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BY JOHN G GIVEN.
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BY 21113. H. F. AXES.
"Hang it all. Frank, how dull you are !
I asked you to accompany me to day, in
hopes that you would help me to drive off
a legion of blue devils that have been pur
suing me like my shadow for a week or
more, but instead of doing so, your rever
ential step and wo begone image would
give a fellow the horror9 with Mirth
standing at his elbow. Come, man, what
has gone wrong with you ?"
"Nothing, I assure you; I was never in
better spirits. Perhaps I was yielding
somewhat to the dreamy influence that
this soft South wind produces, as it steals
so lazily over the prairie grass and sweet
ly scented flowers; but let me repeat your
question, 'what has gone wrong with
you ?' "
"Oh, everything! I get no business,
and I am too proud to go back to my
father, with the tale of my defeat, as he
assured me I should one day do. 'The
West is no place for lawyers yet,' he one
day said to me, and I now believe him;
for I have been here a year now, and
have not made enough to cover my ex
penses; but I am determined to make a
raise in some manner, and the only visible
one that offers is by marrying."
"Oh, ihat will be no hard matter for
you," replied his companion, in a slightly
perceptible sarcastic tone; "Uncle Jasper
will of course receive with joy a profes
sional man like yourself into his family."
"Uncle Jasper! uncle dev 1 I should
make a great spec, Frank, marrying Lou
isa Fosworth for money, truly. Why,
what has that old curmudgeon, her father,
got but a few sections of wild land ? and
those he will keep as long as he lives, and
he will live long enough to preach my
funeral sermon, I will warrant you, if you
care for a lease of his life. Marry Louisa
Fosworth for riches ! ha ! ha ! ha ! a
good joke, upon my soul. But what led
you to fancy such a thing, Frank ?"
"The very obvious reason that you
have paid more attention to her than any
other young lady in our village since you
came among us."
"That may all be, and yet I have not
paid her much either; but really I never
thought of her as a wife; though, to tell
the truth, I think her one of the most am
iable, intelligent, nay beautiful girls that I
ever met, and had she the wealth of an
other in your village, a few hours at most
would find me at her feet, humbly suing
for her hand and that other is Sarah
Munson."
"Allow me to congratulate you on your
hopes, but unless i am mistaken, there
will be a breach of promise case before
you get through with jt. for a more com
plete coquette I verily, believe there does
not exist."
"Very likely, but the sex are all more
or lees given to it, and five thousand dol
lars m her own right is something of an
excuse for a Western belle to play the
coquette; such a needy scamp as I am
ought not to complain of it, at any rate,
and I will not; so good bye to sweet
Louisa Fosworth, and 'love in a cottage.'
Heigho ! I wish that I could afford to
marry her; she will make some fellow a
charming little wife,' as the ladies say;
don't you think so, Frank ?"
His listener replied affirmatively, and in
a livelier tone than he had before used in
speaking to his companion, and which he
managed to keep up without any apparent
exertion throughout the day a day of
fowling on oue of the beautiful prairies in
one of our Western States.
Nor was it any wonder, for to Frank
Willard Louisa Fosworth had been as the
pole star to the sea worn mariner guiding
him on through poverty and sickness, and
the many other heart storms which mark
the life of a western emigrant. Failing in
business in one of the eastern cities, he
had removed with his mother to one of the
Western States, and, perhaps unadvisedly,
tried his hand at farming, ilis means en
abled him to purchase an eight acre lot,
and upon this he commenced operations;
bin he progressed but slowly, for the very
good reason that he had attempted a kind
of business of which he knew nothing.
His cattle were lost by straying away
from him on the broad prairies in sum
mer, and his grain was, injured by being
improperly kepi in winter, and had it not
been for the advice of his mother, an en
ergetic and persevering woman, he would
have abandoned his farm, returned to the
-city, and applied for the place of clerk in
some of the mercantile houses; but she
persuaded him to persevere, and the next
year everything prospered with him. But
alas ! ' when winter came, the Angel of
Dearth was hovering over his dwelling,
nd as the spring flowers sprang from the
gladsome earth, they shrank away from
'he newly godded grave of his beloved
"WE OO WHERE DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES POINT THE VAYJ
mother. It was a heavy blow to the iso
lated young man, and he grieved as an
only and affectionate son could grieve,
over the loss of a mother. Mrs. "Willard
had made many friends, but no warmer
ones than the family of Mr. Fosworth, the
minister of the little village near which
they resided, and whose family consisted
of a wife and her young boy, and Louisa,
a daughter by a former wife.
No pains had been spared by any of
the family to the invalid, but in no one
was the disinterestedness of friendship
more apparent than in the gentle and hith
erto shrinking Louisa, then scarce sixteen
years of age. If watchers failed, it mat
tered not if her last night had been spent
by the sick couch, she would again take
her sleepless stations, and this, too, at an
age when nature calls so loudly for her
accustomed rest. If Frank Willard had
before admired the graceful vivacity of the
beautiful girl, was it any wonder that that
admiration should have ripened into a
warm passion, as he thus suddenly dis
covered the priceless wealth of her loving
heart ? And yet there was something so
pure and childlike in her entire character,
that, fondly as he loved her, he felt that it
would be a seeming sacrilege to breathe
in her ears the words of passion, until
more mature age should call forth the
glowing emotions of her woman's heart.
A year passed away, and he was grati
fied by receiving a letter from ail old
classmate, containing the intelligence of a
proposed visit, and if he liked the location,
of establishing himself in the practice of
the law in his immediate vicinitv. It was
a pleasing prospect for Frank, for Turner
Williams had been the favorite friend of
his boyhood, and a boon companiou in
his latter years. That he had some defects
of character he was well aware, but who
has not? and he looked forward with
joyous anticipation to his arrival. He
came at the specified time, was pleased
with everything he saw, and the citizens
were soon enlightened as to his intentions
by a showy sign, with the words, "Tur
ner Williams, Attorney and Counsellor at
Law," gilded upon it. "From an Eastern
city, and college educated," was an im
mediate passport into the best society the
little village afforded, and he soon found
himself a favored guest in every family
where he chose to visit.
Frank Willard observed with pleasure
the success of his frfend in gaining the
seeming good will of the people among
whom he intended to re?ide, uniilhe came
into the family of Mr. Foswoith, or "Un
cle Jasper," as he was usually designated
among his friends; but here even friend
ship faltered, as he saw the warm welcome
of the parents, and with a lover's jealous
eye watched the flirting blushes of the
now more than ever beautiful daughter.
"It is my destiny," he muttered one
evening, after he had returned to his
boarding house from a visit with Williams
at the parsonage, "and has ever been thus;
the cup of happiness will be held out to
me, and as I reach forth my hand to grasp
it, it will be suddenly dashed aside ! Fool
that I was, to suppose love like mine
could be requited.
' And must I look calmly on, and see
her given to another, anil that other one
whom I myself introduced to her!" These
and similar thoughts were constantly in
truding themselv.es upon the mind of
Frank, up to the time of the conversation
which commences my story, and in which
he discovered the heartlessness of his
"world-warped" friend.
A short time only was allowed to elapse,
ere he visited the home of Louisa as in
; former days, and an early period was
chosen to declare to its object the passion
he had so secretly cherished, and with a
strangely throbbing heart he listened for
an answer. It came, and the reader need
only know that it was favorable, and that
the ingenious and blushing girl acknowl
edged that she had shed many bitter tears
over his recent seeming coldness. The
consent of the father was not withheld,
"but," he added, "do you, who know my
meagre resources, expect to take my
daughter portionless V
. "As far as mere wealth is concerned,
yes; but instead of regarding it as a misfor
tune, I look upon it in this case as a bles
sing." "How so!" asked the other with sur
prise. "Do you wish to be understood
that Louisa would be less acceptable to
you with a certain portion of this wolrd's
goods?"
Perhaps not, under certain circumstan
ces, but but "
"Well, but what?"
"I fear I do wrong in repeating it, but
if Louisa Fosworth had possessed wealth
equal to her virtues, and beauty, I should
have found a powerful rival in one whom
I have long found it vain t o. contend a
gainst, at least where elegance alone is
concerned."
"Indeed! Ah, you need not speak the
name, circumstances lead me to cues? it.
EBENSBURG, THURSDAY,
And so the young lawyer would have
sought ray treasure, had he known its
nominal value," he continued, but rather
as if speaking to himself than to the young
man at his side; and then tuiningto Frank
and taking his hand, he said in a trem
bling voice: "I yield her to 'ou, Frank
Willard, as I would the dearest thing I
possess on earth. She resembles her
sainted mother, but oh, for your sake and
mine, make her. cot an .idol, as I. did that
mother, lest like her she be suatched away
10 show us the sin of idolatry."
"Thank you, thank you," he replied,
returning the pressure of the hand that
held his own, and then departed leaving
the kind old man to his solitude, for he
well knew that he would be alone.
And who that mourns the loved and lost
does not feel that such periods exert a soft
eniug influence upon the affections As
imagination brings u p the seeming forms
of the loved ones, now hidden forever from
our sight, the heart clings more closely to
our living loves, and we cherish them with
tenfold care, less the hand of the spoiler
be laid oa them, and our pathway be en
tirely desolate.
A few days passed, and wedding invita
tions were issued, not from our humble
friends, but the reputed heiress, Miss
Munson. It was a splendid affair for the
little Western village, although but few
guests were invited and those only such as
the bride deemed the first in the place."
A few days after the wedding, as Frank
( was walking the street, he chanced, upon
turning a corner, to come unexpectedly
on his friend, who upon seeing him ex
claimed: "And so my sly fox, you are the one
that is to carr3 off the dove from the par
sou's dove cot, are you? Well, I hope
it will turn out a better match than mine;
if not, you will hang yourself, I am sure,
in less than a week from vour wedding
day."
"I apprehend no dissatisfaction on my
part, at least."
No, nor did I, but you arc not marry
ing an heiress. But hear, step into my
office, and I will show you how rascally
I have been treated. You thought my wife
hold six thousand dollars in her own right
did you?"
"Idid."
"Weil 6ir, she has just one hundred and
fifty, and no more."
"What!"
One hrndred and fifty dollars was the
portion of the 4rich heiress'. 1 seems that
when the father died, he left six thousand
dollars, and a widow and eijrht children
to share it. The widow's third was con
sumed before her death, and Sarah had
used three hundred and fifty of her five
hundred since she came of age, and left
me to fall into the trap which had been set
to catch a rich husband. And when I re
proached her with the deception, she de
nied having used any, saying that neither
she nor her aunt with whom she resided,
had ever stated that she had such property
if rumor had given it to her she was not
to blame, and that if I married her for her
money it served me right. And now
Frank, you sec what a predicament I
am in; instead of having but myself to
support by my precious profession I have
got an extravagant wife in the bargain.
What would you do if you were in my
place?"
"What would I do? Why go to work
like a man, and if your profession will not
support you, buy or rent some land and
turn farmer; a farm is safe capital, at least
1 have found it so, and then you will have
plenty of time to attend to all the suits you
may have.
"That is easier said than done; had I
such a wife as Louisa Fosworth would
make I might think of it, but I might as
well think of- teaching a peacock to knit
stockings as my lady wife, with her lofty
notions, the duties of a iarmer's wife
provided farming was a kind of business I
understood myself."
Much more of the same kind of argu
ment was used on both sides, and they
parted with the expressed determination
of Williams to try his luck in California,
if Dame Fortuue did not bestir herself in
his favor before long.
A few days after, Mr. Fosworth, at the
close of Divine service, announced the fact
that a marriage ceremony would bp per
formed at his house on the following Wed
nesday, and cordially invited all of his
congregation to be present." "My house
was donated by your kindness," he said,
"and a seemly welcome should breathe to
all who deign to visit it."
And they came if not all, enough, so
that every room was crowded. It is a
very common thing to cultivate the locust
on our large prairies, for their use as well
as beauty, and a beautiful grove of them
flourished on a spot of ground a few rods
from the house, and here, benalh the pure
sky, in the shade of the sheltering trees,
the solemn vows were spoken,' and the
gentle Loui5a returned to her father's house
WHEN THEY CEASE TO LEAD. WE CEASE TO
NOVEMBER 7, 1850.
a wife. The plain butbountiful farepass
ed freely among the guests; if the still
haughty Mrs. Williams did draw herself
up, as some plainly dressed Iarmer's wife
or daughter brushed past her rustling silk,
no one heeded it, unless to smile at her
folly; for it was now generally known that
the flimsy title of heiress, which, had so
long supported her arrogance, was but a
borrowed -garment, and she now stood
forth simply as 4Mrs. Williams, the feeless
lawyer's wife.' It was a happy day for
all, or nearly all, and a strange rumor that
began to float among the guests, and in
which the words 4ten thousand dollars'
were distinctly heard, added not a little to
the interest of the occasion; and finally,
before they dispersed, nearly every one
was made acquainted with the following
facts:
Mr. Fosworth's first wife was the'daugh
tcrof a merchant in the city of New York
who died previous to his daaghtei's mar
riage to the young Divine, leaving his
property to his son and daughter, his only
children. After the death of Mrs. Fos
worth, this brother was killed by being
thrown from his horse, and as he was un
married and there was no will, the prop
erty descended, of course, to the child of
his departed sister. As this occurred after
Mr. Fosworth's removal to the West, he
determined to keep it secret from all, even
his unassuming child, lest upon her it
would exert a hurtful tendency, and he
well knew that it would be a temptation to
some needy fortune hunter, and thus prove
a curse instead "of a blessing; but it was
now ready for her with its accumulated
interest.
. It is needless to repeat the anathemas
that Turner Williams bestowedupon him
self, Frank Willard, Parson Fosworth,
and the world in general, when he became
assured of the fact, for with as large a
share of self-esteem as usually belongs to
one of his stamp, he firmly believed that
he had but to have asked to have obtained
the hand of his (to use his own terms)
milk and water friend." But he foamed
and fretted in vain. There was no help
for it, and as soon as he could scrape
money enough together, he left his unlove
able wife, and if alive, must now be in
California, as it is several months since he
started-
Frank Willard and his amiable wife arc
in the possession of that calm content that
well balanced minds ever enjoy, while the
"ministers familv continues the even
tenor of its way, the kind old man hardly
feeling, so close in their companionship,
that his choice plant blooms on aaother's
hearth.
Tf.irlr Ye TirUI
It is high time that some body told you
a little plain truth. l ou have been
watched for a long time a certain class
of you and it is plain enough you are
laying plans to cheat somebody. You
intend to sell chad" for wheat; and there is
danger that some of the foolish gudgeons"
will be sadly taken in.
It may not be your fault that you belong
to the "one idea party" that the single
idea in getting a husband is the only one
which engrosses much of your time or
attention. But it is your fault that you
pursue this in the wrong direction. Your
venerable mother, of Eden memory, was
called a help" for man, and you are
looking for a man to help you; to help
you to live in the half idle, half silly way
which you have commenced. Men who
are worth having, want women for wives.
A bundle of gewgaws bound with a string
of flats and quavers sprinkled with cologne,
and set in a carmine saucpr this is no
help for a man who expects to raise a
family of boys and girls on veritable bread
and meat. The piano and the lace frame
are well enough in their places; and so are
ribands and frills and tinsels but you
can't make a dinner of the former nor a
bed blanket of the latter. And awful as
the idea may seem to you, both dinner
and bed blanket are necessary to domestic
enjoyment. Life has its realities as well
as its fancies but you make it all a matter
of decoration remembering the-tassels and
curtains, forgetting the bedstead. Suppose
a young man of good sense and of course
of good prospects to be looking for a wife,
what chance have you to be chosen. You
may cap him or trap him to catch him,
but how much belter ? better to make it
an object to catch you! Render your
selves worth catching and you will need
no shrewd mothers or manajrin'r brothers
to help yon to find a market.
One of our exchanges makes mention of
a 'Jenny Lind Tea Kettle which being
filled with water and placed on the fire
commences to sing in a few minutes.
Water is very nourishing. All you have
to do is to put it in a pot over the fire, drop
in a beef bone, rice, a few potatoes, and a
little salt. Among hungry people, this i
called the water cure.
KOltOW.'
A VERITABLE DRAMA.
We chanced while at Constantinople,
to be well acquainted with the lady whose
career has terminated in the tragedy des
cribed below. The incidents are copied
in the Courier des Elats Unis of this city,
from the Semaphore, a journal of Mar
seilles, which usually gives the news of
the Orient on its first arrival at that port.
The event, that paper states, had made a
powerful sensation at Constantinople.
Home Journal. 2
(translation.)
A young Greek, girl of extraordinary
beauty, was married, some years since, to
an English physician, Dr. Millingen, who
had taken up his residence in the capital
of the East. After the birth of several
children, the husband having discovered
an intimacy between his wife and Fethi
Pacha, the nephew of the sult3n, procured
a divorce. Soon after the divorced beauty
made a conquest of Mehemet- Pacha,
pacha of Belgrade, who married her on
condition of her embracing the Mahome
dan religion.
Although vsry much in love, Mehemet
did not seem, after a while, to be com
pletely happy. One day, at last, he re
pioached his wife that she had borne him
no child. Discovering thus the cause tf
his sadness, she determined to retain her
empire over him by a cfeeeption. A few
weeks after, she preteiided to a prospect
of maternity, and, in process of lime, pre
sented him with a noble boy bought or
stolen for her by a faithful slave who was
devoted to her interests. The village
which was the birth-place, gave splended
fetes in honor of the event, the child was
named Belgrade-Bey, and the delighted
pasha had not the slightest doubt that the
infant was his own.
Soon after this, Mehemet was recalled
from his government of a province, and
sent to London (where he now is) as the
Turkish ambassador to that court. But,
before his departure, he expressed the
wish to have another son, a brother to
the beloved and beautiful Prince Belgrade,
and his wife declared significantly, at
parting, that there was little doubt but his
wish would be gratified. Leaving her to
fulfil her time at Constantinople, the en
voy took his leave, and the child was duly
born, the news sent to England, and the
name given to the second prince was
Usnud-Bey.
A few days after his birth, Usnud-Bey
fell dangerously ill, and, by order of the
physician, he was sent with his nurse to
Pera, a rural village on the Bosphorus
where foreigners reside, and where the air
is healthier than in the city. The infant
soon returned in perfect health, in charge
of the same faithful nurse who had alone
assisted at the two births; but there was
one person ia the household who refused
to recognize the healthy child as the same
one that was sent away. This was an
old eunuch, who had brought r;p the pasha
from boyhood, and who was the confiden
tial master of his dependants. In the
presence of the other servants, he said to
his mistress: "Madam, if that is Uunud
Bey, he has miraculously changed while
breathing the air of the infidels at Pera !"
The mother said not a word, but, giving
the eunuch a look of fierce hatred, she
seized her child and left the apartment.
But suspicion had taken possession of
the mind of the old slave, who had dis
covered the history of his mistress and
w as well aware of the illegitimacy of Belgrade-Bey.
The excessive affection of
of Mehemet for that child had long pre
vented him, hitherto, from disclosing the
secret. This apparent repetition of the
deceit, however, made him resolve to clear
his breast. He betook himself to Pera,
collected with care and segacity, circum
stance after circumstance, and established
indisputable evidence that the veritable
Usnud-Bey died of his disorder, and that
another child, bought of poor parents, was
substituted in his place. Returning to his
mistress; he took the changeling in his
arms and boldly addressed her: "Madam,
send back this child, I beg of you, to
Mossud, the fisherman ! 1 know all !"
The pretended mother, at this, became
lividly pale, and left him with the single
exclamation, "It is well!"
Just before the hour of mid-day prayer,
the mistress enquired for the 'eunuch.
! As steward ef the household and his
master's favorite, be had sumptuous apart
ments cf his'own, and a bath to himself.
She was answered that he was, that mo
ment, in the bath. Her resolution was
at once taken. The old roan was attended
by two servants while performing his daily
ablutions,'and these she found in th anti-room
and ordered imnprioiislv awav.
- - - t i
She was alone with him. "You wished j
to know everything?" sheabrutly said. I
"Yes, and I know everythig' he replied.
"To whom have you spoken of it?" "To
no one j'et but I shall write to rny mas
ter!" "For how rhuch will you keep the
secret?" "I vifl not keep i: I will writ
VOL. 7. NO. 5.
immediately!" "Here, then, u a seator
your letter!" And, with these words, she
threw a cord suddenly around the teck
of the old man, as he lay in his bath, and
sprang back to strangle him. Weak and
terrified, he could offer but feeble resist
ance, and soon lost consciousness. One
of the dismissed slaves had sterhhiiy re
turned, and found her struggling at the
cord, and exclaiming with the rage cf
fury: "You would know all! know more,
then!-Write now, to yur. master! write
now. old fcoV
At these vociferations and the chokings
of the victim, the slave fled, spreading
the alarm with cries of terror. Some cf
the servants rushed into the streets with
the dreadful news, and others hurried to
the bath-room, where the old eunuch,
dragged from his bath, had fsile n sense
less on the marble floor. Deliberately
unloosing the cord, the inii-tress calmly
and silently walked through the terrified
crowd, and gained her own apartments.
The eunuch had been a kind old maa
to the other servants, and their distress a!
the frightful scene before them was un
bounded. Every possible effort was mado
to restore him, but in vain. He rallied
for a few moments, summoned strength
enough to reveal the circumstances given
above, and died with the words cs his
lips.
All the vast city of Constantinople wa
aroused with electric rap'dity by the
news. Crowds rushed to tbe pl.rce, and,
spite of the high renk cf the guilty wo
man, the cadi ordered her to prison. A
courier was despatched to London with,
the intelligence, and she will remain
imprisoned, and tbe affair uninvestigated
farther, till his return. The criminal, to
all questions addressed to her, p tc u d i y
asserts her right to the life cf a eiave, and
makes no other attempt ai palliation.
Semaphore de Marseilles.
The Festive Slate Excilaect In B:it)3
The Times gives a graphic accDunt of
the turbulent proceeding in Boslcn in ref
erence to the prosecution cf the cwr.ca
of the slave Crafts, for kidnapping:
The bail required of the prisoners wai
$10,000 each, which was promptly fur
nished by Patrick Riley and Hamilton
Willis, Esqurs.
The crowd were evidently waning for
the egress the parties, who, it was by
some expected, would be mobbed on com
ing cut- Indeed, if we are to judge from
certain expressions made by both whits
and blacks, they were resolved that tbe
Southerners should not leavs the plcccj
quietly A barrel of tar and seme fev
feathers were even spoken of. In fact,
there seemed sojrjt? h't'e ground fcr
apprehensio:, -tbet some hot-headed fana
tics might cause our rity to b d scraced
by a riot. In a shrrt tin? a splei.did car
riage with a spnn of "whites ' diova ia
front cf the door, and Mr. Hughes, assis
ted by the Deputy-Sheriff, with much,
difficulty got through the crowd at lha
door into his carriage, CTit not without
losing his hat and getting somewhat
hustled about.
The crowd now formed a pretty sohd
body around the carriage, climbing tfpoa
it, canting it from side to side, tearing
open the doors fast as they were shut by
drivers, and it seemed as if they wen;
determined that it should rot go away,
but to drug out the Southrner. But the
driver jumped upon the box, seized the
reins, raised his whip toils extreme height
brought it down with a right smart w'.aclc
and away went the vehicle with both,
door3 dandling open, and the Southerner
silting with anair of collectedness within.
Some cf the mob had a smart grip on tha
spokes and feiloes of the wheels to keep
them from revolving, but it was no jro.
some two or three of the individuals giv
ing ludicrous feats of "ground and loftv
tumbling." The team took its course up
Court street, at good speed, a lare por
tion of the crowd foil wing after, h ung
and vociferating threats.
Those who remained behind now put
themselves on the qui vive fcr the second
gentleman, Mr. Knight, but he e!u-?ed
the obsevation of most of'.hem by issuing
from the side passage on Ccuit street,
stepped into a cab, calmly took hi seat,
and got away without much trouble pro
bably from the fact that the more riotous
portion of the mob were eff on the ether
scent.
The two Southerners left word behind
that they should te on the Ctwircn at 9
o'clock this afternoon, where any of the
citizens of Boston who might desire to
see tfcem, could then hare, that privi!.
ege.
7ime is Money. So says aa cid adage
In that case, if the clerk cf the weather
has anything to do with it we would most
respectfully suggest that he gives us a little
Jess change.
Wild pjrrn5 are abundant at St. Louis,