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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.
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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
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.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 "
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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
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"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 "
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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
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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
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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
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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
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die.' Away
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, 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 "
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up iu each
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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