New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-11-11

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"hen the tinted leaves elittered like thip1s NJ cos
sVer crimson and emerald, us; before the sea.o, ~
'allhg ieaVeS, ne met young girl jus BUDDING ;n,o
"oIaanly beauty. Seventeen times had she seeo IT,
leaves OF autumn fall, and the flowers Of spr;,, bo.
som into life, and hers was all like the latter ex,v,
blooming, rever falling
NO frost had ever touched leaf of her tree os I;s
no bird that sings among the the green lsave, and
fragrant flowers Of SPRING was more cheerful and
happy than this d" country girl"
But like nearly all Of her class she had a LONGING
desire-a burning curiosity to come to the CITY.
Only said she, " for one day, if could only see
New.York, l would come home conienied I do with
father would let me go; if he don't, | hall run away
some day for curiosity"
Vainly tried to safety that curiosity by descrip-
tions of all that is most curious in this mos, curious
enchanted Isle of Mspbattan. 1t was soothing for
time but fear it like the fresh fuel added to
the fire. it only burnt the fesher, after i. lef to
iteelf egain TO slowly kindle into blaze
Because tbe wore 90 many tnts az the maple-be-
cause Der hair was subum-ber eyes blae-ber teeth
pearl--her skin so white and smooth, and cheeks 30
rosyher voice so silvery, ard heart pure as gold
we called her the Autumn Leaf.
Time is fleeing. How quickly two years fitted
past and brought again the season of autumn
leaves but not the remembrance Of her whom
we had in sportive mood called the Autumn Leaf;
for like Others cherished for the time, she had
faded from our remembrance; until one evening
late hours We sometimes wander-w when the autumn
leaves were falling almost az thick the pelting
drops OF the cold October storm that brough. them
down upon our head, and carpeted the pavement at
Our feet all at the forgotten country scene OF
two years past came rushing into mind, as we
toiled on our wey. What brought i. back, and at
such time ? The falling leaves! Or was it some
magnetic influence connected with that Leaf Of
Autumn
This scene was unlike that. That was all light and
sunsbine-tbs all storm and darkness. Yet the sight
of that came back so vivid that it absorbed all
thoughts of the present, and we went On mechanical
ly. We wondered if our little Autumn Leaf had ever
been waited TO the city-had ever had her curiosity
of city life satisfied.
Mercy! Came that voice from earth air-from
fesh or pritl for it was her voice. Some voices
so unlike all others, that heard they are
forgoten-never change-and no others ever ring
upon the zane key.
1t was her voice. whether of earth or air, and we
looked hastily ABOUND to whence it came 1t must
have come as mysteriously as the thought Of her;
and the sunny scenes Of her home came but minute
before, for there present but poor thing
Of msery-one Of heaven and earths outcasts in hui
man form and womanly -once wonanly habilments
covering and shivering close up 10 a door way,
close to where there warm Preside within, to
try to gain little shelter from the cold storm with
out. No other living voice near, it must have
been thing Of thought mere fancy Of the night;
and so we TUNED again to pass on but We said,
though said it, VIC thought, too low for mortal to
hear" it was her voice"
at uas her voice" vas echoed back. That voice
sgain We could not be mistaken now. That voice
came from the covering wretch in yonder doorway.
That thing of rags, and dirt, and msery-so abject,
so utterly dehumanised--was the fallen remains Of
our Autumn Leaf-falen, indeed, down from her
country home, among the tinted naples to the home
less condition Of poor street vagrant.
Wha: brought her here2
CuIiosity-the desire to see The city;-pOt to live
here only little WHILE till she had seen the thousand
wonders of our busy street.-The splendid stores of
dry goods and ghttening chops Of the jeweler-fhe
fashions and beauties in the street by day, the al
lure ments ofthe playhouse by night and the ascina
tons Of late suppers in rich saloons. For these she
came to the city--but not alone. She was fattered
by the tale Of one who lived here and came with him.
ss she thought, and her parents thought to spend
The winter at his house or rather, at his sisters
6house," for he, though advancing beyond the half
way btuse of life, was I" q bachelor"
1t was a sad mistake, thus to conhde IN an almost
straDger-it was the storm that shook the autumn
leaf to the ground We need not trace the fall-it
took the usual road. That sister was fallen
ope that home that was to be home, was the home
of syrens that sing the song of Death to Virtue, ana
that leaf of golden green and crimson tints that only
a few months before had gladdened every eye, whle
it waved in glory upon the parent-bough, was rent
from the stem, cast down, trampled on, and finally
disowned by those who gave 1t BIRTH
When the leaf is once down in the gutter, what
hand shall pluck it up? Cleanse it, and restore 1t to
ia original beauty, none can ever; though it may be
saved. a thing-a memerto-of beauty faded.
EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF DIAMONDS AND JEW
rI.RY.-C. Ebert Kingebury, late clerk IN the
watch and iewelry establishment Of Guynet q Co.,
commission merchants at Nos lls and l2l Nassau 81,
was Yesterday arrested by Officer Allison, OF the Re
serve Corps, charged with having, during the past
four months, embezzled from his employ ers watches
and ewelry to the value of $4,000; also with being
concerned in burglary committed on the store on
the night of the o7th ult at which time $50 worm
Of goods were stolen and carried away. Upon his ar
rest the accused confessed to the charge OF emoezze
mept and said he had disposed OF the articles 10
strangers living out Of the City. Two diamond ring'
worth $50, he had, however, sold to Mr.. Hawk
hurst of No. 60 Fultonst.. who had them In his pos