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r County,.N, Y.^and wil snce of v ill^e sabscriber: ■jers,$2j00 H E R E I M E E M O C R i T j p— ■ THE HEBZIKES B2E3COCISAT • WfeDSESDAY MoEKlNfi at ty,.N. Y.» and will dllage sal for $2,00 perannura. Mail subscribe] per annum, or $1,50 in advance. . E&TES OF ADVERTISING. Pne square or less, one insertion,. •. $1 00 Each subsequent insertion, .......... .. * 0 25 One square 2 months, .................... .. • 3 00 One square 3 months,*. ......... 4 00 'One square 6 months, ............. .. 5 00 One square one year,. . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 00 q :F*A liberal deduction willbeTnade to those who advertise by the year. BOOK AND JOB PRINTING, in branches, executed with neatness and dispatch, and on reasonable t ------ i hli its AUTDISIN FLOWERS. BY C. SOUTHEY. These few pale autumn flowers, How beautiful they are 1 Than all that went before. Than all the summer store, How lovelier far 1 And why ? they are the last— The last 1 the last O ! by that little word the last! How many thoughts are stirred— lat sister o f the past ! Pale, perishing flowers I precious things j Types of those hitter moments, . ................... snjoyments, Pale flowers ! Ye’re types o f p] ypes o f those hitte That flit like life’s enjoymei On rapid, rapid wings. Xast hours with parting dear ones, (That time the fastest spends,) Who but would fain compress ''ho, e’ere Must lei 3w’s sun, id for aye ? A life into a day j ^ The last day spent with precio sweetest, those, the neai rnal clos O, precious, precious moments ! Pale flowers ! ye’re types of 1* iddest,dde sweet dearest, I,, like those the nearest, The sa Because To ai (wers ! ye’re types o f those ; Pale, perishing flowers j fentle breath—^ Pate flowers ! I leave the summer rose For younger, blither brows :— Tell rue of change and death ! T H E ST O R M I N G OF CHA- PU L .TEPEC . The National Monitor, a new literary paper published in New York, contains a sketch of a portion of the military operatfon in Mexico entitled. “ Life in the Army, or Reminiscences of the 3Iexiean War, hy a New York Volun teer N The style of the writer is plain and lucid, and he narrates with much liveliuess, and directly to the point.— Here is an account of the storming of Cha pul tepee;— “ I t was a somber morning, the heav ens being obscured with dense, black clouds ; therefore, not a wall of the ca s t le was visible to the eye— nothing but the brUliaui lights that illuminated it, attracted the eye—presenting a grand, imposing spectacle—a concen tration of brilliant meteors, suspended from the black clouds above, being the neatest similitude to it. As we neared the castle, the greatest possible caution was observed. .The men were cautioi,* ed, not to allow their tin canteens to styike against their muskets or catridge boxes—not a word was allowed spoken in the ranks— every possible precaution was taken to keep the enemy in ignor- anq^* of our approach. Qnward we marched, with noiseless steps, silent tongues, and palpitating hearts, Near* er and nearer we approached the for midable castle, bristILpg with, heavy ar* tiUery, and.coutaining twelve thousand p( Mexico’s best troops, andconjaand-, ed by one of her bravest and best gen- erjals, , Suddenly we were brought to a halt— the division to which, I was at tached being intended to support a bat tery under tbe coram^nd of- Captain Druna^ which had been erepted during t|ie night, directly under the, castie.— Just as we halted, the shrill, notes pf. .a trumpet-assailed our ears. Then the' rolling of drums were heavd,, and pres ently a full brass band joined in.. Jt was the enemy playing the reveille. . A dea,th-Jik.e stillness, p^reys^ied, )n our ranks at the time— npt a whhper or a brealhing could be heard-^threfore, qo unexpected was tlip mosic, that w^ben it,struck the ear, R caused a momqni tary thrill to shoot through my frame felt a peculiar indescribable sensa- tRn. I have no doubt others experi enced the same. , i, “ The music was suddenly interrupt ed. Bang-r-r! went one of the huge pieces of artillery from DcumiSL.hattery, and fpr a moment the dreadful wMx-z-xl of its iron death-messenger was heard through t h e air, and then its fatal crash as it rstmek the castle. Instantly every light in the latter was quenched, and it w^s inyisiblpT-shroudpd in4arl?ne3S.-T Silence, was no longer observed in our ranks; the commanding voice qf Bax ter .to Forward I” was heard. W e marched a. short distance, filed to the right,' and halted— taking up a position in supporting distance of Capt. Prum’s battery, , . ; , - .^‘.''Presently the somber clouds that obscured^ the, heavens,! separated, a styeak of light was v isible in tbe past ern -nhqrizqnT—the day was breaking Lighter and lijjhter it gradually grew } objects that had been previously invisi ble, now appeared to> the sight; Anon, the blazing sun peeped forth from tbe dark bi^in^-pladfe, diffusing a flood of light upon the earth, and revealihg to our astonished sight the Whitei massive walls'df-ChapuIlepec, the hugd ofua hundred bekyy pieces df a?lillery that peered from;their-respective^ em- brasuresraod the glittering-bayonets of atieast'M fh t thousand irifdiitry in thb woods sufrouftding the castle, and at the h a s e io f tbb high bill upon which R « T h i s «d ’as oUY'first Sight the castle] and I'gazed upon- uR imposing appearance v^itb admiration-^-'dontein-^ plating a t the same rhomen^lfee chlghty T E R M S - $ 2 A Y E A R . “ I i i b e r t y , F r a t e r n it y » ,a t t< i JE 4 |w a llty.” i 50 I N A D V A N C E . TOLTIE im,:' HEMIMEB, lyEDFiiSMY MbRUKfl, OCTOBER 11, 1854. NUMBER 6, convulsion which was to follow an at tack upon its impregnablo walls—-the fives that thusf hfecesskrlly be? sacrificed; the wives made widow s; Ihe parents childless; brothsrs and sisters mourn ers, and helpless children, perhaps, fatherless. Casting my eyes over the gallant little band that stood before me ■companions who had escaped through storms of lead and iron-—who had fought by ray side in all the preceding battles—the sad and awful conviction forced itself upon my mind, that, in a brief time, many of them, whose smi ling faces and cheerful hearts betoken ed no “thought of the morrow,” would lie in the cold, icy embrace of deiitb. The loud report o f a gun from the castle, and the startling noise of grape and canister as it went crashing and tearing through tbe tali, dense pulque plant, in my immediate vicinity, check ed all further reflections on my part.r— The enemy had discovered us, and was evidently determined to do us all the injury that he possibly could. Cannon after cannon, aud huge mortara On the walla o f .the castle, vomited forth, im- remittingly. their ponderous round shot, grape, cannister, apd shell, doing us, hovTever, but little injury, as we, .bad taken the precaution to occupy a secure position. The guns from opr several batteries, at - different commauding men lyep shot dead,, Still this did not mtimida^te him or his men. Onward he pushed— rapidly nearing the enemy. Now fie Was within thirty yards'oFthem and still they maintained their position. Forward the lieutensut pressed, and just as he was within about ten yards o f the^ ditch, a masked, battery in its Immediate vicinity opeued Its murder ous fire upon the little parly'. When the smoke cleared away, hU t'threedf that gallant band stood upon their feet — the remainder, with the lieutenant, were stretched upon the blood-damp ground, Frightful mangled corpses. The three survivors stood bewildered for a moment, -and then recovering them selves, speedily rejoined US. We, too, had our sharp-shooters stationed at advantageous positions around the castle; and the Ihahy Mek'* icans that fre found the next day, stiff- in death, with their foreheads pierced with the balls, bore proof of the accu racy o f their aim'. T h e mounted rifle men is the regiment that I allude to.— This regiment was composed of the best, body of men—nearly all Ameri cans— that I ever saw. T h e y were all crack shots, each man being sure to “ fetch bis man.” At Chapultepec they were scattered in different direc tions, as Hear the castle as they possibly could get, and hundreds of the .enemy paints, promptly answered the enemy, } day perished hy their unerring, sending forth their deadly contents in f deadly aim. A n incident that I wit- reply. All day—from .dayjight 'until' ncs'sed on the 12tb, suggests the men- the sable curtains of night shrOnded ’ tioning of the regiment, in order to in- the contending armies in darkness— the | froduce the inbiBent itself, booming of cannon, the bursting o f | “ From the^ase. of the bill oh which shells, the crashing of grape and; can* the castle o f Chapultepec stands, run-; ning.up to the cftstle Rself, i s a brOad, nister, and the sharp Report o f ,mus'? ketry, greeted the oar; “ Various ihetdents that name under my observation during the day, now force themselves upon my menfory. Captain Drum’s battery; < whicK paved road. Down this road',. during the morning,, a horse,, m ounted. hy .an officer, w a s frequently seen to dash fu riously.^ , ^ h e jrider was ^onbtless an ctid’de-cdmp, carrying orders from 6rein- Sept up a couMaut and dastruwitfe 8f# I Bf*™, stationed at the foot o f the upon the oastie the whole day, waa .- o . - . . ( . . . w . - u . . . . h J stationed about; sixty yards from > the right of my regiment; Our whole di vision, commanded bj? \General Quit-* man, consisting of the second PehUsyl- nia and South Carolina volunteers, and a battalion o f ^United States ma rines, besides the New York volunteers, also occupied a position in supporting distance ol the battery.,. Attached to the South Carolina remifient Were sev* era! negroes— slaves, who had accom panied their masters; SOhiO o f them privates,' too— o n t b e campaign; atad^oh' several occasions displayed commend able gallantry. One o f thesenegrOes-— a huge, blacky ifiuseUlaf' fellbw—Stood about ten yards from one o f th e gunsj and at every discharge, be tvouldeager-’ ly watch' what effect it had updii the castle. If a favorable' One*, he #OUliir jump up in thb air, clap his hafidSf dnd' exclaim ; “Golly, tnassa, 'you give' ’im* goss d a t time-r-suah 1” [ T h en be Wjould resume h is, position behind a tree, and await with anr‘-‘“ -------- other cannr” for th’e* sht then rush into the rodd] and g<^ through the Samer, perferman<Se ,.as.vttJentifibcd above. TJbie ^ellpw-had conducted him-f self in this manner for two or three hours, vrheh'a' sbdt ' frbni' duf battery made desperate havdi ivith one df^the out-works of the castle. . Tbe teyrible cra§h ,copt4•: big;^dfetinbUy/heard, and the clouds of dust that asceiyde^j iiRo the air from the demolished _rnasonry presented ,a picture similar ^to ,a^V-^t coPffa’gfUtioA. • The ‘ ' dkTigbt a t this’ ®omVnt was unbounded; ‘“He threw himself oh the,,gcoundl rolhld overland ov.er, and kicked and squirmed l|kej,a dyi.M .mm al,utte™ ^ ^ expkm a lip,,. Thus, saaftenly spring- ing to his feet, he leaped, about five feet the,ground, > trpck’h is‘h , biappe'd'his hands, ahi^ exchiim- ed; “Who-o-up ! Hoo-rah ! '^fiy ’gra- shus, massa, Hat was the best of ’em all! Glve itdd *im dgam!” ’ • ’Jflst d s h e concluded the‘last seii-^ tence, .the .loud, report.oT monster cannon was heard from the castle, then the whizzing noise of a ponderous shot, as i t came flying - through the air. It was the poor;negro’a dCath-meisenger f before he fiad an. opportunity toreautoe his position, it struck him.in the ^tom., ach, completely tearing out his entrails, and ofdddrs'b iiistantiy ^ dejinving him of life. The poor fellow’s merry voice was silencet|^ in death. , ‘ “ Within ; m u sket, range o f Captain Drum’s battery, a small force oft t^e enemy, perliaps fifty, occupied a posi tion that Enabled theni to’ arraoy u's very mtieh, and oc'casionttllykill df w idud one of tbe- ineh: atatajiifed a t the gullet’ hill. K« iVas a .very show y ohip, RKd therefore ,1 wondered ,h6 escaped our rifles. H is horse was richly and show;-, ily caparisoned, and' he himself, was dieSsed in a'gorgeous uniform—in short, he was “ Us gay as a pedcock,-» as the eccehtric but gallant Captain Faircfiiu remarked a t the time. . I had my eyes fixed intently upon him the last time 1 saw him <3oWn the road, ex pecting moment to sed him fall froiu his saddle/ But fie bsoaped,— Then J awaited his ceturn; Presently be came dashing up tbe road, as he had repeatedly, done. He had proceeded about half way, when, suddenly I sa'v liis Boiie Rumble anff fall. H e hnme- diateiy disengaged biinR lf from the Rir-! rujjkas the hpr^e fell, stood erebt oVef the fallen animal, and iVaved his‘ sword ovef’hik h e d d .' as if in defian'ce. The' shar'f) bfdck of a 'rifle suddenly greeted m^ baf, and at t h a t momehl the teme?-, aHimir officer fell dead* beside his dying' 1 incident i^ W r^?l\ecfron, which, serves ^:^hpw the effectivehess of our artillery, particu.-, larly thp battery, cpmmundeR i?y.C‘up;; tarn Drum., Late in the afternoon,, a pldVtjr 4f'the‘ bnemy Were^ engaged *in bringhij^'a’heavy piece of artillery from- the fsastle to the support oftheirtrbopi’ at the foot, of the hili. They .had.sac-i three of'their * in tire' ati&mpt, by' the deadly aim of our riflemen— ^Ben- Captain Drum’s attention wawcaliedto the. proQuedifig.-' \ . J—. see if> I i caht’t. putrh. ®fo|i*ta that,” ;was his cppl remarfci-which., was artillery. The^flfebt was aRofnistiing] the'Shot From, his gun striking Yhe-bhe* my’s cannon, and killing three orlfouc of the m e n .. The rest immediately re treated to the- castle. N o sirailar at tempt was made by them iliat *day. ‘^HtfiidFed^ o'finddbht^ bddurrfeddh* ring the day—too .rodny to-Undertake to relate in 1 this article, j i ^ ‘ . “ The firing on both sides continUedi, her mantle o’er the earth;” th6n‘ 6pm-; pakatiVe..quiet, once mor^ reigned.^ T . s I ia U Ufi.t .here detail tbe.prpceedlngd o f the night— the laborir - j *-• **^ * * »i their weapoDfl. at us, and then quickly resum'd th'eir lying position. ‘ T h ese fel lows had beeii harassing Ue'so lofng’aiid so: fatallyV Lthafe GdnerarCShiSlda (twhd to be performed; suffice it to say, tbe .rising sun never received a more jhny,’ 6ofdikl grfeetitig tha’h I gave it ife^lt morning. ' heS the next morning. • Atdaylighi'w e -took the 'sahie pOsh tion that w© haffocoupied the day pr^* yiows, .Whether ,were tftur.ettjflm there during the whole day, we w.ere,, H ait the time, perfectly ignorant, fi' was, ] it ------- — - — ,—lag^feeablb ----- w p ’WRre sppn, hpwflver,. infDfmtedthat be stofmM f -A t this ahhoUysMr\*‘ eVery eye was, in a mpmerit, difeci tbwards - th at t—formidable^—-imposing strnqiyre*' and .a deep mffrmiintbthugK* cqminanded: the bri^^e to whRh qiy out ^h^ pnk^ betokened *hftt purpose a: dbtachmmit thii^iihdh,- Jpg the orderTo mbveTofwaTdT I could f under * thd command of a lieutenant, ' hot help remk^fcihg, a t this a'wlfuf CfiVt^ w a s^nt forward, ; The lieutenintgal-: .nffiem sO;maty' Invodr TknkS- 'ivbrrdh to hear the expected order to “ For ward !” A t last it cam e.,, Standing on tne right of the regiment, his face pale from excitement, and his 6ye.^ sparkling like jets, 'kiieufenant Colonel Baxter exclaimed, in & loud vOicB^ “ F or - .WARD 1” “ Instantly the regimOpl inoved for ward to the' right o f the division, and then led off towards the castle iii double quick time. 'A tremendous i^heer at this moment'peeled* through the welkin, and every giitt thafthe castle could lev el against us, poured fourth their dead ly contents in reply. A s we. moved forward, qainnisjer, grape, round shot, and shell came pourihg upbiti d s, with a regular hailstorm: o f bullets,' -making awful; fllflughter* in our ranks; But without a pause,- our men dashed gal lantly forward, and turning to the, left into a vast field directly in front o f the castle, with a shout thatTalrly shook the heavens. Onward they-rushed.-head- ed by the gallant Baxter. Chapultepec was enveloped in a sheet of flame.i so inceSsant and rapid was the discharge of the enemy’s artillery. Dilcbarge af ter discharge o f grape was hurled with awful destruction through our ranks ; still our brave boys, were not daunted ; with the flag of the Empire StMe proudly waving at thP head of oilr column, onward they pushedl Van O’ Linda fell dead on the greeh sward, gal lantly leading his company | then Bax ter, mortally wounded ; then Pearson, and a fearful number o f bur gallant men. Still, our regiment dashed bold ly forward, until the stone wall sur rounding the base o f the hill on which the castle stood, ,was reached. Then a short delay was necessarily made, in order to enable the remaining regiments composing the division to coine tip — Some sharp fighting took place dt tbid point, the enemy were shortly driven from their position, apd aid§d. by lad ders, we scaled .the lower - wafl, a^ni' dasbed up the precipitous hill. Nov commenced a sfruggle that my pen i inadequate to desdribe.' The enemy’s* artillery becoming ineffective’ in cOnaef quenqe pf, the steepness pf tfie hill, m u sket^ was brought into requisition. Th» hoise‘o f the musketry wasMeaf- emng, tve^urning the hrbans o f the wounded and ayws. “ The bullets flew anumedjilika.hail, silenqmg iq death-taany^ bwrara^ifeUoW who, with « loud cheer, was dashing boldly and fearlessly up the steep as^ cent. Now entbusiastiP shout© and tbe report o f musketry were heard oh our right and left, proceeding,from'»the troops under Generals Worth, Pillow,; and others. The attack upon the cast;le was made siffiiiltanepdsly at three dif ferent points. Quitnofah’d divisioti Ad vanced directly in frPnt of the castle,' ■vhile the ^ division o f Generals Wprth nd t ’iljpw charged up the right, left; nd reaV; Cfri they came, dashing up- tho rocky ascent with adetenninatioh' to - conquer dr die. Rdaniihated by their gallanit bearing,, our. brAve hoys pushed forward .)vith. renewed vigor,— i Officers and men fell dead and vyound-' ed under the’ murderous 'fir^ of'mu^- ‘hat the_Mexicans poured^in .upon tiarft m.eri, ,who had preceded lis scaling parties; vvere stretched out iifislesx upon the hill, with tfaeii* lad ders c lu tched, firmly Jn their hands; in . and ihq Rier,cu?g. - ------------- , ---------------- ms, as they,were, fol-Ced, a^the.pbmt orthebay6net;‘ovuV d lofty precipice. Tn f v e ’ininhteflkfter the castle, was oUrs--^the gaudy flag: of; M,exicq,.:ihat had,fpr yeara fioated uor conq^bred oaetlb.i * Nine * dfeifemh^- .cheers— cheers suchaRiOnIj meinflirsh; •eid with victory can give—greeted it as ~iu. O\v*ino manianything.HJ. i k e e p o>if 'oi^ debt,; .kv6i(f1t;as,you wdiild War.-pestilende, nnd fa-tnihb.-f^' ita te it with a perfect- hatred.-A h h d r ' .witht an. xbsolute abhorr'enee/, Dfg potatoes, break stohesi peddle tin-ware, do anything that is .honest and Useful,' rather Ihau.a’onin.dfbt.i As y o u value bpmfortiiquiet, independehce, jkSep o h t .of debtd Debt aSt the Jrardest' of .ali taskmasters, the m ost cruel o f all op- 6 p r e s s o r A I t i a a millstOhe^d^oiR ha -formidablej—imposing of Ureh’S bbiii^. it^eclijpSek the suh, i t blots'dunithe Stars, 4t'dims khddefaees THE DUEL. M r .Bm y and Clay ^efV fivals for IhAaffec- ticfn of iMiss'.-Lury Rell, aafl it ne<iessary to-resort to arqis .—American Courier. , TEiit, *when.lhieyhoth.wei§‘dea{i, they’d have • Two jwp^i’s yet to live. , . ly putting ip th? prime of de A^instthe prith'e'ofb'fe. ow all'was i*ea(Iy lof thfe fo e t ; But, whea they took their stands, Fear.mader them tremble so, they found 'They both %^ere'shaking hands. Smd'^Mr.'C'./to.MrlB., ^ . Serifr one- df us may fait, And, like St, Paul’s Cathedral nowj Be doomed to have a .daW. ' No* “ I do confess T did attaqli Misconduct tOiyonr liame . If I withdraw; the charge, will then. Yotir ramrod do the same\?” Said Mr.' B ., ,“ 'l d6 agree.; But think of Honor’s courts ; If we be .off wUhoqt> shqtj - ^ There'will Re strange reports. ’ “ But look, thfe rrtortting dbw is bright, . . Though, Cloudy it begun ; , Why can’t we aim above,.as if We had called out the s’iin 7” So up into the h'afmlesi air . 'jL’heir bullets theyiiid send ;. .. And may all other duels have That'ttjjsftot in the end. ElttLPYME^T OF WDMElfiIN,FEANCE. In m iiftlueed to flA y a word upon the very joumerPus emplbyhients open to femalesf in F rance which are hot open tp them at home. The books of nine- ^ tenths of the retail sho'ps in Paris are kept by* v^omen. I do nPt remdihber d cafe or^faSiinet in the city, the-eoun- tpr of. which is not plfesided .at by a. Wpinnh, Tfie; box,*o.ffices. o f t|ie:.thea- placeir. * Thd box-openers • and addP: ©nce-seaters aye Womfin*.!. A m i Jiot on ly do women act as sellers in such es- Jahlighments as are naturallv fitted to erie^iet^. etc, , - places the rodd gtatidnsiare principally wPken.--4 I have the pleasure of purchasing a seat daily o f a gopd-looking young.per- Son of about twenty-four years. .From appearances, rih o u td > a y >he^ vyas en gaged to'the CttnduCtor'of tbe fdur o’-* clopk train!' Women fiven guard the stations, and soffieof (he less frequent ed crossings. .Women cry Ihe^ rate.pf exchange everjr elffernbon, after Bourse hoursi antf ffidre huinb'erk o f ih e F ielse and the Mousquetaire are disposed Of by Women .than by irieii. I he*rer yet saw a newsbhj^ih'France, Tri the'p'or- ter’A 'lodges o f (he; cU y there' ar© msnY TinrlrRSOPU'Aa rfnvlpra ^ stnA si lai _ vice, a wotalh withPut A hhsbahd than a-man’witho’nt A wifejl Jh small, boiis-. d s , wherPiooPTP5rsop,Emly. is J j q n i / e d J . “a that one person IRA woman; Omnibus ^ .transfer offices, to women, for in'st»eci tion and:* ratificatiair. Women book youlforla .seat in the jdiligeiiCB Hvomen Uet d onkeysifor -rides Montmorency, lyou n s td'pi5c#i'alndyou'fiud‘ tlieih'qiii- _____________ _ . c'oh^uer, d u f tropes valiantly^Qhtifided' the charge. ' Now\ thp masd-ve walla Surrouhdbi]^ theicas-.i tie wqre reached, and w ith a cbeer[|h^ti ed by sbkKng. IbddbVs/ promptly ind L boldly bounded over* them'. 'Then - . ,,, - „ nr-tuz. * ' s i a t j i S ’K a s a s s j A t ‘ home nearly* ail t h e ' situ'at^ons^at- tainable by -theiri ^rd either menial ot invoiye sabordiriatipni Woffl^ ' eithe? swv^^nt?., clerks, pperAfrYC^^ wait-; ^expreSsion.'^HcrC, ^'fidwiVer; Bold pO^itiofisdf adthority' responSibft- - Ity, #ndi cdhsideiAtibn, .ini the' variotsS _____ _ _____ , ___ _ . ., jh- „ 4 t'S,- lt'lias' hot been found t^at thp' wOdkhess-dfrthoh^Xdauses (he empire to boiany t h e d e s s Ohefgeticallj’ a^sert- Adj.py obedience,tp boA h o less prompt- 'Frdhhe, whiOhl trustAnd beli'eve woiild nev^r b e aceeptfed at home. * A brigade’ of 1 fetrelefc ’ aweepefi contains an equal ;nhmbo*: of malearAud 'females. There fM t vegetable-pOi Amall *cart,' *ai mafti to About and sell, and A woman andA Jiog» harnessed inth winnow in the barns. I migtit say that. which I tak©aR«ftna|»PaV interest, con- for'sUdh obcupatiohii as these ; but I think'there are many ©mploymerits yet .monopolized by inen to which their M- bpr might be usefully; and conveniently; delivered.— P a r is Correspondent JSfem % r h Times, STORY OF A COURTSHIP. The. following interesting sketch of country courtship, is extracted from Mrs, A n n R. S tephen s ’ Fashion and FAw?«e, recently published :-rt “ ‘ Come, come,’ said Mrs. Gray, ‘you have been moping lortg enough, nephew, forgetting manners and everything else. Here are the apples waiting, and no one to hand them around, fbr when I Once get settled in the easy chair”— here the good woman gave a smiling survey of her ample person, which cer tainly overflowed the chair at every point, leaving all but a ridge in tbe back, and'the curving arms quite'invis ible— “ it isn’t a very easy thing to get up again. Now, bustle about, and While, We old women rest ourselves you and Julia, there, can try your luck at apple seeds. “ r remember the first time I ever surmised Mr. Gray had taken a notion to me, was once when we'were to an apple-cutting together down in Maine. Somehow Mr. Gray got in my neigh borhood when we were arranged around (ha great basket o f apples. I felt my cheeks burn the minute he drew his seat close to mine, and took out his jack-knife Ip hegiii to work. He pared and I quartered. I never looked but once and then his cheek was redder than mine, and he held the jack-knife terribly unsteady. By-and-by he got a noble, great apple, yellow and as smooth as a baby’s cheek. I Was look ing at his hands sidewise, from under my lashes, and saw that he pared it carefully as i f every round was a strip o f gold. At last he cut it off at the seed end and the soft wrings fell down over his wrist and took the apple from his fingers. “ ‘ Now,’ said he, in a whisper, bend ing bis head a little, and raiding the ap ple peel carefully with, his right hand. “ I’m just ds $ure tha,( this will be the first letter o f the name I love, as I am that we are alive.” He began swiftly whirling tbe apple peel round his head; the company were all busy with one anotjber, and I wa:s the poly person who sa-w the* yellow links iqUiVerin^ round: his head, once, twice, thrice. Then he held it s till a moment, and sat looking right into; my eyes* I held my breath nnd sod id he. . U ‘ N ow,’ says he, and hisibreath^came .pid-wilh.A.vaitixer,- ‘-SEhafe- i f i t .shauM be your nameg’ ,, ; , . . I did not answer, and we both look- id back a t the same time. Sure enough it WU5 a letter B- No pen-ever made one more beautifully. Just' as I ex pected,’ says be and his e y ^ g r e w bright as diamonds, ‘just as I expected!’— That was all he s^id. “ ‘ And what answer diff JOR D^eke him, aunU* asked Robert Otis, who had been lislen^ng^-with a flushed face, what did you say ?’ “ I didn’t sp6ak a-word, but quarter ed on jhst a s fast as I could. As for Mr. Gray, he kept paring and paring like all possessed. I thought that he never.wpuld stop pa«na or speak a word more. By-and-by, he struck the point of fiik knife into an apple, and unwinding the skin from arbund it, he handed iS PV.er;tp me,. It Was a red skin I remember^ and CRt as smooth as - ribbon. , . v ■“ J-shouidn’t a bit* wonder I f that ropped in to a letter G.,’’ Gray.. ‘.Suppose # o u try i t . ’ I top k ih e r e d APPlbskin, and; whirled it three times around my jbead, and down it went oh to the floor, curl ed iip into the nicest chpltdl G. that you ever set ©yes oh*.' • “ Mr. Graji, lookeff a t the letter, and then k ln d n f .s y e w a y s into my face,— . ^ . ■— t-. *~i5|pg , up the apple ___ , ______ , - . IS if it had ^eeh the first niouth'fhi of ThhhkS^yihg D in ner. ‘*koiy Wohia ypffhke to see them two lettei*sJ'on!Anew - s e t o f isilver teai ppgsimMu u:- i'-V ' u. I c6ulafl*t speak mofe than i f Fd b6en SCEHERY IN CALIFORNIA. A writer thus describes a singular lo cality called the Devil’s Basin,' in Pla cer county, California: “ The DbviJ.s Basin, of which the foregoing statistics absorb the entire essence of mining inteliigence_in gene ral, possesses other attractions. Well suited to excite the’ curiosity and feed thejmagination. Those having an in nate love for nature’s bold and roman tic scenery, aided and heightened by the Workings of the lapse o f time, tra’- cinlg the wonderful evidences of the conflicting elements that have from time of old played their fantastic tricks about the giant hills' and moss grown rocks, may here view the stupendous masses, that have been hurled from their solid pedestals, and where once had been a velvet lawn and winding rivulet—the charred earth and scatter ed fragments bidding Time to do her worst,will furnish to the enquiring mind some calmer reflections, leading from thence to hold communion with God. “ The first object claiming the atten tion of the beholder is the Basin itselfi being an immense depression in the side, and near the Summit of the moun tain, forming a most perfect amphithe atre, having a depot of 500 feet, with a circumference of about one mile.— The walls along the northern half rise at an angle of about thirty degrees^ while on the south a narrow passage has been forced over an almost unfath omable precipice overhaning the north ern tributary.of the Middle Fork of the American river. A delightful spring gushes out from the ground bn the west side, and near the centre rises a column of cohglomerate rock, being seventy-, one feet in height, with a diameter oi^ thirty feet at the base. A few shatter ed trees relieve the marginal hue, and there some ili-shapen masses of cement' complete a picture of this singular and remarkable locality. “ Overlooking the basin is one of the loveliest parks that the eye could seek to rest upon, uubrolien and smooth as a carpeted floor, and embracing an area of untold acres. Here the brave old; oaks that have withstood the blasts o f ages, throw out their evergreen boughs far a'nd wide, and the symmetrical pines, aspiring heavenwards, dole forth their monotonous wailings as the night breeze, sweeps lazily through their lofty branches. “ Bounding (he eastern horizon may be seen at a glance mountain peering, above moutftain, their crests glittering with the everlasting snows, whilst m your immediate vicinity, and on'M l .sides, are yawning chasms of fearful depth. With their darkened walls ahd^ joverhainging ledges ; old trees up-torn ‘ and .broken by sliding masses in thefr-^ headlong passage, to the world below. Scenery at once bold and'diversified,- such,- ihdeed, as to enehain the dtten- ‘ lion, rivet the gaze, and crowd the re flecting mind with impressions of de-- votion and delight. ' ■VANITY-OF LIFE.' ■ The following, from a late speech of Mr. Benton, Is a touching exhibition of- tbe vanity of political ambition:—■' I have gone through a contest to which I have no hearf, and into which I have been forced by a combination against life and honor, and from Which I gladly escapes What is a’sea!t in Con gress, to me ? I have sat, thirty year?,’-' In the highest branch of Congress, and have made a name to which X ©an add ' nothing, and I should only he anxious * to say what has been gained? I hlive ' domestic affections, sorely lacerated in these latter times; a wife w h o m I|lave' liever’neglected, and who needs my at tention now more than ever ; children, J some separated from me by the vast ex panse of oceans and continents, others '^ by the slender bonds which seperate them from eternity. I touch the - age ' vvhich the Psalmist assigns as the limit -* of manly life, and I must be thought- dess, indeed, if I do not think of some thing' beyhnd the-flitting and sliadoi^'y pursuits o f this life, of all of which -I' exposed ahsoybs moisture from the At- fird pia’ce. This djipea^s to bd an En glish discovery.. It Is used witk suc cess in Gsnadai . ‘ . . I. HoBBENDDM.-r-The Bostoji Posf pqr- petrates the'following WickednesM* It is athieious*.-- ' ................. Nankeen and Pekin—^A Chinese Bpi- • She asked What I Wasseeldn’ ‘ * ■ « T h e te—iAB^ilsaidI--^^i5tl»tA<d^^e^^^ IT’ Some one has defined Ipvc-rr hAve seen the vanity^ ■ -What is cupationi- Ask-the undertaker good Mr. Lynch; whose face* present' my o d - ' thAt— . guuu^vxi* iJJAJUU 9 WiiUOC laijU ptCOCJib * on so m’any raouVnfuldceasions, has be- ^ come pldasanl to me. fie knows what ^^ deedpies my -thought and cafes ; gath ering-the bones of the dead-—a mother,' t a sister, two sons, a grandchild; plAnfe’-^ 2 ing the cypress over asserabied-ngraves, and. marking the spot where I, and those most dear to me, are soon to b© .. laid. _____________ _ * * T rb , G rea ? B eld of j YiENNA.-~rFor' a birth-day excursion, I yesterday as* i pende'd the tower o f St; Stephen, which rises up tpdho ehormous height of four; .:.’ hundred and . thirty-nine feet.; .About, two hundred fept above the floor wp ‘ reached (he Cjathel bell] the largest i n ; . Germany, weighing thirty-five thousand fbur; hundred pounds, i A. smun fam ify' > could live cpuve&iently jinder the im mense structure. It is,eleven feet high.* a|id ten and .one-half wide, , Eight m e n u --- required to ring i t , as the clapper tongue-tied/” i i “ ‘ B tttffidyou ndve# answer foLthA Sunday n1gKtr»^aid‘ the old* ikdy.'de- mdrly smoothing heVapofr. ' ' Y our G ihiun ^ ys .— Ifi bitilding a chiifiney/ put a quantily of salt into the mortar with wMoh;the intpr-courses j are required to ring it, as m e clapper of (he brick are to ■ be laid.. - Tl^e effept alone weighs one thousand four hundred will be tBat there wifi fieVer be any ap- :pponde. It was cast in 1 7 I lh y ; 4 h e cum'iiiation o f s6ot in t h e dhiihn'ey. Emperor Joseph U from ope hundred .. T h e l^hiiGaophy is thu's'stated; T h e and e|ghty*Turkish cannon taken',hy.t | salt in the portion, o f mortar : which is; .the Austrians, At the height; o f two-ji hundred andjfifty fept, is the clock. , . • ‘ In the room with the latter is sta tioned a man to watch for the breaking Out of fires in the city and suburbs. He takes the angle by means of a fine telescope,, and on a chart prepared for , . the purpose, .finds tbe street and house. The alarin is then given. I ascended to , (he top of thp tower, but as it inelinea , three feet from a perpendicular, and trembles at the slightest blbWj I did not. , ^ remain Iong_at so d izzy a height,— Cor- resbondeme o f Northern Advocate, {£?“ 0ome philosopher has remarked that the most beautiful hand in the world m the haiid^hai gives.*’ ' This would seem both a beautiful and plan- ' . sib leid e a , v^ere 4 t not for the recoil f * leqtion o f the hand that used to gtvq. ^ —epanksi
