Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 5 March 1859 — Page 1

"WHO SITTETH IN JUDGMENT? THE STORY OF AN OUTCAST.

JIIREE picayunes and a dime— enough for a rope, and enough

for a dose of the 'never-wakc-again!' Ha, h», ha! Let me think, let me think!'* The room was a wretched one the furniture none save a broken table, a broken thair, and a miserable pallet, without covering of any kind which lay huddled in the darkest corner. The cold wind of a late

the tale is told, that this is she—the outcast, in rags, brutalized, debased, miserable? Would it bo believed that men ever •called mo beautiful would it be thought that I was once the beloved of a mother, tho idol of a father's heart Ah me! I •grow sick to think it all. Here, another drink! "Tho night is growing very dark—a 'merry Christmas,' forsooth! Where shall I go? "And yet, when I think, for very shame •I would not be found looking thus by him. It matters not now what becomes of this .bauble. I have kept it for many years as Bomcthing to bind me to the past. I have nothing more to do with that now—nothing with the past—nothing more!"

The woman drew a rich diamond cross from her bosom, fastened by a piece of common twine around her neck, which flashed from the rays of a street lamp through the window in strange contrast to

the

misery of all around. The night had now set in, and the room wonld have been quite dark but for the light of the lamps in the street. The snow waa falling steadily, drifting into the room through the window and down the broken and unused chimney. "Yes, yes," the woman went on, holding the cross in her hand, and looking at it through streaming tears, "I have been •tarring, sick, homeless, friendless, dying for bread, or something to quench my thirst, and jot I never have parted with this.—How many times the temptation has come

December day swept unbarred through the bitter oaths if the cup is my only comfort, broken panes, while an occasional flake of

snow floated in and fell upon the rough, uncovered floor. Misery was written everywhere, upon the soiled and dusty table, Upon the damp and smoke-blacked walls, upon the frosty pane, and on the long unmanned or fire-lit hearth. It seemed to Bpea^.froni every crevice, to cry in every gust, to breathe from every corner, and to whisper hoarsely and mournfully down the chimney and through the broken and lungeless door. But nowhere else did it seem to dwell or give outward manifestation with a tithe of the terrible power that it did in the solitary tenant of this desolate room.

Near the window, on the broken chair, leaning her wasted arms upon the table, I with her wan cheek pressed hard against her tight-clasped hands, and a few small roin lying before her, sat a woman upon whose face and form the short but wretched experiences of a life of five-and-twenty winters had stamped the lines and cares of forty miserable years. "Three picayunes and a dime," she said, "enough for a rope, and enough for a dose of the 'never-wakc-again.' Let me think, Jet ine think and the poor Magdalen sat, while the day grew dimmer and the snow fell faster, drifting oftener into the window, and thus soliloquized upon her wretched fate:

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to me, and how many times have I said to myself, 'My mother's blessing shall never leave mc, for she gave it with this cross.' Has it never left me? Ah! who can tell If my heart has grown hard, and harsh, and cruel if my conscience has ceased to judge and warn as when a child if my lips have forgotten the early prayers which she taught, and now only utter curses and

crime grown so accustomed that I

know it not, can that mother's blessing still dicell with me? No, no, no! the blessing has long since left me, and the bauble may as well go now. Let it all be finished now, while my brain is clearer than it has lately been. The night grows very cold. Let me think, let me think

The woman sat a long, long while in silence the night grew darker, and the drifting snow crept further and further into the room. The sound of the merry bells of passing sleighs the hearty salutation of the passers-by, wishing each chancemet friend a 'merry Christmas eve the mellow laughter of the home-returning ap-

prentice boys, stopping to exchange an occasional snow-ball and the jolly chorus of some Gorman youths, who sang the Christinas songs of fatherland, alone broke the stillness of the night but they woke no happy response within the heart of poor Jenny Irwin. Her mind was busy with darker thoughts, and JTOtte of the genial influences of the sweetest night of all the year would ever bring back to her the joyous emotions which filled her soul when life with her was bright and pure, and she was thought the fairest girl of all who graced the merry board of Christinas eve.

"It must be so," she said at length, rising with difficulty from the chair, and puttin!* on her tattered shawl and faded bon-

"Three picayunes and a dime! TTc lit1J net "it must be so! My last game may as well be played now 1 have nothing more to win, nothing to lose."'

tic knew, perhaps, when he threw the pa try pittance to the miserable beggar who crossed bis path, that lie had put the dagger in his victim's hands to finish the tragedy which he began. "This is Christmas Eve! Only eight rears to-night since I was a girl of many hopes, and proud, oh, how proud, that he called mc fair. Only eight years to-night, rind I sat at a different board from this.— .Let me drink from this vile bottle which has so often drowned my misery perhaps it may bring back sjmcthing of the joy which then was mine. "I remember it well. He came with my brother Dick he sat near me at the board,' her with ribald jests and coarse salutations: and I-—well, well, I'll not think of that but nothing of sympathy, or kindness, or 'twere better not, or I may forget what Jibes, or any words for evil or for good, Ahis night of all 'twere better I remember- can ever make her pause or turn from the .od. Ah, Jenny Irwiu, you have never Jcrraud on which she is bound. thought before! In a narrow and dirty street, where the "Will the world believe to-morrow, when few lamps burn dimly, and the faithful

Out info the desolate night she goes, shivering and staggering with cold, and misery, and pain. Forth into the street a moment she pauses in irresolution at the threshold a moment she shrinks from the the ptirposc 3 °u str*.te?

bitter storm, and then, with compressed lips and shawl drawn tightly about her, she hurries on. The passers-by turn aside and give her the pathway, as, with head bent down, she makes her way through the snow. Some turn aside to look at her, and sigh to think of her misery some greet

guardians of the night'but seldom venture, where crime and misery have their constant abode, and the air reeks ever with the unwholesome vapors of all the concomitants of wretchedness, there stands a high and gloomy house, whose barred and bolted windows are seldom opened to the light of day, and whose threshold is never crossed save by the poor applicant who seeks by the barter of some needed trifle to "keep the wolf but*a little longer from the door." The "three gilt balls" which bang above the door tell plainly enough the calling of its occupants, and they tell, too, to him who may pause to think, volumes of misery which I pray, reader, you nor I may never know. Like the ignis fatuus, they have shone on many a heartsick traveler over the great moor of life, and kindling up from time to time some little hope, have led him further and further from the path of safety, until despoiled of all to care for, and separated from all to care for him, he has sunk exhausted in the marsh of misery and crime nevcr to rise again.

Before this door the poor, half-froxen outcast stands it was no unaccustomed place to her it had swallowed up little by little all her store, and year after year the wages of her misery had been put in irredeemable pawn, till it might almost be said the youth, and health, and beauty of Jenny Irwin were moldering among the gaudy trinkets and faded finery which filled this house unto its very roof. The door partly opens to her summons, and after a quick

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scrutiny the chain is withdrawn, and she enters. An aged Israelite stands behind the high counter, and waits for her application, watching the' while with something of pity in his look, but more of craft and distrust. "What will you give me on this?" she fays, taking the cross from her bosom.

The wiley Hebrew reached his bony hand across the counter, and taking the jewel examined it with great care, the poor woman meanwhile standing and watching his face with a strange look of anxiety and ill-suppressed emotion. "What will I give you on this he returned sharply. "If I gave you what you deserve, it would be a lodging in the Toombs. We do not receive stolen goods." "Liar, liar!" shouted the woman, springing forward to clatch the jewel "you know better you know full well, whatever else she may be, Jenny Irwin is not a thief!— Here, give me back the cross! give it to me back! you must not trifle with mc now!" and springing upon the counter, she was about to snatch her treasure from the old man's hand, when the door of a back room opened, and a large, powerful woman of sixty years dashed upon the scene, and lifting her up like a child, placed her again upon the floor. 'What means this?" she said then seeing the cross in the old man's hand, she seemed to understand the whole. "Where did you get it, child she asked. "Here, sit down, and tell mc all about it and she reached a chair.

Jenny took the proffered seat, and pressing both hands upon her heart, went on with panting ypice, and said: "I did not steal the cross it was the last gift of my mother I have never parted with it to-night I am to see a friend, an old, dear friend I have not seen him for a long time I wished to appear somewhat as I used to I wished some clothes just for to-night, and I thought—I thought I would come to you, and—and get some of my things, and a little money, only for tonight, or a few days and then I, perhaps, could pay it all back, and—and you would

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thief.

She paused, and looked up with an expression of painful anxiety in the woman's face. "If I give you clothes and money, before morning you will get on one of your sprees, and be carried drunk to the station again," the woman replied. "I shall nevcr be carried drunk to the station again—never!" was the response, with much of sadness in the tone. "Look in my face," and she drew her loug, disheveled, and moistened hair with both hands back from her forehead "do I look as though I would get drunk to-night?"

The woman looked at her, and shook her head in silence she saw an expression there which she had nevcr seen before.— At length she got up, and going behind the counter, talked long and earnestly in whispers with the old man. After a while she returned, and seating herself beside her visitor, said: "Now, Jenny Irwin, I want you to tell mc the truth: do you really wish this mon-

You wouldn't

be such a fool, would you, as to go cutting

that sort, would you "Mrs. Levi, I tell you the truth I am to meet an old friend I would appear well to him to-night I expect to be better off after I see him this is God's truth!" "Very well, say no more, child you shall have your clothcs and some money. How much do you want?" "Give mc my black dress, my velvet hat, one of those new pair of boots, my black mantilla, some under clothcs, a pair of my best silk hose, a couple of handkerchiefs, a pair of gloves, and twenty dollars —this is all I ask: and here, you may keep all these as additional security," and she drew a large package of pawn tickets from her pocket, and placcd them in the woman's hand. "And there is one more favor I would ask, Mrs. Levi, if you would be so kind— I have paid you a great deal of money the last five years—would you give me the use of a room to dress in I have nowhere to go."

There was something so different in the words and manner of Jenny Irwin from what they had lately been that the good Mrs. Levi's heart was touched, and she gave her all she asked. Perhaps she saw dim visions of future "pledges," which would come through the "old friend of her once profitable client perhaps there might have been some feeling of compunction at witnessing the suffering, and misery, and complete life-wreck of the shivering woman who pleaded for the temporary use of what had once been her own.

The articles were soon selected, and leading her visitor to a room, Mrs. Levi assisted her in many little offices in a kinder manner than she had ever done before. As she afterward said, "it seemed as though she was made to do it—she couldn't tell how."

After a brief space of time the back room door opened, and Mrs. Levi's melodious tones were heard ordering the shopboy to "go for a carriage." "By Josh," says the boy,' as he bangs

the street door after bio, "Jen Irwin's going to do it up brown to-night a carriage! well, may I be ticketed if she didn't come it heavy over die old woman. I only wish she hadn't come ont quite so quick I guess old fifty per cent, would have caught rats then!" and popping a snow-hall facetiously through a basement window, where a poor woman was striving in vain to keep alive the embers of a dying fire, he kicked np his heels after the manner of "Old Joe," and wa.s soon lost in the distance.

The City Hall clock had struck ten old St. Paul's had taken np the strain, and Trinity was just joining in, as a carriage rolled noiselessly over the snow up to the mansion of Solomon Levi. A moment after, the door opened, and a lady, dressed in black, with her vail drawn, emerged from the dark hall and entered the vehicle. .... "Where, madam?" said the driver. "Taylor's!"

Slam went the door, and np the dark street the carriage made its way as noiselessly as it came.

A strange fire was burning in Jenny Irwin's heart, an unwonted energy buoyed ber up, and seemed to carry her on a wave of supernatural life swiftly toward the speedy realization of the wild dream which had flitted through her mind as she sat a beggared outcast in her wretched room, with the cold winds drifting the fleecy snow through the broken windows upon her desolate floor.

Arrived in front of Taylor's, the carriage drew up, and bidding the driver wait, she entered the rich saloon, and taking a scat in one of the unoccupied alcoves, gave her orders to the waiter. "Coffee or tea, madam he asked as he was about to depart. "Neither," responded Jenny "bring mc brandy!"

As soon as her supper, made up of viands such as had long been stranger to her lips, was placed before her, she moistened her lips with brandy, and proceeded to partake, and, although faint with long fasting, by an almost superhuman effort she mastered the cravings of hunger, and ate slowly and negligently, as though such fare was an every day matter with her. Finishing her supper, and draining the last drop in the goblet, she paid her reckoning at the countcr, and bowing with a slight, negligent gracc—with the same air that once marked her training as a lady—she thanked the servant who ushered her to the carriage, and ordering the driver to stop at the St. Nicholas, entered and was driven noiselessly away.

The snow was still falling, and, although it was now quite ten o'clock, merry parties of Christmas-seekers thronged the streets, and the merry sleigh-bells mingled in vivid harmony with the discordant notes of rival horns, which made the night hideous as they echoed from the passing sleighs.

Jenny Irwin looked from the tightty closed window of her carriage. Old memories came thronging wildly and tumultuously back upon her ship-wrecked heart she

oughfare, and she, with one who sleeps

up any theatrical suicides, or anything of .voun& and beautiful, and good, wrapped jmnioval,le ,„outb,

uow beneath the snow

in the comforting furs, drank in together

pocket, the same which had lain upon the table before her when she sat alone iu her desolate home.

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over the noiseless snow toward the upper part of the city. The inmate sat like a statute upon the seat she looked no more upon the gay world—gay in spite of the storm—which gave constant evidence without of an unwonted holiday. If, perchance, as the carriage turned through some well-known street, or glided along the avenue, she caught a glimpse of some happy home where die bright lights within the parlor revealed the family group gathered under the "missletoe," or around the "Christmas tree," she gave no outward sign of heed, or any token that memory brought back to her such scenes when she, a maiden, fair and pure, was full as glad as they, and blessed with full as bright and proud surroundings. Her hand, pressed tight against her bosom, rested upon the viper phial, which nestled there unconscious of its faa an

The contrasts of life are very marked, and strange, and inscrutible. Beside the palace lurks the hovel, the church, the prison, the beautiful, the deformed, the good, the depraved, the altar, the tomb.— Within a great city like New York these contrasts arc more vividly perceptible than

On the Fifth Avenue—that great thoroughfare which fashion, and wealth, and iuxury have claimcd as their abode—stands the house of Gilbert Thornc. Its exterior differs but little from the rest of the habitations in the block, but its broad and deep entrance, its 'porte-cochere, the heavy copings of its windows, and the gorgeous to

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and a dime. I do not wish much, only a little to apply to my face get a piece of cotton, too—and stay—if the man asks for what it is required, tell him it is for neuralgia—that a lady is suffering very much, and fliat her only remedy is a little laudanum applied on cotton to her face get the money's xcorth!"

The man soon returned, and handed her quite a large phial, which she took with a steady hand. "Where now, madam he asked, still •tiding by the carnage side. "Jfp. Fifth Avenue and onee again the door, was closed, and the vehicle rolled

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dime! a generous gift to a poor beggar for },e peaceful sanctuaries of home, following1 With this Christmas! I'll not mock the gift per- him through the courts and upon the mart!

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never have come had I not met him so strangely in the Park. He did not know me. Will he know 111c now? We shall sec. Strange that all my hatred, all my vengeance, all of the deep sense of wrong which I have harbored so long against him, now that my mind realizes the last, vanish, and leave me only pity. Pity for him—pity, deepest pity, and scorn for my-j those who worship at her shrine. self." The carriages, one by one, had departed,

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The carriage drew up in front of the and, as the clock struck eleven, Gilbert

thrown open. the light of the low-drawn leader. an'.« en- placed unresistingly in his folds. "Driver," said Jenny, "I am suffering joying the luxury of his accustomcd even-'

my friends here to-night, Please step massive cases filled with books not only

TIIE YEAR ONE THOUSAND. Just as this century drew to a close, various circumstanccs concurred to produce a change in men's minds. Tt was a uni-

in smaller places, or in the quiet walks of fr'S^tful extremities were endured and country life but nowhere else could one

remark a stranger contrast than between the princely home of Gilbert Thornc and the miserable tenement which had been the abode of Jenny Irwin.

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curtains, half revealed through the rfd,! a fetreat from the impending judgment,—

plate panes, all stamp it as the residence of a man of taste and wealth. Here, on the evening of our story, was gathered a joyous group of youth and childhood, the guests of Mary Thome. The deep parlors, lighted with brilliant

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said, notwithstanding his wealth, and lux-1 and hound him for a thousand years, and

ury, and position, that he would give them °ast him into the bottomless pit, and shut 1

farther the

last desperate expedient was resorted to, the human flesh was commonly consumed.

One man went so far as to expose it for sale in a populous market town. The horror of this open confession of their deeds was so great that the man was burned," but more for the publicity of his conduct than for his inherent guilt. Nothing was sacred—nothing was safe. Even when food

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the Christmas tree. The youthful hostess, the duties of the state to which fiod has County Commissioners under the same rcga girl of some fifteen years, the daughter I

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of Gilbert Thornc, and his onlv child, mov-!of Vamic, but EmpCr0r of the West."' 1 1 .x, ,1 Kobcrt ot ranee, t:ie son of Hugh C.a«?d among her guests with a sweet and! pet, placed himself, robed and crowned,

child-like gracc, added to a queenly dig-1 among the choristers of St. Penis, and led five nity of manner, which won the hearts of the musicians in singing hymns and psalms treasurer,) arc conferred upon one officer, all beholders, and caused those of her pa-|°*

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rents to beat with unwonted pride. satisfied with sacrificing tho marks of their seventy-live thousand dollars in lees—a it 1 ,1 -,i ., knightly and scignorial rank, and placed lanre item to lie saved to the tax nnvers.— mong 11s iappj irong, MI a snn jbaldricks and swords 011 the altars, and By many it is thought this one man power and a cheerful word for all, with a hearty before images of saints. Some manumit- will be dangerous, but others think it will welcome and a joyous greeting alike for' ted their serfs, and bestowed large sums make the system more efficient as .well as the children and their parents, and with|uPon

cbaritable

disP'ftion

1 1 .. 1* proaening end of nil. Crowds of common rietcrmmc whether trio modification of tho adapted itself to even mind and state, now people would sleep nowhere but in the law will prove ad vantajeous. dancing with a child of ten, and now with porches, or, at any rate, within the shad-. ——»•*—. a grand-dame of seventy, Gilbert Thornc, ''i '',e churches, and other holy build- '"'ATAIJ ACCIHK.NT."AKKIACn AND the host and the fond parent, mingled, to!

,nd as

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appcasc tjic wrath 0f

light of heart as the gayest of theni all.— proclaimed between all classes of men.— Ky, on .Monday last, appears that Miss

thought of the da^s when her futhcr One used to stUdy the humun heart through i"'r0«i Wednesday nitrht till AIonda3* even-! ^usari Slmck, n. daughter of John Shuck, equipage drove through that self-same thor-Jjts

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And now Came

the vailed muscles of for vear. The awful Thousand had at last

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nnnn tho mart 'jccn

haunted his existence,

to our hands. Perhaps the thought might |j]je i,c "skeleton at the feast dashed the !lia(1 penetrated and the most abject ter-

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bins it wis kindlv meint and it shall he j- Ti ., oration. And not the pulpits only, but the Water and other means were used to oxhaps it was kindly .ne. nt, and it shall be treading the busy streets, and keeping I

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used for a purpose fitting well the giver. jtj, him always, everywhere, a pale spec-1gc« of the starving piasantrv. Into t!ie dt#ne she was dreadfully burned. After What weapons destiny sometimes puts in-|

friends and to his accustomed associates, in rioting and insubordination. The spirit1 pcr.eetly prostrated, and it i* feared they even unto his own household, lie seemed, °f evil for a little season was to bo let "my die. I he^ whole community is in 1 loose 110011 a sinful world* and when tlie S£»oom. J^Iiss ^htiek Hus a \oung lady of and was known only as the wealthy, eay,'

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... ... observer looked round at the real condition ,Krcat beautA, and htrfuimh occupied a liberal, and successful lawyer, and votary

of t,)C pC(ipIe in a]1 Kurope_at

of fashion, with something more of talent, the ignorance and degradation of the inul- the bridegroom can be better imagined I perhaps, than is generally attributed to titnde, the cruelty of the lords, and the 'ban described. •un-Chrfstian ambition and unrestrained.

princely St. Nicholas, and the door was Thornc sat alone in his library, reading by fr0m "that old serpent," and the world

z'ed

segar. The rich surroundings, the ^cir lowest point, there was a perpetual

into the drug store, and get me some laud- relating to his profession, but upon every first vear shone upon the world, it, seemed

anum here is the money, three picayuncs subject, the elegantly carved desk, the see- that in all nations the torpor of the past

retarics, .he l.cavy enameled safe, (fc, I 'I'™™ Tim «Hr. great arm chair, and the soft lounge, set!

retarics the hcavv onam^Arl oifn •»,*

There came a ring at the front door, an unusual thing at such an hour, and a few moments after, the servant appeared at the library door, informing Mr. Thorne that "a lady in a carriage wished to sec him on important business." (CONCLUDED NEXT WEEK.)

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WHOLE NUMBER 873.

A NEW TOWNSHIP I*AW. The Legislature has passed a bill introducing an entire new system in the transaction of Township business. The Stats*

versally diffused belief that the world 1 Sentinel briefly recapitulates its principal would come to an end when a thousand provisions as follows: yearsJfrom the Saviour's birth were e^pir- The law provides that the commissioned. The year 999 was therefore looked upon as the last any one would sec. And if ever signs of approaching dissolution were shown in heaven aud earth, the people of this century might be pardoned fur believing that they were made, visible to them. Even the breaking up of morals and law, and the wide deluge of sin which

crs of each county may divido it into as many townships as the convenience of tbo citizens may require tho township and road districts now established to remain as they are, subject to alteration as provided by the aet each and every township now or hereafter organized is declared to be a body politic and corporate, to contract and

overspread all lands, might be taken as a! and be contracted with, sue and be sued token that mankind were deemed unfit to in any court havingjurisdiction on the first occupy tho earth any more.

In addition to these appalling symptoms, famines were renewed, from year to year in still increasing intensity, and brought the plague and pestilence in their train.— The land was left untilled, the houses unrepaired, the right unvindicated for who could take the useless trouble of plowing or building, or quarrelling about property, when so few months were to put an end to all terrestrial interests Yet even for the few remaining days the multitudes must be fed. ltobbers frequented every road, entered even into walled towns and there was no authority left to protect the weak, or bring the wrong doer to punishment.— Corn and cattle were at length exhausted, and in a great part of the Continent the

Monday in April the qualified voters of cach township to select one trustee tho duties of township trustee arc to keep a record of his official proceedings—to ro-1 ceivc all moneys belonging to his township and disburse the same according to law— to divide his township into convenient highway districts—to fill all vacancics that may occur in the office of supervisor of highways—to see to a proper application of all moneys belonging to township for road, school or other purposes and perform all his duties heretofore required of township trustees, clerk and treasurer under the supervisors and school act—to have the care of and management of all property, real and personal, belonging to tho township—power to administer oaths, S:c. to bo inspector of elections, overseer of the poor and fence viewer at the March session of the Board of County Commissioners with their advice and consent to levy a tax on the property of the township for township, road aud other purposes, but if the trustee and commissioners disagree tho latter arc to levy the tax vacancies in tho office of trustee to bo filled by the County Coininissioncrs during term time to keep accurate account of separate funds anc

might have been had, the vitiated taste to whom paid and report tho same annualmade bravado of its deprivation, and wo-! ly to the County Board to settle the acmcn and children were killed and roasted counts of supervisors of roads tho last Satin the madness of the universal fear. unlay of February, and report the same to

Meantime, gentler natures were driven the County Board the County Treasurer the wildest cxccss'of fanaticism to find to pay annually to the trustee ail funds iu

Kings and emperors begged at monastery doors to'be admitted brethren of the order. Ilcnry of Germany and Kobcrt. of France were saints accDrding to the notions of the time, and even now deserve tho respect of mankind for the simplicity and benevolence 1 of their characters. Jlcnry, the Emperor. _ian succeeded in being admitted as a monk, election of trustee under this act any per

nors and furnished with .1 magnificence and swore obedience 011 the hands of the son elected or appointed trustee failing to which might well compare with some of I gentle abbot, who had failed from turning 1 pcrfnmi any duty required hv this act subfile richest Parisian saloons of the days of|'liin *rom PurP0SC- forfeiture not exceeding one hnnLouis XIV., were thronged with as joyous ?Sirc'" h\

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his hands belonging to the township tho County Board to allow the trustee a reasonable compensation for his services upon his itemized statements, verified by oath, of his charges and services, not to cxcced ono dollar and fifty cents per day for all timo necessarily employed the offices of township clerk and treasurer abolished after tho

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dol,ars the p,wtoc (o

command you to go forth and fulfil ,'any township, but such power to vest in tho

3'011- Go forth a monk to the Abbey illations as now provided bv law in cases

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the droadf.,1 or hnnn.l 1 same place. The bride was attired for

commenced, and men held their breath to! house, and the gueMs were assembled be

bim,

.. should deceive the nations no more, till the enveloped in the flames. Mr. I hcinas was

pasthfc that, wherever lie went, aH „10uSand years should be filled" and after *o bewildered that he could render little

],is brightest and proudest moments, in that he must be loosed a little season."

few small coins three picayunes and a 1 the midst of his triumphs, penetrating even Itcv. xx. 2, 3. 'ferer brought her father, sister, and sovtext all the pulpits in Christ-

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castle, also, of the noble we 'have seen it l»er wounds were dressed the ceremony

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passion of the clcrgy—it must have puz- ...

him how to imagine a worse state of

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men's minds had now reached

rise from the be^inniii" of this rlate.—

hen the first day of the thousand and

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di'ecting more than one township. .11 v,"ill be seen from the foregoing abstract that tiic duties now devolving upon (three trustees, clerk and

composition. Lower men were This, will effect a saving to the Slate of somo

trusts, commencing their economical. The change is radical. Tho

with words implying the ap- practical workings of I In: system can alono

°f doom drew nearer: IJKATII.

and nearer, greater efforts were made to: A most deplorable arid disfressingaccident

heaven. Peace was resulting in death, occurred at Lebanon,

there was to be 110 vio-:

Icncc, or enmity, or war_in all the land.— to he married that morning to Mr. John

It was to be a truce of (iod. 1 I liomas, .1 promising young lawyer of tho

the dreadful or honedl'

eminent lawyer r.f that, place, was

lacc

The

tiie

ceremony, in 11

.. upper room of tho

aloue with th bride, and the wind

nia,'c

')V movement blew her veil info

that he the fireplace. Of urr.-e she was instantly

or 110

assistance. The screams of the suf-

other persons to 'he top of the stairs,

for a whole gen- where she had gone in her excitement.

haHs of convents, m.d "the cotta- tin^inh t!.« fire, but before it could bo

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1 1 1 Iinopil tv rft iinit*

1 7 'I ad up it us in a re a to he in re cup of pleasure ever from his lips. Butjpair

as h| shipwnH.ked

to the world at large, to his every day it.self amid the masses of the population

performed, but alas, The wedding and

fsl.rt

vessels, displayed great suffering until Tuesday morning,

o'clock, llcr mother and sister aro

wn«-ri inr. ..-

high social position. The agony of mind

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1 .1 1 organization has passed both branches of

a a 1

ie ]ie.-ent township

the General Assembly, and law as soon as published amended the bill somewhat riallv. One amendment

will become a Tho Ilouso but not mateempowers tha

present Hoards of Trustees to make levies of taxes for this car, and to continue in office till the Trustee under the new system is elected. The Trustee is to receive

cc 0 10

be thrown on. iiiere were striv- —v •-jviec, and a proing3 everywhere after a new order of' rationale amount for a fraction of a day's things. vice. The (.oiiiitv Hoard of Commis-

invitingly for favored clients, all these! xit'e''first joy of deliverance from expect- charge uf roads, and the Suwere in thorough keeping, not only with ed destruction impelled all classes of so-! l"^rv'"or° have charge of the expeneach other, but with the solitarv inmate of: eietv in a more honorable and useful path 'lit!irc the road tax. 1 he amendments tbo room than they had ever hitherto trod.— While's .',Vf'n-'ryp°rt,'d to the .Senate I' riday morn-

Eighteen Christian Centuries. 'U1^' inst., and all were conjured in.

NENA SAHIB.—It appears by the las-! I®* As an illustration of Henry Ward news from India that this inhuman mont! Beechcr's liberal style of invitation to tho ster is likely to be caught at last. He was communion, the anecdote is quoted of an in Oude, closely pursued by a British English judge, who, on being refused the force, and was accompanied by only 1,500 bread and the cup, bccause he was not a men. Two liajahs with him have solicited member of a particular church quietly regovernment for protection when they may marked: -Oh! beg vour pardon, I thought be able to escape. Their messenger also this was the Lord's table. I have nothing

l^-The grave is the common treasury appeals on behalf of the Nena himself for more to if it is onlv •'private lit'le sunfor which we must all be taxed.—Burke. clemeney to his family. per nf vour own.''