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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. Billiard Table for Sale. ONE of WIN A NT'S splendid MARBLE BEp BILLIARD TABLES, with fixtures complete, for sale low, by E. E. BROWN, Macon, Ga. Columbus, Feb. 3. 1 ts STAGE LIIE TO DAHLONEGA. From Marietta by Roswell and Cumminy. nPHE stages on this route leave Marietta for I. Camming, by way of Roswell, every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, soon after the arrival of the passenger train from Atlanta. 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