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LNCONGENIAL SPIRITS.
themselves, and every quiel nook, every   cal dreatiner, weary of this prosy   earth,] old    negro,   and    moss-covered    cabin   has laid down by the siile of that mother
with w liom he once could sympathize, and perhaps his end vvas blessed, for the negroes said that three brighl shadows were seen against the laden sky, and as the wind siohed throujih the trees, a strange burst of harmony swept on it, like the notes ofa sfiirit's harp, and one more bright shape seemed lo rise from earth and join them, and voices soft as the Spring zejihyr were heard to say, "Thy faiher, moiher and ihy sister, bid tiiee, brother, welcome home."
The wife (so called) wore fashionable mourr/ing, (b'.uck as ihe pit,) lamented with fashionable friends in fashionable stvle, but   never   seemed   to   ihink  thai
BY    MVItriLI.O.
" Twas a calm, slill night. And ihe moon's palelitjhi
Sbiinc soft o'er hill and dale."
As two fiirms eineroed I'li.m ihe glare
>f the bull-room, and   vvaiuiered   amon;;
the   beauliful sluutbery   lor   which  ih.^
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brouglit back a throng of golden memo¬ ries. Then he ihought of the sporl in old Kentucky, where he had found and wooed, and won ihe being vvho was to be moiher and sisier, and friend and all; for
"A kiss can consecrate the ground Where mated hearis are mutual bound, The spot where love's lirsi links are '.vound,
That ne'er are riven, Is hallowed, down lo Earth's prolound.
And up to Heaven. For limes makes all, but true love old; The burning thoughts that then were told ; Run molten still in memory's mould,
And will not cool Unlil the heart itself is cold.
In Lethe's pool,"
Then of the present—of that hand he had just dared to touch in the sinlely coiillion, now his own ; of that slioju form which he envied the India shawl fur sheltering and sha.iiiig, now coyly yielding to his embrace; those dark curls wliich curl arounl his caressing fingers he [irized more than gold and diamond circle! ; and ilien tliose li[i.s on which he had once gazed as ihe Insi Peii on distant heaven, and wliich he scarce dared touch in the nupl'uil hour, ¦ The following slory is said, b, the now ready to salute, and those while | Portsmouth Chronicle, lo be derived, as anus to embrace, as a welcome home from llie midiiioht ride (for he is a prac¬ ticing   pliysican ;)   and   then   the   l'>ng.
saw nothing, but now for the first time felt the dog move, as he made a violent spring from the bed, and at ihe same moment someihing fell on the floor, soui'.ding like a heavy log. Then fol¬ lowed other noises, like the pawing of a dog's feet ; but soon all vvas slill again, and the dog resumed his jilace on the bed without having barked or growletl at all.
This time the widow did not go to sleep immediately, but lay awake won¬ dering, yet not deeming it best to get up. But al last she dropped asleep, and when she awoke the sun was shining. She hastily stepped out of bed, and there lay the body of a man exiended on ihe floor, dead with a large knife in his hand, much harm was done when angels  sev- j which was   even   now   extended.    The
e\-ei\,what had never joined, "uncon¬ genial s[)iiiis." Truly hath that gifted poei, " Amelia," said :
" The love that is kept in the beauty of trust, Cannot pass like the foam from the seas,
Or a mark that the finger hath traced in the dust. To he swept by ihe breaih ofihe breeze.''
Slory of a Faillit'ul Dog.
Ilii r rods! Ill r^
were so fiinnni^.     Fur  a   while   neither ike but lioih gazc"d niuiely on iht love- scene nf art   aii.l    naltire   combined; he radiance of Diana  spread   a   silvery sheen on the tiohle colurii'is ofihe man¬ sion portic", blended with thetieep green fuliage   of  lofty   forest   oaks   and   more inoilesi arbor   viria?s,  and   lost iiself  in the de.--]-! shadows  ihal   grouped   around lheci>iuii;e dormitories; vv hile the Ilious- nnd liyhis slreaming  ilirougli   soft   cur¬ tains,   blazing   from   the   hail-robm   and vieing with the suliar hosts  above,  the ^hado\vy forms of the  diir.cirs   moving like fairies in the niysiic   ting,  and   ihe universal    calmness    only     broken   by slrains of disiaiU music,  seemed to  pos¬ sess  an   iiiflui'nce over   boih.    But   at last the mule hiped   broke   silence   with Ihe  remai k,   " lIow diflerent the world seems by (l.iy  and  by   night!    Do  you not agree vvith   nie,   Mary,   in   thinking that iliero must be some   foundation  for the belief ihat angels come with the holy stars and riglil the wrong:; that are done in ihe reign of Sol ?"    "Yes," was  ihe laughing rejoinder ; "if sleep  is   an   an¬ gel insiead of a mechanical  rest;  but  1 think that any clher spirii vvould not be welcomed in ihis '.'ind of crn an bacon." These remarks will give   an   insight   to the ciiaraciers of the  two   who   in  the confidence of  plighted   love,   wandered and conversed alone—one  poetical, the other all  material.    But pass over  the intermediaie steps, and   follow  them  to the Southern home to which they resor¬ ted    immediaiely    afier    marriage—he thinking of home as a Paradise of which Jiis Mary vvas lo be the jjuardian   angel —she,  of the  broad   acres  and   many slaves of her   husband's  establishmeni; aiid  lel  us follow   the   day-dream  that <- Mil -es ihrough his mind.    It "vas a love¬ ly .-| ol. and he loved il,   for il   '.vas his mother- ii. :iie.    All lo him vvas hallow¬ ed ground ; the   quiet corner where   he had built doll-houses for his lillle   sister, .ind  the   myrtle-covered   mound  vvhere that sister's   chrysolis   vvas laid,   when, like the fragrant flovver  from   the   litile ugly seed,   slie  burst from   the  bud of Earth to ihe  bloom   of angelhoor!; the vine that a mother's  in.nd   had   trained over the seat where his  faiher   used  lo dream avvay the   hours,  enveloped in   a cloud of smoke trom the Virginia  weed, and ihe twin  head-stones that  showed ^bc-place vvhere   their bodies  "returned lo the d'lsi" as they  were,   while   their spirit* went to Cod   who  gave   them; ihe liiicket of roses win re he had bnried hiojipil iu the bjooiii until the humming-
dim aisles ofthe untrodden luuire, brighl vvitii ihe sunbeam of fancy, and spanned wilh the bow of hope ; the time when he will b^'come a dignified old niiin, and she, a yel beautiful matron, take his moiher's place, and rear in love ihe bright eyeii, peach-cheeked heiis ofthe loved old homesiead. Bui, alus! "'a change conies over ihe spirit of his dream ;" lie wishes lo be a lover slill, and quotes those beauliful lines oi Ilolfiies'in compliment to the one loved name :
Is thy name IMary, lady fair ?
Such should mcthinks ils music be;
The sweete.t name Ihat mortals bear L well bclitting the;
And sir; lo wli.irn it once was given,
Vi'as hr.lf ol Eanh and hall of Heaven.
But his poetry was eclipsed by his wife getting sentimental about a "love ofa bonnet," ana his fine frenzy of en¬ thusiasm evaporated when she asked, in the midst of a sianzsi, " how much larger wiil liiai Shunghai grow ?" She wan¬ ted his sister's sacred ashes moved, be¬ cause the iiently-swellmg lurf spoiled the level ofihe yiird, called his favorite bow¬ er ol roses " a horrid jiluce for snakes," and at lasl started a rebellion in the camp, and received the first cross word, when she insisted ihui ihe vine his moth¬ er trained " must come down," because the damp, cool shade vvould " make the shingles rot." Their daughter at first was hailed by him as whai she seemeti, a flower jusl from the bowers of Eden, pure as its breezes and unstained as its dews ; but a few years at an insliiuiion aptly called by the students "the female brass-foundery," emphatically finished her, and the fond faiher shut his eyes in despair, as after the torturing screeches of a fashionable opera-piece, she told him, vvith an affected shudder, that the heart-words of Burns vvere "decidedly low," and that the grand old notes of " Dies ira;" vvere nothing to the squalis of Italiian beggars. He read Byron's Manfred, and Shakspeare's Hamlet and Macbeth. His wife and daughter read Moore's " Fudge Papers," and Don Ju¬ an. He smoked, and gambled lo repel the blue-devils, and they slept for the same   complaint,   and   read    novels.—
He but enough !    Over the rest "lel
the lear thai pities human weakness fall—let the veil that covers h^ nan frailly rest ; but remeniber that she who you worship as a star, ma\' be scarcely a giovv-vvorm if wooed lo earth, and if you must marry, rem 'iiber ihat only union of heart and mil, I is marriage in the sight of God—ihai it is idolatry al best, and though, according to St. Paul, " il is b Iter to marry   ifian burn,"   yel
" lie vvho marryeth kee;> ¦ 'i the Holy letter, Ue who marryelh not d'..,.ili better."
whole universe there is unison; be ye therefore uniied for the sake of unison.
V. Vaniiy has no connection with valor—remember that.
VV. Women and wine bring want and woe and vvrelchedness when wick¬ edly indulged in.
X. 'Xtra 'xerlions accomplish 'extra¬ ordinary ends.
Y. Y'ield lono tyrant; yeomen and iheir yoke-fellows are lords ofthe soil.
Z. Zig-zngging is characierislic ofa zany ; take a straight course through liie and zealously pursue it.
&. & mind your own business & let others alone, &c.—Doiv Jr.
Absurdities of Human Life.
to all its fads, from a most respectable. Quaker family, whose veracity cannot be doubted :
About fifty years ago, in the western part ofthe State of Nevv York, lived a lonely widow, named Mozher. Her husband had been dead many years, and her only daughter was grown up and married, living nt ihe distance ofa mile or two from liie family mansion.
And thus the old lady lived alone in her house day and ni;;hl. Yet in her conscious innocence and Irust in Provi¬ dence, she felt safe and cheerful—did her vvork quietly during the daylight, and at eventide slept sweeily.
One morning, however, she awoke vvith an extraoidinary and unwonted gloom upon her mind, which was im¬ pressed with ihe apprehension that someihing slrange was about to happen lo her or hers. So full was she of this thought that she could not slay al home that day, but must go abroad to give vent toil, by unbosoming herself to her fiiends, especially to her daughter. With her she spent ihe greater purl of ihe day, and lo her she several times re¬ pealed Ihe recilafof her apprehensions. The daughter oflen repealed the assu¬ rance that her good mother had never done injury to any person, and added, "1 cannot think any one would hurt you, for you have not aa enemy in the world."
On her wav' home she called on a neighbor, vvho lived in the last house be¬ fore she reached her ovvn. Here she again made known her continued ap¬ prehensions, which had nearly ripened into fear, and from the lady of ths man¬ sion she received answers similar to ihose of her daughter. "You have harmed no one in your whole lifetime, surely no one vvill molest you. Go home in quiet, and Rover shall go with you. Here, Rover," said she to a stout watch-dog, that lay on the floor, "heie. Rover, go home wilh iMrs. Mozher, and lake care of her." Rover did as he vvas told.—The vvidow went home, milked her cows, took care of everything out of doors and went to bed as usual. Rover had not left her for an instant. When she was fairly in bed he laid himself down upon the outside, and as the wid¬ ow relied on his fidelity, and perhaps chid herself for needless fear she fell asleep. Sometime in the night she awoke, being startled, probably, by a slight noise outside the house. It was so slight, however, that she awoke, a sound like the rising ofa window near her bed, vvhich was in a looin on the ground floor.
The dog neither barked nor moved. Next there vvas another sound as if some one vvas ia the room   and stepped
dog had seized hivn by the throat wilh a grasp of death, and neither man nor doo could utlcr a sound till all vvas over. This man vvas the widow's son-in-law, the husband of her only daughter. He cov¬ eted her liltie store of wealth, her house, her cattle, and her land ; and instigated | mourning, by ihis sordid impaiience, he could not wait for the decay of nature to give her property up to him and his, as the only heirs apparent, but made ihls slealihy visit to do a deed tif darkness in the gloom of ihe ni;iht. A fearful relribu- lion waited for him. The widow's a[)- prehension, communicaied to her mind and impressed upon her nerves, by v.hat unseen povver vve know not, the sympa¬ thy ofthe woman vvho loaned the do<:, and ihe silent but certain watch of the dog himself, formed a chain of evenis which brought the murderer's blood upon his own head, and which are diffi¬ cult lo be explained, wiihout refeience to that Providence or overruling which numbers the hairs of our heads, vvatciies the sparrow's fall, and "shapes our ends, roug,\\ hew them as vve will."
Not lo ge to bed when you are sleepy because it is a certain hour.
To stand in water lip lo your knees fishing for trout when you can buy them in a clean dry market.
The heir ofan avaricious uncle pay¬ ing liim the compliment of the   deepest
The Lausfh of Woman.
Alphabetical Advice.
A. Always attend fo your avocation. Avoid ale-houses and artful women.
B. Benevolence, but not prodigality —burv all bickerings in the bosom of forget fulness.
C. Contrive to collect cash and keep il.
D. Do your duty and defy the devil.
E. Early endeavor to eradicate every error, both of head and hear!.
F Fight fairly when you fight ; but the belter way is not to fiijhtal all. Fid¬ dle for no fools.
G. Grace, goodness, gumption, a little goose-grease, enables a man lo slip ihrough the world mighty easy. Get ihem and glory in ihem.
H. Harbor hope in your heart, if you vvould be happy ; but hark ye. hope cannot render iotten the rope of the hangman.
I. Inquisitiveness is insufferable ; in¬ dulge not in it.
J. Juleps may be called the juice of joy and the yeast of jest; but too much joking often destroys the joviality of the social circle.
K. Kindness kindles the fire of friendship. A kiss always avails more than a kick.
L. Love the ladies, look before you leap, eschew loaferism.
M. Make not mischiefby meddling vvith the matters of olher folks.
N. Never be caught napping, except in the night time.
O. Order is heaven's first law—obey it.
P. Pursue the plain path of probity, and put in practice what you vvill give in precept.
Q. Quarrel not, quibble not, be not fond of asking quesliong, or addictetl lo queries.
R. Rum ruins respectability; re¬ nounce i-enew and renovate.
S. Seek salvation, oh ye sinners! Become saints and ye are safe.
T. Take time by Ihe forelock ; try to turn every moment to accouni.
U.   TJ«2i9?^ suites IQ IIP'')';  '" '''®
To buy a horse ofa near relation and believe every word he says in praise of the animal he is desirous to dispose of.
To suppose that every one likes to hear your child cry, and you talk non¬ sense to it. ^ »
To ihink every man a man   of spii i who fighls a duel
To pronounce those the most pious who never absent themselves from church.
To expect strict punctuality from an idle man.
To discontinue dealing with a trades¬ man to whom you owe a large sum of money, and which you are unable to pay.
To congratulate a hypochondriac on his good looks.
To tell a confirmed beauty that she looks much more beautiful than she did last season.
To praise a daughter just come out in the presence of her handsome mother of five and forty.
To give advice lo, or argue vvith, a fool.
To occupy the attention of a large company by the recital of an occurrence interesiing lo yourself alone.
To ask advice of a man vvho has al¬ ways mismanaged his own affairs.
To gel upon a cold winter morning lohunt a timid animal to death, ant! pro¬ nounce ourselves rational and benevo¬ lent beings.
To ex[)eclihat your friends vvill re¬ member you aiier you have thought proper to forget them.
Not to drink when you are thirsty, or eat when you are hungry.
A woman has no natural grace more bewitching than a sweet laugh. It is like the sound of flutes on the water. It leaps from her heart in a clear, sparkling rill; and tlie heart that heats it feels as if bathed in the cool, exhihiraiingspring. Have you ever pursued an unseen fugi¬ tive through Irees, led on by her fairy laugh, now here, now there, now lost, now found? We have. .And we are pursuing that womlering voice to this day. Somelimes it cbmes to us in the midst of care or soirow, or irksome busi¬ ness ; and then vve turn avvay and listen. and hear it ringing through, the room like a silver bell, with povver lo scare away the ill S[)irits of I he mind. How much we owe to that sweet laugh ! It turns the prose into poetry, it flings showers of sunshine over the darksome wood in which weare travelling; it touches'liih light even our sleep, which is no more the image of death, but is consumed vvith dreams that are ihe shadows of immoy talily.
The Attractions of Red Hair.
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In ancient limes, ihe nations vvho were ihe most polished, the most civi¬ lized, and the most skilful in the fine arts, were passionately fond of red hair. The Gauls, the ancestors of the modern French, had the same pieference, though that color is now in disrepute by their descendants, vvho like black hair. A taste for red hair, however, still exists in
A letter from a Briiish Officer, in tha Lonaon Morning Herald, concludes Itis account of the battle of Inkermann with the following tribute tothe courage and discipline ofthe Russian troops :
The Finish : The Two Guns Recap- iired—This occurred  at   about   eleven o'clock, and from ihatmomenl the   Rus¬ sian chance vvas hopeless.    Yet, tlioiigh under the French fire they vvere litteral¬ ly   falling   by   ballalions,    ihey    never showed the least signs of trepidation or disorder.    On the contrary they formed up in the  most beauliful   order,   altered their front ao as to meet the attack of ihe French, and extending their line lo  the left, prepared to resume their attack up¬ on the English.    At that lime, however, our men vvere well prepared, and wiihout any order or arrangement,  flung  them¬ selves headlong upon the enemy, charg¬ ing with   the  bayonet.    The   Russians boldly  charged  wilh   ihe   bayonet also, and for the space of five minutes the 3Qth 41sl, 49ih, 88ih, and six or  seven  Rus¬ sian regiments, were  stabbing,  baating, and firing at each other in the mosi fear¬ ful mannei.    At   last  ihe enemy gave way, and began   retiring in   good order across towards   the   Inkerman heights. Until I saw it, I never in   my  life could have  believed   ihat  any  lioops   in   tha world could have retired under  such  a murderous  fire  in  such   perfect  order. The French and English with  a   whole mass oi artillery followed close upon   the retreating battalions, pouring  in  volley after volley of grapeshot, shell and mus¬ ketry.    In fact it was a perfect carnage. Yet in spite of this'he enemy kept iheir order, retreating almost at slow iinie, and every five or  ten   minutes   hailing  and charging desperately up ihe   liill  at   our men and llie French.    In liiese charges ihe Russians lost fearfully.  We received them wilh volleys of musketry, and then dashed al them   wiih  the   bayonet.    In one of these charges   the   50th   French rcgimeni ofihe line, recaptured the Iwo guns which in tho commencement ofthe day   vve   had   lost.      By   half-past   Iwij o'clock the great mass ofthe enemy had
extensive legions. The Turks, for ex ample, are.fond of women who havered j complelely fallen back, leaving between hair, while the modern Persians have a [ '"''"^" thousand and eight thousand deaii strong aversion lo il. The inhabitants j "P"" ^'^^ ^^'^ behind, of Tripoli, who probably learned it from the Turks, give their hair a red tinge by the aid of vermillion. The women of Scinde and Deccan are fond of dyeing their hair red and yellow, as ihe Romans did, in imitation of Gerinan hair. There is among Europeans generallj' a strong dislike to red hair ; bui in Spain, red hair is admired almosi to adoration, and there is a story told of one of our naval commanders, who luxuriated in fiery locks, being idolized by ihe Spanish wo¬ men, and looked upon as a perfeci Adonis.
" You lie!" as ihe man said when he knocked anolhe^ down.
" Mr. Brown, you said the defendant was honest and intelligent. What makes you think so—are you acquainted with him?" "No, sir, 1 never seed him.' " Why then (lo you come lo such a con¬ clusion ?" " Cause he lal'jes ten news¬ papers and pays for them in advance." Verdici i'or defendant.
A city editor says that a man in New York gol himself into trouble by marry¬ ing two wives. A. Western editor re¬ plies by assuring his conlemptorary that a good many men in Michigan have done a similar thing % only marrying one.