Erie observer. (Erie, Pa.) 1830-1853, December 07, 1850, Image 1

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VOLUME 21.
Eitratr.
A. P. DIT.LIN & •CO. PRpPRIETORS.
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CORNER STATE ST. AND PUBLIC
SqUA4E. ERIE.
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lii rale. of al the °glop. in advnrir.
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"1, ii will paid la advance, or ridttria time maipths frau tbetiroe
a, Ain:116114% MO dull.n. wall he charged.' '` .•
'lil crdead:h le Mica] I , mu 4 14 win paid,
ADVERTISING
RATES OF
Ppnl- net rxerNitog I lil.es i cue 3.car.
66 81.00
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LSO. ts , 4I•IIICM 0 9
s's , do. Viret• Wubtissc 3,1111
Thaw a.lt crtifeinrots.UrcrlL r stquarr. of fifiren the.: or
rr ti c tomtit uctr. ti erup , to Cu Hl siihrequent
, , arl yen i,er. hate ut champ pieniure,
,sl .1... arc ~11, , A i ;.0 tx, u Naarc., sad to
ce,.' , ri , , , ardrate
11 eV iietitarii:g Miler dircetiorm trill lie Inserted till
surb,d audellar‘rd bcr,)rtilitgly
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WM. S. LANE.
Atternop and Counsellor at Law.
T. etolt.tioplry, tinny dud 'Navy Bounty I.and4 and
t. t atti and oH t then tmidtr er cutrugmed to we shall
nr. prt•m; to nd jolt qu'. tem ken. -
•. 1:14 , ,ck 0.14 44LC I.4,L•tt. over J. If. Fulletton'A
I r Ent! Oct. 19.
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.• 4.% ts,l Hewd i,en;rr, in Dr% t;oett,,Grceeties,flardware,
t i ,v ;r. t "41, :.at ate.. corner of elate itteet and the
eq...ite, tie it the Co rt
.\ • GILEN 11. KEtINE, '
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u;. ":...o.t. CI:1111% (.: door on lawn! rnnicc. OS
• • ULANTII '61%N.F,F011.1). • •
:1, , r oat' ta.tatlonmAtnlllao.factorer of I.llauk Book, and
V, ruingiAt. corner of ttP. Dino:mad an.t xt,Stil Ot el l. • .
t 1 L: • J. W DO (;I,ASt.; •
.• w— t :SLAW Street, tiger
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DrttrstP is 1 ,1, !. tia , thrace.rrr.ckrry, Croce:ie., and For
rerr. and bonowilir !.,.your',, find Arall , •rncrlrrr , of
lLerd Hurler , nod corOar of Frepela aka' Peon
Eric. Pa.
W. 41. ( :1/11,1f. i„ -
•rt . .o* & Cann.-eflsr nC ((MCC No. 2, rriff WM, cornet
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fidi.llllCl , lal [Ter! , , • xtrmatipt Attenlon
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J. B NICKLIN.
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1 . .Tr1t,7.11t and 6.'11'1 11.•.1.1..r ilk Dry (:4 ' .utl.'l‘. Grucer'l 4 .
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FoRMERLY Tll. r..a. Publ irsilxAte
Env, 6z,:ern Wq..tylrit aticl Southern t11:10, °flier.
T. W. :11(K)11;_:,
n EA /Xt . roi•erec4.
4.. c„ No 6, Poor l'eu-ele) Roo*, -twill, lino.
JO t $Ali K
Corionizi•icn 31cre'in'ot. on Dock, rain or
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not ,n.vanfly fir •a!e.
J. ; it. 1%.)11:1.1.1161,
111114 , .r Eirh.lrze Ilroker. Isealer td ftillokof Extol:11120,i
of") ,ii!Ver &c.. 4C.
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1111 N 3A.NtIN - 1-)ENN { I S () N.
All '"asT AT LAW, n h. O— UJ ou superior rim**.
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va" - SrhoOli lion. Rieliartl rietetiqr, lu:lLacc st..ll4 , qmi;
11„ Porkin*, Ill} litelsard U.
33 Wall *mg, ew Volt. i For testimenials. re
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MARSHALL & VINCENT,
A ;rows : P. LT LAW—Or:et. up alts lu T.tioluaily Hall bulliiiiig
tici:!. cifitie PrOthonctaTrA mice. Erie.
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A TVA VG. f All) Cnrxirt.tata. AT I An' —U; t +» er C. I. wrie..lo
: 4 21.7e. cutrattce otte door wcat • c r State atrtet, ou the Diattwari.
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-J. ILOSENZ I V EIG Co.
IV.in! riar W.; it, Hi l'uret4ri slid IMmHiie Dry
rt!l?es, &e .. No. I, rieni-
Murk., iii,VEsitiVt. Fait'. •
. C. M. Tnatfikl."-1C.4.
Ifttura in DSO Gooa#, bry GrCti::lec CrucSirj, Ilea% ate. Ice.,
Erie-
JOH N F:it Or.
lwr.t ra initrirocertxr tind Provo MRS of all i rictr.Stati street, three
4,...,1, north of the Diamond. Erie.
WEBt:Zi[=M
DeJil.elt in Dry Goods. Groeerres, Hardware,' Queens Ware. Lluse
Iron. Nails, &.e, ill, fleatenie. Eric, ,Fa, 4 . • .
WIt..I.IANI RIBLOw. - ,'
('s arsrr Nflarn rpholtitcr, and Vatic:tatter. corner of State an
eesenth streets, Esse. r
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ni ztria t. Forwarding. Produce and Vol • ts4ta Mertinuttpt dealer,
"tts , thlrne and One gra 4 t * o.li. Plaster ...htstgles, ke•Fiti.die dock,
West side ui tae ionize, k..'r ie.
Est.'s J. N. r t,u, " I
WALKER - '-
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tl(rriast. Forwarding. OA= 0.1 LI and Pt
11.4141 Ware-house east of the runt Hilda'.
G. LOO3ll de Co .
i-ewl.r.as in Watches. Jewelry. Silver. Ge'in Silver. Mated nut,
Brit:nog-LAY:ire rutler). M i I i Inry and FaUcy G oo d., o ta t.e at:m . 4 ,
nrarly orpowte the Lagie Hula, Erie. I ' I
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CAILTEIt. ..V. 11/Lo'i:ill:it,
'en , OT I -.• tsarist Retail Scalars in Dr agr.'.lledicit cr. Paints, le i .
I t)e,ttunr, Glare, kr , No. d, Reed Dowse. Erie. 1
JOEL JOHNSO),i, •
Mutts in Theological. 364.e11ine0u., Sunday and Chusie
Schoul'Banks. Stationary. kr Park Row, Erw.
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ME•• LW'. •
F slum six Nterataai • Tallur, uy aka puLlie square, a tcw • •
r.e.l - of mate stre , l.. Lite.
•D. U. CLAUK.•
Witot.r..t.i. a 'it; 'tyros dealer in Groreritr. Prowl Shi
rh.o , ir-w :lie. $c .I.e No. 5, 1t0m,,,11 Muck. Fait.
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Dtaler 14111'. SJnfieat, leglitiOlMideiliBtioixts Books flacaepar
tour Jests bdusgo the Public 64luire47:
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Rr.'.-v.t Ileist. , t: (Mice and &vett intim , the Beebe Week. on th
1.4.1 ine at the Public Square. Erie. Teeth inwletr on Gol
Flab, front one to an entire sou. Cori:ROl teeth tilled with pot
"W. and Intoned to health and ihiefultiVvis. Teeth clean
111 1 0 11114KUUlefita and Detiptiertwo at to leave them of a value'
Cearuemi. All work warranted. .•
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Firma.'" • VD Ott lottwN-01Ece reiliOnee on Seventh ntr
Oppo.itoise Monboxiwt Church.. E.rx.
JOHN N. BURTON.
wrioLys..E.l aim Rwra (kale,' in Drugs. 'piled/daft. Dye
Groceries. iicc. No. 5. ' red 13041 x. 141 e.
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Dr trait to Hats, ri Caps li
awl Furs of all descriptiaas. Vrta. H.
Rots •Esie. Pa.
LAlfa: kit o(SormemPlut reeekted Pet r•Vms
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'Meet must their vocation be.
Who ;shit tones of raelodi, •
Calm the discord and the sulk;
And i 4 modem& rush of Ilk
And with Urphean More
Things. inert 40 Uk ar.d loco. •
But ther'd awe, %hO float Inberil
Apge gifts and angel- spirit, • •
• Bidding atreauw of gladness flow
Through the real of want and woe.—
'Mid lune egelind WWII'S 104
Kindling pleasures long forgot. , •
Seeking winds oppressed with night.
' And o'er darkneia shedding light;
r3be the tereph's lore loth know,
She bath lean:ell their deeds Lekmw.
1 1 ,0, when o7er this faisty strand
' - the %ball clap their waiting haul,
They her to their breast,)
; Akre a sinter than a 'asst.—Wed.
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TIIE MISER'S .DEA -BED;
XI £1 LaIaLISIE PUTS.
The physician sem: Malty strange death-bed seenes.:—:
We maj redder him to ace in vittnt callous toll/sae
sights which would appalt stoutest heart: but still in
theesuree of • lotig•prse cit, even hit must encounter
some death•beB steno the recollections of which will
chug totint and whi he mat• be years in shaking from
his Imegination. Poch was that which 1 pm about to
eacrtbe,
For ten or ren'years a bent and miserable old man
had been iu m habit of clinging each morning to my
area rails to beg of my servants broken rituals. Hie
appealince wu so haggard, and his tone end manner
besting such a depth of misery, that I gave orders never
to else him any thing that iced come from the table; so
' Oat; at last, he grew into a regulir pensioner open us;
used to eipect him regularly every , morning as
oar breakfast.
The home of Ille old mendicant we never knew, nor
where he resided. In i factelie seldom spoke a word to my
*arrows; but he would come in the heat of summer.—
Then the warm ,genial sunshine even lit l the Worn flag.
shears into beauty, aad cling to the iron rail*, lookiug the
only tow:reMs, or at least the most miserable object in
creation. In the depth of winter. two, when the bleak
north-east 'wind blew fiercely and the blinding, snow
drifted shrough the air, he would come, and kill clinging
to the rails., wild, his raga flattered around him, wait fir
his daily dole.
'nil had gone on so long, that one morning, wben'he
did oat com,a. I fe:t quite *Deasy, and there was it gen
eral enqairy through the bedsits, to whether spy one
had seen the old man. The nest morning passed away,
and still he'-carue not. I began to think Ito most be ili
or dead, and wondering at the usu.ll hour for another
week, we began to forget the old beggar that had visited
os so lone. One morning, hoviever, he was brought to
my recollection again, eirinewhat singularly. '
I.sras told that a young girl was waitin: in my hall to
mr, and /Ding out to liar. ahr; told mo a Mr. Tom?le
canted rris as soon as I could go to lam. .
*.Where,dovs-lie reside?" I asked.
,She named a IoW, wretched street is Ballo; and woe
&rip a at the addrPas. I said— . ,
.."Who is Mr. 'fainplet" .
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"I tioll%. kIIOW. air.' said the girt "Hs lodges with
my mntheF. 0:r."
ere quite iiktre he sent for, we?"
"Vet. sin We didn't lino , * his same till this marling.
and hs'e lived with us minee I was hoof."
••I'dderd, that's odd enough. Is he.very ill?"
•
"Oh, very, he's groining so." -
• "%Veil, run back, and tell him I'll call as early as I
can in the .couree of the morning."
The girt departed, and about half put ohms I found
myself sufficiently disengaged to call upon my new pa
tient in-street, Soho. The house was miserable and
'dirty in the salmi* and, upon iskiug for 41r. ToroPle.
a alip-sfiod,' grinning , . looking woman screamed up the
kitchen stairs—
"lt's three pair hack!"
..The what?" I said.
"The three pair back; to be sore," replied the women,
just showing her head on a level with the passage.
"Can't sou show me his room?" said I.
••Whoetre you, I wonder?" screamed the woruen.—
”lioity-toity! Show you, up. Indeed: Perheps you'd
Like a mole candle, too?" .
Fairlawnly declining the bindle, I ascended the stair.
case; surmising that the three pair beck multi be up three
flights of stairs, ants back room somewhere.
When I arrived et the landing place at: the very top•
mast story of the hooie, I heard a low moaning sound
'proceeding from a room to my infs, and pushing open a
low black door, I entered one of tht most miserable moms
that I had ever seen.
Furniture. it had none. A cracked water jug was
upon the door. and by its side en sarthwars saucer. each
as are used for garden pots. In one corner ley et whet
at first saNieared to be a m a n of rags. but the groans
dist proceeded from Amongst them tofd ale dist &bums*
being wss aerie.
"Has 4sii comet —4ntshe coner' minks ihiti voice.
as if struggling with pain:
••Did tarn send far mel"said I.
**Thieves. murder. help!" soddenly cried the me,
voice. and from among the mane or rap and IShb, a twig,
skinny On protruded. grasping a pistol.
1 awn I was a heels alarmed. and said hastily. "1 as.
' I "You—you hare come to rob me. then?"
you: Certainly not."
"Bat—bat—yee know if yen had—l have Nothing.—
Mind. nothing—nothing!"
"Is year name Temple?" I said. -
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`,lie!" he.creamed, how do you know , that? No, so
am a beggar."
"A Mr. Temple sent for me."
"Stay; stay! I'utett the door;
-- phietillie Jog quince
i it. Wewe shop he rubbed 'eke. Not dug 1 hese any:
I thing to lose. No. no; lam miserably peer, wretchedly
poor."
"Then you &braid apply for assistance, where You hays
a right to demand it. "If I was le give you a:prescriptions
you could not get it made up for nethiag. ye. know."
"No. no;" he replied. know. LOA at me—
look, doctor. kWk." •
He rrised himself on his arm. end ( in Om this, emaci
ated fee. of =yet:tinge patient I isseogoisad the old beg
gar that used to cling to my area rails.
"I de recollect you," 1 said.
"Tondo nowt"
"Neel your same it Tem . *. Is it wed"
"TeMple!" he screamed; "who says My um* is
Temple."'
"Year owe uneneager."
"Thee-46ea-1
most bee raved."
. "What cospeer love yowl" said I. •
Mewl,' • be drew ids heel hen seder de 'nip. sad
klieg ea ed wreaked pieta de* free hie riereled
bat. be sed with a deep visit—
SATURDAY MORNING,
••There—there is year (ea."
"I do not require it of you?" said 1.
••Yea—you ore sire?"
' Quite sure."
"Then. 1--then I will keep it. I n't ten any one
'you dart it, or Isbell be robbed!"
Hai thatched the 00111 spa, • withdrew - kW Om*
r. attenwated bond and arm. I • ad bee by his whale all.
pomace that he mutate g from want et aonrishirog
diet, aid Isaid—
"You most 'pad at guinea to-day. Is Minis wine
and arrow-root."
"doOmoo!" b Mi. "what gWineel I hive I. geld.
Do yal want fob roe? lam in. 1 base 1 ass in. Tell
-me what'd e matter with me; bin rabid ase tbisig—"
s•W is that?"
"1 on net dy—dying. Mind that—l am not dying.
NO ticket dying!"
"Yoe *ill. though." said 1. "if yes do sot take some
nooriabio'g thinks."
(Ised his glassy eyes op my las is he nattered—
"Doi you think half spiel of permr is really necessary
forme"
1 laighed sad said , 's bottle 'flood port wine. you
-man."
"Wine!", he cried. "and I so wretchedly poor--oo
miserably poor!"
"Do you know." said I "1 began to sespeet—"
"What—what?" he cried. '
"That es are not es poor as you offal to be. Have
you not some secret hoard, now, that freely need would
make the remainder of roar fife comfortable?",
eoWhat. gold!" be shrieked, i'yon do not think I hare
gold?"
"Yes I do. Yon are a miser."
"A miser?"
'e yes. "
Ile fell back on the bed with a gasp;
.thin, laddenly
springier up, hescusamed—
••Thleces: thieves!.--help, help, help, robbers!"
•'I shall leave you." said I, "if you make such • noise."
I The door now peeped. and a vosree man pat his bead
into the room, with the polite inquiry of-.o*What's the
row?"
"Nothing," said "the old mar is HI. and raves."
Oh, thaws the ticket, is it? Mos a roing all for to
assault the bucket et last, is he? There'll be a out fir
Old Nick!"
Hawing ;lanceted himself of this elegant opinion. the
man withdrew his head. and shut the door. When
turned spin to the old man, he lay in a swoon op his
miserable bed.
• • • • • •
I am clover without r#storativie about me. sad I very
soon succeeded io restoring my patient to his former
state. ,With a long drowned sigh be opened his eyes.
sod zed them Epos my fees with an esprossioa of mourn
ful intensity.
••How are you nerd! I said.
"Better—better." he mattered.
I saw that it was not 13. for a change had come acmes
hie &ice. and there was a peculiar gaze 'beet big •vss.
that tabl me be was dying. Impressed as I was with
the enovietion that he bad money secreted. which might
be.flier/les to Nemo one claiming kindred with him. I
did net liesitateto tell him his mai conditloa. .
-Do MR deceive yourself," said f. "you are dyieg.'►
He sprang up in bed with a shriek.. as if he /raid been
Ea:wauized
i.Dying?" he cried: "no. no, net itylne! Lm we live
live on„ though it be in want. Why elioulei-1 die? No
no, 1 cannot—will noilklie!"
It was dreadful to see the a7,itation of hie features.—
fret. scalding tears poured down his cheeks; he clutched
the scanty covering which was • upon him till the blood
started, and still he shrieked—.
cannot—dare not die!"
Then he suddenly turned to me, and clutching nay
arm. he cried. in the most supplicating tones—
" Save me! save me . !.—for the love of Helicon. SIMI
me. Hord me to the world. You are skilftil--savis
by your art. Look at me, a miserable poor old man. I
will kneel to you— Wu you—bo your Wave, but give me
life—life—life!"
I kilow that a few boors most eud tie •seene. - and I
mind the opikonuniti of leaviog the room. and getting
somebody in the Niue to fetch soma wine and brandy.
fur I knew that by stimulants steno could "the flickeriag
dame of life be kept illy* for the *ext few hoots
When f returned. started. for be had risen frornhio
pallet. and was kneeling before the wretched little skel
eton grata, which. bi hermit. had evidently not seen a
fin for years. He did rot bear . me. and I putrid to oh.
serve him. .f '
With !ethic effortig he wrenched from i9Oliute the little
grate, and ilea I iMw him eagerly elm at aemetbiog.
With • scream, he 'prang te \ hie feet. said. as ho did so.
e hemry beg fill from hie retailed Maid. with a teed elm*,
i l ispoa s h e door. •
"Wretched men." 1 Mid, pointing to the beg, "le It
for this ton - 61T tn life?"
Ii• tricd to speak. tut could Dot i Ilia hand clutched
the 'air wild! y. I attni 'ea late sounds kerne from his throat.
and ! had just time to catch him whet he again refuted.
I carried him to the bed, if bid it could be called. and
then carefully rephteing the grate. 1 lifted the bog he had
dropped, and concealed it under some misty apparel
which lay in a rotas( beep is one corner of the room.
F arm lotions t at be shoold Lee *awokems tow ba
guet* ids hie wise to some geed impost. mid 1 , with
MOO satiety. fel hisipolse: it mu bonie/ freely. but
there was a teieribly regular Fiction. I kit the room
*gale. and was gladie meet on the staircase a girl with
the *hie sad brandy: ktilik them from her. sad refers"
lil t poured a little of ifei raw, into the saisor•itsiesah.
Is a few !Bleat -11M 'cursing seintatias betas to *ow
itself. bat I feared ho way delitiana. for be talked strangely.
"They ars all dead pile," be tetattsred—"dead. I tell
yes ; Ilssy don't want my gal& Ws twelve yews
They see desd—dud!"
••Who ere dead?" I said. I . 1
"Hal" be cried. r. ••Who *peaks le me is the &AT °
"The dark!" Midi.
"Yes; the night its very dark; so eery dark."
I Imbed at his eyes, sad perceived that the . eight bed
gene. He wee Wen, lolled. I feared that his ether per
eeptive *shim would quickly feAow, fled I said—
" Tall matfett. Have yea any kisdredl"
"Kindred l" Is ',pealed.
"Yes; have you a child or a child's ebild?"
"A ehild—child?" be said. falteringly. ••beee I a
child's Child? Did my ewe little bine.eyed Emma ever
fomdle a darling of her ewe, beeause--beesese, have Batt
ey epee me—that Could be my child's child."
I shall serer forget the burst of.frantie grief which fol
lowed the.. words. Die sobs were terrible. Such ago
ny of serfs* I serer before saw, and her, to eve
spin. I free deeply "Ceded. Grief In the yOUDg i.
disUeseing. but there wait something awful is the heart
felt 'aguish of that whits-haired oW Una.
.Cake yourself." I said. CI fa my own vele* was
broke* with emotion; "there may be still time to repair
is lamas Immure the past. Confide all to nee. cad I pro
mise. before beeves, to do what I eau in feribersios
I hope, your Newly awakened kind feelings."
••God bleu and prosper you," he said Wady. "I will
Rh votes woo gritty Wit. mai I wiped! emir Wei to
Fifiloo. Mews with brokoh hobo aad RU tem. 1141
titimumildiflibpi
EMBER 7, 1850,
"5 bad a walk wirolvo 1 tared, sad—eada Fittta Woo
eyed thing, with a sweat langb, who was as happy as the
day Is long, and wilt called her Emma.ly wife; the
companion of try young days, wasted away before my
eyes, aad died. Then 1 was alone with my child, ray
little emit but there came • chilling shaded actual my
heare r and I was unhappy.
"At last it shaped itself into a form, dad &varies be
came my passion—l hoarded—hoarded all , but still in
want, In misery and privation, my little chit lung to
me. and loved me. The pleasure of childhoOd sh nev
er k,aCer: playmacis she bad none; Yet lb* a uagt• 11,
&MI idea grow is beauty. tea. till abs was sixteen; tbe'
eon Joy abs bang upon way seek and told mesh, was
loved by a mem youth. I knew hits. Hie genies was
his only possession, and I accrued him. Then one day
he came to me; and site, my child, my Emma—it was
her mother's nittue'—lkey knelt at my fest, and asked for
my blessing." .
flop's/tad. for his team choked his utterance, and the
scenes he hid conjured up was too tune* for his feellap.
pee him same wise and be proceeded. ,
"I turned tisdas Nat nay door--andgid saved my
g °h "
/ "
"And what bemuse 'of them?"
"I Jett the place. sad came totoades; belie nuts met
swig the ousel, mad Mid "
ftWltetr , .
"That my child—ea Emme-4mthaew.....“ -
"tale gene." I .
"Ns--told ma et she was deed—the little thing Iwhe
atethe aeetle i y Invest; be said she bed died //Mew;
in `dine bi r to • child—simiefe wet." •
"Con that be trot?" said I.
"flult!" he cried. "heat all--Leas all. Ifor yens,
bsebead—ho. to" they said. bad kissed hit 41144 amilthes
starkt s grare—sod I had ova my gold:"
**tan did you bear Gab?"
lut Gme I elan to the millage of year &Mao.
Siam) then I kayo set mated food."
"T ig he I "year F.aipaata &ilk, did it heat"
maw sot."
" Wham .did aU this itaireat"
IniAt
"That hi a smart piate sear
*.."4 1 1,ud your 'dough toeffiesbaudis agate?"
yi•Vias Darbam." I
inanedietely formed resolve s mid 'bing o timid,—
!•Be calm till I "sutra. Tab a hula wismomaiMMally
and I will mod seta alarm Mid "Oar rarsahissaats.t°
"Take with you the dross which has boob My ides
traction." he mooted; “taliviibe cold.".
"i will retura saes." aiticl,
I honied Irma b. 'mom Medical lowa haaw4aty
of ism's. and la half sa seat as 14 shi Osais
with aselheia• sad had; W. I hurried ha.. IS my
wife.
"Mart,' laid I, '•I am ping to —."
.
"To where?" i 1
"Don't ask oto any questions. but cyan with me, I
hare ordered posi horses. asd ws shall be there w thin
three bolus, they toll at.. l'il tell you ororytbisg o tin
road."
••: • • •
g
awed foot hones and a won pail risings de .
Ad4ll/11 sound ..-..--, i'ealled to the drieor—**
"Is there a wokkhouse at.—?" -
"A workns?" he cried. ."Lor: I thinks as &are Wit;
hot there is at '--=. - A irrkoaf tor!"
I told the whet story to my with and iliiihad at:once
suggested au hog ire milts workhouse. namportain lithe
l i e
child had_ _heed or died. as th• parioh must ; hoes beets
cognisant of the whole ailair„ We sow rattled up the
workhouse don, and I wait itikered foto \ the m tor'a
room , •
"I am, Dr. —," said I. "flare you a child lhin
of the Dams .f Durham?" .
•
"Yes, sir," was the issmodiate aeswsr.
*•Tbatik Mayon." said I. **What is it. a boy?"
**Pio. sir. • girl." - ' -
. "its age?"
"Aboot eleven. sir. TIMI tab we bad to the
mother, and the tat* drowsed hinsiolf." ;
"Win you trust tho child is me?" .
..1 g ars poi. air,"aaid thafiss•
"I will bold roe hanuloss.**said I. "You Mow me
kr name."
The roaster hesitated a, ensvosat. mad then said
-4.1 wall sir. WiP pra Osseo to take a seat a momelitV.
He was scarcely lair minutes goair i‘ whea be returned.
piading by the hand • little girl dresittut in s blais stair
(owe ef five coat:aria age. and s Wile pinched up 'orbit*
cap. Mae wee a beautiful little thieg. with mild Isles
eyes, sad a look of earnest Mill:city opts her face,
which I admired my math.
••Thuds you WO said I to the •ator—"You shad
boor from am to-morrow."
Ile bowed. I took the little erpttert by thif bead, and
led her to the chem. The moment Lappeeted at the
workhouse deer. a great crowd that had tittife ameembled,
greeted me with a loud hurrah.
I beaded the child into the chase. and rollowed my
self. „ , •
"To Loados," said T.
“Ilurrehr shouted the crowd. end sway we webs
•'•• * • •
I hod beets five biers .seedy whew I entered the mi.
sees reeve with his daughter's child. He wee
sad the settee told see he bed be.. quite dation,.
felt stefinie that it eras his lest sleepy sad I nnetion6d the
child. *bp was a seest•tempersd. tractable Hid, thing.
to start *oily by the bedside. while I waited for, his
awaiiatung. There was a dead educe for *beet &Toas
ter et unless. sod Owe be mattered in his sleep--
"Tee. darlisp—yeq kiss see. my We Emma! Sleds
yee—bless—bleee-.."
"Are yen better?" I veld eddy.
"That's or.—," he maid.
"Yes." I replied.
I am iamb better. thank ysa." he mid; ..1* fael,eptita
atm' mut wen. I had a pais. bat We ism; sad it's
wig sight'? -
I saw by mese Wangle sip that be anal tlybig. I
-••II." I Mid, ••yeur daughter had a child. It weslif in
herit an yaw haver
Swallows.
SWAMI In Sweden, at the approach of cold weath
er. plunge into the lakes, and remain there asleep, and
buried under the ice. till the reitore of epriag. Then.
awakened by the nursing heat. they leave the water
and mane their usual flight. While the lakes are fre•
see. it the ice be broken in certain placer, which appear
darker thaw others. the swallows ass foetid la largo noes
thins, cold. asleep, and half-dead. If they are taken out
end warmed by the hands, or before the fire, they aeon
begin to exhibit signs of hfe; they stretch themselves eat.
shake themselves, and soon ffy away. In other planet.
they retire late the caves. and under the rocks. &twee.
the town et Coes and the sea alone the leaks of the
Orne, there are many er these caverns, where. daring
the winter. elutes of swallows have Was foetid sus
pended, like Mechem of ramie. frees the root of the ow
era. The Baas thing has bees lug age observed in
Italy.
ET Tim Cooetitatioosi Commies of N. Haospohiro
boo voted to strike out of ibo Coostitatiso lb. clasio fio
rds; • religiose tea. sad tlio chum rotithist prop
otti looliEsailos for .Ik,. h *about Oro! •
THE DEAD 8A AND THE JORDAN.
We descended by a steep pith into the plat a, and. pas
sing a pool of stagnant water, surrounded by a mess of
king dank weeds, rode through a row low thorney bush
es, and reached the margin of the lake. There was a
hard pebbly strand, strewed here end there with' drift
wood; bare trunks of 'trees, withered and dry, eovered
with a coating or salt; small lumps et some bitami anus
subetaate was scattered over the beach; we afterwards
foetid *arena other pieces floating on the water. Ilia
water itself was clear and limped. the sue was 'reflected
from its surface with a dulling glarm viewed from this
point the Sala Lutho, as the Arabs ceded it, lest nothing
\
o its gloomy aspect. Gilt, on out right hand, by th e
der ngi/of Moab, a continuation of the craggy heights
we ha just quitted formed the barrier en the right, their
black biltuninoua cliffs rieiog abruptly from the lake.
which stretched far before no is the dietetic*, till its lead
en hues were blent with the hasy haa of the horizon—
waste, water, crag, monotonous blest sky, the sole com
ponent* of the cheerless landscape.
nested and fatigued, we prepared for a reneral bathe;
at least our private party, for the pilgrims determined to
reentrie their energies for the sacred Jordan—am Lake of
Sodom 'being held by them in humor and abesnhaatioe.
utterly unadapted to the ends el cleaslinerm or eutifint.
as WO afterwards ascertained to our met. The bad order
is which the lake wee held did net, however. deter us,
and having called a halt, we plunged like young ducks
into the lignid, element—Paulo clucking like an old hen
on this bank. We plunged? Disastrous wan the plunge.
Rapidly enough head after head 'popped up from the nz
tiers* waters--hair spiatted, eyes smarting and tongues
barging from !be intern? sulphurous biller Illilloll4s of the
detestable liquid in wlali wetem immersed; water it
was siot , nor bitumen, her eel nor sulphur, bat a die
guatitig compennd of ail . roar—a hogshead of It would
serve as an emetic for ell Aiia 111:nor. and leave some
gallop.. t. spare pipeline +. west epidemic. Yes' could
neitbserniek I. it nor swim is it. Talk of a fly in melee
sea, Sr aweip in a barrel of tali - -L pas find sto parallel
fat a bath in the Dead Sea. .
i
I ,
1
I breiglithotne a bottle of it. and sickened some snores
el my acquaintances. Bat the :Wrenn' of my compan
ions were a trine to whet t I felt; cat and maimed in con
sequence of my saperior homemanshil. I insarld Thus
The Water as raw as 'beefsteak. ansl.juniped out aril as
if I were flayed alive"; however. let me be ,just , to this
abodoisable mixture, if I smarted for it, mrsoutuis were
well taeterned and completely akirThed ever: The curse
was perfect to • miracle. We dressed with the condon
able "sensation of men who had bees will coated over
with mutton suet—stiff, Crean. and extremely nate
ikerta* with a tingling. creeping feeling over the ehia. Wad
ersumestieg. tennis{ oar steps to the feeds of the Jades.
Crosiiag the plains towards the right. we reached the
banks of the river. which burrows. in It. Mae= come.
far below the level of the plain—the dense thicket of
bashes, shrubs sod trees that grow oat of its waters in
many places scarcely oak-top-ping the hack. The stream
is very rapid and the water muddy. - Leaving the river to
Wore its meandering% we arrived by s shorter path, at
the celebrated fordo; where tradition tells us The best of
Israel trod dry-shod through the depths. es the need re
tiredliefore the ark of God; nor is it impretiable . that here
John the Baptist was baptisiag, and that here our blamed
Lord. so he came out of the watent/iermined dietivtialitt
seal of his ministry. -"when the holy Ghost is I bodily
shape like a dove came upon him. and' a voice from
beams Which said, Tlicin art my beloved eon, in thee I
ors well pleased."
At this port of the river the tousle are low, and nearly .
on alevel with the stream; here, elso. the river is com
paratively broad, and shaded by'trees which row in
," ,i
greets abundance along ill margin;; near the bank the,wa- ~
ter is shallow, but the current excerediogly rapid; on bode
aides the stream is bordered by a 4iensej thicket, with a
few open intervals; the Jordon willow it found in groat 1
luxuriance. The fortio of the . n odded being the grand
termination of our expeditioth our l yilgrints. Who had ta
ken only a devotional wet at Mae Sabo.inow prepared,
with hafiaite gusto, fora solemn ahhition Jn the sacred'
river. The Arabs bad driven sta l lions* into the' water,
andwereswiminiag with them in great glee, we. tee,
got ready for a bathaims to wash oft the nastiness of
the Dead Sea. Sc ely were nre denuded of one scan
ty clothing . when o our dismay , we fOund ourselves
fi
sunnuided by the body of pligriMe. who had unexpect
edly debauched from the bosheii uniformly arrayed in
white. Nothariag any idea that it wai customary to
dress fee the occasion, and propriety, forbiddinges to in-
Wide in a slate of mature on' so worshipful a company,
we retired. wide no befell precipitation. to a more seers
deed, bat less favorable spot op thel honks. -
The scene was now high ly amusing—horses flounder
ing and snorting midway in (headmaster. Araby displayed
- their hopper colored limbs as the'y dispelled themselves
amongst the tiny waves; pi ears. in bridal array. dock
is& diving. grabbing for Stlail.shilia.feigreens pebbles
in the bottom of the stream; hindkerchiels, caps, and
unknown articles of apparel. wisle and female, were
washed in the holy river, alt Consecrated habiliments
from that day forth. Some Igeigiighted deter:ow, had
brought beads and armlets from Venn/dom. td be trans
formed into amulets and relics, bylimmension in the Jot.
den. more bottled the water in large tin flasks; °them
plucked willows from the river side; and& few took sub-
Maeda loge to be manufactured Soh, trinkets of divers
aorta. consecrated all by contact With the Waters. lir feet.
pleasure. profit. and devotion were curlew:ay blended to
getlier—theanaxi m that "no tnaolcatt aerie tw• masters,"
'being carefully kept out of sight. ! :
Propriety. I think I said, compelled our misty-to retire 1
• tilde distance from dui piece Where the 'mensal have
boom endeavoring to describe. was esactodt but propriety I
played sae at least of her votaries in unworthy trick. II
was following .a companion acres* the river. fee had
gained the opposite side, when the current caught m!'
midway, and giving up the glory of the enterprise. might
and main I was obliged to Istrike out for the bank I had
just left. flowerer, the river god, being uopropitions; I I
was hurried incontinently down the 'tremor. and finally
deposited on a shingle bank. (1 broth to record it,) near;
ly at the feet of the fair pilgrim who represented - this
gentler sex among our body. Here the water was too
shallow to swim, and the current We rapid to permit my
coming to an anchor by any other expedreet than
that of holding on to the bottom with both hands. My
feet were both pointed at the ladY, and my nether men
bomping uneasily against the loony shelf on which I was
so deplorably stranded, added bodily torment to mental
anguish. What was to be done? Decency, of Nara.' ,
forbade my getting on my legs and rmiriog like a Chris
tian biped, while necessity forced , ins to hold hard, ass
ineander downwards to the *swot Sodom might be at
tended with very 'emus consequences, eyed if escaped
shipwreck in my onvotaistary voyage.
Se there I lay coverrd.as well as adverse oireemstaaare
would admit of, in the muddy water, my face scorched
by a burning sun, and my ad tipodes threatened moons-
Way to tome amender, from the inceseent jerkier( of the
inexorable stream. The fact is, I was in the "negro of
a bobble." And bow did the fair lady take it all? This
was the unkindest cut el' all. On; for the propriety. the
delicacy. nay, the sympathy of woman! She positively
looked es as if nothing extraordinary was the matter: I
might as well have been a Meek of wood; also neither
regarded by imlplem emaditism nor expressed osmosis
oration fee my parplexity; ape she dumbed 4 pear
ionmpla wensan t ft was a sayirs Esieraal bad e and tbat
NUMBER 30.
after the custom of my country, I was paying resiecb to
C,a venerable object of our mutest pilgrimage.
Be thaw it may. there ley sinhappyl, a wady/ to ay
modally; while oho. for whom oaks I suffer* oelmely
contemplated my horning countenance. asd so hot as
they were banded her, immersed garment after pf . 11101114
in the water. consecrating. L verily believe. the wardrobe'
of every female trio od, kiuswoman.or aeqesiolaaee as
pasteesed in the world—and these. so I bad roma is
retuewber,, were anything bat few. 11l kid bar Usk
wan fignaked.iand after_takiag as extra dock Gs her ewe
especial bentept. the rot/gees wises bow& bee to dm
bashes, while k 1, scorn/ed. scorched aid parboiled. MD
dripping front the : river, fervireariog pilgrims lad Pit
grimages from that day forth.—Dultio Voirsrligg irse
aziae.
Love, Babies and Butcher Bilk
There is probably no bissiosesie which cosmos oda@
is losi heeded: toss its that a less. The asesseat seri
tallest° dlaik of "map bloseeme," Ora mitasentebto
bids farewell to reset*, and pinups into a sort of Irsoacy.
from which ill the eloquence in the world caasettstri
. ,
call her. ' •
Driving a bitalkey horse is a plesseat-buoiasee.,asid es
is 4111 01111110 to wets ajeckeas from thistles. I* what
are!fistalkey bosom lied jack:Nees sempared to this "see.
idiom" of a girt who. tom "get the devil is bet head."
beams* a' yam( gentleman with haw awake sad
bright ' bloc continuations, gem upon the cellar door Mr.
tier' night and pours his lore into her ear through the me.
ch .
than of A four.and-nine-peouy lint*? N ' kmg—oboe
-1444 nothing:. Difficult is it is fora fresh
assessed liberty pote,'with % kicking boy i wissath.
we ;should much 11001141, ge about to leek for phi
name's's, thee to bunt lips girl with an !aimed heart
that would listen to "good advice," or who amid kola&
tit believe, for one.monient, that the sajeimeate of ibi
hymeoial life depende4 at ail at the frequeacy of bread ,
or the price of butchers cleat. Even prodisale hue sot
so hearty a contempt for mosey as bare these whom Cu
pH! has inoculated with the vitas of "beatific louhry."—
Asithey hare no appetites while they are courting, they
imagine that their demands for corned beef sad clabber'
wait sywiye find a substitute in sighs dud hugging.. Hew
they (deceit's , * themsehoss! Although love I. a boy of
limited appetite, by men takes to roast beef like a% Alder
mar. But area grant that marriage. like ostirtaiip. could
feed ea-notes sad fattest ea a aeosgav, bow wink be with
aka Hanriefe, Peters..lohns, and Matilda Jamas that are
fetid to spring from it? Plill they thtak Too. Sta r a air.
sod rest esti ed with angered andearmouta? Tar from
it. ! Child have so 'septet for the poetics of life, led
mach p er a ,paotry fall of pee to all the velvet esiati.;
moots at even lloore's Melodies abound with. Thasi
re • mit know will be termed "shocking" by away a
,
nu raus,r--bet shocking as they 01111, they am tree. we
, of them will diecever whet' it is too late to head
the admooitious Which they coutain. N. state is life he.
more ease for a fat pocket-book than atarriage.-44wirg
D4armata.. 1 ,
'- . Young Ma .
?be idea is prevaint in some esaseinakies. dot
yetis; man are fit neuter for vowels us mateemes. bad
the t they mast be kept In the buck gross& stud their
,physical strength km lespalred by me ! and Sulk inters.
nisi faculties become blunted by Team tiles leek to
the history gibe past, and from the leog list of heroes
arid itatesuieit who hero nobly distinguished thenisolts,
wii shall 81,41 that they wan yeses men who 'performed
Woes eele which base Ina fee them an imperishable
r
ee
nand of Time. and their atone bigh so die pogo -
of history. Alexia or the senqueror of the whole eitik
zed world wiz; 'Oren ..Egypt sad Asia. died at 38. Be-
Depart was CTOWSSd Emperor Ornate when at.. 33 years
of ige. Pitt. the yeomen brodier, was about OD ys.m
age. when, is BritalesfarliatnAint. be boldly' *teemed
the cause of the Amor#esa Cideniem sad hut 118 whoa
me& Chancellor tithe Eseirequen Xdainned Berke:
et the ago of 48. was the f t Lord of the Trawasy.
Our own Washington Was *l5 whoa be aimed the
retreat of tbo British at Braiilock's defeat. sad was ap
pointed to the command ie./Ibis( of aa the Virgiala kir
cei. Alexander ‘ lfitasiltoaoit A was a Lisaionest
Colon! and Aid to Washiiigton; 025 a member of Csa
gross. and at 11 Secretary of eh* Trusiary. Timor
Jefferson was but 23 when he 'drafted' the ever memor
able Declaration of I iicl 'paladin. At the age of 30 years.
Sit Isaac Newton inciapi • the mechanical chair at Cam
bridge College. Vngland. ring by his wind& diner
erica. rendered his same i • mortal. , .
ermit.
It is Dialed in a Thomas a, Me. paper. that them km
reeitied for a number of y Is past is the beitkpart of the
town of M liinite hill tot the aims of Barret. Ha
hie theek is a Cave , the rk or his owe bead% dug it
this bank of a small tie r. sad carldelly s e e ar ed at the
artrance spinet the ht mice or wild' beasts. by a lags
Lie. selficieteetty h o llo w to admit of his *staling. He
nieces every Itlad or Ina ry which may be °Swahili'.
the fruit. or the earth t at grow 'nand him being his
'rely rood. watir hi. en drink. Sums his ratiremem
ham the world. ho has- spied the Bible twioll, emboss
pripor. and twee on the lbark of a birch tree. \About •
yam aiuss he sieved tram hie "cave is Monteith, farther.
into the woods. the ileuntry having become se mach
g
li
*tied around him at he was &gaudy sinn h ed
viiitors. He was the ob of a reipectable farmer is Mae
sachneette, who obli d him to marry a wonme he dis
liked, he having pre iciely foto* PA attachment lee
Nimbler. Halved wi his *ifs two a sheet thus. when
he secredy hackie nat we ' tows forldaiso. sad took up
h* albedo is the wit "
1 41 44 137* '
'he midge in I in village la
umber of the ak rth militant. pt
with Mr. M ne of hie Meth•
naughty things. declared he was
e hop; whereupon
cherish. en whisk wiskawa ha
r as apology. The proper time
I -
arose; and addressed the limb •
Old Jr. 11--,
Maim, and whois a ,
in a passion, onp
ern, and, amain oth•
not Otto carry swill to ,
him rained beforird
was riumeatied to make
having arrived, it
eraser follows
"*.My Chri,titis fri e
injured brother 31
I did say he yin ant
lacier take it beak. Mi I
eaudg gualifeed It
hamlet
deemed satiatatitan.
declares to' thie day,
tope. that be use et •
Imam Matte.
do, I did fool that I born dooply
for which I ass heartily sem.
to - eon, swiUto do hop. sad I
firmly of dm *pink* skit ki ip
Ant aim.**
• a clean breast; Lis epoisa was
by all but brsther
at be hoik H lay is slow
esiTy sadist lire.
"Tsai." .aid as i • • admit wag to a clumsiest top. .4
beam a beautiful c who wishes le main peer sw ,
vial mem?" ' • /,,,/
/
"Desaid g lad le haar.k; ias.gitl, streak with r 4:
L 'appal*. ell?"
"Tes:Tory mach so. Ithsathisks yoel aseiesysepi..
tat playmate for bar poedla-tieg."
irr The Chatiewas aforctrzy peitheitee s '
the Legtshttore of South Combos, jai fay (be ustele.
lishosest of powder wale. Atestirise br sh. emegme ey
eassea. sad factortresf gamtorwerie out peek elk by
the way et totting** aspartame( aim prima kit
ttis niiiin.rwilits woe Woo it Olen *oars bo
peatiesee from the ,weta," awl rtabhobili "Int dew
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