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JPottrg. TO A PORTRAIT OF MY MOTHER, Taken in Her Childhood. I’ve gazed in dreamy silence on tho stars That rest in solemn splendor strange and proud, Wearing the old unchanging smile above The giant groves of ages, that rushed down To the all-voiceless gulf with broken hearts Clasped in their awful bosoms! The cold start That seem to say, without an audible voice, “Behold us! we are God’s bright mysteries! Weep that our glory and our loveliness Is to ye mortals unapproachable!” [float Then I have turned to watch the sweet moon Through the unfathomable deeps of Night, Like some young angel’s pleasure-bar 1 * sent forth From the far shores of Paradise! And then I’ve longed, oh, with what vain intensity, What burning, agonizing brain to know The things beneath Eternity’s still vail. And yet it wero as sweet to look on thee, Fair shadow of evanished loveliness, As the near glory of moon or star Ay, or Heaven beyond! Alas, alas! They tell me,picture, that thou art a thing Of fairy beauty; that thy lips and brow Are chiseled as might be a baby-angel’s! [lessly Thos» curls of gold-touched brown sweep careAround thy dimpled bosom’s snow; and that Thy tiny hand grasps summer’s sweetest flowers, Not one so sweet as thou ! Oh. in my heart The worship for all beauty is so deep That I could iove thee for thy loveliness; Ay, love thee earnestly for that alone. [tured But when I think how those young charms inaAnd si ftened into calmer brightness, watched Above my cradle dreams; how that fond breast Has pillowed oft my childish head; and how— Hush, breaking heart—how once that lovely lip Called me those sweet names only moth rsknow; And how. at last, that fairest face grew pale, “And icy cold, and strangely, sadly calm, And met our kisses— and returned them not; And how amid the moonlight-mists of May, Pale flowers lay fading o’er a grave, whose shade Darkened our home!—Home? ’tis a sweet, sweet word— But it sounds strangely on my lip! and how Each mournful even in the twilight-lnish My baby brother lisped “Mamma!” in vain; And when they told him she was gone to Heaven, And would coino back no more, sank wearily To orphan slumbers, sweetly asking why She did not lake him! And how ofi we said, ‘•We always, always will be lonesome now.” Oh, when these thoughts rise from the mists of How deeply, fondly, fearfully I yearn [years To look, bright shade, on thee! But thou art far, So far away, and my unrestful course Perchance will never, never wtlid to thee; And she,thy scmblance-sighs and tears are vain--It were as well to kneel before the Night, And question of tho Pleiad that is fled From her eternal splendors, as to ask The voiceless Heaven for her'. The angels know She is my Mother—yet they answer not.

piistdlantotts. XIIE OLD REST mANOU.UOESE, [The following we extractfroin Robert Dale Owen’s Book, “Footfalls on the Foundry of the Unknown World:”] In October, 1857, and for several months afterward, Mrs. It , wife of a field officer of high rank in the British army, was residing in Ramhurst Manor-House,near Leigh, in Kent, England. From the time of her first occupying this ancient residence, every inmate of the house had been more or less disturbed at night —not usually the day—by knockings and sounds as of footsteps, but more especially by voices which could not be accounted for. These last were usually heard in some unoccupied adjoining room; sometimes as if talking in a loud tone, sometimes as if reading aloud, occasionally as if screaming. The servants were much alarmed. They never saw anything, but the cook told Mrs. R that one occasion, in broad daylight, hearing the rustle of a silk dress .close behind her, and which seemed to touch her, she turned suddenly round, supposing it to be her mistress, but, to her great surprise and terror, could see nobody. Mrs. R— ’s brother, a bold, light-hearted young officer, fond of fieldsports, and without the slightest faith in the reality of visitations from another world, was much disturbed and annoyed by these voices, which he declared must be those of his sister and of a lady friend of hers, sitting up together to chat all night. On two occasions, when a voice which he thought to resemble his sister’s, rose to a scream, as if imploring aid, he rushed from his room, at two or three o’clock in the morning, gun in hand, into his sister’s bedroom, there to find her quietly asleep. On the second Saturday in the above month of October, Mrs. R——— drove over to the railway station at Tunbridge, to meet her friend, Miss S , whom she had invited to spend some weeks with her. This young lady had been in the habit of seeing apparitions at times from early childhood. When, on their return,at about four o’clock in the afternoon, they drove up to the entrance of the Manor-House, Miss S perceived on the threshold the appearance of two figures, apparently an elderly couple, {habited in the costume of a former age. They appeared as if standing on the ground. She did not hear any voice; and, not wishing to render her friend uneasy, she made at that

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time no remark to her in connection with this apparition. She saw the appearance of the same figures, in the same dress, several times within the next ten days, sometimes in one of the rooms of the house, sometimes in one of the passages—always by daylight. They appeared to her surrounded by an atmosphere nearly of the color usually called neutral tint. On the third occasion they spoke to her* and stated that they had been husband and wife, that in former days they had possessed and occupied that Manor-House, and that their name was Children. They appeared sad and downcast; and* when Miss S inquired the cause of their melancholy, they replied that they had idolized this property of theirs; that their pride and pleasure had centered in its possession; that its improvement had engrossed their thoughts; and that it troubled them to know that it had passed away from their family, and to see it now in the hands of careless strangers. I asked Miss S how they spoke. She replied that the voice was audible to her as that of human being’s; and that she believed it was heard also by others in an adjoining room. This she inferred from the fact that she was afterward asked with whom she had been conversing. After a week or two, Mrs. R , begining to suspect that something unusual, connected with the constant disturbances in the house, had occurred to her friend, questioned her closely on the subject; and then Miss S related to her what she had seen and heard, describing the appearance and relating the conversation of the figures calling themselves Mr. and Mrs. Children

Up to that time Mrs. R , though her rest had been frequently broken by the noises in the house, and though she too has the occasional perception of apparitions, had seen nothing; nor did anything appear to her for a mouth ufterward. One day, however, about the end of that time, when she had ceased to expect any apparition to herself, she was hurriedly dressing for a late dinner—her brother, who had just returned from a day’s shooting, having called to her in im- : patient tones that dinner was served, and i that he was quite famished. At the moment iof completing her toilet, and as she hastily i turned to leave her bed-chamber, not dream- ! ing of anything spiritual, there, in the door- | way, stood the same female figure Miss S had described—identical in appearance and in costume, even to the old point-lace on her brocaded silk dress—while beside her, on the left, but less distinctly visible, was the figure of her husband. They uttered no sound; but above the figure of the lady, as if written in phosphoric light in the dusk atmosphere that surrounded her, were the words, “Dame Children,” together with some other words, intimating that, having never aspired beyond ihe joys and sorrows of this world, she had remained “earth-bound.” These last, however, Mrs. R scarcely paused to decipher; for a renewed appeal from her brother, as to whether they were to have any dinner that day, urged her forward. The figure, filling up the doorway, remained stationary. There was no time for hesitation; she closed her eyes, rushed through the apparition and into the dining-room, throwing up her hands and exclaiming to Miss S :

“Oh, my dear, I’ve walked through Mrs. ; Children!” This was the only time during her residence in the old Manor-House, that Mrs. R witnesed the apparition of these j figures. i And it is to be remarked that her bed- | chamber, at the time, was lighted, not only : by crndlea, but by a cheerful fire, and that there was a lighted lamp in the corridor which communicated thence to the diningroom. This repetition of the word “Children”caused the ladies to make inquiries among the servants and in the neighborhood whether any family bearing that name had ever occupied the Manor-House. Among those whom they thought likely to know something about it, was a Mrs. Sophy O , a nurse in the family, who had spent here life in that vicinity. But all inquiries were fruitless; every one to whom they put the question, the nurse included, declaring that they had never heard of such a name. So they gave up all hopes of being able to unravel the mystery. It so happened, however, that about four months afterward, this nurse, going home for a holiday to her family at Riverhead, about a mile from Seven Oaks," and recollecting that one of her sisters-in-law, who lived near her, an old woman of seventy, "had fifty years before been housemaid in a family then residing at Ramhurst, inquired of her if she had ever heard anything of a family named Children. The sister-in-law replied that no

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such family occupied the Manor-House when she was there; but she recollected to have then seen an old man who had told her that in his boyhood he had assisted to keep the hounds of the Children family, who were then residing at Ramhurst. This information the nurse communicated to Mrs. R on her return; and thus it was that the lady was first informed that a family named Children had really 4nce occupied the ManorHouse. All these particulars I received in December, 1858, directly from the ladies themselves, both being together at the time. Even up to this point, the case, as It presented itself, was certainly a very remarkable one. But I resolved, if possible, to obtain further confirmation in the matter. I inquired of Miss S whether the apparitions had communicated to her any additional particulars connected with the family. i?he replied that she recollected one which she had then received from them namely: that the husbands name was Richard. At a subsequent period, likewise, 6he had obtained the date of Richard Children’s death, which, as communicated to her, was 1753. She remembered also that on one occasion a third spii it appeared with them, which they stated was their son; but she did not get his name. To my further inquiries as to the costumes in which the alleged spirits appeared, Miss S replied, that they were of the period of Queen Anne, or one of the early Georges, she could not be sure which, as the fashions in both were similar. These were her exact words. Neither she nor Mrs. R , however, had obtained any information tending either to verify or refute these particulars. Having an invitation from some friends residing near Seven Oaks in Kent, to spend with them the Christmas week of 1858, I had a good opportunity of prosecuting my inquiries i l the way of verification. I called, with a friend, Mr. F -, on the nurse, Mrs. Sophy O . Without aflutling to the disturbances, I simply asked her if she knew anything of an old family of the name of Children. She said she knew very little, except what she had heard from her sister-in-law, namely, that they used in former days to live in a Manor-House called Ramhurst. I asked her if she had ever been there? “Yes,” she said, “about a year ago, as nurse to Mrs. R .” “Did Mrs. R ,” I asked her, “know anything about the Children family?” She replied that her mistress had once made inquiries of her about them, wishing to know if they had ever occupied the Man-or-House, but at that time she (Mrs. Sophy) had never heard of such a family, so she could give the lady no satisfaction. “How did it happen,” I asked, “that Mrs. R supposed such a family might once have occupied th ; house?” “Well, sir,” she replied, “that is more than I can tell you, unless, indeed, (and here she hesitated and lowered her voice,) it was through a young lady that was staying with mistress. Did you ever hear, sir,”

she added, looking around her in a mysterious way, “of what they call spirit-rappers ?” I intimated that I had heard the name. “I’m not afraid of such things,” she pursued; “I never thought they would harm me; and I’m not one of your believers in ghosts. But then, to be sure, wedtd'have such a time in that old house!” “Ah, what sort of a time?” . “With knockings, sir, and the noise of footsteps, and people talking of nights. Many a time I’ve heard the voices when I was going along the passage at two or three o’clock in the morning, carrying the baby to my mistress. I don’t believe in ghosts; but you may be sure, sir, it was something serious when mistress’ brother gof.up in the middle of the night and came to his Bister’s room with his loaded gun in his hand. And then there was another brother; he got out of his bed one night, and declared there were robbers in the house.”

“Did you see anything!” “No, sir, never.” “Nor any of the other servants!” “I think not, sir; but cook was so frightened.” “What happened to her!” “Well, sir, no harm happened to her, exactly; only she was kneeling down making her fire one morning, when up she started with a cry. I heard her, and came in to see what was the matter. ‘Oh,’ says she,‘nurse, if I didn’t hear the rustling of a silk dress all across the kitchen!’ ‘Well, cook,’ says I, ‘you know it couldn’t be me, being I never wear silk.’ ‘No,’ said she—and she sort of laughed—‘no, I know it wasn’t you, for I’ve hoard the same three or four times already; and whenever I look round there’s nothing there.’ ”

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I thanked the good wojnan, and then wen; to see the sister-in-law, who fully confirmed her part of the story. But as this afforded no clue either to the Christian name, or the date of occupation, or the year of Mr. Children’s death, I visited in search of these, the church and grave-yard at Leih, the nearest to the Ramhurst property, and the old church at Tunbridge; making inquiries at both places on the subject. But to no purpose. All I could learn was, that a certain George Children left, in the year 1718, a weekly gift of bread to the poor, and that a descendant of the family also named George, dying some forty years ago, and not residing at Ramhurst, had a marble tablet, in the Tunbridge church, erected to his memory. Sextons and tombstones having failed me, a friend suggested that I might possibly obtain the information I sought by visiting a neighboring clergyman. IdM with the most fortunate result. stating to him that I had taken the liberty to call in search of some particulars touching the early history of a Kentish family of the name of Children, he replied that, singularly enough, Jie was in possession of a document, coming to him through a private source, and containing, he thought likely, the very details of which I was in search. He kindly intrusted it to ine; and I found in it, among numerous particulars regarding another member of the family, not many years since deceased, certain extracts from the “Hasted Papers,” preserved in the British Museum; these being contained in a letter addressed by one of the members of the Children family to Mr. Hasted. Of this document, which may be consulted in the Museum library, I here transcribe a portion, as follows: “The family of Children were settled for a great many generations at a house called, from their own name, Childrens, situated at a place called Nether street, otherwise Low-

er street, in Hildenborough, in the parish of Tunbridge. George Children of Lower street, who was 11 igh-Sheriff of Kent in 1698 f died without issue in 1718, and by will devised the bulk of his estate to Richard Children, eldest son of his late uncle, William Children of Hedcorn, and his heirs. Thi3 Richard Children, who settled himself at Ramhurst, in the parish of Leigh, married Anne, daughter of John Saxby, in the parish of Leeds, by whom he had issue four sons and two daughters,’? &c. Thus I ascertained that the first of the Children family who occupied Ramhurst as a residence was named Richard, and that he settled there in the early part ot the reign of George I. The year of his death, however, was not given. This last particular I did not ascertain till several months afterward; when a friend versed in antiquarian lore, to whom I mentioned my desire to obtain it, suggested that the same Hasted, an extract from whose papers I have given, had published in 1778, a history of Kent, and that, in that work, I might possibly obtain the information I sought. In effect, after considerable search, I there found the following paragraph:

“In the eastern part of the Parish af-Lyg-he,(now Leigh, near the river Medway .stands an ancient mansion called Ramhurst, once reputed a manor and held of the honor of Gloucester.” * * * “It continued in the Culpepper family for several generations.” * * * * "It passed by sale into that ot SaxDy, and Mr. William Saxby conveyed it by sale, Children. Richard Children, Esq., resided here, and died possessed of it in 1753, aged eighty-three years. He was succeeded in it by his eldest son, John Children, of Tunbridge, Esq., whose son, George Children of Tunbridge, Esq., is the present possessor.” ® Thus I verified the last remaining particular, the date of Richard Children’s death. It appears from the above, also, that Richard Children was the only representative of the family who lived and died at Ramhurst; his son John being designated not as of Ramhurst, but as of Tunbridge. From the private -memoir above referred to I had previously ascertained that the family seat after Richard’s time was Ferox Hall, near Tunbridge. It remains to be added that in 1816, in consequence of events reflecting discredit on the family, they lost all their property and were compelled to sell Ramhurst, which has since been occupied, though a somewhat spacious mansion, not as a family residence, but as a farm-house. I visited it; and the occupant assured me that nothing worse than rats or mice disturbed it now. F. P. Stanton, late member ol Congress from Tennessee, and brother of the Hon. R. H. Stanton, of Maysville, Ky., has gone to Connecticut to canvass the State for the Republicans.

Another Outrage In Georgia—Almost Incredible Barbarity.

The Belfast (Me.) Age publisher-*^letter from a correspondent in Georgia, giving the particulars of a gross outrage committed on a ship’s crew, near Jeffersonton, in the latter State, which is only equaled by the barbarities practised by the buccaneers on theii prisoners, we give the following extracts: “The brig R. G. Chalcmer, of East Machias, Me., was chartered in New York to come to St. Ilia Mills, on the St. Ilia river, to load with lumber. Capt. A. V. Kinney was master, who had with him his wife, Mr. Patterson the mate, and a crew of four men. “Mr. Patterson was well acquainted with the river, having been once wrecked upon White Oak Creek. At that time, while stripping the vessel, he lived with a wealthy planter, who became much attached to him. No sooner had his planter friend—Mr. Morrissy—learned that he was going on the river, than he sent a negro to conduct him to his house. Mr. Morrissy learning the Captain had his wife with him, sent a pressing invitation by Mr. Patterson, for the Captain to come and bring his wife with him, to take Chiistrmjs dinner with his family. “On Sunday morning, December 25, the Captain, with his wife and mate, took the crew in the boat and started for Mr. Morrissy’s plantation, having to go about fifteen miles by water to his place of landing, from which, to the plantation, was five miles. After landing, he sent his men to a Mr. Peters’ house (he being acquainted with Mr. P.) to tarry until his return. The crew had been in the house but a short time before six armed men came there, by the names of David Browaand his two sons, Burrill Brown and Nathan Brown, with their brother-in-law, Thomas Harrison, and two others whose names I do not recollect, and told them they must go to jail. The sailors believing their innocence would appear the more apparent if they yielded, concluded to obey their orders, supposing they were authoritative. They were then taken into the woods, tied to a tree, and a negro made to give three of i them fifty lashes apiece. The reserved ono was a tall man, of the bight of six feet three inches, whom they called“the captain of the crowd.” Upon his back they dealt one hundred lashes. After he was taken down, they asked him if he would run as fast as the others had? They, being compelled to run, ' as fast as released. “As he did not at once start, one of tho gang raised his gunj saying, ‘ you, you won’t run will you? and fired, the ball passing near his head and lodging in a tree. With what strength remained, the suffering man slarted, hastened by the profane threats of his tormentors. By the kindness of Burrill Brown’s wife, the men were shown the way down, and a boat was provided to take them on board the vessel. “On Monday morning, as Capt. Kinney, his wife and Mr. Patterson were coming down toward the landing, they were met by the men who took the sailors aboard, and told what had happened, and advised him to go back to Mr. Morrissy’s and leave the woman, and then go round the other way and send a Sheriff for the boat. This advice was acted upon. “They had not gone more than half a mile, bfefore they were overtaken by a man on horseback, who pointed a double-barreled gun at the captain’s head and told him to stop. Presently old Brown and his gang came along, armed with pistols and guns, and ordered the Captain and mate to take off their coats, which they refused to do. Guns were at once cocked and leveled at their heads, and compliance demanded by threatening to blow out their brains. “After they had divested themselves of their outer garments, a negro was ordered' to give them ffty lashes apiece. The captain’s wife piteously interceded in behalf of her husband and companion, but they coarsely told her to stop her d—d crying or they would give hei; the same number of lashes they were, now givine her hmGymfl Aft the negro had completed his task, old Brown, who was unable to walk without a cane, came hobbling along, and commanded tho slave to.give them four more for tally. “These six inquisitors then marched the sufferers before their guns to their boat, and then shoved it off, leaving them to row fifteen miles agaiust the tide to their vessel. “A few days after the transaction, the mate showed me his back, which was bruised from his neck to his knees, as was also the case with tho others who were flogged. “The only reason given for committing this outrage, was that the captain and his men were ‘damned Northerners.’”

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Receipt For making Tattlers.

Take a handful of the vine called Runabout, the same quantity of the root called Nimbletongue, a sprig of the herb called Backbite, (either before ot after the dogdays,) a tablespoonful of Dont-you-tell-it, six drachms Malice, a few drops of Envy—which can be purchased in any quantity at the shops of Miss Tabithe Teatable and Miss Nancy Nightwalker. Stir them well together and simmer them lor half an hou» over the fire of Discontent kindled with little Jealousy; then strain it through the rags of Misconstruction, hang it upon a skein of Streetyarn, shake it occasionally and it ia fit for use. Let a few drops be taken just before walking out, and the subject will be enabled to speak all manner of evil, andth&t continually.