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Assistabt Burgosi—Robert Allison Town Council—Bast Ward—J. D. Rhineheart, Joshua P. Illster, .7. W. D. Ullielen, George Wetzel, West Ward—Coo. L Murray, hos Paxton, A. Cath cart, Jno. B. Parker, Jno. D. Gorgas, ['resident, at Council, A. Cathcart, Clerk ' Jos. IV. Ogilby. Borough Treasurer—Jacob It keen, High Constable Samuel Sipe Ward Constable, Andrew Martin. Assagnor- -John 0 utshall. Assistant Assosnors,Jno Moll, Goo. S. Ileotoal. Auditof—Hohort D. Cameron. Tax Collector—Alfred Ithineheart. Ward Celloc• tors—East Ward, Chas. A. Smith: West Ward, Taco. Cornman, Street Commissioner, Worley B. Matthews. Justices of the Peace—A. h. Spousler, David Smith, ♦brm. DohulT, Michael Holcomb. V Lamp Lighters—Chun. D. Mock, James Spangler. CHURCHES First Presbyterian Church, Northwest angle of Cen tre Square. Rev. Con way I'. Wing Pastor.:—.Services* every Sunday Morning at 11 o'clock, A. 111.01nd 7 o'clock I'. M. Second Presbyterian Church, corner of South Han over and Pomfret streets. Itev. John C Pastor. Services commenco at 11 o'clock, A. M., and 7 o'clock I'. Xt. St. John's Church, (Prot. Episcopal) northeast angle of Centre Square. Rev. J C Clem Rector. Services at II o'clock A. Al., and ti o'clock, I' M. English Lutheran Church, Bedford, boLsroon Alain and Loather streets. [ter. •ob Fry, Pastor. Ser vides at 11 o'clock A. M., and k c'elock I'. M. tiorman Itarcirmed Church. Louther, Imtw,•en Han over and Vitt streets. Ihiv. &initial ['hilips. Pastor Sol - rises at II o'clock A, ]l., and a o'clock I'. )1. Mothodist li, Church (lirst chargo) corn. of Main and Pitt Streetst. Itov.Thotrias 11. Sherlock, Pastor. Sortie.; at 11 o'clock A. M., and 7 o'clock P, M. Mothodiat E. Church (second charo'.) Rev. S. L. Bowman, Pastor. F ervicos in Emory M. E. Churchal 1 o'clock A. M., and 3,16 I'. M. Church of lied Chapel. South West cor. of West St. and Chapel Alley. Rev. 11. F. Beck, Paste.. Services a t 11 a, so., and St. Patrick', CarAlolle Ch a roll, Pomfret near East st. Roy Paster. Servers every other Sub bath. at.lo o'clock. Vespers lit 3 I'. M. German Lutheran Church. corner of Pomfret and Redford streets. lire C. Pritae, Pastor. Sun Ices at 11 o'clock I'. if. traj_Pihen changes in the above are necessary the proper persons are requested to notify us. DICKINSON COLLEGE•' Rev. Herman M. Johnson, D. D., Prosid,nl and Pro autos of Moral Suletleo. Wililan3 0. Wilson, A. 0., Professor of Nut ural Science :slllll Cut ator o' the Museum. Rev. William 1.. Boswell, A. Greek and G erman Languages fia.rattol 1). LI(Howl, A. M., Prof,. n or of Matliomat John K. Staym tn, A. M., Professor of the Latin and French Languages. nou. Jamua 11. llra hem LL. D , Professor of Law Her. Henry C. Cheston, A. CI , Principal of the °returner School. John Hood, Assistant In tho Grammar School BOARD OF SCHOOL DIRECTORS E. Common, President, James /latnilton, 11. Saxton, R. 0. Woodward, Hoary Newoholu, C. jE. Hunicrich, Sect'y , 3. W. Eby, Treasurer, John Sphar, Aleesengur. Meet on the Ist Monday of each Month at S o'clock A. M , at Education hall. CORPORATIONS Cvntrsts Dereßr ANK.—Pre,ldent, it. M. Hender son, W. M. Beetem Cash. J. P. Hussler and C. 11. Ptahler Tellers, W. 11. Pfabler, Clerk, Jim. Underwood Mes senger. Directors, It. M. Henderson, President, It. C. Woodward, Sidles Woodburn, Moses Bricker, John Zug, W. W. Dale, John D. Gorges, Joseph J. Logan, Jug. Stuart, jr. FIRST NATONAL Dtita..—President, Samuel Hepburn Cashier. JOB. C. Hoffer, Teller, Abner C. Brindle, Mes •enger, Jesse Brown. Wm. Ker, John Dunlap, itich'd Woods,John C. Dunlap, isaac Brenneman, John B. Starrett, Snail. Hepburn, Directors. CUMBERLAND VALLEY RAILROAD COMPARY.—PrESidODE, Frederick Watts: Socrutar and Treasurer, Edward M. Biddle: Superintendent, 0. N. Lull. Passed:4.er trains three times a day. Carlisle Accommo ,ation, Eastward, leaves Carlisle 5.6.5 A. M.., arriving at Car lisle 5.20 I'. 01. Through trains Eastward, 10.10 A, M. and 2.42, P. M. Westward at 0.27, A. M., and 2.56 P. M. CARLIBLP. CAs AND WAI ER NA:rearm—President, Lord. nal Todd; Treanurer, A. L. Spordlor ; Suporlntanoen, George Wise Diroetora, P. Watts, Wm. M. Bootomt B. M. Biddle, Fleury Saxton, R. C. Woodward, J. W. Patton, P. Gardner and D. S, Croft. SOCIETIES Cumberland Stet Lodge No, 127, 1. Y. M. meets at Marlon Hall on the 2ud and dth Tuesdays of every month. . . . Bk. John's Lodge No. 260 A. Y. M. Moots 3d Thera day of each month, at Marlon Hall. Carlisle Lodge No. 9i I. 0. of U. N. Meets Monday evening, at Trout's building. Letort Lodge No. 63, I. O. of G. T. Moots every Thursday evening in Rheum's Hall, 3d story. 0 FIRE COMPANIES, The Union Fire Company was organized in 1780. House in Loather. between Mend Hanover. The Cumberland Fire Company was Ipstitutild Feb. 18,.1.800. House In iladlord, between Main and.Pom fret. w • The Good Will Fire Company was Instituted In March, 1855. House in Pomfret, ne.ar Hanover. The itmpire Hook and Ladder Company was instltu tad in 1850. House in Pitt, near Main. RATES OF 'POSTAGE Postage on all letters of ono half ounce 'weight or under, 3 cents pre paid. Postage on the IiBRAI.D within the County, free. Within the State 13 cents per annum. To any part otthe United States, 26 cents Postage on all Iran• slant papers, 2 cents per ounce. Advertised letters to be charged with cost of advertising. MRS• R. A. SMITH'S Photographs, Ambrotypes, lvorytypes Beautiful Albums ! Beautiful Frames ! Albums for Ladles and Gentlemen, Albums fur Misses, and for Children, - I'ookot Albums for Soldiers and Civilians, Choicest AlbuYns I Prottkost Albums I Cheapest Albums! FOR CHRISTMAS GIFTS I 'trash and New from Now York and Philadelphia Markets. Ir want satisfactory Pictures and polite attention call 'at hire. It. A. Smith's Photo graphic Gallery, Beath Bast Corner of Hanover Street and Market Square, opposite the Court. House and Post Otftcp, Garlisle, Pa. . Mrs. It. A. Smith well known as Mrs. R. A.Reynolds, and so well known as a Daguerrean Artist, gives per petual attention to Ladles and Gentlemen visiting her gallery, and having the best of Artists and polite at t.pridputs_ can safely promise that in no other Gallery can those who favor her with a rail 'get pictures sopa !Or to hers; not even-in New York or- ehiladelphiai or }}feet with more kind and prompt attention. - AmbrotYpes inserted in Rings, Lockets, Breast Pine, 'Ate. Perfect copies of Dagnerrotypes and Ambrotypes loath, of deceased friends. Whore copies are defaced, lie-like pictures may still be had, either for cradles or or cards. All negatives preserved one year and orders •,,b,y mail or otherwiseprOmptly attended ' December, 23, 180,1—tf T HE FORWARDING AND GRAIN business fortnerly; conducted by Line, Gisler & Co., is now carried nn by 'Ju1y;20,18644-4f DR COOK; 110140130PATHIa PHYSICIAN, . Surgeon' and' .4ccouchour (; ) ,1 1 1i16,E at tin 'reaiiionca in Pitt strot, zudioluitukt.ho Methodist Chuich. : : uly,l, 1804. nuoicE SBGA.B,S TOBACCO, nmaTorps. faA:MES; i An infinite variety'af amu- Azji•ang and,inettnetlya G 5111 3 .911 at Itairtindtclea Dna; , , and Yawl /Univ. - I 25 OD 4 00 7 00 Which of us sinned? Was it you that yielded, Or I that tempted, or both that fell? Alas! theiregret Is with each as well, But you are abhorred and I am shielded. Folks look down upon you with scorning: The bonnets and beavers nod to me: Last night wo were friendly as we could be— But 1 do not know you at all this morning. Did you blush as I coldly cut you today, Having sued and eortened so close before? I have used and need you, my sweet, no more ; For I have my purpose, and you your way. It pained you last night Whoa I spoke of gold, And you hid your tears on my breast, I think— While I gayly jested, and bade you drink ; You will love It, my sprightly ono, ore you be oidt You are pretty, indoed, and may marry you know! There's a fellow—a shoemaker—did you not state? Who used at the shop-door of nights to wait, And follow you looms with his cheeks aglow. I think ho loved you, If such folks can ; But you saw my gold seals as I anti led and spoke, Did you say that the clown's soft heart was broke, ['shave! I did nothing to grieve the man. Only the bluo eyes khood by your curl, Only the little feet 'older your gown, Only the full arms bare and brown— I saw as I "I must know,that girl!" Did you dream of weddings with children fraught? All! not all the little ones know their sires, Did you road in my face the wild desires, Though yours word as pure as a baby's thought? gave you presents—trifles and rings— And your fingers trembled the gold beneath I praised your rich, color and beautiful teeth wimps you believed the ridiculous things! I awoke the women within the child— How you lay in my arms with your lips ivtlame, Never dreaming such passion hid in sham°, Though your bosom was high with its 'leavings wild! I whispered the mysteries dimly known— Your fore lay burning on mine the while, And spoke of Ila'does In far-off isle, And of !warts that boat for each other alone. They boiled your blood till the springs were dry, They brought you delirious dreams by eight ; And your father's hearth, in old days so bright, Grew cold and mean in your scornful eye. Men w , re not the beings they used to seem, Nor purity pleasure, nor love a tint'', Nor labor honor, nor glory youth, Nor sin the terror that young ho •rts deem. You have not fbrgaton—O! If you might— The walk In thu wind when thu loaves blew by, And a few pale starlets pooped from thesky, And the shop windows glared with a grinning 11,;ht You worn walking with um to your grabs lily dear Andthe door that shut was your coffin-lid; And wilco in thu lazar-place au hid, The carved couch was your shroud and Mar I Never again In the sunlight sweet Shall the old, old peace to your blue rye mule Nor in the emn eve leg's wilderit g hum Your steps Hug as musical down the street. But what of it, all! I know that you wept And ,poke of your ur.ther with bitterne.; And sadthat yi•u feared that night to press Your brother's cheek ere he fondly slept. Pleb! Somebody else would as much hove dons, And smiled :it the triumph, as I at mine; When I tell It so gleefully, over my wine ; And the boys say, In short, it was wonderful fun! M., Professor of the I wish that thwdeured thing would not recall, When ! sit et In doi ilwt health, my tied ; And fancy I henrA tight footstep tread Down the etl lly floor of my lonesome hall! Your fare, very pale, and spectral, flits Down the abdes of my fancy, and smiething glides On the lofty hopes of nip even-tides: I must drink some pain sherry to mend my wits. Zoom's! You trouble me still; Eureka, hore's gold; And tho Tieusury note will buy ribbons and dross, I mutt write you a letter of fouderooss, That will settle the matter for nest and old I How over that girl's face around me roams] My knees are trembling, my voice Is thick; flow blue climbs the flamo on tho candiowick God pity us both to our haunted homes] "My dea'r fellow," said I, passing my arm through my friend's, as we left Lady I,—'s ball together, " I don't like your dancing so much with that girl in blue." " That cerulean angel, you mean," said Jack ; "but the fact is, you are jealous." "It is not much use for a man who starts for India to morrow to be jealous of any one he leaves behind, more especi-. ally if he has to make his fortune before he can keep a wife. But there is ,no possi ble reason why you. should not - marry, with that Black moor property of yours; and give 'hostages to fortune,' as saith my Lord Bacon; only I hope you will not choose that little girl in blue." " Well, Tracy, here we aro at the cham bers; you shall give your reasons why a man should not marry a lady dressed in blue, over a pipe. So long as she doesn't weir blue stockings to match, I can't see anything to object to in it." Oh, the bliss of an evening pipe with the friend of your heart ! We found a snug fire burning, swept away some books and papers to the sofa, settled our tum blers at our elbows, and ourselves in roomy slippers and easy chairs, and were soon in a silent cloud protected Olympus. "Now," said my friend, (having doubtless emerged from a dreamland tenanted by an houri in blue tarletan) "what makes you abUse my partner of tonight! I sup pose, you had no business to engross her for several dances, you will say ; but her style of dancing suits ; and when .a garcon means nothing serious, Women don't mind -beige booked for. several waltzes. If am not an eldest - son; you know, and Mountehapel did not show in the horizon all the evening " • " I did ; not mean that," I replied; "you can settle all that with her chaperone." "Didn't You like her blue gauze, then!" he wont on. Think l of the blue vapors thatileitered-fslowly-clrawniround - MOunt Ida; man and what goddesses were conceal-. ed behind them." ' JOHN OREASON, ' Oro son, °odd), Co . " aweet ore,aturcs in blue aro much the sanieito me as sweet things in pink, Jack: The only blue things I dislike are bine "And', devils," added , he. "Is: it ,her 14ae yen :carp at, or belc figure !or . her oyes or: that l" ' ' ' ; ' • VOL. 65. RHEEM & WEAKLEY, Editors & Proprietors I sfugtisil. Paul Rowland's Ghost AN M. D.'S TALE • . . . . , '' ' 4110" . c- -- `3 :.• ' ~..'. 1 .''',.',i ,, . . , . '1 . • . •. , .. , • • . . . . . . , , ~ • 1 ' " ' • :: k ‘..' ; : il . . . 7 ' f, ''': - ( 3, '' . . . . . . .. . 11 1 1 , 1 • , . . . 11 4 1 j , . ~ . , ~ , _ .. . . . . _lll . ,_ "Now you have it I can't stand her eyes." " Not stand her eyes !" be exclaimed in astonishment, puffing out volumes of smoke. " I don't much wonder at that, for I am sure I cannot. But they are heaven's own blue, and in their depths—" and then he clasped his hands and went into a silent ecstasy, as is the wont of lovers. " Well," said I, " you need not fancy me the green-eyed monster, for I am quite indifferent to their color; but, seriously, I don't like their flash." "It does look a man through," replied the smitten Jack. "I don't suppose you are -.very hard hit yet, or it would be, no use my telling you—she has madness in her." "Good heavens ! how can you tell! Did you ever see" her before! Do you know anything of her family !" " Not I; I never met her before to night; but it is. little use a man going out to India, the land of madness, 'until he has studied mental disease, and the eye is the surest criterion of it. I would• not see a friend of mine marry that girl for a groat deal." " My dear Tracy, you are far too solemn about it; who is going to marry her, in the first place ? and in the next, I am not such a blind believer in science as to think the eye the scat of leaser', nor yet so incredulous as to deem all you tell me in 'my eye.'" " It is really no laughing matter," I replied. " The eye is the mirror of the soul, if you can only read it rightly. lam confi dent that the wild, excited flash I noticed frequently in those deep violet eyes of that girl (themselves the i'ery color that bespeak immense imagination and enthu• siasm) forbodes no good hereafter. Excite her, and you would raise a storm in a moment. I have seen a woman of her temperament before now, in the hospital, make her teeth meet in the board at the head of her bed. Give her a continuance of excitement, and cunning will lead its wiles to mania. Thence arises the direst form of mental aberration—the calmness of marble externally, the passions of a fury working within. Such a woman must be ri_orously confined, or she 'will work a demon's masterpiece." " There, Tracy, enough !" he said, and wo gladly changed the topic, for I had spoken my mind, and was willing enough to leave such a subject, more e, , pecially when I remembered that it was our last night. After a good deal of chat, and in a very thick atmosphere of smoke, I wished him farewell deep in the small hours, as an Englishman does, without any display of feeling, though we know it would be at least a ten year's parting. "Good-by, old boy," I said ; " send me a lino now and then, and tell me when your wings are clipped." " Good-by my dear Tracy; be quick and kill off all the Nabobs. One last word of advice—be sure you don't marry a Begun] in blue!" Next morning the good ship "Glen dower" bore me slowly to my adopted country. For fourteen years I ministered to enlarged livers, and mingled in the gai ety of Indian life at a pleasant station. Hav ing left few friends behind me, I seldom heard much domestic intelligence from the old country. You ought to have at least three sisters if you go to India; no letters are so amusing, after all, as theirs. One mail came wedding cards indeed from the Hon. John Francis Arden, my old friend Jack and Mrs. J. F. Arden, nee Julia Harrington. I wrote and congra tulated him duly. Then the mutiny burst like a meteor on the country; I was be sieged in a compound at It with a handful of Europeans. The Sepoys bat tered at us from an intrenchment hastily thrown up.. We sallied out and stormed it; I saw a tall mutineer in front, as I, leapt through their rude embrasure, and 'made at him with my regulation blade. It shivered on his wooden 'shield; he raised his tulwar, and next moment I should hai/0 been cut'down, but ere tho blow fell my supporters had planted a sheaf of bayonets in his breast. I rushed on, but a ball laid me low, and when I recovered consciousness I found the day our own, our compound relieved, and ~ myself or dered off to England next mail, as the only chance for myjife. It wet a dull, foggy November evening when I reached London. To a man who has long been expatriated no solitude is greater than Bond street; it was . with'the greatest joy therefore that I fell in with Arden two or three days after my arrival. He wa's now in .Parliamont, and a very glutton of statistics. It was soon iottled that after I had finished my business in town I should visit him at. Blaolcionoor: A. few, days afterwards I was whirled , along the South Western .to Devonshire. Woking with its melancholy gravestones, looking, like so many white garden pegs stuck - in . a - parterre'as yoU hurry-pasttwas -- left bnliin4;, the 'vast Meet Pond waS Oressed;'Soon we weroin the dreary coun try .of TOmpleopruhU and lqilhorne . Port. Who on earth lives there, that trains ghopld require, to stop in, that wildernees 1 ..ibhey . ;, - another,nitp, and awoke td tindimiSelf flying through the eider crohards ,and alleye'io N und Doniton. The. itlabitinent t ' carriage soon brought me to the Hall, and I descended light and refreshed, like, Hermes himself, to the dining-room. - It was not a large party, and I had a particularly silent partner, who was far more attentive to the entremets than to your humble servant, so I had leisure to contemplate Mrs. Arden. She was a very pretty blonde, rosy-checked, bright-eyed, and smiling at every word she nt' ered. Jack was always a goodhumorod fellow, I reflected; here for once you see the hus band mirrored in the wife; who could ever be snappish to that woman, who looks the incarnation of cheerfulness? We adjourned to the drawing-room. Some one sang "Di tanti pac"iti." I was leisurely chatting to Mrs. Arden, and thinking what a lucky fellow Jack was to marry such a pretty and sensible woman, when the final cadence seemed to touch a long silent chord within me. Joining the group thund the piano, I found Miss Van deleur at the instrument. Kate was an old flame, and we were epee dily on the beet of terms. She was stop ping with the Awdrys, she told me, at Kilton Park. Awdry himself soon came up, and seeing how matters stood, asked me over to look up the pheasants for a few days. Jack had evidently forgotten all about our conversation on madness before I left home so tnany'years ago, and I could not quite ask him whether ho married the obnoxious lady I had inveighed against that evening. Neither could I satisfy my self whether Mrs. Arden were that lady. Every now and then I fancied a shade came over her usual serenity. It might be an index of the terrible power slum bering within, I thought prosaically, it might be indigestion. The Ardens drove me over to Kilton, and I was soon head over oars in love with Kate Vandeleur. I am not going to inflict upon you our love-making; suffice it to say that in a week Kate and I were engaged. I had not paid much attention to the pheasants, aud, beyond fancying Mrs. Awdry rathei ti shrew, had found no leis ure for aught but the attentions a man must show a pretty girl in a country home, particularly when he is engaged to her. One evening in December, in the pleasant glow of the large drawing-room, Kate and I were chatting at the piano, oblivious of else than ourselves, when she suddenly leekefLup and. saw Mrs. Awdry ler.ve,. her work-table and walk to the west window. Kate jumped up and ran to her. "My dear Mrs. Awdry! six-fifty, and we have not gone up-stairs even! What will your husband say?" "Never mind, Miss Vandeleur; come here." The two stood together in the embrasure of the window, and I could not help ad miring them from my snug scat at the fire. They were about the same stature, but how different in face! The faint lamp burning in the window amongst the cam elias and cytisus flung its pale glow upon their countenances, and while Mrs. Awdry was solemn and awestruck, with her flaxen hair gathered into a simple mass behind, Kato was laughing furtively, and wreath ed in smiles for my benefit, and her dark hair and eyebrows stood out Ito strong relief against the mellow amber light. "Do you see those gloomy clouds away in the west, Miss Vandeleur?" "To be sure, Miss Awdry; bet how dark and chilly they arc. Shall I light your candle ?" , "Stop here, child," said Mrs. Awdry, seizing Kate's arm earnestly, " do you believe in omens ?" and then she pointed to the dark background, while Kate, now somewhat awestruck too, followed her glance. A light radiance seemed floating in the west. Soon a bright point appeared strug gling on through the sky, a moment more and the full moon burst outin all its splen dor, and what seemed clouds proved, to be mountains, down which a fi,od of soft light poured, showing us a fair prospect of valley and hill, through which every now and dm a roof glinted, or a torrent flashed down the precipice like a stream of silver. Then a cloud veil drifted over the moon, and all again beeame obscure. "How very beautiful!" exolamed Kate, and we were all silent for a moment. •. oinethiugseetued to have excited Mrs. Awdry strongly, for she still held Kate and pointed to the west. " Well, I will light candles," said that young lady, and having done so joined me at the fireside. A few minutes more and the gong at ,the top of the stairs roared its summons to dinner. Uow I hate gongs! They aro detestable at dinner-tin e, but who shall describe their horror in the morning? You / aro in the calmest of dreams; a- mo ment more and the - PrinOess of 'Came : ralsarnan would lay Jusr., hand in yours, when "walk!, oohl cob!" out rings that frightful • tocsin, and you leap up most vat= Tautly` and snatch at what should be- r a et . 11 - Crd - trifiiid - tii_Uiiii - have been tricked, and that, now'you 'are . once out of hed, it is no•use getting in again. My malison on the whole - race of gongs! from the little ones you. see advertised to "alarm burg lars,":/ t 0.,, .those fallbloyn.menstOsitiee Dinner , passed •in a mood less merry than ,neural. Mrs: Awdry seamed vary distraitc. Aydry himself, / = a man of rathei MIMI= CARLISLE, PA., FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1865. :~~ :`n:•;:c, j ) % obtuse perceptions, conversed with Mrs. Arden on magistrates, business and short horns: Making every allowance for her weariness of these topics, I, who was listen ing to Jack, could see that his wife was ill at ease about something else. Mrs. Awdry had some whim about leaving ono of the dining-room windows with the blind up and no shutters drawn. It was just behiild me and opposite Mrs. Arden. I glanced round and saw the moon "riding apparent queen" amongst the stars. Then I looked at Jack's wife. Her eyes wan dered restlessly to the window, and then to Mrs. Awdry, but she said nothing. When tho womenkind retired at. the close of tho evening, Jack, and our enter tainer withdrew to the gun-room, situat ed at the other end of the house, for a cigar. I felt unaccountably sleepy, and sought my room. After winding my watch and kicking off my shoes, something drew me to the window. r raised the blind and swept back the curtains. It was.very clear and star-lit.. Just below a gravel-walk, shin: ing between two dark lawns, led off to the shrubberies. An ominous scud flew every now and then over the moon. "A nice night for the poachers," I thought, when suddenly a woman flitted on the walk be fore me. Was it a woman, or could I be dream ing? No one, certainly no woman, had any business in the shrubbery, I reflected, this bitter frosty night. Yet there the tall slight figure, with some dusky cape on, was passing quickly before. Soon the gate of the shrubbery was opened and silently shut, and, whoever she was, the figure disappearedamong the laurels. I was on the point of dropping the blind, and thinking it a lady's maid going to meet the young keeper for a few minutes' chat, when another female figure, tall as the other, and also loosely wrapped in a gray shawl, came out from the house to the path. She was evidently undecided what to do, as she paused and listened; that instant. (he moon came brightly out from a cloud, and I saw it Sias Miss Vandeleur's face, ut pale and terror-stricken. In a moment an awful fancy seized ino. The ino - ori . B power had drawn - out Jack's wife, and Kate had followed but lost sight of her. Mrs. Arden might do herself no harm beyond catching a cold, or she might destroy herself; but what of Kate? What if slip were perceived by Mrs. Arden, and thel...tteil, in her frency, were to turn upon her? The idea was too awful. I hastily flung on my cloak, rushed down stairs, and in the hall met Mrs. Arden, calm and bright as ever. She was habited just as when she left the drawing room, and carried a candle and a book. “Mr. Tracy! what is amiss ? You might have seen a ghost !” she said. "1-1.--1 fancied I—Excuse my agita tion? Where is Miss Vandeleur ?" "Kate! In her rootu, to be surc !" "Well, but 1 thought I saw her just now on the lawn. By-the-bye," added j, as a thought struck me, "where is Mrs. Awdry ?" "I have just been down to fetch her the second volume of 'Stolen Secrets.' But what is amiss with you ? what has happened ?" "Will you oblige me by taking up the book to Mrs. Awdry, and then saying Good-night to mo from the upper land ing? I will tell you my dreams in the morning," I added lightly. "After a gob(' night's sleep, I hope," said she, and passed up stairs. I paced impatiently up and down the hall till steps were heard above, and Mrs. Awdry said softly, "My good Mr. Tracy, don't terrify us poor women to death, but go and join the men in the smoking-room, or else ring for Hastings to bring you hot water, and have a sedative before you go up-stairs Good-night !" Mrs. Arden also said Good night, and before I could rejoin they had both retired. Was it a dream of mine, or bud I seen people outside Miss Vande leur I could not he mistaken in; at.. all events I would look out at 'the night I opened the door and passed on to the lawn. There was a touch of frost in the air; and all was silent except the monot onous fall of water over a distant wheel. Rapidly passing into the shrubbery whore I had seen the figures disappear, I look ed up and down the long walks, but be yond the bare leafless arms of trees and many a dark shadow, chequering the mooulit ground, I saw nothing: Brush ing through the laurels, I vaulted the paling and found myself in the park. row scenes are more lovely than an English park in the moonlight—the dark clumps of- trees and ruminating 'cattle, and sil very grass shrouded by mists here - and there, are always engaging; but I had no tine for an - artistio"glande just then I was looking for a moving figure. Ha I, there was"eomathingon thatriee, but now it bed tiiitiklearedl-I- - ran till:he hillock,. - dashed through the miste and•driwn into the glade in time to hear a snort or tWO, arida fittelind joined o troop, of ten or a dozen others, - and all trOtted.off,into - ! the, darkness: With a lough kr,ctitioOkiny steps, And thinking all meat have been, a delusion' whi6h, aillslre._.&Warybad sag, brandy and water, I resolved to' punish gasfings, for,my nooturnal.rambley ,and, returned to ring him , • , . „ , ; . , . Soon I perceived I had missed my way, and as each turn I took round the gnarled hawthorns only led me up one hill and down another glade shrouded in the same blue mist till all looked identical, I began to think my adventures were not yet over. I had Dever been in this part of the park before, and, though I approached a large fir wood at the sidep did not like vcntur ingintd it ; better be lost in an open park, I reflected, than plunge about in a dark wood, and perhaps fall into an old quarry. So I passed down the edge of it to an open ride. I had entered this, when to my amazement the same figure I had seen from the window crossed it at right angles some way in front. A moment more and the second figure followed. I dashed up the ride and gazed down the cross-path ; it led into a thick haze that cut off all further investigation of tho mysterious wanderers, add they were not in sight. I listened and heard no footfalls. "They aro all in the park," I thought; "I will secure them at once, or at all e vents see the denouement of all this." Turning my head, however, I saw the house at the other end of the park, and a light in a small window that I conjectured must be the pantry. To reach this win dow and tap at it took me pot a moment's time. I heard some one give a violent start, and then the valiant Hastings call ed out (to some imaginary ally, for no other man slept indoors,) "Thieves ! mer cy on us! thieves ! hero, John, bring my blunderbuss, and take you the big carver!" "Hold your stupid noise, Hastings," I. said, "and come out quickly without say ing a word to any one; you will find the front door open. I wantyou for a guide " After a minute or two he appeared on the lawn with a dark lantern (that he had forgotten to light) and a sword, as if to attack poachers. "Drop those," I said, "and come on at once. Two of the ladies arc in the park, and I fear the worst." We hurried on in silence down the ride and through the haze to a height overlooking the park, whore we paused a moment. Hastings was pulling like a grampus over what might be a tablecloth he wore as a necktie. He evidently thought we light-headed, and began to wish he had kept his sword. I descended the long dip with intense eagerness. It led down to the Exe, and like a clear white ribbon the river wound round this side of the domain. I saw no signs of the ladies, and once mere began to doubt my own sanity. Turning to my guide I said: "Well, Hastings, did you hear any one moving in the house befi.ire I knocked at the'window ?" " I did, sir ; the gentlemen arc still in the gun-room ; but I heard some lady pass iny door, and fancied I heard the drawing-room window open. But 1 bad a tiood deal to do to the plate; and it doesn't do, you know sir," he added rneaningly, " to take any notice of one's flincies." I. was going to blow him up for his cowardice, when I saw one of my phan toms passing quickly to the water-side, and the other ibllowing. " Stay, Hastings, not a word ! Look there !" It is my lady and Miss Vendelcur, I think sir," he said. We were somewhat hidden, and stood rooted to the ground in utter amazement. The first figure turned at the river's edge, and seeing Miss Vandeleur follow ing, waited for her; wo could see them parleying as it seemed, and then they walked along the side to a clump of' low willows. The moon was out brightly at this time, so I could see distinctly what occurred. The first figure stepped into a boat under the trees; the other de layed. " Good heavens, sir !" cried the*but ler, " run ! There are no oars in her, and the lusher is only a hundred yards off below the willows !" I was off like a shot long before he had ended, and sped to the boat, but not in time to prevent both ladies getting in and pushing off into the streiin q They saw me, and Mrs. Awdry, flinging the boat-hook into the water, stood up in the stern, while poor Kate cowered on the benches. " Save mo, Mr. Tracy," she cried, " oh save us !" "All right, my darling," Z called; " look out !"' and was instantly in the water up to my knees, when, horror of horrors ! Mrs. Awdry raised a knife that .1. gleamed in the moonlight responsive to her own wild-eyes, and said coldly, stern ly, and impassively, as she held it over Kate : " Como a foot , nearer us and I strike ! We are going to have a new sensation to-night I" •I stood in utter despair, not daring.to theve , and' the heat' i ‘yhtro.s ily swung,off into..doeperwater past: me, .ivhkle'AtrS.',.:Avujt.y . l3,tock4 W h ite, with: er hair loose, and" .th'e gleaming knife' over head, like Sortie: fury' bearing oft poor Kate to destruction. She. was tailtig mad, I saw, and, awful as the sit.- uation,was, I felt inStinetive)y it waS . ,best •to keep quiet. • moment," I Milled, 4 , and . ' help hand I" f. . -Akvdry did not seem to heed TERMS:--$2,00 in Advance, or $2,60 within the year. but raised a wild snatch of Italian Dalce Vendetta ! and glared now at the moon above, now at poor trembling Miss Van deleur below. As the boat moved into the centre of the river I ventured to emerge and run along the bunk, keeping a vigilent watch on Mrs. Awdry's move ments. Soon the boat ceased to whirl round, and shot steadily on, and I heard the increasing rush and roar of what had seemed from the lawn like a water-wheel, but was in reality a lusher, or a back water, where the Exe, swollen with the late floods of autumn, plunged madly over a stone weir into a sullen pool be yond. The danger thickened momenta rily, and I dared not yet dash in ! Still the knife was glittering in Mrs. Awdry's I made up my mind to wait a few sec- I onds More, and then leap in at all risks; even then I might only hope to tow the boat nearer thg shore before it took the dread plunge, and it was certain the knife would fall on pCor Kate. I turned instinctiliely to look for help, and a large stone was flung over my head, and fell with a heavy splash beside the Mrs. Awdry started, and the knife drop ped into the stream. " Well clone, Hastings !" I cried, as that functionary came pacing up. "Run to the top of the lasher and be ready to help." " Now, then, Kate darling ! I will save you yet!" As I plunged in I saw Mrs. Awdry cower down beside Kate, but the sudden cold and the rushing of the water in my ears gave me no more time than to rise half bewildered to the surface and strike out wildly to be boat. Swiftly, swiftly was I drawn on to it; the yawning lash er wa; lot( (en yards further on and I saw the white, leaping waters dance like ~3 0 many fiemls in the moonlight. A stroke more and I had my arms on the boat's side. calling loudly over the hiss and swirl below rue. Alas ! Kate had fainted, and ere I could turn the boat, we were swept over, I sprang forward and clutched Kate's dress, and then was struck violently on the head by a post, and whirled round, blinded and suffbea ted, and contused against the stones, and finally, after what seemed an age instead of an instant, lost my senses. When I came to myself I was lying on my back on t-ho grass with my hand still firmly grasping Miss Vandcleur's dress Ilastings and Jack were holding me, and the latter was dripping. '• Thanks, Jack," I feebly murmured, and turned to look at Kate. "No grip like a drowning man's," said Jack. " But what on earth does all this mean ?" The wan figure beside me was raised as I loosened my hold, and Ilas tings sped off for assistance. n Good Heavens !" said I, " it's Mrs. Awdry !" In my hurry and confused state of mind 1 had seized Mrs. Awdry and saved her instead of Kate ! " Oh, Jack, Jack !" I said piteous/y, " where is Kate ? Lift me up, let me .go in again ! Save her, and never mind me !" Ile held me in a vice, and said : Fait don't go in again, I can tell you. But what in the world brought MissNendeleur here too :"' And in be plunged once more into the seething: pool, dark as ink under the high pol lards. I jumped up, and in an agony was crawling to the edge, when what seemed an otter drawing out a salmon on the other side resolved itself into Awdry, whose cherry voice soon rang out Here she is, breathing yet, Tracy ! Come over the bridge just below, and I will cross to my wife." Out came Jack again, dripping like a Newfoundland, and speedily led me over the bridge, where we found Miss Vandeleur sense less on the bank. But then came a crowd of domestics, and doctors, and hot-water bottles, and the two ladies were carried off to a neigh boring cottage. ' In an hour poor Kate slowly revived, but Mrs. Awdry never breathed again. It was supposed that she had been struck against -the stones. As for Mrs. Arden, she knew nothing of what had occurred until the next morning. Mrs. A.wdry had cleverly disarmed ..her fear's., and sent her to bed. When Kate could con verse on that dreadful night, she in formed us that she lost sight of Mrs. , 4wdry in the park for some time;anti . ..it was plain tßat lady led rettirned • to lull all suspicious, .(during which, time she had said good=night to me in the hall,) and then descended- to tho park, where Kate; - onoe--rnore seeing her, pursued ' her and'the sequel has been told. Such, is-the eunniag•of madness, and with such terrible- frenzy does. it sometimes blaze out, after many years' quiet, at the sight of something or eomebodY that revives old t associations. I need not ottylhat Mr. Awdry had niarried' th,e . yOung, faddy; dressed in blue, whose eyes hadtotd their tale so readily on Ant 1(1)2g-distant, even ing of the ball at I 4 e.dy ; and perthape it is still less needful to add, that six moriths'after the tragedy of that' eventful night,etKilteu-.Park, - 111 Yen= ifelear- gave-me - the- offie e -,ministering to. her ,sadly-shaketh nerves ,14 a- xciuolt dearer tie. than' that of your humble : servant, • ' Last year I trial, thine Heidi with DI; Anyfthat'a the simple recap why' They now look arid: - Then DI was fake anP Vatelr It unite on sue,..tbrhbio+, Dre•far luni marrlodl In bliss we reasd, / soorb'd the cone - Which says that tho' young Loy, is a//041/, The Yates are stronger : Then breezes blew a boon to men— Then buttercups were bright—and then This grass has longer. NO, 11. That day I saw, and much esteeit'd Di's ankles—which the clover seam'Cl Inclined to smother: It twitch'd—and noon untied (for Nu) The ribbons of her 'Ames; fist one, And then the other. !Tic said that virgins augur some Misfortune, if their shoestrings com• To grief on Friday: And so did Dl—and so her pride Decreed that shoestrings so untied Are co" untidy I" Or course I knelt, with fingers deft I tied the right, and then the left; Says Dl—"This stubble In very stupid, as I live, I'm shocked, I'm quite ashamed to give You so much trouble." For antiwar I was fain to sink To what most swains would say mud think, Were Beauty preaunt ; " Don't mention ouch a simple act, A trouble? not the least. In fact Ito rather ploaaant." I trust that love will never tease Poor little DI, or provo that he', A graeeloss rover; She's happy now—as Mrs. Smith— But less polite whet; walking with f or chosen lover. Farewell 1 And tho' no moral clings To Dl's soft eyes and sandal strings, We've, had our quarrels; I think that :'mlttl is thought an ass, But know that, when they walk In grass She teems balmorala. The Seven-Thirty Loan. Vhere the People put their Money. ONE DAY'S SUBSCRIPTION- Special Correvondonco of the N.Y. Tribune Stephen Girard's Bank in Philadel phia elbows Jay Cooke & Co.'s flat np against The Evening Bulletin. The. Evening Bulletin squeezes Jay Cooke & Co.'s back again against Stephen Gir ard's, and then makes all the noise it can under Jay Cooke & Co.'s with power presses and a steam engine, and sets types and writes editorials and tramples with boot, above .Jay Cooke & Co.'s.— Jay Cooke & Co.'s in Philadelphia sug gests the idea of a difficult acquisition long aoo of a narrow front-room in which to dr) a banking business—of an ex ten,,inn of this territory in time by the aid of a carpenter skilled in door-mak ing, into a snuggery behind, for confi dential communications—of a subsequent acquisition by purchase of , a, right to cut a door through the partition-wall of a little room straight beyond, that some body possessed—of a subsequent growth sideways out of the snuggery through another paitition in a little room where seemingly The Bulletin once kept a very small and very tame devil—and after ward and from sheer force of assimila• Lion, this little room seems to have in sisted upon the company of another lit tle room, living at right angles to it; and the carpenter was sent for and they were married through a door-way. It is bright moon now, and bright sun light, out in - South Third-et. It is bright gas light, in this last room, and it is as hot as an oven. Three big burners are aping, and there are four clerks with pens agoing. You feel that they have come to a high moral understanding not to joggle each other in their work, and that they each have got a favorable ar rangement with an optician for glass eyes, when they shall have got blind in this Grey light. You have a sense of just going to upset something, walk into something, knock something down, in some way to derange the finances of the United States of America, if you move in this little room, or turn your head, or even wink strongly. You are stunned by seeing a little telegraph boy with his message-book held to his breast. with both hands, rush in and rush up to a clerk with military whiskers and give him a dispatch, and then turn with a hardened indifference and commence the chewing of gum, which he has irrever ently brought into the place in his cheek. The dispatch is read and receipted for, and the boy • vanishes ~with stop of im mense business, but chewing. The rib bon of paper which he has left behind him is an order for ball a million of Sev en-Thirty bonds. It is noon at Jay Cooke & In side the parent front room of - all these little back and side rooms, the narrow space between the counter and the wall is crowded with people waiting to be , waited on. They are of all classes, all degrees, and of all colors. Therearu, black men in Jay Cooke 43 Co 's, and they hold motley in their hands; and there is a soldier there, and there is an officer, lame, yet with an unmistakable air of command ,and of guardianship ; and there arc quakers, who Jool4 annul,;. ty, and coupons, and peace andgoodness? all over them; and there is a clergyman, and a woman that sews, and sews by gas. light, I will wager, and three women who . sew not, neither do they s in, but who make investments; and thera' are . )iie chanics, one with his dinner 1 :4 ; *d . there are two impatient :brokers;. WiNt take little walks in small circles and out watches to seewhat'Solook. Th eir - ''o time is nloxie.Y. A.@ I •QW 13 0.04 Orin* p.le putting something away in. - -inside pockets, comes'out fronithesee4s4nonti and flows int; the street. A new": tele graph hey with . that peculiar stri4ftt life-or-death haste that nothing mutat, struct; bitts.into the crowd, and his book and handles his dispeteikaalm pushed through to the turn-off }into:` tike little room yiihero .7 1 10 041,56140X140.1geit it tame and ,tiny devil, .maatft'Ae‘ttoslytle room—where:--yew 'ea! awash the finanecs of - 34>ursoulitT ' ":f , (*ne here, hoYf4hee eA; Let me see hoWthey corae ;imp " MRS. SMITH," PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 16, '66