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Tum subscriber has been appointed AGENT rez orm of the numorous popular journal of the day, | whict will be roucived by the carliest conveyances. 'Thoy aro continually on hard or ordered, and do- livored. in singlo numbers oz weekly at the. lowest | cuuh prices, Subsgriptions: roccived at No, 19 State atecoty hy JAMES J. FONDA, gr?- Patronage I# golicited. . Whose having Accounts to collect can have them eolJected on favorable tormg by: applying as above. Sohonectady, March 19, 1941. 12 NLONS.- 30 bushels of, Onlons. af superio® quality, for sale hy CASH & BRIGGS, ___ sotnor of Canalund Stato streots. March 1%, 1841, 11 RAIL ROADS. d Mudson Rall Road, SPRING ARRANGEMENT, ON dnd after April 18th,and antil further notice, P the dopirtures: on this: road will bo: as: follows, Yi 1 PHOM KCHENECTADY, At4t o'clock A. M. . 9° do do oron arrival from Saratoga. # do « M. do Utica, 5 PAM. KROM ALBANY. M. lor Utica. «M.. Sartatogo, fJ do P.M. do. 7 do. Utica, Alt baggaga received. at Albany, and not accompa- nled by the ownor, must bo. marked: distinctly: for its plaeo of destination, and deposited by the persons hav« ing charge thoraof tn the: wagon designated for that routo. . Passongont wo requested to attond personally winni‘ Focolpt and dolivery of their bnggaga to prevent inletaftog, , The Coached, Boggngo Wagons, und Freight Curs to aind from. Ballaton ind Sarntogny are run: thro-igh without change or dotention at Schonectady, wip Alt baggage positivelyat- the rigk of the owner D “my,“ JOHK COSTIGAN, Supt. Utica and Rchonectady Railrond, ABIILL 1st, 1841.-One Daily Line ench way, A Cliff‘lt'fufia at 3 g'filfilf ”Hi/tub a second dofly anid night lino wilt bo run, as nofin the Mail: 80th oid 1115 Hudson. River rina Day Lins. ip 'This road inoporatod In connoction with the g“ lftromlf lines to Albony, Syracuse, Auburn. and irntogns “Nu Tharge for bnlqigiméoi, and: nono carried with» sut boing accompanled by its owner, V ; YOUNG, VM. C, YO Supertniondont and Engineer Schonectadi, and Suratoga Railroad. On Ist Aprilt,and until furthor notice, Cars wilh leave, daily; as follows.: Fr‘szm Saratogn at ‘Z’o’clock A. M, Schoneatady nit oe It P, M, P o'clock A, M. 4. P.M. Stages In connastion: with the rail road leave Sa- ratogn Springs, dally, for Glon's Pall, Sandy Hill Whinhnl‘lI flake 1 aS 444% I relight forwarded, with disnatch. N. Bi 16 Ln ReRARGEN'T, Supt, f THE WIDOW OB NAN. BY NOP. WILLIS, 'The Roman sentinel stood helmed and tail Beside: the gato of Nain. The busy tread Of comets to the city mart was done, For it was almost noon, and an dead heat Quivered upon the fins and steoping dust, And the cold cropt punting from tho wall, And bask'd his. scaly ctreles in the sun, Upon his spear the soldier lean'd, and kopt His fdlo watch; and, as his drowsy dream. Was broken by the solitary fuot Of some poor mendicunt, he raisad his head To cutse him for n tributary Jaw, And slumberously dozed on. \Twas now high noon, 'The dull, low murmur of a fonoral Went through the city-tlie sad sound of feet Unmiced with voices-and the sentinel Shook of his slumber, and guzed earnastly Up the wide stroet, nlong whoso paved way The allont throng crept stowly. 'They came on Bearing a body heavy on its biet, And by the crowd that in the burning sun Walk'd with forgetful sadness, 'twas of one Mourn'd with uncommon sorrow. The broad gate Swang on its hinges, and the Roman bent His spoar-point downwards as the bearers pass'd Bonding beneath their burden, Thero was one- Only ona.mourner. Close behind the bier Crumpling the pall up. with het wither'd hands, Followed an: old woman. Her short steps Faler'd with wouknoss, and a broken moan Foll from hot lips, thicken'd convulsively As bor heart bled afresh. 'The pitying crowd Followed apart, but no one spoke to hur. Sho had no Kinsmen. Sho had dived alono- A. widow with one son-he. was her all ; The only te she had in the wide world ; And ho was doad T 'They could not comfort her, Jesus draw noor to Nain as from the gate The funeralcame forth, His lige were pale With the noon's sultry heats 'I¥e bended swent; Stood thickly on his brow, and on the worn And simple latchets of his sandals lay Thick the white dust of travel. He had come Since suntlse from Copernanm, stnying not, 'To wet his lips by green Bethsnida's pool Nor wash. his feet in Kishon's silver springs, Nor turn him southwurdgupon Tabor's side, To.catch Cilboa's lightand spicy brocze. Genosaeeth stood coo I upon the Eust Fast by the son of Galilee, and theto The weary travellor might abide till ove, And on the ultars of Bethulin's plaing , 'The grapes of Palestine hing rips and wild. Yet turned ho not but gazing on From evory swolling mount, he saw far, Amid the hills, the humbler spires of Naing The place of his noxt ereand, and the path Touched not Bethulin, ond a league away Upon the East Iuy pleasant Galilee. Forth from the city gate the pitying crowd Followed the stricken mourner. 'They come near The place of funoral, and with straining hands, Closa upon her breast she clasped the pall, And with a gasping sob quick as a child's, And an. inquiring wildness fashing through 'Tha thin, gray lashes of hor fever'd eyes, Sho cano.; hore Jesus stool beside the way, He louk'd upon har, and his heart was moved. it Weep. not!\ ho said, and as they stuy'd the bier, And athis bidding laid it at his feet, He gently drow the pall from out her grasp And. Taid it back in gilenice from the dead. With troubled wonder the mute thrgng drew near, Aud gozed on his calm lvoks, A minute's shace Hoatood and pray\d. 'Then taking: the cold hand, Hegaid, \ Arise !\ And instantly the breast Heav'd in its cerements, ond a sudden flush Ran: through the. lines of the divided lips, And with a murmur of his mother's name, Ho ireinbled and sat upright in his shroud. And while the mourner hung upon his neck, Jesus went calmly on bis way to Nain. 'The Measure meted out to others, Mea- sured to us again. I. B. L. closes one of her sportive poems with the: heartlelt exclamation- © 'Thank Heaven: that L nover Can be a child again E* The remark falls harshly from a woman'slip ; and after all does not admit of general applica- tion, | Thero: are thoso who were never children -with whom the heart was never young. There | are. those who never knew that brief but happy period when the spirit was a stranger to guile, -and the: heart beat high with generous impul- gee -and the future was steoped in the colors of hope-and the past left behind it no sting of [ bitterness, -and tho brow was unwrinkled with care-and the soil unsullied by crime, -and the lips poured forth, fondly and fervently, with un- bounded and unwavering confidence, the heart's purcst and earliest homage to nature and to truth. And he whose career, on the second ' anniversary of his death, I am tempted to ree» ord, was a living iMlustation of the truth of this agsortion. , Vincent Desborough's prospects and position in society embraced ali that an ambitious heart would seek. Ho was heir to a large fortune- had poweiful connexions-talents of no common order-and indisputable personal attractions,.- 'But every good, natural and acquired, was marr- ed by a fatal faw in bis disposition, It was largoly leavened with cruelty. It seemed born with him. For it was developed in very early childhood, and. bade defiance to remonstrance and: correction, Insects, dogs, horses, servants, all felt its: virulence. And yet on a first acquain- tance, it appeared incredible that that intelligent [and animated countenance, those gladsome and beaming eyes could meditate aught but kindness and good: will to those around him. | But as Lord Byron said of Ali Pucha-one of the most cruel [und sanguinary of Eastern despots-that he was | by far tho: mildest-looking old gentleman he ey- er conversed with ;\ so it might be said of Vin- cont Desborough, that nover was a relentless and savage hoart concealed. undera more winning and gentle extorior. That paronts ore blind to the errors of their offipring has presed into a proverb, and Vincent's were no exception to the rule. \Io was a boy,\ they affirmed, #of the highest promise.\ His ingonuity in causing pain was *a mere childish foble which would vanish with advancing years ;\ and hig delight at gecing others sufer it, \* an ce- centrcity which more extended acquaintance with life would touch him to discard, Ail boys were eruel [\ _ And satisfied with the wisdom\ of this concinsion, the Desboroughs intrusted their dar» ling to Doctor Seanaway, with a request that \ho might be troated with every possible indul- gonee.\ *No !\ said, the learned linguist, loudly 'and sternly, © not if he was heir-presumptive to the dukedoms of Devonshire! Your son you have thought proper to place with me. For that pref. erence I thank you. For if he remains with me ho must. rough it like the rest, You have stilt | the power of withdrawing him.\ Papa and Mamma. Desborough looked at cach ather in evident consternation, and stammered out a disjointed disclaimer of any euch intention. 4 Very welll--Coppinger,\ said he,calling one of the senior boy®, \ take thig lad away with you | FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 21, 1841. [NO. 21. Prices for Advertising. For one square of 20 linegor less, 50 cents for the first, and 20 cents forevery subsequent insertion, if continued for fess than three months, - Por three months, $3; for six months $5. : Longer advertise» ments in the same proportion, ,_ Yearly advertisers will be charged for one square, including the paper, $10 ,. for two squares; $15, with {hel privilege uf renewing their advertisements quare erly. Business cards will be inserted gratuitously for yearly advertisers; for others, $3 a year.. ° Legal advertisements will be inseried at the rates prescribed by law. « into the school-room and put a Livy foto his bands. My pupils I aim at insking men, not milksops--scholurs, not simpletons. \Po. do this I mast have your entite confidence. | If tht be withheld, your son's luggage is still in the hall, and I beg that he and it inay be agoin restored to your carriage.\ , *By no means,\ cried | the Desboronghs in a breath ; and @ileuced, if not satisfied, they made their adieus and departed. Domiciled in the little village of Horbury, over which the Jeurned doctor ruled with, undusputh sway, was © a widow humble of spirit aud sad of heart, for of all the ties of life one son lone was spared her; and she loved hin with a melanchio- ly love, for he was the likeness of the lost,\- Moreover, he was the last of his race, the only surviving pledge of a union to happy to endure; and the widow, while she gazed on him with that air of resigned sorrow peculiar to her countenance -an air which had banished the smile, but not the sweetness, from hor lips-felt that in him were concentrated all the ties which bound her to ex- istence. \ Send Cyril to. me,\ said the Doctor. to Mrs. Dormer, when be called to welcome her to the village. thauks-I knew his father-re- spected him-loved him. _I like an old family- belong to one myself, though T have still to learn the benefit it has been to me !\ \41 fear,\ roplied the widow, timidly, for the re- collection of very limited resources smote painful- ly across her, \ nt least 1 feel the requisite pecu- uirry consideration\ \ Ho shall pay when he's a fellow ofhis college --slmll never know it before ! You've nothing to do with it-but then I shall exnet it! We will dine in his reoms at 'Prinity, and he shall Honize us over the building. I nve long wished to see Dr. Wordsworth-good man-sound scholar I-- but have been too busy these last twenty yours to manoge it. It's a bargain, then ? You'l send him to-morrow ?\ And the affectionate interest which the doctor took in little Cyril; the pairzhe bestowed on. his progress, and the evident anxiety with which he watched and aided the developement of his mind, were oneamong the many fine traits of charae- ter which belonged to this warin-hearted but un- polished humorist. 'To Dormer, for some undefinable reason, Des- berough had conceived the most vilent aversion, Neither the youth of the little orphan,mor his pa- tient endurance of insult, nor the readiness with which he forguve, nor the blamelessness of his own disposition, served to disarm the frrocity of his tormentor, Desborough, to use bis own words, was © resolved to drive the little pauper from their community, or teuse his very heart out of him.\ His love for his mother, his fair and effemin- ato sppearance, his slender figure, and diminu- tive stature, were the objects of his tormentor's incessunt attack. -\ Complain, Dormsr-come» plain at home,\ was the advice given nim by all of his class-fellows. \It would only grieve my mother,\ he replied, in Lis plaintive musical voice, \and she has had much-Oh ! so much-to distress her. I might, too, lose my present advantages; and the good doctor is so very lenient to mie. Besides, surely, Desborough will become kinder by and by, even it\ he dees not grow weary of iil-treating mec.\ And thus, cheered by Hopo, the little inariyr struggled on, and suffered in silence, The 4 h of September was the doctor's birth. day, and was invariably kept as a sort of Suturn- alia by all under his roof, 'The day-alwnys too short-was devoted to cricket, and revelry, and manly sports; and a meadow at the back of the shrubbery, which, from its being low and marshy, was drained by dykes of all dimensions, was a faforite resort of those who were expert at leap. ing with a pole. 'The whole party were in mo- tion at in enily hour, and Cyril among the rest. Either purposely or accidentally he was separated from the others, and, on a sudden, he fousd him- self alone with Desborough ami Rolleston.- \ Come, you little coward,\ said the former, ' leap this dyke.\ © [ cannot, it is too broad ; and, besides, it is very deep.\ \ Cannot ? You mean will not. But you shall be made. Leap it, sir, this instant.\ . \*I cannot-indeed I cannot. Do not force me to try it , it is deep and I cannot swim.\ *'Then learn now,. Leap it, you little wretch! Leap it, I say, or I'll pitch you in. Seize him, Rolleston, We'll teach him obedience.\ \Promie me, then, that you will help me out,\ said the litle fellow, en'reatingly, and in accents that would have moved most hearts; \ promise me, do proiise mo, for I feel sure that I shall fail.\ - \* We promise you,\ said the confederates, and they exchanged glances, 'The helpless victim trembled -turned pate, Perhaps the recollection of his doting and widowed parent came across him, and unnerved his little heart. *\ Let me off Desborough ; pray let me of,\ he murmured. « No! you litte dastard, no! Over! or I throw you in 1\ 'The fierce glance of Desborough's eye, and the menace of his mapner, determined him. He took a short run, and then boldly sprang from the bank. His misgivings were well founded. \Fhe pole snapped, and in an fostant he was in the middle of the stream. © Help! help L Your promise, Desborough- your promise !\ With a mocking laugh, Desborough iurned a- way, \ Help youself, my fine fellow ! Scram» ble ont; it's not deep. A kitten wouldn't drown 1\ And Rolleston, in whom better feelings for the moment seemed to struggle, and who appeared half inclined to return to the bank and#givetfhis aid, he dragged forcibly away, The little fellow eyed their movements, and seemed to feel his fate was determined. | He clasped his bands, and utrered no further ery for assistance. 'The words * Mother ! mother!\ were heard to escape him ; and once, and only once, did his long wavy gol- den hair come up above the surface for a moment. But though no human ear heeded the death-cry of that innocent child, and no human heart re- sponded to it, tire Semir had his ob- servant eye fixed on the little vietii, and quick- ly terminated his experience of care and sorrow, by a summons to that world where the heavy laden henr no more the voice of the oppressor, and the pure in heart behold their God ! 'The grief of the mother was frightfal to wit- ness, - Her softness and sweemness of character, the patience with which she had endured sorrow and reverses, the chcerfuiness with which she had submitted to the privations auendant on very limited resources, had given place to unwonted veheimmenee and sternness. She cursed the de- stroyers of her child in the bitterness of her goul. \ God will avenge me ! His frown will darken their path to their dying hour. As the blood of Abel cried up from the ground against the first murderer, so the blood of my Cyril calls for ven- geance on those who sacrificed him. 1 shall see it-I shalt gee it. - The measure meted out by them to others, shall be measured out upon them again.\ But the feetings of the mourner had been pain- fully exagperaied by the result of a previous en- quiry. | An inquest was indispensable ; and ru- mour--we inay say facts-spoke so loudly against Desborough, that his parents hurried to Hortury, prepared at any pecuniary sacrifice to extricate him from the obloquy which threatened him. Mo- ney judiciously bestowed will effect impossibili- tics; and the foreman of the jury-a bustling, clamorous, spoutiog demagogue-who was al ways cloquent on the wrongs of his fellow-imen, and kept the while a most watchful eye to his own interests-become on a sudden ©thorough- ly sansfied that Mr. Vincent Desborough had been eruclly calemniated,\ aud that the whole af. lair was a mater of recident altogether.\ - A verdiet to that effect was accordingly return. ed ! In a fair and fertile valley, where the nightin- gates aro to be heard carlier and later in the year than in any other part of England-where the first bursting of the buds is seen in spring-whore no rigor of the season can ever be feit-where every thing seems formed for precluding the ve- ry thought of wickedness, lived a loved and ven- erated clergyman with his only daeghior. He belonged to a most distingiished family, and bad surrendered brilliant prospects to emb:ace the profession of his choice. And right nobly had he adorned it ! And she-the companion of hig late and early hours -his confidant-guide- almoner-consoler-was a young, fair, and inno- cent being, whose heart was a stranger to dupli- city, and her tongue to guile. His guide and consoler was she in the truest sense of the term, Ife was blind. While com- forting in his dying moments an old and valued parishioner, Mr. Somerset had caught the infec- tion; und the fever settling in his eyes had de- puived him of vision. I will be your curate,\ said the affectionate gir}, when the old man, under the p essure of this calamity, talked of retiring altogether fom duty. ®'The payers, and psalms, and lessons you havé long known by heart; and your ad- dresses, as you call them, we all peeler to your written sermons, Pray-paay-accept of me as your curate, and make tial of my services in guiding and prompting you, ere you surrender your beloved charge to a stranger.\ © Lt would break my heartto do so,\ said the old man faintly. The experiment was made, and succeeded,and it was delightful to see that fair-haired, bright- eyed gill steadying her father's tottering steps- prompting him in the service when lis memory failed-guiding him to and from the sanctuary, and watching over him with the truest and ten- derest affection-an affection which no wealth could purchase, and remuneration repay, for it sprung from heartfelt and devoted aitachment. Satiated with pleasure and shattered in consti- tudon,a stranger came to seek health in this shel- tered spot. It was Desborough. Neither the youth, nor the beauty, nor the innocence of Edith availed her against the snares and sophistry of this unprincip.ed man, She fell-but under cir- cumstances of the most unparalleled duplicity.- She feil-the victim of the most tremendous per- fidy andetho dupe of the inost emefully veiled villany. Sho fell-and was deserted ! + Impor- tune me no nime as to marriage,\ was the clus- ing remark of Vincent's last leiter-\ your own conduct has rendered that impossible.\ 'Phat de- claration was her desthblow. She read ir, and never looked up again. The springs of life seem- ed frozen wishin her; and without any apparent disease she fided gradwaily away. © { am justly punished,\ was the remark of her heart-broken lather when the dreadful secret was disclosed to hin. ** My idol is withdrawn from mei Minisiering at bis altar, nought should have been dear to me but him ! But lead me to ner, I can yet bless her.\ The parting interview between that pment and child wilt never be forgotten by those who wit- nessed it. 'The aged minister wept and prayed -and prayed and wept-over his parsing child, with an earnestness and agony, that * bowed the hearts of all who heard him like the heart of one man,\ # Is there hope for} me, father,?\ said the dy- ing gil, © Can I-can I be forgiven ? Will not -oh ! will not our separation be eternal?\ «* Though sin abounded,\ was the almost in- articulate reply, @grace did immuch more sbhound. 'The bood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin.\\ © We shail not be Jong parted,\ was his re- mark when those who watched around the dying bed told him Ire had no longer a daughter. «©The summons has arrived; and the last tie which bound me to earth is broken,\ Acting upon this conviction, e commenced and completed the arrangements for the disposi- tion of his lit e property with an earnestness and alacrity they could well understand who had wit- nessed his blameless career. The evening previous to that appointed for the funeral of his daughter, he said to those who had the management of it- Grant the last, the clo- sing request of your old pastor. Pospone the funeral for a few hours. I ask no more, A short delay-and one service and one grave will suflice for both.\ His words were prophetic. 'The morrow's sun be never saw; and on the following Sunday, amid the tears of a bereaved people, father and daughter were calmly deposited iu one common grave. . Some years after the circumstances detailed in the last chapter, a gentiemin, in military undress, was descried riding slowly into the village of Beechbury. 'The size and architecture of the village church had apparently arrested his atien- tion, and he drew bridle suddenly, to make en- quiries of a peasant, who was returning from his daily toil. R \ Ay | it's a fine church, though I can't say 1 troubles it very much myself,\\ was the reply.- \'There's a mort of fine munutments in it beside, All Lord Somerset's folks be buried shere ; and 'twas but last Martinmas that they brought here old parson Somerset and his daughter ali the way from a churchyard Pother side Darunoor, because ye see they belonged to 'eni; and these great folks choose to be altogether. It's a grand vault} they have! But here's Moulder, the sexton, co-! ming anent us, and he'li tell as much and more than ye may. care to hear,\ The name of Somerset seemed to jar hershly on the stranger's ear; and dismounting hastily, he demanded of the sexton \ whether he could show him the interior of the church at that hour 4\ « Certainly,\ was the reply. \ Turn to the right, and I will overtake you with the keys be- fore you reach the west door,\ The church was one of considerable magnitude and surpassing beauty. It was built in the form of a cross, and had formerly been the chapel of a ; wealthy inonastic order, suppressed nt the period of the Reformation. Near the altar was a shrine, once the resort ouf pilgrims from every clime, from its enclosing n fragment of the true cruss.- You approached it by an niste, which was literally t a floor of tombstones, inlaid in brass with ihe! forms of the depurted. - Mitres; and crosiers, and spears, and shields, and helmets were alt minoled together-emblems of conquests, and hono’urs, and dignitier, which had long since passed away. The setting sun cast his mellow radiance through the richly painted western window, and tipped with hving lustre many of the monuments of the line of Somersct. Some of the figures were of the size of life, and finely Sculptured. - And as the restless and ngitated stranger nzed on them, they seemed to reply to his questioning glance, and slowly murmuz- ** All on earth is but for a peri- od ; joy and grief, triumph and desolation, suc- ceed each other like cloud and sunshine! Care and sorrow, change and vicissitude, we have pro- ved like thee. Fight the good fight 'of faith as we. Brave the combat, speed the race, and stem the storm of life; nnd in God's own gocd time » thou, like us; shalt rest,\ © I wish,\ said the stranger, when he had tra- versed the church, \to descend into the Somer- sel vanlt. It's a. sickly, do dish faney of n inc; but I choose to gratily in Which is the door ?\ * Nay, that's no pirt of our bargain,\ said the sextun, doggedly ; \ you go not there.\ \I am not necustomed to refusals whon I state my wishes,\ said the soldier, fercely and haugh- tily. _ \ Load the way; old man\ . 6 Not (or the Indies ! It's ay much ns tny place is worth. Our present rector is one of the most particular parsons that ever peered Irom a pulpit, He talks about the sonctity of the dead in a way that makes one stare, Besides it is the burial place of all his family.\ u The very reason for which I wish to see it.\ \ Not with my will\ said Moulder, frmly.- \Besides there's nothing to see-nothing but lead coffins, on my hife 1\ | (* Here,\ eried the stranger. - And he placed a piece of gold on the sexton's treinbling palin, *I dare not, sir; indeed, I dare not,\ said the lutter entreatingly, as if he relt the temptation was more than he could he resist. _ -\ Another,\ said his companion, and a second picce of the same potent metal glittered in the ould man's grasp. \ Well,\ anid Moulder, drawing a fong and lreavy sigh, \if you must you mist! I would rather you would'nt--I'in see no good wil come of it-but if you fusist upon it, sir-if you insist upon it\--and slowly and reluctaniy he un- closed the ponderous dvor which opened into the vault. The buial-place of the Somerscts was large and imposing. | It was evidently of antique con- struction and very considerable extent. | Bscutch- cons, shields, hatchments; and helmets, wore run ged around the walls, all referring to thos who were calmly sleeping within its gloomy recesses, while coffins, pile upon pile, occupied the centre. Onesingle window or spiracie of fifeen inches in diameter passed upwards; through the thick ma- soory, to the external air beyond, und one of those short massive pillars which we sometimes see in the erypts of very ancient churches, stood in the centre and supported the roof. * Well, sir, you sre-about satisfied, I take it,\ said the sexton, conxingly to his companion, after the latter had taken a long, minute, and silent survey of the scene around him. \ No ! no!\ \ Why, how long would you wish to remain here 1\ ** At least an hour.\ ' ® An hour! I can't stay, sir, really 1 can't, all that time! - And to leave the church, and, what's worse, the vault open-it's a thing not to be thau’ghl ofl I cannot-aud what's more, [ will nut. * Dotard! then lock me in I say ! Do what you will, But leave me.\ \Leave you! Lock you in! And nung! God bless you, sir ! you can't be aware\ --- \* Leave me-leave mo !\ said the stranger im- petuously ; and he drew the door towards him as be spoke. * What! would you be lacked u with them dead Som-- 1\ © Go-and release me in an hour.\ In amazement at the stranger's mien, air of command, courage, and choice, Moulder departed. \The Jolly Beggars\ fay in his way home, and the door stood so invitingly open, and the sounds of mirth and good-fellowship which thence issued were so attractive, that he could not resist the temptation of washing away the cares of the doy in a cool pint; were it only to drink the stranger's health, This indulgence Moulder repeated so frequently as at length to lose all recollection of the stran- ger, of the vault, and of his appointment, and it was only late on the morning of the following doy, when his wife asked him \if e had come honestly by what was in his pocket?\ that in an agony he remembered his prisoner, 'Prembling in every limb, and apprehending he knew not what, he hurried to the church. and un- locked the vault, R 'The spectacle which there awnited him, haunt- ed the old man to his dying day. - The remains of the strunger were before him, but so marred-so mutilated-so disfigured -that. no feature could be recognized even by the nearest relative. Rats in thousands and in myriads bad assailed him, and by his broken sword and the multitudes which lay dead around him, it was plain his re- sistance had been gallant and protracted. But ft availed not. Litle-of him remained, and that little was in a state which it was painfl for hu- manity to gaze upon, > Among the many who pressed forward to view the appalling spectacle was an elderly female much beloved in the villege for her kindly, and gentle, and compassionate Heart, and to her the sexton handed a small memorandum-book, which had somehow or other escaped complete destruc-» ton. Upon the papers it contained the old lady look- ed long and anxiously, and when she spoke, it was in accents of unusual emotion. @#These,\ she said,) \ ure the remains of Colo- nel Vincent Desborough. May he meet with that mercy on High which on earth he refused to others !\ - The old lady paused and wept, and the villagers did homage to her grief by observing a reepectfiul silence. - 'They all knew and loved her. «\his spectacle,\ she continued, opens up fountains of grief which I thought were long since dry ; but chiefly and mainly does it teach me that the measure we mete out to others is measured unto us mgain.'\ p and left alone A Hoo's Lare.-Erastus Barber, of Onondaga, had a hog which disappeared on the Sth of De- cember lsst. On the 11th of March, his hired man heard a groan under the baru floor, and on examining, found the lost hog a perfect skeleton. He thinks the animal must have remained there ding the whole time he was missed, three months and three days, without a particle of wa- ter or food. - When taken out he was barely alive, but is sow recovering and likely to do well. chester Democrat. A lady in one of the towns of Massachusetts, who was ambitions for the political distinction of her husband, and who was mortified when he was elected to the House of Representatives, that he never rose to make a speech-mixed a gill of yeast with his gin bitters in the morning in order to make him rise when he went into the ball. , We heard of a hen the other day, which con- tinued to set upon some of her.cggs for a week alter their incubation was complete, and the chickens were running shout. 'Prap accounted for it by saying he supposed the © anxious mother didd't know they were out.\ Very hkely. A physician presented an extravagant long bill to a farmer, who.n he had visited on the pretence the patient had a billious disease, Oh, doctor, ssid the farmer, I think the remedy is much more bill ious than the disease ever was, They coms asp a single century, four thousand million of human beings appear on the face of the earth-aet their busy parts and sink into its peaceful blossom. Tus Consequexcs or Intempsnance.-The Dublin Mercantile Advertiser says that the man- ufacture of spirits in Ireland was less by three millions five hundred thousand gallons, in the last year than in the previous one. The consequent loss of revenueis five hundred thousand pounds MASON AND DIXON S LINE, The following from the Salein (Mass.) Gazette, will undoubtedly be interesting to many of nu;- renders as it contains a brief and. 'comprehensive liistory of a divigiun line, so often alluded to by poli« ticting : *\ This boundary is go- termed from the names of Charles Mason and Jeramish Dixon-the two gentlemun who where appointed to run un. funisned lines in 1789, beween Rennsylvanin and Moryland, 'on the 'Perritories subjected to the heirs of Wiltium Peuin and Lord Baltimore. -A temporary live bad beon rum is 1650, but had wot given satialuction to the dispuitiig parties althougls it resulted from an ngreemnent in 1739, between themselves, ~A decree lad been made in 1618 by King Jumes, delmeating the boundaries: between the lands given by charter to the first Lond Bati. more, ind those adjudged to his (after- wards to William Peun,) which divided: the tract of land . between Delaware Bay and the Chesa- peake Bay on the othery by a line. equally, inter secting it, drawn from Capp Henlopen, to: the 4th degree of north latitude. A. decree in chantery rendered the King's decree imperative. - But the situation of Henlopen became a long subject of serious, protracted . nnd expensive litigation par- deulatly afer the death of 1718/until John and Richird and Thomas Penny (who had become the sole proproprietors®of the American possessions of their father William,) and Cecilue, the orgrinal patentee, centered into. an agreement on the 19th of May 1787. 'To this avreoment a chart was uppented, which ascertained the site of Cope Henlopen, and delineated a divisicn by an east and west line, running westward from thit Cape to the exact middle of the Peninsula, - Lord Baltimore become dissatisfied with this agrecnient and endeavored to invalidate it. - Chancery sults, kingly decrees, and proprictary arrangements fol» lowed, which eventually produced the appoint< ment of commissioners to run the temporury line, 'This was effected in 1799. - But thease of chan- cery being decided in. 1780, new commissioners were appointed, who could Lot, however, agree, and the question remained open until 1762, when the line was run by Messrs. Mason & Dixon. BuoxarartE's Wourns.-Napoleon showed me the marks of two wounds-one avery deep cieatrice above the knee, which he eaid he had received in his first campnign in Italy, and iowas uf so serious a nalure that the surgeons were, in doubt whether it might not be necessary to am- putate. He observed that when he was wounded, it was always kept a sedret, in order not to dis- enurago the soldiers, The other was on the 108, and was received at Eckmuhl. At the: seige of Acre,\ continued he, \ a shell thrown by Sid- ney Smith, Tell at my feet. 'I'wio soldiers, who were close by, seized and closely embraced me, one in front, and the other on one side, and mate a rampart of their bodies for me sgainst the ef- feet of the shell; which exploded, and overwhelin« ed us with sand. We gunk into the hole formed by its bursting, one of them: wounded,. \L inade then both officers. One-has since fost a leg at Moscow, and commanded Vincennes when 1 left Paris. When he was summoned by the Russians be replied that as soon as they had sent him back the leg hechad lost at Mozcow, he would . surren« der the fortunes. Many times in: my life;\ con- tinued he, \have I been saved by: soldiers and of ficers throwing themselves before me, when I was in the most imminent danger. - At Arcola, when I was advancing Colonel Meuron my mid-de- camp, threw himself before me.\ He fell at my feet and Ais blood spouted up in .my face, He gave his life to preserve mine. Never yet, I be- lieve, has there been such devotion shown by sol- diers as mine have manifested for me, (In all my inisfortunes, never has -the soldiet, even whenex- piring, been wanting to me-never has man been served more faithfully by his troops. 'With: the last drop of blood gushing out of their veins, they exclaimed * Vive 1'Empereur !\ IF A late English paper contains the following curious paragraph respecting the noted dancing giz), Pauny Bleglers- * Mademoiselle Fanny Elssler has written to a friend in Paris, giving a glowing account of her success at the Havana, She says she cleared more than 6000 dollars by her benefit, and was invited to a. grand supper by the authorities, to which she was escorted by a deputation of twenty four of the wealthiest gentlemen of the island. She appears to be astonished at the enthosiasm which she creates as well she- may, for it is very | unusual for a sylphide of fhirty-siz ! who has a son of eighleeen to excite such rapture as a dan- cer.\ to- Sextescs or Deark on a Provestanr Uier- - evatan.-Richard Sandes was indicted at the Carlow Assizes, on Wednesday last, for that he, being a degraded clergyman oof the Church of England, did perform a marriage between John Lalor and Sarah Howard, both Protestants. ~Mr. Clark, Crown Selicitor, said this prosecution was grounded on a very old Act, the 22th Geo. I., cap, ; 8, by which it was made penal for Popish priests\ and degraded clergyman of the Church of Eng- land to celebrate a marriage; it was felony,®and such a Popish priest or degraded clergyman should suffer death without the benefit of clergy.\ It has been repenled as to Catholics git refers only 'to dograded Protestant clergy. 'The facet of Mr. Randes having beentin orders was proved by one withese, and lis degradation by another ; the judge sent the care to the jury, when the prisoner pro- duceda priest's license bearing tha seal of the Pre- late, and «igned by the Lord Kishop of Killala.- His Lordship having summed up, the jury return- ed a verdict of guilty, after which the Court rose. On Thursday his Lordship came into Court at half past ten o'clock, and proceeded to record the sen- tence of death on Richard Sandes. The prisoner begged of lis Lordship to allow him to say a few words, The sentence of degradation had been passed upon «bim without his knowledge. The Court of Carlow were adverse to him; it had its eye on him as keen and as searching as the glance of Kebama on Kehuried. Cost or Wan.-There was slain by sea and land during the last war between England and France 2,100,000 men, The cost to England was £1.058,000,000-the greater part of which is still unpaid in the National debt Exriorpin any. Vincaxy.-It is stated 'in the Philadelphia popeisthat on examining the can- non by order of com. Stewart, preparatory to firing them, on occasion of the launch 'of the Mis- sissippi steam frigate, grope shot was found in several of them--placed there by. some inconiceiv - able villain, whose malice against all mankind was happily balked by the caution of the Commodore, (Since ascertained to be a houx.) ConvengaTios.-Nothing betrays a greater de- nree of ignorance of the world, of human. heart .and of good manners, than the assumption of a self-sufficient, dictatorial tone in conversation. Aroroay ron weanine a Branp.-The post Campbell, is said to have calculated that a man who shaves himself every day, and lives -to 'the age of three score and ten expends during. his life as much time in the act of shaving, as would have sufficed to learn seven languges, .. .' AmEnican Amusements im Paris.-Colonel Thorne, the rich American; has Sunpay evening parties, at which '\blindman's buf?\ and other gambolsome games are the recreation of the sterling, or more closely, £460,660 16s, 6d, younger visitors, and-cards are the amusement of the elder company.-London Globe, '
