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OFFICE-NO. 9, BROWN'S BLOCK, ERIE. PA
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NOTICE.
111"HAR1 , t. III;RRuN hap porch:ow,: the lowing of nolo
as B. Stilel tif The bu.tne*a 41114 , be heleatler roorlueird
under the ulle of BC Htlillft..N. who will nettle all fie -
e-ouote of the old Pia t. , • ErroN
crw. Aug. 0444-1 R R 4; 1ii.a94401
I I Mal Akin ral A - rase loof/ yards &etch
Guif halms. mural cheeky and deso table patterns. a r.xyl
la cents to import. lit rti cent■ per yard
Ma, 310.- I TISNALS • Fl /YES
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Vernal ' , noel) ever let dixederred w toot/merle. lxleutal(ta.
rilew and all kind. of iollantnoiw,/) 0. coda uri Han or Seas ,
to he had of Mayl7. 1%54 t' R"t't:Y• BR , /TM KR
3("At OK OM yards of Madder Presets. c..+44ra warrlntei. teat
Of mosey Wooded, are Mite per yard Ato earner paw
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ing I.eauttful
Mr -owl thy •mered 'mese keeps.
My midnight dreams are all of the.' S le
For nature then In silent sleep,
An ! silence brouds o'er land and sea.
..h, f , r that .till, mysterious hour.
11.. w oft from waking dreams I start. ,
Co find the.• but a fari..r flower,
,hert.hed idol of my bean
Thou hart each thought and dr emu of mine--
flat e I in turn .no thnught ~t
F',r et er throe my dreams will
Whate'er may km my fortune here
I 4t not love—l claim from diet
Only one Lam, a gentle tear
May e'er West TllllOllll from above
Play hrightly 'round thy happy heart.
And may the twain. of peace and love
Ne'er from thy glowing soul depart.
Farewell' my dreams are still with thee
Ha-t • , 11.. tender thought of me'
N) or like summer lords may Sy.
Ms hope. like summer blouma depart
flat there's one dower that cannot die,
Thy only memory in ui) heart
No , lear4 that one flower'• cap may AB
No sunlight to its leaves he Oven.
But it will lire and flunris.h still,
A. I:dtilte. , a• a aim( of heaven
My .ul groci• thaw, unliked. unsought
0,,, n for me onc gmtle thought'
Fap.orell' ftrewAll' no otT friend
IS-tiroen u. blue rtverr 11,,w
Anti b•r.t' a %Va. •nd plum extend
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ItY MITFORD
urn enkl ut the .luster of cottages, and cot-
Liz , like nowkes. vrhi.li formed the little street
~f Ililt..n ('rue,—r• pretty but secluded village
tlie a rib ot Ii inipshire,--stixxl the shop of
tt, K. nt, widow. —Licensed," :is the legend
unpurted, •ttu c. lid t.:. coffee, tobacco and snuff.'
. tub •eu, snuff, formed, however,
•... ,1: the muffin', b.us morel/an
di. •si r- K , Ill; whose shop, the mly reposi-
I, mlet. nit e .dit have *kernel' an epitome
„t awl luxuries of humble Iffe In
le ,k111'14,11',--.1111i1..-, b4e1,11, sug.ir, mustard
- ti , lin1•11 .1 atirnbo oranges,
unl ; ..luz..rhread Cinekery ware
~ 1 her .1... r was, ' k latch
1.1 t •-r ~n ,uoilo•r,,l the :other;
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• .• bre ni, butcher's
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N., A 1 .... mon i ,pol ) , the world
n•nr fill with poor Judith Slo wa, a mild,
a.antli. crag, noddle-aged woman. with a
heart too ,oft for her calling She could not say
t. to poor creature. who to her on a
to seek broatlior- their-4bildren,
w. r deep they miviitzlieatly he in her debt,
how-ver certain it was that their husbands
were, at that moment, spending, it the Check
r. r r thi• Four llorse-Shoes, the money that
-h hay. -lipported their wives and families;
tor, in this village, as in. others, there were two
1 , 1; ti a If.- hmiKer., although but one ill-wens
one hrlfpenny-worth of bread
to I hi, intolerable deal of sack!" She could not
at N..' a. It prudent woman might have said;
awl accordingly, half the poor people in the par
.-h night tie found on her books; whilst she her
--It mil, gradually getting into arrears with her
fttker, her grl ,'er, and her landlord.
Iler family consisted of two childreu,—Mary,
a poet;), tair-haired, smilling lass, of twelve or
shirt •,.n, and li.,bert, a tine youth, nearly ten
our (drier, who worked in the gardens of a
neighboring gentleman Robert, conscious that
his moilier•s wa' uo gainful trade, often pressed
ia•r to i.:1% t• up tot-in,s.,, sell off her stock, relin
qu,sh her house, and depend on his labor for her
support; but o f this she would not hear. Many
motives mingled in her determination: a gener
ous reluctance to burthen her dutiful son with
her maintenance,--it natural fear of losing caste
among her neighbors,—a strong love of the house
which, for live-and -twenty years, had been her
home.—a vague hope that times would mend,
and all come right again (wiser persons than
Mrs Kent have lulled ren to sleep, with such
au opiate! )--and, above a , a want of course, to
look her difficulties fairly n the face. Beattie.,
..he liked her occupation,—its pr •tty conse
quenee, its bustle and its gossipry; and she had
a sense of gain in the small peddling bargains,—
the penny worths of needles, and balls of cotton,
and row . of pins, awl yards of tape which she
was accu.tomed to vend for ready money,—that
ovebalanced, for the moment, her losses and her
debt.; .1, that, in Tice of her son's pressages and
warnings, the shop continued in full activity.
lit addition to his forebodings respecting his
Thoth, r, Robert had another misfortune;—the
poor youth was in love. About a quarter of a
mile down the shady lane, which ran by one side
of Mrs Kent's dwelling, was the pretty farm
liou, , orchard, and homestead of Farmer Bell,
who OW e ldest daughter, Stis.an,-1 he beauty of the
parish,—was the object ut a passion almost
amounting to idolatry And, in good booth, Su
san Bell was well fitted to inspire such a passion
Resides a light, graceful figure, tuoulded with
the exactost symmetry, she bad a Swilling, inno
cent countenace, a complexion colored like the
brilliant blosZma of the balsam, and hail. of a
shining golden brown, like the fruit of a horse
chesnut. Iler speech was, at once, modest and
playful, her temper sweet, and her heart tender.
She loved Robert dearly, although he often gave
her cause to wish that she loved him not; for
Robert was subject to the intermitting fever,
called jealousy,--catuielessly, as be himself would
declare, when a remission of the disease gave
room for his natural sense to act,—causelesaly
and penitently, but still pertinaciously jealous.
I have said, that he was a fine young man,
tall, dark, and slender, I should add, that he war
a good son, a kind brother, a pattern of sobriety
and industry, and possessed of talent and ac
quirement far beyond his station. But there
was about him an ardor, a vigor, a fiery restk -
nem, commonly held miler to the natives of the
ERIE, SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 16,1864.
south of Europe, but which may, sometimes, be
found amongst our own peasantry. All his pur
suits, whether of sport or labor, took the form of
passion At ten yein old, he had gone far be
yond ill his fellow pupils at the Foundation
School, to which, through the kindness of the
'squire of the parish, his mother had been ena
bled to send him; and be had even posed the
muter himself:—at eighteen, he was the best
cricketer, the best flute player, the best bell ring
er, and the best gardener in the county:--aml,
some odd volumes of Shakespeare having come
into his possession, there was some danger, at
twenty, of his turning out a drUMVIC poet, had
not the kind discouragement of his master, to
whom some of his early scenes were shown by
his patron and admirer, the head gardener, acted
as a salutary check. Laded, so strong, at oche
time, was the poetical furor, that sock a catas
trophe as an entire play might, probabl7, have
ensued, notwithstanding Mr. Lenoombe s judi
cious warnings, had not love, the muter passion,
fallen, about this time in poor Robert's way,
and engrossed all the ardor of his ardent temper
ament. The beauty and playfulness of his mis
tress, whilst they enchanted his fancy, kept the
jealous inability of his nature in perpertual
alarm. He suspected a lover in every man who
approached her, and the firm refusal of her fa
ther to sanction their union, till her impatient
wooer were a little more forward in the world,
completed his disquiet.
Affairs were in this posture, when a new per
sonage arrived at Hilton Cross.
In addition to her other ways and means, Mrs.
Kent tried to lessen her rent, by letting lodging
and the neat, quiet, elderly gentlewoman, the
widow of a long deceased rector, who had occu
pied her rooms ever since Robert was born, be
ing at last gathered to her fathers, an advertise
ment of "pleasant apartments to let, in the airy
village of Hilton Cross," appeared in the county
paper. This announoement was as true as if it
had u .,t formed an advertisement in a country
p tpk.r Very airy was the pretty village of Hil
ton Cross, with its breezy uplands, and its open
common dotted, as it were, with cottages and
clumps of trees; and very pleasant were Mrs.
Kent's apartments, for those who had sufficient
timep to appreciate their rustic simplicity; and
sufficient humility to overlook their smal lness.
The little chamber, glittering with whiteness; its
snowy dimity bed, and 'fresh sheets smelling of
lavender; the sitting room, a tiought larger, car
peted with India matting, its wining cane hairs
and its bright casement wreathed, on the one
side, by a luxuriant jessamine, on the other, by
the tall cluster musk rose (that rose of which
Titania talks), sending its benches of odorous
blossoms into the very window; the dower court
underneath, full of hollyoaks, doves and dahlias;
and the large sloping meadow beyond, leaping
up to Farmer Bell's tall, irregular house, half
covered with a' flaunting vine; his barns, and
ricks, and orchard;—all this formed an apart
ment too tempting to remain long untenanted,
in the bright mouth of /nest. Accordingly,
it was, almost immediately, engaged, by a gen
tleman in black, who walked over, one fair morn
ing, paid ten pounds as a deposite, sent for his
trunk from the uezt town, and took possession
.on the instant
Her new inmate, who, without positively de-
dining to give his name, had yet contrived to i
e . zoo alt .bas paeiltiollll 101.1.1... Mi ni Merits 5 "51111- .
plc etioniug' could devise, pr o red a perpetual
own., of tostoniruent, both to brrself and her
neighbors lii- was a well-wide little man, near
upou forty; with a consideraile terseness of far '
tun-, a forehead of great pour, whose effect was
wereased b) a slight baldwas on the top of the i
l-,01, and au eye like a falcn Such an eye! it
...ewe(' to go through you—to strike all that it
i , sikisl upon, like a 7.oup dr-aleil. Luckily, the
•-i ranger was so merciful as, is generally to wear
-pectacles; under cover of wildly those terrible ,
~),,, might see and be seen vithout danger.
His habits were as peculiar as his appearance. '
He was moderate, and rather fanciful in his diet,
drank nothing but water or strong coffee, made;
as Mrs Kent observed very wastefully; and, bad,
as she also remarked, a great *umber of heathen
ish-looking books scattered about his apartment;
Lord Berner's Froissart, for instance; Sir Tho-
COW Brown's Urn Burial, Isaac Walton's Com
plete Angler, the Baskerville Ari to, Gaulle's
Faust, a Spanish Don Quixotte, an interleav
ed Philoctetes, full of outline d inv. The
greater part of his time was spent out of doors.
lie would even ramble away for three or four
days together, with no other companion than a
boy hired in the village, to carry what Mrs.
Kent denominated his odds and ends; which
odds and ends consisted, for the most part, of an
angling rod and &sketching aparatus; our incog
nito being, as my readers have, by this time,
probably discovered, no other than an artist on
tie summer progress.
Robert speedily understood the stranger, and
was delighted with ths opportunity of approach
ingso gifted a person; although he contemplated
with.a degree of generous envy,'which a king's
regalia would have failed to excite in his bosom,
those citeld'sesirres of all nations, which were to
him as sealed books, and the pencils, whose pow
er appeared no less than creative. He redoubled
his industry in the garden, that he might, con
scientiously devote hours and half hours to
pointing out the deep pools and shallow eddies
of their romantic stream, where be knew, from
experience (for Robert, among his other accom
plishments, was no mean "brother of the angle"),
that fish were likely to be found; and better still,
he loved to lead to the haunts of childhood--the
wild bosky della, and the sunny ends of lanes,
where a sudden turn in the track, an overhang
ing tree, an old gate, a cot tag e chimney, and
a group of cattle or children, had sometimes form
ed a picture on which his fancy had fed for hours.
It was Robert's chief pleasure to entice his lodg
er to scenes such as these, and to see his own via.
ions growing into reality under the glowing pen
cil of the artist; and he, in his turn, would ad
mire and marvel at the natural feeling of the
beautiful, which could lead an constructed coun
try youth instinctively to the very elements of
the picturesque. Ageneral agreement of taste
had brought about a degree of association, unu
sual between persons um different in rank; a par
ticular instance of this secordasce dissolved the.
intimacy.
81 50 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE
Robert bad been, for above a fortnight, more
than commonly busy in Mr. Lseeombe's
and hot-houses—so busy that lie even slept at
hall; the stranger, on the other hand, had
been shut up, during the mme period, in the
lit
tle parlor, painting. At last they met, and the
artist invited his young friend to look at, file
picture which had engaged him during his al e
sence. On walking into the room be saw, on
easel, a picture in oils, almost finished. The
style was of that delightful kind which emblems
figure with landscape: the subject woe HaPeer
tying and the scene, that very slaying meadow
—crowded by Parser Ball's tall, angular hoe*,
its vine-wreathed porch and ehimuse m a i tt l ir:
walnut-tree before the door, the a
homestead—which formed the actual ENIC
from the windows before them In
ground was a vague, piled with lab serrovaand
by the farmer and his fine fsmily,ass tasking,
some loading, some raking_ after, ill intent on
their pleasant business. The og jc ellogliged
in the field were young Kanto and
48
Harry l ßell, an urchin of four pan wbo ands
on tier knee on the top of thti wpm, etc dad
: v esthed with garlands of 0110.1116V4111,1 wad
wutt treed, poppies and egnillowoo. Ii the
front, looking up at Mary Kent and her little
brother, and playfully tossing to them the lock
of hay which she had gathered on her rake, stood
Susan Bell—her head thrown back, her bonnet
half off, her light Old lovely figure shown, in all
its grace, by the -pretty attitude and the short
dress; while her sweet face, glowing with youth
tad beauty, bad a smile playing over it like a
sunbeam. The boy was nodding and laughing
to her, and seemed longing—as well be might—
to escape from his flowery bondage, and jump in
to her anus. Never had poet framed a lovelier
Wier of rural beauty! Never had painter more
felicitously realised his conception!
"Well, Robert!" exclaimed our artist, a little
impatient of the continued silence, and
_gifting
the expected praise, "well?" But, still;Robert
spoke not.
"Don't you thick it a good subjectr contin
ued the man of the easel. "I was sitting at the
window, reading Proissart, while they were car
rying the aftszoop, and, by good leek, happen
ed to look up, just as the 7 had arranged them
selves into this very group, and as the evening
sun came slanting, exactly as it does now across
the meadow—so I dashed in the sketch instant
ly, got Mary to nit to me--and a very pretty
nymph-like figure she makes—dressed the boy
with flowers, just as be was decked out for the
harvest-home—the rogue is, really, a fit model
for a Cupid; they are a glorious family!—and
persuaded Susan"—at that name, Robert, un
able to control himself longer, rushed out of the
room, leaving the astonished painter in the full
belief that his senses had forsaken him.
The unhappy lover, agonised by jealousy, pur
sued his way to the Farm. He had, hitherto,
contrived, although without confessing his mo
tive, even to himself, to keep hik friend and his
mistress asunder. He had no fe4ra of her virtue
or of his honor, but, to Robert'l romantic sim
plicity, it seemed that no one (Add gaze on Su
san, without feeling ardent love, and that such a
man as the artist could never love in vain. Be
sides, in the conversations which they had held
together, he had dwelt on beauty and simplicity,
as the most attractive points of the female cha
racter—Robert had felt, as he spoke, that Susan
was the very being whom he described, and
had congratulated himself that they were still
ansquainted. But now, they had met; he had
seen; he had studied, had transferred to canvas,
that matchless beauty; had conquered the timid
ity which to Robert, had always seemed uncon
querable; had won bet to admit his gaze; had
tamed tat shyest, ooyest dove; had become fa
miliar with that sweetest face, sad that dearest
frame—Oh: the very thought was agony
In this mood, he arrived at the Farm; mild
there, working at her needle, under the vitje
wreathed porch, with the evening can shining
full upon her, and her little brother playing at
her feet, sat his own Susan She heard hts ra
pid step, and advanced to meet him, with a smile
and a blush of delight—just the smile and blush
of the picture At such a moment, they increas
ed his misery; he repulsed her offered hand, and .
poured forth a torrent of questions on the sub
ject which possessed his mind Her innocent
answers were fuel to his frenzy:
"The picture: had he seen the picture? and
was it not pretty'—much No. pretty, Abe thought,
but everybody called it like: and Mary and liar
77—wee be r`-- I tuem: tt am a
wonderful thing it was, to make a piece of Wilk -
vas so like living ereature,.! and what a wonder
ful man the Strange gentleman was: She had
been afraid of him at first--sadly afraid of those
two bright eves—and so had Harry;—poor Har
ry had oried. but he was so merry cud so kind -
at neither of them minded sitting to him now:
And she was so glad that Robert had seen the
picture! she had so wanted him to see it! it was
too pretty, to be sure--but then Robert would
not mind that. She told the gentleman"—
"Go to the gentleman now," interrupted Ho
bert, "and tell him that I relinquish you! It
will be welcome news! Go to him, Susan:—
your heart is with him. Go to him, I say:"
and, throwing from him, with a bitter laugh,
the frightened and weeping girl, who had laid
her trembling hand on his arm, to detain him,
he darted from the door, and returned to los old
quarters, af the Hall.
Another fortnight passed, and Robert -till
kept aloof . from his family and his home Ills
mother and sister, indeed, occasionally saw him;
and sad amounts had poor little Mary to give to
her friend Susan, of Robert's ill looks and worse
spirits. And Susan listened, and said she did not
care; and burst into a passion of tears, and said
she was very happy; and vowed never to speak
to him again; and desired Mary never to men
tion herto him, or him to bar, and then asked
her a htintired questions respecting his looks,
and his words, and his illness; and charged her
with a thousand tender messages, which in the
next breath she withdrew And Mary, too
young to understand the inounsistencies of 'ore,
pitied Ind comforted, and thought it "passing
strangp."
In the meantime, misfortunes, of a different
nature, were gathering around Mrs. Kent. The
meal-Man and baker, whose bread she vended— '
her kindest friend and largest creditors—died,
leaving his affairs in the hands of an attorney of
the ;text town—the pest and terror of the neigh
borhood; and, on the same day, she received two
letters from this formidable lawyer—one on ac
count of his dead client, the other in behalf of
hisliving client, the grocer—who ranked next
wining her creditors—both threatening that, if
their respective claims were not liquidated, on
or before a certain day, proceedings wugt be
commenced against her, forthwith.
It is in mei a situation, that woman most
feels her helplessness---especially that forlorn
gesture whom the" common people, adopting the
pathetic language of. Scripture, designate by the
expressive phrase , "a lone woman! ' Poor Ju
die r sat down to cry, in powerless sorrow and
rain self-pity. She opened, indeed, her hopeless
day-book; but she knew, too well, that her dept
ioni could not pay. She had no one to consult;
for her lodger, in whose general cleverness she
had great confidence, had been absent, on one of
his excursions, almost as long as her son; and
time pressed upon -her, for the letters—sent
with the usual indirectness of country convey
ance, originally given to the carrier, confided by
the carrier to the butterman, carried on by the
baseman to the next village, left for three days
at a public house, and finally, delivered, at Hil
ton Cross, by a return post-boy—had been near
ly a week on the road. Saturday was the day
fixed for payment, and this was Friday night!
and Micluelmas and rent-day were approaedungl
and unable even to look at this accumulation of
misers, poor Judith laid her head on her fruit
less account-book, and sobbed aloud.
It was with a 'tangly-mingled feeling of com
fort in such e eon and sorrow so to grieve him,
that she heard Robert's voice at bar side, ask
ing, tenderly, what ailed her. She put the let
ters into his heads; sad he, long prepared for
the blow, soothed sad cheered her.
"All must be gives up," he said; "sad he
would go with her the next day, to make over
the whole property. Let us pay, as far as our
mesas , mother," pursued he, "sad do sot
fear, b atsome day or other we shall be enabled
to discharge all our debts. God will spud ea
honest purpose. In the meantime, Mr. Lae
oome will give us a cottage—l know he will—
and I will work for you sad Mary. It will be
rearethiag to lire for—esmodikif worth
fee. Be earakerr4 deer RAW '
He stooped, as he said thie s sad kissed hsr,
and when he arose, he saw Susan standing op
posite to him, and, behind her, the stranger
They had entered separately, during the conver
sation between the mother and the son, and Su
san was still unconscious of the stranger's pres
ence. She stood, in great agitation ,
pressing
Mary's hand (from whom she had heard the sto
ry), and immediately began questioning Mrs.
Kent, as to the extent of the calamity
"She had twenty pounds of her own, that her
grandmother had left her—but a hundred! Did
they want a whole hundred? And would they
send Mrs. Kent to prison? and sell her goods?
and turn Mary out of doors? and Robert? Oh:
how ill Robert looked! It would kill Robert!
Oh," continued Susan, wringing her hands ''l
would sell myself for a bon4woman—l would
be like a negro-slave, for one hundred punk!"
"Would you?" said the stranger, advancing
suddenly from the door, aid pro ducing two
bank-bills; "would you? well! we will strike a
bargain. I will give you two hundred pounds
for this little hand—only this little hand! ' "- -
"What do you mean, sirr exclaimed Mm.
Kent, "what can you mean?"
"Nothing but what is fair and honorable,"
returned her lodger, let Susan eroinise to meet
me at church to-morrow, and here are two hun
dred pounds to dispose of, at her pleasure, to
night.
"Susan! my dear Susan:"
"Let her alone, mother!" interrupted Robert;
"she must choose for herself." and, for a few
moments there was a dead silence.
Robert stood leaning against the wall, pale as
marble, hie eyes cast down, and his lips com
=p in a state of forced composure. Mrs.
her head turning, now towards the bank
notes, and now towards her son—was in a state
of restless and uncontrolable instability; Mary
clung, crying, about her mother, and Susan—
her color varying, and her lips quivering—sat
unconsciously twisting and untwisting the bank
notes in her hand
"Well, Susan!" said the artist—who had re
mained in tranquil expectation, surveying the
group with his falcon eye—" Well, Susan! have
you determined?"'
The color rose to her temples, and shs answer
ed firmly:
"Yes, sir! Be pleased to take back the notes
I love nobody but Robert; and Robert loves me
dearly, dearly! I know he does! Oh, Mrs. Kent!
yon would not have me vex Robert,your own
dear son, and he so ill, would you? Let them
take these things! They never can be so cruel
as to put you in prison—you, who were always
so kind! and he will work for you, and I will
work for you: Never mind being poor! better
anything than be false-hearted to my Robert!"
"God forever bless yon, my Susan!" "God
bless you, my dear child!" burst at once frond
Robert and his mother, as they alternately fold
ed her in their arms.
"Pray, take the notes, sir!" repeated Swam,
after a short interval.
. "No: that will not do," replied the stranger,
smiling "The notes shall be yours--are yours
—aud, what is more, on my own conditions:—
Meet rue at church, to-morrow morning, ed I
shall have the pleasure of bestowing this ;Amy
hand, as I always intended, on my good friend,
m lye u rt eir. he w re n . om l ita . s . , ,, e ., a ,,i w n if o e t o e f x m chalwe y own a e t ven hom fo e r ,
you; and I ate quite rich enough to a-- .1
self the luxury of making you happy. Besides,
you have a claim to the 'Dopey. These very
bank-notes were gained by that sweet faro! Your
friend, Mr Lescombe, Robert, has purchased
the Hay-carrying! We have had a good deal of
talk about you; and I am quite certain that he
will provide for you all "No," continued he,
interrupting something that Robert was going
to say—"No thanks: no apologies: I won't hear
a word! Meet rue at church, to.morrow! But.
remember, young man, no more jealousy!" and,
followed by a glance from Swish, of which Ro
bert might have been Jealous, the artist left the
shop
A New Opponent of thil[no w Nothing
Organizatioa.
The New York Chap /mom, the leading organ
of the Protestant Episoopat Church, come« out
with a very strong article against the Know No
things. The following extracts will show the
spirit in which the subject is discussed, and the
reasoning of the Churchman upon it:
"The Know Nothing agitation is precisely of
the nature of those popular excitements which,
when they , L , lttn full domination over the public
mind and heart, give birth to civil convulsions,
blood and crime. It has already in serious pla
given rise to scenes of violence and disturbance
of the public peace; ~ad although we have no ap
prehension that it will go to the extent of unset
tling t h e f oun d a tio n ..f.oelety, yet it is precisely
that mixture of true and false ideas, saletary and
pernicious principles., convictions of eo na el e tt ea
and impulses of prejudice and hate., which all
history teache- at-. the stuff whe' such is
sues are wrought ' • • * •
We have no objection to the repeal eft the na
turalization laws and the limitation of the right
of voting to native-born citizens—with a previs
ion, if it be desired, for planting by special legis
lation that rigia sml Abve that of eligibility to
certain offices, in special cases Bet as to the
rest, we have nothing but condemnation and re
probation to express of the whole Know Nothing
organisation. This organisation invokes to the
polls thespirit .of religious fanaticism and theo
logical hatred. It proposot to wage a polities]
war against the Roman Catholics—"war to the
knife"—a war of extermination waged, as we un
derstand, by political weapons. hatred to the
Roman Catholics, as,sueb, this appears to be the
deepest source and spring of this movement
This, at bottom, is its most essential charicter
Now, we have nothing to say in favor of Ronan
ism.
We would do everything to cheek the progress
of Romanism, to work indeed its utter extinc
tion, if that can be properly and fairly done.
But we would put it down by the force of truth
and argument, not by political proscription and
persecution. Persecution is both wrong in prin
ciple and foolish in policy, as well as inconsistent
with our eminent pretensions to behalf of religi
ons freedom. Persecute any error of faith or
opinion, and you increase the evils you see, the
dangers you dread. Beside., if the Know No
things wage political warfare against Roman V a .
that. foreigners, how can they consistently help
waging the same warfare against native born
Roman Catholic citizens? and how doe,. th a t Ault
the genius of our institutions How will the
sense of the nation sustain that?
• • s • • • •
but bet not laud among' the reasons for re
probating this Saw Nothing organisation it is
a seeret association, league, or brotherhood. Any
merit organisation--no matter what its objeete,
no matter how good and important they may be
—any rook organisation designed to accomplish
its objects by *sting on the elections, by wed
ding politiesl power, is, in a free government,
aisobtevons and dangerous. Suchorganisationa
are the very things most liable to become the
terrible engines of fanatics or unprincipled vil
lains. We want among as no 'Etas Oates Po
pish Plots no Lord George Gordon Biota. They
would disgrace the country and humane the pow
er we would overthrow.
. is. Aam ooreismos is nations sold for
marry, bis ewer bight, with it.
B. F. SLOAN, EDITOR.
NUMBER 18. '
f'roto die Sr,* Oeseraer- X.c.rfs, &J_—h SOL
liar The 11-wipe/Us% donates of the espriabe Om%
delivered yesterday et Piteteargh, u oho Orono
Cate—a came of momentous euesequosmo to the Chlor see
County of lirte—wo pebitsh to-doy te r Balm at N ap
peared to the Pitsakotrith U... of this esonaing.
ezooptioa of the Cotoo, it is lamed by as o hy ge
other paws to Pennsylvania, or elooortemeo.
The Great Erie Railroad Cu..
DECISION OF THE SUPREME COURT. ,
OPINION BY CHM Mir Mal MACK ;
LEWIS J.. DISSENTING.
•upplemental Opinion by Jude* Imerria
Attorney tiosotal
11 4 111 7.
Tb. Erie owl N. E. L it. Co.
OPIN 10N.
By Burt. C. J.—This cane reptime es b din
a construction to the charter af a *Ma sarporap.
tiun. The frequency of such mess narrator
surprise. when we reflect that ca act eiliempeen
tion is and always must be interpreted by a rail at
simple. that no man. whether lawyer oe I=l,
can misunderstand or misapply it. That
company is authorised to do by its set of
&lion, it may do ; beyond that. all in ads nee
And the power mud be gives in plan seri,
or by necessary iinplication. All poems not gleam
in this direct and unmistakable manner as with
held. It is strange that the Attorney GemeaL or
any body else, should complain against a mow
ny that keeps itself within bounds. which me al
ways thus clearly marked, and equally strengths'
a company which • happened to trastsgems dime
should come - th the faintest hops of be
ing sustained. In sky hat Wh
im} to work with. sin ••• • • can be elitism par
red or disapproved by :c or inferential reaNii
iuf. If you lumen corporation bed osetein
pnvileges, show us the words of the legidelnite
oonfarring thew. Failing in this, you mum give up
your claim, for nothing else can possibly avail you.
A doubtful charter does not emit ; become IMMO.
ever is doubtful, is decisively certain avian the
corlf pcnti
Lose or injury cornea to any body is maw
quence of an ignorant disregard of this prialipies
it is not our fault. We have done all that Is ne
lay to impress it on the public mind. and to wan"
corporations of the danger they might incur by At
obedience. We enforced it to the utmost
Baia of Pennsylvania rs. The
Susquehanna Railroad Company vs. Sesnisssy old
Erie Railroad Company, The Penney/wait BLS
road Company rs. Canal Cossonsasionern, The
Consmosinsealth vs. The Franklin Canal sflagsmsys,
and several other cases. All of our precleasisems an
this bench occupied the same ground. The be
trine is maintained by the Supreme Cant et the
United States, and in many States - of the Utica.
Even in England, the justice and necessity of it
are universally acknowledged and acted apes.—
But ire do not mean to discuss the subject user
a
gain. The lawyer who is not already familiar with
the numerous authorities upon it. to be found V ee
ery book of reports. will probably never bosom
so; and the citizen who does not believe it to be a
most salutary feature in our jurispradoma,
hardly be convinced though one rose hem the
dead.
Our duty iu this case is. therefore. not &MINA
one. If the words of the defendants' aheitar.
understood in their • sense. NNW !he Mlle
complained of; or if there a treesseary asi Zem•
don of the power to do those acts. sad
Bar. ttri
hands by constructioi. We cannot. • MP"
limits set to their privileges, because they lave 1
found them incouveuiently narrow. We have as
more right or authority to stretch an old act of
incorporation than we have to make a new ems.—
In either case, we would be usurping legelativw
power, and granting away from the stats privileges
which she has seen proper to withhold.
The bill complaina--lst, That the Westminster
minus of the defendants' railroad is not when Iles
act of incorporation requires it to be. 2d. That
it is so cous:rucied as to impede and obstruct the
free use of certain streets in the city of Erie. ad.
'l'hat it also obstructs and impedes the free use of
a public road laid out from Erie in the direetiam of
Buffalo; and 4th. That the defendants have cads
a contract by which they have surrendered the
the control of their road to a foreign corporatism.
1. The act of incorporation authorises the de
fendants to build a railroad from Al barami
Ern Go seine point on the east houudary of die
township of North East. The defendants' owned
insist that the word front should be taken inehasine
ly, and that a road from any part of the borough
to the proposed terminus ad gym is a emphases
with the law. -4 4 en the other hand, the comma he
the plaintiff insist that it must begin at the Wm
°ugh hue, and not elsewhere. Our withal he With
the, defendants on this point, hut we think the ar
gument on it was rather beside the purpose, share
the terminus of the nulroad is neither at the lime
of the borough nor inside of it. Cow' from the
east, it passes the erusteni boundary of the & Im o
at a distance of nifty rods south, and NUS OM 1111 Mile
rods further, in a direction precisely parrallel
with the smith hue of the horough. and :here=
nr connects with the road built by the F
'anal Company to the t loin line. Certainly this
is not a literal compliance with the act of i 6'
meoec.
ration. Making a road from a point selected •
the defendants themselves silt) rods seta of dos
borough. not corning within that distant* of die
borough at any place, is nit making a road ppm
the borough eastward. is there anything in the
peculiar cireumstasoxi of this case which will jelli
fy us in treating this infraction of the law other
wise than as we treat similar violations of tidy
when committed by codipanies I We shall *as.
What I have said concerning the borough of
Erie. refers to what it was when the act of ia
corporation was passed. In 1848. and helm,
the defendant's work was made, its limits were ex
tended so as to include the place where the ter
minus of the railroad had been tiled. At a stiff
later period. the borough was incorporated te a
city But we are very clear that this alienation
of the borough lines did not in the least thaw
the rights or obligations of the railroad eommeey.
All laws must be executed according to dis
sense and meaning which they imported it the
time of their passage. A line which did net
exist until 1848. could not have been id detailed
of the legislature in 1842. The
made in the charter of the borough le ni" ft ra r l d ia l
fenda,nts' chatikt just where it was beim. The
amendment of one is not to be taken es a op
&dement to the other. If t h e east Wends:, bee
of N ortb• East township " had been shadowed or ob
literated. or differently named by an act of de-,
seinbly passed in 1848, the tiefeadesme eseild here
very well that their right to lame di.
eastern terminus on any part of the towashiplas
as it existed in 1842, was anot yaltered or
or taken away. The law the degas.
ants to begin their railroad at the borough of We
as it then was. and that command is in MI kw
notwithstanding the change which hasissee mob
in other antler&
this viands& of the chatter SD trilling Mat se
can overlook it ea the principie ef de masa
The counsel of the company hoe not sussed dal
it certainly it is Dot. The plow at *dish
the terminus should be established being redmily
sad partiodezly designated by the act of of hoer
poratiaa. in words which oatcake begs.
Obis. all other Oases, whether sear or hr. 1116
surely excluded a if they bad bees afar* fire
bidden. If we eau& bold oomponsee te maim
compliance with their &sten, we ousel bey
them at all. In some situations. OWL !et_stit
we eon sea this any be ow of drad.)fhw
sod *eft of shwas the road to be beat ein=r
oftapietely defused - by flotation el day reds a
nifty ales. The divectom meet hare theftol
that tlq weld gain s point of Ivseat Tahoe Miss
by &amen thew tertawaft. a else day are*
would lid have restated spot itia the teeth d iV
law. And they sort hare beet eelleftail l 11111,
that the Ligtielastre bad more imputed now ha
calking them to the borough, or dm day would
bate aught sad pt ea amandeneet le tbeitilloaer.
This alkali was probably ieftwded or a adeß
laladidttab ore six vomit