VOL. VI. PUBLISHED EVERY OTHER WEEK FOR THE SUBSCRIBERS то THE CONNECTICUT COURANT. HARTFORD, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1840. Poetry. PASSING UNDER THE ROD. I saw the young bride, in her beauty and pride, Bedecked in her snowy array, And the bright flush of joy mantled high on her cheek, And with woman's devotion she laid her fond heart And she anchored her hopes to this perishing earth, By the chain which her tenderness wove. But I saw when those heart strings were bleeding and torn, She had changed her white robes for the sables of grief, And her bloom for the paleness of wo! But the Healer was there, pouring balm on her heart, And wiping the tears from her eyes, And he strengthened the chain he had broken in twain, There had whispered a voice-'twas the voice of her God, I saw the young mother in tenderness bend O'er the couch of her slumbering boy. And she kissed the soft lips as they murmured her name, Oh! sweet as a rose-bud encircled with dew, So fresh and so bright to the mother he seemed, As he lay in his innocence there! But I saw when she gazed on the same lovely form, Pale as marble, and silent, and cold; But paler and colder her beautiful boy, But the Healer was there, who had smitten her heart, To allure her to heaven, he has placed it on high, There had whispered a voice-'twas the voice of her God, "I love thee, I love thee!-pass under the rod ! I saw when a father and mother had leaned On the arms of a dear cherished son, And the star in the future grew bright to their gaze, As they saw the proud place he had won; And the fast-coming evening of life promised fair, But I saw when they stood bending low o'er the grave, But the Healer was there, and his arms were around, And he showed them a star in the bright upper world- They had each heard a voice-'twas the voice of their God, "I love thee, I love thee !-pass under the rod !" From the Lady's Book. Oh! let them call him quickly, I shall not see to-morrow Lord, may I come to thee? My husband! art thou near me, 'Tis sudden-and the token Is fearful-" dust to dust," But oh! 'tis hard to leave thee, I would not break their slumber, And tell them that their mother To Him whose mercy bought them→ My failing heart would rather For thou hast many mansions NO. 22. she says to one of her correspondents; "and female ed ucation in the best families went no further than writing and arithmetic; in some few and rare instances, music and dancing." In her twentieth year, in October, 1764, she was married to Mr. John Adams. He was a young lawyer of rising reputation; but, so far were her high destinies in this union from being anticipated, that it ap pears the disparity of rank between the minister's daughter and the legal aspirant, presented some interruption to the course of that true love, which, for one reason or another, has never yet been known to run smooth. "The father of Mrs. Adams," we quote from the Memoir, "was a pious man, with something of that vein of humor, not uncommon among the clergy of New England, which ordinarily found such a field for exercise as is displayed in the pages of Cotton Mather. He was the father of three daughters, all of thein women of uncommon force of intellect, though the fortunes of two of them confined its influence to a sphere much more limited than that which fell to the lot of Mrs. Adams. It is an anecdote, told of Mr. Smith, that, upon the marriage of his eldest daughter [Mary,] he preached to his people from the text in the forty-second verse of the tenth chapter of Luke, And Mary has chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.' Two years elapsed and his second daughter, the subject of this notice, was about to marry John Adams, then a lawyer in good practice, when some disapprobation of the match appears to have manifested itself among a portion of his parishioners. The profession of law was, for a long period in the colonial history of Massachusetts, unknown; and, after circumstances called it forth, the prejudices of the inhabitants, who thought it a calling hardly honest, were arrayed against those who adopted it. There are many still living, who can remember how strong they remained, even down to the time of the adoption of the pres ent Federal Constitution; and the records of the General. Court, at its very last session, of 1840, will show that they have not quite disappeared, to this day. Besides this, the family of Mr. Adams, the son of a small farmer of the middle class in Braintree, was nought scarcely good enough to match with the minister's daughter, descended from so many shining lights of the colony. It is probable that Mr. Sraith was made aware of the opinions express ed amor g his people; for he is said, immediately after the, marr, age took place, to have replied to them with on, the text of which, in evident allusion to the against lawyers, was drawn from Luke ii. 33; For JOHN ADAMS, second President of the United St ates, John came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and died at the age of ninety-one, at the ancient sea, of 'nis ye say, He hath a devil.'"-Memoir, pp. xxxiv. xxxv, family in Quincy, Massachusetts, on the 4th da y of July, The first ten years of Mrs. Adams's married life were 1826, a half century from the day on which 'ae axed his passed in tranquil domestic happiness. In August, 1774, signature to the Declaration of Americar, Independence. her husband, entering on that course of distinguished Eight years before his death, after a union of fifty-four public service, which occupied him for nearly thirty years, he was bereaved of his wife, one of the illustrious years, repaired, as a delegate from Massachusetts, to the women of New Englaud, in that great day of its heroes General Congress, while she remained at home, a witness and heroines. The work before is is a small selection and sharer of the severe sufferings of Boston and its from her letters. Prefixed to them is a Memoir, which, neighborhood in the early period of the revolutionary while it is a beautiful specimen in that department of struggle. In the winter of 1777-8, having made in the writing, affords valuable illustration to the contents of interval a few short visits to his family during the recesses the volume. of Congress, Mr. Adams sailed for France, as one of the We will meet together there. My dear, my early lover I bless thee o'er and o'er- Miscellaneons Selections. -- FROM THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW. LETTERS OF MRS. ADAMS, the wife of John Adams. With h2 objection ser Mrs. Abigail Adams was the second daughter of the commissioners to negotiate a treaty with that power, and Rev. William Smith, the Congregational clergyman of remained abroad during the war, with the exception of a Weymouth, a village on the coast of Massachusetts Bay, few weeks in the autumn of the following year. In bordering upon Quincy, and about twelve miles from 1781, having been sent to London to negotiate a treaty Boston, Educated at a time when there was no public of commerce, Mrs. Adams joined him there, and was provision in the colonies for the instruction of females, introduced at court, the first female representative of her her opportunities for intellectual culture were only such country in the diplomatic circles. Mr. Adams returned as could be found in private reading, and the society of from Europe on the adoption of the Federal Constituher female friends. “I was never sent to any school," tion, and, having been elected Vice President, fixed his` winter residence for the sessions of Congress, first at hereabouts comes to me, to hear what accounts I have. who has kindly offered me part of his house. I cannot New York, and then at Philadelphia. When, with the I was so unlucky, as not to get the letter you wrote at compose myself to write any further at present. I will downfall of the Federal party in 1801, he was superseded New York. Capt. Beale forgot it, and left it behind. add more as I hear further. in the Presidency, he retired to finish his days at his We have a flying report here, with regard to New York, "Tuesday Afternoon. early home. The small property accumulated in his but cannot give any credit to it, as yet, that they have I have been so much agitated, that I have not been few years of professional practice, had been so judi- been engaged with the ships, which Gage sent there, and able to write since Sabbath day. When I say, that ten ciously administered by his wife during his devotion to had taken them, with great loss upon both sides. thousand reports are passing, vague and uncertain as the public duties, as to make the retreat of his declining years "Yesterday we had an account of three ships coming wind, I believe I speak the truth. I am not able to give the seat of an easy independence, and of a modest, but into Boston. I believe it is true, as there was a salute you any authentic account of last Saturday, but you will liberal hospitality. Mrs. Adams lived long enough to from the other ships, though I have not able been to learn not be destitute of intelligence. Colonel Palmer has see her eldest son employed in some of the highest public from whence they come. I suppose you have had an just sent me word, that he has an opportunity of contrusts, though not to witness his elevation to the chief account of the fire, which did much damage to the veyance. Incorrect as this scrawl will be, it shall go. I magistracy of the Union. warehouses, and added greatly to the distresses of the ardently pray, that you may be supported through the The selection from her correspondence before us con- inhabitants, whilst it continued. The bad conduct of arduous task you have before you. I wish I could consists of letters written at different times between the General Gaget was the means of its doing so much tradict the report of the Doctor's death; but it is a layears of 1761 and 1814. Most of them addressed to Mr. damage. mentable truth, and the tears of multitudes pay tribute Adams, two before their marriage, and others during his "Our house has been, upon this alarm, in the same to his memory; those favorite lines of Collins continabsence, in Congress, and abroad upon the public ser- scene of confusion, that it was upon the former. Sol-ually sound in my ears; vice. There are a few to her son, Mr. John Quincy diers coming in for a lodging, for breakfast, for supper, Adams, while a child and youth, and the rest, with a for drink, &c. Sometimes refugees from Boston, tired small number of exceptions, are to her sisters and nieces and fatigued, seek an asylum for a day, a night, a week. in New England. They are charming specimens of epis- You can hardly imagine how we live; yet tolary composition; and the last, by a matron of more than three score and ten, does not suffer in point of grace, -scarcely in point of vivacity,-in comparison with the first by a girl of seventeen. To the houseless child of want And, though our portions are but scant, We give them with good will.' We select, for our first extract, a letter to Mr. Adams of May 24th, 1755, five weeks after the battle of Lex-happiness, and that you may be directed into the wisest “My best wishes attend you, both for your health and ington and Concord. It conveys a vivid idea of the disand best measures for our safety, and the security of our turbed state of things, which continued throughout that posterity. I wish you were nearer to us; we know not year in the writer's neighborhood. what a day will bring forth, nor what distress one hour "I suppose you have had a formidable account of the may throw us into. Hitherto I have been able to mainalarm we had last Sunday morning. When I rose about tain a calmness and presence of mind, and hope I shall, six o'clock, I was told that the drums had been some let the exigency of the time be what it may. Adieu, time beating, and that three alarm guns were fired; that breakfast calls."-pp 32-35. The "DEAREST FRIEND, 66 Sunday, 18 June, 1775. How sleep the brave,' &c. "I must close, as the Deacon waits. I have not pretended to be particular with regard to what I have heard. because I know you will collect better intelligence. The spirits of the people are very good; the loss of Charlestown affects them no more than a drop of the bucket."pp. 39-41. Some of the movements, which terminated in the evacuation of Boston by the British troops, are thus described, while they were in progress and their object was unknown. 66 "Saturday Evening, 2 March, 1776. "I dare say there would be no difficulty in procuring a vote and instructions from all the Assemblies in New England for Independency. I most sincerely wish, that now, in the lucky moment, it might be done. "I have been kept in a continual state of anxiety and expectation ever since you left me. It has been said Weymouth bell had been ringing, and Mr. Weld's was Her woman's heart does not fail her in all these dis-to-morrow' and 'to-morrow' for this month, but when then ringing. I immediately sent off an express to know the occasion, and found the whole town in confusion. tresses. "Courage," she writes in the next letter, "I the dreadful to-morrow will be, I know not. But hark! know we have in abundance; and conduct, I hope we The house this instant shakes with the roar of cannon. Three sloops and one cutter had come out and dropped shall not want; but powder-where shall we get a suffi- I have been to the door and find it is a cannonade from anchor just below Great Hill. It was difficult to tell their designs; some supposed they were coming to Gercient supply? I wish we may not fail there." The fol- our army. Orders, I find, are come for all the remainmantown, others, to Weymouth; people, women, chil- lowing relates to the battle of Bunker's Hill, ing militia to repair to the lines Monday night by twelve dren, from the iron works came flocking down this way; o'clock. No sleep for me to-night. And if I cannot, every woman and child driven off from below my who have no guilt upon my soul with regard to this father's; my father's family flying. The Doctor is in The day,—perhaps, the decisive day,-is come, on canse, how shall the miserable wretches, who have great distress, as you may well imagine, for my aunt which the fate of America depends. My bursting heart been the procurers of this dreadful scene, and those had her bed thrown into a cart into which she got herself, must find vent at my pen. I have just heard, that our who are to be the actors, lie down with the load of guilt and ordered the boy to drive her to Bridgewater, which dear friend, Dr. Warren, is no more, but fell gloriously upon their souls? he did. The report was to them that three hundred had fighting for his country; saying, better to die honorably Sunday Evening, 3 March. landed, and were upon their march up into town. in the field, than ignominiously hang upon the gallows. "I went to bed after twelve, but got no rest; the canalarm flew like lightning, and men from all parts came Great is our loss. He has distinguished himself in every non continued firing, and my heart beat pace with them flocking down till two thousand were collected. But, it engagement, by his courage and fortitude, by anima- all night. We have had a pretty quiet day, but what seems, their expedition was to Grape Island, for Levett's ting the soldiers, and leading them on by his own exam- to-morrow will bring forth, God only knows. hay. There it was impossible to reach them, for want ple. A particular account of these dreadful, but I hope Monday Evening. of boats: but the sight of so many persons, and the glorious days will be transmitted you, no doubt, in the "Tolerably quiet. To-day the militia have all musterfiring at them, prevented their getting more than three exactest manner. ed, with three days' provision, and all are marched by tons of hay, though they had carted much more down "The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the three o'clock this afternoon, though their notice was no to the water. At last a lighter was mustered, and a sloop strong, but the God of Israel is he, that giveth strength longer ago than eight o'clock, Saturday. And now we from Hingham, which had six port-holes. Our men and power unto his people. Trust in him at all times, have scarcely a man, but our regular guards, either in eagerly jumped on board, and put off for the island. As ye people, pour out your hearts before him; God is a Weymouth, Hingham, Braintree, or Milton, and the soon as they perceived it, they decamped. Our people refuge for us.' The bat militia from the more remote towns are called in as sealanded upon the island, and in an instant set fire to the tle began upon our intrenchments upon Bunker's Hill, coast guards. Can you form to yourself an idea of our hay, which, with the barn, was soon consumed;-about Saturday morning about three o'clock, and has not ceased sensations? eighty tons it is said. yet, and it is now three o'clock Sabbath afternoon. "I have just returned from Penn's Hill, where I have "We expect soon to be in contiual alarms, till something It is expected they will come out over the Neck to-been sitting to hear the amazing roar of cannon, & from decisive takes place. We wait, with longing expectation, night, and a dreadful battle must ensue. Almighty God, whence I could see every shell which was thrown. The in hopes to hear the best accounts from you, with regard cover the heads of our countrymen, and be a shield to sound, I think, is one of the grandest in nature, and is to union and harmony, &c. We rejoice greatly on the our dear friends! How many have fallen, we know of the true species of the sublime. 'Tis now an incesarrival of Dr. Franklin, as he must certainly be able to not. The constant roar of the cannon is so distressing, sant roar; but O! the fatal ideas, which are connected inform you very particularly of the situation of affairs in that we cannot eat, drink, or sleep. May we be sup- with the sound! How many of our dear countrymen England. I wish you would, if you can get time, be as ported and sustained in the dreadful conflict. I shall must fall! particular as you may when you write. Every one tarry here till it is thought unsafe by my friends, and then I have secured myself a retreat at your brother's, "Dr. Cotton Tufts, of Weymouth, well known for many years, as a leading man in the County of Norfolk, had mar He had taken the engines under guard, in consequence ried a daughter of Colonel John Quincy's, and, therefore, a of a report, that the liberty party intended to fire the town. sister of Mrs. Adams's mother." See The Remembrance,' for 1775, pp. 95, 98." Charlestown is laid in ashes "Tuesday Morning. "I went to bed about twelve, and rose again a little after one. I could no more sleep, than if I had been in the engagement; the rattling of the windows, the jar of the house, the continual roar of twenty-four pounders, and the bursting of shells, give us such ideas, and realize head of a nation. And now, O Lord, my God, thou seven, looked a year or two older; scarcely of middle a scene to us of which we could form scarcely any hast made thy servant ruler over the people. Give unto height, square shouldered, and compactly built, his whole conception. About six this morning, there was quiet. him an understanding heart, that he may know how to frame denoted great strength and vigor, his face was I rejoiced in a few hours' calm. I hear we got possession go out and come in before this great people; that he broad, the eyes small and gray, his lips thin and well deof Dorchester hill last night; four thousand men upon may discern between good and bad. For who is able fined, and the general expression of his countenance was it to-day; lost but one man. The ships are all drawn to judge this thy so great a people?' were the words of highly prepossessing from his frank, fearless air, and round the town. To-night we shall realize a more ter- a royal sovereign; and not less applicable to him who is look of keen intelligence. He was dressed in a green rible scene still. I sometimes think I cannot stand it. invested with the chief magistracy of a nation, though uniform, faced with white, buff leather breeches, and I wish myself with you, out of hearing, as I cannot he wear not a crown, nor the robes of royalty. jack-boots; a three cornered hat lay on the table. The assist them. I hope to give you joy of Boston, even if "My thoughts and my meditations are with you, short tails of his coat stuck out on each side, probably it is in ruins, before I send this away. I am too much though personally absent; and my petitions to Heaven for convenience when on horseback, and his long straight agitated to write as I ought, and languid for want of are, that 'the things which make for peace may not be sword was brought forward between his knees, both rest."-pp. 88-90. hidden from your eyes.' My feelings are not those of hands resting on the pummel. Marechal Bannier, "MY DEAREST FRIEND, "The family are all retired to rest; the busy scenes of the day are over; a day which I wished to have devoted in a particular manner to my dearest friend; but company falling in prevented it, nor could I claim a moment until this silent watch of the night. vouches for its truth. Besides these military councillors, there were present the Chevalier Terlon, envoy of Louis XVI, and Count Uhlfeldt. An officer entered with despatches. The feelings of the exulting patriot were sometimes, pride or ostentation upon the occasion. They are Generals Wrangle, Steinboch, Counts Foot, De la Garit seems, no more than strong enough to control those solemnized by a sense of the obligations, the important die, and other veteran officers, sat round the table, all of of the lonely wife. We transcribe some records of the trusts, and numerons duties connected with it. That them trained up to military skill in the terrible school of frequent struggle between them, which occur in letters you may be enabled to discharge them with honor to the thirty years' war. addressed to Mr. Adams in the third year of his second yourself, with justice and impartiality to your country, absence in France. and with satisfaction to this great people, shall be the daily prayer of your A. A."* -pp. 428, 429. We are tempted to record an anecdote, which, besides! "Tis well,' said the King, his small eyes flashing with being related on good authority, has a verisimilitude which ardor; the frost holds, and Arensdoff reports the ice as It was natural, that those who were acquainted with Mrs. firm as iron. Gentlemen let us march.' Adams's extraordinary intelligence, and the profound interest 'Sire,' General Wrangle began, is the risk well conLook, (is there a dearer name than friend? Think which she took in public affairs, should exaggerate the influence exerted by her over her husband's mind. At the time sidered? A night march of fourteen thousand men, of it for me,) look to the date of this letter, and tell me, when Mr. Adams displeased his cabinet by sending the special cavalry and artillery included, over twenty-five miles of what are the thoughts which arise in your mind? Do mission to France, an anonymous writer in one of the Boston ice; a thaw, a sudden shift of the wind, may sink the accounted for the error by saying that newspapers you not recollect, that eighteen years have run their cir- lady was not with him." The piece was written by a distin- whole army, or at least, shut us up in the Island of Fucuit since we pledged our mutual faith to each other, guished friend of Hamilton and Pickering, and Mrs. Adamas nen until spring, and even then, our release would deand the hymeneal torch was lighted at the altar of Love? had intelligence respecting its authorship. It so chanced, pend on the chance of a naval victory. Is it prudent?' Yet, yet it burns with unabating fervor. Old Ocean has table of this gentleman, who supposed his incognito to be that not long afterward she dined with the President at the He stopped the King was listening to him with a not quenched it, nor old Time smothered it in this bosom. preserved. The conversation turned upon some more recent fixed look and peculiar smile. Wrangle shook his head measure of the President, which the host and his friends spoke It cheers me in the lonely hour; it comforts me even in the gloom which sometimes possesses my mind. "the old of with strong commendation. At the first pause Mrs. Adams and sat down. eyes ever could express like hers, said, "The old lady was From the Metropolitan Magazine of August, 1840. Ay,' muttered Charles, with a glance of triumph; It is well I know you,' said Charles, nodding care"It is, my friend, from the remembrance of the joys lessly to the general. Risk! there is risk, but not more I have lost, that the arrow of affliction is pointed. I rethan success is worth. The enemy have no defence but collect the untitled man, to whom I gave my heart, and, this fosse of the Little Belt; once pass it, and Funen is in the agony of recollection, when time and distance ours." present themselves together, wish he had never been 'Yes, sire,' added Count Uhlfeldt, and from the shore any other. Who shall give me back time? Who shall The enterprising character of Charles Gustavus, the of Funen, Zealand will be in sight; let the frost but hold, compensate to me those years I cannot recall? How Tenth, who succeeded to the Swedish throne, on the and Copenhagen falls.' dearly have I paid for a titled husband? Should I wish resignation of that extraordinary person Queen Christiayou less wise, that I might enjoy more happiness? Ina, created no small alarm in the rival state of Denmark. cannot find that in my heart. Yet Providence has wisely Urged on by their very fears, and stimulated besides by placed the real blessings of life within the reach of mod- the Dutch who dreaded the ascendency of Sweden, the sal, Charles rose. erate abilities; and he who is wiser than his neighbour Danes took advantage of the Polish war, in which All is favorable. Gentlemen, to your posts. Rememsees so much more to pity and lament, that I doubt Charles had engaged, to declare hostilities against him. ber the general order-that the cavalry lead their horses, whether the balance of happiness is in his scale. But that Prince, who inherited the military promptness and march wide; see the artillery do the same. Cheva"I feel a disposition to quarrel with a race of beings of his uncle, the Great Gustavus Adolphus, marched lier, you will accompany me. He bowed formally to who have cut me off, in the midst of my days, from the instantly for Holstein, defeated the Danes in every en- the right and left, and walked straight out of the room, only society I delighted in. Yet no man liveth for gagement, overrun the whole of Jutland, and, at the close followed by Terlon. himself,' says an authority I will not dispute. Let me of the year 1657, his army of fourteen thousand veteran Two hours after midnight, the troops began their feardraw satisfaction from this source, and, instead of mur- troops lay on the shore of the Little Belt, divided from the ful night march over a frozen sea. It was a clear starry muring and repining at my lot, consider it in a more Isle of Funen only by twenty miles of water. Here, at night; the snow lay a foot deep, and threw a ghastly, pleasing view. Let me suppose, that the same gracious least the Danes hoped for breathing time; the Swedish unnatural glare on the light uniforms and steel arms of Being, who first smiled upon our union and blessed us fleet could not put to sea until spring, and even then the Swedes. As each company or squadron advanced in each other, endowed my friend with powers and talents their own naval resources, with the aid of a few ships upon the ice, the next marched down to the shore, haltfor the benefit of mankind, and give him a willing mind to from Holland, would be sufficient to baffle the enemy. ing for a few minutes to allow an interval between them; improve them for the service of his country. You have But these expectations were wholly disappointed; a all was done with the cool discipline of veteran soldiers; obtained honor and reputation at home and abroad.—rigorous frost set in, of such unexampled severity, that no confusion, no noise, nothing but the word of comO! may not au inglorious peace wither the laurels you the Little Belt was frozen over, and a bridge of ice span- mand, the creak of artillery wheels, or the rattling of have won."-pp. 168-170. ned the hitherto impassable barrier. Charles immediately pikes and muskets, to announce the simultaneous move. conceived the daring enterprise of marching the whole ments of so many thousand men. When the last files On the 8th day of February, 1797, Mr. Adams, as army over the ice, and waited impatiently for the hour had left the shore, the King stood watching their advance President of the Senate, was to count the votes of the when he might bid his legions 'forward.' with great interest; the heavy crushing sound grew less electoral colleges, and announce himself President elect It was midnight, when a council of war was sitting in and less distinct; the separate divisions seemed to gather of the United States. If we may trust our heads or an old fashioned chateau, where the king had taken up into one solid mass, its size diminishing every instant, until hearts, few things finer can be read than the following his quarters. The room had a bare and barrack like ap- his gallant army, viewed by that 'disastrous twiligh letter, addressed to him from Quincy on that day. One pearance, the furniture was scanty and rude; there were dwindled into a shadowy indistinguishable is half ready to say, that to be allied to such a wife was not even chairs enough for the whole party,one of the offi- only to be traced by the dark track it lef to be qualified for high place and great actions. cers occupying a deal box, while another had taken up a The cold was so intense that wine a "The sun is dressed in brightest beams, precarious position on the summit of a pile of knapsacks. hard, and whenever the slightes, A table of pine boards, covered with maps, papers, and the dreary waste, even the And may it prove an auspicious prelude to each en-writing materials, stood in the centre, at one end of which an ague struck girl, suing season. You have this day to declare yourself sat Charles himself. He was, at that time about thirty-] God help the poor soldier who quits the rank to To give thy honors to the day.' # # Charles from his reverie. Monsieur le Chevalier,' he replied, my Swedes will not quit their ranks; and if there be danger, at least we will share it with them. Come.' night!' exclaimed the Chevalier Terlon, wrapping his guard halted to await the advance of the centre columns. | nexions, ample fortune, youth, health, repute, and fur pelisse closer around him. The remark roused These, however, were still an hour's march in the rear," troops of friends," found life without employment so and the King's impatient temper, aggravated by the con-"weary, flat, stale, and unprofitable"-one dull, daily stant crashing of the ice in front, prompted him to change routine of rising, dressing, eating, drinking, sleepinghis plan of attack. An express was sent to Wrangle to that he preferred death by his own hand, to its longer push on with the cavalry of the right wing; Colonel endurance. Something of the feeling which precipita Sledges drawn by three horses abreast, were in wait- Arendorf with part of the van, was ordered to manoeuvre ted the fate of this wretched suicide, must have been exing; they entered, and bearing to the left, followed in in his present position, so as to occupy the attention of perienced by every man who has had the misfortune the broad path beaten by the troops. the enemy, while Charles himself, with the remainder of to live in this world without any thing in the world to The trampling of so many men and horses had half the Finnish horse, made a detour upon the left. The do. I hold it, therefore, to be of the last importance to melted the snow, and the sledges went splashing on movements of the troops in the front deceived the Danes; adopt an occupation, though I have nothing to say with through a half liquid, half solid consistence, like the their fire redoubled, and by the greater elevation of their respect to a choice of a profession, except that it should chaos of the fiend; hollows in the ice, filled with water guns, the balls, instead of passing clear through the ice. be such, as one will probably be satisfied with after it is two feet deep, would set the horses aside, and make the shattered it far and wide in every direction. A squadron made. slight vehicles waver to and fro, throwing the cold snow of forty men incautiously approaching with rage, a shot Some difference will always exist in the degree of conwater sheer over the shivering travellers; sudden blasts fell right among them, the ice cracked to an immense dis-sideration which various occupations enjoy, owing to loaded with snowdrift and powdered ice, made the dri-tance with a noise like thunder, and the men and horses the unequal degrees of skill and intelligence required vers cringe, and forced their shaggy cattle to snort and flung into the yawning gull, struggled fiercely with by them; but true ambition would rather impart honor shake their manes, and thrust their heads beneath each each other, until the crowd of living things kicked to one's profession, than seek to drive respectability from others shoulder. As they neared the marching columns, trampled, or suffocated into a helpless writhing it. Our country is fortunately exempt from those castes one straggler only was seen, raking in a pool with the mass, sank heavily down beneath the waters. A which separate society elsewhere into distinct compartshout from the Danes followed, but the triumph was ments, to each of which a peculiar occupation or pur. stock of his musket. My cartouche box, sire,' he shouted, in reply to the short; scouts from either flank brought intelligence of suit, is by law or custom assigned. Here all professions, King's impatient hail. the landing of the Swedes, and the Scottish officer in trades, and callings are open. The only limitation is Hold on to the sledge, comrade," said Charles "and command, the veteran Major Henderson, immediately imposed by mental or physical inability-and one strikkeep your rank, though you should have nothing to fight drew off his men, and fell back upon a farm-house and ing and important benefit of the liberal education you with but your teeth-hold on. Bravely done, La Gar- wind-mill, about a mile in his rear. His troops consist- have received, is that it has made you freemen in the die!" he called to the general in command of the infant- ing of a few companies of regular infantry and some most extensive sense; for, qualified by it, as you are to ry, who was marching in the rear on foot like a common armed peasants, on being surrounded by the Swedes, enter upon any professionsoldier. There was a stir in the ranks, as the king drove gave up their arms as prisoners of war. "The world is all before you, where to choose." through; the word passed from mouth to mouth, and Daylight, the grey, cheerless dawn of winter, rose on A man of cultivated mind, and real virtue, can never the men drew up their knapsacks with redoubled vigor, a strange scene. Groups of dismounted troopers had have his lustre soiled by any honest vocation, well purbut the Swedes are a silent race, and there was no cheer. gathered round the smouldering fires, each with the bridle The sledges now spread on all sides, keeping each a on his arm, while the jaded horses stood behind, with sued. It is indeed far from being a disadvantage, to hundred yards from the other, for they had reached the drooping necks and dull eye, as weary as the riders. possess abilities superior to the requisition of one's mid channel, and were in the very jaws of danger. Now The columns of infantry were just mounting the shore calling. By the proper exertion of these, he is sure of and then fearful sounds rose, booming on the still night with slow but steady pace; the men, pale and haggard benefit it may confer. A young painter, having attracted rising to distinction in his pursuit, and of reaping all the air, as if the ice had suddenly rent to an immeasurable from cold and fatigue, marched or halted mechanically, Sir Walter Scott's notice by some pictures he had prodistance. Rough jagged masses strewed the surface, at the word of command; they neither spoke nor cheered, duced in his apprenticeship, was inclined, on the expiraand the dead gloom of winter no longer whitened over but as each company was dismissed, some made for the by light reflected from the level snow, darkened into a fires already burning, some tried to kindle others, while dismal scowl. The hoof prints of the cavalry which led the greater part threw themselves down upon the ground the van were not yet effaced, serving as a sort of guide, overcome by an irresistible torpor. Far away making and the King and the chevalier were followed hard upon their advance, stretched a belt of sodden snow, its hue the track, when a shout close ahead startled them; the of reddish brown contrasting powerfully with the white next instant a mounted trooper seized the reins, and surface it traversed on either side. Small parties of men whirled the horses half round. dragging a field-piece, or a tumbrel, stragglers mounted "How now, fellow?" said Charles, starting up. or on foot, horses without riders, and broken sledges, “Ah, sire,” cried the man, recognizing his voice; were scattered over the waste, while here and there a ❝ another step and you are lost. Five of our troop went dead soldier lay frozen as he slept in his passage through study the science of his profession, has produced a down here, and the captain posted me to warn the rear. the ice-king's realms. The ice here away is rotten for two hundred yards and more." YOUNG MEN. Scott-Excellence in profession. BY HON. A. L. HAYNES. tion of his indentures, to turn his back on the humble is eminent friend with a piece he had commissioned profession to which he had been bred; but, waiting upon to paint, received this salutary advice: that he should apply himself to the improvement of his profession, as a much more lucrative field of exertion, instead of struggling with the difficulties that he must be sure to meet, for want of sufficient patrimony, in following the higher walks of art. The individual to whom this counsel was given, having accordingly turned his talents to highly commended work on the laws of harmonious coloring; and instead of being a third or second rate artist, trembling with nervous apprehension about the position in which a picture may be hung at an exhibition, is really affecting his prospects in life-is the master of a large establishment, giving employment to a great num A loud crash upon the left, a shriek, shouts of help, Regular Employment—-Occupations—Advice of Sir Walter and a desperate plunging, cut short the trooper's report; the king and the chevaliers leaped from the sledge, and made for the spot with all speed, but in vain; there was Regular employment is the price of happiness; and ber of meu. nothing to be seen except a chasm in the ice, and the the first step in general, after taking leave of our alma A more illustrious example is furnished by the life of human beings who had fallen, though warm with life but mater, is the adoption of a profession. No matter how Scotland's greatest man" himself. When he saw his a few minutes before, were already drifted dead and bountifully Fortune may have showered her gifts, some literary pre-eminence endangered by the declining popcold beneath the frozen covering of the sea. settled occupation is essential to real enjoyment. ularity of his poetical works, and especially by the "Mon brave," said Charles to the trooper, "take Without this, the mind, like an idle sword, is corroded appearance of Lord Byron as a rival, he with that good these," throwing him a cloak and a flash; "keep good by its own rust. Who has ever known a perfectly indosense in which he so much excelled, resolved to abandon watch to-night, to morrow you shall hear from me.' lent, that was not a miserable man?-There is in this the bright field of poesy for the humbler region of 10Once more the word was 'forward' and sledge after country no class of men of fortune, whose only care. mance. The consequence was, that he became more sledge swept by, while the stout soldier taking a long pull in life is to kill time and squander money; and who, popular in that career than he had ever been as a poeti at the flash, and wrapping his cloak around him, tramped associating together, may keep each other in countenance, and, having distanced all competition, erected there the back and forward on his dreary post with the wakeful though they cannot purchase contentment. eye and measured tread of a sentinel. "Vain, idle, delicate, in thoughtless case, Reserving woes for age, their prime they spend, All wretched, helpless, in the evil days, At six o'clock the Danish fires were seen by the Fin. most noble monument to his fame. These are instances in which ambition, guided by judgment, has exhibited its best fruits, both in relation to the individual and to the public. I refrain from the attempt to lay down any rule for the choice of a profession, not only because it might be a presumptuous interferance with determinations already adopted, or the wishes of friends which ought not to be disregarded, but because I deem it of less consequence what the choice may be, than that a choice should be made (what higher point of view. We live in an age distin- I have already expressed the opinion, which all allow and pursued in the right spirit. Excellence in one's art guished for great benevolent exertion, in which the to be correct, that our security for the duration of the of calling, is the first requirement of professional duty. affluentare consecrating the means they possess by endow-free institutions which bless our country, depends upon The disposition to excel, may arise from a calculation of ing colleges and academies, by uniting to build churches, the habits of virtue and the prevalence of knowledge profit or a desire of accumulation; a motive which is and support the cause of religion, and by establishing and of education. Knowledge does not comprise all honest, and if the object be personal independence, is Athenæums, Lyceums, and all the other modes of popu- which is contained in the larger term of education. The altogether laudable. It may arise from a desire of dis-lar instruction. This is all well; it is admirable; it augurs feelings are to be disciplined-the passions are to be retinction or a love of glory, which is a sentiment that well for the prospect of ensuing generations. But I strained-true and worthy motives are to be inspireddeserves our favor, for it has unquestionably been produc- have sometimes thought that there is a point of view a profound religious feeling is to be instilled, and pure tive of some of the best and noblest actions recorded in in which government is to be considered-I mean in its morality inculcated under all circumstances. All this is history. It is commonly found in union with a generous power and in its duty, to augment the morals of the comprised in education. Mothers who are faithful to enthusiasm, which will not rest satisfied with a medi- community, and to inspire it with just sentiments of this great duty, will tell their children that neither in ocrity of exertion, which keeps the mind always fresh, religion, which is too often overlooked. A popular political nor in any other concerns of life, can man ever and active, and vigorous, and exhibits the evidences of government, is more powerful than any other influence withdraw himself from the perpetual obligations of conimprovement to the latest period of life. It is reported (and I have sometimes feared that all other influences science and of duty that in the very act, whether pubof the celebrated Mr. Wirt, who possessed this fine put together) in its action on the morals of the com- lic or private, he incurs a just responsibility; and that spirit in an eminent degree, that some of his last pro-munity for good or for evil. Its example, its tone, in no condition is he warranted in trifling with important fessional efforts were superior to any of his previous whether of respect or disrespect to moral obligation, is rights and obligations. They will impress upon their performances; and this was observable, not only in the most important to human happiness; because it is among children the truth, that the exercise of the elective fransubstance of his addresses, but even in the finish and those things which most affect the political morals of chise is a social duty, of as solemn a nature as man can decoration of the style. I know not how others may be mankind, and hence their general morals also. I advert be called to perform; that a man may not innocently affected, but to me nothing appears more admirable, to this, because there has been put forth in modern times trifle with his vote; that every free elector is a trustee than this progressive excellence in advanced age. It is the false maxim that there is one morality for politics as well for others as himself; and that every man and a splendid triumph of mind over matter, and points un- and another morality for other things; that in their every measure he supports, has an important bearing erringly to our immortal destination. political conduct to their opponents, men may say and on the interests of others, as well as on his own. It is Every one should have constantly in view a standard do that which they would never think of saying or doing in the inculcation of high and pure morals such as these, of merit in his profession, and should stimulate his ex- in the personal relations of private life. There has been that in a free Republic, woman performs her sacred ertions to realize it in his own performances. Let such a openly announced a maxim which I consider as the very duty, and fulfils her destiny. The French, as you know, standard be as perfect as it may-the beau ideal of pro- concrete of false morality, which declares that "all is are remarkable for their fondness for sententious phrases, fessional excellence; for no axiom is more just than that fair in politics." If a man speaks falsely or calumniously in which much meaning is condensed into a small space. all models should be perfect, though man remains im- of his neighbor, and is reproached for the offence, the I noticed lately, on the title page of one of the books of perfect, that in striving to reach what is impossible, ready excuse is this-it was in relation to public and popular instruction in France, this motto: 'Pour instruche may attain to what is uncommon. Thus, by furnish- political matters, I cherished no personal ill-will what- tion on the heads of the people; you owe them that ing an example of superior skill and ability, by useful ever against that individual, but quite the contrary; I baptism." And certainly, if there be any duty which improvements in the practice of his art, or by enlarging spoke of my adversary merely as a political man. In may be described by a reference to that great institute the boundaries of the science connected with it, he best my opinion, the day is coming when falsehood will stand of religion, a duty approaching it in importance, perhaps discharges that debt which every man owes to his pro- for falsehood, and calumny will be treated as a breach next to it in obligation, it is this. fession. of the commandment, whether it be committed political- I know you hardly expect me to address you on the From the Richmond Whig. ly or in the concerns of private life. It is by the pro- political topics of the day. You read enough-you ADDRESS OF MR. WEBSTER, TO THE mulgation of sound morals in the community, and more hear quite enough on those subjects. You expect me especially by the training and instruction of the young, only to meet you, and to tender my profound thanks for Mr.Webster having signified a willingness, since he was that woman performs her part towards the preservation this marked proof of your regard, and will kindly reunable, from the shortness of his stay, to pay his respects of a free government. It is now generally admitted ceive the assurances with which I tender to you, on partto the ladies of Richmond, individually, to meet and ad- that public liberty, the perpetuity of a free constitution, ing, my affectionate respects and best wishes. dress them in a body, the Log Cabin erected by the Whigs rests on the virtue and intelligence of the community LADIES OF RICHMOND. of the city was chosen as the place of meeting, and accord- which enjoys it. How is that virtue to be inspired, and CHINESE FEMALES. ingly a fair assemblage was there collected on Wednesday how is that intelligence to be communicated? Bona- The following is a part of a letter from Dr. Parker of morning; when our distinguished visitant was intro- parte once asked Madame de Stael in what manner he Cauton, addressed to one of his friends in New Haven, duced to them with a few appropriate remarks by Mr. could most promote the happiness of France. Her and published in the New Haven RecordLyons. reply is full of political wisdom. She said, 'instruct the You will naturally infer that there is a great variety of Mr. Webster thereupon addressed the interesting au-mothers of the French people.' Because the mothers character, and in a country so extensive and a class so ditory collected before him, nearly in the following terms: are the affectionate and effective teachers of the human numerous, a wide diversity of circumstances or condiLADIES-I am very sure I owe the pleasure I now race. The mother begins this process of training with tion in life; and the different writers may have faithfully enjoy to your kind disposition, which has given me the the infant in her arms. It is she who directs, so to speak, described some of these. I do not know the author of opportunity to present my thanks and my respects to its first mental and spiritual pulsations. She conducts ancient or modern times, who had given a fair represenyou thus collectively, since the shortness of my stay in it along the impressive years of childhood and youth; tation of the whole. For convenience we may divide the city does not allow me the happiness of calling upon and hopes to deliver it to the rough contests and tu- them into three divisions. 1. Lower classes of females. you severally and individually. And, in the first place, multuons scenes of life, armed by those good principles 2. Middling classes. 3. Higher classes. Under the first I wish to express to you my deep and hearty thanks, as which her child has first received from maternal care division may be classed boat women, house maids and I have endeavored to do to your fathers, your husbands and love. foot servants. There is no approach to refinement and your brothers, for the unbounded hospitality I If we draw within the circle of our contemplation the among the female boat population, or even to tidiness, have received ever since I came among you. It is mothers of a civilized nation, what do we see? We if we except the boats themselves. These are scrubbed registered, I assure you, on a grateful heart in characters behold so many artificers working, not on frail and per- very clean once in seven days or oftener, and the unof an enduring nature. The rough contests of the ishable matter, but on the immortal mind, moulding and painted boards are kept very white. Probably not one political world are not suited to the dignity and to the fashioning beings who are to exist forever. We applaud in five hundred of this class can read at all. To row delicacy of your sex; but you possess the intelligence the artist whose skill and genius present the mimic man their boat, cook their food, and take care of their children, to know how much of that happiness which you are upon the canvas-we admire and celebrate the sculptor is nearly the sum of their knowledge and extent of their entitled to hope for, both for yourselves and for your who works out that same image in enduring marble- care. children, depends on the right administration of govern- but how insignificant are these achievements, though From their being long accustomed to muscular exerment, and a proper tone of public morals. That is a the highest and the fairest in all the departments of art, cise, their limbs become proportionately large. Their subject on which the moral perceptions of woman are in comparison with the great vocation of human mothers! stature is low, seldom over four feet and a half, and both quicker and juster than those of the other sex. I They work not upon the canvas that shall fail, or the many not more than three and a half. Their feet are do not speak of that administration of government marble that shall crumble into dust-but upon mind, never compressed; they sometimes wear shoes-seldom whose object is merely the protection of industry, the upon spirit, which is to last forever, and which is to bear, stockings, and in the coldest weather are often seen barepreservation of civil liberty and the securing to enter- for good or evil, throughout its duration, the impress of foot. Ordinarily they wear but two garments; large and prise its due reward. I speak of government in a some-a mother's plastic hand. loose pantaletts coming just below the knees, and a large |