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| grew wild with excitement I hated
>"riet v, and dreaded the comranonship
# my husband. | wondcr,d i that he did rot
notice II and SUSPECT me. though in h's
! i'rc>cncc I used every effort TO he calm,
ind in a measure | surc..,i,d But this
onld not last alwar< Weeks were vet 10
rlai'>r before the dav of txrtution and be-
tore that lime must % mad or die. What
should Ilo:
| Last ni.llt my excitement reached Pitch
that wa> hr, You'd mv oon'roI. and when [
heard the r,.-uar ani expected ca.l. | obey
''i II. roud h"t resist # A.ain | entered
the cell Bat what a change saw. II he was
altered before. he was tlou>an time, more
changed now
/ KNEW Won would come acain.' he said, as
entered 4 have expected Won r,ary nigh
since YOU Were mere. knew the nr,i,arv at
former love couid not have died on, from
your Leart The .n v,.n ..v,-i a ,tr.nccr
from drownin. ronl not see one she loved
doomed to a shameful death without fcelin.
>,mpah, tor him.
'B'. silent, SIR" | replied for As soon as [
stood IN h:> presence INV strength of nsind
all came back 10 me TINS Is no time to
soak oi iL,->- rhin.>. | have forgotten them
al, ~ far Is thry can hi axe anv ,nilurnre up
on my feelings nov Tor Won. Tnr p,-f is all
dead 10 me. ahi have never mourn.d Tor
IT.
Then why are Hon here 10 night = he In
gurei Is II Ia add torture 10 IA, ar.a.iy
cri,'iii-d heart: You w!. at least .av YOU
forgive M. for u l. no; IA woman, heart tc
refuse in this awful h ur'
4 d". a> | h,i,c to be mvstlf forgiven,
Maurice. r-l'ii,'i.
\ nrw aud >trl.r- impulse ~ his moment
seized nr knew rhi wa..n | l,.it him
should >u.f,r the ,rnc torment thai | had
been >,Iii rlnu Tor nl,nv drS. aud th. dread
Z" IT r">" uN with supernatural POKER in
mv mi'.t There WAS tu' one WAY Ia save
my reason ar M, lIfr The motive was an
utterly >..iii>t one. 1h" past had nothing 10
d. win II. lt was ali the future, aud that
tu'rr" my cwn.
Follow ne VI ,urirr -ail 10 him. and
lc't the cell ! ii.! no' look ttlin.: me- but
knew :,e va, coming. !ii not .onk Al h:ni
a.un. hnt III silence rp the WAY through
the corr!rcr 10 the outer door of the PRISON,
AL Ii" pt>>-i t',rnu.h wirhnnt a word He
>'"n!,.i >tur,.ei l.. the unexpected deliver
an. lie WAS free.
l."a,IIig all the doors wide open. | stole
ia X 10 IA, room, ard dslte--,'-i th. k-vs IN
iiicir l.l, AID for three, hour, hav. slept a
Iulri >l,'-u ov III = l.. of rh,. nian I,pn whom
have THIS night ini'r,.,ci wrong. that u,
one els" hir h- co Id orriyr i,l, h... when
| tell aim III. A. ! >.i.i "a ), t,.w 4 v. when
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feeling in nv mind towards him. But | did
not inquire what it was. | did not suspect
its nature. did not dream that he was trv
ing to weave around me strong but inyi,i
BILE net, in which was to be taken captiye
at his will. But when he came again, and
stood by nv side, with his manly form and
NOBLE hearing. and looked calmly and kindly
down into my eyes. and SPOKE words of yrat-
itnde, as if his feelings hal all along been
pcnt up and smothrred oil they could no
longer be subdned. unwilling tears filled nv
eyes, and felt that there was d most ntoxi.
eating spell upon me which could not. and
d'd not wish to eXtricatc myself from. And
then came words of love--rlowinr. and ear
nest, and truthful lovc-arl ] opencd nv
eyes TO the knowledge of ny own heart. Ii
was all his. and from that mN:.nt was bound
nj i'll hi, love
be years passed thus with occasional Wis
ITS and constant >rond.ncc-,ears short
rr IN memory than the hours that passed
when took hlm from the sea till | ~e,cb,d
the land and every word he spoke TO me.
a"d every letter be wrote. onl; bound ne
tighter IN the tolls he had woven around m,
And then came misfortune
know not how ii happened never in
l''rr! into it or asked the cause; hnt ON.
evening my father cam" lone with a S,rauo.
look "t sadness on is t.rr. and the rcxt
morning We were told e ~, ruio-of tb,.
loss OF all his bread Lands and nol,l. forests.
ana AL tha: he possessed And more than all
thus We lot hum; for, With a broken spirit.
III few days h" TOO lav down and l,,. ,
wrote I" Maurice and told ali cur sd story
ava asked hlm 10 coma 70 Us IL orr sorrow
toi ! i'lt then that bad no ore 10 lean ON
bat hlm. And instead of con.iro. he wrot,
'tr'->l:o,t and cod and hard hearted,
no. berries aud took !a AL H.. word.
OF love he had ever >Yokrn H.. talked Of
gratitude, and the everlasting remembrance,
OF the drbt he owed me-a .l.t, he ror'lnry
"r vi 7" cut,anl viii h cca'! rcv~rIc c.l.,..
frotn hi> memory; hur o. hl> lo,r-no ma,
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but all these evidences of recent one were
scattered for miles over the sea.
Ronsed to cxertion. | steercd from one
fragment to another, hoping to find some sur
v'vor. Every speck that could see floating
IN the distance was anxiorSlv examined. but
no human form was d>rovcrahln. All must
have been lost: and it was only when warn
Ell 10y the declining sun that gave up in de-
spair. and turned my boat toward the land.
Death is terrible anywhere To those who
have worn out weary days and weeks and
months in >ickness-coing down to the grave
step toy step. slowly but surely with its mouth
constantly open before them. l. comes with a
sad sense OF recoiling The heart ties that
have been gathering about them for wears
and wears ar" only bound the tighter and
stronger in tl!e prospect of their bcinr sever
I'd. And they lie 1,v hv h,v. aud tn. n.ar-
er they draw 70 the "ali-tr,iny hour" the
more c:in.inGly they look back to al. they
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II Sra->aIIinG on caily and rvou>!y with
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'Hf"'d a"'N from t.i'S seen" OF rum am
~trrrrd toward home. and bad lost s;-ht Of
very ,c>flGc OF The wreck, VIXEN | saw
mere >reck on the water li''le cut Of ny
course. 1t WAS piece of spar. ana cling
me- 10 It. IN the last stage Of exhaustion. WI
Young man. know not how ! drew lin
INTO III" boat. Buf II seemed ID" longest ia'
y NY life TIL reached the shore The
wiua w,> blow 'nr OF tl'" 'and and had =
beat far down the coast hofrrr cou'! lay III,
rour~" for home. hid no rr.;or,tiycS II
rhr hna'-uo,hinr nut ihc remnants OF ,h,
t"ud and water whch | had brought wI'l
me. and which were both USELESS in such al
emergency. and feared nav charge wou,,
lie before coulI procure any aid for Inn
Bat we reached the shore at last and l.,
WAS save !. tlCugh II was only after DAYS OF
>Irrrhc>S weakness. and weeks Of car,rI
watching and NURSING. that he WI, a'lr arai,
30 walk about II was in this way became
saved his life. and became his constant
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communicated these to her father. who re-
mon>tratcl with him, but only with tie effect
OF increasing his violence and rlicitino new
threats The morning of the dav on which
she was TO bt married she was found in her
bed, murdered. All things TENDED to throw
Suspicion upon him, and he was arrested
had become interested in the history OF
the ease, and when the verdict was rendered
and The prisoner was brought down in the
charge OF an officer, with few friends who
like myself, were curious to see so great a
criminal, stationed myself near where he
would pass. knew hun. One glance was
enough to see and know. under his neglected
hdir, and un>hOrn beard, and haryard almost
Sha'1!v fdce, the features OF one | had loved
and almost w"r>hipPrd few years ayo How
concealed my agitation cannot tell. It.,r
'or moment as II | we're sinking into the
earth. l felt that ii would be mercy if die
buidInG w"u.d inl and crush me. There WAS
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A LADY ON Boards.

A fair correspondent of The Home Journal has The
following sensible remarks on the wholesome habit Of
wearing the beard. which has lately come int
fashion;
at is astonishing what change few years hW
wrought in regard to shaving. Once, everybody
shaved, but now, much mistake, if every genteman
has not found to shave or not to shave, aquestisn
suggested by his morning toilet. Alas for the razor
stop man. His occupation Is nearly gone. hope
he will succeed in finding another for the present gen.
GRAFTON will be a bearded race.
81 was quite interested last Winter in reading
Natural History Of the Human Species, by keutsn'
ant-COonel Charles Hamilton Smith, in which Be
states that the bearded the oOnquerng races
For this the beardess races are TO the
union with them. This aversion he states 10 be TOE
result of experience, proving the superior aetivtyd
those who have sprung from such races Jenghs,
Timur and Nadr Shah, were directly, in their an
cestry, descended from Caucasian mothers and hence,
also the jealous exclusion of European women ton
China The progressive nations he tells US. a rss
bearded and hairy race Satnson's strength lay in BIS
hair. Bereft of that his mighty power was gone. ne
lion is king of the forest. How much Of bis prcsd
beauty be owes to his magnificent name. Shave bin,
and he is king no longer.
Il cannot imagine why beard IL given 10 maa,
unless it is to try bis patience if be e to spend
time in daily cutting it off, il daily asserts lie rgm
to manifested existence. The beard is an emblem q
manly power and dignity, and is certainly an sess
the old Patriarchs and Prophets wore beard; DID
our Savior, when he dwelt man among the bills o.
Judea. SO, too, most Of tho venerable dvnes wbS
have transmitted TO us their schemes of theology.
Is modern innovation to shave Of the whole beard.
II was not common before the commencement Of the
last century Moses forbade the Jews TO mar the cor
of the beard, and David, when bis Embasssdcfs
were nsulted by Hanans shaving off one -half Their
boards, permitted them to tarry at Jericho till thsu
boards had grown.
While the beard properly worn, is ornament,
is sometimes rendered hideous by the manner in whoo
it is trimmed. round mass of brstles on the chin
never becoming, yet sometimes thin.cheeked, long.
faced gentlemen elongste their countenances In this
way; often these tufts impart low, animal expres-
zion they never confer dignity nor beauty. Some
few greatly improved by full whiskers, Others By
a moustache Some look best with the beard trimmed
rather close. It requires artists eye to decide On
what IL most becoming. Nature leaves a varying ost-
line to the beard which is perfect than any sem
circle cut by the razor.
Pehaps you may think have wandered from ng
proper rphere in writing about boards had no idea
Of doing when | commenced this letter; you mus
charge il all to the snow-storm. must leave the sub
Ject Of ladies dress for another day.
Yours, sc, ANNA HOPE"
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The CoLD-lsJtRi TO FRuH-BvDs.-Owing to the
longcontiuuanee Of excessive cold weather the fruit.
buds undoubtedly njured to very great extent.
icularly in the Middle and Southwestern States,
where the cold has been intense than it has been
known before for many years. Only think of the Ohio
River at Cincinnati frozen over foot and-a-haf
thick, and the Mississippi closed with ice t. low down
As Memphis. Such severe weather must freeze the
buds of peaches, plum, opreos, and perhaps apples
as to kill the greater part Of them. Pruning should
be early attended to i'll the Spring, clipping off NJ arly
all the wood Of the lat years growth a. that /. the
part that will be injured if any If that i not done
the tree will leok unhealthy all Summer and will lie
just what it looks II you would save your trees. do
not spare the knife.
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MECHANICAL DEMONSTRATIONS OF THE
PRESENCE AND POWER OF SPIRITS.

To tie Editor Of The " Y Tribune.
Sin: The volume lately published by DR.. Hare on
this subject, is remarkable in several respects
and not less 80 coming from the pen of of the
most eminent experimental philosophers of the age.
Received by Spiritualists eanonical book, is
deemed by urbelevers evidence of mental disease
Those who charge the latter the venerable author
he asserts are unconscious that their education has
associated morbid ineredulity with anatical credence
to such degree as to ncapacitate them for passing
mpariGy on the subject that they strain at spiritual
gnats while swallowing scrptural eames As may be
supposed the work contains strange revelations but
Il i to the mach mes, and more particularly 70 one of
th,m that we wish TO refer for the purpose of sug-
gest simple test Of it, value. and Of conclusiyey
determining the amount or intensity of the spirits a.
legged action upon il.
AZ DIR. Hare long resisted the usual proofs of the
presefce and activity Of spirits " being impossible he
SAYS for any a. be more in, dIo1s than he was
Le l. therefore prepared to great forbearance
toward thu uconycred, whose ignorance or preiudices
s'hi c'suc their VISION He believes the wonders he
r'Cofds because lie has witnessed them and "under
test conditions We do hot 'ieye them because
We 1tve lot teen them, nor sEoud we then unless We
so Lad facilities afforded thoroughly TO test them.
W, are sur. DR.. Hare cannot object u this.
That tables and other objects, moving without any
known cause, present legitimate subject OF serious
and scientific inquiry, is clear enough and that such
HqHiT..Lad long ago been made had the requisite "a
elites been afforded, is certain. But the fact H. i'm
Presscns III cradle to belief in the spiritual hypo
thesis are constantly arising, heretofore, from The
conduct Of mediums. To say nothing of the money
the chef Of them professionally make, how il tiff
they are fully eInbutd with sense of the awful value
OF Their revelations in meOrating human condition
and "hcfdIng evidence SURPRISING that of the Scrip
lures II nInoalty-that they are not always ready
to remove the s,rupes of yisitors and with that view
cheeruly to encourage investigation Instead Of
THU they affect drpeasure at the expression of doubts
and recent them as reflections their proby. This
" suspicious. II may not be intended to check 10
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SHAKER LIBERALITY.

To tas Edi.or Of TA< \. Y. TT'Ssass
SIR: With your permission should Ike TO ask u
Gentleman who lec.ured at the Tabernacle ID
evening question through the medium your vls
able paper He was understood to take the positis
that there was nothing in Shaker theology etc, whil
sntsgonized with any scientific principle A. science
pushed her discoveries into realms, other sy,ts
Of theology had to be amended and altered IN orue
keen pace with the progress Of the age; but not =
With bis sy.tem Now II the position taken be eorred
why do the community of which the speaker Is q iese
inc influential member, exclude from their school
nearly every book that illustrates scientific PrnePsi
Ard wbv are Il. members, with few exceptions, ket
ID, .t,;ct surveillance as 20 what they resdf F1
and candid answers to the above inquiries may serve
TO reflect more light upon this topic than was givsoh
the lecture which il was my privilege TO attend;
NEG York, Feb. !, 1856 LSiLNHA.
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AID FOR TnE NORFOLK ORPHANS The Rev. j.
Stockbridge, Chaplain of the United States ship Sa-
vannah writes friend under date Rio de Janeiro,
Dee. Is, 1855, as follows:
1--WE have read with painful interest the details
Of deaths doings at Norfolk and Portsmouth, Va du-
ring the past Summer and Autumn, aud our synpa-
tbies have been particularly enlisted in behalf of the
poor little children who have been made orphans by
the yellow fever. The officers and Of this gate
have just raised, by subscription, for the benefit of
for that amount will be forwarded 10 the Mayor of
Norfolk by the Sam Slick"
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LETTING THE UNION SLIDE.

We extract the following from The HcraIds report
of the dinner given by the City of Richmond to the
delegates to the Southern Commercial Convention:
"The next toast was in honor Of Texas:
Texas the Lone Star IL has brighter and brighter in
the constellation Of States.
General Green responded: Although he said he
would rather fight Indians and Mexcans or even the
English, II an make speech, laughter, he thanked
Virginia for che compliment to Texas. He said that
in the days Of jackson flbuserism not prescribed
az it il now for then he Green permitted to
raise regiment in New-Orleans and 20 10 hlibuster
in Texas laughter. He fllibuster and proud
of it. and saw good reason why the people of this
country should not make effort to help their neigh
bors to the blessing Of liberty. lAppausel. In con-
clusion, he gave
valley the Amazon, with all the Africans in it, Laughter
"Mr. Archer proposed the toast to the District of
Columbia:
The District Of Columbia: The battle ground Of Southern
nsttutionswe plant standard here Who will desert that
flag Air by the band.
7Mr. Oud of Georgetown responded to the toa ST.
lie would say for the District that if any controversy
takes place between the two sections Of this country
the position she would occupy in ii is very well known
she cherishes the sentiments of the whole South, al
though she rs on the Northern frontier The point
which has been made the fulcrum of Slavery agtated
in Congress- shall be, If it 10 that, made the
bloody ground and it shall prove itself like the arch
the stronger for the pressure. He knew there would
be- event of that kind, the strongest responsible
ity devolvug upon people holding such relations with
the North the District of Columbia did. But her
people had learned 10 meet this responsibility. They
had stared at the Meduca bead and were not turned
to stone. Applause. The South might, therefore,
rely upon the District that when the time they
will redeem the promises they had made
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SoUTHrRS ENIGRAIIoS TO KASsAs.-On the 5,h Of
April regiment of volunteers from Alabama will
leave Montgomery for Kansas under the command of
Major Buford. The regiment will he composed of 400
men, divided into companies OF 80 each, commanded
and drilled by officers chosen by themselves The out
mt Is to be fix blanket, gun. one knapsack and
one fyrg-pan. Major Buford il to paw the expen-es
OF the regiment to Kansas and in return the members
aIeto acquire presumption and pay him out of that
The men are bona hde settler who 90 10 Karsas as
permanent place of residence.
tssyannAh tGes) Republican.
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THE POLAR SEA.
To Ne Editor u The ". Y. Tribune.

SIR: In your paper Of the Goth inst. you give
munication from Eagle River, Lake Superior, showing
that Dr.. Kane did not frH discover the open ocean
which surrounds the North Geographical Pole, but
that this was done the ice just Kane did it, some
thirty years since bya Russian in the employment of
bis government.
Now, early as October last, when the press was
busy attributing this discovery to DIR. Kane, gave
to The Buffalo Express communication for the ben.
eft of such wished to have the facts in the case
showing that this not only seen, but sailed
upon, more than one hundred years since 1t was
navigaed in 1854 by whaleship from Greenland and
TO rel eating the particulars here inclose the
tee entire for your perusal you may not have
tict il earlier.
Whatever may be the laudable anxiety of individ-
uas to figure foremost in matters Of this Sort it il
tanly of still higher Importance TO science that the
actual facts OF history SHOULD be preserved and it is
solely with this view that trouble you this instance
Truly you're, X. w. HAsKISs.
Buffalo, Jan. q, 1856
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ss1ioss to pssh on 70 Tie eseffsPos~ wv =" e9
Il 4 svsSsus then that this cpsn ses scnsssa -
and not occasionally %, for, although We 90 ~
Is. Zee ,.rss Gesily some years with 0the y.s as ss
10 in higher stitudss than that, and - ese.ay go
i,c, mai this NAV not 70 be eonnsanon vs hsN
only 20 eeoeet the Latitude Of place sos .ne en ~
attitude Il 40 and It's annual empessrfe sna
As low a. that of ST. Petersburg whose iansnae w. n
,,.er ext.nt of land Of frozen s1ffsee ~
Ter which urrounds Quebec fully accounts fof h oncrsa
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METHODIST PREACHERS.

To he Editor Of The ~ Y Tribuns. 80.
SIR: viii you allow me to correct your stasemeut
in to-dsys TRIBUNE Of the average receipts Of ths
ministers of the New-York Conference for last year.
II is meager enough at the best but it s not quite
bad as your account represents il.
The average receipts of all the preachers for 20
wear. exclusive Of house rent, was sag. Number d
ministers actually engaged III, instead OF Ice, .
represented in your item. fRkAehAH