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“UNITED WE STAND DIVIDED WE FALL.”
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FOIL PRESIDENT.
MARTIN VANf ; BUSIES*
OF NEW-YORK.
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT.
RICHARD NI. JOHNSON,
OF KENTUCKY.
Union Electoral Ticket.
THOMAS ANDERSON, of Franklin.
WILLIAM BULLOCH, ofChatham.
SAMUEL GROVES, of Madison.
THOMAS HAYNES, of Baldwin.
REUBEN JORDAN, of Jasper.
WILSON LUMPKIN, of Clarke.
WILLIAM PENTECOST, of Jackson.
THOMAS SPALDING, of Mclntosh.
JAMES C. WATSON, of Muscogee.
WM. B. WOFFORD, of Habersham.
THOMAS WOOTTEN. of Wilkes.
Cotton Market.
Augusta, : • 15 a 18 1-2
Macon, ‘• • “ U 7
Columbus, i : 11 a 17
There is a great dearth of news—there 19 nothing late
or interesting from cither Florida or Texas. General
Scott was, at the last accounts, concentrating his forces,
end has no doubt, ere this, struck a decisive blow at the
enemy. France has again changed her Minis.ry ; and
throe ol the assassins who made the attempt on the life ol
the King, have been beheaded —others imprisoned for a
long term of years. Europe is tranquil, with the excep
tion of the civil war raging in Spain.
Our Congress, as yet have not done much ol any im
portance —the members seem to have spent their time
very agreeably by snarling at each other —they will pro
bably adjourn by the latter part of May.
Our indisposition prevents us from giving any editorial
this week.
To Editors and Printers.
As the Proprietor of this paper wishes to de
vole the most of his time to his professional
cosiness, he will sell an interest ot o .e half, or
the whole of The Palladium ; he now offers
a moiety or the whole for sale. Should an ap
plication be made for the moiety, he would pre
fer a practical printer as a copartner, especially,
to take charge of the mechanical branch of the
business. The paper has a good circulation,
and more Job Work than we can piocure hands
to fulfil- The terms will be liberal, and time
given for the grea.er part of tin purchase mo
ney ; - rt- pjst paid, win meet with ini
mediate attention.
Editors in ibis section of our country with whom we
exchange, will oblige us by noticing the above.
[From the Darien Telegraph, of April 5.]
Latest from Florida.
We are furnished by Capt. Rogers, of the schooner
Imperial, which arrived here on Wednesday evening
30th ult. from Picolata, with the news that a number of
Indians were in the neighborhood of Volusia. On the
24th inst a sentinel was shot down by them, and they
tired into the camp, killing two men who were uncon
sciously piaying cards, and wounding a third. General
Scott was understood to have marched on the 25tl> ult
for the Ouithlacoochcc from Fort Drane. He is to cross
the river, and reach the Indian encampmenL There he
will give the enemy battle, if they do not come to terms.
It was not known whether any communication had been
opened by Osceola, with the army, since his famous talk
with Gen. Gaines. It is reported that the Louisiana
volunteers have proceeded to Tampa. Prov sioris are
said to bo very searce in Florida. Cattle are plenty e
!Mu<h, but com and bread is difficult to be had. The
military stores are nearly all removed from Picolata to
Black Creek—and each cargo of provisions that arrives
ut the former place, is not permitted to be landed, but di
rected to be conveyed to the latter. No more troops are
expected at Picolata.
Very late from Maj. Gen. Scott. —We were put in pos
session of some interesting information from Florida, by
n gentleman of the Louisiana Volunteers, who left Fort
Drane on Moneay last. Gen. Scott inarched to the
Ouithtacoochee on the 25th ult., with his whole force.—
The Louisiana Volunteers had proceeded to ■ ampa
Bay, where they were to be disbanded. We regret to
kirn 100 oi this gallant brigade were on the sick list. Il
is not generally known, that 28 of the New Orleans
Dreys were at the fall of San Antonio. So little have
(ho perils of Indian warfare affected these brave fellows,
that they go directly to Texas, when they are discharg
ed by Gen. Scott. It was generally believed when our
informant left, that the Indians had retreated to the ever
glades, and many were known to he in the rear of Gen
eral Scott’s army. It was pretty well ascertained that
Oseola alone, ol all the Indian Chiefs, was for continuing
the war. No hope was entertained of getting the Indr
ens to stand another regular'engagement. [We post
pone some curious particulars of Gaines’ battles, and In
dian fighting in general until our next.]
THE CREEKS.
On the 23d inst. the chiefs of the. Creek nation held a
council at Luchi poga for various purposes. The com
pany of contractors, accompanied by Capt. Page and
Col. Hogan, met them on the 26th. upon the subject of
their removal to the West We are informed that these
gentlemen were very favorably received by the Chiefs,
and their “talk” very attentively listenee to. Many of
the influential chiefs promised to emigrate with their
towns. \Ve arc happy to state that great hopes are en
tertained of tlio speedy removal of a large portion of these
people during the spring and summer. In anticipation
cf such an event we learn the contractors have made and
are still making extensive arrangements for the immedi
ate opening of camps, supplies of provisions, wagons, See.
Sic. We Heartily wish them succe is.
As there seems to be much diversity of opinion nbioad
in respect to our red neighbors the Creeks, owing to the
c ontradictory statements which appear in tho different
papers of this and the adjoining Stales in regard to them,
we state that as far as can be judged from overt deport
ment and verbal profession, the Creoks are desirous of
preserving the present friendly relation* between them- |
solves and the whites. Howard’s Volunteers,
consisting of about 200 men, are now stationed at Bry
ant’s Ferry, on ihe Georgia side of the Chaitahoochy,
where thev have b. en lor about two weeks. They have
no doubt had a salutaiy effect in checking theincursions
„f the Indians, for since they have been stationed thus,
•he Indians hhvekepl their own side of the river, and as
far as our knowledge extend*, been perfectly peaceabl .
Colt J. VV. Burn itt, of Jasper, and Col. Anderson
of DeKalb, have been associated with the Agent, Col.
Hogan, in the investigation of fiauds alledged to have
been committed in the purchase ot Creek lands.
[Columbus Sentinel.
OPINIOKB.
JVete Serin —No. 3.
Homer V. M. Miller, j Fi. Fa and Rule against the
vs. > Sheriff In Troup Superii
Stephen O’Kelly, Court, August Term, 1835.
In the above ease, a li fa m fovor of the plaintiff whs
levied upon a nctaofhand, payable to the defendant as
his properly, by tin She.iff ot said county. Ihe coun
sel for both the parties in interest consent, that the ques
tion now before tiie Court, shall be governed by ihe de
cision of the Court, as to whether chases in action, are le
gallv subject to levy and sale by the Sheriff under execu
tion. XX hat is a chose in action? “Choses in action are
debts owing, arrears ol rent, legacies —residuary person
al estate, money in the funds, &c. where a man hath not
the occupation hut merely a bare right to occupy th
thing in question, the possession whereof, may however
be recovered by a suit, or action at law,” Ist Bacon’s
Abr. 480 —2-1 Black. Com. 356. “A bill of exchange be
ing a chose in action, and a mere security for a debt, it is
not to be considered as goods and chattels, and it there
fore does not pass by a bequest o‘ all the testator’s “pro
perty”—in a particular hotis", though bank notes wou and
have passed, they being quasi Cash, and upon the same
principle a bank note, or bill, cannot be taken in cxccu-
I lion, or as a distress for rent,” Cliitty on Bills, 2. Mr
! Chitty in Iris gene,a practice (a most valuabl Work re
cently published) page 99, vol. Ist. remarks that “the
principal distinctions F. tween personal tangible property
in anc j choses in action are several —First t ie
former (personal tangible properly in possession) whe
ther money or goods, tnay be taken in execution and so and
for the debt of the owner, wnilst he either has or is enti
tled to immediate possession, whereas no chase in action.
or mere security for a debt, or performance ot a contract
can be so taken or legally seize and or transferred— not even
a bank note, and a fortiori, not a bill of exchange, promis
sory n, te, or check on a banker, or a deed, ot anv wri
ting although the money thereby secured might be im
mediately received.” The counsel for the plaintiff in his
argument contended that inasmuch as the judiciary act
of 1799 declares all the property of the party, shall be
bound from the !ime of the signing of the judgment a
gainst him, the execution issuing upon such judgment
might properly fasten upon the promissory note in ques
tion, as the property of the defendant, and that the she
riff'might legally advertise and sell the same, for the ben
efit of the creditor. Is a promissory note tangible pro
perty, upon which the officer could levy, and make a va
lid sab? >. bat is its character? By the authority al
ready cited it is in legal contemplation a chose in action,
a id a chose in action is a mere security for a debt, or per
formance of a contract The promissory note is not mo
ney —but a bare promise to pay money, on a specified
day. The money when paid, Would be tangible proper
ty, whereas the note is only a promise for its pa> ment. —
The defendant has not the actual occupation of the mo
ney -pecifi and in the note, but it is only evidence of his
right to occupy the same at the time, when it is payable:
! hence the evidence to deliv r a chattel, on a given day.
is not to lie considered us the chattel itself—lf this dis
unction be kept in view, there can be-no difficulty—
We must noi take the shqdow for the substance. I have
not been able to find any reported case—Where the
principle has been settled, that a promissory note for the
paym nt of noney, is subject to Seizure and sale under
execution; but I find in the case ol Handy vs. Dobbin,
12 th Johnson’s Reports, 220, this princple established:
“bank bills or money and every thing belonging to the
debtor of a mi tuie except choses in actum, and articles ex
pressly exempted by statute, may be taken in execution.”
The distinction bf tween bank notes, and other choses m
action, do's not appear to be a very rational one, so far
as the prmciple ol the thing *is concerned. A common
promissory note is for the payment of money —and a
hank note, is far n tiling more. The reason however
advanced by tile Court in the case last cited is, “that
bank bills aie treated civililer as money, a tender in them
is good, unless it be specially objected to al the tinv .” —
In the case of the Maine Fire and Marine Insurance
Company vs. Lemuel V. eeks and Trusti es, 7th Mass-
Reports 438, it was determimd that negotiable notes
were not such chattel as could be seized and soi l under
execution. The same principle was settled in the cases
nf Perry vs. Coates and Trustee, 9th Mass Reports 537-
Denton vs. Livinston, 9th Johnson’s Reports 99 In
galls vs Lord, Ist Corren’s Reports, 240. How far a
Court of Equity would aid a judgment creditor in the
application of the defendant's choses in action to the
payment of his debt when he had no adequate common
law remedy it is not now neeessary to consider. From
an examination of the authorities within the reach of til.
Court it is of the opinion that the promissory note levied
upon by the Sherifi'hcing a chose in action is not such a
tangible chattel, as is legally subject to levy and sale —by
virtue of ail execution against the defendant. Let the
rule against the Sheriff he discharged
till’, AM WARNER, Judge Superior Courts,
Coweta Circuit, Georgia
Rumors al Washington. —We learn from an authentic
source, that Mr. Livingston will be sent back to France
as minister, although after what has passed, such an ap
pointment mnv not be very palatable to Ihe French King.
It is laid that Air. Cass wil nevertheless go out of the
War Department; and that Mr. King, ot Alabama, and
not Mr. Speaker Polk will be Ins successor.— Del. State
Journal.
HORRIBLE MURDER.
On Monday last, on Pine Log. in this Coun
ty, Mrs. Morris was murdered by an Indian
and an gro which h longed to the family. The
Indian has as yet escaped, but the negro and
his wile were yesterday lodged in jail,
Cassnlle Pioneer.
Our Superior Court was in session last
week, and two individuals were sentenced to
the Priteutiary for four years for assisting in
bre king open the jail. They weie Rob
ert Beard, (alius Editor of the Midnight Re
porter) and McDaniel, an Indian. As the
Reporter, as a m itter of course is discontinued,
we presume it is an auspicious time for the
I resusitation the Pioneer.— ib
We copy the following information respect
ing the Co]u bus Bank from the Enquirer. \
S’ aliorn Jones and J. S. Calhoun, Esqs.,
and Samuel K. Hedges have withdrawn from
this institution, having dispose ! of their entire
stock in til Bank. And Eli S. Shorter,
James Boykins, and t homes Preston, Jr.
Esqs., have b en elected Directors ii their
stead. At a subsequent meeting of the Direc
tors, Charles D. Stewart, Esq., was elected
President, ,
N exv’Yqrk, March 26.
JWtlancholy Accident. —ln the Huuse No
277 Stanton street, which was burned on
Thursday night, there resided a woman whose
accouclunent took place only about an hour be
fore the fire, anti so sudden and rapid was the
progress of the flames, that, th ugh the woma i
herself was t arried out by some ol the neigh
bors, there was no possibility of saving the u i—
ortnnate infant, and its brief life was ended by
th most horrible of all deaths. Not a particle
of its rem hns could be discovered alter the
fire. Tho Itou-e was owned by E. F. Purday,
but he did not himself reside there.
AN IMPORTANT ARREST,
For several months past, (says the Baltimore
Patriot of Last Saturday,) the t reasury De
partment has been in possession of information,
calculated to lead to the detection of the per
sons engaged in cau-ing the destruction by
fire, of the Treasury Office at Washington, a
bout three years past. On Wednesday last a
person was arrested in the city of New York,
charged with firing the building with his own
hands, hired to commit the art, as we have
heard by some of those who had comini ed
hands upon the Pension office, which they
wished to have destroyed to screen their guilt
Other persons, we before this, .vi
been arrested in the Western part of i>e'-|
York, one in Vermont and another in Unto.
The person that was taken in New York xvn
brought on vest rday in tho steam boat line i
charge of Blane>, the High Constable of Phi a
delphia, Mr. Kdlev, Deputy Marshall ofOhio,
and Mr. Mentt of the New York P dice.
hese officers ’eft Baltimore this morning with
their prisoner for V\ ashington, where the tiial
is soon take place.
American Energy—-h merchant from New-
Yo k was at the London Coffee House in Lud
gate Hill, when the news of the greet fire which
la ely occurred in this city arrived. His peun
is s were totally consumed, and he sou id him
self, as in a moment a ruined man. His plan
was instantly formed. In fifteen minutes from
the time his eyes had rested on the paper, a
chaise and four was at Ihe door with which he
hurried to Dover. Arriviog in the night he
hired a steam boat for 75 guineas, which soo t
landed him at Calais. Thence he hastened,
with all possible expedition to Lvons. He
reached that city eight hours before the news of
tho fire, and employed his time in purchasing
silk goods to sitelj nu extent, and on such terms
as to secure a profit of at least 25,000/, the de
struction being principally of French silks, and
to so large an amount aslo require more than
all the xistiug stock at Lyons to make it good.
London paper.
Useful Rules foi si certain kind
<;f Housewives*
1. When you rise in the morning never be
particular about pinning your cli thes so very
nicely, y< u can do that at any time.
2. Never comb your hair, or take off your
night cap till after breakfast. It is your busi
ness to take time by the foretop, and not let him
take you so, therefore keep all tight in that
quarter till 10 o’clock at least.
3. When )'<>u begin the business of your
toilette, you may do it before the window or
iu the front entry . but the most proper place is !
in the kitchen.
4 Never have any particular place for tiny j
thing in your house ; and tiien you may rest as
sured, that nothing will ever be out of place :
and that is a great comfort in a family,
5. Never sweep your floor, until you know
some person is coming in ; he will then see
ho.w neat you are : and besides in such ca
ses, even your enemies cannot shake off
the dust oh their feet ag .inst you ; though
they may the dust of their clothes wiih which
ou have covered them by your sweeping.
6. When you have done sweeping leave
your broom on the floor: it will then he ba.'dy
and, being always in sight ad in the w. y, it
will be constantly reminding your husband,
when he is in the house, what a smart, nice,
pains-taking wife he has.
7’ Never follow the barbarous practice of
brushing down cobwebs. —A man's house is
liis castle. tnd so is a spider’s:--it is avi la
ion of right-, and a shameless disrespect to the
fine arts.
8. K'-ep your parlor and bed room window
shut as close as possible iu dog da;, s ; this will
keep the hot air out—and you will have excel’
lent fixed air inside.
9. Keep your summer cheeses in your bed
chambers: —they enrich tho qualities of the
atmosphere : and if a stranger should lodge in
one of your beds ; if he onul f not sleep, he
could at for his refreshment.
10. Never teach your daughters to make ot
mend any ot th tr own clothes, it is ‘'taking the
bread from the mouth of labor ; —besides it will
make them crookt and and give them sore fingers.
11. But if they should insist on m-riding
their own garments, they should do it yvhtle on :
this will make them fit belle’ : and the girls can’t
leave their work : if they should attempt it their
work would follow them.
12. If your husband’s coat is out at one of
the elbows, dont m nd until it is out at the oth
er : then the patches will make it appear uni
form ; and allow ti.at you are impartial.
13. “Never spoil a joke for relation’s
sake:’ nor suppress the t nth for anybody’s]
sake.—Therefore if you don’t like your husband
as well as you ought, out with it, and convince
him you are no respecter of persons.
14. You should endeavor not to keep your
temper :— let it off as soon and as fast as you
can and you will then be as cairn and tjuiet as a |
bottle of cider after the cork lias been drawn
half a day. -
15. If on any particular occasion you are at
a loss as to the course you ought to pursue, in
the mu urgeme ,t of yourself or your lainily af
fairs. take down the papers winch contain these
rules an t read th in over an i over till you have
satisfied your mind—and then goon.
POOR RICHARD.
“miscellaneous.
The Bleeding’ Finger.
( Concluded. )
“They passed tho bridge and drew near to
the palace, which was the m >st superb that eyes
ever beheld. Its magnitude and architecture
filled the mind with grandeur, and the richness
of its ornaments dazzled the sight to behold.
They came at last to a place where the road
divided ; one way went directly forward, and
the other deviated to the left, which led to the
palace. On the confines of the latter stood
troops of ny mphs, whom .one could equal in
beauty, the Lady with tiie Golden Thumb alone
excepted, and such as inmgi ration only has
seen. Soma of them played on instruments,
the sound of which ravished the ear; others
danced with such delightful motion, as put mor’
tal senses into a delirium of pi. asute. They
were come to meet the lady and prince, and
this way were they proceeding, when Dulimond
beh hi the Bleeding Finger point the contrary
road. He stopp and, he looked, he considered,
his bosom heaved a profound sigh, the war with
in him was strong, and his body was motion! ss
The Indy did not persuade him by words, she
took a more powerful method ; her 1 oks, sor
rowful and dejected ; her eyes, with all the well
feigned grief of poverty, told him, that in him
was all her happiness ce rtered ; with him she
| should be blessed; wiutoui hint mis ruble.—
Neither did she remind him of the dangers to
which he had been exposed, and from which
he had been preserved by her; therefore Duli
iio and remembered them the mere forcibly.
His heart was enslaved by her beauty, he
could no longer resist her charms, and again
ne b< ga to follow her ; when the air was filled
with the most doleful wailiags, and the finger
of the naked arm began to stream with blood.
“Tho heart of Dulimond was strongly vir
tuous : he had bee i nurtured in a sublime mo
rality. The remembrance of the firm resolu
tions he had so oft. ;i made, to persevere amidst
al tßOip aligns in the paths of rectitude and
I honor, came with a gleam of heroic ardour upon
j his mind, elevated his soul, and made it equal
to the glomus contest. He turned his eyes
from the witcheries of passion and pleasure,
and, with a determined spirit, followed the na
ked arm : the blood again more slowly dropped ;
but the vast concave of the sky became torlurcd
with shrieks, cries, bowlings, so piercing, that
distractio i would have seized any one of less
virtue and courage than Dultmon I.
“Undaunted did h ■ follow his bh eding guide,
though the ft- nds now transformed themselves
into ten thousand hideous shapes, and chatter
ed at, insulted, and assaulted him, w ith a hun
dred-fold more malignity and fury than they
did in his passage through the Enchanted For*
! est. He came at length to the Lake of Bitter’
ness; but who can describe the dreadful, hor
rible. and disgusting animals, by which its xva-
I ters were guarded! On the surface, vipers,
’ water-snakes, and dun coloured serpents, hissed
terror with their forked tongues. At the bor
der lav toads, with sfarting eyes and vast bloat
ed bodies; their mouths just above the water,
dividing sometimes beneath the slimy sedge,
while the lake bubbled poison, and again as.
cended to the water’s edge. The bottom was
covered over with bzzards, newts, and efts,
darting upon their prey ; reptiles, with speckled
: bellies and a hundred legs, that shot swift as an
j arrow from a bow, w hither their voracity or
malice w illed; and spiders, so huge and inflated,
| that the shaggy hair of their bodies was like
the bristles of the hunted boar ; and their eyes,
globular and projected, were as the eyes of
tigers watching whom they might devour.
“All these, and innumerable others for which
nature has no likeness, immediately on the ap
proach of Dulimond, ceased their obscene
sports, and rancorous wars on one another, and
with their million of mouths, came ii voracious
swarms, as if in expectation of their prey.—
Humanity shuddered, and shrunk: it was a
j sight of horror.
“The naked arm, in the means time, rested
oxer the centra of the lake, the finger ceased
Ito bleed, and pointed downward. Thither the
| prince east his eye, and beheld the white wand
| of Orophahs ; he stayed not to consi ler on the
| danger, but quitted his ste and, nd threw
j himself, (earless, into the Lake of bitterness.
I His arm divided the waters; and though his
body seemed to be penetrated and tore by a
host of these devouring reptiles, he still had the
power to proceed. He arrived at the spot; ad,
unterrified, plunged to the bottom. The earth
shook, the heavens xvere on fire, and nature
seemed ,to groan as though her end was come.
He seized the wand ; and, lo ! the lake was no
more! He stood upon dry land, his enemies
were annihilated, and himself unhurt.
“While he stood considering these things, he
heard a sound of a multitude singing ‘Praise to
the valorous Prince Dulimond, who hath broken
the rharms of Hell, and hath delivered ns from
the spells of H lakaree. He turned, and saw
coming towards him troops of knights Rnd la
dies, a id at their head a venerable old mn ,
leading, ns he thought, tho Lady of the Golden
Thumb.
“Fear not, valorous prince,’ said the aged
knight ‘‘.our trials are past, and your rewar I is
come: this virgin is no enchantress.’
“The hapninnss of Dulimond was extreme,
when he was informed that H and aka re ■ Irad as
sumed the beautiful firm of B’ llitmi te; that
the vile enchantress was now no more : that his
i v alor and virtue had freed the most angelic
princess of the universe, her father, and many
other noble knights and Indies, who had fallen
into her snares. In his transport, he cast him
self at Bellimante’s feet, and kissed her virgin
hand, which he was in ecstacy to find was not
now stigmatized ty the Golden Thumb.
“As for the magician Tomogorod, he because
disconsolate for the loss of his daughter; and,
some say, he now wanders over the lace of the
earth w t tout a settled habitation, and that he is
always ttendi dby one faithful demon, that as
sists hi n his wants, ai.d revenges him upon
his en c .
“So en s the tale of the Bleeding Finger.”
It is easv to imagine, what effect a story like
this would h ive upon John Au ’ley and his dame
Ler thy. Had not Mr. Errant, who was still
attentive to the supper, occasionally interrupt
ed his narrative, to remind his hostess of tho
pot’s boiling, tho cock and bacon might have
cooked themselves f.r Dorothy. Blue hares,
bleeding fingers, enchanted forests, and the rest
of the machinery, were thing so amazing, so
new, and so true to them, that gaping astonish
ment, terror, and agitation, possessed them
wholly. And though our narrator could not so
far degrade his subject as to lower his language
to their exact scale of comprehension, yet his
fine words, an I figurative expressions gave,
ev- n at the fireside of John Audley, a certain
dig ity to his su'nje t that made it more wonder
ful.
It may be observed too, with what art Mr.
Errant threw in his touches, which, though in
themselves foreign, and of a heterogeneous na
ture to the subject, served his purpose. Thus,
though the magician was a character inconsist
ent with and superfluous to the tale, he was not
so to Mr. Errant. The insinuation, that he
was attended by the devil in the shape of a
dog, was not lost upon J"hn Audley ; and tho
conclu !i g sentence, that again revived this
circumstance in his memory, had tissue weight.
In short, John’s imagination had been led such
a dance, and was so much disturbed, that he
could n 4 be said precisely to know, if” he was
sitting in a cottage or in an enchanted castle.
5 r Errant had observed the incident cf the
bible, „s ell as the wax that was attached to
it; and, wiving his walking-stick in a circular
and grave manner, touched il, and demt /i ‘eil
of J hn wh tit was he had under him. John,
who deub ed x\h ther the >tick was a stick, or
the wand of Orophalis, rt plied, with a trembling
vohe—“The-the-the- li bible—bible, sir!” —
“The bible !—ate you sure it is the bible—or
are you sure it is actually there ?” “I Ibe live
so, sir.” “Be so good as to rise and let me
see.” John trembled, rose, and looked, but no
bible was there.—llis hair would have lifted his
hat off, had it been on.—“ The Lord of heaven
bless me!” said John.—“ Christ have mercy up
on me !’’ “What is that fastened to thy ?”
said Dorothy. John < lapped his hand behind,
and ejaculated—“ The Tor i pardon me, miser
able sinner: lam bewitched!” Mr. Errant
c uld in t forbear laughing at John’s distress :
it whs truly ludi rous. J ffin Audley was fitl y
convinced hi xvas t oxx more firmly married to
the bible than ev r l.e had been to Dorothy
h rself; nay, and st ange as it may seem, he
thought the last the worst match of the two.
To carry such a wen for life was not to be
supported. John fell on his kness,—“l pray
and beseech you, for the love of Heaven’s nie’’-
cy, almighty goodness, and grace, Mr. Conjur
or, have pity on me—lam a pc or, innocent
man ; In vir meant to offend your worship’s
goodness ; indei and, indeed, I never did !” John
did not perform his part solus; Dorothy prayed
as fist as he; and Air. Errant, ns soon as ho
could for laughing, desired John to li.-e, and
he would disenchant him; which office he kind
ly and faithful'y performed : and after a few
consolitory sentences, whit h Air. Errant kiv w
perfectly well hoxv to adapt, he prevailed on bis
simple, but kind hosts, to prepare for supper.
Had it not been for that poxvc rful and univer
sal disturber, Fear, it would have been aifih uit
to have found, in a like number of persons, a
more happy fire-sid”, or or.e round xvhi h there
xvas rn re true content, arid native simplicity of
heart. Even this very fear had something of
pleasure in it, and something enviable. It was
a ddirium of the soul, to be at supper with an
enchanter; to .-ee a demon, in the (orm of a dog,
fixing his eyes upon them; and to suppose that,
if the mighty conjurer pleased, he could turn
their cottage t ton palace, or fly with them
through the air, escort'd by an army of spirits,
to the remotest pails of the earth. There is a
large portion of the sublime, even to philosophy,
in such ideas, notwithstanding their extrava
gance; hut, to the simple and believing sou?,
they form no incomprehensible world of won
ders, which though dreadful, it delights to con
template.
The present occasion cotrld not fail to recall
to the imagination of John Audley his own ad
ventures with the ghosts, -and the stories he
had heard others relate. An’t please you,”
said John to Mr. Etrant, “did you ever sec the
Shrieking Woman?” “No.” “No! now I havo
seen her three times.” “And pray xvhat kind
of a lady is she?” “Why, I’ll tell your honor.
As I wur walking home one night front Thom
as O’Wilkins’s, (I remember Dame Dickinson
had been telling us a mot t of tales about ghosts)
and so as I wur turning the corner of Roger
Fairlev’s barn, I saxv, what 1 then thought to be
a huge black cat; and so it run towards the
barn-door, and vanished. So, upon seeing it
vanish, I begun to bethink me; and, to tell you
the truth, I wur almost afraid to go by the door
where the huge black eat vanished. So I stood
still a bit to consider; and, as sure as xou arc
alive, I thought I smelt a smell o’ brimstone.
So to tell you the truth. I began to he morta—
giously fright n-d and afraid ! and so, as I wur
standing thi re, I heard the most woundy up
roar, and squeaking and squalling,a cl scamper
ing, it. the ban , that ever I heard sin’ the hour
I wur born. So I bethought rn .ti at this barn
wur certainly a meeting place for witches and
xvizznrds; and, xvhat made it more likely, it
wur Saturday night, and the xvind had began to
blow as thof hcven and inrth xvould conte to
gether ; so that, xvhat with the noise within and
the oise without, you never in all xour life
heard such a deadly din: I’m sure I never did;
except indued, the night that old Miser Gripc
gut died. Well, as I tell you, there I stood,
quite in astound, and could neither stir foot
backward nor forward, and in a deadly taking
to be sure, I xvur, as you tnay well think: for
you must knoxv, it came into mv mind, that