II / clif S li. READ & H. H. rp4ziE4-:,r.piTons. ?oei's Lady Clara Vere de Sere.. BY AIL:FRED TENNYSON dara Core de, 'rent s. of me you shall not win-renown; You thought to break a country heart For..pastime, - cre you went to town. At me you smiled, but, unbeguiled, I saW.the snare, and I retired : the daughter of a hiandrediearls; • You are not one to be desired. 'l",ady Clam Vert! de Vere; , - •": I know you're proud to hear your name; :Your pride is yet no mate for-41413e Too proud to care from whence /came. ..Nor would I break, for your sweet sake, A heart that clottts on truer charms; , i'A simple maiden in her flower Is worth a hundrMlccrats-of-aiins. Lady clara:Vere de. Vere, mM weaker pupil yournu , t find, for, Were you queen of all that k I could not stoop to such a mind. You sOught to prove' how I could love,. And my disdain i= my reply; •'l"he Una on your old stone gates Is not more cold to you than L La.ly elaraTere de - Yore, • • You pct strange uteploriesin my heitil ; 'Not thrice your tiranchin. , lilies have blown; tc.irtre I beheld )oiing Laicreuce dead. • k•tynnr'sreet eyes! your love replies!' A great enchantress you mar be, • . ilia there Was that ECIOSS.,II2:I • you had hardly eared ttt sec. lade Clara Vert? de Cate, \Vile!' thus he met his mother's vieyr, She had the passions of her kind— i She ispoke some certain truths 'or you. Indeed I heard one hitter word Thalscatce is fit for you to hear; tierr manners had not that repose Th.it stamps the caste of 'yore de Veie 1 T.adr . (flora Vern de Vero, - There •Stittoli a specter in your ball; • , The Olt of blood is at your door, • • • Yuri changed a wholesome 'heart to gall You hrld your course withont. remorse, To make him trust his modest worth ; And ast, you fixed a vacant gate, • And slew him with your i 'noble birth. . •.: 'Trust ire, Clara Vere 41e '"ere, }role yon Woe heavens above ns bent,'. "The'grand old gardener and his wile ~ ' Smile at the claims of long-descent. .; Ilowe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tt only noble to be good; . : • find h. are more than earonetg, . . And simple Nth than N \ orman blood. ' .• . • I kno‘V you, ClaraVete. &Nor, Too pine among your hills and t0W.71.,: ; The languid light of Your proud eyes Is vi;earied of the rolling hours. In glowing health, svitli boundless. wealth; But sickening of a vapc .y nit knew st., ill to deal tiir,r;. nva,-t play welt prankz at , tilt se 1.234 Mara Ve re• de V.•re, if time Inc Envy on your, bands, Are tliere no - beggan :It your ' emit. ; Nor any, poor about yofirllalids 1' • teach the orpha.n hoy.;to Or teach orphan to sew ; 'Pray tiraven fur a 'human heart, Anil let the foolish yeoman pi. • 'it f ti , nn tier }Yen 1 ial 2 En ick•rLockr-ri WHAT JEDD PALLFREY FOUND IN THE COFFIN BY T. B. CHIMES OF MEMOIZA Mriinv Christmas' - ' • ! but it used to be. It used to_ be, be tore the . dreainv . prntd of boyhood .tnelted away: like a sifverv• mist.- Merry, 'merry Christiiiits, then I • The very words tinkled tnuSically. Lean hear them trembling..yet, eti inemorv,-like that faint jingling of sleigh- • bells Steal; uli, front - the'styeet and in through the sin tw-ni casement s; • It wa4•fine, , then, to loiter, in the 'crowded streets, 'gazing in the shop-windowthellt Dorado: of " fltney articles," 'the. Australian hinds of-lit - in - -bons and roil candyl . What stereotyped visions I had of kind St_ Nick, and his rein-deer equipage ()toile ',Ouse-top - , and his:iuge pack fdled with trumpets.lhat woUldn't blow weli, and carts that wouldn't go. I.e.ll4'and dear old Hans Christian Ander son's story books, whicknever failed,.4being Ari.Adies of delight, Then At hoitie, when the!apples and nuts were disposed of.. lnv grand sire, Gud love his Whiteltairsi would takel l on his knee, and read about'' Christ in the •Mang4," with sneh• quaint pronun_ clationl - • Touched with these memories,. and sitting once More, as it were., thehappy snnrise of lift Earn moved to write a Christmas story • fog ; Ida Mav-and little Carrie, and tinv-fin • -e= gered Mabel, who are sleeping in the next rOrn. I will. put it in .the most diminutive of tlni three mintie stoehingS—it is all the poor audrori ean give to the little drearily angels! And some •of these days, When this .wcary,pen is quits tired out, when there is nothing left( of Mkt but two or three volumes in some out-: ofhe-Way • .book-ea , e, their mother,..,sine Christnias eve, may-hap, will tall the darlings tolee time-worn, side, and read the time-wo, yellowed • • manuscript Jo them. And Ida Mace will listen thuughtfitlly,,with the low! ebon 'resting on her -Cheeks: and Carrie's roguish (Yes will laugh out-right, though the story is \a - isad: one, arid . Mabel will clap her little lan&:together like two white-rose leaves ! jAllEthis may be. • itit," before i :write,. I will steal -softly into tha.next room .and look at their young faces.. 00 ! but they arc newly from .Ileaven, tkeir tiny mouths are made up for prayer ! - An in fantile glory is only abrouded by the :drooping eyelids, and thesa sweet faces light up the shadowy room as the tulips do some shad) nook of the summer woods. I shall be better fur looking at them. I will .kneel thb licd-side-- 7 'perhaps I shall be weeping, fdr to-morroW night, when the iihildren dance. Mend- the Christmas -tree, a little toy, with. Wortilerful 'blue eyes, will not • be there! -and in . all the `presents firing - urn tire emerald fi't-atielres, in among the red and blue candles, there*ill be none tbuird for:" Charfie,!" And *heti we think of L.' the little boy who died,". oUr tins will goiter; thotigh latigkand jest go rand, and the music - be as gay - .--and t,be melody of Shelley's Queen Mali." THE ANCIENT ILUCDERTAKF.tt. Jedd Pallfrey turned down the g,lis glanced _nervously at the sombre tow ooffins eaeh side of Wm ; locked the shop deaf and stood in the -street., , was.o hrisOnas-eye, and : the sti9w, , f444;5, likv tiny -, ,vlLite; birds `from ' radisrr ecru . ._ . . • 7 ..........-- , .....--.......--_,_..............„.--- .... ._.-- . --.. -------- • . . - hillegagasisaggalatilftell - - . . . . . ...• . . , . -• ': :. . - ~.' : "'.... '. 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R(ORICGo' - ' -.-- . • • - --- _-:fl • .. .._ . ~: „• • ..,,, ....•..:,._,. • , . ,i. . • .. ... ~_ .. , lighting on the c h imney top s and "roofs, and in the long street's of the city. . • Every night at That same hpur, eightn'eloch, foe ten years, themaicrtakerhad turned down the gas, locked the door,,kmd platvd . thesante key . under 'the same nnu , end • stood in the sante position for a mo \ Ment by the window ' before turning into the `tiarrow zig-zag street .which, to 'hint, ended at his tippertable. i • But this time he was I not going home..-4. Tho, antique Mr: . Ilan'S Spuyten Duyvel, whose death his tuttiable relatives had been i• intp.stiently awtiting for the last quarter of ' a.centory, had died that dad ; and old Jedd had been sent for to pit the habiliments of the grave on Mr. Spuyten" Duivel,a bedy, ' and two bright half dollars on 44 eyes. The sotall change was- afterward Pfsnsterred to the pocket of-the ancient undo taker. • NoW old Pal llry had Made dinsever since his youthi _ and for thirty rars really had . more• intimacy With the. d ad than dealings with the . living. ; Therd was nothing in the whole_ world so beautiful to him as'a coffin..,_ inle's . it was a n order for one: lie had woOt: cd at his trade atlall Wars of the:night ; tic: laud Made littht Oft's !—O Such tonehinglit. tic coffins !—and it one S, and slim i,nes; and lt'y the ghastly iliekering .of a lamp at mid ' attlit, : lte had laid the cold White dead:in the varnished boxes Without feeling 4 one throb of sympathy' in that iron.bOund'hcart of his. • ' •• But that Christinas-eve he'shuddered as he turned down the the gas, and the long wood en tenements, with their cOvers•off, seemed like s:o many: satin-lined 'g ate-ways leading to perdition. Ile ftJlt as .if a thousand strong currents of •air. Were blowing him toward ";heat'! Ile B:Amid', hardly.. keep from stepping jato one; and it required all 1 , his strength to 'reach the dour and • lock it." Jedl, drew a long breath. , - • :. I - . ' - It's always so. L--every ! Christmas-eve:: • • i she doe's it !" - . i As . olt.l,ledd Pall freyunuttered this betwern Ins thin, bloodless, lips : 'he flattened and whit. cued his nose on the wjudow; glasS,'and look ed into the gloonty shop suspiciously.. He saw nOthitig at lir,t - but :the aecustnmed num ber.oleoffitis;.and the. velvet pall lidded on thec.amter, atul those - tivo slim black-stoots vt hick we all have .s . een in .911 r homes, God pity us '.. fiat as he looked, ;his dim almUnd -bliped eyes grew , uddenly to orbs. A strip of the ft it;trin had 6mi:item:ell swelling, and bulgitT, and Warping Little by little it _row Ito() the shaPe of a mound ; tiny emer ald :Toms of graSS . shot 'Out of it in every di- I ; then it Was dotted nfl over with yel loW.•evtql daisies, 'i ' ,and a 'rosebush, with a sin :l.le wilite.bud,'sprung tt'p from the centre.— .ledd Pantry's sight Leopmelsot acute thin he could see• the perfume (lithe rove floatina up .in beautiful soft tlddstilte the fames from •a cc:a.•r ! rild robbed his ;is Well he Inlithi W ho i 1 14 :„.. looked .again he -air the •••liarlow, thou the skeleton lof a tree ; then this miraculou,i form,' and 'a willow trailed ifs ; ;r(..01 l c ugi "ver the. mo nid. And be saw the rnoted. sun.liine 'failing .upon the place, and heard the ruhitis sing ing—smging in his SL.t.id looked and. .lOolaq t , but %Olen the grass and The dai,ies 'grew ti:etinilotts,- as ill:a sudden wind, and the grale begun to open, Jedd eould 10 , ,L no . hßiii!er, and he shut f;nt the strange sight by placing two lank, bony hands over hi; eyes. • - . • " Merry Chrih - ti - na,lSir!" said a besit.zifilg voice- :it his .:•'ido. i . Jedd started.: - • - I . . • *- Merry Chrit nia , ., Sir'.": repeated the voice dolefullv. I ' . , And then Jethi tallied his •cYcs on the speaker. It was a very shabbily dressed lad. Ile had on-a felt hat of no color whatever, a round-about jacket, :and a pair of. white duck trowsers,- . much too well ventilated for the season. Ills 'physique was as delicate as a girl's; and if -it had tiot been o dark, - Jcdtl could have seen'a face in which there was a strange MiXture Of the Madonna and the dev. expression of boyhood and manhood contending, and a sad expression written ill (O'er It.- • . ; 1 . . i But the snow .1%119 failing heavily; and he only f'a W a•very little fellow surniounted_ by a very shocking hat. . h" It you pleasc, Sir;" said the boy plead . . ingly.- , . - . . "Hump: - ' : : , . And Judd was about to bid. him go his i '., , *av, when it. strucL l iv de(K.l . Nat 'after what be had seen; not even ihe love of his charming 'eoffins•eoui d tcinp •him to turn on tfie . gas again in. his shop; and to leave it burning un til inorning was'a bit of extravagance not-to, be !bought of. It ;:ocurred.to hith to litre this promiscuous wisher of merry Christmases to sit in the shop till. be.should have retnined front Simyten•buyves;. then. he could:turn on the gas and turn off the boy at the same time. ' So he changed his bru4ur manner, and inquired, in a tone which was intended : to be extiemely conciliatory." • '" What's your name, hub?" . "he last one; ;Sir ?" asked hub, looking up. "The last one., kr?" repeated Jedd, mim icking the hid. 'qlow many - have you V' _ , . ' ." A good many, Sir.• In Nantucket they used to call nte dour Tommy ; and orphan Tom; and Tomtit. But on board • ship`the sailors allied me Israntnek..--and they called Nantuelt very Often, and made, hit work a good - deal." And the. hoY shirertld with cold, as the keen north wind swept around the corner with evident predatory design's on his 1 tattered . jacket.- . ...... . I.t.t-Nantuek ?" tid his interrogatorOnrtting up - his- pinched: wise - with disapprobation, its - . if the name filled ihis venerable-nostrils with Ia " very lute:fent and fishlike smell." . -- . • • "Weli r lointiti, II liket hat bait von -know,) I if you will keep Shop ftr me an' hour or so; I'll !Live you it'Shiling"• •. - . •." • '. • " I don't ktiow; how;.'rnuch a shilling _it," . said - Tomtit; aliati Natit nek, eagerly," but I'll do it, and: thankfttlly.'" ' • • • "Tho key is under . . the Ina... Unlock the ch or, and - touch 'anything; Don't jar those .litsTly •.eoffills ; they aright tali`.on-you and • kill you; you' know." ' Jedd never once looked towards - the shop: if :you see a. grave in the tniddle . Of the floor, yoti-mustn't - be frightened, yo 'know.- "I -ant not - .I" , And Judd shuddered. - -" I don't nee: any grave, said Tomtit, _throwiti„; open the door.. • •": ' • The..undertaker i- suinniotied till his courage -•. • • Intd4latteed room, the.inound with its daisiee;und the weeping irillowhid " ,strange,'' he war there" 'her s . 6 ,0* 1 .1 ". 18 ' Be 4. MONTROSE, THURSDAY,- - JANUARY- 8, 1857. "You won't steal anything, because there isn't anything to steal, you know." The buy . looked wearily around hint, and seemed to think that the temptation waßt't very strong,. . without as much as the cognizance of his be loved mother, Amphitrite, heph*d his name on the bunks of " the good - ship Marie Th eresa," and sailed out of port hts light heart, one suit of clothes, and a prospect 'of hard work, which is all the "rig nut": a •true or needs, Heaven bless him! But Torn was too delicately - made for a whaling voyage, and after wasting three years of the gulden part of his lik he found himself in our great city one night, money, sir friendis.or ti place to die in. 41e:wander ed from street to. street so ehartned with the mad wrangling of - sleigh-hells- 7 -4 new music to him—and so dazzled by theslipp-windows, that he forgot his hunger, and thd web of dif tieulties which Time and Fate, the busy mon-'.. : , tern! were wearing flu! hint, :But hunger • under such circumstances, likea rittie Wed note, tinly•spares fur a little while. It came I. back.to him with `interest, Isis hunger, and he grew disconsolate. ; 'The city, with all its strange newness,' was • liirgiitten in turn. The snow chilled hint, and the happy children buying toys in the grand shops,and the Merry sleighs starting through the street like swallows, gavoliim an acute sense of ItinelineSs. There were no mother : and sisters iii put gay prestint .his stock ings.. Indeed, it' there had been,;, they might have bonght the stocking-too, for never a one had Tom on those cold tittle feet! Tuna looked in Maillard's window at the rare pastry and confections, and. his hunger greet; ,: iriad.dening. Ile turned friort.the heap. ed delicacies, tearing that 'he might be tempt ed to thrust his hand through tke thick plate-• glass and help himseif. Ile twined away in 15 ,, astronianie agony, did' Tctintit, and hearing the children cry Merry Chrisi .mas !" won: I tiered what it was. and where its could be! Poor Tom. I have been lookitirr for it these live y ear, ! • Nautuek passed rapidly up Broadway, and then, -to at oid the heedless throng, crossed. over to the western•part Of. thctown. -Fate led hint; for Fate deigns even : to'shape the lives of such estrays as Tointit. Once he paused ate baker's door and look ed so longingly at :waiter of fresh tarts on thee:tinnier, that the shop-girl gitvt: him one, and her glossy curls shook all over with de- light at the ravenous way he devCinredlt. " Poor fellow," - said the girl,scAering,-• "he . :Lust have been fearfully hangrs? There is a curious skeleton in Jedii P lie was ratherish, and he ,annihilated two all- . tarts wit h enthusiasm. • fry's heart, and every (hristinas•eee it turns 41. s he turned out one of the! cross egrets a nd t w ists, and makes the old •non feel queer • • into Sixth led Sixth avenue,. lac-beheld an pains and see strange sights. old man lookina hi an undertaker's window, The a se skeletons re ‘ ire common to the • s ac huniim race' generally., They are the phan. li ci i t f i l l ' i t i " n we a r i e jo : v ,: g r Y . , ;; l t i .i l t i t f ,r e : a o ' r ' d rd.ecestiirlts for j toms. of evil deeds and malignant ihonehts-- finding it, (Acre:tine his pride, which was but mentaLafrites that griiiv - up in a single nighr t , remnant of its tiirmer He-approach like toad-stools. Ile teary, v Wr ay i • ' 9 csl the rlian. who took no notice isf. him what have one growing in !your 4N)som. It staw - v..cli*: - 44 . a....„ . ever, hut continued to. glare 't the window' W211.1 - 4a ---- •• . hers with all the silks and brocades in Stew- , Att,;,aist startled TOM. front his &sign. Isow-- - art's. ;nor Thre cl his •; it goes to never blessed, or atlll4 "4 - • • tits.rraNC to jini% the very bed-chamber and rides al .. • •• • be, with . great cottoq. Vowors, and was his cushioned .earriage.; It walks with somewhat at loss as to shOuJil open s Wall street and•sas beside him at Church. • —conversation with the eccentric, cm.l But the undertaker's ,keletOn for the p reset . individual before him. In this dilemma, the . • There was never any bode prettier than words he had beard spoken a; thousand times Nannette Pallfre. Indeed, it would be hard that flight, broke musically uet.i his lips: "Merry Christmas Sir!' to find in any woman's' eyes a more enchant • Then it ivas that Jetid Pallfrey turned and ing light than that which lay in Nannette's. looked at him, and said:- Her voice, like the poet's western w • ind, ,- • " HUMpli was sweet and low. She was as lovely acid natural as a Sunnuer wild flower, and so good ; • that Sin in her was not evi POOli TOM ' S A-CIULO l. Mr. • Tbeologielan you would interrupt • We left Tomtit floored, literally, at Chap : me. ter 11. • . "But he might take a lid, though," .thOught Je4d. . Nowever„there was no alternative but to trust him. • Somehow or, other, and God wills it so, the most suspicious are sometime oblig ed to place confidence in a fellow-mortal, Not von and l, gentle reader.; we. would do it willingly, for it is good to believe in hit- - inanity. - Among other things, the old Man of tlrree•seure years had not learned this, .Tomtit glaneetver ;the apartment.' There was only the ghost of a tire in a small stove; all sorts ofgrotestine shadot peopled the room, ..and the dim bltie light, which fell like an imitation of moonrise on the long narrow houses of the dead, made them look frightful. 'A coffin is an ugly liioking thing any way one can fix it, and twenty cof fins are, of course, twenty times uglier. • "•Queer place," soliloquised Tomtit. " I rather like it though." - And the boy smiled a sickly smile. .: - Ile filial& I'd be afraid. A here an a l n i t tle h toil i i r 'a tt s .e ll tl e 3 e - i "i 1 c i .at's- i t i , ‘h I ‘ dcl l r i e ll I y • himself s l e l f — u•, to his full height-- isn't likely ;to be seared by two, four, six, eightj, ten, twelve, tburteen, sixteen, eighteen, twenty, empty bUxes. I guess outs" ; . . The , child must 14e been exceedingly weary, fur he bad no sooner 1. cited himself on one of the tall Idaeli stook, than he sank into a protbund slumber. Ills body swayed to-and-fro in a very unilecided manner. At last lie gave an extra (lit ye, and; Tomtit fell. Ile bruke neither his s'imber ntir his neck— heroes never break ther . necks, 1 helieye.— i Th e - critics, however, i stnnetimes do it for them. 1 know an inst-inee - • ,1. ', - Tomtit lay at the mot oittis rirpendiculat lied, and there-we -, k,‘ iii Ilea ye him—le:l%-e him sleeping with cue of . Ins t h at, brown ,hands grasping - the leg of the stool, and one foot in a etiflin—the first tittle. I think, that such a let has been recorded 'of any - body, though. we often hear of people having "one foot Tin the grape." But while I whisper, in your ear, let him sleep. • .. I will explain : if slat' • had been less worthy :. • - The hours went . - by like - shadows, and he of heaven, if she had been more worldly wise, 1 still lay under the charmed influitnces of sleep cautious instead of loving, - artful itistead of —Sleep, the little sprite, froth the land of sincere, in short, any thin. , but the'very an--I Nowhere, that sits upon tired:cye-lids, and gel slit:was,Nannette'S would tareseem- weighes hem down so kindlyz:.fgrratic and ed Purer in the. world's eyes; .but not in coquettish Sleep, that will and,-won't, and is -(ion's. I know that. 1, - - so *ery like ,a woman ; so hard to win, :so ex . Nannette's history , is an old story; told and true when won. every day: For shame, man !.that it is told . • Tom lay dreaming of ships, tntd anchors,. everyday' She lived, and loved, and trust- and ambergris, of Nantucket and fish, and si ed,:and that is all of it, or nearly. lent fields, One December night she ea:lie - in tlosnow to her father's do,,r, and he turned .her away --Nannette, the only thing in all God's world he loved with a human love. She did not weep, she did not even Ontrnitir :- she only pressed the hand Ofa ehiltt who waik'ed weari ly beside her, aud-pres-ed on. Her life :rout that time was so full of sell fering, yet so womanly and true, that the angels might sit and listen to a-narration of it with • delight. Nannette went fir 'away from the city, and iii a little town by the sedgy sea-shore taught her . boy to pray.. • Year after year went by. . • The wurld rolled on like a .great wheel: ; men, and w en, and children . dropped off like flies, and' Jedd rallfry's .hammer was bUsy—oh I- so busy.! Now while shrouds were being made, and coffins varnished, and the old world_ was taming on its axis, Nan. nette died. . . The night of her ; death, just as old Jedd was fitting the lining to an infant's coffin, a • grave grew .up at his feet—a willow find_a rose-bush, add he heard. the singing of birds! Ile,knew whatit. meant: lie knew that some where,—be (Fuld not tell where=-there was another mound just .1i1;e the onel3eside him. 'Oh! htiw blithely the little birdssang to Jedd: There was - a nc* heaven and a . new earth for some bodY . that night, and • how . Merrily the robioa..sang abodt it All this happened, while the Allow flakes were ,rtniuiV, nimbly over the hoese-tops like little. white mice! • Every Utristinas - -eve, at the tame 'hour; Jedd sees this: phantom mound with its sigh= ing - Willow-tree; and its,' lovely, flowers, and its fairy birds, flitting here rind there like the fragments 'of - ,a 'broken rainbow And at. night be has . a . fearful dream. He fancies 'that friar Fever:guilds are teasing him in'his best velvet pall. Yellow Jaek, with 'his great jaundiced vine ; Brain-fever,: 'deliri- I Dusty.. Searlet.fever, with 'red-hot eyes and' putrid lips,. and Typhoid, still and dreadful-i— -he seen them' Mel Mid they. paw. him with. ; 'their disgtiting - tarida ' and hiss him on the oath till poor JeAid -is , near going-mud I WithagOliy - andlear. -- ..: • • - • Xitniiette's child was adopted by a fisher- I - and ,:very - badly adopted 4 ails . - When poor- I roni. was not busy catching fish, bci was Catching something else; Snbetwe,cn 'beating .aridPeating:the child' was, not ars'llap- ' OY'ets ntight Intim been with more - of oil° Auld less-Of the Cihr, Or n' 'gentle infficiency ,pf both. ]Flaying induio.4 in four 'yeardeett #lolxi till?pipg. '4 -hided; be took it infii-his ,beadto.ltree k band in' the btisinese himself. or 'not tnbe," . was itqueition in the mind.; .and "not In be. beaten 'any linare :iv* his decision; - so one.fine 'Morning, Ell , "Where calm and d. eh The snn•shine lieth like a golden sleep :•' In the'midst of this the fire in the diMinutive stove went out ; ar.d now comineneed a win- • bat' between the warmth of the dreamer's fan, cyand the coldness which was Lvradually tak ing possession of the room. The alOrm of a conflagration in the next street,' the muffled ound of the engine, - dragged' furiously past the &or . by nien who seemed like demons red-hot from Pandemonium, mid the jubilant clash of sleigh bells now mid then, .fiad failed to move the sleeper.. But silent, invisi ble lips of the Chill-fiend were wring into his slumber, and lie dreamed,of I His lit tle einbrowned hand lost its hold of the stool, and after one or two iiivoluntary turns, he opened his Qes—tothe fact that it-was grow ing intensely cold. It was-in vain that he drew himself togeth er, like the turtle ; the cold to lied the out- j er circles of his body, and sleepdeserted him. Ile spied the velvet pall on the counter, and it: a moment he bad enyeloped hinoielf in its dreadfill folds. But the death:cloth warmed him tiOnore than if he had been dead. In fact it threw a chill over him, and he soemed covered with a black' frost, colder than the snowy tracery which grew • lik-e magic over the shop windows! .He threWthe pall from him as if ifhail been pest, andAtiedto warm I hiS hands by the jet of gas which.burnedazi' tie, I and. yellow, and all colors. „Mit . ag gravated his coldness.. : The idea iiffreezing to. death took bold of Tmn; and out rf . this-grew a striinge act: Ills eyes felon a coffin which he 'thought Would hold him comfortably." -It nearly exhausted his strength today the silk padded -t4on . the I floor. This being done, •he, Settled himself into it without hesitation; and once More made' coverlid of the heaVy pall; ;I - Then Tomtit - fell *Sleep again and coin. mexced - dfeaining . iifdreary oceans and lonely - ".fairy binds forlorn,7- of crosii.bones and eyeless skulls, attach-Yards:4nd epitaphs, and God knows Whit! Just' Oen - a brazen .lipped sentry 'in 'd neighboritighelfrYsolemn :ly tolled ciut,the limit, and, •Ittiseen! rave by eye, high up - 04 steeple in the sniaw,.and wind,.' and sleet, r A 'ghostly finger pointed to tt.e eabaliatiatigu_re :;; , LIFTING iTLIS •- •Jedd . Poiltry. was detained,ut the SPRYteri i was applied - to, and discharged the jury at - Duyrors hater than ho had anticipated - r - I once. Of course thk witness was brought-in two hourslonger; and the chi& struqhtwelvE , and questioned by one of the tree State'men as he whirled round the corner, and brought o n t h o ...in r y, who probaht3i got sickthe himself Op against the wind y front of his ilimedings and thought he would show them shop: The long tails hi thread - bare over- I z a.Yinikee,triek• - coat were fly ing ling ' he looked 'like t • -------___ a great hideous owl lost in . the &edit. - Fine sleighittgaboot.these \Vhen J nth" threw open the door, hestart-'1 ed back. - . There, in the middle of theshop, just where the spectral grave sprang up 'yearly, -lay a. pall-covered coffin, the gas going out, and the boy. gone! The place seemed 'chilly and damp, like a vault, and Jedd shivered so, that the snow-flakes flew from him in every direction, like sparks from :k scissor-grinder's grind-stone. The stiffness in his knees gave out, and" he supported himself against the counter. 'NoW one of these ehanges came over Jedd Pallfry which happen to us all nt- tithes, and for which philosophy's self cannot account.— With resolute and learless steps he'approneli ed the coffin and lifted the pall. The . light, which seemed to brighten up a little, fell aslant on Toth steeping. The strange young face, shaded by tangled curls of. nutbrown hair, and lacking the soft influence of his dos ed eyes, was almost wild in its beauty. The parted lips seemed ready to speak, but I hU moved nut; . theevedids twitched, but were not filled; :indite lay n'double and Death -• • Jedd started ; b u t nut with fear. Ile felt someNnorem Wing, -throbbing warming in his bosom. It was only his_ heart ttieltipr 1 The 'nature and humanity of the man le ad broken their fetters like reed, and the l4uve I.vhieh had lain in a tra . pi* a di iztli •years; rose up ; within, •111 - would he heard !-- Ilis heart knew the little stranger in the s. co. fin, and he bent over, hiM ;with a tenderness that belongs tai Woman. "Nannette!" he- saidsnitiv ; "'oh so woo derfully like Nannette!" • l'he hoy opened his eves and looked about' him emdusedly. He attempted to Tim.. lAit hit: strengh had ,iuccumbed to' etlid and hun ger; and he sank hack with a ghastly sunk. " I'm so very hungry, Sit!". .- . , . "Only speak to me r cried .Jedd, hoarse with emotion ; "only say if. you are Nan ; nette's child l'' . Natatette,Natmette," said the Wry &Pain " Is some one calling my •mother !" The old man said nOt: a word'iit this, but knelt down he the cotlin and wept. The elock struck one its :fetid Pa pas sed through*theblinding sleet with some thing heavy in his amt —something wrap: pet in a pall. A drowsy policeman,. en sconced in a door'-way out (tithe storm,hailed him, and the drifted snow was more than knee-decp---butledd,.heeding neither, strug gled oti a jib his hurtleit. - Then a brilliant eoal-firetbrew ir lurid and I pleasant glow over old Jedd's sitting-rooin. ' The elderly hintsc-kceper—completely dres sed, with the exception of a night-cap_ which: she 'haul ti)rgottkin to remove—hurried to and-fro in "a s! ate of mind." collecting more - jugs of h6t water than wOuld he required to warm .the -feet of all her Majesty's subjects in the Crimea. . by the grate, -in a •Daniel Lambert. of an case-ehair t - ;.at tntrtm. -- ,C4;fiscmus-romi:-N,lift -Judd goothhig eine of his him& and gazing anxiously in his thee s u inc !trim 5 y ye s-my: closed and J nld Pallfry took hint in his" arms, and the old man's whole heart was a pray er—a.prayer to 1 lim who . " tempers the • wind to the shorn lamb s.” When I have, said that terrible dreams and strange %Wows never haunted 161(.1 Palfry after that night, I have said all. Su is my story done. • " • The snow has ceased filling, and through , my window 1 eau see the crisp star's twinkle like bits of chrysolite. The city bells are • ringing a requiem for the dying midnight, for the dying year. • Silver voices sciltn d'zzy turret are calling to each other mournfully, dolefully. A chill and a foreboding harit,e over all! And now the bells clang merrily " Ring out, wild 1)4414, to the wild'. sky, - • The flying cloud, the -frosty light : The :vear is, dying in the night; • Bing out, wild bells, and let him die. "Ring out the old,'ring k the new; • Ring, happy bells, ACM 4 the inow ' The yeur is going, let him go; Ring out the false,_ ring in the .hue. " fling out the grief that saps the mind, For those that there we see no more Ring out the feud of rich and poor, Ring in redress to nll mankind. . "Ring out a slowly dying CalW; And ancient forms of partylstrife Ring in thee nobler modes of life, With sweeter manners, purer laws. ' Ring out the want, the care, the :An, The faithless coldness of the times ; Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes, And ring the fuller minstrel in. " Ring out false-pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite ; Ring in the lore of truth and right, Ring in the conunon lore of good. " Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the rialrowing lust of gold Ring . out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. " Ring in the valiant men and free, . • • • The huger heart, the kindlier hand ; Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring in the engin that is' to be." And, ofall Christian souls! pray God, God; be orr.you,! 3CRT TRIAL. AMONG THE 'SQVATTiP.S.-A Mr. Montague, one of the escaped prisoners in -Kansas, gives the t'ollowing unique =met of a Tecumseh. Grand Jury, and how .they were discharged : • • . "I understand the Grand Jury were charged in Tesumseb,lhe ether day, under rather peculiar circumstances. Ihe Tees Hi, district is rather . a peculiar one; there are. too many free. State men in it, se . that it is hard to MI gut a board of jurors with / out getting, now and then, a free State man.— While they were going on; finding ' indict 'mesas against sundry individuals,;•, : a witness was - called up and questioned ihus ! =-- _ "Do you know . of any horse stealing, com initted in the. territory_?"' "Yes,..tir I do." Welt, do . you knowwho . from?" :." idyself, I . had six- horses, a 'wagon and a . hun died' dol lars in money stolen from me.".,. "Could ypu . recognize, the men that took the.gorgl,if-they were near yo u?" 1- coutd," kre.apy of them - here r "'Yes, sir."‘ " Well, Si r, 'point them out." , '" Yes, sir-- , -Well; your . foreman is one -of . themtlato, juror is smother, and that another,—that. another,. and that :moth : er." Jerul what js to be done? . ;The judge . H. 'H. FRAZIER, PUB.EISHERT.'--V0 ( 1.; 3.- NO . . 1. igiseelisqqeott,s. Tho Indians ofAmerica. •We abstract from the report of the -tont missioner of Indian Affairs, the.following in . terestingstatement respecting 11w civilized red men: • • • Churches and religious influences and schools are well sustained among these ans. and all seem impressed with.a desire to educate their children. The State of New York and the Ainerican Board of Missions continue to Make liberal appropriations Fir education among them. The. Thomas Asy. loin on the Cattaraugus reservation is coin. pleted, and is now rapidly , filling with - orph • an and destitute children. • The Indians on this last reservation have had the kind offices, anti aid of the Society of Friends, and the patronage of the -department. has\.also been extended to them. • The Ottowas and .Chippewas and the Chip pmvas of Saginaw and Swan meek and Black river, all within the State of Michigan, con- Wine gradually to increase in limners, as well as to advance in the . arts of peace ; and under the liberal provisions of the treaties of 1855, by which, 'every' family receive a homestead from the public - domain, and the friendly feelings manifested toward them by the people of the State, present indicationS ‘vould seem ,to justify the hopeithat thi•y will - attain a much higher state of vilizatioti;aud pos-e -s more of the c mitiirts of life than ttiey have heretofore done. They are 'beginning to locate on the lands assigned them, and •ap-• parent Iv highly appreciate the separate homes to which they are entitled. The Chippewas of Lake Superior, who in habit reservations in the northern peninsula of Michigan, the northern part of NV isx•unsin and that portnar of iklinne . , ota be!ween the St. Louis river and the British line haVe been furnished with a liberal supply of farming iniplemetits, carpenters' tools, household fur niture, mid cooking utensils ; and every dian havim , a house mid residing in it, ha. I been supplied with a cooking stove and-tic usual cookinur Utensil; a table, bureau,chairs;•! bedstead, looking-glass, and many- smaller .1 .... . . articles for household use.. The effect of this policy is quite•perectilde and salutary, and has stimulated many to erect and provide for erecting new houses at Bad river, and sever al other places. Certiticatea 'have been is sued to all the half breeds ‘yho, by the pro visions of the recent treaty are entitled ,to , land, which, if presented at the Land Qffices, will serve to Secure to each of them the Tian ' tity to which they are - entitled, .and . which they may desigeate front any of the'publie, :. domaitt not otherwise appropriated?. In addition to thostrlimong the Indisns of Michigan, proper schools are nOw Maintained ' lat L'Ance, Bad river, La Ponite and Grand . -4.-........„ . .-, -u .. -, -.... ,- tethe,C.hionewas of Lake . Superior. , ' • - • - . • ~,. ; lite extended- , 7 ' r------ 71- ; - wttnnr.- tne -eleterugan . Agency, rot ers t.- - l possible fur the agent to deVote . as - much time to the Indians under: his charge . m is `absolutely necessary. There-is ample !nisi- Hess fur two ngent;, and ''with ,two laid:till ttien to aid them, in making moat iot Jrvailaide the, liberal provisions of the. recent treaties, _I . tnueh Tor their . good may be accomplished:J 1 They are prepared to take-advice. and re- I Ceive. instruction. • - :".: I The jurisdiction of fl; Northern superin--I tendency has been extended over the Indians i of Minnesota, the 'Oneida, Stockbridge And i Menonomee tribes in Wisconsin, Still TO- mailing within its limits.. 1 ...- . Tne . condition of the bneidas of Wiscon- i .iin: has chat-tied but little since last vear,and: I no:;event of importance has occurred among I thent, 'except the murder of one of the elders 1 Iby a 'member of the tribe. This event; has produced much excitement, and has. caused I apprehensions of serious 'disturbances:. The Imurder was committed under • the influence of intoxicating liquor. . . 1 Under the operations of the treaty of Feb ! ruary 15, 1356, between theStoekbridge and. Munsee Indians and the government, it is to i be expected that the Stockbridge difficulties, 1 which fio a number of years--past have I.een a source.of trouble and . vexation, will soon be terminated.. An arrangement has been . ; made by which a tractof land on the west end of the Menomonee reservation has been selected for a permanent home fur the Stock bridges and Munsees.. • . - Some of th'ese Indians have Already coat . menced`to build. themselves homes at . their I new location, and measures have been taken Ito insure the final removal 4:110 of them; as I soon as this can be prudently : and , properly : effected. . It is to be hoped that any factious 1 apposition which may manifest itself Bonging I a few of these Indians may meet with no en couragement, either in : Wisconsin or, else where. The necessity of the_ ease and- the interest of the • Indians. require that they should remove from their present -location at Stockbridge without delay. • The advancement of the -Menomonee:l ,is constant and strady. Although obstacles have been thrown in .the way o? these' Indi ans and the vicious and nnserupuloug- have endeavored to thwart all theA4li)rts 'made for -their improvement, and thegrasping avarice of unprincipled white men, in seeking to- °h.,. thin their property in detainee of justice and right, has rendered -them somewhat restlesi and uneasy ; yet; notwithstanding all. this, their progress-is very 'gratifying, and the re -sults ;already, attained,. leave no - doiaht : but that the Menomenee.lndians- in a very "11.-W years, will .conipletely and ;perfectly adopt habits of industry - and civilization. Indian laborers lave bcen :e*clitsiVeli ern pl nyed :to da‘a work -of the. tribe., 'The'. agent, farmer, miller,' teadter. and.7one blacksmith, sre : J.he only white persons located at the agency arid employed - m onthe reitervat - . : . ,iOn in ~. , Ali - the - work in thefieds; asS well as the: :shops, is' aons byindianltandi. 'A'. nember . , ache young Menomonees hive become it- . '.pert carpenteramp.Viding:nitt,,nfily. the.:gen-, ,oral carpepto shop With latindi,'bUtr the:tlit'- firent,bands - have earrienters-• among them, 'Wile are Creeting'houses'fOr thelyariousfam- - Mies; to facilitate 'which: the: couneiLhas ,ro. --qUested that a Set 4)f : carpenter tools - Jae. fig; l'nished to each band. , I = , fp the southera-pert of IginnesetaTerritn.: ry; thsWinfsebares have assigneal7to:them,r under the treaty 'ofFebruary,-, 1855,- , ..an-:ex , , tellowti•aet , Of land, for .apertnanetsVlOnal and Laudable aorta aremow_being 'tnndeOP. ttarivet-thiiikibas habits vltisssao. hitliana.;-..... Eitesiii sivmprOyetnetita hero heetispado,for thetalietlitOixtyv, Tee'atie2 . l,.;';'• '-' NM Arizon •. , . 01 all the humbugs- of•the.dll,Ault.Ofiere • ating a new_ territoryout - of. the country ac . quired from Mexico by our:late t reitty-throngli 'Mr . . Gadsden, is the. greatest::' 'lt is' stated • that the inhabitants of this district Irivo late , ly taken the - prelitniriary,steps to fora a ter'. ritot tat government; wit4-4bich - view .they . , have Aected a Mr. Cook - as It delegate to.Con 7 gess, who,. being provided Witit.the . reifursite • 1 credenTials;'will endeavor to _fweare the'_ early organization or a territory, undet . 1, of Arizona, One accountn states the ropuhitiOu Of this district to - be 13,000, another 0.000;ithe1oW.: est of which is greatly .etaggerateki, even, if we include in the number all the*Wittindians who now roain over it; but'who.mtutotmake , it a permanent abode on aceountofits:utter . sterility and greai . deficae!teyrinTWater;: - Thu.. Mexicali pir,Alation of this district _which is about as .large a., I.llC.StatO was, In the year 1853, as follows Me; silla, a Village on the Rio Grande, forty Miles . . -. above, El II3:41, 1200 Souls; Fromthie lay Westward, there ,is .fteither a village or it • ranch (farm house) until San% trui is, reached, a distanee of two- . hundred' and fitly miles. • This littlestreeni, Which us *quid - seam:Q.ly be called a creek, May,. in many places,- he- leaped over by a• man cf.., 1 agility, and af er Meandering about a hundred' • miles, is sWalloyed up by the• sands or the , . • desert. But. so. few are .the •sp . its 414164.4g5: hue region *here Joan ean•gain a s4WW . er . ice,,.. that a few settlements made here by the Alm - ly Roman mission:tete - A; nearly two- hundred - years ago, have now arisen to the iniPort,.. ;ince .of a village,Of a year's growth:in out''... western territories.. • - •H: • • The folloWing are the villages in the valley% • . of t litanta Crui 00, miles -South . . of the River Gila. haS a.. popetation . pl. less: than 400 stints. TubSe 51 miles south, of- that, 200. . San-Xavier, a village xthieli three - - yCars since- contained -hut single-Ivie.vietln and about 500 Papagolndiarez. , r : This place &attains the finest church in tliti'Siate. of Sonora, to which it:then belonged..-,, lA- 4 4; - • Santa Cruz, with a population- FroM the Santa Cruz rivet-Westward to thud Colorado, ri distance of nearly 300 Utiles,' there is not a village or hamlet. ; A sterile desert; without:trees, water or grass, extends the. whole distance. With the - .except - hut, there-. tare; of .the misett!abte Villages -- -on the - - Santa Cruz: the entire ;id stien • pityclia:se; ,iveSt rof the Int, Grande valley', out of which it. ptised to make the new territory o(Arizona, did nit, three veal ; since, contain a single in: habitant, the Indians alone excepted. One newspaper account.lies bNtire us -states . that "in tins territory ate to he -:; rtittkid mountains which are proLiddy - rich in -tinnehl wealth, fertile plains ' 'and.one or. te-ti , „. considerable -rivers, while 6e-sail_allows the abundant production , of the:grains-, and other *crops peculiar; to. the genial cliine:OfTesas.!' it - :s - tatigtia - ttle=txit' ,- surtr - s - ratements---as. - ...thout truth. - The: district. - of itearlv 4 1 Pe east to we4; -- stre.--Trc: 0 hen of, and ..the San Pedro, a. little : niqddy stream some twelttv fret broad: and which fur half its length becomes dry intheTstitn:., to fertile plains, there are,notte; for "how can. there he ,fertility wheita. there is .. ,ito soil, and when rain does not fall fur eleven - tryithsin the . year? -1 As to inineraht.i.they "•probably"- . exist in the 'moantains; . bnt have - , yet to lie discovered... - • Another. iwriter....alluding -to- the sitliktet f comes much nearer to'. the trullOn saying, that of the "10,000 inhabitants of this - district, over 0 . 0.00 - are men in blicltitim gaits, etattiren of the Inis..c4hiai'-y.otne . tifines'desceng - &put - . the California mountains-upon the plains of - Sonoitt:" There is 'irinre in this. inov.ement . than We at the North supPOse, and. it -lucks like,a project .to carne nut: anew slave §tate,. to be-inade up of t.iiis.ten .'tnillion deert and southern 6ttitlitniai:Proiidenee. 4Tournal.. Checked Perspiration There are two kinds Of perApiration;.geiii 6k and besensi6le. When we see , drops water on the surface of the body as.theyi...solt . • of exercise,. or 'subsidence 4.)f, fever, thia sensible perspiratinn, peespirntiini•rceognized by the sense of sight. But. tion is so sentle that it cannot ,be detected itz, . the shape ot'water-drops, - "when HO e inotstu.r . e. can be..fit, when it is known - to lifi hit a cer t a i n softness of the skin, that is .i4seusi7 ble perspiratiOn, and. is so gentle that it may bo-eheeked to a very 'considerable exUnit-With out special injury. But to use :popular. -hut guag,e which cannot be niiatiket,,whetta mnn is sweating. freel3i, and it is stiddenly checked and the sweat is not brottglit - Out- again-in * very few moments, sudden and, pairiftil nesi, is a very certain result:" what, then, ehecks.perspiratiotil of air are at rest, after exercise,- or getting the clothing -wet and 'remaining at,. rest while it is so; Getting out of :warm' bed - and going to att Open. 'window- or . door, haS been the death of tritiltitudes.- A lady heard the cry of fireatmithiiiiht ; it was hitter.cold ; it was so near, Oeflainea , .. illuminated her ehaii!her. ' % old V;ect,. hkiiveci the window,: the told chilled flee-iii a moment: - From that hour until fier:dath, quarter of a century litr,-sliti..nevei , .. - fiht its well day,_ •.- • - - A you'itg lady !went to her -window in her nightclothes to lot* at somethiogin the _ street, !carting her unprotected arins_on -the 1 stone window-silt, which was datup and rokt. I •She became an invalid, and wilt rent:tin =so for life. Sir Thornits Colby being in appfuieawott one night; happened to, rtrnenAter _that had lett the key of his wine teltarrtn the far• lr table, , and, fearing his servant-4 igtit prove the inadiertence;and•drink sernaofhin he left his bed, walked &mu. stairs,the .i.weating process was checked, ffclyi which he died in a few days, lcaving.uix dol'ara in Englislifunds. nialltecss Vag sr" lirietand violent that ha-had nci - opportunity to make. hia will, and•his britnenae:property amongfivo_ ol. six asY,..isbur!rlii , who Wire - his Afiare4t AilatirVit.:., • ,The great practical reiten whith,..We to iinpreas'upon the, readapt:Jai „this ; Wititt yin' ere pampiring freely; iik'n o tion until you,get-to a:gOod,fireoF.4 o - 30145. !Awn h9rektputireperfOiryshosttl 4tlianY draft - rpt . Wr Talk about "uyatertotka,kno*, what. :47: Po:, of tWii 4 DIEM EIMM= ~;~r~= ~~. DI MBE
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