Mr. Hampson, wrecked completely with the disastrous times, has found a kindly and pleasant asylum for his old age with his daughter, Mrs. Bracely. And a better or lovelier farmer's wife than Julia, or a happier farmer than Eph., can scarce be found in the valley of the Susquehanna.

THE MONOPOLIST.

BY H. P. GRATTAN.

How comfort lords it! how the rich man stands!
The poor man's fate is grasped in selfish hands!
Little he heeds the agony of doubt,

Which, spite the cold hath brought the traveller out.
Mark the intensity with which he peers,

Eager to satisfy his hopes, or fears!

It seems as though, in ecstasy of spite,
The crumpled paper, from his longing sight,
Enveloped the crushed letters; as though Fate,
In dread uncertainty, displayed her hate.
Hath he a darling son, now homeward bound?
And hath the fearful rumor spread around
His vessel hath been wrecked and tempest-tost,
And half its crew among the billows lost-

And longs he now, to see if God did save

His fond heart's treasure from the sea's deep grave?

Can one brief line his frenzied grief dispel,

And calm the throes which now his bosom swell?

Or hath his brave one, at proud Honor's call,
Rushed forth to victory: and did he fall
Among the slaughtered heroes, whose red blood
Hath flown an offering for their country's good!
Is some fair girl removed from the dear hearth,
The scene of her pure childhood's lovely mirth-
Struck down with sickness? holds he his panting breath
While that, the oracle of life or death,

Is wrested from his sight-by one who heeds
But little how his throbbing heart now bleeds?
Hath he a venture on the treacherous seas,
Which safe in port secures a life of ease

To those he loves-and 'mid the tempest's frown
Hath the brave ship, a shattered wreck, gone down?
Hath one he loved, whose faith to him was life,
By falsehood changed his cherished joys to strife—
And wretched doth he, panting, trembling, wait,

To learn the sickening story of his fate?
Whate'er the passion, speaking from his eye,

It calls upon us for our sympathy

But calls in vain: the RICH MAN knows his power,
And little heeds how many a weary hour

A WORD FOR WOMEN.

[We were very much entertained, the other day, with the reading of a manuscript five-minute sermon, by a very accomplished leader of fashion-the sermon in itself sufficiently ingenious and amusing, but the position of the writer as well as of the reader, and the place in which it was read, going to show, when taken in connec tion with the subject, that the question of superiority of sex is spreading its agitation into the sphere of exclusives. Here, where woman has all that wealth can enshrine her in, she has, hitherto, seemed content. A sermon in defence of the oppressed sex by a lady whose purchase of a pair of gloves is a matter to call out an equipage with footmen in livery, amounts to an exponent of the times.]

A Sermon:

BY A LAY PREACHER.

"Adam was first formed, and then Eve."-1st Tim., 2d, 18th.

AMONG those who evince more conceit than good sense, and more effrontery than wisdom, are to be found some who profess to believe that man is endowed with an intellectual capacity superior to that of woman, and contend that, as Adam was first in primogeniture, and constituted lord of this lower world, so was

he made superior in intellect to Eve, who, being the second in creation, was also second in mental power. They also attempt to substantiate the claims of man to greater intelligence than woman, on the ground that husbands are commanded to give honor unto the wife as unto the weaker vessel. And, furthermore, that it was owing to the feebler intellect of Eve, that Satan, in the article of the great temptation, assailed her, instead of Adam, expecting an easier victory.

Having assumed these facts, most complacently do they fold their arms, and, with a compassionate, pitying look on woman, enjoy their fancied superiority!

We will now examine these claims and see if they are tenable. In the first place, then, we admit, that Adam was first formed, for it is so stated in the text; but we nowhere find it stated in the record that he was formed greater than Eve. Now, concerning the whole creation, wisdom marks its progress at every step, and wisdom we are commanded to follow and embrace.. What man, therefore, if he be wise, and desirous of building a house perfect in all its parts, would not first prepare a model or design of such house in order to obtain a satisfactory and perfect plan, before the erecting of his edifice? So, Adam was first formed. The model being approved, Eve was then made after that model; and as no man, in building a model for his house, uses the same valuable materials that he employs in erecting the house itself, so Adam was made of that coarse material called earth, while Eve was not formed until that substance had undergone a powerful change had become purified, refined, and sublimated—and then,