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H E R K I M l l ^ l E O p i T . C. C. W IX H E R S T I N e , EMTO» AJflf PaOfSTEJQK.. THE H E R lL iM E i DEMOCRAT Is published every- 'WEifSESBfA.Y M orn me at Herkimer^ Herkimer County, H, T ., und Will ue left a t the residence o f village ^ubscrfbei-S foT § 2,00 per unnutn. Mail subscribers, $2,00 per annum , or § 1,^0 in advance. E&T^S OF ADVSBTISIKG. .$1 00 • 0 m o n t h s . . . • 2 00 3 00 One square or less, one Insertion, Each subsequent insertion ,... . . One square 2 months, ............... .. On'e square 3 ihOi One square 6 raoi One square one year. . .................. .. 8 00 Og?»A liberal deduction wiEbe made to those who advertise by the year, BOOE and job printing , in all its branches, executed with neatness end dispatch, and on reasonable term s. HalttS fif BITorK—By Anthority. tting of certain Passed April 15, as soon as practicable after act, and after giving reasonable pu let by contract, one, and not more thi of the superi canal, as they divided, to sUCl lall offer ;ract, one, and not more than three, erintendent’s sections on the Erie CHAtTER 327. AN ACT to provide for the letth canal repairs by contract. Pas 1854. The People of the State of New York, rep resented in Senate'and Assembly, Jo enact as follows ; Section 1 . The canal commissioners shaU, ter the passage of this and after giving reasonable public notice, ih competent person or persons r to do the same at the lowest price, and who shall g ive adequate security for the lerforn ance o f the coni ract, the work and ma- erials necessary to keep in good repair, and in jfcod. navigable condition, under such rules and ’egulations as the canal board shall prescribe ; uch contracts to be made for a period not less lOre than five years , each of ___ _ be designated by the canal iioarj. and not o.ore than one section to be h any one person or corr.pany. ^ 2 . An inventory shall bemadt TERM1S'r-t2 A YEAR. “X f b « r t 7 , S'r^W.’l^ y . j a n d E q irallty ’ ’. |1 50 IK ADVANCE, tOLtiME I I I HEEiriEE. VEDMSDAI lOEMM, JIJLY 5 , 1854: lUMBEE 44. ‘idge shall have arisen lisitioh of any prop- •rty subsequent to the location of such canal >r feeder. Chapter two hundred arid seven of the of eighteen hundred and thirty-rtine, and j jfcbi all othi iver the existing laws in relation to bridj over the enlarged Erie canal, shall be applica ble to bridgesadges over fh^ enlarged Oswego and ' i canals,nals, and the 0 b ged CayiJayuga Cayuga inlei § 8 . Any\] and Seneca ca £ i guilty of false swearing to vit which niay be lawiully „ ^ ules and regulations of the board, canal commissioners or auditor, shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and on con viction be punished as in other cases of pequ- any oath or affidi required by any canal board, can: dongii^ iraised valur ^ 2 . An inventory shall be made o f aU b oats, tools and other implements now owned by the state, and belonging to each section so let, w ith which lotice Oi iviiiug <f the person or persons takii will be required to tak< lue, which inventory shall led with the notice o f letting o said •eqmred to take the ools and other implements at their ap- their said sections ; and such contri boats, tools praised value, as part payment on contracts. $ 3 . One copy of each of the contracts so made shall be. filed in the office of the canal commissioners, and another in the office o f the auditor of the Canal department; and the ca- j. nal commissioner in charge is hereby author ized to make monthly payments on said con tracts by drafts on the auditor o f the canal de partment, reserving on each payment fifteen per cent to the end of each year, as a security to the state for the faithful performance of said contract, which fifteen per cent for the previr OHS year shall he paid to him or them, at the expiration of the third month of each succeed ing year thereafter, in case the previsions Of such contract has been fully complied with, unless the division engineer shall certify to the said canal commissioner that the repairs upon said section are not promptly and properly made, or that unsuitable materials are used, or that the locks are not well and properly attend- r the navigation i s not kept free from boats, timber or other ohstructioi ► said canal are neglected, jams, by boats, timber or other obstructions, or the feeders to said canal are neglected, so that there is not sufficient water for naviga tion ; for all or either of the above causes of neglect by the said contractor, the canal com missioner may withhold said monthly drafts from the contractors ; and on the canal noissionor filing his certificate with the e canal board slating all or either o f the a b ov of neglect by said contractor, the n-Hj' declare the said cojatoi! direct the canal commissio of the said section, and make the repairs cessarv to maintain navigation in the manner -now required by law. 4 . The canal board may, i f they shall ai i t for the interest of the state,- e xcept :or, the Canal act abandone mer to ti ke the i deem i t for the interest o f th e state,- e xcep t from such contract the materials for, and the constTUctiott of, any bridge or other specified icture.which may fail orrequi I w ithin thehe perioderiod off suchuch c<ontract, § 5. The Sw uire reconstruc- t p o s c son or persons so oontra«it' are hereby impowered to sue and recover for .all trespasses upon the canal included in his contract, or upon any structures connected therewith, and recover the same penalties im posed by law or any existing resolution o f the cattal board for like offences when prosecuted by a canal superintendent, and the amount of such penalties recovered shall be accounted for to the state by deduction from mcfath^ pay* mentsto said Contractor 5 but the contractor may sue in'his own name, and recover to hi^ the actual damage he may have sus- isequence of suCh tres^ss. act shall take effect immediately. own use, tained in cons § 6 . This C h & etee . 332. AN a c t ' prescribing regulations in regard to the management of the canals, and for oth er purposes. Passed April 15, 1854. The People o f the State o f New York, rep resented in Senate and Assembly,, do etiaet as follows : Section 1 . The’ assent o f five members of the canal board shall'be requisite to the adopt ion of .all questiona or resolutions involving the expenditure or appropriaticms o f the pub lic moneys, and all such questions or resolu tions shall ha taken by ayes and noea, and en tered upon the minute*. § 2 . It shall be the du 1 the canal b< ity o f the secretary of ’ lished, -In ainutea £iy be after each ses- the state d of said boa § 3. The canal eomtnfesiQners hereafter to be elected shall he entitled to compensation for their services at the rate of two thousand dollars a year, payable, quarterly, instead of fell^compensation now allowed by law four hundred 1 sllars in any year, of which , to he filed ig travelling •uses canal commissioners, faere- ■ereby ■ lealed. ar 5 all laws =es to canal C< are h repea fees and e: tofore exi ----- ,,, - - , § 4. N o superintendent of canal repair*! be remotted by a n y canal commissioner the session of the canal bp^d ; but either ssion of the canal board ; i iLe canal t-ommissioners, when a recess or a journment of the canal board shaft havg bei 'ordered, or shall exist for more than five days, may, during such recess or adjournment, re- n}c\je any oi the superintendents OH the divxs- i„ii of the canals of which he has chai^^e, and fill the vacancy occasioned by such removsl. to continue itter. And such revnovcl shall, ' e person: appointed, to r-uue of the person recji be person appoi vith the reasons ie comraissii ithout delajy, Sa report id the 0 ! for making such removal.*— theauditor shall im- ;oved, and the name of > the* canal department, such rerooval.- perintendi ( 5. Before removed by a canal commissioner. auditor shall bs s that may be aw mount of any commutation agree* lion of kUK* agai required to pay any damages that may be awprded, or the amount of any commutation agreed on for j the appropriaiii , wont, of a farm with a Gatkfjct ficate of search os to incumhraiic^.j sh owing the percoD demanding such damage* or com- irntation Id bs legally entlllcd th*r.etO, which ahstrart and ■search shall ho 'fct'.lj-.rA .nr/l Bed i n b is office. Y 6 . No person shall he <r.- ncjr'.j'-d.a farin bridge across any of the staus Of laeir feeders, in any case when xuo tietcseity any canal or roads as wej previous to the reconstrw which such,«trset3 ,or roads § '0. All larvs in force in this state, in istent with the provisions of this act, hereby repealed. §11. This act shall take effect immediately. CHxjmEa 67. ing the office, o f State Superin- Public Instruction, Passed three-fifths’bcing For the Democrat. I’Ll. T t o K OF THEE. > CROTOir. . ,and And naught is heard savg the gushing rij As it trickles along in meandering play, Adown its bed o f pebbles gray I’ll think o f thee, And fain would arrest • The tones that swell from thy heaving breast, Like waves o’er the rolling sea ; For I know there’s sorrow in thy soul. Which oft thy spirit doth control, AriduWlI not let thee free. I’ll think o f thee in the stilly night, * pray that ' I sorrow p h .darken I’ll pray that thy years may ever bloom, Like beautifnl flowers in sunny JunU ; I’ll think of thee, And fain would bedew, The blushes that brighten thy cheek's rosy hue, With the sweets o f a gentle flower ; I see thy cheek with its brilliant flush, Thy voice ia sweet Perhapu ifi the flight flower; Sil: AN ACT creating ein present, ite of New York, rep- jeipbiy, do enact as resented in follows • Section I . There shall be choseii by joint ballot of the senate and assem b ly, on th e first Tuesday in April next, and every third year therea^r, and as. often, as a vacancy shall, oc cur in said office, astate superintendent of lie instruction, who shall hold his office for three years, and shaft he invested with the powers, .perform aft the duties, and he subject to all the responsibilities now conferred or im posed by law upon the secretary Of stgtein.his capacity o f superintendent o f common schools. § 2 . The superintendent so appointed ir immediately upon the discha: id shaft of his venient roojns in the state haft, to which aft books, papers and documents, .now in the of fice of the secretary o f state, and pertaining Jo the common school department,, shall be trai red. He shaft receive an annual Salary lars, payable int o f the two thons! impirc transact bnt the Le shaft receive an annual Salary^ and five hundred dolla s treasurer on, the W£ , _____ tail hi^ve power to appoint my clerks, not exceeding quarterly by the treasurer on, the Wdrrai roller t and shs \ ' may d< he businessimess injpensatic exceed thi leem necesssny »n of the b o f the department isation o of o f srich depu ty and cl shall not exceed three thousand dollars in llhe for the j d 5 mty and clerks r s in any tlyby'the treasurer , on the warrant of the comptroll er, and the certificate of the Sttperintendefit: , T 3 . It shall be the duty o f the .state super intendent, as soon as may be priwticable after : of his official, term, to de- tfions and de- ansactioi e year, and shaft he payable month] !«urer, on the warrant of the suvu s-cti*, <jjiu wiicu so authes, evidence, equally, and in like miyaner# ■ with the original, § 4. It shall be. the duty of the state super- intendent to vjsit as often as may be practica bly. such, and so many of the common schools^ academies and other literary institutions o f Iffie slate ns he may deem expedient; to inquire into the coarse of instruction, managemenfc and discipline of such institutions, and. to re port the result of such visitation and inspec tion annually to the Legislature; with such re commendations and staggestions as he may deem suitable* t shall he ex- rcgents o f the tty, and chair man * f the executive com mittee o f the board o f regents qf the State Nor- fiiaf School. # fl. T h is act shall take effect Immediately. CittPreR 73, AN ACT to confer new power and duties up on the court of oyer and terminer of this stale. Passed March 22 , 1854. . The People o f the State o f New York, rep resented in Senate and Asseroby, do enact as follows i for of oyer time durisi! court of sessions of the county in which such term or court shaft be held, shall not attend such court as a member thereof, the justice of the supreme court holding such court, in the- absence of the county judge of s»ch county, may at such term designate some other justice of the peace o f the county to supply the vacan cy occasioned by such non-attend^ce of any such justice until the justice, not amending as \ •.***•. » 1 turf as a member ' of iither of the justices as members of the V in which such attend such court as a membf ;ch designation by the justice < lurt shall not authoii^e the ju* thereof; but Sucl ^ - the supreme court shall not aothoiaae the ji tice designated by him to supply any such va- ;her term than that at which lancy a t any ( uch designation shall be made. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. :ton tl a n AGT-to provide for tl sanlts with dangerooe March 23, 1854, ..'■C^yrsMa.74, the punishment o f as- wejgions, Passed The people o f the State o f New York, rep resented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows, “ Section I , Any person who, with interih to ^ do bodily harm, and without justifiablo or ex- cusabic cause, shall hereafter commit nny as sault upon the person of another with any knife, dirk, dagger or other dharp, d»ngerj*os weapon, or who, vathout such Justifiable or excusable cause, shaft choat off or discharge.at ariddber, with the intent to injure jsuch olln person, any air-gun, pistol or other flre-armsjr although w ithout intent to kill such other per son or to commit anv other fdoi conviction, h& punished by impj State pyison isy a for a term not jr imprisonment'In th^ county On receiving such report, t! m ediately give nouca to the cattal board o f a ineeung of such hoard to consider Such report. _ __ h other pet- shaft, upon itato pr for a term not more than five years, or imprisonment'In tb^ c prison tor term not exceeding one year. * § S. 0pon any indictment against any per son fur an assuult with intent to hill, it shal] and may bo lawful for the jury to ffjxd eacl acedsed peraon gniUy of «» a««au 1 l, according tjHiriEB 75. X iarelttlcn ’ Piwged March 2 3 , T j In courts of 54 , The People of the Stole of New York, xcp- Tesent.e4^inSensteiw;4.As;sem:blyj'do enact as g e c i ie a l . Tl>e veijftcation o f any plead jnsf inanyenm t cf .record ia this state,' 'wav b»‘ , omiited in aft cases- where the paitv called wp- cn tn -verify would t e pririlfged frQ..r; testii'y- 3 w ltcessto the froth o f ar.y Tfiatt.cr dr* akc effect iramcdiattly. it 5-’twiIl shortly he h ushed, ’ ' of an hour. T H E B R I D E O F T H E W R E C K . A BEAtTTIPTTL STORY. I was-a lonely sort of a bachelor, and had neyer yet known what youBRinen style^* the passion.” Of passion I had enough, as my old mate, yonder, can tell you. I broke his head twice, and his arm once< in fits of i t ; but he has always seemed to love me all the bet ter, and clings to me now very much as two pieces of the same chip cling to gether when at sea. We are the sole suryivors of a thousand wrecks, and of the company that sailed with us two years ago, no other one is left afloat. I bad been a sailor from my boj'hood, and when I was twenty-five, I may safely say no man was more fit to com mand a vessel among the marines of England. And at this time my uiKSle died and left me his fortune. I had never seen him, and hardly knew of his existence; but I had now speaking evi dence of the fact that he had existed, and equally good proof that he existed no longer. I was very young And strong in limb, and, £ think^ stout in heart* and I was possessed: of the rental of some thoa- sands per annum. What bar was there .to my eMoyihent of the goods of li&? No & r, indeed, -but I felt sorely the‘ . ^ laefc of the means* of enjoyment. 1 wai a sailor in every sense. My education wai tolerable, and I bad some books, but my tastes, -were nautical, and I pined on shore. Youndil easily under stand, then, why I built, a yacht and spent much of my time on her. She was & fine craft, suited to my taste in every respect, and I remember with a sigh* now, the happy day* which I have spent in the “ Foam*” I used to read considerable, in my cabin, und occasion- ally* indeed weekly, invited parties of gentlemen to cruise with me. But the foot of a lady had never been set upon the deck of my boat, and I began to feel an old bachelor pride in the fact. Tet I confess to you a secret longing for some kind of affection different from any i hadl heretofore known, and a restlessness when men talked of beau tiful women in my presence. One' summer evening I was at the old hall in which my uncle died, and was entirely alone. Towards sunset 1 was «mrpriaed, while looking over my books, by the entrance of a gentleman hastily anfleunced, and giving indica tions of no Uitle excitement. “ Tour pardon, sir, for my unceremo nious entrance. My horses have ran ^away with ray carriage, and dashed it to pieces near your park gate. My father was badly injured, and my sister is wafebiog over him. I have taken the liberty £0 ask permission to bring him into your residence.” Oi courie, toy eofiseht was ihsfautly given, and my own cafriagadispatched to 4he park gate. Mr. Sinclair was a gentleman of for tune, residing about forty miles irom m e ; and hie father, an invalid of fifty years or more of age, was on his way, in company wilb his son; to the Son’s house, there to die and be buried.— T h ^ were strangers to me, hut f made them wolceme to my house, aa if it were their own, and insisted upon their using it. Miss Sinclair was the first woman Wife had crossed my ffoor-sfonh since i had been possessor of the hath And well sho might bat© been loved by a better man than I. She was very small and very beautiful-—of the size of Te- BUS, which all men woi^ip as the per- foction of Womanly beauty, bat having A soft biao- eye, strangely shaded by jot black brows, her face presented thq contrast of purity b f whiteness in flio compleSion, sot off by m t m hnir, and yet that hair htftglog in clustering curfs* unboatid by comb^ or fillet, and the and then avoided thei«.< f cannot loll you what ‘wa« the. haqstS 'o f the'aver sion I had to. entering'that house, or approaching the infloenee ot^ that matchless girl. I belieto that I feared the magic of her bcahty; and was .im pressed with my o'fd niiworthiness td love dr be loved by bed I knew her associates #ere of the“ikftle,r the edu cated, the refibaed, and Usd; I was none! of these. What than ismild I expect but misery, if 1 yield^Jfce thh charms of that exquisite boanm or the grace, which I knew wereiii'Mpioul?^ A year passed, aM 1»fcS a very boy in my continued^ thon]^f pf h e r ; but I persuaded .myself A tieiisand times that I did not love heyi aild a thousand; times determined to prrn?e | t by enter ing her presence. At length I threw myself into the vortex of London soci ety, and was lost in the-whirlpool. . One evening, a t a crowded assembly, I Was standing near h Window in a re cess, talking with aladjr^ when I-felt a, strange thrill. I cannot describe i t to you, but its effect was visible to ray companion, who instantly said, “ YOu are unwell, Mry Stewart, are you not? Your face became suddenly flushed, and your hand trembled m as toahake the curtain.” i—' It was inexplicabre to rayself; but I Was startled at the .^announcement of Mr. and Miss Sinclair. I turned’' and saw her entering on her brother’s arm, more beautiful thaft iSfTcr. How I es caped I don’t know, but I did so. Thrice afterwards 1 Vas warned of her presence in the same mysterious way, rill I believed there was some mysterious link between us two of un known, but powerful character... J have learned to believe in the communication of spirit with spirit, sometimes without material intervention. I heard of her frequently as engaged to a Mr. Waller* a mieu whom I knew well, and was ready to do honor as worthy of her lovo. When a t length I saw, as I supposed. Very Satislactory evidence of the rumor* i left London, and saw them no morei ■ The same ru mor reached me in lettehe* and yet I was mad enoughtodlcimof Mary Sin clair, until montha after I awoke to the sense of what a foM I iad been. Cfon- vinced of-this, I went m boufd ray yacht about midsuitnnlir* And tar tbur whole weeks never ict my foot on shore* i sultry day, 3 . ^ Che hot sun, we roil ed”heavily in the Bay of Biscay,-and I passed the afternoon under a sail on the larboard quarter-deck. Towards evening I fancied a storm.Was brewing, and having made all ready forit, smok ed on the taffrail till midnigbt, and then turned in. \Will you believe me, J felt that strange thrill through my veins, as I lay in my hammock, and awoke with it, fifteen minutes before the watch on deck called suddenly to the man at the wheel, ** Pori—port your helm ! a sail on the lea bow f steady I so I” I was on the deck in an, instant, and saw that a stiff breeze was blowing and a small schooner, showing no lights, had crossed our forefoot within pistol- shot, and was now bearing up to the north-west. The sk y was cloudy and dark, but the breeze was very steady, and 1 went below again,'and after en deavoring vainly to account for the emotions I had felt, in any reasonable ay, I at length fell asleep, and the rocking of my vessel, a t she-flew before the wind, gave Just motion enough to ray hammock to lull me into a sliirobp. But I dreamed-all night of Mary Sin clair. I dreamed of her, but it was in unpleasant dreamg. I saw her stand ing on the deck of the ‘*^Foam/^ and as I would advance towards her, the form of Waller would inlerpflse,—I would fancy at times, that my arms Were around her, and her form vva? resting against my side, and her head lay on my shoulder j and then, by the strange mutations of dreams, it was not 1; but Waller, that Was holding her, and 1 wad ehaineff to a post, looking at them j and she would kiss him, and again the kiss would be burning on my lips. ■ The morning found mb wide awake, reasoning myself dut of my iancies. ‘.By noon I had enough to do« The ocean was mused. A tempest wa^ out oh the sea, and the “ Foam”^ went before it. Night came on 'gloomily. The. very blackness of darkae^-waAon-the Water as . wo fievv before the terrible blast. I was on deck, lashed to the wheel by Which } stood, m th a knife within reach to cut thejashing if necessary. We had but A rag of sail on her, and yet she moved more like a bird than a boat, from wave to waVo- - Again and again a Mae wave went over us, but she came up like a duck* shook off the water, and dashed on. rfom' staggered, as a blow was on hev bow that silglit have staVefi a man-of-war, but she kept gal lantly on; and now she rolled heavily gentle trust and cotffp^cto conftdcncc either in all around her, or ds& in her ; own IndODiiteblc. determination. For M a ^ Sinclair bad a mind of her own* and a far seeing -ono, I do .,- She Was ulugteen then. He? father died In ttm lraU5C, a!jd I mU««ded the solemn proj^sssion that bore bis remains over hiU and valley tathe old diurch in which,Ms aaecs* ors were laid. whole face life up with aa espfressiuft of ; and slowly, bat never abated the swift flight’tow a r d s s h o re. It w a s m idnight w h e n th e w ind w a s th e h ig h e s t , T im h o w lieg o f t h e cordage w a s cbm o n icaL N o w a scream , n o w a sh m lc. now a w a il, and at laugh o f m o c k ing m adileas. O n . on w’e flevr- , , i leoket! up, e n d turned q e ito around rthe h o r izon, but c o u ld gdo n o sk y , no sea* n o cteu d '^ a ll w a s b la c k n e s s ; I felt again t h a t s traave tb r n fian d a t that in- tors were k i d , - ' ^ ■ ^ k n t faftck d A b k t k m s s a h e a d ; s n d 0am « ft«f th&l I f i t t e d ib o t o l l y , th* n e s t w ith a mrash M m A p lunge, th e ' - Foaro”i was gone! Down went my gallant boat, and with her, another ves sel, unseen in the black night.'* The ^dieei to which I had been ta'shed had been broken loose* and gone over with me beforeshe sank. It .was heavy, nnd I cut ft awayv and it went down in the deep, sea above my boat. And seeing * « par,i seized t£, and a thrill of agony shot through me as I recognized the delicate fingers of a woman, I drew her to me and lashed her to the spar by my side; anH so, in the. black night #e two floated away over the stormy ocean.' • • My companion was senseless—for all J .knew* dead. A thousand emotions paised through my mind the next five miniites. Who was my companidn on the Slight spar I Who Wak the vessel I had sunk ?—Was ! with the body on ly of a human being, or was tliere a Spark.of life left ? and bow could I .fan it to a flame I- Would it not be better to let her sink, than float off with me, thus alone to starve or die of thirst and agony. - I chafed her bands, her forehead, her sboulders. In the. dense darkness I could not see a feature of her face,- nor tell if she were young or old—scarcely ■white or black. The silence on the sea was fearful. So long as 1 had been on the deck of my boat, the wind whistling through the ropes and around the spars, bad made a* continual sound; but now I bealrcL nothing but theieoccay^naj sparkling of the spray, the .daslfof a foam cap, or, the heavy sound of the wind pressing upon my ears. At length she moved her hand feebly SB mine. How my heart leaped at that slight evidence that I was not alone on the wild ocean. I redoubled my exer tions. I passed one of her arms around my neck to keep it out of the water, While I chafed the other with both of mine. I felt Uie Clasp of that arm tighten,—I bowed my bead towards hers. She drew me close to her, and laid her cheek against mine. I let it rest there-—It might warm her’s and so help to give her life.- Tbeu she nestled close to my bosom and whispered, “ thank y o u !” Why did my brain so wildly throb in my head at that whispering sentence ? Bbo knew not where she was . that was clear. Her mind was wandering. At that Instant the end of the spar struck deck. I cut the lashing frdm the spar, and fastened nay companion and myself to the new raft or wreck, I knew not which* and all that time that arm was around my neck, and rigid as if in death. . Now came the low, wild wail, that precedes the breaking up of the storm. The air seemed filled with' riewless spirits, mournful singing and sighing.—- I never thought of her as anything else than a human being. It was that dear likeness of life that endeared her to me. I wound my arms around her and drew her close to ray heart, and bowed toy bead over her, and in the wildness of the moment I pressed, my .lips to ber’s, in a long, passionate kiss of intense love and agony. She gave it.back,raurmur- ing some name, of endearment, wound both arms around my neck, and laying her head on my shoulder, with her fore head pressed to 'my cheek, fell into a calm slumber* That Mss burns on ray lips at this hour. Half a century o f the cold kisses of-the world have npt suff ficed to chill its influence. ' It thrills me now as then 1 It was madness with idle worship of the' form €rod gave in the image of himselfi which in that hour Imdored as even God i 1 feel the un earthly joy again to-day, as I femenj- bered the clasp of those nnknown arms; and the pressure of that forehead. ” I knew nOtf I cared not, if'she was old and haggard or young and fair. 1 only knew, and rejoiced With'joy untold, that^ she was'burafra; mortal, and of my o\vn kin, by the Great Fath er of otir race.. * - It-was a night of thought and'etiiG- tioHS and phantoms that never can be described. Morning dawned gravely, the first faint gleam ofligbt showed me a driving cloud’above ray head— it wag welcomed: with a shudder. I bated^ light,. X wanted to float over that heav enly oeean, with that form clinging to me, aiid my arms around it, and ray lips ever and anon presided to the pas sionless lips of the heavy sleepeV. I asked for no light.. It was ap intruder oirmy domain, and would drive her from ray’ embrace- I was mad. » But as I saw the face ol ray compan ion gradually revealed in the dawning light, as my 'eyes begam to tualro out one by one the features, and a t length the terrible truth came slowly burning into ray brain, and I mourned aloud la my sigouy, “ of 'heaven, shu is dead I” ' Aud it was M ^y Smclair.— But she was not dead,% Wo floated alldoy' long on the ses, and at midnight of the bext night fhail- ed a sMp,- and they took us OS'. Every man from the “ Foam” and the other Vessel wasyaved with one Uxeeptiom-^ The other vessel was the ’’Fairy,’* a schooner yacht, belonging to a friend o* Mss Sinclair, with whom che and her brother, and parties of ladles -and gen tlemen, had started but three days pre vious, for a week’s craise.- £ need not -tell you haw. % explAlned that strange thrill as ths schooner cross*' eCouf bow* the night before the collis ion, and which I felt again at the mo ment of the crash, nor what interpreta tion I gave to the wild tumult of emo- 'tions all ajong th a t dreary night. * I married Mary Sinclatr, and buried her thirty years afterwards; and I some times have'the same evidefice of her .presence uow, that I used tp have when she lived on the same earth with me. -A n E leg s k t E xteact , —The Sea is dhe largest of the cemetries, and its slumbers sleep without a monument'— All the grave yardVin other lands show some symbol of distinction between the great and small, the rich and the poor; .but.in that .ocean cemotry the,king and clown, the prince and peasant, are all alike undistinguished: The same wave rolls over all—the same requiem sUhg by the minstrelsy of the ocean is sung to their honor. Over theb remains the same storm beat, and the same sun shines; and there,unmarked*-the weak and the powerful, the pluolea and un- hbnofed, will rieep ow, until awakened, by the same trump, when theeca will give up its. dead. I thought of sailing over the slum bering but devoted Gookman, who, af ter a brief hut brilliant career, perished in*the President—over the laughter loving Power, who went down in the same ill-fated vessel, we may have pass, efl. Jn that cernetry ^jeeps the accom plished and pious Fletcher.; but where ha and' thousands of others of the noble spirits of the earth lie, no one b^£ God knoWeth. No marble rises to point out where their ashes are gather ed, or where thb lovers of the good or wise can go to she4 the tears of sympa thy, Who can tell where lie the tens of thousaflds'of Africa’s sons who per ished in- the middle passage ? Yet that cemetery hath ornaments of Jehovah. Never can I forget my days and, nights as I passed over the noblek of ceme teries IVithout a single monument.— A n E ccentbic E nglishman in B a - mL—ay the way, whilst talking of our countrymen, it is perhaps out of place to mention that one of them, ivbose name. I-cannot yet ascertain* has just distinguished himself by an act of sta- gttlsr eccentricity. He has built a house in the Quartier TiVoll, for the res- J t o b s o t blrasslff Xls' wlfe, and ei|bt children* which is tte talk of all Paris. It is circular, like the Halle aux Bles, and has neither doOr nor window exter nally. The approach to it is froth the. ground on to the roof by means of a lad der, wbichl^ moved up- or down by machinery, similar to that of • a draw bridge. There is only one floor, and that contains 18 apartments, more or less small in dimension, looking into the centre* which is lighted from above by a glazed cupola. One stove for all these rooms is in the middle, and in summer its place is to he occupied by an exquisite parterre of flowers. A circular balcony, opened to all the apart* ments surrounds this space. The mo tive for this oddity is, of course, only knowff to the author, of i t ; but every body can see two points-are gained by it—immunity from the taxes on-dOors and. windows* an.d a perfect preventa tive of any attempt at burglary.-—Gnf- respoTident ofJSnglisJi p a p e r s common in schools than at the present time, an ineident took plade in a neigh- boriri’gtown Which is Wortfl recording. One of the largest, plumpest and feiresi girls of the schopl happened to violate ons^fthe teacher’s rules. Theinaster, a prompt Biie^rgetie fellow of twenty^fiVe, ^*mffiohed her into the middle of the floor. After interrogating the girl a few moments, the master took a ruler and commanded her hold but her hanfi.^ She hesitated; when the mas ter, in a blaze of pasrion, tfeundered out—” Will you give mo your hmd “ Yes, sir, and my h a r t tho/* promptly replied the girl, at the same rime stretch ing forth, her hand to ibe master, and eyeing him with a cunning look. .A death-lfee silence reito^ fer ^ fouraent inthe rehool-room; k tea'r was seen to glisten in the master’s eye, the ruler was laid upbn the desk, and* the blush- lug girl was requested to take her seat, but to remain after the school was dfe- Mi&sHdP'*^ la three WeCkb after the school finished, the teacher and the girl were married:— Palmer^s Jburnat. A little l«^ hadaeolt and a d ^ , . and his generosity was often fried by visitors making him* “just to-“seo what gontleman present that might bayo bis colt, rcscrvii^ the deg, much to the surprise o f bis mother- , . ' “ Why jackyl why didn’t you jiv e the gentleman the dog I” *‘Say abtbin, say . nclMra.-'raotlfer, when he goes to get the colt, i'Ji ::ct the dog ©a te him I” ^ Y ollo ^ tkg ’ iNBiEUOTfoxra.— a Ger man Bom an Ghthoiifc having been or dered by hl3 priest to walk's trambtr of miles with reaa tn Ms riioes. a pen ance* tvisheil to obey the 'bijuBctlojrand ' ony .suffering, and ac- t h pi-as. THE BIBEE. 'A ir —” Woodman spare that treeP • Sceptic, spare that book, Touch not a sing'le leaf, ■ Nor on its pages look • tVith an eye ijf unbelief j ’Tvvas my forefathers stay. In the hour o f a gony; Sceptic, go thy way, And let that old took be. • That good old book of life For centuries'has stood Unhaftned aihid the strife When earth was drunk with blood ; And would’st thou harm it now tnd have its Its very name recalls T h e happy hours of youth. When in ray grandsire’s halls I heard its tales of truth ; I’ve seen bis white hair flow O’er that volume as he read ; But that Was long ago, And the gooji old man is dead. ts truths Sceptic, forbear thyjblow^ Thy hand shall harm it n My dear „ :ar grandmother, too, When I was but a boy. I’ve geen her eye of blue Weep o’er it tears of joy • Their traces linger still, SCHAIIYL, THE CrRCASSIAH GBtEF. Russia has extended her conquests beyond the Caucasus. But those hoary mountains present innumerable re sources for Ihe hardy and the resolute mountaineers, who bravely resolved on Jiberty -of death, have waged a constant war with the present Emperor sine© the day of his accession, and success fully braved a Russian army of J5G.000 men, who are in . constant requisition to keep possession of the tefritory which lias been gained. The Circas sians inhabit the west end of the moun tains, nearest to Russia, and therefore the struggle is generally understood to be, and known by the name of the Cir cassian war. But the tribes are very nu merous in that quarter, as well a s the languages, and it requires a very extra ordinary man to organize them. Such a man Is found in Schamyl, (pronounced Sbameel,) the second prophet, as Ma homet was the first; and this mail has not only succeded in extending his au thority over one-half of the population of the Caucasus, but even in converting thousandif of the Circassians to Ma hometanism by the force of his characr ter and the marvellonsness of his deeds. Schamyl has registered a vow in heav en of everlasting wrath against the RusgiaUs, and confirmed it by an oath that he would put to death the first who, raider any circumstances, pro posed to him submission to the Giaour. This resolution was put to the test in a most remarkable manner, in 1843, when the Tchetehenians, who inhabit an independent region in the east of the Caucasus, being seyer'eiy .jessed by Russia, were inclined to suritonder, but, kno wing the oath of Schamyl, they re solved to draw lots who should under take the hazardous task of broaching the subject to him. The fot fell upon four men* who went rather vrilily to work; for instead of proceeding direct* ly to Schamyl, they went to his moth er, who they knew possessed great in fluence over him. A large bribe was offered to her, and abe undertook the task. What took place at the inter view no one knows; but the Khaness, his mother, 'came out pale and trem bling, saj'ing that the Imau, her ^on# bad determined to inquire of Allah. Three days and three nights Schamyl remained invisible, the people praying without in a state of silent excitement. On the fourth morning Schamyl ap- peared like one enervated with prayer and fasting, and, after an interval of profound silence, he directed the near est Murids, or disciples, to bring. his mother. When she arrived, the proph et addressed his people thus ; The will of the prophet of Allah be done 1 People of Bargo, the Tchetch- enes have dared to think of yielding to the Giaour,.and have even ventured to • — — - ---------- :— ----- * send 'messengers, hoping Tor ray con- A no - mv HE ast too .^ A 'few years sent.* The messengers, conscious of ago, when.it was the custom for laige * \ ’ ‘ ' ’ ' - giris and large hoys to attend, district schools, and when flagellation was more their sin, dared not appear before my face, but have-tempted .the weakness of my unhappy mother to be their media tor. For her sake I have ventured, aided by your prayers, to ask the will ofMahomet the Propbei o f Allah; and that will is,f that the first Who spoke to me of this matter shall bp punished with a. hundred blows of the heavy wMp---it' was ray radlherl” Then Sch.amyl ordered the Murids to seize the venerable old Ebaness, and bind her to one of the pillars of the mosque. At the fifth blcV of the whip she died ; and Schamyl, stripping off his upper garment, commanded the* Murids ' to Inflict the rems^nrag hinety-fivo blows on Mmsrif; and . after this toff four Toheteh^nes who had Occasioned this tragedyjr and'who .Were witnesses of too whole scene, ‘were ordered into his presence- Every one their immediate execution; but Schamyl, fa a d ear and impassive manner, merely said to them, “ Go back to your psopl©* and for my answer, toll tbeai what yoii have seen to*day.” ■ ff?* At a hotel, a short' time since, & jjirl inquired of a gentleman, attheltablo if liis cup was o jit.' No, ” said he. ” but my coffee i$.” *' Tho~poor girl wss considerably eon* fused, bnf determined-to pay Mm in Ms o%m coin, - - 'White at dlniter tbe-stege drove upg unfl several .coming'iii 'Iha gcntteiaaii asked-— Bees toe 'dag© dine 'here I** • . .sir,” the-giri, la^ - -igrefesrio toiie, ” but lliepassengm do.’^ $v?jF?s-TRT.—-A good 'diesteoft, raa&'lnj? an official visit to a%i.cgceighborwiio» was' a -very churlito and unlvcrsoJll' ms* f opnlar irran put the n-ua! qncxtioa-w^. “ Are you 'fejflir/g go, ray friend/* Oh y es/’ caidflieilclimaa, Weil/' swid tfaf, siujpio minded , cou, I am glad Vfea eto, to? ejl - neighbors-aro
