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i'he Tjrciles^  Postillion.
AN INCIUENT OF THE FRENCH INVASION.
It was lale on a severe eveHIh^ of win¬ ter, as a cateche drav?!! by two" Hortfs drew up tothe door ofthe post-hcitlse at Sieuben ; for then; as now, Sieuben was the last pustStaiidn beftJre commencing the ascent ofthe moiintain pass of the Arlberg. This was duririg the approach bf the l^retifch arltiy under General Mas- seusl. The iravelffs, two in number wore military cloaks and forging caps; bui what the precise rank, or to what arm of ihe sfervifce they beltinged, not even the prying observations of the host could fatlc'in. Iheir orders were for fresh liorses immediaiely lo cross the moun. tain, and ahhoiigh the snow drift wag failing fasi. and the night dark as pitch, they peremptorily insisted on proceeding. The post regulations ofthose days were not very stringent and arbitrary. As a post-master may seem novv-a-day, he wai nothing to the autocrat liiat once ruled the comings and goings of unhap¬ py travelers.
When he avered that his horses had done enough—ihal it was a saint's day .^Ihat the weather wa* too bad or his posiillions too weary, the case was hope¬ less, and the traveler was consigned, without appeal, to the consolations of llis own philosophy.
It chanced that on ihis occasion the whole dispossible cav,ilry of the post con¬ sisted of two blind mares, which were both (oo oid and weak to tempt the crav¬ ings of i(\e coniihissary, who a few days before had seized on all,the draught Cat¬ tle tocBHvey stores }p Feldkirch, at that time menaced by a Fiench force under Massena.
The officeis, however were ur^frt in their denriEfnd: it was ofthe last inipor- tance ihat they shotfld reach Inspruck h^ (life' following evening. At last; half by menafc'e, Half hjr entreaty, it waS ar¬ ranged that the two old niares should be harnessed to the carriage, the hosl re¬ monstrating all the while on the inabili¬ ty oT the expedient, and averring that, without a Vorspann. a relay of horses, to lead at the steepest parts odthe moun¬ tain the attempt vvould be fruitless. 'JVay,'added he,'if you doubt me, ask the boy who is sleeping youder and has been driving the Vorspann for ye irs over ihe Arlberg. The. travc|.-r.» lurnvd and beheld on a heap of straw, in the corner (if llle kilchen, a poor little boy, whose ragged uniform of postillion had evidently reached him at third or fourth hand, so large and loosely did it hang around his slender fiigure. He was slee¬ ping soundly, as well he might, for he had twice crossed the mountain to St. Christoph on that same day.
'And this book,' said one ofthe trav¬ elers, taking a very tattered and well thumbed volume which had dropped from ihe sleeper's fingers 'has this poor little fellow time to read ?'
'He contrives to do it soinehaw/ said the host, laughing;'nay, more, as you see there he has begun to teach' himself French. .Since ht? heard thaVlKe French
army was about to  inV
never ceased his studies, sitting up
the night working at that old  grammar
there, for which he gav^ all hi5 riionth's
earnings.'
'And what may be his reason for this ?
said the elder traveler, evidently interes
ted in the recital.
'He has got ihe noiionj that if the Fiench succeed in forcing the pass of Feldkirch and enter the Tyrol, that, as he will be constantly engaged as Vors¬ pann on ihe mouniain, his knowledge of Fretlch would enable him to discover many secrets of the enem}-, bs no one vvould ever suspect a poor creature like him of having learned a foreign language. 'And his motive vvas then purely a pa¬ triotic one?'
'Purely. He is poor, as you see, and an orphan; but his Tyrol blood runs warm and thick in his veins.'
'And wbal progress has he  made?'
'That I cannot ansvver you, mein Herr, for no one hereabouts knows anything ofFrench—nor I suppose, had he even the opportunity of testing the acquire¬ ment himseif. They are driven back, I am told.'
'For the present,' said the elder stran¬ ger, gravely ; 'but we shall need ali the reserves at Inspruck to hold our ground whenever they renew the   attack.
The sleeper vvas novv aroused to take the saddle; for in ihe absence ofthe reg¬ ular postillion the Verspann was obliged tatake his  place.
Still but half awake the little  fellow- stood up, and    mechanically  buttoning up his  worn jacket, he   took  down   his whip and prepared for the  road.    The travelers were soon ready, and ere many minutes elapsed the caleche had left  the village, and wiih ihe best  pace   the old mares could accomplish, was  breasling the snowdrift and ihe first rise of the mountain.    After about an   hour's dri¬ ving, during which Joseph had exhibited his utmost akill in   taking advantage of every available bit  of fretting ground, they came al length to  the commence¬ ment of the  steep   ascent; and   there, hanging his whip on the saddle-peak, ihe little fellow got down, lo relieve his cat¬ tle as they toiled up the precipitous as¬ cent.    He had not gone far, when, hap¬ pening to drop behind beside the caleche, what did he hear but the sounds of \hat very language upon which ail his day and night dreams were set! *A1I ihat he had remarked ofihe (vvo travelers vvas, that they wore cloaks of .military cut  and foraging caps, and novv he heard  ihem conversing in French.    The whole train of events on vvhich his mind so Itf'ng had been dwfelling, ca.ne now forcibly before him.    Feldkirch Was   been forced;  the Fffench' vvere already master oftho pass, in a few days ihey   would  be over the Arlberg and in possession of all  T5T0I!' Such was the iCrrible series of events a few words ofFrench revealed 10 his ex¬ cited imagination.    With this   convic¬ tion he drew nearer and nearer the door, till he could hear the very   words  they spoke.    Now fhe  truth   vvas  that  the travelers by vyay of amusing themselves with the poor boy's eccentric devotion, had no sooner seen him vvithin ear-shot ofthe carriage than ihey   began speak¬ ing French together.—And  vvhen they perceived that they had gained  his at- tention, the younger one, in   a  tone  of assumed warnnh, exclaimed, 'If we  do but reach Inspruck in   time,  the  whole country is our  own.'
Then suddenly changing to German, he cried out—
'Holloa, Vorspann, we are pressed for time. Spring info*the saddle, my lad, and use your spurs well, and ye shall have'a BaeriisCh ducat for your stage.'
As if obedient to the comnraod, ilosieph, mounted at orice; and sleep as the road was, by dint of s'pii'rs, whip, and Voice;
ade  us,  he  has 1 same who last spoke, called out— .sitting up half       'Somuch for patriotism!    The
the
prom- Tyrol
ise ofa dticat  would  open from Bregenz to Trent.'
The words were not well uttered, when a loud cry rent the air; the horses sprang abruptly to one side, and the ca¬ leche, wilh a tremendous jerk, upset; and had not the wheel become entang¬ led in a stunted oak-tree, must have fal¬ len over the cliff, where, for a second or two. the horses hung as if suspended, and then, as the strined tackle gave way, fell with a thundering crash into the dark abyss—thttilast cry of the boy be¬ ing the v;ai cry ofhis Vaterland, '/Vei ist Tyrol r    ( Tyrol is free!')
Such was the devotion of this poor child—he was scarcely more—that he d-ashed the blind horses over the sieepest precipice of the Arlberg, ready to meet death in its most terrible form, if he could involve in his fate his country's enemies. His mangled body was found ihe follow¬ ing day beside the stream in the glen.
The travelers escaped vvith slight in¬ jury to brood over their own unhappy trifling with a peasant's failh and a Ty- roler's devoiion.
journey is also confirmed ; it is in con¬ sequence of a communication received from the Emperor of Austria addressed to the Emperor of the French, and follow¬ ing close on the letter which was ad¬ dressed by the Empress Dowager of Rus¬ sia to the Archduchess Sophia, li is, of course difficult, to ascertain the contenis ofa private coinmunicalion addressed by one Emperor to anoiher, but there are ceriain indications which lead one 10 suppose that ihey refer to propositions contained in the letter to the Archduch- It is believed that the termsofthe
' Take Good Care of Mother.'
These words fell upon my ears while seated in the cars, a fevv days since,just ready to start on their swift pa.ssage from Fall River to Boston.
I looked up as the speaker entered the door; and at the same moment h*jard the response from a fresh young voice outside—
'Oyes, I will'
The person who had first spoken pas¬ sed to her seat, some way behind me, and I saw hfer no more.
There was nothing in her appearance to interest one at a single glance, and, I doubt vvhether a more lengthened ob¬ servation would have given any impres¬ sion beyond that ofa good honest, com¬ mon sense sort of a face, yet my thoughts were busy vvith her all that two-hour's ride.—Those simple but earnest words, bespoke a heart of love—a sense of her duly as a child. My heart warmed to her, and I wondered if she had learned to love Hinrii who in liis dying agony said :
' Son, behold thy moiher !' ,    ,
' ¦' .III \   '
To the holy John it Was enough to say, 'Receive and treat her as you wouid your own mother."—That would insure all that love could think of, or reverence command—but would it have been' su^cTent for ail ?
Are there not many who seem to have no thought of the respect and love due to ' Mother'—men, possessed of thou¬ sands, put away from their homes the poor, feeble parent, whose life has been consumed in labor for them, to end the weary remnant ofher days in the parish poor-house. Daughters even speak too often only of the care, and nothing of the pleasure and honor of 'taking care of mother.' Children, did you ever think it possible that you might some day be¬ come so cold and changed as to neglect the dear mother you now caress so fond- Iy?
You may—these unkind sons and daughters once loved their mother too. Litih by little have they grown so cold, and so may you unless you try to avoid it ? You must think about it, pray about it, act aboiit it.
When you are alone.at night, try to recollect the many limes that day your mother hbs cared for your comfort, and your heart will swell with gratjt'uHe and love ; and then ask God to help you to try and return her kindness, and keep you from disobeying her commands.
he struck" out into'a half-shuffling can
ter, the very^utrribst   speed his  be;asl^
could accorhpiish.    With many a shock   the rfeparture of General Leiaiig forVi
and bound the caleche sprang from side
lo side of the  narrow  road,  vvhile  the
.,     (Correspondence of tlu London Tiinet.)
Probable Renewal of Peace Ne- gotiatidns.
. Paris,; Augiist 2, 1855. The fact I. announced yeslerday  of
ess.
Empress Dowager are .more   significant and more important  than   I  supposed ; and though I cannot vouch for the accu¬ racy of the statement that  Russia now expresses her willingness to accept   the propositions of the Western Powers, as interpreted by them  on   the  limilaiion question,   it is  nevertheless  extremely probable, from all I learn, that   she  ap¬ pears much more reasonable than  hilh¬ erto.    We have had, however, sufficient proof of the bad faith of that   Power, as well asoftheiimidily of Austria not to be extremely cautious of opening any nevv negoiiaiions.    That I'ussia is now in   a most difficult position is noi doubted   by her most sanguinary fiiends aud   parli¬ zans.    The perseverance  of the allies, their determination not to relax in   their efforis to bring her to terms, the efficient condilion and high spirii of the armies in the Crimea, the vast preparations  in progress for some terrible blow, in vvhich the vvhole strength of the two greal  na¬ tions will be put forth, ihe resoluiion of the English people to carry on ihe   war to the last, and the manner in which ihe French nation has responded to the de¬ mand ofthe Emperor for means to main¬ tain the honor and dignity of their coun¬ try must have convinced the  Emperor Alexander that it is a  hopeless task  to attempt to wear out their patience  or exhaust their resources.
The answer.of the Empierot' of the French, of vvhich General Letang is said to be ihe bearer, is described as cautious in the extreme. Why General Letang, who topk no part in the conferences, should be selecied on the presenl occa¬ sion, it is not easy to understand. Jt can onl3' be explained in this way: Austria is the medium through which the propositions are made, would no doubt, be expected to declare herself a belligerent in the event of Russia again delayingor playing false. If she gave a pledge of the kind in the former case, when the propositions were app.-oved by the French and English plenipotentiaries but rejected by their own governments, it may be expected that she would do so now. If she engages to give her active co-operation in the vvar, a military con¬ vention would at once follow, and as General Letang's former mission to Vi¬ enna was wilh that object, as vvas Gen¬ eral Greeneville's to ParLs he appears to be the besl person to efiect it.
It is to be hoped that the allied pow¬ ers are not again about to enter on a se¬ ries of tedious and barren negotiations. Every one is not like the Irishman, who, having travelled over some miles of pleasant road, proposed to his wearied companion to go over it again before finishing their day's joiiVney.—For this, however there vvas some excuse, fifl' the ground was pleasant; but the prospect ofan irksornejourney over anew 'V^iien- na negotiation has something extremely discouraging,in it, and wi^h the chance of nevi' blunders, and, worst of all, blun¬ ders of repe.tition, presents as little hope of our reaching a place; of rest as the Hibernian's partiality lo reirogad^ mo- lion did' of bringing fiim to the end ofhis journey. The very r.atije of conferen¬ ces and pleiiipoteniiaries is most djstaste- ful to jhe puBlic. , Let SebkstojJoI be once laken and destroyed, ahd .Russia sue fprpeapeon ouilerm^; and then in¬ deed,, diplomatists may confer as long as they think"proper.    Be this as it may
How to Succeed.
A correspondent out West thus re¬ lates of a character he has met.- I'he lesson inculcated of the history of the man is one which commends iiself to every person who would succeed in life. Read it :
On a small Mississippi steamer I met a very different character.     He   was a naiive ofan Eastern State, and had gone West to make his fortune.'   While  our boat was tied to the bank for an hour, he gave me an accouni ofthe COUrsfe hflhas followed, and the difficulties he has con¬ tended vvith.    He started for the Wesl with a small  sum of money   arid   the blacksmith trade.    He vvent dovvn ihe Ohio as a steerage  passenger, reached Sl. Louis, thence up the Illinois lill   his money   had   failed.     He    stopped and worked toget his purse rcruited loreach a friend's house.    There  he worked  a month lo p;iy a man for bringing a chest from Illinois riverj    Finally he  reached Chicaoo, got a contract on   the   Illinois and Wisconsin Canal, was gettirig rich, Illinois scrip made him poorer than when he began.    Then the  chills  and  fever laid him up for a year.    Let this suffice as a specimen.    At last he relurned to Chicago, sought enough boards on cred¬ it to make a blacksmith shop by sticking the ends in the ground and bringing the tops together.    In this he began lo make plows, which his father-in-law had rent¬ ed.—From that time he has gone steadi¬ ly forward until his car factories  cover the principal part of two squares in   the city, which he purchased, one for some fifteen hundred dollars and the other for some six thousand.    The city is already far beyond him and by the rise of prop¬ erty alone he is rich, vvhile his factories are bringing him a fine revenue.
He had accomplished his objects, but concluded his narrative by saying that had he life to begin ^gajn and he"knevv that by enduring all he had endured, he could attain the same wealih, raiher than undergo the hardships, he would sacrifice the prospeclive wealth and be content with a mechanic's day wages." I believed him, as I. looked at a man of thirty-eight as much care-worn and bro¬ ken as a man offifty.
called Albai^y, and itlade A business id- quiry, to which an answer ^-ia rettirned by t|he Albany operator, who, in a pro- fessipnal manner, inquired the tiattie of the anxious ini^uirer, and seni it, vvith the  gentleman's   ootnpHments,   to  the
 office, "vhich lne,f"eii)alehadc^iai-gi8
of. Mis^C-j-—, we mean,ihe operator, rejjliedk reitirning her compliments, and gave the stale ofihe wealher, &c., at
 .   Thp gentleman was "immensely"
delighted wilh the idea of interrogating a person, and that person a female, one hundred and fifty miles distant, and Ihrough the kindness of the operator ad¬ dressed several inierrogatorie? to her, all of vvhich were angweVea in a most grati¬ fying manner. The novice jn lelegraphr ing was delighted, not to say enchanted. He called again the next day, aijd pert suaded ihe operator  to  again, summon
the office.    Again did he, enjoy a
most delightful tete-a-tete—think pf a tete-a-tete one hundred and-fifty milts re¬ moved with his charniijig incognita, or we should say inamorata, for ihe novice
was all absorbed in Miss C , as the
sequel vvill prove.    For several .days did
he call and hold converse with the -
office and its yecy obliging operator, each day becoming more and. tpqre in¬ terested. The subject of discourse, tpir, was materially changed, insomuch that the Albany- operator began to feel in rather a " peculiar predicament"—he, being a sort of mediun> through which two lovers were holding communication. To be brief, the novice continued to call for a space of two wepks, each day, growing more interested, until at last he put the question direcl and plqipp—¦ " Wiil you marry me._?" , "rhe telegt^j^ never hesitate?; it is a fast institution, and those who are connected, with it become "fi|st," a^if by imbibition. Th^ lady consented, and the  novice,  a few,
days after, went  to , • claimed  his
bride, and vvas married. "the, parties, are now residents of this citj-.—Albany Argus.
enna IS confirmed, ev^erii^g
He Jfeaves Paris this
The reason I'assigned for this
General Letaiig s second journey lo Vienna is regarded'as not wiihout ihi- portance.
Ooturtshlpand Matrimorlal Engagement made by Electricity. The value as a medium of speedy communication of the magnetic tele¬ graph is everywhere justly admitted. For the transmission of imporiant news, of business dispatches, heading off ol fugitives, and numerable other necessa¬ ry and all-important exigencies, the tel¬ egraph is confessedly a most important auxjiary. Through its agency fortunes are made and lost; friends at a,distance, are informed of the health of each olher;: and ihrough it are the transactions, inci¬ dents and mislorlunes of many pf the larger cities of the Union, all ihrovvn as it were under.the Argus eye ofthe great centre—the metropolis of this hemis¬ phere. As a mediuni by vvhich time and distance are almost ahihilaled it 'ns open to all; and" he or they who cannot await the mail's delay not* still afford to make a journey, have through it a prompt and always reliable means of intercommuni¬ cation.—r-Perha,ps the most novel use to which the telegraph has been put is that whicb, has come under our notice and vvhich is. as follows ; Sonte months since a young genilen^an of tfiis citV: entered the 3forse Telegraph office and request¬ ed to be instructed in such of the mys¬ teries of telegraphery as the operators could or jivould inform him—such as would not interfere with the secrets of the office. "The obliging operator pro¬ ceeded to do so, and in the course of his instrmjlioij explained to the Freshman the modus operandi of writing. It should be knowr. that at one of the slaiioris west of this, cily, in qijite a small but eriter{irisi/.g vilage, a female-^ the school-mistress pf the yiHage—is the operator al the tielegraph.slaiiqn. VVhile the oper^r in, this city, was goiiig ,through his explanations, ihe^ t^ffice
They have had another row in Ka'ti* sas. It appears a man from Cincinnati, name.d Keixy, sai^ lo be;at\ abolilioni^i, undertook la lecturp a. Missourian nanf- ed Thomason, upon the,ii;i\pfppriety of holding slaves,, which resulted iti a ftgbt, Kelly beipg severely vyhippcd, Immei diately ,^pui|)lip meeting was caljle.d, .^i, which resolulions,.were, passed declarian lory of afl intention ttv rid,, tfi^ territory of all aboliti,onists. A, committee wn« apjioinied to warn Kelly to leave tha territory vvithin an hour, bu^ when, the cornmiltee vvei:i,t to vvaii upon him, he was not lo be fpundiha,ying gojieJo parts unknown during the previous night.
¦The steam ships Ocean, Birfl ajui United States^ lyipg ft the'JN^eptuoii Iron Wurks, Nevv^Yoi'k, afe' .beiing, put ina complete running condilion, pl-6'l?i'- ous, to heing put on a ne^v liile .forip'ed t« connect New-York wiih Cuba, Mexico and the Spanish,Main, aud which it is nowej^ecled, will be in oper»tion, in. about six vveeks. The U^idtetk States was recenlly sold for , lljis ettferprise for $ 15o!oOQ. The pla nis to tuYi this Ocem. Bird regularly to Havana, connecting, there with the United States for. Vera, Cruz via Sisal and Campeacby,. also with the steam ships employed b^, tha Spanish Steam Ship Company, fanning betvveen Havana and Cadiz.
A eirlprit being asked vvhai hfe had',,to, say why the sentence of death should not be j)r(^nounced upon him, replie.d. that he had nothing to, s.ay, as. tfjere had been quite too much said about it already.
Men: doat on this vyorld as ihough it were never to have an end, and neglect the olher, as if it were never lo have a beginning.
Of course not.—Young ladies should never object to being kissed by Prin¬ ters : they should make every allowance for the/re«(/om of the Press !