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No paper discontinued, until all arrearages are paid except at the option of the proprietor. ' Office in Hamilton Street, one door East of the German Reformed Church, nearly opposite the '•Friedensbote" Office. Portico! Elepattincnt. This World Let's take this world as some wide scene, Through which, in frail but bouyant boat, With skies now dark, and now serene, Together thou and I must float: Beholding oft, on either shore, Bright spots where we should love to stay ; But 'rime plies swift his flying oar, And away we speed, away, away. Should chilling winds and rains come on, We'll raise our awning 'gainst the shower Sit closer till the storm is gone. And, smiling. wait a sunnier hour. And if that sunnier hour should shine, We'll know its brightness cannot stay, But happy, while 'tis thine and mine, Complain not when it fades away. So shall we reach at last that Fall Down which life's currents all must go— The dark, the brilliant ; destined all • To sink into the void below. Nor e'en that hour shall want its charms, If, side by side, still fond we keep, And calmly, in each other's arms Together linked, go down the steep. "Before My Hair was Gray•" You bid me sing, oh lady bright, .2 A song of other years; There was an hour my heart was light, My eyes unused to tears. My voice had then no broken string, And all its notes were gay— That was the time that I could sing, Before my hair was gray. My planets then were ladies eyes. Their smile my sunlight made; But now no sun nor planets rise, And I am in the shade. The lovely lips sang songs for me, And softly bade me stay,— There was no lack of melody Before my hair was gray, But now there are, to glad my ear, No gentle ditties sung; Whers'er I go. 'tis very clear I am no longer young. Then ask me nut a song to sing, Sweet girl, 'tis not my way— 'Tis Winter now, though all was Spring • Before my hair was gray. The very birds, when falls the snow, Rejoice the woods no more— You only hear the breezes blow The music round your door: And so amidst the frosts of age Bright thoughts no longer stray— / was more merry though less sage, Before my hair was dray. There are some wrinkles on my brow, Some furrows In my face ; And I must look through glasses now, The plainest words to trace; And in my voice a certain shake,— Not such as artists play,— Not one such tone as I could wake Before my hair was gray. Then lady bid me not to sing, But sing a by,gone strain— A touching, soft, pathetic thing, That tells of lovers' pain ; And then, pethaps, forgetting all The sad past in to-day, may the tender time recall Before my hair was gray. Slioctllium:lug Selections. The Divorced Husband ; OR, WOMANS LOVE. 'Who is that very beautiful asked young Englishman of his companion, as they leant for a moment against one of the marble pillars, to contemplate at leisure, the 'enchanting scene which a Parisian ball pre emie to the eye of the stranger. The young girl alluded to was exquisitely lovely, with ki petite and child-like figure, a fair, bright fifth, and a pair of the most mischievous blue eyes that could be imagined—although the deintiftness of herd present attitude made then appear softened, if not subdued. Her head tvaa bent a little forward, and a profu sion of light, sunny curls fell upon her white shouldersoit d contrasted strangely in their brightness with the dark emerald hue of her satin robe, the front and sleeves of which were clasped with diamonds of inestimable value, A FAMILY NEWSPAPER. By her side at a young man, attired with studied plainness, although the turn of his finely-shaped head, the fire of his dark, melancholy eyes, and the troubled expres sion of his pale, handsome features, render ed him an object of whom one would know more. •lt is Mademoiselle Verney, replied the young Count de Tours ; 'the richest heiress in Paris, and on the eve of marriage with that solemn looking personage by her side. 'She must be very young !' said the Eng lishman. 'She is scarcely eighteen,' was the reply; and wilful as she is beautiful.' 'And her lover ?' 'Ah ! there lies the disparity : he has nothing—absolutely nothing—and is as proud as he is poor I Why, Lestelle, with her beauty and her fortune, might have chosen her a husband among the nobles of the land: but she is fond and romantic, and Monsieur Aubertin, quiet as he looks, has had wit enough to persuade her that she loves him:' 'Persuade her ?' repeated the English man.. Wes, for she is but a• girl, and will have changed her mind and repented a dozen limes before she comes of age. And as for A übertin's having any real disinterested af- fection for her, we know too much of the world to believe that, my friend.' • And the young count laughed scornfully, as he drew his companion away. .You are ill, Claude said Lestelle, anx iously, as she watched the changed expres sion of her lover's face, and marked his haughtily contracted brow and flashing eyes. .Elave I said any thing to offend you ?' •Will you forgive me. dearest, ill confess that I have not heard a word you have been saying for the last five minutes ?' murmur. ed A übertin, abstractedly. The young beauty tossed back the curls from her while brow, and put up her pretty but she did not reply ; and the long si lence that ensued was b roken at length by Claude. •Shall I tell you, Lestelle,' lie asked, in a low voice, 'what the Count do Tours has just been saying about us ?—and he speaks, doubtless, from the common rumors and opinions of :,ociety.' .As you will r replied Lestelle, coloring slightly, and trying to speak with indifli2r enCe. .1-le called you a fond, romantic girl, Le:- wile, and me an—adventurer !' 'And can the idle words of such as he have the power to move you thus, Claude ?' said Lestelle, gently ; 'or do you think,' she added with an arch stalk. 'that such a prize as myself is to be attained without exciting envious remarks ? That I am fond and ro mantic I confess : ever since I can remem ber, in my dreams of young romance 1 pic tured to myself an ideal being whom I could love ; but never were girlhood's visions re alized as mine have been—that is, if my hero does not spoil all by his too scrupulous pride.' 'But I have not told you all yet,' contin ued Aubertin, while his haughty frown re laxed beneath the witchery of her smiles 'he said, too, that, but for me, with your wealth and beauty, you might have cora mantled one of the most splendid matches in the kingdom.' 'And would that have insured my happi ness ?' asked Lestelle. 'Oh that we lived in the old times of the fairies, and that I might have one wish !' 'And what would that be ?' inquired her love. 'That we might change situations with one another : that you could have all the wealth, and I be a poor girl, blessed only with your affections ! Claude, I should feel no humiliation, no gratitude in receiving all from you—love would have equalized us !' fear that your creed is rather a theore tical than n practical one, Lestelle,' said Aubertin, with a mournful smile. 'lf I could but convert you to its belief, I think I should have nothing left to wish for,' replied the young girl, in a whisper; and there was no shade upon the open brow of her lover, as he mingled in the brilliant throng with his beautiful and devoted mis tress. The evening passed away as evenings do 1 when we are most happy ; for, with all its heart-burnings, its disappointments—occa sioned, perhaps, by the absence or coldness of the only one amidst a thousand for whom we have dressed and smiled—a ball is a bright epoch in the lives of the young. shall see you to-morrow, Claude?' said Lestelle, in a timid voice, as they stood to gether, waiting for her carriage to draw up: 'Of 'course,' replied A übertin, gloomily : have received a formal invitation to meet your guardians and the notary. to sign the deed relative to the final settlement of your property.' 'lt will soon be over 9' said Lostelle, lay ing her hand imploringly upon his arm.— 'And you will bear this trial for my sake, Claude ?' , My sweet Lestelle ! but I will make no promises. You shall see how patiently 1 will listen to M. Raiders arrogant taunts, and how humbly and gratefully 1 will con duct myself !' *Claude 1' interrupted Lestelle, almost ALLENTOWN, LEHIGH COUNTY, PA., AUGUST 10, 1853. tearfully, 'you are speaking now in bitter ness and mockery 7' 'No, en verite replied her lover, laugh ingly. 'But good night now, Lestello, and God bless you.' - He relinquished the hand he held, and as the carriage whirled rapidly away, the. smile faded upon his lips, and ho walked' home in moody thoughtfulness. It was a severe trial for the good spirit of Claude Aubertin, much as he loved Lestel le, to consent to owe everything to her—to subject himself to the mortifying surmises of those who judged of him by their own worldly and preverted imaginations. And there were times when he almost deterinin- ed to givo her up for ever, although the de struction of his own peace and hers should be the consequence ; while at others he thought of doing something to prove himself worthy of her love. But a name and for tune are not very easily obtained in these days, even by the most talented : and in thtl interim a thousand things Might happen.— Lestelle might grow old—or die !—or she might cease to love him—for the heart has its changes and its seasons, none of which however, resemble its first freshness and purity. The attachments of our girlish days may lest through womanhood, and even to old age itself ; but . every Year we live, more of earthly feeling, more of the world's wisdom, will have mingled in our dream of love, until it becomes less unself ish--less ideal--more rational perhaps; but less passionate and devoted. And who could be sure that the faith of one so beau tiful and admired as the young heiress would be preserved pure and unbroken, through trial and temptation, amidst ambi tion and flattery, and with hint to whose protection she had clung so..confitlinzly,ab qtyi sent for an unlimited e : 1 i . n . la foreign land ? Woman's fidelity' p roverbial : but after all we are but mortal, and ..Look through the world, and this truth you will find. That once out of sight, you are soon out of mind." It was all very well in the days of old, when, on the departure of the true knight, theconstant fair one would shut herself up. in her lonely tower, out of the reach of temptation, and, surrounded only by her maidens, employ the weary interval in lis• tening to the noble deeds of his ancestors. and embroidering a gorgeous scarf to pre sent him on his return ; but in these days of balls, festivals, and beaux, the young af fiance has a much harder trial—and we se riously advise the lover not to be absent lon ger than he can help. The following day, Aubertin found the whole party drawn up to receive him—M. Fradel occupying his large arm-chair at the head of a table covered with parch , ments. and M. Dumont, the notary—a hard featured, cold, methodical-looking being— seated at his right ; while on the opposite side, Lestelle sat with •her elbow resting on the table and her head bent down ; and as she slightly raised it on the entrance of her lover, he saw that her eyes were red and swollen from excessive weeping: Having bowed to the gentlemen, and pressed the cold, trembling hand of Lestelle to his lips, he sat down, and waited calmly for M. Fre del to commence the business that had brought them together. "You are aware, M. Aubertin,' said the• old gentleman, at length, 'that my ward is very young, and that, in accepting you for her future husband, she acts contrary to my wishes, and demonstrates, the natural wil fulness of her sex • 'All this is not new to me,' replied the young man, while he stole an arch look at Lestelle, who was watching him with breath less anxiety. , Well, then, we may as well come to the point at once. Without my consent your marriage cannot take place until Mademoi selle Verney is of age—a period of which it wants nearly three years ; and your sign ing this deed, by which the whole of her property is settled unalienably upon her self, without giving any one else power to draw or dispose of one sou of it, is the only condition upon which the hand of Lestelle shall be yours.' A crimson flush passed over the cheek and brow of .Claude Aubertin, and there was a moment's pause, during which the" keen glance of the old man, the cold scru tiny of the notary, and the pleading eyes of 1 the anxious girl were fixed eagerly upon his face. The struggle, however, was but of short duration ; and, with a cheerful smile upon his face, he held out his hand for the' paper, and glancing over its contents, in stantly affixed his name. 'lt is Well, said M. Fradel, complacent ly, 'Now, mademoiselle.' The hand of the young girl trembled so violently that.Aubertin was obliged to guide it ; and when the signature was at length completed, she flung herself upon his bo som, and wept long land Even the notary was moved into.something like sympathy, and, gathering up his papers, hastened to. follow his patron from the room, and leave the lovers at full liberty to give vent to their feelings ; but regard for the timid and Weeping girl, who clung to him i so fondly and imploringly l subdued the of- fended pride of Claude Aubertin, and he had little difficulty in soothing her fears, and winning back the sunshine of her hap py smiles. A few days after this they were married, and the three succeeding years which gli ded past so happily with them, are marked in characters of blood in their country's an nals. Now it was that the innate nobility of the mind asserted its superiority over the mere hereditary nobility of name and sta tion—that the barriers of rank and aristocra- cy were beaten down, and men owned no limits to their own wild wills; Claude Au bertin was a revolutionist in the best sense of the word—his proud spirit had been stung by the worldly scorn of those whom he inwardly despised ; but not for this did he turn upon his oppressors—not for any feeling save the pure end holy love of liber ty ; and when that name became prostitu• ted to the very worst purposes—when it was made the watchword to crime and blood shed—he yet clung to it as in his first hour of youthful enthusiasm, and trusted every• thing to its power when the first intoxica tion should have,passed away, and be suc ceeded by an age of reason and rationality. Lestelle loved her husband too well not to have imbibed his principles ; and the costly saloons of la belle citoyenne, as she was called, were nightly thronged with the leading political characters of the tunes.— But Lestelle was no longer a girl, laughing from the overflowing of a gladsome spirit.- Her smiles were less frequent, and had often a purpose to answer which those who look ed upon her fair and bright face -never dreamed of. There.was many a proud aris tocrat who, although he knew it not, owed life and fortune to that beautiful and resist less pleader. 'rho only cloud that rested on the happi ness of Lestelle was occasioned by the scru pulous reserve of Aubertin on all affairs connected with her property ; nor could her fondness and devotion remove the unpleas ant feeling which a consciousness of his to tal dependence upon his wife was likely to engender in his proud and sensitive spirit ; and although she tried to obviate the diffi culty by a liberality which pained far more than it pleased him, still there were mo ments when ho bitterly felt the want of funds which could only be drawn through her instrumentality, and which he would have died rather than ask for. Of late it had been observed that Lestelle was much altered : she would sit for hours in an attitude of deep thought, and was pee vish and abstracted when roused, as if the plans which she Was evidently arranging in her own mind required the concentration of every thought and energy. She would be absent, too for hours together, no one knew where, accompanied only by her attendant —she, the gentle and timid, who but a few months before had feared to venture from home without the protection of her husband. But Aubertin, although he felt the altera tion, asked no questions : he had too much faith in her nflection to have the rernotest idea of the fearful shock that awaited him. .2.one morning, contrary to her usual cus tom, Lestelle took her breakfast in her own apartment, sending a message by her maid requesting the presence of her husband at twelve exactly in her boudoir; and Auber tin, not being able at the moment to invent any decent excuse for refusing to comply with her request, reluctantly promised to attend her at the hour appointed, determin ed that-the meeting should be as brief as possible, as he imagined that it merely re lated to matters of a pecuniary nature, a subject of which he always entertained a nervous horror. 'ls it possible,' thought Claude, .tlat she can have generously anticipated my wish to possess sufficient funds at my disposal to prove of beneficial service to our country ? And yet, even if it were so, and her guar- Nen consented, I would never accept them ?' At the appointed time Aubertin present ed himself at the door of his wife's boudior, the first glance at which confirmed his pre vious suspicions as to the purport of his vi sit. Lestelle was not there, but M. Du mont—the same whoin,he had met once be fore at her guardian's—stood bending over a very business-like sheet of parchment. 'Pray be seated, monsieur,' said the little notary ; 'Madame Aubertin will be here di rectly.' Claude bowed coldly, and took the offer ed chair in silence. 'Glorious times, monsieur I' said Dumont, rubbing his withered hands together; 'glo rious times we live in now ! The age of li berty in every sense of the word Claude acquiesced by another bow. 'You have doubtless heard of the new law of 'revolutionary divorce ?' continued Mr. Dumont; 'a very good—a very excellent law, monsieur 'A very convenient one, I should think,' replied Aubertin, laughing in spite of him self at the solemnity with which the old man spoke. 'Claude Aubertin' said the notary, after n pausa, am a man of few words—a man of business—and it is as well to,come to the point at once. Lestelle would avail herself of this opportunity to be divorced from you, and has purposely left us together in order that I might inform you of her wishes, to which she entreats that you will offer no opposition.' .Accursed liar ! it is false !' exclaimed the enraged husband—'l will never believe it ,Claude,' said a gentle voice by his side, 'as I hope for your forgiveness hereafter, he has spoken nothing but the truth ! 'And now (or both our sakes let this scene be h brief one. At a future time all shall be ex plained, if you will only sign the paper that sets me free to act as I please.' .Lestelle !' exclaimed the bewildered Au bertin, can it be my Lestelle—or do I dream. What have I done that you should deceive me thus ?—i•Have I denied you aught in rea son Miie "I loved you less ? Have I ever spoken one harsh, one unkind word to you, that I do not strive the next moment to atone for, and obliterate from your memory by my caresses ? Have I not for your sake prostra ted my proud spirit, and dared the sneers of the world ? ay, and deserved them—for 1 trusted—l consented to be dependent on a woman—and now she scorns, despises de serts me ! 'Dumont,' said Lestelle, looking implor ingly towards him, cannot bear this !' Auhertin had forgotten the presence of the little notary, but he now looked proudly up, and, recovering his usual calmness, said : 'One more question, and I will sign.— Lestelle, as you hope iii Herven's mercy, do you this deed willingly ?' do said the wife, faintly. 'And our divorce will insure your happi ness ?' •It will ?' she replied more firmly. .Then be it so.' But as the pen trem bled in his hand, he looked once more upon the flushed countenance of her who was soon to be lost to him forever, and ad ded, in a hoarse voice, .Do you remember the last deed we signed in this man's pres ence ?' •Perfectly,' replied Lestelle ;'and it is that recollection which gives me strength to act as I am doing.' Aubertin bent down his head, and a hot tear fell upon the parchment; but there were no traces or it as he returned the docu ment, with a low bow' to the trembling girl. .You are obeyed, mademoiselle !' said he, with a mocking smile, as he moved rapidly towards the door. The White lips of Lestalle moved fast, but they uttered no sound. She attempted to rush forward and arrest his progress. and her feet seemed glued to the floor : but NI. Dumont understood her wishes, and hast ened after the offended Aubertin. 'Well, never could have beleived it—so attached as they seemed to each other !' said a young citizen to his companion, De Tours—the same aristocratic court who, but a short time before, would scarcely have con descended to breath the same air as his ple beian friend, but whom a proper regard for his own safety had conformed to the equall ing spirit of the age. always told you how it would eri'd !' said De Tburs ; •the romance of the young heireSs has had time to cool, and she seizes the first opportunity that . presents itself of becoming free again .And poor Aubertin, what has become of hint ?' 'Why, they say he takes it very much to heart ; and no wonder, seeing that hor fortune is scarcely reduced, and herself, if possible, more beautiful than ever. At this moment they were interrupted by the entrance of Claude Aubertin himself, with Lestelle leaning on his arm in her sweet and graceful manner, while her bright eyes sparkled with happiness as she listened with a flushed cheek to the whis pered accents of her husband, on whose countenance a smile of triumphant exulta tion mingled with deep love. 'What's this ?' inquired De Tours of a person who stood near him, and who hap pened to be the little notary, M. Dumont ; thought that the Aubertins had availed themselves of the new law, and were divor ced ?' 'And so they were, and married again this morning I' said the notary, with a knowing twinkle of his cold, grey eyes. 'How strange !' said De Tours. •Not at all: according to the first marriage settlement, which took place when Lestello was a minor, the whole of her property was AO tied up by her guardian, that, without her permission, Aubertin had no power to draw a single sou of it ; . but 'on coming of age she has availed herself of our new law of di vorce in order that the money may bo re- I invested in her husband's name only.' 'lt was a noble deed !' said De Tours ; , but Aubertin did not at first know her rea- • sons for wishing to be separated from him —for I met hint late last night, in the Rue St. Honore, without his hat, and singing the Marseillaise hymn in a frenzy of despair and excitement.' 'The brief trial which his feelings have under-gone was unavoidable,' said' the no tary ; 'as his proud spirit would never have been brought to consent to the sacrifice.' 'De Tours,' said the young citizen, im pressively, and after a short pause, 'ages to come, when our fearful struggle for inde pendence will be remembered only with a shudder, the conjugal devotion of this young NUMBER 45, girl shall remain as a tale to 'tell around the peaceful heartstene of a winter's night ; and her name be added to that golden scroll on which the recording angel notes dowry 'the noble deeds , of woman.". Dlschargtog of a Swiss Lakd. In the Swiss canton of Unterwalden, lies a lake called the Lungern-see, about three miles long and a quarter broad, girt on all sides but one by steep and lofty mountains, which seem to ascend in most places, from the water's edge. At the end not bounded by mountains, the lake is Lammed in by a ridge of land of considerable thickness, call- ed the Kaiserstuhl, over which the super fluous waters flow precipitiously, with a fall for more than 700 feet, to the plain of Gies: , wyl, and there form the river Aa. When, towards the end of the eighteenth century, the village population began to outgrow its means of support, the elders turned there eyes to the :pace engrossed by the lake, and remembering how their neighbors of Gies wyl had, •in times past, obtained a large ex tent of land front the waters that covered it, bethought them how much might be added to their little territory, if the bed of the lake could be reduced to a smaller compass, by' piercing the barrier at its northern end...— On the 16th of November 1788, the subject was discussed in a meeting of the commu nity. They calculated that, since a greater part of the lake was not more than 100 feet in depth. a conduit opened at a point 120 feet below its surface-level, would reclaim about 500 acres of land. This would be a most valuable acquisition. Thif attempt was determined upon, although as yet no one knew in what manner it could be exe cuted ; and one and all, after the old Swiss fashion, bound. themselves to its accomplish , meat. • Their next step was to seek the advice of • some one versed in mining operations. At that time, lead-miners were at work in the Valley of Lauterbrunn ; and the director of these, Herr Degeler, was brought over to survey and :neasuro the site, and fix the plan of their undertaking. On examination of the ground, he recommended that a shaft should be driven from a point near the Arti , through the steepest face of the Kaiser-• stuhl, slightly inclining upwards until it reached the waters of the. lake. He was questioned as to the details and practicabili ty of the event, with a minutecess and fore+ thought remarkable in simple herdsmen ; especially respecting the damages which any sudden outlet of the waters might cause to the plain below. He reported favorably of the scheme, the cost of which he estima ted at a sum much less than the value of the land to be reclaimed, and strongly advised the villagers to attempt the work. Thus encouraged, they proceeded to settle the contribution, in money or labor, to be ren dered by each inhabitant. Four miners from Lauterbrunn were then hired, to direct in alternate gangs the progress of the work men ; and they began to open the shaft in 1799. For eight years the task was steadily pur sued. The great hardness of the limestone rock made the advance slow an difficult ; by this time however, a gallery or tunnel six feet high and five feet wide had been driv en a distance of 700 feet thro' the mass of the Kaiserstuhl ridge towards the bed of the lake. Embarrassments of different kinds now stopped the furtherance of the project; and for a short period, the military invasion of the country directed attention to more im portant pursuits. For about thirty years the work stood still.. At length, in 1831-2. the design was renewed in earnest, and money advanced by a wealthy individual towards its completion. The excavation of the tunnel was pushed forward until the autumn of 1834, at which time it was cal culated to have arrived within a short dis tance from the basin. It therefore became necessary to proceed with greater caution, lest the water, rushing through some fault in the rock, should overwhelm the miners; and The boring tool was employed to exam ine the ground before them, in the following manner ; a horizontal hole of eighteen to twenty feet long, was driven in the direction of the lake, and finding ho water, the blast ing was resumed, care being taken to leave a thickness of twelve feet untouched, until the process of boring had been again em ployed. As they advanced further, the:tri al was made by piercing upwards for twelve feet, after which the remaining .half of the distance, left in a horizontal direCtion, was excavated. to this manner alternately pier cing and blasting, the miners continued their toil, which every day become more difficult. • The want of pure. air, the out-burst of cre vice-water, and the excessive hardness of the rock, alternately, impeded their progress. On the first of April, DM, the shaft having been extended, under the engineer Sulzber ger's direction, seventy-two feet, the trial with the boring-rod discovered friable'etone; and when the iron was struck, an unusually: clear vibration followed: As the water was known to be near, the necessary pre cautions were adopted ; and, on the 14th, a rod twelve feet long was driven into, the ba.. sin. At first, half.fluid clay : only flowed through the aperture ; a feni mon:tents after wards, clear Water rushed' out with such
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