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.» Hit* the tiisteriug care of a {latent, in the bitternes- o* w..ut: that I revelled i:i the 1 enjoyment i ill >:>e comforts which had been wre.-te<t from him. f have wealth, uncle—l want op.lv snilicxeucy—-lake the rest, 1 implore, l sup plicate you—and think not, in your last years, to deprive yourself of those possessions to which yofl were born the inheritor.’ .Mv uncle kissed iiiv brow, as he gently raised me from my kneel ing .posture, spoke warmly of his gratitude, but liruily and resolutely rejected my oiler. I plead ed, but in vain. I dwelt on his kindness—his generous kindnese: I offered him my fortune as his right, lit* was deat to all my prayers. While I acknowledged the nobleness of his motive, I deplored his jK-rtinaeknis firmness; but drying my tears, i knitted his presence, and before another eve >h<;4 thrown its glory over our regal t home, my-uncle was again its rightful master.— The clamor of the claimants for his noble posses sions, was appeased by my gold, and though my vast heritage and dwindled to comparative com petency, by the discharge of what 1 deemed my sacred duty, 1 lamented not its loss : 1 was happy in the conseiousness of acting a Christian's part. “1 now begau to hope no farther blight might enter our circle, but 1 was mistaken. A few days after the occurrence 1 have just related, I was aroused »t xu early hour, and requested to go my uncle’s apartment. Tremblingly 1 obeyed. As I entered the chamber, my uncle’s valet, who had opened the door to me, passed quickly into the adjoining room. Hastily 1 advanced to the cen tre of the apart, and not seeing any one within, I walked to the bed-side, pulled aside the curtains of the bed, gave one wild scream, and fell sense less by the side of tny dead uncle! When 1 re covered, I was still alone with the departed; my eye fell on an open letter, which apparently had been recently read, and which tested on the cov erlid. I started to my feet, and with a dread fore boding I could not suppress, 1 glanced over its contents. It was from an old and tried friend of our family at Venice, and as the horrible truth it told was slowly revealed to me, I felt my fears had not whispered falsely : Antonio Bandini had given death all us sting, to the one v, i.o had loved him so blindly. I ceased to read; i stood im moveable. The last drop was added to the cut) of agony, which hail so long uverllowed—that cup which sparkled so gloriously in life's ear’,' spring rune. By the corpse of him who had been *.,11 to me --the last of my house—the last of mv kindred—-! knew I was not only friendless and desolate, but I learned in that fatal letter 1 was a bcggtir also. Antonio Bandini had counterfeited my own and mv uncle’s signature ; claimed and received my whole remaining property; insuring the success ot his villianous scheme, bv conceal ing his actual marriage, and causing the report ot his betrothal to me to be revived where it was readily hearkened to. The cold, calculating pol icy ot flte villian, was apparent throughout! I wondered not it had sped death's shaft to the heart of my dear kind uncle! “With the brand of forgery, Bandini fled from his country, his home, his wife; and the daring valor ot a pirate's life shrouded the iniquity of those acts which induced him to take refuge in a perpetual home on the deep seas. Ida and her father were the first to offer the balm of sympa thy to one who had. so bitterly experienced ‘the vicissitudes of life.’ Yielding to their solicita tions, offered iu the fervor of friendship, 1 accep ted the guardianship of Mr. V , and when he ttrt ttirtYwH rwt«*t A ; wondered at, that, without ties in mv native land, i clung to hat protection which their affection had thrown as a shield around me, and prepared to seek a home in another and strange clime. “Although my inestimable and noble young friend, Air. Wallingford, would fain have persua (led me to link mv destinies withhisown, 1 shrank from perilling tny happiness again on the deep of affection, where it had been so learfullv wrecked ; and my heart, withered and blighted, ;n\ fortunes clouded, my spirit crushed, were unworthy of one ,so gifted, in whose book of life every page glowed so bright and fresh. As he accompanied us to file vessel which was to bear us over the billowy deep, and as he pressed my hand in parting, the prayer of a broken heart almost burst into utter ance for his undying happiness. Alter our last adieu was exchanged. I felt that the sadness of departure was gone, although fair Italia, with her burnished skies, the land of my fathers, was fading before the lingering gaze of the exile.” To he concluded,. POI SO AK D SAS SE N GERS. A TREE STORV. The great anti-dog law, w ith its poisoned “sas.s enger” enactments, lias produced many a wretch ed scene in the way of killing off valuable animals; hut the most wretched or wrelching case of all was that of the Dutchman below Canal street, a few nights ago. Phis Dutchman had been employed as one of the watch in the first Municipality, and on appear ing at the guard house on the first night of hisen gageinent, he was furnished and equipped accor ding to law, with cap, ratile, bludgeon, Ac. for disturbers of the peace in human shape, togeth er with an allowance of poisoned ‘sassengers,’ for those of the canine race who might be so thought less as to wander forth after gun fire. Mynheer was a little puzzled when the ‘sassen gers' were handed to him—for, not being np to the wisdom ot the anti-dog law, he was at a loss to know their use. However, being favorably im pressed as to the liberality of his employer, he fan cied that the ‘sassengers’ were intended as his ra tions for the night, and with this impression he pocketed theui. Sometime about midnight Mynheer began to to feel hungry,’ and he bethought himself of his rations with which lie had been furnished by the quarter master. So he entered a cabaret which happened to be open, called lor a mug of beer, and seating himself beside a table, he drew from oue pocket a hard crust of navy biscuit, and from the other the municipal, ‘sassengers.’ For the ■pace of half an hour the safety of the city was least in Mynheer’s thoughts his whole attention being engrossed, with his homely snack, which w ith th? hydraulic assistance of the beer was ena bled a\ leng-th to force down his throat. Refreshed with his repast, our worthy “guar dian of the night’ 4 picked up his bludgeon and sauntered forth to resume his I tzy monotonous peratnuiations. He had walked the extent of his heat but once or twice when he began to experi • ence some queer sensations about the gastric re gion. 1’ irst there was something of a burning thirst—then nausea, accompanied with a dizzi ness in the head—then he fancied some wild var mint had entered his maw and was tearing every thing to pieces there—and when in the midst of his commotion both mental and stomachal, he saw the rats darting to and fro across the pave ments Ue retired out in his agony— and blixen ! Mein Cut, Mein Cot' Them rtts islt running all over tny insides! Oh! Katy! Katy—Mein vrow! Aleiu vrow! Yv don’t you come!’ These c ries of.listress brought to liis assistance a couple of youngsters who were going along the street. When they came up lie was holding fast to a lamp post, liis head brought down toward liis knees—and liis entire body presenting a figure about the shape of a well defined point ofmterrog ation. Being in a questioning position, he bel lowed out as distinctly as lie could. ‘O Mynheer! W hat is de matter init me? 1 ish so sea sick. I i>h ndt been so seasick since de time I cootned all de vay front Amsterdam.; Oh! my head ! Mein sooper ish all gone—-and mein dinner and breakfast ish nil gone too! It vi i kill me! I’m a dead man, so 1 ish!. Oh Katy— mein vrow!’ The poor Hollander was in truth, in a deplor able predicament! lie lmgged the lamp post as closely and as energetically as ever he did th - bul warks of a vessel under similar circumstances in time of ahi gh sea. The young gentlemen, who heard rite above exclamations only in the inter vals of his painful throes, found it impossible to do any thing for him’iimnediately, as he was not in a situation to be removed. Presently however he became a litttle more easy. A calm succeeded the raging bellowed storm; and wishing to ascer tain the cause of so sudden an illness, sea-sick ness as he called it himself, they asked him it he had been lately eating or drinking any thing. ‘Eat, I ish eat my supper of mein rations dat dry give me at de vatch house !’’ ‘And is it rations you spake of, faith?’ saida son of the green isle, who come up bv thistime. ‘Then my hearty you have better times tins we have in the second municipality, when 1 was a watchman up three—for devil a bit of ration did ever 1 see.’ One word brought on another, til! at length it was ascertained, to the astonishment of all present, that the Dutchman had devoured his entVe al lowance of poisoned “sassengers;” but fortunate ly, his stomach was now rid of the dangerous bur den. He had swallowed, it is true a most 1 enor mous and dangerous meal—enough to have kil led a dozen dogs: but not enough to settle even one Dutchman. N x; sis-; Mynheer was apparently as well as ct a no >' - ; ndlv over his fright, the sar cr.sm- '-t *:,; -:on, %uh sln could not stand and con- Mqio’?• % , re . .pi* ibis post of watchman. So much for the evil ejects of the “sassenger” enact ment, u caused the poor fellow the most harrowing grief, compelling him to throw up liis eoiruniss'Um, and a great deal more too.—iV. O- Picayune . HIE DEATH WARRANT. The mist of the morning still hung heavily on the mountain top, above the village of Redelilf, but tlie roads which led towards it were crowded with the varied population of the sui rounding coun try from far and near. At Alesbury the shpps were closed, the hammer of the blacksmith laid upon its anvil—not a wagon of any description was to be seen in the street, and even the bat of the tavern was locked, and the key gone with its proprietor toward the cliff, as a token of an impor tant era which was without a parallel in the annals of the place. But save here aiul there a solitary head looking through a broken pane, in some clo sed up house, with an air ot' sad disappointment, or the cries of a little nursling was heard, beioking • I*—-" 1 J.a., been left in un skilful hands, and mayhap here and there a stliia rv, ragged and iilnatured dog, eiilirr seemed half appeased by the privilege of a holiday grantedon condition of stay ing at home, the whole villige presented a picture of desertion and silence, taat had forever been unknown before. But in proportion as you draw near the ponder ous cliffs, in the midst of which the little town >f Redclifl was situated, you mingle again in tie thick bustle arid motion of the world, of men aid women, and boys, and horses and dogs, and ill living, moving, and creeping things, that inhabit the wild districts of Pennsylvania. The village was crowned to overflowing, bog before the sun had gained a sufficient altitudi to throw its rays upon the deep valley in w hieh it ay. here the bar of the inn was crowded, and the fumes of tobacco and whiskey, the jitigliiq of small change, and the perpetual clamor ol the thong, was sufficient to rack the brain of com mon flexibility, hi the streets there was the greeting ofold and long parted acquaintances: the bartering ol horses; the settling of old accounts : the buffoonry ol hall intoxicated men ; tlie clatter of women : the crying and hallowing of children and boys, and the harking and quarrelling of stran ger dogs. To look upon the scene, to mingle with the crowd, to listen to tlie conversation, or to survey the countenances of the assembled multi tude, would lead to satisfactory solution of tlie cause for which the mass oflieterogeneuos matter was congregated. AV it hi n the walls of the old stone jail, ?t the fo*»t of the mountain, a different scene had been that morning witnessed. There chained to a stake in the miserable dungeon, damp, and scarce ly illuminated by one ray ot light, now lay the e maciated form of one whose final doom teemed near at hand. A few hours before, his wife and lit tle daughter had travelled a hundred miles to meet him on the threshold of the grave—they net, and from that gloomy vault the song of praise ascend ed with the ascending sun, and the jailo* as he listened to the melodious voices of three persons whom he looked upon as the most desolate and lost of all the wide world, blended sweetly togeth er and chaunting the beautiful hymn : “It is the Lord should I distrust Or contradict his will ?” almost doubted the evidence of his senses, and stood fixed in astonishment at the massy door. Gould these be the voice of a murderer, and a mur derer’s wife and child. The brief and tina! interview had passed howev er-—those unfortunate ones had loudly commen ded each other to the keeping of their heavenly parent, and parted—he, to face the assembled multitude on the scaffold, and they as ’hey said to return by journeys to their sorrowful home ; the convict worn out with sickness and watcliiug now slept. ' . 11 is name was John Creel, his place o| resi dence said to be in Virginia. He had beentaken up while in travelling from the northward his home, and tried and convicted at the count) town some miles distant, for the murder of a Alow traveller, who had borne his company iVoii the lakes, who was ascertained to liavt a large sun of money, and who wasfouud in the room in Inch he slept, at a country inn, near Redelilf, wi i his throat cut. Creel always protested his inbb ence, declaring that the deed was perpetrated bv some one while he was asleep, but the circumqances were against him. and though the money w* not found on him he was seuteuefed to be JUutg and 'vns removed to the stone jail at Kedcliifc lor >e-1 curify, the county prison being deemed unsafe. Thi-> was the day the execution was to take place ; th» scaffold was already erected—the crowd pressed round the budding 4 and trequeut cries of “bring out the murderer,” were heard. 1 he sun at last told the hour of eleven, and there could he no more delay—the convict’s ceil w as en tered by the officer:, in attendance who roused linn with the information that all was ready without, and bid him hasten to his execution—they ;aij hands upon him and pinioned turn tight while ue looked up toward heaven in astonishment, as one new horn, oniy said “the dream.” “And what of tlie dream, Air. Jason i” s,.nl the sheriff’. “Ton would do me a great kindness if you would dream vouiselfout of tliiscursed scrape.” “1 dreamed,” replied the convict, “that while you read the death wairantto me on the scaffold, a man came through the crowd, and stood before us in a gray dress, with a white hat and whiskers, and that a bird fluttered overliirn, and sung distinctly—this is Lewis, the murderer of th* 1 traveller.” The officers and jailor held a short consultation which ended in a determination to look sharp alt er the man in gray with the white hat—accompa nied with many hints of resignation of tlie prison er, and the possibility of his innocence being asser ted by a supernatural a. ency—The prison doors were cleared, ami Creel, pale and leeble, with a hymn book in liis hand, and a mien of all meek ness and humility was seen tottering from the prison to the scaffold. Ile had no sootier ascen ded it than liis eyes began to wander over the vast concourse of people around him, with scruti ny seemed like faith, in dreams—and while the sheriff read the warrant, the convict s anxiety ap peared to increase—he looked again, then raised liis hands and eyes a moment towards the clear sky, as if breathing a last ejaculation, when lo ! as he resumed his first position, the very person he described, stood within six teet of the ladder! The prisoner's eye caught the sight, and flashed with lire while he called out, “there is Lewis the murderer of the traveller,” and the jailor at t lie same moment seized the stranger by the collar. At first lie attempted to escape, but being secured, and taken before the magistrates, lie confessed the deed, detailed all the par .cu ars, delivered up i part of the money, inlhneed when another part was hidden, aid 'as f . v omit it*- 1 tor tria* - while -.t0.. i‘ > ■*ih died like a man out ui his seti.--s. <-'..t:. ti •> . Told. Three days had elapsed- ( reel had vanished immediately alter his liberation, when tlie preten ded Lewis astonished and confounded the magis trates declaring Creel to be her husband—that she had assumed disguise, and performed the whole part by his direction ; that lie had given her the money which lie had till then successfully concealed about his person : and that the whole from the prison to the scaffold scene, was a con trivance to effect liis escape, which having effec ted, she was regardless of consequences. .Noth ing could be done with her; she was again set at liberty, and neither her nor the husband was heard of again. The Tailors Dream. —A tailor of Bagdad du ring a severe illness, dreamed that an angel ap peared before him, bearing an immense flag form ed from the pieces.o!T oth which he abstracted at different times from his customers, and that he chastised him severely with a rod of iron while he waved the flag before his eyes! He awoke in an atrpny of terror, and vowed that he would never a ?.nin steal elotti n<im nis cnstumcio. l-Vornm, however, tlie influence of future temptations, he ordered liis servant to remind him of tlie flag, whenever he saw him too sorelv tempted. For some time the servant’s hint checked the tailor’s avarice ; but at length a nobleman sent him a piece of rich brocade to make a rob’, whose beau ty proved too strong for tlie tailor’s resolution. ‘The flag! the flag ! shouted the servant whon he saw the shears tailing a suspicious direction. ‘Curse yoirnnd the flag,, answered tlie tailor, ‘there was not a bit of stuff like this in it; besides, there was a piece wanting in one of the corners, which this remnant will exactly supply.’ Different ways of doing the seme thin, —‘Pray excuse me,’said a well dressed voting man to a young lady in the second tier of boxes at tlie the atre : —“1 wish to go up stairs and get some re freshment—don't leave your seat.’ A sailor seat ed in the box near his sweet-heart, and disposed to do the same thing, rose and said. ‘llarkee, Moll, I’m going aloft to wet my whistle; don't fall overboard while I’m gone.’ Two Irishmen travelling together came to a mile post w hich gave the exact number of miles they liad logo (20) faith and lie J turns, Pat we have only ten miles a piece to go, said one to the other. A Vermont Repartee. —A recruiting officer whis pered to a rosy-cheeked damsel, as she was put ting on her bonnet at the closing of quilting party: “Will you allow me to accompany you home ?” No, sir, I am engaged;” said she, in a loud tone 1 so as to give notoriety to the transaction. “You miss it most prodigiously!” said the military wag, “for 1 have got both pockets chuck full of ginger cake. Don't he discouraged— If occasionally yen slip down by the way, and others tread over vou a little. In other words don’t let a failure or two dishearten you; accidents will happen, tniseal cul uions will sometimes be made, things will turn out differently from our expectations, and we may be sufferers. It is worth while to romember that fortune is like the skies in the month of April sometimes cloudy, and sometimes clear and favor able; and as it would be folly to despair again seeing the sun, because today is stormy, so it is unwise to sink into despondency wflien fortane frowns, since in the common course of tilings she may be surely expected to smile again. A Living Skeleton—ln passing trough a village I was struck with the sight of a stiffand shrivelled corpse, clothed seated iu a chair, laid slanting a gainst a wall, so that the feet were in the air, and the head was bent down upon the breast. While I stood looking at it, l was startled by a jerking motion in the right arm , and then seeing two black and vived eyes straining to catch my atten tion. This was a human and living being, which had existed in this shrilled and motionless state lor *23 years the flesh seemed to have disappeared from his bones: the skin had shrunk and was al most black, I have seen mummies that appeared in a lietter state ol preservation. The joints were all fixed, with the exception of the right shoul der amounts, however, only to three inches of a see-saw movement of the fo're arm, and lie keeps working it backwards and forwards : as he says, lor exercise.— Urquliar'# Travels in the East. g'D;. iv.» Aluch has been said in the Vat* Burea press e • of tlr.s State about tue abolitionism of the North ern Whigs. While we have been free to admit tint many of the .moliiiomsts are whigs, we hav,> always hti i iii.ii m ny ot the Van Bureuites of ot t;,e N -lta ire abolitionists! Such is the truth w hatever cantina demagogues may say for polffl teal r urposes. Morris Van Buren Senator from Ohio is a rank abolitionist, and so are sever al ol the a Innnislr.itioL candidates tor Congress in Alass u-liusetts. It is now ascertained that ;,boli tion influence was one ot the operating causes of the late defeat of tlie Whigs in Ohio. (j ov Vance, who i- a Whig, recently delivered up to the authorities of Kentucky, upon a demand from the Governor of that .Stare, an abolitionist bv tin* name of Mahan, charged with inveigling slaves from the latter State tills step ou the part of Gov V. in behalf of the rights slave holding states in a treat measure caused his defeat. Gov. Dun lap o: Aiaine who was a good Van Buren man refused upon the application of Gov. Schley of this to deliver up two men charged w ith a similar offence in Savant ah. The Van Bitten Governor favored the aboiif mist while the WliD Governor fearlessly did Ins duty at the expense of his oflicu, and yet tlie former is held up by South ern Editors as a friend to the South, and the latter as its enemy. We copy the following from the Richmond Whig, on that suoject.— Aug. Sen. The Whig defat in Ohio. —The causes of the extraordinary rout in Ohio, cannot, perhaps, at this early day be correctly assigned. Our readers will recollect that we expressed some apprehen sion, a few days-since, that the whole Abolition corps in that State would lie turned against Gen. Vance for an act which then seemed to be one of strict duty and propriety, but which, it seems, was based upon false information. We copy an article throwing some light on this transaction, lrom the Philadelphia Inquirer: The. Case of Alaliun. —Considerable excite ment has existed iu Browne County, Ohio, tor some time past, in consequence of the arrest of a prisoner named Mahan by virtue of indictments against him in Kentucky, and a demand made for him upon Governor Vmice by the Exei-mlve of Kentucky, claiming him as a I:.; itive from justice. He is charged in two indictments with assistino two slaves to make their escape from their owners in Macon county Kentucky. After the authority to retake Malian was given by Governor Yatice, in obedience to the Constitution and act of Con gress in such eases, lie became informed for the first time, that the charge was wholly destitute of foundation; that Mahan is a citizen of Browne, and has not been in Kentucky for years. He could not, therefore, be guilty of the charge ; lie could not lie subject to tiir criminal jurisdiction of Kentucky for an ;vct done in Ohio. Governor \ mice at once despatched a special messenger with instructions to fake evidence of tlie above facts, ami lay them before the Governor of Ken tucky. The Sciota Tribune says,— “We understand thn* Mahan is a respectable man, a Methodist preacher and an abolitionist. He has evidently been fraudulently and by false swearing entrapped into a jurisdiction not his own, to answer an odious and despicable charge. His. situation is well calculated Jo excite the sympathy of out* citizens, who know the above favorable circumstances to be true. —There are not a few how ever, w ho would be ready to espouse his cause, wiierlier in* true or not, owing to certain pre judices on the subject of slavery.” “Alake way for the Jirseys--- New Jersey lias added another laurel to the crown of victory I he Spirit other people is arroused, and she is redeemed. Huzza for Van Buren and Democra cy. ’ So says the Standard of Union. But we think their Huzza is for nought this time; and the “crown ot victory,” w ill be equivalent to a crown ot thorns. The Whigs have certainly elected the I .legislature: and the Legislature elects the Governor and U States Senator. The election of members to Congress is either divided, or en tirely whig—which fact is not yet fully ascertain ed; The Telegraph too claims this as a great victory—but it is such a victory, as at best, barely leaves a grease spot of their party in that State. In Pennsylvania these papers also claim a great victory. But the members of Congress are divi ded and stand the same, as they did last year; and they are much grieved at the failure of a most villainous trick of their party to elect a tory in place of an übilitionist. But thev have succeeded iu electing an Abotishionist Governor, for which they are now shouting victory. Will they deny that their democratic Governor is an abolitionist? We dare them to the denial, and will put them to the proof if they dare. In Maryland, too, they have a great victory But what have they there ? A governor only, cl* lected by fraud and violence, by 311 majority. JMacon Messenger. From the Columoia Teliscope. Georgia regenerated and disenthralled! Geor gia where she has gallantly struggled to be lor tea years past. With what anxiety have w r e watched her strug gles ! How have we mourned the long series of her defeats.' With what glowing admiration have we witnessed her firmness under disaster, and the unquenchable spi’ it with which she has re turned to the attack. And now shall we not, in the hour of her triumph, in the day of her glori ous regeneration, hail her w ith shouts of joy and gladness ? Hurrah for Georgia and her gallant sons! H’ :r_ rah for Dawson, the tallented, the spirited the honored Dawson—the first that rose upon her darkened horizon the morning star that led on the brightness of her perfect day. And honor to UJ» colleagues, who with a noble devotion on all no*' nor questions, have fought on with linked buckler s and were ever united and foremost in the fiebh carrying terror and defeat into the ranks of the ad ministration: Desaix and his corps at Mareng o * Bulow at Waterloo. Who sees their coming with cold indifference or ill disguised distna.' • What State Rights man in South Carolina can turn a chilled and gloomy countenance as he sees them coming country after country on d Jf ' ir “winding way” with the flag of State Rights w ;, v ing over their columns, and the shouts of triumph bursting from their ranks ? Welcome, gallant Georgians, come to the res* cue. Drive the usurpers from their hold, and a rich reward awaits you. Though we are not as we were years since, when every pulse beat for yoh* still there are warm hearts here to exult in y pU * triumph, and ready voices to swell the acclaniat'® 0 of your victory. The President having returned to Washingt° D ’ it is proper to meutiona few of the perils