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Full Title	The Ladies' visitor, and drawing-room companion, v. I, no. XII, June 1856.
Contributor	Hamilton, Miriam F.
Date Added	15 September 2019
Format	Newspaper
Language	English
Publish Date	1856-06
Publisher	New-York [N.Y.] : Curtis and Co.
Source	Dime Novel and Popular Literature
Alternate Title	The Deacon's daughter / by Miriam F. Hamilton.
Topic	Popular literature > Specimens. Women > United States > Periodicals. Women's periodicals.
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Disclaimers	Disclaimer of Liability Disclaimer of Endorsement

OCR VOL. I. NEW-YORK, NO. XII. THE LADIES’ VISITOR aD | DRAWING-ROOM COMPANION, Vi PUBLISHED MONTHLY, ‘ T NEW-TORK CITT, } MIRIAM ¥. HAMILTON, Boron Ortice $43 Hreadwar. scem to meet ia Luther the very opposite | precautions” aid ate plaisly asked for ber|* y° TEENS eter. bracelet ; it ‘a jewel worth eight or nice © Retapor aoa, ari tae whom Richter had said that his words were half | hundred france. tho daoeer thos sddete, yt when he first began to preach, suf-| expressed a prot astonishment “I bi f Sy onptes to gue stiees fiiiine 8 oye “0, Drs .| hoped,” said he, « ‘bet ou mold ave allowed A1) oommantoations, on business or otherwise, anould be \dreteet to the Editor, 848 Broadway. ae _.. Poetry. BARBARA. bb ah che hae Over the ertep and alow avon Weld wy rontlog ways Af andthe word of were fling on theta ie balms “atone m gorgeous teria of matty ta the mel T stood hoedless, Barbaral Lids here, ‘hie the onan iat andthe, pesewin cutepread hands Pleased the people Bat won va ® homeward, with a mild and saint- i Sled te “et alny beauty, with ts Denveny eyes on led 8 valet in a moment: 0 the flee was ike to tl Ere you perish'd, Barbara! ~ Oy tha that tralia fecel sweet, earn . Then petted whenn ds caren ie wasn anoer places « 4)" You cane runing forth to meet me with my love-gift on pour wat, ee \Y and a cursed river kill’ thee, alded by & marderons mist. 0b, a purple mark of agony was on the month I kissd, ‘When last I esw thee, Barbara! Ie von ‘pioed mi wine ‘your beaven, nd ths she any ges of eaih tht tn that tne was give ‘and nave sou pas'd uahceded al the fortunes of your Your father's grave, your sisters chil, your mothers duet face: rege one wo worshtpp'd not within akeeeliag place? re you happy, Barbara? eng angels, do you Link Ort prectoe golden lik your happy arm, while sitting on yon brisk? a] fr ben has nghtot wit and wlan of at aghter and Fas emptied its galters rusle, and we wateh'd through lattlee ‘he aleat mdngbt heaven morteg efor ua with a ear, a the morn broke, fn the yeere Pre os 1 lored Tou asa shove my i il bangs that lo Intact sild, consoling rainbow o'er a savage catara os toved me, Barbera! 0 Lore! Lam unblest, ‘With monsirous doubts opprest, Ofmuch tat dark and nether, mach thats elit and cou tw me you but for an hour from off that starry eh ‘The hunger of my soul were still'4; for death has told you Tore ffi the mateacaty od doth know—things deeper an all I ‘Will you tee me, Barbora? 1 Ia vain ta vaio, fa vata Fos will ever come aga the dreary bills & mournful fringe of rain, the trees aond sh shores rover means ib Bort and wounded ri ‘no rest upon the earth; peace {s with death and * Tam weary, Barbara! i* 0) WIND AND SBA, : ay marano TAYLOR. Joe Jona come here Se dinaig Hines nate Me lays bien ora at tbe foot tho Suny‘ ‘And shakes all over with gleo: ‘backed loss fu falnt on the shore, ‘and shudders al over the apen-tree, ‘Welenne ar both thelr vote, dnd wie Wiad tat talons, the Sea that gladdens, singiog the self-same strain. Odds and Ends. | Scear op Hrstony.—During the revolution- | sy war, General Lafayette being in Baltinere fa ball, He went as requested, pati eS a joining the amusement as might a young Frenchman of twenty andsome ; you dance very prettily; your vai is very fine—dut my 2) soldiers have no shirts.” irresistible. “The ball ceased ; jes went home and went to work, and the next day a large number of shirts were pre- red by the fairest Renda a of t Baltimore, for the A Pilot deuadere of i A Worrnuess Mosse —One of these |e i gevatees to Mamm rocsired ys lesson from an = hela fallower, nko did not scem to » pay him, the possessor of the pune, ulient aT bn, "a said, “Do you know, as that I am worth @ bused thousand pounds ? ra but not Mokena and I know that ‘Mong he upwardatreaming prayers and th ich and so Tema psalms, [at eerie er ntonyeor} Set te you T bare been fitful whatever good Eve Tack’ Lor ‘The gloaming closes slowly round, unblest winds are in Sxerci Ht or Martin Luruen.—A coarse, rag- ged, (plebeian faco it was, with great erags or check-bones—a large amount of wild, passionate dark eyes were ie ‘se Weta sir ou out must dio, yon must—but rei ber that they need good heals up yonder, too, So preach, mao, preach—and then live or die, happens.” So Tiber preached and lived, down its wings, ‘eps there #0 still and fearless, though over it are the iufivite starry spaces, and the great bloc det hs of im- mensity ! «io in living wonder at the fields wre stands it there,” he says, “ rect on its beauti- head wi pes whole heaven of light an love. ght ae painted, he might mE beautiful ke Raphael, e been reut Tike Mteheat Angelo.—Cavl: oe aprany.—Life rather ined of several volumes. With some, these volumes are re richly gilts with others quite plain. Of its the first isa ons Pooks full of | ee Tues the secot ol-Book, te, inked aod dog’ seared; ; hes next isa Thi. ce, full of love, hope, ruin and de- 0s of ‘tri = ig ling like a with moi zo followed vp. with the grave Hier ‘tol teavliog over orenta of the past with many wise deductions 1d grave warnings and last of all comes the Child's Book again, with its ages rather soi ed, and its pictures by no means so bright as they usod to be. ‘To the above library issome times added the Banker's Book, thick with gold; but it is a very scarce work, and only to be met ith in the richest collections,—Household Words. Lord Bilenborough bad infinite wit— ‘When the income ta: d Kenyon (who A Tanger ‘one day pleaing betes tie and using several times t My unfor- tunate ‘tlient” Lord Ellenborough redial 4 in terete, ‘him with, “There, sit, the Court with "Lod itesboreugh wwas once about to go on tbe cineuity when Lady E. said tbat she should like to mpany him. no ebjetioon provided she did not soeunber the carriage wid bendbores bleh his utter abhorre ‘og the first day's j snes, to "lenboroaghe| happen. ing to stretch bis legs, struck his feet ¢ against something b below ‘the seat Te discovered that ‘it was ox. His indignation is not be deseri ihek Up went the window, ‘do went the. bandbox, coachman ‘stepped and the footman, ‘nintiog that the Dandbox bad tumbled out of the window by sor ordinary chance, 0 Lor by & deh side. Haviog reached the county. here he was to officiate as judge, Lord leborough proseeded to array” himself for ee in the court-house. “Now, where is my wig? attendant, “it was thrown out of the carriage windo ss .—Slander is a gift exclusively bus ttle of mere animality is there that itis is practiced only in its fullest perfection amongst the most refiaed and civilized of the human species. A com mn slan- ders only bis enemies, and that, too, on th estrog | provocation of rivalry, or some other powerful and pressing interest; ut to fashionable rer | slander is daily bread, and there are-never two or three of them eutherel together, but iti is the staple of their ordinary discourse. accurate defivition a what constitutes polite creat one mi scribe it as taning wholly venturing uj he dicassing of things. Go Sto twenty usbionable dea irawing-rooms and bou- doirs, and in nineteen of them you “will ind the A tics, nor science, but the merits (that is the demerits—for the absent are ever in the wrong) of some person who haa just left the ‘oom, or has incidentally been brought upon the tapis. me. using the press to wy | Pecting ronecbeed. ly It is not true that woman's ss afestons are any fal tape stem and beoding ita bs bese gehen at We | strew the He replied that he had | had le- | the movements, and if in tring toon rst Should the Piano-forte stand theme of discourse to be neither literature, poli- | di ‘Greux Svarnisz—A Greck officer was waltzing o one evening with a lady, ‘ne brave. let beam ime unfastened ; she gave it to him to care of; he put it in his pocket. The waltz over, the lady re remembered ber braceot.* With me to ep that souvenir of y ety Ruxs Steoxauy ro Fox. fitment is never so full of jokes a as when he is reduced to one shirt and xo potatoes Wealth is tacitara | sod fretful. brokers would alge in a earty laugh, than they e. Na-| be was suits and dyspepsia. never indulge in woodcock, but then hey berea style of a | petite that converts @ number three “rnackerel into a salmon, and that is quite as well. STIMENTALISH— vicing "the publication of a new love story, says All that stuff about woman's love bas over and over again a hi ned thoneand slows, the great etriment of the best interests of brani. 10 kind of necessity or peru silly girls that it is ery romantic and womanly to Tove scoundel mrt) Teave her afetions unguarded by re and experienc, and drt betpleady iso ‘tin shame despair, as evidence of her unsus- ronger or more man’ think differently, and that ‘worthitds of ll the men who pine away or aie of love, as 80 br the want of something | thing calculated to make Tove a ohak vine acquirement i injury ; but to path of the wie rea ‘the flowers of poesy aad romance, is it degree repre- beasile ‘The best motto to esa young girls through the mazes of love, is, “Do right, and trust in God.” A young girl who bas done no one ¢ has Mule « oe to mourn over the fickle- ness of a pretended lover. Better he Should change his aee one than after, marriage Dogs tae Wortp nate Prer vey ey Sai says It is not true that the world tes piety. jodest and snobteasne piety ti helm, in _no-| f bodied; nor 4) tad inberited S65 Fries fer the tor, .« THE Bacon's DAUGHTER. ee min) sons and deacons! ters | universally wild and good-for- noting Wether or no, like many other ae i vot is Aunt Pradet\* sestimony on that subject may be trusted Me tryinest child that ever a nik ‘it placed ness to the sof Aunt Prodenee's statement, It was sthoge enough that the stern ats Deacon Aru f, who was never known to a ty 60 fur as to Jangh at a jok petrate one, should have a sid iy very sie of fun jould it be supposed that Martha her nnithfalare from her matber placid, weari have dissipa| I (looking woman, would at ouce csuch an idea, js decided, after mature delibe to of Lanefeld, that Mattio in the flesh of the good Deacon--thtvve bitter drop in a cup which had else bg filled we je brim with nite comforts) Certain mm the some orp could Mae ‘cnibate “Mutts faults in the me trained afte B oe tion, by the was the ad the most pea pattern, Solo int to sparing the rod and spoiling the Ps fa been duly attended to; and if the referse of his statement is true, that ‘ a Pail fe of the birch is productive of wea per been no end pf lectures ste ei the subject of | ™ behavifr; nor bad ks been want ioe, ia whiell excellent Ile pies bad bee! held up as ef ples fer ‘nitation, and hea anes as a warai he only res bifce proverbial throughout New | Press ordre to the contrar; she offence would probably be repeated. nothing, therefore, to bis daughter, + prot of her varying the eigioal statement so far as to add | for that this bs nt stead ed @ great many times, in- ‘Arnold was He could ot hardly lieve his own ears. Mad Mattie] i +g BAUMAN F Basetiron, dared to speak to the young man after his ex-| i yt Worse still, bad teeretly? If #0, the He said at resolved teh ber narrowly, end when fried with Gisobedience to confront her at This occurrence vena “the father i —be had ni him was tI life, for she was as bold and fear! eedless and wild. This step was oly a spool of This serach odings of the evil reeults arising from an intercourse ith Morace Wil- mot ; and i rng him in his determiaa- tion to {ie fr bidding it. True, Horace ic, industrious and stead, of a Caltariaa family, and that, io Deacon Argold’s eyes, overbalinced all his merits, He bad horror of Unitarian only to bis horror of papacy, and belis no reliance could be placed on ss priveipes of those holding euch fulse doc He was forebodi m second = bow more ‘coovinced of 1] watched his child more and more closely. For some time he saw nothing ssi and had somewhat relaxed the v Taset over Mettie's walks, when ork in hia corned, he canght ag te child, basket fa band, 3 isurey long, and so mnaa leaping vera fence, 0d opera ollonog her. He ttanedtately took th a som, aad aby a shorter Knew that Martha wae in ae abe ct epending hours: together ne das, while Aimpse of| there, indeed, and was on the ‘point of rushing forward ‘aed giving Mia ‘a wholesome lecture, when Mattie's words «in pause. She was even replying roachful remark of her thet eaid, “I aid not think you would have me again after I bad told = | Phaialy But alas! been, that. ‘tie ‘ene ‘she bated oud tie a mes oveg than one memoir. en ‘That m vc sa the heart with all buman charities, tod makes a man gentle to others and severe to Weel, is gn object of universal | eration 1d hate the lust of power ists m the alr which should only be a sanc- ny for the righteous and the goed. 2am Sir a very small dinner pa a deli- cious pudding, wich the master of the. ous, pushing the dish to » begged him to taste. iw seaman bed it Before ie himsel of i a said nin looking ft at the entlenan 8 eae and then at the dish, “ which is the pudding?” Hazereeren Grats. Mao Neal said that “a hazel eye inspires at firs senti- ment, which gradually but rely venpasde into love as securely founded ats tee fol ot Gibral- ir, A woman with a r elopes [from her husband, never berets scandal, never sacrifices her husband's comfort to her own, never says a brother editor, “but one ‘uninteresting. and unamiable worun with a bazel eye, oranda a nose whica looked, as the Yaukee like the litle end ot nothing wihitiled down to apoint.” The gray is the sign of sbrewdness and talent; great at thikers and ea ceptaon bave it. In women it indicates a better head than heart. ‘The dark hazel is noble in its beauty. ‘The blue eye is amiable, bat may be feeble; the black— care! Be" A tall, raw-boned reeruit, was put on drill by a lil cock-parrow of an officer every order was given to him he would Took monitions of this kind at length bad the effect to induce the recruit to raise his head at least, to a level with the setting | 00, sa the officer ordered bi tokeepit there. “ What, alwa a was the inguiry, “ Yes, sivaget stern reply. The good by lieutenant ; Tate ever 8€@ Yor, #70 Keone youR PIANO-FoRTE IN onD: —The following we clip from te Mica Wor It is good advice, and very mi “Have your piano-forte oat . least | four times a year, by an ex 3 if you allow it to go. too long without tuning, it usually fiat, and troubies is stay at concert pitch, especially in te country. Never place the instrament against an outside wall, or in a ¢qld, damp room, m,particaarly i ina open, d room, the toa window, guard, if possi things freq) ant Le wane ten ‘the instrument. Them equal the temperature of the room, the better the piano-furte will stand in tune.” nd ven- | this 0. when it is valle wolee the garb of piety; they fang PRuTe-cant ant 7 aky a quack i in 8 they do not choose to be love to tear fully and impudence George Beaumont once met {ae at] end party. There w: 0 + ted ii ‘they young man She rove from the grast as she spoke, and wig & few miles above, among a beautif ered Wen cated bly in the Toge ‘ci saying geatly, “ ‘Geol rep, Morac, * taroed| group of small islands, converges bere with dead away. impetuosity, crashing aod foonig, and, though she "The young ian sprang forward and took with a roar nearly equal to Niagara's plonges : continally of her band in boiling torrenta into the Custis rene he ers oET Feb erates he emis Y Despi ‘Spring of Mie-yeary Wien we dariv, = : rhyme than "| savoring of clandestine meetin a5{ less rafismen are bringing down theis eribe of | . Ad basing Vid to you do.” Ie ie not my fault that I am driveh to| timber, they are particularly cautious to hug. nishmen this. Ihave gone to your father opealy and] the shore as close as possible, to enable them |. ae fa tau he bas spurned mo treated ie wit to get within the aies on either sie of the 10# what he should do with her. content ated me, ca! am n might have left her to herself, bad it not bee that he could not bear to give up his pet idea of making her a model child, more particularly Becanse for many years daring whigh ho hed unblessed wit tee he hed expatiated largely on the necessity and ease of ents a8 to what he would do bad he the o portanity nod when fn itil life, Mattie had been given iad determined to prove the teat of ks theory. rs’ trial a suspicion of the fallacy of his cbershed ideas bad dawned ‘apon hie, his pride forbade him to own it, or to ly redoubled his effurts, grew steroer and more strict, but in vain. was strange, that under all this discipline Mattie continued to be as gay and light-hearted as ever, notwithstanding an occurrence which, according to all the laws ld dona in romances, shea bave made her mi jad fallen in ro ae a3 bap ppens fre- questly in real lifeyas well as in novels, the father and daughter dia not agree in their esti- mation of the lover, Martha considered Horace Wilmot all that ras ‘seein and admirable, while her father, g her opinion on this subject, sjreasly coment to nor think of hi circumstances we a1 Joon eve lost her petite, ke] ert d away ; but the trath mus te told medal ny bo such thing. ra, shes bot tes performed all ee tasks, but rhe aally while washing the dishes or ii ising ‘the broom fore ot of character ia euch occupations, it mast be confessed that our Mat tie assisted her mother in all sorts of honsehold services, since, though Deacon Arnold was a maa of considerable wealth, his gude wife, like many New Eogland housekeepers, kept servant, and consequently a Somerie duties devolved on bers and her cl After getting through ia ie labors, Mar- tha rambled off in the beaut woods: near ‘the Village, not on her sorrows, or to weep in solitude over her hard fate, bat to gather Sowers ‘of which she was very fond, or interesting volume in the pleasant S zg ca 1ad been whispered among the busy-bodies of Tauefeld that these walks were not ake gether soli ea walking Inturely sions, by! Matin sie, and taki b basly OF in duly ound, 8 ‘mort | lad hastened ‘s > acquaint the good Deacon, merely girls and would rather read the Arabian x ighte to speak traning of youth, and had made frequent state- | tremel; op: well aware dec no | 8s you are, you agree you ‘tat my ie hed expr forbidden me to you, at I would never stoop to clandestine ister *e “He was'nt 80 far wt of the way in that latter statemebt,” interrupted Mattie, demurely. “ Perhaps you agree with hin i of me,” coelaimed Horace, angrily. father and disapproving of secret interviews is not one of them, however. “J will relieve you of my um sence,” replied Horace, haughtily. welcom avay, tobe abet perhaps years, and Tfoolisbly yped thi ny wife; but I see that other influences have been at work upon you. You are cold and change 's check had flushed and paled during aise re and as he paused, she replied, “No, Horace, I am not changed ; but Tea never promise to be your wife without my father’s consen! "That will never be granted,” he returned, 5 Mand yet what tring objection he Me is « bigoted, narrow-minded, “Re of whom you speak 5 I regret as mut you ion, yet I know he seeks ‘what he considtrs ay highest welfare. He is a good, kind father @ seems, I know that he loves me d votedly ; and strict so severe as he has bes in his government I know that he regard: as the very apple orhis oo If did not keow that love for me was at the root “ all his se- verity, I should not eo readily su arum-scarom «Stop! s cxchimed Mattie, quickly. member it fath and 1 & = Be e disobey bis commands. I know, and you know, Horace, m right. Wicked Unitarian with me, don't you?” “Oh, Mattie!” returned her companion, “I slight an ee should Separate us, it shall not sey re mine. will claim you ret vate he whole world. ut your father were here ; I would tell i “He is here,” said “s stern voice, and Dear But I Arcola stepped out fom bebind the. tres which had idea Bim, and eonfonted the young mai iat will you tell bim Terace ‘was silent. be confessed that the stern ola man was one wt vhom neath 2 fe | whole village stood in rac itis posible for a lover Mattie burst into a merry peal of laaghter—~ claimivg, “I believe you would laugh, Mattie, e gallows;” and, recover- addresses Descon: "I would tell you, sr, eiace you the exndlsion of my sentence, that you bave forgotten the manly you Matti the first iustance of the kiod daring her se | Har bigoted, narrow-minded od fater i aire you thor yourself worthy you ma; merit,” said Mattie, |i rougher father # and giving her band frankly this ‘en ever, and | ™ of his sureeil- | ¥' in bis opinion ti re -| American (Philemon Wnght,) ti cannot part with you thus. It is cruel that so | see bi the scene and the sudden interruption of ber tore rhapsody struck her. a8 irresistibly of once an forgetting to say that several | co1 other young people hed been of the party Deacoi horrified. cast a reproachful glance at her, ex: - it T were going the ing his presence of mind, be you were ever young, or you would fire me an opportunity 0 prove myself worthy of your di "The Deaton looked for a moment steadily at outh before im; then glanced at je, who was ws soxionly saitng is reply “She fea good girl" he eaid;* a co Wil, a uot balf good enough for but if she thiuks so, aud is satisfied, her the opportunity you ask for, aod wi “You see I am t to her ‘and Te am determined to make you ackrow- ledge, Mr. Amid, that it I deserve ber” replied ees, resing 1¢ band Mattie ‘That he be aed a the but tbat, ‘ong since, Mattie became, with fall |: | approbation of her parents, Mrs, Horace Wik ot 5 sat is more remarkable, old Deacon ‘Arnold —2o his daughter declar rea—bids fair to spoil his grandchildren by indulgence; and ben Mattie remonstrats wit triumphantly to ber skillful training, reminding her that as she once made clearly evident to bis mind that it the love which she discovered underlying allb is severity that had most potent influence in the formation of ber character, he is determined at affection shi prominent in the “ government of the little ones, that there sels . bo danger of their mistaking ius for," | tds as deep or 3 a5 clearaighted as my Matti” ‘ ne EAU'S ROCK. and A REMINISCENCE OF THE OTTAWA. Tax fulls of the Chandiere (to called by the frst Canadian voyageurs, from their circular form, resembling an immense ealdroe) present those imposing views which awe the mind with fe greatness of the Creator. acquainted wi sh the diff. culty of conreyiog timber in falls, I will mention that ae ate inclined crib, are te construction “ the invention of an up in sylinters, Tike a bundle of lata ‘under the pressure of a cart rt whet ocerusnging caldron, is a bare iy every moment to give wa: be plunged into the gulf beneath ; beautiful suspension bridge—ihe fist one, if T mistake not, that ever was built on architectu- - ral principles on the continent of America—and trom it centre can be hud w perfect view of the terrible and sublime scene. : I was residing, in the epring of the year 1847," ihe riage of Hull, orrest the ‘Chaudiere 1g laws ractice I found” in that beauufal bat desclate region. Que morning, while I was whiling away my ennui by lookiog ‘at the majestic spectacle before me, attention was attracted to two men one cab of timber, working with might and sain at their oars. I at ovce perceived that leading to the slides, an prevent themselves from nt of the falls. But efforts. dragged towards apparently aa viable don I gasped for breath! m; “ “Sale! safe!” cried I, as rs tae one of them king a desperate Teap toy dering ‘0 being Grawa re deceived him, an 7. shed. an Iotant on the ela Beem, haa given up bis 0 jooked a fheother With acoolaes sod py reson sof mind parle, beat i grarped his oar, and I coald streog aevorig to are the crib tomards the rock I have mei nother instant, ard with @ cea bis al cvs struck the rocks. A momentary swell of the waters carried him 3d Jean Baptite Fellarican stood still fike « living man on the bare rock. Yet, who could imagive ‘he feelings, who coud fathom the thoughts of isms man in his present position ! on the oneside was an abyss, wbereia to plooge tras certain death, and on the other, a raging, impasable torrent of waters. The’ whole ole population ot Bytown and vicinity had bee n, and children came in crowds t te ‘ie scene, Vatious were th projeets proposed to rescue the unfortunate vain w . Swiftly and impetuoudy ‘vere ey, . The river, dis; ; ese founda ation worn out by the rushing >) they had got without the cbanuel of thedam -- eet

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