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B a tit la n h anti printing. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY EVEXING, BY Having made 'large additions tolou r T former/variety ’ o f JOHN PORTER,::::::::::::::::Proprietor. PLAIN AND FANCY — Office, No. 5 Custom-House Block, JO B T Y B B , W e are now prepared io execute with nutxsss and oxa- patch, bvkby DBscKiPTioN of Job W ork, aucb aa TERMS, Circulars, BiU-heads, Cards, Blauks, If paid strictly in advance—per annum, Sb5O Catalogues, Programmes, If payment is delayed 6 mos. “ If not paid till the close of the year, 2,00 Shop Bills, Labels, Auction aud Hand O* No paper will be discontinued until all arreara­ Bills, &c., &c. ges are paid, unless at the option of tue puplisher. Particular attention paid to ET Single copies, three cents —for sale at the office. VOL. 11. ROCKLAND, MAINE, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 14, 1856. N o . y [T7* All letters and communications to be addressed PRINTING IN COLORS', to the Publisher. BRONZING, &.C. For the Gazette. The Late Commodore Morris. Ano3 Lawrence’s P ocket-Boox.—We find SEVEN YEARS. best in New York, 1 can tell you. Simon Pride balcony which overlooked the gardens, came You are considerate and gentle with them, much in a stray newspaper the following good Btory, and Sons. The oid man is dead now, and the forward, blushing deeply. This distinguished veteran officer of the Uni­ more so than 1 am, and your endeavor, I see, to THE DREAM OF CHILDHOOD. but know not where it originated, consequently BV THE AUTHOR OF “ UNHOLY WISH.’ three sons carry it on. I saw the mother once, ‘ Airs. Phillip Crane,’ said her brotqer, throw­ ted States Navy, as hus been stated, died at his train them well, while your manners are thor­ but she don’t live here, she lives oyer at Malta. ing arms round the young girl, and leading her by a. D. CRABTREE. residence in Washington on Sunday afternoon, cannot give the proper credit. It is too good to oughly English and lady-like—a great point be lost: I. And that’s where she’ll want you.’ up to Alillicent, who was perfectly confounded 27th ulfc., after an illness of nearly three weeks, with me. I don’t know any one to whom I “ The publication of the diary of Amos Law­ Smoothly and swiftly the great steamer glided ‘Alalta!’ ejaculated Millicent. ‘ If will be with surprise. The dream of childhood, O ! ’tis o’er me— caused by pneumonia combined with pleurisy would so soon confide my children as to yon, to rence naturally recalls many anecdotes of his through the waters. A noble vessel she was, impossible for me to undertake so tonga journey ‘ I knew I should astonish you Alillicent,’ he Fond days of youth draw nigh ; and acute bronchitis. The Providence Journal supply the place of a mother.’ life, and one of a certain remarkable pocket­ yielding the palm to none she met or passed, on as tf»it.’ went on. ‘ We were only married to eome here. Sweet is the embrace of thought that clasp me publishes an able obituary recounting the prin­ These words of Airs, Crawford’s are often book that belongs to him deserves to be repeat­ tho broad Atlantic. A handsome, well built ‘ Aly gracious, Alias Crane! But you Eng­ I came over with her from Australia, and made So retrospectively. cipal events of his honorable and useful career. now in Millicent’s heart: she never dwells on ed. We will try to relate the fact in the way American clipper, bearing a full freight, both lish are dreadful ignorant! As if I should pack her acquaintance on the voyage. She was with My own sweet home by tlie lAtbbling brook, Commodore Charles Morris was born at Wood them but with a feeling of thankfulness. it was once told by Father Taylor of Boston.— of passengers and cargo, from the port of Liv­ you off from here all the way to the Alediter her father, Capt. Tenby. We were not to have The gnarled oak drooping o’er— stock, Conn., in October, 1784, and at the time The old lady received her in a kinder spirit, On the occasion of an anniversary celebration erpool to her own shores. The hour was eve­ ranean ! This Alalta’s an estate about six miles been married till just before we embarked to The rustic trelli’s, with its flower, of his death was seventy-two years of age.— and congratulated her on her new prospects in that city, a large number of orthodox clergy­ ning, and the vault of heaven, where do we see from New York. Simon Pride bought it when return to Australia, but when I found you were Entwines the cottage door; He entered the Navy as a midshipman when ‘ Oh, dear Alrs.J Pride,’ Millicent exclaimed, The dream of childhood, O ! ’tis sweet men were seated on a platform, and among them it, in its full expanse of majesty,as on the broad, he wus getting rich, and a pretty place he made in America, and that I should come, I tho’t I ‘ I shall be so happy! Think what a life mine or.ly 19 years of age. Com. Stewart entered wide seas?—was studded with constellations; of i t ; spared no dollars. I ’m going to write to might as well bring her with me.’ When days of youth draw near one year "before him,and for 6ome years has held was the well-known preacher to the seamen.— has been ; nothing but crosses and cares; and A remark had been dropped by one of the brighter shone the stars than they seem to do on Airs. Pride now, right away, aud recommend ‘ You intend to return to Australia, then?’ That take me back to my boyhood’s home, the rank of senior Captain. Morris first obtain­ disappointments, one upon another. Scarcely speakers, implying a doubt ‘whether any Uni­ land. you.’ inquired Alillicent of her brother, as they all And to my mother dear. ed notoriety and notice from his commander by knowing one month where I should be the next; tarian could go up to heaven.’ Father Taylor In a remote corner of the deck, where few ‘Are the children Airs. Pride’s ?’ sat together, talking, that afternoon. his gallant conduct in the war with the Barbary uncertain if I might long have health and The dream of Childhood, O ! ’tis o’er me— fired up at the word: springing to his feet he could see or hear her, was one of the passen­ ‘ Airs. Pride’3 .' Well, you have got notions! * To be sure I do. Florence made me Dromise States. He was a midshipman on board the strength to work for a living ; whether, in my , The wild wood again I roam : exclaimed, in his indescribable manner, ‘No gers. Pleasant sounds, as of music and danc­ Why she's sixty. They are the children of one that before we married. Her family are there. Constitution, Commodore’s Preble’s flagship, old age, I should not be without a shelter. And An 1 sunny dreams of the future beek, Unitarian can go up to heaven! Mr. Chairman, ing came from the cabin, yet she remained of her daughters.’ Besides, though I have made money, tolerably, on the occasion of the recapture and destruction now, to have my dear brother back with me, to To lure me from my home. I have a word to say about that. I have thia there alone. Her hands clasped the outer The conclusion was, that Alillicent was en­ for a poor devil like me, who had nothing to of the frigate Philadelphia in the harbor of Tri­ be going with him to his own homo, to know But the d ream is past, and far away, day seea Mr. Amos Lawrence’s pocket-book. — railing of the deck, and her head rested side­ gaged, and went up to ‘ Alalta ’ to enter on the start with, and no chums to help him on, I that we shall spend our lives together ! I feel Bright scenes of youth have flown poli, in 1804. It is such a pocket-book as was never made be­ ways on them, as she looked out to sea with new situation. She was pleased at the appear­ have not made enough, and must go back and Every one is familiar with the history of that that God has at length dealt very mercifully The babbling brook, the trellis’d door, fore. On one fold of it is printed, in gilt let a dreamy, abstracted gaze. There was some­ ance of the house, not so much that it was large do it. I was in a hurry to come and score up most righteous though inglorious war. Com. with me.’ My Father’s cottage home: letters, “ What shall it profit a man if he gain thing in the gaze, and in the attitude, which and handsome, as at the air of comfort which old matters ; that one unfortunate act of my ‘ As he does by all who trust in Him,’ was O ! dream of childhood, Ah ! ’tis sweet Decatur, then a Lieutenant, became its hero.— told of very deep sorrow. In years she could pervaded it- It was more like an English home life, Alillicent, was to me a very night-mare.’ Morris was then but twenty years of*age, yet the whole world and lose his own soul?” You the rejoinder of Mrs. Pride. When days of youth draw near, not have numbered thirty, aud her counte­ than any she had seen in America; but then her Sbp raised her eyes to his with a look of cau notwithstanding his youth, he distinguished open another fold and read, “ the gold is mine, Alillicent returned to New York the next day, That takes me back to my boyhood’s home saith the Lord of Hosts.” On still another nance was gentle and pleasant to look upon, experience was limited to those noisy, crowded tion, half glancing at his youngwife.

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