conaol-.-d by Uv- thought that bis anfcf, had dcp.ut ! ■ •>d that Sua bearfc Bofteued towards too «r.d lib liUto baby. It -..as tht= first th-u. we sv.ir parted like that—not the firsr. tiff w-. bad had by many, but always before, those Hi'.ia quarrels bad been but a renewal of ;ovn. Mutual explanation and forgiveness i-ad followed, bub God, I sup posts, y-.w ii - fc--» allow L-ho evil one to harden both bour be -.-_ that day-why, I don't, know; b i-. II -• ways, they say. are in-.-nr ah!.-. • ->•> wo can only bend our heads and say, ' ii... will bo done.' :U- . J - -> ' n*d gone a few minutes mv blti.6i-r.ci-: all 'tlb mo. 1 found plenty of excn .. for h'.s 'ittlo display of ill temper. ' Didn't be ' t_k down iv that deep claim all day, >■■ hewing the cruel bard pump goin:,."or wu-diag up the stuff; and it is provoking to find n baby has crawled off with oiic'h !.:;'■ when la'co up ; and all men will.-no.-.] ii .... y don't get their meals quickly and comfortably.' 80 i shoui. i- ■-.<_ I sat down before getting to the .ash t"b, an I I'.lu-iiovc I was fonder of J-*cob tlitc r>v.>r, aud detorraincil to knock up .-. li■ . c p-.iddmg in spite of it bcini. "hash ing day, ■-,; 1:! ~0 moot him with a cheerful fae.s pi. I a. 1 ;viv.q ki w when bo came homo to din h•'-. 'Jacob an i ] hail boon married four years. Hoi was a. ha__or. and bad left a big ship in Ne>'/ Z". . ti ! ro go to tho diggings whon I m.i.■ tvrn fi ;. Onr first little baby died. It p:c.-. \; <1 al. !o take* it away just as wo bad It:., no-.i to i ,■■■..: it bc-M-or than our lives. I \v.>Ai<\ )"i -ou-.iy lo i.l.ink it iviis very hard of Him. ; iiVl -. •!: -! p-.-.-pie wouldn't attribute ev'ii-y HI ■•':'. ' to Clod, but '.be minister said, ' Mis wd! ..-- d..i t « ' and 1 could hut cry J Am,;. ' '!'.;. . ■:■ •■ ■-.-,'. .■ ,;:'.t on the door gtaiuigat Jacob, ,\ .1 ■■■■•< guilty of oa-wiiug away with his bi.ol-.-, i=u.i canr.-ng the firat of daddy. bid i-j.-'ip;,-. .■:.-; n-.u-ly I- months old. 1. don't am,. • i.-vod it as well au our fii. t (ii;b ti.;V w --s "i ■■>. and laid in the cheerless grave-yard •>. via Tua-ieka ; but (> id knows wo lo.vt 1.. w.>ii 1. i!,''tgh, and is always puzzles me _.v.v .i.-;;.;:: i ould have left without kissni-. : -,•-./,' lv n if ho was cross with lbs mothoi ; v ._ ihouno doubt he thought it would bu b.'T\;ov to make it up at dinner or after u-a. '.vii-n he h>-i more time. 11. did n-.r. thin.. :. i r.v hours mattored, ho hu need not »_u---:ii:o .iibb. -m; it would b« all right. Aii .' '.'■' : i-ti- i d -.-id,:, it hold cos's millions basidos />■ ' .- '.'•',< fui heart and bitter tears. We iv.d 1-fi X w Z-j daud, and our dead pet in th-. . -i i gravo amidst tho snow clad puako iiii i .u-jL:;;<, rivers of Otago, and had bee:; ir- . .-.-/ i.ab Hut Gully some mo-ithe. Jscob -,-;;■' .1::; fußt prospector in ii, and had gota bii of g d.l. Then ho put up tho hut that gave the ;r ;nc ;:o the crock, an 1 bad brought: p.--« ••- . Totsy up from Sydney, tlo ba:^. woi-'-.'-d .'.:■ bedot the creek down pi etty wtii, t/iO'.i.-'-- •!-.!.•.'• di^ors had taken claims a;;;l wc-:i •• .•■■'"-■ii:-; :.c >.c us. 1:. was a pretty plae. ; :Im'-m.!':j-)f tb-j crock were not over etcop, au-'. :>-.:^ v/r.a .i hi;: of land for r garden and :...:!k. d. ;'bo creek foil and splash'-*': •:■'...- ■:'■:■ nlt ran, which it did m 0.:.; _.-,:.'.■, k- - in. year, amongfit the b:g rock:! ;- .: o'.'. •■ patchoii of aand, and i)c-tweon th*.- i-i-oi.-- ■■■'■ ..... -ki Jt.-'.d :-iiU grasst and rushes, til! ;-. g.-.. n> ' n ..) !' aokfellow's Fiat, where it in;. i:.-i-7 vn .'.•_;!. tb-.i rcids and ni.trntius The bank --ii-i. '.nu ;-bb.:B of the hill through wiacb i' r I) -■ '•-■■■; ..>■.'■:-•'. w-it.'l ri.liai! w.■...!■ t,t: 3 ;w--l . ._.- .- ,i > r.-ii!" and shrub.i blooming all the vi ir •--.iiid, soim. or another of them, aal jna:iy a ..Jcj -.a'.k 1 bad with Totsy iv my arm.', 'vhicb w-^lka always took the direction of wHyrn daddy was at work, and ho would knock off work to take his pet in big arm:-- aud aivt- !■■ r a 10.-s and me a unrnh.. I though!; of _,';i these thingi as I was at work sb.'il in>-ii;. j. ; what womau who had just qua*relled, '•oady for tho (irnt time, with a j.ood hud).i I. would not ? and they preyod upon in* I I'lamcd myself more than J'teob. I ou'^ht ro ;..•■■: givm way ; I knew I bail on';y -o -■■ --y i'I- word, and he wnnld not have goni! out -»s h'"i di.'l -with a frown on his f.ie.i and bifc'ttrnc:i in his m-a--t. It was nigh on II when i determine, to leave the wash It would bo ju«t a. well done to-morrow, and I would walk <u>--vr, to where Jacob was at work, lie bad got down \o BlackfeUows's Fiat now. y'irr.l o':d Victorian (liquors came up and decisrud tho fiat would be very rich if tb«.v c.uid ' bottom,' ro they had formed a company like, and got au amalgamated claim, and we. ; hard at work sinking. The now claim was * quartor of a mile away ; it would be :• h'<v. walk -Totsy would enjoy it —and if Jacob was on tho ' shift' down below, f would 'ook down and he would boo me, and know I bad forgiven and asked for giveness. Totsy ckppsd hor hands with delight I was getting her ready, for it wan dull work for her, poor thing, sit-in.; on the floor with her play-toys while 1 was at the wash-tub. I. soon put on tho few things 1 needed, and taking Totsy up, shut the door, aud was turning to go down to the croak v/hcrothe log spanned it when I saw young Jack Hopper—old blacksmith Hopper's i-O! who looked after '.ho diggers' horses and drove one iv a whim—rushing down th*i other r-ido towards tho lo_» and my place. God help me, I idl; there was something v. o'og. The blood lieomed to go out of my h'.-r-rk, and I turned chid, and clasped Totsy to my heart. Jack ran at full speed across tha tiny Ing bridge, and up the bit of a rise to where I stood. He was breathless almost, but ho had enough left to gasp cut, ' Mi'-sus your eld man !' - I wan half prepared forii when I saw him moving towards me ; but tho blow seemed none the less heavy. ' Father of mercies. spare me,' I thought. I could not ask for the worst till I came to think that perhaps he was hint only, and my aid might ho of use, bo I wailed, ' Oh ! Jack, ia he dead ?' ' Dead f Jack repeated, almost Fcornfu'ly ; ' why, he's down tha shsJfc, and4o foot of it's caved in !' I wouid. have «iveu a world to be able to cry —to pour out one flood of tears, and relievo my bursting boart. 'Jack, I said. ' take To'.sy, kuci play wish her till I como back.' and 1 placed tho child —our child—in his arm'!, aud started off down the gaily. I don't know bow I got to tho flat. " Tho wattle. and hollo .-opes were scentless to mo and the gum trees might have been a million miiea away fo? all I noticed them. Down by the oanks of the little bubbling |.creek I ran, taking short cuts through the

It was th

blooming ehrubsj an- high grasses till i reached tho flat. 1 hesitated awhile at the end of it, for I knew tha little '.no. of cotton trees only hid mo from the claim Only for a moment, i.nd pressing my hand to my heart, I went to the cruel scene. _ Thirty men were at work, some throwing out timber and slabs aud earth, others hauling big loi^s towards the mvuth of t.he shaft, to put across, or. which to erect a windlass. Thoy saw ni"; oomin.j, and went on harder, if poßdible, *---"--h their work. Th-sy wero fierce ovor their Jabour, and strove so bard that ' relief bad to be given every livo minutes. I could realise tho worst ; it needed not my husband's old mates to tell me that there was no hope. Forty feet of slabbed ground had gone down the shaft, through the toi- of it being wet and badly timbered.

There was nobody in tha living grave. I learned, but my husband, Jacob Hounsell, from whom J had parted in anger, who bad not turned once towards his loving aud loved wife lie had beon the lirst to go down for the 11 o'clock shift, and the other two were preparing to follow, when the top scuff, with tho windless, winding-gear, shed, and scores of load.! of earth had crashed down the shaft. His will bad been done. Tho great Judge will pardon me, I hope, but like a wicked, si a ful woman, 1 thought it cruel that nay husband, Totsy's father, had been taken at such a time. Who could tell but, when that cruel mass came upon him, he was thinking of bin missing boots and lata b-eakfa.t, aud cherishing hatred of his wife i sat down not far from tho spot, iv spit;* of their entreaties for ma U; go away. I would havn taken my turn at the task, but th y were so much stronger than 1, and could wo.-k so much better. They tell mo that my I hair turned white, and that an expression j B'dtiod on my face that i_ ht.s never lost. For four lio.wa I eat there thinking -think ing —wondering ivhea the ci;./ of my husband would be (lia'.'ii up, Bcforo two hoars wore over, at each cry of 'up,' of those boiow, J ! would start aud look towards the windlass I for my huab^ud'e form. It was an otornity Ito rao ; ;.v- -y motin'm. of my married life j passed in review, but Jacob's wulk from our I but to the wattles ou the other aide of the j oeek was never absout from my mind. I j saw his firm mouth closed, and noted hi*. I steady, erecs walk. Although ha p.r.aod !.<.- Ifo ro mo a -.iii-u-i.'-nd timeK, a. e._.h one I , expected loin to look back and smile, bat Ihe march d on, to re-appear at the break j fast-table again, And raouuie that implacable A cry aud a gathering roun 1 the shaft's . mouth at length told mo tho time had come. j The top of liio slabbing, it appaard, hid 1 fallen first a-id got (irmly fixed in the shaft J below the break, .md kept tho ear-h ml 1 timber from -!'■• lower j'.rticn. I ' Lower ?no down !' was r-oa 1- -d, ano1 tho j man l.ieiow . ... letdown Lo .iv no-s-.n. whore Jacob was. ' Up, !v :' camo next, sounding as if uttered fron. _. 3..pulchre. i was at tbu sliaft'a mouth nov/, waiting --waiting for Jicob. Slowly they wound up the ropo ; >.._L-i .iriifl.l i.o pa^s buforu a body I reached th- c -o, ,nd dien they drew all tliat w;.. mor'.al of '~y hu..i.md, j'»eoi) Umin.. ], on l,« -.'•:,: L.i'i.r., by •• c si:i.i. Xi ,'„|y and ' :e\-i -".:n ,'y Lh-■;,- laid him down, aid stn t >ii aaidc :s i oi.'.i-i down, over llw. co; ps.j. The _Llm;g;it'.. ",ho ho;.s and know-. ,V.i ihiu'is, only e.ui Lo;; "-hat f thou, ht a; I ..; .z A on the face oi -iim from whom 1 parted in anger. My life is nob likely to be .1 i-n- one, but, if 1 live to bo an old w >mau, 1. can never rtcxll the things that passed through my mind. 1 rcmcmb'ji- how he looked —there was no smile ou bis face, bu: tha hard, stern expression it hud worn when 1 bad seen it las., in life had gone and giveu way to a holy and peaceful calm. 1 remember giving Jacob, my dead husband, one passionate, yearning kiss, and then I awoke to misery in _ke Siab Hut. What rnot'o have {. to Leli ? Li-.tleToi.iy died. Tho door.or said I mil.: havo be 111 mad to suckle her ia tho state 1 svs.3 ; Inr, >o;i -co 1 was lonely, and it was such a comfort lo press hor to my heart wkieti ached so. Jt pleased God to carry her away, aud here I am alono, aud I wait and wait till the tune shall come when Jle will r>3 pleased to call me to the three whom he ha 3 scon lie _o take away from me. I have no pride now, and there would be no chance to exhibit it if I had, for 1 am alone, —resigned -and only •..ru.ing to be called.

A Town of Historic Interest.

Quaint, neglected and unappreciated, Monterey is still slumbering quietly by tlicsea, dreaming of thogoodtimo coming ; dreaming of the day when she will be thoroughly awakened into life and activity ; when her charming surroundings, her commercial advantages, her climatic virtue, and her great diversify of natural attrac tions will be appreciated; when capital and enterprise will make her the most at tractive point on the Coast, and place her in that position for which Nature intended her. Beautiful sleeper, dream on; for your vis ion of future weal th and i m port an cc will, at no distant day, become realities, and you will become as attractive to (lie world as one of your beautiful, dark-eyed, symmetrical maidens I visited, some time since, in company with Cap. James, a well-known resident of Oakland, the spot where Commodore Sloat landed, and where the Stars and Stripes were raised and possession of the country taken. The gentleman to whom I allude was at that time a youth, and wore the badge of the mizzen-top of the frigate Savannah, and he assisted in raising the American flag, and in tho construction of the fort am) block house. The old original flag staff from which the emblem of freedom and liberty first floated had rotted away and there is nothing now to mark the exact spot where the Stars and Stripes were unfurled. My companion's vivid recollec tion of the event, however, enabled him to go to the spot at once, and, digging down into the soft earth, he soon succeeded in exhuming a pic je of the sacred old staff.

The fact that no appropriate substantial staff'was raised on the spot immediately after the destruction of tho original one, is indeed deplorable. A handsome one should be erected now, and the banner of freedom should ovei. wave from its top. We next visitejttjhe old fortification on the hill- The position is indeed an admir able one, commanding a view of the entire Bay, ami much of the country around the old Capital. The- block-house is still iv a good state of preservation, which is doubtless owing to tho imperishable character of tho Monterey pine, of which it is constructed. Only one veteran cannon remains to proclaim the character of the place to the stranger. On the outskirts of the town, near the road which leads to Point Finos Light-house, stands a cross, which bears the date of Tune 3rd, 1770. This cross marks the spot where good Father Juniporo Serra and his followers performed their religious devotions, and rendered thanks for their safe arrival to so beautiful a spot. This cross, which identifies this interesting point, in the Catholic history of Monterey, is convincing evidence that Spanish religious devotion in the old Captial by the sea has been stronger than American patriotism. Monterey must, I think, at no distant day in the future, become the most at tractive Summer resort ou the Coast. The scenery, the fine climate, botany, the conehological attractions, together with the historical interest of the place, wilt yet. make it the favorite resort of California. N. D. C

Alcohol.

The L mdon ' Lancet,' has the following : ' A correspondent,' it .says, 'asks aquestion which is pressing for a reply in many minds ; What quantity of alcohol may be taken daily, in perfect temperance, asd with advantage, by a lidy? The answor to tho question cannot be an absolute ono. Alcohol has two uses, if we are to accept what- seems tho clear reaching of scientific observation; it i.. i food and a stimulant.. To some cx-'ent it is consumed in the system and yield.-, force; it also directly affects the function of the nervous system. It is irs latter use alone which must decide the question of how much mny be taken. The quantity which can be utilizer! in the system as food is so considerable as to bo certainly deleterious by its over stimulating action <>n the nervous system. Moreover, as a food it las not beer, shown to have any special advantage;. This pa?d of its use _iay thus be neglected. As a sli./iulanc the quantity ready needed i very small, especially when a sedentary ' life is i-j.i. It i-. probably that in most cases two glasses of wine a day, according to our customary re. illation of the sine of tho idass, l.iy Lh.i strength of the wine, is j as miirh as can be taken with advantage. By many ibis !■> more than is Deeded. An esti';i". •• by the sensation produced is hesel wi ': f.-ili-i.cies. The pleasurable sense of' j stiiiiiil-irion h absolutely misleading. The ! use of slimujants is to facilitate work, and j the ease with which work can be (lone. and the state ot body and mind afterwards I afford a surer test. If the sense of stimulation be the guile, use establishes tolerance, and a larger and yet larger quantity can be tiken without thc>. sense of p!t-»«ai- stimulation being overpassed, bul not without permanent damage (o the nervous sys'em. Whatever is taken, however, should be taken at meals, once or twice a day. One larje. perhaps the largest, part of the beneficial action of alcohol is to aid digestion, by Us direct action on (he stomach, and by its action on the sfornieh through the nervous system. Alcohol effects most of its evil and" least of its good when taken alono. All use of alcohol bet ween meals should bo absolutely prohibited.

A Pair of Gamblers.

The two boss gamblers of the country undoubtedly aro John Morrissoy and John Chamberlain. The one ia summer ing at his giimblinir-houso at Saratoga, and the other at his 'club' at Long Branch. Thesn men have surprising influence, and enjoy a certain kind of popularity among their .social superiors, which can be only accounted for by the intimacy of their business relations across tho board of greon cloth.

Morrissey, state Senator, reformed Democrat and ex-pugilist, seems to be acquainted with everybody at Saratoga, except tho ladies, and he cares as little for them as (hey care for him. He never says anything very brilliant, but men of five times his ability look up to him as to an oracle. Gambler though he is, he is said to be fair in all bis business dealings, and bis word is considered as good as his bond. He allows no swindling on his racecourse; and his gambling-house, or ' clubhouse,' as some of the newspapers gingerly term it, is the resort not only of fast men about town, but of leaders in both of the political parties. Morrissey and Chamberlain, once part ners, have been for years not only rivals, but personal enemies, and openly profess the most unbounded contempt for each other. Morrissey is a domes!ic man strongly attached to his wife aud family ho cares little for theatres and less for display. Mis New York office is in the op.n air, outside tho Hoffman House. where bo hold? a levee every fine after noon vv.ien he is in town. In prison h~ is far from handsome, although he is six feet high and large in proportion. His forehead is low, bis short, black hair and beard are thick and bristly, and his nose

is bat-ered down in the middle almost to a level with the rest of his face, a result of his great pugilistic contests. His voice is a hoarse, unmusical whisper, which, however, has much power when its owner is moved to excitement, as he not unfrequently is the night before any important horse race, when he his to be seen generally directing the business of his betting-room iv Broadway. His rival, John Chamberlain, in a combination of contradictions; shrewd and careless, rough and polished, wise and foolish, good and bad. He looks fat and unwieldy ; he his supple, active and strong. His face is dull in repose, but under excitement has the keen look of the Yankee and the passion of an angry Italian. Chamberlain never does any thing, yet he is never idle. He pays little attention to what his passing around him, yet notes everything, and forgets notii-ng. Above all things he can smiie. Scbnyier Colfax is not a circumstance to him. He dresses richly and flashily. He is most fastidious in eating and drinking. His cook is the best in the country, and his taste in wines '-■ unsurpassed. He is said to be a goo j . ige of pictures, has an ear for music, commands a fair stock of miscellaneous knowledge, tells a good story aud knows how to listen to one. Chamberlain lias most of the profession al gambler's good and bad qualities. A3 is natural with a man who has lived such a life as ho has lived, he has no belief in religion or in human nature. It is his business to be liberal, and he his so, to the extent of furnishing refreshments to tho victirnes who may fiad their way into his gambling den. Ho is generous and faithful to his friends, and open in his dislikes. His physique, originally magnificent, is well preserved, notwith standing his irregular habits, and he is probably 'good ' for 20 years longer.— [The ' illustrated Weekly.'

Matchmaking Mothers.

Thehe is periiaps no class of the commu nity that receives such au amount of abuse as mothers who a-:o anxious that their daughters should marry well, and sufficiently energetic to take measures to insure that end. ' Social articles' by the score have been written against them; they furnish the novelist with the never failing text of a 'telling bit;' while the slightest allusion to them or to their tactics is sufficient Lo raise a laugh in general soeit-ty. Nothing is more easy or pleasant j tiitti. to abu.-e or dende our neighbours, <er j more, calculated to superinduce a coin for- I iabio feeling of serene self-satisfaction, I par.ieuiarl^ relished by those who having ! thniiHoivcs no daughters to marry hug j themselves in the belief that they are superior to temptations by which they j never have been assailed. Still there is j r_i--,:_ tor the belief that the matchmaking j motiiei is the creature of circumslances, I and tha' her lines are oftcner than not cast |ia far i'rom pleasant places, it may be j wondered, whether those who blame her mos._ imagine in their wildest moments that she finds :my pleasure in the varied duties that her solicitude for the welfare of her offspring forces upon her, in con sulting l h« whims and tastes or iD listening to the vapid conversation of young men ivith whom she has not an idea in common, yet who must not be suffered to stray away into dangerous proximity to the casting nets of rival fishers of men, but must at all hazards be kept in conversation till .Maud and Constance return to the maternal wing to take charge of thorn ; in long days on the riv.-r, when she feels acute twinges of incipient rheumatism ; or m perpetual plantation at Prince's where skating and scandal become almost equally abhorrent to her. Surely they would far rather be at home, ■ enjoying themselves in their own way, and seeing their own friends ; but Providence has given them daughters, and they strive their hardest to do their duty according to their lights. * _ It is very easy for those not similarly blessed to talk wisely on the subject, and aver that it is quite unnecessary that girls should marry at all unless they fall in love ; and that, if they do fall in love, it is absolutely wicked to oppose their union with the object of their affections. ■ iersonally the imprudence cannot affect them, and they like to pose before society as unworldly and romantic. The match making mother knows better. Primogeni ture may be an excellent institution, but one ot its most obvious effects is that, while enriching the eider soa.itleaveshis brothers and sisters in a state of utterly dispropor - tionato impeeuuiosity. Is it wonderful ' that a mother, who Knows that her girls brought up in all the comfort that seven or eight thousand a year can provide, will at their father's death have but two thousand pounds apiece, should be anxious by any means to insure those she-loves so tenderly against miserable poverty ? and as, all the lady-help twaddle notwithstan ding uaymg hardly yet reached the point 01 considering with equanimity the pro priety of Maud, and Constance advertising lor kitchen-maids' situations, she sees no source of livelihood left to them but marriage, should naturally eudeavour to secure lor them the best prizes she can ? People who are iv the enjoyment of every comfort, and do not know au ungratified wish stigmatize her as cold, heartless aud [ worii.ly, because she refuses to sanction an engagement between Maud and young J.;« v .-...% who has £150 a year, aud spends £:JU(J ou jus clothes, aud with whom Maud J fancies herself in iove because lie valses ' so omnely—in truth, she is nothing of the .and. She loves her daughter far too

truly to subject bar, if she can ml to the miseries of a penniless SI She knows well enough that hi the hardship is the share of the ! compassion that of the husband ' But,' say those so ready »;«. on subjects which they cannot. hend, as taey have never been ' home to their own exparionce .J the giris would find a home fell elder brother.' Poor girls j J households, for some inscutabls [i do not suit the English dispositi* brother, if unmarried, might Mul well enough when young aadWtJ would vote them bores as they ail old maidenhood ; while supposffif be married, his wife must 'bo n.,i human if she can tranquilly ?J resident sisters-in-law. No- Jr\\ subject is considered dwpaJJ I there is no hope of comfort left toft except in marriage; and though I l ot course an awful lottery, it seem to us very hard that mothers f' be so fiercely blamed for endea. to do their best for thos3 they W the girls have but enough to lift! the slightest measure of ladylike ccc then indeed it may well be left t, own inclinations whether they J v not; but such is, alas too aeldoi case. *

Again it is an accusation J matchmaking mothers that they 3 money only, it i s always forgotfel they have lived to the a S e whe&li&gl apt to lose its illusions, and havelf the vanity of the rose coloured' through which youth looks at life ] have learnt, by witnessing the expei of their friends, that those who ffiM . ' love' are by no means mora cett_ lasting happiness than those whose J has had a cooler but a more subst basis. They know that .he.inJ companionship and the enforced aba from society necessitated by povert awfully aptto chafe the cordofmatrii affection, and desire that their dart should continue in the enjoyment ft comforts and luxuries to which they -1 been accustomed. ... . Life even in its barest necessities, tf these days an expensive thing, and I should blame the mother who grudge! see her bright, happy girl worn toaslia by pare and anxiety for the sake of a! which, oftener than not, is a woe. : fugitive essence on the hushotid's sic ' soon as ever he feels the touch ofdia j fort, or who heartily and honestlybel S fhnt competence is a more desk thing, in that life is longer than I. . She nets honestly and conscienfe for the best, according to her Ml and though her sentiments do' recommend themselves to her dang. | romantic views when they are yo; those who often reluctantiiy folios*: advice live to bless her prudence, j foresight, and to confess they oil | her years of hapnino. s ; while those? ■ turn a deaf ear to her counsels frequs live to weep bitter tears over i f neglect of her precepts of wi.dom.-ii i World. . A

The great ..merican rhyme fiend ia unusfliH. prising jv. now Thi. indicates a seveiewta.: dUck-ses one of the methods of Providence form ing editors wl'h au imp .riant item for fuel ' A man in llichiar-n swapp&d his horse ton -n o cl bachelor a'!qnuaiutaac9 said he'd beetle somettiln. w. ous with _ha horse, crit.ownen. have foiled it awsy in that reckless manner. Specula-ors see aqueducts in b abbUng;g building, in. tones, t_a cash in everything, A:--'feoi-;. a man is s"iqg aaothor for p.t_ nose. The ,at-.or thought it lo:>ked ripe enow pics.

NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.

"Goon Templar. "—You will find fee; vowels ia the word - abstemious.' " Herman-."—The origin of wearißgwe. rings took its ri3e among the Horn After pi-eiioiiaary arrangements had l« made, there was a feast of the Mead! the yonug couple, at tha conslasioa which, the mau gave tha woman a i as a pledge of faithfulness, which she; upon tha fourth linger of her left & because it was believed th.it anervefe thence reached her hear. ; the ffl»K day wan then fixed. We are not a** tbat Saturday is an unlucky day forf* wedding. "Harriet W."-Your ode to MountAl ia hardly up to the mark; the last & are pretty: — " Th it gi-e^u little spot, I oan nevor forget; Where under tho willow-tree often we met:, Where we sat down together, and ohattedWK Andl gave him my heart w'uh the 1 >ye jf •* "Richard Q," Blliott-atreet.—Wew settion to your atanzs, but think WiJ^ heard it bsfore:— > "My darling, from my garden brouith. 1 I'lie prettiest of summer postrs, | And asted ma, us mv arm she caught If TU]_-i_,._ I preferred to roses. I cannot tell, sweat girl, I sighed, Bnt kiss me, and -.lis dii, by Moses, I Oh, I prefer, I then rep led Thy TWj-Lirs to a score of boses." "B. T." Newmarket.—The use offal scope was first; descovered by Hsß an optician of Middleburg in Holland. "W. Doran."—The well known song* Johnny Sands was w.itten in IS .'* first appearedin the 'MiaßOß,'ofth»p "Asparagus "—You will get all tyM matiou you so.de of Mr Robert B^ 5 ssedamaa, of Queen Street. «M. C."—Your poetry ia very accept but iv future communications, -writs on oae si-ie of the^iaper,

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