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VOL. L.
SIT CUBA FUTURI.
EQUITABLE LIFE INSURANCE COMRANY
Orrick—No.74 Walnut treet, Philadelphia.
President—JOHN W. CLAGHORN.
Vice President—PETEß CULLEN.
TRUSTEES:
Joseph T. Thomas, Edw. C. Markley,
William Craig, Robert Morris,
George N. Diehl, Stephen R. Crawford,
Peter Cullen, Alve E. Laing,
Wrn. G. Alexander, William M. Baird,
Wm. W. Haly, • R. F. Loper,
Clayton B. Lamb, Harry Conrad,
Peter Rambo, Franklin Cemly.
H. G. TUCKETT, Secretary and Actuary.
• Capital s2so,ooo—Charter Perpetual. Make In
' urance on Lives at their Office, in Philadelpha,
and at their Agencies throughout the'States, at the
: lowest rates of premium. Persons should insure
their lives, and do so without delay, whilst they
are healthy and fit subjects to be insured.
. In this Office there are advantages greater than
have ever yet been derived from the system of Life
• 'Assurance; which reason and experience convince
the Trustees may with - safety be offered to the
public. It will be found, on inquiry, that must
offices have in the outset professed to act on some
t new principle; or to offer to assurers some one
particular benefit not to be obtained from other
societies. But policies are effected under various
circumstances, 'and with widely different objects,
and what may facilitate the views of one man, af
fords no accommodation to`another. It appears,
therefore, to the Trustees of the Equitable, that
the greatest good will be effected by that office,
which allows such reasonable advantages to every
assurer, as at the time of completing his Policy, he
considers to be suitable to his particular case. On
this principle they act, and a few instances will
suffice to show the benefits derivable from its
adoption—the greatest good of the greatest number.
No policy will be disputed, unless under an act
of fraud by the asawed, and after the same shall
have been declareMy referees' of undoubted char
acter. In case of error, either as to age, or in the
fOrm of policy, or the answers of referees, such
errors, unless wilful and fraudulent, will not be
deemed to vitiate the policy. •
The travelling leave is extensive and liberal.
Persons insured for life have liberty to pass to and
from the States of Virginia and Kentucky, and west
of the river Mississippi, between the first day of
- November and the first day of July fbilowing. And
• to pass from, any place or port within the British
North American Colonies, or United States north
of thirty-four degiees north latitude, without pay
• ing an extra premium. They are allowed to cross
the Atlantic im first class steamers during May,
June, July, August and September, free of charge;
during remaining months of the year, 25 cents on
each $lOO insured.
The age of the assured will be admitted on the
policy., If the' insured die in a duel, by his own
hands, or under sentence of the law, such death
will not invalidate the policy, except so far'as it
was the property of the deceased.
Thirty days allowed after each annual payment
becomes due, and fifteen days atter each quarterly
and half yearly premium becomes due, without for
feiture of policy. Premiums or lapsed policies
may be 'renewed at any tune within six months on
the production of satisfactory evidence as to the
health of the insured.
When a party effects a policy upon the life of
• hnother, the Company will be satisfied if the party
and, at the time, a bona fide interest in the life or
- the assured. The policy may be assigned to whom
: soever the assured pleases, without the knowledge
- or assent of the Company (there being no clause in
the Equitable policies usual in the policies of 31u-
TUAL Companies, claiming a right to be notified of
an assignment and their approval obtained) so long
as the, assignment or transfer of a policy in the
Equitable is a legal act, and the party who claims
can give a legal discharge, the amount is paid by
the Company.
The extraordinary advantage afforded by means
of the-Half Credit system, in not requiring, under
any circumstances, an outlay of a larger sum of
money than is absolutely necessary to secure the
amount insured, is peculiarly applicable to the
CREDITOR desirous of possessing a policy on the life
his DEBTOR. If the debt is paid off during these
five years, he can discontinue the assurance alto
gether, having secured the amount, in the event of
. the debtor's death previously, at a less expense than
would in any mutual office be charged for assuring
the life for seven years. If the debt is NOT PAID he
would be enabled to continue the assurance for the
remainder of the debtor's life, whatever might then
. be his state of health. Attention is particulary re
quested to the
HALF CREDIT RATES OF PREMIUM Pan SlOO.
(Without security or deferred note.)
Half Credit. Age. Half Credit.
during 5 years. - during 5 years.
90 40 $146
1 75
213
2 64
- -
The assured has to pay-the premium in all cases
in advance, and HAS no LIABILITY of any kind,
sort or description. A deferred note is not neces
sary to pei feet any operation, and none will he
taken by the Company.
Persons insuring should bear in mind that a pro
.
mieeory note given to a NI tertTAL OFFICE at com-
pound interest, soon amounts to more than the sum
assured. Thus, $lOO per annum for 20 years at 6
per cent., would cause a DEDUCTION from the sum
assured of THREE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED AND
SEVENTY-EIGHT DOLLARS AND FIFTY-FIVE CENTS.
The premiums of Mutual Assurance Companies
being, as they profess, (though the Mutual offices
"do somehow" advertise guarantee capitals) free
from the burdens of dividends to shareholders,
should be very much lower, than those of stock
companies; YET TIIE EQUITABLE Is LOWER,BY SIX
TEEN PER CENT. THAN ANY MUTUAL OFFICE, and
at the SAME RATES OF PREMIUM charged by the
"New,York Life," "The New York Mutual,"
• "Albion," " Worcester Mutual," "Connecticut
Mutual," "Pennsylvania," "Girard," "Penn,'
"New England," "Hartford," " Baltimore Mu
tual," "Boston Mutual," &c., &c., &c., in the
Equitable the payments cease altogether after
twenty-one years.
Annual Premium payable during Twenty-one years
only, for an assurance of $lOO at death.
Age. An.paymq. Age.An.paym't, Age. An.payrn't
20 $1 77 35 $ 2 75 - 50 54 60
25 2 04 40 3 20 55 5 76
30 2 86 45 3 73 60 7 00
, The assured being thus entirely relieved of pay
ments (if he is under 35 years of age) before he has
passed the prime of life, and that far the same pre
mium charged by the Mutual Offices.
. The premiums charged by the MUTUAL OFFICES
are all on the highest scale, (and by their own ad
vertisements) much beyond what is requisite for the
purpose of their business.
Their "profits" can only be realized, if ever
realized at all, after a lapse of twenty years. The
word Profits, therefore, is an abuse of the term, A
WHOLLY CONTINGENT AND REMOTE PROMISE, !CI
it is. self-evident, and cannot for a moment be ques
itioned, they must suffer loss by every insurer who
.dies before , the amount paid by him in premiums;
with the accumulated interest, shall be equal to
the amount of his policy—nevertheless, in the Mu
tual Offices the " profits" (777) are to be shared in
by the representative, should the insured die IM
MEDIATELY after one or two payments.
By the diminution of the premiums in the Equi
table, TEE GREATEST PRESENT BENEFIT IS SECURED
- . .
to all, persons assured by this company; whilst
those who wish to participate in the profits can do
io, by the purchase of the reserved shares, (first
instalment,lo dollars) which at all times afford a
good and really profitable investment for capital,
beside a vote for each share. This action the
'Trustees conceive must commend itself to the judg
ment of every unbiassed inquirer, being based on the
broad principle of equity; and securing to all the
members; the advantages to which they are justly
entitled by their actual payments; without opera
ting to the peculiar benefit of old standing members,
or 'placing recent entrants at a disadvantage—a
combination presented by no other office than the
Equitable Life Insurance Company.
THE ACTUAL MONEY Bonus given by the Equi
table, saved, is upwards of 15 per cent., at the time
of effecting the insurance; on IN ACCORDANCE with
the SCRIP BONUS OF A MUTUAL OFFICE; THE SAVING
'IPH EQUAL TO TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY PER CENT.
Pau . = Scam (7) nr Pamphlets, tables of rates,
lists of agents, obtained at the office, 74 Walnut
Street, or from the agents throughout the Untied
States.
The public are requested to examine carefully
the Prospectus of The Equitable" before insuring
elsewhere. JNO. W. CLAGHORN, Pres't.
FRANCIS WEST, M.D. .
Mechcal Examiners
.T. B. BIDDLE,M. D.
040. In attenance daily from 12 to 2 o'clock.
'Treasurer—F. W. RAWLE.
,Solicitor—Wm. W. HALT.
Actuary—H. G. TucKerr.
GEO. A. MILLER,
Agent for Lancaster, Penn's.
April 17 '49, 21
ALEXANDER L. HAYES,
ATTORNEY—AT LAW:
or t of—West King Street, neit door below C. Hager
• •& Son , e Store.
January 9,149
Greatest Agricultural Improvement of the Age
PATENTED, NOVEMBER 4, 1846, To H. W. SMITH,
OF PARADISE, LANCASTER COUNTY. -
PATENT LEVER,DRILL
Or Grain Planter. .
THE advantages of this machine are fully estab
lishd by use and 'experiment, and are:
Ist, A saving of from two to three pecks of seed
per acre;
2d, At equal distribution of any given quantity
of seed covered at an uniform depth.
3d, A saving of labor, as this machine can be
made to complete from 8 to 18 acres per day.
4th, The grain is not so liable to be thrown out
by frost.
sth, It stands stronger and .firmer, grows more
rapidly, is not so liable to be injured by the rust,
anal overcomes and outgrows the action of the fly.
6th, Where these machines have been used, the
saving of seed and increase of product amounted
to from 10 to 25 per cent.
The great characteristics of this machine, over
all others of the kind, are its simplicity, durability-,
and economy, and the facility and certainty with
which it can be set or altered, by a regulated index
and gauge, to drill or plant any given quantity of
per acre at any required depth.
This machine is made with moveable teeth at
present, to suit the unevenness of the:ground. It
will answer alike for rough and smooth land.
Manufactured by the- Patentee at Concord, Lan
caster comity. Address to Paradise Post Office.
• H. W. SMITH, Patentee.
AGENTS—Won. KlatreArtucx, Lancaster City.
A. K. & A. L. Wrrmr.s., Paradise.
11:!r Revolving Horse-Rakes Sir sale at the above
places, and at J. RiTI7IPE & Co.'s Hardware Store,
Columbia.
April 10, '49 6m-11
Sprecher Si. Rohrer's Cheap Hard
Ware Store.
HARDWARE, Glass; Paints, Oils, and Varnishes
at that long established stand, East King st
Lancaster, formerly occupied by Howett & Krieder,,
a few doors east of the Court ffouse, next door to
the Drug Store of James Smith, and opposite Geo.
Messenkop's Hotel, which they have recently taken
and where they will carry on the business.
They most respectfully beg leave to invite the
attention of their friends and acquaintances to their
stock of Hardware, which they have just opened
and will sell at the most reasonable prices, includ
ing every variety of Iron and Steel, Latches, Locks,-
Bolts, Hinges, Screws, and all kinds of building
materials, every description of Files, Blacksmith's
Bellows, Saddlery, best warranted Edge Tools,
Planes, and Veneers. Also a complete assortment
of CEDAR WARE, such as tubs, buckets, butter
churns, together with every article in their line.
They will keep cunstautly on hand every variety of
Coal and Wood aStoves; also a highly approved
COOKING STOVE.
The attention of young beginners is particularly
called to their full and complete assortment of
household utensils.
Determined to spare no pains to accommodate
purchasers, and by steady adherence to business,
they expect to merit a continuance of the liberal
patronage thus far bestowed upon them.
GEORGE D. SPRECHER,
11:1_713EN S. ROHRER.
Old Metal and Flaxseed taken in exchange for
goods. jan IS-50
SAVINGS INSTITUTIO N,
MONEY LOST—BY NOT CALLING AT
Pinkerton (•
OUR friends and the public will please read,
being that we have just received a splendid
assortment of DRY GOODS, &c., which we will
sell as low and perhaps a little lower than can be
had elsewhere. The style and quality cannot be
excelled by any other store in the city. We most
cordially invite all to call and examine our stock of
DRY GOODS,
Cloths, Cassimeres, Vestings, &c., Changeable and
Plain and Satin Stripe Alpacas, De Lains of various
shades, Linen Lustre, Lawns, Gihghams, Calicoes,
Hosiery, Gloves, Bleached and Unblead'hed Muslins
with a variety of other foreign and domestic Dry
Goods.
Groceries and Queensrvare,
Tea, Coffee, Sugar, Molasses, with every article
in the grocery line. Oranges, Lemons, Figs, Rai
sins, Candies, Almonds, Filberts, Cream and
Ground Nuts, &c.
Baskets—French and other travelling, also mar
keting Baskets, with or without covers, Basket
Carriages, Chairs, &c.
MACKEREL
150 Bbls. 5 and bbls. of the choicest brands—
Mackerel warranted.
Toßacco AND SEGARS wholesale and retail.
We would especially invite the attention of all
who wish, to purchase articles at the lowest possi
ble prices to.call at No. SO North Queen St., under
the Museum, two squares from the Court House.
PINKERTbN 8 SMELTZ.
April 3, '49 Iy-10
Notice to Distillers,'
AND ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
WHEREAS, I, Jacob Weitiel, of the city of
Lancaster, coppersmith, have received by let
ters Patent, recorded in the Patent office in the city
of Washington, certain useful improvements in the
construction of Stills, which improvements consist
of an additional tub, called a dr ::I;ng tub, which
is placed partly above the still, u. which tub the
doubler is inclosed, the beer which is pumped into
the upper tub passes down by a plug pipe into the
doubling tub, where it is brought to a boiling slate
before it is let into. the still, which pipe is opened
or stopped when requisite by means of a plug made
of wood, copper, or any other material.
What I claim as my improvements are the above
described doubling tub and the plug by which the
beer passes from one tub to the other, or from the
tub into the still.
Having received information,amounting to proof,
that my patent for the above described improve
ments has been violated by several distillers in this
county and in various other places, I hereby give
notice, that unless those persons who have made
use of my invention, or have it now in use, without
being authorized by me, come forward and make
fultieparation for having infringed my patent right,
on or before the first day of March next, suit will
be instituted against all and every such person or
persona._ JACOB WEITZEL.
Feb. 22, 1848
Marble Yard.
rrHE undersigned adopt this method of inform
ing their friends and the public in general,
that they have taken the Marble Yard, formerly
conducted by Daniel Fagan, situated in North
Queen Street, in the city of Lancaster, a few doors
north of Van Kanan's (formerly ScholfielcPs) tavern,
whe-e they are prepared to execute all orders in
their line, in the neatest manner, at the most liberal
prices, and with every possible expedition.
William Leonard acquired a thorough know'udge
of the business in the most celebrated Marti' I on.
tablishments in Philadelphia and New Yon..
Abner S. Bear was an apprentice to Daniel Fagan,
and has had many years experience. As their
work is all to be finished by themselves, they feel
assured, that they can afford entire satisfaction to
their customers.
- They exhibit John Beard's celebrated BOOK
OF DESIGNS, embracing a large and attractive
variety, from which their patrons can scarcely fail
to make satisfactory selections.
WILLIAM LEONARD,
June 19-6m-21] ABNER S. BEAR.
RIHL & MAYHEW'S
Daguerreotype Rooms,
Over T. P. LONG'S DRUG STORE, Lancaster.
THE subscribers have opened a Room at the
above place, and are now prepared to take
Portraits of all-rksQ, ranging in price from $1 00 to
$lO 00. Visitors'are informed that no portrait will
be allowed to leave which is not satisfactary to the
sitter. Perfect Pictures guaranteed.
If you wish a family group, a portrait of children
—if you wish a copy of a Daguerreotype, of a
painting or engraving, a portrait of a deceased per
son, a view of a public or private building, a por
trait set in a breast-pin, bracelet, locket or ring,
call upon us.
Hours from 8 until sunset. 'For. children from
10 to 3 o'clock. Pictures taken in all weathers.
Instructions given and all articles used in the
business furnished at reasonable prices.
July 10-6m-24] RUM & MAYHEM.
Geo. W. Hinder,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
OFFICE—North Queen Street, first door to the
right of John F. Long's Drug Store.
All kinds of Conveyancing, writing Wills, Deeds,
Mortgages, Accounts, &c., will be attended to
with correctness and despatch,
April 3, )49
"THAT COUNTRY IS THE MOST PROSPEROUS, WHERE LABOR COMMANDS THE GREATEST REWARD."-BUCHANAN
CITY OF LANCASTER, TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 4, 1849.
_ 4 1 1 , r .. •
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BEEHIVE.
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tgEMPIPMEnt././ •
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A LL persons desiring to see the best Goode of
the season, let them call early at the Bee Hive,
North Queen Street,
CHAS. E. WENTZ & BRO.
1 Case Black Brilliant Silks—assorted prices, for
Dresses and Visites; lower than ever offered at the
Bee Hive, CHAS. E. WENTZ & BRO.
- - - -
RIBBONS! RIBBONS! New Style, Neck, Waist
and Bonnet Ribbons.
Bajou , s superb quality Kid Gloves—fashionable
shades—just received at the Bee Hive, North Queen
CH Ai , . E. WENTZ & BRO.
Just opZised—New Style' rich worked White and
Blk Lace Capes.
I Case Blk Silk Fringes and Gimps.
Jenny Lind, Braids
Just received at the Bee Hive,
CHAS. E. WENTZ & BRO.
M - USLINS ! MUSLINS - !I-5000 yds. just opened
—the best Unbleached M uslins ever sold, tbr
cents.
4000 yds. extra Bleached, only 6i cents by the
piece or yard. CHAS. E. WENTZ & BRU.,
Aug .14-29] Bee Hive.
• Coal and Lumber Yard.
HE subscribers have taken the Coal Yard on
Prince Street, in the city of T_.. , :caster, lately
owned and occupied by Messrs. E. t J. Reinhold,
where they intend keeping a general aisortinent of
COAL FOR FAMILY USE,
such as Lykens' Valley, Baltimore Company, Pine-
Grove, Shamokin, Pittston, &c., with a great variety
of Coal for lime-burning and Sulphur Coal for
smithing. Also, a general
ASSORTMENT OF LUMBER,
will be kept constantly on hand. Having made ar
rangements with the Saw ib ills, every kind of bill
stuff will be furnished at the shortest-rmtiaa.
It is the intention of the subscribers to give their
personal attention to the business; and their object
will be at all times to please and accompiodate all
who may favor them with their custom, pledging
themselves to sell as low as any others in the city
of Lancaster or its vicinity, Now is the time for
Bargains! B. F. SHENK,
R. H. LONG.
n- In retiring from business, our friends and the
public generally have our thanks tor the very libe
ral patronage they bestowed upon us while in busi
ness, and hope the same may be extended to our
successors, Messrs. Shenk & Long, as we are
confident they will merit the confidence of the
public. B. & J. REINHOLD.
May 27, 3 49 18
Bibles and Testaments.
Ti HE Managers of the Lancaster County Bible
1 Society would respectfully call the attention of
the citizens of the city and county of Lancaster, to
their large and beautiful assortment of Bibles and
Testaments, constantly kept on hand at the Deposi
tory, three doors North of the Post Office:
Quarto English Bibles, $250
Do. do. Fancy Binding, 10 plates, 300
Royal Octavo 1 75
•
Octavo, Small Pica 1 00
Minion 44
Nonpareil 30
32m0. Diamond Gilt Tucks 75
Fine Gilt, without Tucks , 150
Extra Morocco Gilt 1 75
Quarto German Bibles 3 50
Smaller " '' 1 621-
Duodecimo 621
German and English Testaments 44
Testaments and Psalms—large 50
Do do small 25
Large sized Testaments 37/
Do do cloth 121
Small—new style Binding 7
German Testaments—large 25
Do do small ISI
lbr Persons unable to purchase at the above
prices, will be furnished FREE OF CHARGE, by
an order from either of the Directors, or by the
Agent and Treasurer.
May 29, 1849
THRESHING MACHINE AND IRON FOUNDRY.
'VHF:Subscriber continues to manufacture at his
I_ shop near the Railroad, Lancaster, Pa., the
various patterns of Cog-wheel Horse Power and
Threshing Machines for 1, 2 and 4 horses. Endless
Chiat Threshing Machines of 1 and 2 horses; Corn
Shel Mrs for hand and horse power. Ft variety of
pa tnrns for Straw and Corn Folder Cutters, in
cluding Rovers Patent. Also, Hay.and Grain
Horse Eakes, and Wheat Drills.
CASTIAGS for Railroad Cars, Threshing Ma
chines, Steam Engines, Mills, Forges, Furnaces,
Houses, and \in short, all kins of Casting done,
we trust, in a irninner satisfactory to our customers.
Skillful pattern itrs ready at all times to make,
alter and repair p terns for castings of all des
criptions.
All kinds of Turning Boring, Lathe work and
fitting done to meet the ;ipproval of our employers.
We respectfully invite all NV.4 .. n tin g anything in our
line to give us a call. \
WM. KPATRICK
ll CASH paid for old Casti
.s
' or exchanger
for new. play 2,'49-6m-18
Schceneck Coach Manufactory.
rrIHE subscriber respectfully informs Iffv , friends
and customers, that he has now on andh a
large stock of CARRIAGES,
BUGGYS and ROCKAWAYS,
of the most approved Eastern patterns, trimmed i'
the neatest and newest style, and of workmanship
that will be sure to recommend itself. Orders for
carriages will be punctually attended to, and de
livered at any place that may be requested. The
subscriber is resolved to do his utmost to please his
customers, and in regard to cheapness lie is re
solved not toile undersold by any l , op in the state.
He invites his friends to call and line his work
before purchasing elsewhere. also returns
thanks to his customers in different counties, who
have so, well supported him, thus fur.
Old carriages and produce taken in exchange for
new ones,—and all kinds of I epairs executed with
cheapness and expedition—such as, painting and
trimming old carriages. All kindi of Blacksmith
and Wood work, belonging to my business, will
be executed. Letters must be addressed to
JESSE REINHOLD,
Schmneck P. 0., Lancaster County.
May 1, 1849. 6m-14
Ornamental Marble Works.
'VAST King street, next door to John N. Lane's
_Ed store. Charles M. Howell, Marble Mason,
respectfully informs the citizens of Lancaster and
the public in general, that he carries on the MAR
BLE BUSINESS, in all its various branches, and
invites all to call on him, as he is satisfied that he
can sell cheaper than any other establishment in the
city or state.
He invites the public 'to call and-examine hie
stock <if finished Mantels, Monuments,Tombs,
Grave Stones, and also his collection of esigns for
Monuments, Tombs, &c., before purchasing else
where. jan 16
Removal-Furniture Ware-Room.
GEORGE F. ROTE has removed his
FURNITURE TV.iIRE-ROOM,
to the Mechanics , Institute, in South Queen
Street, where -he will keep on hand or make to
order, at short notice, all the fashionable and plain
varieties of Chairs and Furniture.
Persons in want of gocd and cheap Furniture of
any description are invited to call before purchasing
0- The Undertaker's branch of the business
particularly attended to. [May 15 ,49-16
•
E. M. HAMBRIGHT,
MERCHANT TAILOR,
HAS removed his establishment from his old
stand to one door below' Coopmts, directly
opposite the Lamb Tavern, where he keeps con
stantly on hand Cloths, Cassimeres, Vestings, Sc.,
which he is prepared to make up for customers,
after the newest and most approved fashions. He
is thankful for past favors, and will be grateful for
a continuance of Public patronage.
april 24 6m-13
1 50 BARRELS and .+ Bbls. Noe. 1, 2 and 3
Mackerel of the best selection in the
Market, and will be sold at a small advance on the
Philadelphia Market Prices. No. 80 North Queen
Street, under the Museum.
PINEERTQN & SMELTZ.
April 3 ,' 49 ly-10
_ ly-10
SHENK & LONG'S
JOHN W. HUBLEY,
Treasurer and Librarian
Mackerel.
3ntellifinrer & journal.
PIIBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY MORNII4 - 11,
BY GEO. SANDERSON.
TERMS:
SUBSCRIPTION.—Two dollars per annum payable
in advance; tWo twenty-five, if not paid within
six months; and two fifty, if not paid within the
year. No subscription discontinued until all ar
rearages are paid, unless at the option of the
Editor.
Anvnaxtsnarnyrs.—Accompanied by the CASH, and
not, exceeding one square, will be inserted three
times for one dollar, and twenty-five cents for each
additional insertion. Those of a greater length
in proportion.
JOB PRINTING.—Such as Hand Bills, Posting Bills,
Pamphlets, Blanks, Labels,&c., &c., executed
with accuracy and at the sortest notice.
ip octrn.
STANZAS
I know that thou wilt blame my words,
And others may perchance condemn,
But if I must thine anger bear,
I little care, or think of them;
And if thou blame, as blame thou must,
I will not at my fate repine,
But' earn at last to love thy frown,
As I have loved all else of thine.
Ye chide not too severely, thou,
But think that while my fault is seen,
Thou canst not knoW how long, how deep,
The struggle in my breast bath been;
How reason, manhood, ikainly strove
To set me from my,,thraidom free,
Till reason, manhood, all were lost
In the absorbing thought or thee.
Then blame me not—nor thou—nor she,
Who'hath endured a deeper wrong—
Wliose name, forgotten in my heart,
Must be forbidden to my tongue.
Oh, blame me not—nor thou—nor she—
For hope too high, or broken vow,
For though the vow be broken, still,
God knows my hope is humbled now.
Farewell to her, to thee—and if,
• Perchance, thy thought shall sometimes dwell
On one who sinned—yet did but that
For which the angels sinned and feii—
Bethink thee if temptation less
Were more than Seraph strength could bear,
More deeply tempted, I, at least,
May claim the mercy of a tear.
zetect uric.
LADY ELEANORE'S MANTLE.
BY NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Not long after Colonel Shute had assumed the
Government of Massachusetts-Bay, now nearly a
hundred and twenty years ago, a young lady of
rank and fortune arrived from England, to claim
his protection as her guardian. He was her distant
relative, but the nearest who had survived the grad
ual extinction of her family; so that no more eligi
ble shelter could be found for the rich and hig
born Lady Eleanore Rochcliffe, than within the
Province-House of a trans-atlantic colony. The
consort of Governor Shute, moreover, had been a
mother to her childhood, and was now anxious to
receive her, in the hope that a beautiful young
woman would he exposed to infinitely less peril
from the primitive society of New England, than
amid the artifices and corruptions of a court. It
either the Governor or his lady had especially con
sulted their own comfort, they would probably have
sought to devolve the responsibility on other hands:
since with some noble and splendid traits of char
acter, Lady Eleanore was remarkable for a harsh
unyielding pride, a haughty consciousness of her
hereditary and personal advantages, which made
her almost incapable of control. Judging from
many traditionary anecdotes, this peculiur temper
was hardly less than a monomania; or, if the acts
which it inspired were those of a sane person, it
seemed due from Providence that pride so sinful
should be followed by a severe retribution. That
tinge of the marvelous which is thrown ever so
many of these half-forgotten legends, has probably
imparted an additional wildness to the strange story
of Lady Eleanore Rochcliffe.
The ship in which she came passenger had ar
rived at Newport whence Lady Eleanore was con
veyed to Boston in the Governor's coach, attended
by a small escort of gentlemen on horseback.. The
ponderous equipage with its tour black horses at
tracted much notice as it rumbled through Corn
hill, surrounded by the prancing
steeds of half a
dozen cavaliers, with swords dangling to their
stirraps, and pistols at their holsters. Through
the large glass windows of the coach, as it rolled
along, the people could discern the figure of Lady
Eleanore, strangely combining an almost queenly
stateliness with the grace and beauty of a maiden
in her teens. A singular tale had got abroad
among the ladies of the prH'ince, that their fair
rival was indebted for much of the irresistable
charm of her appearance to a single article of dress
—an embroidered mantle--which hadbeen wrought
\ by the most skilful artist in London, and possessed
even magical properties of adornment. On the
present occasion, however, she owed nothing to the
witclief dress, being clad in a riding habit of
velvet, iich would have appeared stiff and un
graceful on other form.
The coachirnan reined in his four black steeds,
and the whole valcade came to a pause in front
of the contorted iron balustrade that fenced the
Province-House from the public street. It was an
awkward coincidence, that the bell of the Old South
was just then tolling for a funeral; so that, instead
of the gladsome peal with which it was customary
to announce the arrival of distinguished strangers,
Lady Eleanore Rochcliffe was ushered by a doleful
clang, as if calamity had come embodied in her
beautiful person.
"A very
- great disrespect," exclaimed Captain
Langford, an English officer, who had recently
brought despatches to Governor Shute. The fun
eral should have been deferred,liest Lady Eleanore's
spirits be affected by such a dismal welcome."
" With your pardon, sir," replied Doctor Clarke,
a physician, and a famous champion of the popu•
lar party, "whatever the heralds may pretend, a
dead beggar must have precedence of a living queen.
King Death.confers high privileges."
These remarks were interchanged while the
speakers waited a passage through the crowd,
which had gathered on each side of the gateway,
leaving an open avenue to the portal of the Pro
vince-House. A black slave in livery now leaped
from behind the coach, and threw open the door;
while at the same moment Governor Shute descen
ded the flight of steps from his mansion, to assist
Lady Eleanore in alighting. But the Governor's
stately approach was anticipated in a manner that
excited general astonishment. A pale young man,
with his black hair alt in disorder, rushed from the
throng, and prostrated himself beside the coach,
thus offering his person as a footstool for Lady
Eleanore Rochcliffe to tread upon. She held bark
an instant; yet with an expression as if doubting
whether the young man' were worthy to bear the
weight of her footsteps, rather than dissatisfied to
receive such awful reverence from a fellow-mortal.
- .
"Up, sir," said the Governor sternly, at the same
time lilting his cane over the intruder. "What
means the Bedlamite by this freak."
" Nay," answered Lady Eleanore playfully, but
with more scorn than pity in her tone, "your ex
cellency shall not strike him. When men seek
only to be trampled upon, it were a pity to deny
them a favor so easily granted—and so well de
servecl?"
Then, though as lightly as a sunbeam on a cloud.
she placed her foot upon the cowering form; and
extended her hand to meet that of the Governor.
There was a brief interval, during which Lady
Eleanore retained this attitude ; and never, surely,
was there an apter emblem of aristocracy and her
editary pride, trampling on human sympathies and
the kindred of nature, than these two figures pre
sented at that moment. Yet the spectators were
so smitten with her beauty, and so essential did
pride seem to the existence of such a creature,
that they gave a simultaneous acclamation of ap-
plause.
" Who is this insolent young fellow ?" inquired
Captain Langford, who still remained beside Doctor
Clarke. "If he be in his senses his impertinence
demands the bastinado. If mad, Lady Eleanore
should be secured from further inconvenience, by
his confinement."
"His name is Jervas Helwyse," answered the
Doctor—"a youth of no birth or fortune, or other
advantage, save the mind and soul that nature gave
him ; and being secretary to our colonial agent in
London, it was his misfortune to meet this Lady
Eleanore Rochcliffe. He loved her—and her scorn
has driven him mad."
"He was mad so to aspire," observed the English
officer.
"It may be so," said Doctor Clarke, frowning as
he spoke. "But, I tell You, sir, I could well nigh
doubt the justice of the Heaven above us, if no
signal humiliation overtake this lady, who now
treads so haughtily into yonder mansion. She
seeks to place herself above the sympathies of our
common nature, which envelopes all human souls.
See, if that nature do not assert its claim over her
in some mode that shall wring her level with the
lowest !"
"Never F cried Captain Langford indignantly—
"neither in life nor when they lay her with her
ancestors."
• Not many days afterwards the Governor gave a
ball in honor of Lady Eleanore Rochcliffe. The
principal gentry of the colony received invitations,
which were 'distributed to their residences, far and
near, by messengers on horseback, bearin ,, missives
sealed with all the formality of official despatches.
In obedience to the summons, there was a general
gathering of rank, wealth, and beauty; and the
wide door of the Province-House had seldom given
admittance to more numerous and honorable guests
than on the evening of Lady Eleanore's ball.—
Without much extravagance of eulogy, the specta
cle might even be termed splendid; for, according
to the fashion of the times, the ladies shone in rich
silks alid satins, outspread over wide projecting
hoops ; and the gentlemen glittered in gold embroi
dery, laid unsparingly upon the purple, or scarlet,
or sky blue velvet, which was the material of their
coats and waistcoats. The latter article Of dress
was of great importance, since it enveloped the
wearer's body nearly to the knees, and *as perhaps
bedizined with the amount of his whole year's in
come, in golden flowers and foliage. The altered
taste of the present day—a taste symbolic of a deep
change in the whole system of society—would
look upon any of these almost gorgeous figures as
ridiculous; although that evening the guests sought
their reflections in the pier glasses, and rejoiced to
catch their own glitter amid the glittering crowd.
What a pity that one of the stately mirrors has
no; preserved a picture of the scene, which, by the
very traits that were so transitory, might have
taught us much that would be worth knowing and
remembering.
Would, at least, that either painter or mirror
could convey to us some faint idea of a garment,
already noticed in this legend—the Lady Eleanore's
embroidered mantle--which the gossips whispered
was invested with magic properties ,so as to lend
a new and untried grace to her figure each time
that she put it on ! Idle fancy as it is, this Myste,
rious mantle has thrown an awe around my image
of her, partly from its fabled virtues, and partly
because it was the handi-work of a dying woman,
and, perchance, owed the fantastic grace of its con
ception to the delirium of approaching death.
After the ceremonial greetings had been paid,
Lady Eleanore Rochcliffe stood apart from the mob
of guests, insulating herself within a small and dis
tinguished circle, to whom she accorded a more
cordial favor than to the general throng. The
waxen torches threW their radiance vividly over
the scene, bringing out its brilliant points in strong
relief; but she gazed carelessly, and with now and
then an expression of weariness or scorn, tempered
with such feminine grace, that herauditors scarcely
perceived the moral deformity of which it was the
utterance. She beheld the spectacle not with vul
gar ridicule, at disdaining to be pleased with the
provincial mockery of a court festival, but with the
deeper scorn of one whose spirit held itself too
high to participate in the enjoyment of other human
souls. Whether or no the recollections of those
who saw her that evening were influenced by the
strange events with which she was subsequently
connected, so it was, that her figure ever after re
curred to them as marked by something wild and
unnatural; although, at the time, the general whis
per was of her exceeding beauty. and of the indes
cribable charm which her mantle threw around
her. Some close observers, indeed, detected afe
verish flush and alternate paleness of countenance,
with a corresponding flow and revulsion of spirits.
and once or twice a painful and helpless betrayal
of lassitude, as if she were on the point of sinking
to the ground. Then, with a nervous shudder, she
seemed to arouse her energies, and threw some
bright and playful, yet halt-wicked sarcasm into
the conversation. There was so strange a charac
teristic in her manners and sentiments, that it as
tonished every right minded listener; till -looking
in her face, a lurking and incomprehensible glance
and smile perplexed them with doubts both as to
her seriousness and vanity. Gradually. Lady Elean.
ore Rochcliffe's circle grew smaller, till only four
gentlemen remained in it. These were Captain
Langford, the English officer before mentioned; a
Virginian planter, who had come to Massachusetts
on some political errand; a young Episcopal
clergyman, the grandson of a British Earl; and
lastly, the private secretary of Governor Shute,
whose obsequiousness had won a sort of tolerance
from Lady Eleanore.
At different periods of the evening the liveried
servants of the Province-House passed among the
guests, bearing huge trays of refreshments, and
French and Spanish wines. Lady Eleanore Roch
cliffe, who refused to wet her beautiful lips even
with a bubble of Champaigne, had sunk back into
a large damask chair, apparently overwearied
either with the excitement of the scene or its te
dium ; and while, for an instant, she was uncon
scious of voices, laughter, and music a young man
stole forward, and knelt down at hem feet. He bore
a salver in his hand, l on which was a chased silver
goblet, filled to the brim with wine, which he of
fered as reverentially as to a crowned queen, or
rather with the awful devotion of a priest doing
sacrifice to his idol. Conscious that some one
touched her robe, Lady Eleanore started, and un
closed her eyes upon the pale, wild. features and
dishevelled hair of Jervase Helwyse. -
" Why do you haunt me thus?" said she, in a
languid tone, but with a kindlier feeling than she
ordinarily permitted herself to express. " They
tell me that I have done you harm."
"Heaven knows if that be so, - replied the young
man solemnly. "But, Lady Eleanore, in requital
of that harm, if such there be, and for }our own
earthly and heavenly welfare, I pray you to take one
sip of this holy wine, and then to pass the goblet
round among the guests. And this shall be a sym
bol that you have not sought to withdraw yourself
from the chain of human sympathies—which whoso
would shake off must keep company with fallen
angels."
" Where has this mad fellow stolen that sacra
mental vessel?" exclaimed the Episcopal clergyman.
This question drew the notice of the guests to
the silver cup, which was recognized as appertain
:log to the communion plate of the old South Church;
and, for aught that could be known, it was brim
ming over with the consecrated wine.
"Perhaps it is poisoned," half whispered the
Governor's secretary.
" Pour it down the villain's own throat!" cried
the Virginian fiercely.
" Turn him out of the house!" cried Capt. Lang
ford, seizing Jervase Helwyse so roughly by the
shoulder that the sacramental cup was overturned,
and its contents sprinkled upon Lady Eleanure's
mantle. Whether knave, fool, or Bedlamite, it is
intolerable that the fellow should go at large."
“Pray, gentlemen, do my poor admirer no harm,"
said Lady Eleanore, with a faint and weary smile.
"Take him out of my sight if such be your pleas
ure; for I can find in my heart to do clothing but
laugh at him—whereas, in all decency and con
science' it would become me to weep for the mis
chief Ihave wrought !"
But while the bystanders were attempting to lead
away the unfortunate young man, he broke from
them, and with a wild, impassioned earnestness,
offered a new and equally strange petition to Lady
Eleanore. It was no other than that she should
throw off the mantle, which, while he pressed the
silver cup of wine upon her, she had draw more
closely around her form, so as to almost shroud
herself within it.
"Cast it from you!" exclaimedJercase Helwyse,
clasping his hands in an agony of entreaty. "It
may not yet be too late ! Gi"e the accursed gar
ment to the flames!"
But Lady Eleanore, with a laugh of scorn, drew
the rich folds of the embroidered mantle over her
head, in such a fashion as to give a completely new
aspect to her beautiful face, which—half hidden,
half revealed—seemed to belong to some being 'of
mysterious character and purposes.
"Farewell, Jervase Helwyse !" said she. "Keep
my image in your remembrance, as you behold it
now."
"Alas, lady!" he replied, in a tone - no longer
wild, but sad as a funeral bell. "We must meet
shortly, when your face may wear another aspect
—and that shall be the image that must abide
within me."
He.made no more resistance to the violent efforts
of the gentlemen and servants, who almost dragged
him out of the apartment, and dismissed him rough
ly from the iron gate of the Province House. Capt.
Langford, who had been very active in this affair.
was returning to the presence of Lady Eleanore
Rochcliffe, when he encountered the physician, Dr.
Clarke, with whom he had held some casual talk
on the day of her arrival. The Doctor stood apart,
separated from Lady Eleanore by the width of the
room, but eyeing , her with such keen sagacity, that
Captain Langford involuntarily gave him credit
for the discovery of some deep secret.
" You appear to be smitten, after all, with the
charms of this fair aristocrat, - said he, hoping thus
to draw forth the physician's hidden knowledge.
" God forbid!" answered Dr. Clarke, with a grave
smile ; " and if you will be wise you will put up
the same prayer for yourself. Wo to those who
shall be smitten by this beautiful Lady Eleanore!
But yonder stands the Governor—and I have a word
or two for his private ear. Good night"
He accordingly advanced to Governor Shute,
and addressed him in so low a tone that none of the
bystanders could catch a word of what he said;
although the sudden change of his Excellency's
hitherto cheerful visage betokened that the com
munication could be of 'no agreeable import. A
very few moments afterwards, it was announced to
the guests that an unforseen circumstance rendered
it necessary to put a premature close to the festival.
The ball at the Province House supplied a topic
of conversation for the colonial metropolis, for some
days after its occurrence, and might still longer
have been the general theme, only that a subject
of all engrossing interest thrust it, for a time, from
the public recollection. This was the appearance
of a dreadful epidemic, which, in that age, and
long, before and afterwards, was wont to slay its
hundreds and thousands, on both sides of the At
lantic. On the occasion of which we speak, it
has left its traces—its pitmarks, to use an appro
priate figure—on the history of the country, the
affairs of which were thrown into confusion by its
ravages. At first, unlike its ordinary course, the
disease seemed to confine itself to the higher circles
of society, selecting its victims from among the
proud, the well-born and the wealthy, entering un
abashed into stately chambers, and lying down
with the slumberers in silken beds. Some of the
most distinguished guests of the Province-House—
even those whom the haughty Lady Eleanore
Rochcliffe had deemed not unworthy of her favor
—were stricken by this fatal scourge. It was
noticed, with an ungenerous bitterness of feeling.
that the four gentlemen—the Virginian, the British
officer, the young clergyman, and the Governor's
secretary—who had been her most devoted atten
dants on the evening of the ball, were the.foremost
on whom the plague-stroke fell. But the disease.
pursuing its onward progress, soon ceased to be
exclusively a prerogative of aristocracy. Its red
brand was no longer conferred like a noble's star,
or an order of knighthood. It threaded its way
through the narrow and crooked streets, and enter
ed the low, mean, darksome dwellings, and laid its
hand of death upon the artisans and laboring classes
of the town. It compelled rich and poor to feel
themselves brethren, then; and stalking to and fro
across the Three Hills, with a fierceness which
made it almo4t a new pestilence, there was that
mighty conqueror—that scourage and horror of
our forefathers—the Small Pox!
We cannot estimate the affright which this
plague inspired of yore, by contemplating it as the
fangless monster of the present day. We must
remember; rather, with what awe we watched the
gigantic footsteps of the Asiatic cholera, sti.lding
from shore to shore of the Atlantic and marcning
like destiny upon cities far remote which flight
had already half depopula.ed. There is no other
fear so horrible and unhumanizing, as that which
makes man dread to breathe Heaven's vital air,
lest it be poison, or to grasp the hand of a brother
or friend, lest the gripe of the pestilence should
clutch him. Such was the dismay that now fol.
lowed in the track of the disease, or ran before it
throughout the town. Graves were hastily dug,
and the pestilential relics, as hastily covered, be
cause the dead were enemies of the living. and
strove to draw them headlong, as it were, into their
own dismal pit. The public councils were sus
pended, as if mortal wisdom might relinquish its
devices, now that an unearthly usurper had found
his way into the ruler's mansion. Had an enemy's
fleet been hovering on the coast, or his armies
trampling on our soil, the people would probably
have committed their defence to that same direful
conqueror, who had wrought their own calamity,
and would permit no interference with his sway.
This conqueror had a symbol of his triumphs, It
was a blood-red flag, that fluttered in the tainted air,
over the door of every dwelling into which the
Small Pox had entered.
Such a banner was long since waving over the
portal of the Province House; for thence, as was
proved by tracking it footstep back, had all this
dreadful mischief issued. It had been traced back
to a lady's luxurious chamber—to the proudest 01
the proud—to her that was so delica.e, and hardly
owned herself of earthly mould—to the haughty
one, who took her stand above human sympathies
—to lady Eleanore! There remained no room for
doubt, that the contagion had lurked in that gor
geous mantle, which threw so strange a grace
around her at the festival. Its fantastic splendor
hail been conceived in the delirious brain of a wo
man on her death-bed, and was the last toil of - her
stiffening fingers, which had interwoven fate and
misery with its golden threads. This dark tale.
whispered at first. was now bruited far and wide r
The people raved against the lady Eleanore, and
cried out that her pride and scorn had evoked a
fiend, and that, between them both. this monstrous
evil had been born. At times, their rage and des
pair took the semblance, of grinning mirth; arid
whenever the red flag of the pestilence was hoisted
over another, and yet another door, they clapt their
hands and shouted through the streets, in bitter
mockery, "Behold a new triumph fur the Lady
Eleanore."
One day in the midst of these dismal times, a
wild figure approached the portal of the Province-
House, and folding his arms, stood in contemplating
the scarlet banner. which a passing breeze shook
fitfully, as if to fling abroad the contagion that it
typified. At length, climbing one of the pillars by
means of the iron balustrade, he took down the
flag. and entered the mansion, waving it above his
head. At the foot of the staircase he met the
Governor, booted and spurred, with his cloak drawn
around him, evidently on the point of setting forth
upon a journey.
"Wretched lunatic, what do you seek here?" ex
claimed Shute, extending his cane to guard himself
from contact. '• There is nothing here but death.
Back—or you will meet him 1"
"Death will not touch me, the banner-bearer of
the pestilence P" cried Jervase Halwyse, shaking
t h e red flag a l o ft. Death and the pestilence, who
wears the aspect of the Lady Eleanore, will,,walk
through the streets to-night, and I must march be
fore them with this banner!"
" Why do I waste words on the fallen?" mutter- .
ed the Governor, drawin g his cloak across his
mouth. " What matters his miserable life, when.
none of us are sure of twelve hours' breath? On,
ft,ol, to your own destruction!"
' He made way. fur Jervase Helwyse, who imme
diately ascended the staircase, but, ori"the first land
iug-place, was arrested by the firm grasp of a hand
upon his shoulder. Looking fiercely up, wit' a
madman's impulse to struggle with, and rend asun
der his opponent, he found himself powerless be- -
neath a 'calm eye, which possesses the mysterious
property of quelling frenzy at its height. The
person whom he had now encountered was the
physician, Doctor Clarke, the duties of whose sad
profession had led him to the Province.4ouse, where
he was an unfrequeat guest in more prosperous
times.
Young man, what is your purpose?" deman
ded he. -
"I seek the Lady ,Eleanore," answered' Jervase
Helwyse, submissively.
"All have fled from her," said the physician.—
"Why do you seek her now'? I tell you, youth,
her nurse fell death-stricken on the threshold of that
fatal chamber. Know ye not, that never came
such a curse to our shores as this lovely Lady
Eleanbre that her breath has filled the air with
poison?—that she has shaken pestilence and death
upo n the land, from the folds of her accursed
mantle ?"
" Let me look upon her!" rejoined the mad
youth, more wildly. "Let me behold her, in her
awful beauty, clad in the regal garments of the
pestilence! She and'Death sit on a throne together.
Let me kneel down before them !"
'Poor youth!' said Doctor Clarke; and, moved
by a deep sense of human weakness, a smile of
caustic humor curled his lip even then. "Wilt.
thou still worship the destroyer, and surround her
image with fantasies the 'more magnificent, the
more evil she has wrought? Thus man doth ever
to his tyrants! Approach, then! Madness, as I
have noted, has that good 'efficacy, that it will
guard you from contagion—and perchance its own
cure may be found in yonder chamber."
.Ascending another night of stairs, he threw open
a door, and signed to Jervase Helwysethat l i e
enter. The poor lunatic, it. seems probable, had
cherished a delusion that his haughty mistress sat
in state, unharmed herself by the pestilential influ.
ence, which, 'as by enchantment, she scattered
round about her. He dreamed, no doubt, that her
beauty was not dimmed, but brightened into super.
human splendor. With such anticipations, he
stole reverentially to the door at which the physi
cian stood, but paused upon the threshold, gazing
fearfully into the gloom of the darkened chamber.
"Where is the Lady Eleanore?" whispered he.
"Call her." replied the physician.
"Lady .Eleanore!—Princess!—Queen of Death!"
cried Jervase. Helwyse, advancintt ' three steps into
the chamber, "She is not here! There on yonder
table, I behold the sparkle of a diamond, which
once she wore upon hes, bosom. There"—and he
shuddered—"there hangs her mantle, on which a
dead woman embroidered a spell of dreadful poten
cy. But where is the Lady Eleanorel"
Something stirred within the silken curtains of a
canopied bed; and a low moan was, uttered, which,
listening intently, Jervase Helwyse began to (Its.
tinguish as a woman's voice, complaining dolefully
of thirst. He fancied, even, that he recognised its
tours
•
"My throat—my throat is scorched," murmured
the voice. "A drop of water "
"What thing art thou?" said the brain-stricken
youth, drawing near the bed and tearing asunder
its curtains." "Whose voice bast thou stolen for
thy murmurs and miserable petitions, as it Lady
Eleanore could be conscious of mortal infirmity'
Fie! Heap of deceased mortality, why lurkest thou
in my lady's chamber?"
"Oh, Jervase Helwyse," said the voice—and as
;t spoke, the figure contorted itself, struggling to
hide its blasted lace—"look not now on the woman
you once loved! The curse of Heaven hath strick
en me, because I would not call man my brother,
nor woman sister. I wrapt myself in FIUME as in
A MANTLE, and scorned the sympathies of nature;
and therefore has nature made this wretched body
the medium of a dreadful sympathy. You are
avenged—they are all avenged—for I am Eleanore
Rochcliile!"
The malice of his mental disease, the bitterness
lurking at the bottom of his heart, mad as he was,
for a blighted and ruined life, and love that had
been paid with cruel scorn, awoke within the breast
of Jervase Helwyse. He shook his finger at the
wretched girl, and the chamber echoed, the curtains
ot the bed were shaken, with-his outburst ot insane
merriment.
"Another triumph for the Lady_ Eleanore!" be
cried. All have been her victims! Who so worthy
to be the final victim as herself?"
Impelled by some new fantasy of his crazed in
tellect, he snatched the fatal mantle, and rushed
from the chamber and the house. Thar night, a
procession passed, by torch light, through the
'.treets, bearing in the midst the figure of a woman,
enveloped in a richly embroidered mantle; while in
advance stalked Jervase Helwyse, waving the red
flag of the pestilence. Arriving opposite the Pro.
vince.House, the mob burned the effigy, and a strong
wind ca.ne and swept away the ashes. It was said,
that, from that very hour, the pestilence abated, as
if its sway had some mysterious connection, from
the first plague stroke to the last, with Lady Elea
nore's mantle. A remarkable uncertainty broods
over that unhappy lady's fate. There is a belief,
however, that, in a certain chamber of this man
sion, a female form may sometimes be duskily dis
cerned, shrinking into the darkest corner, and
muffling her face within an embroidered mantle.
-Supposing the legend true, can this be other than
the once proud Lady Eleanore?
A Woman's Advantage.
A woman can say what she likes to you without
the risk of being knocked down for it.
She can tak e a snooze after dinner, while her
husband has gone to work.
She can dress herself in neat and tidy calicoes
for a dotlar, which her husband has to earn and
fork over.
She can go into the street without being obliged
to •"treat" at every coffee house.
She can paint her face if she is too pale, or flour
it if too red.
She can stay at home in time of war, and wed
again if her husband is killed.
She can wear corsets if too thick, and other
fixins" if too thin.
She can eat, drinicand be merry, without costing
her a cent.
She can run into debt all over until her husband
warns the public, by advertisement not to trust
her on his account any longer. 4
113 - A man of wealth, living a stranger to reli
gion and its ordinances, was walking and holding
this soliloquy. "What a happy man I am! I have
an ample fortune, an affectionate wife, and every
thing to make me comfortable; and what is more,
I am indebted to no one for it; I have made it my
self; I am independent of every one; it is all my
own. Many persons are under obligations here
and there, but lam not. It is all my own." At
that instant a sudden shower drove him to the
nearest church. He went in. and just at that mo
-mem, the minister rose and read his text—" Ye
are not your own, ye are bought with a price."
-What," (said he to himself) "this is a strange
doctrine , 13ntit does not apply to me; lam my
own, and all I have is my own." The course of
the sermon exposed his obligations to God, and
issued in totally revolutionizing his views and
feelings.
The e IVaYS of Life.
By the experience of distress, an arrogant temper
is most effectually corrected; as the remembrance
of our own sufferings naturally prompts us to feel
for others when they suffer. But it Providence has
been so kind as not to subject us to much of this
discipline in our own lot, let us draw improvement
from the harder lot of others. Let us sometimes
step aside from the smooth and flowery paths in
which we are permitted to walk, in order to view
the toilsome march of our fellows through the
thorny ways of the world.
Education.
' A defective and faulty education, through the
period of infancy and childhood, may perhaps, be'
found to be the most prolific cause of insanity; by
this in many, a predisposition is produced; in others
it is excited, and renders uncontrollable the animal
propensities of our 'nature. Appetites indulged and
perverted, passions unrestrained, and propensities
rendered vigorous by indulgence, and subjected_ to
no salutary restraint'brings us into a condition" in
which both moral and physical causes easily ope-
rate to produce insanity, if they do not produce it
themselves.
117 - How noiseless the snow comes down! You
may see it—feel it—but never hear it.' Such is
true charity.
NO. 32.