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A. P. DVRLIN &CO., Proprietors.
VOLUME 22.
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A. P. DURLIN & CO. PROPRIETORS.
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OFFICE. CORNER STATE ST,
1 • SQUARE, ERIE.
TERM!! OF THE PAPER. !
City fibers by the carrier, al I Oa"
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or at the office. in aavanee. 1.30
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rr I not paid in advanee . or vithin three months front Xlte i line
of su ribing, two dollar" 11111 be charged.
gErlill communications mini* lan paid. .
RATES OF ADVERTISING.
Cards not exceeding 4 lines, one year. IMOD
One square 4 as • 10.00 •
do. do. six month,. - _ SAW
do. do. three months, , 2,00
Thanstent adverthementr, 50 cents per square. of fifteen lines or
less, for the first insertion: 45 cents for each subsequent Insertion , .
LTVeart y advenwers have the privilege of changing at pleiedire,
hut at no tune are allowed to occupy more than tvto squares, sad t•
3. Grated t• taw sanaisduste business. i
A drentrethentr. not having other directions; will be itise T ed till
halm] and charged accordingly.
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BUSINESS DIRECTOrir:
• ARBUCKLE & KEPL R.
prAT nt in Dr) Good.. Gmceriv, Hard ‘‘ are, Crockery..llr.e. No
3. Perry Block. Slate 1 , 1 reel. Erie. Pa..
R. M KIN. Q. , ' 4
PI Want rttALE and Retail Dealer in Tin Hate. Copper. Sheet Iron.
' Wye:Brass Kettlep,.&e. Alen, ntannthentrer of Tin. Copper.
and Sheet Iron Ware. at William Deatt)4 414 stautl. nearly
iinorth of the Conn flotnte. -
A. M.. JUL/SON,
Arroittav AT I.sw.-0115ce at present an the Chronicle °Mee, in
Wright's Block. -
J. %V. DOUGLASS.
ArroinnY Uk et & Origin's tialiking
Entabliohtnent: entrance flri door n evq. on Public Square
• CONIPTON & tIAVEILSTICK.
Drat Ats in Dry G 0.1741,, Groccrl , V, I.IUUOr , of all Aim's, Crockery
/ke.... one door SOUth of Sahib Jaeltsou!s "lure. French
bturt. Erie. Pa ,
J Courron.
0. A NDRE.
Agent of). Andre Offenbach—Depotof Foreign Ml'Sfir and inn
slew Merebaniiiie, st holmSe mid retail, No. 19, tdo. Sall lit.
ab. Chestnut street, Philadelphia. •
-N • Vli. C. BRNNDES. •
Pnt.trlA• and Scairon--tnitce corner of Slice and Seventh
' Streets; Residence on Eighth' Street. betneen French and
Holland, F4ie. Ca. . . .
T. V. MORE..
to Groceries, Prod , t. ion.. Wines. Liquor.. Candies, Fruit.
die.. line Door I,elow I...ann la ilk Co's State street. Erie.
M. SANFORD do CO..
Dealer. in Gold. Silver; Blank Yme., l . rafts.—Crrttlieat.'s o Pe-
puni t &e. sight Esch lige on the vine spa; i e dies constantly
for , air Office in Beat ye Block. Public Square. Erie.
T. 11 RON STUART.
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F, Rim's AND PIIII4ICIAN-4 nfice, corner of French and Frfth
sums. over Moises Koeles store. Residence on 'Fourth arm.
one door east of t'ie old Apothecary Ilall.
7 it. I'. sI'ERRErr & SONS,'
H. vulttanilv on ha&l a full oupply of ~Grocerirg. Lig::ora; Ship
Charollefy. Prot ',own.. Produft, Act . Ike : and Wile %Vholnalia
Or Retail as cheap na the cheapolo. No. I lu, l'heapoide Eric. i
WM. S. ANE.
.. Attorney and Coallow at Law. ,
Revolutionary. arm) and Nay) elisions, llootity Lands and
Nauss for eitra•l ay. And all to Irf.rusuties entrueled to we shall
rerets e prompt and faithful atteidion.
Ate in .'right's 111,..ek on State street, over J. Ill:Ftlllerion't
Erie etet. Isl.
LALRf)& RUST,
Want ro u r Dealer. hl Dry Gluctitolroerrarcliardirare.
Liquutr. Flourljipti. Salt acc.. No. 1. IVriglire Block cur
4er of FIIII and State etiVels.
NI I / 4 1% LAIRILI,
GALES B. KEENE.
rasttiohsble Tailor, moms over the -.lore of ernith Jaekson,ebeap
CUTTING 11. me on short none..
OLIVER SPAFF'OIII.). .
and diattaitonee; and Polatmfaeturer of Illank.flooka and
Wrtung lalt.e • ter of the Diamond and Stith Ita-ect.
J. B. NICKIAN.
Frugal. and general Agency and Connwasion bultinewo Frank
lm. Pa.
ft - t ' Ft: S 'lt E F.D.
Drrsti in English, German and Anicrwati Ilarda are :moil Ilt1;,r.
Also. I Nails, Amil 4 \Sires, Iron and Steel No. 3 Re et
Isle. Pa. ;
W.I. FrLiiiiiLF.
vnr.s. •s. Carnage and Waguti Builders. St:at...Street. !,r,
trreeu seventh 4 Elghth. h ne. _
L. STRONG. .M. 19.
eine,. one Door wept of C. B. Wrigheii !tore. lip stairs
• DOCT. J. L. S ITAVART,
Gimes. 111 nib Dori. A. Seventh near SaAsarras street. Reli
oidenee. on tkastafrao. one door nosh of Seventh ot.
C. SIEGEL.
VriaaLF.At.a and Road dealer in Grocerier. Provi;anna, Wines.
I,tquors. Frion. &e.. B‘c 77 Corner of French and Fifth Sireetry,
rivitostte the Farmer? Hotel. Erte.
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JOHN McCAN N.
wsto., I. a nd Retail Dealer in Famsly Groceries, Crockery
Glarmate, Iron, Na rhrap Side, liar. Pa.
The Illichept ',nee paid for Comor).Produe....rt
" J. (;oALDING.
bidenr.vr TAltr.t.itnd tiaNii Maker.--Plore, No. 5 Reed's BloeG
(opporitr the Bot.nell Block) etate Strect. Ow. 7
J. W. WETMORE. . -
.ITTORNEI d T LAW,
In 11,• keel, Office, on Seventh Street, Erie. Pa
HENRI 'CADIVELL. • ~
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Ix srrra,Johber. and Retail Healer in Dry Gooch.. G i ~
fror len., Glarbararc. Carpeting. Hardware , Iron. Steel. 'al a,
Fl , ikl l. 'So. Empire Sturm State Slice*, four dooriv,beltiw
Brow WS II(Ael, IP.rte. Pa.
Also—Anvilii. Vice... Bellow.. Azle Arms. Ppringis acid a general
asautunent of Saddle and Carriage 'Pritilutattp.
S. MERVIN SMITH.
krunaarrea Law sand /unite of the Peace. and Axes l t for
the xet Stone Mutual hafe luaurance Company--OtTice li_doora
nevi o( Wright' store. Erie. Pa.
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.GEORGE 11. Cl7l LER,
Artnitary AT Lie, Girard. Elie County, ra., Chtlect • s ar
other hunneon atwenttni to with prounitileas and diiitiatchl
JOSIAH KELLOG
ForwuJ.nr. k Coununanou Meretunn, on ale
Omit alte#C
rAim, Salt. Plainer and Whits Fish, consian
I. ROSENZWEIG.& Co
WWII MAT RKZAIL DEnufgo in Foreign and Domeatie Dry
(. - 4,d•, rend) wane Clothing, Doom nod Shoe*, Au., No. 4
1 1 1 Vright'r Mork , &ate weer. Erie.
IVICLIAMS & WRIGHT. ___
Batker and Exchange Broker- Dealer in Ball o( Ex haoge.
Drafts, ceridleatep of Ikposile. Gold and silver coin. arti rt; Ike.
4 , 41 c r. Williams' Block. eo,ocran
A of Slate-rt.. d Public ware.
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MRSKA,L4, & VINC,ENT, II
Army/vacs yr tsw—unfiCe up' 'fairs in Tanipi,arty lialltit 11 ding
Mirth of Inc Prothonotary's oltreei:Erle• --
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MURRAY WIIALI.ON, —
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kiln' WI AID COCIUSWLIA.I IT Law'—(Mite over C. D.l• lighllt
OlOre, entrance one door west of State street, on the Di oq.
1:rle, •
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M. fli; --.
TIBBAIIS. 1 ,
DrAt CI in Dry Good . „ Dry Groceries, Crockery, Ilardwa i /k-e.,
No. Il t, Ciwatnid Etie. ,I • •
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SMITH' JACKSON. •
Da a Lea In Dry Goal", Gramm.", Hardware. lantern Ware:Lime.
Iron, Nails. la-c.. 121, l'heapamic, ECM,' Pa.
WILLIAM ItlilLET. -
r,•ixer Mazza Upbulater. and Undertaker. corner of State and
Nevetith streets. I:rie. '
______E WIN J. KELS() 44:
0 t't r ItA L r. Produce and Conniiiponplerehantptierders
in coarPe and tin prat. Unal. Plapter. St); ngl s. lie. Public duck.
West *sae of.the bridge. grip. - • I
WALKER & COOK, - '
Oaatam. Forwarding. Commission aitd Produ; Mereharitaigee-
Dad Ware4sduse east ;at the Public Erie.
G. LOOMIS & Co.'
Du LIU in Witkehri;Je%elry. silver. German Silver. Mated "eid
Britannia Wake etitler). NI 'Wary and Pane y,Gootiv, ettate street.
nearly °planate the Eagle Ilhtel, Erie,
411. Lamina
CARTER. AIL BROTH ER.
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WanLaass.r and Retail dealers in Drugs. Medicines. Paint,. Ws,
Glam.. es., No. a, Reed linnee.
- JAMES LYTLE.
LYTLE.
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rAMMONABILL Merchant Tath.tr, on the public Pquatt. a'repir ....
- west of State street. Erie. - ,
D. 8. CLARK. . •
WRoLasAf.t Ani RETAIL Dealer in Gmeeries. Prookionir, PhiP
Chandlery. Stone-n arc. ke. s.llunnell Mock. tite.
0. D. SPAFFO U.
Law, Medical. scowl Miscellaneous Books stationary
tuk. &e. Moue at., four doors below thp Public spumy.
DR. 0. L. ELLIOTT.
Resident Dentist; Office and dwelling u the Beebe Bloc k. •012 the
East wit:of the Public dquare. &IC. Teeth inserted on Geld
-Plate, from one to s enure set - Caraoui.-' `, filled •et.'
Uold, and restored to health
unlit instruments and Dentifici
eicarness. All work taunted
S. DICI
PrtYSICIA er • ooltstaolos—pfllce at _
opposite the Methodist Church. Ere. •
JOHN• H. BURTON dic CO. _
WmouirAt.i mot. it "TAIL dealers to Drum Medicine*. uye. Otufg•
Grottier% &c. IVO. S. Reed House. Erie.
./CHRT SCISSORS— A very 'tier snick. hi
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T. M. Ann•
elert Th'etrti.
THE LITTLE BOY THAT.DIEIL
From the New York Tribune.
, I amAll alone in my slumber now;
And the midnight hour Is near; ,
And tke faggot's crack and the clock's dull tick
Are the only sounds I hear
And Fret my soul in its solitude,
BWeet feelings - of gladness glide;
For mi heart and my eyes are full when I Omit
Of;the little boy that died.
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I Went one night to my father's boope— i
Went Inane to the t dear ones all; i
And @Only I opened the garden gate. I
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And godly the door of the hall, •
My mother came out to meet her son—
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She kissed me and then she sighed, 1
And hie head fell on toy neek, and shevrept 1
Far the little boy that died. . i
-,... I sh+ll miss him when the dowers come I
, 1 E lii, the garde:n where he played, -.
I shalcusess him nave by the dre-side. ' t
' When the dowers !mix , all decayed.
1 shill see his toys and his empty chair, ,I
And the horse he used to ride; i
And they will speak With a silent speech ' t
( Of the hale boy that died.
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• I Silliil ice his liple sister again ..
Ruth her playintiecabout the door; I
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t And 1;11 watch the children.; n their sport', 1 I
Ak I never did before, 4
And if in the group, 1 see a ehtld ' 1
. ' -That's-dimpled and laughing-e 3 ed. f I
I'll look to we if Is may not he ' r'
' Tye little boy that died. 4
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We shall go home to our Father's house!. i
To ;Jur Father's house in the skies, 4
_ Where the hope uf our tants shall have no blight. i
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Oar lore no broken ties;
We Shall rove on the hanks of the river of Fe e,
And bathe in its blissful tide;
- And ore of the joys of our Heaven shall • 4
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ldie little Icy that died. r
poke 31fir
From Panatte Marai.ine. 1
TEB RABBIT ON THE WALT,.
BY MARIA,J. E. BROW NE,
•• 11 !ave.! a picture t•
CH AIM* I.
Tits fireiiile—ay, the fireside of the poor, the hiimble,
the obsC'ure, the it 'not the stage wherebn we
played those life-dreame, intd which are crowded t i ldes'.
ed scenes Fr .ure and inecieekt happinesie 1-- Is it Clot the
piece where in the warm and mellow-soil of the efiildish
heart, fferms,of virtue take root. and sparks of Venice
kin le into e quenchless .hne? Spring there Pot up
frogs the hearthstone of poverty. gleams of light.; which
flash skywaril, end meteor-like. leave* train Dl6l:fling
and wondrous brightness elotig their traeli.?—ii train that
shell burn on and on. i r long as the glorious monituents
of immortal iretiitii ttand nuerumbling 'and iontettering
—so long 's i ne leetaietive recognition. reverence and
worship of the beautiful. remains unblotted *ohs that
tweeze panoramic register, the human soul
Every depkrterient of sri 'wheretin genius erects her
I , l3orntnrc—scnlptura end paintint, masts, p.optra-, and
ecienees, delve to these wonder-workinz. ehnnet nnirnitta
practical whizhr are the eeowning atury of
modern devs, beer me witness
Stranze. it may be, hat it is also true, that genius be ,
comes stifled and auffonsted:in the atmosphere of volts?-
! tuoasness—l}ut it stsengthees and thrives, and unfolds
iinto the manly proportions of a ft edeales. capable of gi
; gentle lahern, when its sinews are developed by many •
1 lepg and fierce grapple with adversity : for It clines off
chnqnerer, tend more than ennqueror in the' battle, and
ithen mounts , upward higher and still higher. towards its
r•et unrealized conceptions of the glorious and the sub
lime ! ,
• Thad.fous, Me'Calloran. en easy , indolent and kind
hearted\ native f the e • old crounthry." was drawn an-
Inels'ilv int o the ti sof emigration. which earlr set towards
America.• tie ha n thatched cottage its Ireland to shel
ter his are!te, and is brood of little ' MleCalleries.
and 'his awed father as mother ; and he had a " Peaty
patch " bef l ere the cut Jgb, and • wonderfully large
and priiiinfitive - one it ; and he Pres so strong
and so goiod•natured ; he newer lackett a plenty of
employment. vastly more than \ he was wiping to engage,
from the neighboring landmemare. A very happy fam
ily was the MeCalleren's before\ the emigration (ever
seised the tinsband and father. Thddeui. wilting to la
bor moderiitelyi from morning till nit , to fill the hungry
a ot\,
mouths which sui frequently. and ever 0,14 pridq and
;oy. numr;rically . increased around his bOard. Bridget
minded the house and the children. and hod g moreover
its "smith:" as her husband wag indolent;;Sin skillful la
the spin nitg ollinen, every 'moment she cosikd • are from
I other cared , f iid her fingers busy in drawing e warp
1 ale wool. ler some of those exquisite febriZe, which. bile
they minister to the luxury of the affluent.Uay but • met.
.gre and isprgarly percentage. into the hand of the prodt .\
eer. ; i ' • - t V
Thadd us and Bridget were poor, s o metimes cr y
poor. bat their parents had been poor befern/them.—
Luxury as an abstraction they had no idea of. They.
were aeTtstomed sometimes to a • plenty. and anon
to a Nesocity„ of coarse, plain food. 'end they had
but little bmbition to contend with—a truth which might
be predicited of most of our depressed brethren of the
Enaeraleisle—the.) , lived on from day to day, borrowing
no superfluous anxiuties or alarms from the stores of In..
success iir mi s fortune. that • might peradventore be gar.
tiered anfor the future ; still-the emigration mania ppresil
iitto the rieighborbood, and finally seized Thaddeus with
its most Ariolent and defiant symptoms.
Bridget iticCalikren expos" totaled and.fretted about bo
ng torstifrom her lions". and exposed with he innocent
childhee„ and the ould folk, to all the tertersi and horrors,
and dalliers of a journey over the big waters ; she khalif ,
'•• evemsoul of them would be drowned a the depths of
'the seat and the 'rest .would starve :" and she •• hated
Amerilyy." and all the world but blessed ould Ireland,"
and shd repeatedly, dectered her resolution to remain be.
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hind"for better. fur worsen, if Thadily persisted in so
wild add dingerous a scheme.", • The old father old mu.
the‘w4pt bitterjears at the thotaght that the sods of their
native foileouldn't rover their mouldering dust•but Thad
dv aras:i tomovabb. A merica.in his eyealted become the
- El Doiado, and thithervrar I he; had determined to met his,
own- frit. and the unwilling (tees of • his family. The
excite,. imagination of other adventurers as l inneeent of
experinnee as himself, hodeinflawert his dormant fancy
fur nu d e in his life. sad he ;assured his own ready 'crede 7
lily. a,d tho , skepticians of hat reluctant helpmate. that
mouse! wee vastly plepty inAnieeica : that ix...tiding to,
the accounts of those Who had heard (rem there, it all but
grew pn the bushes, mid could bd had fay the picking up;
that u'ork was abundant at all times end eessone; and
some 'said it had been kerma to do itself ! Indeed, to his
•Villillil afar often th, other side of the wafers • it glowed
like the very Ophir.in whose streams Midas himself had
baths:A. tenting their, sands Into gild. .
"And I. it rigid ye are. badfiy BleCalloran I" said
ilnathe &LAO end
,bout-sick • gy, when :her husband
prettily iakoreeed her that &orange wait really Gamed
SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 6, 1851,
for the whole family, to the steerage of the packet ship
Cytheriq, and that militia • given tune they must all go
en board. •• Is it mad ye are. to dhrag 'us all away from
home. and grave to death the heart of the old mithei that
bare ye. to soy nothing of )our own wile and little ones?
Sure you ought 14 have more bean for tltem that wants
to lay their old bouts id blessed soil, if ye care nought for
TIM own flesh and blood." taunted Biddy, while tears
poured dowk her cheeks.
Bat Biddy found limit for this time. expostulation and
team were alike thug. Thaddy was bent coo going,
to "Amoral) , " to try his fortunes there. and to see if his
fine family of boys might nut turn out Presidents yet,
and Kathleen. the only daughter of ail the seven, might
pet. is bloottheig maidenhood. take the eye of some!dis
thilloisbed Pobismas. l(his idea of our social organize-
Aims was somewhat vague and chimerical.) and become
perhaps a peeress I—richer and finer than any of her an
cement had been ; and would nut Biddy McCalloran be
proud to be mother tn . & peeress No motives and no
discouragement,. moved him—America was the goal.
and clothing bat America could satisfy him.
The cottage was deserted ; the movables. inclu hog the
grandparents and the tieviii children, wore deposited on
board the Cytheria. attlehe drew up her anchor. unfold.
ed her while wingsi a, put out to sea, while a chorus of
groans and sobbing 6 t floor the mothers, end datrgh.
lora in the steers . which wailed above the jarringsand
oaths and tum oo deck. like the funeral song of bops
and all that omised -happiness.
The vo go was &atty accoMplished, but not till sor.
rowfal • patience' had' been penned in the McCalloran
histor.. Winds' wers.boisterous and contrary, and (trove
the ocd.ship far front her course. This was, however,
• .ly the beginning of sorrows. A mortal sickness broke
out in their .warming steerage, caused by the timed and
pestilent atmosphere. nod the fraternization of filth of ev
ery !Variety and description of loathsominess. It pros
trated every.child of the! kW:shoran family, and three
rosy cheeked boys. after a feW days oe acute and mortal
suffering, closed their) young eyes, and the lad' gpreitts
saw the dear and chsE rshed
, bodieseink to rise no mole •
down, down. into the:cold and fathomless ocean-depths.
Oft, what pangs iiind 'morrows wrung the heart of poor
Biddy. as she hushed their dying wail in her arms. Iliad
pressed her parched and feverish lips to the pesttlenCe
infected cheeks of her expiring children Thaddeus
was stultified by the atroke • and by the remorseful stile.
reproaches which distracted his weak brain; and made
him weep and sigh meet piteously: and while Biddy, with
the dauntless and untiring energy of a true mother, len
derly)and softly soothed the death agonies of her children,
in their Couvulsiva conflict with the king of terrors: ber
husband could only 4tand by her side and groan; and
wish himself back agein'in;Whet now seemed to his re
pentance indeed a Pa4adiee, the turf-Walled cottage Wine
in blessed Ireland.
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. When the third bild h"ad bean sent to lie long slain
ber is an ocean grave. the must imminent danger seeir..
ed to hang ova/ the oldest boy—an open-browed, dark
haired child, the pride and favorite of his mother. Phor
Biddy felt that her cup of bitterness would be drained to 1
the dregs, if this first-horn son, her best beloved, shoOld
be removed front her4ight ; and as she wiped the cold
dew from his iorelwtd, and moistened his burning 4,1
it seemed that the desperation of maternal love wuhld •
chain him to life. Math stood en one side of his mice-1
rabic eocch, with the'fatal anew all ready to twangfrem
the curved bow .; ti mother with her prevailing frdth
and conquering pray r on the other, and thi destroying
angel Was bidden to "stay now his hand," for Biddy
prayed with a wild and frenzied earnestness tdthe Saints,
the " Virgin," and jer :• Blessed Child," to be sure-1
for only thus he'd Bi dy been taught the holy religion of
JesoB, and she knesidno other way - into the Holy of Ho-
lies, until the turfy feat.
The gracious heart of the father who watcheth the
fall of the sparrow. autd listened' to the moan or the young
raven, and whose ear are ever open to our cry. read the
/Sneers purpose o ter soul, and for tn : sake of the
" Blessed Babe of ethlehem," the bet. was given from
the' very Fairs of d etth , back into the hosom of his mo
lt
ther.l
At last, with languid steps and aching hearts, and with
ered hopes, the einigranis trod upon a stranger shore:
Their previsione were all exhausted. their money was
near l y a ll " oat . , i 1 . 4, grandparents seemed to look
longingly at the " Potter's Field." as having left behind
them everything that made life dear or valeable. The
surviving children were meagre and feeble. sad pale—
thri hearts of the parietal were fell to the very brim of
hopelessness and sorroir.i But something most toil' done
-a shelter of some hied,' if it were only si Shed, must
provided ; food and t•mplist meet must be obtain, , for
in this land of boasted plenty--this larid fie ng with
milk and honey—" this land where mosey. could' be had
for the picking ep":- l ealss ! the delusiorti.'.--Biddy McCal
-1 loran was resolved Iter remelt* littld ones should not
starve. ' '
.it
any old building in New York
J ' they crowded into • hive already
air disappointed aid discontented coun
. the lapse of • few weeks the hlcCalloran
I as diminished' by the decease of the grasidpa
re . and near them, like a fresh bud, letd to wither be
ide a hoar and mod-grown trunk.they buried still anoth
,er boy. This latter loss. however, was made up to them
hi the advent of a fit and chubby child, whose enjoy
m t. when out of 'the mother's arms, seemed perfect
whit engaged inSramining his own wonderful little
hands. o round, mill son,• and plunip, and dimpled.
With e birth of this boy, things seemed to take •
more pros rocs tarp. Thaddeus, to be sure, had left
all of the in broom energy that had so suddenly aprunt
up before his imigration, entirely behind ; but he was
still a very kineend. docile heishend, and a very fond and
devoted father. 'Orly resolved herself into •.. Com
mittee of Ways au Means." and her invention. like
the invention of worn n in general, steadily kept pace
with every novel emerg iity. She could find work for
Thaddy when he cupid fin. none for himself—slie could
take washing end ironing f .in this gentle folks—alas
the swift whizzing of bar dea wheel was silent—there
was no spinning to be done in t e land of her unwilling
adoption. She could find •• turn " and •• jobs." and
"chorea" fur Johnny and Kathleen. A very thrifty and
notable dame was Biidget hleCalliran -by and by when
the Imam edge of her sorrow and disa...iutment hid
been kindly tirchilistited ;' and 'though h r brow more
frequently than of }pre contracted Inmate I - , and her
voice was sometuneit elevated to • higher key t an would
be admissible in drawing-rooms, she Managed . Leap
her house—if the pito of her abode might be di , ified
with the naitie—her husband and• her children "in cry
nate and tidy thrira.l' They were 'bandana, patche ,
to be sure. wrth all Loris of cans, but never ragged or,
filthy ; and if Bridgett scolded and fretted and " twitted''
unwisely. she was,!nevertheless, an excellent wife. •
faithful medlar. smile model in many things to bee pro
verbially negligent ciountry-womes.
A single room in a
wu protared. eel
swarming will
tryinen.
famil
. ; CII4PTIVII, 11, -
• Co tta now. Biddy. dirtiest." said Tbaddy. ono eve.
Dia when hi easn o l i i i n from Weds( in the streets. for
be forod no w that day. though his wife bad au
lack of washing wadi irosiag--aneogh to male her foal
Intl sad weary. for!it was a sultry sad sulfscuting eve
ning is seitbistrieserjratid besides. tbe Andres bad boss
*.usually uebudiie da sad,troublesesio, sail Wars pa-
Osseo bed ebbed althost to the Wu-inter merit.
[
MONIVARD.dej
She was not, indeed, se even-tempered and rude as she
used to be in the deserted home of the "ould coenthry."
and when Thaddy came in that evening. he found things
in a good deal of confusion. Mrs. MeerHoran was scold
ing boistorously.Kathleen was pouting and anivelliag,and
nieverin: her summarily boxed ears with her bands—lit
tle Mike, with tearful eyes and an angry countenance.
wpm rubbing off the smart. which had not ceased to burn
and tiogle.ever since a nseesureof military discipline had
been administered by the strong, horny hands of his mo
ther, in return for his snatching the candleetick from the
baby ; the baby was kicking and screaming out his re
sentment, although the snatched candlestick bad been
restored; John had sought quiet in the corner. and with
as earnest and thoughtful face. be Was looking delit
edly at an old torn picture-book. which he had the hood
fortune to pick up in the street.
•' Come, Biddy, darlint;" soothed Thaddy. "whether
hadn't ye betthiir give over yer scoulding the childhers •
bit, tnd be airy for • little; no good will happen for *could..
irg so much."
- " Au 1 reekno ye would Ise afther having as much
asoulding yereelf, Thaddy." retorted the irritated Mrs.
McCallorao. ye tied op from morning to night, as
their wither is. kith all their months to filtbosides.! Why
don't ye conthri'7e something to plus 'em and keep 'em'
quiet. whin niter a bit of nothing else hays ye to do?"
" ‘ That's what I will, sure," retorted Thad 4, ceuipig
down on a chair, and snminotting the children smilingly'
about him. "dome. Kathleen, and my little Mike, we'll'
hive some sport that will dry up your tears. and make l
you look smiling and happy again."
The ehildreniwere in a moment by hie aide. and be
began the performance of some simple , games and prank";
which very soon made Kathleen forget her red and
jug ears, and Mike the ,nsaltreatnseat be had suffered. in
tie childish heartiness ok their merriment. The cloud
passed.away frdm Biddy's face, by. and by. and she took ,
the baby in her aims, and sit Own beside her hue.
,
bind that baby to might join in thei trolly, and forget the'
Orievances he had endured in the Aemposary loss of hull
most untobverd plaything. Bat JOhnny was too deepltl
_absorbed in his old tattered. worn-oiet picture-book. to be
attracted even by she gleeful abouia that rung out froinl
the circle so happilir clustered together; at 14. t, hosrever,li
with ever-increasing admiration, he laid it , and'
with his bright face sparkling with ideasnie.llo drew io
to•the group.
• "I wish you would make pictures. father." at length'
he said.
"1 can, sore.; my son," replied Thaddy, "an it's pie.;
lens that ye'erether wanting—anything plase ye dar-t
-hut."
'The children all fixed their Wondering eyes open him.:
as lie took the Candle croft the . table and placed it
the air of a magician in Kathleen's hands, that shadow'
might be cast more favorably on the opposite wait. They':
Watebed in amazement, the mysterlons interlocking) and
hooking togetht of his fingers. , •
"Now look ti the wall yonder,' he said, "and let'l
see which of yelled! tell we fir s t whet kind of a .crstliur
ye see there!"
The children i opened their eyes eery Wide and round,
to take in the fern and dimensions 'of the wonderful beast
that was to be somehow inexplicably connected with the
strange linking; of their father'i? lingers. Ah! there it
cowsait!—A bead, and eyes, and e•re, and legs, just like
same animal. But what is it?" . t
"A rabbit ou he wall!" repeated Kathleen and Mike;
and then they all united in a choral of glad laughter, u
which the baby sympatbetically jeinrd, screaming and
crowing with a hearty enthusiasm, that won A Weill
smile to the f .ce of the mother, •t iii warned her tlfold
J .
her arms more ' ecnrely around hil l s, to save,him from tip!,
danger of a bou d into the air, in the very 'mese of his
simple enjoy nt. . . . .
"What mak I/ it father? What?" , earnestly inquired
Johnny. as the Wait still lay in bold rel . .ef on the wall. i
"Nothing, sure, only the candle *dimming through the
'fingers," replied his father. "Ye calf& it yerself, boy;
hook your fingers together, so, and hold 'em op 'twi4t
the light and the wall, and yell have asbute oft er ou n''
il
Mus's ed Cation in casting shadows wits to ire det
lightful to him h en any lessons lie had ever ?earned; all
the remainder 0 the evening, till long after 4. the eies Of
the other child'. n were fast locked in slumber, the fasci
nated boy amuse d himself by removing the light (Sop t
place to place, ; o throw the shsidoir of everything opor
the walls. He Iws stonisheif and - punted with the dif
ferent dimensi.: s and shapei of the - shadows, accordiWg
to the dill. sot Alistances and positions, in relation to his
littl - , !ckering luminary: Breathlessly inquisitive, JoliW•
y sought of thei ignorance of his parents, the elueidatiiin
of the mystery; his mind had been suddenly quickened
into vigorous a4ion, and he was not !delighted with his
' father's- explanation, drawn, to be sure, from the !mai
stores otitis philosophy—"that it was always so, and 1,4,
there was novena bit of a r resoo font, only it did so." . The
awakened intellect of the boy panted to know the 'aw l s . /
and the principles which governed those changes; l i til
wot.dered if anybody could render a more satisfactory eit
planation than his father had dotter he wondered if Iberia
-were any z booke in theworld that told about shadows, ad
if there were. how ardently he longed to be a scholar, t
he might ley up in bin own heart sich treasures of know',
ledge. . . .
It was not-until after repeated admonitions from hije
mother, that Johnny McCaliente could 14 persuaded to
go to bed; andlthea the inner charObent °fhb, fancy were
all hung about With shapes, pictures, and faces, and vn
rying shadows,i which changed and frittered marvellouol.
His dreamt Were but', acontionation Of his waking fati
cies; he saw Meet agaiti, with renewed wonder, the rab.•
bit on the wall, *oleander his enchanted gue, it eeemi.
ed to unfold into a living, breathing, moving thing. Wiai
it not the inexplicable. but spontaneous ootbursting of itb
impulse, which, though ;vastly remote in its relationship,
might yet chilli kindred with the impulse, which, brow ht
Pygmalion to the feet of his peerless Galatea, with a pinkly.
er that • form Lio divinely beautiful as the marble be Mid
chiselled, might no longer be passionless and deed, but
waken into th perfectioU of an actual examinee? 1
ir ;
From this ii•or, the Wadi.- hoar of hirge• tee, se it we
the soul of the; Irish boy seemed to rise above, his con.) -
lion, and to tabernacle within itself. The simple a ;
puerile engagements of the childish mind lost all i
charm', for bids; ho forgot the "chores" his mother ; -
quiied him to Air at home; he forgot the tasks his IPllle
ers required him to learn at school—,and yet. eturtehoisr,
his became in it little while, both intelligent and am
dons beyond the in 4 his years. lie mastered the
spellina.book ;with incredible facility, and then he trod
duidaiofully tha simple and rudimental pathway whiath
children are rCquired to tread. Ilia mind 'twisted and
clamored for the inbreaking of • stronger and cleMer
light; bid, his Parents were very poor and ignorant, alqd
u the lowest social position: yes, and his •teacher; silt*
'... , r an d ignorant too, and he waaleft to Pin+ ander in
jaw • retsina. because nobody understood or could c 44-
.poun , the asitritneut which would have rgiven viva..
There ,
whose an • i
don ass
desists. of V
a flame wl
hates's els
stroagth.
John li.
possoinion
Tore hod ho
midi the wall, the hearth, the pavement fora canyon. ; i
Now, he would sit hour after hour, throwing upon his ' t
slate iiingolarly natural and graceful outlines of almost I
everything within the range of hiS vision. The faces of
:his parents, brothers, aell,sieter, in their many varying
expresisionethe cat, the table, the tea-kettle, the chairs,
fancy scenes, both serious and eomic—groupings, rude
'and Undirected by scientific principles, to be sure, but
!strangely perfect, and original. The uneqiii,vOcal -expo
nentit of .'latent genius Ahoy were, and they seemed to
rub: Off from the psiet of his pencil, and to take Gam and
lcomiilineas at his •
His parents called him a "strange and techy child."
and kis mother, fondly as she doated on him, began to
chid* him asan idlio and useless' boy—good for very lit
tle dr nothing. eaten the family were forever in such
need. His father, Who was hinWtelf a worshipper of ease
and Idleness, had 'nevertheless:, a strong anxiety that t
Jolt; should be meet. and by !his industry fill up the
vacjkcies in the felony treasury, left by hie own consti-
Minkel indolenced Thaddy not unfreqUently threatened
to d4incoliss the ottinding slate, peremptorily forbade so
numb good-fort9mtping scribbling. and reproved his son
will a beverity,which brought a new light into the eye
of pie child, and sip:maned to his high and open fore
hekd a fierce and Miry knitting, before which his father
sokiitimes invo)umariljt quailed, but whose true import
his Wes too simple nd ignorant to read or to interpret.
Wliiiiin him was. embryo spirit full of lofty thought,.
utr4fined and hpalpable purposes—spectral purposes
th*s were, with o y a she'dowy and 'vague delineation.
n i
citiutused and mystic to hie own, as Well as to the appie
hentlion of his pareints. Pity but that some "John MI
, Inrieon," with 9,iitalier solemnity, might have stood up
isi kind et uditatiordof the inspiration with which the Irish
ckifil seemed midi:lived, arguing to the dark and insensi
tryti'parenie. tht j•God Rath bestowed on rho l:oath u
genius, and can} believe that Omnipotence hestowe his
giftdi„ bht for gre t , ifurposest What (Lid has given, who
ail dare to th sway?"
8.1,
.
Let us not esuinate Almighty Wisdom by our notions;
be issored we iseee•n impulse of the Divine hand, oper
,atilig, toward some high und beneficient end!..-perhaps
i a kind of reverence might have been .rowed for their
gift i rd son: but John was the.l , n of poor, '
unknown. ti.e
-t
graded Irish emigrant*. and tl o demurrals of the corps -
' real , the gnawing. o l f appetite, i were far more clamorous
an imperative than the irreprels,obto aspiret . ens of the
spiritual. That was a matter - holly intangible by grceoi
tinierstatidings; they did fully !Milo that the body 'mist
be 'fed, or starve; they knew trthing . of a kindied, bet a
Irofter truth, that the mind, with its marvellous hunger
ingand tbristings, canal. be i tiourished too, or if will
l i
starve.
Thew. natirelly enough, lost all forbearance for John's'
idlepropensities, - as they imagined them. and hired him
idle
out, at,. godd chance..to clean gutters and watch swine,:
toteaitV loathsome drudgery, from which the high soul J
iiil4he boy revolted and ,recoiled, and by and by, after
st ins of hard wordcbetween father and EOll, and an un-
Mrirciful whipping fur his obslioacy and rebellion. John's
;Wire of the 'pewees was left to, increase the rations of
lie oilier hungry Mouths—John's straw pallet in the gar
vet i -she dearest piaie in the house to him, for it had been
t .
tur,ped into an incipient studio—was untenanted, anti he
had dissppeared„ To one knew whither:
:.
At first they passionately cursed their ungrateful child
forf his deseition. jnef ise his labor began to be productive.
sin'i the possession of him a benefit—and then cape a ,
lin unnatural trairieitiou of feeling, and they grieved over
ithienceand unk gown fate, more bitterly than they wooed
lu4e grieved to 14y him peacefully at rest in the burial.
,
,
pl4ce. , ••• I
4. • 1
r 1 `,r ---
! 1 1 .cm Arrk n iii.
The year. whielh followed—years iu which no sidings
cline of the runaray son—were years of wretchedness 1
jityed to the MA t llleraii fairly. Thaddeus became con-' ,
Ifirined in his habits of illtlOlelle 3 , —'10 contiadted, more
-1
over, vicious.andiruineue appetites—wasted Biddy's la
biiously •gained pittances at the tippling 1108segs—itorgt4.
geired, and swore i and rioted mu the street:—raved, quer
relied. or slept, 8 hi:ne...4 miserable. linthwune. biotit
e . victim of intelnperance. . With such a fire kindled at
thOr root of dameitie happinese, no wonder Biddy grew
risligligaut„ and iyitable, and violent, under tie abuse she
eiddured, and ent suffering and burden, t•he was forced'?
War. Il ddy iit#C.iloran was thSrm with -a re ride beats
.4,ithunkeneas wis a vice she abhorred and omit/ by 40
fujeans pardon, specially when it took the bread froiu
14. mouths of hi children, and to rued her home, lot;
alp poor as it w at best, int, a haunt for a foul initial •
s
ted creature, Whit was her torment rather than her-help-
I
nixie. She hateo everything in life, except the smarm
of meagre. agouti I, tattered children, that kept comm.
sally increacagl around her— • r i accrcity of everything
1 1 eke, there's children enough andshe prayed paesion
at'ely to the saints' that she might die, only that het eyea
fopged for oue more sight ofi her "enttle and darling
Juliano, reihnny, an' he were yet above. g ound."
1 I .
;Darkness had thus settled heavily about the honsehold
oe the emigrant, when one wording in the midst of a unisy
altercation between Thaddeus Mid I.llady "for the posses
sion of a sixpence, the last they could command, a stran•
ger sudden!) haltarbefore the door. Hotdilities were
sispeuded to look at him. for he stood 11 . 17, ant silently
gazing at the coanbatent., as if he were 'rivotted to the
gOound whereupon his feet rested. Ile was a young.uten
oecoininitsding appearance. and hie whale figure exhib
-ited those grand and manlyproportto" which might
i
serve aS a model for the chiselling of an' Adam in rara•
diets. Ha heir was dark and swept carelessly back from
a . riery white forehead—his eyes were bine, and wore a
strangely spiritual ezpressioll.—and the 'lower part of his
fide facenres - conceeled by a profuse growth of black
I wlokers. ' Tao children, boys and girls of all sizes, from
ia ad oe fourteen or fifteen , down to a "toddling 'baby,"
l it
had when to flight, or been ejected from the &Mr in the
w i arm.li Of the contention within; mid there they were
frittetintsing...harmoaioutily with boon companions—th •
sviine that ware lolling add grunting in the sunshinal• z •—
letstinctively, they gathered about their naked le v( the
14gmenta of their rent garments, and then stole / timidly
up to the stranger, to stare in his face with yes and
; /
mbothe inquisitively, open. The pip, and/dogs, and
cats, and poultry in the immodiste
iteigfibe i t7ood, seemed
&Own by the same Magnetism, and rap ed themselves
i Mims indiscriminate cluster abOut him, e swine and the
I digs eiocting their
doses inquiringly and pang their
. ; filth-ladeu bristles—the poultry ex? essing their sense of
. t
11th advent of a stranger by steal y upward glances, and
a Chorus of cOntintious cackkings. The visitor kicked a
feW ofthe lower animals iside!to open far himself a path -
wit . to the door, and eu l y ti•ing his large whits hand on
the head of the 01 *t boylhe said,: •
"Can yogi" me w lives here, my buy? What is
yowr nirt? c .
f!T toy M.:Ce man," replied the lad, thrusting his
6' es into his oath,
:, - Nlad ars drape your fatiser and mother?"
• t•Why doet ye beg seutethiug of the giatleatau. Tom
,r-.
my?" entsrporwal Mrs. fdeCaUeran. /..plase yer heaor.
ids, we're &lye's:via( —all starving." she emphasised. "for
thSlna that Thaddy hicCalloran there, is sash • limy
er l ay &mikes baste of a hatband."
4,d ?Thaddy lied his stseid eyes an his wife, and was
Aland to retort. when the avenger stepped within the doer.
d and loqukod of Bjddy witbost noticing her hasbaed—
I - ;'Are those adi tour Oh ildronV.
honor, ist Kathleen is sway off is dm
Si 50 ♦ Y 11.015. arivanco.
NUMBE
counthryet service. and she spends all or gains is fin.
era; the hussy, instead Of helping her poor wither a bit."•
replied Biddy.. And then in a lower voica, she added,
''There way our mate Johnny—our darting eldesthoy—
the.child of his mithers's heart. But something bewitch.
ed him, like, and he took to ways we dtd'ot understand.
and now he's gone—ah! titore'n twelve years rgo!
reckon he's among the saints in hear . enr' • The long
sealed fountain of tears burst open, and the mother wept.
There wise * sudden retreat of the blood ,from the
stranger's'ebeek and lip—an e zpressionof marked agony
swept swiftly across his'face, and he wiped the perspira
tion from his. forehead. The mother resumed her faitui..
ly history in a moment;
"We. laid little Mike, the d'arlint; in the:church-yard
ykitder, where ye see the. blessed cross—and' we bullied
three boys the big krateM when we taMe from the
Quid counthry. Alack.•a.day!" she continued, dashing
elf the streaming tears:frum her cheeks with her rough
end brawny hand, "we were happy / l'n Ireland, but sure
we're wretched enough here: Arneriky may he a gOod
cokathry fur them that belonga here; but it's sure al! retc4-
ad 'ptace fur the like of ue!"
"You seem tti be wretchnd." refplie'd thesisiter,
ty; "wirtt cap be done fur yon?"
cap bear anything but that my iunocent childere
should starve," slid paddy. enstring a frowning look at
hem: husband; "It was ouly a wee morsel I could give
them for brealarst. and lafiver a bit hare I, tasted my'
self—"
*.S:iould you be Oita:fill to have all their' wants sup
plied, and would he be a in - magairt?" ssid the strainer.
puinting his long finger at TiladdY, who by this time had
melted ipso a fit of silly rov , eping. Ws" your coerdtrT,
and can do you good—win you pront:' , o me. Thadd,y4le.
Cannon.. to be a sober man, and a liiii.band and 'f+er.
if furni!h, your table with food, tZudiyour vkaildren with
clothing?." , •
The white Camas, ala-ed at tile ai.itor•with mute SOT
pri.4c. and ov..rlmed by ths veltatncucc . .„Thadd3,igtared
an to li>;ta .°Yet !"
''Then 1 - pront:se, thit b:forot:#6 sunseliing; this mug.
cre"tle and grief-worn w pi,an. with her childion. skill
be decently apparelled, 1 there shall be uo want Of food
in your hovel. B taking 600Ie
m}ite
riuus•ldo:wnz lisle priiiteJ prom from his pocket;
liand,ot them to B came to invite you to an 7 .eci
"to-&...ettliat -llall. Will you kileop
.otter, ttad bring Biddy ts,fore eight o'clock?". .
By-thie time, the injule of the Inch hose{ was quite a
pcent of eceitemdn'. utilities had entiroyceitied ibe
tureen the lineal:Wand wife, an I the children bad sum
in.tnetV b dditess tespiroach the streavr, and by ;mina!
4:lamination, di-cover if he were really "lava flesh and
blood." or a 'pint. They investigated his hat, his boots.
his braedellth, hi ewe., and his seals—they nulled his:
handkerchief from hts i pezket, and quarrelled fur his canc.
Aetonishment had b4ught Tnaddy back Into a somewhat
mare rational couditio.i, and lie was ready to make a
promises, if ro m had been required of hint.
The vi•itor doparted; but he was true to his word.—
B•fere the iiig:tt thed.whole family ware tidily washed
and ead,,a hetaiin3 the easy or.all their aged and
less fortunate neighbars, and stich a dinner, such a plen
tiful dinner, as that day came to their heretofore meaty
and in, sere . ble bdird--;—urely never had the young Mc. ,
etlloraus dreamed of so m,snv luxuries. Biddy's eyes
oyerlltiwed with tear/, and she declared isesefactor
could be none other that St. Patrick himself. come•dowa
Crain Heaven to si.,il 'theta.
The ev , iiing came. •iit) after a variety of bribes and
sumo more decided . 'suasion," Tommy we, induced to
the omiger children, while their father and mother
went away. With lijghief hearts than they had carried
bosons since they came to America, the Irish
enitigraut and his wife widlted! peacefully, even' loyeing
ly, throngs' the strecta, till they reached the eutmace of
gcutleinan at the door received :heir
Li ck e 4g, and n.liertif them into a room, so lofty
and iii Laze. and timiiple ndsdly illuminated with darling
gam-lights. that they were bewildered • with surprise and
curious wonder.' Amidst all the throng that densely
crewded.the room. ~t irincr admiringly at an array of est
i:ol64lW delineate la'aideotipes, *Lary figures. and group
ings of human beinita, PO perfect, one might almost fan
cy they wets hviuq and breathing on the canvass, the
istranger who had visited the. McCalloraos in the morn
ing. spied the ahriiihing aril diffident pair, and muadr •
way throuzli the crowd of ticaut• a:11P fashion to
'Curtlinliy sta!titig. hands ;vith them as d th
=
feii that they hid kept their word,to hltn, and ti
used to relleve theic.ein'aarrassiilent and confusi
..
Icading them from pscture to picture,. and expl:atuiswein
'afterroother. with Nil enthusiasm which absorbed / Ih', r
more 'attenpion, and excited their amazement far more t an:t
oimderfuf genies embodied in the scenes to t ieh he
, i iiiught to attract them . He maiviged to keep eta ;en.
gag: l d till nearly all the vpatora arrived. - and Men he , led
them: to a picture- which had been conceahlt by drepary:'
and. placing then) Iliture it. he eteppid are paces 'laid*
vt
to watch the orkluis of their tiouotenan aas they gaz
ed. wfille {erge r drups of perspration gathered on htifure•
head. . ,
The painting represented a family group. consisting
of a mild and happy looking father and mother. aurrdnud
ed by four in)ous looking children. The fingers of the
father were curiously interlocked, and the eldest boy was
g ni lig with rapt earnequees /in the shallow sarich fell
from his father's fingers aud/took the form of a rabbit on
the opposite 'Fall. .
1
Thaddeus and Aridgettitared intently at the vision...—
Oli. bow the scroll of Memory suddenly sundered its
clasp. an I unrolled itself faro back iyto the pages of the
past! Ilrailziet drent'll'er hand actor her eyes. as if she
would clear away tae mists from ler dizzA 4 recollection
an dMen sio ki &O
ng wn uud..r the w r i ght 'tither emotion.
t
she said, softly—.'
.
.
"There is % 3 i own self. when ye were my sweeteart.
In the days when we wins )ouitg and happy.Thaddy !W-
C:shoran. and Chary it our swat° Johnny. mid there nil—
,e,,, th e7 ,e % baste twit heivizehedjiim! and there is my
litle dea Mike! 'lrte fee their'. Ttradd3l Are they
spirit?/ Oh! 1 must clasp them!'" .
Before her huaband-had nine to reply. she was folded'
to th • stpger's heart.
• .0
1
WO no mother!" hesnid, with a quiireringlioice.
••5 h. hw I lured. 'and still love my niother You do
ot rec gnire in me• ythir run-away - John and yet I ant
the sat le. Deer inOther , dear father, the 'child whose
genius, was wakened into life hf thairahhit cM the wall of
our cottage. aho has been deitil to :iou these Many yelp.
tiovielands before remand Cod has given ham the will
and the means to 'Asko all 'oisr future lifu calm nod bap.
py!ll..ook at me. mother—n na I not your son?"
no recognition at the rm ii! court of eharaoh'sconld
u
hsve been tendeler or loom melting. and in the
coon.e of a few dot MeCalloran, the artist, seated
with his p olished and graceful manners, amidst
I the rude and
\ irticultivAted grouipw ith whom; he claimed
concrogninity, in the neat and comfortable home, he hid
provided for Mein. lie related to his parents, how he
stole' on board a liessel bound to London—how he obtain
ed. afler a while, air inertial employment in a picture
gallery—how he •hippod the power Which could
throw such fife hke.,n 4 glowing forms upon inanimate
canvass—how he felt ,i,he same unquenchable ;genius
flashing up in his own bosom—hOw many strange / and
efid vicissitudes lie had encountered lend conanere&-how
lie served _an irish - g•ntlesronnin for his gaily bread—
how she discovered and fostered his genial!. sod with
inuitificentlenertwitv pent him to Italy, where the peer
less bliisellings of lrramilelea and Midi's. Canova and
Mulled *trio. and the immortal production of Raph
ael's irtripiked pencil. had been his stogy—how the beau
tiful pictures they had aeon were creations of he own
artistic skill—how the scene of the Rabbit on the will,
• rearsero enacted within their humble enitege. bad burn
tid itself vividly Into his memory, and haunted him tin
he could no loriger Prbear throwing it on canvass—and
hew he had money Awash to make 'helot ail happy, if
they wens virtious,—The parents forgave thi fOl l / 1 11/41V
hoe the reset of sorrow end anxiety his absence had
caused. and wept over him shearers of tears—luau of
pride and jar, and unoterableYes, and with
the logos of such new tiappie:=maos M i me stud
discontent dewed their dusky wiNwelid flaw away,
and the Irish home became the she& iit pirte4h Pr°sl l "-
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ity and peace. . !
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