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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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• 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.
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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.
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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.
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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(
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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,
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$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
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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
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