scenes that I had witnessed rose in strong a continual frown, with occasional twitches saying that he could drive his so far in one contrast-the mirthful wedding, the wagon of the muscles, indicating painful feelings, day that it would take two days to get him drives, the offering of wild flowers to the approaching agony. Sometimes he held back again!'-Detroit Spectator. stranger, unintermitting, simple courtesy of down his head and cast his eyes on the each to all; and it was scarcely credible that ground, and almost stopped, and then he these coutrasting scenes could both be exist-nerved himself with desperation, and walked ing in the same republic.-Miss Martineau.

Lost Camel.

on at rapid pace.

Why, my dear fellow, what the devil is the matter with you-have you lost all your friends?'

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LETTERS ABOUT HUDSON RIVER AND ITS VI

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Literary Emporium,' and now essentially the same except in name, was issued on Saturday last, and will be published weekly in the city of New-Haven, by Wm. Storer, Jun. at $2 per annum, in advance, number before us contains many good things and is or $2,50 at the expiration of three months. The almost wholly original. May our old friend under its new cognomen meet with success commensurate with its merits.

'Alas,' said we, 'here is a man suffering from the pressure-here is one whom the tightness A DERVISE was journeying alone in the of the times has pinched till adversity stares CINITY. A new and much improved edition of these popular letters has been recently issued by Hunt desert, when two merchants suddenly met him in the face, and he knows not what step and Co. New-York, 141 Nassau-street. They were fim: You have lost a camel,' said he to the to take next, poor man, perhaps he has a originally written for the American Traveler, in merchants. Indeed we have,' they replied. lovely and loving wife, reduced from affluence 1835, 1837, by Mr. Freeman Hunt, and have already • Was he not blind in his right eye, and lame to beggary-perhaps he has an interesting passed through two editions, the one now offered to in the left leg ?' said the dervise. He was,' family dependant upon his own exertions- the public being the third, with additions and engrareplied the merchants. 'Had he lost a front perhaps'-my reflections were interrupted by vings. As the author observes, 'they are plain, mattooth?' said the dervise. He had,' rejoin- the approach of an acquaintance of the gen hical, historical, statistical, and other matter, connectter-of-fact epistles; embracing a variety of geographed the merchants. And was he not loaded tleman whose distressed appearance exciteded with our noble river, and the flourishing villages with honey on one side, and wheat on the my interest. He walked up to him, took his on its borders;' and a spirit of candor and liberality, other?" Most certainly he was,' they re-hand with a hearty gripe, and in a voice which highly creditable, runs throughout the work. It isa plied; and as you have seen him so lately, accorded little with his friend's agonized neatly printed little volume, handsomely got up in cloth binding, and one that we can cheerfully, and marked him so particularly, you can, in countenance, asked, recommend, to the travelers in the numerous steamall probability, conduct us unto him.' My boats constantly passing and repassing our city, friends,' said the dervise, I have never seen as likely to prove a valuable and interesting comyour camel, nor ever heard of him, but from panion. A few copies of the above work may be you.' A pretty story, truly!' said the merhad at A. Stoddard's Bookstore. chants, but where are the jewels, which formed a part of his cargo ?' I have neither seen your jewels,' repeated the dervise, ⚫ nor your camel.' On this they seized his person, and forthwith hurried him before the ANECDOTE OF BURNS.-Burns paid little Cadi, where, on the strictest search, nothing deference to the artificial distinctions of socicould be found upon him, nor could any evi-ety. On his way to Leith one morning, he dence whatever be adduced to convict him, met a man in hodden-gray-a west country either of falsehood, or of theft. They were Farmer; he shook him earnestly by the hand then about to proceed against him as a sor- and stopped and conversed with him. All cerer, when the dervise, with great calmness, this was seen by a young Edinburgh blood, thus addressed the Court: I have been who took the Poet roundly to task for his much amused with your surprise, and own defect of taste. Why, you fantastic gomeril,' that there has been some ground for your said Burns, it was not the great coat, the suspicions; but I have lived long, and alone; Scone bonnet, and the Sanquhar boothose, I and I can find ample scope for observation, spoke to, but the man that was in them; and, even in a desert. I knew that I had crossed the man, sir, for true worth, would weigh you the track of a camel that had strayed from and me, and ten more such, down, any day. its owner, because I saw no mark of any hu- | Allan Cunningham's Life of Burns. man footstep on the same route; I knew the animal was blind in one eye, because it had cropped the herbage only on one side of its path; and I perceived that it was lame in one leg, from the faint impression which that particular foot had produced upon the sand; I concluded the animal had lost one tooth, because wherever it had grazed, a small tuft of herbage was left uninjured in the center of its bite: As to that which formed the burden of the beast the busy ants informed me that it was corn on the one side, and the clustering flies that it was honey on the other.'

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VOL. XIV.-[v. NEW SERIES.]

SELECT TALES.

Prize Tale. From the New-England Galaxy. May Martin, or the Money Diggers. A GREEN MOUNTAIN TALE, BY D. P. THOMPSON OF MONTPELIER, VT. [Continued.]. Ar the appointed hour, May repaired to the spot agreed on in the garden, and found her sturdy little guide already there patiently awaiting her arrival.

Ah, ha! Miss May,' said David, cautiously peering about-up to chalk after all! that's a brave one for a lady-I guesses all the afternoon as how you'd flummux when it come dark.'

'Not so easily frightened, David. Are you ready?-lead on then.'

On this, they silently forward across the fields and soon reached the woods. Before entering them, however, the boy, proposing a halt, mounting several tall stumps successively for obtaining an observation, and having at last succeeded, he returned to the side of his companion and observed

I sees a little twinkle up there once in a while there! I sees it from here now-here, look where I points-do you see it now?' Ah, yes, I did catch it then.'

some poor crazy vagabond, or else a brother
rogue of Gow; but at all events nothing more
than a man.'

NO. 4.

often occurring to rouse her bosom to resistance, and the thoughts of what must soon be her fate without a perseverance in I er plans, impelling her onward to action, bore up her courage through all, and tempered her usuaally mild spirit with an energy adequate to the trying emergency.

'O, I fears nothing for him; cause if he be the old one he turns to a man when he sees you Miss May, or else he clears out in hurry.

They at length arrived at the foot of the here steeply ascending mountain. David now again came to a halt for the purpose of ascertaining his bearings, and finding the most feasible place for climbing the ascent. After groping about awhile, he returned, and,

The boy now plunged into the woods, followed by his daring companion, and striking into the path, proceeded slowly and cautiously on to the foot of the mountains at some little distance from where the money diggers were assembling for their night operations. It was the same night we have already de-informing May that he had succeeded in findscribed as proving so exciting and fearful to ing the place where he intended to go up, he these enthusiasts in searching for the buried led her to the spot. mammon, we having found it most convenient, in describing their operations, to go forward of the events of the other part of our narrative."

Now, Miss May,' he said in a low, cautious tone, now for the tougher! I listens and just hears the diggers at their work-not a great ways off from here they are now-the mister, I guesses, has come down afore this; but if he aint, and we meets him, I hears him coming time enough, and when I gives three jerks of the cord, you must slink under a bush or something, and lie still as a mouse, and I does the same till he gets by. So now

Bless me, David, we havn't got to climb up here?'

The night was unusually dark, and the thick mass of the full grown foliage of the heavy overhanging forest completely shutting out the faint suffusions of the sky light, which was scarcely perceptible even in the open field, and adding a still deeper shade to the ordinary darkness, no common or unaccus- lets pull for it.' tomed hand could have succeeded in advan- Bless me!' said May, just being able to cing in the woods at all, much less in reach-discern the dark ontline of the steep which Well that's the place-about a half a mile ing any given point at a distance; but shrewd rose like the side of a house before her. off-I knows a cow path in the mountain- David, familiar with every peculiar tree, every but when we gets there, I knows but one way turn of the path, and every inequality of the to the cave-nation bad and steep too, Miss ground, and possessed of a vision uncommonly May, but I finds the way for all the dark-acute, carrying a long stick in his hand to apand here feel the end of this cord-I brings prise him of each interposing obstacle, while it for you to hang on to, so you don't get his bare feet informing him by the feel, of the lost in the bushes. And now, Miss May, first step's deviation from the slightly trod if you aint afeared I leads you to the spot-1 path, threaded the difficult way with surprising guesses that Mister has come down among accuracy, finding but little trouble for himself, the diggers by this time, for I watches and and kindly endeavoring, by removing every sees them going afore I comes for you-so limb or bush from the way and timely notifynow if the old man isn't there we finds a clearing her of every log or other obstacle to be run and no snakes.'

'David,' said May, not knowing how far the boy's hobgoblin fears might carry him, in case they met any one, and being aware how much depended on him in the adventure, you have very wrong notions about this old man, who has been seen about herc-he is either

surmounted, to aid his less practised com-
panion in her more embarrassed progress.

'Yes, no other way for it-but never mind, we goes it; and I tells you what, Miss May, you tie the end of the cord round you, like I've done-there now let them white bands work for their living-I seizes at the roots and bushes along up, and if you pulls me back, you must be stronger than that pesky old bear that grappled hold of my trowsers last summer, just as I springs and scrambles up a sappling to get out of the way of her.'

With this they commenced their laborious and difficult task of climbing up the mountain.

Sometimes the resolution of May for a moment wavered, and her heart almost misSlowly clambering from tree to tree and gave her at the boldness of her own under- rock to rock, our sturdy and active little taking and the difficulties of its accomplish-mountaineer, followed by his scarcely less ment; but a sense of her own wrongs, as agile and resolute companion, continued to

work his way several hundred feet up the al-with strong bark ropes confined at properate, leaving an opening of only a gentle rise most perpendicular ascent, till they came to a intervals to the sides to serve in lieu of rounds. up the mountain.-Here, safe from discovery, narrow level, beyond which an upright and Our heroine courageously mounted, and soon they sat down to watch the movements of the wall-like ledge interposed an insurmountable stood by the side of her companion on the inmates of the cave, the new addition, or front obstacle to their proceeding any further in top of the rock. Here they found another of which, was still in plain sight. the direction they had been pursuing. level terminating at a distance of two or three See that little streak of light through the Ah! I remembers this cute place,' whis-rods in another and still loftier ledge of rocks. side there, Miss May? Well there's where I pered David, as they both dropped down on After pulling up and carefully adjusting the gets my peep. Suppose now you creeps a mossy rock on reaching the summit ladder in its original position, David, propo-up and tries it, and I comes after you gets through sheer exhaustion from the severity sed, as from finding the ladder at the top, still.' of their struggles. remember this; we Gow might still be in the cave, to leave May are most there now-only go along a piece under a projecting cliff, and go round the on this level place till we comes to the end, point of the ledge which only intervened and then when we mounts another rock and between them and the cave, for the purpose just gets round a point of a ledge, there's the of reconnoitering the spot. Accordingly he Another moment and our heroine was cave no trouble but we finds it, cause see! noiselessly sunk away, and after a consid-gliding silently to the spot-another, and she there's more light now we've got above the erable absence, he returned, and creeping was breathlessly seeing and hearing all that tops of the trees down there below.' close up to May, he put his mouth to her ear was passing within. The two worthies were and whisperedseated on a rude bench made of a cleft log, Sure as guns, Miss May, they be there placed before a small fire built just without the entrance of the natural cave so as to afford the smoke a chance to escape through the opening left in the bark roof above.

Our adventurers again set forward along the scanty shelf towards the north, keeping as near to the ledgy barrier on the left as yet.' possible, as on the right, and often within a They repeated the other, with some yard of their feet, yawned the black and fear-agitation they! who? are there two of ful chasm of the precipice, here falling down them?' perpendicularly some hundred feet beneath them. They soon, however, safely reached the termination of their walk in this direction. For at this place, while the shelf along which, for nearly a hundred yards, they had now passed, considerably widened, a tall rock shot out boldly from the ledge on the left, forming a rectangular arena of several square rods of level surface, in the corner of which stood a small tree whose branches overtopped the ledge above, here uot more than ten feet in height.

there ?'

Why, I supposed all the time that he'd a fixed up some contrivance to get up and down, but I sees none. When Mr. Ashley and I come down, we gets up into the top of that tree; but you can't climb can you Miss May ?'

Yes the mister, and another oldish man who I almost thinks must be the old man himself; though for certain he aint got the same awful queer face on now that he had when I gets a peep at him one day in the woods. They've built out a sort of place with stakes and bark right afore the cave, so as to make it come all in one room; so I creeps up behind, and gets a look at 'em through the holes.'

6 Ah, ha!'mused May, this old man then wears a disguise; he is beyond all doubt an associate of Gow. But what is to be done now, David?'

I

'Can I do it without danger of being heard?' 'Yes, if you feels every place where you puts your foot down, to see that there's no dry bush or leaves to make a noise.'

'Let's see, to day is Thursday,' observed the elder, a man apparently about fifty, the first to break silence after May's arrival at her loop-hole. To-day is Thursday-next Tuesday evening brings your concern to a focus, hey?'

'Next Tuesday, my old boy, is the day that gives me as smart a little jade of a wife as ever handled a broomstick-together with all the appurtenances thereunto belonging, as my old dad's parchment used to run.'

Ay, ay, the appurtenances after division, remember! As to the wife, she should have been named last, she is but the incumbrance.'

Why as for that, Col, she is really so. smooth a piece, that I think I can stick to, and be quite husbandlike for a year or so; and by that time I intend to have all said appurtenances in the shape of cash in my pocket. After which I shall probably be ready for a little high life by way of adventures again.'

'There! Miss May,' said the little guide, when we gets up a top of this we are within a few rods of the place where the mister stays, Why I thinks we better creep round where as I now feels sure, cause I finds the twigs did, so as to be on the back side, cause I and bushes broke off along back there where expects the mister, and may be tother one, he brushes by in going and coming, and I comes this way soon now, to go down to the knows well enough nobody else comes to this diggers; and if they takes a light, they sees mortal place.' us, but if we goes round there, they won't go 'Yes, David, but how are we ever to get up that way for anything I guesses; and if they do, we can slink off in the bushes, for there's Having duly and impartially divided-' a clear run that way. So we better get round What a suspicious devil you are, Col! there and wait till they goes, or we gives it up.'|| Yes, yes, I am honest and honor bright in May at once falling in with this advice, our this business, depend on't.' adventurers proceeded with the utmost silence and caution round the projected point, and immediately found themselves directly in I never tried it, David, I believe, or at front of, and not twenty yards from the Come none of your threatening-I can least not lately; but is there no other way? entrance of the cavern. Voices were now dis- do as much even at that as you can, I am Stay a bit let's see a little,' replied the tinctly heard within and a portion of light esca-thinking. But as to this affair, I freely say boy. So saying and passing along the base ped through the narrow entrance was stopped you will be entitled to share the plunder, let of the ledge, he soon announced that he saw by setting a broad piece of bark upright on it be as much as it may; for you first started something projecting over the top of the rock the inner side before it. With a slight shud- the project and gave me the chance. But which he thought to be some kind of ladder. der May obeyed the motions of her guide, how, Col, did you happen to find out that the And now nimbly mounting the tree and jump-and they passed on keeping as great a dis-old man made such a will? You never told ing on to the rock, he proceeded to let down tance from the cave as the still continued the contrivance he had discovered which precipice on the right would safely permit proved to be a light ladder composed of two and soon reached a spot where the offset of poles distended at the ends by split sticks, the ledge forming the cave seemed to termin

Really! you well know how I can help myself, if you don't walk straight, my conscientious lad.'

me exactly I think.'

Why, hearing that the old man was confined, and all others there, who formerly knew me, dead or removed, I ventured to

must go-have you your disguise ready-the|| by the woodside-I knows him the minute he
phosphorus for the eyes and mouth of your gits his queer tother face on. Well, if I
mask? Well, then come on pretty soon- didn't think all the time he must be the old
get a good position in the bushes near, and one! But now-wheugh! he's no more devil
when I sing out-There's the money than I be.'
seize it'-then you-but you will know how
to manage.',

'I fear he is David, in wickedness.'

'O, he's as bad as the old one, may bebut what thinks you he's going to do, Miss May ?'

spend some months in town: and remaining there till after the old fellow popped off, when the subject of his family and estate was a good deal talked of, I happened one day to overhear a lawyer who drew the will telling a friend all the particulars. He said Frank had written home a penitent letter informing his father of his private marriage in the days With this, Gow, lighting a small pocket lanof his wild oats long before he went abroad, tern, with which both he and his associate and that though his wife died at the birth of seemed provided, left the cabin, and May, who I have learned their whole plot. You her first child, yet that child probably was sat trembling with apprehension lest he should were right in your suspicions. These delibstill living, having been left with some family come round the corner and discover her, erate villains are about to defraud these men, in the north part of New Hampshire, and soon, to her great relief, heard him let down whom they have duped with the idea of findwinding off by asking the old man's forgive-the ladder and descend. David, after Gow's ing a treasure, out of a large sum of money, ness, and hoping he would provide for his departure, came crawling to the side of his and are expecting to get hold of it to night. child, a daughter, he was told. On which companion, and now shared with her the I have also heard some very strange things the old man forgot all his temper-threw the crevice in observing the movements of the about myself, I think it must be-which I old will, cutting Frank off, into the fireplace. The old man, on being left alone, may sometime tell you. But now, David, let made a new one, giving him all his property soon sunk into a deep reverie, and sat so us proceed to the business for which we came except these legacies in case the girl was long in his mute and motionless abstraction-what I have been listening to had nearly alive. I afterwards went to the Register's that his silent and unsuspected observers driven it from my mind. If you will watch office myself, and, under some pretence or began to fear that he intended to remain, or at the point of rocks yonder, to give me other got a peep at the will and found it as that he would fall asleep, and thus defeat notice, should either of them return, I will I had heard. It was then, knowing Frank their purpose of searching the interior. At go in myself, and see what can be found. would come home from France as soon as last however, rousing up and shaking off his he heard of his father's death to take posses-seeming lethargy, he arose, went back into sion of his estate, I hunted you up and put the cave, and brought out the different articles you on this scheme so as to have all done of his disguise for the part he was about to before his return.' enact in the farce below. He then, taking up and fitting on a frightful looking mask, turning round, protruding his long neck forward, first on one side, then another, as if practising

And all shall be done, my precious old match-maker; but my very good friends the money diggers are by this time on the ground

The boy readily complying May now unhesitatingly entered the place just left by the unsuspecting foes of her happiness, who were little dreaming that while with such confidence of success, they were weaving the meshes of their toils for others, the least suspected of their intended victims, a poor unfriended girl had already fathomed their villainous designs,

below, and doubtless impatient for my com-attitudes and trying to hit on the most hide-and was rapidly preparing a mine soon and ing-I must be off. Let's see, how many of ous. your salt and water rusted dollars did we bury there?'

Five apiece, hey? Zounds! how the fellows will jump at the sight of 'em, if they are of domestic manufacture! that is, if my very worthy friend the devil, don't frighten 'em out of their senses.'

เ

Whengh!-whu-' went David, forcing out his breath in a sort of half whistle, and then suddenly checking himself, and relapsing into silence.

The old man next took from a little box and rubbed round the small outlets for the eyes and mouth what appeared to be a whitish substance, but which as the shade occasionally 'Yes, but you had better have heard to fell on the face, shone like fire. Then taking me, Gow, and put them off till the night be- off his coat, rolling his shirt sleeves up to his fore or after you are married. The fools, I shoulders and baring his neck, he drew some am afraid, will go and pass some of their dol-bright red ochre several times from ear to lars; and then we stand an even chance to get blown up before you bring your affair to a point.'

fatally to explode beneath their feet. On entering the cabin, May kindled a bright fire and proceeded to the search. Going at once into the interior of the rock, she came to a rude shelf on which was placed some articles of provision, among which was a part of a loaf of bread of her own baking, while beneath on the smooth stone floor, were ranged a plate or two, a few knives and forks, and the scanty utensils with which they prepared their food. Pausing a moment over these with womanly curiosity and criticism, she passed on and soon came across sundry tools, the use of ear, giving his throat the appearance of having which she at first was at a loss to understand. been cut across in a long bloody gash. After A few imperfectly formed dollars, however, which he put on an old sleeveless shirt, appa-laying near and now catching her eye, at once rently besmeared in spots with gore, and then surmounted his dress with a white horse hair wig rising stiff and bristly on the top of the head, like a tuft of porcupine quills, and flowing down in long snaky ringlets over his neck and shoulders below, making the whole as grotesque and hideous as well could be im- And she went on prying in vain into every agined. Having thus completed his equip-place and corner for the main object of her ment, he lit his lamp, and carefully raking up search, till she had nearly given up all hope the fire, departed to be ready for the perform- of success. Turning to take one look more

explained the mystery-they were a die and other implements for coining.

Now,' said she exultingly, well aware of the penalties of counterfeiting, Now at least I have him in my power-but that for a last resort.'

They wont pass it-our plan of secrecy, till they get fairly hold of the treasure, will prevent that; at least till I secure my treas-ance with which the reader has already been || however, before she went out of the door she ure, and the next day, under pretence of a made acquainted. short journey, I am off with my wife, you see; and you the same night as soon as you find me fairly buckled I suppose. But I

'Oh, lightning!' exclaims David, as soon as the receding footsteps of the man had died upon his ear, the very dogskin that I sees

espied a pocket inkstand and the corner of some writing paper protruding from a small opening or crevice in the rock over the fire, which was not observable from other parts