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EDGEFIELD, S. c., MAY p, 1852.

from which he had elected his most faith
fui and devoted vile, and the attendant
was on the point of leaving the room
when the private door of his chamber
was slowly opened, and Josephine trem
blingly entered. Her eyes were swollen
with grief, her hair disheveled, and she
appeared in all the dishabille of unuttera.
bic anguish. She tottered into the middle
of the room, and approached the bed
then, irrcsolutely stopping, she buried her
face in her hands, and burst into a flood
of tears. A feeling Of delicacy seemed
for a moment to have arrested her steps
"a consciousness that she had now 10
right to enter the chamber of Napoleon
but in another moment all the pent.up
love of her heart burst forth, and, forget
ting everything in the fullness of her an
guish, she threw herself upon the bed,
cIasped Napoleon's neck in her arms, and
exclaiming, "My husband! my husbandr
sobbed as though her heart were break
ing. The imperial spirit Of Napoleon
was for the moment entirely vanquished,
and he also wept almost convulsively.
He assured Josephine of his love-of his
ardent and undying love. In every way
he tried to soothe aud comfort her, and
for some time they remained locked in
each others embrace. The attendant
was dismissed, and for an hour they con-
timed together in this last private inter.
view. Josephine, then, in the experience
of an intensity of anguish which few
hearts have ever known, parted forever
from the husband she had so long, so
iondly, so faithfully loved.
HINTS TO MornERs.-If you wish TO
cultivate a gossipping, mcdding, conso.
rious, spirit in your children, be sure
when they come home from church, Il
visit, or any other place where YOU do
not accompany them, TO ply them with
questions concerning what everybody
wore,. how everybody looked, and what
everybody said and did-a and if you find
anything in all this to censurc, always do
it in their hearing. You may rest as
surcd, if you pursue course of this
kind, they will not return to you unladen-
ed with intelligence; and rather than it
should be uninteresting, they will by
degrees, learn to embelish in such a.
manner as shall not fail to call forth re.
g6a! I'd #f, TE tins caHTst, TsHde
the spirit of curio>ty-wllich is so early
visible in children, and which, if rightly
directed may be made the instrument Of
enriching and enlarging their minds-a
vehicle of mischief, which shall serve
only to narrow them.
WHAT A WIFE SHOULD BE.-Bnrns,
the poet, in one of his letters, set forth
the following as the true qualifications of
a good wife: "Thc scale of good wife
ship | divide into ten parts: Good ma
ture, four; good sense, two wit, one;
personal charms, viz: Il sweet face, elo-
uuent eyes, fine limbs, graceful carriage,
Il would add fine waist too, but that is
soon spoit, you know,l all these, one;
and for the other qualities belonging to,
or attended on, wife, such as fortune,
connexions, education, II mean educa-
ton extraordinary family blood, &C.,
divide the two remaining degrees among
them as you please. only remember, that
all these minor proportions must be en-
pressed by fractions, for there is not any
one of them in the Aforesaid scale cnti-
tied 10 the dignity Of an iuteser.
BUSINESS PlcruRE.-A new penny
paper, the Sun, Just started in Cincinnati,
gives the following picture Of the busi-
ness Of the city:
Here, on the landing, lying side by
side, are steamboats, which have come
from Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky,
Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, Indiana, Ten
ncssce, Iowa, Arkansas, Mississippi,
Louisiana! Old States and new States,
slave States and free States, Northern
States and Southern States, are all here,
lying quietly together, in the friendly
embraces of Commerce. But, look again !:
from what countries came these cargoes
of merchandise and produce? Is it not
one and the same country! Here are
the products of the Alleglanies, the grain
of Ohio, the salt of Virginia, the tobacco
Of kentucky, the lead of MISSOURI, the
iron of Tennessee, the cotton Of Nlssis
sippi and Arkansas, the sugar and mo-
lasses of Louisiana, and the rice of the
Carolinas! And, what are there return.
ed for them! Bacon for the negroes,
sugar mills for the planter, bread for the
manufacturers, oil and lard for all coun-
tries. Can the most active Imagination
conceive of more elements of consolida-
ton in natural interests, and of fervent
patriotism in a people?
He HAD HIN.-A Hosicr from the
West was standing on the steps of the
fremont House the other day, when a
wag, who had somehow obtained an in.
PRODUCTION to him, stepped up to the ver-
dant chap, and with Il very impressive
flourish, asked him:
"My dear sir--ahem--what is the ply
sical, moral and intellectual condition of
the great country from which you cames'
The fellow scratched his head a mo-
ment rs if puzzled, and then broke out as
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