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"Your time has not yet come, captain," was the only reply of the mate, to the desponding murmurings of the other.

"Let me die, Harper, you but prolong my agony." Harper put his mouth to his ear, and replied slowly, "Whatsoever measure ye meet shall be measured to you again."

At length when the last spark of hope was dying out in the minds of the ill-fated crew, a small, black spot about noon, a speck, as it were the size of a man's with his sunken blood-shot eyes, and then gave utterThe man sprung to his elbow, and glared around hand," was observed in the horizon. Harper sprang 'ance to a long, piercing cry, that seemed wrung from to the helm, and gave a few hurried orders, which the torture of a dumb brute, rather than from the Ips were but imperfectly obeyed, for the men were over- of manhood. He fell backward, and again Harper powered with a sense of sluggish lassitude. Upward sprinkled the water upon his temples; he laid his finand onward swept the black cloud, increasing in mag-ger upon his pulse and a quick smile of joy passed over nitude as it approached, and soon a line of turbid water, his face to detect its throb. shot up from the hitherto smooth sea and followed in ' its wake. The men looked aghast, but Harper fol- ! The captain unclosed his eyes, and a strange light lowed its path with a calm eye, bearing the ship firmgathered in those sunken orbs, as they became fixed ly by the helm, turning her from the Three Chimnies.markable for his abundant and curly hair, which he upon the face of the mate. He had always been reThe face of Durgin glated white from the companhad worn somewhat long about his neck and temples. ion-way, as the howl of wind and water swept over the Now a few strokes of the fingers had parted it upon ship, lifting her upward, then bearing her down, down each side, the collar of the shirt which had hitherto amid the gurgling waves, cracking and shrieking. been scrupulously confined, was now thrown slightly Slowly she arose, relling and dismasted, a portion of her crew swept from her decks and spars and rigging The girl that came to me in Pharbor," whisperopen, revealing a fair and softly turned throat. cumbering her sides; but she had plunged onward in the whirlwind, leaving the Three Chimales behind and ed Durgin. now no longer objects of terror. The calm was over, and a bright breeze might have sent them onward rejoiceing, but they were a wreck. The excitement of action restored Durgin to exertion, the dismantled ship was soon made ready to weather her fate as best she might. Added to their ether ills, it was found necessary to put the crew upon "short allowance,"

Many days they floated onward, helpless and despairing, each buckling his belt tighter and tighter to keep down the gnawings of hunger. Each saw by the gaunt aspect of his neighbors, the progress of death in himself. Few with the abundance of every-day supply before them can estimate the moral resolution of those, who goaded by hunger, are yet able to resist its cravings; few, can appreciate the intellectual thus bearing, down the physical man, smothering the wants of today that something may remain for those of to-morrow; this the lowest assertion of the immortal man grasping at the hereafter.

Strange enough, with the assertion of womanhood came back all its gentle infirmities, and Judith, for she it was, burst into tears.

"Tell me how you knew, of my crime," whispered

the man.

Now broke out into full action the singular enthusiasm of the girl. She raised her eyes upward and answered,

"It was revealed to me by the great God in heaven." Then seeing the captain panting for breath, she dropped the water upon his tongue, murmuring, "he must suffer, even as he caused others to suffer," and then in a hurried and will accent went on"Years ago, I was a fond loving girl; he whom I loved did not return at the appointed time. He never came. I wrestled in prayer to God for some sign of his fate, and he gave it me one night. I know not if I dreamed. I saw these Three Chinnies. I had never heard of their existence then, but there they were in Durgin at times grew frantic under his sufferings, the red light and "-she grasped the arm of the dying and then sunk into the lassitude of a fevered child. Not man-" I saw a hulk floating by with starving men so Harper, who seemed sustained as by supernatural he was there! Oh God. I see always his dear patient power. His icy calmness of manner and determined eyes! Then a ship ladened, with joyful sails spread, compression of lip; the intenseness of scrutiny with came past and left them in agony to die. But a voice which he pored over the face of the captain and felt cried "God do so to him and more also." You were hourly his hesitating pulse, all betokened the presence there, Durgin; "thou art the man." I beheld you in of a strong motive for sustainments other than the in- that moment, and your face was painted upon my soul. domitable will of manhood. I left home, kindred, friends, all every thing, to witness the retribution of the Almighty, and now lam here and you are"-she stopped shortly, and glared upon the face of the clod at her feet. There was no ear to listen to her words.

At length Captain Durgin lay upon the deck panting and emaciated to the last degree of ghastliness, his eyes half-closed, and the broad chest refusing to heave with the thin breath. Harper knelt beside him, with his finger upon his pulse, and his dark penetrating cyes i Our story is told. Shortly after the death of Durfixed upon the wasted form and sunken check of the gin, the surviving crew were taken from the wreck, dying man. He dropped some water upon his parched through whom the singular story of Judith became tongue and sprinkled a few drops upon his brow. He known. Her subsequent life of severe seclusion and was answered by a moan of conscious pain, and the remarkable religious enthusiasm is unessential to our sufferer murmured-¡ story.-Columbian Magazine for August.

For the Western Literary Messenger.
THE FALL OF MAN.

BY J. CLEMENT.

As yet uncursed by sin's destructive blight,
In age a rosy infant, from the womb
Of Chaos sprung, all beautiful and bright,
The Earth reposes in her morning bloom.
No omen of a night of moral gloom
A pang of sorrow 'mid her slumber brings;
A stainless light doth every field illume,
And sporting Zephyrus from his new-fledged wings
Through all the infant world nectarian odor flings.
No discord frights the young and timid Hours
Amid their trippings gay, with jarring sound;
For Love, enthroned in Eden's blissful bowers,
All forms of life in silken cords bath bound.
Celestial Peace, with charms angelic crowned,
Instils in every breast a sacred calm;

The cherub, Joy, is scattering smiles around,
And Virtucs locked with Graces, arm in arm,

In harmless pleasures join, and e'en their Author charm.
The beauteous prince of light, with lustrous eye,
Rejoiced the towering heights of heaven to climb,
From saffron chambers in the eastern sky
Strides forth from day to day with march sublime,
A glorious monarch in his youthful prime.

The Morning Stars his coronation hymn

In heaven prolong with such a mellow chime
As charms the ear of listening scraphim,
While he in all his course sces nought his eye to dim.
But hark! in heaven, IN HEAVEN! there's fierce debate!
A strife is born e'en 'mid the angel band!
Ambition-fired, the lust of power to sate,

A rebel host, sin-marked-O cursed brand!—
Confronting God, like marshalled mountains stand.
They strike, and, palsied, flee in pale dismay,

Howling to hell! but ere its gloomy strand
They, wandering, reach, the Serpent on his way,
Visits the innocent earth, and man becomes his prey.

For the Western Literary Messenger. CLOVER FROM "CLOVERNOOK."

Some weeks ago we announced the publication of the "Chronicles of Clovernook," by the Harpers, and spoke of it, we believe, as being written in the happiest vein of Douglas Jerrold. At the time of reading it, we marked several passages which we consider truly beautiful; and a few of them-these sweet clover-heade-are here presented for the reader to scent.

DISTANT TRUTHS.-There are some distant truths that, however beautiful, will not bear a voyage. You may carry ice to the Indies, if you carefully stow it; but travellers, sir, sometimes find their best of truths melt by the way.

GRATIS.-Gratis! It is the voice of Nature, speaking from the fulness of her large heart. The word is written all over the blue heaven. The health-giving air whispers it about us. It rides the sunbeam-(save when statesmen put a window-pane 'twixt us and it). The lark thrills it high up in its skyey dome; the little wayside flower breathes gratis from its pinky mouth; the bright brook murmurs it; it is written in the harvest-moon. Look and move where we will, delightsall "gratis," all breathing and beaming beauty-are about us; and yet how rarely do we seize the happiness, because, forsooth, it is a joy gratis!

WHO ARE YOU.-Reader, did you ever, for one moment, say to your own soul-"Who are you?" You know that you are a something, but what thing? You know that there is some living power, some knack within you, that helps you through life; that enables you to make a bargain with an eye to a good pennyworth; that even urges you to pick a wife from a few millions; that walks with you in your business walks, that broods with you at home over your ledger-but what is it? Did you ever try to bring it face to face with yourself? Did you ever manfully endeavor to pluck, for a moment, this mystery from your blood, and look at it eye to eye-this You? It may be a terrible meetBut Sin has cankered all, and nought can save; ing; but sit in the magic circle of your own thoughts, Her lightning Justice hurtles from the skies, and conjure the thing. It may be devil-it may be And lo cach city proud of eld in ruin lies! angel. No. You will take the chance; you are not NOTE.-This fragment is introductory to "THE CURSE OF curious; you are content to jog on; you know that you SIN," a poem delivered at the last Anniversary of the Nunda Literary Institute, March 13, 1846. We have not followed are you; but for the what you, whether perfect as the Milton's order of things in the Fourth Stanza; our presump-angels, or scabbed like Lazarus, why should you seek tion-perhaps it is-has allured us into another path.

Alone unharmed, Time rolls his wheels apace,
And age on age is hurried to its grave;
The earth is peopled with a short-lived race,
Whom lofty pride and deadly lust enslave,
And who ALL fruits of lawless pleasure crave.
Kingdoms are built and wealth fast multiplies,

to know? Rather, dwell in the hopeful sweetness of your no-knowing.

How TRUE.-A very eminent writer has said that although we seem grieved at the shortness of life in LAUGHTER.-Laughter is to the face of man-what general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. sinovia, I think anatomists call it, is to his joints-it The minor longs to be of age; then to be a man of bus-oils, and lubricates, and makes the human countenance iness; then to make an estate; then to arrive at hon- divine. Without it, our faces would have been rigid, or; then to retire. The usurer would be very well sat-hyena-like; the iniquities of our heart, with no sweet isfied to have all the time annihilated that lies between the present moment and the next quarter day. The politician would be content to lose three days of his life, could he place things in the posture that he fancies they will occupy after the revolution of time, and the lover would be glad to strike out all the moments of existence, that are to pass away before the next meeting.

antidote to work upon them, would have made the face of the best among us a horrid, husky thing, with two sullen, hungry, cruel lights at the top-for foreheads would have then gone out of fashion-and a cavernous hole below the nose. Think of a babe without laughter; as it is, its frst intelligerce! Tae creature shows the divinity of its origin and end, by smiling upon us: yes, smiles are its first talk with the

world, smiles the first answers that it understands. And then as wordly wisdom comes upon the little thing, it crows, it chuckles, it grins, and shaking in its nurse's arms, it reveals its high destiny-declares, to him with ear to hear it, the heirdom of its immortality. Let materialists blaspheme as gingerly and as acutely as they will. They must find confusion in laughter. Man may take a triumphant stand upon his broad grins; for he looks around the worid, and his innermost soul, sweetly tickled with the knowledge, tells him that he alone of all creatures laugh. Imagine, if you can, a laughing fish. Let man then send a loud ha! ha! through the universe, and be reverently grateful for the privilege."

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THE RED-FACED MAN.-There is a red-faced man, says the Journal of Commerce, who employs himself in taking parcels to houses up town, when the gentlemen are out, and charging six or seven shillings for his trouble and the expenses. The bundles are done up as if they had come a long distance, and not directed to the gentleman of the house, but to his care for some third person, and marked "confidential" or "private;" this prevents the ladies from opening them, at least till curiosity has got so much the better of discretion thst they are willing to pay the charges which are marked on the wrapper, and referred to by the bearer to prove that he is not asking too much. He is sometimes tipsey, and commonly in a great hurry. cart, he says, is round the corner, and he can't stand to talk long; the bundle is directed to the house, and that's the reason why he could'nt take it to the store : but if they don't want it, he will take it to the steamboat office, and the gentleman may call for it. One of the bundles contained a dirty piece of basket, some clam shells, and several leaves of skunk cabbage.

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THE OLDEST INHABITANT.-The Oldest Inhabitant! How often do we hear his voice, like the voice of the cuckoo, coming to us from an unseen anatomy! What garnered knowledge must be his! What hard frosts has he chronicled! What times of scarcity--what days of fatness! Now doth he pass judgement upon gooseberries, declaring them to be the largest within his memory; now doth he the like service to hail-stones! And how precisely doth he measure the height of floods, A PRECOCIOUS ROGUE.-A stranger recently stopand weigh the weight of spent thunder! There is ping in this city, relates the following case of youthful something solemn, too, in the Oldest Inhabitant. He vagrancy. While wending his way through one of the is the link between the dead and living: in the course bye streets, he was accosted by a tatterd mal.on boy, of nature, the next to be called from among us; his who piteously begged for a sixpence to buy a loaf of place immediately supplied by a second brother. Gen- bread for his dying mother. The stranger's heart was erations have gone, passed into the far world, and left moved; the urchin grasped the sixpence given, with a him here their solitary spokesman-the one witness of look which spoke volumes of gratitude, and darted the wonders that had birth among them. He remains away around the next corner to fulfill his mission of filhere to check the vanity of the present, by his testi-ial love. The stranger walked around the corner also, mony to the past. Where would be all human expe- with a swelling heart, when he was surprised to see rience without the Oldest Inhabitant. in a neighboring alley, a half-score of young urchins pitching coppers. In their midst stood our young vagHANGING IN FLORIDA —Mr. Hale tells us a story,abond exhibiting his sixpence, and exclaiming in great related to him by Senator Levy, (Yulee) of the lexity | glée, I'll pitch with any on you now, for I've got the with which the extreme exactions of the law," brass." "How did you raise 'em," inquired one of South," are sometimes carried into execution. A few the group. "Oh I come de bread act over a green years since, while Florida was a territory, a young and was the reply. The stranger "walked." reckless fellow was taken up for murder, tried, convicted and sentenced to be hung on a certain future day. Before the day fixed for his execution, he escaped from custody, and could not be found, at the time. Thinking that, as the day for his execution had passed, he was by law clear, he soon after ventured to come back, which circumstance coming to the ears of the District Attorney, he gave the U.S. Marshall orders to arrest and hang him whenever and wherever he could find him. The Marshall soon after meeting with him in the bar-room of a public hotel, they set down, and chatted and cracked jokes, awhile, stepped up to the bar and took something to drink together, when the Marshal, giving the culprit's elbow a nudge, says, "I have a little business to transact with you, which I wish you to attend to now." "What is it?" "Why my orders are to hang you." You can't come that," putting his thumb on his nose, said the doomed man. But come it they did; calling upon the bystanders to assist, they bound the poor fellow hand and foot, took him out and hung him by the neck high and dry, on the nearest tree.-Concord (N. H.) Courier.

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Mr. Benjamin F. Butler, late Attorney General of the United States, has computed that the loss to the United States from the use of intoxicating drinks, is one hundred and fifty millions of dollars annually; portion of the State of New York, eighteen millions. Mr. Everett, late minister to Great Britian, computes that the use of alcoholic beverages has cost the United States, directly, in ten years, $1,200,000,000; has burned or otherwise destroyed $5,000,000 more ofproperty; has destroyed 300,000 lives; sent 150,000 persons to our prisons, and 100,000 children to the poorhouse; has caused 1500 murders, 2000 suicides; and has bequeathed to the country one million of orphan children.

BOLTED.-An unfortunate landlord, going round to collect his rents, sent his servants forward to prepare tenants for his visit. On reaching the residence of one, he found his servant taking a survey. "What's the matter, John," said he, "is the door bolted?" "No

sir," said John, but the tenant is."

CONGRESSIONAL.

WEDNESDAY, Jony 29. la Senate, Mr. Lewis repor-
ted the Naval Appropriation Bill from the House with i
amendmen's. The bill to incorporate the Texas Na-
vy into the Navy of the U. S. was taken up and finally
postponed until tomorrow.

Mr. Lewis then called up the Sub-Treasury Bill
and the various amendments reported by the Commit-
tee were agreed to.
A motion was made to amend by
establishing a branch mint at Detroit, which was re-
jected. Yeas 18; Nayз 28.

Several other amendments reported from the
Finance Committee were agreed to without debate.
An amendment to the 21st section the object of
which was to authorize the issue of paper money by
the Government without limit, in the shape of Treasu-
ry drafts, in sums of fifty dollars, one hundred dollars,
and five hundred dollars, was strongly opposed by Mr.
Benton.

After some farther debate, without taking any ques-
tion, the Senate adjoutned.

IN THE HOUSE, the Speaker announced the Ware-
houseing Bill as the special order of the day.
The bill to reduce the Tarif was received from the

Senate.

The motion to postpone the order of the day until
to-morrow in order to take up the Tarif Bill from the
Senate was agreed to. Yas 118; Nys 100.

The amendment of the Senate was then concurred in.
Yeas 115, Nays 93.

A motion to reconsider was made and voted down.
So the Tarif Bill has finally passed both Houses.

The House then went into Committee of the whole

IN THE HOUSE, the Post office bill was discussed.→→→ An amendment was moved by Hamlin and rejected, so as to advertise Post office letters in such newspapers as the Post Master may select, without regard to cir culation. The bill was not disposed of.

FRIDAY, JULY 31.-The bill to surrender certain lands to the States for the purpose of endowing State Colleges was passed.

ing to Mr. Asa Whitney and his associates for the con
A report by Mr. Breese, accompanied by a bill grant-
struction of a Rail Road to Oregon all the public lands
within 30 miles on each side of it, was ordered to be
who denounced the project as ridiculous.
printed, notwithstanding Mr. Benton's opposition,

The Texan Navy Bill was rejected 31 to 18.
The Sub Treasury bill was further debated but not
disposed of.

The Navy Appropriation bill was then taken up and after some discussion and the adoption of some amendments the Senate adjourned.

THE HOUSE took up the Warehousing bill; no ques

tion taken.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 1.--In Senate, Mr. Benton from Committee of Reference on the army apportionment bill reported that they had met the 'ommittee of the Ilouse. He moved that the Senate i sist upon its own amendments and upon its disagreement to that of the House which was agreed to.

The bill to cede mineral lands on Lake Superior, including Isle Royal and other islands in Lak Superior, was taken up and passed.

The Sab Treasury bil! was then taken up and read the third time and passed; ayes 28, noes 24. The Navy appropriation bill was then taken up.

on the Postage Bill, and soon after rose for want of quo- Upon the subject of Dry Docks all amendments pro

rum,

Several bills from the Senate were then received. The House again went into Committee, a quorum being present, and proceeded to vote on amendments to the Postage B.ll, but several Members withdrew and there being no quorum present to act on amendments to the bill, the Committee rose, and at half past one o'clock the House adjourned.

THURSDAY, JULY 33.-In Senate, the land graduation bill was postponed until Friday. To-day the House resolution regulating the price and manner of executing the public printing was next taken up and passed, 26 to 13. The Sub Treasury Bill was then taken up for further consideration. After a long debate the amendments authorising the circulation of Treasury drafts was rejected, ayes 12, noes 40. An amendment offered by Cameron was adopted, requiring the Secretary of the Treasury to publish the amount of specie at the several places of deposite, the amount of Treasury notes or drafts issued, and the amount outstanding at the close of every month.

An amendment was also adopted requiring the consent of the public creditors to the payment of Treasury notes or drafts before they shall be paid; a number of slight amendments were also agreed to, the bill was then ordered to a third reading without a division.

posed were rejected, and the sections changing the ap-.
a rope walk instead, was carried and the bill ordered to
propriations for a navy yard at Memphis so as to build
a third reading.

on the Warehouse Bill at 12 o'clock this day.
HOUSE-A resolution was adopted to stop the debate

Amendinents

The House then resolved itself into a committee of the whole and further debated the bill. were now offered. Mr. McLean, of Pennsylvania then proposed to amend by imposing specific duties on iron and coal. Mr. Archer's resolution to amend the amendnent so as to repeal the new Tarif act was lost; ayes 4, nays 84.

Mr. M.Lean's amendment was lost. Others were put and lost.

The Committee rose and reported the bill to the house without amendments. The previous question was ordered. The bill was ordered to be referred and read a third time, yeas 112, nays 72. read a third time and passed. The bill was

The House next proceeded to the consideration of bills from the Senate on the private calendar.

The New Postage bill was laid on the table in the of any change in the present system at this session.House by a majority of 10, and there is no probability Jour. of Com.

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