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6 3 ft T- 3 CT V X - -i 1 V - - "tfV-i -Sfc, Sons" of the Yoaogr Whigs. lVdicUod to the, Newark Yuung Men s Clay nJ Frelinghuysen ( "!u!s ly 15, 15. Docotii. Air Y?inl Fairy-like Music.' Hark! Hark! wh-U sweet music Comes soft ofr the j-Inin, Enchanting mv heart with Its soul-melting rtiu'ui! 'Tij the song of the 3 oung Whig, As they mii'li to the friy Determined to conquer Tor theii own Haurt Ci at. Li-t, ht. to the cadence It is rising again. Pealing up from the mountains To Heaven's blue jlai;i Tiu the song of th younsi Whig, As they come in their might, To save their loved country From Misrule-s sad blight. Y,i.-t, list, to thir music. It is coming more near Hark list to the words now As they ring on the car 'Ti the song of the young Whigs, Through the country they're rising, To I 'ane wreaths on the hrow Of our own FjiiiLiS(;ucisS. c.see, tht-ir vast host They are now wheeling past List, list, to the ir shout, A it soars on the Mast Tis the shout of the young Whig?: To the Traitor they say, Your sentence is passed! Make room for uur Clat.' From ths Ladies' National Magazine. Love before First Sight. l.'.Y ELKAR WAYNE. Chapter I. In a small French provincial town lived 1 voting man named M. Clainville. Ilia person was agreeable not that lie was handsome but his expansive countenance indicated frankness, spirit, good sense p.nd generosity, and his character supported this promise of his face. If an anecdote was related of some act of benevolence, the doer of which chose to urainUin concealment, it was at once imputed to Clainville. If an improbable story was Void, and the hearer expressed doubt, the narrator had only to say 'but I had it from Clainville,' to procure immediate credence, lie enjoyed the esteem of all who knew him, end with a very moderate fortune, relieved the necessities of the poor on the cva, hand, and found his society courted !y the rich ad powerful on the other. Near Clainville resided Madame de Maziers. She dwelt in retirement, having passed her eightieth year, and supported with resignation the ineonveniencies of age and of poverty. She lost, by the Revolution, a splendid fortune and a brilliant position in society, but she met with n bereavement at the same time, which was immeasurably more afflictive than any pecuniary reverse, or any ostracism from fashionable position could be. Her only daughter, married to one of the proscribed uoblese the Count de Yerlae lied into banishment with her husband, leaving their only child, Sophie, at the age of three years, in the charge of her grandmother. The end of a marriage, which took place under the happiest auspices, was the death of husband and wife, away from the land of their birth, and the recipients of the scanty charity of strangers. Madame dc Mazieres, charged with the precious trust, delighted to trace in the lineaments of the child the beauty of the only daughter whom she had so fondly loved. Through her infancy she was a most devoted parent to the orphan, but her own advancing, age had at length taught her that she was no longer compe.tent to guide the education of the charming child in whom all her hopes and all her c.ue3 were centred. The parting cost child and guardian infinite pain, but convinced that the best good of both demanded a separation. Madame de Mazieres entrusted the orphan to the guardianship of a tried friend, whoso position and chari.ter mad3 the charge most eligible for op!ue; and the orphan girl was taken to Paris, for the benefit of that metropolitan tducation without which no Trench woman is parfailc. Poor Madamo de Mazieres ! She had thus with commendable self-denial robbed herself of that which might have made her house delightful and her solitude agreea5,1. IIhi souvenirs were gloomy comanions for if sho had some memories of pleasure, there were enough of grief to elface them all. Still Uainviue was tier ..rmslant visiter. Wliv? VOU will ask. What could a young man seek there ? IT snucrht what Clainville sought always and very where, the luxury of consoling the unfortunate. He sought to convince Marlfimn that tho whole world had not for gotten her, and that there were still in it good and generous souls, who consiuereu old ge entitled to respect, ana the 1r1u cms unfortunate fit companions. The natural pursuits anJ cheerful cn

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gtgc taenia of vivacious youth had prevented Clainville from paying his accustomed attentions to Madams de Mazieres for more than a week. Ashamed of his negligence, he made haste to repair it. He fo.md his aged friend absorbed in deep and evidently painful thought, but she awoke with a smile from her reverie at his appearance, and playfully reproached him for hie long absence. ' But,' she added, cheerfully, ' we old women cannot pardon young people who forget us, and must receive the moments they give us, without rigidly counting what we get, or exaoting more.' Madame,' said Clainville, 4 I assure you I have never forgotten you I ' I readily believe you,' interrupted the old lady. 'Tho goodness of M. de Clainville's heart would never permit him-to forget the unfortunate.' As she epake, in spile of her assumed gaiety a tear escaped her eye-lids. Clainville regarded her a few moments in silence, and then tenderly enquired, 'how is this Madame? has any new calamity overtaken you!' 'No, monsieur.' 'And why then, these tears' '1 weep not for myself, my dear young friend.' How, madame ? Has any misfortune overtaken the grand-child of whom I have heard you speak so often?' 'I was thinking,' said madame de Mazieres, 'of her fate. It is hue that her misfortunes will all be in the future but that uncertain future is already at the door.' What mean you, madame ?' Poor child, in a few days she will have no longer a mother!' How say you?' asked Clainville, anxiously. At my ago,' said the old lady, 'it is folly to strive to deceive one's self. In a year a month a week a day I may be no more. My little grand-child my dear Sophie will be alone in the world, without support, without a protector, without fortune. It is such thoughts that, in spite of myself, plnnge me in despair.' Clainville endeavored to reassure the aged matron. 4 Heaven, he said, 4 will protect your daughter. She will find friends, she' Friends!' interrupted madame. 4You judge others by your own heart. She is beautiful that may procure her the worst of enemies. She is without fortune that will expose her without a protector and may leave her to be ruined without redress. If there over were such friends as disinterested ones in the world, they exist no longer.' You have forgotten me then!' cried Clainville, with emotion. A romantic impulse that moment knocked at his heart. 'Yon have forgotten me, and doubt the sincerity of my friendship. 'Gently, my dear child,' said the old lady, 'I know YOUR heart. But what kind of a protector will a young man of twenty make for a girl oksixteen?' A husband,' said Clainville. The romantic impulse was now a cherished determination. A husband!' repeated Madams de Ma. zieres after him in astonishment, Yes madame. Promise me her hand, and I promise to protect, and to make her happy.' 'And you ask the hand of one whom you have never seen?' 'Certainly. Your child she must be lovely, if only her misfortunes made her so.' 'But she is without fortune,' persisted the old lady. If 6he possessed wealth,' replied Clainville, 'she would have no need of a protector.' Excellent young man,' said the matron, melted to tears, '1 accept your ouer. I will give her to you, and a dying mother never resigned her precious charge into more virtuous hands. I will write to her this instant and in a few days you shall meet here the beloved child whom you have promised to espouse. You have calmed my last moments heaven will befriend my daughter, for heaven has sent vou to make her happy and permit me to

depart in peace. 1 ... sv . 1 . t If Clainville, much attected, tore nimseu awav to escape tho warm expressions of the happy woman s gratitude. As he was upon the point ot entering his own uoor, he encountered a man whom he knew and much esteemed, having met him at the house of Madame do Mazieres. It was M. de Forvnl not what the world calls a brilliant, but an honest man; one in whom every body had confidence, and who fully merited it. He understood and loved Clainville, and had promised himself to do his young friend a benefit upon the earliest opportunity. 'May I ask,' said M. de Forval, without impoliteness, from whence you came ? You have the air and appearance of a man much affected.' Poor Madame de Mazieres,' said Clainville. hs in a situation no unfortunate.' 'Do you think so?' 'She has imbued mo thoroughly with her own melancholy." Yes,' said the other. 'I perceive you are gloomy enough. Come with me I will take you where the gay world shall dissipate your sadness.' But I have no desire that it should be less.'

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cu m ma w iiuie universe, me goou ma in tne de Mazieres will bo neither the happier nor the richer for it. Come with me, 1 tell you, and if I find that society annoys you. still you hold the game in your own hands. If you want solitude there is no solitude like that of a crowd.' Clainville permitted himself to be lead to the house of Madame de Verteuil, whs was at home one evening in every week to a numerous but well chosen circle of friends. 4 Take care of yourself!' said Forval to him as they walked, 4 tako care of yourself. You will meet to-night the most charming young woman in the world, and you will be good enough by and by to recollect that I have given you warning.' Who is that paragon? asked Clainville, beginning to be interested. Adele de Jumiliy. Her mother has determined to leave Paris, and fixing her residence among us, to purchase an estate in thi vicinity. Madame de Jumiliy is an amiable and accomplished woman of the lirst ton. She will be an acquaintance worth making. But look out fr yotir heart I warn you. Her daughter is tas beautiful as the day, and as innocent s the rose in its freshness.' Clainville paid but little attention to liis friend's rhapsody. He had already forgotten it in answering the ready salutations of his friends upon entering the house of Madame de Verteuil. His eye wandered a moment on the beautiful women who graced the re-union, and was arrested in pleased surprise by a young woman who eclipsed all the others. She accidentally encountered with her eyes his anxious gare, dropped the long lashei and a graceful blush mantled her cheeks. Clainville was delighted at this proof of modesty, and seeking his friend asked, who is that young person V 'Ah!' said Forval, smiling, 4 you have found her out already, then, of whom I warned you. What think you of her ?' 'Very well.' Come, come, this is cold praise. Acknowledge that she is charming. This is the young Adele de Jumiliy, of whom we were talking. Did you not recognise her by my portrait ? If not I am a bad painter. Her mind is as highly praised as her person, by those who know her, and you see what her person is. She has received a finished education, and possesses every accomplishment, and with all this, has preserved all the grace and ingeniousness of childhood. Possessed ofbriiltant and agreeable talents, she is as modest as an angel, and plays with her gifts, natural and acquired, as innocently and artlessly as she did but yesterday with her doll. But come recollect you are not to fall in love with her.' Clainville smiled, and making no reply to Forval, joined the ladies, lie mingled in their conversation, and exhibited that spirit which all the world loves, and regards as the best eulogy on the character of him who possesses it. lie evinced a sincerity and frankness which painted in natural, various and lively colors, I119 genuine emotions the more one hears of such a talker, the more one desires to hear. Madame de Jumiliy, of all others, seemed to take a most lively interest in what he said, and found opportunity to engage him in conversation to herself. Clainville gave way to the desire to please so natural to one of his age. Never had he appeared so agreeable and amiable, although involuntary distraction would often break the thread of his discourse with the mother, and divert his thoughts from her to where the daughter sat. Released, at length, from the pleasant, but still, just then, a little tiresome attention of Madame Jumiliy, Clainville rejoined the young people, and participated in their amusements with a zest and pleasure which he had never before known. He could not tire of watching every gesture of Adele, and listening to every tone of her voice. As lie gazed and listened, it was no longer attention for attention requires reflection, and ho wa9 past that. It was enhancement it was love ; and to enter his heart, love had assumed its most seductive form that of innocence and candor. Adele was one of those whom to see for an instant is to love forever. Her face had something in its expression, so pure, so natural, so true, that at first sight you read her whole soul on it. You knew her at one glance of the eye you could not understand her better in n life time. The heart of Clainville, accustomed to give way to its first emotions, was mastered completely by the sweetest and most absolute of all tyrants. He lovedi without reflecting on the consequences of loving. He loved,, forgetting the promises he had made. The moment of separation had arrived. lie approached Adele, and would have spoken to her, In his embarrassment he could not speak, but his looks expressed more eloquently than his tongue could have uttered. Chapter II. Clainville returned home deliciouslv ab sorbed. His every thought was of Adele. Ho reviewed again and again all that she had done and all that she had eaid. Her countenance, her graces, her movements played before his mental vision a most delightful pantomime, and thus in waking visions passed all the night. When he slept it was to dream of her. At ten in

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partrfeot he had not risen. 'What,' said his Q-ienu. '.still in bed ! ft u daylight,' answered Clainville, 'before closed my eyes. How"!' said Forval, you you sleepless. It is a iniracle. But I understand it. You ar in love. These are undoubtedly symptoms.' 'Me?r4Yea my boy, and with Adele de Jumiliy!' !- ThU home charge recalled poor Clainville to his recollection. He reddened and frteramered, what could induce you to siwpect such a thing ?' 'Is it such a crime then,' asked Forval, 'to be in love ? N, Monsieur Fervor not a crime, but a very great misfortune.' Yes, truly,' answered Forra!, to be in of with a person whom you can marry on any day you choose.' Me! Do you then,' answered Clainville 'irrjagine me sufficiently vain to aspire to a jnatch so far above my rank, and to a wife so far above my merit?' And, do you, Clainville,' answered For val, 'think me 60 little your friend that I would taunt you with impossible hopes ? I have known Madame de Jumiliy well and long. 1 have been entrusted to her with important commissions. She Las spoken to me repeatedly of her anxiety for the future weltare ot her daughter, and of her anxiety to see her happily married. 'My daughter,' she said, 'is rich enough for two, and it is not fortune which 1 shall consult in mv choice of a man to make her happy. I look for a young man who, to good family joins the intrinsic merit of a good heart, and who, with an agreeable presence, possesses a sound mind.' She has even asked me to aid in the search of a person. I had promised, Clainville, to seek your happiness, and I liave kept my word. 1 know you better than you know yourself, and I know that I have not betrayed the confidence of Madame de Jumiliy in proposing you to her as a husband of her daughter. Last evening sho spoke of you io me with enthusiasm, and I have promised her that I will make you a parly to a project which, to be executed, needs only your assent.' Only my consent! cried Clainville 'and I cannot give it.' Forval watched with close attention the countenance of his friend, as it varied with a thousand con flicting emotions. 'No. no,' he repeated, I lovo Adele oe Jumiliy and I refuse the proffered happiness ' He then proceedtd to recount to his friend what had passed between himself and Madame de Mazieres. I could not,' he continued, 'see iBe distress of that excellent and un fortunate woman without being deeply af. fected. She asked of heaven a support andrjrotector for her orphan grand-child. I considered nothing but followed the first inp.ulse of my heart. 1 asked of her theVtud of Sophie.' ''f&en you decline this connexion?' in quired Forval. liloat the cost of my own happiness td secure that of another.' 'Are you firmly decided?' l)o you doubt me, Monsieur Forval? After opening tho door of hope and joy to Madame de Mazieros, would you have meplunge a dagger in her heart ? Do you advise me ' 'Me? I advise you nothing. Where is the '.benefit of counselling a man who follows the first impulse?' 'Ah! you would have done the same I pleige 4io, no no pledges, my iriena, an swered Forval. 'You are a fool of a particular species, and all fools have not the honor resembling you. AUieu. 1 am vexed that it is thus out of my power to do you a service. What then, do yon leave me in anger No your folly is magnificent enough to obtain its own pardon. But it is necessary that I carry to Madame de Jumiliy your sincere expressions of gratitude and regret. My gratitude, certainly,' said Clainville, "with animation, 4but not my regret. My heart is broken but I can have no regret.' Forval kindly and warmly press ed his hand as he took his leave.' Poor Clainville labored hard to pursuade himself that he really did feel no regrets. He called himself a fool twenty times over not as M. Forval did, because he had made a promise on the first impulse, but because he permitted himself to be atllicted by the necessity of refusing Adele, when in fact he had no right to do otherwise, being espoused, had in honor weded already to another: He resolved to lova Sophie on principle, and struggled mentally to escape the image of Adele which constantly pursued him. But it pursued in vain. It could torment him. but not shake his firm determination. In the evening, he directed his steps toward the dwelling of Madame de Mazieres, which he resolved no more to leave until the arrival of SoDhie. He expected to find Madame de Mazieres alone but was startled by the presence nf Madame Jumiliy and her daughter.Nothinc, however, oould be more natural than their visit. As Madame Jumiliy pro nosed to reside in the neighborhood, it be came her to seek the acquaintance of those who would form her circle of society. Clainville was sadly disconcerted he dared not speak, and stood still, unceitain

whether to advance or to retire. The embarrassments of his situation was not at all relieved, when Madame de Mazieres took him by the hand, and presenting him to Madame de Jumiliy, said: " " ' This, madame, Ts the generous young

man wlio, touched w ith my calamities and my griefs forgetting his own personal interest and happiness, has offered himself my dear Sophie's protector, when I shall be no more! Behold my good genius, my son, my consoler!' .I know Monsieur Clainville,' said Madame Jumiliy, -I know to what a point he has carried his disinterestedness and delicacy. What wife would not be happy with a husband capable of such noble con duct. hat say you, Adele?' Poor Clainville was more confused than ever what a scene! What an appeal! And what a judge was Adele, hi acase where she had been the rejected! But a greater surprise was ready. Adele's long eye-lashes fell. Siie blushed and smiled and said, 'yes I believe my happiness with such a husband is se cure. Who can paint the astonishment of Clainville? 'You hear, my friend,' said Madame de Mazieres, offering Clainville the not unwilling hand of Adele 'receive your bride!' 'My bride!' 'What,' said madame, 'Jo you wish to retreat from vour word." 'No! I will defend it with my life but Madamoiselle Adele ' 'Is my child my dear Sophie, and Madame de Jumiliy is the friend to whom I entrusted her.' After such a surprise, Clainville was not astonished to find that with Sophie he was to receive a handsome fortune. Madame de Mazieres had commenced to save from necessity, and when fortune changed with her, she concealed the facts and continued economy from habit, and with thelaudible motive of leaving the orphan provided for. Her artifice had proved the generosity and the chivalrous devotion to his word of Clainville. Happy in her grand child's happiness, the ladygrew at once ten years younger, and she Jived ten years longer than before these events she had dared to hope. It is due to her good sense to say thatshe never would have proposed a promise as Clainville offered; nor would she have held him to the accomplishment of an engagement which Forval did not far miscall when he told the maker he was a 'peculiar fool.' But Clainville's acts from good impulse have never done him harm, as under them he has never done wrong. He may have been deceived by those to whom he has done good but the good he has done has never deceived him. Old Monsieur Forval, and a notary soon made the party complete. The reader will of course perceive that rorval was a plotter with the rest in this happy strata gem; and nobody's happiness, bride's and bridegroom s excepted, was greater than that of M. Forval, he said to Clainville, when the union .vas blessed: 'this is none of my fault. I told you how it would be when we were on the way to Madame erteuil's soiree!' A Canadian XSoax. At Montreal, a very amusing hoax ha9 been practised on the credulily of her Majesty's lieges. The Gazette tells the tale in these words: On Tuesday a very clever jeu d'esprit was played off; and if we were sure the fair publisher would not sue for a breach of copy right, we should certainly publish it in lieu of the news expected to-day. It consisted of a very spacious and buiness-like newspaper ex tra, containing the important intelligence, received by special express from New York, of the arrival of Her Majesty, Queen Victoria, in 1 ankee Land. It created quite a sensation, and numerous w ere the inqui ries at the newspaper office and post-of fice, by the credulous. Mr. Porteus was, of course, unable to give any account of it, being by special express; but this was only set down to official mystery, and his credulity to vexation at the post-ollice be ing beaten. The particulars were full, and the whole narrative could not be more minutely circumstantial. As a sample of the style of the tiling, we take the followin paragraph: 'The royal party dined at seven o'clock; the following gentlemen had ihe distinguished honor of being pre sent: Majors Geneial Scott and Wool, Co.nmodore Dallas, Major Jack Downing, (commanding a guard of honor.) the Mayor of the City and the British Consul. The greatest good humor prevailed during the evening. Among the dishes served up by our friend of the Astor, none elicited more praise or seemed to be more heartily relished by her Majesty and the Prince, than the national delicacies of pumpkin pie and apple sauce; and upon her Majes ty s retiring, rnncH Albert enjoyed wuu great gout a gin-sling with Major Jack Downing, who guessed that ins uoyai Highness had never been so well entertained before.'!' A man drove some cattle into the Muskingum, a few days ago, to swim them af.ros3 following, himself, in a skiff. When about the middle of the stream, the boat was capsized by an ox, and the man saved his lite onlv bv clinging to the ani mal's horn. This is one instance of a man taking a horn to advantage.

Correspondence of the Louavi!la Journal. Locefoc Indiana Mass Convention. Indianapolis, Jtiue lb, 1844. Gentlemen: Perhaps a greater farco was never enacted than was the Locofo-

co State Mass Convention held here on the 17th, the anniversary (God save the mark!; ci the Uattle of Bunker Hill! My paper will not admit of otic-half the rich details so I go at it 'in the lump,' and after the most condensed fashion pledging the living testimony of the most reputable witnesses for the accuracy of the statements. Immense had been the prepatory drumming! The organized wire-workers of the party for months had passed around tho watoh-word that, on tho 1 7th of June, a vast young men's convention of ratification, accompanied w ith a barbecue, wa to bo held at tho capital, whereat the ir hi ones of the party were to speak and the smaller ones to eat. Handbills announc ed an order for a flaming procession of officers of the late war, soldiers of the rev olution and the last war, &c. Soma twenty subordinate marshals, to be led in by the chief director, were duly published. God's holy Sabbath was the day se lected to butcner hogs, sheep, and calves for the occasion, and all other due Locofoco preparationswere made for a vast car nival. The day at length came, and ABOUT THIRTY from abroad caino with it! Yet the roads were in as good as ordinary con dition, and the ground not in a situation to employ farmers on their plantations The balance, (a beggarly five hundred, not equalling our ordinary Whig county conventions,) made up the quota. Yet the pageant went on! A Locofoco ex-post master, encircled with a eash whose crimson hue might well challenge rivalry with Dick Johnson 8 red jacket, ensconced his portly person, (weighing jolly two hundred and fifty.) on a suitable horse, and. spurriii"nis sides, dasiied up the street to arrange the forlorn squad in the most imposing condition. As this chief marshal pitched by the Washington Hall, a loud whirlwind of cheers for Clay and Frelinghuvsc-u as cended heavenward, when a Locofoco leader ('hing that woudn't answer) raised his hat with due pomp, and, solitary and alone, screamed out, huzza for Polk and Dallas! ! The procession numbering, as counted by a Whig and prominent Loco, in all a trifle over five hundred, then marched by with funeral strides. A col lation of (nearly) raw beef was eaten. Speeches were made by Whilcomb and others in which the old lies of the white slave tribe were iterated end reiterated, and the cannon fired by Chapman, the Lo cofoco editor here, who, inasmuch as liquor was excluded from the barbecue ground, had taken special care to get drunk beforo breakfast. The speeches were of tho trashiest order and by the trashiest men the best Locofoco stock not being on "on hand." Divers attempts were next made to huzza for Polk and Dallas, in one earn est effort, at which a worthy Locofoco loader knocked oft' his wife's bonnet, wheroi! she mildly advised him to huzza for John Tyler and come in! Throughout the day the name of Clay rang clear and loud above all others hoartier, deeper, clearer shout, and volunteers all! At night the Whig glee club assembled at the Washington Hall, and from one of the balconies sent fortu the true muic. The Locofocos assembled and sought to drown those strains. As well might they seek to pull down our National banner! The streets soon filled; the music went on; curses deep hurrahs loud, and oaths and threats high from the Locofocos. The Whigs laughed, sang on, and huzzaed for their glorious leader. Yet "nobody was killed." A Locofoco song to. the tune of Dan Tucker," was at'empted to be sung but the Whig? caught up the chorus, and thundered forth, 'Get out of tho way you're all unlucky. Folk can't come it with old Kentucky.' Foiled in every attempt to infringe up on the rights of Vhig9, a certain Locofoco gambler, who.it is said understands how to conceal money in his boots intimated to his myrmidons that they bellow out Butter thereby alluding to a para graph in the Sentinel charging the editor of the Rifle with having, a few days ago, forged an order for a pound of butter a charge just large enough to fill a Loofoco's maw, but, of course, too insignificant to be accredited or reputed. Whereupon the august Locofoco assemblage yelled "Go it Butter!" This was answered by a shout from the very boys about the streets of "go it Boots!" At this the Locofoco gambler eloped and has not been since visible upon the pavements. About midnight the carousal dispersed and the poor farce ended. For every material statement here made idisputahle evidence, if need be, (and as I believe from Locofocos,) can be produced to sustain it. In these few words, is all I have space t write or you to publish. What a sketch of a State Convention this! The Whigs are in the finest spirits. We shall carry the State with all ease If the Whigs work on as they have been laboring, and if the southern portion only does right, we shall have the largest majorily on joint ballot next winter that has assembled in the State. Yours, in haste, X.