ERIE WEEKLY IBSERVER •B USHERS was perpetually slipping upon marbles, and treaelierous hooks and fishing tackle were wont to entangle themselves in her stockings and feet invoked no end of storms on his head, and the boy would gather his playthings together and decamp with them; but, the next di.y, they, ' ir o , tiers more troublesome, would be laying about again What provoked Mrs Crane w c-se than all was, that she could not put Phi hp out of temper When she attacked him with pa,ssionate anger, he replied by a laugh and a wiTry word, sometimes au impertinent one, for, if the truth must be avowed, Philip was not al way:deferent towards his step-mother She had t i ear of their father, not they; and she got the children put to school Millicent was sigh teen and Philip sixteen before they returned li in., and then Mr. Crane was dead, and the uiduey, which ought to have been theirs, was left Li the widow fur her life, and to them afterwards —awl she but twelve ur fourteen years older than they were. Mrs. Crane was ehargad to pay them -1.:50 each, during her life; an addition al fifty to Philip until he attained the age of twen , y one, then to cease; and Millicent was to hay.- h, r home with her step-mother, uuless re. L eco-0,1 from it by marriage. '•lt's a wicked will," burst forth Philip, in the he-ight of his indignation; "my father must Date i'3 4 t his senses before he made such " "We must make the best of it, Philip," who pored his gentle sister, soothingly; ''it is ,lone, and there is no remedy You shall have my rio 'id well as your own. I shall not want it -I),>u't talk nonsense, Millicent, - returned the 1, 1 - "You'll want your .C 5() for clothes and pocket money; do nut flatter yourself that &Telt tui old crocodile will furnish them? And it she did, do you think I would take the paltry pittance from you? ' Phuip said he would go to sea, but Millicent cried and sobbed, and entreated that he would not. for she possessed a dread of a sea life, in di2 , ..ius in many women; and Philip, who I .v.. 1 her dearly, yielded to her Then he. said h, wouicl to into the army; but where was his c on tb--•:..0 to some from' Mrs Crane declithei to tornish funds for it At length an old friend of lit- father's obtained for him an admission into one of the London banking houses He was then 4eveuteen; but he was not to expect a salary for ter so i.ing a period after admission, and his 11' 1 0 y ear was all he had to keep him, in eve• ry way Enough, too! as Mrs. Crane said, and as many others may say. Yes, amply enough; wilco' a young man has the moral strength to re sist exponsive temptations, but very little to en -ounter those which t noble tip in the vortex of I. mdon lift From five o'clock in the evening, about which hour he left business, was Pinup Craw his own master, without a home, save his , litary lodgings, and without relatives. Friends is they are so called) he made for himself, but ?boy were friends that he bad better have been wituout; for they were mostly young men of ex pensive habits, and of Means superior to his As the years went on, debt came; embarrassment came; despair came; and, in an evil hour, it was II hi. twenty secaad birth day, Philip Crane t what del nut beleng to him, and detection followtd Ideucit the letter which the road,: ha- seen addressed to Mrs Crane by the firm, in w wen tney gave vent to the fullness of their in• diguation. . IN: anq. R kN E. MBE tit ewLh iu b/111. , GEE= IMMEI 1r th.•:r I,•v cs,,u;.l I • viii.urr WI! !lilt Atoll ictur - i '~~ lilli~ 1(~ IHe lettt r .Co , i fit 4 -Its at y •uu,rr a ,lifforent vo I •1•1 W I ,i' It Is •udtrt , ur 1 • 41 i) U , J• • ",•I,r all IJ i et Wt.t.tt d (laugh Miliwoutaat with her a,vea and thouichts coo (—wrote(' on the letter; and a slow conviction of 31( t;wh rime to her "Oh Philip! Philip: - It • !roil .(1 forth, "anything but this: I would h tv workedjo save you from di-honor-1 would rive died To -nye you from emu:, trace' maannal what he has taken tnwit be instantly rt. ptaced nit mamma xp• ct • i .Lid the ..No , by me," was the harsh reply ••V .0 %vitt never find me offering a premium fur theft N. deserves punishment, and I trust he %%111 meet It. If be attempts to come here, I shall .L., , urelly give lnua up to justice " r r 'urn MEM I. r)v tho Millicent did not answer, did not renionstrAte, but sat with her heal bowed in her clasped hands She knew how resolute was Mrs Crane, where her dislike was concerned, and she knew, nOw, that she hated Philip: she had long suspected it kr' lek at the house d or aroused Millicent , I ,, cn the ,:r ,Uul GNI SEEM "Mamma," she exclaimed starting up, "that 1. , Mr Crauf.rd lie must be told this Per. helps—when he knows—he will not—l am pong up ',lairs," she added, more hurriedly, as she lewd a servant advancing to admit the visit r Do you tell him " ZIT!), tfl I FEINIEM 1 1•11.1.... i ' il II • II ,vr many phases of thought pass through the mind in an iumtant of time! In the intervd of Miliicent'l escaping from the room, and Mr l'rduford's entrance to it, Mrs Crane had ruo the matter with herself and taken her resoulu lion. She would not tell Mr Cranford. lie wa, oil the point (within a few months, for it was to b , • in spring) ut marriage with Millicent; she dewed the latter to be married with all her heart and wi , h, and certainly she would not give in birmation, of any kind, which might tend to 4top that marriage Mrs. Crane was a vain woman, of airuirati.)u, her head had latterly been ruuuiug un the pua,thtltty of a st.cond marriage, dud ,he wanted Millicent gone, that hers, If and her movements might be left without eueum br.ifll" th ught.i \ ' , 11 al). , ltt ‘Vt, rc I n I,r of L • •• 1 I d to I r I. It< r, 1 4harp, 1 `. la ; ih . , 111 ~. , r 111. ^ t r ir I: 1,..t t r Mr Cranford entered, a gentlemanly man of about thirty His manners were pleasing, and Li, c ,unteuance was handsome, but its chief ex pri ssi in was that of resolute pride. He was in business with his father, a flourishing manufac turer ut the town. and was much attached to Mil iieeut l'eople said how fortunate she had been, wiLit a desirable man he was, and what a g o id r I kin .w tt X• i..31,:',1 r I -ly , 1 I \ i 1 ,kt•vut, A ra lie sat with Mrs Crane the whole evening, .iu.l took tea Istth her "Millicent never inune d 'guru Mrs. Crane told him :Millicent was not and, she believed had retired to rest, Wuen lie left the house, Millicent came shivering into the parlor, and crept clime to the fire, for she w is very cold tlicre up:latit 11l MEE • ti UW It M..anina, how is it? What doer , he say?" ilp ju. "Millicent," said the elder lady, turning away Ler face, which was blushing hotly for her un truth, to tell which was not oue of Mrs. Crane's tr-quent faults, "it will make no difference in Mr Crauford's attentions towards you. He must f..cl the degredation Philip has brought, but he will not visit it on you—upon one condition " -What condition?" asked Millicent, raising her eyes to her step-mother a.+Prtion, thsc al, tor wont I r br 'thL•r to i,-1 that re , ,veriug "That you never speak of your brother to him; that you never, directly or indirectlyly, allude to him in ilia presence; and should Mr. Cranford, in J moment of forgetfellness, mention Philip's u.iu before you, that you will not•izotice it, but turn the conversation to another subject." rani., push NI ILK , nt die.' Away n and !wt. +.• 'lr r1,,1 t.) the , And is this restnction to continue after our marriage?" inquired Millicent. -I know nothing about that. When people are married they soon find out what matters they may, or may not, enter upon with each other. It I,m.iugh, Millicent that you observe it for the love, she present " i to sit) up iu each itu the r new in )- thAt had It is n difficult restriction," mused Milli (%nt. "For what could I have to say now about Pniltp that I should wish to talk of to him?"— Sue laid her head against the side marble of the uasutlepicce as she spoke, and a sort of half sigh, half moan escaped her. Mrs. Crane looked at the silent tears trickling down. ."And for an ungrateful rake:" sits oontunsptuoaly uttered. I so quick, aff-,nious u rut): urr: 'be aii4tit Lo..ru to atitip4thy , gt 'A' into •p ir 1 arta sw,,rth be hou.e la ' later, The weeks went on, several, and, with them, .rvisking its 1 , the preparations for Millicent Crane's marriage Mr.. Crane with Mr. Cranford. For osoo—raro 0000rrosoe: it was a union of love, and Millicent's happiness would have been unclouded but for the agitat ing suspense she was in about her brother His hiding-pl a c e h a d not been traced, but it was the optui..o f the banking firm that he had recap ed to Am.Tioa And there they quietly suffer. rd him, to remain, fur his defaleatiOnhad not been great—not sufficient for them to go to the expense or trouble of tracking him out there Millicent's days were anxious and her nights weary: the loved this brtoher with a lively, enduring love: like as a mother clings to her child; 1.0 did Millicent cling to him. She pictured him wandering the earth, homeless, friendless, destitute; overwhelmed with remorse, for she knew that an honorable nature, like s, c )uld not commit a crime and then for get it; or she pictured him revelling with com panions, sinking deeper into sin, day by day Before Mr Cranford alone she strove to appear cheerful and happy, not wishing him, after restnetioti, to think she dwelt too much on this erring brother One day, in the beginning of February, she was walking unaccompanied into the town, when a man, dressed loosely in the garb of a sailor, wear in; • large, shabby pilot-jacket, and with huge black whisk •rs, stepped up to her and put a note into her hand without speaking, touched his hat and disappeared down a side•etreet. Millicent, much surprised, stared after the man and open• ed it ''DIY DEAR SISTER,—Come to me this even tog at du•k, it you can do so without su.ructon at llme I have been days on the watch, and have not been able to get speech of you lam now writing this, hoping to give it you, if not to'duy, some other Be very cautious, the police are uo doubt on the look-out for me here, as they have been in L ,odors lam at 24, Port street: the house 1 , tu .an and low, and you must come up to the top story, and enter the door on your right han,l Will you dare this for my sake? Nlticetit had unconsciously sLo.. I ...tilt while she read the note, and her face was turning as white a- 1, Ath S,t intent was she as not to por• cetve Mr Criuford. who happened, by ill.tuck, to be p,--my tbr“ugh the street—an unusiisi part of tit • t rwn to be in, at that hour of the day He eroeo-.1 over the road, and touched her on the should , r, and Millicent, whose head was full of offwers of justice looking after Philip, posi tively screttned in alarm, and crumpled the note up in her hand; and thrust it into her boson) "What is the matter?" cried Mr Cranford, looking at her in astonishment. "I thought—l—is it only you?" stammered Millicent "Only itie: Whom did you expect it wee— What has happened Millicent, to drive away your e01. , r, tike this? What is that letter you have just hidden, with as much terror as if it were a fnrgell banknote?" "The letter's—nothing," she gasped, her teeth chattering with agitation and fright. "It inw.t be something," persisted Mr Cran ford -I saw a sailor-fellow come up and give it to you Very strange!" "Indeed it is nothing," repeated Millicent -nothing that I can tell you " "Do you want to make me jealous, Millicent?" he asked, in a tone that she might take for either Jest or earnest. "T *11! tell you all about Is sometimes' ehc ail, endeavoring to assume a careless, playful tone .1 promise it, Richard " lie fell her as she spoke, for he was in pursuit of Lia.ty bu-luess; but as he walked no, he p•'n dered over what be had seen, - and aol cation, and repeated to himself that it was "very stranKe Eve-tilng came, and Millicent, arrayed in the plAinest garb she could muster, a cloth cloak and dark winter bonnet, and making an excuse , Mrs Crao • that she was going to spend an hour with some friends who lived near, atart ,•.l forth to meet her brother She knew per f •orly well the locality of the street he bad men tioned, Port str,•et, but never remembered to have been in it, it was tenanted by the very polr, and partly let out in low lodging houses As she turned rapidly into it, she saw, by the light of the dun evening, that it was an un wholesome, dirty street, garbage and offal lying about, in company of half-naked children; squalid men were smoking pipes, and women with un combed hair, tattered clothing, and loud, angry stood by them Millicent drew her black veil t:ghter over her face as she peered out for No 2.-) To turn into the house and up the two, flights of stairs, was the work of a moment Peeping out of the door indicated, and holding a light in his hand, was the same man who had given he•r the note lie retreated into the room before Millicent, and held the door open for her She stood in hesitation. "Millicent, don't you know me?" be whisper ed, pulling her in and bolting the door behind her And wiilst she was thinking that it could not be Philip, she saw that was. For oAe single instant he took off the black curls, liltora sailor's, and the false black whiskers; a his own auburn hair, his fair face, with open gay expression and its fresh color, peered to view • "Oh Philip? Philip!" she exclaimed, bursting into tears, "that it should come to this." He sat down beside her and told her all.— How the temptations of his Lon ion life had over. whelmed him, its embarrassments 'tad drowned his reason and his honor, and, in a fatal moment of de.-pair, be had taken a banknote which he could not replace. Not for an hour since had he I known peace, and had it not been for the dis grace to her of having her only brother at the felon's bar, he should have twenty times over give himself up' j to Justice. He had been in hid ing ever since, in poverty, and was now in scanty el.,t Lung, for his clothes, what few he had brought with him when be took flight, had gone article , after &mole to procure food. He had made up hi" 1. tee the country for Australia, if help him with the passage-money, t t, e taw= that the lowest passenger could h- . eyed fir, and clothe him with a few necetsssi._ .cr the voyage "I wee -? not ask it, Millicent," he said, "for I do not d.serve help from you; I would not, on my word of honor, but that that country holds out a hope of my redeeming what I have done; and for your sake, if not for my own, I would endeavor to redeem the past and atone for it, for I well know the severe trial this has been to you. Large fortunes are made there by the cultivation of land---don't look incredulous, and stop me, Nlillicent, they are If I can pin money, my first step shall be to refund what I took, and p•rbaps in time, it may be—in time, Millicent— you may acknowledge a brother again. Should this luck not be mine, I can at least work hon estly for the bread I eat, work ani rough it— and I have had enouggh of crime. Here work is denied me, for I may nit show myself in 1::e face of day " Millicent, good, forgiving and fall of love, promised, ilith alacrity, all he wished. She had not the money at command, but determined to procure it. After her uwn wants were supplied out of her yearly 501. she had always forwarded the remainder to Philip, sod latterly her spare cash had been spent in making preparations for her wedding. "I will come bete to-morrow evening, Philip," she said, "and bring what I can with me that you 'nay be getting some clothes together. I will 81 50 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE. ERIE, SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 19, :1 p't you all in a few day,. Is—is there nowhere eke. wheA. we could tu.'e iustend of here?" "Of course there's not," be answered. "h will not do for WI to be teen meeting in the street, I. st the 9ffieerei eatkvh the scent. Noth ing w.,1 hartu you here, my darling sister.— lf the house i 4 pu )r, it is honest; pod the was to it, thowli filthy with poverty, is not de praved " "No, no, there's nothing to harm me," she pleasantly acquieseod "I will 40 here again to morrow night, Phiiip." " The next ,•veuing circumstances appe a r e d to favor Mirreent She way invited, without Mrs. Crane, to take tea at a friend's house, and noth• ing wood ue easier, she thoigth than to go out rteueibly te pay the visit,and run tiret to Philip. So , lie at•ir d lwrt4elf in the same dark cloak and ly4in :,\ Lod when ready went in to say adieu to Mr 4 ('rune "You are going very carlyr exclaimed the latter ••..I.nd wuat a dowdy you have made of yournelf, Mitlicent: I thought that old coal scuttle of a bonnet was discarded last winter." "It raining fa4t, mamma." "14 it? Ih To you have got your dress up. Where't4 Saucy' They wcut out together, Mine (rane and Nan cy Sou Mtilieent dismissed the 'attar, saying -he wi:,11. , 1t., prweed alone, but that Nancy need uit militiou ill/ '4 to her mistress. The girl promi4c,l: .ho WIP pleaded to have an hour for herwlf, as i w.rnt g pimping off to some of her acii oat u raw., au •) t...t.k thought her young lady g Irlr r •tr ti i walk with Ms Craufurd waled •wiftly, h , ..edlesiit of the dirt and the rain It Wai a windy night, and u she wan turning the corner of the ally, which led from the band, lighted street to Port street., her utuurella. a iight one, turned inside out. So Millio•eut had to wake a ....tend there, and battle with it Un th , other siio of the wide street, picking w. 1%, thin he tulztit not wore than ne ceto,:kry, , his evening boots, wan advancing a gen tb.tuin, :iiiewise under elver of an umbrella.— El.•I at the tigllco opposite, struggling and with herq, aril a ,mile at her efforts elm) to Ifer w Pa att , t ht. ,trw, but it was speedi ly /411 0 er:4qt—I by astoutstaent, for as the figure threw its face upwards, in the contest with this obstinve uwbrrtlt , the rays of a street gas lamp , sel the features of hte own b. , tri , therl wtf. It wa4 Richard Cranford. I. p C 1, Millicent and the umbrella disappeared down th- alley, all I Mr Cranford, after a short men tal debate, :,tro le alter Ler. He traced her into P.rt .treet, and he .t..tw her enter the house No. 24 Mr Cr.ini•ml, 1113 sen.e, turned upside down with w , m , ier and per y, took his stand ing within the entrance •io.n- of One opposite, and watched. It wa, haif an hour before she came out, and she weut Tilek:y up the s'reet in the rain, with out putting up her umbrella, fearful perhaps of another colliAion with the wind. Mr Crauford came from his hiding place, and kept her in view till .he was Itu ,caing, fleeced and out of breath, at rue boil,. of th...ir friemis, where he had like wk. an 111\ — tats u l i etr....ut up,11.8 shetitood there waiting foralmisrion, but he said nothing of what he had seen, not a word; he had resolved to watch tuir future morn:wilts and pursue the matter up. But he was pointedly cool to Mil• liceut, and did uut see her home in ale evewias. He war a pro , ' !, vita man, and.`to have any doubt or su.pi e lo o (mat upon hi, future wife, was to his spirit bitter a. wormw.l And yet to doubt Millveut Crau , •:—opeu, irmorable, right mind -1:C.,13,•: 11r Crauford was sorely perplexed, aml worried him>elt on his sleepless bed that nigh A Peep into a Washington Hell Having L, tad much of the magnificenoe and grit Icur .+ t !, Nietropotitan gambling houses, I, with seven,. (lee eland friends, paid uue a visit the oth r u „tit The entrance was through a narrow, li„ , ytir,si way, opening from the Avenue, just ease of tut• National. A pair of stairs at the further u t ..1 ti,e hal. brings you abruptly agaiue• a door, Listened on the inside; a colored - ,u. looks through a letticed panne!, to e tilAt ad is right If he discovers a well known cu-tamer or a frequent visitor of such places, the whole party is admitted; on the prin ciple of eouroti "'hat a person is known by the company h.: keeps gamblers understand km luau 11.11 Un• r than anybody else, and they know thi s o:el adage is as true in hell as it is out We w_•re admitted first into a room beautifully carpeted, fresco painted, with chairs, sofas,loungea, of rosewood, a large centre table, on which were the leading uawspapers of the country, and arouu I which s several well dressed gentlemen, leisurely p.a oat l.soussiug the news of the day. This VV3S HI the half of a doable parlor; the reception room, or as Milton would say, "the vestibule of hell. Our gui lc, who was a well known Washington gentlew.in, lutr .due, d us to the keeper of the estaolishm• at, hint th.,t we had never been in such a place before, and were led by curiosity to explore his internal domains. He appeared highly delighted, and immediately opened up the 'Lauer temple,' we entered and found the half had n been told us—a ehandalier costing from three to fntr hundred dollars, brilliantly lit up, flung its glittering ray. on gold papered walls, satin damask curtains, .otas, lc. In the centre, and near one end of the room, stood a long six-legged table, with carved limn- and lion paws, covered with a richly erubradered spread, falling in folds nearly ti the ft ,r; on the wall over this table hung a massive gilt frame, and large as life a huge erouehing tiger, with eyes of glaring fire, lips apart, and amirently ready for a spring upon his unsuspecting victim The ;sloth being retuoved from the table beneath, revealed a "Faro Husk," with all the implements of that well known taseinat ing prne—ehips, ivory chips, representing 81. 8."5. $25, $250 each, lay piled up in one corner, for the convenience of the bet ters; in a strung b ix beneath lay piles of bank bills and heaps , t double eagles for the redemp tion of these ivory issues It was early in the evening, and the players had;not got iu. The keeper entertained us with tales of the table—how foolishly young men came there as we had, out of curiosity, and were induced to "try their luck" out of curiosity, which generally left them out of cash, out of char acter, and out of friends; in the end. We pro peed leaving, when he politely invited us wag to supper; he showed us his bill of fare, which in cluded soup, roast beef, oysters in all styles; ducks, venison, quail, fish, chocolate, coffee, nuts, and all the wines and liquors to be found in the best restaurants. %yhoever is admitted to the room, either . 118 playeirs or spectators, are also admitted to these suppers free ,/ rharge; don't gamblers understand human nature? The keeper was im patient to have the ipinse organised, so members could draw thcir mileage and make his business better (!) This is but one .1 the many such in stitutious in this city, and the Tiger is bound to be fed though the people starve —Praia Dealer. VESBEL Flan) AT —IL Wal t be 50•11 by refer ence to Liu, st.i? news, tie a. 4 4 Ainerioaa ship Liberty, uu tier voyage from ;few Orleans, was wilen Miamians, fired tato W lama. proulossiem, very prub,►bly under some, misconcesiow, 446 brig pierced for ten guns, winch bore the Spas " Jowialolcon• [TO RE roNTrvt•rt) ] Why look-all mon upon we se With pansistrghtsee, fall-ryed stet'.? In lad it tows. wheWor I g., I pay the pries of loath( tar! Yet set myself, their eyes mbar* Ms hat the spirit's frail attire. The peach's bloom, shish 800 S depsitt, That miss their Staeloo—set their hasn't The moot rad rose la fair to whorl The bending lily's suoirwhise bnast. The timid violet's eyes of Mae, Like obitrea's *pests( from their rest' ?he heaves that watches wonting break And blushes like a woman's obask! Day's gloriosa sets—the stun of night— Thesis give sejlepep sad pare del lett. To Rue ea beauty neer lapels Through hernias veins, my quickened blood My tranquil twrerun'nevavrwells Behr* the loveliest works of God! I feel lay eater* periled, Ennobled, calmed—cot lashed with pride, For, what, tempered with those I see, Are all the chants adorning me? Why osasot sob:er tennis move Kos's lesithened vier asd push:lasts eyes Not =sly revenues soe love. For love doe holier :Wm dones, Is always in their looks expressed.. Broad admiration coarsely dreand And last—that dares his evil to raise! These, these too idles wound my pas. Correopoodirso• of tA. Erie Obiadrver A limner when he it Lots the "human face di vine" always makes the test of the beauty Sp ot. So when we write of shah' young and growing hopeful of the Western Continent, New York, we like to paint its beauty spot, Broadway, in its best colors, and in all its varied phases, for the amusement of the present, and the instruction of the future. Even its every day localities, and its kaleidoscope crowds have their own peculiar romance and sentiment, which the hurrying pass er-by would never observe were there not some "picker up of trifles" to jot them down and pre serve them. Some day—it may be a century hence—these trifles will be consecrated by time and history, and the antiquities of Broadway will possess as much intents as those of the Acropo lis of Athens or the Forum of the Eternal city. We have seen some symptoms in the pages of our rising rivals "down East" and in the precocious West, which lead us to think that they are grow ing jealous, sad, it may be, nauseated by over doses of Broadway. They are beginning to as sert the claims of their own beautiful Avenues, and spreading thoroughfares, and to hand up their daguerreotypes along side of our riper beauty, as though their young and straggling minxes could dispute the palm of beauty with the bells of the metropolis. Well, they have their geed poises besslaiess, sad time will bural them the rich charms of msturer years, but they hasn't the ever varying clouds and Uptight, the rare experiences and commerce of the world, the diamonds, and buses, and range which bring out the graces of our city avenue. And yet it is not all sunlight, and beauty, and peace on Broad way There are dark days, and storms, and de formity, and peril, even here. Death stalks by the side of life and health, and every hour could point to some event where the hand of Provi dence is stretched out to spare and save from destruction. Very few who tread the pave know what dread accident has preceded their path but a few minutas before. The crossing of a street is almost as perilous as a charge of infantry. A day of wind and storm brings down a load of bricks along the street from the weather beaten chimneys to the sidewalk. The tall flagstaffs topple from their frail fastenings on the crushed heads of the thoughtless mortals, an awning blows down and its heavy iron posts mutilate all who are caught among its folds, a rain storm succeeds a heavy snow, and the mass of solid ice sides every minute from the slated roofs and demol ishes umbrellas and beavers. A vault hole is carelessly left open, and some absent minded phi losopher, goes down below like the ghost in Ham let. Nor are thews all. Bright eyes are on the bunt for hearts, whited sepulchres stud the way, fairy palaces of sin tempt the unwary, the false glitter of gold and jewels dassles but to lead astray, and Satan promenades Broadway in daily and never failing triumph. How many hopes have here first been sapped? How much inno cence has here first soiled its snowy robes. Sor row's rank weeds spring eternally among its flow ers, death's mourners pass in never ending trains, and every stone of this beautiful Hades is the trodden memento of some good intention. There! Messieurs of the fields and hills! we have supped you with the horrors of truth to make amends for the surfeit of fancy's charms. And yet—and yet—Broadway is the world: the battery without whose acid, corroding though it be, the wires of our lands life would scarce vi brate. We must still, now and then, hang our, yarns to its folds. ~ New Year's day has passed. The gillatlemen have duly made their Tuesday calls and the la dies their Wednesday returns. The uptown par lors welcomed the broadcloth greetings, and the dingy down town ogees gloved with unwonted smiles, and now we all return to the sharp an gularities of lee/ was. The line of beauty must be varied by Ike right angle and the square, and music and poetry mum give plain to the ledger, else the landlord and the grocer would cease to believe in the doctrine of complpestions. By the way, this doctrine of compensations, when applied to political economy is a tough not to crack. We have SOMA statistics in this ooa notion upon which to string a question or two. We find in a city daily the fact rearrded that, du ring the year 1856 this ever-craving giantGothain coaggines the enormous amount of 176,000,000 pounds of beef. In return for the beef we he' given the country mady—oompnhending under the trade candy all the lenery of silks, satins, jewelry, tem, sugars, wines, import" gene rally— all as much superfluities as candy la. (It. as wt. the calico sad broadcloth, are seesmarr as pr esents, but the lineepwoolsey and bow norm of cur eneemon world be saliciett as me re wow e, without the print sad the .po Lek of the oestga atandesturstr) Our South ars sows pa to amps to. naive tie allaisai ti pia sad EMI DIMITY. Peen Ma /111diiiii Otaw. KEW YOZX Ni. You, Jan. 7, 11156 polish, and comes back to us manufactured, and our California gold goes after it merely to pay for the process. The quarter portion of the aforesaid beef is used in feeding the army of merchants, clerks, cartur n and laborers who aid in keeping an accountof,and handling the afore said cotton, and who form the bulk of our popu lation. Now the questions arc, would not this cotton be Just or good cotton, if it were to be "put through the mill" on some of the splendid lakes and streams on this side of the Atlantic, and would not the gold ring as truly by staying at home? Would not the pale clerk and his family be healthier and happier in ~owe quiet village, and would not the great army of middle men, such as merchants, clerks, 43;?. , become more useful as the producers and manufacturers of the interior? Would not a dozen manufac turing communities be better than one large fes tering sore such as a city? and had not this great mess of beef eaters better meet their breakfast half way on welt. journey? They would taste better and cost less ()aim Sabel Who shall decide? ERIE. From th• Deir”.l Adcertusr. THE PRESIDENT'S NESSAGR We do the printer. toe ;u•t e t say that we have never known, in our long experience, an instaoce in which they have violated the confidence tat their so - Aalun to regard to °Metal or other documents. It I. a point of honor with thins to guard their trust, and we believe that, so far Si Investigation has been !wale into deliguen,tc. of the kind, tt has been satt.fe•-torty shown that other petite' than the pnnters have been accountable fur the oecaetenal prema ture disclosure* that hare been made the Xessage and other documents. We would entrust theta to our own. portion at say time with an assurance that they would not be improperly divulged.— Nutioisal Intelilvocer. It was on a clear, cold moonlight evening of November 144—, that the special tiseisseagers of the Post Office Department, selected to take charge of copies of the President's Message and to convoy the' in advance 1.4.) t 0 , .• principal cities of the Union, were notifiri that the document was ready We b'td been many days awaiting the order to-start, and nothiog but the undeter mined condition of the precious doeuineut we were to convey, whioh arose from the frequent alterations rendered neces.ary by circumstances, had kept the forms open and the print, rs and messengers impatient The time had now come when the President felt the necessity of term'. nationg this suspense, and right glad were we all to receive our marching orders Seizing our empty carpet bag.. and presenting ourselvee at the locked and guarded doers of the Itepublic office, each one reported himself ready fm. the route. There were Rome twenty of us all, young, thoughtless and gay, and the ex pediChnl promised to yield more of pleasure than of toil, notwithstanding the eeas-m and the neces sarily break-neck rate at which we were to travel, might have deterred older and more cautious men. We were shown into a large room, surrounded by tables, and odorous of gas, printer's ink and damp parr. Mr G n, then the public printer, was there to superintend the processes of folding, sealing and delivering the copies of the Message, the gas-jets were firming furiously, and as the door was closed and socked behind ee, it iiimisiimias if soma mystic rite, only to be celebrated in an atmosphere o f •iilphurous smoke and flame, was about being soiernutzed Our names were called and compared with the list furnished by the Department, and we were about proceeding to the work of the night, wh.n en announcement fr)in the White House where the President and his Cabinet were in rose e enclave, put a stop to our progress. It was a request for the presence of certain named gentlemen among us, at the Council Chamber Two of its stepped tutu the carriole of the Deparm , and were soon whirling round the broad earriaze sweep in front of the P.-esidential Mansion A. we drew up under the lofty pirtie°, the door was thrown open, and the old porter. with au air of deep mystery said in a whisper: "Right up stairs, gentlemen; they're at it." It mtlht have been a murder or a dissection. so sJlemu and ominous was the manner of the speaker, and of the bare- ' headed, deferential looking persons whom we met upon the stairs and in the lug passages. It is not a cheerful building, at best, the resi dence of our:Chief Magistrate, and now, with its dim lights paling before the silver m otibeams that gushed in at the windows. und .pread them over the dusky carpets in a broad flood of radi ance; with the alealthy footfall of servants in the corridors, and the occasional muffled bang of r door remote, which echoed through the ill furnished house, the old mansion seemed doubly gloomy and its dank atmosphere polluted by polities. and musty with reminiscences of by-g ne days, when Jacksons ruled and Van Burens smiled, seemed heavy and difficult to breath. Once, while We were waiting, twirling our traveling caps and trying to make ourselves believe that we felt en . tirely at ease, there was an unearthly suoq, which startled ns from our brave attitudes. On examination, the sound was proved to have emanated from a figure ensconced in a distant corner, where the gloom lowered about him like oblivion We could just diseern an antique, leather cushioned chair, with brass nails, which glittered around a spot that we took for a face On nearer approach, for we became emboldened by the non-repetition of the sound, we discover ed a red spot, which we then knew ass nose, and which, relieved against the square yellow countenance, reminded us of nothing so much as the bread seal on a government envelope; it appeared as if the only thing wanting to send, this curious antiquity free, through the mails were the words "On Public Service' . printed across the upper edge—perhaps they were already there —the darkness prevented our determining the fact. 'The figure never moved or uttered another sound, and we left it where we found it,uncertein as to its character, attributes or value. Per haps it was some ancient office seeker, perhaps one of the principles of' '9B: it was musty enough and obscure enough for . either The virdigris covered statue of Jefferson in the yard was not more pitably non-resistant. At last the library door opened; the Presi dent and his cabinet were seated at a round table and gaily rubbing his hands as we entered, the postmaster General rose from his chair, smiled as he handed us the memorandum of the last alteration, and bidding us God speed and a safe journey, he politely signified that the interview was at an end. We breathed more freely as we emerged from the haunted precincts, and mount tog the carriole drove rapidly away. Out absence had been prolonged an hour or' more, and we found on our return, that our corn: ou pullts had taken advantage of ie oppoetnnity so snatch a little sleep, and as we entered the room we beheld the others of the corps of mes sengers, stretched out upon the tables, their heads pillowed upon carpet bags, and steeping soundly, obviously and sterterously. In the next apartment the presses, grim engines of enlight,ll - reposed also, and from below we could catch the manotonous whirl of the balance wheel as it revolved, and the occasional hiss of the steals amp* from the cylinder. It was now getting late, the streets were still, and, save by as occasional individual, whose hurried step and mulled fore told that the air was keen and nip ping, deserted. The forms were soon unlashed, the netessari sliwatior issilsosi the weed *s. Yr. G. the rziz Elii 'at 13. F. SLOAN, EDITOR. NUMBER 36. steam engine was connemed with storprasssa and the work of priating the stowage mominsimg ed. The hut. cites was now enlarged by the present* of the second assistant Postmaster Gisso oral, a man beloved tad respected by all whit knew him, the generous, gen ia l F—s, He bad °tulle to see olds bogs" off, he said, and to furnish them with the necessary kiln and convoissionf, which were to mime to dim respect, assistance and despateh from mail est. tractors and their agents Rapidly as the press could throw offthesimelh, they were counted, folded and envefored. The huge sticks of was. flickering, smoked and sal ted away, as the great seal of the Department was brought into requ ,ition, and the air soon became impregnated with ordors unearthly and diabolical. Toiling there, in that pandemonium atmosphere, our coats off, our hair dishirritled and the perspiration coursing down our ruddy cheeks, a stranger might have taken us forrhyrusg of printers' devils busy at some horrid Lomita coon, or casting magic bullets for some charmed shooting stick As we toiled on, folding the wet sheets, enveloping, sealing the packets,lhe time was beguiled by Stories of mail robberies and detections from the clerks of the depraition bureau; of droll letters found down "among die dead men," by the youths from that pins, sad of attempts made in former days, to obtain the message by stealth, told by the public printer. How on one oceasion the gigantic and great hearted 11---3, coming to his office on a•Sini day morning, found an agent of a New 'Yerk paper emerging from a back window, with a saw, of the recently printed document in his haltd. How the giant was moved to anger in every Ors of his system, and how, raising his elephantine foot, he by masterly and uninterrupted strokes compelled that luckless soght to acknowledge the force of retributive justice and to.. for mercy from chastising wrath. Thus the time was whiled away, and as the heavy boom of the oltarch clock sounding one, echoed through the si lent streets, and among the grim, ghostly public buildings, so calm and solemn in the wild moon light, our carpet Grips wet , • packed, and we ml lied forth into the deserted city. Then we part ed, some for a journey 4.,1 weeks, far off into the regions of toe cottonandsup.r plautations; some for the snowy hills of the dis:aut north; some for the sparsely settled districts .21 the \Vest, and some for the densely p puiated neighborhoods and cheerful villages of New England and New York Before sunrise the following morning, several hundred copies of the message were Oil their way to the remotest parts of the country, confided to the haticLs of young mem, many of them without any particular stake to tiriety— save their good names, and to saust. otlehuin such a sum of money, as we know to have bees of fered for a copy of the message, would have'been a fortune let the sacredness of the trust con fided to them was respected, and savelin the in stance of two of the messengers, the percela were all delivered, unopened, tato the bands of the respective Postmasters, to wh m they were ad dressed Of these two, on. , gentleman becoming involved in the intricacies iit southwestern mail routes, lost his way and did not turn up until a fortnight after the opening of Congress The other, poor, fainthearted creature, found himself one evening alone in acutter, with a snow iMerm coming up, somewhere in Maine. He got back to Washington alive, and report e.l to the Department, that ••,f P , er being out for full two hour.; in the mogt inhospitable night he ever ezperieneed, be was compelled to draw up at an opportune road side inn, where he recruit ed his exhaeusted energies," and whence he"re turned without accomp.ishing his mission. But the "inhospitality" that night was his undoing. lie never again asked for special service, but finally resigned under the constant quizzing to which he was subjected, and died shortly after, of some acute disease. momcm Young, the Pirate - Charles B Young, whose piratical doings in the Gulf of Lower Califorula, u a ve been chroni cled of late, and wh) promises to become, in Ca3e his career is not checked. as terrible as Morgan ever was, was formerly a ilentenant in ocompoulY "A" of Colonel Stephenson's roginatot of New York Volunteers, to wL,cli capacity he came to California iu 1547 He was statton;',l at La Pas, in Lower California, with hi: e impany daring the war, and gained there a reputation for his bravery, while. at the same time, he was detest ed for 4is zeta of theive.r , . and meanness. Sant* then he has oven eagagoi in a variety of things He went from hen, two years a7o, to Sonora, with letters of introducti'm and recommendation to G ,vernor Ganders, fro; l etshop Allemany, the 31extean Cu nstil, and a Der et otlier,prem meta persons, and tuero acted as a spy upon the .I,uorean,, causing tae arre,t and imprisonment ut a number of Weal at .Nlaaatle.n. hay been onus impriseued himself, at Ma titian, for 4tea:lug, ind was once 'sent to the manes and ot t work with a ball and chain to his leg, as a convi't He tnsnipd, however to escape, and came to Upper California. He is one of the aaust plausible men living; and al. though hawing a wife living in Brooklyn, he was engaged to be married in 1549, to a daughter of Senor Pacheco, a wealthy ranchero, living in what is known as, "Pacheco Pass," in whose con fidence he ingraciated himself By some mesas, however, Pacheco was informed that he ins a married man, and broke the inateh Once be fore he had endeavored to marry a young girl at La Paz Durtu,r, the time he was in the regi ment he wag guilty of a gr •at number of larce nies, from the disgrace and punishment of which be escaped. He speaks Spanish like a native, is a tineluoking, bolo, (lashing fellow , as brseeis a lion, ant with, , ut an) r conscience to troubla him tur his evil deed, An interestio crap in his history is that he wa4 once ame her of the Society of Shakers, at New Leban , New York, but was oblige 4 to leave on account of being discoverA4 ix stetting some of the funds. -- It is said that after his last l'iu, he shipped uu bo&t of dale cm Bay . tta I 'alijur gk REPREPI3I HOLY COOL. - ''•4. on a New England road was sent '-•-•3sident or Supenntendent of the r•-•- 4iy, and rather summarily informed Hula shirr Mal week the company would not. repairs his forvioss.--• kle aaked who was w the Ors trocceisor, and „Ate name was given him. He then dried why ; he was to be removed. After prest.ing the question some time, and failing to obtain a satisfaelbry explanation, a little light dawned upon hissennd ha addressed his superior ° nicer nearly. lows: "Yuu are making a grotS. tamitak E , 44, a great mistake. You kii 'Tr, Sir, I have f nice house, a fast horse, a epkudid gob{ wateh, - kad an elegant diamond rum The fellow rittliave chosen to take sty plsoe has got to at all these things." is i s sai d the argument imia eralusite, and the conductor was allowed to retain his p - Hon. A liamAut ROBS ii.--A Mks Hume, /Mil limaurg, lodjua r was su triallaas weakiiiia disaapolis, ot► admire of robbing &ha tipal Stated mail. __ t ____. is. "Jobs'', irrpt gentlematir 41tata:too aiiirt oder ) lite s 34 1418- t 1 i • e frees La lot. Nag- I==ll t10r,444 . 1 Nit
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