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many young men of the highest order of tulente and intellect, who might be an honor to themacives and an ornament to their country, have had their prospects and the bright anticipations of their friends forever blasted ; and finally sank to an untimely and dishonored grave by indulying in this poisonous liquid. Like the Upas tree, it destroys all that comes within its influence; it scorrhes and withers up all the fountains of ailection and sociability, and makes man rather @ beast thon & rational creature. Leonard lived a few years after this awful occurronee, and finally died the death of @ Drun- dard in one of the Western States.

THEY LOVE NO MORE. BY MARY 5: Lawson,

‘Fury love no more—the dream has passed Lik Or when, "neath Winter's searing list ‘The autumn buds decay. "Phere wae no harsh, nor bitter word ‘ ‘Vo woud the tender heart, No sndden strife: their bosoms stirred, Nor anger laste them part.

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Love failed slowly from each breast, ‘They scarce knew it had fled,

For still the eye come warmth express'd, Although Love's soul was dead;

‘Aa music's dying echo cast ‘Upon the passing wind,

A ling'ring memory of the past Still lived, within the mind.

‘Phey parted,—he without a sigh; Perchance, she felt come pain,

But eaw his cold unaitering eye, And knew regret waa yainy

‘Of feelings chang’d, they did not speak, He sought no fond delay,

‘Nor gazed upon the pallid check ‘Whero starting tears found way.

‘They mect amid the festive throng, With calm and smiling gaze— And listen 10 some aweot old eoug

Beloved in earlier daya;

‘Phey feel the pangs of worrow rise ‘To cloud their short lived mirth, But awift ae thought tho fecling dies,

And perishes at birth,

Yet vanish'd yoars have lett their blight Upon ench care-worn brow,

‘The Heavens have lost their glorious light, And earth ia darker now;

A shadow, and a gloom, ia thrown Where all was bright before;

‘Their trust in human faith hae flown, And they may love no more.

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THE LONG COURTSHIP. RY ELLEN ASITON.

“Par have been engaged these six years.”

Such was the reply which Charles Irvine made tu his friend Mrs. Alton, as the latter pointed out to him a couple on the other side of the way, and asked him if he knew them,

“Yea ¥" said he, “and I thought every body knew Horace Daval und Esther Marlowe—they have beew engaged these vix years”

“What is the reason they do not get married 1” enquired Mra, Alton.

“Ob! it is the old story—the gentleman is poor and the Indy in faithful, They met when both were very young, and fell in love. ‘Tho gentleman was only a stustent, it is true, but his heart was young ani full of hope. and he looked forward to a speedy realization of his droams of wealth. He pleaded his case so elaquently that Miss Marlowe pledged herself to become his bride when she was only seventeen, and he had just entered his twenty-first year, Six yeare have since passed and they are yct unmarried ; for Duval is # physician, ond you know how difiieutt it is for a young practitioner in medicine to obtain a livelihood. I hear that he bas ut length given up all hope of being able to cstablink himself in this crowded city, and haa determined to try his fortune here is leas competition. He safks

«T hope not.”


 * Why?”

«Because I fear for the: fidelity of the gentieman. Unless Dr. Duval is different from most of his sex, his feclings will, nay, must suffer a partial, if not total estrangement from Miss Marlowe, should his absence be protracted for any great length of time.””

« Fie, fie, my dear aunt, you slander our’ sex. would question the truth of all nen.”

“Understand me before you blame me, 1 do not condemn all of your sex, nor do I say that a protracted separation in the present case will certainly produce a disruption of the engagement, I only mean to say that the probabilities are in favor of so unhappy & termination to this long courtship; and in saying thie I base my conclusion altogether on the character and ‘situation of your sex in contradistinction to those of ny own.” 4

“Very ctoarly etated—you could not have done it better had you beea Chillingworth, the prince of togi- cians. But do you mean to say that the fault will be Daval’s in case this engagement should be broken off” through his absence.”

«“ Certainly—at least if Misa Marlowe instead of Dr. Duvat should be the cause of it, this ease would be

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