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THE FARMER , i4 WINTER EVENING BY COUSIN CARLO While Dorcas blows with rudest breath, And piles with avow then traveller's way, There sathern 'rouud the farmer's hearth, A happy group at close of day ; The father site with cheerful face, ' • And front his Inner rends tho news; The mother tokei - her wonted Otte ; ' .And while she listens, knitspr sows. The children, on whose ruddy cheeks Tile glow othesltlrariti beenty Pursue at wlirtheir playful freaks; •Ancljqy lights up thelVhappy nies, As o'er their nuts and apples they Tell stories or at riddles guess; " The pnrentsvieyr their sport'and That Ved their coming years may bless. Conter?fluent reigns Withiwthet itome, • Though.wiutery winds may rage nhout; Lot, wealth, .to those who wig it, come, But these:hero all they wish withoUt. They wo'uld•ndt give their cheerlul }mirth; For all the eneetle wealth'' , find; They wish no better Joy on earth, • When 'round Clink fireside they ereJoinod. POMMEROY ABBEY. AUTIIOr. Or "TUE lIEIR TO.ABLILBY.7 CIIARTEU V A concussion of Alto brain it had proved to be, but not a dangptous one; - amiTeetmer than might have been expected, Mrs. l'emtneroy grow better, was herself again, and progres sing towards recovery. Careful nurses. wore Mrs. Wylde and Miss Pontmeroy- 7 -Guy had been excluded from the room. Guy rebeled he thought he could make as good a nurse as the best of diem; but he was assured that her life depended upon her perfect tranquility, and for such &stake Guy. would have kept out of her sight - for a twelvetnouth. Neither would they allow her to speak, mita oho grew so !WWII NlEttothat she would be quiet no longer. 'How long have I lain bete?' was her first question to Mrs. Wyldor •Eight days, m' dear.'. • 'This is a strange room—is it the abbey ?, 'Of course it is. It is your own room in it.!. I was married, was I riot?' continued Mrs. Pommeroy. 'Why don't you remember it?' returned her mother. 'Yes; I remember it. I lay and thought things over yesterday, when you would not let me speak ; and I-remember.the awful day —Land oh, mother!' sliuddering—'i remember' the ride home; I remember the furious horses, and Guy balding me. Did we fall over the precipice?' 'The accident was a sad ono,' return6d Mrs. .Wylde,. .bus. do not recur to it now, Alice; no limes wore lost.. Sells was ihoughtto be badly hurt, but ho is better.' Mrs..Pomtneroy raised herself in bed, sit ting up and looking eagerly at her mother.— 'Did it kill Guy?' she asked, in a whisper. 'Good gracious, no, child! don't frighten yourself with these imaginative roadies. Lie dovin. The lord of Parnmeroy was not hurt —to speak of. Your beatitiful white dress is the worst off—that is done for.' - flow so?' 'After the carriage way overturned, your Imsband held you till they could get something to carry you on to the abbey, but the skirts of your lay in the wet and.nuiddy grass; I'll leave you to judge the state it was in. And the wreath was crushed, and the veil torn to pieces Now, don't talk any more.' , • There was a few minutes' pause,'and then the invalid began again. .I.f lam married, where's my wedding ring?' 'The lord of. Pommeroy has it—he took it off when they chafed your hands.' - - -- 'ls Guy—' *I will not have you talk anymore,' per- emptorily interrupted Mrs 'Wylde. .This is the first day you have been allowed to speak; wait an hour and then you nmy talk again.' 'lf I did not feel equal to it, I should not talk, mamma. -My bead feels a little light, that is all.' Mrs. Wylde quitted the room, and Mrs. Pommeroy lay,and ae she expressed it, thotiyht. By and by Miss Pommeroy entered. 'Joan, come here,' she said-r , sit down on the bed close by me. What a shocking mei cident this lies been!' 'lt hes,' replied. Miss Pommeroy, a most untoward accident. But you are getting bet ter,, and Jeffs is getting better, therefore—' 'Joan, I wapt to ask you—and now you an swer me the truth, what you think, and whe ther I am, not right. It was an awful day, such a one, I should think, .that. has never been known here ; and it was an awful acci dent, and the days previous to it were 'calm and beautiful, and, I dare say, the days sub oequent have been so. Have they ?' 'Yes,' replied Miss Pommeroy, unsuspicious of her young•sister-in-law's drift. " The day following. the accident rose 'been, and lovely as the days previous had lbeen, bearing no trace whatever, save in the•wet ground and the damaged crops, of the angry day that had interveneV 'Well, now, Joan, should' you not say that it was an omen of evil to me and Guy?' Miss Pommeroy would not rm,. ; she could not yefute the notion, and she dmiained equivocation. Given to superstition; as Were ell the .PommerOye—the very abbey itself, with its tales and its gloom, was enough to imbite theni.with hnd been one of the most forward to deduce ill omen to her brother and his wife from theatrange day and the ac cident it bad led to, but she had kept the feel ing within her own breast. Others were not so silent; and the lord of Pommel* had been nearly driven savage by the evil prognostica tions whispered rc unit .You don't speak; you will not speak ; . and I know what that meatus. I am certain it. bodes very evil,_ luck; and you . know' that it . At We junature Mrs. Wylde entered. , The hour is up; Alice—Oh, you aro there,' Mies Pommeroy. You have not let her talk, have you ?' iiniejusi entered," was the reply of Mies Pommeroy, 'lt.would be better; far, for Al-' lotnever,to talk again, than to indulge ihe fancies of supbrstition Which appear to bo running in ber-bead,' the added. 'Superstition!' echoed Mrs. Wylde, 'I had thought thaLwent out with our ancestors.— She gets joilcopirited from lying here, but she will soon be up now. Alide, the lord of Ppm naeroy is-coming in to pay.you a visit.' Alice rose up in-her bed, startled; and look ed hard at her mother. , ' „ - 'The lord of Pommoroyl- Here!'' 'Yes. - He is waiting now.' Young Mrs. Pomrueroy turned crimson to the roots ofther hair. -'I cannot see him here; in bed! lie must. wait until lam up and in my dressing-room; that will be in a day or two.' • 'Nonsense,' returned Mre. Wyldo. , 'Ho is your husband, remoinber; you have been unit ed to' him; you are Mrs. Pommeroy. We will you up in a shawl and, a pretty cap, to lit smart for the visit— Don't be fastidious.' 'I won't see him, then,' said Alice." glow very ridiculous! he will not eat you. Why, ho wanted to make one of your nurses, Alice; only we thought,' perhaps, ho might prove more awkward at it than tie were.' Mrs. Pommeroy looked red and very indig nant; 'I Um astonished at you,.mammaP 1 am astonished :at .you,' returned Mrs. Wylde. 'Find this accident happened before you were married, there would have been no impropriety, then, in his seeing you; and so every oue7would servile has any pretensions to,,a grain of common sense; but. under exist ing circumstances ho has a right to see you, and he will exercise it. I can tell you, Alice,. ho is not pleased at having been kept. out of your room, like a stranger.' Alice looked round it Joan Ponimeroy; she was standing with compressed lips and severe' , exprosion—displeased, at least Alice so in terpFeted if, to hear4is objection to a simple, and what might be called a ceremonious visit of lies brother.. Guy determined, her mother determined ; and Joan angry, Alia° began to think she might as well give in, before she was forded toit. . The lord of 'Pommeroy 'entered, and Mrs Wylde closed the deir upon him. - Alice lay, well covered up; her pretty rage made smart in its pretty cap. Deafly buried in.the Guy bent down to MS'S her—Which-was very; natural. 'Oh don't - pleasc,' - seitl Alice, pushing him back, and turning her face away, 'my head is not strong yet, and must.not, be touchod•'— Hut the lord of Pomniergy was her husband now, and.chose to judge for himself; anjl Ire turned her face back again mid took the kiss.. -Then 'ha brought forward a chair and sat down, and spoke gut his love, arid his grati tude for her so far recovery.. Alice interrupted him before ho half finish , ed. • :Guy! , 'Tat, my dearest ?' want you to listep to me; I am - going to say something that I' have boon thinking of yesterday and.to day. Jrnover was suiioriti (ions, Guy, but it is impossible to look upon' what has happened without some'sugh a feel inpintruding.' r" - 'The• accident will have no lasting copse-. (pip - ices,' interrupted Guy, (learned, as-it ap peared, to-hear reiterated by-his--bride the same song he had boon obliged to - hear front others. 'The accident was niefitl,' she 'rejoined, iiith — a shudder. 'Oh. Guy! [never shall for got the iorror I felt a the snorting and flying horses. flow owls! you main.talu your pres one'lohofdnyiionud?w' 'But I look not so much at the accident, as , ,, at the strange wild day,' she resumed; 'the weather hits never been like that. We have had summeroderms, terrific storms, fatal to property and to life, but they have come on naturally, Guy, and have cleared again after , they have spew. themselves. But that strange day was unnatural.' It Wao )incommon,' said tho lord of Porn- =al 'Guy, it was unnatural. It seemed •to be sent as n warning to us—not to enter into our union; the very heavens lowered. upon it.' tAlieel' returned the lord, in a tone of re buke. Who has been putting those notions into your head?' , Not any one,' she answered. 'Mamma and Joan have kept me in silence, not allowing mo to speak, or speaking to ms. I told Joan, just now, that it was a bad omen for you and for me, but she would not answer me. You are a man, and therefore will pretend to de spise those fears, but <that strange day was sent to portend ill to us, if ever ill was por tended yet " 'Then, my dear, we will ward off the ill to gether. 1 will ward. all ill4rom you.' We can ward it off in one way,' said Alice; is the only way loft to us.' Well!' returned Guy, 'smiling. , By never being more to each other than we are now,' she whispered; •by getting-the mar riage annulled.' 'What!' uttered, the lord of Potnmeroydt frown of mingled,anger and astonishment dis placing the smile upon his face. 'lt could be done. Goy. And then we may laugh at the past moral, and have no fears.' 17Citir head Must he light from fever, Alice.' She put.,,out-her band und.clasped his arm Do not let turtempt fate, Guy. That day was surely a threatening omen °Lill upon our union'-as sure—as sbre as anything can be in this world. And .altat else was the acoi , dent to me but. an awful, interposed Vito against my entering the abbey,ao ite mistress?' Guy, had taken her 11 Old 10 bold between his, and was playing with her fingers. .It should hitve come sooner, then, if it had that intention,' -said he, gayly. 'Do you see - this?' Ile held up her-hand so that alt -might sea it—he bad slipped on- her wedding-ring. Al ice strove to draw her hand away, but he-re tained it as before. 'Had Fate—as you call it—wished to inter pose her veto upon your entering the abbey, she should have been rather more prompt,nnd net have waited until you. wore my wife.' 'To treat itAn that mocking way, Guy, !a wicked.' " .Nay, my dear, I say nothing but the truth. If Fate, human or hobgoblin, owed win. grudge and eet herself to scowl upon our marriage, she should not have been so dilatory. The accident should have come before you quitted your mother's house and your mother's name.' •It in not too late, Guy: it may bo Manag ed. When lam well enough to-•be moved I can go back home with my mother: and the ceremony, as 1 say, can his annulled.' • , Alioo;':you talk like a ohild. • After having married me, clothe home to We, stoppod'with me, you think you could go 'back from it all ; become Alice Wyldo again! . Whitt would the world Bay of.you? Nothing laudable, I ween.' _ • 'You are cruel,' was her,haughty response. 'I 'thought the lord of l'ommeroy deemed him self a gentlemat.' . • I -hope he is one. But be is your husband.' ' 'My days will be !I long dread of dreary fear,' slia continued, in agitation. 'Let• the world say what it will, I shall leave the abbey as I imam into it. The marriage eon be easily broken, for the Pammeroy influence is great at Rome; and you know; Guy, - my heart was never.in It. You Anil wed a better wife, and I will be Alice Wylde again.' • One of the awful Phmmeroy Scowls came overjha lord's face. ITimt-you may seek and wed the, renegade itupert--who won your heart with his false vows, and carried its Wear of credulity to amuse his real idoll who—who ' Guy paused: hislury had Overmaster ed him; but his senses were returning;.in a dalmer moment he would have plucked out his tongue by the roots rather than, have so taun: ted her, now she was his wife. Of late the name of Rupert had been shunned Retweetk them, equally so by the one as by tho other. 'Yen are generous!' returned Mrs Pomme roy, speaking with scorn to keep do s wn the tears., 'Were I free as'air, and Rupert Pow- Moro) came to ID O. in bis.:eouVe repentance, I PAPIM WOR, irm% s& GS easexa. would tramjle him 'miler :foot rather, than listen to it .. Had I a hope now to give to Ru pert., L should never have consented to marry I you.' The lohl of Pommeroy,rose: his passion had faded down. 1. beg your pardon,' ho softly whispered; this interview wt have both something to forgive the, other. You should not so hays spoken, Alice—my' wife you have sworn to be, and my wife you are . She buret into tears. ..This tumult will make me worse again, Guy.' '1 should grieve for that.. lam going, and I will send your. mother Co you: , .But when I come in again, my dearist, inset itidas , a friend, not as a foe.' . lie bent down .and kissed'her'face, as he had done on entering, and .quithed the room Mrs. WYlde dame into it, but Alice motioned her away, and said she was going to sleep: so she was loft alone. • Droll sleep it was; • a prolonged- fit of sobs and tears. But Guy hall left upon' her hand the wedding ring —a sure' earnest that. She could not go from him. Mrs. 'Wylde caught just the tvfb first sylla bles of the word separation,and was for apply ing a couple of blisters behind her daughtves ears, reully believing her brairyto be affected; ' and when site found such wire not the case, she told...her-she-deserved a good shaking for - oven imagining So•great. a scandal. Let her say it again, and she and Miss Pommeroy would quit the abbey, leaving nobody to nurse her till she got well but Guy. 14 seamed that Alice Mid no ollaion; but she contrived to spin out the getting well twice as long kis she' need have done. When she was fully restored, and.lmil maned her proper station-as lady of Pomine roy Abbey? then Guy filled it with guests that ought to have arrived the day following their marriage. His wife was forgetting her fears for evil, and if she was not presently in the seventh heaven of happiness as the wife of Guy, she -.certainly was not miserable. She loved gayety, and the deference paid to her, both as_a,bride and the lady of Porrimeroy, tarried her head with pleamire. The women envied, the men admired, Guy loved; and Al-, ice's life was, a honeyed dream of iuddged Va l?: iell is best, Indy of Potnineroy,' Guy said to her one day, laughingly; .to reign here, the abbey's .mistress and my idolised wife, or to have gone book home again to be Alice \Vide?' .. .I was ill:and weak, dear.' she replied, 'and the.,storm had so frightened me. - -I am glad to be here.' ' , 'You shall. always be glad, my-dearest, if it depend on me,', whispered Guy. And Alice turned to Win 'etith,a loving look and a loving word:. she had determined to overcome her dislike to her htisband, and.she AM; partially succeeding. -- ' .. One day,-her" thoughts ran j upon her wed ding-dress, and she inquired - where it was..—.l It was hanging up inside the closet, in the room at the slut of the wine. Alice-went to thb room indicated, and -two of her young guests, an earl's daughters, accompanied ter. They threw open the closet door. A once beautiful dress, of rich whittisilk, with costly white lace flounces, butt now shrunken and muddy and yellow with the wet and" irt, was hanging there. The three stood contemplat ing it with wry faces. .But the flonnees do not seem torn, at. least on this alga,' said Lady Lucy. i They might be washed; and renovated.' She turned the skirt rapidly round as she spoke, and bent. forward to look behind it Something startled her, and she gave vont. to a shrill scream. ' 'lt is covered with blood,' she exclaimed, turning her pale face to her sister sod Mrs. Pommeroy. . 'ln blood!' 'A'l'ong stream all down it, from the top to the flounces.' They prosled for Ward, and found it. was as Lady Lucy said, and they shut the claset door in haste again, and moved away., . I should put the dress in the fire and burn it,' cried Lady Lucy. .I should think it ominous to to see that on my wedding.dreis.' As they turned dhey met the lord of PoM meroy. His wife stopped him. 'Guy, how did that —that frightful stain come on my wedding-dress? I was not wounded.'. 'I was,' replied Guy. lie' drew aside the hair from his temple; and exhibited a mark that ho would retain• for life. 'That is where it came from, Alice; %it bled freely.' ''• - 'Oh, yes, to be sure,' she exclaimed to the young ladies, as•they continued on their way, and Guy continued op his. 'lt was a bad cut, and I heard that his own clothes were stained with it. flow foolish I was, not to remember!' 1 CHAPTER VI PREDIO r TION Autumn come and passed, winter and spring and June came round again. Alioo was in deliaate health, but Guy was in a ibnderful flow of spirits, for he would soon be expecting an heir to Pommerby. For the present, Mrs. Pommeroy had given up visiting or receiving guests, but the occasionally dined from home. One evening that she was sitting alone in the oak room, her thoughts wandered to the extent of the abbey, what a large place it must. have been in days gone by.- It formed a quadrangle, and the window she was now at looked into the courtyard, whenCe all the sides were visible.- The frcint pile .and the right side were-the only , inhabited parts: Mrs.- Pomnseroy iemembered a boast she lied once made—that should she ever be the abbey's iitistress, shelthould cause it ha renovated so that the country should not know it again.— Opposite to her was the west wilt, and those rooms she had'never aeon. A sudden incli dation eam'e to her that she would look'over them now, and she gave her orders. Jerome, the old attendant of tkc late lord, appeared with a large bunch of keYa,some were labelled, some were not, and they proceeded through the lower corOdor of ?he inhabited north wing to what was galled the north tower. - Jeieree fumbled over -his keys, and, unlocking the door, they aecended the narrow stairatute ef the-tower, Mrs. Pommeroy folding her skirls closely round her. There wore several rooms in the west wing, all opening in- a line, one Into the other, but this wing wasnarrow, only the breadth of each room. They bore some scant remains of furniture, though the'hang ings, were dropping:Jo pieces. When they came to the lest room—Jerome .-called -it so Mrs. Pommeroy detected a small door at its end covered with tapestry. `Jerome,' she ex- claimed, 'this must lead into the west tower.' The old man had turned to one of the win dows, and was looking steadfastly down into the court.' Alice repeated her remark : 'This door, Jerome. Open it.' ' • 'That room is never entered,' he replied. 'Never entered!' returned she. ,'Why not? I shall enter it.' I have not the key,' returned Jerome. 'Where is it, then?' Jerome hesitated. .Maybe—maybe the lord keeps it. That is the haunted room, madam.' Mrs. Pommeroy bad heard of the haunted room, both before she entered thehbliey and since. Not being a believer in immaterial bodies, she' became • poseessed with a strong desire•to explore it. . the lady never, heard that apparitions have been seen there?' returned Jerome, in a „ tone of awe.: 'Apparitions (don't comet in the daylight before the sun has set.' poomptly replied the lady of Potomoroy.' You go back, Jerome,. and hunt among all the heap,of keys in that kepoloset of yours, and'find the light one.' • Jerome had no power to say he - would not go:' Ho turned unwillingly, and attempted to ;take the bunch of keys which hung to than CARLISLE, PA.,, WEDVSDAY, FEB RUARY 8, 1860. ' look, the look of the roc' ; they were in. No: try•as he would, he eon! not take them out of it. . ' •' P 'You do not want there .keys 'to find the other, said Mrs. 'PommtVoy. I,eave 2 them where they are.'. think, this key come out when the door's. olosed and loalced,' muttered , Jo rpme,but Dying still. w• • How4dt away at lepirth, Aeiving them where they wore. Alice. , ,fia much to pass,the time, as •anything. tOttehtittdhe keys,. and out ,they earns. What , a'odelqua thing that Je rome could not do it l' tyinglit. she.'' ; They seemed to fall into mihawd. She held them and readl,their.labels, which indicated the •partioubtr 'fa::otn each belonged to. On one, however, .WAS dimply written The Key:' The key!' tiebated.she, 'that. must be the key of the hattated,room,-I should think. I'll try it.' She - firew aside the hangings, inserted it in the lock, and, with a bert h , grating sound, the door flew open, the Wind and the dust blowing unpleasantly in hdr face. • . • She shrank bask. Iler,eourage failed. Ry daylight or by darls it is riot pleasant to enter alone IL , fisunted'.room. .:Alioe went back to the-easement, and stood:; looking into the court. There she saw one of the servant -women, and obeying an- itapalse, she pulled open, with some trouble, the casement, trel lised with its small panes;;and signed to her to come up, Bridget waa.4 native of Abbey. land, wee- born on the esteto, and-know all tire traditions relating to ; }he rommoreys..-- She looked thunderetruck - at seeing her lady there, but obeyed the signal; "y tine through the north corridor, aseendelPthe etairs of the , tower, passed through the : oms, and joined her. 'Hold these...hangings IMek for me,' said Mrs. Pommoroy; : • They sire nothing but • chiud of dust' The woman obeyed, but wiLlt-a wondering gesture. .'Does the lady Of Tammeroy know what this room is ?' . • ....._ Yes,' said Mrs. Pommeroy, passing in.— ,'Cotne with me.' . ;It was a sniall e eiroular room, panelled with dark mahogany. A narrow easement looked towards the' court.--yard, but, like the other -roomSnone to the oppositeslde,to the open country. The room wit coMpletely furnished with - velvet that •liad once boon red, but was' now dark with ago; choirs, it broad couch, or settle, and -a centre-table: tall were covered and hung with the' velvet, which appeared - to be dropping away., Alice - saw no signs Of haunting apparitions; all that. struok her, was the smallness of the room:, .She remarked upon it.. •Tht_t_tonter walls et:0'0110k; madam.' 'Very thick indeed, they mbeit be,' ebserved Alice, 'looking at the size or the tower, out side, and the size of this room, in. But the I walls aro not thick, Bridget: look at the, win dew. • What - is that ?' . she glided, as her eye became accustomed t 0 the dark walls. 'Why, that is it clothe, a velvet cloth; , drawn over one of the panels.' •.- • The picture is underneatbr. whispered the woman., am niece to the qld housekeeper,- .who died in the late lord's iS4e4,madam, -and- I have all the seorots of the,Ohey'at my fin gers' ends,' she explained. •:t 'But what picture is underr;:isth, demand'. ed Mrs. Pommoroy. • 'Tho.nun'e„' replied Midget/kik:lre web° was said to haunt the room. • Witztifi WS lady of Pomroeroy like to look at it I' Alice signified her assent, and the woman caught up the velvet and held it aside, disolos ing a half-length, figure, habited as a nun.— The face was young, fair, and most lovely, but a strangely mournful and stern expression was in the dark blue eyes, which were fixed full on the spectator. Tho lips were slightly open, and one delicate timid tips held up in a , warning attitude. 'She is Saying Beware." r - whispered Brid get, who appeared to bo afraid of the picture hearing her. Mrs. roniiileroy laughed. 'I don't hear her,' she answered. 'But fancy goes a great Beware of what I' .1t IS what•she is supposed to be saying, madam, according to the tradition. - But why she is, saying it, pr who she is saying it to, has never been decided.' 'What is her history V 'She lived in the reign of one of the Geor ges,' began Bridget. 'She was brought up in a convent, and had taken the veil, though only 17, but in some way she fell in with him Who was then lord of.PontterOy.' wassaid to tid in the fire, for the`cauvent was butt'' , down, and the nuns had to setipe in the night. She forgot her vows, madam, and ran away with him, to be his Wife: He married her in seerot,, and'brought har here, and their rooms were in this wing, this room being hers. The lort doted on her, it is said, end he had this pint re taken of her in her convent dress, and hung tip here; but, when it-was too late, she found out. he had played her false, for he had a wife already. She went craved, poor thing, all in one night, and she threw herself out. at this very window, and was taken up tided in the court , below:. Alice looked at the window. " She never could have got through that narrow half case• went, Bridget. Tho other halt does 'not open.' 'lt is certain that she did, teadam—she was young and slight. For years afterwards, during the lord's lifetime, she was seen nt this same window on 'a Moonlight night—the moon shines full on these - sest tower wOdows —her light hair banging over her neek, and wring ing her hands. as it is said she did before she leaped cult, But afterthe lord died, she•never came 'again... You den% see the prediction, madam,' added. Bridget, pointing to the pic ture, not to read it, I think. This room's dark in the after part of the day, because the sun goes behind the tower.' . • 'The predictionepeateil Mrs. Poinmeroy. 'lt is the strangek Part of the history;' continued Bridget. 'On the morrow, when they had pliked her up dead, the lord saw some lines written on the picture, close to the, hand which she holding up. It was never known who wretif them : some thought she but the lord - knew that'the characters were not here, and they came to be regarded as having beim,done by supernatural agency. On a bright - day they can be read without a 'light, but not when the room's in the shade. Some thought they applied to what the lord had done, Nit it is mostly held that they are to effect a later Pommeroy. his to be hoped not, for they betoken woe to the. house.' hire. r ommeroy , bad put her face and eyes close to the picture, endeavoring to decipher the lines—but she was unable, though she could discern that some were there. Bridget continued; . 'The late lord—the one who had done the wrong PM his grandfather—put little faith in all this, and I have heard himlaugh 'over U. Ile did not keep the room or MS wing shut up, and any of the family could some in who lick ed, mid we had to duet and *lean here once or twioe a year. But the present lord had it. chug .up after he came into power;:thi Pommeroy are a proud race, thl lord eapeoially, and he deems the, picture a Memento of the blot on the sout6.eon of hie ancestors. ;. So ,he keeps the curtain down over itihrit = the bad lord had put—and the roomelooked.ei: But—it is going around-0614 way to 'work to attain-his end,' orlett Wit; Pommeroy, 'Why, hot destroy the pieturti h and have done with it, and have the room Wain 'open and embellished t — l - shitil - suggosilt to' the • Bridget shook her head:. , "Note Pommeroy dare destroy that picture. It lire been hand- a down from father to son', slice the time of the sinning lord—that; Trboeser does 50', - must look out to be repaid ;' fdr- tbar, in' his time, the prediction will be fulfilled, 'I wish I could, see the, prediction,' cried curious Mrs. Pummeroi, not feeling altogether pleated that Guy should hive kept the delight =II fully marvellous story from her. SUpposc you fetch a oandle.'Bridget.' .Will the lady IMO to remain alone ?' hesi-, toted the servant., halting at the threshold. The lady Of Pommeroy settled that. by mo•. tinning the woman to hold back the hangings, and stepping down into the next room.. There, she took up her station at, the open- window, And leaned froM it, that tliti-eyening air might. be company until Bridget's return. As Bridget . was going down the tower stairs she met Jerome. 'Where do you spring frotn?" he exclaimed, in astonishment. • 'The lady of Pommeroy called' me, and I have been into the haunted room with her:, I am going•tofettoli a light, ,now, that, she may see tits linos on the nun's picture.' . Jerome's mouth dropped, and, his hands were lifted. In there!' ho muttered to him self, 'and the lord said it, .never wan to be opened to her—that she was too young to be (righted with such tales. '•Blie found:the key. then, after. all my excuses What, possessed the bunch' rwondor. - Chat [ could not got it away from thelook •• 'Why, Jerome, exclaimed the Indy of Pam tneroy, 'the key was on the bunch!' 'AI [And, nndonr. Pity 1 did not look more purl ioularly.' • Bridget comolAck with the light, and they all_weatint;c_gte r6oin; Pociaterey toak h i nd, from lier ond. and held it clove to the lin re on the ,picture. Brid;et locket on ocmp Jet) I ly, and Joroxicin abitroction Minn tlit Ink of Pawl:way paq fwth.n urlfa to wlu, tin heir of P nn n mu' gas. brth In vain; 1 Pe.) n th 3 I lei of l'o ask firth by 1 11 0 h o:tin. TilJ. SY )0 to the l'om u teem totin and twniu I . Brely had Nlot. Nat nsroy raid thiewlisn a shriek from Beidg It outset her to start ,tcic.. She .114 . 1 inlai4Vrtelltly 1131 d the wtk 1%4 too clo3a. and had set fire to the picture. _ . TO Ha OONTINUED. ~ , • Till FL ES. , PAT was dry; and got out of the ears for his refreshment; the ors, very thoughtlessly, went be without him.. Pat's irkwas up: "Yempaipeen-r , he cried, starting on a run, and shaking his fist as ho flew tiller the train.. "Stop there, 'ye old—steam wagon; ye inns , . 'therm& awns Nine —ye've et a passenger on board that's left behind." JONIIB Jotax. - - The New Orleans. "Cres cent" inforets u 3 that. Jonos had beon•to,a chrunpaigne party, and ratyrnod home, at a late,' or rather an,earli hour, when the clock struck four. "One—one-Thne -one!" hic cupped Joilo9. "I 84, • Mrs. Jones, this cloak e out of order, it ho's strifekoolto fountimoi." . . Is Boxus. 7 —A.n oocentrio but amiable and respeoterl clown in - Aberdeenshire„ on sitting clown to compose hisafirst„..discourse_;. after having committed in ttrimony, resolved , . tp select tilext which colanot be twisted by hiti hearers into the remotest. allusion to the connection he had so recently formed. But "the best laid ephemos of mroe awl won gang— . aft agleg." To the great amusement of the " less serious part of his congregation, the-rev erend gentleman gave out, as the groundwork of his discourse: "For I would that ye all were - even - ,Ers7l - nin - this: day, - except those bonds."' ' Manna DESTITUTO.--A. nehoolmaiter in Connecticut was, on one occasion, exarnining 'boy'reern Rhodi: IsMad' in .his catechism, and asked . the following question; . • "Flow many Gods are thorn?" ' The Providence Plantation subject scratched his hoad for a while, and then replied: "I don't know how many . ,you've got in Connecticut, bitt we have none in Rhode Is land." • ,-f Physiolans in India raise - blisters with rett but irons, and dross them with' .cayenne pepper. If such treatment does not make people "smart," we don't know anytling elso that would. have all heard of asking for bread and receiving a stone; bail young gentleman may be considered as still worse treated,ihen he asks for a young lady's hand and rec isns her father's foot. ItralYealt doses of wash boards nre now reernmended by . physicians for Indies who complain ordyspepsia. Young men troubled in the.same way may bo cured by a prepara tion of Wood-llorirs. , . lte,„,lt is said that when a Frenchman has to wait ho - smokes, a Gorman meditates, an Italian sleeps, an Englisbnien takes a walk, and. an American invents some now contovtion. of his limbs, and .tries to put his feet higher than ever. A Southern paper baring announced that there was no occupant of the jail in that dis trict except the jailor; a neigithering journal remarked that ...it was Tory good, to be surd, that nobody is in jail—that is, if there is no body in the distriot that ought lo'be in jail ". Whereupon the first named editor rejoins that. ho can assure his ootemporary there is no body in the district who ought to be in jail, "and," he adds, "we trust he will not pass through the plane and disturd the pleasant re fleetion. " • It is said by some Yankee to an excellent plan always ineasere . a. man's length before you kick him, fur it ss better to bear and titan to make an unsuccessful attempt at thrashing a fellow, and get your eye teeth knocked out. gerA superficial person, having heard a popular deulainiek- preach, said to Dr: Bella my: "Oh, air, I have been fed this evening." The:doifter added, "So the naliei think, after having sucked each others ears.". - jeir•A down east editor professes to have seen the contrivance the Maine lawyers use when they "warm up with the subject," and declares that it is a glass concern rhiob holds about a pint'. urn, is an old proverb that "boys will be boys." What a pity %isn't equally true that men will be men. `Some persons can be everywhere at home; others can sit musingly at home and be everywhere. ler Sueing a newspaper editor for libel is about as sensible as to boil a brickbat to get lamp•oil out of it. ~ What are you looking after, my dearl"?-said. a very affectionate - Mother to her daughter. "A son.in•law.for father," she replied. The Bashful Man. Washington Irving at a'party in England, one day, playfully asserted that the love of annexation which the Anglo Saxon race displayed on every occasion, proceeded proba bly from its mauvaisc honle rather than its greediness. As a' proof be cited the story of a"bashful friend of his, who being asked to a dinner party, sat down to the table next to the hostess in a great state of excitement," owing.to his recluse life. A few glasses of wine mounting to his brain, completed'his• confusion, and dissipated the small •remains of his presence of mind. Casting biereyes down, he saw on his lap some white Tinen.- 'Good heavens,' thought. be, 'theft's mj shirt protruding at my waistband It • . file immediately commenced to tuck in the offending portion .of his dress; but the More he tucked in, . the more their Seemed to remain. • , • • • At last he madeadesperate effort When a • sudden crash piround hitn,• and, a .sereaTh froni the coat pany, brought him to his senses. Ile,had been the (line stuffing the ta ble-cloth info his breeches, and the last move had swept everything clean off the table I Tbus our bashful friend annexed a table clotb,, thinking it tin k tail:of his own dart. • UWIILY IMPOItTNAT, LETTER FROM R. J. BRIZION.INILIDGE, OF IHNTUOKY. Let Every "Patriot Read It ! To the ff m: Jo .rim .C. BrecianrPitie, Tice Elect of the United S?,ate; and T, ni Senator Elect from t 1 Commonwealth of Kew lucky. . . Fora period of nearly seventy years, the people of Kentucky, even from the moment of their own existaince as a,frOe and separate commonwealth, have bestowed, first upon your grandfather, and then upon your father, and then upon yourself, every 'mark'of confi dence and loveit was in their power to bet stow; and in no instance -did they ever re• fuse to either of you any distinction that either of you was willing to'iccept, and in no instance did they ever complain that eith er of you had'come short of what they hatd expected from you. Such testimonies on the part of such a people,-accimidated un til you now find yourself in a' position for good or evil to.the whole nation, scarcely in forior to-that of any other 'person, increase all the ordinary responsibilities which rest upon you to the very highest degree, and add .new ones to the mostaiffacting that can. ad dress :themselves to a true heart. Every man in this nation, still more every man in ' the Commonwealth -which has so signally honored you, will ponder these things just in ,the degree that they expect or hope any thing from you, .this season, which you have yourself, in the'.most public and ern.- phatic manner; declared to be full of peril to the whole American people,. and most ' pa. culiarly to the people of Kentucky: I know yoti will admit that every one of them has the right to addreSs to you these noble re• dections—warning you by them, in a nerat once earnest and confiding, that your .pet4e do not expect you to allow their des tiny to' be compromised, and yourself to be overborne and carried, away by events and parties; but that-they expectand desire that, let what may como, - you should ,so counsel, an act that Kentucky may do her part, as ' becomes her; for the safety and glory of the whole—and that when the wor it come she may live or die aceordin,g 'to her own free and separate sense of hers-duty and honor. Nor is there one . among them all, who from a private station and impelled only by the deepest interest in the country and in you, could. more properly than myself address-to you words of confidence and of. hope, and urge upon you considerations connected-alike ,with your own fame and the glory of year country, whose duo weight, may be" easily' overlooked amidst the' passionate violence which to all calm men seems to prevail at Washington, As'to the dissolution of the American Union—the settled and deliberate conviction of Kentucky is that it'no remedy for any whatever, but that'it is itself the direst of alrcalainitiest - Kentacky'mover had any existence as a commonwealth, except as one of the States of the American Union. She never had a disloyal thought towards that Uttion—er tosiard any sister State; 'she never. for an instant desired to enlarge her rights under the Federal constitution—or to Ozer else any of those rights olfensivelyor to de. ny to others their equal rights' ender that - . , - - constitution. Wholly unable to comprehend of political 'parties, by,w madness of the pee hatlncompetence of how it can be the interest of any State to Sc. public men or by what cede front the Union—or how the right to Pie, the country has been brought to the verge 1 of public violence, upon a 4 tOpic which has secede can be considered anything else but ! been familiar to every .one ; , since the first' purely revolutionary, she sees nothing in the past conduct of the Federal Government tot settlement of this ,continikit, are questions justify secession, if it were arena' ccinstitu. which this generation will have to answer to Lionel remedy; nothing in the aspect of the 1 generations which are to come., The Ives times promising anything but disaster to the Nous which we should answer to ourselves nature of country, to every , seceding State, and most I are, what is the precise , the difficul 'especially to herself, from the application off ty how—and in what'manner may that diffi any such remedy, whether by war, by reVolu• tufty be surmounted. If certain people of tion, by the formation of new confederacies, the North come feloniously among the peo or by the secession of individual States. I pie of the South and are put to death for their As' far as she can understand, it is mainly cranes; and then .if other people even in the unruly passions ,m• • unreasonable men, I greater numbers, glorify the deed felons as martyrV, but take carved • not commit any" and the violent assertions of dubious, or to say the least, extreme rights—and the mad overtiratiinkbe hung; it seems to me that nets of political parties in their struggle Tor the very most the of all proposals against power, oififilms brought the country to its such dangers and such annoyances is the preseet perilous condition. The true ,reine. overthrow of the Federal government, It dy fdrsuclidisorders is not the breaking up; may be possible that government can never• of the government, but the due enforcement I do nll that needs to be done, it limy be possi of the laws; and posterity will execrate to, blo to pervert it to the doing of• intolerable the end of time, whatever government shalll mischief; but in the former case the lablt"Of allow the the lawless conduct of 'any portion power in the Federal government result* of the people to run into secession, lir to, from the very nature of our institutions— drive others into it. The lives 'of traitors 1 and intolerable abuse Of power in the latter ought not to weigh a feather against the' case wotild necessarily be followed by the. peace and security, much less agaitist,the ('universal -arming of all the slave Stases. The very existence of the nation, and their blood i real difficulty does not lie in any such grounds cements instead of weakening the foundations as these, nor its remedy in anything that can , of society.—Civil war itself within the Union be done touching such aspects' f the case. horrible as civil war always is, is necessarily In like manner those great questions of the temporary, and is consistent with the ulti. i rer.dition of fugitive slaves by the northond mate preservation of everything distinctive 1 . of the foreign slave trade at. the South', are in our Present nationality, and ih all our in. I finally settled so far as the Constitution end stitutions, general and particular; and a uni• l laws of Congress can settle them, and it re• versal war at this time, within the _Union, l mains for the legal tribunals and the Exe could hardly fail to end in the permanent i cutive authority to enforce the laws in both: esteblishment, for the whole country; of just 1 respects. That during periods of unusual what our fathers. established _from 1776 to' excitement those laws,touchingboth subjects, 1789. But after the division of the Union I may be imperfectly administered, is extreme upon the slave line, and the necessary break ly probable; but that the north will openly ing miter fierce and interminable war along defy the power of the liiition and permanent. a frontier extending frond this Atlantie Ocean ly refuse - to execute the fugitive 'slave , vr la, - i to the western border of Missouri, no man and that the south will act n a similarmen .Can foresee a state orease when pence can , ner with respect to the foreign slave trade, is be ever preserved along-that frontier, as wel l what no man is justified in asserting. lad as it can be in the Union, and .any man can mit that the permanent continuance oh the . see that any future , Vision of the divided Union would be impoSsible if the north orthe portions of the confederacy," if any .Union south should deliberately persist in such, a re- • @hall ever be possible, must be upon the very volt against the constitution and laws, if at' terms which now exist. "tbe inevitable effect the same time the Federal Administration of the recent events at Harper's Ferry, taken should be too feeble or timid to coerce- obe all together, most be to give a degree of se 1 dience. But surely no such revolt either curity to the whole slave frontier within the ~ north or south, and no such imbecility in the Union which no part of it can ever have out i Federal Government as justifies- the over of the' Union, and the.handful of white-men throw of,our national institutions can be el and negroes whose follies and crimes were; leged to exist. If the minds of man were consummated there would probaby be the , calm, or if their thoughts would be directed ' Illinois they were the first, to'try such an at.' steadily to the zenith that must follow the tempt: The whale case ought to be to every 'dissolution of the Union it seems impossible reflecting man, a demonstration of the in.es ' of belief that adequate motives, for such an timable_value of the Union, both as it sets • act, could be foetid in the existing atete of . bounds to the -passions of men, and as it these questions. t, - enables us to punish crime by due course of , .I. know: Abet it ts alleged• that the settled ' law, instead of by private oe public ear,„---_,doctrinesanddeliberateputposes of ehatgreat Kentucky is through , choice a slave State .' party , in the North;whieh was formerly call- When.forming her first constitution in 1792 ' ed abOlitionits, and is,now called republican, when forming her second- constitution in ' amount' to nothing short of an organized and 1798, and when forming her present consti " fanatical crusade against the institution of. tution in 1850, the whole subject was care slavery as it exists 111 fifteen States of the fully eoneiderecl by her people, and each : Union, and there is the utmost probability time decided in the same manner; and it is ' that it will ultirnately, perhaps speedily ac probable that at the present moment then ~quire controlling influence over every depart? is less disposition among her people to make ! meat of the federal government ; and that, any . change•on that Subject than at any,other the slave States cannot, consistently, with _ period. Two facts'of greaiiinportance Moat ;honor, with Prudence , awith safety, map, not however, be Overldoked. , d'be first is that i ue members of a' Union controlled by-such no considerable portion of thepeciPle of Ken ' ! a party, or subject to a government„adrairi, . Lucky have ever held extreme views in favor, istered by,,,them. To this , letlae ;say,. first of slavery, while a.very large proportion of .# of all; that, if every word were true and mis. • the, people have tolerated without preferring taro, the wise, manly ' and successful &term.. It, and while the: common opinion of the l' five woUld be, not the dissolutiliu of the Union ~- people has always been that the. relative '•,. but the recovery - of the country, by forceyif growth of diewhite (menthe black race would •., nocessary;lrotri.thostaita shall have !Mimi- • belteater and greater continually, and . 11 . ';, ted its constitution.' or can there besmy some feture,verheps . dietant period, slavery ',- doubt that thetinjtedßeith and she mitten. . would become an insignificant element in the I ty of the North ',Will' be "always acid, always ato 'every condition.of the State .' The second 'faetit intent, without, or Witherme, more powerful tblit Kentucky has all along been exposed in the Union, than the united—much less along a frontier of seven hundred miles 'O.l the divided—South. 9ver can be out of it. river border, to greater evil and losses then, Nor does it appear to' me_to be loyal fi:i the allslave States which , ,have no free frontiers people of the North who are ' faithfulto the put together; yet she hes,neverfor a moment , constitution - even if' they were the'smeller EEO Isl 00 per annum In advanet , / $2 00 If not paid In advatieo manifested any sense of alarm or insecurity —made nee of any threats, clamor or abuse, or entertained a single thought of secession She has uniformly acted with cattiness ; modey,atlna and dignity; her citizens have ufacirnily relied upon the.laws for redress _against such as laws could reach, and against the lawless promptly redressed themselves, leaving to those who did not approve het ways, to amend their own, or choose. their, own remedyagainst ter. Undoubtedly she has great cause to be disatisfied; undoubted. ly her people are the last ht the world to put up with either injuries or insults; unthaubted- • lv she would be prompt: to take up aims against any odds; when, she thought no hOpe was left but in arms, and undoubtedly who ever puts her to that extremity will see good reason to regret having done so..- What I a'ssert is that for all that has come and gona• she sees no reason for the ruin of the coon. try, none for the dissolution of the Union, none for the secession of any State by retro• lotion or otherwise, none, for, allowing her self to be forced into a position fatal to her by the fanaticism of a portion of the people of the North, and the passion of a portion of• the South. Of the fifteen slave States (if Delaware can properly be_ so consideredYthe eleven which lio furthersouth than Kentucky have, as members of -the Federal Union, a thousand times less cause of complaint than she has; and will not encounter. the thou sandth part of her peril if the Union, is die- s , ,lved. It is Maryland, Virginia,Kentucky :led Missouri, that have borne 'al the loss :ind annoyance, and aro to bear all the im p 3nding peril, It is to these four States, therefore, that tho decision of the national aspoctsof those impendint, perils emphatic:al ly appertains, so far es that decision apper. tains, to the Slave States at all.' And every wise and every generoes impulse ought to prompt the people of the other eleven States to forbear ,whatever. course of action is' die. • n2provei by these four border States. And these fourtgreat Atates aro bound . by the . itigllest considerations, both of patriotism and of interest, to throw their united weight against all sudden, rash and. unconstitetion- " • 111 action on the part of the slave States, and if, the worst comes, to secure for themselves a position compatible at once withiheir hon^ or, their freedom and their safety. In like manner aho-border-free States,^New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, ladiana, Illinois and lowa, ought to remember that, their borders aro as much exposed as'ours, anti that multi tudes of confederations, besides numerical• -- force, enter into all warfare; and- above all,i into border war. So that on them; with, ref., erotica to the numerous free States • behind ‘tholurrest tile dutiand'right of deciding the • national aspect of the subject of slavery, ow the free side of the Hee, just as it rests With - the bordevalave States on the other side. It • may be confidently asserted „that posterity will hold these six liorder • free States. and these four bordet slave 'States, responsible for the fate of this nation at the presentcrisis And they 'will deserve itslasting contempt, if, with" their, central position across the re. public, and their irresistible force, they per• mit the country . to be ruined . and disgraced. and • theasielves thrown into a position of endless mutual hostility, along m common frontier of 1500 miles. And for what reason? , And for whose benefit? . By what blindness and by what violence NO. 'lt. El
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