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Tin: m ix; now It must he sweet, in childhood, to give back The spirit to its maker; ere the heart Has grow n familiar with the paths of fin, And wn-to gather ti p its hitter fruit. I knew a boy whose inf uii. feet had trod t pen the l'.!osc:i. of some een sprint. And when the citth came round and call'd him out To revi I in it? light, lie turned away, A",d fought his chamber, to lie down and die. ' I was night; he surnmoa'd hi accnstoiu'd friend-:, And in this wise lestowed l is l ist request. Mothrr I'm di injj now-! There's a deep si-.iV'.cation in my breast, At if tome heavy hand my bosom pressed: And on mj brow I feil the cold sweat stand: My lips grcT liry ut; 1 tremulous, and my breatli v. emcs lerhly np. (Hi: (oil mr, is this death Mother; your hind Here lay it oj tny waist. And place the other thus beneath mv head, And, sav, sw t m.-thcr, say, when 1 am dead, Mill! I be cussed ; Never hci devour knee, Shall I kneol down again at night to pray; Nor with ll'.o mornln - wake and sitigthc lay Von t.-ui.ht to inc. Oh ! at the time of prayer, When you look round and see a vacant seat. You ill not wait th n for my coming feet ou'll i:iis siiC there. Father I'm coin; home I To the co id home on spoke of that blest land. ncrc i: n enc rr ;jr,i summer always, and Clonus do not come. I ran-t be happy then : From pain am! death, oi say I shall I o free, Thr.t si -kiu -s never enters there, and we ha!i meet ac aiii. r.rether tho little spot I ii'c i to e:.!! in cat leu, wi.ere lone hours We've ta'd to v.atth the budding things, and now: r-, Forget it not ! riant thcro some box or pine, iomcthir.g that lhoin winter, and w ill be A verdant ollerinc to my memory, Ai d eall it mine ! Sishr my yo!:n rose tree, That all thi .! tiag lias been my pleasant care, Just putting f.-rtli its leaves, s green and fair, 1 give to thee! And when its rose? bloom, 1 shall be gone away, my short life done; lu:t vviil you not be.tou- a single one L poll my tomb ? Now, mother, sing the tunc Yo;i sung last night I'm weary and nmt sleep. XVI i wa it cn'i! my name ? IVay,do tiot w eep, You'll all come soon ! Morning spread over earth her rosy wines, And that met k sutferer, cold and ivorv pale, Lay in his couch asleep. The gentle air t ame thro' the open w indow, freighted w ith The savory odors of the. early spring lie buathed it not: the laugh of passers by, Jarred like a discord in some mournful tune, H it worried not his slumbers. He was dead. HISTORICAL. From the An.eriean Monthly Magazine. antiqi itii:s or south America. 1;i tho history of our country every thing relating to the earliest inhabitants must be interesting, not only to the protossed antiquary but to the general leader. There is much evidence to f!kiw that the post-diluvian earth was original! v one continent that this countrv, America, was peopled from Central Asia, before the dismemberment of that tingle continent that the people bro'l with them the manners, arts, and civtlizatioii of Central Asia; perhaps the vet manners, arts, arms, modes of warfaro described in the Homeric poems; and that sometime after America was separated from the ether continent, immense hordes from the North of Asia t ross; d lkhnng's Straits, and gradually took possession of the country. Rofore thesn barbarian invaders, the inhabitants retired south into Mexico, earning with them the aits and civiliziti'ou that afterward so astonished their more modern invaders from Spain. It is a fact well know in history, that Cortes found in Mexico arms and utenrals such as are known to have been used in Asia Minor, and such as have hi i;n found nowhere else. And the discoveries ucently made at Palcnque and Vein men, plainly point to Central Asia as the country of their origin. That the Indians fmnd here by the di-eoverics were not the original inhabitant, has we believe, never been disputed; on the contrary, it has ever heen acknowledged that there was a distinct race anterior to them. Hut whence tatrc this race, whither they went, and what monuments they have left here, are questions that have a Horded ma'icrs for much speculation. It has generally been believed that the mounds in the western country arc the works of thoir hand, notwithstanding that some ingenious gentlemen have I itelv urged, perhaps to their ow n con ietion, that the mounds arc the direct work of nature, and raised by the action of water. Hut as to the mounds, we

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leave the question w here we find it the old race left other monuments. I he Indnns found here by the discovcrers, in tact never pretended to be thc criminal inliahitants; but had a tradition that their forefathers came into the country across the sea probably Hehriim's Straits that thev found the counlrv inhabited that with the in habitants they waged a long war, and ultimately drove them south into the sea. Such was the tradition the fact probably was, that the conquered peopie retired into Mexico. The Mexicans also had a tradition strongly corroborative of this, that their forefathers lived at the north for many ages, and then gradually emigrated 50,un inese uaamons aionc, wunoul any otner evidence oliered ground for a s irons presumption that the territory, now the United States was inhabited by . . . ... a race that afterward peopled Mexico. lv.it the evidence does not stop here ; .1 .1 r- . .1 . . - mere arc otner i tcts mat go lar to reuuee me presumption ;o a certainty. 1 he Mexicans worked the metals for various purposes of use and ornament; the Indians found here by the discoverers never used the metals in any w av: but w ood, stone, shells, eVc. supplied t.icm W illi weapons and ornaments. 1 latchcts, swords, and arrow heads of brass, have been found in various parts ol ll.c t inted States, many of them in ood preservation. 1 hese though rude in form and design, are yet skilfully made; but with that pains taking and laborious skill that never marks the inf uicy of the arts. Hut it may be asked, why arc not these relics more frequently discovered, if it be true that a whole nation, to whom the manufacture of them was known, were once transient dwellers in tins land I We think the wonder should rather be, how many of them have been preserved. J lie preservation of the few that have been found must undoubtedly be ascribed to the nature of the soil at the time of their deposile. Since in some soils, and under some cireumstanccs, they would be preserved by earthly I Kirticles, uniting themselves with the alts cf the br ass in the first stages of I oxydation, and thus forming a sort of pctnhed incrustation that would prevent decay. I Dut a discussion of these theories is not intended, since it would necessarily involve speculations too prolix and d iscursive for the limits cf this paper; the main object of which is, to give a description of w hat w e consider the most interesting relic of antiquity ever discovered in North Ame rica The remains of a human body, armed w ith a breast plate, a species of mail and ar rows of brass; which remains we suppose belonged either to one of the race who inhabited this country for a time anterior to the so called Aboriginesc, and afterwards settled in Mexico or (iiiatamalia, or to one of the crew cf sonic Phirnican vessel, that, blow n out of her course, thus discovered the westein world long before the Christian era. These- remains were found in the ir,n nf P.dinu-or in Iti utr.1 rniinlv. Massachusetts, about sixteen months ... - . 7 - ' since. In digging down a hill near the village, n large mass of earth slid oil", leav ing on the bank, and partially uncover cd a human skull, which on cxamina-

tion was found to belong to a body bu- w ards went to Mexico, and founded ricd in a sitting posture; the head being those cities, in exploring the mines of about one foot below what had been for which such astonishing discoveries have many years the surface of the ground, recently been made: then we may well The" surrounding earth was carefully suppose also that it is one of the race moved, and the body found to been- whose exploits with kalkrrcadoura have, velopcd in a covering of coarse bark of although without the date and almost dark color. Within this envelope w ere w ithout a certain name been immortalfound the remaius of another of coarse ized by the Father of Poetry; and who, cloth, and about the texture of a Manil- probably in still earlier limes, construcla Coffee bag. On the breast was a ted the Cloace under ancient Rome plale of brass, thirteen inches long, six w hich have been absurdly enough ascribroad at the upper end and five at the bed to one of the Tnrquins, in whose

lower. The plate appears to have been cast, and is from an eigth to three thirty seconds of an inch in thickness. It is so much corroded that whether or not any thing was engraved upon it has not been ascertained. It is oval in form the edges being irregular apparently made so by corrosion. Helow the breast plate and entirely encircling the body was a belt composed of brass" tubes, each four and a half inches in length and arc three sixtcenths of an inch in diameter, arrangcd longitudinally and close together; the length of the tube being the width of thebclt. The tubes are of thin brass, cast upon hollow rccds,and were

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I ins belt was so placed as to protect the lower parts of the body below the breast plate. "I lie arrows of the brass thin, Hat, and triangular in shape, wii a round hole cut through near the base The shaft was fastened in the head by inserting the latter in an opening at the end of the wood, and tnen tying it wit a sinew through the round hide ; mode of constructing the weapon neve practised bv the Indians, not even with their arrow s of thin shell. Hart of the shaft still remains on seme of them When first discovered the arrows were in a sort of quiver of bark, which fel in pieces when exposed to the nir. The skull is much decayed, but the teeth are sound, and apparently of a voting man. The pelvis is much de caved, and the smalbr bones of the low er extremities are trone. i n The intecuments of the riht knen fer four or five inches above and below are in rood nresei valion.apnarentlv the- . . ... 7 V size and shape of life, although quite black. Crnsidcrable flesh is still preserved on the hands and arms, but none on the shoulders and elbows. On the back, under the belt, and lor two inches above and below, the skin and flesh are in good preservation, and have the appearance of being tanned. 1 he chest is much compressed, hot the upper viscera are probably entitc. I he arms are bent up, not crossed; so that the hands turned inward touch the shoulders. The taturc is about five and a half feet. Much of the exterior envelope w as de caved, and the inner one appeared to be preserved only where it had been in contact with the brass. The following sketch will give our readers an idea of the posture of the figure and position of the aimor. When the remains were discovered the arms were brought rather closer to the body .1 ... ,1 n,i man in me engraving, i he arrow s were near the right knee. This sketch we have no means of giving. The preservation of this body may be the result of some embalming process; and this hypothesis is strengthened by the fact that the skin has t lie appearance of having been tanned; or it may c the accidental result of the action of me sans uuring oxj uauon ; ana mis iaiter hypothesis is supported by the fact that the skin and llesh have been pre served only w here they have been in contact with or near the brass; or we may account for the preservation of the w hole by supposing the presence of salt peter in the soil at the lime of the deposit. In either way, the preservation of the remains is fully accounted for, and upon known chemical principles. That the body was one of the Indians, we think, needs no argument. We have seen some of the drawings taken from sculptures found at Palcnque, and in these the figures are represented w ith breast plates, although smaller than the plate found at t ali Kiver. Un the figure at Palenque the bracelets and ankle appear to be a manufacture pre cisely similar to the belt ol lubes just described. These figures also have helmets precisely answering the de scription of the hemic t of Homer's mcgas koivlhiaolis Ektor. If the body found at Fall River, be one of the Asiatic race, who transiently settled in North America, and afterlime the w hole population of Rome would have been insufficient for a work that would moreover, have been useless w hen finished. Of this Great race, who founded cities and empires in their eastw ard march, and are finally lost in South America, the Romans seem to have had a glimmering traditiou in the story of Evander. Hut we rather incline to the belief that the remains found at Fall River belonged to one of the crew of a Pho nician vessel. The spot where they were found is on the sea coast, and in the immediate neighborhood of DightonUock, famed for hieroglyphic inscription, of which no

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sufficient explanation has vet been giv en; and near which rock brazen ves sels have been louiid. If this latter hypothesis be adopted, a part of it i that these mariners though unwillin ... .J ... i . . 1 f .inn uuioriuuuic oiseoveieis ot a new woild lived sometime after thev lam ed: atid having wiitten their names, per haps their epitaphs, upon the rock Dighlon, died and were buried by the natives. IXTEKKSTINU FACTS. A recent interesting writer, notice the condition of the laboring classes of Europe, in respect 'to the rate of vv;wto. the burueu of taxation, the means of subsistence, the facilities for acnuirinj an education, and the share if any w hich these classes have in the govern ment.' The facts in regard to eacii of these particulars, ought to make those hang their heads with shame, who in this country talk of oppressing the laboring classes, and of the withholding of rights from the common people. in iorway liic ordinary lood ol the . . . . -., ". ... peasant is bread and gruel, both pre pared ol oatmeal, with an occasional intermixture of dried fish. Meat is luxury which thev rarely enjoy. In Sweden the dress of the peasantry is prescribed by law. I heir food con sislsof hard dried fish and gruel with out meat. In Denmaik, (he peasantry are still ield in bondage, .and are bought and sold together with the land on which they labor. Russia, 'the bondage of the peasant try is even more complete than it is in Denmark.' The nobles own all the and in the empire and the peasantry who reside upon it are transferred with the estate. A great majority have only cottages, one portion of w hich is occupied by a imilv, while the other is appropriated to domestic animals. Few, if any, have )eds but sleep upon bare boards, or upon parts of the immense stoves by which their houses are warmed. I heir food consists of black bread, cabbage md other vegetables, without the addi tion of butter.' In Poland, 'The nobles arc the pro prietors of the land, the peasants are ivcs. A recent traveller says, '1 travelled in every direction, and never saw a w beaten loaf to the eastward of the Rhine, in any pari of Northern Germany, Poland, or Denmark. The common food of the peasantry of Poland, the working men. is cabbage, potatoes, omclimes, but not generally peas, black bread, and soup, or rather gruel, without the addition of butler or meat.' In Austria, 'the nobles are the pro prietors of the land, and the peasants are compelled to woik for their masters uring every day of the week, except ing Sunday. The cultivators of the oil are in a state of bondage. 'Iu Hungary, their state is, if possile, still worse. The nobles own the and, do no work and pay no Taxes. he laboring classes arc obliged to relair all high ways and bridges; are lia ble at any time to have soldiers quarter ed upon them, and are compelled to ay one-tenth of the produce of their ibor to the church, and one-ninth to the lord whose land they occupy.' Of the people of trance, 'seven and half millions do not eat meat, nor wheaten bread. They live upon barey, rye, buckwheat, chesnuts, and a few potatoes.' The common wages of hired laborer, in r ranee, is iV for a man, and $18 75 for a woman, annually. 'The taxes upon the land ire equal to one fifth o'f its net products.' In 1791, there were vuu,uuu nouses in Ireland. Of these, 1 1 3,0U0 were oc cupied by paupers and more than 500,000 had only one ncarm. xne iverae wages ol a laborer is irom nine ind a half to eleven cents a day. Among the laboring classes ol Ihe industrious Scotch, 'meat, except on Sundays, is rarely used. In England, the price of labor varies. 'The Nottingham stocking-weavers, as stated by them in a public address, after working from fourteen to sixteen hours in a day, only earned from four to seven shillings a week, and were obliged to subsist upon bread and water, or potatoes and salt.' AMMOSITIKS AMONG CIIKISTIANS. The observation of a late ingenious writer, which it is to be feared, he was confirmed in by his own experience, is too much founded in truth: 'Wc have iu't religion enough to make us hate one another.' The spirit of party pre

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judice, and bigotry, and interests, a zeal for systems, forms, modes and denominations, furnish men with plausible pretences for indulging iheir unsanctified passions, and deceive them into an opinion that while they arc gratifying their pride and self-will, they are laboring to promote the cause of God and truth. Hence, often the feuds which obtain among religious people are pursued with greater violence, and to greater lengths, and are productive of more mischievous conseq uences, than the quarrels ofdrunkards. The lovers of peace, who refuse to take a part in these contentions, but rather weep over them in secret, are censured and despised as neutrals and cowards, by the angry combatants on ui siaes, while the world despises and laughs at them all. It was not so in the beginning, nor will it be so always. I lie hour is coming when believers shall be united in love, shall agree in all that is essential to a life of faith and holiness. and shall live in the exercise of forbearance and tenderness towards each other, if in some points of smaller importance they cannot think exactly alike: w hich possiniy may be the case in the best times, in the present imperfect state of human nature. -'Enhraim shall fhon no more envy Judah, nor Judah vex Lphraim.7 Isa. xi. 13. Jhc(on. OUR ABIDI.VG TLACE. When we cast our eye upon (he countless multitude of youth who are daily sporting in the sunshine of levity. and feasting upon the luxuries and vanities of this sublunary existence, we ire ready to enquire, is this their "con tinuing city?" When we behold (he female, gay with the bloom of youth. and arrayed in the costly habiliments of earthly grandeur, gliding with cheerful countenance and noiseless step, thro' the giddy mazes ot the dance, we are mxious to know if one reflection is ever directed to that bright world beyond 1 1, fiii. , i. r i .i J me; giave. J.ne juuui Ol DOII1 6exes ire so generally addicted to the con cerns of the present life, that death pale and sickly death, seldom occupies a passing tho't. Think not, O, youth! that your days will continue forever, while surrounding objects daily fade. and wither, and die. While you this day sport, and revel, and mingle in the scenes of a busy world, death may be extending toward you his icy hand. To-day your cheek may be warm with the glow of youth your eye burn and parkie with intelligence your limbs may possess the vigor and activity of the antelope, as he bounds from cliff (o crag. 1 o-morrow, (he glow upon your cheek may be displaced by the pallid me oi death your eye mav be closrd. nd your limbs cold, and stitf, and traightened for the grave. 'Tis with le rapidfty of the lightning's flash, that ealh can work. Then let us be pre pared for every change let our tho'ls e engaged by objects beyond the vis ion of mortal man, and thus be ready to meet undismayed, that great change which is the lot of all. Cm. Mirror. FORTY YEARS AGO. Literature meant solid learning, and was supported by common sense. Refined nonsense had no advocates, and was pretty generally kicked out of doors. Forty years ago men of properly could labor, and wear homespun to church. Women could spin and weave, ake butter and cheese, whose hus bands were worth thousands. Forty years ago there were but few merchants in the country few insol ent debtors, and very rarely a person imprisoned for debt. forty years ago the young ladies of le first respectability learned music, iut it was the humming of the wheel, nd learned the necessary steps of dan cing in following it. Their forte piano was a loom, their parasol a broom, and icir novels the Bible. Forty years ogo the young gentle men hoed corn, chopped wood at the door, and went to school in the winter, to learn reading, writing and arithmetic. Forty years ago there was some respect paid to old age, to the minister of the parish, and to Sunday. Forty years ago there was no such thing as balls in summer, and but few in winter except snow balls. Forty years ago if a mechanic promised to do your work, you might depend on his word, and if a gentleman pledged his word, the thing would be done.