II t;RLIN & SLOAN, PUBLISHERS. VOLUME 24. BUS I IRA S. GRAVE/3. R Msnefacturer—Monstractory (4 the earner or htli !treats, Erie ? Pa., The highest pries will't* rjarl-Ash. PR. S. C. BROWNED.. Degrtsr, South aide of the Public Square, be .4tete and Perth Streets, Me; Pe. ,- ERR E;)TYPE LIKINESSES FUR I D: E. R. ABELL. r.F.REA4 %R 1141: ROOM! over the itsis Bank, South ,t tLe Disallow'. Erie, Pa. ,turo taken in the best Ptyle of the art, earl wag 1...1-t.k t.k flute. T. D. EDWARDS. 01) Corscautua at Law. Warren Va. Pro and collections will receive prwnp I). D. WALKER & CO., • %I:Pim:, produce and COMlllialtiOtl Merchant . fourth west of the Pablie BriAge, Erie Pa. _D, J I, , r,. ill Coal, Salt, Plaster, Stucco, Fills, Lime Ldue Stone, Imo, Nails, Stares, Cooking*, Ac., with urroced facilities for shipping either by steamboats, f cr,rs. Schooners, or by VIAL& CARSON , CotA!MIAMI AT LAW, Once uu ?rind' St., E.,5t ~rner of the Park, Erie. T: r , 4 , ,,,erier, Provisions, Winos, Liquore, Candies line door below Booth ♦ Stoorart's Suito:st. INCENT, HIMROD & Co., ~ Storea, Hollow iirnrif, Engines, MA. li OlTuAti Can., ete., State SL, Erie Pa. TIIOMAS M. AUSTIN; • LtTE OF ?HI IPIRX or G. LOOMIS 2 co.) Er .-chwke, wafrhes,Jereh 7 , Saver Sputino, Musi- In.trinuenta, Looking GLAnnes, Lamps and Fartey 1,, wholesale and retail. H. JAHECKI, _ . Fol `t DRY. nest aide of Stab Street, Erie, Pa. L N, TIBBALS & CO.. or Ilia rIILII of MAL/Clik B TISINALS4 CoininisAnn and Shipping Mereluulta, And deli]- , r.al. Flour, Fish, Salt, Water Lime, Piaster, Erie, Pa. Packager intended-for our rare tuarkril. IIDI A. J. ICKLSO. .J. 8.-GUNNISON, :Stationary, Monthly Magasine,,, Cheap Murie, Newspapers, Gold Pew, l'ovk , de. First door welt of tee Reed I(oure, Erie. _ . BOOTH & . STEWART, tt red 14044 Dealers in Flinty and staple Dry n l Nfillinery, No. 6, Poor People's Row, opposite [Lad.. I, I DDELL, KEPLER & CO. TI REY of Iron Fence, Railing, Steam Roden , . 1) Fire ProorShntters, and all kincl4 of Muchi a,..! Fency Caetinge, Se., done to order. ('LARK lc METCALF. r.tntl rct3iildealers In Dry tioada, Carpet., ai24 % Rata Hansa- JURY B.a!tdiC, • n Staple A Fancy Dry Clouds, and the tireat.:,l ra "f any stor* in till city. Cheap side, Erie. Pa: STERRRTT & GRAY, ....i..hbere and retail Dealers in wet and dry Urn • l'o , ‘ isions, Produce, Ferwidnated Domestic Fruit, kn. il lon and Stone Ware, nom, Pedt, Solt, WSW, I.,,der, Shot, Caps, flatssty Fuse, ar., de., French the kteed House, Erie,Pa and Canal Boats, Vesse l, Hotels, and Pri- Vmhlitei supplied with any of the allows articles. • t r.anytnest and very cheap. WM. 8. LANE, ' • ICT an'l CorsseLLon t Llw.—Ofee overJesirsurrs r , ar N,,rib-East corner of the Public Soars. • ARBUCKLE k KEPLER, , ,„ Dry iirocerice, Hardware, Crockery, .Lc. P. m Block, State street, Erie, Pa. Ant C. BRANUM, 4n , 1. Si KG 'cox --Nine at his resident...on Eighth lAtlgren French and I.l.,liand, Erie, Pa. )1. SANFORD 03:: - er,- - - Bank Notes, Dra ft s, Certificates Sight Exchange -on the principal Atka tar:. , , nle. Office in Driaty's Block, Public /o*, .TytdP/ITAlClAYtnesitletkce on Pour! ItITOI, one the al Apothecary Roll. • _ RUFUS REED, Engh.M. German and Americo* Hardware and 1.1 o . Saila, Anvils, Vices, Iron mad Steel No. I I 11..a,r, Erie, Pa. ---- ---- —— - C.ll)WElia i BENNETT.) ~ .J., 1 .1..eri, and Retail Dealers in_Dry 00940, tiro . 1 ......kery, Glassware, C tin& Ilardsrare. In ~ Nmls, Spikes, IC. Ent Stores 'State Street. aF ~..r.,, Maus, Brown's Hate Erie, Pa. . ~ .t ds, Vices, Bellows, Azle Arms, Springs, and a , sasortutent of 'Sritldle and Cam Trimming , . S. MERVIN SM ITH, II at Law and Justice of the Peace, and Agent fur -V ^tqns Matual Life Insuranee Company-00t se.t of Wright's store, Erie, Pa. _ -- __ i;EORGE U. CUTLER, et Los, Girard, Erie County, Pa. C.tleetious -I ...i,iurmi attended to with promtnese and alit,- JOSI4II KELLOGG, :sae and C.araniesitin Merchant, on the Pu hlie • . of Mate direct. • P:s.frr And White Pb.is eonsta . ntly for ode. J. G. & W.I. M11.L9, Wholesale Dealers in Groecries. Foreign Prait,l 4 litts, Pieklea an.% Lobsters, preserves, and Herinetriesilly art...le• of every description always an howl, No. 81..ek, State•st., apposite Brown': New fro. Pa. MILL., New York. W. I. )teu.c. Lin ala e riving in their seaman ' Oysters in shell, from J. Dey street., New York, whieh will he ion at low prices. A. C. Jacasoqlt, Erie, Pa. - CARTER & BROTHER, and Retail dealers la Drags, Malicia°. Paints, .•. a5 ,- ..•tuffs Wigs,e., 6, Reed Rouse. Fait. _—_- - - - - JASIE9. LYTLE, ' Merchant Tailor, aw the pnhlie samara, a few .'• .••I Saws street, 'Brie. JOHN H. BURTON & CO. t. 11) UKIAH. dealers to Dugs, Medicines, Dye 4 , ecrie.. A.., .Nn. 5, Reed Moore, Erie. DUBLIN - & SLOAN, . • .1 CI:I.-sal. School and Miscellaneous Bac,lut, 4. • • 1: • Ittccry, and Printer's_ Cards, No. 9, - 4 '• N... Hotel. Erie Pa. IN) I 'TORN IiKEBE & FITNWART, Physicians and Burgeons. Moe and Re:idea - • 1 . , ...r.:11 and Sassafras Street+. ' • li h N trots 7 to a. A. M./ to 2: and I/ to 7. P. M. • JOHN IT A R & CO. • , t .xauullion Mereturs, denier in - in Coal, F and agent for a oil lisle of tipper hike ' ?old' , Dock Brio, 14ERWAN MkPREB43 COMPANY, 1t.. , n..wN1 to No. 5 11.0,41M0rk. State Street. ' rn Ett,relorclomys at 11) 0'c10.4.. A. M. 3 o'clock, P. M. - Cr Eol{fig J. MORTON, and commifslon Mercluint.,'Paltale Leek, Salt, Flab, Flair and Plaster. .—.--__ • 1. ROZENSWEIG & Co. ,orn RETAIL Dg,* .*U In Foreign awl remla / 4440 owl Oboes, Ar. itt.ght's Block. Butte street, Brie. MARSH:VIAL & VINCRNT, 14 IT LAW—olliee op antra In Tammany Hall north of t e e prmh.v.t.,:r• aim. Erie. MURRAY WUALLON, CI,UVIEL.LOt 4r 4W-- 4 1,11 1 1" , ace wu vflight,i. oatcanon on. door went of SUN AV bututvnel, Brio. _ • • TIRBALS, & L' l l` , al Dry Goods, Drj Groceries, Caucehry, N.. 1. Brown's Dow howl. SHITH JACKSON, Ulf 111 Dry Goods, Groceries, hardware. Gamine Ware, Nails. ke., 121, Cheepsida, Eric, Sta. _ WILLIAMS &, WRIGHT, k Colketotll and Dealers la 041 aad Silver coin, orrent Money, Laud Warrants and eartliesics of D e- Al.o shcht Drafts ea the principal cities of the ~. ;AAA ail parte ot•Gie ttld Dealutry Tor sale. Ogee. 1 . IDl.' c,irner of State-st. and Public Square. NI. ell A PIN, Biomes? Danner-06as in tt.• Empire Block, corner of Statenn4 rah - a op gain. Prices rergionabk, and wax-muted. • DU. O. L. ELLIOTT % keooloot woos*: tare and dwell:his on the r4out6 ride of the Pablie Bylaare Idoor sas Base of the Mrio Bask Deoldlisg. Teeth ts • I.„ .1.1 Piste, from ea. to ws sears ass. Carlene " I o.th Nu, 641. and restored to health sad we r.. with iostrusoommood Loortilles so 1.1 v.• then lipahlei 4WISMIlafil. All work wsnwatail. .. , . . , . . ,- 4rIIII . SIV,Mv4 ' _ 4 1 .10444"illike" • . al . ow aimilip itoo ' r ERIE_HFF , S R . Vl.' 4 1 111 H k Ell itirct Vottrt. was as /melees Seelmiy, A song of other years; I heart with joy, yet seemed to tool Upon my heart la Whose steal Pallohtan smiles and team. for ;when she sang that song to awn That little maltreat lay, ' • We thought that lite would abase saw As baentifill—as bright a draw, As soothed oar hearts that day,: rarra Elbe nem wag that soatagaia,:— Fier dream of life wow der; Yet oft aoldst the weary - sirife And eteseleee toil of busy 'life I bear Its tense osee nand . It sounda--tho "WU mournful oiraiu— As 'lmo, in other yam— Lime with joy--on 4 yet I feel Upon my limn la mum" maul Romoruheral 'Wilda and tetra( I= .ttoicc Misrtilaut. ROM LEE; OR, THE BY ELLEN I t otllB,l{ ellANDLitit I like 'this strange morning, on Which I am writing—this suules.4, rainless day—;the all-gray sky—the phantom wind, stealing oyer the hills with its ghostly feet; and now and then stopping to Mott some fearful, shrieking, clarion blast on its trump of air. I like it, fur it homes to me like a memorial. I sit still, holding my breath, with my hand clasped tightly orermyeyes, and think of high, fierce tides tramping in upon low lee-shores—of alarm-guns sounding among the breakers at midnight; and the pale moon over head stretching out her firma and fighting fiereekY with black, pursuing clouds. Some one has said . there are motitents which command our lives—moments (nuking back upon which we-can see where& single half hour might . have changed our destinies. Every one's life has such points, that tower pyratnid-ilike above the dead level of the years—and I..am going back to one this morning. , • You would think me very old, could you see me now. The smooth gray hair is , folded back under my quaker cap, like bands of silver, and over my face are drawn deep, TurrCiwed lines, the foot-prints left by lonesome years, in their tire less journeying. lam old, when I count my life by incidents, and y-t not so very-al, when I tell it over in ,year. ' l do not know how far hack I can remember. Souietimes I mete have dim visiOns of a fair southern home. Ilright Bowers are blowing ' round me; and southern breems make sweet mu sic; touching with their invisible fingers ..-Eolian harpetrings. Standing there, the soft eyes of bountiful nkiLux. , t mono .1... - of some old marble hunter rims up in solemn state at my midi. — lllisa - pteasant cotintry, vnougn • I sett it very dimly thmngh mists of years; and lam not quite entre,' after whether it ba any thing more than a floating island of fauey. It seems little else on morings such w this. I cau goliack to it, and hind my brow with its flowers, in the calm pleasant days of midsummer, when I sit iu my low chair beThre my cottage door, and round smiths wild birds sing, tit , -warner flowers blossom, and the south wind lifts lovingly my silver hair. But it is different now; this sObbing, lonely November. morning I stte not fair and many scenes—no southern palaws, or sat-eyed pia tures, bat bat* ft. my heart tames the first deep, vivid memory of my life, stern---erusbing--ter . riblel • It was a strange scene—yon way have read of such, but God grant they way never have dawn ed on your own life, never have ovule your lutir stiffen. or chilled the blood in your veins. I was verysuaall; for . Ikitnar I had been playing on the dock of It stately Alp, and pat4sell round, wax-baby like, from one to another. At last I hod been put to bed, in my little hammock, and a being fair as a seraph had bent over me, say ing prayers, and ace-maries. I had been dreaming, I believe, pleasant sun ny dreams, when suddenly a quick touch woke me. It was the same fair woman, but now her face was blanched deadly pale. !The white wo men whose work it is to bury the dead drowned at sea could not have lookedmore ghastly. She said nothing, but gathering me up in her arms, she rushed on deck, I sce it yet very distinctly-4t fearful scene. ; The - good ship was plunging lie a frightened s t ee d—madly plunging—nushin ou toward a low Ice-shore upon our left. . There, over rocks, whose whit tops shone up clear, and ghastly in the fitful !moonlight, the great waves boiled and surged, stud then retreat ed, coming up again to hug thoeolrightful, des olate rocks more madly than before. The winds howled, tin4l tramped, and shrieked, like so many demons keepinglholitlay; and on ward toward this terril.'c sliotlo our ship I wan plunging. The moon overlie:l(l , 4one out 50me....1 dines from thick, Mack cloud:1,1 like a phantom. Lex: looking down niockingly upon this war of elements. Anon the vivid lightnings flashed, and the thunder sounded its hoarse, inulikKidirr notes, and In the midst of all, intr vessel, like a prancing steed was careering joyously, bounding I onward toward death. - ) There was no boat wltkh oonbl stand for saw meet the fury °tau& a gale. i Some of the men launched one, it is true, Iv it lad scarce ly Blear ed the ship when it went top )eoin before our eyes, and the poor fellows peristed. 1 , No, there was no hope; notte • dee boldest rswimmeta were powerless In sock a sea, and the grasp et those fiercely battling waves, was no mother's cherishing love-clasP. I know that fair woman stiajned me closely to her breast, as she clung ‘,lrith'ilker other arm to a rope overhanging the side of line vesael.—l know, with my ear close to her lips,ilowthi ouch, amid the steno, *tweet, a.ifemo worth' of prayer—then there was a mighty altotirsite, sound as when many a cannon peals forthinanelamitardimg clang :of defiance; and alter that Ikaow no more. . Xinnory in Inge. ' I==alli CILLYTICR I. I seem to have a faint, and yet roost terrible vision, of the moon shining. down brighter than ever on the white ghastly faces upturned to her gaze, their long locks dripping with the briny waves of the sea subsiding to a dead calm, as if contented with its prey—but beyond that fierce, terrible emir I know nothing. My next memory is very different. •It is of a fisherman's hut on the Cornwall lee-shore--u lit tle, smoky, disagreeable place, where one morn ing I lifted my head from a couch of set-weed and looked around me.. I saw low,smoke-black eased walls, hung with fishers' nets, seal-skins, and dried herring. A man sat_by the drift-wood fire—he had a strange face, in which my riper judgment can hardly tell whether the good or the evil predominated. It wore an expression of hardy, patient endurance. About the mouth Were the strong lines of physical power, and the thick shaggy hair shaded a brow, whose_ and breadth betokened, anything but a simple, ton. I fancy I must haie loved power and strength even then, for know my childish spirit sewed to revognice more affinity with him than with his wife, who was ty far the kindest lookingg, of tbo two. `But whatever I thought of them, I lid sure I must have had memories of far different scenes, for I well remember that I resented, as an indig nity, my having been brought to that humble dweeling. I was only weak, for I had no sooner complet ed my survey (if the desolate looking apartment, than 1 way forced to lay my head back upon my seaweed pillow; and it must have been half an hour before I was able to speak. By this time the Woman had completed the preparation of bienkfast, and approached me with a porringer of Warm goat's milk, and coarse bread. _But I put it haughtily from me, and rising up in . my bed I exclaimed "I don't want any of your bflutkfast, if you'll just tell we what' I've been brnught to this nas ty place for." "I reckon 'twos m kind a thing," growled the MD at the fire, "to bring you home here, as to a' left you out doors to die, along with that dead woman I found you fastened to, two. weeks agone this mornin'." "Dead," said I, "mamma isn't dead, is she?" "Weil, I guess yin& won't find any. on'em any thin' else but dead, that was out on the lee-shore thal b night. They're all gone barrio' you, and we might as well s'left you to die, if you can't carry a more civil tongue in your head." . "Well, go away, Please," said 1, more gently to the woman, who still stood by my - bed-side. ••Z can't cat any breakfast this morning." _ "Poor little critter," said the woman compas sionately; "tielike she's lonesome—you ought not to told her, Johan" and she turned away. I lay there in a kind of stupor—l mks not old enough to realise how strange was the Providence which had preserved onlv_ me. a itelts pha i i for praise and tlmukfulnete% and 1 wt, only sun ante as I lay there, still and qui'et, with elm.l eyes, of a deep, desperate feeling of hate and anger, against I knew n4.t what—the sea, the storm, the ship, almost against the very people who had lietd, and left ,me thus alone iu the world. • ' CILAPTXR Mine was surely a strange childhoml. I grew up_ there, in a fisherman's lonely hut, on the Cornwell lee-shore The fisherman and We wife had no children, and they loved me, end were kind to me in their way. The woman soon found out that my errant, wandering ankh could ill brook confinement, and she ceased her at- tempts to teach we knitting and net making, and allowed me to wander whither I listed, only ex- I acting that I should bring home at night a cer- ' fain quantity of sea-mesa, which her, ltillbatsil used to carry for sale to the neighboring market town, a distance of some twenty miles. Perhaps, to one of my temperament, this bar ' dy life was not without its advantages, at least it was siugularly free front temptation. No Indi-, an maiden ever led a life freer or more tameless. I used to wale cliffs, from which the boldest ( hunter would have shrunk back appalled, and, standing on their jagged summits, laugh a defi ance to the eagles, and toss back uty lung black I hair, with its sea - weed coronet, a princess in my I own right. Neither the gsfiennan,.nor his wife knew how to read, sad I gor ni in a like ignorance; anti 'yet I was by no means devoid of one kind of ed ucation. I eonld tell where the eagles hatched and the sea-birds hag their nests—where the tallest trees lifted their great arms, praying t 4 the pitiless sky; and where the storm windS lashed the waves to wildest fury. My keen eye could discern in the distance; les& little cloud no bigger than a man's hand, and afar off I recognised the e s o t ;ing spirit of a blast. tbst 'should be strong to w.the sea with wrecks. One night—l must have. been about thirteen years old—l had climbed to the very top of high cliff, known as the Devil's Tea-kettle. It was a singular place-steep, pointed, jagged rockS, hemmed is a basin, on whose seedy bed white shining pebbles lay bleaching in the sun light. ,1 had heard terrible Wei °elide strange chasm. The peasantry said haves the brewing [ place of the waters of the stream of death—for never were the waves known to rise high enough to fill the basin, but that some goodly ship went dim" 1,1:1 sight of laud, with all her freight of pre cious souls. 1 bad saner seen the waves boil in the Devil's Teskkettle, but I had beta told that never had they surged.so high, so w ild, so mad, in on that fearful night when I was dashed upon the lonely shore and the storm-spirits clasped hands with the winds and shouted forth my mother's' requi em. I think must have been bores in a storm, for they were . to me familiar faces of des? old mends—l • lovwd them, mat at this night of whisk I speak, whsu I had eliabod to the top most ledge of these spectral eliik I planted there my hold, era step, sad, lookiag forth to sea, laughed nervily, Awl lit I Ludwig' weld have said it IPArt Stir to heaatiful night.— Mil ERIE, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, .1853, -~-~-~ .7 $1 50 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE. The sea was very calm—too calm—for it was the lull before the tempest. The sun was going down into his subterranean palace of clouds, flinging back over the waters the lengthning .robe o f his'glory, and over opposite the moon, like a fair young bride, was climbing up the east, with a star or two for bride'mnaiclit, going forth to beiredded to the night. Oh, it was a Mindful scene. I have looked on such, in later jean, till my heart ached with their quiet beauty. Bat it ached not then! I clapped my hands as I looked forth over the wa ters, for there, in the far distance, was a little cloud. It was a pretty thing enough—quite in keeping with the' scene—white and soft, and fleecy as an angel's wing. But / recognised it knew it was no seraph coining nearer—but that, as in their funeral processions at the Fast, they send far on, in anew, white-robed mai+ ens, seatteriag flowers, evolPsii now had therad vasieieg spirit of the storm, twin-leagued with darkness and despair, sent forth this peaceful herald before his face. And I knew from its position, and 'the rate at which it scudded befbre the wind, that it was to be a -fearful storm—sib gentle breeze to rfilick,a child's cradle,. but a En roclydou, to built the deep sea into fury: Oh, how high my heart swelled as I lookedbo it, and shouted in my glee, that the Devil's Tea kettle would boil well to-night. But I think it was not from any native malignity. I desired not death, but excitement. I wanted a wreck . , it is true, but then I would have braved death it self to save the lives of its victims. But the sun set glory faded out from the heavens, the moon elitubed higher, the white cloud widened, and sprang down the cliff, and gathering up my bee het of sea-moss, walked slowly home. I did nut sleep that night. My little room opentsl out of the one where I had first found myself, and which was at once sleeping-room, kilchen and parlor, for the fisherman and his wife. About 'midnight, I heard a sound. It was a single gnu--ones- and again it boomed over the waters. hurriedly dreaming myself, I roused the fisherman from his slumbers, and putting on a ,clerk and hood, stole unobserved-from the dwel; Hug. My feet paused not till I had reached the toi ledge of the Devil's Tea-kettle. Merciful native, the waves' seethed sad boiled there like mad. What-a sightl It frightened even me, who had never known fear before, and springing down the rooks, I tied, as if a whole army of fiends were pursuing me. I hurried along the shore for a few rods, when - the light of a lantern flashed fall in say hoe, and I paused. It was d'ohn‘. Yoe here, child," he said, a tone whidh had more of fear than anger. t - thtnre - tr:tvgtstlt -- tu - lwvv - tvpmtrnnnan - eyee to gao. ~o thp terrible scene, &wide his own. The moon, which kiti shone out fitfully as tweed be. side the Devil's Tea-kettle, was now traded be neath -blip - Aim orbhtek, surging, clouds. It was woe, w,0.--,tt was pitch dar.:. Only now and !Iwo ;me yivi I 11.44 of 1 ightning would show *Mlle C.t.tettl. • .14.111... EMI , At bite - mils the signal glum would s boom over S he waviv., like the sullen roar of some wild ani mal, or sera - 1 human voice would shriek out wild ly, madly, hopelessly for help which came not. Ph, it wag a terrible sight to stand there ,and watch that mighty ship, hurrying helplessly to its death. I looked till. tny soul grew siek—l could look no longer. I sank . down upon the cliff where 1 WAS standing, and clasped my hands : across my eyes. I did not see the struggles Of I 'the great ship, but I heard the sullen, deafening I 'crash when sihe too struck upon hidden rocks, i and went do It ; helplessly, in sight of land. I heard the c h, and, putting my fingers in my lears, ran inla 11, till my b r oth was spen t,. t t And then tre early summer morning dawned., We had stootl i therc three hours, though it seem- Otl not many minutes. So king had the good ship l' struggled with the wavest—so long her brave crew [ died a living death of anguish and suspense. As l' soon us the earliest dawn-rays commenced to light my path, I turned my footsteps homeward, and at the doorof the hut I met John, bearing a sense . less figure in his arms. 'This is all that's left of 'cm, Agnes," said he, with a sadness unusual. to his tone, and entering the house, he laid his half-drowned burden doirn upon the sea-weed couch. His wit, had already opened the windows and lighted the flre, and she hastened to apply vigorously all her stock of silk ple restoratives. Her care was presently reward ed, by seeing the stranger's eyes unclose, and catching the faint sound of his irregular breath- • tug. It mkt several days, however, before be avoid rise from . the (Much ,wtmes he had been planed. On the morning of thefonrtb day, he slowly ap proached the window and sat down. "My friend," said he to the &Merman, " I owe yon Orally 'more than gold can ever. ay you. Will you do more for tee still? Can you bring me, from the next post-town, a sheet of paper and some iok, and will you let roc -be your gneist till I receive an answer to the lettir which I mast write 2— When it conies, I shall have gold enough to re ward your care, and strength enough to proceed on my jcstruci." Of course he gained his point, foe when did Horace Mann ever fail to do so? I watched his course after that.for years. and I nem knew hint to fail to accomplish whatever be undertook. The letter was written, and sent ? and during the two months that glided away before its answer cause, Horace Mann was my constant companion in all my walks. lie wanted a guide sad took me, for want of any other, quits careless as to the effects such an association might produce up on my mind. And yet, to do him justice, be was really very good-natured, and 'bathe found out, a week or two after our acquaintance own mewed, that I coal& not road, he set himself to work in earnest to supply the deficiency. I lov ed my teacher, and my migrate was rapid. 1 suppose Horace Mann would as soon have ' thought of winning the fishernum himself to love him, as me, the rough. wild-mitered child ofhis 1 adoption. Biit I have been told by physiognomi esl ontmoisseers that !tilt the blood in my veins its Spanish, and I, uncultivated child of Thirteen WOE min, loved the tuataras pen Engliehmen with a wilder devotion than many a grows wo- man is "pale of. Oh, Aar I loved him. - Re told me nothing of his personal history, but years afterward I learned that he was rich and noble. I was fora long time uneonsciorm of the nature of my own love, until one afternoon, when we were walking, words of his revealed it to me. "So they call you Agnes Lee, do they?" he asked pulling me down on a rock beside him, and leisurely drawing my long hair through his fingers. "How in the world came you by such a romantic natter' "I don't know what romantic means, air," I answered, simply, "but they called me Agnes Lee, because on St. Apes' night I watt cast up on the lee-shore, in a terrible storm, and my mother was drowned, and they hadn't any other name for me." "Hof times it is it. Quite a good aoconat.— r , Yon meat bane been born for telling stories.— Well, I've a mind to amuse spell' now, telling you one. Did you ever bear' about love? But I know you never did; you, who never saw a , handsome man in your life." "Except you, sir," mid I, looking admiringly into his bold, handsome face. His laughing bine eyei twinkled fun, in appreciation of the beenely-given compliment, and he proceeded to . give me my first keon of that love, streager than life and more terrible than death. As he des ' eriheid its workings, nay eileeks limbed crimasa, j and I knew that eves so I loved his.. At last he grew weary et sae, or of his subject, and eliker- ing a book from his pocket, (be procured 'Memel of them from the market-town, is order to meek I me to read,) he bade nee run away for a whale 1 , to play, and ease spin When I got tired. Slowly I salatared onward, with one remark whieh he had made sounding in my east, he had I said, "Lore seeks beauty as furturolly as the flow era die sualigeltr'." . . Was I beautiful? My whole mind and soul were fell of the tipestion. At last I remembered a sunny pool, of cleat, fresh water, where I could arse myself as is a mirror. I had often looked there to adjust lay sew-weed wreaths, but I had sever 'noticed my haw, for never, until this after- ; noon, had the question suggested itself - Whether I was besatiful.:Cantieusly I crept to the '-ink, and many times drawing back in fear, I at length looked in. I nibramd my long tresses, and they floated almost to-my feet, long, hairy, sad black as night. Set in them, as in a frame, a foes looked oat; a childish ) sun-buined face. = There were eyes there---like a sloe's, large, black, i and. melting, and soon lashing fire. I thought I they might be beautiful, but I was not sure. As to the futures; Ivrea not very well competent, to jUdiel I knew now that they were regular enough for a sculptor's model—then I only knew that Horace Maas was hawleaino--my face was um like Horace Maas's, therefore, I thought it must be homely. Bat I Was not satisfied. I stole i lingeringly back to my companion, and found him in turn tired of his book, and ready to amuse siseildrimer in; the world Pk smelt a thing, I, oppose you may." "Well, sir, am I Imedesste?" Horace laighed long and loudly ere he re plied. ` "Well, you genuine dpieesdint of Eve, you minims little specimen of feminine humanity, where you ;ticked up your vanity, nested here on the lee-shore, like a sea-gull, I don't know; but go and stand there in the sunshine, and I'll as- . ewer you. Shake down your long, black hair, all about your, gipsy-r-there, that's right---new stand still." I should think I stood still there a minute and a half, waiting for him to make his decision: I really suffered, while his eyes, were so bent up. on me. At last, his Axed, steady look; was got tag to be torture, and it was an inconceivable relief when he spoke. "Well, Aggie, it took me some time to decide, did'at it? No, you ere not handsome, yet, Ag gie. You are brown as a Malay, and there's something almost savage in your tierce black eyes. 4 But your are good enough-,--your hair is long and 4 41 k7 1 nd if it were taken care of, and weren't sun-burned, it might be magnifi cent; as it is, you're tether homely, but if some 1 1 0 ,0 0 0 had you, you might be made a very band- same wouiaii." Strange to - say, dearly as I loved him, tlis re ply gave me *metre instead of On, though I well knew, bad be loved me, he never would have made it. But Ldon't think I wanted him to love me then. Be had said I had the mate rial for a handsome woman, and that was all I waited to know. My heart beat quicker, with a sense of power. I said that I would make him know I was beautiful, some time=4hat some other day, I would make his proud heart quick 'ea and with this hope for the future, I was quite content. One day, soon after, we were walking togeth. er over the rough rocks bordering the shore: I remember a sense of life swelled high and exult ant is my heat, and I bounded over the steep est ledges, hardly touching them, or paused to balance myself and turn around on their sharp. set points. • "Come down here, Agnes Lee," said Horace Mann's voice, at length, and in an instant I was by his side. "rye been thinking," he remarked, careless ly braiding up some strands of sea-weed, "I've bees thinking you would make a capital ballet dower." And then he proceeded, in answer to my eager inquiries, to explain to me the nature of theatrical performaneesin general, and ballet danlg ainh pec,u"lar. ho ooncluded,"and I wouldn't advise you to try it But, after all, I don't know but you'd be better of there than here. You do very well here now, but what'll become of you when you get old? If you could get to be prima donna, you could make a fortune, if you only kept it. Let me tell you one thing, Agnes, some people think all dancing girls we wicked; but I tell you it is the soul governs the profession, not the penfessios the soul, and you could be le good and pun on the boards of theßoyellimetre, as I 1 in the limmitelp of Lough Derg." It was but a few days after this last °Diverse- ties, when the answers to nonce Mann's letters came, and having rewarded the fisherman's care with many a broad piece of shining gold, he bade farewell to the lee-shore of Cornwall. It was a beautiful morning in the early autumn, and I went with hint a mile or two on his journey. Oh, how gladly the waves danced, and the sun shone, and I could see his heart was dancing toe. As for me, I was not glad, nor yet very sorry, for my whole heart was full of a strong underlying pur pose. Pausing at length, he let go my hand: • "There, Agnes, you must go home noi," be mid, "good-bye my child," and taking a guinea from his pocket, hoadded, "take that Awe; its the beat thing rvo got to giv you to remember me by." 1 "Will you just please toniSke a round bole in it r Ind mark sa 111.' OM it sainewlierer I Oisti mg.ly Inquired. • • "Well, here's one with a kola in it, that will du--and there/' sad sitting do's, he Marked "H. M," in bold, distinct chassetess. "There, little one,; good-bye now," and dmwinglme to him, he based me. It was the first time a had ever bawl ine=the first kiss man had ever left on my lips, and it lingered there for we ekS, and its mum" had power to thrill me for many a year. , [ QOXCIAIDND 'twat •DDZ24III - 1. De&wed Ilefere the 'North East Li)4ige, Noi, 412, / 0. <j 0. F. IT NAV. U. W. BLI/28 Paiiiident by Reyomt. --0.- - - I 11140 it the central fact in creation: lie , is in vested with the attributes and digeity afpre•em- imam and rapeentsey. The teeming mail pro- Idle earth is his estate. Its fruits and producer, , see far his ejourfort sad subsistence. The moun tain rears its lofty summit, the valley deed4tes in humble and quiet beauty; the hills and ate in graceful outline, and the plain stretched, eiray in illimitable prospect, fur man. The tinkltng stregmlet, the mountain torrent, the dasling eat meet, and the majeetie river sparkle, and guilt; and flow, for man's refreshment and deligtl o 4:- The illimitable and unfathomless waves of repose in their rock-ribbed and continent girt cradles, or toes themselves in tempest, or pour their long ind angry surges thundering against the calm and vim, shore, that men "may go down to the sea to ships." Springs gush, (Men tains flow, and lakes spread their crystal delths sad glassy surface for man, who slakes his di rat at their lems r or glides upon their bosom. , Is theretnehantment in the bursting glorier of Spring, promise in• the maturing prospeitl of Summer, or pleasure in the ample stores and subdued magnifiednee of Autumn; these sestents 9 with their varied and appropriate aspects, find garniture of the beautiful and good, are tribeta aheLto man. The fowls of the air, the beasts of the forest, and the •populatiou of the deeps, are subordinate to, and ministers of man. The flower blooms and the forest waves because man apps ehites the beauty and inhales the fragrance tee the one and has skill to fashion into utility the othpr. • And yet all these are but the gross attendanta_thuit'swell the retinue about the out er courts of that temple where abider, and delib erateousaftdacwitat rhiclaz.4 richer and narur— to, and do the bidding of the human soul. In approaching man we approach a mystery; we dis cover the complex blending of a threefold nature in an agreeing unity. We see an ingeniously ' contrived and wonderful - physical mechanism, a' thinking awl knowing mind, and a living soul or spirit. Man's physical powers startle us by their variety and vigor, the funkie' of his - Mind and the endowments of his intellect, fill us rrith admiration and overwhelm us with wonder ;and awe at their vastreals, exhaustless reeu subtle penetration, tireless vigor and immin soope•and comprehension—while his soul ,e , pre sents us with the ever. present, yet never eom ended mystery and beauty of vitality :and hfe. Not only do we perceive these rare and admi rable endowments, but by a benificent arrange ment of providence, his *tire is clothed arith the garments of beautiful aectiomt and graceful sympathies, leadin him to seek assoehtfem with, his fellows, and to dud, his most valued pleasure' in sharing it with 'otherw, hence we find -men gathered together in communities and moist groups; hence, sw!cikilieation advances the.social elements and iiielly sytepathi,.. , i nv t gont ui tw o multiply tbenteelf by nmv C,riii-4 of rombinlstiou and activity, one of which is represented and il lustrated, on this occusiou, by a Lodge of ride Le. dependent Order of Odd Fellows. - If, as we believe, providence design;xim'an fur this supre.mitcy, sad has endowed hint with such rare and radiant gifts, it certainly behoove a him who is the porressor of this valuable iuheri mice,' I to inquire whit influence will be friendly .o its al .permanence, security and improvement. That w the progress of a century has augmented the re- u sources of human usefulness and hapitin }- will ti p i e be unmistakably utanifestitroui a coin • uof ti the past with the present. There letlikew lit- t tle room to doubt that the increased augmentation 1 of man's resources and happiness is reservist for future development. Among the elemen that I give tone and character to the civilisation nil in telligence of the present day no relleuti per son will fail to place Odd Fellowship. either is its place or influence an insignificant o c, but for good or for evil, it is destined to be fel ' in the history of the next hundred years. I pose, therefore, occupying the time allotted e by your committee, in unfolding in a brief ner the principles, aims, end obligations of I d Fel lowship. The past career of Odd-Fellow hip on this continent has been a brief one, bu at the slime time eminently prosperous and brilliant.— If it was deemed an! experiment by its 'friends or foes, most assirredly it can be considered an experiment no longer If to a large portion of the public the issue aras thought to be doubtful, dist doubt has been dissipated, and the institu tion stands ta . days Mlossal and firmly establish ed movement, commemorative of the admirable, contrivance and p tical philantrophy of the 19th century. . But while cheezf y recognizing the benevo lence of its aims, i beautiful adaptation, and the fair and substan ' fruits of charity borne , by it; its friends as well as its opposers should ever bear in mind that Odd-Fellowship does not claim to be, and cannot with • propriety be con sidered distinctively' a religions institution; but ' a moral • it most certainly is, as are schools, eo and civil governments. While its intelligent friends see in its principles and ten denims the development and impress - of our Sa- reeves teachings, they at the same time disclaim the idea that it caS in any essential liarticular take the Sava, arrogate the claims, or; perftwas the functions of the Christian Church., Its es- Wince, though prolific in advantage to our race, dose not lessen the necessity, or trench on the province ofodge the Cherub of Mast. Tie L Boom is set, by Amy of mi asmas, the Howse at Ord, neither eau like fester shy obey- the injeisotkm--qle' ye Weld) the world and preach the gospel to every Meatsre:" I , MI SLOAN 4 ontift. NUMBER 33. eying "be that believeth sad is baptised den I be saved, and be that believeth net deal be damned." The most that it Gan aspire te is the , honors and tisefulners of an ameseleat rises, acting in flUbCadillMloll to the " of the everlsatiug covenant." But while lu X Fellowship is not duristianity, nor a aubititeies ler it, it is a legitimate ;product of its inflames sad 4 : fteh i ligs --l ear Mg its image and superaesip!ioe. Its members can not be reckless of the pussegies and obligations of Christianity with false to their professions and the principles of the order. Withdraw the influence and elements of Christ's teachings and example from the flaw ,pity; and you plant within the seeds of dissolit. , Its external forms might remaia, bat the structure would exhibit unmistakable evidence of dilapidation, and the desolate remains Oit a tall and ample *repositions would sores as so other monument to commemorate the imam fa enter el human excellence, divorced bon, aM independent of the power and spirit of Aim "who is God ever all; blessed for ever." Ido not know that I can do better 011 aide ea elusion than to transfer to these pages some eh 'emulous used by, my me on a former overnice in another place, apd since published, illustrative of the cardinal principles of Odd Fellowship as set forth " in the familiar emblem of the three links. Odd Fellowship, though to nisi) of us a sew organisation, embodies an old "ides" and is de signed to meet wwidely fult want of hiussnity. It has its ori4in in the desire for more intricate and confidential relations, than, the ordinary in tercourse and obligations of society will authorise. It seeks to restore within its pale that broth erhood in which God designed the family of man tO dwell. Its principles are, in hostile mrainist local narrowness, sectarian bigorty, polities; jr.tliblia, and isolated, individual selfishness. Cordiality and confidence are not chilled or to preami by suspicion and uncertainty, and the kindly sympathies of. our nature go out Mani each other in the full. assurance of reeimossi kindness and answering sympathy. Sentiments of benevolence are sedulously in culcated and fostered, while the farm and spirit. of br crly love warm the heart Weiss Himont's.. nd the affections into 'the widest charity est humanity. appiest and most genial influenees, than brought into active and systematic play on dui hearts and lives of numerous orations of men, augment the felicity of our rem and har monise with the purposes of heaven, exhibit* local improvement and universal sunelicestioa. While Odd Fellowship does uot believe is the possibility of realizing a modern utopia, kayo+ ' feel that some check dun be interposed to iii, isolated individualizing teidency--ahispetritying selfishness that legitimately grows oat of Us rest less activities—the political emulation the blind avidity; the grasping greed; the polemic contests °Commerce, ambition, pleasure, wealth, and sectarianism. , . It endeavors by a common bond; by a zuters lining element; by strong ties; by binding abh -1 gations to identify the interests;; abate the soap athies and awaken the friendship of men. . . It would, if possible, take the sacred macho of friendship, fast becoming a shadowy dreamy mod breathe into it vitality, so that it might again be come a glowing, living, beautiful reality, rejuvi- nated into all the kindly graceful and vigentim , &cavities of its dewy morning. Odd Fellowship kuows that, __. Bitter experienievlirairotataVLl2 -- painful lesson that, Friend: I w g' fawn st fortune's dawn, . , l Wbeu the e sod the tide waft es deedily sit .. Nat if u'ertakes us each false one swisur es, .."- Alra leases us to sink urito struggle alone." i ' It therefore seeks, lily its symbolic and other tearlings—by recurrence to eminent axamples and*odels of friendship as well ashy the violin tary: engagements of truth, and honor—to pro- ; vide against the ca mities; misfortunes and ad l lla v ties 4 life, by ising honest industry &lure el the unzilistiuns of t and enticements to die hon ty—to inspire self-respect and menet its =tubers from, , ' • -ersS proud rasa', content and the Bold world ' s seers." by the strongest :wee, . •ti, that so long as they are rue to themselves so long may they (iodide in the friendship of t 4r brethren. %sedated with j o'entlile;it in this trinity of al , sae -.I piinciples; Od( It%/Aires/4 reckons lore. Whoever possesses and exercises ,this, is, so far, assimilated to D.., .y, for "God is Love." '' The great aim of It yelation is the universal ' ditinsietr and exerci . of this sentiment as be /master spell that is exerci-e the Items of d' rd and hatred w tile lireastof humanity. teachings of heist net forth Love, as the iu allible antidote to he ills and miseritatof man; and that man who hits not learned to look o* Lis kind, but more espe Lilly his ‘ brethrea, in- their i wa' is and woes wit the kindlings of kindred go passion and lov , however foossesiutd of the at sig wrapplngs; e skeleton surroudiows of Odd i'e lowship, P is uninformed with its genial *fit n living sent The chain of virtue with him r is the connecting central link, and IA separx , into disjointed fraginevits--friendahip and. 1 I.r iii are divorced and withdrawn from 0 0- opera- . tio and coneord—and the virtues may change th it ministry of kintintraek, may become the pur ee or of evil. t Odd Fellow.', as they revere the God who arnhed the kindly Heavens above us atelkindled dui light of his love iu eve:y star that gems the f in i,,, ruent , sever f orgo t, Ms divine example, nor ptive recreant to the central set;Zleitts witielt they hare justly exalted to the honor a:Yi ituatorit, of a kingly and - controlling principle, 44_ it might be the great light iu the heavens of trs:. - fratereity--sbuung in splendor and glolilig with fervor--soickning into life--unfolding mu flow- , ere of beauty and ripening into nenrishini; strength, the buds of sympathy, and the frau% of benevolence and charity. I trust it may not be deemed irreverent or incongruous in this Tem ple, if I. cite two instance* from Holy Writ, where the divine exhibition of thia sentunirat AO profoundly . involved the de:Anita of our mu.— While it invested this principle with a mural grandeur and august sumblimity °umpired with Which, all other loftiness is littk, and all other greatness is =an. "God So loved the world that he,gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth on him might not perish, but have everlasting life. - , tWho though rich, for °ter sakes Lemmas poor , that we through his poverty might be made rich." "Look on this safuloiurtswit and admir e , Nor stop at wonder.-imitate and lire. Let the vicissitwiespf the wea.sona and the Ministries of nature, teach us by the wimilig awl Mimt eloquence of their example. tee Gud's love to us is written on every page of oar indi vidual history. , 1 It breathes is the bland brew of summer-- "the ruder ministries of winter we discover its ranee—it gushes in the fountain-Leparkke an ;the stream, and spreads out the ocean. Clod's love tet man, luxuriates on the steppe livis prariou 011ie west and is displayed in the (arts and silheence of the populous east. Thesunburnt paints it on the 1411 40 ,4 1 4 val ley and the den. It Gilds die brigialmia of rho 111"glitapa crimsons the floods of evening. UAW* the ECONCLUIfICD-0111 TUS rota= MOO -Avubsag '7i '
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