r. DITZILIN 00., lropristors.
VOLUME 23.
brie %pith! Ohertier.
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A. P., DURLIN & CO., PROPRIETORS
H. r. 11;o0AN, dit• r.
orricE. CORNER STATE
ERIE. ST. AND PUBLIC
SQUARE,
TERMS Or THE PAPER.
r,:, bubf , er 'bets by the carrier, at It%
Ai sis il, or at the o ff ice, in advance. 1•110
alt not paid in advance„or within three menthe from dieting&
asobsmbilig• two dollars will be charged. ,1
•C'Al I corniuunicauonis moat be post paid.
• RATES OF ADVERTISING.
Cards not exceeding 4 lines, one year. imps
One square •• •• 10.110
so. do. six numbs, • ff• Off •
do. do. three months., - 3,00
'Dement adverusements, 50 cents per square, of fifteen lines or
Ins, for the Pint insenion; 25 cents for each subsequent Insertion.
rTY early ad !renown have t he privilege of changing at 'Atmore,
hit at nu time are allowed to occupy MOM 1./All two aquaraa.asi to
M;twardtatAatrraawadsata baasaeas.
A.l‘ ertix.ruenta not having other directions, hill be ituerted till
roid asut ha rgrd a reord ney.
w i ziLL;,:. 0a : , 11 ko *4l
D. D. WALKER ti. CO..
ALDP.I3, produce and t7otnnitssion gerchante, fourth Ware
If.q.-e %vest or the Pubt lc Bridge. Cvte ra.
rp nt Coal. Salt. Plaster. Stucco, Flab. Lime wad l.lme
Iron. Nails, Stoves, Castings, &c., with unaurpaaa.
.1 tac 111 ie. for 'hipping either by Steauabouts, Propellers.
tieuoQurrs, or by Rad Hood.
t , t.. WAIKiR..
CARSON GRAti A 31. r
4110)011 r Arm Covusszaoa .*c Law. iu George A. Ellfor's office,
•t •ide of the park. Eric.
JAMES ROSS SNOWDEN.
ATT‘ilWir AND COUJIULLOP. L4W,1140. 133, Tbitd aired
Pittsburgh. L_ 34
JOHN - W. RIDDE-C.L.
. - roaNt.ir ♦T LAlV.—Otriee. Path litreet. between Plivitbdeld
Jlld Grant Streets. Pittsburgh. Pa.
VINCENT HIMROD & CO.
nt , ,t rsevt ants of Stoves, Hollow Ware. Engines. Machinery,
sail Road Cars, etc., State St.. Erie Pa.
THOMAS M. AUSTIN.
(Late of eke of G. Lomas 4 Co.) •
e. to iu Clocks, Watches. Jewelry, Silver Spoon". Masieal
Iti struwen ts. Look tus Glasses, Lamps arid ram) Gomm,
gad retail.
JOHN CJOALCHNii.
Vitritiorr TAI Loa, and Habit Maker--Hhop on the east side of
Sun , wept. Mb doors north Of Eairbt. and adjoining J. IL Hob.
yet k C 0 .6 Cabin etWareelloous. Erie. Penna.
CLARK & METCALF,
t% a.' pfk Lc and rirtaii dealers in Dry Goods, CarNu, and Dry
I.Torerirs No. 1 Peed House,
WILLIAMS & WRIGHT.
IP. Collectors and Deniers in Gold and Payer coin. anew
rem 'loney, Land Warrants and Certificates ofDeporite. Also
urns on the principal cities of the Union. and all parts
tU Old Country for sale. (Mike, Williams' Block. COnlef of
. and Public equate.
M..:l♦•R. M'a(ONT.
J. G. & W. I. MILLS,
a ttu and IVholesale Dealers in Groceries, Wines.l.iquors,
.';are Foreltia Fruit. Nuns, Pickles and Pickled Ofs.
r , Lvb.rcrs. Preverven. nod Hetmetrieaily ideated articles of
-.cry deArriptfoin always on hand. No. William's Sleek,
, opposite Brown's New Borer, Erie, Pa.
j I; flu a, 'Sew York. W*. I. Mii.u. Elutalo.
recernny in their season. Clown' in shell. from .1. G. IBMs
. Bea York, which will besold Whole's* at low Once"
A. C. hicisox feat. Er Ie.TO.
I)URLLN & SLOA - N.
.•.ii Ciassteal. Febnol and Miscellaneous Books. Blank
b.os4, esahonery, and Printer's Cards, No. 9, Brown's new
Erie La.
a I' lILIV • 11. V. SILOAM.
- - - T. W. MOORE, -
t• E. i rat 4 - :ro , erie*. Provisions. Wines. Liquors. Candies. Flint.
yc . Nor below Loomis& Co's State street. Erie.
JOHN B:COOK.
iLI a .a St., pie k Fine! Dry Goode, apd the Greatest variety
t tit , . Store In the City. Cheap Bide. Erie. Pa.
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STERRETT & GRAY.
,a, Jol , bers and retail Dealer. in Wei and Illy 4romeriesi
l'rodure. Foreign and Douiestie Fruit. Wooden.
It tt 1,4 .in 11 Stone Ware. Flour. Fish. Ran. Glass., Nails. Pow
,lvt..l•llul. rape. Safety Fuse. k.c".. ke.• Pletteit akreet.
tie Recd Hou.e. Erie. Pa. -
a _swain and Canal Boats. Vessels. Hotels. , and Private
•ta I „-..aapt led.w ith arty of tbeabove articles with prompt
.... a ad ,er) r neap.
WM. S. LANE
Attorney awl Come*liar at Law.
041(.1.: over Jaet►oo's store. it North-East cocoa of the rob
** nr.
'DOCTORS BEEBE STEWART.
Pl.' HUNG Pique iau and Surpass. Once sad itenutencen—
alerah k Sassafras Streets.
'tee hours from tat% A. 11; I LOS, asides:l7. P.M.
. • J. L. ITICWAIT, 1111.
JOHN HEARN & CO.
r 'and Commission Merchants. deader in Coal.
- ,Al ‘ 1 . 141, and agent fora daily line of upper lake Ikerutiors,
Hoek Erie Pa.
LIDDELL ik Cu
za n., Manufacturers a Iwo Fence. Railing. Steataboqt
ke , tc., State. M•tweeu 7 la mid 814. +turtle. Site.
AMERICA'N EXPRESS COMPANY.
urr,, L iteuioveld to No. 3 Beat /Stock. Musk. Agree.
E„,...tere Express closes at Ili o'clock, A. M.
Wt...,er " 3a o'clock. P. M.
- •essrvoito,
GEORGE J. MORTON.
( bait of Dr firm if ! haw s * Cr..)
Flan.invo and Coassiusies Ilie Public Dock, Erie. Pa,
ue.,•.s Co).a drlt. lush. Flour arid Plaster.
101 - 0 - iViTO N.
Yatr!irrtaker and Repairer. Dealer in Watches. Clacks. Jewelry.
' , taw.' Instruments, Looking Glasses And other Fancy Goods.
zn' w. oi.o door weft of the Reed House. _ 17
ARBUCKLE it KEPLER. - T
Dr} Goode. Groceries, Hardware. Crockery. Ike. Ho
7. PrTry Bloc 1. state Street, Erie, Pa.
DR. C. BRANDES.
P. ,, v,04 and 13.aoLoN-4)ffice u kid restdetice on Eighth
.4, 7' 4.- '6rcw'en French and Holland'. Erie, Ta. •
M. SANFORD &
bile!" in Gold. Silver, bank Notei. Cenitiem"
Light Exchange on the -psi nc i pal cities constantly
sale Once lu Bastty's Ulock Public square. Erie.
_ _
T. HERON STUART.
vitas*, Avt. Petstet. .I—Office. corner of French soil rig*
over Moses Koch's store. Residents onsFoOrtla street,
dler fast of the old Apothecary Hall.
RUFUS REED,
1 . ..rt.' in Englisli;;Cfertsara sad American Hardwaresad Ciniery;
Akio. ags, Anvils. Vices, lniu and ewe No. 3 Reed House,
fz.
eADWELL & BENNETT.
ilTor tinci ,, blwrs, and Retail DeSIMI in Dry Good.. Groceries,
I t4e ket), taasseare, Carpeting. Hardware, Iron. Steel. Nails.
I "inlits, Le. Empire Stores State Strect.lbue doors. below
Brown's hotel, Erie. Pa.
io—A as its, V tees. !mows, Alla Anna, Bpri•p. and • general
assortment of Saddle and Carnage Tnmmi•p.
S., ERVIN SMITH.
Alllollollfr •T Lair •Od .11truice of She Peace. and Agent (or
the Key Slone Mutual Lak Insurance Company--°lglee Slows
•M^.tot IVrlghts store. Erie, Pa.
GE - H. CUTLER
Arn ~.mr AT Law GEOR
Girard. Ene County, Pa . Collection's and
ote, bubinrse , attended to wi th prooptbeas and dienaieb.
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JOSIA Li 4 oGG,
in: k COMlLliscon Mereltiant, On Use Public Dock, mato(
Nat, street.
'mot. nalt., Piaster and Wbiir Fiakeenatinaly foram's.
, _
I. ROSENZWEIG & Co .
W 1 401.L0 Lt Va. Rs r/111, DEALILILI is Foreivs and Domestic Dry
• tkock, ready mace Clothing, BOOla tad Shoes, he., no. 1
I% now, mock. duce street, Erie.
kIARSHA - 11,4,VINCEN T.
AmlxJ,Ys Al LAW--016Ce up mars toTuwaany Hall Wilding
certhof the Prothonotary'• othee. Erie.
MURRAY W HALLON,
A Ilr Z 1 t1(A111) COCIMELLOIL AT LAW--Othee Over C. B. Wright's
enuanee one door west of *ate sweet. on Oil Diarioad.
- - -
HATES.
lu Dry Goods, Dry Groceries, _Crockery, Hardware, &c.
Renrn's New Hotci.
SMITH JACKSON,
to,t,a in Dry Goode, Gnxeriea. Hardware, Queens Ware, Lime,
hot, 14 ails, ice., 111 , Cheaaside. Ede.
-- - -
WILLIAM RIBLET, _ _
mAzka Uand Undertaker , earner of Bum and
S . v.ntti streets., grr.
CARTER dc- BROTHER.,
a tag Retail dealer. in Drugs. Medicine rah ". Oil. .
L he-stuns G las& die.,No. s. Reed Hong. Erin
JAMES LYTLE, -
"1 " "ASIA Merchant Tailor, on the public dare, a few dam
I.en G f Mlle street. Erie.
JOHN H. BURTON & CO.
• asap lIET. it. dealers Ei Drop, Medicinal. 118 . Stoir , ‘
"kens". dct. Wo.S. Reed House. Erie.
CHAPIN, RESIDENT DENTIST-4111biliii
Il ls the south side of tbe Diroo 0 10. 1 : 1 doonors
the Erie Raub. Prices ressoaa e. aud mar
warranted Erie June 19 18W 11
DR. O. L. ELLIOTT,
—.Resideui Dentist: Otheeand dwelling on the
80Uth I I (if of the Public Square. lit door EIS'
of the Erie Bank Building. Teeth inserted odd
Gold Platt. frotn one tit an entire sett.
teeth filled with pure Gold, and resutired to health and use
" u("Lr• ru•aned with I nrtrunients and Dentiftee so as to
v f it wrek warranted.
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THE WAIL OF THE SOBJLOWIEO MOTHER.
Tbe fellewieg beautiful poem rebore re a dislreumuieg
*vest that meat be freak is the reeelleetleo of every reed-
He woe soy slily hey
A pat within the casket of sofhearl.
Priealews sod precious u Me gash of joy
That from its foustains slut. ,
Hon his the silken card •
Of my unspoken hive been mud him dolma,
Binding Es pus affection every Marti
And @militia lip both - knew*. • t
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Day after day,his foot, ' 1
Fleet with he hennas of onfoitered yee.t.
Came to my ear. soft as. the mosfal lute, I
Ot spice wind from the Beath.
Bet 0 mimes set sow, •
His joyous step and merry • Inexithig no,
Aid lb* pure radiance of his ennui brew.
Were thins of earth, I.
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Death. to two goads child. I I
Casio sot with whisporiet .ecNi•. such 40 Wed
Sonsatimair with anal forma. w twigs - fiWro Tilild.
A.Sovo dm death-smash bond. : : .
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Tbe lisle/ wreath .f fame. . , 1
Twisod by • autos for big sirs to ?Pio. i
Withers to 4.. t—aid glory's pried aceitiat t
But sharpens lay deeptir. 1
i
The glare of earthly plump
Fades Itka a nestoor in a star-lit sky.
Aid the load peal of how's eiaries trisOp.
Is past unheeded by.
Tha Woo seat of eartfi
81triuks as s shrivelled feral! beforel4 ire
That desolates say hansbio hosetternadlitheirthi.
With anguish deep and dire.
Gies, ins thy help, 0 God
la this my hoer of grief sad testfal woo ;
Teach two to bow Warmth thy ehalisoliii rod.
Amid stay the tears that flow.
Fut hie dosi sakir . whom heart I .
Is gashed and Itleediog by (he bitter stroke,
Help mo to cheer his childless patio, Or part
The ivy from the oak.
• •
I linow my hright.oyod bey
le sestling la the lovely riaviosel,• bmsst •
I hear his joie rho swelliegWong joy. •
to that sweet world of rest. i
Then tease. my heart, thy wail.
tiers be thy aaehor from the 'Kam of grief.
Let Ilia promisee prevail. -.
•
And prayer be my relief.
THE DOOR IS TEE HEART.
111 T 1110 L. P. TOINPISIO:D.
srss • owns. hafd wons•a! F.. asp• r up II groat
many pair of wiudiur stairs in Y•r bean. was a 4uar.
•utly passed by, and out that door wag wrottos.rwrao."
•
"Anti so it is with rho . drinsiiiirdi , Few awdy am a
groat sway pairs of wiiidsag mai* soli his Warr. i$ • door.
and or that door is winter man. Aia d ors mew kopek
at that door ones; twice , tiroirs—yoa. irovipaty
times saves. that it wins opts umwdo."
Jima W. Giiumi.
He was an old man. N..t so oil either for the
wrinkles that marred his cadaverous visage were
not the autograph that Time's fingers (144 laid there;
and the hand that placed upon ithe low table the
low-drained glass did not treastileiso with the weak
ness that age induces; yet reryokl and eery Wretch
ed looked the sole occupant of that narrow room,
with red clartitins, and dour *Wined with tobacco
j lice, and an atmosphere abundatrtly Belonged by
the bar-room into which it was 'aliened. ". A hat—lt
must have been intended fur concealed
the owner's uncombed - locks, and unmistakeable ev
idence of • familiar acquaintance with "brickbats
and the gutter" did that same hat produce. Then
there wan a coat, out of whose ,ileertio peeped a
pair of elbows in rej )icing consciousness that they
could afford to be "out." Add to these • shabby
pair of faded paling and you base ilea Wag enaambie
of the wretched being who had kat oommeiceJ his
daily potations in the only grog-shop he was allow
ed to frequent. And yet' the wretched, friendless
creature that sat there, half atupiied with the effects
of his morning dram, and far up a great many pair
of winding stairs in that heart, Wes a door. easily
passed by, and on that door, covered with cobwebs
and the dust of Time and Sin, ivas- written was!—
But nobody dreamed of this, and when the temper
ance men had gone to him with the pledge, and
promised him respectability and employment if be
would sign it; aid others—well meanitig men, too
—had rated him soundly for his evil ways and he
turned a deaf ear to all these things, and gone back
with blind pertinacity to his cups again, and every
body said old Billy Strong's case was a hopeless one.
Ah! nontief these had patiently groped their way
up - the heart's winding stairs and read the inscrip
tion on the hidden door there. But while the un
happy man sat by the pins table that morning, the
bar -keeper suddenly entered, followed by a lady
with a pale, high brow, mild hap' eyes, and a
strangely winning expression en ber pensive face.
The old man looked up with a vacant stare of as
tonishment, as the bar-keeper offered the lady a
chair, and pointed to the occupant of the other, say
ing:
"That'■ Billy Strong, ma'am," and with a linger
iatglance of eirrioeity, left that gentle women alone
with the astonished and now thoroughly sober man.
The soft eyes of the lady wandered with a sad,
pitying expression ever . Billy's Cesium sad then in
a low, sweet voice she asked:
"Am I rightly informedl Do I address Mr. Wil
liam Strong!"
Ak! with those words the lady had got further up
the winding stairs, nearer the bidden door, than all
who had gone before ber.
"Yu., that is my name, ma'am," said add Bill, as
he glanced down at his shabby attire ant teleally
tried to hide the elbow which was peeping out far
thest; for it was a long time since be had bun ad
dressedithy that name, and somehow it seceded very
pleasant to him.
"I am Tory glad to meet you, Mr. Strops," said
the lady. "I bare beard my father speak o( you so
often, sod of tee days when ,you and he were boye
together, that I almost feel am it we were old ac
qoaiatancee. Yen surely calliot have forgotten
Charles Morrison!"
"No! no! Charlie and I used to be old eresies,''
aid old BM with audden'animation, and a light in
his eye, sues is had not been there far many a dish
except when Film lent its fitful brilliancy.
Ak, the lid; did not know, as perhapv the angels
did, tbat she had mounted the stairs, and was Softly
feeling for that unseen door; so she went on:
"1 almost feel as if I could see the old spot upon
which your homestead stood, Mr. Strong, I have
heard my father describe it at/often. , The hip, with
its crown, of old oaks, at the back of your house,
and the field of golden harvest g sin that waved in
frost. Then there was the green grass plot before
the (rout door, and the huge old apple tree that threw
it. shadow across it; and the great, old fashioned
pectic°, and the grape v.ne that crept around pillars;
and the rose bush that looked in at the head room
window, and the brook that went shining and sing
ing through the bed of mint at the side of the house."
"Misty ani many were the hours," so father
would say—" Willie and 1 used to pass under the
shadow of that old apple tree, playing at hide sal
seek, or lolling on the grass, telling each otheir the
Wonders we Would achieve when we became men;
and when the sunset lays its crown of gold on the
top of the oaks on the hill, I can see Willie's mo
ther standing in the front door, with her white cap
and check apron, and the pleasant smile that always
ley around her lips. andlmar her cheerful voice cail
iag—coose, boy; come to supper."
MEI
Om after another,. the big, warm, bkPsied teary
came rolling down old Bill's pale cheeks. Ah, the
lady bad foundtthe door then.
"I was always at house at Willie'e," father would
conrinue; "And stied to have my bowl of freak milk
'and breed, ton ; and when these had-diseppetred,
Willie would draw his stool te his mother's feet, ley
, bis head on her . lap, and she 'would tell us some
pleasant story, it might be of Joseph or David or
some Amid st ild who afterwards became a great
man; anirthin;he . woull part Willie's brown curls
from'his forehead. and iu a voice I can never forget,
say, "promise me, Willie, when you go out from
your home into the world and its temptetions, end
your mother has laid down with her gray hairs to
sleep in the church-yard yonder—pro vise my child,
that the mental of her prayers and counsels shill
keep you from all etil ways." .And Willis would
raise his head, lift his blni eyes proudly to his mo
ther; and answer, "I will promise you I will make
a finst-rate man, mother." And after be bad said
his evening piayer, we would go happy as the birds
that nestled in the branches of the apple tree to relit;
and then, just as we were about sinking to sleep,
we would hear the well known foot-fell on the stairs.
and a loving face would bead ov 'r us to see if we
were nicely tucked up. "It is a long time, father
would say, after a pause, since I heard front Willie,
bower* I am-that be has never fallen into any evil
wars. The memory of his mother would keep him
fear thin."
Hits?, rap, rap," went the words of the lady, ist
the door of that old misn's heart. Croack, creak,
went the door en its t riasty kluges, (angels of God,
held ye nut your breath to listen - I) The laity could
only see the subdued miin.hory his face in hie hand.,
'and while his whole frame shook like an aspen leaf,
she heard him winner, amid child like sobs:
• "My mother! 0, my mother:"
And she knew the mud that were washing tlwee
wrinkled cheeks wero washing out ale) many a
dark page in the record of old Bur. past life, that
good against him. 80, with s silent prayer of thank
(eines., she reatimed:
"But them was one scene my father loved to talk
about better than all the rest. "It was of the mar
oing you were married, Mr. Strong."
- "It was enough to do one's eyes goolk' hi would
say, "to look at them as they walked op the old
chuitli aisle; he, with his proud, manly tread, ■nd
she delicate, fragile creature, fair as the orange
blossoms that trembled in her hair. I remember
how clear and fire h s voice eihood through the old
church, as he promised to love, protect and cherish
the gentle being at his side; and! knew bethought,
as he looked down fondly upon her, that the winds
of heaven should trot visit her face t o o roughly.—.—
And theh my father would tell us of a home made
very bright by watchful afrction, ■nil of the dark
eyed boy and fair-haired girl who came, after a
while, to gladden it.; and then, you know, be remov
ed to the west, and lust sight of you, Mr. Strong."
Once again the lady paused, for the agony of the
strong man before her was fearful to behold; and
when she spoke again, it was in a lower and mourn
ful tone.
"I promised my father, previous to his death, that
if ever I visited his native State I would seek out
his old friend. Rut when I inquired for you, they
enfolded a terrible story to me, Ur. Strong. They
tohi me of a broken and desolate household; of a
dark-eyed boy that left his borne is disgust andies
pair, for one on the homeless sea; of the gentle,
uncomplaining wife that went down with a prayer
on her lips for her erring husband, broken hearted
to the grave; of the fair-haired girl they placed by
her side in a little while. Oh! it is a sad story I
have heard of my father's old friend."
"It was I! It was I that did it all! I killed
them r said old Bill, in a voice hoarse with emotion,
as be lifted hi■ head from his clasped hands, and
looked upon the lady, every feature wearing such a
look of agonizing remorse and hopeless despair, that
she shuddered to beheld it. Wide, wide open stood
the door then, and the lady hastened to pass in. A
small, small fair hand wis laid on his arm, and a
sweet voice eh* murmur/Ai
"Elven for all this there is redem?tion, and you well
know is what manner. In the name of year dying
wife an the child that sleeps beside her, I ask
you-.-will you sign the pledger'
'1 will!" said old Bill, and be brought down his
hand with such force on the table, that its rhpama.
tic liiikba with difficulty maintmined their equilibri
um, and then eagerly 'clued the pen and pledge ills
lady placed before him, sod when be returned them
to her, the same of William' Strong lay in broad le
gible characters upon the paper.
There was an expression ludicrous from its in
teasity of *enmity, as the bar keeper's physiogoo
my, is the lady passed quietly through the shop, af
ter her long interview with eld'lltil; and the ex
pression was in no degree lessened when, a few no
wiestsalker, old Bill followed her, without stepping
as usual, to tab* a mead glass. And be never
passed over the thresbohl again.
Baader of mine, if you are of *Olll whams true,
semi* nods beer ewer sheet them ea. gram (heirs
to heeefit their fellow thee.- if your been is Yarlii•
----
0 W Alt D .4EI
SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 12, 1853.
ing over some erring brother man, whom you would
gladly raise from the depths of degradation and mis
ery, and point to the highway armee and virtue—
/member that somewhere in his heart toast he a
door, which, when rightly applied to, will epee un
to/ou. See to it that ye find it.
Dark Days.
I;VM1=1
"Dying? How can you over struggle through
the world slow! - Who, will ears for you, Jane,
when I am dead!"
6 Have you rooms to kir mid a lady is sa►le to
a bard-featured person.
"Room? Why—yes—we here roams: (survey
ing Mrs. Grey very deliberately.) You are a w id
'ow, I suppose? Thought so, by the length of yoirr
veil. Been in the city long? How long has ybor
busbasd been dead! What is the matter of him?
Take in sowing, or anything? Got say references?
How old is that child of your'?'
"I hardly think the situation will suit," said Mrs.
Grey, faintly, as abet rose to go. ,
"Don't cry, mamma," said Charley, as they gain
ed the street. Won't God take care of est"
'Put another •tick of wood on the. fire, Charley;
my fingsns are quite beuumnsed, •sl} I've • long
wille to work yet."
"There's not a chip left," said the boy ■tourafully
subbing his little purple bends; it seems •s_though
1 should never grow a big man, so that I can help
Hist! there's a rep!
"Work done?" raid a rough voice; "cause if you
aia't up to the mark, you can't h a ve a ny more.—
"No fire, and cold fingers." Sure oil story!-- 11
Dui ti "busidess; rvs no time to talk about
your afisirs. Women nisei eaW look at things in
a commercial pint of view. What 1 7r ant to know
is in a nut Phill. Is then shirts don* or not, young
woranr
"Indeed, there ea only est dnishedi though I have
doe* ney best," said Mrs. Grey.
MWell,•ha'nd it al•of; you wont got miry sown
and sit up to•ni`ht ind finish the reel, d'yo r hose'
"Hare you seats that you wink ensbrufdered air?"
"Yee," said the gentlinnan (7) addressed, cueing
a Innk of admiration at Mrs. Grey. (diners, James
run out with this Money to the bank.) Wish it for
yourself, matiansr said hi, blandly, "Possi6lr?—
PiSy to spoil tilos, him, *pm over sueb drudgery!"
A Garment and tie was oleos.
"Ilea a very sick child," asikthe doctor, "and
thawed little choose far hies to get well kora;"
drawing. his. fariod cost to his. tank as the wind
whistled through the crackg. ."Haeit yon no friends
in the city, where; he can be better provided fort"
Mr. Grey shook her bead mournfully. •
oWell,Tll send him some medicine to-night, and
to-morrow we will see what can be dune I.r him."
"Ti. morrow!" All the long, long night, the
I terai raged fearfully. The driving sleet sifted in
through the liposi windows that rattled, and trem
bled, and shook. Kn. Grey hushed her breath es
She watched the: little waxen face, and saw that
look creep over it. that cones but once. The ea*
of life were fast ebbing. The little tepee Mitered
■nd dished, end then—went ont forever! •
It was in "this poor man's lot" that Harry Grey's
pet - boy was buried. There were no carriages, no
mourner., no hearse. Mrs: Grey aliuddeted as the
wagron jilted over the rough stows to the old bu
rial place. Bhe uttered • faint scream as the se--
ton hit the little coffin against the wagon in - lifting
it out. dgnisit 'wad again she stay) his band
when he wentd: have fastened down the lid; she
heard with dittinitness the first heavy sled that fill
spew her bay's breast; she looked en with a dried
rut fascination, while he filled up the grave; she
saw the last shovel full of earth stamped down over
him; and when the Ironton touched her arm and
pointed to the wagon, she followed him nseettani
ca I ly, and made no objeCtion, w ken he said he;goess
ed he'd drives little faster, now Mel As lad was
out. lle looked at her once or twice, and thought
it very odd she didn't cry, but he didn't profess to
understand women folks; so when it was quite dusk
they came back egain to the old Wooden house; and
there he left her, with the still night and her crush
ing sorrow.
"Who will eafie fur you, Janie, wllea I am dead?'
—Olive Bread':
A Psi. Foss.—Mr. J. Q. Phiaaey, tithe dye.
heals is this city, hen a large water task of the ca
pacity of several hogsbeses, from which be procures
tl supply of pure water for use in his business.—
About six years since he obtained and placed in the
tank a brook trout, of a few inches in length, end
has since fed it regularly with scraps of meat until
it has attained a weight of six pounds, and a length
of some eighteen inches. The tank is fed by a
spring, and the overflow carried off by a pipe, so
that the supply of water is constant, cool, acid pure,
and Sir Trout lives sad enjoys life like a philuso
phei—another Diogenes in his tub. This fish, al
though opproached by its owner, and always coming
at his call, is shy in the presence of strangers, and
when he sees only strange faces above him, usually
retires to the bottom of the tub. We paid a visit to
this finny celebrity the other day, and approaching
his domain alone, we found him suspended mid-way
in the crystal fluid, slowly moving his fins to and
fro, his betutifully spotted hack gleaming in the
light. As usual, he took no notice of his strange
visitor, although invited to acquaintance by such
advances al crumbs thrown on the water; but when
Mr. Phioney appeared with some stripier raw beef
staek, his apathy gave place to the utmost activity.'
He would dart from the bottom, and throw himself
lear not of the water if a piece of meat wait held
above, and always succeeded in catching it. He is
ao uncocial fish, and small ones, even of his owe
kind, are at otici devilled, if placed with him. His
last exploit in this line was killing and devouring a
chetah eight inches' long. A man sot long since
was drinking from the tank, not knowing that it was
tenanted, whits the trout made a spring at his face,
and severely bit his lip. An old anent mutant view
his flue, plump proportions, without a desire to throw
a Ay on the water, and try bow he would feel at the
sad et a rode—J(4l'ow Jeuraid.
lie Late Late Bar
The qujet erection of a torabidon• over his ue
marked grave, in Princeton yard, has called to
mind the name of Aaron Burr. Near fifty eventful
Oars of our country's history have come and gone
since his strange and brilliant career was run, dar
ing which time many things have occurred to call
his memory from oblivion; but scarcely a breath of
air--certainly not • regretful sigh—has borne it
from the tomb. His was not one of the few immor
tal naraes that were not born to die; at least fur the,
present, the world has agreed to forget him. Pos
sibly it means no reflection thereby. It has also
forgotten the lamented John Well., Jacob Van Vcc- -
then, and Militia ‘Villiams, his brilliant competitors
at the bar. Even Hamilton, his target victim, is no
longer remembered.
As for Burr, there are many reasons why he should
have been so soon forgotten. Tradition aril legend
have handed down his name blackened by every
crime. Lang before his death, even when poor,
wretched and alone in the world, he stemmed mis
fortune's tide, the world had resolved to forget him.
No one spoke to him, nor seemed to notice him, as
engaged is the active ditties of an ardeous prided -
atom he walked the populous itreets of New-York.
If met in the stage-coach, no one addressed him; if
on tbe ferry which conducted him to the solitary is,
land borne, lie was not recognised. in some cases
it might have been because of his threadbare coat;
in others, like all men, he was naturally forgotten,
when, his power lust, he had no more favors to give,
aad the once brilliant light no longer attracted the
fitting moths; but it cannot be disguised that those
had forgotten, who should have remembered him;
he Was shunned in the street; hid friends did not
know him, if poiuted out at a distance, it was - as
one who had the accursed mark of Ceiniapon him.
We do net 'mow a sublimer picture than that.
presented by this celebrated man, in the last hours
of declining life. . Hie early course had been FAs•
culiarly successful. He was a soldier of the revo
lution, distinguished for courage, skill and activity;
his reputation had been high at the bar, as a trusty
counsellor and eloquent advocate; he had been a suc
cessful politician, admired fur his tact, and loaded
with' the favors of the people; he bad also been Vice
President of the United States, and presided oiler
the Senate with impartiality and dignity; es he con
cluded his farewell address, there was not a dry eye
in the chamber. Added to all these public honors,
happy domestic retailers* were the crowning jewels
of his happiness. He was proud or his decent from
two of the best stocks of the country: he was the,
favored scion of the houses of Edward and Burr. e .
He had also been hapliy in his marriage,. the fruit
of which ivas a daughter, of whom any father might
hero been proad. She was beautiful in person, in- I
telligent in mind, and gifted with a lively fancy,
and &bullies*. imagination. • Them- Reiland gifts
hut been cultivated by the most careful education.
The conversation of the daughter, when a child,
was the delight of the father; when a matron, bis
pride.. Given to the magi of her own and fathers.
choice, who also stood high ip his native State, as
a gentleman, scholar, and successful statesnsan, she
was the mother of a beautifut son, nut more the pa
rents' joy than the grandfather's pride. This little
pledge that the family should not die and, become
extinct, also bum the name of Aaron Burr. Theis
happy in bid public 'relations and domeitic circle,
connected with the past by proud and glorious re
rembronceo; with the future by a golden link,
what was wanting to fill up the cup of bis
nese? Nothing, perhaps, save that right jeilge
.
ment J of Solon, who counted the pour and obscure,
but pious, Athenian, the happiest of men, du prefer
ence to the proud and wealthy Lydian King.
m o ment, in the twinkling of an eye, alt this
happiness was incited dawn arid became as dross—
tbe gulden realities that already reached through
three generations, became as a vision that is ;lamed.
A fearful emmentre drove Aaron Burr, the soldier,
the outcome, an outlaw from the land. A price
was set upon his head. Ile was hunted from tuwu
to town, city to city. Übe fled in disguise from the
face of man. lie was tried for treason and his fair
fame blackened for r yes.. His small fortune gradu
ally melted away—die was a wanderer and beggar
upon the face of the earth. ills daughter, on her
way to visit him and soften his woes, was seised
and barbarously murdered by . pirates. His gravel
child was cut down and wilted in death—relatives
disowned him. With all this, Aaron Burr sunk
not—he walked t rectal eighty years of age amongst
those who despised him. it was Gear facing the
storm.—Savaitak Couriee.
Focus.—A little girl, says the Knickerbocker,
had seen her brother playing with his burning
glees, and heard hint talk about the "focus." Nut
knowing what the ward "focus" meant, she oim
stilted the dictionary, and found that the focus was
"the place where the rays meet ." At dinner, when
the family were assembled, ■he announced, "as
grand awaould, be," that she knew "the waning of
Oil/ hard word. Her father asked her what it was,
sb* said it was the word "focus."
"Well," said he, "Mary, what dues it meant'
"Why," she replied. "it iiieans'a place when
they raise calves."
This, of course, raised ■ great laugh; but 'she
stnch-to her point, and produced her dietionsry to
prove that she was right.
"There," raid she triumphantly; "focus, a place
where the rays meet. C•lves are meat, and rf ihey
raise meat, they raise c3lves, and so I am right,
Lie% I father!"
Irr Nothing packs society together so well as
for some one to hollow, just where soul') one else
bulges. Be receptive, therefore, to the man ut.!•ci
este, 1111111 i ny the joker Without strliggle for supretn
ecy and play conductor for the electricity of the
wit; then, if there is anything in the fellows,
get it out of them, and contribute best to the enjoy
meat of the company; and, besides, if there is n;rth•
Vng particular in you, (which it barely possible.
but still possible,) you won't expose yourself and
annoy other people...-Dr. Elder.
Atr APTAIIIi OF 11111POILTANCELHIlifiet.-.-. 4 v. run
so glad you are come, Blanche! I have deep' st
potpie:id I could hardly sleep all night.' Bta,nohe
—"Well, what is it, dour Ilarviat.—"Wbt, 1
den't know whether to 'have my new merino frock
violet or dm* hive!"—Poseh.
07 ► Tbi custom of joining hands hi matrimimy,'
is said to be taken from the practice of pagilista
rhtliiseillo4ll before thoy jwgin to fight,
fi 0 A T A - 11. Advaaca.
.NUNBER 44,
Moral Lusaity.
Some thirty years ago, e young lady, the Of: ',-
daughter of a n , blo house in the north of Vermaoy,
from ha'ing been one-of the most cheerful girls, b.
came subject to fits of theiiettpes,t anlanabuly.-
the ent real ies'of her parenti were immtikient to draw
from her the reason of it.. To their affection she
was cold, to their caresses she was rude; and thou! ,
society failed to entire . ° her, she bate her part is
with a power and venom of 'sarcasm that were ft.
strange to her former chiracter as"they were nab,:
coming her sex and youth. The parents contrive.'
doring her temporary absence from home to invei - .
tigate the contents of her writing desk, but no li.
dioitiuus of a concealed or disappanted passion wer:4
to be found,, and it was equally clear - ghat no par4rs :
bad-been removed.
The first news they had of her was, that the hie
in which she was visiting bad been burnt to the
ground'; that she . had, been saved with diMzul.t:,.
though her room was riot in that part of the L‘ttc . :
in: where the fire had commenced; that her eica.po
at first had been taken for granted ; and that wheal
her door was burst p, en, she was found still 'drusc.
and seated in b4r usual melancholy attitude, wii!,
heweyes fixed on the geared. She returned home
neither altered in manner nor changed in dente:incr,
and as plain!)• brilliant in conversation when ft-.l. ; :td•
into-it. Within two months of her return, toe
was burnt to the ground, and her Mother perished ~,
the / dames. She Was again found knits same
I as an the former occasion, suffered herself to ha - It:
away without eagerness or resistance, did i 0.,; alto:
her deportment upon hearing the fate of her tunzne,-:
made no attempt to Onnsole_ her father, and , replie.i
to the condolence of_ tier friends with a bittcroet
and (corn almoet.mumnprwww-i,.
The father and daughter aysoionetil isxa Ipa
change of scenes. ' rtdiphttorlAstii imp rt. •
the notel was in names; t' its time fie' hii , 1 1 , 7 %.,,
ie her apartment, fur front her window were ar
sparks first seen to issue, end again was she feut.ll
dressed, seated, and in a reverie. The hotel wr.n
the property'of the severe gn of the little State i,„
'which the spa was situate‘]. Au investigatio , l
place, she was arrested, and at once confeped
on each of the three faecal*. she had hem' nu - 41
prit ; that she could not tell' ivlierefore, IPX se pe-tio
she had au irresistible longing to set ho - uses
Each time she had strivenlagisinst it is -leeg s - t'Pie
could, Put was utiabip,to utirthstand the teinptario , .
This longing first rupervened fur a few weeks'ilne,
she had been seined with a sudden depression t•
spirits; that she felt a hatred to all the world, bo .
had strength to refrain from oaths and curses azeittz.
it. She is at this moment is a mad house, wlteru
she was at first &lowed some liberty; but alter
homicidal monomania towards a child, of a feroeil f
most appalling, it was found necessary to apply th.:
•111.101/}. restraint. Site still Possesses her memory,'
her reasoning powers, her pctulesit w,it, sod obser% e.
the mnst: scrupulous delicacy.
Playing tha Posannt
Seine few years aincs,l witnessed rather a stran*e
scent in Shakspeare's beautiful tragedy of Home
and Juliet; it was at one of the Western theatres
The piece bad passed well without interruption, un
til the last scene. The character of Romeo vic..
excently enacted and loudly applauded. The very
m.Jel of the lover was before the tomb of the
. Cllll
Wets pais; on the mution:eiS form of her who hitj
so attracted hii soul, and meditating upon cuincu.i•
tin; an act which would send hls spirit to that ter..
di.cuvered country where he supposed Juliett hte.
gone. • Just as ha exclaimed, "Here's to love!" au,'
at the sometime raised the vial cttntaiuing'the pt. -
son to his lip 4, a stalwart young gentleman jouipii.:
upon the stage, rtizeti him, dashed the vial from h.:
hand. crushing it into atoms, and, elling=
"Yet dar.ied fool! she slot dead! Only been to
kin' a little sleeping medicine. Did'nt you get ti,,
parson's letter!"
"Sirrahl" growlnd out the envy Cragadiao,
the house fairly shook with laughter.
"Why, yer gal eint dead, I tell yer! The way
Sias they wanted to make Julie marry that ettuf,
thaw," pointing w Paris, "whim, business you hos
just settled, but I tell, you Julie war spunk—she get
her bark right pp, Cud vowed she woeldn't dci
even if, white she war laying in the vault, the rho ,
of that other feller whom you kilt should dash b. r
brains out with the lames 41140413 of her dead cou p
ins. Wall her spunk war up, an! she took the atu::
the parson fixed, sa she coulJ play 'passum till-yo,.
got bout. That's the way it war," 'replied
countryman, giving the deapexate lover,* tremend
ous puke in the ribs with his elbow, at the al (1.3
lime loo'sing his twld •
"Heins curses on the fallow !' muttered . the ra
ving tragedian, as he stalked behind the scenes.
"Wall, now," said the countryman, fronting t'.,••
i
l
audience, "if that aint a little the dod d riled men
est curse I ever did see, , J hope to be iROWO.i.-
Thee'? all the thank* I get fur atoppiu' im from pi ,
zenin' biinself. Hope to be P Illy osiaskr if I
ever gn to interfere's - gin w'
murder himself," he contiu
back to his seat, just in time
story from coming in canted
descended:
•A TRUK TI ST OF Arrscrin
gle man o as dangerously ill.
eneti to dmiulierit any naph
NJ In attending ot, hinri; •
notate, ti:ey enuld not des°
jouctions gra: ink( Mtn ;
depeer the perverse . so ftere-lie might het
it he liked. •He died ; siid it was then dikeuveted
that he . had eonsideteC Josephine as the only ref:.
tire who had proved,disisterteted, and he left iwr:
all his propertysoitioil at eighty thousapd francs
MEESE
re' Where ljes the wisdom of that revegie u
recuiit upon !AC'S self} Instead of getting the bet
ter of your enemy, by nflbnding your' Maker io
,veuging au injury, you give your enemy the advan
tage of ;seeing you puniahed. If you woultlhacelku
wholwadragtage, forgive;. and then, if he dues u , ,t
repent, the whole punishment will fall upon him.
A l!ift:vs or Wustrn.—The last intelligence. from
the mining districts informs us that there it ro dit
ficulty in finding ;vitality of quarry. We what 1101716
enterprising individual would convert die cpu l ti.4 . in
to wine bottles, which are, at present, little hem.
titan piuts,—Pinch,
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