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NEWS & PLANTERS’ GAZETTE. . COTTING, Editor. No. 41.— NEW SERIES.] Him & PUNTERS’ GAZETTE. TEK M S I Published weekly at Three Dollars per annum, it paid at the time ol subscribing; or Three Dollars awl Fifty Cents, it’ not paid till the expi ration ot six months. No paper to be discontinued, unless at the option of the Editor, without the settlement of all arrearages. O’ Letters, on business, must be post paid, to insure attention. No communication shall be published, unless we are made acquainted with tie name of the author. TO ADVERTISERS. Advertisements, not exceeding one stpiare, first insertion, Seventy-Jive Cents; and for each sub sequent insertion, Fifty Cents. A reduction will he made of twenty-five per cent, to those who advertise by the year. Advertisements not limited when handed in, will be inserted till for bid, and charged accordingly. 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II Nelms, Elber- Wilkinson, ton, Dr. Cain, Cambridge, John A. Simmons, Go- Abbeville District, shen, Lincoln, South Carolina. iirr^ngemems. POST OFFICE, £ Washington, Ga., January, 1841. $ AUGUSTA MAIL. ARRIVES. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 5, A. M. CLOSES. Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, at 12, M. MILLEDGEVILLE MAIL. ARRIVES. Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 8, A. M. CLOSES. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 11, A. M. CAROLINA MAIL. ARRIVES. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 11, A. M. CLOSES. Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 8, A. M. ATHENS MAIL. ARRIVES. Sunday and Wednesday, at 9, A. M. CLOSES. Sunday and Wednesday, at 0, A. M. ELBERTON MAIL. ARRIVES. CLOSES. Thursday, at 8, P. M. j Thursday, at 8, P. M. LINCOLNTON MAIL. ARRIVES. CLOSES. Friday, a* 12, M. | Friday, at. 12, M. _ COTTING & BUTLER, ATTORNIES, HAVE taken an OFFICE over Cozart & Woods Store. March 11,1841. 28 WASHINGTON Female Seminary* The second Term in the Seminary commen ces on the first Monday in July, and ends on the last Friday in November. The months of June and December, are months of vacation. E. M. BURTON, Secretary. May 27, 1841. 3t 39 mYoItCC, ril iIE Commissioners of the Poor School Fund A for Wilkes county, will meet in Washing ton on the second Saturday of the present month, at which time those who have claims un der the Common School Act, will please attend, having their demands made out in conlormity to the law in such cases made and provided. No demands will be attended alter that meeting, as the Commissioners will proceed to distribute the funds to those who have their accounts properly made out and presented on that day. Those who have claims will take care to have them ready before the time, and not wait as heretofore, until the Commissioners are in ses sion, and then ask how they must make them out. ROYLAND BEASLEY, Treasurer to Commissioners. June 3,1841. 2t 40 IjtOUR months alter date application will he made to Ihe Honorable the Inferior Court of Lincoln county, while sitting as a Court of Ordi nary, for leave to sell a Tract of Land, known as the Walton tract,, belonging to the Estate of Win.'Parks, late of said county, deceased. WILLIAM M. LAMPKIN, Ex’r. June 3, 1841. m4m 40 ■ months after date, application will be ’ made to the Honorable the Inferior Court of Wilkes couu", while sitting as a Court of Ordinary, lor 1 J ‘ i to sell a Negro man by the name oi Aar- fac,e d the remaining part of the personal propS.P ro sf Benedictine Crews, late of said comity, deceased, for tiie benefit of the heirs and creditors. ELIZA MANKIN, Adm’x. June 3.1841. with the will annexed. NEW GOODS. j rpilE Subscriber has just received from New A York and Charleston, a splendid assort- I ment of Fancy Staple Dry WOOJiK, ADAPTED TO THE PRESENT SEASON. Also, he has on hand, anew supply of II artlware, Cutlery, j Crockery, Saddles, Bri dles, Shoes, Hats, Drugs and Medicines, Bonnets, Factory Yarn & Cloth, And a General Assortment of GOODS usually ! kept in a Retail Dry Good’s Store—all of which will be sold on reasonable terms for Cash or Credit. A. A. CLEVELAND. May 20,1841. ts 38 Consumption AND Fiver Complaint, Dll. TAYLOR’S BALSAM OF LIVERWORT HAS been used successfully lor eight years in the cure of these diseases. D lte memcer! the original and genuine is made only at 375 Bowery, N. Y., ALL others are spurious and unauthorized ! Consumption and Liter Complaint! —As a general remedy for these diseases I am fully sat isfied, from long experience, there is no Medi cine equal to Dr. Taylor’s Balsam of Liverwort. Be.ng purely vegetable, it can be used with the utmost safety by all persons in every condition It cleanses the lungs by expectoration, relieves difficult breathing, and seems to heal the chest. There can be no question, but this medicine is a certain cure for chronic coughs and colds. 1 have used it for four years in my practice, and always with success. A. F. ROGERS, M. D. To Females. —The number of females indeli cate health, is truly surprising. Weakness, loss oi appetite, liver complaints, and many other die eases, prey upon them, making them pale and lean ol flesh. All this can be remedied by the use of strengthening medicine, that will assist nature in all her movements, restore tone to the nerves and muscular organs. Os this kind is Dr. Taylor’s Balsam of Liverwort, which being mild and purely vegetable, answers females ad mirably. If all will use if, we are confident an elastic step, good appetite, and ruddy cheeks wa. iollow. Once more, remember, the original and genuine is made at 375 Bowery. O'* Spitting of Blood. —This disease consists of a discharge of blood, often frothy, from the mouth, brought up with hawking and coughing, and is usually accompanied with difficulty o, breathing, and some pain in the chest. Some times it is preceded by an oppression of the chest, a dry tickling cough, and slight shooting pains. This disease is always more or less dan gerous. The great danger is that these symp toms may terminate in consumption, and imme diate remedies can alone save this end. Bui Dr. Taylor’s Balsam of Liverwort is a sure remedy, and to show its unparalleled success, certificates oi cures Irom 421 citizens, and many physicians, will be published in a lew daj s. IET .Serious Diseases and Weakness. —Dr. Taylor’s Balsam ol Liverwort, made at 375 Bow ery, is assuredly an excellent remedy for these diseases. My wife has been more or less ill for ten years. She was extremely nervous, and at times so weak that she could not attend to her domestic duties. By the use of this medicine, her strength is w hony restored, and she is as healthy as I can wish her to he. My address is at Dr. Taylor’s office. Cure of Consumption. —Mrs. Martin, a worthy member oi my congregation, was taken ill some time since with a cold, pain in the breast, and some difficulty of breathing, and in a tew days thereafter, she had a violent cough and a violent pain m the sides, which no medicine would re lieve. She continued in this way lor a long time, under the medical care of Dr. Rea, but fi nally became consumptive, and was evidently near the end of her earthly sufferings, when her brother persuaded her to try Dr. Taylor’s Balsam oi Liverwort. When she commenced this med icine, it did not seem to agree with her lor a lew days, but by lessening the dose, she found it an swered admirably : it relieved her cough and her difficulty of breathing instanter ; and we had the pleasure of witnessing her rapid recovery to health. Rev. WILLIAM SMYTHE. D” OBSERVE ! Buy only that which is made at the Old Office, 375 Bowery, N. Y., anil which is sold by ROBERT AUSTIN & CO. Wholesale and Retail Druggists, No. 161, Broad-street, Augusta. ID” Sole A gents for Georgia. May 20, 1841 6t 38 Notice* rp HE Subscriber will give twelve cents per A pound ior good HIDES, and pay in Learn er and Shoes. They also design supp ying the Market with Beef, &c. this season. Thereiore, persons having Calves or Lambs for sale, can find a markei, by giving them a call. MOSELEY & ELLINGTON May 6, 1841. 311 jfr wt JL THE Subscribers having had their Books and most ot their Accounts consumed by the late Fire, would respectfully solicit those indent ed to call, without delay, and settle either with CASH or by NOTE, the amount due as near as their memory will serve them—for this matter will be left entirely to the Honor of a great many; and we trust no one will be found taking the ad vantage of our situation ; but that all will come forward, like honest men, to our relief. BURTON & PELOT. N. B.—Call at the Bank, on E. M. Burton, for settlement. March 11. ts 28 WASHINGTON, (WII.KES COUNTY, GA„) JUNE 10, 1841. SPRING. I love not Spring—l cannot bear This kind of fickle woman weather, The mingling up of smile and tear, And “ ne’er the same an hour together.” One moment, and its sunny ray Is smiling bright as hope before you, The next, and ere you cross the way, ’Tis raining, hailing, snowing o’er you. I love not Spring—its blossoming flowers Are very well for poet’s verses ; But he that feels its “sunny showers” Is api in prose to vent his curses. Give me the season of the year When nature nidi'? sedate reposes— Can man life’s ills more cu.'mly bear Because they’re felt “ among the roses ?’* I love not Spring—'.hough with it come The swallows from their farthest station, And then is heard the ceaseless hum Os all the insect generation ; I’d rather have a cheerful fire, And plenty of good books before me— E’n Winter I much more admire Than Spring, whose chilly rains pelt o’er me. I love not Spring—you search in vain The market through to find a dinner, And scarce are able to obtain Enough to feed a “young beginner.” Let maudlin misses long to see The charms of this “delightful season;” Such charms, 1 must confess, to me Are not the fruits of “ rhyme or reason.” ill ISCELLANEOUS. THE BELL OF ST. REGIS. A Canadian Sketch. BY THE AUTHOR OF “LAWSIE TODD.” * * * Father Nicholas having assem bled a considerable number of the Indians whom he had converted, settled them in the village which is now called St. Regis, on the hanks of the St. Lawrence. The sit uation is one of the most beautiful on that noble river, and the village at this day the most picturesque in the country. The houses, high roofed and of a French appear ance, arc scattered round the semicircle of a little bay, and on a projecting headland stands the church, with its steeple glitter ing with a vivacity inconceivable by those who have not seen the brilliancy of the tin roofs of’Canada contrasted in the sunshine with the dark woods. This little church is celebrated for the legend ofits hell. When it was erected, and the steeple completed, Father Nicholas took occasion, in one of his sermons, to inform his simple flock that a bell was as necessary to a stee ple as a priest is lo a church; and exhor ted them, therefore, to collect as many furs as would enable him to procure one from France. The Indians were not sloths in the performance of this pious duty. Two bales were speedily collected and shipped lor Havre de Grace, and in due time the worthy ecclesiastic was informed that the hell was purchased and put on hoard the Grand Monarque, bound for Quebec. It happened that this took place during one of those wars which the French and English are naturally in the habit of wa ging against one another, and the Grand Monarque, in consequence, never reached herdestination. She was taken by a New England privateer, and carried into Salem, where the ship and cargo were condemned as prize, and sold for the captors. The bell was bought for the town of Deerfield, on the Connecticut river, where a church had been recently built, to which that great preacher, the Rev. John Williams, was appointed. With much labor it was car ried to the village, and duly elevated to the belfry. When Father Nicholas heard of this misfortune, he called his flock together & told them of the purgatorial condition of the hell in the hands of the heretics, and what a laudable enterprise it would he to redeem it. This preaching was, within its sphere, as inspiring as that of the hermit Peter.— The Indians lamented to one another the and piorahh unbaptised state of the bell. Os the bell itself they hud no very clear idea ; but they knew that Father Nicholas said mass and preached in tho church, and they understood the bell was to perform some analogous service in tho steeple. Their wonted acthity in the chase was at an end; they sa in groups on the margin of tho river, communing on the calamity which had h. fallen tho hell ; and some of them roamed alone, ruminating on the means of rescuing il. The squaws, who had been informed that its voice would he heard farther than the roaring of'tho rapids, and that it was more musical than ilk-call of the whip-poor-will in the evening, moved about in silence and dejection. All were melancholy, and finely touched with a holy enthusiasm; many fasted, and some volun tarily subjected themselves to severe pen ances, to procure relief for the captive, or mitigation of its sufferings. At last the day of deliverance drew near. The Marquis de Vaudrieul, the Govern PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING. or of Canada, resolved to send an expedi tion against the British colonics of Massa chusetts and New Hampshire. The com mand was given to Major Ilertel de Rou ville; and one of the priests belonging to the Jesuits’ College at Quebec informed I Father Nicholas, by a pious voyageur, of the proposed incursion. The Indians were immediately assembled in the church; the voyageur was elevated in the midst of the congregation, and Father Nicholas, in a solemn speech, pointed him out to their veneration as a messenger of glad tidings. He then told them of the warlike prepara tions at Quebec, and urged them lojoin the expedition. At the conclusion, the whole audience rose, giving the war-whoop ; then simultaneously retiring to their houses, they began to paint themselves with their most terrible colors for battle, and, as if animated by one will at their council fire, they resolved to join the expedition. It was in the depth of winter when they set out to unite themselves with De Rou ville’s party at the fort of Chambly. Fa ther Nicholas, with a tall staff and a cross oii the top of !>. headed them ; and, as they marched off, their wives and children, in imitation of the hymns which animated the departure of the first crusaders under the command of Godfrey de Boulogne, chan ted a sacred song which the holy father had especially taught them for the occasion. They arrived at Chambly, after a jour | ney ofincredible fatigue, as the French sol i diers were mounting their sleighs to proceed to Lake Champlain. The Indians fol i lowed in the track of the sleighs, with the I perseverance peculiar to their character. Father Nicholas, to he the more able to do his duty when it might he required, rode in a sleigh with De Rouville. In this order and array, the Indians, far behind, followed in silence until the whole party had rendezvoused on the borders of Lake Champlain, which, being frozen, and the snow hut thinly upon it, was chosen for theirroute. Warmed in their imaginations with the unhappy captivity of the hell, the | Indians plodded solemnly their weary way; no symptom of regret, fatigue, or of appre hension, relaxed their steady countenan ces ; they saw with equal indifference the black and white interminable forest on the shore, on the one hand, and the dread and dreary desert of the snowy ice of the lake, on the other. The French soldiers began to suffer ex tremely from the toil of wading thru gli the snow, and beheld with admiration and en vy the facility with which the Indians, in their snow shoes, moved over the surface. No contrast could be greater than the pa tience of Father Nicholas’s proselytes and the irritability of the Frenchmen. When they reached the spot on which the lively and pretty town of Burlington now stands, a general halt was ordered, that the necessary arrangements might be made to penetrate the forest towards the settled parts of Massachusetts. In starting from this point, Father Nicholas was left to bring up his division, and De Rouville led his own with a compass in his hand, taking the direction of Deerfield. Nothing that had been yet suffered was equal to the hardships endured in this march. Dav after day the Frenchmen went forward with indefatiga ble bravery,—a heroic contrast to the pan ics of their countrymen in the Russian snow-storms of later times. But they were loquacious; and the roughness of their course and the entangling molestation which they encountered from the underwood provoked their maledictions and excited their gesticulations. The couduct of the Indians was far different ; animated with holy zeal, their constitutional taciturnity had something dignified—even sublime, in its sternness. No murmur escaped them ; their knowledge of travelling the woods instructed them to avoid many of the annoy ances which called forth the pestes and su cres of their not less brave but more vocife rous companions. Long before the party had reached their destination, Father Nicholas was sick of his crusade ; the labor of threading the forest had lacerated his feet, and the recoil ing boughs had,from time to time,by his own inadvertency in following too closely be hind his companions, sorely blained, even to excoriation, his cheeks. Still he felt that he was engaged in a sanctified adven ture ; he recalled to mind the martyrdoms of the saints and the persecutions of the fa thers, and the glory that would redound to himself in all after ages by the redemption of the bell. On the evening ofthe 29th of February, 1704, the expedition arrived within two miles of Deerfield, without having been discovered. De Rouville ordered his men to halt, rest, and refresh themselves until midnight, at which hour he gave orders that the village should he attacked. The surface of the snow was frozen, and cracked beneath the tread. With great sagacity, to deceive the American garrison, De Rouville directed, that in advancing to the assault,his men should frequently pause, and then rush for a short time rapidly for ward. By this ingenious precaution, the sentinels in the town were led to imagine that the sound came from the irregular rus tle of the wind through the laden branches of the snowy forest ; but an alarm was at last given, and a terrible conflict took place. The French fought with their ac customed spirit, and the Indians with their characteristic fortitude. The garrison was dispersed, the town was taken, though bravely defended, and the buildings set on fire. At day break all the Indians, although greatly exhausted by the fatigue of the night, waited in a body and requested the holy father to conduct them to the bell, tiiat they might perform their homages and testi fy their veneration for it. Father Nicho las was not a little disconcerted at this sol ium request, and I)e Rouville, with many of the Frenchmen, who were witnesses, laughed at it most unrighteously. But the father was not entirely discomfited. As the Indians had never heard a bell,heobtained one of the soldiers from De Rouville, and despatched him to ring it. The sound, in the silence of the frosty dawn and the still woods, rose loud and deep: and it was to the simple ears of the Indians as the voice of an oracle ; they trembled, and were filled with wonder and awe. The hell was then taken from the belfry, and fastened to a beam with a cross bar at each end, to enable it to he carried by four men. In this way the Indians proceeded with it homeward, exulting in the deliver ance of the “miraculous organ.” But it was soon found too heavy for the uneven track they had to retrace, and, in conse quence, when they readied their starting point, on the shore of Lake Champlain, they buried it with many benedictions from Fa ther Nicholas, until they could come with proper means to carry it away. As soon as the ice was broken up, Fath er Nicholas assembled them again in the church, and, having procured a yoke of ox en, they proceeded to bring in the bell. In ihe mean time, all the squaws and papooses had been informed of its marvellous pow ers and capacities, and the arrival of it was looked to as one of the greatest events “ in the womb of time.” Nor did it prove far short of their anticipations. One evening, while they were talking and communing together, a mighty sound was heard ap proaching in the woods. It rose louder and louder. They listened, they wondered, and began to shout and cry, “It is the hell !” It was so. Presently the oxen, surroun ded by the Indians, were seen advancing from the woods; the beam was laid across their shoulders, and as the hell swung be tween them, it sounded wide and far. On the top of the beam, a rude seat was erect ed, on which sat Father Nicholas, the most triumphant of mortal men, adorned with a wreath round his temples; the oxen, too, were ornamented with garlands of flowers. In this triumphant array, in the calm of a beautiful evening, when the leaves were still and green, and while the roar of Lo longue Saulte rapid, softened by distance, rose like the hum of a pagan multitude re joicing in the restoration of an idol, they ap proached the village. The hell, in due season, was elevated to its place in the steeple, and, at the wonted hours of matins and vespers, it still cheers with its clear and swelling voice the sol etnti woods and the majestic St. Lawrence. AN ADVENTURE IN ITALY. I willtellyou of a narrow escape I had some years ago in Tuscanv. R and myself having heard oi a flight of cocks, had gone down into the Maretnma to shoot.— You have heard of the Maremma. It pos sesses an almost interminable extent of mo rasses, “ overgrown with long, rank gras ses,” and hillocks, as Shelly beautifully describes, “ heaped with moss-enwoveti turf,” a wilderness of putridity and desola tion. It was the month of November; be fore which time it is dangerous to set foot there, for until the first frost even many of the fever stricken serfs forsake if. In the eagerness of sport, vve had been led farther than we calculated from ouralbergo, a sol itary wretched hovel, bordering on the marsh, the abode of the most ghostly, yel low, emaciated objects in human form I ev er beheld, except some of thecayenned, cur ry-dried, liver-worn, Anglo-East Indlar.s we left at Cheltenham. The sun was fast setting, and we had still two miles to mike and were coasting along the edge of a ‘knoll, thickly set with huge and speckled aloes, intermingled here and there with stunted i lexes, and with the strawberry tree, then bright with its globes of deep red gold, when methought I heard a rustling among the branches, and a sound like that of the grind ing of teeth. I noticed it to my companion. He suddenly turned ashy pale, and whis pered hysterically, “ we are near a herd of swine.” Vast numbers I should have told you, are turned out in the fall of the leaf, to” fat ten here, and ber.oine so savage and wild, that none but their keepers dare approach them, and closed us they are in an almost inpenetrahVe mail of leather, even they sometimes fall victims to the ferocity ofthese brutes. “ It is well for us,” continued rav friend, ‘ that there is a hut within a few hundred yards. Let us lose no time in making for it.’ As lie spake,the sounds became louder, and I saw some hundred hogs emerging an all sides from the brushwood, grunting fiercely, gnashing their teeth in unison. They were huge, gaunt, long-legged, long-headed, and long-backed creatures, giants of their spe cies-spectral monsters, more like starved blood hounds than swine. They now mustered their forces in battle array, outside the thicket, aud commenced Iho attack in a systematic and regularly concerted manner ; the veterausof the herd directing the movements of the hostile band, and one by a deeper grunt, not ill resemb ling the word of command of a certain gen eral, de gregre porcus, of our acquaintance giving dreadful notea of preparation, as if to spirit oil the line to a charge. We made our way with difficulty tlfouph 11. .1. K APPEL, Printer. ‘ the rotten and yielding morass, leaping from tuft to tuft, and risking, by a false ; step, to plunge Into a bottomless abyss, I while blood-thirsty pursuers, with their long legs and lanky sides, and tucked up bellies advanced—a fearful phalanx, in se mi-lunar curve, momently gaining ground. My friend, who was more accustomed t > the hops titan myself, soon outstripped i. • , not daring !o look behind. Once and once only, dii! I, and beheld them coming on like a pack of hounds in full cry. and with tin | scent breast high, and to my horror, percei ved the two horns or wings of the troop j making cschef/on movement in a very liar | rowing circle, like a regiment of cavalry j bringing their right and left shoulders for j ward, to outflank, and then enclose us. 1 I dared not risk a second glance at my foes, ! but the hoarse voices of the ringleaders rati I through the ranks,and 1 heard and saw the i splash of their many feet as they turned tip j the mud in my rear. How I reached the hut I know not, hut j reach it l did, where l found my friend lea i ning against the wall, breathless with ter ror. The shed was rudely constructed of peat, and appeared to have been long deser ted, consisting only of bare walls and a feu rafters; hut providentially there was a door hanging by one hinge ; this I contri ved to shut just as the centre of the herd reached the tiireshhold. They made a halt retired a few paces, and collected together. |asif to hold a council of war. While they | were undecided how to act, we discharged our four barrels, loaded with small shot, from the window at the nearest, which slow ly limping, with a sullen grunt of disap pointment, the whole of their comrades at their heels, retreated, into the covert. ‘ Thank God !’ said R , when he saw the lust disappear among the aloes. “It is but a year since a traveller, crossing the j Maretnma, paid for his journey with his I life. There was not a tree to shelter him ; ! and though he was a determined man. and well armed, and no doubt made a gallant resistance, llicv hemmed him in, and de voured him. I could show you the spot where the swineherds drove them from his mangled remains ; it was pointed out t ■ me the last time I came here.’ ANECDOTE OF WHITFIELD. | Johnson and others have regarded Whit ! field only as the orator of the mob. That. | supposition is refuted by facts notorious to every reador. The Duchess of Marlboro i and tiie sons of George the 11. went to hear : him. In his chapel might lie seen the ! young Duke of Grafton, not yet pierced by j the arrows of Junius, Charles Fox, William I Pitt, and Soame Jenyns. John Newton ! mentioned at a breakfast party, that lie had | often risen at four to attend Whitfield’s dis | courses in the Tabernacle at five ; and that j at that early hour, he had seen Moorfields : as full of lanterns as he supposed the Hav- I market was of flambeaux on the opera night. Ilis collections for charitable pur poses exceeded any which, have been pro cured by the most popular preachers. He once obtained, by a sir.gle sermon in behalf ol an obscure village in Germany, the ex traordinary sum of six hundred pounds.— It must he admitted, that upon that occasion he condescended to employ artifice, to in crease the subscription. After the conclu sion of the sermon, he alluded to the in tended collection in tlie following terms : We shall sing a hymn, during which those who do not choose to give their mite, on this r.wful occasion, may sneak off.”- Os coijrse nobody moved ; and when the singing was over, lie directed all the doors hut one to be closed-, at which lie took his stu.tion with the plate in his hand. \ LITTLE BEYOND THE VAN KEES. However adroit the Yankees may be in matters of manufacture and traffic, yet thev fall infinitely short of some others in slight, of hand, in matters of thieves and robbers. The following circumstance which is said to have happened in a neighboring city, is a handsome illustration of this remark. A gentleman having had a valuable watch stn len from bis person, advertised that he would give the thief fifty dollars for the res toration, and no questions to be asked. A short time after, a man called on him. and informed him that on payment of fifty dol lars, the watch should be restored. The money was handed to the stranger and the watch to the rightful owner, who remarked that although he was under an obligation to ask no questions, yet he had a curiosity tv know the manner in which he obtained tin watch, and would make that inquiry, leav ing his answer or refusal at his own option He readil v inquired of him whether he did not recollect that on a certain night a mat [ patted his shoulder, saying, ‘ how are you !’ and instantly asked pardon for ids abrupt salutation, as lie was mistaken in the pet son he was addressing, at the same tint patting him on the shoulder in the sum manner lie did at the time referred to.— The man recollected the circumstance, and the stranger said at that time lie took tin watch. The gentleman was much gratiti ed at the recovery of the u ate It, and so much amused by the manner in which it war stolen, that he stepped into the shop of ari acquaintance to tell the story. M bile re capitulating the circumstances he attempt ed to pull out bis watch’, “ ben lo! it was gone again, the rogue having star n it the second time when telling the manner in which he stole it the first time. This cer tainly beats the yankecs - all !">’.!<■ v'-v’ a .1 • • V [’ 7 ? * ;i° v ipr ’ • - [VOLUME XXVI.
