-,,.: 1: .6ttritstinilubli;krt. W I S. N G.- us J . 9UN G. SAXE, Of all ; amusements of the mind, - __ From-logic down to. fishing, • - There isn't one that you can find very cheap as "wishing!" . A very choice diversion, - too, - If wetbut rightly use it., _ And sayt as we are apt to do, Perveit it and abase it. • • $ I - wish—A common wish indeed-- "Tait was somewhat fatter, T Ilmight cheer•the child of need, And not my pride to flattei ; • That I Might make opprestareel, .AS only gold can make it, And break the tyrant's rod of sleet Asionly gold can break it. I wish that sympathy and love, Aild-every truman passion That has its origin above, Would come and keep in faehio That acorn andjea lousy and hate, And every - base. emotion. Wore 'buried fiftyfittiOnrs deep, Beneath the-waves of ocean.' • Wish that frienes Were always true . Aniamotir s es'always pure ; I wish the good were not so few, I wish the bad were fewer; I wish that pirating ne'er forgot . To heed the pious teaching ; I 4rih that practicing was not different 'from preaching. I wish that modern.worth might-be -Appraised with truth and candor ;, I - wish that-innocence _was free From treachery and slander; I Wish that men their vows'would mind, • That woman neer were rovers; I wish that wives were always kind, And husbands always oVers. I; whia—in fine—that joy and mirth, A-nd eVery good ideal, - - May CoMeere,while throughout the earth To be the glorhUS real, Till Cod shall every creature bless . WWI supremest' blessing, A'nd hope be lost in happiness, And wishing be poscessiur. Cie `juOrtb Poll 4 liiit. Mr. John Somers was a' merchant, doing )businiss in A thriving_country village... He -had tio clerks in his employ. both of them faithful and industrious, trot with some differ ence in minor pofnfs of character. Peter Whise was twenty-two years of age, the child of sr-now widowed mother, and in his Noe of a profession he had only been governed by the desire to yield to his mother and self the surest means of honest support. Walter Sturgis was of the same age .and .equally as Honest;, but he paid mbie attention ,to the outward appearance of things, than did'his companion. For instance, it galled ;him to be obliged to put on his frock and overalls,, and help pack up pork, potatoes,and FO on' . ; while Peter eared nct what he did, so lonz as his ma-,ter required it, and it was honee. - One-day, Mr. Somers called the tiro young men into his counting-room,- and cl.wd the door after them. Ilia- countenancer looked troubled, and it was some momentNbefore he spoke. • 'pop,' lie said, at lengthiltil hate been doing a very foolish thing. I have lent my name to those I have thought:friends; 'and they have ruined me... 1 gave them *emu% notes, and they promised solemnly , that these notes should not piss from their. hands, save to se - eh ,men as I might accept. .Of coutse I took their notes in exchange. They have now failed and cleared out, and have left my paper in the market to'the a mount of- seven thousand dollars. I may arise agairi; but I must give up my business. Everything in the stye is attached, and;l am left utterly powerless to do business nosy. have looked over your'necounts ' and find that I owe you about asbundred dollars each. Now I have just one hundred dollars in money. and the smali:piece of land on the side 9f the hill just'back of the town house. There are four acres ,of this land, and I have been offered a hundred dollars for it , repeatedly, by those who.'have land adjoining. I feared this blow, which huts come upon me, and : l 'con veyed_ this 'land to my brother ; so now he' can conveylt to whom he pleases . Now I wish yriu whuld makeyourehoice: If I.could pay - :you both in money, I would, but as I cannot e one you must take this land;'.What say you l -Yon, Walter, have teen atith me the longest, end you shall say first." Walter-Sturgis hesitated spme 'moments, and then said "I'm sure' I dou't want the' land unless I' could sell it right off." s".A.b, but -that Won't do," returned Mr. Somers,-'lf you take the land you must keep it. Were you to sell it, my creditors would sal, it once you did it for me,and I.pocketed the money." - - "Then I am _willing to divide the ItUndred dollars with Peter, for if I bad the land sliquld do nothing with' it." - "Oh you need not divide the' money, for Jean raise the hundred dollars on the . land. My brother will do that.. Brit. I imagined ;that you would prefer to have k the land, for I knew the soil ivas.gocd though quite rocky. However, what.say you, Peter I" "Why Pa take the -land, or I . wp divide equally with Walter," retu rn ed Peter,. "each of us take half the.money-and half the laud." "But what should I. want withthe land I" said Walter. "I could not stork on should hardly like to descend frortia clerkship to digging and delving in a blue froilt and cewhille boots." _ -•- "Thin it is easily settled,"-rejoined Peter, "for I should 'prefer the land." - Walter was pleased with this, and - before tight be had a hundred-dollar-bill in- his pocket, and Peter had - the. warrantee deed . of, the four - acres of land upon the bill-Ode. Bo th, the young men belonged in the village, and • had always lived there. If was five miles from tbe, city, and of course . many city fash ions were prevalent there. It .was under the influence of this fashion' that Walter Sturgis - refused _to have. anytbirig to do with the land. Times were dull and business , was slack, even though it was early spring. Peter White's first ,object, after having got the deed of his land, was to bunt -urr acme kind of work. Had he been - a mechanic he might bare found some place, but be knew no trade except that of salesman' and book-keeping. A whole week he searched in vain for employ ment, l)nt at the end of that time he foind an oklifanuer who wanted a hand, though be could not afford to pay much. But Peter, finally, and with the advice of Mr. Somers, made an arrangement ofthis kind lie would work for the , old farmer (Mr. Stevens) steadily. until the ground was open,and then he should have half the time to devote upon his own lantl, and in part payment ;for-his services, Stevens - was to help about all the ox work the youth might 'need. Next Peter went to the laurel, vales* there as quite n stable, and en gaged a hnttdred loads of manure, the land lord promising te_ take Ws pay in products when harvest time came. So Peter. White pet on tha ti Iti a frock and cow-bide boots,and mmt.m. Work for farmer Stevens. - - - ••• _ In the meantime Walter Sturgis bad been "What will he Pay ?" to the city to try to And a situation in some "Three hundred." More, but be came home bootie-+s. He was )'Ah, Walter, I can make more than That torprised'ahc4t he met Peter driving an ox rrom my land." - - first he lead through the village.' t ,ttd, Sturgis opened his eyes in astonishment. could hardly beliese his own es. Could: - . "You - are joking," said he. - it be possible that that was Pete White, in ". 2.7 9, sir. I received five hundred and five that blue frock andAluise coarse boots I On dollars in money last season., Seventy-five of the next day a !elation from the citsscame to i t hat, went for manure ; but some or that ma see Walter. The two walked out, and dur,t F nurels now ots band, as I found the ground ing the day Walter saw Peter coming towards iso rich last year as not to need much over them with' his team. lie was hauling lumber 'half of it. This season I shall have two bun which. Mr.. Stevens had been, getting outldred dollars worth df strawberries, if nothing during the winter. Walter saw hew coarse lhappenssinusual." and amble Iris quondam clerk mate looked," And you' don't have to work any winters I and be knew that Peter would hail him if to-de thieP they met, So lie caught his companion by the i ~-" No, four month's labor is about all4can arm and dod ged in a by-lane. Peter saw I lay out to advantage on it." . the movement, and be understood it, but ; Walter went to his store, and during the he only smiled. By-and-bye, the snow was ;rest of the evening. he wondered how it, was all gone from the hilt-side. The wintry garb Ithat some folks had such luck. was removed from that spot some time before i :During the second seaeon,Teter bad expe it left other places. for Peter's lot lay on the deice for a guide, and be filled up many southein slope of the hill, and thus had all [gaps that be left open the year before. His the advantages of the warm sun without any strawberries turned out better than hen had of the cold north and east winds. The youth I anticipated, and he made a better _arrage. found his land very rocky, but none of them Iment for his melons. And then from all Oat were permanent ,•' so -hi s e„t move was toget land whereon be planted his early peas, etc., off some cf these obstructions, and as Mr. be obtained a second crop of much value.— Stevens' landr was not yet clear from snow, he ;It was but one half hour's drive into the city, was able to_ give his young workman con- rand he always , obtained the highest prices, siderable assistance. They talc two yokes for he brought the earliest vegetables in the ' of 'oxen and two drags, and went at it, and in 'market- . just See days 'every rock wris at the foot of ' On the first of the next November be had the slope, and made into good stone wall. ,cleared seven hundred dollars for the season, Peter then hauled on his hundred loads of ,over and above all expenses. i manure,which he had for ievente-lye d o ll ars , ' One morning, after the crops were all in, and part of it he plowed in, , - „ tft part - s o Peter found a man walking about over the saved for top-dressing. : laud, and as the young man came up the Peter now worked early and late,and much stran h. is mine, sir, ,g replied Peter. er asked him who owned the bill-side. cf the time be had help. Mr. Stevens was man looked about and then went Harp s rised at the richnessof the soil, but there w The and on the \next day he crime again _was reason fur it. At the top of thethill there ' r t Y' with two others. They looked over the place, was a huge ledge, and the rocks which had encumbesed the hill - side must, at some and they seem ed to be dividing it off into small lots. They remained about - an hour former period, have come tumbling down and then, went away. Peter suspected this from the ledge; and thwe rocks,-lavitos there land was wanied for something. That even for ages, perhaps, • and covering nearly half ing lie stepped in at tho post office, and :her© the surface of the ground, bad served to keep lie beard that a railroad was going to be put the soil moist and mellow. The first thing through the village as soon as the workmen Peter planted was_abolit a quarter of an acre could he - set at it. of water melons. He then got jesome early On the e ttext morning, Peter went out upon garden sauce—such as potatoes, ;sweet corn, Lis land, and as . he reached the upper boon peas, beans, radishes, cucumber, tomatoes, ;dart' and turned and looked down the truth .and so on. And he got his whole piece flashed upon him. His hillside had a gentle, worked up and planted before Stevens' farm easy slope, and the view from any part of it was free from snow. People stopped on- the was delightful. A brook ran down through road and gazed upon the bill-side in a onder. it from -• an exhaustlesis spring up in the ledge, Why had Olt spot never been used before I ;and the locality would be cool and agreeable —For forty years it. had been used as a sheep ;,, sum mer, and warm in winter. At the pasture, the rocks having forbidden alla mall lake, I.I.:;oof th,e bill, to the left , lay thoughts of cultivating is. But how ad- • • r ran in sightforseveral : while the,rive • mirably it was situated early tilling ; and "Of course," soliloquised Peter, "they think how rich the soil must have been, with s\ . ',this would make bea utiful building spots.— sheep 'Among over it so long. A ri adjoiningl Cutious and the hill itself And wouldn ' t it . t hat I never tho't bill shut off the east winds , of it before. And - then when a railroad gave its backsto the cbill,north. \ comes here, people from the city w i ll' want Peter had planted an acre of corn, an acre their dwellings here. But this land is-valw of potafbes,and the rest belied divided among • a bl e , I t i s worth=let me see—say six hnn all sorts of produce. Then be went to work dred dollars a year. I can easily get eight for Stevens a,gein, and in a few weeks he had or nine hundred dollars for what I can raise more titan paid for all the labor ho had been bere, and I know that two, hundred dollars obliged.to hire on his own land. - will pay me a good round price for all the In the meantime,Walter Sturgis had again labor I perform - on it. And then when my been looking after employment. His-hundred peach trees grow up, and my strawberry beds dollars nereused up to the last penny, and increase =— Ho—it's more valuable to me than just j then be accepted s a place in one of the it could be to any one else." , storesin the village, at a- salary of three When Peter went home, It could not re 1-hundred dollars a year. He still wondered sist the temptation to sit down and calculate how Peter White could cuntent himself in bow many house lots his land would make; i-such business. Peter used to be invited to and he found that his hillside would - afford all the little parties when he was a clerk, but fifty building spots, with a good garden to he was not invited_ now. Walter Sturgis each one. But he didn't think of - selling. went to these parties,and he was highly' edifi- Two days afteiwards, six men came to look ed by them. Also, when Peter was a clerk, at the land, and after traveling over it, and there-- were several young and handsome sticking up some stakes, they went away.— damsel who loved to-it:Ask in the sunlight of That evening Teter went down to the hotel, his mu: .. sf and one of thetn lie fancied he and the first Ching be heard was: loved. After lie bad the bill side planted, he -" Alm, Pete; you've missed it." -wen( to see Cordelic Henderson,and be asked " How so.r asked Peter. - her if she would bec.ome his wife at some lii- " Why, how much do you get for your tare period when he was prepared to take billside l l". ' -, •-. such an arth:le to his borne. She told him "_What do you Mean 1" . she would think of it and let him know, by " Haven't you sold it 1" lettet. Three days afterwards be received a letter front her, ifr" which she stated that she could not thitik of uniting her destinies with a man who could only . delve in the earth for a living. Peter shed a few tears over the unexoec!ed note, and then he reasoned on the subject;and:finally blessed his fate, for he was sure that such a gill was not what he needed 'tor a, wife: . . When tbe first Qf July came,Peter reckon ed up' his accounts, :and - he found that Mr. Stevens was owing him jost. tarro dollars, and all be owed to the world, was seventy-five dollars-for manure. On the third of July be carded tot i he hotel ten dollars worth of green peas, beans-and radishes; and in three days afterwards - lie carried to the city twenty-eight dollars ,worth.. Toward the end of the month be had sold one - h - undre,l and thirty dollars worth of early potatoes, butts, peas, etc. Then be had early corn enough to bring him fifteep dollars more. Ere long his melons were ripe. A dealer of the-city had engaged them all. - -He had six hundred fair melons, •for which she received - "four t een cents a piece by the lot, making eighty-four dollars for the-whole. • • During tbe whole summer Peter ,was kept busy in attending to'tbe •• githering and sel ling• of the products of his - 01-side: Be helped Mr. Stevens in baying,and about some other matters—enough so that he could hate sorne,help when he- wanted it, When the last bar vestinicarne., he,gatttercd-ittsettentv eight bushels of .core, aud four hundred of potatoes, besides turnip, squashes, pump "WE .ARE ALA. EQUAL BEFORE GOD AND TUE CONSTITETION."—Janses Buchanan. marts t, Susqnqanna Conittay Citrsbag, Doming, Zaig, 2ft, I&58 kins, etc, and eighteen bushels of white beans. On the first day of November,Peter White sat down and reckoned up the preCeeds of his land, and he found'. that the piece was yielding him just five hundred and Are.dol - and besides this be had corn, potatoes, beans and vegetables sufficient for his own use. That winter he worked for Mr. Stevens, at getting out lumber for twenty five dollars per month ; and wiled Spring came ho was ready to go at his land again. In the meantime, Walter . Sturgis bad worked a year litt a, fashionable calling for three hundred dollars, and at the end of the teim be was the absolite owner of just .two* I dol tars. 'Say, Peter, you aren't going to work on that land of yours another season, are you r asked Walter, as ,the two met in the street ne evening. "To be sure I am," was the response. "But here's Simonds - wants a clerk, and I old him I guessed you would be glad to Come." " "No, tAr." , Wky there was a man here a week or so ago, and to day he came and brought five city merchants with hih, and I can take my oath that each one of them engaged a build ing lot of him. One of them spoke to me about what a lovely spot it, was; and I told noboby would have thought of builjng tbeie till you get the rocks off. bukhaven't you sold it though ?" "No, not au inch of it." • " Why, that. man told me he had engaged to pay four hundred dollars for a choice lot of twelve square rods." "Then he will•find his lot somes here else, I guess, till I Sell Out." Some more conversation was bald, and then Peter went down. On the following forenoon, the very man who had . been the first to come and look at the hillside, called to see Peter, introducing himself as Mr. derson, . • "Let's see—l believe you own some two or three acres of land, up here on the hill side;" be said . very carelessly: " I own four acres- there," replied Peter, very exactly. . • " Ab, yes—well; it..doest , l i t make much difference. • I didn'i notice particularly how Mich there was. I thought I should like to build there, and if von will sell the land rea sonable, I plight like to purchase. It would be enough to afford me quite a garden': though I suppose it would cost me about as mach to till such land as the produce would ba itirrtb:4 "That would d - epetid upon bow you work ed it," gild Peter, dryly. "Olt, yes, I -suppose ,o. But you aro wilGrig to sell out, I suppose t" " 'Oct/thinly." %e man's eyes began to brighten. "How much should you rut for it I" he asked.' " Well, I don't know. What could you afford to pay I" " Why, I suppose I could afford to pay a great deal wore than it is worth. Rather than not hare it I would pay--well; say— tit) hundred. dollars, or two hundred and fifty at the outside." I don't think there is much nse of our talking, sir." k But—you - paid' one hundred, only, if I mistake not." ' "I had my choice between one hundred dollars and the land, and. I 'chose the latter. But as you seem to labor in the dark, I will explain to you. - In the first place there is not another spot of land in this section of the countri, that possesses the natural advanta ges which this one does. I can have my early peas and vines up and hoed ,before my neighbors get their groufid plowed ; so I have my early sauce in the market ahead of all others, save a few hot house plants, which cannot compare with mine -for strength and size. Then my soil is very rich, and - yields fifty per cent. more than most other Now look at this : During the last reason I bare realized over eight hundred dollars from this land, and next -season I can get much more than that, for my itrawberry vines are flourishing finely. There are not any two farms in this town that can possibly be made to realize so much mobey as my hillside, for you see it is the iime of my produce, and not 4uatitity, that 'does the business: A bushel of my early peas on the 22d day of May, are worth ten times as much as my neighbor's bushel on the first of July. and August. Two hundred-dollars will more than pay me. for all my time and trouble`in attending to my land ; soyou see I have this year six hundred dollars interest." "Then you wouldn't sell for less than Mx hundred, I suppose I" • said Mr. Anderson ; carefully. - "Wciuld you sell out a concern that *RR yielding you a nett profit ofsix hundred dol lars a year for that sum, sir ? asked Peter. "Ahem--Irelt—ah—you put it rather-cu riously." "Then I'll put it plainly. You may have the hill,ide fo s r ten thousand dollars." Mr. Anderson laughed, but be,found that Petar . was in earnest and he commenced to curse and swear. At this, Peter simply turned apd left his customer to,himself, an d he saw ncthing more of the speculator. _ Two days afterwards, however, three of the rnerchants.eare to see our hero, and when. they had • heard his sirriples story they were willing' to do justly by him. They Went up and examined the spring, which they found to be pure as chrystal, and as it was then a dry season, they saw that the supply of . water could never fail, and all the libuses which might be built upon Peter's land Gould be supplied with running water, even in the vety attics of the upper ones.. • • The merchants first went to the man who. owned the land above Peter's, including the • ledge and the spring, and he agreed to sell • for two hundred dollars. This, to builders,' was a great bargain, for the stone of the ledge. was excellent granite. Then they callei, a surveyor and made a plot of the hillside, vhereby they found that they could' have forty building lots,,worth from two hundred and fifty tcsfour hundred doll's's each. They hesitated .not a moment after the plbt was made,but raid Peter ten' thousand dol lars cheerfully. Ere many days alter this transaction,Peter White received a ver7 polite note from Cor della Ilender , on, asking him to call and see her ; but he did not call.• He hunted up Mr. Somers, and he went into business with him, and this very day Somers 4 . ,White do busi ness in, that town, and Walter Sturgis is their bookkeeper. And in all the country there is not a prettier spot than the old hillside,— The railroad depot is near it's foot, and it is occupied by sumptuous dwellings, in which live merchants who•do business in the adja cent city. .One thing Peter missed—that he did not reserve a building spot for himself. But his usual good fortune attended him even here. A wealthy banker had occasion to move 'to another section of the country, and he sold out his - house and garden to Peter for just one-half what the building cost him. So Peter took a wife who. loved him when Ire dug in the earth, and found a home for her and himself upon the old hillside. And now, reader, where dilyett think the is I Perhaps you know ; for it is a veritable history I have been writing, and the placel have told you about, is now one °ladle most select suburban residences in-the country. THE MISER'S' HEIR'. "I tell von no, Agnes, [ won't have it.— The fellow only wants my money. I know ]rim, I know him. I know all these dandified jimeracks. They hang around a few bags of dollars like cows around carrion; I won't h i ve any such thing. - Now you know." !Tattier, you judge Walter too harshly.— Lie is a good man, honest and industrious, and—" "Industrious you say ? Ily the big - lump I'd like to know what he has got to show fur his industry." • `•Ile has a superior Education, father." "Education-? Fiddlesticks I Can he live on his education I Can he make dollars by it i" "Yes, he can live on it. He. has already obtained a good situation as a cletk." "And will earn about enough to keep him in his fine clothes he wears, I know these fellows - . But there's an end on't. If you choose him father than your poor old father, ,you can do'so. I can live alone,l shan't live long—you can—" "Stop, stop, father. Urdu hairs no right to , talk so, You know I could not.leave you." And- Agnes Bremen threw her arms about the old man's neck, and kissed'him, and \ theft she left the room. • • curious how these young fools act," the wiser muttered to himself, after-he had watched 'his child depart. - "There's been twenty of the sharks after her—twenty of 'eat hoterrng around her, like man-eaters after g dead , hocly. Don't I know wharthey want Can't I - see ? Aha—can't I though-! It's my money ! But Agnes has never loved one of them till this Adam came along. The jackanapes ! And now she wants to get mar vied right away. Nonsense.", The - old man bowed his ittaii its h 0 spoke and he saw a drop upon the back of his hand. It was a bright drop and the rays of the get ting sun were playing on it. "She cried when she kissi-fl me," heichis pored, wiping the tear. from -hie hand. "I don't see who makes her so tender-hearted. She never took it from me—but she may have-it from—" - The old man stopped, and a cloud came over his wrinkled brow, for there 'was a pang in his heart. He remembered the geitle,nn complaining- being who bad4'once 'been his companion—the mother of his child. He re membered how she became his wife, even when the bloom of manhood passed from him; hoti she loved and nursed him, and caredicir him, and how he taught her child to care for him, too. And he remembered bow she had-never complained, even while suffering, and how she had died, with a smile and a blessing; upon her lips, though the gold of her husband brought her no comforts. ,Noah Bremen bowed his frosted head / more :Ow, and in his bean he wished that he could forget'all but the fleeting joys of his life.— But he could not forget. He could not for get that it had been whispered that his wife might have lived longer iT she had had the prdper clothing' and medical attention. "But it would have cost so much ! I saved money 1° - • Ah, the reflection would not remove the pang. The other memory was uppermost. , Noah Bremen had passed the allotted age, of man, being over three-score years and to; and all his life had been devoted to'acdUmu•, lating money. He bad denied himself every comfort, and his heart had been almost as hard as the gold be had hoarded. But as his hair grew more white and sparse, and the years came more heavily upon -him, be tho't more. Thesweet smile. of his dead cKife lea doing its rpfission row f"and the pure love of his gentle khild was- a remembrance to biro thit't therefwere better hearts than his own. At length the miser arose . and passed out from the room. He would haie left the hut, but as he readied the little entry-way, he heard a voice in the garret. It was his child's. He crept up the rickety stairs, and looked through a crack in the door. He saw Agnes upon her knees; Tears were rolling down her cheeks, amLher bands were clasped towards heaven. . And-she prayed •-• "0, God ! be good to my father, and make. his heart warm and peaceful. Make ;me to love him with all tenderness and enable me to do well and truly the duty which I pledged to my sainted mother I I..ptemised her I would love and care for him always. Father in Hetven, help me ! Oh ! help me." The old mem crept down soars and opi doors, and for a whole hour he walked alone among the trees. He thought again aids wife, again of his child—and then—of his gold ! And this was not the first time he had walked• alone there. fl did not know himself how great was the infinencw which his child was , then exerting upon him. Agnes—pure, good, beautiful Agnes— wept long and bitterly in her little garret, and when she had become calm, and her cheeks were dry,she-carne down and got sup per. But she was not the happy, stnirng be ing that had flitted about the scatty board heretofore. A few days after this, as Noah Bremen approached his cot one morning, he heard voices within. He peered through a rent in the coarse paper curiain, and saw Walter Adarnii with his Child. Her head was upon Walter's shoulder, arid his arm was about tier. • Walter was an orAan, and had been Ag nes' schdolmate, and her fervent lover Oro' all the years of youth. lie was an honorable virtuous man,' and loved the gentle girl be cause she was so good, so gentle,- and so beautiful. And she loved.him, net only be cause be had captured her heart in time none, but because his gas 'of all suitors the only one whose character and habits promised joy and peace in the future. • "I cannot leave my poor old father, Wal ter," the old man heard his daughter say,,-- '"I must live to love and care for him. It is I bard f my heart may break. But the pledge of love.l pre to my dying mother _must be kept." . "And so the great joy--dream of my youth I is to be changed to-this sad reality!' exclaim led Walter sorrowingly. "I cannot ask you to leave' your father, sweet Agnes, for the Ivery truth,in you which I worship . would be made a lie if you should do so. But I have a prayer—an honest, sh4ere prayer. I pray that God, in his mercy,niay remove the curse ' from your father's bend e 4 form !"- "The curse, t Walter V • "Aye-rthe gold curserrejoined the youth, fervently. "I hope. God may ; render him penniless 1" . "What 1 penniless !" repeated Agnes, -witli a start." . "Aye--petiniless t for then be would be far more wealthy than he is now. Thea be would blow how to appreciate the priceless blessing of his Agnes' 'love; and their the crust might be broken and his heart grow human again. And more than all,",Walter continued, winding his arm closely about the . fair form of his companion,and speaking more deeply ; %hen I could prove to him my love. Then I could take yon to my hothe—and take your father to my home—and we could both love him, and care for - him %bile he lived." ' • "'Noah Bremen -- stopped to hear no More, and as he walked away he Muttered to him " The rascal ! He'd do great things. Me penniless ! And he prayed fur i t The' young villain !" When the old man gained his accustomed walk among the sycamores, he wiped some thing from his eye. He sated as though a mote had blown in his eye. • .. Two weeks passed on and Agnes grew . pale and thin. ..She did not sing as !the used 10, nor could she smile •as had been ber wont. Still she murmured not, nor did her kindness to her father grow less. "Oh God ! help me to lore my father!" she prayed one night. "Let not grief make Me forget iny duty V' And the old roan heard it. One came honie from thescity, and in his hand he brought a small trunk:— He barred the door and' dial the tattered curtains close. "see !" be said, as hesepened the friialr,and "piled the new bank motes upon, the table, "look here, Agnes, and see how I have work ed in my lifetime. I bad no education, but I have laid up money-ti:orsey—;-mosev ! How tiany,men would sal'me their brains for this to-night I See—one thousand--two —tbree:—•fourfive—count. them, Agnes-- there's a thousand gold dollars in each pack age I" • • Agnes Counted than Over, for she thougti her father_ wished it, and she made out fifty of till packages "ti hy have you taken it from the bank, father f" she asked. • " To let. it, my child—to let it at a round interest, Agnes. I shall double.it, darling— double it—double 4.1" And while the old man's eyes spaikled with evident satisfaction, his child wore a sad, sorrowing •look. And long after she sat and looked at the working features features of her father and prayed that the Gold send would ret him free. Wben Agnes retired she left her father up; but ere long she heard Lim put his little trunk :away and thon go to his bed. And then she slept. • Harltl - What sound is that I Agnes starts up in affright, and • listens. But see 1 A bright light is gleaming out into the night, and thick Volumes of smoke pour into the garret " Fire! Fire 1 sounded a .voice from the entry, and she hea-s the sharp. crackling now, and feels the heat. " Agnes 1 My child!" And in another momont she meets her father upon the stairs. I,e is dressed, btit - she is not.. "Take all your clothing, Agnes, and you_ can put it on in the entry. The house is all on fire." In a few momenta. more the father and child stood in the road, the latter with a bun die of clothing in her hand,. while the former held a Small trunk. They gazed 'upon the burning building„ but neither of them spoke. ' And others came running to the scene but no One tried to stay the •fiames. And the effort would hare been useless had it been made, for the old shell burned like tinder.— But more "still—no one would have made the effort, even had success been evident, for the miserable old but had too long occupied one of the fairest spots in the village. There were no other buildings to be endangered, so they -let the old thing burn. - . _ . 1 You have your money safe," said Agnes. " Ye!. See—l took the trunk. I left the candle-'burning so that I could watch it.- 1512C - Viient - to sleep', and the candle must have fallen over.• Mkt I got the trunk !" And as he spoke he held it 4 p and gaffed • i upon it ,by the light of the flaming ruins. " That is not the trunk!" whispered Ag nes, in affright. " Nor —" But the old man spoke no further." He saw that lie had taken the wrong frantic. T6i, Ivan *Ol mind nitb cdd deeds and dusty receipts! " Ruined ! Lost ! ' groaned Noah Bre men, as he turned from the scattered embers. " I had fifty thousand dollars in tbat trunk ! And where are they now I" "Never mind," said Agnes, winding he; arm about her father's neck, " we'll behappy without it.". * * * * " What i" muttered Noah Bremen, gazing into Walter- Adams' face.. "Do you mein that you 'will give ma a .home, top 1 That you will provide for me and keep me 1" "Nes," returned the young_rnan hopefully, "-I never could be happy with - Agnes, much as T love her, it I thought her poor old father had no home—Come--:well live together, and be-as happy as the days are long." " But vour salary, young man I" • " h suhicient for us, sir.- I have five hun dred-dollars-a year. We can live well on that, and lay up something, too." " Well, well—take her-love good th her—make her happy— = don't never." When-the old man: saw the joyous tenns leap from the child's eyes he turned away, and walked quickly-from the house; but he was not so quick, but that he 'heard the blessings that followed him. • And when he walked alone beneath the starry heavens he wiped his. own eyes as though son:fettling trt übled him. • Gay as a lark, was gentle, beautiful Agnes, when she became the wife of Walter Adams. The rose bloothed again tipon her cheek, and the smiles were upon her happy face like the bright sunshine all the day long. Do yOu pray God to help von love the now r the old than asked, after he had lived with Walter some months. • " Why—what do you.can 1" Agnes in surprise. "You used to pray so; for t have heard you;" returhed Noah. A niotnetit the yoimg wife gazed into her pardut t a face, and then she answered, while she threw her arms about her father's neck. "Oh! I pray that you may be spared to us for long years in peace and happiness; but.—love you 1 Oh ! I could not help- it if 1 should try. Avd Walter lobes you father —be loves you very much, for he has; told the so many , a time." There was something more than usual in the old man's eye now. doe evening, as'the happy trio.sat at the tea-table, Walter looked mole thoughtfull y ' than usual. • " What is it love I" Agnes asked. "o—nothing," the husband said, with a smile. "I Was only,thinking.7 "But of what r "Only castle'building—tbat'a all." "In the air; Wsli‘rf" asked . Noah.. "Yes—very high in the air," the young man returned with a laugk. "But•tell us what it is." - "Well—ill as lief tell yen as not, ltr. Osgood is to retire from our firm in a few ddys. He is4ell advanced in' years and. heti made a fortune busiriess, and he will live now for. comfort and for health alone. lie has not been very well of late years." , " - And' is that all 1" 't But *bat dastle in the air' is dieroaboat thati" "0--that isn't the Castle!" "Then what is the castle!". urged the old man, playfully.- , " Why—why simply this,' ; slid Walter, laughing, but vet almost ashanied to' tell: 'This , uoon Mr. Osgood patted me on the shoulder, and Said he—in a •playful way,— ' Walter, I'll sell you all my interest bare for fiftv_thousand dollars. " "gal hal hal" latighed Noah Braman, "and you thought he was in earnest." "No, no," returned the young man. "1 sill 'tot think that; though I knew thitt the • ITOntnt 15, ttumbtr ,air, other tivo partners would willingly badetiva for an assoniate.". "But it seeMs io me that Old Osgood holds his share in tb s .:, concern at a high future." Oh no; it is a very low one. There is cleir capital of one hundred and fifty thO el. and dollars in the business at this moment; and then think of al-1 the standing, and good will-which Riles fqr nothibg." " Ha ! ha! ha I" laughed the old man agatti. Then Wal•er laughed ; sad then Agnes laughed ; and then they finished super. On the next evening Walter Adams came in and sank•down on the sofa with Out speak ing. He was pale and agitated 'and his eyes had a vacant and wandering look. _ "Walter 1" cried Agnes in terror, " what has happenedr- " He's - sick," muttered Noah Breinen, with- out looking round. " No, no—not sick ret u rned the young Man, starting lip " but lam the victim of i s miserable trilling." , • "Eh I how so I" 'asked old Noah turning . his chair. I "I:11 tell yoti," said Walter with a spasmo dic effort. "1 bad some long entries to Poo this evening, so I remained in the counting-, room after the rest had gone. I was still at Work when Mr. OsgoOd Icatite in and placid some papers on my desk, saying as he did so - Here, Walter these pipers are yours: And be west out. When I had finished my work,' I opened the papers. The.first was a sort of inventory of what Osgood had owned in OE business,- and footed up, in square numbersV, forty-nine thousand eight hundred and Bev; enty-five dollars. The next was a dee d . con veying the whore vast property to meiwnd Making me a partner In the concern upon equal footing with the ether two-I" Well," said the old man, thumping hie foot upon the , carpet, and keeping time'with - his hand. " I-don't see anything very bad in that." " But I do," replied Walter. "It is enrol to trifle with me Chris;' There was something in . Noah's eye again, but he managed to get it- out, , and be spoke thus:' • . • " Walter AdaniS, when young men used to hover about, my child, I believed they *ere only after my gold : and I know that in most cases I was correct. I believed the same of you. I knew, nothing but the love_ of money that could underlie human action. My heart had become hardened by it, and my•soul darkened. But it was for my sweet child to pour the warmth and light into my bosom A t. was fur her to keep before me the image of the zentle wife whom , ',had loved and lost, but, alas! who occupred'a place in that love \ se; coed to my gold !_ It was for my child to open gradually ' but surely, the fount of feel, ing which had twee tor-a life time closed"lip: I heard her pray for me—pray that she Might limn me—that she might have hAp frceri God to love me; and that was after I had refused to let her be your wife. I estw her grow pale and - sorrowful, and - I knew\J bad done it—and she loved me still. And still she prayed God- to help her--help her What! help her love her poor father - I I was killing her, and she tried to, , smile upon me. One evening I heard you conversing in the old hut. My 'child chose misery with ditty to her 'father, rather than break that duty in union with the roan she loved. And you ut" tered a prayer, You prayed that I Might be made penniless l ----Stop! hear the through.--; You .would then show-your disinterestedness!. I walked away and pondered. Could it be that I• bad found a man that would love an ' old wretch like myself %rid? do money. If it was so, then that would break the last layer of crust from my soul, I determined to test you. I h§d gained it gliruering of light—My heart had begird to grow warm—and I prayed' fervently that I might not be disappointed. "I went to the blink and drew mit fifty theutiand &Mars in bills. That night my ,miserable old but was set on-on—or—a= caught tire: I shall always think my candle did, it. But the old shell burned down, and room was made fora - better Wilding. I came out with• the wrong trunk, arid the other was burned up. But the money wasn't iii it, No, no. I had that safely stuffed in triy bri4 - som in deep pockets, and all, buttoned up; and the next day'l carried it all back to the bank, and had it- put with a few thousand, more which I hadn't disturbed—and- so my experinient commenced; and I found the fall sunshine at last. Aye, Walter, I had tound you the noble,,true hearted man thed prayed fur. You took me intb.your home, and loved me when you tholight me penniless, and you took my child to your bosom for' just what God made; her. And- now, my boy, I have paid 850,000 in bash for Mr. Osgood's share, in the bUsiness, and it is gll yours. And let • me tell you one thing more, my boy—if your two partners can raise fifty thousand dollars More to invest, jest' tell'em you can put' in five and . twenty thousand more at , twelve hours' notice. Telrein -that, my boy! Tel Pent old Noah ain't ashore yet. Telrem he has found a- heart—a nEkirr, my boy ! Coma , here, Agnes--corrierhere, Walter. God blest err both—blesss=ou as you blessed me!" you yo. ,t Nobody pretended,that they had motes in the eye now, for the Occasion of the weeping was too parotid°. TIIE LIQUOR L • AW Iv MAINE.-At !hero' cent session of the executive council the vote upon the liquor law submitted to the people on the 7th June, was co - tinteA and declared. The: aggregate) was as follows : 'For the prohibitory law of 1858, 28,864. For the lic c ense law of 1856, 5,911. AroosiOok was- the only county in the ‘tate which gave a •majority for- licenie. The tote there was "-- license" 399, " probibi bitiok" 370. The vote in penobgeot, wet " prohibition" 2705 ; " license" 2480: Pam "An UP.—The Paiissippi river-was . , aicended . tbisspring as high as the Pokegarzia Falls—upwards one hundred andlifty miles further than wrtuver, reached before. The steamer North Ststi•rnade a trip recently, hay ind on board about axty personti who went up on pleasure exeursion froth St. PAUL The party speak in the highest fermi of the country; and express the b ief that it *ill, in the vicinity of the river, settled at no distant day. Tod Nowrii Bassou - Nordi Branch Canal ComPau. have succ having the whole line of their canal p YY in order, solar as , to be ready to - ship co'al,eiilier • north or south from' Wilkibarre, at this time. The dams are nearly completed; and perms ! ' nendy secured by--coffers agairist any (further contingency from 'sudileris extgnsive
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