^ lamifg Nerogpoper ; gJgootgb to IpoUtks. laigallons, mgrituUuu, anh General Jntdligence. W ; F« k 6. H. BilLDWlN, Proprietors. HENRY WiRD, Editor.—Term s-$1^5Tw Aaiiim fOLUME 3.--N0. 1. LITCHFIELD, (COM.) JUNE 28. 1849. , ’W HOLE NO. 105- g a p profit^ly the whole mind of a philos­ b II that graced and enobled her be |) o e t t c a l . Amy Littleford’s mother without any very whenever he was able to speak to her, he requ3sted to state all that had transpired opher, and puzzle him to analyze it faitb- ing. important change in young girl’s position sought to gain such sympathy, as would with respect to the conduct of Amy Little­ fully and nj^utely—for in it could be “ Mother, dear mother,” the gentle Amy, or prospects. Necesity had compelled her satisfy him that she, too, was suffering from ford, when it appeared that she had in her found all the elements which compose the quietly breathed, as she knelt at the bed to teach the young as a source of subsistence the flame of love. This boldness only possession a tin box which she seemed to human soul—that subtile world of which side, “ you will soon recover—you will not and, the vincinity of Meadowdale she was rendered Amy’s position still more painful be very tinwilling to open, unless compel­ we have no measure but in an intellect, bal­ be taken away from me. The summer has known as the most beautiful and niost ac­ —and at last she declared her intention to led by the authority ot the law. This an- anced with just and holy z^ctions. fai-ly broken in, and the soft air of heaven complished of jhe^QX. She was all beauty leave the chateau, and return to Paris. Her no.uncement certainly seemed to throw Amy Littleford had name for many will ^et invigorate your feeble frame.” —all goodness. Nature had endowed her duty pointed out this course as the only se­ doubt upon the character of Amy, partieitlSU’* ^ For the Reptdflkan. days after she was born—but. as she lay “ I can scarcely hope it,” replied the pa­ with mind, heart, form and features, cure one—and, with that decision of char­ ly as she grasped the box even then in her On tbe Deatb of a Mother, nestled in her mother’s bosom, from hour to tient sufferer. “ The hour seems fast ap­ rarely equaled—and a stranger, looking acter which ennobled her, she resolved that hand, unwilling to yield it. hour, she at last grew to be a flower of love­ proaching when the spirit will absolve itself fekrtb, why best thou baried in thy moulder* upon her lovelines, could, not but be awed the thought and the act t-hould be simulta­ The Judge himself now looked upon liness such as babes seldom are, beautiful from the weak tenement of clay, and es­ iag tomb by the splendor of her beauty. The pear­ neous. Accordingly she communicated her, Amy with distrust, and demanded to know indeed, as many of them seem. Her mild, cape from the corruptible.'’ A blessins dearer than all other, ly lint of her complexion —her long eye­ design to Mr. Hellingham, who expressed what the box contained. To his question blue eyes, peering from the side-long pil­ “ Speak not thus, my mother 1” said -BUsting the rosy blossbdi in its sweetest bloom. lashes, from which her soul seemed to ra­ the deepest regret at losing her. The more she was unable to reply—but repeating a lowed head, were like violets stirred by a Amy—and as she spoke, she calmly watch­ diate out of the shaded blue orbs within portion of the story connected with it, with And eaose us to moarn for a mother ? ed that mother’s face, as she saw the half­ he inquired the reasons for this abrupt de­ gentle summer air, lain upon alabaster— their tracery—the etherial cast of her fea­ parture, the less'satisfied was he with the inimiaible grace and artlessness, and with ^Time, why didst thou, from Death’s cold icy restrained tears diffused over her gazing and it was a delight to see the swift intelli­ tures—all excited such emotions, that one answers which Amy made. There was such expressions of dutiful feeling of regard eyes, till overpowered with the sense that quirer. gence of the soul that brightened within almost anticipated, as he gazed, that she something so vague—so unreasonable in towards her mother, as those assembled and That reeking, poisonous arrow borrow, them, scanning, and seemingly comprehend­ the moment had arrived for the communica­ might melt, like a supernatural vison, into tion of no common intelligence, she bowed the act, that he could not reconcile it with tbe judge himself had never heard before, icap^Te take the heart you ne’er can de- ing, the colors and objects in tbe dimly light­ air. the character of the governess. However, she caused every listner to weep with emo­ liT er, ed chamber. She could not comprehend, her bead upon her mother’s hand, and lis­ Time, however had changed the aspir­ tions which could not be restrained. tened : he could not object to the decision which Learing us nought to greet but sorrow ? however, the destiny of her own existence. ations of Amy for a lot more cheerful than The judge, through his tears, gazed up» “ Amy—a painful hour has arrived— Amy had made, as he had no power to C3n- Conscious Nature hastes, as if to hide the spot, It is well that she could not. Ic is well that promised by Meadowdale; and having trol her, even had he been disposed ; and on her with astonishment and admiration, that our earliest visions are of the outer more painful than any 1 have passed du­ sought for some occupation more pleasing having settled with her for the tuition of but added that it would be his duty to ex­ Fast spreading o’er her mantle ef green. ring this tedious illness—and it is yet a Refreshed by the tears of angels they drop ; world, and not of that one within, with and less severe, than keeping the village his children, and presented to her a hand­ amine the contents of the box, and if thera which our sorrows and joys are so intimate­ consolation to me—a sweet consolation, to But her chosen friend, time never can wean. school, she at last made arrangements to su­ some sum, beyond the terms of agreement was no evidence of her guilt, there would be ly blended, and which are concealed so mys­ know that I have so good and dutiful perintend the education of a daughter of a between them, as a mark of his respect, he no necessity for any further exposition of JBut that little band know not a mother’s loss; teriously. What knew that infant, patient daughter to receive my latest blessing, and gentleman in one of our Atlantic cities, directed, in accordance with Amy’s request, wh tever it might contain, than woulJ fall How unconscious, as they sporting, play. of its being—the passive innocent of a to listen to my last will. I have not been and, in a short lime, became an inmate of that the diligence should be ordered to con­ under his own inspection. He further O f her watching care, to free their minds from mighty and busy world—of probable hours unmindful that we have both avoided one the family. After passing a winter in this vey her to Paris the next morning. Hen­ ded, as a constlation to her, tbat he would " dros|». or of pain ? What knew that infant of the subject.”— way, she heard with delight that the family ry Percy, too, used all his rhetoric, to stay satisfy himself that the jewels winT'noi' And point them to Virtue’s brightest ray ! mother, whose lacteal font supplied the Here a pause of a few seconds interven­ proposed to visit France—and that delight Amy’s departure, in vain. She was inflex­ concealed within. ed, while each pressed the other’s hand with ‘Thou hast lircd retired, from the gay world spiritual and the physical sustenance to its was caused by the fact that she was to con­ ible in her purpose. At last, he made a At this moment, Amy had a presenti­ nature ? Ah, could the then smiling Amy deep emotion, and with a warmth that gave tinue as the governess, and have an oppor­ declaration of his love. This was but ad­ ment—an indefinable anticipation, known aside ; assurance that the truth might now be spo­ Yet hast thou left, most swcely impressed, have known the history of her orgin—with tunity of beholding a country in the histo­ ding fuel to the fire already kindled. Amy only to those who have experienced minute­ ken. 'Those glowing virtues, to cheer the Earth far what kind* of contemplation would she ry of which she had taken a deep interest. replied with remonstrances.' She urged ly the mysterious workings of Providence, have viewed in the purity of an unworldly “ That subject,” continued the mother, In the month of July, the whole party her humble origin—her want of fortune that the time had arrived which would re­ and w ide: “ may have an interest to you beyond all But thy soul forever is at rest. G. judgement, that mother’s misfortunes ! arrived in Paris, where several of the hap­ the utter madness of entertaining a passion pay her for all the suffering she had endur» Would she have sorrowed over the misery others. It may have an influence upon the piest months o^ Amy Littleford’s life were for a man, whose own will, however strong, ed, or that the cloud that hung over her, For the Republiatit. of her own unhappy fate—her illegitimacy future of your whole life—I cannot—1 passed in the mjoyinent of the scenes would be opposed by his family. To this would be lifted up. The pallor-^the dare not attempt to render any apology for Luge, Colam1>ia. —or would she have most pittied that moth­ which that city affords. She gained rap­ Henry Percy replied, that he was indepen­ trembling which she exhibited, were con­ the error—the sin that gave you birth— er, who, with a suffering heart, had given idly in the French language, and, as it be­ dent of circumstances and his family—that strued by all present to be indications of Why bends the Western Queen her brow. her existence ? ' It is easy for the world to but, I may say, that if penitential tears, came familiar to her, she wap an object of his fortune was his own—that he was unin­ her guilt, and some of those who surround­ and a life burthened with a grief-worn heart, In mournful sadness weeping ? censure, to despise—hut few, ah, few are admiration to all who saw her, while her cumbered—and that even if Amy’s origin ed her were heard to whisper, “ How artr Pale, pale in death, her Statesman now. they who can forgive the lapse from sinless­ be any reparation for my crime toward you, manners were the envy of her sex, where- were as low as his imagination could depict ful!”—“ See her tremble !” What does Within the grave is sleeping. ness to sin. Nazarene seems and toward myself, the atonement has been ever she was seen. Even in Paris her it, that in his eyes she rose superior to that show ?” made I Heaven knows my struggles to She hears the deep and solemn knell. to have been the only one on earth, pure grace 'and beauty were unrivalled. birth, to fortune or position. The judge rose from the table, and as he enough to set mankind an example. make some amends for the past, by guard­ Through all her vallies sounding ; Providence however, had new scenes in A woman’s heart, however strong, will turned the key with difficulty in the lock, Amy Littleford, grew beautiful from day ing the gift that my guiltiness possessed in store for her. The day of her destiny had tier hills repeat the dirge-like swell. yield to the sincerity of true love. A m y the bolt gave way, and the lid was raised.— to day—more beautiful, as she rounded in­ you—and the time may come when the sin not arrived yet. A sudden illness seized And Ocean’s billows bounding. listened—she reflected—she answered— He was perfectly calm for a moment, when to a perfect miniature figure of a woman, of thy father may meet with its reward. upon the child under her charge, and dying, and finally consented, at Percy’s solicita­ lifting a book beneath which the remainder Columbia, mourn your Chieftain dead ! and her intellect seemed to keep pace with The ways of Providence are as mysterious Amy’s services were no longer required. tion, to correspond .with the young student, of the contents reposed, he discovered his No more your cause maintaining. her physical strength. She was not dull, as they are unseen—and now, now that 1 At this juncture of affairs, Amy noticed in after she should arrive in Paris. Still she own letters, and his miniature, which near­ His soul on wings of ligtit has fled but womanly. In her large blue eyes, am about to leave forever this world of woe, Galighani’s Messenger,” an advertise­ insisted that he should not visit her. She ly twenty years before he had given to To Him in glory reigning. there was something “ bright with some­ the abiding impression of a future is with ment which seemed to hold out a brilliant would listen to him, but till she could be as­ Amy’s mother. He paused fora moment: thing of an angel lightand, as she sat me, which makes me anxious that you There be beholds the shimag band. josition for her, could she only be success- sured that her own history would prove no his eyes swimming with tears, and his limbs by the side of her mother, who toiled at her should know all—and yet all, Amy, you Who filled their country’s glory. I'ul in obtaining it. An English family, obstacle to their union, she could not— trembling, so as scarcely to support him, and needle to supply the daily demands of ex­ cannot know ! 1 cannot rend your heart And live embalmed in every land. residing in a chateau near Paris, required would not hazard any danger to her heart, with a choked utterance he exclaimed, in a istence, she would watch the expression of by the recital of the incidents which led to governess. Amy made application for paroxysm of joy : Emblazoned high in story. my fall and your existence. There was by consenting to interviews which might that parent’s features with a steadiness of the situation, and, upon obtaining satisfac­ be regretted. “ My child ! my child ! not guilty ! not Like them, he strove with patriot zeal. purpose that might become one who long one—a stranger—to whose power over my tory testimonials of her character and abili­ guilty 1” In Freedom’s holy calling, had been skilled in reading the language of youthful frailty, .1 became the victim—a ties, soon found herself agreeably domicil­ It was some consolation to Henry Percy, Amy was convulsed with intense excite.- And well sustained his country’s weal. the “ humanface divine.” It may be that victim from the excess of love, which on ed in the midstu of a family, whose kind­ that he could write—and he trembled, as ment; but she was not wholly unprepared No fear his heart appalling. she saw in that face the lines of grief and my part was earnest and sincere. I believ­ ness and familiarity, were strongly in con­ he bade the lovely Amy farewell, lest her for the scene. Her father had acknowU the shrouded smile of remorse, and ed his own counterfeited passion, and when trast with the treatment usually received absencc should result in a perpetual banish­ edged her ; should she not acknowledge Columbia weeps: her starry veil that she contrasted these with thedimples on too late, found that far distant, he had an­ by that class of self-sacrificing women to ment from her presence. her father ? She rushed into his arms, for­ A sable hue is Wearing; her own cheek and the laugh of innocence other to whom he was legally united.— whose studious energy and perseverance, giving him who needed to be fwgiven, as Her eyes are di|n—her features pule. which she herself enjoyed. Children, when There was no hope for me—but in that the young scions of the rich are indebted le exclaimed, regardless of aU listeners Her hand the eypress bearing. they reason on any subject, arrive at con­ small tin box on the bureau, the key of for nearly all they possess, either in man­ CHAPTER V. “ This is retribution r* For PoLJC is gone I the great in mind ! clusions rapidly ; and it may be that Amy which I surrender to you, are letters which ners or in education. The Stolen Casket.—-The Trial. The pure in soul and feeling! perceived that there was some cause for the are signed by his own hand. Y ou must CHAPTER VI. never open it, unless the circumstances of The morning bore Amy Littleford from .Ne more to rouse and bless mankind, difierencs between her own lively impulses CHAPTER IV. The Result. The Culprit.^ The C(rtu your life require it. Should your parent­ the chateau of Mr, Bellingham ; and Hen­ A patriot’s power revealing! and the settled~melancholy that marked the ry Percy beheld the diligence pass over elusion. age ever be questioned, it may be necessa­ The New Home.— The Attachment.—Its countenance ofher mother—and hence che the summit of the hill and out of sight, M. DE Y jllenguve found his daughter But through the flight of coming years. ry for you to possess the proofs of your Consequences.— The Decision. abiding habit of jvatchfulness that remar- with a sense of pain at his heart such as when he had no longer an Jisir or a wife. His name shall live undouded, origin—and as you would never deceive, I Scarcely a month had passed at the cha­ kien thus her daily life. On the mother’s never before had afflicted him. His uncle, After the scene described in the last chap­ Till all yon brightly rolling spheres. am assured, a husband—you will never teau, when, for the first time in her life, mind, indeed there rested a weight of almost who had been present at the door of the ter, he le(^ Amy. into an adjoining room, In final gloom be shrouded. conceal a fact, which, if it cannot be a source Amy beheld one to whom she could have where he poured forth the remorse of h H, W a r d . intolerable woe. She had sined, she chateau, while it waited to take its fair pas­ of pride, with those who truly love you, resigned his heart. A young gentleman, a thought, against her own soul and the soul senger, was about to make some inquiry, as soul, penitent lor the error of his youth, auv* need never be the cause of shame.” nephew of Mr. Bellingham—for that was begged, that as Providence had been instru­ of her o&pring—and as Amy’s lovely he perceived that there had been a painful form, and even more lovely face, were re­ Amy sobbed aloud, and her warm tears the name of the family occupying the cha­ mental in sending to him his own, that he iSlisallancous. gushed rapidly over her mother’s trem­ teau—was residing there, and pursuing hi? parting and an unwonted paleness on the fined by nature into increasing beauty, like face of his nephew, when the whole house might render him some expiation for the bling hand, as the dying invalid proceeded: favorite studies in that pleasant retreat.— a beautiful flower-bud, gradually ripening was in an uproar, caused- by a scream from neglect towards the mother, by devoting “ You may wonder that I require you to There was much in their tastes that led From the (Boston,) Stale Topic. in all its glory, the poignancy of patemd Mrs. Bellingham, who hurried ,down the the remainder oi his life to his child. The know not your father’s name, only in case them to converse together—and ihe charms remorse—whichjrepentance even could not stair case, declaring that' her casket of jew­ scene was one diffcult for either the fathei The Pride of Meadowdale. of any-bar to your happiness. It is best. of literature soon gave place to the interest obliterate—wexed into a constant, painful els had been taken from her cabinet, and or tbe child to sustain. The,elem^ta iu At least, I think so—and, therefore, it will each took in themes which had reference anxiety such as a guU ty mother alone could could no where be found. it which agitated the of each beyono A Tale of Real Life. be the last assurance of your goodness ot more directly to the heart and its affections. the feeble expression ofwords. The strug­ feel. In fanc}% sometimes she would ima- If the merits of a book were discussed, Servants were despatched through all agine the probable result to this dear chUd, heart, if you will promise to open that box, gle on the part of Amy was intense—bewil­ Ute Introduction.— Character of Amy only when it cannot well be avoided.” those points of character, in which love the principal apartments to make further Littleford.—A Mother's Heart.— The if she should be taken away from her, by dering! The recollection of the wronga ^ “ 1 promise it—I promise i t !” murmur­ was involved, seemed to be the favorite search for the treasure, but all exertion was of her mother—the penitence of Pain of Error. the summons of death—sometimes she ones for discourse. Thus grew in the bo­ in vain. The news of the loss soon spread would trace her career through the tangled ed the unfortunate girl, as she raised her her sinful father—her own unhappy orphan^ M i l d and beautiful was the morning of som of each, feelings which neither could throughout the village, and there were sur­ paths of the world, at a period when most head, and the tearful eye of the mother and age—her own uncertatin .destiny— tht tJie birth of Amy Littleford ; and he who control, though pride on the one hand, and mises and conjectures and suspicions rife on a daughter requires a mother’s guardian­ daughter met, while an agony oi resistless strange development of Providence itseij «oold believe that tbe stars have occult in­ humility on the other, did not favor any busy tongues for an hour, till it was cur­ ship, and her heart would ache with the grief, agitated their trembling frames. —her isolate position in a strange land— fluences upon the life and destiny of mor>' prospect of permanent advantage from rently reported that the governess was the very surmise of anticipation. She saw the “ There Amy.” the mother continued, her home that was no home—her futme talSfOn beholding the sunny loveliness of “ I have told you all that you need know such interviews. Mr. Henry Percy, how­ the transgressor. Kumors and doubts now^ Henry Percy—made th future of Amy as a dark void, in which the operated with such force, that Mr. Belling^ ^hat birth-hour, and the pervading charms —all that may be necessary to your hap­ ever, loved Amy Littleford more and more, ordeal of her decision one of uncouimoti beautiful girl shone like a floating star, un­ ham suggested the propriety of sending an .of nature throughout the whole region of piness—and, 1 fear not that you will ever as his acquaintance with her increased— hardship and severity. Yet there was lit­ certain of its sphere—and sometimes she express off to Paris to search Amy Little­ Meadowdale—^musical with light, life and even in this world of temptation, require and when Amy—as she thought it prudent tle of human vanity, of selfish pride, of the could not repress the impulse bordering on ford. Henry Percy opposed the plan, and 4>eaaty, as it was up to the hour of noon— the warning voice even of a mother for to do—retired to her own room to avoid spirit of revenge in her heart. The memor a hope that, if the life of the little one were bravely did he doubt and strongly contend vwould have been wrapt into the faith, that your guidance. You are a good child— those meetings, the remembrance of which ry of her mother was as dear to her— but to be one of error and of misery, death in behalf of the lovely object of his affec­ fiot the stars alone have elements in unison you have been more than ordinarily gifted had not been unmingled already with re­ her piety was the ruling spiiit of her bosom might shield from danger, and the innocent tion. However, the express was directed .with hunutnity. Let it be a dream !— It is by Heaven with all blessinpi, except such grets, Henry Percy experienced a diminu­ and that instructed her what course to take be wafted on the wings of its spirit to her to communicate as speedily as possible with # {Peasant one, and not without encourage- as pertain to your origin. It may he that tion of his daily enjoyment, that he himself at this crisis. She looked upon her fatter God. the police, and a swift rider departed with #nent—that the spirit of nature and the your life, by the will of Providence, may could scarcely understand. He would hold to love him—to respect him—to be guided the utmost speed upon his errand. In 2 or spirit of human mould have a connection be made to illustriate Heaven’s unspeakable no intercourse with any one. His chief by him. She Jforgot his /railty and his CHAPTER II. 3 hours he returned, bringing word that 4icd a sympathy with each other, though economy. pleasure was to wander to the outskirts of passions, and forgave his errors as she hor the beautiful Amy was in possession of the ^ o t to pe defined; and remote. There are The Mother's Illvess. The Disclosure. “ Perhaps it may be so !” sobbed the the village, or among the knot of tangled ped herself to be' forgiven ! casket, and that she would soon re tu rn with ■inoiBents when our faith in this dream is Tht Tin Box. The Promise. gentle girl, as she now beheld the face of trees that crowned a neighboring hill; and Meanwhile, the innocence of Amy hav­ inade fivmer—^in liiose hours of inward con- A my L ittlefo rd was now a child of 15 if night overtook him, he even then pro­ the police, for examination before the judge ing been proved, suspicion fell upon one ol her mother, whih assumed a tranquility of the distriict rterni^stion and of happy repose from the summers. Her beauty was enriched by that seemed to bespeak a soul within, relea- longed his wanderings, till the stars paled the aeryants of Mr. Bellingham, whose ab­ xaras of this earthly existence—when we manners and grace which seemed the gifts ted frona the cares of earth—of that mo­ at the approach of morning. Notwithstanding the surmises and suspi­ sence from the chateau for an hour in the jmoember with cahn delight, and listen, as it of nature itself. Yet such had been the ther who had passed through severe Amy was notinsensible that Henry Per­ cions, .and the assurance of the messenger morning, had been traced to a house of a were only yesterday, to the music of the careful guardianship of her unhappy moth­ trials, and who, while employed in the edu­ cy was a slave to a growing passion within that Amy -was probably guilty, Henry suspicious character, and there, deposited «rottii^ spheres, as ^ e y s a ^ together for er, that she did not possess that vanity or cation of the children of an opulent family his heart—and it was with grief lhat she Percy never doubted, for a single moment, in a pannel beneath the window still were joy. or^ are transported to Mthlehem, and, pride with regard to her loveliness, so com­ became to the deception of one who had visi­ saw that there could be no hope of happi­ Amy’sinnocence^—and patiently heawaited found the jewela and the casket, which he ta the company the wise men of the mon to the thoughtless of her sex. Good­ ted a neighbor’s house, from the window of ness from encouraging a disposition that her return, that he might know what were had taken at the period Amy’s dept rr Bast, belidid the star that impends over the ness and gentleness made up her being, and which he had perceived the ungarded objec­ promised nothing-but b li^ t. She ^ as cer­ the circumstances which had tended to fix ture, for the purpose of fastening the sus- iM d the infant Paraclete of the world. these softened and subdued every vain im­ ted of his wrong, and whose heart he had tain that her own position would prove a suspicion vupcm one so gentle and so lovely. )icion upon her rather tjban upon himselt. A-Wbe for a hercnne f Yet. There can pulse and unworthy fancy. Her duty, re­ won by the semblance of a devotion long barrier to any alliance with the Bellingham A few hours passed—^^and a close carriage Hie was punished ibr his crime by.condem.- porarone—«nd, to thoae whose na- gardless of all consequences, ruled every continued, but wholly insincere. Such is family* She banished, therefore, all tho’t rolled up to the door of the chateau, when nation to the galleys as a common felon^ t a t m w aiiiv to the voDdrom beauty of action of her daily life^and now when her the aefishness of unhallowed passiona! of Percy, as she deemed that the least en­ Amy Littleford descended, and with a de­ Henry Percy, as may he imagined and FtettdffSea, and to the inten- poor mother had been struck down by an couragement would prove dangerous to her meanor neither bold nor abashed, accon^a- bis uncle and aunt, were s u r p r i z e d at the aitf of interest that ciile#, ffte a lambent illness threatened to be fatal, the patient future peace and happiness. nied by two ofiicers. entered the hall. T ie events of the d a y — and could only c o b ^ c- ilaBM, around the poaaible deitinybf i new­ A q ^ knew but one thought, in which all CHAPTER 111. Heniy Percy, however, was not so cau­ judge of the district was there in consulta» ture. and yet not correctly, how M- de ly Matfted being, there ean be no more «^e- emdtions converged— the best means of The departure Paris Visiied. Anoth­ tious as the beautiful Am y; and he became tion with Mr. Bellingham, and he directed leneuve had become the father of the gover. w liai' «a»e. i n iii&nf i r a mieroeoam for nothet happy. She felt that er change. bolder, as his heart became warmer. He that the judicial proceeding should be held ness ! Henry Percy, howowever, counted she WM indited to her, tioi only for life. Two years had passed after the death of He was uneasy at Amy’s absence—and, on the spot. Accordingly, the officers were [ C o n c lu d e d on the Fourth Pvge.] TH E fclTCHFIELD REPUBLICAN. Reiaresentatloii. iPEAKEH’a ADDRESS. Jotrign No»«. Thnrsday Morning, Jane 31. ^*Tfae amendnMOt of the ConstUulion,offi«edby Olomufticut iCcgislature. IN THE H»USE. Mr. O. s. Seymour addressed the Speaker, ®;i)e R epublican. M r. Boardman, {nrovidiDg for a more eqoal repre­ Prayer by the Rev. Mr. Dodd. remarking that it was his pleasure to an­ JUNE SESSION, 1849. sentation in the Connecticut House of Represen­ Arrival of the Aneriea at HaBfio. Resolution for nming a State tax of two per nounce to him the resolution passed by the LITCHFIELD cent, taken up. House yesterday, by a unanimous vote, ex­ tatives, was continitieil to tbe next General Assem ULTE F R ^ SDROPB: Wednesday Morning, June 20. M r. Boardman moved to rcconsider and lay the pressing the thanks of the House, for the able bly. and impartial manner in which--he had^ presi­ THURSDAY, June 28,1849. s e n a t e ' tax at one and a half per cenL, carried; resolu­ It provided that every town, however small, shall St. JoHir, N. B. I tion passed. ded over their deliberations. Mr. is. took i» On motion of M r. Bacon, the vote yesterday great pleasure in doing this, concurring as he have one representative. Those towns having Tuesday Afiemoeo. | , on the passage of tbe bill respecting tUe ResolutiDn from com. of conference, appointing Ot5-We have received another ‘'O live LEAFj” Tlie Royal Mail steamship American, Cept, Hiran> Goodwin judge of the County Court for did, in the sentiments of the resolution, apply­ 1800 inhabitants shall have two and one repre­ military force, was reconsidered. Mr. Bacon, ing to one for vhom he had a high personal re­ from Elihu Burritt, Esq., dated “ 15 New Harrison, with 60 passengers, bringihg Paris data niorea some amendments. Amendments passed; Litchfield County; passed. sentative shall be added fo r ev e ry additional 2,000 of the 7th, London of the 8th, and Liverpool of gard. Broad St., London, May 9, 1849,” signed by 'Bill passsed. Resolution respecting the invitation for General inhabitants. the 9ih,arrived at Halifiuc at about 3 o’ctock/yes­ Taylor to visit the State; indefinitely postpotjed. s p e a k e r ’s r e p l y . Henry Richard and Elihu Burritt, as Secreta­ terday afternoon. Amendment to the conititutlon calling a conven­ I was.called to this post under M r. Boardman stitted to the House the precise tion taken from the table on motion of Mr. King. Resolution to raise a committee to procure a ries of the London Peace Congress Committee. T he Hibernia arrived at Liverpool on Monday^ circumstances the most tryiiig ; with painiu result of ibis amendment, based up«n the census of Resolution advocated by Mr. Johnson, and oppo­ s%vord for Col.Thomas H . Seymour; laid on the making the passage frora HaHfiuc in 9 tbys. apprehensions, that through want' of experi­ It is drawn up with much ability ; and the ob­ sed by M r. Dutton. Re-o!utioii lust. Ayes 6, table. 1840i T hat 18-50 will alter this result in some In Parliament, Mr. Gladstone gave notice that eu Resolution appropriating .$300 for the purchase ence, I should not be able to Sustain my sell ac- ject of it is to inform the Friends of Be^fen i»y* 14. towns. the 14 th, he woukl tnring fbrward a motion res­ of a swoid for Major Henry W . Wessels; passed. tho United States, of the movements ofiSie pecting the late events in Canada Lord John Riis- JBill for a_pub1i