ERIE' WEEKr :.OBSERVER
PriILISIIERS
Certainly," replied Mr. Croton Poole, doff
ing his Clibuis hat with a composed smile.—
"Cungider yourself engaged to me for the Ger-
M.
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"I can give you the third waltz too, if you
sli.• continued, with an attempt to be care
ir.• which was entirely nullified by the girlish
31a,cty of her tone
""I'll' third wad repeated Mr Poole, re
flectively "Let me see—yes; I think lam
disetigag”d for the third waltz Shall I have the
lis.nor—?"
"Certainly:" cried Constance, delightedly
"Croton, how do you like my dress'!"
Mr Crot , tn Pot,le turned lazily round on the
w Joh hr we.- Just ascending; glanced calm
ly •,v, r the fairy-like figure that stood - below,
waitin g anxiously fur his tiat:
'Vu many ruses:" he said at last, and lei
curwalke'd up stairs, leaving poor Constance
utterly petrified by this sudden blow
.•It'• only fun," she said to we, half spot
tically , while the tears blood in her eyes
think how funny Croton is when he
th)Ught, as we went into the room together
again that Master Croton was in all probability
The , 11-hing young archer, against whose arrows
.1. n Madame Cabean's rout war ni , t safe
The ball wa, a , plendid one. Flowers seem
,l to have been rained over the rooms The
llght ~f the minads of wax tapers lend a
LYinl even to the most tender complexions; and
rplendid silk brocades, and innocent tarletan
rustled against each other in the crowded
r, tins with a voluptuous sound
“The t 2rman - commenced at one o'clock,
and then it was that Croton Poole appeared in
ail Lis glory Ip to this period he had con
tiesLynded to few dances. Ills waltz was languid;
polke reflowa indolent In the intervals, he
~ •41.1ed against the scagliola pillars , and watched
qi-tans,., who never seemed to tire, swimming
through the rooms Hut when that universal
to tvemcnt began: when that bringing of chairs
icwn from unknown and mysterious corners
in ttu fourth tor) commenced; when the bad male
dan..ers t , gau 10, , k but and anxious in the
-car, h 1 -r furtu,N, whou the plain young ladies
\Alit') had II- bet n asked, assumed an expression
iitt.rly condemnatory of dancing, indicating that
if do.) had a thousand offers of partners they
w 'old nut -u condescend; in abort, when all
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.11;iet uon•daneing people were ruthlessly routed
o u t ~1 diva curuir. In order to make room for the
rf rm r and thy German cotillion reigned
triumphant, then it was that Croton Poole awoke
hi- lethargy, and became the life and 3UU/
f n ^ re‘t 1
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11, instantly enthroned hunself upon a dicta
' ertrucrice, and ruled every thing Ile
Nudep!e:4l closer, whether they would or
1.-•. in i,rder to form a cir'le Ile ordered the
wh a t t o play, and even bearded the lin
tu..rta! katutnerir hiinsell Then, seizing the
Cou-tance, be whirled her for a few turns
r th• r.. , 111, and proceeded lead the first
~ f G Lit
What Le threaded, what intricacies he
wnw or 11 4
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t h r. tn,
lilt' I r t‘v,
a t-rttn .11-z
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tto lo a I
'hv, i that ev . euni;:: l'eop,e, without knowing
I, .‘i ..r vrny. nfi-ref , re, found themselves
• I I,i, wing wreaths of flowers and ara•
I yto pa terns upun the floor, from which some
-,ruidhe evolution war to evolve them. Then
re were figures in which pretty bright-colored
about room it , )tic or., re.; pg
1, ri 11111 t e various mincers n
.01 tell one -et, the gentleman the other, and
correspdnded in pattern- and numbers
odo r The lady gave her flags to the
in, and the g, utlewan gave his flig to
t and tuen each gentleman rushed
:.b ut elger,) find the lady who held the flag
rre..p-ud;rlg to his, and having found her, they
, itl in a wild waltz ur a determined
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,r chi , : wonderful performance, of
Rho h he was the director-in-chief, Croton Poole
Thatiltaincd a splendid self-possession Nothing
s , clued to disturb the equanimity of his temper
Th , re was a d .gged Englishman, who did not
f,rstand the lance, and who, true to his na
ti nal pr. Juliet:a, would hold ou when he was told
to let g and let g••, when he was told to hold on,
and ev,otuali) involved himself in such a maze
of .I;tri• ',1ap..., that tlp• only way he had left to
t oit it thew wa, to stand perfectly still, in the
h•re of the room, and collect his scattered sell
-...v0u over faun Croton Poole seemed to pos
s. • —Yu • magical intiuenee, for I saw him ab
...•/:..1) a--i-t in "the basket figure" without a
bct we I went away
tenit•r trio
tin ling 11..
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tlt c ,, ur, it was easy for any one to see that
Croton l'oole and l'onstauce Brevier would pre
(lrate themselves into what the world calls an
l'engagenit Croton was riot), dashing, and
1,4 kklng: Con•tance would in all probability
I ; :et a very larg, fortune from her father; and alb
lie world knows that these are all the items
ioeq in,slern s , leiety deems necessary to the
e ,u-t,tution of a happy marriaze Constance,
holAt ver, 1 N. 41 Master Croton Ile hail a Cyr
-1.11,11 for her, I thought, but his
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Constance
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wit. so sublime, his sell posiiession
pt r'. r, that 1 luubt if he could ever feel any
et , n approaching vi passion
lIEII=3II
I 1. uot, ii , crever, with Constance Itrevier . -
u in 'wont that I have to deal. The terrible
vi • wlri
my 11;(.4.
. that I read in her life is only to be found
in tr , darks -we days that followed so quickly
rits zi the sunshine of Ler youth.
Mr Brener failed, compromised with his
rreit or and for a briet time seemed to rise
his difficulties. It was a deceitful calm.
I , ,rk was paralyzed one morning when it
,srlie,l that Mr firmer had issued a mil ion of
fa st,ieic in the Crattibumquli Railroad, of
ii.h.,•11 Lc was a director and had fled the country
t , ) the last, he had left his daughter
uhtli and alone The splendid palaoe and
tLut
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think
1. in au
t. rte n, turmture were sold, and l'onstance
L ,a to dct.cend from a life of Eastern luxury to
be utul‘ucal comforts of a second class boarding-
the 1 .1111.:
J ! , rl''}',
•. a li(illCh public execration fairly engulfed the
'•'"'l .tw'" I nano• Lit !Levier, and a hundred thousand tongues
.wit thv:otter t it each day to perdition, the world
seemed to have discrimination enough not to vi
'll(l."rt i, 'at tit. ot the father on the child Constance
was asked out, anti taken on summer trips
- • by r I l aeluaintauees, and was still the belle of
1141 the Itall.r.eteu. As to Croton Poole, that acute
,t .titig gentleman and excellent dancer sheered
• n r" instant Brevier's first failure was made
up au i4 4 it ' pubne pretty little quarrel between him and
" b " . Cou-tauce one evening at the Opera, was easily
managed, and proved an excellent excuse, and
\\l4 ` ' 1 " the pair parted forever.
tw"d" 'rttert vas a great change, however, in Miss
Br, %,er's pesitein, even though she still reigned
- IY• '" -lir, cue as "The Beauty." She went every
"‘ll, and when , and every where a host of young men
bs. anti ate the dan l :lisl in tier train. But their deo.irs and her
know, they dre „ os had undergone the same transmutation.
ig lathes know I They dataxi with her, and flirted with her, and
of "Y i drive her eut sleighing, and took her to the the
stn., but then, when they had sufficienlly emus
rdr"r3l'k ae• i (.1 thetzi , elves, they went off and married some
art it. ,, turtut, - I i o n e else tier toilet was changed also. The
" ( "e""uud i rich dresses of ifoniten lace had quietly gild
t: ar- l e d into simple larletane; you saw that the
white gloves, however well "breaded," were not
C"n - fresh, and you recognized the old bine crape
"''
rrutt.n"'wY krt under its various disguises of different trim
mings.
eugNged '
Constance seemed merry enough, for she
fore the others was yet young, awl doubtless had wild, vagi"
hopes of ocalseriag some in iaiousirs by the acre
force of her charms. I, however, watched her
sadly, with a sad presentiment of her melancholy
fate She had ' very little to live on; a mere
pittance which she inherited from her mother,
and but for the prements kind people made
her, and the many visits she made in the sum
mer and sometimes in the winter, she would
not have been able to sustain herself decently
Her father she never heard cf. Ile was either dead,
or was leading a life of selfish enjoyment on his
ill-gotten gains in some obscure corner ttf the
world.
Years rolled on, and bore with them the flower
off 'The Beauty's" cheeks. She was still i mi lzut,
looking, but the lips began to becompreg i
and
rarely opened but to emit some biller sneer.—
Constance saw with terrer that her life was about
to be a failure; that when her appearance had
vanished, her friends would fly too, and leave be.
fore her that long, gloomy prospect of a lonely life
The old ball•dresses that she wore were still more
faded. The lace began to be cottony, and the
handkerchiefs which it edged were no longer
made of impalpable cambric. You might lame
t Imes, I think, detect a mosaic bracelet on her
arw, and she now began to talk of her bills at
Madame Larami's—a sure sign that she did not
deal there.
There was something terribly melancholy to
me in witnessing the decay of this woman. Yet
what was to be done? She was useful for no•
thing. Madame Cancan had taken good oare
of that. She was extravagant, and whatever
money she had was spent on cheap finery—for
she still clung hopelessly to society. ,he was
doomed.
Even.. the sloth sometimes loses its bold on
the bough to which it clings, and falls to the
ground; and the time came when Constance
was deserted by that society that ebbs and flows
like the sea. Once she floated upon the topmost
wave, beautiful as a nautilus expanding its sails
to the sun; but the tide receded as the hours
wore on, and left her gasping and dying on the
lonely strand:
Shortly after her disappearance from society
1 lo%t sight of her for a number of years. I
heard that she had gone Souta, to live upon a
plantation belonging to some distant relative of
hers, and people when they spoke of her sighed
and shuvk their heads I did not then know
why
ine day I was sitting in my room talking
with Croton Poole, who had married a Southern
heiress, and was now a portly middle-aged man
with a family of live children, He had called OD
me about the traneer of some stock, and we talk
ed the matter over as we smoked a couple of Ha
banas In order to illustrate to him some fact
connected with the transaction, I went to my secre
tary to look far a certain document. In turning
over the papers, the locket I mentioned to you be
fore fell out. It caught Croton's eye lie sighed,
and gave a sad smile
"I have one too," said he; "the only thing
of hers I kept."
••IN as it--?" I interrogated.
"Yes; Constance Brevier. Poor girl! I loved
her very much once, and I do believe she loved
me But my family would not hear of the match
atter her father's failure have you heard what
has become of her!"
"No. They told me three or four years ago,
that she was South; but I heard since that she
had left Charleston, where ohs wasstaying--010
;as soon forgotten
by both of us, money-getting creatures that ws
were
-There's a woman in the hall wishes to speak
w,t la you, Mr Troy," said the servant, interrupt
ing us in the midatt of an elaborate calculation of
the profits of the Patent Phosphoric Gas Company
for the past half year. "I told her you were en
g4ged, but she said she wanted to see you only
fur a few minutes."
"Show her up," I growled, angrily enough.—
"Poole, you have no objection, I suppose.'
"Not at all," said Croton, laughing, "only I
hope I am not indiscret in remaining "
I was preparing some equ.dly witty retort to
this sally, when the door opened, and my visitor
entered She remained a pace or so inside the
door, as if some spell impeded her farther entry.
She was a very queer-looking woman indeed.—
She had on a lily colored calico dress, with a
great many flounces on the skirts; but here and
there the stitching of the flounces had given
way, and they hung in ragged festoons about
her heels. She had on a queer, rumpled, old
black bonnet—such as strong-minded women wear
and inside were soiled, blowsy, rusty-stemmed
calico roses Her gloves were kid, but black
with age, and seemed to have belonged to
a man from their size; while about her thin, dis
colored neck a handkerchief of many colors, from
which all the gayety had not been washed, was
folded
I knew in a moment that she had come to beg.
knew it by those suppliant hands folded across
her chest in their gigantic gloves. I knew it by
tuat timid, guilty step I knew it by that long,
harp nose tipped with red, and those dull, hope
lesa eyes, that spoke so plainly of many a dollar
of charitable money spent upon the fatal brandy
bottle. •
"Well, my good woman," said I, impatiently
enough I fear, "what do you want?"
"Don't you know me, Mr. Troy?"
"1 really am not aware—" and I looked
curiously into that wrecked and reckless face.
She laughed. She was not surprised. Few
people would know her now. She had been
very unfortunate, but it was not her fault. She
blamed her father for it entirely. Nevertheless,
the had many a time and oft danced with that
gentleman sitting near the fire, Mr. (Ireton
Poole
Poor Croton—how his portly figure quivered
at these words.
"Gracious Heavens!" he cried; "you surely are
not Constance Brevier?"
„ That's my name,” she answered calmly.—
"I'm glad I met you here I'm very poor--al
most starving, and I know you'll assist me."—
And her dull eyes lighted up with a gleam of
drunken hope
Poole covered his face with his hands. I never
saw a man so completely shocked. A few moments
before he had been recalling a lovely, blooming
girl, and los. the reality of his dream enters, an
uncleanly old woman, who begs, and smells of
brandy.
Shall I tell you how we tried in vain to reclaim
the poor creature from the influent* of the terrible
passion by which she was dominated--how we
surrounded her with every possible comfort ex
cept that one for which she longed?, Shall I des
cribe to you that awful death-bed around which
the visions of the inebriate thronged in terrible
profusion? It were better not, but I do wish that
Madame Cancan had been there to see. That ami
able instructress of youth would have seen the re
sult of making young ladies ornamental instead
of useful.
Oh, Madame Canon! if you would < only
teach your pupils how to take care of them
selves!
an. A witty gentleman of this eity, speaking
of a friend who was prostrated by illness, remark -
ed that "he could hardly reeover, since his oor i•
stitution was all gone."
"If his constitution is all gone," said a I ry
standar, "I do not see how he lives at all."
"Oh," responded the wag, "lie lives on the
hplaws...-.Dujige Lip.
$1 50 A YEAR, lIDVANCE.
ERIE, SATURDAY MORNIII OCTOBER 6, 1855.
Notiiag la:lost the dtvg . of di
Which trembles oa the lealower
Is but exbaled to fall awe,
Ia nuaatees thaadar above
Parabolises to shine within the
That frosts the am at fell oi ;
Perebaaee.to sparkle'. the II a
of fountains far away.
Nothing !is lost; the tiniest see
By wild birds.borne or ktreedowp,
Finds something suited to its n
Wherein Vs sown sad grown
The language of sane he waling.
The perfume of some ehersstrower,
Though gone from outward .e.o.mlon at
To memory's after hour.
So with our worth; or Minh or I.
Uttered they are hot oil Nrg.,
They lose, their ihdueh.•e uo Llama,
Pam on, but pedal sot'_
be with our deeds; foe good or i
They have their power, seareedestood
Then let us use our bitter will
To make them rife with good!
TH3 FATE OF A OAJLEL
In the Pooneer, a California onthly mega•
line, we find the following rutiaboly story,
contributed to that periodical bon E. Gould
Ileum. The Editor of the 'onerrial Adver-
liser of New York, pronounces tbtory true, and
says: "We could fill up the blan with the real
mimeo, if any good objeet was toe truly attain
ed. Mr. Baum has not even(iven the true
initials of the name of the unholy young luau
whose fate he describes "
I had been in West Point intie summer of
1846, engaged in writing a seri, of letters fur
the Morning —, with which had been con
nected as a reporter for some twoears previous.
pon my return to the °thee I mad sitting at
my desk a young man, apparentlabout twenty
five years of age, dressed in the pet seedy style
imaginable, and indulging in thi full-breasted
ness of cost which usually covers shirt bosom
of rather auspicious whiteurss k glimpse at
hie face, however removed the auivoruble oPlu-
ions which his drew had impart& Ills Pure
bead was high and intellectual, hp head uuu4u
ally large in preporticm to the rescinder of his
body, and his whole features wee cast in that
classic mold which givos so much beauty to the
pr)files of Michael Angelo. lie struck me at
once as a remarkabl, man, andiubaequent ac-
quaintance and eventm showed mei was no: mis
taken. He had been engaged a the othoe at a
small salary, was miserably poo4 and upon my
introducing myself to b r a, as I immediately did,
he asked me to step :uncle, up.m .bing which he
craved a small loan t , enable him to purchase a
breakfast I let bin, have the noney, and at
night took him home to my third story back room
in my boarding room, where he shared my nar-
row cot bed, not qui .• wide enough for oue. In
the elose connection i o %clog' our duties brought
us, we soon became .0 vitnately acquaints d as
any one could becoric. with such a singular be
ing as he was.
1 bad not known L.i.i manyilays before I found
he was a an nif„g o k-t-rs• sercelsrsemor met with,
ariditibtsrWreen in one so youriPimetts..unb.
been educated at College, where he stood
at the head of his ohms, and besidesatte musty lore
of Greek and Latin, he had made himself thor
oughly conversant with Hebrew, and of the
modern languages he spoke fluently, trench,
Spanish, German, .101 Italian. tie sketched and
painted, too, with arti.e% skill; and soon al
tet our aequainta . ‘ce commenced, be one day
showed me a port paintings in water color
of scenes from n.. ore; of wild, tropical scenes,
where the towerio 4 palm tree cast a shadow over
the painted earth, and where gorgeously colored
tropical flowers an birds of golden plumage fil
led the picture; a.l then some ancient ruins—
the remains appari iitly of a race of which my hie.
tory reading had at :cr taught me—of lacalike
palaces, and temp' -s. and tombs; and then scenes
upon he broad :cs mite ocean—like waving
pampas; and then inu pictures of domestic
beauty and content at dsnoi of little huts, within
which the fig tree and the eoeuanut cast their re
freshing shadows; end /hen sunset scenes, on
which his pencil hail left the gorgeous 'colors
such as linger on thc billowy clouds of the trop
ics, when the sinking sun is tinging them with
farewell rays. Uue of these sunset scenes he
showed me was a fancy sketch such as only the
pencil of an arti,t, and not my pen, can describe.
But it was a scs no of quiet, calm, peaceful, and
unclouded rest, wli the very stillness of the
the air seemed p4;..rt,l—where the tree leaves
stood as t. 4 though no breeze had
ever rustled tittle, ..n ! where a silver stream was
gliding throug'i a lower enameled plain By
its side, sad and yr,. 'aneloly, and gazing into its
limpid waters, was t y- , ung man Although the
picture was a fancy, i easily recognised his own
form and portrait. 1 asked him what he called
the picture, and he said it was "Lathe. , '
He was a singular being. At times he was
flowing over with wit :%nd humor, but these oc
casions were rare. A settled gloom hung over
his countenance, and all his conversation wore
an air of sadness. As platoly as though it were
stamped upon his brow, in letters deeply cut as
the brand of Cain, was written the curse of his
life—memory Cariosity, and the deep and ar
dent friendship I. had acquired for him, often
prompted me to endeavor to lift the Tail
which, like &darkening cloud hun g over, hia heart
and his life, but. always to no pu twig-. Occa
sionally h e would route to the office much cxhil
crated with drink. and then he would sit down
and dash of one of t his,, flowing, scathing, pithy,
or prophetic mrt ic tem, which at that tine made
the Morning - -so celebrated, and which
were quoted aul eotnineutcd upon throughout
the country nut the world, as the prmlucti wis of
the celebrated auditor. So things progressc,i for
months, and though we were in oonstant
course with each other, though all his daily life
and action were a part of mine, I never learned
his history, hover dreamed the secret of his life,
never knew why he sought and hoped only for
the Letbe of forgetfulness, till an incident co
, (furred which 1 am now about to relate.
It was a portion of my reportorial duties to go
daily to the police office, and there gather and
collate, that the curious world night know them,
the annals' of crime In pursuance of this duty
I Wag one day turning over the pages of the po-
lice book, when my eye was struck by the fol
lowing:
"TWO HUNDRED DOLLAR.* REWARD:
"The above reward will be paid fu the arrest
or Al ay infcrufatiow which way lead to it, of G—
A— —hi—, who is charged with the commis
siOrt of a forgery, four years since, and who has
rec end] been seen in the city of New York. He
lam y be known by the following description."
And tbei followed auczmut description of my
pia n. friend, even noting a peculiar birth tuna,
which he bore upon his neck To say that I was
ho rror struck w..uld poorly convey an idea of my
fet ding. in reading and drinking in the contents
of the t.anining pages before me. I read it and
re-read i•, again and spin, and impulsively, me-
eh 'ldeally, seareely knowing what I did, or why
I tlid it, copied the whole of it on my not. book.
I *nu still poring over it, in a Ado of otter for
get thilltees to all else, whoa I was mom& hos
NOTIZIE' ' lief
my sad revery by ;he gruff voice of a policeman,'
who wished to examine the book, and who asked
me in a surly tone, if I was "going to keep it all
day?" I made some flippant reply to him, and
handed him the book His eve rested at once
on thelaring ovum, • Two hundred dollars ,
reward!' and after reading it carefully he turn•
to me and said:
I ain't very much mistaken, I saw that
chap with you, Fourth of July."
It was true—we had been together all that I
day, and on that very day had together entered
that same police office and conversed with that
same disciple of llogberry.
I simply replied that '•1 guessed not," and as
soon as I could safely, and without creating su ,
picion, kit the ofitoe
With a speed as rapid as I waw capable of, I
started for the uthoo of the Morning . A
friend whom I met on the way the next dAy de
mand, d au apology of me for the rough manner
in which I had jostled him aside, when he gra,,i)
ed my band and would have spoken with me
Bat I remembered it not. The busy street was
all a blank space to me that afternoon The din
of carts, and carriages, and.newshoys' erie, fell
not upon my ear. But one thought tilled toe, but
one hope animated me, and that wa , to "ee my
pior friend G - in time to save him from
the clutehes of the law.
I rushed madly into the office and found
quietly sitting at my desk, engaged in writing
I seised him wildly, and bade him not 'peak, but
follow me to my room. Arm in arm, we went
together; I pulling him along with a rapidity
that must, have alarmed him. Not a word was
said till my attic chamber was reached; and then,
when I hid him be seated, I pulled out my note
book and told t him to read the manuscript I h•id
made—the record of his crime. lie read it
through calmly and quietly, and when he had
reached the ending, the note book dropped from
out his hand, and he following it, fell upon the
floor, whore tears and sobs for a tnomett choked
his utteranoe as he tried to speak to me. I bade
him be calm, and whispered words of hope into
his ear; and when the first gush of sorrowful des
pair had passed sway, heseated himself upon toy
bed and told me the sad secretef his life; and fur
the first time I fully learned why he had so
lung been hoping for the Liethe of forgetfulne..
He was the only son of a somewhat celebrated
divine, in the State of —, and his mother was
a widow. hi is father, ere he died, had intuadtel
him to follow iu the footsteps of his sacred cal
ling, and all that paternal fondness could efkr,
was lavished on his education When eight , en
years of ai►e he entered college at , and
there his txilhant iutellect and noble qualities
ot his heart, young as he was, drew around hoe
a crowd of admirers. He was loved, and le wa
flattered Mingling with the gay and recitle-4
youths, who in college-life are usually made up
of the must intellectual, he joined them in their
revels, and in an evil hour because an initiate at
the gaming table, which was found at that tin•
even in the Puritan city of
moment he became a victim His liberal al.
lowance was squandered always at the hell to
which he had been introduced, and after three
constant years of+ torture, such as only the
gamester knows, he found himself disgraced with
debt, ftom which he saw ho hope of release.—
Ilia father bad in the mean time died, and he
LusoiswellashAse t ibasseel kis pmw
upon the latter. Dunng this time his nervous
intellect could not be slumbered, even by tn.
deadening influence of gaming, and be became• a
ripe scholar, but misery Lad marked him for a
victim, and already he began to long for the
Lethe of forgetfulness. At last, when in a state
of utter desperation, temptatio❑ scu d hiiu, ..111
one day, after a n ght's debauch at the gaming.
table, knowing that one of the professors had a
hum of money in the bank, he procured a check,
tilled it with the sum of two thousand duller•.
forged the professor's signature, Reid drew ttii
money. rtterly desperate, he started that night
for New York, and two days after, finding a .hip
about to sail for Callao, be took passage in her,
and in four months found himself in Lima.
For three years and over he was a wanderer—
a:wanderer through the cities and wilds of South
America His nervous brain would never let
him rest, and so he continued to study and to
learn, always having with him one or more
books from which he acquired the languages in
which he became so proficient. lie roamed into
the heart of Peru, lived for months among the
natives on the banks of the wildly-flowing Ama
son, roved over the broad pampas, lived the life
of an outea-t--but always looking to the Lethe
of forge:tutee's. At last his means were ex
hausted, and in utter despair again he went on
board an .Iwerican ship at Valparaiso, and work
ed his passage home; hoping that he anti his
crime were forgotten, and that yet he might :Ind
his Lethe among hut fellow-men, and intending,
if it was a life's labor, to atone, as fully as tie
could, fur his youth's crime. Au advertiseinent
had attracted him to the office of the Morniug .
, after he had spent days of hunger and
nights of est lei,uess and sorrow In the hum
ble gnee .. lot employment ot a newspaper repor
ter he ii.+•i to pass unheeded to the world,
and will, a -iugular lack of prudence, to say the
least, whi. li 1 afterwards often wondered at, did
not even change his name But some sharp eye
bad seen him, and a reward was set upon his
head.
This was his sad tale. lie told it to me through
tears and sobs, and when he had concluded I again
offered him words of comfort and of hope; but
they came too late—fell upon his ear with no
joytul sound. He seized me by the band,
and saying: "Cloud-bye, Ned--l;od bless you, -
rushed from my attic, while I struggled todetam
him. Hut he was gone, and I never saw hun
more
A few months afterwards, inspired with the love
of adventure, and the Lupe, perhaps, of military
glory, I left for California—then a new and al
most unknown land My own wild life, now in
the soldier's tent ur by the bivoual: fire, and then
by the side of the cold mountain streams, search
ing tor the golden treasures which they bore
down with mem, had almost erased from my
memory the name even of my poor friend. in
the early part of 1849, however, I came to San
Francisco, and entering one day the office of the
Ana California, picked np the copy of the
Morning , the paper on which U
and I had labored together. I had not seen one
before for over two years, and the bight of it re
called him again to my memory By some
singular fatality, mr eye rested at once upon
the list of deaths. It was headed by the fol•
lowing:
"Killed by a whale, in the Sea of Okhotsk,
G— A M , only sou of the
late Rev. Dr. M , formerly of
This was his only epitaph. The wild, cold
waves of that northern sea were washing his
whitening bones.- Ile had passed through the
cloud whichdeath hangs over life's pathway. lh
bad lifted the veil which hides to mortal eyes
that future "where the shadows lie " tie had
at last been buried in the Lethe of Forgetful.
neer, or, rather, had be not awakened to that
brighter, purer, happier life, whose earliest
dawning, casting itsgritle sunshine on the Nast,
•gilds its virtues with,kneh a golden brightness
that its errors are not seen.
kir The relief fund for the tinier of Virginia
Acted withthe yellow fever, has reached 8188,-
188 aad is expessed to rush $150,000.
THE OLD LOBIESTEAD
ttlictic'e- ills happiest tun..
Th ., a l ., year hoiongt , .
01 uplands bright with barreet 4
Aud coolla. , 1• • lull of
When bells of yet unripen corn
And daily gamut - tug scare.,
Komi ind tho thrifty hu.backitueh
LK ampler thrashing , floor%
w plessovnt ir is the din an.l dual
tlf the thor ,, ughfaro
s-eems the old-teakuune4 hotoem.eau,
With ,teop end mussy Hoof'
When hunts the igt,ussatatt plu , la, eggta eau
I pull hug sh , gulgiggr
And. to the knotte t l4pple-tree
Are !) the ah.l t o hung
When I.ght the •aellow• tst.tte,
Neata the ratters ui tag. sat .1
Ant tt u , jahl, .afi al. n ••••I
11 ith gleoet •tre ie •r.r.gs
tn.. tuart t
Ir. the •Pti t:,f1h1111.• • 411/••tU • .tun
.' . l 4.4 • • :/•111. lir/ I i.;011kil
u•ni Eh, tlowet, tkf . •tinktner pertsa
In tw roi i ail I ',III. I f. 1 1 ,1,
And tit. Ittue htrtio with wears •ft.n
HILT,: goo.. stxoae Or mate,
•Ark•• • 9. , •
I p tow.artb , 'n• 4 h'uor , •••.T.
A' , • I alt.. !Jake.
\ u , t w!i.t•
lure au 1 tike y,
1, ..Jtir I tho Ci. U 1 all.l
01 the fathi-ut F
V. &I herth-•1,/u htrgt• Mud *Anil
An Incident of Frontier Life
I i LI ' i i
l'jrm the -Planot - tke Sups rt •r I.:x(11-4ton
we in••t Nlr 'cruwltritlge, of l)otrcnt, who,
among many t,i• t- eontieett,•l witu tht. Indians of
the upper country, related OLII whtcudtx su m u c h
honor 1•• the otr.tg. • f fl• n 1 . 4, • h we tali ,
the liberty ••f relating it
lu 1 4 :21 1 au expedition undor 'ow Ca—, then
Territorial I lovertvw of :Shithigan, was made
along the -11.,r9• ut Lai: , Superior and the head
waters of the for the purioo,k .1 ,•,Ir
bing the hu,tiiity botw..:u dillorout
Indian tribo- and to .•i i !t.;atiot i ..f bt
tWeen tilt' I !pilaus th.• wiiit. It was an
expedition of uv. r tour t hou , ..nd to .extent.
and iu bulk eauue, lett Lug out trim
Detn.it. lieu C4 , -; :•' 11!.• n i tel ut tiara Da
vi.i or-, II my C.
Vox k, t.
\1:1-•k the R
Forsyth, ... 4 .4 , • rertr Itilano Doty, •I 'ur
n:lllst, ik 1: Ctiam• C t' Truwuritle , , As
t.. Capt 1)
A! alt , b ill! Uin th, parte ent• r , •l alto
neeritiitTm•lviith the inilaurnr th•• pitrohn.e ••f
1 , 1 ,• c ,• 111 Lind 1.11 .,, L1 whieh the Du n, o n now
-.mud, iavi-h ,•xpeutliture ut British
ue) In •iuuttai I r •••ttat'all,,h ut 41 tLs to tip)
!it"; i the ni,. in I.) :kW)! ~ f g,tv, ra
m, ut wari- them 111 , 1 m-le.ri , tl lu
with re-p••et fort •,n mown and ••( roempt fir
the ~ t ner jut war, thou tate,y had in
erea.,ed :alluome t.• •tur th j ury, amid the
pr, nee ••f 4arri-ou on tit, Cauatirth
• , t•It• (if tho r,v• r w .• a f ePirain • f ha 1 ,
the reit men itu,l a pa.h- ~f -,afory
The feelinz, then tho Induttp. I‘ll.l
frieudiy towsr(l4...thi, and the enter
priNe Va.b One 01 great
1, I tit e:, t(9.11
wt.,u wait to be -tu,.ked nu the oe , -viou awl the
re,hlue pre.euted to the 1n411.1 at the ,•Irou• of
thee uu, tl. Tee chid, •ii
Lilll.4 c : t'
MEM
1 ,, t1 , •r. a t•;" .14- thirt
,:.,.ara, with tic dc, I, in h. , u 2 1, It r,
except, n. Ile worm besiiii flu—bre, 11 cloth. -
•IL leather graceluil) aitacile.,l iti tap
he a d, u red eieat ait A teerrew -t:irts, and
two Void epaulettes of ,1 Ili itish Major 4 ieneral
I twit. Sam" n /vol.. to hi , r,
children Gen t' cxp:ai mI t hi
tni,ion to he the euiiivAti tri e udstop b e .
tweet thew and th.ll- tica.tii) ellen-lit:3. and
also betty en ail the re I ,•hilitr, t aild their father,
the Presidcnt To thi- our Ccircruincat
had maned military •tinong the S; ux on
the WIA•4I itt do :iii -.talc at
that putt The (love; n r also expialueel that,
although by the tr 'my o; rectiviiie ttic territo
ry at the Sala: b• longed to having previ
ously been
i purch, , , , l of their fathers, ranee by
the great King el the it omit, iesitc, or Preuch
wen, and subsolueut y h‘ the or k,ng.
lislitueu—yet he was ti, pa) them also
I , r what Le svislic,i, 1.1....tD,•: .. „ a p 'reel tour miles
square
I he chiefs were sor'y aid ttp .,t urn. an I srvi
'tient and coaxing wet.. ot no avail. and thiver
nor Pars was compelied t taut taut as sure
the sun slemlif rise tu , w .rriiw so surely
h old their great father the l're.id lit establish
the proposed militir) post -11,. .; n. rn r ail.
vied them to listen to friendly counsel and avail
tneinselves the hist opportunity l'r ebtaming
compensation. Here the Governor I ,,ru.. e d for a
reply, and ordered Iv- interpr ter, \1
to light the pipe !laving smoked thereof, it
was oflered to the chief, alio refit- ,, l it, and com
mitted the grossest political insult known to the
savage code of kicking over the pile ot tobacco
and rushing out with his train iit chieftains
The Indians walked rapidly up the river about
halt a mile to a ri-ing ground where their I ages
were erected, and imruediatelt hoisted in front
of their clamp a largo flair This let was
repi , rted tot lot? Cass, who upon the in-taut,
eeiluinandim! none to ace , unpany Lai .at.• the
interpreter, walked rapidly into the camp ot these
excited and now deadly savage men, wired the
British flag, threw it upon the ground. hake tho
staff, and, ordering the interpreter to-roll up the
flag and carry it to the governor's camp. told
the Indians that if they dared repeat the insult.
he would tire upon them The Indians stood
amazed at the daring of the Governor thus alone
to enter their camp and thus to threaten them,
as the entire force of his expedition eonsistesi of
but eleven soldeirs, twelve Canadian royugenrs,
nine friendly Indians, two interpreters, astute of
eight, and a small escort to that point of twenty
five soldiers under I.h .lit John Pe'ree, hither
of the President 1
In ten minutes from the time Gov Vass w ith
such fearlessness carried from the camp of these
warriors the slag, every woman and child, and
their tent equipage, were on their way in bark
canoes from the Indian camp toward , the
tort aeross the rivr, and George John.cn in
formed the Governor that an attack on the com
ing iny,ht was planned by the furious warriors.
Of the nitmfrioadly ludiruis, all v ,ave one noble
fellow surrend..red their arms and r,:suvled to
rum tin neutral The suite buckled on their
and, armed to the teeth, were out with
their snail band of soldiers as dark a night as
ever dragged its weary hours, in momentary ex
pectation of the scalping knife and tomahawk of
a numerically superior force of deadly savages,
fired by hatred and by the certainty of crashing
their mortal foe at a blow. Day dawned after a
sleepless night, and this band of brave men were
spared a scene which would inevitably have east
many lives.
It was subsequently ascertained that a deliber
ate plan had been formed for the massacre of
every one of Gov. Cass' party upon its entrance
into the oountry, and that several hindred war
riors were within call near the Saul at the time
'of the council for that, purrs., This piss wm ,
thwarted in part by the daring bravery of Gov.
Cass on the occasion of his perilous visit to their
camp, and particularly through the efforts of Mrs.
Johnson, (mother of George Johnson and &ugh
tar of the great chief of _Lake Superior,) who
passed the whole of that fearful night with the
hostile chiefs in unrcmittaii efforts to dissuade
them from their blood thirsty resolution. From
an exceedingly interesting daily journal of that
remarkable ean , ie expedition along the hunting
grounds of untameable same*, kept by Mr
Trowbridge, xL copy an entry made on the mor
ning after the expected attack. ID speaking of
the friendly interference of Mrs Johnson, the
diary says:
"This mil ueuce and the courage that never
knew fear ou the part of our chief has saved
probably hundred. of live., and given us nice
abie entrance to a country whose territory skirts
an inland sea co-extenstve with the Baltic, sad
which must before long he lidded by oeeeioa to
the u/i111•44- up , n millions of acres already coni
p.i..ing rni•le SAM . . farm "
We should Lave before mentioned that on the
following afternoon a eouneil was held, the anew.-
, de li.cmor 44. made, and the treaty signed.
knd 11,-01
ESE
B. Y. SLOAN, EDITOR.
NUMBER 21,
.k:si but , (2w , rt. UL —A. correspondent of the
travt..lingiu Europe, thuit
speaks of the costume of the peasant girls of the
Liven of tirieeeen, in Hesse Darmstadt:—"The
female peasants wear here, the most peculiar
dream I have vet seen Their hair, generally of
a light color. is eat off close behind, while on the
top it is gathered into a tight plait, and folded
round and round, forming a projection reaem
bling very much an oNal crown On this is
generally placed a black cap, ju,st covering it,
either plain or ornamented with a few beads, or
worsted work, with two broad full tabs falling
over the ears, and tied under the chin. The neck
is bare, and the anus, s'auultiers, and bust, oo
t.ered with a plain, smooth body, without fold
tr plait, fatting tight, to this arms and wr ists--in
this, very mach resembling a buy's jacket, while
the skirt, made i.ery fail, goes right straight out
from the h i p, I,r ~veeral inches before it curves
and hau l :, down The effect must be pruduoed
by an • tiorinone bustle, or , otuethiug of that
kcal NN'hat •ver i• may be, it 1 , enormous in
deed. awst, exaggerated caricature of the
effect ceiee bag eltirts, ,or
, the dresses of
our ladic , a few yeari ago, will g ive you but a
faint idea ot the dress 1 am attempting to des
cribe This skirt reaches to about ,an inch be
below the knee, awl here it has attained a diam
eter of about a yard and a half, awl a circumfer
ence, (sinee that part of the circle is three timed
the dialect; I. of fyur yards and lik.fe The dress
is a:way , . blui4 Luarse muslin, or woollen
stuff, and by a .419. Ne, blue, tight titling stocking
cover- the .alt and ankle—the tir-t extremely
well develi ped. awl the last ofitn well turned,
and no means dtpumble, while a heavy, hob
nailed shoe eumplews the costume. Prom the
skirt down, nothini• in the world so resembles
inainrer•th mushroom, with, If y, a please,
double etelk, while an energetic. masculine
lion, and a huge gtnde, robs the whole figure of
any feminine appearance.''
-131 vi. mu-io enough in
those three words for the burden of a gong
There hope wrapped op inihem, an articztilkte
beat of the human heart.
lie:dd. tt as lodg ago as we can remember,
when We made brief a%l perilom: journey') from
cl Air t t ami from t.). 1 - 1t to chair again
IV, heard it the other day. wh , n tee , parted ;
tit it had he, u ).I,g in thc)irltv Iln, W C a l.
ih•rnia, and tii. tulle. h 3r loniqv home
Ever) body say:, it--some tune or ocher The
little vith..o ot exchang
ing t.. .r t- itke a man. •
The man murmurs u in lit 's middle
wah•h. he af.e. hi pl•tn- half tini , hed. and his
i/opes. yet in the butt, waving iu the evld late
-ring
~ 1 .1 It—when h. thinks of put
ting if the nl Ttal th , iwny , rtal.tto day for
to-m.•rr ow.
Tue weAry watt.Cl,,r the morning, whiles
away tik, dark with "by and bye "
1: sounds :Ike a sung; sometimes
thlrq... 1- a "i„;11 a sub in it. \Vhat wouldn't
ttw wur'l riv, to tiud it in almanacs—set dawn
4utnewhe,ie, no matter it 111 the dead of Docum
ber—t.• kn,,w that it w< ull ourely come. But
fairy lika as it is, flitting like a •tar beam over
the dewy sliad..ws of years, tobody can span it,
and we look upon the many um., these wurds
bar.. I , <•:tii'.ei a 4; th, "f the silver - '"by
and I 'i, 1;k. thu r,so ~f () As i an , "pleas
ant, ' it t the sottl." '
=I
M k TRI %ION! r lif .—or —The Washington
corre.pnudeot of the St Louis Prpublican &T
-onnee that paper with th^ foflowing bit of gos
sip•
My litielintrin's contemplated route on his
return to the United States has been clearely de
fit.•cd, but hi, purl , ses have been a matt er of
cmjecture Ili I.iuds at New Orleans, and pre,-
ceed , tip th.. Mi,-:s,ipp; t.. M.:a/phis—thence to
Nashcll'.. --'ll , lie , by uo particular route to his
home in Penn:ll.4nm. I cam u..air baying to
his -bachelor . ' Lome, but this wJuid auticipate.
The New ) urk Aire[.!, gener.tily ,0 ,:orreiat in
its stateimuts, fori,ees au eleetioneuring move
ment fur the Presidential nomination l6siti, but
this is all a mi,take. I Lave it from one who
knows—from the ups of a fair confidante of the
distin , ruy.hed '.t ite,man —that matrimony and
not I' te .,,i e nt making is the object of his mission
thr.ogil the interior towns The accomplished
and estimable welow of the tate Ex-President
Jam. I‘ l' 0,1: 1- tli. PLoi ut whose shrine his
b.i.cLe•l ,, r's :o.l..etions are 'offered up, and it is to
brill: t.. I,e•ir linen her heart the powers of his
great . 1 .,1!..timp,. t.41-nt., that 0 ild Buck makes
his "teor of the S'7itva. " where, in the language
1 of the 1 1, tom, he is sure of "a greeting warm and
generous. - Suepess Le all old bachelors wheat
engaged in Suc h praiseworthy enterprise&
What says my lady readerb?
A rwEiwit t :Uwe IN THE RUSSIAN ARMY.—
Wt. art informed, gays the Fredonia Atli:ern:yr,
that Kneeland Noreutt, a native of ' this village,
and for a year or two onollryed as an apprentice
w the ie,isur office, has recently attained a hip
rank iu the Russian service, in which he has
boen ..tigagel for the last three years, and is now
in 1 `omtuan(Mn the Crimea as one of the superior
officers. lie left fhis village in 1843, beige then
oti:y 17 ycars'of age, and went to an AasEltse
port; where he shipp,sl hef ere the must as 3 Alike.
Ire rapidly rose from this position :0 that of
Captain of merchant \loci, throu;h the inter
me late MILT-, au l has umiak 1,, ,• A Rusciatt
military nenen3l Ile was alway.3a adventuress
ye*, and is only 39 your, Di
EMl's/ LAB The iew Haven Pmflestims
••We ins able to record another case of
the complete cure of er)-ip las, by the simple
application of r aw cranberries pounded eno. The
patient was a young lady, one side of whose Face
had become so much • swollen and inflamed that
the eye had become closed sad the pais escalator.
A poultice of cranberries was applied, and after
several changes the pain ceased, the inflammation
subsided, and in the (solute of a opuple of days
every vestige of the-disease bad disappeared.—
The ease oorarroii in. the family of ans ei alts
editors of the "q a di gs , ami >ea Oil ithettais.
*ouch for this truth."