for consolation to his book, and contrived to loss, for a while, the sense of domestic di uiet in the brilliant and witty pleading of one o his favourite sees me.
Not so, be y Irwin. The burning indigna- tion which she had violently repressed, burst out in fiery words as soon as she reached her chamber, and stood face to face with Agneee, bnsied there with duties of her ofice.
“ Ur what you will now, Agnese, you shall not tin me flagging. 1 was a fool to spam your advice before; but hie weakness made me childish. Now, all that is at, and you need not fear me; I am despised? and counted as nothing b my husband and by the be I saved from the yaws of death. They hold t eir con- sultations: they determine what they will do; and, when it is done, they bid me receive with joy the intelli nee that my child is counted as nothing in is father's sight, and that we are to be robbed ofa third of our income. 0 ! had I but hearkeued to the voice that bade me listen to you, when he lay senseless and power- Iess—when disease had done the work ready to my hand, and only to leave undone was need- fu . Now, he is strong again in mind and body, and the strength he hits regained, throu h my help, he uses to insult and injure me! e must needs enter on the estate at once. He must sow enmity between me iind in husband. When was it before, since the day w icn he first called me wife, that Sir Edward decided even the smallest of his aliitirs without me? Now he consults, he decides, he_ portions out his in- come; und, when it is done, he tells me thus and thus it is to be. Devisc what you will-— fear no tlinching in me, now."
“Noble Madonna,” cried Agnese, with a look of trium h, “ now you are yourself again, all will be we I ; the daughter of the Cure shall never queen it here ; and Edward shall inherit the lands of his fatlicr."
“ We must be careful what we do, Agnese : we must be subtle and secret. Sir Edward has given to his son, to this Frank, who, but for me, might be lying in 'the vault beside his mother, the house in Dovonshire, because it was his mothers and he is quite sure thatI must approve of so equitable an arrangement The poor siinpleton, Ann lrwin, left the house to er usban . tiiinkiiig. I suppose, that no second love would l>.I.nlt<‘ill her pale image from his heart, and that he could soar to no higher
assion. This house is to be rendered badlt to
cr son, that he may live there with his wife ; and that they may enjoy their Paradise, three hundred pounds zi.-year is to be taken from our income. Listen, Agncsc, I will urge my hus- band to send his son to Elinvton : he shal alter and furnish to his taste. I will have liberal means placed at his disposal; the garden an the lcnsure~grounds shall be re-arranged to his ancy; and he shall dream of the happiness he is never to know, as he wanders through the newly-adorned rooms, and lingers under the trees. lie shall return to fetch his bride—she shall twine the orange flowers in her hair-—the wedding guests shall assemble—but the ringers who were to ring out the wedding peal shall tell for a death."
“Will you not destroy the girl with her lover 1” inquired Agnese, eager y.
“ No, 1 hate her too much; she has won from me the hearts of all I love; but for her smiles and soft voice I might have lived happy and innocent. she loves him, Agnese ; he is as dear to her as the light of heaven. She shall live to pine for him in hopeless sorrow.
H We must be wise and secret,” said Agncse. .“ The crime shall be mine, the vengeance
ours.”
“ Never fear, A-gnesc. The vengeance I will take, shall he sudden and certain as the sweep of the eagle. But enough, we have time to spare; to deceive t-licm into security must be our present labour.”
'I‘.tKiNc 1'iii-; Cizssu-s.—.Marshal,—Howg many male persons are there in this family? 1 Old Ludy.—l)o you mean children and all? JlI.-Certainly. 0. L—Oh then thercg ain’t none, ’cause my children is all girls, ’cept John, and he ain't my cliild;,d’ye! count John? .M.——Wlio’s John? I Oh la! don’t you know John? Why he's, lived with me these ten years. He's our‘ hired man. .M.—-Well t_hnt’s cnc_. How many females are there in the family? 0.
L.--Females? Let me see. there filfmlreflective. strange be :—nobo y can under-,
none.but Biddy the hired gal. ‘M.—l un-; .derstood you to say that your children were , all girls. 0. L.—Lal ycs!.Well, d’ye§ count them too? .M.—C_ertainly l_do; I‘ count all who make their home in your} family-old and young—mei_i, women, and ! children. 0.L.--Snakes alive! Then you want to put down the old gentlemen, I sup- pose--don’t you? .M.—What old gentle- man? 0.L.—M old man, to be sure. _ -—'I‘o be sure do. I thought you said that John the servant man was the only male in the family. 0. L.—Se I did; but I didn't ’spose “ males" meant decript old man, like my husband. Poor dear! He s
HASZARD'S GAZETTE, ‘JULY 14.
been all but dead with the palsy six years next booing. M.—Now for the females. 0. L.—We|l, there's Biddy, and Prudence, and Grace, and Jemima; and that's all-— four -of them. '—But you havn’t includ- edyourself, here 0. L.-Gracious! D’ye put down the old woman too? ‘Pears to me the State’s mighty curious this year.---' Jhnerican Paper.
18 FRIDAY AN UNLUCXY DAY.
From time immemorial, Friday has been frowned u n as a day of ill-omen. And though the prejudice is less prevalent now than it has been of yore, when superstition had general sway, yet there are many even in this matter-of-fact age of ours. who would hesitate on a day so suspicious, to begin an undertaking of momentous im ort.—And how man brave mariners, whose cart unquailing could meet the wildest fur of their ocean foam, would blanch to even bend their sails ! But to show with how much reason this feeling is indul d, let us examine‘ the following important cts in connection wit our new settlement and vreatness asa nation,und we will see how little cause we Americans have to dread the fatal day.
On riday, June 21, 1402, Christopher Columbus sailed on his great voyage of dis- covery.
On Frida , August 12, 1492, he first dis- covered lan .
On Friday, Jan. 4, 1493, he sailed on his return to Spain, which, if he had not reached in safety, the he p result would have never been known which lied to the settlement of this vast continent.
On Fridav, l\larcli 15, 1493, he arrived at Palos in sufet .
()n Friday Nov. 22, 1493, he arrived at Ilispaniola, in his second voyage to America.
On Friday, June I3. 1494, he, though un- known to himself, discovered the continent of America.
On Friday, ‘March 13, 1496. Henry VII of England gave to John Cabot his commission, which led to the discovery of North America. —his is the first American State Paper in England.
On Friday, Sept. 7, 1565, Melendez founded St. Augustine, the oldest town in the United States by more than fortv years.
On Friday, Not’. 10, I020, the Mayflower, with the pilgrims. made the harbor of Pro- vincetown. And on the same day they signed that august compact. the forerunner of our present glorious Coiistitution.
On Ftltllly, Dec. 22, 1620, the Pi] rims made their final landing at Plymouth Rock.
On Friday, Feb. 22. George Washington, the Father of American Freedom, was rn.
On Friday, June 16, Bunker Ilill was seized and fortified.
On Fridu_v, Oct. 7, 1777. the surrender of Saragota was made, which had such power and influence in inducing France to declare for our cause. On Friday, Se t. 22, 1780, the treason of Arnold was laid bare, which saved us from destruction.
On Friday, Oct. 19. 1781, the surrender at Yorktown, the crowning glory of the Ameri- can arms. bccurrcd.
On Friday, July 7, 1776, the motion in Con- ! ress was made y John Adams, seconded by i lichard Henry Lee; that the United States ; Colonies were, and of right ought to . be, free It and independent.
Thus, by numerous examples we see that = however it may be with other nations, Anteri- cans need never dread to begin on Friday any undertaking, however momentous it may be.
THE BOY OF GENIUS.
The boy of genius is not inattentive in the ordinary acceptation of the word; for he is occassiouiilly capable of the hi hest efforts of attention; he sits in a half- reaming mood watching for the moment when a subset suit- ed to his peculiar taste shall present itself; to a common observer be up ears dull, but it is the dulness which proceeds rom inward thought. Ilis absence of mind is often mistaken for stupidity : and his laconic, yet significant an- swers to ncstions are frequently attributed to a want olla lo ieal concatenation of ideas ; but to ap reoiate im, we should consider what he actualy does say. He is a uiet, retiring,
stand him,—he is aways doing what he should not do, and rarely does what he is re- quired to do,—he talks when he should be silent, and loses his power of speech when he has to answer a question , nobody can under- stand him, because nobody wil understand him; but all at once he shows I. predilection for some particular study,—nature at len th asserts her rerogative,—his winged, ep rit bursts the we I of its rison~house. and mounts on high into its kin sphere of thought; new every body understands hlm,—every dy knew rfectly well, that his wayward acts were a rrations. of paints, and that there could be no mistaking the sovereign stem which nature had impressed on his brow : poo
boy I ifyou had fallen in taking your ethereal
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"light. whey scorn, whet obloquy would have
it yours
_I§ l>Oo0I_nes.the sacred duty, not less than the high privile , of the schoolmaster of the poor to oster an
_ _ protect the boy of genius, strug- g1ing_amid the pressure of iudigence and per- secution. When his heart is about to sink l'.ll- der' the conflict. let him be told of the tiium hs of those kindred spirits who had one be ore in 5 Thomas Sim on. who studie mathema- tics at the loom,— lugh Miller, who mused on lo when he was liewing iitones,—Michael ‘ ara ay, who made chemical ex eriinenis when hewas‘n urneyman book-bin or.--Ferguson, who watc ed the stars as he tended his flocks,- tlifiird, who studied Latin when he was mak- ing shoes,—Peter Nicholson, who wrote his work on carpentry when he was at the beneli,— Robert Burns, who cerolled his sweetest songs as he followed the plough,-—Bcnjainin Frank- lin, who drew the ightning from the clouds when he kept a printer's shop.
A Monin.DuN.—An editor “ out West,” thus talks to his mmpaying subscribers and pa- trons :-
Friemls, Patrons, Subsrrilicrs and .'l!f:'c.'It8t‘r3.'
" llear us for our debts, and get read that you may pay; trust us, we are in net; , and have regard for our need, for you have been long trusted, ‘ ' ‘I, you ' “* ’ and dive deep into your pockets, that you uiay promptly fork oter. If there be any among you, one single patron, that don't owc us
something. tlien to him we say—step asidc..
consider yourself a gcntluiinii. ii" the rest wish to know why we dun them, this is our answer; not that we care about the cash our- selves. but our creditors do.
“ Would you rather that we go to jail, and you 0 free, than you pay your debts, and no still eep moving’ As we agret-d,ivc have fur- nished oiir paper to you; as we promised, we iavc waited on you, but as you don't pay, we
being once the floor of the mean, A“ ong Island was at one period covered with the sea, and "the whole interior of New York State, and a number of our Wes- tern States, afford numerous evidences of having been om:e covered with water.
THE WAR.‘
v l)0nG:.\lG A CANNON Bu.t..—One ofthe English newspaper correspondents of the Crimea says .-
Ycstei-day I was on the French 'side, apparently out of range, when a large ball swept by me to the left, and bounded over a mound of stones on which I had been standing. VVhen it jumped over the mound there were about twenty soldiers sitting on it lint they saw it coming, for it ricolletted no less than five times, and the little clouds of dust which it knocked up showed its pro- rress. Every one, therefore, on the lnionnd lind time to dodge it, but when it l fell the last time, it continued rolling on for about it quuiter ofa mile. ; Soon ulicr it commenced rolling it went llllrutlgll a string of men who were coming ‘from the trenches, and who had their backs ;lO\\’D.l‘(l5 the ball as it approached them. il thought several would be knocked over like Illllt‘plIl.~‘, and ran towards them but no one was touched. Some one who got off the mound shouted, and either that or the noise ofthe ball itself attracted their atten- tion, aiid, running in various directions, they made a passage fot- it, and, with all manner of comic salutations let the messen- ger go on its course without attempting to
un ye! Here are agreeuicnts for 50}, work, I interrupt it. Perhaps nothing is uiore cu- contracts for subscriptions, promises for long * rious in this war of gunnery tlinn the vast Credlftfifld dun! for d0“-‘“"~'d l‘“)'"‘°"t~ “'h° ; disproportion in the number of hits, more
is there so mean that he won‘t take a paper? If any', he needn’t speak—we don’t mean him. Who is there so green that he don‘t advertise? If any let him slide—-he ain't the chap, either. Who is there so bad, that he don’t pay the printer? If any let him shout, for he’s the man we're after. Ilis name is Ixigian. and he‘s been owing us for one, two, three, four, five, six, seven and eight years-—long cnoug to make us poor, and himselt'ric'i at our expense. if the above appeal to his c-inscicnce, doesn’t awake him to a sense ot'_'iiistice. we shall have to try the law and see what virtue there is in writs and constables.
Ctziiioirs TYPOGRAPHICAL I-Iititoit.-—Profcssor Trench, in his latest work on the English lan ua , points out a curious typographical error in the 20th verse of the 23d chapter of Matthew. The words “ which strain at a goat and swallow a camel,” the professor thinks contain a mispriut, which having been passed over in the edition of 1611. has hold its ground ever since. The translators intended to say, “ which strain outa goat and swallow a caincl,” that being the correct rendering of the original, as appears in Tynsdale’s and Cranmer‘s transla- tions, both of which have “ strained out.” it was the custom of the stricter Jews to strain their wine, vinegar, and ether potablcs through linen or gauze, lest unawares they should drink down some little unclean insect, as a goat, and thus transgress the Levitical law. it was to this custom the Saviour alluded, intending to say that. the Scribes and Plld.l'l.~'t:'!t~', while the strain otita giiat from their drink, would yet swallow a camel at ii gulp.
Tint BOTTOM or nit: Ocean.-—'I‘he bottom of the ocean is as uneqiiztl as the surface of the earth. Beneath the waters ofthe seas there are mountains, hills and valleys. Seine ofthesc have held and pre- cipitous sides, while others swell gradually from base to summit. The average depth of the sea between England and France, in the Channel, is only 80 fnthoms, and is uniform, as has been proven by laying down the telegraph cable. The bottom of the Mediterranean sea, on the other hand, is very deep, being no less than 220 fa- thonis, and in one place 3259. In laying down a submarine telegraph cable last summer, between Piedmont and Corsica, Mr. Brett, the gentleman who construct- ed the line, came to a. lace where the cabletlew ed‘ with frightful velocity, and it was found that the depth suddenly varied from 100 to 350 fatlicins. No map better ex lains the varying de th of the ocean, its hil s and valleys, than t e one on page 261?, volume 9, Scientific ‘can which exhi- bite the deep sea soundings taken by Ame- rican naval vessels. A ver good Idol of what the bottom of the sea is like, may be obtained from the face of the dry land, as there is abundant proof of many parts of it
jespecinlly now that the men have become ‘ cool and familiar on the subject. ; Ax lscinssr 01-‘ run EUROPEAN WAit.—The iCommei-cial Advertiser of the 12th inst., 'ves , the following extract from a private letter ro_m inn oliicer in the Crimea to a citizen in . lint!‘-alo z—- ‘ A curious thing occurred yesterday. A sap- lper was brought from the trenches with his .jaw broken. and the doctor told me there was it piece ofit sticking out an inch and a half from -his face. The man said it was done by a round shot, which the doctor disbelieved, but the poor fellow insisted, and said “ Yes, and it ! took oil‘ the head of the man next me.” This l was conclusive, and the surgeon_ proceeded to
.l remove the bone ; it came out quite easy, when
l
, the doctor said to the man, whose face appear-
ed to preserve its form pretty well: “ Can you move your jawl" “ O 1 yes, sir,” was the 5 rcply.—1'lie doctor then put his finger into the . man's mouth, and found the teeth were there,
and at length assured the sofdior that it was ' no jaw of his that was broken, but that of his
licadless comrade, which had actually been . driven into his face inflictinga severe but not ‘ dangerous wound. Upon this the man‘s visage, , which had been rather lengthened, rounded up , inost beautifully.
RUSSIAN \'lEVV'0I-‘ THE FACILITIES FOR
PEACE. The “ St. Petersburg Journal" contains an article coinnicnting on the Circular Despatcli of Count Waletvsky, addressed to the diplomatic agents of France. After ex missing his appre- ciation of the advantages 0 “ an exchange 0 ideas between Cabinets whose direct relations are interrupted by war," the writer of the article, which must be looked on as eminently oflicial, hints that a sentence in the opening of Count \\'alewsky’s argument leads to a sus- picion that the Allies were never in earnest in the negotiations, but were all alon bent on the active prosecution of the war. 'lhe article then asserts that the great diiliculties in the way of a pacific solution have been settled-—
“ The question of the Principalitiee is regu- atc . “ So is that of the Navigation of the Danube.
"The Third is partly so. Turkey is admit- ted to enjoy the advantages resultin from the
encral system established by the pn lic law of
urope. Moreover, avspecial clause rovidee for the case of any future disagreement tween the Ports and one of thegcontracting parties, stipulating that before havin recourse to the employment of force, the ot er Powers shall have an opportunity of preventing that extrem- ityb peaceful measures.
“ he Fourth Question, although not treated at the Conference, appease to us to be morally solved. the Powers sre_ agreed ;0n no necessity of placing the religious liberty and general improvement of the lot of the Christian population of Turkey under the safeguard of an uro enactment. All are equally ani. mated with a desire to clothe that enactment with the forms requisite to harmonise it with