Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 19 September 1857 — Page 1

NEW SERIES--VOL. IX, NO. 9.

IP YOUR FOOT IS MtETTY, "SHOW IT/ If yonr foot ia pretty, show it,

No matter where nor when '.r

j|, Let all fair maidens know it, The foot take all the men. (j Tho face, BO fair and lovoly,

May charm thegtutcrV eye: .. .... But if the foot is homely, He-11 qftickly pass her by.

If

your

foot in pretty, show it,

When you trip along- tho street

.... For it will catch the eager eyes Of every man you meot. Don't toss yonr glos.iy ringlets,

Nor pout your lips so sweet -. But gently lift yonr pct'.icoata, And show yo.ur handsome feet. V" S I ,. "l

If yeur foot is pretty, show it, .. Atconccrt, bnUautl fair Vor the small pedal index, .-f-r-:

Tells where your graces arc. f, Tho figure may deecive me, All hooped and padded o'er But let my eye survey tho foot,

I ask to ace no more. "..

If your foot is pretty, show it, If you wish to catch the beaux, No longer hide the tell-tale charm

Beneath so many clothef. A graceful foot betrays a form,Of rare and faultless grace Full, rounded limbs it doth rcvcnl,

For fancy's eye to tracc.

If your foetis pretty, fliow it, Yes, showit when you enn 'Twill help your other 'ovcly charms,

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To win Boinc nicq^oung man. The practiced eye may well distrust s-i A nicely padded breast

But when it rests upon your foot, It knows of al! the rest.

1 FASHION AM) FJSHI:S.

Tt has? bcconie quite fashionable in England, and of course, also in New York, for Indies to have little artificial fisli ponds nmde of glass, with rock*, marine plants and aniigals in them. These are called Aquariums or Vavariums, and are said to he very pretty and to cultivate a taste for the study of nature. One of the poets Punch thus humorously testifies to the. zeal of the British ladies in this matter:

INVITATION TO 'i'llfl AQl'Alt!AI.

'Oh, come with mc, and you sliiill i-eo My beautiful Aquarium, Or if that word you '-nil ain-urd,

We'll say instead, Vivarium.

-»Tis a glass oasts in Until space, Wliero over pebbles weedy ---•Small flulios ]'ay —now do not-say

Yc.ti think tiny must bo M:cdy.

•-'.•• My minnows thrive, thcy'ie all alive ?. i\Iv g!i.:L*cons also Ihnin.-h Ji..?, 'Ti'i ut, perch and jock, and h'ickle.La.k,. ...

Within that {?!u3 I roitrisli.

Tlicn there's the roai li, Mid there's tho loach, And there*." the craw-tish ovawling: And efts and newls—don't call them brute*

O'er one another sprawling.

Oli! pretty s-i^lit! how 1 dtdi.nii*. Of nature in the study, Tlie wa'.or here is, oh so clear,

It wt nld not do if muddy.

My bird he sing.', and chips his win :#, 1 know that »vhat Im wishes T- tocsci'.pc liis eiisro and scrnpo

Acquaintnucc with the lii=hes.

-.'.Now, toll inc. do.'suppose tlint Yonr mode of life could vary,

"••Which would you like to be my pike.'

Or to be my canary?

3 HE DAUGHTER OF CHABLE-

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MAGNE.

The'reign of Charlemagne offers a piclure of gigantic power, by which nations were formed and destroyed, aud which has: exercised an influence such as has been felt for centuries, and has compelled succeeding generations to admire its greatness though not to justify all the actions resulting from it. Charlemagne, Icing of the Franks, and subsequently Emperor of the West, was born in 74*2, in the castle of Carlsberg, on the lake of Wurmsee, in Upper Bavaria. Some state that his birth took place in the onstle of Ingclheim, near Mentz, and others at Aix-la-Chapelle.— His father was Pepin the Short, king of the Franks, aud son of Charles Martel.

In the year SOO, when Charlemagne (until then called simply Charles or Karl, who had been crowned king of the Franks in 7GS,) had attained his fifty-eighth year, he was crowned by Pope Leo III, and made Emperor of the West. lie had appeared in the church where his coronation took place, dressed simply as a Roman patrician. While lie was engaged in the act of prayer on the steps of the highest altar of the chief church in Rome, Leo suddenly placed on his head a crown of gold, pronouncing the ancicnt formula used at the coronation of a Christian emperor: "Glory and long life to Charles Augustus, crowned by God as the great and pacific Emperor of the Romans." The clergy and assembled people repeated the words with one voice, and the dome instantly resouuded with loud acclamations. The emperor was then consecrated by his holiness, and the Pope and nobles present did him homage. Charlemagne, on his part, swore to maintain the faith and privileges of the church, and mado rich offerings at tlie shrine of the apostles.

The sway of Charlemagne extended over the entire realm of France, with the exception of Brittany and the Basque Provinces, which still maintained a species of wild freedom—over Germany and the far north to the Baltic, including the dominions of Prussia, Poland, Bohemia, Bavaria and Switzerland, and at least a nominal suveraiity over the country of the Huns to

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the Danube. over the greater portion of Italy, a tract extending thousand miles from the Alps to the borders of Calabria, and over that part of Spain which runs from the Pyrenees to the Ebro. Thus from west to east the empire stretched from the Atlantic to the Vistula, and from north to south from the Baltic to the Mediterranean. The government of these immense regions required no ordinary political skill and knowledge of human nature and. it is the talent and judgment which he displayed in I113 civil administration which entitles Charlemagne to the rank which he holds as a great historical character, more than do all his victories, or the magnitude of his domains. Not that in the present day .all he did could be approved or tolerated, but, what was equally good or better —his measures were adapted to the age wherein he lived, and had the effect, rude aud savage as we may now deem them, of at once planting the seeds of general civilization, and imparting an impulse to their growth. The barbarity of the age and the rudeness of the manner of his day heightens his real merit. If we may not regard him as a philosopher, intellectually in advance of his generation, he was at least a souiul thinking and practical statesman capable of tracing passing events to their causcs, and of drawing thence useful hints for the conduct of the future, not in solitary instances, but throughout his long and arduous career. His means of achievement were incessant activity both of mind and body, and his great aim seems to have been the establishment of a power which might become the rich and peaceful heritage of his posterity. He sought, in fact, to found a dynasty, and to clear from the path of his children the numerous obstacles which had impeded his grandfather, his father, and himself.

The indignation of Charlemagne was excited at beholding all things in his empire in a most dissevered, anarchial and brut ish condition, and he devoted all his energies to lessen their hideousness. A shorttime after the. death of his father, Charlemagne wedded a daughter of Didier, notwithstanding the protestations of the Pope who was scandalizing at such an alliance with a "heretic." For several years nothing occurred to interrupt the harmony existing between the king and his spouse but eventually Charlemagne was smitten with the charms of the beautiful IJildegardc, and in order to espouse her lie repudiated the daughter of .Didier wTho, to avenge tlie wrong, solicited Adrian I., who had now succeeded Paul in the pontificate, to consecrate the two sous of Carloman (the younger brother of Charlemagne,) and make them kings of France. Adrian, however, was a wary and sagacious man, and how small soever might have been the love 1 he bore to the ambitious Frank monarch, I lie inherited all the hate of his predecessors against the Lombards. He refused to do the bidding of Didier, and the latter immediately commenced hostilities against die Toman state, aud marched at the head of a large army to the gates of the holy city.

Adrian, in alarm, dispatched messengers to solicit the aid of Charlemagne, and, in the meantime barricaded the walls ot St. Peter's with large bars of iron manned tlie holy city, and prepared to hold out to. the last extremity.

The result of the interference of Charlemagne was the flight of .Didier. The Frank monarch (following the example of Theodoric, when he destroyed the dominions of the Hcruli,) left his generals to follow the operations of a siege at Pavia, (from whence Didier had fled,) and occupied himself in reducing the surrounding country, which fell without difficulty into his hands. When lie returned to Pavia, there remained of the whole realm^ of Didier nothing but what was encircled by the walls of the city. Didier finally died of the famine resulting from the desolation created by the troops of Charlemagne.

A short time after the coronation of Charlemagne, an embassy was sent to him at his favorite palace at Aix-la-Chapelle, from Irene, empress of the cast who, after causing the eyes of her son to be put out, had usurped his sceptre and governed the Grecian empire with ability aud splendor. Irene now sought, by espousing the great Charlemagne, to unite once more the eastern and western world, and to restore the magnificent throne to Constantino the Great but her object was frustrated by her overthrow and exile though, but for that she would have succeeded, as Charlemagne appeared in no way averse to this singular proposal being, in spite of his greatness as a politician, by no means a model in his domestic life. I

Charlemagne, although at the time of his accession to the throuc he was ignorant of either reading or writing, was possessed of remarkable and profound genius. He was a lover of literature and a liberal patron of learned men. From his third journey or pilgrimage to Bome, the emperor brought home with him several professors of grammar and arithmetic, and also some music masters to teach the Frank choristers the harmonies of the Gregorian chant. The zeal of Charlemagne for the revival of letters, moreover, was not limited to the protection and encouragement of men of learning. He set an example of study and

perseverance in his own person, to his courtiers. and made the acquisition of henor in some measure dependant upon the literary acquirements of candidates. He became a proficient in the art of committing his tho'ts fo paper, and added thereto considerable knowledge of languages and astronomy learned the grammar of Peter of Hisa, a professor of the public school or Uuiversito of Pavia, and mastered the logic and other sciences taught by Alcuin, his confidential friend a learned man of that period. The great officers of the court, the confidants and courtiers, were not slow to follow the example of the emperor, whose daughters were initiated into the mysteries of erudition. Thus, in the imperial palace a sort of academy was formed, comprising the princes and princesses, and the distinguished literary men of the household.— This association was called the Palatinic College, after the ancient schools of the same kind which had existed in the time of the Roman emperors, whose style and dignity, as well as their best institutions, were revived by Charlemagne and from this germ arose the University of Paris.— Besides this, he instituted elementary schools for children, and others for pupils of more advanced age and higher attainments, in which skilful teachers were employed to give instruction in all the current learning of the age. Nor was the emperor satisfied with merely founding academies he often visited them to see that their objects were efficiently carried out giving personal directions concerning the studies to be pursued, and ascertaining the progress of the scholars by personal examination. He encouraged the diligent and threatened the idle and dull with his displeasure ^:'.One of his menaces was that unless the sons of the scignours surpassed the sons of the poor in learning and talent, he would confer all honors, appointments and benefices upon the latter.

In estimating the labors of Charlemagne the influence which he exerted upon his age, and his individual character, it must never be forgotten that his life commenced among barbarians of the rudest stamp that the sole education of his youth was that of a warrior and that the best years of his manhood were spent among the wild tribes of the north, whose fierce and ungoverncd manners and propensities must have tended to impress on him a belief that his own country, in comparison with others was already highly civilized.

His lofty genius, extensive capacity, and a strong faith in the powers and destinies of man, were required to enable him to penetrate the true state of his country, and he must have possessed untiring energy and patience to attempt, after contemplating the obstacles which I10 had to surmount, to evolve light from thick darkness and order from chaotic confusion. If Peter the Great merits the admiration and

sculpture, manufactures, and commerce shared, with literature and music, the regard of the.emperor many.improvements in the strength and style of monasteries, fortresses, and castles, with statues, and CflTved orncments, and in the domestic furniture of the age, are' due to Charlemagne. He caused the Yulgate to he revised, composed a Teutonic grammar, and caused to be collected the ancient ballade of his country.

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cratitucc of mankind for his efforts in be- looked lor and longed for during all the half of the barbarous Russians of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Charlemagne assuredly deserves still greater reverence from his species for his exertions, which benefitted the whole European world, aud at a period when there were no such inducements to action as those whicli'must have operated 011 the mind of Peter. The latter could not fain to be struck with the palpable disadvantages, if not the anomaly, of a nation of savages re- light and graceful form

maining without progression, in contact though (on account of itsjx-rbarisin) nearly excluded from intercourse with States the most highly cultivated, the wealthiest, the happiest, and the most powerful in the records of time but for the Frank no such means of comparison existed. He might, indeed, have heard traditions of an era of greatness and glory: but these would scarcely have had reference to the refinement of manners or the advancement of the peaceful arts of life, but to war and conquest—to multitudes of slaves and the accumulation of spoil. The fame of Peter may fairly be said to be based on his beneficial use ol extraordinary talents, while that of Charlemagne sprung from the possession and exercise of high creative faculties, and a power of computing results and adapting his means to the ends which he sought.

In the course which these two sovereigns pursued to give popularity to their efforts, there is more resemblance between Peter and Charlemagne than in their general character. In order to teach his subjects to build better houses, to become artificers in iron, and to construct ships, the former learned the art of the mason, the blacksmith, and the shipwright while the latter, to give the Franks a zest for Greek, Latin, astronomy, logic, and writing, studied what he recommended, and became in his own person an example of the advantages they conferred among other things he wrote a great number of letters to the Pope, to the bishops of the empire, to his friend, Alcuin, to the various members of his family, and to the princes and rulers of other nations. His epistles to the emperors of Constantinople alone, were sufficiently numerous to form a considerable collection, and copies of them as such were to he seen a few years after his death in the library of the monastery of St. Riquier. Poetry, also, is attributed to Charlemagne^—among other pieces, an epitaph upon Pope Adrian the First. Painting,

of Charlemagne flourished

many men distinguished for learning and baavery. The names of the last are enshrined in poetry and romance, and have become known as models of chivalry thro out the world."*Who has not heard of Olivier, Guy of Burgundy, Riol du Mas, and the invincible Rolando, the Orlando of Ariosto, and Bojardo?

Among the learned men whom Charlemagne caused to become apart of his^court were Peter of Pisa, before mentioned Paul Warnefrid, the historian of the Lombards Theodulfc and Leidrade, two of the most eminent churchmen and writers of age Clement, an Irish monk, and Alcuin, mentioned before as his intimate friend, who was an Englishman, and one of the greatest men in the history of the period his own biographer was Eginhard, a learned secretary of his court, of whose love for the daughter of Charlemagne we are now about to speak.

Eginhard was of Frankish race, born beyond the Rhine, and calls himself "a barbarian, but little versed in the language of the Romans." King Charlemague took the youth into his service while still very young, and caused him to be brought up with his children in that school of the palace of which Alcuin was the head.

Dmma, one of the daughters of Charlemagne, and, it is believed, the favorite of her father, was very beautiful. She inherited the charms of her mother, the beautiful Mathalgarde, a slave brought from Greece. Her long black hair fell to her waist in broad and glossy braids her features were statuesque in their perfection her form was graceful and rounded and a rich color mantled her cheeks.

From her earliest childhood, the lovely Emma was accustomed to the society of the boy, Eginhard. The youth waa endowed with remarkable beauty of person, of which the intellectual order contrasted greatly with the savage type of most of the countenances seen in the court of Charlemagne.

Emma was by nature endowed with great talents ".i this attracted the attention of Eginhard, who, as a boy, owing to his superior information, was able to guide her in her arduous tasks. It was his greatest delight to share with her the hours of study, which, thus lightened and deprived of their monotony by tho flashes of Emma's genius, became the time the most

years which Eginhard passed at the palatine college. Eginhard was no mere book-worm 'Tie excelled in all manly sports. The chase was one of his favorite occupations and he broke several steeds, brought from foreign lands among the spoils of the evervictorious Charlemagne, and so governed them as to enable the fair daughter of the Kino- to entrust to thejn the burden of her

The day on which Eginhard first declared to Emma a passion, of which the presumptuousness is scarce to be appreciated at the present day, (when the daughters of kings are less isolated from the society of the intellectually great,) was a day ever to be'remembered by both Eginhard and Emma, The chase was that day selected to be the sport which should amuse the court, and magnificent and royal was the display of costly robes and radient beauty by the ladies of the household of Charlemagne.

Rotrude, Bertha and Gisla, the daughters of the beautiful ITildegarde, (for whom Charlemagne had divorced the daughter of Didier,) were all extremely lovely. The golden tresses of Gisla fell to her feet and spurned the confinement of a net of gold and pearls which glittered upon her head. Iler eyes were of the pure blue of the pre cious sapphire, and her mouth like red coral. Rotrude, her sister, was celebrated for her proud and queenly form, and for her almost masculine courage. The palfrey which she guided with an assured hand, seemed proud to bear upon its back so noble and fair a burden. Bertha was gentle and timorous, and if less dazzlingly beautiful than her sisters, still well deserved her title of "Bertha of the starry eyes."

Near the three sisters rode Charles, Pepin and Louis, also the children of Hildegrade. Noble were these youths, and noted for their warlike deeds—and well did they match in proud carriage with their fair sisters. Beside her still beautiful mother, Mathalgarde, rode Emma, the youngest child then living of King Charlemagne. There was no one at court so fair as she. Her dress of green velvet was embroidered with golden stars, and was so long as almost to sweep the ground Hopes of costly perals were entwined in her magnificent locks, and a veil covered with stars of jewels fell about her form.' A murmer of admiration attended her steps, and the heart of Eginhard, the secretary

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for such was now his office in the house hold of the king, hounded at the sight of his beloved. Suddenly the long skirts of the dress worn by ihe princess Emma, became entangled in the hoofs of her prancing steed, and a buzz ofTilarm went round among the courtiers. The quick eye of Eginhard, who rode beside the king, marked the accident, and ere it could end in a disaster, the secretary kneeling at the feet of the steed of the princess, had disengaged her flowing robes and restored to her trembling fingers the slender reins, embossed with silver, which, in her alarm, she had suffered to fall from them. As the young Frank bent his head, Emma observed that beneath his coat of velvet, he wore upon his right breast a small jewel which she sometimes had worn upon her arm, and which for along time she had supposed to be lost. As Eginhard raised his eyes to the face of the princess at the moment of restoring the reins of the palfrey, he observed that a vivid blush overspread her cheeks, and that she glanced at the jewel in his bosom. Eginhard profited by the opportunity to make known to her he cherished the jewel for her sake, by pressing his left hand to the portion oi his vest to which it was at'ached, as he made his parting salution. Although this action had seemed to be no more than a dutiful obeisance, such as any gentleman of the court might have made after fulfilling an office of service for a royal lady, a mere presure of the hand upon the heart. The juick eye of Charlemagne had noted it as well as the officious nature of the assistance rendered by Eginhard to the princess, from whom at the moment of her accident, the young secretary was much further removed than many of the gentlemen belonging to the hunting party.

Charlemagne, in a deep aud somewhat, angry voice, now exclaimed, as he put his spurs to his horse, "Let there be 110 more delay and at the same time he motioned to Eginhard to resume his place beside him. Emma had observed that her father was not pleased at the attention which had been rendered bcr by tlie secretary but her curiosity had been awakened by the discovery of the jewel, and she longed to know more of the sentiments of Egiuhard than had been expressed by his gesture for her own sympathies had long before been enlisted in his favor, and she feared that she had been to ready to put a tender construction upon what might, after all, be but the humble obeisance of a courtier to a royal princess.

Beside his quality of secretary, Eginhard held in the palace the office of superinteudant of public works, roads, canals aud buildings of all kinds, and was furthermore called "Counselor to the King,"

Still there was a very wide chasm of scperation between the Counselor of the king and the daughter of the king—for though the fair Emma was but an illegitimate daughter, Charlemagne on account of her extraordinary beauty and remarkable talents, loved her as much and prized her as dearly as any of his children. Besides the social separation between Emma and Eginhard, there existed an obstacle originated by Cbaiiemgnc himselt. Proud oi the lovliness of Emma, he was desirous that she should shine in the eyes of a nation which I10 held in great esteem, and had promised her hand to the king of the reeks, who was expected to claim his bride when she should have completed her eighteenth year so arbtrary in those days was tlie will of a parent, in matters of matrimony, and so imperative above all, the determination of a king in regard to the marriage of either son or daughter, that Emma, although she secretly loved Eginhard, had not dreamed of daring to oppose the will of her father.

Such au unheard of thing as a marriage between a king's daughter and one who, in reality, was nothing more than a menial in the royal household, had at that time neither been heard or dreamed of. Eginhard was but too well aware how prcsumptuous, how hopeless was his love for Emma. lie had but one hope that she might share it: that he might dare to reveal it, and beyond all that seemed a blank. Even audacious hope could go no fnrthcr than to look for sympathy instead of anger from the princess. How often had Charlemngne spoken of his determination to found a dynasty, and that all his kin should wed nobly? While these sad thoughts progressed in a weary procession through the brain of the arch-chaplain," as Eginhard was also entitled, the chase proceeded. It was not till the party was returning that he again found himself near the princess Emma.—

The king had ridden forward to speak to Mthelgrade, then his favorite, as she continued to be for several years, and the rest of the court rode slowly, falling back so as to leave a space around the king. At this moment the palfrey of the princess Emma reared and pawed the air with its feet. The princess preserved her selfcommand hut Eginhard rode up to her steed and patted its neck, thus subduing it. The princess said in a low voice, to Eginhard, "you are always ready—." "To die in your service," answered the secretary, quickly, but in a voiee of tenderness. After this conversation—if such it should be called, and surely it contained a whole day,s protestations—many and pecrct were

the interchanges of love vows and loving thoughts between the princess Emma and the humble secretary of Charlemagne.

Eginhard continued to acquit himself very honorably of his offices near the king, and was much beloved: and chcrished byall the court. Every day increased the love between himself and Emma. Fear restrained them from meeting. From apprehension of the royal displeasure they did not dared to incur the grave danger of seeing cach other in private. But love, ever on the alert conquered at last. Eginhard, consumed by his ardent passion, suddenly took confidence in himself, and secretly, in tlie middle of the night, stole to the royal apartment of the princess Emma. Havig nknocked softly as if to speak to the young girl by order of the king, he obtained permission to enter. "\Vhen he had entered, he threw himself at her feet, implored her pardon for his boldness, and the princess, overwhelmed with joy at being at last able to hear her lover speak without reserve of his passion, permitted him to remain. When at the.approach of day Eginhard wished to return whence he came, through the departing shadows of the night, he perceived that a great quantity of snow had fallen and he dared not go out, for fear the traoes of a man's foot should betray his secret. Both the princess aud himself were now full of anguish, and remained within. At length, the unhappy young girl, whom love rendered daring, after long deliberating what they should do, gave her advice to Eginhard, and said that stooping she would take him on her shoulders and carry him close to his own dwelling, and having deposited him there she would return, carefully following the same steps.

Now the emperor had passed the night without sleep and rising before day, he looked from the tower of his palace. He his daughter bearing the youthful Eginhard aud tottering beneath the weight which she bore, and when she had deposited her beloved burden on the ground,^ slowly aud carefully retracing the same steps. After having loug looked upon her, Charlemagne was seized at once with admiration and grief—but thinking that this could not have happened without a providential interposition, he restrained himself and preserved silence upon what he had seen.

In the meantime, Egingard, full of remorse at what he had done—and certain that, in some way or other his guilt would soon be revealed to the king—at last resolved, in the depth of his misery, to seek the emperor, his lord, and on his knees demand a mission of him saying that his services, already great and numerous, had received 110 fitting recompense. At these words the king, without betraying what he had discovered, held silence for some time, aud then assuring Eginhard that he would soon give him an answer, he named a day for doing so. He immediately convoked his counsellors, the chief of the kingdom, and his other familiar adhhcrcnts, and bade them hasten to him.

When the magnificent assembly of the various lords was met, he spoke to them, saying that the imperial majesty had boon insolently outraged by the guilty love ot his daughter for his secretary, and that he was greatly troubled at it. The assembly was struck with amazement, and some ol them still appeared to doubt, the story being so unheard of and daring. 'Ihe king now recounted matters exactly as he had seen thciu, and asked the advice pi his Lords upon the subject.

Various sentences were pronounced against the presumptuous author ot the deed some wished lam punished in a manner hitherto without example—others advised his exile, and others that he should be subjected to the fullest penalty of the existing law each speaking according to the particular feeling which influenced him.

Some, however, were more benevolent, as well as wiser, and after having conversed apart—they earnestly implored the emperor to examine the matter in his own mind, and decide it according to the great wisdom which he had received from heaven.

When the king had well observed the affection which cach of these bore to him,

and among the various opinions offered,

counsellors: "You know that men are sub-1

ject to various accidents, and that it often j0f

Having listened fo the advice of the king, all loudly rejoiced and loaded with praises the bcnevolcnce and ability of his dal incrcdiblc

Eginhard was

grand soul and lofty mind. now ordered to enter. When the sccactary appeared, the king saluted him as had been resolved, and said to him with a tranquil countenance: "You liava laid before us you complaints that our royal munificence has not worthily rewarded your services. To speak truly, it is your own negligcncc which, should bo accused, for despite so many and so great affairs of which I alone have borne the bur* den, if I had known anything of your desires, I would have accorded to your services the honors which are due to them.— Not td detain you with along discourse, I shall, however, put an end to your complaints by a magnificent gift as I wish altvays to sec you as faithful to me as heretofore, and attached to my person, I will give you my daughter in marriage—slio who, in a moment of peril—so faithfully did bear you upon her shoulders."

Immediately, according to the orders of the king, and amidst a numerous suite, Emma, the' young princess, entered, her cheeks covered with burning blushes.— The emperor now placed the. hands of his daughter within the hands of Eginhard, and endowed her with a rich dowry, many domains, much gold and great propctty. The most pious emperor, Louis la Dcbonnaire, who succccded Charlemagne, likewise gave to Eginhard the domain of Miclilenstadt and that of Muhlenheim, which is now called Scligstadt.

It was chiefly out of his great gratitude that Eginhard became the biographer of the magnanimous Charlemagne. He wrote a perfect life of the emperor, justly setting forth his royal and great deeds. When the death of the emperor drew near, I10 sent Eginhard to Rome to procure the confirmation of his will but such was his attachment to his secretary, that this was the only occasion upon which he suffered him to leave his service near his person.

In her old ago, troubled by remorse at her early sin, Emma left Eginhard and repaired to a nunnery, where she ended her flays. She was tenderly beloved by Eginhard, who thus writes of her after her death, to a dear friend, Loup, Abbot of Ferrieres "All my labors, all my cares for the affairs of my friends, or my own, arc nothing to me all is effaced, all sinksbefore the cruel -sorrow with which tho death of her, who was formerly my faithful wife, has struck me who was also my sister and my cherished companion. It ia a misery which cannot end for her merits are so deeply engraven in my memory that nothing can tear them thencc. What redoubles my grief—and every day aggravates my wound—is, to thus see that Jill my wishes have been without effect, and that the hopes which I have placed in the intervention of the holy martyrs arc deceived. Accordingly, the words of thosewho attempt to console 111c, and which havo often succeedcd with other men, do nothing but re-open and cruelly envenom (lie wound of my heart for they call upon'me to support with courage sorrows which they de not feel, and a.-.lc niu to congratulate myself upon a trial wherein they are incapable of pointing out to ine the slightest subject for contentment."

Eginhard died in 839, in the monastery of S'l'igesfadt, which lie had founded. ashes repose in peace beside daughter of Charlemagne.

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SONAL I.v.sorAKxr IR.s OR CLERGY-

Among the bankruptcies of our day, tho moral insolvencies of clergymen seem almost as fre'jticnt and quite deplorable as: any other. Making due allowance for the rapid growth of our country and the more perfect collection and diffusion of intelligence, it is still c\idcnt that the number: of clerieal culprits i: greater than ever before. And while the great body of the clergy are undoubtedly, now as ever, pure and good men, the exposure of one reprobate attracts more public attention than the unfaltering uprightness of a score of his sacerdotal brethren. Vt all hear of the minister whose sin has been exposed: we hardly ever think of the hundreds who provoke and dread no exposure. Thus the fall of a clergyman becomes a wide-spread calamity, unsettling our faith in the existence of virtue, and leading too many of the thoughtless to regard religion as but cloak for hypocracy and sensuality.

We think one obvious remedy for this deplorable state ol things is to be found in a more circumspect deportment on the part of the good men who 'ill the clerical office. "Let not your good be evil spoken of," i3,

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had chosen that which he had previously made a cloak for the false and the vile. 1 1 !, .•,!

determined to iC'llow, he thus spoke to h.s 7

precept—above all, letitnotbo

Evcrv clergyman should imperatively

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happens that things which commence with that, forty-nine times in fifty, no wrong is a misfortune have= a more favorable issue either cnacted or contemplated at private we must not grieve for this affair, which, by its novelty and gravity, has surpassed our foresight, but far rather piously seek for and respect the intentions of Providence who is never deceived, and who knows how to turn evil to good. I shall not, therefore, subject my secretary, for this deplorable affair, to a chastisement which will increase instead of effacing the dishonor of my daughter. I think that it is more wise, and that it bettor becomes the dignity of our empire, to pardon their youth—and unite them in legitimate marriage—and thus give their disgraceful fault a color of honor."

others. It is not enough

interviews the fact that wrong is sometimes done—that corrupt and bad men a us he a or to in their private conferences with womcn-=—'.. should be conclusive. If every clergyman now ordained were absolutely unimpeach-. able, it would still be wrong in them to

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what would tempt hyp"critcs to enter the.( ministry on purpose to enjoy special op-: portunitic-s for gratifying their lusts. The natural ascendency of clergymen over the minds of the most women, the confidents generally reposed in the ministerial office in short, all that gives to the intercourse of clergymen with their female parishioners a freedom aud familiarity which, in tho case of others, would cause scandal—imperatively requires that clergymen should prescribe to themselves and insist on a caution and reserve in their intercourse which must render sin impossible and scan-