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AUTHIJRVIe • •YRA( K 'So the pretty red petticoat has at length be. come fashionable, said Lieutenant Harry Stan' l o pe, SA , laying down the evening paper he hal been perusing over a cup of tea, and ad-,. dre , t , ing me—Prank Rutgers, his most intimate friend, who .it at hes elbow "Alt Rutgers, I could tell you a story of the risl petticoat in which I once gallantly figured— in short, a genuine little romance I wot of; in which your humble servant was here, while that little lady there--hut no matter about her, it is eliou g h that it would fairly beat all the .modern notel-, it well written out, and Set me down, not 01.11% .1 pliant coo of Mars and Neptune, but of datine cons herself Ali, Cl. tuence, What are you taw,hing there foe" mularasasog ose• refire ert•atitrc who sa. behind the tea-urn, while a -mile played about the corn e r. of the lieutenant's tw h—that is, all the mouth left visible by the j. r t la, k moustaches and vibe,- ' ker.- —Suet, muses- ben awl whi-knee si were the cut) 4(1411 xquisit, who deity promena ded ;treat: "flow what .o. you coloring -o violently for? You well make our friend think your iitt.itiand is going to re-late some ,capegrace •olt ti.uss of pee:4,1111o, iuntead of au rap-11l te i. i tl i) the mo s t gallant and handsomest officer enrolled in fTnele SJIII • r• lug honk--alit to ! WI- ' r unning 1.'44)7 and tr) laugh th, sit o autitul gilt with large Si..ht;ll luau A purpi. Mat:line:, and 1, 1 .1 i,, w ho m Lieut. Willi Stanhope called ' My frihia Harty .. IS Lome on 1 furlough ate ter a three yi..ers' cruise , stud is 'lain!), I could nut wonder at Ilse passionate devotion he watie fasted touards his le auteful young wife, whom he haul I.n.uglit 11 , ,Utt• at lb,. expiration el hi., pre. eious trip, and left these intervening years, in charge of his own parents and family, in the Quaker Vity which had given hem berth "I wish I could take her with we God know; I •hall he miserable and lont-Iy enou4h all these three years till I come back again, it life and health be spared me!" he said to me when he wrung my hand at parting. But the government vessel in which he was as officer, was no place for his delicately re ared young bride, and so with kisses, and lung lingering embraces, he bade her • choking good bye If there was one consoling thought in the ho. sow of that young sailor at the parting hour, it was that he had left his wife in the bosom of her own home, with a mother who would admit her among the children of her heart—with brothers and sisters who tenderly cherished is beautiful flower transplanted from sunnier leads Mrs. Stanhope did not go much into. society during her husband's absence, though his family mingled in the first circles of Philadelphia, and many invitations came to the young straueet, whose warm diasky,Spanish beauty attracted uni versal admiration Her heart followed her brave Harry overthe seas, and lingered Weide him all that long cruise. I - was a frequent visitor at the Staubepes, (people voted it because of Harry's handsome sister, Kate—but thrits not to the point resdee,) and being her husband's intimate friend, seen }• I I !It' 11, led IMRE stood in the same religion to Mrs. Lieetenaet Stanhope It was very pleasant to listen to her soft, sweet, broken English, with its pretty Spanish accent-- to wittiest, the eagerneas and patience with which she strove to acquire mar harsh language, for not a word of it did abe uiderstand when she mar ried Harry, she told me—te watch the pretty Butter of her lingers, spud the alternate play of red and white on ber seeks, when the foreign mail brought her eheekit, when the foreign mail brought her his letters;tand it was more !mantle ful still when, that longi three years' voyage ai ded, she sprang to the aims of the returned hues band, whom she loved With more than ordiatiq woman's devotion. 'Lieut. Stanhope was a lucky fellow to bring home that little Spanish beauty!' was the ire quest exclamation of his commit acquaintances; but I, who know something of .. their inner life, &effecting on his ardent, strong, deep nature coo waled beneath a mask of gay gelidity, and her trrnaparent and passionate love which so PIO every need of his soul, realized how perfeekesel their union EINIMMI L. I Low, Harry bnd never spoken much of Isis court• int %millet the pillar. , ....._ ship, save that Clements" was of noble family, s'lley • dreaming if day, liefibr; add a but en orphan, and had been educated in a con. woke, a '' sonle one ta p'use on' the insider. vent. How or where they had first met, 3 tad It .. '', it wit' Aatio)l6. —' ' "'• ' never known, but as he spoke thee, lestgliiaglY, "Ran=overtake ber-tell bier-=t' tui a inane of that adventure in which he had borne the- curv i ng a b o ut th e hey' ' estiseifil Na t lik e iiht the character of hero, while Clemency rant hilashiall to my senses; "Antonin, where is the Convent from the puha., I felt very certain that Itiest. g e e M o i le r I ne t t ed abruptly ; •A f lea Stanhope was about imparting to lust tionfeeshm 'lt ie nu the south side of the eityvinen wills. du cam-. ! MI the suburbs. , There are thiekgroketrof blivis "Fruit, I believe I have hitherto related!to l e l e eely,,f ru ni Renee. th e me w A we , it et e h t its you every particular of - threeyeire' Or Ipli . - i day.'s Would' fthweemulthwisondieted along the Levant save one," eail ; ...ihat theiaturatt twat, wheeling hie tarnekrair nearer dal ' • isim kily wig‘hatildig" after rialliwg for a acrwarst tagawiwwa gild' mil nevem., 11 ~ . ,..i t Avg .sift lanis , ir4q, r. Jr. rAmtar, • g i• L I , • •DiLaIDI. MINI PROCTOR. • P_ It aaa •reolog In lab Autumn, And the guilty wind blew chilli : Autumn leaves were haling round we. And the red mu lit the tan. "Ix and-twenty years are mouthed Sitars then— lam old and grey— / Ia i I never told to mortal what I Gaw until this day as. waled by the fire,. • in her arm' the held - IcAehild, hisi•rlng halt word'p earreatlng, And then, iooltut np, isailed• ou him Who ?food beside her— Oh! the biter truth Inv. told, - In her look of trustlog looduelw I had Wen the laok of old Hitter leans that tlewelate moment Dater, hater tear* we wept, We three broken hearts together, While the baby nulled and slept Tears atone—DO W 0 pall Were MIA , . Till he—till her husband .1.1 That WY huy tl had forgotten The poor bad ,) that be was dead Theo at Last I mit; and, turning . , Wrung h 4 hand bat made no sign, And I stooped and kissed her forehead (Inc. more as If she were Nothing of farewell I uttered, ID broken words to pray That God in His great lore would bit.. her Then in 'ileac.. passed awn) Over the !treat reettees oar Fin a s-anti-twenty years I room tll my comrade,, old and wAlef, li• gone tacit to die at home liome•iv., I Ault reach a Ita,ca, I, t..n, Khali reach home and mid I shall hod h:.r waihnir far tor With our baby um her breast. tray, " ..ouldn't wonder if I'd repeated 'eat a half . .zen times or moree•-•for a sailor naturally ge in the babit of "pluming long yahoo Frank, t. Pm very confident no one outside my camel family knows ray of the eireumetanoter ocomeotel . / ed with my winning little Oleesenoe---beavenl bless her 'Well you see my dear fellow our cruise was almost up—within a Month or so---and l'd bee gun to long for my own shores again. We'd been rather idle latterly—government baldness all exeente.l, anti waiting the despatches fbr nor return. Within the few months we'd put into several ports in the Mediterranean, laid np at Marseilles, till I. know every book and turn in test rich old city—et Palermo, where oar men drank *Bien wines and threw coin to the dirty Lstzaroei—and, in Italian cities where the car uival frolics reigned in their wildest license. But 1 bad wearied of all—the wines of the vintage; the revellers, and of the eternal calm of the blue Mediterranean—and 'mitten?? began to long for shipboard again, and the wild tossing waves of the Atlantic. At length all bands on board, our good sb4l 'bore westward, and pass. mg through the Gibraltar Straits, we pliantly rode into the harbor of Cadiz ; whore our captain furled her Rails for a month's stay ere we came home "I do not wonderthat Byron wrote in raptures of 'Fair Cadiz, rising o'er the dark blue sea!" for to me, this soft clime was delicious---a very rar adise of romance add enjoyment—its very afr seemed fragrance—its skies a heaven, and I puss. ed the days in gazing from the windows of Any, lodging', or strolling through the streets and, market places, noting the picturesque costume of its dwellers, or the coquettish grace in which the beautiful donnas ware their =tulles, and "dens ted their folds to depplay to Advantage their per. feet forms, and dusky Andalneian eyes. There was a tincture of sadness too, in my mut sings 'ln this effenainate, voluptuous, but beetle Will southland; oppression bad set her foot, and a bigoted religion held sway. Here the tawny Moor had once conquered; here the Alliambris lies in ruins; here it feeble queen rules a feeble realm; the glory and pomp of old Spain will re turn no more. Such reVeaiions were mine in my dreamy hours —and who could help dreaming in Cadix?—but when strolling through the streets and public places with my brothet officers, I had little care or leisure for moralizing on the past. Besides, I had latterly found a new vein for my idle thoughts On Sunday I went to the Church San—, le witness high mass; but nee i (her curling incense wreath, or grand 'Fe Deum, neither arched dome or image of Saint or Virgin, fixed my wandering eye or ear like the soft, dark eyes and sweet clear responses of a nun kneeling in the train of sisters from the Convent San Mir tie in the body of the Church. "Who is she" I asked of a young lad whom I had often rewarded liberally for going errands in the city, denoting by a glance the subject of my inviry Aotonio's dreamy eyes brightened. lie re • plied in a rapid whisper— "Ah, senor 'nestle the betantifal sister or Saw Marie, the Donna Aireiemeini, daughter of old Jose Arcsemena, the wine merchant, who died last year, leaving a royal frtrtunc, which I think our fl a i l at.,,atier Church's: month waters for," and benhrugged his shoulders expressively "Whit do you Mean?" I asked, "do they force her to l'ecotte a pun against her will?" "1 -ay nothing--bnly the donna's guardian is Father Niartih.'z yonder, the prelate, and when .he rah, the v.'d, the f` , ‘tivent of Sin Marie is a va.t (lea; rich. i " And with tii, 'thef' shru,:, Ant iui,, tn .,,,d seat', as if ieatfit! of further quest inisitg Th , To li, ow era in it- _ l l'lo. , t -ti re- 'h. , oigan .-i isi.id I,s d. up, si peal,: - IL enatitrug of pi 8 t sta. .at, d rill from the altar, and ektirh , of . wl it,- ineeti•k ro-,• like t . ,1,11 erntb burning bra ziers---bu; 1 •i,!!, soc th.. feint r,...' tin' l'i 4 nal naive-eheek, the dr,o - •piii- 1111-;lririgiinz a pair of laugui.-1,,b.:, aii...4, i 4,-. 1 .- d ey e ., • A k,„ , h ug horn "IO Ifi. 6 te ) .. tp.• ion011 i • t , I Ihs. D 011..., itod hard the word, -I.f -1,,- take , the veil, the Convent of Fatild,4- 1 le heeotur , a vast deal richer!' iia, is not confirmed—rile is but a novice among riles,. living. breathing petrification,-:--she is young .liol lot., ly, and p-rthips the ~ioi. yr II designing priest I will s ide h e r! Was m y ue .gt thong,hl, and with pleasure,,l saw that her long brained hair had not : evil Out like her rintipau ion+, which proved the truth' of uiy suppolition - I strew nearer t hespot wil t re she knelt Some body has Said, that a fixed Laze will magnetical ly attract snot bet's cud i resolved to try it IV :,lid by I was pleased to Elyse a gentle gut* of the,downesst ltd,.; and inue, 4 omi o us o f my gaze , she raked her own ey.s to wine. In an instant 144 fell, but not tilt I had satisfied mylielT of their depth and dusky beauty—and fannira alee that I read therein hipilennilebti sad sorrow 'lt is (lint what Antonio hinted, I mentally exclaimed, 'her youth will lead her fortune auto the snare of these covetous priests.' I pitied leer—you smile Rutgers—l know it is said thm. 'pity is akin to love' Well I must confess ti ysetf uo wiser than the rest of poor hus 173/41 nature—And who wouldn't have become en snared by Cletuvoce's eyes? — 1 fell to musing how I Might become her des liverer; a hundred plans presented themselves in as many consecutive seconds, all very romantic, but none very feasible. But at least I might inform her that a 'friend tree nigh; certainly that was very pardonable as well as philanthropic, and hastily tearing& Alp from a letter envelope in nay pocket, I penciled in Spanish— , 'Would you by free? I am a friend, and wilt save yon!' then dropped it with apparent care lesicess by bee side. Lr saw her glance furtively, then noted her white hand laid upon it till she transferred the slip to the leaves of her breviary; and presently, while the mingled voices of the nuns read their responses, I felt sure she was perusing my mes a age Again, first looking cautiously around, the up turned glatice sought mine, and was pleased to 'meet a Hushed, grateful look, while the folds of the grey mantle over bet boom, rose and feittit pidly with her respirations. Ab! she 'had understood and appreciated me Again her eyes threw a brief, rapid, searching glance over my countenance, it if to question lay 'faith I think-the scrutiny must have pleased her, for she slightly smiled , and 1 Could have sworn I saw a diamond teardrdp do lid breviary. The anthem closed, the orgaa eeased,vbanting a nd prayers were over; the coquettish and grace . fel Spanish ladies who had carried nu 4111446 frri - title e behlUd their face; fiat ie#4' like a iigioa seen le bile of 4 07 re6ns vanished down the aisle, lid I way lefri. ERIE, SATURDAY -MOOS, _ ..- et 60 A YEAR, ILADVANCE. I‘,SEnEntilltiplM •ar A "Pshan, uonesense, lad! Take this and tatte4 we here uezt Sunday,' !said thrusting a gold coin into his band: ' The bny NOM frith an intet , ipti glance, s shrewd mixtute lidtulug ktgar ca firrly clutched thegidd;doW. Act Mit with protowaqi bow, sae diwtitpemak +When tats oportuoiay itemwo,,Awimaio will be of wales" I *aid. • • Daring the following week bottled liks• spirit in the vicinity of the Convent Ban Marie Every tower and tntwet of Alia gel aloottAas familiar; I know at whet hour ejtery day, cha pel bell rang for teat*, end.weepersoietk hineled my beautiful prisoner )ineelieg wigwag thoaq calm hooded, palefaced woman. /Anew when. Father Martinessiisitiai the einusaut, and imagie• ed his arguntems an a conversationa with bee whose gold he covete - d in enrich the greedy Moth er Church. I Apesp, boars its counting windows and gates, and inhw exactly the area of the con. vent grouitds, and I sew 11,00:e a mass of ,gr4eu alongfoliage trailed over the aPuthern wall, be tween which and the oboe grove, wheelie I took observations, intervened. loaf, flat i grassy which I crossed once or twice to teat Ole sire Deb of that wall-ot solid masonry, some twelve feet in height., But never during this week of watobing, did I catch a glimpse of the train of nuns leaving the convent; hence on Sunday, when Antonio pre' mined she would agaiu visit the Church, Y was eagerly awaiting. It came; and again in my old station behind the pillar, while th e guttering of fans, the rust:- ling of bilks, and daintiest perfumes filled the air, --1 awaited the nuns of San Maria. They tiled past me at last—,—an4 she was there, and again knelt otithe stone Boor, and again ut tered prayers and Are Afarias. ' Once I caught bee eye, and a rush of rich blood broke up the pallor of a cheek I* fancied bad grown thinner eincii I raw her lust when she knew I was thereleside her. But again she dropped her gaze. This time I expected some message—"-how, I scarcely knew—but I trusted to woman's inventive ',powers to ascertain and point out the method i 4 which I might put into execution my offers of service. But the long service, pawed—and never had prayer or•reaponae seemed so tedious as then— and the Lady Superior gave the signal for her train to depart; still no meriaagel—lnvoluntarii ly I drew closer to my beautiful nun; and when sht, passed me, making a feint of adjusting her mantle, I saw her glance rapidly down at my feet, and then beheld what seemed a bit of color• ed rilk lying there. This you may be sure, readily oecured; and when the church was desert ed, withdrew into a niche beneath the elevated statue of a saint, and unfolding the silk, drew from thence a slip of folded paper - In the prat delicate and flowing chirography I read, "You are an American—a foreigner—hut I have studied your face, and read your houeety in your eyes. The Virgil" will bless you for your kindness to the oppressed. I ant watched; but come to the outside eonvnt wall under ilia vines, and 1 will try to woes yam ~.Assieueatinausikrone eve. Iteiberriber ' There ea, no signature. You rattle, Rutgers, but. 1 pressed ray lips where the name ul 'Cie , meneo' slaould have been- . . ..1)0 ale Aiiiii.rouitaii .at Wien' lett:th?" buy voice beside mu. "What—Antonia! Yon heti? 06,1 bail for getivu 'hat I biel.• you tuect Wc," I ataninorraol. "Sot scot arc a leitil(ul fellow, aud I must re ward and tht4 time 1 slim .1u golden oisza ifini RI- baud -Ant..too, did )..0 evt r heat of uu..% .fiventv," ••The w:dr, &Ili Mel, 111 Iroong :ui , i'lti tip and F ttitcr Martiu.z and the Abbess urn strict 1..i4V. rill, Mid 1.11 *' 6llll will bit) ~tout lie said, glao'iug ri,un.l as if pUTV tie %WO SiOile Donna Arrisemeria is to lake ilia veil itch Buuday." be added in r whimper A would y.. 0 he. wilting to,duaopt;biug assist in her escaper" I said, 'caching hid "Antonin lay aiek tam, year—rock sad atar''', l ing; th.Lbeautiful Donna broughs hhn food ai• medieinettill he grew wail once mere. I would work three handl; to tho bone f•tr her-1•would plunge this," drawing a email attletto from bin bolgom, "into the blank tenet of Father Martinet,. Wb'Pn my poor mother lay dying, he would nos b.. said be would riot abritrea beggar—he Atitily Laughed at me. I hate and a dark e;prtstoqu stole over the laird beautiful features. "Dui, to sago alio la outiful Douuu, I wvulil du tibia- r 1 swear ,it!" and he kulacii hie small am. I VMS illafforige4,l, at the depiti ut . intssium ' R a k ich boueotb this etuoutii hosed Spribieb buy's imicileut exterior. . I shall uut rant you Lo kill the pit*: I would nuly wake waiters wurse. Wi.,niust, devise* some other, esti more cautious me t had; sod you can be useful. But. yam are not deceiving me, Antouior aniti looktai sternly into big face Again kw prettied hilt lipi to the crucifix; and I knew it wee enough "To•morresr, when tis , evetting chimes ring, let me find you on these chore+ steps, Antonio " "Si senior.'" and lifting his ragged eap with native grace, the boy glided a i rily._ "I theinght the morrow's sun would never bend hie bead toward the western Atiaiitie Stave; but at length the wearisome hours went by, and seven o'eloet, as tolled by ail theelocka in Can, and my pla repe ater icy vest pocks\ found Me lurking steail beneath that portion of the *invent Wang where 'I bad epee the offer topßing f o li ag e. No!, looking upward Kuno twelve ' Bfto n a feet, I 'beheld a t rosail lime tree, spparei4 ly poshipg ire Opts* bratilahos - from between Acme crevieee in the summit of the wall, sod round it twining the linguist:it foliage of it grape vino—its aphid, curling tendrilis etnbrieing the tree, which bad grown tbiee or fours feat' above the wall, then waving and floating from he top most bough to and' 'fro in thirdelicitins 'evening air. " This ib the plane. I wonder if' that limb keg grows nj fr:3lw the inside Of the wall, orla it root in same egrili on the "suminit r tho't, straining my gapo,,b, distioguisb the stem of the tree from 4wirolins O*U of felptwl why,kigimpt 411 me this I teon have thrown ups, rope laokisi, th,td_ia erbitt Antonio, meant, when he said, 's•golden Qua would by many stout rope, I, aol.loquized, while stand is& lbw beneath the garden wall in the twi light. ^=• "What if that old Abner or the flesenowl: Prolate himself should get wind of :this affair, aid ass npZiemenes in the deepsatadi of yew; der gray Ow building," mould- oat kelri, aslitsrogrelf”-aodi hassers, 1 tell relay Wooi4 boils& thee pretty-licitly. , as I moot* them welt• iwg inientes whisk seemed hoursom+stilt she sevetit the troth tmilopit 'end heOrijiliikteg 44, .Ike 441 4 110,„kliikeurifir Li m p prueonan.aativais dieir-oorstifty, or iisto l : *e wed betrayed ideei *bee -tine startteo l bt:ii .48 . *8 KW( iyalt*ver .le , 7 4.jtipg** • 40 11 1** 44 /uar• Woking tip Lam dm Nam , stittriiervieringiod dmeted- histirthiegrn 'ViriOn l P 14 41 4 4 0 9 1 k It'Ok 4FibfilliArpf ' - 14 1 fact, alai era et - 444 framed sgronor t rrei ripe tern she I le,ll Ifref * I tem toiseig.like is) riiist44sar soWileas Ailiose*Ahrobs 14#,Vie • • • • • 101 k .• ES= Ol== stesar, she is. in the genies below.Aint she is very **t r ead dare say will sot hew met but she is saspisions.• .1.11114 long time ere I , amid prwreade-bee to let , me climb ap bere,Jor grapes .' and a little silvery laugh fleated-dows, to me from the wall. - Bat be patissil 1 have linty tlese—it was hard welt my stall. have !edited to be miming , hoe in the savviest. Listen, Beier 'Amens= i • mina WWI you 'wholly. They ktlep'hieliesulagahnua my 11if-- they would make Set sistertfgmt - Marte, where I b a t entered a aehaler. Mother Berths and Path/ Arotetnona ocettt my golditirthe . ebuteh: The Radre ft my giutedlip ; tmilibile my' 01/13 poor Titlier la'y 4u%; he stVerulo 61W told me enter the convent; but m parent, though good Cetliolic, loved his child, amid bade Me ac of my own. mind. "But the padre has gives me no peece. At fist lie.epoke in gentle words p and b ‘ r agO t to mg Mother Berths, the sipetits 00).maed me and called me 'dear daughter,' 1 14,104€ 10 f the Mace ind rest poor monsters foligoUn. the began of . the church—then bade ine,comailisb4* as $ pa* pil. I came; for a time she was kind—and al/ stewed au hetiutiful sad calm that, in my lone livens, I entered the novitiate warm "But sh,-semor, it wu a terrible mistake 1— Tao late when I east their cruelty and staked , nese, tri:enTwonld bias gone bask they would not let tn.. They keep me elesely—l-sts a eras. otter ! in another week• they will eat off my tresses and bind my bead with the fatal veil.— They will bury mo here---a and of Saw Marie I' and I beards quick sob from the vines. '• 'Clemente—sister Clemenee—come dowel Thou art very long in gathering grapes. What art thou reaching so tar otret the wall for ? I heard a gruff voice on the other side of the wall to the entreat garden ' "'Sister Agatha gepfa iinpaLleut I' said the girl softly, dropping down two or three tempt , lug clusters of grapes to her 'She will silect something and betray me. Senor American, cannot you save me ?' she exclaimed, in accents whose patios thrilled me, glancing down with eye* which I weld have sworn were filled with "'By heaves, I will I answered. impetuous ly. 'Cut yourself down into my arm. Why did you not tail me to bring rope ladder ? could have slrown it up sad resumed you. But atey---don4 jump 1 the fall mould Miura you ; besides that prating old nun would straightway reveal all ' "'Sister, oomo down I Of a rally, L believe thou art bolding converse with some one Wan. Crime down directly, or I will alarm Mother Ber tha !' I heard again in tbp gruff seeesta of Sin ter Agatha " must go ! she suspects !' exclaimed Clem enee, in a clear, sad whisper. " Agatha, here . are thirlirrgeat and most deliciods grapes !' and she again threw down several dusters. 'You arc foolish, Agatha!' she said, loudly to the nun below. 'Let nie'gatber, some more—you 'are fond of grapek Agatha!' then, eqollllii awdm to the walt.abe Wild rapidly; dark not Roger: Y bare a plan—lf it faits, the rirgin protect me ! Got two flet.t and watch at to-morrow's sunset from the grove 'of olives yonder. Do nut come beneath the eon' Trot walls—somebody might suspect you. 'if I can steal out, I will climb the wall, and then you conkl.come with your ropes and save " 'But I ouuld n of sea you from that distance. can barely distinguitih the grape foliage d . You must let we come beneath the wall said. No P io lre Martinez is roving everywhetri, and might see you. Two borsealusder tie eons vin, nt wall would excini his suspicious. You most nos rimier. , trop the olives till I am here. I will give you a token-1 will wear e” uutu d e .,l it bright .carlet robe, under my nun's drew", and hetray it to yotit gaze 'from *wont the green -- You will know then that I ens ' is .01.tneuoo, not ilfogher nantannit The gathil will bollooked Coniedorn !' • “ it Ise slowest, Agatbs r shouted ammo& 'if possible, to Morrow eve et this.beter— aot to-morrow, may nigbrothat I ant dot sittabed•—• But perbaps you' esaastumn• titetir *be whiaJ pered rapidly. 'v AII 'days ire dike to me till yo are eefe..- r will bias tie olive grove every eight, till yeti . ate? pig oat 4roto the wall. Be pradest--- feiga striae obedient* to the padre's wishes—tad Irma sr me , to save you Now, *dim I sod go I ssid,.ittrgetiogi all 1 had \turd the last ramie of the tfidhige, folkowedtby the graftwaprituaada of Neter Agatha,- misled with; the ‘aoothisig so.; cents of the besatifal Oteasatto. , llTtihn , t visa tend letenreiY , bsek.On thank, by thelight tif **just rising Moon, ter .fiad As• tot& reaitiog toe-on the aura stepi, remlynad esigpr.en Amite my ectitemphtemi • adinetitarty for "tie assets" , night, andcyaite dblighted with.;his c o mmission ( to .proeum 4wo las 4 berme. . • . ~A t seven, next night, sceompanied by- the' feithfalboy, I Logi; up, my station t the olive grove i - with 'gale tat npon4e . iffitaitt. eon vent nan, `eager for tie Griot finf,lei of (14E14 drapprx trpist among the vine. leaves. '134 1 was damite4 p aieappgit tweist.-410,17 . the lint. I set lii4:l--:vainlY .I . strained my , glissr.liti nun was them! . , " ITiart licit , ,I iilowly"rodc bast to the city ; Antonio . , in theme wood, followie ' 'II man the ~pitilre to iiil,'ll'lka 4iteied holo . iik 1491tetir thakeyer,.Be . wfc sold thilakwit hie ,eel*, PleIA alin'gr!M 1(e la, ,; " 4 1r i4 14 ,8 , hie 160 4 ,c6O . boalr . , 41 No, yee , . meet' not pooiai4 WI, Uiagiot I firmly replied ; for I saw that: the boy% hatred' was grwwillW6l44o h.tleep seat .smitimentishre. veep., -.fit may. he Ibis, ahareostki, oat, get immy from OM rreoisis.veigmft' !: A i: ~ . - +Ma IlkOrrOr l eJ *tor 4tel. Milli the. fliorthwee, iF few etweeeestiwe aighta, Stud esostait .1a the alietitwele—aq Willivoimi I khaki holignal., 0499 or talioa A. Wattld lhank.reeteradillose , be mak : Q. ,wel/ o iwol. sot ,tha.eoios 9E :vendetta weataraitted me ; Awed toed walk.. foe °atom. she 99090 bpi, I eaw.theimtres walking slowly, aad rather eiwiteike :it oust be tion‘aseed-I-fee this bay, faibee e like- : ether , of his „frateniity, wet oily sod : thwie es well ea gosilyr—twalking slowly mithant the walla., i „ ...., "Her almost. died ed ; '„, seamy sea, - whom they tad . iwarwst Currents .. low her and ,weepogks sat bar! • to R ceawasplaw takias slash:of my brave awtaac and manning the, gestalt, or natittagjeto tita-ehareb awl 9.9- citing heitoib..einiimek Om of theiapproseb.i lag ceremonial of the Sabbath. n'Thatti woe''' b e at one kjefoore -• th e gatittiday betire 'the rd Etor k e_ c _Witl4o firthethnirt Armid liad'hnitrilifVotehfilf is thigh %hit firkin ' ' lcriakii*thh . tell i - V l L l thirrigtila rem , ~ 'i ., ~ trgrowstif tiro& ( !)401 -7 1a :. ' . , ..•I' , ` . . - iebartiorrede l hie wRIM - ,' • ,', • - it'tiejhhOlFililehltikale` ' .... 1 . ( ti o t i'"' ~ - altiote'lliateck4 t ifi ihttitet , 4 , 4 riae *. • serrier ,nt • i • Tit . _ - • li WhildenTjt it ' 814 - 41:, eh 'I ili ' f' ::,• l h Nithilift j thhitibho ~. '_, . ` !WOW Alkal i I Sfyittilakee i 7 ..Y. r liii?lii Vi Im p' : 4laretrati. • '4'r - • . ,1. ~ tii t vriet-•-, : .11 . , --, ," •.‘ i. A , 1 . . ,eitt -.. -11 fri tit. • 9,#liiiiw ar $ , .4r , ~., 7 ''' • lt , 1 141 114 du_ 72 t • . 1 , :a ::;.,.., , . •••:i 41 . 16 1 • ..,s I t % g r ...r,...,4%,,,,._. .iti „ - - ;4; :=.,:.''- •-i- r "Come I . *.* .`- ' -7 ". •.:. ' eiiiiteii OK* IMMO =RIM IMEIMEME o- .. .:-# of Olosoooo'o mad robs I Jo , u moo iaer r sad Maki* sry spun into• lorbonsis baka I , dashed forward, while- Astoria fellsowitishilie the little Bposioirjoono I,bodproeumilho.43low " 'Clau you tide ft. I allted,`ls illre,lllllldBllllll , er teeeived the girl from the, rap. ladder hoe my arum, aid ' threw over her ono robe, from whit% the long gay searletfepe, ;toy own broadelottinmelling cloak, iltlf lifted berm the i on i c L ; 'Si Beiier. 4 T isetto oftettihen I went to dew amopithe weary try god, mothor, Iliad . trill Protect me, 3Ve munt,, go to %MTh,. &per. Mier ' yard, wig appeal hi, marstile:' 9 1 •0toiringa kin up , p.ALlPaips W l4O imilf.o to japing a kiee tgnion Ate mina's lily hand, bade the boy kt , lbateiti. . "figriegi4y, gdemenoe informed PlOket ineW Apilla bed bees seriously ill agar Agee the atighti of ler lingering in the garden, and upon how had (alien the talk of miniatesing to sitcsiek mnref Shim smadming itnryampe law Pret#L "Mesa acre/ she said, 'I wee mutt _Mt* the rdeetory to briag a welling &aught; sad with s desperate- remits, bad made her egress into the :garden, and appeared epos the wall. *They will miss me mem-they have missed me ere vow; they4will take me 'back to tile hotel eon vent ! Let ye Tide fester, Benny Amertesno r " But menet was in vsin; all - ueeleealy Mother Bekha Called 'Sister Clemente through. out the isinveut Ban Marie's otiablers, sod' the holy padre'fained and snore, for aught rknow, in choice satin'; Chimenee tint I were cantering gaily away' inward Seville. "And thieif,' waiting till she had wept away her tears upon the kind boebm of her sympathis. log foster mother, and listened . to the indignant resolves- of dame Dor's five brave sou, who . swore to administer suinuoiry punishment of the Avaricious _priest ,Martioes—tbere, when all was over, and Cleuietri bei t ought the tpliona,Aplim, imitio' to ustuo,lits reward, yen semi be sure she not foresee Ito) somenhut exacting return : which, looking deep into her tearful eyea—l dared to urge. "Nast dy, wbilo the ceremonial of taking the veil wie sot perforated by Sister Clemonce in the church Ban Marie, Cadis, the beautiful Spanish girl . did asks apon.itorsoU Other ElOl6 congenial gown, there is Sevilla, sad when a freak , afterward, .Lientatiant Harry iletaatimpe trai.tbe dock of the Mississippi oa his lomeward pas , Ism Clemence Stantbops sat below in bet cab. ia, his bride. "I forgot to my that Clemente displayed to me, the other day, the red robo that served as a signal from the 4 wall of the convent gardeo--a jape, I believe she says it is—loall it a Sconurr Prrrtooo? r.=-4tm. Utifon. A TwActicimiloatt.i-h--"QUizzing" is emphat ically a modern lurtitutftin. We believe the an thetas bad'no Miss of it. It was reserved for a litter age to enjdy the exqubdtif patitline of leads ins people as lay for amusement; of sending c)notrywen lout, a bookstore to buy.shoes, orinto & lawyer's - offieC t for soap; of milting April fools; of frightening timid people with fictitious tales of ill luck ; and, of, exciting false hopes for the sake of enjoying their disappoiptuient. Unhappy anMents I They knew a good many things, buf this de4otable pastime was not then invented. It was hidden from their vision, likg steamboa4, railroads, the press, the telegraph, and Charles Lamb's rout pig- Ariatophanea was witty,- and Ciotti could even perpetrate a pas, but the 'gels' was a department of wit which they bad no coneeption, Let us tionipas slyest e them. And yet gnawing ba sometime awkward re. salts. ; Every good•tbiog humus attoodatit evii, sod fm of this. Timwo are dangers sooompaoy lag it, that they whoespire leenjoy the uospeek. gbh, pleasure of enjoying the trigideniog, de otivieg, or disappointing of their fellow area. tam, instead , 6f wore old faebioted and wore boilable yahoo,- meet make op their minds to de so at anisewriek.i h eimit'of this sort, whieb oo eorred of bra on the Peel& aoast, is thus related by a Oalifortiii paper: "Two - of did' Regis 'River Indian Clark a fatter IlltrObtl a were stitift chitin from 'Fort' Van, comer, W. ?., to Sad Fraideeo, by the "steartaVt Columbia. - Chi their pitutsig temp. thaiiivr sot were ihtbriiied by some &the foolishliassea gets' that' tbe'l , 'itete Oleg 'to halitig. The savages* rel6lrefrto peYI tifyir desrty; so, iti the dkad o ifeit • 00 110 w . . !Wools the pmseueri wore 41 holm these Wools strait:6lly rise, and steitlibg Iron seam_ of lbs sl um beriug mds revolved ~toiv ly tsommom4 as isdissamaissie imesmiguawd daintier Soiewirebe- people wroited them:• panic ogee*: stl4lod . from Atrteb *lpftri.ol',Bl pistol shop, sod .thimosided, beeimie panic @meek. • The lightsiware mg eat, and an itolOsdribitili see* 11) jinwed. poi. rearm wai, 41.,34 4..444. three athnie 14111 elk, one woman being. bedlytiojored. The eta OM'S of 0,9 holt after A deiporsaseinkitgle..,samisi4l aft }tostpli. jos and ciatarpowariog the -ramoseiv, Tboy were both avoided, one bribe* rev serretely.ui--- .Ifaile I minute.' ,„ IM , 7 - 7 ---,----, ,--r,-.,. iii-,-- 0 • i e „„ t.. 1 woo Wel", tked ketoof r o m the awe of the graiwitweit , ereoirstaii." , Did her We regref 110 I #ISS, to. 104'0#,_ en;f one tole lived to a tow_ airewite- radioed kem , agliow,. to preemie ""his ,growi a reoe Datil' 4 1)7 . whilst' we Itesullie id ` mu st )!!, frtittortt, ocetutitole of the earrior•of:trii . liwyttti Ai oritiliiit 6esh, is eotiaegeteaes 'cif4maitirmarlketwor shoes too tight. We have Mows eidetiff krettosietiog sniferiox kitting fkeietkitailkilei ' ' ' . till" het weelwe'llide dotes focilitlif .‘ . tli *mfr . : t%y gem' ohlii *if `ed . ' 4; 4 : . • t'llid he 7 ioth'imM No m% ' ',-; sipiritow. 1 isto the flesh : - Noir . - iillit'dillt. au !,,I : i 4:00. o?t, sat,p _ .A .,: _ mower of the 0 Al la Wank, . , - 57: 7 7) :. . ML - 0111 a 110011 WA. isatita,,mp . T. 770(. 4. q ii s t; sad koep i that soteliAtim e eurect, f orhieh will oillooMmoo:ibo,w4,. . e APg clagiat. Po pbikeopil,oritho ffill.d, iii 0 1 4 oa No - * aka Obi *rob, atyLltstwrolly Our* 1 the meow. of gee asti r sad ateltewthe omega 1 taro op lowed of d0w0..-N. Y. Tribune.- . A ROMANTIC , MANNIAmi.--giiila wroisastio weddiagotook: place at llfassawr,h4 is this maw -411144 111M 3 4 10 11- . .Tha voila, NNT .14 INNNA44 Calibrate% who left his wife fecal, aweillerowe bled Ghent , ealsaleses lig% awl the heitisolle wife that IllailMA: 1 80211 - tine after , :hw maw* Oldiferwia•-wiewror , amore—Thia'will).lool6oll Mas. ids •litatitt ' rifled' et "thrialows ihtiMAlA' iireairliikoften g but thstlii IMP iftsadelFeilintell! ) 1h es this; with dal lattiat'at:Othilk isiwabtakisairdie stowa # v At :-.-. .. !;.1%:. , XV 1 ..111 1 .4'. '+, La - j},..1 . .. A., , i - ,-.11 ilrfar l alol o4 ' 24/011" *4ll4l:lol,lterAtiatt= ed., a 54.41.44, ..: . ' Ait Wif Ai *Oa ag**Mr; 'r; lilt . s auafps es r a ag arum, twthawitar fowthaweesatiati: —rim, Wiry ; ink AM ITN psissO r klmoslisilai&wthwitirtswiiir 44hgatossii I I loult,tiesitrehmiissinas *sit beitsi low Aviguil 1 ion ( Writ) •fewrad. '3 6 Lfitii 4 , i , - , tua tort - 24 ) 0i g 01611 4 0 1" tai 11eiN9 14 11.6 1111".44. Mawr Gerrit b still - 14 =I S-o IA . 0 0.• (- 4,1 IA IQAljll#l79lLii MEE= iIEI Mims 4464 *kat to Portland. fiw~ tea. =c . "Portland is the ellAtedest place I ikeet seed. I was doeit,thetwhellB,. to see 0(0 ley - r to the Legishitoor, end seek a that sit Pi L aid.7o l paver ?wed tell on. Did I aver tall lee sheet the ketoses' serape I Led ?" We watered in the negetivei intone resumed; "Will, Ird bi n down there two or three thipt; poisl,nt in every hole, an` - tho't lewd every. titl i ng tliar was 14) be seen. But one day towanl'a eundown, I was goite by a . shop in Middle street that looked .wonderfully slick—there was ilr kinds of candy ars' pepperminta s ee' What wheat the windows. An' diet:t i ther wai signs with gold, letters Aso to, them,roun4,.the dour, tpb lie' hole they sold 'Heed, en; Ice Cream dtar. Says Ito myself, 1 have hewn a good deal about this 'ere ice. cream, an now if I don't see . sake{ they'it wad., oi. So puts my band iekt my pookets o und Walked in kinder careless, a& say. to a ehap,etandis' behind the counter, “Flo you keep nay iee.entam here?" "Yee, air," says he, "how nittehlt you haver' I eoup.idered a utinit, says 1, "A plot, sir." The young teller's face swelled, as' be liked to have laughed right out, but arter s while be asked— "Did you pay a pint, air?" "Bartia'," says I, "but p'raps you don't-retail, so I don't mind Ishii"' a quart " Wall, don't you think the feller snorted right out. Tell yer what, it made me feel sort opiate, an' I gave him a look tLat made him look sober is about a minit ; sod when I eliaehed my fist an' looked so at him, (here Mr. Pike favored ns with a most diabolical erpreraiun),lut hauled in his horns about the quieltest, an' handed me a pint of the stuff as perlite us could be. Well, I tasted d mouthful of an' found it tool as the north side o Bethel bill in January. Pd half a mind to spit it out, but just then I seed the confectioner chap grionin' behind the door, Which ris my spunk flail smash it 41, thinks I, not let that white-livered Mftkey 'think I'm afeard—l'll eat the plaguey stuff . 'if it, Nemo my innards I tell yer whit, I'd rather skinned a bear or whipped a ail:dust, but I went IL I est. time whole in about Ainit. "Wall, in about a guider of an hour I begun LO fool kinder gritty ham," tantinged 111 than, pointing to the lower part of his stomach, -"an' INLIY•as &rain' no better fast, till at)mit. itmees. admit the' I'd got a steam, ingen itaarke -shingles in me. I pot down on a cheer, and bent myself up like a nut.cracker, thiakin' I'd grin and Lev it; but I could't set still—l twisted and squirm ed about like an angle worm on a hook, till at last the chap what gin me the cream, who had bin lookin' on snickerio', says he to me— " Mister," says be, "what ails per?" "Ails me 1" says I, "that 'ere stuff of you'll' is freesia' up my daylights," says L "You eat too much," says he. "I tell ye, I didn't," screamed I; "I know wltst's a nut and what's too mach, without &ak in' you, and if you don't leave of enickerite Jet faee " Be cottoned right down, and said he didn't mean any hurt, and asked me if I hada% Ceder take some gin. I told him I would. So I took a party good horn and left the shop, "Amer I got. out," oontinued Ethan, felt better for a mini' or so. 1314 I hadn't gone fur 'fore the pipes took me agin; so I went into another shop and took some more gin • then I sot down on the State House steps, and fiery I sot and sot,, but didu't feel a mite better. I be gun to. think I was goin' to kick the bucket, and thou I thought of father and mother and old Spanker—that's father's boss--aud when 1 thcit I should never ace 'em again, 1 fairly blubbered But then 1 happened 1., look up, and see a dozen boys grinnin' and tofllo' at cue, t tell yer what, it ris my dander—that had got down below sera —rite up agin, I sprung at 'em like a wildcat, heleriu' out I'd shako their tarsal gizzards out, and the way the little deriliViteampered was a caution to uokboily. But after the "Bement of the race was over, I felt wus agin, and I pouldn't kelp groanin' aud bererehin' as I went along. At hest l thought ; I'd go to the theatre, but afore I got there the gripes, gut so strops that I bad to go behind a nieetia' house and lay down and holler Artvr a while I got up and west into a shop aud eat ball a dollar's worthof lijed Liters with four pickled euireumbera, and wooed sp with a glass of brandy. Then I west up is to the theatre and seed the playa, but I felt se that 1 welds's. itee any fun is 'em, for I don't think the esters and commuters did me any good. I eet damn,. (ilk dove, and stood up, but still itsrest os, , gripe, gripe. I groaned all the tstee, , -sesd ouee 'in a while I was Ailed to screech kinder easy. Everybody stared alma, and somebody call out, "Aura him out 1" epee or twice. Bat, at kat, Just as the nigger Ortitello was going to put the pillar oat his wife's fuse to smother her, there come, such a twinge through me, that 1 really thought / was •bustis up, mid yelled oat : o , oh, (tear I Ou, notesosta!" so loud that the old theauttemsug again. Such a row yen Dever peed- nigger dropped the pillar; and Deuteratincei—or what te r,mdr her-46 wife, jumptol off the bed mad , while everybody-is the theatre was ail up_is a muss, somelihrin' and sonic Nirearite. /The upshot el It was, the perhee carried se out dews, and telt me to mike myself sears!. Wait as rdide't &Minty better, I westioto la' shop close by, and culled far two glasses"( 'brandy ; aster -awallerite It; went ham to the were. I sot down, by the wieder, tad tried to this* :1 telt bettor., truetesta sego; that tamed old , -*gas was stilt walteche away inside; ao weet'est sad eat a quarter's worth et biters slid apeee bf minim pie. Theo I weuthatikesmitteld the toots - keeper,. felt Moder sick. tad thought Pd take Some dote!-ilea tieoutbM etcoleviirst and tutor glad blrwinhkr pnwob, lid Slew go te.hod.. tie got • the gains,. whiela: took and tbwo , weetstosbed. . . • littot i oteßApa , what, badaathee s poor aigkt. Sasetiatetrir thought I was *Mania' a bow, am/ dies •by soma boons poem lapeald all sham, citable* side te, sad the lanai sauce imuilLbe seise's' Then, again, I'd dream that I was well& Iso with like bop, sad, jest as ,tte k,Nesi theta , bete she pee' ,everitiveit 'mud , gm reversed again=--I was s 1014, 11 AT: were, pqia' me rip with their I'd,wake speed mem& and . alsepwgin•—tedreamAhat.Eiptakea bad rmaiwa, witleme as that father wit whilidagi maa b wr same admirldagrop thing, till mamba: When 4•get I Whet. Par aggistile, ter breakfast, and tavern keeper told ms that d I wee pie tw i earrp oseermunid aad grossie-sa I bast tam algitiatfeee, =groom wee Wear thaw ill "Il tbabet" , imitiAtir. Pike, im sotaimiant r kaivift , bip ye- - Portland arses, bat is L Iles Wes as rid as Lethasalem, I shall saver forpithaa 000 iVaffirwal." bald s *roodly for thetio ollieikorthe twhoregy. A Irimoil4L oitth *he ltdtoili profoollea ore anyoulie hid boo for 'lose tire repairimir &raft iheihmliertioio **pato& lorsiguol. Skim =WO 4dit *stod Wraith 411 ikidd Vios t a l tbb , other IllarcM Mrs I d i tV A l i X e te toes old 1 0 , tat ready P'— • Oitrkr. ' • ira:11) I :? =ll3 G :.. ~ +.-w +.. -.-~ ~._ ..~...~.+i~~-wow NUMBER 17. MEIGIEZIEI