THE -MONTROSE .pErai IS FLBLISIIED TIRTELkDACTS, I A. 3 .Gerrit QFFICE ON rnsuoi Aymmus, _ ninEr. DOQES ABOVE BKARLE , I I • ~ . Ii TEems. 2 —sl,so per annittri ii otheroise Si %rill lie charged—ang- fifty ,_ added to anearagek, at the option W- the Pub expeni , C,Or COUCCLIOTI,Cte. Anvaiics mar 1 1 , AnrEfirtstmEN-rs will be laser rate of ~,I per square, of ten lines or less, forth° grit three it• It eeks, and •Z" cents for each additional week—pay:down:ll v• .....• .--- . . i Merchants, and others; who adverite by ,1 the year, mill be barged at the following rnielc vin4' For one cubic spocrro, or Less, offelrxr, ttlth chttinifs, Ss Each addltione Cubic Alliatif. 6l, !6•eltio izr• -•- •,. • • 6 'II No credit given except to those o'kt:ilium respoOilbility.!: THE HAUNTED SCHOONER. A FRESH .WATE I R SKETCI. Br GEORGE S. R 11310 ND It is-many years ago-t ! ! so. - far: back on! my life voyage that I have ,forgotten-the' precise .yetir in which the ; somewhatlpeeu-' liar and nhtlial very strange at first; but eitiemely simple in, the end, circuhistan •ces,.Ot rather several icom biped of which nni aboiii to relate the particulars. 'lt is all so vividly impressed on my. !that .wer . 4l I to live ihundred'years yetOt Would stilt re main in my memory as j fresh as though the events were but a - single monthigone by. I was but a boy then in, years, although I Was a man in stature and s nalitiealexpe :rience, for . could haul: the weather:gear 'ins. of a six hundred ton iship in ,a gale of wind as quick as any man of her-,vhole ,crew ; and I had made! two. voyages -as chief mate, one - to -Indialand one t 9 the north of Europe ' _when I learned" that much better wags werepaid on the:iwest ern lakes than at sea, that a' steadyi . young man, capable of c f pnniinding : ;a x'es sel, could almost aid-avk get :one Within, two or three years on "Lake. Erie or iOnta rio, which was morethan he could . liqpe to do at sea, Unless lie lin& inoney—nr , in-1 fluential friends;' and asi I had neither of these, I determined to (Ink the sea and try fnylortuneS' oh the lakes. - • 1 "Stickett's Harbor was'.the nearest 'port, znd as I had been inforMed that it was about the best place .short, of Buffalo to get a berth, there-being; ' usually a good, many vessels laid up,there every w i inter,- I shaped my course for that place, and af ter several adventures of slight interest any one except myself, Ilmd arrivecrwith in five miles of my journey's end, TWhen the old:fashioned lumbej-ing stage illeigh in which fwas the passenget't got' stuck first in a huge snow-drift that i com pletely blocked up. the rciad: . • It was a. bit ter cold freezing 'nigh Ond I suffered more during. the half hour' that I was engagM in assisting the driver to ex tricate Alis teatri.than I had everPiNne hi the .most severe winter's gale on• the coast of America. . had passed a corkfortable looking log:house a-few hundred!yards back, and as it was found impossible. to proceed, We decided to turn back (alVery sage-cOnclu sion,kby the way,)and se4 Adler frit. -our selves and the poor horses, till morning. We were met at the door by a tine stout-looking young* - Olow, who having heard, our request, bade 'us wek:ome. and insisted upon, our entering the houtle and getting ourselves warm, while bkdispos ed of the horses. . There was little urging neeessari, for we were both more trian7half frozeN and we wee soon seated before a blight., bla zing wood fire, while a fine, nobie-h - joking woman, of perhaps Ibrtyi and a Ifait:, To,sy checked girl of sixteen; whose • features were so like those of the elderfemalkhat it needed no one to tellime they.wete mo ther.atia daughter, set about preparing supper, which, by the time we were thor -oughlyWarmed and the yotmg ; man had returned , from the barn / was placed upon which as soon as our boy host had divested himself of a stout, ser- . vicable!peajacket 4m/7u-ester, We sat. down, hind never,befori ;or singe have I partaken of a Meal that relished a 4 hell as did that plain, substantial supper, .of which everything excepti the tea was pro . duced on the little farm: where it was eat en. The stage driver was acquainted-with the family, to whom he had introdntted me so far as he could without,. knowing "him.' self who I was,'" any further than ithat was a sailer. bound froth Boston tfti. Sack ett's Harbor. But on the otherhand, the introduction was mere definite, US I learn-. ed that the lady was a widoW, !named Spencer, and that the noble-lookingyoung fellow, together with the beautiful girl, I were her children, 'Wharton 'and . I:ovina Spencer ; the first, a stout, manly fellow I of nineteen, and a sailor Iwithal, l al . id the latter twayears younger, and .fitir and beautiful a creature as had ever. seen. There is ever a speci'es of natural. free masonry existing among ' sailors, unknown to landsmen, dra'Ws out their kin-1 dred . sympathies, and [makes I thOm ac quainted with each other oftener ; ..iat the first meeting, and under 'eirCutOtances where men of any other profession; or oc- cugation wotifarr cumin entire strangers. So it was - uitliyoung . t spetlcert, and my self that night, and long hetore supfier was ended, we were•eonversing sociablas though we had= know* each' . Oilier for years" • . 1 1 . I • Nor was the acquaintance. coithnedtO. cis alone, for Mrs. Spentyir and LOvina min=l gled their conversation with ours,o that.' Within au hour from the time I elittired., the house,. I wa* gni te ias much at. home.', among my new friends ;as if I had dmOwn them for years, and I did: not regret the circumstance which hattturned his back.- - The stage driver retired to bed son af ter supper . •! but I. remained in conversa- ' tion with the family till liOng 'past "mid- night, during whit time I. hadjearnect from. the widow and her; seen mnil Of their history for some fiVeyears past, - Which in substance was briefly this • • • Mrs. Spencer's husband had been fur many years the commander'of a vessel on a lake, and atthe time'of • his death, not quite five years back, he was the sole own er of a fine schooner which he had:Aaunch -ed some - three.months Capt. --'s brothe• 'mer.pittuit,re- ...apt. Spencer's brother, a siding at Sackett's Harbor, was L i appointed • executor and administrator of tin estate, estate, and - within three weeks lafter hia brother's death,..M.r. John Spencer produced claims against the estate to an amount far exeeed , ing the value of the 4ehooner, together ' with a valuable 'farm situated o Ole bay: shore about four miles from Sackett's both-? , of which the merchant took possession of, turning the . wido* andher two fatherless 1 children out from \ their , orn.forbsblii: home,- l er : penniless upon e txtlfi charitiek; of tko 1 world.• • 1 But Mrs. Spen w4B' not foimany of the. masters of vi more \of' the cidiumon .eallors,j . -•'- . .. -.• ~. i • ,'-.-•_' . ' 2 , ~ ' , . .•'. ~Tl ' : - '' . ' '. •TT .. '-',. 1 i ; 7.- i ''': '' • - . • •-•••••• i . . - •• , s , .. . ,f- •-- • - .. f • - ~ , - la.. , •- A • , , - • '3uinttrn ; 1 I .4 ...... lice . -, - - - VO,L. 17. ; known Oapt. Spencer', puti their headtfand their mites' together and after purchasing forty acres of land; ;hey prOeured the ma- •tmials fora house and barn,lan4 then turn-1 - hig out pi "'mac With nipiy of the citizens I and neighberingfafmers, they put up the. wo buildings, Cleared some eight acres of land, and after having provided provis ions. amply sullicient a•year's consump-1 tion, they installed the widow and her -children in their new hente,-- Where. they \yere quite iS:Comfoitable as they had-been in that from which they Were driven by - the avariecandffrand of their uujinit rela-, five: J,, Whatton told me in conclusion, that the schooner, whiehliis'unele still owned, had beenlizinnted everlsince about sts months , after he tool: possession ()flier: - • " Haunted r inquiVek in astonish ment.; how is she haunted, or - what .with ?"I• . • • - "0, we don! know that," replied the young man ; ‘i F tliat's - whittlputzles- - every ' body; but haunted she -niost certainly is, and with the Most:strange noises, too that I ever heard. , . . _ -‘‘ Abnut sib months aftermy uncle got her, he !changed her rig, by taking:out her long masts and putting in shorter ones,. making her a topsail scl°otter instead of 'a fore-and-after, as - she vas •before ; . and i ever since. that : She has b en haunted. He • can never get any one, either captain, °M. errs' or Men, to go •iii her more than. two or three months at'a time, on account - of the dreadful noises, and last season he was obliged; to..lay; her up . altogether,; as he could get no one to"p m her et any price. He would sell ilhe could; but nobody will b - her, flit. shel,is known all about Lake Ontario as the-.'haunted schooner;' and people fear her." . . •" Do ') ,- ou think I could get her?" I 'in quired, 'after I had heardAMirton's ac-. count. • ` - - . - .. - . - "Gee her! Yes, an . (tdouble wages, too, 1 ifyou'll!go in:her.7 . - 1 . - .. ~ I ' ` . l'herr‘rrti in luck,"l replied, "for I I will moSticertaihly go in the vessel WI can get the:eh:ince:" "And will vou,give me a mate's berth, Isir ?" he inquired , after ...-' moment's pause: • "Provided I, fret the schooner—yes." i "Thank you, sirc-and iow I'll tell you 1. whatl Wish you would do. lt'll be more 1 than a month yet, before „it's time to fit out ' and you may as well stay here with t us-as tofive among' Strangers in' the vil- Ilac , e. To-morrow morning I will go with . . I vou tolsaCkett s, when .yiu can make your Ant-gain; wiih my - tincle,.l and then come " back h4re with me, where you shall be , I Welcome to such 141'e:- as.we have till . it's time tofiti-ont the schooner." Mrs. spencer and toll,' entreaties to those of. WI i own inclinations. disposin i the kind. invitation, I yo nng . man's_ proposal, ai a member of a faniily arlj hog I had.never before 1! After breakfast on-thi ing; we assisted the dri. team thronah the snow than an hour after, Wh - : myself stood on the harbor, exiunining th - which I found to be a craft of about .one hund i , and froth what I could fay there frozen in solid, a'N'ery ;pretty modelle nothing of the `unreal nr supernatural in her appearanee, nnd I Made up my mind at once:. that,• provided I could get the comniand . of her, I w Juld weather out one season in her in spi eof all the strange. noises in creation:, When we left the wh. ed out to Me the reside, which I entered alone, out azain- two hours.af commander of the I . - Swallow, with a glary that olany otlier eapta ; It was a bargain of sides. TMr. John Spein the comm ind !of his beeau t ie cotdd-aet n. at anyinice; and I had I could not get a-tia.% , else. At the village hotel; Lin conversation ivith felloW,! whom be introd rowsin4 Mr: Johnh Spene Lsras,.:-.pruch plea.sed;.al an emir with the .t w which time I infohned poiotnietit to the comm schooner, learned a grel, return froth my new a . _ ammrr; them the,thet th cer •Jr..,,was in love wi‘ in Lovina, and that,. his er hadlforbidden him t of her is his. vilife; and b6ing iambiput of do. ed forever. 1. I did not offer any a ses the:lll4, but det mind, that I Nrould do portunity, and having refreshments, Wharton home, Promising_ to me .days,at the hotel till th; dy to ' • I • Springcame atlengt i up, navigation. Vas ag: `calm; beantiftil day in Mira, Wharton and • operations on lboard th her out for the bitlines 60a.: Th - ree day of fine pas!ied off, wail in all f" . , pea; indicative of the su tural had been heard about, the vessel, I, had ransacked her all over, fore and 1 below and aloft, the hold;forciatie and bin, and for all ts..! B ni,. that I Could &sower, e was as free from ghosts awl eil spirits any emit I had ever been in. , ', • , ] TwO night • N‘r had slept together in I the cabin -wit Out havi g heard the slight- 1 est Unaccoun ble sound, and INCAS begin- Mug to thi • as I lay there in my bunk aboitt ten o'Clock' of the third, night, that j the haunting had all been a matter of jai % agination, or that the goblins * had all per- ishedby hunger , and fr ost, shut, nvthere', alone .during The long Old winter-,--When all at oneie I Waal star ted, and I must ad-, mit a - good deal frightened, by a•strange, 'peculiar" noisicyllicla speared to, come friendless, ssoB and who had - 'R. . //o/E JOIN THE.PARTYAIICARRIES - THE FIAG, AND KEEPS ,STEP:TO - THE MUSIC OF THE-UNION.- ma joined their [ hatton,- and ins . g me to accept !onsented to the nd retired to rest, lom till that even ear& cf. . c fAowinr. inorn ter in getting his. lo artier, atiditi less rton Spencer and lhart at Sackett's haunted vessel, :tout, Sue looking ed and forty tons, ;ee ,o 1 her as she. she seemed to be d schooner, with yf, Wharton point .ce of his uncle, nd when I came , etwards, it was as aunted Schooner -cry_ nearly double n on Lake Ontario. !iecessity dn both er•had given me • sel and extra pay, one to go in. her taken hey - because 's lierth anywhere found 'Wharton, ,handsome young teed - to me- as . ter,'Jr., with wh6m iu toter spending,' cousins; • during ithem of -my up. mi. Utile haunted it many Things in CquaintaneeS ; and at Mr. John' Spen lh his pretty cons lery antiableTath visit her,, Or think r the penalty- of ra and disinherit- , vice in the prenii - - ruiined in ny own .o at a fitting :4:1) 7 iiirtalien of 80111 C and-I set out for. Johns every few sehooner was rea- ;Hthe ice broke open, and on a rho !latter part of yself commenced • Swallow, fitting of the -sailing sea- pleasant weather t than not a sound - SIONTROSE, PA.;, .THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1860 through the bulkhead from the bold; and I seemed to,fill the whole cabin untit:the air vibrated, as it w ill Mider the deep bass 1 tones of a violin, in a close, still room. At first; the sound lilts a low monoto nous moan or wall, l 'different._ from any thing I have ever hearil, so that I cannot - describe it by comParikum.; 'hut if it - was like anything hurnan;ii WU the faintf_long drawn-Mit moan of a aytils; ipflint, Wort-- ed by the last terribled.eath agony.- • For- a few—perhalis five minutes, it continned, when it,„ceilsed, and aMoment afterwards theie burs4fortli; a wild tierce shriek, so shrill, so. fulof horror, that my hair seemed to stand, on end, and blood chilled curdling back to my heart. • . The.shriek• died awiiy m a'-mournful, .dirge-like cadence, au4 was followed by a succession of quick nervous cries, imita ting very nearly 'die sharp, yelping hark, of a pack of half-famished wolVes, .when close upon their prey.- a • . Then, there followeda piercing whistle, a chirping as of small !birds, - croaking ,of frogs, hisses, anti a huridred other strange noises that no cembinition of letters' can . repiesent, nor any coniparison give nn idea ofit; at one -moment separately, mid the next altogether, and Imingling with low sweet strains of duce dulcer n music, as of the gentle zephyr's breatiii stealing softly over the - finer wires of the !tEolian harp. And thus it was ill throughout the night, shrieks and uiliStles and moans, with thousand itniffke, :hideous noises; while without, the niOt was pitchy dark, the rain poured down Tara perfect ileluge, I and the wind howled an wild, fitful gusts, 1 and shrieked back to. the goblin voices in the_ bold from the rigging, and altogether I it was a night of horrqr such as Ihad• nev er experienced befoie,.i . and 'determined to Abandoe . the hauntid craft with the coming dawn . to Anybne who. chose . to take her; for I had a hundred times to myself, " I s will not "go in. this demon- haunted schooner." t • • But I grew familiar iwith the sounds at last,,and - when,day-ligilt came, I was rea dy to laugh at my'cowrd .fears l and said to,Wharton t who ssfethed to 'take it. very ":gtr long as *e - are haunted b'y invisible beings,,we:need not . ;fear them. -They cannot harm us, and Nte shall get used to theiiinferual mad hon9ing after awhile. The noises. continued all throughout the day and succeeding night, but much faint er than they had lipeM at first, and When m-,e got under wieitzli the following morning, and rounded Ship-house Point, they suddenly' ceaseid entirely as n-e squared away deadalimd betbre the wind out of the bay. In ithe afternoon, how- ever, after we had gt out into the open lake, the wind yeeredt round to the West ward,. and the moment, we braced up,.and hauled aft the• sheets, the invisible: spirits "began their u•nearthl3,4din - a,E,rain, and kept it up without a moluent's - intermission for two whole days and nights, until the wind flew around tO the eastward once more when they Warne' quiet in an in stant; whereupon I i.aurie to the eonelu .sion that they were _itecies of flying de- mons,_ vexed. at :cod; totally opposed to head winds. • t Thus it went on tilliwe anchored on the Canada side, near the - head of 'the. lake, 'Where we were- tolload with staves for , the river St. Lawrence." Whenever the winds came ahead, the fiends were out in I their wrath, and the Moment it came -fair ; all was quiet. . 4 t While we were taking in our cargo, we Made a discovery which puzzled us ex ! eeedingly. We lay to anchor, riding, of course, head toThvitid all the time, and during the-eight day: that were oad , Mg, not a single strange noise was heard: It seemed most unreasonable to us, that spirits who would ho,W•rind scream -so at a head - wind when wo were tinderweigh, ' should remain perfecly quiet with "a head i wind when we were .to an anchor. •• When; we got underweigh with our ! hold full of `staves, the spirits began their amiss again,: but. in a very different tone from "that with which' thew had saluted us - when. the schooner was' light. There was no longer any wild, thrilling shrieks, , mournful wales, fierce barks, and -loud !whistles; but in their stud, we were I greeted with a supprOssed wheezing noise; like that given forth by an oyertasked ox . I whose bow chokes hint. • ; We had many a hearty latigh during" I our three day's ,paisage, the poor devils, witches, ghosts, or whatever they were, puffing and Wheezing away there in the ola among the F4avesosThough they were just at, the point of death from suflb. cation. At . last, wefairlypitled the • mis erable things ; attd it was a relief to -us when the schooner +ling head to wind- ward at her--anchor in - the harbor of ~French Creek, and thy once more became • t••• • quiet. More than `five months pasSed away, and Vharton and n:vself having failed ter trace the strange rises to any natural' causes, were reluctantly compellM at last to admit that the.Suiallow, was a haunted. craft.. But we had becotne so accustomed to our iMisiblel serenadeis, that they rather no:need us .chap othtrwise, and we slept just as soundly :mill their discoid:uft din as _should harq done on board any other craft, or, on shire. • . The stave -trade being done for the sea-; : son, we ran Over to, : -Genesee River, and loaded_ with wheat :iin- bulk for Sackett's Harbor, where we arrived_about the ,mid. dle-of Seyteinber,And We had remarked that during the Whets tithe that the cargo had been inthe vessel, a. periOd of more than iwb Weeks, there had not Occurred a single repetion_lof the-noises. - - I bad remembered the old-time legend of the maiden's : pacifying the outrageous A ar "Demon of the • ' Mountain,". with an offering .of wheat,t an I thought' that per haPs : the demons ot the: SWallow, being reLatives• ; - of•Lthe "Brocken Devil.;" : had been at last "laid' by a whole 'cargo; or what. seemed .quite. as probable,. they might hare been al). - smothered outright by the very material which had been used .to appease- t~h© wrath of ;their -illustrious: 1 - • Ancestor,- • - • t- - - . •But I WAS raitaken; Or,. if th e y, had' been • leak stiothdrd, they came to life again rtsliarhibly !pick alter the cargo Was out, and that mg*, after the schooner . 1 5 .. . . . I was discharged,.they held old revel there in • the hold fiercer than • anythinF I had ever heard, even exceeding their fiftt [grand demonstration in the spring. .We were laying alongside the wharf, in the very birth we had occupied &aim* the winter, and I happened to think that ppr lama the goblins were holding a Frand ju bilee carousal in honor of myself for bring ing them home once more.. It Was a wild, tempestuous night, and i was entirely alone; the crew haying gone aShore -to - daue,e, and . Wharten to -visit his mother and slster,'SQ I had the weird music all - tQ myself;• and although I was no longer afraid of anything, yet I was . lone some there with those strange, 'hideous, gibbering noises all about Me, and, I was in no wise sorry, when daylight came once more. • • • Directly after,, sunrise, - a- clerk in the store of my owner came doWn to the'ves sel, and after informing me that Mr. Spen cer was lying . quite ilat a farm which he owned at Stoney Island, some twelve miles. outside the luaior, he put into. iny hand an open letter which he had received- the twilling previous from Mr. Spencer, in -which he requested - him to send the schooner Swaroff over to the 'island- im mediately upon. her arrival, .fOr'the pur pose of britlag himself' and several head - of cattle froi the farm, down td Sacketes Harbor. - b ,"Why, this is not the ~" J coin- . menced, as, my 'eye caught the name of Swaroff, another schooner owned by Mr. Spencer, and • which . I was eixpecting 'in every - hour from Kingston. . -- • . .. l3ut " I .cheeked myself, as a. sudde t h ought . ashed upon my brain, and mere ly remarking to the clerk that I would" be off as soon as I could get MY crew aboard, I passed np• the wharf, ,and within ,ten, 'minutes a carriage-was despatched. froM the livery stable after Wharton :and -his sister, with to 'positive instuctions to the driver to go and come like',l.ehu, and not spare the horses. . . , . . I called first.upon a shrewd young law yer, whom•l invited 'to take a short cruise with me over to the island inthe.afternoon, and then set out to find young John, and conurtnicate •to him a scheme which had just been launched in my brain, full rigged, without one moment of study or. plotting on my. - part, - rfounil -hint at home and alone with his youngest sister, a sweet, lovely girrofi • t eighteen,who loved her handsome Cousin Wharton quite as devotedly - as Lovina did her brOther; but all intercourse be tweet' her . and Wharton had been inter dicted-by her stern, hard-hearted parent, and • the little beauty ' was- in , raptures when I proposed a plan by which it seem ed she as well as her brother and cousins, might.easily work to windward of all pa , rental head-winds, and steer fOr Port. I Matrimony, under Rear Admiral IlYineo, kwith the blue swallow-tailed pennant of Cupid flying at-the "main''of their h - earts,. f Long before noon, we were all assem- I bktd on board the schooner-John and. 'Wharton Spencer, their sisters, Lawyer Bates, and two wealthy, influential - citizens . , whoM I had ' invited to accompany us on our excursion: .... . . We left. the wharf at noon„ and having l '.tt•ot out clear of the western point of the harbor, - the, schooner was kept off square [before the strong easterly breeze, Wing I and wing, and away in, the direction of the Island She sped, with :alight scarcely less rapid titan the swift bird whose name she bore. , . Among' he schooner's crew Was :I man named li.e.ndrick, •a ,reckless, daredevil sort of, a fellow, who feared nothing. lin man or supernatural, and - Who, as I had discovered some time previously, posses sed -the most perfect ventriloqual_ powers I had ever heard. ' This man I deterniined to make nse of in my sehene,, and, having called him aft, I made known to 'hitti'my wishes, and gave him' the ,requisite in structions, W hie h 6 promiged to obey• s to the letter. In little over an hour-from - the time we left Sackett's larbor, . we were to -anchOr close in with the island, near Mr. Spencer's farm Louse, - which stood a little way back from the beach.' Directing my .. friends to remain oat of sight in the cabin, I landed-with the crew, and went directly to.. the house, were 'I found Mr. Spencer • barely able toCrawl abbut, haviiig had a severe attack of cholera-inorbus,from which he was just be ginning to recover. ' Ile was much astonished at my being there, as he had not seen the schooner,- and when I informed that as the Swaroff had not arrived,. I -had : ntii , Over with the Swallow to carry himdown -to Saskatt's, he refused at tirst to go in her; but when I assured him that all was - quiet on board, ' the spirits - gone on a holiday, and priiin ised I Avonld get' tinder weigh: before night, lie at length consented to go, and I • set : about getting our honored, passett- gers _off -and on board, which,. as we had only' a smalfseow capable of carrying only, ,-one at a time, and then having them all' t• , to hoist in on deck, became rather a tedious job; and it: was :very nearly sundown when the last scow was landed oti : deck, Mr.' Spencer assisted in over the a side, the Windlass manned, and the vessel ready to be off, • Leaving Wharton to get -the , schooner under weigh, I- first went into the cab. , i in, Where, finding, my friends -all snugly stowed away in two after - state-rooms, -I returned.. to the desk for the purpose-of assisting my invalid owner below. .Ile-Was quite feeblg, at . first considera, bly agitated, but-after listening-Tor several minutes, and -hearing : no . sound, but the " clink" of the chains - .in. the iron tiauser ' pipes, and the ."filip-slap" "of the rills as i the windlass went :round heaving. home ' the anchor, be became .more'composed, • and ;invited . me- to a aeatleside him on the transom .locker, he . had . just.. pant ' meneed a conversation something about II& -faith; the tows oadeek,,and how .-riar i rawly. he had escaped death-:_w hen the 1 anchor broke ground; her head paid off, 1 the sails filia away, she, hteled down . on 1 the Starboard-tick, - and the next moment there 'canie ' front. the' hold 'a wild, 'awful I.sbfiek, followed by Moans,' bowl , subdiied [cries of anguish, and a hundred'. Other. strange,: unearthly uoikes,. more hideous than anything I hall yet heard.on board the demon-haunteck craft: ' - • For, a•. few morhents. the: conscience ! cursed old man sat!thqre silent, and quiv ering with mortal;;,Aerror, and then he gasped-in alhusky yoice.: - ":Wha--*-wha4"—What's that? .My 'God I what is it 2 You tooldine,--they—they —were all ,gogonei- wet , . sir,-1. thought they- *ere,"' I re 'plied, striving . to. look frightened. -1 For fifteen minutes the hcirriddin eon ginned, . and 'all the time,the old 'Min lay. there , flat on . his 'iface.',, :shutting out the light with his fear-palsied bands, and then all at.'enee,•startir up, he 'glared about him for a moment, and again he-.. shouted_: "0 Ileaienl.whatls it?" r • - "Does :riot your ..own conscience tell' you what. it is, Jo4n,'Speneer,?" came in a . l hollow, measured Yoke, apparently'*from 1 a closet in the for Ward part'of the whin. "Quick! fly to that closet! See who it is. There's some one in there,!"..4creamed the Ohl map, pointing toward the -locker, and -sinicing down again ,on the cushion. " - sir; therels no -one here," • re plied, flinging back the Clos4 door so as to; reveal the wliolp interior. i* . "My-God! what shrill I do?". exclaim ed'the trembling inerchant. " Make restitut i on to . the widow and the fatherleSs for the wrong you• have done them," spokekbe same ghostly :voice,. .coming this time from the floor beneath our feet. • I , • , "I will! - I Will!" • piped the mer chant, in .a hoarse whisper. "Give ythir daughter Harriet to .i , Cour .nephew as, his wife," came thevoicethis time from the rudder, con directly he. hind us. •I- • * 1 •'• • • - "Yes-0 Ivek • I will! screamed the Old man. • . . . t ' 1 ' . "Contsen Ito yoiw son's marriage _with my child; hiFi ' cousin Lovind." :ma now the i-oiee earne,frdin a small drawyr in .The table before Ins. - :** 1 ' • * ? I :do consent.," and awthelwords trem bled upon the old !man's lip, the larboard state-room- door Swung open, and foith front the apartment came his ion, with ! his arm *kit the! waist of,his cousin Lo- . 1 vina, and after them stepped forth, the two merchants. whom I had invited to. be of the party! FrOm the starboard •Side came' the old man's_daughter,snpported by the yonrig- laWyer„ and at the.same ; moment Wifarion! joined the group•gath ered about the fear-Convicted Merchant, who confessed there before! them all, the • wrong he had done his brOther'S :widow and children, -pro"rnised to, i tuake fill and lininediate restitution, and gave his con sent to a union between the yonng people. The lau'Ver had • taken !down. every word faithfully, arid when the, old man ceased to s*ak,,he was about to read it aloud, but I .lie interrupted by the strange vohie issuing from it large Water pitcher on the table: • `..Do all that I have commanded,_ John Spencer and I will trouble You no more." "I will—So help me Goa!" cried the merchant, and leaving the group to them: selves I went ondeck to look out for the schooner, Which I found past Horse Is land Light,! and heading pp:for the, en trance to the harbor, wrere we arrived twenty - minutes 'later; andj that night I. was de c tained 'until twelve!o'clock at the residence. of John Spencei, for„the 'pur pose 'Oil-witnessing. certain legal • docu ments drawn, up by Lawyer Bates , in the *shape of deeds; hills of sale, 'etc.,by *arts of which the merchant conv=eyed back to his brothers widow a ee'rtain...valtiable Ilam, four miles from .town,iand to Whar ton Spencer•ther OWnership Of the "Ilaun 7 ted Schoon4r." • As-I stepped on board. the vessel, the, next morning,l found the goblins at their revels in the rold, aildKendriek; the Man who had so. ittecessfully 'acted his•part as a ventriloquist the evening previous, standing there on the quarterdeck, With a •whisp 20 - loakuin in his:i•rand, and laughing ready to burst. I•. - "What in the !name of deck-lightiand down-hanli are ydu lauging at, Kendrick?". asked. • 1 Captain," hel said, "will3ou help me a -minute?'? and Iwithout Waitin . g for.my answer, hel unhooked the t . mam throat halyards, and hooking. them into, a ling which he bad ready. knotted; he seated hiniklf in it, and requested• me to . koist hiin aloft. . • ' "Belay!'? he sung out yheit*l • luidi him about half-Way ,up the mainmast, r "Do you see d Cap'n ?'?' be asked, a moment after I got him made fast, !and-as I looked 'aloft', I saw him thrusting, hid; fin n'ers..into a' black knot-hole on the -4fter 17ide of the - mast. "Yes, I see—What of it `.",•'b • - 4 i, " Why, that'S' the Doll's - Cow just see howl I'll stop, his 1111.113. p fl and as he thrust the Whisp of - Oakum into the hole, the,n6ises ih . the vessel's hold ceased. • I dragged Ott 'one of the hatches and leaping doomintothe hold] I found on the after-squares of ithe masts' four 'or! -five* . kaig rents - 4 ,.! one lof which could .thrust my hand - into, :while the others • ;were much less,nnel*g, so fine that,a blade Of a stout case knife mould scareelY The ••whole witch 'mystery was atfmce apparent. rher the ischoonet. was- under- . • weigh , and; hauled to the hind, a•sireng current of air Iva; driven' towards the - lutf of the sai4 and Of course into" the'lmot liolei and the mast being entirely hollow, it was driven downwards cud °attire:4h the vent in the. hold, while the ten thou , sands slivers and: splinter along. thejeldes of the cheeks,. canted the air to Vibtate. in as .many . afferent .ways: as there Iwere splinters. • • When 'the ssehooner- la head -.to the wind to an;anchar'no air entered ilk:l6le, and'pf course,' elltvasiniet; se-when we were going_ before the win.* with the; Main boon ,aide, oft, [the oarrent Went out the after leech; of the sail, .and:the hole; i•was :port, ;1 hut when- Stern - to :Port, with no 'sail 2set, ; the - wind blew square into Alio Devil's Blow . 1191 e, . as Kendrick it. I•• , • • -Kendrick infoimedine that he had found "out ;the , . mystery within \ a imenth after he, had joidedl•the schooner, as he vies; Scrap. nag the grist One day; but he knew:rat the owner's rascality :thwardti, the - so he kept _the' discovery"! aebrat, hoping 'to tars it to good aocount some day, la facer at Mrs. Spender and lair two children. - I ' revealed-- the secret •to J4lin and Whartonithat afternoon, but advised them to. say:- ,nothing • about_ until after they were .married, aniL, .the two weddings were to sake place Within ten "days; they acted ujon my adviee, and - kepi the, se cret clos within their own bieasti. On the', very day after the double,wed:, ding 'ye' put a new mainmast into the' Swallow, and always after that She was is•kuiet; well-behayed a craft asany other. on.Ontirio. But sbmehow her bad patiM, always clung to her, and there ate many I. ) f persons . ' "still ' wing, who remenber- the Swallow; and w believe she was l ; a-haun ted craftras fi yas they do-the -truths niChristianity: .• • •'• • ' 1 ----.+-4. 6 •••••—• .^, • Sit it ILTs" • , . Tama Is beauty In the Spring-time,'" When the 'violets awoke, • S And the wihr•birds' mellow chime tioluds o'er nummtain,•vale, and lake; There Is beauty in the fountain, It. Sparkling in its silsery foam— Oh I'm greeted with the beautiful yhern'er I chance to 'roam. • In Summer there Is beauty. When all Nature's decked in 'greed,. ' And joy, and ltfe, and beauty,. - In everything le Acen. Beauty in-the floating clouds. through the azure sky— Oh ! I'm greeted with the beautiful, !Where'er I :vet my eye. . • There le beauty In the wild. wood, • ! !Where bloom the Summer flowerei ...That has charmed my early childhood,. And brought many happy berme; 1, Th, emit! beauty in the meadow,. • !And in the shady grove—. ' -, • Oh! rin greeted with the beautiful,: • .J. IWhereer I chance to rove. • I • r tilal yes, sad there la beauty • 'i, II In Autumn .; golden days, . Reminding one of duty, -; In many, many ways: There Is beautyy In Ike Winter, . ! .. . When the delde are robed-In wow=- . Oh! I'm gr e eted wia. the beautiftd,i • • i Where er I chance to go. - 1 • I " Moat heautiftil is Nature, • 'ln all her varied forma. • ' i --.• . • - 'Whether placid eycry Awture, I Or-grand amid the storm; Phis world 14 tilled with beauty. ''' - - • . I Sparkling beauty, bright and . falrj- Oh? I'm - greeted With the beautiful,i; I. - • .. i . :• 31# smiling every where! .• East' F . 'CHU ROI N, Feb., Zn ms ic 3la. —' . , Tut NEcissrry OF LAtion.—The notion is false !that genius can secure tits aims without labor: All the great minds who have left their marks upon the hitstory of the world's progress, have paid ,for their. 1 success and notoriety \by,the price of un remitting toil and labor. Nap4leon Bo napartetworked.hard and.lncessantly, and has been known to eklthust the !energies of several secretaries at one time. t Charles XII of Sweeden, frequently tired out all I his . officers. The -Duke of Wellington was 1 the hardest working man in the Peninsula. ' from-his youth, applied himself With such , t in delati t able application .t o ' the . ' study oft letters, 1 that 'it occasioned weakness of 1 sight and ultimate blindness.: The labor.( 1 of Sir Waltei Scott is evident in the num- ' 1 ber of hit; literary productions,tand it is apparent to every reader that thelimmense masses { of !;. -, ,enerat - information ' which abound throughout his multitudinous [ works, lcan only have been acquired b .dint of many years' hard stud. ByrOn! was in the habit of reading even, at his meals. 1 tattier mide it a rale tottranslate a verse of the Bible every day. This soon brought him to the completion 'of his la las, and it was aanatter of ast+ishment to EutOpe, that in the multiplicity of his oth.erlabors, besides travelling, he could find the time to prepare sach a surprising work. 't Newton and. Locke Pars:ied their .studieS with ; tireless efforts, and Pope. sought retirement, so that henight 'pur: FOe . hi; literary operations withoat inter ruption and distraction. _lnduStry • is et>. sentialt to all ; by. forming the laibit of do ing sothething tiseful every daY,ta man in-. creases his own amount of happiness; and -enlarges that of others about hu11... Many a one,! by a judicious use of the! odd mo nients,lthbile little vacancies' inteveryday life which occur . to all, - have irendered' themselves famous amongtheii fellows. Nature, is preserved in ith prOpei Working eonditionby constant ekertion;iind man, to keep in a healthy condition ofimind and body, mast exert his mental and physical faculties; the constant employmbnt of the first will give them strength of character, 'So that it is capable of . thinking on any subject at any time,..and by-active bodily' exertion he preserves his health, fortune, - -and As 4 orldly position: The Marquis of Spinolh once asked Sir Horace )Tere "of What his brother died." "He ilied,,sir," replied Sir Horace, "of having 4inhing to do.' "t" Alas I sir," said Spinola, "that is enough to kill any general of us :ill:" N . ° DANGER.-- 4 Pompey," said . a darkg, coming up to a similar 1 specimen of animated nature; the other!: day, "I wants] to propose to you a question, which. hab of late dislocated my , underfitanding:" "Well, Snowball, what am de knowl edge YOu would have dis learn 4 _niggali: impart to your benighted mental imagnia tion ; ;for I spaciate on beauties Of de wor kin' substance inside de eraninin, which takes nff de siiperfluencY from,ide mind, and leavede head frenoxious—? " ! Pompey, 'taint ilat, :it all. I'll tell yer, now, if you'll be SOU!. • "Make hurry, for dis nig am in a haste." • ' "'Wall, 'tis dis:--"Spose - Imatries a yal tar.gal, and tubs her berry inheb; and some day I sick, and die, and goes to lleaben, and arter . a whi.leimoder greasy nigge cuilis 'long' and marries thy oleko man, and labs her too; now I wants to know; arter dey both die and gcl to Heab en,,where Lam, which oly . de Oder is to hab xi* Wench ?" Poinpy stood, thoughtfully fora moment, I then looking Snowball :in the !face, and reverently shaking his . head; replied- 7 "3lv friend; if yotir and her . man go to; de good lankyouneedliab.no fears, for you won't be - dar to pick any Mims!" ' • HINTS TO YOUNG 1 8 4DIEs.- I ,Don't sit down to your crochet work 'or eMbroidery unless you have first mended that hole in your Stocking& No Ann crowding it nu clei the heel of your shOe-rags; like mur der, will out . ; and they speak with terribly loud Voices and. at, inconvenient seasons, sometimes. • Don't .undertake to write skim-milk poetry when_you feel a little disposed to wards enthusiasm. Go and do g a kind ac tion lor speak an encouragin - viord to somebody. Depend upon it, you'll be bet ter satisfied afterwards. ! • . JGB PRINTING of ALL BINDS, ••• DONT: AT IT*: OFFICE or VIE D 3EIIW Co FL A. lrig ;men:sr AND molt • Y, " • AXD•AT 44' LlyE AND LET LIP Tt oMie of the Montrose Democrat has recently been supplied with a noW and ehoicri earkty Oft etc., and woken Dow unwed to print parnplilets ' ,etc,clrntlat~ etC., In the beet style. on short notltet• • Handbills, Posters, l'rogitmineq,nti Doke, Muds of 'Fork to ltd." lbw, done jecoprdltaz to order. " - Business,. Wedding,' and Ball Cirws, "Tickets, etc., printed with neamem and del:fatal.. Ju.sticima' and Conitable.sl.Etlanks, \o es, Deeds, and sU otber Mardis, onlood, qr Reused to order, 1 NO; 20. nr - JobwiiiiilbdinstP, to be, psi d tenon all eery. _ - .So,the young . count narrated a myth of one of Ids proggnitors, 7 : 7 lte might _ karts lived a century ago, or a 'thousand. years, or'before 'the Christian" epoch, far any, thing that Donatello knew : to tho',emstra.. ry,—Who'had Made .acquiutaiice. with' a fair, creature belonging tO this fountain. Whether woman or'sprite was ti'mvstery, as - was all else ahout ber, except, that her life.and soul, were .somehoW interfused throughout the' gushing water. lte was ifresh,- cool, dewy thin., sunny and JIM- • Owy, fah 'of pleasant lithe mischiefs, -fitful and changeable wifh the whim pfthe . mo' ment btit . vet.as- constant as her native stream, which kept the . same -gush -iuld flow forever, *while tharble crum))le.l.over and nit,. und it. The fountain wonian Irv. ed the. -yottth,—a. knight, as Doilatello called him ;— for, aceotding to the legend; hiS race . wits^ akin to hers. - At least, whe... ther-Jkin .or no, there' had' been . friendship .1 and ilympthy of old betwixt an- ancestor of his, with furry'ears, my' the. long-lived lady- of the fountain. And, after . all tlioso ageg, she was still as young..as a 'May morning,-and is froliesonie as-a bird Upon a tree, or a breeze that'll - I:116 merry with the leareA She taught him how to call her from her pebbly source, and they spent trumy a • happy hour tdgo.her; more• especiallyJu'' the ferVor of.the summer days. For oft en.as.he sat *aiting for herby the margins of the spring, she ivould suddenly tall down. around him in a shower of • sunny raindrops, with a rainbow -glancing.thro", them, and forthwith gather-.herself up in , to the likenesS-of a beautiful girl, -laugh, ing—or was it the-warble of the rill over the pebbles?— , -to see, the, youth's amaze., meet: . . - Thus, kind maiden that sho leas,—tlto atmosphere became delici - ouSly cool -and fragraht An- this favored knight'; and, fur. therm Ore, when he knelt (town to-.drink out of the spring:, nothing was morn than for a pair of -ren;y lips. to come Up out,of its little depths, and touch mouth with the thrill (.1f a sweet, cool, dbwv kiss ! " kis a delightful' story .for the h6t. - noon of your Tuscan suntiner," observed the sculptor at this point.., "But - the _de- " portment of the watery lady. nn-t have - kida niost chilling influence in midwiti(er, Her lover would - find it, very lift rally,:a , cold reception !" , stippose,'! said lionatello, ratliCr std. " you are in:thing' fun, -of But I see nothing laughable in the thing itself, nor in what you-salt about it." Tre Went ou`to,relate that for. a limp; while the knight found infinite; pleasure and comfort in the friendshiP of the foun tain nymph. In his Merriest hottr. , , slit. • •gladdered hint with her sportive 'humor. If ever lie was annoy,M with earthly trou ble, she - laid her -twat- hand tune} his brow, and charmed the fret- and cover' qtuee' aWay.. But one day—one fatal noontide—the young - knight came rushing With - hasty and. irregular steps to the aecustorned fbuntain. Ile called the nyniPh ; but—no . donbt . because there was -something• seal and frightful in his tune—she did nut' appearoter, answer hiri.. He7.fiung hint- • self' down and -washed his hands and . bathed his. feverish brow in the - cool, pure water. And then there was somid of I woe.: it might have beerea woman; voice; might have been only the sighing oldie - brook over the - pebbles. The water shrank__' away from'the youth'sbands, - aral left his broW . aS dry and ti.veris'has beihre. • Donatello hero came to :nlead pause.' " Why did the water shrink from -this nithappy knight?" - inquired the - sen!plor: . . "Bee;fue.he'had tried to.'w:eat . off a bloo&staio !" said the pinint count, in a horror-stricken - whisper. "Tbe guilty - man ;had 'polluted the 'pure Water.- The nymph mtght, have comforted him in tor. . - CORM not chtenwhis con. , 7 eience• of a crinie." . • . • • • • "And did he never behold her more?" . -asked Kenyon. • . - "Xever but . once," replied his - .friend; • ‘,•llq never beheld her -blessed face but mice iagaim.and then there 'was a blood stain!ori the poor nymph's brbw ; it was the stain his guilt had left in tlie foUntain where he tried to wash it - Off. Be mourn. ed for her his whole life long, and critPloy. ed thif best sculptor of the time .to carve this•stat tie of the nymph iron; hi. descrip titin 4f. her 'aspect.. But, .t hough my at-• . cestor would fain •have,' bad the imago wearjher happiest look, the artist,tunlike your elf, was so imOressed Witlftbe mourn: fulness of the story, that in spite of hi 4 best •ellbrts, he made her forlorm>and for. • everweeping, as-yon .:et-•••• : -' Kenyon found a certain-eh:lmi in this • legend. Whether so intended or not, he . -understood it as an :fpologue, .typiting the soothing and genial effects of`• an ha. bitted intercourse with nature; in all ordi-. nary cares.atid grief;; while on the oth er-hand, her mildUnfittence fall. sltOrt in theie',effect upon ibe ruder pas:;ious ; .and. arc altogether poWerless iin the dread tc. ' .ver fit or deadly - chill of • GOoo—asn Put FECTLY T 1: r e 11;44: Island Argus relates a good .st cry_ of a ills cussion betweetr a Democrat and a Repub.: licanat that place a .6:w days ag(. The. Democrat contended:for the silperiority of the' white race over thatiof Me negro, The - claimed 'Mat, naturally the negro race was fullf eval to the white. race, and eited.as: an instance - the great, abilities 'and talents of Scipio canuS; The Democrat.replied that Kiplo AfriCatiuS was a tbartau,. anirtherefore could not l)( nsed . to support position, The Republican, as, he thought,;trutuph aUtlY declared -that" he WAS .anAfrican for his •naiite" Was • Afrieanusl was - 'a clincher, of course, and . the 'Democrat gracefully yieldtd—but he .* had • a sly twinkle in his eye,. which causedomeef the bystander:3 to hold:their sides,. • fir.H'3lrs. Piwdie bays that ono of. her boys knows . nothing,. and another don% The question is, which knows the most? .I_ • . LEGEND OF TliE FOUNTAIN, MC: officer was lately sent to Springftehl to :Summon a Mis. Thayer, .alias: Barnett to attendtourt, He returned gay-in l; that bo hdliuntinoned Mrs. Thayer, but "Alias Burnett" could not be fouild. rnicEs,
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