INSANITY FROM THWARTED LOVE. A YOUNG man named Gregory, who was sent up on the steamer Buckeye from the South, to enter a novitiate for the priesthood, at Bardstown, gave evident symptoms of derangement on the passage up, which caused him to be put in restraint. Afterwards, as the boat was coming through the canal, he was released, and very soon after, made a violent assault on the steward of the boat, knocking him down, and assaulting others. He was instantly taken in hand, and confined again. examination being entirely in their favor, the public prosecutor declared there were not sufficient grounds for continuing the proceedings. The correspondent adds that the police, in virtue of the discretionary power with which it is invested, has condemned Count Guicciardini and his associates to six months' exile in the province of Volterra. ANTIDOTE AGAINST POISON.-Hundreds of lives might have been saved by a knowledge of this simple receipt. A large tea-spoonful of made mustard mixed in a tumbler of warm We learn that he had been intended by water, and swallowed as soon as possible; it his father for the life of celibacy requisite for acts as an instant emetic, sufficiently powerthe priesthood, but had become violently ful to remove all that is lodged in the stomach. enamored of, and attached to, a young lady, who returned the passion. Parental authority interposed, and the "course of true love" was interrupted by his being sent from home to enter upon his religious exercises. The stroke was too much for his ardent and too susceptible heart, and his brain maddened to such a degree as to overthrow his reason, and render him a furious maniac. We understood that he brought letters to a respectable house in this city, to which the captain would apply to take care of him; otherwise, to obtain a permit for him at the Marine Hospital, till he is restored to reason, or is attended to by his friends.-Louisville Democrat. MR. WARD has sent a picture to the Royal Academy, which is highly praised. It represents "Marie Antoinette in the Temple, obliged to mend the coat of her husband, Louis XVI., while he slept, that he might not be forced to wear a ragged garment." Queen Victoria was exceedingly desirous of purchasing this picture, but it had already been sold and paid for. The owner, who was a Lancashire manufacturer of taste and liberality, was willing to surrender it to the Queen, but his wife was not. She had watched the picture from its commencement to its completion. SEVEN FLORENTINES PUNISHED A LETTER from Florence of the 18th, in the Bisorgiment of Turin, gives some particulars about the arrest of Count Guicciardini and six of his friends, which was mentioned a few days ago. It appears that, on the arrival of the police, they were sitting round a table reading a chapter of the Gospel according to St. John. They were taken to prison, and examined by a magistrate on a charge of having attempted to overthrow the religion of the State; but the result of this EXTRAORDINARY FIDELITY OF A SLAVE. A MAN-SERVANT named Emanuel Boykin, of Norfolk, entered on board the frigate belonging to Messrs. Ferguson & Milhado, Brandywine as Captain's steward, on her tion, having the permission of his owners to departure from that port for the Brazil staappropriate a portion of his pay during the vious to sailing he left his allotment ticket cruise to the purchase of his freedom. Prewith the Navy Agent, with instructions to hand over the amount to which it entitled him to his owners. The Norfolk Herald says: "The ship was absent about three years, during which time Emanuel conducted himself with so much propriety and fidelity that he became a general favorite among the officers, and the captain considered himself fortunate in having so faithful and valuable a servant. On the return of the ship to New York, Emanuel found himself entitled to upwards of four hundred dollars. Here was a fine opportunity for him to have availed himself of the moral doctrine of the abolitionists, and embraced such freedom as they offered. He was, to all intents and purposes, a free man, and with the handsome outfit of four or five hundred dollars, which was his, and nobody else had a right to claim it. But his morality was not that of the abolitionists; he had a conscience, and a sense of moral character, and an honesty of purpose, far different from the hypocritical huckstering and trickery of the abolitionists, who steal the livery of heaven to serve the devil in. He knew that he justly owed his owners three hundred dollars more than the allotment ticket called for, and happen what might, he was resolved to see them and pay it in person. Unwilling to risk so large a sum about his person, he let it remain in the purser's hands and took his receipt for it. His next step was to engage his passage on to Norfolk; but the master declining to receive him, he waited several days for the next vessel, in which he embarked, and after a passage of ten days, was landed in Norfolk, when he proceeded forthwith to the counting house of Ferguson & Milhado, gave them the purser's receipt, and as soon as it could be done was fully invested with a certificate of emancipation. It is a pleasure to contemplate an instance of moral elevation like this, in humble life, and in the very midst of a community, thousands of whom would not only have persuaded him to play the part of the rogue, but hugged him to their bosoms if he had done so of his own accord. EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPE. The last Abingdon Virginian contains the following account:— The children of Mr. George Hickan, a citizen of Scott county, were playing together in a field, and near the mouth of a fathomless sink-hole. In their gambols, one of them, a boy about eight or ten years of age, pushed his little brother, about four years old, headlong over the edge and down into the deep, dark pit below. It was some time after the child was missed, before any certain information could be drawn from the others as to what had become of him; and it was only by threats of severe punishment that finally overcame their fear, and extorted from the boy who did the deed a confession of what had happened. An effort was made immediately to ascertain the situation of the little fellow, and afford him relief if he was not beyond its power. Ropes were tied together with a stone attached to one end, and an attempt was made to fathom the depth beneath-but more than sixty feet of rope were employed in vain-no bottom could be reached. A lighted candle was then let down, but its light gave no hopeful indication, except that the pit was free from choke damp, or impure air, as far down as the candle descended. Night came on, and all further efforts had to be for the time abandoned. On the next day further trials were made of the depth of the pit, but with no better success. In despair, the frantic parents were about to give up all hopes of recovery, or relieving their little innocent, and preparations were being made to close up the mouth of the pit to prevent a like occurrence in the future, when it was suggested and agreed upon that another and a final effort should be made by letting some individual abyss, and ascertain if there was any encourdown by ropes to examine the nature of the agement for further efforts to be found below. fearful task. Cords were fastened around his waist and limbs, and one to his wrist, by which he might indicate to those above his wishes either to descend or to be drawn up. He was swung off and slowly lowered, until having gone to the depth of about fifty feet, he looked below him, and there shone through the thick darkness two glistening eyes intently looking upward. In another moment he was standing on a shelf, or angle in the shaft, with the child clasped to his bosom. He fastened the little fellow securely to his own body, and bidding him take the rope firmly in his hands, the signal was given to draw up. The child held convulsively to the rope, and in a few minutes they rose within view of the hundred anxious spectators who had assembled to witness the result; and when the first glimpse of the little fellow alive caught their eager gaze, screams and shouts of joy from the excited multitude filled the air, and big tears of sympathy started from the eyes of every beholder. After the first paroxysms of delight had subsided, the child was examined to see if it had sustained any injury, and extraordinary to tell, with the exception of a little bruise on the back of its head, it was perfectly sound and unhurt. The only complaint that it made was, that it was hungry, being nearly twenty-seven hours under the ground. To inquiries made of it, it replied that it saw a light, and heard it thunder. From the nature of the pit it appeared that the little fellow had fallen a perpendicular distance of forty feet, upon a slope or bend in the shaft, and from that place had slided down twenty feet farther to the spot where he was found leaning against a sort of pillar or wall, and gazing upward. How he escaped instant destruction is beyond all account. "A brother of the lost child undertook the VAN COURT'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. THE SHIPWRECK. [FROM MRS, S. C. HALL'S STORY OF MIDSUMMER EVE.] AND now the packet left the quay, amid the smiles and tears of those on shore and he watched the light feathery clouds, tinged those on board, threading her way, amid the pathless windings of the glorious LEE, that by a royal lavishing of Nature's bounties, perplexes the stranger-ships that seek her harbor, to judge which of her many beauties with the deepest rose color, that scudded over the heavens, until the whole expanse faded, seemed to cling together closely and was flooded with vapor, which, as the hues more close; how Sidney joyed in the effects -the light and shade-the gorgeous coloring is to be admired the most; while those whose sails are set for foreign ports, go forth with canopying the deep-toned waters-sketchthe knowledge that, steer where they may, they can see nothing amid the nations of the world surpassing in loveliness the loveliness they leave behind. The moments were angel-winged to those who had long loved each other, and they little noted the passing scene. How wonder fully glorious was the setting sun when they were far at sea;" too beautiful," the captain said, as "The Swift" bowed gracefully to the warm strong breeze that filled her full-bosomed sails. "Too glowing," he repeated, and slight scorn at his non-appreciation of such beauty curled Sidney's* lip, as Sidney was a young artist, who had but recently become the husband of Eva, and who, with her, was now on his way to seek a home and employment in the new world. Eva was a general favorite of all classes, and the few words she spoke told of her earnest and loving nature, and drew towards her as much by the invisible and certain agency of her goodness as by her beauty, all, even to the silent man at the helm, whose homage beamed in his eyes, were ready to speed to do her service; Keeldar looked a proud dog by her side, neither knowing, nor, if he had known, caring at the prospect of city life and close confinement. He was advancing in years, and could better do without the forest glades than he could have done three years before he looked and moved a dog of rank, vouchsafing to notice nothing except his mistress, save, indeed, the glancing flight of a pigeon that hovered about the rigging; the sailors, too, pointed it out, and said it was the sign of a good passage; Keeldar watched it closely, and even rose up to look for it, when it vanished, and then re-appeared again; and once VOL. 1.-8-A'r '51-H ing with a clear eye and truthful hand the outlines of the clouds, rapidly changing as they were, comparing them to sights he had seen abroad, and pouring with right enthusi asin into the ears of his fair bride tales of the wonders that Nature teaches her true wor shippers. She heard not the wind that folincreased, nor how the captain stood as if the lowed fast, nor noted how the ship's speed sea world was his home, triumphing in the into the deeps of waters now heaving themease with which his vessel rose and glided could be more perfect than the graceful selves into waves. Nothing in sea-craft motion of the ship; every portion working together in the stiffening breeze, as if courtesy, not necessity, bowed her over the billows. "Had not the lady better go below, sir?" inquired the steward. She deserves to be the wife of a sailor, to sit out such a breeze as this," said the captain, as he offered his assistance. "It is so beautiful," she replied; "these clouds are so magnificent as they increase in darkness." While speaking, a flash of lightning illumined the horizon; touching for half a moment the edges of the clouds so that they showed like caverns lit up by magic fire; as it glanced along the sea, there was hardly time for the swell of the waves to disturb its course; and yet it was broken, how, no eye could tell. "I did not look for this," muttered the captain. "Come, young lady." it descended so that Eva saw the sweetness that beamed in its beautiful eyes, as it hovered over the sea. |