Lorain County Eagle, The (Newspaper) - August 31, 1859, Elyria, Ohio T Proprietor A FAMILY TO MORALITY LITERATURE AGRICULTURE AND TO POLITICAL AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE AND VOL B ELYRIA LORAIN COUNTY OHIO WEDNESDAY AUGUST 31 1859 23 THE LOBAIN EAGLE 4 every in the a of tbe Public Square U BURIELL TERMS 8150 delivered by 175 A D V ING for insertions and twenty for insertion Ion than throe one yoar additional not exceeding chadditional to be months SO bo added not with d and charged acco JOB PRINTING t executed at this office on reasonable terms and short notice 200 10 00 300 SO XT 1 A-W Prosecuting Bluet lyria Ohio No 3 M W POND i ADDLE Haress and ur i cr at tho Irn Steamer building Ely ia bio LAUNDON NELSON iu Foreign and Domestic Goods Dry Goods Hardware Wall paper Boots nd Carpets Hats and Us sad Paints Hay Tools Ac at the Old Cash Store 0 VV LAUNDON LORD WOOD CO TORES and wholesale and retail in Foreign and and C- CHANEY D DEALER in Previsions Wines Liquors etc Furo at wholesale or retail cheaper than the cheapest 85 ly C ARTHUR ELY AND of Devon 1 Southdown Sheep Suffolk and Hogg doodad Elyria Ohio f STARR BROTHERS CO American and Foreign Dry Hardware Boots B r STARR a Jf COLE i O S BURKE AT I AW to all Law business entrap Kr his in Lorain cou and wi also practice in the United States Dis- and Circuit Courts in Ohio Office in blook one door wast of SHELDON SM IT II COUNSELLORS AT LAV promptly to ill W ed to Office east Bid of Public P W SAMPSEL and Surgeon OHIO Office from 2 to 4 P uf DR TOLL Uio practice of bis i Office at the Drug Storo of llf JEROME MANVILLE Fancy Itt and Main o II E SHOOK S STANZAS FOR MUSIC BT ELIZA COOK There's a love that only lives While tho check is fresh and red There's a love that only tin Whore tbo pleasure funst is sweet and strong And it eings a merry theme But the incense and the song Pass like upon It cometh with tbo ray And with tho cloud And forgets to-day What it Oh Lovel Is an easy chain to wear When idols meet imr And all we servo arc fair But a love that keeps A constant light With a flame that bleeps Through the longest winter night It is not always wise And ij is not always blest For it tearful And loads a sighing breast A fairer loth had he Who loves awhile then goes Like the linnet from the tree Or the wild boo from the rota OH Love Love 1 Love Soon makes the hair turn grey Whan only one fills all the heart And that hue's faraway H J BROOKS SON BUILDERS and Dealers in dressed Lumber Shop on Elyria Ohio S B WOLCOTT DEALER IS YANKEE NOTIONS GOLD JEWELED SPECTACLES of alt kinds Gold and cr German Silver and Plated Spoons Knives to etc Also Silver Spoons of vr manufacture warranted BEEBE BE EBB tho business part of 1 and no pains will be spared to r nde tho stay of the traveling public at tins ouse W CO in Drags Medicines cerio J Paints Oils Glass Pe timer Ac at the old stand 2 doors of Storo T F wo assay It FISHER'S family Supply Store TN Sosbe Block No 6 All i nnd provisions constantly on hand Ohio from Grahams is Every Tiling Br JOSEPH R CHANDLER The course of true love it is said did never yet mn smooth nnd who have Imd on of or rather railroad as it is soon run over bear testimony to the runnings and mashing up aLve the poets speak We have no great in tin's time of politics and per to dabble in and our reputation for yet the illustration of an of ted truth may be considered seasonable and the moral deduced from the ration may compensate some time of reading it In the year remember lime well bee use a of the incidents of the story were connected with a great event an event not likely to be in the year 1814 a young man who to a visionary mind and a quent want of employment added a most desperate affection for a young lady too good for him if Siis business pursuits were alone considered but just his if affection purity of mind nnd innocence of ate the reward of large endowments strict in- and a desire for honest ence without the of obtaining it There was no more pleasing young man in the thriving village than Bradford nnd body agreed with his neighbors that he was the most nnd the best educated about But hu did DO study law he medicine and did not take he had frequently thought but that required capital which he could not raise aud so he did not get ahead he was forever on the brink of some wonderful success which ho certainly would have secured he had only entered upon Iho gieat prise Mary Carver evidently loved Henry Bradford for knowing that excepting his handsome person pleasing anc good he had nothing to offer shu would not otherwise have been to the offers of so many young men character and positions rendere them desirable to the family These offers were repeated so often and hint so strong given to Mr and Mrs Graver that it was deemed proper after a serious deliberation in cainet counci to admonish their daughter that Henry was in and U be in a way to maintain him a family Mrs Graver opened the diplomac with her daughter and after two or thre WATERMAN MORSE of Harness Saddles M dies 40 at his old stand one door o Store which ho will sell on eredi or approved paper 1 S W 5 in readiness to do all kinds o Plate work Filling and Extracting Teeth in Block Henry would think more of a dream of wealth twice tho best prospects that ever resented business preferment said is not a ool said Mrs Graver hesitatingly he is not a fool then do you talk so of Bui there ho is comming low continued the girl Speak to him plainly my said Mary made no answer for she was a Utle mortified at tho turn which ler mother had given to though she heard him build any in the ir out of such materials Henry came with Ids usual pleasant minor and sat down Mary nnd r a lew words he that wrong said he have you been ng the sorrows of No Henry but I have been listning o mothers ons ver you She Never mind what she says Mury as perceive it is not very good just listen o what I e to tell Well what is it I hope it is Excellent capital it will ul Do then do tell ma what it is last Sunday night I dreamed Dreamed exclaimed Mary with a most sigh Aye dreamed go on 1 dreamed that I hud drawn ten Collars in the Plymouth ery Well what I dreamed the same Monday and on Tuesday and the umbers was 5 4 3 2 Well 1 sent on Wednesday and the ana here it ia yuu keep it and when I go up to for the yuu shall go with ne WM Merchant Taylor HATS and Caps Goods Wo 4 Commercial one door east and The war allowed rig lay at the She was too clumsy for a of little or no work ers of a line teer Mr said that vessal Henry what is Poor Mary smiled and re- Henry left the house and ent home that had made a ght disposition of the ticket Day day Henry watch at the ost office to read the report of the rawing but day after passed e desired At length one of the young men was eard m remark that Henry Bradford ad shot ot ine as it lie ad received some very strange enco Mary said Henry there is your paper and 4 3 thousand Mary tumed news was un- Lets go to said money The Prizes are payable thirty days er said Mary looking at the of the ticket That night Mary told her mother of luck Graver seemed rather startled Are you not pleased asked do you wish to oppose oilier ob- lioles to our baid Mrs Graver do you re- the most ity which father has to iis utter abomination of money thus dis- This prize will be worse to urn than poverty since they re- used to him a man iger in th Beach lottery he has set down the as ling and every prize as devil's gift lor mischief and to say the most people to hold op- with him Why every body did not ask to be made a manager in the lottery no but people may like your er arrive at a correct Irom elfish considerations and good ions may become general without any special motive for change The next day Mary gave back to ry his ticket with an account of the con- versation with her mother Henry was mortified at the result he understood and appreciated the feelings of the old aud in any other son's case he might have approved of She in worth twenty thousand dollars said the owner and builder oho coal that ns she is and she will bring five thousand the very hour peace id Would you like the money for her at a cash pi would bo more But there is not uiteen thousand dollars in the country Tho remarks of Mary about her er's respect for a ship owner had running in Henry's head ever since thoy were uttered and he aside the owner Mr said Henry I have a commission to fulfill and as you know I am not much of a business man I must you to consider a which I am to make to you and to wer me explicitly Let me Lear your proposition I will give you ten thousand dollars ns she now lies And tho time of days You cannot want the money sooner the river ia frozen over and you make no use of the cash beforo tbat time Mr Holmes turned to said Bradford nnd know Henry that I am aware that you not the means of payment and also that you are not a person likely to be employed as an agent in such iness and yet 1 have confidence in your Henry explained to the ship ner the sute of and exhibited to him the lottery ticket No 5 4 3 2 But said Mr Holmes there may be some mistake the matter or some failure of the lottery by which I should lore Henry explained his motives and e- and in two hours he held in his hand a of salu of Jiu brig Helvetia which as the papers were nut obtained hu im- mediately MARV The ion was that Henry was to sel for forty days and if wit in that time he should pay ten she was to be his if not shu was to re- to Mr Holmes who in the mean time held the ticket us a sort of eral The of sale as I saw it bore date the 5th ot Henry some distance from the ng the arrival ot tho mail The stage at the usual hour drove up and the ver said as he handed the mail bag into ho house that he guessed there was ter news to-day than he had brought since the victory on the lakes Another victory Mr No not another Can you tell said u ng young gentleman as hr slipped from the stage where I can find Mr Holmes the owner of Mr Holmes lives on the hill the reply but it is thought he does not own the now Has he sold Yes I am sorry for is tho Mr young man whom reading the newspaper The stranger stepped into the ind inquired of Henry whether he would ell the brig Henry said that he would cheerfully with her At what At the peace price Stages is said Mr ward the driver We will ride over to the and converse on the er as we go along Henry soon emerged from the stage coach and hastened to Mr Carver's You look say have drawn another Not another I hope I Yes and a one I have sold he brig for twenty thousand dollars to a Boston house and I am to be in it four o'clock to get my pay at the But the brig was not yours Henry Surely you are not not hold tiie brig after the mistake was There is just where you are mistaken Mary There is a of sale which al of fony days from date for the ment Say nothing to any and I will be with you before I sort of He weni day after day to look at brig wishing for the lime to pass away for prize to be paid but he said nothing yet to Mr One evening while Henry was talking with Mary she him what he in- tended to do with his vessel when the forty days were her bend her sails and then sell her or send her to sea Why Henry it took the whole of the ticket to buy the hull and the ing spars and it will take half as much more to rig her and find canvass and beside that how can you sell bar for more than Mr Holmes Henry hesitated he Imd not thought of that but he did not doubt but it would afl come right yet Henry sit ing the next day on the quarter rail of his brig looking at the well covered with snow and ice nnd thinking of the better she would make when the had done his duty At length he lelt the hand of Mr Holmes shoulder said the 1 am sorry to have bad news to tell you lhat paragraph in the Boston Cen ine ticket drew the highest prize in the Plymouth Beach Lottery was 4 5 3 2 We understand that a of wealth in it F H DIBBLE MANUFACTURER of dealer in Baddies Trunks Bags Shop o e door east of n ns1 Dreg Store Elyria Okw T- CRANE IN STOVES and Tin Ware at the old Store flve doors west of Store Slog done on the shortest notice WM BUTCHER constantly on riand fresh Meat of IV most all kinds market oast of tho Public Square one door South of A Nor i shop JX WEIGHT DEALER in Stores and Tin Ware one door west of the Post Office Elyria Ohio Job done on short Old Iron taken In conferences retreated under the laugh o Mary who she did not doub would one day be rich enoug to take of both for he had had dream that he should be Mrs Crave had no disposition to at such a se rious mission and no desire to be angr with her daughter Mary however knew that when he father came to negotiate she would hav to use other arguments than laughter and therefore she Henry of the approaching Henry thought of it for two or three days an unusual time for bim to devote to any thing like his personal affaire At the family was honored by a formal ofl'er from a clergyman in a neighboring town He was learned pi- rich and respected nnd such an of- fer was not to be slighted It was not Old Mr Graver took the sub ject to and Mrs Graver gave her sheer cap a double clear ing upon the very becoming to a minister Mary pondered these things in her mind She saw the of Henry's ever a situation that would warrant ny She was listning to her mother's account of his want of application to his apparent disregard of all dinary means of attaining and of his of what called and the old lady ded her homily with a r mark that she But what does your father said Henry Does he suppose that the modo adopted to build Churches endow schools and finish public works is too impure to supply the needy purse of one who wishes to be his son in-law He is more nice than wise My father said Mary may not think himself called upon to be as u ar about what concerns the public corporations of different as he is aud is bound to be in what concerns the respectability of his ern pare holder of this town is the fortunate own family But if I acquire by lawful Henry father never asked that you should be wealthy he thought it proper and he makes it a condition of our you should have some tabla business since you hava not got wealth And jour father is said ry but how am I to get clear of the odium of my lottery prize I can neither see nor Perhaps you will dream it said Mary archly I can dream of nothing but ers brigs nnd said Henry if you only owned a good vessel said Mary I do not know but father would almost forgive it coming as a prize A to a said Henry but not in a lottery Henry wandered down the What say to that Only that the old gentleman will not now say that 1 have the wages of bling No nor will he give you the credit of being a ship said Mr Holmes You have been unfortunate Henry and I am really sorry for continued Mr Holmes changing his tone considerably my own as 1 have of the money but as you cannot pay for the brig you would hand me the of sale and let us destroy it Hemy drew from his pocket the prec document snd while he examined i from top to bottom he said to Mr This affair has been to like a pleasant dream not only on ac count of my aspirations for Mary which you are acquainted but day day I have a growing energy for siness a sort of of the mind a determination such a noble be- jinning to proceed cautiously but ly to do what I ought lo have begun years since Then Mr Holmes as the aill has yet some days to run before 1 can ae chargeable violation of contract I will it to my and if I cannot dream as L have I shall not at least be awakened loo sudden y Mr Holmes ot course consented as he really had no right to claim the vessel until the forty days should have expired and to Mary of the new turn his luck had taken What's the matter with aid Mrs Carver as she entered the has he drawn another I snid only dreaming perhaps Mary At nine o'clock Henry arrived from with an accepted draft for ten housand dollars in favor Holmes ind a bank book in which Le had a t for an equal sum and the brig Maiy home of the most profitable is return noticed in the papers audit was usually about the he same time that the very table amily of had me ease H was want to luck is hing Some years after that twenty-five n east as I was riding Into with and his grand daughter I to the anecdote and the sion that luck every thing There may be something in said he but the HOPE which I ed while I had the ticket with the be ief that Iliad a prize the resolutions which I found sitting nnd gazing at the lofty spars of my brig and lite virtue the filial piety and ccc love of Mary did all for me and I should have buen rich without the brig so you sea it was hope contemplation woman's virtue woman's piety and man's love that made me what I am And let me add friend C that you and owe more to woman than tho world to her Let us at least do her THE OLD DUMA'S is ST o us in myself opposite a door quite strange to me the entire walk tre had riot met a soul buildings seemed ted I fancied 1 saw two or three flit past but they disappeared in the obscurity Tho door wits closed my guide rapped upon it in a peculiar it flew open evidently by the assistance of some one on the other side In truth when we had passed I distinctly saw a man close the door and follow us ter proceeding five hundred paces was an open grating which my guide and closed after us I now remembered the tradition that n subterranean gallery connected the Bed Palace with the I saw we g this must be going to the Wa ed at a door like the one we had gone through first My guide knocked it opened and we found opposite the which we ascended It led into the offices of some large which was carefully heated Then all my doubts ceased I vras be- ing taken to the the empe- ror who sent fetch me an cant subaltern 1 remembered the story of the young ensign whom he met in the street nnd rased ia less than a quarter of an hour to the rank of general But I could not hope be summoned me for the same purpose Whatever it might be we soon reached a last door before which a sentry was walking up and down My guide put his hand on my shoulder care of your self you will soon be in the presence of the emperor He whispered to sentry who ed on one tide Then he opened door by some secret spring as it seemed to me A little man dressed in the sian fashion with boots coming half way up to his coat faKing to his spurs and u gigantic turned round of the noise 1 recognized the em- it was not to do so for lie reviewed us every day 1 remembered that on the day his eye had rested upon me he had called my cap- tain from ranks and asked him some questions then gave an officer of his suit some sharp and decided order All this only to increase my apprehension my conductor said with a bow this is the young ensign with whom you desired to speak The emperor neared me and as he was very short lie stood on tiptoe to look at me Doubtlessly he recognized me as the person he wanted for he noded his he and his heal said you i would sooner have remained with a lion in a den The Emperor at first appeared to pay no attention to me lie walked up and down with long stopping before an open window to take J square feet I fancied by the light ot a breathe of fresh air then reluming to j the lantern that I saw a human form ia the table he took a pinch of snutt 1 it- governor remained on the last reached the dry ground ere wc had ar- rived at the gates uf the dier asked the password and let The sledge stopped at die governors door The word given again entered house as we had done the fortress By the emperor's order I com- mand soon aroused the governor who came to us trying to hido his alarm neath a smile With a man Paul there was no more for e is than for the captives for man than for the victims lly guide made the governor a sign that he had fo do with mo he regarded me with more attention still he hesitated before youth doubtlessly surprised him To put him at his ease I gave him without word the order took it to a the and on recognizing it as the nal of a secret order he bowed made an sign of the cross and opened it He read the order then turning to me You are to see 1 I am you to see know He remained a moment in thought You came in a he asked ma Yes many will it hold Does this gentleman go with 9 he asked pointing to my conductor J not what to say the latter will wait Very get ready a second sledge choose four soldiers let one take a lever another a hammer trad the last two hatchets The man to whom the governor spoko went out directly Then turning to me he Come and you shall see We left the room with a turnkey be- hind us and walked on till found selves opposite the prison The or pointed to a door The jailor opened it went iu and lighted a lantern We followed We went down ten steps passed a row of dungeons then down ten more but did not stop At last we three more and at length slopped The doors were numbered the governor stopped No He gave a ilent signal it in this abode of the dead as if he had lost the of There was at this dme a frost of at least twenty degrees out side At the depth where we found frozen and yet I wiped the from my brow The door opened we went down six steeps and slippery steps and found ourselves in a of six had ample time to examine all the ture and arrangements of the room wInch Paul was killed Near one of the windows was a bureau on it lay an open paper At length the emperor appeared to remember my presence and came up to me His face to me furious as as he stopped ia front of me he addressed me thou knowest thou art only dust and that I am I know not how I found strength to fou ara of the Lord the de- cider of the destiny of man he growled And turning his back on me he began walking up and down taking snuff furiously till he resumed Thou knowest that when I cammand I must be obeyed without ob- step and said to the and dress yourself I had curiosity to know to whom this order was addressed Turn on the I said to the or and pallid old man I was just eighteen years of age nnd had been serving for two years in tbe regiment The regiment was stationed at the great building still standing oa the er side of the Champ de Mars opposite the summer Garden Emperor had resigned for thieo years and lived in the Eed Palace which had just been completed One when I had been refused leave owing to some boyish and was alone in the asleep 1 was aroused by a voice whose breath swept along and whispered in my ear Dmitri nnd low 1 opened my eyes a man was feland ing before me who the tion as soon as 1 awoke 1 I restated and where cannot tell Still you may know that 1 came from the emperor I shudder From the emperor What could he me a poor ensign of good fam ily but too remote from the throne for my name ever to have reached the em- ear I the gloomy Russian proverb which originated in the Ivan the terrible Near the Czar near I not I leaped from the bed and dressed my self Then I looked attentively at the man who came to awake me Although wrapped in his I fancied I could servation joi comment As one would obey God Yes sir I know it He looked at me fixedly There was en expression in his eyes of so strange a character that I could not endure his looU I away He seemed ed with the influence he exercised over me he attributed my conduct to respect while it was disgusted Then he went to the bureau took the paper read it once more folded it placed it in an en- it not with the rial cypher but with a ring on his t then saw a thin rise up He had evidently been ed in this dungeon in the same clothes he had on but they had fallen off him and he was on- ly dressed in pelisse Through rags his mted bony shivering son could be seen Perhaps this body had been covered by splendid perhaps the ribbons of tho most noble oders had once crossed his panting chest At present he was only a living skeleton that had lost rank dignity even name and was No II He rose and wrapped himself ia the fragments of his without uttering a lint his was bowed down prison damp lime ba His eye was almost menacing It is said the governor ger hen he back to me Though Mary respected her father too much to feel pleasure in Henry's new possession yet she loved Henry too much not to feel deeply at his bitter dis- That said Henry dream has not yet come to pass Some days after that there was as usual a gathering at the at Remember that 1 have chosen thee among a thousand to execute my orders he snid because I thought they would be well executed by thee I shall ever have before my eyes the obedience I my I replied Good remember that thou art but dust and 1 am everything I wait your majesty's Take this letter carry it to the ernor of the fortress accompany him wherever he may be pleased to take thee be present at what he does and come and tell I have seen I took the pack with a bow 1 have I have seen t Yes sir Go And he opened himself the door by which 1 liad my conductor was me The closed the door after me repeating Dust dust recognize and old Turkish first the barber then the of the empe ror This examination however was not long by prolonging it might have become dangerous lam ready I said after utes as I fastened on my sword My discomfiture was doubled when I my conductor instead wards the descend a email leading into the Ha our road with a species of dark lantern turnings t found dust I stood all hold amazement on the Come my conductor said tome We left the palace by a different roule A was us in the yard the gate of the the Bridge wa's opened and started at a hand Wo and reached the hanks of Neva Uur horses rushed upon the ice and guided bjr of Peter and Paul we en The night was gloomy tho wind mournful and terrible r w bad come He waa the first to go oat The prisoner threw a- parting glance on his cell his bench his and rotting He uttered a sigh yet it was impossible that he anything of this Ho followed he governor and passed me J shall forget the glance he turned me in and the reproach hat was in it So it seemed to and already obeying I turned away that glance had ed my heart like a dagger He passed the door of the dungeon How long il was since he entered Perhaps He did not know himself He must have ceased for a long time measuring days nnd nights On reaching the governor's door we found two sledges waiting prisoner was ordered into the one brought us and we followed iim the governor by uis eide I iu front Che other sledges bv tbe bur soldiers Where were we I What wero we going to do I wss equally ignorant Iliad only to see the action itself did not concern me We started Through position the man's were between I felt them tremble The governor was wrapped in his furs I was buttoned up in my frock and yet the cold reached u t The prisoner was almost naked bat the governor had offered him no coverings a moment I thought of taking off at and offering him the ernor guessed my intention It said Soon we reached again and our sledges took the direction of stadt Wind came off the blew the our faces though our eyes had grown ta we could noV ttc
