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poetry.
.pIOONLIGHT ON THE GRAVE.
It shineth on the quiet grave
Whoa, weary ones have gone,
It watchech with angelic gaze
Where the dead are left alone.
And not a gound of busy life
Trithe still grave-yard conies,
But Peacefully the sleepers lie
Down in their silent houses.
All silently and solemnly
It throweth shadows round,
And every grave-stone path atrace
' In da'rkness on the ground.
It looketh on the tiny mound
Where a little child is laid,
And lighteti4p the noble pile
Which human pride bath made.
It falleth with unaltered ray,
On the simple and the stern,
And showeth with a solemn light,
The sorrow we must learn;
It telleth of divided ties
On which its beams have shown,
It whispereth of heavy hearts,
Which -brokenly, live on."
It glearnoth where devoted ones
Are sleeping side by tilde;
It falleth where the maiden rests
Who In her beauty died
There is no grave in all the earth
That moonlight hath not seen,
It gar.eth cold and passionless
Where agony hath been.
Yet it is well! that changeless ray
A deeper thought should tl u •ow,
When tnortal lute pours foukth the tido
Of unavailing woe.
It teneheth us no shade of grief
Can touch the starry sky,
That all our sorrow we have HERE,
The GLORY is on high!
‘ . lflrrt ,6alr.
THE FATAL CONCEALMENT
A THRILLING STORI
BY AN ENGLISH BARRISTER
Some years after I commenced practice—
but the premise date I shall, for obvious rea
sons, avoid mentioning—l had a friend at
whose house I was a pretty constant visitor.
He had a wife who was the magnet that drew
mo there. She was beautiful—but I shall not
attempt to describe her—she {Slip - more than
beautiful—she was fascinating, she was capti
vating. Her presence was to me like-the in
toxication of opium. I was only happy under
its influence; and yet, after indulgence in the
fatal pleasure, I sank into the deepest despoud
ency. Iu my, own justification, I must bn y
that I never in a word or look betrayed my
feelings, though I had some reason to suspect
they were reciprocated ; for, while in my porn
pany, she was always gay, brii,liant arid witty ;
yet, as I learned from others, at times the was
often sad and melancholy. Powerful, most
powerful was the temptation to make an unre
served disclosure of my heart, but I resisted
it. That I had the firmness so to do, has been
for years my only consolation:
One morning I sat alone in my chamber.
My clerk was absent. A gentle knock was
just audible at the ,outer door. I shouted
'come in!' in no amiable manner, for I was in
dulging in a delicious reverie upon the subject
of the lady of my heart, and the presence of
an ordinary mortal was hateful. The door
opened, and Mrs. -- entered; I do not
know exactly what I did, but it seemed to be
a long time before I had power to rise and
welcome her while she stood there with fl timid
blush upon her lips, which made rue feel that it
would bo too/great a happiness to die for.
don't Wimder that you ate surprised to
800 me here,' she begun, with a provoking
little laugh; but is yuur astonishment ton
groat to allow you to say how do you do?'
The spell was broken. I started and took
her hand; I fear I pressed it inure j warruly ainb
held it longer than whs absolutely necessary.
'Perhaps your surprise will be increased,'
she continued, 'when I inform you that I hare
come on business.'
I . muttered something about not being so
ambitious as to hope thataho would visit me
from any other motive. She took no notice of
what I said, but I perceived that her face
turned deadly pale, and that her hard trembled
as she placed before me a bundle of 'papers.
'You will see by these,' she said in a low
hurried_v_oice,_lthat son roperty_m is Left to
me by my uncle and my grandfatherAut so
etrictly..settled that even I can tench nothing
but the interest.
_Now - my husband is in want
of a large some of money at.this'inotneitt, and
1 wish you to examiu the affair well, and ace
whether, by any twisting of the law, I can
place any part of my capital at his disposal,.
Unintentionally I have 'done him a great
. a tone So low, that no ears loss
jealously. alive' than mine could . have under.
stood their meaning, 'and poor us this repara
tion is, it is all that I can make, and I must do
it• if possible.'
I pretended to study the paperahefore
but to lights danced and mingled; and it', by
great effort, I (erect' my eyes to distinguish a
word, it conveyed not the slightest meaning to
my whirling brain. Every . drop of blood
From the Homo Journal
seemed imbued with a sepswite consciousness,
and to be tingling 'Lila rushing to the side next
to her, whose presence, within a short distance
of me, was the only thing of which r had a
distinct perception. I hung my bend, to hide
from her the emotion of which I was thorough
ly ashamed.
'You are a tiresome creature,' she said, with
a little coquettish air. really expected that
for once in your life, and a friend, top, you
might have gotten rid of the law's delays, end
given"me your opinion in half an hour; ro, far.
nt least, as to tell me whether there is any
probability of mybeing'able to du us I desire.
But I see you are like the rest of the law
yers—time! time! time! I suppose you will
keep thinking • ahout it till I am dead, and
then it will go to my husband in due course of
law.'
'lt may not require more thou half an hour
to ascertain so much, when I can:direct my
thoughts to it for that space of time,' I re
plied, and I know that the words rattled like
shot out of my mouth. 'But, would you be
so unreasonable as to requtred an artist to
draw a straight line when he was. under a fit
of delirium tremens?'
'You are an. incomprehensible person,' she
replied, rather coldly; 'so I shall , leave you to
your legal studies. But, if you are going to
have an attack of the delirium tremens, I had
better send in a doctor—shall I?'
'Well, I don't anticipate an attack this morn
ing,' I answered, with a forced laugh; 'so 1
will not give you the trouble. The fact is, I
have been violently agitated a short time since,
and my mind tins not quite recovered its equi
librium '
We talked a few minutes longer, she gal.:-
zing me in her liglij , playful manner, and I,
delighted to lie so teezed, standmg stupid and
dOmb, scarcely able to say a word, though
very anxious to prolong the delir.htful inter
view by keeping up the war of badinage. At
length she went - to the door, and I was about
to escort her down stairs, when we heard some
one specking below.
'Good God!' she exclaiind, clinging to my
arm, 'that is my husband's voice, if he finds
me here I nm ruined.'
, llon't be alarmed,' I replied, endeavoring
to reassure her; 'you came here on buitiess,
too! He cJuld only love you the inure for it.'
'You do not understand so well about this as
I do,' she said, shuddering convulsively. •Ile
is jealous—exceedingly of you; and, oh! I fear
not without some cause. Hide me somewhere
fur mercy's sake.'l
don't know how it' happened, but my arm
was, around her, and I half carried her across
tht`room to a closet.
'Now, shut it; lock it; take away the Ley,
6r I shall not feel safe. There is plenty of
air;' and she sprang into the recess.
For one moment her oyes met mine, and I
thought they beamed with impassionate love.
The next, I had locked the door upon my
trearure, thrown the papers she had brought
into a drawer, and was apparently busy with
my pen when my friend entered. Ile com
menced in a roundabout way to question me
upon certain points of the law respecting mar
riage setlements, &c.; and, after a tedious
amount of circumlocution, ho gave me to
understand that all this regarded a desired
ransfer of some property of h is wife's into
this oven hands. He had come upon the same
errand as that generous creature. He had
also"a copy of the relatives' wills, and these I
was compelled to examine closely, for ho was
desperately pertinacious, and would not be put
off. — l - wsts - angry - at — tite - thought of wirer - his
poor wife must 'be suffering, pent up in that
narrow prison. I felt that I could have kicked
her husband out of doors fur keeping her
there. At last heated° a move as if to go. -
I started up, and stood ready tb bow hint out.
'So,' said he, tying up his papers with pro
voking deliberation, 'nothing but my wife's
death, you say, can put me in possession of
this'mouq. I want it very much, but nobody
will suspect nie of desir,jng her death for the
sake of baring it a little sooner.'
He laughed at his own poor jest, and made
a sort of hyena chorus to it, that sounded
strange and hysterical, even in my own ears
Ile went at last, but stopped again on the
stairs, and detained me there, talking for full
five minutes longer. I felt by sympathy, all
the pangs of suffocation. My throat seemed
swollen—my fore head bursting. Great God!
will ho never be gone? Will be . stand here
gossiping about the Weather and the generali•
ties of the law, while his lovely wife, who
Came to sacrifice her individual interestsfor
his Sake, dies a terrible and lingering death.
1 rushed to my back room. A step behind the
madciue turn round. It was my clerk- T curses
.o.n him. I could haye stubbed him—shot him
-
—beat out his brains—hurled him headlong
Aowu stairs. But my violence would have
compromised her. In a few minutes my brain
was clear again.
W.titson,' cried I, 'Mr. -- has just left
me.. Ho is gone up Fleet street, I think, run
after, ) him, and
,request him to leave , those
Purervit.lkmo. Say to him I would like to
extiminelhan more at my leisure. Run, run
quickly, and you'll overtake him.'
'Watson, disappeared. I turned the key of
'.,uts..;l,i'z'.l,.lVe.vrlz . ),
the•outer door, and sprang:towara the closet.
As I unlocked it. I remembered the look she
gave me when I shut it; I wondered, with a
beating heart, whether the same expression
would meet my enraptured gaze when I open.
edit There she sood with her eyes calmly
fixed on mine.
You are safe, dearest,' I anurmered
She did not rebuke me for calling her so ;
and emboldened by her silence, I took her
hand to lead her front her Darrow prison. She
moved forward mid fell into my arms n corpse.
I cannot recall what followed. I only know
that every means was tried for het restoration
to life ; but alas without success. Of one
thing I wits firmly convinced—she had not
died of suffocation. She was pale, rigid and
cold. The tumult of tier own emotions must
have killed her the moment the door was clo
sed upon her. By some means I kept my
secret from the knowledge of Watson and
every one else. All that night I was trying to
recover her. Then I formed the project of
shutting her up in the closet, locking up the
chambers and going abroad for twenty years.
But the idea was rejected as soon as formed; for
it would be hardly possible that thepresence of
dead body in the house should not be disco
vered before that time. Next I thought of set•
ting fi e to the place, burning all my books
and papers, making a funeral pile of them,
and thus ruining no self to preserve the secret.
But that thought, too was dismissed. It might
cause lass of life and property to ninny inno
cent people. and would be a bungling proceed
mg, after all, and if this fire was discovered
early, policemen. firemen, mob, all would
break in, and finding the body there, all would
be lost—for it was Inure to save tier reputation
than my life, that I was striving and plotting
In the meantime I was it prey to the fearful,
anxiety. I was sure She must have been mis
missed and sought for. Perhaps she had been
seen to enter my chambers. Every step that
heard, I feared might be that of it policeman.
In the morning a stranger Called on business.
This of course was nothing unusual; but, when
he was gone I felt thaehe wns a detective of
ficer, and had cotne a spy. I (Must few
clothes...into a carpet bag, intending to escape
to France. I caught up a box of matches to
set the place on fire. I grasped a razor and
looked eat nestly at its edge as the surest and
swiftest way of ending my misery. But then
all these would leave her to the jests of the
world, and my own sufferings were nothing in
comparison. At this distance of time I can
look buck impartially and coolly upon that
dreadful day ; and I can solemnly declare,
that I would rather have been hanged for mur
dering her than to have allowed a breath to
sully her fair name.
1 had just laid down thilgtzer, when a hur
ried step crossed the ant4room. It was tier
husband's.„„ Now, I thought all was lost; she
was seen to cuter here, and he has come to
claim her.
'f:dy dear -,' he began in a nervous un
settled way, 'you remember'ihe business that
I came about yesterday ?'
'Perfectly,'
'And do you remember the words I used as
I was going? I mean in answer to what you
said about my not being able to touch this
money until after the death of my wife?'
'Yes, I remember them distinctly.'
'My wife has disappeared since yesterday
'Morning,' he continued, turning more pale
tban before; 'and if anyllong serious should
have happenened, you' know, and you should
,repeat those expressions, they might be laid
hold of, and I don't know what might be the
consequence. I might be suspected of hav
ing murdered her.'
Poor fellow ! If I had not known the truth.
I should have suspec ed it myself,. from his
excessive terror and anxiety Ho wiped
the pyeepirntion from his face, and sank into
a chair. The sight of a person, frightened
more than myself, ronsured me. I was calm
er than I was since the proceeding morning.
'Where did she go,? How was she dressed ?'
I enquired, anxious to know all I could on the
subject.
don't' know. She told me she was going
out shopping and visiting; but no .one saw her
leave the house, and none of the servants know
ozac;ly bow she , watt dressed. When I went
home to dinner the first thing 1 heard was
that she bad not returned.'
'What have you done? llave you sent •t 6)
the police and to the hospitals?'
•Yes, and to 'every friend and tradesman
where she would tie likely to call.'
'You may depend upon it,' I replied very
impressively, 'that I will not repent what you
'said yesterday. You are,..right in supposing
that it might tell against you very much, if
she should be to 4d dead 'under suspicious
circumstance.* •
Ile talked little longer and then went to
renew the search of his wife. 'How IpreseTrii
ed,my self-possession dm lug this interVfew;
I do not know ; so far from being really calm;
I could have gunwed.my flesh off my bones in
agony.
That night when the . doors \fere fastened
and 1 was alone, I shut. myself up in the closet
for two hours, to ascertain whether she died
from want of air ; for I
_distrusted nty own
knowledge of the appearance of suffocated
persons. The place was well supplied with
air from a' couple of crevices. My first idea
was correct ; she had died from some other
MIR
When I emerged 'from the closet. I found
that the night was intensely/dark. It was
raining in torrents. and tire thunder and wind
roared n terrific chorus, passed by the sullen
'booming of the river then at high tide and al
ready swelled by the rain. I sat there in the
dark upon the floor, holding the cold, stiff hand
of death within my own. I thought dream
ingly how often it had welcomed me with its
soft pressure, while the sweet eyes beamed
brightly into Mille, and the full pouting lips
had wreathed into dimples of delight. Now,
that hand, that .used to be so plump, so full
of warmth and life, was cold! Those lips were
clammy and hard! Tears came to my relief. I
wept as grown Inc:. seldom weep, and with the
beart•easing gush came a new idea for her and
me. I wits led to believe at that moment,
that her spirit rested upon mine, and inspir
ed the thought, for it burSt upon me suddenly
with a conviction that, if executed at the instant
would be crowned with success. How could I
otherwise have the temerity to snatch her up
in my arms, carry her down stairs, at the risk
of being encountered by some of the other in=
habitants of the house ; bear her through the
courts, and, by a way I knew, into the gar
den ?
The river was running strong and deep
against the wall. I pressed one kiss on her
cold forehead, and threw her into the stream.
Gladly would I have gone with her, and held
her in my heart till death; I ut the impulse
was still on me, and the beating rain effaced
my footprints.
A few days uf.cr, I saw by the papers that
her body bad been found far down the river.
medical evidence, after a post mortem examin
ation, was that s he had died from rupture
of the heart, and that her death took place
before her immersion in the water. So they
conjectured that,she had been standing by the
river, when the fatal attack seized her, and
she had_ fallen in unpreceived ; and they re
turned a verdict of aceidentia death, and bur
ied her in a pretty churCh "ard near where
they found her.
I shall die a bachelor. lam lean and pale,
and bowed down and gray-haired, and the
sound of my laugh is strange to me.
QUAKERS.
"There is something in the very aspect of
a 'Friend' suggestive of peace and good will.
Verily, if it were not for the broad-brimmed
hat, and the straight coat, which the world's
people call *shad,' I would be a Quaker. But
for the life of we I cannot resist the effect of
the grotestiue and the odd. I must smile
oftenest at myself. I could not keep within
drab garments and the bounds of propriety.
lucongruiiy would read tne out of meeting.
To be rained in under a plain hat would be
impossible. Besides, I doubt whether any
one " accustomed to the world's ..pleasures
could be a Quaker. Who, once familiar with
Shakspeare and the opera, could resist a fa
vorite air on the hand-organ, or pass, undis
turbed, 'Hamlet !' in capital letters on a play
bill Y -To be a Quaker, one must be a_QuaLer
born. In spite of Sydney Smith, there is
such a thing as a Quaker baby. In fact I
have seen the diminutive demurity, a stiff
plait in the bud. It had round blue eyes,
and a face that expiessed resignation in spi:e
of the stomach ache. It had no lace on its
baby cap, no embroidered nonsense on its
petticoat. It had no beads, no ribbons, no
rattle, no bells, no coral. Its plain garments
were innocent of inserting and edging ; its
socks were not of the color of the world's peo
ple's baby. It was punctilliously silent as a
silent meeting, and sat up rigedly in its moth•
er's lap cutting its teeth without a gum ring.
It never cried or clapped its bands, and would
not have said ;Papa' if it had been tied to the
stake. When it went to sleep it was hushed
without a song, and they laid it in a drab
colored cradle without a rocker. Don't inter
rupt me, I have seen it, Mrs. Sparrowgrass !
Something I have observed, too, remarkably,
strikingly piakeristic. • The young maidens
and the young men never seem inclined to be
fat. Suell'a thing us a'maiden ludy,nineteen
years of ny,o, with a pound of superfluous
tleSh4s_not known among the Friends. The
young'men sometimes grow outside the limits
of a straight coat, and when they do, they
quietly change into the habits of Ordinary
men, It seems as if they lose theirhold'when
they get too round and too ripe, and just drop
off. Remarkably Quakeristie, too, is an ex
emption the Friends Appear to enjoy from dis
eases and ti'omplaints peculiar to other people.
Who over saw a Quaker marked with the
small-pox, or a Quaker with the face-ache ?
Who ever tqw a cross-eyed Quaker, or decid
'ed case of .he mumps under a,broad•brimmed
hut? Nobody. •: Mrs. , Sparrotvgrass, don't
interntpt me. , Doubtless much of this is 'ow
ing to theif cleanliness, duplex cleanliness pu
rity of blood and soul. •I saw a face in the
cars, not long sin ce—a face that had calmly
endured the storms of seventh yearly meetings.
It was a bot, dry day ; the windows were all
open ; dust was pouring into the cars ; eye
brows, eye-lashes, ends et, hair, moustaches,
wigs, coat-collars; sleeves, waist-coats, and
trowsers of the world's people were touched
with a fine tawny color. Their faces had a
gene-al appearance of humidity in streaks now
and then tatooed with a black cinder; but
there within a Satin bonnet, (Turk's sating
a bonnet made after the fashion of Professor
Espy's - patent ventilator, was a face of seven
ty years. calm as a summer morning, smooth
as nn infant's, without one speck or stain of
dust, without one touch of prespiration, or
exaspiratinn. Mrs. S. No, nor wus there on
the cross-pinned kerchief, nor in the elabor
ately plain dress, one atom of earthly con
t.gt ; the very air did seem to respect that
aged Quakeress•"
SHORT SERMON ON MONEY.
My hearers—this is not only n great but
mysterious world that we live and pay rent
for. All discord is harmony ; all evil is
good ; all despotism is liberty ; and all wrong
is right—for as Alexander Pope says ; 'What
ever is, is right,' except the left boat, ana
wanting to borow money. You may want
sense and the world won't blame you for it
It would gladly furnish you with the article,
had it anything to spurn, but unluckily it has
hardly enough for home consumption. Ilow
ever, if you lack sense you are Well enough
off after all: for if you commit a four pox. as
the French say, you are let go with the com
pliment. poor Pm! ho does not know any bet
ter. The truth is a great deal of brains is
great deal of botheration. An empty skull is
bound to shine in comany, because the pro
prietor of it hasn't wit enough to know that
there is a possibility of making a nincompoop
of himself, and therefore he dashes ahead, hit
pr miss, or generally succeeds beyond expec
tation. Let a man be minus brtiins and plus
brass and he is sure of a pass through the
world as if greased from ear to ankle. but rig
up-for him a complete machinery of thought,
and it is as much as hi:rum do to attend to it.
Ile goes to the grave ruffled and tumbled, cur
ses life for its cares, and moseys into eternity
pack saddled with mental misery. Oh ! for
the happines of fools..
BueincEis O:atbs.
_FIR. S. B. KIEFFER. Office iii North '
/Hanover street Os o doors from Weise A: eatupLelrs
store. Office hours, moor purticulnrly from 7 to 9 o'clock,
A. 31.. and from 3 to 7 o'clock, I'. 31.
DR. I.C. I,OOM I S
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South I lane\ er street,
next do o r to the Post
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be absent from Carlisle the last ten days
of each month. [Aug. 1. '55
"Alt. (EU. W. NEIDICII
DEZ , ,TIST carefully attends to all
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operations the teeth and adjacent
parts that 111,W:1,W auty requite. Ile n ill
also insert rtilnial Teeth of every n. sueh as
Pi, I. single and ltl-ch teeth. and till salt main
nous I tints." and V, ill erinstitict l'tdatiss.
curators. Depilating Pieces. and met.) appliance used in
the Dental Art. —Operating room at the residence of
Dr S:anuel Elliott, II eat High st:vet. (at lisle.
.DR. EORG E Z. BR ETZ,
s t irsica . DENTIST. OFFICE at the ri,i.tunt.t.tof
• hishrother, on North I'Lt Street, Cur
l/SW.
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1 that 1 have, this day; asmaiated w ith to in the
prlietlee of n protesab M la. M. 1 and lb , .
EhiVS. Ali huhines. In tut ure %till be attended
oby the atm%u under the trip lif Itttsbt
Feb. 11th W. M. BIDDLE, At'ty at Law
1 I P. lIUMRICU, Attorney at Law.
Ileclutu•s An btisluebs citrus('
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11, 1 E I:I7LSJI - 1. ITEEM, Attorney
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Ase-Husiness entrusted to Imo a ili im promptly at
tended to. Feb,
N. GREEN, Attorney at law, has
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. kinds of Legal NN Colivrtions,
Coat t bo.ifienf- protapfly attended to. (Ore opia.
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Mint county. m ill carefully Attend to the troisaction of
ell such Its may ls, entrusted, to lihn, 1.11441:IP
the writing-oi Deeds, Mortgages Contracts. •te. Ile will
alt.° des ote his attention :o the procuring of Land NVar ,
rants, p e nsions, ,te. as. well as the purchase and saht
of 1;eal Estate. negotiations, of haus, ,c. los eon
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