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DrRLIN & SLOAN, PUB SUERS.
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VOLUNE 24.
"BUSINESS --
DIZZC 4
IRA. S. GRAVES.
theetzeturerestursekery el, tee comer ..r
r4ht h trreb, Erie, Pa., The highetl pric e will 1,. pAjj
r rfSTJ AA_
S. ('. BROWNA.
t i t , t. South Ade of the Pohhe Sytoir,, h. !
•Itste end Pewit Stmts. Eri*,"
rh'RY , sT )*P—ifialTETS•Wkriiii ;
E. H. ABELL. i
_ Lv .,,,,, Afttlit ; Koala over the Erie itsatit. ttmtlt 1
',i e , f Vat Dia:krona, Ent., Pa. 1
•prmre tsktu in ate best style of qt.: an, ap./ wartimi- I
,411 4 t. fair
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T. D. EDWARDS.
i%9t...c>rxelp.i..l.oa at Law. 1 11'anva P. pr..
sod ralll4aPtiaer. will reooire 'prompt
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WALKICR
1,1.14%V, Pr"date VI& .blerebobsa, &wilt
sett cif the Pubria Bride, Erie Pa.
_best.r , oi Coal. Salt, Planer, Stueea: nab.. Um. '
Nsits, Stoves, Owning:. &e., teltb
fs , ilitie, for a tapping eitber by .tesehanta,
i r epellon. e , b.emeel, or by Railmad.
•Al 'CEP
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ARSON 4.IILiRAM,
m oo Cormatuara At Law, OSee mg rimy,*
a YAM corner of the Park, Ari a
T. W. MOORE,
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ProVintOtlS, Les4w4o:.
st 4../or ,b,or below Booth a. S!eirars'• Sive— t.
ara. of Stoves, Hollow Ware, F.oginee. Aia
;.er,. itr, arca,/ *Lars, etc., State St., Eria Pa.
'f EIO)LtS M. .Mu2TI, ,
t fur. emit OP b. LUiRMI4 A. u) ,
Watehea..lo.ireiry, Bilaer spc.ll..
14-tritamlts. Laoking Otam.P.; !Amp: and Ei n p y
ah,,le•alr sad
If. JA.RECIK.f.
F., , NIA 1. WFal Ade of State streat, Brie. Pa
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L NT TIBBILLS & eO. - .
6AR. •F the , PIM( OF WALKER A TrlllAt.N.)
ZiGr. 0 , 1144 , -.lon and Shipping Merchant=, anti drat ;
5 ir, Coal, Fi.ur, Fi.h, Soh, Wolter Lim:, Planer, de i
r: 1. 1,...A. Eti.., P. Plookagef. tatondr,t for Apr tart
:...1 , 1 Le t, tasrlohl
• Tlga k 1 .
1 .1 B. aITNNISON 3 ,
„fr,l, r,.,..k ..ttationary, Monthly Maltayin, , etaiiip
...+T.c.
. n,,ro, sheet Musie, - Nrerrp. @Ter, Sold Pan ,, , POE
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rc..[P. First door went of thy deed, How" Erlo.
11 0 - OTI3 & STENirAlit,
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1,4, tilt, Aid &tail Dosiort in Faney andoo44o Dry
.i 4 4ml 51111410" y, .30.1 i. Poor PMPle+ Rim, oppwite
w1.' , 11. , tt .
K.KPLi:R "c• CU
of Iron Fence, Railing, ittbal
Fite Proof Shutters, and all kind. s 4 StaelVt
t; ;n1 Fancy Cartings, a - e , done to order
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C LARK METCALF, fl
and ! l entil dealer. in Dry laltiod, Carnet and
:No. 1 Reed Flit:t.
JOIIN B. COOK, •
&Jae). Dry Goads and the
,- , tay :tore in the City, Cheap .ide, Erie, Pa.
STERRETT &: GRAY,' -
.aer , and retail Dealer- In wet and dry lit r e
1-t ,lion
. Produce, Foreign and Domeritie Frthr,
trlii‘or and Stone Ware, Flour, Fish, Salt, 0124
„. caps, Safety Fare, ,Le.,te., French
• . , 1 ,0.. th the Reed House, Erie, Pa.
a;tilianal Boat% Ver , e).. Hotel. andPri
,:.l - - applied with tuty of the ahorni artielee
•. enl cry cheap.._
1V MI S LANK, -
n„, ,D 4 at LAW.-4,teet ever lithritgup's
ME=2=M2!
RBUCRTE X KEPLER,
b r , i ;,,,de, 4i reeeriee, Hardware, ICe.ek
Bl4clc. State eteeet, Erie, PA.
vit BRANDES,
.2.1- , u.roN—Cifiee at his reaidenee nn Eigbtb
Fr,arti and Holland, Erie. Pc
if SANFORD 4i CO.,
Bank 2..iotes;Drafta, ertificafrs
•• ; 4 `igtit , Exchange on the principal , chit•
2. • 9.:c. Office in
,Besty'... Unl,La
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T HERON StUART
oo VduL)-rils our
Apothecary }hit.
RUFUS • REED,
German and Amerriraa- Rapioare
VieeN, Irdie and Svrel No. 3
4•r. Erie, Ps..
i:ADWELL AS: BENNETT,
kAcesra, and Retail Deattet in luy Goods. Glut
G , Levnrare. Carpeting, Hardware, Irony'
Spike', ar. Empire Stores State •=treet.
~el,,w Brown's Hotel, Erie, Pa.
l e,. Bellows, Azle Arms, Spring-, and a.
~ stteent of Saddle and Carriagv Tritamiaz ,
)lER YIN -SMITH,
i :111,1 Ju.iiee of the Peace. and Agent for
Nfurual Life, insurance Company--ofike
•t NV t gilt ,itore, Erie, Pa.
I,EOIIGE H. CUTLER,
Lsw, tiirari. Erie County, Pa. Colleetioas
~ ;mended to with protntace• and
.10sLkif KELLOGG,
Commisqou Merchant. 6a the, Public ,
t `tats ~tneel.
to . aml White FipK, ronstintl) '..r rale. ,
J G. ac W.I. MILS,
wb „ ids.oe•veaters In artle*lleo.
• Far' —AMIrt Foreign Fruit, Nuta. Pickles sad
.I.ter.. I.,hftera,Pmen•es.lllllti liermetrieally
ar •
• ~; Ilaqeription aißa), on haul, N - 41„
Stnte-$l., opposite Brown'- New Ho
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W. s, Littfiato.
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t, Sew York. wiltar 4.•
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..IitTER s BROTHhit.
.114 it -toil .lederniu Drug+, AlNDeine• P 04 ,"
r t of, 1. bNA. Sc.. N. 6, Ige"I liou.r.
.J 1)1ES LY'CLE,
oon ptiLli.• ~t o ur , a t •If
•suir ~.t,wct.
JOHN If. 111.7RT(IN & CO.
II) LA IL'4los,h , r4 in urer. Mettiem...o.
au:4 ilou,t.
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£ at. 1 ai1,41,t far a Viper e
i .ek Erie, Pit.
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B l ' , wil's Now Hotel,
JACKSON, •
1., , u ra~e A er , hardware, 44. a. n are.
1r t, Naffs, ac., 12 1, t21111,144a6' 866'
Pa.
WILLIANS k WRIGHT,
. I k , fott loud Daaiere 1e Geld mid Silver euin.
X.ney, Land %want. sad inrsiliestem of
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-tl`, , fight Drifts Qs the principal cities of the
sud all pan. of the Old Country Cor sale. Carle,
hluti., turner a Slate-pt. and Public Spam
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rive Empire mock, Nance u( Stateand Filth
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Stte d. reet, up glair!. Peirce reasonable, and
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Revident Lcytist. Oilee and ataroillas on
the Sonth rid* ot the Public aviary 1 door
Ea:4 tkir Brie Bank lanUdiaig. Teak ia
-ul.l Piste, from on* to as oath* sot. Corions
itit with pure told , and nesaaran to hada sad up
t. en, , !ratted with instill:tartar sod Donates au
tut I.ro, pelhael ....cloarniqs. MI work warranted.
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•-'-'•-• ' . - - ---; - -, •-•- - • -- - • , and eery - ant before night-fall;'and low his way.
THE MERCHANT'S HEART;I After going•hiAer =a Aither for mita time, he
OR, THE JEW'S WANIER. ' was compelled to seek the shelter of a cave, and
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i, to wait until morning . Slee p -overtook h i m, and
Matthias, the Letantine merchant, had spent, i he di d not wake until t h e sue ee ra y s Awi ng i n
his whole life, from' his boy-tiatie upward, in tree- t thrOngh the cleft of the rock, played upon hie
elling for the sakefolgeiu, to the east and to the.; ere-tick. He got up; =abasing mid his pry ;
west and to the islands $ f the south
.'"''''' He :, et', eittit !atilt and beheld e beautifulAreen tree had returned to hie tame Oa e.e , 'L une, , i n the ; dew stretching along the banks °f it stream which
full vigor of AULahood, grid Wa . s reported to he'q...: came from a narrow gorge at no pearl distance.
amassed great wealth. Hie fi rst etep was to He . did not recognise his whereabouts and was
'gr'a'nt
a prudent call upon the
governor,''''' to ' doubtful of finding his way beat, until he saw,
- present him with npurse . and a string. of lie
• rl '''' i at the fuither cad of the - meadow', 'once object
in order ti, bespeak his geoid-will II- ° tea ; rapidly moving to and fro. ft was a young girl
built himself 6 specious palate, in the midst of a , • ohasiou , a
cow t h at h a d esca p e d from her, and ran
garden on the borders of a mtreath, a nd began .
with a cord tangled about its horns in the dine
-to lead a quiet life; resting
. after the fatigUele of 1 lion
of Matthias . "Al," mi ld h et 'tte will catch
his many voyagete . Most peremet consiciered
; this unruly animal. • and then make its keeper
hint to ho the . bappieet of merchant,?, bat the "' I print tett to me the direction of Tarsus" - So he
who were introduced to his ;intimatel knew that 1 niched up h i s ro b es, an d , being strong an d T i p .
hie constant eorapauione were thought and sad- rous, teen came rip to the cow t h at waa galloP
nese. When be lied departed in h i s Youth, het lug hither and thither, end brought it to a
, Wand
had left his father,' and his brothere.'find his 4 " . ' stilt. " slay blessings light UNA thy Sturdy
tea in health, although poor; but,:when he re- ! ar m s, stranger, " exc l a i m ed t h e g i r l , runn i ng up
turned in hopes to gild the remaindered.- their : out of breath, and unwinding the tope from the
days, he found that the hand of death bad. &lieu i ( "e a horsq "if N a h a y a h h a d escaped they would
upon them every one, and that there was nn one s have beaten me.' .
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to share his prosperity, and *blight . earns offer : t
„Ana who wou ld gai t in his heart•to beat
his beer s
. I thee, child?" said the merchant, :as he looked at
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'file gossip* in the , bazaars swat hegan to talk i her delicate loveliness. • . . .
of hi* case. and ' it' 'wag then that Halms the i .The fat h ers, ” s he rep li e d , pa lli ng Naharab 1 !
Christian tailor, ode day - maid in a lend voice' to i its the direction she wanted to io. "Triple bless.
his opposite nighbor. the Jewish Money-ehareer
i inge upon thee, again Lsay, strangerf"
--...t will lay the ;rattle of layette* that: the met- .; mat ib itis forgot a ll a b out . li", and walked,
chant .Matthias, will - founti eniemlation in mar. ; 1 ,. 5.
the side of the girl, asking enestiona. et her.
Tinge; that he will photon the Meet beautiful of our
dens; and - that he will- - find a family which,i
„o lio. ' .
He leateed. that she wee the:danghter ofn bonds
mai• .
shall - be celebrated in thin: city as long as its pros.
; "Thou dust not know thy new business," said
perity . endure s." T. title the Jew replied : i
she to Matthias w h ereupon h e * sista curse. t h e
"Whata the value of thy e teck? farce jack- e
,w which h a d led her that dance, and in think
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sits rats rued upon thy hamle t , ,',.; rusty pair of
seissors. an old stool, anti ionio . tninklle of ,thread? that Ile had made himself ridiculeets in the eyes
of the girl. However they were soon sitting side
Verify the ri.!: is not greet." The Christian by
side in pleasant talk, an d t h e *reheat, learn
said a prayer or twee) himself, that he might not f
Pit that name of the bond-maid was Garin',
euret• his nei,ghletr, and then answered: "l will 1 K y this time he had . quite-made up his mind
threw in 'l:allele' the ebony-Mae : l girl whom i I to
marry her, if she would - have -him; brit al
bought la-t spring te follou we wife wh,,, : At.. though tv i i ,„. :ine . up ,. n b k , wea l t h an d h er payee .
.goe4 out with the little 11"rees to the g arde "' 1 fy, it .seennsl ;entirely pit:that& that' she sloald
What' &lye:4 thuo how. - refise, his modesty was no great, that he dared
The dew pondered awhile, leaning his grey not mature to talk di em Th ey parte d ear l y,
heard on the hrcaai of his ' 4 -ftiol He • "mew" and Shitthiss wear away, proanieing to Want on
tiered that forty years before, he r too, had re- tW e itiorrow. He did so, anal for many weeks
tur ne d fret" travel w it h his I
iii`wui.r begh;and had a cautioned these meetings iu which, for the fi rst
foiled his howee desolate; :mod that he heti devo- p lume since. his youth. he found reakhappinettu
-1 GA himself ever ;due» to meekly reflection, and .to . At length, one day he took courage, and told
1 the ' heaping of reuthese4d, upow maAhnifh.l The
; i . ~...a i flarine that he intended to *eke her away and
t " eln ii-" t "a" t h erefore b ecame axed in hi l luirel marry her, and make her - the iniatrees of his
that when the middle. time of • life cornett, there wealth. "My lord, she said, with simple sue.
ean remain no 38eeiiijri in the- le. " et • ° id !" . 4 . OSP, "has undone; striae* thee? And thou
i ng rbr i fu ' I ' " I. Jew, or 4 ' -.-3111"2"111 taut 'i not know that I sins bond-maiden, and that there
e-: gall '•'
he ' a °'' -I ' l the "' Ms be " I.— i- use power that can fr : oe mer
a. will venture tire heindrert pieces again. t thy I „M oney ran fret' thee , c hild , " sa i d i t i etthitm
five hietdrdil p'lie's, their Within Ike ytiot the I „N ot so ," replied she; ' , for it is an ancient
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Merchant 'Matilde, tlee,.. - eettike unto - hie lieseui privilege of t hi b i t i onetitery - t h at , b on d smen a dd 1
a wit : . e.- -b
" I " 4 _,_ , 1- ! lied th e 'el e rietiiih ' • The baptism - mien shall forever appertain to it. If
neirmnra yew ca l led ni a*wittbalts, "Id 1" 3 1 any freeman caws his eyes volt one of as, and
one laughed at the abenidity ref go dispate.l desires to marry her, he mast gait ldsmtste and'
liattbiaN sett not long lilt tei!rnin g th a t N wa •
gar jtad iteeu lard uteu his ftithre life; an k
.in beciene a - slave, be and-his tleseendanta forever;
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to theunestary. This is why I was not mar-
Pairing through tile bluff lie . - *WW 4 uwe day ried last year. to skaudar, • the pewter, who (Akre
sod said merrily su she (Anshan tailor. " - Sow of ed lenity pigs for my freeeotn, but who refused
twehstle , why hest thew ticked more than the to give up hie liberty." Matthias internally
whole of thy savings upon d matter which; is oinked heaven far h aving g i ven sib w e/motet
mtly known to Haaven? '1
haveloched Rm . !'" lipirtt to the porker, and replied, smiling--“ Be.
the laetdewe of my people, WWI nu emotion iir lieveme, Cerise, that the fathetv lore money—
wined within ape. Vwrii.Y. 411414 'wilt hiii'mit'a they all do—and I shall purchase thee tut my
prey to thiirifeiv." • ,'
idle."
"My lord," replied the Milo?, smillinge "It is wit is nonseette," idd she, shaking her head,
impossible far i good rimin . lo f! . 180111, all his4ife . A s h by yel fi lhe a tout 4, s il o
alone. if thou wilt ,'slut : so a y e amilio*adsse al len gate mob atipki, ba" mi*
my "Woad My.little likorgea.danalscia. *he ed Matthias , at her Arthway. .4:Wine
arms of the ebooy-bleck girl, Zariteb, thou wilt replied, that she was not math so mach, and
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Sat., a Iteivenly „isri e • •
troi Ifart Tili; Iltintil k a , 1:,:l4.:
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As Askoser bAsias avar.4641".. , - .
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TAke hea lukslo4 LtAk.mistr* . ..
t.. trey and give—
IriaTiVria•ter trine
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daibilishow Mum doe 4biseiro
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That Willi Filbia.th* ,011
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aiptkolet %.!1' rld Rine
Wreathed in with purple
4 nil 'raft t;ndriltr otfhe rine
thnoirbk rt.* , dorerrittrwsr4,
Ina Sight witbiiw salinity/Lk.,
..Ind two.tp*tU ve , .icuprite.) .
Fp the , tarry .teor.: erou
I eh., -tie ecivtl.iv and tub? h 0:••le,.,
•`:irieetliii diy tht;t -bre wai. 1 .. , tn.
Pros' di* Frei-time de A .tearrian
. Let en the yore he ebeerre ,
N9trieit with-bray bapipinese—
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Nr.t triatteing c , ' r with 10$ e= -
Not "'seeking rill' iouiarity; ,: i4k
..rd the ffhir ifht 'itr.trre '.
oh, OM, b,m • • , ry haautifui
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rrefrt world athine -
When attar* that lel-same prothwal
/ 4 fe4lats $ 0 Ai
How nobly lita is rounded
Viten Us 'lteepoWpith. aro tr.../
Ety * sou). that 'Usk with heaven
tay-wirestasrthbr radL.-.Lodie Pupe,
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Siare4jrnient and seek at once,to he ati, I atn.—
Peritaiiiihou hasi not well lisoked around thee.
There is Miriam, the daughter of our baker, who
is of majestic kesenee, being as big as thyself.
She mil suit thee' to a hair, and, if thou desires!,
ins bile shall make proposaLM for thee, is after
'ttoon." Matthias laughed and In - oinked, and
went on, and the Jew chuckling in his beard,
said ; iio ) ,Hanua, for how much wilt thou free
from tty 'iage4! Wilt thou pay, a bun-
Sand let all he aid?" Rut the 'Chris
tian- replied: "In Are years Saint Philotea wdre
away a stone its big a' this stool with her kisses
?pq• tears -infive years the heart of tlis men
way
IllatlilaSWeni not on his way unmoved after
this tc . en . ' - ersgiiiiin with the Christian tailor. Ile
liian - to !Malt that perhaps, indeed, - . he Was
Viettiingltiwi 3 . his life ta...4eles4 in' sollietde:—.
. ,tiresiin .win o r iitid'iiry; nti . "6l6tity and no sairstie
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tinti In alai manner of tieing, it was better to
take to himself a companion.. But Where to find
heri'' Atneng,W all the frivolous daughters of
Tarsus t Was there .;ne with whom he:would act
%o more iimely than with himself? Their moth
er; hack taught them nothing but love..tf dress,
andlore . of tieUrFii.lres.' Row could their capri
cious and selfish natures find pleasure , in (..Orn
ilanUio'h.sriih a than whom this - world bad sore
treed, and who wished' to wait . in meekness an d
Ra4ethee for the world to come?
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Theme , inedhatiOns disturbed Matthias, but
they did not render him wore unhappy. they
eceupied his mind; they relieved the monotony
Qt his existence; they presented .hiss fromi always
turning his eye...inward upon himself; they fore
edliiiii roo look abroad. He went to the houses
1 of his friend, aationce more studied the perfec
j tiolts or nape - rfectiont of their daughters.. His
1 ton was au wanifeet, that the joke west round
I t . at lie wished in save the l!hristian tailor from
1 Mitt People jested with the Jew as they bronght
in their money to change.' But, although Mats
thias. 'aw • manY beautiful gir6 who threw the
stances of their almond-shaded eyes encouraging
ly towardiiiim, 114 `I3W none that pleased his
l i lt. at ‘; and, suddenly retiring from society, shut
t bison& up for a whole year in his palace. seeing
1 may, and taking back melancholy and discon
! 'rat forhis only companions - ,
1 1 . At length Matthias began to feel the desire of
i change, and made it a practice every atoning to
I have his male saddled and to ride out to the Ike
lof the niountaiaa;• and, then Pulsing "t to
ground, to wander until evening amidst rocks and
t -ssatess.- use .es...- e.eistae....abe..sessis.ei smcetias
, he could not return to wherehe had left his mute ,
ERIE, SATTIRDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1853.
So he went, Leah sarong his frietithy'suid began f iug a few days in a. beautiful in-land town in
t o o to walk in, the bazaars. _Wh en th e J ew Pennsylvania. It arm court-week and to relieve
saw his, he cried out--"flail, ed* wise win, that ! u Of the otnewkat noutuonout incidents of
will not burthen himself with rho 4oripty of al la life, we stepped iato the roam where the
rroutun!" But the inenlant frnnietildnek . uPon court had jest eennenetl.' •
him, and turned sway; and, to dteAlltplijie of on ), Among, Ake prime ters in the.hoz, we saws lad
the neighbori, went end eatiiewn by the aide of I lint : ten Years of age, whewsad arta Pensive coon
the Christalan tailor, and, estking•his hand, whir-) teestnee, Joung and innocent aiWatatoe•
pored to him: Ignore thy shbp, My friend, and i rowed Mu to look sadly out of Plate Moog the
lead me, tea I May je s te 1 . 14 thou Aidyt pro m i se , hardened criminals by whom be was surrounded)
till wife and ilty ohild." . . Close by the box; and lornifesting the greatest
"Whitt& eitik?"•said the tailor. "t hard nom 4 iati*t in the proceedings, sat a tearful woman,
three, George, Lisbet, and Nona." . whose anxious glance from the judge to , the boy,
"All of thew," said Matthias: "and also the leftna ao room to doubt that it was his mother.
ebony-black girl, imifeh." We nutted with sadness from the scene, to inquire
"Oh!" maid- the tailor, haie set her freP;and the , lent* of the prisoner, and learned he was
she is married to OW 'pudding-keller, round 04e aecued of Mealing 14°"ey.
corner "
"It seems," said aletthis3 to hitmelf, "that it teresimenifested by that large crowd, we found
is the law of heaven that every man shall marry." I that our heart was not the only one in which
The mike . shut up his altepsad took the mar- sympathy for the lad was excited: Bow we pit
chest home. and showed him his &ms tif. wealth 14 him! The bright of youth had vanished from
—that isle say, hi 4 pretty wife, his three ;tout his face, and uow.it more expressed the cares of
- children, and a coal-blaek girl called Zara, who agd. Hisymuig slater--a bright eyed girl—had
was kemuliag dough in the court yard. "3ly Pinfd admission to:" aide , end cheered him
friend," said llisdthias, "what wouldsa thou do if : wilt the whisperiup of hope . But that
the. powerful Wert , to say to thee; thOu must 'he sweet voice. which before caused his. heart to
deprived of all this,or else lose thy liberty - and bound with happiness, added may to the ~rief
become x slave?" ' hiA shame had brought upon him.
"Liberty is sweet,"- replied the tailor. shrug- The progre-ll of the oase usinainted al with
ping bis shoulders, "yet some lire without It; the ciremnstam*s of the loth, the eitent of which
but none can lira without lore " wan but a dime—no more
Upon this the merchant went hack to his pal- The Lad's employer, a -wealth-, Mt 4 gdY and
see and.monsted hie mule Mid rode to the mon- - 1 1 1 4whaelPleti manufacturer, bad lnadenee of i t f o r
eatery, idlere ho foupd the cowl-yard full afire°. the Patio* of what he 'ailed ' , ‘ le arialr th e h° 3* .; "'
*. "I am eagle." said he to one of the fathers hainesty.". it was placed where front its %try
spntim;ar. smerame l eimee ppoirr- , ....ftivellgegrop:iiry...rrilhoo 4lo4 i_, A irralwA 1~ 1
liberty and my wealth for the sake of Carina-" suspect the trap. A day passed, and the toaster
"It is too late," otts the reply; -Skandar, the to ,Itis utortifmtion, not pleasure, found the t'ois
porker, bee just driven in all his pigs, and they sittoL netted. Another day pried, end still his
are putting a cobalt' ;apt his neck in the dispel, object wee not gained. He was, however, deter
and all these pmdse that thou must collected are Mined that the boy shmilil take it, and so let it
4e be witammes of his marriage with Carine 7 Muhl. -
. Matthias smote his breast with his hands, and This continued temptation was too much for
the sides of his mule with bia.heels, and gallop- the lad's resistance. The dime was taken. A
.ed through the crowd shouting mu that nobody • siss4ole present for that little sister was purchased
should be made a shave that day but be. The ,by it. Bnt while returning home to gladden her
chief of the suonestary, on learning what w as sh e 1 boort, his own was =sae kiwi by - being arrest
mat*, smiled sod said, "That the porker had a ed tor thefil—s crimp, the amaze of which he 1it...,
previous olaint;" but the .monbic w h o , p dir b n p,; the' knew. These cirMonstauteen were substdutia
looked forward to the enjoyments which the titer. by seam"' of the employer's workmen, who
chant's wealth would "ford them ingeniously sog- 1 were also parties to the Plot- An attorney urged
gested that he had the best claim who lied het& atOn the jury the necessity of sulking this little
Wed least. eszine's opiiion wits asked; and she
Seeing both of her suitors resolved, heinfiessly
aoridenuted the easmored porker to liberty, and
said: "Let the chain be put upon the .neck _ of
the merchant." The ceremony was immediately
_performed, sad. whilst the head of the convent
was preparing to begin the more interesting rite
of the marriage, brother Borg, the treasurer of
the morultary, set off to take an inventory of the
wealth, which had thus fallen under his juris-
It is mid that Matthias we, gave a Pin&
thought to his lost property,• being too much ab
sorbed in contemplating thh ehartni at the beau
tiful Caine. The only stipulation he made was,
that he should be allowed to go - out to the pro
bing** with her, sod, next morning, he found
hhitself hi sober sericemness helping to drive Na
harsh and its companion% down to the water's.
side. •
Meanwhile the Governor of Tarsus heard
what had happened to Matthias, and was striek
en with rage, and ceased his nude to he saddled
and his guards to be mounted, and set forth to
the snonestary and summoned the chief, saying=
"Know, 0, monk, that Matthiab, is my friend; I
and it cannot ho that he shall he thy slave, and
That all his weakh shall be transferred from my
city to the monestary. He is a liberal citizen, "
and
‘ l . will Mg lowjhitn from amongst us. — The
governor spoke dins by reason of +steals+ loans
without interest gad prose. nts (over and shore
the purse .and the string id pearls which the
merchant had presented at his first coming) with
which Matthias Ina freely obliged the governor:
he also hoped a cou%inuance of the same Where
upon the chief of the umnestary hid his head
and was humbled; anti the governor and he par
ti ted with a good sinderstaniling and mreement.
It fell out, therefore, that atter a month" of ser
vitude Matthias and his bride were called before
an assembly of the whole moriestary, and in
formed that the emulitions imposed were simply
for the sake of trial. Nearly, all the wealth of
the merchant was restored to bite, and he was
liberated and led hack amidst applauding crowds
to his parsec at Tarns. Of course he made a
liberal donation to the wonestary, over and
above a round sum which Hoag, the treasurer,
Isadom hasml it' in his heart to return with the
rest. Being a just and Renegues man, he not on
ly relieved the ice from the comegesseas of kis
wager, hat made such presents, to the .Christian
tailor, that he had no longer say need to ply the
needle for his livelihood Traditions dialate
with delight on the happiness which Carina be
stowed on her husband; who used always to say,
"that with wealth or without wealth, with liber
ty, or without liberty, she was traillaient to bring
content into any house,land to Make the stern
est heart happy."
St 40 A YEAR, Di ADVANCE.
that, if she w e r e, it wsji of no use, taTking of the! LEAD US irOf lIIITCiTZIPTATION.
matter, fOr the fathers would not sell her. "lly
niblit TIMROM, aA7.ell . E.
Saint Mann!" e.xelaimed Matthias, "I can buy
their whole artonestaty."
He mu ., m i sta ken. The 'none-it :tr y o f &l a n ai .
was the richest in all the east, and the heed of
it wag the most ,elf-. Bled of men. Re t'nt short
the peop or iitiou of the merchant—Who went
straight Vi him that very day—by" 4aying that on
no account could the liberty of ('mine b i ; gran t e d .
"If thou woultst marry her," said he, looking,
ns MatalinsAiought, more wicked than %demon,
"thou lanai give up thy wealth to vt;,, and be=
come oar boadismatt.' With this answer the
lover treat QsJly iWay, and retarbed It; Tarsus
sayin t i . birself—ult itapossible:for - tue to
give ap , aotottli the psins.of all railife; bat
even ry liberty, for tits+ of this eow-girl.:—
tatist ivy 10 pm"
Two Pares.—The yowls lady who pet so
awash is her letter Oast she soalda i t Ipet aa► ea
*wisps isqp esamigh w .oataia ly is Eisler to ate
iodated ppolesma wits was Yo-pod up dm be
csaldal see out of his eyes.
limr—thourgh framed far the pmteetion of s a.
eitty,44 the individual benefit of its members---
often admits of eonstruetion adverse to, the de
sips of ita legialotata—and in its application fre
quently Mesas the *set which it wasintesded
$ sustain. We have, however, suaterooa in
stant/am, wherein boom i 4 juries have gives their
verdicts coniStinably to the prompting* o(justiee;
happily, when seek tleeisiosa have not heee
too widely tiillezesaltast the &area/eel rote, they
here °Seeped fiamt the appeal.
tekoplenente in relating an incident which
greeitly. Wisest. Arc. spepstidee, held ns
epsii
bututi b.s.ito-Weisists, said finally node orr boot
low with joy ot its ha oteminatiwi. .
•. As.tbireineingetlB4 we dumbed to be spend-
Tile caw witeonon commenced, sad by the in-
rope su crumple to others by mink :groat. His
address bad great effect upon all that bawl it.-
Before, I could see many tears of sysipathy for
the lad, his mother and faithful sister. ; Bat their
eyes were all dry now, .and none looked as if they
cared for, or expected aught else but a «wee
tion.
The accuser sat in a conspicuous place, smiling
as if in 6end•like exultation over the misery he
bad brought upon that poor, but once hippy
trio.
We felt that there was bat little hope for the
boy; and the youthful appearance of the attorney
who had volunteered in his defence, gave no en
courapen►ent--aa we learned it
.was the young
wanes maiden plea--his &rat address. He ap
peared to. be greatly confused, and reached to a
desk near hint; from which be took the Bible that
had been used in aoletnniaing the testimony.—
This movement was received with general long&
ter, and taunting rinemika--among which were
heard a harsh fella* close by us, cry out—
"He forgets where be ' Thinking to take
hold of some pooh:emu law book, be has made a
mistake, and got the Bible." •
The remark made the young attorney flush
with anger, and turning his flashing eye upon
the audienee, he convinced them it was no mis
take, saying,
"Justice wants no other book."
His porafnairst was gone, and instantly he was
as calm as the sober Judge on the bench. ,
The Bible was opened, and every eye was- up
on him as he quietly and leisurely filleted over
the leaves. Amidst a breathless silence, be read
to the jury this sentence:
"Erarl us not into temptation "
A minute of unbroken silence followed, and
again he read:
' "Lem? n; not into temptation "
We felt our heart throb at the sound of these
words. The audience looked at each other with
out speaking—end the. jurymen mutely exchang
ed OWN as the appropriate quoted, carried
its moral to their hearts. Then followed an ad
drets, which, for its pathetic eloquence, we have
never heard excelled. Itsininence was like mag
ic. We saw the guilty accuser leave the room
in fear of personal violence. The prisoner look
ed hopeful—the mother smiled again, and,.be
fore Its ionelusiost; there was not au eye in eonrt
that was sot moist. The spee*lttketing to . that
degree which roust* tears—it held its hearers
spell-bound.
The little time that was necessary to transpire
before the verdict of the jury could be learned,
was a period great uoviety sad onapenee.—
Bat when their whimpering earadtatioe ceased.
and those lapity words "Not guilty," ens from
the foremen, they peed like a thrill, of electri
city- hos lip to lip—the erten dignity of the
wawa was forgotten, and not a yoke was thee,
that did mot join the aeohunatjons that hailed
the lid', teasel
Tho lawer's plea was a aneceedial ode, He
was soon a favorite and now ramose Ai- & tee in the connoils of the nation. The lad has
never seared his " grateful reutembrahoe--and we,
by the affecting ifeeni herein attempted to be
described, have often been led to think how gam-
MN greater iv the crime of tho tempter than of
the tempted.
w -
A Put Story
--...-- ,
An Englishman was bragging of the speed I,on
English rifiroada to a Yankee traveler seated hy
i
his aide, in one of the ears of a "fast. train" in
EngWid. The engine hell was rung, as the train
neared the station. It suggested to the Yankee
an opportunity of "taking dawn his compel:don
i< peg or two." ; . '- ' • )
"Whit'l4l44,noisc? - innocently ingniied be
Vaskee. ..-.' ..,
"We are•s plm a town," said the E
rtiatiolatt; Nifty bars to aornMenee ringing' t
tea miles before they can get to a, station, or Ise
the train would run by it. before the helicon], be
heard. Wonderful, isn't. it? 1 suppose they
haven't inventol bells in America yet?' I .
"Why, yes,7 replied the Yankee; "we'ret
maits a
bells, hut can't use them on our railroads. e
run so tarns) fast that the train always k ps
ahead of the sound; no we, whatever; the nd
never retches the village till after the train ~
"Indeed," exclaimed the Englishman
"Fact," said the Yankee; "had to give, up
-belts Then we tried steam whistles; bat tey
would't answer, either I was on a locomo tive
when the whistle was tried. We were going( at
a tremendions rate—hurricanes were no whar,
and I had to hold my hair.on. We saw a two
horse wagon crossing the track, about fire miles
se
ahead, and the „engineer let *hiltle Ott, . h
ing like a trooper. • Its screamed awfully, it
wasn't no use.' 4the
,next thing I : knew, I
picking myself out of a pond by the . roads de,
amid the fragments of the loconuitive, dead h i
es, broken wagon, and dead engineer lying -
aide me. Just then the Whistle came al ' ,
mixed up with some frightful bath's that I
heard the engineer use when be first saw the
horses. Poor fellow' he was dead before his
voice got to him After that' we tried li f 4ts,
supposing these would travel faster than sound.
We got F)01110 ;0 powerful that the chickens weke
up all along the road when we came by, suppos
ing it to be mornitip. Bat the locomotive kept
ahead (~f it still, and was in the dirknes4, ilfith
tie light close on behind it. The inhabitapta
petitioned against it; they could'at sleep with so
natteli light in the night-time. Finally, we had
to station elecfric telegraphs along the mad, With
-total own I. telegraph when the MOO was
in sight; and I hue, heard that some of:the fast
Mina beat the lightning fifteen znin4s veil,
forty miles. flat I can't -.ay at that is-tro‘a
-the rest I •know to be en." ~
-3/Auumows or Lovt: A Covo:stzzci..—
"Every whre. but in n0ve1...," says a recent wri
tero"the marriage of eonvenienee lime proved an
excellent institution. while what are called love
'matches have been, are, and over will be, proli
fie of misery." The Boston .73.wrsays: "We shOuld
like to see the impudent old fogy who said that: .
if it were only to tell him to his teeth that he
lies:—lies like the telegraph—lies like a lawy
er—lies like a sie;mboat 'runner- 7 111s 'like, the
prospectus of a new magazine.' So 'utarriagearf
convenience' are better than loic matches; are
they? Do you know that love is a ll th a t make
marriage honest, t•or even decent? That marriage
without. love is a stench in the nostrils of Clod
and men? That loVe is heavenly in its origin,
divine in its influence. and glorious in. its enjoy
ments'. while 'convenienee'—which is bat a
smooth h is for lust or avarice—is the roll&
parent of inconvenience. heart-burnings, wrang
ling,
-
ling, discor,t. and divoree? if course you don't'.
but every man of sense and observationkinoWs
that the -mistAcf. of youth and romance in their
matrimonial alliances. ariti light and unfregnent,
compared with, the t•oldlyi-plinned bluntlerS and
cautiously-concoeted disaster , of sagacious baelt
eters of fifty, and weary spinsters of thirty-five."
4100 D AND fIA I) LreK: —I may here. iire as
anywhere; impart the secret of what is railed
good and bed luck. 'Ehereare men who, sttpOosing
Prcivitienca to have att implacable spite apinst
1 them,•hteumatt, in the poverty of a wretched old
(age, the Misfortunes' of their live, Luck for
serer ran against them, awl for other , , tine.
' witha good profession. lost his luck in a 'river,
i
1 where he idled away his time a tishing, when he
1 should hare beentin his office. .I.nother with a
1 :good trade, perpetaaly burnt up his, luck - by bis
I hot temper, which provoketl all his employers to
letive him. Another. with a lucrative businees.
lost his luclqi.y• amazing diligence at everythinb
but hiibusiness. Another who steadily followed I
hit trade as steadily * followed his bottle Anoth
erlwho 'Vas hottett:and constant to iiis work, cr
ied by perpetual mitjt4gments—he lacked (kis
eretion. Hundreds loose their luck ky endors
ing, by sanguine speculations, by trusting ftrd
ulent men, and by dishonest gains. A man nea
ter has good luck who has . a, bad wife I- never
knew an earlyrisiug, hard working, prudent man
careful of his earnings, and stricly honest, who
complained of bad luck- A good character, good
habits, and iron industry, is impregnable to the
assaults of all- the ill luck that fools ever dreampt
of.
Al 4 OVERHILARD CONVEILSATION.-"Jil. when
you grow up, do you wean to he a lawyer. or keep
a eonfeetiouary store'"
"I haven't made up 'my mind. Tow, iluA
want. me to be a =Water."
• "0, don't be a minister, Jo, (or you can't gt)
to a anus then."
tknow that, Tow, but a minister, um says, is
the' est profession. You knew bow 'Mrs. Love.
grew adorer Bev. Mr. Prettyisee, and would'nt
you like to be adored, Tom?"
"Perhaps I should, but then you can't drive
fast horses."
"0, ym, you can; ministers drive fast. bones
now-s-dap,
now4-‘7s, and besides that, Toni, when they
have a bilious attack the worshipers sends them
on a foreign tour, then they gets remembered in
wills, and often have nine presents, and ma says
it won't be long before every minister has his
ommureest, and a town-lionas, sad a collegian
to write his werimma. Won't that be 14611 . - A
Tom acquiesced , and the juveniles
in another gum stn- Miubbms—Saardaty - 7;
Gazette. •
ME
=Si
B. F. SLOAN, EDITOR.
NUMBER .25.
Veit tbillgas Francisco Herald.
Th.covezy of
Basin.
D Cities svithbi flu eseak
•
The Great Bolin in the middle of our Territo
ry, bounded on the North by the Wthartab
Mountains and the settlements of the Monsaso
in Utah, on the East by the Welty Meentsiss
skirting the right bask of the Rio Grande,' es
the Sarah by the Gila, AS the Welt liTtbilli
erra Nevada, is a region still almost nektewm.—
Trappers sod mourtMixteers have passed / all mound
the inner side of its rim, but none have ever
crossed it with the exception 'of Mr. , Beale, who
traversed on his 'recent trip' its Wertheim slope s ,
and Capt. Joe Walker, the fungus monnittisier,
erttniee mart, though its centre i s the win
ter of 1850 But Rieke, therefiwe is.klaws
gardiug it, but that little is ereoedingiyintarest ,
jug, and dila the mind wi!lt , "r ies ' t " / 1 "/
more. From Capt. Walker we hav e tethered
many particulars regarding his celebb2 44 44 1 1
and the character of this mysterious hind, Wks- -
have never before been brought to light. Mire
is no leek of streams within it; the Rio Colorado
Chiquito, or Little Red River, runs, entirely
serosq it, about 100 miles to the North of the
Gila and almost parallel to it, and empties into
the Colorado About 120
.miles stilt 'fartbei
Noith the San Juan follows exactly the, same
course as the Little Red, and empties into Grand
Ricer, the most important branch of the Coloni
do. Grand Ricer itself pursues a course a little:.
South of West acmes fite Northern part of the
Basin, while the Avonkakee, a large river dieser
ered by Mr. Beale, Green River, and the Rio
Vergen, are all large streams, which drain, the
Northern mountain rim and rim in a Sbutberly
direction into the Colorado.
The Great Basin between the Colorado , and the
Rio Grande is an immense table land, broken to
wards the Gilt and the Rio Grande by detached
Sierra•
Almost all the streams run through aesp on- 1
one. The country is baTn. au 4 desolate,
and
entirely uninhabited even by the 'lowest tarter of
Indians. But though non , sa bleak and forbid-:
ding, strewn alt around may be, seen the'..evidess-
ces that it was once peopled by, a civilised end
thickly settled pepulation. They have long shoe '
dtaappesred, but their handiwork, still rendes to .
attest their former grestnent. Capt. Walker as
sizes us that the wintry' from the Colorado to
the Rio-Grande, between the Gila and San Juan,
is full of ruined, habitations and cities, moat of
which are on the table land. Although he had
frequentlY met with .rumbling Masses of moon. •
ry and numberless specimens of antnitie pottery, ,
such as have been noticed - in the. immigrant trail .
south tit' the Vas, it was not until his last trip
across, that he ever sat a structure :Mending.—
On that occasion he had penetrated about mid
way from the Colorado into the wilderness, and
hod enmupell near the Little Bed River, with - -
the Sierra Blanca looming up to the 'south, when
he noticed at a little distance an o, l .licet that in. ,
dneed him to examine further. As he apMseh
ed, he found it to be a kind of citadel, aroten l
which lay the ruins of a city more thin anrilein '
length.. It was located on a gentle declivity that -
eloped towards Red illiver, and , the lines of the
streets could be distinctly traced, roonixterego-
Italy at right angels with each other, The .konses
had all Seen built of stone, but ill had been re
duced to ruins by the action of sonic greit heat,
which bad evidently passed over the•whole °Min
try. ft was nee ordinary conflagration, but must
have 'been some tierce furnace-like Most of bin;
similar tolhat . • issuing from a veleanb, as }lse
stones were all hurnt, some' of them almost ein
dered. others glazed as if melted. • TVS, appear.
amt was visilde in every ruin he metatiths , '
se irte of tire seemed to have swept over the whole
face of the country, and the inhabitants -mint
hlii-e fallen heforeit. In the centre, of the. city ,
we. refer to, rose,abrubtly a rock twenty-or thir
ty feet high; nrion the lop of which stood a pot
tbm of the walls cif what had once been an im
meuse building. the outline of the ^ bnildits' i
was still Iliqthict, sthought only the northerwan
gle, with whirs 15 or 18 feet long, and 10 Ann
high, was,standing. These wafts were-oonstrne- •
ted of tient% well quarried and • welt built. All
the south end of the building seeds eti to hare
melted to cinders, and to have sunkito a mere
pile of rubbish Even the..roek ,in which it was:
built appeared to have. be& ccrtially fusee by
the heat Capt. Walker spent some time exam
ining this interesting spot--be traced • many of
the street• and the outlines of , the houses; bee,
could find no other wail standing—as often nate
bad sceu4nins of this • character, he bad never,
t i mid
u utii this occasion , discovered any of the in*
meats of the ancient people. Mere he f a
nunilter ef hand-mills, similar to• those' a • , need
by the Pueblo' and the Mexicans for grinding
their corn 'They were made of light poring ma,
1 and consisted of two pieces about two feet lass,
and ten inches wide, the one hollowed out, and
the other made comet like a roller to Rothe con
cavity. They were the only articles that had re
sisted the heat No mettle of any kind were
found Strewn all around, might be eon nu
elevens fragments of crockery, sometimes beauti
fully carved, and others painted. This, however,
was not peculiar to this spot,. as be had non an
tique pottery in every part of the country. from
the San Juan to the Gila. '
Captain Walker' continued his journey, aad
noticed several rains a little off his yenta next
day, but beconid not stop to examine them.' Qa
his side of the Colorado he has never teen any
mains, except of the present races. 'TIM 'adi
eu have no traditions relative to the ancient pee
, that once thickly settled-this mem- • Mil
k - with wonder trpoti these remains, but know
_of the': origin. Capt. Walker, !''l6o, V.
y remark, isa most intelligent and close (*-
server, far miperiorto i the generality of the old
• ppers, and with a wonderful retentive reemm7,
of opinion that this Basin, non ao barri o ta, ens
ee a charming eountry, sustaining milliame
e, and thatite present desolation has Ilea
•
ht by t • action of voloaniefiren. Thetrrill
", • vexed • , yes that the ancient atosenseeitegr
the , try as it now appears could r rig,
, mit is inferred it str
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