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Accordingly on the following morning worthless people we cannot waste our he actually did so far overcome his funds on such, for there are too many habitual indolence as to write a letter of pious people who can't get along without inquiry relative to his only sister whom he help." had not seen for years. Just as he was May God help the wife and children of folding his letter, a party of ladies were the drunkard, for a fearful curse rests on shown into the parlor; and his wife, who them.

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was president of a charitable society, The child looked up wonderingly in came down, dressed in excellent taste for Mrs. Boyd's face for a minute, and as she a woman of twenty-five, but her haggard slowly withdrew her eyes she turned them visage adding at least thirty years to the upon the younger and handsomer face of computation. After much tender inquiry Boyd. It seemed that something there and condolement on her delicate appear-attracted her gaze, for she looked long at ance, hur friends commenced their busi- him, and then, drawing her scant little ness and the price of muslins, calicoes, cloak close around her, she curtesied and Rannels, &c. was discussed with proper withdrew. Boyd's eyes followed the little animation. A gentle tap at the parlor creature to the door, and as she closed it door silenced the shrill voices, and at Mr. he caught a last glance of her bright blue Boyd's "come in," a little bright eyed, eyes. With a sigh he tured to muse for clean looking child entered the room. a minute, while the ladies entered into a She looked abashed, and colored at seeing detail of the charities they had done for so many ladies, but Mr. Boyd kindly the last quarter, then hastily snatching up patted her on the head and asked her what his hat he followed the little child out. she wanted. The tears came in her eyes, He found her sitting on the bottom step of and she hung her head until he repeated his mansion, weeping.

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the inquiry. "What makes you cry?" he asked as "I come, sir, to ask Mrs. Boyd if she he drew a handful of silver from his will give me a few sticks of wood and something to cook my father breaskfast. I go every day to the boat yard, and the workmen give me chips, but last night it rained so hard that the water floated all the chips into the river."

"Who is your father ?"
"George Monson, sir."
Can't he work?"
“No, sir; not now.”
"Why?"

The little girl blushed and hung her head; this excited all the womens' curiosity, and each pressed the child to tell why her parent could not work.

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"Because because he had a fit," and she burst into tears.

"A fit!" repeated they, "what sort of a fit?"?

The rich have no mercy on the feelings of the poor, however much they may be disposed to relieve their necessities.

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I expect," said Mrs. Boyd, with great asperity, that your father is worthless and drinks, and if so I cannot give any thing to drunken people-go home and 1 will send to inquire as soon as I get time, and if you are in real want the society will relieve you, but if you are drunken

"Because my dear mother is starving to death, and is so cold she cannot work, and my father I believe is dying for want of something comfortable."

"Show me where they live," said Boyd, and taking the poor child by the hand she conducted him to a low, wretched hovel, and there amid want and privation of every kind, he discovered his long forgotten sister, the playmate of his infancy, the gentle friend of his youth. Thus it is in our country. Gold is our God, and it severs the dearest ties, and turns to stone the hearts that should cherish us. sister, or the brother may revel in luxury, while the being that was nourished at the same maternal bosom may be pining for hunger.

WOMEN

The

Who longest lingers at the bed of death,
With kisses winning back the fleeing breath?
Who longest at the chill, lone tomb, shall stay,
Pale sentinal o'er cold and paler clay?
"Last at the cross, and earliest at the grave,"
Oh, WOMAN! 'tis thy chosen hour to save,
When manhood's haughty crest is fallen low,
Shattered and broken by the stunning blows

For the Visiter.
DIGESTION.

ber of apertures on the surface to allow the gastric juice to mix freely with the food. In one experiment a portion of meat was put into one of the cavi THE food being received into the stomach, is pre-ties, and into the other a portion of fish: when the pared for assimulation with the body by digestion. sphere was discharged, both the substances were This process-to borrow the words of an acute found to have been acted upon by the gastric juice, modern writer-taken in its most general and most but more especially the fish. in another experiment proper sense, may be defined the conversion of dead the Doctor wished to ascertain if the cooking of into living matter; at all events, it is the conversion meat retarded its digestibility. For this purpose of dead animal and vegetable substances into an he introduced a quantity of boiled meat into one animalized fluid, qualified to enter into the current part of the sphere, and some roast into the other, of the circulation, and then to become part and par- when it was ascertained that the boiled meat was cel of the living machine, No other fluid, not even more dissolved than the roast. The next discovery. milk from the living udder, can be poured into the be wished to make was the comparative effect of this blood-vesssls without risk of life; and therefore, we extraordinary solvent upon food previously masticaare authorised to conclude, that the chyle (that is ted, and upon that which was swallowed whole. the digested food) is a vitalized fluid, like the blood This experiment was conducted like the former, and itself. the food, which was previously masticated, was more dissolved than the other.

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There have been various opinions concerning the manner in which the digestive process is carried on. Finding that animal substances thus submitted to The ancients supposed that it was effected by heat; the action of the gastric juice were easily digested, and this opinion was formed from a consideration of he made many similar experiments on vegetables, the situation of the stomach, which they thought which were also digested, but not so speedily as ani. was in the hottest part of the body, being placed in mal matter. Inanimate substances not being so the cavity of the abdomen, and surrounded by readily soluble, he next inquired how far living numerous soft organs. That heat acts as an aux- animals were cabable of resisting the action of the iliary to digestion, is not to be doubted; but can gastric juice. never be considered as a principal agent in the proTo ascertain this he inclosed a leech in a sphere, cess; for cold-blooded animals are known to digest to prevent its wounding the stomach. The man their food sufficiently we to supply the wants of the swallowed it, and, when voided, nothing was found machine; their temperature is but little higher than in the sphere but a viscid black misma, the undefined that of the atmosphere. remains of the digested leech. Another idea was that of fermentation; but the Dr. Stevens, having no longer an opportunity of food does not remain a sufficient time in the stomach conducting his experiments on the man, had reto allow of fermentation; nay, if this process should course to dogs and ruminating animals. Having take place; it would induce disease. The best previously weighed a quantity of animal and vege. founded theory is that of solution; that is, of solu- table matter, he inclosed them in different ivory tion through the means of a very peculiar solvent. spheres, and made a dog swallow them. Some Rheaumur inclosed alimentary matter in tubes, hours after this the dog was killed and the animal which were pervious at both ends, and introduced food was found to be by far the most dissolved. them into the stomach of animals: when they were The gastric juice of these animals has such a strong discharged, he found that the substance which he solvent power, that the ivory spheres used were had inclosed in the tubes were so acted upon by the found to have been acted upon. He then made gastric juice as to become almost dissolved. Some- several experiments on herpi vorous animals, by times a part of the stomach itself has been found giving them animal and vegetable substances in dissolved or digested after death; but this pheno- closed in different tubes. When these were dis mena is rarely found in those who have died of any charged, the animal food had undergone no altera. lingering malady; it usually occurs in such as die tion; while on the contrary, there were no remains suddenly, and are at the time immediately previous of the vegetable matter. to their death in good health it is observable also These experiments plainly prove that digestion is that in these cases it is always the upper portion of by solution, in which process the gastric juice is the stomach which disappears. The following in-the principal and general agent that acts upon the.. teresting experiments made by Dr. Stevens, will food, dissolves it, and combines with it previous to show, in a very forcible manner, the effect of this its propulsion into the stomach where the process peculiar process of solution. The first series which of assimulation is further advanced. It also appears we shall describe was made upon a man who was in from these experiments, than some animals can only the habit of swallowing stones. Alimentary matter digest vegetable substances, while others are only was introduced into hollow silver spheres, divided capable of digesting animal food-every species of into two cavities by a partition, and having a num.animal having in fact, its peculiar gastric juice.

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COURTSHIP AMONG THE PAWNEES.-When the lover! POLITICAL-'I say, you Sam Johnsing, does you wishes to break the ice, he comes to her father's know anyting about dis women, Polly Ticks, dat tent, uninvited, and sits on the corner of the mat for wite folks talk so much about? 'well I doesen't. a considerable time then goes away without speaking. You are too hard for dis child dis time.' 'Why This is the preliminary step, answering, perhaps, to Sam I tort you knowed ebryting' 'So I doz. I the first gentle pressure of the hand-the first blush. knows polly Jones, wat sells coffee in de wegetable ing hesitation in address-the fist mutual glance of market, and I knows Polly Tomson wat does gwoin understanding. After a few days the young man out to day's work up in canal street; but when I returns wearing his buffalo-robe with the hair out- comes to Polly Ticks, 'm bodered. Guess you'd ward and again sits down silent in the corner of the better ax white folks, Pete; dey peer to know all tent. This is a proposal-a regular "popping of about her.

FLATTERY.

the question." If the father is determined to re ject him, nothing is placed for him to sit on, and no meat is offered him: but if he approve of the match, these rights of hospitality are observed, Sensible women have often been the dupes of Feasts are then given by the respective parties, in order to obtain the consent of their relatives. If designing men, in the following way: they have

both feasts terminate favourably in this respect, the young man presents himself once more before his bride at the door of her tent, and then turns round and walks slowly off towards his own-she rises and follows him the marriage is then complete. If she remains sitting, it is a sign that her family decline the match. All this is done without a word passing between the intended bride and husband that is to be. But the most extraordinary part of the affair is, that having married an elder sister, he has a right to marry all the younger ones as they successively attain the age of womanhood.

taken an opportunity of praising them to their own confidante, but with a solemn injunction to secresy The confidants, however, as they know, will infal libly inform her principal, the first moment she sees he; and this is a mode of flattery which always succeeds. Even those females who nauseate flattery in any other shape, will not reject it in this : just as we can bear the light of the sun when reflected by the moon.

WOMEN IN INDIA.

In Anglo-Indian society, as in every other, woman is the most important and ANECDOTE OF WASHINGTON.-When the American powerful of the social elements. Married troops were quartered at Newbury, at the close o. women give the tone not to manners only, the revolutionary war, and the soldiers were stirred but to modes of thinking in the English up to rebellion against the government by the circles of India. Single ones have no famous anonymous letters, which, it has since been perceptible influence, for they soon get -ascertained, were written by General Armstrong, married, and melt into the character of then a major in the army, General Washington wives and mothers. No such thing as a convened the officers for the purpose of addressing regular set of unmarried women exists them on this subject, and calming the tumult which there; as for a knot of old maids, the forwas beginning to rage in their bosoms. He held lorn bench of our coteries and ball-rooms, paper in his hand on which the remarks he in tended to make were written--and then it was, that it was never so much as heard of. Judge finding himself unable to read without assistance then of the influence of this very circumas he was drawing his spectacles from his pocket stance upon those who move in those >that unp:omeditated expression broke from him-circles, and in particular on the female one of the most pathetic that ever fell from human portion of them. A batch of new arrivals lips-"Fellow.citizens," said he "you perceive I have are like the hains and cheeses imported not only grown gray—bnt bland in your service." by the same vessels; they will not keep The effect of this remark was electrical. No bosom till another season. If they do not meet no eye was a proof against it.

with a suitable match soon after they have lighted on the Indian soil, they must lower their hopes from the delightful dreams of THE CHEAP DEFENCE OF NATIONS.-Dr. Franklin a rapid fortune, to some Lieutenant-Colosaid, "When I see a house well furnished with nel, with a liver perforated like a sieve, books and newspapers, there I see intelligent and or a colon almost brought to a full stop, well-informed children; but if there are no books or and a pocket not much replenished by a papers, the children are ignorant, if not profligate."[twenty-five years' service.-Asiatic Jour.

The Fair Rose of Killarney. REMARKS ON THE FASHION S

LY MISS ELIZA COOK.

'Twas long, long ago, by the Lake of Killarney,
Young Lathleen, sweet flower, I woo'd for my
bride;

But she said, that an Irishman's love was soft-blarney,
Like a rainbow it lived, like a rainbow it died;
Yet fondly and truly my bosom was yearning,

Her smile was my star, and her word was my creed; Oh! my loving was pure, but she mock'd its deep burning,

She rived my warm spirit and left it to bleed.

But the worm's at the core, and its work is proclaiming
The sorrowful tale my proud lip would not speak;
It feede and lives on, in defiance of blaming,

It drinks from my breathing, it whitens my cheek;
Soon, soon will the fresh weeds above me be springing,

And maidens shall come to my grave with a sigh; They shall weep o'er the green sod, and tell in their singing

The wild sons of Erin can love till they die.

TWENTY YEARS AGO. 'Twas in the flush of summer time,

Some twenty years or more,
Since Earnest lost his way, and crost
The threshold of our door.
I'll ne'er forget his locks of jet
His brow of Alpine snow,
His manly grace of form and face,
Some twenty years ago.

The hand he asked I freely gave-
Mine was a happy lot,

In all my pride to be his bride
Within my father's cot.
The vow he spoke he never broke:

His faithful heart I know;

And well I trow I love him now

As twenty years ago.

PORTIA.

COME, GANG AWA' WI' ME.

BY EDWIN RANSFORD.

Oh! tarry not, my only love,
I've pledged myself to thee;
And by yon stars that shine above,
For ever thine I'll be!
"Tis mony a night sin' first we met

Beneath the greenwood tree, Then say, ere yonder stars have set, Thou❜lt gang awa' wi' me.

Thy features are so fair, my love,
Thy mind is ever frce-
Oh! let thy willing heart still prove
The love thou bear'st to me.
'Tis mony a night sin' first we met
Beneath the greenwood tree,
Then say, ere yonder stars have set,
"I'll gang awa' wi' ye."

A beautiful simplicity characterises our Fashions for this season.

[Items of Fashions from R. Shelten Mackenzie's correspondence with New York Star, and from other sources.]

Bracelets are again in fashion, it being the custom to wear three on one arm and none on the other. It is proposed to revive the high heeled shoessufficiently high to give grace to the foot.

Velvet and satin shawls will be fashionable for the are to be trimmed with black lace, others with winter, waded and lined with coloured silk. Some swansdown.

Gold embroidery continues fashionable. It is not so heavy as it was, but is more worn.

Pr.nted muslins "has fell," and dresses of plain white has ris." Upon girls under twenty nothing can look better.

Flounces are general. They take from the height but as they are in vogue, must be worn.

Shawls are indispensable. Cashmere, with gold embroidery' is in request. Levantine silk trimed with lace-China crape shawls embroidered, and murning shaws, with a petit chule, falling over, like a collar, are also in request.

Caps are made in almost any fanciful way.

Bonnets have small veils, which do not hide the face, The plainer they are the better: argal, net veils are best. Drawn bonnets of black lace or crape are worn-they become a fair face. They have pink roses outside, and when a brunetto wears one. of this kind, brilliant gold pinsare visible in the hair, to relieve the sombre effect of a dark face be neath a dark bonnet.

The hair is worn very low at the back of the head which is unbecoming; but n'imparte, Fashion com. mands it. In front it is a matter of indifference what it is worn-whether plaited, curled, or way banded.

In the making of dresses, the chief alteration is that the flat sleeves have gone out; are now tight only at the wrist.

Coloured silk dresses, worn by young people, have pelerines, to which are attached sleeves. this is a very old fashion revived.

A few morning wrappers of Scotch batiste aro worn, but not many. White muslin dresses, or dresses of black silk, plain or figured, but without embroidery or stripes, are worn in the morning generally.

RIDING DRESS.

This dress can be put on in about a minute, without the aid of a second person. The train is at tached to the body, which has the desirable effect of keeping the body of the habit symmetrically to the shape-a decided improvement upon the old meth od of fastening by hooks and eyes. The train is made very fuil, and is plaited round the waist, which gives a graceful roundness to the figure, and at the same time affords much ease in mounting, dismount. Jing, and sitting on the horse.

EDITOR'S TABLE.

We shall in our next number give a cut of the Winter Fashions,-at the present time there is no standard, but probably by the time we issue our

of January next, we will receive the sime amount as though paid in advance.

Any money current in the respective states in which the subscriber may reside

next number, we shall be able to give a general will be received at par in payment.

description of the fashions for the ensuing winter.

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Guy Rivers,"" Mellichampe," etc.

In two vols. Lea and Blanchard.

From the size and appearance of this

In our next number we shall present our readers work we should judge that the present with an original poem from the pen of Mr. MOORE, was the most ambitious and successful entitled "Eugene Aram." (As represented by incursion into the realms of romance, that Bulwer.) the author has yet made. Mr. Simms wields a per of no ordinary power. He "THE BRAZILIAN CHIEF," a tale by Miss is one of the most affluent writers of the MILLARD, will be published in our next.

day. His imagery is lavish and beautiful, and his style bold, expressive and diffuse. To Delinquent Subscribers. If we were called upon to name a defect, We have repeatedly urged upon our we should say that the principal was a delinquent subscribers the necessity of want of condensation and sententiousness. immediately liquidating any demand we He is sometimes circumlocutory when he might have against them-but our entrea- should be abrupt. But his style has its ties have been totally disregarded-nay, advantages. His colours are laid on with treated with silent contempt. In advising so liberal a hand, that fine effects are often a subscriber of the amount he is indebted produced where none were premeditated. to us, we should have been treated with There are some splendid scenes in this the common courtesy due a stranger-that highly-wrought romance. The description of being favored with an answer. We of the hurricane in the first volume is have submitted to the contemptible and masterly. The dramatic interest of the despicable course pursued by those of our story is skilfully excited, and the charac subscribers in arrears, until further for-ters are sketched with much spirit and bearance would be exercising a spirit of ability. This will be one of the most popu injustice towards those who pay promptly. lar of the author's works. Our remarks refer not only to the resi dents of the city, but to those throughout every portion of the United States.

Audubon's Gallery.-We are glad to

Therefore, we have formed this resolu- learn that the gallery of drawings opened tion, that every subscriber in arrears for by our distinguished naturalist and artist, this Periodical for one or more years to Audubon, at the Lyceum in New York, this period, if the amount is not settled or is well and fashionably attended. Audubon forwarded by Mail previous to the first of is a man of genius, and he has done more January next, the name of each individual for the science of ornithology than any He de thus in arrears will be published as a BAD man since the days of Wilson. SUBSCRIBER to the wondering gaze of serves well at the hands of his country. One Hundred Thousand readers. We hear that the zoology of America The Terms of this Periodical are known is about to claim his study and attention. to the subscribers, but if they will remit No man is better fitted for illustrating this their respective dues previous to the first department of natural science,

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