Terre-Haute Journal, Volume 4, Number 26, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 26 March 1852 — Page 1

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WILLIAM MOOBE WM. McLEAN, PROPRIETORS AND PUBLISHERS.

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TERMS OF ADfEBTWWfi.

One S^ur* Ttiw W«*Ju fcwsh additions IneerU** perSewe..^,^ Liberal discount m»&* to fvuif sdrertlssr*.

And left two babes behind! --Ma*** The ooo, a line and pleaaant boy, Not paaalisf U*o years old The other, a girl, more yonog than ha,

And made Tn beanty'a mould. The father left hi# little sen, Aa plaiuly doth appear, When he to perfect age shonle eOBSS,

Three handled pounds a year. And to hltlHtie daoffiter Jane, Five hundred jihads In gotdp To be paid down on knarrl«ge-days

Which might not bo eontrollod. Bet, If the ehlldren chance to die,. Ere they to age ahoold com#, Their ancle should possess thailr wealth

For so the will did ran! Now, brother, «old the dylRf man,* Look to nly children door, ,JV Be good unto my hoy and girl

No frlotods' also, I hare here! To God, and yon, I do commend My children, ulglit and day Bat little time, be enre, we hare

Within thle world to stay. Yon mn«t ha father and mother both, And uncle, all In »ne God know'* what will become of them,

When 1 am dead and gone. 1 With that, beepoke the mother dear, "A brotber, kind," quoth she, "You aro the man. moil bring oar bahs*^

To wealth or h»i*ery

And If yon keep them careleaely, Then God will ye« reward-*""

She klaaed her clilliJren email, "Ood blrw you both, my children dear" 'With that thetaarsdid fall. 4 Theae speeches, then, their brotlierspoSe,

To thla alck couple thire: 'Jt "The keeping of your children dear,

Hweat alilef, do not fear, ...... Ood neror proeper me nor ntfao, Nor aught tlae tbal I hara, ,, If I do W/ong your children dear, 4 Whan yoo arw laid In grave." 4^

Their jnrenta being dead and gone,

He did the children eetxi, To be brought up In fair London, With oae that waa hln friend.

Away they went thea# pretty babea,' Rejoicing at that rld«, Rejoicing with a merry mind,

They ahould in cbkrlota ride. They prate ibd prated pleaaantly, Aa they rode an the way, To tbone that ahould their batehara bat*

And work their Hfe*a deoejr. 80 that the pretly tpeach they had,* 't Made murdera hwart relent, And thej that unierteok the dead,, j!,

Full eore did thsy did repent.

w^- Yet one of them mora hard of heart, •, Dkl Vow to do the charge, BeoauOe th* wretch that hired him/

Had paid htm vary large., The other would hot agree d^rato^ And «o they fall to atrlfe, With

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Aa waa Gedt bteaMwf wSl! Who dtd annfcsa the vwnr tmtk— Hm» wteieb ia her* itynaswl. Utolr anftk died while be, fa

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lidli brtinl forth to lightA gsntleman of food account, & Norfolk lived of Into, Whooe woalih and rtehea did ••nnoont,

Moat m«n of hla estateSon aiek ha «rii, mod liko to die— ffo help that ha eoold t»*a— Hla wife, by blm, aa alek did lie}

And both poaaeaa'd one grara. & No love between theae two was loot, Baeh waa to other kind, In love they UvM, in lovs ihay died,

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If otherwlae yon eeem to deal, Ood will your deeda reward." With Hp* aa cold aa any atone,

The children home he take# And brlnga Uiem hom# onto hla hoW, And much of than bo makee. lie hat] not kept theee pretty babea, ,,

A Iwelvemonlh and a-dajr,

*4 When for their wealth he did derlae, S To make them both away, lie bargained with two ruftkns rude,

Who wo* of forloo* moo«i, That thoy ahottld take then* children yiA ng, And alay them la the wood. He told hla wlfr, and alt he had,/

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Aboat the chlldieM'a Itfii, And he that W«e of mlldeat mood, I Didolay til* other tttata,

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^^'ifiwae pretty babea with hand tn Weat wandering up and down, But Mvetinara thjy aaw Ota n*a» ***¥:& .1

Approaching frank Aa fawn. Tbatr pretty Itpe wi\h blaekharriee, 1 *.^4 Ware nU-heamaeradi and dyad,

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ALL VUkXL TO THE IPHHC

Halt! ail hail to thejgieriea* apri^! Hope, and joy, and naalth ya Bring, la thy balay beaath, and an tky wtjif

Thea hall! all hail to thee!

deantifa! garlaada ya eoftly fling Wherever than traadeat, a erf yebrtef •••.' Rohea of dm rkhetl, the brightest grean«

Cheerily ring* (he ontoagbt lay Of the roatlc maid, aa aha tripe away, With the firel roeeate baame of day,

To can thy early floweraf

By entering into large speculations and bv other various morfuj operandi of increasing his fortune he found at the death of hla wife that his fbitune waa by far a great deal larger than he ever expected it would be. A large *nd handsome sura of money was presented to Clara by he father aa a wedding dowry. Clara and Rodolpho removed to their far away from Clam's former home, and not* withstanding the earnest solicitation of both Clara and her husband, Mr. Vernon could not be prevailed upon to accompany them their new home on the banks of the beautiful Ohio. it

We must now pass over a period of more than two years, and behold how atdly changed things may become in so short a apace of time- In the outskirts of the village atood the beautiful briok

school house. It waa a bright day in early summer time, and the doora atood opes. The house was crowded with young ladies, of all siaas and all ages, and in the midst of them Mood a moat beautiful young lady—it was Clara Alvares 1 During the first year of her marriage with the Spaniard, Clara was happy, aod no sorrow came to blight her happiness untu the death of her only parent—-but alas! this was but the beginning of her sorrows! After the marriage and departure ofbie daughter, Mr. Yernon becagps very eolitary, for he greatly tniseed the society of his daughter* He became acquainted with a Frenchman, by the name of D'Arbla, who prevailed upon him to endorse a note for several thousand dollars, which in due time he became forced to pay, as hia fine French ooropanion had very suddenly abacooded, and waa never heard of afterward, irritated and excited, he repaired to a popular gaming saloon, resolved to recover hia lost but, alanf be never did recover it! Heioet att he peaseseed, and he ftaate to Clara Altarae* house, a heart-broken and penniless man, a»d there it was that he died. Bat no visible change had become apparent fet Rodolpho Alvarea, yet no one knew how great had been his disappointment. It waa in the feiewtnf spring that the great throng of human beings went to the new discovered gora mines in California, aod among the rest went Rodolpho Alvares, for having bam so striously disappointed la hia view of the wealth that woald newrally foil to him and hia wSe upon the death of Mr. Vemoo, ha resolved to try his fortunes in another efiaae. Poor Clara Ahraras! thy happy days are

Oara Ahane, shortiy amr her hashend*s departure, opened a school In the village to which lie resided, aod taushi maatc,drawing and paintiag, tofoAer with the French and German Languages, to several young ladies, who had otherwise twinned their education. '"J

Rodolphd Ahraraurived at CeBfcraia, bat befog very anancceeifttl is hia meaty aflhirs ha went to Maxtor There ha hooama a«)tta»ted with g^ Maxioaa heireen, aod a* k»g aAerwaria was aw tied to her! Zartfk Ateer was very hoh, and my readers will he at aloes to kitew why Redotpho aMurial hat. But rstribaiwa soon fin

CUuaAivares hodbaod. A aaciygravel

To clothe each ahnb nsni •ree^^^^^^

Ami Ike etty nyarph* thy presence pleaae, t, l-sim. They hare tlwlr brows ta court thy breexe, n^: Arit dalllee with tranaplaatad trees, ,,

And artlfidai bo warm.

And the poor, the poor! oh, bow they fly ftfi From their dreary homaa, when thoa art ni^h, Tobaak beneath thy radiant eky,

And Md thee haU, all hall!

Oh, glad are the aotea Earth's children ralae, With the wild-wood birds, ta chant thy profile, And wenve for thee melodious layn, rovary meant and vale,^t?J%j^ And 0, ye kindly, gently weak, Aa ye breathe o'er the pellld brow and cheek Of the lowly snffmtr, calm, and meek, i'

Of a better, brighter hoaie vfe

Whore, betide a flowing river, .. Fadelaaa floWara Waom forever 0^$Where winter winds, or autnma, neror

Within that land can cocda! fitruut. Clnrn or the Faithleae llnshand.

BT MISS 0WttZTA BLLCBT05.

darn Vernon wu beauty, beiln, and mors than this, she was an heiress. She was the only daughter of a very wealthy and aristocratic gen lieman who resided in a fine old man hi on not many miles from one of our southern citie*. Clara had never enjoyed the instruction and companionship of a mother, for while she was yet too young to np predate the value or lament the loss of maternal care her mother was earried to a premature grave hy a severe pulmonary disease.

Clam had been placed under the care of an mint with whom she resided until she wan twelve years of age, at which time her father took her away and placed her at a boarding school, noiwitsianding she had been under the especial care of governess for some time. She oame to reside with her father after four years application to study, and Mr. Vernon was happy to find Clara at the early age of sixteen, an accomplished as well a moat handsome young ady. Was sbe beautiful} Behold (hose jet black orbs that beam like ftarsl Those soft luxuriant auburn 'ringlets that cluster over a beautifully shaped neck aod shoulders! The cheek tinted with a ruddy healthy hue Those cherry lips and pearly teeth, and that high intelltctuai forehead of Parisian whiteness.

Many ^ay cavaliers frequented the mansion of Mr. Vernon, to see the fair inmate, and none was more welcome than Rodotpho Alvares, a Spanish gentleman of about twenty and eight yearsof age. Alvares had resided in America until he had become almost Americanised. Still he waa a Spaniard. There was but one thing for which Rodolho lived, and that was the accumulation of wealth! Yes! mammon waa the god he worshipped! He beheld the beautiful Clara Vernon,'heard that she was heiress to unbounded wealth-—and he resolved to secure so rich a prize ere some one else supplanted him. He was an educated and poiished gentleman, and by untiring he soon captured the heart of the unconcious Clara! Need I say that the wedding of Roldolpho Alvares and Clara Vernon, waa a brilliant one?

The fortune of Silas Vernon, the father of Clara had been a heredetary one, and although not large when be first came into possesion of it, he, by various means, made it quite a large one. He married at the early age of nineteen, a very wealthy and beatiful heiress and being of dissipated habits, he not unfrequenily left the gaming bouse at a late hour the possessor of many hundreda of dollars that he had won by gaming.

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The feBowing excellent bit of fiia in cqawttM gated to the prince of sporting journals,, the N. Spirit of the Times, by its inimitable Boston correspondent:

At the last "Hen Convention" in our cfty, some weeks aince, a mutual fiiead of oars, residing in the suburbs of our awtropotis, cnane to this city in the morning to attend the "Hen Fair." where he purchased a large and beautiful pair of Shaghai fowls to breed from, and as he was to remain in town until evening, ha sent the birds by a boy, with a note, to a friend of hia living at the Albion, requesting that he would take charge of the chickens until the afternoon, as be had some mnttera of business that would detain him and he also told the boy to say that be would dine with him at 4 o'clock

The boy delivered the fowls, bat forgot the note, and simply remarked, "Here's a pair of xooaing big chickens, Mr. M-—'* aent you, and aaya he will dine with you at 4 o'clock.

The gentleman supposing his friend (who, by the way, knows a hawk from a handsaw, and a canvaaaback from a boiled owl had sent something rxira, ordered them to be given to the cook, with directions that they be killed and dressed at once, as he had a friend to dine with him at 4 p. x. The order was nccorilinglyobeyed, and at the appointed time the dinner was served. After imbibing sundry

"wine bitters," ne asbarpner lo their appetitea.they sat down, and the Shanghai owner was requested to carve and as he was dissecting these enormous "cute members of the Hen Convention/' he re marked to his friend: ^. "You have an extraordinary fine paii of chickens here." "Yes," answered the other, "they are indifferently good sized pair of birds they were sent to me "by a mutual friend of ours/' "Indeed, were they? a devilish oleVfer fellow he must be, Jim a pretty present this, snd declare they are of the moat delicious flavor 1 ever tasted, and ns juicy, too, as a canvnssbnck."

And so he continued praising the flavor of Yfie chickens until they had taken care of a couple of bottles of Schrieder, and while chetting over their bottle of sherry, and enjoying their rejgaiia, the owner of the Shanghais aaid:, "By the-by, Jim, whet do /ou think of'nJy hen purchaae this morning?"

Why, Bill, I think they were moat delieioua, and wish you would dine with me every day ia the week if you will send such chickens." "Such chickens!" screeched Bill, as the tflotoght flashed across hia mind that he might possibly have been eating his own Shanghaia. "What the devil do you mean*" "Mean/' replied Jim, "why, I mean to say that you have dined off those chickens you sent me this morning."

Bill instantly jumped np from the table and ram med his hands up to his elbows in his breeohea pockets, and, after alriding aoroas th* room some half dozen times, without uttering a word, but his eves all the while with "fine frenzy rolling," atopped fcort, and turning to hia friend, exclaimed with no little ffestiouladon— "Good God! Jim, I paid thirty-five dollars for that pair of fowls ibis morning! Didn't that cussed bey give you a note this morning when he left the chickens?" T"' •"frw!" "No," said Jim, "he gave me no nole, he simply handed me the Shanghais, and said you would dine %j^hjnstft fenc, 'JWefoo?, 1 had them roasjted." Kuatm- ••&&>*

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Bill instantly rushed for his horse and wagon* and has not been in the city but once since, and then he was closely muffled up, and both ears stopped with cotton, for fear ho should hear some one say Shanghai! &k

A few days aince, while ptisiog hia residenoe, I dropped in on him (or an hour, and after awhile ventured to touch upon the different breeds of poultry, but at once discovered a wlldneas about Bill's eyes," therefore discontinued the topic, whan be aaid imploringly— "Old fellow, don't hit ma now Cm down that chioken dinner has never yet digeated!"

Tibckly Preparation.—"John," said an angry parent to his son, who had committed a misdeed, "John, you go to the next room and prepare yourself for a severe flogging." The boy departed, and when hia parent had finished the letter be waa writing* and sought the offending youth, he was aiirprised at the swollen appearance of the young Ifsoal's back. "What does this mean!" he asked "what is on your back?" **A leather apron," replied John, "three double yootold me to prepare myself for hard flogging, aod I did the best I could."

The hard-sett features of the father's counts* nanoe relaxed as did also th« muscles of the hand which grasped the whip, and he let John off, "for onee," with a gentle admooiticn.

O^rLet a man Save aR the wodd ekif ^ve, he is still miserable, if he has a grovelling, unlettered, ondevcat mtnd. Let htm have his gardens, his fields, his lawns for grandeur, plenty, ornament aod gratification while at the aatne time God is not at all io his thoughts. Aod let another have neither the fields or gardens, let him only look at nature with an enligbtefced mind—a mind which ON «M aod adore theCteatorto aH hia works, can oooaidar them as detroostratioos of his power, bis wisdom, his goodness aod truth—this mno Is greater aa wall as happier io his povetty than the other lo Its nches: the one hi a little higher than the beast the other a little lower than ao animal v— /*•»*.

Rathsx Btrrxa.—Talleyrand, hetog Mked for hte autograph, hy a n^}iroao, ha aoot it io an iovks^kHb la diaoer, oooohed to these terms: "Dear sir, will yea oblige me with your company to dinner on H^ednesday oaxt, at 8 o'clock. I hare invited a number of exceedingly dew persons, aod /4» oaf kk* f» b* tktmdffiit

QSrA yoaag lad (toaM^y ran away from and west to a tavern. Where he waa found fHend with a segar la his taoath. ^MThat yea leave homet'saidhbfrieod. **Oh,««afo«ad ft* W 1

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{ftrMankind are vary odd creatoree* Ooa half censor* what they practice, tbe crtfcar half win! o*setoft6 Tbm rest alma off aad d*] mm Immj QeBgPSt. that feo&eriof" cried a day toayoang spcesMcf h«^ aa&ity wito was shooting ft hit lomgilMH oo the other tfcfe of the street

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Taxatiaa Baiocei*.

We pab!idb1tilow the act passed act this session, to raise a revenge far State parpowes for the year 1852. By this it will be seen that the amooof Of taxation wiB be reduced ome tkird—It being thirty cents on each one hundred dollars last year, sad twenty cents for Uiis. This is deemed sufficient for the payment of interest on oar State debt and defraying the expenses of rite State Government under the present mode of assessing the personal property of the State.

AN ACT,

To raise a retetme for State purports for the year 1852. .$** ¥,xf Sectiok

Sac. 2. Be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage that the same be published in the fndi ana State Sentinel, Indiana State Journal, and the Indiana Statesman and that the Secretary of State forward, without delay, certified copies of this act to the auditors ol the several oounties in this State..

The answer of Mr. Fillmore to tbe appeals made to him for the exertion of his official influence in behsjf of O'Doherty, Mitchell, O'Brien, Meagher and their illustrious comrades, has fallen with stonoing effect upon the hearts of millions of their countrymen and friends io the United States, to whom bis refusal to interpose the good offices of the Government for the relief of the Irish patriota is as distasteful as it was unexpected. Upon the subject there appears to be but one feeling throughout the country, of deep indignant denun ciation of the timid and cold-blooded policy of the present general administration upon all matters pertaining to tbe freedom of the down trodden masses of humanity in other lands. Already our people are contrasting this humiliating state of things with the avowed policy of the Democratic party and its leaders upon this point, and their con. elusions are anything but flattering to the party in power The public press is calling public attention to the matter, aod in the St. Louis Union we find the subjoined noiioe of the popular aod coo* elusive speech of General Cass, in opposition to Fillmore's policy towards the Irish exiles:

We desire to call the especial attention of .our readers to the account of the proceedings in the Senate of the United States, hi Jaooary 1852. We ask lo particular, every Irishman and friend to Ireland, to read carefully the apeech of General Cass, aod oompare its real eioque&ce, and. outpouring otheartfolt desires io favor of tbe exiled MKriots»'witb the ooid and heartless denial of Presdent Fillmore to the prayer of the memorials lately offered him, at Washington City, by the Irish committees from Baltimore, Boston, sod other citiea£ If saoh thhtgs do not satisfy Irishmen that ia the democratic party aloue they.wiH find their real friends and their ooly rnlinble hopes, why we will oot be orach raistAkeo io our oyimata of their penetration.—Detriot Free Press.

}^*The first boor a peteoo speeds at aeaboom* OKMtdy devoted to admiring man's triomph over the deep the oeSt, to admitting that the deep is I pradaalfy triomphiog over him. Steward, Where's my room? 1 begin to fast as if I shoaid very sooo seed a little weak brandy, or a good deal of tin

^rFra&kfia aaya he never aaet with has time Mode ef wranglers yooog lawyers, conceited wllO p(B0|N9 IHMTA Wm uWwvai^B* 'OOO* the Palpal wiU pieaee copr. ie for law* 4fon, thny aro iaoorrigiUe, and can so men help jawing than a wooaan a ^wasfcnlajr/*

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PIERRE-HAUTE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, MARCH 26,1852. NO. 26.

Be it enacted bg ike General As

scmblg of the Stale of Indiana, That a tax, for Stnte purposes, of twenty cents on each one hundred dollars of the value of all property entered for taxation io the general list of taxable, aod fifty ceota upon each poll subject by law to tajcstion shall be and is hereby autborixed aod direoted to be levied for the current year one thousand eight hundred and fifty two aod which shall be assess ed, levied, and collected according to law.

Whbrsas, in the opinion of this General Assembly, an emergency exists for the immediate ta king effect of this set, to the end that the several county auditors may in doe tine he certified of their duty in respect thereof, therefore.

ENGLISH,

L$P#*£ -i Speaker of the House of Repst S. S. MICKLE, life Pretident of Ike Senate, pro temp'

Approved, 9,1858. ^JosephMarch

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How lioaia Ffapoleon** targe Majority was ob« taiaad. The reported reault in France has astonished all those who were not acquainted with the villainooa efforts which were made to obtain a large ma jority for the Usurper. The following from the Psris correspondent of the New York Commercial will explain how it happened that there were so few negatives. "Tickets with the printed word "Yes" Were distributed through the Government officials, and on the other aide not only were persons arrested who ventured to recommend their friends to vote in the negative, but the printers were afraid to print tick ets with the word "No" and th# peasantry, a large number of whom are unable to write, were therefore left with no choice but to vote "Yea," or to abstain. The possibility of one individual getting another to write for him was almost out of the question, siooe the request might he made as a triok, and the party complying might be sent to prison. Previous to the election a noiioe was issued, by M. de Morgne, the Minister of the Interior, that no sheet, pamphlet, or book, of less than one hundred and sixty pages, would be allowed to he published, unless first submitted to hts approval."

Of course, under this famous decree, the Government could prevent all negative tickets from being printed, and our wonder is that 6 0,000 men were found in France, who still dared to get their tickets and vote No. The election was one of the grossest impositions, on tbe name of free dom, that waa ever perpetrated.

The Exited Irish Patriots*

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why caonot a FrtM^Maao hit a ftitnloon at half the djetaaoeT* is the fOMjr of it Cinefonefi fia

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fisve aa4 Gallaatsv ex, K|onr Jaek Baatttot vat aw* remgi .£ iwflfc

Oife Htde ajTaf politenesa will sometiarae pave die way to fortaneand preforatent. The following eketeh ilhietrates this fhet:

A sailor, roogaty garbed, wasleathering thro* the street* ef New Orleans, h?n io a rather damp condition from recent rain and tbe rise of the tide Turning the corner of a much frequented and nar row alley, he observeda young lady ntanding ia perplexity, apparently measuring the depth of the muddy water between her atd the opposite si Je walk, with no very aalisfied countenance.

The sailor paused, for he waa a great atlfbiietof beauty, and certainly the fair face that pnere| out from under the little chip hat. and the auburtrcurl* hanging glossy and unconfined over bfcrtnaslin dress might tempt the curioae or eo adtd&fog glance. Perplexed, the lady put forth one hide foot, when tbe gallant sailor, with characteristic impulsiveness, exclaimed, Mhat pretty foot, lady, should not be soiled by the filth of this lane wait for a moment only, and I will make you a path.'

So apriqging past bar into a carpenter's shop opposite, he bargained for a plank board that stood ib the doorway, and coming baek to the smiling girl who was just ooquetish enough to aocept the Services of the handsome young sailor, he bridged the narrow black stream, and she tripped acrtyn with a merry 'tbaok you,' aad a rogueish smile, making her eyes aa daxling as they could be.

Alas! our yoi^ng tailor was perfectly charmed. What else would mako him catch up and shoulder the plank, and follow the little witch through the streets to her home, she twice performing the ceremony of 'walking the plank,' and each time thanking him with one of her eloquent smiles. Pre* ently our hero saw the young lady trip up the marhie steps of a palace of a house, and disappear beneatn iia rosewood entrance for a full minute he stood looking at the door, and then with a wonder* fully big sigh turned awny, disposed of hia draw bridge, and wended his path back to the ship. *pe next day he waa astonished with an order of promotion from the Captain. ^-Poor Jack he was speohiess with amaxement he had nor dreamed ofbeing exalted to the dignity of a second male's office on board one of the most splendit) ships that sailed out of the port of New Orleans.- lie knew he was oompetent,Tnr instead of spending his monej&.for amusements, visiting thestres and bowlingalleys, on his return from sea, he purchased books and had become quite a student: but he cxpected years to intervene before bis ambitious hopes would be realised.

His superior officers seethed to* look upon hid with considerable leniency and gave him many a fair opportunity to gather maritime knowedge: and in a year, the handsome, gentlemanly young mate had acquired onuiual favor in the eyes of the portly commander. Captain Hume, who had firat taken the smart little black-eyed fellow, with hia {teat tarpaulin, and tidy bundle, as his cabiu-boy.

One night the young man, with all the other officers was invited to an entertainment at the Captain'a house. He went and to hia astonishment mounted the identical steps, that two years before the brightest vison he haa ever seen, passed over a vision he had never forgotten. Thump, thump, went his brave heart* as he was ushered into the great parlor: and like a aledge-hammer it beat again when Captsin Hume brought forward his blue eyed daughter, and with a pleasant smile, aaid 'the young lady was onco indebted lo your politeness for a safe and dry walk home.' His eyes were all in a blase, and hi* own brown oheeks flushed hotly, sa tbe noble sauntered away leaving fair Grace Hum« at his side. And in all that ansetobiy was not so handsome a couple as the gallant tailor and the* •pretty lady.*

It waa tfhly a year from that time that the second male trod the quarter-deck seoond only in command, and part owner with the oaptaio, not only in his vessel, but in the affection of his daughter, gentle Grace Hume, who had alwaye cherished respect, to say nothing of love for the bright-eyed sailor.

His homely but earonaf net of pohteoeett towards his ohild, bad pleased the Captain, and though the youth knew it not, was the cause of his first promotion. So that now the old man hs% retired from businies, Henfy Wells is Captaia Wells, and Grace Huate is, according to polite parlance, 'Mrs Captain Walla.' lo fact, our honest sailor one of the richest men in the Crescent CUy, and he owes perhaps, the greater part of his prosperity to histact and politeness in crossing the street.

Modest Traty.

4P}aow

Coulm*

yer worship, said Barnev O*8oraftigatt to

the Mayor tbe other morning, 'plase yer worship, I'll ax a hit of a favor of ye.' gp^. Well Barney what is itt' repued his honor apparently but little interested. •I'd ax ye to tend me up for ten days on bread t' wether.'

Well if you have no hone, are out of money aod have nothing to eat I might accommodate you.' 'Thank your worship—ye al'ays had a heart to ptihy the unfortoate, ao* may die bliaed saints hliss ye. Will ye're wur^ip place tojist tell 'em io the paper (mittimas,) to give poor Barney a praiee wid the bread so' wether?' •I mightt Barney/

Thank ye're wurshlp en* ye're kindness. As* woe'd ye pat hule soap hi the pepers for Baroey, for ye're honor soea that i'm wake wid troable t'

Yes, might do thst, too, Barney.' Heaven bliss ye so' all ye're children, an' bad luck ao* a sorry any th the ugly divil that would do ye harm. Besides the patatete an* (he eocp would h't ya*re wunhip jut tell '«m that Bad»«y'e eo woke that a fciie the orator woa'd help hiae, wurship l'

Tes, yes. Barney,* impatiendy replied the May* or, do afl lhiw ditngs, yet I won't do it. Ifyoo go up yco wiQ get mtiitag hat breed aod water.* •Ochfthe dhKlf' replied (he astonished (rbhtoao, •a»*li !betthe*iy yco towata poorcrathar widoat «mm|. Aintye a ho^e—' •Sitdowa sir,' aaid the ooostaMor officer if the court, ia eoch ao iaaperative tt^wihatl Barney could not mtnmdertand him. Barney did understand him, and did ^t doaro aod whM is more, did go t» |eft, tore teflNssio too daya^pasdtfqi to anihot hioad ahd aslsr, and aa »Mo«e' A«aid sny» oofft bread at that. Poor Baroejrl .^4 "-.a#11

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DiAiooPE.—A Preehttao nseets a son-

^Wthe oofiagehafi. Fresbmao^-^ill yoa J& dfAoaU!

Mor^Wai^fwit F. (much rsfievwd)—!

to eno. ,-0f r.

p, (a^a^odad^^Gexieia^l pm heo

aifi

gad of Mmif.mamr

The Richt Spirit.

The Hon. Mr, Ou»s, of Ohiot^oncruded an elo« quenl speech the ether day in Congrees on the Pubho Land qut»tioo Wilb the f^etwi«c flfttriotio exhortation, in favor of harmony and "union for the sake of* the Uofoo^ He deservea tha thanks of every good Democrat io the country

I nrose for the purpose not only of expressing my views io favor of giving theee lands to actual settlers, but also f«»r the purpose of deprecating, an 1 do, this eternal quarrel about men and sectional partiee among «tv Democratic friends. I winh that could send my warning voice to every Democrat in the country. 1 wish my Democratic frteuds could view the poshiou of the Democratic parly as I view it. 1 desire to hear no more about yoi^r Union party—your southern rights party. My Union party la the old, thna-.honored Democratic party. It is the party to whi^h &e whole oountry look for union and safety. But, sir, from recent developsmenis upon this floor, no souftd man can doubt but^ that underneath that party lies a slumbering voloaoo, which may be exploded any moment. And, air, when I see Union men and State-rights men holding and blowing the burning match, ready to^ explode this volcano, I tremble for ttfV

And I warn my Democratic flriends^ao m«uer whether from the South or the North—no matter whether Buobaoan men or Cass mon—-no mattir whether Douglas men or Butler men—lo beware how they engender these Democratic bickerings. 1 call upon them lo cast all fire-brands from our *i

What things are lending to In the whig ranks is every day beoomlng mora evident. A Washington correspondent of the N. Y. Tribune says of a whig national convention --"It is plain enough already that a ripaned publio sentiment will only look to that convention to enunoiate a foregone conclusion, The aspect of afftira in the north, south, east and west, and the drift and tone of things hefa, aU point with unerring certainty to thia reault. Gen. Scott will walk over the course

Arm in arm with Seward—the letter might have added, flow is Scott on the fugitive slave lawt— that's the queatiotfc

I want ttf rnalfe I tfbt ofaotKlkiiitf, I do^K oaro a fig what It is. l'JJ bet any man from a shilling's worth of cigara to five hundred dollara. Thisji. your time, gentlemen what do you propose?"

Sipping glass of beer in one corner of the bar^ room, sat a plain old gentleman, who looked aa though he might be a Pennsylvania farmer. He put down his glass and addressed the exquisite: "Well, mister, I am not in the habit ot making beta, but seeing you are anxious for it, I don't care if I gratify you. So I will bet you a levy's worth of sixes thtu I can put a quart of molasses into your hat. and run it out a eoliu lump of rnolaases oandy, in two minutes." "Dono" said the e*qulsitl| taking offhfrfitt tffl handing it to the farmer,

aod you roust pay for It." That wasn't in the bargain/* timtUfy saicl tM old gentleman ••but I'll let you keep the molasse* Which is a liule more than we agreeo for.** ^laving drained the lenaclou* fluid from hie beaver as beat he oould, Into a splttooti, the man of mouatachee ruihed ftom the piece, bis fury not moeb abated by the sounds of ill-suppressed laoghtar which followed his oxit. He made hb complaint at the o(T)8e but, as it sppeared that the experiment was tried with his oaro consent, the money oould not he recovered. .1 •—f 'S, ml T?

Old Parson M., of Torringford was a queer e»1 of a man. Ooa time when his caogregatioo had most of thorn fairly dispoeed themselves for their sfternoon nep, he etartled them, as well as their ideas of propriety, hy asking in hie loudest tone, the prim of bmtutrl -*"At another time, acme strangers ooming to church with him, th»

congregation oatd more attention to them than theydid to him. Losing all patience he stopped io hia sermoo aod said—"Theee folks fit my pew ire my cousin*, from fi.: so yoa needoH start at them any

•*%,

Bold Sraoxx rot

Paooftxss or j#* A«x-A sotod 1oy, abool teoyaar ef age, approneties the master with a held front aod ae!tocofld4$M&* awMfcf foOoiriog dter

Mr. Birch ecowlin—»What feeodfe

waiitia take my^ioaMOooe e^ghta^

A i.

country.'

It was a real Florence hat, a aplendid article. thai shone like black satin, The,, old gentlemap took the hat and requested the bar-kesper to sood for a quart of molasses. ••The cheap sort, at six cents a q«aH, thi»l% thh kind 1 use in this experiment," aaid he, handing over bis six ooppera to the bar-keeper. ft ... 1'he molasses waa brought, and the old farmer, with a very grave and mysterious countenance, poured it into the dandy's hat, while the exquisite took out his watch to note timer Giving the hat two or three shakes, with a Signor Blita adroitness, the experimenter plaoed It oo the table, and Itared into it, as if watching the wonderful process of solidification. ^"Time up," said the dandy/ pThe old farmer moved tbe hat WeTfl fo he- "r" lieve it ain't hardened," said he, in a tone of ditf* appoinment. I missed it, somehow or other this lime, and suppose I have lost the bet. Bar-keeper, it let the gentleman have the cigars—twelve sixes, mind, ami charge 'em in the hill." "What of the cigars I" roared the exquisites "you've spoiled my bat, that ooit r^e fire dpliari,

•. ,-ewwpr***.. "U' p.*:*-*? The Qettlnc Dnndr. The young gentleman with a medium-sized light brown moustache, and a suit of olothea, suoh nn fashionable tailors furnish to their customers "on very accommodating terms"—that is, on the credit system—oame into a hotel on Race street, one afternoon, and, after calling for a glass of Madeira, turned to the company ana offered to bet with any man present, that the Susquehanna would not be successfully lauuohed. The banter not being taken up, he glanoed contemptuously around, and remarked': .T-:" "a:"*'

hsp

S .Jl

a IIueaAWD.—Lady

Fioch, daughter of the Earl ot Wiooheleea, wel lady oif the beddhamher to the Priocaaa AmeliasLord Bath one evening baviog oo silver, borrow* ad half-a-crown of her. h« eent it next day, with the gallant wish that ha oould give her a orown.— flho replied, that "though ha oould not giva hara crown, he eoold give her a eoromH% aad aha wet raady to aooaptofit.'*

Isabel

—Carpet Bag.

divhwldt the east says.*that uo rtch mar ii peratdttad to aotar she king-Ion of heaven.' The reason ha a*tf#n*, fr. *th«rthe f?eh have their good things in this lifo and the poor ha«» lo toil and ro«tiheT« was exptsselj Otmpwd mm**

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