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passing sorrows, with great blessings tasted, and
great gratitudes due, which make up the sum
of the most innocent and blessed human life
And such was the life of Sir Aradas and the
fair Guendolen de Radcliffe For dull must
be his heart and imagination who cannot per-
ceive, without being told in so many words,
that, when the merry month of Nav brought
verdure to the fields and foliage to the deep
woods, and millions of bright wild flowers to
the dewy meads and songs to the mating birds,
and gentler affections to the heart of man, the
young champion led his nobly-won bride to the
altar, in the chapel of her sires, while the dales
resounded with the songs of rejoicing girls, and
the honest JOY of bold, free peasantry.
Sir Yvo de Taillebois lived long enough to
see his childs children gathered to his knee I;
to prognosticate, in their promise, fresh honors
TO his high-born race; but not so long as to
outlive his intellect, his powers to advise, con-
sole, enjoy, and, above all, to trust in God.
Full of years and full of honors, he was gather
ed to his fathers in the ripencz- ef his ;i:aes
and he sleeps in a quiet churchyard in his M
tive valley, where a green oak tree shades his
ashes, and the ever-vocal music of the ripping
Kent sings his sweet, natural requiem.
Eadwulf the Red never recovered from the
starvation and exposure endured in his escape
and subsequent wanderings; and, though he re-
ceived the priceless boon of liberty, and the
Kings free pardon for his crimes, though he
passed his declining days in the beautiful cot
tage nigh Kentmere, with his noble brother, his
fair wife, and all the treasured little ones about
him, who grew up like olive branches round
kenric's happy, honored board, with everything
to soothe his stubborn heart and soften his mo-
rose and bitter spirit, he lived and died
gloomy, disappointed, bitter, and bad-hearted
man, victim in some sort of the bad and cruel
system, which had debased his soul more even
than it had degraded his body.
Yet it was not in that accused system, alto
gether; for the gallant and good Kenric, and
his sweet wife, Edith the Fair, living proofs,
even, as the noble poet sings,
THAT gentleness and love and trust
Prevail DER angry wave and gust"
and it was no less the spur that the dear spirit
raised, than the grand force of that hottest
Saxon institution, Trial by Jury, that raised
Kenric from a Saxon Serf to be an English
Freeman.
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had seen their lost comrade but minute before,
that, although the rest considered it quite absurd
that any one would willingly drop behind in
such place, they turned to search for him.
Had he remained where first he lost them, the
greater part of his suffering would have been
saved him. But after carefully retracing their
steps, and asking the old man who had opened
the entrance for them, and hearing his assertion
that the same number came out that he had per-
mitted to go in, they laughed at their fears, and
separated.
1t is singular fact that one of the company
who had denied at first, and felt satisfied in his
denial, that Mr.. w. was one of the party-after
they had separated, suddenly remembered a little
circumstance which brought the missing friend
to mind. He fastened to his room, and, not
finding him there to his various places of resort,
but with like success. AS the night wore on,
and no tidings of the lost could be had, he felt
so certain of the terrible fact that he could not
sleep, and at last FASTENED 70 the proper author
titles with his startling announcement The en-
tire force was at once put in requisition; and
after hours of painful search. our hero was dis
covered and conveyed to place where he could
be cared for.
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MOVEMENT IN INDIANA.-An association, I'M
Ger the title of The Indiana Kansas Indus
trial and Literary Association" has been form
ed at Dublin, Indiana. The objects are: l. To
secure territory sufficiently large for home
and farm for each family. 2. To furnish
buildings and machinery for the different me-
chanical and manufacturing pursuits of the
company. 3. To establish a manual labor
school, acceptable to all, where students can
paw their expenses by their daily labor. 4. To
erect suitable buildings for meeting lyceums,
and the general purposes of the association,
in pursuance of the plans of the society. Fam
lilies viii go on to Kansas as rapidly as tene-
ments can be provided for their accommoda-
ton when they arrive there. 1t is expected
that five hundred persons will remove, under
the auspices of the society, at an early day.
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CHAPTER XXIII.
TIE End.
And all went merry as a marriage bell,
ANU go Chile Harold

And all went merry a marriage bell
ChiLde Harold.
1t were, perhaps, as well to close :, TINS chap
ter ere it is begun, and to lay down the pen I'm,
stained for with the wager of battle the interest
and the agony of the tale is ended.
A time-honored custom, however, yet one per-
chance more to be honored in the breach than
the observance has prescribed it on the writer OF
romance to leave no individual of his drdnadtas
persona undisposed of in the end.
The raptures of lovers are not to be described ;
and if the pen of the ready writer may gain In
spiration to delineate the workings of strong
mental passions, of intense moral or physical
excitements, to depict stormy wrath, the agonies
of hope deferred, the slow consuming pangs Of
hopeless regret, there is one thing that must
ever defy his powers of representation--the
calm enjoyment of every day domestic happi-
ness; the easy and unvarying pleasures of con-
tentment; the placid routine of hourly duties,
hourly delights, hourly labors, hourly affections
and that soft intermixture of small cares and
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THINGS IN MICHIGAN.
The following letter is from one who Is in a
position to speak intelligently.-Ed Era,
LANSING, Mich, March Is, 1855.


LANSING, Mich, March rs, 1855.
! have to-day, for the first time, noticed in
the Era of the 18th inst, communication
from Cass county, in this State, signed &C,
Shanahan," which l think ought not to pass
unnoticed. / am an entire stranger 20 Inc wri-
ter of that article, and am consequently bound
to believe that he has written frankly sentiments
which he honestly entertains. At the same
time, must say that his communication is cal,
culated to mislead those not familiar with Mich.
lean politics. and to mislead them, too, in a
way not at all gratifying to the great mass of
the Republican party of this State.
Mr.. Shanahan seems TO have formed the idea
that the Republican and Know Nothing parties
in Michigan are one and the same thing; or, if
not precisely the same, that they are loving
twin brothers, both seeking the same end, both
tolling for the same object, And it is this inn
preston which q stranger would certainly gath
er nom his remarks, to which object. l OBJ
Ject to this because it is certainly misrepre-
sentation of the facts. The two parties are en-
tirely dissimilar, and so far as the masses are
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WESTERN KNOW SOMETHING'S.

NLbNELAND, W., -hdFCH ~, 1870.
The primary object of the Know Sometime
Order is to divorce Sam from his unholv alli
ance with Shareholders, and cause him In mt
bis trust in Freedom. The Ant. Slavery Know
Nothngs of Ohio are deepiy alarmed At The
present position of their Order on the Great
issue. They find that within the Order they
are not permitted to discuss the rights of Free
Labor, and that the Order, in its official action.
utterly ignores and suppresses the agitation OF
the Slavery question. This is PLAYING ms di-
reotly into the hands of the Oligarchy AZ did
the Baltimore platforms of 1852. To save the
Know Nothings from this quagmire, is the
chief aim OF the Know Something's. In answer
to numerous inquiries, the Grand Council has
directed that the Platform of the Order. with
certain directions and explanations, be made
public. The following is the Circular.
JONATHAN.
Platform Of Principles fLe KnoU Something's.
l, Opposition to all forms Of tyranny over
the mind and body of man.
2. Neither Nature, nor the Constitution OF
our country, recognises the right of man t.
property in man.
8. Principles and character, not birthplace,
are the true standard of qualification for citizen
ship.
i. No adherent of any foreign Power, either
political or politico-ecclesastic, should be eligi
bic to naturalization.
s. There should be neither Slavery nor invol
untary servitude, except for the punishment of
crime, in any of the Territories, nor should any
more slave States be added to the Union.
6. Candidates for political Offices should be
men of undoubted integrity and sobriety, and
knowh to be in favor of resisting, by all lawful
and constitutional means, the aggressions Of
Popery and Slavery.
z. The People are the rightful source of DO.
SEE FOURTH PAGE
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WATCH ING THE HADOWS

By BARRY BRAKE.
|.
Where the brigh; Brandywine
Flows through the meadows.
Sat with Madeline,
Watching the shadows
Watching cloud-shadows,
That swept DER the plain,
Now on the meadows,
And now on the grain
Ever the fair sunshine
Followed each darking
So" murmured Madeline.
Bliss follows carking-
Bliss follows carking,
And case follows care,
And voice TO my barking
Sings, Never despair
THE waters that flow by US
Bid us be Slad
And the swallows that go by us
Virctays add
The breezes that blow US
Are wanton with play,
And the flowers below US
Are happy they.
For ever each darkng
Is followed by light,
And ali sounds to my barking
Are hymns of delight
So murmured Madeline
Low-voiccd and lower,
Flowed on the Brandywine-
Musical flower.
Listened closily,
To her conceit;
Answered then prosily,
Blithe-hued and sweet
Arc these young dreams of thine
CouLeur de rose
Glitter these CLEANS Of thine;
Life as it goes,
VI
Hardly will leave them
Their richness of hue;
Noon will bereave them
Ofmorn's early dew
For though every shadow
BY light is pursued,
Over gran-feld and meadow,
Der river and wood
'The light is pursued, too,
BY shadows as fast;
And sunshine subdued, too
In night shade at lastm
Rppled the Brandywine,
Idyls out-trilng;
Blue eyes of Madeline
Bright tears were filling.
But quick like the sunlight
Dispellins cloud shade,
A smile CLEAN grew bright
In the eyes of the maid;
Her small hand in my hand
She trustingly laid,
And her voice fell as bland
As Lutte while she said
''Yes. night shade may Danish
The light from the plain,
But night shade must vanish
In the morning again;
And though victor shadows
May triumph, and WILL
Yet the blooms in the meadows
Are odorous still.
The river will flow
Unhindered and brave,
All grasses will grow
And all trec-boughs will wave;
And the stars will be keepers
Ger dew-begemmed leaves.
Like sentries round sleepers
Whose Jewels lure thieves
= So let the night thicken,
The night brings a charm,
And morning will quicken
To life rich and warm
The grains and the flowers;
And birds will be loud,
Each thrush in its bower,
Each lark in its cloud"
But here hushed the speaker.
And blushed like the glow
In the curve OF bcaker
When the red wine is low;
And her eyes fell TO Brandywine,
Murmuring low
SO sat with Madeline,
we
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SHERWOOD FOREST,
WAGER BY B ATTLE.
fla nf Saxon Slavery in the Twelfth Century.
RY HENRY WILLIAM HERBERT.
CHAP. XXI.
UdQer by Battle.

Then rode they together full right,
WIN sharpe speares and swordes bright:
They snote together sore.
They spent speares and brake shields;
Tnry pounsed as fowl in The fields;
Fiber loaned as doth boar.
Sir 7fiaD7our
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Blatant, by word, deed, sign, or token, on pain
of infamy and mutilation.5'
Then the Constable rose in his stirrups, and
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WASHINGTON, d. c..
FOR THE NATIONAL Err

'S%s IN Ss Ss4s'; oe. he ss, Ds
IHnr -, IN. southern District Of New York;
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RAILROAD Poetry correspondent of
ttc Broomo County Republican, describes
h jaunt over The Syracuse and Binghamp-
ton Railroad from Portland, In the following
poetical strain:
$50 much wrote In Cortland's bounds
and would have finished there, had not
tn, down train, whistlc loud resoundcd
through the ar, SO shaking Fairchild by
the hand, who said come up again, bid
far well to every fear and jumped upon the
train. Rushing round the hillside, dartng
DER the plain, over the rivers, under roads,
Van Bergen drove his train. The moon
threw bright cilulgcnt rays on each small
ripple's crest; the river seemed ribbon
stretched across the meadows breast the
evening wind came stealing through the car
with gentle sigh, and brought cindcr
from the engine sprang into my eye; few
and short were the prayers said and spoke
not word of sorrow, but rubbed at my
eye till. made it red and knew 'twould be
sore on the morrow. We soon got home at
the rate we ran, at an hour just right for re.
firing, and down from his post came the en-
gineer. and the fireman ceased his firing
And thus too will cease with this, a moral
to the tale--be always sure to "mind your
eye when riding on rail !"
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Out of some forty cases lac has lost but one,
aad that was complicated with another dis
ease.
Upwards Of eight hundred persons are
said to be down with the fever at Norfolk
At Portsmouth similar state of things cx-
lists in, and the indications are said to be less
favorable for a subsistence of the epidemic
there than at Norfolk, Our intelligence by
telegraph shows falling off in the number
of new cases. which are also said to Weld
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to the Clubs Of Londch, says

llU1 10 tue bittD5 " lDUubil, says.
have visited, with friends who wyrc
members, three Of the London C!ubs-the
Reform, which is one Of the most modern
and elegant, and to which only politicians Of
the liberal school, so called, are admitted
the Garrick and the Fielding The Reform
has some 80" members, who pay $50 at
mission, and so per anuum aitcrward; for
eigncrs pay 80 per annun only, tut have
NJ voice in TIL management. For this
charge you have free access TO n fine library,
reading ro m, car room, smoking room, din.
ing room, &c, where you are supplied with
meals and whatever you may consider r.
frrshmcnts at cost, may r., eve their litter
and spend the most of Their waking hours
here, lodging elsewhere, and virtually lIvin.
with the Club. For strangers and bachcor,
who wish to live gentecly, al moderate cost,
thi, life has many attractions, with iew cares;
but Judge it morally unwhocsome, though
nearly all public men belong to them. The
Reform Club house with two or three others
of the more expensive, stands IN the very
best quarrcr OF London, near cstniuistcr
Hall and the palace, and is in an elegant and
| costly cdifcc.
The Garrick is a house Of far less prctence,
but, is older, more quiet and in some re-
spccts more comfortable. II is strictly linz
tied to three hundred members, and uu.
dcrstand that an election to fill a vacancy is
often an object Of much soicitulc. Its
members are mainly connected w.th L.tcra.
ture or Drama-oiton with botn-ani it ha,
the best gallery Of Britt III theatrical portraits
now extant, mainly the gift of friend now
deceased. Its dining room is not so pleas.
ant as the Reforms, but its dinners suffer
little by comparison. II its pictures were on
exhibition for price, am sure they would
attract thousands
The Fielding is literary club Of still hum.
bier pretensonS but met therein some
authors whose fame has reached America,
and noted on its books the rurr1rs rt-t TIRE
most eminent British novclists of this de.
Gade. | wish could stay II few days lon
ger to extend and enjoy the acquantan
ships here proiiercd me but grow home
sick and must be off for Liverpool and the
/ Atlantic tomorrow.
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A most awful murder was committed in
North Sterling, about nine miles west ut O>-
wcgo, on the 29th ult A man named Fitz.
gerald, with his wife were found horribly
cut to pieces and dead in their bed, Wcdncs.
day morning. \ young son in the same
room not quite killed, but since died. A
son named James is suspected, as be telli
contradictory stories. He was recently ar.
rested for stealing horses, and has threaten cd
to kill his father. lie had quarrel with his
mother. Ne was arrested, and says the
murder was committed by negro. Another
son sleeping in another part OF the house
heard nothing, until the screaming OF the
boy. He found all the doors locked ON the
inside, and found James in the room with
the murdered persons. There was blood on
his arm. He slept in an adjoining room tc
the one where the murder was committed.
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Mosr FoRcIBLg AND TOO TRur.-The Wo-
mans Adrocate, a paper published in Phila-
delphia by two ladies', contains the following
pointed remarks:
"As women are more affected by the pre-.
valencc Of immortality than men, It is really
strange that they do not frown down those
vices Of men which are so frequently fatal to
their own tranquility. Many female who
would not refuse to dine with n pronigatc,
would think herself foully insutcd were she
invited to take tea with courtczan but the
only difference between the two is, one
wears pantaloons, and the other pantalet.cs =.
the ,-'~-'. ia the same"
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| come FOR the saw, sir,

I come for the saw, sir,
What saucer?
Why, the saw, sir, that you borrowed,
! borrowed no saucer.
Sure you did, sir, you borrowed saw,
SIR
Get out you rascal, Incvcr saw your sau-
Ger.
BE dad, yc did there's the saw, sir, now
sir
Oh you want the saw. Why the ducc
didn't you say so.
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The Editor of the Menasha, CWis) Id
roeate, is happy fellow. Hear him!
"We have been enc of the happicst of
men during the past week. Not only have
we been provided with serenade, scgars,
soda, and tobacco, free gratis, but Mr.. Geo.
Blinn has sent our "bctlcr half one OF the
cozies, and neatcst rocking chairs that is Man
ufcturcd at the extensive establishment Of
e. notv 4 Co
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FNct,.S Silks.

NTTE have received about thirty pieces OF
w pBid striped, brocade, aud chamr lie on
dress silks, which we will sell - percent chea-
p,r thnn can be purchased q, n other place in
ihs or any city m this state Now is the time
to buy We will sell beautiful silk at62! cents
per yard, such Us are usually sold Tor IS and ~,
For 81 We will sell silk richly worth s %. CalI
and see them before they are all sold, nt
Auensii, KEnhIrk 4 llrRLpuT's.
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BVGGAEs AND CARRIAGES.

M AMeNpectng daily to receive
~ from an eastern manuac,ory of
S-NG-. Acknowledged high reputation, a
lot OF different Kinds ol buggirs and car,iages,
with aud w.thou, tops, and with one and Two
seats, which will be warranted eqnal to any N
the western country, and which viii sell ntvery
i,ascn,hl, piiccs wnl6 NErH"S lvrs"oor.
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From the Golden Era.
ElitDl iIi Life III California.

An o8,turp u t.'Jr announces, as a matter
Of news, that it has "breu informed by a
most liable correspondent that there is at
present residing somewhere in California an
editor who ha, actually killed but one man
for year, and who has been shot but six
times during that pcriol.'
mistake or else " lrll libel, and shows
at once the uureliabilty Of correspondent,
gcn,r.lIy, and the ignorance Of that particu.
lar I'd tor who allowed himSelfto be imposed
upon ~ being induced to endorse and tircu
the maiciou, SANDER OF coursc, here
al home wrcr" every one knows better, It is
h ,rIiy nee ssar to give the lie "a term we
usually make use Of in California to signify "a
difference in opuiouJ to the foul aspcrsion
but for fear that the story may gain ere
dencc abroad, wc w,l simply contradict 1t,
assuring our h, '.ru in the cast that an al
most uuiv,r- E..u'anrc with the mem.
bgrs Of tuc pTt,, 3D.. California warrants Us IN
expressing tue opinion that there is no edi-
tor in the State who has been compelled to
limit hi, appetite for blood to one victim in a
twelve monlh-and we take down our doub-
lc-harrood shot gun as wc rrurnulgatc the
assyftiou--(a iayOrtc method wc have OF
convincing people thnt we are right) We
will Il, so state that in California an editor OF a
newspaper is expected by his patrons and
the public, 90 lay Out one man per month for
cv ~ thousand copies Of the circulation Of
his journal according to which calculation
We are entitled To seventy two lives per an
mum. We have not availcd ourselves Of the
extent Of our conceded right during ihs past
year, but present appearances Indicate We
shall be IN re than even before next new
year So, eastern editors will see how i'm
probable it is that member Of the press in
California, should have passed through
twelve months and killed but one man
In order than we may more fully demon.
stratc the manner in which a California cdi-
tor passes his time, aud the pleasing Incl
dents that daily occur to him, we will sketch
a brief outline Of his duties and the style in
which he executes them every twenty four
hours:
First-gctS up in the morning at ten
O'Clock dresses himself, puts on his hat, in
which are six or seven bullet holes, aud 90, 5
TO \ restaurant for breakfast. After break
fast starts to the office TO look over the pa.
pcrS, and diScov rs that he is called a coward
in one Of them, liar in another, and a pup.
py in another; he smiles at the pleasant
prospect Of having something to do fills out
an dispatches three blank challenges, a
ream or two of which he always keeps on
hand, ready printed TO save time commcn.
ces writing a leader, when as the clock
strikes !, II large man, NTH cOw.hide in
one hand pistol in the other, and bowie
knife ia his belt walks in and asks if his
name is - he answers by knocking the
Il 4 -
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Oi'h"ei ~ f'' ~ 'S'''
Board met pursuant to law, and was called
10 order by q. ". Armstrong. chairman.-
All the members present
Mr.. Stanford presented the petition Of in.
habitants Of the town of Eagle, praying
division Of said town. Referred to special
committee.
l., ave OF absence until Wednesday was
granted TO Mr. Sta, ford
Mr.. Armstrong, Of Deer Park, presented
the petition OF the town officers of said town,
praying for relief from the assessment Of Ger.
tain road damages. Referred to special
committee.
Mr.. Clark presented the petition of IN
derhl & Latham, praying for u license to
establish ferry accross the Illinois river in
! the town OF Manlius. Referred to a special
/ committee.
| Mr.. Parker presented the petition Of in
habi,nnts ofthc town of Bruce, PRAYING that
the assessment of said town for the year
1853 he set aside, aud new assessmcn,
, n.dc Pet.rr,d ia rnu,ri,tnc an eoualiza.