A. r, 1117112L1N & 00.,-Propriators. ME VOLUME 23. frit llittkiti Ottotruer. A. F. DURLIN & CO., PROPRIETORS 33.1"• SLOAN. Elditor. ,ITICE. CORNER BTATERI E , BT. AND PUBLIC SQUARE, E. - TERMS OF THU PAPER. nrstserlber. the carrier, at sail, or at thedike, in ;avarice. 1.60 pu n ot paid in advanee.or within three months from the time reNieribing, in° dollars will be charged. VAl)ortamumratione mast be post paid. HATES OF ADVERTISING. Cards not exceeding 4 lines, one year. 13,00 o,4l,quare .. • • 10,00 dl). 111 months, • COO k. do. three months, 3,00 Twatent ad; el overrun is, Nieents per MOM, of fifteen lines or Iref.rq own tom la cents for each outrequent insertion. yesii) autertiyers have the privilege of changing at pleasure, 2,; . L11. 1, e a a rc allowed to occupy more than lwo squarer, avid l'lsailto their immeds4to bus:nest._ tivrt.emenir not having other directions, will be inserted till ..11LA chatged accordingly. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. CARSON GRAHAM. v or \ COUNSLLLOR AT LAW, In George A. ElliOt's •ple of the park, Erie. 3$ JAMES ROSS SNOWDEN, „,„ rr ‘D .COUXIIELLOIL AT LAW, No. M. Third Street, . 34 JOHN W. RIDDELL. an* tr Fifth - Street, between Smithfield arria streets. Pittsburgh. Pa. VINCENT LIIMROD & CO. 0-7,4Trieß4 of Stoves, hollow Ware, Engines, Machinery, god ('are, etc., state St,. Erie Pa. THOMAS M. AUSTIN, (Laic of the firm of G. Loomis 4 Co.) is in Clocks, Watches, Jewelry, Silver Spoons, 3iunical . meats, Looting Glasses, Lamps and Fancy 60401. whoie ennd r runt. JOHN GOALLANG, 401 T Tattea. and Habit Maker—Shop on the east aide Of 'sweet. two doors north of Eight. and adjoining .1. H. sib- S. Co's Cabinet Warc-Rootn, Erie, Penna. CLARK Ar. METCALF. .rssta and retail dealers in L Goods, Carptia, and Dry -rues No. 1 Reed House. WILLIAMS Jr, WRIGHT. II!, Collectors and Dealers in Gold and dilver coin. uneur ,....lNloney, Land Warrant' and cert inert les of Depointe. Also ra Prang on the principal cities of the ClllOll, and all parts sae Old Country for sale. Office, WI Mains' %irk, corner of tab-et. and Public Square. .1 a n Liods. . J. G. do K. 1. MILLE, •areas and Wholesale Dealer in Groceries, Wines, Elmtors, Carr.—Aso. Foreign Fruit, Nuns, Pickles and Pickled Oys r•..Lokn rs, Preserves, and flermetricatly Sealed articled of sey description always on hand. No. 3, William's Brock, Ist---it , opposite Brow n's New !Intel. Erie. Pa. 6 lints, New York. Wx. 1. Krtu, Bufraki. .o.cciviny in their season. Oysters in shell, from J. G.. Mills , he% York, which will be sold Wholesale at low prices A. C. Jarasos, Agent. Erie,,Pa. DUBLIN & SLOAN. Azrts io Cla,sical, School and Idiecellaneous Hooks, Blank k e t,, s"tity., ery, and Prarrers Cards, No. 9,-Brown's new P I. 171313 T. W. AIOORE, ..v.; Pr u• ion', Winet, Liquor.. Candies, Fruit, tt .. one ik,v r below Looms fr. Co's Mate meet. Erie. JOHN B. COOK. 4,:tta QtnCe & Fancy Dry Goods, and the Greatest variety r'sLy Am.( in Me etty. Cheap rilde Erie, pt. STERRETT & GRAY. ;Kr a.. and fetal( Dealer. in Wet and Dry Groceries Pro Owe, Foreign and Domestic Fruit, Wooden, Pea anti stone (rare, Flour, Flab, S.7lt, Glass, Nails, Cart , . Safety &c., /cc.— French Sueet. oppo r,,tae - , (Plr) :Ito! Canal Buts, Vessels, notes, and Private vi 10 any of the aboveartictes with prompt- Ihe at! ver , heap. WM. S. LANE. Attorney and Oeunsellor at Law. Fla. over Jacklen's lure, at Natttr-East cornet of the Pub- Duk,"ll)Rs BEEBE dc l'E WART._ IL ^ll , O lc inns and Surgeons. Office and Residinees.-- tr , 6. Streets. (lace ti.urs from 7 to e, A. 21; Ito 2, and b to 7. P. M. I.ICLIE. a. D. J. L. lITILWAST, x. Lo. JOHN HEARN & CO ..tamaa and ComininiOn llderehanui, dealer la Coal, Fish. and arnt I r a daily line of upper lake Steamer,, ...le Ikea Erre Pa LIDIJELL & CO. 4 ' , 0 , 11". Manafaetbrere of Iron Vence, Railing, Slearnbeit err, arc , ice., State; between 7 h and !kb, Streets. Erie. AMER'''AN E-XPRESS COMPANY. Removed to NO. 8 Reed Stock, State Sweet. Erdrots clOsea at I lj o'clock, A. M. Yo ern 31 o'clock, P. M. o. n. rearroao, Agent GEORGE J. MORTON: • (Lade of at firs of J. Roars 4 Cc.) trauma and Cornanisaion 'Merchant. Public Dock. Erie. Pa. hater ta Coal , XFalt . Fish. Flour arid Piaster. D. p`. — IMALKER & CO.. "moo, produce and Commission !Ifferebanta, second Ware limier-an of the Public Bridge, Flrie Pa. „ Dealers Salt, Plaster, Stutco, Flab. Lime and lame 4 R irMl. Stoves. Castings, /to., Ace. With titosurpasa d fictiotes for ~hipping either by Steamboats, ProPeUterc batmen, or by Flail Road. W. 1-1. KNOWLTON. emaker and Repairer, Dealer in Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Il3eal I a<tru menu, Locking Glaser: and other Fancy Goods. loupe door we or the Reed House. 17 ARBUCKLE & KEPLER.. 11r) goods, Groceries, Hardware, Crockery, &c. )14:0 /Perry Blue k, State street, Erie. Pa. DR. C. BRANDES. • 1r and Scaarom—Othee at hie reatdenee on rtlltnln Gttv.,en French and Holland, Erie. Pa. ii7 - S - ANFORD tV, CO.. -AID Gold. Silver. Bank Notes, Drafts. Certificates of De- Nght Exchange on the principal cities constantly Disk. Cnixe in Etc:my'. Block. Public Square. Erie. T. ,HERON STUART. 41011 Pritsiciet—Office, corner of French end Fifth lurer.orer M, , sesiKoch's store. Residence ou Fourth street. osof etstotthe old A pol hecary Ran. RUFUS REED. -.41 to Ent! oh, German and American Hardware and Cutlery; 4° .- Anvils, V ;cm Iron aud Steel No. 3 Reed HOuse. ~!ft• & BENNETT, ;', ° ,.."glit.lotbert, and Retail Dealers in Dry Goods ‘ Groeeries," . - Gli.ssware. carpeting. Hardware. Iron, Steel, Nails, 2 3,2 , Ike.. Empire Stores State Street, lout doors, below rim . ' Hotel. Erie, Pa. w • -- tirrils, Vices, Bellow S. Axle Arnie. Springs, and a general nnereot of Saddle and Carriage Trimmings. S. MERVIN SMITH. ART AT Lary and 3witire of the Peace, and Agent foe kCry sione Mutual Life Insurance Company--offies S doors Of Wrights store. Erle. Pa. GEORGE U. CUTLER. An? AT 1.4 w. Girard. Erie County, Pa. adieet.inni and ye business attended to with prompt-nem; and d Inatett. JOSIAH KELLOGG. udmQ k Comm 'salon Merc haul, cu the Public Dock, east Of kut street. Halt, Plaster and White Fish. constantly for sale. - - I. ROSENZWEIG & Co. "'.SUEZ leo Resat. DEALERS in Fdieign and Domeatie Dry tr , ready made Clothing. Soots and Shoe , . ex.. No. 1 nOct Block, State street, Etta. MARSHALL & VINCENT. Awns .1 can - --Olfice up stairs in Tammany Ilan building orn Of tile Prothcmotary's office, Erie. BltiliWAY WHALLON, ------ i4 ItTANDCOONSZLLOR AT Lsw—Ofilee over C. B. Wriabt's 1141 , 'est:ince...no door west of State street. on the Diamond,Ane. TIBBALS, & HAYES. ;Liu itt Dry Goods, Dry Groceries, Crockery . Hardware, ace. °I LL Brown's New Hotel. SMITH JACKSON. 4114 Dr 9 Goods, Gil:Karim Hardarare,Queeas Ware. Lime. "• k.e., 141. Cbeapaide. Erie. Pa. _ WILLIAM RIBLET. L , khrri Upholster and Undertaker, corner of State and "' streets, Erie. CARTER & BROTHER, t wit: and Retail dealer' in Drop, Niedie Palate, ORs, tEt G latt , No. q. Reed Hous e, , JAMES LYTLE, -axona merchant Tailor, on the public .are, a ter door' Tit t.sie street, Erie, ► JOHN H. BURTON & CO. may Lat. Renal. dealersla Drugs, Medte Dna, Dye !tuba. ke. Nu . 5 , Recd Hooke. Erie. M. cIIA FIN. RESIDENT DENTIRT-01Seeoo the south side of the Diamond. fire doors east of the Erie Bank. Prices reasonable, and all la warranted Erie lupe It 1641. --- DR. 0. L. ELLIOTT, Resident Dentist; Ottee and dwelling on the South side of the Public Square. tat door East of the Erie Bank Buiklins. Teeth inisertedatt I , eth 4sned v. Cold Plate. from to an eat/resell. Carl -4.4" Teeth iiLb Pure Gold. and restored to health and use of pet lutt c eased with/ ostruwente and Donative SO as to dcic;a meg,. &J week warranted. • •:- z •-•• 461 " 4 1 111141101E?' „- • !! rite_ j Y '• , ..- • . , - I=l2U DEIZZEI 'pottrti riuh 311isttilantl. THE DIM OLD WOODS. The dim eld weeds in the wintry time! Hew solemn and sad their tone, Whin the winds sweep through with a moaning chime, The aisle of the forest Ione! When the root its wonted thirst bath lost. For the. flow of the hidden rill— • Ind the fragile shoot is still with frost. And the sap iu its cell is still— When each gay lief, that threw so sot! • It shades o'er summer's brew, !lath flown from its wavy sphere OA . To rest 'Death the starry 'mow* When each sweet flower, with scented cop. Frail withering where it grew. Hath closed its fatal petals no, No more to drink the dew— ' And when emelt trembling note thet gushed, In soft and silvery song, And the inseet hum, are silent htshed; The leafless bows among! Ahl sorrowing seem those Woods so dim. As they lift their branches bore-'• - The shivering twig and the rigid limb, To the clasp of the frosty air; And they seem to mourn, 'mid the wintry storm, For the flash of the greenwood bough. - • And sigh for the sere Ind ruined bloom That sleeps on the earth below. And yet. those dark, sad solitudes! - I lovi their music well— When whispering Echo fills the woods With tones of her tanrtnering shell— • For though the wind no voice delft own. Aa it sleeps in the silent tree. Yet the forest breath with hollow moan. • Like the sound of the ceaseless sea— - As the spirit forms of leaves and flowers, • That grace warm summer's smile, - Where rustling still among the bowers. Whers'erst they shone. thO while— And the spangled frost work, cold and bright. That gleams en twig and item', Seems a throne for each of frozen light, With a diamiond diadem! • • Oh! I love those gems by the suniutam kissed, As they swing in the spirkling air, And I love In the dim old woods to list To the voices stirring there ! ELISE Dlt VAUX'. BY ra r lory ?kart. "Well, doctor, what do you think of her? She basset her heart upon going to that New Year's Ball, and it will never do to dissppoint her, poor thing." The blunt old doctor hit his lip impatiently, and striking his gold-headed cane in no very gentleman ly manner upon the floor, said— • •'Think! I think rit would be perfect - insanity for tier to attempt it. I won't be answerable fur the consequences." - "Psbaw! my dear sir; she has 'hid a dozen at. tacks before, quite as bad, end..." "And that is the very reason Why ; she -should be more cautious now, madam. Ccaod;morning—good morning! heaven save me front these fashionable mothers," be muttered, as he banged the door -be hind him. "She'll kill the.girk and then her death will be laid to my door—ugh!...it would he a cow : . fort if one could meet a sensible woman occasion ally." Elise Was sitting in bed, propped up by pillows, Awn her -mother entered. If youth; grace and beauty could bribe the deatroyer, j or turn aside hia unerring aim, thee she had been spared. Her cheek was marble pale, and rested wearily en one little hand; the eyes were closed as if sleeping, and from the other hand a few choice dowers had escaped, and lay . scattered on the snowy counterpane. "Oh! is that you, mamma! I .hOpe you have made that stupid doctor give me .something that will set me up. I feel such a deadly sinking—from want of nourishment, I fancy. Dl pray see what you can get for me. I hope Dr. Wyman don't pre sume to interfere about my going to the Ball, be cause 1 intend to go, dead or alive; and mama, While mylonch is getting ready,, bring me my dress and let me see if Jeanset has placed the trimmings whore they should be, and hale a ruche placed around the wrist of my kid gloves; and mains, don't forget to seed to Auster's for that pearl spray I se lected for my hair; and by the way just had me that mirror; I am afraid I am looking awfully pale." "Not now," said the frightened mother, "you are too weary. Wait till you have hail some refresh ments," and the pale beauty sank bank on her pil low, crushing a wealth of- dark rinlets, and closed her eyes wearily in spite of her determination to be well. A rivet the door! (a bright flush came to her cheek.) "That's Vivian, 'mama. Tell him—tell him--(aed a sharp pain through her temples forced her 16 pane;) tell him Pm better, and he may call for me at ten to-morrow night; and, mamma, hand him this;" and she dre* a little perfumed note from beneath her pillow, with a rose-bud crushed in its folds. "Draw aside the curtain. Jeannet! Oh! we shall bare a nice evening for the dance; now hand me my dreseiag plan. Mamma that medicine is per feetly miraeoleus—l never felt better. Heaven knows where I should have been, had you not call ed in a better counsellor than Dr. Wyman. He would like me for a patient a year, I dare ash but I knew better than to line his pockets in that way; and she skipped gaily acress the floor to a large fanteuil and called Jeannet to arrange her hair. "Softly—softly, Jeannet? my head is not quite right yet. There, that will do;" said Elise, as the skillful French woman bound trees after tress in glossy braids around her Well formed head. Now place that pearl spray a little to the left, just over my ear, pretty, is it not, mammal" 'Mere, Jeanne!" and she extended the dainty, foot for its silken hose and satin slipper. _"Rest awhile new, Elise," said her mother, &swim looked apprehensively at the bright crimson spot on her cheek,-t►at grew deeper every moment, and con trasted so strikingly with the marble paleness of her brow. I'm afraid .you are going beyond your strength." "Mamma what an you thinking about? Look at mo! sad Ww• hew well I look. ' &tidos, I'd go:' to r iga ball to-nigkf t it It omit Mtpsi life . Sable itas triumphed over me once; she shall not do it,i:sec: and time. Besides there is really no danger j. feel wild with spirits to-night, and anticipate rmost brilliant evening," and she clasped the pearl pend ants in her small ears, and the light, fleecy dreati fell in soft folds about her graceful person, and up on her fair arm placed his girt, and taking in her hand the rich briquet, every Bower of which vrhis . sd hopes to her young heart, she hold up her . -oboe' eltb a bewitching smile, and said— "Now Kiss me, mamma, and say that you are proud of Elise." And now Jeannet, with officious care, draws the rich opera cloak about her shoulders and with a thousand charg•s from mamma to beware of the draughts, partake sparingly Of ices, and not weary herself with dancing, the carriage wheels roll away from the door freighted with their lovely burdert. "Elise de Vaux here!" said a tall, queenly girl, attired in black velvet; and she curled her prissy lip with iil•concerted vexation. , "I thought her &Yin or near it;" and as Elise glided gracefully past in the dance, every eye followed her, ■nd every tongue eloquent in her praise, lgable's cheek paled with' anger. "How radiant sl,e is! how dazzling! Steltnesi has but enhanced her beauty, and how proudly Vi vian heirs her through the waltz! Every step they take is an my heart strings? This must not; shall not be! Courage, coward heart!" and _mastering her feelings with a strong exercise of wilt, soon breught pie rose to her cheek, her eye grew wildly brilliant and, had not Vivian been magnetised past reeall, his eye would have been caught by the daz sling vilion. I "Heatiens! that is not Elise de . Vaux!" said a nephew pf Dr. Wyman's. "What mad" folly! .My uncle told me if ahe same; it would be at the price of her life. How surpaasingly beautiful the is!" "; 4 1osleep tin morn, when youth and pleasuremeet, To awe the glowiDg hour/ Tiitts Aping km', "Whig, unearthly beauty!" said the ol4inao to a youth; on whose arm he was leaning, as Elise glid put. Who is she," "Elise de I;raux." is rtby du you look at her so wildly? -Hss Cupid aired a dart at you out of thoselovely blue eyes?" "Goed , God!" said the young man, leaping for- Nerd as it piercing shriek. came -upon the air.— "Make resigna help! . throw up the windows!" and Elise was borne nut, gasping, senseless, to the cool night air. • Aye, Vivian'. kneel at her side, chafe the little jewelled hands, put back the soft hair from the azure veined temples, press the pulealass wrist, listen for the betting heart—in varn!--Eliire is DRAM! And in the arms of him for whom ship had thrown away her life; abe was borue to her home. The diamond sparkled mockingly on ,the clay-cold fan ged, the peirla still lingering amid her soft ring leu, the round symmetrical limbs still fair in their beautiful proportions. The HILIIT she coveted was o.Atrtub—.-the dear bought victory woi! .Roniatioe of Real Life—A. Holiday Incident 'The butchers of Cincinnati are proverbial for their whole'louled generosity. Ne class of our Citizens : are se frequently called upon to sympathize with the suffering poor, and by their acts, not words, show their noble nature. A pleasant incident came under our observation yesterday morning. A lady, n hose attire,was scrupulously clean, bat of humble fabric, exhibiting plainly that her needle had often been in requiiition, to repair the effects of wear and time.' Her thin shawl_ was closely drawn about her person, meagerly shielding her from the iuclensency of the weather; her bonnet had passed through no fashion able Milliner's hand to be remviellea to the latest style,' but it also, as did her other dresg, spoke plain ly of ,hours, snatched probably from sleep, to repair the ravages of time. Her face had once been hand some, but care and unceasing toil hid stamped there indelibly their marks; her fragile form - seetned more fittedifor the cosy fireside, than to bore the chilling blasts of winter. She stood within the entrance of the Market -house, her little basket on her arm, and the small pittance Of a hard day's toil, grasped in her hand—she look ed at the stall on which was temptingly spread, in rich profusion, meats of every kind, she cast ber eyes along until they rested upon a small untvutpt ing looking piece—undecided—apparently calcula ting whether this luxury to her would not be pur chased at too great a price, precluding other things necessary to her very existence and a her little ones. Our good butcher, who would shrink ftotn having his kind act made known, immediately.-dtvined the cans* of her hesitation, said " madam, here's a nicer piece," at the same time laying a x vioble roast and steak in her basket ;she was about' to, reply, "I can not purchase it ;" when he int,Crupted her by say ing "tis nothing—nothing, these ere holiday times," and he hastily left his stall: Before she could gain her self-possession, for if had been long since kind words and kinder WI had been her lot to receive, be returned and filled her basket with a variety of veg etables-, saying "may you have a happy New Year, as I hope to bare myself." Tears swelled up in that poor woman's eyes, her, swelling heart choked her utteran4e. She could hardly say "God bless you," as she moved towards bet home, with a heart lighter than - wken she left her little ones that morning, hardly knowing when the necessary food was to be procured to lave them from the keen pangs of hunger. This is no fancy sketch thing of almost everyday's occurrence. They will have their raward.—Cin. Nonpareil. A STATI WITH TOO =CH Monax.--The St. Louis Evening News exults in the following fashion, ever the exemption of Missouri from all Stain debt : " Missouri has no State debt, no incomplete and abandoned works of internal improvements, and no harraising 'esti annual' instaitneffta of interest to pay.. The State Treasury is fall and overflowing; and Gov. King, in his late message, announces that the !avenue of the State is larger than the wants of the State Government require, and he ruggesta a re duction of taxes r (1:7" Do not be unhappy if you have not married a professed beauty. They generally admire them selves io much, they,have no love left for their hue bash. Besides, it might not perhaps have been very agreeable to you to ese every fellow, as. you west Int, pubile phiels„ emetic afzoirwif• u If fir csl4 dui& bee likh O►'ONW£RD..i SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 5,1853. .. - t p 4 Y 4 -~ f YOUNG AGAIN. An old man sits is a high•backed chair Before as open door. Whila•the eon of a summer afternoon Falls hit across the boor. Mai tha drowsy click If an ancient clock Has notched the hoer of four. A breetirbleirs in and a breeze blows out From the scented summer air. And it Avers now on Ili. wrinkled brow. • And now it lifts hie Bair Abd the leaden lid of his eye drops down. And he sleeps in his high-baeked chair. The ild man sleeps. and the old man dreams, His bead drops ma his breast. Ilia bands relax their feeble hold, And fall to his lap in rest. The old man sleeps. mud in sleep ht deems, ♦ad in dreams again is blest. The years claret their fear fal mei; ; H. is a child again. A mother'a tones are in his ear, And drift across his brain ; He abases gandr butterflies, Tar downthe roiling He pluck) tbo wild rosy in Oho woad*. And gathers eglantine. And bolds the golden buttercups • • • Birneath hcs ester's chin ; And angles in the meadow break With a bent and, asked pin. He loiters down the grassy lan* And by the brimming pool. And a sigh escapes his parted lips - As he bears the bell for school—. Antibo wishes it never were nine s•oleek. And the morning never were full. A .other's hand is pressed en his bead. Her kiss is on his brow— A 1111111103er breeze blew, in at the door With a toss of a leafy bough. latitholey imaA.Asaio. Aid his eyes are leer-61Ied new. The "Old Guard" at Waterloo. The 'following description of the last charge by the Old French Guard at Waterloo, is drivel from a French work entitled "Histoire de la Garde Im periale, relue par M. Emile Marco de Saint Hiliare," and is interesting at the present moment: I.During the day the artillery of the Guard, under Dronet, maintained its old renown; and the Guard itself had frequently been used to restore the bat tle in various parts of the field, and always with suc cess. The English were fast becoming exhausted, and in an hour more would duubtles6 have been for ced into a disastrous defeat but fur the timely arri val of Blucher. But when they saw him with his thirty thousand Prussians opproaching, their cour age revived while Napuleon was filled with amaze ment. A , beaten , enemy was about to form a junc tion with flie•ailles; while Grouchy, who bedtimes sent to keep him in check, was nowhere to be seen. Alail what great plans a single inefficient cow wander overthrew. . In a moment Napoleon saw that he eoold not sus tame the attack_of so many fresh troops, if once al lowed to form a junction with the allied farces, and he determined to stoke his fate on one bold east, and endeavor to pierce the allied centre with a grand charge of the 0:d Ward, and thus throw himself between the two armies. For this purpose the Im perial Guard was called up and divided into twolm mettle columns, which were to meet in the British. centre. Those under Reifle no sooner entered the fire - than it disappeared like mist. The other was placed under Ney, "the bravest of the brave," and the order to advance given. Napoleon accompani ed them part of the way down the slope, sad halting for a moment in the hollow, addressed them a- few wards. He toid them the battle rested with them, and that he relied on their valor, tried in so many 'fields. "Vive fEmpereur!" answered him with , a shout that was heard above the thunder of artillery. The whole contineatal struggle exhibits no subli mer spectacle than this last effort of Napoleon to save his sinking empire. The greatest military en ergy and skill the world possessed had been taxed to the utmost during the day. Thrones were tot tering on the turbulent field, and the shadows of fu gitive kings flitted through the smoke of, battle.— Bonaparte's star trembled in the zenith—new hlaz idg out in its ancient splendor, new suddenly paling before the anxious eye. The intense anxiety with which he watched the advance of that column, and the suspense he suffered when the smoke of battle wrapped it from sight, and the utmost despair of hie heart when the curtain lifted over a fugitive army, and the despairing shriek rang out, "The Guard recoils:" "The Guard recoils!" make uslor a moment forget all the carnage in sympathy with his distress. The Old Guard felt the pressure of the immense responsibility, and resolved not to prove unworthy of the great trust committed to its care. Nothing could be more imposing than its movement to the assault. It bad never rocoiled before • human foe, and the allied forces beheld with awe its firm and steady advance to the final charge. F.ir.a moment the batteries stopped playing, the firing ceased along the British lines, as, without the beating of a drum or a bugle-note to cheer their steady courage, they moved indeed silence over the field. Their tread was like muffled thunder, while the dazzling helmets of the cuirassiers flashed long streams of light be hind the dark and terrible mass that swept in bne strong wave along. The stern Drouet was there amid his tun•, and on every brow was written the unalterable resolution to conquer or die. The next moment the artillery opened, and the head of that gallant column seemed to sink in the earth. Rank after rank went down, yet they neither stopped nor faltered. Dissolving squadron and whole battali ons disappearing one after another in the destruc tive fire •fleeted not their steady courage. The ranks closed up as before, and each, treading over his fallen comrade, passed unflinchingly on. The horse which Ney rode fnll under him, and scarcely had he mounted another befora it also sank to the earth, and so mother and another, till five In succession. had been shot undet him. Then, with his drawn sabre, be marched sternly at the bead of his column. In vain did the artillery hurl-Its storm of iron into that living mass. Up to the mesa-. ales they pressed, and driving the artillery men from flair *Me; pushed e• through tie English lines.- But just is the vie sop 'aimed *eke reef QOM*, .h.had WA flat on thigrosielbfili;d of earth, suddenly rose and poured a volley into their fairs. Another and another followed, till one broad sheet of Gate rolled on their bosoms, and in such a &the and unexpected flow that they staggered back before it. Before the Guard had time to rally again and advance, a beevy column of infantry fell on its left flank in clone and deadly volleys, causing it, in its unsettled state, to swerve to the right. At that (aslant a whole brigade of cavalry thundered on the right flank, and penetrated where cavalry had never gone before. That intrepid Guard could have borne up against the Unexpected fire froth soldiers they did not see, and would also have rolled back the infantry that had boldly charged its left flank; but the cavalry "finished the disorder into which they .had been cno unitarily thrown, and broke the shaken ranks before tbelhad time to reform, and the eagles of thatlith erto invincible Guard were pushed backward down the slope. It was then that the tamp, seized with despair, shrieked out, "The Guard recoils! The Guard recoils!" and turned and fled in wiki dismay. To see the Guard in confusion was a sight they had never before behel I, and! it froze every heart with terror. Still those veterans refused to fly; rallying from their disorder, they formed into two immense square' of eight battaliuns, and turned fiercely on theenetny, nobly strove to stem the reversed tide of battle. , 'Fur a long time they'stood 'and let the cannon balls plough through their ranks, distaining to turn their backs on the foe. Michel, at the bead of those battalions, fought like a lion. To every command of the enemy to surrrnder, he replied, "The Guard dies -p--it never surrenders;" and with his last breath bequeathing this glorious motto to the Guard, be fell a witness to its truth. Death traversed th.),m eight battalions with such a. rapid footstep that they seen dwindled away to two, which turned in hope less daring on the overwhelming numbers that pressed their retiring footsteps. Last of all but a single battalion, the debris of the "column of granite" at Marengo, were left. Into this Napoleon Ming himself. Canibronne, its brave commander, saw with terror the Emperor in its frail keeping._ He was not struggling fur victory—he was intent only on showing how the (Lard should die. Approaching the Emperor he cried out, "Re tire! Do you not see that death has no need of you!" and closing mournfully yet sternly round their expi ring magles,thoee brave hearts badeNapoleen an eter nal atlieu,and flinging themselves on the enemy,wero soon piled with the dead at their feet. Many of the officers were seen to de.troy them selves rather than survive deficit. Thus, greater in its own defeat than any other caps of men in gain ing a victory, the Old Guard, passed from the stage, and the curtain dropped upon its strange careat It bus fought its last battle. IMPORTANT To RAILROAD COMPANIES AAD . TOE TRAVSLINO PIIREIC.—An action brought.to recover damages for the wrongful ejecting of a passenger from the care of the Hamilton and Dayton Railroad Company, was tried yesterday, hi the Superior Court. The plaintiff, George Maxander,claimed that he had entereJ the cars as a passenger at Dayton, having purchased a ticket which 112 accidently lost before called on by the conductor s On the other side it was claimed that the plaintiff had • not bought any ticket; but that if he had, having lest it, he was bound to pay over again. It was shown in aggra vation that the plaintiff was put out on a cold win ter's morning, the nearest house being some three or four thousand yards off, and that the plaintiff's feet were injured by the frost and cold. In his charge to the jury, Judge Headley inform!. them that a corporation stood on no higher grounds than any other carrier—that the ticket given by the Railroad Company was the best evidence .of pay ment, but if the party had actually paid fur his seat in the cars, the loss of the ticket would only put him to the trouble of proving he had paid, and the Railroad Company would have no right to turn him out. It being suggested on the part of the defendant that if the-ticket were found by another person it might have been passed on the conductor, the Court remarked that the ticket was not negotiable; and if the company chose to put it in a shape by which they might be imposed upon, that would pot alter the rights of-other parties. The jury, after a short deliberation, brought in a verdict for plaintiff; with $5OO datnages.—Cinrin nail Cunt, Jen. 14. No' net-Dims...The otber day it was a bitter cold morning, as we were wending our way to the office, we passed on the street, a little girl some eight ar nine years old, thinly clad, a pair of raggeJ shoes picked up probably in the street, and "a world too wide" for her slender feet. Her scaat and faded calico dress, her almost total covering, scarce reach ed to the knee, and her little legs were as red as e pigeon's with the-cold. The instinct of charity, as we rapidly passed. (and the whole spectacle was but a coup'de ail,} induced us to feel in our pock ets for something wherewith to buy her a pair of stockings. Utifortunately for our bump of sympathy, it did not contain "a red." We hurried on—eager to escape the nipping air, and amid the cares of bu siness, it soon escaped us, but the vision of that poor trembling child comes up to our mind's eye, and upbraids us that we did not step into some store hard by and "run our face" for something to pee tact those little limbs from the keen and pitiless blast. For the nonce we are free to- confess we were without out usual presence of mind. Does it not seem strange that so young and delicate a child should have traversed our streets without encoun tering some "good shepherd!" It will be a long time before it will entirely fade from our memory, one good deed we might hive done, omitted. Perhaps had we not been so warmly clad, our senses would have been more alive. Though a simple incident of ac tual, occurrence, one day last week, it involves a moral.—Loaisrille Times. cg". I do not ask that women may fill offices in the Cabinet, or represent either the army or navy. I do not urge them oat to command ships, or build railroads, to harangue in public pieces, or fill pul pits. These are matters that cleave entirely to hit- Ma capabilities._But I do ask that no civil -disa bilities be attached to us, say more than to eur broth ers, in regard to these•pesitions. If we aspire to them, and prove ourselves incentiatent, the world will readily leant the fact, just as it. lures event tally to 4eteet-any incompetency in the other ten. Mr.: 9150 ♦ IrEAlt, is £dvsici. 0 1.• ogioal Sermon. i • •• had, at ono - time, for a co•curate a very icepaii sive and rather demoofratic man. Our rector- was an aristocrat. On Sunday he bad delivered himself of • sermon in which he incidentally juseSed tea• ily pride, and spoke in a matiper that must hare ben offensive to any poor person of any intelligence or independence ; and, as we were leaving the dumb, my brother curate exclaimed, with unaffected indig nation, " Well, that crowns toadying did courses. Such flunkeyism is intolerable. . But Ctl administer an anecdote next Sunday ; see if Idou't. Like Herod's worms, our rector's pride is eating his up." I.did not attempt to dissuade him. Our ora tor treated both of us with a condescension that *Os anything but flattering ; and he thought more et being a "gentleman" (upon which be was always indirectly vaunting himself) than of being a Chris tian, forgetting what Coleridge said, that there was no real gentlemen without he wee a Christian. Next - Sunday morning my brother curate carried out his threat. He told me nothing about hew he proposed to manage or mould his course ; so judge my surprise when, mounting the pulpit, he gars out as his text, the 3d chapter of Luke, part of the 23d, and the whole of the 2lth, 25th, 26th, 27th, 28th, D.b, 30th, 31st, 333, 333, 34th, 35th, 36the 37th and 33111 verses ; "in which (he continued) will be found the following words;" and then, to the marvel of the whole congregation, who turned towards the pulpit with eyes and mouth open, be read right through the sixteen verses, beginning with—" J oseph, which was the son of Heti," and ending with, "which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God." Every one is familiar with the.peia liar and strange effect upon the ear of the repititlon of words, "which was thel , on,"when even °martin in the reading desk ; but in the palpit, as a prefix to a sermon in the shape of a text, they sounded oddly. The rector looked at me as if for en explanation, sod 1 did not know where to look ; while the prineipal persons of the parish mallifestly came to the conclu sion that my brother curate was gone mad. Stit t if he were, he soon showed them there was method in his madness ; for he ingeniously evolved out at these sixteen verses a discourse that might have served as an essay on the Republican legend of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity." • The reader has probably anticipated me in the use he made of his long text. "Here (said ha) we have a genealogical - tree, not traced by the flattery of sycophants, nor the natter. minty of herald., but by the. unerring Evangelist. whole inspiration enabled him to mount frombranch to branch—a genealogy beginning with God,-end ending, so far as my tent goes, with a poor Galile, an carpenter: Here is a lesion and a rebuke teethe pride of descent. The poorest carpenter, is the poorest village in Eiglaud, can retrace his lineage through the same unbroken succession; and the proudest peer can do no more, unless the latter, in his presumption, should be disposed to ignore his divine origin. But it would be no use; by whets:. ver different branches, they'arrive at the same root; the noble and the peasant, if both had the power of going back over their ancestry, would both meet at the 38 verse of the 31 chapter of Luke, 'Which was the sou of Euos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.' "Here (ho continued, looking, at the rector's and the squire's pew?)—here we.all meet on equal terms. Disown them as we like in other degrees, her we are brought face to face with, and can no longer re fuse to acknowledge our poor relations." Then, looking to some forms on which a group of slms-house people eat, he added:— 'Here, too, my poor friends, you. and your dot wiors' m-et in the presence of your common pa rent, the great God of heaven and earth, in whose eyes the fictitious distinctions of the world ari naught. Cold-shoulder you as they like through life, they cannot ignore their, relationship when they come to this; they can no longer speak of you, spurn you, as though you were formed of different clay. The'carpeater and the king ars one; -and how little importance St. Luke, who.was no sycophant gem. alogist, attaches even to the regal office, may be seen from the manner in which he passes through the 31st verse, where no pause is made to mark the prondtitle of David, which was merely the son of Jesse, which was the son of Obed, and so on." In conclusion he urged the poor man to live up to hie great origin, and not disentitle himself to that great share in the inheritance of which his heaven ly Father had laid up for his ehildren who truly serve him. They need not care for the proud man disowning them now; the thing to be feared was God disowning them on the last day. The rich he enj , dr.ed to feel for the poor as for brothers, if they would not offend that great Being who has a father's interest for all. I thought the rector would never forgive my pa curate; but the only notice he took of the eecestrii, discourse was to cease for ever after preaching-to the "humbler orders," of the deference they towed their "superiors." It was before so bad that a weigh. boring clergyman said to me, "If your rector - bad to put on an eleventh commandment, it would run thus: "Thou shalt not neglect to take ofFtby 44 to myself and the squire." TAKI" AT IIIS 0FF&11.4 friend says the editor of the Waterford Sentinel, was taken at him offer a' day or two since. He published the following : " We shall insert no marriage notice, unless,ac companied by the sum of one dollar."—Erchangs. "We shall insert all marriage notices for a Cm of the bride."—Waterford Sentinel. A few days after, a plump-looking colored girl en tered his office, for the purpose of informing her friends, and the colored gentry generally, that oho had taken to herself one Samba, "for better or rot WUb." The editor replit d that he should have to Charge her twenty-five cents. She hesitated a mo ment, and then opening a paper, pointed to the arti cle in question. The editor blushed, and the brii• turned pale, but whether they kissed, deponent saith not. • . No You Don'T:lvookl.—Sc4ns 14 Court of J*w ties—Boy,' Witness in Case of Assaidt On Mr. Brown. ' Judgi (with dignity)—Young Inns do yen knew this Brown ? Boy (looking roguishly at his honor, and a/Want kis head)—No yer don't Judge. Judge (indignantly)—What do you mean by . that, sir I Answer my question ; do you know We Brown ? Boy (with a peculiar wink)—no yer don't, hags. Judge (in a ragej—Answer me, you young ♦it . lain, -or I will commit you for contempt of Court -- do you know this Brown !- Boy (applying. his thumb to the tip GT his nose, and wriggling mysteriously his elongated II apes) —Yee can't come it, Judge ; I know whin pitman; —7tr wane . me to say what Brown. and Mora to nny 7t ifiesca Stout ! No yerdiou'ilaidel. .•4s • Faa IMMIIIIMI z.. - .:47-7 4 61 1 ME IMI NUMBER 39. MI
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