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THE LEHIGH REGISTER II published in the Borough of Allentown, Lehigh County, I'a., every lialnesday, by A. L. RUJJE, At $l5O per annum, payable in advance, and $2 00 it not paid until the end of the year. No paper discontinued, until all arrearages are paid e;tnept at the option of the proprietor. Mice in Hamilton Street, one door East of the German Reformed Church,.nearly opposite the ..Friedenshote" Office. Tall .ffin 3PA a ME UallalS3l.tQlit+R Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods IN ALL THEIR VARIETIES A T TEE 'New Cheap Store Get= 4S Gilbert, IN BOROUOII OF CATASAUQUA, PA These gentlemen, take this method to in form their friends and the public in general that they have received a very .large and well selected stock of 11 inter and Nywing Goods., which tin y are .now ready to dis pose off to their cus t omers at the lowest prices. Their immense stock has been selected %%len the utmost care and consists of Clothes, Cassinters, Satinets, tlannels, Gloves and Hoseiry. besides De- Mines, A lapaccas, Debashe,G inghatns.Pla in and Figured Poplins, Aluslins and Prints, Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps, Queensware, Hardimare,' Looking Glasses, Stationary, Books, &c., To which they invite the attention of their friends and the public generally, confident that the fullest Satisfaction, both in price aria qunlity, will be given to all who may favor them with a cull. '1:110 highest •prtees will be paid in ex chtingy for County produce. • iVII6 , have reason to be thankful for the favors received thus fur and hope by atten tion to business, disposing of their goods at small profits,„good treatment towards their customers to. merit still a greater slurre of GETZ & GILBERT. customers. • September 14 Groceries Fish Sall. The undersigned have just received an entire new Stock of Groceries, Fish and Salt which they intend to sell at the low. est prices at their Store in Cutasauqua, Le high county. GETZ &GILBERT. September 14. du—Om COAL 1 COAL ! Thu undersigned have opened a Coal Yard in Catasauqua, and will constantly keep on hand all kinds of Cod• Which they sell at greatly reduced-prices.. GETZ & GILE3ERT. Septemfaer I-I. I—Gin Ready-made Clothing. The undersigned keep all kinds of Ready s,tade Clothing, on hand, and will make to roder, at the lowest possible prices... GEM & GILBERT. Catasauqua, Sept 14. • 11-6 m WIEDER & BOY ER, No. 25, West Hamilton street, Jlllentown. 4 Thankful for past favors and hoping by strict attention to busi ness and a desire to please, to mer elr•-: it a continuance of the patronage so liberally bestowed on them, and wishing the people to understand the fact, that they are both PRACTICAL lIATTERS—Lboth having served a long apprenticeship at the business 'and understandin" o ,thi business thoroughly in all its variouslaranches, , they are confident they cart .MANUFACTURE HATS of all kinds inferior to none in the market, and also a little cheaper, because they perform a great deal of the labor them selves and buy their material from the imper ters for cash, and understanding the bust ness they employ none but good workmen, and doing a large business they can afford to sell at small profits. These are some of the reasons why you often hear the remark that "Wieder & Boy er sell such beautiful Hats at such astonish ingly low prices. They always have the latest Philadelphia and New York styles on hand, so you need not be afraid of hav ing an 'old fashioned Hat, stuck on you.— Hive us a calla It don't matter what is the shape of your head, we will insure a fit. Kit 'Country Merchants would do well to give us a call, as we will wholesitle them hats and caps cheaper than they can get Them in the pity. Also a large assortment el' all kinds of straw goods whicf} they will sell cheap. TERMS CASH. Allentown, lYjarph 16. WANTED• Tiinothy Hay., •Wheit, Rye, Corn and Oats, for'whi4i the highest market price will be paid by paraz, GUTH 6t, CO. May 4, 1563. A FAMILY NEWSPAPER. Poetical Ocpartment. I did love thee Lilly Lee, As the petrel loves the sea, As the wild bee loves the thyme, As the poet loves the rhyme, As the blossoms loves the dew— Hut the angels loved thee too. Once, when twilight's dying head Press her golden sheeted bed, And the silent stars drew near,' VI/hite and tremulous with fear, While the night's repelling frown, `Strangled the young zephyr down, Told I all my love to thee, Htpeing, fearing, Lilly Lee. Flu'iered then her gentle breast, With a troubled sweet unrest, Übe a bird too near the net, • Which the fowler's hand bath set ; But her mournful eyes the while, And her Efirit speaking'smile, 'fold me love could not depart Death's: pale arrow from the heart. Hushing from that very day Passion pleading to have sway, Folding close het little hand, Watched I with her till the sand, Crumbling from beneath her tread, Lowered her softly to the dead, Where in peace she waits for me, Sweetest, dearest Lilly Lee. As chaSel heart loves t h ' wave, As the blind silence loveS the grave, As penitent loves prayer, A 4 the pa 1 ...! passion loves despair, Loved and still love I thee, Angekstolen Lilly Lee. • Be strong in truth! No cause can fail While truth's its cornerstone : No hope can die—nu bosom quail, While truth has there its home. No tyrant's steel may pierce the heart, And break each human tie, But• truth will live to act its part, When time itself shall die. The gory hand may shdire its spear, And sound its (head alarm; But none who stand for truth need fear such futile power to harm. Then strike once more, nor dread the blow, That pamper(' Inillion . b But 'nave for truth each pungent throe On life's broad baule.field. A brighter day will dawn, and soon Its sun to zenith rise, When high above the earth will loom—. Truth lives and never dies! Tho CrUarctoi,or of et Happy Life low happy is he born and taught, That serveth not another's will; Whose armor is his honest thought, And simple thought his utmost skill Whose passions not his masters are, Whose soul is still prepared for death, United unto the worldly care Of public fame, or private breath; Who envies none that chance cloth raise, Or vice; who never understood How deepest wounds are given by praise; • Nor rules of state, but rules of good ; Who bath his life from rumors freed, Whose conscience is his strong retreat; Whose stale can neither flatterers feed, Nor ruin make oppressors great; Who God doth late and early pray, More of his grace than gifts to lend ; And entertains the harmless day' With a religious book or friend; This man Is freed from servile ham's Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands; And having nothing, yet bath all. Zelectiollo. In a dirty and obscure alley of Paris was once—ay, perhaps a hundred and fifty years ago—situated a house, the front and arrange ments whereof, from foundation to, roof, had been altered 6,y additions, demolitions, and repairs, so that the poor mansion would not have recognised its old creators. The house was composed of two stories, if a species of garret, With an earthen floor, and low roof, which covered two-thirds of the room, and to which you ascended by a steep ladder, might be called one. It is with this garret that we are to be made acquainted. There were two windows to the garret one looking out upon an alley, and the other upon a courtyard. riCthis room might be observ ed several frames, and pieces of canvas ready fur tho brush, for it was the abode of - 11-tf LILLY LEE I=l Tie Strong in Truth The Two Artists. ALLENTOWN, LEHIGH COUNTY, PA., JUNE 14,.1854. an artist, and one who had but little order in his own composition, for the pictures were suspended some nne way, some another, all carelessly amid without symmetry, inclining at random from the perpendicular, accord• ing as the nail upon which they were bal anced was more or less removed from the centre of the frame. Several unfinished paintings and sketch cs,sparkling with imagination and life, orna mented the large portion of the chamber, while a shelf, that served for n library, sup ported some fifteer. or twenty volumes on painting poetry, etc. A stone, its mullet - yet moist with white lead, was placed on a walnut table, a large easel and canvas stretched upon it occupied the centure of the room. The window skil fully covered with blackened paper and can vas, gave but a small ingress to the light, which came in with a bright ray, falling up on the face of-a rubby and stalwart peasant, who, in a grotesque attitude, exhibited two ranges of broad, white sharp teeth, feigning a most extravagant and violent fit of laugh ter. The only other person in the room shared not in his merriment. A youth ap parently. about eighteen or twenty .years of age, of a grave and silent demeanour, of a dark coMplexion, with bright eyes and steady glance, stood before the easel, a pal let in one hand and a brush in the other, ap parently embodying the extravagant and strange grimace of hit companion. And he could not be aught else but ill-satisfied with his work, for his contracted brow, compres sed lip, and sudden quick motion convulsive with dissatisfaction, left no doubt of the state of his mind. Twice or thrice he stood back to survey his work, his eye travelled rapidly from the original to the copy, then gave a touch, ef faced it, touched again, stepped back,-com pared once more, the result of all being "ul fez ate--" and here he stopped, like a good Christian, searching by whom he should swear. •At length better thoughts came over hint. "God help the who can imitate such tints?" and much as he strived after selt.control, With a moment's struggle, and an attempt to restrain his anger, he raised his hand, drew the brush. over the canvas, mixing the colours with the motion and tracing a curve varied with all the col ours of the rainbow. After completing this peculiar process, which appeared to be any thiw but a balm to his irritated feelings, lie threw himself down, his forehead resting on his hand, and lapsed into prostration, as though a fainting fit had seized him—the prostration, the despair of genius, which looks in at heaven. acrd yet cannot ascend to the blissful scene. The peasant who served as a model, with out a single word, seeing his master thus immoveable, shut his mouth, seated himself upon the floor, and commenced n vigorous attack upon a piece of brown bread. He waited until it was night,fall, and seeing his master still fixed in the same attitude, and immoveable he, with RS little noise as, pos sible, glided from the room. • Thus lie remained depressed and pensive giving signs of being still awake by some convulsive motion ; once he raised his bead, looked around, covered his eyes, clenching his hand and striking his forehead fiercely. Thus sped on the hour, and he tasted not food,.thus night found him, and he slept not and the next morning at daybreak he sallied forth exhausted and overcome, but now with rather an expression of sadness than that of his first fit of despair. .11e donned his cap with its broken feather, and enveloped him self in a long cloak. By a natural and in voluntary motion he twisted and caressed his budding moustache, end bearing with him proof of his recent excitement in his hollow eyes and pallid complexion he descended the steps and emerged into the street. He was a good ChriStian, and a Christian of the seventeenth century ; so his first act was to go to the nearest church ; he there heard mass, waited awhile, and grown more composed, was ahem leaving, when a hand touched him lightly on the. shoulder, and n familiar voice exclaimed, "God' be with you Alphonse." He who thus spoke was a man over sev enty years of age, well made, a pleasant countenance, and olive complexion, with proofs of having been good-looking, quick black eyes of genius, which told of war and art, with all the enthusiasm of one excelling in both: [lip mouth was small, and fur nished with only two or . three straggling teeth, but in person he . was active; in up. pearance genteel and cheerful. He wore a black camblet cloak-, old and threadbare, doublet' ding, with handsome flowers and slashed, but in no better plight than its com panion ; he wore knightly hose; or pedow eras, as they were then called, with coloured lacing, a long and shining sword, a' cap set on one side, in a martial and soldier-like style, much worn and threadbare, uvidencing poverty from 'afar, but clean and brushed most carefully. It was a scene worth observing, the meet ing of these two men—One entering life, the other leaving it ate one all hope, the other memory, and both battling it with destiny, bath looking at eacliother with oyes that be trayed a fiery soul, a genius of flame, a vol canic imagination, a life Which enthusiasm wasted as with a file, and this athwart the prism..of the future youth, and the veil of the past old age. W hoeve r had seen them thus would not have confounded them with•com men souls, but would have exclaimed,•Much is there of good and evil within those fleshy prisons, a heaven or.a hell, glory or suicide awaited the one ; the other had braved and overcome a hundred combats throughout life against a hard and unmanageable fate. Aid so it was ; the old man was a poet, but unrecognised amidst the host, known and respected at least by some artists of en- 1 thusiastic genius, who, in that dark age•for learning could alone appreciate the florid and ardent genius of that aged man. Our young painter knew, loved, and re vered him, as a profound philosopher, phi lantropist, and brave soldier, and he had his verses by heart. Arai the first salutation, the poet sudden , ly exclaimed, "l3ut this paleness, those red wearied, and hollowed eyes. Do not, my boy, waste a life which may be glorious; wastq not thy heart : this means—" "It means," said the painter, interrupting him even rudely, "a night of watchfulness of sorrow and torment of rage and despair;' and he grasped his companion's arm rough ly; and checked a convulsive sigh. 'What a youthful love !' exclaimed the old mut with interest ; •but no, I see anoth er fire than that of love shining in those eyes. No it cannot • be, young man ; tell me what has happened.' •W hat has happened ! To lose my hopes of glory, to—to fall.' •Thoti hest undertaken more than thou shotildst.' I could not advance one line, one inch and there must I remain—there be confound ed with the crowd.' •No young man, thou host not been born for such a fate ; no, raise thy head, elevate it, thinking upon glory.' 'Glory ! yes, I dreamed of glory, and to you I owe those dreams which are my des pair.. I wished to live admired or to die, not a common existence, one of those. which cow er in the mind, and now how zany I soar aloft ?' glad I thy touch, brush and imagination!' exclaimed the other with a look of enthusi asm, and plaCing his hand upon his shoul der, animated with genius and poetry.— 'Thou hnowest not the treasure that is thine work and I promise thee lame.' 'lt is a II in vain; already it loses its charm for me; I shall exhaust myself before emerg ing from the crouch' answered the youth, with apparent apathy. Then came a mo ment of silence, and he continued, "You too have dreamed of glory ; you too, have com- Rosed verses, comedies—and What has been the result; your glory is in this cloak, in this doublet.' 'True," said the old man sorowfully— 'true, I am poor, forgotten, infirm, perscuted ; behold my glory. The ungrateful goddess I have worshiped, caressed, and so much admired. What a return!' and be bowed his head, but only fora moment. lam poor .true,'-he resumed, with the bold air of a po et and a soldier. 'I am poor, but honored, and -those dreams of love and happiness,aud rho.. .0 1, oracters I have created, with their virtues, qualities and pr.. , ions, good or bad nt will ; those characters 1 lova as my crca tures—those works which.are my children, those moments of illusion and delirioro, those celestial delights that delicious volition, vague, free as the air ; those worlds I live in, tell me, do they not conipenente for all i those troubles all the misfortunes of life ? 1 And who shall take them from me? What avails the glory of man in comparison with these creations, the godlike pleasure of crea ting! The deep furrows in his brow disappear ed, his eyo shone with the double light of youth and enthusinsm, - his head -noble and erect, his disdainful glence . seeming to spurn the earth, he is no longer man, but genius and inspiration. The young painter felt controled by the eagle eye and fascinating glance' of the old man. lie dropped his eyes, ashamed of his weakness, when the 1 other exclaimed,— " 'Let us go to your room—let me counsel you. Labour will not assume tire Place of genius—you have overurged your pencil.— Remember, it is the moment of inspiration which yields the roaster-piece, and it is then 1 that the gifted can ascend beyond their corn peers7 it should b . seized and caressed when it arrives; but can never be compelled to at tend upon your will.' - Reader, that hint was the road to fame, which was pursued by a young man 'who lived to see his name glorious and famous amongst the greatest of his day. A Relict of the Revolution. Of that venerable relict of nobler days, and of a husband one of the most admirable men that ever adorned and served any coun try, We mean Mrs. EwAnyrn HAMILTON, we find in one of the Northern journals the following notice : erhe widow of Alexander Hamilton has reached the great age ninety-fiVe, and re- tains, in an astonishing !degree, her facul ties, and converses with much of that ease and brilliancy which lent so peculiar a charm to her younger days. And then the old la dy, after passing the compliments and. con- FOR FARIVLER AND MECHANIC. gratulations oldie day, insists upon her vis iters inking a merry glass from Gen. Wash ington's punch-bowl, which, with other por tions of his table-set, remains in her posses sion.' • 'llirs• Hamilton completes, on the 16th of August next, we believe, her ninety-sixth .year. Slight of figure rather small in size, and originally of what seemed a feeble or ganization, she has yet passed to her pre sent remarkable age with an almost total ex emption from dis'ease, in spite of the severe misfortunes which overcast her life in its very prime. We allude to the bloody death I first of her eldest son Philip, a young gen tleman of great promise, and soon after, the fall of her beloved lord, by what was noth ing less than a deliberately executed assas sination ; for Aaron Burr knew when, upon the mere pretence of a quarrel, he summon ed General Hamilton to The field, than he would not decline to ineec ., 4t:'but would never take the life of a follo4-being in pri vate combat. To return, however to his widow. Her admirable virtues and sense, with the firm yet gentle courage and cheerfulness Which these bestowed, and a piety as simple as it. was unshaken, have no doubt gond fur to up hold by the forces of the mind the natural weakness of her body. When last we saw her less than a year since, she was still in the habit of going on foot, and unattended, to visit friends who lived half a mile from her. Two years before we had seen her in a very hot summer's day, arrive at her own house on H. st., Washington, (the Menou buildings,) from a morning's walk to visit her old friend, Judge Cranch, on Capitol Hill, to the east of the Capitol. The distance which she had trod for this friendly purpose is a good deal above three miles. She never was .what the text which we have taken calls her, brilliant ; for the wo men who shine or blaze with that sort of light, seldom have the genuine one of their sex ; its gentleness, its pure warmth, its sure womanly sense, which rather perceives than reflects, and sees at a glance all it is fit that a woman (nature's most delicate and ingeniods work) should see. Though very pretty, vivacious and winning, Mrs. Hamil ton was never dazzling. Neither her man ners, though high• bred, nor her conversation though spirited and full of sense, were at'all of the showy order ; she never said a silly, she never said a brilliant, thing in her life. There was no flash about her; she . shone only with the soft brain which radiates from what i n a woman not boys t.or maturer cox combs lispingly adore, nor false sentiments, lists dilate upon, but what the heart and the understanding of all however shallow or cor rupt, own,with not mere admiration but love and awe—every thing that is most feminine which is, we take it, a good,cleal better than angelic ; (or the must confess that, so far as can be judged from tlt most commend Story descriptions, we look upon one woman as worth full forty angels. In short, she was just the wife for one of a spirit so high, faculties so powerful, a phar eater' so strenuous, and affections so fond as those of Hamilton, and accordingly there could be no tenderer union' than was theirs. Not only did her loving, serene and cheer-- ful temper gladden whatever he could -snatch for brief intervals of repose or enjoy ment, but her perfect discretion made her the confidence, and her admirable sense the counsellor, of his affairs ; in many of the weightiest of which he thought- it wine to have such a woman's opinion. She' shar ed, as far as she could, his labours; and, when she could not, often sweetened them by her presence. His papers, in particu lar, she kept in order for him ; and it is to her zealous care of them we owe the pres ervation of that large and (in every sense of either the merely curious .or the historical ly.valuable)' precious body of the Hamilton . innnusciipts,:which our government acquir ed by purchase in 1840, and of which se lected portions are now seeing the light in a Congressional series of some nine or ten volumes, edited by Mr. John Hamilton who had previously given to the world a more lim ited selection, with a biogrophy of his father. Of the value of these papers to the secret history of our public fakirs, during the space of thirty years (1775 to 1804) which they cover, no one is in a better condition to speak than ourself; f6r we were entrusted on the part of the family with a choice out of a still Vaster body, of the fifty-seven folio yolumes which, offer excluding whatever wits of no interest, went into the hands of the govern- CZ@ They give a prodigious idea of ton's abilities, usefulness nd the confidence and the influence which these commanded for him, almost from the first moment when a mere boy of nineteen he first drew as the captain of a volunteer artillery company, General Washlngton'i attention to the su perior discipline of his cOrps and the skill ful service of his guns. Novae ditt any man possess a more remarkable power of mastering at once whatever he set about.— Introduced at the age of twelve into the count,i ing-house of a consideiable shipping mer chant in St. Croix, we find him at only four teen entrusted, during his principal's Oar sencer in this country, with his correspon. tietiee nod the management of ail his °Vera. NUMBER 81. 1 tions of buying:selling, shipping and all ilia% Already ras is seen in his boyish letters to Ito a young friend] he hasbegunto look. tot the state of things rising up in this land of ours, and to foresee in it a country and a ca reer which the West Indies could never. give him. At sixteen he is in, Columbia College, N. Y. perfecting his boyish Littin: and Greek. At seventeen ho is Itlreadk writing for the public journals, in behalf of the cause of the colonies, papers so striking that they seize .upon the general attention, and are attributed to the best writers. In' his nineteenth year he has not only become a strong popular orator, but has studied war as an art, more especially the artillerist's part of it ; and raising a company, (chiefly at his own charge) has joined Washington's army in the Jerseys, and made upon that cautious commander so strong an impressbn) that he transfers him to his personal staff as chief aid-de-camp,, with the rank of lieuten ant-colonel. Here it is well known that be fore he was twenty he became one of Waal'- , ington's most efficient officers : but, though equally true, it has escaped attention that, until that veteran of science, Steuben, took service with us, it Was Hamilton who first supplied our systems of tactics ; and Ham ilton who besides drawing up many of Gen. Washington's important papers, wrote the admirable Instructions to John Laurens— a master-piece of ability—under which he, when Dr. Franklin had failed, brought about the Armed Alliance of France. Ham ilton was then twenty-one. In 1781, per ceiving that the struggle had become on our part one of finance, he turned financier, and took charge, under Robert Morris, of a part of that department, quickly displaying in it that singular capacity Which led. Morris to say on the formation of our present govern ment, that there was but one men in the country—Alexander Hamilton who might, as Secretary of the Treasury, re-instate the public credit. It is well known that the present Constitution is really his plan, but few are aware that its original proj,ect (stilt in existence)was drawn up by him in 1784 when be was only twenty-seven years old. We could tell mucli'morb ;' but space fails' us. BED-BUGS. Speaking of bed-bugs, a friend of ours' who put up at the lialamazoo House, tells the following "strong one :" "You see I went to bed putty all-fired used up, after a hull day on the road before the plank was laid, callcalatin' on a good • snooze. Waal, jest as the ski yen began to ease off, I kinder felt suthin' tryint to pull .off nay shirt, and di gin their feet into the small of my badk:lo kot'a good hold. Wrig gled and twisted, and doubled and .pucker ed—all no use—kept ageing it like bin.-- Bimeby got up and struck a light to look around a spell—found out a peck of bed- I bugs scattered around; and More droopin' off my shirt and runnin' down my legs eve ry minit. Swept oil a place on the floor, shook out a quilt, lay down - arid lcivered up in it for a nap. No use—mounted right on to me, like a parsel of rats on a meal-tub--- dug a hole in the kiverlid, and crawled through and give me fits for tryin' to hide.' Got up again, went , down stairs and got the slush bucket from the wagon. Brought Up and 'blade a circle of tar on the floor-' lay down on the floor on the inside, and felt comfortable that time anyhow. Left tho. light burnia,' and watched 'em. 'S'e:e!em get together and have a camp-O;O4P' ahgui it and then they went off in a . `ialthifObith an old grey-headed he one, at tliii'loN'tigt4 up the wall, out on the ceiling‘tililh'ertk • to the right spot, then* dropped right plural). into my face. A fact by thunder. "Well, I swept'em up again, and made circle of tar on the ceiling too. Thought I had'em foul that time; but I swan to rifan they didn't pull straws out the b'ed, and build a reg'lar bridge over it.!' Seeing an incredulous out' visage, he clinched thirstorY,LliuoF4,4' "It's so. whether you beliayii,cell not;' and some of walked &chi . ' Bed-bugs are curious critters andno mistake; specially the Kalatimzep kind." Grand 'Ha l , er Eagle. A Truth for Pundit'. The Rev. Dr. lilff, a marl ofemineut prac tical wisdom, as well as of tlie eminent pie ty says, 4.1 um prepired from experience to say that, in nine cases out of ten, the hoards of accumulated money given to tho children by whom they were foyer earned, and who acquired no habits of industry, or thrift, or laboriousness, prove, in point of fact; rather curse than - a blessing. lam prepared to s ubstantiate that a$ a mattcr of fact, not merely from my own knowledge of the sub. ject, but from the statement of men who have been of watchful and observant habits, cultivate not' only in Great Britian, but in America. But it is a melancholy fact, that: so little do parents know of the nuoaortnis ery they are accumulating fot:tht;ii chil— dren in heaping up these hoards kir them— so little dio . they think how big with misery these hoards are.? Let parents think of hl solemn malt, And' dO good with their wealth instead of troultofing it up to their 13411drem 8
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