MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER, 
305 
Jiscfllatuflus. 
IN THE MEADOWS. 
BY IlAYARI) TAYtOE. 
I L!E in the Summer meadows, 
In the meadows all alone, 
With the infinite sky above me 
And the sun on his mid-day throne. 
The smell of the dowering grasses 
Is sweeter than any rose, 
And a million happy insects 
Sing in the warm repose. 
The mother lark that is brooding 
Keels the sun upon her wings, 
And the deeps of the noon-day glitter 
With swarms of fairy wings. 
From the billowy green beneath me 
To the fathomless blue above, 
The creatures of God are happy 
In the warmth of their Summer love. 
The infinite bliss of Nature 
I feel in every vein ; 
The light aud the life of Summer 
Blossom in heart and brain. 
But darker than any shadow 
By thunder-clouds unfurled, 
The awful truth arises. 
That Death is in the World! 
the son of a President may become a pauper; 
the son of the most illiterate parent may, by 
aid of our glorious facilities for acquiring 
knowledge, become one of the magi ; while 
the son of the most distinguished scholar may 
possess an intellect clouded and obscure. The 
ancestor of one of the signers of the Declara¬ 
tion of Independence may have been for ought 
we know a transported convict, while the de¬ 
scendant of another may at this moment be 
the inmate of a State prison. 
“ Honor and Shame from no condition rise. 
Act well your part; ’tis there true honor lies.” 
THE TESTIMONY OP AN HONEST HEART. 
CONDUCTED BY A-E. 
MY WIFIES BACK AGAIN. 
air: “WIIISTLE O’ER the lave o’t.” 
Short syne I had na heart to sing ; 
My harp untnned nae mair wad ring; 
Noo I’ve got back the master siring, 
An’ music I can mak again : 
The weariest night, it ends wi’ morn. 
The langest lane at last will turn ; 
An’ noo I sing, nae mair forlorn— 
My winsome wifie's back again 1 
I.ong days an’ nights passed ower in gloom; 
I thought the simmer ne’er wad come; 
But r.oo, at care I snap my thumb, 
An’ canty I can crack again. 
Noo simmer smiles; blythe sing Ihe birds ; 
The bairns o’ joy strike a’ the chords; 
An’ I—oh 1 what needs wastin’ words— 
My denty doo is back again 1 
0 man 1 without a wifie’s care, 
Be your house fu’, or be it bare, 
There’s something wantin’ late an’ air. 
To (ill your heart an’ make you fain. 
Your selfish life’s a lanesome spilth ; 
But wifie's smile, in pain or health, 
Steals woe from want, or blesses wealth— 
Thank Heaven 1 my wifie’s back again 1 
— Knickerbocker. 
With swarms of fairy wings THE following touching extract from a letter I thought the simmer ne’er wad come ; 
, written by a sailor in the Baltic fleet, to his But noo, atcare I snap my thumb, 
From the billowy green beneath me , . . .1 An’canty I can crack again. 
To the fathomless blue above, wife ill England, illustrates forcibly the wick- Noo simmer smiles ; blythe sing the birds ; 
The creatures of God are happy edness and horrors of war, and shows up in The bairns o’joy strike a’the chords; 
In the warmth of their Summer love. glaring colors, the wrong of compelling men, Au- 1 what need8 wastin ’ words - 
The infinite Miss of Nature without the slightest shadow of personal hos- 
I feel in every vein ; ,*i •• . i 1 > ui j 1 Oman! without a wifie's cacre. 
The light aud the life of Summer sbed eacb °^ iei S blood. Oil . war ^ yQur house fu’, or be it bare, 
Blossom in heart and brain. war, when shall WC be permitted to chronicle There’s something wantin’ late an’ air, 
But darker than any shadow the end of thy misdoings ! To fill your heart an’ make you fain. 
By thunder-clouds unfurled, “Everyman Oil board volunteered, 80 the Your selfish life s a lanesome spilth ; 
The awful truth arises, Captain picked a crew, and I was sent ashore But wifie s smi e, in pain or ’ 
That Dea.h .s m the w o.id. with the marines. 1 here were regular troops Thank Ueaven , my wifie . B back again , 
And the sky may beam os ever. Oil the bank who fired Oil US as we pulled to -Knickerbocker. 
And never a cloud be curled, land, but the broadsides of the-, what with _ , , m , _ 
And the airs be living odors, the shell and what with the smoke, covered our T , 
But Deatii is in the World, landing. We dispersed at a few hundred yards Ql tUUS" AtUttttlC (E'jJlStuS, 
Out of the deeps of sunshine distance from the beach, to keep the coast clear, ° T. 
The-invisibie bolt is hurled; while the boat’s crew made prizes of the guns. TO COUSIN KATEY. 
There’s Life in the Summer meadows, The enemy had the advantage of the wood, _ 
But Death is in the World l and also knowing the country well, and a troop Communicated thro’ Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
—N. r. Tribune. of them showed in advance. We were ordered mTcw i? rT T. m ,T TT n 
- • -- to tire. I took steady aim, and fired on my EPISTL E ELE VENTH. 
ANCESTRAL HONORS. man at about GO yards. He fell like a stone. English Nobleman —Different modesof travelling—Num- 
- 1 t tut same tilll6 a bioathide tl om the b er of strangers in Rome during Holy Week — the Corso 
In an aristocratic community like that of wtmt in among the trees, and the enemy disap- —Dress required for admittance to reserved places in st. 
England, where titles and estates are retained P eared >" e Cuuld scarcely tell how. 1 felt as Peter’s - impromptu dress coat — Uniform of the Swiss 
. ° , , , , Ai 1 T i. 1 though I must go up to him, to see whether he Guard — Rush to the “Apostles’ Table”—Extravagant 
m perpetual descent, where the eldest son by was dead or ailve r 1Ie lay quite stillj aud 1 pricesat Hotels -Restaraunts-Italian cookery -Zup- 
right of birth succeeds to all the honors and was more afraid of him lying so than when he pa inglesa—Why so called. 
emoluments of the father, and the younger stood facing me a lew minutes before. It’s a Dear Cousin Katey:—H ave I told you in 
sons, through the powerful influence of family strange feeling to come over you all at once, auy of my ram bling letters, that we had the 
and connections, are provided for in the army, « HeLd^unbuttoned Ws jacket, and pressing honor of travelin - frorn Civita Vecchia to 
+ 1.^ «»Y/1 thrk fiotuh luliAfi nlinvDh ltic nmfp i • i i , .. , > . & _• , i __•_r ___• « 7 * „ 
one city to another as fast as steam can cany posed of stripes, red, black and yellow, extend, 
him, which, by the way, is not fast enough in ing longitudinally, and varying in width to suit 
this country to suit one accustomed to the the form. These stripes are not always at- 
rapid movements of our magnificent steam- tached to each other, but in some places are 
boats, or the lightning rapidity of our express entirely independent of each other, and the rest 
trains—he walks through the Museums, be- of the garment. For example, the trowsers are 
stowing little more than a hasty glance upon full, and extend just below the knee, where the 
the most famous works of art—the churches stockings meet them. They are black, and the 
he pronounces a bore—the paintings he is tired stripes of red and yellow placed over them are 
to death of—the Swiss mountains and lakes attached only at the two extremities, while the 
please him, for they have much analogy with middle part plays loosely with every motion of 
some portions of his own land, but there are the limb. The sleeves are also full from the 
no steamboats, no railroads, and scarcely a shoulder to the elbow, and are arranged in the 
stage route there, and after “ doing up ” the same manner. Add to this a crested helmet, 
whole of Europe in three months, he steams a formidable looking halberd, a steel cuirass for 
home with the conviction that America cannot state occasions, stockings, one red, the otqer 
be beat, and that foreign travel is a humbug, yellow, buckled shoes, and all this motley at- 
An individual of this stamp crossed our track tire displayed upon a broad-shoulclered, pow- 
during our Italian tour, and in little more than erful man, and you have a faint picture of the 
a week's time we encountered him again, some- Fope’s Swiss guards. They are a faithful, 
thing as a restless comet dashes in and out of trusty set of men, and serve their master well, 
the orbits of more quiet, regular stars. But but they are not in much favor among the 
during these few days he had visited Rome, people, whom they sometimes treat rather 
Leghorn, Pisa, Florence, Genoa, Turin, Milan rudely when curiosity leads them to trespass be- 
and Venice. yond the bounds assigned them. 
On one of the lakes in Switzerland we fell in On the day that the Pope served the apos- 
with two young gentlemen from New York* 
who were traveling in a manner nearly as ex- 
tles at table there was the greatest rush to see 
this ceremony that I ever beheld. The hall 
Cniu- 
TO COUSIN KATEY. 
Communicated thro’ Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
EPISTLE ELEVENTH. 
English Nobleman — Different modes of travelling—Num¬ 
ber of strangers in Rome during Holy Week — the Corso 
—Dress required for admittance to reserved places in St. 
Peter’s —Impromptu dress coat —'Uniform of the Swiss 
Guard — Rush to the “Apostles’ Table”—Extravagant 
prieesat Hotels — Restaraunts — Italian cookery — Zup- 
pa Inglesa — Why so called. 
Dear Cousin Katey: —Have I told you in 
peditious, and at the same time getting a good where the table was placed was not large 
knowledge of the objects they saw, but it was enough to hold one-tenth part of the specta- 
by dint of hard labor. Much of their traveling tors, the entrance was narrow, and altogether 
was done at night, they had a courier to make the scene resembled more the auctions in which 
all their arrangements for them, and every tickets for Jexny Lind’s concerts were sold, than 
moment of leisure was devoted to “ reading the preparations for a religious ceremony. I 
up” in Murray, who, you must know, is the became entangled in the crowd before I was 
author of a set of guide books, which hold the aware of it. and really feared I should never 
same rank among similar publications, that o e t ou t of it without losing life or limb. One 
Murray’s Grammar formerly did among gram- l ad y was actually thrown down, and if she had 
mars. Besides all this, they took notes of their not been instantly snatched up and withdrawn 
travels, and were in reality very well posted to a place of safety by one of the Swiss guards, 
up, but their’s was anything but a pleasure ^be would doubtless have been severely, il not 
trip. I dare say they never worked so hard fatally injured. 
before in their lives. Hotels, as might be supposed, are thronged 
-r>_. e ,, p , , . tt i tyt i at this season of the year. There are several 
Rome is lull of strangers during Holy Week. . J 
There were uot far from two hundred Ameri- Tei 7 “ ne 0003 m Rome ' b ”‘ the P nres are ex ‘ 
, ,. ... .,, ^ ... travagant, almost beyond belief. An Ameri¬ 
can ladies there this year, and the English were ° * .... 
in still greater numbers. The Como, the prim ca0 «°“ tleiMn ™ d bl3 wbo 3111 da J« 
cipal street in Rente, was a brilliant sight of 10 one of tliese hotels ' P aid 00 thoir do P artllro 
an afternoon, being fflled with a constant sue- a bl11 of 84 dollars ’ and tbat t0 ° withoat haT ‘ 
a bill of 84 dollars, and that too without hav¬ 
ing indulged in expensive extras. The better 
jet black horses, and occupied by richly attired j w *5 r ' at Ieast for lbose with whom economy is 
ladies, while here and there the magnificent , ob J ect ' 13 to take , farni3hed “Pwrtments, 
and connections, are provided tor in the army, “ He had unbuttoned his jacket, and pressing honor of traveling from Civita Vecchia to Rome is full of strangers during Holy Week. ‘ ^ . 
the navy, and the established church, it is quite b is hand over the front of his chest, where the Rome in the same carriage with a 'genuine live There were not far from two hundred Ameri- ' erY ilQt on( ' s m v0n ‘ e ’ • )U ^ te prices are ex 
natural that a record of birth and descent wound was. He breathed hard, and the blood English nobleman? Even so, Katey, and I can ladies there this year, and the English were batagant, almost beyond belief. An Ameri- 
should be carefully preserved back even to the poured trom the wound and also from* his hasten to explain the circumstance, which j n s till o-reater numbers The Corso the prin- can £ efl b eman au d his son, who staid six days 
remotest times. It not unfrequently happens m . oath every breath he took. His face was doubt less excites your republican astonishment cipa i s f re et in Rome was a brilliant sfoht of in one of these hotels, paid on their departure 
that a collateral branch of ,ho family, by rea- «• degree. The steamer arrived at an Itoon,^lin7«led with a — Sul a M1 ^ a " d ^ b - 
son of a failure of the direct line, comes into shall never forget it He was a fine young Civita Vecchia late Saturday night The pas- cession of elegant carriages, drawn by shining in g indulged in expensive extras. Ihe better 
possession of immense estates, and is lifted at fellow, not more than five and twenty. I was sengers landed Sunday morning, and, of the jet black horses, and occupied by richly attired wa J. at least for those with whom economy is 
once by the lucky circumstance of relationship down en my knees beside him, and my breast whole company, the English lord and ourselves ladies, while he r e and there the magnificent atl ^ object, is to take furnished apartments, 
to a nobleman, from comparative indigence to S’^ were the 01163 ' vbo 3aw fit 10 relliail1 at equipage of a cardinal, glowing with “crimson ' thich can he procured at prices not very ex- 
a peerage and u seat in the House of Lords. 1 0 J?ike 7n enemy Civita Vecchia over the Sabbath, instead of and gold, .gave variety to the scene. It is a horb.tant, and have one s meals sent in from a 
These circumstances quite naturally generate “ What I felt 1 can never tell, but if my life proceeding at once to Rome. We made ac- singular custom which the Roman nobles have, restaurant.. "hey are brought in a tin box, 
a pride of ancestry, and cause an individual w .o ul d have saved his, I believe I should have quaintance at the dinner table, and the next and which strangers soon fall into, of riding about tbe size an,d sba P e of a large trunk, and 
not unfrequently to hold ancestral honors in S 1 ' en ^ I faid Ms head upon my knee, and he morning took a carriage together for Rome.— from one end of the Corso to the other, and iu one corner is an apparatus with charcoal 
higher esteem than his owe intellectual and T’coll ulVSl Tlia3 03010 “ *° P a33 tba ‘ a0 “*■“«* M- then back again, for hours together, the horses ££ ilfdles 1 
moral attributes ; to deem a descent from one word he said, and every time he tried t<5 speak vidual tike y our cousm Minnie was brought scarcely leaving a foot pace the whole time.— L * ^ ^ f v, i 
of the robber chiefs who accompanied Wil- the blood poured out so, I knew it would soon into contact with one of the_scions of old En- It resembles more an immense procession than restaurailt > 1 mean one mce ‘y i uiai s> eu, ant 
Liam the Conqueror from Normandy, and be over. I am not ashamed to say that I was gland’s aristocracy. But you are perhaps cu- persons riding for pleasure, and one can hardly ^cll arranged. Many of the restaurants are 
gained possession of estates by rapine, violence, wor ff ?f n , he ’ for H h . e uever shed a tear ’ and 1 rious to know something of the personage in imagine any amusement in it, unless it be that ^ in the hal1 of sorae old P alace ’ where the 
6 1 , „ . 1 ’ couldn t help it. His eyes were closing, when ,. ... tarnished o’ildino^ and fresco naintino-s dimmed 
and bloodshed, of more importance than an | a gun was tired from ‘the _ to order us ! ( l uestion ’ His lordship was a young man, ac- j of seeing and being seen. tarnisne gu gs e co p : gs i me 
honorable and blameless life ; to esteem an aboard, and that aroused him. He pointed to companied by a Mentor in the shape of a During Holy Week there are temporary seats Wlth SI ”°^ e ’ teiL ° L g rdndeur 111 decay, while 
escutcheon unsullied by intermingling with the beach, where the boat was just pushing off clever, good-humored clergyman, and his suite erected in St. Peters for the accommodation of tb e dark, dust) corners are suggests e of any- 
iii .1.1 i._ 4 ..• j. _with the trims we had taken, and where nnr « Suii« unu^. n u „,i_„— ii __ mi _ thing but agreeable ideas to those who have 
equipage of a cardinal, glowing with crimson 
and gold, gave variety to the scene. It is a 
singular custom which the Roman nobles have, 
which can be procured at prices not very ex- 
horbitant, and have one’s meals sent in from a 
restaurant. They are brought in a tin box, 
gained possession of estates by rapine, violence, couldQ , t hel £ His e J were closing, when nous . t0 kU °'! S , 0 “ g t*™** 8 * “ 
and bloodshed, of more importance than an a gun was tired from the - to order us c l uestlon ’ His lordshl P was a ^ oun g man ’ ac ' 
honorable and blameless life ; to esteem an aboard, and that aroused him. He pointed to companied by a Mentor in the shape ol a 
escutcheon unsullied by intermingling with the beach, where the boat was just pushing off clever, good-humored clergyman, and his suite 
plebian blood superior to unspotted integrity w ‘ dl . t * ie £ llus w . e . bad taken, and where our was completed by a Swiss courier, an append- 
and lofty patriotism. The son of a peer, “TtSiTte pofoted to”‘the wood where°the a S e wb ich most travelers take with them, and 
blessed with neither beauty of person, bril- enemy was concealed. Poor fellow ! he little "'hose province it is to see that his master is 
liance of intellect, nor purity of life, is much thought how I had shot him down. I was fleeced according to rule, and not in any man- 
inclined to look down with lofty contempt wondering how I could leave him to die, and ner which custom has not sanctioned. Dame 
upon the son of a yeoman, who possesses all 110 one V ear h .! m ’ whcn he had something like Mature had treated our nobleman most eava- 
a convulsion, ior a moment, aud then his face , .. ,, ,. , 
these attributes. relied over, and, without a sigh, he was gone. her1 ^ for he was> wlthout exce P tl0n - th e «ghest 
The folly of such sentiments, and t‘he radi- I trust the Almighty has received his soul. I mortal I ever beheld, not so much from de¬ 
cal defects of a government the institutions of laid his head gently down on the grass, and left fortuity of feature, as from a gross, auimal ex- 
which tend to cherish such a state of feeling, him for the last time; I somehow thought of pression, and his mental horizon was, to say 
need no reprobation here. Our own funda- fi'ttty thing I hadl heaul about the lurks and tbe i eas t, exceedingly limited. He seemed 
1 „ . , the Russians, and the rest of them; but all that . . u a t , 
mental law repudiates all titles of nobility seemed so far off, aud the dead man so near.” I 11116 a connoisseur in matters that concerned 
frowns upon all ancestral distinctions, and, _, . ^ . , _ the table, delivered his opinion in a magisterial 
in theory at least, plaoes the son of the hum- yp (JINDERELL1 tone respecting every dish which he tasted, and, 
blest citizen on the same footing with the - ‘ ' when he learned that we were Americans, was 
son of the most distinguished. It is true that The origin of this nursery tale is thus given quite minute iu his inquiries respecting the fa- 
social position, access to refined society, and by a French journalist. We “ tell the tale ” j cilities for fishing which our country affords, 
and which strangers soon fall into, of riding about the size and shape of a large trunk, and 
from one end of the Corso to the other, and iu one corner is an a PP aratus with charcoal 
then back again, for hours together, the horses burnin ? in it ’ which kee P s the dishes warm tiU 
these attributes. 
The folly of such sentiments, and t‘he radi- 
lierly, for he was, without exception, the ugliest 
mortal I ever beheld, not so much from de¬ 
ladies who wish to see the ceremonies. These, as uu UUUBC wuu 
might be expected, are filled to a great extent beeQ aooll3to “ od t0 frequent T ayloe s magnif- 
by the strangers in Rome, who obtain tickets icent oa ‘ abll “ bllloo ‘' 01 tbo S 0 ''^ 0110 ^o 003 of 
for this purpose from their ambassadors.— 
Gentlemen are allowed to enter the tribune, or 
Paris. 
Italian cookery, as you perhaps know, Cousin 
that part of the church behind the altar where I Katey ’ is not held in ver ^ hi = h est ™ atioa b y 
,, r, v- le . . j , , , j. , f foreigners. One peculiarity of it is that almost 
the Rope himself is seated, but ladies are not °. . Y . , „ 
, evervtmng is fried in oil. hish, flesh and fowl, 
permitted to approach so near his sacred per- ^ 
riii , all go through the same fry-ey ordeal. Great 
son. I his distinction between the two sexes ° , & „ / J J 
, 0 . ,. use is also made of cheese. When soup is 
is made still more prominent in the Sixtme . _ 4 
chapel. Here an iron grating is placed near 
the middle of the apartment, dividing it into 
served a plate of grated cheese is always added, 
one or more spoonfuls of which are to be stir- 
frowns upon all ancestral distinctions, and, _, . ^ . , _ the table, delivered his opinion iu a magisterial 
in theory at least, plaoes the son of the hum- yp CINHERELL1 tone respecting every dish which he tasted, and, 
blest citizen on the same footing with the - ‘ * when he learned that we were Americans, was 
son of the most distinguished. It is true that The origin of this nursery tale is thus given quite minute iu his inquiries respecting the fa-, 
social position, access to refined society, and by a French journalist. We “ tell the tale ” j cilities for fishing which our country affords, 
all the superior advantages of wealth aud us told to us, but it is probably of much great- j bu t further than this, the range of hisIdeas ap- 
station, give the latter facilities for intellectual of equal talent and wealt h named Thevenard, P iU ' ent U dld uot extend ’ However . to make 
culture, confidence, and grace, which the for- in passing through the streets of Paris, observed amends for such slight deficiencies as lack of 
mer cannot possess ; but it is equally true upon a cobbler’s stall, the shoe of a female, personal charms aud mental endowments, he 
that all these advantages are not unfrequently " bfab struck him by the remarkable smallness has, or will have an income of 25,000 pounds 
thrown away, and the garden of tlie heart per- 1 adlvd .ring it farsome time, he s t er li n g per annum, and will probably find no 
mitted to become choked up with every kind ed t0 tb e shoe with such intensity that he re- d ™culty in persuading some one of England s 
of rank and poisonous weed; while the appeared at the stall the next day; but the cob- fair and titled daughters to take upon herself 
primitive but strong soil of the former brings bier could give him no other clue to the owner, the promise to “love, honor and obey.” 
. , , T red into each dish of soup as a condiment.— 
two sections, an inner and an outer. Ladies ^ r . ,, . , . 
. ,, , , . a • a , • One dish made use of here is rather singularly 
are not allowed to penetrate into the inner one, , _ . „ , „ T . ., ., 
, . .. , r , v.ia , named. It is called “ Zuppa Inglesa, or En- 
xi'i.aaraa owl thii t'nrvii anri I mafo hnl nDiii-la 1 x ° 
are not allowed to penetrate into the inner one, . ,, J 
, . .. , ,, . , named. It is called “ Zuppa Inglesa, or En- 
where are the Pope and Cardinals, but gentle- ... , , . , , .. . ,, 
, . „ , , ghsh soup, and what do you fancy it is?— 
men pass in and out freely. I here is, howev- ® .. .. ., , , , T , 
. , , , a a, . Something liquid, doubtless, as I did, when at- 
er, a curious condition attached to these pnv- ,, , T „ „ , ,. .. T , 
.. r, .5 .. tracted by the name I first called tor it But 
lieges. Gentlemen must be in uniform, if mil- , J , . , , „ , 
, , .„ . , , what W’as my astonishment to find it composed 
itary characters, if simple citizens, must wear a „ , , , , . Y 
v of alternate layers of cake and custard, the 
“ habit a la Francaise, or dress coat Ladies , , , ^ , T , 
, ,.. ,, , . , ,, , .. whole strongly saturated with brandy. I have 
must be attired in black, with a black veil, or , . . , , 
,,,, ,, „ ’ eaten the same thing at home under the title of 
black head dress of some kind instead of a ® , r . , . 
, .... “ Tipsy Parson. The Italians have proba- 
bonnet An ingenious young gentleman of ,, , . . ,„ ... „ , ~ 
° J bly christened it “ English soup on account of 
my acquaintance, finding himself unable to ^ .. .. e 
J ‘ ,, ; „ , . the penchant which this nation exhibits tor the 
comply literally mth ike terms of the reqmre- u ^ ^ wWeh it b fliiv0re4 As a furtier 
ments, made the nearest approach to it he could . „ , . 
forth an abundant and glorious harvest In taan 11111111 Da< ^ ? een iet ^ 111 1113 absence, tor qq 1 e English are preeminently a traveling 
the one case the genuine and beautiful pearl day did TheTnard return to his natiou ' Auiericans P 08sess some daims t0 
is melted away and dissolved in a bachanalian p 0S t { 0 W atch the re-integration of the slipper tbis appellation, but there is unessential differ- 
cup, while in the other tne rough diamond which proceeded slowly; nor did the proprietor ence in the mode of traveling adopted by solid, 
which the shifting sands of life polish up, appear to claim it. Although he had complet- sensible John Bull, and that which suits the 
emits a light glorious as the sun. ® d sixtieth year of his age, so extravagant enterprising notions of Brother Jonathan. — 
The brightest ornaments of the church, the becanle fwere'it pUiblefor'^iFrenchnuin The En g lisbman s P ends months > seari0us ’ even 
most distinguished literary men, the best 0 f t h a t day to be so) melancholy and rnisera- J ears in fa rei S n lands - Me travels with his 
teachers, orators, statesmen, artists, artisans ble. His pain was, however, somewhat ap- wife, his children, his servants, his carriage, and 
ami agriculturists of this country are men of leased by the avatar of the little foot itself, }q f a gt, takes home along with him. And you 
humble origin ; while many of the most noto- a PP eit aining to a pretty and youthful girl in e uob t 0 suppose, Katey, that these travelers 
, , b , iiiii , the very humblest class of life. All distinc- „ , . . 
nous debauchees, gamblers, drunkards, aud tio:^ were leveled at once by love: the actor a >'e all grand seigneurs, with incomes so mi- 
villains of every hue, are men who, having sought the parents of the female, procured mense that they know not what to do with 
nothing to boast of themselves, pride them- their consent to the match, and actually made them. On the contrary, motives of economy 
selves upon their honorable connections or Ler his wife. no t unfrequently lie at the bottom of this ar- 
descent This is not of necessity the case, for - raugemeut, for the cost of keeping up an e* 
children innumerable live and die in the same . IIK * Kl h*kki>.— 11 u\e you noticed that tree tablishment in England is so great, particular- 
raleot poverty and ignorance as their parents it waa bent down to the earth and imbedded l 7 wh ere there are children to be educated 
before them; while many sons of men in high there. It then shot up again, but it is now that a family can often make a leisurely tour 
position rise superior even to their parents, forever deformed. The sun may shine, the through the continent, stopping for several 
The ebb and flow of the tide of human life, dewand the rain may fall, but the tree will m onths in the principal cities, spending the 
alternatel} lifting men to the crest of the wave straight. So bad habits, once fixed, gummer on t be Rhine, and the winter in Italy, 
...... , . . are hard things to root out. . , , ,,, , 
than that it had been left in his absence, for j 
the purpose of being repaired. 
Day after day did Thevenard return to his 
hs, seasons, even 
travels with his 
, . . .. ,. . , , . _ . , . Ilustration of the prevalence of this taste, even 
by pinning up the skirts of his frock coat m , , , ,, , » 
J m the highest and most respectable classes of 
such a way as to produce a very tolerable mu- „ , e . , , , ,. , 
. „ , . mi , . „ , , English society, let me mention that the eler- 
tation of a dress coat Ihe bwiss Guards who , . , ,, 
- , . x .. . , gyman w T ho accompanied the young nobleman 
stood at the entrance of the tribune, examined ® , , , ,. , ., , 
,. , , „ . , , I have already mentioned, was provided with 
him narrowly, and one of them even raised the ,. , . , .. , , , .. 
,. „ ,. , , , , , , n „ his bottle of Gogmac, to which he made foe- 
skirts of his coat and looked under. They x • -x , t . , , ... , , , . 
., ,. „ ,. . , ■ 1 quent visits, and which he politely placed at 
were evidently aware ot the i~use, but as the . . T 
a x my service, even urging it upon me, as I was 
external configuration of the garment was that J , . . „ ... ... .. _ A 
„ ’ , ,, , x a. x complainmg of a slight indisposition. But 
of a dress coat, they did not feel at liberty to , . , • • 
refuse him, and he was accordingly allowed to euou ° ot 111S £ 0SS1 P’ 
... i, . , ... , Your affectionate cousin, Minnie. 
pass, while a white-liaired, well-dressed, fine _ 
lookiug gentleman coming up soon after in an „ _ Tr 
undisguised frock coat, was rejected without ^ being ^ where her husband was, when 
merc y < he lay concealed for having been deeply con- 
Minnie. 
descent. This is not of necessity the case, for 
children innumerable live and die in the same 
position rise superior even to their parents. 
The ebb and flow of the tide of human life, 
alternatelj lifting men to the crest of the wave 
aud theu shaking them to the lowest level, 
demonstrates the folly of resting claims for 
consideration upon ancestral honors ; for the 
To be contemptible, is, in the world’s es¬ 
timation, almost worse than to be an offender 
sou of a peasant may become Fresideut, while 1 —to be mocked at, than to be denounced. 
summer on the Rhine, and the winter in Italy, 
at less expense than they could have lived re¬ 
spectably at home in the mean time. 
But the lively, dashing Yankee does not 
travel after any such fashion. He rushes from 
, -lj-xi x A Safe Hiding Hlace.— A noble lady, 
undisguised frock coat, was rejected without ^ beiug agked where her husband was, when 
mercy. be lay concealed for having been deeply con- 
Speaking of dress, I must tell you something cerned in a conspiracy, resolutely answered, “ I 
of the costume of these same Swiss guards, have hid him. This frank confession drew her 
which is as fantastic as that of a harlequin before the king, who told her, nothing but dis- 
„ , „ . tx. • . . , covering where her lord was concealed could 
fresh from the stage. It is attributed to Mi- save he r from torture, “And will that do, sir?” 
chael Angelo, like many other things, good, gaid the i ady . The king replied that he had 
bad and indifferent, which have need of the given his word for it “ Then," says she, “ I 
sanction of some great name to support them, have hid him in my heart there you 11 find 
The truth probably is that t was cop.ed from ^ tam( , d ^ the ki , s 
ancient Swiss costumes. YV e afterwards saw_ t _ 
historical pictures iu Switzerland which con- Tmg may be gaid of love> that if you strike 
tained personages similarly attired. But to ft 0 ut of the soul, life would be iusipid, and 
give you an idea of it—the whole dress is com- our beiug but half animated. 
