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Bak& ineen 'or the valley. the !lionarr.b at Ter- too tiM4y - Web spoken thy doom. . Alla - plucked from its casket a ratlient jewel TO deck the insatiate tomb. • 'When late I beheld thee, thy step was elastic— Cheeks blushing as mites in May ; - Thy lustrous eyes SOS! Sad 'woke. sweetly warbled - - Affections inelodibiiilay. But, oh! in the grave robe thy , form is eoshroud ed, Thy spirit its prison hath fleas ' - • Anti soon will they 'bear . thee from wertowfol kindred To sleep with the, sepolelOred dead. whyOit, did the ibalt oftite creel deatioyer Thy bosonsihusliongernilf - stnite.;• • And plange, - while wee joyoas, a !)lootning ex iste.nce • 11 , Lathe's ealiginovis aigiN • Weep pot;stripitpn friend's, o'er the lost one's • • dePlrtn* : • - rt She's gone Fitb celeatials too dwell ; . Herself plumed seraph. she thrids the bright mansions Where heavenly symphonies swell. Tolalprified maiden I . thy sudden doom, teieh .Thet yeuthlikti the age d decay;— . Kings, princes, alai Inge m, exalted and lowly, - The sousbous of DEATH must obey. ' Seastylei, Feb. 5,1857. moron Arthur's Rime" Magazine. THE Ascii cnoacw. v' And he was sad at that saying,. 'awl went away gri eyed, for he bas great possessions.— ifark x. 23. , . 0!10 he known that harps were hushed Amid the angel throng, Or heard thepsalrn that wriuldlsive mired Their shining chord. ilong; Or seen when hung on boughs of light, - With pearl and ophal fair, • The:crown thit ages should not blight, Would be have lingered there? • That fearful hour that silent kept The seraphs of the sky! But oh! what georgeons visions swept Of earthly grandeur by! With mountains tall and meadows green, With shining heaps of gold: Alasl for all that glittering scene Per their= e soul sms sold. Oh! soft on Jedah's huh to-night, Rhyme ont'the winds of yore;- And still to mortal gaze as bright That,vision rises o'er; And ye , who earthly hollers; hold; And heritages fair, Ohl butor, art for fame or gold Year priceless treasures there! TAE LIGE' T UWE& the light at. home! hoikbright it. beams When evening shades around us fill; And from the little far 'it gleams, !re love and rest and comfort call. When wearied with tho toils of day. . And strife for glory, gold or faire, How sweet to seek , the quiet way, Where livinglips will l?.p our name A.rotini the' light at home. 4 Wbol,thro l the dark and stormy night. . The wayward wanderer homeward hies, HoW "eViern — )g is that twinkling light, Widelittirongh the foreit gloom ho espies; It is 11. n light'athotne ; be feels , That - losing hearts SFUI veet him there, And safely throng!) his bi:nrom steals The joy and lore that banish care Around the light at home. The light' it home! when ere at last It greets the sawn= /bro . the storm. die feels rio more ,the blast . .:. -.That heats open his manly form. -Long years upon the, sea have Red Since kitty gave her parting hies,' Bni the bad nem which she then ihed - Will now be,.paid with rapturous bites, - Arannd'tfi r 4:nitit - st tratntit , hole still and riweit".- . Itpetipiltra:yoridei.eiatiage The :iiiiirffaitirer to greet When the rough toils Of toe day are - O'er . .., -bad is the soil thai'dOet tint knew • The blessings that the' Warnifinittirt, ' e Cheerful hopes and , joy. that Eow Andlighten . up the heaviest heart - Around the light at . boils; _ . , A-Csisirdast, LIICIL---491110Mgelr-A -IraXOPIO.PaPe, paper ; tells of a 7 0 W/g Pa formerlycierk io a baukiitebonse that tit:Ttend.wito so tileased_ a ,gcatlealao fir!' one of the Southern States 153 , intpivieur„ that. the latter offered 14,1 et crease his slavery iltire4old if, he., would 44-. "PP,°Y iq P i rn: lo . tkeSlith iinbtei NS a clerk there - . The otrer was cop* after a ~ , , c onsultatioLvitb ~ b is friends. ; The young Snail had been at the'fikrotb bet.* short time when he reediest offer, in kistern, to the bankere daughter., privotsal was accepted and sealed bvF the 4 pefrimtpance Pf warn, his mare - :cereasouy. clerk was theit'usadeit neitt . ier the:bitikini eistah; listneet,-aud received on Isis wedding other*erente, what the ,Oatuicliiia pipet thinks was a raitielar gift--one hee d re& and fifiyiiegroes. • 1- Frain Knickerbocker's Magazine Tor January. WIIIIA*SEDDY PALLFRY rptuill) IN THE COFFIN. For the Decnoentt: A CHRISTMAS . STCRT. DT D. T. ALDRICH. CgAPTIR 1. CRIMES o,' htIIMORI. Merry Christmas? Ahl but it used to be. It used to be, be fore the dreamy mood. of boyhood melted **ay like a silvery tnisst. Merry, merry Christmas, then! The very -words tinkled musically. I can bear them trembling yit, in memory. ke that faint jingling of sleigh bells - whirl steals up from the street and in through the snow-muffle(' casement. It war fine, then, to loiter in the crowded streets, gluing in the shop windows—the El Dorados, of Fanky articles," the Austrian lands of bon•bona and rock candy 1 What stereotyped visions I bad of kind St. Nick; witli his reindeer equipage on the house top, and his huge pack filled with trumpets that Wouldn't blow well, and carts that wouln't go welland dear old Flans Christian Anderson's story books,,which never failed of being Ar cades of delight. Then at home when 'the ap plei and nuts were disposed of, my grand site, God lose his white hairs! would take me on his knee, and read about "Christ in the , Manger," with _such quaint pronuncia- ti4l • - couched• with th e se memories, and sitting once more, as it were, in the-happy sunrise of life, lam moved to write a Christmas story for Ida May, and little Carrie,\ and tiny fin gered Mabel, who , are sleeping in the next room. I will put it in the most diminutive of the three mimic stockings—it is all the poor artist can give to the dreamy angels ! And some of these days, when this weary pen is quite tired out, when there is nothing left of me but two or three old volumes in some out of the way book 'case, their mother, some Christmas eve maybap, will call the darlings to her side, and read the time worn, yellow ed manuscript to them. And Ida May will listen thoughtfully,with the long ebony lash= es resting on her cheeks ; and Carrie's ro guish eyes Will laugh ontright,lbough the story is a sad one, and Mabel will - clap...her little hands together like two sweet; white I rose leaves. • All this may be. But before I write, I will steal softly into the next , room and look at their sweet young faces. Oh ! but they are-newly frosfe-heaven, their tinny mouths are made up.for prayer! An infantile glory is only half shrouded by the drooping eye-tids, and _those sweet faces light up the shadowy room as the tulips do some shady nook of the summer woods. I shall be better for looking• at them. I will kneel at the bed sideperhaps I , shall be weeping, for to=m orrow night, when the chil dren dance round the Christmas tree, a lit tle boy, with wonderful blue eyes, will not be there! and in 41 the presents hung upon the emerald branches, in among the red and•blue candies, there will lie none found for "Char lie!" And when we think of "the little boy who died," our lips will quiver, though laugh and jest ge round, and the music be as giy and wild as the melody of Shelley's Queen Mab! CHAPTER IL ..., TUE: ANCIENT UNDER,TA Era. Old Jedd Paltry turned down the gas a little,..glanced nervously at the sombre row of Coffins on each aide of . hint, locked the shop door and stood in the street, It was Christmas eve, and the snow flakes. like tinily white birds from paradise, were lighting on the chimney tops and roofs, and in the long streets of the city. Every night at the same hotir,eight o'clock, for ten years,the undertaker had turned down the gas, locked the door, and placed the same key under the same mat, and stood in the same position for a moment by the win dow before turning into the narrow zig zag street which, to him, ended at the supper ta ble. - • But this time be was not going home. The antique Mr. Hans Spuyton Dayvel, whose death his amiable relatives bad 'been impa tiently aivaiting fur the la 4 quarter of a cen tury;had died tbat day; and old Jedd .had been i , entfor to put - the habiliments of the grave on Spuyten Duyvel's body,nod-two bright half ' dollars on ins eyes, the' which small Change_ was afterwards transferred- to the poulit of the ancient undertaker. Noe' old Nati'' , bad made coffins ever since his youth, and for thirty years really had more intimacy with the dead than deal ings with the living. There was nothing in the wbolewOrld so beautiful to him as a.oof fin--uniess it was an order for one. lie bad worked .at, his trade all hours of the night ; 1* bad nide little cefrini-0 such touching little Ctiffluif—lind tat ones, and slim ones; and;htti* . giniatlilflickeiiiig of a .. lau p at, tnidnio„ l7e . lpad.laitWa - oold white 'deed ip dm: vtnxisbedimies i tittiont &cling one throb cf.-sympathy in -old' - iren-hollid - heart 5 ... of his. j • - • thttliatt Christiaas art Oaddeted *site tairsied,dowa the gee, ao t tLbe !in t voodoo teoetneaul, with their 4304t$ off, aeAed -so soapy 'ado *aid gate arapleadilig toter. ditioa. Be felt ' as if a Otoismucid strong cus rents of :al ***sits him towirdetheail lie could hardly heap from -stepping into one ; lid it required striestli to reach the door aed'lceltit. - Add 4reri hreatti. " WE AIME ALL zqtra sissonE GOD AND TINE CONSTITUTION".#4Iaates i onjrest,.. -*islitetait!ta .pt . a.ntl,, Venn'a, ftitnhti 'ii erOTtg,. _.lo.ilmilll.;','lSOT: "Ns always so—every: Christmas ere; she does it I" As old Jedd Palffy muttered this between the thin, bloodless lipisha flattened and whit ened his nose on the window-glass, and look ed into the gloomy shop suspiciously. He saw nothing at first but the accustomed number of coffins, and the velvet -pall folded on the counter, and thole two slim black stools which we all have seen in our biomes, God pity us I But as be looked, his dim, al: mond shaped eyes grew suddenly to orbs.— A. strip of the flooring commenced swel ling, and bugling, and warping I Little by little it grew into the shape of a mound ; tiny- emerald - spears of grass shot out of it in every direction; then it, was dotted all over with yellowed-e}ed krises, and a rose- bush, with a single white bud, sprang up from the center. Jedd Pantry's sight became so acute that he could see the perfume of the rose floated up in beautiful soft folds like the fumes of a censer Jedd rubbed his eyes as well he ',night— When he looked again.ho saw the shsdow, then the skeleton of 'a. tree ; !ben this took miraculous form, and a; willow trailed its green lengths over the mound. And he saw the moted sunshine filling upon the place and heard the robins Onging—singing in his shop! • Jedd looked and looked; but when the grass and the da.ies grew tremulous ai in a sudden wind, and the 'grave k.egati to open, Jedd could look no longer : ; ankl he shut out the strange sight by placing two lank; bony hands over his eyes. "Merry Christmas, sir r' said a hesitating voice at his side. • Jedd started. "Merry Christmas, sir repeated the voice dolefully. And then Jedd turned his eyes on the speaker. It was a very shabbily dressed lad. lie, had on a felt bat of no color whatever, a roundabout jacket, and a paii`ef !bite duck trousers, much too well ventilated fur the sea son. ilis physique was as delicate as a girl's; and if it had not boon so dark, Jedd could have seen a face in which there was a strange -mixture of the Madonna and the devil—the expression otboyhood and manhood conten ding and a sad experience written all over it ,But the snow was falling heaVily, and he Only saw a very little fellow surmounted by a very shocking hat. "If sou please, sir," said the . boy plead ingly. . • "humph !” AneleJedd was about to bid him go, his . way, when It. struck Jedd .that after what he had seen, not even the love of hie charming coffins could tempt him to turn - on the gas again in his shop; and to leave it. burning until morning was a bit of extravagance not to be thought of. It occurred to him to, hire this promiscuous wisher of merry Christmas to sit in his shop till he should have return ed from Spuyten Duyvel's; then he could turn on the gas and turn Off the boy at the same time. So-he changed his brusque man ner and inpired, in a tone which was inten ded to be extremely conciliatory ; "What's sour name, hub r "The las 4 one, sir!" asked hub, looking up. The last one, sir f repeated Jedd, mimick ing the lad. "How many, have you !". "A good many, sir. In Nantucket they aseYto call 'me poor Tommy, and 'orphan Tom, and Tomtit. But on board ship sailors call me Nantuck--and they called Nantuck very 'often, 'and made him work a good deal." And the boy shivered with - cold, as the north wind swept around-the corner with evident predatory designs on•his tattered jacket. "Nantuck I" said - his interrogator, turning up his pinched nose with disapprobation, as if the 13217 filled his venerable nostriller with a "very ancient and fish-like smell" "Well, Tomtit—l like that best, you know —if yon will keep shop for me an hour or so, I'll give you a shilling." "I din't know how- much a shilling is," said T4tit, alias Nantuck, eagerly ;. "but I'll do it, and thankfully." ;The key is under the mat. Unlock the door, and don't touch any thing. Don't jar those lovely Coffins; they might fall on you and kilt you, you know." Jedd •never once looked .toward the shop. "If you see a grave in the middle of the floor you musn't b 3 frightened, you know. I'm not." Jedd shuddered. "I don't see any grave," said Tomtit throw ing open the door. sir The tintient - undertaker summoned all his courage and;:glanced into the -room ; but the mound with its dada and the weeping wil low ,Lad vanished. "Devlish strange," he mattered. "It was there." Then facing his clerk proton.; "You won't sceal Any , thing, because there isn't any thing to iteal you know." Th c ,.b o y locked wearily around him, and seemed to think that the temptation wasn't very strong. • 'Bat he might steal lid,though," thought ,Flowever,,thata was no alternative but to trust him. Seraehmitrr other,and God. wills it, so the most sespicious are soMetimes Obliged . to Place conddetme in a' fellow mortal. Not you and I, gentle reader; we would do it willingly, fur it is good to believe la: bu• inanity. ' ArnOng other - things" the old man of threescore years had not lemmid this ! - TOlntit 'glanced bier the apartment. _Thum Ina only the ghost of a dre -in a sMedatove ;- all 4142n4 of grotesque .ehndoirs peopled the room, and the dim blue light, which fell like an imitation of moonrise on the long, narrow houses of the deed, made them look frightful. A coffin is in ugly. looking thing any way one can fix it, and twenty coffins are, of course twenty times uglier. "Queer - • place,' , soliloquised; Tomtit. -44 1 rather like it, though." 'And the boy smiled a sickly. smile. • "He 'thought that I'd -be 1 , afraid. A man who has been on a.whailifig voyage--"here • little thirteen drew himself up to his full height—"is'nt likely to 'be scared by two, four, six, eight, ten,• twelve, • fonrteen, sixteen, eighteen, twenty, empty boxes, i gum not!" The child must have been exceedingly wea ry, for he hadno soon& locatti! • hiimelf on one of the•tall black stools,than.he sank into a profound slumbet. His body swayed to and fro in a very - undicided slumber. At last it gave au extra curve, and Tomtit felt. Ile broke neither his - ilumber nor his neck—he roes never break. their necks, I believe. The critics, however; sometimes do it for them. I know an instance. - Tomit lay at the font of his perpendicular bed, and there we Will leave him—leave him sleeping with one of 'his thin, brown bands grasping the leg of a fttbol, and one foot in a coffin—the first time, rthink, that such a fact has .been recorded of nny body, though we often hear of people having "one foot in the grave." But while I whisper in your ear let him CHAPTER 111. TUE SKELETON. There is a curious skeleton in ledd Pal fry's heart, and every Christmas eve, it turns and twists, and makes, the old man feel quee pains and see strange sights. These skeletons are very common to the human race generally. _ They aro- the phan toms of evil deeds and malignant thoughts— mental frailties that grow up ins single night, like toad stoops Be wary, that you might not have one growing in your bosom. It will show itself. Mrs. Mac Elegant cannot drape hers with all the silks and brocades in Stewart's, nor old Three•per•cent hi.s, it goes to the very bed chamber with him and rides in his cushioned carriage, it walks with him .in Wall street and sits b e side him at church. But to tie undertaker's skeleton for the present. There was never any body prettier than Nan nette Parry. Indeed it would be hard to finis' inhay, womans eyes a more enchanting light than that which lay in Nannetie's.— Her voice, like the Net's western wind, was sweet and low. She was as lovely and nat ural as a summer wild flower, and so good that sin in her was no evil. . _ Mr. Theologician, you would interrupt me. I will explain if she had been less wor, thy of heaven, if she had been more worldly wise, cautious instead of loving,artful instead of sincere in short any thing but. the very an- gel she was, Nannette's life would have seem el purer in the world's eyes; but not in God's. I know that.. Nannette's history is an old story, told ev ery day. For shame, man ! that it is told every day ! She fired, and .loved, and trust ed, and that is all of it, or neatly. One.Decembee night she came in the snow to her father's door and he turned . her away —Nannette,the only thing:in all God's world be loved with a human love. She' did not weep, she did not even manner; she only pressed the band of a child who walked Wen rity beside her, and passed on. Her life from that time was so full of su fering, yet so womanly and true, that, the an gels might sit and listen to.a narrative of it with delight. Nannette went far away from the city, and in a little town by the sedgy sea shore, taught her boy to' pray. Year after year went by. The world -rolled on like a great wheel; men, and woman, anti children dropped of like flies and Jedd Pantry's hammer was so be-y—oh so busy ! Now while shrouds were being made ) and coffins vainisbed, ,and world* was turning on its atis, Nan- none died. The night of her death, ust as old,Jed4 was fitting the lining to an infant's coffin, a grave grew by at his feet—a willow and a rose bltsh,Abd he beard the finglng of birds 1 He knew what it meant: Be knew that some whete---he could not tell wherethere was another mouadjust like the one -bmide him. Ohl how blithely the little birds sang to Jedd. There was a new 'Heaven antra—nee earth for Eoembody that night, and how mer rily the robbing sang about id All this hap pened while the snow flakes were twining nimbly over the house top like little White mice! Every Christmas ere at the same hour itsid s e es this phantom mound with its sigh ing willow tree, and its lovely &wine, and its fairy birdelliuing- here and -there, like the fragmenti of a brOken -minima I A.nd at night be has fealful dream. • Tie fancies that four fever, 4 . 140 are !nssing him in bis bea velvet pall.l cYelkri Jack, with his great jaundiced risme, • 13rain•ferer,.• shouting deliriously, Scarlet feVer, with red hot eyes and Putrid lips, and Thiliod, Still and dreadful—be sees theniknll I and they paw *him. their die , gusting hands,and kiss him on the mouth till poor Jedd isomer going mad with agony and Nannette's ebild Ira" adoptcd by a ilsber unites wife ! and very badly adopted; for when poor Tom was , not - catching thh, be waiestehing some thing else. - So-between boating. and beating; the *as not se happy .as be' !eight have bees with mare-of one and• less of the other or a gitntie sues: woe? of Both. Itartng indulged :n fsior years' experience of being whaled, be took it into his head to have a hand in the Wines bitetelE" "To be, or eot to be," was a goes, don in the boy's ruled; sod "sot to be" beat- en any more was his decision ; so one fine momi ng," wi thou*, much as the cognisanc.e of his belcrred . mother, Amphitrite, he placed his came ois the books of the "good ship Maria Thelma," andsailed out of port with a light heart, one suit of clothes, and a pros pect of hard work,which is all the "rig out'' a true sailor needs. . Heaven bless them I But Tom was • too Jeliestely made for a whaling voyage,and after wasting:three years of the golden part of his life , he foond him- self in our great city, one night, without money, or friends, or a place to. die in. He wandered-from street to street - so charrned with the mad wrangling of sleigh bells—a new music to Lim—and so dazzled by the shop windows, that he forgot his hunger and the web of 'difficulties _which time and fate, the bpsy monsters were weaving • for him.— But hunger under such tircumstances, like a renewed note, only spares one for a little . while. It came back to him with ' interest, his hunger, and he grew disconsolate. The city, with all its strange newness; was forgotten in turio The snow chilled-himoind the happy children buying toys in the grand shops, and the merry sleighs darting through the street like swallows, gave him an acute sense of loneliness. There were do wither and•sisters to put gay presents iti his stock ings. - Indeed, if there had been, they might have brought the stocking too, for never a one had Tom on those cold little feet I Tom looked in Milliard's window at the rare pastry and confectionary and his hunger grew maddening. He turned from the heap ed delicacies, fearing that hefisight be tempt ed to thrust his arm through the thick plate glass and help himself. lie turned away in gastronomic agony, did Toro, and bearing the children cry "Merry Christmas I" won dered what it was and. where it could be I • L'oor Tom, _I have been looking for it this five years 1 - Nantuck passed rapidly up Broadway, and then to avoid the heedless throng, crossed over to the western part of the town. Fate led him, for fate deigns even to shape the lives of such estrayers as Tom. Once ho pained at a baker's door and.look ed so longingly at a waiter of . fresh tarts on the counter, that the shop girl gave him one, and her glossy curls shook all over with de light at the ravenous way he devoured it. "Poor fellow," 'said the girl, sobering, be must have been fearfully hungry. • He was ravenous, and he annihilated two tarts with enthusiasm. • As be w a rned out one of the cross streets which led into Sixth Avenue, be beheld an old man looking in an undertakers's window, as if he were weary of life, and .a desire to accost him and beg shelter, .or directions for finding it, overcome his pride, which was bet a remnant; of . its former self. He ap proached the man,who took no notice of him whatever, but continued to glare at the via -1 dow with a wildness that almost startled Tom from his design. tow our humble hero was never blessed, or afflicted, as the case may be, with great colloquial powers, and be was somewhat at a losses to how he should open a conversation with the eccentric and 'unique individual before him. In, this dilemma the words he had beard spoken .a thousand times that night broke musically over his liptif "Merry Christmas, sir." • - Then it WM that Jedd turned and h:tokod at him, and said : "Humph r • CHAPTER. It DOOR TOM'S A-COLD. • lert Tomtit floored, literailh at Chaps er The hoOrts went by like shadows, and he still !ay under the charmed influence of sleep —sleep tbts Huck; sptite, from the land of Nowhere, that sits .upon tired eye-lids and weighs them down so kindly. Erratic and coquettish sleep, that will and won't, and is so very like a woman! so bard to win, so ex qtlisitt and true when,won. . • Tom lay tire - timing of ships, anchors, and ambergris,.of Nantucket and tisk and !silent fields, • 2 "Where calm and deep The sunshine lieth like a golden sleep'!" In the midst of this the fire in the dimin. utiVe stove went out; and now commenced a combat between the warmth of the dream er's fancy and the coldness which was grad ually gaining possessirin of the fit Ons; , The 'dean of a conflagration In *the nest street, the muffled sound 'Clrthe engine, die fp. dowdy paSt die ' durii. by meu who' ilk, letnoncied hot, from *litittaelnoilitin3;antl the jubilant clashof 6314 noes end :heti, bad failed io mote the ale4Sn' Bit the wilitrit;invisiblu lips* l •Of 14 - Chill;flena were eitingintohiS, alimibef;itnt - • intifssiliii"is. e 4 of icicteel ", little .- enst;inwtriS4 - hiail '''Wjareall-Pfe#arink7 aiid "161414111 lost its bold of the stipol;'and th P'* wed d l ig; twai`4l o firifiratikti 401 5 11 i involuutatitriris,hetiPeUedjiiiii i ii..%4: t i le Oh. theiridiruiPtigilludlivtiktirplikto fact * 44 oouJd t el44 find th '" ll4 /, k h tt " 4 1**Al i millic , tbs* it'wis hi vain that be Bret 7 ne oqt of i be l l i f f : w 4 e 7 o j" t pu ' to " :4 8 4 r31 0 4 0 :• 4 1i er; like teittle;- the- eithi - feathhaibeistiiiii , j ° l s t wh e re I'd net it; Amt ‘*- circles' of his bO4, ittidifeep "•'- He spina- the velvet 'poi! ' - 'ett Ake coititet; tea eminent be bad evelopeB ihinitat itr ffils' dresdfuliolds: Bat therdistbAloth a tied: him no mon thail.if helrad. , Nita dam:' YYn abt it threw a chill over 11W-ilia seem- ed covered with a-blackfrost colder than the . snowy - tracery which grtic ilethop windowi him will it had been 'abtftilect'ic, warm his handi by the jetioftitewhidebtiiii ed azure, imd lew, entail colois.'-' tut it Cooly aggravated hit coldness. The idea of freezing te deitti took him and odt of thieve* ft' strange • 'sick kis eyes fell on a coffin which he' thought, Woild hold him comfortably. It nearly exhausted his strength to lei - padded box on ther floor. This being done , lie `settled him= self into it without hesitation, and' once mote Made a coverlid . of L e heiQ9 pat. Tomtit fell `a sleiii) again ant'c.ominitiond dreaming of dreary oceans and lonely inks and "ft.iry lands forlorn," of cross ' eyeless skulls, chtirch - fWrds .and epi , taple, 'and God knows what! 2.lust alriazen• lipped sentinel in a neighboring belfry, sol. evenly tolled , out the hour, and, .unseen save by God's won eye,ligh up the steeple inshe snow, and wind, and sleet,..a ghostly , finger pointed to the cabalistic figure XIL CHAMR.V.. LIFTING. THE PAL -L. Jedd -Pantry Alas detained at Spiryien. Duyiel's longer than Le had anticipated— twO hours longer ; and the lefoCk struck twelve as he' whirled round the 'corner, rind brought himself up against the wind in - front of his shop. The long \ tails of his . threadbite overcoat were flying all Waya; and' he look. ed liken great Lideons owl lost iivire night. When . Jedd opened the dtror,'Le - started back. • There, in the middle of the floor.just where the spectral, grave sprung 'up yearly,lay . a pall covered coffin, the gas going mit, and the boy gone I The place chilly and damp like a vault, and Jedd shivered so, that the show flakes flew froth him in every direc tion like , sparkS from .a scissor Oinder's grind stone. Tbe stiffness in his, knees gave out, and he supported himself against the counter. Now one of those changes mune, over Jedd Pallfry which happen to us all at tithes, and for which philosophy's self cannot accoutif.-• With resolute and featiess steps he apprOach ed the coffin and lifted the pall. The light which seemed to brighten up a fell aslant on Tom sleeping. The strange young„ face, shaded by tangled 'Curls of nut brown hair, and lacking the soft influence 'of Lis closed eyes, was almost 'wild in-its' beauty. The parted lips seemed ready to speak, but they moved not;; the e l yelids twitched, but they were not lifted; and be lay a double picture—life and .death!. Jedd started, but not with fear.. He felt some thing trembling, throbbing,_warming in bosom. It was only his heart melting. The nature and humanity of the man had broken their fetters like reeds, and the love 'which had lain in a trance for a 'dozen years,' reso up within him, and would he - heard. Ills heart knew the little stranger in the ceffin, and he bent over hiin 'with a tender'neSS that belongs to woman. "Nannette I" he said sofilY; "Oh, so won derfully like Ntintiette." ' The boy opened his even, and' looked abf3nt him confusedly. 'He attempted to rise; but his strength had succumbed' to coed end bun ger, and be sank back with a sickly smite. "Pm ao very' hurigry,'sir I"' "Only speak to me," ':cried ledd, briaise with emotion; "only say if'You are Ntinnett e's "Nannette, - Nantiette," said the bay,drearrt fly. "Is some one calling my mother?" The old - Man said not 'a word to ihis, but ktielt down by the coffin and wept. The clock struck- one as Jedd Pailfry 'pas sed through the . blinding , sleet with '" some'. thing heavy in his arms—sonie thug wrap ped in'a pall. A dropfsy poliCeinen ; enscon ced in a doorway, out • of "the Storm ) . bailed him, and tho drifted sliest tnitittoie 'than; knee deep-:-but Jedd, heeding nothing, strug, .filed on with his' butden.' Then a bfrilllatit coal fire threw.a lurid , and pleasant glair over; Jedd%' sitting, oOm. The elderly house keePei ) completydrd, 'with the exception..of a night cap'iiidek_shp bad forgotten toiemove—hPiiied to iti-aa 'state of mind;""col lieting' = more of hot water than wotild" mini Mil warm , .the feet all' her majesty's eubjeeta , ii the Crimen. :Cloie tho grate,'in' Larnbeit of atreasy chair t' theim'entisci4ns Toth,. *ith - Jechl-'snothing - one - o 4 -, Mi . :Vends and gazing !mitt:ltaly' face:' tio hour' went by and thoirthe'eltild's eyes un-. elosed;and Jedd trinfin his artii:ti_ and the oldwmn's whole '14'14 it'o4Yer -.--Wprayer to Win viti”totOkiii:lll4 wind to the shorn latiih'l" Whei T bride gala th,it siri* _never hiuilted 'YakPatti after nighti' have story.doncz' MMEEM=== i,.', , , , :i.•, , me.t.!. ~ -~~a= ' .e- .. . 43reourse,nopeou 'eatsemi it; - • lA.. Aid. and lob* iiiitiriaoriiiiif iidiAire . titi firdlid: - ''itti3:l_l&"7: 4 ' '; "?-- 1; 4 4 it' iii Wittfre-iiiii t 4eW,' - - 1 ''' ":!' t'''' . 4i my hiddi4la aWielleteir e l itiiii - ':: : 7 44cli t t fiw .all'g: f ia.Y ap, neelinet. lik d at t i7 A, lbl:wial nilo ttl4l°:l6:lr ,; l i :''l4 : 4" l 4lll" l lA V Tll !: ::-::11 . : mianotheil olarCiiaiAtti!'ititar:l*:i. :.:-` :: at last we wore ready foraiiii.o l7 `:. l - - :,--':, • :'' :' ,-,l olrWatittedifilitiaffiriWAV& 1 1 -6 ;=''' .- --, 40. drove . the ekt ii wV au* ~. ‘,. I. r-- , , ' 4 . tio *iv .; .„ ; wi t , . V$ 4,::W0. - Mary - git buy .... . - , 'are shirt . One of you nietit..4miti s94,olillittlit restda,f sills I. z ~;-' er.,41,11_,T,V,i - 1 A:4, "Now, inn," sayi Sophrony, ,SWfli #411; *PR, imestot.Ssi Vlts * tAllYs tthe-1 , 34104 4 0. 011 * • her a gOcid'aMoY timed she ',loloolllllffl°' get vevedi and so 1it,144-4 1 4,041114.111 - all' aheiii thitAnteriishili We cif . te the . - `"Seeltig l eetisr kinder Nit it Awk, , rid Aim iiiiiiii - Oitifiego4"o4:l4 chongti-ustikutiot tietivilinewiiiiiett,tw. 11 few adnuteeivisistk `4o6l4 , li'lliiitlisilwrr,__lllll2 - 11 biro" follmit hitt theystatiallikieS . rand! AOM ol 4l l *sboltt IV-Lg**/ 11 WW 8 U , ilik - ; , modest er!itoM, 10.1141 Vet* iiiatiriAtist* to deatli,whett she eeme into the roe* With ,- Stefilieti . and the, ra . iaistes.;.49l4:4","lins luinds. `ghe6iit. give her initiand . 4-444n0„ . "Your other beedr.. sitlethe SAS* r• - •' ' hik,' and poor' fik4i, 'ltetiridiiii hate,- , did is was not know Arbil he- si.sis ib4ut2 rte t iti his inistaker,end that the thillileili iteibilifil so be -gave - Item Ann MY ,jetk,hlol4,llllla ' Wonia'a do any:_ w ay,: ajecc unth•Liiimn ,we all around; but by tbilt-,# l l o 4ket dlit4l4W '0 1 ' 41 .44 7 1 vissb°t!tt - M4 *ItA 4 ,44/4 1 , 11 5,- 1_,.,*.t. # right land • to his left,lbrkF ri!,iftAwMft ti,i righhen both their lett hiWagaiii,tili t.: . [ all et eidgit;'Sedifiiighfiiiitii(Wiiiiiwa. ' ' get .tired:' 'Mt - AOqiiviiitekleeikars* key, and - fo4ndfe nuio liW e4WO`tiiiia", Sough -to - turylt off Visiglipersitiutireidlid Me* glass of water.,; ale -- iailditif ''bialkols drinking and the tumbier stoodligia-Amilkod I was so nervous, andiwAsiali a:lnrays - ***s it all over with, I ketcheit'uplhe4o . run with it to her, for I thought it ffeMihilm..* she was going to, •faint. SheAttekrtelph gig) drink—l dontknosn'himii .. lia iAt . ,7,,,,,,1he tumbler slopped, and trSeidsoSinill . i !ietv!Tßa us_both ire did're ;pill: Vie water ill:iiveilher Collar and dress. - -:.':' l h ,''-'."_. "I was dreadfully,. Ilitstered;iiii;lt `icioliais though 'twos ' niy' knit, and`' thli 'fast liitniel - did was to out with ''my hankerehief f eiht 'tireit, to Mary Ann ; 'it was nicely done, up she took lt and Shook It, the ICUs had ,hell in putt - pieta up to this time, but then__ Numb 4 , -giggler-nd - laugh as there was., I did_!nt know:Akita% jlled given the such astart tilt I Aooked that .. rd Ore Mary Aim that Here Mrs. -Zones, Who is . ; ii 'v c. ry • fleshy } wo• man, undulated andshoiik withher mirth,' ihneteitira she uld p rbeeed With' her 'airrithitii . , 4 2 l _l "Why", said she with tearatallingliterktfilki ping down her_etteeksi.."ht tackeiSfit Areas for aliarttdef. „That. egrie 441notailletilg ahsen min ded, and i falglo,- „ 014:: married after all 1", .t. _ . : : - - "Dear Me, yes,"said 017• id oat k to ise the: gelieiteii - cadlirr,.titiii 4 i ever , ten aif - ::;341 bt31tY123 4 "And the Why% me,* Said 41:10 ask questiona Every tiedy - ,ajlrefiellaight: to make Mary Ann a "Won, Or re Mra. ,,, Ams.l"7--= 16/1.7,74 r •"Weltik' tiriss Js"taluf&lo7,44- i lwil she hltd.rise , Ana 'itliat;C:iho - „oi4 or. 414 - fc MEETING . ' or JACKSON AND, J. Q 1 - I , At IMEGIGENT 4 MONFIOE'r LEI/ - . - The 'following stentint/tif- the maikiiiikio-' m a twesq General X. Iri ._ Jachetk4i-.; 4010*" dent Monwe's lermi the :eight , skftfr -' _ a election 'orei / seheen for the Seeitisiet,,, Heise Of fieiieeMiii4ivei",W tilieiltist liKis Parley's qteeolteetioni Willi Lifdtibe 3 / 4 * I! shalt riass- - over= other ' ledieidnitaiakiati% only noting an iliediat-Wht#46416,6 11103 , 1iikt ipeisona in the sumeinblyileboz-minit aflellistb. era, eagllWO ant -,thim1814 1 k4;*;... - 111 Alf-;l44nlSPreeleieS)44Ml4Qqi‘Walkl• It., chanced, in".the coarse of,the ayatigi t ihitt those two . ,Pe.,PsoPNl4v°, l ,vo ;1 11 4 1 1 ° th r5" 2 .044 1 4 . .:0 - j'etiiiied each 'eihr from ' oip i ctilti Ati lliieetlmis . yet' itilikefit ,linoiving - It, :;16tiaagydy, iiir were liti%Coit ingetre3r,thefifie r white' toti i 'Vihk.tVifte iiiiipeti.- by' - it Uri of IMitlaiii Of:4 Ved:'aelthoindi'let ibeni , faktv!lMlotainsi'AsW byllitielf;if4enetalJneksoalrettail4,lo*. some lady oft,l* svVhf, ~. tf7 .. ' 'A totati44o** 0t41, 1 0r La -, P 1 9 111 FV!,,. erkorit , Motittail#:. •iink iii,if. - 44irw . ir,d, _Sod ;reach log 1t , t lip it i* ~ -said; ito*4d'Yeu - iiii;* l A4# i - iti Wt hinsi, - fei"-itii;i WOO*** `Milli fain' l'inp"a• r tnioll44o-41 1 41., ~..alfligit.", AlPthiewaligalleeiff and itiartitisabillid4llll._ 16„ftAdliaatatill:fint lionaiarsciinidaiiiiiiiK: *MI chinhireOldheva4tV4Y l Ol, elteM o 4o Gen• Inekoonis wen rfi- 't—oflntig-f4i*l . ft s It was eutiona.,wier4he,Netiterkidsabiti the Ilsd i. at iMAtiiViill S t wAt#n h!!L co,lnallli iktort: IP ~ :„,: - *4itiviriliii.o.#4,esifoi I tii ism .. ail watit',lfigilik'litil "- .' - _. . _.... ......., . - mpoliniwartigretik tt ‘" - Itivitie dialiail :thiefPitibefikarei lkattei Rik 11000141, , . ..4 fi c ow ? ,Piktv 4 " ) . t gi , tlAtAt two io 4i guos ym . tind!ibitneeinialing ,i ... 1 i 1 ia 164 . 11/ ~v alt ibit - Adi - r eetie'eiitiiitro:k of 1 -it - , t*iz 10.5fa . 4411100 `,`
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