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W. WETMORE, ATTORIY ET AT LAW,. In IValkees Office, on Seventh Shret, Erie. Pa - HENRY CADWELL, lxvoina. Jobber. and Retail Dealer in Dry Goods, Groceries, Crockery, Glassware, Carpeting, Hardware, iron. Steel, Rails, • Apikts, ke. Empire Stores Stale Street, four; doors, below Brown's Hotel, Erie, Pa. Also—Anvils, Vices, Bellows, Axle Anna, Springs, and a general assortment of Saddle and Carriage Trimmings. S. MERVIN SMITH, Nrirottwar AT LAW and Justice of the Penee—Ofilee one door wester Wright's atom Erie, Pa. ' 1 I W. H. KNOWLTOZI & SON. PSALMS In Watches, Clocks, Looking Glasser., Plano Fortes, Lamps, Britannia Ware, Jewelry, and a variety of other Fancy I ' Articles, Keystone Buildings, four doors below Brown's Hotel, e ante Street. Erie. Pa. .1. GOALDING. Mille/RAW? TAILOR. and Habit Maker.—Store, South side of the Public &p.m three doors East of the Erie Bauk: • S. R. DEWEY, Wuot ttttt Amp RETAIL Dealer in Dry Goode, Settpl •;Gurbclow Arestte • Hotel, State Street. GEORGE H. CUTLER. ' Arrourte Girard, Erie County, Pa. Collections and alter btaillesa alSended to with prowidnenand dienateh. WILSON LAIRD. ATTORNRY AT Law—Office over .1.11. Williams' excL inge °lnce, nett door to Judge Thompson's calico. Collecting and otherprofataWnal business attended to with prompt ness and dispatch. . BROWN'S 110 TEL. v.:swum TOR Esnut, corner ontutte street and the rutdie square Erie, Eastern Western and Southern stage (Mice. - ROBERT A. BAKER. Miami.' and Retail dealer in Groceries, Provisions; Wines Liquors. Cigars, Nails, Detroit Ale;Duiscuit, Crackers, &c. &c rt:estsiide, Erie, Pa. Mr. Banks was a greet man on the Stock Exchange. 1 for no broker made bolder adventures, or launched out , in speculations on a more gigantic scale than he. In City parlance, too, he was a "good" man, for he paid his o•differences" scrupulously, honored regularly every bill, and was known to have, at the most pressing times, when money was scarce in the market, a large floating 1 balance at his bankers'. Yes, we repeAt. View him as you might, Mr. Banks was a great and good man. i In-his person the stockbroker was tall, and, though I not handsome, he had a commanding appearance. His 1 head was large, his limbe were,large; and also were his i pockets, into which he usally!--always when driving a 1 ba gain—ihrtb t his hands, the last named practice mightt I hare arisen from a mieauthropic determination 'to ex- I cl a Igo salutes with no one; it might be—and let up char- 1 itably hope the bast—merely to, keep' his hands warm; yet the majority of people said—and English law always 1 recognizeioruth and right on the side of the majority, i else, why are beardless aldermen, and members of per ils meet cheien bya majority, and momentous questions of wright and wrong entirely settled in the House by a majorityl—the greater portion of the people then said, he plunged his hands so constantly into his pockets sim ply with a view of quietly but expressively reminding his icsaciates that they were well lived, that his purse was heavy, in short, that they were a miniature of his ac count at Ilia bankers'. The stockbroker in his demeanor was cities and self possessed, and his repose was the more remarkable in astituch whir; profession is generally thought calculated to produce an anxious stole of feeling and to excite the . passions. • If stocks res., and, monef poured in, he did not appear elated, end ii the contraryhappened, no ces ation was risiable in hie countenance. Disastrous news might arrive froin the Continent, armies might have been defeated and thrones overturned, as stated oeihri labelled leg of the last carrier pigeon. and white the little territory of Chapel Court exhibited a complete p ndemonium, bro kers rushing in frantic alarm to and fro, some with des pair written on their pallid features knowing themselves ruined; and others, through their joy; having speculated on a **fall," wiping the great drops of piospiration from their foreheads, and all talking with breathless eagerness, there our friend might have been seen leaning quietly against an angle of the wall; no man, it was well known was more deeply interested In the question than he, but to the group° of brokers that surrounded him, anxious to ascertain his opinion of the terrible state of affairs, he would deign only at times to nod his head, or answer an oracular "yes" or "no;" his hands would not leave his pockets, and his face appeared, as it were. one huge icicle which the breath of no passion was able to thaw. Mr. Banks lived at '.Denrnark Hill. A pretty line of suburban vilaa is that seen on the right hand straggling , up the ascent. We have often admired them on our summer rambles to Norwood: auchlentnatie architecture —no cold Grecian, quaint Elizabethan, or solemn Gothic, but a praisworthy compromise, a little blending of the whole; such neat porticoes. with clematis-wreathed "pil lars anik broad •eitone•steps; such pretty gardenswhere flowers bloom in marble vases, and gigantic aloe spring from tubs, the little paradise being defended in ront by i great jealous fcilding.daors; so many trees round and 'about, whore birds build unribalested, and get up ea 4 morning on their own account, without being paid for their exertions, a festival of song. Yes. delightful sum mer retreats, as well as cheerful winter residences, are the villas on Denmark Hill. Precisely at 5 o'clock. 'every afternoon, the garden doors of one of those. houses opened to receive the brougham of Mr. Banks. Ho was welcomed, not by his wife—she alio, alas: in Norwood eemetry—but by a bright-eyed, rosy-lipped. fair-haired, sylph•hke girl.— The stockbroker's daughter was about sixteen, and a cu rious thing it was to mark the contrast battier= the pa- ROBERT S. HUNTER. I rent and child, and the more you dwelt upon that con , bran killing, Caps and Furs of all descriptions. Ko. 10, Park treat, the more you would wonder how such a sweet, gen- R4w. Erie. Pa. the, fairy flower could ever spring up beneath the shade of such a sombre-looking. rugged old. oak, as that coiner of gold and silver was. Yet Gertrude loved her father, and on his arrival from the city never failed to kiss him; and then she would drag him into the garden, to the green house; coax and scold him by turns. and force him to talk in spite of himself; aye. those hard. locked-up features wore opened by the key of woman's sweet witchery, and tet mixed Batt Mewls, Kentuck Jean. they would frequently re ß main in that slate. faint smiles t v Sm. (or sale cheap by r 1 s. malsoN. flitting over them, and revealing the secret that tho man 14iin we lee DRESS GOODS.' The Ladies will And a good . had a heart, until thoughts of business and craft locked .. 0 toti ment, French Merl noes, Cashmere . De tarns, Cita mil ion them up again, andold Banks the next day would enter i i Site. Mohair Lustre, Atapachae of all colors elnahatni, Cal m.. ke•Just opened st CEO. SEh.DON & SON. the Stock Exchange with the same frozen, rigid, imper- GOOD wnortment of Whiter Vesting., souteyery nice, for turbable face as before. . eheaP at the store of S. JACKSON. k Mr; Banks was rapidly making money; but ho had an AleAldA.a7 quantity Black Figured and plain changable 1 wart , . e antellawi mohair lustre ke., for sate by 1 I object; it was the amassing it fortune for his boautifa Kfle.ClAi. S. JAC SQN. daughter.He was ambitious too—a titi t be I G °l4 "v" and Flerenee Loaf; Geld,Silver and ekiwpoirition 140 ""zes; Japanned tins, assorted colors. i ' lied tesland , e.oebillts—a;d Gertrude ci vr isi es ° to form a- Nov. ill, CATER di MICITEII4 * ' the connecting link. ilioney„ in his opinion.' was' all powerfubs-the - chief wki!itin the moralmaebinery of the world. He had destined his &tighter to be the. bride of a nobleman; nothing shed of an oristocralig. alliance H. B. HAVERSTICK. No. 9. Hese Harm. Deafer Its Dry Goods, Hardware, Crockery, Groceries, ace. T. W. MOORE, DIDLER in Groceries, Provisions, Wines. Liquors, Candies, Prull, ate., No 0, Poor People's Row, State street, Erie. A •W. H. CUTLER, Anwar) , k Connie Her la Law, (office lu spaulding's Exchange, Buffalo. N: V: Cobettiug and eouunereial business' will receive prompt alien ion. litrrassra.—A. P. PUIILIN, Esq., ilmsmis GRAST, Exy. • • JOSIAH KELLOGG, , Forwarding & Commission Mercharu, on the Public Dock, cast of State street. Coal, Salt, Planar and %Vbite Flab, eonotantly for sale. ' J. 11. WILLIAMS, Ranker and Exchange Broker. Den/er ix Bills of Exchange, Brans, certnicates ear Deposite. Cold and silver coin, Ike.. &c. Office.ll doors below Brown's hotel. Erie, Pa. • BENJAIVIIN F. DENNISON. Arronnev sr I.stv. Cleveland. Obio—Orlice on Superior t rev in Ativatee's Block: Refer to Chief Justice Parker, Cambridge 11.1 w SehOoli lion. Richard Fletcher, 10 State st., Boston; Hon) Samuel H. Parkins, Walnut st..Philadell‘itia; Richard. 11. ren..53 Wall street. New York. Fo testi mon lain, re fer to this °dice. MARSPALL & VINCEN, Arrosvi-T. At LAw—Orificeup stairs in Tantinlanl, 11411 building, north urine Prothonotary's office, Erie. - MURRAY WHALLON. ATTOIIIIT AND CoVNAKLIAIL AT LAW--OMCC over C. D. Wright's Store, entrance one door west of Slate street, on the Diamond, Erie. I. ROSENZWEIG & Co - - _ Wstotessut ►IID ALT►IL Dt►LEtt In Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods. ready made Oath ng, Boots and Shoes, &e., No. I, Flew. IN Block. Gum street. Eric. C. M. TIBBALS. Drat.ca in Dr} Goods, Dry Groceries, puckery, Hardware. dee.. Na. 111. Cheappide. Erie. • A. H. HITCHCOCK. Iltatxt inGroceries and Provisions of all kinds. State street, three dean north of the Diamond. Erie. SAIITH JACKSON, Drums in Dry Goods4Groteries, Hardware, Queens Ware, Lime Iron. Naito. ke., 121, Cheat...lde. Erie, Pa. WILLIAM RIBLET, • Casimir Mart i ta Upholster, and Undertaker. corner of State and Seventh streets, Eric. . KELSO & LOOMIS, Gams'. Forwarding, Produce and COluillisou 3fereha Ills: dealers in coarse and tine salt, Coal, Plaster, Shingles, ke. Public dock, wed( Ride of the bridge, Erie. W. %V. l.onnts i WALKER dr. COOK; Etsratt Forwarding, Commission and Broduee Merchants;See•l and 't rhouseeast of the Subtle Dredge, Erie. .4' . G. LOOMIS &Co. I Du in Watches, Jewol Silver, German Silver. Plated and Britannia Ware Cutlery. Military and Fancy Goods, Suse streetj nearly opposite the k:agle Hotel, Erie. • C. lArmmte. , T. M. Anils! CARTER & BROTHER, Wnotriaut and Retail dealers In Hyrax, Mediclnes, Paints, Oils e-stulta i Glass, &e., No. 6, Reed House. Erie. JOEL JOHNSON. brazil in limological, Miscellaneous, Sunday and Classica School Books, Stationary, &c. No. I, Pcrry Block, Erie. JAMES LYTLE. ate Merchant Tailor, on the public equate, a few iloor . xPal of Butte street. Erie, L. WARREN, Sun. !Hind and Door Manufacturer, and dealer in glass, soot!) cut comer of tan and State streets. Erie. D. S. CLARK. Wantleatli AND ItTilL Dealer in Groceries, Provisions, Shi Chandlery, Slone•ware, dm. ate., No. 5, Donnell Dloek, Erie. 0. Pk 13PAPIORD. -.Dealer jr Law. hfedieal. senuo" I Miscellaneous Books stationnr4 luk. Ace. State it., four doors below the Public square. DR. 0. L. ELLIOTT, item e A t Dentist; Office and dwelling in the Beebe Mock, on the East tilde of_she Public Square, Erie. Teeth inserted on Gold Plate4tom one to an entire sett. Carious teeth tilled with pur/ Cold,;nd restored to health and usefulness'. Teeth cleatte with struments and Dent i flce so aa to leave thew of ipellueid clearness. All work warranted. MOSES KOCH. WrtnISAALt AND RETAIL Dealer in Staple and Faney Dry Goods Groceries. Crockery. Ready Made Clothing, &e.. COM/Mini Buildings, corner of French and Fifth streets, Erie. 8.-DICKERSON. rirrsiciorssoftranzon—ollice at his residence on Seventh street) opposite the Methodist Church. Eric. C. B. WRIGHT. _ . 1 tilitill.lliLlt VIDRIETAILdeIIier in /try Goods, G roeertet. rinre,wrtre. Crockery, Glamware.•lron Nails Leather. Gib,re:rtler of State street and the public square, opposite the Eagle Hotel. Erie JOHN 11. BURTON. WHOLTML2 AID RETAIL dealer in Drugs, Medic Groin DST SiGITII. Groceries, ku. No. 6, Reed Rouse, Erie. 11LAIN and Frgured De Lain 'II wool, and cUirr cheap De 1 Laid, at the store of S. JACKSON. BlACktyroncii Cloth from oto $8 per yord bf or ei tr i li o - N ----- BLACK, (frown• Green aml Cadct mixed Broad Cloths at at prices for sale at S. JACKSON. GREEN, Black , Atorajn; Clark, Drown, and Blue French Ma me, for sale cheapar the Stpre of • S. JACKSON. LACK, Clue, Plaid, Striped and other Fancy CiraAnon for rue by S. JACKSON. - - • Gesso Weathers " anted., 1 5A round* office Gccso Feathers' wanta. (or which I will noe gay half cub at my more on the turner PPPO S PC Drown' , oct. G. B. IN Min. . ~, . , • . . . !i- , . . . . . . ~ . •._ . .. . , 1.- -..... ,' . ~. .. .. . , . .. .- .:• :. . . , .. . , \ ~. • , , ~. : • , 1.,; poetr q 3015tellaml. TEV STREAM Or DEATIt. ST S. W. cANNIXa. There is a stream wboire narrow tide The known and unknown worlds divide— Where all must go; Its Witrele4 B utterly, dark and deep. 'And sullen silence downward sweep, With mottnless Clow I saw where, at that dreary flood, A smiling Infant prattling stood. • • Whose hour had come; Untaught 0(111, It neared the tide. Sunk as to cradle real, and died . Like going home. ' Followed, with languid eye, anon. A youth, diseased, and pa!e,jand wan; And there alone. He gazed upon the leaden stream. And feared to plunge—l heard a scream. And he was gone. And then a form In manhood's strength, CEthe bustling on, till there at length, Ile saw life's pound, life shrunk, and raised the bitter prayer— Too late!—his shriek of wild despair, The water's drowned. Nest stood upon that surgeless shore A being„ bowed with ninny a store Of toilsome years. Earth-bound and sad, be left the bank. back turned his clamming eye and Runk— Ah, fUll.of fears. Row haw must thy waters be. 0 death' Ilow hard a thing, ah mo! it is to die— I muaed—when to that stream again Another child of mortal men With smiles drew nigh: t" 'Tie the last pang,' he camly said; "To me, Death, thou bast no dread; Savior, I come , Spread Ind thine arm on yonder shore— '. see! ye waters bear MC o'er! There Is my home!" THE STOCKBROKER'S DAUGHTER. IIY NICHOLAS MICHELL [From the London Keepsake. 1934.] SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 2, 1850. would content him; and thie he had told her times with out number. Alas' for the heart of woman! the enigma it propounds never yet was solved. We ere all more prone to run into error then to pursue right; and woman's love, when op posed to her duty, except in long-schooled and more than ordinarily strong minds, too frequently comes oft victor in the conflict. But Mr. Banks never thought of this; he had calculated and worked out the sum of worldly advancement. and had treated tho affections of his child as he would the sides of his ledger, and the balance, with the balance of her fortune. was to be met by goods or bonds received In the shape of a lord. The spell was weaving: Gertrude first saw the stran ger with whom her lot was to be cast at the parish church. They met clandestinely, yes, the rich broker's daughter had given her heart to a poor, unfriended. but intellectu al man. She wept in secret, being concious of her error, and.she struggled in the meshes of a passion which her better genius told her could be productive of little but mil esji. It is an old tale—woman's weakness. love's victory —romance setting reality at defiance, and hope spanning with rainbow hues the gulf of the future—a little hesita tion, a little remorse, a few trembling., and then one desperate resolve, and all is over. "Hollow," cried Mr. Bank% as one afternoon at the accustomed hour. he stepped out of his brougham. and crossed the garden to his house. "Hellos. what's the matter that you look so alarmed? Why do you stand staring at me, sirrah? Open the door!" Hospoke the stockbroker to his servant, whose singu lar looks and trepridation of manner drew these words froin the usually taciturn man. Ile entered the hell. "Plano°. eir." stammernd the butler, ' , haven't you seen John?" "Of course not." . • "1 sent him off to—to tho office three hours ego, to tell you—" "Tell me what?" • "That "Ha! is my daughter ill.Sampsont 7 where Is she?-- Not confined to her bed, I hope?" "Not ill. sir: jt is not that—but John—well, he's a villain then:" roared the butler; "he must have been in the secret, and wouldn't tell you, that they might gain more time." • ••The eeeret!—gain more time!"—repeated Mr. Batiks • etarifig on the white-headed Sampson—"Whatdoes the fool mean?" "Why, you see, your honor, jiistiaft7 your honor loft this morning, Miss went oat, without her maid to walk for half an hour, as she told us; but afterwo hours had passed, and Miss didn't return, we becom • alarmed, thinkingsomething had happened to her. so w • got out' in all directions, making inquiries, but can't find or.— Presently my eon Sam comes to the house panting nd nearly dead with affright. He had seen Miss about tw • miles off, and 'a gentleman with her; all at once comes a carriage, and the gentleman, while Miss was crying piteous, handed her in, end away they dashed. My *On shouted, but the postillion wouldn't notice him; so think ing something was awfully wrong, Sam hurried over to tell us. I sent John off to you, but the rascal must have Wen bribed; so here's a pretty state we are in, your honor. Oh! I holm I'm wrong fis what I think—l hope I'm wrong?" "And you are wrong, you old scoundrel!" growled the stockbroker. "Do you mean to insult your master by telling him his daughter has eloped? You impertinent villian! you quit my service in a week!" The butler stepped back, pale and affrighted; he felt whatever hie dear young mistress's doom might be. that his business at least was settled. 014 Banks walked into the dining-room, walked steadily up stairs, walked into his daughter's room, and walked into his own bed-room. Ha! what catches his eye! it is a sealed letter—Gertrude's handwriting, and directed to himself. lie tore open the seal and read its contents; his hard. iron features relaxed. and expressed for once en intense degree of emotion; his shaggy brows were knit till they met, his teeth glistened through his •parted lips, and, the sinews on the back of his clenched hand started up till their lines looked like whip-cord. He staggered to a chair, but quickly gained the mastery over hia momentarily paralysed physical powers.- then hurrying down stairs. and giving vent to the pent-up passions in the breast hyottering several loud oaths, he ordered his carriage instantly for town. It wasof no availpursuit proved, fruitless; Gertrude and her lover escaped tho ditches of the wronged and incensed father, and eho who was to have united the mi/- lionaire's line to the aristocracy of England became the wife of a penniless artist. renouce her? 1 east her memory from me! I curse her!" said old Banks to himself. "1 have no child now will not believe I ever had one. She, and the low scoundrel her husband. may starve—rot—perish! Were they dying for a cup of water I would not give it them! Faugh! what's human feeling?—weakness, parental love? sentimen t run mod. The petals nothing; tho fu ture only is mine. 1 curie them!—l curse them!" The' stockbroker returned to his business, and resum ed his old habits in Chapel Court. All knew6f the domes tic calamnity which bad befallen him, but admired the philosophic fortitude With which he bore the trial. There he was seen with his hands in his deep pockets. !Owing' the Jews, and calculating on the rise and fell of stocks with the quiet, heavy countenance. and unimpassiond manner, that hithertoforo distinguished him. Unruffled by gains or losses, he was not sad, he was not happy; he went through his business steadily, yet scearcely seemed to care about it: it was habit; the harness was on his back, cud he was unable to shake it of. , Five years—swiftly they fleet away. yet with their lim ited compass how many a trial may be undergone: how many a severe lesson learnt: We must take the reader into one of the narrow alleys which., like the rivulets joining the great stream. straggle into Fleet Street. In a room on the third floor of a rather low lodging-house. a young man was engaged in drawing; he was a hand some, and, in spite of the poor furniture and mean appear ance of the apartment. well dressed. A beautiful, child with brilliant laughing' eyes and long flaxen curls, eat on the floor near him amusing himself with a toy.— Ever and anon the father would glance from his easel, and proudly smile on his young charge, and then. with a deep sigh, resume his occupation. An hour might have passed, when a light step was heard on the stain without. ,and a female' entered the room. Though plainly dressed, in faded shawl and worn bonnett, she had the air and presence of a gentlewoman; yet how altered was Gertrude from the once rosy. light hearted, frolicsome girl. who ran about the grounds of the villa at Denmark Hill! Her frame was attenuated. anxiety had sharpened her features, and cast afh y on her beautifukforehead; her eyes alone. black. fustrous and expressive of all the passing emotions . of the soul. remained Unchanged. "Well. Frank. the shopkeeper has bought the draw Inge. but little indeed he him given—not the theta!' part o their value." "Yes, yes, I dare say it Is their value.--but how mach have you obtained:" "1 almost fear to tell you—only enough to pay off the into which wo owe•for the rout." , ""hotter that than nothing. Ala Gertrude. my hove. a cleverer hand you are than myaell:at a hatpin: that pact of the business I can never manage. ,, "Boar, how kind you are! I almost expected upbraid ingot!" Er •W A V .421 H "Not fey all from ine—Heaven b'ear ate wituesa I would suf. an ever aufferod—sink—die of starvititon, rather Raid you. Gertiude V! continued Graham. draw- oung wife towards him. audapeaking in a soulful 1 “Have I not to upbraid myself? Was it not I • d you away from a tome otitifiuence and 'plan . hted your fortune ruined you for ever in this. Yes, love. bitterly bitterly. I have to upbraid hark op ag his. whispe =lrl2 dor—b MI myself: ~sp e ding da you, de happy days wi k not so—l will n • j• Ftank•• and ►t is st, you did not nd 1 am happy— dawn upon us, / The doated his &the in that s a touchi "Now opeued. • pounced hope. as jouplal ; sband embrace ; the wifo—the young being he rand the chit., seeing them smiling. ran up to and clung to to . knee. The little group, though ualid room. p esentod a pleasing, a beautiful, , g picture. r" said a cos ;•e voice. as the door wits suddehly nd trireme , with red hair and a redder face. n, "I see on've come home. ' welkin. so I ou promised, you've got the money. for I tell fly I'll not wait any longer." - - ' "Wee! "Obi twenty4.l ..vv e , . "Give I am no certain. I, "Well you can added. e back any, there's a to be ch. I , n pay yeti half," said Gertrude. I elf won't f o: I must have rent all the due to me nr shilli and sixpence—come." . . ave not much money, Mrs. Green." • a anoth r week," said Graham; o• the picture engag on will more than enable us. lam • liquid e the debt." " said t e women, grumbling, 'VIVO me what hen; I cuppeee I Met take it. Now," she tending her broad, coarse palm, "don't keep' !money. let me have coppers and all. Stops t, o her shillin'—l saw it—give it up--4'm not I i ated. recollect that!" "Mrs. Green," rudd Gertrude. ins beseeching manner "do pet it me to rosary' this, it is .our wedding day. and I ha. intendld to treat my husband and the child with som•thing fair sapper. You know what a wedding day mew a. Mrs. Green?" . The women hesitated, her better nature evidently struggling with her:peavianony: the ;formerfar once pre vailed. "Pooh: then take it, poor wretches, take tho shillin.9 I won't be hard upon you, as you promise to.pay me all next week. Be merry on your wedding, day—by all means merry on your wedding day. Hal ha! ha!" and, laughing a bitter laugh of irony, the worthy landlady quitted the room. - The husband and wife looked at each other; had they fallen to this? keeping back a shilling from a lawful debt to inch a hag, in ordei to celebrator the anniversary of their marriage? Gertrude read her - husband'. sad thoughts, and kissed away the 'Wow of anguish that was gathering on hie brow. ECONCLUIROS IN OUR ?MX? boy. a pall that shall shut the sunlight of pia._ from your path. or heap up obstacles in your way to hap pines'. Bat, while in the midst of enjoyment—on the spots which you love. and the studies you are pursuing —in the school room—on the play ground—at home— at bight—in the morning—pt all times, we would have yo rt conduct yourselves so as to feel content, that when ygfhear the bell toll for others, you may be so situatid. Oat when it tolls for you, sorrowing friends may say— the early taken was ready. Are you on the play ground, or at your lesson, or wherever you may be; does the bell toll? Pause! some one is on the way where the weary are at rest. Reflect! It may toll for you the nest time. How careful. then, should be your intercourse with playruatesi, sisters. broth ers. parents. You would not like to go down to the grave, unforgiven by those around, if you have offended them. or if they had offended you; you would not love to think while lying upon your last bed. that an angry playmate's eyes were upon you. You would shudder to know that harsh words. or unkind acts towards sister. or brother, or parents. were hauntittig year last haunt. Such thoughts would be poor conipany then. How necessary it is *to be kind and obedient, to bo forbearing, to forgive, to avoid offence. fan all can see. Nor are those things .hard to put into practice. A spirit determined to do right—a liberal view to regard to the failings of others, will al - ways secure you true friends among your associates, and tho best friend of all, an undisturbed conscience. The bell must toll for all. Our own knell will be rung out, unheeded by the ear in death. and heedless of the iron tongue which tells of a spirit departed. But near and dear ones will hear it—and as the heavy peal falls upon heavier hearts. so should all live that the fall may be lightened Let this be your aim—and whether in the discharge of your home , duties, in the school-room. the play ground. the church or the Sabbath school—re member the belt must toll—and, daily expecting it, so act that when itshall have tolled for you, whitheryet the boy et the task, or the man high in name and fame, wielding a influence over nations, those left behind may have the atisfaction of saying that you were ready for the final summons—and that solemn, tone which an-. minim.. the burial of the Lady, gave assurance to weep ing fr*.nds that the departed bad lived "expecting daily to h • ar the hell toll." "Bob. whore is the State of Matrimony?" "It is one of the united-States. It is bounded by bug ging and kissing on one side, and cradles and babies on the other. Its chief products are population. broomsticks and staying oat nights. - It wee discovered by Adam and Eve while trying to find • northwest passage out of unitise. The climate is rather sultry till you pass the topics of house keeping. when squally weather common• ly sets in' with sufficient power to:keep all hands as cool as cucumbenr. IFov the principal roads leading to this interesting eta e 4 consult the first pair of black. blue or haste eyes you run against." • 1 . A little fop conceiving himself insulted by a gentlemen who had ventured to give him a little wholesome advice, strutted up to him with an air of importance, saying: "Sir, you are no gentleman—here is my card; could& er yourself challenged. Should I -be from horns when you honor me with a ea% !shall leave word with a friend to settle the preliminaries to your satisfaction." - To which the:other replied: "Sir. you am* foot--here Is my card; consider your nose pulled, and; should I not be at home when you call t upon me, on will find Vbire left orders with my servant to kick} o into the street" bear you. This is our wed aot the way to keep it. 1 toll i ight my hopes—you made me it will both be happy—brighter over fear." doography of Love. A Challenge. .1"011% , 1111r. The Freaks of Ui Prate' Around her waist I put my arm— , It felt as sot 's a cake; ..0 dear:" says she, “what liberty You printer-men do take" ..IYhY. Ye'. 8.1, my elrmilnigaili • . (I squeezed her some, 1 guess ' ) Can you say 0, my chick, against T 4 freedom of tas Puna" I kissed her some—l did, by gum -810 colored !Ikea beet; t Upon my living soul, she looked _ Almost too good to eat: I gave another buss, and then, Says she, I doeonfess, I rather sorter kinder like • “The Padua Or tla P SAL IN it DISTRUST; OR, MR nettle OF PULAINTARF 1,71500110'i [The following touching little tale is taken froi miniature newspaper, edited and published by. the Lt connected with the Second Presbyterian.Chnck Illoh List and I will tell you a story of real life ea it oci l ed in our very midst. The heroine lof my story ninny years in BloblN and was a native. I think. tit place; at all events, her lot in life must early have cast among us. Many in this Fair Room have take by the baud; for, at every hearth-stone she was a come guest. rendered so by her brilliant assuneng. engaging. lovely disposition. Everybody loved Dora Hammonton, for she loved everybody. She had keen a widow nine years when I first made her acquaint:race, and a more lovely women in every point of view it l 'lles never been my lot to meet with. I often wondered at 1 ... i, her perversity in remaining single. w en I knew, 'kith the world. that she had it so largely in her power `not only to become an interesting wife.; bra' a most useful member of society. She always pa ied My persnasts. by laying that she dreaded the demi ion r of a step-fe her over her only child, a sweet little gi o some ten, siptrm men. ‘ 1 noticed at the time. despite r effort to conceal it, that the poor woman was immeas rebly - w) She was not in love. for she was a women of balanced mind aver to sit down and mope on gutted passion. Her beautiful blameless life passed among us. with the exception of the 6 her snarried,lllll, which bed been spent else was during a brief visit she paid Mobilo in h at her father's house, she heard of her ht---tAto I shall never forget the shock it occasioned me, more l. for • Dora's sake, who I knew to be so ardently attriched l te him. Time heals every wound, and I j knew, in I lre common course of things, she must lon since h ve ceased to grieve for her husband's death. The armouries meat, at last. that oho was about to leave Mobile forayer and settle in the West, filled the large circle other Meads with the most unbounded astonishment r I What! leave the dear friends, whore she had been so petted, so car as ed. fora home in a strange land—far freM the scan of 1 :r her childhood! Well might we all wonder. I de or- i mined, with my husband's peregs s ask en et la ation of this strange resolve. w I perform par last pilgrimage to the graves of her parents, who were interred to the old grave-yard, head of Church stree i .— Thither we went together. and after sauntering throligh the old arenas—anon stopping to listen to the wind, as It swept in /Eolien strains through the overhanging gloomy pines—we reached at last an old broken Well., and bidding her sit down besidei.,. , me, I ;took both (her hands in mine and implored her. by my Past friendship and my present doootiot. to her intorooto, to frankly ,ii... 11 Me the cause of her unhappiness. i • "I am so glad you have touched upon this subjeet," said she. hesitatingly, "for oh, I know that I would bso much happier Ultimo one else beside myself knew 'the terrible secret of my past life. 1 Yes." she said, "I will tell you all without reservation; but we must enter into a Went compact first." "Anything in reason, Dora. and which,' it is in ray power to perform, I will most willingly do." 1 j "Will you promise not to ft bate ms?" she eonvalsivaly A. 'bed. "Will you promisg, by the oared dust of irtry par -Is. that you will still love ma as you have bith rto done? ' IN I "1 wit Itill continue to foie you, Dome though ,'jot bad commkted murder. Thexe now, will t hat assuranto satisfy you?" ?[:'‘ ' Sho kissed me eetionately and began the recite i of her griefs. "Min you foramina not to interrupt rne." \ \k, she said. "You will \ member." she continued. Tat I was married early in life(lo one whom 1 more 't an idolized, and wont to L 044441111 to live. It was during the last months of the five year. that I sojourned in that state. that the. seeds of my after unhapplueis were sown. I wan young. Emily, and was too prone to t pat faith 'I la an saw and heard. It has Only been through the last two years of my close intimacy with you. that I have learned what a good wife should be. Oh, Emily, Emily. the precious pearls that I have cast from me, and tmlrifil ed in the dust. because I knew not their value: Will )an believe it. my friend, that my husband is now alive. and the father of a large family in one of the West India Ils- , lands, It well my owe fault," she continued.. as I Teas about to interrupt her. “I listened to evil counsel. piny, and learned to distrust my husband. Yes. I learned It distrust. and at last to hate (or at least thought I did) that husband who had always lavished Open me i every kind ness. I never quarrelled with him. Nis—l was too l ,in. nattily proud for that; but I allowed myself to broad.oPon my silent, growing Mate. and, oh. there is no feeling ton this earth that so nigh warps the brain to madness as i the hate born of jealousy. You know my frank, open disrl sition, Emily. , So I wont to him, and with my mo h in the dust,. asked for a separation. Oh. never did the poor doom-snare:it vietiort of the Bosphorus hog for life. 1 as I for the blessed privilege —ofgoing from his presence forever with our only child. Ile tried to reason with Me. but I was mad, Emily. and have been mid .ins t al - I asked fur nothing but my child. and pleaded with an earnestness which he saw it was useless ta, resist. po, Emily, I will pass on to the announcement if my widow hood—when I went forth to the world a hypocritq in widow's weeds. My husband wrote to me I three tiMes during the first year of our separation, Imploring met by every precious tie to permit him even by stealth to look once more on the face of his child. To every entreaty I returned a cold, stern, hard answer. and for all this I have dearly bitten the dust alate.• The years sped on which return no more. and my child began to expand inn a loveliness which was almost superhuman. Strauga i as it may appear is y0u,.1 again learned-to love my Itusb;nd through his child. When she spoke to mo it was er father's voice, every lineament was his, and I so bed my child that I again loved my husband thro ugh be l .--, i t• Strange inconsistency you may call this. but . it is never theless tine. I knew that he was alive. sr regularly every year I have received a small, • s I ' ;ion for , oar maintenance through unknown hands. a ie. with the little petrimcny received from my father.. trebled me t to live far above want—actually,affordiag Limy of the lax min of H e . , r i m little know how I have yearned to look once more upon my hasband's fate. Oh EmilYl I thought if 1 could hut sae him, all might be Made up I was prepared to bumble myself in the very dust, thnt I might be taken back to his hearbonce more.. .1 kw not where to direct even a letter to him. andllike a boor 'condemned criminal I dare not make open Inquiryti for in the flea of the world I was a widow and my poorebild an orphan. So well have I played my part ip bypocriey, that no one has ever dreamed amp husband's existelme. "I believed that I knew, and loved yea, to l e, for ni6lrly Si 50 ♦ in'Advanc•. • four years—and this brings me to nearly ~ a widowhood of thirteen years. I had almost outlived the hope ;fever again seeing my husband, when about three weeks since ' I received a small note (torn him, an flouncing that he was in Mobile, and moat anxious to see the child of his fouth—that be would call on me the evening of that day, as an old friend of the family. promisingnoder any cir enmstances not to reveal himself to Ada. Oh: the hannOk of that day were sir 'leaden paced!' At last he citing with seven o'clock. I parted with my husband, a tall slight figure, with light blue eyes, and dark curling hair —and I shook bands with him after* lapse of thirteen years. a perfect Indian in complexion, an enlarged ro bust figure, eyes somewhat-darker, and his hair. instead of grey. was as black as night, lying in thick masses -or large manly crispy curls: Never would I have. recog nised the husband of my youth in the fine-looking mid dle-aged man I presented to my daughter as the friend of her father.ll, had prepared her to receive him affec• tionately. and thg warm welcome she extended, assuring him that any one whiii had known her father shotdd hive the warmest corner of her heart, was beyond conception painful to both of us. They had a long and interesting conversation. He inquired about her studies, and seem ed pleased with - the progress she bad made. making her promise (with my permission) to correspond with him under the assumed name of Dunalow. While in con.• versation with his child, I had written &towline., stating my earnest recantation of my former errors, and earnest ly asking for a reconciliation. He was terribly agitated during tho whole interview, and when I gave him my note to read; the s t rong man shook like an ague fit. MI a ' dies % .ile.] are ived this peen i her ivei. !and "Ile scanned it BOVOT&I times—walked the floor inlet fillip agitation—looked at me once wills the concentrated agony of a life of human sufrering—.and approaching Ada gave her a miniature of himself, which he said she must keep for her father's sake as well as his own—kiss ed her several times, and bidding her farewell. asked me to take a turn with him on the balcony. •Dora,' he said. as he nervously closed the door. leant ago you passed the flat of our separation. You know how earnestly and •oelessl'y' I sued for terms—Sou turned a I deaf ear and ',heart to all my solicitations. You were ,the vie. ,well knew, Dora, of it wicked conspiracy. Had istened to the counsel contained in the last let !e you, twelve years ago, all would have been it is, you sowed the*eds of your own unhappi listrusting your hasbaud. and, at best. have ; I Dead Sea fruit. I grieve for you—l grieve More for my diMghter. who must go forth to the world without a father's protecting arm. After your otter re jection of all overtures on my part. I went to the West India,. obtained a divorce from yourself. and married a Spanish woman. who could notspeak one word of Eng. HA. By my hat marriage I have three children. all daughters. You will often hear from me through my child. God bless you, madam.' _ And without even one kiss, Emily, nay husband vau iahed from my sight. Ono affectionate, kindly caress, Emily. would have been so little to him, and such a' precious remembraece to me: May be, this Is what men call retribution." Slowly we pursued our way homewards. and I ceased to wonder at those eccentricities In my friend. which formed the comments of so many. Dora Demme:slay left Mobile six y ears , since , and settled in the west. Her daughter, as every body. tells me. is worthy , of her moth er—hes married well. and moves with her mother among the first women of the nation. 0 >D mAzDa. What a common expression, •Iset her die an old maid." An old:maid! how many unrecorded sorrows, how att?ch of cruel disappoin!m3nt and heart-cankering delay. how many unwritten tragedies are hidden in that, thought-' - ?k' less little phrase! Oh the - mass of blighted hopes, of alighted affections, of cold neglect. and foolish contume ly wrapped up in those three syllables! Kind heart. kind hearts never us6"them; neither lightly as in scorn. nor sadly as in pity; spare that ungenerous reproach. What, coast thou think, dust from a feminine breast the 'lover. the wife.ithe mother, can be utterly sponged away with out long years of bitterness? Can Nature's wounds be cicatrzied, or her soft feelings seated without a thousand secret pangs? Hath it been no trial to see youthful bloom departing, and middle age creep on, without some intl. ' - mate one to share the solicitude of life? Ay, and the coming prospect too. bath it greater consolations than the retrospe ct. How faintly common friendi can fill - that hollow of the heart; how feebly can their kindness at the warmest, imitate the sympathies and to of mar ried lifol And in the days o sickness, or th hour of death—to be lonely. childless, husbandless. to be lightly - N • cared for, little missed—who can wonder that all those bruised and broken yearnings should ferment within the solitary, mind, and sometimes sour the milk of human kindness?, Be more considerate. more just, more loving to that injured heart of woman; it bath loved deeply in its day; but imperative duties or untoward circumstances nipped those early blossoms, and often generesity-towarde others, or the 'constancy of youthful love he y , mate it thus alone. There was en age in this world's history. and may be yet again (if Heart is ever to be monarch of this social sphere,) when those who lived and died as deph (ha's daughter were reckoned worthily. with saints- and martyrs. Heed thou, thus of many inch, for they have offered op their hundred warm yearnings, a hecatomb of human love, to God, the betrothed of their affections; and they move up and down among the inconsiderate world. doing good. Sisters of Charity. fall of pare benevolence, and beneficent beyond the widows mite. Used kinder then. and blush for very shame, 0 men and women. look ing on this noble band of ill-requitted virgins; remem ber all the trials, and imagine their deeds; for among the legion of that unrogarded sisterhood whom you coldly call old maids, are often seen the world's chief almoners of wenn unselfish sympathy, generous in mind if not in means, and blooming with the immortal youth 'of charity and kindness.— Tupper. mz MOTEMIL'a &MIT IMATIOM. I was very) oung, scarcely beyond the verge liplan ey. the last and-most helpless or those little gir s• who were gathered around my mother's death bed. Who* ever I look on the chain of my varied existence. the re• membrance of that being who departed so early and so gently from the bosom of her family. forms the sad link • which ever gives forth z thrill of funeral music wham my heart turns to it, music which becomes more deep toned and solemn. as that chain is strengthened by thought, of bound together by the events of successive years. The first person that I can remember was my invalid mother, moving languidly about her home. with the pale ness of death on her features, and a deep spot of crim son that burned with painful brightness on either cheek. I remember her step became more unsteady and her voice fainter and more gentle day by day, till at last she sunk into.her bed. and we were called upon to see her di*. Pale troubled faces were around her death pillow. men with sad faces. women overwhelmed with tears and sympathy. and children wapt. they knew not why. Bile murmured, and placed her pale hand on my head.- -my hsart swelled within me. but I stood motionless, filled with awe. Her lips moved, and a voice tremukias and very low came faintly through them. These words. broken and sweet as therwere, left the first deep impren limn that has ever remained on my memory: i•Leatit her not into. temptation. but deliver her from evil." This was my mother's - last prayer. la that imperfect sentence_ her voice was hushed forever. Yoong as I then was.-._ that prayer entered my heart-with a solemn strength, It has lingered around my heart. Ilkigessinit and a safe guard. prevailing it with a music that cannot die. Man y , times. when the heedlessness of youth would beveled. me into error. has that sweet voice (now hushed forever) intermingled with my Waugh% and. like di, rosy link' of a fairy chain, drawn me from my ppspo s e. In idiocy, youth, and girlhood, that prayer has been to me a holy remembrance, not the less beautiful that there is saditett in it. -a rill NUMBER 42.
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