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NO. 56. moon’s PHASES.
K FEBRUARY.
. New Moon, 6th day, 5h. 21m after , rim Quarter. 14th day, 0h. 45m mom. 0 Full Moon. 22d day. 2h. 32m morn.
MAI LS.
The Mails by the Southern route to Be. tleqsti. Cape Travel“. 'I'ryun River. are made upeverylionday morning at It) o’clock. l'stn. Mas-:2, Courier.
The Eastern Mails to Bay Fortune, Fair- gcld, Meant Pleasant, Lot 41, St. Margarets. St. Peters, South—every \Vednesday morn- ing at to o’clock—Par. FBEHAN, Courier.
The Western Mails to Bedeque, Cascum- pec.(7aveudislt. I'Igmont Ilay, Lot I6, New Glasgow, New London, Park Corner. I'ort Ilillfl’rinCe Town, St. Eleonora, 'l‘ignish, Traveller's Ilcst —c\er_\"l‘hursda_v morning .it “o'clock—RICHARD BAGNALL, Courier.
The Southern Mai's to George Town- Wednesd‘. ' and Saturday mornings at 8 o'- clock. 'I‘o Belfast, Murray IIiirbour. Vernon River, “'bi:e Sands—every Saturday at‘)‘ o‘clock, s. M .-—S.uw 31. LAKE, Courier.
_ For FLA n TALE s."
MY COUSIN AND MYSELF.
Coxcavnzn.
My happiness was destroyed, and lgave way to tits ol'despondency, in one of which, perfectly careless of what might be my future destiny, I galloppcd to the American camp. and entered the Scl‘t‘it‘c, with a Lien- tenant’s cominision. But a few days
, had elapsed before we had a consider- '
able engagement. I went into it with the ferocity of a bull-dog, looking hither and thither for my enemy; but Ifoutzd him not. I wishedto wreak my pentoup anger on his head, on equal terms. Squadron after squadron were levelled in the dust; and when the roar of the artillery lad died away, and the smoke had rolled elf, the grottnd was spread \titli bleeding ItntIiPs, and “groan on groan salute attr willing ears.” Still they returned to the charge—and when the sun set iii the west, un- willing to give tip the contest,we en- camprd en the ground, withinsiglit of each othcr,to renew the battle on the marrow. Guards were placed, camp fzres lighted, and soon all was quiet.
It was about twelve o’clock. I had tossed on my bed for hours, but could not sleep. Whenever my eyes Would close in a gentle slumber, the form of Lieutenant Sandfctrd would flare at me, with that bitter lip curl- "1! Ion my face. I rose and walked 0'“ N} the open air. I said it was midnight. The night was one of great splendor. The moon was at lel‘dlfilgbt, and she sat, unclonded, amid a constellation of stars, throw- ‘l'gallond of light on the battle- teld,givir.g it an unearthly brightness. A.” far as :he eye could take in the "8". the ground was unbroken by ""‘flqbill, while at the extremities 0 l '3 lltie ofvision were spread the snoumhite tents of the belligerents. h d", ’l’at‘e between was covered with ° '98 of the dead and dying; and "9" "Id anon the death-groan of amalPOOr wreteb would come faintly hm“: ear. Allelse, save the heavy n a?! of the multitude ot sleepers,
' emessnred tread of the sen-
. on th ' wndwhetr weary rounds, was
I became so intent upon my own‘l I have travelled by sea and land— iho":hl8. thatl new not where my ‘ have visited foreign Countries, and Will! was leading me. Striking my plunged into scenes of excitement fotit against a substance which near. and gaiety—to flee from my own me- ly threw me down. I looked and. mory. But it would come back and started back. It was the body of a bring before my eyes, with increased pious officer, who had belonged to vividness, all my evil deeds. I my own company. He lay ttpon his. sought to drown it in the intoxicating back.with the tnoon shining full upon draught; but when I lifted the cup to his blanched features, while the blood} my lips, I saw in its red depths the oozed from a wound in his breast.—,' form ofSandford. They may talk of His eyes were wide open, staring up“ future torment, and even embitter
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wards at the sky, the sightless balls' protruding from their sockets. It seemed as though they were trying to , pierce the vast chaos of space, and' trace the passage of his spirit in it as it took its flight above. I shud- dered—and turning into the thick; wood that flanked the grotind, stroll-l ed leisurely along a bridle-path that l led through it.
I know not how far, or how long I had walked, when I heard the sound' ioflioofs coming in the opposite di-' ; rcction. Stepping in the shadow of ’ a large tree, I waited in silence.— As the horseman drew near, he raised his head, and I saw that it was Sand- ford—no doubt on his return from a visit to Julia Vincent. ‘
‘ Now,’ thought I, ' thy evil geniv us has served me a goud turn at last.’ ,
He came up swiftly, btit ere hei had passed, one hand grasped his; bridle, sod another his throatu—l With a curse. I wrenclied him from t the saddle,and flung him to the earth. lIe seized me,and struggled manfully! to regain his feet—but Ipitssessed, the advantage, and in a moment pin- ned hint to the ground. Placing my 3 gknee ttpon him, I drew his swrirdl (being without my own) from the; sheath. He begged me not to inur- : der him in cold blood—to give him a’ chance at least, for his life, on equal terms. But such was not my purpose. I scowled at him, and, smiling cold- lv, passed the weapon into his body. He shrieked and struggled; but I withdrew it, and stabbed him again and again. Then rising, stand over him,with my arms folded, and watch- ed his expiring efforts, until ltis jaw dropped, and his limbs stiffened.— And then I left him—a. prey to the elements and the carrion-bird.
Although considerable excitement was caused by the murder of Sand- ford, in the camp, suspicion never glanced at me: and I thought the deed buried in oblivion. But ah! i it stood out in my heart, bright and; glaring, and like the canker-Worml has been gnawing at my vitals everi since.
I thought, now, that no obstacle? existed between myself and my cou- , sin, and hoped ere long to regain my 5 former influence. But the horrid death ofhcr lover had turned back I her life-blood in its channels. and al- §ready the color had left her coun- 'tenaoce, her form had lost its elas- éticity and buoyancy, and
l ‘ Consumption, like a worm i’ the bad, ; I’ed on her damask cheek.’
lShe regarded me ever after with a :jatmdiced eye, as though a percepti- , ble odour of the black deed hung a- : round me. The very messures which ‘ I took to gain my end defeated it, and rendered my life miserable. I saw her droop, day by day, like a blasted flower—one whom too rude
.ing a single stride? lcan be made to
the life by anticipation; but there is no punishment so great as a guilty conscience, and the searings, which is ever killing, but never kills.
'I‘Il I". GA'I‘II I“. It ER.
\VoNDens or SCIENCE. —Wbat
mere assertion will make any mant believe, that in one
second oftimc, in one beat of the pendulum of a clock, a ray of light travels over I92,00J miles, and would perform the tour of the world in about'tlze same time that -.it requires to wink with our eyelids, and in much less than a swift runner occupies in ink- \Vliat mortal believe without de- monstration, that the sun is alumst a million times larger than the earth? and that, althozign‘so remote trom us that a cannon bail fired directly to- wards it and maintaining its full speed, Would be twenty years in reaching it. it yet affects the earth by its attraction in an inappreciable instant of time? a closeness ofiininu of which we can form but a feeble and totally inadequate idea, by com- aring it to arty material Connection; since the communication of an im- ulse to such a distance, by any sn- lid intermedium we are acquainted with, Would require, not moments, but whole years; and when with pain and difficulty we have strained our imagination to conceive a distance 5i vast, a force. so intense and penc-
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dently adapted to call the most pow- erful feelings into exercise.
" \Vhy were you born deaf and, dumb, when I can hear and speak?"
“ Never,” says an ‘eye witness, “ shall I forget the look of resigna- tion which sat upon his countenance, as he again took the chalk and wrote—-
-‘ Even so, Father, for it seemed good in thy sight." '
Srnsuortt or rite At.i.tcnon'.-i Jaws—A friend—one of the party engaged—has communicated to us the following narrative, which can- not fail to prove interesting to our sporting readersz-In the latter end of August last, tour officers—Lieu- tenant Bill andtheIIon. Mr Foley, of the Cambrian, and Lientenants Vansittart und Pliayi'e, of the Ser- pent—were elephant Shooting near the river Cotair, l') Ceylon. In wading a shallow Mr. Vansittart cauie suddenly on an alligator, and fired one barrel into his shoulder, at it distanCc ofnot more then 3 yards: the brute turning round,reccived the con- tents of another dowu his throats Thinking him (lisabletl,Mr. Vansittart crept up behind him to thrust a can- (can (I; clutsse into the Soft part of his throat, btit before he could effect his purpose his antagonist had turned round, and made at him. With con- ~Edcrnblo presence ol'mitid the sports- m Ill raved himself by thrusting his gun dmvn the animal’s throat and
dispatched hint with his knife. Ci removing the gun one barrel was
found to be complct-z'y bitten through, and the other to present several deep indcritiuns. 'I‘he. alligator was eight feet.—Bombay Times.
The Law Magazine relates an anecdote ot'Sergeant Davy, a distin- guished lawyer iii the time of Lord Mansfield—that being once called to ,acoount by his brethren on the wes-
Hating. ll'We me Will “lat “18 one tern circuit, for disgracing‘ the profes- dtyindles to an insetistblo point and Lsion by accepting silver from a client.
the other is unfelt at the meanest ot'l
the" fixed stars from the mere effect
he replied—‘1 took silver because I Could not get gold; but I took every
of their remoteness, while among‘sixpence the fellow had in the world those very stars are some whose ac- , —nnd I hope you don’t call that dis- tital splendor exceeds by many bun-{gracing the profession.’
dred times that of the sun itself—al-
though we may ml deny “"3 it‘lll’ 0“ NERVOUS .»\ Frecnoss —An im- the assertion, we cannot but feel the , Pressm" made on one part M- u“,
‘ keenest curiosity to know how such ; may will om," Pmdupe a “woman
. v- ' . . things were ever made aim—bu John : (Hum, elsewhere, a, a (“8mm 5mm
Herschel.
ltbe original seat of the disease, and
. abreath had withered in the heyday
ofher life, and she sank quietly into i the tomb. \my peace for ever.
With her was buried all came into the world to save sinners.- A third was then proposed, evi~ - i
BEAUI‘IFUL ANI;CDOTE.-A happier illustration of the wonderful charac- ter of the Bible, and the facility with which even a child may anstverthe greatest ofquestions, and solve the sublitnest of mysteries, was perhaps never giver. than tit an examination ofa (leafaud dumb institution some years ago in London.
A little boy was asked, in writing, who made the World?
He tonk the chalk and wrote on- derneath the words—
“ In the beginning, God created the. Heavens and the. earth.”
The clergyman tbco inquired in a sitriilarmuimer --
” \be did Jesus Christ come into the world?
A smile ofgratitude. rested on the countenance of the little fellow, as he wrote—-
“ This is a worthy saying, worthy of all acceptation, that Jesus Christ
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n IOI‘y;
-where no such obvious explanation of the fact presents itself. A dis— .ease in the liver produces a pain in the right shoulder; a disease in the heart produces a pain in the back. The late Dr. \Volliston was accus- tomed to relate the followingt~IIe ate some ice-cream after dinner. which his stomach seemed incapable of digesting. Some time afterwards, when be had left the diunertablo to go to the drawing room, he found himself lame from aviolent pain in one ankle. Suddenly he became sick: the ice-cream rejected from the. stomach, and this was tollowed by an instantaneous relief of the pain in the foot. -
. There is no selfishness where-there is a wife and family; and the house is lighted up by mutual charities;
leverytbing achieved for them is ric-
ererytbiug endured fortbem a
triumph.