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On the whole they belieie Sanders' series of School Books by, far the most complete, that.has ever been. published • and would ,respectfully recommead them for 'adoption in all the free schools in the State. •SOWER &iBARNES, No. 14, North4.lrd Street, j?hiladelphia: ,Jtme 2•0. ' • A FAMILY NEWSPAPER. poetical Elepartnient. On this same rock in this deep dell, With Lily by my side, I sat, and heard her blushingly Consent to be my bride ; The spreading boup,lts.above our heads Almost shut out the sky ; And at our feet, in murmurs sweet, A brook went tinkling by. It was delicious summer time, A day in leafy June— For every song I said I loved, Sweet Lily found a tune ; And like the brooklet at our feet, Then ~prctl the hours alongi For oh! her voice was musical As e'er was brooklet's song. The flowers upon the mossy bank, Wore nut more lair than she, • And sweeter than their Iragrant breath, Was Lily's love to me ; Her small white hand was clasp'd in mine,— Her heart beat pear my own ; And uh! I felt I would not change . That beat for any throne. Yeats passed away ; I sat again Upon that mussy stmie ; Not seated by toy Lly's side, But stlEnt and alone, Nut joyous as in former years— A cloud WAS on my brow ; For fearful was the contrast drawn Between the Then and Now. The streamlet still was flowing by; But (di! how changed its tone ; Its joyous laughter had beconia A melancholy moan; To me it seemed to have a voice; I listened, and it said, As plain as brooklet speech could say, ' , Alas! sweet Lily's dead.' EZB Illicctlancous Selections. 'All experience is for it, all reason is against it,' v% as the remark of Dr. Johnson on the subject of a belid in apparitions. We will not now stop to inquire how far it may share in that want of accuracy which was so often sacrificed by the doctor to epigrammatic point; it is undoubtedly true on the whole; tor, while we find it difficult to refuse cre dence to the apparently irrefragable evidence which is adduced in sport of certain cases of the kind, yet, on the other hand, when we consider the question as a whole, our reason shrinks from allowing the occurrence of su pernatural events, in which the seeming ab• sence of purpose is not compensated by any express revelation. Still we have no doubt that the believers in the appearance of spir its, either open or secret, constitute a large majority of mankind ; there is an auxiliary at work in favor of such a creed more potent than reason, and beyond the reach of all ca vil or suspiciip—in the heart of man is to be found that deeply-seated interest in the invisible world, which is at the root of all such superstitions. The idea that the spir its of men, when their mortal race is run, should still be cognisant of what passes up on this earth, and should return nt times to visit the scenes of their former existence, is . one that cannot fail to enlist our earthly af- . fecuons on its behalf ; much More when wo come to reflect that the spirits of departed parents, lovers, and friends, may still move us, though unseen by us, and watch rtrac tions as of old, do we feel that the Valley of the Shadow of Death is well nigh bridged over, and that death itself is but a passing sleep. Reason, on the one hand, may as sail, or the testimony of ages, on the other, may strengthen such pleasing sentiments, but their origin is beyond the reach of the former, and is independent of the latter, and will keg) up a perpetual and intense inter est in the subject, we believe, as long as the world endures. Neither can any but a thorough disbeliever in the separate exist ence bf soul and•bedy, apply Hume's well known dictum on the miracles to the subject before us. If there are spirits existing in another world, it more likely that they should occasionally have visited this one, than that so great a number of witnesses, from the beginning of the world to the pres ent time, should have been deceived or de ceivers. For ourselves, we confess we have a leaning towards this one superstition ; to speak of it superficially, it is at all events a reverend and affectionate one, and although in many current.and well authenticated in stances the re-appearance of the dead has seemed to have had little or no connection with the living, yet nevertheless the fact ,of such re-appearance at all, were it proved, is sufficient to show that the link is not wholly broken, and that human . sympathies exist beyond the grave. I trust the reader will requirenofurther apology for a chapter on Ghost Stories, in which I purpose to narrate one or two which are not likely 1 think, to be generally known which appear to my own mind to fulfill all the requisite conditions . of ALLENTOWN, LEHIGH COUNTY, PA., DECEMBER 14. 1853. Thon•and Now Gtiost Stories. credibility, and which cannot but force the disbeliever to declare that he will admit no evidence whatsoever in support of such a theory. • The first that I shall relate, is one that was told me some years ago by a person who had himself been the eye-witness of the circumstances which he narrated. He was a strong-minded man, of a liberal, and perhaps rather free-thinking turn of mind, and one as little likely to become the victim any delusions of this kind us can well be imagined. Ile told me that between twen ty and thirty years ago, being then in the army, he was quartered at a annul town in the west of England, with a sunill party of soldiers. It was a very retired neighbor hood ; but, as frequently happens, the in habitants were hospitable and sociable, and did all in their power to enliven his some what lonely situation. One day, in the middle of summer, he had been invited to join in a pic-nic, which was to take place in the afternoon, at it wood which lay two -or three miles out of the toWn. When the day arrived, he found he had business which would detain him till the eveloug, but he promised to walk over and. join the party as soon as he could get free from it. He set out accordingly, on a betiutilul Summer cventng, about seveit o'clock, and took his way across the fields towards the appointed spot. tie had got about half-way, and had just crossed over a large open grass field, wiles, oo happening to look back, as he was in the act of getting over the stile, he saw, much to his astonisii merit, in the centre of the held, a female fir . ure pacing up and down, and leading a child by her side. The lady, fur such he sai she appintred to Iw, wore no bonnet, and her hair, which was lung and dark, fell loosely over her shoulders. Curious as to what she could be doing there, my informant watched her fur some little time ; at first he was let clined to think-that, notwithstanding her su perior appearance; she must be one of the peasantry. or perhaps a farmer's daughter, employed in gathering mushroons; but no, she did not seem to he searching for any thing, but continued to walk slowly back wards and forwards, without looking to the right or to the left. He at last came to the conclusion that she must be some mifortun ate person of unsound mind, and tinder this conviction he resumed his walk. lie can scarcely, he says, explain the nature of the feelings which restrained him front approach• ing her ; it aas not [nerdy the di-agreeable ness of an encounter with a mad woman, it • was something akin to a feeling of awe, which he could not account fur to himself. He was not .conscious at the time of think ing he had seen anything supernatural, but he felt himself in an uneasy and excited state of mind, which the gay party he soon ' afterwards joined was scarcely able to ban ish. At length, however, under the genial influence of bright eyes and festive cheer.' he began to laugh at himself (or indulging. in his former more serious feelings; and pre sently began to relate what he had seen to the assembled company. As he proceeded, however, he observed one or two of the old er guests to look grave, and soon one of the ladies contrived, under some pretext, to in terrupt his tale, declaring at the . same time that they would hear the rest of it when they got home, before, however, he had any opportunity of continuing it, her husband managed to take him aside, and after ques tioriing him very closely as to what he had soon, begged of him not to talk of it an more. • Such an appearance (he added) had been once witnessed before by one of the in , habitants of the neighborhood, and that it was fully believed that some awful and ter rible mystery was connected with it ; in ex ' planation of which he would relate to him some circumstances which had occurred in the vicinity a few years before, and then leave him to form his own opinion of -what he had seen that afternoon. HP proceeded to inform him that lodgings had been engaged at a farm house by a lady and gentleman, whether man and wife had never been ascertained. The lady was young and handsome, and they appeared devoted to one another. 'They seemed also in easy circumstances, as they came in a handsome carriage, which:however, they did not use afterwards, but frequently took long walks together. In process of time the lady was confined, and gave birth to p son, and shortly after the gentleman full. Ille was absent several months; and on his return there appeared to be no diminuation of their aflection. They took their walks as usual, and evert thing wept on as before. One afternoon, however, they went out together, taking the child with them, and not one of the three had ever been heard of since. No inquiries had ever been made after theta by relatives or friends, and the people at the farm-house had soon let the' matter drop. This occurred (said the get denten) about fifteen years since, but some seven years ngo another former, who had been well acquaintod with them during their residence here, caiie:l one evening au the house where they lived, and stated that he had just seen Mrs. S. and little boy wall* ing in that very same field where you you,'t self saw: what you have described today. Pe wav -prevailed upon without difficulty'to be silent on the subject, and the circumstan ces nre not generally known. 1 make no comment on them-1 seek not to penetrate the mystery ; one thing seems certain, that it can have been no, ocular delusir in you or in him. I tell the circu 89 they came to my own Icilowle judge for yourself. 'I have had opinion on the subject myself 1 . friend) ever since, and I do not sec how any one else can entertain a different one. That any solution but one of this very re- twrkable occurrence is exceedingly difficult, we think, no one can deny. Here, as is , rarely the case, there can be.no question about the facts ; and the only natural way I of accounting fur them requires almost as much credulity as it does to believe them' supernatural. We are to - believe, in the first place, that there wns some persOn liv- , ing in the neighborhood so like the young lady as to have been mistaken for her, and yet that the resemblance had never born no treed before. We are to believe, secondly, that a man of forty or fifty, who had lived' all Ins Ide on tile spot, should have been ig- 1 nortmt of the person of one living, we must suppoSe, within a .few miles of him. We are, thirdlY, to believe that this young wo man should either have walked in the sante place repeatedly for a space of. at all events, eight. years (supposing the farmer had seen her at first) without being seen more than twice, or else that she should have selected these two particular evenings to visit a field for no purpose. whatsoever. Or if we say that she was a stranger, the circumstance is equally marvellous, that a young girl should come alone from a distant part of 'the coun try to walk up and down in one particular field, with her head uncovered, for no inlet- Iflgible purpose!. We must maintain that this is a marvel which defies all erdioary explanation. The appearance which was there witnessed limit either have been that of a departed spirit, or it must remain an imptonetrable mystery. Here, indeed, as in Milny of the best authenticated"instances, there is that .apparent want of purpose to wiiich we have hefore alluded. But mortals .- do not act without a purpose any more than spirits ; and, as human motives and purpo ses are within the scope of that reason which fails to detect any for the action we 'nave described, while those which may ac tuate spirits are clearly beyond, it, this ab sence of purpose, as it seems to us nt least, is rather in favor of the•suporn aural hypo thesis than ugainA it. We have always felt greatly moved by this story, apart from the more awful elements of interest which it contains. The imagination dwells upon the history of this mysterious couplet ; was it a runaway love -match ? wits the young lady one of the daughters of luxury. who had broken through all ties of kindred and fled from a home of splendor to sett: that bli:s in the arms of her forbidden lover, without which splendor is but vanity, and even love of kindred insufficient ? or was ishe ono of those unhappy ones in whom strong and earnest love had yielded itself to fhithless vows and a semblance of passion ? The fancy busies itself in picturing their story : the first meeting, the thrilling vows, the temptation, the ball—tf indeed it Were so '—the first raptures of happy Jove untinged as yet by doubt or remorse, the glow of all I ' ternal affection as she held tip her first-barn to his father's arias, and then the dark thoughts which already were gathering in his breast ; fits of gloom and unkind words, and then seine dprk and lonely spot, and a fair pale face turned up in horror and en treaty ; a shriek, a id then a guilty wretch 1 with no more peace \n earth ; and the lady and the child in the lonely field with her loose dark hair and her fixed and marble lace. A scarcely less remarkable anecdote, though certainly a less romantic one, was re lated to me by a. clergyman in Warwick shire. It occurred at the house of a game keeper on a neighboring gentleman's estate, and was as follows : One afternoon, when the keeper's wife wits out for the clay, and he himself was gone his rounds, the eldest child, a girl of about fourteen or fifteen, who was left in charge of the houSe; and who happened at the time to be in the garden, suddenly heaLd a violent shrieking from her lit& brothers and sisters, who were in-doors ; ea hurrying in to learn the cause of it she found them in nn ecstasy of terror and able to articulate nothing furtlrer than, , Oh, Liz zy. the woman, the .woman .on the stairs !' After a time, however, she elicited .from them that, on opening the room door, which ens at the bottom floght of stairs, they had seen a strange woman sitting on the top ; she Was dressed, they said, in what looked like u flannel dressing-gown, and a sort of coil of the same material was bound round her head ; on seeing her they shriek ed 'with terror. This one staircase, we may observe; was the only communication be tween the up-stairs rooms and the down stairs. 1V Idle they were all . standing by the door the 'keeper returned,* that they were enabled to search the upOr rooms. It is needless to add that no one was found thwe ; though no living being could 'have passed out •without being discovered. 'tile story 'rot abroad, and it was soon. .emembered that nito R trw std Deft .I ° ll to tbb house before , some years back, but village tradition gave no record of who it was sup posed to be, Now children are not, we think, generally superstitious, and seldom have any ideas of spirits and goblins ; unless put into their heads by nurses or servants.— It is impossible, we think, to doubt that these children must actually have seen something —and something, too, 'which inspirFtl them. with horror. We have selected these two stories for narration because they both present the same difficulty to the incredulous—that, namely, of accounting for them by natural causes.— There are no marvellous coincidences or revelations in them which, though doubtless quite as convincing, or mole so, to those im mediately concerned, cannot of con rse weigh so much with those who are incapable of ap preciating them. But granting the truth of the facts we have above related, it is almost impossible to conceive any natural explana tion of them which MIS the most remote claim to probability. We do not of course expect to convince the sceptical, but it is something if we weaken their fancied grounds of ridicule against those who believe more. • The Terrors of a sight. My dear father was greatly agitated, but we did riot linger; and passing through the closet to the door of exit, with which he was, lamiliar, and of which he had the key in his pocket, he found it, like its opposite, by which he had entered. slightly ajar. - We neither of us spoke, but exchanging glances my father pushed it open, 'when we loon .I ourselves in a small room that I seemed to recognize. 1- looked round. it for. a moment in astonishment. It was the broutlitir !—OUr boudo•r—as my sisters and 1 wt•r•- wont to call it On passing farther into the NOirl, prt•ceived that what t had always supposed to be only a large mirror, in an t•botty frame hanging from the ceiling to the lw, was in fact the very door through which we had just entered ! My mot•ltitr smiled at my looks of wonder as of course she was already aCquai wed with this srcret, and, as well as my falter, thought that the mirror was the only door of entrance to the private closet. My mother seemed quite exhausted ;'rind throwing her self into a chair, expressed a hope that out search, at least for the night, was ended. “Indeed." said she, -1 know not how it is possible for us to ~e t farther ; lur, if you re collect, we turned the key of the dour of this room on the outside, when we passed through the gallery." While he spAe, my eye glanced at l the table in the centre of the room ; and pry at tention was arrested by a group of things on it not familiar to um. A closer survey re vealed to us a dark lantern, in which was a wax candle. Ilere. ton, was toy own ebony crucifix, which, by the moonlight, I had seen the figure that stalked through my chamber in the early part of the night take from my toilet•ta Lie, and lift it to its lips. My lather saw nothing of all rids. Ile was stooping' to examine the floor, with n light in his hand. lie started—and raised himself quickly up. As he did so, my at tention was riyeti d by observing, him cau tiously move to the fire-place. and deposit the candle he held on the corner of the grate. He then stood, still, silently gazing on the floor with clasped hoods. ; then, covering his face, remained several seconds in silence.--, As he looked up, he was so ghastly pale that I moved quickly towards him, to in quire if ho was -ill. My mother, too, who had observed what was passing, came across the room io us. My father threw his arts around us both, and fur a moment we,pt-con vulsively. • ..)ly * dear rather," I exclaimed, ''why are you thus ? lam sure you must be ill ! Let us get tack, without delay, to your chamber." “Hush ! speak not,” said he. ..Life or death hangs on a sound ! Oh, where are my senses ?" • thought him seiz;d with delirium, and felt ready to expire at the idea; when he whispered distinctly and closely into my car, 'Helen, I fear the effect upon your moth er of what I must neverthtAess s4iealc to her as well as to you. If you have couraffe iu your heart, muster it all ! Some incendiary .has plotted to set fire to the castle ; to this room in which .we stand ; to the passages by which alone we may be able to et.cape. Elate au► I to tell this to yeti' mother ?" I f e l t as h e p a u s ed that my suspicion of his di I was confirmed. But I had not. a moment: to ask mysolf what I should du for him or for ours' Ives, for, pointing to the floor, he again whispered—. See ! 11, lea, and do 'not start at what I tell you ! • 'I know you have a firni heart t—the floor within the passages, and in this room, is covered thick with gunpowder, and unless we can avert it, the whole building, will shortly be in flames ! Our minutes are numbered Listen ! ore there not steps 1 perhaps those of the incendiaries ih the corridor !" stepped qnickly to the, table to get my taper, that I , might examine the floors, and convince myself of what he had asserted.— He saw my purpose, and seizing the with a rapid grasp, withheld the ; extinguishing ut ttee teems mammy thelVer ttf ply hod: NUMBER 11. "Do you not know that one, spark woutd fire the whole train ? See ! here are wisps of straw, and there are shavings, regularly laid at intervals I flow we have already passed through those passages with naked lights in our hands, and escaped destruction is indeed a miracle !" My mother had been clinging closely to him, and .had heard enough of what he had said aide to me t) comprohond ocr situa tion. She expressed no fear, f.lec uttered not a sound. but loulied deathly pale, and re• peatedly erosscd herself. "This lantern - and these matches," said my father, as he surveyed the table, are but necessaries to the plot. "Softly ! softly.ldho least sound might accelerate our destruc tion 1" Then again lie covered his face with his hands., I can never forget the feelinT3 el that mb rnent, standina as we did on the brink of a f a t e so dreadful ; toy mother and I gazing nt each other with cl tsped !Finch:, and near- Iv lost to coneci.m•ness.. Yet it was but for a women!. My fa' her recort.red his prce• ence of mind, and astviting a ha:: of 'ran j spok.l and 80 calmly as to r call our fitting senses. "That lantern." said tie, ..d; invaluable; it will enable u• to pass in safety over the destruction henea h on r feet !" It Was but thy: work of an im3tant to seize the cmdlo ‘rithin--•-and close "Now, my brave darlings, as we cannot estape from thi , roo u by the door which opens on the corridor. hod which my own unfortunate .hand I eke I on the'outsitle, - wo must return back Omagh thesecri- t passageti. Familiar with the spring of the mirror door my father found it open. We are al ready in the clo-et. He turned the light to the secret door(which we had shut tarter us its we cm me t h tr),) In search for the spring. Ile could nowhere find it. Ile passed..his hand dyer every part of the surface. Noth ing was there to ind.caut it. • "Are Are shut in by this donr also ?" sitlid my fatber, With gestures of the most poig nant distress. "We Joust return I.—anti what then ?" . Mv mother, whn had been revived by the words of hope which he had previously mt. tered, now exclaimed with imploring look try ! try, once again I • Oh Dora ! Caroline ! what a ill become of you V' Nly father still stood at the door, repenting his fruitless etiorts, when we neared a slight sound m the temileir. , •11.1r1; fa:hor, hi n hurried whisper, , •1. 'war a IirJVV:I , ..2III. nt the door 1" There could be no mistake, the key was cautiously and t lowly revel-it :2 in the kick. Clutch a: thou.-Fit my father was in the boudoir. We to , hed breathlessly after him and saw I,iin seiza the bundle of the door. It was forcibly livid on the outside. There was a vidont strowde. -4-Itip I help! I-lel en," cried my father in a tr.-mendous voice. I t , rasped with both hands the partly open ed door. One moment,. success was wit us—the next—with oor adversaries ! and there was r_traspitn2 for breath oa both sides. Life or death was in the struggle I Anoth er superimarm 'ufttrt on our sub.., and my father and I fell back, With the door in our hands ! In a inotnont he V.-is on his feet again and had rushed out into the corridor. He culled to tis to follow, and We kept up with hint, in' full pursuit of retreating footsteps, alona the corridors, down the back stairs through' the. kitchen passages. rind nut to a door that led into a court yard : which before we could reach it, oas violently banged to. Aly fath er wrenched it open just in time to descry two figures in,rapid flight through an oppo site door-trig in the court yard. Ile would have pursued theta on the instant, but the gunpowder track reaclicd to the very silt of the doorway at which we stood, and we knew not but 2011P:' Ilith1;.:11 accomplice might yet be lying in 'wait, to put the finishing stroke to the plot, by firing the train at its extremity. There was a large tierce dog in dm yard, fu!iuusly burl:hie; as wo made our appear ance,•and leaping alf . nut at the extremity of his chain, as if he wished to Like part its the fray. ;Nit , 1a lftrehoo,!ed down, act hint free and showing him tho tmck the (lying fig ures, although they were already neatly lost in the derlint rs, cried, allic On: Ro yer! Aftt r them ! Seize. , them tor braro fellow, and brine' them back !" Off went' the noble animal, swift as the wind leaping over fence, Imhof!, and every mho,. impedi ment. • We watched him until his outline was no longer visible although we could rAill hear his loud deep. voice booming on the. morning air. Thiodone, we turned to loot: nt.and etre. braCe unch other, which wo did, with.thn mo,t fervent love and gratitude to Him whu had I rot.erved a thrOugli r i •ucla a night. My m ,,th er , unoble to support hyrselinnv loqer, was nearly fainting, !nal father vb,- serving. it, caught her in his rains as if :dm had been an infant, and burn her to her chamber. l: 'Rase Pa rtnigtmt says she never cared much about grand spectacles, Or other . sightr: but there ure..two thing; she would like. to have seen—the - incalculation of :Franklin Pleeeer n'd 'Cc ifora t ion of ttliVen a
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