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H ue rons kkeno pre Koimer gC rum'}be br: ar ced * ntist® e qual to prcessury Dy yout B please bh.s Cial- her, and peired ton Gallery brytbing e rates W A PS, oi m the d un bis po o( ha n ev bave Of we- t> pur- biug .- ar (mired i use of > it found , but so They r chars faolesale ns wish k, would ¢; als aio ps rl jon Our mich i+ ftoas e water vanized g a .a l or C (63 ure and Byron, > tory, uD _- it yles, P» - east. 8 bok n g buat Moo - cur mother, indeed ' compress v + good. - like our angel mother's aes smal Loons. oom nen n ony cums ond o- p i «o-- dne ense pad 6. 1 GEO. W. MASON, EDITOR PROPRIETOR. ''When stars aro in the Quist Skies.\ BY E. L. BULWER When. stars are in the quiet skies, Then most I pine for thee ; Rend on mo then thy tender eyes, As tara look on the sea t or thoughts, hke waves that glide hy night, Are stillest when they shine, Mine earthly love lies hash'd in light BReneath the Heaven of thine I here is an hour when angel« keep Fambiar watch o'er men, . When coarser souls are wrapped in sleep- Hweet spirit, meet me then. 'There is an hour when holy dreams Through slumber fairest glide, And in that mystlo hour 16 sogms , \ Thou shonldst be by m; side # The thoughts of thee too sactad are For duylight's common beam , I can -but know theo as my star, My angel and ny dream ' When stars are in the quiet skies, Then most I pine for thee ; Bend on me then thy toner eyes, As stars look on the sen. a Ane noone n enone o e eee n From the Boston Olive Branch. THE STEP-MOTHER. BY MARY a BLRNETT. U \1 never will call her mother- never - She Why, Louise, she does not look much older than yow . and then so proud, so conscious of her beauty. - Fur she is beautiful. 1 caonot help saying ; but her face is nog like our own dear mother's, and | lI kate her. I'll hate you, girl-mother, and would you were to hear me '\ Thus broke forth a noble-looking boy, as he stood in the midst of his brothers and sisters, a little motherless band. Noble- looking, did we say ! Why, he looked real. Iy regal-like a very king, as he stood there, his cheeks burning, eyes flashing, .and dne hand buried in the mass of mid- night curls that rolled back so gloriously from, his white forehead. Harry Merrill was only sixteen. but he was the eldest of that little group. and, since his mother's death, had been brother not merely, but, teacher, friend, father, mo- ther to them ; yes, all had those little ones found in him. And how they did love him. They saw not much of their father, for the basiness of the law kept him \all the long days,\ as little Ellen said. away in the city Harry had loved his mother as boyhood seldom loves. To him it had seemed that there could be nothing so good, so beauti- ful on earth as she was And when she was taken from him by death. he prayed that he. too might die he thought, in his ugo . oy that there was nothing left to lure him carthward. But after atime he aroused himself , as he looked on his dear father's grief-clouded face, on the weeping, treimb- ling little ones, now, as it were, lost, bewil- dered without a guide, and he resolved -J will be their mother '- And faithfully did he his task; he forgot self, and be- cume their gnide. friend, and in truth, a real mother _ Louise, who was next to him, was now twelve, then came child of eight years, and then the pets, the darling little twins, a boy and girl of four years. And indeed to these last had Harry been a mother-friend -all the one they ever knew -for it was when their existence dawned that their sainted mother had soar- ed to her native sky \Harry dear, dear brother. don't talk so Perhaps she is nout proad; I am sure 1 did not think she looked so, the day she came with iather. She looked real kindly, and when she went away kissed us-all buat you. Ind you not want one, too !--a kiss, I mean, you know But you are such & tall, black- eyed young man, almost as tall as father, you know, that 1 suppose she thought it would not be just-whbat shall I say !-po- lite. that's it .\ and Loaise langhed merrily \Ub.\ she continued, \'l know we shall love her and she will love us, and be kind to us. She is so gentle and pretty, she'must be Her kiss was like our own dear mo- ther's. Ob. try to love her, Harry, and you will, I know She'll make you, she'll he so good to you \ 'Never, Louse, never ; she'll never make me love her, and don't you dere ever again to say so Don't let me herr you again couple ber name with our mother's, as you just now did, when you said her kiss was And me-you'll forget me, you wont want my care apy longer, when she comes How willing you are to w:lcome her in my place' Oh, Lou ise, how can you, when! 'have been your mother so. long ! I thought you loved me, all of you; and I know you did-you do But you won't any longer ; she'll get now you all from me, even you, darling Eddie and Ellen, whom I've held in my arms ever since you came to us- ever since our mo- ther gave you to me-for she did-mother gave, left you to me, for my own » but she'll lure you from me to herself\ - And the boy clasped his arms 'about the infants, and wept as he had not since his mother's barial. Harry. what do you mean ' You'll break my heart it you talk so,\ sobbed Louise: \ ou know we all love you, next to father, best of all the world. You've been an an- ge! to us ever since poor mamn left us-all , these Tong years. And we always shall lovo you just as dearly as we do now. No new mother will ever take us from you, as you say, or make us love you less.\ \Well Louise, if you all love me, you must all be my children when she comes, JUst as you are now, Ob, you must, it would ki// me if she should get you from me Why does father want to bring her here! We don't want any mother: there is uur mother,\ he said, pointing fo the por- trait of his mother, upon the wall ; ~and | there can be none other for us. there shall be none other for me - And, Logise, Willie, all cf:you, promise me you won't love this woman, that you won't mind her, that you , Won't call her mother, that you'll hate her. even as I will. Do you promise *\ . Louise looked at him wonderingly and inournfually - Then she todk his hand and 1&1.th to the portrait, his mother's pictur- ed image, anf said: \Harry would she bid 1 Us do so? Do you suppose she is looking down un you with dens?! would\ she not Bik con. as e 2 dul de ue g gous Zn noon anne ense ole an , | tell us it is our daty to love and obey hor ' for his sake, if nothing else ' | ther, for our spirit- mother's sake in remem- ' brance of her prayers that we should al- | 'Always, dear lambs, obey, love and cherish I ' soon ceased I i him ; and then he gave her not his hand, anar nn e en 22 e n ann onn e o e tell us it is our duty to try to please our dear father? would ahe not say we should be sinful did we dare question his right or wisdom in bringing her here* would she not Ob, dear bro- ways be good, in memory of her dying words, . your poor father' -in memory of these, try to love her.' He was in part subdued. + Sister, I 11 try to be respectful to her, but I cannot love her, and I never will, never tan call her mother. And now, darlings, | i we shan't have many. more opportunities to | i his dwell upon our blessed mother's momory | P9S her arma about his neck, *just os sho . without intrusion, to talk about her, or sing . the songs she used to sing with us. So now let us sing, perhaps fort the last time, that 'one she used to sing and play so often.\ EAnd he sat down to the pinao, and com- : menced to play, and they joined with their | little voices, ~Home, Sweet Home. But he \Oh it was sweet home, dar- lings. whe she, our mother, was here \ \Children said Mr Merrill. on a morn. ing qhortly‘ after the scene with which we commenced, ~I shall bring her here to-night -your new mother So be ready to receive her, darlings, as will become my children She will he a good mother to you always , | and I want you to be dear children, and seek to make her happy in her new home, She has no mother nor father, nor sisters nor brothers . all alone in this world is she Then see how much har happiness will de- pend on you., All that day Harry watched with a burst- ing heart, the preparations going on with the house-keeper and servants to get the house in ieadiness for an new- mistress \ Furniture was moved, re-arranged. carried from une room to another, and, in his eyes all things underwent a change. He kept silent, however, until the house-keeper pro- ceeded to remove his mother's portrait from its place over the piano, where it had al- ways hoog. suggesting that it might now just as well hang in Miss Louise s room : | He confronted her with \the violence of a maniac, as she afterwards expressed it ** Don't you «dare to move my mother's pic- ture' My angel mother' and are they to remove your dear image from my sight be- cause another is coming ' - No' nut while I have strength to defend it '' And so the surprised woman let it remain, and crept away, wondering ~what could have come over young master-she never saw him so wild before \ And Harry stood and mused, and the grief-drops coursed down his cheeks, he could not restrain them. Ho had regarded his mother, as we have before said. with n she went from him, he transferred all that , U bedn their teacher, friend, mother, almost ' trusted wholly to him, too holy for other's. keaping It seemed to him as if his mo- ther's spirit prompted him - And he had wighed that he might always be so , he had prayed that it might , and now another was, coming. the holy privilege would be no long. ' er his . twould be wrested from him,. and by whom ! By one whose presence in that home he thought would be sacrilige Yes, bo deemed it sacrilige that his father should ever give another that place in bis heart and home which had been bis mother's Thp thought was agony to him : the tomalt in his soul was terrible, but he dared not dictate to his honored father ''There they come ; there is the carriage )' shquted Willic, as he peered out into £319 daqkness. and discerned the carringe-lights Bathing through the grove; and in s mo- mept more they were there, Mr Merrill and his young bride, or, as he announned het to the children. their \Fluther \_ Ab ' 'twas well he was at that moment too hap- py to observe the strange. haughty, yet grief-stified expression that cmme over the face of bis Harry at sqund of that word. mother ° and then the fiery flashes that bbamed from his dark, burning eyes. as he directed them to that beautiful, gentle be- Ing She kissed them, as, oll but Harry, they gathered round her Fe came net near till she extendea her hand towards but just bent his head in a bow so strangely cold and haughty' His father looked at and said, \Harry'\ And the youug crea- ture at his side looked up to him with a sur- prised. inquiring fice and quivering lip CHAPTER I1. Mr Merrill had indeed found one who Was a mother to his orphans - She was very young. and she made herself as one of them 4 -almost gaining their hearts by the tender love and interest with which she devoted: hersel! to them. - All but Harry loved her,\ called her \dear mother \ And how could they help it! She interested herself in all their little plans, soothed their childish griefes, was ever ready to be their intercher with papa; their teacher, friend, play-matfe, even. - Harry's prediction.was in part fulfill- ed ; for though they loved him dearer then before, if possible. yet they came not to him feeling of such idolatry, almost, and whenI | will answer all my letters, won't you *~ so often for advice or help. For \dear new mama understood all about their lessons aa | well as Harry.\ \Apd as Eouise said, | Harry was preparing for college, and need. : they would not have to hinder him so often. \ to ber, for she could pronounce the long | French words so beautifully for her when! she stumbled apon one, that she could al- ; ways imitate her better than she could Har- | ry, she thought ; and then she read Virgil | so well, and made their geometry so plain to them.\ - One day, soon dfter the \new mama\ came, Harry came home and found his fa- ther assisting to move the piano, which bad been his mother's, from the place in the par- lor, where, during her life it had stood, to ed all his time ; so if mama could help them, ’_a ~ s ene en ann Og p b> comienza = w -as \ ¢ X. at! t 7 the sitting-room With an uhj (he an quivering lip, he sought his sister. \Louise what is that for *\ \Because paps has sant to Baltimore for a new plano for mama, which will come this afternoon , and papa wishes it to be in the parlor. Sv he said tho old one could be moved to the sitting-room .' \The old one! Dear, dear mother, you are forgotten by all but me They are ta- king everything from my sight that tells of They have forgotton you, but never you. will your Harry-nover'\ \Ob Harty, come and sing this dustt Mamma is going to And Louise with me, please play, and it will be so protty ° used to, before she camo,\ Harry thought \Yes daar Harry, planse join us;, 'twill You will I know.' said be right pleasant. Mrs Merrill. h \Pleaso not ,to address mo by that term, again, madgm' arly ' down to the sitting-room, to my dear mo- ther's hallowed one.\ eyes, he loft the room. . ELMIRA, N. Y., THO For if you are mistress here, | am not aware of the suthority by which you presume to addrsas aa so famili, And,. Miss Lonise, did you think I d mingle my yoice with lhat piano*t Know that when | am inclined for masic. I go And, with flushing, 1; , | printing each large sums, yet, noWiAho que -- # him to pass the vagation with home. and that if b§g father did boe would prefer to gg so Ani standing poor Lonis# always luol tionately, and also to his father to his mother, nor did ho ever al tp any manner g All at onag rumé it reached that his son was potbFoing wel} & versity, that ho w £7 going the d path to rain ; that hid associntes{We ing to his lips the wige-caup. leads, to the gaming-table; in troth, Hg becoming, if not nlready. an tim to recklasa dissipation Andi faared and trombled when ha money, though he de Bub befgimm thought as to how his son con \Oh if fakker wore hors now '\ said tion arose in his mind. and ho wiiifered ho ise, \what if he had heard hint then t But! had not befure thuugh: « and ing] yoa'll tell him, mamma, to-night \ \Never Louise, nover, darling, shall [ tell ( magds wibhqut inquu'y. your fathor, and 1 charge you not to. If poor Harry qgannot love ime-if he must de- spiso me,\-and shoe wopt bitterly ho is immediately imploro: him to ass{y@ And } ought. not to murmur their falsity Bot thon, ho said, fl: yl when I hava found so many horo who do' not, for if he abould be innocent] And yet,\ sho continued. vit is so broak his heart to think that | q , taim a donbt of his boing othe not to blama love me bitter to know that ! am hateful to any. - it, instead of always supplying' His first impales was to write [ iy to his son, tell him the cruel Why dues klarry despise me ' Oh, if be , wait till I have mare reason to ar, to be- would ist ma love him and bo his friend, ho liove \ Ba+ per- ' should find in me a friend indeed haps ho may sometime: I will hope so nothing now, that l cam do for his good, shall be left. undone \ . And so it was that this gentle baing cx- cused the coldness fud disrespoct of her strango.stop-son the mover murmured at , they were little loss affectionate, thin short his unkindness, except to weep when she was alone or with Louise- never breathed aught to her husband,. -but was ever try- ing to win his regard by kindness and fa. vores And though bitter was her disap-: U And so be wtpw‘aa afectiofs U But kindly as ever to the absent “Mimi uttar. od no word of tho fears that wark destroy. ing his pesce And Harry wrot but not as \of old By degree came over the tone of his leite and strangely cgroless, and at a cold and reckless, containing little desire to be supplied with monty, money, money ' no word of love to the litlé children or Louise not turn agaiost him -would not despair of so much saying, as excuse tha grin duties une day winning his regard And tho sweet child, Louise, would weep when sho saw her mothers lip troubled. or do, when she sat down to play, and she would follow her brother and say \ Harry, why unil yor persist in this wickedness ** But ho would not bo conquered Ho ru- She will make , membered Lonise's words. There was one difficulty, which perplexed ' He looked on them as a sacred charge en- ' him greatly We have seen that he lad altered, and he wrote -he told resolved not to call his fathers wife \ mo- feara . he besought him to come home 'to ther,\ and to this he determinedly adhered. ' tell him all, to pause, ere it might} forever He would not call her ' mother,\ then what' ba too late. And tho son roturpgd a disre- | could ho call her' And when ho spoke to! spestful, aruel reply, which ended ith an- | her, or was obffgel to mention her in con- , other order for money. This Allg@ Mr. Mer- ' of his senior years wore a» nuifigfous that be could find time only to write papa., and sho must be contented to ¥isfy hor- self that bis excuse was a run now this was all over , no w feger came for her in the rado, cold, cargloss nifssivqs Then it was that the cloud seffled upon deep affection to those brothers and sisters. | you love Mn,\ and ho still, as then, said,: the fathur'a brow, the dark cloud af trouble | He had watched ond guarded over them- } \Sho never shall ~ little Willie, a | 'and crushing grief > For he could do longer doubt, h < knew. ha sia: that Vi Tbu'v was voreation, had got the sinfulness of the prin- > rill'a oup of anguish to overflowing. , ciple which notnuated him arisen, it would \Oh ' I could havo forgiven | rassment. Mrs. Merrill observed it. and 1 could have furéutton, forgiven all, fut theso one day,said to him Mrs Morrill. just which may be most fdgree- able to you' And so he called her \Mrs Merrill,\ and though his father knit'his brows, and the' little ones looked bewildorod, yot nono op- He must see his child, and lure Him back. | posed it CHAPTER HJ don t forget your poor Louise, will you !\ sobbed the weeping and affectionate girl, as she gave her brother a farewell kiss. Don't | twin! forget me, for I shall not forget you. pray for you every might and day, and write to you so often And, denr brother, yo Yes, Louise, | will always answer your lettera, and 1 shall not forget you . ho sure= . __. a . ang t ed, erring one ; him, in the mompory of that esi of that, darling. and don't. ery so, for,\ 'he bent down and breathed It In hor car, \you can t think how glad 1 am to go. how I've longed tor this day aver sinco she came ; I've longed for the day when I should teave | for college , for, Louise, she, you know, will not he there.\\ him with a strange, troubled expression, { Poor Lanise only wopt the more, and shuddered nt this proof of his undying vin- | distiveness. \And yoa'll always come home | on a vacation, won't you \\ she sobbed. Perhaps so,\ ho burriediy-said. He could not restrain his tears, though he tried so much to, ss ho kissed the little Willio and Eddie and Ellen, for the infants brought his | mother to his mind. And hbo went and mtood before that portrait, and looked a long, long look, as if to fix the expression of -f those features forever yn his soul. and af last took it down and pressed, his lips to the aenscless image Then came the father's farewoll words and blessing , and having grasped his pa- rent's hand, he wept, as he felt on his brow the fatherly kiss, and beard the trembling voice, as if said, \God bless you, my son, and keep you from ovil. You are going far from us, but oh, my boy, though I shell not be with you, dongt sin. - You will be tempt- ed, but do not yield. Your futher will al- ways pray God to bless you.\ \ He was going, but there was one yet to whom he bad not said fhrewell \Harry And then 'twas so pleasant to read Cotixuie 1 said his fatter, \your mother.\ He turned to her, and with little toss than his old coldness, gave ber his hand. 'Twas the first time he ever had, and she took it in both her own, and burst into tears, thro' which sho murmured, \ That the Father may bless and protect you ever, shall be my | constant prayer.\ © And ho was gone. Three years had passed away singg Hey- ry Merrill left home for the University, five dred polles awag-thrés, wholo fig yret agitnce' (lugging that time had he 1 e lero clin atte ct ane nono arama tingle : words. But to think that us, *You may call mo by my name, Laura, or: } ber \ he ue nears uate wss own Hine ry, could have written thus to fnd. is too much, too bitter \ i He wrote not th Him again, but went f&r be could stay from him no longer and be the victime of such terrible doubty and fears for he would not think this was'impossible And so ho went And ho found his worst I R # ; « ~Dear, darling Harry. don't forget mlewm realized. Ayo, more than, realized , for he had not dreamed of balf the wreich- ednsss to which his once innose boy had fallen, and it well nigh killed. thaftohd. dost ing parent Ho, the inrocent boy. who, thrse years and a half ago, bad lpft his arms p | 60 pure and noble, was now. the jpebriate, : the gambler : . I t . Ob ' how that heart- broken postulated, reasoned, and praye How 6 mother to reform' How he wept on #1 knees- ayo, bowed the knee to his child! But in vaid. ° . * Q N The onte innovant, beantiful, loble boy, wasidegradad. and his hoart taurngd to ada- IN&I$ A Thon the fathor said > W oll, llélzt be egen so--do as seems to you best. 89? {rum this time forth, you are no son of ming? Apply to me not s&gain for aid in manner. Come not to us agring | disows 'you now and forever i ¥es' Thus the father-spoke, Ed though it broke his agod heart, be mea lit should be so , he meant fever to recall these words. | Ho returned to that home, lik.told the' anxious unes thore that they foust novor again think of Harry as one of th tion hire not, think of him not. féf| he is no longer a sun or brother to us}i! Ho has sinned against God and mo fl. has bro- ken my heart, and 'he is no Long mine \ \A And poor Louigo! writh whsciifiony did she hear these words \Rey datlifig Harry, ) her beleved brother,, who, she could remember, had besn mob“, iend to her What could have come ove@ him ' it was wicked companions, '#he kng@d and sbe would aiways think #so.' Sho lovi@d;him now mare than when ho was good andliith her. And papa cauld not mean thoagihe should nover come among them eny fydre. Oh! if he would only lot her go to hi ho would reform, would come {home with But her father was inexorable \No hs said, though they saw it was killing him. A. . CHBAPTER iv. Hark! whsttamult is that injthke ball \ what footsteps ars thote rushing}l frarrying so wildig Who ja it that barstgiiopen the door so furipualy and, Ales, infor where are. seated. the family U s parlor He, A of mine' such a «in He bad lopg since-fig? sed to' pointment at his cruel repul.es. sho would write to pooy Louiso those who prized\ base him saw bor bending over the instrument to \send her a word or two in pnpnén 3 And so \ conceal her tears when Harry would stride tor a time be sent hor in cach lofter to his out of the room, as he always was sure to father, some word of brotherly rp 2rd . and \sho tried to be cuntented, and to Off-10 But \his son his n all he have been amusing to observe his embar- | may linve dong, ail he may bam’fin‘xed , 1; Ob, it a son of , sho know : * T> a RSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1853. ~ When his; packtions the strange intruder, has fallen at Merrill's 8 ther feat Ho clasps his arms about the old man, neught but the breath of sin it}; fan his H fovited anil his head fills upon his lap. Can that lbrov; 10h, think! Look on him'abd relent ' iim ast bis } be Harry Merrill ! Can that bo ho, who so Cast h I $t object, , long ago atood in that room in all the pride , him. ('Tis my sacred wish , and K you over solimot with» | of heaatifel boyhood, his check Quilted with , loved me. if you ever loved ber, . F ¥ forward , the excitement of youthful and virtuous am- ' for my sake, ob, for here, fo‘r the gike of her delight, | bition ! Can that weary, trembling, bag- {holy damory, take him to our hf\??? to your beseech . gard, knseling supplicant, be he' Yes. it arms, once more, UGod above Wlur -* , She could say no more. She éfighn tim- A ”86701130 white, blue-veined forshgad, though the shot . He remained thero on his knees, while the stricken group aro too dismayed to speak Aad the poor, old father, looks down upon ' him with s look in which grief und stern ness aro mingled, as If ho wero struggling between the impalse to liff him and clasp him to bis beart, or spurn, and throw him beail, and in a voice hoarse and shaking with feat, screams \Father. givo me two thousand dollars, or cugsign mo to u prison cell' thoy are after me-the officers of Justice' they are on imy track they know | am horo Quick!\ and ho sprung to his feot with a look and gesture of angaish and fear Now tho fathor nica \Father ' By what nuthority do you gall me father\ Ind | nut tell you nover to call me father-that you wore nuno of mine ' And | meant so ~ Dc. part from here, ask nout for two thousand dullars, neither for une farthing | neser will help you more Away -you are none And he pushed the clisging armas from him. for the boy had again knelt at his feot \Ob. my father, subbed the supplicant, \yuu nre stull my father | will-call you so, And how dure you * for you age all l have in the world If you forsake me to whom can I go' who will be my father Uh, will you forsake your wretched one' lo. ob. do forgive me I have sinsed, but ob. how 1 grieve, repent I was led away. | was so tempted, and was too weak to ramst | bave gone from sin to ap, till now. ub, curse me ast, | bave done I have and he bent to his father s ear and whispered the fearful crime, for it was too awful to breathe alpud He meant the tone should havo been a whisper, but in his agony. he hissed it forth. so that all in the room heard. as though he had ut- tered it aloud god oh, what a shudder thrilled each franie. Louise, with a moan, sank ewooning in her mother's arma \Yes father, oven this. your boy has done they are coming - F tell you they are in pursuit of me' But ub, only givo the sum I ask, and it will save perhaps my life. != No' thundered the father Get up from your knees Ask no pardon of me' 2:3qu with you. ur stay till they come, if any are in pursuit of you | will not sava you from their grasp Truly, I know you had grown an adept in evil, but never could I have dreamed that ber clhiid tha portraut- could commit a crimo so feartul as this But you are not mine , up troin your kncos ' I went un my knees to ! you, once, and you would not listen to me kyo' un my very knoes, you heeded me not. And now, I heed you not \\ Harry said no more. but seemed to have yielded to the power of unutterrable fear and anguish. Now he would weep and sob convulsively, and then fizing his gaze upon his mothers portrait, would become calm, as if her spirit wore commdning with him, and whispering hope in his ear, from her home above And poor Louisg roused herself, and wind- ting her arms about her father'a neck, wept. tand pleaded with all the strength of her pointing to childish elequence, for that brother she loved fso well Bat in vgin He put her from him. and said. vit is impossible. seek not to move me, he is not ft ta be of us, and he shall nol 0 Thoro was a silence, a deep and awful si- , lence save now and then, a smothered moan of despair, from the terror-strickon and ro-; pentant boy. as he wildly turned his burn- ing eyos towards the windows, expecting to i behold his pursuers. The father buried his face in his hands, and Louise, who had flown © to Harry as if sho would fain protect him, when she found her pleadings were of no [avail, stood tlinging to him, und calling him | by every endcaring name, forming a beaati- | ful picture ofa sister's undying love and con- her with his arms in a tightened grasp as if have ber near him , and so ho was, if heay- one so sinful as he,. But hark' Now is heard a Tow sweet voice at sound of which, the boy started as Seo ' mother, whom he had so hated, scorned, and She is kneeling at her busband's knees. 1 \- \Husband dear Thomas, turn me not' away, refuse not to listen ; but oh, let ma; speak now. Look at your son, sinful, erring, . 1 know, bat still your son, your own child. | Think how you bave loved him in days gone ' in your darned concern, if I wa by, when he was' young and innocent Think of the hopes we have cherished for him, of the pride with which we have look- away from us, so distant, where alone among strangors, there was not one friendly hand, one counsglling voice to stay him from the powers of temptation urERr. the departed -oven his mother-your spirit-wife Think bow sheloved him, for you have oft told me that Harry was, of this little band, to her the dearest. Ho was ber first born, hey idolized, her life, you said. \Then ere you doom his name,\ his youth, his life, perhaps, to a prison's call, thero to Isnguish and to pine, think, ob, those they loved when hers, think you, tho 'tis said, grief cannot reach them there, that 200 a mollis co 0 It must be. for there are the ; same glurious raven locks, the same high, , id gentle one, had summoned al veins now seeimed bursting , the samo proud, I flaghing eyes, now all swollen and blood- | from him At length the boy raisss his ' And quigk '~ stanoy, while he shid no word bat encircling ' he thought be was safe as long as he could , enly innocencefjand goodness eould protect ' | if i had been a wail of music from the spif- . lit land, which fell upon his gar. sho that bosutiful gentle one; that step-} & , every day .\ . +. insulted. bhe is going to plead for Aim!» \I reckon not, Colonel, but then do you 1 know Josh Tompkins, up at Kenqon 4» Tis | to the locomotive, \to pull you \long ~ ed on him Then remember you gent him} groen but I've hearn toil of the geeky crit- Think of all this ; and then for a moment. think of!. think of her If angels do look down upon |\ it will be with other than anguish, that she I'h will behold him, who* was,; who is now so 'hoosiéer friend a, = pirty offfun loving f ® nar a ou. fears S a wy '- P w ) in pow | gentlemen, who loan dissor@¥d a good . doar to ber, themxnsceofgfzelonscelLt ere TERMS $ dragging his life in gloom, in miery, with pot not from us, but h, Tqrgive en, if not (ber ener- gies and clequence, and plead w £11 a pow- 6; to horself unknown. And n@y the lifo color, {eft her face as if in a degfh stupor: from the fear and excitement of Khe hour ° From tho first sound of her his ear, Harry had stood and as if in a bewildered drgam! t pleadibg for him who had never; Was she ked one kind word, who bad said 1 hate fibr, 1 never , will call her mother '~ ; He went and knelt by her sidey*Mother, he said. Yes ! he called her mut' gr. / blessed mother, awake once murf.and speak | to me Say you forgive me '' find 'twas | J that sound that recalled ler 'd ' 'What did you wish, Willie, 4:1 you not just edll mo *C she said half revipid. No dearest mother, | it was 10 called you. said Harry Morril You, dear Harry, did you calf{{n« mouth - or ' Ain I your mother ?\ and of joy \ ran through the drooping lidiff and she smiled) a strango sweet smile on vim. ' Yes, dear mother, and he too fixer hand in his uwn, vit was I who called you. Will you # my moth- May I call gou mother ! or \ Her'smile of unutterable ewedttiess asgu- red him, and it was mid thick, {heavy sobs. ' that bp murmured, \forgive me , mother, oh will ydu. can you forgive me the Jast !~ \Forgive you. my sox. yes indkfi: I would if [ copld remember ought to forgive But 'tis All forgotten. long ago If bdyor there , was aught | om repaid in this our, for all | may 'bavo suffered.\ J Tears had been flowing down type father's I 1 i cheeks during this scene, and ngw he arose and tgok the hand of his gentlq and said, turning to Harry | . ‘-H3nry Merrill. I had deternjined never to forgiye you . never to aid-yoummpre, never more {o regard you as my child.! But now , though I thought none conld moje me to it. | forgive you ' | will save yaoi from the living temb that is waiting {@} you, you ° shall be again my child Butpigod mark | this well, it is to her-that blease one. that . you uwe your forgiveness A. to her alone,, and entirely. And n listen © Yearsisgo, I heard you, though fou knew l it not,; as you stood in thig room 'with these | children, utter words that grievgd me to ! the beart they were these, \[/ mevrer will | call A¢r muther , sie our mothgg, indeed ' 3D0 A YE : + Free } ' obgerved W ; . [~ agra d hi e a afe e 00 Ch HNN CE th > 1) > R AR ; $1,50 IN pagsenger They immediately got into con- vergation with hit, and soon learned from ' hisf own lips, that his name was. Reuben Tompkins, the twin- brother of Jos : thot pneth . he lived in North-Western Indiana : was hed by the Seerrupry of Stire mee 49 0 | vhf,“ 7, part 1, Hevised mfatutes |J | + AJ green and didn't know much about things. and was terribly sfeered the iron horse would get skeered aind run away. ' r Brown, President of the road. who oh test QM“ red him that he was as safe in the car as out, of it 'fBut, sir,\ continued the bogus President. '*as | am authentically informed that you ara brother to my very particular friend, , Mr. Tompkins, of Kenton\ 'Uosh ?\ inquired the Hoosier. Yes, sir, Mr Josh Tompkins, of Kenton, umfl—I\ Wham? um to a T. Josh writ to ine that he knowd alt the big bugs in them regions.\ *Just so ; and as you are his brother. it will afford me inexpressible pleasure to chalk your hat. sir, by which you will not only escape the payment of fare, but all acd. dents. so long as you tavel this road.\ '«As.-ton-ish-ing '~ replied the hoosier. w ho gladly gave over his bead-plece to receive an ftpplicatiun uf chalk - . Tho pretended President. marked, with chaik, in large letters, the following on the cron of his hat : \Reuben Tompkins - Paid to blazes - Everybody take no- tic?\ © he hat was returned to his bead with du‘gceremony. and all the passengbrs in the car, who by this time understood the joke, Wit into a laugh as Mr. Tompkins, eyeing hinfself in the glaes, declared with empha- sis .&hat he was now \some pumpkins \ . About this time. the conductor. who had beef informed of the joke, and hag received Tompkibs fare from a thirdparty, approach- ed the man with the chalked hat, aind asked Your ticket, sit \ ''Ticket* Lookey here, Kurnal--I guess you don't know who you're talking to.\ 'HNo sir: and it s not my business ; 1 want yoga“;- ticket or your fare, sir, and that, too. , without ceremony \ ‘tNuw. luukglxnrp, Kurnul. or there'll be an firms ( aint so green as you might take meito be _- Don t you see nothing '~ *] pee neither ticket nor money, and -* \Just look at my hat of that, eh '~ vLhalked, by thunder! exclaimed the what do you think cogluctor \I beg your pardon, sir. if 1 had known that your hat was chalked, I iw Id not have éntimuted anything about pay -you havethe freedom of the cars. sir. please make yourself ar home.\ » \Lord! won't | have a heap to tell 'em when I get home '\ exclaimeg lizszen, over- joyed at the change in the behavior of the conductor towards him, when the chalk was Really, it is surprising'. and 1 [arg some punkins sure, way down here' so proud ' I 11 hate her And “fen I heard | What will the old gal say when | tell her you strive to make these ber,.cnemies Think of it' Think of yourléubsequnnt: treatment of her, and then soe “1 sorve that she should be your sgyior. - Do you still think her proud ' hold ' she is not to proud to plead for you,'like a slave, on bepded knees Do you still fbatflher a If you do, behold in her your angel-deliverer, and you may fini it in your heart to hate her lass.\ \Haute you ? dear, angel mother!\ and the boy bop]: & band of each of his parents.- \Try father, mother, to forget I gver utter- ed thgse words You, dear are my mother, and if the rest of my life devoted to your [happiness, can atone for the past, then I shall be blest My mothet in Heav- en,\ abd ho looked through hjg blinding tears upon the portrait,-mother thou art gone, but God has given me another in thy place. And through your love your memo- ry, mist ever be first in my soul, $he shall be next, fielovcd and respected.. Shhll it not be so, |dear mother !\ he asked of per whom he saill, \I never will call her mother \ \Even so,\ she murmured. through her tears, |\ and I am repaid a thousand fold, for alll 1 may ever have known ofigrief‘ \ you de- The Man With a Chalked Hat. I BY INVISIBLE GREEN, ESG. A few days since, while onq'l'of the up | trains on the Mad River and Lake Erie rail- ways fas stopping at Urbana, the conduc- tor wis accosted by a tall, lean, flat. sinewy specimen of humanity, whose appearance at once indicated considerable verdency He was rigged in a bell-crowned hat a shad bellied linsey coat, pants of the éfime mate- rial, apd hog-skin boots. Giving his head a knowipg shake, which careened his old fash-. ioned chapeau to one side, he thus address- |r ed thg Conductor : \Now dew tell, and they say you're the driver of this ere wagon.\ \I am the Conductor, sir.\ L \Rdally ! right smart of a hosg,\ poinfing coa at wo \Yds sir ; such horses can't be bought \No air ; I believe not.\ , \'Thint possible, now, is it, that you don't know Josh !: Why, he's my brother, and I'll be blamed if I wouldn't go 2516 see him 't afeered your horse would ran away.\ | «There is no fear of that sir.\ -, \Do tell me so, now. You see !T'in sorter turs to bum, and I'll be consarnkd. if they ain't ream. I'te human natur, yon know, for a feller to be a leetle afeer time ho sees such a beast.\ \'There is no danger, sir. If} safe there.\ . I 'This nppesred to ease Mr.}! mind, and efter walking rou .3 examijping the locamotive, and|@Gnestioning. almodt every person he met as t} i’the probar bility of a runaway, he told thgfconductor 'he guessed he would risk it' p.. > Ho/was accordingly shown thip seat in a Aret dlass car. It happened thagip the same car, and in the injmediate vic ‘ty of our -sengprs. whose merry faces and chance for a jokeix“; the the new i £9 destination, 1 know nop if: abdut it !~ 1t is needioas to soy that Mr: mpkin's end of the car was soon crowded ith pas- who oisterous laughter indicated the nmmxeuwmgg Reubbn's conduct afforded them ; He tookiit all in earnest and laughed Ewith the § of them ; and ones so delightéd was he the chalked hat, that he passed around & gound of butter crackers that he had \laid in \Yat Urbana. He considered Mr. Brown & {zanmne friend, and freely communicated to prim all his secrets, with a history of the family, from his grandfather on both sides, don to his \one year old.\ The passen-. gers were kept in a continual roar of laugh - teriby the conversation, articularly as Mr. Tompkins fully appreciated the importance of & chalked hat, and acted rccordingly. hen within ten miles of Kenton, Mr. 'Briwn the self-constituted Railroad Presi- defft, jumped up as if astonished, gave a sugden glance out of the -.window,{ looked at -Rénben, and clagfed his hands, sgying It ain't possible-yes it is-it is too bad yop have been deceived, Mr. Tompkins.\ . {Thunder ! the hoss ain't running off, is gt t shouted Tompkins, as he jumped to his eet. #No, siz : it is far worse. The gmductor failed to notify when we were at Renton .-- Wp are now twenty miles beyond ft,\ _ ' Sugar and salvation !~ shouteg Reuben, \tll him to turn back ! Wo! Stop 'the tem ! - What'll Josh say to all this 1\ *This is #lbad business, Mr. Tompkins, bil I will Wo the conducter, and (gory to get to turn round. If he can't it you ist go on to the World's Fair.\ Mr. Brown then stepped into artbther car, e Tompkins raved, stamped agd swore, tofhe no little amusement of his f@llow pas- sefgers. Matters passed on thug till the trkin reached Kentor. In a moment the man with a éifilked hat .| gapiod the conductor walking near the cars, instantly ran out after him, followed by the pafsengers. The gonductor endeavored to evgde him, bat he gould not do it; a p Reuben sed him round the cars, until he over- him, gud then, in the fiercest manner defesnded that the team\ should be turn- nd. The good people of Kenton, attract- y the confusion, could not imagine what is 5 wipthe matter, and gathered around the caps in great numbers Some laughed without knowing what they were laughing at-+-others gaped without stirring a muscle, and many pressed inquiries as to what was the matter thi conductor} and taking Tompkins aside, priately advised him to run up to the mag- is§rates office, and get an injunction against e pointed out a house a + ng‘the street, which he said was | the office' 0 short distance he. administrator of the law. Reuben stirted for the house on{a fall run ; but be had proceeded but a short distance before thy iron horse gave a significant HE knew it was the signal for and fering that the t¢uin would be fof before he'lcould get back. he changed fis course, 1de sped for the cars. He reachéd the plat- orm of the last car just as the frain com- mfnced moving, apd clutched it with a firm gr§sp endeavored to stop its progkess. Find- ing his puny strength availed hifh nothing, hdyelled, while ha still held on, §Stop her!\ 'Téll the driver 1 got a jJunction-j J tell the Squire!\ he iron horse had no ears, $nd there- the screams of Reuben Tonipkins had # other effect than to create a killing latighter among those who heard him. The spéed of the locomotive was incteased, and atilast Tompkins legs gave out, and he and tho train were foréedto part company, He “iegl fin, and as he did so, turned $ half som- erket, which sont the chalked hgt whizzing ing a mud puddlé. As soon as he regain- edghis feet, he shook his fist terribly at the 3 Va,txn.wlzwh 8303 he was enggged when rain furned & 6 8 ~ pa sight of 31min\ and yhe presen . that he thought when he tutneci to Kenton, and found that was t 0 v can w vol with a chalked hat. 1 nfu qui - ana. 4 . nlf oe seneca ADVANCE-¥OIL. XXYI-NO, I figs of the party was introduced to him | pose by th Brown came to the rescue of urencdeod ince of to , HENKY S R mome cesses 6 a E [ i | © 2 Laws of Nem York -By Again-git; . 2 { Lvery Lam, mrtiess a diff peat tame phat #B oro serfhed therein shalt commies s oud, taas thes | throughout the State, on \if\! net } 16‘ C a WV\ ay after ine cday of s fir al paesag: cry yw so pubslin dgn the Matld Uapa« be read in etid nce from fhe pup c v0 M . 1 W shall be contained, in all EHIH’I' ub fP he stig n State, an dfu asil pavsceedifigo befor $& na gua dh body or bood, in whi@h fe -;;;¢.,,gj.£aj,; .. «ary to refer thereto, uatdft roe #oukhs affd close of the seastor wa g dre fpat Ie ine $e uas, (+ B. title 7. chap %o peree d Pic. fost laws of 1448, chap 2%) J > i [C 450 10d AN ACT to aid in the} erection 6f u yjfen a nrent commemeratith of the Geciaygi l. of independence. | Janp 2) 1K & i She Posp'cef the state af New ¥ (.l ua fact. ed in Nréulrr' \fut! Aft/fining”) :-;«l)l dhs {f s + » +08 1 ® 41. For the purpose of qniting withe} others of the thirtcen sriginal sat- jniad necessary measures for the con-frigedrgh an . maintenance in the public squar-l a fj independenee Hall. in the eny of ! hjiakle phis, of a monument to commemorafe pce Declaration of hum-gum llld\il\ijdv'llti-' ob GUFOPIIUI' 3.1' this tate is ruth o haid ite eps point a suitable citizen a i rnflzvi or Sy un to represent this state in the Baabd o! H a tees that may be appolnged by thelsicd hee respectively for the s age parpost. wat il; like powers lt will Int cho Aun'e (453 Board ef Prustees, whom nor oa in” bg ca have be n “mm-fizz? I“; ws hugs thirteen states. to deve mn ne t! \.! ; lan s sign,. matenals ' gnd espen-e Gf tig munument, und ty prefaue a sigp inc sna scn cmags hibiung the propose t 'e contr y + P o \ each of the original Uurtéon smi! a fray the said coegrense as-uming i+ uf ' for said propertion the numer allo rep res c tation At this time of cag sach $u9gpr House of of Cu ‘ 4}; -h the United States,. ain bothe peri R én. . their judgment. the nsodme os 41 Cel &_ contmibution wall be reduined . in 60 gegen lt ing the said design an apprepriat uj # ~* the extemor of such imensament «$... fap i' vided for each contrilautjag strte a sgapan such insefiption ons cfiestar Mall e commemorative of somme citizen owt flxéim i> of her oin who took partin thp resfigp=r bility of 'the Declaration of the Hudepepd- ence of the suid states. -a le -aill ties Ali are to report each of the states Wuig‘kfillu\ I by thein. with allren-anatble expd is fig n design, plan. and expe nc of sal lho fg. 40 as proposed by them. ian i ihe -a 3 -' L'éiu‘W'h' of proportionate contributions Pwigeg ihe said states shall live made coutributing their respective WHEN s ogh fle said ecpense, the nagl Board off I'r§ bo shall be authorized to progeed and mgng'xalvr the said monument and a suffieidnt affiling around the same. un-l‘hluln recelye “5 1 « .a + ppm! tl‘lf‘ IF nut-3's. ul lwfiln‘ixflw! f é fir [lg 1:1“ fiditfl-rrnl states lags ip bur porat Frecessary & 4 fyi and may uuthorize a committéec of; Cien body t; receive and take charke bi alf nmn eys cogtributed. W hen the shall be finished. the bourd of render 'an account to their reapeftive Btiges _ of the moneys received and by theut or under their, direction. whiflf~liall be verified by the vaths of the Superintencent, and one or more (if 1.4 ti- nancial committee of the board? ngufislmii be certified by the mayor of “w 0331); ed Philadelphia, und the presidents off poe . leet and common councils of thp “3.1 [x dis or tay two (If than], ty Inlw lung“ fugi{iu ed with the original vouchers ill-{2135.19- and found correct Poy a 2 Thl' 1.01:an Mutinpninhwi [gilflg‘qfi'Jtl i bold and cxercise said trust during }!» pleasure of the Governor of thisistagay ind in case of vacancy by dogth. redfgnatien or otherwise in the said trust. tire Gogprnor shall appoint successors from Junflétimo as occasion may réquire No put Bf the fund contributec bgj 'the state iha Bey» plied to compensatefan§ trustee for hit sor- vices, but the actual eapenses u? “ng rees appointed on tlfe part of thip stgfig. wil} be defrayed by the imgizshlurfl theréug, ' ¢ 3. Upon recoiving the report? of fli sud board of trustees of the design, plank hi- terial and expense of the said Mog@nent. and their estimate of the propafirtiémg tq he tontributed by this states as herpin ifgovid- ed, the Legislature will make pyovisfon {or the payment of the same. in much? frstal- ments as the said bourd of tritstedg? stull have declared to be peccssury } Ur§vided such whole expense shall nout |excb@i {mec hundred and fifty thousand dollats f } 4 This met shall take effett j; Jédi- ately. ° [ E top ® } (oc ere Poo, , 408. | . |, AN ACT to amend the sct entitfed én agt in relation to Ring Sing Prison. paseed Nagel, 27th, 1849. Passed June 24. \The People of the State of Nur Lg“ ben esen ed in Senate and Assembly do enact is folfay'» ; t & 1 Th}a second section of fl};- wé‘n-nh tled \An act in {relation to thi ~f Sing State Prison, passed March 27th. 39;° is hereby repealed. e } h - CGrnarter 3084. p of. AN ACT to amend anfiwt entitBed 'Aip uct to provide for taking the goknoglily: ments of deeds and other written ip ments, py persony residing iout g»); the State of New York.' passed Alpril T&ISIS Pagsed June 4, 1853. . [ po. The People of the State New Yih, refyigr' ed in Senate ail tlgumla’fg, 11_!l:llll as ”if, if ¢ 1 Section second of the uart eqptied \An act to provide for taking the ae#mowi- edgements of deéds and other} wriggdn in: struments, by persons residing: out I»: the * i state of New York. pissed April 7. $64». is pere_by_ amended so as to read as ft; ows To entitle gay conveyance or othég writ- ~ ten instsument acknowledged ot prov@d un- der the preceeding secmon, tof be rgad in evidence or recorded in the dtate, {there shall be subjoined to the certifi¢ate of proct or acknowledgement signed by such $Hicer. a certificate unfler the name iand seal of the clerk, register, req‘borde'é' or in prothonotary. of the ¢onnty in frhické! such officer resides, specifying that buch ipficer was at the time of taking such proufpr ac- knowledgement, luly - authorigded | (' tako the same, and that such clerk, re- corder or prothonotrry is well acyuffinted with the hand writing of such! oficag. verily believes that the sig‘nuxéure C certificate of proof and neknowledgog genuine, to G g 2. This act shall take effiéet i ately. H a amid ent in I Cuarrenr 311. i AN ACT to repeal an act entiujxa \&n net to prevent fraudulent, fietitions gr pro» tended sales at auction.\ - Paksed {um 4. 1853. bee} . - too- The people of tht Stat of New V4 L, “£23... a :* ed in Senate aind Assembly, do enact jus f . dius ? 1. The act entitled ~An act to ggerent frandulent, fictitious or preteniled s#les at auction,\ presed May 8th, 1847, and form- ing chapter two hundred and forty 4pro of the laws of eighteen hundred arnd forty sev- en is hereby. repealed. ' ls #2 This act shall take effet initiali- ately. =. - . $o 4 1 have oomgired d e. pre- State 0 \flew For]; Sacrifaryfx offec ceedipg withi the original law#on file in this office, aud. do cerfify that thp , mame are correct transorips therefrom! and of the ~ . nals. - NDALL,, whole. of said (viii 1 tas ngzrcm of gimme.“ i
