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ANUS MUGSTTIRII^
WITTIE, WE HAVE MISLED YOU.
Oh Willie, Is II you, dear—safe, safe at home.
They did not tell me true, dear, they said you would not
come.
I heard you at the Rate, and It made my heart rejoice,
For I knew that welcome footstep, and that dear familiar
voice,
Making, making tnuslc on my ear, In the lonely midnight
gloom,
Oh. Willie, we have missed you—welcome, welcome home.
We've longed to see yon nightly, but this night of all.
The lire was blazing brightly, and lights were in the hall;
The little ones were up till 'twas ten o'clock and past.
Then their eyes began to twinkle, and they have gone to
sleep at last;
But they listened lor your voice till they thought you'd
never come.
Oh, Willie, we have missed you—welcome, welcome home.
The days were sad without you, the nights long and drear.
My dreams have been about you, welcome Willie dear;
Last night I wept and watched, by moonlight's cheerless
ray.
Till I thought I heard your footsteps, then I wiped my
tears away.
But my heart grew sad again when I found you had not
come
Oh, Willie, we have missed you—welcome, welcome home.
INRATAUIIBAIDIA"."
THE LADY TEACHER.
A BEAUTIFUL STORY.
4 You were not here yesterday,' said the
gentle teacher of the village school, as she
laid her hand kindly on the curly head of
one of her pupils. It was recess time, but
the little girl had not gone to frolic*away
the ten minutes, not even left hei L out. but
sat absorbed in what seemed a fruitless at
tempt to make herself mistress of a sum
in long division.
Her face and neck crimsoned at the re
mark of her teacher, hut looking up, she
seemed somewhat reassured by the kind
glance that met her, and answered, 'No
ma'am, I was not, but my sister Nell was.'
' I remember there was a little girl, who
called herself Nelly Gray, caiuc in yester
day, but I did not know she was your sis
ter. But why did you not come ? You
seem to love study very much.'
4 lt was not because i did not want to
come,' was the earnest answer, and then
she paused, and the deep flush again ting
ed that lair brow— 4 but,' she continued,
after a moment of painful embarrassment,
' mother cannot, spare both of os conveni
ently, and so we are going to take turns;
I'm going to school one day, sister next;
and to-night I'm to teach Nelly all 1 have
learned to-day, and to-morrow night she
will teach me all she learns while here.—
It's the only way we can think of getting
along, and we want to study very much, so
us to sometime keep school ourselves and
take care of mother, because she lias to
work very hard to take care of us.'
With genuine delicacy. Miss M. forbore
to question the child further, but sat down
beside her, and 111 a moment explained the
rule over which she was puzzling her
young brain, so that the difficult sum was
easily finished.
4 You had better go out: and take the air
a moment; you have studied very hard to
day said the teacher, as the little girl put
up her slate.'
4 1 had rather not; / m iyhf tear my drcis;
I will stand by the window and watch the
rest.
There was such a peculiar tone in the
voice of her pupil as she said * I might
tear my dress,' that Miss M. was led in
stinctively to notice it. It was nothing
but a nine penny print of deep bine, but it
was neatly made, and had never yet been
washed. And while looking at it she re
membered that, during the whole previous
fortnight Mary Gray had attended school
regularly, that she had never seen her
wear but that one dress.
4 She is a thoughtful little girl,' said she
to herself, 4 and does not want to make her
mother any trouble. I wish I had more
such scholars.'
The next morning Mary was absent, but
her sister occupied her seat. There was
something so interesting in the two little
sisters, the one 11 years old and the other
18 months younger, agreeing to attend
school by turns, that Miss M. could not
forbear observing them very closely. They
were pretty iiiceo children, of delicate
forms and fairy like hands and feet; the
elder with dark, lustrous eyes, and the
younger with orbs like the June sky, her
white neck veiled by a wreath of golden
ringlets. She observed in both the same
close attention to their studies, and as Mary
had tarried during play time, so did Nelly,
and upon speaking to her as she had to
her sister, she received the same answer,
4 1 might tear ray dre**.'
Again the reply caused Miss M. to no-
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1857.
tice the garb of the sister. She saw at
uiiee it was the same piece as Mary's, and
upon scrutinizing it closely, she became
certain that it was the same dress* It did
not fit so closely on Nelly, it was tdo long
for her, and she was evidently not at case
when she noticed her teacher looking at
the bright flowers that were so thickly set
on the dark ground.
The discovery was one that could not
but interest a heart so trdly benevolent as
that which pulsated in the bosom of that
' village teacher. She ascertained the resi
dence of their mother, and though sorely
straightened herself by a narrow purse,
that same night, having found at the only
store in the place a few yards of the same
material, purchased a dress tor little Nellv,
; and sent it to her in such away that the
donor could not be detected.
Very bright and happy looked Mary
j tjray on Friday morning, as she entered
! the school at an early hour, waited
, only to place her book neatly in her desk,
, ere she approached Miss M. and wliispcr
; ing in a voice that laughed in spite of her
J efforts to make it low and deferential —
' After this week, Nelly is coming to school
every day and oh, 1 am so glad !'
| 'That is good news,' replied tin- teacher
kindly. 'Nelly is fond of her books, 1 see,
and I am happy to know that she can have
1 an opportunity to study her books every
I dav,'
Then she continued, a little good-humor
ed mischief encircling her eyes. ' But
how call your mother spare both conveni
ently.'
4 (>, yes ma'am —yes ma'am, she can now.
Something has happened which she didn't
expect, and sjie is glad to have us come
regularly,'
o
She hesitated a moment, .but her young
heart was filled to the brim with joy, and
when a child is happy it is as natural for it
to tell the cause as it is for a bird to war
ble when the sun shines.
So out of the fullness of her heart she
spoke, and told the teacher this little story.
She and her little sister were the only
children of a poor widow, whose health
was so delicate that if was almost impossi
ble to support herself and daughters. She
was obliged to keep thcin out of school all
winter, because they had no clothes to wear,
but she told them if they could earn enough
by doing odd chores for the neighbors to
buy each of them a new dress, they might
go in the spring. Aery earnestly had the
little girls improved their stray chances,
and very carefully laid by the copper coins
which usually repaid them. They had
each saved nearly enough to buy a calico
dress, when Nelly was taken sick, and its
the mother had no money before hand, her
own treasure had to be expended for med
icine.
4 ( ) ; 1 did feel so bad when school open
ed, and Nolly could not go because she
had no dress,' said Mary. 4 I told her I
wouldn't go either; but she said I had bet
ter, for I could then teach her some, and
it would be better than no schooling. I
stood it for a fortnight, but Nelly's little
face seemed all the time looking at me 011
the way to school, and I couldn't be happy
a bit; so I finally thought of away by
which we could both go, and I told mother
I would conic one day and the next I would
lend Nelly my dress and she might come,
and that's the way we have done this week.
But last night somebody sent sister a dress
just like mine, and uow she can cont'd 'too.
'O, if I only knew who it was, I would
get down on my knees and thank them,
and so would Nelly. But we doii't know,
and we have done all we could for them—
we've prayed, far them! and oh, Miss M.
we are all so glad now. Ain't you too'!'
4 Indeed I am,' was the emphatic answer.
And on the following Monday, when lit
tle Nelly in the new dress entered the
schoolroom, her face radiant as a rose in the
sunshine, and approaching the teacner's
table, exclaimed in tones as musical as
those of a freed fountain— 4 I'm coming to
school every day now, and I am so glad!'
Miss M. felt as she had never before felt—
that it was more blessed to give than re
ceive. No millionaire, when he saw his
namd in public prints, lauded for his thou
sand dollar charities, was ever half so hap
py as that poor school teaeher, who wore
old gloves half a summer longer than she
ought, and thereby saved enough to buy
that little fatherless girl a calico dress.
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THE OVERFLOWING CUP,
4- company of southern ladies were one
day assembled in a friend's parlor, when the
conversation chanced to turn 011 earthly af
fliction. Each had her story of peculiar
trial and bereavements to riffate, except one
pale, sad looking woman, whose lustreless
eye and dejected air showed that sbe was
the prey to the deepest melancholy". Sud
denly arousing herself, she said 111 a hollow
voice :
' Not one of you know what trouble is.'
' Will you please, Mrs. Gray,' said the
kind voice of a lady v/jro welj knew her
story, 'tell the ladies what you call trouble.'
1 1 will if you desire,' sbe replied, 'for 1
have seen it. My parents possessed a com
petence, and my girlhood was surrounded
by all the comforts of life. I seldom knew
an uugratified wish, and was always gay
and light-hearted. 1 married at nineteen
one I loved more than all the world beside.
Our home was retired, but the sunlight
never fell on a lovelier one, or on a happi
er household. Years rolled on peacefully.
Five children sat around our table, and a
little curly head still nestled in my bosom.
One night about sundown one of those
fierce, black storms came on, which are so
common in our southern climate. For
many hours the rain poured down inces
santly. Morning dawned, still the elements
raved. The whole savannah seemed afloat.
The little stream near our dwelling became
a raging torrent. Before we were aware of
it our house was surrounded by water; I
managed with nr. babe to reach a little
spot on which a few wide spreading trees
were standing, whose dense foliage afforded
some protection, while my husband and
sons strove to save what they could of our
property. At last a fearful surge swept
away my husband, and he never rose again.
Ladies, 110 one loved a husband more —but
that irag not trout tie.
' Presently my sons saw their danger,
and the struggles for life became the only
consideration. They were brave, loving
boys as ever blessed a mother's heart, and
I watched their efforts to escape with such
agony as only mothers can feel. They
were so far off I could not speak to them,
but I seen them closing nearer and nearer
to each other as their little island grew
smaller and smaller.
'The sullen river raged around the huge
trees; dead branches, upturned trunks,
. wrecks of houses, drowning cattle, masses
jof rubbish, all went floating past us. My
boys waved their bands to me, then jioiiited
upward. 1 knew it was a farewell signal,
and you, mothers, cannot imagine my an
guish. I saw them all perish, and yet—
-1 that 'u as ,ujt trouhfe.
* 1 hugged my baby to my heart, and
when the water rose to my feet I climbed
into the low branches of the tree, and kept
retiring before it, till an All-powerful Hand
stayed the waves, that they should come no
further. 1 was saved. All my worldly
possessions were swept away, all my earthly
hopes blighted—yet that wax not trouble.
' My baby was all I had left on earth.—
[ labored night and day to support'him'and
myself, and sought to train him in the
right way; but :us he grew older, evil com
panions won him' away from me. 11c
ceased to Carft' fhr his mother's counsels;
he would sneer at her entreaties and ago
nizing prayers. He left my humble roof
that lie might be unrestrained in the pur
suit of evil;'and'al last, when heated with
wine one night, he took the life of a fellow
being, and ended his own upon the scaffold.
My Heavenly Father had tilled my eup of
sorrow before, but now it ran over. That
wax trouble, ladies, such as I hope His
mercy will spare you from ever experienc
ing-'
There was not a dry eye among her lis
teners, and the warmest sympathy was ex
pressed for the bereaved ih'Other, whose sad
history has taught them a useful lesson.
fl®"A son of jCol. J. J. Winter, of Clarks
burg, Va., returned home the other day after
an absence of three years. His father had
some difficulty in recognizing him, and after
he had made himself known, the father step
ped to the door of an adjoining room, and
calling to two of his daughters, informed them
that a gentleman desired to see them. Upon
entering the room, the young ladies did not
at first recognize their brother, but almost
instantly the eldest recognized hiin and sank
instantly to the floor, dead. Being somewhat
delicate, the joyous surprise of thus unex
pectedly meeting her long-absent brother, to
whom she was dearly attached, was too much
and thus caused her instant death.
MAN MUKDERKD UY 1118 ty'IKE.
The Oleau Advertiser gives the follow
ing particulars of a horrid murder perpe
trated at Eldred township, McKean county,
Pennsylvania, 011 Sunday morning, 11th
ult;—" Betsy M'Lanc killed her husband,
Haniel M'Lane, by striking him repeated
ly on the head and neck with ur. axe,
nearly severing his head from hik'oddy.
M'Lane was evidently lying upon the bed
when the deed was committed, as the
wounds upon the body indicated, and the
bed was so fully saturated with blood that
it dripped through upon the floor beneath.
" M'Lane uud his wife, we are informed,
were both upwards of fifty years of age.
She was a widow, with some property, when
he married her, and both indulging pretty
freely in whiskey, they have never lived
together very harmoniously. On Saturday
last M'Lane was in this village, and bought
five gallons of whiskey, which he took home
with him. That night himself and wife
were both drunk, and on Sunday morning
the neighbors heard them quarreling and
fighting in the house. Between ten and
eleven o'clock, all was still there, and sev
eral men belonging in the neighborhood
went into the house. M'Lane was nowhere
in sight, but a large quantity of blood was
upon the bed and floor, utld one of the men
remarked to Mrs. M'Lane, 'it looks us
though you had been butchering here—
where is M'Lane?' 'He's gone to Smith's
Settlement,' she replied.
"At this moment the man discovered a
hand protruding from under the bed, and
stooped down and seized it, and drew out
the ghastly corpse of the murdered man.
The woman immediately exclaimed, 'I
don't know who killed Hun—l don't" know
who killed him The corpse was fright
ful to behold, the skull broken by a blow
on the right temple, the head nearly sever
ed from the body by a deep cut oli the left
side of the neck, and a part of the right
hand chopped off. An eye witness says:
' The bed looked as though more than forty
gallons of bloodLJiad been poured uj>on it.'
When the party entered the house the wo
man was endeavoring to Wash the blood out
of some of the bed clothes.
"This couple had no children—and ac
cording to the best of our knowledge, no
other person had been in the house the
morning previous to the murder, and there
can be no doubt but that M'Lane was kil
led bv his wife. She is now in the jail at
Smithport."
WIFE KILLED BY HER HUSBAND.
We condense the following from the
Pittston (Luzerne county, Pa.,) Gazette of
Oct. 28th:
< >ne of the most appalling tragedies
which has fallen to our lot to record, occur
red in this place last week. Early on Fri
day morning it was rumored that a woman
living in White Oajr llollo>v, about two
ttliles from tins borough, had been brutally
murdered by her husband, a man named
Francis Burns, in the employ of the Penn
sylvania Coal Co. The constables were
immediately on the alert, and having ascer
tained that the report was well founded, a
search was made for the supposed murder
er. He was soon discovered concealed in
a coal bed or cave, near the town. Hi's
face, hands and clothes were besmeared
with blood, aud his behavior at once satis
fied the bystanders of his guilt. The
crowd which met the prisoner on his way
to the Justice's office, took possession of
him, and demanded he should be lynched;
and it was with the utmost difficulty the
constable managed to rescue him from their
grasp. During the hearing before Esquire
lleddcn, the scene was one of great excite
ment ; nothing would satisfy the indignant
populace but the immediate application of
lynch law. The prisoner, however, was
eventually taken to the lock-up, and a Cor
oner's jury summoned to hold ah inquest
on tfye body.
On arriving at the prisoner's residence,
which is situated in one of the wildest
spots of this section of country, the body
of the murdered woman was found lying
on a miserable apology for a bed, in a
wretched hovel, which, with husband and
two children, she had inhabited for some
months. Drs. Nugent and Durkin made
the necessary examination of the body, and
testified that the cause of death was con
nmion of the brain, produced by violence,
Oue or two flesh wounds and several severe
bruises were discovered on the body, but
there was n() fracture. A man named
New Series—Vol. 11, No. 52.
Cooper, being duly sworn, said—Last night
I heard some one hallooing, aqd blows be
ing struck ; have frequently known liurns
to ill-use his wife.
Other witnesses were examined, who tes
tified to the brutality of Burns, after which
a verdict was rendered to the effect that
she was murdered by him. Bums was
then Committed to Wilkesbarre jail.
The same day reports reached Pitts ton
that the remains of a human being had
been discovered on Everhart's Island, near
the Lackawanna, so far decomposed that
identification was impossible, but supposed
to be the body of Adam Michael, a Ger
man, who worked in the " Upper Mines."
The Berks County Murder. —The Com
missioners of Berks county have offered a
reward of S">00 for the apprehension of the
perpetrators of the murder of Adaline Ba
ver, neaT Mohrsvillc, in that county. It is
to be hoped that they may be brought to
justice. In reference to this murder the
Reading Gazette relates the following sin
gular coincidence:
Some eighteen years ago a beautiful
young girl, named Esther Fisher, left Man
ayunk on a Canal boat for Reading, but was
murdered before reaching the latter place.
The public excitement was very great, and
a large reward was offered for the detection
of the murderer, but without success.—
This girl was a sister of the mother of Ad
aline Bayer, who so recently has met a
similar fate. Is it possible that the mur
derers of these poor girls are never to be
discovered until the revelations of the great
day?
an evidence of the hard times
which are prevailing everywhere, the New
ark (N. J.) Advertiser relates the follow
ing incident: "A young mechanic on Sat
urday evening was arrested for stealing a
piece of riiofit from a butcher's stall. He
said he Hkd been without work several
weeks, and being without money or credit,
and too proud to beg, he preferred to steal
to save from starvation a wife and two
children, who had been without food since
Friday morning. Ah investigation Into
the ease proVcd the truth of his statement,
and he was released, given the meat, and
told to come for' more, and was also pre
sented with a purse of which was made
up for him."
WOKLDL V' PREACHEIIS.
The tjeriniui Reformed Synod'of Penn
sylvania, lately in session at Allentown, had
before it certain charges against two Min
isters of that persuasion, the One the Rev.
Mr. Lescher, and the other the Rev. E.
Ilelfrick, both of Northampton county. A
committee of Ministers was appointed
some weeks ago to investigate the matter.
It was alleged against the former that he
was deeply interested in some coal transac
tions in Luzerne county, in some way con
nected with the Northampton Coal Compa
ny, which was organized several years ago.
It is not shited in what manner these trans
actions affected the standing of Mr. L.,
but the Ministerial Court voted to suspend
him. Against the latter it was alleged that
he was also engaged in the Coal business
—that he endeavored to defraud the Coal
Company —that lie waS eiitirely too world
ly in his movements, trading horses, specu
lating in coal, slate, &c., and lastly, that at
a picnic given some time ago he had joined
in some sort of kissittg play, such as the
young folks sometimes introduce for the
sake of amusement, and that he had kissed
the giris ! The charges against Helfriek
were not sustained, but the case is to be
revived before the 'Synod and finally dispo
sed of.
A FifflU. —Patrick White, last night got
exceedingly tight, and engaged in a fight,
by punching the head of a friend who said
that Patrick White was not quite right-
As might he supposed, his friend's anger
arose, and he hit Pat on the nose three very
severe blows, which as every one knows,
is quite apt to disclose the passions which
dwell in a man's heart who is " unwell"
from drinking too much of whiskey and
" such." The persons around were dis
turbed by the sound, and couldn't think of
sleeping a wink, till the outcry wa3 hushed
aad the crowd dispersed Mr. White was
put right on the road for his home, and told
in all time ito come to leave off drinking
rum, and conduct himself good as all per
sons should. He acknowledged the corn
of taking a horn, and he solemnly swore
he'd do so no more.— Buffalo Republic.