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"With er the necessary money for her brother', borrow ing, in secret a few pounds from one and a few perfect aafetY to Philip?" " pounds from another; for Mrs. Crane she did If it—involved criminality?" she hesitated, looking at him, sad ktaking timidly "Criaii evening she contrived to see him. But never , not dare to ask or contuse in, and nearly every Eva „ty in another," she hastily added, "not in did she enter that street and its No. 24, but she the Would you promise to keep it then?" "1 am ti , A in the habit of being made the coo wa, watched by Richard Cranford. He bad made fident of crime," be imperiously rejoined. "I enquiries. is handsome young sailor, just come off a voyage, was lodging in the house, and the di d not i k now a that you were '' young woman cams to moo him. Richard Crau• . Ind h3ilmillitcheeuntferultustht that i n i o h t e be ra°alindiatarulgiedll°P hope lord could not fathom it, but his heart waxed telling , I sr, ,d, lo.,king the image of trouble and despair, wroth against Millieent. One evening, when the time of Philip's dl her cheeks pale, and her eyes east down. Mr. 4 partnre was drawing near, as Millicent was re.' Cranford may be I,egiven for mistaking the , turning through Port street, from one of these @igog for those of deceit and guilt stolen visits, she heard a haughty stride behind -Tutu you refuse to tell we. MillicentCraner . her, and the voice of one she well knew be re-umed "Millicent! Miss Crane!" I "For the present; for a few days I have no 11aLeltun lallk.ey 1V 11 R.lstirrruro ~1 11 k 41/IZI She was obliged to turn, shaking all over with apprehension, and debating how she coo, I ac conut for her appearance in such a localit) "What have you been doing here'" demand ed Mr Cranford. "Tell me " "I—Richard—it was an errand It is &Inc now, and I am going home " "You can have no legitimate errand in this part of the town," he retorted, "and your visits here, of late, have been pretty frequent. Will you impart to to the cause of your extraordinary conduct, Milli t?" "Richard," slit cried, with tears of agitation, "you have knowtOsne for years; you have chosen tee for your wifef you cannot suspect me of an) thing wrong!" "My wife, y 4 I did choose yon. But do you think a wife,ictual or promised, should hold a disgraceful secret, and keep it from her hus band?" "I trust—Richard—when I am your wife— that we shall have tio concealments from each other," she panted forth. "I will not from you " "Will you tell me' what brings you to this place of an evening, and who it is you come to vi4it?" "Later, I will tell you—if you will allow me," she answered "I may not now." "What do you eall 'later?' When we are marned?" I= "Yes." "And not before?" "You would not hear me, Richard," she re turned, ber mind revert* to his interdiction, "and perhaps not forgive me " "You must think my confidence in yon will stretch to any limit," be haughtily rejoined "A man does not usually marry with doubt on his mind. I must know what this mystery is; and without subterfuge." "I may not tell you now," she answered, in a deprecating tone; "I do not know what the con sequences would be. I will ask permission " "Of y , Ptir sailor friend at No. 24r he returned, his lip curling with Ineffable scorn. And Milli cent could not suppress a cry of terror "Oh Richard, don't ask me: don't try to fa thom this: On my word of honour, as your fu tali wife, I am doing nothing wrong, nothing disgraceful; nothing of which I need be asham ed "If you wish me to believe this, you must tell what it is, and let me judge what you call 'dia. gisoeful.' " "Indeed I cannot, to-night. But—perhaps to-morrow night—l will try. I will if I can." "Very well," he replied; "I w4ll afford you the opportunity to-morrow night." And he con tinued to walk by Millieent's aide till she reach ed her home. But be did not offer her his arm, and observed a stern silence. 1 "Yon will come in?" she said to him, when the door was opened. "No. Good night to you," be answered, and turned and strode sway. It seemed uif he had but constrained himself to walk with her for her The next time Millicent saw her brother stid spoke of Mr. Cranford, and asked if the might impart the secret so him. "You could not betray it to a museums, lover of yours though be is," was Philip's rejoinder. "He ie one of your cold, upright men, Millicent —who would deem itderogstory to hie high mer cantile character not to deliver me up to justice if ha knew was here. When I am quite gone, I and the good ship which will bear nor out of danger, then tell him." protection I= "That may sot be for s week or tonight," I. °Nerved. -Before a fortnight, I bops. 1 alkali go by the fkrat that mils from Liverpool, sod you alkali have ocktiee of any departure. But, Mil/jeep', if tlaiok the delay will MIN mime napless &mama between yea isd hared Ominhed, .;r441 ' • 4 fbeint Votitß. T'i. doming ■p the sleep of time, Asti this old world is growing brighter, We may not sae it dawn sublime, Yet high hopes make the heart throb lighter We may be 'looping in the ground, . When it awakes die *arid in mender, Bat we hare felt it gathering round, And heard is voles of living thunder„ 'T ire Doming! yes, 't is analog f 'T is eontieg now, tb• gionoto time, Foretold by mere and wag in story, For w►ialt, flea thialdag wee a °Maw, Sonia looped to heaves from magelde lion They passed, nor saw the work they wrought, Tor the erownid heads of centuries blossom' Bet t►e live lightning of l,tr tbotight And daring deeds doth palm earth's bosons. ' Tie owning! yes. 1 is oemiag! Creeds, empires, rystams, rot with ay. But th• great people's ever youthful; And it shall write with the future's page To Inn humanity more truthful; The gnarliest heart bath tender ehoirds To waken at this tarsi of "brotber,' And ties comes whets brain scorpionwords Ws 'ball sot speak Meting each other. 'Tie sooting' yin, 't is otsznitsg ' Out of light, y. priests, nor flag Your dark, oold shadows oa as longer Aside! thou world•wid* curs* called king! Th. pirate's step tir quicker, stronger There's divinity within, That makes men grata, when'er they try it God works with ail who dare to win, And the time cometh to reveal it. 'T is coming' yes, 't is coming' Ays, lemma eons,' the tyrant's throne Is crumbling with our hot taus rusted: The swort earth", mighty hare leant on Is eankarod with our heart's blood °rusted. (kir the men of mind make way Ye robbir-rulers, pause no longer' Ye manta stop the open*: clay; The world rolLe on, the light grows stronger.. The people's adront's soolig ' Q7llzict Vista'anti. AY THE AUTHOR Or THE UNHOLY WISH [CONCLtTICD 1 him at *nee T will risk it. And better that a worthless vagabond, as I have proved myself, atmald be sacrificed, than that your pesos should be endangered " Millicent's heart sank within her; but she felt that her duty to her nnfortnnste brother must be paramount over all things. She reflected, too, that Ric►,ard Crauford loved her, and hoped she should find little difficulty in appeasing him when the time for declaring all should come.— Besides, she believed that he could not help sus pecting the mystery must have reference to Phi lip. though he would not hint at such in his high and haughty sense of honor. He sought her that evening. He had watch ed her to the old haunt, and he watched her out again, awl then strode after her and overtook her in the street, as he had done the preceding owe "I said I would afford you an opportunity of speaking to we to-Bight," he began, without any previous salutation, and in a tone almost of repulsion. "I am here to do it. "And I cannot yet, Richard. You mast se t. (lord we a little while longer; a few days." "Nut a day, not another hour," he burst forth. "If we part a,-night without full confidence be tween us, •+e part for the last time." "Richard," she uttered, clasping her hands together and laying them on his arm in her agi tation, "do not be b 0 harsh with me, do not be so cruel: i assure you, as I would assert it in the hearing of (leaven, that my going as I have done to :lilt house in Port street, is no just cause fur your breaking with me. You taught me to love you, Richard; if you desert me, you remove all I now have to live for' . "Fine w"rds, flowery sentiments," he retort ed, "but they possess more sophistry than reason. I do not y -u, or have wished to do so; I ask but fur your confidence, Millicent If you wi ll not give it me, you drive me from you." "I will give it you, Richard—after a little wbile I would give much to be able to give it you now. "What prevents you?" "Have confidence in me," ehe impi-,red, evad ing his que.tion; "accord me yet a few days' de lay Do n t see me before then, ,f you would so wish it. Bit cherish no harshness against me, for I do not deserve it " "I am not a fool Millicent," ho bitterly said. "You ask to he freed from my company that you may pursue these iniquitous visits: it is impossi• ble that they ell) be for any good And it is equally impor•sible that • you can be milled upon to indulge in any line of conduct which may not be told to jour future husband. I think a spe cies of madness must have overtaken you " "Sorrow has overtaken me," she murmured, "nothing else Can you not understand, Rich 4rd? There is a secret in this matter which is - Rot mine." "What if I promise to keep it? What is en- other recourse. Indeed 1 will toil y o u l a t er " "N,), - he said, "I shall never give you another opportunity. We part uow fur ever "Oh Rieh.ird, y.. 0 cannot mean it?" she tit t-red, %-iee ,baking with emotion "Surely r"n wi.l not - ast me off, lod we so nearthe time vt being man .ind wife:" "1 wit, send you your letters back to-morrow," he coldly repined, "to night it is too late; and I desire that you will return me mine Adieu Your way now lies one road and mine another." -Hut it must not be," she sobbed, clasping hie arm in Ler anguish. "I am to be your wife, RieLar.l;._ you haresaid it " "Ye , ," he answered, remaining quitestill, and not arcking to push her hand away. "If you will erplain your conduct, and I find you have done nothing unworthy the future wife of an by oraLt: man. C. n you do this, Millicent?" She vessed i>otb her hands upon her throb . bing temples and again debated the question with herself Her brother's safety,and her own happiness and the good opinion of Richard Cran ford; should she,risk the former for the latter? Mr. Cranford watched her countenance and ita signs of despair Slowly she remobed her hp,pds, and mimed her eyes to his, and essayed twice to speak before she could get out the words "Were appearances against you, Richard," she said, "and you Lid me wait and trust you, I w.luld wait fur any length of time and trust you still; for years, if you so wished it. I only ask for a few days " "Then you decline to explain," he answered "That is your final answer?" "It is so; toping my will Le " "Farewell to you," he sternly rejoined "Henceforth we are strangers." t ilts strode away rapidly in the direction of his home—the new home he bad prepared fo7 e,:nt, and she sought hers with a bursting heart. Two days after that, Philip quitted the town for Liverpool, and, in about ten more, Millicent.re• ceivesi miss oft his departure for Melbourne. She then nt tho following note to Mr. Cranford: -The.time is now come when I am released from my obligation of secrecy. Give me an op portunity of clearing myself in your mind, what ever you may then decide uto our future. I am and unhappy; du nut continue to cherish re.sentment agaiu,t me. To which the f.illowing answer came: "DEAR Miss CRANE --When my son left for New York (f“r which port he sailed three days since, with the view of transacting business for our firm, I he empowered me to open any letters that night conic for him Hence your note Las fallen into my handm,aind as it is not upon bus iness matters, I take the liberty of returning it to you. I expect Richard will be home in about three months; but if you wish, I will give yew his ad dress in New York. Will you forgive my say. ing that I rtocerely regretted the rupture which my son informed we took place between you and himself (the,tiattire of which be did not impart I to me,) for know no young lady whom I Would rather have seen his wife. "Believe me, rtj dear Miss Crane, ]Thor t ver sincere friend, TrrnmA Ft CRAT:FORD So there was nothing for poor Millicent bat to wait, and-alternate between despair and hope. But the present disappointment, combined with the anxiety of mind ibe had lately endured, threw her int.)a •langerous illness, which br Juglat her to , the brink , ‘f the grave. She was ill for many weeks, and, when she r. e. was or dered away trial twine, fur change of air She went to Livtrpool, were some relation* of her own m bther ' a lived, and with whom ',hotted for merly once spen, a few weeks. Her she staled the ter , Led reeovered Der bodily ItoTtli. , ..• •a. FIVE, SATURDAY ~S, JANUARY 26,1856. It is obliged to MILLICENT CRANE." $1 50 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE. But not her spirits:, fat tha aso-sotsra and the 'Hulce of iliohatti Cranford *Seated her much. It was the beginning of autumn before she pro. oeedod home ' which she did eon, her friends seeing her safely to the San is the 'totals', and into a Ent-dams earrises "Masi you don't get flirting and run away, Million', now you are to be left all alone to yourself for three or four hours," one of theta, young like herself, laughingly observed; and Miasma loathed a response, in the, sane joking spirts: a hollow . laugh, though she felt it to be her own heart. Site flirt, and ran away! When the train arrived at a certain station on its route, the passengers were infornied that they must there alight to wait for $ lima train; so they crowded, grunthlingly, tato the waiting. rooms. Millicent, however, made her way to a seat abe espied beyond the platform, a rude bench, placed underneath a bank; and here she sat, enjoying the be MA air of the awns* day and occasionally vosiisiy. The near spreads of a gentleman, as impasieut fellww-passenger; who was strolling about, Gauged her to look up A sudden shock fell ov er her: haw sot what she did. The book was hastily dropped upon the bench, and she, trembliwg all over, took a step forward. For it was Richard Oran funi. "Richard:" she exclaimed, "is it redly you? Do we meet here?" , fle took her band with a cool air: he could not avoid taking it, for dm in the impulse of the moment, had bald it out* bin s sad the lose of las coiee was very cold. "You bave, retarget. fres America, thou?" she uttered. "I am on my way balk, now, from Liverpool," he replied; "we only made the pert yesterday. Yon look ill, Wm Crum" "I linve bees very ill Fines yon left," she murmured, "sod have been all this summer in Liverpool with my relations, for &sage of sir. I am well now." They stood lasing nob other, and them was a silence. He trait the Est to break it, by saying a few formal words of adtea,, and was about to turn away. . "Oh, but, Richard, you must bear me," she exclaimed, a terror omniug over her lest they were to pare again far as indelaiss period with out an explanation. "I have sot yet had tbe liartutlity of justifying myself tojos." -I would rather not heat . it," he interrupted. , Let whatever may have passed between us be buried in silence. It is of nowommeptenee now." "Dot I must tell you," she favariehly attilaint ed. "I cannot let you go through life suspect lag me of imprudenoe, or, perhaps, wickedness. Are you aware who it was I went to en in that wretched street? I thought---knowing what you did know—that you muss have @imputed him at that tune; and that was the oases of my terror." "You are talking riddles to me," interposed Mr. Cranford. "But I have no wish, and now no right, to be made the tsonlidant of your private affairs. It is too late." "Oh yes, yes," sbe uttered in agitation. "1 au not 'Wading to—to die relations tomes' ourselves: l only ask to be justified. That sai lor was my brother." Your brother, Millioentr' be ejaculated, star ing at her. "Yes," she said, burping lido tsars, fruits of Lae seism, leas p.m prows %L. Cation. "He had disposed hipissif as you haw— if you did see him-14 those wide, rost i gh clothes, and she Meek eurli "Do you mean your irothsr•Pbilip"' he asked, fully aroused from his displayed indiffereaos. "1 have no other brother," she replied; "whom else should I mean? He had been in con cealment ever since that dreadful stair in Lon don, bad been reduced to the greatest straits, and had curve down to ask my help to ship himself of to Australia. Whilst he was hiding in that room in Port-street, I was engaged collecting Lo go her suffioient money for him. You will say, perhaps, that I ought not to have visited him: but he had no other friends in the world to cling to him in his distress, and I believed that my duty—as my love—lay in going to see and com fort him." "But, Millicent--though them is much that I do not yet understand—why did you not confide this to me?" "Fast. of all, your own prohibition, tad /00- Madly --..—." "What prohibition?" interrupted Mr. Cran ford "What are you talking of?" Millicent, thinking his memory extraordinarily oblivious, proceeded to recapitulate what passed the night they first received wows af Philip's guilt. She repeated—for she remembered—the very words used by Mrs. Crane. "Mrs. Crane purposely deceived you!" be ex claimed. "She never mentioned the subject to me. I assure you, Millicent, that, until this moment, I did not know but what your brother was still in his situation in London." "Then what must you have thought of me?" groaned Millicent: "of my stolen visits to that undesirable street, and that strange sailor?" "No matter, now, what I thought. You where deeply to blame, Millicent; you ongkt not to have deceived me." - - "Oh Richard, if I might have told you! You do not know bow I longed to do so: though I believed yon could not hare failed to have a sus pima of the true soorst. Asd Philip feared that you, in your high sense of probrity and Loser, might deem it incumbent on you to betray him to justice. Would you have done so, Richard?" "No," said Mr. Cranford. "I would have hel ped him away—to fet the disgrace of his con duct far from you' "That day, when you came up, as I was read ing the note in the street, which he in his'a. guise had just put into my hands, I shouldpave told you all, Richard, for I was greatly in,fe ed of an adviser, but for the prohibition so falsely imposed upon me by Mrs. Crane." "Mrs. Craw, has much to answer for," bp is turned, a strange, expression of bitter regret arising to his quivering lips. "She has parted us forever, Millicent." "You do not—you will never think well of me again?" she faltered. "Yes I sheil," he said. "I shall think of you again, and always, as the hist woman who las ever crossed my path in life, who sus, and still *sight to be, the dearest. But that Mali not be now. lam a married man, Millicent." They had been standing close to the bench, neither having sat; but now Millicent sank down upon it. In spite of her efforts se retain her calmness, in his presence, at this saaosnossilast, sbe felt the color forsake her parted lips, and her frame began to shake as if she bad the ague. "I thought you were irrevocably loot to me," proceeded Mr. Cranford, "tad my - feelings to wards you were's Compound of rags and bitter nee. Ia New York if nes a young /lady, the daughter of one at our eorresposdeats there, wno took my fancy—not my heart, Millicent, that bad died nut with you.—Partly in the indulgence of my admiration, partly to gratify the exasper ation I felt towards you, I married her, and have brought her tole.; to the home that was Wave beeu yours. siits is with tae bon today." Millicent stood up again, She strove still for calmness, though she knew that life's sunshine was gone for ever. The bell was ringing for the passengers to take their pbtoe, and she offered her hand, in farewell, te Mr. Cranford. "Aui I justified is your tumor' she Weak "Yes. Better , 40414 for baisfit,l lllll you had sot besti s far it has Wad •VA jA it that will never Imes sway. God bless you, Millicent," he whispered, as be wrung her hand is both his—" God bless you, say dearest, •od reader your future destiny a happy one—happier than Milt will be!" He turned away to the platform, and Milli cent slowly followed. She saw him bring out, a lady, young and very bandsome, from the wait ing-room, plate her in a carriage and follow her in. Millicent found her way into another. As the train moyed slowly past the station, Milli °sot saw hstl'loo,k lying en the beach. She had forgotten it, so it was lost. Lost! what mattered that., or any other loss, to a heart, sick as hers was, with its excess of anguish? And so it is, in this world. That the commis sion of one crime will *aqui a wide held of con sequence, more than, at that time, tea be sou peoted will pertain to it. When Philip Crane lapsed into guilt, to stop up the fruit of his ex• travapnce, he little thought that he was involv ing the life's happiness of one who was dearer to him than:even his folly--his sister Millicent. Their after destiny will form the materiels for a sequel which will appear in our next. A Win IN TsotritLx.—"Pray, tell me, my dear, what is the sans, for those tears?" "Ohl such disgrace! I have opened one of your letters, supposing it to be addressed to my self. Certainly it looked more like Mrs. than Mr." "Is that all? Whet harm can there be in a wife's opening her husband's letters?" "But the oontent's:--sueh disgrace!" "What! has any one dared to write me a letter wait for my wife to read" "Oh, no. It is couched in the most chaste language. But the disgrace!" The husband eagerly caught up the letter and commenced reading the epistle that had been the means of nearly breaking his wife's heart. Reeder, you couldn't guess the cause in a 'coon's age. It was no other than a bill from the Prin- ter for nine years' subscription! The meet sensible woman in all creation:— She ought to be admitted a member of the craft. ruz Show.—Last Saturday eve ning, a train of ears left Hamilton (Canada) for Toronto, and, agreeably to the time table, ex pected to arrive at the place of destination in one hour and forty minutes. The Toronto Globe says that the snow had been falling for some twirl before the train started, and continued to fall heavily; the locomotive sot having a snow Ffiow attached, had hard work to push through; and shortly after leaving Oakville, the water fell short, ate oars were detached, and the engine proceeded to Port Credit, some six miles' off, to take in a fresh supply. The snow still continu ed to fall heavily, so that it was six hours before the locomotive returned; and after several ef them to tarry on the train it was found imp&sible t 4 move it, and the attempt was given up. Meantime the passengers had been snowed up in the oars, and were passing the time as they best could. The neighboring fent*a furnished an ample supply of firewood, and some adventurous individuals having undertaken to force a passage to Oakville, the station-master of that place, in the course of the morning, came to the relief of the famishedngers with an ample supply of viands. IC se nearly - fourteen roam, site train was olenowed up," but at last relief Game in the shape of two locomotives, back to bask, which had been despatched from Toron to in search of the missing train. BURNT ALIVI.—A letter in the New Orleans Picayune, dated Dee. 25, written from Lexing ton, ittim, says: "A daughter of a very worthy gentleman, while riding on horseback to visit a neighbor, was assaulted by a negro man, who made the most hellish attempt to violate her person. She struggled in his demoniac grasp until her strength was exhausted, until she was sadly bruised and lacerated, when a gentleman came in sight The negro fled, and the gentleman carried the almost inanimate girl to her home. After depositing her there he raised the alarm, and the people bur- Tied out to, hunt the negro.—They were not long in finding him. He belonged to the Wade es tate. They brought him into the town of Lex ington, and then to the most public street, obaic ed him to a stake and burned him alive. It is thought the young lady will not survive her in juries." AN INDua SNAKa S'roay.—The Delhi (East India) Gasette states that recently a peon in the Tannah' near the College bridge observed a rat run across the floor. He aseoped to look after it, having his turban off and his back hair loose. While in this position he suddenly felt as thought some one were tugging him back by his hair He put his hand up, and to his horror he found there was a large odbra on his back, struggling to free sta teeth from his hair, in which they had got entangled. Probably the reptile had also observed the rat, and had dropped from the roof, imbued with as keen a love of hunting as the peon himself. Be that as it may, the snake ul timately succeeded in getting loose, and escaped to a hole without inflicting any injury on the man. By the orders of the dikief magistrate, the plaee was pulled down the next day, and there, sure enough, was theisnake, with the rat in his stomach half digested. DIU AT HIS POST.—We learn from a reliable source, that a brakeman on the Toledo and Cle veland Railroad, yesterday, the 9th inst., froze at his poet, and dropped dead from the train when it stopped at one of the stations. We were unable to learn his name or further particulars relative to the matter.—Adrian Watchtower, 10th. ON Dir.—lt is said that a Manager of one of the Cleveland theatres lately forged drafts on P. T. Barnum, of New York, to the amount of $40,000, and then absconded; and that he was afterwards arrested in New York and brought back to Cleveland. The particulars will soon transpire. Tat SWATOB.L&L ELBCTION.—The Democrat ic pre= of the State, and indeed the press gene. rally, express the heartiest gratification at the election of the Hon. Wm. Bigler to the tr. 8. Senate. The fact is a deserved tribute to his integrity and high character. air On digging my a bank of snow some tan feet deep in New York, a man was found ly ing on the walk asleep. He bad been intozioated the night previous and bad fallen asleep. His breath had made a vaeonm in the snow, and he easily aroused to consciousness, when the snow was removed. SUMMING o, R•11.1110AD There has been touch deteatios among railroad trains in every direction, and in many instances some real entering. One train from` New York to Philadelphia, containing about two hundred passengers, was stopped by the snow at misnight, and in an open country. Soon the fuel was all eossumed, and putt of the ears was broken up and buried to warm the passenger. Sonie des perate fools or ramie set fire to a second one, but a majority of 0 .--e passengers put out the fire and protected the oar. A saw was proeured, and some of the rails from a fence being out in to stove wood, the party was kept from fresdng. Many of the party had theiallingue sad-toss bo ss., bat so ;ism wets lest. VALI REGRET Where are the sassy smile, sad glee Of youth's delightsome hosrs, When, unconcerned, from duties free, I coiled life's fairest lowers? Al/lel:those joys have long autos flown From Hope's delusive sphere, Trophies of Time, whose 'pal,' are shown In each progressive year' Might I fa 'Lately mansions icro, In marble halls might stand; Have ad that love amt wealth c)uld give— Aye, the woe,' at my command— 'Twould be too late, for Time and Eats Have ravaged Youth's wht a page, And the world would be no joy to me, In deereptud• and age Where rosily round my tempie crowned, And the locks were thin and grey. -The youngrru pride, would misdeeds, And turn my rain array, For love's adornment cannot. hide, Nor beautify decay — Then what matter , ' it, that songs of Love, mellow wine. and flowers, Are daily mine, when the Fuchs of Ttme Reap fast the golden flours! THE OUTCAST AND HER CHILD A Story of the Snow Storm "Every woe a tear oay Except a fallen eister's shame.' "A young female was found by the police, wandering through the streets during the height of the storm. She was bsre:ooted and had an in fant in her arms. She was talen to the station house " Such is a brief paragraph that appeared in the newspapers among the incidents oti thereoent se vere snow storm, and which compressed within four short lines a tale )f wretchedness and woe more substantial, and infinitely more terrible in its dreadful reality than the stories of the suffer ings of love lorri damsels, and the troubles of high born dames, with which he writers of ro mance are wont to excite the sensibilities of their readers. There are thousands who would shed tears, free as rain, over the fictitious sufferings of imaginary characters, who would peruse the paragraph quoted above, perhaps, without giving it a sympathetic pang for the barefoot mother and her half naked babe, wandering. chafed to the heart, through the deserted streets, while the L~wltngstormenveloping them in a snowy shroud as though making teem ready for the grave which they must soon have found had they not obtained shelter How bad the task to look baek at the history of the "young female . ' of the newspaper para graph How fondly she was loved by her mo ther, and how little did the doting parent—who anticipated her every wish, who Carefully shield ed her from pain and from harm, who watched her anxiously as she grew from prattling baby hood to girlishness, and who felt pride and love glowing in her heart as she saw the slender girl ripening into the blooming woman—how little did that doting mother dream of her pet Sunder ing through the streets—with the child of shame In her arms—through a furious winter storm, with no covering for her feet, and no roof for her head. In this instance it was the. "old tale so often told." The winning face and the bland smile, with the serpent under the mask—and when, by smile and deceit the victim was &ciliated to her ruin, and her weak heart was made captive, and her reputation stung to death, she was left to follow it to the grave alone or live on and bear her burthen of shame, and support her lit tle one as best she might. As usual there was scant charity for the fallen creature, and tne poor deceived and deserted dupe sought temporary relief fir her sorrows in strong drink Thi4 bad rec .urse at best, only plunged her still deeper int) the abyss of ruin. It would be a sad story—could its details be laid bare—the pregres. of that broken and ed woman from toe time she took her first step in her downward career, until toe police found her wandering aoout with an infant in her arms. Those who were in their own warm homes on that rough night and wb, took a shuddering glance through their lace curtains,at the furious storm without, can form but a fee)ole notion of the sufferings of the barefoot muster and her famishing child. Let those who have dreamed of flying half naked fruoi their blazing dwel I lop, and of saving nothing from the wreik of liuwe but the babe in their arms; let them bat imsgine that the flames had devoured up everything— home, friends, reputation, hop,—all—and if they will but fancy that the wintr) storm comes down fast and furious when ruin overtakes them, and they are tnrown desolate an I friendless into the streets, with their helpless babe—th ea they may conceive the enfferuage of this wretched out cast barefoot mother, with her shivering cuarge hugged eloee to her breast. There is certainly something radically wrong in the social system that suffers such things The eillian who accomplished ail this ruin es capes nnwhipt of justice, and pee through the world seeking new victims, while hi. dupe and his child are spurned by society, and are ouly rescued from death in one frikatful shape to find it perhaps in some other form equally terrible There are many sad stories of long suffering hidden in short paragraphs, and the newspaper reporter is apt to learn in his professional expe rience that each day there are scenes enacted in the great Drama of Real Life that for pathos and terror shame the creations of the twist successful writers of fiction. To our thinking the barefoot woman and her child in the streets, in such a storm as that of Saturday night, realise as pro found a depth of wretchedness and destitution as ever Dickens portrayed or Hood sang of —Phil ade/p/i DISGUSTING BARBARITY —The following par agraph from an English paper, received by the last steamer, gives a slight idea of one of the popular amusements of "memo England:—"lt i s not often that in the quiet little towp of Ac crington we have to record such disgusting pro ceedings as those which it is now our duty to lay before the public, and which occurred on Sunday last.. On that day, early in the forenoon, hun dreds of persons mightbe seen hastening towards a large common, caned Ilambleton, to witness a wrestling match between two young men—Rich ard Riley and James Hacking—the latter bet tiug 30s. to 20s. In due time all the prelimina ries were arranged, there being hundreds of spec tators. Hacking stripped naked,- with the ex ception of his stockings, and to work they went, pulling each other about as a tiger would his prey, for about an hour and five minutes, when they both gave up, neither being victorious.— Hacking's body presented a frightful spectacle; the blood was running down in several Owes, and in many others the flesh was torn from his bones, and;hung like meat on Butcher?' books. The crowd, while this barbarous work en going on, sOouted at timea.and urging on the, combat abut. Daring all the time this was going on, net a policeman was present; sad it does appearsome what strange that such disgusting seers as the above described can take place, and our police, of whom wo so much boast, not hear one word about it. After the wrestling was over, many of the crowd began playing at pitch and toss, and this Irak wee carried ea newly tLe'whale day, and cured so is the sasabirtsiali Jaariastia eery &today to a great extent." ;fi r ...,,, ..... .Alll~lej, =MEE B. F. ,:SLOAN, EDITOL NUMBER 37. Post office Department The Repast shows a nes macrame* of 862 Post (Mom during the year entilo,t 30ta of .tune! 18fife—the whole number of .ots*.s at abet tistiito being 24,410, and on dui Youth of Novenae's,. 25,270 Oa the 30th of .lane laet keiere were 7,033 mail routes, at tut estimated length of 277008 miles. The total annual uansporteitiaa of mails was 67,401.166 miles, coating Ci,845 0 . 288. Complred with the s -rv;ce o f the year,, previous, there is an increase of 8,867.025 miles of trensporistma, or of about 5} per aeon, and of $675,221 coat, or about 14 4 luo per cent. The increase by ralichei n ~, 3,483,132 miles; by modes not • 177 miles —while the transportato.o is as by 2,825,628 miles and by 1,333,656. This change moults mainly ti i. tho riliAung contracts in many of the !ilt ,,, ith-rn end Western States and Territcriee. O i the AO h r.f. June last there were in "Tl 5 r nts at it compensation of .8232,17( 1 65 0; 29 tocsin agents at 8195,826; and 981 ins,t m -siqic•srs at $100,471 05, making a lota of 83:.4 97u30.t0 be added to the wet ut, •144.-priatt-n. Ibis makes the total . t :4rri at year,- 35,824 ( ./30 30, p i luereas. ed to 86,.)00,0 11 0 by new ..vrvitle- ar.r! The cost of foreign mail 4'r x ni t included here, amounts to Toe Vatuialiteu states that on the 3 I ate on nonelwied contract with Ur Jaw.- r.l .:„ i ,uvey the mails from Cairo to S..w o.' au, „rad Lack la ily, he having full power .wh eLntraet on behalf of the otral Railroad, bus though the latter tuned ev rq •-xer• ou to complg with. their engagement, t L ft, to du so from the high price detountho , tae of the • boats on the line, and t!. • I tlte w ~ accordingly advertised for rele•*ir.:: The new distribution ' , lave been oous. pitted, and each, tlaarlbatiou (dice. has now id phabotical lists of all tie. c '.I4C/t.l in all this Slates, except Calitoru - a 1 t i' o- lance with the late act of Coo2J , ••• , • nii.a.uv•it have been :A:opted pa: is u • .ystem of registering valki Lt•ie. 'I , I. IL .J not been ,uffinieutly Log to form a Just estimate of truce f tho plan. The Postmaster has, how. ver lounl abundant proofs of its usefulness, Ind of the to.cuasity of bringing it to perfection. The expenditures of Ow r) 71r mcnt for the last fiscal year amount r :34:2, and the gross revenue derived fr , tii i• ~ . t.,;:f• (inland and foreign) are 56,612,136 1.;, K rich . ulaing the annual appropriat.lath: C,LaptIISILLIOU Of mail service to the the acts of 3d March, 1R49, au i 1•.551, amount in 51,342,136 13 Deiltrt z' he baLitire agaioAt the United States due to I.oretirn gmers, far postal ercattuts, front ch.: tiJove the actual gross r' venue of the Departiatnt t.,r :Le par ending 3Uth of June, 1..55, Isll. t, i 77 The gross revenue LI 1451. ;if r f.reign balanceii, amounted to c..tti '-16,h'.")1 91, - I , B lpag a difference in favor of Psi:) ~15:,18.519, 10 The excess of ,the expenditdr.; for 1'.t. , 05 u 114," 626,26 U 16. Tits excess is LsUrlt,u,s.,l partly to the increase in comp. na.Lti •o Postruasters and Clerks ut Office, and par*, t thr ;ncr(.a?e of expenditures for trangprrtati. n 4o the great extension of Railroad bevy ice. The condi. twit of the Department goes to show the Mee fixed by the act of 3,1 Match, 1.31, w,ti tut enut ble the I) , :partment to Ly its own re,ourcea Another eau..e of its exev4 of exp. o litote it attributed to the letters and doenmonts carried free of chargo for membors of isgre•>e ead others, and to the immo..tiae amount of printed matter conveyed at loot rates Tlic Po.vmaster Gtuerai thiuks tLat ultt-tion of fifty per ceut for advance payment u• az, wch ju-ritication. Ele a:so reusanuteuds that pre payment by stamp• he ervide c_mirilaory on 01 Itind.i matter "Pl^ xr-nd t dr- of the I kmpart me u t for 15:36 is PS LLI ted at i•10.1t99,024 and the means avaiiablof,r t to. 4ailio y. ar $13,010,- /573, leaving / oi.nehuey ot ,1!" . _‘,151. to be pro. vid , l for Reference is again male to the fs t that the* Collins line of steamers reeeive- fr.iru Grorern went ik.i.58.000 for temity six trip- whuts ties, British t:overnineot paid th Cunard ;Joe - 8466,,, 7uj tor fifty-ivy trip',, Hhii,u, iii ill- cpluion of the P ltinaster - tau at NI It• sures hive been reeen•l 2 • hrf rir. the 3iesienn Gov:eiiiiruerit r .p n the siijoet Of Lt Postal GlOVali Tht: 'li nlio i, s a. 4Dine length to the •I . s;uiri.cr of Greet, Britalu, dual i, ) ,1 Dug the tlenttriti.iti a f Di tr:•i, I.• f., r mis take", careii or T 1 ''2 l ,•••', -'• il cieipg It Of the wrong 4,tninitte , l soli I. e. ia, it to ap ply the remedy. Attempted Fraud oa the To- tat) Post Mot 11'e i publplhoit frtt . 'it's "lien Year, iu the iiriited a:es ' Ol e ," a r e . c , rd remark: tb...! L d, t.rud the Attieriiu Po+. it: Ti 11 , 1 y de vised contr.vaucts; c ci , e has urr ,, l in the To ronto Post ()thee duriti , 4 tie Itt.s , 6 w , biya whisk• malt• any of those m. 11, wile . 0! i,„ A y iuu4 man, tetupJran'y to the etch, was Lutrusted by hi., r tu I.i • • •riu..ry with the sum of 113(10, t. , •.) a Cr- litor in Brantford. The s-ow fight or nine days after received a letter wate'„ ported to COO. Lain the mousy, Wax, p,,,u iin•Le.Lti with SOON pieces ui blott&ug nape. • im u ly made complaint to the 1' ,u• ford, alai the matter was ultimo' r,` rr, I t Mr Dee, the inspec.or here The yotticz ruLn olloged that, in the presence of a eotun-ieb a, t,r enelesied the . money, and miiltsl the r- , t•• r • , T1 t‘p• 11th ofJatti nary, and nothing appetite', 1 rely t , make hits; depart from his stare r 41' ,, ting piper witi however, found to be marked er,ln mune " and it was ascertained that 'ire were period thus designated in the city in near coolie:ion' with the young man. The shops where he had bought his waferesud his envelopes were als ,, diseoL. NI, and the sr• Helen were found to corresputok, with th,sse ethich were employed f‘r the letter ilc do wed titat, the adireas an the outside, red to the individual in Brantford. was writte:l hy him, hut on seeing hint 4 ivrite the same name, the e.semb..' lance was striking. These ilouste easteinattona brought home the eharg, t ut tug taiata.. f the purloiner of the moneys t , . tins man, that he at last his gni' , --Wear* rather surprised to find that the fe I. , Tv 'old trot' be !welshed for Ili.= detinctneney; the post (AA authorities had no option but (4 , le Ilan go. The how are, however, sufficiently ‘%...1 he will be, in all prohabiley, ••• rely enough punished by loss of chara, r.. —W e .tirpnisgss Wane out of roT s Perii to the fe•lin.4s of his friradv, who hold a respectable estion in life. Ws are glad that the post office b, re itavu, by the prompt discovery at the offaidcr, LL La freed from ehe imputatoins whieti might otherwise have bee; east upon them THE BANK!, CALA'LLATIUNS.—PJetur Gree lej is stiffeniot, the backboue of Mr F, u• .n, of lik diana —who, gt seems, is tired C cuing lot , kßanki'—"lianks - --"Bauks." ikts Frieekial oays G) we tsar ,la,:atc s genefi r tioa to hate and resist the Slayer , wer. ?aide's" and courage! ' /fate! witerei HATE!!! fifteen &time *of eat haws! Doubtless, that is it—to mako thetieelli hea• the soeth--tawi thus, ol.iinoookory ) , 4ho South to hate the North.—.4l6. Atlas. eigsa 11 ' I)
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