1 3 I)()UGLAS, RECEIVER 01,1 . 11 E 29, ERIE OBSERVER • EX.RT S./Tr:MD.lr BY 14 ,(1.1. t'• Editor mad Ratiellver. .TE -1 TrIE 14.:5? OPTICZ 10 1110 , 1.000 3 or within 3 months, $1 6001 cktued . 1.0-r fallkag to pay within the JOILT, the paper 18111 . . axe...Lull lett with s proper akar for Col- tem of .A.cl‘reertimi.rags. T .al. t nes of ts oaparal, make a square 3 w. 1 4 Ir. I Sw. 1 3 as. i . wa. I IT. 8.1'26 176 I 800 1 4 001 600 110 00 Y . :41, 3001 4401 600;lu 00 J OD 3601 460 1 6 00 1 6 00 1 12 00 1 16 00 ‘‘, 500 1 6 00:1 900 119001 16 00 196 00 5 (001 lu 00( 13 001 15 rOl 116 00 ( 4000 I'l 00 1 1.5 00 120 00 126 00 140 JO I 76 00 ••••• •11 for Rumness Dsrectnry At 1.4 per 1n111.1113 ! (,ard, over six, sad under eight, $7 t trtel uoUces,lo cents a line : Litt no advertise. -tod unong t 13.• rl.ercul Notlees for leer than one • •'0 aria ~t here requlriug fraquent changes 111 their .A ti lit Inlaid ter" mciarrirk, paper, sod rani, (nr 'at. charger will be to pruportitak, rwd tau lwrat be alrketl! otttlued to the legitimate btlianP/IS • I•unt . larrnt tran•iaar alrartirrarainta required g“t fur itariS L.:retrain," wilt be preseuted half. -r ur. o, 10 par reut Win lalaetagm all mkt .:rertloramaaptl4 *b.a paid V alliV•1000., ..41vertutent, (11+410wItiutng their adrertteatneate rte of the contract, kill be chair." at tall rates I chary I.W also t,s nude for IhAwolut,on and oth• utlecte.l with their legitimate busineut siNESS DIRECTORY. !1.. A. DA YU/IWO/IT. • to Cvntral Block, over Nraberger & g tort. Entrance on Ignite ntreet. WN W. .4. GA I. DNA 1 TH. , —ollie* on eth street, oMrl7 oppoalto the ne,l• T. ~ SINCLAIR, s.,,cesser to Stsceri 'maw, tt Jr. T orner ut Jut. azd Ztla St's, , ,•, pr. -Stuffs, Club , t •mphezie, 131arnifir • .1 VI. A. BOOTH. rt,.tat. Dealer to Fancy sad Staple Dry tiouds cud `4lr lalook, Opposite lerv.ra's Hord 1/11,LEK d 1115\1t1, r. A.ll Park Row Wrlght E Co's,xchance Idac, r. LANE t • •. 1.1.1.0% ♦T —Oakes reurcrwerl to cortror trs vrrord'ir lil , . ck, eorn.r !!ttate Strert &fed the Public HI[II:UISY 6c 111-TCRiNe 4 .II:4I• • I A v. 'Cc* •lo Rosenzerele• Block, opposite estrhnoP r,o the Park, Erie, Ph. .111,N %V. E. 31A1i1 EL. DceTiet, 'Mkt to iitneormrl.l'. 11...ek...,rth stde of the Next, Ext., Pa. i.nr. "or 7 16:.7 - JC. eilg U talr rand Retail dealer in .11 kinds of English, German and -an Hsi...lean., AnTlia, Irun, .test,•, and I arrmtie trtenmings, btae4tne ide,tltag and Packing opyer.mte the .14... en 11.. nae, lane, Pa. ROGERS de IitEN'NISTT, . •' , l) ltaT atl. lA.alers Lei Harnware, Crocker) , Caw. an ..a 11 and 1: k.mptre Block, corner of Flan and . Eno., l'a. NNOIV kfterruurs to fiormuhr 4 :kr Caakey ) - trertilan and American Harti, are sod Cutl•27. s ire., iron and ,teel, No 3 /teed House, J 1.1 TL.. recently Off II pied by Jame, Sal, Esq. am a ver t4r `tor. .'Murphy Who*. o the Reed • t, • 11tal. 0.44NF0R0 ac CO" - ~•r, Itaxak NotPa, C.-rtamates a Dermot, dr.e. pnacapslnt.v Or an taaltt fur bale Offne• ka nitc :51.11111.fr, Erie. J $111:•4 COOO CO.. .14., . A rvr• of :Null, as..ll:lltatiw, peach , • . i,ccopied by Hugh .1 A.l/.1.i. T. lIRRILION STUART. 1.1Cla:. --(rake, at hi. reaideaoe, Fourth insert, ..1 ot the old Apothecary Hall ViINNIR: & RANI - .kith. rft1.1,,r..-r 1. NSI t, rusts OA. "p 1 ~N .. 44 .277i m4 l r%.§tate I ta. ?al What, Ens, 1.1.. t E. a If BUN, f 'vfrorro, "do , . to g.a.tr'• Block, w'rtli aide of l'obik t.,ruter., tractrylati Li Magill a Lo, 11) w ork war, artql liitoHGß J. 111/itTfinw. s'• '-"nmaronn Maretaant, Public Dort, Erie, dealer - t'l, f ton. Flour and Maxi., JOsEr'll MeCA tiootaii thits•Jor in Grocirrion, Prtivhisons, Ship , A • • ••• 411.1 Willow warn Rc, Ac., State Street, Erie, 101 PI RE STOILEn. •1•4••Ln, J,.l•ta•r, and Retail Dealrr In every dap • •••••.; sod tlL•nlestic Dry Gonda Carpetinga, IJI • \.• 11, State street, mrnar Fifth, Enc Pa It{ FIV ILO CLUTIIINfIi r*TOitiC:- 1 0 ..w.er and Illanutsieturer it Ant quality Ready • : Gentlemen's In euielti tug Gu.da. ?in 7, Beelines ICII:=1113 %V11.1.1A1l THORNTON, K 144.4 n, I..exonvent Bond. Mortfa rstriy arl.l ..14.1,11.1y dna •n. Ulfes no • •-• lAternplt, ktroorry Aton Ile, Pa .1. Y. 04.11114 - NING• n Jratics or set Patens Witt practice lo . F:na ( - cooky, and Kiev prompt and teittatil ~ute.• entrusted to lite glands, tuber as an At. •sets. E r- um.. to t mpire Block, corner of • . krie, P.. 11' B. Itt'SEIMUILE. IritY Ckarchtli, J44aava. 4 Ca • ..rr• orrlgn and Domestic Dry Goods, Nos A %% arnn Str,ta, N••••• 1 ork. r .Lf rw •Pm ril A enrrentp, r • ler al a. iLACNIANJUI Tlllll 1. 1.% illl E . .. 1 .Ihc l U. • z ♦ - Mi. in } noc 1 sad '4pl. Orr 1 lirovriu's Block, Elio, 414:41 1 / 1 16E CI t“rarti. :10 01,1 W,, (..,11e-tilotun and 0 tun lect to Aral. prompts... atui diviigotl4 on: 4 1 1.%/ik.:11.:1, 4 C1. 't p, t lair. 1D Flontttv . ilutiding, up-otairs, 11H%liN ommteeinii M. r. haute, dealers in Coal, rinur, a daily $. 1 ,..r Lake St./afters, Public CAI, 121..AH.K. Ilower.io l'iitatititleand Imported Wirt** Tiitarr,, Fruit, Fish. 011, Lod Arvta /1 a Raltb Ai. .n Et...0.tl Block. Stint* street gee, JOHN W. A Yii..104. - 6 III& Wholesale sad Ifrtati Dealer fo all kinds nf Panty, Room, Rocking, OLISora and Dining Chairs, No. 4 Itity Erie, Pa., J A MIR* C. NIA KMMA LL. At ~A..._-othes lartmrs In Tammany Hall building, ••..crest, Erie, I K. K. efiCK(llll.ll.. .o? Doe.ler It Double R00d.1441 Whiskry. le the rooeb J. G. BARR AL CO., • '. and shoes at Whnlnals and Retail, at Na. 10 k Ertl% Pa.. OLD* at LOW. '''‘.. m.kt , A boleeale and Retail dealers in Wallaod Ma ' •' r‘lperlor quality, the cheapest and beet sow in Twelfth rtreet near reach, Rehr, Pa. •- •,' I, carrying water for family, tam or wee-LW " ` • NO. rh•sp J I I)%IKM K. YliktiCPPIN, • ' r ..n Irt t u‘sreet.t.--offlos in the rear of Nio 3, Yefth street. trio, Pa. All badges. in r.••• • o. ;,,yro pl • and fai th fully attended to. 1,..e DENTISTRY_ DR. 0. 1.. ELLIOTT, • • , r ars4 ihrelltits Is south Thupt Row, Int fiszlbuikluss. July 34 /148. J IILECKI BIiIITUKILS. ; • ' • • wetch•e. Brittannia and Meted , duemu, l'oeirt sod taper Cutlery. Fawns) Geode • ~,u n Mate stmtF.ri• . Y dig FARRAH, ' " rr.. - egr, awl desters fs Wept trolls Goods, Perreler, -err ty Furs, Tobacco, C4erit, Fula, oil, ke-, se., No. etreel, Erie, Pe. .11141tPH EICHUNLAIL:II .•1 Blwto wad Shoes, and Wholesale hod Retail ' k ILEA Fipmln,k Solo Idnithor, impel Gad A.• • • Licings, Bl.bdt.gst, Lips and Spiita, . • •. Laatmga., Galloons, Itibandok Eisarenom - • •At.... Ta,ka, ?.ga. - Math', be- Now Block. Vista I I IikIiSHEV, &CO, ' •tos.m F.ngioea, &Alen, Will Gewing,Agrkul R•f!mowt tria, Mlrrl Y. Z. 410/11, and Agri:o h. k W Wye' . Pg.g.msl ovvr Amnia' oveiry Stoce,Wust .• larstau-bing done in I , rdPr GI,. LaCICOZWET.III. ~I •k‘rv, : e•plondid ammutrtr•elt of rick (11* Cbr Mott.. Ca ps and Aliorwrir. Mugs, gaudlartieltm, and a • •I AND ()RN 4 4 ir VTAIL 44ICLr S. • Elogukt Usk* Has/mtg. Its Seta, hteb ' •;-. i••rk•. Napkin Maga, (I.46utifol .• ' ../ rtelx Joyaelrv, ioatrlx. , aod Yazhay Roods— =1 riri. priulAA ►rend. 1 4.nn.. and atl wool Fr= " 1.1 much I•••• Chas ruling Prices. Vei t r. tta. nos 13-27 filiK RTVt. M A.M oaks - kikd Maw Ware, gaol imoortussok L S. iRSSISISMI. ERIE WEEKLY 0 ISERVEAt FIRST AND THIRD MARRIAGE. "Thus you see my own Hortense, that I must leave you. I shall provide an income of a hun dred lonia fur your expenses Look forward constantly to my return; sod when fortune again smiles upon me. I shall coma bank nevi r again to b, separated until death " The weeping wife could not be comforted It vra- bard that no soon after her marriage, when the world seemed so bright and gay, and when wealth and fortune smiled so serene!) upon her all should be swept away, and she left like a lone widow to protect herself The husband wits al most distracted with the thought of leaving her His heart had been buuud up in, his beautiful Hortense. She had been his idol from hiyboo.l —the bright dream of his existence, sod *hen he had attained the distinction of one of the user chant princess of Montreal, he married her and placed her in the very heart of luxury. Misfortunes came on swift wings to the happy pair One by one his possessions left him, mud worse than that others were involved in his affairs who were less able to lose than himself Ile eou,d not look upon the ruin of those around him; for he had a kind heart, and would not wrong any one for the world. They that lost by bus ill fortune admitted that Mr Valentin % . 4.1 a strict ly honest man, and that is great prai..e from those who are injured by a man's ill' luck. People are too apt to call it dishonesty. There was but a single bright spot before M. Valentin. Australia gleamed up, warm and golden; and with a delo•ration born of love to his wife and justice to his credsigs, be secretly emu arked for the lac lof promise. There was a nine day's wonder as to where he was tone, and to what purpose; and thou be died out of tha ....a...say, IN.. &W. wrisbAy a. tf to LISA been dead and buried I=l =I The weeping llorten•te rem ice I CO iiii ,, ther In °silty; the fashiouables who ha I strained every nerve to get invited to the houve of the rich w r chant never paused to ark after his wife; and lonely and miserable, without friends or relaiivrs, Hortense drooped and pined, until th • beauty which her huvband a. praived wav chab i zed into dimness. Sip• never hoar.i from Mr Valentin. Not a single word bad ever eb• er••cl tier solitude siooe ke left her. AP nvint h after *nth dreg,- ged its slow weigut ..long and Lei tidipgs reach ed her, her heart utterly vunk withik her, and she believed hum des4 What, indeed could she think? It WILY better to think ma than b•-lisve bim uomiudfial- of her, and I c y %fit r day ll , ' watered his wem , ry with tears of g e nuine s e mis, as 00u sorrows f. r the b , I.•%ed dew! She too on rh.• ileepe,a mourning, kept her room for minutia, aid when She finally went out again, and that only to church, her sorrovr way written plainly in the face, which, if it bad lost some of its beauty, was yet most deeply interest ing. So at least thought the- young Eug. ne Stanbury, an Englishman of unblennistiod char• eater and prosperous business. Ile sail► her at church, devised some ingenou4 expedient to be introduced, and begged the privilege of waiting upon her The lady p.eadi-d her inability to entertain company, the Impropriety of her receiv ing gentlemen, and a thou4and reasons why he could not visit her. He overruled them all, be4.Pught her to waie all ceremony with him, to coniider him a. 4 deeply attached frieod, a brother, anything, Oa abort, if be might be permitted to see her sour times, and Hortenee, weary her coonotonoivi life, at lase °caseated. Once baring renewed the delieiiius consoiou+ : ness of a protecting presetioc, she lotto , ' it hart]. to give it up for the mere punctilious fear of whit the world say of ber. Indeed, she had loth; since shaken hands with the world, and part&jd from it. She owed it no favor. It had uo right to criticise her conduct. Thus she reasoned while listening to Eugene's impassioned entreat ies that she would lay aside her sorrow for the dead and become his wife. EINEM Still sbe hesitated. She truly believed in her husband's death; for would he not have written had he been living. Of the many letters she bad written him, the many inquiries she had in atituted, po answer could be obtained. No one knew anything of Mr. Valentin. In an hour of more than usual loneliness and trouble, she whispered to herself, that, should Eugene press his sail anew, she would (forwent to marry him. She liked him She was weary of her own life, caged awl cribbed as the 'viol weary of her own life, caged and cribbed as she was; she longed for freedom of reotratut 014 poverty and widowhood were constantly impos, log upon her; and these combined operated won derfolly in Eugene's favor. The marriage was strictly private; and half Mr, Staubury ' s friends bad no suspicion that she ha ever married at all until she became his wife. Y. L (.ow, Ile took her to a pleasant home, as comforts. ble, if not quite as luxurious as the one she had shared with Mr. Nalentin, and all that she could ask for was showered upon her with generous pro fusion. Their dwelling, two or three miles from the heart of Montreal, was surrounded with trees and flowery shrubs of every description. there was every coomfort that a living heart could suggest. The heart pf Hortense awoke to life, to love, to happiness- ' sod to see her •thus, re joioed that of her buaband. Two years of Almost unminglad bliss went by; but the third year commenced with some alarm for the health of Bugune. Twice had Hortense seen him drew a handkerchief from. his bps, which was steeped in blood; and often his nights were passed in coughing, until nature was ex. Masted, and the awning sleep found his drench. ed in the terrible sweats which so surely portend consumption. Hortense struggled against this new and terrible sorrow. It was the first time that she had watched over one so dear to her.— It wits the Snit dos that she had seen the effects of all is Am % and hope sad fear al. t. P. FAAJLAL, AT SEA. - --4111. --- Ttl• night ii roads for eeellag shade, For Minoes, and for aim, : And when 1 we • child, I iaid My hands upon toy breast, and prayed Lod mok to slumbers deep Childlike se thou, I lie to-night ♦nd mach my looety dlla light Each useveatent of the unsaying lamp Shows how the mead reels • A f n'er her awir the tramp, aad all har timbers strata aad cramp With wary aback alas bets, It starts land shudders. whit* It barna. Aad fa tta hinged socket tarns Now a►lnefa, slow, sod slanting lo►, It almost lows( WM And yid I know, while to sud ht. I watch Lb' ...min( pendule in r With restless fall LIM d rise, The etseidy shift is still upright. Poising its little globe of light 0 band of God ' 0 :amp of pidies pmentse ni mr arm) nark, &ad tomod, and 111 at ease, Ana thiiinar of itattlnot roma. Thu ship's convulsive roil, I own. "with love sod.tendor sus, Yon portent type or MO and tar ' A baseinly trust um, @pint calms, bly soul Is filled with light The neran slop Lis sok.= psalms. The wild winds chant. I craw tor palm , Happy es It, to-night. Under the eottaigs-root, solo I heard the seothing salosoor-rsto Fivto tbo Loudon Family H•rnl.l taroated in her breast, until Si length AI herd spinet all hope, and the blow came do 7 upon her all the harder that she had not 'oh o° ed her• self to feel its approach. It was hard to see him part with the mute evidence of'his brief happiness. Beery Wiedow where he bed sat with bet, every arbor where he bad sat with her, every - arbor where they had rested, every tree under whose shades they had walked, or wbose trunk be had (served with her name, all reoeived'a farewell loot. "How can [ part With you, dearest!" be asked, after his painful journey round the rooms and the garden. "Engeoe! do not name it," she said; "you will break my heart." "Hut you must hear it, Hortense. I cannot stay with you long Thank Heaven that I leave you r ,a_tr:ve want Promise me, dear, that you tr- . 0 I._;tver leave this borne . Trust me, I will be w.t ion in spirit., when the form is laid in the earth: watching, guarding, if possible, speaking to you." It was his last night on earth. When the morn broke, hie eyes were closed in the slumbers pit death. , Hortense wandered for months about her beau. Wel home like a psrtnrbed spirit. There was serli,itg that bad been touched by Eugene that bad not a solemn and sacred aline in her eyes. M Valentin bad been richly rewarded for his enterprise. Gold had showered in upon him in limner fibuloue profusion; and nn* he s-tious ly thought erreturning home. Somewhat en. trebled by his late illness, be was &trait with dismay at being again prostrated, and to find that big, disorder was the dreadful small pox That he lived through this, was only because his constitution wu so excellent that even this enemy would not vanquish it. He did live, but his owe mother could not have known him, so deeply 'cured and disfigured had he become.— With his first returning strength be set out for home. Hortense ! Mnutreal ! were now the be ginning and end of his aspirations. Oche thing only marred his joy on the homeward route.— Would Hiortense love the scarred and disfigured face that looked at him from the little glass in his cabin t Would she endure the long shaggy beard by which he was enabled to cover a part of the deep sears He bad taken passage in an American vessel bound for New York. He arrived safely, and the next our saw him on his way to Montreal. He bent! his course to the oeighborbrod where Hortense! proposed .going after his departure He inquired everywhere fur Manama Valentin. No one knew her He himself was not receg. nized, even when ho haunted the old places . business. Another name, of course, was upon the family door; and hither be turned his steps, to see if haply some old friend of former days might not have heard of her. Even the name was unremembered, or pretended to be; and yet the person he asked was one whom be remember ed as plotting zealously to be invited to his din• tier parties. "Tbey•will remember me when tbey find I ‘m said Valentin to himself, bitterly. lie turned into a by street, and saw a bewir sitting td the sunshine. It was the most cordial soil liap.y face that had met his gazs sittee he came Pao The Awe. au viasys•lnleg either, .r show him the withered arm that hung of • :ly under hi. °' l . l i and hopeless as the T ....0w. -coact), he thought he would ask it. As he ; ropped money into the ragged bat that lay on di ground beside the beggar, he said, earelegal "Can you tell me where Madame Val- entin Ii • :pi now. my roan ?" "I use. to kuow tp.r whoa she lived in Queen qtrevt Vas that the• one?" It was the street where Valentin's grand hotoe ..d "S'i•• i e• - ine from that howie, but she, dial not torget i)l) Jack, and many's the penny she has given m sinee Lilad enough was I wheu he - trd itho *l4 warrird spit)." —Marrie I e•:claimed M Valentin • "1-31,.3•+ y..m, sir, ye 4; married to Mr Stan bah ; be.), p .or man, he died a year ago." "D., you know where she lives Dow ?" 4. •Soinowirere out of town. I don't go so tar now lam so old. I ihiuk it is in Blooulebury Place, Weir. Terrace To pain• M Valentin's feelings would be a bopelrAn task Hortoncs married, but mull free! A painful revulsion took plane in bis mind, and he resolved, as all seemed to forget him, that be would on yet I.ll, , eover himself. That night he visited the neighborhood of Hortense, read ‘i'Stanbury" on the door, and managed to secure qie next lionie, which happened to be quite emp ty, and having its garden adjoining hers The next day he furnished it richly, brought a num b, nf_tervaota, bought a fine carriage and horses, d unit r the name of Richie settled down to w tell at liis leisure the movements of his neigh r Ito show all his private rooms on that sioe of the house which overlooked hers. The first rim^ that he saw her was iu the g rden She looked still handsome, but was very sad a d pensive. He wondered if it was for his toss, o her late hu.band ! He soon became ssitisfi,d t at the led a very quiet and retired life that 4,. br,l littlo company and kept early hours.— It was early spring, but be had plenty of cowers and fruit ie the green house, and he tient 901110 for her teceptanoe, with Mr. Itichie's oomph meets. -'Again and again be repeated the gifts, and cub time with a selection that marked a delicate taste. Hortense wu charmed with her new neighbor whom she had not seen. The fl were bad been sent several times, when be added to them a request that he might call on the lady. She returned a favorable answer, aud under cover of the twilight hour, be found him ;self in the room witb Hortense. The sound of hie voice filled her with indescribable 'emotion, because it resembled that of her first husband ; bat abe persuaded herself that it wu a fancy.— She found her neighbor agreeable and attentive He did not neglect any opportuoity of being with her. They rode together, sung together, and often his voice would thrill through the soul or Hortense, like a remembered lay frum SAWS far off land. Insensibly she was becoming interested in him. He had told her mask that was tree of his pastilife ; end openly mourned some being whom Ass said was •lost to hint.—he did not say by death—bat•Hortgase saw it in that light.— More and more tender grew tbeirinteroonree, for the lady seemed utterly to disregard his soupy until 4e was seemly surprised. sad certainly not offended, at rewiring-an offer of hie hand. She was alone iu the world; she had so one to °costal, no one who had any right to blame /ber for trusting to one of whom she knew so ht. tie. It was her own risk, and she accepted him; frankly telling how well she bad loved him who bad gone from her sight, and promising him that she would try to love him as well. M Valentin exulted greatly in this answer, sod came near dissevering himself; but be bad desired to delay it to a certain time, and be ebeeked himself in time. The wedding-4Y was appointed and everything was if readiness for 'the occasion. In exchanging gags, Hocken looked 6:silly at the one which the bridegroom ,gave her It waa the very ring which M. Val 'entin bad given her at their first wedding I She fainted on the spot, and he began to think that he had carried nutters too far. He hug over her with an anxiety seeh as be bad never know before. If she died OM/ by his own folly, what would become of him! He araerateit hie leicese, $1 54 A YEAR, ITT ADvAlia. ERIE, SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 29,18 a sad repeated eves with tease that he hid beau led to mum it. But Roftemse awoke to life, awoke to the new joy of his preasse, to ask his florin's'w for the past, hod 'aspire new hope for the fats's. There bad hes as Lapis:leak attrutioa towards him on her part, _fens th eir first interview; and 'is she confessed this, her hisband was quite in. alined to be satisfied, and to forgive the apparent disrespect which she fancied she had paid his memory. its M. Valentin predicted, the inhab itants of Montreal, as soon u they found out his wealth, were happy to make his acquaintance, sad remember him as as old friend. With the true spirit of an honest man, he has liquidated his debts to the last farthing; and now, with his still beautiful wife, he is traveling through Eu rope, happy as any couple can possibly be on their bridal tour. Mystery of the Goa* Tragedy. The awful tragedy which convulsed the upper 1 part of the inwit a mouth or two since, has ail oiled much inquiry respecting its probable cause. 1 We find a calm, lucid, and, we doubt not, per feetly authentic statement of the matter in the Advocate and Piasway Guardian, from which the following is condensed: It appears that young Gonldy's own mother had died when ho was very young, and little is said of her character and influence; but the tee, timony is unanimous, that his stepmother had tilled her'plaoe In the family, in the meet satin factory manner. Sae negiected no duty, and mewed the warm regard of all the members ,of the household. The parents were esteemed members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.— Their home was made pleasant and inviting The kindred ties, the social eonneetious sod i n . enemies of the family, were all of a desirable ehanteter How, then, was it that a son of good talents and mealy bearing, basing superior edu• cations.' advantages and floe prospects in life— in full possession of his reason—could have been left to become a parricide, fratticide and sui— cide, in a single hour? The moral fabric that has been weaving in the loom of life the peat year, may perhaps furnish some solution to the strange problem. We learn that daring the progress of the revival of last winter, this youth was deeply convinced of his list condition and seed of an interest in Christ. He wu about deciding to forsake his sins and ibek for pardon and imivaticin, when be was met by a member of a club with whom be bad provi. only become allied, and urged to "go once more" to the plane of rtivelryl, pay his dues, and remove his name, if be wished, "but not to sneak out ' e a coward." • is appeal to his pride overcame his weak re solve. nd soon be was in the midst of boon li sb oompan kas s. The fallen woman w there, with her bland' meats; the Prince of Darkness, too, was there, with his unseen and unresisted fair cinationr and when that youth returned to his hole, g ood angebairept and demons triumphed. His soul was polluted. He had disobeyed the oommand, "Keep thyself pare." The Holy Spirit was grieved frum his heiM&, and, judging from His eternal developments His eternal flight. grew imoar 4hiororoopa 'so Ito perm s . stone, to leave the downward ever maid soon was in the company of the prolligal and exhi liited sad evideooe, as occasion prompted, of the fierce tires burning within him. On itmt fatal night the last vestige of restraint was inatiifestly thrown off. There he stood forsaken of a rejec. ted Saviour, bringing upon himself "swift .16, struetion." How true is it that This time, in the present case, l was the memo• rable evening when the infatustled youth went ti pay what he supposed would de his last visit to the club Then the scale turned forever.— Tneu his path took the downward direction to d.-spair; and the anal r,•4ult was only a question of time. AR bad been well if be had listened to the voice of 000ecienoe, when the Spirit strove, and ho was constrained for a time to inquire what he should do to be raved; if when met by the temp ter and urged to go "once more" in the way of evil; ha 4 be taken bis Bible, and turned to Prov. vi. 20-24, and read, "My son, keep the father's commandments, and forsake not the law of thy mother; bind them continually upon thy heart, and Lie them about thy neck. When thou guest, it shall lead thee; when thou steepest, it shall ;keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall 'talk to thee. For the commandment is a lamp, 'and the law is light, and reproofs of instructing are 'the way of life. To keep thee from the evil 'roman, from the flattery of the toogoe of the strange woman." fled be given heed to this and similar counsels, instead of the taunts of the wicked—then be had been llfe, and this chapter of crime and woo loft unrecorled. Indifferencr to there precepts sealed his doom A "KNOTTY" BUT 'NUL lIOBSB STORY.—A very singular ciroumstance recently happened to a ware owned by S Snow, gsq , of tbi4 village. Mr Snow drove the mare to Mayville and bark, remaining at the county seat over nigh - On the return trip, Mr. 8. observed that the . mare drank but little when water was offered ber, and appeared rather fatigued When put i n to the stable, the ostler noticed that something was the matter, and concluded that the mare lied taken cold. Mr. 8. being called away from home fur several days by the ilium of his brother, left the mare in other care. Oa returning home, he found the mare in a very bad condition, with her throat mash swollen, and that she had not mean while ate or drank scarcely anything. An etc tempt was thee made to administer medicine by elevating the mare's bead so that the liquid would run down This proved abortive, having only a strangling effect At this stage of affairs, a large bunch oe the mare's throat manifested it self by redden protrusion. Forcibly equecaing this, the mare made a violent cough, and ejected a hemlock (board) knot, about two inches long, attached to which was a piece of the wood on its side, also at least two inches long, giving to the thing the appearanee of a cross. The hoot gave out a very offensive odor, as though it,had been imbedded in putrefying matter. The mare seem• ing completely relieved, immediately set her jaws to work with avidity to eating, to supply the vaesecy ereabvi•by a fast of five days, and has ever since been doing well. The knot , was probably haul in some oats, at Mayville. The mare had jut been taken from pasture, and doubtless went rather greedily into this favorite dish of the horse tribe then set be fore her, with the knot carelessly 'broke in.— Fredonia Advertiser. EVZOY WORD Tauz.—The Boston Traveller, ao Opposition paper, usually has lia eye to the windward, and now evidently foresees the defeat of sectionalism in 1860. It admits that the Democrats "are sensible men," and adds: "It is one of the felicities of the Democratic party that it generally gets beaten at the right time, sod beeonus wiser under the rod. It has . vast vitality, and is so hard to kill that its de. strunios is one of those things that are sayer thought to be possible." 11816. Wimp tits bout is but out of tau, tits imps *Aka doss risk. From tits Christian latelitganosr Three b • time, re know toot .h., ♦ point, wa tutor rot whirrs, That ararks the destiny of men For story or despair" THE MIRAGE OF 'WEALTH. "Ohami them that are/rich la this world, that they ho not high-mioded,twor trust in ulloartaiii riches, but la the living Hod, who giveth us richly all th&ga to enjoy?'-1 Tim. vi.,17. William Beokford was born towards the mid dle of the eighteenth oetifory. He was the may us of a wealthy West Indian proprietor, who, dying when Ifis child was ten years of age, left an income ofintiore than 000,000 a year to ac cumulate null the boy should reach his majo rity. Young 13eokford's mental powers were good, sad DO plains .00 spared in eultivating them by a refined eduestinn. Sir William Cham bers instructed him In architecture, while the eminent Mosul taught4im music, 41 twenty- one, with the income of a prig 2-ad accumula tions in ready money to` the j. 4t of about million sterling, he. latusehed the How vast the upecitie", of tuk- pis ile.l be fore him! The great talent 04. happiness was placed within iisC4reseki; 1.41 t hi threw the golden opportunity airay , Proffd an 4 haughty, the youthful Beokford withdrew from the active business of life, and retiring to Por tugal, there devoted himself to a life Of luxuri ous ease. The first outlay of his wealth there Wallin the erection of a gorgeous palace. During his residence in Portugal, be l A Nited under the royal sanction, some of the wealthy and luxurious monanteries of that country. it is difficult to convey an idea of the pomp and splendor of thisjunruey, which resembled more the cavalcade of an eastern prince than the tour of a private individual. "Everything," he himself says, "that could be thought or dreamed of for our convenience or Mutation was carried in our train—nothing was to be left behind but care and sorrow." "The ceiling of my apartment in nee- Wry," be ad,is, "was gilded and paint the fthor spread with Persian carpets of the finest texture; the tables decked with superb ewers aid ba sins of chased silver." The kitchen in which his dinner was prepared is thus described:—"d l stream of water flowed through it, from which - were formed reservoirs containing every kind of river-fish. On one aide Were heaped up loads of game sod venison; on the other side were vegetables and fruits in end less variety. Beyond a long line of stores ex tended a row of ovens, and close to them hillocks of wheaten flour finer than snow, rocks of sugar, jars of the purest oil, and pastry in various abun dance." The dinner which followed these pre parations was served iu a magnificent saloon, covered with pietures p , and lighted up with a pro, fusion of wax tapers to soonees of silver "The banquet," ho adds, "consisted of rarities and delicacies of every sewn from distant countries." Confectionary and fruits awaited the party in a room mill more sumptuous, where vessels of Goa filigree, containing the rarest and most fragrant spices, were handed round. Such was Beokford's mode of life during this journey. Returning at the oommenoement ref the pre' sent century to bii native country, Beckford again abandoned himself to the selfish enjoyment of his wealth. Taking a capricious dislike to a splendid mansion on his estate, which had been es t ec s o d, by his father, at a coat of 1111,800,000, be ordered it to be pillnd down. Ele re;olved that phmutx like, there should arise from ita ruins a building which should surpass in magnific.•oce all that hitherto had been known in English art. Foothill Abbek, once one of the wonders of the West of Emglertd, was the result of this determination Whole galleries of that vast pile were erected, solely for the purpose of enabling liwklord to emblazon on their windows the crests of the families from whom he boasted his des ceut:i The wonder of the fabric, however, was a towerof colossal dimensions and great height, erected somewhat in the manner and spirit of those who once reared a similar structure on the plains of Shfnar: "Go to, let uR build us a tower whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a natne.'-', To complete the erection of Bedford's tower, almost every cart the country seas employed, so that at one time agriculittral labor was well nigh suspended. Impatient of delay, night was not allowed to impose obstacles th the progress of the work. Torch.fight was etaiployesf; fresh bands of laborers relieving at evening those who worked by day. In the dark nights of winter, the distant traveller was startled by the blase of light from Fontbill, which proclaimed at onus.` the resources and the folly of the matt of wealth. Bedford's enjoyment was watching the erection of this structure At nightfall be would repair to some et:vateti at tof las groutpls, and there in solitude would feast, his senses for hours with the singular nip mete presented by th e dancing of the lights, acei the rcfl-ction o f their glare on the surrounitiog wood. The build , ing was indeed Bockftittl's idol; the object for which he livid tie devoted the whole of his energies to make it realize the to ,t fascinating visions of a vain imaginatiou. After the completion of the abb. y, ord's conduct was still more extraordinary. A wall, nearly Cwt , woes in eireutut•reuce, surrounded his mansion, and within this circle scarcely any visitors were allowed to pass. In sullen grandeur he dwelt alone, shunning converse with the world around. Majesty itself was desirous of visiting this wonderful dourain, but W. 19 refused adtnits Canoe. Strangers weuid disguise themselves as servants, as peasants, or as pedlars, in the hope of eatolliog a gill:apse of its glories. Nor was ItE interior unworthy of this curiosity All that art and wealth could give, to produce effect, were there. "Gold and silver vases and cups," says one who saw the place, "are so numerous here that they dazzle the eye; and when one looks round at the cabinets, candelabras, and erns. menus, which decorate the room, we may almost imagine that we stand in the treasury of some oriental prince, whose riches consist entirely in vessels of gold and silver, enriched with precious stones of every sort, from the ruby to the dia mond " Such was Beckford of Foothill With an in. come of more than .£.101.4000 rr annum, be seemed above the reach of adverse fortune Who would have ventured to bavo styled all this splendor evanescent "as the mirage? A sudden depreciation of West Indian property, took place. Some lawsuits terminated unfavorably, mbar. rastosnut poured in like a flood on the princely owner. The gates which had -refused admit. canoe to a monartih were rudely thrust open by a sheriff's officer. The mansion erected at no vast an expense Was sold: The greater part of its wetly treasures were scattered by the ham. mar of the auctioneer; and Beokford driven, with the shattered fragments of his fortune, to spend a solitary old age io a watering place; there to moralise on the Instability of wealth; there to feel bow little pleasure the retreepeet of ' neg. looted talents can give, and to point the oft told moral of the vanity ofhumati pursuits. He fell, it is said, unpitied by any. The tower which he had erected at so great a cost fell to the ground, and Foothill Abbey was pulled down by its new owner. Thus melted away, like frostwork before the sun, the extravagant productions of the man of wealth. His whole life had been a sad misap plication oithe talents committed to his care, and in the end he discovered that be had been cheated by the 'mirage.— The )(wags of lA► A miserly old fellow bas hit upon an lEV4I punkt to me poodles. He ow albs light of Wow dsp." • r A. TO UM OWL 8.. H.... , lidislitins Teem one night widish had been washed out diming the day, sad was not quite dry. I awake- mese imershig with a sere that, whit& has entinued ever Arse." The result is, he hashed to Amides hie hbotaktg ical studies and place himself under treatment, after having lost two yea's time. EL M. writer * "I went to sleep on s warm day on the top j ai an icts-bess, sad have never been well eines. ' He died shortly afterwards of consumption. T. H. took a very 'ewers cold, conversation Wslll laborous, but he had an appointment to preach, and felt as if he must fulfil it. He made the at• tempt, bat the utter's°, was attended with a pricking pain in the throat, and then a dull hurt .mg same on in the throat, with subsequent .1 4hemmieg o and fruitless clearing. He was per , dimes tl y disabled. A modest man walked until quite fatigued, and prespiring freely, entered an omnibus, and sat next to a lady who opened a window to' get some fresh air for herself. He soon became drilled and was ill for three weeks. R. P. got up at night and hoisted the window to look at a burning house; the eold air darted in on the unprotected body, just from a warm bed. A twelve months Mimes melted in dropsy. A strong . , hearty man came in on a hot slam+ mer's day, immediately took off his east and hat, and sat in the open window, looking out upon ,a beautiful garden, over which the mum breams came to fen him. Before be woe ware of it, he was chiliad, was attacked with infatuation of the lungs, and died within a week. A delicate young lady, as invalid, &patient of ours, in an excursion with severed others wae "overtaken" by nightfall, and by a young gen' dem**. They were in a best, and the boat was in the mud, the tide having gone out on a visit to the sea, and there they were, a mile from shore, acid several miles from home; that mile was extraordinarily long and short. Only think of it r. A whole mile over &Jersey flail covered with water, mud and bulrushes, tarrying in your arms a young lady of eighteen, with one of the sweetest voices, faces and forms to be seen in or Out of Jersey. Bespattered with mud, dripping with fog and dew,and slush, streaming with per spiraling, and wearied with hunger, thirst and fatigue, delighted' and excited by die novelty of the thing, they reeehed - home by midnight. The next day the "didn't have anything the matter of bar at all." Why? She had taken lemma of us. Instead of pulling off her bonnet and shawl, and sitting in a cool place, or instead of undressing at once, end thus lettiegtbe air cheek ,theperspiration, she went into a warm room, telostid the doors and windows at the same mo imes , laid aside the garments one by one, at in . tery Is, and when cooled off, in the course of half an hour, retired to sound sleep and a bright ' And .ealthini awakening. pother man rode three miles with a little Ir. ca used n bia lap, which, pressing against .tomaeb, unusual warmth there. It a chill, raw, November evening. In walk. hundred yards to tbi house, the e mov• slowly and wind blowiwthew abdomen in a moment. The t morning he e with the ominous pains of peritoneal int ion, wilieh is often fatal in three or four EMM man had some secounts to drew of itk "leiter. It was* oold night. Be was greatly Interested; time went, and the Sts too. lie felt little chilly, but thought be would soon be % OQC; that it was not worth while to rs.baDd the fire, It was near one o'clock before he left for home, and be reached it most thoroughly chilled. Nett morning be bad the pneumonia and never got well. Remaining at rut for hours in-a oold room, in raw, cold, damp weather, is enough to kill three men out of four by bringing on congestion of the lungs lung fever, or inhalation of the lungs.— Clergymen and lawyers often seethe the lives by speaking in warm rooms; the body debilitated by the effort; the skin in a state of perspiration; the lunge all bested up; and thus hungry, tired and depressed in body acrd oiled; go out into the cold air to ride or walk home—sad to die in the very bloom of health and manhood. And yet, to know these little things there me hundreds who hesitate to give a dollar a year, when on the knowledge of them human life is daily hang, And for want of it daily last.—Hairs Journal of Health. ..I . 4ar Ma Kiss lIIM roa His Moinsa."— The editor of the New Orleans Advocate has this incident about the ravages of the yellow fever In that city, related to him by one of the Methodist pastors; "The preacher was called a f, w days since to attend the funeral of a young mail II••fore his sickness he wad a stout, buoy ant, manly youth. He was from the State of M a i n e, and had boon here but a short time. He was attacked by yellow fever, and soon died, with no mother or relatives to watch by his bed. aid.., or to soothe him with that sympathy which none but those of our own dear kindred blood' can feel nr manifest. He died among strangers and was buried by them. When the funeral service was over, and the strange friends who had ministered to him were about to finally close the oufrio, an old lady, who stood by, stopped them and said, 'Let me kiss him for his mother!' We have yet to find the first man or woman to whose eyo this simple recital has sot brought , tears. stir Rev. Dr. Bellows of New York recently delivered a lecture au "Mirth," and among other good things gave utterance to the following: " For my part, I say it in all solemnity, I have become merely suspicions of the piety of those who do not lave pleasures in any form. I can not trust the man who Dever laughs, who is al ways sedate; who - has no apparent outlets for natural springs of sportiveness and gaiety that are perennial to the human soul. I know that ri Aare titres revenge oti' suoh violence. I expect to find cret vices, malignant sine, or horrid crimes springing up is this hotbed of 000 fined air and imprisoned space; and therefore it gives a sincere moral gratification, aud . where and in any community, to see innocent pleasures and popular amusements misting the religions big. otry that frowns so unwisely upon them. Any thing is better than that dark, dead, unhappy so. (dal life, a prey to annul and morbid excitement, which -result from unmitigated monism, whose second crop is usually unbridled license or info , mots folly." LOOK OUT TOR D&nK Testes.—Wp Atli hive several times diming the enntiog yiear. There. will be foar eelipem of the son, vim A partial eclipse on the 2d of Febreary, t inviAble here.— Another on the 29th of Jnly partial and very small; and is will ' .d at, 41esinatee peat evening. Another, August 26th, visible only in the great Soutliern Cloean. There will be two eclipses of the moon- the first one on tha 17th of February, will WALL It will 00011 Dar at 18 minutes past 4 in the m Is, six o'olook—end quarter before eight . e other, August 18th, will not be visible. It is an usual fast that a qua who tempted to beg a beautiful yeses cameo, eseied Mies Lemon, has sued her kwsoaking him in the eye. He is altogether nersesonahle ; why should be scam *lmams Wen be wants a pada J. W. DOUGIAS, EDITOR. NUMBER 34. \ /MUMS Inni r OPArait otitierties Gould pia possibly perpetuate triesep without ' hadispensable aid of the Mesmer prem. One of the most Japer, want rs3tj to s political journal is to wan, feelers gnat men out or, in some instances, ex , evadingly small Patterns. Those who are Inter ested in the success of parties and,,party prised.. pies, should sustain their newspapers with a lib eral, generous hand. No institution of modern society, says the Philadelphia 4rerats,—quoting, however, from one of its ootemporanes---vm bear a moment's comparison with this great engine— this great organ of the human stied. It is a venal—mid the only universal--4ever of edam. ,ion. It is an estate by itself, embracing within the range of its influence, element. which enter into every relation of human economy and life.— There is no hidden recess of society which it does not penetrate. It is a statesman, a lawyer, a physician, a philosopher, a teacher, a mechan ic, a farmer, a manufacturer, a min of leisure, and of science. It controls the state—it directs the family, the legislator, the magistrate, and the politician. None rise above Reinitiate°, none sink below its authority It is the most portal ding, powerful, and beneficent institution of an , dent or modern society. It is more in harmony with the Divine intelligence, more minute, in comprehensible, inscrutable, and yet more sims ple, intelligible and influential in effecting the ends of human progress, in elevating the charm ter sad securing the culture of man, than any and all other agencies combined. This may be re garded at first as an extravagant assumption.— Individuals may deride the newspaper press— may assail its integrity, question its morality, and deny its controling influence over the will, judgment, and soden. of men; but such persons would measure the volume of the see by the rips plea upon its surface, bound the earth by the ho• risoa of their own visions, and estimate the economy of nature by the gifts which have been strewed around their own hearthstones. If the newspaper press is capable of almost infinite good, by disseminating truth, by correcting false• hood, by giving character to nations, and by writing their history, we concede it is also cape. bin of doing vast mischief. It is no part of our belief, that it is anywhere in the neighborhood of perfection. Nor is it possible to wield an engine so eom pliested and powerful—to drive a machine of such gigantic proportions—without violating some of the rights of individuals, or without offending moral principles and sensibilities. We have no perfect governments, lawyers, statesmen, mechanics or teachers. Perfection is not stamp. ed on mind or 'matter. The newspaper press is a democratic institution in its feature, labor and effect; in its free speech, opinions and economy; in the mind that directs, and in the judgment and taste that pstroeize it. It is an element in the social and political government—representa tive, deliberate and pervading: addressing the citizen and the magistrate, upholding and ans. Milting the good,.rebuking and condemning the offender. It feeds and stimulates the mind with perpetual means of action; teaches the ignorant to read, to spelt, to write, to think; draws it out of channels, and leads it into the daylight otthe world's deeds. ' apd thus liberalizes, enlarges and expands it. The newspaper press of the United States has published more valuable matter with in a twelvemonth, than the combined press of the world published in the first five yearn of the present century. Linked to the electric tele graph, and facilitated in its transmission by the Toot orbs= of raiiiresoilo *ow is oriositiosi., • great mechanical organ of speech, almost infin ite in its scope, its resources, variety, capacity and rapidity of utterance. It is not so mesh the product as the promoter, and author of nine and enterprise. The aggregate matter thrown off daily and weekly in the Uaited States, near /y all of which a read by the Reopk, is ab solutely beyond computation. That it is demand ed, paid for, and perused by the American pabi lie; that it is rapidly lemming in amount, in fluence and power, and facts which point with significant prophecy to the office it holds and the authority it is destined to wield over the mind of the nation. It is the greatest power in the State, and from its very nature places every oth er, to a greater or less extent, in subjection to its laws. It is, too, a conservative, disinterested democratic power, diffusing its blesaings, eleva ting sod purifying those it would govern. The newspaper prim is the greatest leveller of the age, on an ascending, net a descending seal% be cause it opens to all the fountain of knowledge, and provokes and insures universal inquiry and judgment. That it has disseminated lino?, im morality sod viet; that it has been a vehicle of slander and malevolence; that it has lamented pride and vanity, that ie has blown up hums. bubbles and pricked them into ridiculous ooli lapse; that it bee fostered speculation, and bean more or less subservient to schemes of fraud and ambition, none can doubt. No party could exist a year without it. To strike it down would be to reinstate a Babel of infinite tongues—to paralyse and confound ail existing older and lotion in the social and poli tical systems. We like to berate and underrate it, but we could do nothing without it. We dis like to praise it or acknowledge its power. Many habitually deny its influence, and as constantly court its favor and its encoungement v . It has made more reputations for public tern, more fortunes in business, and more professional ober aster. for individuals, than have ever been made otherwise by ability, energy and skill. It is a great beneficiary for politicians, their main re. Hance, and their• only moans of acquiring pill*. notoriety. It is the ordnance department for politics—the arsenal and magazine from which _small mishits draw their weapons and ammunition for political welfare. It furnishes them with all their data, analyzes their subjects, draws their conclusions and confers upon them the distinct tied of ostensible authorship. It is, with its thousands of editors, still au impersonality. The press speaks; we listen to it, not as the voice of otis, bat u the impersonal organ of many. It is assailed by dwarfs and strata, who often sleet to treat it with disdain, to the infinite amuse. meet of its laborious conductors.—(Macy (Ills. fools) Herald. PAUL MORPRY.—In manner he is courteous and gentlemanly, and in conversation agreeable and refined. As a obese player he is distinguish ed above all living players by the rapidity and depth of his combinations, by the unerring aeon easy of his memory, by his thorough knowledge of the theory of the game as elaborated in books, by self possession, and by his unvarying and stu amyl e..artesy to his opponents. In short, as a dhoicguiihed adversary remarked, he is the very Crichuon of ehess, as ehivalrous as he is bold and skillful; and we doubt whether the past world be any more suecessful than the present in fun Dishing his superior No American can look with indifference upon Paul Morphy's marvel. lons efforts to confer upon his country the fuse of superior eseellenoe in that ancient, sakie pas time, which king., statesmen, warrior' and es pe have forages delighted to praetlee t and whisk alone of all games has received the sanetion of the priesthood of every ohirsh—Oatholio, Prot estant, Moslem and Buddhist Nr A Weaken editor says that a seldld wee 11011 over by swagoa three years old, sod croft eyed, with Witold' os, 'hid wet ipoke after% *Ole