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the lAsanTi.ors lawyer
About ninety years ago, the celebrated j
‘‘Counsellor Costello” was in the zenith j
at the Irish Bar, where ho was unrivall- j
etJ for wit, acuteness and propensity to .
brogue. His practice lay considerably j
!ii the Criminal Courts, where by his in- 1
k penalty, he enabled moat deserving cul-l
lErits tofeviide the well earned punish- j
Ihcnt of the law. Jfe was one day sum-.
Signed to Newgate in a hurry, and in a ,
case (fiLgreat emergency. The safe or ,
strongbox of (ilemToui* A* Cos. had been ]
plundered ‘to an Hmniense amount. Bus- j
picion had falterfou the deputy cashier, 1
who was in consequence arrested and
sent to prison, inside of the walls of
which lie was advised by his fellow pris
oner, (whom on his entrance ho had con
ciliated by “coming down” handsomely,)
to send for Counsellor Costello, who
would, if any man could, save his life. -
It was in obedience to this suintpons I
that the Counsellor repaired to Newgate,
a practice not very general in London,
perhaps, hut not at all unusual in Dublin.
‘I am told you are committed for pur
loining 10,000 guineas, my dear sir,’
said the Counsellor as he entered the cell.
‘I am.’
‘Are you guilty ?’
‘Sir.’
‘Have you arojaun chese?' >
‘1 don't understand you.’
‘Did you do the thing?’
‘Sir, you insult me by your suspicion.’
‘Then, by the powers, you'll be hang
ed,’ and the Counsellor took his hat.
‘Hold, sir,’ said the prisoner—who, af
ter a little hesitation, confessed that Jjaf
was able to pay the Counsellor a thou
sand guineas if he procured his acquits
tal—the bargain was struck, and the
Counsellor took his leave.
Costello immediately repaired to the
Crown Office, as it was then called in
Dublin, from which his client had been
committed. The sitting Magistrate was
still on the bench.
‘Good morrow, Mr. Alderman,’ said
the Counsellor, as lie entered—‘ls there
any thing new to-day—anything stirring
in my way ?’
‘Yes, a most extraordinary case has
occurred. One of the Glen (lours clerks
has abstracted from the strong box of
tlie bn nix'ten bag*, each containing 1,000
guineas in gold. He was arrested this
morning; some of the property was
found on him, and has been sworn to. —
I sent him to Newgate half an hoursince,
and lie’ll certainly swing after the next
Commission,’ (Old Baily Sessions.)
‘The property sworn to! why, zounds,
how can that be ? One guinea is pre
cisely like another, and —’
True, true! but with the guineas the
fellow stole some foreign gold coins, one
of which, a broad Dutch, was found on
him when arrested ; it has been identi
iicd by the chief cashier, so you will ad
mit that he has no chance of escape.—
Here it is’ and then he handed the coin
to the Counsellor.
Costello took the money into his hands,
looked at it. most attentively, turned it
in his hand, after considering with the
air-of a virtuoso, returned it to the Al
derman, with—‘Upon my conscience, its
clear a case as I ever met.’ After some
unimportant conversation lie withdrew,
went home, and by the packet which
sailed that night, lie despatched a mes
senger to Amsterdam, with certain in
structions, and a strict injunction to ho
hack in Dublin within three weeks, at
the end of which the Commission of Over
and Terminer was to commence. The :
man succeeded in the object of his mis
sion, and returned to Dublin on the
very morning of the day appointed for
his master’s client.
Die prisoner was put upon trial.
The principal cashier of Glendour A
Cos., proved the circumstances of the
robbery, as narrated by the Alderman
to Costello, adding tlmt the robber who
could lie none hut the prisoner, had sub
stituted ten bags of half-pence for those j
of the gold, which he had stolen. The
Dutch piece was then handed to the wit
ness by the counsel for the prosecution ;
he unhesitatingly identified it as the
property of his employers. This evi
dence was conclusive—the prisoner’s
countenance changed—the jury indica
ted by their gestures that they were sat
isfied; the witness was descending from
the stand, when Costello exclaimed—
‘Stop, young man, a word with you, I
will thank you for that, gold piece, Mr.
addressing the counsel for the pros
ecution, who handed it to liim. Ho
looked at it, rubbed it oh the sleeve of
his well worn coat, and turning to the
witness, said, holding the piece of mo
ney in his fingers—‘and you positively
swear this is the identical piece of gold
which was in the strong box of Glendour
& Co.?’
‘1 do.’
‘Have a care, young man, look at, it
again,’ said Costello, offering it to the
witness but. lotting it fall into his hat
which lay before him ou the table. ‘I I
beg your pardon,’ said he, taking up and
1 winding the coin to the witness. ‘You
are sure that this is the identical piece
of money?’
‘I am,’
‘You are positive ? look at it again.’
‘1 do; and swear it is the very identi
cal piece.’
‘And this said the Counsellor, taking
another and a similar piece from his lmt.
Tho Witness was petrified.
Costello had at the Crown OlHce im
pressed upon bis mind the date and effi
gies of the gold piece shown him, and it
was to procure similarjdoins that he had
thus sent to llolhwui - /
‘And thisi' j#wKinued he—‘and this J
—and thisi>-Jmd this?’ taking a fresh i
piece is hat at each (juestion.—
The witness was struck dumb. The
prison^ - was immediately acquitted.
A WONDERFUL URESEEViMsJ
Tho following interesting story is Jttken
j from a Devatisnire, England, paper!
“Dudleigh Saltertun has been ‘the
| scene of a most thrilling incident. Six >
little children, ou Wednesday morning,
i got into a boat on the beach, and amis
j ehievous hoy shoved it off. The boat
drifted away to sea before the children
: were missed. Terrible was the agony
|of the mothers when they knew it. A
i number of men went off in all directions;
j every boat was on the look-out until far ;
| into the night. Daylight returned and j
I still nothing was heard about them— !
I they were lost either hi the expanse of!
the wide ocean, or buried within its in
satiable depths. A plyhiouth fisherman
fishing early in the morning, saw some- j
thing floating in the distance ; he bore j
down to it, and discovered it to he a j
boat, and in the bottom the six children, I
j all ciulled in like a nest of birds, fast j
j asleep—God having mercifully granted !
! them that solace after a day of terror 1
I and despair. lie took them aboard, j
feasted them with bread and cheese, and j
j gladdened their despairing hearts with a j
prortiise to take them home.
Between three and four in the after
noon the fisherman was seeutfi the offing ;
with a boat astern. All eyes were turn- j
’m\ towards him; tho best spy-glass in !
Sown was rubbed again and again,and at j
List they fairly made out that it was the
j llcutieal boat. The news flew through
j the town, and the mothers came frantic j
the beach, for there were no children j
j discovered'in the boat; none to be seen j
in the sloop. Intense was the agony of:
suspense, and all alike shared it with the j
parents. At last lhe boat came in, and
the word went round, “they are all safe,”
and the many stouthearted men burst
into tears, women shrieked with joy, and
became almost frantic witli their insup
portable happiness. It was indeed a mem
orable day; and a prayer, eloquent for
its rough sincerity, was offered up to
Almighty God, who in his infinite mer
cy, had spared these innocent children
from the perils and terrors of the sea du
ring that fearful night. Five of these
children were under five years of age ;
tho sixth is hut nine years old.”
DONT BE IX A HURRY-
The philosopher of the Williamsburg!)
Daily Times moralizes for consola
tion of young ladies who want to get
married and can’t, as follows:
Bhe stood beside the altar when she
was sixteen. She was in love; her
destiny rested on a creature in fashion
able clothes, with an empty pocket. He
“come of a good family,” however, and
blood, you know, is something. Bhe
looked lovely as she pronounced the
vow. Think of a vow from auburn
hair, dark eyes, and pouting lips, only
sixteen years old ! Bhe stood beside the
wash tub when her twenty-fifth birth- i
day arrived. The hair, the eyes and j
the lips were not calculated to excite the
heart. Five cross young ones were ’
j about tho room, some crying, some
1 breaking things, and nrio urging the
j immediate supply of the lacteal secre
| tion. She stopped in despair, and sat
i down, and tears trickled down her once
j plump and ruddy cheeks. Alas! Nancy,
j early marriages are not the dodge. Bet
j ter enjoy youth at home, and hold lovers
1 at a distance, until you have limb, mns-
I cle and heart, to face the frowningworld
j and a family. If a chap really cares for
j you, he can wait two or three years,
: make presents, take you to concerts, and
jso on, until the time comes. Early innr
j riages and early cabbages are tender
| productions.
Tried to Blow Himself in*. — A
! Frenchman residing in London, recently
conceived an entirely new style of self-de
struction. He first bought an egg in
the market, extracted its contents (by
“suction”) and filled the shell with about
three ounces of gunpowder. Then go
ing into a very crowded thoroughfare—
we presume to give eclat to his enter
prise—he placed the infernal machine in
his mouth, and “touched it off” with a
match. Instead, however, of blowing
his head to atoms, the powder, when
ignited, merely poured forth a stream of
lire and smoke from the aperture in the
sßell, but without doing any serious
harm to the man. The astonishment of
the passers-by at beholding a human
mouth suddenly become the crater of an j
active volcano, may be imagined. The j
disappointed man was taken into Gusto-:
cly by the police, and conveyed to tlie
liOipital.
SI irlxgk. —An anecdote is related by !
Mr. Hale, of New Hampshire, to this
effect:
A couple came to me one night., and
wished me to join them in wedlock. I
consented to perform the ceremony, and
said to the man,
“Do yuii take this woman to he your
wedded wife ?”
“Certainly,” lie replied.
“Do you take this man to he your
lawffil husband ?”
“Yes I do.”
“Then you arc man and wife—that’s
all.”
i Both looked with great astonishment,
and the lady asked—
“ls that all ?”
“Yos, that’s all.”
eli, she remarked, “ ’taint such a
mighty affair after all.”
CIIPOROFCHWI FOB VoUNcl L.U.im. Thc
set. Louis limes says that it is customa
ry now with sentimental young ladies to
use chloroform when the marriage cere
mony is being performed. A white
handkerchief saturated with chloroform,
and applied to the mouth, slides the
“dear crcehar” into the blissful state. 1
\CuuftHjx Historical Fact. -During
rouble**in the reign of Charles L,
a country girl came to London in Search
of a place as a servant maid, but not
succeeding, she hired herself to carry
*bt bear from a warehouse, and was one 1
of those called tub-women. The brewer I
observing a good looking girl in this ‘
low occupation, took her into his family I
as a servant, and after a short time mar- !
ried her. He died while she was yet a
young woman, and left her the hulk of j
| his fortune. The business of bruing i
: dropped and Mivlli(A£!nX4kscoiniiiend- !
| ed to the young woman as a skillful law- j
i yer, to arrange her husband’s affairs.— :
Hide, who was afterwards Furl of Clar
endon, finding the widow’s fortune con
siderable, married her. By this mar
| riage there was no other issue than a
: daughter, who waS afterwards; the wife
lof James the IL, and mothor of Mary
! and Anne, Queens o£ Finland.
Simplicity - of Duksi. —Female loveli
! ness never appears to so good advantage
j as when set oil by simplicity of dress. Ho
i artist ever decks his angle with feathers
i and gaudy jewelry, an(l our dear w-oaten
: angels, if they would make good their
title to that name, should avoid orna
| meats, which properly belong to Indian
: squaws and African princesses. These
tense!ries may serve to give effect on the
I stage or on the hall roon^floor, but in
j daily life there is no’ sTjfffitirte for the
j charm of simplicity. A vulgar taste is
| not to be disguised by gold or diamonds.
Tlie absence of a true taste and refine
ment of delicacy, cannot he compen
j sated for by the possession of the most
princely fortune. Mind measures gold
lmt gold cannot measure mind. Through
dress the mind may he read as through the
delicate tissue of the lettered page. A
modest woman will diess modestly.—
A really refined and intellectual woman
will hear the marks of careful selection
and taste.
NevkrSay Die. —ls you can’t succeed
at one business, try another. If you fail
as a cobler, enter yourself as a member
of Congress. In short, do anything but
take to despair. When Monsieur Jollie
presented his picture df “Moses Crossing
the Bed Sea,” the Loure
threatened to kick it out of doors. Did
that dishearten him? Not at all. lie
went home, added a little chrome yellow
to it, gave it anew name, “Ctesar Cross
ing the Hubicon,” and sold it in less than
a month to the same Curate for ten thou
sand franks. Here we see tho advant
age of “never giving up.” Had Mon
sieur Jollie been likcMnost men, the in
sult he met with on firs truing to “the
great National Gallery, have re
sulted in a shilling’s wdnli of prussic
acid. But lie wasn’t likfrother men ; the
consequence is, lie has become a lion of the
first magnitude. AVhen similarly sit
uated then go and do likewise.
WHO ARE MEDIUMS.
It has generally bfc'cr* that the
taps were made by the feet. One of our
exchanges replies that is a little curious
that no “pantalooned creature, whether
i male or Bloomer, has been rapper. Fct
ticoats arc essential to tho operat ion. The
| spirits eschew breeches entirely.” This
| is hardly fair, however, when we remem
ber that committees of ladies have inves
tigated the subject, and report that they
were satisfied that the taps continued af
ter the petticoats and all other mysteri
ous articles had been removed. — New
York Sunday Dispatch.
Good. —A garrisli cousin of ours—a
trader (our pen blushes to record it) of
vastly more flippancy than sense, is in the
habit of quizzing everybo y that comes
in contact with him. (hu -coM stormy
day last spring, old uncllWackuappeneii
in his store, and as he can •in began to
say :
■‘Cold Yvet storm! cold wet storm ! you
sec any Yvay.’
‘Why, yes, says yardstick. ‘Did you
ever hear of a hot dry storm, old gent?’
‘Think I have, think I have, you see
any Yvay ; when it rained fire and brim
stone on Sodom and Gomorrah, that
yytis what I should call a hot dry storm.’
Oyster Shells for Uiu it-Tkees.—A j
| correspondent writes to Y //< • liemiantown I
j J elcgravh as follows: One of the most
j effectual applications I have evser made to
fruit-trees in an old barren situation, is a
compost'in which finely broken oyster- j
shells yvils the principal ingredient. ’ The I
oyster-sliells have generally a largo per- j
eoatage of saline matter attacjfbu to them,
in afresh state, with some animal matter,
and much lime. By breaking them and
mixing them with Yvood ashes, and
spreading it around old trees, an almost,
immediate and decided imp woment will
take place.
A Secret Worth K; owing. —Boil
three or four onions in a pint of water.
I hen with a gilding brush i'iib o\ - cr your
glasses and frames, and rest assured that
the flies will not light bn the article
washed. Jliis may be/used without
apprehension as it will apt do the least
injury to tlie frames.
’ mimu - -
j A Modest Way of Tixuno It.— “l
j havn’t seen your wife lately,” said one j
i gentleman to another, in an omnibus.—
| ..No, was the reply, jn-tired
hum society tor a while, for the purpose
ot attending to one of those little affairs
which acid, to the duties of the census
taker. Jhe color of the face of an old
maid, who .chanced to be in the onmi
ms, looked very muoli like that of a
; ‘lood beet, when the gentleman made
his reply.
Anecdotk Worth Remembering.— Jno.
Knox, the Scottish Reformer, after a
lengfny discourse, the object of which
was to disprove the existence of a pur
gatory, was waited on by one of his au
ditors, a wealthy old laird, not remark
able for the exercise of the Christian
virtifes, who, shaking the preacher
warmly by the hand, exclaimed: “If
ye’ll noo disprove the existence of hell
; as satisfactorily as ye ha’e done that of
; purgatory, I’ll e’en gl’e half my estates.'’
To Cuke a Felon. —Take one table
! spoonful of red led, and one’ table-spoon
i ful of castile soap, mix them with as
; much weak ley as will make it soft
I enough to spread like a salve, and ap-
I ply it on the first appearance of the fel
on, and it will cure it in ten or twelve
hours.
Muscogee Comity.
Court of Ordinary, July Term,, 1853.
RILE Jill SI.
LYMAN I’. COWDERY, administrator do bonis
non, on the estate of Francis A, Dnffie, late
of Muscogee county deceased, having applied for
letters of dismission from said administration, it
is ordered that all persons concerned shew cause
(if any they have) why said administrator should
not be dismissed at the Court of Ordinary to be
held in and for said county on the second Monday
in January next.
A true extract from the minutes of said Court,
July, 5, 1853.
JOIIX JOHNSON, Ordinary,
.fuly 1, 1853. ‘ 23 m(Jm.
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