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opposite to his appearance in public,-these I consider as eccentricities; at least they were in him.)

them to censure us, and, were they acquaint ed with every circumstance concerning each member of our fraternity, I do not hesitate in It was a chilly evening near the commencegiving my candid opinion, that they would ment of last February, that I found myself seatnot find us so much in fault as some others.-ed with this personage over a cheerful fire.-Yes sir, I actually believe that there is not one The crackling faggots blazed high upon his living, of whom it may be said, it is his own hearth, and comfort seemed to have chosen fault in belonging to the society. But alas! this for her abode. On the table between us the people, in the hardness of their hearts, were the newspapers of the day, among which would bring us down to a level with the brute I discovered, alas ! the New York Mirror. A creation, and like them we must have a tax file of the Philadelphia Album was hanging imposed upon us. Alas, sir, well may we exbehind the door, and one corner of the first claim, O tempora! O mores! Now sir, did number of the Bower of Taste was peeping, these wise people only know how full to overunluckily,out of the table drawer!! My friend flowing is our cup of bitterness, their inveterhad become wonderfully addicted to the Indiate hatred, for I can distinguish it by no better an weed, and had been setting for half an hour name, would be exchanged for a pitying and in a reverie of unmingled enjoyment, at one sympathizing feeling. Yes, our lot is surely hard moment the thick columns rolling from his enough without being aggravated by the imposimouth like a pillar of smoke over a half smoth-tion of a tax upon our pockets. But to proceed. ered fire, and at another, bursting out, for all the world, like the steam of a boiling tea kettle! I well knew the effects of this habit upon him, and was aware that he was now in a happy mood.

"Come Nat," said I, throwing down my newspaper, and speaking with accustomed familiarity," here's a good long evening before us, how can it be passed more agreeably than by hearing a history of your life?" "A history of my life, eh?" said he, taking his cigar from his mouth. "Yes sir, a history of your life." "Why, child, a history of the life of Nathaniel Charles Emberton would be but a

detail of wars and battles!" "Indeed, but

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how so?" Why sir, it would but recount wars between Love and Fear, and battles between Hope and Despair." "Rather a ludicrous life indeed sir, but perhaps 'twill be so much the more interesting." "Pshaw, 'twould take a long while, however, you shall have an abridgement." He threw his cigar with a careless twirl into the fire, then leaning back closing his eyes and folding his arms, commenced :

"When the young blood ran riot in my veins, And boyhood made me sanguine,”-

"How," exclaimed I interrupting him, "do you begin with a quotation ?" "Certainly sir, ali novels, of late years, commence with a quotation." "That I acknowledge, but this is history, not fiction." "But 'tis novel notwithstanding," he continued with a significant smile; then, changing his form of a prelude, began with speaking of the manner in which his class is treated by the world.

"The world sir, is very illiberal in its feelings towards our unoffending class. It is true we are increasing, to an alarming degree, but that does not excuse the portion of mankind, who have had the better fortune to launch from the shores of celibacy, and anchor within the smooth harbor of matrimony, for their ungenerous, calumnious, and tyrannical conduct towards us. If we have not trod the path which they have, it is certainly unjust for

I was born-it is immaterial where, and the manner in which I spent my youthful days would be uninteresting. Naturally of an aspiring spirit, I early shook off the galling shackles of parental thraldom, and assumed a manly independence of myself, insomuch that when thirteen summers had passed over me, I was a person of vastly more importance in my own during one jolly winter evening while visiting opinion, than at ten years afterwards. It was thrilling sensation of rather a ludicrous charwith a party of playmates at this age, that a acter came over my bosom. Little Isabella was in the company, and often during the evening, I discovered myself gazing intently upon the glossy curls that came down over a beautiful neck. This was the first time I had discovered those marks of beauty of which I had heard older people speak, and ah, a sad prelude to, and just picture of every future day of my life I persuaded myself that I was in love. Her image was in my mind's eye during the day, and haunted my visions by night.-If by chance I met her in the street, the fulling mill of my bosom commenced its operations, and I could not raise my head to catch the glances of her bright blue eye. But, as dropping water will wear away the hardest alabaster, so did the lapse of time gradually rub off that burden upon my bosom. I soon discovered the wavering disposition of my heart. I had seen more of the world, and the bright eyes of Isabella were forgotten by the appearance of a Mary. Again, as I grew more advanced in age and became more extensively acquainted, and a nicer discriminator of beauty, the throne of Mary was usurped by Adeline,and from thence,a whole line of queens ran through their evanescent reigns in quick succession.-I now began to look upon creation in a different light. I immediately threw off all the simplicity and ease natural to mankind, and took upon me artificial airs. I soon became expert in all the manoeuvres of a beau gallant, my hat instinctively left the pinnacle and lodged upon the side of my head, a walking stick found its way to my hands,

"And, 'twixt my finger and my thumb, I held || terchange of mutual regard had ever taken A pouncet-box, which ever and anon

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place, no breathings of the heart ever uttered. I found myself in a predicament similar to

I endeavored to make the pleasure of the la- many through which I had passed before ;—I dies my pleasure, yet sometimes I felt disgust-loved, but I feared.

ed with the seeming insipidity of the manners of the world, and relaxed from my attention; but alas, I discovered that if I played the beau, I was laughed at in secret, and if I did not, I was called

"An untaught knave-unmannerly."

In my eighteenth year, fate and fortune decreed that I must move from the scenes of childhood, to dwell in this place; must leave behind me a large circle of friends and acquaintance, to go among strangers. But here I was not long in obtaining introductions and forming acquaintance, and, although the fair images which had previously been engraven upon my heart were erased, yet, there was another too soon imprinted upon it, and in deeper, and more substantial lines.

Julia Maria Dolabella, was formed in beauty's mould :-but her personal comeliness and external charms were not her greatest ornaments, she was endowed with a mind of no ordinary cast, a mind that cherished every virtue, and discarded every vice. I dreamed that if perfection was upon earth, it was with her, and thought, from the inmost recesses of my bosom, (as I had of each of my loves in their turn,) that I might spend, with her, a sweet and unsullied life of connubial felicity. But these secret musings, these air castles, were known only to myself. As I had shown, if possible, less marked attention to her than to others, I did not once imagine that my conduct would betray myself. 'Tis true that from some circumstance of the time, my seat in company would generally be placed beside hers, and, as to conversation, I imagined it a sure indication of ill-breeding to converse with those upon the opposite side of the room. But the busy whisper was soon circulated through many mouths, concerning the partiality of Mr. Emberton, towards Julia. I marvelled at this, scanned my conduct, but could discover nothing which should give rise to the report, even her name had never escaped my lips, to my recollection, while I had freely conversed concerning other acquaintances.

It is a happy circumstance for the people of this wide and story-loving world, that, when there are not actual realities sufficient, upon which to build the foundation of a report, there are tongues ever ready to lend their aid in artificially completing it. I have ever had the misfortune to be a victim to these people, insomuch, that had their words come to pass, I should have stood before the altar, long since, with one, to whom the most pointed of my attentions was, that my younger brother was once seen riding with the lady's grandmother! But to return.-Although I was, in reality,so much enamoured with Julia,no secret avowals of attachment had been spoken, no in

REMAINDER IN OUR NEXT.

FORGETFULNESS.

There is perhaps no sorrow which the oblivious band of time, may not wash into forgetfulness. In early life, when the heart is alive to every impression, and when its feelings are uncorrupted by the cold realities of worldiness, a thousand delusive speculations will haunt the imagination, and give a beautiful tinge to its day dreams. But each of these gives place to some new fancy, followed up with a childish eagerness, until the phantom dissolves of itself, and we turn away, wondering where was the attraction. It is thus with the early passions of the human bosom. Few individuals of either sex arrive at the age of twenty, without having experienced something of love. In most cases the first approach of this passion is ever most diffident and pure. We know so little of guile, are so unpracticed in deceit, that the emotions of the heart flow forth uncontaminated, and Our dreams of the idol are sully less as driven snow. Yet first love is in most cases, a childish and transient passion. The nature of man undergoes such a wonderful revolution, when he takes upon himself the authority of his own actions, and mingles in the counsels of his fellows, that the motives which actuate his conduct, his taste and in fact his whole character become changed. It is then that the dream of the earlier years, gradually loses its enchantment-his mind developes its energies, and asks for something of intellectual strength, as well as personal beauty, to kindle up its vivid emotions. Instead of a diffident blushing and timid girl, he seeks for a wcman of immaculate chastity-fervent passions, and high soul'd feelings-a being whose virtue is a principle rather than a timidity. The puerile emanations of his early moments-the childish the vain ebullitions of his visionary outpourings of his youthful fancy, and hours are succeeded by something of a deeper if not a more ambitious charac

they have hung upon the neck of some other lover, and here have been equally desperate. Wives forgot their husbands a little while after the cold clod of the valley has shrouded their forms, and husbands forget their wives, ere the eye has lost the beauty, which once kindled up bewildering enthusiasm.

Let him who weds when desperately enamoured, and when the presence of the one beloved seems the vital spring which cherishes existence-let not such an one imagine that the dream will be lastingly as vivid, and as fervently productive of felicity, as at the moment of his betrothment. Man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward; and he that is sufficiently deluded to believe that the sky of matrimonal felicity will never be dimmed with a cloud, is the victim of error, which time alone will remove. In matrimonial alliances as in all other contracts, the most determined spirit of generosity must continue from the moment of their formation, till their dissolution. It is a contract entered

ter. He gazes back upon the gilded || would willingly have perished, rather track of time, beholding many beautiful than be divided from the object of their memories, and vivid spots on the pages affections-we have seen them become of that existence; be feels that it would dull at the remotest thought of separahave been paradise, forever to have tion; and phrensied with despair, when been a child-but also feels that his na- doomed but to a transitory absence.— ture is changed, and that the impulses Destiny has rendered that absence perthat swell his soul, are deep and deep-petual, and ere the close of another year, ly incomprehensible. This change in the character and feelings, is invariably the effect of time and circumstances.As distance separates those, whom frequent associations have united in the fine affinity of sympathies, as fortune changes, and as fair faces, bright lips, and laughing eyes pass before us in all their sunny and youthful splendor, forgetfulness falls upon our early memories, and the first light of love is most in the dreams of other, and it may be of darker years. The broken slumber is forgotten the fond words it was our wont to deem delicious, are spoken unheeded -the slight tremor is unreciprocated and the mantling blush steals over white temples ungazed upon and unappreciated. Long days will lose their lagging anxiety, and long nights their troubled dreams. The heart refuses to leap with interest when the name of the charmer is spoken, and the lips to breathe forth praises, when her virtue and beauty are the themes of converse. Another current has led away our thoughts, and whilst we hourly discover more attrac-into for the mutual happiness of the partion in the new idol, we wonder at the ties, and each should strive to render delusion that ever could perceive a soli- the other felicitous, by every laudable tary beauty in her whom we have for- and virtuous method. The disposition saken. This is the wavering love of of your partner should be perfectly unman; and although longer in develop-|| derstood, and every turn of that disposiing, such is the fidelity of woman. A tion consulted in every material step change will fall upon the spirit of her through life. There is no happiness in dream, and she will gaze back over the || matrimony, unless this is made the parwaste of years, and deem it almost im- amount consideration; and he that expossible, that so many could have twin-pects every exertion to be made by his ed themselves among her affections.-wife, and her life oppressive and hateAlas there is little fidelity in life; and ful. Her early hopes will be blasted, although it is a vain and pleasurable fal- her affections destroyed, and forgetfullacy to think otherwise-beauty, and ness will fall upon the memory of her innocence, and virtue, require but to be devotion, with all its cold and withering sought after to be won. Passionate de-associations. votion to their interests and pleasuresundeviating perseverance, and undiminished affection will conquer the proudest, nay, the most cold and calculating hearts. We have known women who

Philadelphia Album.

ASM ODEUS..

We have received the first number of the "Cabinet of Nature," published at Northampton, conducted by Dr. L. S. Morgan.

VARIETY.

A sporting gentleman, passing by a house, observing on the door, the separate names of a physician and surgeon, facetiously remarked that the circumstance put him in mind of a double barrelled gun, for if one missed, the other was sure to kill.

AIR OF IRELAND.-Lady Carterit, wife of the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, in Swift's time, said to him one day, "The air in this country is very good. "Swift fell on his knees and said, "For God's sake, madam don't say so in England; they'll most certainly tax it."

WHEN TO PRAISE.-Praise the fineness of the day when it is ended; praise a woman when you have known her; a sword when you have proved it; a maiden after she is married; the ice when you have crossed it, and liquor after it is drunk.

The Spy Unmasked, or the Memoirs of E. Crosby, alias Harvey Birch. The Spy of the Neutral Ground, is the title of a work recently published by the Messrs. Harpers of NewYork. The author is Capt. H. L. Barnum, of the United States corps of Topographical Engineers, who received the principal incidents of Mr. Crosby's life in the order in which they occurred, from his own lips, at his residence in Putnam county, and took them down in short hand. From these was composed the biographical sketch now offered to the pub lic. It is ornamented with six copperplate

engavings, one of which is a miniature likeness of Harvy Birch taken from life, with a fac simile of his signature. Of all Mr.Cooper's novels the Spy is most to our liking; the character of Harvey Birch is one of intense interest,and Mr. Crosby being the original of that excellent portrait, we anticipate much satisfaction from the perusal of his life.

AMERICAN BEAUTY.-Neither English beauty nor French beauty, neither Spanish beauty nor Italian beauty, is so shifting, or so modest, or so intellectual as American beauty. More attractive they all are on some accounts,more wonderful and more showy, but they are unlike it even the beauty of England is so-in the sweetness and composure, in the spiritualized air that, one sees in the youthful women of our country, particularly at the south, and in the free, cordial, generous manner that so eminently distinguishes the cultivated female of the north, where we may find more nature and less affectation perhaps, than among any other women of the age.

Professionals.-There are thirty-six physicians and ninety-one attorneys residing in Albany.

THE TALISMAN.

WORCESTER, SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1828.

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

A fever called the Spanish fever is raging in New Orleans it is considered the greatest epidemic ever experienced in Louisiana. It does not appear from the account received, whether it is the Dengue or some other fever. The city of Lima was visited by a dreadful earthquake on the morning of the 30th March, great damage was done; if the shock had lasted a few seconds longer, the city would have been laid in ruins.-It seems that Gov. Taylor of South Carolina has disappointed the hot headed politicians of that State by refusing to accede to their request for calling an extra session of the legislature. Accounts of bloody battles between the Turks and Russians have been published and contradicted; the most authentic information from Turkey of late dates, announce that extensive and formidable preparations are making to resist the Russian forcbut it is presumed that the contest between these powers, although probably bloody in its progress, will, from the superior discipline of the Russian troops and the greater resources of that empire, eventually terminate in favor of Russia, and that the Turkish rule in Europe will soon be past and only known as

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matter of history. Gold has been discovered in Virginia, about 14 miles from Fredericksburg. We are inclined to think that more gold will be found to accumulate in the farmers pockets from a proper cultivation of the soil, than by any upturning of the ground for the sole purpose of finding the precious dust. Sir Walter Scot is said to have realized dur

ing the 21 months preceding December last more than $90,000. (Milton sold his immortal work, Paradise Lost, for £15.) It seems from late accounts that the Pirates are again committing depredations upon our commerce; they are seen walking in the streets of Havana at noon-day fearless of harm, but it is useless for sufferers by them to complain to the authorities of the island; (Cuba) little could be hoped for from the interposition of a government imbecile if not corrupt. During the night of the 11th ult. a dwelling house was burnt in Cincinnati, (Ohio). Three lads in the 9th 7th and 5th years of their age were burnt to death. A mechanic has recently invented a self

sharpening plough; the next great desideratum in Agriculture will be to have self moving ploughs, so that a farmer may be able to start his plough in the morning in the field he desires to have ploughed, and busy himself about any other work on his farm during the day, or sit in the shade and smoke his pipe while his work is doing.

South America, Brazil and Buenos Ayres.An unnecessary long protracted, feeble and inefficient war seems merely to exist between these two Sophomeric political nations, the result will be nothing but national and personal hatred.-Traveller.

YALE COLLEGE.

ber of limbs affected with the fire blight, some of them were more than three feet in length, he separated the limbs from the parent tree so close to the body as to take a piece of the bark from the trunk, then carefully split the limbs from end to end keeping the split as near the centre of the limb as possible, and most of the length in the pith; he then examined minutely and thoroughly the two parts of the limb thus prepared with a good microscope, (its magnifying power ten degress,) and was not able to discover the slightest trace of any perforation made by any bug or insect in any part of the pieces. In order to be more sure, he again divided the pieces into equal sections longitudinally, and subjected the fresh sides thus exposed to the test of the

We are sorry to learn that a serious misun-microscope, and still no appearance of the derstanding has arisen between the principals work of any insect could be discovered.

of this respectable institution and a portion of the pupils, which has resulted in an open rupture, and the withdrawal of nearly one third of the scholars.-Merc. Adv.

The Corner Stone of the Church about to be erected by the Unitarian Society in this town, will, we learn, be laid at 4 o'clock on Monday next. The exercises will consist of an address by the Rev. A. Hill, and prayer by the Rev. Dr. Bancroft.

Two summers since a disease appeared among our fruit trees, spreading with rapidity, and from the appearance the limbs assumed after the attack, it was called the fire blight. Some persons insisted that the rapid decay of the branches of otherwise apparently healthy trees, was in consequence of their being gir dled by a small bug which eat its way in the sap-wood nearly or quite round the limb, that this bug was not more than one tenth of an inch in length, and sundry other particulars.

Others insisted that it was a new disease and probably arose from a change of the sap, effected by the powerful rays of the summer sun operating upon an unusually luxuriant growth of new wood, that it became sour or its qualities materially changed. Newspaper communications appeared, and the writers on both sides remained satisfied of the correctness of their different theories.

The writer of this, in order to satisfy himself, took particular pains to examine a num

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In Westminster, July 26, Harriet Williams, only child of Rev. Charles Hudson, aged 1 year.

In Templeton, Friday, August 1, Samuel Cutting, Esq. Counsellor at Law, aged 46.

Drowned.-In Warren Pond, in the north part of Dudley, on the 17th inst. Theola Hall, Charlton. He had been out on the pond fishaged 9 years, son of widow Thomas Hall, of ing, and was on his return across the pond home. His body was not found until Saturday, about 5 o'clock P. M. after the most diligent search of about 20 or 30 persons, during most part of the time.

In Cambridgeport, Aug. 4, Mrs. Mary Draper, wife of Simeon Draper, Esq. of Brookfield, aged 58 years. Also, in Brookfield, Aug. 2d, Miss Betsey Draper, their daughter, aged 39.

In Hubbardston, on the 18th ult. of consumption. Mr. Stephen Frost, aged 58. In Oxford, July 17, George, son of Calvin and Rebecca Hall, aged 3 years.

So fades the lovely blooming flower,
Cut down and withered in an hour.
In Andover, Mr. Enoch Parker, aged 75.

EASTERN DELICACY.-A Hindoo of high cast would consider it an insult, if a person not immediately connected with the family were to make any inquiries respecting his fer male relatives. Such questions are regarded, by the jealous Asiatics, as both impertinent and indelicate.

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