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You be stricken out, and now I rapped on was round my neck, and the head of the “The Whig party has disgraced it­ E pitaphs. For every one, life has some blessing- see I have not a living soul in the the deck aud called them to do so. sobbing Laurette was on my bosom. self in Mr. Clay’s district, sir, and I am Notwithstanding the feelings of solem­ some cup that is not mixed with bitter­ world to care for, or that cares for me. They instantly obeyed, and 1 heard “ Oh ! you dear excited captain—” compelled to part with the finest blood­ nity which one has when reading lines ness. At every heart there is some fount of puje waters, and all mankind at some I want relations, I want a home, I want them laughing and chattering like two Heavens who is that behind you? ed horse in the State to pay my wager engraved on tomb stones, wo cannot but J ill’. CI.OSED G ENTIAN There stood the manly form of An­ time or other, taste their sweetness. Who a family. 1 should like to make iny innocent school-fellows. with that lady, sir.” be amused at the strange taste the oddi­ is he that has not fonnd on his path of BY MBS. T. WHITNEY home with you, my pretty young ones ! One morning when I awoke I was toine Ilindsclear, the convict. The black boy had led Powhatan to ties of composition, and quaintness of life, some fragrant rosebush, scenting all “What does this mean,” I demanded, I climbed, one da? n a great, high shelf, What say ye?’’ surprised not to feel the slightest mo­ the hitching rail in front of Mrs. Faunt- wit sometimes there displayed, especially the air with its sweet perfume. W here God rare tli s doth hide, They said nothing at all, but sat tion of the vessel. Hurrying on deck, hardly knowing whether I was dreaming leroy’s yard, and, having tied him,and And iound a poem tl tad writ itself looking, first at each other and then at I found that we were becalmed. Lati­ or not. on those erected during the last century. Ministers make regular daily calls at side. gone into the quarters to tell his broth­ Against, the mount me, as if they doubted whether they un­ tude, one degree north ; longitude, be­ “ Are you glad to see me?” I remember having somewhere seen the a boarding-house block on Locust street, ers and sisters of their mistress’s great St. Louis, with the enquiry, "Anything A plant whose green spires .something barely grew derstood what I had said. tween twenty-seven aud twenty-eight Thank God ! thank God! was all I good luok in having won the famous following couplet, said to have been cop­ Held at its short, brave tips. in my liue this morning?” Tuere ha3 HATS But at last the little bird threw her degrees west. could ejaculate.' horse Powhatan. ied from a tomb stone:— been seven marriages in the block in the Full clustered flowers t vivid, purple-blue, arms around my neck aud cried like a I understood it all. The mate Garley “ Here lie the remains of Dea. Auricular, Yet bud-like, with shut lips. 1 waited until night, when I des- When Gen. Peyton and John arrived past few months, aud from the number of baby. ‘-But,” she said, suddenly paus­ cended to my cabin and opened the let- had read my heart better than I did my- they found the pretty widow and two Who, in the ways of God, walked perpendicu­ couples that sit on the cold steps in tha The de.icate corollas sw<T- d unsheathed ing, ‘-you haven’t looked at the letter ter, with a dull, awful feeling. I held self. After leaving the brig in the boat, young lady friends in the yard admiring lar.” moonlight, it is evident that bneiness has From calyx-cradles small. he arranged the whole affair. The vol­ Here is that of a clock-maker, in De­ only commenced. In tender balls, with clea: urved veinlngfl wreathed witli the big red seal.” my breath while I broke the big red seal Powhatan. The ladies were in high AND ley was fired, but no bullet touched An­ von :— That, closing, sealed them all. “ Hang it!” I exclaimed, “ it had aud read : glee, and after the usual salutations the Now. gentlemen,” said a peripapetie slipped my mind entirely.” “Captain Fontainbleau: The con­ toine Ilindsclear. He was smuggled gentlemen were invited to take seats “ Here lies, in horizontal position the out- lecturer to a somewhat noisy crowd who I said, “It is the Gentian;” and I sought side case of George liouLleigh, watchmaker, For an unfolded one. With a colil, dreadful senasation, I vict Antoiue Hindselear, stands con­ into the berth again, and took care to on the porch, which th<*y did. had gathered to one of his seances in an went to my chest to see where we were. avoid my sight. Tiie whole crew were whose abilities in that line were an honor to Just veiling with sweet-fringt a its heart-thought victed of high trear u against the Re­ “ Madam,” said the general to Mrs. his profession. Integrity was the main-spriny Eastern village, “ how would yon like a Of glnducss from the sun. I found that we had several days re­ public. The d>- y order that he be in tiie plot, aud, thank God, I was Fauntleroy, “ I have come like a true and prudence the regulator of all the actions ot good blackguard story? All in favor Vainly. It never opened, some one said. maining before we should reach the shot in mid-ocea ., and you are hereby t j n ^ r Kentucky gentleman, to pay the wager his life. Humane, generous, and liberal, his raise their hands.” Nine-tenths of the The strange, lair bud was all proper longitude for opening the letter. instructed to see that these orders are i sent Garley a thousand dollars as a I have lost. Powhatan, Madam, is hands were stopped till he had relieved distress. dexter paws present iustautly went up, and there was a sudden hush of all noisy A bright hope oniy half-interpreted, Well, there we stood, all three of us carried into effect.” reward. rightfully yours.” So nicely regulated were all his motions that And shrivelling to its fall, he never went wrong, except when set agoing demonstration. The lecturer went on looking up at the letter as if it could I read the letter Itaekward and for­ I am now an old ntau; but I am “But. general,” said she, “I believe by people who did not know his key. Ever, with his original subject for a few min­ would not thin k It. Surely never so' have spoken to us. As it happened the ward. I went on deek. There they happy. My children and my grand­ the wager was conditional. It wa9 the then he was easily set right again. He had the utes, when some incautions individual The blessed types are set. sun wasshiniugfull upon the face of the were, she looking upon the ocean, and children (1 call them nothing else) seem horse or anything else on the place, was art of disposing of his time so well, that his broke out with, “Say, where’s that Still I went looking wistful, to and fro, I clock case, and fell upon thegreat star­ he gazing upon her with an expression to think old Captain Fontainbleau is it not?” hours glided away in one continual round of story?” “ Bless you,” was the reply, “I The perfect word to get. BOOTS, SHOES ing red seal of the letter. I could not of unutterable fondness. Catching bis not such a wretch after all. “ Madam,” he replied, “you are cor­ pleasure and delight, till an unlucky minute did not intend to tell you such a story. I put a period to Ins existence. He departed ,Twas there for reading. God’s ryh lake large jle|p fancying it looked something like only wanted to know how many black­ eye I signed for him to come into the rect. But there is nothing on my place this life November 4, 1802, aged 57, wound up guards are present.” You might have room, i a big monster, an ogre’s face, grinning cabin, aud, bidding her good-by, he NICEST JVIDO IF IN THE BE UE With answering meanings rife; one-half the valueof Powhatan.