queenly ornaments, and we may be proud to Pocahontas died in the honor of his descent. the twenty-second year of her age.-Sketches of Virginia. her name. POCAHONTAS. WOULDN'T MARRY A MECHANIC. A MAN commenced visiting a young woman and appeared to be well pleased. One evening he called quite late, which led the girl to enquire where he had been. "I have been to work to-night." "Do you work for a living ? ” enquired the astonished girl. "Certainly," replied the young man, “I am a mechanic." "My brother does not work, and I dislike the name of a mechanic," and she turned up her pretty little nose. EVERY part of the brief but glorious life of Pocahontas is calculated to produce a thrill of admiration, and to reflect the highest honor on The most memorable event of her life is thus recorded: After a long consultation among the Indians, the fate of Captain Smith, who was the leader of the first colony in Virginia, was decided. The conclave resumed their silent gravity-two huge stones were placed near the water's edge. Smith That was the last time he visited the young was lashed to them and his head was laid woman. He is now a wealthy man, and has down as a preparation for beating out his one of the best of women for his wife. The brains with war-clubs. Powhatan raised the young lady who disliked the name of a mefatal instrument, and the savage multitude, chanic, is now the wife of a miserable foolwith their blood-stained weapons, stood near a regular vagrant about grog-shops—and she their king, silently waiting the prisoner's last a poor miserable girl, is obliged to take in moment. But Smith was not destined thus to washing to support herself and children. perish. Pocahontas, the beloved daughter of You, who dislike the name of a mechanic, the king, rushed forward, fell upon her knees, whose brothers do nothing but loaf and dress, and, with tears and entreaties, prayed that the beware how you treat young men who work victim might be spared. The royal savage for a living. Far better discard the well-fed rejected her suit, and commanded her to leave pauper, with all his rings, jewelry, and braSmith to his fate. Grown frantic at the fail- zen pomposity, and take to your affections the ure of her supplications, Pocahontas threw callous-handed, intelligent and industrious meher arms about Smith and laid her head upon chanic. Thousands have bitterly regretted his, her raven hair falling about his neck and their folly, who turned their backs on honest shoulders, declaring she would perish with, or industry. A few years of bitter experience save him. The Indians gasped for breath, have taught them a severe lesson. In this fearing that Powhatan would slay his child country no man or woman should be respectfor taking such a deep interest in the fate of ed, in our thinking, who will not work bodily one he considered the deadliest foe. But hu- or mentally, and who curl their lips with man nature is the same everywhere; the war- scorn, when introduced to hard working club dropped from the monarch's hand-his brow relaxed, his heart softened, and, as he raised his brave daughter to his bosom, and kissed her forehead, he reversed his decree and directed Smith to be set at liberty! Whether the regard of this glorious girl for Smith ever reached the feeling of love is not known. THE death of the eccentric German professNo favor was expected in return, "I ask no- or, Dr. Troost, of Tennessee, recently occurthing of Captain Smith," said she in an inter-red. His passion for animals of the serpent view she afterwards had with him in England, kind was well known, and we find it illustrated "in recompense for what I have done, but the in this anecdote, related by Sir Charles boon of living in his memory." John Ran- Lyell : men. DR. TROOST AND HIS SNAKES. dolph was a lineal descendant of this noble Everything of the serpent kind he has a woman, and was wont to pride himself upon particular faucy for, and has always a number of them that he has tamed-in his pockets or under his waistcoat. To loll back in his rocking chair, te talk about geology, and pat the head of a large snake when twining itself about his neck, is to him supreme felicity. Every year, in the vacation, he makes an excursion to the hills, and I was told that upon one of these occasions, being taken up by the stage, which had several members of Congress in it, going to Washington, the learned doctor took his seat on the top with a large basket, the lid of which was not over and above well secured. Near to this basket sat a Baptist preacher, on his way to a great public immersion. His Reverence, awakening from a reverie he had fallen into, beheld to his unutterable horror, two rattlesnakes raise their fearful heads out of the basket, and immediately precipitated upon the driver, who, almost knocked off his seat, no sooner became acquainted with the character of his ophidian outside passengers, than he jumped upon the ground, with the reigns in his hands, and was followed instanter by the preacher. The "insides," as soon as they learned what was going on, immediately became "outsides," and nobody was left but the Doctor and rattlesnakes on top. But the Doctor, not entering into the general alarm, quietly placed his great coat over the basket, and tied it down with his handkerchief, which, when he had done, he said, "Gentlemen, only don't let dese poor dings pite you, and dey won't hoort you!" For the Casket. JERUSALEM. Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Exalted once to Heaven, How canst thou madly, blindly slight The grace sweet Pity's given? Dark is the Heaven above thee, Dark is the earth beneath, Dark is thy doom-wake, pray, While yet the sword is in its sheath. Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Thy sons so proud and gay, Within their gorgeous palaces, Forgot the toils of day. Ah! sleep, deceiver, brings them dreams, You'll strike your harp with angel hands, Delenda est Carthage falls, A tyrant's terror, and the steel, The widow's sigh, the orphan's tears, The man of sin, his dreadful doom, Such themes true poesy inspire, For the Casket. WOMAN'S RIGHTS. WE hear much of woman's rights in this day of invention, and many of our fair ones speak, with flashing eyes and heaving hearts, of the oppression of woman, ground down until she is a mere cypher, a slave, not allowed to vote, or fill any noble station in the high places of her country's legislative halls. Call ye it oppression to be allowed the privilege of training the immortal mind of the prattler at your knee? Perhaps that flaxenhaired boy may hold the destiny of a nation at his command. I call it a weighty officea responsible one-one that I would tremble at, and pray for wisdom from above to guide me in rightly discharging. Would you be prepared to still the wailings of a sick and suffering babe, in those gentle tones that a mother alone can breathe in the ear to soothe and pacify its cries, on returning from the excitement of an election? Women are more easily excited than men-would not your excited frame send the hot, feverish blood throbing and burning, to the brain of that little one? Has there never been a time when you have seen the strong man's life dependant npon your untiring watchfulness and gentle nursing? when at your hand only, and at your loving command alone, he would summon up his en-UNIVERSITY. Yes, a College founded by ergy and take the nauseous drug? Think you Congress, and belonging to the whole nation! the strong, hard hand of man could soothe What Senator, what statesman ever conferred that fevered head to rest? At your gentle a greater obligation on his country, thar. he touch it becomes calm, and a lord of creation's who introduced into Congress the bill by haughty head lies pillowed as sweetly on your which the foundations of that Institution were breast as ever your baby-girl's was. laid? His name will be immortal. As long Could you, in occupying a seat in Congress, as that temple of science and freedom shall find time to instil principles of gentleness, for-stand, pointing its lofty spires to Heaven, and bearance and patience, in your daughters' summoning five thousand of the choicest sons minds? I ween not-and yet these are the of America, to come and receive within its gems that shine brightest in a maiden's dow- halls the best education the world can afford, ry. Would your sons ever look back to the so long his name will be held in grateful redays of their sunny childhood, when, per-membrance. A college of five thousand stuhaps, all else had been forgotten, they would dents-the best and most promising sons of recall a mother's gentle pleadings and fervent Columbia! Talk of your Oxford or your prayers, and feel that when every other cord Cambridge? How no those old aristocratic that bound them to virtue and honor had been institutions fade into insignificance, when sundered, that a mother's love still remained, compared with the great University of our to lead the wanderer back to peace and hap-own glorious Republic. They educate their piness? Sisters, you have your sphere-it hundreds-the sons of the nobility, and the it is in your own homes, by your own fire- wealthy. But our American University, side, however humble it may be. CHARIS. NATIONAL UNIVERSITY. BY THE EDITOR. without money and without price, educates its thousands! They are not the sons of the rich or the great, but they are chosen on account of their merit and superior promise, from all the States of the Union. And the number which each State is entitled to educate, is according to their representation in Congress. The sum of one Million Dollars THE nineteenth century we suppose to is annually appropriated out of the National have passed away, and that we live at the Treasury, for the expense of the Institution. close of it. What progress in know- And this is sufficient to pay for the clothing, edge, in arts, and improvement has been the board, the tuition, and all other expenses, made! One hundred millions of inhabitants in the education of five thousand of the most people the fifty States that constitute the great promising sons of America They are arranAmerican Confederacy. A net-work of rail-ged in six different classes. A year is spent roads and Telegraph ic wires unite and hold in each class, and the members of the several hem together, stretching from the Atlantic classes are distinguished from one another by slope to the Pacific, and from the northern their uniforms. The principles of civil govakes to the Gulf of Mexico. The sun never ernment are taught as a science. They are hone upon a happier people, or a more mag-educated together. There are none rich, none ificent empire. It is the country of Wash- poor, among them. ngton, and my own native land. It is the home of the free. Millions of the oppressed rom all other lands, have sought and found in asylum here. Their children, and their hildren's children have grown up under the ostering care of our free and generous instiutions, and been melted and moulded into Would that the Institute we have described, he one common, great and happy people. had an existence in reality, and not in the The sight that is spread out before the eye, is fond hopes of our heart only. Our wonder ne that warms the imagination and fires the long has been, that the Congress of the States atriot's heart with rapture. But there is no has not provided an institution of learning, on bject on which the mind rests with so much a magnificent scale, which should be emphaomplacency and pride, as the NATIONAL tically the property of the nation. It can be They are dressed alike, and educated at the public expense. They learn to feel that they are brothers, and the sons of one common country. And the education they receive in common, is fitting to prepare them to act together as the future Legislators and Statesmen of America. done; it ought to be done; and, we further dices which are the principal danger to the say, it will be done, at no very distant day. stability of our free institutions. Let South Some future Congress will have the glory of Carolina or Georgia educate her sons at home it, if the present has not. Such an Institution in Southern schools, and let New England do would be an honor to man, as well as the glo- the same, and let the State of Minesota or Cary of our nation, and would afford a guaranty lifornia do the same, and when they meet in for the perpetuity of the Union, which nothing the halls of the National' Council, they will be else could give. southern men, and northern men, and western 1. We say first, that the measure is practi- men, possessed of all the prejudices of the narcable. The nation has already a school at row districts where they were born and eduWest Point, to educate our soldiers. And if cated. But if we would have statesmen of appropriations may be made by Congress for large and liberal views, and free from sectional the training of those who are to fight our bat- prejudices—let them be educated together-let tles, why should not even a more liberal pro-them be nursed on the same lap-let them be vision be made for the training of those who nourished by the same breast-let them be are to be the judges and legislators of the brought up as the sons of the Republic, and nation? Is the thorough training of our fu- not of a particular State or district, and we ture statesmen and members of Congress, a should hear no more of the threats to dissolve matter of less consequence than the proper the Union, in the halls of Congress. The intraining of our military men? Several mil-fluence of such an institution would strengthlions are annually expended out of the public en the bonds of the Union more than a thousand Treasury, although it is a time of profound railways. What member of Congress who had peace, for the support of military affairs. felt in his youth the warm beatings of the naOne million per annum would endow and tion's great heart, could so far forget his alma maintain a National University, at which five mater, as to desire the destruction of that gothousand young men could be entirely sup-vernmentby whose bounty he had been educaported during the whole course of their edu-ed? Could he wish to see that glorious institucation. This sum would cover the expense ution blotted out, where he had formed the of their board, clothing, tuition, and every dearest and best associations of his life? other necessary item. And in what way Sincerely do we hope that the suggestions could the same amount be more wisely ex-we have now thrown out, will be taken up by pended? The National exchequer will soon some of our men who occupy places of trust, be running over, and our Senators employed, and that we may see the day when, at some perhaps, in debating what use the funds shall central place, perhaps near the banks of the be put to. father of waters, through which a national 2. An institution projected on such a scale highway shall pass from the Atlantic to the as that which we now contemplate, would Pacific, a University shall be erected, which attract the admiration of the world. We can- may be the glory of the nation, and throw into not conceive of one human institution that the shade all the literary institutions of the promises more for the good of mankind and Old World. of the nation. A band of five thousand youth, collected from all the States of this great Republic, dressed in uniform, and educated at the public expense, could not but feel that they were the sons of the Republic. They would be practically schooled into the principles of republican equality. The number of youth which the States would be entitled to send to such an institution, might be determined by their respective representations in Congress, and each State Legislature would, of course, annually select those among its own youth, who were most deserving to be made the beneficiaries of the Republic. 3. A thorough education in a National University, would remove those sectional preju 66 PRAYER RECONCILED TO GOD'S WILL. How does your ladyship," said the famous Lord Bolingbroke to Lady Huntingdon, "re concile prayer to God for particular blessings with absolute resignation to the Divine Will?" "Very easily," answered she," just as if I was to offer a petition to a monarch, of whose kindness and wisdom I have the highest opinion. In such a case my language would be: 'I wish you to bestow on me such a favor; but your majesty knows better than I, how far it would be agreeable to you, or right in itself self with humbly presenting my petition, and to grant my desire; I therefore content myleave the event of it entirely to you.""> |