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‘Upon my word. I don't understand you;
but in in.* hope that 1 nay, by and by. alter
this terrible paroxysm has gone off, 1 will
tositisuy you, that, in concealing the Cir
ciiinstance as 1 Have, l <lid no more than 1
believed to oe iny duly, knowing your hot
ami imiieriou* temper, and your sworn
b iffed of that wretch, Millar-—’
•Millar J—The v“*y u*au himself, as l
lie*! Wlnti —whew —e» -t* ! Unmatch
a *le itnpudeace! Did ever mortal hear (he
like ?’
•So 1 say, itty dear. I may have done
wrong, hut t determined from the tirst, nev
erlo mention a word of the matter to you,
until lie had left the country, or was entirely
bevond your reach in some way ; and how
’on*earth it should have reached your ears
at all, is most astonishing to me, unless he
communicated it himself, as he threaten* and
to do at the time. Gracious me ! What’s
the matter with the man ? Why ap
pear completely bewildered.’ I
•Noi at all, madam. And so he threat
ened to communicate lire particulars him
self, did he ?'
•Yes. George.'
•At the time, hey ?’
‘Yfts. George.’
•Well, madam, proceed if you please.
Oblige me with all the particulars—the
when—-where-- and how; nr must 1 trouble
Mr. >fi 1 ir for them, at your request ?*
•By no means, George. After we have
talked the matter over coolly together, 1 am
in hopes you in iy be brought to regard the
whole affair as quite tinwjrthy of your no
tice-—ami Millar too.'
‘Well, by all the stars ! if this impertur
able hardihood is not past my compre
hension !'
•Wlial a scene for the stage, hey ?’
•For the stage?- say rather for the scaf
fold. madam !’
•Oh, yu take the matter too seriously—
you do indeed, niy "dear. However, to the
particulars. After Mr. Millar was put aside
tor you—nonsuited, as you called i , I re
member —he seemed to lay it to heart ex
cee ingly; so at least, I wnsdoW by many
t'lalkn *w him ; and fearing his temper, and
his reputation— -ah? how w Id yon look !
I most carefully avoided him, till the fourth
of July last, when—why, George, what’s
the matter wit i you ? Lean your head on
me, dear. Well, on that day . you wore in
the country, if you recollect, all the alter
noon. a.id I wentoverto Mary'slo tea; well,
and sr—al’ter tea l stepped out fora in uncut
with her, and we gut separat and near the
Battery, and-—’
•Well, madam—and he was there, hey ?’
‘Yes, my love ; and it so happened that
we were thrown together fora lew minutes.’
*V r eiy prettily expressed upon my word!
thrown together, were you ? But how ?---
in what way /-—Were you riding with him ?’
•Riding with him ?’
•Yes, madam—riding with hint, in h'*s
cr am-colored barouche, will: your magni
ficent India shawl, your sky blue bonnet, and
your «novvy ostrich feathers !’
'' rid so, you have lie ird it all, hey? ha !
lia ! In ! the best part of the story, my dr ;»■■■.
wasu'i it ? Well, then, ns there sno longer
any da iger of a quarrel between you, 1 see
no i *.as*>n for keeping you m the dark a >iher
iui.tr. Did you ever hear of such impu
de ic* in all your life! And then, too. just
to think ! if you had been a jealous-* aled
fool, and got hold of the story wrong end
first, how completely that bad man's pur
poses would have been answered-—a llnol—
a death, in all proba > lity—and your wife's
urn* i*i all the newspaper*! Oh. my dear
liusb m i ! -if such a thing In I happened,
how i*ijaid 1 ever have forgiven myself!
Do yo i bluiie me now, dear—now tint you
kn ear ail ?’
• VI —vhat do vou imu ; ?’
*D > you biu ne *n<* mnv, for not men
tioning liie affront which he appears to have
put itpo i in**, at fir t, by tnista e J tM iry
was *ith o-e al In-* time, and ive consulted
together, an Ia . i eed lo conceal it from you.
D) you id *ne air ; canyon. lor reiusing t<*
wear t!i i* sh i-v! again in pub! c. or ev n the
bunui-r and feathers’ And when I iomu?
out, a* 1 lid by th» itwrest accident in the
wort 1, tint Itn ha ! ar.iu.iliy got a woman lo
personate me—lro ned her once at our
<! nr, ■after she had been riding with him in
tin* cream colored barouche, one day last
ween when we ha I all goffe over to the
Jersey shore, expecting yon to meet ns on
ymr return from Philadelphia—that he
provided her with a shawl preci e!y like
mine, ami bonnet and feat tiers like mine, for
the very put pose of making me throw mine
away, t.io spiteful wretch ! —it caunot be
true tli it she actually entered the house—
that’s impossible, you know—the house
being shut up at the time—and that, in
short, he had been wicked and base enough
to employ this creature—a woman of rarher
free manners, to say the least of it, though
very beautiful 1 am told, to dr."ss like inr, to
personate me, ruid to ride about with him,
when you were known to be at Philadelphia.
Do you wonder now, George, or can you
blame me, when these things came to know
ledge, one afier tiie other, as they did,
without allowing me to perceive their drift;
c »n you blame mo far concealing them—for
not btlraying you to dinger, perhaps to
death , lor deceiving you by false pretences,
when you wished me to go abroad more, and
kept wondering why I did not wear that
shawl and bonnet you like so much ?’
‘Harriet! give me your hands—both!
both ! and let me look into your eves!’
‘Oh, my dear husband ! You can have
no idea what a load is taken otf my heart!
How happy it makes me. to feel that you
. know all these, thingsand are able to look upon
them as l da—is the pitiful vengeance of a
profligate, who has no hope under heaven,
but fora kind of newspaper notoriety.’
‘Harriet, as you value all that woman
holds dear on earth, answer me one single
question—it is hut one.’
‘With all my heart, dear.’
‘Have you been abroad this afternoon?—
inv you left the hoifte at all !’
‘ VT >—nitfor a single moment. I have
not even passed the door since I parted with
yon at breakfast.’
‘Have you ever seen the woman you sup
pise to have personated you ?’
*N''v*’r; but I have heard of her two or
thr»e times.'
•Du you know of auoihcr 6haw 1 in the
«*:>r! 1. like, you a# ?'
*No; am 1 from what uncle Joe said, when
he gave it to me—you know it was made on
•a irposc, and the pattern was entirely new—
j did not believe there wax another in the
work), till Mrs. Forsyth saw this, and told
nir Vt was exactly like nine, though she
thought it v.ither brighter colored and larger,
and, if any tbipg, a little handsomer.’
•Oh. Harriet !’—core ring big face with his
hands,liilerally gasping for breath, and stag
er er in * to the onen window—‘oh, my wife,
my poor, patient, injured, and faithful wife !’
•My husband! my husband! oh, toy
husband,!’ tihri *tnd tna poor,half-distracted
wife, rushing to his help, followed by Pom
j Bey. aolratiti -as herself; but her husband
1 P HV.J hr/vy»y at one moment, .and then
; hold her at arms length at another, and
j then drew h**r up to h;s bosom, crying and
L Uhghiug by lucii.s, and the dog yelpiug arid
barking, till, just in the midst of the con- I
lusion, somebody knocked at the door, it
flew often, and in iiiuiided Harper, head
first, aud rushing up to Klsworth, Seized
the utihap/iy mau by lirirh band*, and
swearing that he was delighted to see him
alive, aud tli.it after they had separated,, he
had his misgiving-—bow*, Wot*, **'vow!—*3e
quiet, sir! ’
•Better shut the window, wan.’ cried a
watchman below.
•Come along, fws, that’s no concern o’
vourn ; seems to be nothin’ but a fatliily
alf.iir, alter all---krss and tViends, hey ?’
The window vvas?hf:.g dovvn abaffl’the
quickest—the curtains dropped, aud Har
per went on with his story.
‘Alter I had got half way over th’e fdrfy,’
safi he, ‘it happened to efinrfr nfy liebd, for j
the first time, fhbiywu ’wCre o'ttt rtf your’s—- |
Stark, starting mart, my de.irTeflow, and that I
I was a great blockhead for leaving yon ; '
and so back 1 went at a haid gallop, atid i
liave been hunting after you a full hour,’up
one street, and dovvn another, .until at last,
lieie 1 arts, you see! odds Whins!’—-bow,
wow, wow! ‘Ah, my dear nfada’f'i, 1 didn’t
observe you before. Mrs. Klsworth, ! pre
sume ?’
‘You y»re.v«*nr, hey ?’growled forth the
bewildered husband, who had been trying
for full five minutes to keep himself between
Harper and his wife, ami to get her away
before he could see her face—-a shilling
shadow of cloud and sunshine; of decided
hope Sind tt'ft’fble girrsgrviug upon his fore
head still—and fmorPompey bobbing about
hither and thither, in the most evident per
plexity. as if, 'ike master like man, he was
quite undetermined whether to fly at the
stranger’s throat, or jump into his lap for
joy
•Madam,’ said Harper, ‘I really do not
pretend to know where 1 am. nor hardly
what my own name *is, nor could soy whether
l am in my senses, or not, but of this. 1 am
quite sure, that your husband there, my
excellent friend, George Elsworth—is out
his ; and, therefore, taking it for granted ;
from what 1 have heard him say of yon,
every, day lor a tueleinunth, and every hour
of tin* day, when -we have happened to he
together; that you are his wile, 1 shall not
wait for a formal introduction.’
•Not so much, a« your leave, Torn,'hey ?
rone word, if you please. Tell me. bn-th-of
you—are you strangers to each other ?
Nay. nay, Harriet, never shake your fmgor
a me, nor color, nor pout. lam finding my
way back to the shore; and every stop
counts now. Are you strangers or not---
perfect strangers ?’
* We.-wurtt, not five*tt*ii;*ftts ago.'’
‘My, dear. I’m -half ashamed ol you, Ide
claru; recollect yourself.’
‘Don't cry, Harriet. Did you ever set;
her face before. Torn ?’
‘Never, in all my file.’
‘Never in all your life ! That’s it !
ruin-te iddity! rum-te-iddity !’ skipping
about the room, and snapping hi**fingers—
•‘•rum-te-iddity—-don’t laugh, Harriet! I’d
rather see you cry. Rmmre iddity !’
•You monster ! What will Mr. Harper
think ?'
•Never mind what Mr. Harper thinks!
ium-te-iddily ! But I say, Harper, you did
seethe woman's face in tire cream-colored
b< r tic lie. hey ?’•
‘J es, and oy the way, that was the only
time 1 ever did see her face.'
•indeed ! 1 thought you saw her face on
the fourth of duly.’
‘No ; she wore a veil then, and'l rvfily got
a liinpse of it w hen the wind lifted the lace,
and the lady with her appeared to he
threatening Millar, as 1 thought.’
‘Oil. ho!—upon my word, I’m the hap
piest fellow. Y«*u would’! know her again,
i suppose ?’
•No. i nieed, except by Iter person, or
slep, or style of dress,’
‘Th ii'ii do; tim’s enough! Rutr-te
idilhy ! I insist on making you better ac
quainted, my love. My dear. Mr. Harper;
Tom Harper - Mr. Harper, toy dear !
•How d've do, my dear.’
11 mg your impudence, Tom ? But that’s
so like him, my dear ; .free ami easy, yon
know; free eay,—that’s the way with
Ton—rom-te-iddi’v —rum te-iddity-ido !-
'I ra rody or comedy, ii'-'rper, ah .lie same
to you, 1 see.’
*Vm o!f tn-mt>» - rr>»v, you kitlf'v ; any tom
m.imls? sli uit 1 bespeak you a birth at Sad
dlers Wells?’
•Oil, hang I lie theatre. I’m tired of tra
gedy- comet an*e, aud opera. l!v the |
way, though, Harriet, inv love,'will you
just do me t.lie<favor to bring in your shawl,
I want Tom to see it. He’s a judge of these
things, aint you, Tom? Long while in
Cashmere—the Vale of Ca«hmere. Yon
know I’ve long promised you a sight of it,
hey, Tom ?’
‘With all my heart, my dear’—going out
and returning after a little delay, with her
face flushed.
‘What’s the matter, my dear'?’
•Why. where do think I found my shawl ?
this magnificent shawl that 1 keep with so
much care/ that I do not see perhaps once
a month V
•How should T know', dear? Where it
belongs, 1 hope.’
‘No, iny d* nr; but 1 found it in our nur
se’s room, hanging over a chair; and when
I expressed my astonishment, what do you
think her answer was; the jade! Why,
that she had been playing mama with it, to
amuse the baby- Oil, these servants
Harper looked at the shawl, then at the
wife and then at the husband, with a puzzled
expulsion, as if wondering what would
happen next.
•And now, if please, my dear child,
just oblige tnr so far, ' v '!l y°'h there’s a
dear—just so far as to L*rUer in your sky
Jjlue bonnet, and white ostrich leathers.*
‘A sky-blue bonnet and ostrich-!fathers ?’
whispered poor Harper. And when they
entered Ihe room, he staring at thei.’i. as M
an apparition had started up tnrough the
floor, w hile bis friend stood watching him,
and evidently enjoying his perplexity.
‘Well, George, any thing more?’ whis
pered the obedient wife, blushing and fal
tering at every step.
‘Yes, dear, one thing more. Just oblige
inc, will you, by putting on that bonnet and 1
shawl in the w ay you generally wear it.’
‘Dou’f be so foolish, iny dear.’
‘I beg yon would, mndoni, said Harper,’
not knowing what else to say.
‘Well, then, if I must, I must;’ and
straightway the blue bonnet and white
ostrich-feathers were mounted, and the ;
magnifi cent shawl was flung over her stately
person, as you may see ihe drapery cast in
a picture of Paul Vencse, and there 6he
stood, trembling with every breath she drew,
and coloring to the eyes.
‘And now. my dear, one thing more.
Just oblige me by walking across the room,
with your back toward us, will you?’
»Whv, what a fool you are making of
yourself. George, and of me, too,’ said the
dear patient wife, walking across the room,
however, just as she was bid.
•There, sir, there! did you ever!*' cried
the happy husband, capering after her and
rubbing his hands together with delight---
'did you ever !’
‘No, never!’ sai<l poor Tom!
•Ever what, my dear ? inquired the wife.
•Ever see such an astonishing resem
blance ‘
•Never!’ said Tom, beginning, all at
once, to sec the iffrft of tile exhibition—
‘never, in all iny Iffe, er.ccpt in one single
case—the woman I saw m the barouche,’
fas'emng his eVe Cpon the benutiiul wile,
with a puzzled expression; ‘though had
not the air of a gentlewoman, as 1 told you
before, Gcbrgp,’
•T*?xactly ! But the step and the carriage;
the hotmet and shawl, they are identical,
ar’nt they ?’
•Pre-cisely !’
•And she was the most beautiful creature,
hey, Tom, the most beautiful creature, ao'd
the nio-t of a* -’
At this moment the door opened, and the
nurse entered to whisper something to her
mistress.
Tom hewed— ’Stared—and then stood
waiting as if to he introduced to her— liis
mouth wide open, aiid bVbidMng byou
micht have beard liitu all over the house.
The girl heard bim-—turned as the light
of a lamp flashed into his face, dropped
upon her knees, threw up her arms, and
screamed as if she was going into fits.
•Oh, mercy ! mrorcy ! liave mercy on me !
do not turn me Into the streets, and ] will
never, never do so again!’ cried the poor
distracted tiling.
In five minutes more, the -whole tnattbr
was cleared up. To avenge the slight he
had received, the unprincipled wtetoli, Mil
lar, had activally employed this girl and
put her in to Klsworth’* lamily, and per
suaded leer to personate her mistress and
wear her clothes, hoping to destroy the
character of the wife, and sure of obtaining
what he most coveted on earth; a vulgar
luftoriety, if nothing more. He had well
nish succeeded. Another hour! a single
-hear, and the faithful wife and the all'ec
tinnate husband might have been separated
for etrer. As it happened, eveiy thing was
explained now. even to satisfaction of
Harper, who itknowletlged at last, that he
saw no great objection attPr all, to a rrrarried
man b ?irtg the father of .a child by a married
woman, ; provided, however, that, in every
•i* eh 'rase,!he woman nows his Own wife. And
what is more, within fortyeigllt hours, the
v/icked aiid-shameless profligate, Millar,
’"nad . judgment; not of death, by a bullet
through the head, nor even of disgrace by a
cowskin laid over the shoulders; but judg
ment of notoriety, of oyster shop and news
paper notoriety, for intriguing with cast off
chamber maids and milliners’ apprentices;
whose letters be always took care to preserve,
and sometimes to publish in Re
former and Philanthropist.
THE JEWELS.
A TRADITION OFTHK RABBINS.
The celebrated teacher. Rabbi Meir. sat
during the whole of one Sabbath day in the
pub'ic school, instructing the people.— Du
ring Ins 'absence from the house his two
sons died, both of them of'-uncommon
beauty, and enlightened in the law. His
wife bore them to her bed-chamber, and
spread a white convering over their bodies.
In the evening tlie Rabbi Meir came
home.
“Where is my two sons,” he -asked,
“that I may give them my blessing ? 1 re
peatedly looked round the school, and I
di 1 not see them there.”
She reached to him a goblet. He prais
ed the Lord at the going oat of the Sabbath,
drank, arid again asked
“Where are my sons, that they too may
drink of tiie cup of blessing !”
“They will not he far off,” she said, and
placed food before him that he might
eat.
He was in a gladsome and genial mood;
and when he had said grace alter the meal,
she tiros addressed him:
‘•Rabbi,-with thy permission, I would fain
propose to tliee-one. question.”
“Ask it, then my lave !” he replied.
“ A few days ago, a person entrusted some
jewels to my custody, aud now he demands
them again: should I give them hick
again ?”
“This is a question’” said Rabbi Meir,
•‘which my wile should not have thought
it necessary to ask. What, wouidst thou
hesitate or be reluctant to restore to every
one riiJ* own?”
“No,” she replied, but yet I thought it
best not to restore them without acquain
ting thee therewith.”
She then led him to the chamber, and
stepping to the bed, took the white covering
from the dead bodies
“O, mv sons, my sons!” thus loudly la
mented the father; “my sons! the light of
mine eyes and the light of my understan
ding!---! was vour father, but ye ntre iny
teachers in the law.”
The mother turned away and wept bit
terly. At length she took her husband by
the hand and said—
“ Rabbi, didst thou not teach me that we
must not be reluctant to restore that which
was entrusted to our keeping? See, the
Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away,
and blessed be the name of the Lord !”
‘•Blessed be he name of the Lord !”
echoed Rabbi Meir, “aud blpssed be his
name foi thy sake too; for well it is writ
ten 'Whoso hath found a virtuous wife, hath
a greater treasure t! an costly pearls; she
openeth her mouth with wisdom, and in her
tongue is the law of kindness.”’
IIOW TO TELL A DRUNKEN MAN.
If you wish to ascertain whether a man
is really in liquor, put the word “municipal
ity” in his mouth. If he can shell that
out—-pronounce it plain and distinct-—he
is sober enough to deliver a temperance
lecture, take our word for i*. The words
“National Intelligencer,” are even harder
| »0 get over, and may be given as a test to any
one where the least suspic'on is entertained
ttla.’ he ’« “how come you so.”
fc'orn;' fifte°-u years since, there lived in a
ploasent »‘|lowii ‘Wst" village, a worthy
minister of the Prejbvterien persuasion,
Dr. II The Dr ,Vul a hard case of a
son, a wild, harutn scarttm rJpg, ,7s ever lived,
named Davi 1. David was a gt.*o<l hearted
ft-l'ow, fund of stories and Santa Gi !tz. t M ui
slings, and seldom catne home at night with
out betraying that he had rubbed hard
against every tavern in the village. Frequent
were the admonitions and excellent the
advice his worthy father gave David, and
one night, after a lec'ure rather more severe
than common, the young scape grace faith
fully promised amendment-
Some few days after this, white the min
ister was o-it visiting his flock, he saw his
hopeful, mounted on a young colt with a
large bosh tied to his tail, riding furiously
down the toad towards him. By whirling
his hat and cane and shouting, the old gen
tleman arrested his progress and brought
him to a hail.
“Why, David!’ sa*d tbe minister.‘you
told me faithfully you had sown all your
wild oats.’
‘Sol have, father; I'm only brushing
them ia now,” aud away he went down the
Street as fast as ever, the bush top tied tofbe
co/t’s tail, whisking about iu every direc
tion. ,
That night D ivid catne home as the say
ing is, ‘raiuer toe worse for liquor.’ it is a
known fact ili-il a drunken mau, in trying to
make himself appear sober, always overdoes
the tiling, and by the very means lie uses,
detects Inmself; So it was wiin David.
•Father,’said he,’ hae the dVacial InttUen
eer come yet ?’
•Alt! you dog, you have been to the tavern
again. Aon are drunk, sir: get out of iny
house, and never enter the door again.*
David went as he was bid, but next mor
ning his father wasaslotii-lted at seeing him
'walk down the chamber stairs and seat him
self at the break fast table.
•Sirtah! Did’ut 1 tell yon never to enter
that door ‘again ?’ said the father.
‘Yes, sir, 1 know you did, so I got up on
the shed and came in at the chamber
window, 1 did’rit cotne iu at the door at
all.’
David is still living, arid has sons who
bid'Vaif to become as wild as ever he was
• himself.-— N. U. Picayune.
The Clerk and the Butlei Woman. Yes
terday afternoon, as a clerk, 01 one of our
markets was travelling around investigating
the weight of butter, he came across an old
lady, w hose reluctance to display her oleag
inous luxury excited suspicion. Bent upon
examination, he hastily snatched up a lump
from 1 a large tub full and threw it into his
seales It was awfully deficient. He tried
imotlteri it * was ditto ; another, and still the
same result; the bid lady 's face elongating
at each successive failure about “a feet.”
“Mister,” said site, “ifyou take any more of
inv butter, you’ll. get in trouble, I guess.”
Nothing daunted by her tin cat he continued;
when enraged beyond endurance, ihe old
lady, strong, muscular woman, “yoked”
him, aud alter a severe titsde, during which
victory seemed to lean rheniniely on both
belligerents, a crowd of amused spectators
gathered around t!i»m, she finally threw him
down, jumped on hint, and taking frotn Ittrrt
the lump of butter he still held in his hand,
she smeared it all over his face tilling his
eyes, oars mott'h, and nostrils, full almost
to suffocation. Then springing upon her
feet, site plunged her hands into her butter
tub. and mashing* the lumps completely up
into one-unctions mess, “Now,"she vocifer
ated, ‘ weigh my blitter, if you can, yoj
pnppv; and touch it, if you dare.’
It is needless to siy that the clerk “miz
zled,” and you cannot now insult him more
than by requesting of him some information
as* to the state of the hntter market-—.Y. Y.
Times.
A Roarer. —The Detrnrt Post tells a sto
ry of a woman, at Pontiac, worth abbrevia
ting. her husband had contracted a debt,
the. amount of which exceeded his pecunia
ry abilities to meet, and was greeted with
the dernier resort of certain professional
gentlemen, in tiie form of “you are hereby
commanded,” Acc. The wife indignant at
so uncereninnioiis a visitation, commenced
first belaboring 'ter spouse for contracting
the obligation, and succeeded in ejecting
him from the premises. She then attacked
the constable, who, alarmed at her feats of
arms, had succeeded in obtaining the aid of
four or five others to assist him in the dis
charge of his duties. She, however, nothing
’daunted by numbers, attacked them right
and left, and finally succeeded, after giving
them a sound drubbing, in standing as the
undisputed possessor of the field.—Such a
wife would be an invaluable acquisition to
scores of husbands in this city similarly sit
uated with hers.—.V. Y. Star.
Retort.-— Some years ago, Roger M.
Sherman, and Perry Smith, of Rhode Island
were opposed to each-othe’’ as advocates in
an important case before a court of Justice.
Smith opened the case with a violent and
foolsh tirade against Sherman’s political
character. Sherman rose very composedly
and remarked—-**l shall not discuss politics
with Mr. Smith before this court, but l am
perfectly willing to argue questions of law,
to chop logic, or even to split hairs with
him.” “Split that then.” said Smith, at
tbe same time pulling a short rough looking
hair from his own head, and handing it over
towards Sherman. “May it please the
honorable court,” retorted Sherman as quick
as lightning, “I didn’t say bristles.’'
Bingu)ar Ama\gamatir nA cat which had
made her accouchement in a garden in Granby
street, about a month ago, brought forth
among‘the usual number of her feline
progeny, a perfect leveret, young hate
Pxcept that its head and neck were those of
neat. It is now alive and hopping', having
! all the actions of a bar?; and shares equally
j with the kittens the affectionate regard of a
| madam puss. A hare had frequently been
seen in tbe garden; and we must conjecture
this strange amalgamation to have been tiie
! result of an intimacy between it and the
cat. The opposite natures of the two
! animals, combining to such an end, however,
|i s not a little remarkable, nor unworthy of
tbe attention of physiologists. Xorfn)l;
Hcra\l>
Anecdote. An eccentric preacher by the
name of Philip Gibbs, vGeorgia,) used to
tell the following anecdote of himself, and
of his own father-in law, of the uame ts
Bnssev: Mr. Bussey was a Baptist preach
er, and was in the habit of buying corn on
credit from a man of the name of Moses. Mr.
Gibbs was once sent on the same errand.
Inn was refused the corn until bis father in
la v had squared lip former accounts On
his return, lie lepaired to the place ot meet
ing, where Mr. Bussey was preaching from
one of the declarations of Moses, ns found
iu the Biblea
During tne discourse, Mr B. happened
to ask tlie question several times, "And what
docs Moses say?" for the purpose of im
pressing the matter upon the attention of
the congregation. This inquiry so struck
the odd fancy of Mr. Gibbs, that be rose
gravely m his place, and audibly replied,
"Before God , he says, he wdl let you have
no more corn until you hare paid him for what
you have got." So ludicrous an interruption
so disconcerted 'lie Preacher, and excited
the risibility of the people, that tbe meeting
broke up in confusion.
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Philosophy. Philosophy can add to our
happiness in no other manner nut liv dismiss
ing our mi»C r y : it should not pretend to in
crease our preset.’ l stork, but make us econ
omists of what we a»P possessed 01. 1 lie
great source of calamity lies h* regret orau
ticipation; he, therefore, is most wise who
thinks of the present alone, regardless of the
past or the future. This is impossible to a
man of pleasure; it is difficult to the man of
business ; and is, in some degree, attained
by the Philosopher. Happy, were we all
born philosophers, all born with a talent of
thus dissipating our own cares by spreading
them upon all manksnd.
Horrible Combination. —lt is stated in a
western paper that Miss Clorinda Clout
teaches a school at Shirt-Tail Bern!.
DEATH’S DOINGS.
E. W. Chester, Esq. who formerly prac
tised law iu Georgia, and was well acquaint
ed with Judge Augustin Smith Clayton, of
that Slate, lately deceased, lias published in
the la t Evangelist an affectionate tribute to
his memory, which concludes as follows :
Thus called to look over the list of my
early acquaintance and professional associ
ates in Georgia, 1 And that death his dealt
his blows with an unsparing hand. Shuler
Hillyer, Esq. my earliest friend, (the broth
er of the Rev. Asa Htllyer, D. D. of New
Jersey.) sickenud and died at the first court
which we attended together after my ailmis
siou. Os the five members of the bar who
formed the coiatnitteee for my examination,
Stephen Upson died a few years after. At
the time of his decease he might just'y be
esteemed the head of the Geoigia bar, and
was expected at the ensuing session of the
Legislature, to be elected to the U. S. Sen
ate. In that body he would probably have '
held a higher grade thananv man from that
State since it was represented by Mr. Craw
ford. Os the other members of the com
mittee, 1 believe all have departed excepting
Governor Gilmer. Judge Dooly, who pre
sided at the Court h is long since gone.—
Oliver H. Prince, Esq. the rival in wit of
Judge Clayton, afterwards a U. S. Senator
for oue session, and compiler of the laws of
Georgia, perished in the Pulaski, [Home ?]
Judge CrauforJ, who succeeded Judge
Doolv iu that circuit, has closed his career.
Thom is W. Cobh, fora longtime a leading
member of Congress, aud afterwards a judge
of theOcmilgee circuit, died years ago.
And of my own age, Meriwether, Holt,
Venable, and probably numbers of others
have, gone to their final account. Os these,
I am uot aware that any, except Holt, was a
professor of religion. Clayton has follow
ed.
Readers, like myself iu middle life, when
the passing of a friend from the stage of ac
tion calls them to look areund for their early
associates, may .sometimes, in the awakened
reminiscences ol the past, feel that in what
they esteem the meridian of their days, they
are. dwelling a midst the tombs of their friends
the survivors of a generation. And when
thus aroused to the reality that inort;:l y is
inscribed on all of earth, we may well in
quire. where next shall strike t’*e deadly
dart / who shall be the next victim of the
destroyer? but, with more and deeper inter
est. whither will-S)Med the sei it when the
mortal part finds i>s resting place in tiie
tomb ?
JHirarulous • Escape. A Child tescued
from a Panther ! Last Sat urday forenoon,
Mr. James Ratmey and wife, who live about
a miles east of this village, in the town of
Watson, left home on business, leaving their
house in charge of their oldest child, a girl
aged about It! years. Near 1.0011 the girl
heard the infant, aged 14 months, which had
been laid onn bed in an adjoining bedroom,
titter a horrid screech, upon which she im
mediately ran to its relief, and imagine her
feelings, upon opening the d*>or to sr*e a
panther with the habe in its month leaping
from an open window in mediately over lilt
bed ! But she, like a true heroine, sprang
upon the bed and then out of the window,
screaming at the utmost height of her voice,
anrt upon being joined by the other children
about the Ito' se, pursued the panthcrat her
utmost speed. She foil wed it about forty
r<*ds to a pair of bars which separated the
clearing from the forest, at w hich place the
girl states that she approached to within 13
«>r '2O feet of the panther, when it rclin
qnidied its hold of the child, leapt the bar
and made its way into the woods.
The infant was picked up much strangled
from its rapid movement through the grass
ands iad, which had filled its mouth and
eyes, but soon recovered, and is now well,
save a few scratches about its body, which
liave the appearance of having been made
by the panther’s teeth These marks are
very plain, and there are several blood-blis
ters raised where the teeth iu slipping came
in contact. The girl states that the panther
dropped tiie child once before arriving at
the fence and it is supposed the giving away
of the clothing was the cause, as they were
much torn.
We have the above particulars from un
questionable authority, and the probability
of tiie story will not be questioned, when it
is known that the immense forest east of the
river is habited by the panther, anil that at
this season of the year they frequently are
the personification of famine itself, winch
fact accounts for its approaching tlm tlwel
ling, the tardiness of its movements, and its
inability to leap the bars w ith its pray in its
month, as we understand it made two
ineffectual efforts before giving it tip. Too
much praise cannot be bestowed upon the
brave girl who thus saved the lite of the
child. Lowville Journal.
Narrow Escape from Lightning.--- About
l' o’clock this forenoon, the school house
on (dutch sticet, containing something like
two hundred scholars, boys and girls, was
struck by lightning. All felt the shock, and
some were thrown down, but none were kil
'cd. The escape of Mi'S Dow, the mis
tress, seems almost miraculous. Her shoes
were torn from her feet by the electric fluid,
and she was rendered insensible (or a few
minutes, but we are happy to learn lias
recei.ed no serious injury. A young
daughter of Mr. Silas Saw in was also
slightly injured. Beyond this we are not
able to learn that any suffered barm except
from the fright and the temporary shock
resulting from the presence oftheelectrieity.
The escape of the children is ready wonder
ful. Buffalo Patriot.
EXTRAORDINARY HOMICIDE.
We copy the following from the Craw'ord
ville In. Examiner of the 4tli inst.—The
events of which it speaks, are most extraordi
nary. even in these days of stiange
things:
An unfortunate occurrence took place in
Brown Township, in tins county, a few days
since, which resulted in the death of a hu
manbeing, the circumstances ofwhich have
been detailed to us as follows : A man named
Moses Rush was married to Miss Jane Rush
about three weeks ago, and upon the first
night oftheir marriage the husband endeavor
ed to choke the wife to death. She, how
ever, contrived to prevent it, ami they lived
together about two weeks in a very unhappy
manner—Rush beating her upon nil occa
sions. At the titrie the act was committed,
Rush informed his wife that he hurl already
killed tow wives, and one man lor his money,
and that he intended to kill her, and beat
her most unmercifully. She begged him
not to kill her till next morning.
lie then told her he would wait a while,
and tal'.e. a sleep, and accordingly took his
axe, and placing it under his arm, lay down
crosswise in the door to prevent her escape,
assuring her that when he awoke he would
execute his fiendish purpose. He fell asleep,
and his wife fearing that her destruction
would be inevitable if he awoke, seized the
axe, and -despatched him by inflicting a
mortal wound on his head with it. She
gave herself up to a Justice' of the Peace,
who bad berseut to prison- She wm taken
out however, on a habeas corpus, and tried
before his honor Judge Maylor, who from
tli** insufficiency of the testimony, ordered
her discharged.
Public opinion is in her avor and justifies
the act on the ground that it was committed
in self-defence, lie was about eighty
years of age, she is about thirty.
Antiquities. A Kentucky paper, the
Louisville Gazette, states that some persons
having occasion to dig in a mound which
was found between Louisville and Portland
discovered about three feet under thg
surface, several {'raves, about thin v itivlitb
in length. Blabs of site were laid upon
the bottom of the graves, two pieces of
similar material t.irmed the sides, aud a flag
stone of slate the lid or /op of a rough
sarcophagus. In one of these graves were
found near a dozen human skull-*, and at
least a handful of perfect and beautiful
teeth; also, the bones of persons, but these
last crumbled to ashes at the touch.
•This, says the Gazette, is altogether a
singular discovery. The gentleman who
affords this information is probably ;he oldest
resident of Louisville, and says be well re
collects when this mound was cose-red by a
growth of the heaviest poplar. These
remains must have been deposit'll in theit
narrow cell more than two ceoturies since.
There was a inode ol burial among the
Choctaw and other <ribes. which would lead
us to believe that these are Indian reman s
deposited accordi gto that custom. When
a warrior died among the Choctaws, instead
of being cemmittt and to the earth immediately
his frame was suspended in the open air
until the flesh dropped from his bones, and
the squaws Left vigil by his r mriis i nil
■the dust returned to dust.’ Scviral skele
tons were then deposited in one grave.
From the fact that many heads were found
in this grave at t lie mound,we presume they
must have been buried there by the dusky
maidens of the forest in the. olden time, In
obedience to tire custom of thcii pcoj le.
* Advantages of Conversation. Conversa
tion calls *111? into light what has been lodg
ed in all the recesses and secret chambers of
tlie soul. By occasional hints and incidents
it brings old 11-cful notions into remember
ance: it unfolds and displays the hidden
treasure of knowledge, with which reading,
observation, nndstudv, had before furnished
the mind. By mutual discourse the soul is
awakened and allured to bring forth its hoards
of knowledge, and it learns how to rentier
them most useful to mankind. A tnan of
vast reading, without conversation, is like a
miser who lives only to himself.
Persons rot like yto serve you. There are
six suits of persons, at whose ham’s vou
need not expect kindness : The sordid and
narrow-minded, think of nobody but their
noble stives; the busy have not time to
think of you ; the overgrown rich man, is
above minding any one who needs his assis
tance; the poor and unhappy, has neither
spirit nor ability ; the good natured fool,
however willing, is not capable of serving
you.
Spe-ie. The packets which went to sea
from New York, carried ottt about om*
million of dollars in specie. Tiie Journal
of Commerce says, the following arc the
most important items :
Great Western, * 5t.50.000
British Queen, ;iOO,OOO
Baltimore, for Havre, 2/3.000
The Banks were called on for large sums,
which they paid promptly, and without
complaining, or seeming to consider the
calls as unkind or any thing else than fair
business transactions.
Lowell Factory Girls. It is stated that
nine hundred at and twenty-eight of the la< -
tory girls in Lowell have deposited in the
Savings Bank in that city over 5100,000;
an average of something over one hundred
dollars each. The amount would lie much
larger, but that no interest is allowed on
deposites exceeding $.300; beside many of
the girls prefer to deposite in institutions
nearer the residence of their parents.
MaJame Itnrbi ie, ex Empress of Mexico
is announced by the Warronton, Va. Times,
among the recent arrivals at the Fauquier
White Su phnr .Sjwings. Until this we had
supposed her ladyship was sojourning 111
Florence.
Charleston and Cincinnati Roil Read.-
It appears by a communication in the Char
leston Courier, signed by General Hayne,
tint this great vvoik is not to lie abandoned.
"Hi. Hayne suites that South Carolina, if
even left alone in the work, could not permit
it t*' stop short of the mountains. ’1 lie
Courier, in reference to the pul li aim of
General Hayne, says, “ii puts an exti gnisli
cr on the report that has been current here
an I elsewhere, that the idea of carrying ihe
to id beyond Columbia hns been abandoned.”
The in xt instalment on tlie road is not to be
called for before the 20ih of October.
There arc many French families in the
West.— National Gazette.
We are not aware, that there are many
French families in Kentucky, although
there is i.t the Great Crossings;! ‘tri-colored’
family ; the father white, the mother black,
and children yellow. Louislillc Journal.
The Whig party lo* ks like death in the
Primer iA’.isli. Union.
No doubt you remember, friend Harris,
that Death iu the Primer is pictured as hav
ing his bony clutches upon a poor, miserable
little wretch, who appears to be too badly
frightened even to say his prayers. Well—
if the Whig party is death in the Primer,
the loco foro party is that poor, miserable
little wretch. Louisville Journal.
The vile slanderer of the Louisville
Journal deserves to be cropped anil branded.
Pa. Item.
So wo think. Sir. You are ‘the vile slan
derer of the Louisville Journal.’
Louisville Journal.
We understand, that Dr. Duncan, in
crossing the Little Miami in a boat on
Monday the 21th ult. fell overboard,but was
soon rescued. The only consequence was,
that the fishes around were discovered*
shortly afterwards in a state of beastly In
toxication. Louisville Journal.
The Globe savs that Robert Dale Owen,
who is a Loco For.o candidate for Congress
m Indiana, is, -the son of the distinguished
emigrant of t’*e 6nme name, so eccentric
in some of iiis opin ons.’ So eccentric!
It will be remembered that of the ‘opinions.’
thus characterized, vvero Atlieisrh and for
an Abolition of the institution of Marti ge.
Eccentric! indeed. Balt. Chronicle.
As the Globe holds, that a teacher of
atheism and prostitution, like Owen, is
merely ‘escentric in his opinions,’ it no doubt
holds, tl at a thief, like Co*. Benton, is
merely ‘eccentric’ in his actious.
Louisville Journal.
Gen. Macomb has been presented as a
nuisance by the Grand J ury al Tallahassee,
Florida.