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GALEN U. KEENE,
rubiortabie Tailor, between the Reed House and Brown's Hotel,
, glair'. CUTTING done on short notice. IN
OLIVER SPAIFORD.
Bookend , and Stationer, and Manufacturer of Blank Books and
Writing Ink, darner of the Diamond and Sixth erect.
J. W. DOUGLASS,
.Irrosscr .1 sn CorNsettaa Ar Lacy— Oake on State Street, three
dean north of liron•n's Hotel, Erie. Va.
COMP'ION Llc, HA VERSTICK,
Dsnsas in Dry Goode, Hardware, Crockery, 'Waterier, and FOT
eigo and Domestic Liguori., Distillers, and Manufacturers of
Nalerntus. No. B, Reed House, and corner of French and Penn
sitecti, Erie, En.
J. B. NICKLIN.
Smut. and general Agency fog Commission businerr, Frank
lin, Pa.
RUFUS REED S .
DiAnt in English, Getman and American VtaldWnTennd tottery,
N a m,. Anvils, Vices, Iron and Steel No. 3 Reed house;
tine. Pa.
W. J. F. LIDDLE & Co.
BLActurrrui, Canine and Wagon: Builder's, Elate Simi, be
mein oeventh it Eighth, Eric,
L. STRONG. M. D.
Outer...one boor a est of C. 6. Wright's 'Store.
— i)OCT. J. L. STEWART, .
Orrice With Doct. A. Beset, Seventh nest Sassafras street. Res
sidenee. on Pacsafrar, one door north of 'eleventh st.
C. SIEGEL,
liinotisshts and Retail deafer to Gtoerlies, Provisions, Wines,
Liquors. ErPit. Ace, to - Corner of French and Falb Ptreets,
opposite the Farmers , Hotel. Erte.L .
JOHN hInCANN,
Wtratssta and Retail Dealer in Family Groceries, Crockery,
Glassware. Iron, Nails, &e., No. 4. Mining Block, Eric, Pa.
mi.- The highest price: paid for Country Produce. sr-g
J. GOALDING.
6izmatAprrTAlLol, and Habit Maker.—store, No. 3 Reed's flack,
(orpossite the Bunnell Meek) State Street, Erie.
J. W. WETAIORE.
ATTORNE,r AV LAW,
In Walken' Wine. on Seventh Aircet. Erie. Pa
"k-""MMri,
turoirrmiobber, and RetnU Dealer In Dry Goods, Groceries,
Crockery, Glutamate, Carpeting, Hardware. Iron, Steel. Nails,
Spikes, &e. Empire Stores State Street, four doors, below
brown's Hotel, Erie, Pa.
Also—AWE if, Vial!, Bellow!, Azle Arms, Springs, and a general
4ml - talent of Saddle and Catriage Trimmings.
, 8. !MERVIN SMITH.
ATRORITY AT LAW and 3uPtiet r of the react—Office one door
, w est of Wright'. more. Erie. Pa.
W, KNOWLTON & SON.
PICALIMS in Michel. Clocks. Looking' Glasses, Nano Fortes,
Lamps, Britannia Ware. Jewelry. and a variety ocother Fancy
Articles, Keystone Buildings, four doors below Drown's Hotel,
State Street, Erie, Pa.
S. K. DEWEY.
iwunts.tr. Awri RETAIL Dealer In Dry Goode. second door below
Drorries Hotel. State Street. Eric. Pa.. •
GEORGE H. CUTLER.,
ATTOIRCT AT Lem, Girard. Erie County. IM. Collections and
other business attended to with promptness and dispatch.
WILSON LAIRD
&mum.' Iskw--Onice over J.ll .Williams' excl. Inge office.
nest twor to Judge Thompson•s omee.
Collecting and other prole's tonal bovines. attended to with prompt
nefs and dispatch.
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BROWN'S HOTEL,
Foi,grALT TUC EIfILP.; corner of State street an4lie Public square
Erie. Eastern iVestern and Southern stage °dire,
B. A. eaAIN
Wnottime and Retail dealer in Grocerier, Provisions. Winer,
Liquors, Cho ro, Nails, Detroit Aic, Duireu it, Crackers,& e.
reeepride, Fide,
H. B. BAVERSTICK.
No. REED Horse. Dealer is Dry Goods, Hardware, Crockery.
la roerries. &e.
T. W. 111001tE,
DIMALCII In armories, ProOrionr, Wines f Liquorp, Candice, Fruit.
he.. No 6. Poor Peoples flow, Watt. street, Eric
MUMEI=I
Attorney & Counseller at Lave. (Office in Spaulding's Exchange,
Buffalo, N.. Y.
Canceling and commercial bnSiness wilt receive prlnipt attenion.
R CCCCC Setae...4. P. Mamfr. E 44., INILIAKIN GRAINT. E.g.
JOSIAH KELLO t
colwardinit Sr. Colllllilist4iOn 'Merchant, on the Public Dock, east of
Ptate street.
Coat, Halt, rimier and Willtn Flah, eonstnntly for sale.
J. 11, WILLIAMS.,
Ranker and Erehanze Broker. !tenter in Bills of Eteltangn,
firaftg, enrriflentesof DniKalte. Gold andoilver coin, &e.
Cance.4l door below Prown's Hotel, Erie, Pa.
BENJAMINF. DENNISON;
Arroamv, ►r Lsve, Cleveland. Ohio--17thee on ,Ruperlor street.
in Atwater's Block. Rcfcr to Chief Justice Parker, Cambridge
taw School% lion. Richard Pletcher. 10Statest., Boston; lion.
Staninel 11. Policing.. 1411 Walnut et., Philadelphia; Richard 11.
E5q.,33 Wall aueet, New York. rot testimonials, re
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MARSIIALL & VINCENT.
ATYORNFTE 6.7 L avr—Oftlec up stairs' in Tammany lief building.
north of tne Protbonomy's office, Fait.
hIURRAY W IA LON
AITORNET AND COONI/V4Oll AT LAW—Offier over C. D. Wright's'
Store, entrance one door crest of State street, on the Diamond,
Erie. .14
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Wft , ll.l - 11ALE ATM RILTAIL iIEALERA in Foreign AM Domestic fry
Goodp, ready mnae Clotbing,Boote anti Sheep, fte, Pio. 1, Liem.
lag Block. &ate street, Eric.
C. M. TIIIIIALO;
Dorman In Dry Goode, Dry Groceries, grockery, hardware,
N.N .111. Chearoide. Erie.
JOHN ZIMMERLY.
DIAL/it Inf rocer les and NOVIPlons of all kinds, Sin te street, Street
doors north of the Diamond. Eris.
, SMITH JACKSON.
DEUX& in Dry Goo4s, Groceries, I taniwnre, Queens Ware, Lime,
iron, Nslla, &e., 12t, Cheapside, Erie, Pa.
WILLIAM RIBLET.
CA/Nirr MAZER Upkolner, and Undenaker, corner of Mate and
Ise.enth streets, Ede.
KELSO &
OENUAL Forwarding.Ptoduce and CoWanisson Merchant's; dealers
in roam and fine salt. Coal s Plaster. Mangles, ace. Public dock,
wewt aide of the bridge, Erie.
Pawls J. Kttao.
WALKER & COOK,
anrclui. Poromding. 10.011/mlssion cud Produce bictcbants;Sce.
and Ware-houce east ail Public lyidgc, Eric.
- B. LOOMIS & Co.
Da•seamist W 44424 1 9. Jewelry. Silver. SerMan Silver. Elated and
!Britannia Wage fAattery B 1 el Itati_aud !lackey C.oods,StAte sine',
neatly opposite thy Et MU. Et ie.
G. Looms,
• CAR'FEII. & 111
Wiwi= ltandßetaildealers ip
we-stuffs, Glass. Ace.. No. 0, re4l
JOEL JOHNSON.
in Theological, Miscellaneous, Sunday and Clair!cal
&hoed !looks, Stailonary, &c. Park Row, Erie.
JAMES LYTLE.
&Monate Merehant Tailor; n the public square, a few doors
west of State stxeet, Erie.
D. S. CLARK,
117nocciuts Arm Dcater in Cirocericp, provision., ship
fhentikry. Stone-ware. ice. ite.. No. IS.Boimell Ulu*. Erie.
.13. SP/1470RD.
peaty Wja,w, Medical, .7..:JaKol,Miseelicaleaaa Make stationary.
Ink, ikt. maw at, four doo,:s Weer the-Public ',Pure..
DR. O. L. EL1Z.40:17,
Resident Dentist: Mlles and d,welline in 1;:e Beebe Block, on the
East side of the rubtie Square, >~r le. Teeth icieerted-on Cold
nate, froatspne to an entire sett. Carl DUD teeth Alletwlth pure
Gold. and restored to health and usefidness. 'Pee cleaned
wkklestinuoents sad Mankato() as to leave theta °f i n pellucid
elearacss. All work warranted.
S. DI CKEMEION,
RumexAs Atm tzrta tot.—Odice at his resideetoe on Seventh street,
o • ite the Methodist, Ctmeh. Erie. •
C. D. WRIGHT,
Vittetraatz aweltcratt,deater In Dry Goodo.Drocetien.Daraware
tiwkerY,Ctuoo•srare. Iron Natio bother. En sile ., corner of
State meet and tho public square, opposite the mei .Erle.
JOHN H. BURTON.
Wuotisawr Alm kirrAn. dealer in Dings. Medic him, Dye Ste*
Crowlef, Ike. No. 6, Nevi Rouge, Erie.
ROBERT B. HU
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THE YOUNG WIFE.
sr lIIARY s. URtrrrr.
Nay not, beloved that beauty Iles
- In youth's alluring form alone-- • ^
Ttrat only in youth's mdient eyes
Bath Love Imperial made his throne.
For the ray that lightt thy Carer
Ahd crowns thy brow with thought sublime
And wonderous tovelinessel Men
The hand of the refiner, Time.
•
I would not seek. WI the art.
Thy vanished gautlet's to reshsret
Lest with each year some grace depart
Thine early manhood never wore. -
And oh! had I existed when •
Youth's fresh warm current flushed thy brow.
Perchance thou Midst not sought me then,
Nor I hayed thee as 1 do now.
Along the world's recorded page
Thou with gone eenlarirs has! tea.
Till Wisdom hailed thee son. and rage,
And alt within thee glowed the God.
And now, mine own! thou cornett to me,
Crowned with thine age and honored rune,
As heathen Jove to itemile.
Arrayed in hie eilbigenee ennie.
Thy furrowed - brow, thy silver hn irs t
Gained on the stirring field °flirt— •
These are the laurel and the sears
Thou beaten proudly flout the strife.
And oh. ye years! t only dread
These traces of your swift dray,
For that they Off. with Iturdying tread,
Ye bear his cherished life away.
THE SEDUCER.
A SKETCH.
/IT NI EL .UX.
READF.II, a sorrowful but true tale I have to tell—a tato
unombelished by fiction end uncolored by romance—
but full of human passion and human frailty. It is an
account of scenes which have fallen under my observe
lion—and the recollection of which have imparted a
gloom to my own heart which canltever. never be ef
fecal. It is that which may not interest the child of
romance or Old lover of fiction. but which must arouse
the feelings of every tender heart. and enlist the sympa
thies of tho reader with the poor unfortunate ELLZI
linnvrt, the seducer's victim.
- She was pure and beautiful. 0, when my mind wan
ders back to the past—which I would to God might fade
from my memory forever—vrhon I think of her as she
was, in all her youthful loveliness and beauty—l cannot
realize the sad changes that have since taken place !
I remember her as a vision of purity and love, such as
poets sometimes dream of—but which, alas are not
proof against the scourge of passion and' the weight of
woo: She was sought for and loved by the noblest and
fairest—sho was admired by all—heramiles enlivened
the hearts of those around her. and her kindness elicited
the warmest and foridett praise I She seemed indeed a I
daughter of Glory; a bright and beaulital being Who had
fur a season left ber angel associates of a happier sphere,
to blond the loveliness of the celestial, with the bopes.
the frailties. the passions of mortality..
Such was Elton Harvey ore she had felt the blight of
disappointment and sorrow. Such was she% the spring.
time of beauty, ere the blasts of lifo had blowp too so.
voroly upon her young spirit. and her heart had been
crashed with trial and suffering.
Wo were rocked in the same cradle in our infancy and
hers was ths,first name my infant tongue learned to
lisp. In our early childhood we wandered together, over
the green fields - and dark forests which surrounded her
home and mine. Wo listened together to the' prattle of
the stream, which murmured by her father's mansion,
and we used to speak to each other of our future hopes
and our future joys—Areaming not that they were all to
be destroyed and ravished ere their Collimation.
Thus did we live, in tinily communion, till she was
fifteen and I two years her senior. Then it was ar
ranged t h at I should leave the place which I called my
home, to spend a few years at a distant University.
We parted with tears, and our souls mingled in a prayer
to heaven that we might meet again when my studies
were over, '"unchanged by absence and unsoiled by
time." I even called her sister when we parted—for
although no instinct of kindred unttd us. yet mine was
all a brother's tenderness. a brother's love.
Two years passed away. Paring that interval I had
twice been called home to attend the funerals of Meads.
At each time I found Elleur the pride of ear household.
es I had left her. beatttiful. epirittrally beautiful, and the
idol of an extensive circle. How often; when I thought
of that young girl. did I wonder where her future desti
ny might be; but I never, believed it could be ought but
sunshine and happiness, or that she would ever bow
beneath the strobe of Boner,.
Another year passed, and I was about to return home;
when l received, a letter which is a moment blasted alt
the hopes I had nourished for years. and which had been
the star of promise that had guided me unscathed throf
the many ternplationt of a college life. It was from my
home and the residenc9 of Ellen. Eagerly did I break
the seal of that terrible letter, and as I hastily glanced at
its contents, it seemed that a pen of . Are was branding
it upon my heart. A portion of it road thurt-- ,
"But how shall we impart to you the terrible news
which has overwhelmed us with germs , . And bow can
you bear the relation of that which will at once blast
those hopes which' you have so often expressed; but
which, aim ! can never be realized. Ellen, our be'oved
Ellen, we fear, is lost to us forever: She has suddenly
disappearedfrom our home; and altthough every means
has been adopted which reason could suggest or &neon
otive, stilt wo are unable to penetrate the mystery which
hangs over the fate of oar child.
"Neither can we conjecture any, motive which could
influence our Ellen to such a rash step, as she has never.
to our knowledge. deviated from the path of rectitude.—
Indeed, she has boon of late unusually kind_ and alike=
donate, although we have sometimes noticed a shade ti . p.
on het countenance, as if some secret sorrow were prey-
Mg upon her mind.
"Como to us immediately. and let us together weep
over our Ellen. whom eve fear is gone from us forever."
Two days atterreceiving this letter, I arrived home,
only to find renewed cause of grief and sorrow. I arriv.
ad at bolus just in time to follow the mother of the lost
one to her last resting place—for she had died of &broken
heart:
O how tad, how desolate. was that once happy home.
/ had been there three years before - when happiness beam
ed upon every countenance, when no trace of comingeor
row and desolation could be found, but bovr changed was
everything now. The place of Ellen end hot aged moth
er was vacant—one waq perhaps Wandering over the
wide world, and the other was sleeping in the grave!
An old man—the 'wreck of that happy family. sat alone`
eta cheerless fire-side, his thoughts tar; - far, away with
his beloved child. flip ailverlocks seemed thinner than
when I last saw him, had the lustre of his eye Was dim
med witlitears.
For weeks I lingered amid the scenes which lied be
come hallowed by , the dearest sesocietions. ISieited ev
en haunt of my early youth. I sought every Spot where
SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 6,.1850.
1 had wandered with my Ellen in heifer:and brighterana
happier . days—bnt every thing was gloomy and desolate.
Every flower I saw—some of them had been reared by
her hand—reminded me of our sorrows; and'eveiy haunt
of our childhood seemed in morning for the dear being
who would vidit them no more!
• -- Efix months bad not yet dragged away, when . I folilow
ed that old man, the last that remained of his !smith to
the tomb. I wept not when I saw him close bis pya
in death, for I knew he was exchanging a life of Portg=
nant soirow, for the rest of the weary and heavy Watt.
And when the lest clod of the valley sounded as it feliup
on his coffin, I folt i eed that his was a happy state.*
and t almost lunge to lie down with him in the calm of
the grave, and fin forgetfolness ✓ in the sleep of obliSlon.
••,••, • • • • •
Two years passed away, I had left the home of my
childhood. and had sought to drown my feelings with the
scones and excitements of city life. A year had I already
spent fn the city of. Now York. and 1 was thinking of
revisiting the place where my cup of mysery was first fill
ed to overflowing. to once more over the graves of
those whom I hadloved. Did I say, to weep? Atli no
The fountains of my soul long since sealed forever—the
tears had congealed and frozen in my heart—l could only
glut over my sorrows. silently and tearlessly.
One night as dark and 'cheerless as a wronged man's
soul, I was hastening up Nassau sweet, towards my
rooms. After reaching thatiresort of wealth and fashion.
'FAS/MANY Hsu., being attracted by;tho glare of light and
the sounds of music issuing from within, I paused fora
moment and gazed through the windows upon the scone.
In a moment I beard an exclamation of- surprise. and
turning, I sew a thinly clad woman, with a child in her
arms. I was passing on when she exclaimed: •
"0 God( will ho not speak to me?"
I turned and faced the strange women. The light from
a neighboiing street lamp shone full upon her. and re
vealed a face ghastly and haggard in its expression.
•'\that do you want—and what are you doing here?"
was my inquiry.
"Sir," answered:the poor woman, "I wish you to go
with me to my home, as I have Something to communi
cate of vital importance."
"To go with you?" I replied half pettishly—"and at
this time of night., No! I will do no such thing!"
"Young man." said she iu a tone of anguish. "would
you refuse the last request of it dying woman; I tell you
must see you. to-night. for em to-morrow's sun I feed'
shall be in eternity. Come with me and yon will have
the lest blessing of the sinful but repentant---"
Her tears choked her utterance, and I could not under
stand the close of the sentence. Somewhat effected and
much surprised at the Women's strange manner, and
feeling a mysterious presentiment which I could riot
shake oft. 1 decided to accompany her to her home,
wherever it might be. Signifying to her my deteimina;
lion, I bode her lead the way.
With trembling and tottering steps the poor woman
passed up Centre street, till she had reached the bele!.
berhood of the Toombs. Then turning down bhp)* stieet.
she led the way to a low rickety tenement. with a flight
of stairs on the outside. We Passed op in silence, and
entered a miserable apartment. It was scantly famished.
and in one comer was a,wretched bed. 'A small lamp
was burning on a stand at the bedside !
The woman motioned me to a seat—the only one to
the room, while sheiat down upon the edge atlas bed.
I saw by the dim light the tears trickling &tin her wan
cheeks. She was silent for a moment and then said:
"And do you not know inn then? Alas: am Iso afloat=
od?"
I gated ton her With astonishment. She raised her
foebte hand and removed tho bound which partly con
coated her face, and thou turned towards ma.
"Look now." she laid. "and see if you kno* met" •
1 gazed upon the strange being. Cilradnally my mind
recurred to the pest—anr.l then '
0 Got!! 0 God! it was my Ellen!
It was indeed my Ellen. hut oh! how. ehanged! I
could not realiza that she stood before me. fte whom
supposed was dead—whom I had loved and for whom I
had so long mourned. / looked again. to assure myself
it was a reality. and then I clasped her in my arms and
exclaimed.
"Oh, it is indeed you. EllenTand in such apiece? My
God: how mysterions.are thy ways!
She gently detached herself from my embrace and
■aid:
"No, do not embrace me, I am Indeed Ellen—whom
you used to call your sister, but alas! I am not the Ellen
of thoso happy days. Do not embrace mo now—ratber
scorn, loath, detest me i for I atri-vqk HARLOT:"
Great God! what chilling words. My brain rensted- , "
my blood wished wildly through my veins—l grew dizzy
—and would have fallen had I not bold upon the chair!
“Yee,” continood she. "1 cm ahartoir And that child
you see there—she is the offtpring of my slot Now.
you whom 1 once celled brother—now curse me if you
will:"
I aneso'ered not a word—it was Impossible—wad shocked.
so paralyzed svas I. that I could not articulate a syllable.
Who turned to me. while the Mare were Creaming
down her cheeks in temente. clamped her Inmde wed wild
ly exclaimed:
"Oh brother! brother, will you came me--emili you not
speak to me!"
"Ellen," I replied, "whatever you may have done, let
me clasp you to my heart again, and think of you only
es ray Ellen—the sister and companion of my - boyhood!
0, my sister, though you aro bat the sad wreck of what
was once bright and innocent and beautiful, still let me
swear is the presence of that God whose chastening hand
we have both severely felt—that sitifal though yea have
been—l lore you still!"
"God bless you, my dear brothir f for those words,"
sobbed the miserable Ellen. "O. it is so !oh since I
have heard a kind voice! So long since one has sooth 4
ad my sorrows with a friendfy Word, or lighted my wretch ,
ed heart with a smile of love. God bless you my broth.
or, God bless yon:"
She fell back,exhausted upon her pith:rev. I bathed het
throbbing temples and gently lifted her head upon my
arm. She opened her eyes and gazed into her face. Be
mach of mloting tenderness. of unutterable love Was ex
pressed in that look. that I sew only the .gloricins Ellen
of ins youth; the seine purity; and light and love. was
still lingering there,'
"3ly brother," sho said, "I feel I shall soon be beyond
the reach of 110170 W. I ant dying. But before Igo let
me ask you, ore my poor father and mother yet alim—
end do they ewer speak of me?"
'•Alas! Ellen," I replied, "they are both she Mg be
side the stream where we need to wander in heppi r days.
Your mother sank immediately when you I a, and
your father soon followed her. But they am bulb hap
py now—far happier than we" •
••Poor broken hearted parents." sighed the unhappy
girl—" They died el my - hands. But ohi angels -end
spirits_ of the bloat. If thou art permitted to linger around
Gleaning of the earth. bear winless of this vole of my
repentance. add when thou shalt retard tot by heavenly
home, oht register this selersin premise there:"
She paused. sand for a long time we were both•
At lest 1 turned to her and
•But Ellen will you 'tell me liow you came to kite
your home acs.straugely. awl wherefore dO 1 fied you
here?" • • -- • • •
"It is a sad tale,'Y she answered:soand God give me
etriagtif to Murata Ply brother, do yon• remember
the streets on the banks of which we wandered in infancy
Well, ode thigh' end beautiful day. when all was joyous
like my own heart, seated myself in ear little skift and
rowed anti:do the streain. Loglng my -balance, I wai
precipitated into the water, and was saved from a watery
grave by young stranger wbo was passing at the time.
0. he was very noble, and my young heart involuntarily
learned to love my preserver. He whispered tote In my
ear, and I heard his promises with rapture. Long be
'was my daily compiniou—till at lest when he had dom.
pickily won my confidence, he sought my rule. 0. that
he had left me to perish In that beautiful stream. - ralhar
than to reserve me for these torturer.
"It was a beautiful moonlight evening. Ah I remem
ber it well: He called me his own Ellen, and made a
thousand promises of love. We were seated in the arbor
of our gardenand as the moon gazed meekly down upon
us, I thought nature never looked more charming. Ms
clasped me in his arm, and his warm lips met mine.—
My head leapt with joy. I was intoxicated with Wu..
Then—there—he pressed me. and I yielded my perms'
to Ail embrare. That child reit see there is the offspring
of that damning night."
The poor girl stopped a moment to compose herself, and
then proceeded.
"Whoa 'we arose it was to a full realization of my
shame- I looked out sgain--every thing was changed.
The pale moon wept great Mare of sorrow. and the night
breeze sighed a solemn requiem over the °grave of my
virtue. I looked in the face of my lover. Groat rod!
no expression of love was there—but rather that of scorn
ful triumph! '
"I then appealed to him to save me by immediately
making me his wife. lie said he would do so in a few
weeks, and then he left me. Lpassed a sleepless night
and arose at morning nnfreshened. In the evening ho.
came again. Once more we were seated at the fatal spot.
Again he pressed me id his arms. Once more I yielded
—again he arose from my polluted bosom and 101 l tuts
with the cane of God upon my soul.
"But why sheuld I continue this dread recital. Enough
that my destroyer soon after left me. and came to gas
city. I remained at home till knew I could no
longer conceal my shame. Then I loft to the strange
manner of. which you are aware and folloired him. I
found him and entreated him to redeem his promise.—
Ha offered me his protection. and promised marriage be.;
fore out child was born. I accepted the horrid stipula
tions. and became his mistress! 'Ck
But the worst is yet to coma. Ile became desolate:
I saw him never during the day. and sometimes Manta
very late at night. Ono night I had (nited for him till
alter the clock had tolled the hour of twelve, but he came
not. At last. 1 extinguished the light and retired. Pre
sently I heard a step—it must be my hus--mo. my se
ducer. IfeUame in and undressed in silence. 116 came
to the bedside and imprinted a kiss upon my lips. 0 joy!
it was long since he hod done as much. He clasped me
in his arms and my head tested on hi, bosom. Once
more he whispered the words "Dear Mien." Once more
he hogged me fondly-to his breast. 0, It was so strange
for him to act thus: I was wild with delight. I was al
most happy! For two long hours I lay in his arms. At
last I heard a step as of some one sanely entering (he
room.. I aroused him. but he said it was but imagina
tion. Suddenly a match was dream crou the wall, and
the lamp was lighted. I looked wildly out into the room
sad there—Great God 'stood him who had proratsed mo
bona I shrieked and looked in the face of the creature
who bad shoed my bed
: ,My..oodl My Gal lie lento stranger!
"/sprang from my coach like lightning. Tho fiend Only
laughed at my misery. My lutaband reproached me'an
grily. and charged me with infidelity to him. Oa my
knee. I explained it all; but he spurned me and drove me
from his door.
-''The next day I hired this apartment. *hero hare
since lived. Four weeks after my child was born.—
When I recovered my strength. I went to him who had
caused my ruin, and begged him, to provide for the poor
innocent babe. Ileteofted at my miseries, and said it had
its dairy on kilo as afothsri O. that was the last MOW:
"1 returned to my miserable apartments. Hunger aI
length drove me into streets the. and I became a itatttoni
treacherous prostitine
• •
tcOuld scearcel contain myself tiff she had date
speaking. Then 1 started to my feet with paeahru and ex
claimed:
.'Ellen, you have boort most terribly betrayed. and
mine shall be the hand to avenge, yea! O. Oval It
thou didst ever hear a sinoersii vow, by thee and thins.
I swear herterangs shad is avenged!"
"0 not not" shrieked the pdor girl. "Hest met lam
about to diei and Wpm would make my Iset hours happy
then promise EMI Wont to Wore a hair of hie head:—
Thom then may I die happy."
I promised!
The poor gift sank back upon her pillow. Id I taros
went she handed me a letter, and said.
**Take this to him. He is now et the datum at Tam
many Haiti where I first sew you."
Again she tell back, gazed with unspeakable tenderness
in my face, pressed my hand fervandy„ gave owe Wig
sigh -and she was WAD:
After hastily aummoning attendants,' I made my Way to
Tammany. I found the Redeem id the dtmce. 1 drew
him guide, and desired him to go with me. I took him
to that climber of death, pointed him to the corpse, and
exclaimed:
, rlietri Fiend is your walk: Your corm reffections
be your punishment." ,
.They steep side by side by the stream wifere I wadded
ad in my efriklhoird; the father; tha mother, and their er
ring child,. The little daughter of my Filen still lives,
though in ignorance of the shame of fist birth. Some
times I visit the graves of thine whom I loved, f trut I ean
not boar to gate irpow &re mounds of earth beneath which
my hopes are berried—they are negleeteflaml &guide.
Deader,- "man may smile. turd erode; and bb a villain
still."
Our Omit*
CM no country more than'our own have the charms of
nature been prodigally lavished.her mighty lakes like
oceans of liquid silver—hot mountains with thch' Bright
curial tints—her *alleys teeming With' fertility'—her tre
mendous contracts thundering in their solitude—her
boundless plains waving with spontaneous verdure--her
broad; deep rivers rolling in solemn sidemen to the ocean
her trackless forests, whom vegetation puurforth all her
magnificence, her skies kindling with the' magic of sum
mer clouds mid gloritutts'aunshine—no. never
,need an
American look beyond his own country fdr the malicee
and beautiful of natural scenery.
Neweapm
A man eats np a pound of sager. and pleasnrele
hu atiSoyed is ended; but the information he gots from
a,newspaper is treasured up in the mind. to be used
whenever occuiont of taciinallowOMldfoi. it. A news
paper is not the wisdom ofoue man or two men it is the
wisdom of the ego. of past egos too. A. family without a
newspaper iv half en age behind the times, in general in
for6ationr besides they never think much et find much
to think *bout., And theta are the Hide ones grewingop
in isootarice *Rhein& taste for reading:
Beside* pti these evils. theres the wife: who; when
her work Is done. has to sit down With hat hands in her
leo: sodomising to amuse her mind from the toils and
cares of the domestic circle. Who then would - be fri4h
-014 Ineviiiispert --Vasj. Franklin.
Wended Log Roiling at the West.
An Englishman who was lately traveling On the Mis
sissippi river told some rather tough stories about the
London thieves. A Cincinnati chap. named Cue.
heard these narrative with a silent Wit **Elusive
humph!, And *hob remarked that he thought the wes
tern thieves beat the Loudon operators all hollow.
"How so?" inquired the Englishman. with surprise.
"Pray. sir, have you lived much in the watt"
••Not a great deal. I undertook to set nit g bilsineas
at the Demnoines Rapids a while ago. but the rascally
people stole nearly every thing I bad and finally a Welch
miner ran off with my wife.•'
"Good God!" sold the Englishman. "And yon netz
et found hart"
"Never to this day, Tint that was not the writ ell."
"Meet/ why what could be worse than stealing a
man's wits'!"
"Ikealing his childleua I should any," said tho
cajole Case.
rChildrou
"Yest.a nigger wortiatt who hadn't any of her own.
abducted my youngest daughter. and sloped and jined
the injuns."
"Groat heaven: Did you ace her do ill"
"Ste her? Yes. and mho hadn't ten rods tho start of
nte , —bist she plunged into the late and swam off Me a
duck, and theta went a canoe to follow her with. o
The Englishman laid back in his chair and culled for
another mug of aff:an•atf. while Cue smoked his eerier
and credulous friend at the same time. most remoreleasty.
"I—l chant go any further west-1 think" at length
observed the cleited dohn'Bull.
"I should not advise any dna let gd," said Case quiet
ly. " My brother once lived there. but he had to leave,
although his business was tho best in the eountry.ii
" What business was he in, fitly?"
"Lumbering—had a saw-mill?"
"And they stole his lumber 7"
"Yes. nod his law logs, WO." •
" Saw logs !"
"Ire p. whole dozens of Soo black *admit lags were
carried off in a elligle night. True. upon my bettor. sir.
Ile tried every reay to prevent it—had hired men to
watch his logs—but it was all of no use. , They would
whip them away as cosily as if there had been a trbody
there. They would steal them out of the riVeti out of
the cove. and even ant of the mill ways."
"Good gracious!"
"hist to givo you an idea of the way Choy nett steal out
there." coutinned eatlei sending sly a wink at the listen
ing compan) l o.just to give you an idea—did you ever
work in a saw ntit 1"
"Never."
"Well, my brother. ono day. bought an ail-bred fine
black walnut log—foni feet three at the,hutt and not a
knot in it. lie was determined to keep that _hid. arty
how. and,hired two Scotchmen to wdtch It all night.—
Weil, they took a small jemijohu of whiskey with them.
snaked the log up the side of the hib above the mill, and
built a firo, and then sot down an the log to play keerds,
just to; Iteop awake you see. 'Twos a inonststotit big
log—bark two inches thick. Welk as I was oasis', they
played keerds, drank whiskey all night; and, as it began
to grow light. went to sleep, a straddle of the fog. About
a minute after daylight, George went over to the mill to
see bow they got along, and the log seas gone!"
“And 'they eotting on hi
"Selling on the bark:. The thieves had dtove an iron
wedge into the butt end whicilf pointed dotrn the hill,
and hitched a yoke of nun on. and, pulled it right out,
leaving the shell and Scotehera genial al straddle of it
fast asleep."
The Englishmen went on deck to ascertain the near
est lending place.
The Apple Gill
aft i day. with the' regularity of It dock, a girl of
fourteen., abbily dressed and not over clean, has brought
eyiples for sale into our office.
She was hear hat( au hour agd. and going out a mo
ment since. we found bet seated on the floor in the en
try. by si window. lost is the Pages of a book which she
was eagerly detouring/
"Mery did you get that ifs enquired. 4• 1
bought it at a stands sir?" . "What is it?" "A fairy
book." We smiled. nod walked. on thinking longer or
the incidedt than might at first be supposed. She is
leading a laborious life of poverty, compared With which
Our trial and troubles seem but small and yet in the midst
of labor, perhaps of deeper anxiety than we hate ever ex
perienced, she pauses, and dreams time old dreams of
fairy land. which in our boyhood, and our father) have
fevelied in. Forgetting the sounds of Walt street. the
war of carts and engines, she feeds fanciful tales Of ou
phee and spirits, and on the floor of our entry mattes
magic circle for queen hisb.
What matters to her the exthinge of millieffs Of mon
ey. or the glgantit trartsactiolis 'of the street? What if
ships are laden and unladen. fortunes made and lora—
What if newspapers are to by publishedl What if Abe
prices of the awttioto room disappoint the sellers/ or.cot
ton aid grain have failed, or a steamer is below with
news of wan and resolutforief She had no thought or
care for all this. She is far removed from any oiled of
any changes in the stools market; the storm that shiake
thrones are In an atmosphere sho does not aspire to, and
the thunderbolts which overturn nations, strike on the
mountain peaks. too !Vito be felt el heard by here Ile
lifo is in the valley, and yet she leaves it rend lives anoth
er life among the beautiful creation of fancy. .
God has made none or us too low to &Omni. and none
to high. The same Welt Which occupied that girls mind
on the floor. has once bean the contortion of the hours
of some wealthy child, as its gilded leaves and rich col
ors. (now stained wad soiled) indicate. The lounger in
freteitil or oil u &ally sofa Ind the indonticel pleasures
more or less keenly as this poor reader of fanciful stories ;
And what after all is the great difference between her
and nirlr We all dream dreams contintrelly. entreat am
bitions are too often school•iboy &titles. that we forget no t
in our lives. We grasp at babbles which break in our
hands; the pursue phantoms that fly before us. and van
ish only in the' grotoyarti.•
The girl if sitting there stilkliwt her betik.has dropped
1 into her lip. her head has fallen against Choi wall. ono
I
hand is ow this bbbk and the other ow the goer, her bon
, net is somewhat crow fled over her face. but she is W-
I they off than before from all cm, for she is sound asleep
,--Jouritat of estrnteree.
Button Roles on Both Bides.•
A gentlemen in Charleston. who etilertained a good
deal of company at dinner. had a black] as an attendant,
who' was a native of Africa, and never could be taught
to band things invariably ftft band of the Oasts at table.
At lengh his muter thought of en infallible expedient
to direct him. and an the dolts where then worn' in
Charleston single breasted; in the present Quaker falthion.
be told him always to band to the button hole side. Un
forttinatelphoweveri rot the pool follow. on the day after
he had reeitived this ingenuous lesson. there was among
tbs guests at ginner, a (emirs gentlemen with oi double
bre utbd tear. and he War fot a *MS; eithrpletelY, at stand.
H`ti • fotiked fititat one side of the gentleman's coat, then
*the ether; and, finally, quite Confounded' at the outlan
dish make of the strangers"garmtint. he ciat lidespairing
look at ids muter. and exclaiming in aloud voice, "bat
tens oh both aides. manes." hand** the plods- right over
the gentleman's - head.. •
I *
MANCHA AT 0011raUS8T-10.
From the Peaminhten.
The social life of members of emigrate in litfashlots
ton. is an interesting feature to the observer. indeed it
is this daily Comnringliag of ,the various "messes" it
boarding houses, and this constant meeting between
thous who sojourn or board at the hotel.. that settee to
softer& the asileritilio of politics. and to'fantillarhe Jaen
With the propriety of tolerating the freest differentia; el
opinion. Around more than odd Hadar hickory, Arai at
the hospitable fddms aflame good-hearted membefi hire
we often seen assentbled the Whig. the Lleineinet. and
the Free Seiler, discussing the; most exciting questions ha
the frankest manner. and never yet have we bean wit'
ness to a single angry dispute. Over more this one
steaming bowl of punch, or among thi fumes of mttlilz
tedinone legato, ha.. the abut opposite opinions been
proclaimed and discussed, and rarely with asperity an&
bitterness. Efuring many "a long walk on the arena.,
or into .the open country. have the principle.- Of the mt
spettive parties boon compared and criticised, and id
ways With kindness and generosity. The dew membets
With his prejudices thick about him, come to Washing
ton, and soon cease's to regard a difference of sentiment.
a cause for personal ill will of his opponents. And why
should not this be se? The lot Of two htindted and
thirty-three dierithers in Ode Manse: end sixty iu an othi
er. is to remain at their poste almost an entire year, all of
them absent from home. and the most of thent front
faintly and front friends, Here are men from distant
California, from Oregon, from Minnesota. from NOW
Mexico; fr om Arkansas. from Florida. from far off Lona
isiaha, from the regions of St. litvireuce, from the tit
este otAroostook, from the Mississippi. and the Woe.
-What a state of things it would be, if. during the long;
cold. bitter *inter. and the tedious summer soldier. such
Men Could not speak' to each other without quarrelling—.
could not visit at each othem' querters—iwr reciprocate
each others' hospittAties j Congressional duties haul
quite clump bitterness end heart-burnings. quits enough.
tlt labor and self denial—;whed properly discharged
without introducing Into social intercourse the venom or
malignity, and the uncharitableness of intolerance ft id
only because Congressionai Society is organized on lib.
eral and correct principles that the discussion in both
branches are generali t y conducted with moderation and
magnanimity. Wherever there are exceptions to this
,the Chances area thousand to one that rite erica.;
lusting parties never have had en opportunity to Weld
each other, save as politicians or as combatants. When
the representatives throw off the cares of the day. and
mingle kindly together, the better feeling. of did
heart find vent, men look Upon each other =friends and
as brothers. Still it is not to lie denied. that the Witt.;
once of the Members of the different messes, one ripen
the other, is very groat; nail men are lasperwiPtibly
tinged with the notions of those they are dicustorriett to
meet several times a day; and sometimes Induced td
look with too much forbearance. ripen principles which
should be uncompromisingly opposed: We haveknoten
more then oue Dentotiat 54 much aocristorned to certain
political paradoxes as to regard them with ati
once wholly at variance with his real duties add feellogii
The loss and gain, in this Tien. however. are prettl
well divided. and in the aggregate the result is a great
pilblic; good. Thus, the 'ultra Southern man ilectinte#
cognizant of the causes which sometimes teal men fa
take issue with him: trout whom "better thitigt Were ex
peetette, while the man of the ••liortlx Countrie"illitore-^.
Cates more fully the reasons which Often lead id excitel;•
ment among *.those who represent the Slave States.-- ,
TWA incalculable benefits flow froze this state of *lnger
itrequires no argitmont 10 prove:
Hans! CLAY was all Winter and *ming a guest at
Willard's flue National Hotel. lie is fond of seeing Mot
friends. and his presence at the table d'hote, always dirk
fused pleasure arcend hint. He spent much of his time
in the Ltidies' parlor, and was the favorite of the mend!
of beauties that sojourned at that house during the odd.
season. Mr. Wszsren has en establishment on Y.:
street: We behave: Ciehoiis boarded with several
of his patatinal friends at Mts. Iltregt; near the Capitol;
and thete hechreathed his last.' Wiernanr. *fibs House;
lives irr style with his family. rind entertains handsomely:
CoToYtel Beetos has also ahouse of hie med. Braker
Coos has a forgo estabfiehment. Where ire &gen'
see a generous hospitality. The brothers Kaki. Whig
members front New York. mon of Wealth ma taste. as
they are, are sttrrottnded with all the Worries eflife; sad
frequently welcome (heir colleagues and friends Id Breit
residence. General Its.st.sr, of the Harem; chairnian of
the Committee of Weyer and Means, ham his own estab
lishment. ; bunnies Srsyms, who is as fend dein
good things of life as any mail:has rented a house and
furniture on Capita? Hill. Pantie Boorzi of the &gee;
whose recent speech against the eornpinnsise. Wail CO
lastly and generally Odesire'ncleil. lives hi , handcar:May/et
There ate doubtless others whom We cannot no* ineat.
But the great nesse of the ntembets Of bathhouses prefer
having the constant society of their sequaintancea and
friends, and occupy the boarding-houses with wider titel
Capital abetment; or sojenns at the hotels. ix the warts
weather eppeoliches, her/aver: thli shaded streets West
of the Avenn'e. and the coy littlnplactes en ''the
are prorated; nod. eld doubt, long haferathisethei have;
generally gone into Summer quarters. •
Bummer at Washington is dull enough. Wield it boi
hot here. the heat is powerful; especially to thole what
aro compelled to sit during a long and trying easeiorti
every moment expecang a vote upon seente lamertatrt bhf
from which they cannot be absent 'the gay belles of the
' winter are gate; ?be delightful evaders* are ever.—;
Now and then, a dull cabinet or Piesitleettnt ousels
varies, for a few, the tropical monotony; but generally.
the scene is one of unmitigated dullness. Chitersictudlyi It
is trim; Oten'ingS ere agreeable; especially Whoa the
residents et the city turn out to sear the Nivel &rid tikr•
courts awyst music on the grounds of the Capitol. or the
White Home. Have you over been mammal one of
,
alesscenisaf- They We vets! pleasant: tat the de.;
scribe a few of the characters that frequent them The
tall, portly 1 math with whits flair. protruding:VH.4nd
rather heavy faCe. is ions M. Cc...taros. Pretntef. of the
Taylor adMistration. Ile is In conversation WA' one of
the few chiimpions of the President. Senator Daireoni
Georgia, it line-looking person, but More an' agreeably;
than an arguumutativo spa - Aker. The next person that
would attradt ylcour attentied would, tratmestletably his
Thomas Ewing, Secretary of that aiergrown monopoly
of power and patronage, the Home Department: Nit is
a face of groat Character; It has the sepreeslon of an
common obatieuicy. said indite'se ability of no low order.
To a Philadelphiais, W. M. Meredith need not ha gsa
scribed; but-yaw will notice the tall, ston‘ratberelovenj .
iv dressedgentle man, now ceuversintetith Mr,eliltudier.•
His countenance is agreeable and Ilia marbliffiteasingi
but he looks, even now. as If troubled *lain tlglyprob
tem of Seance. Henry A. Wise is hero I That is he
with Wit hair, just turning grey—The gulch tisahlag .
eye'—thero heavy brow--the large mouth. end tether tali
mitt fragile frame. Lie' is now a feeident of Accomeer
Virginia, and has jest startled his old friends by an' ant
dress in which be takes ground in favor of some of the
moat radical reforms that ever enteted the rnind'ot en
ultra Democrat -in the Constitution of that Mete. about
to be set Mitten tfir the invigorating process of a popular
ConVention. Wise himself; if told some years ago, that
he would over support any such innovations as he flew'
proposes. would have deemed the prophet a Ng fent&
pain,. . But you must make it a point. If you visit
Washington' dark/the somtner, to come on eau of these
attested evening. yourself. and we will be gladia pet.
out the notables feet your obserratiots.•
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