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Agrtrul . , 1 =I l'ef•e•-•n ears bad rolled away since last I stood iu th. mark , place of the City of Hartford. I I, It 't when the turf was green, and the thrushes we r • making music in the elms ; the turf was n an 1 the birds were singing now I saw a' eiran in black go by, gravely smiling to the eih :and I knew he was the settled el , rgye Wail 1'1! .• the , ore I left there There w. re e••.uttit3 men ueaneling by flit ir carts to the mar ket , w -men (haff• nt g with penny worth pur chase rs in the stalls ; carriages driv . ing into the -Ire• r, with ladies on an airing from the w.,teritt.t, !lac , t. tar by, old man and young no ti mantle r of life was ex. r• a- 1.• le I l; It; the forms, the facts of F 1.." e.. t it. o. ,r /lie forever go ne /I,' tih.,n years make grata( cieffa?rene,s rte It lUT nai l .: man Wherever he nosy have passed th, -in a home as Chr. rful as t he one abandon U11.1.1.t the caresses of the beloved, surround ed 1.3 asant urtepects, fondled by prosperity -- it be wail go hack to the place, let Lim rt r d Lilly pain 10 the he art awaits him eh. 1, ah. la he shall sec tr. es and houses, and very sti vet stones stay, but the living pass ava a) and are I trgotteu • llttt wht n a ,nun has spent his abs, nee a- I wine b , r 1 bad not been on the Conti. r, ot, listliiteg now to Hose ('he rte, 114,V! (4) rg, 11.. w to th. eal Liedral cadences of veli• ne , %titer- the fl iods bleak 1r:7111 11l- resounding 1 1 . 4liolt I t h e ever Wu, arch tot a re.otitlttlilg sky; I ~1 u,.1 been waft, el to the upper ral.tra-t-, t itt the pep. utile ut that air which 11111 , / o .4 I a, ria M. tuylits gallaut.—which l u ll s th e II a ...I) to a, I hail hot le. tz living wirli friends a: -1. u i r 100 •I.- r, aork.d woli in p. 111 Illt. , •I al' ( . 0111,4 in, at tt...:1.t Io a gaiw n t ; house' ttof hearth in :a r....ii, . r. Illy I. i.it••ti at up. 'II my km 1., IN til•P• • . M.-light .1 env, .1 with the shadow, Li II,,• , w tl down the 0.-,u, • 't • oli Illy h. art with .. r.rt. eld IL ft 3. nog s is I d ~le. .au up these tit,.ei, ye ar•, fir h.% g1..-•s a h. 0 I , tt with wide I, tie. t poalit ...) -u. I, t a 11.10flogooti..LI• 4 t Oink --,.twat. ID the wea.ure, and broker. "lily by the fall of lit fr:•;tlt , ht.: a Ler% ) I:.t.k ttf iron door•• n. r.-.'. •*, -hut iu r. v, rb, rat tug e,u-rid, rs, with I, t. but it.) .-tau 1 ukt c• wing afterward ; I. r I 1. tat tut 61t. ,u )cars to pris o n I) eu ask Low I tame The story is mit a long e tae f was a junior part o , l' in the banking house of my elder brother near Mart !. rd l Ito eventug, about 14 o'clock, as I was 1110:114: the steps of my lodging, a heavy hand fril up. n my she .Ails r, and I tarried to see a Sheriff's rifle. r, with his assistant, standing e1...c by me On the opposite side tat the street tho lights shone merrily trout the window of the vrott...au I or. d I was on my way to answer au in% itatie n, Lind felt, as every true man feels on such arrand, gentle toward all humanity -'.., I d-d not roughly push aside the interloper's hand, as ordinarily I would have done, but pot tly niox kll tat from under it, and said, "My th. re es se me mistake here You have tab. 11 the wrong person " one ash t knows what it is to loose so ....mph, I. Iy, in a fearful dream, the self posses en which be would steady himself, that he. can no longer -ay, "This is only a dream, "• but Le glias tie know t bat it is actual, will realize how the awful truth broke on nie in an instant as the officer anewered. =MEE I= I= "That won't do; you are John Markham of Hartford In the name of the Commonwealth I art' st you for forgery " Just then on the opposite side of the street, the curtain w. tit down at the lighted window, and knowing in my soul that it dropped forever t sr, n we null rho one hying who in her held ad things for which I lived, I felt a quick cold shudder of agony run through rue, and my knees •uode t”get her like a coward's [said no more, but w. rat with my captor The first titght in jail' Ah, that was terrible! Th. c:areinly, choing stones of the floor over pac.d in the darkness did nut hurt me in t h eir h a rdness The foul coarse pallet op lob at . servals I threw myself in my bewil dered wea — Mt•-s-, did out chat+ Me b y . itg c offi n narrowness I was beyond hurt frorbsuAt things LI. in 4Le I'l%l minor • bet af.tu my lodgings and In } veil I had becotue awn. that I was brought to a p. : -trinu whose sulaiime awfulness could not qua!, dbs abythisg elee on earth. Quicker than I-eau wrire, yet to tbic channel had my thoughts run M ) brother, three days ago, gave me in pri vate a Leas) draft to be collected at another banking boik.e, drawn in bin favor by one of his corn spondents and indorsed by another I re. member that be looked restless when he gave it to me; that he hurried from the room immedi ately afterward I presented the draQ4 I receiv ed the money; the books which I keep, bear no Jee“u tit of it Ile forged the paper. lam the s uspected uto. I have no means of proving my inuoe. nee, unless, perhaps, by proving his guilt That, most like, is impossible At any rate, what a terrible step for a man to take against his deal mother's only other child! And he ban a ly wile whom it would slay. Yet I myself hart —0 God ! shut out her image from me !--1 must n•it nee It; I shall go mad! In I grove my thoughts rolled back and for ward thro h the night. Facing this siteroas rise I till the day of my trial—just one sly brother came often to see me ; he d tears and embraces upon me; be retain• ed for me ' the best of ocoaneel--yet be alitiye It. t /111•Ii./1% ~1 g 111111 NEEEIMI MEE ~u111w•1 ii r CREED n IL. rem • .•1 41. tri I 1,, 1,, I• • ~~F~,~ i, ~ ..,,,. ._,,. 111=MMEME1 I,I•AN •pt t• S. \•v 1... ~. '1... Ye Can Conqtter if ye Will. MCI I:ErE=Ol3:l3 IC==l Kuessid tailor—non of labs. 'toutly battling oxen day oclatenee —O, tny brother, Thou shalt triumph in the fra) stn itte's chan i refed field of action, Thoug% &Mutt may ott appear, i not shalt aria the •tetor• taunts if thou wilt but parprara it, thou art tdorurr and 101.11, re may reset, the slotted tot gooh Crop the prima, wealth awl 'tattoo, If thou haat a dull:Alva, ,oul 11 thou but a ra...10,..1, IMEM=II cur ~o the angry pkorKe• fail to make, tit suerrt,l st u.•l Arrl,l R. the pelf tuft v larn• e nut the rllOl . l. contumely, ttr tb• weal :mud'. ',aro:aims Devi irt thou trierulle.• —friethla wlll /False, A. lo courtier • ttu¢. .ruun.l, IC bell thou h..t .4.l:tiered distinetion in..o thou but risition found laills, :rt msuglA rrpei 11••••• Th.,u .halt thr cm! prrrall Ift• 4 trlld Indio It• batii,`ll, s. of, bot Samar! ,owar'io \ Rutunp• pr e 111.H*11.11Ut tp r art . Wooly contest strap; I 0 r,:orn from dark uhln ion, Hopr.! iii glnir up Ilkov mpria.s, 11 bat it •ears offline.. endralor Nara Imam .petit ~ y thee to rain 11 Let It tbou bast met di-aster t V and take II,• bald again 11 n•rk and ruins all about GRr not up, but atruotel 'tabir , ro rou rage I. resist leas., I',• can iiingunt d In will' AS, DIE Mr SOIL OF 10111 IA fiIAII _i_ skteMed like one in a delirium of a fever, and ever jitst as the turnkey swung back the heavy dour to let him out, he would stop for • moment, trembling, and with his lips half opened as if about to say something more to me—then, with out meeting my eye, he would rush from the cell Suffering as I was, suffering still more, as I was about to be, from the cso4equences of his sin-- I could pity him deeply. I could forbear with the cowardice which he could not confess, fur I knew how priceless liberty must be to a luau who, I ot ing it, leaves his other soul in that must heart broken of all widowhood—the widowhood of a convict's wife She whom I loved visited me many times—al ways bringing me sweet messages in her presence from the birds, and the flowers, and the free sky uutside—always talking with a voice intensely sustained into cheerfulness of my acquittal, and restoration to our ofsl hopes I told her I was innocent, andi\he believed me I could not tell her who was guilty My trial came on I need nut pain myself with a long recital of the thronged court, the weary questionings and cross questionings, the audible silence of the crowd when the pleas were made, the moment whose shadow fell upon me when the foreman : solemnly said "guilty"—that other moment When I was condemned to the awful alienage of :pri•ou for the fifteen years t o come Then I parted from home and friends My brother did out bioll me good-bye ; he lay sick of a raging fever, on whoseschances hung life. But she, the holy, the heroic—who had borne all things, came to •se me gd She clasped my man acted hands in her own , she pressed one long last kiss upon the convict's lips. and said, with'a solemn cheerfulness, "I' will watt fur you !" Then, with a sUperstition which, frivolous Lilo' it seem, still crept into the awfulness of that hour, I stopped my watch, and vowed inwardly that its bands should never more move till we wet again. After that the gate• of my prison opened to let in but one message :row the life outside The chaplain brought me a lock of well known *oft brown hair, and told me, with a tear in his eye, that an old man' had given it to) him for me, say • lug, "Nly daughter is with God She died who.- p-ring that she would wait for John Markham I rndurcd the knowltdge of her death with u benumbed patience, uncomplainingly, rarely weeping a single drop I went through the nu. varying ruund of day lab. i ;11 tlo prison yatd with a steady, mechanical industry %bleb ••CIT pristid my taskmaster—tor heretofore I had been sunlit u, "the wink gentleman," "%him lie , gars,`' and whatever other epithet or insult the hardetod bullies.ot dimpline arc aceu•tined, at discretion and without fear of resentment, to confer upon the wretched in their grJ.-p At evening, 1 held up the tress into that fAiht. twi light which just fluttered through toy grate, and kissing it, N:011,1 to see her by we—f,r I could never itaink of htr as dead That le:iiih 0101/ wa, kindly spar, d 1111 C by the fact that no new void can he felt, no now unnaturalness, in tlo eternal void ii id unnaturalness of a prmou But on, night coming from work I fount the tre.,l gone. Asking the turnkey for it, list, told, "Pri4..n.r• are d u.,( artiete.- " From ,lint ni,.uletit. I knew 'hat -.hew 101,/ was dead Like a wild tle• ng,.ti) .1 the knovreldge gu , beil in upon we Will it came the mew oy nt by burning wr ,ugs --the scorn of wan -pent uf,un toy iIEIL , eCLit heal--the per hly of uly oil h, r_—:h , • irril help, les-i,•-ol all thing- tut I -lint toy- , -.t tip in Ili ii. 11141, .t 111.,r d iig r•.u. u, ol .. via. Fr .tr, ri, c..u. H..t I l'e•• tiv.• %, w, r, N. (it • AO , l II 111 iLnt I.lii. .1 r,1,• , ,r •pnit,g lII' it, I 1 14 , 1 , 1 1 .0 11,.:Nr t , r I w.s. rir 1,4 any club, .1. If 11.‘ 11... i. (lure lc I vt 5.4 rs 4k yowl g !WI "11 1 % /1 11 us \ Isusstss tear- pa.•ed—tive )r. ~t du-t ritultit, : z ‘brd---4 darks/. N., tutu'. ttug„ is 1• 11 1.1/1 - 11 fl,t , 111 .k , lamt, it It ti‘z, lee Ikankti fbic ,c dq. , r, bud I pa.....ed with iLr Nl , )w o'k p whteh I lead beeh" preettelog nearly th, quart. r iifetitp.. I waa going to Chapel A,lll (6 , r „.—r,, hear e,j the l'lmitgal Sou s t ud the Jaieu--they the guilty, but the wele..tu...l I tilt. tutt-e, )et thu thrust out. But the t.ilioer ,topped with these thti "Y,,u are tree I did but cheer, nor wring the luau's hand, uor rveo e One grows used to forget these ways of the world after - fifteen years to prison. But the revenge which, little by little, hid stroched its fibrous out tbrougli the t• 011 of my heart till eviry (Imp f lift. juice went to uour ish the plant, now began to put forth its biessoms, and I 1..1t them bud into all ecstatic, poisonuu• fragrant sw, et, long hoped-for hour had mot. ' li. o.f. w moments more the despised coo vict should buist open his motley chrysalis, and be rushing ob.. a winged Nemesis to settle ac• counts with a world which hid the start of him by fifteen years. I went to the prison wardrobe and gut back that dress which, in the days long gone, I had put if with the rest of my humanity They were clean, fastidiously, gentleman like as when I left them I met med for ta moment, at their sight, to he waking from the terrible eternity ut a bad dr. am—to be finding them folded by my bedside, where they had lain only since the last night. I bad come to with the majesty of the law— s guard on either snit; I wait out alone—no danger sass apprehended of my escaping from that other prison—the world Leaving the high gray walls behind me. I struck tutu the road for Hartford. Had I conic ant five years before, I might have been expressly softened by the leug, unwonted music of the birds that, from trees and orchard walls, made the air full ot their joy Now I had lived past the time when such things could touch me, and walked still in the lock. so p, looking neither about nor,forward, but ever moodily on the ground. And thus, late in the afternoon, I came whither the commencement of my recital finds me, ind stood 10 the market place of the town which I had last seen fade out behind ma as I went away in acorn No wonder that by all the passers I was sta red at as au oddity—something to he -uspe.:te.i and shrunk from, for my grizzled hair was of the prison cut, my clo tbinir . had gone out of fash tun when the lathers the street were children, and not by fear but long use, I looked no man in the lace. And here and there to knots the Reopie whispered about 10e, soniettniem with evi- Sent carelessness as to how loud. But I only nursed a deeper and more quiet wrath Tbere came along that way a throng of ehil dren just from school. Stepping up to one of them, I asked, "Does George Markham still live in this place ?" The little girl turned op a sun by Spring morning face and answered, "I am his daughter, Sir; do you want to see bun r - A hellish thought suggested itself to in I aid, "Yea, you may show the the way to his house it - .; I knew we should take a cross-path over the fields and pest a long reach of lonely woods. In the mast solitary part of that I might. wreak upon the guilty head of George Markham, the most terrible vengeance which could wipe out his most bitter wrtmg to no'. I would kill his child and bring her home to him, confessing that I did it, and glorying in the end 1.1 that bor• rid game .of quits on whose first throw he bad staked my heaven and I e4t, it. The little maiden tuck ay hied, eoo&hogly 81 50 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE. ERIE, SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER:2S, la% That might unnerve me ;,,so I loosed it and told her to go before while I followed. She tossed back her curls and went bounding ahead at a rate my strides were hardly equal to. Still I kept my eye upon her. After a while we came into a low brook.course between two bills, over the foremost one of wbioh I could just see the chim neys of my brother's house I looked show me —no one was in sight—rescue was impossible The devil whispered, "now ! Then I called her to stop, say tug that I must look for something I had dropped. She obeyed, and stood amusing her self with making wreaths of the violets which grew by the water-course, while I stopped to find a heavy stone which might d.. to bidding of vengeance surely and silently. All around me in the bed of the brook were nothing but pe es I walked a few :ceps further down in my nest. The little girl must have thought me leaving her, for, all at once. I heard her call gently, "I am waiting for you !" "Gracious God : who spoke 1' Do the loved that are forever lost cry to us out of Paradise ? "I am waiting for you !"—fioated down through the prison bars from her 'whom the Father bad just numbered with the saints I stood up and wandered back, more dreaming than awake, to the art where George Mark ham's daughter still staid plaiting violets. She turned to me with a smile and said, "I did not mean to hurry you, Sir, !int my father is very unwell, and I ought t‘i be at Lime Will you please tell me how Tate it is?" Fur the first time after those fifteen prison years, in which knowing t dl and darkness only, I had asked no other ine.isurement of time, I mechanically put my hand to my breast and drew nut my restored watch• Was I sane? The second hand, stopped at the last kiss of agony given by my I:2loved, whether by miracle or tb agitation of toy grasp, I know hut, sad denly moi,d on Like lightning flash rushed on mu the memory of wy vow—" Till we meet, this watch shall never c iuut time again " Yes we had met—wet in that voice of quiet waiting—met in this wouurous omen of the watch—met when I knew not—when she wag seen by none but God and her sister angels. The wrathful embers went out in the breast of John Markham, and, viewlessly hovering over him, the long cherished dead auttled blissfully as ,he saw that in that moment there had entered into him a new soul I clasped the little ore in nay arms 1 toil her that her f,Ather wa• my only brother, and then waited humbly t 0.1.1. her a, 0011 from t he loatb•foni. e. Diner But with childlike joy ails hugged we closer around the urek, and cried, ..(4: lam gi.w I am P..wr papa has been taiaing about you these four days, and lug—hut lib, he must Jtc :--'I cannot die tail eiJuies borne: With a re‘erent •-:,•11, au l bowiug, low, 1 calm into Ow ..1 my I,r,thi•r 111. far( dueled and paid a.alll as he saw me, :AU .I then hiding it in lb.. pillow he eritt.l, "Look u,,t Ott me tlo,l wr.•akitir wra th uu the d evi l who wasted your life ' "N.t my brother " I answered, bolemoly, "1 from my soul f•-rgive o u How muchnuore -wl! 11, %. 1 .1. , 1.1 , 101. ' me, tle day wir d “ut• past like au.114..kin : .: up 1.. iliut a, to of n 4 eolkikiintled 11l III• I.•r u 4 Join be making no thir 11 4 r, , ne” \I v her I I ..1 uty Inv waxing au.l tht .•fili,,i ‘trane.. firm ni!ht •t rt) -I , J, first night wall Ih, new .111 \n.l I. • wi.h th.....rrigvng that it• fl r , •;•••nt.iite- Willi kno. !... , ti ; zl.• L. k Ili•• r ur ~1.11.111, . . (1, ar ,lawn - it ile r •irre I trout to Th , to, hy6;,l- th.. wl,• 11.1.1 (Ilk , ' Ir I lid I, tit %Nip, r p .1 Oulu. All 1 lie,. Tie e.illll' f..r the ri 4 in, Z ii• tlii• In 1 Uri .1 in :1,.• where Illy ilea I b;..h.r wed t.. 1,1.11111 g !, iy 1.. , • s. hiug. With Ili. Ili lii. I. this 411 -it spar, run 'lie re , urued e in' with art •vii ), Hut I bore It okiN, with kith. R in her ul.turtting, (troth', n0.t1.11 wy br.j,tt, 3. It [ the last thug the bl.l ..n earth t,t eliug to Th e I iw) l r the nill and began • "Ib the name if I; kinpn I, ti, , ,,rge ?shirk haw, bauk..r of I.l,trtf.r.l, being of tech I , body, but ..f anal mind and utemory, d., ht•rvbl, c,,n-lituNt this my last will and testament. '.l bequeath my .coul io the infinite mercy of God, tf it he possiblo I bequeath my name co the oblivion of all true Ron who shall know the truth That I bequeath to tuy brother, Johu Markham, not of bounty, but of immea.urable indolit i dnc s s, in my eiinfe , ,,ion that i alone, and unaided, ail% the uutti .r of that 41iinttbk which brought -h of t prii in, the loss of all thing, on his innoeent head And finally, 1 gine :104 devise to John Markham all my r. tate, both real and persousl, to have and to hold, ;n him , his beir4 and as6igns, forever, confident that he will so fir hose mercy on my guilt as to be in all thing+ a father to my only child " Theo, like the friend+ of Job, my at quaint ance came back to me, beholding how I was prospered Again I stood an upright wan in the face of earth a, weii heaven, and 13 , 410 tit tereil an ill whisper of nw Now I live alone with rosy, who has filled the place of the daughter I might have had but for the fifteen ydiars She is my child, my compact ion, my comforter, my pupil. And never on c4rth will I bring any other love between us ; for at night, when I look up into the stars, I hear a low voice saying, "I am waiting for John Markham :" "IlitEss Lust':' —The Boston correspond rot of the Nashua Register was somewhat amur rd to a e lored meeting to this city, a few even. logs since The minister, a WHIM oolored gen tleman from abroad, said he should like to say s few words bef,:re he begun "Prehspi, you want in know wit, 1 are " II.• then proeeeded $e say that Pause three years ago he w ax iu this oity try ing to raise fifteen hundred dollars to buy 4 'his wife au'l children, then in 'Livery "I raised the tumtey, brew+ de leor': Ile then went to St Louis—'Toni' my bilks, brrss der Lor"." but they had.receutly been lick, and the owner set fused to give them up unloo. thirtyleight dollars the physician's bill, was foriheuming. The muuse-colored gent then we ut to Chicago, tell in with friends, and returned to St L with the whole amount "itui, bre— der Lae! breves der Lor':" he shouted at rite tap of his stentorian i'when r b ut dar, el ohl woman an' de chilthr, had inn ~ f l, and got to Canada, bress dor Leer': and Use got de fifteen bun'ud an' thin ty i t bt ‘l,ll: t r, ut d. bank, bres.s der Ler'!" Ilr Inad.' a very 'laminar ume of the phrti.e, "Rrrss de'r Lor"" When the congregation, as is customary, mlrcheii up to the altar to enntrib me to the e.dlection, the minister said, "Will do hru,hler.g'v'way 11).1 lvt lie sisters pass nte, givo 'ens room; Vuu know do, wants a tio.al wid der big hoops—brew tier Lor'!" VEttlitx lltbnaNcx —ll4 fan ounce of soap boiled in a pint of water, and put on with a brwiti while boiling hot, infallibly destroys the hugs and ilwir eggs hies are driven out of a rocks by lente,ging up .% Lunch elf the plaintaiu ut ilea• wort plant aft N r it has bt•eu dipped iu milk lists and wino speisnly disappear by mixing equal qu‘utwe a of strong telleese autl peeweiered Aitiuills. They devuur this mixture with gree%li• Una Awful Adventure in the Mammoth Cave—. • The Xaelstrom Explored. The hero of the exploit thus reported in the Louisville Journal of September 11th, is Wil liam t4,t Prentice, the son of George D. Prentice: "At the supposed end of what has always been oonsidered the longest avenue of the Mammoth, Cave, nine miles from its entrance, there is a pit, dark and deep and terrible, known as the Meal ',strati. Tens of thousands have gazed into it with awe' whitat bengal-lights were thrown down it to make its fearful depths visible, bat Dane ever had the daring to explore it. The celebra ted guide Stephen, who was deemed insensible to fear, was offered six hundred dollars by the pro prietors of the Cave if he would demand to the bottom of it, bat he shrank from the peril A few years ago a Tennessee professor, a learned and bold man, resolved to do what no one before him bad dared to do, and, making-his arrange ments with great care and precaution, he had himself lowered down by a strong rope a hundred feet, but, at that point, his -courage failed him, and be called aloud to be drawn out. No by' man power could ever have induced him to re. pest the appalling experiment. A .couple of weeks ago, however, a young gentleman of Louisville, whose nerves - never trembled at mortal peril, being at the Mammoth Cave with Professor Wright, of out city, end others, determined, no matter what the dangers and difficulties might be, to explore the depths of the Maelstrom. Mr Proctor, the enterprising proprietor of the Cave, sent to Nashville and procured a long rope of great strength, express' ly for the purpose. Tne ropes and some necessary timbers were borne by the guides and of hers to the point of proposed exploration. The arrangements being soon completed, the rope with a heavy fragment of rook affixed to it, was let down and swung to and fro to dislodge any loose rocks that would be likely to fall at the touch. Several were thus dislodged, and the long ictontinued reverbration, rising up like dial tent thunder from below, and proclaimed the depth of the horrid chasm Then the young he ro of the occasion, with several hats drawn over his head to protect it as far as possible against any masses falling from above, and with a light in his baud and the rope fastened around his body, took his place over the awful pit and di. rooted the half dozen men, who held the end of the rope, to let him down into the cimmetian gloom We have beard, from his urn lips, an account of his descent. Occasionally masses of earth and roek west whizzing past, bat none struck him. Thirty or forty feet from the top ho saw a ledge, from which, as he judged by appearances, two or thioi avenues led off iu different direiltiona. About a hundred fret from the top, a cataract from Ile •ide of the pit went rushing down the do, 540.1 he deFeened by the side of the fal ling war, r and in the midst of the spray, be felt sums appi ehension that his light would be ex' tiuguished, but his care prevented Ibis. Be found it almost perfectly circular, about Ili feet in diameter, with a email opening at one point, lea.ring to a fine chamber of no great extent. 11. on the floor beautiful specimens of Hick ..,;.•x ol immense size, vastly larger thee .11,eotered in any other part of the Mani •in ill Cove, and also ti multitude of exquisite torievirions, .a pure and white as virgin snow ' himself Laid, with great effort by his Inott,'.. he :it length asked them to pull him 11.1111% up, unending to stop un the way and EX. pl •ii iia,%i• that he had ~ I.serveil opening abcut f , rt‘ t, t ullot, , the bottom of the pit Reaching Ho o, -uth of rhtt cave, he swung himself with tneeli , x. rii .0, into it, and, holding the end of r p • so his hand, lic incautiously let it go', :itt.l it .sung out apparently beyond his reach. The situritiou was a fearful tale and his friends *Wee could do n wiling for him. Soon, however, Le rh.ole a hook of the end of his lamp, and, by extending himself as tar over the verge as post& hie without falling, he succeeded in securing t,.• end of the rope Fastening'it to a rock, he followed the avenue 150 or yards to a point where lie found it blockaded by an impassible avalanche ..t rock and earth Returning to the mouth of this avenue, be beheld an almost ex aciy similar one on the opposite side of the pit, but, not facing able to swine himself into it, he recast( ned the rope around hts body, suspended himself again over the abyss, and shouted to his friends ti, raise him to the top The pull was an exceeding severe one, and the rope being ill ad justed round his body, gave him the most ex etueiating pain lint soon his pain was forgot: ten iu a new and dreadful peril. When he was ¶lO feet from the mouth of the pit, and 100 from rise h•orodt, swayiug and swinging in mid-air, he heard rapid and excited words of horror and alarm abo%e, and soon learned tbst the rope by which he, was upheld had takAx fire from the friction of the timber over which it passed. Sev eral moments of awful suspense to those above, - and still itiore awful to him below, ensued To them and'.hirn a fatal and instant catastrophe seemed itsevitable, but the fire was extinguished with a bottle df water belonging to'himself, and then the !party above, though almost exhausted by their labors, succeeded in drawing him to the cup. lie was as calm and self possessed as upon his entrance into the pit, but all of his compan ions, overrome by fatigue, sank down upon the ground, and his friend, Professor Wright, from over exe4ion sod excitement, fainted and maimed fqr a time insensible. The young adventurer left his name carved in the deptbit of the Maelstrom--the name of the first and , only person that ever gazed upon its mysteries; MININO IN TEE UNITZP STATES.—Although America, from its discovery until this day, has furnished the great bulk of the precious metals, mining, sir an art, or as a science, has never been well understood here, nor systematically followed, especially',-- in the United States. - Gold being found, for the most part, on the surface, in the alluvial sands, is extracted by the crudest means and the 'most unskillful operators, the process being unworthy of the name of mining The few deep mines in Virginia and the Carolinas, where the gold hearing rocks are wrought, scarce ly form so exception to this remark The ores of silver, and those of less valuable metals, arc, however, to be procured only by deep mining, and the resources of the United States are yet to be developed in this direction. The Galena 7 .= oie of lead—of Missouri and the adjacent reg t iOnS has been hitherto dug from beds of clay at an in considerable depth. There is no regular lade or vein, and the process of washing is less like mi ning than the washing of auriferou,sands. The native copper of Lake Superior h,sa no analogy in the previous history of mineral' explorations. - - GINUINX Etilgtmgcs.-i-Tbere is no people in the world with. who / eloquence is so univer sal a gift as the I * . When Leitch Ritchie waq traveling in I, and, he passed a man wbo was a painful OpeOtaele of pallor, squalidness and raggedness His heart smote him, and he turned back.' _ "If ymiwitot," said Ritchie, with same de gree of poeviibness, "why don't you beg?" "Sore, it 'a a begging I am your honor." "rou did n't say; wotd." /"Ov course not, yer honor; but see how the rskin is speakin' through the boles ov me trop• ! and tin. bones crying out through the skin! ' L ink at me sunken obeek4, and the famine that's stkrtin' in me eyes Man alive ! isn't beggin' I and with a hundred teepee r. "JOX VAT." Pram the &ohm lbusuost. ♦ glorious alght—e glorious ray. Lit up with I taupe asters : The moon Maass lussitiral sad high tribes sluts his but, And ell la holy, calk and mall ; AAA yet—l Mow not why— I Ml warn blood ow palm Witt And tear doer dint my'''. Oh, bender boort I oh, Ark* steer While all *dap edam am 0/k— -inle aanue iodise la fewer tad WS Why, why art then so sod ? Again 1 OW tloo warn tow Mori My fusel basavord Moo To dad the wares al all this OK Tao eau* af a Uwe olgia. 'lla not the alight—tie marl groo4- 7ts oot the alty above mo— lls not that, to the world otroligid. I have no case to tov• se : 'Tis not that &knots tom tat inso—lsor An they whom I would Nair nis not that Fats has from Try Ups bombed down tlio asp ol•Ma s What pa It be ? oh, answer, soul, Throb slower, oh my hart' Oh, toll the canoe of all this riot, Am ! why them wars two start My brae vows wild—Uwe stems ors oat; The sky amiss getting blacks,- - N. slasehed In every poste—Ma •'f Saes s'S so Tiisselker '''' The Tyrant of the Beheel. IT happened that our district school was kept one year by a young Englishman, named Stan ley. He bad some peculiar opinions on the subject of the management of boys. Whether be was right or not, I cannot say. I only nar rate my Own experience. Among the scholars was Ethan Bragg, a stout, overgrown boy, who was a terrible dunce in school and a terrible tyrant oat of doors. 'For some cause. of which I was ignorant, he took particular plc-inure in msl•treating and annoying me. I could not come within his reach that he would not either knock my has down rudely over my face, or trip me up, or soil my clothes with a kick from a aboe well charged with mud. Whether it wag that he saw my physical ins• bility to resist him, or that be had a grudge against me because I was always above him in our class, Ido not know - I was a full year his senior, which made it all the more mortifying to me to be obliged to submit to his ill•treat ment. One day, when I had been particularly annoy ed by his catching me and slapping my face, and then throwing my hat into a by.lane, weeping and miserable ' when, as I turned to go home, I met my sister Mary. "Why, what is the mat- ter, Paul?" ebe exclaimed. "You have been crying." Thus appealed to, I was obliged to make a confession of my griefs When I had finished, "Well, my dear Paul," said Mary, "you must return good for aril. I will tell you what to do. Give Ethan your bag of marbles. Ido not be. key° he will hurt you after that." "But, Mary," I replied, "is there not some• thing cowardly and selfish in trying to buy a peace in that way ? I would like to return good tor evil, but to du it in a way that should let Ethan know I do not do it from fear. I think I will talk with Mr. Stanley on the subject." Hardly were the words out of my mouth ere we met Mr. Stanley approaching, twirling a big stick, as if to keep his bands in practice. "What now, Paul ?" said he. "Your eyes are the color of beets." Mary answered his inquiry by telling my sto. ry fur me; and then asked him to interfere, and prevent any further annoyannee on the part of Ethan Bragg. "Noneensel Paul is old enough to present himself !" • - "But be is not strong enough," said Nary. "That is his own fault," replied the school master, "sod fur that be deserves all the punish ment that Ethan can inflict." I began to open my eyes and my ears too. "What do you mean, sir P I ezolainimi. "I mean," said the master, "that, instead of trying to invigorate your body by healthy out of-door exercise, this fine weather, you keep in the house over the fire, contenung yourself with in-door ,games, books, aid piastres. These are well enough in their seasou, but, in order to be a whole man, properly developed, you 'must exer cise tle b ody as well as the mind. Bragg is a coward, like all bullies. He sees that you • feeble physically, and so he worries and plagues you ; sod I hope be will continue to do so till be cures you of your immoral neglect df your bodily energies. — "Immoral?" "Yes ! There may be immorality in neglect of the body, as well as of the mind. If the fault were not my uwu—if you were lame or ill, and Ethan were to tyranise over you—l should title great satisfaction in punishing him. But, as it is, you have only yourself to thank for your suf ferings. Look you, Paul—" Mr. Stanley finished the sentence in a tone that Mary slid not hear, and then turned on his heels and left wt. That afternoon, for the first time, I put on a pair of skates that my uncle had given me, and passed a couple of hours in practice with them on the lee. The next day there was a snow storm, and I shoveled paths all around the house Without neglecting my lessoni, I kept in the open air a good portion of the urns. I contrived some gymnastie fixtures, and rose an hour earlier every morning and exercised. I took especial pains to develop she muscles of my hands and wrists. Catching hold of the bough of the tree, I would lift my body up till my chin was on a level with my bands. I was careful, however, not to over-task my strength. I knew tbat I must be very gradual in my et.. forts I was methodical and regular in these habits of outdoor exercise, allowing no inclem ency of weather to interfere with them. My pa rents soon began to wonder at the marked im provement in my health. My cheeks were thir longer pallid. The cough, with which I bad been constantly troubled, left me, all atronee. ',pep. well ; mid gained so is s trength that I could with ease lift a barrel of flour Into a cart. Fur nine or ten months I had been faithfully at this system, when one day, as I was passing along a scoluded road that skirted our village, I heard loud cries, as from one in (strand distress. Turning a bend in the road, I saw a_boy on the ground, with another over him, bela b ori ng him with hearty blows. The victorious amailant was the butcher's boy of the village, and the infor tuna% recipient of the blows was my old enemy, Ethan. Without hintitationi I . rushed to the seem of the combat, and pullecridaMer.Jmolp, the batch. er's boy, off from biweietim. Jacob thereupon rolled up his sleeves anew, and remarked that he would give me "fits." Then like a your buffs. lohe came at -me. But, as he:fiowtd his arms is the onset , I caught him by the wrists, as in a vice. In vain did he struggle. I pulled him upon hi* knees, so that be could neither kick nor bite; then, pressing his hands till he yelled with pain, I as ked bin if he Lad enough. Job was in a very great rags, it was evident, but did not care -about having another turn of the mire* put upon his hands. And so, when I hilly envired If he mid go quietly boos, without. say B. 'F. SLOAN, EDITOR. NUMBER 20. more fuss, he answered yes, tad kept his word As for Ethan, be could not have beau wore transfixed with wonder if be had seen me fly op in the air, or do any other marvelous thing. As I approached him, he wu stupid with silent astonishment. "Ethan," said 1, carelessly, "you see I have turned over a new leaf Hereafter, any one who ventures to impose upon in.., or upon another in sny presence, will have first to prove that he is stronger in the wrists than I. Do you think I am right 7" "" 7 1r4-4," stammered Ethan. "Shake hands on it, then," said I. Ethan gave ail his thind, 'but, as I squeezed it with rather a cordial prefigure, be tried to pull it away, at tho same time uttering a cry of pain. "What is the matter f" I exclaimed. "You have almost crushed my lingers," groan ed Ethan, making a very wry face. "Why do you not equeess back again ?" said I, pressing his hand again, till be uttered anoth ,.. er ay. "That will do !" said be, trying hard to forge a smile. His last words were prophetic. The lessen proved sulSoient. He was thenceforth the most peaceful boy in school. A week after this adventure, as I was trying to pitch a large stone beyond a certain mark on the ground, Mr. Stanley tapped me on the shoulder. "What have you been doing to Ethan r said he, shaking his fore finger at me. "Returning good for evil," answered I. "Letting him see, at the same time," added Mr. Stanley, "what you could do if you would, eh ? Well, Paul, was I not right in my advice/ Returning good for c vil is the best shown when, having the power to return evil, we render goad,_ And remember this : The boy who neglects to develop his physical strength, marteglect it at the expense of his moral strength also "—Sar gent'• School Monthly. THE MAN FOR THE PONT.—Judge Bowlin, who has just been appointed as Minister to Par. spay, we know to be just the man for the posi• lion, and we are glad to see that the New York papers are presenting him in proper shape to their readers, giving the fullest assurance,• that he will ably discharge the responsible duties that are to devolve on him A correspondent of the Times says: The Republics of Central and South America will never do what is right and just without display of force on our pert In this way Eng• laud and France have ever treated these petty nations; but our Government has consideration for them they do not deserve; and what is the consequence' The citizens of England and France are respected and protected, while an American is despised and his interests uncered for! It is, however, refreshing to think that President Buchanan has made a move in the right direction by the appointment of Judge Bowlio to settle this question with Paraguay, and that our demands, which are only just, will be enforced at the cannon's mouth, if necessary. The benefits to ow from this demonstration against Paragua can only be calculated by those who are famili with the bad faith and dishon esty of South American politicians. Am Amy CI SPERCH.—An Eastern paper gives the foil 'n as the recent speech of an involuntary can& a for Congress. We enp■ press the mane of the aker and of the theatre of his eloquence: "Gentlemen, I base a very bad cold, and my lunge are affected. I have been to New York on business, and when I returned I was indig. Debt at seeing my Defoe posted with others to speak Yee, I was almost indignant. lam no public speaker The nomination was thrust up- on me. You are a good looking set of men. I was pleased when walking down this road to witness your houses: They are a good deal bet• ter than the huts in the. South " [Here the speaker broke down. and turned round to Hider Peek in dismay The elder gave him a nudge, and though evidently seared, he went on "] "I base seen a black woman on a plantation in the Routh, bolding a plough when it rained." [Here he made an uneasy motion, as' if hie coat hurt him awfully under the arms, broke down again, and was about to retire, when the . Ider gave him a wicked look, and be plucked up courage, and made one effort."] "There is Kansas ought to be taken care of.— I know you must be tired after listening to me my friends, and therefore I give away." [And be did give away. BETTING IN COURT —They tell some tough stories ■bout Wisconsin Courts of Justice, and we are sometimes ioclined to refer them to the careful coosideration of the Marines, but the fol lowing is vouched for by an eye witness whose "voracity" is unquestionable, While a case was in progress before a jualiew away up among the oak openings, a dispute arose between the defendant and constable in regard to the time a certain arrest was made. OW of. feted to bet five dollars and the other responded by drawing his sheep skin, and the money was deposited in the hands of the "Squire." At Ibis moment a 'illations looking customer who was awaiting his examination for horse stealing, ex. claimed in astonishment, "Wall gentlemen I've been a pretty hard customer in my day, I' ye drank whisky a► the revival and played earth is the pulpit, but by G— I never saw betting in a Court of justice before." air Recently the Idotbodists held a great "If rival" in Wisconsin Among the converts was one whose previous profession had been "three Bard moots. Times being somewhat bard, he found little profit in his legitimate "praotiee," and became converted, as the elders say. One night, at the suggestion of an elder, he roes to edify the congregation with his experience, and thus delivered himself : "Ladies and gentlemen --I mean brothers and sisters—the Lord has blessed me very much—l never felt so happy in all my life (embarrassed)—l say I never felt so happy in all my life (very much embarrassed)— if any one thinks I ever did, they can yet a live , ly bet out of use."' (loop —A grand jury down South ignored a bill against a huge negro for stealing chickens, and before discharging him from custody, the Judge bade him stand, reprimanded; be sonely. ded as follows : "You, may go now, John, but (slaking his finger at him) let me warn you never to appear hero again." John, with delight beaming in his e7es, and with a br oad grin, dis playing a beautiful raw ivory, replied :"I wouldn't bin Jere die time, Judge, only de eon • stable be foteh me." go t , A Hottentot got up s painting of He. en. It was enclosed nOth it tepee made of san s ages, while the mitt* Wu oecupied with a fount. aht that squirted potipte. Na., A eoutryloask too draggief a eau by ,s rope is ii. t orsel MAU An Imbue' anted his if thei woe the 'nip he Nreated Air fellow creatures Mr A fellow who grot drunk on election day !aid it was owing to bin 'arta "to put down pa, I y I 0"