TALES, TRAVELS, HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, POETRY,

AND A GREAT VARIETY OF

MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES.

VOLUME XV.

HARTFORD:

PUBLISHED BY BOSWELL & FAXON.

1850.

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PUBLISHED

O, terribly proud was Miss Mac Bride,
Proud of her beauty, and proud of her pride,
That wouldn't have borne dissection;
Proud of her wit, and proud of her walk,
Proud of her teeth, aud proud of her talk,
Proud of "knowing cheese from chalk,"
On a very alight inspection!

Proud abroad, and proud at home,
Proud wherever she chanced to come,-
When she was glad and when she was glum;

Proud as the head of a Saracen

Over the door of a tippling shop!
Proud as a duchess, proud as a fop,
"Proud as a boy with a bran new top."

Proud beyond comparison !

It seems a singular thing to say,
But her very senses led her astray
Respecting all humility;

In sooth, her dull, auricular drum

Could find in Humble only a "hum,"
And heard no sound of "gentle" come,
In talking about gentility.

What Lowly meant she didn't know,
For she always avoided "every thing low,"
With care the most punctilious;

And queerer still, the audible sound
Of "super-silly" she had never found
In the adjective supercilious!

THE DYING CHRISTIAN.

A holy calm was on his brow,
And peaceful was his breath,
And sweetly o'er his features stole
A smile, a look divine;

He spoke the language of his soul-
"My Master's time is mine."

HARTFORD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1850.

NO. 1.

boys; never be too distant, or too busy, or too selfish to listen to every thing they have to tell of the day's studies and duties, pleasures and perplexities. They should interest themselves in all the innocent amusements

of their children, assist them in the preparation of their toys, amuse them by reading such things as will interest as well as instruct, and frolic and play with them as they require. There is no lessening of dignity in all this; no diminution of the child's respect, and all this may be made consistent with the strictest applica tion of stern unyielding discipline, when the occasion requires it. The respect of the child is not lost by this conduct. The respect of the child is lost by any inconsistency in the character of the parents, by any sudden, unreasonable outbreak of temper, by any habit that the child recognizes to be wrong, or by any reproach cast upon one parent by the other; but it is never lost by efforts to make home pleasant.

Parents generally are fully awake to the necessity of instruction; they are abundantly successful in such an application of the stern principles of discipline, as to produce ready obedience, the bond slave of fear; but still they do not always find that such seeds of submission and good order have been implanted in the dispositions of their children, as will grow up, in after life What a delightful thing it is, in after life, for that son a harvest of respectability, of usefulness and of virtue. to look back upon such a home. How does its cheerThe great difficulty, in almost every case of failure ing recollection come back to him amid the dry and has been, that they have based obedience on the disci- dusty march through the desert of life, like a refreshing pline of fear, and not on the principles of love. They wind from the coolness of Paradise, to strengthen his have kept themselves aloof from their sons; never en- wearied muscles, to confirm his struggling virtue, and couraging their confidence, or fostering their affections, to point him to a future Home of Rest of which it was the or fanning the flame of love. They have never emblem. How delightful and how dear is the memnmade home pleasant to them; hence, as soon as they could break away, by stealth, or by force, from theory of such a parent, connected with the early happiness of every day's existence in youth, associated with every parental roof, they have sought their pleasures elserecollection of childish joys and youthful pleasures.— where; placed their confidence on untried companions; Long after the grey locks of the parents shall have been wasted their affections upon the world which belong to home and its inmates; grown up callous, iron-hearted, pressed under the cold clods of the valley, shall there remain fresh and invigorating to the soul, the rememuninfluenced by the gentler and more tender motives brance of all that they accomplished in the earliest formathat govern the virtuous heart, through the holy sus- tion of character, and of all that they did TO MAKE HOME ceptibilities of a pure and unsophisticated nature.

PLEASANT.

LETTERS FROM SOUTH AMERICA-NO. III.

The son can be made to feel, if the father does his
duty and feels the subject strongly, that HOME is the
most delightful spot on earth; all his affections, welling From New York to Chagres-Havana-New Or

up from his innocent heart, may here pour themselves
out, a copious stream; every thing that forms the root
and basis of the humane and tender sensibilities of a
life of virtue hereafter, may be here created, fostered,
strengthened, pruned from exuberant and romantic
tendencies; and the whole character grow up to be be-
loved and to be useful.

their contaminations behind them.

leans.

LIMA, 11th Nov. 1849.

Having supplied myself with books and other compagnons des voyage, among which was a pouche or cloak of India rubber, which covered me completely, and was designed as a perfect protection from the incessant rains which during the Fall months deluge the Isthmus, I embarked on the 27th of August on board There are so many evils, daily, encountered in the the Steamer Falcon, Lieut. Hartstene of the U. S. Navy, intercourse of school, and through the influence of street Commander. The lines were cast off, and amid, tears, companions, which the boy cannot avoid, that he needs smiles and half-spoken adieus, we swept out into the the quiet, balmy, healthful influence of Home, to check bay of New York, followed by the cheers of the multitheir force over his character; and, with such a home, tudes assembled, to witness the departure of friends. they will slide off from his heart and leave none of In all this there was something inexpressibly solemn, reminding me of the picture in the "Pilgrim's Progress' Let but the boy feel that the evening at home is pleas- of the departure of Christiana and her children, the anter than the street row, or the noisy and vulgar other pilgrims waiting on the shore. The skies never companions he will there encounter, and the parent will were bluer, the sun never shone brighter, the sea never have an influence over his destiny, that will preserve wore a more inviting aspect, than on this memhim from all those evils that result from street and night orable day; consequently, our spirits rose, yielding to The afternoon and associations. It is not merely the command of the pa- the soothing influences of nature. rent that his son shall not leave the house in the evening evening were quiet, and as pleasant as a landsman of that produces the effect on the character. The body the most timid soul could desire, the moon shining in may be absent from the street, but the mind is there, the evening very brightly in her second quarter. My partaking in all the vulgar talk, the riotous play, the supper I ate with enjoyment, the Capt. obscurely hintincipient mischief; hearing and gradually growing cal- ing that it might be the last I would eat for some days; lous to the oath and the falsehood. But the home it--an intimation that I fully understood during the next self must be made so pleasant by the parents that the son few days. I slept tolerably, conscious of an increased will have no desire to stray beyond its sacred precincts, more delightful than any spot on earth beside. To acquire this power, the parents must commence early in life. They must encourage the confidence of their

and increasing motion in the vessel, and at daybreak I was thoroughly awake, my head throbbing with pain. After much exertion, by a Dombey effort I succeeded in reaching the deck, but finding it impossible to remain