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^.nrftlanii ffiajftte, gfunft ariit jb b ||tin tin g . PUBLISHED BVKBT THUBSDAY BYBrfIXO, BY Having made large additions to] our. former variety of JOHN PORTER,:::::;::::::::::Proprietor PLAIN AND FANCY J O B T Y B ZE3 , Office, No. 5 Custom-House Block, Wo are now prepared to exeedte with neatness and des patch. every.description of Job Work, such as TERMS, Circulars, Bill-heads, Cards, Blanks, If paid strictly in advance—per annum, • 1,50 Catalogues, Programmes, If payment is delayed 6 moa. “ 1,75 Shop Bills, Labels, Auction and Hand If not paid till the close of the year, 2,00 O * No paper will be discontinued until all abbbaba BiUs, &c., &o. obb are paid, unless at the option of the pupllsher. Particular attentionjpaid CT Single copies, three cents —for sale at the office. ROCKLAND, MAINE, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 22, 1857. PR IN T IN G IN C O L O K S U* All letters and communications to be addressed VOL. 12. NO. 4 to the Publisher. BRONZING. &.C. From the Embassador. knew little of the town, which was a large MY OWN FUNERAL, will occasionally ; and I believe making love to ous barking in the yard. It was Csesar, my own are the leaders in every branch of industry, The Dog that Wouldn't Emigrate.—A short dog, my best friend. • Ah !’ thought I, ‘ what one, and to expect to know the name of my one man, while you feel it for another, is one of whether in commerce, manufactures, the me time since soveral families left Provincetown to The Dying Wife to her Husband. the first rules of the charitable art of flirta is human friendship compared with this ? All chanical arts or mining, the native population fair one, by a mere description was hopeless, A PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENON. locate in Eastern Virginia. They took along You’ll think of me sometimes, belov’d tion.’ my friends, even Ida herself, have been deceived being generally indolent and ignorant. Offers with them a large and -ncble dog, of the New When I am gone from sight, for there doubtless must' be a great many ‘ That man,’ said he, smiliog in spite of him ‘ Well, in this case it was otherwise. I have by a mere wig and moustache; but the dog we by Europeans to introduce steain engines, saw foundland species. While on their passage to When you can see me never more, with dark eyes and black hair within the self; * why, my dear friend, that’s my servant learnt that her parents were, and still are, most kick and beat and despise knows even the sound mills. &c., and the growth of coffee and indigo, Boston in a small schooner, the dog broke loose, You’ll not forget me quite. ‘ bills of mortality ’ there, as elsewhere. John ; don't you remember him ?’ anxious that she should marry the young Due of my distant footsteps.’ I went to him, found for which the soil is admirably adapted, have leaped into the sea, and started on his long and You’ll miss sometimes at twilight hour, My love fit grew more and more violent ‘ Ah, doctor, doctor, I’m afraid you are try de P ------, who, as you know, is no less wealthy him chained in the yard—he had never been always been rejected. The architecture is of weary passage home. He was seen and passed My low and loving tone: during the day ; but tired out by my search, ing to make a fool of me. Your John had red in lands than in rank.’ chained when I was alive—received his wild ca the most primitive character, the construction by one of our packets, near night, about five Your heart will sometimes feel a pang, ' ‘ Ah, I see; and so the young lady concealed ress, and unloosed him. of the arch being unknown, and bridges are 1 returned to the hotel, and took out my hair, and besides 1 know that man. He be miles off Race Point, and nine from this town, When beating all alone. longs to the—the cemetery.’ her real preference by making you the pretext.’ I found the outer door open, and, walking in, built wholly of planks. There are no public heading for the Race Light, nobly breasting the dress coat from my portmanteau to feed my ‘ Oh! nonsense, you’re dreaming. Well, • Alas, I fear so.’ opened that of the dining-room; and there, to roads, but the internal navigation is extensive, rolling waves, often covered by the spray. You’ll think of days forever gone, flame even with the contemplation of the in how do you feel now !’ At this moment, fortunately for me, the car my amazement, amid an uproar of intoxication, cheap, and convenient. In districts not tra The next morning, at an early hour, and be And grief may wring a tear, animate business button that had detained I certainly felt a new man. Though weak riages, which had been moving along at the with glasses rattling on the table, and the room versed by rivers, merchandise is conveyed by fore the family had arisen, Mr. James Doyle, to From eyes that have seldom wept, the ‘ black-eyed devinity ’ so long. It was and depressed, still I was free from the dread slow pace which is supposed to be agreeable to filled with a dense smoke from some dozen pipes, elephants, which are very abundant. The rare whom the dog was much attached, hearing an But I shall not be here. and agony I bad suffered, and, us I sat in a grief, during this conversation, stopped near stood my faithful valet, addressing a speech to species called the white elephant is found there unusual noise at his door, arose, opened it, and You’ll come and go, and yet the smile no little delight I now discovered what did not before catch my eye—a fragment of the large chair near the cheerful fire, and looked at the cometery, and we all adjourned to the some ten or twelve grooms, couriers, butlers, The discoverer of one of these animals is con was astonished to behold the noble fugitive.— That ouce your fond eyes met, grave. powdered mercuries, and sleek French cooks silk loop of her dress still adhered to the the doctor’s well-known and now cheerful face sidered one of the most fortunate of mortals, Mr. D. says when ho opened the door the dog Will faded be, forever fled, —for he was delighted to find me recovering, Near it was the empty coffin covered with a from the embassy and the houses of the nobili and is rewarded with a crown of silver and a arose, placed his great paws upon his shoulders, But oh, do not forget. button, twisted round the shank. I pressed though he would not leave me—the memory of black pall. I stood by while the funeral service ty- grant of land equal to the space over which the aud 1 airly embraced him, giving such demonstra it to my lips; it was lilac in color—and ‘ Don’t let me disturb you, gentlemen,’ I said, When cold and lifeless is the form the past stole back by fits and starts. was going on, and really, at first, there was cry of an elephant may be heard. tions of joy as he never believed any animal stooped to gently disentangle it from the bit very blandly, ‘ my business will do at any time.’ That nestled on thy breast, At lust I took a strange resolution. With a something so ludicrous in all this pomp and cer The government of siam is of the most abso could exhibit ‘ I ’m glad to hear it,’ cried Karl from the end When chill and marble are the lips of brass as gentle as though it were a tress great deal of trouble I persuaded the doctur to emony and well got-up grief over nothing out lute character, the king being regarded and re In what pint of the Bay he left his master, deal boards and brass, nails that 1 could scarce of the room, and more than three parts drunk, That once thine own have press’d, of my loved one’s hair, when something clink keep my resurrection, as I called it, a profound verenced as a diety, and the people are subjected and the distance he must have swum, in a rough ly refrain from laughter. ‘ I ’m not much ia the humor for business ju 9t to the most grinding tyranny The great ma- Oh, sometimes think of me, and come ed in my skirt pocket. I supposed I had secret lor a few days. I told him it was posi sea. it is not now known, but when seen he was tively necessary to my happiness, and he. prob But when Lord E------, the tears really in his now. But don’t go away, my friend. Come in, ?ority of the people worship Boodh. Of the five miles from land. Unto the quiet spot, left some money there, for in my perturba ably thinking that I required great care, at lust eyes, came forward when all was done, and in a bring yourself to anchor, and take a glass of history of the country but iittle is known, This is the fourth time an attempt has been Where all is silent, lone and still, tion and excitement I omitted to search the But oh not quite forget. consented on condition that I would go back to hoarse voice said : ‘ VYe have lost a good friend port—dayvilish fine port—too.’ made to carry off this dog.