Democratic watchman. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1855-1940, December 23, 1858, Image 1

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ad at the usual taloa, and every dearrlDUon of
' JUB PRINTING
EXBOUVID la the neatest manner, at the lowest
prim, Brat with - the' unmet detract 7Theleg
purchased a large oollection of type, we are pre
pared to malls& the orders of our blends
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CEIABI. d 1p DALE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BELLEFONTIg, PA
Mai with alio ion. JILILICIT Hale
Nov 15,185 -a
SW O. L. POTTIES,
PHYSICIAN A SURGEON
ELLI.W.PONTS, CCKTIIIL Co , rA,
Ogles on high Street Old office ) Will attend to
paufainional culls as heretofore, and respectfully
offers his !cervices to hle.frientle and the public
Ord 28-'5B-tf
DR .:J. IL mrcus ELL,
PiIYSIC(AN t SUIMEON,
ssa.Litrotrin, Crt. Tait . ° , r•, •
Will attend to profeastonal ealle as heretofore, and
respectfully offer. hi. sereieee to hid (wools and
the public Omen twat door to ht. residence on
Spring street (lot 2!4 :04 tf
L. J. CRAMS,
ATTORNEY ATI-LAW AND REAL litaATE
AGENT
taAprieLn, 4 1 FATUALI ,PA
Bap 30 'OS-O
e. J. 110CIICTIAN.
BURVEI Olt AND CONY EY A CCF It
JAMES H. RANKIN,
ATTOIANILY AT LAW,
usit.t.st U. I, Pltvn . A•
Oflie• on High :ttrent opposite the resoloose of
3'4L• DUTIIII4O
WILLIAM se. 81.4111,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Wks with IL,n .1 limy" T H I LTe I Lg""F " "
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LINN 41tr 11.1101 , 11
ATTORN LI S AC LAW
Ore. on Allegany street, lb the butitbng fur
morly neeepteal by Mule., Nl' Aflutter, Ilale A Cu
Bankers
August 10.15-Iyear
Dn. JAIIIE6N. 111."I' 111601%,
or to Dr J M. Istio trt,
.1.,. 1.0 prufesstoottl tort Iltos to tho ottitoos
1 U Ell's MILLS and rtrinit Witte at Iht
Eutaw Hoop"
AMBUOTTPUS,
rh? paALLualtArmi 1.)...11. I ILD.I:OTYPI:m
nkon daily (except ` 4 un.layr) from k If to 5 r.O
1W J BABNIIAItf.
In his Went/A 1,1tn./1, to it, Az Iv It tulding
Bellefonte l'eun ot
J. D. WIND ATE,
111,SIDENT 1)1 Nll,l
Office and residence on the Nol ih 1:ael
Vas Diamond near the Court }lowa
re Iv ill be found at his ofit t ev•ept
much month, eommenetng on lie t'ir.t :Worldly of
the usouthowlien he will Im aany filling
Males
GEOIIII7II W. 6 Vl' :LUTZ CA
k n aLIVATCIIAIAKER 3 JEWELER,
Rooms one door L'oo of Y C Hutto, .1 Ben
Pion, on MI.. g•hroy Ntryet Cl,Mkt, W AWL.. at!
wstry I. •..•
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Depot and Paclaut Landaugs, to t lon 11 , tel, free of
~barge
dept 3-37-tf '
ADAM ZIOV,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
DELL.I . I)-IIL. 1•1.3 V J.
It 111 attand promptly Mall legal business Intrusted
to him Special attention bill ho sit en to the
Orphans' Court Practice and Sem ening His office
is with the lion Junes T linla, %here he can
Always be consulted in tlio 1 rush and German
labsuages
J IL lITOtIKU
ATTORNEY ANL) Col'tisELLoll AT LAW
P1.L1.L1 . 40 1,, 1101 4
Will Kletlee hie protessimi in the euveral
r Centre Comity, All burnt were intrusted to loin
will be faithfully attended to Particular attention
paid to collections, and all most. proinittly re
milted Can be consulted in am (lumen us well
as In the lioglish language
,01111 iii se High mt., formerly occupied by Judge
purl:midi and D C, Dual, EN
REITCHELE & HUOIII
ATTORNEY'S AT LAW,
11E1.1.11,IONTS, ream
Ira C Miturban and D 111 Bun - have entered in
Into copartnership in the praotiee of the Law, un
elsrthe name of Mitchell & Bush, and will gls,
proMpt and proper attention to all busing., en
treated to them
Odloe in Reynolds' Arcade, near dm Coot
Nouse
Bellefonte, November 211-484 f -
tr. P. GRICIEN,
pituut/IST
WROLVIALS AeD RETAllb&Lien in
Drugs, Medicines, Perfumery, Paint+, I'or
niches, Dye-Stuffs, Toilet Soups, Brushes illit r awl
Tooth Brushes, Fancy and Toilet A rlicleA, Trussels
and Shoulder Braces Garden Seeds
Customers will find iny, stock complete and fresh,
and all sold at mmlerite prices
LarParmars and Physicians from the country
are nvited to exawnlimany stook ,
DENTAL CARD.
/LB. Parry.--ScitalCoN DENTI.ST.
(Lars or LANCASTrit, PA )
Ifik,t' located permanently in Bellefonte,
are County. where- -he prop...a prootie.
log MI the cartons branches of his profession in the
most approved manner, end at moderate charges
01Bee and residence in the house occupied b)
Mrs. N. Banner, directly pposiie the residonoo of
the late Hon. Thomas Burnside:.
CARD.
We take planner° In recommending Dr II B
!Salm to our friends as a thorough and at rout
plished-Dentist, 0 11. BItIiSSLER. M I) ,
JAMBS LOCKE, M Q,
March 25.1,3-'5B
FARE BEDITOED.
STATES UNION HOTEL,
aoa a 608 Stirkat Street, abbvt; sixth, ,
PHILAPAI;PHIA, PA
0. W. RIME, Proprietor.
TIMIS 26 W. DAY.
14 , Carpets, Rugs,: Travel ling bes-
Ul% . kets Hand Trunks,
Le , ho., at the oheap core of
Bellefonte, Oct, itt-tf TONNER•a STEEL
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The wind in moaning Reels along
Came sighing threugh the rustling leaves,
Then moiling to n hurricane,
J It shook the loftiest forest trees.
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The iftillido Commerclal has the follow
1:1 regard to one of the most extraordinary
ca• Ci of ‘,IIIIIC and It, Cl/W.(101'1W l'S" an rl
cord The n ads nt of Buffalo add, ex s ed ny
Mr. F. is nu doubt Ex l'rexident In i %11/Ilk: .
• Some tu elve or fourtet n year ago liar
lon Case was a respeetahlp and ed. rood
eituyen of Buffalo. Ile held the plat, of As-
Vostmaster under Air Dosheimei
and was for many years entro,ted otth the
mote important duties I,ftlio ollice. A mem
ono of the lia phi,' churches, upright
111 eery oalkof I fr, married, and the fade
ei of a faintly. he acetic d to be as
the straight fora ard paths 01 virtue as any
oil, r K. inA. mg to Saudusht Ohio, he te
relyed the appointment of Colleador of that
port under Air Fillmore. The ammo mint nt
ult.: one universally approved, and the nu
merous friends of Case ut this city o ere re-
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Juiced at his success to life While holding
that office he was intimate in the family of
Mr F , one of his assistants Mrs F aas
) oung. beautiful, and a fatal
attachment grew up between the to u, a 6,11
remained unsuspected until the truth uus
made known by the sudden elopement; of
Case and with ohs F and the simultaneous
discovery that he had absconded with goy
et-1=ot; funds to the anionut of some $3l,-
000 troth that time forward nearly nH
trace of the guilty pair was lost Thy fain
ly of Clic, bereaved arid }tetra) cd,
ed hopeless 111 their grief Mr F engaged
in a long but fruitless chase of thangitives
And now from off the sea comes tidings, a
broken. half told story, of lonely uandering
in foreign lands; a lull recital of a never
ceasing remorse, with pitiful solitary deaths
in far away islands and on the stormy wint
ers of the Indian OCCAIII. Both victims of
unhallowed passion are asleep —the mother
111 the groves of Cey'on. the little cltild ur
the coral formal; of the sea The betrayer
still wanders the earth, the heavy hand of an
avenging trod upon him, he sends to Ins
abandoned home Ins message of sorrow.
We give first the letter of Mr. F ton res•
ident of this city, and follow that with the
two letters of Harlow ease, the first letter
to the father of Mr F., enclosing a second,
directed to Mr. F• 111111Rdi It 18 wile.
"cessary to may that the letters of Case
are genuine, his chirography being readily
recognized
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To
Dana Siit you be pleased to par
don this new obtrusion, after the lapse of so
many years f You knew me. (not, per
haps, unfavorably) in 1851). and nearly
twenty years previously, when I used to
Irate the Baltimore Patrol at your office.
Your memory mity YaIY to recall mcil-om that
(or period. but you will refill) yrecognite me
when i name my former connection with the
Post Offlee Department and Mr.
Ilarlit'w Case, at Sandusky, Ohio. It was
the writer who was the victim of that mis
guided inan's unlooked-for vilhanny, and it
it was illy unfortunate and erring partner
he seduced. But the most terrible affliction
which Ilk crime brought home to me, arose
from his robbing me of my little daughter,
and only child—the one who once. with
comb in hand, climbed in a chair at your
side, at your visit at. my house, and essay
ed to comb your hair. But where is now
that young and once buoyant spirit I In
Waren, I truntaud the lovely teuament that
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Change—A Life .Thought.
IT ILLISABETTAT .--
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It wee a Rata end lovely *a,
All earth lay hushed in sweet reppse
While bright in you bind BrMlllleLle
The stars In silvery lustre rose
And gliding through the roalms of spare,
The queen of night pursued her wav,
While calmly Anne the landscape fair
Beneath her pare and tranquil ray
Who could have deemed while gnaing then
Erwinlured on that gloriona might,
That aloud, would over rare to dim
A troene so beautiful and bright
Alas' too inTon the radiant sky '
Was darkened with the tempest s hue
While gloomy shadows thickly rase
Upon the !leaven's delicious blue
That lovely sky, so 50011 n'eroast,
I• but an ...blew of my life ,
Its fleeting joys- , Illuatro hopes—
Its anxious cares and feverish strife—
The fait and claaaling dreams of yt
olh—
Hare faded like the moon-heam's ray,
And hopes that, onee my lamotn
Have pareakike that sweet e‘o away
And what remain, '—a night of Wm..,
Without twit atar 4 , 411,1 the soone—
One moonligLt Moth to light the way,
And cheer (be wanderer with Its beam
' would that In the quiet grave.
This weary heart with care oppressed.
Werehiinhed In Its last dreamless sleep
Within the green earth's quiet breast
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A Tragedy in Real Life
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WIB., Nov 28, 1858
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held it, reefs deep beneath the still or tilor
my waters of a far Indian sea.
“Sttli na 1 olnap lide burning brain
A (loath !wond rushee to my sight
It mos o'er and o'er again "
Both these fated victims of his guilt have
looked their last on earth, which he their
worse than murderer, still walks unscathed
of the vengance of tiod anti human justice.
I followed the fugitive to the isle of Mal ,-
ta, in December, 11t53,% end Ids( all traces
from thence lat last have tidings of their
fate, in -the enclosed letters, which have
lately reached me from over the sea flow
far entire reliance may be placed upon his
statements I cannot tell, but fear it Is too
fatally' truein its leading announcement that
mother and child are gone to their last ac
count. After twiny years of suffering and
suspense —which wrung my brain and drove
me at times, du-mg the first two yearn al
ter the occurrence, to the very verge of dis
traction I had at last regained, to a great
degree, my tkontoned elasticity of spirits,
had sought a bill legall) (leasing the fiont
my-deserting spouse,.anil indulged new vis
ions of future enjoyment. a hen those sad
tidings of most fetal import %%helm ore again
n wretchedness that knows no hope.
Ac the best part of the life of the misera
ble man was passed in Itullalo, under } our
intimate acquaintance, and as he — fias for
some twenty years trill 31111 In orably kn in o
to nearly all the emzens 01 inTrich
city I also learind rqy trite in Illmot
square (the printing office living once di
redly over the Post viii ••• %%here he ii as em
ployed) --I have thought it proper to entlitsc
his communicatitm to y iii because, also
I wish to ask the Lour that you %ill certifk
to the genuineness of the letters as fin fiom his
Ac A hundred of In. former nc
(Fruit:limes in Ohm might certify Iris its rding
plat as readily: but my remlttnee ri Won to
changed to Minnesota, and I wise to 'laic
the genuineness of tin se papers Established
by some 't out her re , id log in HOLM
Most truly, your 101 I. ill% ant.
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I.nt Itl dug odlg 6a dug rtod
Atigwit 20,
SIR • - -1)n not. I un't, at lon, ullow the jii.t
indignation %%Int h I himw ii sigh! of tat
hand writing Bill au.e m, In prv,ent ton
flow rending thy: c•tolii11111 , 11,A111111 It VA,
11111. he wort, painful or 1/01110 Iseerre that,
for Tile toe rate. Wel 1111111ing lOW n 1 1101 1 .0 or
. 111 1 411, 1,0 you. and a t, •In ton tiouw, mach
10 the dontl, could e Inc to a I harrais
ynn 11111 040111/. 1111 , li I tt,i4 enter p_ ,t
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no tittliec,....ary (1,1a114, nur Wl'.ll"‘ nor nit ,
gn,t. you Wllll fl/11' prnt,1.1 , 1,11, ur i‘v.,,,t•
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1.110,4 I hive xulP nd :11141 if 3 our crdcl I.c
ryas . ;no, that cu.....
Icarfully fulfilled kn.i, ,a.lll In 111 e nn
happy task of telling you, vi hat I hare s o
solemnly engaged to no 511,1 to fulfill the
last doty to thnae
Your former wife died in (•,:yl i v n . ,t t o l s
1856 01 a de:, ase of the clonale nlio‘l)
TM aggravated by a pillions olio from
stitch she suflered xhde in Nlatiratiiis In
that Island both her arid myself were very
ill of the fever Itiv own recmery was tlin't
hopeless and indeed it ens repot 1,.1 that I
was dead ThN, or ,ourse, rooting to her
I knowledge. had a severe and injurious of
feet iipon„ber. lAlf tis thesb particulars are
of less consequence, I n 111 say II() more on
tins point In conrec of time we both re
coy urea, and on gaining sufli,ent st rengtli.
again took passage on a bang y, a,el to
Ceylon, In search of a better climate We
went to the mountaitmus tegions of that
tropica l ) Island, near the city of Camila,
where the air IS cool, and. to Most peOple,
!within, r than most parts of India There
we lit ed many 'inoidlin in comparative quirt,
hit the fever again overtook her tt ho was
the pother of your dull , and though
lingered long and suffered much. no human
means could restore her Der moral hnrl.lle
bllli lea became more Amite as she failed in
strength, and with the loss of hope of re
emery. she became aviously distressed to
seen re the testers tiontr her odic dear little
child to its bereaved father She wax iti•
cessant in exacting pronnscs front ate, that,
rf I lived, E , should be taken, or sent hark
safely to )ou. From these demands I hail nn
ish in escape.. My only anxiety was to do
anything in my power to afford a small con
solation, in the strongest 11,11Ininces I could
make, that her wishes should be carried
out, although, after the mother was gone
from me forever, the poor child became dear
er to rue. She was all I had left. rot ak I
had promised her poor mother ; and as that
mother lad sacrificed the world and every
thing on earth for my sake, I had not the
slightestilltought- er wish to neglect .the dis
charge of the responsible, and to me, fear
ful duty. During her last illness, she re
gretted !ism; brought the child away, but
having, then much hope of the happiness we
might enjoy, and anxious to be less alone
in the world, bite could never think of leav
ing E , behind ; claiming, ac, her mother.
that she had a stronger I.erion.tl right to a
daughter than its father, whom site was a
.ut to leave forever. -.n
After this sad and dreadfut time, I con
stantly and anxiously sought an oppotttn4
ty to afFiAl the child to you, or her graql:
father's family, where yon would eventual
ly obtain her. My object was to flnd,some
good, trusty, woman, ors family going to
M=E!!!!1!MI
A I JR
,EIENN'A., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23,1858. ,
Amerada, but such a chance never offered in
a single instance.
Before Igo further, or into still more
painful results, I beg yOu will allow mo to
say that I have spoken of the anxiety of C ,
and her constant efforts to renew my prom
ise to her, and which was repeated only two
dlays before heir (tenth, In the hnpe that you
will exercise more charity, towards her
memory. Lot me4Rust that you. well do so,
and think and feel less severely towardlter
She paid a bitter penalty fur all the outrage
that was committed upon you. In her last
Illness she spoke often feelingly and tendor•
ly of you, with how mach regret I noel not
say, but wishing to acknowledge to the that
ton had always treated her kindly and care'
folly. and that on her and myself' alone
rested the responsibility of that how fatal
separation
You will have perceived, are this. that I
havo yet more to cointnunicate, and of a
still sadder character, to you I have writ
ten purposely in the •p,st tense,' as it were
in order find you may be less suddenly
drawn to the anticipation of my unhappy
mirrtitile, as I cannot wide but once for ob
vious reasons. And now comes the most
paiiiltil part 01 my duty.
I hardly dare tell you how cruelly severe
the, poor child took the death of her mother
She never forgot it. Although her own
health wool always delicate and she stiller
ed inuollwet from this tone she seemed to,
beeoine more sensitile. and grew ... weaker no
she grew older anl taller But were it not,,,-
for the occurrence) of what is to follow I Bearing the Cross.
Dw. II touch and often under the, bliadow
Amild not have attempted to write yon un
nd it will lead you to
oil E., was within vnnr reach, and on the "W ILLL ' airA4.4".B4l
think lightly of your own ' If na gave ut m
point of being restored is )on, perhaps not
even then I terance to but one murmuring word, elitist
ruin , complain •, If we were deeper stu-
A s before stated foiling to find any suit-
Llinis of his bitter anguish, we should Lb ink
able opportunity that I you'd trust to take
1,. I sof, to you I it last started uiili • her l e " " r the tip flying of our wares aniltiaf
his horrible tempest," The saints cross
mi self determined ink going to Eng
as•etimes many diverse Shapes. Sonietinriea
land fir the purisise, 111-re to seek some
it is the bitter trial, the (noshing pang of
monied pair of emigrants t wh itn I ,
tr.od her, or etnnloy a suoilde pAroin to gn ' bereaa itnent, desolate household, and ach
with her. She had been ern ill before ing host is. Sometimes it is the erucifixion
starling, but I thought leir sollluently re. 'of sin and detarmined battle with " lusts
covered and her physician nlao thotrzlit She war ngainst the soul " Sometimes
vronlif sod, nothing in going to sea but 'nn .11 es the resistance of eyil maxims and prac
fortunately all my hopes ig this last ((fort , tires of a lying n orld, vindicatieg the honor
were iloonuol to the same blight that has of Christ in the midst, it may be, of taunt
and obloquy and shame And as there are
thii+ fur d tar A relap.i. set 111 OtV
,111Terent crosses so there are dilTilent ways
Riling to melt and however much I regr'e'tted
ii
it unit too late to retr ice or return of beating them To aotne (hod says: "Put
The s h ip had been nut sire, ti day , e " your shoulder to the borthen, lift it up, and
bead it ; work, and toil, and labor
u lien tic%vete met lo a dr.osilft gale, such
i'l
ac t6r Ind-,
in);t•nnvlono eon exint ,, t. Ana 'fu OtheTS he styli "Re still, beat it anti
ne it ere , illoett before a Itorrielne for six , sun.'
day, and nights Moot of the sills and one Bile% er ! thy cross may lie hard to en
of the itta..ti. oue earned Ana), and it l. , dull*, it ou) involve deep struggles, teats
010001 'nearly ship, rt. keel and iliire I hack ' -1 .lay, It atehings by night ; bear it meek -
lion' I ,200 io I .IdO 1011, s, we found morn IN pato ntly, Pistil . % log God's n-itfotn in
fit or aide weathi r * I 111011001 tilit to show laying it on Repute In the assurance-that
%./.11 how tilted) it %la, out of my power to Ile Etas not 011 e stem mum of earthly tnal
help or relict e the pior, sulleriti4 child than Ile stem to he really needful . not one
The eile• , . of tit Worm was only injurieec, rtolundant thotn pierces your feet In the
tint to in Ow the ltd lido ab or t, O n , d ear , very loafing of tho cross for Ills sake there
'cliatge %horn I - wits anxious to reatern cel eirt to. nughty eumpensattona. . What neve
faunll4 eh() 0 0 11111 liming her praill,prely :10 votes of yew Sarum', lore' Ills truth
het father to wittAs lot-yr )4 ~ d i d„, mi d Ills promi,es, Ms sustaining grace lii hut . -
wean ninny 'tumbril tittles front a n y land, fenngs, Ills glory,!, 11 hat new filial near
and there was no altNinative, no hope but ' uess, increased delight or pasys i r ; nod toner
to 01111mn0111 to the Caletolll, the necessity, arid , sunalone it lien it a darkest without The
inueli as it pains tile to st..te It, the sea he. i w'll vet cot er you,' but underneath them all
came her tomb. '1 hi, occurred MI the 19th I are '' the everlasting smut."
ul Ju ly 'I he nocerlaint, of the nine
n'tinite4i fnt thh paegagq , of trading rcgceN,
cod, nn tinn one on winch 1 writ.), will, 1
fens, cause mu( fh la) before t eseb
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I might stop li, re, you may say that I
hat I , tortured you enough, but I am not
lost to all hi. Ilse of propriety, fouling or
duty, not ttAll my 8104 against
you, to s 9 nothing of the vtul ition of the
ru t “ sneted nes 0r hre. 410,f1,00.., (hat I
ft , l it deeply and ax fully
I hat e debated long and anxiously in my
ea n mind it heftier I ought to re-open a
la maid in ;our heart; whichcan never heal,
but. k feeling as I do severely, that suspense
the cruelest of a!! conditions ; that a cer
tain evil, et en f.xt,ility, is better thin .„Ixope -
11-us uncertainty, and that (fits sad avowal
is all I can do--all the reparation I can
'cube I have been induced for Giese reasons
Lo Li rite. It in better that you know it, than
einem fur life in uncertain suspense - An
intelligent English sailor, to whom I had
shown some kindness in the far oft, and al
most ssvagio land, M which I 11.11 , 0 resided
fur the last year, has prioni,eil to aunt ey
this letter to some European seaport, and
mul it there. lie also has undertaken' to
get the two deaths adverthed in some Eng
bull or American newspaper, so that in case
this letter never reaches you, her friends
may mt always remain in ignorance of her
fate.
I now-tluuk it beet to addreSS this to the
most probable peron I esti think of, to
know your present place of abode. I_mean
your faqier, yylierti he, or, iionst of your bro
thers in Wisconsin, will ho most likely to
find it, as I shall inelove to him. with an
urgent request that he will semlit to you,
uliercver you may be But I must over ie.-
main in uncertainty ns to whether it ever
reaches you, or whether you &rein the land
of the living. As to my °an family and
tuerifiaicts; - 1 hare-po-wish re•all my
self to their memory., And to poor C's.,
outraged parents I doinot address myself.
if thlgover meets your eyes, let mo beg
of ysiu to believe that however much 1., have
olbageil your feeling awl NOW your
life, I ever had the strongest regard for your
high moral worth, and your integrity and
goodness of heart and the bitterest rellcc•
lion I have ever been made to feel thus far,
Lis been the anguish and regret of having
forfeited your fortner,good opinion frocever ;
and now the ruin I have brought upon all,
and the fate that has fallen to nta 6y . the
decrees df•a just Porvidenee, comes heavier
anfl more dreadful to my prospects of the
future _ _
Painful as all thin tn, and however disas
trous it is to me, l cmnot feel at rest until
I have "done what little rermuns in my pow
er, and when this-packet leaves my hands
I shall have discharged the last sad and
melancholy duty. I now sutler only from
feelings of remorse and blighted hope in the
fate that 1, henceforth my lot to endure. --
But I u ill add no more, and all I can, or
could say, may only disgust you the more
toward, me.
Fur obvious rett.Bolll3, it is not, and Can
not be my purpose to speak of details or
particulars as to the past or the future, or
indeed , lif-mrelf in any way., I trust you
may n ver boar (rout uni again and Only
wish to hope your futnre life niay afford
ydu, even you, less of anguish than the
past few years. If my life depends upon
my present health, or my now limited
means, my memory must be blotted out
%cry cacti.
But I yet: remain humility, your unwor
thy, IlArmow CASK
The Royal Invilatioa.
•• Come unto me, all ye that labor and •re—
beery laden nod I will tyre you real."
As the trickling of water in the midst of
the dei,ert to the traveller's ear ; as the pat
tering of drops of rain upon the roof in time
of drought , as thu welcome sound of the
coming home carriage to visiting friends, so
is the dilute promwe to the o'er wearied .
spirit: Come unto me ye that labor
and are heavy laden and I mill give you
rest."
Not the great, the titled and the honored
of the would, only are bidden to the royal
festival of ~ the King of Kings," for it is
written of "Come unto aue, all ye that aie
heat's, laded." "Tim poor in spirit," and
the bowed in heart, they to whom life's
pathway is like a rugged road ; traveled
through the darkness of a whiterl i k night,
painful and cold, and dreary, on whom the.
sunlight of affection sheds not his kindling
beams, and who arc ready to sunk weaned
with the toilsome journey ; to them is sent
the Herald of the Prince of Peace; mid as
the lost wanderer amid the Alpine snows
aeon the light—it may be fax off —cud hears
the voice of thosii coming to Ins rescue, so
do they behold through the gloom the iising
of that dawn " which is to shine more and
more in the perfect day and, as they
listen, hear a voice above the tempest, say
ing. •• Faint not ;" and- they know that ■id
is at hand. And lo! the words of Jesus
Christ our Saviour,_"jjoine unto this Mt ye
that labor and are heafy laden and I will•
Vgive you rest," rest froui all the cares and
sorrows of the world; rest from the cease
less strife within ;" rest forever and ever
with the angels in the very presence of the
Incarnate God !--Rural New Yorker.
The Lieutenant Governor of Itlinnessota
lately delivered the following speech to the
Senate : "Gentlemons of this 'ere Sim !
Don't crowd this old hose too fast ! You
hadn't orter expect this 'ere cheer to
settle more nor six pints at oust. It ytr
do; yet. still barking up the wrong saplin !
111 esn't he airl
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Stray leave, from a Country Girl's'llutry
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WEDNk3D•I"
Those dreaulays of November . how sad•
ly their farevffil song fall on the car. The
sky bes been for some days shrouded in
those dark lowering, clouds, which always
wreath 4lie retiring brew of treatiom
afternoon the light-footed Wind.aml, swept
'away the gloom. Pure and unsullied, the
blue vault of Heaven expanded itself over
the 'e arth. The Mellow sun beams crept
throogh the frostbitten vines, still clinging
to the old c isement. But soon jealous Juno
spread out her sable curtain and wrapt earth
in the enibraco of her sombre shadow.
Thus it is in life. The dark wild temp
est long of trial. ruddy sways his sceptre
around us Then, the gentle goddess of
peace wafts the light sunbeams of joy
around us, and while we are yet bathing in
the a eters of pleasure, or basking in the
ray s of love and friendship, the evil tongue
of slandee, or the dark pall of misfortune, or
the withering curse of disappointment, again
clothes the horizon of onr existence in one
I unbounded wave of care and sorrow.
SABBATH
In looking over my dairy. I find that
some might judge by its tenor. that I am
an unhappy, foreboding creature, always
looking at the dark side, grasping life
thorns and never wreathing her laurels into
the radieitt tiaras of enjoy molt. Not
I know the world is full of le•auty and life
is full of love. There are brilliant treasures
on earth, worthy our highest admiration ;
sweets in the cup of pleasure, long to be re
membered, and heartw in society, open to
all the inttuerwes-of friendship. Yet, wino
the ills of life grasp our hands, we feel de.
je'cted, and the cold world, lacking sympa
thy, our old and tried friend; the pea, drinks
ni our'thoughts without a word of reproof.
- 'What a"raliii, holy-stillness seems to
reign around the close of God's sacred
day. The wind sighs more softly; the war=
ha murmur more sweetly. Heaven's starry
crown tvi ankles sail increased brilliancy.—
The fairy clouds and glittering constellation
the white candled Luna; wing-footed winds,
the dense forests and their choristers, the
rills and the (lowers that they mirror, all
seem to be being preachers. whisperl4 that
There is a (iod, and that God is lore."
MONDA T
My heart almost sank within me this
niornmg when I went to the school house,
in which lam to teackthis winter. An old
log house. with no benches fit to seat chit
circa, no corifort, no means of sentillation,
except those allinded by broken doors and
windows, and amid many other difliculties.
I knew there was 1111 , 11 Ch opposition to female
teaches, and before I can govern. i.roperly.
and teach 'correctly, I must try to undermine
the prejudice of parents.
• Good morning," at last came from a
bunch of milling little faces,as they gallicr•
el round the stove. There stood Martin.
with a bold, daring look, and Harrison, with
a high polished brow and a beaming eye.,
which betokened a soaring ambition, and
Ilugh with ••I don't care" written on every
feature, while Thompson gazed with a mild
look from Ins deeply expressive eye, which
told that a volume of childish love was writ•
ten on his heart Slightly repelling the pre
sumption with which Laura addressed me,
"Lest too much familiarity might hireed , co•i•
tempt " I tried to win the, conll knee of
Ama, who scarcely dared look at we
While little Nklke, all radient with smiler,
lisped a polite 'yetli inith," to my inquirioc
Who, surrounded by so many such Canon.'
diapositions, will not moot many trials I --
Yet, if, in all dlir labor, wo implant in iinf
Arad, the seeds of virtue and knowledge,
or leave on record one line that ma! lead a
mortal into the paths of duty and religion,
wo will In amply rewarded for all our
trouble,
WEDNE•DAT ' -
To day, received a copy of the Press (from
one who knows I love newspapers) in which
I and an 'code, on "Werner and Home,"
in which the writer says, "a labor saving
institution, the' seWing machine ought to be
purchased for every woman having the care
of a family." ,'Twould he' well indeed, if
those whose cares lave in the house, might,
enjortho smile advantage as do those who
have the earn of the farm. '7k well if the
earner sex awake to their alty, and furnish
us with the means to lighten the weight of
household cares. for we feel confident that
overtaxing their -mental and physical facul
ties, is bearing thousands of women to the
grave. But, there is a greater evil than
this, which while it wastes the physical or
ganization, and impairs the mental facul
ties, it gnaws at the heart, and paves the
Way to the tanit) with the thewnw, of sorrow, -
the weight of disappointed hope. 'Tie this.
The affection of the lover is unbounded ;
and reciprocated. The maidern leaves a
home of happiness a circle of friends, and
embarks on lifes rough sea, with him who
has pledged her a life-time of' devotion.--
But the lover changes into the husband, and
with the name varies his attachment.— I
Warm affection cools into formal kindness,
and even that is often suspended. The
heart' which was created for the fire of love,
is frozen by the frosts of unkindness. If
bard labor bears thousand this sweeps mil
lions to the grave
ME
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A Toubh of Reality and a Bit of Ito-
•
manes
Mr. 11 . lt . S Williams, of Hickory Springs,
Fayette county, Tennessee, sent the follow
ing interesting couhnunication to the Rens.
phis Avalanche, on the 12th ii it
On one of those cold, rainy nights just
passed, a couple of iiprightly .and batty
looking Halt: 'trait/tee boys, bare footed,
badly • lad , and without budget, about dee
co and thirteen yenta 'of ago, calling theni-
Tohn and Thonian Anderson, brothers
all the way from the Norh, came to my tee.
idence ;n'search, as they said, of a home
and work, and readily (hiding both, they
arc now wtoh nio, the happiest little fellows
you ever saw •
Their sioty is as full of adventures as it
aflicting. They hail from the tow:: of
Patterson New Jersey, and sal• they ars
factory boys. and orphans, that their father
died a lung t•nte ago, their 11117ther nearly
two 3 ear since, leasing thou working in a
cotton factory n ithout friends or relation!
thertabouts-- having no brothers and an on
ly roster. Martha ; who marned one !miler
id. Green, of whom they have heard noth
ing for a long tune, and know not where
they are that about two months since
being badly treated, they struck out
South. without a cent of money, and work
iheir.way s'ong, assisted_by railroad
conductors and etc:lllll,4a captains, until
ruching Miiiiphis. whet o they tarried but
a little while, starting out on fiot on the
track of the Nletnphas and Ohio railroad,
where they followed up the Wyllie depot,
and meeting there a small negro boy of
mine, who, hearing their story. politely,
and in the spirit of true Southern hospitali
ty, invited them along with himio his mss•
ter's hodse
The accounts these little fellows give of
themselves I believe to, bo true; and they
are welcomed in the South—to my home—
shall hare w e ,prutection, and an aided fu
ture. It ha s been suggested that, maybe,
they are run-away .Vorthern-apprenliCeS. --
and by this discovery of their whereabouts,
a requisition, or om,thing of the sort,
will be attempted To this I will take oc
casion to declare, in advinec, that in each
an event. I will resist at all hazard and to
the last extremity the fugitive-dase
if sought to he enforced for the reclamation
of the poor enslaved factory boys of the
North, who fled South fir freedom and
friends. My little black slave ee, who
brought the fellows to my door, would doubt
less some under ground, railroad fur their es•
cape should daiger thresteo.
A lunching case was preisent‘d ye,terilay
to the consideration and charity of one of
the Good Samanitans who now take cant of
the sick, relieve the destitute, and f•olt the
starving A boy was diacovered in the
morning, lying on the grass in Claiborne
street, evidently bright and intelligent, but
sick A men, who has the feelings of kind
-11(41% strongly developed, went to him, shook
him by the shoulder, and asked htm what
he a as cluing there
Wutiug for God to come fur me," said
What do you mean I" said the gentle
man, touched by the pathetic tone of the
answer and the condition of the Loy, in
whew_ eye 4 DA angled CIICASISSSAW UN-ate. •
dente of the fever.
God sent for father and mother and lit
tle brother,' said he, and took them away
to his home up in the sky ; and mother told
tne, • hen she was nick, that God woula
take rare of Are- I have no home, nobody
to give me anything, and ao I came out here;
an I hare been lot.king so long up in the aky
for God to come and take care of me, as
mother said be would. Ile will come, wool,
he ? Bother ne‘er told me a lie."
Yt,s, my lad," said the man, overcome
with entqlion ; Ile has sent me to hie
cirri; of you."
You should bare seen his eves flaidi, and
the mile of trimuldi break over his bum as
be said.—" Mother nerer told me a lie, air
but you'irelecn so long on the way."—
What a lesson of trust,--and hype this inci
dent Attunes the etlect of never doksiivintehili
dren With idle talcs. As the poor mother
expected, when'ahc told her a9ll,"Clod would
take care of him."—He did, by touching
the heart of this benevolent man with own
putelion and Wye to the little stranger.—)V.
0. [Data.
The CqaT'or TO3OTii.—Ats
important slander sit had just been dcci•
ded in Waukesha minty. Wistmosin, fin
which the plaintiff claimed damages of
OM. and (veneered 53000, 'lin the most
outrageous slanders against the daughter or
Air. John Williams. Trteatinder anis pct•.
petrated by a man named Poe, sevend years ,
ago, when Miss Williamel was only 10 years
of age.
Tia as Psauntiwo.—ltevenge ie longti
lived than gratitude. Indorse Mr. thuith't
note to keep him fnem bunting' and he wiir
forget all about it to a pionit. Pun If!:
:Smith's nose. and ha Jaiil oberiab a secret,
des re to burn your botaratwu. for the fel
maioder of hi smt . ltim mge pmehnts4.—
Gatlin& appears to be only a imatimpiat.—.
We pan all bate . ; but It la tllllette. laud*,
• haidrod tbal.poaeas sense enough to In
thankfbl.
i WILD RII3E
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