The Arkansas banner., 1846-05-13
my garden, broke the seal with trembling hand, and read as follows:

i ITpHlDiinV hand, and read as follows:
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 "Sir;-Were it not from the knowledge, that long ere your eyes peruse this plotted scrawl, the hand that traced it shall have been cold in the tomb, would have preferred leay- ing my sorrows without record, and carry ing them to another world within my shut and silent heart. As il IS, fear this proceed Ing Is only to lower In your estimation, and to exhibit my woman's weakness. Be it SO If to love is to have sinned--oh, let it be, that to have suffered for my frailty, should plead my atonement
 ''Starte not at this unleminne confession It IS such as know you are unprepared for. as you imagined my affections were cen tred Tn another. No--ne-that was not the case. Mir. Curtis, although fayoufite with my father, never was so with me; and with the above declaration before you, il is need- less that should be moro explicit for my reasons in declining the proposals of my cousin Bonnet.
 vii had not accidentally heard of your early bereavement, and of your resolution oi shutting up your heart for ever 10 the smiles of woman, perhaps should not have had the hardihood to pen this letter; but from that hour similar vow was mine, and, knowing as did, that change in spirit like mine was incompatible with is nature, my determin- , alton Was taken without much difficulty. 'Pardon my calling down a farewell bless ing on your head, and when you read this, may it come to your heart ill tranquil pleas ure, although the voice that now imRl0fes it, shall have been long since qHeneletl ant for rver "ANNE AUsTEN.o
 The emotions which the perusal of this eplstls creoed within me are ,ndcscribablc Anew light dawned over my bewildered path. The pure spirit that had so confdingly re- posed in me had long before ascended to a more congenial regi 'n; and in tbe pfostraton of my faculties, l fell that being had been given me, not only that might be miserable myself, but that might blight all within the sphere of my baleIul influence
 When recalled the only days of my hearts true happiness, when, loving and be- loved by Anna Singleton, d glenn oi sunshine pervaded the worEd3 which il soon lost fo ever felt as if the romance of life had only been shown me, that might more awfully suffer under it's cold and dread realities; and that turning from the coffin which contained her ashes, memory might more bewtchingly restore her to my minds eye, in the radiance of .consummate beauty.
 IL is vain to pray that the past were res tored-that the days were back, when the heart could thrill, and bend, and melt, as it then thrilled, softened and expanded in its love of the bright and beautiful-lhat its feel ings were re-purlled from the worlds con amination, and it's rebound to the impressions of pleasure as lively. There is no second spring in human life; neither threats nor tears can recall the fleet angel of time When the autumn of life fades into the sere and yellow leaf, tlre vista of death Is the only one through which we can look, in the true hope of more brilliant suns and a serener existence.
 What more remains for me on earth but to prepare for the great change that awaits me, and which, in the usual course ofnatnre, cannot be at a great distance. Fondly would l hope, that tears shed in secret-the priva- tions which r have undergone, and which mock the greatest auserities suffered by the most rigid anchorlte-and the contrion of a penitent spirt-have plotted out from the great book the faults and iolies of my imma- ture years, and that the Author of all being will iot reject utterly the offering of heart, which, while it bleeds with gratitude and love, relies on goodness which Is at once i sublime and boundless.
 CmenesS The Nashville "DaiIy Gag cite" relates 'a'necdolen of joker who must have been nearl y a match for SIMON SuGGs, when he played at :" old sledgen with the ' hard shell preacher's'' black boy, BiIl.- l The Gazette says.
 A gentleman in the South has two sons, Peter and John, neither of whom are of ase. The former is addicted to the habit of eamb- ling, aud bids fair to teach his brother his bad habit. Fhe father, on recent occasion heard that one of his sons was in the habit of playing cards, but he could not ascertain which, and, therefore attempted to get this information by straIagem.
 One evening after supper, he drew forth a pack of cards from lis desk, and invited the boys to game of '.oil Sledgcn Both were astonished at this unprecedented proposition but Pete's cunning had been developed long since, and 1t began to enquire into the motives of his father in moment he took the hint, and could his father have seen him, as he ap- poached the table behind him, he would have seen finger pulling down an eyelid, as much as to say" Do you see anything grcen;o The father dealt the cards, the lead fell to Pete, and out he led '' Jack of trumpsn-slap went John's "ace' upon it. The old man looked sorrowfnily al his younger son, as he asked Pete why he led his Jack " l thought it was the best card !'' said Pete. John now led, and caught Pete's ..ten,n and as the game progressed to a conclusion, il was evil dent that John would win, and it was.evident | to the father, too, that J ohn was the gambling son. The game finished, the old man took John into an adjoining room, and thrashed him soundly.
 sJolm Polk, lmerica. ."-An American gen. tleman, writing 10 the Lynn, Mass, Pioneer, says that he saw sn Almanac in London, which contained list of the ''Sovereigns of Europe" h this list he found in regular order sJohn Polk, Americao
 Corporal Streeter says, Satan las railroad running directly into his dominions. A rum