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Bellefon'tv April ,
Come let us ramble. in the fields,
And listen to the song,
That's breathed upon the passing winds,
From natures myriad throng ;
For beautiful thelsaulseisperaweiles,
The blushing flowers lend,
;Their odors to the gentle breeze,
In-gryste‘protusiou-blend.-....-.
Como let us ramble where the gorgeous,
Gentle rippling till,
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Along the rising hill ;
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WILLIAX r 11 ll.Bo',
But I don't Illegal that, Blanche," re•
turnigl the other, somewhat petulantly ; "arid
you just laugh like a gay thoughtless girl,
when you ought to be serious. Because you
have come safe thus far, thcbugh a partially
settled country, you think, perhaps, your
min frotty face will wait] oft danger in the
morn perilous wilderness—but I warn you
that a fearful journey is belore.you! Scarm
a boat decends the Ohio, that does nut 4-
Day's ebbuo , .ide soon flows from efrr l ielW
The sunbeams pa YS MYllly, mintier more or less peril from the 'savages
These are bat monitors that change, , that prowlalong ithcr shore ; and some of
011 all things oiiti .4 decay ! I them that go down tretghted with human
Tis then thought a ings It 9 don rty flight, life, are heard of no more, and none to, et re.
Into the dream)
turn to tell the tale "
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And o'er times stye ehangnig tans But why repeat this to me, dear aunt,•'
Is meditation cast. I returned Blanche, with a more serious air,
We'll ramble till the ev'ning
(dow on the azure deem
When wooing zephyrs kiss the brow;
The world it sinks to sleep ;
For soon the lovely rosy beams,
That linger in the sky,
Will vanijob into stool clad hues,
Sublimely to tile eye!
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We love to dwell upon the theme,
Whieh nature thus inspirev -
Fur Hilo can cast a single thought
Unless he too admires,
The majesty, the life, he power,
Of each and everything
Of (10,1's CI entrti rniver •,
Add his der rad ipring.
White reading rat:v.4ll4y awn it...uuwant.-4.. the
ft ightful maasacre of seiteral white families
by the Black-feet Indians, we Were remind
t.l of a thrilling et ent which occurred in the
• NA ild West," a short lime Nulie glint J.,'
the tiroilltioti. in which' a highly unworn.
!dished you n g lady the daughter cf a the.
oflieei of the Ann riran Army,
play t,l au important part. Tab , story it tug
Of a most thrilling nature'," and et hibiting tit
a striking mantur the "-Pink of the Itor
.kr " we have concluded to gi,e /111 ettrart
fu , ni it, as originally publi,lietl, a, follows
'lke angle onthe tight bank of the (treat
Kanawha, formed by its junction with the
Ohio, i, called Point Pleasant, -Ind iv a place
mf historical note Here, on ale huh of tle-
Leber, 1774, during a hat is known at I or,'
Duninore's War, wan fought 0111- of the fier
cest and mitst desperate battles that tier
tool: plaZo between the Virginian, and tin ir
forest foe'..
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After the battle in rweAtion, nn %%ich the
{% ere defeated with gi cat lu.s.v, a fort
Was here erected by the tractors. ulna' be
came a post of gfat importance throughout
the aanguinnky Sem& of strati which almost
immediately followed, and which in thig sec
tion of the country were continued for man)
years after that establishment of peace which,
acknowledged the limited Lidonies of Amer
ica fice and independent nation
At the landiugi of the fort, on the ila) our
story opertn, wan fastened a flat-boat of the
kind used by the early navigators of the
Western rivers
upon the duck of this Isiah, at the mo
ment we present the scene to the retailer,
stood five Individuals, alike engaged in
watching a gt oup of persons mostly retrial's,
who were slowly approaching the
haft ling.—
Of these live . . one was a Omit, sleek negro,
in partial livery, and evidently a house or
body servant ; three were boattrfan and hor
beterti,, at" inditatedby - their rough bronzed
visages and coarse attire ; bud the fifth was
a young man, some two-and-twenty years
of age, of a fine codunanding person, and a
clear, open, intelligent countenance ; and in
the lofty carriage of hie head—in the gleam
of his largo, bright, hazel cyo—there was
something which denoted on of superior
mind ; but as we shall have occattipn in the
course ofaurnarrativolo fully set forth who
and what EugeomPairfax was, will leave
him for the present, and turti to the ap
proaching group, whom he seemed to be re
garding with lively interest,
of this group, composed ore middle aged
men-au4-four-fiinnales,-
servant following some live or six paces in
the rear, there was one whom the most cas
ual eye' would have slingred out anti . rested
upon with pleasure. The lady in question,
was appirently about twenty years of ago,
of a slender and graceful figure, and of that
peculiar cast of feature, which, besides be
ing beautiful in every lineabient, rarely fails
la„eftect the beholder with something like a
charm.,
Iler traveling costume—l fine brown . hab
it, high in the neck,• buttoned closely over
the bosom and coming down to her small
pretty feet, without trailing on the ground --
was botb . neit and becotnin7, : innt her riding•
Stittittr Vottft
[Frew the Bunton /Wax]
Strigling Thoughts.
IST=M
Dlisctlinntolis
The Penis of the Border
cap 1 4 4 'rowing ostrich plume, set gaily
shape Isprdewlng curls, Joh appOsrance eon-
Wasted forcibly .with the rough, Unpolished
looks of those of her sex beside her, with
their linsey bedrgowns, scarlet flannel pet•
ttoontet, and hleached linen yaps.
Oh, Blanche," 'mid (meld' the mere ven
erable of her female coinpanions, pursuing a
conversation which had been maintained
14H00 quitting the open fort behind them, "I
cannot beirte let you go ; for it just seems
to me as if something wOre going to happen
to you, and when I feelthat Wiy, something
generally does,happen.'r
-,0.W0e,-suet.'!-.tatal4ad-Btabehe,_witlt a
light laugh, a I danit doubt in the least
that Joinething will happep--1ci..1 entect
one of these days to Peach my dear father
and blessed mother, and giro them such an
embrace as is due from a dutiful daughter
to her parents—and that will be something
that has not happened for two 14,g years
at least."
t‘ lean you know it is- my destiny, either
good or bad, to attempt the voyage i My
parents have Riot for me to join them in
their new home, and it is my duty to go to
them, be the peril what it may "
.• You never did know what it was to
fear!" paralled the good Woman, tether
proudly \o,•' kite repeat, d, turning to
the others, " Blanche Bertrand never did
know what it was to fear, I believe !"
I Just like her f4ther I" joined in the hus•
talia! of the matron, the 'mother of Blanche
mother, the cainmander of the station, and
the middle aged gentleman mentioned as (ma
of the- party 4' a trio daughter of a true
!soldier Iler fritter, Colon,' Philip Ber
nand, Lied bless him tor a tree heart ' nev•
er did seetw to know what it was to fear--
and Blanche i. ju,t. like hen."
By this tune the parties hail reached the
boat : and they ming man air, my Insenbed
- Engenc Fairfax, the seeretnr) of Blanche's
lathe: -at one( stepped forward, nod, in •
p•.litewrd deferential manner, ofh rid his
hand to the diff, rent femmes, lii nasist them
un bnatil The bond of Illauche wa, the
lust to touch Ins -and then but slightly, as
she sprung clinch ly and lightly to the deck -
but it close olist•rt ,•r might bare detected the
shglit flush wlin.h mantled Lis noble, ex
pressive features as Its eye for n single in•
slant met het s. She might herself have
seen it—perhaps she did - but there it a, no
cot responding glow ou her on a bright, pret
ty face, as she imputed, to jlie ralm, digni•
lied tone of onc hating the right to put the
question, and a•ho might also hate linen a
mire of the inequality ,f position between
herself and hint she addre,•:ed .
" Eugene, is eterything prepared for our
departure 1 it will not do for our - teat to
spring a leak again, as it did coming down
the Kanawha— for it will not be safe 'for us,
am told, to touch either shore between the
diflerent forts and trading posts on our finite,
this side of our chstniallon,-- the Falls of
the
" No. indeed '" rejoin,' her aunt, limek
ly, it ndl he as touch as your lures are
worth to enture a foot from the maul cur
-1 rent of the Ohio— for news reached us only
the other day, that many boats had Bice at
tacked this spring, and several lost, a ith all
on board."
No one feels'more concerned about the
safe passage orMiss Betrand than myself,"
I replied Eugene, in a deferential tone; "and
I •
81111 . 0 our arrival hero, I hare left nothing
undone that I thought might possibly add to
her twenty and comfort."
" That is true, to my personal :knowl
edge." joined in the uncle of Blanche ; "and
I thank you, Mr. Fairfax, in behalf of my
fair kinswoman. There wilt — perhaps," he
pursued, " he no great danger, so long as
you keep in ,the current : but your watch
must not be neglected for a single moment,
either night or day ; and do not, I must sob
emly charge and„warn you, under any cir
cumstances, or any pretence whatsoever,
sta..] yourself to be decoyed to either shore!"
I hope we understand our duty better,
Colonel," said ono of thomerb_ respectfully,
I doubt it not," replied the commander
of the Point: ^ I believe you are all faith•
ful and true men, or you would ;not have
been selected by the agent of Colonel Ile
trand, for taking down more precious freight
than you ever carried before, but still tko
wisest and•ths lest of men have lost their
Ives by giving oar to the most earnest ap
peals-6f human,lty. You understand what I
mean i White men, apparently in the
greatest distress, will hail your boat, repre
sent tlwmselves as having juid escaped nom
the Indiana, and beg of you, for the love of
God, in the most piteous tones, to come to
their relief: but turn a deaf car •to them—to
sett sad all of thorn—oveti eiliould you know
t ir
the pleaders to hoof your ' n kin; for in
such a ease your own bre r might deceive
you—not Wilfully and vol doily, perhaps
—but becaude of. being goat, On by. the-sav
ages, themselves concealed. es; such things
have been known as one god being. thus
used to lore another to his destruction-; and
so be cautious, yigilant, Grant and tree, and
may the good.Glod keep you;111from harm?"
As ho finished trprakinki,lfienebe .pro-
corded to take en affuetiohate leave ,of all,
receiatig many a lender message for her
parents from those who held them. in love
And .ventration; ' anA_ Or _l24Pt 'MAR 90.1
out, and 13,egltn to float deem the carrel - it,
now fairly entered. upon the moat dangerous
poi Lion of a long and perrionit journey.
rho father of Blanche, Coliinel Philip Ber
trand, was a native of Virginia, and a de
, scondant of one of the Ifurienot refugees,
`who fled from their native lind alter the re
vocation of the edict of Naffed in 1685. He
had been an officer of some siote Luring the
Revolutim--a ward Niliticii and personal
friend of the author ot the Dlotlaration of In
dependesiese,aud *lt ,It 110•11111141111 04114 61 ' r
were ...pod high in thei estellfrif his new
, elate* and cotemporaries.
Though at one time a nwilof %eolith, Col
onel Bertrand had lost mucti. and suffired
much, through British invasion; and when,
shortly after the close of the war, he had
met with a few more serious reverses, he find
been fain to accept a grant of land, near the
Falls of the Ohio, now Louisville. tendered
lion by Virgnia, which then held jurisdic
tion offer the entire territory -now constante
ing the State of Kentucky.
The grant had decided the Colonel upon
seeking his new possessions and building up
• new home in the then Far . ; IVett„ aq as
his wife had insisted upon Aodempanying him I
on his limn tour, he had esiatited to hell de•
sire, on collation that Blaalre - should be
left among her friends, till Inch time as •
place could be prepared whieli might in some
degree be considered a fit abddeVor one so
carefully and tenderly reansr
Blanche would gladly have; ne with her
o
parents , but on this point r father had
been inexorable —declaringt she would
.i,s,
have to remain et the East if h e should gee
proper to send for her ; and • as a man
of positive character, and a rigid disciplina
rian, the matter had been settled without or
piment.
Vliy4 ('olonel Bertrand removed to the
West, Eugene Fairfax, as we have seen, ac
companied him and coming of ago shortly
atter, ho hail accepted the liberal offer of his
noble benefactor, to remain with him in the
capacity of prvrate secretary and confiden
tial agent.. On taking possession of his
grant, the Colonel hail almost immediately
eiecttsi, a fort, and °tiered v u •h inducements
to settlers an to speedily collect around him
quite a little counnuuity --of which, as a
matter of course, he became the head and
chief t and to supply the wants of _his own
family and others, and increase his gains in
a legitunate way, he hail o:iened a mtore,and
filled it with goods from the Eastern marts,
which goods weroXransported by land over
the mountains to the Kanawha, and thence
by water to the Falls of the Ohio, whence
their rethoval to Fort Bertrand became an
easy matter. To purchase and ship these
goods, and deliver a package of letters to
friends in the East, Eugene had been thrice
despatzhed— his third commission also ex
tending to the escorting of the beautiful heir
ess, with her servants, to her new home.—
This last commission bad been so far exe
cuted at the time chimer; for the opening of
our story, as to bring the different parties to
the mouth of the great Kanawha, whence
the reader has seen them slowly floating oft
upon the still, glassy bosom of the belle
of rivers. '
The day, which was an auspicuous one,
passed ~without anything occurring worthy
lof note, until near four o'clock, when, as
Blanche was standing on the fore part of the
deck gazing at the lovely scene wino!' sur
rounded her,slie saw a seemingly flying body
suddenly leave a limb...of a gigantic tree,
(whose mighty branches extended far over
the riier, and near whip the boat wai then
swayed by the action of the current,) and a
light with a crash upon the deck . of the boat,
not Whore than eight feet from her. One
glance sufficed to show her what the object
watt, and to freeze the blood in her veins.—
The glo b ing•eyes of a huge panther met her'
gaze, The suridennessof the shock which
this discovery gave her was overpoweekng.
With* deafening shriek she fell upon,,lier
knees anti clasped her hands bpfore her
breast. The panther crouched for hie dead
ly lerip, but ere ho sprang, the hunting knife
of Eugene Fairfax (who, with the steersman,
was_ _the.
Blanche,) was buried to the hilt in his aisle,.
inflicting a severe but nothtal wound. the
infuriated beast at once Itirned upon,Eugene,
and a deadly struggle ensued.
.But it was a
Short one. The polished blade of the
.knifit
played back and forth like lightulrig flashes,
and at every plunge it was buried to the
hilt2n the panther's body; who soot; fell to
the deck, dragging the dauntleme Eugene
with him.l On seeing , _her protect — tee- fill - ,
Etlanche'uttered /mother shriek and rushed
to his eidlf but assistance from stouter arms
was et hand. , The boatmen gathered round,
ana the savage monster was literally hacked
in pieces with their knives and, hatchets,
and Eugene, covered with blood, witg„,tir4f
get! from under his 'carcass. 'BitSpbsing
him to be dead or mortally wounded,Blanche
threw her'irMs around his neck and gave
way to a passionate Itr.At of grief But he
was not deed—he was not even hurt, with
the exception of a few slight scratches. The
blood with ivldelt he was covered • was the
panther's, not his own. •Itut Blanches etit-'
brace was his•—a priceless ireasure- an in
dex Of her heert'eemotiou and tattections...:
It was to color hie whole future life, as will
be seen in the progress of Our story.
. Slovily and silently, save the occasional
creak, dip, and ptash ot:the . steersnian:s oar,
the boat of our voyagers was borne along up
on the bosoitt of the current, on the third
night of the Voyage. The hour was waxing
late, and Eugene, the only one astir except
the watch was suddenly startled, by a rough
hand being placqd upon his shoulder, ac
companied by the words, in the gruff voice of
the boatman
" I say, Cap'n, heir's trouble "'
" What Is it, Dick I" inquired' Eugene,
starting to his feet.
- yid gig thies i t Imaiy - tog rifl
ing, that'll soon kiver usftp so thick that
we won't be able to tell a white man friAtn a
nigger I" replied the boatman—Dick Winter
by name—a tall, bony, muscular, athletic
specimen of Ins class.
•' Good heaven ! so there as !•' exclaimed
Eugene, looking oil upon the already misty
waters. "It must have gathered very snd
doily, for all was clear a minute ago. What
is to be done now I That is something
was not prepared for, on Such 11. alight as
this."
" It looks troubloua, Cap'n, I'll allow,"
returned Dick ; but we're in for't, that's
pirtim and I e'pose we'll have to make the
best on't"
" But what is to be done I —what do you
advise t" asked Eugine, in srquick, excited
tone, that i itheated so me degree of alarm
•' Why, el you war'nt so siteertid about
the young lady, and it wbr'nt so dead aria
the Orden, froth head quarters, my plan
would be a clear and easy one--I'd just run
over to the KaintuckVore, and tie up."
" Nu, no," said Eugat positively ; 'that
vi dl never do, Dick—that will never do I I
Would hot think or snob a thing for
la! We must keep in the current by all
minim !
El' you can," rejoined the boatman
‘• but. n hon it gas so (lark as wo can't tell
one thing from Cother, it'll be powerful hard
to do ; and of we don't. run agln' a bar or
bank afore morning, in spita.of the.beet •'
ua, it'll be the luckiest go that ever'l had at
hand in See, Cap'n—tt's thickening up
fast , we can't see eyther bank at all, nor
the water nyther : the stars In gettin' dim,
and it looks as . if thar war a cloud all round
" I see! I see ! '''returned Eugene, exci
tedly '• Merciful !leaven' I hope no ac
cident will befal on us here—and yet my
heart almost misgives tue for this, I be
lieve, is the most dangerous part of our
journey—the vicinity where most of our
boats have been captured by the savages."
Saying this, Eugene hastened below,where
he found the other boatmen sleeping so
soundly as to require considerable effort, on
his part, to wake them. At last, getting
' them fairly mused, he informed them, al
most in a whisper, he did not taro to ,dis•
turh the others, thit a heavy fog had aud•
denly ansen, and he wished their presence
on deck, iminediately.
A fog, Cap'n I" exclaimed one, in a tone
which indicated that ho comprehended the
peril with ono word.
returned Eugene, ••there iA no
necessity for waking the others, and having
a scene. tip ! and follow me without a
ord
Ile glided back to the deck, and was al
limit immediately joined by the boatmen, to
whom he briefly made known his hopes and
I=
They thought, like their companion, that
the boat would be safest if made fast to an
overhanging litab of the Am:ducky shore ;
but frankly admitted that this could not now
be done without hifficulty and danger, and
that there was a possibility of keeping the
current.
" Then - make that possibility a certainty,
and it shall be the best night's work yOu
ever performed !" rejoined Eugene, in a,
quick, excited tont,. • ,
" Welt do the best. yvo can, eap'n," was
tile response ; " bee no nun can be asetin
of the current of this hero crooked stream in
a foggy night."
' A ',long silence followed—the voyagers
slowly &lifting down through d Misty...dark:
netts impenetrable to the eye—when, 'cud.
dt24l.L. T9 I IPB_MIO.Latt-6-4—W-11Q WAS
standing near the tiow, felt the exie'tided
branch of an overhanging limb silently brush
his face. lie started, with an exclamation
of alarm, and at the same moment the boat.
men on the right called out :
" Quick, hero, boys ! we're agin the shore
as sure as death !"
Then followed a acetic of hurried and anx
Mug Confusion, the voices of the three bolt
ifteiltdogiing rOgotherr in loud%
ted tones.
Pooh of tho bow !" cried ono.
.• altogether, now ! over with
her !" shouted another.
'f
'• The dell's in she'v rualOg sigsfound
hero on a muddy buttaut !'"ahamit yelled a
third.
Meantime the laden boat was brushing a
long against projecting bushes . and over
reachinglimbs, and every montera getting
more and more entangled *rale: the tong
poles and sweeps of the boatmen, is they
attorpted to push her off, were often plung
ed, without touching the bottom, into what
appeared to be ti soft, clayey Mud, from
which they were oldy extricated by enel! au
outlay of strength as * tended 'still morn to
drew the clumsy craft upon the bank they
wished to avoid. At length, scarvelji more
than a minute from the first alarm, there
was a kind of settling - togetherras •it were,
and the loat became fast and immovable.
The fact was announced by Dick Winter,
in his characteristic inanner-- n ho added,
with an oath, that it was-just what he ex
pected. For a moment or two a dead 111.
lunco followed, as if each conmt ehendcd that
the matter was ont to he VICN%rd in a 1113
serious light
" 111 get over the bow, and try to git the
lay of the land with „Illy feet," laid Torn
Harlot ; end forthititkfts let sheet the not
very pleasant undertaking.
Alibis moment Eugene heard Ins name
pronounced by a voice that seldom failed to
excite a peculiar emotion in his breast, and
now sent a Wang() thrill through every
nerve ; and hastening below, Itc...Kuund
Manche, I ully dressed, with a light in hir
hind standing juin. - outside of her cabin, in
the regular passage which led lengthwise
through the mite/ of the boa:.
"I have heard something, Eugene,•• site
said, •' enough to know that we have met
with au accident, but not sufficient to fully
comprthend its nature."
" I,lnfortunatety, stiont two hours' ago,''
replied Eugene, " we suddenly became in
volved in a dense fog ; and In spite of our
every precaution and care, we have rilhi a
ground,--it may be against the Ohio shore—
it may he against au Island—it is no dark
we can't tell. But be not alarmed, Miss
Blanche," he. hurriedly added ; trust we
shall soon be afloat again ; though in any
event, the darkness is sufficient to conceal
us from the savages, even were they in the
vicinity. '
• 1 know- little of Indians, rehirmot
Blanche ; ••but I have always Understood
that they are somewhat remarkable for their
'muteness of healing ; and if such is the
case, there would be no necessity of their
being very near, to be made azujuaintetl with
our locality, judging from the loud voices I
heard a few minutes ago.•'
" I fear we've been rather imprudent,"
said Eugene, ins deprecating tone " but
in the excitement —"
Ills words wero suddenly cut short by
several loud voices of alarm from a ithout,
followed by a quick and trampling arrows
the dock ; and the next moment Seth harper
I and nick Itinter burst into the passage, the
former exclaiming :
" We've run plum into n rent
neat, Cap'n, and Tom Ilan is is already
butchered and scalped "*.
And even as he spoke as if in confirma
tion of his dreadful intelligence, there arose
a series ofmiiild, piercing. demoniacal
followed by a amyl and ominous silence.
So far we have followed the lovely heroine
and her friends in this adventure : but the
foregoing In all that we can publish in our
columns. The balance of the narrative can
only be found in the New York Ledger, the
greet family paper, which can obtained
at all ,the periodical stores where papers are
sold. Reiticniber to ask fin the •• Ledger."
dated May 22nd, and in it you sill get the
continuation of the narrative from where it
leaves oft here. II there are no booklttores
or ngws-offices convenient to where you re.
aide, the publisher of the Ledger will - dent
you a copy by mail, if Toil filll send him five
cents in a letter. Address, Robert Itiniter,
Ledger Office, 44 Ann street, New York. -
Tins story as entitled, Perils of Cie Bor
der," and grows more and wore interesting
It goes on.
PCPCLATION or CITIKS tx OHIO.— The pop
ulation of the principal cities of thiv State,
are approximately as follows Cincinnati,
200;000; Cleveland 60,000;• Columbus, 25,-
000 ; Payton, 26,000; Toledo, 14,000 I
' nestille, 12,000 ; Steubenville, 10,000 ;
Chillicothe, 10,000 ; Sandusky, 12,000 ;San
dusky, 12,Qc00 ; Bpringfleld, 8,000. No other
city has mane than 6,ooo.,—Staie Journal.
ONE hundred and'oighty-eight 'law con.
vorta were received into the communion of
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher's church, on last
Sabbath morning—ono hundred and sixty
three on profession and tmcuty•Qre on cur
tilicate. Mr. father, Rev. Lyman
Beecher. D. D., NO, lu the pulpit, which, fur
the occasion, wets decorated with Bowtra.
' Mr. P. 'S iittle daughter came running to
her aunt one day, saying, " Aunt Kate. la
th) Mattis tuts swallowed a button I"
_See.
ing her terror, Ker amt calmly replied,
Well what good will that do her P' Said
the chilirvery seriously, " Not any gOod as
see, unless ski swallows a button Ads !"
A lady asked a not td doctor' if heldid not
think the small liponneta the ladies wore had
a todency to procure congestion of the
brain. " Oh, no," replied he. - ladies who
hiLre brains don't wear theia.”
marl
Mrsa Helen Ounsinghstb, dantghter' of
Mrs; Catuitnghtuta Bitratitt, midi %kilted - in
Jersey City or, Sunday ISM 4 to I{ young dim
list of that city.. The csretnosy- peri
feinted by the Rte. Mr. Van deer,
Affboting Saabs at Sing
The lollowing tourhihg record of fills!.
feetiou we ropy from oho Sing Sing Chrobi
ele '•tlnc treiting last week, Just as the
bell of the Sing Sing Prison wits:ritifing
right," and most of the officers Were about:
taking their departure from the insthutioni
A little girl stout coven years of sr entered
the IVardeit's tin being questioned
no 'to bet MUM: 31111 CI I awl, she ash, Mathew
hatne wen Agnes and - hill ffini -
had Soule oil „Elio visy front New Yerle,toson .
her father, whom het AtotheTtoki her
„lirison at Sing Suig,' The iiitelligent and
mouriitiqlook of tlie child won enlisted the
synipalhu of the 11 . siden and other ttieers • -
and it es- a} once dCMOI.I.I to giatlfy the
Whalen of the little het nine. 4
But a difficulty at once crime —there be.
tug no less than four conTicut bearing the
mane name as the father, but this difficulty
1%0910011 Overcome 'by the little girl bewail
She said !hat her father was a anoper by
Linde, and it 4Tettine apparent at owe that '
the J - employed in the 44:4
shop, was the Woke/41,0r father. Ue ww
soon brought hem bis %. rell to the pitlce, sad
the aegne %illicit tool, place bets coif the con-
Vierfather tuid his child wit, not be soon ibr
gotten those nho witnessed it. Accuts .
hailed An the officers RIC to affecting SCMIIM
M. 1.11 the coin lets sod their relatives,
tins was too much for their feelings, and a
tear MCXM/ In die tit of MID)* 'of , those stoat,
hearted men.
The .tort of little Agnes td her father %al
• • that her mother vas Ivry pour, lived out
at. ner\l , t. and .•otthl not Cultic to nee him, so
she thought .be n uuld wine ltentelf that
she left Now loth that morning without one
c(ut of money -walked through the city till
she came to the marmot that some boys told
her pa,sed thromlli Sing Sing : that she
crept in one of the cars and hid herself el
, and fOinul by the conductiv., ho
allowed her to ride u , l the way for nothing.
awl dist I.OIIOC of the ho) s ni the village hid
her the way to the Pinion." ).
After spenili4 , oine time with her father.
she way kindly taken care of fur the night
by one of our citizens, and the nest loorniog
II lady of our tillage accompanied her to
Neticrink and hail her placed inpas asyloai
' devoted as a hOrne to the children of the des
titute, where she adi by kindly taken care
of, and properly and kindly treated: -
The story of little Agile,' search fur hei
' unfortunate and guilty father. altheugii
simple one, is, under all the eircuitistancei,
a remarkable Or also , and shows, in glow
ing &dots, the strength of filial affection,
and is hat ered n child can accomplish od
der the ano:.t tit lug difficulties, if it makes
the tnal with a right purpose and deternlin
ed e‘ol lit ion:.
Eternity
' P.terntly has no gray hair, !'' The fleet
er), hide. the heat t withers. than grows oW
and di. Inn fiat,. vrrhe4 no wrinkles ori Lt
oIV F;ternnt
Et. ! Stop. n.loin, thought ! The ev
er Jr. gent, undee3ling and ntiffying. the
endle,v chitin conipo,ing the of God ; I('e
golden threud eta wihing the destine/I of the
1110 rer.e:
i arlh hat. its beauties, hut time iilarutitls
them fir the grin e ; lie Muiors, they .are bdt
the eunAliine reran lionr ; its pal/ices. three
•re but Al the gliding sepulchre : its
pw
seasiuns they are but burAilig bubbled.-
Not en in the mitt led bout ne,
In the dr% tiling of the Alm glity eon collie
no footstep-, of decay. Ills d.l) rrlll )Lnolir
110 derknesm ; etcinni pleasure lortnchr the
appronch of flat Its fountains. itri4uettar
fail—they are fresh fr,in the eternal titan ;
fts gloms will never %%wit., for tl:ere, is the
et er-prpent Its hartnoniee:l4-111 never
crave exhitostlts, love supplies tlio 'hem*.
—Li re/sit" .
The boatmen on r ho PennsylVania Canal.
tee see by the Harrisburg Herald, cornphAn
sev”rely of the new rule of the company, by
which all the lock keepers arc discharged,
and the boitmen are required ttibe_tbeirOwn
rock tivideiii: It is said the company ?tam
discharged all the lock fenders between,
Pittsburg and Jolinstowti.ind watchmen
have been appointed in their places to go
over their respective once a di k r,
and see that locks and levels a l e in 490 d 9r
der, but without bring compelled to lock any
boats through. The drivers and employeelt
on the canal denounce this as an inaposltkat
upon them. ,
The gormons who aril% ed a few days sinoe
at New York, are not complied all
as on former ocensiona, of merely poor and
ignorant portions; but ate partly wealthy
farmers, abundantly provided with means.
' young.% onnwc - wh - Cf - tnfloW - Trniir - 7K , U;;
lions, are tepee se ti ted_aigenteel
sons, and as fashionables from Cdpenhailtott
and other Scandinavian cities. Students are
also among the ninety. The
. majority,of
the pilgrim, strange to say, ire
. , ,
1 0
When a girl is man.' in Japan. bor teeth
are blikokonocibY 001 no rrooive nubs,
and remains so always, to stsow ilos,,s t _rt._ _ _
moo la a widow or married. It ioaorOkOr /§ 0
moist_curiooli oostomooli mfr
pie. - ...sw.r...
No w
omildVE-
Ike kW the rinter of bluxhinik
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