thwart his intentions, and bring sorrow up the rocks htung darkly over its high banks on his declining years. "Azula," said he and the low murmer of its gathering clouds glancing fiercely upon the downcast mai-caused the lovers to hesitate a moment ere den thou wert the prop of my old age. they entered their frail bark,

Shall the sun set amidst the storm clouds The wrath of the great spirit is upou shall thy father tear his grey hairs, and us," said Azula, looking fearfully toward scatter them on the four winds of the hea the vapours as they slowly and heavily yens Look up-the nuptial, fire is kin gathered over their heads. "The curse dled before our wigwan, and the chief of of Tahloosin is upon us-Ontwa! let us the Oneidas awaits thy coming.". return."

"Father as the oak is dear to the "Faint-hearted Azula!-the waters and young vine, so thou art to me-but, by the the winds and the storm-clouds are nothgreat spirit who can hear the whisperings ing to the rage of an offended father. of the summer winds upon the bosom of Wouldst thou return now? Be it so go the waters, I cannot give my heart to Ya- and forget Ontwa, if thou canst, he alone cochin will brave the tempest."

The eyes of the hoary chief flashed fire, he cast his daughter. from him, and, stretching his arms: wide, exclaimed; The burse of Tahlooshin be upon thee the clinging curse of a father upon his offspring, if thou art opposed to his dearest They leaped into the canoe and pushed hopes! May the wrathful fires of heaven it from the land just as a body of their fall upon thy head, and consume. thee, if pursuers reached the rocks above them. thou lovest another than Yacochin; may The aged Tahloosin who stood upon an the cavern of damned spirits be too nar- advanced rock breasting the wind which row and its flames too shallow. for thine now began to blow furiously-saw his onaccursed soul to revel in. Azula-comely child borne away by the man whom he to the nuptial feast or be this thy doom hated, and stretching his boney arms over Saying this he left the trembling girl, the deep, he again called the vengance of and joined those who were waiting the ap- the great spirit down upon them. Azula pearance of the bride in front of the wig-waved a farewell to her angry sire, while wam. Azula, scarcely knowing what she .Ontwa with a desperate hope paddled the did, sped to the rock on which she had light canoe over the heavy waves that enthe day before parted with Ontwa. Thrice deavoured in vain to bar their way. They she blew the shell, and the echo rolled a-were just clearing the point which obstruclong the valley-in a moment the young teď their view of the village, when they' warrior was by her side. observed for the first time that they were "Ontwal said she, "I will bear the pursued by a fleet of canoes. Azula Curse of Tabloosin for thee. Let us fly, shrieked when she saw that Yacochin and there are lands beyond the waters where two other indians occupied the foremost. we can live love like that I bear for thee-seizing a paddle, she encouraged her can bring happiness to the wilderness." lover in his exertions. and for a long time. "Dear Azula, my arm is strong and they confronted the raging elements. my canoe is swift. Follow my footsteps, The Oneidas gained upon them, in spite. I will lead thee to the waters." of their efforts the storm, raged, high, They had scarcely commenced descen and both boats were making fast toward ding the rocky slope, when the wild notes the rapids. Ontwa still laboured with all of the conch-shell echoed through the val- his remaining strength, but his paddle fell ley, and the yells of pursuers were heard from his hand and he uttered a wild shriek louder and louder.. Ontwa hurried Azala of despair, when he saw poor Azula fall: along from rock to rock, and through to the bottom of the canoe with the arrow brake and fen until they reached the shore. of Yachochin rankling in her heart! She The frowning aspect of the heavens turned her full dark eyes upon him with was painted with still blacker hues upon an expression which he could not underthe awfully still bosom of the. stream; stand, and sighed-out her spirit.

The young girl threw herself upon his bosom, and then seizing his hand, exclaimed "Ontwa shall not go. alonedeath with him were better than life with Yacochin!" •·.

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"Daughter of the fair-skinned-Azula!"ment of which, too, is founded the more exclaimed the lover bitterly-"we will not extended progress of the human race; be long apart; there are happy places in for the re-action of woman on civilization the land of departed spirits, for those who is based upon her conformation, her duties have loved." Suddenly his features be- and upon all the actual relations of the came clouded, he seized his bow, and tear- social compact. Her acute sensibilities, ing the shaft from the breast of the dead her fine understanding and nice taste, maiden, winged it back to the heart of when placed under the vigilant dominthe infernal chief! ion of a pure and enlightened philosophy, The two remaining Oneida's when they such as is beautifully delineated in the saw their chief fall dead into the turbulent Christian system, fit herfor controlling the deep, uttered a loud yell, and pushed their destinies of man, and leading them to canoe, by several quick strokes of the pad- wards inteligence and peace. dle, directly by the side of Ontwa, who, When we behold her placed as the sole with one blow of his tommahawk severed and endeared guardian of his earliest the skull of the nearest. The other. im- years, when his young mind and heart mediately grappled with him, and the have to receive not merely their develope struggle was long and fearful, each en ment, but their bias and inclination, from. deavouring to throw the other from his the influence to which they are exposed, foot-hold. The storm continued to rage is it ooo much to anticipate, from judici -the roar of the mighty catract now be-ous efforts to fit her better for the sacred gan to add to the horror of the scene the duties nature thus imposes on her, an ame waves tossed as if battling with the clouds lioration for the human state? It is even and the canoes of the struggling warriors too much, when it is confessed that the ef rapidly floated toward the yawning gulph. forts hitherto made in the largest and Azula! Azula!-I am coming!-shouted most influential classes of society have Ontwa as the boats plunged over the foam- been either altogether meagre, or almost ing verge. Down-down the horrid abyss intirely misdirected, to anticipate from a they went, joining their wild yell with the more correct and comprehensive system, roar of the waters. The storm rolled on a greater advancement of society. than the water spirit shrieked, amid the deaf- may be expected from any other cause? ning tumult-the canoes floated along It has been for some time, the writer's through the curling eddies, but the war- opinion, that more is to be hoped from the proper education of females of the middle and lower classes, by fitting them for the all-important office of mothers; from leading them to estimate themselves more as the creatures of intellect. than of heart, and from discountenancing the present In the history of every age and nation; method, which absorbs far too much of woman's social condition affords the tru- their best talents in accomplishments, at est estimate of the progress of civilization- most adapted to adorn, in promoting the Amongst savage tribes, she is almost re- further improvement of society. than from duced to a level with the beasts of burden; almost any other compatible design; which in a somewhat more elevated state, she must plead an excuse for what he would becomes an equal participant' with her hardier companion in the drudgery of much, at the first view, his readers may hope may not be unprofitable, however uncivilized life; through numerous shades be disposed to consider it a speculative she thus proceeds onwards, till she be- digression.

riors were seen no more.

WOMAN'S INFLUENCE ON
SOCIETY

comes enslaved to another passion of na

ture, that hardly leaves her in a more enviable condition than that entailed on her

coarsest servitude. When at length she A LESSON FOR KINGS.-King Louis Phil comes to be treatedas an intelligent being ippe had his "seat of honor" well kicked her state receives the last and grandest in the year of our Lord 1817, by an Ame impulse to improvement, in the advance-rican landlord, at Winchester.

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THE UNCERTAINTY OF HEATH.

COMFORT FOR PEDAGOGUES.-Louis Philippe, the un-assassinated king of the How precarious is the enjoyment of French, taught a country school, at Hadhealth! We retire to rest, well, and i donfield, near Camden, New Jersey. spirits, projecting a thousand plans for the

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morrow; the morrow comes, and the QUICK MATCH.-Says I, 'Suckey?' and nerveless hand, and aching head preclude I winked. Says she, 'Why John?' But the execution of our projects; a lesson says I, 'I dont mean something, Suckey.' (would we but profit by it) never to put off The deuce, John, you dont? what do till to-morrow what we can do to-day; you mean? I mean to ask you if you There, dang it, it's all out to-morrow may never come for us, or if will have me. it does, we may be so bowed down by ill- at last.? Have you? Yes John and be ness, as to be unable to perform those du- glad too,' says Suckey; and so we startties which we have so foolishly deferred ed off, and had the knot tied about the the performance of. How many a time quickest and if I did'nt feel funny, then the sun has risen on a corse, who when I hope I may be shot...

his parting beams tinted the horizon, was

glowing with health, and fondly anticipat- How DID HE DIE-A small lad, the son ed length of days; but the Almighty Dis- of a poor woman, went the other day for poser of events had willed it otherwise. a minister to attend the funeral of his litAlas! why do we feel this truth so sensibly tle brother. and though feeling, fail to practice what we preach? 'Tis the frailty of human nature, which prone to. error, errs in all things. May the lines which are stamped in indelible characters on the stainless paper be graven on my memory, and on that of all who read them! Never defer. till to-morrow what may be done to-day: and not only graven there, but in practice.

"Where did he live?" asked the minister
"He did'nt live," answered the boy.
"Where did he die then."
"He died at home."
"What made him die?".
"Cause he did'nt live, poor thing.'
"I mean what did he die of?"
"He did'nt die of nothing."

"He dinn't die of nothing? How did he die then."

Why, he died a borning, if you must

REPARTEE An elderly gentleman tray-know. elling in a stage coach, was amused by the constant fire of words kept up between

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two ladies. One of them at last kindly in- FORTITUDE.-"What's the metter boy?" quired if their conversation did not make E-heh! e-heh!" snivelled the urchin, wip-. his head ache, when he answered with a ing his nose with his coat sleeve,-"Fagreat deal of naivette, "No ma'am, Ither's killed by fightnin'-mother's fell have been married twenty-eight years."

down stairs and broke her neck-sister's fell in the well-and I don't care a d-n!"

Cousins. There's nothing like a cou- "I should think it was," said Mr. Picksin. It is the sweetest relation in human wick, laughing.

nature. There is no excitement in love

ing your sister, and courting a lady in the

face of a strange family requires the nerve MESSAGE.-Mr. Prown's compliments of a martyr; but your dear familiar cou- to Mr. Smith, thinks it unnecessary his sin. with her bewitching freedoms, and the piggs should go thro' his grounds.' romping frolics, and the stolen tender- REPLY.-Mr. Smith's compliments to ness over the skein of silk that will get Mr. Brown, thinks it equally unnecessary tangled and then the long rides which no- to spell pigs with two gees.' body talks about, and the long tete-a-tetes

which are nobody's business and the long PUN.-"That's a beautiful coat you have letters of which nobody pays the postage on," said one gentleman to another : no, there is nothing like a cousin-a young, where does your tailor live?" "on the skirts. of the town," was the ready response. gay, beautiful witch of a cousin!