m 1 --'X ?. A FAMILY N E W S P A P Effi NEUTRAL IN POLITICS. , TERMS, TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM. WILLIAM 1). COOKE, EDITOR & PROPRIETOR. ) . , i ! , rrrrtTt'vrn h VOL. HL -'(). 13. RALEICxII, XOPJII CAROLINA, SATURDAY, MARCH, 4, 1854. WHOLE NO. 117 - - " - r i t SELECT POETRY. - ; From the University Magarine. The Editor, though unauthorized to name the author ..f the following lines, ventures to announce their hav- tnf been written, by Professor Evebbtt, orAmera andconceires.that they are no discredit to that gentle man's respectableaaine. - DIRGE OF ALAMO THE VISIGOTH- Who -itemed and spoiled the ity of Rome, nd was afterwards buried in tbechannel of the nver.Busen the water of which had been Averted from jts ., , v.,jw.irht be interred. (CampbeWi arse, j . o -t y- ? e fo JfonttZy Jfo7''. 1628.- 5.? was now, seventeen, ana my. "'"i"" only eighteen when it was taken, there was no discrepancy of years. One All-Hallow's eve a party of us all young ry and sneer, the derision, the sarcasm, the con tempt, the victory that were in it! even then it i struck me into a sense of submission. The eyes s host. unk into a lethargy in which I heard only the rich voice, and saw only the form of our stanger TTn was certainly very handsome ; tall, dark, vet nale as marble his very lips were pale; locked full into mine; those eyes fastened on f . .1 1 T 1 1 i- - 1- . V, - 1 . im '-ll m ' I,. . I . . . - . .i n . I tits OIKltii"! DIV IHSK. If IK i: JUIVU girls, not one of us twenty years ot age-were , J-'-- LuntVrJhev that were extremely bright, but which CIOCK CllJIlJeu uic nail uvui , ' J " j - , . , J ifi, a -ie! I. T turned round, expect- j had an expression behind them that subdued mto'see a living man standing beside me. I me. His manners were graceful. He was very . Tint T itu't. nnlv the chill air coming in from the cordial to us, and made us stay a .ong i.m, ...... j , a course Lo 64. When I am dead! no pageant tram Shall waste their sorrows at fa. bier; ; Nor worthless pomp of homage vam Stain it with hypocritic tear ; ; , For I wiVl die as I did live, . ' 1 : " Nor take the boon" I cannot give. ' i . Ye shall not raise a marble bust j Upon the spot where I repose ; - Yc shall not fawn before my dust, In hollow circumstance of wtes; Vor sculptured clay, with lying bieath, Iikilt the clay that moulds beneath. t Ye shall not p'ilo, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, - - Not yet within the common soil Lay ilown ihe wreck of power to rest ; Where! man can boast that he has trod ; ..On him that was "the scourge of God. i But ye the mountain stream shall turn, And lay its secret channel bare, ? Anft hollow, (or your sovereign's urn, lresting-place.f..r ever there; Then bid its-everlasting springs Fldw back upon the king ofkings ; And never be the secret said, Until the deep 'give up his dead. , Aly gold and silver ye shall fling Hack to the clods that gave them birth ; The captured drowns of many a king, . " . The ransoo of a conquered earth ; , For, e'en though Head, -will I control r , The trophieS of the capitol. But when, beneath the mountain tide, Ye've laid your monarch down to rot, 1 YehalV not rear upon its side ' . Pillar or mound.to mark the spot ; ' .For long enough the world has shook ' ; ' Beneath the terrors of my look ; ' - And, now that I have run my, race, The astonished realms shall rest a space. Mv course was like a river deep, And from the northern hills I burst, , Across the world, in wrath to sweep, And where I Went the spot w'asjeursed, : Nor blade of grass again was seen , Where. Alaric and his hosts had been. , See how their haughty barriers fail .' Beneath the terror of the Goth, Their iron-breasted legions quail Before my ruthless sabaoth, And low the queen of empires kneels, And grovels at my chariot-wheels. Jfot for myself did I ascend - -In judgment my triumphal car; . ' 'Twas God alone on high did send The avenging Scythian to the war, g : '. To shake abroad, with iron hand, r " The appointed scourge of his command. ' With iron hand" that scourge I reared O'er guilty king and guilty realm ; ? ' Destruction was the ship I steered, . And vengeance sat upon the helm, : When, launched in fury -.on the flood, . , ' I ploughed my way through seas of bloody And, in the stream their hearts had spilt, Washed out the long arrears of guilt. ( . Across the everlasting Alp ' I poured the torrent of my powers, And feeble Caesars shrieked for help, ' In vain, within their seven-hilled towers; I quenched in blood the brightest gem' ' That glittered in their diadem, , And struck a darker, deeper die .In the purple of their majesty : i And bade my northern banners shine Upon he conquered Palatine. ' My.course is run, my errand dtne ; I gQ lo Him from whom I came.; .' " But never yet shall set the sun Of glory that adorns my name; And Roman hearts shall long be sick, ' When men shall think of Alaric.1 My course is run, my errand done; J ' But darker ministers of fate. ? Impatient, round the eternal throne, 1 And in the caves of vengeance, wait; And swn mankind shall blench away . Before the name of Attila. a 1 ll .1 IH!h.l Hn.l.m T1 fi trvinff our fortune rouna iiie,uraiiig i'... , tbroMng nuts into the blaze, to hear if mythic " lies" loved any of us, an4inw hat, proportion , or. pouring hot lead into water,; W find cradles and rings, or purses and coffins ; or breaking the whites of eggs into tumblers hajf full of water ' . , - : .k .. hila 'intn rittires of ana Ttien arawing u "...v the future the prettiest experiment of all; I remember Lucy could only make a recumbent figure of her's, like a marble monument in mi niature; and I, a maze of masks, skulls and things that looked . like dancing apesor imps, and "vapory lines which did not require much imasjination to fashion into ghosts on spirits; for they were clearly human in the outline, but thin and .vapory.: And we all laughed a great deal, and teased one another, and wereps tullot fun and mischfef, and innocence and pougiit lessness, as a nest of young birds. ( There was a certain room at the other end of our rambling old manor hausfe, which was said to be haunted, and hich my father had therefore discontinued as a dwelling-room, so that we children might not be frightened by foolish screams and he had made it into a lumber-place a kind of ground floor granary where no one had any business. Well,, it was proposed that one of us should go into he room alone, lock the door, stand before he gjass, pare and eat an apple very deliberately, loojcing fix edly in ibe glass all the time; and then, if the mind never once wanders, the future 'husband would be clearly shown in the glass. As I was 1 of everv party, and always n'c wi ?, a J ; was, moreover, very desirous of seeing that apoehryphal individind, my future husband, (whose non-appearance I used to wonder at and bewail in secret.) I was glad ejiough to make the trial, notwithstanding the entreaties of some of the more timid. Lucy, above all,..jc!ung. to me, and besought me earnestly not to go and at last almost with tears.. Hut my pride of cour age, and my (curiosUyV and a certain -nameless c-n e itnr.;n wwp t.no stronp fo!r me. "I leeiiiiy o laughed Lucy and her abettors into silence ; nt- . i iv 1 1 .J- . ..nrl tobitinr nn a tereu uaii a aozeii oiavrtuuc-. , .& -r bed-room candle, passed through the long silent passage to the cold, dark deserted rdom my heart beating with excitement, my foojish head dizzy with hope and faith. The church clock chimed' a quater past twelve as I opened the door. ! . It was an awful night. The windows shook, as if every instant they wculd burst in with some strong man's hand on the bars, and his shoulder against the frames ; and the trees howled and shrieked,' as if each branch were sentient and in kk The ivy beat against the jwinuows, kose window, and the solitude of the daik night. The life had gone ; the wings had rushed away ; mil nnf atA I was ftlone with the raits behind the wainscot, the owls hooting in the! ivy, and the wind howling through the trees, j Convinced that either some ttick had been played me, or that some one was concealed in the room, I searched eve y coi ner of it. I lifted lids of boxes filled with the dust of ages, and .with' rutting paper K ing like bleaching skin. I Ll.'.um tl.A -lmiinev-board. and soot and llV -'- M fc .-- ashes Hew up like clouds. I opened d:ra old closets, where all manner of foul insects had made their homes, and where daylight had not enter ed for generations ; but I found nothing. Satis fied that nothing human was in the room, ana that no oue could have been there to night, nor for many months, if not years, and still nerved tost- te of desperate courage I went back to theldrawingroom. But, as I left that room 1 felt that something flowed out with me ; and, all through the long passages, I retained the sensa tion that this something was behind me. My steps were heavy, the cvnsc.ouness of "pursuit having pnralyzed, not quickened me ; for I knew that when I'left that haunted room I had not leftitlalone. As I opened the drawing-room .Innr. the blazing fire aiid the strong lamp-light bursting out upon me with a peculiar expression ofcheeTfuluess and welcome, I heard a laugh close at my elbow, and felt a hot blast across my neck. 1 started back, but the laugh dixl away, and all I saw were two points of light, fiery aud naming, that somehow fashioned themselves in to eyes beneath their heavy brows, and looked at me meaningly through the darkness. They all wanted to know what I had seen, T ...ft,' t t. iav a worn ' not likiu i to tell a falsehood then, and not liking to expose my self to ridicule. For I felt that what 1 hau seen was true, and that no sophistry and no ar gument, no reason and no ridicule, could shake my belief in it. My sweet Lucy came up u me, seeing me look so pale and wiia, inrew ai ms rouud my neck, and leaned forward to kiss me As she bent her head, I felt the same warm blast rush over my 'lips, and my sister cried, "Why Lizzie, your lips burn like fire . A, .a so thev did 'and for bug alter. Presence was with me still, never leaving me day nor night;' by my pillow, its whispering voice often waking me from wild dreams ; by lio-ht. : bv mv side m The mi The present-distinguished Senator from Massachu setts, then professor', of Greek, and subsequently presi dent of Harvard University. . .... t . "SELECTED STORY. AN OLD LADY'S STORY- fi-i C. DICKENS. sometimes with fury, and sometimes jwith the leaves slowly, scraping against 'tli glass, and drawing out long shrill sounds, like spirits cry-ino- to each other. In the room itself it wjis worse. Kats had made their refuge for many years, and they rushed behind the wainscot and "down insrde the walls, bringing with them show ers of lime and Just, which rattled lie chains, or sounded like men's feet hurrying to aiM fro ; and now and then a cry broke throughjthe room,! ope could not tell from where or frpm what, but a cry, distinct and human ; heavy blows seennd to be struck on the floor, which cracked like parting icetbenealh my feet, and loud knock- ings shook the walls. et, in this jtumuit, l was not afraid. ' I reasoned on each new sound very. calmly, and said: "Those are; rats," or "those leaves," and ' birds in thf chimney," or " owls in-lhe ivy," as each new howl pr scream struck on my ear. And I was not vn? the least frightened or disturbed ; it all seemed natural and familiar, I placed the candle on the table in the midst of the room, where an qld broken mirror sioou , .ami, ig glass, (having first- vpe.d -o tt the dust, I began to eat Eve's forbidden fruit, wishing intently as I liad been bidden, for the apparition of my ' future husband. . ' s In about teir minutes, I heard a dull, vague, unearthly sound: felt, not hard. It as a if ! countless wings "rushed by, and small low voices whispering, too as if a crowd, a multitude of life was about m.;jw if shadowy face crushed up against me, and eyes and hands, and sneer ing lips, all. mocked me. I was suffocated; the air was so heavy, so filled with life that 1. could not breathe. I was pressed on all sides, ana c..uld not turn nor move without partitjg thick ening vapors. I heard ray own name, I can swear that to-day ! ; I heard it repeated through the room, and then bursts of laughter followed, and the wings rustled and fluttered, jand the whispering voices-mocked and chattered, and the heavy air, so filled . with life, hung! heavier 1 t .1 1 ' 1 .1.. TUw.m tMiAcaufl irtfc ft, m and tuicRer, anu me lumga iJicaovu closer, and checked the breath on my lips with the clammy breath troin theirs. I was alarmed; I was not excited ; but 1 was fascinated and spell-bound; yet, with, -every sense seeming to possess ten times its natural . power, I still went on looking in the glass, still earnestly desiring an apparition, when suddenly I saw a man's face peering over my shoulder in tlie glass. :- Girls, I could draw that face to this hour! The low forehead, with .the shorjL curl ing hair, black as jet, growing down in a sharp the still moon light; never auseni, uuy t brain, busy at my heart a form ever banded to me. It flitted like a cold cloud between my sis ter's eyes and mine, and dimmed them so .hat I could scarcely see their beauty. It drowned la ther's voice, aud his words fell confused and ru distmct. Not long after a stranger came into our neigh borhood, fie bought Green Howe, a deserted old property by the river side,. where no one had lived for many years ; not since the young bride, "Mrs. Braithwaite, had been found in the river one morninsr, entangled among the dark weeds and dripping, alders, strangled and drowned, and her husband dead none knew how lying by the -chapel door. The place had a bad name ever since, and no one would live there. How ever it was said that a stranger, who had been h.ntr in the .Kat, a Mr. Felix, had now bought t a,u .that he was eomin-r to reside theve 1 " And true enough, one day the wh le of our lit tie town of Thornhil! was in a state of excite ment ; for a traveling carriage and four, follow ...1 hv another full of servants Hindoos, or Lascars, or negroes ; dark colored, strange-look ing people passed through, aud Mr. Felix took possession of Green Howe. My. father called on him for a time ; and I as the mistress of the house, went with him. Green Howe had been changed, as if by magic, and we both said so together, as we entered the iron o-ates that led up the broad walk. The taking us through his grounds to see his im provements, and pointing out here and there further alterations to be made, all with such a disregarded for local difficulties, and for cost, that, had he been one of the princes of the genii, he could not have talked more royally. He was more than merely attentive to me ; speaking to me often and in a lower voice, bending down near to me, and looking at me with eyes that thrilled through every nerve and fibre, I saw that my father was uneasy ; and when we left, I asked him how he liked our new neighbor. He said, "Not much, Lizzie," with a grave and and almost displeased look, as if he had probed the weakness I was scarcely concious ot myselt. I thought at the time that he was harsh. However, as there was nothing positively to object to in Mr. Felix, my father's impluse of distrust could not well be indulged without rudeness : and my dear father was too thorough ly a gentleman ever to be rude even to his en emy. We, therefore, saw a great deal ot me stranger, who established himself in our house on the most fam'liar footing, and forced on my father and Lucy an intimacy' they both disliked but could not avoid. For it was forced with such consummate kill and tact, that there was nothing which the most rigid could object to. I gradually became an altered being under his influence. In one thing only a happier in the loss of the Voice and Form which haunted me. Since I had known Felix, this terror had gone. The reality had absorbed the shadow. But in nothing else was this strange man's in fluence over me beneficial. I remember that I used to hate myself for my excessive irritability of temper when L was away from him. Every thing at home -displeased me. Everything seemed so small and mean, and old and poor, after the lordly glory of that house, and the ve ry ooroaft of uy family and oldoti scliool-day friends were irksome and hateful to me. All except my Lucy lost its charm; and to her I was faithful as ever ; to her I never changed. But her influence seemed to war with his won derfully. When with him, I felt borne away in a torrent. His wo ds fell upon me mysteriou and thrilling, and gave me fleeting glimpse into worlds that had never opened themselves to me before; glimpses sen and gone like the Ara bian gardens. When I came back to my sweet sister, her pure eyes and the holy light that lay in them, her gentle voice, speaking of the sacred things of heaven and the earnest things of life, seemed . . . . ...i.iJTI 1 ...,.A to me like a lormer existence; astaieii uu mcu in years ago. But this divided influence nearly killed me, it seemed to part my very soul and wrench my being in twain, and this, more than 11 the rest, made me sad beyond anything peo ple believed possible in one so gay and reckless as I had been. , My father's dislike to Felix increased daily ; and Lucy, who had never been known to use a harsh word in her life, from the farst refused to lielieve a thought of good in him, or to allow him one single claim to praise. She used to ling to me in a wild, beseeching way, and en treat me with prayers, such as a mother might have poured out before an erring child, to stop in lime, and return to those who joved me. "For your soul is lost from among us Lizzie," she used to sav ; "and nothing but a frame re mains of the full life of love you once gave us ! But one word, one look, from Felix was enough to make me forget every tear and every prayer of her who, until now, had been my idol and my law . . At last mv dear father commanded me not to see Felix arain. I felt as if I should have died. In vain I wept and prayed. In vain I gave full license to my thoughts, and suffered words to pour from my lips which ought never to have crept into my heart. In vain ; my father was inexorable. . I was in the drawing-room. Suddenly, noise- look. He had never said he loved me never ; it it seemed to be too well understood between ! us to need assurances. I I answered, "yes," burying my face in my j hands in shame at this my first act of disobedi- ence to my father ; and when I raised my head. he was gone gone as he had entered, without a footfall sound ever m lightly. I met him the next day, and it was not the only time that I did so. Day after day I stole at his command from the house, to walk with him in the Low lane the lane which the coun try 'people said was haunted, and which was consequently always deserted. And there we used to walk or sit under the blighted elm-tree for hours ; he talking, but I not understanding all he said ; for there was a tone of grandeur and of mystery in his words that overpowered without enlightening me, a d they left my spirit dazzled rather than convinced: I had to give reasons at home for my long absences, and lie bade me say that I had been with old Dame Todd, the blind widow of Thornhill Rise, and that I had been reading the Bible to her. And I obeyed, although, while I said it, I felt Lucj's eyes fixed plaintively on mine, and heard her ' hnf T t-M t murmur apraei til. xiiug.. Lucy grew ill. As the flowers ana me sum mer sun came on,, her spirit faded more rapidly! away. I have known since, that it was grief more than malady which was killing her. The look of nameless suffering which used to be in her face, has haunted me through life, with un dying sorrow. It was suffering that I, who ought to have rather died for her, had caused. But not even her illness staved me. In the intervals, I nursed her tenderly and lovingly as before ; but for hours and hours I left her all through the long days of summer to walk in the Low lane, i and to sit in my world of poetry and fire. When often weepinff, and i.I knew that it was for me I, who once would have given my' life to save her from one hour of i sorrow. Then I would fling myself on my knees beside her, in an agony of shame and re pentance, and promise better things of the mor row, and vow strong efforts against the power and the spell that was on me. But the morrow subjected me to the same unhallowed fascina tion, the nnmc fmthlconvoo. At last Felix told me that I must come with him ; that I must leave my home, and take part in his life : that I belonged to him and to him only, and that I could not break the tablet of fate ordained ; that I was his destiny, and he mine, that I must fulfil the law which the stars had written on the sky. I fought against this. I spoke of my father's anger, and -of my sister's illness. I prayed to him tor pity, not to torce this on me, and knelt in the shadows of the autumn sunset to ask from him forbearance. I did not yield this day, nor the next, nor for manv days. At last he conquered. When I said " Yes." he kissed the scarf I wore round my neck. Until then he had never touched even my hand with his lips. I consented to i l. T ,.ill 1-ru.w was dvino. leave mv sister, vmo x j-0-I consented to leave my father, whose whole life had been one act of love and care for his children ; and to bring a stain on our name, unstained till then, I consented to leave those who loved me, all I loved, for a stranger. All was prepared ; the hurrying cloud, lead colored, and the howling winds, the fit coin- standing there in this bitter midnight cold giv ing her life to save me. Felix called to me again, impatiently; and as he called, the tgure turn- d. and beckoned me; beckoned me gently, lovingly, beseechingly ; and'hen slowly faded away. The chime of the half hour sounded ; and I fled from the room to my sister. I found tier lying dead on the floor; .her hair hanging over her breast, andone hand stretcbed out as if in supplication. that little room from which day-light is exclud ed, and select an evening-dress, ly gas-light, upon the effect of which you can, of course, depend, and to which artistic arrangement many a New York Wile has probably owed that much prized possession her " last conquest." Now, if you rW-, juu can go into Jhe up-holsiery-room and furnish your nursery windows with a cheap set of plain linen curtains :j or you can expend a small fortune in regular crimson, t... .1.,,. Fli-r kanneared : he and his or soft-blue damak drapery for your drawing X IIC 1 1 V Al V.C , M. I I ? " . , , room ; and without trouonng jouroeu w iuivi the never ending streets of Gotham for jan up holsteress, can have them made by competent persons in the upper loft of the building, who. will also drape them faultlessly about your win- wealih, and who, seeing my weak and imagin-' ! dows, should you so desire. j Now you can peep into the cioaK room, uu. bear away on your graceful shoulders a $8, $20, $30, br $400 cloak, as the length of your hus band's purse, or your own fancy whicli m these whole retinue ; and Green Howe tell into ruins again. No one knew where he wept, as no one knew from whence hejeame. And to this day I sometimes doubt whether or not he was a clever 1 . . r . 1 V jtdventurer, who had heard ot my tamers ative character, had acted on it for his own pur poses. All 'that I do know is, that my sister's spirit saved me from ruin; and that she died to .... m, SIia x-aA seen and known all. and irave herself for mv salvation down to the last I degenerate days amounts to pretty much the and supreme effort she made to rescue me. Stie died at that hour of half-past twelve; and at half-past-twelve, as I live before you all, she ap peared to me and recalled me. And this is the reason why I never married, and why I pass All-Hallow's eve in prayer by my sister's grave. I have told you tp-nigbt this story of mine, because I feel that I shall not live over another last night of October, but be fore the next white Christmas roses come out like winter stars on the earth, I shall be at peace in the grave. Not in the grave ; let me farther hope w'ith my blessed sister in Heaven ? Household Words. ' ""LYDIES' .DEPARTMENT." 9c panions in nature with the evil and despair of t HAVtr never toldvou jny secret, my dear neice. However, this Christmas, which may be ihe last to an old woman, I will-give you the whole story for though it -is a straiTge story, and a sad one, it. is true : "andwhat sin there was in it, I trit I may have expiated by my tears and ray repentance. Perhaps the last expiation of all is tlfis painful confession. . j We were very young at the time, Lucy- and I, and the "neighbors said we were pretty. ; So we Iwere, I believe, though entirely different.; for Lucy' was! quiet and fair, and I was full, of life and spirits ; wild beyond any power of control, and reckless. I was the elder by two years, but more fit to be in leading strings myself than to p-uide or govern my sister. But she was so ood so quiet, and so wise, that she needed no one's guidance ; for if advice was to be given, it - ,-.r..f, it ryrtt i " ami 1 iivr k.uw iv . ... ... - was sue wno - , , f . ,i,A dark eves beneath thicfe eye-prows, bbewasthe r . ' . . . . - ,. ,. . , . . i, I burning with a peculiar ngnv -, me nose n mo dilating nostrils: the thin lips, curling into a ruined garden was one mass of plants, fresh and eSSilyt Felix was beside me. He had not entered green, muity'of them quite new to me ; and the shrubbery, which had been a wilderness, was restored to order. The house looked larger than before now that it was so beautifully decorated ; and the broken trellis work, which used to hang dangling among the ivy, was matted with creep-ino- roses, and jasmine, "which left on me the impression of having been in flower, which was contixiue(i by the door, which was directly in front of me, and the window was closed. I never could un derstand this sudden appearance ; for I am cer tain that he had not been concealed. "Your father has spoken, of me, Lizzie ?" he said with a singular smile; I was silent. "And has forbidden you to see me again," he it impossible. It was a fairy palace; and we couiu scarcely believe that this was the deserted, ill- omened Green Howe. The foreign servants, too, in eastern dresses, covered with rings, and neck'aces, and earrings, the foreign smell of san dal wood, and camphor, and musk; the curtains "Yes." I answered, impelled to speak by some thing stronger than my will. "And you intend to obey him?' "No," I said again, in the same manner, as if I had been talking in a dream. He smiled again. Who was he so like when that bung everwhere in place of doors, some of L smije(j j could not remember, and yet I velvet, and some of cloth of gold; the air of lux- knew tjjat be was j;j.e gome ontf j na(j seena ury, such as I, a simple country girl, had neyer face that hovered outside ray memory, on the seen before, made such a powerful impression Dorizon, and never floated near enough to be on me, that I fck as if carried away to some un- distinctiy realized. br iudfrment or perception fail. darling of the house. My mower nau uieu soon after Lucy was born. A picture in the di ning room of her, in spite of all the differences of dress, was exactly like Lucy v and, aaLucj 8mile--I see them all plainly before me now. And Oh f the smile that it was I tue mocne- known region. As we entered, Mr. eiix came to meet us : and drawing aside a heavy curtain that seemed all of gold and fire f r the flame- colored flowers danced and quivered on the gold iJLi,'. aA na into arrinner room, where the dark- llJ M ' ened light, the atmosphere heavy with perfumes, the statues, the birds like living jewels, the mag nificence of 'stuffs, and the luxunousness of ar rangement overpowered me. I felt as if I had "You are right, Lizzie," he then said; "there are ties which are stronger than a father's com mands; ties which no man has the right, and no man has the power, to -ijreak. Meet me to marrow at noon in the Low lane,, we " will speak further." ;. j He did not say this in any supplicating, nor in any loving manner; it was simply, a com- hv nna tender word or mv soul. Lucv was worse to day ; but though I felt as if going to my death in leaving her, I could not resist. Had his voice called me to the scaffold, I must have gone. It was the last dav of October and at. midnight, when 1 was to leave the house. I had kissed my sleeping sister, who was dreaming in her sleep, and cried, and grasped my hand, called aloud. " Lizzie, t- i . :.,. Rut thp snellwasolime.and l,lZZie. CU1UC uaun. .w. j I left her, and still her dreaming voice called out choking with sobs, ".Not there ! not there, Lizzie! Comeback tome?" I was to leave the house by the large, old, haunted room that I have spoken of before ; Vi;v waiting for me outside. And, a little O - . after twelve o'clock, I opened the door to pass through. This time the chill, and damp, and the darkness unnerved me. The broken mirror was in the middb of the room, as before, and, in passing it, I mechanically raised my eyes. Tben I remembered that it was All Hallow's eve the anniversary of the apparition of last vear As I looked, the room, whicn naa oeen so deadly still, because filled with the sounds T had heard before. The rushing ot large wings. and the crowd of whispering voices flowed like j A noir rrlnrinrr into mv a river rouna me , auu kiui & o eyes, was the same face in the glass that I had Kr tbe sneerinsr smile even more DfCll UVivtv, - J tr?nmr,bant. the blighting stare of the fiery eyes: tb low brow, and the coal black hair, and the look of mockery. All were there; and all I had seen before and since ; for it was Felix who was gazing at me from the glass. W hen l turned to speak to him, the room was empty. nt livinff creature was there; only a low laugh, and the far off voices whispering, and the wings. And then a hand tapped on the window" and the voice of Felix cried from out side, " Come, Lizzie, come ; t 1 steered, rather than walked, to the win dow and. as I was close to it my hand raised . , . to onen it there stood between me ana u a pale figure clothed in white ; her face more pale .).., tl,- linen round it. Her hair hung down on her breast, and her blue eyes looked earnest i anA mournfully into mine. She was silent; A entreal OR THE LADIES. .i i Matrimony and the toothache may re sur vived, but of all the. evils feminity is heir to, de fend me from a shopping excursion. But, alas! bonnets, shoes and hose will wear out, and shop keepers will'chuckle over the sad nec ssity that places the unhappy owners witlv'n their dry- roods clutches Felicitous Mrs. Figleaf ! why taste that Paradisaical apple ? Some victimised females frequent the stores where, soiled a.d d-naged aod a WUlflly announced as selling at an " immense sacrifice," by their public-spirited and d'tsinterested ownera. Some courageously venture into more elegant .... i ' .1... s.f iYa .jiinlir:lllt establishments, wnere me timm i i.. to notice, is measured by the costliness of her apparel, and where the clerks poise their eye glass at any plebeian shopperess bold enough to inquire for silk under six dolllars a yard. Others, s ill, are tortured at the counter of some fu-sy ..M Iv.M.nl.n- who alwavstie up, with distress- ing deliberation, every parcel he takes down for iii.-peciion, before he can open another, and moves rund to execute your orders as if Mt. Atlas were fastened to his heels ; perhaps, gets petrifi ed at the store of so.ne snapdragon old maid whose victims serves as ec ipe-valves for long years of bile, engendered by Cupid's oversights. Meanwhile, the vexed question is still unsolved, where can the penance of shopping be perform-, ed with the least possible wear and tear of patience and prunella? The answer seems to me to be contained in eight letters ' Stewart's.' " Stewart's .?" I think I hear some old lady exclabn, dropping her knitting and peering over her spectacles ; " Stewart's ! yes, if you have the mines of California to back you." Now' I have a profound respect for old ladies, as I stand self . i,..4 t i,.in that resoectable body on the same: thing,) may suggest. ti,uti l.ero is th wholesale derjartmenl where you jvill see shawls, hosier', flannels, calicoes, and 4e Laines, sufficient to stock all the nondes cript couu try stores, to say nothing of city con sumption. I , Now, if you are not weary, you can descend (under ground) into tlie carpet department, from whence you can hear the incessant roll jof full freighted omnibuses, the ceaseless tramp.of my riad restless feet, and all the busy train; of out door, life made audible in all the dialects of Babel. Here you can see every variety of carpet, from the homespun, unpretending straw, oilcloth, and kidderminster, to the gorgeous Brussels and tapestry, (above whose traceried buds and flowers the daintiest foot might well poise itself, loth to crusti.) up to the regal Axminster, Scottish manufacture, woven withoutseam, ana warrant ed, in these days of late suppers and tobacco smoking, to last a life time. j Emerging from this subterranean region, you willlascend into daylight, and reflecting first up on kll this immense outlay, and tben upon the frequent and. devastating conflagrations in New York, inquire with solicitude. Are you insured an regret to learn that there is too much risk w rff ct n enr;iuiauce,'att1iough Arguseyed ..... .' . i watchmen keep up a night-and day patroi throughout the handsome building. Fanny Fern. advent of my very first grey hair : still, with due deference to their catnip and pennyroyal ex n...;un,.o I nonseieiuioulv repeat " Stewart"1? JJI I V lV J i You may stroll through his rooms free to gaze and admire, without being annoyed by an im pertinent clerk dogging your, footsteps ; you can take up a fabric, and examine it, without being bored by a statement of its immense superiority over every article of the kind in the market, o.r without being deafened by a detailed accoupt of the enormous sums that the mushroom aris tocracy have considered themselves but too hap py to expend, in order to secure a dress from that very desirable, and altogether unsurpassed and unsurpassable, piece of goods I You can independently isay that an article does not exactly suit you, though your husband may not stand by you with a drawn sword. You will encounter no ogling, no impertinent cross- questioning, no tittering whispers, from the quiet, well-bred clerks, who attend to tneir own out ness and allow you to attend to yours. Tis true that you may see at Stewart's cob web laces an inch or two wide, for $50 or $100 a yard which many a brainless butterfly of fashion Parlour PastimBvTAc Game of Shadow BvfThe old English game of blind, man's buff is so well known, that the mere mention of its name will be sufficient to convince our jreaders that it is the origon of Shadow Buff, much play ed qn the Continent: and from the fun it! affords well worthy of taking a prominent pi ce among our! family Christmas sports. The garae is as follows : F.st of all, we hang up a sheet or tabjecloth against the wall, whereon tot " cast the! shadow." ; In front of the. sheet atijd eight r r tr. r.l a rn a lnmifinr one ' or ten leei irom mi, w mo . t.v - - good light upon a table in order that the jdiadow or profile of any person stanoing between the ligot and sheet, may fall thereon. The company being assembled, " Buff" is chosen either, vote or lot. or is. peradventure, a volunteer, liuff has now to sit upon a very low stool, about four or five feet from the wall and look steadfastly for the coming shadow.' The merry company now pass in procession between the ligtt upon the table and Buff who forfeits if be turns his "head in the least degree.' As the profiles pass bef.,re him he must name succesively the person to !whotn the image belongs. The mistakes he makes occasion much merriment," especiajly if ach person whose turn it is to " cast asjiadow,' endeavburs in every way to diguise his iadenity; by stooping if tall, tip-toeing if short, by grim ace or.contortion ; putting on a long mask nose, nd doinff other funny things. However, as . . ... i j u some persons invariably " cast their snaaows u fore," Buff guesses right at last ; and he who till now heloed to make the fun, roust tKe nis turn upon the stool to be made fun of. A Ladt was discribing her first meeting with Mrs. Somerville, the astionomer, and Miss Har riet Martineau, at some literary sotret. She was an ardent but timid admirer of both, and not daring to seek an introduction, watched them - from afar off," with the intense interest genius-worship. At length, she raw tbem ?it- - .u!n in on ting in a window-seat apart, convex... B earnest and deeply interesting manner. Think ing that the subject under discussion coma oe nothing less than the marking ont of the track of some expected comet, or the settling ot some m.mafnn. nuestion of political economy, she is supremely happy in sporting : but at he very 1 rolved draw near and tin perceived, catch next counter you may suit yourselt, or your and noar(i up 6me of these grand reveiawou country cousin, to a sixpenny calico, or a shilling eniu9 bold speculations of seience- She de Laine ; aud, what is better, be quite as. sure . ;glet!,iy p to the window, and pidden that her verdant queries will be as respectfully cUrtaif listened , . ered as it nvenea r-oinpeyatwu ni..u6 - , h x will tell you wnai i roou f and mourntuliy into mine. one nd yet it seemed as if a volume-of love and of ntrutv flowed from, her lips; as. iM heard words of.deatUwLaffction, Hwm answ the door to hand her to her carriage. You can go into the silk department; where. by a soft descending light, you will see dinner- dppssA that remind vou ot a smvereu w " . . for passee married ladies, who long since ceased Miss MartinW laying her hand emphatically i ..li ftr finmorvilla w I mean to on me snomaer ui ! - hkve my vhite crope $hawl dyed brown, to veer with my brown atin drtt.n . - - " think you cannot do better, answerea wrs. . , .i. i ,t-o who keen their I ... i. i ikntnrrk tKo par-trnmnet to ceieorate vueir uiiiu-vwijs, , . . gomerviue, soiemui "-6- - 1 . budding daughters carefully immurea in toe. i Martineau, and their invisible aua ais- nursery ; br, at the same counter, you can se.eci. enchand listener fled in dismay. V modest silk for your ministers wHe,auHiiim- W a yard, that will cause no heart-ournmg iu i void beginning this tetter with : an l'n to the most Argus-eyed ot rau. irry panu p R3 0reught to encourag them- Then if you,patron,se those ever to-be-abo- . " futHreti.ns jnt; minated and to criticise uw. uw , - ... i -f - . r ' uextr. . .. . '(!! 1 Mil; ;;i' Mi m IE 's- n m m :lj-:. u, : :i ' i- : n in . r 0' i t

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