Pl - RUN & SLOW, PUBLISHER&
WLITME
BIIS
IRA S. GRAVES.
, ILner.ieturer—.Vanafactoiy of the cornet of
Erie. Pa— The hlgitagt peiee will be paid
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DR. S. C. BROWNEL.
ni)LNrtsT, South tide . of the Public Square, I.e. i
Stat. , and Peach Street', Erie, Pa. •
„ TYPE LLICZNE&WS TOR 1 - DOLLAR.
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E. 11. ABELL. 1
, f'',l. CI ARTIXT : Rooms over the l Erie Bank; South i
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SNP COUNCZLLOILat Las . Warren Pa. PT0k1.1,1,...!
kl.1 , 1 , ...! and mlleetionr will receive prompt t
11 D. WALKER -
CO.,
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!,reduce and Commissiod hterehants, fourth
won of therPubiie Bridge RIM Pa.
—paler, in ('' , lll Salt,
,Plartor, Eitneeo,.Pish, Lino
.1. u , SlOne, CaSUNIN kis, with
ale. for shipping either by steamboats,
Raidrowl.
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• CARS N GRAHAM, :-- ' I
~,, or. e. , I'viELLER AT Law. Office on Freneh St.,
! i ..' 4.l)er of the Park, Erie. I ,
:I' W. MO — OltE, '....4 '
.„.... , r1.%. Precisions, Wine A, Liquors, enn.lie-. l
A ...Dr i,,or below Booth & Snewart'r Stan-At. l
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I IN( 'ENT, lII3IROD & C0.,l
I LI • , t Scot tt,„ Hollow Ware' Engines, Me- li
, f, ~,,. J.l in t tr 4, c., State St., Erie Pa. ,
111101 AS M. AUSTIN, •
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, ,r 1 ~F THE Ylllll UP G. LOOMIS CU.
' • -. Watches, Jewelry. Silver Spoon., INA-
Limps and Fancy
~ L and retail
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, • -t zide of State Street, Erie. Pa.
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711 r flint OP WALltai k 111.11.4140
1•-1‘.1 and Shipping , Idorelanta, and deal
. I ur. Ft-h. Salt, Water Lime, Plaster, &e.,
I , I: Er,,., l'aekaged intmded eur ear,.
nrrrk..l
.1 lit IirNMSON,
Qt,,(l.,eary, Monthly MagnrineF.. cheap
Music. Newepapere, Gold Pm.. Pock
... . 1 tr..t door west attic. Reed Rope. Erie.
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BOOTH STEWART.
Detad Dealers in Fancy and maple Dry
~. I , llllnery, No. 6. Poor People's Rnw. opposite
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I.II I DELL, KEPLER .% CO.
• Iron Fence, Railing, emu's Boiler..
• - Prnof Stutters, and all kinds of Mnehi
,rwv Castings. &c.. drape to order.
CLARK & ETCALF,
1 , I rt tail dealer, in Dry (heels, Carpels. anal
No. 1 Reed iluuar.
.1()IIN B. COOK, _
„ tran , y Dry etbed*, anlthe Create-t t
.1 .4n. 111' tlrc t it). Cheap vide. Erie, Pa. _
rE RR ETT 6: GRAY,
.191.1.cr s and retail bcaleri in wet and ilr,)
vi , ioriF, Produce, Foreign and Domestic Fruit,
and none Ware, Flour, Fish, Salt. GrlaPs_,
.1, bet, Cape, Safety Sa t e, dr, dtr.. French
...qt.. the Reed House, rie,
Canal Boats, Veasels, Hotels, and PH
. -upplied with any of the above utieles
very cheap. 1:
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W3l. S. LANE,
,• I S , CLLOR at Law.. l -offlee oter_Jacitson'm
• rth.F.l , t corner of tha Public Snare.
%MST:CELE & KEPLER, '
~,•I..Grneerieg, Hardware, enebery,te.
a.. net on WPM
French and Holland, Erie, Pa
SA FOR:
:D k CO.,
.r, Bank Notes, Drafts, Certificate:
-,f:1 , 1 Exchange on th. printioalred
()Mee in , Beatrp Blot*. colic
HERON STUART,
h-l-r 4:4—Residence on Fourth street, one
_ 4-Apothecary
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RLTF LT S REED,
Merman and American Hardware and
Mds, Anrils, Fiona, Iron and Floe! No. 3
Er Pa.
1 .\ WELL & BENNETT;
-,,,,. and Retail Dealers in Dry °beds, Gra.
•'k :"• Glaesware, CHardware. Iron,
ating,
- -I.llteti. .ke. Em Stores State Street,
"•• '..w Brown's Hole Erie,Pa.
, \ ~•et, Bellows, Axle Ar ms, Springs and a
• , to..tit of Saddle and Carriage Trimming.
. • _z 3IERVLN SMITH,
Law and Jartice of the Peace, and Agent.for
Cat.. Mutual Life Insurance Companp—Otrwe
-t „ t W r i g ht's ?tore, Erie, Pa.
;EORGE H. CUTLER,
oliranl, Erie County, Po. Collections
attended to with promtnr'” and die-
(From Sir*Ao• of Iteiam
!OSLA If KELLOGG
I was looking, with some amusement, into a lit
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1 ,- _•.,mmittioo Merchant, on the Publie tie Irish town, from the window of a house next
-..,te street. . to that to,which the yard belonged, when my hos
, r and Whitr Fish, constantly for sale.
.1. G. ST. W. I. Mil t -- 4, • - teas explained to me that the lieggarmat 'whom
u teacattle Dealer+ in Groceries, wines, I was watching was irremovable He had been
:..- • twin koreign Fruit, Nat.. Pickles and
. -"— out melted ut by the shoulders again and again, and
• - Leh teas. Preserves, Hermetrieslly
. -• ' • rear dreerilwawn always an band. No. always came back, refuting b., work, aud prefer
,:... .... -.t .e...-..t„ opposite Br•ean's New 11... le an th e •
pug to against. corner of the wall, tti beg.
). \,. V.,fic. W. T. MtLasi.Ballitlo. • There was in the yard a more active beggar the
~ ,1'...r Polatoot. Oyinitto in shell, from J.
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•; n et., New York, which will I.e. wee 7 --the pig. Two stout, merry girls, bate legged
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~ • prt...-. A. C. Jacesoa, AO. Eri... Pc : and untidy, were sitting on the eound, before a
111 4 1•11 & BROTHER, •
u heap of potatoesand a mighty iron pet. They
l:-:,11 dealer. in Drag-. Nieslielne, Paints. •- ,11111 -
"• (,;:,•., kc.„ No: fi, Reel Tkowae, Erie. ' were seating.potatoes--the better sort for human
.. .1 .1M ES. LYTLE, . eaters, the worst kw the black pig. The pig was
,1 n it int Tailor, on the pohlle equare• a few •
In a hurry, peeked in his head, and hail to be
, ...hit.. greet. Erie.
liiiiN 11. BURfiliSr& co. , driven away. There was a third girl sitting on
•,:. [sca nt, dialer, in Dr:MA, Medicine.% Ityr 40Itte steps, withl her arias mese& looking idle,
.• le.. N.i. 5, !teed nowise, 'Erie.
WO provoking the others, one of whom got into
i )1: 1114 IN k TilkAN,
~, ~1, s'd,„ o l en d mii, c ,,,u,,,,,,,,,,. Book „ . Pmt passion, and_ showed it, as Irish people do when
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a- - latlortery, cud Printer'. Card, Ni. 5. t h e y get angry.
, , ma, i. Erie Pa.
l‘ i t iIIZ fiEgBE & STEW ART, "Ah:” said my hostess, "we see strange pea.
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• P., , - ..n. sp,l, Surgeons. ()Mee and itesi•len• pie and strange doings in that yard; end it is not;
- •• .. : ~i ...z lefArTts Burets. theplea=iantest place to overlook. But we are glad
• - .- 1,: 7 w. 4, .k. 31; 1 to 2, and 11 to 7. P. M.
11 11 IN HYARN & CO. - enough to see any dhing like those potatoes mid
i• ~ , ,0,,- . .,t, . . Nt,echents. Snller in in cosi, the people whoi can laugh, after, what we saw in the
. • ......; ~......nt for a •Laily line ..1 FN. , ' trike
..... 1-' , .,•i;Erie, Pa. famine time. - For• months together that yard
'•i••:i i .% X EX PitrEi t * CoM rAN y . : Was erowdetl—so crowded, that you could not
' •., No. , li• A Tiltak. ciao.. •:/,., t. have thrust in a hand among them—with people
ILI t. :eos, 11. A. NI.
~:eir.k.groaning aud waiting day, and night, some dying
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.I.( il,i ir. J. 31OBSON, . . awn ethers bringing their 'lead, till our hearts
. ~ i , - , •, ,,, ,-: , lon M, rchant, Pitlitit it,,,, F.' i'• were almost broken."
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....1,. F.ti, Fluar arid PLitk.r.
zENsw - t - fG& 6): - - -.1 wonder how you lived through it," mill!.
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. :•, r , 11 . nam.rit‘ in Pereign :sll-1 Dame,- "SO do we. But we hat 'to Tonne ourselves
~iy made clothing, Boots a ii.i : 4 11.4`P. LC. ! ".
and d o our duty. There were only my husband
t" • Block . State area, Erie.
. q II:sHA-1.1, & VINCENT. and Mr. Zechariah (the clergyman) to give out
'' ' " ' '----°f" up Ruin in Talununy limb ; the relief by which the whole country side was
ttortlf of the ProthonistatYleolice. Erie.
kept alive. T was often at borne, with that yartil
\ I URA AY WHLA)N,
••‘• •, Asftf COI,IttELLOR a? LAIT--01110e °Vet Wit- ' full of Penpk, while my husband was absent
, ..k Wright's, entrance one Aloof Relit of State street,' -TM . c
g to see the landing of the meal-lend I un
ii.amr.:l,l. Erie
. easy about Ifip, the people grew so violent.,-
1
There was aideys au escort of constabulary io
guard the cmild from the, ship hither; bat the
people were ready to tear them to pieces to get
at the meal. It was bad enough at first, when
the government Wilted - that the men should
work on the middy, to earn their share. The
poor fellows Would no more work. on the roads
than my baby could; at, they were dropping
and fainting by the roaddide as soon li - 11 1- they trr
eu. We thought that the worst sight we had
ever seen till we saw worse. We knew that the
government wag not Ilk aware of - the real
need, if they would make such a condition; and
we were afraid to look forward. It was just
then that Mr. Yarding a gentleman of one of the
most swami families in Inked, brought home
his bide{ to his estate, 4401 bb the town. He
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TIBBAL:T,' &. - I,IAYES,
br. G. 04.4, Dr Groceries, Crockery, Hard
. V 1. Brumes New Hotel.
S3IITH JACKSON,
r. Dry (:•.od., Oroeerieti, hardware, Qneens Ware, t,
Nr.116, ke.. 121, Cheapside, Erie,l2.'f
WILLIAMS & WRIGHT, • -
• • r :).1...--tors and Dealers in Gold and Silver cola,
ni Ni.uiej, Land Warrants and wildcat*. it Ile
sight Dratta oti the prineipal cities of the
.1 eti parts of the Old Cowry for solo. Office,
corner of &Mast. mad Public, Square.
.4* M 4: ILAPIN. Rampart . Ihnitter—ollico in
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, Empire Block, harper of States:id Fifth
up stairs. Prices reasonable, wad
ELLIorr,
41 , 10 0 Iteotlent Dentist:. °See and dwelling on
• ti,,. South side of the Public Square, I door
E.t,i of the Erie Bank Baiiding. Twatiftn
' , I , qi iivl.l Plate, from one to an Entire set. Carlow
: , i , 1..1.! with pure void, and relined to boil* and us
',-,•. reerai , iwwied with imitrumente and Damao* ow
k , hare theta. of pullout delostwant. All west warranted.
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Pio ilk Obeerrer.
THERE ARE LONGINGS,
Moro are loaginp Luso and thrilling.
Marring an without austral !
Swinging desc,, *ad arcs welling
Prota the fountains of the sod;
Mowing onward. strong aad steady,
Santora sporaing that We bound them.
Never resting, ever ready.
Dashing down the rocks wound them.
Doing as tits Arab weest,.'
Speeding c'er Se waste et Bead.
Toning pined his readies head,- - •
Thus they nose withoit name*
Curb sad cheek them Wyen
Heldiartenee the etifened veto,—
They an theni-40 boindlngp I
Finesrin away seen.
There are longings in the gUmuter
Of the twilight coming on,
While the rainbow-tinted shimmies.
Fondly mourns the dying run:
As the Maiden in the window it
Pensive leans upon the
Watching with a remiss. , yearning
Weary shadows climb the hill.
There are longings, oh! what longing.'
When the wanderer fairyears,
Climb* the hill where is the distance
His awaiting honre appears;
Wen the chimney make ascending
Quickens poises in his heart,
While the noble elms o'eahending.
Reckon him where dwbils ho art.
There pre longings on the met,
When the deck the sailor treads,
Stars and compass watebeth he
is be guards oblivious beds:
A. Ji IC ET SW
one of wvartilb hravelit sow,-
1 et that noble heart, nowsreepin;g
Minks of distint little one.,,
A nil him wire, all calmly Piet , ping
There are longings at deep midnight,
'When no eh" nor sound ij near--
As upon the realists pillow
.
Frequent drops the mailing tear,
When the quivering, half-eheeked.igh
Tell, its tale to 'Silent halls,
And the rent beast umumfolly
Sink* lasiesth its harm walla.
There are longings when the clank
Of the chain in dungeon deep
Echoes to the ceiling dank
Per the couch where dwells no •keep:
Heiress hears the prisioner's groar.
And the all-avenging Eye
Looks upon the oppressor's throne,
Who would from his fury dy.
There are hustings is the edgy,
Theme are longings in the wood,
Tender yearnings, anzlocadonging,
For the beautiful and good;.
AP lb° irrupt soul forward reaches,
Spurning scenes of earth and time,
And amid thit gore tasesb..
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Stiffer: 'sleuth the tempter's red.
PaatisurA
In the egy
All Ida fend dealres are 'hounded '
In that city's golden wall!,
By West apirit, all rtmounded.
Waiting till the /defter elm,.
Mau I shriving, longing ewer,
Longing for he loows not what,
While Lis every tours endeavor •
Is for soothing he has nut;
Closely guerd those tender yearning•,
Rising from the heart's deep flood.
Ever obetiah higher longing.
For the healthful and good.
()Oct Visa Halal
•THE FAZINZ TINE IN IZZLAID
Fasts Stranger than Elation.
ET CMITLIACTIALAIXD PORTER
drove her through the town in as pretty
out as you weld see; and a neighbor said to my
husband, when he looked from the carriage to
the people in the street—'Mr. Yarding will re
pent that pair of horses before six months are
over.' And so, no doubt, he did. The value
of his land sank to nothing—he could not meet
the ealla t upon him nor pay his rates; and now he
is shut up in his own *lee, the gates looked day
and night, (Hunduye and all,) and ha dare not
look through the bars into the road."
"How did you get food for yoniselvear—
I asked; "sad how did you eat it, with that mat-
' titude of graining people before your window?"
"We prover enjciyed a meal during that year.
ere r‘med to be a poison over every thing.—
There was no ilowr to be had good enough for us
t to give the children; and the Accra, and agents
and servants amp yeti in the distribution, were
• forbidden to bey yof the meat that was sent.
This was hard unjust, audio fact, it could
not be carried out. They got it by sending their.
; servants and baying for one another; and paying
i properly for it, they did not feel it was wrong.—
There was no vegetables to be had but the black,
rotting potatoes, :We could get a sheep for Svc
. shillings; becauie there was nothing to feed sheep
, with; and for-that reason theAnutton rii,as hardly
eatable. Nothing seemed to have its proper
: taste, or to be real food at that time or for long i
after, You were laughing to-day at the Books
of geese along the mad, spreading their wings,
. 'and straddling away before the car. Well,
among all those daterted villages that you passed
• through, there wasnot a goose in those days.—
There wasn't a pig / nor a dookey. in all the dis
trict, from sea to sea."
-What' became Of -the donkies? The people
did not cat them, I suppose."
"Indeed but they 'did. My husband saw the
meat banging out of their pockets. And worse
creatures than donkeys disappeared in the same
i way. There was, after a time, not a living am
-1 tam bat human beings to be seen from sea to sea,
1 except the horses that brought the meal from the
• ships. • The second Itisire that we thought we had
`seen the worst was when the meal was sold at
I half a crown the sane. Think what a price that
lwas! . But it was paid as long as there was any
money in the distria. That yard was as crowd
ed then as afterwaed& My husband and his
men could not get through the business of serv
ing it, though, to save time, every buyer must
• tie up his half crowa in the corner of the bag he
handed in. It was; astonishing the amber of
I bad lira crowns we itook in the course of a few
1 weeks; there was n time to look whether-the
motley was good or,ild ;
but my - hrudrand had to
account for it, of co .-., as if it was all good.—
. illo,anan, :Auld • • ' ' • • 1/20.4
i 1.. L all night! ---and they w t
ju n & gA r vw ti la . littara_ :au' Apo *he peopl e
et inahi ve o et li sciethey pare lay - -;- - -sw-, -- yuit.vegir
do it, Ar, 1 Liavehl no refreshment all this day,
and I'm , Y-nn no. em willing to stand by the
peopin ~,s long as I eau, but I can't do more than
:I am eqtal to.' Then my husband would say
-t'Well, go to your supper, and my wife and I
will turn to again fo g an hoar, lest some of these
people should die be ore morning. .But we will
shut .up in qn hour, y that time the worst will
be served.' We did, shut up in an hour, leaving,
perhaps, sixty or seventy persons outside. But
when the men had set down for a while, and had
their supper and their pipe, they would Cheer up;
1 and then they agreed to whet my husband said:
'There are only sixty or seventy. Let us send
I them away, and the ' u we can perhaps go to sleep,
Ihaving done our bftt.' So we opened again and
went qn till two or three o'clock in the morning.
Bat that von see, was while people was still able
Sita
o pay. . ;
"How could thian be worse when the money
was gene?"
"Why, it was almost worse to know u where
hunger was, without being told, than to have it
come before our. cyp. We knew pretty well how
matters were with X good many people who ceas
ed to send for meal, and who were- never to be
seen in the dayligt; people who lived in good
bon-es, full of go o 4 furniture, which of course
they could not flee. My husband mentioned
this to the Faiends' Relief ,Committee, and they
desired him to de what was acceptor); for such
persons, in the way in which they could• receive.
it. So, when theday's work was done, we used
to pat up begs of tees), and my husband would.
have the horses put into the cart, and he would'
go round and drop theie logs at the proper doors
in the dark. A difficulty came out of tbia, how
ever. They supposed they owed these ' gifts to
my husband, and iit was not en easy matter to
i xt
explain Pt that tier . But—l don't know—per
haps some sights w re worse than knowing things
we did not see. I le would cease to that win
dow with two baskets, one before and one behind,
and—and-1, demllchild in each.". .
"After a pause she went on: •
"My husband mtd I used, to think that it was
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the people's way hey thought it right, of course
--to sacrifice ode hill to give a chance to the
'rest. We used observe that one child was
partieulailypettei—always in its mother's arms
—and that one was always excessively emaciated,
and died presently; and we used to think its
share was given to the others and— " `
"This is unbearable!" I et:debited. But in
a moment 'I considered what it must have been
to see it, Ind was ashamed. I asked her to go
on. She did. It was a relief to her.
:It was p. tern le thing to have to go out at
that time, and awls, when the fever'end
cholera followed e famine. The dead and 'dy
ing used to lie in one's path. One lady, craning
a Gehl through the long pus found a ebild—a
little girl—hiddeo there, alive but insensible—
She was saved; and eo was a little orphan crea
ture of two years old, who had strayed away by
himself to a dunghill on the road, where a pig
seised him; and would have destroyed him but
for a ear happening to come up at that moment.
There were cases every day of little creatures be
ing found among the nettles, or squatted under
tart stacks, or asleep at the door of a cabin where
the last of their relations lay dead within.' One
of these saw the old roof tumbled in on his nus.
News corps. Souse neighbor who had just
ERIE, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1853,
turn-
$1 50 A YEAR, EN ADVANCE.
strength to do it, bemuse there was nobody to
bury her."
"Ra s no t alp lowest class of cabins disappear
ed since that time, or nearly so?" I inquired.
The unroofed cottages with their stone
gable standing up bare—a sight which you think
BO sad and furlorn—were houses of a better sort
thanthe mu d cabins yen have read so much about.
These stone cottages were inhabited by tenants
who ha ve g one to America and elsewhere, as well
as by people who died of fever and famine. Tle
m u d m u m h a ve melted sway. Some which you
supp ose to be dunghills or mud heaps, are plain
ly ruined cabins to our experienced eyes. No
doubt many of them are graves of uneoffmed
corpses. The bones will be turned up by the
plough or the spade some day; and then, whe n
they are found singly or in families, men will
say, 'These are i =wito have died of famine.'
and
There tee now in the orphstriselsool
who, the last survivors of their families, know
that one parent was just hidden. in the ground in
a - bog, and the other without any covering at all,
while the brothers and sisters lie under the ru
ins of the cabin. But, dreadful as is the reason
and fearful the way, it is true that' the lowest
older of the dwellings has nearly dfsappearedt
and may they never be seen more." •
"Never, indeed!" I replied. "These that re
main are *retched enough. And when you 114- i
ed to shut the shutters at 'night," said I, "were
you able to think of other things—to sleep—to
cheer one another?"
"Why," replied she, "I cannot say we were„
during the worst—the latter part of that dread
ful year. There ware reasons why. with our
house full of good children, home was worst -of
all. There was . a fine young man—an excellent
fellow, indeed he was, and very clever—an officer.
in the commercial department, who had been for
some time'engaged to our eldest d.tughter. She
was very young, to be sun. , ---only eighteen that rl
year,. but they knew one another very well; and! '
in short, everything was ready,'and we were get-1
ting the license—tor we did not like yo wake
them wait longer--whett be took the fever;—!
Nothing could keep her from him. He was lodg
ing in the town, and lay in a close inner rootn.i
I did not know which way to turn myself; but!
her aunt went . with her; and there she nursed
tint, very quietly, saying little to anybody. Onc
day Dr. A. came to my husband, and mid, if she
remained in that inner room with afeeer patient,l
so closely as she nursed him, she would be down
with it presently. So her father and I went; apd
brought her away home to dinner. She made no' l
particular objection when we once got het" away,!
and we said no more about it, but kept on talk-• I
ing as cheerfully as we could; and she . -eemed
reemartiontraemesie ilengx , 4Pr. eftxotralltirc •
disappeared r ami-we knew not whera she was.
ing at thilemlasesit that be , was dead. She had
to pass the bed, tciol but we took her between us ,
and got her past without her looking in. You;
would hardly think what happened afterwards."l
I-was in no condition for anything but reeCiv..'
ing what I was told.
' gAt first she - seemed to take it quietly, whetit-i,
er because of her aunt. being very bad with the fe- ,
per, or what, I don't know. But, after a little,
while, she 'suddenly went mad--perfeetly mad—
for nine days. And there were we, with the peo
ple in the yard, l as usual, and her aunt with the
fever at one end of the house, and she mad at the
other. That was a time to go through."
"A,Adid they die tool." tasked. •
"Tay! ono She is the daughter who was
Married, nearly two years ago, to the curate or
X. :She recovered by degrees, till she was unite
well. And het aunt recovered too; but it was a
great struggle."
"And how cheerful you look now:"
"0 yea. Yon me, We have always scrum& t 4►
do that is a rem thing for people who have had
to go through such a mason. The poor creatures
who had to die are out of their pain, and busied
away; and those who had to emigrate are goaC.
You observed this morning bow healthy the coun
try people look; aid sothey do. The women have
careworn faceo---some of them thinking of their
dead children,, perhaps—and if you could sane
them in June, before the cropping begins, you
would not think quite so well of their looks is
you do now. And it is sad to see the grass-grown
roads to depopulated villages, and to see bram
bles choking' pp
. the doors where neighbors . ustid
to go in and oat ; and nettle% growing tall where
many -i woman that I knew used to sit and spin,
with her children playing around her—half of
then now daid, and the rest in the orphan scloPtil
or the workhouse."
"I saw potatoes growing on the fiJor of one
- roofless house, and cabbages in another?: i
"Very likely. Thom ' is no want of heirt
among the Irish, as I am pare I need tot toll
you. But, if the hungry can get food out of a
dead neighbor's beartstone, they must do it,
without too much refining. I dare say the cheer
lessness of our house may grate a little on your
feelings, after all I have tAd you; but- , --"
"Do not say a word about that," I exclaimed.
I"I am too glad to See it. I linen too well lion
natural it is to have one critical thought, to pre-
"it is natural," replied she, in her sprightly
tone. ,1 0ar children are going out into the
world—marryin' g,:or otherwise settling, very hap
pily. And
_there is no eery pressing misery
about us now, though there is more distress than'
you see, and the prospects of the district are far
from being even what they were Were the bun
But it is harvest time nrnr—snd we are
gay At harvest time. My husband and I Say,
however, now and then, that we hope there will
be no more famines, while we are here, for we
do not think we could go throneh it again."
ter Omer Pada,Enin s ander.inolief o$ the
Turkish troops on the er Danube, is by .birth
a native of Austrian • . Some time since,
he led to Turkey, and after been unsuccessfully
demanded by Austria, as a refugee, he entered
the Turkish army, and by force of merit has rale
. ed himself to his present commanding position.
He commanded the Tt&kish troops in their over
aeons ageism Bosnia and Montenegro.
/we from the Arctic Melling Picot.
The whaling bark, Harriet Thompson, Captain
Fordbam, arrived at San •Franciseo, September
4 28, from the Artie Ocean. Captain F. states
that the catch in those regions for the present
season has been remarkably meagre. His ves
sel left San Francisco on the 15th of . April last,
and, standing 'away from the California mast,
Captain F. shaped his course for the Fox or
Aleutian Islands, in latitude of about 58 degrees
N. These islands, stretching like a huge bar or
dam across the entrance to the Kantscluttkai sea,
he found glittering with ice and snow even at that
late month in the spring. Biasing with a strong
easterlf breeze around' the western point of So
mitaeh Island, he followed the Kamsehatka coast
along to Cape Apoupinekoi, the eastern *promou
tory of the Russian Asiatielossenkons, and from
lw rgal/AdlbielliklallvmMhttained that in the
charts of the dory this cape
, i's laid down nearly
two degrees north of its actual position. Here
ho found a great region of Ice extending across
the Kamschatka sea front Cape,-St. Thaddeus to.
Cape Romanaok, on the American continent, and
so thick that no vessel could hope to penetrate
this apparently eternal barrier.
While waiting here for the ice to break up, the
great American whaling feet gradually collected
at Cape St Thaddeus: On the 20th of June. a
heavy gale sprung up, the - vast field of ice be
came agitated, and in less tha*twenty-fourhours
the whole was broken and =separated into' two
acre pieces, and on the 24th, a fleet of above one
hundred whalemen started for. Rehring Strait , .
The whaling season these inhospitable re
gions is included between the months of June and
Septentber, “fter which the weather become, so
inclement that no boats can live amid the storms
and other dangers that beset the mariner. The
success of the whaling fleethas been but po( this
year. Captain Fordham thinks that:out of 15('
whaling res.:els employed daring the past -enson
in the sea of Okhotsk and in 13ehring's Straits,
about one hundred have not averaged one hue
ered bar, els each. Thero has been a remarkable
scarcity of whales during4he present season, not
only in Rehring's Straits, but in the whole north
ern • whaling region. 'Otis, Captain Fordhant
thinks,-is owing to the wanton destrhction of the
ealvea along the Russian roast by the whalers,
who thus sacrifice, for a few barrels of t oil, the
future prospects of the whole fleet. Itlas only
been within etfew years that whaler. Lave pene
trated so far north as Behring's Straits in pursuit
of theirneenpations eh...supply is fast giving out,
and there are fewer whittes this ye.tr than during
the past two seasons.
Wh a t 'Co w whales were tier+. remarkably
• kto r rrr i p
head whMp of a large - aire; and vi:•ldius; from 110
, described in Lieutenant - Itiasury'S work, dots not
exist, but there is a- sperdes known aq the maw
do
do digger, which comes up from a depth of from!
thirty to forty fathoms, 'with its head covered
,with mud and shells. Flocks 6f birds gerrrally
surround them when they rise. The appearance
jof so much of the country as was visible itasdes
elate and cheerless in the extreme.i Sometimes,
however, the whaling fleet was in such close proi
ity that conversation was carried on from vessel
to vessel in numerous instances. As a whole,
the catch of the present season has been uncom
monly small, and the whole whaling fleet will be
in rendezvous at the Saddwich Islands by *the
middle of Oetober. Many vessels had not cap
tured a single whale.
Captain Fordhem,. of the Harriet Thompson,
thinks that all further search for the Erebus and
Terror ii useless. On the 15th of Anust he saw
one .of the ships of the searching expAtion, sup.
posed to be the Plover. She was then in the Are
-tic sea, between Prince and Wides Head and the
Diomede Islands. She was bound north, and
would probably winter in Plover Bay, (named
after her,) which was her place of refuge last win
ter. 'Captain F. exchanged - signal+ with her, and
the signals were mutually misunderstood. At
thatime she was seen the sea was entirely clear
of ice, 'though the same dense fog which had
hung oter the waters for two months, still pre
vailed: Another ship belonging to - the explor
ing expedition wag in Port Clarence on the I9th
July.
Captain F. held anwersations with thC Esqui
meat Indians at places where he landed with his
boats. 'So many expgditions have been sent there
during the last five years, that many - of them
could talk' intelligibly on the subject of Sir John,
Franklin. Their, arguments were such as to dis
courage all further search for the missing navi
gators.
It Was thought by such. whalesmen as have
navigated th es e regions, that the Erebus and
Terror were not crushed by any icebergs or field
ice, but that they were capsized by being forced
upon the surface of-partially submerged ice. It,
iris the opinion that y the exploring expidition
could not penetrate further this year than 72 de
grees N. The Artie 'sea has been unusually
OW of ice, and the winter has been oomparitive
ly mild. The mountains surrounding the Arctic
sea showed but little snow at the time the what : ,
ling fleet left, not so much as was seen on the
Aleutian Islands two months before.
BACKING OVT or A BAD BARGAID.—Thao
were several persons in a house where there was
a young child some two or three days old; among
them a little bright-eyed boy of some four sum
mers. When the grandmother soon after came
in, with the bebein her arms, he wasparticular
ly pleased 'with it, kissed it, and evinoed away
Moto= of delight; asked his aunt where she got'
it, and was told she bought it of Dr. Adams; be
then asked how much she pie for it. She told
him she paid ten dollars. He then stood by her
lap, on which the child was lying asleep, his eyes
hasping with intense satisfactiOs. The babe
soon awoke, and squalled vocifeemisly. Instant
ly his countenance fell; sad, with almost disgust
pictured on his beautiful face, be turned around
and mid: "Aunty, if I IMP you, I'd take it beck
to Dr. Adams, mid get my ten dollaral—Renaking
seek a sole as this!"
Pyramid in the Ameriesn Desert
• A party of travelers ascending the Colorado
some two hundred miles above its continence
with the Gila, with a view to discover some trib
utary of the former that would indicate an easi
er and more direct rout to California, came upon
an object on the plain to the westward of the
Colmsdo, which arrested their attention and
canted no small degree. of wonder and excite-
Mend. It was first descried at a distanee, it reg:
ular outline giving it the appearance of a work
of art. It proved to be an immense stone pyra
mid; composed of layers or courses of from eigh
teen inches to nearly three feet in thickness, and
from five to eight feet in length. It has a level
top of more than fifty feet square, though it is
evident that it was once completed, but that some
great convulsion of nature had displaced its en
tire top, as it evidently n6w lies s lisswiscit two
ken mass upon one of it , : sides, though nearly
covered by the•san d ..: •
The discoverers give thy• following der,cription
of this ancient pile in a letter to a California
newspaper: ,
. •
This pyramid differ-, in re , pcet., from'
the Egyptian pyramid. It is, nr wa:4, more &len
der or Tiointed; and while tho.e or Egypt are corn
pth..ed layer... keiding a., they rise,
the American pyrathid undoubtedly, a more
finished structure. The outer Atrface Of the
blocks n*:l,4 evidently cut to at, angle, that gave
the mtriteture, When new and complete, a ‘ smontit
or regular surface from top to bottom.
Ptkon the prevut let el of the :4antl, that via . -
round it. there- fire fifty-two di-tinet layers of.
stono, aseiar-e at feast two feet; this
•
givei its presete height one Itunclreci , ,( and four
feet, :so that het re the toli was displaced, it must .
haveibeen, judging front au angle of it, rides,
ut jut twenty feefhigher than at present. How
far iti extends beneath the , urface of the sands.
as it t.l gr. ;
labor,.
Such i. the aze t titi. iutntru gructurq,
that the porpetelicair joint+ between the blocks
are Worn away 6) th.. , width of from five t 1 'Ten.
inche.s itt.the lottont. I'ca_h joint, and the en
tire off thy pyramid so touch worm by the stomas,
the . vicissitudes and the eorrodings of centuries,
as to take it , 111.. y 'of a...cent. particularly upon
one or its sidttc We say one of its ‘itle•.;
tanse:a sinf;alar fact connected with 411 h; remark
able structur 4 t., That it incline :i nearly teu de
gree. 4 to one side of the vertical or perpendicular.
-Theress. not Ole slightest probability that. it was
thus ?ireeted. hut the ceu-c of its inclinttion is
not (lily aceimnted fats .
-By !whom, la what age of the world, and for
what ) 7rtirpo , .;4 this pyramid was erected, will
relodr forevor rentaiu.p l itidden mvsteq. The
thin `i,GMT in in? r
try Lipp t • e qt 71,41,
once the gariden and granary of the Nntinent,
and the abode cf million, of our race.
CLERICAL WlT.—The itleident, of the politi 7
ciao "backing out from the canvass," reminds us
foreibli of a story recently told us by a clerical
friend, 'which struck ps at the time as `-being too
good to be lost." _1 'reverend brother, in a
"down easel' State, ' was . brought up before au
ecclesiastical council, to answer certain gram;
charge of immoral and unchristian practices.
lie asstimecsi au air of indignation and -injured
innocence" at the allegation, and went personally
to all hi, friends iu the parish, inviting them t.,
come to hi. trial, anti ses• for themselves how. vir
we c oup triumph over maliznant p , ,:rseeutiou.
The day of trial at length came The l 'hurel
was crowded. and the vsiisuinatioo wituesse.
begun. the jattst• advanced, fact after }'act
of the most damning character was brought 'int
in the testiuion ;ant when the whole evident.
was in, ,the dotinidant rose and ••I 6,11106 ,
that the character of the t,...tituony toldneed
this trial, as it has :oh :owed. has somewhat s
gered me in the licher of toy innocence; anal no
that it is militated up, I hare conic to the t.onelt
skirt that 1 hal . ; .tirl en th
whole, I think j•i'l would he Irving lint "limp
justice in turning tile wit of the ..bun It, auul y
call do it as soon a., please: - Now th
strikes us as somewhat
FIRST )
vE.—Can any man lay hi, hind 1
on his wai t coat and emni , ienti , m,l3 -ay, -1
til I saw t e Present 31t-Q..lone:‘, l never was
love in ni Alfers Can.auy ULM ~ac ~,? 1k
a poor erehtyre if •he'eao . ., znul 1 nialct.• no , lot
he has had at least forty-five lir-r love.; since
began to :be capable .t' admiring at all
for the ladies, them, of course. I put out of . qu
tion; they are fre:l, nu doubt; they uever fall
love until mamma tells them that Me. ISo-an
. 3
is an amiable young man, and.in every way ,di
ble; they never flirt with Capt. Sulitli at . .t b
and sigh as they lie at home iu hLd. and th
what a charming. dashing fellow he i:s; they a
'hear the young curate read his sermon so Me
and thing how pale and interesting he looks,
how lonely he must feel in his curate honse,
what a noble work it would be to shamthe
tads and soothe the pains, and listen to the
lightfuldoetrine of so excellenta man; they
erthink of attaching themselves to any m ft
except their brother; until he brings ho e
young! friend.fro lu t ai college, and says; ". ar
Tom Atkinson 'rem you. hugely, and • la
_ .
to.two ttousaud a pear . ",' They never begi
attack, as I have heard; but their young
wait like so many fortresses to be attack
carried after a proper period of seige---by
ade, or by bribery, or by capitulation, or b
escalade.
Whilst ladies persist in maintaining th sl
ly defensive condition, men must naturall ,
were, take thit opposite line, that of st ;of
erwi!re, if both parties held aloof there w nld
no more marriages and the hosts would die
their 'respective inaction, without ever co ii
s le. Thus, it is evident that as th. 1
will Sos, the men must take tlip offensiv
my part, have made in the course of life
' t s soore of chivalrous attacks upon save at--
ly forti fi ed hearts. . Sometimes I have
I
leaka leo bits in the season, lad
B. F. 'SLOAN, EDITOR.
NUMBER .27.
came and rendered further jahors lapsible;
, nictimea I have attacked to breach madly,
s ord in hand, and been plunged violently from
t , e scaling-ladder into the ditch; NOM billet I
ye made decent lodgment in the place, when
ng blows up a mine, and I am scattered so the
.! and sometimes when I have bean ii doe
r.a heart of the citadel --sh that I should say
i ! sudden panic has struck Ise, and I have
like the British ontof Carthageni2-211acb
,
V.
TJ'
The New York Tribune has the following eon 1
Rents on a fact which was witneurnd fil the awes
~f that city: r , -1
,
Two late residents of the Celestial Eitiplioi - 1
. . eyed heads and long cues, dressed in their ::- - j
tri e
•: • Chinese costume, were squatted epos i
.;iiiilk; assidag earnest gesticulations to the 1
re-hy, to indnee . theia to melons eigare-- c
Buy a smoke," "Buy a smoke." This was the i
xtent of their accitimplisholient, in the English 1
nguagc.. Poor, unfortunate beings, dram by i
hence upon this over crowded city just as winter 1
• setting in, with no words to help them as their • {
raffle beside these three littleonei - "buy a smoke. " i
low arc they to live? Theirs is extrenwease, r
, . lit it is a hard ease% and it is ty . thief have I
6 ,
one to direct and help them in an effertsof hoe- 1
t industry to support life. While the words - 1
'buy a bmii;ke" were still echoing = through out I
rain, calling up a train of sad thoughts ermanic-• f
ed with :these Orientals, we heard another voice 1
t our elbow, "Buy one."
We looked around; extremes had met. Here
toed a couple of
. North Arkerican.Abori .
uviting, us to buy a pair of moccasins. As chary
f their words, . if- they knew more, as the Chi. ,
nese.. they simply said "Joy Ose:" and-held out
their iierehandise with i matt 'appeal to enr.sym-
,= thy for a poor, trodden, runt de lt. l r l/0 .1 :• '
who have sunk to their present state throngs; .- -
effect of their a:.--oeistiou with civilized, cluristian
ized conqueror. Tir) Chine:, men from the
most ancient empire in the. world; and two Indi
an women from the unetntivated forests of a loan- '
try.only dirsalvered by white men in the lifetime
of the great grandsiyo, of-,both; meeting here in
thi.. great 13abylon, the site of which was cover- '
ed with *'odds, and; was the lame of the rad naa
at a period when all the forests of Cliinahadheen
cut down and the Land enititlited, -Thera is 4
subject for reflection in thin (*atria, ',tick we
leave the rest of ' mankind to - for them
selves. '
MI
" Catharine Jane, fir the'las?tima I a: you.
.will you 'are La.?" : . r ........a55w
veroliauged With gold, Pd m ill my st oi . •
tern of the noble I.lo,Ega-Str ., ingwirlrraselge - mr - -
the Park; and mor e anall. remember my de". -
voted love fur you.'
, '• Young man 'ad yowpermitted me, I would
I •
'arc spared your pang. of hanguish, but sow in •
I your tuental hagony, reeollt , t you brought it ou
I yourself. Villiara Henry, :love_hanoiher r',
1 +. May 'Evin's lightning iithust him I may all
• , 1.
- th,ot part of his heaistence yich bears any simil
e arity to molasses or sweet lbe turned to' bitter
i gall'. may he 'perienee all the totter, that I feel
now; and at last, yen life's tierypilgrimage draws - .
; to a close, 'nay he rush toeet a fate to which
mine's eujoyuteut .. r
Farew 41, (Sttharine. Jaue, ,
, farewell to you r' 1 •ye
A splash ialloWs, and sihinee ensues; a silent.'
that is soon brokeu by the hound of oars rattling
iu theiroarblocks A voii from the wildtAiess
of darkues, shouts forth •:,1 l' Ello there ! darn
your ulgbtettp; wont in_thUnder are you dein' - Our'
The crltflogiy oaehes, ant then—Oh, horror : =
turn- a*s upon is coUrAl..i Its inhuman oc
cupant sl.4lseor red thAt l
..
Villianf henry is iu
o
no great danger , for he pumped into Shallow
w.ote. . I
- • Love like a abadi,w
When tstatrie, live trumnes
Pnraling whih dies.
Awl planes." , • I
g A .13EALTIE11. MORAL—We find ill an ex
change the folhwing site Its and touching para
graph. Thetto is a - wcalt of beauty in it, and
1 " moral on which many au many word word might
be said and lesson taught
n
-God will take eau ofi Baby." A beautiful' ,
'' infant had been taught ; say it, and it amidst).
it little else. "God will e care of Baby. - •--- It
.
h e aas-:arized with sicknessi e ,c:at a time when both
Is ' parent.s . wertt jUst"recoveing from s dangerous
25- illness. Every 'day it grew worse, and at last
in I was given up to , die. ! 1 , •
k- , (-) Almost ugotrized, the, mother begged toil*
Et"
carried into the room of hip-darling, to give it'
d ''' . otie last embrace. lii)th parents succeeded in
nk ; reaching the; apartment,ljokt,as it was thought_
ver the baby hi 'breathed its' last. The mother
11 Y) I wept aloud, when once more the little creature
"nd I opened iti eyes,‘looking lovingly up in her face,
and 1 brained, movedlts lips, and in a faint voioi aid,
' li " . "Gt;il will take care of, baby." sweet, eassoting
le 't words! they hardly ceased when the infest spirit
"I t waS in Heaven. . ,
a A Itsason.—A certain Sunday-school tembar
• t
.3r, was in tie practice of *log up acolleetion: in
air his jereile clam for missionary objects every
be Stodgy; Sad his box received scores of pennies
to which mAht otherwise have found their way to
ad the drawma of the confectioner as top Itum-
A L -• He was not a little surprised, howeveii,;oise Sen
try day to endsleak bill crushed in awns the
weight of clipper. He was' not long in lading
id- it out to bo of a broken bank; and on 'asking the
sit elms who put it there, the doses was soon poin
tt,h- ted out to him by his class-mstes, who bad seen
be him deposit it, and thought it a very benevolent
in gift.
ng to
"Didn't you know that this bill was good - for
uothingr' amid tbe teacher. / .. - - `
\
for "Yea," answered the boy.
d . 1
3St "Then lake did you put it in the box for?"
mg- "I did'aisuppose the iiit i te kook% would know
my the different*, and so it would be just as good.
sudden- for then." • • , .
OM