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New Series. No. 23.

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Prdsdsa. and Pructiee—-llopcs for Africa- Pisty and Respeetabllity—A splendid Sermon —-Society and Sci-ipture—'I‘om turned Singing Master. ‘ '

In Tom’s ex ,i situation, at this time, there west,‘ as the wor says, nothing to complain of. Lit e' Eva's fine for him—the instinctive

gratitude and love mess of a noble nature-—had ed her to tition her father that he might be -her especia attenihut, whenever she needed servant, in her walks or rides; usral orders to let every thing at nd to M_ips Eva whenever s

ma fauc were "far from disagreeable to him. Hg was ept well dressed, for St. Clare was meti- diocsly particular on this point. His stable sci-viese.were merely a sinecure, and consisted simply in a daily care and inspection, and di- recting an under servant in his duties: for Marie St. Clare declared, that she could not hive any smell of the horses about him, when he came near her, and that he must positively not be put to any service that would make him u easeltt to or, as her nervous system was en ircly inadequate to any trial of that nature: one snulcfanythingdisagreenble being, accord- ing to her account, quite suflcient to close the scene, and put an end to all her earthly trials at once. Toni, therefore, in his well-brushed broadcloth suit, smooth beaver, glossy boots, faultless wristbands and collar, with his grave, good-natured black face. looked respectable enough to he a bishop of Carthage, as men of his colour were in ctr; gee. .

Then. too, he was‘ ‘ a’boeutii'u'l place, a_cols- sidsraticn’ to which his sensitive race are‘n ver indlhrent; and he did enjo with 'a’ quie , joy the birds, the flowers, the ountains, the per- fume, and light eud‘benuty of the‘court, the silken hangln , _and pictures, and lustres ahd

stataettss, an I , that made the par ours within a kind o cg, ‘ '___ g ‘ l'f"cflr"'ll‘iilca ' w and

cultivated -race--and come it must, some time, her turn to figure in the great drama of human improvement--life will awoke with a rgeous- ness and splendour of which our col western tribes have faintly conceived. In that Br-of mystic land of gold, and gems, and spices, and waving palms, and wondrous flowers, and mi- racelous fertility, will awake new forms of art, new styles of splendour; and the ne race,uo longer dosglsed and trodden down, wlll: pcrha s, show for some of the latestaad most magnificent revelations of human ‘ Cc tainly they-will, in their gentleness, their lowly doci ty of heart, their aptitude to repose on a superior ‘mind and rest on a higher wer, their childlike simplicit of afloction an facilit of for vseess. In a these they will exliibiiythe ' t form ofthe peculiarly ' inn lg'fe,ant‘l, p:rlIeps, as steiieth whom he lovcth, he th chosen poor Africa in the furnace of alllic- ticn, to makelher the hi host and noblest in that kilgflem, which he w I set u when every ctliu hsafi has been tried so failed; {hr the bet stisl be last, and the last first.

Wae this wlmt Merle St. Clare was thinking of, as she stood, usly dressed, on the ve- randeh, on Sunday morning. oiss ing a diamond

let on her slender wrist! out like! it

vlvas. ‘°0r’,iit;ii.t wasn"ti.?!at, it was somet ing Clot I I pane goodthin ,andshc was ' »now,»ln -tell l‘eroe—dlam8¢:nds, silk, ‘and , and jewels and _all—to a fhshionable

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lwntic sad. Miss0 heliastoodather

I ‘ t. It pwae not tlmt, she tas handsome a silk dress and shawl, and as he a pocket-handkerchief ; but stimiess, and recess, and bolt-uprightnese enveloped her Ii as indefinite yet appreciable a presence as did grace her elegant nsi hbour; not the grace of God, however—that quite another

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" Where's Eve I" said Marie.

"The shlld stcppedon the stairs, to my sonazhiu to Mammy."

. .w twasEvasa' toldainis oaths stairs? Ialsten ,’Ia.a8d you will hear, thou ls not.

" ear my,I know your head is aching dreadfully.

" rd blstl you, Ila Iva, my head ellers aches lately! You1loii‘r need to wor .“

' ' out; and

" Well, III - ' here---'' and ill’: her arms around her-—"MslsIy. you shall take my

vinawrette."

" hatliyonr bsautiflil gold thin , thar, with them iamoads! Lor, mls, ’twcu dn’t be proper, nowa ."

“ Why not You need it, and ldon't. Mam- Ie the In it In headache, and It'll make you hel Sr. No, you shall take it to please me, new."

“ De hear the darltag mlk !” mld'Mammy, aslva thrust it into her bosom, and,kisslag her, aadowa alive to her mother.

" twere asteniln for!"

" I wasjllt ,0 tl give Mammy my vi- naiy-etts, sslhke ts nreh with her.”

"Ivs!'.' said hlarie, sh ng im tlentl . 4‘ your gskl vinaigrette to ! hen w l gplosn whafsrepcrl Ge tend take it

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“ I my. hlarie, let the child alone; she shll do as she leases," said St. Clare.

“ St. 0 re, how will she ever get along in the world I" said Marie.

“The rd knows,” mid St. Clare; “but she'll’ get along in heaven better than you

papa, don’t,” said Iva. softly touching his elbow; “ it troubles mother."

“ Well, cousin, are u ready to tomes- tin !" said Miss Ophelia, turning square about on Clare. w k

“ ‘m notgoin , an you."

" [do wish St. Elan ever would go toflharch,” siad Marie; “but he basalt a pi-thkef re- ligion about him. It ln‘tre his."

“I know it," said St. ‘are. “ cu ladies go to church to learn how to get along in the world,I suppose, and our piety sheds respec- tability on us. If I di go at a l, I woul go where Mammy 9 there's something to keep a fellow awake ere at least."

" What! those shouting Methodists! Hor- rible !” said Marie.

“ Anything but the dead sea of your respec- table churches, Marie. Positivcl , it's too much toask ofaman. va,do uli tcgolCome, stay at home and play wit me."

“Thank you, papa. but I’d rather go to

urc . “

“ Isn't it dreadful tiresome!" mid St. Clare.

“ I think it is tiresome, some," said Eva, “ and I am sleepy, too: but I try to keep awake."

" What do you go for, then ?"

‘flfhy, you know, pa ,” she said in a whis- per, “ usin told me, at God wants to have us ; an he gives us everything you know ; and it isn't muc to do it, if he wants us to. It isn't so very tiresome, after all."

“ You sweet little obliging soul!" said St. Clare, kissing her; “ go along, that's a good girl, and ray for me.‘

“ Certa uly, I always do," said the child, as she sprang after her mother into the earring.

St. Clare stood on the steps and kissed 'I hand to her as the carriage drove away; large tears were in his eyes.

“ 0 Evan line. ri htly named,” he said; “ hath not od made es an evengel to me I"

So he felt for a moment; and then he smoked a cigar, and road the ' , and forgot his little spel. Was he muc unlike other folks!

“ on see, galine," said her mother, “ it's always right and proper to be kind to servants, but it isn't proper to treat them just we would our relations, or people in_our own was si

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class 0 . Now, i wq:ildu't want to put I .0

live, " because then it would be handier to ‘take are of her, and because, you know, my bed is better than hers." ’

Marie was in utter despair at the entire want of moral perception evinced in this reflliy.

" What can I do to make this ch under- stand me !" she said.

" Nothing " said His Ophelia, si ihoantly.

Eva looked son and discoincer for a mo- ment, but children, luckily, do not keep to one impression long; and 'n a kw moments she was merrily laughing at various things which she saw me e coach-windows as it rattl

on . “ Well, ladies," said St. Clare, as they were comforts.bly seated at the dinner table, “ and what was the bill of fare at church 2'

"Oh, Dr. G:—preacbed a splendid ser- mon !" said Ms ‘c. “ It was just such a sermon as yctp ought to ear ; it expressed all my views exec ”

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"_It must have been very improvi ," said St. Clare. "The subject must have an extensive one."

" Well, I mean all my views about society and such thin ,” said Marie. “ The text was. ‘ lie hath me e ever thing beautiflil in its sea- -‘ and he show how all the orders and dis- tinctions in society came from God; and that it was so appropriate, you know, and beautiful, that some should be high and some low, and that some were born to rule and some to serve, and all that, on know ; and he applied it so well to all this r diculous fuss that is made about slavery, and he proved distinctly, that the Bible was on our side, and supported all our institu- ltIi_ous"so convincingly. only wish you'd heard

lm. " 0h,I didn't need it," said St. Clare. “I can learn what does me as much good as that in e ' its any time, and smoke a cigar besides ;” which I can't do, you know, in a

so . “ Why," mid Miss Ophelia, " don’t you be- lieve in se views!”

" Who -1! You know, Pm sucha graeeless dog that these religious as Q of such subjects don’t sdi me much. If was tosay anything on this s very matter, I would say out, fair and square, ' e’re in llrrit; we ve got ’em and mean to keep ’em-it's for our convenience and our interest; for that's and short of it; that's ‘net the whole of w t all this ssnc stc amounts to, after all; and I think that yyill be intelligible to everybody,

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everywhere. “ do think, Augustine, you are so irrever- ent!" said Marie. “ think it's shocking to hear on talk." ' “ hocking! it's the truth. ‘Ibis rell ous talk on such matters, wh don’t they on its little further, and show beauty, in its sea- son, of a fcllow's tskin a glass too much, and and sitting a little too ate over his cards and various provldential arrangements of that sort, which are tty frequent among us oun inoq; we'd’ ks to bear that those are rig t an we.’ “ ell," said Miss Ophelia, “ do you think slavery right or wron l ’ “ I'm not

l for a religion I must look for .

‘it would be discovered, that everything in the ' I)

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others, each one hreder than the last; and I'm Isotago- ingtfidshen posi . laisoasofthesort that res h tgrowing stones at at other peo- pl ‘s glen-houses

; but I never mean to pat up

hm mpg‘

said Mario: “you can't’ get any satisfaction

out of ' Ibelievc it‘s just fiance he don't like rcli ii, that he's always running out in this gay c’s been doing."

“ on!" said St. Clare, in a tone that made be ladies look at him. t‘ Religion ! Is what you hear at church re u! s that which can bend and turn, and -end and as-

cend, to M every crooked phase (lselfish, world- ly society, religion? In that rel ion which is less scrupulous, loss just. less considerate for man than even myownitsgodly, worldly. blinded nature! No ,'_;Whcn look thing above

is ' alive 3 " mid Miss 0 hel

, chew tobacco, and swear. by way of satisfying me, that I did right in fiing the same. I wouldn't make me at a more-satisfied wi these things in in self, and it Willld take from me the comfort 0 respecting her; and it really is a comfort in this world to havevanythingtone can respect. In short, you see," said he, sud- denly resumiqg his gay tons, “all I want is that diflerent ings be e t in dlfirsnt boxes; The whole frame-work o socie , both in Eu- rope and America, is made up 0 various things w ich will not stand the scrutiny of any ver

ideal smndard of morality. It's nera - lyfliznderstood, that men don't _a r the a lute ri ht, but only to do a ct as well as

the rest o the speaks up like a man, and says ‘very is neces- sary to us, we can't t alon without it, we should be beggared i we gt‘ it up, and of course, we mean to hold on to i>—lhis is strong, clear, well-defined langua ; it be the respec- tability of truth to it; an if we may jud b their practice, the majority of'tlse worl wil beer as out in it. But when he begins to put on a long face, and snuflle, and quote Scrip- ture, I incline to think he in’t much better than he should be.” “ You are very uncharitable," said Marie. re, “ that sonic-

" Well," said St Ola thing s_hould_ bring down the of cotton once an or ever, and make '‘ whole slave pro a in the market; don't you think we shou d soon ave another version of the Scrip- ture doctrine. Whata Good of light would pour into the church all at once, and how immediately

world. Now, when pay one

Bible and reason went the other way

" Well, at an rate ", ' rie s she nuance-await--’uu«u-isvsig‘-i,1~i‘i'~l1*’:i:3urreiw I'm born where slavery exists; and I believe it's right-indeed I feel it must he: and, at any rate, I’: s'ureI could not get along without it.”

“ I say, whai you think, ussy?" said her father to Eva, who came in at t iis moment, with a lower in her hand.

“ What about, 1'’

“ Why, which 0 you like the best: to live as diey do at your uncle's, ii in Verincmt, or to have a house full of servan§, as we 0!"

1‘ Oh, of course, our way s the pleasantest,” mi . *4 Why so!" said St. Clare, stroking her head.

" Why, it makes so men more round you to love, u know," said Eva ing up earnestly.

“ aw, that's just like ‘Eva, just one of her

odd slpeec es. " s it an odd speech, pagan!" said Eva, n is knee

whi rin ly, as she got u . “sglthefi, as this world 5:... pussy," said St. t.

Clare. “ But where has my lit e Eva been, all dinner-time 1"

“ I-learing Tom sing, eh ?"

" Oh, es! He sin such beautiful things

about the New Jerusa and the land of Canaan. " I dare say: it's better than the opera, isn't [II

em, and bright angels, !!

it . “ Yes; and he's going to teach them to me.” “ Singing-lessons, eh .—you are coming on.” “ Yes, he sin s for me, and [read to him in my Bible; and e explains what it means, you know."

“ On my word,” said Marie, laughing, “ that is the latest joke of the season."

“ Tom sn’t a bad hand, now, at explaining Scripture, I'll dare swear,” said. Clare. "Tom has a natural genius for religion. wanted the horses out earl /this morning, and I stole u to Tom's cubicu um there, over the stables, and there I heard him holdin a meeting

himself; and, in fact, I haven't card any- t ing quite so savoury as 'I‘cm‘s prayer this some time. He put in for me with a real that was quite apostolic.”

“ Perha he guessed you were listening. I've heard of t at trick before."

“ If he did, he wasn't very politic : for he gpve the Lord his opinion of me prctt l‘r«---ly. om seemed to think there was deci cdly room for improvement in me, and seemed very earnest that I should be converted.”

“I hope you'll luv it to hsart," said Miss 0 hel’

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“ I suppose you are much of the seine

opinion,” said St. Clare. " Well, we shall see —-s n't we, Eva ' "

Tn Pars-ro Ror.—H. Penoyer, of Union coun- ty, Ill., writes to the St. Innis Republicap that he has found a perfect cure and preventive of the potato rot, and which also “ restores the _ tato to its primitive vi r, and the product is not only sound, but of the sire, consequently producing twice the quantity, on the some

un ,and the vines grow much ls_r r, and retain their freshness and vitality until the frost kills them.” The remedy is as follmvs :_— ke one k of line salt and mix ‘II tho- roughly with half a bushel of Nova Scotia las- ter or peuin, (the plaster is the host an im- gl after booing the potatoes t e second time, or ust as the young potato be '1“ to let» spsinkle on the main vines next to t e and, a hble-epoonfull of the mixture to cite hill. and be sure and get it on the main vines, as it

lab dthatth f lasso‘ uric the vi::,o uil°°i1'd inixtliilre ‘cog: ‘Egg;

IL!!! LIQUOR I-AW AGI'I'A’.l'IOI.

Resolutions adopted at a Pulilic I held at the ',l'cnspci-sncc Hall. on the 25th lIsrv:h( I-‘ridsy),Io- gather with the speeches in reference thereto.

(Continued frost Jvb. ll.) ,

Mr. I"ncso.—l concur in what has fallen from the hon. gentleman who last. addressed you, that it was not the duty of the House of Assembly to interfere in this matter, without being in full pos- session cf means by which each a Law could be carried out. I conceive that the House uf Assem- bly had no right, on that ilioasinn, to come to any other conclusion on the subject than that at which they arrived. It is I principle universally estab-

lished that, in every free country, in which a

popular branch exists in the Legislature, that iliey

arc to represent the wants and desires of the ma- jority of the people, and not the interests of a few ; and that, in all cases sfliecling the liberty and rights cfihc people, they should be instructed by them. This has not been the case on this subject.

The petitioners are too premature. Let them bide

their time; and. as i believe they srdengly desire

to use it as a political engine, let them mskeji the watchword and bsiile-cry at the next General

Election : and if they succeed in placing a majo-

rity in the House oi’ Assembly on those views,

lion; but not until then. That there was a more favourable time than the present, I am prepared to prove, when, instead of three thousand peli- rinncrs.-—ci-mpoeed as they are. in many cases, of children who are incapable of givin an opinion in the matIer,—thers could not have an less than from fifteen to twenty thousand iectclallers on the Island, and who were ver observant of their plednes. it must be remem red that in the years I840-4l—49—43—44, Father Mathew was working wonders in Temperance reform; and, in the Old Countrv, as well as in America, hundreds of thou- sands flocked to his standard ; and other kindred Societies were formed everywlzere, eminently cal- culated to carry forward the cause. Zealons advo- cates. men of superior abilities, sioud upon their plstfonns; but did they seek for pruliibilory laws to enforce their will! The late Mr. O'Connell counienenced and supported Fstlisr Mathew; and, although l'believe that he had a political motive iii doing so, yet did he ever trouble the House of Commons on the subject? No, he never did. The Sons of Temperance might well be sslisficd _to carry out their principles by persuasion and example, as it is the most effecuial way ; and if they use discretion in their respective Division Rooms, they will accomplish s vast amount of good; but, of late, they have gone beyond the bounds of moderation, and have failed to do any was connected with Temperance for yesrs, and connected Willi a Society called the " Independent," under the auspices of llll late Mr. Binns, whose number, at one time, was about 400, and who carried out their principles with vigour and consistency, until some over-zealous biguls amongst that number sought iur a similar measure to this under our present notice,—which rent the Society into fragments ; because ihe more sensible members of that body saw the folly of compulto aws