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J. W. WETMORE.
ATTORNEY AT LAD,
In Walker's Oflice, on Seventh Street, Erie. Pa
HENRY CADWELL,
] ,„„ ER , j o Oct, and Retail Dealer 14 Dry Goods, Groceries,
era kery, .Glass.7are, Carpeting. Hardware, Iron . Steel, Nails.
&c. Empire Stores, State iStreei, four doors,. below
Droteu's llotel. Erie, l'a •
Also—Anvils. Vices. SelloC., Axle Alps. Springs, and a general
assortment of Saddle and Cart
S. MERVIN SMITH.
ATnOItIVET AT LAW and Justice of the Nue—Office one door
weii of %Vriglit's store: Erie, Pa,
W. H. KNOW;LTON & SQ:sl.
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DtaLllolll IVatches, Clocks, ho oking Glasses. Piano Fortes,
Lamps, Britannia IVare. Jet , : y. , aud n variety' ofother Fancy
Articles. Keystone Buildings. ur doors 1:elow Brown's Hotel,
Stine Street. Erie. Pa.
S. R. DEM/EY.
WIZOLVIALP, AND RETAIL Maier In Dry Goods, BOCond door below
Brown's Hotel, State Street, Erie, Pa..
GEORGE H. CUTLER,
Arroßdcy wr I.ww, Girard, Erie Gonuty, Pa. Coltections aad
other havinees attended to with protnatness and di6uatett. '
• 1 - WILSON LAIRD.
ATTORNEY AT Lsw—Oillee over.S. 11. Williams• excl. ingeollice,
next door to Judge Thompson•s office.
Collecting and other professional business attended ton I ih pionipt
ness and dispatch.
BROWN'S HOTEL
Fen, ERLT THE E'+or E. corner of Suite street and the Public square
Erie, Eastern Western and Southern stage office.
ROBERT A. BAKER.
Waores.Le and Retail dealer in Groeerier, Provisions, Wine.,
Liquor.. Cigars, Nails, Detroit Ate, Duiecult. Cracker., &e. &e.
.C...eapside, Erie. Pa.
J. GOALIMNG.
Itltacnvre Tatcoa, and Habit Maker.—Store. South Edda of the
Public Square. three doors Put of the lErle Bank.
H. B. HAVERSTICK.
No. 1. RCM Mum Dealer in Dry 9dotla, IlardwarC. ernikerY.
riroceries, ace.
T. W. MOORE, •
Draw in Groceries, Provisions, Winer. Liquors, Candies, Fruit,
mac., No 6, Poor People's Row, State street, Erie. '
ALFRED KING,
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Waoura %ix dr. Rgr*ti..dealer In'AProcerleN Boat Storrs. rt()Vjg.
VMS. and PiUsburgh Innnufaetured ankles; No. 12, Fleming
Ittoet, and 7th street, Canal Basin, Erie. Fa.
W. U. CUTLER,
Attorney & Counseller at Law. (Office in Spaulding's Exchange
Buffalo, N. Y.
Collecting nmreommereial business Will receive prompt attenion
ALIRRENOLS.—A. P. DM IN, EM., B•NJA MIN GRANT. Esq.
JOSIAH KELLOGG.
Fonvarti i iv & Commission Merchant, on the Public Dock, castor
Stale street.
Coal, elate, Plaster and IVliite Fish, constantly for sale
3. 11. WILLIAMS.
Ranker wad Exchange Broker. Dealer in Bills or Exchange,
Drafts, Certiflcatesof Depoxite.Gpla antlxilver coin, &e.,
Office,4 doors below Brown's Ikaci. Erie, Pa.
BENJAMIN F. DENNISON,
Arren•crY LT !AA', Cleveland, Oltio—Otliee on Superior street.
to Atn-ater'islllock. Refer ro Chief Parker, Cavibridee
Law School.. Ilon. Richard Fletcher,
10SL:103st., Roston; lion
Sanot , lll. l'orkinq, 111 Wahnd it.. Philadelphia: Richard 11.
Esl., 53 Wall sI/eet, New York. For teslimonials, re
fer to this Mike.
MARSUALL & VINCENT.
ATTCAIS FYI VI tAw—Office nit SlniTS in TatumanytiatGbuilding
north of Inc Prothonotary's office, Erie.
MURRAY WHALLON,
ArronnaT AND COI'SSELTMR AT Lsw—Office over C. B. Wright's ,
Store, entrance one door west of State street, on the Diamond,
Erie. •
I. RO - Sg — N - 2WEI - dr & Co
WROLIMALP A VII RETAIL DEALT- HS in Foreign and DernePtic Dry
Good., ready ulnae Cloth ang,Boots and Shoes, &c., No. 1, Flout
ing Bloc k, :flaw street, Ede.
C. SITTIBBALS,
Ds Lima to Dry Good , , Dry Groceries,Erockery„ hardware, &e.,
No. It 1. Chen pidde. Erie.
• A. 11. HITCHCOCK,
DFALISIt I ntlrocrries and Provisions of all kinds, State street, three
doors north of the Diamond, Erie.
SMITH JACKSON,
Dt I L£R in Dry Goods :Groceries. Ira rdware, amens Ware, Lime,
Iron, Nails, &e., 121, elteals•ide. Erie, Pa.
WILLIAM RIBLET,
CLSINCT k[tit Upholster. and Undertaker, corner of State and
te.enih etreets, Uric.
K:ELSO ,41r, LOOMIS,
C , lllt Forwarding,rroduee and COIIIIIOSOII Merchants; dcalcre
in enar , e , and tine salt, Coal, Plaster, Blitngics, &c. Public dock,
west iide of the bridge, Erie,
Enrro. J. K l ISO,
I ALKEIt & COOK
C.VER•r. Parstarilina. Commis.lol an Produce htints;Sce
oud
owl Wafe-frouse east orate rubl it Bridge, Elie.
G. LOOMIS & CO.
DIALERS In Watches, Jewelry. Silver, German Silver, Plated and
Britannia Ware Cutlery, Military and Fancy Goods, State street,
nearly opposite the Eagle Hotel, Erie,
C Lomita,
CARTER ti 6 BROTHER
WHOLVP La and Retail dealers in Drugs; W.Nettles, Paints, Oils,
Dye.,.tatrs, Ciasv, Ace . No. O. Reed ',nose, Erie.
JOEL JOHNSON
Netter in Theological,
Miscellaneous. Sunday and Classical
school Books. Stationary. dm No. I. Perry Mock, Erie.
JAMES LYTLE,
F mins ABLE Merthrkat Tailor, on the ptlblie rquare, n row coon
v. tor State street. Erie.
L. WARREN.
Surf. mina and Door Manufactureic nnd dealer in glass, aouth
east corner offal and State streets. Erie.
D. IS: CLARK,
WHOLEIIII.I4 /Of D RETAIL healer In Groceries, Pro Visions. Ship
Chandlery, Stone-n•are, &c. &c., No. 5, Bonnell Mock. Eric.
••• - 0. 1). SPAFFORD.
Dealer in Law. Medical, pcnuol :Miscellaneous nooks stationary.
Ink. ate. State st.. four doors below the Public square. :
DR. O. L. ELLIOTT.
Resident Dentist; °Mee and dwelling in the Beebe Block, oh the
Enst side of the Public Square, Erie. Teeth inserted n Cold
Plate. from one to an e utile sett. Carious teeth filled with pure
Cold. and restored to health and usefulness. Teeth 'cleaned
with instrumenta and Dealt flee so as to leave them of a pellucid
rieartu.s. All work warranted.
MOSES KOCH,
Waar.ts ALt Am, RETAIL. Dedier in Staplear;d Fancy PryCoods,
Groterie.i, Crockery, Really Mad 4 nothing, &e.. Commercial
HuilJ me. corner of French and Fifth streets, Erie.
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S."DICKERSON,
PLIY.1(1411 AND FirßOPON—OfriCe nt his residence on Seventh street,
srpoilts the Methodist Church, Ette.
' C. WRIGHT.
Mune, /A !cn RerAtcdealer in Dry Goode, G rocerice, Hardware,
Crockery, Glasv-ware, Iron Nails Leather, oils, &c., corner of
State greet and the public square, opposite the EDLIIC Hotel. Erie
JOHN'
Wrtor.reA AIM RETAIL dealer in Drugs, bletltt him Dye Stuffs,
Gmerrie% &c. No. 5, Reed House, Erie. ,
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ROBERT SHUNTER..
DIALER in hats. Caps and Furs of all dciscripliocs. No. 10, Park
Row, Erie. Pa.
WAIN and Piloted De Lain all woof, and other cheap Do
Lain,. at the store or S. JACKSON.
BLACK french Cloth from 82 to SO per yard, for sale at I
S. JACKSON.
BACK, Brown Green and Cadet mixed Broad Cloths at all
prices for rale at S. JACKSON.
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GREEN, Black. Moulin; Clarit. Brown, and Blue French Me.
reno, for vale cheap at the Store of ' 8. JACKSON.
BLACK id
, Blue, Plaid, Shriped and other Farley Cassimeres for
sale Ly IL JACKSON.'
BI- 7 ":
Blue.aild mired Satinets; Tweeds, Kentucky Jenne.
&e for vale cheap by 8 JACKSON.
LAMS..Ess 4-- -
DR CB iOnd. The Ladies will find a good atr.
sortment. French ?ilerinocv, Cashmeres, De Loins, Chamillon
Lustre, Mohair Lustre, Alapaelias of nll colors, Ginghams. Cali
cos, &e. just opened at GF.O. SELDON & SON.
KBOOD arrorimeiri—orkginter Vesting!, some very nice. Pr
cheap at the store of . 8. JACKSON.
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A LAPACA. any quantity Black Figured and plain cbangable
.fl. Silk warp, ehainellana mohair lustre &c., for
Erie. et. 21.
S. JACKSON.
G ol .lcfiliver and Fiorence Leaf; Gold Sliver and ComPoolHon
Bronzes; Japanned-tins, colors
Nov. •Jl.
CARTER & BROTEHR.
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I am one of the many from whom llenven'has seen
fit to take away the individual interests of life, that per
chance
they might become universal. Sometimes I 4
could almost liken myself to a mirror, which receives on I
its silent, solitary breast the fleeting images that pass it
-by. and so takes them, for the time being, as compani- 1
ons to its own void heart, while it makes of them . life
pictures to be reflected'abroad. These passing interests
I emote for myself continually. They seem, too, to meet I
ine voluntarily on every side, not merely in society, hut
in chance rencounters along the waysides of life. I rare
ly journey five miles away from my home without dis
covering, or if you will. mannfacturing,"some pleasant
and useful passage in human life, which makes me feel
one With my fellow-creatures, as though the world
stretched out lovingly its band to the solitary one. and
Called her ..Sisteri"
isA,ti,ier day 1 took my way homeward. Reader, I I
may a7Zell tell the truth, that I am a little old maid,
living in London. and working hard that I may live at
all; also that, in order to add a small might to my slen
der modicum of health. I had abided for a brief space at
that paradise of Cockneys—Southend. A very respecta
ble paradise it is too, with its lovely green lance extending
close to the shore of what is' all but a sea; its plesaiii
cliffs feathered with rich underwood, which the tide fir
mest kisses at high-water, making the Whole neighbor.
hood as pretty a compound of sea-side and rural scenery
"fairie barque" (the London steamboat, Druad, please,
roader) wefted me from thence. I felt a Blight pain at my
heart. One suffers many such on quitting earth's plea
sant nooks. "1 might to have got used to 'good by' by
this time," thought Ito myself, half .patiently, half
sadly, and began to divert my attention by nothing
the various groups on deck. I always,do so ma prin
ciple, and it is hard if I do not find some "bit' s
dfliuman nature to study, or soma form, of outward
beauty in man, woman, or child to fall in love with,
Traveling alone (as 1 ever do travel—what should I fear.
with my quiet face rind my forty years?) I had plenty of
opportunity to look around, and soon fell on two persons,
meet subjects to awaken interest
They were a young couple who sat opposite to me, so
close that I could hear every word above a whisper. But
whispering with them seemed pleasantest, at least for a
long time. I should have have taken them for lovers,
save for a certain air of cheerful unreserve which lovers
never hare. and an occasional undisguised "my dear"
telling from both their lips, At last, keeping a watch
over the girl's left hand, I saw it ungloved, and thereon
the wedding ring! . It rested with a sort of of new im
portance, as though the hand wore unused to its weight.
Unconsciously elm played and fidgeted with its shining
circlet, and then recollected herself with a sniffle and
blush. It was quite clear my now pets wore a bridegroom
and bride. Hero, then, was a page in human life open
before me; I tried to read it line byline, romancing where
I could not read. Full opportunity 1 huif,lOr they took
no mince of me: they saw nothing in the world but their
own two selves. - Happy blinduess! I believe much in
physiognomy, so I amused myself with deciphering
theirs.
~ T he girl's taco was strikingly pretty.. There
was a high brow, showing little talent, but much sense;
! the candid, loving, and yet half tv;cked dark oyes; the
straight DO9O and short curled upper lip; but there the
face changed, as faces sometimes do, from beauty into
positive ugliness. The lower lip was foll—loopting...
showidg that it could look both sulky and sensual; and
the chin retreated---in. fact, positively rhoaway! I said
to myself: "If the upder half of tho ;character matches
the under heifer the taco, tho young husband there will
find'a lew nierodifliculties with the wife he has married
than the "lassie" be "word." So 1 turned to his coun
tenance and speculated thereon. It was decidedly hand
some—Greek in its militia:, in expression i:pewee!, as to
be almost feeble; at least so I thought at first when be
was smiling, as he ever did when lie loOked at hoc. But
in a few minutes of silence I saw the 'mouth settle into
firm horizontal fines, indicating that with he gentleness
was united that resolute will and cfear decision without
which no man can be the worthy head of a' household—
I respected, loved and obeyed. For in all households one
must rule; and woe be to that family wherein its proper
bead is either a petty tyrant. or, through his own weak
trees, a dethroned and contemned slave!
W.' %V. Looms
T. M. AVSTIV
Therefore, when I noticed the pretty„ , wilful ways and
sometimes helf.silly remarks of the bride, I felt that this
young. thoughtless creature might yet beim cause to
thank Heaven that she had married a man who knew
how to rule as well as to cherish her.
Until now. I had not speculeAlid on their station or
calling: it was enough for me that they belonged to the
wide family of humanity. But as my musings wandered
Idly on into their future life, I took this also into consid
eration. Both bad a certain grace andease in mien and
speech, though. through the wife's tones, I distinguish
ed the vane drawl which infects most classes of Lon
doners. llut the husband looked and spoke like, a gen
tleman. I felt sure hiswasauch, oven though be might
stand behind a counter. ' A third individual broke their
/flat Votti,g.
THE BRIDEI6
[From the Louisville Democrat•J
She stood before the altar screen,
Beneath "the grey-arched temple pile,
And o'er her felt the crystal alleen
Qt* morning's richebt sunny smile.
Zoned in the golden flood of light,
To earth she seemed not to hclongt
Or If to earth, her form was bright
As walks loved when earth was young
Yet she was pale—and sooth a tear
Was trembling In her lucent eye,
As though some thought to memory dear,
Was rising with a rising sigh;
And thoughts most dear they were that rose,
For though her love was sealed on one,
Yet never can the heart's leaves close
On kindness past, or menery shun.
For she had left the home of years,
The nestling-place of infant days;
And she had set her foot where tears
Too often mar neat womans, ways;
And she had laid a fond warm heart
As ever beat, at love's Might shrine,
With murniur'd vows, "till death do part,
Devotedly-, thine, only thine."
The chain of gold around her flung,
The clustered Jewels on her hand,
Were gathered where hot tears arc wrung
Front toil, at wealth's untamed command;
Then neer, can these meet emblems be
Tr show the wealth that they unfold;
For hand and heart, where love tl fwe,
Cast shade on Jewels, gems and gold.
In Joyous hour, or norldly strife,
In cloud or sunshine, she will stand, ".:
An nage/ !It the paths of life,'
To scatter . ble:sings from her hand,
Then Say not woman's love is light,
tier constancy oft worn In pride;
For never was she tiro. to slight
The vows Or love which called her-4ride
eljoirt 311i5rt1latt$
THE FIRST QUARREL.
A SKETCH FROM LIFE. "'
SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 19, 1850.
tote-a.tote—a middle aged Cockney. pore de familia—
evidotoly some beach acqutintance made at Southend.
His chance question produced an answer to my inward
wondering.
"Oh," said the bride, "we could only stay at South
end n few days, because of my".---She paused a mo
ment, and then changed the word husband into "Mr
Goodricho. Ho cannot be longer away from business."
The young bridegroom, then. was "in business"—one
Of those worthy laboring bees who furnish the communi
ty with honey. I thought bow hard he must havo toiled
by counter or in shop to have gained so early in life a
home and a wife. I respected him accordingly.
My "interesting couple" began a lively chat with their
new companion: at least the wife did. She put forth all
her smiles, all that battery of facipation with which she
had probably before her marriage won her spurs on the
field of conquest, and been dubbed "a most shocking
flirt." Aud in the Shadow ai:gathered over the quiet
husband's• face, I saw the reflection of that which
must often have bitterly troubled the peace of still more
retiring lover. True, the girl was doing nothing wrong
—her now friend was old enough to have been her father,
so no jealousy could be aroused; but still she was taking
her attention and conversation from her husband to give
it to a perfect stranger. She would not have done so
had lie been her lover still. Alas: that women should
take so much pains to win love, and so little to keep it.
Each minute the young husband spoke lose, and his
countenance grew darker. She only laughed and chat
tered the more. Foolish—foolish one! There came on
a lioavy shower, and there was a rush below. ••Come
with us to the farther end; I will find aylacet for you."
kindly said the blithe young wife, turning back to the lit
tle old maid. I thanked her but declined. For the world,
I would not have preyented the -chance that, iu the soli
dude of a crowd, some word or look might. passbetween
husband and wife to take away his gloom. Yet when I
left the cabin, I saw her sitting—bonnetless, and laugh
ing with a childish gayety..-between• her silent, grave
husband and the disagreeable old man.
I wont to my quiet place at the stern of the boat, and
turned away so that I could seo only the turbid river and
dull grey sky. It was as complete solitude as though I
had been on Robinson Crusoo's raft in the midst of the
Pacific. I pondered over life and its mysteries, as one
does who is used to loneliness 7 who is accustomed to
dwell, is it were, on a mountain top. seeing the world
and its inhabitants move below like puppets in a show.
Andherein does fate half atone for ties riven, and ties
never formed—that in such a life one learns to forget
self; and all individual joys and griefs, loves and hatreds,
aro swallowed up in universal sympathies
I pondered much on the two young creatuj I had
left below; and, woman-like. I thought chiefly of the wo
man. She seemed to me like a child toying with a pre
cious jewel, little knowing what a fearful thing it is to
throw away love, or to plan lightly, mockingly with those
feelings on which must rest the joy or woo of two'human
souls for a lifetime. And passing from this individual
case. I thought solemnly, alinok painfully, of the strange
mysteries of 'human life, which seem often to bestow
the priceless boon of love whore it is unvalued and cast
away. Uncouciously I repeated the wail-known 'Verde.'
"To him that bath shall be given, and from him that bath
not shall be taken away." But my soul answered meek
ly, "Only on earth, and life is not long---not long!"
And turning once more to the group of my follow-voy.
tigers, I saw the two in who I took such 'an interest.—
They were standing together a little apart, leaning on the
vessel's side. • Ile was talking to her, not angrily, but
gravely—earnestly. In the expression of his face I
scarce recognized the man who had borne smilingly all
her idle jests, skink.° contradictions, and caprices an
hour ago. She tried them again for a few minutes; but
in vain. Then she hung tier head, and pouted. Semi
quick, wilful answers came. 1 hoard thorn not; but I was
sure of the fact from her fluslie.d cheek and sparkling rye
as she disengaged her artirfrom his. Man's patience is
never eternal, not even in the honeymoon: he spoke to
her firmly, while his face darkened into positive anger.
and then there was a sullen silence between them.
The time passed and - still they remained - in the same
position together; but oh; what a sea of sullen anger was
between them! Neither tutu , the other's face; bat I saw
both. Ha stood gazing up into the leaden clouds, his
mouth firmly set, and yet twitching every now and thou
with surpressed fooling. Was it, perchance, t h e bitter
disappointment, almost agony of the man who has with
pain and toil built for himself a .household hearth, and
finds it trodden into ruins by the-ivory idol whom he hoped
to place there forever? A foolish girl! wishing to try
your power, and keep the honored husband a tyrannized
lover still. Do you think what it is you del When you
Barer your hands to tear down the fair adornments of
idolitry with which hit; passion has decked you and appear
before him, not as an angelic ideal, but a selfish, sullen,
or vain woman, little know you that it may take years of
devotion to efface the bitterneis produced by that one
hour—the first when 1/00009 you as you are!
Tho young husband glanced once only at his wife; but
that was enough. Tito lower lip—that odious lower lip,
which had at first awoke nri• doubts!—was the Image of
week, pouting sullenness. BM its weakness wits its safe.
guard og;iinst continued obstincy; and I sowuthough the
husband did not see—that as she bent over the side, tear
after tear dropped silently into the river. Thom was hope
still!
She was leaning over the gangway door, a place
scarce dangerous, save to tho watchful anxiety of affec-
F lion However, the fact seemed tostrike her husband;
for he suddenly drew her away, though formally. and
without any sign of wishing for reconciliation. But this
one.slight act showed tho thoughtfdlness, the loveoh,
if she had only answered it by ono kind look, one word of
atonement!. But no: there she stood—iminevable.—
Neither would yield. 1 would have the world could
I have whispered in the wife's ear.'"For the love of lioo
von—.ror the love of him —for tho peace of your whole life.
-bp the first to say, forgive me! Right or wrong, never
mind. Whichever have erred, it is your place—.as weak
est and most loving—to yield first. Oh, did you but
know the joy, the blessedness of creeping close to your
hualand'a wounded, perchance angry heart. and saying
--Take me in there again; lot us tof be divided more!
And ha would take you, ay. at once; and love you the
more for the forbearance which never even asked of his
pride the concession that Ito was also wrong!"
Perhaps this long speech was partly written in his eyes
for when, by chance, they met the young wife's, she turn
ed away, coloring crimson: and at that moment up crane
the enemy once more, in the shape of the intrusive
elder
ly gentleman; but the husband's lecture, whatever it was,
had its effect in the girl's demeanor. Sho, drew back
with a quiet womanly reserve, strongly contrasted with,
her former coquettish forwardness, and left "Mr. Good
echo" in possession of the field. And I liked the hue
band tea times better for rho gentlemanly dignity with
which ho shook oral] trace of 111-humor, and converted
with the intruder. The boyish lover seemed changed
into , the . firm. self-dependant man, And when the wife
timidly crept. up and pot her arm through his, he turned
round and smiled upon her. Oh, liovigradely, yet he*
shyly, she answered the alight token of peace/ And I
said to myself, "That man will have a just and firm yet
tender away: be will make a first-rate head of a family!"
I saw a little more of them Unfit near the journey's end.
They were then sitting In the half-empty cabin alone
together; for to my delight, end perhaps theirs. tho obnox
ious individual of middle age had landed at IllackwaU.
tUrONIVAXLD.
Very quiet 'they seemed: all the exuberant happiness
which at first had found vont iu almost cliildness frolic
was passed away. Tho girl no longer 'laughed and
jested with ker young husband; but sho drew close to his
side. hor head bending towards his shoulder. es thought,
but for the presence of the stranger, it would train droop
there. heavy with its weight of penitence an d love. Yet
as I watched the restless look in her eyes, and the faint
shadow that still lingered on the young nsan's face. I
thought how mach had boon milled, and bow much—ay,
ten times happier—would both have felt had the first
quarrel never been! .
In the confession of departure I lost any yeung friends.
as I thought, forever; but on penetrating the mysterious
depths of an omnibus, I heard a plerusent voice adressing
me=--“So you are again our fellow-passenger to--?"
Hut I will not say where, lost t h e yong couple chould
"speer" for me, and demand why I dared to, "put them
in print." And yet they would scarce be wroth did they
know the many chords they touched, and the warm in
terests they awakeued,ln 'a poor, withered heart which
has few.
It was the dreariest of wet nights in London—!leaven
knoWs how dreary that is!—but they did no seem to feel
it at all. They were quite happy—quite gay. I wonder
ed whether for them was prepared the deepest 'bliss of
earth—the first "comming home;" and I felt almost sure
of it when the husband called out to the condueter. "Set
us down at—;" naming a quiet, unobtrucive, noW
built square. lie said it with the half-concious impor
tance of one whosives a new address. thinking the world
must notice what is of so much Interest to himself; and
then the young people looked at one an7her, and smiled.
• I said to the wife—drawing the bo vat enture—"What
a miserable night!—ls it nee - pleasant coming home?"
She looked first at her husband, and then turned to mo
her whole face beaming and glowing %lilt happiness.
"Oh, it is—it is
They bade me
A WED
The evening ill!
Tim end Rachel •
ad" all round. Tit
with Rachel, bold!
of starting tho ucz
tioO.
"Ho had alway
seen nuthin, and m
afore he come bad
was such a thing ai
The village of G----, was about fifty miles distant. ly •
indon the Ohio river, and a journey there frcim Tim's
1
residence in those days, was deemed a great uthirtak
ing. Some of then? thought Tim had taken to ye of his
senses. or certainlylie was not in earnest, but to arm- ,
ed them he was, and the next morning. tackling ? up "old
gray." and putting in a supply of pork and beans for the
journey. Tim and the now Mrs. Higgins iitartei on their
bridal tour. The second day the hopelut pair, without
accident arrived at G—. Just as they were entering
the town it sit happened that the steamboat Pennsylva
nia was rounding in. to make landing. Tim caught
sight other smoke pipes. and In an ecstecy of wonder
and delight cried out:
"There she comes now, by hokey! Luok at h(
Jo-ru.sa.lem! jest as Squire Stokely said—smok
(turnip. feller. She's comin in to shore, tis! 4mima,
what a crock! furder cross than from our houseto Shad
low's mill! ain't it Bach'? See, they aro• tyink up the
,varmint with a halter. Wonder if it's skeery and pulls.
Here's a post, let's do gray, and go down to the crittor."
"Thunder! what's that? boy it snorts! Y u better
keep away from it, Tint," said Rachel; "it mon ht swal
ler yod down like winkin."
"I a'n't afeared," said Tint; "folks are cornin onto%
now. She's good natured I reckon, Only-spirit d."
By this time "gray" was made fast, and Tim a d Rach
el were. moving cautiously in the direction of th boat.
"No balking, Rachel. I'm going on to her."
The plank was out, and Tim, followed slowly
el, boldly walked up, and soon stood along side th ,
"See hOw the sweats, they must have put her i
said Tim. "1 say, old bees," said Tim, addre)
engineer, "move,her jints a little, I want to set
travels."
"She'll move rliiectly." replied the man
'•better keep out at her way."
Tim and Rachel now wended their nay to
deck, and so completely wore they absorbed w
they saw, that they did not observe the preparati
ing for her departure. At the last tap of the
thought there must be a mcetue somewhere, be
idoa, it was anything which concerned him. JJ
as Tim afterwards expressed it: "she began ti
hard, and the water began to smash," and Tit
first time observed they were in the midst of th
"Hello hero, old boss!" screamed Tim; "I sa ,
what you 'bout? where you goin to?"
They woro now under full headway, and
the town and old gray disappearing like magic.
"Thunder. why don't you hold her in?" roe
"ape's rtinnintr away. What 'ill, do? Oh Le
the critter—can't aho be bro't tu?"
A wag who comprehended poor Time pre
observed. •
•You aro in for it now, my friend, wo don't stop till we
get to Orleans."
"I told you to troop sway from tlio blosteik varmint,'*
screamed Rachel: "now what will become of us?"
Tim was in despair. At this moment the steamer's
whilitle uttered ono of M 3 sharpest noOs r and Tim's hair
stood en end.
"She's loose, squealing and kickin!" shrieked Tim.
"Oh Lord, Rachel, we are lora," and the übsenco of tho
knot ledgkef any prayer, he tried to repeat a part of the
blessing re hadheard Deacon Bnivelly ash at the table.
By this time the captain had learned 'of poor Tint's
misfortune, and kindly ordered the boat toland. and Tim
and Rachel once more stood on terra firma. Footing it
back with all dispatch, they found old gray still fdst to the
post. and not many minutes elapsed before his hoed was
turned homewarkwith Tim and Rachel; who were per
fectly satisfi,d with what they had seen of the world in
general. anti their experience in staarnboating in partic
ular.
A Ructrk.—W h enever you get a black eye by a full
on the ice, or from running against the bed post, or from
running away from a powhrful fiat, apply a cloth wrung
out of very warm water and renew it until the pain ceas
es. The moisture and heat Equines the bfoodand sends.
it back to the proper channels. Use warm or hot, but
never cold water to the bruise. A doctor would charge
a guinea for this advice, we give it gratis.
A Goon Cow.--The beet sow in the Unitod Stares.
probably. is one owned near Geneva. N. York. which
thrtmgh the month of June. 1849' gave forty-two quarts
of milk per day; end for five days. she gave forty-five
quarts per day. The caw itt half Darhant of the native
breed.
tD The Cherokee Indians. it is said. design to spply
for admission into the l i lnion in a few years, and with
that view; they are exceedingly anxious to compete with
tho whites in all kinds of improvements..
!good-night, and dissappeared
DING EXCURSION
OM TUE GREAT IVES?
ceremony was performed which made
unite, and the company had "liquor
having previously "talked it- up"
announcing the desperate resolution
'owning ou a grand tour oflobeerva-
bin to hum," he said, "•
w ho was goin straight to G I
he would into a steamboat'
y hosv."
martommT:
HIS LIFE AND CHARACTER
1114110IIIrr. acrording to accounts handed down . by
tradition from his Contemporaries, was of the middle stat
ure, square built and sinewy, with largo hands and feet.
In his youth ho was uncommonly strong and • vigorous;
in the latter part of his lite he inclined to corpulency.—
His head was capacious, well shaped and well set on
a neck which rose like a pillar from his ample cheat.—
His forehead was high, broad at the temples, and cross
ed by veins extending down to the eyebrows, which
swelled wheneVer he was angry or excited. He had an
oval face, marked and expressive features, an aquiline
nose, black eyes, arched eyebrows which nearly met, a
mouth large and flexible, indicative of eloquence, very
white teeth, somewhat parted and irregular; black hair
which waved without a• curl on his shoulders, and a long
'and very full beard.
His deportment, in general, was calm and equable;
ho sometimes indulged in pleasantry, but more com
monly was grave and dignified, though ho ia said to have
possessed a smile of captivating sweetness. 'His com
plexion was more ruddy than is usual with' Arabs, and
in his excited and enthusiastic moments there was a
glow and radiance in his countenance, which his disci
ples magnified into the supernatural light of prophecy.
His intellectual qualities were" undoubtedly of an ex
traordinary kind. Ile had a quick a'pprehensiou, a re:.
tentivo memory, a vivid imagination, and an inventive
genius. Giving but little to education, he had quickened
and informed his mind by close observation, and stored
it with a great variety of knowledge concerning the sys
tems of religion current illlllll day, or handed down by
tradition front antiquity. His ordinary discourse was
grave and sententious, abounding with those aphorisms
and apologues so popular among the Arabs; at times ho
was excited and eloquent, and his sloquouco was aided
by a voice musical and sonorous.,
Ile was sober and abstemious in/his diet, and a rigor
ous observer of fasts. Ho indulge') in no magnificence
of apparel, the ostentation of a petty mind; neither was
his simplicity in dress affected, but the result of a real
qisrogard to distinction from so trivial a source. Ilis
- gi.rinents were sometimes of wool; sometimes of the
striped +ton of Yemen, and 'Nero often patched.' 110
wore a turban, for he said turbans were worn by the an
gels: and in arranging it he let one end hang down be
tween his shoulders, which he said ware the way they
wore it. Ile forbade the wearing of clothes entirely of
silk; but permitted a mixture of thread and silk. Ile
forbade also red clothes and the use of gold rings. He
wore a seal ring of silver, the engraved part under his
finger close to the palm of his hand, bearing the inscrip
tion, "Mehemet, the moesenger ot God." He was 'cra
pulous as to personal cleanliness, and observed frequent
ablutions. In sonic, respects he was rt voluptuary.
"There are two things in this world," Wculd ho say,
"which delight me, women and perfumes. These two
things rejoice my eyes, and render nee-mere fervent in
devotion." , From his extreme cleanliness; and the use
of perfumes and-of sweet-scented oil for his hair, proba
bly arose that sweetness and fragrance of hereon, which
his disciples considered innate and miracul l ous. His pas.
*ion for the sex had 1111 influence'ever all his affairs. It
is said that when iu the presence of a heriutiful female,
he was continually smoothing biebroiv and adjusting his
hair, as if anxious to appear to advatitage.E
The number of his wives is uncertain, Abulfedd, who
writes with more caution than other of the 'Arabian his
torians, limits it to fifteen, though some make it as much
as twentyfive. Mille time of his death he' had nine,
each in her separate dwelling,' and all in the vicinity of
the mosque at Medina. The plea alleged for his indul
ging in a greater number of wives than he permitted , to
his followers, was a desire to beget a race of propltets for
his people. If such indeed wore his desire, it wee' dis
appointed. Of all his children. Fatima, tho wife of Ali,
alone survived him, and sho died within a short time
after his death. Of her descendants, none excepting
her eldest son Hassan ever sat on the throne of the 'Ca
liphs.
In, his private dealings he was just. Ile treated friends
and strangers, the rich and poor, the powerful and' the
teeak, with equity, and was beloved by the common
people for the affability with which ho received them,
and listened to their complaints. I
nd never
1 and
if there
r Batch!
. liko a
EMI
i t er engine.
ihrough"
.-sing the
how she
Ile was naturally irritable, but had brendlit his tem
per under great control. so that even in the self-tnduleent
intercourse of domestic life lie was kind and tolerant.-
'I served him from the time I tvas eight years old,"
said his servant Anus, "and ho never scolded me for any
thing, though things were spoiled by me."
steam,
th what
ns mak
e% Tim
t had no
fit length
o breathe
'lino question now occurs. Was ho the =principled
impostor that he has been represented? - Were all his
visions and revelations deliberate falsehoods, and was his
whole system a tissue of deceit? In considering this
question. wo must bear in mind that he is not chargeable
with many extravagances which ex'et in his name.
Melly of the v:sione and revelations handed down as
having been given by hint aro spurious'. The miracles
ascribed to him are all fabrications of Moslem zealotsH
Ho expressly and repeatedly disclaimed all miracles ex
cepting the Koran; which, considering its incomparable
merit, and the wayln wliich it had come down to Mtn
from heaven, ho pronounced the greatest of rniraclos-.
And here we =lst indulge a few observations on this
famous document. IVltile zealous Moslems and some
of the moat learned doctors , of the faith draw proofs of
its divine origin from the inimitable excellence of it 3
style and Composition. and the avowed illiteracy of Mal
bonnet; lees devout critics have pronounced it a chaos of
beauties and defects; without method or arrangement;
full of obscurities, inceberencies, repetitions, false ver
sion* of scriptorial stories, and direct contradictions.—
The truth is, that the Koran, as it now exists, is not the
same' Koran delivered by Itlahomet to his disciples, but
has undergone many corruptions and interpolations. H
The revelations contained in it were given at
. variens
times, in various places, and before, various person
sometimes they wore taken dawn by hie secretaries tr
disciples on parchment, on palm-leaves , or the should° -
blades of sheep, and throWn together in a chest, of whiCh
one of his wives had charges ao4petimes they were 'merit. ,
ly treasured up in the memories at those who heard thelb.
.No care appears to have been taken to systetnatize and
arrange them during his life; and at. his death they rcr
=tined in scattered fragments, many of at the mer
cy of,fttlincious memories. It was not until several years
after his death, that Abu Behar undtirtookto have them
gathered together and transcribed. • Zola fbn Thabet,
who had been one of the secretaries of Mehemet, was
employed for the purpose. fle professed to know many
parts of the Koran,by heart, having written them down
under the dictation of the prophet; other parts he =floa
ted piecemeal from various hands, written doww in the
rude way we have mentioned; and many parts he took
down as repeated to him by various disciples who pre
reseed to have hoard them uttered by the prophet himself.
The heterogeneous fragments thus collected were thrmen
together without selection, without chronological order,
and without system of any kind. The volume th=
formed during the Calipliat of Abu Baker, was =PI T
scribed by different hands, and many professed copied
pat in circulation anddispened throughout the Moslem
cities. So many errors. interpolation, and contradictor
readings, soon crept into these copies. that Othman, the
third Caliph, called in the various manuscripts, sal Bre.
for tho
ELM
.. cap'n.
IEIEI3
ed Tim,
rd, Cass
inment
W.i*OItNOTON IRVING
Si 30 S TEAR, in 11.dvance.
Ening what ho pronounced the genuine) Koran. caused
ell the others to be destroyed. ,
If we era fur from considering Mehemet tho gross and
impious impo . stor that setae have represented him. so also
are we indisposed to give him credit for that vast forecast.
end for that deeply concerted scheme of universal cons
quest which hive been *scribed to him. He Was. tuts
doubtedly, a man of great genius and a suggestive imagi•
nation, but it eppoars to us that he was, in s great de
gree, the creature ofimpulse and excitement, and very
much at tho mercy ofeircumstancee. His schemesgrew
out of his forttines, and not hia fortunes out of his achetnel.
He was forty years of ago before be first broached bid
doctrines. Ho suffered year after year to steal away
before he promulgated them out of his own family...
When ho fled from Mecca thirteen years had elapsed
from the announcement of his mission. and from being a
wealthy merebsot lie had sun,k to ho a ruined fugitive.—..
When ho reached Medina ho had no idea of the power
that awaited him; his only thought was to build a hum•
We mosque where ho might preach, and his only hope
that ho might' be suffered to preach with impunity
When poiver suddenly broke upon him. he used it fora
time in petty forays and focal feuds. His military plans
expanded with his resources. but were by no moans mus
telly, and were sometimes unsuccessful. -They were
not struck out with boldness, nor executed with decision;
but were often changed in deference to the opinions of
warlike men about him, and sometimes at the sugges
tion of inferior minds, who occasionally led him wrong.
Had he, indeed, conceiverrfrom the outset the idea of
binding up the scattered and conflicting tribes of Arabia
into one nation by a bretherhood of faith. for the purpose
of carrying out a scheme of external conquest. he would
have been one of the first of military projectors; but' the
idea of extended conquest seethe to have been an after
thought, produced by success. The moment he pro-.
claimed the religion of the sword, and. gave the predato
ry Arabs a taste of foreign plunder, that moment he was
launched in a career of conquest, which carried him for.
ward with its own irresistible impetus. The fanatic zeal
with which ho had inspired his followers. did more for
his success than his military science; their belief in hie
doctrine of predestination produced victories which no
military calculation could have anticipated. In his du
bious oub3ot as a prophet, he hid been encouraged by
the crafty counsels of his scriptural oracle Waraka; is
his career as a conqueror, he had Omar, Khaled, and
other fiery spirits by his aide to urge him on, and to aid
him in managing tho tremendous power which he had
evoked into action. Even with all their aid, he had ow.
casionally to avail himself of his supernatural machinery
as a prophet, and in so doing may have reconciled him
self to the fraud by considering the pious end to be ob
tained.
the military triumphs awskened no 'pride nor vain
glory, as they would have done had they been erected
for selfish purposes. In the time of his greatest power 4
ho . maintsined the ssme simplicity of manners and ap
pearance as in the days of his adversity. So far from
affecting regal state, ho was displeased if, on entering a
room, any unusual testimonial of respect were shown
him. If Ito aimed at universal dominion, it was the do.
minion of the faith; as to the temporal rule which grew
up in his hands, as be used it without ostentation. so he
took no step to perpetuate it in his family. •
The richer which poured in upon hid] from tribute
and the spoils of war, wore expended in promoting, the
victories of ti e faith, and In relieving the poor among
its votaries, isomuch that his treasury was often drain
ed of its last Mil. Omar Ihn Al Hume- declares that
Mahomot, at his death, did not leave a golden dinar nor
a silver dirhem, a slave nor a slave girl,' nor any thing
but his gray male Daldal, his arms, and the ground
which he lrestewed upon his wifes, his children, and the
poor, "JUlah," says an Aredian writer, "offered him
the keys ofull the treasures of the earth, but he refused
to accept them." •
It is this perfect abnegation of eel; connected witft
his appaiently heartfelt piety, running throughout the
various phases of his fortune/which perplex one in form ,
ing a just estimate of Mahomet's character. However
ho betrayed the alloy of earth after ilff thrcrwoildly power
at his command, the early aspirations of his spirit con
tinnaily 'rearmed and bore him above all. earthly things.
Praser,'tbat vital duty of Islamism, and, that infallible
purifier of the soul, was his constant proaCher. "Trust
in God," was his comfort and support iu - times of trial
and pespondency \ On tha r _ckmency of God, we are
told,lhe reposed all \ his Cries of supernal fiappiners.—.
Ayesha relates that on , one occasion she inquired. of him,
"Oh prophet, does no '' one enter paradise. but through
God's mercy?" '*Nono- 7 -mone—none!" replied he,
with earnest and emphatic repetition. "But you. oh
prophet, will not you enter excepting through his cop.
passion?" Then ItLiboinet put his hind upon his head.
and replied three times, with groat, solemnity. "Neither
shall I enter paradise unless God \ cover rne with his
mercy!" ~
%Viten he hung over the ; death-bed of hie infant sea
Ibrahim, resignation to the will of God was'exhibited in
his conduct under his keernlet of afflictions; and the
d hope
chi' n soon rejoining his n paradise 'was hie console.
tion. When he followed him to the grave, he invoked
his spirit in the the awful examination of the tomb;, to
hold fast to the foundations of the faith. the rarity of God.
and his own mission as a prophet. Evert in hie own
dying hour. where there could be no longer a worldly
motive for deceit, ho still breathed the same. religions
devotion, and the same belief in his apostolic mission.—
The last world that trembled ()ileitis lips ejaculated e
trust oration entering into blissful companionship with
the prophets who had gouo before him.
It is difficult to reconcile such erlent, persevering pie
ty, with an incessant system of blaspittmous imposture;
sor stivit pure and eleva ed and benignant precept* as
aro contained in the Koran, with a mind haunted by ig
noble passions, and devoted to tho grovelling interests ,
of mere mortality: and wo find no other satisfactory
mode of solving the enigma of his character and con
duct, ilia by supposing that the ray of mental hallucina ,
n
Lion which flashed upon his enthustastic spirit during
his religious CCSlaCies in the midnight cavern of Mount
tiara, continued more or less' to bewilder him with n
species of monomania to the end of his career. and the ,
he died in the delusive belief el his mission as a prophet.-
Smcoxo GE:4+ rut. EPISTLE vnom TILE Cults-Day
Sstsre.—Yestorddy'a western wrailbrought us a pant-
phlet copy of the "Second GetterafEphitie issued by the
Chinch of the Latter-Day Saints. at the Salt Lake
Valley. to "the Stints scattered throughout the earth.'•
It is a detail of the condition of the Society at home and
abroad, and in goneral embraces everything that may be
supposed to be of interest to the members of the ChurCh..
The crops ara , represented as Iraving been very fine; and
it is stated that they have not only enough for themtelveei
hut for their brethren on the way. until the next hardest.
They have docidedon fanning a town or city at Drumm•
villa, forty miles to the north. and at Maly. sixty ma t o ! ,
to the south of Salt [Ate eity,'at which place settle
ments had bead made. Sand Pitch Valley le designa
ted as another place for location. The Cooaeit House,
baths at the Warm Spring noose. an extensive slobs
honee and granary. wore all in progress of erection.—
They had devised a plan for raising a perpetnat4und. to
assist the "peer Sainte" to emigrate to the Salt Lahti
Valley. fulfilling lu this respect the covenants in the
Temple. that "all'the Saints who were oblidged to leerier
Sanyo° should be located at some gathering place. , The_
whole Purls in proem Of ettitelatifrOA
NUMBER 36.