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'OLUME 23.
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4 t. P. DURLIN & CO. PROPRIETORS.
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BITS MSS DIRECTORY.
CLARE di METCALF:
Waiaccuir and rrtail dealers in Dry Goods, Carpets, and Dry
Gourmet No. l Bred !louse.
~ WILLIAMS at. WAIGEtT.
Earlsa Collectors and [healers in Gold and 6ilver coin, uncor
raid--oney, Land Warraiiiir and certiticatiraot Doposite. Mao
Sight 'raft , on the principal cities of the Union, and all parts
of the d Country fur sale. (Alice, Willoune' Block, corner of
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State-et:, and Public &ware.
.7. u. WILL I•Xj
J. G. &W. 1., MILLS.
litroa•reks and Wholesale Deniers in Groceries. Wines. Liquors,
Cigare.—Also, Foreign Fruit. Nutty, Pickles and Pickled Oys
ters, Lobsters, Preserves. and Hertuetricatly Sealed artit:les of
every description alwats on hand. No 3..Wilnum's Block,
State-st., opposite Brown's New hotel, Erie. ra.
J. G. Wit s, New York. Wm. I. Ilduzs. Buffalo.
Also; receiving en their season. Oysterain shell. from J. U.lMills.
lley-st., New York. m hitch will be sold Wholesale at low prices.
A. C. Jsciroos, Agent. Erie, Pa.
DURISN & SLOAN
Daarmal in natsiral, School and 5111rertlaneous Books, Blank
Books, Stattoncry,aud Priruer's Cards, No. V, Brown's uew
Block, Erie Pa
4. P. DLIII.III.
.W. YOYN Ck:LL JOHNS CON At. O.
Osswe at his re.idepee oft 6th Street, two doors West Of the
Episcopal Clmrch
T. %V. MOORE.
DeActit In Grocerie4+; rfoYit.loll... W Ind, Liquor, Cindles, Final,
tc., OnA. boor WPM. !State street, Eric.
• JOHN B. COOK,
Ds • tr . * in'Slattle k Faney Dry Goods. and the Greatest variety
of any Store in the City. Cheap Side. Erie. Pa.
TER RETT & GRAY.
/lIPOILTCRS, Jobbers and retail Dealer. in Wei and Dry Groceries
Prot mons, Produce, Foreigti And thintertie Fruit. Woodent
WiEnW and Stone Ware. Flour. Fish. Halt, Glass, Nails. Pow
der, Shot, Caps, Safety Fuse, ice, te. French Street. oppo
site the Reed House. Erie. Pa.
N. B.—steam and Canal Boats. Vessels, Hotels, and 'tirade
Pimilits supplied with any of the abOre articles watt prompt
ness and verycheagt.
WM. S. LANE. -
Attorney and Ckomeellor at Law.
OFFICE o'er Jack.on's store, at North-East eoraer of the tub
lie tzgoarr.
Erie. April G. 1051..
I/U(2IOILS ttt.k.btE& S *ii .
Patcrnnan Physician+, and•Purgeons. (Mee and Residences—
Seventh k rtassafrap Streets. •
(Ante tours. from 7tb E., A. SI; lto 2, an: 6t07. P. 111. •
A. scar. a. L. J. L. rfeWART. M. A.
JOHN 11E.1.104 & CO
tolwastivia and Cointaiacon Merchant:, dealer in Opal,
Flour, Fi'h, ~nd agent tor a daily Isaef upper like &eaglet*,
Public Dock! Erie Pa.
LIDDELL & co.
I "2”,IMIAIVARMWVASsi NW-NA' itimeintlr4:—
AMERICAN EXPItt.S CUMVANY.
Otto' - Rprocved to No. $ Reed Block. State Siren.
Eastern Eaprear ctcrics at l l ceriock. A. M.
WesttrA " 3i o'clock. P. M.
o. D. • 'IN Agent.
GEORGE J. MORTON.
(Late nj On firm of J. Hearn *cc.)
Foawitpixo aud•Cououicsioo Merchant. rublie peek, ilia, Pa
Dealer In Coat. Salt. Push. Flour and Plaster.
*A4K - tiii ac fIBBALS
Foilowilitito, prodigy and Commission Merehanla, remora Ware
House East of the Public Bridge. 'rte
Also—Drtleca in Coal. Halt . Plaster. Stucco, riPh, Lime and time
Stone. true, lie.. Ate: with torisurpir”,
ed facilities for shipping enter by Bleatamats, Propellers.
Schooners. or by Rail Road.
b. a. crsix ea.
W. H7KSOWLTON.
Watehnsaker and Repairer. Dealer, in Watches. Clocks, Jewelry
Musical Instruments. Look log Glasses and uilter Fancy Goods
Mare one door west of the Reed Rouse. 17
ARBUCKLE dic KEPLER.
Lawn' In Pry Goods. GruCeries, iimrdwnre. Crockery, &e. No
3. Peva Mak, Slate wee'. P.m., Pa.
A. rd. JCDSON.
Arentmre LT obirarY sow, between llrowna•new
Hotel and the Reed Howie. up main.
DK.. C. 111LANDES.
Perriortati and Beauson.—tttfie,e corner of State and Seventh
Streets; Re.idenee- on Eighth Street, between French and
Holland. Elie, Pa.
M. 'SANFORD & CO4:
! patient is G4:ll(l.l3iivet. bask Notes, Preis,
poet tc.
.foe pie. dff er t in 4l lCal i t a y l i gioteir
•••=:- --,
r T. HERON STUART.
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IrROICON A X
. 4 Pinnirwi—lnitce; corner of Vreneh and Filth
. meets. o.• More roch's store. Residence on Fourth stmt.
one door east o(Pie old Apothecary Halt.
OLIVER SPAFFOR . D.
Booksenet and Stationer, and Winnufaeturer of Blank Books and
Writing ink. corner of the Diainond and Binh .term.
RUFUS. KECI).
Dastti in Engi ish, Genevan add Aseorienn Uardware and Cutlery.
Also, Naas, Anvils, Smolt, Iron and Steel No. 3 Seed Sagas':
Erie. Pa.
L. STRONG. M. D.
Orrice, oue Door !vest of C, B. Wright's store, up stairs. •
C. SIEGEL..
IVootuAts and Retailideater iu Groceries. Provisions. 'Mum
Liquors. Prim. ke.. Ike Corner of French and Fifth Streets.
,opposlu• the Farmer.' Hotel. Erie.
J. W. WETMORE,
4TTORIVEY 471,4 W.
In Walkers (Amon Seventh &feet, Erie. Pa
CADWELL & BENNETT.
firenari.ss,J6libers, and Retail Dealers in Dry Goods. Groceries,
Ems' 'Eery. Glassware. Carpeting. Hardware, Iron. Steel,
Etnirts, i.e. Empire Stores aState Buret, lbw door*, below
brown'. /loud. Erie. Pa.
A ko-,-Anvila, Vices. Bellows, Axle Anus. Springs, and a general
asisirtment of Sin' tile and Carriage Trimmings.
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bIERVIN 8144fTH.
ATIIOIOIILY •T LAW I!Od JUSllite of the PM!, and Arent. 'AO
the K.') elohe Mupral Life lueurapee Company—Olney t doors
Mr uf Wr i grits store, Erie, Pa.
---- GEORGE !1.-CUTLER..
ATTorgEr AT Law, Girard.. Erie County. Pa. Collections and
other tamtatieett attended to *rub promptness and dispatch.
JOSIAH KELLOGG,
Portvardiffg & Communion Merchant. on Use Public Dock. east of
kale sire, t.
1, naater and White Fish. eo ll stallt l 7 for aide.
J. ROSENZWEIG &Co.
Woouto.co Aso it ETAIL inst.sas In Foreign and Domestic Dr 7
' tkxats, ready mane Clothinit ! Bootie and ithotta. Ile, No. I
Wright's murk duite street. Erie.
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MARSHALL & VINCENT.
Avroastys IT Law—Oa:cc up stain in Tammany Ball building
north ortne Prothcmoutry's otlice.Ert&
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MURRAY WHALLON, •
kmmixtv •Mb ei/rIfAILLOR AT Lsw—olliee over C. B. Wright's
ritore, entrance one door west .of State stieet, an the Dtartord.
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En r•
TII3I3ALB. it HAYES.,
DrActes in Dry Goods. Dry ceoeeries,Nroekery. 4lardWare.4e
No. I. Brown's New Hotel.
SMIT JACKSON,
Darn In Pry Goods, Groceries...Hardware* 9u e e l la Ware ' " 11144
iron. Neil.. ire.. 121. Cheapsidit. Erie. Pa-
WILLIAM RIBL} T,
C4IIIIEI Nt rift VphOillteT. and Undertake', toner of elate and
. e Ina allerlP. One.
LDVY IN J. KELSO & CO.
Fotwarding.hoduet z.nd Cornmisou 10Tc/tants ;deiktrs
in wane and fine alt, Coal. Plaster, ebingks, ice. Public dock:
'well aide or the bridge. Erle.
CRTER & BROTHER.
ICx°USA LE and Ret A
ail deOers in Mugs. Medicine Wide
I, Ye-iititfle taus.. lice.. ?id. t, Reed Hoare, 1141'
JAMES LY LE.
iwi» a re ar aaara
luuot.sue Merchant Taakit, On the ki,ublie W
I 14 do of Mate wet% {.rte. •
JOHN H. BURTON & CO.
liciinressta ssoßeirA u. dealers in Drugs, Meilseines, Die SUM.
Groceries. No. 5. Reed House. Erie.
lilt. 0. L. ELLIOTT.
Resident Dentist; Otace and dwelling in the
Be( :f. Block. on the Erin side of the Public
lt,- Square Erie Teeth inserted on data Plato,
• 481110 . from one . to an . entire sett. Carious teeth Mad
• 11 4 pure bold, and restored to health cad eselbloaes. Teeth
gleaned with instruments and Dentiliee sou to leave drellailf
ileline id dearness. All work warranted.
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IRS PLOWER SPIRIT.
It CH AI,LCS SIN •i!,
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When earth Wasia Its golden .rime. '
Empire' or gloom had oared Its hue,
Arid. Paradise unknown 19 edam. •
Beneath the love of angels grew; '
Each dower was theft a spirit's house. '
Es*h tree a 11►Idg shritleqof song; •
And. eh! that ever hearts coaltkroate.
Could tuit for sin that seraph's throng;
nut. there - the Allrit lingers yet, -
Though dimness O'er our +bias fall;
Aod flow*, that mem with deer-drops wet. - 3
Weep Liget tears for human thrall;
And sentiments and feelings move
The soul.' ike oracles divine: '
All hearts that ever- bowed to love,
rim found it by the Fkiwees iweet shrine.
A voieelem eloquence and power
Linville that loth no life In bound—
bun haunts, like•Trutb. the Spirit Flower.
And hallo evert Sorrow's grolv3d.
The wande gives it memory's tear.
Whilst ho* seems pictured on its leaf;
And hope., htltrls. and velem dear.
Come o'er hint--beautiral and brief.
'Tie not the bloom—though wild or rare—
it is the spirit pourer Within
Which incite and moue* oar 'souls to Ash,
The Paradaie we here :night sin.
le
For Heaven i ltsrotand us has.
Net far . . nor 'et out reach beyond.
And we are w tehierby anmel eyes'', -'
With Dope and Ciith still end! •
I will bellims a I.pli;it dwells '
Within the dower—least change of all
That of the passed Immortals tell.
Toe glorious methis belbre man'. fall:
`Yet still'—though l may never see
I I Thernystie grace within it .
l lts emus as
E_ LADY'S LEAP,
r END OF THE WARS OF THE ROSES.
'sr nefear IIVIcc
=MHZ!
Ei at th is thy , one; of
pastoral tioaricts:ln
Rubio( Yorkshire wkich it
the- so Ith and west and is pa ,
solVaiiind le divided . 1 ,
ipmspia4voi poroollll Of tie 1410 .!
b y titer waters of the great
after Mice chugging its itCntel
boles fulightier than itself. to
the staler. .5 To this day. i
tract/there is no Itfaven
shotildidtglify. in th "Culled
sides l: manage.
- It a t
ands. however. it the
motile,' some of the leftle
Wher4ittri..end Petteiniant.
befit mere . the Nid, the With
tributary Wrest. .0 au tiss awa
it is a lead of hills_and 4a lee.
the isi . th country &elect; the
po'puteitiou 'pule. simple. h
scatteled. through the narrow;
huge rouud-topped heathei,
indeed, but picturesque and
soOpti their few and w
rge of soft recta mead
'the bottom of the ghyll
rds, of moorland sheep
JIB, on which each far
=I
foram
■ad h •
clad h
o ttioes„ however, of
fatel.stiik of the kindr
In t
ngth
which constitute the
sin's it,istortithe
easter,
of en
a puritly feudal' region.
, The great Earl of Warwie , from his castle of Mid
dlehtitin. a little way to the eastward ti s r the waters-or the
the.** Prior of Bohai; Abbey ou the Whorre,‘and the
Egre'titonts orardeu Tower..arete oll.the greet propriar
tors throughout that rugged country ; and so tighty dad
the feu dal nil of -the good monks and popular nobles
_„ .
press en utet vsssohi. that they might be called the freest
population inoill England ; ii few simple quit-rents of
the produce of their tame. a few days of man-serview
when their lords waged war on the wild beests, which
were then plentiful in the forest. or on oils other in the
field of civil strife. constituted the-who% of their daties ;
and these. in those dark and bloody days. were looked
upon utmost 1U privileges.very dalesman *loin the..
ill
days an archer. and. as such . a boatsmen and a soldier ;
and. in have been debarred) front kneeing his lord's
hoods en the fell. his lord's benaer en the field. he geoid
have looked upon net ails privelege. bat as a penalty and
a diaries. i %lie I.
The bloody kid sr Towtott a fought attest tea
days. and the whole north of ng and was filled with
terror. lamentation, and despair. Bowe forty thousand
men bad talkie. is their harp ~o n that field of e• gentle
blood," after whin* a baro n of the old: Norman blood
was more rarely to be seen f ,
o half a century in Eogleod.
as the old laying ran. than a hrolf or a wild bear.
Nor bad the Gillian:ten isseaped their share of the
daughter; nor where their humble homes etirript from
1 the tisocilation. which smote iet more heady the bowers
of their feudal liege lards. 1 .
That etneutiT. like the ree of !Biked. bed been divi
ded in some sort against bee f;,for the men of the eastern
fells bad followed the Beer and Ragged staff if yVarwick.
the great king-081'0a to bloody triumph, ; the wooden•
dors bad marched Ito horrible defeat for the ill-fated castle
of Lim:aster. under the Prior of Bolton's bailiffs and the
Lady of Barden's !seneschal
The days ofithiralry werii passed; and tbeipirit of
chiviilry bid dVd out, choked by the Senior fire o issues
doe warrens. Edward. dis; Barber King. as his zoo
miss were wept to call him. although a leader in the field
- and i moldier in tlis ado, bed little of the caviller. less
of the geode knig , t. in his iron composiiiea. None knew
"more stoutly how to fight. nor kingly how to conquer.—
Nose knew more bleedily. more brutidiy. how to'gather
in the fruits of victory. No veneration of old ago, no'pity
agree* youth. no tanderthise for oex, no respect for va
lor, ever eau, moved his heart-of steel to remit the bloody
-sestinas of ea Dias. Ti be a empties enemy was to be
butchered summarily upon the field, or reserved yet more
pitikinsiy for the scaffold., '
Nf wr. tiler. then. if between mourning for t:,eir dead
and trembling for their living. the fugitive Lancastrians
shuddered is their wild ghyfls at every blast of wind-that
whistaled through *sir tsionntais gorges, magnified' by
tbeir'4are into the fatal clanger or the Yorkist issinsist.
71) 4 T ossiao. a is taw. worn suirsrail. asked whoa sa
d!, OM red-handed. to socapo the poaalty of their faith
to (hair feudal lords; 1111160 loyalty of toot asters boil'
*Wof aliks desired to promote. and asititor dared in poli
cy to; punish. The cottage. therefore. ofkostiossa allordt
ad to the lowly 4 peasant that sholuir , utile!' that abbay
could not yield to its reserved prior. nor the Norman cWI
- td its haughty aobls.
It was the tooth bight aftir that tortilla 'defeat. and
the lwdy of Bardon Timor sat los* try OW 081 embeo
!MI
•Y HERBCIT
wildest sad most partly
Is that scrim* of tFe IVest
betwerm Lancashire On
of Westmoreland on tie
t. the tut, from th. v ! ro..
• nutry to which it belong,.
hero river Uri,. dentin.
and swillowing op tritew
fall into the . North Sealmt
the Whole of that-IotIFS
nothing. indeed, that:,
tate.. 6y the title of a -
most splendid seenerf it
t hilhi, as loglsborooih.
nd is watered by the•love
-Ire. the Fire. and taanj'
or. as they are termed io
fells and the iyhylle. The
itable t and "contented. ara
vales which intersect the
ridges, in hamlets small.
aPPY. earning enough ;to
nts by cultivating the noir
w land. which everywhere
and pasturing their ffixths
ed kyteesotpon the heath
' possesses a free common.
'he wars of the Roses, dor
d of York sod Lea
rookst cud bloodjost Fine
I shod was sinus pastoral,
SATURDAY MORNING; JULY 10, 1852.
and dell lamplight of bar mournful hall; now striving to
draw consolation from the pages of her illuminated mi.-
' sal, sow listed int gloomily to the fierce goats , of the an
' tame wind, as it roared sad wailed shout the turret.; to
the incessant pelting of the storm spas the roofs; to the
wild raving of the tortured Wherfe„ as flooded by the (ar
rests from the bills, it chafed and howled *monk the
rocke r -which peat op its maddened waters In the dais be.
few. Almost she - lancied now that she' could bear die
War mks and the trumpets. the pattering arrow flights on
Mail shirt and steel.hemlet, the cries and curses of the
_desperate and the dyirly,iii the voices of the wistarias
'*"
! Her Maims had relented homeneesolseted; their dead
bed bees laid in holy earth. within the abbey products.
le 'lief lower glen. Herself she bad seen their dust con
signed to duet. their ashes unto ashes; herself she bad
itvos. Wire to their dead from those stem eyes.•which
rifesed to weep when hei own lord fell under shield. es
the phrase ran. fell knightly; herself she had consoled
their Widows with her sympathy. and salved their wounds
with gold; lad new she sat alone. 01 . 1 have said.. disco&
mime; almost despairing. in the gloom of her widowed
boll.
Yet she feared nothing. thought of nothing toue4ing
her own leases, her own sorrows. her gown tarety; save
AS her people, decimated by the sword of York.
_wets
sorrowing; save as her trustiest knights were hooted by
theirands of Warwick; save as her Wog was again an
,silo afar from the land ref his fathers; save as her own
andkively daughter was imperiled by her loyalty. rpr.
ikoughlher vassals had retained. the gray-haired series -
shal who led them to the field. and who bad fosghtle
aide her basbeted'it robs in Galenite and Poitou. wavy Ystl
a fugitive, wounded and weak. as 'tidings had atriedy
reached her. aot daring to t return to his own home. whith4
br ta
isr' ascot eirtainly he shOuld be hunted—for the iad
knight who bore her banner. Sir Amelot de Mania er e
eras in like Kett. and only bade her trusithat bomb r to
his keeping. for it. was boencl about his breast, till bts
er d ye should come. and it should By again for Eire.:
meet Wad Lancaster — for she hod one fair daughter s tb 1
Bowt. of all the dales; and even now she shuddered.
she t ought how this bloody and licentious Edward eight '
wreak hie veugeance on herself, upon that iontmenkand
Wolf child. She shuddered. but shievltrank not foe one
iriatakit from her fealty; nor hesitated. even in her lima
centlbeart. from battling yet again for Lancaster, as aeon
as Henry's banner should be spread again to British
breezes.
IVhile.thtts she sat. her tall and stately figure clad to
the darkest weeds, bending above the pictured missal;
her snow with* locks straying dw>"••lxi over bat block
and shoulders. her dark oyes fiaed on vacancy. a Den
■nd joyous step came bounding down the atone tau . fit
stairway, and paused for a moment at the door. 4 it in
doubt whether it miett. enter. -
But the lady heard not, headed not. t:11 n flutteriogliond
turned the ponderous lock, and the fleet foot crossed the
threshold with e step,so lightsoine, is told surwtidiigs of
si happy heart i nspiring it.
It was as beautiful& girl as ever cheered a widowed
.m,ther's solitude. not past her eighteenth summer, and
looking yet 111010 youthful than she was. from the extreme
brillisecy and brightness of her pure the
_ confplezioe. th
rresglast i; e
o44ll44ll6illiPiutilibli IMF&
ad op her azure eyes. • The Lady of Barden raised her
eyes and fixed them fondly on her child. and a sneur#
ful. smile played over her pallid feature; es she looked
upon her, joy i pus still and radient in the midst of "peril
and dismay. •
" Ever gay, ever joyous. Eleanor," she said—with a
half reproachesl gesture of the head t." and what Pau
you find, in these dark and dreadful days, to light op that
merry beition is your eye; to kindle that gay smile upon
your lip? But, Youth! youth!. It is still the . part of youth
to hope, as it ie Of,sge. sad age, , to despaii."
• "Noy. mother dear," said the girl. in a Whispe . r, when
she stied close behind the lady's footstool. having closed
the door carefully behind her; ••but there is cause of joy
now: yes greet cause of joy; for he has returuode and
safely, t00..0r, at least, dot badly wounded. and is hard
by. looking to us, as well he may. forauccor."
"Who has returdedl Whom dole° mean. tlesnor?"
"Whom do 1 mean, mother?" she exclaimed, her
cheek paling for the moment with the intensity of her
feeling. "Whom should 1 mean but Amelot?"
"Sir Amelot do Mauhowert": replied the lady. "I
had not thought of this. He should Dot have come...
What shall we do to save him? :Then is s Yorkist force
ev en now et Settle." This* far she had 'pairs musing
ly. as if in thoughtful command with herself; but now
her eye brightened, and she inquired quickly. "But how
can you know this? Where isSir Amelot? is he with
in the tower? Why came he not with hie report to the,
instead of forcing yois into this peril?"
"No. dearest mother." replied the 'girl. egged,: •Mny
maiden. Marian, bronchi me the Wimp sp. She was
down In the glee at sunset. oft the sterns came on; end
atleiffi her. he - crawled oat from hie hidingtplace. , and
bade her bring yew tidings that be was , hidden In the
camera eider, the first fall. and that no man eased take
hint theie. for that be only knows its seeret. Bet he
lacks feed and wine, *ad the means of prone/lag light.
which be prays yew to send bins. •
•• And why Wooed site not the news tome? Why did
she tarry se Ion; on the way ? She mist hare known
this doses Gee hours."
**Bite dared not leave the supper-board before nay
hoar for retiring ; sad died not look year' presenee.
with whom she ben no dsty to perform, lent she ebookl
so create *sapid's."' A
"{f that were but the reason !" sailithe lady. relaps
ing into thought. ",But tbat bey. that page. Datnian
I doubt her-1 doubt her much. Eleatior. Why should
she have you Dees she k now that you love him.
Nell?"
" Mother !" exeleitned the agitated gir!, with the tea
eeloss'bhmd flushing crimson to her too*. her cheeks.
her neck. "No one—no one kittorr that. I don't—l
don't know. mother ! What mean you mother mine ?"
-And the tmrst:into a flood of teem ant! sank into echitir.
overp,owed and exhausted by the mere forte of her own
feelings.'
The lady Walked bp slowly to ber fair child's side and
laying both her withered 'hands in attivade of benediction
on that fair. peony head— -
"Be comforted. my owe sweet child. Weep set; bat
little use you guess of what a motile, knows or keows
aqt, whose best child's happiness is slaked. Elsatior. 1
have knowis. have seen all this a rear sad over."
"Yon have semi--bars known all. mother:" cried obi.
starting is her feet. -and gazing into bar mother's oyes
with nascent hops. "Theo you do sot—yon do—l
memo—mot disapprove 1 You. ate ! you pard.a, me v.
" If I.had disapproved. I had interposed to - prevost.—
For the rest. Eleanor. I trust—have I slight to pardon 1"
" t tie love him, mother."
" And ke kaows it 1"
"Ile might bops. might. perhaps linty—bat I-1
—Oh. mother. you de sot dream that I ever told
him ?"
**Nov boo you. FA•auo, 7?
el Had be but whispered it without your sanction, thou
1 hod sot loved
hays
Thou you hays loud. zosisell' amoral. It is so.
El 7"
nlisdoo4 au ! Can 7 01 i thick k pf ills t" idts oz•
elalisoll, tadlguastly. ilid deb ihe ahismovi.
•• You said be never whispered " replied the lady.
inlf aloppreming a sm:k. •How then can yea knew ii?'
"Never is words. mother ; bat his 10111104 f—his voles
—his eyes. Oh. mother, do sot ! do not ! ton asset
know whet I mean."
"Perfectly, dearest. His minuet hip voice, aid Ida
eysa told you what he dreamed of. and yours replied as
plainly. Bat now to the point dam Marini know, or
suspect sight. think you. of these—these love passages?"
"I am certain—ao, se certain as that 1 litc"
" Send bar to me at sae.. I mistrust her sorely.--
There have have been passages. I know. between her and the
pegs Damian ; and be sought lea,. of me. as thir cur
few rang, to go down to the Abbot's forester. Bend her
to me at ones ; and bid Gieffnry. the warder. take arms.
with two of his best men. and wait my tall in the ante
room."
Eleanor. not aosiiilling to setwpo farther questioning.
and to gain tilos to reagloat bar nose% booodod from
lb, ball and, gilds% the ladro orders to tbs warder.
hurried op to her turret thasobor. and sent oho girl down
to ber mother's pr nos. Theo. (shag 4a her hoses
by her own boded.. she tbastkoel.frous the depths of her
guileless heart. the 9iver of all good for dos hiossiogs be
had that night granted her. and prayed. anions fast flow•
lag tear-drops. half of jur. half of sorrow. for protoctiou
to her lowed Amidst.
The interview betweeu the drindid lady and the girl.
Marian. Was but brief; for, terrified already and self•ces
scions. ohs ebuld ite more enders the lady'rvpietcieg eye
sad calm. bard. cutting gewitioes that the pairidge eat
the talons and the beak'of the {keen goshawk. Within
tea minutes from enter-is; the hall. the lady's voice was
hard, •i Without there !" And. at the word. all steel
from helm to shoe. with bill- and bow aed broadsword.
the stout retainers entered.
They found the' lady. impassive as her wont, writing
upon a strip of parchment. sod the girl.prootrato at bet
feet. in any agony of tears and terror.
flare. Jansen." said the lady, as she finished her
writtn:. •• bear scroll forthwith to the sub-prior
of Bolton ; and, hark you, put this•weuph spun a palfrey.
and carry her down with yoe to the Abbey. There leave
her in keeping oldie Father thaitor. Thai dose. ashhi
thenb-prior's ord,crs. Perform them. be they what they
may. and that with *li•due dilligence. Tosh, wench-!'t
she added ; " Inn aro vain, and supplication. You
shontd have thought of these things era yen thought to
deal in treason. boss no time, Janos ; honor sad life
depend upon your dilligence and fealty."
The sturdy henbane bowed, and, leading the unhap
py girl away, ball carried I. the arms of his follower.—.
for. ignorant what Ate "waited her, she was new all but
faisting—he left tbeZproed, impassive lady to Mi own
melancholy
They wore Not long. however for, lOU*. a. talker
from ber !snap. shir opened Ili private dsortarat the far
ther sad oohs hall, sad. asetradiag a *array staircase to
ao upper atirry. man stood, unseen and asanspeeted. at
the door of her daighter's chamber.
!Weedy had that fair yonnibelng fallen Into the fight
end happy sleep of ineocenee and peace; -bet need was
that she should be 'aroused; and long and azions was the
coonoltation that evened on her awakenieg.'
It had already speck the first hour post midnight, awd
01~r prime were already pasting up the deep glee
as nosey tetirers,a re ..., e k
and a parting memento to he ttstiYWrfhlrillgill /mos.
him. the mother left her child to dream of future bliss,
saint! aot unmixed with future peril. •
Perhaps even then she -had sot left her; but -that a
hoarse) resounding "challenge from• the , gate tower,
warped her that probably her inbilaziries had ,retere•
ed ; and, in:truth. she bad agates retrimmod her lamp,
and resumed her seat is the great hall, where of late
uhe-had held vigils oft till well mgb; morning. before
an empire reverently entered to say that Abe warden
craved a hearing 4 : the lady.
The men had hale it', relate, however. The sub pri•
or, he said, had seat the baiitir for the foreiter a .and had
questioned him for some time in private; when, with the
simple word that .:•• it was too late !" he bad dismissed
them, The girl, Marian. he had heard. was mune:kited
le the peuitnutiary cell. •
" Yon have done well. Jensen." answered the lady.—
" Bet you- hare more to do. 'Keep watch and word fear.
self to-night. with
, half the gurisin in armi; suffer no
ass to enter in or go out before noon to.morrow, saving
the Lady Eleanor.- who wilt go forth mounted at . day
break.. If the pep Damian show himself- before the
gates. bend your own trusty bow and send a elothyord
arrow to his heart. For the.rest. if any band of maraud
ing Yorkists show themselves on our side the' Whark
ring bancloebe and fire beacon till the country is aroused.
and then span them. and any ' Egismont- for Lancaster.
and give so quarter !'" -
Tbe man bowed !JR, sad was retiring eileutly. when
a sip checked bim.
" How goes ilts,olibt; Josses ? sod hew moires the
morrow 1" •
" The Mom his rolled away to the' east,, lady ; the
mesa Is sp. It will be fair mo the morrow."
Elbe waved him his dismissal ; sod. with•a half an
boat. except the Warder at the gate-hoose; sad the mont
h...is along the walla. there was aot an eye_ open witbia
the walls at Barden Tower.
Loag ere the as wee op. however. a light toot glidott
dowa the *de stair; and the deheote sad gentle Eine.
our passed dime late* *de balk arrayed is plumed
cap sad ridiog skirt. with, short meads ever it. tritieb,
had its folds *a dimasbed. ositot have reveal iklatto
so *intervene to a yeses lay'. await* ratable se a
light basket girded tatted * slender waist ea the one
sod esasterbalatteed by • stem &gee OR theither.
No seethes ape. however. fell urea kir; se eye at
all. ladesd. saes the trusty :Wee% Isrewareed
of her eariy eensisg tenth. aweited her a h ii . i t i tif. with her
palfrey saddled. et the castle gate. hi assisted her
to the • sells. awl. toroth( n powers gets. let, her forth.
without a word of questioa. Osly. at she rode eat. be
said. guiltily—
•• If there be nes& remember. lady. this portent will
be bold I. hand."-
11,3erlug her bead In onswer, she save her, berm the
rein, and cantered down into the deep an awful chum
through which the Wharf* was raging. betielsen black
walla of rock crusted with .blacker (amts, hers tumbling,
a hondrod ) aids In width, over sheer 1 - dges io white cat
enacts ; here roaring. wider yet, over dread Willie rap
ids; and hire, meet hideous spot of all, pout in between
the slippery ledges which spray constantly o'erflow.d,
broad and powerful torrent jammed into a pus of 114.111 re•
ten feet in width, arrow), louder than r Turf-beet shore,
unfathomable. " The Strid e " that pass is called, 14th*
Longue of the Pierthmen. beams* a man; if. he bays
heart enough may stride across it ; for there the Boy of
Egrement, Lite son of her who soewereci "Endless weep-
Leg." died miserably, nor wee ever found again. pulled
back by his reluctant greyhound, 'after his own fleet foot
bed crossed the chasm.
Bat not of that she thought; her heart was besting only
with true love. sod the high hope bow she Aosta oars
her loves. Two cataracts she had passed by. end thou
the perilous "Strid;" and sow the farthest, the first fall.
of the glen lhandered down white before her. as the
drives easy,. • terrible atopendous cataract The sun
gleamed oat jest as she reaehed its fool ; as his Alit
rays gilt the silver tom. a human foratatepped oat king
hew& the inh of spray. sadateed before het Osl o Sit
keeeter littsbewiri se yet isi eehty.
Ag
instant. aad •be was in his arms—snottier. and she
had tom himself from that short embrace ; and with sit
the elequeocie of 'mime permitted is,., with all the eel
ability of a wernan's fear for whom she loves tho best,
was posting oat her tidings. insisting on his silence. re.
eonatiag her mother's kindness. impressing on him the
wisdom of her mother's plans. enforcing her own sweet
injenctions. •
**There. there! Not words:lore." shoUried. "Yea
have told mo you secret of escape; mw I bare to speak
Only. and yen only to obey, If you are tither good ikallthl
or tree lover. Marian, my.wretched girl, boa betroyed
yoU ti bey lever Dmilen; and he set off lest night for
Settle. to biing tte soldiets Jown apes' you. It is bf
God's grump stone; *hitch sent the storms brat night,
that thry are not here already!Make year way then.
at *ace. like the mole, underground. to Methane eon;
lie bidden there till night; and. (bridling by night may.
hiding from dawn till twilight. rosie jedF *et denotgh
the fells to Carlisle. Enter that city boldly. for we shalt
be there before you with six score of stoat naive of.Lia
carter. The warden of the Marches is far . air. - There
is no force to checkna. for all boar. to the I 3 orllll'ard-7
There will we take ship for Flanders. and tarry there
in peace till better days return for hapless Eagland.—
H ere be provisions, wink lights ant: money. Say. liege
man. will you do my bidding?"
'•1 were a traitor else."
•'And restantty? Oily horses are already • saddling:
The Lady of Barden Tower will tslie horse ere sunset:"
••For Carlials sou Flinders?"
-
"What? Do yotr doubt me? /for Carlisle and
Flaa
dan."
"'stud. Eleanor. when we be •are io nandera?"
••Then; Amolot. you most sub—"
••Whom?"
••Whom—if you aro oloyent—bul your Eleanor?"
"/ 4AS obedient."
One more brief embrace. and he raised her light bar
then to her saddle; eadOmpr to prove his obedience
and good faith. disappiefered behind,the cataract. sod
planted faarlessly into the abysses of those limestone
caverns, which, underm i ning all that region, conduits of
,subterranean rivers, wo uld him. miles away. to the
cove of Maniacs. I
and he rentatfed one Mindte longer. he had lingered
wind it was too late—fur bad he dreamed the peril abe
had yet to run, he hat died beforii be bad turned on his
heel, or he . had not deserved to win bet.
She had jolt reached gie Suid, when the bancloche
of Bircien Tower pc..iled forth its battle summons. and.
casting her eyes down the gorge between herself and the
ascent to the castle. she saw a !mind of archer) , and
illatinet-ust-tba-teatma.bJ a, 7 ewe warner Daattai.
A wimoded cures, of the rock below. and the steep ele
vatfon en which she stood. Coneecled her from them for
the moment. Another minute. and she would be io the
hands of those who spared not sex. nor age, least of all
beauty—herself and him also!
There was no palest* up the glen; on this side no
concealment. The thought flashed on her like the oleo-
Inc fluid. Across "the Strid'l i* honor—lle—clove!
That was a brave thought for a brave man's mind.— ;
What then fora fruit girl's—a girl's whose ancestor had
perished iu those black whirling
,water.!
Sbe paused not to think twice. With a bright ay%
isriygr to boa: Ina &teen - nets
nt the dread pass. and with light Curb and well-plied
lamb. *barged him right et it.,
Fiery and fresh. he reired"bolt upright as he felt the
lash; and. ignorant of what fay itp hie patb. charged over
the black slippery tacks right onward.
'His hoofs were on 4he very brink. when he perceived
the Weems whirl of the black torrent: then ha would
have sheered or paused—when sheer or passe bad been.
Instant death—hot it was art too late; for with a
.steady
bridle hand. she rose him at it, and breath' down the
lash on his croope with such a will of that 'light ens that
the thong left I bloody scot.. -
.11e sprang—his foot clanged twins open the rocks,
drowned by the roar of the river, and the clash of the
bancloche. and he and hi. fair rider were is shelter of the
deep woodland. just as the band of Yorkist*. scaling thi
!Neighs,. stood epos the plateau. where they stead not
a point of time before.
VI went it with that band of Yorki4ts; worse with the
traitor Damian. Fur. ere thelgentli Eleanor. faint with
the peril which now first she apprehended. had sealed.
the'opposing bank and won the apes moorland. down
icons the keep of h arden . with.bill, and bow , and bugle
bleat and battle erY. poured in treble force the vassals of
ber house. .
••Laocaatar. Egromont for Laaeuter! and give ao
Router:"
Wi t his tea Waal's it was 11404 peal lr this gorge
where they could neither fight nor ay, they were cut
down like cheep, mail mit one remained to tell the tale
et barer.
-Damian alone they took alive; end hie. in the rage
sad vengeance of the moment ' for they believed them
ilr
selves too late to save their mistress. t y Bang head
long into th e enrol chosni o'er which • had jam pass
ed ii .stet].
..
Coe wtld Cry -- sad
.na heittia eye aria behold Woe
—no nu again beard of Mal l :
i f
Bat. see the vdecationect. t tired in pry triumph
borne like the ',AO + t er toed' stead. lobe had
descendid to th e atthey;:hit
. 4kitnc to sand the brutal"!
Whitte n and was alreadtliekston her mediae* hoe
ell.. --.
.
Bet her trials were all, ended:: end thence her joys
began. Carlisle. Flanders. rikrii pined in safety; and
when. in the good town of Aio+o. Amulet asked his
Eleanor. she said out nay! t0,A*1& .. , . •
flume years they lived is eoo.. heithee poor nor
unhsaored; for those were day, in which the stout hated
sad tree heart gained OM wealth -sad fare which how
fell to the tut of zviler. endk w and
'Riot when We Cutout of RiChmond wok EallhoilPh
crowd' on bloody 'Bosworth. air, Armlet do Mambas"
staid besid' • hint, aud. on be eat on his *roue at West
minster. fair Eleahor eat, happy wife, mod happy miss
trees. is the halts of Barden.
?for; though the keep is now one rifted tower. the ab
bey but a roofless pile. hare the amino* folk forgotten
the tale which geared the hada! •litrid" its more to-
Mantic name, •!The Lady's Leap-" Lady's Book-
Tit Yonne Mu or rut Ana -.-Not lug SUM. we
saw a tsar gathering in the eye of as old man, as he
'peke of the put tend the present...4llm time when he
burned pine knob upon die rude home hearth for light
to obtain a scanty ..lunatics. and then compared the ten
thousand privisgee *hiatus' now scattered: broadcast
around every door. Oh, said he, in trunnion,- tones. the
the young men of this day, do not appreciate the light
of the age they live in. The words of the old man made
us sad. whiles at the time, we felt mortidsd that so many
of our young men fail to haprove the advantages within
their reach. They are even continually muttering about
t h e i r lot. and pushing for poiiitions where they can win,
t he reward without the sweetening. purifying, ennobling
sacrifice of toil. The mist-nload ealoyments of a day,
are eagerly amight after to the excitation of neglect of
the more boutsmble, intelleitsal and meal. In truth,
few of ere yam; ma taro saytblog of *Mirage of tht
*Wages orotiordwo. • .
•
JESSIE CAtROL..
BY ♦LICZ CAalt T
burs the heath and o'er the moorland
Slone the wild goat highTand
Suddenly the.maiden putties
Spioniog at the gab, is fun.
And *at from her fa der fingers
Fella away the flaxen thread.
As some neighbor entering. whispers.
"Jogai'
.carrot lieth 'dead."
Thai pressidg dose her forehead
-TO thri,window-pana, alto sees
Two stout men together diggjug.
Underneath the ehurab-yard true:
Aod she asks in kindest accents. •
"Wee she happy when she died?"
Sobbing all,the while to see - them-
Voitt thebeavy earth aside;
Or, open their mattock. loaning.
Through their Elegem numb to blur,.
For-the wintry air ischilly,- .v.
Aodthe gran-osituUdewhite with new.
And theoeighbOr ensurers north,
, "Do apt. dear one. de not cry;
At the break of day she uked us
If we tboegbt that she meat die;
i Aad when I had told 'her sadly.
That 1 feared it !oolitic) so,
Sighed she. laying 'Twill be weary .
Digglog Id the ehlreit yard snow,"
Earth," I said, "was eery dreary— ',
That its paths at belt wars rough;"
• And she whispered, she was ready.' .
That her life was !dog enough.
So she lay serene and silent.
Till the wind, that Wildly drove.
Soothing her front mortal sorrow,'
Like the lullaby of Lore." •
Poor -Kate:
A yeitag female of the name of IKate Virglota Poole la
now confined for life is the /Oats Prison of New Hamp
shire. on the charge of iefsairicide She is a native of
Scotland. sad has no, relative but one in this country.—
Her ease is • bad one. and More deserving of pits then
of the law's Mein penally. if the following statement from
the Now Hanophire ifftetesisaa be correct. Says a wri
ter of that papor:
. ,
'Her downfall was effected under circumstances of
atrocity that cry most loidly for imageance on its
either. Her arms. oeck. end person are secured with
wounds received in defeading herself from bet diabolical
siddstiosiert astrher rein was Daly accomplished when also
triedregged to insensibility: With the hummed eel
&nee in her arms. she was excluded from the house of
the only relative she . bad ie end, bearing it
away with her. ihe so ught law manufacturing city. shel
ter for herself sad babe, while she could with the labor
of her hands Sad hoieraltie *upped. This was anything
but the °mime which Would have bees puttied by one
eortediede In a city of strangers—a mother
bet not a wife—what could be expected? All doom
were cisied against her. She could have given away
her child. bat a uniiker's heart revolted again' it: Pre
dict of shame though it ties; and bort; to infamy though
it might be. she clang le it Mr all that was dot& to bet La,
close& to ler id. ens city. cue tux wattmeter.. ri W.*
night when she left. Heart r brekentily bound to life
by the ties which bound her as a mother—she would en
dei other circutistances. have sought the welcome refuge
of suicide. With these feelings called into a most, bar
rowing exercise by the loneliness and` misery of her sit
uation—looking at the babe that clambered on her breast
with the brand of infamy born on its brow—is its weeder
that a mind thus toridred seas swept beyond the bounds
of co ncsi oeas.? "
Io this condition. of mind, while traviDok alone on the
railroad she lifted her child and threw it out of the can.
On being enboequintly questioned about dm affair. she
answered:
"I do . not recollect anything distinctly alter I entered
the cars. The lights, the crowd, and the nsetkonsd the
cars. seemed to confuse me. I di) not think I should
Veva remembered anything., if the weight's( the child.
*blob slumbered ea my lop. had net relitiaded me of its
sziarteoce and my ewe *Motile*. At last a cloud seemed
to thicken about me. and everything seemed' to look
white that met my eyes. The child itself seemed lake a
feather, and appeared to Boat away from me aneonsei
ously. it did not seem to fall, but to rise. and' I thought
1 could fee it for some mome2ls afterwards!"
On belay-asked the'question. "Do you think you had
ter your child the ordinary feelings and sataiil love ofsi
mother?" Elbe looked her interrogator full in his faye.
.with eyes gashing with teat" al the ihestion. said.." Si re
mould gladly *us /aid demo my 10 limit/ I could
bare en, it away while in the 101 l conscionsuens of MY
condition. but I resolved to work myself into the mire
before my child should have iheeti separated from mi.—
Do yes think. sir. I would part with that without which
lids would bare been an intolerable burden?" Then As
added. with deeper emotien r -"Thank Heaven, it 4 trali
asleep the last I remember of it, and I think it n '
awoke to upbraid me with *single cry!"
To oar miad. there savor 'ma a clearer owe or 9
hallucination. at the tints ISt Whigs!! erim• of int
Bide wee committed, thee this. ited yet the' midis'
the law have deoulett the aarortorate Kate to a r
while her deepoiler-.-the dibettarthtbar st
*amp iad witiorionee. la antlered at ire "giew
jeetlel!" Her coaiietioa l oader each eiree outset
a libel spas the State which sanctions each pease
of justice as a blot upon humanity. 'rho House of
fore or frieudly Mitsui should have received the •iet
not the Pe oar stiary
„ A Sherri' Briar wail • Moreau..—A yonWg 'Unite hid formed as sataohhiont for a daughter of a rich o
farther. and after agreeing With the bonnie lassie, wen
to the old farmer to ask, canasta sod, during the cora
mony—which i.e an airkward no with Josathaa-r—
-whittled away at a stick. e Tlto old mss watched
'mm:teat of the knife, sad at tlin sews dais coatieA
to talk on (ha prospects of bis fitters son-is.htw. as ti
suipsoed. mail the stick had datiadfsd dovel b itauS; l
Hotbso spoke as follows :
so You hays 6ee property ; you hays steady habital;
good ermogh kakis,; beeper COO% have my danghtei.
Had yos cede something. so matter what, of the 66*
you hays iwbittled away. yea could have had her ;
is, Too cannot. your property will go u the Mick did. lit.
thr_brlittle, until all is gone. and your family is redoced
to want. l have rend your true *hamster ; yogi hove my
•
answer.”
gnawer witu Clit.RITT.—• kind hearted sold lady was
once reproved quite eharply by her frieod,.(pc giving mo.
nay to a stranger, who seemed to be very poor, whoa kir
asked charity in the street, or Boston. "Soi , :iose tie spent
the mime ter ram?" said the censorious and shape/ono
friend. The quick and noble answer well. *if must :
'suppose' at all, why not 'suppose that he will ;pallid
the money for bread! Why suppose anything that is
aid about any one. when yeti are at liberty I. suppers
wh4 is good and 3t01447" That aid lady had the true
Chrotian spirit.
Cr Section appears to be :he main principle of human
life. Rabe* practice it a largo portion el their Urns: boie
and girls eiresont• ineredinlis qoastitirie of seedy sod ilei
tis plums by, its shiest. tut ales who us most ntiMtil
1,11
...Mel hi" their (*Rel.'', melee the highest
• inr.•
*ore.
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