D LRLIN g SLOAN, PUBLISHERS oL UME 25. B QSIFEBB DIBECTOR Y. W U SHERMAN, a urveLAA .4ArisT prittsdr• Hotel and the teed limo, The b.• been awarded Can fur the best jumbo,. br %„,--rw,trety 'ra< , 91 HO and upward. L. W OLDS ti ts !turtle utter. ul 11 ell And ri.tern' qOOl lay , Mt bow &DJ thr3pt , l th" to urr fret Shock war el . /Adder a Purnaer, rata to e y. c3l , bte fat eoneey,np water for too , 1 . “wilm.llC7ll purposes 111106 Warder. L T FOX, Dental', a few Sours west 01 .1111C1 DR EMERY, ♦,;O Jrl nu. a (PIM Java w rit u Imrr,r nri Y.• I; %V TODD, with Oaratil, 'terry & Derr. i% sulessie Jobbers _ • Kailisb. Genesis bn4 btr. Cunt, P14•40,1*, Wallflo m ar k,. t ,„,„ Uri and Stn, Pittade4platta tiIIZTON b SINCLAIR, • , 'omits Tx • et •TOIL ar. CO 0 Xxia , [brawn. in thugs, Medi,. Mt, PAULI, Brurbea, Per/vinery. to. riceps. Bred Nt•we. 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Court - Wintrlcad juin received and (Or Ni' b) Iyr,l Lb, 1.14 SCRTOPI l+tlN('LM I UviT at,. lust we t to vivre April IS-45 BURTON At hi NeLme. y afrit IN per rem mate Vco* I..rt 114,44. 00, fog alotrtol o itlill4l or 11461k0t0. by •••t V. h.r bu m . 4 10. • e°'"' ore r• .I,n, to. brume". M:tytipelas. VriOso.. c• ".• ud hwtredly puvular mtuedy Just • %NO IC NVITON Je .". ',re •upPetur-toway. SSW Hirfton at AOlOl3-.411, t, A Wrt.:ll, iißCet , ifi Nina eoet+l Ham* N 1.4 Allualders. 9r bbi.-44U .r , .d %pp.., *blbto—lt,S Isobel.' moil Whitt. .f !fl-4” "r ltiSkLAst )) 4y Pit l oin " &aro ClidwrelPg BJurR 4 " k{4 ,1 1 •qms ERIE WEEKLITISM'VER BM Nu tt. Reed F.rl. 1.-ti lII= CADVVELL *. ssxxE•T idea fleet 1. DIRGE FOR LITTLE EASY ST VW'. 4CI`ON 711IDAL, -- tag and sigh From the lap of loft gear' .1, bath fied, the Imaging (Lary, tilanatag throagh hor s ing hair, In r tangled golden raved, Floating on the summer air„ Buttering brightness glowing, /Load hot 'value rheeks and tacc. t tr. in glittering rtreamerm tl ,wing, Far behind her in OP Mee, When thwe fleet and r, Bore her jai before the throo K. high her If -11IDW Pr po.,y, Ringing forth some rhyming song. 4h' how still I. little Mttry, to her white .hr. , url, wide end Li they rear thus she should wake', Put Ler mother shales :he l,ght, Wher , lat. that rte.ta, traakaa, Tearfa -L teal• st :11Kbl Ua they four the wind .hould chill her' F,r th.) dm,' the eurt.un• r. , und, Plat a I,•te • * till •holibi thrill L••r For 01,1 r ‘s..r.l• ,uml tad they tT.` Id %, ith n n•e 1 ,•• As 4'l hat w.•r.• holy ze ,un ' we f Alowed Itul. Moo, T. the uthtte.t bounda theu,:kt, ague aria. gre nut there the nnry aq anon!, hr ghthee• c3ar/i the h, , re her O'er the dead dark I, efore h •r, rhrougli th, h•tan , "e mea,ury height and , loptb ar Tony 1,0 pa••, r.,) , Lr • 1.:1 w'hea Moo tn , l other , ore ala• Illiagum our little I ,iry ruEl t in 1 ti- pa - (Eheice !+~ NOAH COTTON TUP %% lUD % HER. NElultßuitz flit town on rii42 ta-t e , .L , t 4 Ens;land : ill. re 5.t, ,, d, in my day , „tri eottii ; ze fl o• bou , ..' • J,uded into two ten,inent,, 0p...11,w! in the centre of th, buadiii,; 1 ra•tic p h ,haded the en trait, ••t. thu 1, ft trait tln , Idling rays of the situ and, f It. 1 mat during the sum mer month, from the puhtic road in front Sorne person, love of nature, had survived amidst the oru , hing cares of poverty, had twined around the rata tr,•lli,work the delicioualy-frag rant branche, of tit- brier-rose, which, during the months of June and July, lowled the air with its sweet breath The door to the right, although unmarked by sign or ohequerlkiartl, (p'De&l into a iow hedge tavern of very ill repato, well known through country by the name of the Fo o t," whi c h it derived from it, clear pr , ailuity to the bridge that crowed fbr r rot A Slow-tutiviag, atrocity whore bracki , h WAter- uliled to have fallen a alp e p upon then. beAl 4 fat, 14ack ooze, WWI , Tlllg ~W irard r.f hr .1it.41 a long, tit dreary auar.h, Tbe %%L.- icypt the Wtd•tw Ma, to and her soli, both ~f nutotiously bad enaractt•r Tilt ita , l bcon kill , d few In,tuth4 before, tu 1 druuktat brawl P.tln —tine ,niugglern, and 1,1., patty Vt . d hlid i n ~, t ieh ill odor that hi, gho,t wat, r,•1, , ,rtt. , 1 to haunt the read that ied to --churt It \ winch funnel] tie rvceptaele, but it Iv ill, I in it th•• rt,tang placv of the th•ad \one but p,r.kons tti• ry l Durst de erip trott/citt.t.l ;h.. t t.o tit litggars mad, it tlu it head . l uarter-; sin and poacher- their Imitug-plaee, and sailors, ou shore fur a spry:, the scene ot theta druid> ri 4clic honest 1ah,,02r shunmst tt 1r -11 :01 a mural pest hon-e„ and 1111. toe zra, %sly. called there seldoin repeated the visit The magis trate-, wit.. ougtrt to tilt,' put down the place as a public nuisance, wink,sl at it as a necessary eci!—the more to be toieratod, a.s it was half a mile beyond the precincts ut the town Outwardly the place had sonar attractite fea• turd---it was kept -o scrupulously . clean. The The walls were so white, the floor so neatly land ed, and the pewter pots glittered so cheerily on the polished oak table that served fur a bar, that a eay.al observer might reasonably base expect ed o.iy comfortable and respectable accommoda• tioo from a scene which. tnough on an humble scale, promised so fair Even the sleek, well foil tabby cat purred so peacefully on the door sill, that she seemed to itis.ite the petlestxiau to .helter and repose Martha Mason, the tui-tress of the, domicil, wa- a bad woman, in the fullest sense of the word—cunning beard-hearted, and Avaricious, without pity, - d without remorse---a creature .11 'ardent-1i in the ways of sin, that conscience had lung ceased to viler the li.a , t resistance to the perpetration of crime. l'nferninine in mind and person, you could scarcely persuade yourself that the coarse, harsh features, and bristling hair about the upper hp, belonged to a female, had not the tameless ton e, c active in abuse and rushee, asserted claim to the weaker sex, and ratkl and scolded through the long day, as none hut the tongue of a bad woman can rate and sevid. An accident had deprived the hideous 'old crone of the use of one of her legs, which she dragged after her with the r ikelp of a crutch; and though she could not moots quickly in moue quenee of her lameness, she was en excellent hand at quickening the potions of those wh o h a d the misfortune to be under her control. fler son Robert, who went by the familliar appellation of “Ilully Bob," 'was the counterpart ut Ins mother—a lazy, drunken blackguard, who might be seen from morning till night lounging, with his pipe in his mouth, un the well-worn set. tle at the door, humming some low ribbald song to chase away the lagging hours, till the shades of e‘eiung roused.hitu from his i-iuggiah stupor, to mingle with gamblers .►nd thieves in their low debauch. The expression of this young man's Lace was 1,0 bad, and his manners and language coarse and obscene, that he was an object of dislike and dread to his low associates, who re garded him as a lit subject for the gallows. In the "yes of his mother, Bob Mason was a very tine young man--s desirable unite for au)• far u►er's daughter in the country. The old Spanish proverb, "Poverty wake a man acquainted with strange kiedfellows," was never wore fully exemplified than in the ease of thole peoplejtud their next door neighbora. Dorothy IGritnehawe was the widow of a flab ertnan, whose boat foundered in the dreadful storm of the 10th of October, lis24. Like many others, who sailed from the little port high in health and hope, expecting to reap a fine harvest from the shoals of herrings that atipuitili visit that coast, Daniel Urimshawe fell a prey to the spoiler, Death, that stare fisher of men. The following morning, after the subeidenes of the gale, the beach for ado mis strewn with pieces of wreck, and the bodies of forty drowsed men were east ashore. Most of them proved to natives of the town, and the bodies were carried to the Coml./mil, and notice was sent to the viva of the absent fishermen to ems end claim their dead. This awful mamma rick!, collected a crowd to the spot. Many SIMMSIa Sad children were there, and Dorothy Grioudiacre and her lit tle ones came with the rest. "Thank the good God! my man is not there," said a poor woman, coming mat with her apron to her face. "The ord save ur—'tis a fearsome sight." "He may be food for the crabs at the bottom of the sea," said a hoarse yoke from the crowd. "You are not going to flatter yourself, Nancy, that you are better off than the rest." "Oh, oh, oh!" shrieked the poor woman, thus deprived by envy of the staehor of hope to white she clung. "I trusted in the mercy of God, I could not look to the bottom of the salt deep." "Trust to Him yet, Nancy, and all will be well," said an old, weather-beaten tar. "It is: He who rules the win& and waves, snd brings the storm-tossed ship into a safe harbor." "But what has He done *e these poor men? Were they worse than the roar sobbed Nancy. "It is not fot us to bring to light what He has left in darkness," said the old sailor. "He took the three fine lads of mine in one night, and lett me childless But it is not for the like o' me to murmur against Him. I always trusted to His providence, and I found that it gave me strength in the hour of danger." "Dorothy," be cried, taming to Mn. Grim. shawe, "it is your turn to go in. no ass crying and hanging busk. Mayhap Dan has es cape(' the storm, an' is spreading a white sheet to the fine, fresh breeze this morning." "My heart feels as cold as a stone," sobbed Dorothy; "I dare not go forward; I feel — l know that he is there " "Shall I go for you ? I have known Dan from a boy." "Oh, no, no; I must see with my Own eyes," said Dorothy; "nothing else will co nvince me that he is either saved or lost;" and she hurried into the halt. Trembling with apprehension, the poor wa man entered the melsaAholy place of death. The bodies were arranged inrows along the door, and covered decently with coarse, clean sheets. The mournful and mysterious silence which al ways broods above the dead, was broken by sighs and sobs—wives, mothers, sisters, and little chil dren were collected in heartrending groups armintl some uncovered and dearly-loved face, whose gla4sy eyes, staring anti motionless, were sl ike unconscious of their presence and their tears. Grimahawe recoiled with a sudden beck ward step—" Who if Dan is here?" She press ed her hands tightly upon he breast—the stifled cry of agony and fear that burst from her lips, nearly choked her, she clutched at the bare walla for support, and panted and gasped for breath. A little hump-backed child, after casting upon her mother a look of unutterable pity, slowly ad vanced to the first shrouded figure, and, kneelin down, reverentially lifted the sheet, and long and sadly upon the object penesth. " sab er:" murmured the child; no other word escaped her quivering lips. She meekly laid her head upon the dead seaman's breast, and kissed his (-Old lips and brow with devoted affection. Then, rleing from her knees, the went to her pale, weeping, distressed mother, and, taking her gent ly by the hand, led her up to the object of her search The woad, and waves are sad disfignrers; but Mrs Gritushawe instantly. recognised, in the ,I, s t,, r te,l features, so marred in their conflict is th tilt, olomonts, the husband of her youth, he father of her orphan children; and with a hap' shrivic, she fell upon the bosom of the dead Rough, pitiful hands lifted her up, and unclasp ed the rigid fingers that tightened. about his flask, and bore the widow tenderly back to her deroointe home. We, k went by, ana the fisherman slept in his peaceful grave. Hi. tittle children had ceased t. , ••pacid a,lc for their father, before Dorothy Grinashawe awoke to a consciewsuess of her ter rible loss and altered fortunes. Shortly after her restoration to reason, a further trial awaited her: she became the victim of palsy, in the me ridian of life she found her physical strength pro.trate. and her body a useless, broken ma chine, no longer responsive to the guidance, or obedient to the will of itsr. An active mind, 'shut up in a dead C sl y ll'") --an imprisoned bird, vainly beating itself against the walls of its cage. Human nature could scarcely furnish a more melancholy spectacle; .speech, sight and hearing, were still hers, but the means of loco motion were lost to her for ever. The full exkitof her calamity didpot strike her at Ent. x whispered that the loss of the use of her lower limbs was only tempo rary, brought on by the anguish of her min d--that time and the doctor's medicines would restore her to health and usefulness. Ala., poor Dorothy! licorlong did you cling to these vaiu hopes' Row reluctantly did you at last admit that your case was hopeles—that death could. alone release you from a state of helpless suffering! Then came terrible thoughts of the workhouse for yourself and your ohildren; and the drop was ever upon your cheek—the sigh, rising Constantly to your lips. Be patient, poor, afflicted one: God has smitten, but not for saken you. Pity still lives in the human heart, and help is nearer than you think. In her early hie Dorothy had lived for seve ral years nursery-maid in a clergyman's family. One of the children, entrusted to her care, bad loved her very sincerely; he was now a wealthy merchant in the town. When Mr. Rollins heard of her distress, be hastened to comfort and con sole her. He gave her put of the red-brick cot tage, rent free, for the rest of her life; sent her two youngest daugeters to school, and settled a small annuity upon her, which, though inade quate to the wants of one so perfectly dependent, greatly ameliorated the woes of barcondition.-- Dorothy had resided severalyears in the cottage, before the Masons came to live under the same roof, They soon showed what manner of people they were, and annoyed the poor widow with their rude and riotous mode of life. Bat eon plainta were useless. Mr. Rollins was usual ling with his bride on the continent; and his steward, who had - accepted the Masons for ten ants, laughed at Dorothy's objections to their character sad occupation, bluntly telling her "that beggars could not be ettoosem----titat she had a comfortable, warm roof ever her head, without having to work bard for it like her neighbors." She acknowledged the truth of the r e mark, and endeavored to submit to her fate with patience and resignation. ii THY REIIMIUL Mrs Griaashaire'l eldest, daughter, Mary: the poor hunchback before alluded to, waifs great comfort to her tamed parent. She seldom left her bed-side, esud was ever at head to administer to her emote. Mary' was a nest sad rapid *is sew; and she emettibuted.greatly to her er's ita.PPort: the dexterity with which she plied her needle. Her deformity, which was rendered doubly 'goosing!' ions by her diminutive stature, was as the only dualkeentage wader which Mary Chia:thaw, labored. She vu af flicted with such as impediment is her that it was only the members of her otrun gl y ' that could at all uslierstami the meaning of the oncosts sounds he which ch trial it+ count}. cats her ideas. SO snaffle was sin of this tar riWie dame" and thes tidies& it oil spot her fiefs Ih."0111, f a d 11 0 11 / 4 g Pliee tlOl she Si 50 A YEAR, IN ADtmet ERIE, SATURDAY, JULY 15, 1854. *Wm wile to ainspes, sad woo estaiksted by many se both deaf mad diunb. - tiltubee Poor Mary! she was one of the et God's ormenres...ds most holy martyr to ' and filial love. What a warm hat depth of tenderness and afection a in the cramped confines of that little aeishapsa hedyt—.: Virtue in her wee like a briOt.ettle seen steadily shining through the heavy clouds of a dark night,. The traveler, ebeered by its & .beetee) .forget the e blackness and - glom of the ''s urround ing stmt s. phers. How distinctly I man retell that plain, earnest but, after the look fare of ran! the dick, ea. low cheeks; the deep, seekewo pitiful, Pleedittig eyets those intelligent, deep-set, iron-grey eyes, that erred her for a toditnef and were fee snare eloquent than speech, as they . gleamed from be. math her strongly-marlowl, eyebrows; the mix lips that seldom unclosed to give utter ance to what was pealing in her' mind, and that never smiled, yet held such a treasure of pearls within. Nature had so completely separated her from her bind, that mirth would have appeared out of place. Bbe was plainla„ form and As taire, but the beauty of the soul enshrined in that humble, mishapen tenement, abed over her per sonal deformities a iritual and holy light. Prom the time of her lather's death, Mary had worked steadily at her needle to support herself and the rest of the family. The constant assid uity with which she plied her task, greatly in creased the projection of her shoulder, and brought on an occasional spitting of blood, which resulted from a low, hacking cough. The per ish doctor, who attended her bed-ridden mother, and who felt interested in her good, dutiful child, assured her that she must give up her setentsry employment, or death would quickly taleminate her labor. "Bat how, then," asked Mary, "can I (=tri bute to the support of the family? My mother's helpless condition requires my constant exertions, 1f I cease to work, she must starve," The good doctor suggestedrespectable service as s i more remunerative and healthier occupation. "Mu!" said Mary, "to go into service is im possible. Who will hire a domestic who is in delicate health, is deformed, and to strangers unintelligible?' 'You, air, have known me from a child. You understand my broken words You never harry me, so that I can makeyou comprehend the meaning of my jargon. But who else would have the patience to listen to my uncouth sounds?" The doctor sighed, and said that she was right, that going out would only expose her to constant mortification and redicile; and be felt very sorry that his own means were so limited, and his family so large, that he (maid only afford to keep one servant, and that an active, stirring, healthy woman, able to execute, without much bodily fatigue, her multitudinous daily tasks.— He left the cottage with regret; and M al y, for the first time, felt the bitter curse of hopeless poverty, and a sense of her own weakness and helplessness fell heavily ou ber.soul. Itr-this emergency, Mrs. Mason offered her a trilling weekly stipend, to attend daring the day upon the customers, and to assist her in washing glass and crockery and keeping the house in or der. She knew her to be honest and faithful, and she was too homely to awaken any interest in the heart of her worthless, dissipated son . Mary hesitated a low, time before she Accept ed the offer of "her repulsive neighbor; bet her mother's leavening infirmities, and the severe illness of her youngest sister Charlotte, left her no choke Day after day you might see the pa tient hunchback performing the menial drudg eries of the little inn, sdent and self-possessed— an image of patient endurance, in a house of vi olence and crime. It was to her care that the house owed its appearance 3.4" inuatneab and out ward respectability. It wsts 'her active, indus trious spirit that arranged and ordered its well kept household stuff, that made the walls so cheery, the grate no gay with flowers, that kept the glittering artay of pewter so bright. It was her taste that had arranged the branches of the wild rose to twine so gracefully over the rustic porch that shaded her sick mother's dwelling, who, forbidden by the nature of her disease to walk abroad, might yet see from her pillow the fragrant boughs of the brier bud and blossom, while she inhaled their fragrance in every breeze that stirred the white cotton curtains that shaded her narrow casement. Mary's native sense of propriety was constant ly shocked by unseemly sights and sounds; but their Impurity served to render vice more repul sive, and to strengthen that purity of heart from which she derived all her enjoyment. Night always released her from her laborious duties, and brought her back to be a ministering angel st the sick bed of her mother and sister. These sisters I must now introduce to my readers, for with one of them my tale has mostly to do. Unlike Mary, they were both pretty, delicate-looking, girls, ready of speech, and re markably pleasing in person and manners. Mr. Rollins had paid for the instruction of these girls at the village school, in which they had been taught all sorts of plain work; had mastered all the difficulties of Mayor's Spelling book, had read the Bible, the Dairyman's Daugh ter, Pilgrim's Progress, and Goldsmith's abridg ed History of England, and all the books in the shape of penny tracts and sixpenny novels they could borrow from their playmates when school was over. Sophy, the alder of the two, who've& eighteen years of age, had been apprenticed for the last two years with a milliner of an inferior grade in the little seaport town ; and her term of service having expiild, she had eoeamenoed making dreeseo in a humble way, for the servants in re spectable Width*. She had to work very hard for a small resouneratiou, for the competition was very great, and. without lowering her prices to nearly one-half, sbe maid not have obiamed:ern ploymont at all. She ooald easily have procured a service as e t , inebt girl or housemaid in a gen tleman's fetidly, but the novels she bad Mad dur ing her residence with Mn. Makewell, the mil liner, had filled her head with foolish notions of her own beauty and consequence, and even her ideas far above her humble station, quite unfit ting her to submit patiently to the metro} of others. Besides being vain of a very lovely face, she was very fend of dress. A clever hand at her business, she matfived to give a finish and style to the homely materials she made, sad which fitted so well her slender and gracefully formed person. Her lore of admiration imhatid her to isy oat all her scanty earninp is miming herself, M stead of rasening a portion to help provide their daily food. Her set* mu °hist done at home; and .she attended upon %ler not* and sister f . sad pesperad thiir frugal Meals during the absent* se nary, Whom situation in the " Brig's Foot" she ecomdered a peered degrada tion. Such was Sofity Grupe sad there are msay . lilte her in the rld. Lumped of pi er% in which there is o real trogreee, sad re.. pang at the sebordlean Cad** in which abe teed herself pleead,* made so dental effort to better her oontlitice by endeavoring to ser mount it by fregal soil petiest,6&eti, and a ir p ur cheerful educed" de Uri* il. She. considered her. lot , the dialmattiosa ot Provided* creel and- • Illpe bead we see Irby others should be of bareelf— why vetoes with half persosal etarsetiose /Meld be peosieeed Tide be their itetelbsee, Ode sbe bed ter emenp• Epee aid walk I=ll the dust. She regarded every sell female that pawed the door, with feel ings of miry sad hatred,, which embittered her life, and formed the moat *dal feature in the poverty she loathed sad despised. Obsettnei the ikk ght-sass Wore yfte rang er than 8.0, and very differ's: in person, mind seld' reorw fair, sort, delicate face, more winning than handsome, bat full of gentle ness and sweetness, was a perfect transcript of the pure "hit that animated the faithful heart in Aloft it was =shrilled. She might hare been described in.theeerchszming lines of Words worth as "The eeseetest lower that ewer grew Beside the eeetaie doer." Contented in the midst of poverty, happy in the eonstioassess of moral improvement, patient un der suffering, and pious without cant or affecta tion of superior pi/line's, she afforded, under the most painful eircuustanoes, a rare example of Christian &ideation to the will of God. While readnig the Gospel at school, as a por tion of her daily tag, it-had pleased the Ali- Wise Dispenser of that blessed revelation to num, to open her eyes to the importance of those noble truths that were destined to set her free from the bondage of in and death. She read, and be lieving that she had received a meretage from the skies, like the man who found - the pearl of great prioe, she gave her whole heart and soul to God, in order to moire such an inestimable treasure . The sorrows and trials of her lowly lot were to her as stepping-stones to the heavenly land on which all her hopes were plaood, and she regard. ed the fatal disease which wasted her feeble frame, rind which had now confined her to the same bed with her mother, as the mean employ ed by God to release her from the sufferings of earth, and open for her the gates of heaven.— How earnestly, yet bow tenderly, she tried to inspire her aMoited mother with the same hopes that animated her breast ! She read to her, she prayed with her, and codes voted to explain in the best way she could that mysterious change which bad been wrought in her own soul, and which now, on the near approach of death, filled her mind with inexpressible joy. This reading of the Scriptures was a great consolation to the poor widow ; and one day she remarked, in a tone of deep regret and with many tears— "Who will read the Bible to tne, Charlotte, when you are gone ? Mary cannot read, and if she could, who could tiuderstand what she read, and Sophy hates everything that is serious, and i 4 too selfish to trouble herself to rcad aloud 1., me." "Mother, I have thouglit much about that of late," laid the sick girl, raising herself on the pill .w into a sitting posture, and speakitig with great earnestness. "The doctor said y"stcrday that I might survive for 'ix or seven weeks longer--perhaps,' he added, 'until the latter end of Autumn. During that time, could I dot teach you to read !" "At fifty years of age, Charlotte : ctrl the poor widow smiled at the entbusia•w f her child. "And why not., iuothyr aunty. "It would Ire a gr.,411 wt r during the tong, lonely qv- pi— ric. i ; the thing way appear dtffi il;c. kit I that it is not impoitsibio." . . . "And then your weak suite ; honk }tow it would fatigue yoo, my dear child." "So far from that, mother, it would afford tOe the greatest delight and thi• -iieli girl da.pcd her thin, wasted hands together. and i‘.,,k, ,i u p ward with an expression of gratitude ,tel love beaming on her pale, placid face. "Well, I will try to please you. /11 dear Charlotte," said Dorothy, whose bre.l,l was thrilled to its inmost core by the affe,tiou.ito solicitude which that glance of angelic le•twvo lame conveyed to her heart ;"but you will tied ate so stupid that you trill soon give it up as a bad lob." "With God all things are possible," said Charlotte, reverentially. "With His . blessing, mother, we will begin to-morrow."- It was a strange but beautiful sight* to see that dying girl -lying in the same bed instructing her helpless mother—a sight which drew tears from sterner eyes than mine. And virtue triumphed over obstacles which at first appeared insurmountable. Before death suntmoued the geed daughter to a better world, she had the inexpressible joy of hearing her mother read distinctly to her Christ's Sermon on the Mount. As the old woman concluded her delightfultask, the grateful Charlotte exclaimed gently, in a sort of ecstasy—" Now, Lord, let thy servant depart in peace." Her prayer was granted ; and a few minutes after, this good and faithful disciple entered into the joy of her Lord. This event, though long expected by Dorothy Grimshawe, was felt with keen anguish. The tuneful voice was silent that day and night which for many weeks had spoken peace to her soul. The warm young heart was still, that had so ardently hoped and prayed for her salvation, that had solved her doubts and strengthened her wavering faith ; and to whom now could she turn for comfort and consolation ? To Mary, whispered the voice in her soul ; but Mary was absent during tie greater part of the day, and frothy was too busy with her own affairs to pay mush attention to her heartbroken went. But deep as was the mother's grief for the loss of her dutiful child, the sorrow of the poor hunchback for her beloved sister, who had bees the idolised pet of her joyless childhood, was greater still. Worn down with an incurable dis ease, Mrs. Grimahawe looked forward to a speedy reunion with the departed; 'but years 'of toil and suffering might yet be reserved for the patient creature; who never was heard to murmur over her painful lot. The death of the young Charlotte, the peace maker, the comforter and monitor to the rest of the household, was as if her good angel bad de and the sunshine of heaven had been S i i i t i L e e l ed by her absence. "Oh, my slater!" she murmured, in the depths of her soul., "thou wort justly dear to all; but oh! how dear to nod No one on earth loved the poor )tunekback, or could read the language of her heart, lie you. To others dumb and un couth, you my voice was natural; for it spoke to 'nu or e = and hopes which yon alone could wad /0 Mrs. Mason molded and grumbled that, for weeks after Charlotte's death, Mary Grimsbawe performed her daily tasks with less alacrity, and wandered to and fro like one in a dream. Some times the pent-up !Aguish of her heart found a vent in sad and unmteBigible sounds—"A gib berialt,” her mistress said, "that was enough to frighten all the customers from the house.' platy had tuber camas azinoyanoe trtgrieve and perplex her, independent of the desth of ber sister. For some weeks pug, the coarse, disso lute Robert Mason badsrm * derided prefer ence for her sinter &phi, whom be proclaimed, in her bearing, to his bald sameintiess, "to be the Prettiest girl in the wig' hlswitood—the only pi Unit be eared a bit for, or deemed worth n fellessca tbsuglits. Bet Mies," be added, ears larsd with anti of saparkwity whisk gall ed not a Util a s "OW welsh ems poor—too poor him. He wanted some 'nn with lON of tin, that would enable him to open it good public WOW is lois." Kim as she listesied, Wised God thse diey mese poor,. vile the : I=ll Intro lossitteg maw wit wiftwwWl .. by lito AwINW. "His motber, the old jade, would never con sent to his marrying one so much beneath him. If she only mbspeeted him of casting a sheep's eye it Grimshswe, she would set marls on the gabs face that would spoil her beauty.— But if the gal had not been so decidedly poor, he would please himself, without asking Mammy's leave, he could tell her.,, His oosrse comrades received his disrespectful insubordination to his mother's authority ma an excellent joke, while Mary ixily shuddered at his indelicate *wowed of his liking for her sister, which tilled her mind with _a thousand indefinite fears. Sophy, of late, had been able to obtain but• lit: tie work in the neighborhood; she was silent and dejected, and murmured constantly against her poverty, and the want of every comfort that could render life -tolerable. Sometimes she talked of going into service, but against this project, so new from her mou th , her mother objected, as she had no one else during the day to wait upon her, or speak to her. More generally, however, she speculated upon some wealthy tradesoutai making her his wife, and placing her at ones above want and work. " I care not," she would aty, "how ugly he might be, if he would only take me out of this, and make a lady of me." Mary shook her head, and tried, in hoarse ejac ulations, to expretie, her disapprobation of such an immoral awowal of sentiments she could but regard with horror; while she fixed upon her sis ter those piercing eyes which seemed to look into her very soul—those eyes which, gleaming, throug litutialling tears,made the vain girt shiv er and turn away "6opby," said Mrs. Grinskawe, gravely—foi the remark was made one evening, by her mo ther's bed-side—" Mary cannot speak her thoughts but I understand her perfectly, and can speak them for her, and would seriously ask you, if you think it *crime to sell your soul for money." "Certainly . not; I would do anything to get rid of the weary life I lead. All day chained down to my needle, and all night kept awake by the moans of the sick. At eighteen years of age is it not enough to drive me mad?" "It is what the Lord has been pleased to ap point--a heavy burden, doubtless, but meant for your good. Look at Mary; her lot is harder than yours, yet she never repines." Sophy flashed a scornful look at ber sister, as she replied— "Mary is not exposed to the same temptations. Nature has placed her beyond them. lam hand some, and several years younger than her. She is deforMed, and has a frightful impediment in her speech, and is so plain that no one coald in love with her, or wish to make her a wife., Mm think her hideous. but they do not laugh at her for being shabby as they do at me. This speech was made tinder the influence of vehement passion, and was concluded with a vi olent burst of tears Her cruel words inflicted a deep wound in the heart of the poor deformed girl. For the first time she felt de graded in her own eyes ;, and the afflictie n. tiiith , r which she labored seemed els ripe ful : and wi , he4l she had been deaf as ne•Il unintelligible. Hut these feelings, s) foredo tee her nature., were of short duration; alter a I , rie f but severe mental struggle, she ~I rtli., m ited her fast resentment, and forgave her C,,,oghtless sister for the unmerited re h.--- lk Ting the teems trom tier pole, cheats, she smoothed the pillows for her tack mother, and murmured with a sigh—" Lard, it was Thy hand that made me as I am ; let me not rebel against Thy will." .4aoi ( ' 43r h tie, The dd wonian was greatty ereited by Sophy's oriworth; conduct With a great effort she her.s.lf hearty upright it/ her &tit?, gazing .4. rill% upon her rebellious child. "'dry. my darling !" she cried, at last, when she saw the deformed vainly striving to control t he emotion which convulsed her whole frame -lieu with patience the sinful reproach of this weak, vam girl The time will come when she will be se‘erel) punished for her cruelty and injustice It would be well for her if the image of her goal w. r. impressed upon, her seal as it is upon y or., my good, dutiful child The clay peri-ht -, but that which gives value to the clay shati flourish in immortal )(Jul and beauty, when the heavens shall be no more 'Then shall the ng , ,teous shine forth like the sun'—.lb, me I hayt forgotten the rest of the text, but you, Mary, know it well ; let it console you, my dear girl; and dry these useless tears. I was pretty, like Sopb), once, and, like her, I thought too highly of myself. hook at rue now. Look at these wrinkled, careworn cheeks—these wasted, useless limbs ; are they not a lesson to human pride and vanity? I never knew my real char acter until I knew grief. Sorrtett ha s been Wee. s..sl to my soul, for had I never tasted the cup of affliction, I had never known the necessity of a Saviour May iris peace and blessing fortify your heart 'to endure every trial which his wis dom may appoint, my aftliete.l lamb !" Sophy's heart 'was ftened by her mother's t passionate appeal, Heartily ashamed of beraelf, she approached nearer to her weeping sister. "Mary," she faltered, in a tone of deep self reproach, "I did not Mall to vex you. I know that you are better than me, and you tattrevaot take so to heart my wild words; I am miserable and unhappy; I do not always know what I say." The eyes of the sisters met; Sophy flung her arms about Mary's neck and kissed her "You forgive me, Mary?" The hunchback smiled through tears—and such a smile—so eloquent—so full of love and grateful affection, that Sophy felt she was more than forgiven. "Why are you unhappy Sophy"" asked Mrs. Grimshswe, seising the favorable moment to make a more lasting impression on her mind. "Because we are so poor. -. "We have endured many evils worse than po verty. "None, none. That word comprise. them all. To be hungry, shabby, despised; • and you won der that my soul rebels swag it?" - "Are not unkind wordsiand reproaches more hard to bear?" Sop* hung her head, land was silent . "Mary would eat dry bread for a week, and be cheerful and resigned, and wear a coarse, shabby garment, without shedding, a single tear. These asi hardships, my girl ; but they do not affect the heart, or came one pang of remorse. But, seriously, &iphy, do you think that you would improve your present condition, or render your self happier, by marrying a man you did not love, for money e "Yrs." This was said emphatically. "0, do it not, my child ! It is a great sin to enter into a solemn covenant, and swear at God's holy altar to love and boom and obey a Man for whom you have neither affection ( nor respect.— No blessing from God can follow such animism. Nature would assert her rights, and punish you severely for having broken her laws.' "Nonsense, mother ! The thing is done every day, sad I see none at theeeevil reiulte. Jo Carter marriedeldltsgbee for his barmy, sad they _lire very irsibly torrther. 1 wtll steer, her, the litst good altos that commis my way" May writhed, sad tried ter lose time to make ' her oaf* st km she eseeeeded 1* • oat-- lileassl--sot hist—sot liar "Bobcat Mswa What, Badly Boit? Does admire me? Well, !lazy, I will past ylmr appeliamictia by sionag yoa flat tharoad i. MESE B. K SWAN, EDITOR. NUMBER 9• not nottuaL And what would tho aid witali mother my?" "Let her never base it to my, that har bad ofh married Daniel Osimshawe's davehter," ""Ohhots iesad , a d eitooldlike to [anise that old &Ole by biding her imagine that I gummy& her saw She hoe always onmeihing spiteful to say to as tt would be rare fun to torment bar a hide. I will be very sweet to Molter Bob Ikar the dam to cow." Mary caught her ano, and looked imploringly in her face 'you are afraid of my marrying Bob Mho' IMUNk 'What foolish women you am. He is not visit enough for ms--s drunken ipeinithriftl— I eell my soul for mousy, as mother ) eaua my getting a rich husband, it shall be to one islo is - better able to pay for it." And in high spirits the hitherto dissoutented grumbler undressed and retired to bed leaving Mary to pray for her during the greater part of the night, to entreat God to *rev* her 'obit& sister, midis* hers.ssible ofbm. Ma. (to an ootteutunn.) "Tema us gutty, Tina" Tun following is from the Gossip with Read• ere sal Correspondents, which forms so attractive a feature; in the Kaickerborktr Magazine: "My hair iu getting gray; the crow's-feet us multiplying about my eyes, and the wrinkles becoming deeper and deeper in my forehead and around my mouth.—Well, what of this to thee, my reader V—Nothing in particular ; only I thought for a moment, while looking in the glass this morning, of the beautiful lines of Barry Cornwall, and immediately made up my mind to ask old Father Time to deal "gently" with me. But first, reader, to•the lines. Just reed them :--, lamb as tautly, gently, Timbal Let as teals a down thy stream Gently—as we soatetinteo glide 'Through a quiet, quiet dream' Rumble voyagers we we. Husband, wife, and *Minna three— (One is loot—an angel—And To the aware overigged,) "I.'"Kb we Pea,. ten*, Time! • We've no proud nor- eaminig wings; Our ambition, oar canton; Lies to simple, simple things. Hatable voyagers are we, O'er Wel dies unsounded son, Seeking only some mink. clime; T.:mob us gently, tartly, lime' "Are they not beautiful? Our friend George &oder, has set them exquisitely to music." "I recollect distinctly, years ago, looking with a sort of sympathetic pity upon a relative of mine whose hair was turning grey, and was quite sur prised at his apparent indifference to the fact, at the same time believing it out of the question that my dark locks would ever put forth any sil very hairs; but lo! here they are by the score, and yet I do not actually mind it, although it isn't the pleasantest thing in the world to have a friend conic up to you half a damn times a day. "Why, Pipes you're getting quite grey, I de. Blare!" Therefore, old Father Time, "touch us gent ly," if you please! Some years ago, at partihg with a very dear sister, she remarked to me: "I will not say good bye, fort know we shall meet again, at least before Time Nut have made any material change in either of us.' "She is drat--and my halt is Time has made changes; but gently t has h i e l ni - lath me "In what way, after separation, do we meet? Do we look at each other with the same feeling that we had at parting? Does not., in many cas es, the surprise felt, if not expressed at the im press of the "seeds of mortality" in our out ward, appearance, amount to positive pain? 1 think so We meet again in middle age "Touch us gently Time!" Hari the heart changed! have the affections waned? No: Bnf touch 12.4 gent ly, yentis, Time'. And some have gone to dig gold—the young, the middle-aged, the old.— They have left the homesteads ef their lona, the pleasant fireside, the smiles of wives, and the voices bf their little ones; and they hare toiled and labored; and what, in many eases, has been their reward! In their woolen-sucker, peeping up from a heap of mud, sand, and stones, a few specks of glittering metal make glad the eye Gold: found at last! I mast have more! "Touch me gently, Time 1" They toil, and toil; traverse the ravines, valleys and bills. In abandanoe they find the bright, bright metal 1 They will turn to the loved ones at home ! "Touch us gently, Time !" And years have 'ragged, and the foot-steps are hotneward bottivil Oh ! then let there be some green spot left that has not felt the withering influence of thy cold hand, old Father Time! upon which thy• eye of the wanderer can rest with pleasure unspeakable ; that will bring back to him—through the long vista—it touch of boyhood ; that will mike:hint remember, even though the springs of morality are fast thickening, and the wrinkles growing deeper ! 'Touch us gently. Time 1" May that prayer be answered. Fanny Pere's Anxwer The London AtArnitit , n, Laving roughly crit icised "Faulty Fern," site talks back to John Bull as follows Johnny, had you any little private reason qf your ore for omitting the closing sentence in the obnoxious "fern let!" above quoted., via : 4 , ,,ad speak rip , rrrg trlnnw) err !p.m leuil4ll Haur Wither or sister to I- ,Npuictis o ?" 01 1 , Johnny, Johnny, will you, r4e.oer get out of your mouth the taste of that gup of te% that, nly tam fathers wiz's' for yours le Boston harbor r Will you never cease jial:sy, Johnny ? "Not comotry,bone in my body r Ask the 175,000 buyers of Fern Ifiatlett. (1 go by my . publisher's advertisements as to umbers, keeputg a sharp eye, with' a view to a settlement by and by !j-- Ask them if Fern Leaves show that 1 do not love the country F Johnny, dear, i was "ratiwr • in the country, not far from a spot called Bookue,,. Hill, where, if I remember right, you mum reeeived a shot. How it came to hit yoo us die • back, is best knows to yourself. As to the "architecture of a coat," I cla kmw it, whenever I see amu with ow *a that ir badly cut, and whose bump of salteetton dwelt so powerfully on the top of hia head as to . his heels from the ground, that—he is ., Alp hishwuni Bat, Johnny, I .forgise you;pinky bemuse I penned sundrylittie 'quasi' Fero Leases about you Britisher% in fell expeotetion of a bei oa the ear, sad pertly beams I lam hes many little things you have had lately to try your play rid temper. It is aggrawsti , h e y, lave Cobden and game ocestanth Lauuseringg Parlin meht shoes the New Yank pros and thi•oni . l9. it Men per tote feces as a model of what Esigia - newsmer ought to be as se priu„„aise and suit .7 ter. This must be very provoking, Johnny,. to • person. of your its and pomposity. And thee there is ifeesoth's Bbsdkeld opus* of per miserable, shadlyr t pessy : eM windier-4W . potoking i your SLUM put in time to be too lam _a for action, and showing your fleets to bower about points from wham* thosis meow be vitally ear wooed ell Asking- them all out of Streit boo* as yen omen, and en we did you, Johnny, Aro that 11111111, tin pety.l before sltedei to. Well, we forgive re Johosy, for Wag mei I Mew* servant- Year pow bortier. Aroorioals shag shoklyieiel ihrowebiiel • y aw teeth, your Oki wart, 4i4Plv No& sot Alearilrei imeir Lionary lersevaso!, Iyerole- :art work El CM