understood you," replied he. 664 666 "But I was determined not to be outwitted or frightened into a deviation from the course my profound sagacity dictated; and accordingly, the next morning, I substituted a dish of washy chocolate for the strong Mocha coffee to which my hus. band was most extravagantly attached. We moped over our breakfast without one word being spoken ; but as he was starting for the office, he stepped back to the door of the breakfast room, and asked me if I intended to dine on the Graham system. 'Certainly,' I said, resolutely looking him in the face. • Then I shall dine at the hotel,' answered he, calmly; for I must tell you, Louisa, and; wish to do it kindly and candidly, that if my money and "And, pray, what did you understand those known desire cannot procure my accustomed diet initials to mean-I desire to be informed?' at home, they can elsewhere. If you wish to adopt "Why, Pinch-and-Starve-you-Husband Soa particular diet for yourself, or if you wish to pur'Husband,' said I, as I poured him a brim-ciety, I concluded, but didn't exactly know- isn't sue a definite system of personal retrenchment in ming glass water—' husband, I think we must be that it?' more systematic in our charities. Nothing is ac- "You are very jocose this evening, Mr. Thorn-order to aid your charitable expenditures, (which I But, per. desire should be liberal, without any retrenchment complished without method, and the sooner we ham,' retorted I-' very delightfully so. at all,) I shall not offer the slightest objection; but adopt one for ourselves the more good we shall ul-haps, you will have the goodness to let me know timately effect. When I look abroad, and see the what the worthy societies are to which you belong? to have either forced upon myself, or my guests, is more than I can or shall consent to. Therefore, condition of the heathen in our own as well as for. I was not aware of your belonging to any.' so long as you choose to continue this arrangeeign lands, I am painfully aware that we do not "Oh, yes, indeed-there's the C. A. T.' S. Good morning!' come up to the standard of our duty as a family, T. A. I. L. Society, of which I have been Presidentment, I shall board out. Exactly as you please, sir,' said I, with by any means. I have been out this afternoon try- for several years-the Fudge and Fiddlestick AsBut he was ing to form a new benevolent society, to be called sociation, which is a charitable glee club, the affected indifference; 'it will never do for me to be the Self-Denying Society, which I recommended avails of our concerts going to sustain singing weary in well doing if you areto be sustained on the part of the members by the schools among the bob-o'-links, a barbarous tribe on sacrifice of some article of food, clothing, or desire, the Gold Coast, I think—I have most forgootten my and the money thus saved will constitute a fund geography; but, no matter, as I have the honor to to be increased by the avails of the members' labor be F. among the degrees conferred by that blessed at their meetings, which I told them I would like institution. Then, besides a number more, I have to have holden once a fortnight at my house.' lately joined another, which suits me best of all, “You will put my name down on that list, I called the Independent Order of the Sons of Petru. presume?' remarked my husbaud, with a smile chio! This is a secret association of married gentlemen, and though nothing under the sun would tempt me te disclose the pecularities of the society, yet the ends it proposes to accomplish are sublime, I assure you. I have already attained the rank of A. A. P.; and brother Job Mackwell, P. P. * (which is the highest rank in the order,) called at my office yesterday to say there was a motion to be made at our next meeting, which occurs to-morrow evening, that we should severally make our wires life members, with the title of T. S.t as a token of the special honor in which the order holds the sex; for though ladies, of course, can't be admitted to the meetings, yet it is thought they will be sufficiently interested if their husbands communicate at home the most important proceedings. I fell in with the views of brother Job, P. P., and agreed to second the motion with all my heart!' that was no smile at all. "Certainly I replied, and nearly all the married ladies consented to follow my example and put their husbands names down; for though gentlemen will not be admitted to the meetings, they can just as well conform to the rules of membership and their money will increase the means of doing good just so much. The conscientious young ladies, too, thought they would add their beaus' and brothers' names to the list, and it will be quite long, I assure you. I flatter myself that most beneficial results will follow.' "But how shall you appropriate your money?' asked my husband, with a twitch of certain muscles about his mouth which, to my mind, indicated any thing but admiration of my new scheme. "I told him that was not decided, but it was proposed to divide it at the end of the year into as many equal parts as there are useful benevolent enterprises, and distribute something to each. There's the Mission cause,' said I, and the tract cause, the Sunday School cause, the Temperance cause, the Peace cause, the Anti-Slavery cause, the Moral Reform cause, the Education cause, and a number more. Besides, I wish to do something for the U. R. H. S. and the L. Y. N. B. T. Y. Societies, of which I am a life member. And by the way, my dear, I wish you would make yourself a life member of the L. Y. N. B. T. Y. It is a most excellent institution and doing a great deal of good. It takes only twenty dollars, and you will soon save that in-in-in "Tea,' put in my husband, his face flushing up to the hair. 666 'Yes, tea,' said I, coolly,' and coffee and to "I was too well read in Shakspeare not to comprehend in an instant the import of his remarks, and I must say the inference I was at liberty to draw stung me to the very soul. 666 'Mr. Thornham,' I began, hardly able to arti. † Tamed Shrew. 'You gone before I had finished my sentence. CHAPTER JIL "My time would fail, dear Miriam, and your patience too, were I to recount in detail the expedients, mental, moral and physical, to which I, in my wisdom, resorted for seven tedious years, with intent to reform my husband, and make him what I had resolved he should be-a man without a failing! And considering the uncommon sagacity manifested by his self-appointed master, isn't it strange, Miriam, that he grew worse and worse every successive year? Strange it was thus to me, but it has long since ceased to be. I only wonder that he was not transformed into a demon. "Oh! but we were a wretched household as ever the impartial sun shone upon, and yet it took a long time and a bitter experience to show me where the main blame tested. I honestly thought 1 had an obstinate, ill-natured, dissipated, clown. ish brute for a husband, and that he had one of the most judicious, sensible, exemplary, but neglected, abused and outraged wives in the whole world! And many of my friends' thought so too, and commended my course towards him as the only one that could save him-and now, if he chose to go on and ruin himself and disgrace him, let him!' But that was poor consolation to me; I would not let him, if any effort of mine could prevent-but hitherto all had failed and worse than failed. He neglected his business for the society of the barroom, or any gross and vulgar rendezvous where the brandy bottle and cigar were readily accessible. But he shunned home, with all its elegancies and refinements, and especially his talented and accom. plished, and high-minded wife! 1 "While our boy lived, he felt that there was one in his own house who could see something else besides folly and vice-who would not upbraid and taunt him under the guise of efforts for his reformation! And little Charley loved his father far better than he did me, and springing from my arms into his, would not willingly quit them for any other gratification. Many a time, while he wove his fingers in the clustering masses of his father's hair, grown prematurely gray, and lisped poor papoor pa,' I have seen the great tears fall on his dimpled hands and among the ringlets of his own beautiful young head, while I knew their signifieance but too well. "As our views of parental duty, like every thing else, differed widely, we had little satisfaction in laying plans for Charley's training and education, Only once, dear Miriam, were we united in relation to the dear child; it was when, after struggling a few hours with that dreadful scourge of infancy, the croup, he sat pale and still on his father's knees and then, while we were fondly hoping he was relieved, leaned his head against his breast and died! while the familar words, papa take,' were quiver. ing on his little pain-distorted lips! Oh, yes Mir iam, we were then united to weep in the bitter anguish of our bereavement, and consign him to the green hillock, whose white flowers and bending willows we jointly watered day after day. worship, and never being willing to reciprocate the chastening from Heaven! If ever tears of peni- those tears, those prayers those resolutions were my own, as the grand error of my life stood out in hideous relief before my eyes. "Well, time passed on, and things were daily wearing a more unfavorable aspect. My husband's "But let me not anticipate. An awful idea intemperate hahits had increased to a most alarm-seemed to possess my husband's wandering mind. ing extent. It was no uncommon thing to see him He fancied himself before a tribunal of some kind, reeling about the streets, or fast asleep on some bar where his vices, follies and errors were set in order room bench, snoring away the fumes of his strong before him, and he a convicted prisoner at the bar, and frequent potations. His pecuniary affairs be. pleading for his life! Wildly, and sometimes incame involved-debts accumulated and creditors coherently, he argued his own cause, and more and became clamorous. His friends, and he had many more impetuously earnest did he become as one and warm ones for what he had been, admonished, sin after another came up for consideration. Mir. entreated, remonstrated in vain; the die seemed iam, I shall not attempt to describe the manner or cast that he must at, no distant day, become the recount the precise words in which that strange tenant of the poor-house, or the drunkard's grave.plea was communicated to me in the midst of ravBut God had better things in store for him, and even for me. ings, and interrupted by shrieks of pain, and groans, and tears. You may esteem yourself fortunate if I am able to give you their substance in a tolerable connection. "I knew 'twas wrong, your honors,' he would say, or words to that effect, ' I knew 'twas wrong to get drunk-but Louisa drove me to it by her perpetual unbraidings. She wanted to reform me, she said, and I wanted she should, but not in her way; one gentle tender word would have brought me back any time-but I never heard it! She denied me the quiet stimulus of tea, and coffee, and tobacco, and I took to brandy, and gin, and rum, for I must have something, and went where I could find it, and pleasant, friendly voices besides. I longed to stay at home, but-Louisa was all to blame! "One afternoon he was riding down a steep hill, not far from home, when the horse stumbled and threw him from the chaise in such a position that both passed over his body, bruising and lacerating it in a most shocking manner. He was very much intoxicated at the time, and was taken up and brought home for dead. I was dreadfully terrified at the sight of his bleeding body borne along the street, and could scarcely believe, so ghastly and death-like was every appearance, when the surgeon declared that life was not utterly extinct and he might possbily revive, though the symptoms were by no means favorable. The wounds were probed and dressed, the broken bones replaced with but little evidence of consciousness on the part of the patient, and the surgeon shook his head dubiously "I knew it was wrong to break the Sabbath as he left him for the night. Let him be very quiet.' and ridicule the Bible; I did believe it for a long said he, let the room be cool, and hathe the bruise time, indeed I did, but Louisa was so stiff about on his head often with cold water, and that is pret-her way of thinking, and treated mine with such ty much all that can be done for him at present. contempt that my pride got the better of my conI signified my intention to him of sitting by my science, and I wouldn't believe all. I would have husband through the night, which he strongly gone to her worship, and perhaps embraced her discouraged, but being an excellent nurse, and en- faith, for I was more than half convinced she was dowed with a good deal of self-possession, I deter-right, had she only used kind, persuasive words, mined to do it, and accordingly took my station but they were never spoken! I would have rebeside the poor sufferer, whose irregular and diffi-signed every evil practice, (and I had many,) at cult breathing alone indicated life and pain. He remained perfectly still till near midnight, when he began to murmur like one taking in his sleep. Gradually his words became more audible, distinct and energetic, but they exhibited only the wild vagaries of delirium. For a long time I hung over hini, eager to catch the tone even of his disordered imagination, fully convinced it was his last mental manifestation. I was all the more so, perhaps, on account of the frequent mention of my own name. Louisa did it,'-' Louisa said it,' ' Louisa was to blaine,' and kindred expressions rivetted my attention, and I was naturally very desirous to know their significence at such a time as this. At last I succeeded, or thought I did—and, oh! Miriam Ayling, may you never be called to endure the agony which was my portion as I made the dis covery. There I was, alone with a dying man, as I supposed-and that man my husband-and such words and thoughts his last of me! The anguish, fearful though it may be, which shall at last sunder my soul and body, can bear not the remotest comparison to that which overwhelmed my being through that long, dreadful night of my stern the voice of forbearing, forgiving, sympathising love. I would have laid my very life and being at the disposal of the fond and affectionate wife, but not the hard exacting mistress. "I knew it was wrong; oh! I knew it, to blaspheme the name of Him who took away my boy! Louisa said it was a judgment upon me, and how I hated and spurned the lips that told me so, for he loved me-the sweet child-he loved me and was taken, while those who despised and tortured me were left. Was that a God of love, or justice, or mercy ? And yet Louisa said he was, and that he would rebuke me yet more sorely if I delayed repentance and reformation-as if he could do worse than smite to death my only child. I could have spared his mother, but-oh, God! to take the only one who loved me.' And then he raved frightfully, and tried to tear the bandages from his wounds and the hair from his bleeding head. To this moment, Miriam Ayling, you weep, and I wonder not; to this moment, I say, I had borne it with something like fortitude, albeit the semblance grew fainter and fainter as the truth-the naked truth —which I gleaned from these delirious outpourings, struck home into the depths of my soul. I saw "I see, aunt Louisa," said Miriam Ayling, wip-incomprehensible power is both immaterial and immy fearful mistake, and yet no propects of retrieving her red eyes, "I see the moral of your story. mortal. ing it; for must he not soon die. In the extremity But indeed I must cry a little more-it does me of my distress, my own reason seemed to totter; I good. I shall be all the better, aunty, for that you accused myself as his murderess.. Yes, I even re- have told me, and I must go and hunt up Theodore joiced to hear him utter my name with execration this minute." and abhorrence! "I knelt down beside the bed, and prayed that God would spare him but to know I felt all this, if I might not repair the injury I had done. The voice of raving madness and of prayer blended strangely in that strange hour, niece, but I grew calm, resolute and humble, and I determined to make an effort to soothe him, for I could not bear that any ear but mine should witness between us, or learn the lesson of my abasement. "No, stop and dine with me, Miriam, it is almost time. I had no thought it would take me so long to tell you how I reformed my husband," said Mrs. Thornham. "Oh! aunt, I shall remember certainly, but I can't stop this time. Theodore would miss me and he didn't know I was going out; perhaps he would be uneasy about me. Good bye, aunt Louisa-I shall remember." "Well, it may save you a sadder experience than mine, if that can be, and I trust you will. I shall write to your uncle this afternoon, and tell him I have been instructing you how to reform your husbaud," said aunt Louisa, smiling on her neice, as she turned down the street with her eyes buried in her handkerchief. Myriam Ayling did remember to reform her husband in the right way! ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. For the Rural Repository. THE SPIRIT WORLD. "Millions of creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep." "Husband!' said I softly; I had not tried to talk with him before, Husband, don't you know me? I took his hand and pressed it to my lips; it was burning hot, and was instantly snatched away as he said No! no! no! I don't know any body here.' "But there is no one here but me-Louisa,your wife. Look at me, Charles, my beloved, my injured husband; let us love one another! look at me, dearest―try to recognize me and tell me you forgive me all !' and I put my arms about his neck, drew his head against my bosom and laid my cheek, streaming with tears of agony, close to his. He evidently grew calmer, and seemed to try to listen; but his thoughts would again wander, but not so wildly. I continued my efforts to recall his bewildered faculties; I bathed his head and hands continually and persuaded him once in a while to MUCH as we have studied the philosophy of the swallow some cooling drink. No sense of weari-physical world, although we may be laughed at for ness did I experience, as I stood over him, or knelt by him all that sad, long night. I felt that his phrenzy constantly abated, and towards morning, as I held his hands in mine, he fell in a gentle slumber. A little before sunrise he awoke and opened his eyes. The fire of madness was gone, and his reasonable soul once more beamed out upon me! I pressed my lips to his, and murmured a few gentle caressing words. He started as if surprised, and said hastily: Is this you, Louisa? why what does all this mean? what has happened to me? I don't really know where I am.' "In as few words as possible I explained the accident and his present situation, and begged him to be perfectly quiet, but seeing he was entirely himself, my full heart could no longer refrain from unburthening its struggling emotions. I told him all. I laid open its inmost depths, and sought with many tears that pardon for the past and that trust for the future which I felt I did not merit, but resolved in Heaven's strength to do so. MILTON. the assertion, we must say, that we are inclined to believe in the existence of disembodied spirits. We are not alone in this belief. It is true mankind are not so willing to acknowledge it as they were, two or three hundred years ago, for the ridicule of the skeptical or the sneers of those who cannot appreciate or comprehend the mysteries of the spirit world, prevent many from avowing their belief. In a late number of Howitt's Journal, there is an instance of supernatural visitation mentioned, which seems to have baffled the researches of many would be unbelievers; the editor remarks that since the knowledge of this has been made public, letters have been received from various parts of the country and from reputable sources, mentioning similar instances which had been concealed on account of the skepticism of the public. To account for these things it is but necessary to reflect on the constitution of the mind and its connexion with the body. That spiritual essence of man called the soul, "Oh! such an hour as that, Miriam ! the first has engaged the attention of philosophers from the -the very first in which we were no longer twain, earliest ages, as it is a subject só nearly allied to but one flesh!' I was forgiven; and not only the vital interests of the human race. This it is forgiven, but meekly, and with manly tears, solic- that constitutes the great difference between man ited to forgive. Angels in heaven smiled upon and the brute creation; nations who twelve or that perfect and blissful reconciliation. The cloud-thirteen centuries ago were revelling in barbarism less sun, like a favoring omen, rose in the blushing east, as we gave our unspoken pledge one to another that henceforth we would not love in word and in tongue, but in deed and in truth-with pure hearts fervently! "My husband recovered, and for three-andtwenty prosperous and happy years has needed no reformation. And I, Miriam, it has been my life's great study to reform myself; and by God's good help, have in some measure succeeded.'" and ignorance now subduing the elements to their will and making them the engines of their power. But there are not those wanting, who strangely perverting the reasoning faculties of the mind, assert, that this power which not only acts at great distances and with incredible velocity, but also exerts its influence after the cause of that influence is withdrawn, is material and formed of the gross elements of matter. With such we cannot agree but believe with the majority of mankind that this Believing this, what reason have we to doubt that after the dissolution of its material tenement, it still exists in our world amongst and surrounded by the spirits and influences it once associated with. The philosophy of nature tells us that we are inhabitants of an immense globe, revolving in the depths of space, which undoubtedly separate either spiri. tual or material existences from the rest of the universe and limit them to the confines of our own globe; such being the case is it unreasonable to suppose the spirits of the past hovering over the scenes of their former existence, and sometimes permitted to interfere in the rewards of virtue and punishment of evil? The newly-discovered doctrine of animal magnetism seems to prove that these things may exist even in this enlightened nineteenth century; and when it becomes studied and its phenomena observed by others than the illiterate and presuming quacks who have made use of it for pecuniary purposes alone, we may hope to hear of advantages derived from its study; for that there are advantages and benefits to be derived from it, I am as confident as that I have existence; for if there are not, it will be the only thing ever discovered without it. When therefore it is more widely disseminated, and studied more truthfully, we may expect to see eradicated a great deal of the bigotry of the present, as well as of the past. In the mean time let every one, enjoy their own belief, if the world is tenanted with invisible spirits, which are allowed at times to reveal themselves to man, there is nothing more strange about the existence of the spirit apart from, than its existence in the body. This belief makes us not fearful or timid for what cause have we to dread the existence of spirits; rather to the contrary, we love to indulge in the idea of their presence, as we walk in the deserted streets of a sleeping city or in the green glades of the silent forest when the moonlight like a silvery mist is spread over all. How delightful to stand on the deck of the mer. chantman at night while the thunders roll, and the blackened waste seems filled with the spirits of the deep urging the maddened barque on her watery course. Then the disembodied spirits of earth seem to bring their way over the boiling surges of the deep and revel in the terrific grandeur of the scene. When the spirit voices of the midnight stars hover around the dreamy glen or the silent rock, I love to wander forth in the earth tracks of the silvery moo and visit the unburied meinentoes of the past, the lonely church,the populous grave-yard,— the ruined castle and the silent mountain all—all the loved haunts of the memories of olden times, where we can hold converse with the spirit of the past. Who would wish to believe in the doctrine of materialism or that our friends beloved on earth are never allowed to "revisit the glimpses of the pale moon?" But how consolatory is the contrary belief; that they are always hovering over us, inciting us to good and strengthening us in virtue. Does it not give us a desire to throw off this mortal coil and join the invisible spirits of the past; a contempt of the gross pleasures of earth; and a desire to mingle with the creations of the dream. world. We love to mingle our thoughts with the crea tions of the past; and thus form, an ideal presenti-sellers to spread pestilence and death, but as minis- We envy him not. There is more pleasure in one moment of rapt and spiritual intercourse with the imagery and idealities of the past than can be gained in a life time of monotonous, mechanical dogmatism. A minute is magnified into an age, and while still seated on some moss-covered rock we seem to have visited the realms of immensity. When we think of these things we feel convinced that by retirement, discipline and cultivation the mind may be rendered capable of communicating with the strange and incomprehensible beings of the spirit world-the invisible immortal existences of the past. HERMES. June, 1848. For the Rural Repository. MISCELLANY. THE CHANGES IN LIFE. wards the companions of their early years—the playmates of their childhood, and the associates of their purer but humbler days. PAY WHAT THOU OWEST. By all means pay off your debts; "owe no man Christians, and some ministers too, pay no more anything," is the Divine injunction. Yet some regard to it than if it were not found in the Bible. Going in debt has become fashionable, and persons of all ranks seem to think nothing of it.. Churches and benevolent societies set the example, and so general has the practice become, that there hardly remains one free enough to cast the first stone.Business languishes in every department of life, confidence is lost between brethren, influence is 66 destroyed, and the power of the Church is gone. pay off your old ones, dollar by dollar, until all are A FRIEND called upon us a day, or two since, and was not a little annoyed at what he described as an insult that he had just received. He said that he had passed down the street, and had met an individual with whom, some years before, he was on terms of close intimacy; and, on bowing to him in a polite and friendly way, the other took no notice of him whatever. "And this," he added, "is the second time within a week that the same discourte. sy, not to say indignity, has been practised." We made some inquiries, and ascertained that while our friend had, through misfortune and the failure of others, been getting behind hand in business, position, and pecuniary resources, his old acquainTHE shades of evening were deepening into tance had been among the favored sons of fortune, twilight and the lingering rays of light came with and had grown rich. And here was the true se the softness and beauty of an Angel's smile. It cret of his unworthy conduct. He is of that class was the first evening of Autumn, another summer of men who, when in power, are tryants, and when has gone and with its flight many a heart has seeking power are sycophants and parasites. Our An unlucky fox drop into a well, and cry'd out ceased to pulsate, their fond hopes have been blight-friend had been able in early life to assist and ad. for help a wolf over-heard him, and looks down ed and they would sleep beneath the sod. In the vantage, and then the other lavished every species to see what the matter was. Ah (says reynard) reflection of the past the soul is filled with deep and of courtesy and attention. He lauded, compli-pray lend me your hand, Friend, or I'm lost else. inexpressible emotions we are taught the evanesancemented, and flattered. But circumstances having of all things earthly, bright dreams of happiness how suddenly broken, how seldom realized. A SKETCH. Such was the train of thought that filled my mind, as I rambled out to enjoy the beauties of de. parting day, I wended my way to the Indian Mounds that adjoin our village. Here rests the hunter from the excitement of the chase. The warriors bow is unstrung, his arm no longer hurls the murderous tomahawk, the Great Spirit has called them to the happy hunting ground. It is sad to contemplate the history of the aboriginees of our country, they have disappeared as the population of the whites, has increased until but a shadow of their former greatness remains. changed, the one having gone down and the other A FOX AND A WOLF. A FABLE. Poor creature! says the wolf, why, how comes this about? Prithee, how long hast thou been there? thou canst not but be mighty cold sure. Come, come, this is no time for fooling, says the fox; set me upon terra firma first, and then I'll tell you the history. THE MORAL. How many is there who like the wolf are glad to give consolation so long as it cost nothing, who believe that words is cheaper than money. Mourning over human woe and misery in the abstract, they never put their theory in practice. They will weep over a sentimental novel, pity distress, compassionate misfortune, so long as you touch not their pockets. Then their philanthropy vanishes, their pity is checked. How mony would-be philanthropist are prating about benevolence, charity and love to all, whereas if you follow them into private life you may find them unsocial friends, tyrannical husbands and severe masters-men whose hearts are not the re Look through society, and watch the changes of fortune. Select out the proud, the haughty, the insolent among the sons of men-the individuals who seem to think that they are made of better material than the masses, are entitled to higher privileges, greater immunities. The changes are Ten years ago this portion of this state was en- ten to one, that in the vast majority of cases, they tirely inhabited by the Indians, excepting a few tra- will be found among the mere mushrooms of the ding posts scattered through the wilderness, which hour-that large and heartless class who regard were the only marks of the existence of the whites gold as their god, and pride as the incense to be in this region. They were then numerous, their offered to the idol. It too often happens that the villages were thickly inhabited their council fires greatest of tyrants are among those, who, at the were not permitted to be extinguished, and the beginning of life, were not only humble, but power-cipents of one kindly feeling but are eat up by the Great Spirit smiled upon them. But the introduc. less and poor. They cannot appreciate prosperity. demon of selfishness. tion of the destroying fire water by the whites They cannot look back with truc philosophy.almost accomplished their ruin. They drank to They cannot see in the multitude around them humadness, disease and pestilence ensued, and in the man beings like themselves, many possessing more short space of six years, they were reduced more virtues, and all struggling in a spirit quite as disthan one half in numbers. Alas! that intemper. interested. Like the unworthy individual to whose ance should be the cause of so much human suf- case allusion is made in the preceding paragraph, fering. pride has hardened their minds; and thus they But thanks to the persevering missionaries they mock themselves with the delusion that it indicates have come not as the soul destroying whiskey-superiority to play a base and ungrateful part to How many political demagogues are there, who talk complacently to the poor men, pertend to commiserate his situation and pity his lot, but that is all they desire to do, they too are the victims of self. About election time many of these are to be seen who shake hands with the poor man, ask him how his family, is, and after the election is over they would not touch him with a ten foot pole, so much for political sympathy. www AN IRISH WAGER. "NATE hand you are thin, my darlin'!" said one Irish bricklayer to another, " you mount the ladder wid your hod full 'o stones, and scatter'em on the heads iv us as you go. Och, blatheration, bloods and ouns! by them that's holy, I'd carry yourself up, from the flags to the roof, and down again widout your spilt." You don't do it, sir!" returned the fellow Jaborer, "I'd lay a trifle you couldn't!" "For a pint o' whiskey I would tho'-is it the likes o' you I might not lift?-D'ye you take my bet, honey? "Faith do I put my souls salvation against yer pint, (and that's a fair trade) that you can't." "In wid your dirty karkas, and we'll thry it." Fearful as the experiment may seem it was successful. When two-thirds up the ladder, Paddy roared out ye!" pleas in abatement, their declarations, their demur-mon speakers have only one set of ideas, and one TOLD YOU SO. "WIFE, wife! our cow's dead-choked with a turnip !" "I told you so-I always know'd she'd choke herself with them turnips!" "But it was a pumpkin-a darned big one." "Wal, it is all the same. I know'd all along M'Carthy, you devil ye, sit aisy, or I'll spill how it would be. Nobody but you would feed a cow on pumkins that wasn't chopt." "Sure, and isn't it that I'd be after having ye do!" returned Mac. When safe landed he exclaimed "I didn't think it was in the likes o'ye. As it happens, you've won, I'm bate; but just as we war comin' by the third story, I was in hopes!" СНЕАР. "GIVE me freedom in everything," said a man to us a few days since, "I have been a member of a church for forty years, and up to this time it has cost me a penny." This reminds us of an anecdote of Rev. Mr. S. a distinguished Methodist preacher, well konwn in the West, who was remarble for his piety and eloquence, as well as for his occasional eccentricities. He went to his rest a few years since, after having, labored long and faithfully in his Master's service. On one occasion he was preaching with great fervor on the freeness of the gospel, and around him was an attentive congregation, with eager eyes turned to the preacher, and drinking every word into their souls. Among the rest was an indivdual who had been more remarkable for opening his mouth to say amen, than for opening his purse. Though he never gave money for the support of the gospel yet might be said to support the pulpit, for he always stood by it. He had on this occasion, taken his usual place near the preacher's stand, and was making his usual responses with more than usual animation. After a burst of burning eloquence from the preacher, he clapped his hands, and cried out in a kind of ecstacy Yes, thank God! I have been a Methodist for twenty-five years, and it hasn't cost me twenty-five cents!" "God bless your stingy soul!" was the preacher's emphatic reply.-Louisville Exam. LAWYERS AT A DISCOUNT. IT appears that there are no lawyers in the British Colony of Honduras, except an Attorney General, and that none others are permitted to exercise that vocation. An effort is now making to introduce a "limited bar ;" but there is so much opposition to the measure, that it will hardly succeed. A writer in the Honduras Observer asks: "What is now proposed? Why, to introduce a limited bar,' —or to fasten upon us a set of hungry lawyers, who by their briefs, their pleas in bar, their "The pumkins was chopt. And t'want pump- PLEASING ALL. THERE are certain people who strive to please all will not utter the solemn convictions of their hearts and the real abettors of vice. The person who is determined to do good in the world, we are certain, the moment, and whose sole desire is to benefit mankind and promote the cause of truth and vir tuc. TEST OF CHARACTER. WE may judge of a man's character by what he loves as readily as by his own associates. If a person is wed to low and sordid objects—if he takes delight in bacchanalian revel, the vulgar song and debasing language-we can at once tell the complexion of his mind. On the contrary, if he is found in the society of the good-if he loves purity and truth-we are satisfied that he is upright. A mind debased will not be found in a holy assembly nor among the wise and good. He whose affections are encircled by goodness, seeks not his gratification at the haunts of vice. THE Common fluency of speech in many men and many women, is to a scarcity of matter and words; for whoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both; whereas, com THERE'S A GOOD TIME COMING.-At Stourbridge, England, a musical festival took place for the relief of the poor,a few days since, when Mr. Russell sung, "There's a good time coming," At the conclusion of the melody, a farmer stood up, and addressing the vocalist, said, "Mr. Russell, you could not fix the date, could you?" In this city, on the 28th ult, by the Rev. T. Bainbridge, Mr. Inglesy, of Peekskill, to Miss Caroline Staats, of this city. On the 29th ult. by Eld. L. S. Rexford, Hon. Dallas J. Dean. At Kinderhook, on the 5th inst. by the Rev. Mr. Van Zandt, Rev. J. Hyatt Smith, of Poughkeepsie, to Miss Sarah Elizabeth Vallett, of Kinderhook. In Germantown, on the 29th ult. by the Rev. J. Boyd, Mr. Jeremiah Snyder to Miss Matilda Lasher, both of the former place. DEATHS. In this city, on the 31st ult. Mrs. Hannah Clark, wife of the late Heury Clark, aged 73. On the 6th inst. John H. son of Adeline Best, in his 17th ycar. |