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MISCELLANEOUS.
From the Knickerbocker.
A MAN WITHOUT A CHARACTER.
“ I have just been thinking what a privilege it is to be poor
and unknown, and what a blessing it is to be without a cha
racter. — Nine-tenths of my enjoyments are such as are not
attainable by the wealthy or great. They are such as are not
permitted to those who have character, and reputation, and
station, to sustain. The great pass through life on a high
horse. They sit erect. Their iieads are elevated, and they |
move proudly on to their graves, without knowing or feeling
a thousandth part of the beauties of the world in which they
have lived. I, on the other hand, with my characterless, pov
erty striken brethren, make the journey of life on foot. We
hasten not on our way; we take it easy ; we cull the flowers
which grow along our path ; we avoid briars and thorns’which
obstruct it ; and when we come to a sunny or pleasant spot, we ;
sit down and enjoy its beauties, and take the refreshment and
rest that our necessities may require.
“Oftentimes when I have taken my station in front of Col- :
man’s window, with my elbows resting on the iron bar that j
projects before it. for the purpose of examining at my leasure
the various specimens of the fine arts which he daily displays ■
for the gratification of the public—oftentimes, I say, when I
have been so stationed, have 1 seen the man of consequence, i
as he wended his way slowly down to bis office in Wall or
Pearl street, turn his eyes wistfully toward the splendid dis- ?
play with which i was gratifying my senses, look cautiously
, around to see if any of his acquaintance were near, stop for a :
moment, and before be bad half gratified bis curiosity, start !
suddenly ami guiltily away, and pass on. ; ‘ Pass on.’ 1 have
said to myself,’ thou slave of custom —thou viedm nf pride—
pass on and have the pearls that are scattered in thy prlth toa
those who have the good sense to appreciate them.’ And
then, after such a mental address, I have crowded into r?.v
place among tke inotly and ragged group of amatev.rsj and 5
with them 1 have admired the taper legs of a.'jipii-like Tag
lioni, the graceful ringlets of Mir. Wwod, have expressed my ■
astonishment at the grand conceptions of Martin, and pointed
out to my less informed neighbours the faults in his ‘ Bel
shazzar’s Feast,’ —have laughed at the comic power of Cruik- ;
shank, examined the gorgeous bindings of the books, the .
wonderful chess-man, the racing scenes, and the views of the ■
North river. After a critical dispute with some hasteless Cog
ncscenti, about some favorite artist, I move slowly and lea
surely along, finding at every step food for my eyes ami ears, \
and not unfrequently, through the kindness of the apple-wo
men, food for my stomach.
“If at the next corner I could discover a fight, I join the I
ring, and take upon myself the duty of master of the ceremo
nies. I hold the hats and coats of the combatant?, (for 1 am '
sorry to say that some of my fellow-citizens are not to be I
trusted with such articles, they having the unworthy habit of j
extracting from them handkerchiefs and pocket-books, and !
sometimes disappearing with the articles themselves,) keep the |
circle wide and roomy, pull of a man when lie has got his ad- ?
versary down, see that there is no gouging or biting, and iti a ?
general way conduct the afiair in such a manner tiiat each
party has fair play.
“1 am also at hand when a man is run over, or falls from a j
building, help to carry him to the nearest apothecary’s shop ;
and am always one of those who are inside when the door is |
closed. By these means 1 have an opportunity of seeing .
where the man is hurt, and what are his prospects of recovery,
what remedies are applied, how he bears bis misfortunes, and
thus gain a great deal oi information.
“I attend the parades of the ‘Eight Guards,’ and the
‘ Tompkin Blues,’ see them go through with their manoeuvres
.and drills, and thus pick up a little knowledge of the art of
•war, to place at the service <>t my country in the time of need.
When the ‘ Brass Band’ comes out, witli either of the above
mentioned companies, 1 am not too proud to march along with
the boyc on the side walk, and keep step with the music.
It does me good. It excites my martial spirit; it arouses my
-‘American feelings it causes me to think of the revolution;
it calls to mind ‘ the times to try men’s’ souls, in short it makes j
me a more prtriotic citizen, and a greater lover of my coun
try.
“ I attend all the fires—am a great admirer of Engine No.
14, and Mr. Gulick. lam an honorary member of the com
pany No. 14, and in favor of retaining Mr. Gulick in his office |
of chief engineer. I only work at the engine when there is j
a lack of hands, my general occupation at fires being of a stt- !
perintending character. I help females and small children to I
.escape from the flames, take care of' valuable packages that I
wre thrown int i the street, pick up pieces of china and look
ing glasses that are cast down for preservation from the upper
stories, and see how a stop is finally put to the flames.
“ I go very frequently to fnnerais—particular!}' if’ there are
xtarriages in attendance. When I see tin invitation in the
newspapers closed thus ‘ 077*Carriugcs in front of St. Pauls,
-at precisely 4 p. m. e yjj’ | am punctual to a minute, select a
good hack, and oftentimes mourn as sincerely for a man I ne
ver saw, as those whom he loved when living and remembered
w u.n ( ymg. I here is nothing improbable in this avowal. I j
inoiii n <n e.u ,t and every oik.- who dies, for 1 am sorry they
3re o r ige< to leave this plea ant world of ours, the pursuits :
"'i . it' i' *'< ' diem, tin- pleasures which occupied them,
am a ti. timiHaiid endearing th , which draw upon the hearts
even of the most lonely and desolate.
,i JI" e ai ? '* r,, y or, l| pations and amusements; ard
y are such as the man of character or the proud man
no ? f ,K riie y ar(; ‘■•ngro ;ed with themselves, and see
ie J ; • Car “ “I- ?t Wo,l<l ’*■' ,loil,u '’ fl,rther h ,;f
--fect their immediate mterests. Their natural taste- are curb
e‘,’t 'i <lr , /p' l ’". Ses . iir l C a '"l their real feelings con-
cealed. I hen- whole hfe rs a mask. Th 3y are ‘star’ actors I
on the world s stage, while we poor, unwad.ed, unvaccinated
gentlemen are the ‘ ~’fe q’| !( . v |, ;IV( . itl) j
character to su-tam, while we have only io hear their rant
ing, and sing a chorus to their s<mes. They are obliged l
J € Yl® -
j continually to look am) act their parts, while we can crack a
joke with the pit, ogle the side boxes, and ever have a little
i fun among ourselves.”
I
AMERICAN DEER HUNT.
“ During a week’s restat a retired village, I casually • men
? tinned that I had never seen a deer hunt. A party was imme
i diately formed ; and the next morning, after an early break
fast, we set out under a perfectly cloudless sky, and through
those immense woods, whose dying leaves, betraying the
touch of the autumn frosts, covered the w hole face of nature
as with a mantle of the most brilliant and opposite colors.
Here a tree, with foilage of’ the brightest orange, mingled its
branches with one of the deepest gory red ; while among the
oaks, which displayed ail the various shades of the rainbow,
here and there towered the lolty pine, with its deep dark and
unlading green. This tract of land was but a few years ago owned
and occupied by the Indians, who in order to facilitate their
limiting by clearing the ground, were accustomed to set on fire
what they termed the under brush. The pine trees frequently
suffered in the operation ; and their burnt and blasted stumps
? are often discerned by the solitary traveller, like the frowning
ghosts of that high spirited and ruined race, lingering among
the places, hallowed by habtt and tradition, where the ashes of
their forefathers sleep. In the summer thev’eontrast strangely
with the bright and tender green, the delicate sweet flowers
which spring up around their root, and the fresh and feminine
loveliness of the vines, which sometimes cling with living ten
drils to their scanted, dead funks. At a large and commodi
ous dwelling, although constructed of logs, and by its appear
j mice fully entitled to tiie appellation hut, we found a good na
tured hospitable old gentleman, with horn-, guns, and hounds.
A dozen of the latter were assembled in the road before the
house, fully prepared to enter into the spirit of the sport.—
No one could comprehend what was going on more clearly
than these worthy impatient gentlemen. They were fine ani
mals, with fine names, and in their eagerness and joy frequent
ly drew upon them the rebuke of the old man. Scarcely any
- brute creature expresses his sensations with more manifest
| meaning than a dog. * * * It is necessary that a hunting
party should consist ot at least six or seven. One or two,
termed drivers, with horns, horses, and hounds, ride to the
ground frequented by the deer, and the dogs soon catch the
scent. There are certain known passages of the forest through
which the timid animals, when affrighted, generally attempt to
escape. One individual of the party is stationed at each of
these; and in such an opening I found myself that bright
morning aione in these hushed and pathless forests, lurking, 1
almost thought like a murderer, with my loaded piece, till the
! defenceless flying creature spring upon his death. The silence
around me was perfectly delightful. I could hear nothing—
not even the warbling of a bird—not the murmuring of a rill,
for the stream by my side, instead of bawling and bubbling I
, over its channel, had spread itself out into unbroken transpa
rency. Across its banks, and accidentally answering the pur- I
poses of a bridge, a fallen tree was lying. Sometimes a fish j
leaped up from the brook, ot;glistened near the surface, as it i
turned its siver side to the sun; and sometimes a leaf loosened
. from its branch, fell and floated slowly to the ground in silence.
I was thinking how many millions of my fellow creatures urop
; off even thus in the shadowy places of life, and go down to
the church-yard with as little no’ice or interruption to the ge
neral business and joy of the beauty o[ nature, w hen the
breaking and yelping of the hounds came faintly through the
distance then nearer and nearer, til! the whole chorus swelled
on the breeze, and run thiough the quiet wood, breaking
strangely in upon its impressive stillness with discordant sounds
ot riot and death. You cannot conceive, unless you have ex
perienced a similar moment, the almost painfid eagerness and
anxiety with which I watched to behold il se victim appear
through the trees. ] heard a rustling among the dried leaves,
desperate speed, ami the whole bloody pack close at
a large doe broke from the thicket, and passed near
the place w here I stood. Fleet as the wind she was springing
b}’, w hen I gave a low whi tie ; ami on a sudden she stopped,
, and thb fata! ball lodgedin her shoulder; another and another
, stretched heron the ground. She was a most lovely and fe
leminine creature. Nothing could excel the grace, cleanliness,
and beauty of herform and limbs. The dark silky brown of her
back, the snowy whiteness ot her neck, throat and chest, and
I the almost human intelligence of her face, struck me with a
j strange feeling, of which those more familiar with the sight
can form no idea, 1 confess, however tinmar.lv it may have
been, that a momentary horror ran through mv frame, as the
long lids, with thi-ir long lashes, fell over those large dark and
beautiful eyes, w hile the swarthy huntsman, with rough grasp
iand merry jokes, bound together her slender, tapering limbs,
| and one drew his long and glittering knife across her tltroat.”
From the I\ieir-York Transcript.
ROMANCE LN REAL LIFE.
Most, or all of our readers must have heard of the romantic
i episode in the loves and Ilves of the parents of the celebrated
1 homas A. Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury; being no
| less a circumstance than the father of Archbishop went to fight
i the Infidel Saracens in the Holy Land ; and while there, was
j wounded, taken prisoner, ami was nursed by a beautiful young
i female pagan, who, like most young warrior nurses, fell des-
I perately in low with the object of her attention and solicitude.
I After the older Becket sailed from the Holy Land for Eng
land, she became inconsoleable at his departure, and a short
time afterwards she secretly left her father’s house, with a little
money and a few jewels, made her way to Acre, took her pas
sage in a ship bound to England, landed in London, and al
though she could not speak a work of the language, except
i the name of the being she loved, and only knew a part of this,
I viz: that his Christian name was Thomas, as she went crying
I that word through the streets of that great city until she found
him—soon after ■which they married.
Singular as the above stoty seems, we have to record one
? to-day almost equally singular and romantic. Some time in
the course of the last year, as one of our fast sailing vessels
was dropping down the Mersey, with a fair wind and tide for
| ?Jew-York, the hands on board observed a small boat in the
I river, astern of the ship, containing a party of pleasure, which
was iij).--t by a squall. The ship yards were braced round,
I her topsail backed, and a small Imat lowered, which made for
I the party in the water. They were rescued, except a young
lady, who being separated from the rest, was carried down the
river by the rapidity ot' the tide, ami must inevitably have been
lost, had it not been for the watchfulness and intrepidity of the
I mate of the ship, who immediately jumped into the fare chains,
| dropped into the water, swam to the drowning girl, being a
strong young m in, supported her till the boat reached, and
■ took them both up. She was taken on board the ship, which
was hove t , until she recovered, when the rescued party, were
ultimately landed. Strange to say, the parties all separated
without the name of the vessal or atty of her people being
made known to any of the rescued parlies ; and the ship was
soon under way for New-York.
Ou her return to Liverpool, the mate, who was a fine, hand
some fellow, and who had not failed to observe, during their
short acquaintance, that the lady he had rescued was a beauti
ful young woman thought it might not be much amiss to en
, deavnr to find her out, mid inquire after her health. With
; this object in view, he hurried over a file of Liverpool papers,
j ami discovered that on such a day, 1834, a party of pleasure in
a sail boat, iticludiug Miss Mary , had been rescued from
a watery grave by the crew of a vessel bound out; but as some
40 or 50 which bad been wind bound sailed on the .-mine day, the
narneoftbe vessel was not known. Onmakingfurthcrimpiiries,
he found that the young lady’s brother, a surgeon, was one ol
the rescued people, and that they had left Liverpool and gone
to reside in the country. He obtained leave of absence from
the ship, and without any chart or compass to steer by he
mounted a horse and rode out of town toward-; Warrington.
He had not proceeded half a dozen miles before his horse took
fright, ran off, ami threw him violently on his head. He was
I taken up sem-eless am! carried to ti e nearest house, which for
! lunately happened to be a surgeon’s. He lav some days in a
• critical state, and the first olmect that met hi:- vi-iuit on r< -/ ii!.-
GI&W&SxIA, TUfrISDAY .WILY SI, ESISS.
Om- Crniseietree- Cttr €ossn!rsj-~~(itir
■
ing his senses, was the form of the fair Mary above alluded to,
! seated by his side, bathing his temples, and officiating as his
nurse. She blushed deeply on perceiving that he recognized
her, and hastily leaving the room, sent in her brother, and mi
older but less agreeable female nurse. Finding him still too
weak to converse, they assured him that he was with friends,
deeply sensible of their indebtedness to him, and who were but
too happy to have it in their power to contribut • to his comfort.
He was now convalescent, and sinking into a sound sleep they
left him.
j He awoke very late next day; but as neither the host iror
the sister made their appearance, he inquired for them, ami
was informed that they had been called up in the night, ami
had gone some distance to attend the dying bed of some near
: relative. Net thinking it necessary to explain to the old nurse,
; he did not state to her who he was, but awaited anxiously for
tiie return oi' ?.lary, who he had already began to feel an inte
rest for. The next day he was surprised by a visit from his
Captain, who stated that the horse had found his way hack to
the livery stable without a rider, which the owner reported to
the ship ; he had tried to find out what became of the mate,
but could not, until that very day, l:e had heard at an inn,
that a young sailor had been hurt, and was lying al T ’s.
The Captain added that the ship had been suddenly ordered to
sea, had taken in her cargo, and was ready to sail with that
afternoon’s tide. There being no lime to lose, the mate wrote
a letter to the surgeon, which he left unsealed on the table,
and in which lie said all that was necessary, including mi in
tention to revisit them on his next voyage ; a carriage was pro-,
cured, and he, though feeble, went to Liverpool, and that
evening sailed in his old vessel for New-York. The letter left
by the n: ate, mi fortunately, was never received by those for whom
it was intended, being, as was believed, obtained, read, and de-
. stroyed by a young lawyer, who had made Mary an oiler of
marriage, and had been refused, but who still visited the
house.
; Thus ,on their return home, Mary and her brother were still
without the least clue to the “local habitation or name” of
their preserver, with this exception, that the lawyer in the
course of an incidental conversation, had sneeringly observed,
that the mate was “ a poor mean yankee,” but denied know
ing his name. Mary fretted and pined away, and at last took
to her bed, for almost unconsciously she had become deeply
attached to the sailor; her illness assumed at last a serious cha
racter, and it being evident that she could not survive unless
she again saw the object ol her affections, her brother, at her
urgent request, took ship for North America and landed in Bos
ton a few days ago, whence they came on to this city on Sun-.
day night. The passage, autl the hope of meeting with one
•whom she loved, restored her to comparative health and
; strength, and they put up at a private boarding house in Pear!
i street.
1 hits had Alary travelled double the distance of Becket’s
i mother, without knowing either the chiistian or surname
:of her beloved. In the meantime the mate arrived at New-
York, was transferred to the command of a merchantman in
1 the southern trade, was cast away, fell ill, wrote to Europe, his
■ letter miscarried—he sailed himself for England, went to the
| Surgeon’s house, was told all about Mary, that she had sailed
about seven days previous for Boston. He took passage in the
first vessel that came on to Ncw-Y ork, and without knowing
■ that they were in the house, .actually put up at the same place,
and slept beneath the same roof with Alary and her brother on
Sunday night. In the morning when he descended to the
? breakfast table where he found the family already assembled,
the first object that met his view, on entering the room was the
: form of the fair traveller. She saw hisface—uttered no expla
nation, but sprang from her seat towards him, and would have
fallen, had he not rushed forward and caught her in his arms,
'exclaiming, “Good God! Alary is this you ?” as she fainted
- away. When she recovered, mutual explanationsand grettings
took place, and we are happy to say, that they were married
yesterday afternoon, and set oft'the same evening to spend the
honey moon at Albany, and by this time, doubtless know one
■ another as well as though they had been acquainted for years.
/I Short Sermon.— ‘A word spoken in season, how good it
is,’ and never, perhaps, was this proverb more fully verified
than by the opportunity improved, as all opportunities should
be, by the late Rev. Rowland Hill. He was once walking in
Cheapside, on a Sabbath afternoon, when he overheard a con
versation between two young men of gay appearance who
j were close behind him. ‘Where shall we go?’ said one.
‘Wherever we can have a bit of fun,’ replied the other.
‘ Then let us go to old Rowley’s chapel,’ said his companion,
: ‘ there wiil be some fun there.’ It was accordingly agreed
upon ; and while the worthy Divine was reading tiie lesson in
i the evening, his eye discovered in the gallery near him tiie
? very two persons whom he had beheld in the street but a lew
I hours before making the above remarks. His text was taken
' from Fslams ix, 17. ‘Tiie wicked shall be turned into Hell,
and al! the nations that forget God.’ For a moment the Alin
ister paused, and then looking them both full in the face, and
pointing- to them with all the dignity of his calling, repeated
to them the awful denunciation of scripture, adding at the
same time, ‘ There’s FU.x for ye, my boys!’
iseries oj Indolence.— None so little enjoy life, and are
such burthens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do.
Ihe active only have the, true relish for life. He who knows
not what it is to labor, knows not what it is to enjoy. Recre
ation is only valuable as it unbends us. The idle know
j nothing of it. It is exertion that renders rest delightful; and
sleep sweet and undisturbed.—That the happiness of life de
pends on the regular prosecution of some laudable purpose or
lawful calling, which engages, helps, and enlivens all powers,
let those bear witness, who, after spending years in active use
j fulness, retire to enjoy themselves. They arc a burthen to
themselves.— Rev. I. . .Tai/.
Locv. ts.—X writer in th? Boston Daily Advertiser, from the
southern part of the commonwealth, says this is the year for
tne re-appearance ot the seventeen years locusts, their last vi
j sitation in that quarter having been in 1821. These insects
have a distinctly marked Won their backs. Shortly beforfe
| their diappearance many ot the small twigs of the young oak
appeared to be girdled ami cut oil, and hang suspended from
the extremities ot the branches; the leaves turn red, as when
touched by the frost in autumn. On examination these twigs
appear to. be sawed about two-thirds ofi', and girled, so that the
■ circulation ot sap being cut oil it soon dies, ami probably tails
to the ground in the course of the ensuing winter, by the ac
tion ot wind, rain and snow.
i lie general belief is, that by a curious and remarkable in
stinct, the insect is led to deposite its eggs, in some.secure
mode, upon these small twigs, and then thus partially sever
them from the parent stalk, so that by their fall the eggs shall
be borne gently ami safely to the ground, into whose bosom
I they are in some form to be received and cherished, to re-ap
pear in seventeenyears. The emblem presented by this beau
tiful ami brilliant insect rising from the earth, after being so
long buried, lull of life amHictivity, making the woods vocal
with its shrill and animated songs, is a beautiful one.— Salem
Razclle.
A Y \NKEE TRICK.
The importance of having men of education and intelligence
i in command of mu- merchantmen is demonstrated by an occur
i retire which happened <>t Tampico, since the commencementot
the blockade. Ibe tacts were narrated by an oflicer ot the
Natchez. By a rule of the law of nations relative to the con
duct ot belligerents at sea, no ship or vessel of war is suflered
i to tire shot upon another without hoisting the flag of the coun
try to which she belongs. To begin hostility willmul observing
this preliminary form is regarded tantamount to an act ol pi
: racy ami tne party ollendcd would be jnstiiied in treating the
i aggressors as such. The use which a Yankee captain made of
this rule of maritime etiquette, was ingenious, am! veryprofi
-1 table to himself ami employers. He commanded a fine, ship
from ‘ down east,’richly l.ulen with a cargo that promised to
yield a handsome pr< | m Tampico. On nf-
i riving within a lew days sail of that port, intelligence reached
' him'of th ■ pending blockade, ami the exclusion of all trading
vessels. He determined, however, to proceed on the voyage,
■ and trust to good hick or ingenuity to evade the blockading
fleet, t'oi lunately, when he hove in sight of Tampico, there
was no force to etiard the entrance of the harbor, but a gun
boat, the armeu brig having been forced away by stress of
weather, or being absent on a short cruise. As the Yankee
ship nearea the bar, the gun boat set oil' in pursuit, ami en
deavored to intercept her passage. The slip kept steadily on
her way —the captain standing at the helm, ami watching the
movements ol the advancing- party with an alertness, ready to
take advantage of the slightest oversight. The gun boat ap
proached within hailing distance, ami ordered the Y ankee to
put about, or he would lie fired into. Still the Down Easter
moved forward in dogged silence. French courtesy could stand
the joke no longer, and a b ill was tired-across the bows of the
obstinate merchantman, The shot grazed the rigging, but no
flag was hoisted in the gun boat. There was either none on
board, or the commander had forgotten the rules of war. Such,
however, was not the case with tiie Yankee commander. He
saw his advantage on tiie instant, aud crying out ‘Pirates!
pirates !’crowded all sail on his lucky craft, and, amid a
shower ol canister am! musketry, made safe bis escape into the.j
port ol I ampico. The captain of the French squadron
threatened at firm to cut out the vessel from under the guns of
the A! exican batteries ; but when the facts of the occurrence!
were explained, he was glad to compromise the matter. So far!
from carrying the threat into execution, he sent a polite message I
to tne Boston commander—telling him his breach of the block
ade was justifiable, and his vessel bad full permission to sail on
her return voyage without molestation. This is a Yankee trick
ot the right sort. The way it was played, was both honorable '
and ingenious.— N. O. Bulletin.
For the Inquisitive,—Galen says that horse dealers ha
ving been observed to fatten horses for sale by flogging them;
an analogous method might be useful with spare persons who
wish to become stouter. He also mentioned slave dealers who
employed similar means. Suetonius informs us, that Alusa,the
favorite physician of Augustus, used to fustigate him, not only
to cure him of a sciatica, but to keep him plump. Meibromius
pretends that nurses whip little children to fatten them, that they
may appear healthy and chubby to their mothers. No doubt
but flagellation determines a greater influx of blood to the sur
face, and may thus tend :o increase the circulation, and give
tone to parts which would otherwise be languid. With this in
tention, urtication or whipping with nettles, has been frequent
ly used in medical practice with gfeat advantage. Xenophon
thawed his frozen soldiers by flagellation.
A remarkable case of leanness is mentioned by Lorry, in a
priest who became so thin and dry in all his articulations that
that at last he was unable to go through the celebration of ’
mass, as his joints and spine would crack in so loud and strange !
a manner at every genuflexion, that the faithful were terrified I
and the faithless laughed. -One of these miserable laths once
undertook a long journey to consult a learned physician on his
sad condition ; and having begged to know, in a most piteous
tone, the cause of his dessication, was favored with the follow
ing luminous answer:—“Sir, there is a pre-disposition in your
constitution to make yon lean, and a disposition in your con
stitution to keep you so.” Another meagre patient being told
that the celebruted Hunter had fattened a dog by removing
spleen, exclaimed with a deep sigh, “ O, sir, I wish Air. Hun
ter had mine.”— Mississippian.
Extract ol a letter from Dresden of the 24th ultimo :
A secret, which has long excited the public curiosity, has
just been divulged. The late Air. Joseph Grassi, prosser of
I painting at the Royal Society of Fine Arts in this city, bad in
his apartment beside his bedroom, a room, the door of which
was covered witli hangings, <,uid into which, since his return in !
1804 from his last tour in Italy, no one has been allowed to en- I
ter, not even his children. He always carried the key of it:
about his person, put it under his pillow when he went to lied, :
and, byway oi percaution, he caused the door of this myste
rious chamber to be built up in 1835.
‘ In his will, ~lr. Grassi ordered that his chamber should not!
be opened for three months after Jiis death, and bequeathed all ?
its contents to Duke Augustus of Gotha, stating that if he had j
i not communicated to any one what it contained, it was to give
; an agreeable surprise to that prince, who had been his benefac
tor. The room has just been opened by the executors of Mr.
Grassi, who found in it 17 pictures of the most famous ancient
painters. Tiie duke took possession of them, and placed them
in one ofthe saloons ofthe Royal Academy at Dresden, where
they will be publicly exhibited for three months. They will
then be sent to Gotha, and placed in the ducal museum of that
town. Among them are a Titian, a Carlo Dolci, a Salvator
Rosa, a Corregio.’— Mississippian.
Anecdote of Judge Parsons.—The following was sta
ted to us by a respected octogenarian, some time since, as a fact
to which he'was knowing ; and as we have never seen it stated
before, the story may be worth telling. It is another illustration
of the ‘ glorious uncertainty of law.’
When Judge Parsons was a resident in this town, and then
practising lawyer, lie was once employed to plead two cases in
court, which were precisely alike, but in one he was engaged
for the defendant, in the other for the plaintiff. It happened ,
that both cases were tried the same day. He spoke for an hour I
to the first jury, and the case was given to them, and they had ,
retired. When be appeared before the second jury he made J
use ol very different arguments from those before employed I
by him, ot which the court took notice, reminding him that he !
seemed to have changed bis tone, and repeating to him what he {
had said bufa few minutes before.
Air. Parsons fixed "his keen eye upon the Judge and replied— ?
‘ May it please your honor, I might have been wrong a half an ■
hour ago, but now, 1 know lam right.’ He proceeded ; and!
when the juries returned, it was found lie bad gained a verdict
in both cases.— Mississippian.
A Severe RelndiC.— Perhaps no man could so sex erely inflict
the castigation oi reproof, as the Poet, Burns. The folkr.v
, ing anecdote will illustrate this tact. One night, at a tavern in
Dumfreys, the conversation turning on the death ol' a towns
man, and the approaching funeral, one of the company, not
Celebrated lor the purity ot his life, said to Burns : ‘ 1 wish you
to lend me your coat for the occasion, my own being rather out
of repair.’ ‘ Having myself to attend the same funeral,’ an-
■ swered Burns, ‘ I am sorry I cannot lend you my sables; but
i.I recommend a most excellent substitute— throw your charac
-1 ler over your shoulders— that will be the blackest coat you ever
wore in your life-time.
Certain Remedy for the Small Pox.— A gentleman o r for
tune in this city, whose money getting talents had been but
'little aided by an early education, was told yesterday that the
small pox was quite prevalent, and he exclaimed—“ Well, I de
clare, Dr. R shall assassinate (vaccinate) all my chldren,
this very day.— Boston Statesman.
'l'/ie St. Clair Buccaneers Routed.— AVe learn from the col
lector ol this port that a schooner in the service of buccaneers
was captured on Thursday, some few miles below the country
seat ol St. Clair. Having understood, from the movements in
the vicinity, that an expedition was on foot, the collector im
mediately started for the scene of operations, a small force em
barked on the steamboat Gratiot, and soon got wind ol' the
piratical craft, which, it seems, had been across to the Canada
shore and committed depredations upon the inhabitants. As
the Gratiot approached the vessel with a view to compel her to
surrender, a brisk firing upon her commenced from the oppo
site shore. Finding themselves in peril, the crew ofthe vessel
look to the shore mid ilispersed themselves through the woods.
1 he vessel was then taken possession ot' by the the revenue
officers. 'I hey found two or three Canadian prisoners in the
hold, some fitieen barrel:-, oi' flour which bail been plundered,
I I'.uout n di-'.’t .i tmid cf ttrms, and other small mattei'S. The ■
P. E. PROPRIETOR-
vessel was brought to this port to be condemned. One of the
prisoners, we understand, was induced to come down, bv whom
it i.-> thought some important testimony may lie laid before the
Grand Jury now in session.
> e are advi ;ed that most if not all the crew were Canadians.
This promptness on the part of the officers and citizens of
St. Clair will, it is• confidently hoped, crush another of these
incipient piratical expeditions which have from time to time
annoyed our frontier.— Belroit Advertiser.
From a tats London paper.
GAMBLING.
“Act I need not have gone to fiction for the sad spirit of
gambling amongst Englishwomen of fashion, during a certain
period ofthe rein of George HI. The annals of our criminal
courts inform us that, in 1737, informations at the public office
in Marlborough street were laid against the Countess of Buck
inghamshire, Lady Elizabeth Lutress, Mrs. Stuart, and Air.
Concannon, for having on the night of the 30th January last,
pl ed al faro nt Lady Buckinghamshire’s house in St. James’
square; and Mr. Martindale, then residing in Bond street,
! was charged with being proprietor of the table. The de
fendants appeared by their attorneys and counsel, Messrs,
j Const, Alarriott, and Onslow. The witnesses called to sup
port the informations were Joseph Rafford and George Evett,
. late footmen to Lady Buckinghamshire; whose evidence went
■ to prove that the defendants had gaming parties at their hou
l ses by rotation; that when they met at Lady Buckingham
i shire’s the witnesses used to wait upon them in the gambling
rooms; that they played at faro, E. 0., rouge et noir, &.C.;
: that Air. Alartindale acted as master of the tables, generally ;
i and that they began to play about eleven or twelve o’clock at
night, and continued to play till three or four o’clock in the
morning. The magistrate convicted Alartindale in the penal
ty of 200Z. as proprietor of the faro-table, Sic; and the Count
ess of Buckinghamshire, Lady Elizabeth Luttress, and Mrs-
Stuart, in penalties of 50/. each, for playing at the same.
Shortly after this, one Air. Alatthias O’Byrne was examined at
this office, upon the same evidence; when his counsel, Air.
Traggart, declining to put atiy questions to the witnesses, he
was convicted in the penalty of 50/., which he immediately
paid, and was discharged. To the honor of the female sex,
however—at all events, to the credit of the general morals of
the present age —a female gamester, in any shape, is become
a rara avis in our land. It is said that one or two ladies of
high rank are give:: to bet high on race-horses; and one of
very high rank is reported even to ‘ make a book’ on some of
our great turf events. Ido not vouch for the truth of this as
sertion ; but it would matter little if it were true. It would be
found, 1 believe, to be a solitary instance ; and the value
given to the exception would not be overlooked.
“ Os the greatest evils of gambling—and the notice of the
last named public conviction brings it to my mind—is the in
troduction, through its means, of improper persons into socie
ty, from which they otherwise would and ought to be excluded.
This well known Mr. Alatthias O’Byrne was an Irish adven
turer, of neither birth nor education ; so deficient in the latter,
indeed, as riot to be equal to the inditing of a common business
letter. His having volunteered his services however, to Lord
Lyttelton, in a quarrel that nobleman bad with Air. Fitzgerald
of those days, commonly called ‘the fighting Fitzgerald,’
which occurred in a crowd, assembly in Vauxhall Gardens,
gave him a slender introduction to a certain class of persons
of ton, which his native assurance enabled him to make the
most of. And this was all that he wanted ; for he was a skil
ful and successful gambler, which by enabling him to play the
gross jeu, in a certain circle to which he had access, did more
for him in six months, with the help of his assurance, than the
Lytteltons and all their interest could have done for him, in
any other way, for six years. Not only the doors of nobility,
but the saloons of royalty were no longer shin against him.
He was received at the table of the great; and the greatest
among the great did not scruple to grace his luxuriously sup
plied board in return.
Sitting down one night to play in private at biquet, with a
certain person whose name there is no occasion to mention, he
found himself the winner as a hundred thousand pounds! Be
-1 mg aware of the inability of his antagonist to pay the whole
of this sum, and suspecting that, if he could not pay the whole,
he might pay none.he designedly suflered him to recover all that
he had won from him except ten thousand pounds, which he
received. In consequence oi' this masterly manoeuvre, the
witty Air. Hare gave him the name of ‘ Xenophon O’Byrne, T
from his retreat w ith ten thousand. These things were in the
mouths of men some forty years back, and as they never, I
believe, appeared in print, are no doubt albttl forgotten; but it
may not be amiss to exhibit such disgusting scenes—as the
Greeksdid tlwir Helots—to the rising generation, at>d with the
same end in view. It was the opinion of the Lord Chester
field, that ten times more people are ruined by the adoption <»f
vice than from natural inclination to it; ami gaming may truly
be classed under the head of adopted vices, the catalogue which
is, I believe, the longest of the two.”
A Graceless Fellow.— A long story has been published in
many of the papers about an individual of the name of John
Wood, headed, if we recollect right, “ The Lost Fouad.” I t
was to the effect that this man had been a soldier in the late
war, was taken prisoner,by the British, transported to Eng
land, pressed into tiie service of the King and transported to
the East India station, from whence he hml but lately been re
leased, and was then on his return to Kentucky, his native
State. The tale called forth many expressions of sympathy.
It was asked, would lie find that the wife of his bosom had
been true to him, during his long absence ? and so forth. It
now' appears that he proceeded as far as Maysville, where,
upon being closely interrogated, he acknowledged himselfan
imposter, and asked to be introduced to the resident minister of
the place. The minister recognized him as a former preacher
of the gospel—but who had fallen, it is added—from grace.
MAL BORN E BRIGG S,—T HE COUNTERFEI TER.
1. lie distinguished convict, Alalborne Briggs, well known by
the gentlemen of the bar in most of the counties in this Com
monwealth, died in the State Prison, on Tuesday last, of apo
.plexy, aged 75 years. Briggs, in the course of a long life
contrived to acc'nmulate considerable property, a large portion
oi which, however, was expended in bis numerous trials in the
Courts ot Justice. lor 20 or 30 years preceding his last
commitment to the State Prison, in 1831, he was almost con
stantly engaged in a civil or criminal character. It is a re
markable fact, that seven of the eight sons of Briggs, who ar
rived to the years of manhood, became tenants of the State
Prison.
Six of them have been tenants of the State Prison in this
town, five of them were in confinement, at the same time with
the father, during his commitment. Il is believed that but two of
the sons are now living. The wife of Briggs, who is vet liv
ing—and one or more of his daughters—have been confined
in the county prison, for being concerned with Alalborne in his
various plans of iniquity, w hich were most commonly concern
ed In the manufacture ol - money. His house was a place of
common resort for counterfeiters, and those who w ished for re
treat, where they could be patronized and made welcome.
What a spectacle is presented in the case of such a husband
—such a father—such a citizens! How true the declaration
of holy writ, ‘one sinner destroyed! much good.’ After all,
be is spoken of by his neighbors and acquaintances as having
possessed some redeeming qualities notwithstanding the mise
rable life which he lixed. As a neighbor he was obliging and
kind, generally punctual in the performance of his ’engage
ments and liom the poor woo asked charity he never ttirtied
coldly away. — Bunker Bill Aurora. •
of colors.—lt is said that Air. Theodore D’.
\»eld and Aliss Angelina E. Grimke, on the.occasion of their
late marriage, took care to have a number of colored persons
among the bridesmaids and groomsmen. We can hardly feei
iieve this ; but it it is true, and the colored persons were rWs*-
portable mid intelligent people, they must in dieir hearts,
J desp; ed dtt'cmididutes tor 1 lymen’s fax ors.—a \ .'re.'t i a
IJdidn.
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