was Augus Wallingford, I had know him virulence, could I persuade him to take as a boy in my native place, in New En passage in a ship bound for Savannah. gland. He was the only son of a man of Twenty-four hours ago, I had seen him. wealth. His natural genius had been cul-on board, and beheld the ship unmoar hind t.vated by a finished education. As the fall down the river, with a favour bie companions of, his brilliant parts, he pos- breeze. What then was my astonishment sessed the wildest enthusiasm and the to see him again at my side, when I was warmest passions: yet, mingling with this congratulating him upon the distance that rank exuberance of feeling, there was a lay between us. To my.expressins of lotty generosity of temper and elevation surprise and regret; he replied laughingly, of character. Originality was his ainupon' my soul a most hospitable. Triend; yet his eccentricity was not the flightness risk my life to see you once again, and of the fool, conspicuous only for his absur-instead of feeling grateful for the visit, dites. In person he was eminently pre- you wish me to my face an hundred miles posessing, in ag scarce three, and 'wenty.away; I will be more chary another time After the conclusion of his studies, he de-encountering the plague for the pleasure of termined to become a wanderer for a while your company"""" To his projects of peregrination his father "I trust you will; and would to God you reluctantly assented, wishing him the ad-had done so in this instance. But since vantages of travel yet fearing to trust him you, are here: explain I pray you how out of his control. Augus might have you got here." gone at once to Europe; his father desi-Why that is soon done-we dropped red it; but he declared that he would stu-down the river with a pretty breeze, but it dy in his own country first, so that, when was a dead calm, before we got half a catechized by the people of other lands, he dozen miles, and then it was a sluggish, might not disgrace himself by ignorance loglike float to the English turn, where. of his own. Leaving his home about a the stream takes a bend that seemed to be year since, he traversed nearly the whole bringing us right back again, and that so of the western states, and a couple of slowly, that I thought I might as well months back, he had presented himself to quicken my course in the desired direction. me in New Orleans. He had arrived at So I made the captain just put me ashore manhood since I had last seen him. and seizing a raw boned nag, I got hold soon saw, in his character, the mixture of of at a sugar plantation, I trotted up to faults and excellencies, which composed town, promising to be back before the it, and attaching myself closely to him, ship had travelled ten miles further. Far endeavouring to supply to him the wantrived at the City Hotel just at two o'clock of a restraining friend. and as I dismounted from my gallant steed, I introduced him to the best society of who should come up but my particular. the place, in which he made a brilliant Triend Walter Willis, who impressed and figure. With his usual versatility, he carried me off to dine with him, and here caught at once the tone of the circles of I am fresh from a bottle of celestial Bur fashion in which he moved. He became gundy." The flush upon his face confirm the favourite of his associates of both this confession Remonstrance upon the sexes and formed for them an equal prede- madness of his conduct, especially in his lection, Thus he had gone on, enjoying present state of excitement, I knew to be himself among a people whose manners useless. I therefore merely asked, when and mode of life he found pleasingly con- he intended returning to the ship genial to his own notions. As the period "Oh, so as to catch her somewhere.bedrew near, when the epidemic of the cli-tween this and the mouth of the river, mate was to commence its ravages, I con- my moveables and money are snug in my stantly urged him the necessity of a time-trunk on board, and that, you know, is ly withdrawal. He promised to be ruled surety enough for my persuing her. I by my advice, but declared that he would shall take an early start in the morning, stay till the last allowable moment and not lest a gale should sweep suddenly down be too casily frightened from so paradisai-stream and carry my chattels out to sea cal a spot. Not until several cases of in the ship. yellow fever had occurred, of peculiar To be continued:: The following from the Pickwick papers, is of all other means of getting a debtor out of prison, the most novel. "Sammy," whispered.Mr. Weller, look ing cautiously around, my duty to your gother, and tell, him if he thinks better of this here bis'ness, to communicate with me Me and a cabinet maker has dewissed plan for gettin' him out. A pianner, Sam via planner!" said Mr. Weller, striking his son on the chest with the back of his hand and falling back a step or two. "Wot do you mean?" said Sam. Arianner forty, Samivil," rejoined Mr. Weller in a still more mysterious manner, as he can have on hire; vun as von't play Sammy." And wot ud be the good a' that?" said Sarn, In Memory of WILLIAM FRENCH Son of Mr. Nathaniel French Who Here William French his Body lies, that with a bawl his head Shot threw Fes Liberty.and his country's Good he Lost his life and Dearest blood. An elderly woman in the town of Y-had rehow to read, and supposing it to be from one of her ceived å letter, through the post-office. Not knowing. absent sons, she handed it to a friend present, who opened it and began thus: «Charleston, June 23, 1821. Dear mother!;-here the reader stopped, for she "Let him send my friend the cab'net could make out no more, when the old lady exclaim. ed, "Oh, 'tis from poor Jerry-he alwaya stut maker to fetch it back, Sammy," replied tered. Mr. Weller. "Are you avak now?" No," rejoined Sam.. There an't no vurks in it," whispered his father. "It ut hold him easy with his hat and shoes on; and breathe through the legs vich is hollor. Have a passage ready taken for Merriker.. The Merrikin gov'ment vill never give him up ven vunce they finds he's got money to spend. Sammy. Let the owner stop there till. Mrs. Bardell's dead, or Mr. Dadson and Fogg's hung vich last cwent is most likely to happen first, Sammy; and then let him come back and write a book about the Merrikins, as'll pay all his expenses, and more, if he blows em up enough," Mr. Weller, delivered. this hurried ab stract of his plot with great vehemence of whisper, and then, as if fearful of weakening the effect of the tremendous com. munication by any further dialogue, gave the coachman a salute and vanished.. TO MY WIFE WE'VE loved through good and ill report My heart was always thine: To know that thou art mine,To see thee standing by my side, My.lovely young, and blushing bride! Before the altar we have stood, Our lips have breathed the vow, To cleave through evil and through good, And ever love as now, Our hearts, our hands, our fortunes, one, And gazing on thy brow, For the Visiter. 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R GERS, 4) Chesnut street, Philadel pha, shall receive the 5th copy gratis. Editors by copying our prospectus, and sending & paper of th same to the office, shall receive the Visiter for one year. All orders addressed to the publisher, post paid, will receive immediate attention.. Yes, I remarked, "your situation, atcendant whom the manager of the St. this moment, is not unlike that of Ariadne Philippe Theaire had engaged for a short heres her lover has left her on shore, and season at an immenso cost, that her pas is running away from her as fast as he rentage was he spectable, her char can, and so is your luggage treating you acter digit less, her name who are equally insensible to the abandon- Clara Wanada, that she was to play this very night the character of ment A good parallel" he replied with vi-Juliet. You may be sure I did not: fong vacity,, as he fixed his eyes upon the paint deliberate about going to see her, and ing. What incomparable loveliness in was on my way to the Theatre when I that form and face; stay, I have discover-stept in here for a glass of iced lemonade ed a resemblance in it to another than my as a cooling counteractor of my wine. self, 66 ves à living, literal likeness to the He pulled out his watch, observed that most beauteous creature in creation, who he had ten minutes to spare, ordered, the first met, those eyes hot an hour sincerefrigerating draught, in which I consertAs I sat with. Walter at our wine, be suded to join him, and we sat down at a table, denly called to me to look out of the win alternately to taste and talkMy eye dow; I ran to it and saw a lady passing, was at this moment attracted by an indiWho at Urat moment turned her face torvidual, who sat within a few feet of us at wards me and our eyes met; there was little stand on which was placed a cup electricity in the encounter; such a coun of coffee, that remained untouched befine elance! I cannot describe it, but by its him though an inviting vapour carled up effects upon me and by pointing to the face wards from its surface. He was a man before you, which, if those lids. were lift considerably advanced in life, his head and the eyes they cover illuminated partially bald and his hair host white, with the soul, that now slumbers beneaths countenance was chuded by settled them, would give you a. faithful idea of care. I recollected to have seen him seer whom I have seen. The resemblanceveral times within the last mouth artwo inform is even more perfect than in face in to have marked him as a man of unor a shape so exquistely moulded nevenusual appearance, but of his name and moved upon the earth. Scarcely had she history I knew nothing, nor had curiosity. passed when I was all eager inquiry, even prompted me to inquire rospecting Vis could only tell me that she had ar them. My attention had been called to red yesterday, in the steamboat Tamer-him at this mantent by the regard he ane, from Louisville; that she was an ac-seemed to pay to us. The back of my a star in all the splendors of its as-friend being turned towards him. I was the only observer of this. He held afing up of the gigantic looking-glass, in newspaper in his hand, but his eyes instead the readiness with which each female in of resting upon it looked over the specta- the glittering ring sought out her own imcles he wore and were fastened upon me age in the mass of forms before her, and in that steady gaze, which often rivets the bestowed upon it an approving smile. sight upon an object of interest, with an in- But there was brief time for the pleasing fluence like that of the snake upon the bird, self-contemplation. The mirror vanished When he found me reciprocating his with its visionary duplicate of the assemstare, he resumed his reading, and as he bly, and Romeo and his companions strollwithdrew his eyes a rapid change passed ed forward upon the stage. Their acting over his countenance, like the convulsion was respectable, nothing more; it was the of mental pain: He put his coffee to his expectation of something better than had lips, but scarce moistened them, and in a been seen for a long time, that had called lew moments arose and left the room. the crowd now filling the house to overAugus seeing that I watched the motions flowing. Devotion to the drama, a of the old man, upon whom he bestowed a prominent passion of the French and incasual glance, asked who he was. "Ifused by them into the American part of cannot inform you," I said, for he is, ex- the population, made them forget the st cept by sight, utterly unknown to me; but fling heat and the infection, which floated he seems to have been afflicted in an ex-through the air of the town, and which a traordinary manner by something that has throng like this could not fail to concen been said by one of us, most likely by trate.and bring into action., At length, to yourself, for you have talked in a tolerably the infinite, ecstacy of Augus, who had audible tone I assure you which I have with difficulty restrained a certain itch for been fifty times upon the eve of advising sibilation that affected the tip of his tongue you to repress." while the poor devils were doing their best "Pshaw" said he, "I never had a se- the scene opened in which Juliet first came cret in my life and therefore I never whis forth. A thunder of applause followed her per; but come, it is time to go; you will of appearance, in which my companion join. course give me your company." I con-ed so energetically with a loaded cane, sented, although I was no play-goer and that he battered the box to pieces and had not even noticed the bill which hung transformed the bullet head of his stick, from the wall before me, and a glance ai from a sphere to an irregular polyhedron which now showed me, in emblazoned let-by the force and number of his blows. tering, the announcement of the lady, She answered this compliment by an ac whom my friend was dragging me to see knowledging inclination, so full of mod and admire. est gratitude and grace, that it was reit The theatre over which St. Philippe erated again and again. In this scene has the honor of presiding is a spacious and she had but little to say, but the delicacy splendid structure of rich and tasteful ar- of her faultless features, the chaste purity chitecture. It presented at the moment and glowing brilliancy of her complexion, we took our places, a spectacle to daz- unheightened by art, the ever varving er zle and delight. The first seats of the pression of her face, full of intellect and whole of the first and second range of sentiment. The exquisite symmetry boxes were filled by the beauty and fash her form, clothed in the most tasteful and ion of the city, arrayed in its gayest ap-appropriate costume, the richness, melody parrel, and, as if this semicircle of splen- and well tempered power of her tones dour were not enough to fascinate the and the unaffected grace of her attitudes sight, a mirror curtain added to the cir and gestures, all manifested themselves cle its other half and doubled the magni within the few moments she stood before ficence of the scene. As we seated our the audience. The delight.of Augus was selves, the green curtain was on the rise delirious, and forced from me a confession unfolding the vast field of that polished that his account of this fascinating being surface from which the audience beheld it- had not been even tinged with exaggera self reflected. You might discern the in- tion. She retired, I turned to address a stantaneeus effect produced by the hold-friend behind me, when I perceived in one |