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Graham’s new Atone building,in South Hanover street, a few doors from Burkholder's hotel, and ill ” onoosite tho Post-office, where those having business will please call. ■ ■ ' . v ‘ UolCttcal, ALONE. or mart lcman gillies. •Twaa midnight, and he sat alone— The husband ol the dead; Tlmt day the dark diisthad been thrown Upon her buried head. Her orphan children round him slept, Hut in their sleep .would moan; Then fell tho first tear he had wept— lie foil ho was clone. ■ ♦. Tho word was full of.life and light; Hut ah 1 no more for hint I. Ills little word once warm and bright—; It now was cold and dint.' - Whore Wpi licr swcet'oml kindly fhcc ?; Whore was her I 'cordial tone? - lie gazed around his dwelling place) - And fell be was alone. . The wifely love—maternal caro- Tho self-denying xcnl— • Tho smile of hope that chased despair,. And promisee! future weal { • '• The clean bright hearth—nice tablo spread— . .The charm o'er all things thrown— The sweetness i n whate'er, she sold— . Allgono-liowdsalono! . lie looked into his cold wild heart— . All sadftndunreslgned;'• * ’ He asked how lie bad dono'.Hispart • Tonno-aotruor-atf kind? ■ Each error pnkt'ho tried to.track— ■ In torture would atone— Would give his life to bring her'shitek— In.vain-dur was alone., He slopt at last,find Itiep.ho dreamed , (Perchance lior pplclfwoko.): • ’ •< . A.soft'light o'er h|f.p(l)ow gleamed.- , ' A volce'in muslc'snqkp— ‘ •*Forgot—lbrgivbn Hirncglccl-r- . !.• - •• Thylovorecnlledalone; The, babes I leave, «ih,tovo. protect I' I slUl am all thine own." , . a^CaccnahtotiJL TUB BUOTIIEI\S. Translated from.tht German. OY WKTA TAYLOR. . In (ho. ti>inly ; inhabited little, street, called the “Knlcbis,” in the villago'of Nordstbtteh, stands.a mull house, which, besides a stable and a shod, bos only three windows, partly patched with paper. At tho lop garret window, hangs a shullcr.eospendcd by a single hinge, and lhroatoning\lo fall,on the heads of tho passers-by. Behind tho house is a garden, which, although small is divided into two by a hedge row of withered thorns. In tills house lived two brothers, who had kept up a constant and bitter enmity for fourteen years. As in the garden, so also in the house, every thing was divided into two parts, from the garret window 4own to the Hula cellar. Tho trap-door wos open;. but in the cellar below, each of tho brothers had his own stores, shut off by laths, and locked up. Padlocks were put on all tho doors, as if an attack of thieves were hourly expected. The stables belonged to one brother, and tho shed to tho other; not a word was fpoken in the house, except an occasional oath, muttered by one of tho brothers. ; Michael and Conrad, so tho brothers were named, were advanced in years, and both were single.— Conrad hud been married, but his wife had died early —and Michael had always remained a bachelor. A largo old cheat was the cause of tills feeling between the brothers, Upon the death oftholr mother, every thing had been divided between them; for their Miter, who had married and settled in the* village, had already received her portion. Conrad declared that he had bought the chest with Ills own money, which ho earned hy breaking stones upon tho road. He said that ho had only lont it to his mother, and that at her death it liecamo his own property again. Michael, on tho contrary, asserted that, as Conrad had always lived with his mother, and been main* ta'mcd hy Itor, ho could not possess any property of his own. After on Angry quarrel between thfe broth* era, the affair was referred to (he bailiff, and/after wards to thocourtal Ilorb, nnd it was finally decreed that, as they could not settle tho matter amicably, everything in the houso, including tho chest in dispute should bo sold by auction, and the p’rocccds shared between them. Even the house itself was put up for sale, bulas no purchaser could bo found, the broth* ers were obliged to keep it. They had now to re purchase their own goods sna chattels, their bods, and other things, by public suction. To Conrad, this >vus a groat grief, for ho hod more fooling than is ordinarily met with. Tliorb sre In every houso many things which possess a ’’iiuo beyond their market price; for thoughts and recollections are attached to them, in which the world , largo Can have no share. Such things J? reserved, and quietly handed down from gopera* 'on to generation, that their worth may remain un. mpaircd, for, ns soon as they pass into the hands of their value, os a sacred inheritance, Is Conrad repeatedly shook liis head, as these thoughts osscci Ins mind when some old piece ofliouschold !, n [° ,' VOB knocked down to him ; and when his r J* hymn-book, with its silver clasp and studs, t i •Jv ,rei l ** or aa *°« blood. How to his face; and tin, r h°°k at any price, At lost oamo the nlnM i ,^ l ° chest to bo sold. Michael hemmed an,!• o °kcd at his brother with on olr of defiance, to .. ,nB,lint !y hid a considerable sum. Conrad Im nnii' u.r a fl 6r ‘ n more, without raising his eyes, H„, n i,. 10 while counting tho buttons on his jacket, hip 1, ,C J? C 1 looking boldly around him,.still bid hM U Cr »' . clhor person advanced more j but out of have nc . , \hcr of tho brothers would let tho other tom. 1,1 dispute} moreover,each thought ami ho should only lidva to pay the half, clicii ° Won f on and higher. At length" tho twmi ' V n 8 . noc ked down to Conrad for oighl-aiid p/, r * n, i more than five limes Us worth. Mi l nn i ° “ rfll V ino *CJonrad now raised his eyes,nnd at Mi i Wl l B T ll * lo altered; he cast a scornful glance “Wii„ C mC |n . trembling wllli* rage, exclaimed, f ur n J l ,? o ?,,*** 0 ' *’*l make you a present of.llio cheat loiiim°r m i ,CHO wero the last words ho spoke " m for fourteen'years. 'illdffo chest sdon spread through the a n j [jJ became the general subject of raillery cd w l' u » nh y one njcl Conrad, ho remark* Michael had behaved | and tho TJio i w W ? r . up by degrees ihlonftiry.— andrnM brol,crt * were of very different dispositions, a cow I' , l> , Ur 1 BU ,°‘l l*!® own wn/ In life* Conrad kept Cliriaih.nJ 1 01 1,0 i ,B °d. to yoke with his neighbor Unio*|in?,/ , CQNV field work; whilst in his spare paid klvk«° 10 '‘t 0 ™ 31 on tho road, for which ho was’ and waiL'l 0 ?' a day, 11° wos very shortsighted, sparktoit..ii» U i n “ l °. ' a,,d