ME DOLLAR PER ANNUM, INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. TOAVANDA : (TnnroAan morning. /cbrmtrg Iff. 1837. .Stltttcb sodtn. FIRST LOVE. 8T LOHP BYRON. Tis sweet to Dear Yt midnight, o'er the blue nd inooulit deep The shrift and oar of Adria's gondolier, Ry distance mellowed, o'er the water- sweep ; Tin sweet to see the evening star appear ; Tis sweet to listen, as the night winds creep From leaf to leaf: ti- sweet to view on high The rainbow, bused on ocean, span the sky. Ti* sweet to hear the watch-dog's honest bark Bay deep-mouthed welcome as we draw near home ; "Ti* sweet to know there isaD eye will mark Our coming, and look brighter when we come. *Ti- sweet to (*■ awakened by the lark. Or lulled with falling water* i sweet the hum ,>;■ the voice of girls, the song of bird*. The lisp of children and their earliest word*. li, t sweeter far than this, than the*e. than all, I- tir-t and passionate love ; it stands aJont, I se Adam's recollection of hi* fall! 511 (t ft b Calf. iMMtm OR. THE I.VDY THAT LOST IN PARIS. CHAITEB. f. \ ->t long since, there lived i the Rue Riehe ! . it Miind one of those lofty gateways which - s.rate the highly decorated shops of this tho ro in I if.i re, one Monsieur Perrin. Monsieur Perrin occupied one of those sump ' us entresols in which the footstep is never i- rd ; where Severes china. va.t mirrors, • vks and brouzes stand dangerously uear the visitor's elbow, and where or-uio!u vies in mag t .licence with Imhl and marqueterie. Imtue •lately behind the door that opened upon the en oral stair*-a se of the vast hotel of which 'i; s entresol formed part was a smail room, de voted to Monsieur Perriu's business. Here were no ornaments whatever ; a small bronze < lamp, capped with a dingy green shade, be the only article a|>on the mantelpiece.— Ti.ree or four cane chairs wore against tiie ire walls ; one corner of the rem was par t turned off by a high wooden serve*. Whind f he rails of which green curtains were drawn to vvii the mysteries which young Monsieur A . phe Beauvoir conducted oa behalf of his •. : oloyer. Adolphe was the son of a wealthv Norman tanniy. lis father—once a millionaire of i'-ance—had been a good friend to Monsieur I'errin at critical seasons ; and in fact, had on more than one occasion saved him from bai.k npt.-y. But, at last, troubles came to Mou - ;ir Beauvoir himself : and he was ruined in railway mania. He fled to Algeria, where he died, the proprietor of a smali cafe in Coo stantine. Adolphe. when his father fled, was ft to the care of Monsieur Perrin : who after ( iv.iur given him a slight education, turned i t > account in his office. At first Adolphe was little letter than an I my, and spent more than half of everv '..iy running to and from the Bourse. All his ■ y av-ociations were with the Bourse, there ami with Bourse men. He had passed - youth in the mid-t of the gamblers w ho fed 1 ••. the industry of the poor ; njn the hon • - .live-tnients of the suiaii capitalists He i -een Joieus of companies formed under v . - lid auspices ; advertised upon w hole pages i riv inorning journals, sent tip to extraordi ®iry premiums, to fall to annihilating discount, lit had seen men whom he bad met one day •i'ry attire, tricked out on the morrow by I'.viat<\v. aid dangliug one of Verdier's mai •- He had, on the other hand, watched -•••g men of fortune slide from the eminence i Stanhope drawn by a pair of blood-bars j - c-ah of 22 sou* the course. He had ' - ;vi-t pale-faced men looking desperate- ' - :r, ; and on the morrow he heard that \ >n the Morgue. He had watched i " v ' :ci women weejung in the by -street* ; >: had otisers dart furtively from the ! o: their ageut-du-change with a roll of vv '' Pitched in their greedy fingers. To him. : H urse was the world. He grew up to j 1 x ' a'.ooe as the arena where a man might 1 a - way to wealth. Like the people with he •* i< iu dally contact, he evt-u Jo?pis- j "•a? oen whotn he saw doing work for low j Why starve at a counter when a lucky ra cht my day ruake a boid pauper a 1 "i re * lie had heard that his father •si broken-hearted man. serving oat demi • lazy Arabs ; bnt, all his father's old i . ' told him that Monsieur Beanvoir ; a;.- in the excitemeut of tlie railway j 4 *ad absurdly. (>ne old oiau— * -a M -iweur I'emn seut him very often iters. ru " T there wa? a grea* riseia the Rentes. ...id three or four fellows who had * r">m ten to twenty thousand francs gixe notice to Monsieur Perrin that • i leave him within a month. He wuuid * '-" on his own a->connt ; for he saw how "* iee! *orkcd within the other in that machine, the Besides raak - : "cen thousand francs a month, he would • own n ,. of the old man who had told him so 4%>j; bs father's affairs just to a*k his "" giving Monsieur Perrin notice JO. Has from fcoiwe. *IH! four or fire THE BRADFORD REPORTER. gentlemen were sitting in liis bureau, writing in solemn silence. When Adolphe asked the clerk when he expected his employer back, a sneering laugh appeared upon the face of one of the gentleman who were waiting. Adolphe thought that the sneerer was an unhappy specu lator, who, having come to ask for time, did not believe that the old gentleman was out, and wa§ waiting doggedly to waylay him.— So he went away, saying he would" call to-mor row. Dreaming of his plans, Adolphe wandered off in the afternoon to the Bois de Boulogne. At that tune there was no Avenue l'lmpera tice ; there was no green turf for grateful feet in summer time. Pedestrians wandered with out plan along the straggling walks, under the dense foliage, or through tangled underwood, Adolphe sauntered into the loneliest part of the wo for Julie, she was a bttlc bird that the first frost would kill. Adolphe obeyed. Julie buried her red eyelids in her pillow, and Monsieur I'errin went to his cafe to learn how the old man stood, and who would be the principal sufferers by the affair.— Adolphe t >ok counsel of him-elf as he passed the Boulevards. He would remain with his ! employer, and he went to bed with this res> j lution. j He was at his duties early on the morrow ; ' 1 for. of late, he had somevruat neglected his master's books. His dreams of sudden wealth • had disturbed him ; but now that these had vanished, he had resolved to make up for lost time. It was not more than seven o'clock , when he took his seat at his desk : the quar ts after this hour hail not struck, w hen a gen tle tap against the screen behind which he worked, roused him from a very perplexing rreat and evident effort to speak boldly to him ! Adolphe was astonished and dumb The blood stood in two patches upon her youniM cheeks, as she spoke rapidly to hirn in a low | whisper " Vou were about to leave us. I know it ; j to lead the life of your father—of my father— of the poor gentleman who destreved himself yesterday. It is very boid of a cirl like me to advise a man like you : but let me pray of i yon—let me implore you—to be content here : and if you can. after a year or two, to give yourself a nobler ambition than that of be coming a successful gambler on the Bou-*e I have a father who hardly reuieml>er* mv ex istence, and a mother who despises me when 1 pity the sorrows of poor work people, or envy ! simple couutry folk. 1 believe that you. Adolphe, j have a nature too noble to succeed on the i Bourse. Remain where you are to piaa some houest course of life. I have got up early to ! speak to yon, and to m .ke you promise. I have not slept all night for thinkinz of the poor oid zentleman wLo killed himself yesterday. Pro- ' imse me." Adolphe promised heartily ; aud when the girl retreated bast ly from him. fuil of shame at her o* a boldness, the figures over which he had been poring only got into a denser taagle as he worked at them. First he counted his balance : then he went over toe items ; but ■ no. it was no use : he oiu-t put it off until another time Juiuaare e; eanes of arithmetic. Monsieur Perrin was a trifle sterner thau usual as he presently passed through the office on his journey to the Petite Bourse, before the Opera Arcade. He bade Adolphe get bis books in order as soon as possible Monsieur Perrin had hardly touched the corners of the Boulevards, when his wife also darted through the office, and turned down the street ia the direction of the Ribliotbeque Iraperiale. St .ii Adolphe could not work He had been in the habit of seeing Julie daily for years past ; and her presence had never disturbed bis calcula tions. But to-day that serious little face.with tears beading the eyelids of the teooer eyes, thrust itself before every ruie of three be vcu turued to adjo*t S) he went out to execute his morninc^n^mmissions, after having listened to his KttlewraseHor practising—he tlought less briskly than usual—her favorite pieces of music As be descended the stairs be met Madame Perrio entering the house, and wip ing her heated faee, as she gave money to a cab-driver. Madame is fond of speed, thought ArJoJphe. as he noticed small *pots of foam p --oo the flanks of the cab-horses. liove. in modern times. ha been the tailor's best friend Fiery <*px*r of the nineteenth . century m* • !i .-{tare ca s h nt • PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. O'MEARA GOODRICH. personal adornments. A fault less fit, a glis tening bat, tight gloves, and tighter boots, proclaim the eminent peril of his position.— Adolphe was hardly in love ; he was hardly upon the uttermost circle of the whirlpool Yet, had he closely examined the current of his thoughts, he would have found that thev were almost imperceptibly falling into the cir cles. The proof was thnt it suddenly occurred to him that his hat was shabby and that his gloves were soiled ; that he was tempted, in the Rue Yienne. to buy a very showy dressing gown ; that he ordered home some patent lea ther boots ; and, if further proof were want ing, that he bought a fresh stick of sire de mustache. Then he turned towards the Rue Richelieu with a lighter step than usual. He found Monsieur Perrin at home, and in the bureau. Glancing sternly at the young man's light gloves, he asked hiai coldly for the keys of the desk. Adolphe, accustomed to the serious moods of his patron, gave him the keys carelessly enough, as he excused himself for his inability to work at his books that day. Monsieur Perrin silently opened the desk, drew out the books, and began to examine them.— Adolphe thought the cool speculator wanted to see exactly the state in which he stood with the suicide of yesterday. The master threw off his hat as he went deeper into the figures : and then turned to Adolphe, telling him to go out into the Rue Trouchet, and there wait till Monsieur Birch—his client—came in. He was to be sure and see him. and tell him that if he chose to sell his dock shares lie might realize ten francs at their last quotation. Adolphe de parted on his errand, having been told to close the door geutlv behind him, as madarne was ill. He had no sooner departed than Monsieur Perrin hastily shut the little pate to the parti tion. behind which the desk was placed, and went again nervously to the examination. Ju lie entered the room timidly, to tell her father that her mother seemed to l>e very ill ; but Monsieur Perrin only bade her to leave him. He was engaged. A the affrighted girl clos ed the door, she started to hear a vollev of terrible oaths uttered in a shrieked whisper from Itehind the partition. What could be the matter ? " Scoundrel 1 thief !" muttered Monsieur Perrin. as he chinked the gold and ruffled the bank-paper in the desk. At !at he closed the desk with a dam : locked it ; buttoned the keys securely in his pocket, as if he feared they might be filched from him, and strode thr ugh the -a!>>on to ruadame's bed room. Julie watched him. and trembled She heard him talk in low. rapid sentences to her i mother. In a few moments the door was re opened, and Monsieur Perrin ap|>eared with his coat buttoned np to his chin. It is curious, but no Frenchman takes a strong resolution without buttoning his coat to its highest but ton-hole. "Go to your mother," said thebiokcr to his chiid. waving his hand impatieutiy, as he walk ed rapidly through the saloon. Julie went tA her mother's bed-room. To her astonishment -he heard that thev were both sroiug into the country that uiizht. Julie saw that her mother's eyes were red. Had she bceu crying ? No ; years had passed away since Ma dame Perrin had shed a tear Julie would have been delighted to feel one dripping from her upon her own cheek. " Pou't .-tand staring at mc child," .-aid the invalid. 1 Tell Madeiiue that we go to-night to Tours." Julie went, *ad and confused enough. -n her errand. She had to pass throuzh the bureau to reach the kitchen. As she was about to leave it there was a knock. She turned aside, and opened tfco door. It was Adolphe He rased his hat to his pretty counsellor of the morning. She wa< looking" vera* doleful. Poor girl, siie l.ad felt mot* than ordinary interest in him for many months. She had regarded him as the only b't of honest nature in the house ; and now the thought of being buried in her mother's country home, near Tour. was no pleasant prospect. Adolphe at once ques tioned her. and in reply, beard a plain descrip tion of ali that had jessed *inee he left. He heard, too, the news of Juiie's departure with vivid regret. A key put in the lock of the door disturl>ed tliem. Julie flew on her errand, and Adolphe seated himself at the desk, as M-wsieur Perrin entered, telling somebody be hind him to wait one minute without. On see- ' ioz Ad ' p e however, he stepped a pace or two back, and beckoned to his companion A sergeant-de-ville entered the bureau Monsieur Perria ponted out Adolphe. and. saying to the police officer " Do your duty." walked hastily iuto the sak>on, shutting the door firmly behind him , We pa* over the indignation of Adolphe Julie, who returned into the kitchen while Adolphe was expostulating with the officer, was caught by the arm by her father, who heard her voice ar. l her sobbing. The young man was soon on his way over the Pont Xoeuf to the Prefecture, pale and speechless with an ger He learned, w lien he bad tbreadt-d three or four of the large and gioomy passages of the *ombre Couciergerie, that Moosieur Perrin had charged him with robbery His books were in an unsatisfactory state, money— sum—was misring : and that which deepened suspiciou against him was that while he aloue had access to the desk where his master's mo ney was kept, he had only within the !a: few days had, au idea of leaving his employment Then he had bought a nuiui*r of things for personal adornment. Ado'.phe vehemently a~- serted hi? ir.nody at Adoiphe's desk : while hi- office coat still hung in the corner as of old Her father kissed her ou her forehead and her mother on both chevks. as they entered the saloon, and then begged them to leave bini. a- ne had bu siness with the -allow young man who was seat ed on the sofa. Julie's heart was iced : everything was hard and eold : the very air seemed to want, even on that July night a genial warmth It was odd to see that trie flowers in the window kept tueir biooui, evea for four and twenty hours. Madame Perrin went oat immediately to per her various vi-.ts. leaving Julie at home to fret. Poor girl ! tin? world looked sad enough to her as she went into the bureau, and indulg ed in the thoughts it brought to her mind.— But, how infinitely was this sadness deepened, when, on the following day. her father and mother tol l her that the sallow young gentle man she had seen on the day of arrival was destined to he her -husband ! He was rich : his family good : and all the preliminaries had been arranged. In Paris the custom for pa rents •; to choose basb&nds for their daughters; it is the custom for daughters to accept suit ors, without knowing tbem or earing for them Julie bad read of refractory children in various romances, but tu reai life she had seen oo'v obertieoce. She loved Adoiphe even in his convict clothes, and ia her soul believed htm innocent. Her mother, to whom she confided th belief one day. told her angrily never to express -a ha belief again, if site valued her love. Adoiphe had fairly tried and fair ly convicted ; and -he Lagged that Lis nant migut Dever more be mentioned iu her pre seucc. Therefore. how eould Juiie. in the presence of parents to whom money and family were the guiding stars of life ; whose eves were a e cold as winter moonlight when they fell apoe her wha-e words were rigid ami meant to be commands ; Low could she. timid as a biri, . venture to go in the face of custom and -at j -he w•.•old ' u.trr tie btisbaud of ■ i choice ; that she d< spised money purchased at the cost of every social virtue ; that she loved a convict ? She bowed her he3d and wept ; 1 and her hand was placed in that of a strange young man, who bowed low and kissed it for mally. She was thus betrothed, and went away to her room in mortal horror of the time when the cold lips that pressed her hand would claim the right to chill her cheek. The marriage once determined on, the pre liminaries were pressed forward with great vigor. Julie was in agony ; the sight of her i future husband disgusted her. She was told I that she was too young to know her own mind; j that she could learn to love him ; that many of her school companions, who had married the husbands of their parents' choice, had lived to acknowledge the parental sagacity. Site pass ed nearly all her time in her room : her fa ther, since Adolphe's conviction, had kept the ( keys of his bureau himself. and also attended to his own books. lie was certain, now, that 'he could not be swindled. But he told his wife, one evening, in Julie's presence, as he |>ored over his accounts, that he had been so long accustomed to a clerk that be had almost forgotten how to can up the simplest snm.— There was a wide margin between the snm he ought to have in hand, according to his books, and the sum he actually |ossessed. " Try again," replied Madame Perrin, calm ly. as laid out her embroidery over her liuee, to notice the effect of the pattern. "Try again, monsieur, it must l>e your mistake.'' Monsieur Perrin sat np very late that night, poring over figures, and twisting and recast ing them, in the hope of obtaining a satisfac tory result. Yet there was one or two thou t it to any person on the face of the earth again, since Adolphe had deceived him. " The young rascal, too. had sack an innocent look of his own." rein irked Monsieur Perrin, as he twirled the key around his fore-finger In three days Julie was to be married : in three days the sallow young gentleman was to be happy. Madame Perrin was very busy in deed, and ven serious. But that was natural in a mo'her who was about to loose her only child. She was continually out. thick ng of trifles for her daughter : and then, when she came in. she invariably went to her own room. Monsieur Perrin was also very busy. lu three days all this bustle would be over, and Mon sieur and Madame Perrin would be alone.— Madame could not sleep : at least, three nights before the marriage, even at one o'clock in the morning—when, standing in the vast court yard of the hotel, there was not a light to be -een in the long rows of windows that tower ed to a sixth story—through the dense red curtains of Madame Pcrrin's boudoir the close observer might have perceived the faint glow from her iarcp. rihe wa? still sitting up. The eye that would have peered through the red curtain? would have perceived the lady with three or four open letters before her. devouring their contents one after another : then rising, apparently to listen at the door ; then walk ing to and fro uneasily The monotony of all this, carried on as it was daring two or three hoars—till, indeed, the ea- r eru sky was paling before the coming sun, would have driven any outside observer away. Let us. however, watch emotions that leave the lines deep in the calm, wan face.— It wore even a ghastly palor when protruded between the curtains IU the bloe morning light Madame Perrin seeing the dawn, appeared to father energy, and set about the object she bad evidently held in view throughout her vi gil with firmness. From a drawer she took a kev stealthily and quietly. Then holding it to her bosom, as & treasure she feared to lie. sue crept to the door, gently opened it. with the candle in one baud, and glided across the saloon toward- the bureau ! In a roinnte he was before the open desk, and rolls of gold and notes lay before her There was no: a drop of blood in her face, and as her nimble finger- flew about the treasure they looked like the flcsbless hands of a skele ton. At every turn she glanced furtively around. Presently she begtn to count the money, and to select some of it. Uchappy woman I -be knew not that two eyes were g.ar ir.g npon her—were fixed with ferocity upon her hand-. Still she knew not that a- she moved from the desk and passed to the saloon door in the cold gloom, ky bands would be .aid upon her arm. and she would be asked to render up an account of her theft. Foolish woman ! how cleverly -he re-arranged the mo ney she left iu the desk. a site had arranged .t before—so that everything looked a- order ly as when she had first lifted the lid. Still, in the full confidence of old gui'tt successfully concealed. *he remained to fold up the abstrac ted note*. ar.-l to euchre them in a ietterwhich -he took from her pocket. And then ! Why then the eye* that had glared open her all along met hers ; the hands that iea beea clenched in an agoi.y of •up pressed rage feii upon bc-r shoulder ; and her husband bayed oat feis charge at her more like a mad dog than a man. She f-dl to the ground and moaned. while Monsieur Perrin, recover lag his self-possession as the word- fi-w through fc:s lips, poared out ail his wrath It was sbe who bad stolen bis money ; wno had dared to see Ado ? phe sent to prison : who had calmly s'ept wh.le the yooag a worked in felons niothes : who had talked trite m-wals over hi fall ; who "a-i ; 5 apwiy uamov-d and had N-roc •* aes- • g.r- ; * i x V: ' - - .c-a VOL. XVII. —NO. 37. bi nation of horrors grew to its close, Julie crept to her fainting mother's side, and sup ported her. When Monsieur Perriu could on ly jiace the room hurriedly, to find new epi thets to cast at the fulteu woman, Julie, her eyes brimming with tears, forgot even Adolphe in lier attention to a mother from whose lips she had rarely heard a tender word. The letter in which Madame I'errin had en closed the money, explained all. She had been gambling on the Bourse. She had won at times, and hod hoarded up her winnings. She grew miserly as the fascination of the game fastened itself upon her. and she learned to care for neither husband nor child. But iu an evil hour she lost all her winnings anil was in debt. Her agent, with whom she had sto len interviews, threatened to apply to her hus band for payment, unless his acconut was at once settled. She dared not raise money on her little property near Tours, lest the mar riage should come to the knowledge of her husband : there remained but oue resource— to rob him. A® the grey dawn grow into a brilliant mor ning Mo is'eur Per. in grew le-s and lens pas sionate. He spoke at longer intervals and in a calmer voiee than when he bozan his chap ter of reproaches. He paced the room less hurriedly. Still, now and then, as a new light broke in upon him and showed him another view of his family disgrace, he wonld burst out once more, and pour out a fresh volley of im precations Madame Perriu never spoke a single word. She left her hand < lasped in that of Julie : while poor Julie, pale as death, ti midly followed the movements of her father, without daring to interpose a syllable. At last Monsieur Perrin halted before the sofa, and assuming great authority. =aid to Madame: " Leave this by the firt train for Tours ; and there, madarne, have the goodness to draw np a full and accurate hi-tory of this affair.— I shall need it to effect the liberation of the young man you have ruined, together with your husband and your child. Julie may go with von." It was strange to see the hauzhty Madame Perr.n in the meekly obedient woman who now crawled across the a!oon and went to her room. Julie followed, having kissed her fa ther® forehead. In due time Adolphe was liberated. Mon sieur Perrin calmly went through the forms necessary to establish his wife's gnilt and Adolphe'® innocence. He sought an interview with the prisoner : but Adolphe declined to see him He remembered too well the stern face that had risen up against him in the court of justice. The yonng prisoner was liberated at length, and the day that ®aw nim out®:de the prison wall® a!®o saw him on his way to Havre. It i® supposed that he went to America : hut. to this hour he has never since been heard of.— All lie left behind him wa® a letter for Julie, which that sad srir! keeps warm in her bosom as she follows her mother from to room in the far <-ff retirement which Monsieur Per rin ha® ce*n®izned them, and which, poor man, he shares with thera. W- have here one of the many little trage dies that are played ont from day to day on the Place de !a Boor*-, to the terror of the bystanders, and to the profit of newspaper re porters. MILO GRVPOWNNL —The Boston Pott tells a pleasant anecdote of Mr. G , who, a good many years ago, was a retail merchant is a populous town in Vermont. lie was famous a- " the vpry pink of politeness," and was in deed an expert -ale-man. If he had not got the article that might happen to be called for, he was ure to name something that was suffi ciently like it to answer the purpose. Thus when a customer enquired for " winter-strain ed oil." the merchant told him he hadn't got that kind exactly—but he had =ome that was " strained rrrt latt :a tke fall F Disparage one article 3s y