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NORWALK, CT.iTUFSDAY, JANUARY 27, i852.

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Leave Norwiilk for New York.
(}ommut.ation Train 6 o'clock 38 min. A M

Accoininodation 8 9

'4 1-0 47
Express ‘.2 ‘.21 P M
Accoinmodation 5 32
-Ex press 9 '19

Leave Norwnlk for New Haven.
Accommodation train 9 o’clock 1:? iuin A M

H I 36 P M
Ex press 4 53
‘Accommodation 6 15

-‘Commutation 7 8
Express trains ‘Vest stop only at Stamford.
at‘ East “ Bri-lgeport.
Leave New York for Norwalk.
Accommodation train 7 o‘clock,A M

“ II 30
Express 3 P M
Accommodation 4
"Commutation 4 55

L--ave New Haven for Norwalk.

Commutation train 5 30 A M
Accommodation 7

“ 9 35
Express 1 15 P M
Accommodation 4 20
Express 8 -15

GEO. W’. XVIIISTLER. S-up’t.

New Fall Goods.

' H-E subscriber would call the attention of

the public to his stock of Dry Goods just
purchased, einhi'aciog styles of all descriptions
7‘SUIIflI)l8 for the Fall trade. such as figiirod and
plain Poplins. very rich Czisliinems, DeLaines.
‘Gin_ghams—-neiv styles and very fine. Ciilicoes,
Gloves, fllosiery. aml a variety of other Goods.
all of which have been pur(:li.ised lll.lllP.'l0WeSll
—'maiket prices, and will be sold at-cording‘y.——
He has also a fresh supply of Broadi-‘lotlis.
‘Casi.-imei'es and Vestings of all colors ll nd qual-
ities, which ha will cut free of expense, or
‘make to order in the most fll.<ilI0llit'lile styles at
:prices -that will defy coinpctition.

L. H. RANDLE.
Norwalk. August 536th, -1851.

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THE CI‘iLI‘IBI{ATI‘:I5
OXYGENATED BITTERS,
CONTAINING NO ALCOHOL,

A slI'I'C Rernrrly for

DYSPEPSIA,

IN ALL ITS VARIOUS FORMS,

Such as Pain in the Stomach. Hen tbiirn, Ha-
bitual Costiveness. Acid Stoininh. Head-
ache, Loss of Appetite. Piles. Night.
Sweats. Asthma or Phtisic.
Flatulence or \Vind in the Stom-
ach. Nervousness, Coldncss of the
Extromities, Wezikiiess of the Limbs,

General Debility, _ .
and all the llld8S(‘.l‘ll)ill)l6 symptoms of this um-
versal disease. These are also-the best tonic

Fever and Agile, ‘
‘Those Bitters have inceived the HIGHEST
Ti.-:s'riiaoNiu.s over offered to the public in fa
vor of any medicine in the world, and are ap-
proved by some of the best physicians. who use
them in their .practice. For the most; satisfac-
tory proof of the SUCCVSS of this remedy. see
pamphlets containing full particulars and cor-
tificates from Membars of Congress and other
parties well known to the public. Any individ-
ual wishing further information respecting this

INVALUABLE MEDICINE, -

aroinvited to (till on the Agents.and satisfy
' themselves by reference to numerous letters
and certificates of the highesit respectability.

DR. GEO. B. GREEN, Proprietor, Wind-
cor, Vt. .

REED. BATES 66 AUSTIN, Wholesale
Druggists. No. 26 Mercliants’ Row, Boston,
General Agents. , ‘‘

Prico $1 per bottle; six for $5.

CAUTlO.‘1.—ljeah bottle of the Genuine
Oxggenated Bitters. will have the outside
wrapper printed in En2lish,French and Span-
sh, With the signature of Goo. B. Green. Pro-
prietor, upon Three Sides. and in addition. it
finely engraved labelupon the top of thobottle
wlththe signature of Reed, Bates 65 Austin.
who are t.he sole General Agents,and to whom
all orders must be addressed. .

of Farm for Sale
 ‘Con.lai-ning 125 Acres of -Land. 

with the buildings thereon situated, one l'llllt.\
south ofthe village of New Canaan. Said farm
will be sold cheap; 75 per cent. oftho purcbaso
money can remain on mortgage if desired.—-
For further parhculars enquire of
VVM. SEYM OU R, near the premises.
New ‘Canaan. Jan. 12.1852. 8t*‘.?.

Notice.

THE court of probate for the district of

Ridgelicld hath iissigned the ‘2d day of
February next at 9 o"c'ock in the forenooii. at
the probate oflii-e in said Ridgeficld. for the ap-
pointment ofcoinmissioni=.rs on the estate of
Ebenezer Jones, late of said Riilgefield. dec’d,
represented insolveiit—whon and whi=.i'e all
persons interested are notified to appear if they
see cause and be heard.

HARVEY SMITH. Administrator,

312 with the will annexed.

S/.f'])fl.€Il. {I03/l vs Aurelia C/iambers and others.
» PUN the petition of S ephen Hoyt. of New

Canaan in I<‘airfii=.ld county. brought. to the
Superior Court to be holdon at Fairfi-ld in and
for said Fairfield county. on the 2d "I'uesday of

widow of I‘IHllI'y Cliiiinbors, late of said New
Caiiiaiin, deed. and the heirs and creditors ofsaid
Henry, showing that. said Henry in his ‘life time
inortgagod to Stephen Ho) t. Sen 1'. then of said
New Canaan. since deceased, a certain piece of
‘lind in said New Canaan with the buildings
thereon, ca.led the Still Iilousc lot. and partic-
ulurl~y described in said petition. to secure it
cor iiin note from said I-lenry to said Stephen,
Sen’r, and that the said petitioner is the owner
of said note and «iuort_¢_rnge. mid that said He-nry
ii l'torwnrds and more than one year previous to
the date of said petition died intestatr-. and that
no administration has been granted on his estate.

and praying to foreclose said mortuagod prem-

ises as per petition on file, dated January 3d,

1852, will at large appear. It is ordered that
notice of tlie pendeucy of said petition be given

to all the heirs of said [Ii-nry Chainliers. de-c’d,
i-asiding out of this State. and to all the cradl-
tors of said Henry, wliorevei' l'|'?.~’l(llllg. by pub-

'l-isliing this order in the I‘~!orwalk Gazette. a

weekly newspn per publislmd in Norwalli in said

county, three weeks snciscssively. and that. the

first pui lication he in said newspaper issued

within ten days next after the date (If'lIllS‘Ol'LlFt‘,

anrl that a C( inplianoe with this order shall be

sufficieiit notice to all of said creditors wherever
l'f‘.~‘lllIllg, and to all of said heirs residing out of
this State. to bring said petition to trial at tho

tvrm of said court to which it ismiide iotui'na-

blc» Dated at {\'orwalk this 3d day of January

1852. THOMAS ROBINSON,

Clci-li of the Superior Court
in and for Fziirfield County.

 

To the Probate (‘curt fin‘ the District of Nor-
wal/: :
VE-‘HE application of DANIEL G. \V-EED
of N I-‘W‘C2llltillll in said district.i'cspi=::tfully
slioweth that he is lawful guardinii to l‘~'lary D.
Gr9gi)i'y, Ann A. Gregory, /tlmer G. Gregory,_
and Staplieii '0. Gregory, minors holon,r_-iug to
said district, and that said minors are the owners
ol thefollowing iveal 't‘.SItll(‘,Slll]tIl(’.(l in said New
Ca naau, to wit‘: it certain piece of land at Silver
Mine so called, in quantity seven acres, more
or less, with the buildings tlii-roon standing.
-bounded noi't‘he:'ly by Perry .Bcers and Polly
Hyatt, easterly by Polly Hyattiind Stephen
Hyatt, southerly by Alfred -Free and Stephen
Bishop. and westerly by Ill,!_'_l1Wtly. Also, a cer-
taiin other piece of land at \Vlioi'tleberrV Hill
so calls-d. in quantity fifteen acres more or loss,
bounded northerly by \Viu. L. Waring. easter-
ly by Part-ing Brook so tcailled. so-utherly by
Darius St. John. and westerly by higliwny.
And he further says that the estate is at
present unproducti'vo; that the avails thereof
are wanted or the support, maintenance and
education of said m1'noi'.~:. and that it will be for
the ail-vantage of said ininors to S?” the same.
and invest the avails thereof according to law-;
wherefore he 8ll_’-/‘S that tliere is just and reas-
onable cause ‘for si-‘ilivug the same. He tlii-,re-
fore prays the court to orrlor siiid real estate t-o
be sold. and to empower him or some 0l'l'lPI'
meet person to sell the same. pursuant to the
statute in such case made and provided.
Dated January 10th. 1852
DANIEL G. WEED. Guard-inn.
District of No'rwaJ./c«.P'robate Cou'rt,ss January
10172. 1852.
0r(lerccl——Tliat. the fbwgoing application be
heard and dotei'mim=.il at the Probate Offire in
Norwalk on the 27th day of March. 1852, at
9 o’clock forenoon; and that notice thercof be
published in some public newspaper near the
place wl'i~ere such real estate lies. three weeks
successively, at least six weeks before-. said time
assigned. GEORGE A. DAVENI’0'R'l‘,
2 dudge.

Schooner for Sale.

Tl-IE schooner Minerva is oli'oi'erl
for sale. She cui'i'ies over 100 gross
,_, tons, and is in good sailing condition.--
 flll'i.l1Fl‘ pai'ticuliirs, enquire at the
store of. F. H. Nash, or of the subscriber.

D. K. NASH.

South Norwalk, Dec. 12th. 1851. 50

Ready for Winter.
JUST rot-oiveda Ill|'g8 and splendid lot of
Robes, Bells and Bliiiilmts. mill and exam-
\VM. B. SWAN.

_ Skates.
FINE and low priced Skates, forsiile by the
doz or retail by
STREET 6: QUINTARD.

l_)OCKE'I‘ dc TABLE CUTI.F.'RY com-
prising a variety of New Patterns. at pri-
ces a little lower than they have Illl.l‘6l'l0 been
offered in this market. For Sale by
D. FINCH.

Bay Water,
ISTILLED by A.A. I<‘rencb, St.'I‘homas
\V. I., and warranted gonuine,for sale by
the gallon or bottle by J. A. WE ED.

Books I
UST rec’d in large assortment. of toy and
fancy books, stationery, 6cc., selected ex-

pvossly for the coming holidays.
W. E. BISSELL.

Sleigh Bells.
 Sleigh Bells. assorted from no. 0. to
' 10 comprising, rough, polished and
silver plated, loose and on straps. for sale by
STREET dz QUINTARD.

I UGARS very cheap. 3000 lbs BUTTER
for sale cheap at S. E. OLMSTEAD.

UST REC’D, a large lot of shoemaker:

 

 

ine them.

Fopsata 5;: l:IR.‘s‘Iv¢:.IJ-'L, drug.

3”“ E‘?’n9l'3ll'»' ‘-9 3-‘J: U. 5.22:? Canadas.

loathe!‘ Sims ":*:°.I“i:‘;=.”4.”t’.. .m....«_

i LA1;4LIA._~.¢ ..---......_...,.

Fel)l’lmI'y. 185:2, against Aurelia Chamhars, "

‘ POETRY.

Farewell to a Rural Residence.
BY MRS. L. H. SIGOURNEY.

How beautiful it stands.
Behind its elm tree's screen,

\Vith pure and attic cornice crowned,
All graceful and serono.

Most sweet, yet said, it is,
Upon yon scene to gaze

And list its inborn mclody
The voice of other days.

For there, as many a year
its varied rliart unrolled,

IIll('(l mo in those quiet shades
And called the joys of old ;

I called them and they came,
Where vernal birds appeared,

_Or wheie the vine clad summer bower
Its temple-roof appeared.

Or where the o’er watching grove
Spread forth its copses green,
\Vhile the eye bright and asclopias
reared -.
Their untrained stalks between-—
And the squirrel from the bough
Its broken nuts let fall,
And -the merry. merry little birds,
Sang at his festival.

Yon ol-l forsaken nests.
Iieturniug spring shall cheer.
And thence the unfledged robin send
His greeting wild and ¢-.lear--
And lroin yon clustering vine,
That wreaths the casement round,
The humming bird's unrest-ing wing
Sends forth ii whispering sound-—

A nd whore alternate springs
The lilirc’s purple spire,

Fa:-it by_its snowy sister's side,
Or where with wings of fire,

The kingly oriolo glancing went
Amid ‘the foliage rare,

Shall many a group of children trend-
But in-i-no will not be there.

Fain would I know what forms
The imistei'y here shall keep;
What mother in my nursery fair
Rock her young babes in sleep;—
Yet blessings on tho ha!-lowed spot,
Though here no more I stray,
And blessings on the stranger babes
Who in tiiose hulls shall play.

Heaven bless you too, my plants,
And every parent-bird.

That here among the nest-led boughs,
Above its young hat-ll .~‘tirr(-.d—

I kiss your trunks ye ancient treros,
'I‘liat often ~o’or my head

The -blossoms -ofycur floivery spring
In fragrant showers have shed.

Thou too. of changefnl mood,
I thank thee. sounding stream. .
That blcnt thine echo with my thought,
Oi woke my musing drea-m-—
I kneel upon the verdant turf,
‘For suie -my thanks are due,
To moss-cup and to clover-leaf
That gave me draughts of dew.

To each poreninal flower
Old tenants of this spot.
Tho broad leafed lilly oftho valc
And the mock foi'gel-me-not—--
To every daisy's dappled brow,
To every violet blue,
Thanks! thanks"! may each returning
year
Your changel ess bloom renew’

Praise to our father God—- 5
High piaise in solemn lay-—

Alikn for what his hand hath given,
And what it takes away-

And to some other loving heart
May all this beauty ha

The dear retreat. the Eden homo
It long —hath been to me.

 

“A Household Dirge.” ..
BY R. A. STODDAIID.

I've lost my little May at last,
She perished in the spring,
Wheii earliest -floweis liogiip to bud,
And earliest birds to sing.
I laid her in a ~counti'y-grave,
A green’ and soft retreat,
A marble tablet o'er her head,
And violets at her feet.

I would that she was back again,
In all her childish bloom.

My joy and hope have followed her,
My heart is in her tomb.

I know that she is gone away,
I know that she is tied,

I miss her everywhere, and yet
I cannot think her dead.

I wake the children up at down,
And say a simple prayer,

And draw them round the morning meal,
But one is wanting there.

I see a little chair apart.
A little piniil'ore,

A_nd memory fills the vacancy,
As time will‘ nevei'inoi'e.

I sit within my quiet. room,
Alone. and write for hours,

And miss the little maid again
Among the. window-flowers;

And miss her with her toys. beside
My desk in silent play,

And then I turn and look for her,
But she has flown away.

I drop my idle pen, and bark
To catch the faintest sound.

She must be playing hide and seek
In shady nooks around.

She’ll come and climb my chair again,
And peep my shoulder o’er-— V

I hear a stifled laugh-—but no,
She cometh nevermore.

I waited only yesternight
The evening service read.

And lingered for my idol’s kiss
Before she went to bad;

Forgetting that she had gone before,
In slunibers soft and sweet,

A monument above her head,
The violets at 1103' foot!

MISCELLANY.
W’:-itlm for the Gazette.

BARTON ;
A STORY OF OLDEN TIMES.
——in rat: INVISIBLE.-—'

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CHAPTER V.

Mr. Gray and his daughter had just fin-
ished their evening meal and were sitting in
the port, enjoying the quiet of the sunset
hour in New England. The thoughts of
the father were busy with the stirring events
of the times, and, as he watched the smoke
slowly curling from his pipe, his memory re-
called the forms of those with whom he had
stood, side by side, in what, even then, was
called the old French war. For some time
neither spoke, but at last the old man uttered,
half to-himself, and half to his companion-—
“yes! I remember Daniel Clinton-—Iet me
see; I was with biiniat Louisburg and else-
where, and once we were both in old Pui’s
corps. Dan Clinton was a whole-souled
-fellow-a man, every inch of him——but this
son of his; he looks like Dan after all. Dan
was good looking and all the girls used to
run aftei bim—-but somehow there's some-
thing in this youngstei"s face that I don’t
like. Mary, what say you—l'd rather trust
toa woman’; judgment as to looks than a
man's, after all, though she be only kind of
gal-like——Mury,.whose face is the hon;-stest,
Harry’s or this young Clinton’: '1”

“Father!” said the girl, “ how can you
compare them ? Harry Barton is the most—"
she checked herself, while, in the twi-
light, the blush maniled to her cheek.

“ Mary” said the old man gravely, “l
have seen that the intimacy between you
and Harry Barton, was ripening into some-
thing more than mere friendship. You
know that [warned you of this long ago___
You know that I have said to you that! nev.
or could consent to receive him as a future
son-in-law. You said then that he had new-
er professed any stronger feeling than friend-
ship for you. How is it now? You turn
away your head—-has Harry, then, made
you proffer: of love P”

For a moment the girl was silent ; then
-looking full in nor futher‘s face, she replied,
“ he has, father ; for the first time, to days
Harry spoke something of the kind you in-
quire about. And I, father, I said to him
that such words must never pass between
‘him and me ; that I could never be aught to
him Save 8 friend,” her voice trembled and
tears suflitsed her eyes as she proceeded, “ I
‘know it was your will, Father, that it should
be so and I obgyed."

“My noble girl!" exclaimed Mr. Gray,
“ I have kept you in the dark too long.—-
I have dreaded to pollute your ears with the
story of my wrongs. Listen now, Mary,
while] tell you something of your mother.”

“My mother!” said the maiden, "my
-mother! oh! Fathei',I have never heard
you speak of her before, and when I have
sometimes asked you about her, you have
made me no reply-” _

“ No, my child,” said her father, “ it was,
it is, a painful subject. But I wish my
daughter to know the reason of my conduct.
Mary.I married early in life a woman whom
I loved ;she was beautiful and admired, and
Iwasa proud man when I won her. She
was mine; she seemed to love me, to be
devoted to me, and the first year of our wed-
ded life was a period of unclouded happiness.
Something more than a twelve month of
uninterrupted felicity had elapsed when you
were born. As we looked upon your infant
features,’ our mutual affection seemed to
grow stronger. Another year passed by,
and then the blight came. A company of
British soldiers Pissed through the town on
their way to some distant fort. They left
behind them a sick officer. His name was
Barton. He had been here but a short time
when [was requested to receive him into
my house during his convalescenca. He
came. He was young, perhaps thirty years
of age, and, as he said, was, thus early, a
widower. As he gained in health, he talked
of his boy, who, be told us, be had left be-
hind him in New York. If be bad the so-
ciety of that boy, he thought he would be
entirely happy. His own health improved
rapidly. and finally he talked of sending
for his child, I told him to do as he wished,
but,t'or a long period, he did not to my know-
ledge, send foi the boy. He grew intimate
with my wife, yet I feared nothing. He
rode out with her, be accompanied her to the
Bridge, and, as I afterwards learned, the vi!-
lage began to gossip about it. One day, on
my return home, he told me that he expec-
ted little Harry very soon. I had occasion
at that time to leave home for several days.
The next. morning 1 went. It so happened
that my absence was shortened and I came
back about noon of the day after. When I
entered the house, not a human being was
there. Even you were missing. I went. to

my nearest neighbor’: and there I-f<3l_1_l:1_<_I_lI19

servant with you in her arins. “Where is
Mrs. Gray?” said I. The girl replied that
your mother, Lieuz. Barton and his boy left
my house in a carriage within an hour past
and that she, the servant, had come ova; to
my ne.ighbor’s to spend the day. “ But where
are they gone,”I asked. The girl knew not
but my neighbor’s wife shook her head mea-
ningly and replied, and said “I don’t think
you need to wait for them; tbcy won‘! come
if you do.” Then, for the first time a terri-
ble suspicion crossed my mind. I question-
ed the woman and the servant; the suspicion
grew stronger. A thousand before unnoticed
circumstances suggested themselves to my
memory. I was told that an English cutter
was lying off Sassomoc’s Point,that the car-
riage had driven in that direction, and with-
out stopping to inquire more, I rushed from
the house, mounted my horse and rode for,
the cabin of the Indian. It was then where
it is now. I found Sassomoc sitting at his
door, and Isaw just outside of the Islands
the British cutter lying at anchor. I told
my story briefly, and the chief, as we used
to call him, and myself got into his canoe
and puiled for the vessel. We reached her,
No Lieut. Barton, no woman or child was
there. We started back, and as we returned
we saw a sail boat approaching. As it drew
near, I recognized Barton and my wife. I
was halt mad. Isaw him clasp his arms
about her waist, and I thought kiss her; they
were near us: she started up, and I, infuria-
ted at the sight, I seized the gun of Sasso-
moc and fired at Barton. God of heaven!
my daughter, that shot slew your mother !—
The sail boat passed so close as almost to
touch us; I sprang‘ iuto it,I knew not how,
and involuntarily clasped my bleeding wife
in my arms. “ John,” said" she faintly,
“ dear John ! good bye! I am innocent, ask
him I” and she feebly pointed to Barton and

-—expircd. In another instant my hand
was at the villain’: throat. I did not
kill him, but I made him confess.

He had inveiglcd my wife into it sailing ex.
cursion, taking his boy with them, and had
pre-arranged to decoy her on board the cut-
ter and carry her off. He knew that her
virtue was unassailable, he had never dared
to whisper his infamous schemes in her ears,
and at last had resorted to this desperate
stratagem. VVhen he had finished Iflung
him from me, and again madly embraced the
lifeless and bleeding form ofyour mother —
I was amused from my stupor by a wild
Fe”; 1 looked up and saw Barton falling
from the bow of the boat, and Sazsomoc. gall“
grasping a blood-stained knife in his hands.
I recollect little more. ' The Indian must
have turned the course of the boat and bro’:
us in. Sassomoc too took the boy, [ hope
my wife home careless of what might hap-
pen. The people seemed to understand it ;
she was buried, and I held my peace. Never
since then, till now, have I told the tale.-—
The boy was Harry Barton; the father was
the attempted aeducor and ravisher of your
mother.”

“ My father! my poor father!” said the
girl, clasping his arms around his neck and
kissing his forehead, “and you have endured
the sight and presence of Harry for so many
years ! Yet I do not believe that you,
father, can think evil of Harry.”

“ He seems to be a noble, generous fellow
—-but so did his father seem ; no, no, Mary,
I have nought against Harry but his pater-
nity. Think, however, whether I can or
ought to receive him into my family; I, al-
most the slayer of his father, and that father
the attempted ravisher and real murderer of
your mother, for though my hand fired the
shot, his devilish villainy was the immediate

cause.”
“ It shall be according to your wish, my

father,” said the girl, “ but I must tell you the
tiufh; I love Harry, love him with my whole
soul, and I could myself bury in oblivion
your terrible story, and with him be happy.
"But. this he knows not and, from my lips’
will never know it now; we have been
heretofore all in all to each other-—you and
l——father, we must be still more so in the
future.”

M r. Gray rose from his seat and paced the
room in silence for a few moments. ?‘I
feared it would be so—-I feared it,” said be,
“poor girl! and Harry is a brave, gallant,
patriotic fellow, too. He does not know his
parentage, however. No, no ! I cannot ;
were! to place my daughter’: hand in his,
the scene in that boat would iisc up before
me vivid as reality, and I should go mad
Mary, we will live for each other. Good
bye ; I go to the Bridge and shall not proba-
blytreturn till dark.” Saying these words
Mr. Gray took his bat and left. the room and
the house, while tho maiden was left alone
with her sorrow. _

' - CHAPTER. VI.

The bullet from Clinton's pistol had

pierced the brain of the horse on which Har-

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tv Barton rode, a sudden motion of the ani- K
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mal’s head at the instant of the dischargo of
the weapon having probably saved our hemp.
life. The‘ Indians rowed quickly up “,1
soon extricated him from; his situation, and
drew him into their canoe.

“The scoundrel !” exclaimed Barton, “ to
shoot my poor horse,” and he looked vvist-
fully at the lifeless animal, now floating
““'a}’ "P0" the tide. “But it’: no time to
5l°P 701' lainentations or execrations now.
Whither did he go, Sassomoc ?”

“ He went up on the beach toward the
f°“"¢ Y°ndel'. The darkness prevented my
seemg him 5"’: but I heard the clatter of:
horse's feet.” I

“ He was mounted then, was he 7 And ta
h°P° to overtake him would be fruiileu.
Aha‘ hmle 1!. I have it; lcan guess whither
he WI“ bflld hi8 flight. Sassomoc, Nattick,
leave the canoe here and come with me n

The three disembarked,und having drawn
the canoe high upon the sands, depgrted in
pursuit of Clinton. '

The latter individual bad, in the mean.
time, reached his horse, the sound of whose
hoofs its he gulloped away had f;-,1!“ upon
the quick ears of Sassomoc. Not loud, but
id"“'P3 WE‘-T8 the curses of the fugitive as h.
hurried on with headlong speed. “I must
see her to-night, that’: certain,” he muttered,
"ll"? 8"m8'8 up now for me in this town.
If Pm 599" again In the Village, I shall be
tarred and feathered; perhaps hung as 3 ,py_
I wish to heaven I had Jim Baggs her; now,
I’d carry her off to~night. I wonder if the
old man is at home; d_n it; | can on],, go
and see.” A short time brought him :0 Mn
GI'3Y’S gate; and hastily fastening his horse,
he entered the lawn and knocked at the door
Oflhe house. Mary Gray herself answered
the summons, and us, by the light of thy
candle which she held in her hand, she ob.
S9l'Ved the wet and soiled garments of the
visitor, she started in undisscmbled astonieh-I
ment. “ You will excuse my ab;-uh; ap.
pearance and disfigured attire I hope, Mia;
Mary.” said Clinton; “I have tried an ex.
periment in boating, and as I am a poor
sailor at the best, I have got well ducked for
iny pains.”

“ COW-‘ in: MI‘. Clinton,” replied the girl,
“ my father will be home soon, I auppope,”
and she led the way to the sitting-room,
while Clinton muttered between his teeth,
“ 800d 3 the old devil has gone to the Bridge
for a certainty.”

When Clinton had seated himself, the
maiden placed fuel upon the smouldering
fire, in the huge old fashioned chimney plac.
and invited her visitor to draw near to tho
cheerful blaze which soon diffused its plain.
ant warmth through the room.

“My stay must be short, Miss Mary,"
said he, “ I leave Norwalk for the city in
the morning, and have some preparation to
make after‘ I reach my lodgings at the
Bridge.”

“ My father has gone into the village,”
replied the girl,“ but I expect his return
momentarily ; he will wish to bid the ton of
his old friend good bye ” A

“ Ah ! Miss Mary '; it seem: then that I
am nothing but ‘ the son of his old friend‘
here; you used those words this morning in
bidding me welcome to your house. Will
you hear and forgive me if I speak my feel-
ings to you, Miss Mary 2 Pardon my ab-
ruptness; my time is short. Nay! do nct
interrupt; at least hear if you cannot for-
give. I have known you long now, and I
speak frankly and unceremoniously, I Iovc
you ; will you be my wife '1”

“ Mr Clinton,” Said the maiden, “it grieve:
me to wound your feelings ; you do mo, 8
poor country girl, too much honor in expres-
sing the sentiments you have ; let its drop
the subject and forget. the words you have
uttered.”

“ No, no, Mary, I say no !" exclaimed her
companion, passionately, “ let me have my
doom at once, fully and uiraservedly. Par-
don me again; must I abandon all hope '1"

“Of what you have namfd, you must sir.
Let us talk no more cf it; if it be painful to
you, it is equally so to me.”

“Mary Gray!" said the spy, rising, “ I
love you devotedly, I have offered you fair-
ly. Consider once more. I am young, I
am wealthy, ay-, and Ihave high favor in
New York. Listen, this rebellion in the
the Colonies, must bé, will be crushed. I
am no rebel, you start—I have never said
that l was, though I have never in this hot
bed of treason thought it necessary to dis‘
close my real sentiments, and if people have
taken it for granted that I was a traitor to
his Majesty, that is their own fault. Hear;
me out; I say this rebellion will be crushed.
I am in favor with the British general it ,
New York, and when King George all! ‘,1!
have conquered his unfaithful subjects, v ,.,-u
not you need a friend whose good word’ ma
save some one whom you love’, a filth! ;- 0,,
perhaps some other 7 I have: ‘“ ‘hi’ s 3,0,.

;' onfme‘ ‘ "5 ' ‘Q3’.
mar? 19 my r-..--- ‘-3- °- 5°": Henry