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A T T O li N H V
A T L A W
EUNBUHY, PA.
B iniinrgs attended In in the Counties of IVor
thumhciluiiil, Union, I . v coin i n and Columbia.
Kelts- to i
V. & A. Ivovoudt,
Lower t Darren,
Koiners & KnoiUrrass. rhilait.
Mevnolds, McKiirlaml A. Co.,
pcring, (iond tV Co.,
IIEW STORE AT HOLLOWING RUN.
At the Crofs 11 ui'fj. near .. D. Conrtvh,
J.nirrr Azvrla.
.1. li. KA1.WMAX
RESPECTFI.'l.I.Y informs his fiicnds and
the public generally, that lit' lias just receiv
ed and opened n new stock of poods, which ho
ww otters lor s ilo on the most icimduuMc terms.
I is stock consists in part of
im woods.
SfCIl AS
Cloth, Cussiinrres, Sultau-ltf, Merinos, frc.
Hummer wear of nil Kinds Muslins, Calicoes,
(inr,lninis. Chocks, cV.e.
A I. SO :
An assortment nf Hardware of all kinds, most
generally in use.
ALSO:
(Irocor'u's of nil Kinds,
At Sugar, Cojfe'. Ten, Mibwct, Spirits. lee.
ALSO: Quocnswarc and Crockery ware, a
full assortment.
Also Silk Hals, Cliiji Hals. olid S'.rcw Hals.
ALSO : An assortment of Ia. piers, viz :
Brandy. Wink, Wiiiskkv, c.
Hesides a variety nf other articles, most poncr
nlly used and in w mt hy farmers and other per
lipiui, all of which ho will sell la (.mchascrs at u
caving of ten ier cent, hy calling on him.
All kinds of produce taken in exchange for
goods at the highest market price.
Hollowing Kun, Ap.il "-(!, 1S31. if.
MNOTANDliUMMES CLOlIilNG.
EVKKYliOUV klioi.ld t n. !i:aeo this opportu
nity to huy Cl.O TlilNCi for Men, Youth
and Hovs, at such prices as havL- never yet hcen
known in tliis Citv. nt (ilHUHJl'. CCI.LN'S
('LC)THIN(i KSTAUU -iilM l'.NT, South-Knst
('orner of Market and Secoini S. reels, I'hilailel
phin, rnihracing n ehijce of the host, most der.ira
ele, and fashionahle
DRESS AND FROCK C0AT3,
Iabit Cloth do., Linen Drilling do,, Tweeds,
&c, 6ic, together with a great variety of
Boys' Clothing.
Consisling of Sai'k Coats. To'ka Jackets. Mon
key Jackets, Yesls nnd Koiind Jackets made of'
Tweed, Linen Hri'ling, Cloth, Alpacca, Kersa
Inier, l)tcskiu, S:c., iNc.
rurlicular eare has hcen taken to procure the
ijew styles lor Men and l!os' Summer Coats,
Pantaloons, ests, Vc, to w hich he would imile
special attention.
Furnisliin UooUs,
Consisting of Shirts. Stocks. Handkerchiefs. iVc:
all of whicll, are ollcrcd at the oirr.tl I'ot-nlift
. Prires, and as cheap as any other Cklhing
Store In the L'nion.
Parents who desire Hoys' Ci.hthi5o arc ear
neatly invited to examine the Stock.
Country Sloreketpcts can he aeeonunciiiitej at
very low rateu.
trEtl!(rI'. Cl'LIX.
S. E: Comer of Sccnntl tV MurUt Sta. l'kila.
April 1Q, 1831. !!'.
TO ADVERTISERS.
You ore respectfully informed, thrj
C. FISilCE,
General Adveiti".i!jj Newspaper Agant
I1A1 Tim a:kncv
For all papers iienrnllij in ihe V. St'ilcs.
A bYKKTlSI'US ean alwavs see their aiUer-
y tiseinents when published, as he wishes to
keep a regular fil.i of all papers he advertises in.
From bis experience with ;ewspaieis in adver
tising in rily and ronnlry, uJrrlier would lind
iX to vlivir interest to consult with him upon the
.abject. C. PIKKCK,
Gen. Aili-e.-tisins Aft., h'dlchn Untitling.
Philadelphia, April ltt, 1851. ly.
" NATIONAI7 HOTEL,
SHAMOKIK,
Northiuiiberland County, Pa.
riHE subscriber respectfully informs his friends
and the public generally, Unit Inj uas open
ed a new Hotel in the town of Shair.okin, iSor
thuniberluuu couulv, on thu corner of Shainokin
nsd Commerce streets, nearly opposite to the
House lie formerly kept. He ia well prepared to
accommodate his guests, and ia also proviuwl
with good stabling. He trusts his eeiience,
and atriet attention to business, will induce per
sons visiting the coal r. gion to continue the lili
cral natronage lie bus lKjvlcforc received.
1 WILLIAM WEAVER.
Shanioldn, April l'J, 1H50. tf.
TAMES II. MA(iEK
Afj removed from hi old Maud, INo. lis
Vine street, to
A'o. 53 Dillwijn St., hcCn CuVhill If Willow,)
hqrc he lias constantly on hand,
BROWN STOUT, PORTER,
Ale and Cider,
, voa uofcF. coKsi;rTio.N oa BiurriNC.
N. B. Coloring, Bottling, Wir and Dottles,
Vinegar, Ac. For sale as ubove.
Philudelphiu, April 1?, 1851 ly.
Lycoming Mutual Insurance Company.
DR. J. B. MAUSER is the loral agent for the
above Insurance Company, in Northumlsr
lani county, and ia at all tiinei ready to affect
Insurances" against fire on real or personal pro
perty, or rcnewi3 policies for the same.
Sunbury, April 20, 185L tf.
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Llsf ltf-S' FiiiJ BII,is. "ale by
II. B. MA WISER.
Hunkury, April 26, 1851.
SELECT POETRY.
A Merry Heart.
?Tis well to ltnvfi n mcny honrt,
However short wn stay,
There's wisdom in n merry heart,
WltutpVr ihn win Id may say ! .
riiilosnphy may lift ils head, '
And iiiul out iiiiiny o flaw,
Dnl irivp tm that ihilosipliy
'J'hat' happy Willi a struw !
If life but lirinps lis haipiness
It Inins lis, we me told,
What's hard to lutv, though rich one
lry-e
Willi till their heaps of col.l i
Then liiuili nw.iy Id inheis say
Whaled ihe.y w ill of tnirlli ;
Who liitiL'hs ihe most may linly tay
Hi:' got the wcallli of earth.
There's beauty in a tiiotry hiugh,
A mural beauly loo
II shows lhe heart nn hniifst heart-,
That's paid each man his tine; ;
Ami lent a sharp of what's lo spate,
IVspiie oi wisdom's (eats,
And made lhe eheek less sorrow speak ;
The; eve weep ieflcr tears.
The snn may shrond ilsnlf in cloud,
The tempest wrath beoin ;
It finds a spark In cheer the litirk,
I:s sunlight is within b
Then laimh away, .I nlliprs say
Whatp'er they w ili if mirth ;
Whn lauohs thn most may truly boaut !
He's hdI llm weallli ii: tutU ;
ZX 5 kctc I).
THE USURER'S GIFT.
A few months n;o, iti London, nn old
man s;it in a I.irprt panelled room in one ol
(he streets near SjIio Square. Everything:
in the apartment was brown with as;e and
neglect. iN'othiiio; more superlatively din
gy could well be imagined. The leathern
covers of (he cllaiis were white and glossy
at (he elites; the carpet was almost of a
uniform tint, notwithstanding ils original
fraud v contrasts. There were absurd old
eiiirravinos upon the walls relics ol the
infancy of the art ; and curtains to the
windows, which the smoke cf years had
darkened Irorn a delicate fawn, to a rasty
chocolate color. I.i the centre of the
room, and, as it were, the sun of this dusty
system, stood an office table of more mod
ern matitilactiire, nt which was seated the
old man alluded to, sole lord and muster of
the dismal domicile, lie was by profes
sion a money-lender. His aj;e miht be
from sixty to sixty-lite years. His face
was lotir, and bis features seemed carved
out of box-wood or v. How sandstone, so
destitute were they ol mobility, his eyes
were ol a cold, pale, steel color, but his
brows were black and tufted like a frrini
old owl's; a Ion.' aquiline nose a thin and
compressed month, ami a vast doub. chin,
buried in a voluminous white neckcloth of
more than one day's wear, completed the
portrait. Nor did the expression of his
I countenance undergo anv perceptible
change as, after a timid knock, the door
opened, and a young; man of singularly in
teresiing appearance entered.
The new coiner was well dressed, though
bis clothes were none ol the newest, and
had the air of a mat; hccusiomed to society.
His pale brow was marked with those long;
horizontal lines of which time is rarely the
artist. His dark, deep-set gray eyes flash
ed with a painful biiirhtness ; his Ion";
chestnut hair, damp with perspiration,
cluno; in narrow strips to his forehead ;
his whole manner implied the man who
had made up his mind to some extraordi
nary course, from which no wavering or
weakness on Ids part was likely to turn
hi in aside, whatever the opposition of oth
ers might compel him to abandon or deter,
mine. Rending his tall figure slightly, he
addressed, the money-lender in a tone of
coiislrameu calmness
"Yon lend money, 1 believe?"
'Sometimes on good security," replied
the usurer indifferently, forming a critical
summary of his visitor's costume at a glance.
The str.niLier hesitated ; there was a dis
couraging sort of coldness in the mode of j
delivering this answer that seemed to pre
judge" his proposition. Nevertheless, he
resumed with an t (lort
"I saw your advertisement in the paper."
The usurer did i.ot even nod in answer
to this prelude, lie sat bolt upright in
his chair, awaiting further, information.
"I am, as you will see by thee papers,
entitled to some property in reversion."
The usurer stretched out his hand for
the papers, which he looked over carefully
with the same implacable tranquility,
whilst his visitor entered into explanations
as to their substance.
Once only the money Jender peered
over the top of a document he was scan
ning, and said gruflly :
"Your name is liernard West?"
"It is," replied the stranger, mechani
crjly talking up a newspaper, in which the
first thing which caught his eye was the
advertisement aiiuded to, which ran thus:
'Monky to any Bnmint advanced immediate',' or. rfry
iiew riplion r.r seeinily, real or persiiitil. Apply between
the li'.nrs of tea ami live, U Mt. Julia lluce, street,
t liU Stuiire."
Afler a brief interval of silence, the usu
rer methodically re-arranged the papers,
and returned them to the stranger.
'They are of no use," he said "no use
whatever ; the reversion is merely contin
gent. You have no available security to
oer."
"Could you not advance something upon
these expectations not even a small
sum ?"
"Not a farthing," said the money lender.
Is there no way of raising fifty thirty
even twenty pounds?" said the stran
per, anxiously, and with the tenacity of a
drowning man grasping at a straw.
"There ia a way," said the usurer, care
lessly. West, ia his turn, was silent,
awaiting the explanation of his compan
ion. "On personal security," continued
the latter, with a sinister impatience, be
ginning to arrange his. writing materials
lor a letter.
"I will give any discount," said the
young man, eagerly. "My prospects are
good ; I can - "
"Gel a friend to be security for the pay
ment of the interest ?"
"Of the interest and principal, you
mean ?u
"Of the interest only and the life in
surance," added the usurer, with a slight
peculiarity of intonation that might have
escaped the nolicp of one whose nerves
were less exalted in their sensitive power
than those of his visitor.
"jtnd what sum can I borrow on these
terms?" said West, gloomily.
'A hundred pounds more if you re
quire it. in fad any amount, if your se
curity be good."
"The interest will doubtless be high ?"
"Not at all lour or five per cent. As
much is often given for money on mortgage
of land."
"And the life insurance?"
"You will insure your life for five hun
dred pounds, and you will pay the pre
miums with the interest."
"For i re hundred ?" said West, hesita
ting. " That is, if I borrow "
'One hundred," replied the usurer,
sharply. "Men who lend money do not
run risks. You may die, and four out of
five insurance oflices may fail; but the
chances are that the filth would pay."
"Hut it is not likely," began liernard
West, amazed at this outrageous display of
caution.
"I do not say it is likely," snarled the
usurer, with a contemptuous sort of pity
fur his visitor's dullness of apprehension;
"I say it is possible and I like to be on the
safe side."
"Well,, und how is the affair to be ar
ranged ?"
"Your security, who of course must be a
person known to have property, will give
a bond guiratiteing the regular payment ol
interest and premiums that is all."
West reflected for some minutes in si
lence. The faint expression ol hope that
had. for an instant lighted up his counte
nance vanished. He understood the mon
ey lender and his proposition. A sulli
cier.tly clear remetnhrar.ee of the tables of
life insurance which he had seen enabled
him to perceive that the interest and pre
miums together would amount to nearly
twenty per cent., ami that the bond enga
ged his security to pny an annuity for his
(West's) lile of that amount. It is true
that lull of energy and hope, he felt no
doubt ol his capacity to meet the payments
regularly ; it is true that, monstrous as
were the terms, he would have accepted
eagerly still harder ones, had it simply de
pend, don his own decision. I'ut where
find, or how ask, a friend to become his
bondsman? He ran over in despair the
scanty list of acquaintances whom his pov
erty had not already caused to forget him.
He fell that the thing was impossible.
There was not one he could think of who
would have even dreamed of entering into
such a compact. He turned desperately
to the money lender.
'I have no friend," he said, "of whom 1
could or would ask such a service. If I
had, I should not he here. Are there no
terms, however high on which you cao
lend me even the most trifling sum, for
which I myself alone need be responsi
ble f"
"None," replied the usurer, already com
mencing his letter.
'I will give thirty per cent."
'Impossible."
"l iltv f
The usurer shook his head impatiently.
"A hundred cent, per cent.?''
"No!"
The strange seeker of loans at length
rose to depart. He reached the door.
Suddenly he turned back, his eyes blazing
with the sombre radiance of despair. He
strode up to the table, and planted himself,
with folded arm;-, immediately in front of
the usurer.
"Mark me !" said West, in a tone tf
deep, suppressed passion, like the hollow
murmur of the sea before a storm ; "it is a
question of life or death with me to get
money before sunset. Lend me only
twenty pounds, and within twelve months
I will repay you one hundred. I will
give you every power which the law can
g'.ve one man over another; and 1 will
pledge my honor, which never yet was
questioned, to the bargain I"
The usurer almost smiled, so strangely
sarcastic was the contraction ol Ins fea
tures, as lie listened to these words.
"I do not question your honor," he said,
icily, 'but honor has nothing to do with
the business. As for the law, there is an
old axiom which says, 'Out of nothing,
nothing comes."'
Bernard West regarded the cold rocky
face and the passionless mouth from which
these words proceeded with that slinging
wraih a man feels who has liumiliated him
self in vain. Nevertheless he clung to the
old flinty usurer as to. the last rock in a
deluge, and a sense of savage recklessness
came over him when he advanced yet clo
ser to the living cash box before him,
whilst the latter shrank half tei rifled be
fore the burning gaze ol his visitor's dilated
pupils. .
Laying his hand upon the money len
der's shoulder, by a gesture of terrible fa
miliarity that insisted upon and command
ed attention to his words, West spoke with
a sudden clearness and even musical dis
tinctness of utterance that made his words
yet more appalling in their solemn despair :
"Old man, I am desperate; I am ruined.
It is but a few months since my father
died, leaving me not only penniless, but
encircled by petty obligations which have
cramped every movement I would have
made. I have had no time, no quiet, to
make an eflort such as my position requires.
This day I have spent my last shilling. 1
am too proud to beg, anil to borrow is to
beg when a man is known to be in rat'
distress. Within one hour from this time
I shall be beyond all the tortures of a life
which for my own sake I care little to
preserve. And yet I have spent my youth
in accumulating treasures, which but a
brief space might have rendered produc
tive of benefit to man, and of profit lo my
self. My father's little means and my
own have vanished in the pursuit of sci
ence, and in the gulf of suffering more im
mediate than our own. If I die also, with
me perish the results of his experiments,
his studies, and bis sacrifices. There are
moments when all ordinary calculations
and prudence are empty baubles. Life is
the only real possession we have, and
death is the only certainty. Lisb n ! I
will make one last proposal to you. Lend
me but iuii pounds that is but ci weeks
ol life and 1 swear, to yuu that if 1 live, 1
will repay you (or each pound lent not ten
or twenty, but one hundred in p.ll t lie
thousand pounds! Grant that it be but a
chance upon the one hand, yet upon the
other, how small is the risk : and then, to
save a human life is not that something
in the scale !"
And the stranger laughed at these last
words with a bitter gaiety, which caused a
strange thrill lo creep along the nerves of
the usurer.
However, the lender of gold shrugged
lis shoulders without relaxing his habitual
impassabilily of manner, lie did not
speak. Possibly the idea occurred to him
that his strange client meditated some act
of violence upon himself or his strong box.
I!ut this idea sneedilv vanished as the stran
ger, relapsing suddenly into silence and
conventional behavior, removed his hand
from the usurer's shoulder, and strode rap
idly but calmly from the apartment.
The door closed behind the ruined man,
and the Usurer drew along breath, whilst
his biiahy brows were contracted in a sort
of agony of doubt and irresolute purpose.
Meanwhile liernard. West paused lor an
instant on the threshold of the (niter door,
as if undecided which road to take. In
truth id! roads were much alike to him at
that moment. Some cause toj subtle to be
seized bv the mental analyst, determined
biscour.se. lie turned to the. right, anil
strode rapidly onward.
He felt already like one of the dead, to
join whom he was hunting headlong.
He looked neither to the riht nor to the
left ; and before l.iui was a mUt, in which
the phantoms of bis imagination disported
themselves, to the exclusion of all other
visible o! jects. Nothing earthly had any
further interest for him. He did nut even
hear the steps ol some one running behind
bun, nor hear the voice w hich called alter
him to stoji ; but his course was soon more
ell'-ctu.iily arrested by the firm jriasp if a
man's hand, which seized him by tie' arm
with the lorce and the tenacity ol a vice.
lie turned fiercely round, lie was in
no humor lor the converse of casual ac
quaintances. Nor was it any gay coiivi
vialist of happier days wlu::;e lace now
greeted him ; it was the old money lender,
who, in a voice husky with loss of breath,
or possibly emotion, said, thrusting a cou
ple of twenty pound bank notes int Wci-t's
hand
Here! take tlies1 notes. Take them,
I say !" he repeated, as the young man,
diz.v with amazement, stammered out :
"You accept, then, my terms!"
"No!" growled the usurer, '-1 jrec Ihein
ti you. Do you understand me? 1 say 1
oi'i'e them to you. 1 am an old man ;. I
never gave aw ay a shilling before in my
lile: Jiepay me u you win, wnen aim
how it pleases you. I have no security
I ask no acknowledgment; I want none.
I do not count upon it. it is oomo.'" and
the f.hiirer pronounced the last words with
an t llort which was heroic, l.oni ttie evi
dent self mastery it cost him. "There!
go go!" he resumed, '-and take an old
man's advice Make money at all hazards,
and never lend except upon gooil security.
Remember that !" The obi man gently
pushed West r.wav, and all hutless and
slippered as he was, ran bock muttering to
his den, leaving the object of his mysteri
ous generosity fixed like a statue of amaze
ment in the centre ol the pavement.
About three months had elapsed, when
lieinar.l West once more knocked at the
door ol the money lender.
"Is Mr. Liace at home !" he inquired
cheerfully.
"Oh, if you please, sir, they buried him
yesterday," replied lhe servant, with, a
look of curiously affected solemnity.
"Jjuried him!" cried the visitor, with
sincere disappointment and grief in his
tone.
'Yes, sir ; perhaps you would like to
see Miss lirace, if it's anything very par
ticular ?"
"I should, indeed," said West; "and
when she knows the cause ol my visit, I
think she will excuse the intrusion."-
The servant uave an o.ld look, whose
significance West was unable to ditine, as
die led lhe way lo her young unstress's
drawing room.
West entered timidly, for he doubted
the delicacy of such a proceeding, though
bis heart was almost bursting with a desire
of expansion under the shock just received.
A beautiful and proud looking girl of nine-,
teen or twenty years rose to meet him.
Her large blue eyes which bore traces of
many and recent tears, worked strangely
upon his feelings, already sufliciently ex
cited. "I came," he said, in his deep musical
voice, "to repay a noble service. Will
you permit me to share a grief for the loss
of oiip to whom I owe my life!"
West paused, and strove vainly to master
the emotion which checked his utterance.
"My father rendered you a service!"
said the young lady, eagerly, regarding
with involuntary interest the noble coun-
tenance of fiernard, which, though it sti"
bore traces of treat suflering, was no Ion
ger wild and haggard, as at his interview
with the money lender.
"A most unexpected and generous ser
vice," replied West, who, softening down
the first portion of the scene we have de
scribed, proceeded to recount lo the fair
orphan the narrative of the great crisis in
his destiny.
"I knew it was so !" cried the young la
dy, almost hysterically allected ; "I knew
he was not so grasping, so hard-hearted, as
they said ai he himself pretended. I
knew he had a generous heart beneath all
his seeming avarice ! Oh, you are not the
only one, doubtless, whom he has thus
served !"
West did not discourage the illusion.
Nay, the enthusiasm of the charming wo
man before him was contagious.
"Thanks to your father's disinterested
liberality," he resumed, "I am now in
comparatively prosperous circumstances.
I came not merely to discharge a debt ;
believe trie, it. ia no, common, gratitude I
feel! Doubtless you inherit all your, la
ther's wealth ; doubtless it is but little ser
vice I can ever hope to render you ; yet 1
venture to entreat you never to forget that
you possess one friend of absolute devotion,
ready at all times to sacrif.ee himself in
every way to your wishes and to your hap
piness." West paused abruptly, for the singular
expression of the young lady's features fill
ed him with astonishment.
"You do not know, then " she began.
'Know what ?"
"That 1 am a natural child !" she
completed with a crimson blush, turning
away her head as she spoke, and covering
her lace with her hands "that 1 am with
out fortune or relations; that my father
died intestate; that the heir-at law, who
lives abroad, and without whose permis
sion nothing can be done moreover, who
is said to be a heartless spendthrift will
take all my father h aves; that I have but
one more week given me to vacate this
otise bv the landlord ; in short, tnat 1
must work if I would not starve; that, in
a word, I am a beggar!"
And the poor rr.irl sobbed convulsively ;
whilst liernard West, on whom this speech
acted as some terrible hurricane upon the
trees of a tropical forest, tearing up, as it
were, by the roots, all the terrible stoicism
of his nature, and rousing hopes and dreams
which he had long banished to tne deepest
and most hopeless abysses of his soul ;
whilst hernard, we repeat, ventured to
take her hand in his own. and calm her
painful agitation by such suggestion; as im
mediately occurred to his mind.
"In Ihe first place." he said, "my dear
Miss fJiace, I come to repay to you your
father's 'generous irift."
"It belongs to his legal heirs. 1 cannot
receive it with honor," said the money
lender's daughter, firmly.
"Not so," replied West, gravely ; it was
a free gilt to me. I repay it by a natural,
not a legal obligation ;" anil he laid the two
twenty pound notes upon the (able.
"Next," he resumed, "I have to pay a
debt of gratitude. 1 owe inv life to your
father. Thus, in a manner, I have to be
come his adoptetl son. Thus," he conlin
tied, impetuously, "I have a right to say to
you, regard me as a brother ; share the pro
duce ol my labor;, render me happy in the
thought that I am serving the child of my
benefactor. To disdain my gratitude would
be a cruel insult."
"I cannot clistiuin it !" exclaimed the
daughter of the usurer, w ith a sudden im
pulse of that sublime confidence which a
noble and generous soul can alone inspire.
"Yes 1 accept your. a.i.stauce !"
The face of Bernard brightenuJ up, as if
by an electric agent. f!i;t how wi re the
two children of sorrow confounded bv the
discovery that tiiey were no longer alone,
Mil that their conversation had been over
heard by an utter stranger, who, leaning
against the wall ut the farther end of the
room, near the door, appeared to survey
them with an utter indillerence to the nro
priely of such behavior.
lie was a man of between forty and
fifty years; a great beard and moustache
concealed the lower part of a swarthy but
handsome countenance of rare dignity and
seventy of outline. His dress was utterly
un-Laiglish.. Avast mantle with a hood,
fell nearly to the ground, and he wore
huge courier's boots, which were still
spbuhed, as if from a journey. His Teat
dark eyes rested with an expression of
loyal benevolence upon the two young
people, towanls whom he advanced with a,
courteous inclination, that as if magueti-
ca.lly, repressed Eernaid's first i.ndnant
impulse.
"1 am the heir-al-lw," lie said, in a
mild voice, as if he had been announcing
a most agreeable, piece of intelligence.
"Then, sir," said LVrnard, "I trust "
"Trust absolutely !" interrupted quickly
the foreign looking heir. "My children,
do you know w:ho I am? No? I vvill tell
you. 1 am a monster, who, in his youth,
preferred beauty to ambition, and glory lo
gold. For ten years after attaining man
hood I struggled on, an outcast from my
family, in poverty and humiliation, with
out friends, and often without bread. At
the end of five more years I was a great
man, and those who had neglected, and
starved and tcorned me, came to bow down
and worship. But the beauty I had adored
was dust, and the fire of youthful hope
quenched in the bitter waters of science.
For ten years since I have wandered over
the earth. I am rich ; I may say my
wealth is boundless ; for I have but to
shake a few fancies from this brain, to
trace a few ciphers with this hand, and
they become gold at my command. Yet
jnaik my wordi, my children ! One look
of love is, in my esteem, worth more than
all the applause of an age, or all the wealth
ol an empire !"
The dark strcjiger paused for an instant,
as it in meditalion,lhen abruptly continu
ed :
' lake your inheritance, fair child !
roh the orphan and the fatherless !" and the
smije of disdainful pride which followed
these wolds said more than whole piles of
parchment renunciations as to his intention.
Involuntarily the orphan and Bernard
seized each a. hand of the mysterious man
beside Ihem, who, silently drawing the
two bands together, and uniting them in
his own, said gently
"Love one another as you will, my
young friends, yet spare at times a kind
thought for the old wandering poet ! Not
a word ! 1 understand you, though you
do not understand yourselves. It is as
easy to tell a fortune as to give U."
And wits the prophecy realized ? asks a
curious reader. But no answer is needed ;
for if the prophecy were false, why record
it? And, pray, who was the stranger, al
ter all? Too curious reader! it is' one
thing to tell stories, and another to commit
breaches of confidence.
A SLAVIC fAS.E l.N CLEVELAND.
The Cleveland Herald of May 31st, hag
the follow ing account of a tdave's lufusul lo
leave her mistress :
Yesterday Miss Minor, a lady from Lpui-
sianna, who in company with her uncle was
Mopping at the New England,, was cited lo
appear before Jiulyo Atkins to show cause
why idie, restrained Ihe liberty of Mary
Bryant, a slave woman who was with her.
Miss Minor did not appear but said Mary
was at liberty to po were she pleased. The
Jadye dudatul Miry free, but she insisted
cm going back to her mist rem whom she had
attended from infancy. The colored peo
ple who bad been active in the matter
were exceedingly chagrined at this result.
We were not present, but are informed
that the Judge wasted much breath in ex
patiating to the setvatil on the blessings of
that freedom which she did not seem to de
sire, and in persuading her to profit by his
decison.
At eveunig tbo New England Omnibus
conveyed Miss Miner's family and Mary
Bryant, to tho Empire Slate. A crowd of
negroes, some of w hom had been heard to
say that the slave should not leave the city,
lathered about the gangway, and, as she
anempted lo pasa on board, one of them
caught her by the diess. Mr. Clark Warren
Deputy Marshall, ordered him to desist, and,
fearing the "cane" ho did so, and she went
on board. A stout negro then stepped for
ward and said, "you are nil ollieer of the
law, this is the law of the land, but there is
a law of God." "Yes," replied Clark, "and
if you ilon t leave this spot, you'll feel thu
giace of (JoJ over your head from my
cane." The advocate of "higher law,"
moved bis boots speedily. Mr. Minor ten
dered Mt. Warren an eagle lor the service
rendered, which, as he had only done w hat
Cleveland officers always will do protected
si tankers from aunoyunee and insult, w as
very properly declined. The Empire Stale
ptoreeiled on tier w ay with tho woman w no
had the pood sense lo prefer the guardian
ship of those who had been always kind, to
lhe cold charities of tbosu whose piolessions
would furnish but scanty raiment, food or
comfort
Tin-: Tiii'i: M.tv.
I l -ve t!;e ni'tn lliat will dine lo lift
Hi v'ire for ttie uriiLli'ifr o..r ;
Ttie II: Ml tiuil will open his heart, nor cleaa
'i;.nnt the lieiu'.ir at tlie door.
O give me a heart that will firmly slau.t
When the .tonn begins to lower
A hiuiit tliat will never ultriiik if gr;icrt,
la iniM'orltinc'f darkest lKur.
ki:ki'ix the teeth t lean.
At a meeting of lhe Ameiican Academy,
December 18-1'J, a paper was read by Dr. II.
J. Bow-ditch, on the annuel and vegetable
puiasjies infesting lhe teeth, wi;h the eifec'.s
of different agents in causiiir; their removal
and des',rnc.lii,:i. Microscopical eamiuation
have been made of th.i mailer deposited on
the teeth and gums of mure than forty indir
viduals, selected from all clases of society,
in every variety cf bodily condition ; and in
nearly every case aniin and- vegetable par
asites in great numbers lujd been discover-,
ed. Oi tite animal parasites theia were
three or four species, and of Ihe vegetable
one or two. In fact the i.::)y persons whose
month were found lo be completely free
from them, cleansed their teeth, fun r times
daily, using soap once. One of these indi
viduals also passed a thread betwpeti the
teeih lo cleanse them more etlectnallv. In
all caii's tin; lumber of the parasites was
greater in proporlion to the neglect of clean
liness. The effect of the application of vac
uus agent was. also noticed. Tobacco juice
and smoke tlid not impair their vitality in
tho least The same was also true of the
chlorine tooth wash, of pulverised bark, of
siula, ammonia ; and various other popular
detergents. The application of soap, how-
ever, appeared to destroy ihem instantly.
We may hence infer that it is the best and
most proper specific for cleansjng llip teeth.
In all cases where it has been tried, it re
ceives unqualified commendation. It may
also be proper lo add, that none but the pur
est white soap, free from all discoloration,
shoulJ be used.
Tut disease which baa so seiiously allect
ed the orange proves of Florida, for several
year past, is passing away, and orange
growers are again lurniiij their attention lo
this profitable cultivation.
IIEATHE TRADITIONS OF THE AFTER
Tho traditions and opinions of mankind,
concerning ihe . nflor (lealh haV9 part
from written reflation, so great a uniformi
ty, that tho candid enquirer must of necessi
ty atl.ibiito them to one fountain-head. Ha
may, if he pleases, call this the voice of na
ture ; but the voice of nature either meant
the voice of God, or it means nothing.
The Egyptians represented the soul as
brought, after death, into the pretence of its.
judge, attended by accusing, and approving
spirits. The Greek mythology, which was.
likewise adopted by their imitators in eve
rythinrr, the Homans, carried Ihe soul across
the river Styx, in the boat of Charon, to the
bar of threo righteous judges, under whose
award it passed lo an appropriate abode,
according to its works on earth, those
"Who .ufTercn wound..
In fighting for their country', muse ; and print.
Who kept their ula uin-potted whilst their lives.
Endured ; and pioni bard, who warbled (trains
Did li. i to Apollo : those who polinhei
Life hy invented arts ; and tueh an mod.
Tli.ir memories dear ta others by the deeds
I' 8'ilnens,"
wero admitted to
"The roahnii of j jy,
Delightful Imuiits of never.i'udiiig green,
The blessed Mats in proves of lm.piuem,
Whero eiher more diffusive robes the fiulda
In purple (rl ry."
Here they gave themselves up to the mote.
rational pleasures of our nature, following, at
the same time, such paths to happiness, and,
such occupations, aa had been dear to them,
in life. Hut the wicked were cast down into,
hell, a place inhabited by care, sorrow, dis
ease, want, fear, hunger, toil, &c, and in,
which
"An hundred totifu'S,
An hundred miulh. mid Hpeech y iron luiia
Inspired, could not eiiuiuer.te the mimes
CM'ull their punishments."
The Scandinavian taught, that the brave
were to revel forever in the halls of Valhalla
and drink mead, o(Te:ed them by maidens.
from the skulls of their enemies, c'oma ot
the Pagan Arabs said, that of the blood near
the b: uiii a bird was formed, which once in.
a century visited the sepulchre ; and others.
believed a resurrection, 'ihe first uativeri of
ibis continent seen by the Spaniards taught,
that tho souls of good men went lo a pleas
ant valley, where nil kinds of fruits were,
abundant ; and that the dead walked,
abmad in the night, and feasted with the
living. Chailevoi.v. says, that the Indiana,
pai.l gieiit regard to dreams, as embracing
an intercourse with spirits. 1 hey imagined
a paradise in the West, a laud where nature
slowed with an eternal sunset. The Mexi-.
cans supposed three places for the departed :
the House of the Sun, for such as fell in bat
tle, or died captives, and women who perish,
in child-bed ; the place of the God of
Water, for the drowned, for children, and
for tboso who died of dropsy, tumors, and
similar diseases, or of accidental wounds ;
and the place of darkness, in the centre of
the earia. The Patagoiu'ans in mentioning
the dead, call them those who are with
Cod, and out cf tho world. Tho Tongo
people suppose the souls of their dead chiefs,
to be in deljohlfui island of shadows.
The Yucatanese represent the aboda of ths
good as a pleasant land of plenty, under tho
shade of a mighty tree. The Chickasawa
believed that the souls of red men walked
up and down near the place were they
died, or wers laid ; and said that they had,
often heaid ciies and noises where prisoners,
bad been burned Tho Ijulians of Cuniana.
supposed echo lo be the voica of the depart
ed, li was a common belief of lhe Indians,
of America, that the spirits of the slain.
tiaun'.od. their tribe till Ihey were avenged.
BATHING IX THE DEAD SE.t,.
Heated and fatigued, we prepared for a
general bathe as a private party; for tho
pilgrims determined to reserve their ener-
fjiea for the sacred Jordan, the lake of Sodom
being held ly thein in horror and abomina-.
lion. The bad odor in which the lake was.
Ueld, did not, however deter us, and having
called a halt, we plunged liko young ducks,
into the liquid element, Paulo chuckling like,
an old hen on the banks. We plunged ! .
Disastrous was the plunge rapidly enougli,
head ufier head pupped up from the execra
ble waters hair matted, eyes smarting, ami
tongues burning from the iutense sulphurous
hitter s. illness of the detestable liquid ia
which wo wero immersed ; water it waa,
not, nor bitumen, nor salt, nor sulpher, but t
disgusting compound of all four.
A hogshead of it wojdd serve as anemetio
for all Asia Minor, and leave some gallons,
lo spare against the next epidemic : you
could neiiher sink nor swim in it. Talk of
a fly in molasses, or a wasp in a barrel of
tar I can find no parallel for a bath in the
Dead Sea. But tho sufferings, of my com,
patiiona were a trifle to. what I felt ; cut
and maimed in consequence of my superior
horsemanship, I jumped into the water as
raw as a beef-stuke, and jumped out of it
as if I were flayed alive. However, let me
be just to this abominable mixture: if I
smarted for it, my wounds were effectually
cauterized, completely skinned over the
cure wa perfect to a miraoie. We dressed,
with the comfortable aensation of men who
had been well coaled with mutton suet, stiff
gieasy and extremely out- of sorts, with a
tingling creepiiurjeeling ovei tUe skin ; and
remouiiiing, turned our aJpps lo the fords
of the. .Vrdami. Dublin Univtrsity Afaga-,
fUt.
Tm'c is a plant growing in the springs
of Iceland, which not only flowers, but.
bears seeds in water hot unough. to boil aa
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