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G'.S Cl.~';Z''f'4~3~a
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No subscription received for a shorter period than
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6c9l2ta Zl 4 O. gra GS tnacitsias..
BY virtua of a trannum writ ot vcnditioni
tallow's, issued out of the Court of Common
Pleas of Perry county, and to me directed, 1
will expose to sale, by public vendue or out
cry, on the premises, the following described
property, seized, tok:n in execution, and to
be sold as the property of Thomas Patterson
(Pinner), on Thursday the 20th day of July
next, at 10 o'clock, A. M., viz :
All that lot of grow.' situate on the
northerly side of Mulberry street in the town
of Hollidaysburg, Huntingdon county, front
ing on said street and extending back at right
angles to said street 180 feet to Strawberry
Alley, being lot No. 46 in the plan of the
said town, thereon erected a two tory plas
tered dwelling house. Also, lot No. Si,, the
old town of the s rid town of Hollidaysburg,
being 60 feet in front on Allegheny street,
extending back 180 feet to Strawberry Alley,
thereon elected a two story brick tavern
house, a large frame stable and back build
ings. Also, lot No. 20 in the said town ot
Hollidaysburg, fronting 60 feet on Walnut
street, and extending back 180 feet to Cher
ry alley, being the lot of ground nurchased
by defendant [Thomas Patterson] by arti
cles ot agreement, from James Lindsay, ad
joining a lot of John James, and having a
two story frame house thereon erected.—
Also, a lot or piece of gi mind situate on the
corner of Blair and Montgomery street, in
the town of Hollidaysburg, being 55 feet
more or less, on each street, being part of
lot No.—in said town plot, having thereon
erected a large three story Brick house and
a two story frame house."
Irene terms of sale will be cash.
JOHN SHAVER, SUE
Sheriff's Office. Hunting- I
don, June 28, 5
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office _Vu. 139 Chesnut Street.
Make insurances ut lives, grant anninuities
and Endowments, and receive and execute
Trusts.
Rates for insuring 5100, on a single life.
Ape. For 1 year. Fur 7 years. Fur life.
annually. annually.
20 90 91 90 95 81 77
30 1 31 1 36 2 36
40 1 69 1 83 3 20
SO 1 96 2 09 4 60
60 435 491 700
EXAMPLE :—A person aged 30 years, by
paying the company 91 31 would secure to
ns family or heirs $lOO, should he die in one
year—or for 913 10 he secures to them 9:000
Or for $l3 (30 annually for 7 years, he se
cures to- them 91000 should he die during
the 7 years—or for $23 60 paid annually du
ring life he provides for them ICCO dollars
whenever he dies— for $65 50 they would re
ceive 5000 'dollars, should he die in one year.
Further particulars respecting Life insur
ance, Trusts, or management of Estates mid
property confided to them, may be had at
the office.
B W. RICH ARDS. Pi esidcat,
3NO. F. JAMES, Actuary.
Phil'a. April 19, 1843.-6 in.
DAY,.GERRISH & CO,
GENERAL PRODUCE,
Commission and Forwarding
Merchants.
Granite Stores, lower side of Race street,
On the Delaware, Philadelphia.
TOESPECTFULLY inform their friends
414 and the merchants generally, that they
have taken the large Wharf and Granite
Front Stores,
known as Ridgeway's Stores,
immediately below Rare street, in addition
to their old wharf, where they will con
tinue the produce commission business, as
also to receive and forward goods tolall points
on the Janiata, and North and West branches
of the Susquehanna Rivers. via. the Tide
Water, and Pennsylvania, and Schuylkill and
Union canals.
This establishment has many advantages
over any other in the city. in point of room
and convenience for the accommodation of
boats and produce. Being one of the largest
wharves on the Delaware, and the stores
extending from Water street to Delaware
Front. Five or six boats may at the same
time be loading and discharging. The usual
facilities will be given on all consignments
entrusted to their charge, which will be thank
fully received and meet with prompt atten
tion. Salt, Fish and Plaster, constantly on
hand and for sale at the lowest market price.
References, Philadelphia.
J. Ridgway,Esq. J Brock, son & Co
Jacob Lex & Son Waterman & Osbourn
Mulford & Alter Scull & Thompson
Wilson. Seiger & Bro E J Etting & Bro
Bray, Barcroft & C o Morris,Patterson 8c co
Lower & Barrow.
Lewistown.
& J Milliken A & G Blimver
Patterson & Horner J McCoy, E;q.
Waterstreet.
Stewart & Horrell E\V Wike, Esq.
February 8,1843.-6 in.
1 W. 11. l'irounia, R. M. KIRKBRIDE
IWILLIAMH,MORRIS&CO.
AND
Commission alerthantS,
HAVRE DE GRACE, MARYLAND
TM - WAVING taken the large and commodi
ous Wharf and Warehouse situated di
rectly on the Canal Basin, are now prepared
to receive consignments of goods for tran
shipment or sale.
A general assortment of Groceries, &c.,
consisting of Loaf and Brown Sugars, Coffee,
Molasaes, Sperm Oil and Candles, White,
Yellow and Brown Soaps, Fish, Salt, Plaster,
&c., together with all kinds of Spices and
Paints—and also ready made Clothing will
be kept constantly on hand and disposed of
on city terms or exchanged for country pro
duce, Coal, &c.
April 19. 1843.-3 m.
TE.7IPER.I.IIOE lIOUSE.
• tat111:1 subscriber occupying the
- large thi ee story brick dwell- •
in house at the south east corner
_ , • of Allegheny and Smith streets, in
the li.iough of Huntingdun, the third story of
which doting the last summer has been fitted
for sleeping rooms '• having a large stable on
the premises, and having employed a care
ful person to attend to it and take care of
horses, informs the public that she is
prepared to accommodate such of her friends
and such strangers and travellers as may de
site accommodation. She respectfully soli
cits a share of public patronage, and hopes
the friends of Temperance will give her a
call. ESi'IIER CLARKE.
Huntingdon March 1, 1393.
WASHINGTON HOTEL,
MARKET SQUARE, HARRISBURG, Pa
The subscriber respectfully announcesto his
friends and the public generally, that he has
taken the above named well known Tavern
Stand, (formerly kept by NA , in. L. Camp,)
where he will endeavor to serve those that
may call upon him hi the most satisfactory .
manner. The House is centrally and plea
santly located, and is furnished througlualt
with the best of bedding and other furniture,
and his accommodations ate such onto make
it a convenient and desirable stopping place.
a-p No exertions will be spared to make
it agreeable in all its departments •to those
who may favor• him with a call.
FREDERICK. J. FENN:,
December 21, 1842.
MaIIVILMIIrr
THOMAS DOUGALSS, GUN-SMITH,
Ml, ESPECTFULLY informs his friends,
4.4 and the public generally, that lie still
continues the above business in
131 , 00 N IN EL LSTO WN,
and is prepared to manufacture all kinds of
Guns or Pistols, or to make any necessary re
pairs upon any article of the kind. If careful
attention will merit success, he hopes to se
cure the patronage of the sharp shouters of
this county.
October 11, 1842.
BOOTS AND SHOE S.
Leghorn ai►d Straw Bonnets)
PALM LEAF AND LEGHORN HATS,
Merchants and others from Huntingdon
and adjacent places, are respectfully requcs
ted to call and examine the stnr.k of the above
kinds of goods, which is full and extensive,
and which will be sold at prices that will
give satisfaction to purchasers, at No. 168
Market, sweet south.ettst corner of sth street,
Philadelphia.
;.. .
GEb. W. & LEM:: B. TAYLOR
Pila. Feb. 6, 1843.-6ino.
Executor's Notice.
O ricli is hereby given, that Letters
All testamentary on the last will and tes
tament of Samuel Finlay, late of Dublin town
ship, Huntingdon county, dec'd., have been
granted to the subscribers. All persons there
fore indebted to the estate of said dec'd., are
requested to make immediate payment. and
all having claims to present them duly at:
thenticated for settlement, to
JOHN WALKER,
JAMES CREE, Jr.
Executors.
June 21, 1848.-6 t.
M Ila W 1111 lE IN 0
EGS to inform the inhabttants of Hun
tingdon mid Its vicinity, that he has
commenced the business of light and heavy
wagon making, ancl every kind of vehicle re
pairing. Having learnt his trade in England,
he is prepared to furnish either the English
or American style of wagons, and hopes by
diligence and attention to merit a share of
public patronage.
N. B. Shop near to Mr. J. Houck's black
smith shop.
lluntingdon, April 19, 1843.—1 y.
Snyder's Pegetable Concrete.
do certify that my wife was afflicted for
some time with a very severe cough,
with a pain in the breast, and after many
other remedies had failed I was induced to
procure a bottle of J. Snyder's Vegetable
Concrete, and she was perfectly restored by
the use of part of a bottle full.
lIUGII KELLEY,
For sale hr Jacob Snyder, Hollidaysburg.
Jan. 18, 1843.
dininistrator's .1"ol
ink ErI'ERS of adininistrslinn on the es
tate of John Isenberg, late of the bo
rough of Alexandria, Huntingdon county,
dec'd., have been granted to the undersigned,
All persons indebted to said estate are re
quested to make immediate payment, and
those having claims against it will present
them properly authenticated for settlement
without delay.
gAIqUEI. ISENBERG, Adm'r,
June 7,180.-4 E.
44E2E),,
POETP.7.
SONG or MARION'S MEN.
(The exploits of Oen. Francis Marion, the famous
partisan warrior of South Carolina, form un in
teresting portion of the annals of the American
Revolution.]
Our band is few, but trite and tried,
Our leader, frank and bold ;
The British soldier trembles
When Marion's name is told.
Our fortress is the good green wood,
Our tent the cypress tree ;
We know the forest round us,
As seamen know the sea.
We know its walls of thorny vines,
Its glades of reedy grass,
Its safe and silent islands
Within the dark morass.
Wo to the English soldiery
That little dread us near !
On them shall light at midnight,
A strange and sudden fear:
When waking to their tents on lire
They grasp their arms hi vain,
And they who stand to face us
Are beat to earth again,
And they who Ily in terror, deem
A mighty host behind,
And hear the tramp of thou,ands
Upon the hollow wind.
Then sweet the hour that brings release
From danger and from toil :
We talk the battle over,
And share the battle's spoil.
The woodland rings with laugh and shout,
As if a hunt were up,
And woodland flowers are gathered
To crown the soldier's cup.
With merry songs we mock the wind
That in the pine-top grieves,
And slumber long and sweetly,
On beds of oaken leaves.
Well knows tire fur and friendly moon
The band that Marion leads;
The glitter of their rifles,
The sctunpering of their steeds.
"Pis life our fiery barbs to
„guide
Acioss the moonlit plants;
"Fig life to feel the night wind
That lifts their tossing manes.
A moment in the British camp,
A. moment, and away
Back to the pathless forest ;
Before the peetrof day,
Grave men there are by broad Santee,
Crave men with hoary hair's
Their hearts are all with Marion,
For Marion are their prayers.
And lovely ladies greet our band,
With kindgst welcoming,
With smiles Mee those of summer.
And tears like those of spring.
For them we wear these trusty arms,
And lay them down no more
Till we have driven the Briton,
Forever from our shore.
At sixteen, the ladies, Rosamond and Lilias were
known to all the country round as the Beauties of
Folkston; and the rare spectacle of two young fe
males so exquisitely lovely and so wonderfully simi
lar that a portrait of the one would have served as a
most accurate lilyness of the other, drew round them
a crowd of admirers. It required an intimate ac
quaintance with both to discover the points of dif
ference which existed between them, and yet those
differences were of the most decided and definite
kind. Possessed of equally violent passions, equally
self-willed and resolute of purpose, they yet were
most unlike in talent and in their power of self-pos
-4 the Journal ofan Antiquarian. I session.
MICiVaL:dAN3CTIES.
Front Gra11(1111 ' 8 Magazine.
TEE TWIN SISTERS.
The old mansion house of Fo!ketone has little to
attract the notice of the passing wayfarer, for its fine '
park is now converted into a sheep pasture, its flow
er garden is planted with turnips, and its noble
woods have long since been felled to enable its owner
to enrich and embellish some fairer domain. The I
house has suffered comparatively little from time,
but a fiercer enemy has been at work within its
walls, and in its finest apartments arc still visible the
traces of that devouring fire which has reduced it
almost to ruin. Strange rumors are abroad con
coining the origin of that fire. The present owner,
a wild and dissolute youth, came down to visit, with
a party of gay revellers, soon after it fell into his pos
session. Five snore stately and better appointed
mansions were already his, for he was one of the
wealthiest of England's peers, and when he beheld
the worm-eaten tapestries and mouldering furniture,
he was heard to exclaim, with a loud oath—
"l would that my mad cousin of Folkstone had
set lire to the old nest ; it will cost snore in taxes
than the lands will yield in revenue."
His steward, a keen-eyed, iron faced man, heard
his master's wards, and on the very night after the
young lord's departure, the building was discovered
to be in flames. Some said it was a judgment from
Heaven, others shook their heads, and whispered
that the agency of man was visible in a fire which
had broken out from f,,ur different points at the same
moment, and certain it is that no money was ever
spent upon the repair of the once noble structure.
The ladies Rosamond aqd Lilian were the only
children of the proud old marquis whose ancestors
had for centuries ruled over the domain of Folk
stone. Born after a childless marriage of many
years, perhaps both parents would have been pleased
if ono fair son had been given to them instead of
two fragile daughters who were now destined to in
herit the estate, and extinguish the name of their
ancient family. But parental affection silenced, if
it could not subdue, their regrets, and ere long the
twins were the idols of both father and mother.
The singular personal resemblance, which so gen
erally characterizes those whom nature has so mys
teriously connected, was in this case very strongly
marked. As infants they could, with difficulty, be
distinguished from each other, and only the erring
eyo of a mother could detect the shades of difference
between the deep gray eye of Rosamond and the
slight hazel tint which was diffused through the
same color in the eyes of Lilies ; while only a moth
er% heart could remember that when two little heads
,s ere laid upon the :am,. pillow the curl 4 which
chistered round Rosamond's brow were darker than
the chcsnut locks of Lilies. The similitude, scented
rather to increase with the progress of time, and in
the sportiveness of their innocent mirth, the fair
children would often puzzle their parents by chang
ing the ornaments which formed the only distinction
between them in the eyes of the family servants.
Nor were they less alike in character than in per
son, and happier had it been for both, if more diver
sity between them had really existed.
Entitled by their birth to rank and affluence,
gifted by nature with exceeding beauty, and almost
worshipped by parents who had long despaired of
beholding the renewal of their youth in their off
spring, they early learned their own importance in
the eyes of the whole household. Their will became
a law to all, from the proud old lord down to his
humblest servant, and it is not surprising that they
should soon have acquired a full portion of the way
wardness which is ever the result of unlimited in
dulgence. Their similarity of taste and feeling
produced disunion between them even in the nur
sery, for each was sure to desire the stone gratifica
tion at precisely the same moment, and as it was
scarcely possible always to fulfil the desire of both,
their wilfulness occasioned continual discord be
tween them. Many a dispute which has separated
those whom God himself had united—many a family
feud which has left its inheritance of hatred in the
second and third generations—many a bitter jeal
ousy—many an evil passion which curdles the milk
of human kindness in the hearts of man, and makes
the bond of kindred only a fetter which is gladly
broken—may be traced to the petty bickering and
still renewed quarrels which disturbed their days of
infancy. The misfortunes which belel the beautiful
'
sisters, if traced to their first cause, trill be found to
t have arisen in that disunion of feeling, and selfish
mess, which characterized their childhood, which the
wonderful similarity that distitiguished their moral
1 as well as their physical nature, and that which
should have bound them by the closest tics, became
only an unfailing source of discord and dislike.
As nothing is more unlovely titan childhood
without its innocent attributes, its frankness, its
overflowing affections, its utter unselfishness, its
purity of feeling—we will pass over the events of the
sisters' early life; events which, though of trifling
import. in themselves, were of no little consequence
to theformation of character.
Scarcely had the beautiful sisters attained the age
of womanhood, when death deprived them of their
mother, whose weak indulgence had fostered the
growth of those error; in her children of which she
was keenly sensible ere she was removed from them
forever. They felt little respect fur the parent who
had early submitted he: better judgment to their in
fantine caprices, and like all spoiled children, they
made a most ungrateful return for her unlimited
affection. She was allowed to minister to their
pleasures, but when, excited by their wilfulness, she
attempted to act the mentor, or to sesta her dormant
authority, she was met by utter contempt for her
counsels, and direct disregard of her commands.
Iler last days were embittered by their disobedience,
and the children who had been bestowed as bles
sings, were by her OW/1 excess of affection, made her
most bitter scourges.
Their father, a weak, silly, proud old man, who
fancied that every thing which appertained to him
was beyond censure or criticism, and who allowed
his daughters to act precisely as they pleased, so
long as they did not controvert his pecuniary preju
dices, was little calculated to be their guide during
the perilous period of life which they had justenter
ed. Thus loft to follow the dictates of their own
will, they could scarcely fail of laying up a store of
future suffering.
Among their numerous admirers was one who
mingled timidly with the throng of the noble and
the gifted that surrounded the lovely heiresses of
Folkston, as if conscious of his full claims upon
their notice or regard. Herberton Bellenden was a
younger son, who from his boyhood, had been des
tined to the church, because a valuable living wasin
the gift of his family. His rectory was but a short
distance from Folkston, and the largo estate of his
elder brother lay contiguous to those which were the
future inheritance of the lovely sister.
It would be useless to attempt describing the pro
gress of those events which gradually tended to com
pass the scheme of the romantic but self-willed 'A
lias. She had early discovered Herberton Hellen
den's preference for Rosamond--she had almost as
soon detected her proud sister's mental struggles
against reciprocal affection, and yet, in spite of these
things she resolved to win the object of her love,
even if her path to the altar led over her sister's
crushed and bleeding heart.
All the powerful machinery of a woman's wili
ness was put in motion to secure the prize. All that
she could devise of boldness or of stratagem was
exercised upon the unsuspecting lovers. By cun
ningly constructed tales of Iscrbcrt':+ presumption.
Rosamond was instigated to treat hint with a degree
of proud coldness almost amounting to contemlit,
While the downcast eye of Lilias, finer quivering lip, I
'her trembling voice, her agitated Manner when in
his presence, were all made to bear palpable witness
to the depth of her own fervent tenderness. A
woman's cunning is almost sure of success, because
men rarely suspect the sex until they have had some
experience of their falsehood, and even if once de
ceived, personal vanity is usually a most powerful
auxiliary on the side of the weaker, but more subtle
adversary. Herbert Bellenden was entirely deceived
by the devices of Lilies. He fancied that the sen
sitive girl was cherishing a hopeless passion which
she-vainly struggled to hide, and when he compared
her ill-concealed agitation 'of manner with the stern
cold indifference of her sister, ho could not but won
der at his own waywardness in thus humbling him
self before the contemner, while he turned from the
worshipper.
One evening—it was the dusky hour of twilight
and the shadow of the broad and gnarled oaks threw
a deeper gloom over the pathway as Herbert en-
countered the lady of his love. She was treading
with quick step a narrow walk which traversed the I
lawn, and lout itself in the darkest woodland. A
closed bonnet partly hid her features. but the proud
curve of those smiling lips, the stately tread of that
tall form was not to be mistaken. He little knew
what thoughts of coining triumph had lent that
haughty look and that proud step to the maiden who
now stood beside him.—Day after day had he
brooded over his preference for the cold beauty, and
pondered on the belief that he was the object of her
sister's love. Sometimes he was tempted to banish
himself from the presence of both—sometimes he
was upon the point of devoting himself to the gen
tle and loving Lilian—yet his vacillating temper led
hint still to defer the moment of explanation. They
were alone—no witnesses but the silent stars could
behold his agitation—his voice would reach no ears
save hers—and yielding to un impulse which he
would neither understand nor control, he poured
forth the long repressed tide of deep affection. Si
lently did she suffer him to draw her towards him—
silently did she hide her face upon his bosom, as he
prayed her to forget rank and fortune, and parental
anger, for the strong and abiding love of a husband's
heart. Did no misgivings seize hint when he found
the haughty and frank Rosamond listening calmly
to such a proposition? Did he believe that passion
had so subdued her proud temper that she would
not only wed the untitled younger son, but even de
, I grade herself by a clandestine marriage ?
On the night following this unlooked for interview,
a veiled and muffled figure stole silently from a post
ern gate, which opened upon a bypath through
Folkston° park. The clock was striking midnight
as the disguised lady approached the trysting place..
Herbert, Bellenden was already there, the carriage
was in waiting, and with a silent embrace, the lovers
hurried to enter it. Ere the neat day's sun had set,
the whole neighborhood knew that Herbert Hellen
den had robbed Folkstone of one of its fairest orna
ments. The story was widely diffused, but strange
to say, half the world made Rosamond the partner
of his flight, while others said that Lilies was the
bride. The gossips were only satisfied when Rosa
mond, looking pale and sorrowful, but still as proud
and queenly as ever, was seen accompaning her
father in Iris daily rides.—lt was strange—passing
strange. _ _
Time passed and wrought his usual changes as
ho winged his silent way. Five years had elapsed
since the eventful night which had thus far decided
the fate of the sisters. The old lord of Folkston
was gathered to his fathers—the stately and beau
tiful Rosamond dwelt alone in the ancient hall, for,
excepting her sister, there were none of her near
kindred left upon earth. Herbert Ballenden had
inherited the title and fortune which had once be
longed to his elder brother, who had recently died
childless, and the beautiful Lilies, who to the world,
had sacrificed ambition to love when she wedded,
now reaped her reward in her newly acquired rank
and wealth. At the death bed of their aged father,
a reconciliation had taken place between the estran
ged family. The old man, who could not forgive
his daughter's clandestine marriage with a younger
son, avas induced to bestow his blessing on the
richly dowered countess, and Rosamond, whose
cold, proud demeanor had now become habitual,
did not refuse to accede to the proffered peace. But
though there might be peace between them, there
could be no affection. Rosamond's heart had re
ceived a wound which was yet unhealed, and Lilies
was hiding within her bosom a secret which she
dreaded lest her very thoughts should reveal. Jeal
ous of every look and word which her husband be
stowed upon another, pitting for the kindness and
affection which Herbert neither would nor could
bestow, and continually trembling lest something
should occur to break the frail bonds which seemed
to hold her husband to her side, she had indeed
reaped the reward in utter disappointment and mis
ery.
But her punishment was not yet come.
Lilies was preparing for her first winter in Lon
don, where she had resolved to appear in all the
splendor of her beauty and fortune, when a fearful
accident overthrew all her hopes. While in the act
of stepping out of her carriage, the horses took
fright, and the fair countess was thrown violently to
the ground while her dress becoming entangled in
the step, she was dragged souse distance over the
rugged road before assistance could be afforded.—
She was taken up apparently lifeless, and so fright
fully disfigured that she was scarcely to be recog
nized. Medical chill was immediately procured,
v\.3A;pli2D I:::•njsccE)
but fur many hours she lay between life and death,
and it was not until the second day that the doctor
pronounced the crisis to be past.
That very night, aa Rosamond watched beside the
bed of her unconscious sister, in the very presence
Of the kelpiess sutrercr, who knew not of what was
passing around her—that very night from the lip,
of him whom she still loved better than aught elt,
on earth, did Rosamond linen to a talc which ahowt
maddened her. IL was her love that Herbert Bel.
lenden had sought—it was her whom he fancied he
wag bearing to a clandestine marriage, and not un
til the hurried and confused ceremony was over—
not until the veil was removed from the face of her
whom he claimed as his wife, 4i4 .. he kart that
Lilies, and not Rosamond, was his compd.. .
From that hour, Rosamond," said he, "I have
loathed the very air she breathed, and the very earth
she trod. She has been as a serpent in my path,
and yet her tears, her agony, her blandishments
have won Inc to treat her sometimes with a tender
ness that has seemed almost like love. Yes, he ad
ded, bitterly, "slie hart been as a serpent in toy path,
as a deadly adder whose sting I feel in my very
heart of hearts, and now she lies like a crushed
worm before me—thus to drag out perhaps years of
misery—a fearful arid himible sight to all—a heavy
and wre , .ched burden to lily existence."
What were the feelings of Rosamond when she
listened to this strange talc? The floodgates of
passion were thrown open—the baniurs of pride
• and principle gave way, and in that fearful hour the
secret of her Icing hoarded passion was revealed to
the weak and vacillating husband of another.—
From that moment Rosamond never re-entered her
sister's apartment, and never met Herbert Bellew.
den save in the presence of others of the household.
But it was observed, and mentioned long afters ards,
when circurnstatie!s awakened fearful suspicions,
that the charge of the helpless sufferer now devolv
ed entirely on a superannuated old woman who bad
Ping btlen regarded with en evil eye for her malice
and illomened power of mischief. •
Though crushed nearly out of all semblance to
humanity, Lilias seemed to cling to life with won
, &Ad tenacity, and the physician reiterated his °pin
iBn that care alone was necessary to restore her to
comparative health.
"She will never walk again, plor thing," said he,
gravely, "and the will be scarcely able te Weever
the use of her lynch ; her features, too, init.t
ways be terribly distorted, and 1 doubt whether her
eyesight will be fully restored—but no vital function
is seriously injured, and she may yet live many
years."
That very night, or rather dawn of the folio% ing
day, Lilias was found stark and stiff in death, while
the old woman, whose business it was to watch the
sufferer, lay in a deep sleep on the floor beside her.
The physician seemed thunderstruck when he be
held the lifeless body of her whom he had left only
a few hours before in comparative safety, but he
could not take it upon himself to assert that some
sudden change had not taken place, some rapid and
violent attack of disease, whose symptoms were un
marked, and the general disorganization of her
whole frame. In consequence of her disfigured ap
pearance, her body was not allowed to lie in state,
although a pompuous funeral graced the obsequies
of the once beautiful Countess of Moreland. The
Earl wore the semblance of decent sorrow—the lady
Rosamond assumed the dusky habiliments of wo—
and yet, it was observed, that the old watcher whose
carelessness had in all probability shortened the daym
of the unhappy countess. was taken into the house
hold and honored with the confidence of the lady
of Folkston.
Three months had scarcely elapsed, after the
frighiful events just narrated, when a marriage sear+ .
solemnized secretly and by torchlight in the chapel
of Folkstone. The bride was the beautiful Rosa
mond, and tier voice rung out through the dark
aisles of the lonely church asitlt almost unnatural
clarness as she tittered the solemn responses. But
the tones of the bridegroom were hollow slid low,
and his frame quivered with strong emotion, for hi•t
weak and tinted nature shrunk from the thought a
that which he had done, and that w Well was now
doing. He had yielded to the bolder weakness of
the woman at his side, but he was appalled by the
shadows which conscience called up befoul his be
wildered sight. Rosamond was revenged, alike op
on the sister, who had wronged, and the dastard
lover who had wavered when decision would base
afforded happiness to both. Lilies was laid in an
unhonored grave. Herbert Beholden was her wed
ded husband, and the long cherished bitterubss of
her wayward heart had at last poured out its , : enum,
and was relieved.
Did she not fear the anger of an avenging Pre, i•
Bence?—Did she not know that retributive jtisticc,
sooner or later, mint overtake the guilty She was
allowed just time enough to learn that the husband
for whom she had perilled her soul was rendered ut
terly contemptible by his vacillating character, and
his low vices—and then the hour of reckoning
came. A child was born to the earldom of More
land—a son to inherit the name and honors of an
ancient race—hut a cry of inexpressible hot nir front .
all who looked upon him was his Only weledihe to
world of sufferings. Thai stamp of it mother's
evil passions was upon the innocent babe—his ilia,
red and crippled !hobs, his fearfully distorted fact',
bore the awfbl semblance of the unhappy den& It
was the face of the buried Lilian.
For twenty years Rosamond was manacled and
bound like a wild beast, chained to the wall of her
own apartment, an object of terror and pity to all
who looked upon her raving madness, or listened to
the wild howling of her insanity. The child, a
helpless etippled idiot, outlived its miserable par
ents, and by its death in 17—, the line of two 0'
England's noblest families became extinct, while
the estates fell to distant collateral heirs.
Such was the real history of those fair children
whose pictured semblance had so fascinated my
gaze in that lonely chamber—such were the fortunes
of hasp fur wliani I laticiNl a deminy ct