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E DOEIrgOTORIT
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J. W. DOUGLAi§,
A rroutv •vc, Couxest.tmt AT LAW-011 . 1 C on Suite Street, th
douv north of ilfowo's Hotel, Env, Pa.
C031.1"1 ON & "IA V ElifiTICK.
Dm; IS in Dry Roods, Hardware. Crockery, Croeestes. and Ir
etitti arid Doinesiic Liquors, Distillers, and Mniffir aci o-
NoeratuN, No. S. Reed House, and CO/Iler of Fry"-'
.41(cor.
J. 13. 111CKL1N,
anew. and general Agency and Commieslon
Pa.
REED,
DEATTR iii Englieb,Cennan and Atnericqn Ilntd%
AI•o. Aniati, Ices, Iron and Vied Ni
Chc. l'a. -
W. 3, F. LIDDLE & Co
ni,eximiTio. Carriage and Wagon Builders, Si
tw•reu retrial' & Eighth, Erie,
"L:BliioN6T - Nr7ff
oir.c., one Door west of C. LI. Wright store, up stairs
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Dour. J. L. SITWAIII 7 , I.
Orrice %%WI Doct. A. BEKSR, Seventh net Susafras strett
ei.lenee, on Sauatlas, one door, north al Seventh Ft.
C. SIEGEL,
WITOILEII Mr and Retail dealer in Groeericii, Provisions, rldnes,
Liquors, Fan , Ace Corner of French and Fifth s , troets,
opposite the F tuners' Hotel, Erie.
JOHN AfcCANN,
iviumr,t.e. and Remit Grocer, No, 1. Fleming Block. Erie. Po
.1. poA L
hfracnrer TArl.olt. and Habit Maker.-4. 7 10rn. No. 5 Need's Block,
WI poen te the Donnell Bleck) State Street. Eric.,
- J. W. WETNIORK,
4TTORivEte AT LAW,
In Walker's Office, ou Feventh Firm*, Enc.ra.
lIENRY Clill‘VELL.
Imroarra,Jobbcr, and Retail Dealer in Dry Goorio, Groceries,
Crockery, Gust/.vi nee, C'nri cling. linnin nrc. Iron, Steel, Nille,
El4ker, ice. Empire etores elate Elrccl, four doors, below
Brown's Hotel, Erie, IN.
liiro—Any lir, Vices, Bellow 04 Axle /Irmo, Bpringe, a nil a general
aokortment Or Oaddle anti Carriage Trimmings.
S. MERVIN SMITH,
illiolV.PY AT LAW and Juffillce of the Peace—Office one!door
oen of %Vrighrs store. Erie. Pa.
W. H. KNOWLTON Sc. SON.
Ikat.ses in Watches, Clocks, Booking Glasses, Piano Forfeit.
Winps. fititannia %Vare.Jewelry. and a %nriety ofother.Fauep•
GeystOtle !Wilding+, Wur doors below [Stott n's
Stan• Greet. Erie, l'a.
- S. It. DEWEY.
wilot.Fsm.v. IND RET•II. Dealer In Dry Goode, seeotid door below
aro. n's Hotel, :irate tiireer, Erie, l'a.,
GEORGE H. CUTi.EII. ,
ATTORNEY AT T.Aw, Girard. Erie County. l'a. Colleetiona and
idatr hufiums aue.uded to with pronalitoesa and tHrlXltell.'
WILSON LAIRD
ATTORIET AT LAN-01rICe J .11 .1V IMAMS' c11:1. Inge Offire,
oert door to Judge Thom pson's olliee. t
Collecting nod other professional business attended ton Ith prompt
no.i.l42i.roat4la.
BROWN'S 1 HoTEL. ,
ronNEßtv Tu r-F o rat LE, corner of State street and the rublie 4 , ltin re
Eric. &turn Western nth) Southern 6 tage °thee. i
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v. A. cp.n.114.
reni.r.t.ar and ReAll M.r.ik.r Grocerie4, ProviFlonli:iN'YinePro
hiquotaMire Nirtli,ilettoit Ate, ilub.cuit, ernekers, &c. 6r.e.
Ceeo poide, :rie ' ,Vll.
11. B. IIAVERSTICK.
N 0.2. RPM Hot se. Dealer in / Dry Goods, 'larch:sr.
Groceries, arc.
T. W. AfogitE,
peaces in Groceries, Provision, Wines, Liquors. Carulies, Fruit,
Ste., No 0, Poor People's Row, State street, -
W. H. CU .ERR, ' I
Attorney & Comiselier at Law. (Unice in Spaulgined atillange.
Donato, N. Y. • I
Cntkctimnand commercial hosittexe will receive prwt pi attenion.
7taritaom2.—A. P. DVIMIN. Es.q., ILVPIJAWN GRANT. Fay.
JOSIAH KELLOGG,
Forwarding & C 91111111651011 Merchant, on the Pvillle Dock, cast of
state street.
C.,31, Salt, Plaster and White Fish, constantly fora le.
J. 11. WILLIAMS.
Flanker and I.ltelcang” Broker. Healer in Hills of PLhatige,
cer{itieate,of Vepoeite. Gold and silver elbin, ace., ace.
Glee,.l doom; Brown's Hotel, Erie, Pa.
BENJAMIN F. DENNISON - ,
Arron4ET AY Ltw, Cleveland, Obio—Office on Superior street,
iti Atwater's Block. Refer to Chief Justice Parker.Cantbridge
Law School; lion. Richard Fletcher, Weiatesr.,l 3 o , ioll; nom
szatuel lL Porkins.llll 'Walnut Pl.,l'hiladriphim Richard
Ktatallt 441 Wall suet:4 piety , York. For testimonials. re
fer to this °Moe.
MARSHALL & VINCENT,
Anonym' IT LAW—Otnee up mtairs ht Tammany hail building,
north of tne Prcrthonotary's °dice. Erie.
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hlUltitAY •WHALLON.
A TTOR VEY AND COEUR LLOR AT I. 414 , —(nrICC over C. D. l Wfight . b
titere, entrance one door west rat titate Street, on the hunond,
11e,e.. ,
RO . SENZ%V..EIG & Co..
WROLISALE A4ll RETAIL DEALERS in Foreign etad Domestic Dry
Good., ready inane Clotiting.Doote and Shoat, dca.. No. 1, Flem
ing Mock, State street, Eric.
, •
C. M. TIBBAL.C.
th &lAA in thy Goods. thry Groceries; Crockery , Hardware. die..
I I, Vhcapstde, Erie.
JOIIN ZIDII.IIIKLY,
to.,LER inGrocer lea and Peatrbtione of all Wide. StateetFeet, three
doors north of the Diataand. Eric.
SMITH JACKbON, 1
Du Lea In Dry Goods, Grocer leo,llardware, Queens'itr i nre, Lime,
Iron, Nails, &e.. 121. Chenpelde. Eric, re. 1
WILIAAM RIBLET,
CA slur 7ii.mr.it Upholster, and Uittlertakar, earner a state awl
valitt streets, Eric.
KELSO & LOOMIS,
GraritAt.Forwarding,Produre and Conn& Mt
coarse and tine malt, Coal, Plaster, hap
Weft ■idc of the bridge, Erie.
EDWIN J. Kuala,
--" WALKER & COI
GemntAL forwarciang, Commission and 1
ond Ware-house east of the Public Bridi
G. LOOMIS &
De %Lees in Watches, Jewelry, Silver, Get
Britannia Ware Cutlery, M U Garland Fancy Goode, state arect,
clearly opposite the Eagle Reuel, 'tie.
0 Loomni, . M. Austin
• CARTga & JittoTtiElt, ! •
"R'not.essts and Retail dealers in Drug, , , Medicines, Paints, Oils,
Dye-stullii, Glass, Ist., No. 6, Reed House. Erie.
JOEL JOHNSON.
listrts Ji n n Theological, :Miscellaneous, Banally and Classical
School Books, Stationary, &e. Park Row, Eric.
JAMES LYTLE.
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TA.ntowAsto 3ferehant Tailor, on the puldlo g9ur .n few doors
west of Plate street, FAN
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D.' S. CLARK,
IV - nounit AND arralcDeatcr in Gnxerics,, Provitions, Ship
Chandlery. Swine-ware, &c.•&c.. No. 5, Donnell !Stock. Erie.
0. D. SPA PFOItD.
D'}laln 14M, !Vedteat, scowl Bliseettarkeaso
lilt. 0.- L. ELLIOTT.
Resident Dentist; Office and.dwelling In the Bee..
Rast side of the Public Apiary. Erie. Teeth in
*gate, from oneto an entire sett. Carious teeth
Gold. and restored to health and uselhlnees.
w ith ingtrantents and Dentilliee so as to leave lb
clearness. All'tenrit wiLtliWied. •
• 8., DlCKkaltso,l4o
Pnvinevot'tiya tk aacoa—Ottee at hie mildenee
appoaita tha *lethal/Its Mural:Erie: " •
C. B. WRIGHT.
W.notra.. es A vs. EtrrAnderiler In D 7 Goods. G roe
Crockery . Glasa-ware s Iron Naito Leather: C:614
etate street ne a the publ le aqua re. oppoei le the ka
- JOHN H. BURTON.
wool/Litz iwb Reran dealer In Drum Medicines; Die 134alrav
.. i thoterles,ike.No S' Reed Haw. Egle- -
ROBERT B. MINTER.
Li*mom In Capi and Fun o f al l al daser4lti
Row •Erie. pa; owl $O.lO. Part
BLACK, BrOWII Greta and Cadct mind . Bra, A in ClOOO4
1./ WO* fat Bala at JACKSON,
GREEN. Mack : MoralA ; mod,. Itrowh. and Slue French MR
renp, fof ohoop At the'Store of • ' 'JACKSON:: .
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OUR UNION.
BY LTDI4 U. 1110OURNET
Ito! Eagle of the banded States.
Wilt drop thiueolive fair?
And bid the abaft', of war and wo,
Brwed hurtling Oren!' the air? •
But the soaring Eagle aaiwered,
Waving his peaee•brandh high— -
"The Chiefs of Freedom gave the truce.
I'll 'guard it, till I die."
Ottawa! that gleam In sparkling blue
Amid yon banner•d field,—
Shall half be Strlckca from their place,
And half in clouds concealed?
nut silent were these glorious orbs,
With tbai and wonder fraught,—
Each trembling in its crystal sphere,
At such a traitor thought.
Ah, human hearts: . to concord train%
By sires who stood or Yore'
As brothers when around their homes
The Lion ramped in gore,—
Wilt ye the beritage,they won, .
With ruthless haste divide? •
And cut the Gordian knot they drew
Around ye, when they died?
Then from the rater Patrim's tomb;
Beneath mount Vernon's shade.
And from the Ilero's bed, who sleeps
; In Nashville's verdatit glade.— •
Came forth a deep and solemn sound.
As through the surging main
Were counseled by the thunder's rolce-7
"Break nal that tarred ehainit'
nark! hark: from forests robed In snow,*—
rrorn sunny. Qower.erown•d
From where the Atlantic's clarion-cry
•Phc broad Pacific hails,
Prom mart and dell. where millions dwell,
By praire, lake or hill,
Rolls on, the nall sublime repose—
never viilf"—Sfessags Bird.
THE FIRST KISS;
on.
THE TRUANT BEAU CAUGHT AND GAGED.
EY J. ♦. SCOVILLE.
When 11 speak of kissing, I don't include Miming a mo
ther, or sister, aunt, grandma, or the little people; that's
all in the family, and a matter of course. I mean ones
wife, sweetheart, and other femiuines. that are not kin
or blood connection. "Thais the sort Weal' kiuing," and
that is the sort' am going to describe.
There is a beautiful village about twenty-four miles
north of New Haien, called in the Indian tongue Pena
pernny. What it means in Indian I don't know. Itwas
not taught in the district schools up there. where we
learned our A, B, Cs, and afterwards progressed as far
as 11 -A, BA, IK•E•11, acct—BAKrat, when I teas allowed to
graduate, and enter the "Youth's Seminary," under the
charge of the Rev. Mr. Fuller. One Of my achoolntates
in the latter place was a bright, intelligent brig. of the
name of Walter Marshall. I loved him; so did everybody
else intim old village (eve him. He grew up to nmbed.
but not there. ' No—New England boys dcin't'groviup at
home;' before they /each manhood they are transplanted,
and •are flourishing in all pans and ports of the ktioan
world, wherever s Yankee craft gas been or the stars and
sumo. Talk about Americans abrintd; it's .altogether
too general They are Yankees," and nothing else:
and pure New England Stock. Speak of your Virginian,
your South Carlinian, and Sontiern States in general;
where era they? who are they? where can yon find them?
Go out in the great world; run up to Greenland, dohs
again to Patagonia, round en the other side, ap,do the
Russian settlements, slip across to the Nees, touch
again at Australia, pass the Straits at Sunda, out up to
Java, in around to Japan. China, British India; visit
Muscat, the Gulf of Persia.-run down the Arabian coast; I
call in at Mocha fern cup of coffee; getnn board an Arab 1
Red Sea craft.land at Suez; `cross the desert, take, a look
at the Pyramids, thou chip fn rho . Marieittes' steamer. - '
which will fetch you along toward hems; and Who of
your own countrymen have you seen in all thoso-difFer
ent "digging" that you visited? Seen any Southerners,
any Georgians, (our Georgians,) or Marylanders, or
Mississippians? No—yon have mot with none but the
genuine Simons; ' thS real piloting, pioneering, peddling„
push-ahead, genuine Yankee breed. But whet is this
to do with kissing, except the Yankees are n kissing
stock? I have come back to New York again to make a j
fresh start, after havitig traveled a long round.about way.
Walter' Marshall, whets he reached the age of four
teen, arrived in New York from his native village. in the
destitute situation that is frequent among the New Eng
land boys, that is to say; he had only the usual accom
paniments of those young unfledged chips, who after
ward make the , merchant and great men of the country,
and not infrequently of other latfoli. , Ile had a little
wooden trunk, pretty well stocked with- "hum-modes."
asixty-eight cent Bible his mother packed iu for hint,
fearful that he might forget it, a three-dollar New Haven
City Bank bill, and any quantity of energy, patlence,per
severance anti ambition. He entered the counting-room
of a tor& merchantite hone° in South street. -Hie lion
esty, activity and industry won him many friends. Alining
diem was an English merchant, who hod a large com
mercial house in Calcutta, and a branch at Bombay. lie
was in this country on business connected with his com
mercial firm.ett Calcutta. and did his -business with the
firm Walter clerked it with; and here the latter attracted
his notice. Ho was sixteen years °foga only; yet the
Bombay gentleman fancied him; made him a liberal to
go to India with himt which, after very little palaver
among his friends, Walter accepted. New England boys
don't often start off 011oue of their unusually long, wan
dering escuraions, without first getting leave of absence
1
for a few days' preparatory exercise, which they spend in
going where they originally came from; and then bating
a fen good looks at the weather beaten old village church.
the high steeple, which has wonderfully reduced in else
and elevation since Ito first saw it, to notice it, in school
boy days; thee they must hear the. old bell ring once
more. even if they have to take- a turn among the white
grave stones, see if there are any green mounds, fresh'
made; and if so, to ask who among old friend, has gonV
to his last resting-place; thou. kiss mother and sisters,
shake' handd. with father—and: the stage is it the door
of the Worn. and they ate ready fora start 19"07"isq
schera" • • :. -
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Walter ut up to do. and did ll this; but he did
ant get into dee stage at ,the tavern.' lie walked down
the road ahead of themes& toward the old' bridge. and
told the stage driver.2o OOP sad ) 6 4Atik•rt 10 _,atth, obi'
iater's house—at - Parton Fuller's: , lklary -Fuller livid
.
there too , for she happened to be the parson's wily daugh
ter,- She was • the merriest. liveliest tittle. Avitah z that
ever wore long. tooSe i tressim'of auburn hair. and hid blue
°fog; She wits ontr twelVe year; old. and - Walter wine
nearly seventeen. Stie did love him.thought. he'ell
in all to her; had fought herbalis t o & lt/
.W/chi r ti;
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p
esh campaign , and she bawl brother . , l3he was , *la
Aer's oust*. too; , a sort of half first "Mlle. fir her mo
lter hid boo* the hilfsister el Walteets.mtither. Th ey,
were too near related- -for purpaies heileatiOrin ha tante&
Poor'246lly: 414 wsuldlave cried hor"eyes bat Salida
occazforwttad• I t bet beam:that Waiter's: siletrt 'phis . eat,
SATURDAY MORNING,' JUNE 8, 1850.
hot Ideas of. the,ridiculous, in mo ion; and she made a
merry ten minute; as a Wind-up to their parting scene.
Three days aftetwardi Walter wee in limy York; mod
just, four months and twenty days farther on J11.111110'3
Almanac, ho was making out invoices and acting as cor
responding clerk to tho firm in . Bombay.
I shall not stop tong enough to relate how many times
he went to the exhibition of venomous litioking cobra de
capellos, biting adopt, just fur fun, and to show how In
nocent the beauties were, and hew 'easily their bite was;
cured; how often he visited the far-lamed Elephant Caves;
how many times he dined with good Sir Robert Grobt.
the Governor of Bombay, end hew he was with _him,
and
.what ho said the very morning of the day the old
scourge. the Cholera, made tho excollent Sir Robert its
victim—ell these things I shall leave to another time, and
a more appropriate heading: I ship over all all these,
and six years of time beside, and land Master Walter ,or
Staten Island, bring him up to the city in usteambot, and
leave him at a rospectablo hotel, and there let him sleep
all night; and take a good "shore-rest," after a tedious
voyage of four mouths and more.
Tho next morning wo awaken him; muko him got up,
Pay his bill, take a and ride down to the Ne w. Haven
steamboat and go on board. It is seven iota pek, A. M.
At ono P. M., the boat his reached tho landMg; his trunk
and "traps" are on blaard the Litchfield stage; ho has ta
ken a seat inside; his destination is an intermediate, vil
lage. He is alone in the stage; no, not alone; there is
no old woman on the front seat, and a Presbyterian cler
gyman on the middleseat. Tho stage is up in the city.
and slowly rnoanderivg about Now Haven town, picking
up passengers, who have sent their names to t h e stago
office. as is still custoivary in that staid and sober city of
minerulogy. theology, and other elegies Ingenue!. The
stage John pulls up at the door of a neat little cottage in
Chapel street, for a passenger. a young lad y or sweet
seventeen or thereabout. Before she has fairly got in
side, Walter has noticed her, and sho has noticed him too.
Ile gases iu astonishment at the perfect vision of loveli
ness before him; he hasn't aeon anything of die kind for
some year& • There is not a particle of copper about her.
She on.lter part, half laughing, has regarded him very
attentively; pushes back the golden ringlet. that almost
shut in her face. and takes another look, as if to be certain
that she had made no mistake., . 7
”flose is 4 scat, bliss, besideme." says the gospel
preacher. ,
"Thank you. sir. but I prefer sitting on the back seat
with that gentleman. if he will let me." said the moat
electrical voice that Walter had listened to In some time:
"Certainly, Miss." said the delighted Bombayite; and
when she floated herself by him, she gitsad into . his lime
with such a queer kind of mixed.updelightand astonish
ment, that Walter actually took a look 'down upon himself.
to ascertain what , Mare was about his person that which
appeared be so pleasing to the fair maiden; but ho
du
nothing unusual. The stage rolled kt is toward Derby. at
its usual rapid rate of fivo miles au hour. and Welter and
the merry maid seemed as chitty and cosy together as
though they had known each other for years instead of
minutes. The minister tried to engage the ringlets in
conversation, but he soon found himself "uowhere."—
She had neither eyes nor ears for anybody else but Walter
and he had told her more about his own travels, and
Bombay scenery, than he ever told anybody else before
or since. • -
At last they came to borby. Their horses had to be
changed. and four fresh skeletons were harnessed up and
tackled ou to the old
,stagc. - iyalter handed ItM jcutle
141116.0. ixo tier um soot as Im Could helm,
done had he never lived at Bombay. but always stopped
in Now York. They were elon'e now; the minister and
the old women had got out at Dekby.
"Well, we are uffonco more;' how far are you going?"
said Whiter, as the stage wont or.
"Not quite as far as Litchfield. You say that your
friends reaido at Pomperany? How glad they Orin bo to
see you."
Very probably, unless they have forgotten me, which
is, likety. for I suppose I have altered some id six
years."
"Not a para.)),
The pretty maid forgot what alto-was going loamy. but
at lam remembered. and continued— ,
"I should suppose you had not altered, for you said
you was but seventeen when you was last at your home.
and now you aro only twenty-three. You must have
been grown nearly as large as you aro now."
"Perhaps so; but still I run somewhat tanned by expo
sure in an East India climate."
"Yet I think you will be recognised by everybody lit
tbo village. Do you knoir a young lady In
. Pomperany
of the name of Mary Fuller?"
"What! little Mary?-.my 'little wife,' as I used to
to call her? Why, Loid love you, do you know bee—
Bless her her heart! My trunk is filled with knick
knacks for dear special use. Do I know her? Why I.
have thought of her ever since I was away, young lady.
Why she is a little bit of a girl: she is only ten years old.
No—she must be older than that now. I suppose I shall
find her grown considerably. By the way, are you nul
cold! It is getting chilly."
The delighted young lady was trying to conceal her
ace, which had ettlled forth Walter's exclumatiou.
"You. it is getting colder; it is nearly dark;" and so It
Wag.
Walter bad a boat-cloak, and after a very little trouble
he was permitted to wrap it around her lovely form; and
somehow or other his'arm went with it, and is tho bon• 1
fusion ho was very cloie and his arm was around
her waist. outside tho cloak though;' then he hod to put
his face down to hear what She said, and somehow those
long ringlets of soft hair were playing across his cheek.
Human nature could not' and would not stand it spy lon•
ger; and Walter, ?the roodesi Walter, drew his arm
closor th'an ever, and pressed upon the warm rosy lips of
his beautiful fellow•traieler a glowing. burning, regnliul
East !Indio, Bombay kiss, and then binshed himself at
the mischief be had done, and waked for di: stage to
upset, or something else to happen; but no, She had not'
made any resistance; on the contrary he felt distinctly
that sho had returned the kiss; the very kiss, too; tto bad
ever pressed upon a woman's lips sincehe gave it par-
dug kiss to little Mary I'ulleti'and ho would have sworn
ho haitid her soy sotnothit4, i (eitout the very; moment he
hiLd given that Gretleitiklee" ad youth and love,) that
sounded like . - ..Dear, dear Walter." lie trod the exper
iment again, and before the stage had fairly reached the
village; he lad kp l ised; mod re;•klssed hen veld abe paid
him bitek kies foi'kles at least a hundred titnee. •
The - stage was no*' entering the village. In a , few
memento he would bewould be .t' Mart Fuller's house.
tie thought of her. and felt *shunted and downright guilty
What mould Mary; hit ulittleWife" that wait to be, say.
if she keen, be bed been toting set.' Ai these things I
passed rapidly - through hts mind. he begat testedy boar
to get out of the ;Stir quietly and decently,: '
“You gems In this stage,' ritiPpoie.'m ilikneed town
or perhaps Mill futibsr.", ,
f' i laiettiVotf 4110" :
VVinstitould ski meant lint he hid no time to indulge
fu ionjeetapni the stele Ate op slap it Rent of. Fentop
"Ftilleeidoiti; and there WAN vimetible pinion and
his gaol Indy in ibe daorwaY; he with ti bunp in his hind
Already to receive-71Velter. es he supposed: '
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re 4110 • 111 , , ag • , .wt
mass. you. • ..., ,
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t•T'ahalLiter uhire Ticu stork leave lett.--
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Hero you havel 4
een kissing-me this last 14t hou'r. and
now yon want to run away and leave mo; I am deter
mined tb expose you to that old clergyma n and his wi Cu
in the doorway yonder; more than tt. your 'darling
little wife ilia; is to bo, as yo ' n called hor
,iu the stage,
shall know al'' about it." . .
What a Sitahlloll fur a modest. moral maul It was
awful; To bo laughed at—exposed: who was eke?—
Could it be possible?, He had heard . of ouch characters!
It must be;but she vs very pretty; and he to be the
Moans of br i nging sncii a creature into the very honso of
the good aad pious old clergyuUtu, and -his sweet old pet
and playmate—hie Mary Fuller! lle saw it all. It was
a judgement sent upon him. What business , hid he to
be kissing a strange girl. if she was pretty? His uncle
and his aurit had come clear down the atone-walk to the
door-yard gate, almost to stage-door, which the driver
had opened. Walter felt that ho was doomed; but-ho
had to get out—
"Don't. for (Sod's sake, expose me, young woman!"
"1 will—got out."
"Oh," thitught!tor. "it's all o er with mii;"
and now he e tikes hands with tho clerg. mun e he flings
his arms around the:aunt.
"Mary!"-oulaims the mother; "our Mary in the stage'
ait !live: 134 so; you would come up with your cousin.
eh?"
•'Yes, mother' and what do you think the impudent
East Indian has been doing? Ile has kissed me atleast
a hundred times, and that isn't all; he tried to persuade
me to keep on in the stage and nut to get out at all."
"Ah, no wonder he kissed you, he hasn't seen you for
some years. Bow glad he must have been when you
met? But what is the! matter with you, Walter? Let
the driver stop and leave your trunk at your father's as
he goes by, and do you come Into the !lonia.. Why,
what is the master? Are von dumb?"
"Are n't you ashamed of yourself, Welter, not to speak
to my mother. whoa she is talking to you?" chimed in
Miss Molly.
Walter now fOund his voice. and before he.fairly got
inside. Altes,!4lary was his debtor for a round dozen of
!Akins. which she took very kindly. But as for Wakes.,
his mind was,made up., , He had turned over the subject
during the last three minutes. He would marry that
strange girl. f ile was grateful. She had saved him from
degredation, toss of character, and everything else; but
would she,forgivo him for being so free with a strange
girl in a stage coach? Doubtful; but she should. have a
chance at any rate.
The wanderer received a glad welcome from his family
and his friends in his old native village; and Mary Fuller
was his travelling companion about the place; and logeth.
er they crossed the doomedl of every old farm house
within a circle of five miles round. Walter bad seers
enough of the outside of the great world. ile had made
some money, too, enough for his modest wants; ho was
old enough to marry— and sores Mary Fuller; and before
three months had rolled over their heads, the venerable
father made them one in the front parlor of the old glebe.
When the vows had been spoken. the last prayer made,
and the blessing pronounced. Waiter clasped Mary to
his breast. and,imprinted upon her sweet Bps another
first kiss; but nose it was the first thrilling kiss of married
love; and *she held her for a moment in his ardent em
brace, she whispered gently•in his ear; "Walter, dear.
it's understood in the vow. •No more kissing strange
girls in a stage•cusch " „ , .
Tears have,fiewn.by since then, and now Walter Mar
thin and hie little wife, and the people they call
tiving,rdetteintly'and' happily
somewhere on the other side of the Alleghenies, near a
place called Pittsburgh. where ho owns large tracts of
mines; not humbug. wiehy.washy shiny gold. but real,
herd, substatitial coal mines, productive to himself and
to the country he liver tn. - I
A widow la a dangerous thing,
With son, black, shining curl,
. And looketh more bewitching
ham a host.of motel 0 14 ;
her laugh is so deliclona— "
So knowing, clear—beside,
You'd never dream her thinking
Soon to become a bride.
Her dress, though made of sables.
Gives roundnesato her lona
A touch of something thought&l—
-.
A witching. tr itmhig charin;
And when she sits down by Yoa, - . _
• With quiet easy grace—.
. A tear may fall unbidden,-
Or a smile light up her race.
•
Der voice Issoft—melotilous—
And lute-like in its tonci
She sometimes sighs. ."T is dreadful
To pass through life alone?'
And then tell that you remind her
Of the loved one dead and gime—
Your.step, your form, your featurt
Thus the widow will run on.
Oh, listen, Yet he careful, II
for well she plays her part
- iler lips distil the nectar
That sloth enslave the heart.
ne guarded, or She 'II win you,
With sighs, and smiles, and teardt
1' faith she'll wear the breeches too,
And boa your slily ears.
Meeting an acquaintance the other day, we &stet)
after his health, he respowied.
"You needn't inquire; you tee with half An eye that '
lam as hearty as a horse. By Jupiter:" tins he "I be
have that this health insurance is a total humbug. I took
out a policy two years age and haven't got a penny out I
'em yet. Been where the ship fevers; was; wet my feet
on purpose half a dozen times--couldn't catch the least
mite of cold no more than if I lived' in India-rubber
boots. I slept iu damp sheets—smoked tbiwood—run
backward ofra steep bank;• Uvula% no use. tat green
cucumbers all last August—and drank ice-water every
time I caina l in from work—but is was 'no use—here I
am, bektiY os buck."
As EXCELLENT Stissurorrt.—Au old clergyman wet
in the habit. as sun as he got lute the pulpit, of placing
his sermon is a crevice under theiousiiion. where he left
dariog the shigiag of the accustomed pslam. "One gun
day he pushed the sermon book to far into the crevice,
sad loet it. When the pslam was - caueladed. he called
the clerk to b;itqf hias a Be.h4 Tbailerk.sosuwhit as
tonished at this unusual request. In4ligbi hiM a Bible.
uhe waritlaplred. The clergyman opened it , end thus
his
addressed Conjugation; "My bretheru. I Piave lost
my sermon; bat will read you a Chapter In Joku worth
tea of it."
• ' A Jay- Li& • I
luiects gonerai l ly hlad a trely . lovist life.- 'elituit
what it must be to lodge in a lilly. imagiee • !palace Of
ivory and pearl. with pillars of silver sad capitols of gold.
all exhaling such a perfume sswetsratme from • human
courser. Fancy again. the: fairelftneides y , ounsahros ap
or the night In tiiilds of itivele. wicked a 'sleep by
tlitgainle,aighi of tfrogmen./ air. "nothing to- do When
yea 'atp `
ake fisk , erashirou'lielf ini
. ikdsw dMp. 'anti fall to
eat your bed ciolhost
07" N all suicidal in thin country, are by foreign.
Yankee} iaroiy }polio way„ with themseivet—for
!leaky every 06 * thinks" that he has W ch ance of bicoming
*anklet, 'and at 'spite htsciiiiesity pionlito him to live
,ci'l'i;litseteeie'vviiiii!hes • '
THE ~WIDOW.
Health Insurance.
GLANCES AT CONGEESS.,-No. 6.
From tbo renrisykanlan
The members of the present' Congress, who fought in
the war with Mexico are, on the whole. , remarkably oh le
and influential representatives. Nearly all arp good
speakers. Their distinctive merits, apart from their mil
-1 nary services; must sooner or later have advanced them
to political position. We have already pointed out Col.
Davis end Col. Bisset. The first was in the Ileums when
the war broke out, and when he came back, it wax to car
ry his broken frame into the Senate, of which he is now
conspicuous member. 'Bisset could not long have re
mained out of public life; fur his abilities ere of that stern
and steady character which command regard even from
opponents. Col. Jeri. Clemons, of Ala. Caine almost di
rect to the Senate from the Battle 7 field. He is now in
close conversation with Gov. Brown, and is seated next
to him In the /louse. He is quite young, has long block
heir, a settled 'countenance, and an elastic; wiry figure.
!It debate he Is fluent and fearless; impassioned on& In- I
isereet. Same of his speechea have been strong, mid
his readiness ta grapple with the older Senators, shows
that ho has confidence in himself and his cause. Ile was
a Taylor Democrat, its 154% and ren,against Gov. Fitz
patrick in the Alabama Legislature. the regular Demo
cry
te nominee, and defeated MM. trim; the place
wh re we now sit, at the Reporters' desks on the right
of the Speaker, we may see the heroes as they come in
to Write letters before the hour of twelve. The heavily
built man, now going over to the Whig. or left side of the
Hene, is Col. Humphrey Marshall, of the Louisville,
Ky. district. His full, rndy face, indicates alike good
nature and obstinacy. Ile is a fair speaker and a brave
man. Col. Marshall fought with distinction in the early
battles of the war; but he crime very near: being defeat
ed by Dr. Newton Lane. (a Deineerat) when he ran for
Congress. You will notice a person with a bald head.
etandinj in conversation with Mr. Winthrop. That is
Col. Baker, an - Engliehman by birth; and new a whir/
representative from Illinois. lie has a strange expres
sion olcountenance; and the disciple of Lasater Would
not be apt to call It the expreision or s , ';::ofuto man .=
Nevertheless, he fought well for his co`. - , try in Mexico,
is an easy, "lining but somewhat wordy Speaker. Eve
rybody remembers his theatrical appearance in the hall of
the House, during the war, in uniform, and his appeal
in favor of certain necessary legislation for the army, then
quartered on the crooked river of Rio Grande. , The next
character is Col. W. A. Richardson. 4144
You can pick him out as a mats among a lhonaand.—
There he is In conversation with Judge Dsuflass. of the
Senate, whose succmemr he is in the Ilrielse. is a
toll, large frame, with a countenance thatcould not more
plainly represent a brave man, if it were cast in
He is an laterals lover tyf Tobacco: and a warm hearted
stsd impalsrve than. His speeches a're fevi teal fearless;
short' but stirring; plain, practical and direct. He fough t
at Buena Vista with much gallantry. and is a sterling
metnber of the Democratic party. Another of the heroes
I of thesame war, end of the same field, to Col. Willis A.
Gorman; of Indiana', and one ()Nile **Right." or Demo
cratic side. Ho is the member with the black hair, spark
, ling black eye, genteel appioartineo, and preaeini deport
ment. This is his first session; bnl he has already made
his mark. His speech on the store question was nation
al and high toned. The member about the same size,
and apparently about the same age—say forty—now con
versing with Linn Boyd, is Col. Geo. A. Caldwell, of Ky.
He has been in Condresa"before, is an experienced poli
tician, a bold speaker, and won AnititilMg laurels by his
bravery le Melte°. Ohio contributes a heiolepiesenta
tive, in Major Hoagland; the tall, well proportion . ed
member, with a face, that whis . upon you at once; and
that soldiers' bearing' so hard to imitate., lie has no yet
spoken; but when he does, he will no doubt make a hit.
Tennessee has also a representative on the floor, who
did his country syrvice in the same far ofr
' You will see him there in conversation with Andrew
Ewing, of the Nashville district—Ewing being the straight
youthful looking man with sharp intelligent face. His
companion is the gallant Col. Savage, so Welfretnern•
bered by alt who served in the batttes of the volley: a flg
ure about medium size, a proininentßoman nose, a pier.
chug eye, and a calm, retiring demeanor. The military
skill of Col. S wage is well set-oil' by good abilities . as a
apealter and a representative.
There is one significant and suggestive trait among
these, gallant men in Congress. With rare exceptions,
they aro national in their foolinws. ,They trot the slave
question as patriots, rather than as partisans. They
worship the Union. The venerate the consitution.--
The idle bluster of extremists or either: side, excites only
their contempt. They do not understand the valor that
expands itself in epithets, amid tho arguinent that explodes
in reproaches.' They aro all persoually calm. quiet. and
unobtrusive. • What a lesson such a fact should teach
those wl,o aro doing all to imperil% Republic which these
brave members would give their hearts' best blood to
protect from danger.:
Before us, in the aisle, you will not Lilt() be attracted
by a gentleman with hat in hand, in earnest conversation
among a grotty of listening members. li is biluSelf not
a representative, but ho is character." That is Whit
ney, the projector of the groat railroad to } 1 4.0 Pacific; a
glorious ides, truly. and ono which he advocates with a
zeal anti a constancy, rarely witnessed, His head mid
face boar a striking resemblance to Napoleon, as repre
sented in the bust of that mighty captain; and none see
him for the first time wi,tboot being - impressed by the
iiketiess. The person now passing uloug the
. main aisle,
with hat on—the House not being in session,,crect h
um. florid complexion, and rather thin face, is Caleb
Cushing. of Massachusetts. formerly a member of Con
gress for the Blewburyport District. and a General in the
late war with Max leo. is SYWCII ! WialOat /Wing an op
portunity to meet an enemy, ho made many friends by
his skill awl his energy. Beyond ail doubt, he is one of
the ablest men in this country. whether regarded ap a
statesman, a writer. a speaker. or a scholar. His speech
in the MassochusectsJ..cgialature. in 1847. upon the du
ly of the State to clothe the nein:l44hp had raised, at
the momlnt they were eufrering from the severity of the
weather, wave Piece of oratory worthy of Shedders or'
Burke. The contrast he drew its the course of his speech,
between 'Calhoun and Webster, and'between South Car
olina and Massachusetts, was original and overwhelMing.
Ile visits Wuhington often. The gentleman now ail:.
venting with fresh English eomplrioa, and glowing
pink ueck•hanaiter4isief. „ blue oost,• 'erg fashionably
made. and hat rather jauntily set a little on one side. a sor
of inquiring face, and a voice heard from here that seem
to hove beets made for sarcasms-that is the favorite grand ,
son et New York: rohu Yon yurett:—erllse great repu 7
tailors is based upon Impertinent sayings and cool usu•
roue. rathuthstypon any solid atteirrionts. There.
it is twelve eclock, and it is limo for as to
. get der, anll
let Mr. Canon mod 'broodier reporter . into !its . Plerue we
bate hien gm* permitted to occupy. In oniev thet . they
may record the doings.of asoiher day its this Verstilisg
'and built And bee. lam close eta work for tkis
wirrit•e'r.' • - -- - ,
Larran.—Judge-Sohnaton's hitter accepting
the Whig nomination for Graverner. in Ohla.:partaken of
the brevity and point of .0111' Zack's despatchca.—Ei
Paper, : ' "
. ,
, .
Indeed! "Wenderif the letter annoinelnz, his nom,
ioitiott'wiui treated with the eame:...brevltir au&poiot" as
hat ot the Iceildent of the -"PhiTadsliNe , 01 11 9IIhter •
Octiii!ii"-;-.4.'
C. tbrusea httluit Ai pollute irei 'n'ot mid.
$1 50 A VIDAR; lb Adiranci.
NUMBER
THE "PRESIDENTS PLAN" AND TICE CO
PROMISE CONTRASTED.
By Hon. Henry Clay, once the Whi
Below wo give the rentarks of the greet Kentucky.
`Statesman-Lone° ta l e Sir Oracle and Idol of the Whig
party—Hamra CLAY. in the , Senate. contrasting the
"President's Plan." for the settlement of the Slavery 80!
taticin, with that ,proposed by Foote's.cominittes ofthir
teen, of which Mr. Clay was chairman. We do so, Are.
because we doers the arguments and sentiments thereist
contained correct; rihd socOnd. because wo desire Iti tst
fall into the hands of n many whirespossible. that they
inuy'sco what their old and trorertlesder thinks of the
statesmanship of their new light, Zachara Tayler, sad
his,Gulphin Cabinet. Our Democratic subscribers are
requested to loan Otis number of the 6•Observer" to alt
their NVliig neighbors.
In the Senate, May 21. after replying to the Hon. gent;
deman from Louisiana, Mr. Soule, who bad spoken a
gainst the Compromise, Mr. Clay said:
Now let me call th 6 attention of the Senate to a very '
painful duty. which"! em constrained to perform, and
which 1 shall perform lot it alibied me to what mishaters
pretation it may, hero or elsewhere. I mean the duty of
contrasting the plan proposed by the Executive of the
U. S. with the plan proposed, by the committe ofthitteenl
If the Executive has a friend—(l do not mean exactly
that, because I believe and wish
s myself to be si friend of
the Executive, fooling in hit anxious to co,operate with
himj—but, if there be a friend of the Executive who sup
ports his measure to the exclusion of the committee, will he.
stand up here. and meet us face to face upon the
lion of superiority of the one measure to the other?. LTt
us hero. and not in the colunis or newspapers, have a fair:
full, and manly interchange of argument and opinion. I
shall bo ready to bear my humble part in such a,,mentalt
contest. Allow me to premise by assuming, in the flit:
place, that every fiend of this couutry must be aoxiorte
that all our difficulties be settled: and that we should Glee
MOM restore concord 4041 harmony to this country:,
Now, what is the plan of the President? I will des
cribe it by a simile, in a manner which cannot be misen
derstoed. Here are five wounds=oess. two, three; foil':
five—blectdipg.end threatening the well being. if not the,
existence of the body politic. What is the plan of the
President? Is it :o heal these wounds? Nesneh thing..
It Is only to heal one of the Wye; Etna to leeve the ethe r
four to bleed more profusely than ever, by the sole admis
sion er Cslifornia. even it It shmild produce death itself.
I h i ese said that five wounds are open and bleeding.,
What ere . they? First, - there is California; there are the s
Territhries second; there, le the question
. of the boundary,
of Texas the third; there is the fugitive elsive bill file t
fourtb;—and there is the question cif, the slave trade I n
I the District of Columbia the fifth. The President, in
stead of proposing a plan comprehending all the disease s
of the country, leeks only atone. His recoramen'daiies;
does not emfirace ! and Ito says nothing about the fugitiie .
slave bill or the District Bill; but ho recommends that the,
two other two subjects, of Territorial government and
Texas boundary remain and Ito left, untouched to cure.
themselves by. some law of nature, by the eis msdichtrix.
totem, or some self remedy in the suttees of which I
cannot perceive any ground of the Is et confidence.
I haie seen with prorociridaurpviseentiregret, the per
sisiance7for so I am paipfully compelled to regard the
facts around oir,or the Chief Magistrate of the country
in his own peculiar plan. I think that. Ina spirit of come
promise." the President ought to _unite with us. Here
commends the admissien .. of Califorala. We are with i n'
to admit Califonia. We go with him as far as he getts;,
and l we make it. admission compose apart ofa general
plan of setilement and comprcimise, which we propose to
the ; doniideration of the Senate. In the spirit of core
promise which, Itrust does, and which I knovi Guild
to, animate both ends ofPoliesylvania avenue, wo had a
right to suppose, wheit:the committee XeneuecedTaiti
port that it was satisfied with his reccommendation.. ao
far as it went, but that it did not go, in our respectful
judgment, for enough, and that we therefore offered our
monsoto to close up the four remaieg wounds—l thick;
that in a spirit of peace and coecord, and of mutual con
fidence and co-operation, which ought to animate the
different depaitments of the Government, the President.
entertiiiiiing that constitutional deference to the wisdom
of Congress which ho has professed, and abstainieg, as ,
ho has decl.eired he would abstain, from any interferepce
with its ftee deliberations, ought, without any dissatis
faction. to permit us to consider what is best for our orn
irion country. I will go ali tie further in tlfecompa on
which 1 make most painfully.' After the olyerva tent
which I addressed to the Senato)s, week: oge e 1 did' hope
and trust there would !ratio been a reciproc,;iorifrom the,
other cud of the avenue, ns to the desird to heal, eet, quo .
wound only._ which beinghealed alone would exasperate .
and aggravate instead of harmonizing the country, but to
heal them all. I did hope that we should have had
some signification, in someform or other,. of the Execu
tive contentment and satisfaction witlithe entire plan of
adjustment. But, instead of concurrence With the corn 7
mittee on the part of the t secutive, we have an authen- ‘
tic assurance of his adherence to his own particular
achcmo.•
Let a laok at the coalition of tho Territories, and
shall endeavor to do what h'as not boon dodo vithauffici-
. . . .
ent precision, to discriminato poltroon non-action
. Ise, it
respects the government of the people, who, by the dis
pensation of Prorldeuee, and the course of emote. have,
come to our hands to ho Olsen care of. To refrain from .
exteudiug to thorn the benefit of government. lavi;order
and protection, is widely diff:3rent . frcon eilenCe or non;
intervention, iu regard to African slavery. ,
The recominendatiou of the plesidMn,...ae [hive already
said. proposes tim simple intrill4tioo of California as a
atom into the Union—a measure which. standing by it.,
self has excited the strongest symptoms of dissatisfaction .
in the Southern portions of the confederacy. The, re.
commendation proposes to ]ea!‘e nit olio uniouChed' anti
unprovided for. In such an ulutudonment:what will to
the courlition of things? 'Phe first approximate Te,rtktpYY:,
to California is Utah. and in what condition is that leftb#
the President's message? . Without any government
alt. ~lfiihout even'the blessin - )v.cu . r,se,. as you may.
choose to call it, of a milithry government.
There is no government there. unless such as the no•,
comities of the else have required the Mormons to erect
fur themielve's; Until the, f,cmatuon parent shalt have
spread its power and its euthorUy eves thermll;6Y barS
no adequate government.
Then next come to Mexico. and in what condition does
the President's message leave heel Wit k, it military
government which administered as it proposed to be. is
.
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gaysynrOent. While upon It\ia part alba subject. let
me call your attention to WhtiChas been iaitt'by the Del.
• , -
agates from thatterritory. iu ► feeling address which IV
has recently published tothe peep?* of New Mexico.
Mr. UnderwoWat t tite ref:Ethel:oi l Mr. Clay. road the'
following extracts: _ •
"Whihsve,aur rights. tthich are carleinly ifidisPoia••
MO: been so long withheld? Why have vie been com- 1
pelted holies under a military domination. so repugnant,
to freemen. and, soopposed to the acknowledged
and foundation of this _Guyernment? Why. our:condi
tion, instead of being improved by the transferal ellegi•
! ones.), was promised to us. halo been continually getting,
worse.. Why,bai Als_,Goverament so long neglected,
giving you that protection egeisest Wirt depredations,
which was so often promised, both beforb and,sitice Ott_
treaty of cession! Why. the, oonttoylott with this Goy-,
content, which you, have been
,ancourtsged : to look lop.
wardtrrerthe beginning yourprospenty and imkOriro-
Oral's.