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NUMBER 41.
rJiLlAM KITTELL, Attorney at
l Law, Ebensburg, Pa.
7
ary 24,1867.
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jjanzi
AVE YOU STJBSCRinrcn
FOR
"THE ALLEGHANIAN ?'
Twenty-Five.
Tis wondrous strange how great the change
Since I was in my teens ;
Then I had beaux and billet-doux,
And joined the gayest scenes.
But lovers now have ceased to yow;
No way they now contrive
To poison, hang, or drown themselves,
Because I'm twenty-five.
Once, if the night was e'er bo bright,
I ne'er abroad would roam,
Without " The bliss, the honor, Mus,
Of seeing you safe home."
But now I go, through ram and snow,
Pursued and scarce alive,
Through all the dark, without a spark,
Because I'm twenty-five.
They used to call and ask me all
About my health bo frail,
And thought a ride would help my eide,
And turn my cheek les3 pale.
But now, alas 1 if I am ill,
None cares that I revive;
And my pale check in vain may speak,
Because I'm twenty-five.
Now, if a ride improves my side,
I'm forced to take the stage ;
For that is deemed quite proper for
A person of my age.
And then no hand is offered me,
To help me out alive;
They think 'twon't hurt me now to
Because I'm twenty-five.
fall
O, dear I 'tis queer that every year
I'm slighted more and more ;
For not a beau pretends to show
His heal within our door.
Nor ride, nor card, nor soft addreBS
My spirits now revive;
And one might near as well be dead
As eay, "I'm twenty-five."
SIX LOVE LETTERS.
"Are there any more of these letters ?"
"When her father asked this question,
in an awful tone. Lucilla Richmond could
not say "No," and dared not say "Yes'
but as an intermediate course burst into
tears, and sobbed behind her handker
chief. "Bring them to me, Lucilla," eaid her
father, as if she had answered him, as,
indeed, the had ; and the girl, trembling
and weeping, arose to obey him.
Then Mrs. Richmond, her daughter's
very self grown older, came behind her
husband's chair and patted him on the
shoulder.
"Please don't bo hard with her, my
dear," she said coaxingly. "He's a nice
young man, and it is our fault after all as
much as hers, and you won't break her
youDg heart I'm sure."
"Perhaps you approve of the whole af
fair, ma'am," said Mr. Richmond.
"I no that is I only." gasped the
little woman
hvrl liAAinr T.ikill AAmin
she sank
into a chair, blaming herself
dreadfully tor not having been present at
all her daughter's music lessons during
tho past year.
For all thii disturbance aroie from a
muaic teacher who had given lessons to
Miss Lucilla for twelve months, and who
had taken th& liberty to fall in lovo with
her, knowing well that she was the daugh
ter of one of the richest men in York
shire. "It was iuexcusable in a poor music
teacher, who should have known his
plaee," Mr. Richmond declared, and he
clutched the little perfumed billet which
had fallen into his hands as be might a
scorpion, and waited for the others with a
look upon his face which told of no soft
ening. They came at last, six little white
envelopes, tied together with blue ribbon,
and were laid at his elbow by his despair-
ng
daughter.
"Lock these up until I return home this
evening," he said to his wife; "I will
read them then. Meanwhile, Lucilla is
not to see the musio teacher on any pre
tence." And then Miss Lnoilla went down upon
her knees.
"O, dear papa!" she cried, "dearest
papa, pleaee aon't say I must never sea
him again. I couldn't bear it. Indeed
I could not. He's poor, I kcc7, but he's
a gentleman, and I I like him so much,
papa."
"No more of this absurdity, my dear,"
said Mr. Richmond, "he has been aTtful
enough to make you think him perfection,
I suppose. Your parents know what is
best for your happiness. A musio teacher
is not a match lor Miss Richmond."
With which remark Mr. Richmond put
on his hat and overcoat, and departed.
Then Lucilla and her mother took the
opportunity of falling into each other's
arms.
"It's so naughty of you,w said Mrs.
Richmond. "But oh, dear, I can't blame
you. It was exactly so with me. I ran
away with your papa, you know, and my
parents objected because of hia poverty.
I feel the greatest sympathy for you, and
Frederick has such fine eyes, and is so
pleasing. I wish I covld soften your
papa."
"When he has seen these letters there'll
be no hope, I'm very much afraid," sobbed
Mies Lucilla, "Fred is so romantic, and
papa hates romance," .
"Ho used to be very romantic himself
in those old times," said Mrs. Richmond.
"Snch letters as ho wrote me.' I have
them in my desk yet. . He said he would
die if I refused him.
"So does Fred' said Lucilla.
"And that life would be worthless with
out me, and about my being beautiful (be
thought
so.
you know).
I'm sore ho
ought to sympathize a little,'
Richmond.
But she dared not promise
that he
- - I
She coaxed her darling to stop crying,
and made her lie down ; then went up
into her own room to put the letters into
her desk ; and, as she placed them in one
pigeon-hole, ehe saw in another a bundle,
tied exactly as thoso were, ana arew tnem
out j
Tliaoa lfforn r0ro in a Tnmlla also,
One who had received them twenty years her interests might safely be left in her wnicn, nowever unequal to complete sue
before and she was now a matron old mother's keeping, slipped out of the room, cess on the stage, proved, in private per-
enough to have a daughter who had heart
troubles unfolded them one bv one, won-
j--: t M.a that lnvnrs
UCUU uun 1. vuu.u r"-" I
were all so much alike. -
Half a dozen iust the same number,
anil mneh more romantic than those the
mu3ic master had written to her daughter
Lucilla. A strange idea came into
Mrs.
Richmond's mind. She dared not oppose
her husband by a look or word: she had
never attempted such a thing. But she
was verv fond of her daughter. When
she left the desk she looked guilty and
frightened, and something rustled in her
pocket as she moved. But she said noth
ing to any one on the subject until the
dinner hour arrived, and with it came her
husband, more angry and determined than
ever. The meal was passed in silence ;
and then having adjourned to the parlor,
Mr. Richmond seated himselt in a great
arm-chair, and demanded :
"The letters," in a voice of thunder
Mrs. Richmond put her hand into her
rocket, and nulled it out again with a
I ' i w
frightened look.
Mr. Richmond again rencatad. still
more sternly :
"Those absurd letters, if you please,
my dear ma am.
And then the little woman faltered
"I that is I believe yes dear I be
lieve I have them," and gave him a pile
of white envelopes encircled with a blue
ribbon, with a hand that trembled like an
aspen leaf.
As for Lucilla, she began to weep as
though the end of all things had come at
last, and felt sure that if papa should prove
cruel she should die.
"Six letters six shameful pieces of de
ception, Lucilla," said the indignant pa
rent. "I am shocked that a child of mine
should practica such duplicity. Hem !
let me see. Number one I believe. June,
and this is December. Halt a year you
have deceived us then. Lucilla. Let me
see, eh ? nonsense. People don't fall in
love in that absurd manner. If takes
years of acquaintance and respect and at
tachment. 'With your einiles for his
goal, he would win both fame and fortune,
poor as be is!' Fiddlesticks, Lucilla!
A man who has common sense wou'd al
ways wait until he had a fair commence-
ment before he proposed to any girl.
'Praiso of your beauty. The loveliest
creature he ever saw
! E:
xaggeration,
my dear. You are not plain, but such
nauery is absurd. 'lu9t near from you
or die Dear, dear how absurd !
And Mr. Richmond dropped the first
letter, and took up another.
"The same stuff," he commented. "I
hope you don't believe a word he says. A
plain, earnest, upright sort of a man would
never go into such rhapsodies, I am sure.
Ah 1 now, in number three he calls you
an angel. He is romantic upon my word
And what is all this :
"Those who would forbid me to see you
can find no fault with me but my poverty.
1 am honest I am earnest in my efforts
I am by birth a gentleman, and I love you
from my soul. Do not let them sell you
for gold, Lucilla."
"Great heavens, what impertinence to
your parnts !"
"I don't remomber Fred's saying any
thing of that kind," said poor Lucilla.
"He never knew you would object."
Mr. Richmond shook his head, frown
ed, and reid on in pilence, until the last
sheet lay under his hand. Then, with an
ejaculation of rage he started to his feet.
"Infamous !" ho cried j "I'll go to him
this instant I'll horsewhip him! I'll
I'll murder him! As for you, by Jove
I'll send you to a convent. Elope, elopo
with a music teacher ! I'm ashamed to
call you my daughter. Where's my hat?
Give me my boots. Here John, call a
cab! I"
But here Lucilla caught one arm and
Mrs. Richmond the other.
"Oh, papa, are you crazy?" said Lu
cilla. "Frederick never proposed such a
thing. Let me see the letter. Oh, papa,
this is notFrcd'8 upon my word it is not.
Do look papa ; it is dated twenty years
back, and Frederick's name is not Charles !
Papa, these are your loye letters to mamma,
written long ago. Her name is Lucilla,
you know."
Mr. Richmond sat down in his arm
chair in silence, very red in the face.
"How did this occur?" he said sternly;
and little Mrs. Richmond retreated into a
corner, and with a handkerchief to her
eves sobbed i
"I did it on purpotref and paused
though she expected a sudden judgment.
But, hearing nothing, she dared at last
to rise and creeD ud to her husband tim-
idly:- j
. . . . i.i
"You know, Charles," she said, "it's so
long ago since, and I thought you might
not exactly remember how you fell in
love with me at first sight, how papaind
mamma objected; and how at last we ran
away together ; and it seemed to me that
if we could bring it all back plainly to
you as it was then, we might let Lucilla
w - I
marry the man she likes, who is good it
he is not rich. I did not need it to be
brought back any plainer myselt ; women
have more time to remember, you know,
I ' I
And we have been very happy, have we
not r v
Ana certainly iur. lticnmona couia not
denv that. So that Luci la. feeling that
and heard the result of the little ruse
next morning, it was iavorame to me
vounj? teacher: who had reallv onlv been
' . . I
sentimental, ana not gone nair so iar as
elopement : and, in due course ot time,
the two were married with all the pomp
and grandeur befitting tho nuptials of a
wealthy merchant's daughter, with the
approbation of Lucilla'a mamma, who
iuatly believed that her little ruse had
ght about all her daughter's happi
ness.
Tlie 15 rid go of Sighs.
The famous Bridge ot Sighs is a nar-1
row, ornamental enclosed gallery, raucn
higher than other bridges, connecting an
upper Btory of the palace with the prison
on the side of the narrow canal. Ihrough
one passage the prisoner was passed over to
h;s final trial, and if passed back again, it
was to his doom. At one end of this
passage, he sat upon a chair, a rope being
fastened about his neck, which strangled
him by means of a turn of the chair, after
which, hi3 body was conveniently dropped
through an aperture at the other end of
the passage, down into the still waters
below, and the time and manner of his
departure from this lifo were not publish
ed in the morning papers
r..,. An ; r TOa fi;c.0.i V,.
going over the city in a gondoi
. a . 1
dola Our
gondolier was the prince of his craft, a
handsome, curly-haired, broad-shouldered
fellow, tho skillful 6weep of whose oars
sent -our gondola
gliding witn
an even
swiftness quite equal to one's fancy. Of
all modes of getting about, this is the
most delicious; no jerking or rocking,
but one continuous movement, measured
by the regular beat of the soft-plashing
oar. At every narrow turn, the oarsman
sings out his signal to warn any one from
collision, and using a single oar, sweeps
on as before.
But the palaces. What better is a
marble palace than a granite one, if it is
black as iron, which is true
those in Venice ! Begrimm
and by the action of the salt sea air, it is
almost impossible to conceive how radi
ant they ever have been, except where an
occasional one seems to have been iur
bished
up, or a new, gleaming white stone
in an almost dead black wail. Yet,
rc-set in
apart from all their graceful architecture,
. , .., r .3
tney are beautnui in tneir grimness auu
majestic in their desertion. The eye
never tires of the beautiful balconies,
graceful columns and arches, statues and
ornamental carving, and above all the half
unreal and spirit-like, lifting up from the
water's edge of these ancient walls, in
grace and beautv worthy to bo poetically
embalmed ot uyron, ana in Historical m
terest, the home of Shakespeare's most
wonderful characters.
But our gondolier plies on, resting his
oar now and then to sing out monotonous-
ly the names of the noted palaces we pass,
-c u . t ;i tvt.-,C J
1X1 UU V UI 91 U ks LI aiD IttUilllUli i tj j
thes walls set straight down beneath the
sea, witn oniy a rew steps as ius uuurs
where the foot meets the gondola ; others
have colonnades throughout their whole
.1 1 -a . L ll J...-
length, the resting pavements decending
to the water, and where several such stand
in succession, tho promenade looks not in
convenient as well as charming. Before
these are aften a double set of gaily striped
posts, set in water, for the use of gondolas.
Here and there, rich and gay colored
gs, over windows and balconies, still
I, or looped up for the night, add
lnnnM tn th seene. The sha-
awnin
i
spread
picturesqucness to the scene. The sha
dows fall, and what is bad for romance,
there is no moonlight, and Venice is, ap
parently, too poor for any other. Here
and there a lamp in front of a palace door,
throws a solitary gleam acro3 the canal,
or, troman occaionai oriagc,a iew fignai
mirk the way. It is deliciously cool, and
the summer stars look quietly down, a.
they usually do, but the walls make the
shadows deeper, and we pass on through
darkness and silence, closing our first day
. i w i - .1.
in Venice at the steps of one brilliantly
lighted and beautiful palace, once the
home of a Doge, and now the home of the
wandering strSn ger. Cor. Cin. Commer-
The Charles Dickens fever has al
ready begun' in Boston, and a story is
told of one enthusiastic old fellow who
wanted to subscribe for seventeen sea
son tickets to the course of readings,
provided the price was not to be over $50u
a ticket.
Origin of Xegro Minstrelsy.
-
Thirty-six years
a 2:0,
J !"
man.
auouc iwency-nve years old, ol a comman-
. . . f .i
dinS height six feet full, the heels of his
boots not included in the reckoning and
aressea in scrupulous keeping with the
fashion of the time, might have been seen
sauntering iaiy along one ot the principal
streets of Cincinnati. To-the few who
could claim acquaintance with him, ae
was known as an actor, playing at the time
t m . .
reierred to a short
engagement as
light
comeaian in a theatre ot that city, lie
ao not seem to nave attained to any
"fuceauie aegree or eminonce in nis pro
n . .
iession, but he bad established for him.
- j"y 1B:1US 111 a
ouw" tuum icu a s-iury, hiu- u
song, aance a nornpipe, alter a style
finance to sciecc circles rendered appre-
v...ulJ( ,cli-muvui, miu.m.ij
triumphant alwavs. If it must be con
I J 1 1 L -
iessea mat ne was dencient in the more
M T . a rv v .
profound qualities, it is not to be interred
that he was destitute of all the distin
guishing, though shallower, virtues of
. "IT . .
cnarac.er. lie naa tne merit, too. ot a
proper appreciation of his own capacity :
and his aims never ro30 above that capac
ity. As a superh3ial man, he dealt with
superficial thing, and his dealings were
marked by tact aDd shrewdness. In his
spnere he was proficient, and kept his
wits upon the alert for everything that
might be turned to professional and prof-
ltaoie use. lbus it was that, as he saun-
tered along one of the main thoroughfares
of Cincinnati, his attention was suddenlv
arrested by a voice ringing clear and full
above the noises of the street, and giving
utterance, in an unmistakable dialect, to
the refrain or a song to this effect
"Turn about an' wheel about an
do jis' so,
An' ebery time I turn about I
jump Jim
Crow."
Struck by the peculiarities of the per-
fftrm.nil o : " j
tnt. f v i 1 i-
V LUUW C J UU1U UC 111- BLVir. 1 1 1 il I: I r I . HIlll I -
I J
tened on.
y
the suggestion ef the instant, which might
admit of higher than mere street or sta-
uie-yaru-ueve.opmenc i as a national or
l.J 1 - . . 1
I laVy'- 'u3uanuu, ucuiuu iuk luuLti
arl
hts,
lnigut
not "Jim Crow" and a black face
tickle the fancy of pit and circle, as well
as the "Sprig of Shillelagh" and a red
nose Out of the suggestion leaped the
determination ; and so it chanced that the
casual hearing of a song trolled by a negro
stage-driver, lolling lazily on the box ot
his vehicle, gave origin to a school of mu
sic destined to excel in nodularity all
others, and to make the name of tho ob
scure actor, . D. Uice, famous.
As his engagement at Cincinnati had
nearly expired, Rice deemed it expedient
to postpone a public venture in the newly
projected line until the opening of afresh
of many of egaSe:nent should assure him opportuni
ed by time v to snare fairly the benefit expected to
; ;J grow out of the experiment. This en
gagement had already been entered lto ;
and accordingly, shortly after, in the au
tumn of 1830. ho left Cincinnati for
Pittsburg.
The old theatre of Pittsburg occupied
the site of the present one, on I if th street
It was an unpretending structure, rudely
built ot boards, and of moderate propor-
iiuua, uui Buuiuteiii, neve nueiuss, iu ttai-
. - . I . IT II . . I
isfy the taste and secure the comfort of
the few who dared to face consequences
and lend patronage to an establishment
under the ban of the Scotch-Irish Calvin
ists. Entering upon duty at the "Old
Drury" of the "Birmingham of Ameri
ca," Rice prepared to take advantage of
his opportunity. There was a negro in
attendance at Griffith's Hotel on Wood
street, named Cuff, an exquisite speci-
... L t . i- a
subsistence by letting his open mouth as
I I a - . i . .
f"ark hTjJl ?' t
l w ret; paces, auu ujr taiijiiij uic uuu.3
of pasiengers from the steamboats to the
hotels. Cuff wa3 precisely the subject for
Rice's purpose. Slight persuasion indu
ced him to accompany the actor to the
theater, where he was led through the
private entrance and quietly ensconced
behind the scenes. After the play, Rice,
having shaded his countenance to tho
"contraband" hue, ordered Cuff to dis-
"be, and proceeded to invest himself in
ca3t-ff aPPar,cI; he -he arraDS:
meQt9 were complete, the bell rang and
Rice, habited in an old coat forlornly di
lapidated, with a pair of shoes composed
equally of patches and places for patches
on his feet, and wearing a coarse straw
hat in a melancholy condition of rent and
- I .sll.ny, vyi v 4I1A VIaaU n I in r f v off All
i rniiHi nh 1 1 v tr i a iir unr. iii.ii:. wic u l jlu aiicu
r - . - - 7 -a
3S waddled into view The extraor-
dinary apparition produced an instant af-
T crash of peanuts ceased m the
P", and through the circles passca a
murmur and a bustle of liveaest expecta-
"uu- urcur.. upo-Bv u a ouui.
F".uu, uuu .0 . .u.ummuiu
began to sing, delivering the first line by
way of introductory recitative
1 U, J im urow s come 10 iown,ai you an musi
Know,
An' he -wheel about, turn about, he do jis so,
An' cbery time he wheel about he jump Jim
Crow."
The effect was electric. Such a thun
der of applause as followed was never
heard before within the shell of that old
theatre. With each succeeding couplet
and refrain the uproar was renewed, until
presently, when the performer, gathering
courage from the favorable temper of his
audience, ventured to improvise matter
for his distiches from familiarly known
local incident?, the demonstrations were
deafening.
Now, it happened that Cuff, who mean
while was crouching in a dishabille under
concealment of a projecting JUit behind
the performer, by some means received
intelligence, at this poiDt, of the near ap
proach of a steamer to the 3Ionongahela
wharf. Jiotween himself and others of
his color in the same line of business.
and especially as regarded a certain for
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midable
existed an active rivalry id the baae-
Carrying business, t or Cuff to allow Gin-
ger the advantage ot an undisputed de
scent upon the luggage of the approach-
mg vessel would bo not only to forfeit all
"considcrations" from the passengers, but.
by proving him a laggard in his calling.
to cast a damaging blemish upon his rep
utation. Liberallv as he mirrht lend him
self to a friend, it could not be done at
that sacrifice. After a minute or two of
fidgety waiting for tho song to end, CufFa
patience could enduro no longer, and, cau
tiously hazarding a chmose of his profile
beyond the edge of the flat, he called in a
hurried whisper: "Massa Rice, Massa
luce, must have my clo se I Massa Uri-
JM wants me, steamboat's com in !"
The appeal was fruitless. Massa Rica
did not hear it, for a happy hit at an un
popular city functionary had set the au
dience in a roar in which all other ounds
were lost. Waiting some moments longer,
the restless Cuff, thrusting his visage from
under cover into full three-quarter view
this time, again charged upon the singer
in the same words, but with more empha
tic voice : "Massa Rice, Massa Rice,
must have my clo'se ! Massa Griffif wants
me steamboat's comin' !"
A still more successful couplet brought
? sfl11 raore tmpestuous response, and the
mvueanou ui ine uaggae-carrier was un-
I I . . 1 1
uearu anu uaoecacu
Driven to despera-
I ri An rwl Trtrrrnt n I
ln the emergency cf
every sense of propriety, Cuff, in ludicrous
undress as he was, started from his place,
rushed upon the stage, and laying hi
hand upon the performer's shoulder, call
ed out excitedly: "Massa Rice, Massa
Rice, gi gi' me nigga's tings! Massa
Griffif wants Mm steamboat's comin' !"
The incident was the touch, in tho
mirthful experience of that night, that
passed endurance. Pit and circles were
one scene of such convulsive merri
ment that it was impossible to proceed in.
the performance ; and the extinguishment
of the footlights, the fall of the curtain,
and the throwing wile of the door3 for
exit, indicated that the entertaiment was
ended.
Such were the circumstances authen
tic in every particular- under which tho
first work of the distinct art of Negro
Minstrelsy was presented.
Gettlngr Even.
A few days since, a very funny scene
occurred at the Railroad House in Troy.
Mr. Reynolds, a nhowman, had just lan
ded in town, with a large collection of
tcJ Id jn innl hirrla fin snalreq. He went
t0 the hoCclj secured a room, and took tho
k ith him in , trunk. At a
late hour, a second lodger was put in hi
room for the night. The new comer,
puiling off his clothes, lit a cigar, placed
a candle by his bedside, and commenced
to read a book.
Mr. Reynolds, being much fatigued,
politely requested the stranger to put out
the candle and let him sleep.
The stranger objected, saying that ha
had hired half the room and his bed, and
had a right to burn the candle as long as he
pleased.
Mr. Reynolds turned over and tried to
woo the sleepy god, but iu vain. No
slumber would visit his restless couch.
So, in a fit of desperation, he jumped up
and addressed his room-mate :
"I say, stranger, if you have a right to
burn a candle in this room all night, I
have a right to bring in my boy'
The imperturbable stranger looked over
his book at him and simply said :
"You can bring :n your boy, and your
gal, too, if you like," and went on reading.
Mr. Jlcvnolds seized his pantaloons.
jerked out of his pocket a koy and pro
ceeded to unlock his huge trunk. Ho
took there from an enormous spotted snake,
approached the bed of the stranger, and
said :
"Permit mo to introduce to you my
boy," (boa,) at the same time presenting
the distended mouth of the monster close,
to the uffrighted man's face.
The stranger gave one look of awful
horror his face became as pale asdeath,
his book fell from his hand; ho over
turned his table, candle, and all; gave one
leap from his bed, and in puris naturali
'lus, he ran down stairs, out in the street,
and yelled for the police. What became
of him afterwards was never known.
It is a singular tact that ladies who
know how to preserve everything else,
can't preserve their tempers. Yet it may
easily be done on tho self-sealing princi
ple. It is only to keep the mouth of the
vessel tightly closed.
"A r HETTY female artist ean draw the
meu equally with a brush and a blush. -