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One fituuv, 16 lines or less. of Brevier, 1 insertion S 75 do do do do do do 55 do do _ do do do 3 do 1 00 Per month, for continuance. thereafter - - - ' 1 00 Yearly advertisers, restricted to their own legitinuitle.) 00 business or s unre iucludin :1 )er, pm‘ Y9-"l" Those averfnging ‘ sqrs: standingg £L1fI\‘IC‘1'l.lS8lllQllI do 15 00 One, Column per your. subject to 4 change.-' .- 50 00 Special or Iiilitori.-il Notices. per sqr. each insertion 1 00 0b_ltno;ry Notices, Resolutions. &c. clini-god at M0"? mt“- . 1 I. IIUSINESS I)lREC‘l‘0RY. ”.f.”i-2 ‘r-o‘aT'i-ii. Atmrnoy and Counselor at Law, OFFICE OVER .M.4LLORY’S STORE, Norwalk, Conn; Attorney and Counselor at Law N or-walk Conn. roan A!JS'.l'I:1\l”S BAiill,,ERl,AN.RO0MS Over D. 8: N. Depot. _; NORVVALK, L i k on e s s e s Wa':ranted to please all Good Images. WM. D. I-IAIG-HT,"| Late Lockwood, Haight «I: Go.) .u.ixUi-‘.icTi'Ri»:n or TIN SHEET IRON & COPPER “xv/’[email protected]>@s3 9 AND DEALER IN \\/ '-Stoves, Castcbzgs, B7-ittania, Japamzed, Crockery, C/ulna, .PorceZaz'72., and I/Voodcn Wci7'es, And Housekeeping Articles. NORIVALK, CO.\:N. Near the D. if’. N. Rail Road. 0. &. E. K. LOCKWOOD, NORIVALK, CONN, .\lA)iUl-‘AC'l‘l7RERS oi-‘ TIN, SHEET IRON & COPPER %‘@;:z=@&-39 AND DEALERS IN States, Ranges. Furnaces, Cutlery, Britannia, Porcelaviiz and Wboclen Ware, and Kilc/zeoz F m'm‘m7'c in generzzl, P21272323, Sheet Lead Lead Pipe, C;1_'_oc/cevry, Glass and Clmza I'Va7'e. Norwalk Post Office. Mail C'Ieses—\VES1‘, 6.45 “ “ EAST, 8.45 Mail Due--Wiasr, 9.30 .i. “ “ E.is'r, 7.30 A. .\l. 2.4:) P P. .\I. , . .\l. R. A. IVILLIAMS, 1’- N- American and Foreign Agency, IN WASHINGTON, D. C. ' TIIE undersigned offers his services in the prosecution of Claims before Congi‘eSS and the several l)cpartments_, and-for the transact- ion of any business requiring attention at the Capitol. _ Persons having business with the Patent, lu- ilian‘, Land, or Pension Ofiiccs, oi- any of the Depnrtments of the Government, or in the Su- 'preine Court of the United States, may ri-1 y on a prompt and faithful attention to tlicir iiitcrcsts. _Enjoying an extensive I<‘orc_igii acqiiaiiitaiice. ‘I will undertake and be responsible for the safe transmission of Stocks, or Money, to ziiiv por- tion of Europe; and attention will be paid to the collection of Foreign Claims. Correspondents will be furiiishcd with special references in whatever State ‘they may reside, and in the prominent cities of Europe. JOS. C. G. KEN\’El)Y, Ofice on H street, bctwccn Ninth mid ’l‘cutli. CE ./IIJR./9L REFERE.NC'ES' . WASHINGTON. Hon. J mm W. AIAURY, Mayor. Baron VON Gsnom, Prussian Minister. -. Hnxui Boscii Sri-:.\'ci~:n, Belgian Minister. Gen. Wi.vriEi.o Scorr. GAI.ES &. Sr).-uiox. Coiicoiuv dz Rioos, Bankers. CIIUBB BROTHERS, Bankers. 'Si~:LnE.\', Wrrui-:ns &. Co., Bankers. JOSEPH HENRY. LL. D. LONDON. _ _ _ Jossru R. IxG1ciisoi.i., American Miiiistm-. The PRl.'.~<lSI.-\.\' Minister. , Lient. Col. Svki-is, East India Company. Jossrii HUME’, M. I’. ' ALB. F0I\'BI.A.\'QlTl-I, Board of Trade. EDWIN ClI.«\DWlCl{, Board of Health. Quonois Puuionr. Banker. PARIS. LEIPZIG, Sax. WII.LIA)( C. RIVES Dr. I“l.l'GEI. Timon. SAY , BERLIN. 'M. Di: Joxxiis Baron lIu_\iiioi.nr A. M. GUERRY M. Diirriziiioi Eon. LAFAYETTE Prof Vox RAUMER Livixos'rox,Wi:i.i.s til co IIAVRE. 3|;*30 Lon. l)ii.-iri-in. W. E. BISSELL OULD invite the attention of this and the ncigliboriiig coimnuiiity to his vast stock of goods, (to which additions are weckly being made,) comprising a full a_n(l general as- sortmcnt of FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC DRUG S, selected with the greatest care, and f min the best which the New York market will allbril. He has also 9. choice selection of Perfumery, Including Lubin’s extracts of all kinds, cologne water in a variety of styles, ctc. His stock of PATENT MEDICINES, Comprises an immense variety, principally of articles which have gained a rcputgation among the people, and are valuable medicinal prepara- tions. He would invite the attention oftlie ladies to his FANCY GOODS, which are too numerous to part-icularizc, and which for taste and elegance are beyond all ri- valry in this vicinity. Very particular attention is paid to preparing PH_YSICIAN’S PRESCRIPTIONS, and supplying families with pure and unadulte- rated medicines. His prices will compare la- vorably with those of any other establismcnt. Pure Wines, Liquors, Scotch Ale and Porter, selected expressly for medicinal use. FEW Mons Lnrr, rite.’ original Smith’s - ' Razor Straps - the best] in the World, for . 8. at l)ISBROW’S Silversmith. V’ r:~.-~..:.~.;t°.is-..» ~ " vi _‘_;; -. ;--_i:._-.’ $2 00 50 WatchesJewelry, Silver and PLATED WARE. AM ha py to say to the public, that my new J clrlvelry Store at No. 2, Skiddy’s Bl’k., is still in successful operation, and the very lib- em] patroiiage bestowed is proof positive that goods are sold very cheap. . _ . I shall open on Monday In addition to my 'esent.large assortment, another much larger stock fine Gold and Silver Watches, Watch Chains, Seals, of keysladics’ ear rings and pins, finger rings, &c._. together with a large lot of Yankee Notions. I will sell Gold Lcpiu Watches 18 carrot ca- ses, for $20 Gold Anchors, 13 jewels, 25 Silver Patent Levers, 20 “ Patent Levers, full jeweled, 25 “ Anchors 13 jewels, 12 “ “ jewels, hunting cases, 15 " Lcpines, 4 jewels, warranted, 8 , . :‘ 4 jewels, hunting cases, 12 And all other Watches in proportion, chains, seals, keys, rings, &c., will also be sold less than can be bouglit in Norwalk. Silver spoons made under the direction of Mr L. Clark—warranted pure and fashionable. Plated Spoons and forks in any quantity handsomely engraved. Knives, scissors, port monies, razors’ tea bells, Sc. plated and britau- nia ware, cake baskets, castors, the. Watch repairing, engraving on spoons, cotlin plates, rings, &c.. will be done by Mr. L. Clark, who gives his undivided attention. and the con- stant incrcasc of watch work, engraving, job- bing, &c., is sure proof that the public appre- ciate his skill nud punctuality. O. S. CLARK. Be sure to call at Clark’s New Jewelry Store, No. 2 Skiddy’s block, sign of the red watch. Norwalk, June 24, 1853. THE NEW Cash Store !! One of the best seasona- S now opened. ble stocks of Dry Goods ! Ever offered to the citizens of Norwalk, we are now selling for One Price ! to all our customers, upon a new system, of the CASI-I DOWN from everybody, for cverytliing, which pre- vents the possibility of any loss for our paying patrons, to make up, as well, as the great loss in extra. clerk hire, &c., consequent upon the credit system. We therefore announce that we Will ‘Sell Goods Cheaper than any Credit Establishment can sell.—“ A word to the wise,” &c. PLATT & NASH. Norwalk, May 28th, 1853. New G5-oods. ECEIVED and now ready for inspection an ) Immense Stock of Dry Goods, Carpeting and Carriage Goods, purcliased before the re- ccnt advance, and will be sold at extremely low prices, my Stock of Ladies’ Dress goods, is full and complete. Merchant Tailors, Can be supplied at i\Ianufiictii1'e1"s prices, and have an extensive assortment to select from. Carriage Makers, will find my goods, good, my assortment large, and many of the goods being received direct from i\laui1factiii'ei's, will be sold at far less than jobbing prices. Gentlemen, will find everything they may want in the way of Cloths, Cassinicrcs, Vcstiug. Hosiery, Gloves, Cravats, I-ldkfs., &c., in quality the Best, in quantity the Largest, and at the lowest prices. Ladies, will find our assortincut of Dress Goods and Fancy Articles, French Needle Work, Hosiery, Gloves, I-ldkfs., Dress ’l‘rimiiiiugs, and an and- less variety of goods at very low prices, and our goods we will freely show to all, and none urg- ed to buy, as we intend that our goods shall rccoiiimcud themselves, in Price, Quality and llcauty. Ladies can ‘also find every article in the Housekeeping Line, in the way of Carpeting, Linens, Damask Napkins, Doylics Table Covers, Slieetings. Ticking, Toweling, Curtain Materials of all kinds and qiialities, Cornisliing, Shades, Drug- gct Mat;tiii_r.r, and every article wanted in a well fiirnislicil House, in the Carpeting or -Fl1l‘lllSll- ing articles in the Dry Good or Upholstery line, cvcry exertion will be made to please and oblige our Patrons. C. J. GRUMAN. ‘-Will be sold less than can be bought in Norwalk.” I IIAYE a very large stock of GOLD and SILVER WATCHES, at prices low ac- cording to the qu.alil_i/. Also a large stock of Chains, Seals, Keys and J ewclry in any quan- tity, and of various patterns and prices. Gold Pciicils and Gold Pens. Very cheap Lockets, l'()1'llllOlllC.‘-‘-. Scissors, Knives, Ra'I.oi's, Soaps, Bi-iislics,'l‘liiuiblcs, Spcctacles,aii(l every variety of lhiucy :ui(l Toilet Goods. Sll.VElt and l“l.ATEl') WARES warrentcd and uuatly cugravcil without charge. We have 11 large lot of Silver Ware at prcsciit. Ii{llll]l.\.', Giraudolcs, Miintlepicccs, Orna- iiaiiiciits. Looking Glasses, and cvcrytliiiig iisunlly kept in a. large stock. I piircluisc New Goods cvcry week, pnyin_:; cash down, and thus save certainly 10 pcr cont. 1 select my (looils with my own haiuls and with care. Our al’faii's are so ai'i'aiigc(l that we know we can iitford Gooila as 10w for the quality as any cstablisliiiiciit in city or country. Our in- Cl'Cf\Sl11K W103 Woi‘\'ant us that the public are satisfied 1-lint we can sell riglit. To them we are ever gi':ilcl‘u1.,_ Call and sec at l)lSBl{(‘)\\"_. near the Bridge. Light ! L1ght 3 Ai\ll’S—Now that long evenings are coin- ing, look well to the quality and price of your lights. \\ c liave a most bcaiitiful article of niaiitlc and slaiul liuiips, =,l,l,i‘il tlicbcstqiuility of Buriiiiig Fluid ; iilsi), Giraiidolcs c:in(llc- slicks. maiitlc pcicc 01‘I.lf).ll'l0lltS, &c., at ' l)lSlllt0W’S. _HE]—al1-petings, on Cloths, I AND MA TTINGS. N the largest qiiantitics, may now be found at my store, consisting of ‘every variety of cimiuion liigmin, fiiic, supcrhiic a_iul l1lpl!Sll'_V' 'l‘lii-cc Ply, both Fnglish and Auicricaii ; l5i'iiss- (,'ll2~'. ll:-iis.-zclls’ 'l‘a.pcstry and V clvct 'l‘apesti'.i' Carpctiiig, ofcvory variety of pattern, quality and price ; also. Stair Carpeting, Dri_iggct Malls, ltiigs, &c., at the lowest possible prices. C. J. Glll;'.\l.-\.\'. Building Moving. 1_IAVI.\’G taken the building moving busi- iioss of C ’l‘i'iiiis, the subscriber is prepar- cd to move, and raise Biiililiiigs, with safety and dispatch. They can liave the assistance and advice. of C ’I‘i.'ims, at any time. All orders ailili'cssc.il to the subscriber, will uicct with prompt attention. ly3-I C H TUBBS, Norwalk, Conn. IIEET Lead and Lead Pipe C A: E l{ LOCKWOOD CROCKERY, Glass and China Wares ‘ C it E K LOCKWOOD Cement. [" BARRELS Cement just received and for sale by A CHICHESTER. -.-- . \/‘- -.-.-..... V--um-.--» -v\r\<.vs Shade T?‘ees.———L. Durand, of Derby, Conn., writes as follows to the editors of the Albany Cultivator: The subject of shade trees for the road side and the improvement of the appear‘ ance of farm houses and buildings, is of late years exciting more attention among the farmers. Yet the desire for the dec- oration of their houses is nothing like as general as it should be. Farmers, as a class are apt to fall into dull, monotiiious plodding life. Like other men, they want variety in their business, which would have a tendency to make life plea- sant and home happy. One of the best antidotes to cities and trials of life is to turn the mind to home and rural emble- lishmeuts. V One of the first steps in improvement is the planting of shade and fruit trees by the road side and around our houses.— If every farmer and landlord could be in- duced to plant trees along the borders of their land, the entire highway would soon become a delightful avenue. How grate- ful would this be to the traveller----what an addition to his comfort? The trees might be set at such :1 dis- tance apart as not to interfere with or in‘ jure the _9;i‘o\viug crops, and the fallen leaves which should be gathered in au- tumn for manure, would more than pay for the trouble. The great ilifiiculty is, that no one farmer in iiiucty-niiie feels in. terestcd enough to set out trees about his own house, to say nothing of the road side. Still, if one or two men of the right stamp could be found in every town, we think the object might be attained by for- ming tow u societies, by which funds could be raised for this purpose. [[33 The method of raising fruit trees by planting the SClOl'lS, is a great desidei“ atom in the art of obtaining good fruir,— It has many advantages over grafting, be_ cause it is more expeditious, and requires no stock or tree. They may be planted where they ate required to stand, and the labor of one day will be Slllllclellf. to plant out enough for :1 large orchard, af- ter the scioiis are obtained. The meth- od of preparing the plant is as follows: Take the scion as for grafting, at any time after the lst of February, and until the buds begin to grow considerably, and dip each end of the shoot into the incltcd pitch, wax, or tallow, and bury in the grouiid, the buds uppermost, while. the body lies in a horizontal position, and at the depth of two or three inc-l.c.=. \\'c are informed, that, trees oliiaiiicil in this way bear in four years from the time of planting. \Vc have no doubt of the practicability of this mcilioil of raisiiig fruit. A geiitleiiian in this vicinity, last season, planted about twenty scioiis of of differeiit kinds of pears, which uppeiir to flourish. Apple Trees /rillccl [z3/,PoZa.s‘/1..——l\Icd- icines become poisons. The New England Furnier mentions the case of an orchard of one liiiiidred and six thrifty Baldwins, that were washed with a solution of a pound of potash in a gallon of water. in excess The owner found in two days that he had killed the whole of his beau‘ Liful and valuable trees. asncs in water are strong enough. Soap suds or Gua- no is an excellent thing for trees, and salt but it is one of the easiest things in the world to kill trees will] them in excess. is sometimes good ; A Great Peach Orc/za7‘d.-—Mi'. Bate- ham, of the Ohio Cultiv'.itoi', has recent- ly had an opportunity of examining :1 Peach orcliurd set out six years by a Mr. Davis, ofM'ilforil, Clcrmout County, Ohio. Mr. Batcmaii says: It is the finest fruit he ever saw. One liun lrcd acres of grouiid are covered with In 18:30, they averaged one basket, or three quarters of per ncre, which hail brouglit ten tlioiiszind peach trees. a l)llSli(3l him tan film:/,.vu.7/.(Z rlollmzs. his land and trees and soinctliing to sparc, This paid for East year there was no fruit. This year they will average three baskets to a tree, They readily sell for from -571,25 to 1,50 per basket- The crop of this season will bring liign $30,000, with :1 net profit of $25,000. ValzzcofC'm'7'0ts.——Cnttle hccoine ac customeil during summer, to grecii food, and when kept altogether on buy or oth- er dry foilder, they cause to take on flesh with great rapidity. The use of carrots, piirticiiliirly, should be iur.i'o<liiced. Cnrror.s for horses are now the01-Lljn;1ryi'il‘aCllCe0fCVCII the liv- ery stoble keepers of the larger cities. A bushel of carrots and a bushel of cats full equal as food for the horse two buslr els of outs; for although carrots do not contain the same anioiiiit of nutrimeiit by mc:isiii'c as the oat.-7, still their pectic acid gelatiuizes the contents of the stom- ach of the animal, and enables to be en- tircly digested, Too much money is paid out by farm- crs for gniiu for their milcli cows. There must be a more geiicrul resort to roots to be fed with good English hay; when these are given in suflicieiit quantity to carry the stock through the winter, there may be profit in producing milk for the From the Jfmerzcan .7lIcsscnger. The New School-House. Father of Wisdom, bless the dome That liberal hands have made So beautiful for those who seek Iustruction’s fostering aid ; And grant them here such wealth to gain, From learning’s priceless lore, As gilds the mind, though glittering gold Fleets, to return no more. In groups they come : the earnest boy, Fast by his sister’s side ; And t-ottering on with wondering joy, The uursery’s youngest pride: From hall and cot they freely come, A glad and studious band, The hope of many a parent’s heart, The jewels of the land. Father of Mercics, bless the band That here, in youthful bloom, Shall lamb-like by their teachers stand, When we are in our tomb ; And may they, through thy Spirit's aid, That holy knowledge prize Which wins the soul a glorious home When this frail body dies. L. H. A Household Dirge. BY R. H. STODDARD. A six yeiir:~i’ loss to Paradise- And ne’cr on earth the child grew older.—'l‘. 13. READ. I've lost my little liar at last ! She perislied in the Spring, When earliest flowers began to bud, And earliest birds to sing : I laid her in a country grave, A green and soft retreat, A marble tablet o’er her head, And violets at her feet. I would that she were back again, In all her childish bloom ; My joy and hope have followed her, My heart is in her tomb! I know tliat she is gone away, I know that she has fled ; I miss her everywhere, and yet I cannot think her dead ! I wake the cliildren up at dawn, And say a. simple prayer, And draw them round the morning meal, But one is wanting there : I see it little chair apart, And little pinaforc ; And Memory fills the vacancy. As Time will—iievcrmoi'e! l 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 silciit play ; And then I turn and look for her, But she has flown away I I drop my idle pen, and bark, And catch the faintest sound _; She must be playing hide and seek In shady nooks around ; She'll come and climb my chair again, And pccp my shoulders o'er ; I licar it stifled laugli——but no, Slic coinctli iicvcrinorcl I waited only yestcriiiglit, The evening service read, And lingered for my idol-'3 kiss Before she went to bed : Foigctting SllC lltl(l gone before, In slunibcrs soft and sweet, A monument above her head, And violcts at her foot. \I\l\/\/\/\/‘.‘\F4‘.‘/\/‘ *_P\/\ . .-A.-/C-,’v.AA.v-.s..,v,-A ax/sr\/\4‘J\ . V- Vvvvvwvv J‘/\/\I‘d‘./‘v - -.-1 “- From the ./V‘. Y. Daily Tribimc ./lug. 5. H 0 T C 0 R N . Or, Life in New York City. CHAPTER I. run i'iiis'r INTERVIEW WITH r.i'r'rLi-: KATY. “I-lot corn! Here’s your nice Hot Corn, smoking hot, smoking hot, just from the pot 3” Hour after hour, last eveiiiiig, as we sat over the desk, this cry came up in :1 soft, plaintive voice un- der dur window, which told us one of the ways of the poor to eke out the means of subsistence in this overbui'dened,ill fed and worse-lodged home of misery of so many without means, who constantly crowd- ingiiito the dirtiest purlieus of this noto- rious dirty city where they are exposed to the daily chance of death from some sudden outbreaking epidemic like that now desolatiiig the same kind of streets in New Orleans and s\valloiv'mg up its ilioiisands of victims from the same class of poverty-stricken, uncomfort.ably-provi- ilcd-for human beings, who know not how or have not the power to flee to the healthy hills and green fields of the coun- try. Here they live—-barely live--in holos almost as hot as the hot com, the cry of which rung in our cars from dark until midnight. "Hot corn, hot corn! here’s your nice hot corn,” rose up in a faint child-like voice which seemed to have been arous- ed by the sound of our steps as we were about entering the Park, while the City Hall clock told the hour when ghosts go forth upon their miilniglit rambles. We started as though :1 spirit had given us a rap, for the sound seemed to come out of the iron posts which stand as Sentinels over the main entrance, forbidding all vehicles to enter, unless the driver takes the trouble to pull up and tumble out of the way one of the aforesaid posts, which is not often done. because one of them often, if not always is out of its place, giving free ingress tn the court yard, or livery stable grounds of the City Hall, which, in consideration of the growth of a few miserable dusty brown trees and doubtful colored grass patches, we call “the Park.” _ Lookiugover the post we discover the owner of the hot corn cry, in the person of an emaciated little girl about twelve South Norwalk, August 22d. 34 market. years old, whose dirty frock was nearly TM the color of the rusty iron, and ‘whose face, hands and feet, naturally white and delicate, were grimmed with dirt until nearly of the same color. There were two white streaks running down from the blue eyes, that told of the hot scal- ding tears that were coursing their way over that naturally beautiful face. “Some corn, sir,” lisped the little suf- ferer, as she saw we had stopped to look at her, hardly daring to speak to one who did not address her in rough tones of command such as "give me some corn: you little wolf’s whelp,” or a name still more opprobrious both to herself and mother. Seeing we had no look of con- tempt for her, she said, pitioiisly, "please buy some corn, sir.” "No, my dear, we do not wish any; it is not very healthy in such warm weatlr er as this, and especially so late at night.’ “Oh dear, then, what shall I do ?” "VVhy, go home. It is midnight, and such little girls as you ought not to be in the streets of this bad City at this time of night.” “I can’t go home—and I am so tired and sleepy. Oh dear.” “ Cannot go home. Why not 1”’ “Oh, Sir, my mother will whip me if I go home without selling all my corn. Oh, sir, do buy one ear, then I shall have only two left, and I am sure she might let little Sis and me eat them, for I have not had anything to eat since morning, only one apple the man gave me, and one part of one he threw away. I could have stole a turnip at the grocery when I went to get something in the pitcher for mother, but I dare not. I did use to steal, but Mr. Pease says it is naughty to steal, and I don’t want to be naughty, indeed I don’t; and I don’t want to be a bad girl, like Lizzy Smith, and she is only two years older than me, if she does dress fine; “cause Mr. Pease says she will be just like old drunken Kate, one of these days. Oh, dear, now there goes a man and I did not cry hot com, what shall I do '?” “Do! There, that is what you shall do,” as we dashed the corn in the gutter. “Go home; tell your mother you have sold it all, and here is the money.” “Won’t that be a lie, sir? Mr. Pease says we must not tell lies." “No, my dear, that wont be a. lie, be- cause I have bought it and thrown it away instead of eating it.” “But, Sir, may I eat it then if you don’t want it.” "No, it is not good for you ; good bread is better, and here is a sixpence to buy a loaf, and here is another to buy some nice cakes for you and Sis. Now that is your money; don't give it to your mother, and don’t stay out so late again. Go home earlier, and tell your mother you cannot keep awake, and if she is a good mother she won’t whip you.” "Oh, Sir, she is a good mother some- times. But I am sure the grocery man at the corner is not a good man or he would not sell my mother rum, when he knows—for Mr. Pease told him so—that we poor children were starving. Oh,-- I wish all men were good men like him and then my mother would not drink that nasty liquor and beat and starve us, ’cause there would be nobody to sell her any— and then we should have plenty to eat.” Away she ran down the street towards that reeking center of filth, poverty and misery, the noted Five Points of New York. I As we plodded up Broadway, looking in here and there upon the palatial splen- dors of metropolitan “saloons”—we think that is the word for fashionable upper class grog-sliops—-we almost involuntari- ly cried “hot corn” as we saw the hot spirit of that grain, under the various guises of -‘pure-gin”—“old rum”—“pale brandy”—"pure port"—-“Heidsick” or “Lager-bier” poured down the throats of men——and ah, yes, of women too, whose daughters may some day sit upon the cold curbstone crying “hot com,” to gain a penny for the purchase of a drink of the fiery dragon they are now inviting to a home in their bosoms, whose cry in af- ter years will be “Give, give, give,” and still as unsatisfied as the liorse-leaches dauhters. Again, as we passed up on that street still busy and thronged at midnight, as a country midday intermission of church service, ever and anon from some side- street, came up the cry of “hot com I’’— and ever as we heard it, and eve as we shall thro’ all years to come, we though of that little girl and I18!’ drunken moth- er, and the “bad-man” at the corner gro- cery, and her’s was the best, the strong- est Maine Law argument which had ev_ er fallen upon our listening ear. Again as we turned the corner of Spring st., the glare and splendor of a thousand gas lights, and the glittering cut-glass of that for the first time lighted-up bar room of the Prescott House, so lauded by the Press for its magnificence, dazzled our eyes and almost blinded our senses to a degree of imagination that first class Ho- tels must have such Five Point denizen- making appurtenances as this glittering room, shamelessly inviting, open to the street; when that watch-word cry, like the pibroch’s startling pea], came up from the vicinity, wailing like a lost spir- it on the midnight air~—"Hot corn, hot corn, here’s your nice ‘not com, smoking hot-—hot, hot corn.” “Yes, yes! I hear you cry, it is a watch-word, a glorious watch-word, that bids us do or die, until the smoking, hot, fiery furnace like gates of hell, like this one now yawning before us, shall cease to be licensed by a Christian people, to send delicate little girls at midnight cry- ing *-Hot corn,” to support a drunken mother, whose first glass was taken in a ‘fashionable saloon,” or first class liquor selling hotel. "Hot corn,” then, be the watch-word of all who would rather see the grain fed to the drunkai-d’s wife and children than into the insatiable hot maw of the whis- key still. Let your resolution grow hot and strong every time you hear this midnight cry, that you will devote, if nothing more “Only three grains of corn, mother, Only three grains of corn,” towards the salvation of the thousand equally pitable objects as the little girl, whose wailing cry has been the inciting‘ cause of this present dish of “Hot Corn smoking hot !" CHAPTER 11. ran noun or LITTLE nrr. About a week ago we published a lit-. tle story under this title, detailing some of the sufferings which crime and misel ry bring upon the poor of this City, and hinted at the cause. That story is not yet finished. The next night after the interview with that neglected, ill-used little girl, the same plaintive cry of “Hot corn, hot corn, here is your nice hot corn came right up through the open window on the midnight air, while the rain came dripping down from the overcharged clouds in just sufficient quantity to wet the thin single garment of the owner of that sweet young voice, without giving her an acceptable excuse for leaving her post before her hard task was completed. At length the voice grew faint, and then ceased, and then we knew that exhaus- ted nature slept, that a tender house plant was exposed to the chilling influence of _a night rain, that an innocent little girl had the curb stone for a bed and an iron post for a pillow, that by and by she would awaken, not invigorated with refreshing slumber, but poisoned with the sleep in. haled miasma of the filth-rocking gutter at her feet, which may be breathed with impunity awake, but like the malaria of our Southern coast, is death to the sleep- er. Not soothed by a dreamy conscious- ness of hearing a mother's voice, tuning the soft lullaby of “Hush my child, lie still and slumber,” but starting like a sentinel upon a savage frontier post, with alarm at having slept, shivering with the night air and fear, and finally compelled to go home tremb- ling like a culprit, to hear the hard words of a mother—-yes, a mother, but, Oh !- what a mother, cursing her for not per- forming an impossibility, because ex- hausted nature slept because her child had not made a profit which would have enabled her more freely to indulge in the soul and body-destroying vice of drun- kenness, to which she had fallen from an estate when "my carriage,” was one of the "household words” which used to greet the young ears of that poor little death stricken neglected street sufferer.- It was past midnight when she awoke and found herself with a desperate efiort just able to reach the bottom of the rick- ety stairs which led to her home. We shall not go up now. In a little while, reader you shall see where live the City poor. Tired—-worn with the daily tail, for such is the work of an editor who caters for the appetites of his morning readers, we were not present the next night to note the absence of that cry from its ac- customed spot; but the next, and still on we listened in vain—that voice was not there. True the same hot corn cry, came floating upon the evening breeze across the park, or wormed its way -from some cracked fiddle voice down the street, up and around that corner; or out of some dark alley with a broken accent, that sounded almost as much like "lager bier’ as it did like the commodity the immigrant, struggling to eke out his precarious exis- tence, wished to sell. Allover this great poverty burdened and wicked waste ex- travagant City, at this season, that cry goes up, proclamating one of the habits of this late supper eating people. ‘Yes, we missed that cry. “Hot corn" was no longer like the music of a string. ed instrument to a weary man, for the treble string was broken, and, to us, the harmony spoiled. VVhat was that voice to us? It was but one of ten thousand, just as miserable which may be daily heard where human misery has its abode. That voice, as some others have, did not haunt us, but its absence, in spite of all reasoning, made us feel uneasy. VVe do not believe in spirit manifestations half as strongly as some of the nincompoops of this world would have their long-cared listeners think, yet we do believe there is a spirit in man, not yet made manifest. which makes us yearn after coexisting spirits in this sphere and this life, and that there is no need of going beyond it, seeking after strange idols. We shall not stop to inquire whether it was a spirit of "the first, third or sixth tninty that we should see or hear some- ‘thing of thejlost voice, for that spirit led j i cry in which we joined, thankful that was M A (.1 its ifs.---Qfistahlislph in lsflfl. us on; perhaps it was the spirit of gri- osity; no matter, it led, and we followed inthe route we liiidseen that little one go before, it was our only cue, we knew no name, had ro number, not knew no one that knew her whom we were going to find. Yes, we knew that good Missiona- ry, and she had told us of the good words which he had spoken, but would he know her from the hundred just like her ?— Perhaps. It will cost nothing to enquire We went down Centre-st., with a light heart—we turned into Cross-st., with a stop buoyed by hope ; we stood at the cor- ner of Little Water-st., and looked round inquiringly of the spirit, and mentally said, "which way now 1"’ The answer was a. far off scream of despair. We stood with anopen ear, for the sound of prayer, followed by asweet hymn of praise toGod, went up from the site of the Old Brew-. no longer the abode of all the worst crimes ever concentrated under one roof. Hark, a step - approaches. Our unseen guide whispered, "ask him.” It was a; curious question a stranger, in such a strange place, particularly one like him, haggard with over-much care, toil or mental labor. Prernaturely old, his days shortened by overwork in young years, as his furrowed face and almost phrensied eye hurridly indicates, as We see the flash of the lamp upon his dark visage, as he approaches with that peculiar American step which impels the body forward at railroad speed. Shall we get out of his way before he walks over us? What if he is a crazy man '3 No; the spirit was right, no false rap here. It is that good Missionary. That man who has done more to reform that den of crime the Five Points of New York, than all the Munic- ipal Autliorities of this Police-hunting, and Prison-punishing City, where mis- fortune is deemed a crime, or the unfor- tunate driven to it. by the way they are treated, instead of being reformed, or strengthened in their resolution to reform by hard words rather than Prison bars.- "Sir," said Mr. Pease, "what brings you here at this time of night, for I know there is an object; can I and you '3” “Perhaps, I don’t know—a foolish whim, a little child—one of the miserable, with a drunken mother.” "Come with me, then. There are many such. I am just going to visit one who will die before morning—a sweez little girl born in better days, and dying now, but you shall see, and then we will talk about the one you would seek to save.” We were soon threading a narrow al- ley where pestilence walketh in darkness and crime, wretched poverty and filthy misery go hand in hand to destruction. “Behold,” said our friend, “the fruits of our City excise. Here is the profit of money spent for licence to kill the body and damn the soul.” Proven by the ow. fiil curses and loud blows of a drunken husband upon a wife, once an ornament of society, and exemplary member of a Christian Church, that came up out of the low cellars, which human beings call by the holy name of home. The fetid odor of this filthy lane had been made more fetid by the late and al. almost scalding hot rains, until it seemed to us that such an air was only fit for a channel house. With the thermometer at 86, at midnight, how could men live in such a place, below the surface of the earth. Has rum rendered them proof against the effect of carbonic acid gas. We groped our way along to the foot of an outside stairs case, where our con- ductor paused for a moment. calling our attention to the spot. “Here,” said Mr. Pease, "the little sufferer we are going to see, fainted a few nights ago, and lay all night exposed to the rain, where she was found and beaten in the morning by her miserable mother, because she had not sold all her corn.” "Great and unknown Cause, hast thou brought us to her door?” Our friend started, but did not comprehend the ex- pression. "Be careful,” said he, “the stairs are old and slippery.” ‘,Beat her !” said we, without regard ing what he was sayintr. “Yes, beat her, while she was in a fe- ver of delirium, from which she has nev- er spoken rationally, since she was taken. Her constant prayer seems to be to see some particular person before she dies." “O, if I could see him once more, there there-that is him--no, no, he did not speak that way to me—he did not curse and beat me.” “Such is her conversation, and that in- duced her mother to send for me, but I was not the man. :‘VVill he come '!”— she says, every time Ivisit. her ; for think- ing to soothe and comfort her, I promised to bring him. We had reached the top of the stairs and ' stood a moment at the open door,- where sin andmisery dwelt, where sick- ness had come, and where death would soon enter. "Will he come '5” _-§ Afaint voice came up from a low bed in one corner, seen by the very dim lig h of a miserable lamp. That voice. We could not be mista- sphere,” that prompted us as we left our _—.. AT TWO DOLLARS PER AN N UM---IN ADVANCE {- VOLUME XXXVI.---NUMBER 38. * ideals one evening, to "go down among the la moment in the open air, for therefis ii 'abodes_of the poor, with a feeling of ar- iaqhoking sensgsion coming over us. ~ “Come in,” said our friend. "Will he come!” Two hands were stretching out im- ploringly towards the Missionary, as the sound of his voice was recognized. “She is much weaker to-night,” said her mother, in quite a lady like manner, for the sense of her drunken wrong to her dying child had kept her sober, ever since she had been sick, “but she is quite de- lirious, and all the time talking_ about some man that spoke kindly to her one night, and gave her money to buy bread." "Will he come?” “Yes, yes, through the guidance of the good spirit that guides the world, and leads by unseen paths, through dark pla- cjes, he has come.” The little emaciated form started up in bed, and a pair of beautiful soft blue eyes glanced around the room, peering through the semi-darkness, as if in search of some heard but unseen. '-‘Katy, darling, said the mother, "what so the matter P,’ "Where is he, mother? I heard him speak.” "Yes, yes, sweet little innocent, he is here, kneeling by your bed side. There lay down, you are very sick.” "Only once,‘ just once, let me put my arms around your neck, and kiss you just as I used to kiss papa. I had a papa once, when we lived in the big house- there, there——Oh, I did want to see you to thank you for the bread the cakes ;—I was very hungry, and it did taste so good, and little Sis, she waked up, and she eat. and eat, and after a while she went to sleep with a piece in her hand. and I went to sleep; havn’t Ibeen asleep a good while? I thought I was asleep in the Park, and somebody stole all my corn, and my mother whipt me for it,but I could not help it. Oh dear, I feel slee- py now. I can’t talk any more. I am very tired. I cannot see ; the candle has gone out. I think I am going to die. 1 thank you; I wanted to thank you for the bread—I thought you would not come, Good bye—Sissee, good bye, Sissee— you will ,come—mother—-don’t drink—— any more—-Mother——good b——.” _," ’Tis the last of earth,” said the good man at our s'ide——let us pray. Reader, Christian reader, little Katy is in her grave. Prayers for her are una- vailing. There are in this City a thou- sand just such cases. Prayers for them are unavailing. Faith without works wont work reform. A faithful, prayerful resolution to Work out that reform which will save you from reading the recitals of such scenes—such fruits of the rum trade as this before you, will woi'k'togeth- er for your own and other’s good. Go forth and listen. If you hear a little voice crying /not corn, think of poor Katy and of the hosts of innocents slain by that remorselcss tyrant, rum. Go forth and seek a better spirit to rule over us. Cry aloud, “will he come ;” and the answer will be, "yes, yes, he is here." He is here.—- A Female Soldier. A correspondent of the New York Tribune furnishes the following resolve passed by the General Court of Massa‘ chusetts in 1791. It shows that a female served in the army for nearly a year and a half, unsuspected, and finally received compensation from the Commonwealth_ XXIII.——Resolve on the petition of Da- normu GANNET, granting her £24, for services in the Continental Army.-— January 30, 1792. On the petition of DEBORAH GANNET’ praying compensation for services perfor- med in the late army of the United States Whereas, it appears to this Court that the said Dsnorun Gaivusr enlisted under the name of Robert Shurtliff in Capt. Webb’s company, in the 4th Mas. sachusetts Regiment, on May, 20 1782 and did actually perform the duty of a soldier, in the late army of the United States, to the 23d of October, 1783, for which she has received no compensation: And whereas, it further appears that the said DEBORAH exhibited an extraordinary instance of female heroism, by discharg- ing the duties of a faithful gallant soldier and at the same time preserving the vir- toe and chastity of her sex, unsuspected and unblemished, and was discharged from the service with a fair and honora_ ble character: Therefore, RGSOZUGIZ, That the Treasurer of this Commonwealth be, and be hereby is, di- rectud to issue his note to the said DEBO- min for the sum of thirty -four pounds, bearing interest from October 23, 1783. BROKEN BANKS.--Who, that has had a dollar or two at home in bills, and has heard of a broken bank, has not felt anx- ious until he has ascertained that the little hoard is not lost by the failure of the institution? We heard a good story of a fellow who related his experience in the matter when the Nahant Bank fail- ed. ‘As soon as I heard of it, ’says he, ‘my heart jumped right up into my month. Now, thinks I, s’pose I've got any bills on that ’ere bank P I'm a goner, that’: a fact. So you see I on coat and put for hum as fast as my legs would carry me-— run all the way. So when I got thei-eI looked and found I hadn’t got any bills on that bank-—mrr any other.’ ‘ I felt some easier !’— True Flag. ken. We could not enter. Let in wait P: .
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