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CWttlll Neutral m Nothing that Demands PubKrlXpresgion—Republican in folitics-^Devoted to the Public interests. •rW~tmm L. 1. B1QCH0ST, ffiDAY, JULY SI, 1857- . _.. i — NO. 42. $ wmm € ntte . M. L. WHITHEY, DCALKR in Foreign and Domestic Staph). and Fancy Dry Goods, Groceries, Hard- waro,'C'avpets, : PaporHangings,Oil Cloths, Crockery and Glass Wave—fov Cash or, ready pay only. No. 50 Main Bt 0 Brook- port,'N.Y. Nov. 28th, 1850, 7tf J. HAUKISOft, DKAI.BR in Black Silk and Fur Hats, \White ana-Drab Hats, Summer Hats, Caps, Furs, ; , Trimmings, &c. Brockport, N.' T. : . CAEY, BRAINAED A CO., &EALERS in all kinds of Hardware, tinware sheet iron, copper &c.\ Jobbing done at ' ihort notice. Ouo door north ot Springs Drug store, Bvoekport, N. Y. •^—- 'DlfAFTS Ox ENGLAND IRFLAKD ASD Scr>Ti,Asi> from £1 upward, for sale at tho Brockport Exchange Bank. .Oct. 17,18513'. Itf BEACH <fc 1IUBBAU1), DEAM:K» ia Groceries, Provisions, .Fish, Oil, Cordage, Brimms, Pails, Tubs,, and all urticloa usually kept in a Btore of thi kind. BECK & THOMAS. BAKERS, Main Street Brockport. J*. Y.- WKolesalc and retail dealers, in Broad, Crackers and Cakes of every description. Parties supplied with everything in the lino at the shortest notice. m \\- '\» <•-'\ at retail. Flour for salo CA.KY &BRA1NAKP, MAXtTACTLUERS of Carv's Kolary Engine Pump and Hydrant. 'Office a few -doors •outh of the Post Office, oast side Main St. Brockport, N. Y. '' BKOCKPOKT CANDY FACTORY. JOHN B. Light Manufacturer of Fancy and • -common Confectionary, at Wholesale or ltetai I; Ice Cream aud Pyramids for Parties made.to order. Stone Block, opposite the Village'llall, Brockport K, Y. EDITH VA HATCH & -WALTER. DKALEHS in Boots, Shoes, Leather nnd find- ingi, No. 32, Main Street, Brockport, N — VST Cash paid for Hides, ~CO. y. SKIDMOKE &. DEAI.r.US in Groceries, Provisions, Liquors. Flour, Nails, Glass Jte. &»• In the Now Block, west side of Main Street, Brock- pert, N. Y. ISAAC BAKSErt. MAXCFAC-TI-RER of Fashinnali!\ Carrtages, Buggifs, Wagons, Sulkies, iX;e. ltejmir- inguono on shurt notice. Simp on t'lintim itrcet. ndjuining tiro canal, lirockpnrt, N.Y. S. GOFF, PROI-IETOR of Clinton street Livery and Blacksmithing. Horses and Carriges fur- nished at short notice, and on very reasona- ble terms- Jobbing and 'Horse-shoeing dtne in the best manner and with good sat- isfaction. OHico on Clinton street, Broek- jort, N. Y. _ A. J. BAltRIER. HAIR Uressiug, Shaving, Champooing, Oils and Perfumery. Razors honed. The Pat- ronage of tlia'Publii- is respectfully .wlie.i- tod. Saloon in Chapoll's Block, Main St. Brockport, K. Y. MISS E. LVSK. TKACUER of Music—instructions given on tho Piano, Organ, Mdodeon and Guitar; also in thorough Base and Vocal Music—r Koom in Main St. second door south the Episcopal Church, Brockport N_Y_-_ DR. E. L. WOOD. • i-FICE next to tho Post office. Dential ope rations of every kind performed in tho best manner. Homepatttie Medicines for . sale, from the best German preparation firockport, -f. Y. T. A. -WHITE. WiLi, always bo found on baud and prepared\ to do Hair Dressing, Shaving, Champooing tea., in the best manner. Oils and Perfu- mery for salo. Razors Honed. Tho pat- ronago of the public is solicited. Saloon ia Comes' Block, East side of \Main Street, Brockport, N. Y. \ BEKltY & PRICE. \~ liAXI'FACTUREKS and Wholesale andiRotail Dealers in Whips, Gloves and Mittens, 35 Main St. Brockport S. Y. Ji SMITH * CO. r \~ llASVFACTfttEHB and Dealers in all kinds of Cabinet Ware. Turning and Jobbing done •n short notice. Shop in south end of the Stone block opposite Cowles store-, • Brockport, N. Y. KING A ATXES\ DEALERS IK Dry Goods, Groceries, Hard- ware; Groekory, Paper-Hangings, &•: — All Cheap-for Gash* Bvockporti N. 1'. T, &, A, FRYE. WES T SIDE MAW STREET, B&ockroivr, N. Y.—Dealers in Books, Pamphlets, Sta* tioitery andMiisic. Also,DrngjSahd Med- icines, Chemicals, PaintSi Qil.TDyo-Stuffs, Brushes, Perfumery, &c, Arc:, .0. C. LATTA. MANUFACTURER and Dealer in Boots, Shoes, and Leather; at tho old Stand-of,I. A. Eat- ta, corner of Water and Main St. Brock- pbrt N. Y. N. B.—Cash paid for Hides, Calf and 8hoop Skinsi OSTROM, ANTHONY &, COW WHOLESALE Grocers and Commission Mer- chants, 180 West street, between Warren- and Chambers, New York* Jac'b Ostfom.D'vid H. Anthony, Jos. Kcqua E. H. MIX, DENTIST—Artificial Teeth inserted on Fin* Gold and Silver Plate from one tooth to a whole soti on rosaohabio terms. Qffica on Main street, over D. Divin' store, Brock- j}r;'r«,K. X. BV MINXIE F. BEAVSRS, CHAPTER I ' \is'thisatlV Ob! istliisaiy and the speaker Hftod up her towed head.— The light of the candle reveals her face; and :wl)at a young fair face it was. There was the white brow of intellect.shaded by tressesof(blaok hair;, thesweet.movith;and tho- dcar*/*eirncst '6yes' so\ tiiiuttekbly beautifBl. i Many times has lidith A^ale walked up and. down'her room to-night; her whito •hand clasped over her bosoni, trying in vain to ieconoi'le herself to what must bo on the morrow ; bat teais will gather in the large dark eyes, and the sweet mouth tremble with griefr And why'? Hers is a beautiful home, and slie its only mis- tress.. ', Trne.her mother-sleeps in the si- lent\gravis; \but a proud and loyiag fath? , er is still left her. Bu t it is. not this the girl is ,drcaming of noWi Her soul is .wandering back over the. dead, years of the past; and she i s reading on their snowy scroll, joyous hopes arid Blessed dreams, written thcro > in the old days. Her inemory is hovering over the holiest,, bagpiest'.part of; her life. I t was only two yoars ago,-whon she had but reached her 'seventeenth summer, that she first met Marcus Hydra. He was their pastor, aud faithfully ho ministered to 8hc people of his charge. Seldom found in the halls of mirth, he was often in the halls of mourning. Wa s a soul passing from tinio to eternity, his deep voice, so powerful in its sublimity, and agaiu so soothing in its low music, was hoard in prayer, or cheering the dying pilgrim Bearing the grave. Sabbath af- ter Sabbath he stood in the- pulpit, a ra- diant light resting upon^his countenance, proclaiming the Word' of Life, till ho be- came very destr to his people. But in his teachings of heaven, that summer, he learned with Edith Vale, a sweet earth- lesson, which neither could forget. Thrown in each other's society with soul attuned in harmony, was it a wouder they loved t She realized fit him all that! was great and good in man, and he thought her thejove- liest of wsmen. And so tho bright sum- mer days, so fraught witi bliss to them, wore away and brought at their close a parting 1 l'or he was destined to go as a missionary to a far-off land; she to wait, in her young heart's love, his return. The parting was full of bitterness and pain to both. \ I must do my duty,\ said Marcus. ~\'Havo-*you nothing to give me, to keep in remembrance of you, while lam gonet\ \ I would offer you my Bible, Mark, but I know its holy truths are laid up in your heart so I will give you this,\ and a curl of hair dropped into his hand. \Bless you,, darling,\.he whispered, \ it shall be prized by me Rsideatly as Efe.\ She looked up. \ O h Mark'\ she cried,'_\ how can I give you up 1\ Gazing through tears upon her, ho an- swered, * \ I know not, Edith, but I may faff in tho ranks of death on that far-off shore.\ \ Then you will be lost to me,\ mur- mured the weeping girl. J^If^tho_soul,^ya3 noUwPigr.tal.l'JUho said, \ if-there -was-no-a^aking from the sfeop/of 3eath-^no'bright heaven, beyond the stars,\ then indeed we might b e lost to each other forever. But we know that our Redeemer lives,\ and folding: her to his bosom, ho pressed a last kiss on hor pale oheek, and was gone. But, strange to say, though absent so long he- had never written; and now, for months, Edith bad come to .think him false, No wonder her voice rings out so mournfully to-night-^-\Mark! Mark! how I loved you, how I trusted you, as I can never trust again—you whom Idecm- od so noble,' good arid true\ Nov? I dreamed of^-a glowing future, a peace- ful pathway, oh! so blest,, whioh- our feet, would tread' togethor, you guiding ine by your earnest spiritual life to a home in heaven.\ And she burst into toafs. ..'»•« I- But the treachery of Mark was hot her only .grief; A week before that he r faith* er had said, \\ , , -* - \Edith my child, Louis Vprnphihas asked of me your hand/' • And when she had answered, *'I wiH stay with you, father, while I liv,c. Les- teom Louis, but do not lpve him,\ he re - plied, \Edith must I tell you all; must I tell you that I am. bankrupt'.-that I will be ruined unless you marry him V lie is wealthy, he will save mo,' r Then Edith started to.her feet. \I will brave .paxerty„s,evgn..dcath itself, for joy, father j only spare me this trial. My love ia buried, in a living '.tombi— Though Mark was false, I lovo .him stiU,\ . ..-!'• A pallor like that of death had spread- over theold-man»'s;fuoc;.-~He did not fell her that when\ie.'saw u&Fviiu, he had in- tercepted her letters;- but ho,did say, in- a.hoarse voice, \ I will bo ruiuedi Edith, wy bono* and peace .are. ialliost. And when you see your old father groping ahont in a .prison -coll, the snow of sixty years resting upon, bis head, remember you ; could have spared him this bitter trial,\ : Then Edith sprang toward him; Iter arms, [were around his. neck; an d fto.rn her white lips there eame a cry ; what ai cry ! so full of tenderness, and yet.wail- iug, with dtespair. \ leather! father'. I love you! for your sake I will wed him,\ All this now passes before the girl, who wanders up and down her room to-night. To-morrow sbo is to b e the wife of Loui 3 Vernon. He ia a slight, delicate man,-, and said to b? consumptive; and happy might be tho woman who could love him. and ap- preciate his dreamy poetic nature. Edith knew his worth,\ but she was one that, loving once, could never forget. After garnering up in her heart such, beautiful dreams for ,thc future, such a holy love for truth, is it not natural, that in a voice of touching safocss, she -should say, \ I s this all ? oh! is this all ? It was near midnight when sbc turned from that room to seek her couch. \What a night of torture to her. In her groat love for her father, sometimes the sacri- fice she was about to make, appeared naught; and she would walk up and down, hor soul wrapped in feverish joy that she was doing this for hirru But it was only fur a moment; for into her heart would steal the bitter thought— \ Sold, sold to buy hack lost wealth!\' Then tho scorn on that young face was pitiable to- behold. 'JMic last words that lingered upon her lips that night, were \ Mark'. Mark ! how could you slight such love as mine 1 How could yon so blight my peace I Oh how dark'.\ I t was the last time Jiis name was on her lips for years. of peace and joy, flits over his counte- nance. Edithj'-who had been whhderihg in the yard, beholds thissceBe. Hcr.father had been dead sorBe two yedys ;'*and if he had; not told'her\ of his dccepl&h and- Jlarcus' Hydro's constancy, the oM love might have been blotted out/ But Mark she knew had been truo to her! This was the* thought that followed her throagh all those years; yet still she is attached to bev husband. It might have been a ter- rible fear that smote her heart when she 'g'azed on Louis's pale countenance, or perhaps it. was the spiritual radiance rest- ing there that filled her soul with a sud- den, tenderness, for she went to him and pressed a kiss oh his brow, saying, *• Dear Louis! if the years \ have pass- ed'-with you-have not been- rife with to- m'dltuous joy, I bless you that they have been full of rnuch, peace. I have - over cherished in my'heart.a sacred'tcnderncss for you, Louis, and your sickness has ren- dered you dearer td me £han you could have been in health.\ \ I have been happy f\ he dreamingly murmured. A week from that evening he slept the sleep of death! and Edith and Willie were alone in the wide world. my Edith!\ it said, \ Come to the heart that has mourned you as lost.\ That voice, that lofty form, that stailo of unuttorable peace and joy wore Mark's' A week later, that old room was deso' late; and tho home whioh had been Louis Vernon's beoame Marcus Hydra's. Coming up through the green yard, onp ^hiho evening, were a group of threo. They paused beneath tho shadows of a lofty locust. \ The night was very dark, husband,\ said the lady,-\ but a morning Inrighter than I ever dreamed'of has dawn- ed upon me.'' A little curly head was lifted- up, and- a sweet childish voice murmured, \I know God would bo good to us beforo long, mamma.\ \ No wonder,\ sairl the gentleman, wilh reverent tenderness,- his dark eyes rest. ,ing on the little boy, \ no wonder Jesus said, ' Suffer littler ebildron to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of su'oh.ls tho kingdom of heaven.'\ CHAPTER II. Five years have passed. Near the- cky pfC-r a splendid home is situated. How * beautifully it rises there on that green knoll, in tho last flush; of tho sun- set'. The locust trees surrounding it are snowy with blossoms; arid tlic sweet per- fume glides in at the open windows, where all bespeaks refinement and' lux- ury. This is the home of Louis and Edith Vernon. He sits upon the portico, Lis chair loan- ing against tho white post, while little Willie, their child, plays at bib feet. If Louis Vernon did not realize what he ex- pected in his married life, h e knew lie- fore that he was not loved. If the sofs hand of his • wife had seldom wandered lovingly through his hair,-or rested on his broad 'white brow, it had \never been rais- ed in defiance to his will. If her sweet lips were; pressed to his less often than he wished, thoy had never spoken one Uiikind word to him. I know not if a sad presentiment is hov- ering over his mind, but h e is dreaming of death. Consumption ha d made rapid strides in his delicate constitution. The oarnest, beautiful light in his eye, and the quick flush, proclaim that he was the victim of that fell disease. Yet he isnot awed a t the approach of death. He shrinks hot appalled from the cofiin and the shroud. His eyes are turned from the boautiful'landscape before him to the eve- ning sky, so dazzling in the flush of sun- set, A smile, wherein is rriingled mtrch CHAPTEK HI , In one of the rootns of a large hotel, in the city of C—r—, Marcus Hydra sat, his head bent over his hand, where lay along Mack curl of hair, and tears were falSing on it. \ If the thought that she was false had not prevented me,\ ho murmured, \ I would have bqcn here long ago. How I dreamed of her on that far-off shore! And sometimes 1 fearcd.it . was sin; for when I. wrote my sermons I saw her eyes, and when I knelt to pray her form was before pie. How the sweet voices of the olden time whisper in my heart to-day'. 1 was so full of joy and hope once. I do not murmur, but my soul will weep over the boautiful dream, shattered forever.\' He brushed tho tears from his dark spiritual eyes, and passed flora the room As he was entoring tho ladies' parlor he hoard the murmur of a name that made his heart throb wildly; and pausing, h e listened to a conyoreation-botweon two la- dies in the parlor. \Poor Edith Vale! you remember her, Alice V \ Yes,\ was the reply. \Well said the other, \sh e marrleo\: to save her father from ,ruin, when she loved a young minister, a missionary to a foreign land, Hor husband has been dead a year and by tho negligence o r fraud of her trustees, all the property has been lost; and now sfe.is in the depths of poverty. Did you sec that.sweet ohild in here a moment ago 1 That was Edith's, and he was begging alms.\ Marcus waited to hear no more— Turning the corner of one of tho streets, he saw a little child. \ Edith's,\ h o cried, and hurried on. \ What is your name r *littlo boy ?\ he said kindly. The child looked up with a wondering glance into that proud, noble face, and in his sweet voice answered, \ Willie Ver- non.\ He was folded to tho minister's heart. \ I would have known you were her child among a thousand, by those lustrous eyes. Won't you take me to your mother, dar- ling?\ ; The child's -voico quivered, \ Minima is very poor;\ lie said, \ you won't like to 1 go to our home ; I stole away awhile ago, for I thought God would make some- body give a little boy, like me, something! and he did! And tho tiny hand was opened, and there lay a shining gold del- lar^given him by the lady who had spor ken of Edith in the parlor. \ Take mo to her\ Willie! tako me to •her'! and you shall never want any moro while I livo,\ said Marotts. The- little fellow obeyed, and soon they reached his home. Edith, weary and waated, sat leaningtier'head on one hand, sadly droaniing of what might have been, what had been, and/what is now. \ Will there be ho bright mofni&g ev- er come again V she thought. \ \Will eternity alono brighten my sorrows 1\ There was a step on the tottering stairs; tho door opened; and a deep voice broke tho stillness, \Couwto me Married by Proxy. The Rev . David Maokenzie, in his Emigrant's Guide, relates the following : —In 18-10, a docept couple, after tho us- ual proclamation in the church, came to Mr. II. to bo married. It was aftor- wards, however, discovered that tho bride- groom had been through some aocidont detained a t home, and that it was his brother who arrived, accompanied by the bride and two. or throe of her friends.— They waited a whole hour for tho bride- groom, bu t never told tho olorgyman the real cause of their waiting. At last thoy stated they would wait no longer, Mr. H. accordingly married them, and thoy returned homo. When this irreparablo blunder was afterwards discovered tho married brother, in tho simplicity of his heart, stated that ho thought he could transfer the young wife in the evening to hu brother, the real bridegroom, for ' whom h e waited a whole hour, and that ho was \ unwilling to return home from tho parson, after having come so far, without doing some business, by way of securing the woman.\ Wo are not in- formed with which of tire two brothers the blooming bride has sinco lived—whether it was with her real or with her intmdeA husband. But this is we believe tho greatest extension of a power of attorney ever hoard of. A Good Name. Some time in 1838 or 'S9, a gentle man in Tennessee became involved, and wanted money; he had property and owed debts. His property was not available jnst then, and off h e posted to Boston, backed by the name of several of tho best men i n Tennessee. Money was tight, and Boston bankers looked closely at the names. \ Very good,\ said they, \ but, but—do you know General Jackson?\ \Certainly.\ \'Could you get his en- dowment ?\ \ Yes, but he is not worth one-tenth as much as-either of these men whose names I offered you.\ \ No mat- ter ; Gen . Jackson has always protected himself ftnd his paper, and we'll lot you have tho nioucy on the strength of his name-\ In a few days tho papers with his signature arrived. The moment these Boston gentlemen bankers saw the tall A and long J of Andrew Jackson, our Tcn- nesseean says ho could have raised a hun- dred thousand'ddllars'Vtitbout tho slight- est difficulty. So muoh for an establish- ed character for honesty. However men may have differed with Andrew Jackson politically, no man could deny him the merit of being an honest man. Bi—ftHHSBBBH!**!B-***BjHH' ho'd go to mill to-morrow, we'd got jittcrf next day\ Zeke—Yer drcVWall tlmvsirVlp i%W with me. Eathor—(from tht bed^'Krerej'^f,' varmints, of you've got tho bttnca9~*eotV tied, do quiet for to-night y e make sioh a racket a follow might as well\ sleep in bed- 1 ' lam. THE DUEL SETTLED FT C/BB.— A Frenchman tfas to fight a duel with *& American ; tho conditions were that but one shot should be exchanged, and that' the precodonoo should go by lot, The Frencbuiangot the first db!anoc ; but .failed* to hit his adversary. As trie Yanke* lift- ed his weapon, <fWofhcr palled'put-^ \ Hold, I will buy your shot!'' All-word astonished at so strahgo a proposition, but rh•fe••(i{tp'bnerlt , \ansWcred : • \ What win you 5 give ?\ Tivo hundred pounds!\. \Nonsense!\ criod'fliefnnkco.Uking aim again. \ I am a good marksman—- you set to low a value on yourself!'*' \ You estimate me at toobigh a price h but I will give you a thousandT pounds '.'• \Agreed!\ cried the Yankee, and fh» duel was at an end, A DUTCHMAN.—A facetious gentleman traveljug in tho country, on arriving a t his lodging place in tho evening, was mot by tho hostler, whom ho thus addressed: \ Boy, oxtiicate that quadruped from the- vehicle, stabulatc him, dcvote-blm an ad- equate supply of nutrkiousah'taont.'ahd,- when tho Aurora of morn shall' again \U lumine the oriental horison, I will reward you with a pecuniary compensation for your amiable hospitality.\ The boy 1 , not understanding a word, ran into the liouse, saying, \Master here's a Dutchman wants to see you.\ To KEEP EGGS, whidlt are now so aTrandaut, can, it ia said, be better pre* served in com rucal than any othor prep- aration yet known. Lay them with law small end down, and, if undisturbed, they will bo as good at the end of the year •• when packed. [tj=- The grand error of life is, we Iooli too far; wo scale tho heavens—wo dig down to the center of the earth for sys- tems—and we forget ourselves. Truth lies before us; it is in I ho highway path, and' the plougHtnan treads on it with clout- ed shoes, Mrs. Nicholson says: \ Clandestine marriages seldom bring happiness; th« woman who sacrifices home add father's and mother's affee'ioit for a lover, unless* the parents are unusually unreasonable, generally reaps that raward which' fol- lows in the- footsteps : of ingratitude' and disobedience.\ $3T A cotemporary, in noticing the launching of a steamer named \ Fenny Fern,\ says if she i> to resenibld tho or- iginal he docs not caro to take a trip in her, as that gal isalways i'oioitijf up-satut' body. Jd\ To give children good instruction asd a bad example, is but beckoning to- them with the head to show them th» way the hand to lcul them in tho way to hell. Western Courtship Scene : A log cabin boasting a sin- gle room, one half of which is occupied by- two bods ono containing the \ old folks and baby,\ the othor Whose duty by day ia to stand beneath the shadow of its lof- tier mate laden with fivo young members. EzeklcT— (in a whisper)—I swow tew gosh, Sary, I love yc. Sary—4in a higher key) Good Zeke I'm glad oii't. Zeke—Will you-have mo? that's what I want fo know ! Sary—(looking astonished)—Hcv ye ? to bo sure, cal'late to. Zeke—When will wo got spliced ? Sary—Well, hoss'that's whatl'vobden thinking oh; I tellod dad that cf so be Id* Man is never wrong while he lives) for others; tho philosopher who coatcm- plates-froms tho rook ie a less noble imago than the saHot who struggles- with th* storm, [^•Hezokiah says if h» landlady knew beans, she would not buy the ar- tielo called \ burnt an d ground coffee.\ SATIRE.—Satire often proceeds less from ill nature than from the desire of display- ing wit.. Jig 5- Love is like a river; if ono chan- nel bd obstructed., it seeks another, fCST f- e ma ft w b° nwde an impressior* on the heart of a coquette,-lias, takon out a patent for stone cutting. Jrjr- To disperse a mob—mount » ^rap-post and commence reading a chip- er t'rom. the Biblov • '•* •
