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DUSIIMESS DiltggOTOßV, JOHN McOANN, Woot.roAts And Retail Grneer. No. 2, Flemiog Block. Erie. l'a J. W. WETMORE. ' ATTORNEY L AW, In Walker's Office, on Seventh Street. Erie. Pa HENRY CADWELL, 1 IMPORTICIit, .10,W, a n d Retail Dealer hi Dry COOdi Crockery. Glassware, Carpeting, Hardy% are, Iron; Spikte, ar.c. Empire Stores State Street, !burl Brown's Hotel, Erie. Pa • Also—Anvils, Vices. Bellow :, Axle Arm:. Springs, it 1,1 a general assortment of Saddle and Carriage Trimming:. B. MERVIN SMITH. ATnonlort ♦T LAW and Jin.tiee of the l'eaec—Otnee one door %%est of Wright's store, Erie, l'a. d• • W. IL KNOWLTON & SON. -- PRAISAS in Watehes, Clocks, Looking Classon:Tlano Fortes.' fano, Britannia Ware. Jewelry, ands vnriet;tof ot her Fancy Articles, Keystone Buildings, four doors I slow Drdwit's noel. state Street. Erie. Pa. 3. GOALDI NG. I I Illaiten4wr Trawl. and Habit Maker.--Atore. Sinn It Ado of tho l'ablie square. three door Bast of the Ern. Bank: I ' S. IL I)ENVEY, . ' Vlrnotecitt •nD RETAIL Dealer In Dry Goods. recoil Ilrown'a Hotel, Stale Street, Ede. l'a.. GEORGE H. CUTLER., ,ATTORNAT •T LAW, Girard, Erie County. in. Co Other larAinese attended to with promptness and tir WILSON LAIRD ATTOILIET AT LAIV--OrrleC °V AT J. 11. Williams' C* nett door to Jydge Thompion'o (Mice. Collecting and other professional business attended to promo pt.. nese and dispatch. BROWN'S hOTEL, FORNICRIX THE EAin.s. corner of St:lte street nod the Public square Erie. Eastern Western and Southern stage office. , ROBERT A. BAKER. ' MMUS tLF: and Befall dealer in Groceries, Provisions, Wines, Liquors. cigars, Nails, Detroit Ate, BuiKuit, Crackers, &e. Ceeapside, Erie, Pa. H. B. HAVERSTICK. I ' fro.% USED Horse. Dealer in Dry Goo‘ls. hardware, Crockery ! GrocerleP. he. T. %V. MOOIAE, i)r ILER in Groceries, PfOVl4Olll4 ‘Vinev.l.llluors, Candies, Fruit, &c., No 6, Poor Pcoide's Row. State street, Uric. 1; W. H. orrult,' Attorney & Coonsellei at Law, (Office in Exchange, liullato, N. Y. II coltecting and commercial Niel dens Will receive prompt allenion. ILLYWIEMICI,B.—A. P. I)ott.gx. Esq., I. rt.t GRAN*, Ewi. JOSl2:itl KELLOGG, Forwarding kr. Commis:ion 3ferchant, on the Public Dock, east of State ftreet. Coal. Nall, Planer and W 1111,41614 connantly for :ale. J. IL WILLIAMS. flanker and Exchange Maker. Ikmler In Dille of, F:xchane. Drafts, certificates of Depodite. Gold and silver coin. &c.. ace. Office,' Anon below Brown's Hotel. Erie, l'a. BENJAMIN F. DENNISON, ATTORTET AT Law. ClCTeland, 0100-0111 CC mi :3 , 11,1'110f r trret, in Atwater's Mock. Refer to Chief Justice Parker, Cambridge Law School: lion. Richard Fletcher, Stat.; st..ll9stolt: Samuel A. Forking, Ill} Walnut st.. Philadelphia: Richard ii. Kimball, El., 33 Wall Axel, New York. l'Of teiliutouials, re fer to this awe. AIZIRSHALL & VINCENT. Arr. T mtvv—Office p stairs in Tammany flail building, north of tue Prothonotary's office, Eric. WHALLON, ATTAINF.Y AND COUNOCI.IOIL AT I, AW—olliee Oyer P: Flom entrance onehloor twat of State strict, on iii Este. . . I. ROSEN 2W.IG & Co. 1 . %vim'. U.P.C.CD,RET.III. DE ,I.ETN in FOT(1211 and Domestic Dry Goode. ready made Clothing, Boots and Shoes, &c., No. I. Field jag Block. State 2. treet, Erie. C. M. TIBBALS, HEALER In Dry Goode, Dry Groceries, Crockery, fla No. l 11. Cheapside, Erie. • A. H. HITCHCOCK. IMALea inGrOccrics and PrOV igionu °Call kinds, State doors north of the Diamond. Erie. SMITH JACKSON,I DE.2rit in Dry Goods,'„Droceries, Hardware, Llueeni Ware, Lime, Iron, Nails. &c., 121, Cheapside, Erie, Pa. 'WILLIAM RIBLET S CAsiarr Marta Upholster; and Undertaker, corner of State anil Seventh streets. Eric. KELSO & LOOMS, GUEII tr. Forwarding, Produce and Coniniison Merchants: dealers in coarse and fine salt, Coal, Plaster, Shingles, &c. Public dock, %vela side or the bridge, Erie. • , tn.,' J. KKLMO, W. W. 11.qn141 WALKER & COOK. , ' i ccccc L Forwarding. Corniniraion and Produce Merchantit; sec and Ware-bouse east of the Public Bridge. Erie. G. LOOMIS & Co. 1. • nrA LTIS in Watches, Jewelry. Silver. fiennan Silver. Plated and. Brit.diina Ware Cutlery, Military and Fancy Goode, state sweet' neatly opposatelhe Eagle Hotel, Erie. 1. G. 1...ww, T. M. firm CARTER & BROTHER, tl'uouwAr.E and Retail dealers in Drugs, !ttedieines, ralots, Oils lye-studg, (au+, Ate., No. 0, Reed House, Erie. JOEL JOJINi3ON.' 'intim in Theological, Miscellaneous, Sunday runt Classics School Books, Stationary. ik.c. No. I, Perry Block, Erie. JAMES - LYTLE. ' FttninNtatt Merchant Tailor, on the public Fquare, nlew door nut of eltategtreet, Ear. , D. B. CLARK. WHOLICIALII •to RETAIL Dealer in Groceries, PrOVie one. Shi Chandlery, Slane-ware. ace. ike.„ No. A, Donnell Moe*. Erie. 0. D. BPAFFORD. • Ikaler In LAW. Medical, school Miscellaneous hooks stationary Ink. /he. State it.. four doom below the Public squaw.. DR. 0. L. ELLIOTT. Resident Dentist; Ofliceand dwelling in the Beebe 11WO. on th Rost Side of the Public Square. Erie. Teeth inserted on Col Plate, from one to an entire ACM Carious teeth filed with par MAI; and restored to health and usefulness. Teeth eleatte with lastruments and Dentiflee Ito tts leave them of, a pelluoi olearnestt. All work warfauled. I , MOSES icopii, 1 Wenirsaut awn Reran. Dealer in Staple and Faney Dry Cold. Oroceries.Croekery, Ready Made Clothing, Sre., Cononereia 114ildinge, !Mier of Frenth and Fifth anew, Erie. ' , I 8. DICKERSON, \ 1 Mamma Awl> Pcaosoa,-0111ee at Ms residence on = venth street, oppovite the ittetbodial Mitch % MO. i. IMP ;1111;]:410.1kg W1101.[1•LE•11D R tTAIL &Mlle r in Dry Coods,GrOecri rd wa re Crockery, Glass-ware, Iron Nnils Leather, Oile, &c., corner o tkatestreet and the public square, Oppgaite the Engle Ifotel, Erie JOHN H. BURTON. `, wrioutAta AND RETAIL dealer hi Drum 31edkines, Dye dlulTs Groteries. &e. No. 5, Reed House. Erie: ROBERT fiL HUNTER. Pima' Ilatr, Caps and Furor of all descriptions. No, /0. rat , / Row. Erie. Pa. I DI•ilIN and Figured Do Laiti all wool, mid other cheap Dc 1. at the MOM of 8: JACKetiN. B LACK French Cloth from 82 to 88 per yord. for !ideal S. JACtiSON MACK. Brorml WOOD afictl,,Rdet IVO timid Cloths DA ej -11 prices for s* at • H. JACKSON. GREEN. Moraln; Clarlt, Brown. and Blue Fronth Ma- VI 'coo. for h ;tool. at the Stoma /3. 'JACKSON. BLACK.Bit,;:rlaid, Striped awb other Fancy CHOlltlllell for rale by 1 S. JACKSON. BLACK, Blue. end mixed Bantle% Tweeds, Kentgekt . .109,4 Ate. :Ope sale cheap by - B. TACKSoIt. LADIEtt /MEM GOOllO. The Lathes will find ' n good 80' sonment, French hletino, Cashmeres, De Lain., Chatuil ion Lustre, Mohair Lustre, Alapaebas of Off colors, Glnghhais, sust am lust opened at . GFAX,147,401! 80)1.. A) ADai.ortment or whuits. Noting' 'sour s j e A ry c /i w ice. N lbr . Cheap et the tune or A LAPACA. any quantity wroormarszmx Black Elgur d d - • Erie. Glans mohair lutti i e c &C " .. xi. Bilk warp cham B. JIAC :I N. • th Geese WOINUIXS Wanted" will 150 i l =flae.?4` 0. .Gwr. lloel Oct. 7,, GOLD. Silver and Florence Leafs Gold Bllvelr Bronzes; lakonned tins, assorted colors. Nov, 21 . ( 7 4B.TER Qc DROt --' - ii , "- ... ' '-' 1 -,' ~. • f „ .1, ... .. " . ... • . , ...,, . , . ....r .A , .. .. .-.. , :.... , . , .. ..- t .-.' ... ...• . . .• . . , • _, _ ~ , : . , . •,:, . i , . . , . . . ,• ~. t:rneeric, tAteel, rails, doors. t -don I Door IK•low Another. week—another month—poorer and poorer— struggling harder and mole desperately to break the chain . of their evil fortunes—so did the ill•starred pair drag on existence. Gertrude had written several times to her father. begging his forgiveness and imploring hie ass's." Lance, but Mr. Banks, having long ago formed him reed• Intion, remained inexorable. They might starve °utter. ish—they merited their fate—his daughter was nothing now to him. Ile continued umassing wealth, yet with out any definite object; he made his bargains, was the oracle of the Stock Exchange. ate his venison and drank his champagne. Twice Gertrude was driven from his garden gate, where she had posted herself, awaiting her father's return from the city, hoping bye personal ap peal to soften his flinty, heart; but he would have no mercy upon her. Amidst all her sorrows. however, she never ceased to love the man on whose knees she had danced when a child: while Graham,•harshly treated as he was, entertained a secret respect for ono whom he knew but too well he had deeply injured. Ono afternoon, Graham, to divert the thoughts which were devouring him, strolled forth front his wretched lodgings. Scarcely knowing whither he went, he found himself about half-past four near that bustling, noisy lo cality, that centre of a wheel of streets, that whirling Maelstrom of coaches, cabs, carts, r and omnibusses—the Elephant and Castle. He had been there bat a few minutes, half forgetting his own misfortunes in contem plating the busy scene, the sir of life around him, and wondering how many were happy among that crowd of human beingi, when his ear was assailed by a loud shouting in the road leading towards London Bridge.— The next instant a carriage was seen approaching at a frightful speed. In vain the driver "sawed" tliphciree's mouth, the animal only more wildly dashed from side to side) then, as the man pulled desperately. the reins broke, and stooping to pluck at the fragments, he lost his balance and was Thrown headlong into the road. a The horse, now entirely ungoverned, plunged madly—furi ously. here and there. "Catch him:" cried one man; "Jump at his head:" bawled another; but no one was bold enough to do wham all so energetically called upon his neighbors to achieve. "Fifty pounds for the man who stops the horse:" shouted a voice from the carriage•window. echons and nich. Inge office !IL Wrie e !Minced, =11321 A few heard the announcement of this gulden reward, and desperate : exertions were now Indeed made; but some one, with a lightning spring. had gained the ani mal'o head; he hung on by the shattered rein, he tugged at the bit, which the horse had caught between laid teeth. and thoubg one arm was jembed between the shaft of the carriage and.the horse's shoulder, and he was borne a considerable distance along the road. he succeeded in checking his career. Tho next minute, the foaming mad thing was still. • '•That was done.clover." said two calmest. now run ning up. while ono opened the door of the• caning., pro-, Bunting the occupier le be in a great alarm. • "All right. sir, and no damage, though if that horse, wasn't stopped tho.instant ho was, the carriageSwouldlliase been smash ed to bits against that jamp-post." The man spoke the truth, and, ho - within was full) aware of the imminent peril he had escaped. --Who stopped the horse?" cried Mr. Osaka. the stock broker. springing out of his brougham. . =1 zins petrq and gistellauti. 902170.-irEll I dAffld Or Tarr; IT rag SARAH T. zottow: When I set beside thee, hearing. In a whisper soft and low, Every word of love endearing, That the tongue of man may knowt When I felt thy proud heart beating, With its sweet bewildering bliss— When our lips were fondly meeting, In affections glowing kiss, Then Mrs golden sands were Like the sunbeams on the flowers. And we heard sweet voices calling, On to brighttr, fairy! bowery. When fair children, in their gladness,' Came around our gtilet hearth, • And beguiled our hearts of sadness, With their thrilling tones of mirth; When we stood together bearing, , Hopes and sorrows, eases and fears, Till our summer prime was wearing Into auturan'ecading yeqrs, Then life's silver sands were falling, , r Like the moonbeams on the 'stream, And we heard stern wisdom _ Human life a fleeting dream. Now, though life has lost its brightness It assumed in other days; • Though our hearts have lost their lightness. • Wandering through its w [tiering ways. Stiil w6ravel,on together, Through the sun/bine nn the gloom, Of its bright and dreary weather. To the silence of the tomb, /ud the leaden sands rigiz faliing. Like the dusk on fa.fea"roa%e., And we hear lifc'e reaper caning, A he gathers in Cieshelves.—illessaze Rerd. THE . sTOCKBIZOKERS DAUGHTER. DY NICHOLAS MICHELL (coxcLvpm] "Wet wo V! maid the two cabmen ; iu a breath; ••leaat wayr. we lent a hand." ••.No," sold egeutleman, stepping forward, and who had witnessed the affair; —die credit alone is doe to this young man—tins gentleman: he. sir." added the stran ger. addressing M r. Banks, ••nes, by his bold and prompt action. averted from you a terrible accident, perhaps saved your Mr. Banks was by no means impervious to fern lip of gratitude whoa a personal service was p•miered him; he hurried to thahatn, and was about to !alio him by the hand. "Aleut me: what is the matter? are you injured?" "/ can't lift my arutt" said (Irahum, in as nail of pain. "1 dare say nat." observed the gentiewisn who had first spoken; he was a surgeon. and was examining the limb: "your cum is, luokeu." ' • Mr. Banks asked the young man's kume, and obtain ed hiss.ddieso. and giving his own card to the medical gentleman, begged him to take charge of the case; what. ever expenses might be incurred, he. Mr. Banks, would of course defray them. Graham was thou. placed in a cab at:4olon to his lodgings. while Mr. Banks, whose 'errant had come up. covered with dust from . his fall but uninjured. proceeded to Denmark Bill. As ate little Waiter. and waa totally unable to gain his accostermid serenity of manner; a vision steod before . mind's mid's em-it woo, the pale Toung man dui tipkect arm. "Well, Morris. and hew is the patient?' asked the stockbroker of his servant. who thi following day. had been sent to Graham's lodgings. "Tbe doctor says he goitiou well. sirs' thiyoUng man has a wife and child, and seems very poor; but, please yo u r h o nor, he refuses to take your botintythe ha:W on:me rewaidthe fifty pounds.* "Tiial'aelOgO ler," said old yanks ; urnexer know a too. before . not downright Old, who refused monet when' But I cauq>roulein` node! gotiop stip; inoeh low! a beady One. *4ll tali the moose: 4w,, days - I will visit Win SATURDAY MORNING ? MARCH 9, 1850. , About a week after the cident we have described, a holiday occurred on the Stock 'Exchange. otherwise we 'cannot assort positively that Mr. Banks would have kept hie word in regard to pa ying a visit to the poor inmate of the court in Fleet S treat. As is was,/ however, he could spare the time; so about .twelva o'clock on • that day the old gentlenian f trudged up Cheapsfile, with a thick stick in his hand. and several bank notes in his pocket-book. He was calm enough now, and the com pressed lips, bent brows, and great grey eyes, that seem ed incapable ofamiling, or moistening, with a tear. gave the wonted eipression of grimnes's•lo his old iron face. The stockbroker turned from Choapside into St. Pool's Churchyard. Ho did not glance at the huge cathedral. or think, as an artist would. of its builder—glorious Sir Christopher.Wron; but his eyes involuntarily wandered to the few (grave-stones on the eastern side. "Ahlu thought old Banks, "but for that, young man, perhaps,' I too should bo now in my narrow house—coldceld— the Stock Exchange nothing more to me—English Funds and Foreign Funds a blank forever•—and a stranger in possession of my villa at Denmark Hill!" By-no means liking such reflections, the 'old gentle man struck the pavement hard with the ferule of his stick. and did not feel quito at ease until. turning his back on Wren's masterpiece. he strode down Ludgate Hill. In a few minutes he reached the court in Fleet street. . . . . . I "ViltillMr. Williams live here?" asked the stockbro ker. of a rough country girl. a daughter of Erin. who was 'scrubbing the door-step. Graham had not confided to Mr. Banks his real name. "He do. and ha don't, misther." .!That's a singular cirOumstance. my girl." "Why the body you moan has just two names; some times Mather Williams is at home. and sometimes some body else,—cati`t soy who is home to-day." "%Valk up," said Mrs. Groon the lindlady. whose red face poping out of a side door betrayed that she bed heard the stranger's application; "you want the young men who broke his arm? You'll Enid him on the..thind Door buck." Mr. Banks commenced climbing the stairi, in which process he experienced considerable diflicilliy, for they were almost perpendicular; ho groped in'dark unexpect ed turnings, made frequent slips where the corners of the steps were narrowed to a point; but what with stumbling. feeling, and holdling ou by the banisters, he reached the desired floor titled. The invalid was alone, seated by a small fire; his cheek appeared wan and pale, and his arm Was still in splints. The room, though titicarpeted and miserably bare of fur. uiture, was clean, and some plain-work which, lay ou the Pembroke-tablet geki evidence that a woman had recently been there. • " I am come to see you, Mr. Williams; I am the per son you so nobly tied generously saved at the risk of your own life. I trust 4,0 u .are better!" ,f 6 .1 did not expect, this honor," said the artist, gio4ll* greatly agitated. ** Be calm, my dear sir; you have no smolt to lao dia. wilted, 1 assure you. lam a homely man, and canre opeot—,, " poverty" old Banks was going to say, but the word stuck in his throat—" respect misfortune. sir You have laid me under a heavy debt of gratitude; but. thank heaven. 1 have the means of dischuirging it." - Still the rich man was strongly impressed with the be. bath:it:no debt could be in&ured which might ,not be liquidated by money. "1 did no more. sir, \ than one follow-being is bound to do for another." ,"Como, a little trim." said old Banks; "I think a little more. But hark yod. Pin a man of few words; I rin. derstund you are poor. and your wife," continued the stockbroker, glancing around the room, "is compelled to assist you in earning bread." "Yes. sir." said tho artist coloring; "she takes in plain- work." "An! a good wife,—no doudt a good wife; such wives aro jewels beyond price," said old Banks. "God bless you fur those words!" exclaithed the young man, with quivering lips; "she is iudeed a good wifo to me." "Now be stout of heart and you will soon' recover., Consult Your own interests and your wife's. I learn you refuse to accept the reward gained by your noble con duct; well, perhaps it is small; ill double it." • The stockbroker troduced hie pocket-book. and placed two fifty pound notes on the table. 1t was long since the needy artist had beheld so much money. "Come and see me in week," said Mr. Banks, ing on his gloves, "we will then see what can by ddue .for you. Ati: a good wife" uo,doubt, working fur her, husband and child—a good wife—poor things , Mess my heart, what sob was that?" The old Man held his heed on one side. and stooping slightly in the attitude of !lathing; but the sob which ho imagined ho heard somewhere was-not repeated. Graham snatched up the bank-notes, and sprang to wards him. "Thank you air. thank you! but cannot take this!" • "Then you aro proud young man, 1 must atty.—fool , ishly proud." "Oh, no; but if 1 have indeed served you, 1 mak as a reward—not money—" ”What then?" ••For4icestesa!" cried Graham • se:zing the aid man's hand. Mr.- Han kiketart4 **Forgiveness? •for ; I have deeply injured you!" "Injured me? you dream young mon! I never saw you, in_ my life before this accident, or heard of your mine." "Tbit is true; lever avoided yen; even while medi tating the deep injurY I allude to." "Pooh! pooh! this Is some idle fancy; ypn are still uuwell--fererisls. peihtips. My dear young man Alike this money and call on me in a week." ' He was going. when a low cry Arrested his steps; he could nit he mistaken now; a small door at• the and of the apartnientopenoil. andllirtrude rushed forward. Mr. Banks i an instiptrecognixed his daughter. aid then the while truthltashed upon hie mind. Ile stag gered as irreceiving risttdden Wow, and would bore liar- OA du the stairs. hut something itresistahly chained hint to the spot.- lie repulsed his chitd and held up leis arms as she endeavored to throw herselfinto tlunn. Ells face. usually so pale and poSSionless in its expression. wee 'flushed, and hia.res kindled, while he stranuaeced in broken sentences: •••Awav:-.this is drew/fist—touch me not—ingrate. re• • • Isellloos cuoedit-backt—touch ma „ rut:qertrude astllt on her knees before him. Who .could resist these upraised, pliading oyes filled with tesrs? • • •} 4 ergiveness, father, we have both wronged you. yet I hide ,wroriged you most deeply. Let ell we have, ant fered.—want, anxity.'sorrow, be the penalti,of our mis deed, and altone for our error. If my husband has any claims upon you, lot his reward be your pardon.• Oh! put away yoisr- anger now. las( and right though ',it has been. Receive ns! receive sail", "Never!" saki old, las stern voice. "Overlook the past, father! in mercy receive us!" !•1!Iptror!? reputed the old men but not qu.its so firm: "Stilt" he added; "1-41 sot is, on one coudidon rispaiaja.4eB., OPtirol4O, l 4 ,wili forgive you, and call pm my &righter aisle; on one condition." ' • "Nettie it father:" she Fried tilt!) bre Mb teeui ksl, k et your husbadd, wh,O shalt heti . ° Mai of'reotor., roNwaan.;m quitOen, and do you renounce him; hUld no commu aiptio with him again. Then; Gertrude. I will pardon 1 1 yott. a A receive you to my hours." iThe'young wife nisei from her knees; she cast one laiti at, het . father. I not ''of indignation. but a look of won der. thim turning suddenly from him.' flung Mimic upon her hulsband's bosom. , '7lltinounce you? Part" with you? I loved my father, add love him dearly still. but the ties that makes us one in: happiness or in sorrow ere holy—are recorded in hettien. and shall never be broken by me. Frank, dear Fie* in trial, in wane. in "death; I will be with you, for yoh shall command mi poor hervices as you command my heart. Your hopeS are my hopes, and I know no hatidoess apart from your own. _Shall wo be separated . thee? One thing onlyihall divide us. that Is—death:" Graham looked dowi on the beautiful weeping face railed to his with feelings of gratitude and pride: richer heieemed possessed of that !lively, dear, devoted being. thin he would have been were ho the owner, without her; of all the itockbrokor'a boasted wealth. Mr. Banks, in witnessing the scone, felt himself moved in 'pito of his,stern resolution!, and envied them feelingo that had long been strangersjo his own breast. He stood !wiping open his stick, and did not for several miautea utter a worfh 4 was, then, as if emboldened by the silence. after peeping through the half opened door from which Ger trude had issued, that the child ran into the room. The boys merry laughing eyes; as he paused an instant. fell on the grim old Banks. The beautiful instinct of nature told him at once that his father and mother wenr in dis tress. and that the stranger was the cause' of it. Ho did not lisp ai word or evince a fear, but stood boldly before those he loved—that is, between them and the intruder. shaking his iltrten curls, at the stockbroker, and knitting his tinny \ brow as if in defiance. ••What. what? and fide is the child?" stammered out, old Hank!", as be moved nearer and bent down his face. •Gertrude's image whe l p she was that age." he rambled on. speaking apparently, to himself. ' "Is ho like myself. I wonder?" Old hanks was either softening by some strange Oarm, or had forgotten himself. "My dear." he added, toti,lly disregarding Gertrude and her husband. "don't belafriiid of me; I'm your—your grandfather." "Aro yoult' ;width() iroy; "then I may love you." "And Why; you bright-eyed little villain?" "Mother and father say I must love grandfather. and I pray God to bless him every night in my prayer." Ti,o features of Mr. Sank* underwent a change; he knew that a child of four years of age could dot but give utterance to the truth. Ho had heaped file t curses upon 'his daughter. end driven her from his door. yet she had taught her offspring to pray for him. Strange to say this ,little incident went further to effect him and touch his heart than all Graham!s appeals and Gertnado's tears.— Ho turned hastily round. and might have been heard to mutter... • • "Pray fur me? the poor child pray to God to bless me?l and his mother teaching him to do this?" Old Batiks then began to walk very quickly to and fro, stopping at intervals, like a man in irresolution. Con tendingpassions conflict slims a fierce ono; his pride. his thwarted hopes. and Gertrude's disobedience were ranged on one bide,— Nature taught on the other. Ho had ever loved his daughter, 'loved even, while he renounced her, and her absence left a void in his heart which had never since beenplled._ Again the idea of the child came over him, in whose little'veius his own ,blOod ran; the gleesome, innocent thing, that would shed light as from paradise on his old hardened age, make him perhaps a better man. and siveeten the eveoring i hour of life ere his eyes i ckwed on the world for ever. The muscles of the oil man's face relaxed, and he was aeon slowly to take, out his handkerchief; but he turned round on WI, instant, giving the floor a sharp knock with his stick. iu evidence that his resolution was fully made up. "I'm a brute! I'm a fool!" cried old 'Banks. "to hold out so long. Let me kiss you. sirrahl" he added, snatch ing up the child in his arms; "kiss your grandfather.— Gertrude —Getty. my child! my lass! all is forgiver).— the past irforgetten., Here. lean on me. and don't sob. so Graham. my boy, you saved my life—recollect that, take my hand. if you won't take anything else. God bless you. my children!—;we'll all be happy now; sor row and want shall be a dream's. The box at Denmark Hill is large enough for us all. Gads life! 'tis a holiday on the Stock Exchange, so we'll be off' iat once. Call your laudlady. and pay her for any rent you may owe; then order a coach, and remember that this little curly-headed villain I am to take charge of;' he shall ride on his grandfather's knee. Now let na shako hands again all around. and start immediately." Mr. Banks did not repeat of the'atep he had taken. nor did he loath to divide his income with hisaon-iu-law, nor was he ever heard Willy he disliked the appearance of the gieat brass plate uowattached to his office-door, bearing the names of Banks and Graham, for that was the firm. But while his partner transacted the business within doors, still old Banks might be seen in the Stock Market, standing in his favorite corner. his heads t thrust into his deep pockets, and looking imperturbably grave. PreCiscly at five o'clock too lie reached. as wont, the villa on Denmark Hill. but now he had company in the per son of his sea-in-law, and again he was welcomed by the smiling, happy Gertrude. While the •rascal.of a boy,' with tire - bright eyes and curly head, always ran between his legs. or tugged at the tassels of his Hessian boots, and was never quiet tillpeated fairly on his grand-father's knee. We wonder if the rich stockbroker had been as truly happy in his intended 'noble A lliance' as he was now?. The Lakes of :Killarney. Tug lakes of Killarney lie in a crescent around the foot o,f the highest group of mountains in Kerry. called Mae gillicaddy's Reeks. and are divided into two principal ones. the lower and the upper lake. The town lies on the former. which is the largest of•the two. The teem of the lakes of Killarney. with their banks of soft meadow land and the rich fringe of trees scattered over them. is greatly increased by their lyfug in the midst of this rocky wilderness. They are also sprinkled over with a number or little grassland wooded islands, and Peninsulas running out far from the main-land into the' bosom of the lakes. and forming • never-ending variety IWO:miles bays and harbors of fairy proportionv. On many of these. wealthy amatenra;delighted with the fantastic and solitary character of the place. have built ornamen tal cottages. and thrown - picturesque, bridges over inlets of the lake., interpr•tati:on of Dr•ame. Ma dream of a mill stone ,around your neck' ice sign of what you May expect if you get an extraitigant wife. To see apples in a dream betokens a wedding, because where you find . appleir you may reasonably expect to find pairs: To, dreaan thet 'vote are lame, is a token that you will get • . into a hobbTe. When 'a young !tidy dreams of a coffin, it betokens' that she should instantly discontinue lacing her stays tightly, and always. go 'warmly and thickly shod in; *et weather. If You dreaus'of s' title*, it M. a token that yonwill gain credit--that is tick:- To dream or fire is'a sign that, if yott are wise, you, Will see that the lights in your hound ore out before Vitt go to bed. To dream. thatyoor nose is red aki, tip. is an-intimation that yon had 'better:leave .r brandy and; water. To dream of walking barefooted denoted a'jhurney that . you will mutts bootless, ONE•AItiIIED VILL R17111021i TUE TERROR OF I TZNAN DUELLIST.i: From Noolrs Simday Tigus. , One)anny 'morning in the month, of Blay/184.._ good people of San Augustine, in Eaastern Texas.l l surprised by the sudden advent of a stranger of ve4 marktible appearance, whom 110110 - had 'ever see ' heard of before. , I His first nets, too, Were 6 shigui 1 his aspect. Ho went round from house twhousa,k4 ed at every door. greeted the astonished keeper WI nod of proud courtesy, and uttered in a sonorous the eamo formula—" To-night there will be s sciel'tifie lecture at the' Town Hall!" after which, weir in all questions and solicitations to further discourse,„lie i'uva riably retired to perform the like routine at the ne4res idenco, and so on. till he had made the circuit of the large village. ' 1 The sensation canoed by the circumstance can a ono bo conceived by students deeply versed in the anamy of human passion. Hero was an odor of mystery:— What rich food—ambrosia and nectar—for the orgSh of wonder! And the worthy Siin Angustians verifie:il in the present instance, the pithy remark of Tecitue b literally applying the maxim of ..onineiiriotitm prof it rifico." .. t II The rest of the day was exhausted In wild and f 1 less conjectures. Groups of men gathered in the gr ries; bevies of fair prattlers collected in th 4 parlorl essaying to guess out the insolvable problem. "Wlq he be?" One thought him a bieropheut of the h mons; another felt Ore lie was a missionary of the ' ferites, with pockets full of &terming powder to c 4 , mate the final fire; while a third advocated the hype sis of a now eaition of Line= Dow. and a fourth si ready to endorse dimes the old ones onto from the gri A few only professed scepticiam as to the phenomei but these were soon 'tooted out of countenance. In the evening the town ball was densely crowded rather crammed from floor to galleries; while ' hunth unable to rain admittance, urged estate of Beige agi the doors and windows. in the hope that if they , I not see. perhaps they might at least hear—and if ing else. they enjoyed a great pleasure in being n 4 stage where something unusual was going on. EZI tation was on tip toe, and every heart burned with in ammo for the rise of the curtain in the coming show. restless feeling was heightened by a casual circumetli The lecturer was seated in lily place; but the front fril of the platform, elevated like a pulpit, entirly concefi him from the general veiw. The people become i 4 ted, not so much for his delay in commencing, as beMi o i they could not see him. At fi rst , a dozen or tw , may swear the boys began it—struck their canes stamped their feet pgainst the floor; but the lecture, mained Invisible. And then. like the agitation of a i hive dieturbedly the impact of an urchin', stone. univerial whisper, before suppressed. gem+ to a laud' —the hum of a thousand voices: "It is late! He, know the house is full! Why don't he open?" 1 1 yet the stranger f,entinned under cover. Five min' more elapsed. and the house ellook as if falling beaj an avalanche. gen, women, and children conspir' clap, stamp, groan, and .shout their IhOW:11/411intoi bility.'arid this time with success. - II Sudden as an apparition from eternity. and stern creature of the tombs, the-stranger towered up to hi height on the platform. and stood motionless. gulp ! the sea of upturned faces. The e ff ect was indes t We. A silence followed, deep, almost painful 'nil stillness oils desert solitudO: the "Unknown" had chili their senses. and taken the common reason prison, qqq by a spell of magic on of magnetism. 1 1 We have stated previously that his appearance i 'dory remarkable. In the thronged streets of a el millions he won Id have attracted attention; and ' strongest peculiarities were now revealed to the uta degree by the brilliant illumination of a hundred can l ql This was his picture, as nearlyas the pen can paint 11 A form too tall for beauty. and yet spare and bony I I skeleton, if a skeleton indeed might live. The faca of iufautine dimensions, marked with sharp angles, trir disproportionate aquiline nose and colorless as the p l i marble—literally while as a ghost's—without a tinC 4 k rod even on the small iron lips. , The forehead kv I broad. `knotty. and projecting over eyes radian a the gleam of jewels, but wild, wicked, and restless,l lik points of flame. The features indicated the wear of for ty summers. and wore surrounded by a circle of ilong Massive hair, hoary as that of an octogenarian. iThe right arm waantgreat length, but. the le ft was muti ated within six inches rf the shoulder, and thrust into a ol i vine only just suflicien to cover the sad of its stump. ,trhe most striking thing, however, in the appearance of this man was his countenance. It was stamped with! the mingled expression of prida, earnestness. genius, end .- bition, as with the letters of a seal, while flashing thro all Came a;look of wild granduer. yet unspeakably mot' ful, like the light or a dream of the past. Was it dream of a fallen archangel? Ile paused a moment after rising. as if conscious of effect his personnel. tied produced, end. waiting to i settle thoroughly, then began his lecture. Hie voice, sassed the perfection both ofmusic and ofpower; bit manner *earned. tote eels, different iron' that 'of well orators, being calm, passionless. and devoid of gel while in this style, though wanting in metaphorli clear as a mountain stream. every Sentence transpn,, as - erystal. It was the style of a classical scholar—extern. poratteoun. but correct as the most elaborate manuseFipt. p 3 ilc la a manner and style may be supposed little edited to that meridian;3 and yet. strange to say. he - held the crowd as in a vice for three hours, speechless with Won der and admiration. His matter did it all. II. The subject did not strictly accord with the advere meet. It was 110 t a scienti fi c lecture so much as a ' er end discourse on the theory of education; and he erye the whole field: Now he' presented to the astonished/ ditory a long list of Latin, Greek, and Hebrew roote l quoted whole pages from Homer and Virgil; and i he would eliminate the unknown quantities in a quit tic equation, working the solution by memory elott Anon he soared into the starry regions of astronomy.' brought down a-demonstration of Bepler'e three levo From this ho would pass to the revelatious atilt" colt Ic battery, and onwards still to the tuest recondite hypi eses concerning-life tied intellect. showing all thelt how these various branches of knowledge ought i l l taught. and how they could he explained sons to /tip them intelligible to the most juvenile minds. I The Seu Augustinians were thunderstruck by; sound of so much learning; and at the close of Until tun!. one of the incur. distinguished citizens rose, eft the assembly to order. and moved that the lecturer invited to accept lite,presideoey of • their new colleOt The motion was received with acciatnations; and aii board of trustees were all present. they acted on the 1! ter immediately. It hemline necessary. however. 01: the stranger certain questions, when the following i locus 'was interchanged: . .1. • I ' ..Would you accept the peesideney *four new toile . Inquired the chairman: . • , ; • . 1 HWhat Is the salary affitedr . was the rejaluder. j iTilleen hundred dollars," . , ' ' • "Then." replied the stranger; "I tett/take it for term et that.!' •. .. :: •••We have notes yet, imwover," modestly, intern the chairman. "been• favored.with-your name." 4.lt.is Williani Russell." ' ' • •‘ • , "blight I bo Itermitied to inquire." pursned the eil 1 1M. timidly. "wheie . yodgritduatad. tint) what IJ' sa, do A TXIA character of your diplosnitMay we ace it 1; - "1 graduated in the great college of nature." replied the stranger. proudly, "tid I carry Fey diplonut pit my brain. You cannot see i but 1 can read it to iron!" . This retort elicited a taint of applause. The Populace of all countries worship se lf-educated men; but no com petent judge wonhi have believed the stranger to belong to that class. The interldeution then progressed: • ' "What is Your birth-plac w e7" asked the chairman. "I em an America:it" ast the haughty reply, "To what sect do you - bele ngl" t . "li believe in God, not i sects." was the strange answer. 'Question use a to air, positive knowledge. not as to my speculative faith—for I teach others only ii . what I know , not what I only conjecture." The last repl was like stone thrown into a nest of hornets.' The new college was a Methodist Institution. and all the ascetics of that 'suasion tookaffright'at the words and tone of the stratger, Their minister moved the postponement of the subject; bat this was violently denounced by all those of nu religion, 'as well as by the stragglers of other donor:dui:dons who bad grown weary of the Wesleytin regime, hitherto paramount in the teem try. AftCr an obstinate ani angry struggle, the original motion was submitted directly to the assembled peoples and passed by a majority o two-thirds. The contract was drawn up and sjgnsd ota the spot, and William Rin i sell was president of the o col eke forone year. - The next week he eutere on the (Meier his office. and continued to discharge hem with consummate abili ty for some months. Its' the meanwhile a storm was mustering fur his head. The dominant party of Metho dists regSarded him l with distrust and jealousy. He not only wa - s - an alien from their communion, but he !tad been elected iu defiance of their opposition; and hence they hated him both as a heretic and as i rival. Accor dingly they circulated rumors and excited suspicions against President Russell, whom they nick-named "Onet Armed Bill;" and in proof that there must be something wrong in the past history of the man, they pointed JO' umphautly at the rayless mystery in whiCh it was shroud ed. The fact could not be denied; for although he had now been in the village for six months, no one had been able to learn so much as the place of his nativity, or even the house whom he lodged, except the night before his advent. Ile never mailed letters to his friends abroad —if indeed ho had friends Land none came to the post office marked with his address. Save in the college and during college ,houre t he lived in total seclusion. spending his tituo in protracted- studies, the only inmate of his house being an elderly female servant. apparently deaf and dumb, and like himself a stranger. A. few had at tempted to draw hies into conversation: to such he plead ed the imperious nature of his scientific researches as an excuse; and if they ventured to press the matter farther. he bawed them an adieu with a look of stern menace such as none wished to brook again: .r es i.eki I th a :CMGI can lor- II or ieds; I , •r a :use ! you I mid dorninpuity like that, such conduct could not fail to create foes, and thus the Methodist recovered their ma jority, and voted "One-Armed Bill" down. A messen ger wis dispatched with the order to give up the keys or the college. , The president - did not reply verbally. but he answered by a most significant _gesture. He shook both the keys-and the written and authenticided contract in the inesAnger's face, and then cooly kicked him out of doors! ! And kites l eath d to lei- • a full The next morning. seeing that the law was clearly against them a lynching party wasorganized to settle the question vi dam:tit.. A dozen of 'their bravest, beaded by the minister, marched to the college to turn "the one armed" out. Thor took along some buckets of tar and, a plentiful supply of feathers. The reader may imagine' the astonishment of this "forlorn hope" bent on the ex termination of a white-haired cripple. when they found their enemy thoroughly prepared to receive them, and burning with equal impatience for battle. His person literally bristled with knives and other side-arms; his belt held six reverie's, making thirty-six - rounds; his right hand graved a splendid duelling pistol, cocked and presented. while the fellow to it might be seen under the stump of, his left arm! He stood M the college door. silent, pale, calm, and sterner than ever. till his foes got within ton paces. when hoshonted'in tones hoarse enough to wake the dead—••llalt, or 1 fire!" on tbs. the ?tied t as 1011 big oat lee, was ch a • left e of And as it paralyzed with awe, they instantly obeyed him. He eyed them a mamma with a look of magpie scorn, and then exclaimodr-"you are all cowards; but it von, have one brave man among you, go and find him.--I. Hire him. ityon tan, to send me a gentleman's chal lenge—furd hate to about dogs! Now go! If - you linger one instant l'll make you up into mincemeat for the btu: zards!" And with eyeballs blazing like a devil's, he advanced three stops towardithem, when the whole iral lant troop fled as frog► the charge of an actual fiend!— They urged as an apology, aterwards, that they were not sufficiently armed: and certain it is, none of the twelve ever got well enough armed to bravo again the wrath of "the one•armed," I - At this period, a total change developed itself in the churocter.of Russell. He renounced his habits of mitt- Itiien. and plunged madly into 'the excitements of society. He soon becomiirthe hero of the grocery. the race-coarse , and of the gaining -table, yet still retain{ his place in the college, and assideously performing its Morons duties. He also enlarged his home establishment; bought horses and slaves: his popularity appeared boundless; and yet he was so insolent and overbearing that no one could really love him. lie cared not,. for everybody feared him. ugh the At length the term of his presidency expired. The treasurer of the college refused to pay his salary for the last quarter. "One-Armed Bill" took a cowhide In his right hand and a conked pistol under his left stamp, and tapped at the door of the treasurer's dcrellipg, The mon ey aas cog n ted out! Amos Wells. &famous duellist, and brotber-in-lavrof the treasurer, embraced his relative'. quarrell, and wrote Russell a challenge.. They met, and Russell shot Wells through the heart! . "One-Armed Bill" now devised another scheme for the gratification of the., deee: sad appetite f o r war. H e started a printing-pres", of t bleb he was sole owner end editor; and that ,hest was soon the terror and disgraeeof Eastern Texas. Every page teemed with slander—every number was a new assault on 'some fresh reputation— white "the one-armed," from time to time, was waylaid. shot at front the bashes, and attacked in a hundred dif ferent methods; vet be ever came •ffvieterious.estaPing without a scar. till men generally regarded him as ideal nerahlr to lend and steel—and so matters continued for half a dozen of years: , • In 1817, a new paper was established in San 'Angus t rte, by ft vomit; adventurer from New Orleans. by the mane of Kendall. Russell forthwith opened'on the in trader with a volley of his moat terrible denunciations, and kept it fur two months: he celled Kendall coward. thief, robber, in fine. every foal epithet in the language implying odium: while the other answered Out, even by' the remotest allusion. At lingth Russell.' breaking over all the hounds 'of common decency, issued a number teeming with the vilest charges against Kendall's- belo ved and beautiful wife: The paper was published on* Saturday, and, the sheet, not yet dry, was dispatched byta s p ec i a l rumor to Kendall's office. •The latter glanced ever the obscene columns; turned pale as a corps; burst into a food and blear paroxysm of lean; and began to load his double-barrelled shot gnu! Re then berried away wildly tem** Bassani' office; and for the first time, it must be etreferesd, "The One= Armed" behaved:cowardly: he hatred his door, and fired through tisrovice in the wall. After standing without injnry-seven different rounds, Kendall retired; but be came back during the night and watched for a chance in the morning.: At media he opened the door. and haute & I‘,B dead in his tracks; his, head was @haltered into atoms, by the simultaneous, discharge of two eneittler barrels. loaded with bullets 'ar and buckshot? Kendifillled to New Orleens,',.tind within the first fortnight pellattenk -ef the - yellow fever! ' Such is the story-of-" The Gretr-Aerned" - early lU a tinnier 'exieloom: of mystery. arrd' dam too ending in the greet black eitht which star shall never ;OK ant. no - morning break for over motel And vet his look re veered the dream of an archangel—fallow. Ahl, ha be truly so now: • . "What! pity for the murdererrr Pause. roadi-. ere vots fotmine tlie-,anittvernit.. Tow never sate William Russell; you know 'lice the wronger he suffered before he learned to sin. There was the scar of thunder on the archangel's brow!—But cases!) hammy babble! and thou, 0 celestial Charity.,come,. cover ati pale ashes of all the dead!. tern turo ?DU t rent boa dra- i vey be oder ZEI ~: ~~ <~ _ II , in 4141 r anee. ••=: NUMBER 43. E
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