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■ * s»\w* tt K ■* ••3 m GrEO«* P A. BRIDGMAN, Editor and 1 Fropriotor* <u TO 99 TERMS:—Two Dollars per Year if paid in Advanee. y o LUM E I P E N N , Y A N SATURDAY, APRIL T, 1866 N U M B E R 1 \ LOCAL DIRECTORY. \ PENN Y ** i YATES COUNTY, N. Y. PU B tJ‘5HB1> E V E R Y S A T U R D A Y , ByG EO . »• A, B R I D G M A N , T E R M S : : ij, Office and Mail Subscribers, payable in ad vance, per year, * - - - • - $2 00 To Village Subscribers who receive their papers by the Carrier, per year, - - . . $2 50 TERM S OF ADVERTISING I [ j 4 “ Square ” is equal to one inch o f Space.] do do do r; do do do do do do - do do'-' do Two Sqs. do do do do do |* Business Cards of five lines, or less, inserted at $5,00 per annum. L e g a l Notices, —Notices required by law to be published will be charged at tho legal rates. O b ituary Notices* —Obituary Notices, embrac ing more than the ordinary announcement of death, and Obituary Poetry ten cents per line. M a rriage Notices* —Fifty cents each. 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M. yTay Mail from the East, daily, Western Mail, daily, Prattsburgh, daily, ^ Dresden, daily, Sherman’s Hollow, Saturdays, Bath and Hammondsport, Monday, Wednesday and Friday, , • CLOSE* T *\'■ New tork Mail, daily, : . , V v Way Mail, East and South, daily, , Western Mail) daily* .. ... Prattsburgh, Bluff Point, Branch- Port, Italy Hill, Italy Hollow, daily, ;v Dresden, d^ily, ‘ ^ V \ . Bath and llaiiiiuondsport and Bar-*, rington, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, ' i « Sherman’s-Hollow, Saturdays, A p r il • BY MARIB LOUIS*. 1 8:26 P. M. 8:10 A. Ml 11:00 A.M. 7:00 P. M. 10:00 A. M. 5:00 P. M. y T tell you I do not love you ,*' ' ' * s Nay, look into my eyes— But beware, beware, above you , Now laugh tho April skies. . * 0 — “ When you find May-bloom in the snow, • 4 I • • # \ . Or ice in the rose’s place, . Then I ’ll give you * yes * for my '4 no *-<- - What readest in my face ? ■.: < “V 7»30 P. M. 7:30 P. M* !?:30 P. M. 12:30 P. M.. 8:00 A. M. 9:00 A, Mv 12:30 P. M. 1 S. H. WELLES, P. M. R A IL R O A D TIM E-TAB LES. : \iR I E —ITorthern Division, \ . ‘j TRAINS PASS PENN YAN AS FOLLOWS > EASTWARD TRAINS. Day Train, 8:10 A. M. Night Train, 8:47 P. M. Freight, 12:30 P. M. WESTWARD TRAINS. Night Train, 8:26 P. M. Day Train, 9:22 A. M. Freight, 4:36 P. M. “ Does spell, con-fess-ion on my brow, . • Sweet love tales in my eyes? O skeptic I look, and tell me now *. j ’m like the Aprjl skies.” I f ^» F ' 1 v * ab g ’ + * J V • 'i r I 4 • • , The gay girl knew nor tears nor ruth— O’er her blossoming, bright face, Beauty’s sun through the dews of youth Shone with bewitching grace. ; i i • • • The merry mouth and tinted cheek, ][,;The glance returning eye . ] Foil the bold lover who would seek > i To read that April sky. ' •- i-T *; 1 i i*i*r* 1 • . V A truce, a truce,”' he humbly crieB; . “ Fairest, I kneel to thee; * I / # 1 f * 1*11 trust no more to April skies, *• They’re false as false can be. ^ - “ My gracious queen, forgivness deign; a * # • # » Grant only this one boon— <Tjk> ■ I’ll breath no,word of lore again;— , » . (Until the month of June.,”) v f f* he felt it his duty as a fellow-creature, and one who had been a husband in his. time— . . here his lips made a dumb motion of grati tude—to let me know. Even as a neighbor, and an inhabitant of a common Crescent, hitherto remarkable for its respectability, and which, as I doubtless remembered, had declined to permit Mrs. Jones to put' up Apartments in her window, lest we should be confounded with the lodging-house localities; nay, which, by the mere force of its public opinion, had prevented No. 484 from being let to a •playactor-^even fii this character, said Peabody* he would have felt tt'liis duty to mate me aware of what was being said, though doubtless falsely, respecting the be havior of Mrs R. !'• 4 ! ‘ Here I should have locked the do of, and informed Peabody that\his last hour was cer tainly arrived, and that he had better make day, then we would go somewhere, and she would enjoy it abo ve all measure. This Af ternoon, however, the thing was impossible* >»“ Well,” said I gravely, “ we have not many holidays together, and I am sorry.— You had a sore throat on Monday and on Thursday, when*! offered you a similar op portunity.”* - O, yes,” answered she,*shaking her little head, which is very prettily— could it be too prettily?— set upon her shoulders; “ it js quite impossible that I could go* out with that throat.” ’ ^ ■■-m your mistress gone to all by herself tp-day, I I found myself in a large aparfcmerit, dark ened, indeed, upon one side, but well lit bjr ■ a huge window (invisible from* tWe frdht pf the house) at ils northern end. In the ceh*8 ter o f the room was a raised structure, hung with purple, and rather resembling a scaffold decorated for the execution o f royalty. aud( upon the scaffold sat my wife in an uncom fortable attitude, an<J with an expression of with her hair so neatly arranged, and a flow er stuck in the left hand side o f her head? and that after telling me she was too busy to move out. Concealment is worse than use less. Where is she? ” Wild horses shouldn’t do it,” i returned the domestic resolutely. u I told her that I would- keep it. dark, and I won’t betray no confidence as has been reposed in me. You must find it out all o f vour own head, sir ; oh, dear! oh, d e a r i e i -\ ' : countenance that she only wears upon thosef ceremonious occasions which demand what are called “ company manners.” Jfctween her and the window stood a gentleman with “ Here,?’ thought I* for she could not have jjgj, apr01)j \yy a sudden and dexterous move- gone out without her throat, “ is some dread-1 jnent, over her features, and in that blinded ful Talsehood; but Peabody may have told condition rushed down the kitchen stairs like Here, to my confusion Emily Jane cast moustacheS) and in a velvet coat_ at an ^ it, and not she. Perhaps she ne^er went>out at all. Should I not rather believe the wife of my bosom than the scandalous old retired indigo merchant? Was it not base even to a bull stung by bees. At that moment the fronf door bell rang nomenohl sel, and evidently painting her portrait. He • , r r % elevated his eyebrows at my peculiar mode' of entering the footft, and looked toward* f * . my wife; as if f6ra1itexplanation of the phe- with a violence such as none o f our visitors, bia peace vrith Providence before I cut bis Aspect Anna Maria of deception? Doubt- eX ^ ^ * fc&ptAiri, ever darp to use; My throat; but from ignorance of the proper it was; but yet I thought I would just satis- cobducfc to be adopted in such exceptional fy myself with my own eyes. * circumstances, and perhaps from the knowl- “ Very well,” observed I quietly, “ since wretched heart seemed to experience a little throb of joy. He at least then—aiiii I con fess my suspicions had been turned in his di- “ It is only my husband, Mr. Merrington,” returned she. - “ O, John, I am so sorry that, you found me out, for I had meant my pic ture to be a pleasant surprise to you upori your birthday next wepk. This w*s to be edge that there was nothing but a paper knife M Y W I F E ’S S E C R E T . in the room with which to effect this right*- eous punishment, I only burst out laughing, I holiday bv mvself.” and called him a meddling and impertinent did fool. ' ! ' ' • \v ’ U you cannot come with me to-daV, I shall go to the city as usual. I,don’t care to have a rection, for was it'not his profession to guard} _ iL . \ A 'v , - r ? 4. . r . / ■ ,, ■ * . my last sitting but ond; and UobOdY fcn6*w« n o t a p a i r r r y ( a a a a m /I ♦ a a m m / 1 a I » us~frond foreign foes, and to destroy our do mestic peace—he at least, I say, unless there me trouble I ha!ve’ taken to keep you igno- * “ Poor, dear fellow,” said Anna Maria . • . . T » ., , ... rant o f my coding here. * That stupid Emify „ . . . . ,♦ .. . - Jane must have let it out.” , ' : N EW T 0 E K OEN T R A L .' ’ - - TRAINS PASS CANANDAIGUA AS FOLLOWS “ Very true,” returned he, for lie always makes use of that form of words— “ EASTWARD TRAIN8. New York Express, Local Freight, r - - — * - - -r Steamboat Exj^resSj - - Buffalo and Albany Express, Sunday Night Express, - - - * - WESTWARD TRAINS. New York Mail, - ' - Local Freight, - ~ ' - - s - Steamboat Express, Mail, - - , - ^ Sunday Express,,, ja - 6:43 A. M. 9:40 A. M. 10:03 A. M. 7:25 P. M. *8:45 P.TVI5* I f I pride my self, upon any mental endow ment whatever, it is upon tl^at humble one of Common Sense. I live what ip cajled by the I true; but still the facts are worth investigat- intelleptual people, , a conventional life. I iug, even from their singularity. Do coaxingly,as she helped me cin with'my great coat, “ I am quite grieved to disappoint you. very Good-by, John. Mind you have a good 1 Captain. to finish the reflection, but opened the front door with my own hands. f J ‘ It was somobody in uniform, but nbVthe have my pew in the *neighboring church, and I sit in it twice every Sunday. I know one you know, for instance, that at eleven o’clock, three days a week, your *Vrife goes out in a just such a person as I cab by herself? ’ ’ luncheon; it’s very bad for you dating those buns and rubbish.” “ No, my dear,” said I ; discovered the fact for myself, through the' telegraph’; and really I— I couldn’t help cbrUirig down to see how the picture was getting ou. ji “ T e le jri^ J b r Mr% R .” squeaked the|wa3 so very kind of you. .And, dear me, boy in Bis shni)? thin voice ; “ p\easfe sign on J Mr. Merringtoa, what a charming likeness.® the right-’and side.” Then dancing a double u ujf iiciuuu? • • \•••*• • i coive.\ uiougn after dui a mue trying,!,. t : i doc) ' T 1,ICU ueprecaungiy. ” i \ qz “ No,” said I, *“ I do not; though if she there’s nothing easier than lying. I protest ®r. • n: f having a room with a s k y - f i g h t j o b l i g e d 10:^1 A. M. 2:35 P.M . 4:35 P. M. 10:20 P, M. 10:23 A. M. Captain in Urn army he.‘ should be— polished, and yet ferocious, gentle to ladies, but rather insolent to civil-1 does, it is surely better than if she had any 11 felt like a pick-pocket, as I dodged and ian males, boastful of his clubs, and giving ineligible companbn. As a matter o f fact, lurked about our crescent, watching in the “ Ah, what a tangled web we weave,” says somebody, “ when first we practise to de-1 ^ *llA*' * a u^uul« j « Well, it’s not in a very good light, vou • 'll, d»eh after but u littlu tw in.. I Sh“ fflt \ 1,°\ lh.<l 10 teeP I ttlfaed fa “ Sot Alt ^ BUSINESS GiRDS. TATES COUNTY OFFIOEBS^pO^ I wjs e ignorant o f the fashionable world Jfatlteustice for Session#- ELrFGfOTE. V • , • i . •. , - _ / j . i * , m~r \ • all his leisure time, which is considerable, to however, she dqps not fqr^J-J^^;e of-1 distance my own door, to see whether Mrs. the c u i y j ^ i ^ 8fJys^xm$Jacl)e^but otheii^T^ed^to go p o p p i n g witn her twice \hi^|YfT\'yoiiJd*%c.ross tJie^Thfe&hQ)d. I week, auljr^ne has declined to accompany “ ThereV somebody m the house with Di nah, there’s somebody in the house I know; there’s somebody in the house with Dinah.” Igjfidall of its gav doings. I. Rave made no W . W . F a i r f i e l d ^ SILVER PLATING AND JOB*. WORK.— Having long experience, I am sure to give sat isfaction, at reasonable prices. All kinds of Saddle and Harness Trimmings on hand.— i l \ Penn Yan. -b : 1 S . H . W e l l e s , \ u j AW OFFJCE, MAIN STREET, TWO DOORS South.^of^Oliver Stack’s Bank. Also Life, Fire, • Marine and Accident Insurance Ofiice. Capital Assets over $1^000^000.- ■- 1 A l . I I . D a i m ? U. S. LICENSED AUCTIONEER', WESTDRES- ^.den, Yates County, N. Y. Will, attend to * all calls in this line of business, with prompt. ness and dispatch. ' 1 ^ i : R , A . Bassett^ PENN YAN, N. Y. FIR15, LIFE AND ACCI- dent Insurance Agency. Also Licensed Auc tioneer. Orders by mail, or otherwise, prompt ly attended to. • 1 . __________ . -*Sfc V Jere. S. Reed, EON DENTIST. OFFICE 3i) DOOR th of the Post Office, Main Street, Penn fan^N. Y. All Work Warranted to give satis faction. Charges moderate. 1 J / AAerjJ-r-JOSEPH S. CROSBY. Deputy Sheriff --E Z E K IE L W. GARDNER. , i Clerk — SAMUEL BOTSFORD.. Deputy Clerk —-ALFRED REED. . ^ i i 'Treasurer —JAMES BURNS. * 1 * ^ District Attorney —JOHN D. WOLCOTT. Overseer o f the Poor —JOSHUA TITUB. - * Clerk o f the Board o f Supervisors -—LEWIS B. GRAHAM. ! TOW N OFFICERS.' | v Benton — J ohn M erkifibld , Supervisor; O w v e r t/ P. G uthrie , Town- Clerk. •* . . , Barrington— D elazon J .S underlin , Supervisor) J oseph F. G ibbs , Town Clerk. ‘ Italy — A lden D . F ox , Supervisor; J oei /'M - C lar k , Town Clerk. ; • Jerusalem — P h i x e a s ^ P a r k e r , Supervisor; D a - v i b H. P arish , Town Clerk. ’ • Milo — J ohn C. S cheetz , Supervisor; H enry T. H ermans , Town Clerk. Middlesex— T homas U nderwood , Supervisor;. O l iv e r S. B uc K le ( y , Town Clerk. P o tter^ T areb D. BoRDWELuSupervisoi4; A sh - ley M c D onald , Town Clerk.' ; ' . ' ■r • ? Starkey — I^EltsciiEL' W . P ierce , - Supervisor; .. W e s l e y B enedict , Town Clerk. Torrey— H a r v e y W. N orman , Supervisoi*; G eo .* S. D o w n ey , Town Clerk. endeavor to break through the gilded pale that separates it from the steady-going mid dle class to wrhich I belong. I do not un- none^ofNtne attribute^ i^ecS^sir^bo the ground^, o f having a sore | the profession of a Detective, foi'whenever a passer-by cast his eyes on me, I felt myself blushing all over, and hanging my head on I dared me upon throat.” • ; ; “ Upon what days did she give tfiis ex cuse? ” inquired ''Peabody, taking out his derstapd the feeling which prompts my su- pocket-book. ' - periors to be ashamed of being seen in,an om- “ Last Monday and last ^Thursday,” re- nibus. Once every dav I return from the turned L one side, as a dog hangs his tail, not, of course slop in the crescent, but loit ered at the corner of the street which com manded it, now trying*to dig up the tops of I didn’t like his impucjence, and I didn’ t suppose his song, but there was nothing for. it butTjq submit. fVVhat could Anna IVIaria be doing mtl^rtdlegrhphs? From Rupei't Mer - rington , 6 Cnpid ori^Villah^SLJoJi n's Wood .— Pray be punctual this tim e .lh m yujitycdtyff ter twelve . I trust that you wid Jje looking city in a yellow one; and if it is wet, I use “ Well, here’s a memorandum :— Monday, the coal cellers by inserting the nbzzle o f my the same conveyance in the morning to reach 4th, Saw Mrs. R. start, as usual, at 11; umbrella in the circular holes, and now elic- my office*. T pay my tradesmen weekly.— Thursday, 7th, ditto, 3itto. • She could not iting mournful piusic by dragging it against jMy best ' sherry is 48s. a dozen ; and when be going to a morning concert, because she }he area railings.” Exhausted with these ex- the captain talks o f vintage wines (as he will do, by^tlie'hour at\ my table,)J often had no white gloves on. ». - ^ ^ “ I will grant that much,” otioth I sardon- ercises, I had been leaning against a lamp- post for about ten minutes, when the door of wonder what he thinks; he*i3 drinking.— icallv, and yet Ify no mea*-unmoved by a house opposite opened suddenly, apd a However, with true \good breeding, he im- this unexpected ’ un intelligence^ “ My wife widow lady of vast proportions, came swiftly bibes it in great quantities, as though it were does not go to morning concerts.” out upon me with her cap strings streaming the best. I do noli keep a man servant “ Very true,” observed Peabody. “ Then in the wind.- Our cook cannot compass an omelette soUflee. the xjuestion arises, where* efttes she go to?- My wife-4rii*« b e r- own bonnets. W e l\ave Now, as an inhabitant ro f the crescent’/ ------ eight Children, w^o all know the*Church C a t-j!' « Peabody,” interrupted I ' severely, “ I acknowledge the right of no Tnan no, not D. B. Prosser^ TTORNEY AND COUNSELOR A T LAW, Ptjnn Yan, N. Y. Office first* stairl^bolow Oli ver Stark’s Banking Office. 1 \ \ Norris’s i i ' - * {LLIARD HALL, NO. 13 MAIN STREET, iPenn Yan, N. Y. Choice Brands o f Cigars and Tobaccjyilways on hand. 1 f V IL L A G E OF P E N l f YA2T. . / * . ^ . • President— S tafford C. CLEVELAND. Trustees — S eym oiti T racy , H i ^ am B irdsall , J a M^ s S. P ow eld , O l iv e r G. S herman , G eorge W agener , T isiothy B rigden . Assessors — J ohn H . L apham , J ohn W ilkinson , S tephen G ilbert . Collector — M orris E a r l . Treasurer —Jonx ELLSWORTH. Police Qonstable — F rederick P oyneer . ________________________________ _ __________________________„ . _ i , 'rn i T u c M A S O N IC . - echisni by heart, except the baby and the last bitt one. In short, a more respectable I even the man in the moo®hin?lelf—to .med- and unfashionable'family than our own does die in [iny affairs upon th£t ground. l ”am riot exist in all Bayswater. obliged to yoivfor the interest you-haTe^afe Under these circumstanced, iU may be ea- enln this*matter, but the simple .fact is* that 00,000 Watckes, Chains*, DIAMONDS,, BIJOUTERIE, &0., I J I ____ ~ /A- c u ORTH NEARLY ONE MILLION DOLLARS? ALL TO m o l d . pOR ONE DOLLAJl EACH, W ITHOUT REGARD TO V A L U E ! . * 1 t *• ' *' j* r r :r f , y -Vo A)Ucle to be paid for until yoil hidw what \ it is'and its value. > LIST OF ARTICLES:. 500 Solid Silver Tea sets'complete, $50 t£$300 200 Rosewood and Mahogany Mu- * ' ->50 , £ oal boxes> 50 to 250 LadlinIIuntins Wiltches, * 75 to 600 Uen s“ S?ramellcd Gold Wat«bc*. 5U to bZ Silver Watches/ 35vbo 5U0 Opeu-tace Silvef Watches ’ 25 to 5#0 Mother o f Pearl e I *° - , Pearl L o r e t t a and A Opera Glasses, r^2i.fin. Six Barrel Revolvers, , ^300 Elegant Oil Paintiugs, __ 250 Marble Statuettes, Bugts, Ac.. 2°^ biamoil^ Rings, 5000 Albums, all sizes and I aa S ml®1 ai ^ eok Chains, - 5 1000 Gold ThimblcsrsJoowe Bntto Lockets, etc., x 7 1000 Signet, Cluster, Cha>>. - Gold Rings, ^ lam 1000 Sets Ladies’ Jewclfy, all tnh*. est styles, , 1000 Gold Pens with silver and . a o lid^Q ' gold holdors, ® 5000 Silver Goblets & Drinking Cups, 8 to 3000 Silver Castors, Fruit and Cake Baskets,, etc., - V. 2.5 to 2000 Other Articles flanging from a r j T to 200 250 200 1.00 150 MILO LODGE, NO. 108. Regular Meetings at Penn Yan, on Friday evenings/on or belbre tho Full Moon, and'two weeks thereafter* h /f. * r . . »- * DUNDEE-LODGE, NO. 123. Regular Meetings at Dundee, on Friday even ings, on or before the Full Moon, and two weeks thorqafter^_T * . . 1.. r . ^ rT ^ 1 j ?iL ’/ tsenec A . lodge , no „ 30.8. U i } - j Regular Meetings at Dresden/ on Saturday evenings, on or before the Full Moon, and every two weeks thereafter, v. < •! .-»u t.>. - ->» j. . ~ t',.. ' »iift * , r rush ville lodge , no . 3771 ; Regular Meetings at Rushville, on Wednesday pvenings, on or before the.F^ill Mopn, and^every two weeks thereafter.- • • ' i m f* * . • * PENN YAN R. A. CHAPTER, NO. 100. f Regular. Meetings at Penn Yan, on .Monday evenings, on or before tho Full Moon, and every two weeks thereafter. 11 ^ ' T JERUSALEM COMMANDERY, NO. 17. .Regular. Mootings at Penn Yan, on-the .first Monday after the Full Moon in each m o n t h . ' silwimaglned. that we arenas free from the vices o f ,the Great as we are without their ■ f a * ^Privileges; and this was, I honestly believe, the case until within a very recent period. When I used to read in the papers that the Lady Lutetia Day Coltay (o f Norman an cestry and bluest blood) had left her hus band’s roof, and fled with Major Flutterby of the Life Guards; or that it was rumored it has been entirely misplaced. J have been perfectly well aware of my wife’s move ments, and they have had my fullest permis sion and approbation. I only wanted to see to what lengths your impertinence and love of interference would carry yon. That is your hat, I believe; your umbrella is the'al paca one; I wisffyou a very gooc] morning.” /j ' i I V I ushered mv visitor out, and then sat 4 ■ 9f * “ N qw jqsfc you go away, my. gentlenian,” said she in a menacing voice, “ before the po- lice makes vou. 1 know who voirre a-look- » ■ » ing for, and I can tell yofi she ain’t a-eoming, for I’ve got her locked UP in the, coal cellar. I know you, although you h a j6 not got your red coat, xm to-day; and mind—if ycji get another slice of meat in ffiv house, I’ll pros- ecute you as sure as my name’s Mivins.” - “ Gracious-heavens, madaml ” cried I, “ do you take me for a common soldier ? ” if “ No,\ sir,” answered she maliciously;— • “ but for? a tuppenny-ha’penny Life Guards man, who never saw a shot fired m his life; and if ever you come after my Jemima 53 again- I turned, and fled into the very arms o f among well-informed circles that the gentle- down in my private parlor with my elbows the abominable Peabody. “ Make haste ! ” men of the long robe would soon find em- upon the table, and both my hand6 thrust in- exclaimed he; “ there is not a moment to be . . j i j , . a - ■ ' >i.i* i payment in the domestic affairs o f his | to my hair.*. I had temporarily extinguished | lost. N o ; the cab is coming this way ; Grate tho Duke of Belgravia, I used to give ja prolong^* whistle, and remark,u “ Here I prehensions myself, they are again,” in generalvreference to the habits of the haut ton. I knew that our he reditary aristocracy were given. to these escapades, which in my own rank of* life Peabody, but I was on fire with jealous ap- 1 you may see for yourself whether I am not What could it all meau? right this time.” > ■ > i - / ,> '. f ».-<* . ... ,■ For sixteen years my wdfe ha^ never taken And* sure enough* who should drive by, at any excursion unless in my company, upon a rapid rate, but Anna Maria, in a four- your best , not pale as on Monday and Thurs day .” 7 j “ There’s somebody in the house with Di- to block up those windows', and manage how r I can. I make the noii!se dark, and, I ama * ' « ^ s r • •. • t , I \ p • • afraid, caused y.ou to stumbfe at the drawing room door.” jff* . . ... • ** “ Yes^jsaid I, “ that was just it; I Very nearlyfcame in head first. I— I only tbq’t ^ I’d look in on^rny way td the city.' I won’t interrupt you another moment; and,-indeed, r have myself no jtime/to lose.” , ^ f maid five shillings, and~thinfe- ing'itwbuld be more likely to insure her L , '' .!// > ; ; f,|j : & chuck under the chin1. Thetv I o silence nah, there’s somebody iu the house I know.” | ^ ro^e t^^eabody from BunhillRow (wberep my place of business is situated,), to teib I rushed out with the receipt in my hand, apd the boy snatched it, and took to’ flight, for he saw that I was dangerous. What * 4 1 1 fa ‘ ‘ ' ‘ ( f ■ ; 9 could this dreadful message mean? or rather what meaning could.it haye.butone? Ru pert Merrington ! not at.all a steady sound- , 1 - * l 4 J , - . ing name, to begin with $ the sender, too, i1 j / 1 1. i j * ( , was .evidently no business m^n, or he would uot have exceeded bis twenty words so fool ishly. It had a military smack all. over, (and I* didn’t like that notion~a military smack !) , Merringtoa,was of course an as sumed name. The hant^ writiiig yras .'good, ® •/*,» i ^ _ • ana -so far; unlike the captain’s ; but then people don’t wu’ite their own telegraph mes sages. I fejt that some . immediate* action him ibat I would not make a fool of <hi: . >*; *>,' >« v:- •_ . J; i ,» j r . any longer; but the fact .was, that, during the last few weeks, I had tbeen piaking^ny to wife sit for her picture, which be . - . ^ - - T It j i I •' I ■ , J come and pass bis judgment on :as soon1 a s'it, was finished; there was a question as tp, j # j . t •'*' whether the flower in hernairwas ah’ int- . §.«». . , • *, .. i ) T ■ - r*i -i f ' i’j j • provement or not/ , . . / * , i ? But I lenew that Emily;Jane would tell- Anna Maria about it. However, nothing waa ?’ sqiid until my birthday arrived j and with the portrait.'for which the .dear creature had i saved up herpiU-monev, and put herself t**> the greatest incobvenience. : . I V declare i heart smote me for my base suspicions when _ _ _ _ . V i | was necessary, or that I should be suffocat- I looked upon th4t hottest face,which ha?4 t ed. In a coupje of minuter I was in a han- bever worn paint before.* Upon that. d a y,\ som bound for GupiSon Villas, fn a state of Lshe.iaidf* “ By-th‘e-by, J^hU'r wheiVlliat.tefc r mind^ easier imagined than, described;, and yet I had often read descriptions of it in novels which professed to describe aristo*- « _ . egraph arrived fdr me from Mr. JMerringtonj \ it didn’t make you* jealous at all, did it? ** :?y* ^fOh,* dear no, my-darling! Jealous-of _ j cratic life, and often had seen upon'the stage you? «. Impossible ! * Not, of course, thatryoit (although principally in farces) the husband are ndti beautiftil enough to make alt the racked by jealous pangs. ■ * What had there been to -laugh at in that, I wandered now ! Why should the tender- ■ . est emotions uf the human heart be made the But what a ■ wick ed looking set of houses were these which subject of Buffoon wrorld fell Hn lbve* with you; but -nevey dreamed o f such a /thing.” J-., T, :r : “ That’s * all right, J ohn,” said .she,, kiss^ - ing me; but there was a wicked twinkle-uv> her kind eyes as she added d ryly? a ipl glad to hear you.say that, fori do you know, which, she had always giym me to under stand. she doted : wheeled cab, and withoukher bonnet, and I was now passing!. tar— and especially ..stucco — can look vi- « j i cious, certainly St. John’s Wood possesses a If bricks 'and mor- dear> l/ialrtl0st thoUghfc m W ,e ^ A r ^ittle jealous/’ and yet, after refusing to* with a flower in her hair! This 'blow, com- j patent for The Beauty o f Old people* T he C holera .— It looked, a few weeks agoj that the cholera would approach this country, if it came at all,, by w?ay of the ’Southern; coast/ J After its ravages'’ in the , ■ ' / - Jr O «•> French West India Islands had been some what allayed, it would seem that it leaped at one bound from Guadeloupe to Dominica; and it had -Rot .much further -than the dis tance between these two islands to travel, to 3 to io I reach °Hr _Southern* sea-board! **V ^ *0.io 50 to 50 to 5 to 15 to 3 to 100 50 100 200 100 50 30 at 20 \ ?0 \ 50 *100 . ___ ;Som e , ast, of buij Southern cities are paying clo&e attention to quarantine, and it' is advisable that they should do so.^ IV. Y. Times . mm / The plan is this: Certificates naming every ar ticle o f our stock are put into blank envelopes, sealed, and mixed; and when, ordered are - takfen out without regard to choice and forwarded as di rected. The holder o f any certificate is entitled to whatever article it may name, upon the pay ment o f one dollar, whether that article is a $ 2 ^ Watch, a $75 Diamond Ring, or a $3 Bospm Pii\. Having purchased five, ten or twenty certificates,- you can take just as many or just as Tew o f the p* articles they severally describe.as you please.— i- You must pay one dollar apieco for all you send f-'^for however. # < : : . 5 y ' To reimburse us for the cost of printing, mail- F ing and advertising, we charge for certificates as P: follows: For five, $1; eleven, $2; eighteen; $3; i;> twenty-eight, $4; thirty-five, $5; fifty, $7,50; 1 • $10; one hundred, $15; .and two hun- ftdvedj'^SO. An elegant Premium with each Cluhbf four dollars or upwards will be forwarded with jhe Certificates. ; ........... N. B.—See full list of Premiums .and special terms to Agents in our circulars. Address * jr BRADLEY, CHADWICK t G lw l 116 Broadway, New Yo: E<hrapologizcs to his read- have -fashion; . M expected to ’ a marriage to pu^Hsh this storm prevented the sick, the-pa- accordingl^ week, weddiug, and tient recovered, and ’cheated out o f both.” would . certainly be crimes, and I : perused go out with me upon Monday and Thursday ing so closely upon the attack of the widow such details as the press could furnish with | last,:on the plea o f sore throat, she !\ad start1 1 lady, was almost mibre than I could bear, avidity unalloyed, I am afraid, with much reprobation. I seemed to be reading a class of persons whose way of -life was too far re--1 four-wheeler— in,£h cab, without white kid I ty thing I ever heard of.?’ “ What number, sir? ” shouted my driver Men and women' make their owri beafity^ through the little hole in the roof. “ This te;| or their own ugliness. Sir Edwatfd Bulwer' ed, in the instant that fny back was\ turned, in. a Hansom— o f even supposing if was a “ Where can she be going to?” gasped I half unconsciously. “ It’s the most extraordina- Cupidoa WHJas.” Lytton sj^eaks m one o f his novels o t ’fl msln- “ I am sorry to hear,” groaned I, passing “ who was uglier than ho had any business moved from* my own to affect me, except as a gloves on, and------->, spectator; just as when I went to play I row in the pantry, and one which my peace my pocket handkerchief over my brow. Confound it, here was a |. “ I have heard of similar things,” returned | “ Don’t mind me, rny goodf hian (for his countenance evinced much dismay ,at my found myself in an atmosphere of intrigue, of mind demanded to have cleared up at | enced* anything of the sort myself, and misunderstanding, and jealousy, alto- once. '<•. Peabody quietly, “ although.I never experi-^ 'O f I voice* and manner;^! know it is not your I been good or evil. to be;” and, if he could but read it,*eVery ' human being carries his life in his fadej hrid'^ is good looking or the reverse as thaHifefiks' On our features thb fine J course, I.don’t know where she is going to; fault that I am .m teable; 'Please to7 J^uU chisel of thmighfand emotion are et^rnallV;‘ gether vinreal, and. with w’hich I had not the ghost o f an experience in common. ~ r. “ Anna Maris,” cried I huskily, from the bottom of the staifs-- but the* direction she has taken, is. towards Uip at No. 6.’ at work. Beauty is hot the * monopoly of vj • - jealousy ! - Why^ I had been married six teen years without entertaining that passion,, so that it was not very likely,'however well acted, that tli^t passion should entertain me. Misunderstanding ! .The thing was impossi ble, for whenever there promised to be j“ a “ Anna Maria, I wish | St. #John’s.Wood.” to*speak with you immediately.” . “ Lor’ bless me,” answered my wife from the top story, “ it isn’ t one of the children, js it, John? Pray, tell mo the *wors^ 3) *’;j ; pi •’ .t once. “ No, madam, it is I,” replied 1 stiffly. With the air of a man who has forgotten J i n something, began to search in the pockets of a greatcoat hanging up in the hall. - “ By-the-by,” said-I, as the servant who “ I | little grating fto me. Jng, roW: in the pantry ” — and every married man [ : “ Then it’s the kitchen chimney,” exclaim- just let me * in was fast>disappearing, will understand me when; I make use o f the ed she in a. dogmatic tone. “ And didn’t I think your mistress must have got it after I shutters were closed. The drawing-room This latter circum- • . . XI— a Tf r • . # » » . . t * ♦ . # • beauty ot holiness-^a * beauty much more I brought it to a | tell Mary to have it swept a week ago; and j all.* Just run up, and tell her I want to see her for a minute.” .... metaphorical expression head, and h‘ad it out, and off *we started again, (speaking, for self and Mrs. R.,) on the smooth current of our:lives,\with the lit'-1 home.” e some satisfaction, since it I seldom met; apd, more frequently found;, in now the fire engines will spoil everything, even i f we' are not burnt out of house and Emily Jane, who had been in ourr$ervice stance gave i might signify th^t Mr. Merrington was dead, but a glance at the gay attire o f the servant ever since we were married, turned as scar.- girl who answered to my summons cut away; promofiade. the. arm-chaip by the fire, with grandchildren * _ . f a . i .. i * » * • around its knee, than in the ball-room qr the Husband and wife* who have tlefratah buried forbVer la i t s depths. As Was it possible that this woman could let as her pap ribbons. tins ground of consolation. fought, the world side, by side; who have for the mother pf eight falling in Jove with another man— Ji'ave deceived me, as Peabody had said, /nd-| “ Sir,” said sjifl, bolder t&an brass, “ mis-J “ Is Mrs! R. jvithin? ” inquired J , with a j made oommon stock o f joy. and sorrow, an^{ aged together, are not unfrequently-founds it is’ all very well in a stage I yet talk so simply of her. children, and* o f sis has just stepped out; she has taken two play, and, as T have said, befitting enough house and home? ’ By the time Anna Maria | o f the little girls for a morning walk.?’ tone o f assumed indifference. “ Well ■ If life ‘^s measured iby emotions, deeds ‘and ,eyen^ts, t earnest have lived a century in«the last four years * ' / . j f* « •, “ One con^aet hoar pf. orowdpd life ;i> , - Ift worth aa ago without a name.” ,r ? ) ^ am o n g persons.of q u a lity; but upon N o ttin g !HilUside o f B a y s w a ter any such; m ischance jvvpulJj X be out 6f;ptace, and ridiculous, a- social prqsuipption, as well as a graye do mestic crithe: - im a g in e , therefore, m y aston- ^hm e n t ^ e n jfa y opposite neighbor, P e a - tn Ca% him self m y friend, did a n f r t F ^ C9,ll’H^ n a f” w w e e k s ago, duct.ofyi^^iQnficienoe, s ’ Jrad got down to the. drawing room flight, 1 1 “ Which two?” inquired I, looking this began tb be : rather ashamed of myself.— abandoned young person full iu , the face.— | objection to When the mother o f eight reached my sitting Her subtle spirit was cowed Jby this course room door, with hot honest face aglow with |*>t procedure; she replied that tshe;did not kqpvv—rshe did not recollect—rshe hadn’t paid particular attention, but she ,rather, thought ^— all in a but you can’t, see her | curiously alike in personal appearance and^ in’pitch and tone of voice—just as twinge})-, bles on the beach exposed to the same tidal “ Confound Mr. Merrington cried I, I influences, are e^ch -other’s alter ego.. He* yes, sir- just at present. Mr. Merrington has a groat 33 _ _________ 1 ...... other day, that her-busband pretended to be muchir struckW bbforefore-&WWajg marriage with hj now. shie was'every day .struck b y rhim. animation, and her voice so earnest about the soot, I not dare to mention .what I had in my:jm i n d . -• , \. .. : . t. * 7*UI called you down, dear, to say tb&t I going . to give my pelf a holiday to-day, and to ask you to ..coine with mo torHam- pushing my way in. wife.” . * ” ' that it was the two youngest breath. * •'\ a « rxrfVLY the alarming con- woman said in a police court, t>e j ;tainett a Prlv- ^ v } n g d e ^ e d and ob- vpt retai^^^:’ ^ ' S- ^^dalous | 8 tea^ IIeatb, and,dipe at J^qk .Straw’s Gas- ^ - s e k U 6 .V*t w d i g t r ^ . 1 ing upon his J¥)se, set bel!>v^_of ili.a ^ puitobei: o f cj!HridUs! iwitb-tbe .*• g °in^ PPr r ^® 7 u e cted “ Oh, your wife, isit,sir? ” replied the maid with a giggle/* “ Then o f course you can go up, if*you please,although it’s as ! YflU teilh find ^ I want to see mv has gained , a rfeminine something which • * I • i rO s * ^ • • i j O . Tj ’; \ brings his manhood into full relief. She nasA gained a inasculine something, which acts as a foil to her womanhood, ic v* c jlv - o \T A *« “ In that c^rse,” rejoined I,-pointing with | much as my place ^is* worth* them in the drawing-room-’ “ My lord,” said tho foreman ot a Welch jiir Jy whett tginng/.in thnin “ iWp find this tftan that stole the- 4iiare ndt guilty.” ' ‘ ^ call. them,>of rmy ^ wife, i ? be ^ a A X *0 .. . * * i • i ... . i .. . ..... tie this afternoon, /it being .J>ucb a beautiful flay.” , ‘ v : . x ... jp.yfp^?i§edi for^p instaqt.oyer jier featu ^ g ^ then,, as if ,rec9ft.eqting herself, . -/iV - i u ' imt riAccV ^ e- ^ 4 “ ^ to stammer that she was very, r ■Vr.” . - * - * : i o i i h w 1 *? really she1 had so much to do the‘h6u6e > 5t if I Vbuld oiilf 1 Friday weav/^tich ^ s -my-birth^ be only cdinOitiefiiiss, after allf but.Which withering scorn to the-perambulator, “ how comes,, this here? No, Emily Jane; your mistress must haye taken out,with her to-day the two children she took on Monday and on Thursday, when her sore throat was | always sit in.” so bad that-sbe could not^o out with me.” . 1 “ Yes/ sir,” replied she; “ it was the same | thing must have been going on for years! two.” > ' : ;! i f; “ Emily Jabe,” said T, solemnly, al ways tcll the truth.' . I khbw all. * Where is . L a r g e D onations .^ S inee ;tbo dose o f . . the war den. Grant has received ipresents^in d W h a t! timet ” exclaimedvl passionate* I cash, & c.,to the amount of,^222,000,. ly, pointing to the closed windbws. *? • “ Yes, of bourse, sir, that’s' the' room they They always sit in? Then this sort of I cleared the two little flights of stairs in a couple of, bounds, and hurled open the drawing-room door like a catapult. The citizens of St. Louis: have raised $30,000 for the purpose of purchasing home for Gen. Sherman in that c ity ,; In hia* reply to the notification of the fact, the Gen eral says: “ This sum of money exceeds all that I haver received from'the Govern-^, meet of the Uni ted* States for four years* of* labor ip the mid^t-bT-danger apd trouble.” i * Of all the wicked looking houses in Ciipi- blooming *youngjnen and of white and'pink don Terrace, No. 6 ^vas; it seemed to me* the maids;* There ^is a slow ‘growing beautftP : . I hastened back to my owh house, and | wickedest. The round eve which formed its w^lC^ comes to perfection in. old age,«-^ stair-case window, jinked, viqiously. m the I CrrAce* belongs to no period *of life, and good- sunlight, .and in. tjip garden was. a.little grat- j Pes^ improves tbe Ionger it exists^ 'have' as though for. the purpose of recopnois-J seen sweeter, smiles ofi a lip b^sevOnty than .• sance, before,admittance^ .which ?was not a [ I ever saw bn a; lf^ of seventeen. 'Th the beau tv o f youth, and thei^b is also ‘the 1 ..
