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A4sterklitmr, LPAAP.3, and a variety of-
BLAsss, kept constantly for We, or printed to
Dr. JOSEPH COBLENTZ.
riFFEiii; MS PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
to .he citizens of Readinr and xicinity. He can be
~..rn:te, l in German and Englinb. o:Tina and residence,
r. et adjoining the Parma. - kanic.
Vcobtr 31, 1N1:1-1.y.
.T.F.SSE G. HAWLEY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
ITAt! REMOVED HIS OFFICE TO NORTH
Sixth Street, opposite the Keystone Rouse, Reading.
akni il, 1863-ti
,TOECOT RALSTON,
AIrORNEY AT LAW ;
AFFICE WITH A. B. WANNER, NORTH
ky Sixth Strosit. (above the Court Bonsai Residing, Pa.
Fornary 21,1822-11
REMOVAL,
WILLIAM H. LIVINGOOD, ATTORNEY AT
Lail% bas removed bit °Pee to the north side of
t tat ahem first door below Sixth. [dec 22-tf
Charles Davis,
tA_T Ai' LAW—HAS ItHMOVED HIS
o:see u the Case lately occupied by the Hon. David
decaseed, in Sixth stzeet, opposite the Court
[awn 14
Daniel Ermentrout,
ITORNEV AT LAW—OFFICE IN NORTH
Eis.th corner of Court alloy. [Rag 13-ly
David Neff,
IiTIVILESALE AND RETAIL - DEALER IN
ti .:
~reign and Domestic DRY GOODS, lie. 2d UM
areet, Reading, Pa. March 10, 1880.
LEBANON VALLEY- INSTITUTE,
ANXVILLE, LEBANON COUNTY, PA.
sELEur BOARDING SCHOOL—COURSE
_ant lactruction thorough and completo—number of
ndni er. limited. Vacations in September and October.
per gustier Sad. Fat Chemists and information,
, :arch 7-tfl W..T. BURNSIDE, Annvi lle,
LIVINCOOD'S
United States Bounty, Back Pay and
Pension Office,
(YOUR T STREET, NEAR SIXTH.
TT AVING BEEN ENGAGED IN COLLECT-
Ia_ fug claims against the Government, I feet confident
.11 who base heretofore employed me will cheerfully
r, my promptnere and fidelity. My charges are
x. • i-rate anti no charge mode until obtained.
WILLIAM H. LIVINGOOD,
ne:l:.h.Hl Attorney at Law, Court SL, Reading, Pa.
DISCHARGED SOLDIERS
('IAN NOW OBTAIN THEIR $lOO BOUNTY
iron tie U. S. Government, by application to.
ABIER K. STAUFFER,
Marcia 7-ii] Collection Office, Conn, Street, Reading.
ASA M. HART,
(Late Hart Ac Illtsayer,)
iFALE.R.PI FoREIGN AND AMERICAN
PUY GOODS, CARPETINGS, Wholesale (611 d Re
..; reiledelphla prices. Sign of the Golden Bee Hive,
:17 11 Sitst Peen Square. japrl/ 17-if
P. Enshong & Sons,
TANUFACTURERS OF BURNING FLUID,
Deodorized and DregErletz' .Itleadrol; alma,
•'mil, Which they will aell at the lowest Wholesale
at floadiag. ea.
CS' Orders teskeetfally solicited. [match 12
a. M. MILLER, M. D.,
liclectic Physician and Surgeon,
A GRADUATE OF THE ECLECTIC MEDI-
Licit College Philadelphia, offers hie professional eer
rcs to the citisens of Hamburg and vicinity. Painful
Erg . irel operstione, sorb as Setting Broken end Dlelnested
Cutting Cancers, Tumors, Sc., will
19,107 med under the influence of Stber, at the consent
tfte lenient.
office at Me residence in Main street, Hamburg, Pa.
9.y 9, Jae:l4f
DR. T. YARDLEY DROWN,
SURGEON DENTIST.
GRADUATE OF PENNSYLVANIA
_ - Dental College. Teeth extracted by Fran
gs, • ale' Electra Magnetic process, with Clarke's
improvement. With this method teeth are
evracterl with much less pain than the usual way. No
charge. °Moe in. Fifth street, opposite the Presbytte
ma Church. [ape/ 2—ly
SOLDIERS'
BOITETY-MONEY. EACH-PAT
AND PENSION CLAIMS
PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO BY
A. K. STAUFFER,
Attorney at Law, Office in Court Street,
Jan 31-411 READING, YA:
F. P. HELLER,
WATCIIMAKER, JE WELER,
AND DIM.IIII IN
WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY,
QPOONS, SPECTACLES, GOLD PENS, ke.,
Si g uef the it BIG WATCH," No. asg Pant Penn
Eitieet, above Sixth. north Mile, Reading, PM,
fia" . Beery article warranted to be wiat it la sold for
'Watch.., Clock., Jewelry, &c., repaired with particular
attention, and guaranteed_ ifehl-tf
TRUSSES.
I)UPTURE CAN BE CURED BY A TRUSS
It,OF THE RIGHT KIND. IF PROPERLY FITTED MID
IP'LY ATTENDED TO_ This has barn abundantly de
- Agreed in innumerable icitanCee by the nee of the
TI11:38 of DR. SLOGS, during the loot few
Thir truss, being covered with Hard Rubber, in
l-ru.r.tly waterproof, may be need in bathing, and is al
cleanly as well as indestructible by ordinary wage.
If b.d.,atiAietory after a fair trial of allay days, it may be
tetnreed- It challenges comparleon with any trut.known.
Dr. MOOS' Office, No. 2 BARCLAY ST., New-York.
5 .r. 15-1 y
VOR SALE AT THE OLD JAIL, 200 WILLET
Oranite Tea Setts of the newest style.
Volt SALE AT THE OLD JAIL, 300 GRANITE
I . Dinner Sella of the newest sty].
VOR SALE AT THE OLD JAIL, 1000 SETS
common Tamara.
I,i I OR SALE AT THE OLD JAIL, THE LARG
assortment of Liverpool Ware ever offered in
-1,-,IOR SALE AT THE OLD JAIL, A LARGE
i s assortment of Pittsburgh, Boston and French Glass
:cars of every description.
141008 SALE AT THE OLD JAIL, THE CHOW
est variety of Bar and Hotel Glass, China sod Queens.
essr e fern itura over offered is RsalOg-
SALE AT THE OLD JAIL, 60 BARRELS
Mackerel at Philadelphia prjoes
Mareli ' WILLIAM RHOADS. Jr.
BALTIMORE LOCK HOSPITAL,
Akir - RiTABLISHED 1.3 A REFUGE FROM QUACKERY.
The Only Place Where a Cure Can be
Obtained
. .
FIR. JOHNSTON HAS DISCOVERED TUE
hiot,t Contain, Speedy and only Effectual Remedy is
th e World for all Private Dies:v.oe, Weakness of the hark
or Limbs, Strictures, Affections of the liidLoys and Blad
der, levelantary Diecharges, Impotency, blencral
Pierroutnume, Dyspepsia, Laugher, Low Spirits, Count
'eon, of Hoag, Palpitation of no - Heart, Timidity, Tremb
ling. Dimness of Sight or Giddimms, D1.3111:0 of the Head,
Thtial, Hose or Skin, Affections of the Liver, 1.. 4 ,,
Stomach or Rowele—those 11
ose Terrible DivorZere arisint. front
the Solitary Habib; of Youth—those SRCHRT and solitary
practices more fatal to their victims thee the Hong of gyrons
to the Mariners of blighting their most brilltout
Lopee or anticipations ; rendering marriage, Sc., impossible. .
hors y€ Namur
Especially, Who bare become the victims of Solitary Vice,
that droadfai and that: active habit which anneally weeps
to au untimely grave I hensands of Young Men of the most
exalted talent...n.l brilliant intellect, who might. Miser
wise have entranced lieteniug Senates, with the thunders
of eloquence or waked to ecstasy the living lyre, may call
within!' confidence.
0ff.11.11.31.141.033, •
Harried rOTPOOR, or Tering Alen contemplating' mar
riage; being aware of phyeical weakness, organic, debility . ,
deformities speedily cured.
Be who places himself nailer the care of Dr. J. may
religiously confide in his honor cc a gentleman, and con
fidently rely upon his skill as a physician.
OYAGANLC WW.41,331,11423156
Immediately cured and Fell Vigor Iteatored.
This Distrestdug Affection—which renders ',Maud Mar
riage impossible—is the penalty paid by the victims of im
proper indAulgeneue. Young persons are too apt to commit
excesses from not being aware of the dreadful comet
queues, that may ensue. Now, Who that Understand the
subject will pretend to deny that the power of procrea
tion le loot sootier by those falling into improper habits
thun by the prudent ? Besides. being deprived of the plane-
UN Of ilea:lbY VD:Trigg, the wet serious and destructive
symptoms so noth body.and mind arise. The eyntom be
comes Deranged, the Physical and Mental Functions
Weakened, Loss of Procreative Pulver. Nervous Irritabil
ity, Dyspepsia, Palpitation of the Heart, Indigestion, Con
stitutional Debility, a westing of the Frame, Cough, Con
empties , Pansy end Death.
Office, No. 7 South rreciorick Street.
Lett hand side going from Baltimore street, a few doors
from the corner. Fail not to observe name and number.
Letters moat be paid and contain a clamp. The Doctor's
Diploma bangs in bin 011iCc,
A GIETAZ/ WAYARANUEZM ZN
'TWO DAM'S.
No Mercury or Nauseous Drugs.
Mi. aVEZZITSTON.
Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London, Grad•
nate from one of the inset eminoat Colleges in the United
States, and the greater part of whose IVs has been spent
is the hospitals of London, purls, Philadelphia and else
where, has erected s,rue Of the most astonishing cures
that were ever Known; urt tty woullitil with :high% to
the head and ears when asleep, great nervousnees being
alarmed at sudden sounds, bashfulness, with freqneut
blushing, attended sometime with derangement of mind,
were cored hantediattity.
TAUB PA ; *-4
. _
Dr. J. addresses all those who have Injured themselves
by improper indulgence and solitary habits, which rein
both body and mind, unfitting them Air either business,
study, society or marriage.
Passe are or ilia sad and tselanclinly effects pro
'Nord by ,ea,tl7 habits of youth, Wtakness of the
Back and Limbs, rains iu tire Bead, Dimas., of bight,
Loss of Muscular Power, PalpitaL on of th, Heart, Dys
peptic, Bervous irritability, Derangement of the Digestive
Functions, General Debility, .Symptoms of Cosec MPI On, &G
Meavram.v.—The fearful affects on the mind are much to
be dreaded—Loss of Memory, Confailon of Ideas, Lepros
y-Imm of epiritr, Evil Eorbodings, Aversion to Eooiety, golf-
Distrest, Lone of Solitude, Timidity, &c., are some of the
evil. produced.
Tnousanns of persons of all ages can now judge what
Is the cause of their declining hea.ltb, losing their visor,
becoming weak, pale, Remus and emaciated, !writ% a
singular appearance about the eyes, cough and eympunne
of consumption.
TOUNG WEN
Who have injured the/Twelves by a certain practice indul
ged in when alone, a habit frequently learned from evil
companions, or at etheel, the effeote et which are nightly
felt, even when asleep, and if not cured renders marriage
impossible, and destroys both mind to rd body, should ap
ply immediately.
What a pity that a young man, the hope of his country,
the darling 4W - his — parents, should be matched from all
proapecte end erijoymnhr.-011feg by lha coauetta4nen of
deviating from the path of nature and indulging in a cer•
lain secret habit. Such persons MUST, before contemplat
ing
ZVIALILTUAGE,
reflect theta sound mind and Way see the Wet necessary
requisites to promote uonnubial happiness. Indeed, with
out these the Journey through life becomes a weary pit
grttosge- the prospect hourly darkens to the view; the
mind becomes shadoWed with despair and lilted with the
melancholy reflection that the happiness or another be
comes blighted with our own.
I
When the misguided and ,imprudent votary of pleasure
Ruda that he hue imbibed the seeds of this painful disease,
it too often happens that an ill-timed sense of shame, or
dread of dienovery, deters him from applying ill th.d who,
from education and respectability, can alone befriend him,
delaying till the constitutional symptoms of this horrid
disease make their appearance, such as ulcerated sore
throat, diseased nose, nocturnal pane in the bead and
limint, dimness of sight, deafness, node's an the shin - banes
and arias, blotches on the head, face and extremities, pro
gressing with frightful rapidity, tilt at last the palate of
the mouth nr the bones of the none fall iu, and the victim
of this awful disease becomes a horrid object of commie
melee, till death pate a period to his dreadful sufferings,
by sending hint to "that
.Undlecovartill Country font
Whence no traveller returns."
It is a mehrneboly fact that thonsatuls fall victims to
this terrible disease, owing to the onetkilifoluess of Ignor
ant pretenders, who e by the nee of that Deadly P0i5074.,
Jlitrt ,,, Y, rain the coontitatiou au& make U.OO ruAidue
life miserable.
SVALANGARS
Trnet not your live., or health, to the care of many Un
learned and worthless Pretenders, destitute of knowledge,
name or character, Who copy hr. Johnston'a advertise
ukentB, or style themselves, in the newspapers, regularly
Edneateil Pliyalcie.ns, incapable of Curing, they keep you
trilling month after month taking their filthy and poison.
On 6. compounds, or as long as the smallest tee can be ob
tained, and in despair, leave you with ruined health to
nigh over your own galling diamrpointroeut.
Dr, Johnston is the only Pnysician advertising.
His credentials or diplomas always hang in his office.
His remedies or treatment are unknown to all others,
prepared from a life spent in the great LeA.pitah. of Europe,
the Bret 74 the meta and a more extensive Private
Practice than any other Physician to the world.
zanoassranzer OP Tun
rarms.
The many thousands cured at thte institution year after
year, and time namereue important Surgical Operations
performed by Dr. Johnston, witnessed by the reporters of
the Sun," .`Clipper," and many other papers, notices of
which have appeared again and again before the public,
besides his standing as a gentlemea of character and re
sponsibility, is tisuilicient guarantee to the afflicted.
Skin Diseases Speedily Cured.
No letters received unless post-paid and containing
a stamp to be need on the reply. Persons writing should
state age, and send portion of advertisement describing
symptoms.
FP? ox' 4.4 vivA 'llll
Of the Ilaltimoro Lock Hospital, Baltirnoto, Maryland
May 23—ly
BOUNTY 'MONEY
BACK-PAY
AND PENSIONS.
A PPLICATIONS PROMPTLY ATTENDED
,VIL to. E. U. SHEARER, Attorney at Law,
May Office to Court Street, Headtog.
FRENCH'S HOTEL,
ON MUM rantopmarc PLAN.
CITY ON NEW YORE.
Single Booms Fifty Cents per Day.
City Ball Square, corner Frankfort St.,
(On'osini CITY HALL.)
INI E ALS AS THEY MAY BE ORDERED IN
the widow; refectory. There ie a Barber's Shop and
Bath Rooms attached to the lintel.
•Y Beware of RUNNERS end FIACKMEN who hay we
are tall.
Jaa 17-Iy3 B. FRENCH, Proprietor.
WILLIAM PENN HOUSE.
CORNER or PENN AND TENTH STS.,
READING, PA.
BRILTOI.7a:TTE GRANT, Proprietor.
THIS HOUSE BEING A LICENSED TAVERN,
the hest of Liquors are kept at the Bar, and 11.9 good
a table es any other Hotel in the county. Accommoda
tions for Boarders and Travellers. Charges reasonable.
r - Lunch from 9 In . 1 I tivinck. dolly. pupa G-A1
Commercial Broker.•
Tlll3, UNDERSIGNED HAVING TAKEN
oat a Waage as a COMMERCIAL BROKER, is pop
pared to negotate for the purchase and sale of
REAL ESTATE,
COIN,
STOCKS',
BONDS,
:MORTGAGES,
and other Sororities, Goods in unbroken Package& Collec
tion of Rents, and an/ other bovine!. of a CUlLlMiliViell
Broker or Agent.
flAir Partiea having business to do In his 'lee ere reg neat
ed to give him &call. •
, Jscon c. SCHCENER,
teialt , S.troot, peal door above Alderman
'Yob 28
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tottvg.
LOVE IN AUTUMN.
All day with mamma stroke I hear
From threshing , noels the bury null;
Ana in the Holds of stubble near
Incesnant pure the Frekted quail.
All gulden ripe the apples glow
urenK the orchard's russet leaves;
Southward tho tWlttprlog swallows go
That song all Kt miner 'neeth the eaves.
Across the Mir horizon's line
in Splendor autumn mists are drawn
The grapes are purple on the eine,
The sunflower shines upon the iitTeo.
And stretched athwart the burning sky
The spider's threads of silver white,
Like netted vapors to the eye,
- Mang quivering in the noonday light.
A year ago today we stood
Beneath the maple's crimson glow,
That, like a watch Are in the wood,
Gleamed to the yellowing vale below
Celle was the day, without e breath,
An all-pervading anthem; deep;
A calm that eeereed the calm of death—
A ellenee like to that of sleep.
And only on the listening ear
Through the wide wood the hollow sound
Of dropping nate, and sweet and clear
The wing that bubbled from the ground.
Close at our feet the brook slid down,
Past tangled knots of sedge and weed,
dad under learns of gold and brown,
To iTarkle through the lcrel mood.
A lock of hair—a ring—a flower—
The latter faded, old, and here; •
Idetto room& of that vanimbed hoar,
Mentorlea that my heart holds dear.
Like ono who in a penelve dream
Sees long lost friends around his bed
I, gazing en HAM trewroe, @mu
To hold cotamanion with the dead.
The whiepered vow—the lidgering Mee—
The long embraced cheek to cheek—
The silence that pruclatmed our blies,
Beyond the power or words to speak.
Ail seem g 0 near—then home we went
Through uteadows.where the aster grew,
While overhead the hues were blent
Of sunset with the melting blue.
O fire that valeta the antatun leaf—
() calm that know!: no picket:Ling breath,
0 winde that strip the enghruered shear.
Ye are to rue the LI pre of death!
Ah ! soon these groves lose the glow,
And yonder sun hie r.est and glare ;
And blasts that through December blow
Shall leave the braimhes bleak and bare.
NOVEMBER.
To day the moaning of the bitter wind
Rhymes with the plashing of toe chilly rain,
Chanting a mournful monotone of pain;
And antunin'n and, nuft eyes with taw arc blind
A cold, gray stillness sleeps above the land—
All tbat.istae bright and beautiful is gone;
Each day we Aar that, e'er another dawn,
The Front.gliinill uplift the icy heath
The busy farmer's harvesting 1s done
Ms great barna overflow with golden stores,
And ruddy boys shout, as they close the doors
" Hurrah I hurrah I for Wittier and fue fda I"
And the old homestead's swarm with faces fair—
" Four generations, all told!' grandpa nays,
Gathered to celebrate, with joy and praise,
,The happy feast of thanksgiving and prayer.
gais% attb SiOctss.
THE STATION MASTER AT
LONGLEY.
"I am not an old man, you say? Well, you
are right there; one is not usually considered
old at the age of forty-five. Why am Iso bald,
then? Ah, friend, you may well ask! Men do
not usually lose their hair so early in life; and
my soap was polished in this shining fashion,
some fifteen years ago. It only took one grim
night's work to do it all.
"A story? Yes, comrade, there is a story
about this poor bald pale of mine ; and, if you
wish to hear it, I will tell it to you. It is an old
story now, and over familiar to our friends about
here, for I fear I have gabbled it somewhat too
often when the bottle was going round ; but, as
you have never heard it before, you will find it
as good as new. The up-train is not due for a
full hour yet; and perhaps my story may help
as well as anything else to kill time. Fill your
glass, then, and draw nearer to the fire, for that
drifting snow outside does not make this winter
night too warm.
"You say you knew at once, when firet you
saw me, that I had served. Well, no doubt the
soldier who has been iu active service always
bears the stamp of his profession about him.
I have smelt powder on more than one field. I
was nine years in the —th rusileers. I served
in Canada; and, after reaching the grade of ser
geant, I was dangerously wounded in a rencon
tre with the Kaffirs at the Cape, and was sent
home with a pension. The restoration of health
brought back my constitutional antipathy to idle
ness; sad, after knocking about in sore die
content for acme time, I at last succeeded in
procuring occupation as ticket-clerk at the
Longley Station on this line.
"You don't know the country about Langley?
No. You lose nothing thereby, for a more mis
erable district of bleak hills and wild barren
moor is not to ba found from this to John o'
Groat's ; and the population, rude and churlish,
are as Mlle attractive as the country they dwell
" Among the few c i .iaintances I made during
the oue year I spent was a young fellow
named Carston, the son of a wealthy sheep-far
mer, who lived some six miles from the station.
A clever fellow he was—the real manager pf the
farm—and on market Jaye, and such like, he
was a frequent traveller on our line. Young
c a rman and I hail come to he great friends, and
more than one pleasant holiday I fp ent with him
(for even we railway officiate have holidays now
and again) up among the hills, bleak and barren
as they were. I dwell upon nll this, (rather
tediously, perhaps,) because it is to Frank Car
sten I owe this bald crown.
It . was a cold, cheerless, winter_ evening, as
I stood upon the platform waiting for the mail
train from the north, which was a little behind
its time. There was no passenger from Long
ley; the train would not wait two minutes, and
my work would be over when it bad passed on.
I was pleasantly anticipating a quiet fright by
my own fireside, with a hot cup of tea and the
London morning paper, when the train came
dae4ing in and pulled up with a shriek,-aud
SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 14, 1863.
head was thrust out from one of the carriages
while the familiar voice of my Mood Carson
hailed me.
" 'Ned, old fellow,' he said, as I hurried up
to him, I want you to -do me a great favor.
You see this bag ; it Contains two hundred Ll9V
ereigns. To-morrow is rent-day, and I got this
cash for the old man this morning. You know
the craze he has for paying in gold. lam going
thro' to London on urgent basica:l, and what I
want you to do for me is to take charge of the
money and this letter, and carry them out to our
place. Get any sort, of conveyance and drive
out; don't mind the expense—l'll settle all that.
I know that, as a friend, you'll do this business
carefully for me. Tell father I'll be home to
morrow night., if possible.'
"Off went the train, and, before I could utter
a word, I was left alone on the platform, with a
heavy bag of gold lii my hand. The commis•
eion with which I had been so unexpectedly in
trusted was a very disagreeable one that bleak
winter night ; but it would be churlish to dis
appoint a friend. I went to my lodging:l t got
some tea, loaded a small double-barreled pistol,
(an unusual precaution, suggested by the thought
of the gold,) put it in my pocket, and wrapped
my gredleoat round me. It was no easy thing
to get carriage, fly, or gig, in a little place like
Longley, at that hour; and what was a walk of
four miles to me, when I was sure of a stiff glass
of something warm and a good bed that night,
and a pleasant canter on a sure-footed nag back
to the railway elation iu the morning ?
"The 'light, though cold, was dry, and the
MOOR WA9 up, T 9 be sure, some ominous clouds
were gatheringround her, and sae was not rising,
but steadily oinking, and would soon be hidden
behind the hills. No matter; I should be far on
my way before her light was gone, and those
clouds, I thought, were not likely to change into I
what they promised—a snow shower—till I was
safely ensconced by old Canton's hospitable fire
side. All went well enough for the first half
hour; and, as the brisk walk made the blood
course warmly thro' my veins, I' thought how
much pleasanter this was titan to be jolted and
bruised in some such crazy, lumbering old veil
Cie as the Longley Inn was capable of supplying
over that .r.-,tugh, wild mountain read, Put my
anticipation of the weather proved sorely decep
Live. Before the half hour had well gone by,
the snow-storm cams down fierce and fast, acd
the moon was no longer visible. 'There was 10
help now, however, but all the more need to get
to my journey's end as noon as possible ; so 1
clutched my stick with &firmer grasp, and quick
seed my pace. But the thick steady fall of snow
so darkened the air that I could not see twice my
arm's length before me; and I had not been
walking many minutes when the apprehension
stole Upon me that, I was fast losing my way.
It was a dangerous locality I was in just then,
in the midst of that snow -storm, for the road
wound over hill and moor, without wall or-fence;
and, where the snow was rapidly covering heath
and path alike, to trace my route with accuracy
became impossible.
"Human life had been sacrificed more than
once, amid the snow drift, on that wild moorland,
and sheep innumerable had been lost. To make
my danger greater, the place was full of pits and
hollows, where mining speculators had tried to
sink shafts in former years. Should I wander
off the beaten track, the chabeee were that I
might meet a broken neck in one of those con—
founded holes.
"I stumbled on at random. I had loot ray
bearings utterly; and in a few minutes I knew
as little where I was as if I had free suddenly set
down bound and blindfolded in the middle of the
moor. I was making way, surely as best I could,
through the snow drift, but, for all I knew I
might be going in any direction but the right
one. Was len the beaten road, or Was lon the
heath
" Another moment cruelly settled my doubts.
One step more—•my toot found no rest; and I
fell headlong into a broad, deep pit. Stunned
by the fall, I lay there I know not how leng.
Bruised and giddy I tried at last to regain my
feet, when a pang of exquisite pain shot through
my left arm: the bone was broken. As with
my right hand I now tried to steady myself and
grope my way oui of the hole, the agony I auf
fered was indescribable, yet my first thought was
to feel for the bag of gold, which was still safely
suspended from my neck. I crawled out of the
pit, and pushed forward on chance; more slowly
this time, though, and cautiously, for the terror
of those vile holes was strong upon me now.
But I grew weaker every moment, and a vague
and Sickly alarm seized me. Suppose I should
swoon upon that moor—my head was giddy and
limbs unsteady already—what but a dreadful
death under the fast falling snow awaited mo 2
"At this horrible thought, a cold sweat suffu
sed my wfole body, and my parched tongue clove
to my palate ; to my last hour I shall not forget
the horror of that picture of death which rose
before my mind's eye that night. The pain of
my arm grew more excessive every moment; it
hung by my side like a leaden weight. But,
strange to say, even with the grim .terror of
death before me r a wild desire began to creep
over me to lie down upon the snow and rest.
Had I done so, no doubt my last sleep would have
followed. Bat luckily just then a faint glimmer
of light caught my eye, and with the eagerness
of awakened hope I hurried toward it. In a few
minutes I found myself at the open door o: a
wretched cabin, on the hearth of which a wood
fire was burning.
Hallo was the greeting I received from
a rough voice; 'who the d—l are you, and
what d'ye want here such a night as this
" The wood which burned on the hearth was
fresh and damp. and filled the cabin with smoke
as well as with a pungent odor. It took some
little lime to discover, in the far corner from
which the voice proceeded, the figure of a man,
large, gaunt, anti broad shouldered, raggedly
clad, with dark scowling face, and bullet-head,
°owed with COMIC, black, matted hair.
I hurriedly explained to this person my mis
adventure. lie rose and pushed toward me the
stool on which he had been seated.
Sit you down, man,' he said, somewhat less
roughly ; you look weak, and a broken arm is
no trifle. Though what we can do for you, hang
1110 if I know. But what errand took you out
upon the moor such a night as this?' •
" I was going from Longley, on important
bushiest!, to Farmer Carston's.'
" From Longley to old Canton's !' he ex
claimed. Whew! Why, man, you chose a very
roundabout way to got to your journey's eud.'
" ' Roundabout ? What do you mean ?'
asked.
" mean that Carston's is nearly in the op
posite direction,' was his answer. And you
have been 44444 waiting awg,y from it for the
last half hour at least.'
" 'And how far am I from it now V
Some four good miles at least.'
if Here was a discovery; but what. was to be
done ? I asked the man to guide me to Carston's,
and offered to pay him well.
" ' Not for all the money they say old Carlton
has in the bank,' he answered, • would !attempt
to go over the moor to—night. Why, man, the
snow is felling BO thick you couldn't see a yard
before you. It would be as roach as our lives
are worth. Men have met their doom upon that
moor outside, before now, on such a night as
"All this time the pain of my arm was grow
ing intolerable, and help of any kind was im
possible there. What was I to do ? Stay in
this wretched plane till morning, and endure my
agony till daylight should bring chance of aid?
There was no alternative.
"'All you can do,' said the man, is to keep
where you are to-night, and be thankful that
you have the shelter of even these miserable
walls on ouch a night as this. It will be well,
even, if this infernal snow-storm does not bury
the cabin itself before, morning. If you want
any thing to ear, you can have a crust of bread
—that's all we have—and in that room inside
you may lie down on the straw till morning
comes. But you do look horribly beaten up ;
here, Sally, up with you, lass, and get us the
black one.'
"1 turned to the other corner, beside the fire,
to which these words were addressed, and now
beheld, for the first time a young woman sitting
beside a child that lay asleep upon the ground.
I turned, and found her eyes fixed upon me with
a strange, eager glare. She was miserably clad,
looked sickly and thin, yet her face showed the
traces of much personal beauty. She was deli
cately fair; every feature was beautifully mould•
ed ; and her long disheveled hair, of a golden
tinge, actually glistened in the blaze of the fire.
Bnt what struck me most about her WAS her eyes,
so unnaturally large; fastened as it was upon
me, that eager /oak made toy hart Ela
with a vague feeling of dread and dislike.
"The woman did not tipealc; but She rent to
a large chest at the other end of the room.
(almost the only article of furniture in the place,
except a rickety deal table and a couple of st ools.)
and took from it a large black bottle and broken
oup.
" said the man, taking the cup and
bottle, and pouring some of the tit/tante cf the
one into the other, 'you did not. expect, perhaps,
to see anything like this in-a shepherd's hut on
the moor. No matter; it. came to us, sotnsjay.
Try It—the brandy is good, and you ceuld not
take much better physic to-night;'
" Most gratefully did I seize the cup and drink
off the contents; and Darer was cordial more
welcome. The blood Caine coursing warmly
through my shivering frame again, and for a
while I even forgot the excessive pain of my
broken arm. Declining the bread which the
man offered me, I drew nearer to the fire. I
took the pistol from my breast pocket, and laid
it on the ground beside me; and, as I stooped
to do this, the bag of gold struck against the
stool with a musical clink of the coins within.
" The next mement,• when I raised my head,
I found the terrible eyes of the woman fastened
upon me with a glare more hungry and wolfish
than before. I was startled, and (a.ltuoSt , me—
chanically) thrust the bag into my breast. She
turned away, muttered something about my bed
and went into the other room of the cabin. In
the meantime the man sat down at the other side
of the Ere, where the child was sleeping, and
(he had taken some of the brandy and was less
rough and more communicative) now began to
talk about the snow-storm, the probable loss of.
sheep it would cause, and the similar visitations
of former years.
"In about a quarter of an hour the woman
came to the door of the other room and called
him to her. He went, and for several minutes
after, I heard them converging in low eager
tones. Their words I could not catch ; but the
woman seemed to be vehemently urging some
thing upon her companion, while his answers
were brief and hesitating. Gradually the voices
grew confused—a drowsy feeling crept over me
—and I remembered no more. Whether one
minute or an hour had passed I knew not, when
a heavy hand was laid on my shoulder, and a
hoarse voice sounded in my ear.
"'some, friend, you're tired, I see; you had
better throw yourself on the bed inside, and
sleep till morning.'
started up, and was soon recalled to per
fect consciousness by the sharp pain of my brok
en arm: The man was standing beside me.
, My wile has shaken out the straw,' he said,
as softly as possible; and I mistake if, after
to-night's tramp, you don't find it as pleasant as
a bed of down. But take this by way of a night
cap before you go.'
" I drank the brandy, and, muttering a few
words of thanks, was turning away, when he
stopped me.
Sae,' he said, 'you. are forgetting your
pistol. You had better take it with you.'
did so, and, bidding them good night.
went into the other room. My bed was a heap
of straw covered with a piece of coarse sacking ;
but, bad it been of choicest feathers, it could not
have been more welcome then. I stretched my
self upon it, and way soon fast asleep. But,
sleep brought with it confused and distressing
dreams, with which the glare of those wild,
hungry eyes was strangely mingled. I awoke
with a sense of pain intolerable, and found that
I had turned over or; my left side, pressing my
wounded arm under me. now long I had been
sleeping, of course, I could not tell; but the
first sound that fell upon my ear wits the con•
fused murmur of voices from the other room.
Immediately the voices grew more distinct, and
some words reached me that. speedily brought
me to a terrible Consciousness of my position.
One of those words was gold and at the
sound, my hand searched for the bag; it was
there safe. With a grim terror at my heart, I
rose and urepi towards the door. Through a
chink between the Sunken boards I could see the
man and woman seated at the fire. The latter,
whose face was almost completely turned to
wards me, sat with her elbows on her knees and
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her chin reeling on her palms. Those eyes of
hers were {iced upon the man, and they glowed
with a hellish firo. I sickened at the look of
that face, so handsome, so delicate, so 'lima
like. The man was speaking at the moment.,
and, as the sound of he voice drew my eyes to
wards him. I beheld beside him an object that
made my blood run cold—a large shining hatch
et. or cleaver.
ff can't help it, lass,' he was Baying,
don't like the job, and I wish the thing could be
done some other way. About taking the gold
not particular to a hair, and in a downright
tussle I shouldn't much mind knocking the fel
low on the head. But to murder a man in his
sleep—clang me, but it goes against my kidney.'
"' But those beautiful golden coins, Bill,
dear,' the tempting fiend rejoined; the lovely
gold that would take us out of this hell at once.
What is one miserable life compared to that?
and who will know about it? The snowstorm
is most lucky. We can put him deep down be
neath the piled up snow in one of those holes
outside, and we shall be many a hundred miles
from this—ay, across the Atlantic itself—before
the least trace of him is found.' •
"How my blood curdled and my hair grew
stiff with horror, as I listened to the words of
this female devil, and watched the gorgon—like
glance of hoe eye, and the hideous smile that
curled her lips. I have been in deadly peril of
life and limb in more than one fierce fight, as
these medals show. I remember once when the
knife of a gigantic Kathy was at my throat, and
I thought all was over with me, till a comrade's
rifle brought that savage down. But never, in
deadliest hour of danger, did I feel anything like
the sickly terror and loathing which crept round
my heart as I listened that niglarto the murder
ous words that woman uttered.
"'lt's all the same,' replied her companion;
''tisn't the danger of discovery I'm afraid of.
"118 the jOb Udell I don't like—the murder of a
sleeping man in cold blood---iph
" With fury flashing from her eyes, she sprang
to her feet and seized the hatchet.
Coward and fool I' she hissed, ' do you call
yourself n man? You see your wife and child
starving before your eyes, and you have not the
manhood to do the deed which will save them
At,— the death of dep. i wilt do it. myself!'
•" Easy, lass,' he sail, catching her by the
wrist, and drawing her back to her seat again.
' You're a plucky gal, Sal ; but dy'e think I'd
let a wotucn do what I had not courage to attempt
myself? I told you I did out like the job. I
had lather get at the mom; any other way; but
1 didn't toll you I ,rouitln't do it. Sit you down,
and let's talk it over. The chap is fast asleep
now—the fatigue and the broody have done for
him, and you can hear him moaning as he sleeps.
This ugly bit of steel may be useless after all. A
cloth upon his mouth and my band upon his
wind-pipe may be enough. There will be no
Signs of blood aid when they find him after the
snow melts, they will say he perished in the
storm.' .
"'NOW, the woman, with a horrid
show of admiration, 'you talk like a man, and a
wise one. I begin to know you again.'
" lass,' he slid, consider the thing as
done. Just give me the bottle.'
" lie took it, raised it to his lips, and drank
a deep draught. With trembling hand I felt up
the door for bolt or lock. There was a wooden
bolt oely, Gently and silently I pushed it home,
then crept back to my bed and searched for my
pistol, resolved to sell my life dearly.
"I got the pistol, drew back the hammers,
and felt the nipples ; the caps were gone! I
tried the barrels ; they were drenched with wa
ter t I saw it all ; the pistol bad been dealt with
while I slept at the fire ; and 1 was now utterly
at the mercy of those fiends.
• " But I had little time to waste in thought,
for the next moment the door was shaken by a
heavy hand. I lay beck, and moaned and snored
like one in a troubled sleep.
"' The door is bolted on the inside, beard
the man whispering ; the fellow fastened it be
fore he went to sleep.'
Then burst it open,' said the woman.
" No,' was the rejoinder ; that would waken
him up, and he might show fight. We must
adopt some quieter course,'
There's the window,' she said ; can you
not get in through that?' •
" Quite right, lass ; had forgotten.'
I looked to the window ; it was an aperture
some two feet square or more, with a crazy sash
of four panes, everyone of which was broken.
I crawled towards it, and felt the sash. The
hand of a child might have pulled it out. What
was I t s yle ? What chance of a struggle had I
now ? Faint and weary, with that broken arm,
what resistance could I oiler to this man of gi
gantic strength? Crushed by the prospect of
my inevitable doom, I staggered back from the
window and fell against a p2mjection of the ga.
ble. I thrust out my right hand to save me from
sinking to the ground. It did not touch the
projection, but stretched far into some hollow
space. A pang of hope shot through my heart.
Here was a large open chimney, like that at the
other end of the cabin; and I felt the snow which
lied fallen down through it, crackling under` my
feet.
" Could I escape through this.? Was there
still a chance of life? I stooped under, and
thrust up my head. The aperture was wide and
dt , cl., end the large MlOlit2i; of th rude iner-oury
projected on every side. These were steps by
which it was easy enough to climb. To think of
all this, and to oat upon my thought, occupied
less lime than I have taken up to tell it. In
spite of the helplessness of my left arm, and the
excruciating pain I felt from it, I was up through
the chimney and out on the roof before I heard
the frail sash below forced in.
"To slide to the ground was easy enough ;
and blessing God for my deliverance, I crawled
rmind to the other side of the cabin, and from
this starting point I hurried away across the
moor as fast as my trembling limbs could bear
" Looking back, t saw the glare of light from
the open door of the cabin, and heard the shout
of a fierce angry voice. The snow-drift had
almost ceased to fall, and the whitened ground
gave out some faint light through the wintry
darkness. What I longed for now was some pit
or hollow to creep into, and burrow there till
immediate danger was over. I was not long
in finding one. I slid down into it, and
with my right hand gathered the snow
around .me. Nut ten minutes •-had I lain there
when I heard a heavy footstep crunching the
snow abore. It was my pursuer, the intending
assassin ; and I could hear his mustered curses
es he passed on. In a few moments more I
beard him coming back again, and then all was
silent and mill as death. At length I 'crept out
from my hiding place, with cramped and aching
limbs. I knew no more in what direction to
turn now than I had known before I had enter—
ed that accursed enbjn but 1 etineh right ahead
knowing that there must be a human habitation
somewhere before me should I only have strength
enough to reach it.
" I Was fearfully eahatiiled, and I dragged
my feeble limbs along as if they were weighted
with lead. For a time consciousness of danger
and the excitement of the fearful scene I had
gone through sustained me; but by and by,
strength and reason alike scented to desert me,
and I staggered along like one in the delirium
of fever. How long this continued I cannot tell,
for I made no count of time that terrible night;
but I remember how, at last, in utter exhaustion,
I fell prostrate on the snow.
" As I lay there, unable to rise, and unable to
move a limb, a long piercing shriek, the horri
ble import of which I knew tee well, ran g in my
ears. I looked up; that eye of fire was right
before me. How can I tell you the horror of my
situation I-11 life's agony compressed into the
compass of one awful minute! The goods train,
which always passes Longloy about three o'clock
in the morning, was coming, and I was lying help
less on the rails With a cry of agony I tried
to rise; but I fell hook in utter exhaustion.
Even the terror of approaching death did not
give me energy enough to erawl from where I lay.
But my mind 'was active enough for one
thought—to stretch myself oat with my head
toward the engine—my only chance of safety:
Commending my soul to god, I lay prostrate and
closed my eyes.
The next instant the shriek of the engine,
loud and-terrific, blended with the rattle of the
carriages and the grinding sound of the wheels
upon the snow that coverel the rails, and then—
and thou I looked up to Winn with a feeble
laugh of speechless gratitude, and all danger was
over. The train had passed along the other line
of rails; not over lho3c between which I lay
-he SCOW had prevented u,2 front thatinguithiog
the one from the other; but, had I had strength
enough to crawl in the direction I lied inlcnded,
he engine and carriages would herr in vitatily
passed over me and lefr. we there a Wang ad
corpse. It. was my utter weakness ehich saved
my life.
tt Thej ay of my delivery from a horrible death
was followed by a natural reaction. I sank back
in a swoon; and, when consciousness came back
to me again, I found myself weak and wasted,
in my own bed-room and in my own bed, where
(they told me) I had lain in a raging fever. It
seems that, in the morning, one of the railway
porters fond me dying ingfCAPibie on the snow;
and thus I was a third time within a dozen hours,
saved from death. But this bald pate was the
price I paid."
"But the bag of gold ?"
" Was found suspended from my neck, and;
with the letter found in my pocket, was deliver
ed in the proper quarter."
"And the intending assassins r
"I know nothing of them. They did not be
long to that part of the country. They had dis
appeared from the cabin on the moor several
days before I recovered from my fever, and
therefore before suspicion could have fallen upon
them ; and they were never heard of after."
"The Caraol32, I hope, were grateful?"
" Do you see where that light is burning faint
ly, in that window_ across the hue there? rrank.
Carstou's sister is Sleeping peacefully, (I hope)
in that room. She is mother of three of the
finest young Britons in this big shire, and I am
their father. But here comes the mail train,
and it makes no long stay here; you had better
look after your beggage,"—Nco a Week.
The Great Political Plot in Ohio.
[From the New York Herald, Nov. ti.]
Since the'three historic tailors met in a garret
in Tooley street, in the city of London, and
there took measures, in the name of " We, the
people of England," to overthrow the great edi
fice of the British constitution, we have never
heard or read of Such a conspiracy against es
tablished authority as that which has just been
brought be light by the omniscient detective po
lice of cincinnati. This extraordinary ease of
treason, as the telegraphic reporter calls it, had
for programme the release of the rebel prisoners
at Camp Chase, the seizure of the Arsenal at
Columbus, the storming of the Eastile, or Peniten
tiary, the release therefrom of John Morgan and'
the other guerillas confined there, a grand plun
dering and massacreing raid through Ohio, the
overthrow of the State Government, and, as a
matter of course, the annexation of the State to
the empire of Jeff. Davis.
Through what powerful agencies was this most
magnificent programme to be carried out? The
keen-eyed, ready-witted, übiquitous detectives,
headed by the United States Marshal and a pro
vost marshal, probed the mysterious plot to its
vast depth and through all its varied ramifica
tions, and arrested all the conceeters and princi
pal managers of it. Who were they f 1 4 .1.1%f. the
valorous Vallandigham, who is watching and
waiting on the border; not Sunset Cox, who
happened to be ,In the East making political
speeches against the Aeiroinietration and in-favor
of the " Copperheads;" not any other desperado
ever heard of before in public life, on the stump,
on the bloody battle field, or in plundering ex
peditions of the Quantrell type, Not all nor any
of such people appear to be implicated in this
- Ott to blow up the political , td:e..o of Ohio, and
tifikitfir it
From turret to foundation atone.
The Guy Fawkeses of the dark November plot
are a schoolmaster of Columbus—one whose sus
picious business it is to teach the young idea
how to shoot"—a sutler of toe same vicint.ge,
who may be supposed to be perthotly familiar
with ardent spirits; a rebel agetit and rebel
mail carrier from Kentucky; a Cincinnati tailor
and his wife, and, finally, a muscular washerwo
man, who carried on her occupation around the
camps of the latter city. These are the vile
conspirators who had banded together to bring
war's desola• ion to the peaceful hearths of a
great community. How shocking to think of it!
Well may the people of Ohio be grateful to the
pollee whose vigilance frustrated this treasonable
conspiracy against the peace and sovereignty of
their State. What might not have happened if
the washerwoman and the tailor's wife, the tai
lor himself and the schoolmaster, the leillir-oar
rier and the rebel agent., bad been allowed to
mature their plot and levy war against the Com
monwealth ? For the deliverance of the people
of Ohio from this terrible danger may they be
truly thankful; and we would suggest to them to
set apart in their calendar the let of November,
to be observed throughout all time in commem
oration of the event, just as the E.th of November
is observed in England in perpetual remembrance
of " the Gunpowder Plot"
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