dismiss it without insisting on its moral

It conveys a rebuke to many of my fair readers. For, less wise than the bees, they are seeking artificial joys, such as fashion, pleasure and pride, while the real, substantial joy offered by piety lie neglected and strown like the dry leaves of a perished rose.

A NIGHT OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. Indescribable and innumerable were the horrors of that fearful power that revolu tionized unhappy France. The night of the 20th of August, 1792-the first night in which the decree of domiciliary visits was executed, is thus described by Peltier.' He says:

of his sinews. Apprehension is stronger than pain. Men tremble, but they do not shed tears; the heart shivers, the eye is dull, and the breast contracted. Women on this occasion display prodigies of tenderness and intrepidity. It was by them that most of the men were concealed. It was one o'clock in the morning when the domiciliary visits began. Patrols, consisting of sixty pikemen, were in every street. The nocturnal tumult of so many armed men; the incessant knocks to make people open their doors; the crash of those that were burst off their hinges; and the continued uproar and revelling which took place throughout the night in all the public houses, formed a picture which will never be effaced from my memory.'

THE DAUGHTER.-The daughter is a mother's stay. In her, centre all the hopes and joys of a maternal heart. She surveys her with honest pride, for there she sees her second self. She paints the future with delight, for when her head is grey and her brow wrinkled, that daughter is to be her support, her consolation: when she is sick, hers is the bosom where she hopes to recline when she dies, hers is the hand to wipe the cold death drop from her brow, and hers the tongue to soothe her passage to the abode of the dead. Woe to that daughter who disappoints those hopes by ingratitude; she will break a heart, be despised by men and cursed by the Almighty!

'Let the reader fancy to himself a vast metropolis, the streets of which were a few days before alive with the concourse of carriages and with citizens constantly passing and repassing-let him fancy to himself, I say, streets so populous and so animated suddenly struck with the dead silence of the grave before sunset on a fine summer evening. All the shops are shut; every body retires to the interior of his house, trembling for life and property; all are in fearful expectation of the events of a night in which even the efforts of despair are not likely to afford the least resource to any individual. The sole object of the domiciliary visits, it is pretended, is to search for arms; yet the barriers are shut and guarded with the strictest vigilance, and boats are stationed on the river, at regular distances, filled with armed men.— Every one supposes himself to be informed against. Every where persons and property are put into concealment. Every where are heard the interrupted sounds of the muffled hammer with cautious knock completing the hiding place. Roofs, garrets, sinks, chimneys-all are just the same to fear, incapable of calculating any risk. One man, squeezed up behind the wainscot, which has been nailed back on him, seems to form a part of the wall; another is suffocated with fear and heat between two mattresses; a third rolled up in a cask,|| bookstore,Lowell,and at Saxton & Pierce's, loses all sense of existence in the tension Boston.

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Or streaks the humblest flower that grows, But heaven has placed it there;.

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Te my Zain, what of her?” impaentranced the Sheik.

as been carried off!

Se e darest not say it—you triwine-t cannot be so.'

my lord, it is even as thy servant

The poor chieftain, weighed down by "The heavy accumulation of evils, fell to the floor in a swoon, and it was feared te bad totally deserted from him, such a jength of time elec ere he was restored to his senses. A: length he slowraised himself or as tect, and stag vering to the news: scher, asked wild

Know you where daughter issay, I entrent weak one single teering word, ent my last prayer shall tiess thee. Mix, where is my daughter, my Leila, my chiê-my dearest child?

The soldier sorrowfly shook his head as he said, 'I fear it wi. be some time ere you meet. Know that she is alive, and for thy sake. I hope well-the rude nature of the soldier was melted at the sor~ws of the old warrior, and a tear of pity trembled in his eyelids.

May Allah bless thee for saying she e ave, san the old Sheik, his fiery spirbrosen by the calamities of that night; her i om vet see my dear ost Leila, In that eventful nighe fair girl The simo set (ho the gas and sat in reams: and as she lay retoget

on a red of aparats, and her •w head resting as of rose ars jer over figure was fected on verse, which keerror, herfeet: bere sorbed * me was picture e berself tmter must be in, from them in murs, when to her utmost Se s reflected in the evne, a tal tæmt ran with fair flowing ms sine military uniform, ASTORALITERATE IN INee of leaning over THE UNC he tree eyes rivetted WTI I FEZ W Deggio za zer countenance. Eer first aquise was 2 fy, her second 15 BUTELIN LVIDñ, and her third to remain they where she was: the handsome phantom, after remaining motionless a

few seconds, departed, and when Leila again raised her eyes, she was alone.Hastily she arose, and was traversing her steps towards the palace, in order to tell her father what she had seen, when to her great consternation she beheld every avenue to the house locked up by men in the same garb, though less rich than that worn by the stranger she had seen; hoping to escape unnoticed, she hastily turned into one of the most thickly planted paths, but was soon overtaken and seized; she cried aloud for help, but was only laughed at; and on her making resistance, they began to bind her roughly, when the figure she had first seen, and who from the deference paid him, appeared to be the commander, came up, after sharply rebuking the soldiers for treating their fair captive so violently, committed her to the care of some who accompanied him, at the same time saying that he was under the disagreeable necessity of taking her from her native place, for some time, but as her father would be with her, he hoped the privation would not be very great, and assured her that at all times she could command his services. We now return to the son.

the distance his practised eye beheld a body of men arrayed in military costume; in the midst the Russian banner flaunted in the breeze, and in the rear were captives. 'God of my fathers! whom have we got here?' burst from the lips of the impetuous youth; and checking the perilous descent of his steed with a tug that almost, threw him on his haunches, leisurely scanned with eager eyes the scene stretched like a map beneath.

'Yes,' he cried, by the beard of Mahomet, yon troop are Giours, I know their ensign, and low in the midst are many captives. I'll go and reconnoiter.' He gave a shrill whistle, and his dragoman rode up. Do you see those sons of

dogs?' he said.

Even as the sun beholds the deeds of men,' replied the soldier.

'Back, and bid thy comrades await me at this spot-take thou my steed.'

"The words of my lord shall be obeyed.' With agile motions HassanKhan threw himself from his high Tartar saddle, and suddenly darting down a steep ravine, disappeared amid the brakes and bushes, from the sight of the wondering dragoman, who uttering Bismillah!' fell back to obey his orders.

The sun is already sunk in gloom; 'tis time we were away.'

sheik, would you tear me from the pal'Dogs, midnight robbers,' shouted the ace of my sires-where is my daughter?'

'Peace, foolish old man, and do not draw down the wrath of those in whose power you are,' retorted the Russiar.

Having signalized himself in every action he had fought, and won the esteem We left the sheik, having recovered and confidence of his superior officers, from his swoon, disconsolate at the abas a reward he obtained the command of sence of his daughter, whence he was the detachment near his native place, and roused by the men putting themselves in in his eagerness to behold once more the line of march; and one of them approachscenes amid which he had spent the un-ing, Kishan Kower said, clouded morning of boyhood, set forward on the very day he was presented with the order. The sun set in beauty ere he had accomplished his journey, but the brilliant moon that arose made ample recompense; swiftly he passed over the lofty hills, which wound round his home, encircling it like a girdle, with the tread of one who was intimately acquainted with their most devious path. He now arrived at a turn of the road from whence he could behold the fair lake, and in the midst rising like a sea fowl, the fair home of his fathers. Oh! none that have not felt the same sensation, can conceive the emotion which animated the heart of Hassan, after beholding again the place of his nativity. The hours of trial and danger vanished from his mind, and he again beheld his distant home, tinged purple by the moon's pale beam;-a cry of joy burst from him, and darting his armed heels into his eager horse, he was about to pursue his rapid way, when in

'May your bones wither, and your bodies be a prey to dogs and vultures. You have bereaved me of my child-do your worst now.'

'Come, come, this bravado wont doyou must move on;' and a stout man on either side, soon caused the old chief to prefer his own feet to being dragged by them. After walking for some time, the whole party stopped at a small grove of cedar, in the midst of which murmured a clear fountain, where having reposed themselves, and mounted horses which there awaited them, resumed their order.

'Come, palakir,' said one of them, ad