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Joneweek 50 I hrecwcel c. L int ..itel,itit.ircineniiniertion. 25 i p a rgertdvertkemeniLiti proportion tinecul svi I init sndoir ho d tut,' trill strictlyconfined otheif Enstrg. Ny Heart and I FROM MRS. DROWNING'S "LAST POEMS." gnough, we're flied. my heart and!, We sit beside• the headstone thus, And with that name were carved for us; The 111044 reprints more tenderly The hard typed oldie ma•on's knife. As heaven's sweet life renews ennui With which we're tired, my heart and I. You see we're tired, my heart end We dealt with books, we tru-ted non, And in our owe blood drenched the pen, A• !Niue!t colors could not fie. iVe walked too straight for fortune: end, We loved too true to keep it Wend; At Itte-t were tired, my heart and 1. HOW tired we feel, my heart and It We seem of no inn in the world; Oar fancies hang, gray and uncurled About teen's - ryes indifferently, Our voice which thrilled you to will let You sleep; Oar mart are only seer; 'What do we here, my heart timid It tired. so tired. my heart and 1! II was nut t h ug in that old time When silt with me 'neath the lime To watch the sunset from the -Icy. "Dear love, you're looking tired." he sald; I, smiling at him ,hook my head; Tis now we're tired, my heart and I! So tired, so tired, my heart and I! Though now none takes me on his arm To told me close and kiss inc w a rm Till each quick breath and in a Of happy languor. Now alone, We least upon this grave-yard same, Vl:cheered, unk istred, my heart rind I! Tired out we are, my heart and I! Suppose the world brought diadems To tempt us, crusted with loose gents Of powers and pleasure-! lon it try. We scarcely tare to look ut even A pretty child, or God's blue heuvert, We feel co t red, my heart and 1. VII. Vet who compluim.! heurt and I In this uhundunt rim!' no doubt Is little room for thing. worn out; 1314,10 in them, !iron k diem, throw the n by! And if before the day. grew rough We olive were loved, uso•d—well enough, I think, we've fared my heart null I. Apart The hoineiess wind ‘weep, up the rack From the warne of turbid I rltudder to think that di-mal waste Lieth 'tweet' thee and Inc— Lieth 'iween thee and Inc; And the dun earth shroud. thy brea.t. But I know tityerdain gra-s and &Arcot Are tender at th y rent. Heavily down on Ow eerie wino Beale metro/en 'omit, ruin— It duo,* in the deep, dark fore.t depdot Like n human heart ut pain— Like a human heart in won; As my own throbs on to-nialv. Thinking or thee In the cold nad dark. And I to the warmth and light. Never • menage coatedh to me— Oh, haw cruel it em-! Never a word from 'he lost, lost one, Not even in inaln;gin drenin a— Not rye,* in midnight dreams. Oh. twu'd it only he! send me a token! waken a itarAll Of the otd tune eesutc)! 'ram it is: wild it us: I will be Bull! Dead feet never come Imel.! Why should they haste to the world again, Out of the heavenly ilet:— Out of the heavenly track! Aid sinks my heart like. a stone,— Thou art re-ting in Paradise, I am wandering alone! griettiffire. From Me Corobil: Mommine A Strange Way to a Legacy. The year after the general peace was the first of my travels. I was just twenty-two, and thought myself lucky when, early in the summer of 1816, my uncle sent me to his agent and representative in the house of Skinderkin & Co. The firm were fur suer chants—part Russian, part, German, and part English. It was indeed rather a com pany, and a very composite one. Ido nut remember half their names. They had part ners en all the Baltic , Ducth and German towns, not - to speak of London, where my uncle represented them in King William Street; but the fountain head of the house was in St. Petersburg. and . thither be sent me. I 'thought I was going to see the world and be a great man; indeed, having tittle acg era i o tanae-withttfe said actine,l entertained se cret desikas of lording it over the.Eossian and Gin'atan clerks, fur all the company had their national representives in the chief hosse;:andl was appointed tb the English department. Igat a great-deal of gorii ad vice, and a large /apply, of congratulations On the position .r will to occupy. Aly maiden aunts counseled me to conduct myself pro perly; my grandmother reCommended UM not to grow too proud; and the curate of their church in Itampstead gave me serious_ ad tannitions against being perverted to the Greek Church. I set out with all the weight of my own importance and these sage commands. I ar rived safely, though a voyage to St. Peters- ) burg was no joke in those days, and got re gularly located in the home of Skinderkin. It was large enough to satisfy my fondest ex pectations, and stood close on the Neva, that oldest and outstraggling part of St. Peters burg, said to have been the site of an Ingrian village, the whole of whose inhabitants per ished in the adjoining marsh, when the city had to be built at any cost of life or labor, and Peter the Great wielded at once the trowel and the kni.ut for his suldects' en couragement. The nobility had built their palaces there in Peter's time; but partly the moving habits of the Russians. partly the inundations to which it was particularly subject, made them abandon the quarter early in the reign of Catherine 11. Merchants and traders of the first class then took pos session; the palaces were turned into stores and warehouses, from which the noble pro prietors drew considerable additiors to their incomes, in the shape of rent; and in one of rho largest and grandest Skinderkin had located themselves. In such noble rooms, galleries, and corridors, was business never before done. Such quantities of fur, from Finland, Lapland, Siberia, and Kam schatka, as came there to be stored, booked, and shipped, I had never dreamed of. Nev ertheless, the proverb, that far-off fowls have fair feathers, was strikingly illustrated in the matter of my Sc. Petersburg appoint ment. In the first place, the establishment was disciplined after the old Russian fat.h ion, invented in the Tartar times, when every warehouse had to be a fortress, and every merchant a sort of military freemason. We all worked and boarded on the premises, but the work and the boarding were carried on in a dreary, penitential style—silent, se cret and systematic—n happy mixture of the house of correction, the monastery, and the barrack. The hours were kept with regu lation strictness. The meals were announced by the tolling of a great bell, which might have served for anybody's funeral. Every desk and stool was partitioned off its neigh bor; sub. and superior sat like so many pri soners in solitary confinement, except that they could partly see, and all watched each other. Then, as to lording it over the Rus sian and German clerks. nut one of them could speak English I knew nothing of Russian or German—it is not easy lording it without speech—but somehow I discovered that every soul of them cordially despised me, because my uncle was known to have the smallest stake in the limn. I think that fact was first made plain to ITIO by my senior in the English department, which, let me observe, consisted only of hint and myself. lie had come from Yorkshire, and his name was llardstaff—a title which sounded so aristocratic in the ears of the Russians that they entertained a general respect for hint. But had the Fates so willed it, llardface would have been a more suita hie appellation, for I never saw a man who looted as like having been hewn, and not very carefully either, ant of a granite rock. Ile had been forty years in Russia; and al. though my own stay was not long eaotigh to prove it by personal experience. I believe there is something in that select climate which Russiaidse, men of all countries. The process had been effectual on toy Yorkshire Mead. though nobody could be prouder of his British birth, and inure particularly of Ins native (moray. Iliirdstalf was a genu ine sulkject of the Czar, in craft, cunning end cold I...edifies+ fur everything that migi.t serve his own interest, no matter whose it injured. lie had sat so long beside the stove, dealt so long with fur traders. and lived un der the discipline of the house, that his man ner, and, 1 believe, his mind, had the froze:, mechanical tone of a Russian official. Nat ural disposition had probably a good deal to do with it. I never saw the matt smile, ex cept at somebody being overreached; and nett to the furs. the great business of his lire was to take and keep other people down. 1 will do hint the jostice to say he was an adept in both departments. Ills long ac quaintance and largo experience of the trade made hint an authority even with his em ployers. Ile h.%1 their confidence in other respects to aalogree which ‘‘ ai generally known, though not made public. In no country arc there more unacowod indoOnces at work than at Russia. llardstafF was not the head of the house; the deportment in which lie overtly acted was the least consid• erable, but everybody about the premises was aware that Ins opinion was asked on the most important transactions; that he was note taker and spy-Aeoeral for nil his stye riorn; and though the pleasing of him was an impossible aspiralion, it was highly impru dent to incur his For myself, I had come to be my uncle's representative, end the .old gentleman in King William street was an acknowledged partner; but Ilardstaff was so well estab lished by forty years of sorting furs, writing beside the stove, not to speak of spying and being consulted, he know so much that I did nut, and he was determined never should, and business was so differently conducted in St. Petersburg and London, that I settled into the subordinate position fro:n the first hour of taking my seat at the desk assigned me. It stood at the opposite end of the store, which, us usual, in Russia, occupied nearly half the room, then our counting-house, but looking very much as if it had once been a lady's dressing-room. There wore mirrors, with the richly gilt frames let into the walls, which were magnificently painted; and in one corner there were marks as if a word robe had stood there. Of couse, my desk was shut in by a rough wooden partition; but it only went half way to the roof, and by stretching up a little I could see all that came and went, without, as I thought, being observed. llardstaff had the same advan tage, but he never appeared to make use of it. flour after hour I have seen him sitting over his book, 'registering sables, ermines, and black-fox skins, specimens of which lay on the desk before him, without lifting his eyes or Moving a muscle. As for speaking to me, llardstatf never did such a thing, ex cept when, much against my inclination, I had to ask him some question about the bu- einess on hand. Then his answer was given in the shortest possible compass, and the must unintelligible terms be could devise. It was,a case of hatred at first sig'at. Hard staff did not approve of my coming; he want ed no Englishman there out himself. and I can vouch there was no love lost on my side; 'but, he vrissmot the min to quarrel or so be quarrelid with. We wore seated at our respective desks—l ought to say in our cells—one morning. It was summer-time. being the beginning of July; but summer in St. Petersburg means ' one lens bast' twilight, with the sun seen "NO ENTERTAINMENT'S SO CHEAP AS READING, NOR ANY PLEASURE SO LASTING." COLUMBIA, 1. through it something like our red harvest- moon, higher or lower in the sky according to the hours of the thiy, with a heavy sultry atmosphere, not unlike what we have in England before a thunder-storm; in short, just the sort of a time in which to get lazy and do nothing as all. The strange length of day, the dry dreary mode of life, my own strangership in that foreign land. where I knew neither man nor language, had made me heartily tired of my St. Petersburg ap pointment; whim looked so grand in pros pect. I bad dt livered five letters of intro duction at as many houses of my uncle's mercantile acquaintance, was assured of higheunsideration by every one of them, and I I never heard another word or sign of their existence. I had walked round the magnifi cent streets and squares of palaces which distinguish the Russian capital; I had peep ed into the dense pine forests which grow so close upon them; I had looke I at the mu jecks',huts beside the sluggish Neva, the great dilapidated warehouse, and the very dirty shipping which high tides brought under their windows. I had gone to the theatre, and paid enormously for a bad seat: I had mine to the coffee-house. and got dis gusted'with popular habits. I Lad a general conviction that everybody was cheating me out of door% and everybody watching me within, and any apology to get backto King William street would have been a godsend. In this frame of mind I was sitting, and making believe to write, that dim, sultry day of the northern summer, when one of the opposite mirrors, which happened to stand higher than my barricades, showed me that a woman had actually entered the room. would as soon have expected to see a bird of paradise at a female face in that es tablishment; a:1 our tulles were spread, and, believe, our cuisine and laundry done by men; but there was a woman dressed in what I instinctively knew to be the first fitsh ion out of Paris ' not thirty at the outside calculation, with finely moulded features for a Russian, a soft, fair complexion, light blue eyes, and hair of a golden yellow. She had come in so noiselessly that I was not aware of her entrance till apprised by the mirror; and, still more astonishing, she was speaking to Ilardstaff. Their talk was low and earnest, and I must confess to listening; but they spoke in Russian. however, the eye soinetitnes doe; duty fur the ear: by its help and the lowliest of the partition, I dis covered to my unqimalitie 1 amazement that they were talking of myself. blow I learned the tact it would puzzle inn now to tell; I !think it Was by something in the lady's bout. Ilardstaff's flinty visa4o never told tale •i; but when they had spi.ken for a few minutes, he raised his voice and said, in the tone of civil c iminand in which lie was pleased to address lime: "Mr. Summerville, have the goodness to tiring me the invoice of those seal-skins to be seta to our house in London." It was then about furs they had been talking. Did the lady want re buy some of the seal skins that were packed up and almost ready for shipping to my uncle/ No matter: it would give inn an opportunity of getting a better siva of her. 1 had to pass her with the invoice, and that nearei view showed me that not only she was a very pretty woman, but at that I had seen the same face stone days before looking out :it a window of ono of the great palaces in time wide and windy square of the Admiralty. The lady looked at rue now rno.,t graciously, and whlti I acknowledged her presence with my best hurt', said, in very good EugliAti fur a foreigner: ••I am sorry, sir, to he the cause giving you so much trouble." I had not heard my native l'r too months, except fro al time dry, ais•t,;recalile llardstalr, and could have danced for joy un the spot to bear it uttered from those rosy hps; but as it was not desirable to be,' thought insane, l kept toy British are as it-eu Oolai,/, and stavanicred oui• • I —No trouble at all." “You are very good," said the lady.— ••31.igta 1 ask if you have been long In St. Petersburg?" —thily two months , " said I. "And how do you ike it?" "1 have tleireely had thou to imow." it is U ue you E01,;11,1i1 :LEO S140:411,1r people, an 4 do not make up your inh,d, 0 hurry. I have a great re-pe:E. 1 . ,1* the l'ighsh"—how well hhe spoke our language! --- - I bad a g,...ivernes of your nasiou, the best creature in the world. What trouble 4.410 took to teach ino the little imgliph kiwYr!" "ller trouble was well bestowed, madame," said 1, !wing by tiiiv 11.71 e got up my cuur- Age and my to au nen.; "you speak it like it native." "I did not know that Englishman could llatter,"' said the I,idy, with the sweeieit smile; and before I had nine to rebut the charge, she added; tell we bow you like the society here?" "1 have seen very little us yet madame." "Ali, perhaps you have nu friends or rela tions in the city." — Sone, madame; I am quite a stranger." Situ looked at me so kindly, so sympathi singly, I could have stood there fur u fort night; but Ilardstalf handed me back the in voice, saving, with his accustomed fr-ist: "It is all right;" and as I was expected to retire to my desk, I did so with another bow, to which the lady made a polite acknowledg ment, talked a few minutes more in Russ with lid rdstaff, and went out as noiselessly as she had entered. From that hour Ilardstaff grew more fa noilliar and communicative with me, as if be had found out 1 that might be considered somebody. Ills society was about as pleas ant as the fruit of a crab•tree; but 1 had no choice of ennpany, and wanted to hear what he know regarding the lady. Fur once in his life Ilardstalf appeared willing to give the desired information. lie told me she was the Countess Ibizenki, a widow, rich, childless, and belonging to one of the first families in Esthonia. 11e further explained her coming to there warehouse, by letting me know that it had been the Hozenki Palace, and that the seal-skins shipped for ray uncle had come from an estate twist fertile in furs, which the countess owned in the government of Archangel. "It is not exactly her own," said ilardstaff; "but properly belongs to her husband's nephew. She is his guardian, however, and that is nearly as goodhs own ership in Russia." Some days after this, on an afternoon when Llardstaff, by a most unusual chance, was not-at his desk. I was sitting with the pen in my fingers, and the account book befor me, wondering if she would come again in my time, when there was a slight creak of the door, a light rustle of silk, the prettiest. tin kle on the brass rail of the stove, and there stood Madame iturenki. "Ah, my English friend," she said, nmi- ENNSYLVANIA. SATUaDAY NIORNING, MAX 31, 1862. 'mg with accustomed sweetness as I presen ted my-ell, —Low glad I am to see you °nee Bhake hand -1; they always shake hanibin your count: v, don't they? My ty,"V erness told me so. flow I long to visit Eng land!" It is to be hoped that I shook the small delicate hand, covered with lemon-colored kid, as fashion then required, with becoming grace and ardor. I knew that I was in toLise ly charmed. Sheimpired fir Mr. IL•trdstnil'. I told her ail I knew aboat him. She just hinted that her lannoess was not very im portant or her time p•e-sitig. lof cmt.st offered her the best seat the place AT n•de.t. to await his return, and we into o It% - sation. AS far as my meta iry setae• ate it , s o • regularly opened by her ladyship it.qtt tog once again how 1 liked the society of St Petersburg, As we had shaken hands, nod she had such a respect (or the Ettglistt. I re lieved my mind by telling her the truth— that I:knew nobody, and nobody lox w met that 1 hail not a soul to speak to but hard staff, and was heartily tired and sick et my situation. The lady seemed to enter into my feelings to a degree which enchanted me, young as I was. "For from your relations, and without friends in a strange city," she said, "with no associate but the old man who sits at that desk—it is a hard trial. And yon can't re turn to England without your nnele's pet mission, of course?" "No." said I; "and be is a man to whom I should not wish to et,mplain of ! .Miimk; lie would laugh at ate for being and bid Ine mind my business." "Alt, these money-making old men think of nothing but business," said the countess. "But tell me now, should you like to FCC society? I mean tirst-class company—the world of fashion in St. Petersburg." ••lour ladyship, I am not accustomed to fashionable life; I have never been anything but a merchant's clerk." "Yes; but you have a genteel air, and might be made presentable," she said, sur veying me from head to foot with a look of the most candid and kindly patronage; "and as you are so lonely, if you will Le a good boy, and come to my house tomorrow ea en ins, you will see a -elect party amy best friends. It is only quadrilles,cards and sup per." NVas I dreaming, or did a Russian countess actually invite me out of Skiuderkin L Co's counting-house to quadrilles, cards turd cup• per? Then what apparel had Ito appear in at the Rozenki Polack'? Enening dress had never been counted among the requisites of ' toy existence, and in the contusion of these thoughts I enahl only stammer um; "Much obliged to your ladyship, but—" Yon are thinking of your dress, young man." said the countess, laying her small baud on my arm, and looking me archly in the face; -.yell, don't disturb yourself about thht; we can do fairies' work at the Rozenki palace, and you shall be my Cinderella.— Just step around to the tea-shop in the lane behind your warehouse, about seven o'clock tomorrow evening; pat a .1 a carriage waiting there, step into I : it will bring you to the palace. The footman a ill s:tow you dressing-room where you will Sind every thing requisite for a gentleman's toilet; then ring the hell, and the footman will con luct you to my saloon." I do not remember what I sail by way of thanks ant acknowledgment fur this, it was so unlike anything I had ever met with, so far out of the common course; yet where was the young man in my position who would have refused?" "0,1, never mind," said the countesv, cnt ttog; ate -port with another light pat on the nr.o; ••:iiti will be kitid to some Russian. perhaps, woo may be lonely in England, I when you hale inherited your uncle's Ini•i ness, and bee Otte It great merchant. Yon won't forget t be at the tea-shop at seven. ean't wait fur that old man any longer.— sae shook hands with me once more and was going, whoa a ',made,' thought seemed strike her. ' - Mv friend I forgot to ask ' she soul, turtling at the door; o I'l you -peak French?" •N si..el I, blushing to the , . 0 m y hair, AV l ref:0111%11CA that t h at WaN littlAna4e of pool society in Russia: i m r. my .tettoolohies hail been in the time of the lotig, war, when French WSIO4 neither so common nor so requisite tti it has :duce be come to men or business. •• 1) , put illitler.tatid it at all?" anti her imdc ar k , tc..ouly — Nut a W.llll, "That is unfortunate; everybody of fash ion speaks French here, and very few under stand English: besides, nothing could e.,11- vinec them that you had not been brought up a mere peasant—a boor, you utiocrstaml, if you could not speak French; but there is one expedient has just occurred to me; vott will pretend to be cluutb. I know you are clever enough to act a part; it will be nu loss, In you cannot understand what is spoken; but, remember, not tt sound be before my guests or servants; it might brill,: US both to be talked of, and 1 want to let you see society. Good-by." Tlie door had closed upon her exit before I had well comprehended the curious ar rangement, but the-more I thought of it the more clever and advantageous it seemed.— The Countess Kozenki had evidently taken an interest in me; was it friendly? Was it more than that? A. rich and childless wid ow, young and beautiful, moreover, lied taken it into her head to show me good so ciety, end make me presentable. The chance was worth following rip, whatever it might lead to. Ilardstuff came in about half an hour after, but of course he heard nothing about it. There was no reason why he should. Seven was our closing hour, then the supper came off; some of the clerks went fur walks or to see their friends; the lazy ones went to bed; some Russians can do a wondrous deal of sleeping. Miring pondering and congratulated my self on the invitation, and given the porter a silver rouble to take no notice of my move ments—a Russian understands such matters without speech--I went forth at seven on the fullovring evening, as if to take my tie customed walk, and in front of the tea-shop there stood a carriage—a very handsome one, but with no crest on its panels, and what I have often remarked in Russia struck me forcibly on this occasion; though the usual class of customers were coming and going to the shop, though dirty children played about, and lazy men sat smokiiig at every dour, nobody looked curious or sur prised to sassed, Jib equipage in theirquar ter. 4t was strange, too, how quickly the coachman seemed to known his fare; he opened the door the moment I approached; I stepped in, and away we went to the nook' Palace. I knew the city well enough to see that we were not going the direct way, however, and also that we stopped at the back entrance, which was in a narrow, sombre looking street, with a dead-wall shutting in the grounds of a monastery right opposite. A footman in splendid livery received me, showed the through a passage and up a stair to a dressing-room elegantly furnished, where, according to the countess's promise, I found every requisite for a gentleman's toilet, including a complete suit for evening dress. The cloths were made more in the Parisian than the London style—so they seemed to me; but who had taken such an exact account of my proportions? they fitted aie a mozi ogl v, and my whole appearance in the full-.ctigtii mirror gave me courage for .he rest of the trial. Ilavine , " dressed, I rang the bell as commanded, and, to my astonish ment, who should answer it but the countess, herself! She wine a magnificent evening , dr e ss, of which, not being skilled in ladies' apparel, I van only say that it was very low, and that the lady looked to great ad vantage in consequence. The quantity of jewels flashing from her snowy neck and arms A OUld have dune some ladies good to see; but in she came as friendly and famil iar as she had been in the countirs-hoose. just wanted to see how you looked be fore going down to the company. Alt! very well indeed," she said, turning me round by the arm as if I had been her younger sis ter on the point of being brought nut.- - pi,hc t , I guess your fir, my dear boy? You nil: make conquests among the girls this , evening. But don't forget year part of j mute; it is all we can do for the present. Of I course ru will le urn to speak Pt each in time; I'll give you lessons myself. But now I must go to receive: the footman will eon , duct you to the saloon; do your deroirs as if you had . not seen me, and don't forget that you are dumb." She left me before I could makelany reply. In another Minute the footman was at the door. Under his escort I reached the recep tion rooms. What a noble mansion it was! how extensive—how richly decorated—noth ing more splendid than that suite of public rooms, ever came under my eye. The furni ture, mirrors, and pictures were on the most tnagnifieent scale. I don't pretend to be a judge of such trailers, butt have seen noth ing like it since, and it fairly dazzled me then. The countess was seated in the central saloon; seine of the company hail already arrived, others were coming in. I heard the roll of carriages, the hum of voices, the rus tle of silks. The novelty of the scene rather confused me, but I was determined to prove that I was clever enough to act my' part.— There might be a great stake to win or lose that evening; so I walked straip,ht up to :Madame Rozenki, mado the bow which had been extensively practiced for the occasion, saw in an opposite mirror that it gas well dune, and would trace retired to a seat, when to my utter amazement, she sprang from her velvet sofa, utteied a half-scream of French. threw her arms round my neck, and kissel me on both cheeks. I never was so taken by surprise in all my life, awl it is my firm conviction that I must have looked particu larly foolish, but there was no timer to recover myself; she took me by the arms instantane ously, marched ins round the rooms, present ed me to every holy, old and young.; they all seemed wonderfully glad to see me, but as every one spoke Frenelt, there was tie chance of forgetting my part. I bowed and smiled as well us I could; the countess did all the balking, and nt LIFd. She conducted me back I to the salon, aid set me down between two very plain and very large young women. with an astonishing amount of feathers anti diamonds. They _both talked to the with ' 1 great civility. of course; I . did not understand a word, but replied witli nods and smiler, which seemed quite satisfactory. People eatoc and came mail the rooms were full, I saw officers in Russian uniforms, with stars and ribbons on their breasts, and holies i n all sorts of finery, but there was not a pretty 1 woman la t h e rosin escopt M.oltime Rozenki. She presented me to everybody; they all took as ninth notice or ate as if I had been a foreign prince MI my travels. I did whatever she bale me, which she did, of course, by signs; played cards with three old ladies, danced with two young noes, handed herself to the supper table, and felt myself in fairy-land; the splendid dresses, the magnificent rooms, the hum of conversation. , and the crowd of faces, were all PO new, so I dinerent from my counting-brise life, that I the whole seemed like's dazzling. dream. At last the company began to scatter away; the daylight had %%WIC.] and Conte, again, as it does between eleven and one at that season. Tn c countess whispered to me in a corner fiat I had better get home; me own clothes were in the dressing-room, and the footman would show me out; that Wai after a good many ladies iti d gentlemen had tel.:en an almost affectionate leave of me. I went up accordingly, re-dressed, was soon out at the back-gate, found my way to the lane, got in' by the broken conservatory, but could not fall asleep till about half an hour before the great bell summoned as s ail to our places of business. I made up for it by sleeping over the desk that day. Our work WAS slowly as wed as cheerlessly done. If Ilardstaff ob served anything., he made no remark; if he had, I should not have minded it; my head was full of the Rozenki Palace, the fine com pany, and the countess. I hare said she was a pretty woman; I had no doubt that el.e was ' rich, and it was impossible to doubt the in terest she had in me. Nothing in the world would hare taken me out of St. Petersburg now; I had come to a new life in the strange northern climate. Madame Rozenki was 1 th e first woman I hitd ever seriously thought of, and how could I help it, under the cir cumstanced - -- The very nest day, Thardstaff was gone from his desk again. I fancied he had taken to-the tea-shop, and thought it beneath him to be known. Gone ho wag, however, in the afternoon; and with the same creak, rustle, and knock. in came the countess. She made no escuse, did not ask for flardstaff, but sat down at once, and began talking to me; hew I liked her party—what I thought of the 14- dies—did I know what any of them had said of me. and would I like to come again? I did toy best to answer in n truthful man ner, particularly as regarded the ladies, far I saw she bad kept a remarkably close watch upon me all the evening. I also took occa sion to insinuate my surprise at her own - be havior, and the general notice taken of sue by the company. , "0 yes," said she. "I received you as an old friend—that is the best pus•port to so ciety. They were all friendly, of course.— That itrour way in' Russia: Nia are •quite warm-hearted people." - • They did not look so. but no doubt they were. I would have believed anything that woman said. - $1,50 PEE YEISE IN ADVANCE; $2,00 IF NOT IN .11DVANCE She congratulated me on appearing to such advantage; said she bildUld have credit in my bringing out; assured the that the two ladies between whom I sat were her late husband's cousins, and heiresses to great es tates in Red Russia; and advised me not to let them or anybody else know I was not dumb till she taught me French. “Then," said she, "the recovery of your speech will he so interesting. But lam forgetting that I want you to write something in my album;" and opening a Bat parcel she had brought under her arm, the countess presented me with a beautiful book of the kind with illu minated borders, backs of carved ivory, and all manner of bondwritings and languages on its satin-like pag?..t. "There, you are to rate some Englt,it po ctry—any thing you like from Shakespeare or Byron. within that border of forget.me-nots. It will be a specimen of your handwriting and your taste, for the to keep when you have gone backe to your own England, and forgotten me." "I will never forget you, madame," said I, and might have said more, bat she ruse with: "There is somebody coming—l mu=t go. Bring the book with you to-morrow evening --nt seven, remember. I won't eend the car riage; it might attract attention; the f , otman will he waiting for Sou at the back gate.— Good-by, my dear young friend." aml tho conntim , -house door again closed botween her aneme. With all the care and precision requisite for such a task, 1 copied a pasioge front II s• men and Juliet into the ivory album. It was intended to indicate my private senti ments. I don't think I was actually in love but Madame llazenki, though some years older than myself. 1V:14 a young. htiv wealthy widow; and what man at twenty-two would not have fallen into the snare? I copied the pa.—age, and I went to the party. The footli.an received me at the back gate, and showed me to the dressing-room. I got arrayed, rang the bell, was inspected by the countess in another rich eveoing.dress was approved of, conducted to the drawing room, presented to scores of more company, bet to dance, play cards, and hand ladies, and allowed to go home in my old clothes end creep in at the conservatory window as before. There were, I believe, two or am more invitations by notes brought me by a dirty boy from the tea•shom but my first evening at the Palace serves so completely for all that followed, that I have no additional par ticulars to record. An inexperienced person would scarcely believe how rapidly the charm:: of the scene faded away, or rattier became tiresome. The mere sight of grandeur and finery, which seemed so dazzling and fairy-liko at first, on the second or third repetition lost its novelty As I could not understand a word that was said, the real amusement of company was lost to me. Phiying, the mute's part for so many hours ; and going home with nothing but it glare of lights and jewelry in one's eyes, and getting up to business after nn hour or two of broken sleep to doze over the desk all day, seemed all cost and no profit. If madame had given me a quiet interview with herself in one of the back room., where one might get up one's courage, and make one's declaration, it would have been some thing worth busing sleep, bribing porters, and shirking Ilardstaff for: but the lady called me her dear young friend, presented me to her company, and gave me hints on deportment What bitter signs of a tender interest could any man expect? I was weighing the whole subject in my mental balance one day in the counting genre; I had not missed Ilardstaff; but the creak. tire rustle and firelight knock brought me out of my own barricades to see that his desk was vacant, and Mathu»e Itmenki Imd taken possession of the only chair we kept fur strangers. The usual remarks and Montt her List party haring passed, she began m compliment me nit the elegance of my linads writing as exhibitod in her album, a cotin t ess-dowager and two lioire:Qes rrnm Nldse,aw had admired it, and 1 made a hold tittompt to direct hot attention to the meaning of the pass:l 7 e written, and its suitability to my peculiar ca , o, by saying: "linw do }on like the lines I selected?" "Ah, they are moving," said the cm with a very embarrassed look. "Von should not have written them; 1 must not hear such thing; you .lo not know all; 1 am on un happy woman;' here sh , sighed deordy. "You unhappy. m triame?" said I, o oninz a step or two nearer, for Cm opportunity was nut to be lost. "1 - 95," said the countess. casting, her eye on the ground; "liot do not ask me; I earmot tell you; yet you are 'hi only pers. , . on hom I can depend. Iler were raicrd now, and hokinr, me keenly in dico fare.-- • IV ill y o u do me a service?" " the rick of my•life, madame, — said T, and the raer was hane.dly male. ...Well, I believe you: but fortunately !herr. i 4 no such risk requisite: all I can you to do is to make o fair copy of this pa peg t" and she produced froth her pocket a pretty large one, neatly folded. "You ree," she e•in tin tied, spreading it open before me, "it is a law paper, absolutely necessary iu a very impor tant suit—ono which may result in riche 4 Or ruin. I must give it up to the court, bat as it might lie lost, or get into my enemy's hands, nn accurate copy would bo of the greatest importance :o Inc. Family rea.cms make it unadvisable to intrust such a paper to any clerk or lawyer, but I eon trust you. If yon will take the trouble of copying it, word for word, letter for letter, in vonr own clear beautiful hand, I will never forget the obligation" An instantaneous offer to do that or any thing else she wanted, was the only reply I could make. -.- "Thank you, thank you." said the coon toss, placing tho paper in may hand, which, by the by, alto pressed. "lou are the only man in the world from whom I could ask such a service, and to your honor and dis cretion I can trust for keeping tho secret. - 1 know it, I know it," she continued. cutting short my protestations of prudence in all that concerned her. "When do you think you can get it finished?" "To-morrow," said - I, glancing, hastily over the paper; it was large, a folio slice; of parchment, and written in dm old Slavonic character, which is still employed irt Sian law and theology. "Welt, to-morrow evening bring•it to my house; the footman will admit you nt the back gate, and I will explain everything to you in my own boudoir. Bo 2articular in copying thrs;"ii, firile7pointed_ to some words like a signature at this end of the pa per. "Good-by; I mast gs. Come between seven and eight;" and thiji countess wits ont of the door before she could hear my prom ise to be punctual. [WHOLE NUMBER 1,655. I copied the paper with great attention to accurate transcrint ion and strict secrecy. Word for wor.i, letter for letter, as Ma i dame liozenki di: e,:ted, I trace,' out in the privacy of my own room, .s n 4 n - r.t to ho seen by liariktra the curious Sit.vonic writ ing:, of which 1 did not, understand a syl laW.e. There was same difficulty in matching, the parchment and copying the signature, it might hare been the emperor's sign manual for aught I knew_ The work east me a sleepless night, but it was finished in good time. No eye could. have told the difirenco tiCtICCeTI :he ec.py., and the original; nobody had cause to Silt peCt what I was about; end with the serried' Horse, and /he great opportunity in the bolt-s .1 sir in prcspect, I repaired to the buck gate, of the itozenki Palace between seven end eight. The same footman admitted me, and with the accustomed Jun . :, motionless :Ind stolid;' but instead of lealing• Oft 10, the boudoir, "as's -1 exreeted, he handed me a sealed note, and stood by in the passage till I read it. Timer process did not require much time. 'The billet, la hielt was dated at 19 A. M , edri*-: . tained only this: .. i_e "N o Dr: 4 tt YoUVC: F:t/TNI3--ErittlfrStlPO err-: enmstances oblige me to set out immediately for Arelinngel; I insist therefore lose t he plea sure of receiving y•ou this evening; but we; will meet again on my return, when 1.• hope= t 5 make mar , I:tting azknowledgemetits fuer von r friendship. Meese to give the papers,. Loth ropy ;111 , 1 original, t - t the fo,tnien; he has ot,lers hew t i forwerd them; and be lieve me yours, is great haste, ear:lna:Ns Enc.:mt." ''.' It was her own handwinines, and only one course remained for me; I gave the papers to the footman. !laving nu knowledge ,of, each other's language, no questions could be asked or answered; and I w ent h ome , won dering what business could hare called her:- se suddenly to Archangel, when she would . return, and what acknowledgements were to be made to me.. These wonders were still fresh in my mind when, a few days after, the English packets breught me a letter trom my uncle, earnestly requesting my immediate return to England. It was so brief, and so hastily written, that I concluded the old man must be v . ery'ill,` and thinking of his heirs and suecessurs...--1 Ilardstaff, to whom I showed the letter by. way of apology for my precipitate departure , was of the baffle opinion, and thought I tied,' lose no time. No time ass lost; I set out with the Eng- lish mail : pm:km.. It was reckoned a fort night then from St. Petersburg to London: but I reached King William street in the_ forenoon of the tenth day, to find my uncle well and busy in his counting; house, In answer to my hasty inquiry why he had sent for me, theadd man looked mysteri ous, beckoned me into his private room, and - nut into my hands a letter from Skinderkin - & Co , in which lie was informed, in the -, most business-like manner, that the interests of the firm and my own safety made it ad visable that I should leave St. Petersburg, immediately, as I had incurred the resent meat of a noble Russian Lmily. - The case was now clear to me; the coun tess had been exiled to Archangel, and I - sent home to England, through her high-., born relatiods' dread of a ntesallianee. ~ , 1 felt myself the hero of a real rintinneei but what was to he dune? 11cr address in' Archangel was unknown to me; and evens if it had been known, who could say,into whose. hands my letter might fall. Better n to we-14 . , and see what chance time might, bring,— . For the present, I parried my tutee's lee , - ' tures and inquiries by giving him to under-. stand that I could nut help the partiality of a i lei] widow and a countess. The old time teeniest to think it very nn accountable; so did everybody who heard it except my mother, good woman; shosenlesa: ' !wed on, officiating at a wedding-breakfast it, the Iluzeni., l'aineo. . I became , otoebody, even in thehouse ; keeper's opinion, but had subsided into my' 01.1 place in the rountilig-house, and my seat in the back parlor, when, with the last packet, which lett just before the frost had tulose , l the Baltic, who should arrive but •' Ilar4stoli: e . Ile had resigned, his sate° under Skinder ; kin 4. Co., and was 011 his way to Yorkshire,. where he intended to spend the rest of his 1 slays in genteel retirement by help of his s Russi a n savings, They had got two -Scotch-- , :non in Lieu et both bins and me; but soma ' affairs which he was commissioned to wind , ! rip bronght him to King, William street; and I took the only opportunity now 'in my I power t i Ic tin something, of lhe countess, ' by a-king, hint, when we chanced to be left I by nerselsrs, if 111.nlarne Itazenki had been ~ coiling at the c ending-house of 1010. _ "0 no," said lie: "ehe sends her steward ' now; she mints no mere silly young men to .10 her bashiess: . i"What Intsinessi do you moan?" tread . : • • "What yon did for her; helping to get her nephew's estate in Arehangel. The boy.: had died while yet he was a minor, in the , I numattery, jest behind her palace, where she I had pinged him to be educated and not of the way. Ile was dumb, yam see, and had been dead for two years, but nobody knew , that. She g.l the rents and the furs, and , et last contrive] a scheme—l wrote be- : cali c o 3 -n o Inoketi aat ~.1:,,,, c t for it—tn pasts 1 you on - for her dead nephew with her (11Cfn - puny at the palace, and make you ropysout ; a will lensing the estate to her. I behest) . 1 , the monks and she got up a funeral 'when you were fairly snit of Sr. Petersbneg.- •Oe' j course she made Skinderkin, .&_Ce—stant“ 'you. - And the amiable man smile 1. ,:: , A "What slid you get fur helping in the heisi-, $ nes...?" said I, feeling that every word ho - -—.- . • • spoke was true. , - ... "Fools do the work, and wise moo get the profit," responded my-excellent senior.—' - But I must tell you she is married ,to tv - prineo—one of the notrienoT fentily, they_ say; and I ‘,..iiia advi4e pm, to keep ,well,, out of Russia; it ,would riever (1. , fir people to know the strange Ivey vhe took- to - get 3 her legacy.' : .- 1 'Garibaldi bac inct rnceired irNGre monn A very singuti r cvmplimCur.. ittratt-- , tires:sea a letter to.the youth of the city urg-t in 4 them to abstain faun vice a l d , t o l ove and seek eltiention. ''rtfti;eonenttlitiik or his Marone the velminAtie.;rintbotitieiref; Cremona harp decreed: elven:a be writtallos" idlers of gold on the thrt sitold of-thejr_SYW-t basiunl. They read nq followg': - . • . “find lusty ,lean. better iastrue tea . , g, e i" =lila !end berate - this" haeelnowniftalarer' bounder, Wet* w, the wail of of the* hedge of a garden. but • the bleu Alps awl* the bread sea. She would *we sateßt frpto 4 her all that defiles bar." a / , .1 - ' 1113 - ...t. , 2
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