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i .1 t i i MB X I Q& PNDIPEI B EST-. 3SW the tldest. Av the 'wtne uijje 'the two . other He was lar before all in maintaining the sp rit brother* used insulting language, of the revolution. S|a jt.jinenee WQB most (-x- 'ThVgffze of tire spectator? was turned to the tensive with the members from the upper coun- stranger, whose eyes flashed angrily i\she de- ties, and his boldness and ibeir votes overawed inauded in a tranquil but distinct voice, though the more eool of the more ai istftcratic gentle- little louder than a whisper men of the lower part of the State. His elo- quence was peculiar, if indeed it could be call- i ed eloquence, for it was impressive and sublime, beyond what can be imagined. Although it ; was somewhat diffioultj when he had spoken, ; to tell what he had said, jet while he was ' 'Gentlemen, do you intend to accuse the lady of' unfair dealing, or me of profiting by her partiality V . 'Who are you, that bandy words with us, the boys of Arkansas?' laid one of the Aliens.. 'My name is- Thomas Jefferson Dugau,' an- giuia* tnu'tiro-per.Wal cblralry of whose sons is nem falsified by any act of mibV •'•-•. ' '• '1B«-5»» 'y***** t*%fo% *1tli.fflat? !; ^ri&&«5sa« La6ks<L<s,?esU when he ceased : \What the devil of the brothers. ' \r '•' ''••'•^^^l^ y -'t'«Sv^lh^hriifeBf^^^^ •You may reeeive it as web, if you -feW , W- Hi? person wasot lull size;wd bis manner disposed,' replied Dugan, without betrayiul j\? oe \f ao< * »wly. B»^ utterance any emotion. •! intend to convey the idea th/t! °«tber W fast nor very slow His speeches when I am insulted, or my rights are outraged [gentry.short, Iron* a quarter to half m \—•— His pronunciation was vulgar and vt- were traces of sorrow on his countenance thoiig-h j or wing of the temple, and then beaten to death no one knew wby he grieved, tor he lived in with a. fuller**' club. the practice of every virtue, «Nd was loved by j Philip was hanged up against a pillar at Hi- all the good and wise. By and by it was tu- erapoiis, a city of Porygia. mored that the stranger worked miracles!— j Bartholomew was flayed alivie byjhe com- That the blind saw. the dumb spoke, and the mand\ of a barbarous king. deadjjeaped to life at \\h touch. That when fee | Andrew was bound: to a cross, whence he commanded, the ocean moderated its chafing j preached to the people til! he\ expired, tide, and the very thunders articulated, be is I Thomas was ran through-ibe body with a the Soil of God. Euvy assailed him with the ; lance, near Malipar, iix.thei~\East Iudim charge fo aorcery, and the vo^ce of impious Jude was shot to death with arrows, judges-condemned him to. death. ..Slowly, and Simon Zelotea was'taiiciltea in Persia. Matthias wis first stoned, then beheaded. 'SS!r\T?bter IftX oihfeilhd ; f«SriSfe^e^%^i«trtStt- leaned upon hia arm,aaa Hope- dipping ber j. PauK the last and chief of the Apostles, also i pinions in his Mdod, mounted to the skies. ' idled by violence. '\ - -'' -7^^^ ^-fr^g?^^^ ........ *<mW7Wr<3A.WE \\•*•' speaking, it was directly to the point. When Ji&Ja(J.^Jtep^io,.>QfiRPgitjpn. to _my opinion, thickly guarded he ascended the hlltof Calvary. and had produced a great effect, aud I n^elTlL'teiw^ had been highly delighted and moved, I have I am ready io demand, or exact that satisfaction Claimed by gentlemen throughout the world.' •You w!U tight?' cried the elder brother, in astonishment.' * 'A4|, three, if necessary !' was the coolre- <Wait till we break this cheat of a bank, and' you shall be accommodated to your heart's content!' said the eldest Allen, with a frown. Aeatn the ^oung girl, with quivering fingers, .threw down the four leading cards ; again the brothers risked their money, and this time on the king of clubs ; but the luck still ran against them, *nd they lost, while the stranger won his bet of fifteen hundred on the queen ot diamonds- •The she rogue has played UB i alee, and we villi take the table!' vociferated the AUenB, springing to their feet, and. drawing their t bowie-knives to txtcute their; menace by force j ^ ft ^ bUalIms . Ue was &mm ior debate of arms. [only, Hia biographer eays tbat he read Plu- . larch every Jcaiv I doubt whether he ever read a vj/lume of it in his. iiie, His temper : was excellent, and he generally observed de- 'corum iu.debswe. On one or two occasional hour. clous, but it was forgotten while he was speaking. He was a man of very Utile knowledge of any feort; he read nothing and bid no books. Returning one November Irom Albemarle court he borrowed of me Hume's Essays, in two volumes, saying \he should have leisure in the winter tor ruadiug. In the tpring he, returned them, and declared he bad not been able to go further thai? twenty or thirty pages in the first volume. He wrote aimosj nothiBg—he Tsould not write. The resolutions of ! 75, which have been ascribed to. hitn, have by many •supposed to have been written by Mr. Johnson, who act\ ed as his second on this occasion; but if they were written by Hewy himself they are not such as to prove any power of composition. Neither in pontics nor in his proiesteion was THE BOTT#M OF THE SEA. •V«;«-» But quicker than their motion was theaction of Dugao ; for, stepping backward, he covered the heads of the two boldeBt desperadoes with I a pistol in each hand, and shou.ed : 'VUlains • stir a muscle if you dare I' At this moment the bystanders interposed, and an arrangtiuent was effected for an inter- view of honor between Dugan and the eldest brother, cr, have been bim augry, and h.s «nger was terri' ble i those who wiwue*B£dtt were not disposed to'rouse it again. Iu his opinion he was yield- , , , .. ing and pracucablej and not disposed to differ The parties, attended by a swarm of • f ^ m ^ h . ^ , ' r e^ite4«pectator^met in the morning on the conversation he was agreeable ban* of me Hio Grande, opposite the site where ^ ^^^ 9illU id geateei B0 Lty, he Brownsville now stands, and w.era F>. _ . •\ . the city of placed in position by their respective seconds. Alien, firing before the word was: given, missed. Dugan then exc'aimed : 'Assatsin and swindler '. 1 will hot kill you, for you are not fit to die; bat I will cripple jour elbow for life,' and his bullet s battered the other's arm at the precise point indicated. The remaining Aliens sLruLk from a siinllar ear- nestly pro&red ordeal. -Since then the victor has been a resident of the Rio Grande, and has engaged in a dozen other enconaters, but always with the same wonderful heroism and forbearance, BT THOMAS JEFFERSON Patrick Henry was originally a bar-keeper. He.married very young, and going Into the lame business on bis own account, was a bank- rupt before the year wag out. When I was about the age of fifteen, I left the schpol here, to go the College at Williamsburg. I stopped a few days at a '.ritnd's in the county of LouUa. There I first saw and became, acquainted with Patrick Henry. Having spent the Christmas holidays there, I proceeded to Williamsburg.— Some question arose about my,admission, as appeared to understand ail the decencies and proprieties of it 5 bufetn his hearty ie preferred , low society, and sought it as often us possible. i He would hunt in th« woods of Fluvanna, with overeeerB and people of that deBcriptlon, living iu a camp for a iortnight at a time without < change of raimeut, 1 have often been astonish- ed at hia command of proper language; how he attained a knowledge of it I never could find out, as he read so little audi conversed lit- i tie with educated men. ' After alt, it must be allowed that he was our , leader in the measures of the Revolution, la j Virginia. In that resptct oaore was due to him than any other person. If we had not had him we should probably have got on pretty welt, as you did, by a number of meh of nearly equal talents, but he left us all far behind. His bi- ographer tent the sheets of his work to me as tbey were prist^d. and at the end asked for my opinion, i told him it would be a question hereafter whether this work should be placed on the shelf of history or panegyric. It la a poor book, written In bad taste, and gives so imperfect an idea ot Patrick Henry, that it seems intended to show off the writer more than the gubjeot of the work. _ Our instigations go to show MM the rbar- in g waves and the mightiest billows of the ocean repose, not\upon hard or tton^ed beds,but ttp- on cushions of still'water; tbat everywhere at the bottom of the deep sea the solid ribs of the earth are protected, as with a garment, from tbe abrading action, of itrcurrents; that fhe cradle of its restless wav es is llneo* by a stratum of water ajtrest, or so nearly at rest that it can neither wear nor move the lightest, bit of tfrift that lodges there. Tbe uniform appearance of these microscopic shells, and- almost total al> sence among them of any sediment from the sea or foreign matter, suggest most forcibly the idea of perfect repose at the bottom Of the sea. Some of the specimens are as pure and free from sea-sand as the freeh-falien snow-flaTte is from the dust of the earth. Indeed soraeof these soundings almost prove that the sea. like the snow-cloud with its flakes in a'ealm, fs al- , ways letting fall upon its bed showers of these minute shells; and we may readily imagine that the wfrecks which strew its bottom are, in the process, bidden under this fleecy covering, presenting the rounded appearance which is seen over the body of the weary traveler who has perished la the snow-stofta, TJie ocean, es- pecially within and near the tropics, swarnffl with lite. The remains of myriads of moving thiogs'are conveyed by currents, and featterea and lodged in the course of time all over its bottom. Thie process, continued for ages, has covered the depths of the ocean as with a man- tle, consisting of organisms a* delicate Bs~hoar- hoBt, and a.s light in the water as down is in the air. The tooth of rfifntttg wa sharp. See how the Niagara has cut ita way through layer'ahd layer of solid rock. But what Is Niagara,with all the fresh watercourse* of tlie world, by tte side of the great «arreat* of ocean t And what is the pressure of Iresh water upon river beds in comparison with the pressure of ocean water upon the bottom of the deep sea 1 141s sot so great by contrast as the gutters tn the streetsare to the cataract. Then 'wby have hot the currents of trie sea worn Its bottom away T Simply \because they are not permitted to get dowh to \i<~rJlll the Year Round. ,.,;•«»•»„•. 1 '• *.- .• . 1 L RCLBS FOR READING. UprUl't irhewWi- J66r lot may be, * If ybtt are faint a\ria-«ad \ ^,<\~~-' , Nevst&i'lUtwlobfc'tisftk, For the Slackest a , Kqj u ^,,..- K &*<.<-~- • WilireityefiiabtB^lf*^ ; ~~r iryou paadl«y(>ar own c»R$e. NoWy fae» th# wildest storm, And stem t^aihfcltleiSt gate; Strong ift «a_g4 *rwe *tbe»i:t, Yoa will «*ver <aiV, And tawards.tlj« JMiwon »ark Paddle jonr OWII ettaoe. Erery was«JthBtl»«r»Son \f To tbe otbwilMMe, h»» gone to retpmno insre; And it you would outride tho storm, And keeji tb«'fe«c6n light io view, YoamMt ji»3i£re*your cw&'CJiBoe. Jlexlco, N. Y, ' ^ ; _^ MAv; BETTER WORK THAN UEG., ^ .'^laase |[iT»'me •faw penaies to pay %v a ntghVsila^lBfetirj^iaBW-a fceggtr In a whin- ing tnne to a gentlsaian, one n^ht in the street of a l«|ge fcjjjpv •. ' ' . \Better. Work tawbagt\ wplturl iae gentle- man. h»ndlu| the beggar a dime. ^Better ifals.. than ;bef,\ Mid- the beggar to himself.. '-That's W, L guess. Vjm tried beg- giDg. .It_4ou*fc go\very welL \I'll try work.'^ He triedhard.andafter, a while earned a dollar. With this hi bought old r»gs, which he sold, for a dollar and aquarter, He.boaght mor^ raga, m% ,w*« iobtt able to open a sort itf j fag shop for himself. By and by he b«gau ta. j make peper. Next he sold Looks. Finally he hecaoJB a rich, aud benevolent man. He found., working *o ,ue letter .t&aa beg|ing,~\ iuid so^ will yo»» laty, loitering boy, find in- dustry better than. Idleness, IdleueM is a deal- - er In rags,miMry ; apd death. J$. jw enter itpt service yon will g^t these for pay, and pretty rougl^ pay it i»,, Bnt industry deals in gold*, health and happiness. Serve h«r and she will make ytj^i, a ti»\ man by apd by. t hope that idle, lazy boy»»m«ntiatia her service rif*ik; off. \ , ; .- • . •: , - - •-;-,-} —.,,.,, ,-,„», ^- I; i WIJ,L a$ iJa EASL OF PEjtBlROKEf.— finprunu. For mf sofil^tiojjfess I have heard very muck,. ofBou^'kt^hai'thiy'are, or whom, they are^ .or A BEAUTIFUL THOUGHT. It was night. Jerusalem sl^pt as '. amid her hills as^ child upon the breast of its bother. The noiseless sentinel stood like a statue at his post, and the philosopher's lamp burnt dimly in the recess of his chamber. . But alas, dark night was now abroad upon the earth. A moral darkness Involved the na- tion in its benighted shadows; Reason sheds a my preparatory studies bad 'hot been pursued W«* glionteriug over toe minds; of men, like at the schfiol connected with that institution This delated my admission about a fortnight, atwhWbTtime Henry appeared in Williamsburg and applied for a license; to practice law, hav- * \ing commenced the study of It atwurtwequent to the time of my meeting him in Louisa.— There were four examiners. Wythe, Pendleton* Peyton, Randolph apd John Randolph. Wythe and Pendletou at once rejected bis application. The two Randolphs, by his importunity, were pwallcdopon to sign the lieeifae j and having obtained their signatures, he spoiled again to Pendleton, and after roach' entreaty and many promises of future study, succeeded in obtain- ing his*. \— T — r —.'.-___. He.then turned out for a practicing- lawyer. The int^ case \Which brought hint Into notice was a contested election, in,which he appoartd < os toonsel before a Comkittee 0! the House\of Bargasstft. ansaeconii WaalSife Ftfflsacs cifasE*' «*t«udy well known. TV«^a and similar eforts soon obtained for him so much reputation, that *w was elected u Member 61 the Legislature.— the cold inefficient shinings of a distant star.— The immdrtality \of man's spiritual nature was unknown, his path to heaven undiucoversd and his future destiny obscured in a cloud of 'mys- tery. '..:;. •- • It was at this per'-nl, two forms of .ethereal mould hovered over the land of God's people. They seemed like sister angels sent to the earth obsome embassy of love. The on^was of ma- jestic stature, and with well formed limbs which beMnowy drapery hardly conoealed, as she Impreisively pointed upwards, where night ap- peared to have placed her darkest pavilion, while oil her left reposed her delicate compan- ion, In foim and' countenance, the oontfartiof the other, she was drooping like the\ flower when moistened by refreshing dews, and ber bright but troubled eyes scanned the air with ardent but varying |1anc«a Suddenly a light ¥hi 4k<s r& *tshed out Ww> Mnr en, andfalth., abd Hope hailed with e*ultant songs tin as- cending Star of BetW^em. Tears roiled away, and a stranger was seen in .Tertaateie;. He ,WA» A JM^.VWMWtnVng. Read much, but not many works. For what purpose, witfi what intent do we read? We read, not tor the sake of reading, but wre read to the end that we may think. Reading Inval- uable only as it may supply to His the materials which the mind itself elaborates. As It is not the largest quantity of any kind of food taken Into the stomach that conducts to health, bat such quantity of such a kind as can he best di- gested ; 10 it is noV the greatest compliment of any kind of inlormation that iffiprovea ike mind, but such a quantity of such a kind a»,cb*- termines the intellect to most vigQrora energy. Tbe only profitable kind of reading is that tn which we are compelled. .to think Irjieniely; whereas that reading which sartes only to dis- sipate and divert ohr^thoughts, is either posi- tively hurtfulor useful only as an occasional relaxation from 'severe exsrtlon. Bat tbe amount of vigorous thinking is usually in tbe inverse ratio of multilarlous reading, kultv farious reading Is agreeable; butaia \ fc never'iras, what they;are for, GodkndWB, I know not: ty felt ttte now of another world, where I nor clo I know one foot of the way thither. While tbeTring stood,! wa* of m ,w- t ligiOD, made my son wear a caseock,and thought to make him a bishop; then came the Scott and roadelfiina Presbyterian; and since Orom- well entered, I WvV been an Jpdspendeat.^r, These, I believe, are tbe kingdom's three m- Utes, ana' if ' aoy of these can have a soal, | aiay clalmbne; therefore, if my exacutors do flod Ih^te aioul, 1 give H to him Who gave It to mfc-^ff<sm..,'liste Jdyd'e«r to\ tie.-ilari0f Salisbu^yiwhot JknovrwUl preserve tham, be- cauae he deaied ^kjpg;* huok out,of,kl| own, .patka-r-JiW I glte nothing to Lord Say f wblchl*«cyi .g^ts.W»«*WW»l I kBAwhe wftttnitajis It'cn .te .i»or.-*ll«in. . JfcJBpft M»yIriTeOveabiill»r; linterfed him awe; haffh5wj?rlabMf%his «<ti|*My of ,tk« ^a»,. tta^ttt^'llittki. JKt ahilliiigitoo toaek— Item, t giteiiwteiM»t^reiHir»l^CrosjiwaU ana word I of\ mine, because hitherto he. never kept hia ;4.iwn.-Jte«». I giye nn the ghost K is, in Its way, af destructive to ^ibe '«wnta1\1«* f -«. w &,«*,. J,*B—* *L dark hoars that dram drinking is to ttt bodily health. ««Obr llffiflaGijTSaSiH i2?-C bodily larktbc of Os brightest years. Tor allthe'Mniir \ •\ J ^- x -^—1 7-7—1 r : - ; And thsre have been cold and stormy days in every year. Aod yet the misU and ihadowa of the d*rk^ Wtt 'ittiiM ** *& W*.- le^ly/ th<fn^sfcraa!me tMters 'haw been age,\ says Herder, \it the reading age/' an^|JJ. fc jfa»%fa m )&£* tki mitjiopi 0« adds* •'ttwould lave been hetterjittmy MislmalT^^frr^IrT? T W%?J+i73ES?-iL for the world and for soien^fe, If, instead of thi multltnae of booh* whifch he# oter^aJiip^We possessed but a few work* good f and sterling, and which few would, therefore, be more dili- gently and profoun^lysindieal' J ~Str Wiiliaif Hamilton. . , \ ; r t • r I k h «| ,f »^<'- aj. %k • 1 fATB OF THE AJrtiTtES. ^bro^w-.ind j: tntoM'ioieV;^ Ann what \-ever wssTafflf^fts t ot ttwrwiry to say what f man. whose whole happinfess seemed to consist 1 Matftewif BOpaosedtohavs sufleredanaah tyrtom, OT wat'ynt to death hy <ha the oi^r of Ethiopia,'' , . , r (i s , „\„. '. ', •.'. Marlfwi* dragged through the »t»*U of Al- exandria, in Egypt, till he expired. Lake was hanfsd upon as olive tree in iGrseW' , \\\\ *':.'*•'•'• -'f-..-'• ;';' ;V. •\..;';•;. JohnwasputfnacliauMnoaofboiUrjgoii,^ Rotas, and ssoapaddaath. »e *tt«wafdi4l«d t natural daath at UphWIg,, jfJMK+m. . lamas the Grant was beheaded at Jertialent we should have dona without Patrick Henry.' in acts of benevolence to the human rao«. ThM6 r laa** ft* liM^ir** thMwa ftflil 4 f^ttlttcU ttaasatto»d\b*ori! , ahff the most fnrtoas ih'harts. ,v . ,--.\\-, tsthh in hnmanlire-- ers ma bsart work* ai Hew, too, we have lis,' - the dark hoars, sad many'a'. oc^blsW'ohillittehmrttOltt.osr*. But what natteriitT'ltani* horn *he», and Kb oa# ' Inmi-d^ra^teaMstanlM Oat h«nlsm ga«§ Us graateat and the but development, sWrnW\ atot'm b»at»'%-JSfii«-'f*jfiBiJ-<$i' & {i*-®i&*$>- •• Dt^mlr.li^tkW - IWm* W* m>? .whBs :oe^i<^>«^i»y«ira,nst k, t -^^•^^•fininir' r iBiiTmri attend mi»e«btt: jmd that «»^-*«* hoae* and rtmtgla 00, and - it will ,. *ft\6**s*r* •'*;*3»l\* 1 -'**••*. s\ »f\«>mwvmgmi^ »-^£L- '•yuii^ amamms -<T* Ev,., --\••'.-• *m*'-<nmt»< . lOSJi 1*. nil ,. 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