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• i ni • ‘i*il‘l'i Wi : 1 Hili'iift Vi ri’ m * •' wti.**... * .j&Ait>fatimm$Smf -, '■, j ^TwfeSfeSfi —- YOL. 1. DUBLIN, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4,1828. NO. 12. ■TEE OLD JPIDDLER'S LAMENT. JOY NATHAN D. UBNEh. '‘‘‘Light of my eyes, my friend, «iy guide, Farewell, farewell to thee. ’The world henceforth is oold-and-wide, j And dark, ah, dark to tire! Nor pensive whine, nor joyous bark j Again shall greet my ear; -All, all is cold, tnll, •all is-dark, And I am lonely'herc'. ” •Such waStho broken wayside plaint That.drew mo from the wood, 'To wlierc, with grief forlorn tmll faiht., J -A blind old fiddler stood, While, deaf to pittying word and stroke, A poor, death-stiffened dog •■ J Lay crouching near, aud still awoke The dreary monologue. '“Good, honest Trip 1 when didst |hbu'fail,‘ Though all was dull and drear, "By tongue’s caress or wag of tail, To sympatliizc-and cheer? ^Ovserve in lieu'bf sight long shut In darkness sad and lone, And warning givo of hole Or rlit In friendly-undertone? ■“And, when my fiddle’s plea for alms, Sothe modest help begat, 'Who guarded well from thievish palms The pennies.in my hat? -And even when I could offer thee Nor crust nor bone to gnaw, tStill closer to my rngged*attoeo •Didst thou in kindness draw. ‘“And now, dead—gone? Ah, cold and dim Henceforth my steps must stray !” T took his arm, and, chcering.kim, Agreed to guific'lbe' Way. j '“Cheer up," quoth I; “the village crew 'Await your violin."’ j ‘‘‘Ah, sir,” said he, “and poor-house, too, ‘ For such as't6tteria. “‘Adieu, 1 Old friend.” He turned from'me The lifeless form to fePrOke. “‘Ill beg some one to bury thee Beneath this goodly oak. i •And fiddle-bow shall ne’er again O’er chords responsive thrill, /But that shall live in every strain -The whine that now is still’. - ” the very worst that she could do. Among tho other tricks which the.' fickle goddess liatl played him was that she had married him. Why he; ever married as he did, no ono ctuld imagine. Tlvo dady was -ncithor handsome, cicvcr, nor rich. Sho was simply passablo as to looks, with the liveliness of good ‘health and! youth, a quality not unapt to dovel-i op itself into a vivacity of temper when those other attributes disap pear. But, on some impulse, Jerry Donnelly had asked her tho -aiomen-j tous question, and had been favorably] answered. A most uncomfortable couple they were. Jerry, from tho very first,} neglected her—not intentionally, I believe, but simply because for tho moment he forgot her existence. It never seemed to him necessary toi alter his former bachelor round in any respect; and as the lady had no notion of being nogleoted, sho re sented his indifference, and chalked out a line for herself. It may be eas ily supposed that tire one -was not’ adverse to brandy and water, or the other to gossip and flirtation. They never quarreled outwardly, but were, hardly ever together. * • So stood tho domestic circle, if such it could bo called, of Captain Donnelly, when he was ordered on Gen. Elphinston’s expedition. His wife would fain have remained at. ‘By on English Officer. Calcutta, but as all tho wives wero going to Agra, she,*for very shamo, was obliged to go thore also. On tho first rumors of tho disaster, sho was very ’indifferent—said she was! sure Jerry would turn up at the most inconvenient time, and that if •Ire was hqpyy, sho was. When, however, the tidings were confirmed,'' and it was certain that Jerry had perished with his conihidos, a great’ change came Hov. Slip shut! herself up for months, saw no one, I was stationed at Agra 'daring the { Cabal ‘disaster in 1841, one of a more Jhandful of British troop3, left in < charge of tticwivcs,-sisters and daugh ters of the actors in that most un- 1 •happy expedition. And a weary, '•heart-broikili'g time it was. The lieutenant-governor, • who had prayed; land sought the Calcutta authorities • not to risk tho adventure, had the worst : forebodings *<5f its fate; and. i although ho did all an able, kindly, • and well-natured man. could do to’ ’•■maintain the spirits of the circle,) •those who know him could read too we|l what his fears were. Words -could not describe (indeed it is pain- 4 fnl for mo even now to recall) the • dreary wretchedness of that fatal T-month during which mo tidings: came, '.of the dovoted-arnyy- Evening after* • evening saw the roads crowded by i-anxious vwoincn, sitting there for l hours that they might hear tho first • nows of those who were dear to them,! l and evening after evening saw themj treturn in despair. And when at ;last the news came that the sole sur vivor had stdggered, half alive, bock > to his cottotrymen, tho wail which 1 ascended from those heart-broken^ ‘Creatures I shall never, while I livo,’ > forget. i There had been a captain in one; «©f the native regiments, an old ac iquaintaneemf mino, of the name of -Donnelly, Jerry Donnelly, as he was • called by everyone. He was careful to explain to every one tliat.his name '•was Jerome, and not .Jeremiah, but why‘lie so undutyipreferred the saint to the prophet, I never under stood. Jerry Donnelly, however, he • was, and as strange and eccentric a • creature as ever breathed. He was a very good- looking fellow . aud a first-rate officer, but a careless, ; rollicking, half insane madcap of a ’ man, with an amazingTlow of spirits, • little education or culture, a great, almost ‘ miraculous talent for lan guages, with a ■soft heart and an easy temper. It was impossible to make him angry, but in all circum stances, however -unpleasant, he . maintained a placid soreuity, which • seemed to imply that he was on inti- -mate terms with fortune, and knew and went nowhere. And -whon at casement, and although tho figuro, was clad in tho most extraordinary* compound of European and Asiatic garments, I mn suro it was Jorry. I darted down stairs and rushed out, but tho man had disappeared. Tho servant said ho wxiAa bad fakir, aud wished to got in the' bungalow, but: could or would toll mo nothing of' what ho said. But I urn quite sui’O it was Jerry. SoT am certain he. will come back. But yon remem ber bo noVor was punctual,” she added; with a faint smile. I did not say to her that if Jerry was alive sho must have hoard of him in some other way; but I took? leave of her, and shortly afterwards returned to India. In 1853, I was appointed to an' embassy to Nepaul a very striking country, governed by ai .powerful,, warlike race. Tho first minister or vizier of tho country met us, as in tho Nepauloso fashion, outside tho capital, and wo had a very courteous^ and gratifying reception. Ho was a tall, handsome man, with a flowing black beard, and couvorsod with mo in Persian, which I spoke fluently.) After our interview, one of ‘the at tendants informed mo that tho vizier wished to see .mo alone, and ho ac cordingly conducted mo to un .iuuor apal’tmeut. He ordered tho attend ants to withdraw, and thon, in tones too .familiar, ho exclaimed: [ “Well, Hastings, my boy, how go tho Plungers?” < It was Jerry Donnelly, by all that- was miraculous. I had observed'him sturiug earnestly at mo during tho' interview, and something in hisgest-. uros seemed not unfamiliar to mo; but his flowing board, solemn air, and Oriental dross, so well disguised him, that, oven when I hoard his woll-remomborod voice, I could sei&cbfs rqSHSjo 1 iltf Identity.- tho end of nearly a year she ’began once more to look at tho world, she was a grave, thoughtful, softened, woman. She went up to Calcutta] uftcr that, and I never saw her again until I came homo on furlough in 1847. She was then living in a pretty place in Somersetshire, and was 1 known as Mrs. Courtnay, of Branley Hall. I met her accidentally, but she was very glad to see me, and ex plained to mo what I had not heard, that when she had arrived at Cul-I cutta, she found that poor Jorry had, four months boforo ho left Agra, succeeded to this placo of Branley. Hall, by tho death of u distant rela tion. He had previously made a will,leaving her-alibis worldly goods, then slender enough, so that in the end this flue estate had come to her, and a now name with it. Sho asked! me to come down and see her, which I did, and .learned more of her his tory. Sorrow and prosperity greatly changed her for the better. Even her looks had improved, and sho was a pleasant, thoughtful and agreeable, woman. Sho-had remained for years in Calcutta before She T6turned, but at once assumod the namo of Courts nay, ‘vHiich was a condition on wliich tho bequest was made. “You-know,'.Col. Hastings, I could not have lost tho estate, -for what would poor Jerry have said when he gjotback?” I thought theiwomau’s head mast have been affeeted by her troubles, and said no tiling. ‘I see you think me deranged; but I knew he was alive all the time.” “Why, what .could have led you to think so?” “I sawhim, Col. Hastings. Itwa» in our old bungalow at Calcutta, abfeut two years aftor I got back. Late in the evening I heard a foot step which strangely affected me. ] was lying half asleop, and starting up in a drowsy state, I heard a voice at the veranda, and, os I thought, inquiring of my stupid old native whether I lived there. Tho steps thon. turned away. I darted to tho ho sent for mo Next morning again. “I have been thinking,” ho said, “of all that strango, story you told mo. I am all changed sinco wo parted. I hardly Tcnow myself to bo tho sumo man I used to bo, and am not sure that I could trout Sophy; woll. But ask her to como oiit horo, : and thon she can say. If sho likes mo in this outlandish place, Iwill go homo with her; if wo quarrel boro no ono will bo a bit the wiser,.and Lean; continue to ho doad.” “But,” said I, “l\ayo you no in cumbrancos?” “Perhaps sho. might 1 object to the details of your estab lishment.” |" “Not a bit,” said Jerry, “I have none of your eastern prejudices; lot her como, and sho will find nobody to disturb hor.” * Sho did come,, and after living in Nepaul for two years, brought Jerry back in triumph to Branley Hall;; and such is tho truo version of a talo’ which mado somo noiso in tho news papers a few years ago. Too Much Marrying in Tho family. Thoro is a yoitn who says she has lady in St. Louis oro payouts and step-parents living than any ono she iV hoard-of. Tli ‘ his.is tho way sho* over hoard-of. tells tho story; “You know papa and mama never could agreo, and so finally they got divorced. .1 don’t say whoso fault it was, but mama roaly did behave ugly somotimos, and even Leonid not get along with hor. So when the sopara-j tioh -camo I wont to livo with papa. Shortly after mama married .again, und.papu was not Joyygdu Following suit. 1 did not liko it very woll ati first, but my stop-mother turned out to bo first-rato, and I gob to .liko her splendid. Thon papa seemed to got infatuated with another woman that vm '.But what on earth are you doing hero, Jerry?” said I, “and why don’t you go home to your wife, liko a| Christian?” My wife! well that’s tho whole affair. You seo, she’s somebody else’s wife, qo I’m better out of the way; it wOuld be n pity that pool 1 ! Sophy should commit bigamy.” I assuro you, you are outiroly mistaken. Mnj. Donnelly lias notj married again.” “Hasn’t she, ‘though’?” said ho. “Don’t I know better? Didn’t I goj to my bungaluw and find out that, sho had married thut starchod fool Courtnay, when sho know that l{ never could onduro him?” To his intense astonishment, I told him how tho truth was, and in ro-1 turn .ho related to mo his own ad ventures. Ho had been carried to Tartary, and thoro detained for three, years, when lie was allowed to nccom- pauy-a caravan or body of pilgrims to Nepaul. .Being by that timo a proficient in tho langago, ho was taken notice of at court, but very strictly watched. Ho effected liis; escape, however, disguised as a fakir, ! and mudo his way to Calcutta; but finding, as he thought, his wife mar ried agalftto in-bia. olffjregi- ment, he returned, was takon into favor,.and .had risen to liis .present} distinction. “Well, I always was a blundering fool, but I wont home with heart so soft to Sophy, and vowing that would never vox her any more with my vagaries, that when I heard her called Mrs. Courtnay.1 was turned to stone, and did aiot care .a .nap what, became of me, not even'to be made a vizier, which I assuro you, Charlie, is no joke in its way.” “Well, at all "events, you must come homo now and enjoy your, good fortune.” “I am not sure about that,” lie said. “Recollect, sho has grown ac customed to bo mistress—I have grown accustomed to bo vizier; sho won’t liko to bo contradicted, and its a thing I never could bear, and wlmt I never allowed on any account. Now, if I went home, sho would not bo mistrees, and as sure as fate, she would contradict me. May be it is better os it is. ha got acquainted with, and bIio woman that made tho trouble. W lion tho second separation took place I wont with my step-mother bpcauso l| loved hor, and becauso my services woro nccossary to help take enro of the baby. ' Thon what docs alio do but go aiul get married. I doclavo I never saw so much marrying in my life. It only happened a little while ago, and my step-fathor—I supposo ho is—treats me m a vcrykindly sort, of way, naif ho couldn’t'hdlp hiniBolf, but didn’t exactly.liko it, and I don’t like it a bit. J cant go batik to mama,; because sho is mad with me forgoing! with pupa in tho first instmico, and I cant go to papa bociuwo of that wliood- ling woman, and I cant boar to stay) where I am. It is too bad that a' girl should havewfather and a mothor ( and tWo stop-fathors aiul two stop- mothers all living at once aud not a homo that sho can fool at homo in.” Knives in n Man’s Stomach. A man named James Moore, a la borer living in •London, was brought to Guy’s hospital in that city, sick. • Ho was to all appearances a healthy,) strong man, about forty-five, years of ago. Ho w'us takon to (ho medical ward and examined by tho attendant/ dootor, to whom tho patient coonplnin- od of a pain in tho stomaoh. Ho. was treated, hut grow worse, and, ! after sovorul days, tho attention of ' .two hospital was call tho faoulty of od to tho case. But >ioi\ot>£ (horn oould diagnoao the disease. The patient could not retain any nourish ment on tho stomach, gradually grow weakor, and, after houig in.tlxo nos-, pitul abou t ono month, died. A post mortem .examination was thou liold,j to ascertain tho oahse of death in tin’s mysterious enso. On opening tho stomaoh tho remains of thirty- seven pockot-knivos wero found. I say remains, beoausoisomo of tlioiut had boon digested so far that only iv S n’t ion of t’lio blado was found. thorsw'oro comparatively -uninjur ed. In most, of tho knives tho tiles woro gono entirely, tho metal in that part of tho knifo and tho mate rial of wliich tho handles woro made, boing more digestible than tlio lmr-' 1 donoi.l stool of tho bhutos. In tho museum of Guy’s Hospital will bo-found a glass case containing* these knives witli tho particulars at tached, relating tho circumstances attending their recovery from tho stomaoh of tho dead man. No dato could bo found on wdiieh to huso an opinion of tho length of timo they? had boon swallowed, hut from tho condition of somo of them they had boon thcro for many years. Tho man probably had a mania for swul- low'ing knifes, or olso devoured thorn in an unconscious condition. At bod timo little Willie was saying his usual .prayer, on liis mother’s knee, and having got ns farm's “If I should die boforo J wako,” hesitated. “Well, Wnat next.” asked liis mother. “Well, -•I sipoHO tlio .next thing would be :n funeral!” During a eamp-mooting at luko Bluff, noar Chicago, Sister Barr, of Emmanuel tent, at a pavtioiv.arly exciting part of the sovvico broke iii- to a series of tho wildest hystorical cries, which pone tinted -every nook of tho camp-ground. Her shrieks Tlioy aro having ft regular old- fashioned contest for tho United States senatorSliipin Arkansas. Tlieroj aro numerous candidates in tho field! and they aro all on the stump, ini pressing the people with their null viduftl peculiar fitness.for tho place. The execution of Hocdol, who shot at King William and misssed him, shows tho desire of tho German gov ornment to promote good workman-] tlio oflloioncy of .its anny ship. - As ,, deponds upon tlio skill of its common S le,.it wottld not answer to allow bad shooting to go unpunished A lato lottor says that tho women in tho Oneida communfty aro, almost without oxcpption, palo, haggard and) sad-faced. Any woman would bej; whose baby was taken away from hor h and mixed in among a at its birth and mixed in among number of other babies so that sho would never rlcnow lier own child, again. “Now -vidian come with mo bc- foro tho judgment seat of heaven 1” cries the hero of a play by M. Dnguo, of Paris, ns .ho ho hurls tho heavy villinn into tlio car of a ballon, cuts tlio rope and begins a duel with him with bowio knives os they shoot up wards to tho skies. At ft Texas ball a largo number of married women, who had brought their babies found it impossible to dunce unless somo of the young mon became nurses. Tho young mon took tho babies into another room, and changed their clothes, so that when tho motlibra reached homo that night there was constoruation over the interchanges. ladies tried to. calm her, but the greater their efforts tho wilder her lmiuifostations, until her voieo nroso/ to a prolonged squeal anti lier ap-f peanmeo was frenzied. Somo of the mon woro dumbfounded, and all oil tho women woro frightened, but one sister told i.lio reporter that Sister Barr had tlwfc morning ’announced her intention of furnishing tho if or-, shippers with a sensation. The Burlier Escaped. “Out my hair,” said tlio ciistomor, as ho seated himself in a harbor’s chair, “and bo Bure to lot it rim down tlio back of my neck,” referring, of course, to ,t]iGp»u , tiouliM , ,«tylo of tlio 1 cut. Tlio harbor was a western artist, liaving lately avrivod in Oil City fronij St. Louis. Aftor clipping away;for some time lib concluded tlmt perhaps tho liairj wasn’t running down his customer’s; neck us fast us that individual might desire it—-although for tiio life of him lib couldn’t sbo why ho should want it to run down at all—and, when a quantity laid accumulated inside liis shirt-collar, tlio accommo dating bftrbor shoved it down aud out of sight witli the handle of .fcliq! brush. This performance was repeated two or throe timos, and tlio customer began to realize what was going on.j Henceforward lie took a lively inter- cstiin the proceedings. Ho said: “What, in tho name of tho bird ( with tlio broad and sweeping wing, arc ^ou doing?” didn’t scorn, to run down” sai tho barber, apologetically “and so I crammed’it down with tlio brush;". The customor acted liko a man 1 who lmd mado the discovery that a cat had built,1icr nest between his shoulder-blades and had kittens there; so ho yelled: “Cram your crammed head to cvamnationl” and then turning a double somersault out of his chair, lie kicked attlio reflection of the bar ber in .tlio looking-glass, Tlio bar ber escaped.——Oil City Derrick. A New York candidate for oon< gross, who waft sure of his nomina tion, and said ho would “niako it warm for tho fellows,” was rather disappointed when he only received two votes—one on Jho first ballot and one on tho second. Ife takes it “quite cool, and hasn’t thought of warming tlio fellows” since. Uiq history repeats itself In almost evory district I Al ..Dogmatic Definition of the Telegraph. “Sam,” said a darkey to his chon.y brothei 1 , “how am it dut dis tdle- graf entries d.o news froo dem wires?” “Woll rti-nu.il> nntrtt’nflsn (1 ‘Well Cittsur, now s’poso dat am a dog free miles loiif “Nclier was.sui.'h u-big (log, don’t bllievo-dat.” ' f ftYon joss wait a ininit; I’so only illustra6iii, you stupid nigger. Now dis yov 'dbg.you seo, jess nnts jbis front foots on ilo New Yortlk slid!, “lessor.” “N owrs’poso.you walk on dis dog’s (ail in New York—” “IIo’Jl bark, woht'ho?” ^Yossgi\^ “Well, whorowill dat dog'baiiic?” “In Hoboken, I calc’lato.” “Dat mtm jest it. Yon walk ou tho dogs tail in Now ’York, an’ luo barks in HAbokeiv-an’ dut’s de way do tolograf works. ” “Yossor; desso ^dossol Yon’s right, by golley.” ' , A little five-year old daughter of romi one'of our prominent business men in offeringaiyp.hor evening prayer re cently, uttered the following: “God bless mama, bless papa, anti make him buy mo a dog—a groat'big one that’ll iiolp’ino whip the devil idl out of everybody,” Tho Great Western Ilel'onn. [St. ‘Lout’s Gtobc-Dcmcrtif,] “Mr.” sounds much hotter “gonoral” or “coIoiiqI,” when applicU to a man who isnnot in tho nulitauy sprvico of tho country. So many bo gus titles have boon mixed up witli tlio genuine sinco tho war, that the only wise way is to abolish them all, as tho GMbo-Domocrat proposes. It’s dreadfully dull at Washington. The secretary of waiy wlio is pretty dull liliAseif/fis tile puly cabinet offi- cei-Hiorc. Tlio president, who is al so another miserably dull party; is thoro, but ho lives in almost complete desolation, because- Iboro.nro no pub lic, men .in (own, and but few o/lioo- sookoi’s. Tlio president’s ontiro fa'm- ily Arendbsont; and ho (lives alone at tho soldiers’homo. Tho Darkey and tho Yankee. Jc in 1804, Mr. John Woods of Callaway county, Mo., wont out to try his fortunes in Montana, tukiyg with him old Sam, ono of the ViaMdes ' who lnwl gr/iwn up on tlio homo place. Sam had for yours,, oven, be (oro ho was free, had pretty much liisamvn ovay, and well known us a soiisiblo and witty fellow. In Montana ho picked up odd ’jobs, ail’d was in constant requisition. He was ono day em ployed by a Yankee carpenter to hew a log foi’ him, and having completed tho job, wont to tlio “laws” .for,his pay, expecting to cliargo ilboui ;7>5 cents. Meantime the eaipentcr ha'd made a rough coffin for a poor follow who had died in the wilderness; and at the samo timo a frioiul of the do- consod was paying fdr the coffin, tlio amount being' ^OO. Turning to Sam, the carpenter, in liis quick, snappy way, •»!■'!.'•(!: “Got that log done?” “Y-y-os, b-brhofis, ullLl-'d-doiio'. - ” “Well, how- mu6h is it?” (our il-d-dollars an’ :i,b«lf.” “Gracious! Wliyj you’d skin anion alive!” “Y-y-os, boss; hut chit’s not as b-d- bad as skin him after bo’s d-d-dead.” ■Ilar'jpWH, Sbo was a colored lady and attend ed a revival of religion miff had work- c*d herself up to tho extreme pitch til going to.the good place in a moment, or sooner, if possible. As her friends gave vent to thier feelings, she liko- wiso gave vent to hor feelings, anil loudly exclaimed; “Oh, my, I wislil wasu Juno hug that I might fly to my Jesus 1” A brother of sabir hue standing near, inquiringly responded: “You fool, nigger, woodpecker botch you Toro you’d git half way dar.” way to make money; Take n •feit 85 bill; enter a store at Easy counterfeit dusk with a witness and ask tin? le.ir -I irudc-man it lie can give you silver-for'a >12.bill. The honest tradesman will slam the bill into tho till miff count out tho silver. When ho discovers that tho note was a coun terfeit you have a witness to sworn- tjmt you received just *2, henoo the .VacLv. can’t have been given by yon.