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AND MECHANIC OttiOttb tO Nel)39, titanium Poetrn, L lectlnniri, 'Ac . iticulture, the Diffusion of Useful 3nfornintion, o.3cneral 3ntelligence, 'Amusement, illatueto, VOLUME VIII. THE LEHIGH REGISTER ls published in the Borough of Allentown, Lehigh County, Pa.,' every Viedneaday, by A. L. RIME, A $l5O per annum, payable in advance, and $2 00 if not paid until the end of the year. No paper discobtinued, until all arrearages are paid except at the option of the proprietor. 1126'0ffice in Hamilton Street, one door East of he German Reformed Church, neatly opposite he ..Friedensbote" Office. .-- - o dual Elcpattinent. (Prom Glcoson's Pictorial.) A Home Picture. BEN FießElt had finished his harvesting, And hr stood by the orchard gate, One foot on the rail, and one on the ground, As he called on his good wife—Kate. There were stains of toll on his wamus red, The dust or the field on his hat: But a twinkle of pleasure was in his rye, As he looked on the stock so lat. lere, give me the baby, dear Kate, you are tired, • I tear you have too much care ; • You must rest and pick up a little, I think, Belure we go to the Fair. I'd hate to be taking tat oxen, you know, Fat hvg,s, and rat sheep, and fat cows, VVith a wile at my elbow, as poor-as-a crow, And care WfillitieS shading her brow. 'Can't go,' did you say 1 '('an't afford the expense: I know, Kate Our crops aint the best; But we've labored together to keep things along, And together we'll now lake a rest. The orchard is bare, but old Brindle is prime, And Ltly and Fan are a show; Your butter anti cheese can't be beat in the State, So up to the Fair we wtll go. 'You've ne'er seen a city, and Cleveland is fine, Ne'er seen the blue billowy Lake; Ne'er rode in a rail -cat, or liten in a throng, Kate, this journey we'll take. And, gathering new lerlings, new thoughts, and new ways, If find those that suit, as we roam, And garner up strength with i,ur head, hearts and hands, Fur the luve and the duties of home. have sometime thought, Kate, as 1 pluddLd. EMMI For months, o'er the same weary round, That a fellow who . had such a really bald time, In Ohio could nowhere be found ; But when I've been called from my home for a ahile, And seen how the rest get along, I've come back to my toil with a light, cheerful heart, And there's no place like home,' was my song 'I wonder that mothers don't wholly despair, Who ne'er from their cares get away. But walk the same tread wheel of duly for years, Scarce slopping to rest, night or day. I don't wonder they grow discontented, some times, That their feelings grow raspy and cold; For toil never ending, and labor uncheered, Make woman—and NER—sometimesscold.' Kate looked up with a smile, and said, 'Ben, we will go, There may be better oxen than ours, Horses swifter on foot, and cows finer by far. Better butter and cheese, fruit and flowers. But there's one thing I claim,l know cant be seat In the whole Yankee nation to.day ; not swap him, 1 for a kingdom to &Ku— That's my 'gude man'—and Kate ran away. Petei's Wedding SAID Meg, when Peter courting came, La, man, you're much too soon ; Your love burns with too quick a flame !" She shook her head: she hummed a tune— A careless stance she flung. 01 cannot wed, dear sir, so soon, So young! I cannot wed so soon." He pressed his suit: Sweet Margaret sighed, °Peter, I will be thine ; For Since you will not be denied, I will not more decline. Rece •e my troth, receive my hand— *. W 'd Irwin on vows like thine— So bland! rear Peter, I am thine." ThL carriage stays before the church Poor Meg has torn her dress, Ere yet a bride left in the lurch, Dy Peter's carelessness: . And when, as turning sharply round', What there the lady kept— He found! "How stupid, Meg !" he cried. Her face grew red, but naught she said Until the Parson spake : "Do you this man, my lovely maid, To be your husband take 1" Then Meg gave Peter tit for tat— urm not so stupid, sir, As that! I'm not so stupid sir." A FAMILY NE Mark well the moral of my song:' Lovers, don't scold too soon, Nor let your tempers out too strong Before you've spent the honey-moon Your lover, sir's a slave: Your husband sings another tune, The knave! For marriage frees the slave ! Selcctioto. How Harry Fell in Love. All the girls in Fluwerdale were in love with Harry Vernon. That is to say they admired him excessively and were ready to tall in love if hp should lead the way.— Fanny Somers, the littht witch, was the on• ly exception. Merry, dancing and pretty - as a fairy, it was a question whether she had ever yet thought ol love ; if she had, she never talked of it. Harry's father was a Senator in Congress and he himself was a young lawyer of bril liant talents, finished education and hand some fortune. It was not known that his father wished him to marry, and did not, as is often the case insist on his selecting an heiress. The now gray-haired old states man had made a love-match in his youth, and still worshipped the memory of the wife he had to early lost. 'Let your heart choose my son,' said he. 'Marriage without true affection, holds out but a poor show for hap piness.' Most of those, not directly interested in the event, thought that Isabel Fortescue ould curry off the prize. She was deci dedly the belle of the village. Having re ceived her education at a fashionable semi nary, there was scarcely an accomplishment of which she could not boast. Besides the family of Vernon and Fortescue had been the leading ones in the country for two gen erations, and the gossips said that the union of the two fortunes, and of the united influ ence, would give Harry a position almost unrivalled. Certain it is that Harry visited Isabel very often. Those who envied her accused her of manoevring to win him.. 'Throws her sell in his way continually,' said one. •Did ever any body,' cried another, see a girl make love so - barefacedly ?' She ought to get him, I'm sure,' sneered another, .for she had tried hard enough.' Nevertheless, as honest chroniclers we must record the fact that some of these very young ladies, such is the infirmity of human riature•, did their very prettiest to out-matmevre Isabel, and get Harry for themselves. Hurry had not seen Fanny since she was a child. It Was only a month since she had left school and returned home again ; and the first time she joined in the village social circle was at a pm nic. Here her blooming complexion, graceful figure and ringing laugh had been the theme of admiration by the beaux, the envy of the belles. Harry had been her partner in a dance or two, and in common with many others, felt it vvoulll t0.....ty h., go tho morning after the party he sallied forth to make the round of the village girls. He first visited Isabel. She was reclin ing on a nice sofa, charmingly dressed and reading a novel. All she could talk about was her fatigue. Yet she looked bewitch ing, it was incontestible, in the subdued light of that sumptuous parlor, with elegant pictures on the walls, baguets of flowers all about, and an atmosphere of exquisite refine ment around. Never had Harry felt so much tempted to be in love. He staid near ly an hour when he fiad intended to stop on ly a few minutes ; and would not perhaps, have gone then, if other gentlemen had not dropped in. From Isabel's he went to sev eral other houses. Everywhere he found the young ladies dressed to receive the com pany. Some were reading novels ; some had a book of pretty poetry open before them ; and one who had a pretty hand was coquetishly knitting, a purse. Not one of them appeared to have anything serious to do. Most of them affected, like Isabel, to be quite languid, and talked as if the fatigue of the day before had nearly killed them. ' Wheh Harry reached the pretty, but un pretending cottage where Fanny resided with her widowed mother, be found the hall door, open to admit the breeze, and so just tapping at the parlor entrance, he entered bowing. In the shaded light of the cool fragrant room, he could not, for a - moment see : but he noticed immediately that the apartment was empty. Just then, however a fresh, liquid voice, as merry as a bird's in June, was heard warbling in an inner apart ment- Harry listened awhile, charmed, but finding that his knocking was not heard, and recognizing, as he thought, Fanny's voice, finally made bold to go in search of the singer. Passing down the hall and through another open door, he suddenly found himself in the kitchen, a large airy apartment, scrupulously clean, with Fanny at the end opposite to him standing before a dough -trough, kneading flour and carrol ling like a lark, • It was a picture an artist would have lov ed to'paint. Fanny's face was seen partly in profile, showing to perfection her long. ALLENTOWN, LEi:IGH COUNTY, PA., SEPTEMBER 27, 1854.. BY JAMES H. DANA lashes, and bringing out in relief the pout ing lips and round chin. The breeze blew her brown curls playfully about and occa sionally quite over her face, at which time she would throw them back with a pretty toss of her head. Her arms were bare ; and rounder, whiter or more taper arms, never were; they fairly put to blush with their rosy peariness, the snowy flour powdered over them. As she moved with quick steps at her task, her trim figure showed all its grace ; and her neat ankle and delicate foot twinkled in and out. For awile she did not observe' Harry. It - was not till she turned to put down the dreging-box, that she be held him. Most of our fair readers, -wi3 .Auppose, would have screamed,and perhaps have run out at the opposite door. She blushed a lit tle as was natural, but having no false shame she saw no reason to be frightened merely because a handsome young man had caught her at work; So she courtesied prettily, laughed one of her gayest laughs, and said, holding up her hands.— cant shake hands with you, Mr. Ver non, you see. Mamma was kind enough to let me go to the plc nic, yesterday, and put off some of my work ; and so I'm doing double work today to make up for it. If you'll be kind enough to trait a minute, I till call mamma.' 'No, no.' said Harry, charmed by such frank innocence, and uncerimoniously tak ing a well-scrubbed chair, Wye only a feu', minutes to stay. My call is on you. I came to see how you bore the fatigues of yes terday.' Fanny laughed till her teeth, so white and so little, looked, behind the rosy lips, like pearls set in the richest ruby enamel. 'Fatigued ! Why, we had such a charm ing time yesterday, that one coulden't get tired, even if one had been a hundred years old.' You'll never grow old,' said Harry, sur prised into what would have been flattery, if he had sincerely thought it ; and his countenance showed his admiration. for the bright happy creature before him. Fanny blushed, but rallied, and answer ed laughing. .Never grow old? Olt, soon enough. Whet a funny sight I'll be, to be sure, bent almost double, and a cap on my head like granny Horn's.' Harry laughed too, so ludicrieus was the image ; and thus he and Fanny were as much at home with each other, at once, us if they had been acquainted for some years. The intended five minutes impercepti bly gr. w into ten, and the ten into hail an hour. Funny continued at her huusenuld wurk, pleasantly en:1.1111g the whir, With she mid Hurry mutually so niteresteu as to lorget time and piece alike. At last the en trance ol Mrs. Somers interrupted the tete ct-lete. Fanny was a little embarrassed, when she lound how long she and Harry had been aioi.e; but the easy matten;ol - manner ol Harry as he shook hands with her mother, restored he' to herself. If the elegant refinement about Isabel had tompted_Harty.to main love the honsehold charm which surrounded Fanny 'forced him to do so whether -or no. li e w ent away thinking to himself what a charmin g Fanny would make, and how sweetly she would look in her neat, home dress, engag ed in her domestic duties. Nor is Harry the only young bachelor who remembers that a wife cannot always be in full dress, and who naturally wishes to know how she will look in the kitchen. 'A wife ought as much to know how to manage her own house,' he said to himself, 'as a man to un derstand his business. 1 don't wish a wile of mine indeed, to be a maid of. all work; but I should like to have her capable of overseeing her servants; and domestics discover very soon whether their mistress is competent, and obey, or disregard her accordingly.— Ah I if I had such adear little wife, now I'd coax her to go into the kitchen occasionally, that I might see her at work:. It soon became apparent that it would be no fault of Harry, if he did not have Funny for a wife. Never was a man deeper in love• ' nor did he make an effort to conceal it. Had Fanny been a foolish flirt; she would have played with 'his feelings, us vain girls will never secure of a lover. But she was too frank and good for this, and only hesi tated long enough to be certain of the state of her own heart, when she made Hurry hap py by accepting him. Two persons more fitter for each other, in fact, could not be. Though always merry because always happy, Funny was amiable, intelligent and lull of sound sense. She had read and thought a great deal, especially for one so yourig. Her heart ran over with 'unwritten poetry.' Had Harry sought, for a lifetime, he could not have found a wife so companionable, and so suited in every way to him. What a talk the engagement made when it came out ? The haughty Isabel, who without being half as capable of sincere hive as Fanny, had made tip her mind to have Harry, and whose vanity, therefore, was piqued, even degraged herself so much as to call the bride elect 'an artful andintrigueing puss.' Other disappointed beauties had oth er hard names for Fanny. • But though, when oar heroine first heard of these slan- ders, she shed a few tears, she soon dried her eyes, for, with. Harry's love nothing could make her long unhappy. It was not until the young couple had set off on thdir wedding tour that Harry told his wile what had first made him fall in love with her.. • 'Every other girl I visited that'morning," he said, “was playing the• fine lady ; and that while, as 1: well knew, their mothers were often slay.ing in the kitchen. I reason ed that the daughter who would neglect her duty to a parent, could scarcely be less sel fish towards a husband. Besides, it is a com mon error with your sex, now-a-days, to suppose that it is debasing to engage in do mestic duties. To a man of sense, dearest, a woman' 'never looks more attractive than at such a time. As Wadsworth writes; "Here modest notions, light and free, And steps of virgin liberty; A countenance in which there meet Sweet records, promises as sweet ; A creature not too bright and good For human nature's daily food; For ttanstent sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, lasses,.tears and smiles." As he recited these lines, with exquisite sensibility, he put his arm around Fanny's waist, and drew her•towards him ; and the young wife, looking up into his face, with devoted affection, rested her head on his bo som and shed happy tears. And so we leave them. A Romantic Match. A Cincinnati paper has just learned of some romantic adventures, which took place at Cynthiana, Ky., a few days ago. IL ap pears that a very clever, fine looking young gentleman from Philadelphia, had occasion to visit Cynthinana, on business during the past winter, and while there, became ac quainted with a young lady, Miss somewhat celebrated for her charms. Mr. S—, the Philadelphian; was not proof against the bright eyes of the Kentucky maiden. He had never seen such a glori ous, liquid sparkling pair of orbs among the daughters of the Old Keystone. He was ravished, intoxicated, and finally proposed to the bright eyes and was accepted. With a light heart he started back to the Quak.. City to make the necessary arrangemen for the celebration of his nuptials, the da for which having already , been agreeitupon' The winter rolled on, and spring and it flowers came again, as also the particular day for the lover's return; but he came not. In two days more the marriage - arms to collie . ,iff. The fair one was restive and morti fied. With her bright eyes full of tears she denounced in secret the faithfulness of her lover, and trembled at the open mortifica tion which would overwhelm her if he Caine not. At this favorable juncture an old and discarded lover, whom no unkindness could divest of hope or lessen the fervency of his first affection, presented himself. He re newed his undying love; the holy happi ness of the wedded state; of a cottage some where in the deep bosom of an umbrageous grove, with the honey suckle and the jasmine creeping over the windows and along the the ia6ti....a. porch. The trembling fair one was charined.at the Femur... Love and a cottage—the quintessence of human bliss in the estimation of a girl of "sweet r)oosix teen." She blushed and sin ' d, but yet hesitated. The lover was ' ecstacies at the favorable symptoms. With renewed ardor he urged his suit. He was prolific in tears and promises, and trimmed the cot tage with a few more honey-suckles, and the thing was done. The Philadelphia gallant was given up. He was a "laggard in love," and deserved no consideration. Her faith was plighted to another, and the same day fixed for the marriage which was to have witnessed her union with Mr. El—. But the end was not yet. During the same day a third lover presented himself and declarej his passion. The fair maiden frankly told him she had just engaged her self to another, and invited him to the wed ding as a guest instead of a groom.. On the same evening, (Sunday) Mr. S— arrived from Philadelphia. He was not long in finding how matters stood. and was aghast at the intelligence that Miss B— was to be married to another instead of himself, on the following Tuesday. He at once took his way to her house and had an interview with the result of which he seemed particu larly pleased. He then stepped into the principal livery stable in the place and ask ed to hire the very beat carriage and horses to go to Maysville. The proprietor inform ed him that it would be impossible to ac commodate him. That he was to be married on the following Tuesday, and would have use for all his carriages to go on a little bri dal tour which he purposed. "May I ask to whom?" said Mr. B—, with semen-lie givings. "To Miss B—," was the reply, Mr. 8— preserved %his temper, and , simply yemarked that it was highly impor tam that he should be at Maysville at the earliest possible moment, and that he was prepared to give any reasonable price for, a carriage. The liberality of his indirect of. ter had a sensible effect on the proprietor. He got out his best hack and pair, and charged the young stranger the sum of $3OO for the trip. In a very short time afterwards Miss B— found herself sitting beside the young Philadelphian, in the above mention ed carriage, and going towards Maysville at the rate of about ten miles an hour. It was soon noised through the town that Miss B-- had, run away with her Phila delphia lover. Her guardian, who was op posed to the match, at once mounted a fleet horse and started in pursuit. About half way to Maysville he overtook the fugitives and attempted to seize the young lady The young Philadelphian waited him ofl, and spoke in this wise: “Sir you cant have her; and you must go back and leave us to pursue our journey, or you must kill me, or kill you." This talk brought guardy up standing. It was entirely unexpected. And not wishing to kill, and particularly not wishing , to be killed, he accepted the first proposition, and turned rail and took the back lrack. The lovers pursued their way to Maysville, crossed over the Aber deen, were married, drove back to Cynthi ana, and put up at the principal hotel. A crowd at once surrounded the ,house, and threatened vengence on the Philadel phian for carrying away the prettiest girl in the town., and who was the promised wife of an esteemed citizen. The young man, nothing daunted. placed his wife safe ly in a chamber, and then came boldly down to the steps of the hotel, and began to address the mob. If our phonographic notes are correct, his speech was exactly in these words: "Gentlemen : You ought not to blame me for what I have done. Most of you would have done the seine thing, had you been in my place. Instead of threats and reproaches, you ought to otter me a complimentary supper. Still, it you are not sati,fied, lain ready to give you sat. isfaction. I will flak you all, one at a time And if that don't do, Urn ready to put all through at once, and then clean out the bal ance of the town." The show of chivalry was too much for a 'Kentucky audience. The sympathy of the crowd at once changed sides. They guve him three deafening cheers and then rush ed in and congratulated him with all the heartiness of the Kentucky character. The landlord was ordered to bring out his best Bourbon, and plenty of it, and the crowd, with great good will and sincerity, gave and drank to the happy groom the noble senti ment—" None but the brave deserve the fair?" Kidd, the Pirate. On the twelfth of May,,one hundred and fifty -three years ago, the celebrated pirate Kidd was hung in England for the crime of murder. The lollowing sketch of the life of the pirate, is lrom "Valentine's History of the City of New York. The slave trade, being a legitimate pur suit and It:Mowed as a regular branch of foreign trade for many years, was exceed ingly profitable, though somewhat hazar dous, owing to practical adventurers, who followed them into their remote trading pla ces, and 'men robbed them of their stores and money used in the purchase of negroes.= This practice 'became at last a pest to the mercantile imoreln.S, that efforts were made by influential merchants or New York to in duce the English Ministry to assist them in fitting out a cruising vessel properly armed, to act against the pirates. Cot Hobert Lite ingston, - ol New York, an active and influ ential citizen, brought this matter before the English government; and introduced Cap tain William Kidd, of New York, as an ef ficient and well known commander, whose fitness for such service was well understood in New York. He was a man of family, and bad resided in New York for several years. It was proposed to engage in this enterprise on the footing of a private adven ture, although it was also desirable, for some purposes, that the scheme should receive the official countenance of the government. The king, Lord Somers, the Eral of Oomney,. the Duke of Shrewsberry ; the Earl of Ox ford, and Lord "Bellamont, joined in making up the necessary expense of a proper ves sel ; Col. Livingston also contributed a pro portion. The profits were to be divided among the owners of the ship, allowing a liberal share to Kidd. A commission was issued December 11, 1695, under the great seal of England, 'di yected "to the trusty and well-beloved Capt. William Kidd, commander of the ship Ad• venture Gallery,' He set sail from Ply mouth in April, 1696, and orrived on the American coast, where he contiatierfor some tirrie, occasionally entering the harbor of New York, and visiting his fimily in the city. He was considered useful in protect ing our commerce', for which he received much applause, and the assembly of the pro vinee voted him , the sum of two hundred and fifty pounds, as a complimentary return for his services. • „ Soon alter this he left this_ vicinity for. more active operations on the coast of Afri ca, and it was not long ere the astonishing, news arrived that Kidd had commenced the trade which he had been engaged to . subvert, and had committed several piracies. NUMBER 52. The report of these facts coming, to the pub lic knowledge in England, the circum stance was made the subject of a violent at tack upon the government by the opposi tion party, and in the excess of party zeal, it was alleged that the King himself, and those concerned in the expedition, were privy to the piratical adventure and shared in its profits. The charge having color of foundation, from the actual circumstances of the case, made the question a subject 9f state enquiry, and thus the name of William Kidd, though perhaps personally less ob noxious to the odious characteristics of his profession than many others in history, be came from its association with partizan war fare between the great men of the state, the most famous among the pirates of the world. The noblemen engaged in the enterprise underwent the form of a trial for their lives but were acquitted. The principal scenes of Kidd's piracies were on the eastern coast of Africa, at Mad agascar and the vicinity, where he captur ed and rifled several vessels, without, how ever as we have been informed by history, committing extreme cruelties upon his cap tives. The only person proven to have been killed by him being a seamen of his own name William Moore, whom he acci dently slew by hitting him with a bucket, for insubordination. Kidd having amassed a fortune by this cruise, shaped his course homeward believing, with a strange fatuity, that no information of his depredation in those remote parts of the world, had reach 'ed the scenes of his home. He brought his vessel into Long Island Sound in The year 1609, and went ashore at Gardiner's Island where, from some undiscoverable motive, I he made known his desire to bury a' quart-- I thy of treasures on the island, and did ac cordingly deposit in the ground a consider able quantity of gold, silver and precious stones, in the presence of Mr. Gardiner, but under strict injunctions of secrecy. The deposit consisted of eleven hundred and elev. en ounces of coined gold, two thousand three hundred and fifty ounces of silver, seven teen ounces of jewels and precious stones, fiity bags of sugar, forty one bales of mer chandise, seventeen pieces of canvas, one large load stone, &c. Having thus disbur dened the ship, he departed for Boston, with the design, it is supposed, of selling his ves sel. While here, however, he was recog nized in the street, and apprehended. He was sent to England for trial, and indicted for the murder of William Moore, before spoken of; and being convicted was hanged in chains,at Execution Dock, May 12, 1701. The wife of Kidd continued her residence in this city after his death, herself and daughter living in seclusiOn in a habitation on the coast side of the town. Bill Johnson: The smuggler and patriot, whose exploits on both sides of St. Lawrence and in the in tracacies of the Thousand Mends, made him famous during the rebellion in Canada, ' some seventeen years ago, and who,' RS a consequence of his eccentricities. suffered a long imprisonment in the jail at . Albany, ' ROW fills the post of light-house keeper, on Rock Island, one of the above named grotiP a short distance below French Creek. The island is what its name imports, a clump of rocks, almost destitute of natural soil, but JOhnson has quite a productive garden there.. on, his vegetables deriving their sustenance from earth which he had transported from the main land in hie boat.„ The salary of his office is small, either 8350 or *4OO, but_ he lives frugally, and by picking up some- - thing outside of regular business, by means of fishing and kiridred pursuits,'he manages to save a considerable portion of the amount every year. He is contented and happy, and fond of 'seeing visitors, to whom he re counts the romantic incidents of his event ful career, and magnifies the "achievements which has given him so much notoriety. . He gives an amusing 'account of the man ner in which he obtained his office, through the instrumentality of Gov. Marcy. lie went to Washington, without any recom mendations or credentials of any kind. de pending wholly upon his personal charac ter. Obtaining an interview with the Gov ernor, he disclosed his wishes, without cer emony or circumloeution. ""I'm Bill John- . son," said he, "you know me by reputation as I do you, if fou don't know me by sight.,, I want The place ef light-house keeper on Rock Island; in St:Lawrence...J(s , ou con give it to me, libel! be thankful—if not I* must try to do without it." , • ' , l've heard all about you Bill, 'and know you perfecily well. You shall have the place. ' And a line from the Governor, to Mr. Secretary Guthrie Atl;khe business at once. And if Governor - Ma' ;needs any aid in St. Lawrence county, anson • is the man to render it."--Bu/. ',eraser. rar •Jim . , I believe Sam's *gni no' With in 'You don't know nige; dal e s more truth in that nigger dan all de rest on do pinata tion.' 'How you make dat outf' 'Why•he never let any our, you-fool.
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