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In: kail ill jail nl'li [•ie l-Ti O U It C O i\ SCIE N C E—O U R C () U N T It Y—() U It I* A It T Y. MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 14, 1811 P. L. KOB1MSOIV, Proprietor. NUMBER 16. “ He thought lie liail killed mv father, and left the village. He was a lad of courage, no doubt lie en listed ; perhaps he is now a count, who knows! unless SHOCKING NARRATIVE. were friends and neighbors to the deceased, to meet The following description of the horrible ravages together, at his house, and to lament with his rela- i colonel, general, or of the plague, in the City of Florence, in Italy, is ex- j lions; at the same time the men would get together at .* was killed in battle. , trarted from the “Decameron,” of Boccaccio. | the door, with a number ofclergv, according to the is dead ; I have been In the year of our lend 1348, there happened I person’s circumstances; and the corpse was carried by ' vorsb 'P this morning 1 , charged with the crime of he rs ; I expect every mo- at Florence, the finest city in all Italy, a most terrible people of his own rank, with the solemnity of tapers' v,r .V po°G and having no place to go to; and plague; or that it was sent from God as a just punish- I and singing, to that church w here the person had de- trld - v * ie l°°ked as poor as poverty Could make him, nient lor our sins, had broken out some years before | sired to he buried; which custom was now laid aside, ail( ^ a<! be conld go to no place that would be fit to' in the Levant, and after passing from place to place, j and, so far from having a crowd of women to lament rtceive ,llm » b «t »he grave. We have indeed rarely, and making ineredible havoc till the way, had now j over them, that great numbers passed nut of the world reached the »\ est; w here, spite of all the means that j without a single person: And lew had the tears of their “ So I fancy, please your lordship.” art and human foresight could suggest, as keeping friends at their departure; but those friends w ho laugh, “ V by, that i» folly ; your Augustus has grown old the city clear from filth, and excluding all suspected j and make themselves merry; for even the women had * <uir himself without a roof to cover his devo- like other men, by this time his face must be w rinkled, ; persons; nolw ithstandiug frequent coii-iiltatioiis w hat j learned to postpone every other concern to that of ,ed ^ lead ‘ or a niorsel df foO’d to stay the hungry fiend! his head bald, and his figure bent double. If vou i else was to he done; nor omitting prayers to God in j their own lives. Nor was a c orpse attended by more! ,hat was g»' a « ing up his entrails, as was visible by the But I cannot believe that lit looking for him these forty years mom to hearhim knock at the door, and see him come in with his graceful figure, his mild blue exes, and waving locks.'’ “ So then you suppose, mv good lady, that your Gussy i' just the sumo tiow us he was then r” From ihe New York Tatter.’ A SCENE OF SORROW. A tall, tottering old man tfas bronght before litf it ever, seen such a picture of deep misery and help lessness, as was exhibited in the person of the Unfor tunate William Conyers, w ho at the acre of seVentv- % , ' * ’ V £ From the New York Mirror. the bishop and his housekeeper. Ill a citv in the south of France, which we will not name at present, there lived a few years ago, a bishop, a kind, amiable old man, severe to himself, in- tlultrent to others, so good and charitable that every hotly loved him. His house was a model of propri ety and hospitality. It was managed bv an old house keeper, Madame Pichard. In a bat helm’s establish ment the supreme authority is always exercised hv a | :1( ] V . Madame Pichard was the very model of housekeepers, and every thing went on admirably nn- ( ler hor administration. Her only source of trouble was In r husband, quarrelsome old man, who, at the ,* mie of our story, w as carried of]* by a dropsey, pro duced bv his excesses. A few day s after hi> death the bishop went up to his house-kef per s apartment to her a visit of condolence. Well, mv dear madam,” began his lordship, 1 |, IV » called to endeavor to console von in your afilic- )lv. pay were to see him now you yould not know him.” “ Oli, that’s impossible ! I can’t believe that he’s j so changed, but at any rate I should know him among I a thousand. Put him in the middle of an army and j I’ll lay my life I’d recognize him at the very first.” | “ You are mistaken, madam, you dwell in fancy on the youth of twenty, not on the old man of sxtv-live, ; and Augustus, bitn< not know voii. T I both of you lived six months in my house without ! either’sever suspecting that the other was—” “ YY hat! w hat does your lordship mean ?” asked the old woman anxiously. “To undeceive yon, Margaret—I am your Au gustus.” Madame Pichard sprung up from her chair, and held up both hands : she could not believe him. “•Oh dear! is your lordship, handsome Gussy?” “ (Vrtainlv.” “ The handsomest y oung fellow in the village !” “Yes, Margaret, forty-live years ago.” “ Was it you that I used to meet down in our gar den ?” “Alas! yes, Mariraret.” turns. Wm must not gttexe too t.evp \. ° to t j'” j I mean your lordship—that mv father hit with a | mention; which, had I not seen it with my own eye stone ?” The dignitary took off his scull-cap and distinct scar on Ins shaven crown. “ 1 can tell you all in a \erv few words. had killed your lather, 1 lied across the in a sad and wonderful manner; and different from what it had been in the East, where bleeding from the nose is the fatal prog nostic, here there appeared certain tumors in the groin, or under the armpits, some as bigas a small ap ple, others as an egg; and afterwards purple spots in I, it he was to see vou, would | most parts of tlie body; in some cases large and but pro've this to you—y ou have ] few in number, in other less and more numerous, both sorts the usual messengers of death. To the cure of this malady neither medical knowledge, nor the power of drugs, w ere of any effect; w hether because the dis ease was in its own nature mortal, or that the phy sicians could form no just idea of the cause, nor con sequently ground a true method of cure; whichever was the reason, lew or none escaped; but they gene rally died the third day from the first appearance of the symptoms, without a lever or other had circum stance attending. And the disease, bv being commu nicated from the sick to the well, seemed daily to get a-hend, and to rage the more, as tire wiil do, by laving on fresh combustibles. Nor was it given by conver sing with only, or coining near the sick, but even by touching their clothes, or any thing that they had be- “ Was it von, your lord-hip—I mean, Augustus—J lore touched, It is wonderful, what I am going to frequent processions; in the spring of the foregoing' than ten or a dozen, nor those citizens of •redit, but' t ’ a S er expression ofhis p.nched and withered feature?,- year it began to show itself in a sad and wonderful fellows hired for the purpose; w ho would put them-j lbe t ’ on * t ’ m ph*iion of which was more heart-rendirnjif selves under the bier, and carry it with all possible I ll,;,n fend within had perfected his work of de haste to the nearest church; and the corpse was i„- j s,rt " ,ion : and death had stamped his final signet up- terred, without any great c eremonv, where they could ! on his vic,in, > brow - Tbe apparel «' f ,bis unf< ’ ,,un_ find room. * * j ate man was in close keeping with his physical COft- Witl. regard to the lower sort, and many of a mid- ! di,ion * for il ,vas a mere compilation of rags which ling rank, the scene was still more affecting; for they 1 scarc,,, - v s " ved as a scrren fo . r bis attenuated and trembling form, and had certainly little, or no infltf- V j, cv staying at home either through poverty, or hopes of, succour in distress, fell sick daily by thousands, and, j e,,re ’ in * ee P'»«T «»ut the cold, the effects of #hich having nobody to attend them, generally died: some | made ,li : T1 shake like an aspen ; but, w ith rtll, fliett breathed their last in the street.-, and others shut up in was an ,ir of former respectability about him, Which their own houses, when the stench that came from I P overt . v * wretchedness, hunger, and the wratlffnlness them made the first discovery of their deaths to the neighborhood. And indeed eveiv place was filled with the dead. A method now w as taken, as well out of regard to the living, as pity for the dead; for the neighbors, assisted by w hat porters they could meet j with, began t > clear all the houses, and lay the bodies! of the elements could not deprive h?iu iff; and so strangely was his marked in this countenance,- that no oae could look at the wretched beggar without being aware that he was a gentleman, and had, most probably, been a person of wealth and importance' in his day and generation, but he was now beyond and sooner or later, we come d. was a sell my I am v tone. Align- P ou-ekcepi r in a rd ! Pray ex it \ our mortal you end of oar earthly pilgrimage. Your Irtsoain now ended ; it would have been hotter il he had not soeiit s> much of it in drinking, h»t_ still the merry of heaven lias no hounds.” U y„„ r lordship is verv good, but, to say the truth, I was not thinking <>1 my hushtfnd at all : I will not <len j i\ c you.” “ Really !” answered tlie bishop. “ \ our lordshij) knows that my husband drunkard, that lie tt-ed to beat me, and clothes to buy liquor with; lor my own part, milV sorry that lie lived -o long.” this was a kind of funeral oration for which the bishop was hardly prepared, and it was with no little astonishment that lie replied : “ That is not a vei \ Christian frame of mind, I’m afraid; did \<>n not love your husband?’ “ Your lord-hip would not ask me that question il vou knew how 1 came to he married. “ You must t. II me all about it,” said the bishop. willi the curiosity of age. “And vour lordshij) does not know any tiling about mv Augustus,” continued the inelnuchol “ Vour plain.” “1 was horn at Boulogne ship. At fifteen, they- called me ami I suppose, when eighteen, l was not much ugliei; but excuse me, sir, ’ said tne old lady, chawing back her t liair, “ I am going to tell you a love-story, and 1 shall only tire you.” 1 “ Go oil,” repeated the dignitary, “ we are both of ns old now, and can talk about such nonsense witli- out danger.” “ There lived in the village a young man, tall, finely formed, yvidi blue eyas and curling light hair ; I think I can see him now ; all we girls used to pull caps for him; lie was what our parents called a wild | voting man ; lus name was Augustus, and we.dl used j to rail him ‘handsome Gussy.’ He soon singled me j out, and w hen mv father went to Pari-, and my moth- er was out of the way, lie was always at toy side. When one gets to lie an old woman, and has a great proyvn-up girl to take care *4, one iail> <*l Dyers, but still that w as die happiest lime of my life ; I remem ber it as if it was yesterday. 1 was proud of my Gussv, who was our village beau, and he soon quitted j all the other giris to pay his court to me. All this sounds very strange to your lordsiiip, no doubt. My father and mother would never have agreed to mv marrying so wild a lellow as lie was, they forbade him the house, hut yve used to meet often in secret, lie would prow l around all day only to get a single look of me, and then, oh Imw happy and proud I j was! One day my father had gone to the city with | a load, and I slipped out to try to see Augustus fora j moment ; yve had not seen each other fora fortnight! | 1 met him in the high-road. If vour hardship knew j what a delight it is to meet one’s lover, w hen one is i showed and were there not many witnesses to attest it besides myself, I should never venture to relate, however! credible 1 might have been informed about it: Such, I YYhen I sa y, w as the quality of the pestilential matter, as to pass not only from man to man, but what is more at the door; and every morning great nun,bets might ,L r ° ,ncrease ll,e ' r,,ertst and n,,ser - v Mr ' Co »- be seen brought out in this manner: from whence they : Vt T s cond,t,on ’ he l,el,i h . v t!,e l,and a , *" ,e ra « ed were carried awav on biers, or tables, two or tl.re- at ,,f a!,0 "‘ ,l,rt ' e . v, ars ° ,d ’ who s ’ t med lo a time; and sometimes it has happened, that a wife and i as wrttched a,ld as b " n ? r J as b, ^ c,f ? and her husband, tw o or three brothers, and a father and i W,, °’ ,f .P os f ,ble » excited feelings of l et stronger son have been laid on together: It has been observed ^ C ™ 1 T assi '* n in tl,e of helmWttr* j for the poor also, whilst two or three priests have walked before a I, " ld rould ,,ave n ° pL»los«*pl.y to bear bun up—no corpse with their crucifix, that two nr three sets of por- ,lo '’ e ,n anol,,er a»d a better world, to rimer him on ter- have fallen in with them; and where they knew but <>! one, they have buried six, eight or more: imrwas •here any to follow, and shed a lew tears over them; lor tilings were come to that pass, that men’s lives strange, and lias been often known, that anv thing be- " ere no more regarded, than the live ol so many jin ins struggles—no knowledge of the* curtain solact: 1 of the grave, oil the brink of which he appealed W totter—hut was all in all resigned over to the disrre- ; tion of the hunger and the cold that almost petrified ! and detoured liiim Alas, poor little fellow ! why did he not lie down and die? for lie conld hare no tnotherj ol those ca- trown a familiar lesson to the most thought frontier. I took refuge in a convent : the good fatlt- _ ers gave me an education; 1 wanted to go hack to j lunging to the infected, if touched by any other crea- j heassts:. Hence it plainly appeared, that what the wi- , . . . . ... France to riaim your hand, when I beat d of your j •ut’e, would certainly infect, and even kill that crea- in tlie ordinary course rd things, and by a common ■ * ^ e c en e i ii t u finery (i marriage. I determined to take orders ; I abandon- j lure, in a short space of time: And one instance of j train calamities, could never he taught; namely, to j ed the idle pursuits of mv youth, and devoted myself j * Lis kind, I took particular notice of; namely, that ; hear them patiently: this, by the exces: to study and pray er. 1 returned to France, I preac h- j lbe F a g s of a poor man just dead, being thrown into | L»riiiti« rd some thirty years, when I was nominated to the I the street, and two hogs coming hv at the same time, simple and unthinking. and rooting among* them, and shaking them about ! The consecrated ground no longer containing the ' 0, . tl,c f e P oor ob J ects e ' c,,ed t,,P u,mosl f°. n - in their mouths, in less than an hour turned round died on the spot. These accidents, and others of the sioned various fears and devices among that survived, all tending to the same uncharitable j them up in row -, as goods are stowed in a ship, and see I now occupy. Vou must stay w ith me, Marga ret ; we arc 1 both of us so old and so changed now, that there is no danger in the remembrance of the past. V on see now that vourfancy was fed hv a mere illusion, the oljeet of your first love was before your eyes, yet you did not know him nor he you. Noth ing is lasting in this world, my child, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.” Madame Pichard continued to he the very model of a careful housekeeper. The servants stood in awe of her, and believed that she was c razy, for they often heard her mutter to herself yvlien she thought it was only to promise him sonic* bread bv and hyjf and without mother* home* or food, whitt Could sucli a wretc hed, hungry skeleton, of a little child, have to do with life? It need scarcely lie said that tlie aji- poor objects excited the utmost Com miseration in the court room; every one around, in- , . . i ...i i • n | i . imseiauon in tne court room; every one around, in— irned round and , numbers yylncli were continually brought thither, es-: ... . ’ , • il,, ,i „ i • • | need, had a Kind word for them; the very dock loafers i penally as they were desirous ol laving every one in ! , . J 4 . 1 it.,. ..ii ..i , •• ■ ,* i- .T i- .. i . and coiiiiintters of petty larceny searched thCit hoc k- Itke sort, occa- ! ,,,e p< 111> allotted to tneir families; they were lore ti lo ... , 1 . . , . i i; i, ...i, ,i • i i ii r ets lor money to give to the old man, and a wreidiro ffst those people i dig tmiches, and to put them in by hundred.-, piling i . . , *, . - . t ,-. „ . , , ..i... . i jl„ „. „„ . .... i. ,. * .i : i.: ' ..St 1 0l,,ras< »' b om the l ive Points, whom we should and cruel end; which was to avoid the sick, and every ■ throwing in little earth till tiny were filled to the top. have supposed had been dead to every fdiiluihe of thing that had been near then means to save themselves. Am to live temperately, and to avoii made parties, and shut ibemselvi , - - . v o „ ... r r. o • . ' i .-i c ' kindly feeling of the human heart for many a long expecting by that -x°l to raUe any farther into die particulars of cur ’ ® • -- - - some iiolding it bc.-t 1 misery* I shall observe, thatfared no better with the excc^ses of all kinds, i adjacent country; I or, to omit the different castles - up from the rest of j about us, wlii-’li presented the same view in miniature lord- tile village beauty, “ Oil de dear ! oli dear!*’ Id- lordshij) mv lnudsome Gu-sv—oli the world; eating and drinking moderately of the best, "'ith the city, you might see the poor distressed lobor- and diverting themselves with music, and such oilier i cr *> with their hunili* -, without either the plauue of entertaiiiments as they might have within doors; never ! physicians, or help o( servants, languishing on the listening to anv thing from w iiimut, io make them nil- j highways, in the fields, and in their ow n houses, and H°w oid are y on.' (!,onyers: Sc*vc nty-ftmr* sir: but year, took the child in her arms, and actually shed tears as slit* listened to the loyv moans of misery. Magistrate: Conyers, have vou no home? Uofi- yers: I leave, sir—a garret in Orange Street: hut il affords scarcely any shelter from the wind and rain— : and 1 have no bed, or food, or fire. Magistrate: the from the comedy of a small portion of a NRI'KI -ms.—We extract Green Mountain Boy’ sprightly dialogue : Homebred.—‘ \Y here’s the squire?’ \Y ilkins.—‘Find out! would you have me tell you all I know ?’ Home! wed.—‘ YY ell, I guess that would’nt take you long.’ Y\ ilkins.—‘You grow impertinent; if you dont leave me I shall kick you.’ Homebred.—‘Kick me, will you ? why talking is talking ; blit do you really think you ran dew* it ?’ Wilkins.—‘Really this is too much to be borne. YYho are yon, sir ? and who was your father ?’ Homebrcad.—‘Who was mv father? My fitlier was the first inventor of thrashing machines. I am the first of Isis make, and can he set in operation at a very little expense and at the shortest notice. So look out r easy. Olliers maintained free living to be a better { dying rather like cattle, than human creatures; and preservative, and would balk no pa.-sion or appetite j growing dissolute in their manners like the citizens, they wished to gratilv, drinking and revelling inces-l ai, d careless ol every tiling, a- supposing every day to santlv from tavern to tavern, or in jirivate houses; j ! J<? their last, their thoughts were not so much employ- whicii were frequently found deserted l>v the owners, i et ! how to improve, as to make use of their substance ! want and hardship make me fl el like an hundred: j M agistrate: Wliost child is that? Conyers: He is my j grandchild, sir: Poor liftle Mat, if I could only gel him taken rare of, I wou.d’nt mrnd what became of I myself, for I won’t be long troubling tlie world. Ala- i g strati: YY here are thO child’s parents? ConyerS; Both dead, sir. Magistrate: YY hat! and hate toll liad flic* charge of the infant all to yourself ? {.’Olivers: I bad, sir, hut 1 could’nt help it, for when iny son and dangh’er died, tli re w ;is no oeeel-e left to see to him, ; and God help me, I could do little hut weep and al most starve wiili him! Magistrate: H'>w long art h?$ BORROWING. said Mrs. Green to her husband one meal which we borrowed from Mr. , s ago is almost out, and we must hake as to make u ;c of t!i and therefore common to every one; yet avoiding, j !° r their present siqiport: w hence it happened that the with all this irregularity, to come near the infected, flocks, herds, ice. and the dogs themselves, ever fattli- And such, at that time, was the public distress, that j ful •" their masters, being driven from their own the laws, human and divine, were no more regarded; homes, would wander, no regard being had to them, for the officers, to put them in force, being either among tlie forviken harvest; and many times, after dead, sick, or in want of person- t<> ti-si-t them, every j *hey had filled themselves in the day, would return of one did just as he pleased. A third sort of peojih* [ their own accord like rational creatures at night, chose a method between fliese two; not confining them-1 YY hat can I say more, if I return to tin* city ? unless parents deat selves to rules of diet like the f Miner, and vet avoid-j ,b at such was the cruelty of heaven, and perhaps of rn \ l ,n ° r daughter is gone from us only about two mg the intemperance of the latter; hut e-itiug and j men, that between March and July follow ing, it is month ; and I think she died of a broken heart, and drinking what their appetites required, they walked j supposed, and made pretty certain, that upwards of a because she had no means of taking care of her dur- every* wherewith odours and nosegays to smell to; as I hundred thousand scuds perished in tlie city only ; holding it best to corroborate the brain: For they sup- j whereas, before that calamity, it w as not supposed to posed the whole atmosphere tainted with the stink of! have contained so many inhabitants. YY’iiat maguili- dead bodies, arising partly from the distemper itself’, and partly from tlie fermenting of the medicines wit bin Conyers: Mv son is about a year, sir* them. Other the most safe ; of a more cru* to themselves, disposition as peril: dec that the only remedy was to avoid it: Persuaded, therefore, of this, and taking care foi themselves only, men and women in great numbers left the city, their houses, relations, and effects, and fled into the country : as if the wrath “.*1 v do ny morning, “the Black a lew da to-morrow.” “YVell,” said h r husband, “send and borrow a half I of God had been restrained to visit those only yvithin a bushel at Mr. White’s he sent to the mid yesterday.” ! the walls of the city; or else concluding, that none “And when it comes shall we return the peek yve j ought to stay in a place tints doomed to destruction, borrowed more than a month ago, from the widow J Divided as they weie, neither did all die, nor till es- Grey?” “No,” said the husband gruffly, “she can send for it when she wants it. John, do you go down to Mr. cape; hut falling sick indifferently, as well those of one as of another opinion; they who first set the exani- Ing her illness. M agistrate: Poof c feaitirfc. But how have you lived sine? yottr daughter’s death? Conyers: I hardly know, sir; hut at best we eat very little. 1 —Mat used occasionally to get a morsel of foot/ from tlie neighbors; and that was about all we bad: Magi-trate: YY by did you tied make application to tb£ proper authorities—the commissioners of the alms house, for instance? Coiner-: I hud the rheumatism, himself but would have ; sir, and was unable to walk: and I knew no person to tier dirfing heaitilv with sjieak to. Magi-trate: Good God, mid do you mean their friends here* have supped with iht ir departed •“ say, that ^ou had no one to nurse you, or take friends in tlie oilier world! ! fare of this infant, during your illness? Conyers: f do, -ir—at least poor little Mat was my only nurse, Isaac Rick?, of Clinton county, Ohio, came to and lie supported himself and me, by begging from bis death on the 9th inst. under the following painful the neighbors. Magistrate: Haveyou any relations circumstances: A short time before sunrise, Mr. R. living, Mr. Conyersf Conyers: No sir, not that I cart cent dwelling-, what noble palaces were fhen depopu lated to the last jjerson! yviiat families extinct! what riches and vast possessions left, and no known heir lo inherit! what numbers ^ l b t’i sexes in the prime and vigour, of youth, w horn in the mm ning neiiln r Galen, Hippocrates* imr -Esculapi declared in jierleci health; just eighteen, and has been parted from him lor a fort- j Brown’s ami ask him to lend me his axe, to chop night, you would comprehend how one feels. 1 lor- got father, mother, every tiling. YY e stood under a tree bv tlie road-side, looking into each other’s eyes; we were so happy that we did not even speak. A cart came along, il was mv father’s; he saw us, sprung out, and began to heat me for having met A li ce -t u s against his orders. I am certain that il he had attacked Augustus himself he would not have re- si-ted, hut tin* poor fellow could not hear to see me •‘tiffer, lie attacked my lather and they fought desper ately. My father caught up a stone and sjdit open Augustus’ head, he, on tlie other hand, dealt the old man such a blow that he fell senseless.” “ Oli run, Augustus,” said I “if tlie police should catch you,you are lost!” He obeyed me and lied, and I have never seen him since. Mv father soon came to, and gave me a dreadful beating. He deter mined to marry me oil’, and easily found a man who " :, s willing to take tne without any affection, in coii- -deration of a good dower. YY lien 1 was tired of e, ug beaten every morning and night, l became ■Midanie Pichard. 1 never loved my husband; lie; S! a w liiat my father used to beat me, and lie followed b example. YY e wandered over the whole of France, • ■t great want and misery f>r the most jiart. till your Ttisliip s kindn ss give us support. That is my some wood this forenoon: our’s is diti grind hi-l ist night. And Jim do you and I saw oto Mr. Chi him rk’s went out on the hunt of wild turkeys, and while in | think of; I believe that poor little Mat and myself* p!e by forsakin ; others, now languished themselves the woods secreted himself behind a pile of brush are the last of the race; and it might be well for uf without merev. | and commenced calling turkeys. He slowly but grad- two,-if we were gone, also. Magistrate: Are you at ard that citizens or relations ! udiy rose from his position, when a neighbor, w^4io 1 native of this country.' Conyer.-: No sir, I am ail him to lend me a Imruner; well borrow a f’eyv nail and do you hear? while you are I pass over tlie little regard that citizens or relations showed to each other; for dieir terror was sm h, that a | was on a like excursion, look him for a turkey and brother even fled from his brother, a wife front her ! fired, shooting him through the heart. Another cas- hti-baiid, and, yviiat is more uncommon, a parent from Halt) from a jjreci.-ely similar mistake occurred a few its own child. On which account numlnrs that fell! days since in Hopkins county, Kentucky. Two young sick conld have no lielji but what the charity of friends,; men, oiip named Bell, the oilier Kendrick, proceeded who were very' few, or the avarice of servants sup-, at an early hour in tlie morning oil plied ; and even these were scarce, and at extravagant when tlie former coming across the latter behind a log wages, and so little used to the business, that they imitating the yelping ot a turkey’, fired and shot him with it vet but if he wants it Isuppose were fit only to reach w hat was called for, and observe through tlie betid. This made the third occurrence when they died ; and this desire of getting money of- of the kind in that neighborhood within two years, ten cost them their lives. _ From this desertion of friend-, and scarcity of ser-. A gentleman in tiie western part of Baltimore, a vants, an unheard of custom prevailed ; no lady, Imw- few days ago, while his wife was entertaining him by ever voting or handsome, would disdain being attend- : reading an article from a public print, suddenly fell whether young-or old it mat-; front his chair, to all appearance liteless. I lie lady, tereil not ■ amt : you may ; about it.” ! A little hov enters and says, “father sent me to ask j if you had done with his hoe, which you borrowed a week ago la-t Wednesday ; he wants to use it.” “YY’ants his hoe child? W’hat can lie want with it! 1 have not done lie must have it Tell him to send it hack though, a> soon as he can spare it.” They sat down to breakfast, “Oh mercy!” exclaims Mrs. Green, “there is not a particle of butter in the house. James, run over to Mrs. Notable’s; she a! wavs has excellent butter in her dairy, ami ask her to j ed by a man seryant, . w . . ,| llotJ and to expose herself naked to him, the greatly alarmed, ran for the assistance ol her neigli- Eiigli-hinaii—I was at fine time a major in the I2th regiment of infantry—and ha\e received half pay un til a few years since. Magistrate And Imw came year half pay lobe withdrawn? Conyers: It was’nt withdrawn, sir: but I commuted with the government turkev lunt,! for the purpose of buying a Urn. Magistrate: And what Income of the farm? Conrer-: It was never bought, sir; I purchased stock in the Roxbury Bank to secure money until I saw a farm that might answef me, and lost all when it failed. Magistrate: Had you any supper la-t night? Conyers: No, sir; I tasted oo food whatever—and the poor child had no- tliing but a penny worth of gingerbread. Magi-trate; YYe|I, you shall both be taken care of. And the poor old man and his little grandchild werA taken into au- \u'j what bee mu of liandso Gas- lend me a plateful.” After a few minutes James returns; “Mrs. Notable says she has sent you the butter, hut begs you to re member that site lias already lent seventy-nine plate fuls, w hich are scored on the dairy door.” - “S ventv-nine platefuls!” exclaimed the a-tonished Mrs. Given, holding up both hands, “it is no such thing—I never had half that quantity; and if I had what is a lit'le plateful! I should never think of keep ing an account oi such a trifling afftir; I declare, 1 have a great mind never to borrow any tiling of that njean creature again as long as I live.” other apartment, where the first g>ff*ri breakfast they necessity of distemper requiring it, as though it was hors, and a phy sician was sent for with all possible had lately partaken ot, wa- immediately provided for to a w oman ; which might make those who recovered,! expedition. Before the disciple of Esculapius ariived, ' them, less modest for tlie time to come. And many lost their i however, the gentleman had so far r. covered as to he j lives „ho might have escaped, had they been looked j aide to inform his we< ping wife and anxious friends I after at all. So that, between the scarcity of servants, t hat his malady was not of the body, but of die soul; j “ TttV. MAMMOTH.”—This is the appropriate nnm« and violence of the distemper, such numbers were con- or, as he expressed it, lie had been struck sin tick ; | of the great iron steam-hip now being built at Bris- tinuallv dying, as made it terrible to hear as well as to consequently the sen ices of the doctor of medicine ; tol by tin* ow ner- of the Great YY’esn rn. The Mam- behold" Whence from mere t:ece--it\, main custom- ; were dispensed with, and a doctor of diyinity employ- j moth will be of 3,.500 tons burthen ami her engine were introduced, different from what had been before i ed in his stead, under whose charge he soon profess- of 1000 horse power. “ It is calculated,” says an known in the city. I ed conver.-ion, and has since converted his wife and an English paper “that she will cross the Atlantic iu It had been usual, as it now i-, for the women whoi old lady who vi.-ited him. * days.” YY’e calculate not.—A'. Y. Times.