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ft J. Caskey," Elitor nd Proprietor. Olee-Washingtoo Street, Third Boor SoorY of Jackson. Terms-One Dollar and Fifty Cents in idrWe. VOL.3. MILLERSBllftG, HOLMES COUNTY, OHIO, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5T, 1B58. NO. 7; wm Poetry. For the Republican. EPHEMERAL SKETCHES. BY A RECLUSE PHILOMATH. A few evenings ago, while engaged in the evisceration vfaome of the abstruse technicali ties of forensic lore, a change came gently over the spirit of my mind; and spurring the longer endurance of theehafineshackles of legal study, :she plumed her wings and sallied forth to revel while among the varigated scenes of imdgina Ijion. Darting back with lightning speed to the daya of other yean when to her infantine vi sios the world seemed clad in the gorgeous ha- 'biiiments'of Eden before the fall, and the young heart leaped with gladuess utider the magic in' fiuence of the star of hope she sortn perceived with mingled emotions of pleasure and of pain. that the trail of the serpent lay dimly upon ma ny of the choicest flowerets and richest gems 'Among the reminiscences of the past, one then hovered a moment over the clustering realities of the present; and finding among them nothing sufficiently fascinating to spring a joy or to in 'duce a smile, she dropped a tear of anguish and hastily essayed to wing her flight to the realms of the future; where the gloom of uncertainty is but partially relieved by the luminous bow of prophetic promise. She there gazed and mused awhile on scenes fraught with wonHers unuttera ble; and having, as through a glass darkly, caught a glimpse of the glittering domes of the mansions of the redeemed on high, she doveiikej -and pensively returned to the storm-tossed bank of her nativity, bearing ia her bosom a little scroll contaiag the following Ephemeras, "See truthjove and mercy in triumph decending, And nature all glowing with Edens first bloom; On the cold cheeks of death smiles and rosea are '- - blending,' . And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb." Beyond the light of the vast orb of day The glowing shadow of a throne appeared , Whereon the King or kings might deign to sit; .Whilst from the void around a small still voice, With melody replete, my soul entranced, -And Whispering said Believe andthou thali live.' With joy dateaid wrapped ia thought profound, I, fearless, bowed ad offered up a prayer ; j 'To Him, who, seated on the great white throne, Ruleaall creation with his will supreme: 'Whea.lo, a mile bom the Hessian's face Illumed the bridge o'er the dark gulf of death, And lit the pathway to eternal life. High o'er the mansions ofthe ransomed hosts A banner streamed in majesty sublime; And on its crimson folds I saw inscribed. In characters of light, ia every tongue, Believe and love the Lamb of God etnd livel And ever and anon that small still voice, With charms seraphic, whispered in my ear, laM the tzeurtdion and Che life; Whoto ok me believe, ekall wnxr dieT ' Bay; did not Christ, when man was doomed to woe. ' From Heaves descend to makcliiai glorious heir? The Prince oi Peace was slain thatlfiaa might live, Awd ba& forever in Jehovah's smiles. When he the bars of death asunder burst. And rose in godlike triumph from the tomb. The morning stars with joy together sung. And angelbaads pealed forth their loftiest strains In praise ofHim whose blood redeemed the world For ages dimmed by Error's fitful glare. And gloomed by the destroyers fellest hate. Truth now arose, with wreaths of victory crown ed, . And ransomed man proclaimed ber empire come. Long exiled from the wranglMg,sin-cursed world Peace, too, returned a peerlessqueen of light Her rule resumed the pure in heart among. And knit the lion to the lamb in love. "Sow crown'd with all the riches of tie cross Arrayed in all the splendor of the skies The brightest angel in the realms of bliss Mercy the highest attribute of God Her diadem assumed; and shouts of praise Announced the triumphs of redeeming grace. The earth was deluged with a sea of love; The sua and moon and stars were bathed in love; The heaven of heavens was brimmed with holy " love, And God's eternal universe was Love. What sound what heavenbom sound steals on the ear? ' J : List ! Tis the small still voice of Salem's King, In mercy' whispering to the sinful heart; 'The mi that dnneth ehatt forever diet Believe, and thow the tcitdom of a man Believe, end win the richet of a God.' MILLERSBURG, O., October, 1858. Foot-Race of the Ladies at Iowa City. It seems that Dr. Lewis has been lectur ing on phjsology, gymnastics, drc lit lows City, ud has created quite a furore in that town. Daily, crowds of ladies may ' be seen wending their way to the Congrega tionalist Church to hear the Doctor - tell bow wondroasly and curiously we are mode, and descant on the rales - of health, some times he lectures to males and sometimes to females. Last Saturday there was a foot-race among his -male pupils; to-day there is to be a race among his lady pupils. It is to be strictly private, not even the po lice to know anything about wbare it is to be. We suppose the ladies will discard their hoops on the occasion. Our own idea is, that women and ducks were never made for running nevertheless, we would like to see the race. Wo were promised, if we would stay, a long frock and a sun- 1 -. 1 A ... 1,1 I . . uuuuet, mm uu uyuui iuuiu uava taken a small run ourselves. Davenport New. a7Bv the Western exchange, we learn that a man waa arrested at Laporte, In diana, lately, with a horse stolen fron Cen treville, Lake co., 0. He gave his name as Joseph Buzzar. and bad in his pocket- book a certificate from Warden of the Pen nsylvania State Prison, that be had served in that institution eleven years. He also had in his pocket a receipt for changing the uu in uuxocs u any coior iancy mignt uio , Another horse thief was caught a West- ville, lnd , inposession of two horses from CenlreviUe, Lake Co., 0.; one a bay anoth er gray. It would seem that CentreviJIe stables havs been pretty well cleaned out. City. Miscellany. THE CHILD OF DESTINY. ANDRE, THE NIGHT BEFORE THE EXECUTION It was a chill Septeftiber "night, in the year 1780. 1 he sky was lined with ridges of leaden-colored clouds, piled in stiff hori zontal folds at tbe west, relieved here and there by a nearer strata of others ragged and vapory, which occaakttally discharged themselves in mist, or easts of wind. When these had passed over, the declining sun, sinking behind tbe moveless clouds, occasionally gleamed oat in sudden flashes, darting long spears of light over the drear autumn landscape, then sank behind the next moss of vapor, again to saaortR, and again to disappear, as if in bis down ward course he stepped the bars of a huge ladder, one by one, till t length, giving one latt giant glow, his fed di& was slow ly lost behind the hiils. This flash bad passed over tbe deeply tinged autumn leaves till they shone like a mighty baldric rich in a thousand hues. The gray rock of the mountain, with its sober evergreens, caught the beam ; the far off river rolled in molten gold ; the cottage window was all ablrse; the village spire held in trans fixed like a glory ; and last, the towering pine saw it glide upward like a spirit, and loose itself in the uuknown space. Was it significant of a closing destiny ! I be wind rose ntfully as tbe sun went down, hurling the stricken ' leaves shower ing in the air, and tossing the dry branch es aloft . like wrestling monsters. The gray twilight, so dreary in the declining; year, descendjd pitilessly upon the earth, casting a chill upon all hearts, and wis periug of the sad dirges which life teaches them to utter. In a low stone hoese not far from the village church, in the town of Tappau, on the Hudson, a young mau walked back and forth with a slow, meas ured tread, and his hands clasped behind hiiu. His face was deathly pale, but com posed and his lip, beautiful as an Apollo's, though compressed, had not lost its soft, al most voluptuous curve. Once be moved in bis way, he leaned his forehead against the wall, and then me chanically drew forth, a pencil, and .wrote his uame thereon; but it was evident he was unaware of what he had done, for he moved on as before, and, although . the last rays of the sun came in at the low wiudow and shone full upon lum that sun which he would never more behold iu his goings forth he gave it no heed-; for under (hat full brow were thoughts stretch ing iuto eternities far beyond the reach of kit- beams, and beneath that hushed bosom were emoiions, compared with which the soundings of suns and worlds were but as the wavering of a feather poised in the summer air. At leiigtB a-caila appeared aud .placed a light opon the table, and stop ing, iooked tqt with such strange wondering pity, tliat be reached out his band and drew her to his side. She did not repel him, but gently put her arms around his neck to tenderly, end pressed her young cheek to his; he sat down, and became sensible once more to the external world. The gust wind swept by, the measured foot full of the sentinels-at the angles and in tbe long hall of the bouse, and the lying notes of the bugle from tbe army encamping near by, came to the senses like some boding but undefined pageant cf which the young man was a part, and the child, the angel of pity, comforting what she could not save, one aia not speaK nor weep, nut only laid her silken curls upon his should er, and her cheek to his; and when he at length placed her upon the floor, she sigh ed heavily, moved very softly to the door, sighed again, and closed it so gently that be hardly knew sne was gone. For the first tune his bosom heaved, and a sigh more like a groan escaped hint, and then the tears gushed to bis eyes. As be reached for his handkerchief, a parcel fell to the floor; he picked it up, and now rec ollected that this had been put into his hand by his man Anderson, John Ander son, as he stepped into the boat on that disastrous night, now so painfully recalled. He remembered the almost frantic vehe mence with which the man had begged to accompany him, the -mysterious warnings he had from time to time given him ; and, more than all, he remembered the untir ing devotion, the affecting fidelity, and al most superhuman courage he bad more than once exhibited in his duty to nun. Then came the memory of those wrestlings prayer ia which tbis strange being ex hibited a fervor and enthusiasm which had often filled him with awe. ' . -As these things flittid through his mind, he unfolded a crumpled and soiled slip of paper, on which was written : "Do not entet upon these bold schemes: str'pped of their coverings, treason k tbe word, death the penalty. He remembered whin this had been pat into his hand,lhe colorless face of Ander son, the terrible brightness of his eye, which had a light gleamir.g from within lighted backward in the depths of tbe soul, and gleaming like tbe light hidden in ancient caverns which the sunlight pales. He recalled the hunied words of the man at parting, "Call yourself by my name; for God's sake do not use your own," a request he had so often, so strongly made before. Then there was a larger parcel, which he opened aud read with an interest at such a time most singular; at first with a look of incredulity which curled the Hue contour or his lips; but gradually, as he went on, bis brow flushed, his eye beamed, and he ex claimed aloud, "Folly, superstition, what ever it may be. I bless God even for this, that relieves the naked, barren horror of sucn a death r Again he pased the floor, and again he naa recourse to the MS. Yes,'' he mut tered, "1 must die so young, so full of life. On, my God ! I bless thee for even this! and he crushed the paper in his bands. Could he have seen the face that peered through a slight cavity of the shut ter; could ne nave seen tbat slender form swaying back and forth in its agony ; could he have seen the thin hands pressed to the 'This name still remains upon the wall of the dwelling, or did so tm a very recent period, temples holding back the masses of gray hair now weeping torrents of tears like a woman, "and now tottering to the upper part of the garden, beneath a tree where the newly heaved earth and rude scaffold ing told of some fatal preparation; and there, with groans and tears, with white lips and bowed head, agonizing in the ter rible fervency of what would have been .prayer had not the soul .pleaded in eveYy element, trbiie the tongce refused its ' of fice; could be have seen all this, he would have felt bow much more poigant is- the sorrow the human heart feels fur the suf ferings of others, than any pangs it. may endure for its own trriefs. . ; The door opened softly ; - some pale feh gers, dark, thin, and-slighv held it for rnnnmnt and tluw ti.ywjm gfrnlii lli SO noiselessly that the young man did not at first perceive the intruder, till a sigh so long-drawn that it might have been the last severing of body and spirit, caused bim to torn. "Why, Anderson, is it yOO ?" said he. "Yes, I manned the boat that brought that cowardly traitor on shipboaad; but I sprang to the shore, knowing t'hey would not dare ta fire pon me; the coward's life was too precious, and needed all speed." ."Then be is safe!".. ... i "Yes; the bad, the gurtty live; but the good and the innocent hang upon the cross." The yoeng man shuddered from head to foot, and Anderson crushed his two hands together, as if the bones must yield under the pressure. His brow sharply contracted, while his carvenous eyes gleamed with an unearthly fire of pity, endurance, rnd sharp anguish. "How did you find me!" asked the youth. "In the same why that tbe brute crea tion find their young. I followed the pul ling of my heart strings, and they led me to you." My poor Anderson," said the young man, extending his hand as he had done before upon the entrance of the man ; but Anderson did not take it; on the contrary his person assumed .paiuful attitude of respectful rigidity. .... "You know my fate," said tbe youth, "that I have but a few tours left me." "I know all, I have been to the Araeri- can camp.. 1 have prayed ana ueggea tor your life as if ay as it you bad been.'; And suddenly costing nimseit at tne feet of the youth, "my own child P There was a long silence. Anderson laid his bead upon the knee . of the enptive, gasping for breath till tears, so long held back, boured like a torrent over nis bruised heart. The young man held up the long grey locks which streamed around the thin, sunken temple, and looked wonderingly upon the small feautures, wasted by lime and suttoring, and yet strangely reminding him of something flitting in the vistas of memory. - "Yes, yes, do not mind. I am a woman ; think nothing of me; and yet, oh God nothing but a woman could have endured what I have done to save you, to avert this terrible fate. My child ! my blessed child ! dearer to me than the fruit of my own body, born of my soul, and nurtured in the foundations of love, amid travail of tears and the pangs of supplication, God comfort Cheer There was a long silence, broken only by tire sobs of Anderson, who still lay at the feet of the youth. He remembered the strange story of his infancy, and the tears of h;s motfeer when she spoke of her parent bereft of reason the many years of incar ceration in a mad-house, to which that par ent had been subjected his occasional vis its to her, and her wild, unearthly prayers the almost frantic love with which she regarded biro and how at length he had been kept entirely from her, as bis presctice was supposed to aggravate uer disease. Then there were years of calm, of con centrated melancholy composure,which pec- rJe still called insanity, but of a nature so coherent, so hushed, so little in sympathy with the rest of the world, and yet so vast in its deep religions fervor, its concentra tion of intense thought a train of thought lying so deeply back in the spirit, that none could fathom its mystery ; this was also called insanity, insanity of the most hope less kind ; for she spoke solemnly ot some undivnlged mission, some lonely painful duty before her, to prepare for which she fasted snd prayed, and inured herself to sleepless nights and long solitary walks. Miles and miles did she wander over untre quented ways, toilsome and rugged, climb ing, with steady effort, high hills, and threading lonely woods, till her form assu med a litheness and power, an elastic nnd attenuated vigor, astonishing to behold. Sunshine and storm were nlike to ber; she was secure from injury whichever might as sail; for tho intense spirit thus made ready for its hidden purpose, glowed inward like a consuming fire, and the eternal organiza tion became molded and subjugated to its wilL At first she had beeen closely followed and watched witt care; but as years pass ed on, and she remained ever the same, pa tient, laborious, sileut moving her round of solitary walks, neglected of the graces of her sex, but intent upon all and the least thing that concerned tho inteiest of her family she was left giadually to herself, and was supposed to have settled into one of those melancholy peripatetics whom we sometimes meet in our paths, pressed by a secret grief, aud lost to human sympa thies. The young man felt all this sliding thro' his brain, rather than as a train of events called to recollection ; and now, as he look ed upon the paie, wasted face, with its strange beauty a beauty which the high est sense of the soul acknowledged as near est to the confines of the eternal b? re membered how often the face and voice of Anderson had recalled some intangible mystery, which still flitted from his men tal grasp, and which the silence and reserve of the man had served to enhance. Anderson had presented himself as the troops were on the point of embarking for America, and had urged his services upon him with such melancholy earnestness, that he had yielded without any defined motive ; but had found bim so quiet, his manner so retired, so delicate, so full of grave teuder ness, that he had always fell a strange awe in his presence a reverence that rebuked all levity, as if in tbe atmosphere of .the supernalual. Sometimes be had beeu an noyed by the pertinacity wi'h which his attendant had watched his movements, and the singular knowledge he seemed to pos sess ot ail relating to bis interests-; bat, as he solitary in his habits, seeking no com panionship, and rarely exchanging a word with those about him, the services of Ander son, faithful and untiring, became of tbeut utinost importance to young men accom plished,' elegant, -and fell of tbe joyoas gay- ery of a hie that hitherto bad had known cMtiv vuceesa. A had oftew counseled nira wisely,-trfUra wwmedhim of danger,--and the recollection of his earnest but vain efforts to deter him from the fatal interview on the banks of the banks of the Hudson, which had termina ted so disastrously, came back bitterly to his mind. "Would to God I could die for theeT sobbed the woman, rising from her feel, and putting back the thick curls from the brow of the young man. 'I cannot explain,' she continued, 'the weird love I felt for you from the fist. There was a strange, un natural - beauty about you, that haunted me like a Fate. I could not shake it" off; and, in an evil hour, I had your horoscope cast.- You have read the result. It drove me mad ; and yet, in all these wild, maddening bonrs, 1 never lost signi oi tne great purpose I formed from the beginning to be with you, watch over you, npnoid you, and cofeifort vou to tbe last. I learn ed all .your movement ; and now you are here, and 1 am here, and, oh my uod 1 tbe Destiny is here also. . i he captive bad listened with an awe in which mingled little of human sympathy; but he arose, and laid the gray head ten derly upon his shoulder. ' -He was silent, but there was a touching grace in the man ner, that Went to the heart of the woman. For a moment she. yielded to the benling comfort of tunrs, arid then, calling back her innate strength of character, she sat long in Silence,' till the' hearts of both grew into -beautiful communion with . God, .and .she poured out volumes, holy inspiration, such as the lips of patriarchs and prophets might have owned, in their hours of rapt "devo tion. "I distrusted from first the false hearted coward who would have sacrificed his coun try, and hat sacrificed you," she continued when the "golden silence" had slid into "silver speech. "liul he was the terrible Fate appointed by God to bring about this Destiny. 'It must needs be tbat offenses will come, but woe unto him by whom the ottense eometh !'- - KJursod is he tbat turn eth the blind out of bis patlu" I foresee, in tbe long future years, tbe tears of thou sands shed over thy fate I see children and youth, maidens and gray hairs, weep ing over thy ashes, and calling thee by names that may soothe a spirit in the re gions of eternal worlds 1 beheld tbe pen of the historian and. tbe verse of tbe poet embalming tbee amongst those whom an ancient Fate condemned, guiltless, to un heard of wrongs- Sorrowful is thy death, but blessed shall be thy memory.!' 1 hese words, uttered in the true spirit of prophecy, conveyed healing to the heart of the listener, who bent bis head and re plied : ".Let us forget my fate in what is duo to those I leave to deplore me ; yet not the less do I bless God for the great cheer which tby presence imparts. We must draw the veil over many par oxysms of agony ; we must not tell how the thoughts of home and the memory of a mother called up emotions too great for ut terance; nor how the sweet, virgin face of tho beloved smiled from its golden case, eveu in its unconscious beauty smiled as in those summer days when tbe world was one halcyon calm of loveliness, and the heart a well of unfathoined joy. Softly as the youth gazed, tears dimmed the gloss, falling in still sorrow ; and now the face grew serene under the dim veil of tears, till it receded iuto a look of grief, blent with unutterable tenderness. Many hours were passed iu preparations for the last trial, in writing letters, and giv ing directions as to the disposal of papers and effects. , At length wearied, and ut terly exhausted, the youth sank in a deep slumber. The woman slept not, but pass ed tbe remainder of the night in fervent supplication, pale as marble, her eyes closed aud her lips moving, but uttering neither word nor sign. J he morning came. We must pass over the last hours of suffering; we must not tell bow beautiful, m bis sublime compos ure, looked the noble youth, as he stood beholding for the last time the light of the world ; we must not record the simple, manly words that gave testimony to his courage, and devotion to a country which now was powerless to save him. Ho re proaches, no puerile regrets escaped bim all was true and soul-sustained; and thus the scene closed. As the groan dispersed at the upper end of the garden, a gray-haired woman, now dressed, in the garments of her sex, came forward and begged to be left alone for a while with the unconscious clay. Mourn ful was it, as she sat down upon the ground, and took the poor dear head in her arms, and showered over it kisses from lips cold and pale as its own, moaniug all tho while luarticulated groans with uo word ana no tear. It was she who prepared him de cently for the grave, and sat all day and all night, with the wind and the dew weeping and sighing in ber . locks, while the pale stars looked down as they naa uone upon tbe chilJIess Rizpeh of old, scaring the birds of prey from the bodies of the Belov ed. Ah! very strong is human love, and strong is the body in which its terrible debts lie deepest hidden. The great pur- a . . . I I .Ml ?i pose bears up tbe c'ayey tRDsrnacie uu u partakes of the glory of the spirit which it enshrouds. It was she who collected all that re mained of him, and embarked at once for England, that she might at length rest in : I 1 1 Tl. r..llnni'nn. So iramn iu UUI uwu liuu. j.u iuiiuhiuv ki .1 . -r .1 .1.. V.-J -1 I :.. I ilia ftiirjnri ui uie pitrwi suq iiou jriuitu au tho ia-ls of her kiudsinan, and which he bad read the night 'before the execution ; tbe purport only, for it has been necessary to throw it into a form adapted to the char acter of our story, and in accordance wilh the spirit of these divinations, so secuiivu to the imaginative mind, red which Na poleon, Goethe, Scott, and myriads of oth ers, have consulted with a wild eagerness, as if they might wrest secrets from the bo som of futnrfty in the same manner as they had pressed the otter limits of the great circle of human though L THE PREDICTION. The astrologer moved the "astrolabe slowly from point to poiut; again inquired tbe "date, the hour, even tho moment of buih, and then readjusted, the instrument with: a look of unwonted interest. " . . . "Well P demanded tbe lady. . "If the child is ' yorrs, my dear Madam vou need ask nothing more in regard to "him." Will he die! will the child die!" she gasped, almost convulsively. "No, he will live mainy years with all honor, and love, but" and he threw tbe diagrams from him "Mad-m, he : will probably survive yourself." This was ut tered with an expression of coramisseration .arely assumed by one so familliar with ex bitions of humau emotion ns the follower of such an art must necessarily be. 'You have told me nothing," she per sisted ; "I must know all. 1 came bent for tbe purpose; not as a believer in your art, it may be, but because, loving the child as I d I can bear to know, at least what be called to endure. The man of science smiled 'at the fatty which the remarks implied, and tlien re sumed the instruments of of profession. As he did so, be looked down upon the face of the consUlter, and saw with what painful interest she followed his move ments. . . "The child will live to be much beloved: will reach distinguished honors; be witty, graceful, prosperous but J" Again he stoprxdi - "Tell mo all ; I came to know, and will know let what will be," urged the lady. "As you will, then, resumed the astrol oger, solemnly: "the child will come to a painful eudi he will be" the words clung to bis tongue. "What?" persisted the visitor, turning denthly pale, and sinking back ia the chair. "Strangled," he replied, in a low voice. She repeated the words in a taint whis per, so low and hoars') it was almost in articulate. "Seme accident perhapsj" she Uttered, gathering courage. The than shook his head. " "I do not understand you ; speak out!" "He will be hanged." "My God! the beautiful child! the hope of an honorable family the sweet, beauti ful ! Oh-my God, it cannot be. Man, I do not believe in your Iving art;" and she grasped his arms as if she might shift the terrible prophecy trora ber own con sciousness. ' "Look again it cannot be." The man of science went over the figures once more and again shook his head. "Better he should die now. 1 have prayed impiously for his life. Oh that he may die !" The veins of her forehead were distended, nnd she held by tbe arm of the chair, with a look as if she might arrest the web which the remorseless rarcoc were spining for her household. ' The astrologer hinted at the long career, prosperous and honorable, tbat would inter vene; the improbability that she Would ever live to see the termination, and other topics always inutile in moments of suffer ids. "No, no: if such is to be, I only have strength to bear it: I must be with him, comfort him, die with him, and tears came to her relief. She yielded a while to the strange consoling which tears always afiord a woman; as if the good tatber, knowing her many and solitary hours of suffering, had provided within berselt this sad fount of relief: alas I the comforter! then she gathuied a thick veil over her face and went out. Wheu she had gone, the man revised his diagrams again, with an expression of pain upon his pale spiritual features; tor newas a hrm believer in the truth ot bis profes sion, and not one who touowea it lur ine mere purpose of gain. The fee, which his visitor bad laid upon the table, remained untouched, and be talked aloud as he me chanically turned the index of the astrolabe. "Poor youth J Venus favoring graceful, uninff. courteous yes, yes, the idol of the women Mercury in his dignity elo quent in speech ready with his pen Mars in bis bouse brave as a lion au! ah: here comes tbe moon trouble and here the paneful Saturn he cannot escnpe poor young man: and witu a oeauutui sor row over the tale as yet unacnievea over the folded scroll of a cradle babe he nrose heavily from his seat, and lifting his eyes, prayed audibly for the child, that God, in his infinite goodness, would interpose all possible hindrances to the threatened cal amity, lie was ignorant Dotn ot me name and statiou of his visitor, but he noted the nativity in his books with much care, and then resumed a ponderous tome containing the prophecies of .Noslrodamus, endeavor inr to fathom their meaning; and resolv ing theiu into astrological tables, tho bet ter to aid in their interpretation. He remained some time occupied in this .I, ii manner, when tne Qoor again openea and his visitor stood before him. She was fear fully pale, and and her voice husky, as she said : "I have learned more than I ought to have learned : may God forgive ma True or false, what I have heard will embitter tbe remainder of my life. As to the child, I perceive, by what you predict, he must live to nianhood-fhow long I do not wish to hear; I have one thing to ask, Should you be alive when the child has numbered his years, will you bear this period in mind, and call at" and she named a number and street in London. The astrologer seemed to rewh c the 'riiftfroT in his mind, and then said : "I will come." "God willing; I pray you say, God wil ling," urged his visitor. "God has willed it," he replied, solemn ly ; and again he bent his eyes upon the book. The lady was a woman of strong affec tions, hightened by powerful imagination. She had known many and severe griefs, which had given her that half-desponding cast of mind which is apt to superinduce the mystical. The happy marriage of ber only surviving daughter, who has recently given birlh to a son, seemed to promise a bright close to an eventful life, so bright that she could hardly believe so much good could be in store for her; hence her appli cation, ' as we have "seen, and the terrible prediction to which she has listened. , She had entered Ihe astrologer's like one who had laid aside his armor and feel the enervation of rest. She trembled at the apprehension of evil, and shrunk at the thought of danger. Despite her professed unbelief, in the bottom of her soul, all that she heard, as every one does, who listens to the oracles of Fate. No matter from what source comes the prediction, whoever hears believes; trembles or hopes what ever tbe lips may deny. What the oracle of Delphi was to the Greeks, the flight of birds and reeking entrails of the Roman) the Weird Sisteas to Macbeth, the astrolo ger, the gipsey, the fortune-teller, is to the modern eaf. r. The woman retired, feeling the worst that could befall her was already known, ft'ud all intermediate ills were pnt as the dust in the balance. From that time a sedce of mournful isolation grjw upon her, as the bolder of a secret concerning others but forever to be hidden in her own breast. She grew more gentle than her wont) for sbe was a woman of strong passions, and of an individuality apart from the mass. .The evening of the day which we have described, she sat with a fair child sleeping upon her knee, over which sho bent silent ly ; but a close observer would have seen that a torrent of tears fell from her eyes, and dewed its robes. The shaded lights, gleaming amid crimson and alabaster, deli cate flowers, abd carpets uoisless to the foot bespoke wealth and luxury; while the blanched outlines of statuary here and there in the high and spacious room, gave a spec tral air of taste and grandeur not unallied to that of mystery.. Beueath the sump tuous hangings of the antique bedstead, slept the fair mother of the child, lovely de spite her baldness, shade and softened ns it was by dainty races, that told of coming health and renewed beauty, all the absence of all danger. The ticking of the clock alone broke the deep silence, and this had astern) measured tone vibrating ominously upon tbe ear. The grandmother, for sucn she was, not withstanding her glossy hair and cheek un touched by time, at length bacame con scious of what seemed tbe preternatural loudness of the clock, and she arose and arrested the pendulum, and now the death ly stilluess of the room grew audible with the beating of human hearts, counting the seconds one after another, and to the soli tary watcher with fearful distinctness. As her eye rested upon the clock she murmur ed, "Arrested, not run out;" and her eyes slowly fell upon the marble base, which the light thaew into bold relief. It consisted of a gaoup of the Laocoon; and singularly enough, as the light fell Upon the youngest child of the suffering priest, clinging in ter ror to his parent, tbe face bora astrange re semblance to the sleeping child. At first this passed through the mind of the kins woman as a sort of dreamy consciousness but as she gazed longer, the likeness be came so peculiar that she arose and exam ined it more closely. Upon a nearer view, it in part disappeared, only to be renewed as she resumed he position. Fearful thoughts grew upon the mind of tbe strong passioned woman, as she sat holding that unconscious child of destiny in her arms. At one moment its beauty plead audible to her heart, and grief, intense and overwhelming, filled her with a love surmounting death and peril to shelter and uphold it through life. She would aban don society for its sake she would assume the habiliments of a man, nnd follow it in 11 its terrible destiny, and give up her own life that ho might escape in the hour of peril. Then she would retire into some desert place, far from the laws of civilized peonla, aud train the child to the freedom and irresponsibleness of savage life. Anou, sbe determined to exchange him wilh some child of humbler blood, but better stars; and thep, when tho evil day came, she would be ignorant of the event. More tumultuous and wild grew the action of her troubled thoughts; and at length the final one of destroying it stood like a shape, airy-drawn before .ber eyes. More and more distinct grew the image: it was a virtuous, a good deed she might rid the world of a monster prevent two-fold cal ami: y. As these suggestions stieamed rapidly through lior mind sbe arose to her feet -she approached the Laocoon, where tbe strange resemblance and the look otcg- ony gave at once denmieness to tne - wild- uess of her emotions, one lifted the child upward it did not awake "Ah! ah t she laughed aloud, "the old man did not say how long he should live now is his desti ny complete;" and her fiugers gathered around the throat of tbe babe. There was a slightscream, and the hurrying of a gath ering household. The almost inanimate child was laid by the sido of its no loss in animate mother, and the unhappy woman was borne away, Itereft of reasou. Some years after the event which we have here shadowed forth, two persons, each at the extreme limit of human life, mHrht ha seen slowlv pacing the dim aisles of an okl cathedral. Tbe man bad rever ently removed the covering from his bead, and his white silken locks, parted upon the ceater, streamed in curia upon each side ot bis face, like wreathes of snow, while his broad forehead and clear oyes gave him an appearance of one of the Patriarchs of old, opon whose heads blossomed the frosty honors of hundred years. Tha woman was of a deathly pale cheek, but clear and soft and she too wort folds of whilo hair above eyes of strange brilliancy. NeHhar had fallen into dotage neither bad bowed " under the pressure of life form deep spir itualism, an active earnestness and a brave stirring of the intellect, had left time little power over the subtle elements of thought; "I remember well tbe horoscope I had cast so many years before," said the old man "and that conjunction of planets indi cated a CatasLrophe of the kind in high pla ces I thoTjghtof you, and called more than once, as load promised." "God's will be my will, Tespobded the) woman; "the death was dreadful, but rid burning shame was superaded to its many pangs uo human execration mingled bit terness in the cup, and I was spared to comfort bim to tbe last. As she ottered these words, the two bent Over a plain marble slab, and tne Wo man pointed her finger to the name Ax db. , Report Of the Committee on Slavery adopted Unanimously by the North Ohio Conference, at its late Session in Wooster, Ohio. As. Conference, we affirm what we have before, that we believe Slavery in it self to be sinful, and should not be sanct ioned, or tolerated, directly or indirectly by the Christian Church. As citizens we re gard it as a social and political evil, and we will do all in our power for its exterpa-tion- from our country '; and as members of the one great human family, we will do all that we can for its universal eradication. Resolved, That we concur with the Cm cinati Conference in recommending the General and Anual Conferences, to so alter the general rule on Slavery, that it shall read as follows: "The bflying of men. women o children; or holding them with the intention to use them as Slaves." . . , 4 Resolved, That we recommend the sus pension of tbe 5th restrictive rule for the purpose specified in the above resolution. Resolved, That we heartily approve of the course of our Quarterly Revie and the Sunday School Advocate,- in relation to this evil) and recommend theril Id ouf members) and the pnblic, as wothy of the patronage of every ffiehd of human rights. Resolved, Tbat while' the American Tract Society is silent upon this great evil, we rejoice that we are able to refer to the anti-Slavery publications of the Tract Sd ciety of the M. . Church, for abuudant evidence, that in a christian manner, and with weapons of heavenly temper it attacks this monsler iniquity. Resolved, That we recommend to our Book Agents at CincinatL the publication of Dr. E. Thompson's tract on Slavery," and such others as they may seem advisable-. Resolved, That we appoint Dr. Thomp son a Committee to correspond wilh the other Conferences, so as to secure uniformi ty of action in trying to change our gen2 eral rule on Slavery. Rtsolvtd, Tbat Witboiit naming persons, refering W events, or specifying placesj our sympathies are, not witt) the Oppress2 or, but with the oppressed, without any destination of habitation, race or Color. L. S. JOHNSON. WOOSTER, Sep. 27, 1858. Sec. of Com. Rascality at the State Faib.- Front what we could see and bear we interred, when at Sandusky,, that the amount of stealing and gambling going on exceeded that of any previous Fair. 'The Regis ter of yesterday morning say 8: "We understand the prevalence of pocket-books, cut open and moneyless, revealed by the removal of seats snd tables on the Fair Grounds, was perfectly astonishing. These empty and sadly disfigured leathern receptacles were mute yet eloquently mel ancholy souvenirs of the prevailing pres ence ot pick-pockets on the occasion of the! Fair. It is supposed that a gieat deal of the pocket picking was done by abandon ed females, as the greater number of the dismantled pocket books found as above stated were secreted beneath the ladies' range of seats, where men- were debarred of access. During the four days of the Fair, noto rious gamblers and pickpockets were, te be met with everywhere, and the various con fidence and ball games were successfully played, even on the Fair Ground and tinder i he eyes of the police. We have often had eccasion to make note of countrymen being swindled, and as often had oar own pleas are in laughing at the subjects for being so 'green" advising them to "take the papers," fec We shall be lenient on coun try people, however in futnre, until we- en tirely forget the exhibitions of infatuated stupidly there made by men who had for years lived in cities' and wore, known as "men of the world." One young baisaesa man lost 120 in six consecutive bets on on "three card monte," a game in which everybody knows, the chances are at least two to one in favor of the dealer. Cleve land Review. The English Swisdle. Tbe Indiana polis National Democrat, Douglas organ, says: Lecompton candidates for Congress are' as eager now to repudiate the penalty clause of the English bill, as they were a few weeks ago to make it a test of Dmo- . i ; ,. j t J cracy. After naving lusuuaa ana aousea every anli-Lecompton Democrat in the laud, like a pick-pocket, for repudiating the odious discrimnation in favor of Lecomp ton and against a Constitution embodying the will of the people, they now turn in and repudiate it themselves. Those, gen tleman had better read the Washington f7t'0J and see what it says of those who refuse to stand by the English bill. We'll have high times" in Coogreaa , next winter. The settlement of the Le- compton controversy baa but just commen ced. ... Here is Democratic authority that the' Kansas question hi not tattled "the Le-. compton controversy ia bat just common- 'tST Agricultural Fair Fannem rotty Daufrhtsrs.