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Dean of the Medical Facutly PUBLISHED MONTHLY AT FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM-THOMAS W. WHITE, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. RICHMOND, OCTOBER, 1839. VOL. V. ODE TO LOVE.* CHILD OF EDEN !-born in light, Where Creation's wandering fires Jewelled first the brow of night, And the angels swept their lyres !--Seraphs then by thee impelled, Bent before the august throne, And in ecstasy beheld Thy bright effluence alone-- CHILD OF PARADISE !-thy wings Courted man's approving look,- COMFORTER OF EARTH!-we kneel, Presence naught so sweet as thine. In the virgin's blushing cheek, Roll the battle's stormy drum!- Sword to sword and life for life!" Still he shouts " your watchwords be MURDER SCOwls his haggard brow!- Passion rolls her blood-shot eye!-- And thy smiles the brow have wreath'd; PASSION's burning rage is o'er- MURDER'S glittering knife is sheath'd,-For as brothers-friends embrace In thy rosy dwelling place. Love is here to be taken in its universal sense as the spirit that pervades all creation. Leaps the storm-king from his cloud- In the tempest-troubled air!— Quivers-crashes on the ground ;-Scatheless of the thunder stroke ;Tremblingly he looks around!-Thine, oh! Love, the sheltering power In Creation's darkest hour! Gods from rugged marble start- Ruin when bereft of thee !- Ceased the ancient hymn of spheres- Even shook the throne of HIM- (Where the Tempest rear'd his form, Peals eternally long. Where no eye has seen but His Through the soundless sea of space, Worlds by thee impelled in bliss Roll with majesty and grace :Yes! where cherubs fear to tread, Thou the dance of stars hast led! GLORIOUS CHAIN! whose links unite Earth to God's eternal seatWhere the golden orbs of night Are but clay beneath its feetMan-archangels-worlds adore thee No. X. Mountains-rivers-forests-flowersTorrents-oceans, bow before theeAnd the everlasting hours:Earth's assembled thousands bending Round thine altar breathe the prayer-Hail the day when seraphs blending In the crimson clouds of air, Ope thy temple--yet untrod And unveil its monarch--God Louisville, Sept. 1, 1839. * Crucifixion. W. WALLACE. † Deluge. VOL. V.-81 SECLUSAVAL; OR THE miser Levi from New York, as had been arranged in Philadelphia; the other to go by the usual means of conveyance. The former was probably suppressed by SEQUEL TO THE TALE OF "JUDITH BENSADDI." the designing miser, who desired Judith to marry his CHAPTER I. son; the latter must have been accidentally lost by the way. I waited in vain for an answer till the next spring, when I prepared for a voyage to London that I might solve the mystery; but was deterred from going by the loss of Judith's portrait. This unfortunate accident threw me into another fit of mental gloom, and to secure the lovely prize of my heart. I rashly concluded that my innocent Judith was false. The ensuing August I was surprised by the receipt of a letter from her, giving me the history of her disappointment and despair at my long silence—her struggle with hopeless love for me-her conversion to christianity through the persuasive eloquence of an amiable young gentleman, whom she had met with among the lakes in the north of England,--and her final consent to marry that gentleman, to whom she was indebted for her christian hope and consolation. A YOUNG LAWYER IN THE GOLD COUNTRY. When I wrote the former part of my story, I expected never again to hear of Judith Bensaddi. Her residence was in England-mine in the Apalachian unfortunately put an end to all hope, and all exertion mountains-among which, or at least within sight of their blue summits, I expected to spend my days. Whatever fortune might betide either of us, it seemed improbable that any intelligence of the one should ever reach the other. Heaven seemed to have ordained that our future experience should have nothing in common, except the sad remembrance of our disappointed love, which we might each in our far distant homes continue to cherish in secret, and I at least would cherish in loneliness and sorrow, to the last hour of life. But the way of man is not in himself. The power that rules our destiny had ordained that I should visit London, and there receive most affecting intelligence of Judith. What I heard-what followed to agitate and perplex me still more-and what the issue was-I shall now proceed to relate, after premising a brief recapitulation of my former story, in order to refresh the reader's memory. I was studying law, when symptoms of consumption drove me from my native Rockbridge to spend a winter in South Carolina. In the spring I set out with renovated health, to return home by way of Charleston and the sea to Norfolk. In the stage I found Eli Bensaddi of London and his lovely sister Judith, going by the same route towards Boston. We travelled in company, mutually pleased to have met, and I somewhat more than pleased with the beautiful black-eyed sister. I This letter filled me with grief, with self-reproach, and with unutterable despair. Such was the unhappy conclusion for the time, and as I then thought forever, of my love-adventure with the beautiful, the accomplished, and the pure-hearted Judith Bensaddi. All that I could now do, was to love without hope, and to mourn without consolation for my lost bride, until time and some other engaging pursuit, should distil their mitigating balm into my deeply-wounded heart. Now I would fain hear no more of my lost one; that might ever think of her as my own lovely bride, snatched by some evil fate from my arms, between the betrothal and the nuptials. I abhorred the conception that she lived on this earth, as the happy or the unhappy wife of another man. Whenever I found the On the first day of our voyage, poor Eli fell over-train of my thoughts leading towards this painful conboard and was lost. Judith, in her first paroxysm of ception, I shuddered and broke off the train, saying with grief, also fell into the sea, and was saved by my leap. king Lear in the tragedy, "Ah, that way madness ing into the water as she sank. I took charge of the lies." lovely mourner, and was conducting her to a friend of hers in Boston, when my ankle was so sprained in Philadelphia, that we were detained ten days, until her cousin Von Caleb came from Boston to take her home. Meantime, my love for this pure and amiable young lady grew so intense, that I declared myself and offered her marriage. She frankly confessed that our love was mutual; but, to my great surprise, informed me that she was a Jewess; and because I had not known and considered this fact, she would accept my offer of marriage, only upon the condition that after my return home, I should deliberately and freely ratify the engagement. From her cousin Von Caleb, and a miserly Jew named Levi, I first learned that her father was a wealthy banker, and that an uncle had devised her an independent fortune of three thousand pounds a year. Judith and I parted with deep sorrow. On my return, a fit of despondency came on me and presented my intended marriage with a Jewess in gloomy colors. After a severe and protracted struggle of opposite principles, I was able to decide in favor of the marriage through the influence of Judith's miniature, which she had given me. I wrote two letters; the one to go by the My only hope of relief from paralyzing melancholy, was to engage promptly and assiduously in the practice of my profession. My preparation was thorough and complete. Experience had now taught me the evil effects of indecision and melancholy. Dearly had I paid for the indulgence of these native tendencies of my mind. I was reduced to such a state that I must rally or perish. I summoned all my remaining energies to the rescue. I resolved to make the weak points of my character the objects of constant watchfulness, and of strenuous efforts at moral improvement. With the Divine blessing I succeeded in overcoming them, not wholly nor at once; (for vices of character are not cast off by a single effort;) but to such a degree from time to time, as to encourage persevering exertions, and to furnish a salutary example for the imitation of other young men. My circumstances required a field of action more wide and promising than my native Rockbridge. I determined to try my fortune among the gathering population and stirring pursuits of the Carolinian gold country. The day before I left the home of my youth, I took frauded by a speculator. But success in his suit was likely to make him poorer than before-for the soil would not repay the labor of cultivation, and the failure of the speculator in some mining experiments upon it, made the tract unsaleable as gold land. At last my poor client came and besought me to give him eight hundred dollars for his eight hundred acres of barren hills and vales. More out of pity than the hope of gain, I paid the man his price, and sent him rejoicing with his family to the rich lands of the west. For this charitable purchase I was ridiculed by the knowing ones, and had to hear sundry unfavorable auguries respecting my prospects of future wealth. a farewell ramble over the loved scenes of the vicinage. I meager tract of land, out of which he had been deAmong other spots of peculiar interest, I visited the one by the river side, where I had so unfortunately dropped my Judith's miniature. I searched once more, if peradventure I might find the golden locket-case; for the portrait I presumed to have been blotted out forever by the envious water. To my joyful surprise, I found the elegant case lodged in a crevice of the rock above the level of the river, now shrunken by the drought of summer. Eagerly I pressed the spring--the lid flew up--and so did my heart, when I beheld the unsullied likeness of my Judith, whose lovely self appeared once more to look upon me. The picture had been preserved by a glass cover sealed hermetically to the raised edge of the case. I conceived I know not what vague hope from this unexpected discovery. Heretofore this picture had operated with talismanic power to revive my love, and to brighten my matrimonial prospects. But now, when Judith was spell-bound by solemn vows to another, what potency could there be in this or any other charm to disenchant my lost bride, and bring her again within the reach of my arms? I could not tell; but nevertheless, the recovery of the miniature diffused a new warmth, and an obscure glimmer of something like hope through my soul. However, I was not discouraged, but immediately employed an honest man, acquainted with the business, to search my barren freehold for the precious metal. In a few days I turned the laugh against the knowing ones, by the discovery of a rich deposit of gold, in a little valley which had not been scrutinized by the speculator. It was the most productive mine yet discovered in the country. Besides the fine grains usually met with, lumps of gold weighing often an ounce and sometimes a pound, were picked out of the gravel. My clear profits from this source amounted to about a thousand dollars a month. Now my attention was drawn to the mineralogy of gold mines. I began to study the subject at intervals, by way of relaxation from the arduous labors of my profession. I examined the localities of the mines, noticed the character of the minerals among which the gold was found, observed the conformation of the hills and vallies, and marked how the layers of rock were disposed. In this new pursuit I derived an unforeseen advantage from my college studies. In the course of my education I had gone through the mathematical and physical sciences, more with the view of gaining the honors of scholarship, than with any hope of practical benefit in future life. How often do young men mistake their true interest, when they neglect, as unprofitable, any part of those studies which the wisdom of ages has prescribed as necessary to a good education! My knowledge of chemistry, mineralogy, and Again I hung the precious jewel in my bosom, and ceased not to wear it for years afterwards. A thousand times did I open the case, and feel anew the fascinating beauty of that countenance; as often did those dark eyes of love seem to give me an inspiring look of encouragement. But when I would close the case, and look around at the realities of my situation, all my sweet visions fled and left me to utter solitude of heart. I reached the gold country in time to attend the fall terms of the courts. I was so fortunate as to obtain immediate employment, first in a criminal case and then in a civil one; and each time I happened to make such a creditable effort, that I sprang at once into reputation and a lucrative practice. Whatever portion of my first success might be attributed to good fortune, I strove with all my energies to sustain and to elevate the reputation so happily acquired. I labored night and day to extend my knowledge of the law, and to prepare myself thoroughly upon every case put into my hands. I geology-imperfect as it was-enabled me to pursue knew full well, that with ordinary talents, such diligence would ensure success, and that no degree of natural talents could give me ultimate success without laborious application. the study of gold mines with facility and success. In less than a year I had acquired considerable skill as a gold-finder. A gentleman of my acquaintance was involved in a law-suit about a valuable gold mine in Georgia. I accepted his offer of a liberal fee to manage the case for him, and consequently had to make a visit to the newly discovered gold region of Georgia. This was about six months after I had commenced the study of mines. So lucrative was my practice, that within six months I found myself in possession of more than a thousand dollars of clear gain; and what was of more value, my heart was relieved from melancholy; my soul was prompt to resolve and vigorous to pursue the course resolved upon. Such were the happy effects of dili-I embraced the opportunity of improving my knowgence in an honorable vocation. ledge of the subject by examining the Georgia mines. The suit was not tried until the succeeding spring, when I went a second time to the same country, and succeeded in obtaining a verdict in favor of my client, and thereby an additional fee of one thousand dollars for myself. But this was only a small part of my good fortune in Georgia. Speculation in gold mines began to rage; but I felt no inclination to deviate from the safe road of my profession into the hazardous experiment of gold mining. I was too full of law to think of gold in any shape but that of fees. Avarice was not my passion-chicanery I disdained-but the fair rewards of professional ability I sought, and felt justified in seeking. Yet was I inci- On my return homewards, wishing to see the hill dentally involved in the gross earthy process of digging country, I was skirting the Cherokee border by an for gold. unfrequented route, when my attention was arrested A poor man had employed my agency to recover al by indications of gold. A torrent filled by extraordi |