[FOR THE RAIL-ROAD JOURNAL.] ment, leave this important work to slumber? Ito or from New York and Albany. It is not unrea-rivals be not raised up quite as formidable and not as leave her citizens to answer. Her reputation and in-sonable then to conclude that as far as the produc. easily reduced. terest are in their keeping, and I trust they will neitions of the soil alone are concerned, the county of Canada has made a powerful movement in the ther be forgotten nor disregarded. OBSERVER. Berkshire would afford as liberal a support to the road construction of the Wellard canal, through which as Columbia and Renssalaer. But the productions much of the produce of our state, Pennsylvania, of agriculture bear no comparison in amount of ton. Ohio, and the Lakes, will pass to Montreal. Mr. Editor: The Rail-road from New York to nage to that which is drawn from the other resources The great system of internal improvement underAlbany, is at present occupying so large a share of of this district. It is rich almost beyond parallel, in taken by Pennsylvania in her Canals and other pub. marble, lime, iron; in the abundance and excellence lic works, was not only incited by our example, but public attention, and is so particularly interesting to of its water power, sufficient for the most extensive avowedly intended to counteract much of the effect the city of New York, that perhaps the following re-manufacturing operations. A committee appointed of our exertions; and the laudable spirit of the Balmarks upon that important enterprize, may be accep- for ascertaining the tonnage of Berkshire, stated at timoreans, displayed in the stupendous construction table to your readers. It is evident that the value of the meeting which was held in Amnenia, that 40,000 of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-way, gives every the stock in this road will be materially affected by for which the average price was paid of $5 per ton a work scarcely inferior in magnitude and costli tons was the annual amount of exports and imports, New-Yorker a second twinge of jealousy, in seeing its location; for it would seem too plain to need an The estimate which was made of the number of ness to the Erie Canal undertaken and persevered argument, that a Rail-road running along the mar passengers the writer of this is unacquainted with in by a single city of barely 80,000 inhabitants. It gin of the Hudson, where it must sustain a competi- Great as is this amount, and paying as this county has always appeared to me, that the embarking in does for transportation now, a sum nearly equal to the construction of the Ithica and Owego Rail-road, tion with perhaps the best water communication in seven per cent. upon the supposed cost of the whole was an il judged step, as far as the interests of Nowthe world, would be less productive than one con-road from New-York to Albany, it is easily shown York are concerned, unless the ulterior object was structed upon a far more feasible route in the interior, that a Rail-road would immediately increase the had in view, of its continuation from Owego to the where its presence would create business for its sup. amount of business, so that the revenue would not Hudson; since, as an independent work, its direct port. This inland route commences at the termina- The beds of iron ore are hut partially wrought, in Canal down the Susquehannah to Baltimore and Phi. be diminished by the reduction in the price of freight. consequence would be the draining off from the Erie tion of the Harlaem Rail-road; and following the consequence of their distance from water commu- ladelphia, of a great proportion of the trade of this revalley of the Croton, passes through a productive nication. Numerous water powers are yet unoccu-gion; and to make this more certain and effectual, it country, admirably adapted to the construction of a pied. Of the almost countless varieties of marble, is announced to us in the Owego Gazette, (and copied Rail-road, to Sharou, 100 miles from New York. but one can be advantageously quarried, for the into your paper) "that the inhabitants of that village same reason: and although lime, equal in quality and places upon the river" Susquehannah “are about Here the line meets the Taghconi mountain range, to the best which is procured from Rhode Island, to establish steamboats to ply between Owego and the which stretching away to the north, forms the lofty can be manufactured at a cost of eight cents per Pennsylvania canal." The capital of New York boundary between the States of Massachusetts and bushel, and in quantities to supply any demand, borrowed and lent with great magnanimity to facili. New York. On the eastern side of this mountain however extensive, yet, under existing circum. tate the diversion of its trade to Philadelphia and stances, not a bushel can be sold in any foreign Baltimore!! But it is not to be thought that meas. wall lies the rich and beautiful valley of the Housa market for a price which will more than cover the lures will not be taken to rectify this mistake, (if it touic; and on the western, the tract between the cost of transportation. be such,) and to turn it to advantage; the obvious base of the hills and the Hudson river, about twenty The marble of Berkshire, and particularly that of mode of so doing being its continuation to the great miles in width, is occupied by the counties of Co. West Stockbridge, cannot be surpassed by any in bend of the Susquehannah, and thence to some point the United States, either in the beauty of its colors, on tho Hudson. lumbia and Rensselaer. From Sharon, two routes the solidity, and fineness of its texture, or in the is of more consequence to your city and the state at Where that point should be located are proposed; one taking the western base of the great extent of the quarries whore it is obtained.-large, than many may have, as yet, imagined. Taghconic, passes through the counties of Columbia The elegance of its appearance, and low price at Three places in this view have attracted public at. and Rensselaer; and the other, bending slightly to which it could be sold with the assistance of a Rail. tention, viz: Newburgh, Nyack, and Hoboken, or the eastward, follows up the valley of the Housato way, would inevitably open for it a ready and exten. some point opposite the city. nic, and again crossing into New York at West sive sale. In addition to these facts, if we reflect In the article first above referred to, the prefe. Stockbridge, unites with the western road about 20 that the working of the quarries, and ore beds, the rence seems without much ceremony to be awarded miles from Albany. No obstacle is supposed to ex burning of lime, the various operations which are to Nyack, and for two reasons: first, because “at ist to the location of a Rail-road upon either of these performed upon the marble after being quarried, be that point, about the Tappan Sea, the Hudson is Reroutes; and the difference in distance is very trifling:fore it is fitted for market, and the various other per, or so rarely that we may say never, frozen, and indeed, as computed by the present roads, I believe it manufacturing establishments, all require a large that steamboats and other craft can ply between it is equal. Upon the eastern route, from New York population, whose wants must be supplied from the and the city at all times of the year, winter and sum to West Stockbridge, a distance of about 130 miles, cities on the Hudson, it would seem that nothing mer; secondly," (and I will interpolate chiefly.) not a stationary engine is required; and the gradual further is needed to demonstrate the policy of con." that inasmuch as the Legislature of New Jersey," descent towards New York, is well calculated to ac-structing the road upon the eastern route. If any (with admirable sagacity,) "have it is believed aucommodate the heavy trade in iron, marble and lime, thing further is necessary, there are other important thorized the construction of a Rail-road from Pater. which would be carried on from Berkshire. From reasons which can be produced. West Stockbridge to the point where the two routes again unite in their approach to Albany, the country To the Editor of the New-York American: is favorable for the construction of a Rai!-road; SIR. C*. of son to the northern line of that State, the Erie road might there be made to connect with it, and thus, by means of the Paterson Rail-road, make a contin. and from thence, the advantages, whatever they -An editorial article in your paper of the uous chain down to Hoboken, opposite to the city." may be, must of course be met, whether the road 27th ult. under the title "Rail-road from the City the Hudson is never, or so seldom that we may say Now, Sir, as to the first argument, the fact that is constructed upon the western or eastern side of New-York to Lake Erie," has given rise to a train never, frozen about the Tappan Sea, is the very cir the Taghconic. When, however, we take into con of reflections in my mind, which I will here submit cumstance that would make communication with N. sideration the amount of tonnage which these two to you for publication, should you think them de. York impracticable, or very hazardous and uncerroutes would respectively supply, it will at once be seen the the eastern is, in this respect, immeasura-serving of such notice. tain. If the Tappan Sea did uniformly freeze over case with the river higher up, then an uninterrupted so as to afford a safe passage on the ice, as is the bly supertor to the other. The country upon the We may, I think, look upon it as a conceded western side is purely an agricultural district. The point, that a communication by Rail-way between communication might be kept up with our city by must fertile section of it lies almost upon the margin this city and Lake Erie, would not only prove high incans of the contemplated Rail-road on the eastern of the Hudson river. The consequence of its vici. nity to that noble stream, is that it is already in a ly advantageous, but has in fact become absolutely margin of the North River; but as it does not freeze state of cultivation, and a Rail-road would have lit. essential to its internal and future prosperity. That great breadth of the river in that part, the floating so as to be safely traversable on the ice, and from the tle tendency to increase its productiveness; for, even which the Grand Canal has effected for the district cakes of ice driven to the western shore by prevail. if transportation upon the Rail-road should be as through which it passes, is now to be extended to ing winds, and the extensive flats, (three quarters of cheap as upon the river, the inhabitants would have no greater inducement than they now have, to in the southern tier of counties in our state. The be. a mile at Nyack,) the intercourse with New York crease the amount of their crops. The want of suit-nefit of speedy, regular, direct, and cheap access to ruption. Whereas, on the other hand, at Newburgh, during the winter would be liable to continual interable water power precludes the idea of manufactur-market, is to bring into cultivation that neglected the ice for a considerable portion of the winter af. ing establishments, and we cannot escape the con- but not undeserving portion of the commonwealth fords a permanent bridge for passengers and every clusion that the constructing of a Rail-road so near the Hudson would only have the effect to divide and the city of New-York as part of the same state, species of transportation. In truth, there has not the present business, between it and the river craft, is the proper emporium into which its productions ally severe in December and mild in January) when been a single day during the present season (unusuat least during the season in which the navigation should be discharged, and through which its wants the intercourse with the opposite shore has been im. is uninterrupted by ice. are to be supplied. Bat with a Rail.road through the Housatonic, or peded. However happily situated this port may be in eve. able expenditure would insure a constant communias it is frequently called, the Berkshire valley, the ry respect, we must be aware that those whom she cation with the Fishkill side and so down actually inAnd if it were an object, a very inconsider. case would be totally different. This valley is to the has surpassed in the contest for wealth and com- to the city of New York, by means of the above full as productive of the various fruits of agriculture mercial superiority will not quietly bow to her su- mentioned Rail-way, on the eastern shore of the as the neighboring counties of New York; its fertil-premacy, but will from time to time make sudden Hudson. How far the Tappan Sea has this season ity is remarked by every traveller who passes through and strenuous efforts to recover their lost advantages justified the assertion, that it is never frozen, I leave it; and being separated from the markets on the and that every attempt to divert the general trade to those concerned to substantiate, but may be per. Hudson by a barrier impassable except at certain into their particular channels, must be countermined mitted to insinuate that the communication has been points, the consequence is that even its agricultural on her part, by putting into requisition all her natu- notoriously interrupted, if not completely suspended. resources are not fully developed. If a Rail-road ral advantages, and every resource of mechanical were established here, there would be no such thing ingenuity or enlightened enterprize. At the same being continued to Hoboken, by means of the PaterSecondly, as to the other reason urged, viz: its as a division of tonnage with the river; every ton of time caution and circumspection will be required, son Rail-way, many speak of this as being equiva exports or imports of Berkshire would pass upon it lost in militating against her former antagonists new lent to carrying the road into the city, and hence the caption of your article “Rail road from the city of MOHAWK AND HUDSON RAIL-ROAD-The following the most important works of its magnitude, in the New York to Lake Erie." Sir, it would require too report was received a few days ago in the Assembly, Union. It will form, as it were, a door for us, expensive a viaduct to carry the Rail-way from Ho. agreeably to a resolution of the house. 1. That it through a hitherto impassable barrier, to one of the boken to New York, and I fear the North River appears by the books of the treasurer of said com- fairest and most prosperous regions of the world. would not submit to be either bridged or tunnelled pany, that the sum of $483,215 46 has been actual. In proof of it, look at Cincinnati. What has made for your special accommodation. Between these ly paid and disbursed in the construction of said that city? "Forty-three years since," says a paper two places there is a great gulph fixed, over which Rail-road up to the present date; now before us, "the site upon which Cincinnati now none can pass without paying a certain commuta. 2. That from the estimates of the engineers of istands, was first surveyed." The 640 acres of ground tion in the shape of ferriage to the worldly-minded said company, and from an examination recently ncluded within it, were then bought for forty-nine Charons who claim and exercise that franchize. made ofthe contracts not yet completed, it appears dollars-it was wilderness! Now the city contains Let the truth of the case be calmly confronted that to complete a double Rail-road within the lim. 30,000 inhabitants, and some of the lands within it and scrutinized: if the great Western Rail-road ts prescribed by the act incorporating the Mohawk are selling for thirty dollars an inch! Such then, goes to Hoboken, it terminates at Hoboken !!! and Hudson Rail-road company, with the necessary are some of the results of local advantages in the reThis is, no doubt, a consummation devoutly to be machinery, carriages, and appurtenances, will require gions opened to us by the road in question, and wished by those interested in property on the Jersey the expenditure of the additional sum of $156,693 can business communication be carried on with shore, and it is a fair and legitimate pursuit for men 87. such a region without mutual advantage to all the so circumstanced; but why it should be particularly 3. That the precise route of the Branch Rail-road parties ? Boveted by those who glory in the prosperity and contemplated by the said company, has not yet been splendor of our metropolis, and whose interests are determined upon, nor accurate examination made [From the Ohio State Journal and Gazette of Jan. 11.Į involved in her increase and welfare, I am at a loss of the ground; the undersigned are therefore unable "At a time when so much is said, as to the rela to discover. This objection may be slighted as un. to state with any certainty what the expense of contive merits of Rail-roads and Canals, as channels of founded, and out of the sphere of probability; but, strueting the Branch Rail.road will amount to, but general commerce, and when the public are so deepthinking it worthy of dispassionate investigation, I they are inclined to believe that it will not vary may interested in ascertaining the truth," in relation will state the grounds upon which my opinion is terially from the sum of $100,000, being the amount to this, to us, of Ohio, all important subject, it may the said company has (in the joint application made be well for us to listen to the real and naked truth, framed. The same natural advantages for a commercial with the Albany and Schenectady turnpike compa. as exhibited in the most undeniable facts, rather than station are found on the New-Jersey shore as at ny to the legislature of the state,) prayed may be the lucubrations of men, however respectable, who New-York; Jersey City and Hoboken enjoy the added to its capital stock for the express purpose of are rather disposed to shut their eyes on these truths, same harbor, the same depth of water, the same making said branch. and to give us partial statements and not the whole pre We live in a period of our history, that never had easy communication with the ocean, and the same The undersigned beg leave respectfully to add that truth. elements of prosperity are at their disposal. Soon until the Rail-road be completed, the details of the our claim of jurisdiction over the waters of the items on which the expenditures above recited, have and perhaps, after a short period, never may again Hudson, on the west side, will become the subject of accrued, are necessarily kept in the offices of the have its parallel. Capital is abundant, and the holdjudicial investigation; and if the United States' Su engineers of the company in the cities of Albany ers are willing to invest it in public improvements, preme Court should decide that our right extends but and Schenectady; they have, therefore, judged it where they can be made to appear to be very probably ad filum aque, that shore will be disenthralled to be more respectful to the honorable House over profitable. from the subjection under which we have held it whose deliberations you preside, to communicate The writer of this had it in his power, by exhibithitherto, and will not hesitate to cope with us in forthwith the information immediately within their ing his calculations and facts, which he had collectevery possible means of aggrandizement. reach, complying as it fully does with the terms of ed on Rail-roads, several years ago, to have thrown Do not imagine that there is any magical influ. the resolution, than to delay for the purpose of the apple of discord, into the ranks of the Ca ence in the wharves or warehouses of your city.senting their report in a detailed form, specifying nal party. But it would have endangered the Capital shifts as instantaneously as the electric the exact objects to which the expenditures have question of Internal Improvement in our State, and fluid, and upon that alone depends the rise of been directed. They beg leave, however, to tender perhaps thrown us back half a century, from the cities and towns. It may easily be made an object on behalf of the Board of Directors of the Mohawk ground we now occupy, with such flattering pros to capitalists to speculate in the unimproved lots of and Hudson Rail-road Company any additional in. pects. He therefore refrained under the fullest con. a promising location. Equal accommodations can formation their archives may contain, and this not Viction, that there would be ample scope for Rail. be afforded at a lower rate to shipping on the Jersey as a matter of mere duty, but in the belief that the roads, when the Canals are completed; not only to shore, and the unavoidable shifting from the Rail experience of this company may be of value in the open channels of commerce, where, by Canals, they road cars to boats, with the charges of ferriage and investigation of the many projects of similar chafreight to the city, will in itself be a sufficient me. tive for shipping and unshipping, immediately from the wharf at Hoboken, without the unnecessary expense, trouble, and time, of being towed over to New-York, besides avoiding the paying of double wharfage and storage, and an intermediate charge for commission. racter, now pending before the Legislature. To the Speaker of the Assembly. [From the Buffalo Journal.] cannot, but to pour in volumes of transportation into these great arteries of commerce, which the State of Ohio, in her enlightened policy, has open. ed at so much expense. We are little concerned to know the cost of the Baltimore, the Pennsylvania or the Massachusetts Rail.ways, and still less, those of England. For we have no mountains to remove, nor to perforate. OHIO RAIL-ROAD.-Since our brief notice of the A section of the country, Northwest of the Ohio, And when we consider that the trade to be car granting of the charter for the Mad River and Lake from Northeast to Southwest, would be nearly hori ried to this point is not barely the trade of New-Jer- Erie Rail-road, we have received a copy of the act zontal; and, from the Ohio, to the summit, towards sey, part of Pennsylvania and Orange county, nor of incorporation. The following section will show Lake Erie, would not exceed six, or seven feet of the additional transportation of the coal region, but the point of the route specified in the act, and a re- slope, per mile-a slope that could scarcely be dis. the entire trade of the western part of our own ference to the state map will show at a glance, the cerned by the eye, and which would require no more State, Michigan and the great lakes, we may well general importance of the proposed undertaking; additional power to ascend it, than the produet of pause and reflect whether our exertions and capital "Sec. 13. That the said corporation shall be, and the height ascended into the weight, divided by the would be wisely employed in building up a great they are hereby, vested with the right to construct a distance-(e. i.) 2240 lbs. (a ton) multiplied into six rival city to swallow up the whole of that com double or single Rail-road or Way, from some point feet, and divided by 5380 (a mile) 2 lb. 6.11. Rule, as merce which, by an equally (to say the least) fa in the town of Dayton, in the county of Montgome. the length of the plain is to the height, so is the vorable route, may be brought into, and secured to, ry; thence to Springfield, in the county of Clark: weight to the power required to roll it up. Whatever New-York, without fear of competition. thenco to Urbana, in the county of Champaign; power then may be necessary, on a level, to roll Especially would I recommend the consideration thence to Bellefontaine, in the county of Logan cast iron wheels, on a firm unyielding cast iron of this view of the subject to persons interested in thence to or near Upper Sandusky, in the county of track, it will only require, on a slope of six feet per the extension and building up of the city over the Crawford; thence to or near Tiffin, in the county of inile, an additional force of 2 6-11 lbs. Numerous still vacant space at, and towards, the northern ex- Seneca ; thence to or near Lower Sandusky, in the experiments, in Europe, have proved that a common tremity of the island. The sale of every single lot county of Sandusky; and thence to the town of horse will draw from fifteen to twenty tons, on a on the opposite shore would, of course, throw out Sandusky, in the county of Huron; making such level Rail-road, and move at the rate of three miles of the market another lot on York Island; whereas other intermediate points as may hereafter be found per hour, (vid. Wood. et al.) the Pennsylvania Rethe trade being on the Hudson in summer, and along necessary; and also to construct branches to the seat port (2) to the contrary notwithstanding. This exthe eastern shore in winter, the upper part of the city of justice of any county through which the road may traordinary report exhibits the horses, to be seen would have a marked advantage, and preference in be located, to transport, take and carry property and drawing four times as much on the Rail-road, as on the way of business. By this location of the great persons upon the same, by the power and force of a common road and 2 1-4 times faster, (which is Western Rail-way, the route would likewise fall steam, animals, or of any mechanical or other pow-equal to nine times better, and four times better than more entirely within our own State, and supposinger, or of any combination of them, which the said the turnpike.) Yet it is well known, that on our that a Rail-way from Albany to New York is requir- corporation may choose to employ." common roads, eve a where not in their best order, ed, and will be constructed, the proposed Erie road The facilities for constructing this road we learn a four horse team moves with twenty hundred weight will be greatly shortened, by terminating at New. are such as seldom if ever could be equalled; and we at two miles per hour, and on turnpikes, where eveburgh, and consequently will require a much smal believe that it is contemplated to erect portions of ry, even the smallest pebble, gives resistance, nearly ler capital. These observations may be censured as the work upon a plan something novel. Through three miles. We conclude, therefore, that they arising from very contracted, selfish and sectional much of the route the soil is of unusual depth, and have a bad Rail-way, bad carriages, or very bad horfeelings; but if our views are such, pray what are when saturated with water might yield beneath a ses. those of the opposite side? And I insist that the in- stone foundation. Rows of piles, of the trunk of the Let us now inquire what would be the cost of a terests I advocate, are as yet the interests of the ma. Honey Locust, charred upon the surface, we learn it Rail-road. Not a Pennsylvania Rail-road, but a jority. Pray recollect that the gauntlet was first is proposed to substitute for stone, and such, deeply firm substantial one in Ohio, that would probably thrown by giving the preference to one of the propo. driven, would doubtless overcome the objection to last twenty or thirty years, or long enough to pay sed routes over all others: it thus became a proper stone, and we should think materially reduce the for itself. If the grading and masonry on the Nasubject for animadversen, and it will undoubtedly price while the durability of the work would scarce. tional road, east of Zanesville, worked, it is said prove a public good, if there be a choice, that the ly be diminished, forty feet. wide, cost $3140 per mile, as per Mr. claims on every side should be strictly canvassed be. That the Road will be made, and that speedily, Wever's Report for 1827, a Rail-road of not mora fore judgment is pronounced, there is no room to doubt; and it must prove one of than 15 of that width, could be graded, &c, for 2-3 of that sum, say $2,000; 1760 rough logs of the A spectator in the gallery of the Massachusetts told in Gibbon. Scott, indeed, has adhered generally in two and spotted, to be laid level across the track, at man, on hearing the speaker announce the eighth pe- which seem too extravagant, even for fable, are matmost durable timber, to be had either flatted or split House of Representatives, apparently a laboring to history in this novel, and many of the incidents a yard distance from each other, to support the rails. tition for a Rail-road from this place to Salem, re These might be had at 25 cts.-$4401; 7,000 superfi-marked, that he thought "Salem people would be ters of historical fact. Ducange has even gone so cial feet of sawed scantling, for rails at $1,00 per 100 pretty well rail-ridden if the roads were all made!" far as to identify the church where the French feet, $70. Iron, $1320. Erecting and superinten. deuce, say $500. Now let every one, who may read this, especially those opposed to Rail-roads, examine well, and say, if aught he can say, that a single item, except the surveying, has been omitted, or underra. ted, and publish the error, to the public, that they may be promptly undeceived. But after the most careful inquiry, even for years, the writer has been than $200, still the Rail road, could be made for road would be open for way trains, if any, to move in a contrary direction or to fall into its wake and NEW-YORK AMERICAN. FEBRUARY 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10-1832. knight, as told by Sir Walter, kept entertainment with his sword for every knight that would venture to break a lance with him: and Anna Comnena, where she speaks, in the Alexias, of the bands of armed fanatics as se numerous, that it seemed as if TALES OF MY LANDLORD, fourth and last series-Europe was loosened from its foundations, and prounable to discover any error. And, though the pub. and last of his novels, as Sir Walter would have us cipitated in one united body upon Asia, has desiglished price current of cast Iron in Pittsburgh, believe; but he is now an inmate of the storied uated, even among so vast a multitude, and singled was very lately, but $50, per ton, he has estimated towers of Malta, the last stronghold of the re-out from peers and princes, the haughty baron, who it at $60, which would make a difference of more doubted Knights of Rhodes, the puissant order of styled himself ppayyos kabapos nwr evyevar And the 34330 per mile. Besides this, from the nature of our St. John; and his undying spirit may yet send historians of the crusades as well as the fair annalist country, there are many places, of miles in extent, forth a later spark, when wrought upon by the of the reign of Comnenus, seem to agree that no together, where no other grading could be necessa-kindling associations which surround him. Still warrior of all that host could more fitly arrogate to ry than to level one side, with the other: much of we grieve to say, that the uncertain and flickering himself the proud title of the Bulwark of Nobility. which would be answered by placing a stone, or a piece of locust or walnut timber, under the ends of light of waning powers is but too apparent in the It will not diminish the interest of our readers in this the cross timbers. It is frankly acknowledged, that work before us; and Sir Walter would best consult last of the Waverlies to have their memories thus such a Rail-road would not be the best, but would his fame by adhering henceforth to his determina- refreshed in what relates to its hero. do, and do well. Its durability may be objected to. tion never again to tempt the awards of popular TOXICOLOGIA. We have but little to say in a seBut whoever will examine the old fences, will find favor. If the first volume of Robert of Paris, cond notice of this treatise on internal poisons. The blue ash and many oaks, and other kinds of rails, quite sound, after being near 30 years in fence. It would cannot rival in every respect the earlier produc- nature of the study it seeks to illustrate is best set not probably be announced in the public prints, that tions of the author of Waverley, it is not from a forth in the words of the author himself, who—in the splendid Rail-road at had gone into oper- want of spirit in the narrative, and animation in the speaking of a science that, in its relations to cheation; but, if the proprietors can construct it for 2-8 of the expense of a M'Adamized turnpike, and tran- detail. The commencement of the story is beauti-mistry and physiology, has expelled from the regular sport on it, for 1.7 of the expense, a fig for the selat, fully, if not elaborately, written; and the tale grow; practice of medicine the use of many remedies and all the splendor. in interest, until you get into the second volumes whose exhibition, time had rendered customary It will, probably, be objected, that this calculation, and there the action languishes and falls off to when empiricism had made them popular-tells is for only a single track. This, it will be shown, is altogether sufficient. Let it be ascertained, how the end. As to Castle Dangerous, the first story of us that Toxocology ranges over the whole vast far, by means of steam, locomotive engines, (and no the collection, it is a feeble and almost prosing nar- field of medical learning, and draws together, other would answer, in this case) with their loaded rative, and was probably written subsequently to from a variety of quarters, facts and principles trains, could move in a day, and let a turn out be con- Robert of Paris. The time which is chosen for the which are seldom found at any other time in combistructed at half way. A train then setting out eve-action of this story, the scene where it is laid, and nation. The resources of each branch of this sciry morning, from each end of the road, (or two or three trains, if freight require it) they would meet the historical incidents altogether, form the richest ence are made by the Toxologist to try the accuracy and pass at half way, and proceed without interrup- and most extraordinary combination for the writer and supply the defects of the others; and the whole tion. The moment the main train would pass, the of romance that can well be imagined. mass of knowledge is brought to bear in one direcWhat a picture is that of manners and costume, tion, with a force and precision worthy of its ob proceed along with it. Thus no difficulty could where the frank and haughty chivalry of western [jects-the amelioration of human misery-the dehappen, if strict rules be observed. Ous country Europe is brought into contact with the supple and tection of crime-and the vindication of innocence." greatly needs improvements, in transportation, and, being ourselves but poor, we need them cheap. If obseqnious subjects of the successor of Constan. Of the importance of the science in the last respect, the above may contribute to such a desirable end, the tine-the fierce and steel-clad men at arms of the feu- those are aware who are at all familiar with crimifirst wish of the writer's heart is answered. dal Baron with the effeminate sumptuously appar-nal proceedings; and among the most interesting January 4th, relled, oriental mercenary—the ruddy and fair-haired cases to be met with in the annals of crime, are those Goth, his sinewy figure and close atted habiliments, in which the application of scientific observations RAIL-ROAD TO YORK-TOWN!-The subject of a witn the agile swarthy Syrian, or the Persian, embar-by the prosecuting officer has baffled the ingenuity of Rail-road from Richmond to the most eligible point rassed with purple, and glittering with barbaric gold. the accused, and penetrated through the shield of for a shipping port bolow, has suddenly become a matter of intense interest to the people who inhabit We have here the last resinants of Imperial Roman circumstantial evidence in his favor. The medical the Country between Richmond and the Chesapeake. pomp and Eastern magnificence, with all their ac-jurist derives his resources from semeiology, pathoTwo petitions numerously signed, have been presen-companying refinement and degenerate voluptuous. legy, chemistry, and physiology. "By the first, he ted to the Legislature, asking the incorporation of ness set off against the fresh and half savage array ascertains the difference between the symptoms of a Company to construct a Rail-road from this City, to some point immediately below Harrison's Bar. of Gothic Europe's martial hordes, and the more poisoning, and natural disease; by the second, he Another proposition, is that it shall terminate in the polished but not less warlike host of new-sprung Sa. discriminates the morbid appearances indicative of vicinity of Turkey Island, thus avoiding the un-racen chivalry. Think of the meeting of Saladin and death by poison, from those produced by natural healthiness of the country below, and saving much Sir Kenneth, in the brilliant tale of the Talisman, death; the third enables him to discovor foreign sub. in the length of the road. "Morcator" announces still a third-a more splendid conception, first sug. with Scott's exquisite description of the different stances of a deleterious nature, in the body and elsegested we think by a gentleman from Rockbridge-appearances they presented; add a Greek, a Parsee where; and by the fourth, he determines the value to extend the road to York Town, and make that and Pseudo-Roman of Byzantium, to the party, and of evidence from accidental, or express experiments classic spot which has so fine a harbor, and whence shift the scene from the well of the Desert to the upon the lower animals." The importance of these ships with the same wind, can clear the capes in a few hours, the shipping port of the immense banks of the Bosphorus, and you have the materiel resources in matters of evidence is apparent, and unamount of produce which now concentrates at Rich- of "Robert of Paris." happily, even in the present state of society, cases mond. The noble Count, who gives name to the tale, in which they are resorted to are not of infrequent We know too little of theso matters, to express, occurrence. The ovidence of general poisoning, or even to have a preference, among the conflict. was one of the three celebrated Roberts who bore ing projects. We do not know that any one of them arms and distinguished themselves in the first Cruwhich is purely medico legal, is derived from tho is necessary that the improvement of the lower sade. The first, it will be recollected, was the Duke following sources :--the symptoms-the post morJames at least, will not supersede the necessity, if it of Normandy, son of William the Conqueror, who tem appearancos-chemical analysis-experiments Neither do we imagine, that the construction of mortgaged his dukedom to his brother, William Ru.on animals-and moral circumstances. We give such a work will injure Richmond or impair the fus of England, to raise money for the mad expedi an extract from Dr. Lowerre's exposition of the third value of its real estate, much less as some imagine, tion. The second was Count Robert of Flanders, of these sources, chemical analysis. transfer Richmond itself, to the point of termination surnamed the Sword and Lance of the Christians, proof, and its validity stands in the following order: "This is the most decisive of all the branches of for the Rail-road, whatever that may be. Sundry great cities have their shipping ports many miles dis- and the third was the daring knight, who bearded First, when detected in the esophagus, stomach, or tant-as Edinburg its Leigh, Glasgow its Greenock, the successor of the Cesars in his palace; and, intestines-next, in the ejections, then in the articles Lima its port yet more remote. If it should be sup though but a simple baron, seated himself beside the of food, drink, or medicine, of which the patient now exist. [From the Richmond Whig.] DARBY. posed to have this effect, Richmond, that we can see, the Emperor Alexander, Comnenes, upon his own has partaken-and lastly, in any articles found in bas no help for it, except to refuse to sid by sub. soription in the execution of the enterprize. We in throne, an incident which Bir Walter relates in lan. count. The evidence derived from this soures, the prisoner's possession, for which he sannot sq. vite a perusal of Mercator." guage but little different from that in which it is ought to be minutely investigated, and is not so conclusive as would appear at first sight; for even mans-from Blackwood's Magazine; Love and Au. chanism of our own being appears abruptly stilled when poison is discovered in the stomach, it may thorship from the Englishman's Magazine; The a portion of ourselves, and not our worst portionsemetimes be a doubtful question whether death was Freed Bird, by Mrs. Hemans-from Blackwood's for how many pure, high, generous sentiments it conproduced by it, or by some other cause. Wildberg Magazine; Discoveries in Africa-from the Month. tains!-dies with him." relates a case in point. He was required to exa-ly Magazine; A Song of Greece-from Fraser's Ma- Autumn." Along the soar and melancholy wood mine the body of a girl who died while her father gazine; The Dutchman's Fireside-from the West- the autumnal winds crept, with a lowly but gatherwas in the act of chastising her severely for steal. minster Review; Hymn of the Moravian Nuns, ating moun. Where the water held its course, a damp ing, and who was believed by all the by-standers, the Consecration of Pulaski's Banner, by Longfel. and ghastly mist clogged the air; but the skies were and by the father himself, to have died of the beat-low-from the Athenæum; The Last Days of M1. calm, and checkered only by a few clouds, that ing. Accordingly, Wildberg found the marks of Salt-from the Metropolitan; Poland, its fate and swept in long, white, spectral streaks over the sol. many stripes on the arms, shoulders, and back, and consequences--from the same; Actual State of the emn stars. Now and then the bat wheeled swiftly under some of the marks, blood was extravasated in Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa-from the Amu- round, almost touching the figure of the student, as considerable quantities. But these injuries, though let; Reform of the Lords-from the Spectator; Bri- he walked musingly onward." And the owl, that severe, did not appear to him adequate to account tish Dominions in North America--from the West before the month waned many days would be seen for her death. He therefore proceeded to examine minster Reviw; A Highland Anecdote, by Sir Wal- no more in that region, came heavily from the trees, the cavities, and on opening the stomach he found it ter Scott-from the Keepsake; The Fire at Pera, like a guilty thought that deserts its shade. It was very much inflamed, and lined with a white powder, by an Eye-witness from the New Monthly Maga. one of those nights, half dim, half glorious, which which upon analysis proved to be arsenic. It turn-zine; Natural Piety, by Richard Howitt-from the mark the early decline of the year. Nature seemed ed out, that on the theft being detected the girl had New Year's Gift; Burns, the Poet-from the En-restless and instinct with change; there were those taken arsenic for fear of her father's anger, that she glishman's Magazine; A Night on the Pyrenees-signs in the atmosphere which leave the most expevomited during the flogging, and died in slight con- from the same; A Sea View from the Literary Ga- rienced in doubt whether the morning may rise in vulsions." Consequently, Wildberg very properly zette; Varieties; Literary Intelligence. storm or sunshine. And in this particular period imputed death to the arsenic. In this case the chethe skiey influences seem to tincture the animal life mical evidence proved that arsenic had been taken, We add to these notices some extracts from a no- with their own mysterious and wayward spirit of but an account of the symptoms and appearances vel that may be soon expected from the Harpers. nange. The birds desert their summer haunts; an was necessary to prove that she died of it. Mr. Bulwer's new work of "Eugene Aram," is unaccountable inquietude pervades the brute creaIt sometimes occurs that the poison, after having tion; even nen in this unsettled season have conbeen taken and produced death, cannot be detected well spoken of in the London papers. The Litera-sidered themselves more (than at others) stirred by by chemical analysis. There are three causes which ry Gazette pronounces it the most finished of the the motion and whisperings of their genius. And may remove it from discovery. First, it may have author of Pelham's productions, and says that the every creature that flows upon the tide of the unibeen discharged by vemiting or purging; secondly, hero of the novel is "a fine-a most original con. versal life of things, feels upon the ruffled surface it may have been absorbed; or, thirdly, decomposed. the mighty and solemn change which is at work within its depths." He is described as "a man whose whole life seemcurrence; and the inattention of the attendants in A Solitary Student.-"Ah !' said Aram, gently removing the ejections prevents discovery. In the ed to have been one sacrifice to knowledge. What shaking his head, "it is a hard life we bookmen trial of George Thorn, for poisoning the Mitchells, is terined pleasure had no attraction for him. From lead. Not for us is the bright face of noon-day, or on the Aberdeen circuit, in 1821, it was clearly pro. the mature manhood at which he had arrived, he the smile of woman, the gay unbending of the heart, ved that the deceased died from the effects of arsenic, looked back along his youth, and recognized no the neighing steed and the shrill trump,-the pride, although none could be detected in the stomach; youthful folly. Love he hitherto regarded with a pomp, and eircumstance of life. Our enjoyments for the man lived seven days, laboring under inces. cold though not an incurious eye: intemperance had are few and calm, our labor constant; but that, is sant vomiting. never lured him to a momentary self abandowment. it not, sir ?-thut, is it not? the body avenges its The first of these causes is of very frequent oc- ception." iii. 227. Wildberg. Praktisches Haudbuck for Physicker, Even the innocent relaxations with which the aus. own neglect. We grow old before our time-we terest minds relieve their accustomed toils, had had wither up-the sap of youth shrinks from our veins no power to draw him from his beloved researches.-there is no bound in our step. We look about us THE MUSEUM OF FOREIGN LATERATURE AND SCI. The delight monstrari digito-the gratification of with dimmed eyes, and our breath grows short and triumphant wisdom-the whispers of an elevated va- thick, and pains and coughs and shooting aches ENCE, No. CXV., for January: E. Littell, Philadel-nity-existed not for his self-dependent and solitary come upon us at night-it is a bitter life, a bitter phia; Carvills, N. York." Carpere et Colligere," heart. He was one of those earnest and high-wrought life-a joyless life. I would I had never commenced is the motto of this publication. It selects from other enthusiasts who now are almost extinct upon earth, it. And yet the harsh world scowls upon us-our and whom romance has not kitherto attempted to nerves are broken, and they wonder we are queruperiodicals such articles as are deemed best worthy of preservation; and thus collects together within who were devoted to knowledge, yet disdainful of its not gay-our brain grows dizzy and indistinct (as portray-men not uncommon in the last century, lous-our blood curdles, and they ask why we are a small compass the best materials of cther maga. fame--who lived for nothing else than to learn.-with me just now,) and, shrugging their shoulders, zines. To those whose moans prevent them from From store to store, from treasure to treasure, they they whisper their neighbors that we are mad. I taking more than one publication of the kind, or who proceeded in exulting labour: and having accumula. wish I had worked at the plough, and known sleep, wish to bestow their patronage upon the American misers of the wealth of letters. Wrapped in obscuted all, they bestowed nought-they were the arch and loved mirth-and-and not been what I am."" The following is a scene between Aram and the Reviews, and yet keep an eye upon what is doing in rity, in some sheltered nook, remote from the great wretched man who threatens him with an accusathe British, the Museum of Foreign Literature and stir of men, they passed a life at once unprofitable tion. Science, by giving them the spirit of those latter and glorious-the least part of what they ransacked It is not easy for either of us to deceive the would appal the industry of a modern student; yet other. We are men, whose preceptions a life of publications, must prove very acceptable. The last the most superficial of modern students might effect danger has sharpened upon all points: I speak to Museum has one or two valuable articles from Ae- more for mankind. They lived among oracles, but you frankly, for disguise is unavailing. Though I rican periodicals; but though they are worth pre- they gave none forth, and yet even in this very can fly from your reach-though I can desert my serving, it should leave its readers to seek them in barrenness, there seems something high: it was a rare present home and my intended bride, I would fain and great spectacle-men living aloof from the roar think I have free and secure choice to preserve that some other place, and confine itself solely to foreign and strife of the passions that raged below, devoting exact path and scene of life which I have chalked out selections. We give the contents of this number: *themselves to the knowledge which is our purification for myself-I would fain be rid of all apprehension Plates J. Wilson Croker, Esq.; View of Green and our immortality on earth, and yet deaf and blind from you. There are two ways only by which this wich Hospital. Right Hon. J. W. Croker, Esq.-to the allurements of the vanity which generally ac- security can be won: the first is through your death from Fraser's Mag.; Description of Greenwich Hos. companies research-refusing the ignorant homage-nay, start not, nor put your hand on your pistol; pital-from Virtue's Pituresque Beauties of Gt. Bri- of their kind, making their sublime motive their only you have not now cause to fear me. Had I chosen tain; Some Passages in the Life of an Idler-from meed, adoring Wisdom for her sole sake, and set that method of escape, I could have effected it long Frazer's Magazine; Life of Dr. Goldsmith-from apart in the populous universe, like stars, luminous since. When, months ago, you slept under my the Athenæum; Cobbett's Spelling Book-from the with their own light, but too remote from the earth roof-nay, slept !--what should have hindered mo Examiner; Spring Hymn, by Delta-from the Win on which they looked, to shed over its inmates the from stabbing you during the slumber? Two nights tor's Wreath; Untrodden Ground, by Mary Howitt lustre with which they glowed." since, when my blood was up, and the fury upon from the same; Red Eachan, the Hunter-a legend The impressions made upon the heart by Genius. me, what should have prevented me tightening the of Glencoe-from Friendship's Offering; The Heart, "There is a certain charm about great superiority grasp that held you so recently, and laying you breathby Charles Swain, Esq.-from the Forget-Me-Not; of intellect that winds into deep affections, which a less at my feet? Nay, now, though you keep your Life of Sir Isaac Newton, Galileo, Copernicus, Ty-much more constant and even amiability of manners eyes fixed on my motions, and your hand upon your cho Brahe, John Kepler-from the Athenæum; A in lesser men, often fails to reach. Genius makes weapon, you would be no match for a desperate and world without water, by Miss M. A. Browne--from many enemies, but it makes sure friends friends resolved man, who might as well perish in conflict the Winter's Wreath; A Modest Defence of Portrait who forgive much, friends who endure long, who ex- with you as by the protected accomplishment of your Painting, by Hartley Coleridge-from the same; act little; they partake of the character of discip-threats. Your ball might fail-(even now I see Martin's Illustrations of the Bible-from the Exam-lines as well as friends. There lingers about the your hand trembles)-mine, if I so will it, is certain iner; The Child of the Earth, by the Hon. Mrs. Nor. human heart, a strong inclination to look upward-death. No, Houseman; it would be as vain for your ton-from the Amulet; The North American Re. to revere: in this inclination lies the source of re-eye to scan the dark pool into whose breast yon ca. view, King Philip, The first Steamboat-from the ligion, of loyalty, and also of the worship and immor-taract casts its waters, as for your intellect to pierce Athenæum; The Bravo, by Mr. Cooper-from the tality which are rendered so cheerfully to the great the depths of my mind and motives. Your murder, same; The Grave of Bishop Ken, by the Rev. W. L. of old. And in truth it is a divine pleasure to admire though in self-defence, would lay a weight upon my Bowles-from the Literary Gazette; The United admiration seems in some measure to appropriate to soul, which would sink it for ever: I should see in States-from the New Monthly Magazine; The Se- ourselves the qualities it honors in others. We wed, your death new chances of detection spread them cond Marriage-from the same; A Winter's March we root ourselves to the natures we so love to solves before ma-the terrors of the dead are not to in Canada, in 1813-from the United Service Jour contemplate, and their lives grows a part of our own.be bought or awed into silence; I should pass from nal; The Two Maidens from the New Month. Thus when a great man, who has engrossed our one peril into another; and the law's dread ven. jy Magazine; Spasmodic Cholera from the West. thoughts, our conjectures, our homage, dies, a gap geance might fall upon me, through the last, even minster Review; Marguerite of France, by Mrs.He. seeins suddenly left in the world wheel in the me yet more surely than through the first. Be composed, then, on this point! From my hand, unless you Brummell at the same table with George IV. but her urge it madly upon yourself, you are wholly safe.skill in the tie of a cravat? Her patent of Dandy.servations upon men and things have lately given a A Washington letter writer, whose rambling obLet us turn to my second method of attaining seism is as good as that of Nobility, in giving distinc- raciness to the columns of the N. Y. Mirror, exprescurity. It lies, not in your momentary cessation from persecutions; not in your absence from this tion to insignificance. She is as great a leveller of ses himself as follows:spot alone, you most quit the country-you must ranks as Love himself. In England, a country nover return to it-your home must be cast, where society is a closer aristocracy than in any and your very grave dug in a foreign soil. Are you I love a little touch of patriotism in a woman.But there it is-the women. Republican simplicity nas seldom charms for them; in their secret souls prepared for this? If not, I can say no moro; and other, the fiat of Fashion enables successful author-there is (is there not?) a love for pomp, for titles, dissolute and desperate nature was subdued and tamed This it in spite of himself, by the very composure of the rank alone could gain admission. All people of fash-such things are, and are common; that makes them Oh for a little of the Roman pride that looked down so superbly upon the nations of the earth!Barbarians! A Roman matron, a Roman virgin I again cast myself passive into the arms of fate. ship to challenge admission into any circle. In for dress. They sigh, at times, for the splendor of You ask,' said Houseman, whose fears were allay. France, she wills that a clever article in a periodical a court. A count, a duke overawes them. ed by Aram's address, though at the same time, his shall make the writer of it accueilli, where formerly is that in spite of themselves makes them regard as superiors those who come from countries where loftier mind with which it was brought in contact; ion meet upon a par, whether property descended to ashamed, now and then, of their own democratic You ask,' said he, no trifling favor of a man-to them, or whether they made it;—whether they inherit-country. desert his country for ever; but I am no dreamer toed grandfathers, or bought them with other old paint. love one spot better than another. I should perhaps prefer a foreign clime, as the safer and the freer from ings at auction; for the Republic of Fashion is no old recollections, if I could live in it as a man, who less democratic in its organization than the Republic loves the relish of life, should do. Show me the ad- of Letters. Wealth, birth, talent, tact, accomplish. vantages I am to gain by exile, and farewell to the ment, and dress, are the different interests which pale cliffs of England for ever! Your demand is are represented in it. Where they conflict for su just,' answered Aram ; ‘listen then! I am willing to coin all my poor wealth, save alone the barest premacy, Wealth has it hollow, if each interest pittance wherewith to sustain life; nay, more, I am struggles by itself; but Tact and Dress united, are a prepared also to melt down the whole of my possi-a match for all the rest together. They carry the bie expectations from thers, into the form of annui- female votes, which will shake any institution. ty to yourself.' 84 " * were titles above queen and empress. shall) she must love her country-she must more For myself, if I ever love a woman (as I hope I than love it: she must be proud of it; she must prefer it to every other." Most men of sense will concur in this opinion.Modesty enhances beauty with the coarsest natures, and piety in a female exacts the regard of men who These words, aided by a tone of voice and an No one except the Almanac makers, seem to real. are indifferent to religion themselves; but neither, expression of countenance that gave them perhaps ize that this is Leap-Year. The following is extract. we are persuaded, have more agency in cherishing their chief effect, took even the hardened nature ed from an old volume printed in 1606, entitled esteem than the sentiment of patriotism in a woman. of Houseman by surprise; he was affected by an e-.. Courtship, Love and Matrimony :" Pride in the land of her birth, and attachment to motion which he could not have believed it possible the man, who till then had galled him by the hum Albeit is nowe become a parte of the common her native soil, are always indicative of a high bling sense of inferiority, could have created. He awe, in regard to the social relations of life, that as spirit and warm affections in a female's bosom, often as every besextile year dothe return, the ladyes and, next to the love of God, the love of Country By,' he exclaim. ed, with an oath which we spare the reader, you making love unto men, which they may do either have the privilege during the time it continueth, of is the purest emotion in which she can vent the are right! you have made me as helpless in your by words or lookes, as unto them it seemeth proper; sympathies of her nature. The degree of tenacity hands as an infant, I accept your offer-if I were to and moreover no man will be entitled to the benefits with which a woman cherishes eack association refuse, I should be driven to the same courses I now extended his hand to Aram. pursue. But look you : I know not what may be of the clergy who dothe refuse to accept the offers that binds her heart to her native land, is no light the amount of the annuity you can raise. I shall of a ladye, or who dothe in any wise treate her pro-criterion by which to judge of the strength of her not, however, require more than will satisfy wants, posal with slight or contumely. which, if not so scanty as your own, are not at least We add to this a copy of a blank of "an offer," domestic attachments, of the susceptibility and convery extravagant or very refined. As for the rest, if such as ought to be generally now for sale by the stancy of her feelings, and, we may add, of her there be any surplus,in God's name keep it for your-stationers, to facilitate matrimonial contracts dufeminine diguity of character. We are perfectly self, and rest assured that, so far as I am concerned, serious; and, though you, beautiful reader, are so astonished at our gaucherie, we should for the mo ment look with more interest upon a Kickapoo squaw, who was weeping to leave her land of grisly.. bears and venomous moccasin-suakes, than even [ENVELOPE.] you shall be molested no more.' 'No, Housemanring the busy year that has just commenced. Sir: I have long cherished a deep and heartfelt regard for your son ————— and with some diffidence I yond the possible reach of temptation. But do not treat your kind offices in forwarding my pretensions home, perhaps forever. tempt you to demand it. Let us put ourselves be- your permission to address him. May I not also in-pon thee when those resistless eyes were brighten. ing with satisfaction, to bid adieu to a more favored flatter yourself by the hope that the income will be nagnificent. My own annuity is but trifling, and to his hand, and beg if my attentions meet with Knowledge of the world, says a periodical writer, the half of the dowry I expect from my future fa. your approval, that you will hand the enclosed to does not always require experience. Some men take ther-in-law, is all that I can at present obtain. The him, upon whom my earthly happiness must hereaf whole of that dowry is insignificant as a sum. But ter depend. Most respectfully, &c. if this does not suffice for you, I must beg or bor. row elsewhere.' [ENCLOSURE.] to it intuitively; "their first step into life exhibits the same profound mastery over the minds of their con. temporaries, the same subtle consideration, the same felicitous address as distinguish the close of their ca. which nature generally bestows in a perfect shape reer." And why not, discernment and tact are gifts upon their fortunate possessors. They may exist in perfection at the age when the imagination is more active than the judgment, because reason is but lit. This, after all, is a pleasanter way of settling buMr. must long since have perceived the intesiness,' said Houseman, than by threats and anger. rest with which he is regarded by one whose kappi. And now I will tell you exactly the sum on which, if ness depends upon his reciprocity of feeling; but he I could receive it yearly, I could live without look. ing beyond the pale of the law for more-on which cannot be aware of the depth of an attachment which I could cheerfully renounce Englaud, and commerce even his penetration cannot fathom. May not the the honest man.' But then, hark you, I must writer of this be allowed the privilege of visiting him have half settled on my little daughter.' What upon a more intimate footing, and have an opportu-tle brought into play in their exercise. On the conhave you a child?' said Aram eagerly, and well pleased to find an additional security for his own safe. nity of proving the ardor and disinterestedness of her ty. Ay, a little girl, my only one, in her eighth feelings, and appealing to the sympathy of his? Her year; she lives with her grandmother, for she is hand and fortune are from this moment at Mr. motherless; and that girl must not be left quite pen- disposal.” niless should I be summoned hence before my time. 8 trary, your ingenious speculator upon society, is of ten far from being practically a man of the world. There is a mass of machinery in his mind which em. barrasses his preceptions of character. He will Some twelve years hence-as poor Jane promises to This, our fair readers will observe, is the business manufacture the hero of a novel according to a pat be pretty-she may be married off my hands; but formula of the transaction. The sentimental one of tern of his own, and show you all the windings and her childhood must not be left to the chances of beg- a verbal declaration, is certainly more engaging. It turnings of his heart when made. He has a thou. gary or shame.'" might be made in the language of flowers, by those sand of these patterns in his mind, and when he atPERSIFLAGE.—“ Fashion," says some one or other who want courage to utter it in another tongue. As tempts to pass upon real men, he brings them by a in some book or other, that we have read some time thus for instance, you may commence just after a summary Procrustean operation to the dimensions or other," Fashion is the golden calf, to which all gentleman has made a pun, and compliment him and shape of one of his own models, and then insists men bow in these days." We admit that in no age upon his (1) house-leek; and then, promising that that they are regulated by similar springs of action. has the power of the goddess of caprice been more (2) flax-blossom generally accompanies that quality, The intuition of fifteen is worth the sagacity of fifty, universally acknowledged; but we deny that this is you may speak of the effect of (3) columbine in in-in judging correctly of character. a good ground for railing at her. She is a democrat;spiring (4) rose; and next add with a (5) cypres, and without being worshipped in Tammany Hall, that nothing but his (6) citisus could have prevent not for love," is a passage of Shakspeare that no has done more for the great republican party through. ed his discovering the (7) myrtle whose (8) orange-one seems to understand, or every one seems to perout the world than those who abuse her. What tree you can conceal no longer. Then, by avow-vert. The true reading, says that sagacious critic, anakes the churl kibe the heel of the courtier soing that all your (9) sun-flower in life depends upon Saxo Quinctilian, is, "Men have died, and worms much more often than formerly, but her influence his (10) amaranth, you may claim his (11) serings have eat them, but not (eat them) for love;" i. o. in peting in a better cut cost? What placed Beau to lead him to the temple of (12) thorny-rone, Preference to any other food, Scaliger Oxoniensis 46 Men have died, and worms have eat them-but |