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.)1 t o .l P, A NI 11% to 3, .n 4
n: • l• •i.,• •• •-•,‘ .•, r .tanty,) promptly at
b In--37 30 tf
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It !wicAt..z.x •rkr FIDP .Ip.-
- ro, War.•, Looking Glvw,
. F'anur F'araQ••n Building.
• Park new PPIIIO, at
NC I. tiK.
In :,teerarg 4 'alga/aro
.al.ll a•D RIM •IL DC 011101. Cortirt ..r State and
• .• 0, Palutx, Chls,Dyr-Stntle, Glass, Campbasie
- Iv tag 1 a 64, linallart. ke.
B. F. LOAN, EDITOR & PROPRIETOR
VOLUME SO
mr X. A. OALBBAITII. LBILIAITII.
AMMiln at Lair—oso. pa 6thatnirt,
r4.-srly oppoott• tha I"..srt Roam, Dia, Pa.
WIV H. MAGILL,
. Darns?, 011eo in Room- i of ------
•witir's kloct , ou • • • ' .
W A 11. LIAM S
• LA
UI N ITT L AID COTTIMILLOR AT LAW. -
, , tfiev recuored to earner mouse of aceetgavretioe Block,
...rner State Street and the Public Square, Erin, Pe.
WM. H. LUCE. ee'
Ikarrtirr, Ogler to Beatyy 'lf aaaa•
Donk 'tido of Public Square, formerly emu r" • y
.gill kCo AU work warranted.
WILL/A32 THORNTON,
fr Imes of tal Place. Deeds, Agree
ment Bonds and Rortcaqva, Leases, to., aeon:ate, and
carefully drawn. Office on French, street, over Jac S.
•Iterrett, Groom Store Erie, Pe..
TEETH t
AirlL LUCE, thankful for the liberal
• patronage given kink =bowlegs that having
procured the assistant* otG. J. LUCK, he Is prepared to
do •II kinds of Dental work promptly and to the latest
and most Improved styles, and the atteotton of the path.
le again called to the
CO.NTINUOIIB GUM WORK.
which Le ban been engaged in making for the put year,
to the entire satisfaction of bin 1.118.711111, that be le non
yr . ..pure...l to put up Teeth on
VULCANIZED RUBBER,
which has the saws advantages poasessed by the Contin
uous Gun Work, 'earthy no warm or spaces for the accu
mulation ul food, sod siring to thetas. a perfectly natant'
exprraanon and tot clasps profess/At to any btber
matArrie-t used. uit tit not Vela/ the Muth. Teeth pot
on gold or miser for those who rifler It-
Particular attention paid hi Oiling and p sutu
ral teeth, and also to the correction of t r =eo.—
office to Bratty's moat. Part Ron
Erie, Dee 24, 11169-43m29. W11%26
J. C. BURGESS &
GROCERIES,
FLOUR,
PORK, &.0.,
AT \\-1101,ESALE.
10, Brown's Block, State Strad
Erie, Oct 111, 1549 1.
and Retail
.r.gn and I).•mrstlr lir)
M HA)I)EON MANUFACTORY
SAVE TWENTY PER CUM
BY BUYING ut
W IMAM WILLING
fiiwil . r
_ Olirrl
T HE Pxperience of twenty years, and the
idea that l eould maks
PIANOS AND MELODEONS
lu File cheaper than I coo bey theca elsewhere, because
rent a cheaper, lumber U cheaper, coal is cheaper,
iron the B• 1130, induCed me to employ competent
cad complete., expertencri workmen, wbo
rwrried on n Plll3O VllllDelleth77
them
.«,,«. for n.. sears, and who sold me their
, tur ..t.rk noooOsary to mako ouch Instrument.
3.1.1 I •m now pi...pared to fural.ll my numerous fri-nds
Pianos and Melodeons
t) , aupeour Tune and fiedah, and will
107.A.MICELAS-Nyr rirSZVEIDIL
~r •ny length of thee, 14 gm
COMPLETE KATIMIPACTION.
My reputatt.n as a Wasictims sad bash:tem man woold
iost if these Instruroonts should not prow* good, and I
asun ths public that nothing is spared to bring about
the rl.rtred result, sts
Producing a fine an/ subatandal Mann, wbk
will give anal antillnedon, and *nay In
ease louver Mao say ?lase 1 kserwr
TERMS VERY EASY
PRICES VERY REASONABLE
MEE
r a...n.1) .1,
tLiva PATRONIZE e.,
ME
ME
Your Own Citizens at Home !
. ()RDER:; at WHOLESALE or RETA IL
Executed promptly and fairly.
• thl ,
111
IMMIO
Ir y Produce, orders on Stores, old Isstrnmeats, Lunt
to.r, sad any thing elm I mu sell spin or use in my bus
iness, will be taken in esshangs for Mao Fortes, llelo
deons, Dulcimers and any thing else I have in my store.
P 1 %NOS TO LET !
TUNINU DONE WELL
NEW' MUSIC EVERY WEEK'
NONE BUT THE BEST ARTICLES ON HAND
11.4. gnu e eer board of II poor Chfollowing PAUL,
coo lino. lion It Is sod I wIII eseitange It.
WU WILLI biti
" EDITOR? —You all remember the
offer Mr Horace Waters of New York, has made fur
advertising In roar papers The undersigned will do a
little better, If one will favor him with a esti, and will
furnish ynu with any Plano you order nr desire. Give
me four ord., WV. WILLEVG
trio, Jane 18,1869.-1
1118
GEORGE W. SMITH.)
Brewers, Nesters and Hop Dealers.
HAVING purchased the entire interest
W SMITH, in told and well-known
Point Brewery, Pittsburg,
We ere new prepared to furnish to the nunisruss elastom
ers of the old lirm, with an article of X, XX. Kennett
and Bitter Ales, that cannot be excelled by any estahltah
meat to this country.
For the accommodation of our customers in thts "ec
ti°on, leo haws appointed Mears. Coaghor*Clark, Who ts-
sale Orocers. of trio, our sole aces ta for this vicinity.
(obit' —lO7 FLEXING SW es.
COAL OIL 1 GOAL OIL ! !
C:PERU* IN QUALITY AND LOW
sr to Pries , '
Fl tYING reeelveo FRESH SUPPLY ants Purest and
MTSIONGICAT COAL OIL
to be had In the country at reduced priors srs ran now
coffer it at.
ONE DOLLAR THEGALLON
by mingle Gallon and STILL lower when the qwmtlt
tak•n a greater. rir Remember the plane la at th
qtor t . of
F.h 11. CARTER & BROTHER.
DE FOREST, ARIEURONO, & CO.
DRY GODS MERCHANTS,
80 & 82 Chambers St, N. Y.
Nkr()1:1.1) nottfy the Trade that they are
opening Weekly, in neer and lotentital pattern& the
A. M. 0 32C P. CI- 1
A Nee Prtot, elate') excels every Print In the Country for
perfection of execution and design In full Madder Colors.
our Prints are cheaper then any in market, and toseUng
with extensive sale
lar Orders promptly attended to. Ibb4-1 y&S.
AIRS. CURTIS has returned from New
ju York, sod is Dow receiving her Stook a
MILLINERY AND FANCY GOODS
Consisting of
INbilk, Satin and Straw Bonnets,
Head Dreams, Cala, Flowers, Ribbons, euchre, Cherilies
Velvet Ribbons, Collar/, 1411 !Ri k
k e., is Also, Conwttot
Hoop Skirts, Hosiery, Zephyr oeslitalttlegy Yarn sod
materials for Embroidery, Lima VeU Kid Gloves, tope
.or quality, ae-, ke, ail-of which w 111 le sold as lbw as
can be bought elsewhere.
rap- WILLINERS supplied with al! goods in their Rae
a. 'W Dana e, MRS. Y. CUZtIS.
Erie. Oct. 1, 1869.-17.
I=
BUILDERS HARD WARE
A full and complete aroortment of fluitdoro SAM
osre, for solo very 10. by 0,02241. J. 13.
t r .n 1
Q,ADDLE & CARRIAGE TRIMMINGS
1..3 A full saworimoot of Saddlery sod Contort Trim
mnyr•. for mile racy ivy On 21. J. 11. 13111.0 EN.
CIAItPESTER'S and JOINER'S TOOLS,
:bp lat g .taseami ebnipest dock is the City. et
K.r1.., /et. IN, 1649.-21 I C. SILL.DhN's.
SAUSAPE 'UTTERS ' Cleavers, Mincing
Keivee, Belabor KaiTi4i, at air More et
oet.2e-11 J. C. SELDF.X
TABLE CUTLERY, Pocket Kniveb
all styles and qualities, at low Floss, lry
o.Bstok:N.
TIMOTHY SEED ! TIMOTHY SEED 1 !
Ms Badman Dia Dim Clout 'Hotly ea 4 Slat Ift
ceived, and for ask clasp
fine, 05t.160160. =MR IMMO b Co.
THE ERIE.• - -i.--- . :- . .\:- OBSERVER,
PIANO FORTE
t*IMTZT'AL.
Frrl.lM.
CM
THE GENUINE UNRIVALED
Chickering & Son's Piano Fortes,
C.). !S
FLEXING BRO'S.,
r StreCeSSOßd TO
WAM.SIITTA PRINTS!
M.ILL.I7M.Ft,"Ir-
gottitai.
THE RUINED CITY
The shadows of ► thousand sprints.
Unnumbered sunsets, sternly sleep
Above the dust of per behest things
That form this city's blasted hap
Dull watch the crumbling columns keep
Against the fierce, relentless sky,
Hours, that on dial ooteth, ere , "
Like unremembered phantoms. by .
And still thw city of the dead
Gives echo to so human Used
A curse Is writ on every atoue,
The Temple's latest pillar, itsvi
Like some white Mammoth's bleaching Woo
Its ►ltars know no deities
Floe ooltunas of a palace rise,
And when the son is red sod low,
And glaring in the molten s►t.s,
A shadow huge these columns lt.r.ok,
That like eneme dark colossal hand
In silence creeps across the sand
The eenste sluindvrs, cumirous
Of councils sage, of subtle schemes.
But does no ling-ring tone survive
To prove their presence inure than d•esius:
No light of revelstious beams
♦round that voiceless Forum no,,
Time bears upon his restless streams
No reflex of the haughty brow
I hat oft baa Gowned a nation's fate
liere—where dark repttles cougrugate
Where, where, is now the regal rag
That clothed the monarch 4 1, you miser,
On which the rank weed Baps Its flab
Acrose the dusk this - somber hour'
Alas' for pomp, alas' for p.wer,
When Time unveils their nakedness.
And Valour's strength end Re-auyi'slioecr
Find naught to echo their distress
And flattery—fine dedustre breath
Melts In the Iron grasp of Death
Day rise* with an angry ranee,
,Aa to blight the stagnant air,
And hurls his &wee and fiery lance
On that Doomed City's forebend hare
The suneet'a wild and wandering hair
Streams backward liki a comet a inane,
And from thii deep acil rulien glare
The ehuddering c ilumns , couch in tato
And through the wreck ntarrattitsl years
Ilse grim Wens atalka and sneer*.
hoict. littraturt.
Through the Snow.
Mn.s Tubbs—fifty, fat and frosty, drest..te , l
in bleek satin and flowery cap—como, from
her housekeeping room t where she has
been consulting Betty. her cook I into tho
study of Itr Tubbs, it. r who. up
later than ht- , 4 pouse, breakfasts
leisurely, and read. his letters grimly, on
tho Snowy Christm o morning He Is by
no means a prepos-e , sing-looking gentle
man, though tits co tt Llpertirio and hi-,
waistcoat large.
"I've ordered Betty." •zays MN. Tuu,.,
sinking into a (-Ilan. ••to make the fellott
a small suet-duntiiling-----no plums or cut
rants in it. Dr. lubbs and send it in with
a rasher of bacon. The fat bacon. Di
TULLB . the ham-like lerm I keep for 6,
parlor t for if ushers a ill stop during tn..
holidat s where t het ain't wanted they tit-t
take the consequences."
"of course, my dear,' answered T u hh.,
pompoualy, and at the same tune winking
terribly (for he has a viiional defect v‘
always keeps h;s moving.)'
remark is most judiciote , . Indeed, it too
truth be spoken. el Pfl thi, prudetirt.il ar
rangement will LP unnecessary : for I think
of giving Gray notiee a t O n ce , an d
rid of him this very morning. a
for—this getting-en rapid system of I,„ a , I
never do. If u continues, Mrs. Tin.'
shall soon cease to he mach r and in -.al—
of Gattlien ffow-e, 1 r here's a lett.•r t , .It t
the Bailey's tallier. prai-ing 1)14 y,1•1
progreaa ui ,Auhmeto Hui
from Wiggett's ttio•;•• -ay that 1.1 .1 -
general advanco , ,
all, here' , 4 a third letter. fr , on the it.
Pike, canon of 1)1,14h-burr
say that his grand,m, 'pi in t 4
me., is remarkahle 1 ,- Lrterni , ..l n ry
dear, that there ate 0, i
that they have learn: As mdt. h ir 0.• i;
Latin in the halt' a. , a! some s e h,„,i, thy
would have done ui three yeas Maid
this, my dear: N..w ..t 'nurse bore getting,
along m this A. 1 .1 will SOtill leave. Instea I
of having dix years out of 'em apiece. te.o
will be enoulrit under such a fori l li g pl
There were the Fielding:A, too: wily
they leave? Why, that they could draw
trees well when they should hay.• •till
in lines awl wbas. Iye tnld f
this, Lille, .lad ,fterl; hut, MILLS Di.
Tubbs, with pathetic dignity. • he mind"
me no more th in tie... , boy, who
'Old Winker.' lie talks alsiut •rnor
honesty' and trash of that sort. instead
paying attention to my behest , . Soa. , tins
is the case-sand it don't do to let boy
education get on like a •team-emits.—i'd
dismiss Liam, and—and---t his very morning.
True, I must give ~iinte equivAlent. a, our
arrangement was a intinth's eon eilii
er side, and gratis b. - aril and heleing du
ring the winter vacation. But better a 1....1
pound• than that this evil should make
further head.-
"A pound : \%e .hall save double that
in the fellow's board. Why' it wants yet
five weeks to the end of the vacation, and
this—,ay at ten shillings a week—will he
two pouh , l• t,•n tio and dolt at once, 1)r.
Tubb.. whil.t 1 drcs. for rhtt relt. Awl
Make htk"te ; wr eau then drive 'ii mitt
then be bpared the nonsense• of 'go. 4-I,yes '
On my was , up stair., doctor, I sh•tll c•nut
termand the suet dumpling.".
'Not without some little hesitation wire
his wife4s eye is on him—for his conscience•
seared as it is, points how base In, conduct
is to one like Robert tray—Dr. Tub!+
draws cairtain sovereigns and shillings from
,k iq private drawer, and goes forth to the
sehool-toom, where, by a most econotmeal
scrap of fire, sits the gentlemanly usher.—
His feet are on the hob. a little
,EschOus in his hand, a short pipe in his
mouth t behind him lies the wide, high
school-room, beyond that the bare windows
and the snowy Yorkshire landscape of
wooded }tights and barren moors.
"Faugh'. smoke—smelling like tavern: '
are Dr. Tubbs' introductory word• am!
then. taking a distant chair, he procee Is
to business. It is soon effected—as most
base things are—and to his infinite but se
cret chagrin ; for he expected demur soil
entr,•.dy 11 is usher's manner express, -
sense of relief and release. True. wei,•
the pompons pedagogue a reader .if hu
man Ile iris. he might have detected on ,
vibration of desolate despair cross the ele.ir
bright, ulan.) eye when the first word- of
diamisSal came ; but it. is gone like
trio flash, awl he sees nothing before him,
but this serenity of self-reliant nrmlessl.
Hurrying over his gruff adieu, pocketing
his receipt, and basely oblivious of all linty's
noble efforts to increase his school—which,
when he came a year ago, was sinking to
the verge of ruin—the pompous and shal
low pedagogue makes his exit to go to
church—a hollow conventionalist. not a
sincere worshipper.
Re4olute and brief as piun t z men itto,
Gray gathers up bis few bor,ke front off the
soh room shelves, hasten:. up stairs,
thNks port-o3anteam, and directs it to
Mistreat railway station, puts the rest
of his things in a knapsack; and then going
down; stairs he scatters a few shillings
among the servants, visits the old yard-dog
ERIE, PA, SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 31, 1860
in his kennel, gives one look around the
old play-ground where has so many
sad and weary hours, a nd goes his
way, him knapsack on his shoulder, a good
oaken stick in his hand. There are some
worthy souls to peak to in this primitive
Yorkshire village--the Parish clerk, the
cobbler, the carrier ; then he hurries on
ward with a brisk Ate') toward the moors,
which lie so high and far away ; they must
be crossed to reit, h the railway by which
he intended to go.
Turning by and hyoutof the more beat
en highway, he proceeds down r lane with
high . banks and hedge-rows on either side.
It lies deep in snow, though traversed by
recent is heels, and wind away presently
toward woodland and river scenery of ex
yucute beaut)—though wreathed in snow
and crisped by frost. Here is a cottage,
old-fashioned and substantial, an exquisite
garden around it, and clothed with a glow
ing pyracanthus. The berries are massed
in corouals ; the leaves lie around in beds
of richest green. But the windows---at
least toward the lane—are shattered ; no
one seems keeping a CliHstmits within.
But as Robert Gray leans upon the pal
tug looking toward a little window that
now is bowery with scarlet and green—in
summer with the myriad witacti trumpets
of the yellow jasmine—a man plods by and
touches his hat
yer a wanting Mr. Watson, sir," ho
says, '•you won't find him a‘ home to-day.
Him and the raissis he gonp to sec their
youngest son. Old Tab the maid's mind
ing the li.iuse but she's uplatairs dressing
I dussay now "
' • Vett, Mr. \Vatsun d esery el_ a holiday
Uone for lone"
"No I reckon they'll be home to-mor
row. Miss Marrianna, the daughter, ain't
She's gone to Master Fielding's,
serest+ the moors, to keep holiday »•t' the
children. She's a particle: favorite there
—a sort cousin to th'
So saying, liodge again touches his hat,
and proceeds.
When the honest fellow is out of sight,
Gray opens the gate gently and steals in.
Then from the before-mentioned bowery
window he cuts a ' , pray of pyracanthus
pith his pocket-knife. and coming forth
again, hurries away like one guilty of a se
rious sin. When he is far out of sight of
the cottage, on his path again to the high
way:he looks at it long and tenderly, and
then opening 1111 knap.qtrk, lays it within.
Tins shall go with Into lir and far away ;
.t grew about her lsiwery window---s6c
wheat he has met once or twig• in country
homes—shelwhomn lie ha, spoken to a few
Whotn;he has looked:uponand
loved
Lakea.uin who hay accomplished a mis
sion. h o now walks titeaddy onward. re
eaiiis the 1 . ), and begins the ascent
to the moor----to the lower one.., which lie
at the hitse .1 the higher and more remote.
Deeper became the Snow, wilder the scene
—neither mail nor bird nor beast giving
I,fe to the whitened waste. By awl by he
comes to a few i-olitary homesteads, and
beyond these to A lonely grave-yard, where
the dead sleep eternally amid the great
hush ot nature lie must pause a moment,
here lie. a poor -chool-boy who died ot
cold and fever Gray nursed—Gray loved
), !in ; v cannot turn array, perhaps for
e% er, wiihout sit) liio tarewell to the insen
tient dust
As he diverges to the gate of entrance
into this Inn hurial-groundAmiddle-aged
gentleman comes toward }t to the rear
of the small thatched church, and, striving
to undo th.• latch, can not; he; fingers may
be cold. Ile may have entered the grave
yard by some other path. For dAys, pos
sibly, there ham been no passer in Be this
,t ma), the gentleman can not make
e,.tress, liurr.es forward, and from
Lis sale un , 1.. , •' the lan. h.
• ['hank says the zentleman, rais
his hat. • a court.tsv is alwars plea ant,
e%. , 11 .t oiioly Yot I. , !iiro nt , or I thank
—,L happy Ci.ri-airris —l% e. ).-A day --
11 , is 4 lian.l,,ino. thouplitiul wan, ot
, Itts he,r kaichetl with
nij In. , in .tiner pro•lipt, him word, court,
Irk,.. one %%i are inlny with men
ant he t' a Yorkshire
to tnutacturer—who k IItOVA ' — rnany have
in the h0,14..v. of tlie,e
:oh, ciact — , g.thering thole
10 11,u round th,ru, mid ruakaig :,teuan
their wilhn.;
1V hen the Atrangor is •)ut of sight Gra)
1 , 0 ,, ec , In , ti , i ,•t tvi , m,nr the footsteps in the
snow, they lead him to a simple gra% estime
it the rear of the church, off which the
.now heen recently brushed : on I t is
recorded the death of two old persons—
wan and a ife—who died some live years
before. Their unos were Fielding: their
marriage life a lung one, considering the
years they lived,
••I thought as much," says Gray to him
self, "that gentleman was Mr. Fielding,
the rich spinner, and this the grave of his
hither and mother. I have hearth that he
was as noble a son as he is a noble father ;
husband, masterand man. Yes! I thought
there VMS a likeness in his face to the boys
that came to Tubb's, to be taught drawuag,
half a year ago. Ilow often does the pro
s tie hide the depths of a poetic nature:—
This is his visit to his parents' grave, on
the anniversary of the death . and who
knows of what worth such visitation and
self-communion may be? The virtues of a
) ear may be sown thus in a single hour."
Gray passes on to the schoolboy's solita
ry grave. No reverent feet have visited it
—no reverent feet have scraped off the
dazzling snow. The marks where the lit
tle redbreasts have hopped acmes it are
plainly visible, and yet it is not solitary ;
the wind sings a dirge, the snow presses
;lownily, and at night the moonlight sweeps
.eer it and silvers it with glory. Under
the arch of heaven no single thing but
what has some hymn sung to it—some
tears wept over it by nature!
The poor usher resumes his walk pres
ently, tor he has far to go. The cold is be
numbing, the snow deeper, yet he preeses
on ; and he stops to find a small flask in
tLe locket of his outer coat.; from this lie
sips a drop of brandy, (it holds but very
little,) and then plods on The day begin=
to fade—the distance is yet considerable—
he grows anxious.
At length the moor dips downward into
the valley, and beyond this is the higher,
bleaker, lonelier moor, across which lies
the station lie wishes to reach : through
the valley sweeps a vast water-power, and
here stand the wondrous mill in which
daily work three thousand people. employ
ed by John Fielding, the great cotton lord.
But the mighty giant of spindle and mule
,!eels to-lay, the fires are low, and labor
t cst.s her hands! Some mile from the mill
tile mansion of the cotton lord stands em
kosomed in woods, and here at the foot of
the fell is a cluster of cottages.
Descending to one of these he asks a wo
man standing at a door the nearest way to
the opposite fell.
"Why, crow' the beck by the bridge, and
take the road before thee. But oh, sir! it's
a coming on a wild night for the moors :
and now I'm thinking, if you go by Gray
atones—Mr. Fielding's park anew there—
you'd find it more sheltered like, and a
bit nigher still. You can't miss the way
if ye keep this side the beck to the mill ;
then crois it, and a bit beyond get into the
park by a stile ; the path then'll take you
by Greystone-pool--a mighty piece of wa
ter, all frozen over now—and toward the
end leads up the way to the moors. You
can't migs it, theught it's coming on u wild
night, I fear."
Gray hurries on. passer the mill, the
mill-hands' liottages—almost ;Al of them
tenantless to-day--finds his way to the pool
and so to its furtherest side near the moor.
As he approaches the road leading there
to, he sees a wan dlreMani •s • servant
standing on the bank .rs Oiougli attending
three or four boys who are skating up and
down the pond. They are all of thetn fine,
athletic lads, and Gray knoviii them to be
his old drawing pupils. the Fieldings.—
Though he has no intention 4.11 approach
ing them, for they are •katlug some dis
tance from where he ti.i- torn off, he can
not refrain fikom stns m t s moment to watch
them. As he doe- a bell at the hall
rings loud and ele..r its echoes are taken
up in the "(lie/silt 1110Orn, and re tielio4-41
back again
-ilentletnen, esils the ~ervaint, "there
ie thu first dinner•t.able vuu had better re
turn-
They prepare, as it stMll3 to obey, by
skating toward the shore ; and Gray turns
away, not willing to be recognized and de
tain, d. for he feels desolate and low in
heart. Fur him nu weleonimg feast is
spread, nu ear listens for hint, no eye ex
pects hint. Snow before him, snow behind
hint—a sail and solemn Christmas day to
hint! Yet the snolks of w in te r hid e t h e
buds of spring, and out of our sorrow our
truest joys are ottenest burn.
He has turned 'his lace and his steps
away from the per toward the moor, when
a crash, followed by awful cries, met his
ear. Looking round, hurrying toward the
pool, he sees that the cancels youth, in
skating toward the shore, grounded dan
gerous ice ; it cracked, and he fell through.
Ho is now struggling in the water—his
head above it, his hands battling with the
lee ; while his brothers, hastening to his
rescue, seem in peril too. The poor de
mented servant—a coward, perhaps, by
nature—stands on the shore, wringing his
hands and shouting.
At a dozen athletic bounds tiray has
reached the spot. In another moment he
has thrown off his coat, bat and knapsack.
"Stephen: Walter: Falkland: - he calls:
"don't attempt that ; come to Ilarry's
rescue." Even while he speaks he dashes
his way across the ice, goes through it—
is in the pool , tiot n minute too soon—
the lad is spent. and, benumbed with cold,
is sinking.
"A brave heart. H.irry—a hand there ;
there, now my arm's around you—bear up.
I'm tiray your ulsl drawing-roaster." fold
ing the Cad's head above water, swimming
dextrously, battling with the ice, in an
anxious moment or two lie has reached the
shore. flaying Itet_.4l"4 Bray's warning,
the other boys ray...ale, too, and noW crowd
round.
- Harry to not much the worse," said
Gray, kindly..,, the .pent and benuutbed
lad leans on Iwo and I.,tins to recover.—
"A near chance . l.ot a drop of brandy,.
with a tun how, and warm bath, will set
hall all right Walter, feel in my coat.
Locket, You'll find m) brandy flask; it holds
but a drop, it'll do goo(l. - So sa)ing,
when the tta-k found. l irav n Li t hos Har
ry take what It Indd., and then hurries him
utf hmno
"But you'll tsune. Gray?" says Stephen,
who is the next oldest to Harry, ''papa will
never torgive os. if you don't come, after
having saved us our dear Harry. Wn al
ways liked you. (tray. and were talking of
you this very morning. Come on ;
dripping like a dog."
"Thank you ; 1 want to be at—station
by eight o'clock to-mght. and at Leeds to.
morrow, so I (vivo dry undergar-
merits in my ktiair,atek here, which I can
cliangc to that f‘Kliler shed pm - der. Good
by, I want to, toss the moor before it too
late."
-Th e moor (-fray Why, you'll hare a
h•tra tieht w!t u the -now. Our slieplle:tl.l
report it as vet .feel. But why .ire you
u- , 1 for a few Ip+nr-'''
have loft I tauzllt too fast for
turn : hot if f r wli Lee& by to-morrow
may get a ttim)r-hip : for there WILM aim ad
vertisement 1, lattng it) one in the limit pa
p.m.„s:,..) rum, home. So•pkomm : write to
You thence.'
Gray does n -i..y for any reply , but
eILIII4 hi+ coat and knapsack, hurries to
the distant shed lion- ho changes 111 , 1
..liot4s and ne:th.-r gAr aatews and thou, to
gi.t warm. , e "1r out .4 run as stlon al be
has dresseci and ..wung his knapsack on.—
Up the snowy 1011.1. by the• moorland crag 4,
on to the moor wide. wild waste
01 whitene,l
Vet some mac through the day marks
the road 411tiklOill v tOr it to be easy to find,
while light lists and the snow holds off;
so lie keeps on at a rye! pace: tor the
whole distance now to traverse is hat .iome
six miles, and he is not without hope that
it will be easily effected. But presently
the snow-drifts get deeper, and bailie him
more and more at every step. The clouds
charged with snow bring day suddenly to
a close : and at last it begins to snow heav
ily, as though the clouds bad burst. Still
he keeps his way, not without hope. But
when the road becomes more and more in
distmet, when the sti , iw comes down heav
ier and heavier still, when the rising wimp
whirls it round and. when the cold beanies
so intense 104 to benumb linn, even while
he is moving and regrets his folly in hav
ing slighted the kindly invitation to Mr.
Fielding's house. But tray is a proud man:
he has hail the birth and education of a
gentleman, and he eon not go/awning any
where uninvited. like a beggar.
At last. hopeless of regaining the track,
thoroughly spent, and growing drowsy. he
sits down on a eratr the storm whirling
around him and :I re , lfle its Mood Then
he closes his eyes lied in that dreamy en
thanasia which preee.les death by cold.—
From this he is .tr. , 4-0.1 by something warm
and wet toueinme his !oid—something ly
ing heavily on his knee. Reluctantly—J
ahnost with difficulty—lie asserts with
sufficient will and volition to open his eyes:
and then lie shepherd's dog rests its
paw , : upon hi- 1.11,:e. .tnd larks bet hands
At the isatna in ituticit a loud halloo is hoard.
With st ill In, o diffii_ulty than he has
o pen e d labs is ‘ es. he makes a faint reply,
for he is 1.-ori-i• the rescue is at hand.—
It is seareel) tutored before a shepherd
casts bark the blinding snow and stands
besiil him.
- If you ploane, sir, you must come with
us. As soon as lie hie ird of the tuatter,
Mr Fielding sent me an‘l another oil . with
hor , e and Cie (in the moor after
you : for no 4 - me. lie knew. could live nut
such a night."
But Gray eun wily .peak. So the Shep
herds assist : now einnin4 up with the
lioNe, they place 11. m on it. give him some
whisky they h iv, with Chem. and one
mountine beleirel. so s- to hold the be
numbed gentleman. the other leads the
way hack to tiruystorms. But the way is
hart to find, the %now so blinds and baffles
them, so lies in monstrous drifts, and the
cold so benumbing : vet thro' this desolate
waste they get at last, and by eight o'clock
reach the hall.
There, in the wide porch, a whole group
of sympathizing friends welcome the-poor
gentleman. Ile can not talk much, but he
replies to the pressure of their warm and
kindly words.
"There, take my arm-and lean on me,"
says the same gentleman for ,whom Gray
opened the gate of the little, lonely burial
ground this very morn ; "you bave twice
served me to-day, once in a manner irre
payable :so let me serve in turn." Thus
saying, Gray is led up stairs to a chamber,
where a warm bath and dry clothes await
$1,50 PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE
NUMBER 43
him Cherished and refreshed he lea
down on a sofa. and has soup and wine and
other restoratives These taken he sinks
into a sleep. When be awakes it is ten
o'clock or more ; yet he finds Mr. Field
ing seated beside him.
"God ever love and bless you, sir!" he
says, taking Gray's hand ; -for you I owe
the life of my priceless boy. I can never
repay you, for they have told me all—your
bravery, your goodness---everything. But
you must not leave us. Mr. Gray, for a long
time. It wee I who advertised Ir the last
Leeds newspaper ; for my boys want a
master, and you were the one I thought
of and should have but I (lid not
know that you were leasing that mean,
pompous, shallow hypocrite, Tuble. Make
your mind happy, sir ; )ou have a home
here ; to-morrow we will talk of money af-
Curs. But be sure, even when your office
ends, pit] shall find-me a sincere friend --
Now, do you think you are strong enough
to come down and see the Christmas-tree.
and Sir Roger de Coverley danced? Mrs.
Fielding and all my people want to thank
you, too."
.4 - )h: yes, he is strong enough ; for shall
he not see the pretty Sfariatina. the idol of
his dreams!"
So they go down arm-in-arm togetbr.
and Mrs. Fielding and all the guests are
earnest and warm in saying grateful and
kindly words ; and there is Marianna.
little tremulous and timid and still moro
so, when Gray gives her oil' the Christtna.s
tree a small needle-book, on which is
finely wrought--- - Love me. and I'll love
Gray sits down beside one of the glowing
fires, while they dance Slr Roger le Cover
ly. But by-and-by he leave. , the dams
and sits down beside him
"I was so sorry for you, Mr. bray. ' she
says, "think of you on the Weak moor."
"Were your that is good news, Marian-'
no. Before I ascended the moor I had
had a long walk. I had been past a cer•'
tam cottage, and cut off a spray of its rud
dy pyrecanthus ; it is now up sours in my,
wallet. But Ipm going to stay here as
tutor. It is a piece of richer fortune than
I qiou g ht of, particularly if the little one,
whose faee I first saw beside those cottage
window-panes, is a glad."
She does not answer, but lays her hamd
in his, (all the rest of the folk, are mad,
dancing Sir Roger.) and looks up with tear
dimmed eves in tag.,
So he came through the snow , fur ti is
and this : fie is no longer gltolista but rich
ly loved
By sorrows we are baptized to holier du
tieg and to happier
AN AINMITION CLER4.YIII N SELLS fill
SLAM , AND LIVES ON THE PROCEEDS.—Rev.
Dr. Potts, Pastor of the University Place
Presbyterian Church, New York. is one of
those divines who utters denunciation= from
the pulpit against the institution of Shive
ry. lie preached a Thanksgiving sermon
last fall in which he presented the wick
edness of Slavery. &c. The sermon found
its way down south where It seems Dr.
Potts formerly resided, and-owned a plan:
tatton of 1,201 acres. and fifty- t ix slaves, in
Mississippi. The Natchez (Miss.) Courier
gives an exposition of the Rev. gentleman's
slave property. Upon the avails of which he
now lives. It seems he 4..1.1 his sLives and
plantation taking a mortgage upon them
for security. A law su:t subsequently aroso
between the Doctor and other parties to I
recover the value of the property with in
terest. The reurier gives all the parti,u
las from the Court records. and Luncludes
.ta 1./i/Jtri:
Dr. Potts succeeded iu the Chancery
D.strict Court. anil Messrs. I)enni,toun &
appealed. The case was then argued
and re-argued before the High Court, and
decided in April. lm3q. The decision was
that Dr. Potts' mortgage on these "chat
tels" held priority to that of the Messrs.
Dennistoun : and that Dr. Potts' ten per
cent interest was not an usurious transac
tion, as was alleged, it heing to secure a
loan of trioney. The s.ile of :he "chattels"
was ordered in Jantisry, 1534, without a
word being said about "family separations."
and the sale mui accordingly wade. The
Rev. Dr. Potts received his princip.il and
ten per cent interest, in all at,out
which he securely invested in other prop
erty, and upon the interest of which he
now lives in affluence. to preach before a
sympathizing congregation about the late
guage of "Southern statute books degrad
ing human beings to a level of chattels,"
and to arouse them to a realization of how
shocking a thing it is, and how entirely
beyond vindication to speak of chattels at
all ; and how inhuman and how much at
war with christion rights and duties it is-to
expose human beings to the breaking up
of domestic bonds and in the be para. Lion of
fatiatltes.
After this Thanksgiving Phillipic to his
ho doubt delightt.d.ituditory in the Fifth
avenue. New York. we should hke to have
read in his and their hearing the record of
his long continued and strenuous endeav
or:, ~ucee.sful at la.st, to realize out of such
chattels hi+ $15.R9 . 2. and his ten per cent
interest for nearly fourteen years.
We ha% e wondered somewhat that Dr.
Potts er !tidied to our notice of
los sermon We gave him ever% opportii
ni'v lie! sent hint a marked ropy. We
twn now understand the motive of his
siletu•e least said, they sooner
mended."
ti.o I lIIOW
I Mn.: 60 cram, onir be kind
Thus haxl be: 1.--hut behind
tisio.l-I,ye, Dr. Potts fl.e next Thank 4
giving sermon m.Tainst ilitvery had better he
preached by .orne one who tw not now en
joying the fruits of the axle of tift)-six.
"chattels ' and their natural Increa,.t4
A ticoa Purbon
who pre-pled over x little flock in one of
the back town 4 in the State of w
without any exception, the most eccentric
divine-we ever knew. Ills eA:centilettles
were carried as far in the pulpit OA out of
it. An :nstanee we will refute .
Among the church members was one
who invariably made a practice of leaving
ere the parson was two-thirds through the
sermon. This was practiced so long that
after a while it became a matter of course.
and no one, save the divine, seemed to take
notice of it. And he at length told broth
er P. that such a thing must be needles 4,
fait P. said at that hour his family needed
his senates a' home, and he must 41,
nevertheless. On leaving church he al
ways took a round about course, which, by
some mysterious means, always brought
him in close proximity to the village tav
ern, which he would enter, "and thereby
hangs a tale."
Parson B— —learned from some source
that I'.'s object in leaving church was to
obtain a "dram." and he determined to
stop his leaving and disturbing the congre
gation if future, if such a thing was possi
ble.
The next Sabbath, Brother P. -left his
seat at the same time, and started for the
door, when Parson B--exclaimed •
"Brother P."
P., on being. addressed, stopped short,
and gazed towards the pulpit.
"Brother P. " continued the parson,
"there is no ne ed ot youtleaving church at
Pe
this time, .as I e‘t the tavern this morn
ing, I made, arrangements with the land
lord to keep your toddy hot until church
was out."
The surprise and mortifkation of the
brother can hardly be imagined.
In High Life.
(Irma Undi Dotson Tria Puna.)
runt delightful locality known as Math
am, C., W., the scene f numerous negro
disturbs", cos of late, and the object of much
unenviable notoriety abroad, has la i n dis
tinguished itself in its own paoaliar war.
It ,is well known that this place, which u
forty miles bons Detroit River, is overrun
with negroes to such an extant that they
have grown bold with numbers, and as
sumed authoritk which nothing but stren
uous measures can resist. The surround
ing country is virtually under their control,
as the township elects:ma prove, and their
efforts to obtain possession of the schools
a few weeks since, together with the riot
ous proceedings which resulted, are -well
known. The present occurrence, however,
is more peculiar in its nature, and, if a
Bible, more aggravating to the whites t
any that has yet been brought to light.
About two years since, the Exeter Hall
Atm:Anion Solaety, a British association,
whose principal business is meddling with
other people's affairs, and neglecting it
own, sent out here from England, amon
other missionaries, a young woman named
King, whose mistaken philanthropy bad
inducted her to devote herself to the thank
less tea of improving and reforming our
fugitive Africans. She is at this time nine
teen or twenty years of age, an intelligent
and refined lady, and possessed of an an
nuity of several hundred dollars a year.
accrimig from her property at home. Her
affisetionete interest in the negroes culmi
nateda day or two since in her marriage
to an old darkey preacher named Pinck
ney, near Chatham, an event which took
the community by surprise, and excited
the most intense disgust and indignation,
as -he was very well known and, from her
iNiueutlon cud attainments, much respect
ed. The motives which led her to disgrace
herself in this manner it is useless to spec
ulate upon. Experience has determined
that white women of all degrees can throw
themselves into the disgusting embnes 4 of
Any black scamp who invites them, and we
are nut sufficiently skilled in the law of
analogies to trace the connection by which
they are led. The logic must be finely
shaded that explains the fact.
The couple were married by an Episco
pal clergyman. and immediately took pos
session of their domicil. The shades of
night had hardly closed around them be
fore the house was assaulted by a gathering
of abf)ut one hundred white citizens. who
first smashed the windows, then kicked
the door in. and without ceremony pro
ceeded in a demonstration on the house
which threatened to demolish it oval the
heath of tbe bridal pair. No harm wasof
t. r.. 1 a.. thorn, but the efforts of the crowd
did not leithfi u !mil unmistakeable evidence
01 their disgust had been furnished, when
th.• asptring neiao and his super-elegant
piece it household furniture were inform
. t t:„ t tli.• operation would be repeated
ut ten us an expression of sentiment on
tlit. p.irt of th.• white citizens was needed.
Ile . , as well a- the rest of the negro popu
l-tipn,.i.-t.- co% eraived by the popular out
u • ',tug. and no resistance was of
tea w.is, perhaps, fortunate, as a
yerier,il row would have followed any SILICII
ntoi•cment.
The party wihy took the law into then
own hands in thiq case were respectable.
and responsible citizens, who were unable
to restrain their indignation at such out
rages upon decency. There was but one
expression of sentiment, and that was that
blackatuoor deserved hanging, and that
the wealthy, and refined and philanthro
pic leiiss King ought to be seat back to the
Exeter Hall Abolition Society as a fit sub
ject for the exercise of their reformatory
twaddle. The universal disgust, excited
by the occurrence is undisguised and the
female is branded as completely as though
the touch of her negro paramour had burnt
the mark of Cain on her forehead.
Sit.oui...se TIME FOR A MA Rai AGL.—A lov
ing coupli in Memphis, Tennessee, were
last week married antler the following sing
ular circumstances : They were taking a
carriage ride in one• of the principal streets
in that c,cy, when they chanced to meet a
Judge Bill who v. - as riding leisurely along
upon a favorite donkey. They at once ac
costed him and requested him to unite
them in ti: , holy bonds of wedlock. He
acceded to the proposition, and without
dismounting, performed the ceremony.
making the occupants of the vehicle one.
and having for witnesses the mule and two
or three persons who were passing at the
time.
"]JOWL RULAS TRL COURT."-A. jury in
Texas lately acquitted a man on the charge
of horse-stealing. although the crime was
clearly proven against him, simply because
he stole the horse to elope with his sweet
heart, who was present in court during the
trial, and waiting to marry him if acquit
ted. The jurors had probably all been in
love themselvcs, at one period or another
of their lives, and there was not perhaps
one of them but what would have done the
same thing, in their younger days. if they
couldn't have got their wives without.
121%.. At the Leeds Chamber of Commerce
recently, it was stated by the President
that a Frenchman had submitted to him a
piece of cloth seventy-two inches in width
which he affirmed he could produce at :it
per yard. The principle was the adoption
of a machine which wrapped a wollen
thread around a cotton thread, and this
produced a fabric looking like wollen, but
which could he produced at the price
named The machinery is to be tested.
esl)„,. A siti.zulAr lawsuit is going on in
London. a gentleman having sued a con
fectioner for putting too many portraits of
Mr. Spurn upon a supply of bonbons he
hail nr.l , .: L-41. The lids were to be orna
mented with wirtraite of celebrated living
personages. and the confectioner had put
five Spurgeon* in each dozen. The plain
tiff had no objection to a fair proportion of
Spurgeon in his sweetmeats, but he 110
five out ocevery twelve was more Spurgeon
than he dr his guests could stand.
Itifq. The Boston Bullets has the subjoin
%%uich reminds one of the Daniel and
blue-cotton umbrella story :
••What's that a pictur on?" said a coun
tr2, man, in our hearing the other day, in
print store. to the proprietor, who w,,*
turning over seine engravings.
- That., sir." said the dealer. "Joshua
e4 , tpinanding the Aun to stand still."
-Du tell Wall, which is Josh, an-1
whicKis his son?"
Serccuxs.—The Sew York
Tribune ',flys: The Hon. Abraham Lin
coln virited the Five Points of Industry on
Sunday, where he made a brief and affect
ing addres.: to the children. He left Ow,
city for ilia Weatern home on Month.)
morning." The Tribun, does not say how
much Mr. Lixcota charged for his speech
—as it w.i.s delivered to children, we sup
t rged 11. adted only "half price," say -
.l 01).
I=o
titgii. It is stated that a suite of 'wont)
noblemen and distinguished gentlemen
will iicconapany the Prince of Wales on In..
visit, to Canada this Spring. It is said fur.
then that His Royal Highness the Duke or
Cambridge, the Duke of Newcastle, and
liejor General Bruce, will be among the
notabilities on that occasion.
BS. The superintendent of Baptist, col.
portage in Virginia has instructed the book
agent of the Sunday school and publication
board(T. J. Starke, of itiehmond,) to send
back all the copies of Sptageon's serznon4
ordered for their eolporteurs and now on
hand.
"iiir," said a little girl to her
mother, do the men want 'to get married
as the woman do ?" "Pshaw l what are you
talking about?" "Why ma, the woman
who come here are always talking about
getting married, and the men don't do so."