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THE RUINED FLOWER.

Its stem was broke the desert wind
Pass'd rudely DER its slender head,
1t silent droop'd-it silent pin'd,
Till all its hues and fragrance fed,
The chilling frost of evening hour
Shone coldy Oh the dying flower.
Lone wither'd flower perchance the doom
That nipp'd thee in thy days of youth,
May be inscrib' d upon my tomb,
Too deep for time to blot its truth
And tears, too late by sorrow shed,
May freeze and glitter on my bed.
And better this my fate should be,
Than stab confding Virtues breast;
Better to live in misery
Better to die with love unblest,
Than build the hope Of future fame
On Beauty's wreck-on woman's shame.
BOSTON BARB
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FROM THE CONNECTICUT MIRROR.
THE GRAVEYARD.
BOSTON BARB

IT'S morning on the sunny sod,
Where lingering footsteps late have trod
IT'S morning on the melting snow,
That shrouds the grave Of those below;
IT'S morning to each sprouting thing,
That greenly smiles because IT'S Spring;
Ills morning on the marble stones,
That designate their owners bones,
IT'S morning to the young and fair
That walk and laugh, and loiter there.
Above let Spring in brightness glow,
y brighter morning smiles below.
There is beam that breaks upon
The lone forsaken buried one,
And clearer than that dawning ray,
Which gives the first sweet light of day,
Sheds on the Christians soul light
To which the MONDAY sun is night;
And shows the path his Saviour trod,
When, rising, he returned to God.
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o. yes, my country, let me be,
In my last hour-in death-wth thee.
The Moon LOOKED on the vale,
Wearing her starry wreath,
And soft displayed form, that, pale,
Lay there alone-with death;
The Zephyrs drew>a lengthen'd sigh,
And slow the Convict's corpse pass'd by.
Twas said, that lovely night,
A Spirit Youth was seen,
Gliding among the fow'rets bright,
The trees and meadows green;
And chiefly bya cot; and there
1t wept-and melted into air.
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SELECTED FOR THE GARLAND.


ADDRESS to the Spirit Of departed Friend
Blest spirit of my sainted friend,
Which, in this vale of misery,
SO oft with mine was wont to blend,
With all an angels sympathy
Bending from heavens exalted sphere,
All, deign again my voice to hear!
When gloomy sorrow gives the tear,
Deep DER my darkened eye to roll,
o then, as thou didst oft, appear
To tranquillize my troubled soul;
For soon as perceive thee nigh,
know the shades of grief will fly.
When, as calm evening DER the bowers,
From golden clouds her dews doth shed,
Gull the loveliest sweetest flowers,
And, weeping, wreath them round thy bed;
then, light lowering DER the soil,
With smiles of love reward my toll
And, when my voice and Tyre combine,
To swell the vesper hymn Of praise,
let me hear thy harp divine,
That sounds on high to Zon's lays;
And, through the silent air, my soGg
In strains of sweeter tones prolong
When on thy monumental stone
lean, and mourn in accents low,
Whilst DER the church yard still and lone,
The watchful stars of midnight glow;
then on PHYS wing descend,
To whisper comfort to thy friend.
And let me hear thee softly say,
"Repress those tears, and hush that sigh,
"Soon will arrive the happy day,
"When here by mine thy dust will lie;
"Then in the beams of endless light,
"Our blissful spirits will unite"
HARPERs-FERRY, 21sT JUNE.
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{" have any necessary dispatches to
make, think Of nothing else till those
are finished if any domestic affairs re-
quire my attention, l give myself up
wholly to them till they are set in order"
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SELECTED.

When the days filthy beauty are faded
When the loved and the lovely are gone,
When thy young eyes with tears are o'ershaded,
And you roam through the wide world alone
Oh come to this bosom-'ts bleeding and bare;
But the child Of affection may find home there
If thy smile, once SO bright, love- shalt languish,
My cheek is yet paler than thine;
If thy heart still feels chill in its anguish,
The cold blight of sorrows on mine
Then come to this bosom-'tis bleeding and bare,
But the child of affection may find home there
Though the happy, the gay, may forsake thee,
Who smiled when thy Heaven was clear
There is one to his heart who will take thee,
And give all his fortune-a tear.
On come to this bosom-'tis bleeding and bare,
But the child of aff1iction may find home there
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Let BEAUTY, with its eyes offre,
With maddening love the gay inspire;
Let WAR in panoply array'd,
Unsheatb the Chieftain's ready blade;
Let GLonY rear its plumed crest,
And dazzle with its gltt'ring vest;
Yet not for me thy chaplet weave,
Thy smiles are false-tby hopes deceive.
Let the full cup of PLEASURE teen
With draughts from fair Calypso's stream,
Which shrouds the souls immortal fame,
Beneath the brutes degraded frame;
Tho fair the fow'rs that here entice,
All, all too costly in the price;
Such chaplet therefore do not weave,
The flowers decay-the draughts deceive.
Nor weave for me ADDITIONS wreath,
1t is the bloody need of death;
Asp-like, foul murder nestlcs there,
Entwined with folds Of grim despair.
And oh ! weave not the wreath that binds
The brows of sordid, selfish minds,
Like this entwine no wreath for me,
They show too much, Oh world, OF thee.
Nor the bright wreath Of RICHES Irvine,
Dug from Golconda's purest mine
Nor dazzling stones, that proudly gem
An empires envied dadem.
No-twine for me the CHRISTIANS crown,
Be virtue still my best renown-
And let the wreath that decks my brow
From pure RELIGIoS's branches grow.
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WRITTEN IN AN ALBUM.

For me, on World no Chaplet weave,
Thy frowns fear not, and believe
Thy winter smiles, thy summer glow,
Deceptive as retiring snow,
For all thy pleasures but deceive.
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from THE LONDON LITERARY GAZETTE.
THE ESCAPED CONVICT.
He trod his native land,
The bright land of the free;
His forehead wore scared brand
Impress Of infamy
His brow-where youth and beauty met
Yes, there the seal of guilt was set.
He gaz'd upon the vale,
Where spring-tide flow 'rets slept,
Rock'd by the whispers of the gale
He saw it-and he wept;
Like drops presaging storms they came,
Tears born in agony and shame.
Morn sat upon the hills,
But she looked cold and dim
Clouds, like pail which death conceals.
Hung frowning there on him;
All, e'en his loy'd, his mother land,
ScoWpd on his forehead, and the brand.
Ny sire my sire ! he groan'd;
My home my lovely one =
What sire have my child disown'd;
What home for have none;
hear all curse--I see all shun;
Yet curse not you not you-your son.
saw her struck, whose cheek
Did myriad sweets disclose
whose eyes, whose form-but wherefore spe
saw my heart blood rose
She loy'd me-she was sworn my bride;
l stabbed the Sutherland he died
For this-the record lies
Fest'rlng upon my brow;
For this-the rabble mock'd my cries;
For thls-shame haunts me now;
For this-half rotted must be,
Ere my dead brow from stain is free.
My own, my beauteous land,
Land of the brave-the high;
ask'd but this OF fate's stern hand
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some have supposed it to be electrical; but the
mate OF the ship assured me that he had often
examined the substance emitting the light and
found 1t to be mass Of jelly, apparently com
posed OF quarts or animalcules, exactly similar
to those producing the phosphorence of the
ocean From the Goth to the 22d of June
inclusive, the ship lay in dead calm On the last
mentioned days, SO perfectly calm was the ocean
that the captain ordered the Jolly boat to be
launched, and four of us, with man at the
helm, roWed to the distance of mile from the
ship, the little boat climbing over the smooth
sWells with an easy and delightful motion. We
brought back with us large Nautilus, or Portu
guese man-of-War, as this animal is generally
called by the sailors. He is curious creature
peculiarly fitted for the element on the surface
OF which he moves, being furnished with keel
anchor, sails, and ballast, for the purpose of ma
,ylSatlon. Possessing the power of locomotion,
ne can SHIFT his position so as to catch the gale
and glide over the highest waves with ease and
safety Sometimes, when the sea is calm and
the sun warm, he viii turn himself upon hi,
SIDE, wet his sail, and then right his little bark
and resume his passage These animals fire.
quently navigate the ocean in fleets, perhaps IN
der the command Of an admiral Their sails
which are transparent and beautifully bordered
with bright pink colour, vie in richness and
elegance, particularly when seen in the direction
OF the sun, with the silken sails of Cleopatra.
We have seen thousands of them bounding over
the blllow, reminding US Of Popes couplet:
Learn of the little Nautilus to sail,
Spread the thin oar, and catch the rising gale -
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prayer fer us which ceased but with parting
life 3-Callous and hardened must be the heart
Of shat child, who can behold without powerful
emotion the memorials Of deceased parent
Nol the heart must SWELL and the eye must
weep, when we visit that closet where we CON
'eised with God together, and find it the abode
u soEtu.ie and desolation of heart, when we
loob On the days that are to come, and behold
tae dark current of existence strewed with the
wreck Of 1ur broken hopes and ruined schemes;
md feel that we must travel in loneliness along
The pathway of being, bereft of those who, by
sharing, heightened our pleasure, and who, by
dividing, alleviated our sorrows.
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VA R = e e e z 3

TIE Understanding and Kind Hearted Aodhman.
In one of the morning excursions Of John.
Duke Of Bedford, about the year 1868, III OBJ
served a woman at short distance from hin,
Wrlngmg her hands, weeping aloud, and Disco
vering every mark Of the deepest distress
Moved with sympathy, he Immediately ap-
preached her, desired her to dry N, her tears.
and tell HIM the cause OF her sorrow, promising
at the same time, to do her all the service in Iii,
power. Seeing man in plain gcntcel dress,
looking at her with an air of benigtity and In
teresting himself IN her suffcrngs and being en-
ureiy ignorant OF his rank, She communicated
her story to him without reserve [ have SAID
she) large family; my husband is sick and
beng unable to pay our rent the duke of Bed
ford 5 steward has seized our stock. and left MS
nothing but the dismal prospect Of unavoidable
rum; and came out to take last sad sight Of
my poor COWS. which are still feeding in the park
there Deeply affected with her melancholy
tale, he advised her to driv4 the cows home
and offered himself to set open the gate fer that
purpose. At this proposal she started, burst in
to tears, and refused to NEEDLE with them
They are no longer my husbands" said She;
g and if drive them home shall be looked up
on as a thief: and for any thing | know may be
hanged for it." Forcibly struck with the Justice
Of her reasoning, and the simplicity of her Ian
guage, he gave her some money told her that
he heartily plted her, and would take the liher-
ty to recommend her and her family to the duke
OF Bedford, and he hoped he would do some
thing valuable for her Accordingly he desired
her to call next day at Woburn abbey, and ak
for John Russell, and he would introduce her to
the duke, and speak to him in her behalf The
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EVENING.


The cffulgence of the sun is no longer witness
sed, his last rays having tinged the verdantland-
scape; and he has now retired beyond the ives
tern mountains. The moon with majestic beau
tyand brig htness maintains her ceaseless course,
and guides the wanderer to his home The
tSnkling stars, decorating the canopy above,
and sparkling with undiminished spendor, speak
forth the wisdom of the great Original. All ma
ture breathes solemn adieu to the departing
day; silence pervades the earth; and intelligent
beings may owpause to contemplate with those
hatowed feelings which the suspicious period
inspires, the glories of their Creator, the wis
dom and beauty Of all his works This sacred
hour is peculiarly adapted to awaken feelings of
gratitude; to inspire the heart with holy love;
10 animate our hopes, and guide to virtue Man
is the only intelligent creature that inhabits the
globe; the only being who can admire and love
lis Creator. How exalted his rank How no
bic his existence
There are moments in life, in which we are
led to contemplation; there is a time when the
past is recalled when the future isanticipated
That ime is evening perhaps when we sit by
tIlc burning taper, or when by moonlight we
range the fertile fields.
FOft have pausd, when evenings silent hour.
Was fraught with beauties seemingly divine,
70 feast the soul, within the sacred bower,
With Injuries, she seemed to say were nine
Evening outvies every other hour in time
The day is passed, with all its perplexities and
cares nou4ht is present to disturb the tranquil
breast; and we are permitted to enjoy the sa-
cred sweets which memory awakens. And tho
il may not always be pleasing to reflect on the
past, still it is profitable. The present will be
appreciated; the future prepared for The
morning and MONDAY of life may pass unheed-
ed; hut the evening of existence viii come, and
It may beam with hope-wc should improve life
a i passes.
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Addison says, "if the question be asked WHY
are the generality of mankind so much strangers to
happiness should answer, because they sex it
and "Xpect 1t where 1t Is not, where it cannot be
found"
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FROM TIE MEDITERRANEAN.

Ert,tct 9a Letter from, nm Officer on board the United
oi"fet' SNIP North Carolina, dated Gibraltar Buy,
Of. 10, 1925.
CATER cruise Of three or four months we anchored
here on the 9Th nstant-to enable you to trace our
cruise will rcrDa k that sailed from this the Bay
of AgIers, but did communicate; from thence TO
Tunis, where remained day two; our course ON
there direct for the Archipelago passing between
Sicily and Malta. We went by the Morea in fine wea-
Their little south, and very tie Island Of Sergio
At the Island of Milo took pilots on board each ship
and the next morning into fine little arbor called
Assau IN the Island of Paros westerly to Naxos
and celebrated for lis MARBLE much in demand by the
anclens, and from the quarres of which Phas obtain
ed those beautiful blocks to which he gave almost the
"human face divine and transmitted his name TO DOS
terIty Hero we found an almost unmixed Grecian po
pulaIon, IN AFFECT wTetcbedDess between whom and
their ancestors, my Imagination had depicted them
there remains little more resemblance than there exists
betw the rough blocks of marble and those statues
which gave The AnthcDian statuary sculptor an al
most deathlcss fame In apprc- rnson of the Turks
they afraid to SOW, where they NAV not rcaD and are
thus in extreme poverty, and fear moral de6a,emen
As wc remained week in port. watering had an op-
portunity Of visiting the Grolo Of AntparOs so cecbra-
ted by tue vivid descriptions given of ii by writer's
which You may probably recoeCi and which YOU may
find in the Encyclopedia. | descended TO its ex
IRENE dePtb and although not all il 1esened TO
be, issi a wonderful place. From Paros we sailed
direct for Smyrna in Asia MinOr-we passed so near as
70 have good view Of Scio and Ipsara-the two places
horribly conspicuous for the barbares ofhe
Turks: many instances Of which were related TO me by
gentleman residing in Smyrna loo dcvsh to repeat or
think Of The tales will increase By travelling, we
know, but to the language in which il was expressed
TO meThe harbarties and cruelty committed at those
pla admit Of no possibility Of exaggeraiionn Tous
the Turks were civil, polite, and even attentive: here
(Smyrna) have ate and drank with the Bashaw in the
/ highest style Of Oriental taste. We remained about
/ three weeks in the waters Of Smyrna. During my DC.
regInatoB about the city, in passing the great bazars
Or m ,rket car unexpectedly upon tho bodies Of tw
Greeks, just bcheaded, lying before their own doors
h the head set upon the poserors by way of deri-
sion. BY refinement in cruelty, they cut the heads
off, with sword at the door Of .heir dwellings where
the body is exposed and spit upon by the rabbe Turks
until certain hour ofthe night: when the friends are
obliged 10 buy the right of buTying or the bodies are
thrown into the sea. was too much Disguised po to
be happy when We sailed from SMYRNA for Napoli di
Romantic, The capital Of the Greek Government, which
lies at The head of gulf at the south. We were re-
ceived by ibis government With every denomination
,F for,
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To THE EDrroRs OF THE yvurc.

CeafeDaen:-Tbc cangassiug Of the merits and de-
merits of who are held up for high Offices, is think
wholesome practice, and for one, am glad 10 find
il becoming more common. 1t ELECTS expression Of
public opinion, which may TO direct the ballots
Of those whose duty the Constitution has made it. to
elect officers, and operates check the conduct
and consistency public men. With these sentiments
have observed the pending discussion carried on in
the public prints, the question Of choosing Senator
with interest and SUBTRACTION.
1t seems that great effort is making in this city land
believe il is confined to this city and few counties
the ryer) to bring Mr. Giles more into the
Senate Of the i. States; and it is conjecured from his
within the present year. that Mr. Giles is anxious
once again 10 be there Before can give bin my good
wishes for his success beg bm TO give the following
extract and interrogatores his attention. and either
himself through his friends, such answers as his or
their candor and information may ctate.
Your quotation Of speech Of Mr.. Giles 10 tie %
term Of Gen WashnetoD's Administration (cou6rmed
by another large from correspondent Of the
Enquirer brought my recollection the impeachment
Of Washington's honesty made about the same time
The following extract from tho 5th vol oi MarshaAs
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Cor. TrO1y'S .NSsogs.- We so much crowded to
be under the necessity of excluding all commentary the
Message Of the Governor of Georgia 1t is paper likely
produce d9cp reflection and excitement in this country.
The minds ofour readers, by pcusa oft will be prepared
TO follow us by the publication, in such observations
on design To Offer them. It's immense length
cudcs many either things Of Interest," whilst importance
claims fog it the first place.
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accompanied the commander in chief with mum
DER OF officers, to visit the authorities. were shown
mosque altered into Senate chamber aud were en-
terta'ned in the house forUcrt the residence Of the
Iul<'h Governor This place secure IN lis for
utcatIonS being almost another Gibraltar The, have
about twelve fifteen hundred men in the garrison
wei armed and partly discplned but thoy can make
no head against 1brahm Pacha who has over run the
hl"rea with about ten thousand troops disciplined and
omcered by Frenchmen, who, 10 the Disgrace of their
country. urban and WELD the sword for the sup-
preston OF civil and rational liberty. This once bril
ant peoplcts land of ''song and story us now over
run and laid wase-but the Greeks are not vet con, 4
Iuered. But may Judge from what have seen aud
head ttey have chance OF success unless the
g'tinates," the Holy Alliance, France leading win
cease 10 and the Turks as they do, sub rosa. Left
10 themselves the Greeks more than a match for
the Turks, but they sink before their secret as
sailants "
NaPciI is vary near the remains of ancient Arros.
rendered memorable TO me by the skine of Kings &C
he was called, and the character of Clytcmnestrs A
Promonory is still pointed the spot where She MA
Geo slave to give notice when the Grecan feet re
turned from Troy. ~ thousand associations rendered
our stay interesting in that mighty neiehborhood We
were visited by many of their most DISTINGUISHED MAJ
'ie following are all my memory furnishes the name OF
VIZ FTpce Mavrocordati, Secretary of State and hoo
OF the Councils Prince Ypsilant General and brotbo
10 'e one who first raised the standard of rebellion in
n'"'daVis; ConduroitI very wealthy citizen and Pre-
sideht OF the Senate: and Chaua RUS the cnmmanor
lcir naval forces, who has blown IN two of 40 on
my admiral ships, very brave and distinguished man
'A'er leaving NaPolI, we sailed down the Nleterrane
" va hi"i'1, anu went INTO The Bay of Alpiere
WIN which place we communicated, and with a fine
,reezc came down here where we are all in ouaran
ine from which we shall be released on the IGth in
tant 80 A'N' M
The flying thus from place 10 another furn;sbe.
ono novelty, but ii by compensates for the
lsS and anxiety attending one who leaves family It
hardly necessary for TO repeat, what you perIans
ave heard me say, That never yet saw the place
vh'ch' by contrast did not make thank God IN NV
lcart' that was born in America, sthe land of the
rec and the home of the braven
M Y. Commercial .4du.
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coAHMs oFFTca, BAIT

And will positively take place il The city of Ba,i
on WEDNESD.qY, ISM FEBRn4RY
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DIED.

On Friday last, in King & Queen county Mrs Eliza.
BETH RoANE the relct of the late Judge Spencer Roame
On Friday morning, l7rh inst at his residence in Will
age. " mo
AT the residence of James Peasants in the county Of
H"ochland JAMES youngest son Marcellus Smith ESQ
IN Tue "a year ct his Five days suced to rob
parents Of the happiness which possession Of chill
dren confers ~
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jhr. SHARr was during the OF 1912, Representa-
I'VE III Songese from Kentucky, in which CAPACITY he dis
hssneo h'nsefby his aud ready reasoning and his
Jealous support of the then of the Govern
'"e"t; since which he has been bar in popular
paeCc, ana at the same time conspicuous in the
political transactions OF the State which he lved1
MAJ. Int.
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Every prize payable in cash, sixty days after ts draw.
ing, SUBJECT to deduction Of fifteen per
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ADORE the denomination Of Ten Dollars and the drawpr 10
progress III The usual manner The lO5GO prizes $40
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