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Kindling the faint stars of the hazel, shining To light the gloom of Autumn's mouldering halls, | With hoary plumes the clematis entwinin Where o'er the rock her withered EAERUGANTS Warm lights'are on the sleepy uplands waning, Beneath dark clouds along the horizon rolled, Till the slant sunbeams through their fringes raining ~ Bathe all the hills in melancholy gold. - The moist wind -breathes of crisped leaves and flowers, In the damp hollows of the woodland sown, Mingling the freshness of autumnal showers With spicy airs from cedar alleys blown. Beside the brook and on the cumbered meadow, Where yellow fern-tuffs fleck the faded ground, With folded lids beneath their palmy shadow, The gential nods, in dewy slumbers bound. Upon those soft fringed lids the bee sits brooding Like a fond lover loth to say farewell, Or, with shut wings, through silken folds intrud- ing, Creeps near her heart his drowsy tale te tell. The little birds upon the hill-side lonely, Flit noiselessly along from spray to spray, Silent as asweet, wandering thought, that only Shows its bright wings and softly glides away. The scentless flowers, in the watm sunlight dreaming, Forget to breath their fulness of delight,-- And through the tranced woods soft airs are streaming, Still as the dew-fall of the summer night. So, in my heart a sweet, unwonted feeling Stirs, like the wind in Ocean's hollow shell, Through all its secret chambers sadly stealing, Yet finds no words its mystic charm to tell. Mliscellaneous. OOO OOOO ¥rom Ballou's Pictorial. Seth Snipe's Sailor Experience. A Humorous Sketch. BY SYLVANUS COBB, JUN'R. Seth Snipe was raised in the State of Maine, and until the age of four-and-twenty he had worked on his father's farm. His home was not far from Kennebec, and often had he seen the noble vessels sailing to and | _ fro up and down the river. It happened that Seth got sick of farming at an early age, and at one period of his early youth he had entertained the idea of being a schoolmaster ; but somehow he never could get the com- mitiee to believe that he was qualified. Seth learned enough, but it would not stay learn- ed. He had ciphered clear way over to the "single rule-of-three,' but the " pesky" rules slipped his mind as soon as he left his book. It also happened that Seth fancied he should like the sea. To him there was something noble and grand in the appear- ance'of a ship coming up the river. And then he had been on board the different vessels that chanced to be at the wharves when he was in town, and once he " climbed clean away. Up to the top of one of the great tall masts."" O, it was beautiful up there, and he could see all round the country. One other thing happened which put the clincher upon Seth's sea-going proclivities. One summer--the season that he was twen- ty four years old--a man worked for his father on the farm who had been to sea one voyage from Portland to Havana. 'This individual was excessively salt, He talked sailor, and wore big-bottomed trowsers with- | out suspenders, and his hat was painted and adorned with a long, wide black ribbon. Seth listened to this man until he was fairly rned. There was nobody else like Wilson the man's name--and the young mother ace it by the hour a d listen you may take my word for it he'll come back cured. You see he's crazy about.it, and you'll REVET: get any good of him till he's been to sea.' So the ee Snipe at length consented that his heir should take a peep at life on the raging sea. 'The old horse was har- nessed to the still older wagon, and prepara- tions were made for starting on after a berth. " Mind 'at your starboard riggin' is fast, there!" uttered Seth, as his uncle hooked the off breeching strap. He had heard Wil- son talk sazlor, and he loved to talk so, too. Uncle John smiled, and said 'twas all fast. " Neow jest haul yer wind in here, uncle, an' off we go right afore the wind. Avast there, ole Jericho!' Seth cried to the old horse, who was snapping a atafly. "By my tarry toplights, I'll rig a bolun t your head | iece!" Whether the horse understood this dire- ful threat, or whether the fly left, is not cer- tain, but he stood still from that time until they were ready to start. Uncle John was to accompany Seth, for he knew several ship- owners, and might therefore be of ser- vice. In due time the old horse reached the town, and Seth and his uncle went down to the river. The ship Eliza Downs lay at one of the wharves; and to her master uncle made his application. Seth was cal- led forward, and the captain commenced to catechize him, But the hero was not to be bluffed now. He had resolved to be a man, and. he spoke up boldly. " T don't know noth'n bout yer ship neow, but I want tew larn. T've been clean way up tew the tip top of the great high mast, an' I done it as easy as grease." Uncle John'saw that the captain was be- coming incredulous, and he took that func- tionary one side and conversed with him some time ina whisper. The result was that Seth was engaged for a voyage to Liver- pool and back. His wages were to com- mence at the commencement of his second month's service, and then to be regulated according to his usefulness. be You'll be on board in just a week from this time," said ithe captain. " Ay, ay, sir.' is And. _mind that you have dothing enough." fcAy, ay, sir' Seth was almost crazy with joy. He went down on board the ship, and strolled about awhile like a commodore. He seized the ropes and shook them with a professional air, gave the wheel a turn, caught hold of the backstay and leaped upon the rail, and ended by kicking a coil of rigging out of his way, which some careless fellow, not knowing he was coming, had left in the seupper-way. Seth's next movement was towards a fur- nishing ste, where he purchased a full rig of seamen's Glories: and after this he went home. His mother wept when she found that he was really going, but he laughed at her, 99 "Don't worry," whispered uncle John, "for you'll see him again before long. te wont go far." On the next morning Seth appeared in his glory. He was rigged i in full sea costume, even to having a sheath-knife hung to his belt. His usual expletive, " darn," was now changed by leaving out the 7, and substitut- ing an m in its place, and this word he ap- plied i in a most extraordinary manner to all sorts of imaginary things, such as " buttons," " top-lights,"" "my eyes," and soon. He told the oxen to "haul their wind," and the cat was ordered to "haulin the slack of her tail." " Starboard yer helm a bit!" he shouted to his father, who was coming round the cor- ner of the barn in his ox-cart, "starboard, old man, or you'll be afoul of somethin'." Towards evening Mrs. Snipe went out to the barn, and a cry of horror burst from her lips as he saw her son standing erect on one of the beams, with his arms folded across his breast. But Seth did not hear her. ** Come, you lubbers, in with them tops'ls Clue 'em up quick! By the lightnin', how it does blow! Starboard your helm?' "Seth! Seth! O, Lord a' mercy, you'll fal] !" The youth looked down and_ saw his mother. '"Come down out of that, Seth. You'll sartinly fall!" " Go in, mother. Go below; know noth'n' 'bout it.' But Seth's energy was gone now, and with a show of astonishing boldness he sidled along upon the ten-inch beam towards the point where the hay -mow reached nearly to 1 "*"Oho--you was a leanin' agin that brace, eh?" uttered the anxious moter as she saw her son had had support for his back. "No I wa'n't a leanin' agin it, nuther," retorted the hero, contemptuously. «Do yar think I'm oes up here? Ef yer do you don't He came niet losing his balance, and his face turned very pale. But with steps of striking caution he reached the hay, and then let himself down. "T aint afeard--not me!" he uttered, shaking himself proudly. And during that week Seth visited all his acquaintances, and wherever he went he gave a glowing account of the brilliant career that was open 1 before him. "Wont you puton your coat?" asked his mother. "Ill look better than that jacket dees." "I want none of yer lubbery land-toges on me!" was his majestic reply. So 'his anied him in aS * little bey s t," as she called it Be: es to set pe "Dew I sleep in sich a leetle place as that 7" asked Seth, as he was shown to his bunk. « Rather guess £9," s said his euide. « Kind 0' " fanny Tookin'? though? Jehosiphat, I should think as heow they "might afford better beds than these." "@O, they will by'm-by; but ye see they aint got things fixed." "« QO-----ah--yaas. But I s'pose I'll be want- ed up on deck neow." And with that Seth went up. 'The sail down the Kennebec was fine, and Seth was in ecstacies. "By mitey," he said to himself, " T rather euess these chaps thinks as [I'm green. Neow Pll jest show 'em 'at I aint. By the mincin' Jemina, I will." And with this re- mark Seth made his way into the main nig- ging with some difficulty, and then beganto ascend the shrouds. He scemed a little jealous of.the raitlings at first but when he found they held him, he went on more bold- ly. At length, by dint of much persever- ance, he reached the futtock ane and here he got stuck «" Gaul blast it?' he muttered, "dew they s'pose sich a feller's Iam "ken git through sich a hole as that is. Hellow, yeou sailor man, up there; heow 'n thunder dew yer git up there where yeu be, hay % ie «" Ah, spooney, is that you?" cried the topman, looking over. " My name is Snipe, mister--Seth Snipe. Mebbe ye didn't know it. But how dew ye get up thar V" " Come right up." - 'But this pesky hole aint big atch for me to git through." " We don't come through the lubber-hole, spooney; we come right over here." Seth looked up and saw that the futtock shrouds were rattled down, and after some consideration upon the subject he conclud- ed that he would go back, and he would have done so had not the man above laugh- edat him. This quickened his energies, and he made a desperate effort. At last he was able to reach the topmast shrouds, and with a convulsive scrambling he reached the top. He looked down upon "the deck and turned pale. Then he sat tremblingly down, with his arms wound tightly about the stoutest rigging he could find, We began to get his breath. " Kind o? ticklish ie here, aint it?' he said to his companion, who was engag ed in getting the studding- -sails ready for. setting. "Ts it?" was the laconic response. 'By gaul, aint it though. But say, did yeou come up over jest as I did?" "Just about." "But what d'ye call them leetle short rope ladders right under here 2" « Them's the flapawhack railways.' "Jerewsalum! I should think hy was flapawack. Why, a feller's bottom side up- wards there, aint he? By gaul, I thought T should 'a' catnipped rite off? Is spose you don't never come up here in the dark, dew er" "Yow'll think so, I guess, afore you've been here long." "Main-top, there !" at this moment came from the deck. " Ay, ay," returned the topman. "Come down here and help to stow the anchor." The sailor secured the studding-sail, and then swung himself easily around the top- mast rigeing, andin a moment more he had disappeared below the edge of the top. «" Wal--ncow that feller did that ned 0' slick--I vum he did." 'Come, spooney, come down and give us a: hift."' « Vi--yi--yi," returned Seth. But the thing was not so easily done. He had managed to get over the projecting edve of the top, but 'eetting down was another matter. He laid down upon his face and looked over, but he couldn't imagine how he was ever to reach those " little ladders clean way in under thar." And the longer he looked the more difficult it appeared. He turned his attention to the lubber-hole, but that was closed to him. He might have got through the hole itself, but he couldn't set through the " tarnal great ropes that were strung all round rite under it." The ship passed Bath before the topman went down, and ere Jong Seguin was on the beam. In fifteen minutes more the great ocean was opened, and the beavy swells be- gan to show themselves. 'Phere had been a stiff northeaster blowing, and the sea was rough. "O!O!0!" groaned Seth, clinging to the topmast shrouds with all his might. " Murder! Fire! Brimstone! O !" The ship's course lay her directly in the trough of the sea, and. she rocked and rolled considerably. Poor Seth was performing such evolutions as he never dreamed of be- fore. The place where he sat moved in an arc of some: thirty feet in length, and the motion was not of a very agreeable kind. But a new source of trouble presented itself Seth began to feel a motion in his stomach unlike anything he had ever before experienced. He grew pale as death, and a mortal sickness came over him. His grasp upon the shrouds began to weaken, | and nothing short of death esented itself to him. "To eet down from 'the top he could not, and he knew that he should not be able long to remain there. = Merey ! ! O, Jerewsalum! what didI cum here for?" he groaned. " Hellow! fire! murder! ['m dyin'! dewn! 2 ~ In a few tnoments after this: the order was place, aint it Bes and take me | " What's the matter! Why didn't ye come down afore ?" wate S ause { coulda't. O, my boweels! I daren't go onto them flapawhacker ways, thar. 'The: plaguy things puts a feller rite bottom side up! O!O! Pm dyin'! Git me daown?"' The topman saw that the poor fellow was weak and faint, and they concluded to let him down. So ae made a running bow- line on the end of the top-rope and 'drew it taut under his arms. " By the great bar, ye aint a goin' tew hang me!" s 'Easy, e easy, spooney." " Snipe, my name is. O--awah!" In a moment more poor Seth was over the after part of the top, and as the line was let out he began to sway to and fro ina most unpleasant manner. He yelled and shouted with fright, but he could only kigk the air in his wildcontor tions. When he at last reach- ed the deck, he shook the rope off for fear he should be again hoisted up. He had just got the line clear, and was about to turn to the captain and mate who stood con- vulsed with laughter, when there came a heavy sea dashing over the rail. The ship broached to leeward, and Seth was thrown upon his back, and away he went into the lee seuppers, where he floundered in the cold salt water until the captain hauled him out. He had contrived to swallow full a pint of briny liquid, and such another pic- ture of absolute despair and misery was never before seen on board that ship. "O, cap'n, dear, dew go back an' let me git eout. O,I can't stan' this. Why can't he go back ?" "Pooh, nonsense. You'll soon get over this, my brave fellow. Why, I wouldn't lose such a noble sailor for anything. I mean in Jess than a week to have you do wonders." "Jerewsalum! only jest look at that fel- ler clean way out on the tip eend o' that great long cross-beam. My gracious, what a careless dog." " You'll have to go out there pretty soon, Seth." "Me? Never! O--aw! O, my stomach! No, sir. Yeou doan't get me up onto that ere darned top agin. le tell yet aint a goin' to be made--* n At this moment the ship gave another lurch, and away went Seth again into the scuppers, this time striking his head against the bulwarks. Once more he was helped to his feet, and now he began to ery in good earnest. He blubbered like a sick calf, and at length the cook came, and helped him below. On the next morning the ship entered Boston harbor, where she put in for part of her cargo. Seth got permission to go on shore, and with long, quick strides he made his way to the city. Within himself he swore that he would never go aboard the "tarnal ole thing agin." And he was as good as his word." He took a day's rest, and then he started out through Charlestown to Mal- den. He got several opportunities to ride, and before 'night he reached Haverhill. In just one week from the day on which Seth Snipe sailed he reached his home. He came by the way of fields and woods, for he dared not show his face on the highway. His mother was delighted, and his father was satisfied. : "Why Seth, how' this?" asked uncle John. " Haow zs it?" iterated the youth, with a most comical expression, in which disgust and shame were about equally blended. "Why, I rayther thought as haow I'd cum hum an' see the foiks. The fact on't is, aour ship stopped to Bosting, an' when I was ashore the ole thing went off an' left me." But of course the truth leaked out. Seth went to work once more on the farm, and he was content, for he had seen enough of the sea. Fora long while he had little peace among his mates, for the story of his experience as a sailor was too good to be lost. And even now, though years have ae he is known as ' Captain Snipe," r "Snipe the main-topman." And ence in a while some of his waggish relatives superscr ibe his letters after the same fashion. Not long since I saw, in the post-office at Gardiner, a letter directed to " Captain Seth Snipe, of the ship Aliza Downs,' And then in one corner was added, "To the care of the main-top." It was there I learned the story of his sea-going experience. fo ne et Di Hi Marriage. O, Matrimony isan engagement which must last the life of one of the parties, and there is no retracting, vestigza nulla retrorsum ; there- fore to avoid all the horror of a Repentance that comes too late, men should thoroughly know the real causes thatjinduce them to take so important a step, before they venture upon it: do they stand in need of a wife, an heir- ess or a nurse; is it their Passions, their Wants or their Infirmities that solicit them to wed? Are they candidates for that happy state, propler opus, or opem ! ? according to the epigram. 'These are questions much more proper to be proposed before men go to the altar, than after it; they are points which well ascertained, would prevent many disappointments, often deplorable, often ridi- culous, always remediless.--- Colton, From the American Phrenological Journal. Hints to Husbands and Wives. It is the business of ir hastens to appreciate | the tender and susceptible nature of woman- To take time and ee for « a elear under- | business to know that diseases and weak- nesses peculiar to the delicate female frame call for compassionate kindness, manly, pa- tient support, and not for harsh intolerance | i or coldness, when the frailer one droops by | . their side. How does it happen, that with more than halt the married couples one sees, if we note any frank expression of endearment, any affectionate gallantry or smiling cour- tesy, directly somebody says, "There is a new-married couple," or, "That must bea second wife 2" Why among those other wedded ones is the manner cold, careless, abrupt, or at least a negative civility 2" Has the wife grown slo- venly, unattractive, unloveable, snarling, un- mindful of wifely duties, or is it not oftener that the husband has neglected the home bust- ness? Has year by year settled down more self-centered into his abstracted, chosen track, leaving her to become less and less identified with him ; her mind and heart developing as it may happen, and not at all under his _con- cious, earnest, thoughtful influence, so that the delicate fabric of their first affection is ground down to common dust ? Ah! there are husbands and wives, for I have seen them, who have lived together years and years, their heads have grown gray together, and children have been born to them, and yet there have been depths in their 'hearts that each other never knew or dreamed of. Choice feelings that blossomed --and faded--in their cells for want of re- cognition Smothered bitterness, that never came to the light to be wiped away with sweet forgiveness, but lay curdling under the growth of custom and dogged endurance. 'Chere are words that should have been said, retractions and explanations that should have been made, that are not said and made, no, never on this side the grave ! There are thirsty hearts that ewant to be told every day, yet oftener, that they are loved, appreciated, known, that cannot bear long fasting, that must have the reassurance. which lives in a caress, the eye, the voice. There are other natures, dry, cool, self-nour- ished, complacently moving on through their busy or worldly cares, who do not need that healing balm, who shake it off as rain is shed from the well-oiled, glossy breast of a bird. ; A woman wants to be understood as well as loved, and no man can make a woman really happy unless he understands her, not not only in relation to. all the attributes and liabilities of her sex, but individually, and we may as well add, his own also. No doubt many have gone on pretty smoothly with- out the light of science, by the help of strong mutual affection, large human nature, and benevolence, and good power of adaptation ; but had they been more enlightened, they might have made each other happier still. In that good time when such knowledge will be widely spread by the aid of phrenology, we shall have husbands who know better how to appreciate and treat their wives. Then, a man will comprehend that a woman witha fine mental temperament, large Conscienti- ousness and A pprobativeness, and small Hope and Self-Esteem, needs to be soothed and encouraged, not blamed or ever chidden, es- pecially "if Combativeness be also large, that another more coarsely organized, with large Self-Esteem, Mirth, and Hope, will make light of what would utterly crush the other. Then he will try to calm and divert, instead of ridiculing her extreme caution or sympathy, will know better how to assimilate if she have the larger moral organs, and he-the religious, | 9 or vice versa, and not scold or be chafed by her preferring a different church and style of preaching from his own. Illustration of Kisses. The " editress" of the New York " Ladies' Repository," talking about kissing, says :-- Kisses, like faces of philosophers, vary. Some are as hot as coal-fire, some sweet as honey, some mild as milk, some tasteless as long drawn soda-water. Siolen kisses are said to have more nutmeg and cream _ than other sorts. As fo proposed kisses, they are not liked at all. <A stolen kiss is the most agreeable. We have been kissed a few times, and, as we are not very old, we hope to receive many more. The Youth that was Hung. ~ The Sheriff took out his watch, and said, " if you have anything to say, speak now, for you have only five minutes to live." The young man burst into tears, and said: "I have to die. I had only one little brother, he had beautiful blue eyes and flaxen hair, and | loved him ; but one day I got drunk, for the first time in my life, and coming home, I found my little brother gathering straw- berries in the garden, and I become angry with him without a cause, and I killed him at one blow with arake. I did not. know anything about it until the next morning, when I awoke from sleep, and found myself tied and guarded, and was told that when my little brother was found, his hair was clotted with blood and brains, and he was dead. Whisky has done this. It has ruined me. T never was drunk but once. I have only one more word to say, and then Iam going tomy final Judge. I say to you people, Never! Never ! Never! touch anything that can intoxicate." As he pronounced these words, he sprang from the box, and was launched into an endless eternity. _ I was melted into tears at the recital, and the awful spectacle. _ My little heart seemed as if it would burst, and break away from my | ings of grief. while hioned _ ee What is the matter here 2?» aching bosom, so intolerable were my foal | 0 And there, i in that. carriage, at, lookir When the tempter has offere sparkling goblet, the words. man have seemed to sound i in my | --Old Man's Story. To Keep Milk Sweet, A. Boyd, a corespondent of the Scie American, states that he has practised culiar method, with much success, of ing milk sweet in the pans. It sim sists in placing a piece of new hammer or three twelve-penny nails in each oe pone the warm milk on them a longer time than any ober a tr him. It is worth a trial by our fa -m: dairymen. -- Olive Br anch. Cement for Broken China, Gass, &e. The following receipt from experi ne know to bea good one, and, being -- colorless, it possesses advantages wh glue and other cements do, 'not? Dissoly an ounce of gum acacia ina wine boiling water; add plaster of Paris suflig to forma thiek paste, and apply it w brush to the parts required to be. cem together. Several articles upon our table have been repaired most -- b this receipt.----Life Illustrated. Ixill_ or Cure. | attend his wife, who was dangero The doctor gave a hint ' that he had ie not being paid. 3 ; the oct "and if you kill ¢ or shall have them." ae The woman. died in the do + and after a-reasonable time he ¢ five pounds. 'The man ased the do he killed his wife? £NO. 'Did you eure ?' 'No.' 'Then,' said the man, ' you have no demand.' 2 Cuba and Slavery. In 1855, according to statistics us by Mr. Ballou, the number of wl Cuba was about 605,000; of free- ed people, about 205,000; and of slaves 442,- 000. There are great discrepancies in accounts given by travellers of the treat. ment of these slaves. One authority will ah us ae are treated far. more kindly 1 nee in the States; " another, that th overworked with the utmost cruel severity. Both statements are correct, explanation being. that in Cuba there is. pride of color, and therefore more ge era humanity, while in certain especial emplo ments, there is more temptation. to ov driving. Perbaps the Spanish pride is m opolized by the nobles, and in their eyes white plebeian may be little above a slave; or perhaps the republican insist more upon -- the color, because he has-not the cast- tinction; at any rate, we find this disti nection -- less jealously guarded by either Jaw or cus- tom. The laws of many of the " States?" make emancipation a crime; the laws of -- Cuba make it under certain conditions com- pulsory. Ifa New Orleansslave bo aclever ; artisan, bis master only values him the higher, and thanks fortune which h his "chattel" brains as well as mus: in Ilavanna this same artisan would himself with his earnings. " An author arbitration may settle his value on hi appeal, and as soon as he shall accu fifty dollars, his master is obliged to accept the sum as an instalment. ia 2 The Cuban law, too, forbids the in liction of more than twenty-five lashes, and the master who maltreats his slave is compelled, cE urkey, to sel] him."" Doubiless, as these are more easily enacted enforced, but the large proportion of f people proves that the temper country cannot be altogether at, variar with them. 'These regulations, ho apply almost entirely to the non class--to the household and city s 10 to those on the plantations. On them, esr ally on the enormous sugar-estates, labor, backed by the slave-trade, has, ec mically speaking, a fair chance. 'The tla is costly, the capital invested large; t every inducement to get as much return -of the human portion of the- machiner possible, even at the expense of frequent renewal. It pays to import young hands from Africa, to whip their work out of them -- in a few years, and then the sooner th off, the cheaper. The work for both and women is terrible: "ev on the of the great estates, from November to Ma sixteen aud sometimes nineteen. hours this toil; las herded and fed like eat no eare over them---religious, moral or Pele but few wont a ever