Carlisle herald. (Carlisle, Pa.) 1845-1881, August 10, 1853, Image 1

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E- -Proprietor-.
Zar6l - 7.
DR. I. C. LOOIVUS,
WILL perform an
operations upon the
Teeth that aro requi
red for theirpresurvation, such as Scaling,Filing.
Plugging, &c, or will restore the loss of them,
b y inserting Astificial Teeth, from a single tooth
to a fall sett. fcr Office on Pitt street, a few
d tors soother the Railroad Hetet. Dr. L. is oh
ent from Carlisle the last ton days of ()vet v
month.
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3Dr. GEORGE' Z. BRETZ:
WILL perform all
liwyr . W operations upon the
teeth that may be re—
required for their'preseritation. Artificial teeth
inserted, from a single tooth to nnentiro set, of
the mist scientific, princiPles. Diseases of the
mouth and irregularities carefully treated. Of
lice at the residence of his brother, on North
Pitt Street, Carlisle
DR. S. B. ilsErrmit,
Ort s FICE in North Hanover street adjoining
Mr.• Wolf's more. Office hourhiMiore par
ticularly from 7to 9 o'clock, A, M., and from
to 7 o'clock. P.M. flunelB's.
Dr..7OPCN S. SPRIGGS,
OFFERS his professional' services to the
people of Dickinson township, and vicinity.-
Residence—on the Wain& Bottom Road, one
mile east of Centrevi lle. , fob 213,0
COLE,
1, TT ORN EY AT LAW, attend
promptly to all business entrusted to him.
Odic:6 in the room formerly occupied by Wil
lie n Irvine, Esfli., North Hanover St, Carlisle.
April 20, 185:3. . .
GI3OB.GE MGM,
jusTlcE OF THE PEACE. OF
FICE at his residence, cornet of Main street
and-the Public Square, opposite Burkholder's
Hotel. In addition to the dillies of Justice of
he Peace, will attend to all ki,trdli of writing,
such ai deeds, bands, mortgagts,) indentures,
articles or agreement, notes, &c.
Carlisle, an 8'42.
BR. C. S. 3311.1 KER
'l3 ESf','ECTFIXLY oiTers hie professional
it services to the citizens of Carlisle and sur •
rounding country.
OlS'e and residence in South Hanover street,
directly opposite to the " Volunteer Office."
Carlisle, Apl 20, 1853
Fresh Drugs, Me dielnest &c. &c
I have just received from Philndel•
phia and New York very extensive
VA additions to my former stock, embra
k..ii clog nearly every article of Medicine
"`=---- now in use, toga; oer with Points,
Oils, Varnishes, Turpentine, Perfumery, Soaps,
Stationery, Fine Cutlery,,Fishing • Tackle,—
Bruhes of almost every escription, with
ondelss variety of other-articles, which I am de..
tormined to sell at the VERY LOWEVI prices.
, All Physiciaim, Country Merchants; Pedlars
and others, are respectfullyiequested not to pass
the OLD STAND, es they may rest assured
that every article will be sold of a good quality,
and upon reasonable terms.
S. ELLIOTT,
Main Btrech.
May 30
F. N. RO.SENSTEEL,
o usE, Sign,' Fancy and Ornamental
Paintor,lrvin's (formerly Harper's) !tow,
next door to Trout's Hat Store. lie will at•
tend promptly 'to all the above descriptions of
painting, at reasonable prices. The various
kin 14 or graining attended to, such as mahog
any, oalc, walnut, &c., in the improved styles.
Owlish!, July 14, 1852-Iy.
CHURCH, LEE AND RINGLAND.
C51"4 212 Era Fr a-z.uasizir
AND
sTr.AIVI -SAW =ILL
EW CUMBERLAND. PA. •
_ .
TR./11J1.SPORTATIOX
THE undersigned aro now prepared tofreight
merchandian from Philaclol
phia and Baltimore, at re•
duced rates, with regalarity
and despatch.
iDEPOTS. •
Buzby & Co., 345 Market Street, Phila.
Geo:.la Small, "Small's Depot," 72 North
Steel, Baltimore.
an2l WOOD WARD & SCHAIIDT.
JOHN W• BELL, BENJ. DARBY
.TOECN 11112ag. & CO.,
2--qu
GENERAL COMMISSIONS MERCHANTS,
HOWARD STREET, •
Oppoitte Centre,
13r ,BALTIMORE.
TRANSPORTA ir,l ON.
VIE undersigned are now prepared to freight
540.1, merchandize from
41a , Philadelphia; and
"Rai' Baltimore, at, re.
d aced rates, with regularity end despatch._ .
;DBPOTS.
Freed, Ward & Freetl, 315 Maihot Street,
Philadelphia
A. 11. Barnitz, 9G Wirth Street, Baltimore.
Michael Herr, North Stroot,•Baltimore.
sep226m • • J. & D. RHOADS.
10,000 PIECES!
just opened the largest assortment
I of %VALL PAPERS - ever opened in Car•
lisle, consisting of about 0,000 pieces of the
latest French and American designs, ranging
In price froin.s ets to f,t 75, also Window Pa•
pars and Fire Screens, Plain Green and Blue
Papera, Sac, Persons wishing to purchase any
of the above can save at least 25 per cent by
calling at JOHN P. LYNE'S
Hardware Store, West Side of North Hanover
Street, Carlisle.
Carlisle "Female Seminary.
mirISSES PAINE will commence the
SOMMER SESSION of their Seminary
on the second Monday in April; in a new and
commodious 'school room, next door to Mr.
Leonard's, North HauMier street.
Instruction in the languages an, 'roving, no
extrtreharge.
Music taught by an experienced teacher at
an extra laliarge. teept3t()
VrititiZa:Da
Wholesale and Ratan. Druggist, Carlisle.
linfAS just received a largai and well selected
IA stuck of American, French-and English
Chemicals, Drugs Medicines, Paints, 04,
llyeStutra, &C. 4 At this store Physicians can
rely on having their. prescriptions carefully
emopounded.
STORE FOR SALE. •
THI suBSCRIB'EIt ! Wishing to remove
wort to engage Mother. pursuits, offers at nri
vote sale, on reasnnable terve his STOCK;OF
GOODS,' embracing the usual' variety lccin! in
a country Store,'
Any person wishing' to en g age In . the Pifer
canal° beisiness would'e wellto embrace this
opportunity, as.the stock Will, compare favors
bly with any stock of goods in' the 'county, and
the lOcation for' business is one. of the beet in
the county, being attested in the healthy, and
romantic village; of Springfield, end in the
midst of a fertile land produotitfe fleighbOrllooo.
For partiCulars ttddresathextideraigned at Big
Spring P.. 01
JOHN. HOOD.
July 27; 11353.- tf.
TIME ARE TWO TBINOS,' , &MB LORD BACON, WHICH zur‘i A NATiON dREAT AND PROSPEROI.IB,--A BOLL :AND BUSY weEKEHops t _LTO WHICH LET ME ADD ICNOWLVDGE AND PREEDO,3I.-- - iisho, Halt
Stott:J.& S1)op.
NOTICE{
/SHE heretofore e'xistitig firm of M. &
L. Steiner, has been dissolved for a Elliott
Time and have again united under the firm of
Steiner & Bros. S h Garnet' of Market Square.
Hoping under the increased firm of Steiner
Bros. to have on increase of their former
business. They have now - every facility one
will snare no efforts to please then customers
they having made arrangements with the lor•
gest importing houses of Baltimore and No . w
York so as to receive the first styles of Goods
that come to those markets, and at the LOW
EST PRICES!
Thankful for plat patronage they solicit a
continuance from their old customers, end
respectfully invite all, others to exanine their
new style of superior _
SPRING & SUDIDIER GLQTRING,
all of • their manufacture, and making as corn,
plate an assortment as can be found in any
store in the United States• As follows:
DRESS 1. FROCK COATS,
of the best qualities et Eneish and Frene fi
Cloths, made and trimmed in the very best
style; single , breasted Albert Coats, a new
style, well adapted to business men, of French
black and colored cloths, at very ilow prices ;
single breasted Frock coats of French cloths.
close imitation of the fine dress frock coats at
half price; spring Sack Coats of cloth, case'.
-mores and tweeds, various colours and prices.
PANTALOONS, .
French Black Doeskin and Fancy Caseimors
of ervery description. •
. VESTS! VESTS! ! VESTS!! !
Rich Fancy Silks and Satins, Black do, Bom
bazines, Valencias, Marseilles, and Chanice,
at all prices.
11.01" S CLOTHING,
A lull assortment of Boy's Clothing.
FANCY DRESS ARTICLES,
emliracing all the new styles of Fanet
Grams, English Satin do, sec.
Gloves—White,, black and col'il 1.11,
Lisle and cotton of every'description. no,
and Carpet Bogs of impeller finish an ! 1,,w
prices. Suspenders of. superior I' re it h,Ln•
glish and American *manufacture, Uni,el •
shirts and Dro•Wers of fine Merino, net
jean and, muslin, of eyery description. I. ~ n
broth - is of silk and cotton. very cheap. All of
which will he sold at the lowest prices whole•
sale or retail.
Remember the Stone House, corner of
the Public Square. = STEINER & BROS.
Carlisle, May 18, 1853.
. BARGAINS! BARGAINS!!
At OGILRY 2 9 Wholesale, and Retail
EMPORIUM.
X. AM now renewing my second supply of
Summer Goods, and will sell thorn °lichen,-
er than any other house in the county. It is
impossible to enumerate—auks it to 1E13 , 01m:
our stock of Dry. Goods is immense ; - embra
cing every article in the line, and at prices
astohishinglrlow. •
Tho ladies patticularlyrtre invited to call and
a, amine dur new -stock of- elegant DRESS ,
GOODS—Crape Shawib, Bonnets, -Ribbons,
Needle Work, &c. - &c
Our assortment of Gentlemen's Weal' ie full
and complete; consisting of
Cloths. Cassimeres, Cashmarets, Vesiings, '
Cotrodnades, &c. &c.
CAR PETINGS Sr. MATTIN GS.
A fullAsservnent et Imperial, Ingrain, Cotton
and Wenitian Cnrpetinge.
mattin g . of every finality and width.
Also a new and large assortment of Ladies'
And Children's 3atters, Jenny Lind and Bus
kin Shoes at very ow prices.
Recollect the .' old stand." East Main street.
June I, 1853. CIIAS. OGILBY.
CANT. BE BEAT!
Second Arrival of Summer Dry-Goods.
THE subscriber respeepully informs hi
friends and numerous customers. that he has
returned from I=biladelphta with a large assort.
meet or Summer Goode, which will be sold at
astonishirigly low prices
Cloths, Cassimeres; Vcisting,s. Muslims,
Calicoes, Gingham's, Bonnets, and flats,
Ribbons, Glo;es, Summer Cloths, Lawns,
Mitts, Pant Stnifs,
Handkerchiefs,
Ciilltirs, Edgings, Handkerchiefs, Laces,
Stockings, Summer 'Silks Parasols, &c.
BOOTS AND SHOES.
A largo assortment of Men's IVomen's and
Children's Boots and Shoes, Jenny Lind an]
Buskin Shoes at very low prices.
Colored and White CARPET CHAIN,
A large assortment of GROCERIES, such
as Sugar, Coffee, 'Molasses, Rico, Teas, lice'.
'Plitt attention of all who wish good eargaina
is solicited, as great inducements can be offered
to purchasers.
Don't forget the old stand, Humerich's cor-,
nor, North Hanover Street,
ifnrEutter, Eggs, Rags and Soap taken at
market prices. .1.4, W. WOODS. A gt.
Carlisle, June 9, 1853.
CULPS,PATENT PORTABLE
CIDER EMILIA • AND PRESS,
rri It E undersigned having purchased the
right
.of Franklin and Cumberland coun
ties, Pa., and Washington county
,Ald. for
CULP'S PATENT PORTABLE CIDER
MILL AND PRESS are new manufacturing
machines under the immediate supervision el
Henry Shepler, a practical millwright. Orders
will be received and filled with promptness.—
All machines will be warranted.
By this machine, which can be conveyed on
a wheelbarrow ; one man • and a boy can make
from five to tight l barrels cf cider a day,willi
ease, and the cider is thoroughly pressed from
the pomace. The labor is light and the ma
chines aro simple and permanent.
This machine was exhibited at the State
Agricultural Fair, id Lancaster, and tested with
several others, and the ccimmittee awarded the
premium to it, The machines are warranted
to perform wilat is herein stated. Orders ani
respect fullwiolicited.
N. B.—The prose cMinected with the ma
chine can be used for pr'easing currants, and
cutting vegetables for leading stock.
JACOB HOICFI.
HENRY SIMPLER,
May 11r1.953..6m Chamberaburg
Beaoherio Dlatohleos Cordial.
THIS medicine' has never known to fail In
curing Cholera Morbus, in, from 10 to 15
minutes. ' Cholera Infantum, or summer corn•
plaints of children, Dysentery, Diarrhea, &c,
in from le to 24 hours. It is certain and safe
under all circumstances, having been fairly
tested in upwards [of four hundred cases with•
out a single failure. Lot every family provide
itself with at least one bottle of this invaluable
remedy, Try it, and it will recommend itvell
It Is prepared upon purely scientific principles,
and cannot be Justly termed-a quack medicine,
unless science be quackery. For vale by
8.,J• KIEFFER, Drugglst,
qmith Hanover Street,
A few doors south of the Court (louse
June 32, 1833. Carlisle.
-" W4NTLD.
•BY a youn g , ' ' married man, a situation as
Principal. er assistant tetfcher in a clasical
'Academy_ or , Fieminery. - THe — lias had' bevoral
'years experience in'tenching;_and has ? for Prime
time, been connected with a flourishing Aced
emy in spiral Pcmisylitinia. Ho will pimince
unexceptionable references and testininiiiiils,
boils nisiortheloss. cry willing to lie strictly
'examined as to his qualifications: 'A slated
salary would be prefeted to anincomo 'subject
to contingencies; even though - it be, lose titan
might otherwise be received.. He, Would 'very,
mita prefer going west, but tiny
,nommuuKation
which may be received will meet. with due
attention. Addrcseimmedistely„
• ':" ACADEMICS." •
Cum'd. Co, Pa:
'Woodward 1r &lan'
PRODUCE DEALERS; COMMISSION &
• YOR,CVARDING MERCHANTS,
novISS CARLISLE.
- PA.; wiprolipT9 - 4y, - Atr6uiT 10,- 1853.
portni.
From tha Muslcnl %Writ] and Mors
WOULD YOUI
DV A LefICD w•rto
.
ilaby evolving on your knee;
While you sing some little dilly,
Pulls your_hajr or thumbs your" ee,"
tyould you think it wasn't pretty,
Toll me, could you?
If you owned "the baby," would you?
Wire, with arms ohm your neck,
Boys you look-just Ilko the hohy ;
-Wants soma cash to muke a " spec;" '
Ankyou would refuse her—may bee—
Could you I should you "V
11 you owned "the woman," would you I
1¢ labor, little girlie,
Little care and lute cot ;
Would you nigh for single life I
Would you murmur nt your lot 1
• fell toe, rhould you 1
If you owned • "lhe collage," would you";
Health and comfort, children fair,
%Vile to meet you at the door,
Fond hearts throbbing, for you there;
Tell me, would you ask for mire 1
Should youl cou'd you?
If you owned 4. the ready," would you l
From the Knhhrrhockor
TILE ROMP) I'D Lniin
‘ , lNlkindw'-iike-to.itove a cot --
Fined on setae sunny slope, a suet
Five acres, 1110 M or lee=,
With motiteo cedars, cherry tree•,
and poplars whitening in the breeze.
, "Twould suit toy taste I gue3s,
To have the porch with vines o'erhung,
With helle . of pengant vvoutiblua swung,
In every bell a bee,
And round toy lattice window spread
A clump of roses, while and red.
To solace mine and me,
I kind'O'ill ink 'I should
TO hoer around the lawns n choir
Of wood-hints singing sweet
And Ina dell I'd have a brook,
Where I miglit set and read my book.
Snch should he my retreat, •
Far from the city's crowdsmnd
There would I rear She girls and boys,
(I have some Iwo or flirted
And ((hind Heaven should bliss my store
With five or six or seven more,
- Yldiv happy 1 shouldim L't
Sara di*
From Cliambkra , Jouriml
GIIIIRDED SECRETS.
WHAT 'woman is there that confesses not td.
the possession of a guarded secret? School
girls have their cherished mysteries; but these
pass froni mouth to mouth, till, like the witch
es at"seventh hand," all their' magic dies
out. It is not of such wo would speak, but
of that sterner and more stubborn secret
which,is the life in life, which occupies the
soul's inner and most secret chamber, and is
the heartitt holy of holies ;.a joy, or a dread,
or a pang—most commonly the last—through
life; a thing that weaves itself, with more or
less intensity, into every act of our 'daily
struggle on earth; is with us when we rise to
a new sun, and lies down with us in the dark
ness; our accompanying shadow, go whore
we may, and do what we will; that mocks us
when wo smile, counterfeits all our:agonies;
and to lose which would be something like
that loss of soul pictured in the well known
German legend.. That the constant presence
of our secret within us and around us has its
meaning for good, who shall doubt? Our
human woes would not be allotted to us—ny,
oven as our daily bread—were they not ne
cossarylo .the
. nourishment of a higher life
than that which perplexes us bore. Our
wandering spirits, over lost and restless, must,
like the fabled children in the wood, gather
their food from off the thorns. There is, in
truth, no teaching lido the teaching of a greta
and master sorrow.
There are few places filled with more start
ling materials for tberomancist than the much
neglected secret' (Waiver. Secret passages,
hidden vaults, tapestry veiled doors,
.traps
lending downwards through the floor, and es
capes opening upward through Alm skylight,
we have in abundance; but the narrow and
apparently insignificant receptacle that holds
within it, unseen by vulgnekres, the hoarded
secret of a heart and of a lifetimo—nay, per
haps more=the darkening presence of a
household, the "skeleton behind the door,"
seems altogether to have escaped the vigilant
research of the curious. Relics—some saint
ed, some profane enough—hung visibly about
our very doors. We are all familiar with
relics of various kinds, from the sentimental
lover's hair filled locket down to the religiously
guarded " heart of Montrose." , Some people
aro essentially relic lovers, and will make far
off pilgrimages for' the bare sight of an iron .
belt or a knotted cord vouched for as the (mi
tigatory badge of some mouldered monk, and
feel a strange gratification in being permitted
toliss the duet from the worn stones trodden
by the feet of those nvhose once unhonored
grave centuries have sine() hallowed into
something akin to the divine. From the mys
tic to the real hi ti wide bound, and few oaro
to take, the' leap. But, leaving to the star
gazer his more dazzling horizon, let us gather
round us for a brief space the lowlier interests
of humanity ; lot us look with .reverent eyed
into the secret drawer.
Itligrandmother had an old fashioned cab
inet, portioned out, itsirns the method of con
structing sucli , ootnruotlitics in. her day, into
sundry small shelves, drawers, and odd covered
boat; The centre compartment of this same
old chest opened like a door, having look - and
key, and within was a long slidieg, drawer,
,occupying the entire
: depth of the cabinet.
That this drawer something vary precious
was , Marini,- all her children knew. None,
however, dared .'to pry into_ their Mother's
guarded secret. ,Ilor husband, it was
. moro•
than suspected, could have thrown sot light
ort,the matter;,but,he was never known , to do
eo, and silence rested upon the, unknown oe
cupout of , the drawer the. mystery remained
a mystery uP to the day of trig good grand
mother's death. But when the cold,herld eriai
/ %
'no niore unlook n, cabinet than it 'Oen unlock
the'cfoor through which the *crca; conscious
life.has passed; and when the palsied foot,
'lying stark. in its ditsti dwelling, 'so more
mounts the: stair 'to gni:tided treasure
beim of all , that was once so ilearthen
comes the revealer; comes, 'perhaps, in 'tlio
forth — of a piling sick nurse, one of thoie
death' watches at the sight.nf *71100 ' 3 the livih
quake. Or it may be that hands more tender
deal in greater reverence with the departed
spirit's oast off apparel, hoisting timed for
the sleeper's sake those forsaken relics wept
and prayed over by the waking eyes that are
never more to weep and pray - on this earth
-In the present ease, it was so. - :The con
tents of the secret drawer - wore committed to,
the flames, in aceprdanse - witOte expressed
Wish. of the dying. But- some tow or other
the secret oozed out. It .would• appear that,
like most other grandmothers, mine had early
in life bad a love affair—as that deepest strik
ing.ef all woman's experiences is somewhat
irreverently termed. It was the did story:
the Man she loved went abroad without having
spoken just that one 'word for which her soul
thirsted, and which, nevertheless, bad found
a thousand other utterances . scarcely to be
mistaken. For years there was a dreary
silence between the two. Then came my
grandfather, with his °moat courtship. Un
der the feeling that elie_4tas--not-justifiedLin
cherishing a predilectioii so !apparently num
'ended to by-the earliest object of bar affec
tion, she yielded, afterri prolonged struggle,
to my grandfffther's suit. .No sooner, howev
er, was she formally engaged to him, than
there came a letter in the. old,unforgetten
handwriting! 0, you who have ever listened
with beating hearts for the:postmen's knock,
fully prepared for all it might bring, think for
ono moment how the corning of this letter,
long even unhoped for, And now too late,
knocked at the heart of her who received it!
Now, my grandmother had a conscience, and
a more than commonly tender one. Her first
Impulse, of course, wns.to tear open the-let
ter; but a - secoud thought stayed her band.
She bad long ngliinode this fact of this early
attachment known to my grandfather. Whet
she now did, then, was at.onee to tell.him she
had repeived such n le.tter",i and that, as his
affianced- W ith,qabe could-net- and-would - not
read it. Was she fantastiOn her notions of
right and wrong? I slo :rnit,!.believelto ; do
not think she could have dense better or a
wiser thing. ,Out eif . ,..hnt , ,-tiot,.ne!rosufferlng
could possibly fall upon tliolnan to wheel' 'silo
was Tiltlifged, - and wlfase happiness was hence
forth in her keeping, "thot# . triteli of Paln
bore heavily 'upon her. That - t - liffer, trlth its
unbroken - seal, lay, ell her life, shut up in the
old musty cabinet, where Irritood revealed at
last. That, acting up to the truest .spirit of
her intention, she fought long arid victoriously
against the desire to faffront what those hidden
characters contained—whether or not they
bore that assurance of love which once would
.have been joy unutterable=we are bound to
believe. Upon ono solitary occasion alone
was she ever seen to wrestle with her tempta
tion. After a meek endurance of one of my
grandfather's fits of-passion—for ho had a
stormy temper—she was found seated, weep
ing bitterly, before the Open door of that
guarded chest wherein lay the unbroken seal.
- Solemn as ouch subjects mast b - c and are,
there is a blessed comfort in the thought of
them. It is a gracious thing to feel that there
is something, be it what it may, of real truth
—of lasting good, something which neither
time, nor trial - , nor the common wear and tear
'of actual, dull, every day life can crush out
of a mon. But, soft! let me pause.. I said
that nothing can crush out of a man. Do
men - know anything of 'Bitch 'relic's as I speak
of? I am ignorant; I cannot say; but I
should fancy they do not. The steady, un
faltering devotion of a Ipng life to one thought
and ono remembrance I own I never folind,
save in woman
I myself confess to a few hoarded relics—
Heaven o lorbie that any woman should' be
without them! But these are yet under the
sear, that lies so heavily on all living lips.
Some day, perhaps—but we,_none of us, like
to think of that,-strange hands may overhaul
them. Pity it is. that so few of us have
strength ortioul enough, or, it may be, ward ;
ing time enough,, ere the great Itevealer steals
upon us, to enable us to put beyond the reach
of_ancrilegious eyes our most darling secrets!
0, could we but summon the nerve to place
them with our own moving.fingers upon some
funeral pyre!' Could we hut watch them
slowly consuming! But no; wo cannot do
this. While we hnve life, they 'are ours. It
would seem like bidding an eternal farewell
'to our proteedug genius, to put away the
guardian spectres of lost hopes, dead loveS,
and mystic meniorins. No!
.Let us treasure
them while we yet walk among the-living.
But, 0, may some kind and pitying hand,.
when we lie silenced, burithem With us, en
profaned by a single look.!
• A singular instance . ofthis silent treasuring
up of one aolitery thought, and in the breast
of a child, fell under my knowledge not long
ago, while staying by the sea side, at the
hods° of come old friends, were at the
same time visited by a 'little girl of about
aeven years of age, who had poen sounded to
their'oare, in order that she might have the
benefit' of the sett'hathing, recommended for
some weaknoss,of.tho spine, under which the
child, suffered. , She• was the loveliest little
creature- i-orer.,b,Cheld. 7 quiet and shy, too,
though least, so With me, for whom she at one
took a Strong OUr hostess, who every
night made
~a Point of seeing her Yonug charge
put comfortably ;bed,:alwayit yountitted iu
tho room until theehild,h4d said her prayers.
Mien- her ordinary devotions t riad boon goee
throndb aloud,, - the child-invariably; bent down
her. head,upon the, bed,ist the side ;of - which
she knelt, and offered up sense prayer silently
within herself; What this prayerwed, nothing_
could induce her to roveal.,„,. Her parents were
questioned'about it; but • though perfectly
aware.tat the fact, they,were,,priablt3 _to solve
the question.' 'lt, mai of course a thing.alte
gother too sacrilff to bo Intruded 'on, by-cany
forceful appeal, and all parties, remained: in
their ignorance, I own that when first I was
told of it, .tho "secret appeared to me to'be of
-Al:rii'll,ititt6 ,- , I,*ll::iiTise - - { rnit' . : Oineriil'.
.sifi)rinttiio,.:
to,stronge aucl unearthly :a chnrpapr,4fiat - I
trembled ns one who suddenly stands fraied
by a 'spirit, It seemed like a silent commu
ning with angels. Feeling very anxious to
witness with my own eyes what interested me
so deeply in the telling, I ono night, with my
little friend'seonsent, accompanied her to her
room, As usual, the prayers weTerepeated
aloud, and then followed the silent Offering up
'of that pure young heart:.• Sc, holy - was - the
hour, that I held my breath for very reverence,
the tears , springing to my eyes with sudden
,emotion. Surely angelic hosts hovered above
that small hplied down head, on whose golden
logs a halo seemed to rest! Whatever was,
that silent; guarcled,-and mysterious prayer—
and sometimes it struck me that it might pos
sibly have relation to either a dread of dying,
:or to l'or anticipations drier near heaven, as
she was at the time out of health—whatever
that prayer might be, that it was a beautiful
and a pure one, I em sure—the purest- and
the best, perhaps, in anho loag catalogue of
guarded secrets.
One secret, which in every ago has been
most Carefully end religiously guarded—guard
ed in terror and disimay, through inconceiva
ble wrong end suffering, through life and up
to the grave's brink, not perhaps even then to
be rendered up to • those ; who dtnivl around
scattering their last tears with the " dust to
cluse"L-is the secret of birth. Inst.:moos of
the kind alluded to aro so numerous end so
startling, that it would be difficult to invent
any story surpassing in interest the already
written and attested records of that most
thingerous secret. There are few familia
who cannot recount, from the oral- traditions
of their house, some legend tanning -on the
subject—strange glimpses of some half de
veloped tragedy, if not so terrible as that of
tl.e "Family of Montorio," yet sufficiently
suggestive to the dreami of their bear
ers for nights to come. Such tales I remem
ber to baie heard in - Scotland. _Dee, in poi..
tiouler, struck me as moot singular, becauie,
though generations have been born, and .have
I :Passed out of being since the occurrence nar
rated took place,'no clue was ever ,found to
the secret so, cautiously and mysteriously
guarded. The 'following is. an outline of the
tradition:
A couple coming whence no man knew, an.
rived one sharp-Winter niglit,-amid - the' smoke
of Edinburgh.... The wire was. younger than
het...husband by - sotna yeari, and, possibly from
;the fact of this disparity or, age, looked tip to
'Mtn' with tt..rceling- , el
. ruyerentral devedien, be..
lontirift: r ather. p,..n
It ras'i;tre,A;.:l,4,44", Wo'ligef•kiiith;
tbiit sh, had ; yeen _ do letT
_life, laid down for her Self a laW - of niore - sitriot
and unquestioning .obedience than is usually
(.practised-by even the hest of wives. :The
suit Of this blind submiSsion, as will be : Seen,
must have horn hard upon:a pure heart add
'tender conscience, suck r hers were repro
sented to have been, though, not perhaps until
• added years had brought home the
rightly understood by few, that no mortal,
even though be be' a husband, has a right over
any other human soul, authorizing him to rule
its obedience contrary to God's higher law.
The married pair, would seem had been
United for some years , yet no offspring had
been granted to their prayers. It was now
that, whilelivingiu the utmost retire.ment,.in
an obscure street, the husband huroduced to
his wife an old •Scotch nurse, bearing in her
: arms a new born child. This child, said by
him to be the posthumms son of a _dear friend,
recently deceased, lie represented it was his
interest to adopt, and produce to the world as
his own. To insure his wife's aid in the pro.
ject, ho carefutlly concealed from her whatever
deep-laid schemes were working in his own
mind—made vary light of the affair—asserted
that it was but to servo a temporary , purpose,
and that, the object in .furtherance of which
this singular deception was to bo carried on
once attained, the whole thing shotild then be
revealed'.
A quick instinct of wrong, in the mind of
the ry oung wife, made her tit first hesitate;
but the:recollection of that strict abnegation
of her own will to which she bad vowed her
self nt last prevailed over her scruples, and the
pleading looks of the helpless little orphan,
lying safe and warm within her arms, molting
her soul. she took the forlorn babe to her bo-,
corn, and bestowed upon, itheartily amother's
care. The child. proved sickly, a weary bur
then to any but a real . mother': yet its foster
parent; though young and unused to such a'
charge, never for a moment shrunk from .the
'responsibility she had incurred. The conse
pience naturally was, that the boy learned , to
love bar strongly and entirely. But towards
his reputed father be at all times evinced a
a most strange and unaccountable aversion,
amounting to an instinetive,horror and shrink
ing from his pretence. When the child had
grown to be about a year old, Mr A—g, the
gentleman In question, his plans now appar
ently matured; resolved at once to introduce
his protege to .his fainily, as.hie own legitim
ately born. son and heir. Mr. A—g was 'a
descendent of ona of the old border families,
renowned inhiiitory for many a raid and many
a foray across the English frontier, and, judg
lug from hie deeds, the unscrupulous character
and adventurous spirit of the early , freebooter
would seem ,to have been. transmitted down
through many generations, little, modified by
the march of centuries. And now came the
poor wife's trial. • In her. husband's home, and
under the ,eyes of his kindred and household,
she was soon doomed to feel bitterly how a
single . deceplion inevitably loads
. to numerous
others, and how one fdlsehood entails' the
. . ,
, necessity of a thousand morz . te follow in its
wake.inethcr in ;seeming yet n o fi '
mother
In truth, her entire, ignoronee,Oonderaing oil
that related to the'hirt)ii of lierlniDpesed child
became-a. subject of ridleiiieWitli-tlie &Maki
members of the feMity,:: , Seiner or iaier''be-'
trayal seemed latvite*.,,, t , Win tidi
the worst, was, to. etitne;..,Zi&neerini*,,44 - the
impontureheen 'Crirrietl,Owt"Secetnisfellyi than,
the young, Wtfe '
found h'Otilf. ' !!!?'fi l ,9:P 9i( l o °
ther Herevias'
Riven,el3,,t4. hirtfirtghof her own
blind In favor of a:Art:ingot . 1. 111 1 *onfinn that
the - fact of tbe imposition 'of the adopted child
:teuld . bo . proved, but.., ,what 'humiliati'on trust
Isocompany snob a aoilfession—mbit a
.
vvenringlissuct - Of law Picaeedings might no
be entailed by the admission I TO then:larded
pair, years of torturing anxiety and , etrange
discord followed, Heart burning!' of many
kinds unavoidably arose out of, a state 01,
things So unnatural. The real MI became, a
spoondary consideration In the household, the
very servants seeking favor with tho presumed
heir, and looking down on the tt iounger bro
ther."
All this time the mystery was still main
tained. Whence the -adopted bad come. and
to whom he belohged of right, wee throughout
kept a guarded 'secretfrom the Wife—her hus
band's solitary admission to her being to the
effect, that the hoy'it mother was a Indy of no-'
ble birth i of the -father. be never. spoke.'
Meanwhile; Mr.' A-g made itiquent'and'
sodden journeys from bomo,'no iliifilcnifer'7l2ll
- or for what: purpose, alwaykileinritingalt •
unexpectedly as he had depariaif . ." After these'
absences be was observed to be eootny, nay t '
almost fierce in his temper; his irritalion shrkw-' -
log itself especipily towards the'child . of his'
ad •ption, between whom and hiniself et•tnottal!
antipathy appeared to exist, and to increase
with the boy's years. What mlghtlave been
the issue' in after years; it is needless to sur
mise: The Gordian-knot of all-this -evil was
suddenly and unaccountably out by that un-.
seen band, which has undone many another
coil of mischief in the world. One day the
adopted obild wee found drowned in the Tyne,
which rolled its waters through Mr. : A—g's
estate. There was a hurried and unsatisfao
tory inquest held on the body and..all was
done.,_. Through one breast—that of the wife
—a secret shudder ran. A sickness as of
death fell upon the heart of her Wbo alone
knew what bidden temptation might.have lain_
in wait, like the wierd sisters of Macbeth,
urging on the man with whom her fate was•
bound up to the commission of "a deed with
out a Immo." From that hour a blight fell
over the fated hotise., The very rooks (so my
informant told me) disappeared from their
customary haunts. Mysterious sights and
sounds visited at eyrie hours the old border.
mansion. Ne,y, report even went So far as to
say, that the ithentom of a - ghastly child rose:
Up, from time to time, before the oyes of Mr.
A—g's descendents, es if the sour of the de ,
parted refused to rest until, the secret of its
birth,:or_perhaps of its ,dreatl3s--was-revealed.
But to this day:1111 is• enveloped in mystery. ,
It is true JIM! the barelact of the imposition
of such h-childit, plane of:a - real heir; iii course':
of lime, and .after ' the death of
gpt.rentoreitahroattl. bet the aotualptirentant
hf71 . 601114ti1d? . 141516 itiptistdre
ataeiii#teaakehigue,or'.t4ae gear4tkeepietaj
which, the grave rettieeeto render up. • -
Rligctitanntig.
TILE SOCIETY OF LADIES.
The following portizOnt remarks occur at
the closo of au iirticlb on the dangers of "Col
lege Life;" from the pen of a New York cler
gyman, which appeared in tho Now York
nmes : •
The society of ladles hue done much forms
all my life !Ong; and it was the salutary, sof
tening influence of such associations, that with
God's -blessing, restrained one from many nu'
excess into which I might otherwisehave been
led while receiving my education. It is a bad
sign when a young man has no relish for such
company. Whatever be a man's station in
life, whether high or low, ptiblic or private, he
will become a better man, and escape many a
disaster, if he will listen in duo season to the
voice of the intelligent and the refined among
the other •ox, Not only do they generally
excel us in their nice
,perception of the pro
prieties of life, and in their tender sense of
duty to both God and man, but they are equally
before us in their instinctive facility of fore
seeing evil befOre it is upon us, and of wisely
discerning the character and motives of men.
It was not all a dream which made the, wife
of Julius User so anxious that ho should not
go to the Senate Chamber on the fatal Ides of
March ; and, had ho complied with her en
treaties, he might have escaped the dagger of
Brutus.. ,. Disaster followed disaster in the ca
reer of Napole . on, froni the time that he ceased
to feel the.balatMewheel_ofJesephine'e:intiu=
coon on his iiniiiituous spirit. Our own Wash
ington, when important questions were sub.
mitted to him, often has said that he should
like to carry the 'subject to his bedchamber
before he had formed his decision; and those
who knew the clear judgment and elevated
purposes of Mrs. Washington, thought all the
better for•wishing to make her,a °pa
dentialcounsollor.,lngeed, he great majority
of men who_ have acquired for' themselves a
good and great nerve,,-were not only ruarrie . sl
men, but happily married—" both paired and
matched." '
:A.BRAUTIFUL COPLIMENT.—SteeIe paid the
finest compliment to a woman that perhaps
was over offered. Of one woman, whom_Con
grove had also admired and celebrated, he sayes ,
that, " to have loved hirmas a liberal educa
tion.: " Ilew often," 'says, dedicating a
volime to his wife, "has your tenderness re-
moved pain from my sick head—how often,
s4uish from my Afflicted heart. If there aro
suph things as gnardlin angels are thus
einployoci., I minuet believe ono of 0?0,1t°
bp more good ip inclination, or more c4TriFing
In form than MY wife." flisbionstioami to
warm and his eyes to • kindle , when , heprota,
with a aood...itrict beautiful, Woman, 414 it is
heart, es Well as with his hat that ho
Solutes her. .T'fisrikeroY. •
ittinnia.T.Uran.7-The Selenqe
,siiii,'lfiar`„tifis article, is the :forta''oe,
04tentee ,
in. ;i i t
.tpl u d' for 'malfitio n'rll6olol;teetb;•gbine'
sa`4oitatim:'',Tt.,aade": The adlieSion.iii
plate; it esti bo moulded tcf r perfection tfretili
every: inequality of the guinfi'and teetti,'and
lioreiatum; 4erie; to
the When they`,boMiniC p`altiful tiffc
wasting away of Fun]; Added toAllifSe is the -
elastitilty of the : material; whichviiiwietely'
• .
obviatia the inedevenlences th'at ;Oise' frier.
any motion with artificial teeth
other means.
.;•
VOLUME Llll. NO 47
SCIENCE FOR EVERYDAY LIFE _
•
A Variety of interesting at a important 'OA'
pers were road
-before the 'Americana BoientiAo
Association, dining its late.session at Clive
land.
land. W'm IL Thomas, Esq., of Cineinnattr, -
read an essay which discussed the indications
Of weather, as shown by many animals, in
sects and plants; and was fall of facts; rgany
of them new, and of , eoientific explanations Al.•
themselves. Birds, it asserts, invariably shep
by the way they, build, their; nests, whether a
seasen is to be . iviedy or `otherwise. If the
former, they thatch. the' nest, between the.
twigs and lining. If .tl4, latter, they emit
these precantione; If a dry season is in pros,
pect,. they build in open places. If o.wetone,-
they ohoorsheltered spots. - A careful °beer : . -
ration of those peculiarities will efferd, Mr.
Thomas says, a, certain criterion, early in the .
!spring; pfilte coming weather.
..finaile also reveal, by their habits, whother ,
rain Jambe ,expected or not. oeveral i species
of the};e animal inveriablreseend the etems.el,
Plants two , dayefiefore a min, in 'order to place
themeelves'on a leaf, there to imbibelhe water,
for they never drink. ether species have ta
bercles that rise frock. their bodies generally
ten days before a rain, there being.a pore at
the end of each tubercle to imbibe the water.
°titers grow yellowish whits -just before a rain, ,
returning to, a darker color after rain, Locusts
Map foretell rain by sheltering themselves
under the leaves of trees, and in bellows and
trunks, as soon as, by the changes in the at
mosphore, they disCoverthat rain is-impend—
ing. Moat leaves of trees areelsobarometers,
for if 'a rain is to bo light, they turn up eo as
to receive their-fill of , water, while for a long
rain, they double. so Be to conduct the water
away. - ' •
Another member, Professor Drooklesby, of
Ilartford,.road a . Paper describing a spring,
near his residence,. whose watere.rose invari- .
ably beforq a rain. Ile suggested that the
diminished -atnfospherio pressure which pre
cedes n rain was the cause of the phenomenon,
and reoommendedlhat observations should be ,
made over the whole country to ascertain
whether the phenomenon was general or only
eacepfioDal. It.would bo curious if the for
suer could bo established, and not lees useful•
than curious, for, if nature has made every
spring a natural barometer, the fact will be of
Vast benefiho know. . 7-
trAs?;,;-411E.'N
.The vicious early„ they fall like et*
'dewier tumble likeyfrecks und.rnirut into the
gra;:rez—e fteti e t le i quite lonng, !tiniest atweya
Wicke'd
litiys." The world at once ratifies the truth,'
and assigns the:rc4SOn "hy describing'tkte - Ais: ,
Soliattlis 4 fast ineri . ;": that is, they r ays fast ; '
thei spend theit'.ewelve - hettis in six, getting
through • the tihole before' the meridian, and
dropping out of eight and into darkness while
others are in the g,tow and glory of life.
Theii sun goes down while yet It Is day"—
And they might have helped it, Many a one
dies before ho need. Your men of genius, like
Burns and Byron, to whom, when dissipated
and profligate,, thirty-seven is so fatal; and
your obscure and 'tuneless "wandering stais,"
who. waste their youth in libertine'indulgEnce
.—they CA.NNOT live long. They must die early.
They put on the steam till they blow up the
boiler.— -They-run-at-such - a rateiiparthe - fire
goes out for want of fuel. The machinery is
destroyed by reckless, speed and rapid wear,
Nothing can save them. Their physical system
cannot stand the strain they pat it to ; while
the state of their minds is often such, that the
soul would oat the c substance of the most ro
bust body, and make for itself a way of 'escape
from the incessant hell of its own thoughts.
A NEMO READING OF' SHAKSPEARE
In a country town ° down East," a Demo
cratic newspaper was started, Which depended
mainly for its support on the contributiOns of
the "faithful" in that region. Its motto was:
"Bo just, and fear not."—Slorkspeare.
An old farmer who bad been 9uite r aotivo in
promoting the ititereste of this newspaper en
terprise, took up the Ssrat number and , coin
mencod reading it, with laudatory comments.
As he read the motto, his face flushed with
honest enthusiasm, and he exclaimed:
"'Fear nut Shakspeare'--30, that We won't,
'nor any Wei:o 7 o7lV oldlederali# I"
=MM
The following anecdote of an indestrions
Gannon employea as a !filmier it the Naval
icadelny, Annapolis, is even in tho epubti
can :
•
After iompleting a ga:y'e work in the hotteatt
weather in 'June, he was heard to gay to hie
wife, on his return home,-- , ' I has earnt one'
tollar and a leiy, and if dere was no night,
.could works and make as much more in de
next den hours, and den I would have two.tol
hart and a quarter, just tonble what' it got.' I ,
wish de (louder and lightniati Would come and
knbek fie night tiway,'and' make .two bye io•
one."
Aannernmr ersre Drrssannon.,—Sentiments.
join men to map, opinions. divide,thern.. The.
former are , elementary and concentrate, the.
letter are !mini:matte nod :matter. orhe Mead
e/lips of yroulkare founded on sentiment; tLe
diesensions of age result from opinion.. If we
oi?uftl 111113 at , an early age—if, forming
opr onn.emle of, thongii, could tittle's° a
'thorn) r/evref that of.utliers, and nien of those
'that are opposed to "ours—vie, should. tietitbe ;
more tolerant, ; and , endeavor to 'reardte by
'sentiment , riot is • divided. and !:iiiipenied.—"
Goethe '
-
i see.: Afe,low.coming from the top of the
Villeghanice to New York in winter, Ives naked
taitother it ills ne cold there es in the 'city.
I4e %Mt% poi:stay been' at some nerreit
folieet sehooT i ' for he glanct4 at' the therein
meter. "Horribly cohi," said he'; they
have no• thermometers tljero, and, of course, it
gore just as'colit
Mra , . rnilipgtptits!!imukrjr.piem upon,
beln~ told Iforici ,ki#.
where b. r c eided they 1104 pO4tlf,ourr Afix)o'.'ii,
ear, Lel isly 'you' Imile
up to, tho Pujlnepit;,oo: xpi.mg , ,tepow .
la here
cos a odurtiiktlhrat ary.et4l"
2'•.• ' • • .
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