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(Gei annie ‘i—'———-r—'—--——'zm*‘—‘* WH be furnished to VOL. 1. WHITEHALL N Y., SATURDAY APRIL 8, 1871 HHE Roy : w ma THE musymgtun Curly Hews. is published at WMNTRHALL COVURTY, 8. Y.. EVERY SATURDAY MORNING, B¢ Carros 0. Ssmu &. Co., Proprietors, wan ices THE NE ws an <> 45s RATES or ADV E. RHHIVG 1 Inch, 2%in,. 1-4 col. 1-2 col, week, $ .15 $1.25 gilts _ g3.00 ** 1,25 210 s.25 5,50 8.25 4,00 7,060 1.16 - 4,00 _ 5,50 9,00 * 4.50 7,00 _ 9,00 14,00 00 10,00 11,00 20,00 . 6. 3 year, 8.00 15.00 18,00 _ 36/00 ‘lerxfl and Busines: Notices, 6 cents pox- Marrizgo and O'bimmry Notices fros, mearke accompanying the same , imitel to ton @. Also notices for 1:0\qu _ moolinge dloullorgmlmiona freo. * Gngmnf ial Srlectelt 3 Village Subscribors, b Carrier, for $1,955 per snug At Ofice, x3; b; . gala? No names entored until paymont + & sealy uth, ® ' Maggie Riemann; . BY SILAS II, WRIGHAT, Tike the shado of a rock, -- Toa land that is weary, Is the hoart-checring sight Of awost Maggio McCleary To her footstep nq hall Hath ever resounded, By cottage and pasture, Her lifo hath been bounded. * Yo bonnistorhood.~ E'er shaded hor beauty, Wor folly or fashion Estranged her from duty. ~ TKict «3 a larch And as fair as a lly, She drives homeo the cows, Whon theo dusk fslls so stilly. What delight to behold hor, In suramer s saim gloaming, And hear tha rich rhythm of The white stream a forming: Whils her bucket ranso'er With its bountcons blessing.. An odor of buds and 0g clover confessing. And when at the bars - She backs the brown filly; There.is full speeding then, , . Bo it never so hilly. Hot cottage is cool with Its vines and its roses; And the asters goard While daffodit dodgoa *~* ds she trips to the spring Down tho pith of the morning. . Beth buskin and boot, Her tapor too scorking. With a song on her lips, Echoed back from the mountain, \ Rising ma sweet with The cool, dripping faun'ain. When I think that this world Is empire of beauty, ' ~R-SAd tho pathwhy to pesso Starts from doorposts of duty. , Céspitho ahide of g-roqk In a land thatis weary, ik h’J' the heart~cheening sight , Qfikeet Maggie mom”. 4 by]? Firesite Sturg-Crllst. ~~~. .-‘\'v‘.., «*N SNN SA THE ONLY son. A VILLAGE TALE. £09 FINE summer morning as I was riding with a friend through a @ bundsome village, in the central G part of New York, and admiring the benutics he pointed out to me, with .' all the pnde and pregigion of the 'oldest inhabitant,\ my attention was attracted by an aged couple, dressed in deep mourn. ing, who were walking slowly down n shaded avenue, in frount of one of the mogt beautiful residences in the place. The feeble stops of tho old lady, who leaned heavily upon the arm of her com- panion, and the expression of deep and lasting sorrow, which possessed her thin and pallid features, contrasted with the firm tread, and stern, solomn nspect of the old man, awoko my curiosity, abd I enquired if there was not some domestic history of interest connected mth tho vanoerable ample. R *There is, indeod,' replied my Mend *You recall to my mind one of the most singular incidents--the most , startling tragedy, in short-which our goodly vil- lago over witnessed. * That old and sorrow-stricken couple, may be seen,' pursued my friend, 'twico or three times a wooek-oftener, when the woather is fino --walking down the avo. nue in just such a manner —nevcr any faster, never any slower. *You seo them now getting into tho carriago, which has fist rolled up {g the gate. They will ride a mile, when the carriage Nd thoy will walk | through another gite, which is of iron, possing betwoour posts of irow, all binck as ebony. | They will onter a green field, where the birds sing sweetly theso fine summer mornings; n lonely field, howev- er, whero there aro no dwellings above ground, whore there aré a groat many inhabitents -the rich and poor inter- mingled, and resting on the samo level, about four foet beneath the sod ! ''This aged couple are going to visit, the grave of their only child. 'It was a son. I will tell you his histo- ry, if you will listen. : This old man was ones the most en- terprising, the boldest and most resolute man inthe vicinity. His name is Col. H--- You have heard ofhim, for he distinguished himself in the last war. People used to say he was made of fron. Yet he was one of the most generous, up- nght hearts in the world. *~ *The old lady I remember as alady of great benuty, no more than twenty years ago, when she was about forty. Besides, she was quite as celebrated for her gen- tleness, as was the Col. for. his dron, will. She had a soft affectionate heart, which shone benificently on all; until its warmfh | wis concentrated on an only child. He was a wild, passionate, handsome |, boy, geperous at tiri¢s, but bften tyran- ical and willful 'We were schoolmates, | and we always played together til he was sent away to an academy, intimaey ceased I saw him raroly after- wards, until, having been expelled from collego for striking a professor in a fit of passion, he returned to his father's house. Morgan, in his childhood, had been indulged amd caressed by his fond moth- er, and by his fither treated with undue [ The (Col. loved the boy, but he believed in thonecessity of to eurb his passions, whilo Mrs, H-, weeping over the father's stern treat- mont of hor darling, endervored to make up for it in indulgence. Thus the boy grow up to fear his father, and to fsel a contempt for the authority of his moth- Well, on AMforgan's return from college in disgrace, he was so changed that you would hardly hnvo known him;not so much in personalappearance, for ho was still handsome, but in his manners. AllI need say is he had earned the reputation of being the most reckless nnd dissipated fellow in collego. Col. H-- was terribly enragod at tho disgracd his wild son had brought upon, him and his family. with grefter spvority than over, refusing: to gratify his love of pleasure, 1? mm.“ you hava so Intely dospiged.\ ishing him with funds, and subjecting him to the most rigid discipline. - The |mestic who watched him from the door, declared she thought, from tho grinding of his teeth, and tho clenching of 'Bik fists, that ho was going to strike hi fathor, Without giving way to hfs minus; however, thoe young nim turned tipon his hoel, passed out of the doorand ner erstopping to sparkto his distressed mother, mounted his and at tothe hotel Mrs. H--fisw to to Her 11118th and ohspmg her two hinds in sgony played that ho would call- the young mian back, speak to him- no longer ina - stork [and chilling tone, but kingly and Auth orly, and éffect m reconciliation, * My God !' murmured the Colors; gast, sionately, am I to be ttunpled uport \by my own son? Am I tostoop inf he to triumph? Whenhe comes to mowith an air of independence which is iniop portable, am I to bendand beg ?' ® No ! no,s0bbed the woman, Xges- Enraged at|snot that. - Butspeak io Bim i Use persuamon~genflfiné§s~=~ *With a gon T- persuision T You Wrong my patience,' exhumed-£113 ~Colonel 1h i husky voice.\ 'Leaveme.\ Nomore words passel betwéenthepn- rents of the unhappy youth; but during the remainder of the diy, the mom:- was keenly distresséd,and the stern: m er himself was iH at ease. The latter passed a sleopplesy ' night? He paced thg floor until late, with his | brow contracted and his hps comprebeed‘ then retived and layfor two Evatt; med- itating upon gome subject whiéfi‘ex’eifed his broin. Mrs H-, who wid like: wise awake, knew to well what that anb- > jeot was 1 Consxdembly past midmght the Coi arose. | | 'Is anythmg the natter,\ asked his mfe. Ho treated him result was, father aind son had a terrible quarrel, in which the Intter, boldly fac- ing tho Colonel's wrath, proged himself to havo imitated liis fron will, if not his nobleness of character. That very day Morgan loft his father 8 house, and took up his residence at the hotel, to the great distress of Mri. H-, who from thit time, never saw a happy day. - 'Theso avonte occurred twelve I dbn‘t know thit the young man ev- or entered the houso but onco afterward, oxoept to see his mother in the absense of the Colonel, and obtain the fands she used to spare for him out of her own at- Morgan wished to go abroad. But to travel extensively, required more money than Afrs, H--- hid ot: her command, and all her efforts to indues the Colondl to grant a supply for the purpose was in vain. - Sho might as sea to deliver tp its ri ell have asked the the ill success of her agplication, Mor- gan-determined to se his father him- self, and by some means Prams the amount he was desperately resolved to Learning one day that the Coloncl had received a large sam of money, from the sale of somoland, Morgan thought it a fine opportunity to make a descant on the paternal purse, and accordingly he called ugion the old gontleman before hé had time to use the money, or deposit it * cA domeahe in the family who had ad- mitted Morgan, relates that the Col. was in hig study, and that there was a blmflle of bills on his desk when theyoung man The Cols, egtrntenance never changed as he looked up, and siw his son stand- ing before Tim; and wher he spoke, his f Mid bard, a if; ‘Idont know, rephed the 0&4 mi? thought Ihqgrd & sound muflii hen court throat hid been made ofmarble, a * What is your business, sir? Morgan returned his father's stern look with an unflinching gize as ho rcphod 'I come to prefern clainm.' At the word 'claim,' the Col. snébred, but said nothing. 'I desire to travel, prirsttod Motgan, as if he had been talking to an equal, ‘Il can be no advantage to you to keep me within sight of your doox, which fi s shut against mo, and within the ofor 'of your - enrdens and orchards which IL catmnot ey, doy. ~You willnotrofuse then, I Kops, to supply me with funds, that will enable mo to see something of the world and to establish myself abrond.* +If this is all your business, kaid tha ol., in a deep tons, 'the sooner you' go | _L the botter;jand tnhngige bundle of :billk helocked it up in Thedesk with a frm hand. 'I thought yon had more judg- mont than to come tome on such a fool errand. Bo what it was impossible to obtain by pleading you hoped to draw from me by the impudence of a claith't Go, Isny, boy ! not a doBHar of my nio‘b- ey shall pass into your hands, until you submitted to my aathotity, whit}; Morgans eyes flashed fire. Tho dow
