% Jamils Ittfospftper—stMtb to |)ci!t&s, ©emptrante, literature, Science, ®|t IJJetjiiraics, Agriculture, ©jie ©bucatitm, Amusement, Central intelligence, ft., J. S. & J. J. BRISBIN, VOLUME 27, C|t Centre gemotrat. SJPWBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY, BY J.S.&J- J. BRISBIN. QjjU* in the Arcade Building, Second Floor. j< BRKS . $1,50 if paid in advance or within six months after subscribing,otherwise $2 will invari ablv be charged. No subscriptions received for a shorter period than six months and none dis sontinued, unless at the option of the editor, until all arrearages are paid. SINESS CAR'IS Office on Allegheny Street. Feb. 10 59 J? M. Bi7ANCHARD-^TORNEJ Xh. -AT-LAW, BELLBONTK, RBNNA. Office fsrmrly occupied by the Hon. James Bumside. Jan. 19, '60.-tf. W" W BROWN- ATTOMEY - AT ' . LAW BELLEFONTE, PENNA. Will attend to all legal business entrusted to him, with prompt ness. May, 5 'i>9. TAS. H. RAXKIN^ATTOKNEY.AT-- tl LAW, BELLEFONTE..PA. wit attend prompt ly fi> eh legal business entrusted to him. Office next door to the Post Office. [SjpL 20, '6O, tf EJ. HOCKMAN, SURVEYOR AND , CONVEYANCER, BELLEFONTE, PA., will attend to and correctly execute all businesi en trusted te him. [June 14,—'60, —tf. CrCU. L. POTTER. M. D. OFFICE on High street, (oldoffice.) Bellefonte Pa. Will attend to professional calls as heretofore, and respectfully offers his professional Mrvices his friends and the public. 0ct.26'58 £ A. FAIRLAHB, M. D. JAS. A. DOBBINS, M. D FAIRLAMB& DOBBINS. DR. FAIRLAAIB has associated with him DR J. H. DOBBIN IS , in the practice of medicine Affice as heretofore on Bishop street, opposite the Temperance Hotel. March 19,57. R. JAS. P. GREGG, respectfully offer his professional services to tho people o Milesburg and vicinity. Residence, Daniel R Boileau'g National Hotel. Refer to Dr. J. M. McCoy, Dr. G. L. Potter, Dr. f. B. Mitchell. [Nov. S, IB6o.—tf. WM, REIBEU, SURGEON AND vv PHYSICIAN, having permanently located offers his Professional services to the citizens of PiDO Grove Mills and vicinity, and respectfully •elicits a liberad portion of the public patronage. [Feb. 16, '6o.—ly. tfA J* J* LOGLE, Operative and Mechanical Dentist, will prao- M.LIZ"TTTr tice all the various branches of his profession in the most approved manner. Office cod residence on Spring St.Bellefonie Pa. [Mar. E. '6O. tf. V F RTTVDLIE. ATTORNEY-AT J LAW, BELLEFONTE PA. IV ill atttend to all business entrusted to him with care and prompt ness. Refer to Gov. Pollock, Milton Pa. and Hen. At G. Curtin, Bellefonte Pa. Office with fohn H. Stover J AN - 5 > '6O - MUFFLI • AGENT FOE TH WEST BRANCH INSURANCE COMPANY. Per •ens wishing to secure themselves from losses by fire, will do well to call upon him at the store of J. &. Muffly A Co., N. E. corner of the Diamond, fiiree doors above Allegheny strceb Bellefonte, Oratre eo , Pa. Mar * 15 ' ' 60 * lv * W. WHITE, DENTIST, has per v manently located in Boalsbnrg, Centre County Pa. Office on main st., next door to the •tore of Johnston A Keller, where he purposes practising his profession in the most scientific Banner and attnolerate charges. ma' . A" O. FUR ST, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, • BELLEFONTE, PA., will attend promptly to all business entrusted to his care. Office on Horthwest corner of the Diamond. Will practice in the several Courts of Centrg end Clinton counties. Jan. 24,'61 -tf. n MiTrqgr.r. CYRUS T. ALBXANDE MITCHELL & ALEXANDER. ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, BELLEFONTE PFNNA. Baving associated themselves in the practice tf law, will a>ten I promptly to all business en- Wupted to their care OSoe in the *—".de. [No~f 1, '6O. —tf. CONVEYANCING! DEEDS BONDS, MORTGAGES, AND AR TICLES OF AGREEMENT neatly and cor lectly exeoated. Also, attention will be given to fee adjustment of Book Accounts, and accounts t Adminstratior s and Executors prepared for filing, efice next door to the Post Office. Oct., 19th, '6B, WM. J. KEALSH. JOHN H. STOVER Jk TTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW jF\_ BELLEFONTE, PA., will practice his pro fession in the several courts of Centre county. — All business entrusted to him will be carefully at tended to. Collections made and all monies promptly remitted. Office, on High st. formerly epeuped by Judge Bumside, and D. C. Boat, Esq. wherehe can he consulted both in the English and fnthe german language. May 6,'58 —22 ly. •AT. MACMANUS. W. P. MACMANU J: & WM. P. IHACMANUS. A TTORNEY'S- AT-LAW, BELLEFONTE, PA., A Office in the rooms formerly occupied by Linn A Wilson, Allegheny street. Jas. Macman us has associated with W. P. Macmanus, Esq., in the practice of law. Professional business intrus •edt o their care will receive prompt attention. Whey will attehd the several Courts in the Coun ■fies of Centre, Clinton and Clearfield. Jane 21, '6O, tf. TJALE & HOY. ATTORNEYS-AT- Xi LAW, will attend pro nptly to all business entru stedto their care. Office in the building fermerly occupied by Hon, Jas. T. Hale. A CARD. Messrs. Hale A Hoy will attend to my business taring my absence in Congress, and will he as sisted by me in the trial of all causes entrustedto them. J. T. HALE. jans'lß6o CURTIN & BLANCHARD. A TTORNEY'B-AT-LAW, BELLEFONTE,PENNA The undersigned having associated them selves in the practise of Law, will faithfully at tend to all professional business entrusted to them in Centre, Clintion and Clearfield counties. All collections placed in their hands, will receive their promt attention. Office in Blanchard's new building on Allegheny street. Nov. 30 'SB CURTIN A BLANC HARD. nJtJTJKIJVG HOUSE OF WM. F.. REYNOLDS & CO. BELLEFONTE, CENTRE CO., PENN'A. Bills of Exchange and Notes discounted ; Collec tions made and Funds promptly remitted. Inter est paid on Special Deposits, Exchange on the Hasten cities constantly on hand and for sale. Deposits received. April 7 'SB WM. HARDJNG, FASHIONABLE BARBER AND HAIR DRESSER, BELLEFONTE, PA., Has opened a Barker Shop one door above the Frank lin House, where he can be found at all times. — Good Razors, keen and sharp, kept constantly on hand. Hair Dressing, Shampooning, Ac., atten ded to in the most workman like manner. He hopes by strict attention to business to rcfceive a liberal share of public patronage. The New Cabinet. The new Cabinet, appointed by President Lincoln and confirmed by the Senate, seems to give general satisfaction. The gentlemen composing it are all men of distinguished ability, undoubted patriotism, sterling integ rity, and well fitted for the respective posi tions to which they have been called. We subjoin brref sketches of the lives and public services of the President's assistants in the administration of public affairs, which will be read with more than ordinary interest at this time WH. H. SEWARD, SECRETARY OF STATE. Mr. Seward was born in Orange county, in thß State of New York, on the 16th of May, 1301. He was educated at Union Col lege, in that State, and took the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1820, and ol Master ot Arts in 1824. At the age of twenty-one he established himself at Auburn in the profes sion of the law, and saon acquired a lucra tive and expending practice. Early in his public and professional life he trayeled in the Southern slave States, and is supposed to have formed at that time the opinions and principles hostile to slavery to which he has since given expression. To a greater degree than is known of any other American states man—Mr. Sumner, perhaps, excepted—the object of his life seems to have been to coun teract the extension of slavery. Upon other questions Mr. Seward's policy may be de scribed as humanitarian. He is in favor of the education of the people, of the ameliora tion of the laws and of the development of the material resources of the United States. In these respects he has ever been among the foremost of American Statesmen, and may justly claim the praise bestowed upon him by his friends, and scarcely denied by his opponents, of being "the beßt and clearest head in America." In 1830 he had acquired such influence and character that he was elected a member of the Senate of the State of New York, then the highest judiciai tri bunal of the State, as well as a legislative body. In 1834, at the close of his term of four years, he was nominated a candidate for the Governorship of the State of New York, in opposition to Mr. William L. Mar cy, the then Governor, and, later, the distin guished Secretary of State of the United States. On this occasion Mr. Seward was defeated by a majority of 10,000. In 1839, his party becoming bolder and stror ger, he was triumphantly elected, in opposition to Mr. Marcy, the majority being greater than his previous minority. Without having pas Bed through the lower stratum of the House of Representatives, he was in 1849 elected to the Senate of the United States for six years. He gave so much satisfaction that he was re-elected. B. F. CHASE, SECRETARY OF TREASURY, Salmon Portland Chase was born at Cor nish, N. 11., on the opposite bank of the Con necticut river from Windsor, Vt., in the year 1808. When nine years of age his father died, and three years after this bereavement, in 1820, youDg Chase was found at the Sem inary in Wortbingtoß, Ohio, then conducted by the venerable Bishop Pilander Chase, his UDcle. Here he remained until Bishop Chase accej ted the presidency of Cincinnati Col lege, entering which, our student soon be came a chief among his peers. After a years residence at Cincinnati, he returned to bis maternal home in New Hampshire, and shortly after resumed his studies in Dart nfoutii College, Hanover, where he graduated in 1826. lie shortlv after commenced the study of law in the city of Washington, un der the guidance of the celebrated William Wirt, then Attorney General of the United States. He sustained himself during the years of his professional studies by impart ing instruction to a select school for boys, composed in part of the sons of the most dis tinguished men of the nation. He was ad mitted to the bar at Washington in 1829, entered upon the practice of bis profession, in which he soon rose to eminence, and in which he waß distinguished for industry and patient investigation. Ho was subsequently elected a member of the United States Sen ate, and upon the expiration of his Senatori al term, he was put in nomination for Gov ernor of Ohio, and elected. He was again put in nomination for Governor, and was again elected to that position. SIMON CAMERON, SECRETARY OF WAR. Gen, Simon Cameron was born in Lancas ter county, Pennsylvania. Reverses and misfortunes in his father's family cast him very early in life on the world to shape and carve out his own fortune. After having re moved to Sunbury, in Northumberland coun ty, his father died, while Simon was yet a boy. In 1817 he came to Harrisburg and bound himself as an apprentice to the prin ting business to James Psacock, who ie still a resident of Harrisburg, and one of its most worthy and respected citizens. During this time he won the regard and esteem ef Mr. Peacock and all his fellow workmen by his correct deportment, his industry, intelli gence, and faithfulness. His days were de voted to labor and his nights to study. Hav ing completed his app-eniicoship, he went to Washington city, and was employed as a ["WE STAND UPON THE IMMUTABLE PRINCIPLES OF JUSTICE---NO EARTHLY POWER SHALL DRIVE US FROM OUR POSITION. BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, MAR. 21, 1861. journeyman printer. In 1824, though scarce ly of competent age, he had attained such a posicion and influence that his party —then in the ascendency in the Congressional dis trict—proposed to nominate him for Cong ress, an honor which he promptly declined as interfering with the enterprise in which be was then engaged. lie was appointed Adjutant General of the State in 1828, an office which he filled creditably and accepta blv during GOT. Sbultz's term and in 1831, unsolicited, he was appointed by General Jackson as a visitor to West Point, a compli ment, at that time tendered only to the most prominent oitizens. To no single man with in her borders is Pennsylvania more indebt ed for her great system of public improve ment and public instruction. Nor did he hesitate to invest his own means, when pros perity and fortune dawned upon him, in en terprises of great public importance. In 1834 he originated and carried to successful completion the Ilarrisburg, Mount Joy and Lancaster Railroad, surmounting difficulties and prejudices which would have appalled and paralyzed a man of ordinary energy and determination. In 1838 he was nominated for Congress, but declined. lie was enga° ged in public enterprises from which he would not permit himself to be drawn aside by any consideration of office or pergonal el evation. In 1851 he was mainly instrumen tal in the formation of the Susquehanna Railroad Company, now consolidated with the Northern Central Railway, by which the upper valleys of the Susquehanna are con nected with the capital of the State. There was still another link wanting to form a di rect and continuous railroad to New York city, the great commercial metropolis of the Union, General Cameron's practical mind soon suggegted the mode and manner of sup plying this want; and the Lebanon Valley Railroad Company was organized, and that road built, and now consolidated with the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, In J832 General Cameron was elected cashier of the Middletown Bank—a position which he held for twenty-seven consecutive years. So that about the vear 1854, he was at the same time president of the Lebanon Valhey Railroad Company, president of the Commonwealth ltiEurance Company, and cashier of the Mid dletown Bank, besides being director and manager in several other institutions, and having a large private business of his own to manage and superintend. Yet, notwith standing the vast labor and responsibility of these positions, he performed the duties of them all satisfactorily and successfully. MONTGOMERY BLAIR, IOSTMASTER GENERAL. The State of Maryland will be represented in the L'ncoln Cabinet by Judge Montgom ery Blair, wLo resided at Montgomery Cas tle, Dear Silver Spring, Montgomery county, Md. Judge Biair is the son of Francis P. Blair, well knowD in General Jacksons time. He graduated at West Point, went to the State of Missouri, practiced law in St. Louis, was made Judge, and was appointed by Pies ident P.erce one of the Judges of the Court of Claims, from which place he was removed bj President Buchanan. Judge Blair is now in the prime of life and mental vigor, and there is no man south of Pennsylvania who is more devoted to Republicanism, or who is more popular among the radical Republi cans all over the north and west. lie is son in-law of the late Hon. Levi Woodbury, of New Hampshire, and brother of Frank P. Blair, Jr., Congressman elect from the St. Louis district. C. B. SMITH, SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR. * Mr. Smith is well known in Indiana, and is reputed to be possessed of a vigorous in telect, and coreiderable administrative tact and ability. lie has been in Congress, and was Commissioner on Mexican claims. In regard to his political faith, it is not certain that he baa made any decisive declaration, but it is very generally presumed that he is a moderate Republican.' GIDEON WELLS, SECRETARY OF THE NAVY. Mr. Gideon Wells, of Connecticut, is the Northern Postmaster-General. Mr. Wells has been for upwards of thirty yearn a lead ing politician in Connecticut, and for much of that time has been connected, directly and indirectly, with the public press, wielding a partizan pen, and always exhibiting eviden ces of unquestionable hostility to his oppo nents, in the advocacy of his opinions, polit ical or otherwise* He for some time held the office of postmaster of Hartford, under Mr. Van Buren's administration, ana left the of fice soon after the election of Mr. Harrison, in 1840. During a part of Mr. Polk's ad ministration he occupied an important posi tion in the Navy Department. Like many other prominent Northern Democrats, Mr. Wells disagreed with his party on the sub ject of the repeal of the Missouri Compro mise, which breach was still further increas ed by the Kansas policy of the Pierce and Buchanan Administrations. The Territori al question being the chief one at issue, he became identified with the Republican party soon after its organization, and has si"ce been one of its leaders, taking a prominent part in its Conventions, State and National. He was a delegate from the State at large to | the Chicago Convention, and constituted one 1 of the Committee to Springfield with the of- ficial notice of Mr. L'ncoln's nomination. — He was also one cf the Presidenteal electors. Nor was his visit to Springfield the first time he had met that distinguished gentleman.— While io Hartford, a year or moresinoe, they formed a somewhat intimate acquaintance, which resulted in the warmest mutual friend ship and confidence ; so that Mr. Lincoln has, in the selection, no doubt acted as much upon his personal knowledge and estimation of the man as upon any solicitation of prom inent New England Republicans. EDWARD BATES, ATTORNEY GENERAL. Edward Bates was born on the 4th of Sep tember, 1793, on the banks of the James riv er, in the county of Goochland, Virginia, about thirty miles above Richmond. Ha was the seventh son and youngest child of a fam ily of twelve children, all of whom lived to a mature age, of Thomas Bates and Caroline M, Woodson. Both of his parents were de scendants of the plain old Quaker families which had lived lor some generations in the lower counties of the pininsula between James and York rivers. They were married in the Quaker meeting,according to the forms of that simple and virtues people, in the year 1771; but in 1781 the father lost his mem bership in the Society of Friends by bearing arms at the siege of Yurktown—a volunteer private soldier under General Lafayette. In 1805, Thomas F., the father, died, leaving a very small estate and a large family. Left at an early age an orphan, and poor, the son was fortunate in what was better than a pa trimony, a heart and a will to labor diligent ly for promotion. Besides, several of his brothers were industrious and prosperous mon, and treated the helpless with generous afiection. One of them Fleming Bates, of Northumberland, Virginia, took him into his family as a son, and did a father's part to him. He had not the benefit of a collegiate education, being prevented by an accident— J the breaking of a leg—which stopped him in the middle of his course of study, and confin ed him at home for nearly two years. In childhood he was taught by the father, and afterwards had the benefit of two years' in structions of bis kinsiran, Benjamin Bates, of Hanover, Virginia, most excellent man, who, dying, left behind him none more vir tuous and few more intelligent. In 1812, having renounced service in the Navy, and with no plan of life settled, his brother Fred crick (who was Secretary of the Territory of ' Missouri from 1807 to 1820, when the State was formed, by successive appointments un der Jefferson, Madison and Monroe, and was second Governor of the State, invited him to come out to St. Louis, and follow the law, offering to see him safely through his course of study. He accepted the invitation and was to have started in the Spring of 1813, but an unlooked for event detained him for a year. Being in his native county of Gooch land, a sudden call for volunteers to march to Norfolk, to repel an apprehended attack by the British fleet, and he joined a company in February, marched to Norfolk, and served till October of that year, as private, corporal and sergeant successively. The next spring he set out for St. Lcuis, and crossed the Mis sissippi for the first time on the 29th of April, 1814. Here he studied very diligently in the office of Rufus Easton, a Connecticut man, a good lawyer, regularly educated at Litch field, and once a delegate in Congress from Missouri Territory. lie came to the bar in the winter of 181G 17, and practiced with fair success as a beginner, in 1853 he was elected judge of the Land Court of St. Louis county, and after serving in the office about three years he resigned, and returned again to the practice of the law- He acted as Presi dent of the River and Harbor Improvement Convention which set at Chicago, and in 1852 acted as President of the Whig National Con vention which met at Baltimore. In 1850 he was appointed by President Fillmore, and confirmed by the Senate Secretary of War, but declined the appointment for personal and domestic reasons. Mr. Bates was com plimented with the honorary degree of LL D, in 1858, by Harvard College. Some years before he had been honored with the game degree by Shurtleff College, Illinois. Old Newspapers." Many people take newspapers, but few preserve them. The most interesting read ing imaginable, is a file of eld newspapers. It brings up the very age, with all its genius, and its spirit, more than the most labored description of the historian. Who can take a paper, dated a half century ago, without the thought that almost every name there printed, is now cut upon a tombstone, at the bead of an epitaph ? The doctor, (quack or regular,) that there advertised his medicines, and their cures, has followed the sable train of his patients —the merchant, his ships— could get no security on his life ; and the ac tor, who could make others laugh or weep, r can now only furnish a skull for his succes sor in Hamlet. It is easy to preserve news- i papers, and they repay the trouble ; for, like that of wine, their value increases with their - age, and old files have sometimes been sold - at prices too startling to mention. I ABRAHAM LINCOLN, born in Kentucky, Feb. . 12, 1809—little or no schooling—farmer's , boy, flat-boatman, storekeeper, surveyor lawyer—and Whig Member of the Illinois ' Legislature and of Congress—is too well ' known to require any persoral introduction, T HANNIBAL HAMLIN, born in Maine, Aug. 27, 1809—printer, lawyer, and farmer —was 4 years in the State Legislature, once Gov -1 emor, twice elected Member, aud twice a ■ . Senator in Congress— also needs only Ibis • > allusion to bis history. LOYE AND PRIDE : OR, THE WHITE DOMINO. BY MAUD IRYING. " Are you going to the masquerade to morrow eyening?" inquired Bell Ilarriss of May Winters, as the two young girls sat by the open window of the boudoir of the lat ter. "I do not know. I hardly like the idea of cove'ring my face with a mask, and envel oping my figure in anything but graceful fig. ure of a domino, subjecting myself to the or deal of dancing or conversing with ODe whose features are hid from view—perhaps a per fect stranger," replied May. "Ob, you must attend; Mrs. Gtayhas decorated her parlors elegantly for the occa sion, and is determined that this shall be one of the most brilliant affairs ever given in this quiet little village. A number of guests from the city are invited, among them a young gentleman lately returned from Europe, a Mr. Manley, and you must not fail to be present, I think a masquerade is charming ; the mystery that seems to hover around the partner of the dance is s.o romantic. So ear nest was Bell, that she did not notice how May started, and suddenly turned pale as she mentioned the name of Mr, Manley—it was well she did not, and May's voice was slightly tremulous as she replied. , " It may be charming to one unaocustom ed to such affairs, but jou must remember, dear Bell, that the winter I spent in Wash ington led me to become disgusted with all these frivolities of fashionable life, and it was to escape from them that I came to pass a year at this secluded village, hoping to find here the quiet and rest I sought ; but it soems the gaieties.l would have eluded, have fol lowed me to this spot. Besides, I fear my guardian would be displeased if I were to at tend sueh a gathering ; be is very particular, and eoDsiders masquerades rather too pro miscuous a gathering for me to attend." "Oh, he won't know it, unless you tell him ; and if he does ho won't care, just this once, and Mrs. Gray is so anxious to be honored by the attendance of Miss Winters, the heiress and Washington belle, that it would be a shame to disappoint her. Now do promise mo tbat you will go," aDd the im pulsive girl threw her arms around the neck of May Winters, and imprinted a kiss upon her fair brow. " I cannot promise, but if I conclude to at tend, you will know me, dear Bell, for 1 shall wear a white domino and mask." " What a strange girl you are, May ; who ever heard of such a thing as wearing a white domino. It seems to me as if you tride to be as unlke other people as possible, I shall hide myself beneath a mask and domino of brilliant scarlet; but it is nearly twilight, and I must hasten home," with a kiss and fond embrace the young girls parted. After the departure of Bell, May sat for a long time wrapt in dreamy meditation, at length she said : "Guests from the city, and Howard among the number iDvited, he may attend ; yes I will go, and the meeting I have long wished for, may at last take place. I would if I could, forever, baDish bis image from my heart, for it may be he has learned to despise me ; and it is no mors than I deserve," with these words she left the apartment, and de scended to the parlor below. A few words relative to the past life of May Winters may not, at this time, he con sidered out of place. Years ago, when May was a little girl and her parents lived in luxury and elegance in the gay metropolis, her father took to his home a poor orphan boy, Howard MaDley, and educated him as his own son. Howard and May soon learned to love one another as brott er and sister, and were aK most continually together; but when May reached tier fifteenth year she was sent away from home, to a distant boarding-school, here she was taught all the hollow sophistry of the world, and ere two years had passed away, she was suddenly summoned home to attend the funeral of her father and mother, who bad fallen victims to an epidemic that, at that time, raged in the city. When May an d Howard met after a sepc ration of nearly two years, both were chang ed —the youth of nineteen bad grown to be a handsome, well developed man ; but he re tained all the good qualities of his youth, and May, the artless child of fifteen, was now the proud and overbearing coquette of seven teen. An uncle was appointed the guardian of May, and for two years she lived a secluded life in hiß elegant dwelling. He was a wid ower, and childless. During these years of seclusion, Howard had been absent on a Eu ropean tour, but returned in time to attend the grand reception at the residence of Mr. Winters, on the evening May was ushered into society. Ho soon realized that the beautiful Miss Winters was little like the simple, trusting May of former days, still he loved her— not with the brotherly affection of hiß youth, but with a deep, a true devotion. May was not slow to discover bis secret, for he told his love in his every look and acs tion, and she spurned bim from her. How could she, the high-born, flattered child of wealth be expected to ensourage the atten tions of one who owed bis present position to the bounty of her father. But Howard Man ley was the possessor of a superior mind, and he sought not to thrust his attentions upon one who deemed him unworthy ef her no tice. He left her side, and sought in foreign lands to forget that he ever loyed one so un worthy of his slightest thought. May Winters was by no means heartless —she was the possessor of a warm and trust ing heart—but Pride, that cruel monster, governed her in every action. Ecr heart was his I but she dared not confess the fact, even to herself; and, for along time endeav ored to convince herself that she felt no in terest in Howard, but all in vain Deeper and deeper May Winter plunged into the whirlpool of fashionable dissipation, seeking to crush out from her heart the love she felt for Howard. In every gay, festive scene May Winter was the most brilliant of all. The admired and oourted ball-room belle, a circle of brainless fops, fortune hun ters, and dashing libertines ever surrounded her, and filled her ears with silly compli ments and disgHSting flattery ; tut was she happy ? No, no*! May Winter was not hap py. She felt the inferiority of those who surrounded her ; she was disgusted with the hollowness and frivolity of the fashionable world, and longed to be free from the chains society bound around her, she longed fur the love of one she deemed.forevcr lost to her. At length she determineu'to leave those scenes of gaity, and seek rest and retirement in some quiet village. Hence we find her at the little village of T , on the noble Hudson. After mature deliberation, May concluded to attend the masquerade. She hoped to meet Howard there ; she longed to convince him, by her altered conduct, that Bhe de spised him not; that she regretted the folly of her past conduct; aDd to win back the love she had once so cruelly spurned from her. Never did May Winters look more be witching than on the evening of the mas querade, as she stood before her mirror, at tired in full evenihg dßfetume- A blush colored satin enveloped hpr graceful figure, over which floated a beautiful white laoe over-dress, looped up at the side with bunches of pale pink rose buds; a clus. ter of the same dropped from her bosom, and a few were tastefully arranged amid the braids of her bair. She wore no jewels, save a diamond ring upon the middle finger of her right hand. Taking c ,her domino, which Was thrown over the back of a ghair, she en tirely tpncealed her dress beneath its ample folds of rich white satin—a mask of the same material she tied over fcer face, concealing it entirely from view, and when the hood at tached to the domiDo was properly adjusted, her most intimate friends would have failed" to recognize her. When she arrived at the residence of Mrs. Gray, the parlors were already well filled- During the early part of the evening, as she moved with grace among the dancers, many eyes followed her, wondering who she was, but no one, save Bell Harris knew. After dancing until she became wearied and heated, she sought the conservatory, and seating herself upon a rustic bench, she watched the dancers through the glass doors that seperated the two rooms. She leaned forward for a moment to catch a glimpse of a form she thought she recognized, and do ing so she dropped her kerchief, which was immediately picked up by a gentleman in red mask and black domino. •' Lady, pardon me, but you dropped your kercliief," be said, handing it to her with a low arid graceful inclination of his head. She started, and with trembling voice murmured her thanks. She recognized the voice of the speaker—it was Howard. lie seemed not inclined to leave the spot, and continued— " In an assemblage of this kind, where one is unable to distinguish friend from stranger I beleive it is customary to address whoso ever we please, independent of the formality of introduction." " I beleive that ie the privilege of the gen tlemen, but I attend masquerades seldom, and am but little versed in the rules. I dis.- like such gatherings very much." *' So do I, and was Induced to attend this evening, by the earnest solicitations of a friend, but a lew moments since I stood watching the dancers, aßd I thought you seemed to enjoy the scene amaz.ngly." "You should never judge by appearanees —they often deceive. I did not enjoy the dance this evening. I dislike the frivolities that are attendant upon fashionable life. I came to this quiet village a few monthß since to esoape from society; to seek that quiet and rest, that I could not obtain in the city ; to-night is the first time for many months that I have mingled in a scene of this kind." " Indeed 1 but pardon me, your voice re minds me of one that was once dear to me, may I inquire yonr name ?" " Howard," and she tore the mask from her face, and turned her eyes, filled with taars pleadingly upon him, he comprehended all—at a glance—and said, in a gentle, al most loving tone, ' May, dear May, yon seem now like the May of long ago," and he folded her unresis ting form to his beating'heart. A long time they remained tegotber oonversicg of the EDITORS & PROPRIETORS. NUMBER 11 past, and—yes, gentle reader—of the j May confessed her folly, and also told him how truly she loved him. That night May Winters returned to her home a happy woman. She bad confessed her felly and had been forgiven; she had promised to become the wife of him she lov ed. A few weeks glided swiftly by, and How ard and May were married. In yonder stately mansion they now lire, surrounded by elegance and 90mfort tbat lcve and wealth can furnish. Maidens, beware bow you let prido over rule the dictates of your heart, or you may fill your life-sky with clouds, where sun beams might otherwise play. 'Give us this day our daily bread.' In a miserable cottage at the bottom of n hill, two children hovered over a smoulder ing fire. A tempest raged without—a fear ful tempest—against which man and beast were alike powerless. A poor old miser, much poorer than these shivering children, though he had heaps of money at home, drew his ragged cloak about him as be crouched down at the threshold of the miserable door- lie dare not enter for fear they would ask pay for shelter, and he could not move for the storm. "I am hungry, Nettie." "So am I. I've hunted for a potato pa ring and can't find any." "What an awful storm." "Yes, the pld/tree has blown down. I guess that God took cars that it did'nt fall on the house. See, it would certainly have killed us." "If He could do that, could'nt He us bread ?" "I guess so. Let's pray 'Our Father,' and when we come to that part etop till we get some bread." So they began, and crouching and shivering, listened. When they paused, expecting in their childish faith to see some miraculous manifestation, a human feeling stole in|o his heart; God sent some angel to He had bought a loaf at the vil lage, thinking it would lagt him a great many days, but the silence of the two little children spoke louder to him than the voice of many waters. He opened the door softly, threw in the loaf, and then listened to the wild, eager cry of delight that came from the half famished little ones. "It dropped right from heaven, did'nt it?" questioned the younger. "Yes. I me