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"' THE LOVE MARRIAGE:
OR,
HKAVEN HELPS THEM THAT HELP THEMSELVES.
ir Mas. . i. hale.
"Dear, dear Henry I how glad. I am to see you. Oh!
ajMno'tlte.UJiowiwearythe hours seem when you are
x"'0M1iiifiiMt Mti Ff n rrisnn. Hx'fthe ran with" extend-
ed hands,-fo welcome her husband's entranca He fondly
.returnedithe caresses of his'young and lovely wife, while
she continued lopeak of her joy at seeing him, and of
her lonely feelings daring his absence. .
"Do yob think, Ellen, that I would leave you, if it
were not absolutely necessary?" inquired he soothingly.
"Can you believe I would slay thus long from you by
design"..
"Oh! no.no. I do not think you would; and yet it
does sometimes appear strange that you can stay so Lng
from me, and in the evening too, 1 am sure that no busi-
ness could. detain me ihus from you."
"Not If- It were necessary to secure my happiness,
"Ellen?"
!;l cannot see ho'w that would be secure by a course
which was rendering you miserable."
He smiled. sadly as' he replied, "If our homeiwere in
Eden, my love, where our only occupation would be tend-
ing denvers and gathering fruits, on which we could ban
quet the year round, then we might consult our present
feelings only, giving all cares for the future to the winds.
But we do not live in Eden."
"And therefore, must be miserable. Is that what you
wish rife to'understand?"
"No, no; we need not be miserable because we do not
dwell in Paradise; but we shall be disappointed, if we
expect to find its perfect blissin this cold barren world.
We are apt to forget that life, for fallen man, has no real,
lasting, virtuous enjoyments, which are not earned by toil,
or obtained by self sacrifices of some sort. Every pica-
sure has its price. I could not enjoy this happiness of
folding you to;tny heart and feeling that you are my own,
and that you are so provided with comforts as not to re-
gret that you have united your lot to mine forever, if 1
did not practice the self-denial of leaving you to pursue
the business and studies ol my profession, many hours
each day. j Oanyou understand this;
The young wife looked up to her husband, and the
tear that moistened her soft blue eye, added, the lustrue of
feeling to a glance of love, that sank into his soul. He
f knew that he was comprehended, was absolved. He
h never told 'her of the difficulties with which he had to
struggle. Accustomed as she had been, from her birth,
ito everft-hixurVf and, .indulgence that weth xwuIcLcoiii;
inand, he had thought that the detaifof anxieties, labors
and disappointments, which those who are born .poor must
encounter in the stern strife of their worldly career, would
sound too. harshly, would make her unhappy. He could
not bear to see the shadow of a cloud qn her brow. He
dreaded more than any worldly evil, that she should feel
the pressure of care. His whole soul1 had been engross'-
ed'siQce the first certainty that she would be his wife, with
devising the, means of supporting her in that style which
he fancied was absolutely necessary to her happiness.
Men seldom form romantic ideas of love in a cottage, if
they have to struggle with the realities of poverty. Not
that Henry Harrison vas an avaricious, or even a worldly
man; he did not covet riches for himself; he was not
ambitious of show or parade; but he did tremble lest his
young wife should endure privation lest even the winds
of heaven' should visit her too roughly.
The union of Henry Harrison and Ellen Wise was
"truly a love marriage; romance nnd adventure had mark-
ed their love from the beginning; and it seemed hardly
probable that their married life would run on in the calm,
canal like current of common events.
They became acquainted at Troy; in the state of New
Yotk, where Harrison had arrested the horses of the car-
riage of Mr. Wise, in which he and his daughter were
tiding, which had become frightened ani were approach-
ing a precipice. By it he doubtless saved their lives;
and the acquaintance here formed between Henry Harri-
son and Ellen Wise, soon ripened into love, and they
pledged their troth to each other.
rBut the father of Miss Wise was a man of the world,
and he had plans of ambition for his daughter. He was
reputed to be wealthy'; and he desired to see'her suitably
settled in Jife. Accordingly he had made arrangements
for her marriage, to a man named Kerney, who vas some
thiity years her senior, who had indulged in the vices of
fashionable life, and now thought, that to bear off the prize
of Miss Wise her wealth and beauty would enlarge
his influence in society, and give an eclat to his name'.
But in all this there was merely a heartless calculation
there was no love, none of the warmth of affection in it.
After this was arranged, Henry Harrison applied to
the father for the hand of his daughter. But he' was re
fused; and adJed to that. he was insulted was told that
he was poor, and,it did 'hotb-come him until he had earned
a reputation in his profession, the law, to expect to enter
the families of iheuealthy
But tlehry and Ellen remained true to each other, and
while her father was miking arrangements for her speedy
marritge, he suddenly sickened nnd died; and in closing
up his affairs, it was found that instead of being opulent,
h'e'was largely insolvent. On hearing the state of things,
Kerney hastily left the country, intending to spend some
years abroad.
Ellen wept over the death of her father in deep and sin-
cere sorrow, and the world noon allowed that she had
cause of grief. The creditors seized everything; even
Ellen's harp was not spared.
"Poor Ellen 1 what will become of het?" exclaimed
. Miss Rickett, in a" soft sentimental tonr, that she intended
should-pass for compassion towards the destitute orphan.
"Oh, Idosopity her.", j But the malicious sparkle of her
eye told of a different feeling.
"You may spare your sympathy, for Miss Wise needs
it not," replied Mrs. Alden, with that calm but deep ex-
pression, that showed her dissimulation to be perfectly un-
derstood. ' The orphan has a true friend."
"Yourself, my dear madam?" inquired the spinster,
with an admiring smile.
"She will remain with rae a few weeks longer; then
she is to bo married."
"Married! indeed! why Mr. Kerney has left the
country.
"True, but Miss Wise was never engaged to him, and
never would have married such a man. 'She has happier
prospects."
Some sentimental love affair, I presume," said Miss
Rickett .Avith, a sneer. " I tbink.you are the advocate of
lore marriages."
"I am the advocate of truth in all the relations of life;
and till the marriage contract sanctions the union of hus-
band and wife for purposes of mere convenience, I shall
consider that those who at the altar pledge their love to
each other, guilty of perjury unless they feel what they
profess."
"Pray, who is the favored swain?"
" A young lawyer of New York." ,
"Ah, some Yankee speculator, I presume," said Miss
Rickett. scornfully. "But I hope Miss Wise will be cau-
tious. This Strephon may enact the second part of the
'Mercenary lover,' and be offlike the old bean."
Mrs. Allrn gave her a look! How emphatic may be a
look! Miss Rickett felt that she was the object of utter
contempt in the good matron, and, for once, the silent ro-
buke was effectual ; not another word of slander or satire
did she utter. What a poor mean figure detected envy
and malice display !
They were married. Henry Harrison and Ellen-
Wise, and they were happy, for their love was of that
deep and tender nafire which perfect sympathy of feeling
and congeniality of mind and taste inspire. It is exalted
too, for it was based on perfect faith in the worth and truth
of each other. Yet Henry had not ventured to open all
Ins heart to his young bride. Had he left himself free to
obey the dictates of prudence, he would have hardly dared
to indulge his desire for so early a marriage, as his pro-
f ssiou had hitherto afforded him but little more income
than sufrkecLfor hjs ownj5pjgrt ,Ii. w3g.a - Kmo - too - of -
great depression in business, and the prospects of the court
try were gloomy. But Ellen was destitute of a home
and, protector, and he could no longer endure the severe
calculations of prudence which had forbade their union.
He married, and after all the expenses attending the event
were settled, his lodgings furnished, and his bride seated
in her genteel parlor, arranged, in a pretty, though not ex-
tensive style, he foundihe had barely sufficient cash left to
pay the first month's board. True, he had debts due from
several clients, but he knew it was very .uncertain when
he should ot tain his pay How could he enter into these
vexing details to his young and utterly inexperienced
wife?
Mr. Wise had always destituted his daughter fora rich
husband. She was. he yell knew, exceedingly beautiful,
and he had studied to educate her in a manner which
would make her natural grace most attractive. Holding-
in sovereign contempt that Bentham pbylosophy w hich
inculcates the greatest happiness of the greatest number,
his efforts had only selfish indulgence for their object, and
he had trained Ellen in his own luxurious habits and ex
pensive tastes. But the pure diamond will glow in the
dark mine as well as on the coronet of a king. Ellen
had a disposition which prosperity could not corrupt.
Her mind was maturely upright: or, as a. phrenologist
would say, she had large conscientiousness. And this
simple integrity of heart had always resisted the blandish-
ments which her father's vanity had drawn around her.
Yet she had no practical experience in lessons of self de-
nial, and could not, therefore, know the little methods of
management and daily sacrifices of taste to necessity,
which real poverty imposes. She was aware that Henrv
had fortune; yet, his profession was, in her estimation,
one ol the first in the world; and she had never doubted
his ability to maintain her according to her station. But
those few words that sad, loving expression of her hus
band s eye, as he gazed so tenderly on her, told tho
struggle of his soul. She now felt that she was the wife
of a poor man; that, to shield her from suffering, he was
sacrificing himself The whole depth of that adversity
from which he-had rescued her, at the peril of his own
peace, was in a moment unsealed; and this night, during
which she scarcely closed her eyes, there was opened be-
fore her aroused faculties a new world of thoughts, hopes
and.reeolulions. -Tho next tnorninghor-manner towards
her husband evinced more than usual tenderness; and,
when he went out, her parting kiss was given him with
the heart devoted nffection, which to him was a reconv
pense for every care.
As soon as he was gone, Ellen hastened to a shop,
where she knew fancy work was sold. She could devise'
no way of earning money except by her needle. Hei
education, though it had cost more money than it requires
to carry half a dozen economical young men through
college, had been unsystematical. Her master had taught
her the result of sciences, and the show of accomplish-
ments; but the principles, which must be comprehended
and made clear to the mind before one is qualified to com-
municate knowledge to other minds, she had never acquir-
ed. She played the harp and piano divinely, but could
not have given a lesson on either, or, at least, she dare not
attempt it. She could draw and paint beautifully, yet
knewnotthe principles of either art. But in needle work
she excelled, and had a natural ingenuity and taste, which
had often excited the admiration of her companions. And,
as melancholy reflections of precious time and money,
which she felt was the result of her superficial mode of
education, passed through her mind, she turned,with some-
thing of exulation to the thought that she had loved needle-
work, and could execute almost every kind with great
skill. "Oh, I will employ every moment, I will earn
enough to pay my own board! Dear Henry shall not
feel distressed on my account !" were her mental exclama-
tions as she entered the shop of Mrs Millet
These bright dreams were soon dispersed, Mrs. Millet
wanted no muslin nor fancy work ; and when she did
give out work of the kind, the prices she-paid were so in-
adequate to the time required for nice performances, that
Ellen found she could not hope to earn half enough to
pay her board. While she lingered in doubt what next
to attempt, a young lady entered inquiring for daisy but-
tons and frogs. Mrs Millet had none of the color wanted.
" 1 thought you always kept a varieiy. I can no where
find any." said the young lady.
" I have had the best assortment in the city," remarked
the shop woman; -but the girl that made them for me is
dying with the consumption, and I can find nobody ingen-
ious enough to make the nice kind. Needle work is sadly
neglected now-a-d.iys "
The thought strut k Ellen " Here is a chance for me."
She aske.d to look nt the buttons
"Can you make such as these, Miss?" asked the woman,
thinking from Ellin's blushing face, that she was a diffi
dent school girl, and from her earnest manner, that per-
haps she should try to make them well; "cause if you
can, I will pay you a high price, three sixpences a dozen."
Ihree sixpences a dozen! iillen Wise seeking em-
ployment by three sixpences! were the first thoughts that
flashed over her mind. But she recoiered her calmness
in a moment. "1 will try, if you will let me have the
materials."
"O, certainly, but you must pay for the silk nnd moulds;
you need only tako a few skeins of silk, for you may-
waste it all, and I cannot afford to loose it. I will
give you the price I named for good buttons; and four
shillings a dozen for frogs." Ellen took materials suffi-
cient fur an experiment, a few buttons for modies, and
after paying for her purchase, found she had only one six-
pence in her purse. "Well," thought she, if the old pro-
verb be correct, th it "necessity be the mother of inven-
tion," I shall succeed I have need enough to arouse
my ingenuity "
And she did succeed "wonderfully," Mrs. Millet said,
"and would soon earn a fortune." And Ellen felt that
she was indeed rich, when in a week from her first essay
she found herself able to earn from six to nine shillings
per day. Never, never had she been so rich, so happy.
The hours passed away like moments; the days were
over before she had time to think of weariness. She only
worked while her husband was absent, for she wished to
surprise him, at the end of the month, with the sight of
her wealth; when his heart wag heavy with care, how
blessed would it be to find that she had sympathized with
bim. " They had just entered on the third month of their
HOUSTON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1841.
married life, when Ellen commenced her button making
business. The first day of the fourth month the landlady
served up her bill with the tea equipage. She made it a
principle, she modestly observed, "never to disturb a
boarder with a bill except when his mind was at leisure,
which it must be over the tea-table."
Ellen watched her husband's countenance, when after
tea, he opened the paper. As he raised his eyes to hers,
she could not help smiling. "I am glad you are so hap-
py, my love," said be. " And are you not happy, Henry?"
demanded Ellen.
" Yes, yes; I shall always be happy while I can make
you so. But I have sometimes feared ."
"That we should be poor, and then that I should be
miserable."
Henry looked earnestly on his wife. She continued :
"I know my dear husband, that you have suffered deep
concern on my acconnt, but never fear. I have engaged
a fairy to supply me with all I want. I do not intend,
li'ee Cinderella, to tax her tor a coach and six, as 1 have
no notion of going to a ball to gain the favor of a prince.
while I can see you at home, nor do I expect garments of
t be color ot the sun,' but only the modest kind that will
please you ; these she has promised me-"
He looked more and more puzzled. At last she rose,
and going to her cabinet, brought forth a little boxcon-
ta ining her hoarded treasure, and placed it before him
"Take it, my dear Henry; I have earned it for you"
ii.nainegusn ot joy mat tnriuea the Heart melted to a
- fl ood oLthose sweet tears, which only spring from the
vijry fulness of pleasure.
That evening, as they sat together, she told'him every
tl jing all her feelings, thoughts, plans and performances.
ji . laid he connded to her every doubt, fear and perplexity,
t bat had shadowed -his path. "But thrse are all removed
,i,oio w, dearest," said he. "We now understand each other,
f .nd are now one; one in purpose, plan and pursuit. We
shall succeed. God will bless those who try and trust."
And they did succeed. Henry Harrison is now one of
t'he brightest ornaments of his profession in the State of
j i.New York, tie is also one of those estimable men in
j p rivate life, rich enough to gratify his refined taste and
j b snevolent filings ; and his wife is still the cherished ob-
jt set of his affection, his confidante, counsellor and helper.
The same devoted and faithful love, that first awakened
Hllen's spirit of exertion, has animated her in acquiring
tlae requisite knowledge of all domeslic duties. These
s he has performed, not as tasks, but as pleasures And
s he often alludes to her first experiment in the use of her
o wp faculties, to gain an independent support, or rather to
p revent herself from being a burden to her husband, as the
p eriod when her judgment was really exercised, her mind
ei lightened to discern the moral relations of woman in her
social and domestic character, and her heait strengthened
to endure and refined to enjoy tho lot assigned her, "I
Ii ive," she remarked to a young frirnd, who was about to
be- married, "never regretted that I was compelled to re-
so rt to button making. The man you are about to marry
is rich; but should any reverse occur, nercr lament for
yourself, but strive to assist him. The effort will make
you happy j and there is no grace, no perfection, that will
. 3" Surely gain the esteem and love of your husband."
i A virtuous woman is a erowq of glory to her husband."
COMPARATIVE TABLE.
Sft unoing the money value of the Agricultural industry
qfjhi several Slates'ofTht-Union.
In the September numbefof Hunt's Merchants' Maga-
zi ae, is a table furnished for publication in that iournal. bv
i th e Secretary of State, showing the amount, in quantity, of
me- agncuiiuiai proaucts oi me .union. 'This table does
not, however, include Kentucky, North Carolina, Michi-
gan, Wisconsin, or Florida. Kentucky and Middle
Fl orida had not sent in their returns: and the arpres-ates
j from thtrother.tl hanbbeen-it.ade up.
With the aid of this table we have" made an estimate of
1 the money value of the several products, and have placed
j the result side by side with the population of the States
1 respectively, to show the yield per head in round num-
Ders.
f Value.
i Maine $34,720,000
New Hampshire 25,703,000
' Vermont 43.227,000
Population. Per Head.
501,793 $69
284,374 90
291,948 148
737,699 38
108,830 34
309,948 74
2,428,921 98
373,308 95
1,724,033 79
78,085 78
469.232 93
1,239.797 82
594,398 82
691,392 85
1,519.467 55
829.510 88
352,000 106
590,756 71
375,601 111
383,702 58
685.866 69
475 183 74
97,574 108
43,035 53
43.712 7
; JMpsachusetts - - -27,809.400
J Rtiode Island 3,745,800
Co nnecticut 22,945.000
Ne w York - ---238,800,000
Ne w Jersey" 35,91 l'.OOO
Pe nnsylvania - - 136,249,000
De la ware 6,027,000
Ma jyland 43,846,200
Vi.rginia 102,177,000
Sot ith Carolina - - 49,1 17,800
Gei jrgia 58,830,000
Ohiio 84,507.000
Ter messee 73,130,000
Loi tisiana 37,706,000
Ale bama 43,376,600
Mit sissippi 41,773,000
Mis soun 22,309.400
Ind iana 47,859,000
Illi nois 35,264,500
Ar! tansas 10,536.000
lov ra 2,277,000
Dis itrict of Columbia 352,000
J!t will be seen by the foregoing. that only four States
pro duce more than 8100 to each head of the population,
viz:- Vermont, Mississippi, Arkansas and Louisiana. Of
thef ,-e Vermont tukes the lead; and must certainly be con-
sidt -red the most enterprising, industrious and thrifty agri-
cul tural State in the Union.
I Massachusetts is lowest in the scale: but that Stain
eng-nged extensively in commerce and manufactures.
'-Che States most devoted to pluming and farming, or
whose products are chiefly agricultural, are mostly the
southern and western. All the New England and middle
Stat.es as also Ohio are very considerable manufictur-
ers, and the most of them have a large commercial and
navigation interest causes which operate to draw away
han ds from agriculture.
1 'he average prodmtion per eapilemis 877 50. Four-
teen members of the Union rise above this average, the
rem .lining ten below it.
We hope it will not be long before the public is fa-, orcd
vvit'fl complete corrected stiternents, showing the results of
the wholo producme industry of tho country. It ill
furnish a mass of facts which, in many points of view.
may well be considered as invaluable. The differences
whrch may be visible between the nrnductinns ni ihooov.
eraL States will. perhaps have to be accounted for by sorne-
...iii.g uvsiues uisparuies in population, in otner words,
theomely question may come up "Do they work it
ngnt?' And the answer may be of some service. St.
Louis Gazette
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Volcano of Cosaguina. Before me was the volcano
of Cosanguina, with its field of lava, and its desolate shore,
-and not a living being was in sight, except my sleeping
boatman. Five years bi fore, on the shores of the Medi-
terranean, and at the foot of Mount Etna, I read in a news-
paper an acconnt of the eruption of this volcano. Ltttle
did I then ever expect to see it; the most awful in the his-
tory of volcanic eruptions; the noise of which startled the
people of Guatamala. four hundred miles off; and at
Kingston, Jamaica, eight hundred miles distant, was sup-
posed to be signal guns of distress from some vessel at sea.
The face of nature was changed; the cone of the volcano
was gone; a mountain and field of lava ran down to the
sea; a forest, old as cre-ation, had entirely disappeared,
and two islands were formed in the sea; shoals were dis-
covered, in one of which, a large tr e was fixed upside
down; one 'river was choked completely up, and another
formed, running in on opposite direction. Seven men in
VOL.
the employ of my bungo proprietor, ran down to the water,
and put off in a bungo, and were never heard of more.
Wild beasts, howling, left their caves in the mountains;
and ounces, leopards and snakes, fled for shelter to the
abodes of men. Stevens1 Central America.
Woman, the natural adviser of Man. Hus-
bands in general, mistake the nature of the dominion
granted them over their wives, and absurdly fancy'they
thence hare a right to be tyrants; but the proper dominion
of a man over his wife is not to make her a slave. The
use of this dominion is to preserve order and peace in the
family, for which end the husband's will is to be obeyed,
when it happens conscientiously to differ from the wife's.
But though, for the sake of pea'ce, the man's will is to be
the rule, the wife is his natural adviser nnd counsellor
whose opinion he should always listen to and follow, if he
find it more just and reasonable than his own. It is con-
trary to the laws of God and nature for a husband to re-
quire blind obedience from his wife. But men foolishly
imagine this dominion gives them such a superiority over
women as renders the whole sex despicable in compari-
son with themselves. Such' ignorant men will not suffer
their wives to reason with them, because they are women;
and crown their despotic triumphs by asking, "How
should a woman know any thing?" This procedure is
so absurd, so rediculous, that where it is found, the hus-
band may properly be said to want common sense.
It not unfrequently happens that those persons who, in
society, carry all before them by their spirits and acquire
ments, are, at nome, me most resursa aim uucomiuuauic
beings upon the face of earth, because they cannot there
find the very excitement which is almost necessary to their
existence.
KINDNESS.
A little word in kindness spoken,
A motion or a tear,
Has often healed the heart that's broken,
And made a friend sincere.
A word a look has crushed to earth,
Full many a budding flower,
Which, had a smile but owned its birth,
Would bless life's darkest hour.
Then, deem it not an idle thing,
A pleasant word to speak;
The face yon wear the thoughts you bring
And heart may heal or break.
Tune "The Banks of the Blue Moselle."
When the bloom is on thy maiden cheek,
And joy in the sparkling -eye.
There is yet one home for the heart to seek,
Where love may never die;
Though beauteous flowers may wither here,
Where blighting storms destroy.
They are blooming there, ever bright and fair,
The flowers of youth and joy.
When the cheek grows pale and the heart grows faint,
And dimmed is the sparkling eye,
There is yet one friend for the dying saint,
In his mottal agony I
Oh ! sweet as childhood's gentle sleep
All calmly may be rest,
And forget his woes, in a long repose
On a Savior's peaceful breast
TEMPTATIONS OF YOUNG MEN.
From Mr. Todays Lecture on the Dangers and Duties
connected with great cities.
I can hardly name a temptation so great, so fearful to a
young man, as that of handling money which is not his
own ; and if I were to offer a special prayer for my son,
it would be that he might not be tempted in this way.
Few, very few can withstand it. And at the present time
it has become so common, I had almost said so fashion
able, for men and boys to spend what is not'their own,
that the moral sense of the community has received a
shock from which, lam afraid, it will not soon recover.
If you steal an overcoat, to shield you from the blast, the
watchman's rattle will soon make you sensible that you
have disgraced yourself, and you are a thief. But if you
have taken and used tens of thousands of money not your
own, you are not a thief I you are only a defaulter 1
And so common has it become, that the sense of shame is
almost gone and the sense of guilt seems entirely gone.
I can now carry back my mind to my college (lays.
There was a youth in the next class, remarkable for his
simplicity and economy of dress, and for his republican
habits. Ynu would suppose that gold and copper would
be nlike in his eye. He grows up, enters upon his pro-
fession as a lawyer, marries into a very respectable family,
and is accounted an honest man! He becomes an officer
in a money corporation You meet him at the Springs,
and in the best of society. I take up a paper this very
week, and read that , Esq. is a defaulter for
several limes ten thousand dollars! The pure-minded
youth, the stern lawyer, who has probably prosecuted
many n poor wretch for stealing a few dollars has been
tempted, and who is surprised that he yielded? Who is
surprised that he is denominated a defaulter? We have
almost come to this, that places of trust and of hand lino-
money, mean little more than places where those may help
themselves who can obtain the post I and it is almost
thought to be cowardly, and hardly worth a paragraph in
the daily paper, to be a defaulter for a moderate sum !
We shail be told that there are higbminded and honorable
men at these posts still. We have no doubt of it. That
there are honest poor men who daily handle thousands of
money. We do not doubt it. But who does not know
that confidence is so shaken between man and man. that
the whole community are in unutterable anguish 1
Ohl that these young men, just coming upon the stage
of action, might take warning from the fearful disclosures
now so common I I would have them remember that no
man becomes a monster, in any crime, at once that there
is hardly such a thing as the first crime in dishonesty, that
he who allows himself to borrow a shilling out of his
master's drawer, with the secret determination to repay it,
has begun a downward course from which he will be
very likely never to recover for he that is unjust in that
which is least, is unjust in that which is much and the
same heart u hich to day prompts you to become n default-
er for the shilling which you hope to pay, but hope in
vain, will hertafter, if you have the opportunity, leadvou
to take tens of thansands which are not your own. llow
fearfully cQtnmon is it, to see it announced that a man.
supposed to b" a pattern of integrity, of morality, of reli-
gion evtn whovvas supposed even by his wife to be up-
right, and honorable, and affluent, has turned out to have
been a knave for years I Ohl never did I understand, till
lately, how awfully great is the temptation, when we have
the handling of money not our own ' Most tenderly do
I warn these young men of the danger; most earnestly
do I beseech them not to desire to see money not their
own, nor to handle it; and, above all, never, never, neter
borrow a farthing unknown to the lender, with the secret
promise of returning it The first time you do that, you
have begun to let out the waters, and you will dig more
nd more, till you are carried away by "the flood, beyond
he possibility of ever regaining the shore, and beyond
ever returning to the pbee of innocenc'y the only safe
spot!
Affecting Case The Rome N. Y. Sentinel says, Ho-
ratio Freeman, was indicted for forgery. He had used his
father-in-law's name on a number of Notes, without au-
thority ; as his father-in-law testified. He endeavored to
satisfy the jury that hr had consent to use his father-in-law's
name, but he could not do it, although the jury owing to
one dissenting, wero out almost the entire day and even-
ing. After coming into the court, and listening in ih
remarks of Judge White, the,jury fircdlnd-cnretum. J
VI.--NO. 50-WHOLE NO. 313.
ed, having agreed upon their verdict of -'guilty: At the
close of the court on Wednesday nigh't, Freeman'awife
who had been listening with intense interwi-to the'pro-
gress of. the trial, and, when The testimony bore 'hard
Against him, or the decision 'of-the couit was adverse to
uiiii, sua was uooueu 'uu-vana excessively agitated,
sent .for her husband. ",5rKnt to see her, and a scene
most affeeting'ensaed. Anguish unutterable was depicted
on her every feature. Screams most unearthly were ut-
tered. She cried, "Oh I am dying I am "crazed,"
"Father I sisters I brother, will you not aid me? Oh my
heart is in my mouth I' shall die." It was with the
greatest difficulty that she was separated from her husband,
and in fact not till she was completely exhausted, was it
effected. Freeman has spent a very handsome property
since his marriage, and within the last sixT yeari He
has been engaged in various kinds of business, end we
believe that drinking, gambling, and other kindred- vices
have led him onward to ruin. He was sentenced to the
State Prison for the terra of four years.
Fron the New Orleans Bulletin.
to. "H : . .t i . -i
juciuuunuig is a siuiemem oi me population mine
pew nepuouc ot i ucatan, as given jn a late Alenda
paper: " - "
Department of Merida.
Districts. . Inhabitants.
Merida, ...
48,264
- 27,702
19,640
- 26,651
- 38,426
30,929
- 50.572
- 26.237
-18,152
- 33.740
33,97a
- 47,559
3,000
,21.963
- 8.969
4.591
20.601
20,330
TecuL ....
Maxacana, - - . .;
Tecoj,- - - ..,.'-
Department of Izamel. ,
Izamel, - - - '
Motul, - - . . -
Department of Vallapolid.
Valladolid, - , -
Tizimin, " - . . .
Espita,
Department of Tekax.
Tekax,
Yaxcaba, - - '
Peto, - - .
Bacalar, - - - .
Department'of'Campeachy.
Campeachy, - - -
Champoton, ,
Carmen, - .
Hecelchacan," -
Hopelchen, ....
Total. - . -
479.400
The city of Meridu contains a population o( 25,589
Fortunate Rescue. The1 Rio de Janeiro 'Journal du
Commerico oflthe 25th of July, co'nfains the following
account of the loss of an English shin bv fire, and th
rescue of the passengers and crew:
"The French whaler Roland, Capt. Cozannef, arrived
today at this" port, Ou the I9th insl, in latitude 16 44,
S. E. longitude. 33 35 East of Greenwich, at 3 o'clock in
the afternoon, he came in sight of a vessel, about eight-
miles to the leeward, which from the mast head appeared
to be on fire.
He lost not an instant in making sail fur her, and fortu-
nately reached her in time to save 198 passengers, among
whom were 40 females. She proved' to be the English
barque India, on her passage from Greenock to New
Holland, the mate of which, at 7 o'clock the, same day,
had gone into the store-room with a light to draw some ,
Brandy, which had caught fire.
Capt. Cozannet, notwithstanding a heavy sea and high
wind, succeeded in two hours, in transporting nil the pas
sengers and crew on board his vessel, excepting 18. who .
precipitated themselves into the sea against the remon-
strances of Capt. Cozannet."
How many cases of a similar kind have occurred from
a similar cause I We could mention several instances of
vessels from this port, who. when the detestable uraetice
of serving out ran for the sailors was in vor?ue. canirlit
fire from this very cause and were burnt to the waters ,
edge. Boston Journal
Frcvilhe Picayune.
A GAMBLING STORY.
Two friends sat over a game of " Brag," in this city,
four years ago. They played long, late and high, and at
length quit, one five hundred dollars in the other's deb'.
We have said they were friends; and each knew the
other was not so circumstanced as to stand so Jarge a loss,
although the excitement of playing had led,them on from
larger bets to larger still, until the event came about
"Tom, you uiif have to take mynote for it," said the
loser, "and it shall be paid in thirty days."
"O very well," said the winner, diyly pulling a cigar
from his pocket, and piercing the twisttd end with his
penknife.
The loser snatched up a pen, and wrote the note for
8500, payable in thirty days
"All correct," said the winner, coolly, and takinrr th
note from his unfortunate adversary. "Have a cigar
nea r
Ned took the proffered cigar, and the next minnio nnn.
ed his eyes in astonishment atseinf Tom deliberatelu-
jioking the folded note into the candle for a light.
f-ireup, near- saia loin, banding over the burning-
note.
Ned knew his friend, and lit his cigar in silence. The
two soon separated with such" a mutual exchange of friend-
ly sentiment as might be expected on so remarkable an
occasion. " ""
This is no fancy sketch, reader. The twofriends have
been separate wanderers for four years, and met each
other again, for" the first time since that parting, the other
day, in Canal street. Tom had been luckless and unfor-
tunate, while Ned had been gradually creeping into For-
tune's favor. In the course of the same day accident
brought to Ned's notice a note against his friend Tom Cm-
just 8500, in the bands of a third person. Ned bought
lue noie immeuiaieiy. paying lor it the full amount of the
claim, and in the evening the two fri.nds met br appoint-
ment. ' r
"Tom, do -you know I
hold
a note against yon for .
8500?" said Ned.
" No, indeed ! Why ? bow so ?" said Tom, jn amaze- 4
ment. - l
" O yes, here it is! See! your note given to that whole-
sale firm on the Levee. A small business transaction has
brought it intu my possession ; and. by the way, Tom I
should like to have the money." ' '
" I can't pay it now, Ned indeed. I can't ; but in two
weeks, or three, at farthest, I can make myself ready for '
it." '
"Cancel this, and draw me a new note at thirty days"
said Ned, very gravely, taking n cigar from his pocke't
and piercing the end with his knife, in Drec?eK tt,o ,i
style I om had used lour year ago.
All correct 1" said Ned, as he scattered the old note
in torn fragments on the floor, and received the new one
from Tom. " Have a cigar, Tom V
Tom took the cigar, and ns he did so, an idea of Ned'a
design flashed upon his mind.
'No, Ned no! I remember I Yes, I see what
you re at ; but mem war a gambling debt, and this is a re- ,
sponsibility of regular trade I" exclaimed Tom, lisin to
prevent the conflagration he saw was about to take place.
I n .... 4 "J . .fu.lJC
Mine was a debt of honor, and so is yours," said Ned.
with facetious solemnity. I will pay yours, as you once
took the liberty of paying mine;" and hcthrust thepaper
into the candle's blaze, handing it lighted to Tom, ex- '
claiming. "Fire up. Tom!" in direct iraitaton of bis,
generous adversary at " Brag." four years ago I'1 y
Gentle reader, the anecdote is true. The two gentle- x
men whom we have designateA.as Tom and Ned are at
prMent residents here fotthc whiter.
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