Northern democrat. (Montrose, Pa.) 1844-1848, August 26, 1847, Image 1

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251. charged for postage if carried at thtqgerblishereste•
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Diseodtinaanees optional, except when **Ow, ato paid.
Aorsimrsawnwrs one dollar per,square of twelve /the% or
less, foiths fiat three inserdone, abdstwestYAre ems' for-ev
subidques; resartios. 41.• liberal diseasat Will be titadattO
thow who advertise by the year.
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tiiisioess letters and rttpotons forth° paper •
be Pot,'#ATS to ' • ,
POETRY.
Prim the National .
THE OLD HOMESTEAD.
BY MISS ALICE CAREY
Witen first the skies grow warm and bight,
. And flash with gold the hours, ; I
And, in her pale, faint robes, the spring
$ calling up the flowers; .1
«'• , n children, with unslippered feet,
forth with hearts of glee,
To e straight and even furrows •
There the"vellow corn must be:
Whit a beautiful embodiment • . .
Cf ease, devoid of pride,
Is tie good old-fashioned homestead,
With doors still open wide!
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Buti when the happiest time is come,
That to the year belongs,
Of uplands bright with harvest gold ,
Ad meadows full of songs; :
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Wlniii fields of yet unripened e0„: - .
Aiid daily garnering stores, -4 1...-4,i, _ •
Rent&id the thrifty husbandman
01, ampler threshing-floors— :
1104:pleasant, from - the din and dast
ilt the thoroughfare aloof,' : ,
Seetis the old-fashioned homestead, •
With steep and mossy roof!
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Mole home the woodsman plods, with axe
lifpon his shoulder swung, '
Andiin the knotted apple-tree
Aie, scythe and sickle. hung; ,
IVh4 light the swallows twitter ' . •
'*atli j the rafters of the shed, . .
Andithe able on the ivied porch ..
With
f a
ent care is spread—
The.tea s are lighter and freer ;
Than tin the populous town,
In the o f -fashioned homestead, .
'lNath 6 ohbles sharp and brown! •
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Who the flowers of summer perish
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Iti the cold and bitter rain,
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And the little birds with weary wings
Ifive cone across the main;
' Wheit ..,it s the blue smoke upward '
Tdiar. the bluer sky.
And Wold long the naked bills , .
An w ite the snow-drifts lie— i
In le4end of love and glory
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Tlnt ffirget the cloud and storm,'
In the obb.fashioned homestead, I
Witt h• b-stone ample and warm !
EISCELLANY.
From the Odd Fellow
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MEN 2 , •
Or ithe Apprentice's Revenge.
ET EMMA WLTARTON
{Concluded.]
Whey ; he readied . England, he found his
brociierOdlo bad spent his large fortnne; and
it
subs:istkki by gambling, and other kiqdre vi
ets. intA more degraded than he had, su po
s.i. Ills uncle, ids only other relative in ~, hat
patt of
. .3',ngland, was dead, and the gentle,isuf
feiing boy found himself among worse than
!Strang*. His voyage had only 'made him
:worse, and he felt that he must die.„ , bid, long
ing to dose his eyes - among the friedd.s who
Inved hiin so well, he left &viand, ifa reach
di"ortirnouth about twentylfour li r&s_befere
be apiind. . Ai Ids own most urgent deiirei
,he tnadahis hill, leaving the 'bulk of his largo
Tirtene in his guardian. Mr, Albreeinotified
Edward ;Hastings of his brother's d4th, and
;took podiession of his fortune, as authorized
' l by the All, Edward not even deigning an an. , ,
fewer to Ills letter. ,
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Several years dallied, and Mr. A§roebad
retired fiom business, and was spending a year
...at the Capital , where, a few days after+, the a&
venture poken of in the last chapter t , he re-,
"rived ;,visit from , Edward ..Hastings, Who .
d.„„t0,...301--his brother'Siwoper:ty. alleAEmg,that
before *left England le made alatik . his fa-i
Tnr, and ~ that he could furnish the moat boo..
Clnsive pioofs that the will said to have been
made attortsmouth the night of hi+ death,
was a fmry.
The:.•ognmercial panic of 1839 had jttst•
swept 94r the land, and Mr. Albreeiiptrld.qn
e.taminailen that all his own
.forttin ,_, Oa la ,
small paiNn of Arthur's; was swilloWeidnp;'.-r-
In utter ilismay, the unfortinate inan'eMplei-..,
ed the On counsel, among. Whelk the o f s itreinolt,,
was-Mr. dlatterson, who: . made the.a.,, ' , 444 1 , ~;.•:
ous efforts t,6 defend his cause. , ql . 00 - .
Ellen bbiss him, when she saw 'the man WhO:.
she had . ;to cruelly rejected; straining , eve' il
nerve to pare her ether's ProPiitk.fr4ml„—;
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and whatluas off isko!!itspOrtauce. 14! ,11 1:',4."
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ButtlieY haat, A:imitatecontend i l gsti*:l
Edward Hastings; sitle.ieleft trigh4d;..44l
aY ate(Zirtluir' • ' '", fitilsdia,...whetis; ow
ing to eih`..iiiinit an ,: ',VW. fitewn--tiWhomilli
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Bert most'':'...fortitiatii'cieSiiiistiuwa
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was Millet time a clerk in Mr. Albree's of
but, being discovered in einbeszling fund '' h;
been driven from his house.
He swore that Arthur Eras' ll
tinge was in ' d;
in g condition when he left the ship, that he, w
delirious at times, anditt no - moment was e
a State to make' it possible for him to so
Made a will, that he had been bribed b I
Albree to write it, and produced sPecime s
his hand-writing, which; on being: - cont T.(
with the will, were found to be exactly tam ar ;
that he had raised the sick man in bin 1 ms, while Mr. Albree had guided hit feeble •
and
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to affix his signature; that he was tinconsi l ious
at'the time, and in half an hour had cease; to
breathe. He pretended to have been the lub
jett or strong religions impressions'. 'Heiliex
pret)sed the deepest penitence for his share in
thii vile transaction, a disclosure of which he
had made under a painful, but solwon genic of
evidence was introdti
duty. A mass of i eed,
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which served to render this tale b t too pia
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able. To all this, his counsel could onlyilop
pose the high character the defendant hail' al
ways sustained for integrity, and the foriner
worthless character of the witness. • It was al
so proved, that he bad sworn the most bitter
oaths of vengeance on Mr. Albree at the 4me
he leftbis employ. .. a
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With this scanty stock of 'evidence, 'ltir.
Patterson commenced his address to the lury,
holding his audience. spell-bound for:six ht.
All that human skill or human eloquence C 4
do, was done. His acute opponent spoki;, il
of,
his thrilling eloquence in the highest taps,
but reminded the - jury that it was' only 419- I
queue°, unsupported by a shadow of proof,—
The jury, who seemed to consider the easel so
plain as to require no deliberation, Were far,ing
about to deliver their verdict, wheit!al,per ' nt
entered;'and' spoke a few words to 141r.l'at 'cr
oon, who rose, and requested them to post ' ne
"their verdict a short time, and two new wit' ET
ses soon appeared in court. The first was 3lr.
hickford, the missing witness ' to the fill,
who was residing in an obscure -village at 'be 1 1
far West, where the emissaries of Mr! Pater
son had at last found him out. • . .
He gaVe the fullest evidence to the validity
of the will;•-and the perfect ability of the alck
man to make it,a.lleging that it was done attlis
most earnest request. The other witness Was
I the captain of a vessel sailing between Eg
laltd and the West Indies. He stated that the
plaintiff had been a passenger in hii brig, the
}summer previous;, that in Havana, they had
boarded at the same hotel, where the witness,
I Who was suspected of -smuggling, alio lodged.
One night, When he had risen from his Aep 1
with a ;violent tooth-ace, he heard the sound of
,! persons conversing in the nest room, which''
was- occupied by the plaintiff, who was talking
with the witness. A word, accidentally can t,
indimed him to listen, and he heard' the out
,
lines of the plot in which - they were now enga
ged. He lad not felt much interested in it-at
the time, but, coming some months after
Baltimore on business, he had heard ofthe 01- I
-al, and considered, it his duty to exert himaelf
to prevent the success of this preciouit piecid,
rascality. The jury of course, returned aver- I
diet of 44, not
: guilty," amid the plaudits of the
Crowd, and the perjured villains were given o-
Ver to justice to await the punishment of their!
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Crimes.
• That evening, a brilliant company ; were as
sembled
at. a party given by the accomplished'
lady of Mr. Bodisco, the Russian amllassadnr, I
among whom were Mr. and - Miss Albree, * 0
were treated with marked respect by , all prst
ir
ent. But poor Ellen's heart was not in t e
gay . scene. She longed to be alone, whore
she could pour out her heart; unseen, to that
Power who lad so graciously preserved thhm'
from the snare set for them.
Her intimacy with her, fair hostess, :gave her 1
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the entree of the whole house, and about twel ye '
o'clock, she went alone to a little boudoir,:;n
the dressing room of Mrs. Bodisco. 'Here ' i
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she sat absorbed in her own reflections", a slight i
noise disturbed her, , and a little packet was I
thrown through the silken curtains,} into Wer.i
lap.; On opening it, what was he asteni4-
Ment to see the identical ring she had, givee.
many years before to Harry Wilson.: On the
paper, 4 ' If Miss Albre.e recognizes this fairy tp
ken, by , pressing the 'spring ,, she will summon
tiller presence its 'attendant genii.':,, On the 1
back of this ring was a heart, above which were
two claiped hinds . ; `by touching a little spun 1 .. ,
concealed in one of the
. fingers, a sharp cl - .
Might be heard ; the whole opened and disci, -
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soda- small miniature of the relative from who •
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'her brother received - it.* it
did, our
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Scarcely conscious of whai she did, our -,
roine touched this spring, and immediately the
McLain was pushed aside, and she beheld, net
Harry Wilson, but Mr. Patterson. With the
utmost confusion, she . stammered "out, ill.
thoughtl expected,' and here she stopped. '1 .
! - Irtiwthtnight,' answered he, 1 you expected,
to see the. wild, head,strong boy to whom yoUl
pre that ring. . Dear, -dear Ellen,' exclaimed
he, falling on his - knees beside her, 'Can yi''la
forgive - My deception,And recognize in . Charles
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Patterson, your" own Miry Wilson who has e 0
ei hived
; you, andliboirenid now fondly claim
the love,you so frankly expressed t for him.' ;11
The surpriaa'.lind joy: our . heroine may bil
well:conceived, when she ,discotered that, the
youth"to whose memory she so fondly elunti
and Mat, whoM; painful is thithe . 4.litha4
teiii, - ".4 . coutd - net
.but' feel she hilt loved,.
were "one and the same . ' -- -'-• - '. • !i','f
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, • llew - unbeededby, until,ftetiierds morn?
!,: 'lltii:ltedieet•• alaairee'hei'litiling ' fief
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through the curtains, and telling them the"
puny'bad-- -112 departed, rognially,:ien4nited 4
th,iiteiidea*tlemain - ill *ht. , • ,-- --, ' • --- 11
11311:Monthi - Aerie**, a few . seketi-hiendi
Iriiielanieenbkitst . thntonee'liflNKAllireel4
Mr. Pntterenni;;;(fer-V that naine4e 'install/
kialvbiziy - ilia.liad'tbeen detained' , in:- --- Netei
YOtli;*Oildebeit3P.tihe hailed, byieepiotts4
business;' bad Sett - lined to claim big hippy:ls*
After thesieronony bad been perterniek4he
c4iiessisi -:Mr.' P*** ol i - st .. S 4 're9.4 1 4. 10 the
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Vii intliii:::l4-:legi . Pils iiPlTlleilitiA
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MONTRO
e, company, recounted his adve
d• Portsmouth, which we shall
reader's . perusal in the nett
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died, leaving her is estate, worth !fifty thcm- and this announcement, cap be bette r iai n . l
sand dollars. Tus raised to a ffl uence, I v+- ,ed than described. She. Wes immediatel la--
ily believe that g ntle girl' prized inmost, thptleed at School where she allele rapicradvyanPee-.
it might benefit e. '1 .
I I ment i n studies.: .1;
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CHAPTER .11 0 . To prop , if postible, her failing health, Ibd I ! Soon after her steti-father was el annul
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, 'My friends,' began Mr, atterson,' I have bought that cottage, endeared to both by o I bar of Congress, and, took; Cardin ' ad her .
ce Ino hair-breadth escapes or romantic adven- I many ties, where po spent all the time I could:Mother with him to Washa'ngton., ere 'she.
Ir.ltures with which to excite o amuse you. A ' spare from businets, and where," said be, turn- I was 'at twee admitted - into - the, first nk in so-
of human being could not passi ly be more unde- leg to Ellen, "1 lope we shall yet spend malty j ciety, Which she - was well fitted to me Thel
d cided in regard to his future nurse, than 1 was happy hours." ' 1 I niiiiistei plenipotentiary-from Engle d became ;
; when I left Portsmouth. leh determin e d to' "But it availed nothing. .She too, died inl - enamored with her beatitjt and; sw etness- of
acquire wealth at every haz d, and my bosom ; my arena, and I w once more alone in sa - temper,!anit married hetadd took her withlain
glowed with a burning desi,e for revenge on ness and grief. ~., • '
'the man who had scorned me. to England, where she ii,anw enjoying all-the
IBy her lase - I had become her heir, a d a ffl uence of an English siobleMatt's bride.—,
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I worked my passage on board a brig from; I felt altruist rich noegh to visit Pertsmout , I Thus, gentle reader, haee
.I.ltold you my - story,
Portsmouth to New York, Where I hoped to when. I, ene.day, et the objects of My journc • j briefly and truly. This; little ale contains a
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obtain employ, but failing td find any which I, there, at Washington. My first impulse was, !moral that should not ;be .ov erlooked. The
liked, I left my trunk with a ltiend, and, taki n g to address them ;ut 'finding they did not re- ; friendship of the world is unworthy of confi
my clothes in my handkerebtef, I marched off ognize me, and to - iscover if the -woman had jdence, and virtue i.and moral worth are rartto•
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into the country. I travelldd pretty - briskly I fulfilled,. in goodne s and virtue, the promise Of meet with a reward
three or four days, inquiring for work, but the child, I resole dto continue, incognito. BEATERKiLL, July 28, X 134.7.
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finding none, until I began to ow discouraged, had - forgotten to ay, that when I left Ports- I
when, one night, I•speske to n old man, who mouth, I assumed Jmy present name, which
was training a vine at the doo of a pretty white have ever since bone. .
cottage, and requested lodg ngs, which were To my dismay heard Ellen Albree called i
cheerfully granted. coquette, and saw er surrounded by fops, to
• I soon discovered that m host was an E- the chief of whom he was said to be engages,.
piscopal clergyman, Wholetch rch stood in the In my anger I res wed to forget her,; but 61.
beautiful village neat by. - tin learning, that, events of the sail proved how impossible it wati
like himself. I was a native o New Hampshire, and disclosed her f rvent love for me, I could
the old man's heart warmed owards me, tted,i not bear, to tell he I was Harry Wilson then. I
from the gentleness of his niter, I tti]d him I The first I heard of the charge against her,
all. The old man seemed gr • atly interested, ! father seas an applleation to me to conduct the
but said nothing that night. The next morn- ' mitse,against bine!! Through all my wander
ing he told me that he had a ea' two acres ofiings, 1 had Au c erished my plans of von
land, with a horse and cow . k w ich the increas-' geance for his supa
setl wrongs, and God A
ing infirmities of age made it necessary he; one knows how steong was my temptation t
should employ some to ta . a care of, and he do this; • but my kite for Ellen restrained me.
offered to hire me, giving me gra,ti's what in- 1 When I found self called to defend
struction he could, which I g al), cr
accepted. Inot only the 'Omen , but the name on which
Mr. Burleigh had, , in early life, been a law-lhe had so prided h' self. of the man who had
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yer of no mean standing, int the hand of; so much despisede, when I saw his pale, imi
sorrow had swept;
"heavily ov • r him. He had { ploring face fi xed mine,' and felt that front
lost his fortune, and the wi e of his bosom, me alone could he I receive succor, ' was the'
whom he adored, bad been su • denly snatched proudest hour of m& life, and I thanked Prov
from his side, leaving him an my daughter, to idence for affording me that triumph.
whom he transferred all the :ve he bad borne "And now,-my fiends," said he, "I fear I
her mother. shafifind myself ore day indicted for! obtaini n g Humbled and bruised in s ; hit, the afflicted a wife oh false pretences. For" said he, cast=
man gave up his profession, nd defroted his ing a mischievous glanceeeh his astonished au+
life to the service of that. Be' g. to i whom, in ditors, "Ellen told tue she should much rather
all his trig he bad teen ens pled to look, as a prefer that I ahohld return to her • p
merciful A n d !ile4ainine Pare. • . If there ever; that she- might mote her disinterestedness ;
was a humble, devoted Clariati n on earth, Mr. land, willing to plea* her in all things, cl gave
Burleigh was that one. In is little, quiet I her to understand that my profession bad yield
village, far from the din and b stle of cities, heied me asyet little {snore than a support. She
spent his life in doing good. The idol of his;! would give up her ions of honor, that she
people, he was in their circl of pleasure, for j might love me for yselfalone; I was willing
he thought it no sin to be g y, the'very soul 'to oblige her in thi also; but, on my recent
and life ; in di ffi culties, their ever ready end/ visit to New York., , y friends there,' albeit 4
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able adviser ; in trouble, their active and steaelfOld them repeated, that they would rob Inc
dy friend; and as -he was wi h them thronghj of my bride, were ' cruel as to insist on myi
the trials of life, so by the dof death he , becoming their rep dsentative in the ensiling
Christi
stood to cheer and support, dto point the I Congress., At the. grave - announcement; El e i
departing spirit to its eternal ies t . J ten, to the amuse nt of all present, started
He advised me to commence in my leianrel, from her seat, and, lapping her hands, Rhone;
moments the - study of law, in hich he offered ed, "I shall be ain tuber of Congres's lady, al4
to become my instructor. Hip library, which:' ter all." •
was unusually valuable, he st I retained, midi
to that I had free access. Hi ~, i f ork was easy,l They Nob)
and, although he exacted the - ' t diligence,
in its performance, left me mu' fur study,;!
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and often has the morning fig t ound me po-1 ,
&twist every day's observation is calculated!
ring over the books I had leatned to love. I
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often wonder when I look back, how I 'contri-
j to convince us of t o truthfulness of the old!
to
" truth 's stranger than fiction."
, '
ved to do so much in the time 4 but, few of us ! adage
We live in a world that is replete with the'
realize, in the common wr.v df doing things; '
: strange and wonder^ul, and if we wish to be
, how much can be accomplished by a person I
come acquainted with that which is rei lly won
thoroughly in earnest. ' '
; I derful and romant i c we have to Make our-1
My instructor was perfect taster of every 1 only ;
( selves acquainted w'th facts that are eonstant- 1
thing he pretended to teach,l and possessed,
transpiring in th - world around us. The re
more than any one I ever saw,lthe rare faculty i / Y r
, a ities of . life contai that which is truly more
of making his pupil understand what he ex
' romantic than the
,bast tales of fiction, gar na .
plained, and leading to develorte his own pow
itured with the most, hived. imagination.
ers.
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He not only taught me law,l but instructed] The statements ektained in the following
me in science, of which he etas passionately tale are strictly true, as the reader may rest
assured, the writer having been furnishedwith '
fond.
dent them froin the most h aving
sources :
Fire happy, but bard-workik years I en
Caroline Se.— wtai the daughter df a very
beneath that roof, and then,' after spendlug ia
wealthy Merchant. 'Her father died When 84 1
three months in the office of a friend of his,
New York, I was licensed to practise. my_ was very young, but made ample protlision for'
wages bad been good,—fourteen dollar, per his danghter,by leav ng a large amount of mor-
in the hands of a frie nd, to whont he en- ,
month, besides presents of the 61d man's cast
r e tr Y n . ste charge a g
trusted the of his infant d u titer off clothing,—and I-had now fike hundred dol
which money was to be appropriated to the
;
lace, and the law library of imy benefactor,.!
purposes df giving h r an education, and fur
commencewhich he insisted on my taking, with which to
nishing her with a f tune when she should be-
the world.. Fain I would I' have
come of age. Haviiig thus providedl.for the •
friend, but he would not permit it.
stayed to perform the duty of 4 son to my aged future well-being of is only child N . S- -, 1
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Mr. Burleigh was well knowp. to most of the
left the world in pea e, not doubting ut that II
and good men in this country, in every
his friend would prom faithful to the crust re- '
posed in him. But 11m, like too many of the
profession. With his characteristic. benevo
world, actuated by Cdesire to benefit himself
fence, bediad, for the last three: years, by let
and willing to do so
; at the expense of hie honl- ;
ters and otherwise, been creating at} intere a s s: t. or, forgetful of the Vows he, had made
he
for me in the minds of any of Ithese ; not,
ing man,. appropriate') the money loft him byi
said, that they might hear One up, in the
Caroline's father for her benefit to his - own.—
rugged path that leads to eminiince, or smooth ii 1
e removed to the town of Williston iu the
a single one of its asperities, put that 6 1 State of Vermont, and with Caroline' money
might simply place my feet_ in it. Thus
purchase himself a faim, and adopte her as
found myself surrounded by &lends whore I
is daughter ; while the, ignorant of er true
least expected-it, and, soon, I through their
parentage, :really suprsed him to be er fath
means had gained a practkel which would;
er.
otherwise have cost me the pahtful strivings ofl
Years sped, and Cat
years.
- "At length," continued Mr. Patterson, weep
in g bitterly, "I was summonedlin haste to my
aged friend, and for two weeksi I was merci
fully permitted to stand by hiti dying coach,
and treasure the lessons of wisdom and piety
which fell &Om his lips.. He dipd in my arms,
and.with his last breath he bissed me, and
conaigned.to my protection him darling child.'
d i;
I would not erase from my axis nee those two,
weeks to wear the proudest ' em on earth .
I llii death ; like his life , was ser ne and ils}cid ; I
no loud expressions ofrapture. garbs diOhtill
of fowl marked his last momenis, but the, ho - I
o i l
ly ualmness on his brow, and th seraphic smile
upon his lip,)spolie his fulness peace.
His daughter, Agnes,
..whom e loft to m,
AY.I, - ... •
l am had inherited the high iritelloet of , her
filher,olllll the geode beauty :3l :th the con
motptive liabit of her mother Her feeble
bealtb, - wheri I resided with th had demand-1
ed from : m(o6re than tie.ustui tu tribute. Off a
brother's care, and the grateful • I bad even
in retturt more that a ister's We.. , i
About w year after her :fathefre, death, her
mother's only brother, who bad are: married,
THURSDAY" AUGU
tures after he left)
transcribe for the ,
hapter.
tecipient of an accomlished education, as was
the design !other fon and .doting parent, was
subjected 03 a life of ' it' and servitud . She
I ,
was beautiful and 'admired; but went nto so
ciety but little from the fact that herbeling,
guardian did not alto her the requisi sppar-
el to appear in' soviet decently. Ito, u her
custom totrform th labor fat-her rdimfel
1 ,Itt
family, an 'then spin ror the nei,ghbo a order
to obtain Means to enable herself to
_aPPear
decently. Thus iraa 'lbeo'or whom it `er,most
ample provision bad been made by a k kd . pa
rent in his last moments,isubjected by,e av
arice of nen who' ishou have been he friend,
and who shnuld have urnished , her wit every
needful reqUisitc for ' ility and ueefu4
11111111
ness, to . serifilitiand tOL. In thee tug •time
Iher motheriad married igain i and ' step.
1 father receiving intimations -that an -.11 sot ',
right relative to hie step-asughter, tot /121""
urea to dad, het , . Atter k time apentl - - fruit!
fi lm,
lam search be was ' sinineasful. and- =! her
engaged in the iniudintn nf iplurtinglor one of
her' guardian's' neighbor& Ka. 111111111i0 hit
to thnparloir and mail known to Intl In*.
tiok that eiditied , betwin th em, i Her
T 96,1847.
eman's Bride.
BY JO,
oline instead of 13
i i
!
The approach to the klty ofMeVICO.
_ • 3
city All accounts concur in 84ying that thety
of Mexico is not_ capable or,a very stubborn.or
serious defence. The valley. of Mexico; Which
is sixty-three miles. in ext4nt by forty-direct
in breadth, is quite picturetique, and is elo' 7 ,
quently described iby all traliellers, but by none
more glowingly then by Ili4terz Ma.K.pi.
" Conceive yOurself,' he'.. says, "placed.
nearly two thousand feet ablove the valley, and'
nine thousand feet above tbli level. of the
.sea..
The gigantic scale of everyiliing first strikes
lyou—ydu seem ttifie looking down upon c;
world. No otheimountaiii - and valley scene
has such an' assemblage of +attires, beeause'no
where are the mountains,atithe same time so
high, the valley so wide, or fillet' with suph.va
riety of land and Water. : 'the plain beneath
is exceedingly level, and fort two hundred miles
around it extends a barrier". of stupendonS
mountains, Most, of which have been active
volcanoes, and arc . now_cokered, dome with
snow, and some with foresti. It is laced' with .
large bodies of water;lookingniore like seas than
lakes :. it is dotted with innumerable villages,
and estates and plantations i eminenceefroin itl
which, eleswhere, Would be I called mountains,.l
yet, there at your; feet they, eem but ant-hills'
OP the plain and now lettin your eye follow
the rise 'of the mountains t , the west, (seen
fifty miles distant;) you looover the immedi- •
ate summits that wall the valley to another and' l
more =distant range — and ito range beyond
t
range, with valleys between each, until the,'
whole melts into O. vaporydistance, blue as the,
cloudless sky above you. , i . I , ' • . The descent. ifrom thi4 eminence is rough
i and dangerous. From. Yeo De Cordova, th e .
i distance to the eityis.Aou ' thirty miles over:
I a level, skirted by a detatched range, of yolcati
ni,
ic, hills, between time lakes gleroco and Chaleti.,
" The read enters the basin 3: if the lake, " '
says
Mr. Tuctmrsoti, t,' some siteen or eighteen
miles from Mexico; having, on one si de , a salt
Ilake, and on the other, is a flesh waterlake.
lAbout seven miles ' from the 4ity, the road pais)
les a small rocky mountain, for which - the Span , .
lish word is -Pins). ; At this phial or cliff, is the
causeway or road, the 'gr'euqd on both' Sides l
covered with water. None of these Writers;
speak of the capabilitieS.of ttle city for defence,
although it is well. known that CORTEZ met
with a stubborn resistance, ivlien he invested'
,it in 1521. The population i.f the city is about
180,000, of which about on.elialf are Creoles,
i
one-fourth, Indians , and the remainder mixed
races. .It is -olie of the most9Yeautiful cities:in
the world, containing great i wealth, splendid
buildings, and intersected, broad, regular
and well paved streets. D übtless, by. this'
time, the-soldiers of the Am ican army ,have' l l .
seen it for themselves..--Pen.
•
Address of the Demtcratte State
Central Satuntittee.
lb the people of Peernsylvan4g;
FELLOW CITIZENS r Penn+lvania is rapidly
emerging from the embarras4tnents in which
unwise legislation and . : wasteful and extrava
'eant expenditures ofpnblie nieney had iniolv
i'
ed her. - '
I Her citizens can again , heir the • good old.
'"Keystone-State" spoken of his " Honest -old
IPennsyleania," without feeling that it
_is done derision. Her finances are now ample, not
;only to meet all deniands up4n the treasury, ,
but the time has arrived when . a sinking ' fund
an be formed.for the payment of a portion 'of
he public debt annually. i ( f
I II he,ther
_this prosperous and gratifying con
dition of things is to - bei continued, is a ques
tion of vast importinco to the people. It is'
alike 'interesting to . the farmer; the mechanic,
;he mannfa6tnrer, the laboret the merchant
and the transporter. ' to Taet we I can mention
io description of our citizens who are not in
terested in maintaining the honor and integrity
4f the state, and in sustaining,'prudent; safe
end economical administration !oft; the gore-nr
menti which we verily believe I new. exists.—
iLnt especially are l' the holdirsl r of our State
eks interested in the perpetuity • of the pres
ent state of things. They, as tell as the great
Ftliass of the people, have no interest in' trying!
new experiments, and eriterineinto wild -spec
tdative schemes suChi,aithatotternpfed by the .
Itederal Legislature of last setOtin; le ' trill* ,
ferring the public to a -*spiny
for than' half thew value. , 1 1 ' :- --- - r
I, The first tbing next to;the prompt, payme4t
of
the c . ent,expenses of the lierrnmentiand
tie inter t aktlakiniblic debt,l 'oh , _lhould
engage ou attention, is the Mimi isteredeinp:
ui
Lion of the relierhou#, wil L __lali go vitiate - our
currency, ing..w.biob have, Duct " : " ra Jl
ad dirty * l 4 O be An4t ,foryse _ ~ _ '44 t' the,,
dqrinie 5h0,0914) 94crincY.. , 4 1 ; 9 W U Y
ake withkiwra ftwaitlioulatioo p! tark,, bano4
in forge Anteitlandi*fividPwira i r.'o4l4: Upre. l4
4tagalu uirou4 6 ..ia.-ablquir all ciiikor,4ll
- tra n saction u ofourinerula tat..fipal•- ;-
./1 1 9._ 1 0pran Pak 0 4-4 - AL,. : ,• 4:Min Ana
irt:Tilrf Ni ll ,o ol l-Iree44, "•pa . t; r in
.. 4noAkey,
i t
wino they will know to be 04; -;Th efl , , ,, rft ,
menu. 0 0 * hi 4rlik . ',Wort °lli ,
Othe - iOrminoliit-,0414'" -,
..k , , ba4ing
pre * ated
and; bcifroyint. whisk were
._
the
country by gke rechir4r;of Iliiii IlAnk 9r Ate
ing the
Eiiii
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'Muted tatesi; and they cons** - 4464 of
theideb.' oftha - State. : 5 • -1 •:..51i 5 , /i -- `s.=',..J:i '
0..80 h VD inikhist t ii i i - - a.m.,' i.
.: a - t,o 1 tssent ; - .7....-
sleOr tq - 14 - "Js citoult4 irs itioai ng
wassl; 81,664:: I ify.the. ' AttriS2oo
- of
,these ate shitherired .ci bakimnenee' or
destroy, at,the treasury ; annuillyowthat, o n
.
the Ist r December -tank. - th ere .yifiL 1 . 10 - ,;- out.
standi - $88!;664::00.- :. - :li::thenalttatiunsa
present brthalloyerner **her 94649 -of
thl`government to the ~ l egiastariv this
!juin of 200,000 "for the . '' ' 1 1 Ctelief
l c al zsma.
lea
. es s includekandtbei . '. k 0f.i411 - the
es mat of receipta.and expendittewahowed
an esti ma ted amount ofrocolAtir;iiite,tk,!ress
,! d ' nth ear,' . icor, over the ~ expenditures of.
; the 'sem period of $194,441 11-kor - ..for the '
I sake ofconvenience say $2p0,900,, , ,,,,Tati.- i e .
I L
cei 9 the year honever, :firsi osra ‘latisfled
willr, xceed l ithe estimates Tha,-infla a
monnt o receipts from-=the public work", wee
estimat at SA,500.,000:: , be result:this fort
show at they will greatlyeseeed thin:imam.
'.ll:t rec "pee from thissouree to. thelstof A. 47
i f
gus 'ins ~ wail $.1;01p, 551138: . :Zit* • -
perio'' '' -
d l tyear,,they were: 1 , .!, . -.
Shoning a gain this year over that: of i to ,
la r
the first of tha present m0nth,.0f5307,076 15;
The Whole receipts .during tip:clear 184144
I $11295,44 761 'lt thus aPpearsif-the sseeipts
for .the remaining part of the , ' jean .only,4qsal
-600 of last year for the satiwthan .the'ggrome
amount of'the whole year-will ba .$1,60010
91, 'which is upward 0f1100,600 abovertha a-
- —~,,,,
The recipts during therm month of. Inly;lnst.-
closed exceeded those of July-1844V by up
maid of 837,000,5nd if Shareshoiddlaft eon*. ''
'podding gain during the -- rnimitha of. l l-_,
Septanber, October ) and -.l4lnvewtheri7,ooe-Abi
same 'months opist Pear, le gralty-**4ll
Will:be about $1,750,00000 which , 431 "be -IL
gain of $250,000,7 : : over the , 'lnttintatas;:.'":That
thia will be the result if no I. easualitf-,7eetnas. '
there is good reason to belieVe, watery -inili
cation promisee a prosprcani ,:fall; , builuiss.-...
Noir if we alloW fifty thotisand -- dtilirai'ler an
increased expenditwie on the pablieleoilkover
the; estimates, on account of - the - acoesinni of
bnainess, and consequent hzereastior exp e nse
in the motive power department i iie -will'bws
a net increase Of $200,000 , fr o m Vii".,felpfltiv
m ents over thei , estimates, Jinkiiiiiiaallie net
income'from thatsource alone of4botibv#l,-
100,001). ! , ..0-. . IT , ' .0,1 '4
• .. c , . ,
There is reason beliar=thine7.l3l be
en increase-of revenue from_
,Ola above the estheitee.. :That:"
_. that —
thereceipts from other sour* ea ale ip to
aF ivl
`the estimates;the reienvei pith& • *or
i
need the ordinary expenses of the ' , - t,
andtthe payment elite in -WA* On the, l 'finalis •
deht, by thb suit of six hundred t 'nit dol.
lars. Thus : ' ' - 1 1 , - , T, D.:. Tk
,Relief issues `.cancelled, r- : - -- -41200,00 L
„44nount of ' receipts ~ O ver eeposiiis 7: l Y - f. ,- -`
tures as estimated, say..;
~,..,.... 24000,,
Nri excess of .receipts iron's public -, !: ; i::./.
. vitirks over estimates, , I ' ' : 200,000."
i ,i i - ,- $60000,,
This state of the Treasury wi1),.:4 glisr '= the
Legislature, as iloon as they meek • is-hit .:
zing an extra tencellation of inlitfissielef at
least $300,000,, which sum ouklit tote - 'Mein
ed•iii the Treasury for thit Lpurpooo-"?'Tbis
weuld reduce the amount which woulitbe tfien
outstanding to $581,664, whith tan betineel-
,lediin the course otlthe: coming= year. -, r;Bit, if
thei:people and the Legislature should piefer it.
as we do, ourselitesJ and as -we holie they' int,
a temporary loan may Immo& tar; m
imniediately, which Tim cazi be 'redeem* it
the course of the year. ..:This - bribiel amuse.
which' we hope May be.adoptietas it iro "id,
fy:Ont. Currency, !enable tts, to pay our
in .patfunds, and. give the pepple - ii4hMtitul
sneie circulation instead efithiviliquemmed
trash they are now con:T*44lo use...-
• ,tlovernor. Shank,;in- treating upon dui Sib
jeet,in his last annual mepege, - -speeks :this
"l i transmit heraivith a' statement sboillit , the
annual receipts and expenditures, for the hist'
fiscal, yeir,. andalso an estimate of the emiiiilar
the- present year,' made witlrnicititaitv , iipon
full Onsultation with the nffibiry - tf4 - the . :gov
ernment, Prom,this estimatelit , 'lppesitil - that
thottceipts of th4year will ekeeed . theiespeir-..
ditures ,hy the sut?tpf $194,41,f11.-. • -,,,`.'.
: IThe halance in the Tae on_. the , ilea
iustent wes only $438,986 68 6 -itis, , thenifers
altogether .probable that if may become ,eiii4-1,
i
saFy tii make some grange= t f,o', -, Elatidist4 \
a small : portion of . he 'revenue orlimi.*frite k
meet the interese;which will due:._lM libelee',
Febikery next.-,4-recouiiiiend thsf , souiele&‘
provision be promptly made f . this
This.will not affect, the idanca l ciat." ,• .
and'eStimated re
shlieof the1eicyi.1.64 , 41 4 7 ~, .
tire confidence that, taking into tie* Vitc.vie.;::, -7
atioeis of the wholiyear, - theremdtfAli**, '
anWantiallY theltstinuit°4 tilat4v!biaillie
minted: - ' ,- , . - '-, 1. : 1 , --P.. 4 4
_,..§Tbe.sum i)f , twiti;litindd theemand
erbieli is now anniiinp f p r i v iit e di e 04,, ean.
eellation of tbcrelie,,msues, and wbich4 Wit --
ni
eluded in:the esties, is disc
intnilit' of,the . publ' :debtyterly'Aut ifact -
..
en.et#gting smir •m at funiL,-.Y. 1 , - `f the
mist Zik
conclusion_ atwhich.:l,:htfiviarri Skaliell
correptilthat Abe Mixes, ' 1
laiiii 4 ,tu 'teased persoital,„prp* . y,-,,
P rdi nF,inwenttPAil. ifk;,...
Sib4** - Temen*.-. i l l ia*V tirthc-mos -
.40gth.,..P10,-rOr t '
_IF!: it itilleiseCip,,: ,
Ps4olt l ßt•e!elit 4 * 4l . l !', 7 Pl ll) !kiatbk`Aa4.s Tothiel,
demands itilisrm# lll lAk: Anitigitil''''
.litiatie 9f,i o ' )tiOtr!'l I ) . 416 • c i rkillt‘74# -
'AO *00; ' ' 4 4 0,F404 - 14 4 7.4:w0.,)*. - _,.
ilkA'll/9 diilleril'.l.t-YeY,..i--NifiAtsc*,-:,T,
tieflitttekat iliitAr4.44,-P#FOWSPIA.4k,
4 : * * 3 - 1.40 " 1 = 144,104416 . 1 =1.0 1 i:4
Wetne . , t,ttottebl!.... 4 041 1 1 1 1 k
a d o*
4:ol *mk
W 0 1 1 114.54 11, ifiXt- 1 4 1-4 1 118 44 1 *At*. IJ
fund, for iliii* , illita*:' , -;10# - -,..'i• 1 'l
OilitqlAlot fiki*cait't4 .„... • - ~.
0rty , '00,4w 1 4 1 944".qii:
• ' . - r..)406 . ..pwac.
Tiiii i . , Viiiii* 1if* , 605: . - ‘s:,- . Cilli : ' •-'
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