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ISMITH JACKSON.
Dealer iDry 'Goods, Groceries, Barth% are,
Women; Ware, Lime, Iron, Nails &c. No. 124
Chcap ide, Erie, Pa,
JOliN IL ifI4LAR,
id Borough Surrepr; office in EAchansy.e
gs, French at., Erii.
County at
Buildi
JOHN B. JOHNSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
`as removed his Otlico, lb the Public Building
t near th Court [louse, up emirs. in the rintrii
occupiLd by the SheiilT and directly wi r er the
Cnininissitter's Office.
ttetnion win be given to all basinege en
to it care.
nompt
true; ri.
N. IIUCIIERT & CO.
BUFFALO. N. Y..
k,GE,'FORWARDING AND PRO
QO.IIMISSION , 111EItC11ANTS,
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STOR •
DUC t
AA ND Dealer 3 in Lehigh aotl EricF Coal; Salt
and Produce generally. PartiCular atten
tion paid to the Fa IV of Produce and purchase of
Alerchandize.
N 0.3 St 4 Coburn Square, South Wharf.
E. N.•ITUL111311 / T, • V. DRIGGS. ,
Butrald, N. Y..i 49
BEN.)A.MIN 'RANT,
and CoUnsellor nt aw ; (Ilk° No. 2
t .. o pp o qi te t h e Fa l di notol. Eric. Pa.
Attorney
State
'3ItAIIANI Esr, THO/ ['SON,
Cpu6,,ellot hat La,w, flee on Prencl
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Streuts.
SURGEON DENTIST.
0, 7 1.1 in Erie. "dice ut hit
, piner of Slventh Peael
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\VEIG Et Co.
I. ROSE'N
Dealers
Ready
Eric, P
in Foreign u d' I , ollestit. 1 lry
Cloitlitri L; 800 s Shin•?, tc
o. 1, Flemming Bioe!,, State Street
JAMES C. MARSHALL,
at Law. Wice up ~tails in the Tam
Lin hdilding, nosh attic Pi othonotaW
t Worney
many I
MI ice.
GALBRAITILS &. LANE, ' ' ,
arid Coustqell.irs at I. w--nake o', i
ireet, west side of the Public :-.3quare„
a.
ITII. •W. A. GALTWAITIL W'. 6.. LAN F. ,
G. LOOMIS R. CO.
Watt:lll , B, Jewelry, Silver, German Sil
ted and ihidannia Wale. Cuihery, Mil
d Edney Goods, No% 7 neei t I louse, Erie
I ••
WILLIAMSi & WRIGHT.
~, ~,a,i Relnii Dcal , ,, , In Ih? C.fm. , th',C l l. ,
.lardware; Crockery, Glassware, Iron,
efither, Oils, etc. etc. c.,reer of state
fill the Public Squa, opposite the Eagle
i, Erie, Pa. ‘,. 'km,.
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Dealers 1
ver, Pl i
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Pa.
'Wholesal
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Nails,
street a
5 Tay . ° r
N.S'ILLIAM , RIBLET.
Maker,' Upholster and rodettuker,
trees, liiie l'a
Cabinet
State
S. DICKINSON, M. D.
anti Still:eon, olUce on Seveoitli Street,
the Methodist ct,iircti."Erie, Pa.
Physicia
Nest of
WALKER &CO
orwardin , , Commission, anil Produce
,nts; Red Ware house, east of the Pub
it..Te, Erie.
Generni •
Mcrch
lic Th h
JOSEPH KELSEY, .... -
irers of Tin, Cumin' and Sheet-lion
rner of Frene i and Filch streets, Erie.
Matrilact
v. arc c.
'ER, SENN ''TT Rz. CHESTER,
whole:+ale and ' '
qollow-ware &c. Str
LES 1
Iron bou
Stoves,
011 N, 11. BURT°.
Leandretaildeareri-in
%fr.= Groceries, &c. N 0.5, (teed I louse
Wholva
Dye St
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1, 1 C.' AI, TIBBALS I ,
Dry Goods, Groceries ? 4.e. No. II I,
Erie Pa.
'GOODWIN fg, VINCENT,
Deahr i
Chelpa:
n Dry Goods, Groceries, &AL', No. I,
flock, State st ,Erie, Pa
CARTER tt.. BROTHER.
Dealers in Orttes; Xledieines, Pnints, Oils, Dye,
buffs, Glass, &c. , No. 6 Redd House, Et le-
I Pa.
Dealern i
Bonnell
B. TOMLINSON '.. Co.
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Forwarding a d Commission Merchants; lop
i—Fronel Stree . Erie, and at 6th Street Cawd Bo
ion,
ion, al o deo era in Groceries and Provisions.
i ' 1 HENRY CADWELL. •
Dcaicr in Hardware, Dry Goods, Groceries, &c.
east side of the Diamond, and one door cast of
the Eadle Hotel, Erie, Pa.. 1
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EAGLE - HOTEL,
L. Brown, corner or Slate \inreet and
- %plate, Erie, Pa , . Eusterp' Western,
n Stage °Bice. -
TLE & lIAMILTC:
Fashionable Merchant Tailors, c
Square a feu• doors west. or Stai
Pa. 1
JOEL JOHNSON.
Dealer In l Theoloizieal, iscellan
and Classical S•hool Book; Stati
:Yo. II I, Prune Sriect, Er . e, Pa.
1 1 P.ll. R. BI ACE,
Attorney and Cot mellor atl. w, Pru de du Chien,
W. T. ;•racticeis in tha c unties of Crawford,
Grant t‘nd lowa', W. 7'. aid in Clayton county,
lOW 11 7 erritory L
IXTANJTED inexchango Goods, Wool, But
te, Cheese, and all kinds of Country Pro-
CADWELL.
duce,
Juno 6 1 18.16
HAft4WAßE.—Slicli Hardware and House
Trimmings can always he hat very cheap at
Wit cheap' sioro of S. JACII- 4 QN 4- co.
Novem ci 21, ISM.; 27
it9 ASH
Acri
geed.
FOR Timo. 'HY SEED.—The ,oh
l ens will 'pay cash for ~ 0 0cl clean T imo
B. TOMLINSON Sr CO.
- LOV It AND
Bale at
May 1c 1817.
IMOTItY SEED.-Fur
C. M. TIBBALS.
50
M , G&F , FEES'i series of School BookP, 1,2,
3, I,and 5, for sale at No. 11), French S.
Erio, lioy 6, 1817. 51
, - REMOVAL
L a OMIS & Co. have removed their stock
'LA • of ''LOCKS, WATCHES. J.E4VELAY; FANO"
, Genus, c e. etc., No. 5, People's Rost, Stati street,
'nearly op .ositethe Eagle hotel , wherrrthey will
be please. to have thet f lends call as usual.
N. B. A large addi ion to their stOck in trade
will be rn. de-in a short i tiMe.
Erie, Allay - 19. 1847.:
LOVES.—We have the best assortment that
wlll be in this make of all kind; including
* Stewart' self imported black and fancy Kid,
fancy an. vat legated Silks and China Linen.
April '6. bt. WRIGHT.
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~ .Liberty is bons in ileayr•n:
I "rte,ts Inns that made the slate" ,
• T 4 ,, life of a felon!--What a tissue of crimes
ciisnklities, adventures and• miraculous es:
capes; what a complication of dark thoughts
and still\darker deed.2—of wrongs unatonod
and sins unrepented, are involved in the sim
ple sentence! The Life of a Felon! .
W well remember how, in our schoolboy
daysas, grouped with ethers about the ample
hear fstoue of the old mansion, we listened
with sensation's of mingled fear and curl.
ositY to the recital of some thrilling story
by (mod Our number, who, regardirn of the
old pedagogue's regulations, had contrived to
get hold of a book of desperate adventure, our
heart throbbed with alarm and 'anticipation,
while at the same tine we felt not a morsel of
pity for the hardened wretches, who, branded
85 mitt:ante by llit.lr 11.1111 w man, Nora denied
the opportunity of refu'rming, from their evil
practies, and', compelled by the very society
which had east,them out, to persevere in the
self same'courgcs for which they stood con
demned. The causes by which they were led
astray never fur a moment cro.sed our mind,
but as we listened with bristling hair and
trembling limbs to the, denouement, a sigh of
gratificatn?n - escaped us, when we thought
that the scaffold liad claimed its victim, and
the Feltin had met his dodm!
It was a cold December night. The snow
which covered the ground to a considerable
depth was hard and crisp, =tithe wind, which
raged.in the broad and narrow streets with all
the fury of a hurricane, blockaded doors and
w i indowS, add' tearing shutters, signboards
and tiles from their fastenings, sent them ra
tl lig and clanging down alto the,street..
But little Cared the wealthy and aristocratic
family of Mr. Joseph Scammon,\ lute of the
fi m of Scammon, thintmon and Sponge,,foi
al this. They had no doubt, not the least,
tl at, out of doors, the weather might be "a lit-
II uncomfortable or so;' (as the senior Scam
thon felicitously expresSed it,) but there were
ey--a happy family circle, consisting of the
aforesaid Scammon, senior, Mrs. Jos. Scam
lon—Miss Alphonsine sand Master Theoph.;
it s Scatinnon—all huddled around a blazing
fl e of Livbrpool coal, each enliploying him or
h rself in I ?. manner most, congenial to their
Scam
lon--Miss
s veral fe4ings, and all, it is needless to men
ti n, as merry as grigs!
First,' Ore sat qran t mon himself in a hand
some wrapper, Which could not have cast less
than twenty dollar ) ,s, swaying his portly body
te and fro In a heably stuffed Boston rocker,
and amusitig himself by conning over the la 7
,teat 'changes in the commercial, columns of
the. newspaper—varying said amusement,
from time to time, by a glance at the police
reports, °tee column containing all the "melt
ancholy casualities" and "deplorable_ acci
dents" of the day. '?
Then Mrs. Scammon, in another heavily
s uffed Boston rocker, on the'opposite side of
the marble-topped tabled 'by which h4 r lord
ainl master sat reading, wa deeply ab s orbed
in the pages of the last fa •hiona.ble nevel.—
Miss Alphonsine was at er tambour-frame,
li - high bore the usual imps ss of a very-fluffy,
- singular looking cat, wit a pink body and
'eyes of a delicate.ipurple, playing with a ball
of worsted.:the Vail by the way being more
Natural than' the cat, only that it was n little
lop-sided. Master Theopholus was trying to
draw a, fancy sketch in his own peculiar style
upoia his slate, and all looked very comforta
b'e and very cosy.
N.
n the. Public
1 ,0 etreet, Erie,
lotts, Stindny
;nary, etc. Olt.
' Joseph, dear—how is your distressing cold
t i. evening?" inquired Mrs. Joseph Soam
i on with mpch seeming tenderness:
•"Fair, to inidffling, my dear," replied`Scam
on senior, in that certain wheezing, snuffling
1 ne whicriZis the peculiar property of men in
t 0 Posseasionief very bad colds.
Mr. Joseph Somerton Was thinking, not of
h s cold, but of the commercial reports of the
f ,.5.1
*ly Illuminator. '
"Fair to middling!" echoed Mrs. S. in n
little astonishment . "Why, Joseph, it's worse
i anything..! .• • ~ .
"What's worse—Sugarr rejoined Scam
mon senior. /_. .
,
"Sugar! la, no—What nonsense! It's your
cold I was talking of."
WiMettler the Etio Observer.
OH SPARE THAT FADED GEM.
BY ARCHEITPAL.
Oh spare that Wed gem for Mc, ' #
I love it in ita sad decay;
Though sickly drooping oo its tree,
Yet Lady, tear it not away!
its fate too much resembles one—
One uhose_meniory is most deli..
And t Jut I b
L l \
an would gaze•upon, •
An bathe it with affection's tear.
in life s young spring, ere care had set '
••• His signet on sty destiu'd round—
Ere yet tho ruthlesi hand of dealt,
Haih Reseed tics while!' love bad bound,
One angel spirit drew, with me,
And riperi'd in fair virgin bloom,'
But, oh, too ions alas,' was rho
Cull'd heueo to lilt an early tomb. •
Oh, she wus pure as saints above
And fair as aught that's Cdr on earth,
More gentle ihan the gentle dofe,
And sweetly cheerful in her mirth;
And leoderness_thvelt iaiher breast,
And every kindly teeing dwelt,
For she, that Others ut ght be bleat,
Imparted all the bliss she felt: •
But oh, When in life's sweetest hour',
She shone, in beauty's brightest sheen,
Then, lady, like this drooping flow'r
She tuojwas eliatiled from what she'd been,
The rose departed froni her cheek,
And fell disease with tyrot sway, vt
Completed a , 011 the ! l ovely wreck, k
For she, from earth, coon•pass'd away.
Then spire i that faded gran for me,
I !ova it most who'll!) decay;
Thondh pale and languid on its tree,
Yet Lady! tear it not away,
It calla it:, mind the last sad cloao
Of liceolie loy , a one's, short career s
And th . u4love ilia faded rain,
For oh, methinks, it pinez for hor.
LIFE OF A FELON,
lIY itouEnT-F. aREELRY,
"Oh! ! gettiiig better, I tbi
anything I hate in this world
Scammon, feelingly, "it is a
"Unpleasant things!" saidi
shuddering from sympathy. !
endure this winter weatber. I
set moping. over a novel all
1,
risk of being upset by ne oi
things on runners."
If Mrs. Joseph Scammon
alive to the inclemencies of t!
must he the feelings of that p 4
girl, without shoes or stockin
herself tioWn in the area of tl
mansion opposite, to ory 'over
ies!
"I wonder, Joseih, what makes you so
thoughtfu' to-night," Airs. Scammon,
senior, after a long interval.; and as she spoke
she left • her seat,, and plated herself by the
side of her liege lord.
"Can't you see, my dearll replied 4am
mon, peevishly. "It's impossible for one to
read and talk at one time!"
"Now you're not reading, Joe—gou know
you're not,'' persisted Mrp. S.
"rd like th know What I an doing, then!"
growled Scemnion.
"Thinicitig, Jo, dear—that's what you're
doing. See, now,•you've had the paper up
side-down for the last half-hour, and hi3w you
could contrive to read it in that position, un
less you turned yourself upside-down, tob,- is
more than I can imagine."
"Innocent prattler!" wheezed Scammon,
patting her chin and making a ludicrous effort
to look affectionate—(his Wife by-the-by
weighed not less than two hundred—rather
heavy for an 'innocent prattler;') "YOu've
caught me in my own trap,. haven't your"
"You always were a gay' deceiver, Joe.-i-
But come tellus
. what is it that makes yi:4l
look so sombre."
"Well, then, Mrs. S. if you must know. it ,
="1 was thinking that it is just one year s ex-
Italy, •this night, that dome one kidnapped
away from us our little Joey; just such a
night, too, as this--cold, snowy end disagree
able." I
Scammon r said not ft word. She was
a mother, and with all her fatihionable frivol
ities, She had not yet lost sight of that spon
taneous feeling of affection which binds.to
gether in such close unity mother 'and child.
"Ah! Soil," said Scatnmon, sighing—"that
was a sad losi3 to'ns—a sad loss! I wonder if
there's any little, children in the street
go - and see. • Perhaps I might save the life
of, some little innocent like our Joey—who .
knows?"
an idea; Would pnybod . y trust their children
abroad on such nigkl!--.Except 'poor peo
ple." ,
"AO that's it, my 'dear: perhaps there's
some i the open air that has no.place to go
to for shelter; Poor people have feelings as'
well as We, you know.• 'Now don't bother,
Mrs. S.. I'm i not to be persuaded."
And- Scammon with difficulty unrolled him
self from °the embrace of the heavy-stuffed
Boston, rocker, stretched himself, and yawned.
"Run, Theery!" said Scammon, addressing
Theophilus. "My overcoat, quick, boy!"
"Now, dear papa, do be convinthed," lisped
Miss Alphonsine; fOrThe first time looking up
from her sewing. •
"Convinced, Ally! Idm convinced)—that I
am 'only doing what every good Christian
ooght to do." . "
"Ilerhaps," said Mrs. Seammon, faintly--
"perhaps you might get lost, like Joey."
"Then I should perish'in a gicirious cause!"
replied papa, with a magnaniinotts look, and
at the same time ! enveloWng pattly frame
in an overcoat, which rather debarred the idea
of such' disinterested martyrdem. ButScani
mon was right—Scar/lawn was right; and he
knew it. .V • -
Scnmmon opened the parlor door: so.envel
open he was in cloth, you would hardly know
hini. It was chilly in the entry, and Seam
mon's nose , kept up a "running accompani
ment" to the whistling of the wind through the
keyhole. But Scammon was right, and, fol
lowed by the whole tribe of Scammons, hold
ing lights, he advanced to the hall door, and
opened it.
Whirr-r-r-r! bang! boo-o-oh! wore sev
eral noises made by the wind, the door and the
four Scammons.
"Law! how cold it is!"
"Quite penetrating my dear!"
"Well I never!" '
"Tell you what, ,Alrs. S., it's colder than I
had any conception of."
"Dont go, Joey." •
"Pray don't, papa."'
• Scammun looked at his family, glanced
backward at the opened parlor door, through
which the Liverpool fire was flickering and
flashing; and then Scammbn—went a step
farther, looked up and down the street as far
as the drifting snow would let him—and that
was not far:.—and..ah! Scammon!...Scam ,
mon! where 'lire all your good resolutions?
—he—shut the door.
_The bright' side of life is a pleasing pictUre
to tcontemplate. But oh! how revolting are
the shadows.
Yet if the soul seeks a wholesome lesson,
it is only amid
can
of penury and bitter
want th at we; can hope to find it.
Come with us, reader, to a scene far differ-eat from that we have left. Come with us—
not to the family circle nor the festive cham
ber—but to the chamber of death! '
It is a low, smolte=begrimed garret in the
most infamous portion of the city. The win
dows, without a sash i llot In the bpar frost and
the drifting snow, and through Reach gaping
cranny in those rafters torn and old, the pier
cing blast of winter is raging uncontrolled,
There's no fire on the hearthstone, and' the
solitary flame from a single- wasted candle
is scarcely worthy of the name; from below
there comes the jarring tone of merriment and
glee, and beside yon tattered counterpane a
child is weeping free. .
SATURDAY, iU.Ni',
.26,:,184"4
'6l4.ther! dear mother! don .'die yet!"
The l feeble voice of the child at her side
I
aroused the &fling energies of the dying wo
man. She turned heivily upon her side and
,:i
gazed with a glassy stare upon the child.
"A ! Willy-.. 1 havo been a sinful woman,"
, she w ispered, rather than said. "I have de
ceive you cruelly, Willy—ah! and others,
t00..-you are not, Willy,-..you are not my—
i ink. If there's
I remarked Mr.
told."
hid better half,
"I never could
:)ne must either
day, or MO the
those horrible
was so sensibly
',he season, what
,or little beggar
i s, who has set
tat magnificent
her own miser-
my —\
The ,worda died away upon her lips; she
made oht to reach to the child a small, crum
pled bit of paper, bearing certain inscriptions
which time and other causes had rendered
nearly illegible, and then sunk backward as if
to sleep.
It was a slumber of death!,
Whoever his been compelled to leave'hie
comfortable fireside on a stormy December
night; the wind blowing a perfect tornado; the
air obscured by huge .volumes .4 snow, and
sleet, and the ground in a state corresponding
with that of the weather, will remember how
much resolution it took to face that unpitying
ii
blast nd drenching storm without a murmur;
how tie umbrella would insist on having its
own way, and plunge and oarry on divers oth
er similar • antics, like a balloon before the
strings have been sundered, giving - 1s wield
er the greatest trouble to follow it in its ec
centricivariations. How your hat, seemingly
innoculated with a desire to make a ! night of
it, essayredesperately to release itself from
your frantic.clutch, and your ~w rirratitee In
dia rubbers keep constantly threatening to
len
danger your equilibrium by depositing you
without a moments warning in the keno, 1.-=,-
All these things are peculiar - to the seas on wo
are describing, and; if therefore we tell our
readers that the night succemling that i'a
which too); place the events described In a
foregoing section of this story was by no
means as comfortable as might be desii,ed, he
will be prepared, from sympathy, to place en
tire confidence in the assertion. - .
Poor little Willie, the beggar's ofilipring,
(for such it appeared he Was) .had wandered
all that. day—what a ion day it had seemed
to him!—without a morsel of food. He had
never been accustomed toi stiperabundane
of that very necessary article, and it may be
Imagined that, by this time—what with all
the exercise he' had undergone and -the sleeti
-1
less nights' he had passed— , tha t hie appeti te
was nein of the smallest. For the last two
hours he had taken to begging, but harsh re
plies or an evasive answer were all thiit - he
reaped for his trouble.- What was he - to dtiil
A thought strick him. '
ne war stanaing-uncrenteatn an awning ail-
Tacitly in front of a well stocked grocier.s;,
around' the door of which numerous fat tal
kies and others articles for home consumption
were temptingly displayed. Just at that mo
ment Willie felt a terrible griping in the re
gion of his chest (he didn't know but it might
be his conscience, for his idea of that articlP
.was rather indistinct.) At that moment, too,
`his eyes alighted upon a tempting' piece 01,f
smoked beef which hung near the door. Hot
it was he knew not, but in another" secon d
Willie found the coveted piececif meat within'
his grasp, and almostt the satrie instant hp
rasp
_found himself in the of L a gealrn
lean .
a t
with a near On'hfs - left ititif;as badge of ter'
ror to all evil-doers. •
"Aha! have I caught you young one? Yo
did that cleverly didn't you? . You're a fai'r
candidate for the %palmy you are."
"I didn't mean to take it all," gasped Wil r
lie, nearly frightened out of his wits at what
he had done. "I only meant to eat a little` of
it—l was so hungry!"
"Oh! yes—l dare say; its all very ea's
talking, young precocious, but it went ge
down." ' 1
1
By 'this time a number of 'persons had cob.
lected, and the grocer himself, hearing the disL
pute, had added himself to the crowd.
"Of. with him," said Binns, (that was li'e
grocer's name) peremptorily.. "I'll show you
, how.to go stealing, you yoUng rascal:"
:PI won't do so, again—indeed I won't
—I, haven'r eat anything all day," Willi
made out to gamier between his tears; as hi
unfeeling captor, true to hls duty, hurrie
him away. I
That , night little Willlb paised , ,
in t 4
Tomb's. He had entered on the first errs
of his life. The Law had esigned a course
for him to follow. The br nll
d i,vas upon him,
and already in perspective t Ose to whose bu
mane 'sympathies the lad hid been wrested
could read for the outcast boy a Pelcin's doom.
--• , :
Thirty years! how'
rapidly they glide! 'Men
come and play theiy alkaed parts, each laying
plans of his own for the future, as if life were to
dure forever.' Yetthese , plans are hardly a r' ;
ranged to'their maker's liking, ere--presto,
the glass shifts and he isil hurried from the
bustling scene. Some men are ; like stars
p
which appear when least expected and shine
with surpassing biillianoy for hreef period
then, departing as suddenly as they came, are
heard of no more! Others are like
.preciouti
ores which wait for the world,-to-determine
1 and set their value; and some again are liki ,
those frail wild flowers. which bloom within
the deepest recesses of the foret—opening
and shutting th it leaves, and shedding delit
°ions perfume and fading out its aiientlY al
,
they came. ,
But• what ji the life of ayelon to do with
I
flowers!'
As we have hinted, thirty years had come
and gone since Willie was fast introduced to
the reader. it was winter once more....cold,
dreary; comfortless winter!
Th red nights yet to come, nr44 Christman— ,
"hearty loving, homely". Christmas, with its
welcome - store_ of- cakes and presents—its
hearty gripes of the hand and cordial inter-'
change of friendly sentiments, would be here.
Time has winged his flight antiftlY and stead..
lig, yet not ei leaf of evergreen has old Christ
mas lost from his brow.
It was at a late hour orthe night that t'mktO
men `stood
0 00nve s,g in low tones epeath
the shadow of an - , nfiniiiihed buildinif abated
in 'one of the by streets of the slumbi3ring
city. Although -xti i emely cold, there', Wan tr
clear moonlight, a d-somehOw :or other—
you might look up nd down the sir+ ' for
r
Many a rod, and scar e discern a living being. ,
- "Come—come; ill, right's right lk i the
world over," said on of these men, soi l
I tr rsice,
to the other. , ."If 1m to share the ginger
equally witli
.you, it no more dual' fair' that
I should likewise pa ake, in anequal egive,
of the spoils." , -
' 4 qB it not an'estatt hilted rule that the lead
er should have the 1 irgeet half/ growled the
Othc4, in a surly tone. ' "However,-.l'm'not
so grasping its same men, and, so, you shall
have ono half. I soy Tom," he continued, as
they advancee i into the moonlight, which they
did just as the clock pia neighboring church
was chiming twelve - ."there's et , singular in.:
cident connected Wit i i this little'adventure of
,
. \
ours to-night, Ithat a I w o rth repeating, as it
may aooount in somelmeasure for the manner
of life I /ead." )
"What's that?"
' .
"You see the sign over yon jewelry, store
we are about to try? ": • ~
"Yes," 1 . ,
"What name does 't bearr •
"Minis." , I
"Just so; Binns. ell, Tom, years ago,
when I was a I child—npid enough to remember
an injury, however, that man was the heeper
of a small grocery. recollect thettime well;
the only being that ad ever cared a jot for
mep—she who had bee to me, Tom, as a moth
er—who had fostered and cherished me, Pal
though so poor that he was ()Wiled to beg
from day to day, and from door to door the
scanty and
* miserable food upon liPhich we
subsisted, died! That was a sad stroke, Tom
for me.l When they had laid the cf!ild corpse
in the cheap coffin which had beehl provided
for her, I turned, crying, childliiie, and stole
noiselessly fecrn the wretched garro wherein
she lay. ' That night I slept.--cold I ts it was
—within an exposed area. The next day I
resumed my wanderings. My little feet were
almost bare ' and I felt the inclemency of the
season bitterly. Night came, and though I
had begged from house to house, /so food had
passed-my lips. I came before the grocery
kept by this very man whose name you may
read on yoh gilded sign. A piece of meat
hanging at the door tempted me; , hook it,
hardly knoWing what 1 dld, but being detect
ed in the act was carried to the Tombs. This
step ecided .my destiny. Now, Tom, do pin k ,
think .11— dir " (1 - -- ev '' - 7' t' '
minis er Ju oe a , goo l a ck . t h e y nee 1-
ously
! term it) with so .much pdmposity—do
1 ,
you think, I say, that they fulfilled their whole
duty toward society when , they consigned me
to that narrow cell, and after many , days cast
me forth onco \ more, with a brand upon my
brow, again to prey upon it? Ah! Tom—if
every, prison had within its wallsan institu,
tion for the reformation of its inmates, I
question whether there would be half so many
criminals.* I wonder our wise heads never
1 I
thought of that, Tom." i
"It's because people never Lakes inter-
est in nobody but themselves, I suppose," llom
replied, hluetly,
ByAb' is time they had crossed the way, and
were N front of the jeweller's,'—which was
concealed by the shade. • .
We need pet detail what moans the, two
imatle,use of to effect theft; purpose. Suffice it
that the door was finally opened, and 'Tom,'
eager to clutch the,spoils was the first to en
ter. Suddenly, he stumbled and went - d
with n deep groan.
"You clumsy booby !--Oan't you avoid
Wing; tvhense much depends upon yot
lencer growled his comrade, 'following
No sooner had he fairly, passed in, liovi
than the door was violently elosed b
him, and he felt- across his breast Ow bl
a heay cudgel.
"Damnation! discovered!" he excla;
drawing hislmife.
"Watch! witehr . shouted voloe,
from fright,
"I'lt`watoh you If I can catch yowl' 7 1 1
a d 'Bill' gropint for the owner of thg r
"Hat e got you now, my friend!
,p.
struggle and bawl in that way! 1111soo l
a stop to that.',' - -
"Spare nier muttered the voice, ag,a
give you half my wealth—you cau
what you like 7 -only spare mem
“What—..are you the pweller hiroseli
"I am."
"nd your name
"Binns!"
"Then die, wretch!" shouted 4 IIi a
he evoke, there was a heavy fa!!. The r
turned to fly, but it was too late! The
burst open alniost at the same inomen
the jeweller felt, and in an ingnag e he
hipself a prisciner,
Some months had passed. The trial
over, and who," thinks the reader, prono ,
sentence‘ upon the murderer? ' Sca '
Yes;" it was /a! Scammon, that worthy
merged into vidual had m,erged into an alderman and
ly risen to the judiciary chair. Yet, wi
his talents, tVe, feel constrained to say, `
mon knew more about carving a surto
beef, than he 'did 'about the law!
However! there he wes, a jiidge...e
1 whate ver prOcess he might hive arri, ,
that honorable . distinction, we have too
respect for the distinguished station h.'
to say a word or breathe a hint again ii
The day arrived on which sentenCe, : I
be executed upon the criminal. Sct,
had finished his daily meal, and was q
sipping his wine and .reading thnews, 1
the bell was violently agitated ' the
i n
11
vant, entering the room, present d his ~
with,,a small package, • I
&Ammon took the package—uopene , ,
read it—turned pale andfollbetsk in his
1
• ..Tbare's many a true word ripakaa to dart
Proverb:
L 1 I
ii y ,. oYereoat...qui q
whatlai
twenty' minutes From the
to' Se p'ticivally
Start ng suddenly from
hid hat nd rushed like ad
the stre t.
the risoner stood uptu
r4e and cap were adjust
was prayin g.
46u dezi commotion
—the sheriff, --mreh
cry-4, ~ appreheneive 9f an out,. ~
giving the word—:the „little, crowd is parted,
and the Justice, hstiess--;hie white locks
streaming in the wind—bivalts through their
midst, waving - in the air a paper! Reprieve!
1
reprieve! , , 1
1
Too latelthe drop has fallen!
The pa - ciage which Scammon had perused
with so much intensity, and, which 4ad- thus
unaccountably agitated him, contained only
a feiv lines.
The criminal who had just undergone the
'extreme penalty of the inw was—his lots{ sots.
Illustrated Magazins.
/WE VIRTUE OF 'A SHAKE FROM A
WHITE HANDKERCHIEF,
A party-from one of thvolunteet regiments
shortly after the landini6t.ithe artny at Vera
.ruz, was sent
stead of limitz
thq , came stroas
superior in me
• -„111
• : =•• Of t
, • b - ,
•
time they debated W' lof had better re
treat ipto camp atel.repo'vt 'their discovery, of
give them thebeat 'fight they could. The
party was about equally divided as to the beat
course to ftirsue. Some were 'for' fight, as
long as they could:,-while others contended
that it was not bravery to unnecessarily s
tack a superior force. ; At le oth one of them ,
u, i,
li t
who. had not sa anythin prelionsly, but ,
had been buiy - exa ining 'hi gun and 'emir
nition, to see if the -woe all fight, stepped ,
up and'aski--"Boys, don't you , recollect, as
we Were coining away from home, them "erel
ladies what were shaking their white hand-'
kerchiefs at,us, and Said they hoped we'd nev
er turn - our backs to the enemy•and we all
*said we'd die first?, Well, it's my opinion Cm
not agoin' to Show the white feather after
that. ; I did'nt come from a running stock, ex-
-
cept after the enemy-onot.hefo e him s ml
dad's not agoin' to sec-my name in the ne
papers fOr takin' the back track / I come al
the way out here to fight44thie is the first
show • I've. had, and Cm goin' to take one I
chance" certain. 1 - AtEe ggetaer ia vic a tcatind
~.. ail 6,01,11.11• ILI j n Mt
possible." So saying he .started off in the
direction the Mexicaiis were first seen, jiis
remarks operated-like an electric
,„ shuck on
his comrade, and all followed. They had not
proceeded far before they 'found their foes; a
short skirmish ensued—sthe balls flew by them
whizzing as they passed through the air--.the
little party, except one, who never stopped
running until he got into camp, fought gal
lantly and drove off the Mexicans. After a
short continuation of their search, they feundl
cattle, killed them, i an brought what beef
they could carry into ca np. As toon'as they
had)laid down their load , search - was triads,for the fellow who had I ft his associate in
the fight, and reileatgd t t) camp. He was
found in his tent, brought out before the com
pany, called "a coward," "a runaway," etc.
etc. and liy the company, unfit Mg:a:beef hunt,
The poor fellow hung 'his head, seemad
much mortified, and for some time very quiet
ly listened to their denunoialionst but at
length, slowly raining his bead, and with:dif
ficulty of utteranee,:saidt4Well now, fellows,
did'ever s et flysieff up as -a fightin' man? did
I evr sa I wasti bravo ' an?IllA I,ncier
see r d th re 're trails in. •tOWn eliahe their'
1 ,
white ha dkerehiefs!" \
• Inquiry wasmate'amo,n t!i'f whole et the
company - ,'but 'no Co e could be found Who' e'Ver
heard thelftreating hero say
,that lte was a
brave man, or that he had seen the !tidies
shake their white handkerchiefs. So it was
generally agreed, that as he had laid no claims'
to any of these merits he bad aright to run
away, and no de had a right to say anything
about it. Accordingly he ,vas let off, much
to his satisfaction.—. j ig`. p; Della,
~
CUM
turn
r'
[MEI
Ind
w of
mod,
hick
Out,
oice.
Gift
Put
WELCH SAYINGS.
n,...
take
Three things that *never become rusty.--
the money of the tenevolent, the shoes of the
butcher's horse, and a woman's tongue. Three
things not easily done—to allay thirst with
fire, to dry wet with water, to please all in
every. thing that is done. Three thing that
are as good as-the best.--brown bread int fain.
ine, well water/ in thirst, and 4- g rey coat in
cold. Three things as good as their better—,-
dirty water to extinguish the fire, an uglir, wife
to rblied man, and a wood sword to a coward.
Three warnings from the grave....thou know
eat what I was, thou seest what I am, remem
ber what thou. art to be. Three things of
short continuance...a lady's love, a chip fire,
and a brook's flood. Three things that ought
never to be from horne...the eat, the chimney,
and the housewife. Three essentials to a false
story teller.--a good memory, &bold face, and
Paola for an audience. . Three things seen in
the peacock—.the garb of an angel, the walk
of a thief, and the voice of the devil. Three
things it is unwise to boast of...the flavor of
thy ale, the beauty of thy wife, and the con
tents of thy purse. • Three miseries of a man's
house...a smoky chimney, a dripping roofs end
a scolding wife, -
'd as
Man
door
that
(mud
a by
I .d •nt
nob
fills
LOSING} A Cliettscrsit.—A young Irish ser
vent girl, coining from Albany, recently, in
one of the eight steamers, had the baitiluck to
lose the o'recomend", which had been given her
on leaving- her last place, She brought, how
ever, the accompanying rather d obi s 'ticket;
which she presented to a neighbor of oure;.•r.
"This is to say that Kathleen °linen had
good character When she left Albany, hut she
lost it on board" the steamboat coining down
from Atbssiy."—Knirker&eser.
,as to
mon
letly
hen
see
stet
it—
hair.
--a:a
no—,4-nevet Grind
do'ingt Only
ime; and I told them'
his T eat,. he seized
istrzeted being into'
the : scaffold. • The
lives %left
about...Kt wild out
of -.break,
o search of cattle ; but in
ortheir
enemy much
A . or some
ERMI
SEA
ACH FC
1,,
Wl?ero'do
ome
i
who efterwar 5 bey - their wives? is 'a quest
lion we have oceasionkily heard discussed;
and the resulinvariably eeme to ? is worth
• ,
mentioning to Our Our young lf,,dy readers.—.
Chance has touch to de in the affair; but then
i
e
there are impertent go erning circumstances,
It is certain tbatl few I n make a i selection
from ball-roo+, Or an other place of publics
gaity; and nearly, as
, 2e , are influenced by
what ma) be called stirwitiiroffiri streets,orbir
any ellureaßn' aof dress. Our conviction is,
that ninty,nino' hundredths of all the finery
wiih which women decorate or load their per,
sons, go for th - thz, as far as husband catch
ing is conce rn II Where and how, then, do
men fi nd thei wives? In file quiet homes of
their parents r guardians. - .at the fireside,
where the do neCtic graces and feelings are
alone demons rated. These are the charm
i l l
which most s rely attract the high as well as
the humble, gainst these, all the finery and
airs ill the w ktsinit 'into' insignificatice.--g
We shall illustkate 'the by ar, anecdote, which,
though not nerv, w i ll not be the worse for be
ing again told, In the year 1173, Peter Bur,
cell, Esq. of IteCkenharn, in Kent, whose health
was rapidly declining, was advised by his phy.
sicians to go th Spa, for the recovery of his
health. His daughters feared that those who
had only motives i entirely mercenary, would
I '
not pay him that attention which he might,
expett from those who, from duty and affec
tion united, wonld feel the greatest pleasure in
ministering 'tc! his ease and comfort 1 they
therefore reseived to accompany 14- They
proved that it was not a spirit of dlersipation
and pity that led them tckSps, for they.were
not who seen n any of the gay and lama;
ble circles: th y were never out of their fa.
r 1 '
ther's company, end never atirred\from home
except'neettro -!first, either to take the air,
or drink the waters: in a word, they lived a,
most recluse_ life in the midst of a town then
the resort \of t e most illustrious andlasbion
-1 able persouag sof Europe. This exemplary
Lineation iri th it ;figher procured these three
amiable sister the admiration of all the Eng
'
lisp at Spa, and was the cause of their eleva
tionl to that - ra I in life'to which their merits
gave them so 4ust. a title; They all were
married to noblemen..-one to the Earl of Be
i
Yellen anothe • to,the Doke of Hamilton, arid
afterwards to the Marquis of Exeter, and n
i 3
third to the D lke of Northumberland. And
't is but justi eto their - to say that they re
ected honor n their Teak rather than deri
-1 ~t .. rut frrim it. I f I
it 17.4,2.1iik.8. Iwuftreis i -,ii .1. tic- arti: infrctr-stnec. -
I
dote is from t e May lisip. of filackwood. It
is well known thrit the celebrated romances
has a slight ti ge of black in his bleoda,—_-
A person more ii.emarkable for inquisitive
nessathan for correct Weeding..-one Of those
who, devoid of delicacy and reckless of rebuff I
pry into,everyt king—took the liberty to ques
tion N. Dumas rather closely concerning hit, '
genelogical tree. I 1
"You are a
uadroort, M. Durrtasl."
I he be-
gan, '
44 1 am, air,"
quietly replied' Dumas, "who
not to be:ashamed of s
conceal."
Ims sense enoU
scent he ammo
‘"And' your CI
. "Was a.mull
tto."
randfatlierl"
"And jot*
"A negro.", h
whine, pat ience
astiy, answered
_the dramatist,
was waning. •
enquire what - your 'g7at.-
:?
' thundered Duriiss i with a
ado his impertinent hmterrog.
he smallest Possible °palliass e
y pedigree' commences wherq
"MO may
grandfather'ts•i
"An ape, sir,'
fierceness that
ator chink into
"An ape, air--Y
pans terminate•
.. .
Alexander Dumas, the repub
the same name, was a mist..
°mince) the sow et a negresa.
Marquis de lapPaileterie. T
atizin preiCesi thelrond sin
,
, and Me M.Aulsate reser,-
erto been unable to ascertain '
I I
The father o
lican general' o
to, born in St.
and of tie whit
.By what legitl
ister , wts ertise n l
ed we ht velith ,
Tell; ' Yourir
Monthly Rose
atory of a you
wonder the harp
handle a harpoci
ty, when they b -
i "Passing' thr.
we stopped at a l
glass of wnter,
'opened 'doer; w i
which enited
considerable ex ,
IDEA Hatoornrwil 7 4.—The
tells the fol lowing very good
.}whaler in Nantucket. No
v seamen of that island can
II with such I ingular dexterj•
-gin so eatly , in life:
• ugh Nautue -et, lest summer,
out-of-the , way bruise for a
As we approached the half"
• beheld the fohowing scen4
.url risibility, at the-time, to a
, nt.
!onie six years old, hrA fasten
end of a ball of yarn which
holding, which, he very deaf
t an old black cat quietly do?
r. rotor no sooner felt the
e fork, than she darted off
.
epenm eptertsung ou t ip bi b
7olher, pay ono; , fiterc-shr
I Wallow P
urohia,
ed a, fork to th,
his mother was
terously aimed
zing in a corn
sharp prick of t
a jiffy, whilethe
glee, 'Pay out,
gam tlrough th
it is child presumed
the - elephant," recently found
;ovally of three yonog
divided on' orange betweeti
yotiraelf," exclitipte4
IsJ "Not at all" replied one
Orec or four mere in, etif
A youth, wh
had nMfer ((seen
himself in the al
and generously
them, 4 'You
one, of the dames
ent, 'go
lEEE
pock
leg?, Osiectit
found a new sou
figen i in iihick th
Info ito. tpaper y itrrappei,
dant t
an m mil stalls
Inge :11t e al an
000,000. , This 1
o i
nies fr 'the 111
A Fr' • sAerr —'l l
men re Amble
les, Once Senna
ladiei. Take i
handsome and gi
never look on th
witiout ikuttingl
Arton..viihiOstitet- 1 4 11 ' h i li
L
~ree of revenue, in .the;ftnir
i immense deposits 0 . ,,f , Toni
1, by applyini it to 4e teart4 ,
Calculations, founded 'up
ice, make ,the linen swath
ent- Egyptittne worth 1112 1 ,-.
is better than sletainft Pen"
, sef dead racer •,... .
air...-An Irish leatle
fot, his devotions to the fiur
e& "Nesetbe criticit on the
' for graoted that they are
A true geatleroett will
ie faults of a pretty .woman
IhiS eyes:"
II
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