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Couldn’t Copper H im.—A correspondent, [From the Ladies’ Repository for April.) a life of idleness determined to place his son] John Freecroft is engaged in examining a I know and with his help we’ll see whether ter as he took leave of him ; but he adressed The Mother.—Some one writing for the Ma­ in some active business. In his own count-' him a word or two before he went. sonic Mirror has drawn a pretty picture of a writing to a Bo.-tun paper from New Orleans, THE MESSALOXSKEE. number of different papers taken from a box the old rip will have it any longer his own gives tiie following incident: • You can huy i ing-house he felt that he would not meet There ye are ye little villian, said he, and I home-loving, child-loving mother: strongly bound with iron clasps ; and as the way. hope ye’ll he plea-ed with yer quarter, for ye’ll How pleasant she sits, day after day, shaping nothing in New Orleans, and most southern and BY R E V , B . LEONARD. with the necessary disipline, and so placed faint glare of the solitary candle on the table Mat, as he spoke turned the key in the find it rather difficult to scrape up a friend will­ and sewing some little article for use and adorn­ western cities for less than a • picayune.’ or six j him with one he thought a friend—for they Dear stream, the child art thou of those fair lakes falls upon each his Face becomes still more desk and locked it, at the same time feeling ing to become bail for yer ugly carcass. Ye’ll ment for her little flock ! And how proud and and a quarter cents. Coppers are hardly known. Which lie among the western hills but half had frequently done business together—and repulsive in its yellow ugliness. Muttering, intense gratification at his success. H e then nut sleep quite so comfortably as ye expected, pleased is each little recipient of her kindness 1 was amused at n little incident which I saw- on board one of the western bouts. A man A score of miles away. A family who promised to bestow all the care and at­ to himself sundry interjections expressive of with a quiet grin on his youthful counten­ but let me tell ye for a parting word—it’s n How the little faces dimple with pleasure, and from the North tried to pass ten coppers upon Are they, indissoluble ; yet hath each tention in his power upon his son. pleasurable emotions or the reverse, he takes ance, went back to his misenble bed, to dale too good (or ye as it is. So take the good the bright eyes grow still brighter, as mamma A room apart, engirt by rugged walls. wishes of all present that they may live to see decks them with her own hands with the new ■ a Sucker,’ a native of Illinois, for a dime — ‘ Time went on, and the youth approached out paper after paper from the box unfolds brood over the events of the coming morrow, A wanderer thou, ambitious, hopeful, bold, your hanging day, and begone !’ dress she made ! How much warmer and more ■ What he they ?’ inquired the Sucker, turning manhood. The father looked fondly towards and ever and anon to shake his lean fists in With swift steps seeking new companionship it, reads it over and then carefully replaces John Freecroft was gone, and a hnppier group comfortable they feel if mamma wraps them u| iver the coppers in unfeigred ignorance, ‘ I Within the valley of the Kennebec the day when his son should take his own it. the dark at some airy phantom of his imagi­ was now assembled than there had promised to before they go to school ! No one hut her can calculate they are cents,’ replied the Northern- Thou hast grown weary of the life serene place in the business to which he himself had ‘ Yes, yes,’ said he, as if continuing a con­ nation. be on the morning of that eventful day. In re- warm the mits and overshoes, or the comforter: ir. ‘ Can’t you read?’ ‘ I reckon not,’ said Of sister, mother, patriarch and sire j devoted his energies in younger days. The versation which had hitherto been held con­ And now indeed upon the eve of his wed­ watd for the great services rendered by Mat around their necks. the other, ‘ and what’s more, old hoss, I al­ ow I don t wane to. What is cents, mister ?’ The peace of their sequestered, sheltered home, son appeared all that the father could wish, fidentially with some familliar demon in his ding day, John Freecroft had a sword hang­ Natterby, the office-boy, he was placed in an There is a peculiar charm about all she does To thee is tame ; and so, nor precipice steep, and seemed uncontaminated by the youthful ing over his head, of whese existence he excellent situation in Mr. Preston’s office ; and the precious mother. They could not sleep ■ I vow to the judges,’ said the Northerner, ‘you own breast, ‘ they have not seen the light for ire worse than the heathen ! Cents is money, Nor lofty ridge, nor frowning cliff, nor wild, indiscretions and excesses common to others dreamed not, and it was hell by no less per­ there with proper care he soon gave promise ol nay, for that matter, she could not, if she failed Wood-shadowed path, doth daunt thy heart, or check some time, as each has its particular duty to growing up into a fine man. And fur the in­ to visit their chamber, and with her own solt ■uirtin ! Ten of them arc worth one dime.— situated as he was.’ sonage than his despised ofihe-boy, Mat Nat­ Thy feet. Thou roamest forth thyself to join fulfill. I was surely intended by nature for trepidity by which Henry Barrington had dis­ hands arrange them comfortably before thei Can t you see it says E Plurilius Unum—that’s To greater interests, a destiny The old man paused, and stifled a heavy a lawyer, not a merchant, for this head,’said terby— the poverty-stricken the kicked and tinguished himself, there was found in time but slept. Her heart thrills with gratitude to her he Latin fur nail Columbia, and here, it’s in­ To reach at last, far ofl, magnificent sigh as it arose from his heart. he patting it with his hard bony hand, ‘ is abused slave of his bidding ine way to repay him ; and the reward was con­ Creator as she looks on those sweet blooming scribed one cent.’ ‘ Look here, stranger,’ re­ And ocean-wide, all open to the light ‘ Yes, father, I am listening,’ said Lucille. too subtle for mere brokerage and commis­ ferred by sweet Lucille Preston herself by al faces, and when their prayers are dune, imprints po ded the Sucker, putting the thumb of his hand into his ear, and inclining his fingers for­ And.air, the glow and breath of the broad sky. ‘ The will of Providence had chosen that sions, the dealing in which is my apparent We must now return to Archibald Pres­ lowing him the privilege of calling her his own. a good night kiss upon each rosy mouth. It ton and his daughter. may he, too, a tear will start for the little nest­ ward, ‘ you may run a saw on a Hosier or this father’s hopes should be blasted,’ said occupation. Ha ha ha,’ And he laughed Wolverine, hut I’m dod rotted if you Yankee W hile I behold toy beauty, or attend, ‘There, father, it is past!’ said Lucille. Stay at Home. ling bird in its chill narrow bed, for whom her With hushed and spell-bound heart, to thy loud lays. .Mr. Preston, • and that the bright visions he out his harsh, dry laughs as he let his fan­ maternal Cure is no longer needed. It sleeps me with the contusive stuff. ‘ 1 am ready to make this trial— I am ready 1 reason that thy lovely looks and wild, had built in the dim future should entirely cy wander thus pleasant about. ‘ But this is That the people of Maine, as well as all the though the sleet and snow descend, and the wild Untaught, unequalled music, do not come vanish. The Almighty willed that death not business,’ he muttered. to be led’ to the altar by tiis man, if in so other New England States, and also of the Mid­ winter howls around their head It needs n Tue Murrain. The distemper which has ap­ Alone from thy great hopes, but, from, as well, should lay its fingers upon the young man’s Again he began rummaging within the doing I do but save you one moment of pain, dle States, are laboring under an extraordinary longer her tender care ! A mightier arm en­ peared among the cattle of the North of Europe, The life thou broughtest with thee from thy home. has excited great apprehension among the En<>- brow, and that the heart which beat in all iron-clasped box drawing forth paper after my own dear father.’ attack of “ Western fever” at the present time, folds i t ! It is at rest. She feels and knows Thou dost draw nourishment, vigor, grace, I.eh people who have hitherto derived a very the hopefulness ot ripening manhood should ‘ Heaven bless thee, daring!’ returned her no man of common observation can doubt.— that it is right, and bends meekly to the hand The elements of purity and song, paper, and commenting thereon as each one ■urge portion of their beef cattle Irom that re­ suddenly grow still and cold forever. He has father, ‘ aud forgive me if in this I am Emigrants for Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, and that sped the shaft, and turns with a Warmer From the ancestral lakes which thou hast left, met his view. Amongst others he drew fortli love if it be possible, to those little ones wh, gion. The exact nature of the murrain has not 1 said it, and ‘ His will be done.” playing with the happinessof the only being others of the extreme Western States, to say As in this latest century, the child a short document and as he held it up and nothing of Kansas, are crowding daily by thous­ are left to love. How tenderly she guards them been ascertained, but all accounts agree that it left me to love upon earth. But to think of Of genius, wisdom, poesy, subsists I The old man bowed his white head rever- read it aloud by the faint light, he laughed ands upon the railroads through Ohio, Indiana Irom d inger, and, with a strong untiling love, is of a most malignant type. As has already Aud thrives upou the pure, undoing blood, I ently as he said this. again harsher and drier than ever. the world pointing at us is we go by, as ind Illinois, and by way of Canada and the she watches by their bed-sides when they are iieen announced, the British government, in or­ The tide of life, and health, anil harmony, der to avert the disastrous consequences that i There is a tear upon your cheek, father It was as follows : stained and contaminated—to think of old Great Lakes, Maine furnishes her full quot ill. Which flows from generations in the past. isaid Lucille, ‘this son------— familiar faces turning aside from us as we of these thousands—and Eastern Maine, under Blessings be on the gentle home loving moth­ would ensue should the epidemic be introduced March 6, 18—. into the United Kingdom, have issued an order , ‘ Be patient yet for a while,’ said her fafh- pass along the street—it is too terrible even the temporary depression of the lumbering busi­ er. Angels will look with love upon her acts Thy winding course from thundering falls, by farm, ‘ Messrs. Steadwell and Blunt. Please prohibiting the importation of cattle, horns, . er. A heavy grief this to that father’s mind ; to contem plate!’ ness, is perhups furnishing mure thun its pro­ Her children will rise up and call her bles.ed. Aud wood, and bluff, and steepled town, I’ve traced, pay to the order of Edward Preston the sum and the memory of her kindly deeds will enfold hoofs or hides from those parts of Russia, Prus­ As one would journey with a friend. With thee I but oh, not so deep as one yet in store for The preparations for the strange marriage portion. of one thousand pounds on demand, It is not improbable that this emigration may her as a garment. sia, or Meckenhurg Schwerin, bordering on the I’ve heard the hum and clangor of swart mills ; j him ! Better—ten thousand times better— went on, and the day arrived. John Free­ Baltic Sea, between the Gulf of Finland and the £1,000. ‘J ohn F reecroft.’ go on through this s.ason; but wo believe it The roar of railway trains , the college bell that the hope and pride of that man should croft gorgeously arrayed in what he proba­ free city of Lubec. • Now,’ said he, who would think, to look cannot last longer that. Our advice to any man At morn : the village clock at noon, at night; be thus laid beneath the churchyard mound, bly considered the perfection of taste, but Value of a Blonde R inglet.—There seems i The Royal Agricultural Societies of England The Subbath’s cheerful peal from high church towers : upon that bit of scrawled paper, that there who contemplates going, is—to try Maine a lit­ to he one thing, after all, that is more valued fo r . and ol Ireland have dispatched an eminen? pro- which in truth made him look, if possible, Aud, too, the less, but sweeter melody than that he should have lived on to bring tle longer. Hold on, in hepe of better times.— no? having cost anything! The following ioci- | lessor to Prussia, in order to ascertain the na- was so great an amount of good or evil Wait until we have time to recover from the Of summer winds among the trees; the songs shame and disgrace upon those who had ush- uglier than ever, rode down to the office and detit, which we find in a French paper, illus- i cure and extent of the disease. Meanwhile the depending upon it? Ha, ha I John Free- consequences of overdoing business. Wait un Of robin, thrush and bobolink ; the drone jered him into the world. Better that he there leaving word with his head clerk that trates the truth of this apparent impossibility alarm is such that the graziers, especially the eroft, you are a long headed man. but all you til the demand for our staples of lumber and Of bees ; and watched with thee the rising sun j J should have died before his feeble footsteps he should be absent for a few days, directed At a Charity Fair, lately got up by the fash- | Gish, are sending their stocks to market to get ever did in the way of keen chicanery was slii ()3 recovers from the consequence o f doing two Tlie evening glooms ; the snowy clouds up-piled . first essayed to walk alone, than grow up into the carriage towards the house of his intend­ ionahles of Paris, the Princess P ----- , had a them off their hands without delay, and prices was mere childs’ play compared to this? I tr I iree years' business in one— Irom the conse- Like arctic mountains in the upper air j j manhood and have the finger of scorn point- ed bride. counter, covered with elegant trifles. One of I nave considerably fallen. The presence of mur- The swaying trees, the waving grass and grain, gain as well as the possession of a good pience of trying to get rich in a year—a fool­ : cd at him as he passed along. After he died He was ushered into the drawing room, in her gay acquaintances, Count de R------, ap- ruin would be a severe blow to Ireland, whose In worship bending to the power of heaven. round sum a most beautiful woman for a wife ish eigerness for wealth which always has. and proaelied the stall, and alter looking at iul the wealth consists largely of live stuck, i it was found out that he had committed which a few near friends of the family were tlways will work temporary depression and dis- And from thy banks, adorned with elms and pines, for- and this too, by simply sitting down aud articles was walking quietly away. The lovelv I —------'gery!' assembled, and there found poor Lucille look­ .ster in any community. Let those who have Or fringed with alders, 1 have plucked the fresh, tracing with a pen these same few characters shop-woman, upon this, called out to know . Fountain of Blood in a Cavern.—E. G. Rose-tinged arbutus, aud from thy pure breast, I A fearful shudder passed through the old ing as little like a happy bride as he himsell the western lever, if they can live for u year or, wbe i,er be W1S „ojng t0 tje so uncourteuu3 a8 j . Central America describe a wonder- which bear so vast a signification. Forgery! two, by their business, be satisfied to do so, i [0 pas3 with()Ut ,» , = 8„niethi of her I -qu.ers on central America describe a wonder The water-lily, fragrant with thy kiss. man’s frame as he uttered the last word, and resembling the generally received idea of a ft is a little word but what a dictionary of rather than push rashly upon tne new and un- ; q would/ he 8uid< wjt!) a si nificaQt look ful effusion of fluid resembling blood near the Midway, between the rough descent, or steps, his daughter saw that his lips moved convul­ pleasant-faced bridegroom. The simple town of Yitud, in the state of Honduras. It meaning is in its sound! To think mankind tried arena of the W est. Our judgment is that j . W()u,d me what j wan(. , Where thou dost bounding, singing leave thy home, sively, w hile his countenance became ghastly white of her dress accorded dismally with appears that there is continually oozing and And the detile, where calmly thou dost join should lie such fools ! I scribble off a line fine out of ten of those who now go west would Well —what is it? pale. She listened—terror-stricken, at she the deadly pallor of her cheek ; and to look e better off three years hence if they had re­ dropping Irom the roof of a cavern there a red The Kennebec, a bluff, with wood-clad front, upon a piece of paper, sign it with my owr. That lock of g dden hair which falls so scarcely knew what. at the faces of all present, it appeared more mained here in Maine. liquid, which upon failing coagulates so as to And crown of rocks, o’erlooks thy flowing tide, name, present it to the father, telling him it beautifully to your shoulder/’ precisely resemble blood Like bloud it corrupts, And all the fields and woods around ; and near repeated Mr. Preston, ‘ yes, like a funeral than a wedding party. For not only do we believe that there is every * Forger !’ is the work of his son— laid quietly enough ‘ You shall have it,’ replied the Princess, insects deposit their larva: in it, and dogs and The topmost peak of this wild, criggy height, that’s the terrible name!— the name that was A distant relative of Milesian extraction win- necessary element here foi an industrious and very promptly, and, seizing a pair of scissors, in the ground—and forthwith I have to make prudent man of reasonable desires to succeed buzz irds resort to the cavern to ta t it. At­ A shallow cave, with seats of stone, invites to bring down the gray hairs of his fond present, who had answeied the invitation witr '(she clipped it, close tu her temples. It was my own terms that it may never see the light well in his eflarts, in the long run—but we be­ tempts have several times been made to obtain The rambler to repose, or hours to spend doting father with sorrow to the grave!— tlie full determination of enj ning himself, but e u5’ I ’hen duly wrapped in a piece of paper, and some of this liquid for the purpose of analysis, In musing on thy loveliness. This nook again.— Faith? I should be sorry if it were, had f.iund liy degrees that good spirits were en­ lieve a most disastrous reac ion is soon toI take I: k-indpd led itcrnssuprnca tliuiIih a,morn-m untsr the name which was to stamp upon his inno­ alaec at the West We believe that emigration,; Z X e K c s J ^ i d the Princes, but in all cases without success, in consequence The village people call T he Devil’s Chair. for other eyes might prove somewhat sharper tirely out of place, and had gradually workei. cent sister’s cheek the blush of burning shame, like our own lumbering business, has been over- | The Cuunt as , drew a cheek of its rapid decomposition, whereby the bottles Because. sa\ they, the Prince of Evil here, than those of the old dotard. And he thought niiuself into a state of comical pugnacity, as In containing it were broken. and cause her to shrink from the rude gaze lone, and that, too to a much greater extent, nnd his ,,nd m ^ d it for the atnount 8e. In ancient limes, in hideous form enthroned, I was his friend ! W hy so I am, after a looked with a pu zled countenance from one to Tne small cavern or grotto during the day is of the scornful world, which knew her now mother of the assembled party. His bewilder­ m extent which will require a much longer time eret|y thinking it was ratl)er bat ket_ Thy charming valley ruled, and scared all bold fashion ; Do I not honor his family by unit­ visited by buzzards and hawks, and at night by Adventurers who dared his realm invade, but as the sister of a felon! But one way ment increased as John Freecroft made his ap­ co recover from. . ing it with a very chivalric grace ing myself with it? Ha. ha, ha ! The ug­ Ihe success or western emigrants is all based. r ,,e nest d th(J Uoun tellin(r t[)e g a itiul'itude cl vampyre hats for the purpose of With frowns, which o’er the landscape wide, a dark, was left to avoid this fearful consequence. pearance, and when he saw the visible shuddei feeding on tlie unnatural blood. It is situated Grim shadow sent, and with dread tones, which rolled ly old Bugbear whom children call after in with which his young relation received her in upon tho demand for wheat. _ Ihere is no other | witll 8 „ue triuinph t„ hia 8ister-in-lavv. who The forgery was executed in the name of the lusiness for the great mass of emigrants to pur- on the border of a rivulet, which it keeps ied- Aud muttered in the air from hill to hill, the street— he is to be the husband of dainty tended husband, the whole of his spleen was di­ happened to he an intimate friend of th« Prin employer of the youth, and he alone possess­ -me. The growth of every new city and town dened with a small flow of the liquid, which has And through the woody vale, like thunder deep Lucille Preston! He will bear off the prize rected to tlie little ugly bridegroom, and he had cess's was surprised tu find it received with ed the fatal evidence of the crime. But one • if tho Great West is Based upon the growing of tne color, taste and smell of blond. In ap­ And loud, in sultry summer’s frightful storms. Irom a host of young and handsome compet­ a stiung inclination to take him up in his stal­ a hurst of hearty laughter. proaching t!;e grotto, a disagreeable odor is ob­ way left—but this too dreadful almost to wheat and corn, and the making of pork and itors and perhaps they won’t open their eyes wart arms, and without lurther parley to pitch ‘ The Princess made a good bargain out of served, and when it is reached there may be Not now doth Satan here exert his power, think of. I t was, th at the sister— don’t trem ­ him headlong from the the window. beef. Everybody knows, of course, that there you for, ns I chance to know, the five hundred a trifle at the lady’s peculiar taste ! Oh ! some pools of the apparent blood in a state of For on a time, long since, when thy green banks ble, darling—that the sister should consent But John Freecroft was happily ignorant ol is a Emit beyond which the new wheat lauds francs which she charged you for that singl but it’s a good joke—a rare good joke !’— cannot be profitably settled ; and the indications curli js threa of |bur ti[ues mucb ag ab(, - ;d coagulation And forest-covered slopes, trembled aud shrunk to give her hand in marriage to this man what was passing in this relation's mind, 8" Tne jeculiatitie.s of the liquid are considered With terror in the darkness of his wrath, Again John Freecroft laughed his hideous taking Lucille’s delicate hand and imprinting a are that the limit lor the present is, to say the , the hair.dl.e8ser ,„r whalc wl , who held the proof of the brother’s guilt! least, about reached. There have been new Now< WQU,d not t|)e C(Junt gave valufid tbat due to the rap.d generation in this grotto of And at the awful din of his fierce speech, laugh, but suddenly stopped and looked kiss, he proceeded co lead lier towards the min­ some very prolific species of infusoria, l’he A nymph rose from thy clear depths, a form ‘ When this was proposed to the father, around. ister, who was waiting to commence the mar­ lands enough taken up lor settlement, within ]()ck of banir considerably more, if the Princes: j his first impulse was to dash to the ground three or four years, to supply probably wheat' California Stale Journal remarking on the above, Of grace and beauty, which no hand cau paint, ‘ Ha, I thought I heard a noise,’ he whis­ riage ceremony had chanced never to have previously paid any­ obstrves tuat tlie cslero of the town of Monte­ ; the man who could thus coolly barter the enough to feed the whole Union with its pres- And rising in a robe of shining tnist, pered. ‘ Could it have been that hateful They stood hand in hand together before the thing fo r il ? Mem. A crop of hair on the rey contains a species of blood red infus iria, So overpowered his gloom with glowing light, : price of peace of mind for perhaps the life­ minister—the old man supporting his trembling -nt population—and il the coming season is an soil is worth more than when it is harvested young dog, Natterby ?’ ordinarily good one, the harvest and the prices (the larvae oi' water insects) which at ceitain And his great ire, with pure, clear eye, and still long misery of a beloved daughter.— B ut this child, and the various members of the family and brought to m arket! The old man made a spring towards the of next fall will show sone ind ention of this seasons of the year smell precisely like fresh But potent voice, that headlong straight he fell fiend, in measured, mocking accents, showed gathered round in respectful silence. The Iris ■ fish, or on exposure in a vessel, like putrid fish. door of a sort of closet opening from the of­ relation standing near the shrivelled up figure fact. The falling prices of flour h>r the year From his high throne, into the earth, to rise him how he could use the incontestible testi­ In some seasons it has been found dried in flakes No more. Thenceforth, this niche hath been a place, fice, and holding the candle aloft in his hand, of tho bridegioom, towered above him with any­ past,—in the face of the increasing prices of A Temperance Heroine.—A correspondent of mony for his destruction and that of his other articles of necessity and consumption— the Whig writes : and nf the intense color of vermillin,—Scien­ Where village swains and maids have met unharmed ; looked in. Upon the floor was laid a rude thing but a pleased aspect, and looked beside tific American. Where lovers of great nature’s blessed scenes child, and showed him how powerless he re­ him like a giant bending over an ugly littb show indeed that this is so. The foreign iuiuii- A young woman belonging in the town of couch composed of straw covered with old Millhridge, who is said to lie a very smart, in Have watched thy charms, or read the pages bright ally was. He would have cast aside all dwarf, whom it was bis intention to swallow at ration for the must part goes West, and tliree- clothes and a spare dirty blanket, and stretch­ British Swords for American Sailors. Con- Of sky aud hill, of vale and wood, or caught thoughts of his position and standing as a a moutblul the moment the conclusion of tlie fourths of it g es on 11 the new land, and brings , telligent girl, destroyed a barrel of N. E. rum ed out upon this was the motionless figure of gre.-s having p issed a resolution permitting Com­ The smile of those pure lilies, snowy white, ceremony should leave him at liberty so to do it into actual cultivation and production as last undur the following circumstances: The owner of prosperous man, and sought refuge in a for­ a lad not more than eight or nine years of as possible. The emigrants are most of them the liquor, an unlicensed rinuseller, had repeat mander Henry J. Ilartstene, Lieut, H. D. Which on thy surface, where the nymph arose, eign land, but all his attempts were baffled By the door a group of family servants stood Trenchnrd and Mr. Morrison, to comply with Unfold, aud till the air with their sweet breath. age, to judge from his looks, but in reali’y and looked on in wonder at t il ir young and be­ limited in their means, and must have a crop ediy sold rum to boys, and among the rest her by his persecutor, who threatened a disclos­ the desire of the British Government, and re­ Wattrville, Me. much older. Little and pinched and thin loved mistress who was tin o wing hersell away from their land at once in order to live ; and brother about t -n years old. She declared that ure instantly, should he persist in attempting oust sell the surplus of that crop, to obtain il he ever let him have any more, she would de­ ceive from it, a presentation of swords, the gifts from the bringing of a life of poverty, was upon such an unsightly miscreant. to escape the doom which hung over him. means to stock and fence their farms, and get stroy his liquor if she could find it Two or have been forwarded to the Navy Department, the office boy, M at N atterby ; and here it There was a shoit pause as tlie minister made where tiiey are obj-cts of much interest The THE FORGER. There was nothing, alas! for him but to sub­ the customary notification : ‘ If any man show their buildings comfortable. Thus all things three days ago the hoy came home intoxicated. was when the hard labor of the day was She started immediately, with an axe under her hilts of the swords are surmuunted with gold mit to the destiny written out by the hand any just cause or impediment why these two s imulate to a rapid and constantly increasing ended that he was grudgingly allowed the product! >n, of tiie one great staple ; and every shawl, and having found a barrel of ruin be- eagles’ heads, and tho guards are appropriately A THRILLING STORY. of fate. He gave a reluctant, heart wrung persons may nut lawmlly be joined together, luxury of going to bed and forgetting in fankee who has brains enough to “ calculate” hinging to this rumseller, she cut the hoops and embellished with anchors and cables. The consent, and then, indeed, he felt that his let him now speak, or else hereafter forever blades are carved, nml the se ibbards of blue Upou her knees, with the old man’s arm sleep the brutality of John Freecroft, who hold his peace.' at ail about going West, can figure out what let the contents escape, and then entered a corn- cup of misery was filled even to the brim. will soon be the result. plaint against him for selling. velvet, mounted with gold. Commander Hart- twined fondly about her neck, while his fing- usually made him the recipient of his freaks ‘ There is both cause and impediment why At this part of the narative Mr. Preston Let our people look at a single plain state i ______-tene’s the hilt of which is elaborately chased X -.?? "ervtxis’y with Her soft curls and J buried “his^ face in his hands, and sobbed of vexation and ill-humor. this marriage should proceed no further!’ ex­ I in gold, is a very beautiful specimen of work- i bll claimed some one, aient in this connection, and consider if it does ; seeking with her glad blue eyes to catch his I . j it - j i . ,, Approaching, he la d his hand upon the St George of England a Humbug.—‘ George j manship. These swords are an acknowledg­ -° - aloud. His daughter could not even attempt The sound of the unexpected voice came from not tell a significant story : During the seven wandering gaze, kneels Archibald Preston’s boy’s breast to discover by its beating whether years ending with 1848, the sales of the public! Cappadocia, born at Epiphania, in Cilicia, ment for his services rendered to the British to soothe him, for her own heart was beat­ he group of servants at the door. All eyes he were moved by any waking emotion, or binds of the United States amounted to §15.- waa a ^,w parasite, who gut a lucrative con- barque Adieu, in 1S5G, while the recipients ing too wildly with the sickening terror of were instantly turned in the direction whence n were serving in the U. S. survey steamer Vixen. and close drawn curtains shut out the gath­ were in reality as sound asleep as he appear­ came, and wonder was depicted on every faci­ 145,190. During the next Beven years,—ending tract to supply the army with bacon. A rogue what she felt was coming. June 30, 1850—the s lies amounted to §30,808,- anJ il" 'nlormer. he got rich and had to run ering darkness slowly dropping on country ed. The test seemed satisfactory, for he soon as Henry Barrington walked calmly into the At length he resumed : —‘ The time al­ room. i)13,—more t'nan thirty-six millions of dollars , lr''!n Ju8tice. He saved Ins money, embraced q’UE Clam I’eakis. In reference to the Pater- an I on town. The working world has ceas­ after left him after making a feint of bestow­ worth ol land sold hv the United States within Aiianism, collected a library and got promoted s„n _ x . J , pearl fisheries, the Paterson Guar- lowed before this man should claim his bride ‘ What does my clerk here i’ exclaimed John ed to labor, and peaceful home firesides re­ ing a parting kick as he lay in unconscious- the last seven years—besides half as much more ’’F.a fuL‘‘t°n tort1'? Lpiscopal throne ot Alexan- (/.qh saTg t|)at ;f the prejent y;tf|y continues, flew swiftly by, (oh how swiftly !) and as the Freecroft; ‘ I command you, sir, to leave the place the turmoil and traffic of the day. Prom before him. John Freecroft must have some- by Railroad Companies anil Stares to which lands dnJ“., ' v hen Julian came. A. P ., 301, George | thg fig| be ge(. d lwn ag one of hour approache.d this heart-broken father room you have entered so abruptly, and anoth bo ly to hate—this friendless lad served the •uive been donatsd. Tlie increase of land sales was thrown into prison: the prison tyasi burst |ig m source8 „f tbe weaitb of pas8 aj„ coun. anvil and loom the sounds of busy toil have er time I shall demand Irom you an explanation knew not how to break the dreadful tidings by the United States, during the lust period of '’t en '7 the moh and George was lynched as he I Recently a clerk took in payment for gro- ceased, and the din humming of vast ma­ purpose admirably. He quitted the place, of this insolence?’ to his daughter. His brow grew every day seven years, over the previous periud, has been deserved. And this precious knave, became in | rigg a n(){0 of tbe paedjc jjank j,iTen by chinery is pleasantly superseded in the toil­ and closing the door, Mat. Natterby was ‘ You shall have it now, sir,’ said Henry B ir more furrowed with the intensity of sorrow­ wenty-una millions six hundred and fifty-two good time, St. George of England, patron ° r } a |.ldy residing near the brook, who exhibited er’s ear by the merry singing of the fireside once more left in darkness. The papers riugton ; then turning to the company, be con ful thought— his step every hour still feebler, thousand dollars worth—representing ne.rly chivalry, enihlem ol victory, and civility, and o|;. tbe gamg denomjnntilin. she kettle. Pale brows no longer pour over huge were replaced in the iron clasped box, and tinned, ‘ Ladies and gentlemen, 1 urn really sor more with grief than age, thuough this, too. twenty millions of acres—an increase of one 'he pride of the best blood of the modern world. [atgd tb i(. ber buaband bad reOeived the whole ledgers, and forth from barn and field the this in turn was securely locked in his pri­ ry to occasion this disturbance, but when you was growing on apace. Whiter was the old hundred and thirty-three per cent. And the sales grange that the solid, truth spoaking Briton anlount> e^lODO, on the previous day for one tired laborer bends his homeward way. vate desk, and John Freecroft, after deposit­ know tlie viiliany of this man, yon will I am the present year are much more extensive than , der!X.e a" ''“ P03tl,r Strange that j 80lJ jn New York city. man’s hair and more bent his once erect sure, forgive me for preventing the committal But upon the countenance of Archibald ing the keys of both receptacles in his pock­ the average of the previous seven. 'V‘,rld ?!l0uld hav® n° bett«r lu c k - i ‘ J form, as the time passod on, and the secret of a great wrung.’ Preston, grave thoughts have left their im­ et, left the ofiiee, locking the door after him. It is important to consider another fact also. , at b r , America must wear the name of . was yet undivulged.’ ‘ Will somebody have the kindness to 6end press, and the season of rest but leaves more Slowly and cautiously, as soon as he was While the increase of public lanIan J sales (mostly I1’1®'-.lllle|. .-imerigoAmerigo Vespucci, vespucci, theme picklepicxie neaterdealer atai " D HEATHeath of a Hhermitermit.—.— mThere ere dieduieu in iwCamden iiueu Mr. Preston’s arm was twined still closer for an officer, and have this madman arrested *' ireadstuffs and provisions) Seville, who went out in 1440, a subaltern with • last week (23d insc ) a peculiar character by time for their painful sway over his mind. gone, the door of the boy’s sleeping room exclaimed John Freecroft. lor the production of breadstuff: about the trembling Lucilie, and this alone wn, 133 per cent., during Dojedu, and whose highest n ival rank was the name of Alinond Sherman, who for the past The light of home will not drive off these • One moment,’ s.iid Henry—‘ come in M a t!’ has been, as above shown, 133 p . . ___ , ____o . , opened, and two cunning eyes looked forth the last seven years, overiver theth e previoustirpvious seven,seven boatswainboatswain’s s mate in an expedexpedition that never I twenty vears has lived the life of a recluse.—• kept her from sinking with the unknown ter­ Mat entered, be .ring in his hand the box. gathering shadows—the glad smiles of Lu­ into the darkness. The door was held ajar the increase of cur consuming p ipulation has Jed. managed in tins lying world, to supplant His hermitage may be seen from the stage road, ror which pervaded her, and falling prostrate The moment the astonished eyes of John Free cille, his daughter, do not dispel their gloom. for a moment, as he listened to the souud of been hut about 20 per cent for - he same p-riod; Lolumhus, and baptize hall the world with his near the shore, in the glen called Spring Brook. at his feet. crolt Caught sight of its well known iron clasps, She has essayed to please him with the mu­ his master’s retreating footsteps and to assure uid the increase in our expmts of breadstuff; °wn dishonest name. 1 bus nuhndy can throw His old hut was replaced by a new one built the •Shall I stop here? said her father, ‘or lie uttered a loud yell of rage, and made i sic ot some of his favorite old ballads, and himself of being quite aloue, aud then Mat and provisions has been hut 30 p e rc e n t—the stones, n e are equally badly ofl in our fnund- past year by his relatives, who have always be­ does the story affect my child too greatly for spring towards tne boy to tear it from him stowed upon him their hindness in times ot need. as she rises from the instrument, drops her­ N atterby stepped into the office, and after 'ggregate exp irtation Irom 1842 to 1849 having ers ; and the lalsc pickle det ler is an offset to her further listening?’ The Milesian relative, conceiving this to be an been, in round numbers §218.000.000, and from tbe *u‘ae bacon seller. R. IV. Emerson The cause of his eccentricity is attributed to self at the old man’s feet, and with her pret­ lighting a candle which he took out from a admirable opportunity for his interference He had to bend down his head until the 1849 to 1850 having been but $289,000,000. I ------disappointment in love. lie is Baid to have Imd ty head resting on his knee, looks up in his cupboard, proceeded to seat himself upou a caught Fre,croft by the Collar ere he could ful as great an aversion to the sight of the fair sex grey hairs mingled with the soft golden ones The government land sales for the past seven A Good ’Un. A “ Green Mountain B o y ” face and wonders at these fits of sadness ligh stool and to commune with himself. 111 his intention, and, holding him at arm's I as ever Saint Cuthbert was famous for. He before he could catch the whisper from her years (saving nothing of other sales) amount tells the following spicy anecdote, which, he which have of late so often come over him, ‘ So, you old rascal,’ soliloquized Mat.— length, thus addressed him. ‘ Now, then, yc j died of consumption, at about the age of sixty- lips. ugly pale yellow cockchafer, ye'll just compose to about thirty millions of acres. Now suppose says, is anthentic, aud which we do not remem- and which are now clouding his countenance. ‘ I’ve got you at last: aud now if 1 don’t • five years.—Belfast Age. ‘ No, no—go on I’ she replied, I shall be yourself for a w ile till we get at toe bottom oi we allow one-ha f of these acres to have been I bur to have previously seen in print : ‘ Father, what is it that makes you look pay you off for some o f the kicks, and cuffs, purch ised on speculation, and not for settlement i *• Roswell F ----- , a Vermont lawyer of dis­ better presently.’ this matter. Go on wid your story, young The Dead D isturbed. A Philadelphia pa­ so careworn and sad ?’ said Lucille. ‘ Your and starvings I’ve had from you; my name and cultivation, (ami this is a large estimate, we tinguislied ability, now residing in St. Louis ‘ How can I go on ?’ said Mr. Preston. man.’ per copies from the Norfolk Argus the follow­ hand trembles, too, as you pass it gently over is not Matthew Natterby ! I always knew ■ • I hold in tny hand a paper purporting to he think) wo have fifteen millions of acres remain-1 and in the first rank of the bar ol Missouri, had ing strange statement: ‘ This is indeed a fearful task !’ my forehead, as though some painful thoughts you for a downright old scoundrel, but I i forgery commit cd by your Son, sir, said Henri for tlie new settlements, end probably eight brought a suit in court which was really so ••The bodies of the fourteen physicians and ir ten millions of acres more from the sales of plain a case for the plaintiff, that, having sub­ were busy in your mind. Tell me of them The large drops of perspiration stood up­ didn’t know till now the half of it! Why I Barrington, addressing Archibald Preston ; ‘ but assistants from Philadelphia who p.-rislied in on his brow, and as they rolled down upon which is neither more nor less than a base fab­ railroad companies and States. This quantity mitted the papers and other proo's to the court, that c ty in the pestilence of 1855. are to he father; I may not be able young as I am, there’s enough in that box to send you to1 he felt that Ills client’s interest really requiri d his cheeks, they mingled with the tears that rication of that man there,’ he continued, point­ is three limes as great as the quantity whim lisir.terred, under the direction of Mr. Thomas to aid or assist, but surely I can sympathize prison for the remainder of your life, you vent into settlement and cultivation during the no more, and he accordingly sat down without Webster, the Chairman of the Philadelphia Re­ flowed from his eyes. ing to John Freecroft, who made a struggle to with the sorrows of my father—of my only old shriveled up reprobate! A nd so you’ll Irce himself from his enemy, who merely no­ previous periou ol seven years. Let our people making the customary opening address to tlie |;ef Committee, and taken to the latter city for parent.’ ‘ How can I finish the recital of a tale too marry Miss Preston, will you? the kind young ticed it by giving him such a shake as a mothci onsider how long this can go on. A financial jury. But the defendant s counsel, more am- | mteriuent there. The present fe-ling exhibited Again was the trembling hand passed soft­ true—too horribly true !’ he exclaimed. ‘It lady who came to see mother and baby last would bestow on a refractory infant. ‘ Then crisis is even now impending at the \\ est.— bitious of rhetorical display, and probably con- I tu«ari|s the people Of tne Nuith requires the ly over that fair young brow, and now the must be told tho,’ sooner or later; and now winter, when we were all without money or stands the leal culprit!’ sad Henry. ‘Your Money is enormously high The going rates scious that the defense required the best ahili- re(nova] » there transcend tbe most fabulous figures hera- ties, rose utid made a long harangue character- i Qan [b;s be possible ? We venture to say wandering eyes looked for the first time sad­ —now is the time, or never. This man, this food, or fire, and who meant the best for me, dead sun is as innocent of an attem pt to forge that man's n uue its is a child unborn. Look ------fure known.------From thirtyj six to sixty . .percent , ized by an immense flood of pompous words, tbat there is not a city of the North which would ly down upou the bright ones at his knees. this merchant—calm yourself, darling— is I know when she got her father to recom­ is paid for money in repeatid instances ; and this , ( is was his custom) hut destitute of even an have erected a mciiuiuent to the memory of He seemed as if scarce knowing how to break at him now !—see how hie cheek blanches, no other, as you have conjectured ere this, mend me to this situation. Of course it’s and how his vile frame trembles ! Is that the is not always for speculation. Farmers have I attempt at logic or reasoning nl any kind. When i ,„en wbl) bad sacrificed tln ir lives under similar the communication that he wished to make, than myself. This son, who lies cold and no fault of hers th at it’s no better than it is; 1 'Ok of an innocent man ?’ paid these rates for money to pay fur their lauds lie had done, the pla ntifl' s cnuneel, who was circumstances. Norfolk has shown no gratitude ani dim their lustre with the recital. His dead in the grave, and whose sin has brought for when Mr. Edward was alive—of whom ‘ A trick—a vile trick ! 'exclaimed John Free- or to put up buildings, where they have been ! expected to make an elaborate speech in reply. or the services rendered by Northern cities when disappointed in getting the money they expected ! rose and merely said : “ May it .p ease the court daughter, as she looked up at him, thought so great a punishment with it, was your this master of mine has been lying so con­ cro lt; ‘ but for what purpose done I know not •the pesilence stalked abroad at mid-day,” from their crops. Such rates will soon eat them and gentlemen uf the jury—in this case 1 shall he seemed a very feeble old man, with Fess brother Edward. The arbiter of our fate is foundedly—he and old Preston used to do Give me that box—it is my property, give it • crops. )ut such black ingratitude can hardly be real- follow the example of the counsel for the defense, resolution than he even usually possessed in u p .’ up—farms and nil. zed. John Preecroft, and the innocent victim is business together. We say again—try Maine a little longer.— and submit the ease without argument.1” times past. my poor child, who now is gathered close to He thinks me almost a fool. Well he shall ‘ Not until ono or two other documents have seen the light.’ said Henry ; aud as he spoke he Don’t go abroad after the wealth which you can With an effort, Mr. Preston at length broke her wretched father's bosom. The story is have a chance to find out whether he’s right get at home by industry, liugality,faith and Important Discovery in T ree-Growing. M. was about to draw forth the rest of papers, Prof. H enry denies that man is m ade of I M'h’t Brule lias discovered that the bifurcation the silence. told, my own Lucille—my darling—my lov­ or not.’ when the b .filed villian felt himself Completely patience—and which you may nut get in your dust. He says modern science has estab- !1,1 lree3's.t“-'-‘teJ CR'crpillarsaod other leuf- ‘ Lucille, my own dear child, listen to me! ed o n e! As he spoke, the lad drew forth from his .n bid power-, and screamed out to him to de­ new El Dorado. Don't sacrifice your comfort­ able homes and the social connections and ad­ lished, by a wide and careful induction, the S further th ‘>u.da.t’,ro.u«h 'he centre He It is a story of real life which I have to re­ As Mr. Preston raised his daughter up to pocket a bunch of old rusty keys, and pro­ sist. vantages surrounding you here, for a certainly , • • ii . ,ountl ‘“ether, that Iruit might be dealt with in late to you. Draw up close beside use while his breast from the ground whereon she had ceeded to try the lock of the desk with them. • I will ci infess all,’ exclaimed John Freecroft; fact that plants and animals principally con- ! tb(J Bam,, Way tIlc wuod * ld |ha( , jnter_ ‘ I canless that I did write that pretended for­ uncomfortable position for years, a loss of social I tell it— close up.’ sunk, she uttered one cry, of anguish, and Hue of them unlocked it and he then with a enjoyments, and a probable gain ot ill health sist ol solidified air ; the only portions of an section of buds two or four may he made out of then lay quite motionless in her aged father’s gr'n °f delight, drew forth the box contain- gery ; but do not, lor pity Bake, reveal the re­ earthly character which enter into their one and the Iruit brandies multiplied. In ihe lie apperred for a moment to have forgot­ mainder of those p ipers.’ during the first eight or ten years at least. arms. jng the suppressed evidence of Edward Pres- composition being the ashes which remain place of tho-e us.-id-Jous primers and intersec- ten how to begin, or what it was he was Stay at home if ynu can—hut if you inu-t A man with heavy beetling eyebrows, and ton’s forgery, ‘ It is ton late.’ replied Henry ; ‘ your villainy go. he prudent and industrious, and doo’t ex­ after combustion. All the other parts were 'he insects, he uses nis pen knife or a bit abuut to say. a low forehead, on which bad passions have i ‘ Now, if I can open this,’ said Mat, ‘I has recoiled upon your own head. Tne disposal pect too much.—Bangor Courier. originally in the atmosphere. ,a paper, and arranges the trees in a way id these pttpuis no lunger rests with me. The ‘ Yes father,’ said Lucille. marked their traces, and in whose eyes the can take the paper out, and replace the box, ° J at onee the most picturc.-qoe and fantastic. Un­ law will decide whether you are guilty or inno­ der his fingers the oliedient branches assume This recalled him, and Mr. Preston com­ gleam of cunning is perceptible, as it glances and ten to one he’ll never suspect it being cent ol various charges of fraud and cheating, til.: most varied and elegant forms ; he im-re»ses menced again. fatively hither and thither—a man of low opened until too late for his schemes. No I nternational Courtesy.—The Secretary of It is conclusively shown that the “ hng dis­ the proofs of which are contained in that box. the N ivy lias sent an order to Gapt. Hudson, ol ease’’ which has proved so fatal in the W est, the fructification, and developo the foroiatioa of ‘ Some years ago,’ said he, ‘I knew a mer­ figure and shrivelled limbs, and with a face —none appear to fit—ah ! this one ought to Ulficcr, you may now do your duty—I have the U. S. frigate Niagara, to receive on board is caused by the animals eating the grain from buds according to his wish. chant in business like myself, who had at the seldom lifted to look its interlocuter steadily —yes! hurah! it turns— and her’s the very finished mine.’ Capt. Swartz and Lieut. Kohlitz, of the Russion wl ich whiskey is made, after it has been used As lie spoke a hard featured man walked with time of which I speak, two children— a in the face is now before us—and this is1 paper itself. Now then,’ said he, as he care- Imperial Navy, who, by the request of the Rus at the distilleries. A chemist who lately ana­ Schooners Robbed.—During Friday night, busitiess-lthe air into the room, and proceeded daughter and a s