B. I'. SLOAN, Editor.
VOLUME 20.
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TUE BILTTLM.
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Great thoughts are heaving in the world's wide breast;
The timers laboring pith a mighty birth;
The oil ideas fall
Men wander up and down lit wild intent;
A sense of change preparing for the earth
Bropds over all.
There lies a gloom on all things under heaven—
A gloom porcentuous to the quiet men
Who see no 4oy in tieing driven
Onward from change, ever to change again; -
Who never walks but ott the beaten ways,
Arid love the breath ofyesterdlys—
Men who would rather sit and sleep
Where ringworm' through the I vies creep,
leach at tits door-porn all alone.
Heedless of n ear or distant wars,
Then wake arid listen to the moan
Ofstorm-vexed forests, nodding to the stars—
O r bear far off the melancholy roar
Of billows, white with wrath, battling against the shore
Deep on their troubled souls the shadow lies;
And in that shadow come and go,
{While fitful lightnings write upon the skies,
And mystic volcer chant the cominiWo„
Titanic phantoms sWatlied In inist and Rime--
The mighty shapes Killings without a name,
hringling with names more palpably delined,
That whirl and ilance'upori the wind;
Then, marshaling in 16g array (heir hosts,
Ruth forth to battle lit a cloud like land.
Thick iittalatiscd on titi:ise far aerial coiTsts,
An swartnn the loeunts plaguing cianiarcand,
O ti ho would live they cry, in time like thin!
A time of conflict fierce, and trouble ntrange;
%Viten old and ~c w, over a dark abs no,
Fight the great baffle of relentless change!
And mill before Ow eyes disc rowne..l hinge,
Domeier,: chter.r, and aged prie.ir f .riorn,
Flit by—confuse—.yitli all ine,,itgruvus things,
Paßanntrg is tine an I !all on
While here anThiere, annd a p,hipit light,
Angelic Nee., sweet al summer inorn
%Vlach gleam an instant ere ecting til!ied quite,
Of ettsl,se to stony Ault s, or s,•ceire. livid white
But not to me—ol not to the appear
Eternal gloom. I bee a brighter bky,
I feel the healthful 1001100 of the elpherei
And, lying dawn upon the grass, I hear
Far, far alvity, yet qawing near,
A lore, sweet leunt . ld of ri nging melody.;
,1 see the arrows tly;
I ore the battle and the combatants;
I know the eause,for their %ye:11,01w ;
I tea: the martial music mid the chants,
The ohtoek of ho,t., the armor chisii.
As thought tneets thought; but far beyond I bee.
A:lonm the abyss of the to be,
The nelktt on victory' of the Eight;
The layinj dutch of Useie.... ,IlOttiS and spears:
The reconeilement ardently. de,tred
Of universal Teurn am? Illortr—
Whbo: long estr4n4entent, flllinF earth with tears,
Gar c et ef) manly heart tilt ti/VT,, fired
A lowering love, a hope ttirpired i
To recount. them, DCVO' more to blinder,
raj, far awhy, above the rumbling thunder,
I 'see the splendor of another day,
crtque imam time begun,
There lia.been darkness over man—
.rad 411, el, It melts atimyl
likatififiti lantimure.
.GRA„CE ATHERTON,
DR TIFF.
- ILTTOXINEIT uotrivd.
BY II
From the 15 , 3,t05i Olive Branch
[coNcLeDED.]'
in the spacicus drat ing•rooni, whose rich furniture
and ciiinsou hangings, nom shrouded in gloomily funeral
garb for her who had so lately been its inistros, sqented
in unison with her feelings, Grace Atherton sat alone,—
Reclining upon a tlre An, ono delicate hand 'and dein sup
porting her graceful head she seemed like summa fair, Yet
mournful picture. flefore her, on the witll, depended a
full-length portrait of her pother ; and ever and linen. us
her eyes were raised to th it face n hose loved original
had been taken from her, a deep sigh broke the stillness
offing room, And a faint-inurintired "Mother! dear moth
er!" issued almost unconsciously from her lips. Beau
tiful, yet touching, was it to 5..0 that lovely orphan, sur
rounded by all the luxuries and splendor which bound
less wealth can purchase, -yet alone, alone, in her doer
sorrow, with no sympathizing heart on which to loan, nu
kind and friendly voice to whisper sweet words of peace
and consolation! Her thoughts 'were sad. All who had
loved her were gone; and now, mingling with past mem
ories of them, came the recollection of the pledge given
to that deceased parent, and with it dreud apprehensions
of the aortow t 7l future, which awaited her, if, as she
dreaded, tha solemn, and to her, awful promise, shotidd
be fulfilled in her union with hint she so much feared
and despised, the attorney's son! Ainiethen her thoughts
grew deeper, and like the memory of sweet music tones,
came the once-hoard voice of one who had rescued her
from peril—from death--the remembrance of Philip
Manton, as he had leaned over her in that hour of re
turning consciousness— and the involuntary "Grace,"
breathed in tones of deepest tenderness, which had,
though unknown to himself, awakened sweet emotions
in the young girl's breast, which time and gratitude for
ono who had been her preserver, had served only to keep
alive. Suddenly she raised her head, and as her eye
again met that loved face which the artist had so well
depicted on the can roes before her, a faint tinge of color
spread over cheek and brow, and as though that look
gently had reproached her, she threw herself upon her
knees before it, and with clasped hands nacre& "My
mother, help me to fulfil anti*. will!" and then, looking
tolteaven, she continnod in that iittimde, as though
beseeching strength front on high, to citable her to carry
out her - deceased parent's wishes.
As she the, knelt, n harried cep was heard ascending
the staircase, end ore she had time to rise, tho door was
opened, awl Philip Marston rushed in. extending in hie
hand a parchment, lie paused respectfully, as ho be
held her kneeling postUre; then as she rose, approach
ing her, he exclaimed, "The will! the will! dearest
nes Atherton!" but as the parchment met her eye, and
the well-known 'Characters of her mother's signature
treredieplayed before her, Grace trembled, and closed
her eyes. The excitement had proved too much for her;
—the sorrow, the grief suffered and yet repressed, as
alten alone she had striven to bow meekly to her moth
er's will: and now the re-action, the momentary joy at
beholding him whose Image was gravenon her heart,
and that signature, ••Mary Atherton." had all over
powered the sweet girl: and as Philip held out hie bend
to support her, ehe fell back insensible in his arms.
Hastily yet tenderly placing her upon the nearest
couch, ho threw open the casement, and then kneeling.
bathed her brow, calling upon her the while to look up,
to speak to him! The spell was broken then. The re
stralat which he had placed upon hie words. Ns notions,
was gone. Forgetful of all else % save her who now lay
stricken before him, ho pressed again and again hor hand
to his lips.
"Grace, dear Grace," tho young man cried, •look
up once more: speak to me, door Grace!" and, as though
Ott voice, vviio:..o touter bad power to recalPher epfrit to
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consciousness, slowly, as though awaking from a dream,
Grace opened her oyes. _
"See, dear Grace," he began eagerly. than ,pausing
at sight of the young girl's face, coloiless . and—white as
marble,—"but perhaps you are Still too weak t o hear
whet I would tell you."
She raised herself from the couch, end with a look of
tenderness bade him proceed, half whispering the while,
"Again my preserver!" and she tried to thaut, him, but
the words diod away in murmurs. as the joung man,
clasping her hand in his, forbade her thanking him in
words.
"See," said he, "we have found it—the original will!
You are freed from this villain who would have betray
ed both you and my own sweet Kate—my gentle sister'."
And he proceeded to tell her how it had happened; how
ho had discovered Richard Scrivener's villatiy, end told
it to her mother;. how the little dwarf had betrayed the
old attorney's guilty deed, and finally how his own dear
sister, with gentle hopes so suddenly crushed,' had yet,
with true womanly pride, recalled her affections, at the
discovery of premeditated treachery In him she had
loved, and then with womanly tenderness, though the
while her own heart bleeding. had desired her brother
to save from even a worse doom, the being in whom she
knew her brother's heart was bound,up.
Grace listened, and her heart was deeply touched.—
With her sweet blue eyes lifted to his, she said, "flow
much I have p thank you for—ay, and your noble ale*
ter, too! To you I owe the rescue of my life. and now
my fortune, end far more then this, release from a union
which would have been to me 'a living death! How shall
I ever thank you for all you have done?"
".mine it not." gently interrupted the young men.—
"The gratification, the honor has all been mine! To
save your life, I would freely, gladly sacrifice all things
—life itself!" _
He paused. A thought of her present condition, so
recent a =Atriuer fora parent's death, made hint fear
that his laps should be closed, even now; but ho looked
up, and met that eye beaming with gratitude and ten
derness. Nay, he'dared to believe it yet u Warmer
and in a moment, with irrepressible .emotion, Philip_
Marston knelt a suppliant at her feet. Now, for the
first time, he ventured to pour out the tale of love so longq
treasured up within, his heart. Ho spoke, too, of the
struggle it had cost him to subdue his wild emotions,
when ho felt the presumption there was in his aspiring
—he, the poor mechanic—to the love of the rich and
courted heiress; and how ho had so subdued all outward
sign of emotion, until that day, when' his sweet sister
Kato, with a woman's perception of such feelings, had
caused him, by her inquinies.-and ufreelionate stratagem,
to betray his cherished secret. All this, and much more,
did Philip now- whisper unrebuked into the ear of the
'blushing girl, who, with band clasped confidingly in his,
confessed how ties of gratitude to her psi:server, had,' with
her, gradually deepened into the warmer, more endear,
sag ono of love. And now in the possession of a for
tune, with none to disapprove, alone, almost without a
kindred tic in the world, did Grace Atherton, on that
evening, pledge herself forever, to him who had so long
seesetl) and honorably' loved her. •
Tho clock had struck the hour of ten, when; Philip
Marston descended the steps of that elegant mansion;
and as lie closed the door behind him, it was with a
lightened Resit, and breathing prayers and bk.; iings on
its lovely inmate, nets. so tenfold dearer and precious to
him.—for it was as her acknowledged lover that he now
wooded his steps lightly to his home. Then, as ho
no trod tha Bute Wee' where his own htutiblo dwelling
l:tv, the thought of Kate, his sister, waiting, all lonely,
his coining, smote alinost reproachfully upon his heart,
us though it were not quite right that he should be so
happy, and she—that loving, trusting sister—with young
affactions so cruelly blighted; and with' the thought of
hint who so wronged her, front between his closed teeth
was heard tho word "Villain:" In an instant better
feelings'aroso, with the remembrance of the blissful
moments just passed with her ho could now so fondly—
so prundly call "his own," and sweet visions passed be
fore hie mind of happy days to come, when with his own
"Grace" it his side through fife, his sister Kate should
share their blessed house, and their united affection
should restore to her that peace of mind so rudely broken
by him who had so basely won the rich treasure of that
loving ivontan's heart, but to cast tt from him by
lauy.'
CII (PTE VIII
It was quite dark, es the dwarf, after quitting Philip
Marston's dwelling, wither he had repaired, as we have
seen, to put him in possession of Mrs. Athertott's true
will, and the history of Mr. Scrivener's villany, rapidly
shuffled along in the direction of-Cond. It was
full a mile distant; but intent on the mysterious mission
ho had to accomplish, he paused not. until arrived with
in sight of his destination. Then checking his pace, and
entering one of the shops, of which there were an infi
nite number in that neighborhood, kept by tradesmen
from among the lower classes, the dwarf whispered a
few words to' a coarse-featured, sinister-looking man,
who stood wiping sundry bottles and glasses scattered iu
heterogenous confusion. with odds and ends of cheese,
ham, onions, dry goods, boots, almanacs, and cracked
earthen-ware, over a dirty counter. The effect produced
upon - this man, wee electrical. Dropping towel and
glasses• he seized the dwarf in his powerful arms, and
tossed him up and down for the space of a minute, with
kind of savage ecistaey of joy. Then setting him down
gently and lightly, as if he had been is'inere toy in his
hands, he burst into a prolonged fit of laughter.
A merry light gleamed in theqiela creature's eyes, as
ho witnessed the effect produced by his cyocde. "Hush!"
said he, placing hie finger upon the man', hp, "It is not
time yet. An hour hence you will be there?"
The man nodded affirmatively,
"Meanwhile," continued the dwarf, whispering again
into the other's ear.
"Ha: het directly:" was the answer; "a capital
thought! Bounce, come here!"
At this call, a large sad ferocious maititTleft his com
fortable quarters, near a stove, in one corner, land at a.
sign from his Master, stretched his huge limbs upon the
t hreshold of the door, and to the command "Let no one
enter—mind!" wagged his tail joyously, as if impatient
to commence his watch.
Tossing off a glass of brandy. the man sallied out, ac
companied by the little dwarf. Presently they parted,
the former taking one street, and 'his companion con
tinuing on as before, stopping at every door, and
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paring to its occupant tho same mysterious words as
above, with the same, and som times oven more extrav
agant detnonstrations of satisfaction and delight,.—while
in an opposite direction, going on a similar mission, the
tradesman repeated atr ; every door the intelligence com
municated to him by do little dwarf, and from 'lip to lip,
through the'space of many squares, floW the momentous
and significant words--"An hour hence, and you will
be there!" _
• While the interview between Philip Marston and the
dwarf, described in the last chapter, was taking Once,
Mr. Scrivener, unconscious that a work, secretly under
mining his deep laid and thus far, successful plot, was in
progress, having in eresence of Grace Atherton and the
witnesses; opeuod and road her mother's wilt, (being con
stituted by its terms her executor,) and perfectly MUM
by the manner in which it was received,that no suspi
cion of having played false, attached to himself, quitted
SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUSP 25, 1849.
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Lincoln Square, and directed his steps toward-- Conn the samo.naoinan I
t i the crowd swayed back—a rush, and
Arrived at his old mansion, on proceeding to let hiinsOlf then a heavy blow ./ipou the ball dour, splintering and
in, the attorney discovered (or the first time, with'tklior , „ tearing up the oaken paneling, and jarring the old house
rible opprehension 'at • the wimp
.moment crossl4 Ida_ to its very centre, WWI the shock. A scream of despair
mind, that his keys word missing from his pocket. He broke from the old mbli'a lips. They had planted the
could not for's life have started at once to search for ladder. -Ho heaft their ascending atop!, and then. sick
them, so con plotely bud this discovery paralyzed all and faint tv . net impulse, he struggled to his feel.
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power of mot on, while it suggested to his mind vague staggereC . e orridor. and tried to reach the flight of
and fearful forebodings of some terrible calamity about to steps littiliak to:tho vaults below. Then it flashed upon
burst npon him. A moment Worst. a brilliant deathly him tlAtilltry had not boon openod for many years—the
beckoned him onto revel amid the glittering fruit of his keys were in his chamber. Should he return for thorn?
villanous schemes. Not a cloud obscured the beightdoss He gaveltine stap,but it was too late—they were swarm
of that heaven, arched all smilingly over his futurity, nor ing in at the window. Ha! another blessed hope—the
as yet the unbroken slatmlier of conscience was die- rear! if he can but gain that! Dizzy as he was, fear ur
turbed by asii.—:J , --_,.5....... i •.. -- ait,L.ged We stops. ill flew up the spiral ascent before de
-1 tiE ORIGINAL DISCOVERER OF THE femar -
let-lilted, just at hand, A moment, and he stood upon
• - Genuine To - wasp/id Sarsaparilla.
lit Dr. Townsend is now Maui 70 years of age. and has long Tillie roof, and gave lone despairing glance around. flow
I known as the A EITHER and , f)/SC.OPERER of the GE:r•
V.: °RIO IN,-1 L ..Toliwsp,ND SARS APAR! LL.4." Being o l c ke ro talack-sr-d , ark it was! He panted for breath—air! air! he
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blie was compelled to limit Its manufaCturc, by which means cot nov as i t ujii iir , with the winds of heaven sweeping his brow
been kepi -out of inariiet, nod the sales circumscribed to liaises . '
i only who had proved its wonh, and known its value . Jihad Mg br 7 as a the sky, solowsring aid curtained with a pall of
led theears of tunny, nevertheless, as those persona who had !1011, O ler; to' crush hint. Yee, fearfully near
healed of sore diseases, and saved front death, proclaimed ....,_ „ ,
scellence and wonderful.
oio ` i : . 11 . 1lIti (ha ar k ,
,abovehishead,lowerand lower
canopy
i iitlat,tau rrivtibm:
t k 'invit:, many yearn ago, that he had, Wineskin. se fence and l i.t . i h r e ett , 3 seemed ! to droop and shut him in from God's world ,
nee. devised au article which would be of incalcutate ad- rills with guilt brooding with a night-mare incubus
ire to mankind when the malls would be flannelled to bring
to mini iersni notice, when its enestintable virtues would be ~.fit-thr- upon his soul! The old man listened—they were
[wit appreciated. This time has come, the means are sup
;Z.; searching his room., nerd be could hoar from below, faint-
GRAND AND UNEQUALLED PREPARATION ib h ,py, the enraged voices of his pursuers, baffled for the
!infatuated on the largest scale. and is called for throughout wh it momen . . ti
Sigh and tumid' of the laud, especially as it is found incapa- t t their search. Feeler fell the bloWa upon the
cons
degeneratiou or deterioration. b e rj dour below , until at last. with-a deafening crash, it gave
(Me young S. P. rPowniend's,, it improves with cr. and nev-
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iringes, but for the better: becaure it is prepared on scientific r,: - :, way. shivered to atoms before the populace. In they
biter by a scaentifie man. The highest knon ledge of Chem- ! 4
will unshed, scattering ver the house, and tearing down with
; l and the latest discoveries of the art. lime all been brought
t a Midden in the manufacture of the Ow Des, Sarsaparilla. o ,,frantle eagerness. every thing that opposed their proverb
farsaparilta roil, it is well known to medical men, contains
medical properties, and sonic properties which are inert or T!vv, w o Porenitist among them was tne little dwarf, tossing his
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and others, which if retained in preparing it for use. pro- t r y ,
ianmeing aims into t h e sir. and dancing and shouting in wild
for n e r ti'"na pr o per ties i d a
C OVIS Irr 1 P h rl i r P h a r i l s lia inj o u r r e io so us eoTa t l i tre, s tit s a t t el ls; P ri ncilenzi. with his piercing eyes gloaming and peering thro'
•Ikv eva """ ami ere lest in the W e l' atattet '' i f they e r e net
by't'e darkness , his black hair streamed above, his taco
feed by a erientiffe process, known only to those experienced oirr O", ''''
LI manufacture. Moreot et, these volatile principles, which w „, t ',colorleas as marble l , yet lit up ever and anon with a
gin v ,tor, or as an exhalation. under beat, are the very en- wan ,
medical properties of the root. which give to it all its value. oc a rr ange exulting smile, he seemed the impression of do
lt • ' , MIMIC:IA boit or stew the toot till th ey get a dark colored '
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articlenoniac fury! High and shrill above the fierce clamor,
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which le mere from the coloring matter an the root than our au • . .
pything else; they can then strain this Insipid or vapid S.
with sour molasses, and then can it "BARR:WAR
irk,:kill'elNCT ' or 1.1 VR UT." But such isnot Our snick:known
. i . is voice could be heard, and its tones thrilled
feminine
.% rev; eto the old inan'fheart. Ha! he had found a Ono to
ii• e t u n t d e .o rs :
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tiNUINE OLD DR. JACOB TOWNS D S -..-ts ar--- uitelytho dread mystery tif that night! The dwarf's fondness
-ES- ' - l ate tfor the old house—the insults received at the attorney's
lij is so prepared, that al l llt il i gi‘i t .st properties of the Santana- they , hands—his well-known canning, and his ruse in obtain-
Ve t ri a ti r e ‘' n fi taTo r r e i " i ' sl i ‘ ' t d r'et . t. e a r t " a b ri li tl g re c i a c i gl e t ) 11 r ei t t iec e o v ra cr i y n . becoming
f e ti d - Te.e".'ing
. moical viriac is secured in a pure and concentrated forma ones,
us It IS rendered incapable of loitiig any of its valuable and howe k " v tli '
Ili the keys! It gashed upon him in on instant. He
et „ ,
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and in the impotency of his rage, the
g properties.. Prepared in this way, it is made the most the Mold than , unwed tits lip till the warm blood spurt
tot agent in the
.Coro of' Innumorablo irooases. . - tetraver,
cc!, and
for a 'tore his hair, and Madly cursed the hopeless fate draw:,
ice the reason why we hear commendations of every side in l Dr. down upon his huge by his own crimes. And now ho
tor by men, women, arid children. We find it doing won
c,re°r. e Te L
I the cure of Co uld hoar theta upon the stairs, the trampingpiag of their
4 cmPTios, DYSPEPSIA. end Li viat coArDLAINT ; d A irli net round and round the spiral ascent,•seemed lilts the
i a fi t i l i g i A l tY:a l :9 Ali f ift i li, I ; l l L , l ii.f.s 9 f 6 l.l.rh: illoo q d r -d, oath - March of th i s wretched man. Springing to rho i
tY rith..1.111.t...,tin1im.9.0 'Jai tia from-I blood)
• • - • -verge of the roof, ho looked below—a aliccr descent of
that wherever they were spoken, the sante electric thrill I
sixty feet! He must cast himself down, or another min-
of joy glowed in every breast—the sudden start—the
ate would deliver Men into the hatida of an infuriated
hulf-suppressed oadj- 1 ,1 10 compresse d rip and clenched mob! God! how tile old man shuddered at the alto tun
hand, betokened the awakening of strong passion, and titre! Ho.fiesitated. Suddenly a thought struck him.
the bitch of a now, mysterious and terrible purpose? flow The roof was fiat, and edged with a high, open-w orked'
slowly, too, it seemed to all, drugged the weary moments nal He would let his body drop below the roof, and
of that hour; and how, when its sands were neatly run, cling t that. They tvould pass him in rho search. "Hal
with a tiinultatieons imptihie, as if leagued among them• ha!" it was his last lope—a desperate one, but he snatch
selves to the act at that very moment, they all closed ed it to his heart, t rid then flung himself over, fasten
their shops, and swarmed silently to the spot the dwarf
ing his! hands with at death-grasp upon the slender rail,
had indicated! Vrout all points they congregated, a
and killing the wild throbbings of MS Iteort, (as though
crowd of fierce. determined men, at first of those haute- he feared they-n. 041 betray him) with this last hopes of
diately appointed to assemble tilcro, but soon like wild- ,
fire flew the strange purport of that gathering and mo
tiletilarilv and fast swelled tiro number. A deep hush
, tat- upon the multitude, fur until that little humpbacked
i figure, gliding rapidly amidst the crowd, should give
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sign, every lip "must be dumb. ‘Vheicver ho moved,
1 his presence cast a spell over those ropgh spirits. He
j was the instigator of the work they had come to perform.
1 and instincti vsly Chet looked to him as the loader of that
east assemblage.
All was still. The night was dark, the sky overcast,
but suddenly ,'as if to render the silence more profound.
the wind, which had been caroming madly before, sank
tuto a dead C7lllll. Only a 19w, deep murmur swelled
np front the, crowd, us with hushed breathing, each man
grasping tightly a club or Stolll.l In Ills hand, they stood,•
thronging and black.•ning the street, for - the space of a
full square, awatink the signal from the little dwarf. 11
came at last—one word, •''!he will!" fell from his hps.
111 an instant it was caught up and echoed along the line
of eager men; and like the surging of the !nighty sea,
(1113 11 I :ISt; of hutmimbeings awa)ed to and fro, os tu one
impetueui tenant they poured into nod
Pressed madly up to the old Attorney-Ili:Ingo.
"The will! the will: down with the old house!" now
swelled from a faint murmur to a terrible cry, rose
in appalling distinctness upon the black air. '• Moro
fiercely they thronged up to die narrow ilessego, etreacy
choked and gorged with living beings. Hoarsely rose
the fearful shout.—. The will! the will! down with the
old house!" while those unable to gain access to it. from
die dense throng before them, uttered frenzied cries of
rage end - hate, against the old miser—venting deep impre
cutkins.on his head, and clamoring for his miserable life!
Then it was, that all to whom that man had rendered
himself obnoxious by his crimes---who had imbibed hitter
prejudices against him withtheir earliest lessons of child
hood—those whom he had wronged. and !heats who hat
ed him without cause. now possessing. through the
dwarf. the last most &inning secret of his life, bad as
sembled before 'his stronghold with a wild thirst for re
venge burning at their hear% and a vague. half-formed
purpose of vengeance for the dark sin he whom they
sought, had committed. They racked not law, for
had he not trampled it under foot? Theirs was the ran=
dering of justice on the part'of huinauity so often ground
and crushed beneath his heel at the band ut humanity
itself! It was the lawless, reckless mob that raged be
fore the attorney's house.
At the first low murmur below. the old %man .started
up., He listened, and as it deepened_ into a prolonged
shout. "The will! the wilt!" an icy horror struck to his
heart. Springing to the window, he looked out. God!
what an upturned sea of faces met his sight—what a
withering blaze of light seemed to glare upon him from
t hose malignant eyes! and that yell of fiendish joy that
burst thrillingly upon the night. as the crowd 'bleory
caught sight of their victim. Ills brain reeled for a mo
ment at the spectacle—then recovering himself. ho
sprang, frantic with terror, to the safe, dashed madly
back the doers, and looked within; another gaze, but it
was like the frightful stare of a corpse! The will teas
getter His very blood froze with horror; his knees tram
, bled, and sank beneath him, and fora moment, the fierce
imprecations of the crowd fell. all unheeded, upon his
stricken senses.
Higher aliened the roar of winds and voices coming
ling. Nearer and more hotly press the throng around the
devoted mansion, and that terrible cry, "The will! dowu
frith the old house!" rang fearfully through the soul of
that wretched man, ns, alone in that desolate chamber,
ho slowly roso to his feet, and awoke to the awful truth.
"Discovered! lost!" Yee, he felt that there was no es
cape. Could he have but found and destroyed the only
witness, as he thought, to his crime, the will which ho
hod concealed, then might he brave that infuriated mob.
Rut it was gone! and there he was, heinnied in by a great
army of human beings thirsting for his bleed, cut off from
all hope of rescue, and shut up to a violent death! And.
as if not appeased with the expiation of his life, Remorse
fastened its tooth deep into his heart, until goaded almost
to madness by its sting, cowering and trembling with
bodily fear. he flung himself to the ground. and Writhed,.
as one convulsed with manta! agony. Suddenlittabout
—"Make way! e ladder!" etruok upon his ear, and at
trONVTAZILD..M i ,
Ili=
• Thoibail gaine
How litto p demon
was en9l In vaii i
dorm lig Mr a 'maim!
en dumb by the sud
hung still, clingin
icon railing, until
and the veins starts
and swelled up jntol l
ud! A groan. %vio,
his would
It. Low as it was
with a savago cry
beckoning with one
soized with the othe
looked up, and as
dwarf, a yell of Mort
long and thrilling
'shot from his eyos- 1,
the dwarf in a firmn
the roof. A struggi
the dwarf, with his
the gloom..
They looked bellisv—a swill rush through the air, a
whizzing sound, and tben a heavy full moiled them
through the darkness, . . . and it VP t 33 all quiet and still.
• • • •
Be was st one dee ld —and changed—oh God: how fear
fully'. They could not have known him thus—all crush
ed and shattered as the old man was! Upon his body
was stretched the little dwarf—where he had
They raised him; his lips moved, and the words "Kato
—Grace—you era avenged!" were heard faintly. lie
groaned heavily and ' fell back—a slight quiver partied over
him—a half smile-Lind thee that misshapon for stif
fened in their arms r end a moment after, they laid him
gently upon the ground, for he was dead.
tIIAPTIR
A year had flow . Tho mansion in Lincoln square
is now re-opened. All outward symbols of mourning
have disappeared from the richly furnished halls; and
seated upon a low divan with her husband by her aide,
reclines Grace Atherton! Her mourning garb had been
laid aside, and now clad in a simple. yet elegant robe of
spotless white, she Seemed oven more lovely than when
first introdticed to the reader. And Phillip the humble
artisan, now elevated by his union with the gentle being
whom he had so long no fondly loved, to the possession
of all tho refinements and luxuries of wealth and station
which had aurrountled him in earlier years, had lost
vane of the frank simplicity of character that so beauti
fully distinguished hie huniber life. Yet he now bore
himself With a mo re' manly grace". and upon the fair
trusting creature ati his nide, his dark eyes beamed ten
derly: th 4 glance svas passionate, proud—yet withal;
ineffably sweet. The little sign in street, ...Minia
ture painting." had long before been taken down. Never
since that hour when her first dream of love had been so
cruelly blighted by the treachery of hint who had won
her heart but to make its rich affections the sport of an
idle hour, had liatPldarston given birth to those beauti
ful creations of genius; which had in happier hours min
istered both to theirinecessities and to her delight. With
a womanly pride Bile had 'driven to conceal from the
world's curious wird), ell trace of the desolation wrought
In her spirit; and the peace and quiet of that home
whither her brother's affection had called her, in tho gen
-1
lie sympathy and compauionahip of Grace, had done
much to wean her f - rent all bitter memories of the past.
Yet had cheek lost something of its roundness, and
the soft fire faded from her now pensive eyes, and truant
thoughts would sometimes wander back to that first heart
sorrow, not In bitterness, but with a meek and chastened
spirit, forgiving him all the:deep wrong he had done her,
and piously hopint:that in that distant land whither he
had Omen, the angel of blessing might visit him, and lead
him back , to en urtstaitted, redeemed manhood. They
I had buried the little . dwarf in a little , nook hs the old
chute:lslnd. hard by. and the plain, - unpretending mar
ble slab planted upon that grave. - told that• Philip and
Grass had not torgetten how Much of their present hop
the - roof—led on by the little dwarf.
'ho raged, when he saw the attoney
it they searched. BALA, na d wen
n(t, the crowd stood silent as if striek
lden revulsion of feeling. There ho
•
g with superhuman strength to that
is hands '.veto all torn and blooding,_
od from his temples like tonso cords,
i hard purple- knots. flow he suffer
ing from him by his agony, escaped
have dropped, if ho had suppressed
the dwarf heard and answered it
of joy. lie sprang' to the spot. and
1 -hand to the throng behind him, he
it the old man's hand. The attorney
tto met the malignant gaze of the
rtti terror, a scream of despair, broke
pop the night. Then a sudden gleam
he set his teeth hard, and clutching
ideath-grasp, loosened his hold upon
de, q sharp, quick cry fur mercy, and
' nutrderor, plunged down, down, amid
pineal! they owed to the intervention of him who elept
beneath. '
They said the old house was haunted, and so ft might
have been, swarming and run over with ghosts, for all
they knew. flow could they know anything about the
matter, When note footstep had echoed along that Court
since the night in which the attorney so miserably, per
ished: They wished to have it so: that was plain bnough.
There were no more covetous thoughts, or longing eyes,
for the now desolate mansion. Those who had offered
double its value a twelve month toefere; would'not'have
taken it now at their own price. ' It was very strange in
deed—hut no ono could walk slowly past , that Court. a ft er
dusk. The boys shuddering turned_away, and even stout
hearted men Involuntarily quickened ,tlteir pace..and
breathed more freely when fairly out of tight of the spot.
It was shattered terribly within--the old house was—
but the watts were yet standing. That ghastly sight—the
old man lying so crushed and dead—bad appeased the
fury of the mob, and silently and awtstiickno, they
slunk away.
And thus it had stood u they jell it,, in filed' briblu
night. with its akelaton walls standing out' egainatthe
blue sky. like a dark blot upon its pure canopy, touching
the stranger with reverent thoughts fdr - the venerable
garb which Time had flung over them, and then filling
him with awe, as the ragged medioaut boy, for a charity
bestowed, repeats in low whispered tones, the fearful
history of the old Attorney House.
TAYLOR 'ANECDOTES
A short time since. One of our vessels arrived at Ham.
pton Roads, from the Mediterranean, having important
despatches for our government at Washington, The fact
of the arrival was telegraphed in the usual way to the
Secretary of the Navy, viz: "U. S. sloop of wer
has just run into Hampton Roads." Upon the arrival
of the dispatch at Washington, in the absence of the'
Secretary, it was sent to the President. "Old Zech"
somewhat elated at the idea of receiving a telegraphic
despatch, adjusted his specs and proceeded to road it:—
He had hardly got a glance of it, before ho threw tho pa
per down in earnest indignation and swore vengeance
against the Post Captain of our Navy, for running such
a fine vessel of war into a Road, and declared such a gross
neglect of duty, should receive condign punishment, and
that the officer should be immediately court martialed.—
We do not know what has'boon the terminous of this
matter, as we have as yet seen no acconet in the court
and official journal at Wailsingtort, of a court martial
being convened fur the trial of nay officer running a ves
sel into Hampton Roads.
It is asserted that among the number of applicants for
the Navy Agency of Washington under tho present ad
ministration, there wore two worthy gentleman by the
name of Linthicum and Lathrop. The friends of the
former were for a long tirno sanguine of his success,
when one Meriting on a visit to one of the Departments
they heard of news favorable to the sucees of the latter.—
They immediately hurried to see •Old Zack," who in,
formed them that he had promised the office to Mr. Lin-
Miceli,, and should certainty have it. Perfectly satisfied,
they left, and the next morning, having again herd of
unfavorable news, called for the second time upon the
President, who informed them that he had appointed Mr„,.
Linthicum, and had that very morning algae his com
mission. Perfectly elated at this news, thou journeyed
immediately to the Navy . Departement, to their utter
amazement they discovered that Mr. Lathrop had receiv
ed the appointinent.land already pocked the commission.
They again visited the "Second , Washington." aerated
to bins what they had seen. Old Zack became confoun
ded, and exclaimed in perfect innocence and child-like
simplicity, "Well, gentlemen, I must have been mista
ken—hut bed-1, I knew it commenced with an
L."—Belt. Rep.
cvry OF MOSCOW
The city of niscoW rendered famous by Napoleon's
celebrated expedition,/ was built in the 21th century, and
now contains 400,000 inhabitants. It is situated in a
great valley, and the houses are mostly built of wood,
with roofs of sheet iron. In the centre of the city stands
the welled hill 'or Kremlin, which is surrounded by a
brick wall 50 to 7.5 feet and a mile and a half in I
circumference. Within these limits are several public
buildings. The popular opinion that the Kremlin is a
palace, is erreoneous. It is simply, as its name signifies,
a walled onclosuie„ and was built as a defence against ,
domestic insurrection. It could no more be blown up by
powder thatcauld a great hill. In the curch a hich stands
within its limits is a bell weighing 140,000 lbs., but this
le olipsed bye great bell which stands at the foot of the
tower. This-is 19 feet high, 65 feet in circumference,
18 inches thick, and weighs 400,000 pounds avoirdupois.
A large piece has been broken out of it, and it+ is some.
times used as a ch apel. Around the city strethes a pu
blic garden or Boulevard, and outside of this - a wall of
turf 30 or 40 feet in' height. Three hundred churches
each with five or six domes, are scattered throughout the
city. The domes are pear-shaped , and are surmounted
•
by a spire and a cross, with the crescent beneath it.--
I •
They ere painted sometimes brown, and often a bright
blue color, with large spangles of gold. As there are
I from 1,500 to 2,000 domes in the city, the effect. when
the sun is shining upon them, is extremely brilliant.—
About nine-tenths of die city was burnt by the Russians,
1 when they evacuated it iu 1813.
VJ
A Rtunt.an arita.—A clever correspondent of the
Yankee Blade, writing from Alabama, is responsible for
the fallowing, which ought to be stereotyped;
C. was a cute "Down easter"—a real live Yankee—
always ready for a joke, and hard to beat.' lie was one
day in a country bar room "down South," were several
persons were assembled, when ouo of them said:
"Mr. C. if you go out and stick your penknife into any
thing, when you come back I'll tell you what it's stick
lug
"Yer can't do no snob a thing," responded C.
"I'll bet you tan dollars of it," said the other:
olVal, I rather guess I will have to take that 'ere bet;
hero, canting, turning to the landlord, hold stakes;. and
I'll e'en just make half a saw-horao in leas than no
time."
The parties deposited an X apiece. and C. went on
his mission, but in a short time returned, saying:
"Well, nabor, what is it sticitin - iu?"
"In the handle," replied the Southerner, as ho reach
ed out his hand for the stakes.
"Guess not: jest wait awhile," said the Yankee, as
he held up the handle of his knife. minus the blade. "I
kalkerlate the blade can't be in the handle, whet) it is
driven clean up in an 010 stump aside yer road out there."
Johnathau of course won the wager, and the Souther
ner eloped to parts unknown, amid roans of lee-gine-I'.
A "Wuctsran."—We don't endorso the following,
which we find in one of our exchanges
•'A young lady in one artists eastern cities; whil6 citing
some wortlohorries. had tint misfortune to htivr,o r eno re
main i n h er throat, front which grow a prolific bush.—
Two quarts of bprries were gathered frouait at one pick•
ng, and the family lived on the puddings for a week',
besides giving a quantily tb the neighbors.,' •
• “Cirei Avrouo To Go.—Dow, Jr., In anuelon to this
exclusion of many vrold-be church goer 'from the salmi
uaty, by 'melon of this . high pewronti in our •61nahionabli
churches;" 'characteristically remarks—•'The reason why
a manrity . of you ko to Belzebub is, because you can't
afford to-go to Heaien at the present eibOrbltant
prices:"
Si 50 A. 1r Au
II
The following extract is from the forthcoming work of
0. Tiffany, Esq., and is part of a lodger extract that haa
appeared in the Boston Adrertiscri
A great point in Chinese happiness is the number of
children the fortunate man may biiast of. Tbo principle
they goon is, in the words of Eihakspeare, •The world
must he peopled." A man with half a . doten sons Is
wealthy, but with the seine number of daughter*. his
poverty is a general subject of pity. In speaking of his
offspring one Will sometimes say. that he has three chil
dren, and if you ask If any aro daughter*, be will !mewsr
yes, four. meaning seven in all. though he does not eon -
consider the girls worth mentioning. Shottlii his wlf6
prove childless, he eagerly seizes the opportunity of
putting her asidiaand marrying again.
The manners of the Chinese. those of the middling
and upper classes, are very pleniing to s stranger. Pus
low laborers are brutish enough, but emen' the better
bred a gentility of manner is strikingly apparent. Witea
you meet a Chinese gentleman:he folds his hand/tad
shakes - them at you, saying. Chin chin, words of the
Cauton-Chinese-Angle jargon, signifying welcome. or
thank you, or farewell, according to the occasion. Hyper
visit is one of ceremony. he Is careful to keep his hat on
while you uncover. and seats you of course on his left
band. lie is so courtier-like, that he will not touch the
chair a moment before you, and if he perceives that he
is doing so ho instantly rises a little. Then, perhaps. he
treats you to some sweetmeats and tea. The tea le al
ways delicious. It is not contaminated by cream and
sugar, be would not emideseend to such a barbarian
custom. There are no saucers fur the cups to stand up
on, but you will see that they aro•on the top of the cup.
to keep in the aroma of the clear amber-colored beve
rage. And HO iu China 3on will see a hundred reverses
to European customs.
.1 have spoken of practice of keeping precocious youths
in 'subjection, the Celeatials fully apprecatiug the wisdom
of Solomon; if no other portion of Holy Writ. A man
dresses like a wonta-n - , 4 rind uses a fan even more; he car
ries his watch on the right aide, and instead of leaving
his knife and chopAicke at the table, he puts them Into
a little case and bears them about with him; he uncovers
his head in summer time; ho begins to read a book at
its natural end, he never cuts the loaves of it; ha writes
perpendicularly; lie cats fruits first and soup last, at feasts
of ceremony. Ile whitens the souls of his shoes instead
Of blacking them; ho puts on boots, and disceads
when he wishes to be extremely elegant iu convent,
and old mon play like little boys, and little boys•look as
dignified as judges.
On one occasion I saw an instance of Chinese contra
riety that certainly put to flight any of the recreations of
old mon in my own country;. -for as sane of us were
storming onrselves in a cool November afternoon with
the primitive and healthful sports of lea? frog, much to
,the delight of herds of Chinese, to our inexpresaible
surprise, wo saw three grave citizens, chose united ages
were certainly over a century and a half, become so cur
ried away by tho spirit of the game, that they must join
in it themselves. They were men of respectabiliy; they
were dressed in fine snit, and their boards and mousta
ches were combed precisely; and in a moment two of
them stood at the prescribed distance from each other.
and placed their hands upon their knees, while the third
(u gentleman near threescore young) indulged iu tho
tun, and would have cleared his companion's head
in gallant style, only his long gown took such firm hold
of the other's back that both came tothe ground, like
horse and rider in a steeple chase. Not at all disheart
ened, they continued the game fur half an hour or so, and
though falling at full length five times out-of six, elpreas•
ed themselves as highly pleased with such novel and in•
vigorating exercise. In the meantime several urchins
leaked on, without either daring to laugh or joining in
the pastime.
PitOUV Pooa.—The Bostou Post furnishes the fol
lowing truthful picture, the original for which may bo
found in almost every town in the Unions—The family
oft Mrs. Brown, a good widow,, consisting of six daugh•
tens, had the inisrortuno to bo poor and proud. Abovo
the gross vulgarity of mound labor, though not abovo its
necessity. they lived in "stuck up" . idleness and dor/en
/I,AI mainly on the hard earnings of the mother for sup.
port. Finally Maria, who was the youngest k , and rather
pretty, managed to win the heart and hand of the village
physician, and got married. `rho aniattco being coosi
dered as a decided step "up in the world" by all the
family, the single sisters grew lazier and prouder than
over, while the doctor's with took A now and Improved
act of airs to match her advancement in the scale of
"good socioty." Being comfortably Iseistowod in her
now house. she began to fool the need of somebody to
mind the pots and kettles; and seeing a neighbor, (a
thrifty mechanic, who used to be "boss" to her father in
the same shop) going'past the door, she called out to him
in an affected manner, to know where she' should find a
servant—expecting to get an offer of one of his daugh •
tors. "Well, I don't know," said the carpenter, "help is
a little. hard to be got just now, but there is the widow
Brown's girls who I should think you might get, as they
are dreadful poor, and seem to be always out of work."...
Souse neighbors who overhead the eolloquey, say that
t madam retreated into her house with a precipitancy that
I was quite alarming to behold, and never spoke of the cot•
pouter afterwards, but . as a vulgar person who know
nothing of the proper distinctions of society.
Tun Fu:sr SAW MILL—The old practice in making
boards, was to split up the logs with wedges; and con•
venient as tho.practice was, it was no easy matter to pnr•
suado the world that the thing could to done in
,any bet
ter way. Saw mills were That Used in Europe in the
fifteenth cenfuryf but so lately as 1553, an English am
bassador, having seen a saw mill in France, thought it
a novelty which deserved a particular description. It is
amusing to see how the aversion to labor-saving maehin•
ory has already agitated England. The first saw mill
was established by a Dutchman in 1667; but the public
outcry against the new-fangted machine was so very
violent, that the proprietor was . forced to decamp with
more oxfunlition than ever did a Dutchman before. The
evil was thus kept out of England for several years, or
rather generations; but iu 17GS, anuttlueliey timber mar. -
chant, hoping that after so long a time the public would
be loss watchful of its own interest, made a rash attempt
to construct another mill. The guardians of the public •
welfare, however, were on the alert, and a condom
' tious niob at once collected and pulled tho mill to pieces.
Such patriotic spirit could not always last; and now. •
though wo have no where seen the fact distinctly stated.
there ip a reason to believe that' saw mills are lused in En
gland.
"ORIGINAL" ANECDOTE.—"rho number of witness
cc," said a teurnod judge, "always increases the proba
bility of a fact. Two are batter than one, and three are
better than two." "I bog your pardon," said the prison
er ht the bar "If I publish a piece of mine in •tny_
newspaper, and head it 'origiuni.' when other papers
copy it, and declare it to be original, the less original it
becomes." "That is because the first ono who copies it,
affirms to a too" said the judge. "That is just the way
here, your honor." retorted the prisoner. "This first
Witness told the rte. and all tho met halm sworn to it."
Art Englishman oust, cut .his throat bemused ?warn*
s*tired of buttoning and unbuttooing." The following
is a better use of the surto principle :—Our old grand
father used to say to our old grandmother. "it's uselestr
quarsiling my dear. for you know we must Maio it up
again.
NUMBER 15.
in Advance.
Til F. CIIINESE