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kt| ^ clrrt HEAVES. Brjond th*M e Will ay wind* and gloomy J »kir», Bryand daalh'i cloudy portal. Tbat« i« a laad 'nbcre braaiy narar din. __ And lor* baoomea imnortal. A laod nboaa liglit i» narar diamed by _ ihadc, — Whoic field* ara »rer Tercal. Where nothing baaulifal can arar f»da, — And bloom, for aye, ateraal. We ray ant kuan bow «wa#t it* balmy air. How bright and fair iu fiowan ; ' We B*y net bear lb* *on|f* lhal echo there. Through l hoe* enchanted boaare. Tba city'* abiniag toaar* we may not at* W ith onr dim, earthly rbioa ; * For death, tba eilaai wafdec. keep* in* key That npaa tba gala* elyuao. Bat aumetimai, when .down ih* wailern ! Tba. deiy aaoaet lingan, Iu gulden galea awing inward ooitaietely. U u locked by naaaea finger*. And while they atand a tnemaol half ajar, ti team* ban the iuMr glory Stream brightly through the azure eaalt •Tar, £ And half reveal lb* alory. (). laod unknown ! 0, land of Isea Diaia* 1 Falbar all aue, elarnal, traido, gaid* there waaderiag, wayworn feet of mine ,J Into I hue* paatoree aereel. J-rlrct HAKtUmg. TUE CAPTAIN'S ITOB1. '" When I was aboot forty raari of age I took command of the chip Petereham. She waa old craft, and had «eeo fall ae much tcraice a* aha waa capable of teetag with aafety. Bat her owner* were '• wlllhtg 10 trnat a vnlaable cargo in her. ao 1 would not refaaa to trait ayaeir. Wo ware bound to Liverpool, and noth1 log onuiual happeoed ootil aboot St.- ■ eighth day 001. ahen ae ran fool of a ; wall iceberg. It waa early la the mornI lag. before nur.rtsa. and net above tlx | or right feat of ice waa above the aratrr, ! H having nearly ail been melted io the warm watara of ibe golf tirram. I did - not ihiek we had auatained much iBjory, - Lr tba ah nek waa light; bat f am* vary ' »"'Xry. ■»<! g*»« the look-aat a *a»m . puniafament, without atopping to inquire whether be cookl havo ceeo the berg in I time to oacapa it. j My eabln boy waa aamed Jaok WiihI era. He waa fourtees year* of ago, and ! thia waa bia firat voyage. I had ukea i bin from bin widowed mother, and ' j had promised her that I weald aeo him j well treated, that waa, if he labaved ; htaK-lf. Jle wu a bright, quick, intelligent lad. I tooo made mvaelf believe be had an nwfal dtapoafcion I fancied : that be w.a the aort atubbom piece of { h"««oitf I bad ever com* arrow. I i ' had made op my mind that he bad never | • breo pro parly govcruud, and bad re- ! •oived to break him ia I told him I'd j curb hie temper before I'd done with him la reply, ha told me that I might : kill bia If I liked; and I flogged him with the end of the mixes topgallant halliard* till he could bardlv •land. 1 naked him if he'd got enough, and he told ae I might Cog bim more if I wiahed to. I felt a nroag inclination throw the bay overboard, i>«t at that moment be aiaggared hack agates! the miaxaa mast from abeoioU « -akoeai. aad I left him to biaBaU. When I rea- j aasad cafaaty about the boy'a diapoation, , j I waa forced to acknowledge that he waa : ooe of the aaarUM aad moet inteiligcni ; aad faithful lad* J had ever aera When I naked him to do anything, he woold . off like a rocket : but wheo I roughly^ erdereu bim W d* it, then cam* tba dia position with wbtch I found fault Ooe day, whea it waa very nqar nooa, 1 • apobe to bim to briag op my qaad 1 ; mat. He waa looking over the qaartortmll. aad I kaew be did aot hear ate ; ] I ^~xi ximrl t** 1 y °*1 *° 1 t 'Y help bim. ] ] J "I didn't bear yoa," bo asid, with an ' I t eat. 1 AO word*. MM I. i , "I aopp»«e I can apeak." be r torted, I movl^ ilewly toward the com pa* io a I

ia a momeot, aod I graaptd bim by the eoHer. ~ "Speak to me again like that, aad I'll flog yoo within an inch of joor life," ny said I "Yon md flog away," be replied, firm and nadennted aa a rock. And I did flog bim. I caught np the by end of a rope, and boat htm till my arm fairly ached ; bat be necer winced. "How'a that V' aaid I. "There'* a little more life in me; ir yon'd better tlog it ont," wax the reply. Aod 1 beat him again. I bent hiui *• till he sank fruoi my band against the rail ; and I aeot one of my other men for ; my quadrant. When it came, and I ,y had adjuated it for observation, I found that the sun waa already past the merid■r »»", and (bat I at* too late. This added fuel to the fire of my medne**> | and quickly se:zing the Ud by the col* j l*r, I led him to the mein hatchway, j aod had ihe hatch taken off. I then j thrust him down, and awore I would " . keep him there till hi* atohbornnca* ! »»* broken. The hatch wa* then put 1 •>". »nd I went into the cabin. I anf- | fered a good deal ihet afternoon, not n with any eompanctions of conscience for j what I bad done, but with my own tem- . per aod bitterness. It made me tn*d to \ think that I could not conquer that boy 1 ; —that I could not break dawn hi* cool, . item opposition. "Bot I drill do it," I ; aaid to myself; "111 starve him into it, e or he shall die tinder the operation. < After sapper I went to the hatchway „ nod called ont to bim, bot be morned . me no anawer. At too o'clock I callrd . * and again got 00 anawer. 1 j might l ava thought that the flogging r bad takan away bis senses, had not some . of Ihe men assured me that they had j „ heard him. not so hour before, talking % to himself. I did not trouble bim again until morning. After braakfaet I went [ fo 'k» hatchway aad called to him once more. I beard nothing from bim. aor „ coald 1 see Urn— I bad not seen bim j | aince I put him down there. I called i oat several limes, bot be would make no y reply.— and vet the seme men told me t they bail hnarri bim talking that aery , morning. Ho seemed to be calling on ! , them for help, but he woald not aak for >me I meant 10 break bim iato it. . He'll beg for me before hell starve, 1 j j j though!; aod so determined to let him , ■ stay there. I supposed that he bed j crawled forward to the forecastle bulk- j 1 head, ia order to make the sailor* bear I him. Some of the men asked lease to [ . go down and look for bim. bp| I refused, j . and threatened to paniah the firat mea . I that dared to go down, f ■ At noea I arant again, aad salt* did ( [ | not answer me this lime, I received j ■ j tbet he should corns to the batch wsy , . ! sad ssk for me, ere I went any more, j I j The day passed awsy, aad when evening ; 1 J eame again I began to be startled. [ ! ; ; thought of the many good qoala.ee the I I boy bad, aad of his widowed mother. He bad been ia the hoM thirty-six heore. and all of forty boars without food or ! , drink. H« must ba too traak to cry ont r now. It Asa bard for me to gi*t ap, but if be died there from actual stars* ; tion, it might go harder with ma etill. \ 1 ; Bo at length I made op my mind to go | and see bim. It was not quite aandown : ! when I had the batch taken off. and I j jumped down opoa the boxes aloes. A little way forward I saw a apace wbsre Jaok might aasity have gone dowa, and ia tbit point I crawled on ay h^.nds smd kaecu I esiled ont Uwre, bat ©"eftf^'io answer. A sbon distance further waa a wide space, which I bad j entirely forgotten, bat which I now re- ' membered bad bean loft opaa on aecoaat ! ' of a break in the flooring of tba bold, j which would let anything that might 1 1 been stored there rest directly I the thin piaakiog of the ship. j 1 Ta Ibis piece I made my way^ad « down. I heard the splashing of r I vaire, aad thought I could detect ajj eonnd like the incoming of b tisy Jet or 1 1 stream. At first I coald soa no lb lag ; j 1 bat aa soon sa I became aaed to the dim 1 Hght. I could distinguish tba Saimt oat- , has. of the boy at noma diet sacs below 1 1 ma. n. seemed to Isa sitting on Uc breAen floor, "itb bi« fcet stretdtod ant ft #

ke against a cask- I called ont to bim, i and tboaght be looked op. II "Jack, are yoa there f" Aod he answered me in s feint, weary 1 K»»* — "V*i, help me! Ao held me!j m Bring men asd bring a lsatorn. The j ship has sprang a leak I" >c I hesitated, and he added in a morr m eager tone— "Make haste ; I will tiy and bold on till yon csme back " I waited to hesr ne more, bnt hurried ' • en deck as soon as pomible, and retort.- 1 jr. od with a lantern aod three men. 1 j u . leaped down brefdes the boy, and could 1 ie scarcely believe Ihe evidence of my own j >r | senses Three of the timbers were eom- j ' plet' ly worm-mten to the very been, id and one r-f "Ae outer piauks had been I- . broken, and Mould burst In any moment f is | the boy migh: leave it, whose fort were j »• > braced acakii the plank before him. 1* j Half a dusre little jets of water wore j r, { streaming in aboot bim, and he was wet | n j to tbe akin. I saw the plank most j d I burst the moment the strain was re- j 1* moved from it, »o I made my men brace | it j themselves igainst it before I lifted him ' f- ! np. Other men were esiled down with ' it | planks, and spikes, and adsre. and with T much care and trouble, wa finally sne- ! 1- i seeded in stopping tbe leak and averting 0 I lb» danger. y Tbe plsnk which bad fossn stove in j I, 1 was six (set long by tight inches wide, 1 | and wonld let in n stream of water of , | thot capacity. It would have been be- 1 I yond oor reach long before we could j v ! have discovered it, and would have suok | i j ae iu a v*ry rhorbgime. I knew it must j i I be where the irPberg struck us. I Jack Wither* waa taken to tbe cabin. > ? and there be. managed to tell his story ' I I Shortly after I had pot bim in the hold. | I j be crawled forward, sod vben ho became t . used to the dire glimmer that csme t through tbe dead-lights, be looked t about fir n snog place in which to lie. s for hie limbs were very sore. He weot r to sleep, uod »{.en be woke be heard a 1 faint sound like water streaming through I n aval) hole. He wist to the opaa place > in ihe cargo aad looked down, and wa* I sure that he saw a small jet of water r springing op through the ship's bottom I He leaped down, and In n few moments | r , found that the timbers bad given wholly . J awny, and that the stream wa* increas. j I i fog 'o size He placed hit hand opon j I I the plank, aad found it broken, and dis j I ; covered thai the pressure of the water ; . was forcing it inward. He bad nkw r] to sae that if it gained no inch more it ! 1 most nil go, and the ship be lost, and , j perhaps all bands perish And he saw, 1 j too, that if he eonld kc-p the broken ■ j plank in iu plaee be might stop the inI { eoming flood. So he sat himself opon I it, and braced his feet against tbe cask, 1 . | and then called for help. But he was too far awsy; so low down with such a ! . { mass of cargo about bim, that bis vole* ; ' scarcely reached other ears thah his own j , , Some of the meu beard him, bot thought j i be was talking to himself. And there be sat, with bfefbet braced ■ j for foor-nnd-twenty dreary hours, with ; ! the water spurring nil over him, ond , | drenching bim to the very skin. lie bad | several times thought of going to the ; hatchway and exiling for help; bot be 1 knew that the broken plank would be forced In If be left it, for he oould feel It ) haute beneath bim. His limbs were ! racked with ptin, bnt b* wonld not give ' up. I asked him if he should not have : given np if I bad not come ns I did. ; He answered that he soald not ba«c done it while there was life in him Ilr | said he thonght not of himself, he was ready to die,— bnt he woold save the rrest if he eonld. — and he had saved os. ■ vweely saved ns nil, from s wttory grs*e. j The boy lay sick almost unto darflh: 1 | i nursed bin with my own hands — nursed him all through his df hrinm; ' i and when hi# meson returned, and be 1 i could-sit np and talk, I bowed mveeif ' f before hire and hambly ashed his part-on < for .tke wrewg I ■ had done him. He J j threw bis anas around my seek, and , ; told ftm if 1 woald be good to Mas, he - woaid M**r five me cause of cffesce; | j and added, ne he sat np again, "I as c j a«t • coward, I eowid aot he a dog." J I never forgot thnae ward"; and from ' { that boor I have never r truck a blow on t f ■

1, 1 board my ship. I make my men feel j that tbey are men, that I so regard them, | and that I wish -to make thorn as com 1 y | finable and , happy as possible; end I ! j h»v# not failed to gain their respect aod c j confidence I give jo undue license; | I but make my crews foel that tbey hsve s ! e friend aad superior in tbe eame person, j y For nine years I have sailed in throe i different ebipa, with tbe same crew. A | d man could not be hired to leave me save j . j for an officer's berth. 1 And Jack Withers remained with me | ii } thirteen years. He was my cabin boy; j n j one of my foremast bands; my second ' . mate; and the iast time he sailed with j ,, toe, he refused the commsud of n new j * barque because he would not bo Septra- I t j ted from me But he is a capliu, now, \ r ■ and one of the best the couutry ever ; . afforded. Booh, gmtlemen, is my expo- j e rieoee in government and discipline on 1 1 shipboard 1 AS EDITOR DKElMIStt OS WEBlliM. - 1 CAKE. ?l A hatehrlor eda-.r cut Waft, who bad t 1 J received from lb* fair bund of » bride e 1 : piece of wedding r*k« lo dream on, tbu> I 1 j g"",» the result of hi* experience : — j . ! We put it under ihe hesd of our pillow, j f «bo! our ryes eweelly s* so Infant Mevwd f wllb an e*»y couscieoco. and ssored prodigiously. The god of dream* gently touched I u«, end lo ! in feoey we wer.- married. , • Never w** a little edilor to h*pi<) It wa* 1 "my love," "dearest." sweeten, ringing - | in our ears every moment. Oh ! that the ' I droain bad broken off here. But no , some I evil gemot put it ioto tbe bead of our I ducky to have puddiug for dinner, juvt to | . please ber lord. I lo n hungry dream we sat down to din- . 'j ner. Well, the pudding moment arrived.: and a bag* slice almost obscured from sight , . the plate before US. ■ "My dear." said we, fondly, "did you : I make this T" [ "Ye*, my love ; aiut it nicer' "(Jlorioos , the best bread pudding 1 , avar lasted in aijr life." ( "Plum podding, ducky,'' suggested iSy wife.•*0h, no, dearest — bread padding. I was | ' sfwaya foofi of 'em.™ I "Call them bread pudding •xrt*imed j my wif*, ahile h*r lipi slight v reeled with j ij "Certainly, uiy dear; reckon I've had . j enough at the Sherwood House lo know * . j bread pudding, my love, by ail means | "Husband, this ir really too bad ; ptom pudding Is twice as hard lo make ae bread j podfliug and is mure expensive, and is a • great d»al better. 1 lay this is ;dom pud- j ' j Uiug, sir !" and my wife's brow flu»k*d with j I I "My love, my sweet, my dear lov*,"ex- ! • c ai.ued we, sootb ogly, "do not g*i angry 1 I am s«re il is very good, if it is bread j \ pudding." "You mean, low wretch," fiercely replied I my wife in a higher tone, "you kuow it's ' ; plum pudding " ' j "Then, *>adsR. it's so meanly pit to- ' | gather and so badly burned that th* devil | bitnreir wouldn't kuow it. I left you, ma. { dam, most distinctly and emphatically, and , j I will aot be -ontredicte-'. that it is bread j pudding, and Ue r.«»txeat kind at that." I . "It is plum podding." shrieked my wife, a* she l.urled a glass of claret in my face. | ih* glass itself tapping tbe claret from my I "Bread pudding, " gasped we. ploek to ' the last, and grasped n roasted chicken by 1 the left leg. 1 "Plum padding," roae abote tba din. as 1 [ had a distinct perception of fowling two j plates smashed scree* my bead. "Bread podding," we gtoaoed in a rage, as th* chickaa left our hand, and flying with swift wing across the table, landed in madam'* nosom. "Plum pending," resounded the war-ery from the enemy, as tbe gravy dish took at where wa had been depositing a part of uar dinner, aad a plat* of beau landed upon oar white vest Bread padding forever," shouted we, in defiance, dodging the eocp tureen, and foiling beneath iu oootents. "Plum puddieg." yelled tbe amiable • pons*, and noticing eur mivforteae, the determined to keep us dowu by piling upon oar head the ditfaws with no gaail* hand. Then, la rapid succssaioa. followed tba war . crW -Plom padd,ag." ah* shrieked with j aver* dish. "Bread paddutg." ia emotkarad tone* csme fip-frotn for pit* » reply. Then it | ess "plum peddieg" ia rapid succession, j , tba last cry growing foabiar, till, aa I nan | distinctly recollect, it bad grown to a ' whisper. "l*Iam padding," ee*seaJsd like I I tkaodar, followed by a tremendous crash es i 1 my wife leaped npou the pile with her I , delicate feat, aod commenced jam pi of ap , and dowa, when, thank hnnvea. we ewok*. aad tha* saved oor life. W- shall never dream OS Weddinc cake -Ph— tkst'l the ! moral. ** 1 1

,1 1 THE K'.NC AID THE .SOLDIER. ' | Frtdrrick of Pru«sia hsd » grant j ' mania for enlisting gigantic mldirrs ioto ■ j J the Royal (iuordi, and paW sn enorj moos bounty to his recruiting offiror* ' j for getting them. "One day tbe recruit - ! ing -org cant chnneed to ospy a lliber- | ' nian who was at least seven feet li'.gb; ^ | be nceostrd him iu English, and proI posed 'lis! he should enlist. The idea of s military life and • largo i bounty so delighted Patrick that bo immediately conm-nted. £ j "But unless you csn spank German, ^ the king will not give you so much " ( "Oh, be jnbrrs!" said the Irishman, 1 "sure it's I that don't know n word of 1 German." ' j "Bot," ssid the sergremt, "three ] words will be sufficient, and these you csn learn io a short lime. Tbe (Bag j knows every tnttn in the Guards. As soon as hi- sees yon, he will ride op and ask you bow old yoo are; yon frill say ' 7Vrnfy-tei'eM , ' Next, how long you i , hsve been in ihe amtee; yOu rcust » 1 reply. ' 7%r»c vtrh ' Finally, if yoo are * ! provided with clothe* end ration-; j>w j answer, 'Hath ' " j | Pat aoon ionrned lo pronounce hie i answers, but uever dreamed of learning ,1 the question*. I . In three wet-ks be appeared before » • the king in review. Hi* mnjesty rodo ? up to him. Paddy stepped foraerd with ' ' "present sruis." e "How old are yoo?" sgid the king. "Three weeks," said the Irishman. "How long have yoo barn io tho service?" asked bis majesty. "Twent-aeveii years." t "Am 1 or you a foel ?" ruor^j the king. 1 "Both," replied Patrick, who an* ! instantly taken to the guard-room, but I pardoned by th* king, after be uudar1 stood the fact* of the cose, f ANECDOTE OF WEBSTER. 1 There resided si Coo way, V fT.. * welt | known character— the fatuous Billy Abbott I i — both tmsll of his f tame aad old of hi* ,, age, and who, by hi* licntoron* wit e«u I wonderful km»«l*dg* oj every littht ingi- . ( dent thst n,sde tl- 1* r.r that place pariicu- ( • tarty charming ao l iglera-tingto the hi*. tureen and nutiqaa.-ian. *0 Ingratiated hiw- , serf into the pom! fovorn of the great j vipoundrr of th* (LmstiMltion thst hr , | a) wars pave him a seat in his carriage . , wiiuu he rode out to visit th* heaoties uf , : nulnre. Billy's **tori*lr* feeling rnvioae un aecoant of the honor conferred upon . bim hy this diiliuguished man. after Webster's depsrutre, sarcastically asked Billy j j 10 the crowded bar room, what bn and his friend Webster found to conver-.e about as j Ibuy rod* about the country. t Billy replied. "We usually talk about horiicaitura aad agruoltuio, .-.ud tha Ui'„ k fort 4t breed-i of t-s tie and horves; ana I upr n these snhjects 1 derive fturti Bfm a _ great deal of useful information. Upon j such topics I find hints lilt 1^ more than 1 my match ; but the moment," he enthnsitW'tically added, with a tone of voice he. , coming the orator himself, "ho alludes to the Constitution I can floor him in a misf at* I" whirh was recefveff with shoots of applause, and the Bsoquo of Envy never 0 again affronted Daniel's rustic favorite. f NATIONAL SAMTATIOXfi1 j Tbe climate of Egypt is feverous, and * | perspiration is necessary to health; hence tbe Egyptian, maeting you, asks, • "How do you perspire?" "Have yon 1 eaten? ia your stomach in good order?" asks tbe Chinaman — n touching solieitod# , which csn Only be appreciated by r s nation of gourmands. The traveling 1 Hollander aski you, "How you go?" 1 Tbe thoughtful, active Swede^demoad#, "Of wbsit do you think?" The Dane, , more placid, uses tba Genntn exprea- , sian. "Live well?" Bot tbe greeting of . the Pol* is brat of ell: "Are yoo happy?" — Mr. Jtahins Is about to gat married. | Mr. Jenkins says that toJivaaiagte is not i only singular, bot "agin nature, law, go*- ■ f pel. common sense, and fen gewereti. « -A ■ 1 nuurwbo ha* reachsd twenty-oBe without I j owning a Mrs. to inks aa bis arm of a I js nobody aad nothing. Yoang ■ man. ir yon want lo be somebody, enjoy ■ ! comfort, take a position in society, and jH falfll the Scriptures, just follow Jeakint. q H Tnoi-si.se are like babies: they grew big- H ' «W bF nsrsing. H I