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to the government house and laid up
on a cuiifli degrees lie recovered;
raising himself from his reclining pu
sition he looked wildly around, and
beheld Zurelli, heuding over him.
Her warm breath was on his cole
brow; her sparkling tears shone like
gems on his still’ finger -; and hei
n other and her friend Ravina, their
faces beaming with smiles of happi
ness and delight, stood at the foot ot
the couch.
Three days afterwards Gerasimo
obtained his discharge. It was pur
chased for him by the officer who had
granted Zurilli admittance to his pris
on.
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Again it was the season of the vin
tage; again the garlands of currant
leaves were wreathed on brows of
Zanteote maidens.
A signal was made in the harbor,
and a small sloop of war hovered a
bout the entrain e. On hoard was sir
John Maxwell, who was returning
from England, after an absence of
th ice mouths, to replace General
L
It was the feast also of St. R ,
and a Urge pn*ty of priests and r
ilgioiis persons stopped before the
g .tes of the government house, suing
for dollars to decorate the shrine of
tin saint, and a salute of guns in lion
or of bis fete.
•Tell them.* said Col. T#*y, in re
ply to this in ssege, •! am sorry I can
not comply with the r< quest, my guns
being all engaged this morning in ho
nor of n|v saint, St. John who is now
enterii g the harhoi; and as f>r my
d< liars, the few that I had to spare
hn'ie In en to ad en the nuptial altar
ot Gerasimo and Zur* Hi.
II T##y.
From hisli, u htiv jSovclt
m 3 rot units.
{ DISTINGUISHED LIVING IIUSH
MEN.
About this hour m the .corning, sir,
said the head waiter, a stlunger might t>c
amused by haviiig pomitd out to him dif
ferent remaik.tb!*’ goiiiicuien who
this hotel going to the Four Courta.
Then siai.il by my side, hiu! catch a
f. w of those great people for me, it you
ran; tin man bowed and repaired to the
window. Are you ao Englishman? coo
tinned Gerald, hoping thai lie might find
in his decorous attendant a mall who had
acquired respectable habits and demeanor
out of Ireland, tlcugii much residence in
Dublin would account for his accent.
My native place is Knockballochery,
in the County Kerry, sir, —Gerald won
dered.
Well can you see any body, yet?
I iliii.k 1 can, sir- please to look at that
tall lusty gentleman, with the Oxford grey
surtout, but wide open at the breast, and
with ilie quaker like hat, and the healthy,
good humoured face, and his eyes cast
down, thinking, and the umbrella lying
along his arm. He that walks so firm
aid stout.
I have him—he may be some famous
Priest.
A friend to them sir. Tliat‘s Counsel
lor Dant
lrd> td! and now going to some law
Courts ?•
Yes, sir? to the Four Courts. See huw
the people turn to look after him, sir, and
then smile at each other U3 they pass,
they like to see him walking so bravely
alone with his broad shoulders and his
full breast; and ti? thought lie likes to be
Been by them, stepping over the flags of
Dublin, through thkk and thin, friends
and foes; for he could go in his carriage
to the Four Courts tvery day if he tho i
fir, sir—look, sir, here it comes close af
ter him.
The green one, with the green coach
man, and green harness ribbons?
Yes, sir: and lie-d have the horses
green if lie could.
Puiy a-sist me. again;—l have my eye
I think, upon some other popular charac
ter for the people turn to look after him,
too; though he is so different a figure
from Mr. 0 Connel. 1 mean the low,
slight, little gentleman, who walks so ra
pidly, jerking his arms, and pushing out
ins under lip so often, and whose com
plexion is so cocked, and—now that he
jiappen? to look up—whose eyes are so
dark, and fine* and expressive?*
‘You’re right, sir; thal { 8 Mr. Shicl.’
‘Ay! he is overtaken, now, by a very
large person, who t arries his head very
high, and wears his clothes very loose;
md whiskers, and has a profusion of shirt
collar and bears a huge stick, or club on
his nhoulder —is he anyone of note?’
‘lndeed,and he is, sir! Counsellor O’-
Gorman, the secretary, no loss.
‘ The Secretary!—what Secretary?’
‘Of the Catholic board, Sir.’
‘Well, and that other gig-intic gentle
man who now- meets him and Mr. Shiel
who is ho?’
It is a lucky morning for you, sir; sure
he is Mr. Eneas M‘Donnell, that hunts
the Biblicals over the Country, and gives
them no race or pace; when he's on his
legs, it would be no easy thing to make
him sit down, Sir, against his liking, as
you may parsave, and he knows that well.
See! the three gentlemen are passed by
another, who by the expression of his
countenance to them does not seem a
friend?
Do you mean that gentleman with the
broad red face Sir, black coat and waist
coat, e'low leather breeches, top boots,
spu<s and a heavy whip in Ins hand?
The same.
1 hen you are right again .Sir; its the
Rev Sir Harcnurt Lees, that calls him
self commander in chief of the Orangemen
and oftorfd himself yesterday in the pa
pers as hangman to the same gentlemen
youMe after seeing pass by.
A precious set altogether, thought Ge
rard; what a society! what people! what a
B-irotiet! what a clergyman!
But no one minds poor little Sir liar
court, lie's only cracked a little, and
basn‘t a bit of harm in him after all. Now
sir, here's one worth looking at :the pur
ple faced old gentleman that gets such a
shaking on the back of that rough coat and
old horse, bending forward, and dropping
Ins jaw so much, and followed by a ser
vant. If ever you heard of the pleasant
eat Judge in the Four Courts, there he is
sir—old Lord Norburv.
Pray glance the other way, sir, after
sir Harcourt Lees—he stops at the corner
of a street a good ways off, to shake hands
with a gentleman—quirk and tell me if
you know his friends—but they both turn
up that croos-street now.
AWFUL EVENT.
A letter from Brussels (Piedmont)
dated 13th Sept, gives the following
details respecting the dreadful effects
f lightning in a neighboring coin**
tnune.-—‘Yesteiduy the 14tli iust. Un
people celebrated mass in the chapel
of Rotnole, situated in the middle of
an extensive meadow. About 3 o’-
clock in the day, soon after they had
commenced Vespers, a violent storm
arose, and the lightning striking the
choir of the chapel killed four priests
and two seculars. The Archpriest of
Frcscarlo, aged 60, was stru k dead,
but appeared sitting in the attitude of
one who meditated. Near him they
found upon the earth the Archpriest
of Sermonva, aged 50, without any
exterior wound; also a tailor aged 36
They found near the door of the choir,
an individual whose appearance was
that of a man who had died quietly.
By the side of the pulpit lay extended
upon the earth the Archpriest of Spi
garalo, blackened: his bawls, and
hair burnt; his clothes were in rags.
Near the body appeared that of the
Core Romole, in a sitting posture, the
countenance expressed great pain and
suffering, but no wound was visible.
From late English papers.
LONGEVITY OF A BEE.
On Friday last, the stone masons
employed in repairing the Holy Trin
ity Church, (Hull.) when cutting
down one of the jambs of the stone
work, belonging to an old window,
found a bee within an aperture, in the
centre of the stone, where it is suppos
ed to have been confined for at least
500 years. The insect was quite
lively; indeed, attention was attract
ed to the stone by its hum tiling, on a
chisel being withdrawn, which had
been driven into the jamb; and it
would have taken flight had notone
of the workmen enclosed it in a glass.
After that period it gradually became
mere and more torpid until Saturday j
evening, w hen apparently it ceased to
exist. The bee, and the fragment of
the stone in wliirh if w.is discovered,
are in possession of l lie work men, by
whom they have been exhibited to a
great number of persons. The aper
tiire, in size and shape, would con
tain a small pear and there Was nut
the lanst seam or outlet in the stone
by which air could be admitted.
Hull Jldv.
The first census taken in Russia
was by order of Peter the Great, in
the year 1719 and returned 14,000,
000 of both sexes, imlmiiug the Uk
raine, the countries of Esthouia, Li
vonia, and part of Finland.—The se
cond census was made in 1743. and
exhibited an increase of upwards of
two millions; by a third ia i7(il, there
was aa increase of 4,000,000; by a
fourth, in 1781, an increase 8,000,005
appeared; and by a fifth, in 1794.
there was a gain of 4,000 COO— a
ing a total of 32,000,0(d). Between
1794 and 1795, Lithoatin and O in
land were added to Russia, and in
creased her population to 37,000,000.
After this, the greatest regularity
was oltstrved by ail the parishes
throughout the empire in presenting
annually to llicgsynod, tables of births,
marriages and deaths; —and which
on being compared, exhibited a regu
lar annual increase of 500,000; cense
quently in 1812, her population was
upwards of 46,000,000; and in 1828,
it amounted to upwards f 53.000 000.
CAMftKTo
nA it lib..\ TO v. I JJV*. to 1829.
ammimmmmmiimiimhmmi+mmmmar “T ~ MiiiiMM —ii"~” -i
(£J°The Office of the Rural
Cabinet, is removed to the
West end of the Eagle Tavern.
On Monday last, Robert f.a
zenby, Q. L. C. Franklin, Tho
mas Neal, Thomas Dawson
Aaron W. Grier, Esqrs were
elected Justices of the Inferior
Court, for this county.
Samuel Fleming, Fsq was
elected Tax Collector,
ro Darden, Fsq. Receiver of
fax Returns.
A few days ago, Mr. Robert
Flournov. of Newton countv,
was murdered within a mile or
so of Monticello. A Runa
way negro has been taken
up, who it is supposed com
mitted the act.
l ast night, says the Savan
nah Republican, of the 6th inst.
in consequence of the fog, the
steam boat Savannah, with tow
boats Nos. 16 17, laden with
cotton from Augusta, came to
anchor about six miles above
town. Nearly an hour and a
half afterwards, flames burst
forth from beneath the gun
wales of the tow boat, No. 17,
and in a short time the whole
was enveloped in a blaze. The
boat was immediately detach
ed from the others, and run a
shore.—Every exertion was
made to save some portion of
the cat go, but we learn that
there are not exceeding 80 or
90 bales afloat in the river.
‘The remainder, with the boat
are entirely consumed. The
cargo, exceeded 700 bales.
Prompt assistance was afforded
by the steam boat Georgia,
which brought the other tow
boat to town, and the Savannah
is engaged in picking lip the
floating cotton. No lives were
lost.
From the sudden burst of
the fiery element it is to be con
jecture and that it must for some
| time have been working its si
lent and destructive wav from
the bottom, and have originat
ed in Augusta. The contact of
sparks from the chimney could
not have produced the effect.
A day or two since, a numpkin
headed ‘b habod Crane* sort of a Jon
athanlnairie into our office, for thepur-
P'ise, he said of ‘seeing us make pa
pers’. After edifying himself amrtze
ingiy for an hour or two, hy examin
ing the wonderful apparatus of a
printing establishment, he must needs
try his skill at handling types. Jon
athan accordingly laid Itis
iip'in a short article put in *ypc for
insertion in the paper, and tumbled a
‘Dreadful Accident’ into a heap of pi.
By gosh, seya he, •! didoit think the
tamal things would quash down so
dartml easy Now, aside from delay
ing our work, it makes the devil (\vc
don‘t mean Old Niik himself, but the
evil one attached to our office) grum
ble; and we prefer to keep their hands
as well as the capes of their cloaks 6c
great coats, at a proper distance from,
matter which is put in type—for al
though it requires some labor to set
up t>pcs, it is a very easy thing to
set them.
Litchfeld County Fast.
A curious memorial has been re
rived by r be President of the Senate,
from a Mr. Crane of OhL, who caO,
I imsejf ‘he brother of our Siviours
aid who sets forth that he has lie
s’- ended lineally from David, that he
has made his appearance in this coon*
try fir the purpose of. resuming his
temporal authority, while, his brother,
now living in Ohio, the real Christ,
lias appeared to call his people toge
ther. lie calls upon Congress for an
appropriation of ten or twelve thou
sand dollars per annum, to enable him
to discharge his high functions as go
vernor of the world, and hopes that
Mse members will each transmit him a
ten dollar note, and frank it. The
madness of some men is sometimes
laughable, but this man’s is shut king.
We should hope that no member w ill
be found wild enough to introduce his
petition.— ft ash Chronicle.
‘THEY SAY’
‘They say.’tells that which is not
true, at least three quarters of the
time. He is about the w orst authori
ty you ran produce to support the
credibility of your statement. Scarce
ly was there ever a suspicious report
put in cr< illation but this Mr. They
say Vifts the author of it; and he el
ways escapes responsibility and de
tection, because, living just no where,
he can never be found. Who said
that Mr. E. the merchant, was sup
posed to be in a failing condition?
Why ‘They say* so. On what au hi
rity do you eflirm, that neighbor F.
lias been in bad company? Why ‘They
say* so. Is it a fact, that Miss G. is
not so circumspect 6c chaste as sho
ought to be. Why? ‘They say* so.
I’lague on this Mr. They say —he is
half brother to that Mr. Nobody who
always does all the mischief, and lives
no where, but in the inventive brain
f Hose who, undeserving respect
themselves, are desirous to pull down
others to >heir ow n level.—We alwav s
suspect the truth of a report whi< h
omes from the authority of ‘They
say.’
Tin- Philadelphia Gazette, contains
an extract of a letter, dated Mobile,
Nov. I, to the owner of the brig Ua
o. commencing in the follow is cr
strain—
• The Almighty disposer of human