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funk aith rft Jtinting. fta d lo lr StH jjtte, PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY EVEHINO, BY Having mode large additions to our former variety of JOHN PORTER,:;::;:::;;;;:;;;Proprietor PLAIN AND FANCY J O B T Y ZF* ZE3 , Office, No. 5 Custom-House Block, Circulars, BiU-heads, Cards, Blanks, TERMS, Catalogues, Programmes, If paid strictly in advance—per annum, $1,50 If payment is delayed 6 mos. “ 1,75 Shop Bills, Labels, Auction and Hand If not paid till the close of the year, 2,00 BiUs, &c., &e. XT No paper will be discontinued until all arreara Particular attention paid to ges are paid, unless at the option of tne puplisher. ET Single copies, three cents —for sale at the office. P HINTING IN COLORS XT All letters and communications to be addressed BRONZING. &C. to the Publisher. Couldn’t Copper H im.—A correspondent, [From the Ladies’ Repository for April.) a life of idleness determined to place his son] John Freecroft is engaged in examining a I know and with his help we’ll see whether ter as he took leave of him ; but he adressed The Mother.—Some one writing for the Ma in some active business. In his own count-' him a word or two before he went. sonic Mirror has drawn a pretty picture of a writing to a Bo.-tun paper from New Orleans, THE MESSALOXSKEE. number of different papers taken from a box the old rip will have it any longer his own gives tiie following incident: • You can huy i ing-house he felt that he would not meet There ye are ye little villian, said he, and I home-loving, child-loving mother: strongly bound with iron clasps ; and as the way. hope ye’ll he plea-ed with yer quarter, for ye’ll How pleasant she sits, day after day, shaping nothing in New Orleans, and most southern and BY R E V , B . LEONARD. with the necessary disipline, and so placed faint glare of the solitary candle on the table Mat, as he spoke turned the key in the find it rather difficult to scrape up a friend will and sewing some little article for use and adorn western cities for less than a • picayune.’ or six j him with one he thought a friend—for they Dear stream, the child art thou of those fair lakes falls upon each his Face becomes still more desk and locked it, at the same time feeling ing to become bail for yer ugly carcass. Ye’ll ment for her little flock ! And how proud and and a quarter cents. Coppers are hardly known. Which lie among the western hills but half had frequently done business together—and repulsive in its yellow ugliness. Muttering, intense gratification at his success. H e then nut sleep quite so comfortably as ye expected, pleased is each little recipient of her kindness 1 was amused at n little incident which I saw- on board one of the western bouts. A man A score of miles away. A family who promised to bestow all the care and at to himself sundry interjections expressive of with a quiet grin on his youthful counten but let me tell ye for a parting word—it’s n How the little faces dimple with pleasure, and from the North tried to pass ten coppers upon Are they, indissoluble ; yet hath each tention in his power upon his son. pleasurable emotions or the reverse, he takes ance, went back to his misenble bed, to dale too good (or ye as it is. So take the good the bright eyes grow still brighter, as mamma A room apart, engirt by rugged walls. wishes of all present that they may live to see decks them with her own hands with the new ■ a Sucker,’ a native of Illinois, for a dime — ‘ Time went on, and the youth approached out paper after paper from the box unfolds brood over the events of the coming morrow, A wanderer thou, ambitious, hopeful, bold, your hanging day, and begone !’ dress she made ! How much warmer and more ■ What he they ?’ inquired the Sucker, turning manhood. The father looked fondly towards and ever and anon to shake his lean fists in With swift steps seeking new companionship it, reads it over and then carefully replaces John Freecroft was gone, and a hnppier group comfortable they feel if mamma wraps them u| iver the coppers in unfeigred ignorance, ‘ I Within the valley of the Kennebec the day when his son should take his own it. the dark at some airy phantom of his imagi was now assembled than there had promised to before they go to school ! No one hut her can calculate they are cents,’ replied the Northern- Thou hast grown weary of the life serene place in the business to which he himself had ‘ Yes, yes,’ said he, as if continuing a con nation. be on the morning of that eventful day. In re- warm the mits and overshoes, or the comforter: ir. ‘ Can’t you read?’ ‘ I reckon not,’ said Of sister, mother, patriarch and sire j devoted his energies in younger days. The versation which had hitherto been held con And now indeed upon the eve of his wed watd for the great services rendered by Mat around their necks. the other, ‘ and what’s more, old hoss, I al ow I don t wane to. What is cents, mister ?’ The peace of their sequestered, sheltered home, son appeared all that the father could wish, fidentially with some familliar demon in his ding day, John Freecroft had a sword hang Natterby, the office-boy, he was placed in an There is a peculiar charm about all she does To thee is tame ; and so, nor precipice steep, and seemed uncontaminated by the youthful ing over his head, of whese existence he excellent situation in Mr. Preston’s office ; and the precious mother. They could not sleep ■ I vow to the judges,’ said the Northerner, ‘you own breast, ‘ they have not seen the light for ire worse than the heathen ! Cents is money, Nor lofty ridge, nor frowning cliff, nor wild, indiscretions and excesses common to others dreamed not, and it was hell by no less per there with proper care he soon gave promise ol nay, for that matter, she could not, if she failed Wood-shadowed path, doth daunt thy heart, or check some time, as each has its particular duty to growing up into a fine man. And fur the in to visit their chamber, and with her own solt ■uirtin ! Ten of them arc worth one dime.— situated as he was.’ sonage than his despised ofihe-boy, Mat Nat Thy feet. Thou roamest forth thyself to join fulfill. I was surely intended by nature for trepidity by which Henry Barrington had dis hands arrange them comfortably before thei Can t you see it says E Plurilius Unum—that’s To greater interests, a destiny The old man paused, and stifled a heavy a lawyer, not a merchant, for this head,’said terby— the poverty-stricken the kicked and tinguished himself, there was found in time but slept. Her heart thrills with gratitude to her he Latin fur nail Columbia, and here, it’s in To reach at last, far ofl, magnificent sigh as it arose from his heart. he patting it with his hard bony hand, ‘ is abused slave of his bidding ine way to repay him ; and the reward was con Creator as she looks on those sweet blooming scribed one cent.’ ‘ Look here, stranger,’ re And ocean-wide, all open to the light ‘ Yes, father, I am listening,’ said Lucille. too subtle for mere brokerage and commis ferred by sweet Lucille Preston herself by al faces, and when their prayers are dune, imprints po ded the Sucker, putting the thumb of his hand into his ear, and inclining his fingers for And.air, the glow and breath of the broad sky. ‘ The will of Providence had chosen that sions, the dealing in which is my apparent We must now return to Archibald Pres lowing him the privilege of calling her his own. a good night kiss upon each rosy mouth. It ton and his daughter. may he, too, a tear will start for the little nest ward, ‘ you may run a saw on a Hosier or this father’s hopes should be blasted,’ said occupation. Ha ha ha,’ And he laughed Wolverine, hut I’m dod rotted if you Yankee W hile I behold toy beauty, or attend, ‘There, father, it is past!’ said Lucille. Stay at Home. ling bird in its chill narrow bed, for whom her With hushed and spell-bound heart, to thy loud lays. .Mr. Preston, • and that the bright visions he out his harsh, dry laughs as he let his fan maternal Cure is no longer needed. It sleeps me with the contusive stuff. ‘ 1 am ready to make this trial— I am ready 1 reason that thy lovely looks and wild, had built in the dim future should entirely cy wander thus pleasant about. ‘ But this is That the people of Maine, as well as all the though the sleet and snow descend, and the wild Untaught, unequalled music, do not come vanish. The Almighty willed that death not business,’ he muttered. to be led’ to the altar by tiis man, if in so other New England States, and also of the Mid winter howls around their head It needs n Tue Murrain. The distemper which has ap Alone from thy great hopes, but, from, as well, should lay its fingers upon the young man’s Again he began rummaging within the doing I do but save you one moment of pain, dle States, are laboring under an extraordinary longer her tender care ! A mightier arm en peared among the cattle of the North of Europe, The life thou broughtest with thee from thy home.