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' v - ...... . j . .. , 47. ,.v I i i m i 1 ' I I , , I . r . .-. ... - ; . 1.1 t- NEW. SERIES-VOL. a CLAltKE SON, KlilTOns AJfD PHOPJMTORS. ' OFFICE Martin's Ilow, oae Dopr Sooth v of the Post-Oilico Tarat f AakeriytUa t the CeM, Two Inllrpr)rer.pyabl wllh!nth jretr." 91,Sn,lf paldln tdrnnos ; - SuhMrtptloatteksBfor njr loogth ofllaaatthe bT ratot. No pu jr will () dlnoontlnned MII all nrraai-aget arapaM, unlaw at th option of the publialiora. 1t7fAllanbarlpUonaror aahorler perloinban one year, uiuit ! paid ko adfaixa. ... i ,. firm l Aalrertleiaii. On aqnara, lMnei orient J iDaertloat.. Kaahaddltlouallnaertlon , l.ftO ... 5 ' Alllrandenta lerllln.,for a.hortur porlod than inav vuiHi,iiirfa aiiaaaoor rata. in Miliar 3,(K). Two S,00., ThrM i 7.00. .5J0. H,H) I0,ll 1t,0fl 15,00 90,00 W,00 7.0.. . ,(M).. .11,00.. .11.08.. . 17,00.. . 10,00.. .95,00.. Four "' . Oua-favrtb, ofoinp'J,(lO. ,0O.. uaa-ahl.il. . " . JS,". Ona-ha'lf , . 14,00. Ona oolumu IBm). 85,00 40,00 ir7Btnaeti)dnotexeedliirilxllnelluaartad kltlpar jraar. ,. ...i. .,, Tr7rran.leni(airtarllmanli aandad In wllhoni ha nainberof ItiBartlona markail, will be eontlnuad notll ordorad oul, and charired atithe.aboo rataa. TTJltal adrarllaanianHiAdnilnlttratora nolloei o)a., to be paid for In adranso CITY OF LANCASTER: rhtifdar Mornlnn.bcc. 30,1838 - L , . t THE roOU LAWTEB. ' "I had takes ray breakfast and was wajt ing Cor my horse, when , pasting up and down the plaza I law a young girl seated near the window, eridently a visitor. She was rsry, pretty, with auburn hair and blue syes, and was dressed in while. I had left Richmond, and at that time I was too muoh of a boy to be struck by female beauty. She was so delicate and dsinty looking, so different from the hale, buxom, brown girls of the woods and then her dress! .. Never was a poor youth so taken by surpiise and suddenly bewitchod. My heart yearned to know her, but how was I to accost ber? I bad crown wild in the woods, and had none of tho linbililu-'es of .polite Hf. Had she been like Peggy l'uh, or Sally Fignmn, or any other of tho leath ern drssse t belles of the Pigeon Ttoost, I should have approaohod ber without dread; nay, bad she been as fairasShults' daugh ters, with their looking glass lockots, I should not have hesitated; but that white dress, and thoso auburn ringlets, and blue eyes, and delioate looks, quite dnunted while they fascinated me. I don't know what put it into my head, but I ! thought all at once I would kiss her! - It would talo n long acquaintance to arrive at such a boon, but I might seize upon it by ehoer robery. ; Nobody knew me here. I wculd just Stop in and snateh a kiss, mount my hqise and ride off. She would not be 'the worse of it; and that kiss chl I should die if I did not get it. , ' ; 'I gave no time for the thought to cool, but entered tin house and stepped lightly into the room. She was seated with ber bark to the door, looking out of the win dow. end jid not hear mr approach.1 I tapped herchnir, and as'-sho lurnad - and looked up, I snatobea as sweet as swoot a kiss as ever Was stolen, and vanished in a twinkling; The next moment I was on my horee, galloping homeward, my rery heart lingltng at what l bad doue. f After a variety of amusing adventures "Ring wood attempts the study - of law, in jin obscure settlement in Kentucky, where he delved night and day. Ralph pursues his studies, occasionally arguind at a tier bating society, and at length became quite a reniuS and a favorite with the . married ladies of the villaeo.1 "I called lo take tea one evening with some of those ladies, when to my surprise, and sofnewbst to my eonfuHion, I found ber, the ideritioa! blue -eyed little beauty whom I bad so audauiously kisped, X was formally introduced to ber, but neither of i . i i : i : tatite, except by 6ur blushes and eyes, i "While tea wss gotting ready,' the lady of the. house weutout of the room to giro some directions. nl left us alone. . Heav en and earth! What a situation! I would have given all thq pittance I was worth to have been In toe deepest ueii in tne loresi. I felt the necessity of saying something in erouse for my. former rudeness; 1 could rj'ot oonjure op an idea, nor utter a word. Every moment matters were growing Worse. ' I felt. at one time tempted to do as had done whan I robbed her of the; kiss bolt from the room and take , to flight, but waseha'oed to the spot for I really longed to gain her goodwill.. .' V At length I pluoked up eourage on 9eiri her eaually Confused with . mvsslf, and walking desperately up to her, 'I have beeq trying to muster up sometbing to say to yon, bu V cannot, l o nave pity on ni. andhlrmout of ill' ' . "A smile dimpled upon her mouth, and rtlared a'mo'na tliij blushes of hor cheeks. Slie looked up with a sly but aroh glance of the ere: that ' exDrassed a - volume of comin reoolleotibng; we both broke into a lUuirh. and from that moment all went on . Passing over tho dftlgltful descrip tibo'thdt sufjceerfedl we proceed to th au nounceiuent of - Hiicwoo4's affair the thsrrfags and setlleiueul J "That very aolumn I wss ..admitted to this Oar, and a month afterward i was mar rled. ' We were a young couple, she not above "sixteen, I : not' quite twenty, and both almost without a dollar in .the world. The establishment wnich wj set . up ,,was tfuind lo.oult dircuuisUnces, a log house, coPTzy M 33, V 1 with two small rooms, a bed, a table, a ball dosen knives and forks, half dozen spoons everything by half dosena; a li.tle delft ware, everything in a amall way; we were so poor, but then so bsppy. ' ' ', ' " We had not been married many days when a court was held in a county town, distant about twenty-fivo miles. It was necessary (or me to go there and put jny self TfTtbe way cT busines. but how . was I logo? I had expended all my means in our establishment, and then it was bard parting wrtb my wife so soon after msr riage. However, co I muxt. ' Money must be made,' or we should hare the wolf at our door. I record ingly borrowed a horse, and borrowed a little cash, . end rode oil from my door, leaving my wife standing at it and waving Ler hand after n e. .Her laat losk, so sweet and becoming, went to my heart,. I felt as though I could go through fire and water for her. I arnved at the ccuoty town on a cool October eve ning. The inn was crowded, for the court was to oommence on the following day. . "I knew no one and wondered how I, a stranger, and a mere youngster,- was. to make my wsy in such a crowd and get business. The public room wss thronged with all the idlers in the country who gathered together on ' suoh occasions. There was some drinking going forward with a great noise and a little altercation. Just ss entered the room, I saw a rough bully of a fellow, who was partly intoxira ted, strike an old man. lie came swag gering b mo,"and elbowed mess he psis ed. I immediately1' knocked bim down and kicked him into the street! I needed nQ better introduotion. In a moment I bad half a dozen rough shakes of the hand and invitations to drink, and found myself quite a personage In the rough assem blage, :,. : ' x' ,'The nex,tt morning court opened I loek my ses ajptfng the lawyers, but felt ss a mere spectator, not having" any idea where business was to come from. In the course of the morning a man wss put to the bar, charged. with panning counterfeit money; and was asked ifhewas ready for ttial. He answered in the negative. He had been confined in a place where there were no lawyers, and had hot hnd .an, .op portunity of coi.sultlngany. ' lie was told to choose counsel from among the lawyers present, and be ready for trial next day. He looked around the room and selected me. I was thudderstruuk! I c.ould not tell why he had made such a choice. I, a beardless youngster, unprscliced st the bni; perfectly uuknowii. I felt ditlktent, yet delighted, and could have Lugged the rascal. ... . , '.'Before leaving the court, he gave me one buudrcd dollars in a bag for a retain ing fee. I could scarcely belie vo my bd ses, it soamed like a dream. The heavi ness of the fee spoke but . lightly of the man's innocence but that was no a flair of mine. I was lo bo advocate, not judge or jury. 1 followed him to jyil.and loam ed all the particulars of the case, from thence went to the Clerk's office And took minutes of the indictment.' I then exam ined the la on be subject, and prepared my brief in my room., AIT thia occupied me till midnight, when I Went to bed and tiied to sleep; it was in vais; never in my life was t more wide awake. A host of thoughts and fancies camo rushing iuto my mind, the shower of gold that had so uc cxpeotddly fallen into my lap, the. idea of my poor little wile at Dome, mat l was to sstoniBh her with my good fortune. . 41 ut the awful responsibility I bad nndortsken, to speak tor the nrst time in a . strange oourt, and the expectations the culprit had fornwnt of my talents; all those, and a crowd of s roilar notions', kept whirling through my mind. I tossed about nil wight, fear ing mornuift, would dud ma exnuuweu ana incompetent in a word tJ)6V"dsy'dawned upon me a miserable fultow.'.'ij; ! , . "I got up feverish and nervous. I walk ed; out- before breakfast to collect my thoughts and trauquilize my feelings. It tfarf a tricht mornine the air .was. puro and frosty I bathed my forehead and my hands iu a beautiful running stream, tut I could not allay the fuvor heal that raged within. 1 returned to breakfast, butoould not eat. - A siogj cup of coffee farmod the repast; It was time, to go to court, aad I went there with a throbbing heart, ,' I be lieve if it had not been for the thoughts of my dear Tittle wife in ber lonely . house, I should have given back tbe man his dol lars, and relinquished the case. . I took my seat, looking, I am convinoed, more like a oulprit than the rogue I was to defend. . "When the time comes for me to epeak, my heart died within me. I rose embar rassed and dismayed, and stammered in opnning the esse. I went on from bad lo worse, ami felt as if I was going down. Just thou the publio prosecutor, a man of tallents, but somewhat rough in his prao tice, made a sarcastic remark on something I said. ' It was like an eclcctriu spark, anil ran tingling through every vein in my body. In sn instant icy difffJenco .was gone; my whole spirit was in arms--I an swered with promptness, for I felt the cru elty ufsucb aa attack upon a novice in my siiuntiori. The prosecu'tor iWide a kind wf apulogy,' .Thia (or a man' of his redoubted' powers, was a vast concession. ' I renewed my argument with a fearful growl, carried wiy case triuulpba'n'Jy, and the, man was acquitted. - 1 t , "This was the makiog of roe. Kvery body was curious to show who this .hew lawyer was who bad so suddenly rieel ai ong them and " bearded the Attorney General in the onset. Tbo story . 01 -my debut aUbe inn" on the preoedibg evening xaDsyca jteitsyo4 ' ) t r- IANCASTElt, OHIO,; when I knocked down a bully and kicked him out of doors for striking an old man, was oiroalated abont with favorable1 exag geration fcren my beardless ehia and juvenile countenance was in my favor, for the people gave me far uore credit than I deserved. .The, chance business which occurs in, onr,courU earns thronging . upon me. - I was repeated I r emplored in other cases, and by Saturday night, when eouri cloaed, I found myself with hundred and fifty dollars in silver, three hundred dollars jrv notes, and a horse that I after wards sold for two hundred dollars more. "Ne6T (fid a miser gloat more on his money and with more delight. ,1 had locked ttio door of my room, piled the money on the table, walked round it, sat with my chin upon my hauds aud gacrd upon it. Was I thinking. of the, money? No I was thinking of my little wife and homo. "Another sleepless niirht ensued, but what a night of gulden fanoiesaud splen did air. As soon morning dawned I wss up and mounted the borrowed horse with whom I had come to court, and led the other which I had reeeived as a fee. All the wsy I was delighting myself, with the thought of surprise I had in store for my wife, for both of us had expected that 1 should spend all the money 1 had not- rowed, and return in dtbt. , . " . ... '. "Our meeting was jriVous, as yon may suppose; the Indian hunter, who, when he returns from the chase, never for a while speaks of bis sucoess. She had prepared a rusiio meal lor me, sod wbiie 1 was Get ting ready, I seated myself at an old fash ioned desk in tho corner, and began to count over my money end put it away.- She came tome before I had finished, and asked me who I had colleoted tbe money for. "For myself, to be snre," replied I with affected coolness; "I made it at court," "She looked at me a moment in lb face incredulously.' I tried to keep my coun tenance and play the Indian, but it would not do. My muscles began to twitch, my feelings all at once gave way; I caught her in my arms, laughed, cried and danced about tho room like a crazy -man. From that time foi ward we never wanted money. , Stupidities. Wnlking alone1 tho streets with the point of nn umbrella sti king out behind, under the arm or over tho shoulder. By stop ping suddenly lo speak to a friend, or oth er cause, a parson walkin" in the rear had his brain penetrptedthrough the eye in one of our slreots. and died in a ew days. Stepping into a church aisle, after dii mission, and standing ..to oonverse with otner8, or to allow, occupants. ot tlio. pew to pass out before, for the coui t6y .pre cedence, at the expense ol a greater boor rislmess to those brhinn. ' ' To oarry a lone pencil in vest or outside float pocket; not long since a clerk in New Turk foil, and the long cedar pencil so pierced an important artery that it had lo be out down upon from the top of shoulder to prevent his bleeding to .death, with three monlh.iJlnefs. ... . , . ...j To take exersiso or walk for the beatlb when every a ep is a drag, and instinct urges to repose. .To guzzle down glass after cluss of oold water on getting up in mornini. withont any feeling of tliurst, Under the impresson of the health, giviug nature of its' washing out of qusnlies, . , To sit down to; the tabid find" force' youraeil to eat when there is not ' only no appetite,' but a positive arerson to 'food To take a glass of soda, or tody, or san- garee, or mint drop, 00 a summer day, under the belief that it is sufo ' and better than a glass of cold wafer. ' 1 ''" ' '"' To economise time, by robbing yourself of neooessar sleep, on the ground that an hour saved fjord sleep is an hour gained for life, when actually it is two hours spoil od. Journal of lloallh. ' How Spirit Oct Tiuir CuEATuaic Con forts. Thsspirtual intercorse is certainly enlarging.; A. spirit not long since waited on Judge Emmonds'And wnnted' birh1' to take a drink through an earthly medium 'the Pttwlticket Gazette relates the lollow incr incident of spiritual communication which quite exoeeds the Judge's storfi "An enthusiastic believer wss relating to a ftentio the snirlual preformauoes to I 1 a a which he could testify, and among other things said that 00 a certain occasion the spirit of bis wife, who bad been dead ser rral years, returned to him,' and sealing herself upon bis knee, put arms around brm.'and kissed as muoh to his 'gralitjca lion as she used to when living ou do not mean to say'remarked the skeptic 'that the spirit of Your wife real? embraced and IiisseJ you'T'. . No not cx-ctly ,that, replied the believer, 'but her spirit . took possess of tbe body of a .female ' medium, aud through her embraced and kissed ma," Diplomatic Appoint huts. The senate ou : VVeduesdsy evening cofirmed the fol lowing Domination: , . , ,,(, s ' Williani Preston' of Kentucky, Miniate Plotiipottfiit'mry to' Spain. ! j ( ' John . K.Ware, of Georgia. -Minister PhrniDotentinrr W China. " J. Glancy Jones,, of Pennsyrania, Min ister Ucsldeut to Auatrs. :'. Tbe Stmste also ratified the treaties re eently made with ' China and Jitpan, and Copies will be immediately returned to those goverments.. ; At StJPaul,' Minnesota tbi Ther meaMter stood 6 deg's below mo, on 18tb The nrtr is fiozen over bard as t rock. uaananaacsp jsirsa ' THURSDAY. MOBNING, . The Country and Peosle ef Japan. , 1 . A correspoddeut of tbe ' London Times gives the fallowing acoonnf of tbe famous city of Jeddo, in Japan: f : tr .' "Joddo without exception Is one of the finest cities in the world; streets broad and good, and tbe Castle, which inolndes near ly tho whole centre of the t"wn-, built -on slight eminence. - There-are (lirse Walls or encloseUres ronnd thif quarter. 'Within the inner, the Tyeon Emperor and heir ap parent lives. ' ' '- ' Tbe bouses of the prinoes slid noble) are palaces, aadt : yon may imagine the eizo when some contain 10,000 followers. -They are built in reguar order, for ming wide street some 40 yards broad, kept in perfect order; an " .immeDoe' court yard with trees end gardsns, foimea the centre of each enclosenre, in tbe midst of which is the house of the owner; the hou ses contain lbs followers, servants, stables dec, form this enolosenre. Tbey are built of uniform shspe. ' ' , Tbe gateways leading to the court yard are exeeed'ngly handsome, of massive wood work, ornimeeled with lsqaer and other devioes, From the road that leads by the moat to the second wall is one of lbs finest views I ever receollect seeing on one side tbe Gulf of Jeddo, with the high hills rizing beyond, while on tun other is a por tion of the Great city if Jeddo with its trees and gardens, picturesque temples. and densly orowded streets, extonding as tar as the eye can reach toward the interior then there is a, view of the trees and green fields in a dUtsnoe, far awsy beyond a thickly built suburb; but, the most striking view is that close by; tho well-kept greon banks of the defence, rising some - 70 feet from the broad moat below, with grand old cedars over a hundred ytnrs of., sgo growing from its sides. Ths fine limber, the Isy of the ground, the water lilies in tho most, the grandeur, gooj order, and completeness of everything, equal, and in some ways far surpass, anything I have ever seen iq Europe or any other part of the world. We made an exnedition into tlieconolrv. The eoitageS were surrounded with neatly clipped hedges, the private residences as well railed and kept as any place 111 bng- iand. The same comploter.os snd fiuish ex:sts in everything. ' . .- The Botanical G-trdens are very good, snd well cared for; good oursones olyouug pines, cedsrs, fco. ' . Pickled Bket Root, Je Sricao Visbuar There are several spscies of boet loot. whioh are used fur d liferent purposes, Tho Sicilian beet, from yielding most saccha rine matter, is, accordiug lo Burnett, chief ly cultivated iu Francs for the manufac ture of sngar snd spirits.' '. Another, j kind of beet is growp extensively by farmers. It is called mangel 'wurzrl, -which trans lated ."iiipsns 'famine's root'., but - which should more properly have a name indica- r i M.rt . . 1 no ui ijx'm.y, lor many w rue room weijii twenty thirty, and even sixty pounds esch. But we have to-speak of the red beet, the lx(u vultjorit rubra of tho botanists; and the only thing we could desiie respeoting this plant is, that it migrt he what ths betsa- ikts term it, wilgaru or common, for a more nutritions esculent could scarcely be found whioh properly cooked, thai is. boiled from one and a-balf to two and a- half hours according to its size. To pickla beet r.ioi,.biii them till three parts done, then when cold,- peel tbem and cut them into thin slices put the out slices iutoajtr, and pour on tbem hot spiced vinegar,' suffioient to cover the whole. Alter they have stood a month ask us ' to come and take bread and cheese with you; put the pickled beet on-the table, and thore will thou be a supper fit for a king. V , lor every pint of spiced vinegar it is is in- tended to. make, take one -ounce of blsok pepper, half an ounce of ' salt, half an ounce 61 ginger quarter of an ounce of all spice, and if desired to be hot, add also a quarter of a drachm of Csyernr, or a few capiscums. ) Bruise the, whole of, these materials iu a mortar, and put them iuto a jar, or wide mouthed green glass bottle, tied. over with a bladder. Place this in a saucepan of water, end keep it hot for three or four days, sbsking it now and then. If the maker has sn enamel saucer pan, this operation csn be facilitated by simmerinf tbe ingredients, j together. opicud vinegar is used hot lor cabbage and cold .or "walnuts'. ? ' 'Ski-hmoY PieSsb. . Sumncr u BaV-ks. Tbo 1 New York Journal 6(oommerce says) XUC "Mr. Sumner is good for four years yet in the achate, after the close of tbe pros ent sessian his commission extending to March, '63. ;, While his 'vaoant chair' , is earning 93,000 a year (we are not ckar whether it araws mileage also, I the pub lio need not look for his resignation, aid Gov. Banks who has a sort of first mortJ gage or lion on the place, must coutent himself with the rirJoro humble but .very respoitabla olhoe of. Governor of the- Com monweal'th of Massrobusetts." . ,' ,, '-TlieAtlautlo Cnble . Nkw Yobl. Doc 21. Cyttis .W. Field received yterday from Newfoundland a dispatch calculated to revive the drooping bopes or lb Inends ot the Attantio Uable; I'. Ou Saturday ' last the Superintendent telegraphed Mr. Field that sumo, very good electrical currents were reeeived and tbe word "Henley" was distinctly recog nised at about tho hour when, - according to the adtrioes by tbe Arabia, Mr. Henleys large, machine was to bay been working coxy cE'07i.iiiiiia george Washington DECEMBER 30, 1858. I Mr Wir.w Tu Cacti or It-It U not snore than forty years ago that Mr. L. , sailed at the boose of Dr, B.one very cold morning, on his wsy toll L,. .- .- oir, aai( lam iovtor, -wia waamcr ra S. CT- Ft : J -.1. I "4 . A - 4..L. ai . very r. y-win you noi was someiuing to drink before vou start? ' . . n that early day ardent spirits were deeml mdispenMbl. to warmth 19l ' wm-,, Mft U&uJ.KKm ler, When eoinmencinv a lournev, snd ai . if. i,iri m j. ..77? ,l. . . l .t i.l every stopping plwe a ong the road, the ravener always used intoxicating dr.nd. to keep him warm.. . Tic, said Mr. never touch any- .1.- t .l 1 J 11 -ii . 11 .1 thing cf tho kind, and I will tell you the rtsson my wife istha csuse of iL I hsd been in the habit of meeting some of mr nrighbfrs every evading for the purpose of playing cards.: r We assimbled at each other's shop and liquors were introduced after awhile. We met JKit so ,.mueh for the dj inking, though I used to return boms late in tbe evening mire or less intoxica ted. My wife always met me at the door. affectionately, and wheo I chided hor for sitting up so Is to for me, she kindly repli ed: -"I prefer doing so, for X cannot a'eep when-, you are out." . . , This slways troubled me. I wished in my heart she would begin to scold me, for then I ciuld have retorted, and thus rilieved my consoience. But she alwaya met m" with the same loving and gentle spirit." . .. . i . , , - "things passed on thus for some tune, wbsu I at once resolved that I would by remaining Uta and relurnining much in toxicated, provoke her so .much ss to cause her to lecture me, when I meant lo answer her with severity, and thus bv creatine another issue between us, unburden my bosom of its present (roublo. . 1 "I returned in such a plight about 4 o' clock, in tbe morning. She met nie at the door, with her usual tenderness, and said: . 1 "Come, in husband, I liava just been ma king a warm fire for you, because I knew you would be cold. Take off your booU and warm your feel, and here is a cup .of hot cpffea for .) oil." . ,, . "Doctor that was-tos much. I eoull endure it no longer, 1 and I resolved from that moment ; I would never touch another drop as long as I kve, and 1 never will. It was a heavy trial, of my wife's patience; but she fairly conquered me." - . .. . . Ho held to his resolution and lived and died practising total abstinetice from all intoxicating drinks, in a village where in temperance has raavsged as much as any other in the State. ...... That msn wss my father end that - wo man my mother. The facts above related I received from the Doctor himself, wjiile on a visit to my village, not long since Married nt Last.. Komnnce oftholnd ' ' ' of Steady Habit. More then three years since, one Olivtr Wolcott of Canton, Ct., getting tired ol hia wife, sold her for valuable consideration to a man who liked ber better, and could live with her more amicable than the first husband was able to.' The parties being provided with a legal document, drawn up in technical phraseology, and not beirrg deeply read in Blackstone or Cbitty, seem to ' have ooniidered the first marriage to have been dissolved, and proceeded to act as if the second bad been legally con suramated. Here the othcers of the lsw stepped in, and consigned the siiiniog par ties except the greatest of all, to the State Prison, j Mrs: Wolcott wss psrdoned oul by the. "Legislature lost spring, and Mr. Case served bis time and came out by the expiration of lime this fall. Mrs. W. ob tained a diyorce from Oliver, and lbs next act in the drama Is the regular leunion ol tho lovers, by n regular clergymen, in the holy bonds of matrimony. Considering that a child was born or this, un,ion, in our Hartford jail, and that while in the Sl Prison, both parties were sustained and comforted by the mutual pledga of Cdelitv to eaou oilier, ana an urnmouing aeiermi; nation lo be .reunited whenever Ihe very serious obstacles could be rerroved, we think the ruarriago chronicled above wor thy ot note. The course of Luoy's.love ran through a State. Prison, and a terrible persecution ; from a di-solute hu&band, which made hor long for the protection ol the prison walls. - Pi'puc Sai. ok.a WiE.-r-6n. Monday, the 2?!(TS nn Fngli-h paper, )a disgrace; ful exhibition, the attempted sale of a wife look plaosin front of a beerhouse at Shear Bridge, Littte'.Bradford. '.The fellow who offered his wife,. Martha for sale, was Hsrt- !y Thompsou. , She is said to be a person of preposssssiiig .appearance. Tbe sale bad been duly announced by the bellmen. A largs crowJ had assembled- - The wife, it is said sppearod before the crowd with a halter, adorned with ril boos, round ber neck. The sale however, was 11 at comple ted, the reason for this being that some disturbursnee' was created ij by crowd from a . nel'-'liboriuir factory, and that - tbe person to whom it was intended to sell the wifi (Ike Duncan )ws detained at his work beyond the limev,The couple,. though nut long wedded, have led a ,-.vsy , unhappy life, and . it is ssid that-they snd their friends were so egregiously. ignorant as to believe ' that they, could secure their, owp legal separation by 'such au . absurd course as .this, a publio safei t , . ' " ' ! .. , . .. '" " ! ' .. XBowsre of all 85 noles of the North western Bsnk of Virginia having fora Vig. Wheeling Bridge. A . new hale U of coun terfeits is out with alterations of the one described. - - '"PFTP! ' TtTCVt-VT1 'AtTA' on. run rATBIOT A WD TnE TEAI roR. ' v:tl9 ,Mr..M trr;i.U nana. akanV . - - p . r . , A, x. i . .-. . . . i,.!, , , .t .f.u ...J. .1 .1.. T. .1 ji VVINIll U SW IMS-Mil L.SPU il ICV COUfM of ., . Uw nomt, mhiU ;..,. iow. :- .nd .i. . , . 1 .. . .au avvit,Miv uimypr, pnauiu vi ma ilia y ,e.w-rt.W...y ibiw-gk ...1, .t,.7.w. .... ' n... .1 ' . ' '..j That very day a strange old man bad fallen speechless in front of the scavenges' rude homo. .The "good: bcaate J . alrret swoeptr bsd lakes) bins in, laid, him on bis own bed be . bad not spoken ooe-sd now be woe dying.. m - j 'y This was the story of of thoroegk mab. . And now, throngh dark alleys, -aneoos; miserable tenemnts, thaw aeesned in topple down upon their hands, into tho tastiest aod drtariest anhnrbe thy paas. .. .Tat white-haired mioisUr and bis guide. At jastiuis narrow court, and wpia light of stairs that creaked beneath, their I read, and then into the death 'room. - :.-. . It was in truth a miserable plana. . . A, glisnro ring liJit stood on . broken chair. There were tbe rwhgh wall, there tho solitary garret window, with the rain heeling through the rag and straw, which stuffed the broken panes and there amid the broken pane and there amid a beep of ashes the small valise which it seems thastrscger had with bios, la one corner, on tho eourre straw of the ragged bed, lay the dying msn. He was but lur.lt dresaed his legs were cover ed by mili'ary boots. 1 he sged preacher drew nar and look ed upon dim.- And be looked throb yon migi.t hear tbe death walcb ticking In in the shattered wall ll was tbe form of a strong roan, grow in g old with care more than age. Ihete was a lace tliat von might look upon once, and yet weai it in your mra ory furever. . Let a bend over the bed sod look on that laeo. -... A bold fort bead seamed, by. one5 derp wriakW between tho brows long toeke of dark bair, sprioklen wiih grsy lips firmly set. vet .quivering as though tbey had a ll e separate from tbe life, of live mar) and then two large eyes vivid, burning, nn natural in their stoady gUie. ' Ah, there wss something so leriibVe ,in that face something so fiiil Of unalterable loneliness, nnspoakbl despsir that these aged minister started back in boiror.' But look, these s'rong arms are clutch ing at U e vaeantair Uie death swet starte in drops upon tbe cold brow tbe man dying! - - -t ' - ,J 7 Tt rubl- throw throbl brat Uie dead watch in the shattered wall. , -' Would yon die in lbs faith of a Chris dan?'' (altered - the preacher; as be knelt there on the dark.floor. ' , - 1 Tbe white lips of tbe death str tikes man trembled bat made no sound, i . Tlten. with the agony of death upon hire he rose into . a sitting posture. -For the first time be spoke: '..- 7-,vr I Christian!"' he echoed in that' deep tone which 'thrilled the (escher ' to the heart, "with lha faith give me back my honor! Come with -me with me far, far over ihe water. Ha! we are there!' Thi is 1ST1, native home. Yonder' is lbs eharcli in which I knelt in "childhood- yonder the green on which I sported when a bor. 4 But another fltr than that waved when I was a child.-' And listen, bid man. were I to pass this street ss I passed when but a child, the very babes in tbeir cradle would raise their tiny hands and curte met 'The graves in yonder' enrchysrd wonld shrink ' from my footsteps and vondaf flag would strain a' babtism of b food upon my heart." -' ' ' n That was an awful death bed." Tt minister that watched the " last night, with a hundred convictions their cells an vet neverbebeld a scene as terrible as this, ,.Suildenly - the 'dying man arose. . Ho iotered along the floor.' Witb these white Gngrr, whose nails are blue with Ihe death chill, ha threw open tho valise. lie show ed his mililaiy coat (rimed with sHvert an old parohmeot, a piece of . old clotlio Ilia looked . like the wreck of an bid battle "Look yo.priest, thia laded eoal is spot lei witb my blood!", be oried as old memories seemed stiring at his heart. -This is the last coat I wore when I planted, the banner of the stars on the Tiooaderegsi. That ballot-hole, was pierced in tbo fight at Quebeek; now I am let me whisper inyouresr." , . . m ,i , . "Now, help me, priest," bo said1 fs voice, crow in?: suddenly Iremnlons; "help me put on this ooat of blue mod silver. For yon see," and a ghostly smile ' earns over his face, "there is no one lo wipe the cold drops fmn my brow; but will meet htm as I : meet u m m battle, Witbont While he stood arraring himself ih thai wermeatei cbat of blue' and ilvsr, rthe good preacher poke to him of lakh in Je sus. , or that grat oi(h ninth pier ces me cinuaspi iimman gum, ana ryo tbem back irom me ioe pi uoa. ,v , , (, o "Faith!'' echoed 4h strange msor who stood there erect, with the; death liuht is his aye. , 'Faith, can it give me lock . soj honor? Look, ve..' Driest, others over lbs the wsvessits George, Wahinglentellipg to bit comrades the pleasant stcrj of ths . - jiutzar ESTAB eight years' wsr 4her In Lis roysf U'l sits GeorgS of England bewailing b"'hii idiotM voios tbe loae of bis Xibwien' lAll ber am 11 who was the first ie'tkhm tbe flag of rcsdoor., and thsr first to STrik tbe blow aainst tba King-bero' tin' I dying like a dog!" -., V. Theawe-stiwken phr started back f m th look V tU a! j'mg ta hile r tbrob--.lbrob --throb beat the deslb watott is the shatlersd walk tt 4 '- : , ;';JlMh! siUnee.nleaig1 the- lines tbwret't he muttered" in that wildabfwnt too. a) though speaking te tbe dead ; "eileaee alorigj the lineat , Hrk. jou, itoiHgonvsry.'W will meet there m vietory or dentbt? 'HhJtl sileuro say men,' not- a wbiaeer, tw'jn, move Bp ilioae stp rooks! r Now on niy hoys, sowonl . Men of the wHJernesr, we will gain tho townU. Nww np with too baS ser of the anvrar tap with tne flag e fmt dom though tbe night in dark tmi tkn snow frltsl , Now-4w sbrieked th dsatji. stricktn smb.. towerieg there iothrblsW nniform, wiih hw OMnohed fcande wavtng in be sir "now, now!-Oa blow and Quebec isenrsf " t Bat look,- II e eyta-ornsr : glassy-. With ht word on Jus line.e stands tbefw k what a bid. ona pujtnr 0 dsspifv erect, ylvid. , ghostly l Tnars) - tot anavy msnt. snd then be faflel lliHdfMI AU look ai that prond foera, throws cold anil stiff oprn the damp floor.' in that, glaaty eye there lingers even yet,-horrible eoef-v gy.asubhm ly ot dpair. - ' ' WboistUis strange sins ormir Mfl alone io tbtav rude garreU; thia man-, whone ' meanorus link aometkiqg of heaven and. mor of bellJ . . 1 . ; ,sj Let us look at that pvebment - and- ttaj' flag...,. ;-.: , ;.' The U msaiater nnmllaxl that laafen flag it was n blue, banner gleaming with thirteen atars. . .. ... 1-- 1 - -" ' He unrolls that irehnvnt. I It is n Ce lonel's commistfioa in Ins Cowiinental Ar- ' my, addressed Benedict .Arnold! . ... - ... I A- IU .1 Ana tnere, m U'm t new nsi, wdh. iw death Witch throbbed like heart 10 the hlUied,walU-unkowo.unwepi im all e bilterntss of desoUtway by the,)orns of ihst patriot, and traitor.! 1 :4 ' r- U. thitonrown trne.Waabingiow tvaa been there, to sever that goad arm from the corpse, and while I ha dishonored body tot- tsd into duet.- tobrmghonelialgoa ngfSS arm, and embalm it - among the- bobeet, memoncsKf the past.. . . M-e,. For that right arm bad at rack many a. . gallant blow for freedom, yonder at Tiiont-, derago, at Quebec, Cham ph. in, and' SsvaV toga that arm yonder, wnetta tne snovr wbite monolain, on the deep aiktnoo nf the dead, first raised into sight thabannei of the Stars. ....-, lU It was dnrioe the renowned sxpedition. through the .wilderness to Quebeey tbt Arnold ennamped lot two, or - tore day, beside the River of tl Dead, Mar a enosr- wbiu mouniain. which root in level y grandeur over all other ntonntaina, into tbsf autumnal sky. . A single soldier neeendsd. tbe miunUio with the popn of. baboidiBg' from iU summit tbe rocks and spire of Quebw. When T he came down, Arneli took from bis breast, where, foe font data' in privation and danger, he bad sariied Hi. a bluo banner, gbwming witb thirls en stars. He raised it into tbo light, and for. tho first. lima tbaUenUeenlkt Banner noaieo over- the solitudes 0 tb Dead. Rivr Thia is a fact aUested by history and eontobotaUd by UadiUoo. . R -tt; !'jj.r- -ir PaoiDwc;-r-"Wbat a strsnge Provi3 denoe that mother abonld foe taken froan h children!" Was if Provideliee? vNol rrovidenee bad 'Jissigneif lur three score years snd tona term Jong enough to fC; ber children; bat sh did not obey tb Itiro on which life depends, andkof oovrisy sbrej lost it."1 He w a nseful ,rid dUtingpisned , citizen and eminent in profession. JtCrety eral. buzz arises ' o very .side, ; "What h striking Provideuee!"Tha niso has beeji,. in the ham Ol swaying r.au 01 jue "gn . in Dsssinrr bit days in his ofuoe.'or .la ther. court; of tatiiig ' luxurious dinners and drinking various' kind of wine'He baa every dsy violated the la wS.6n" which health depends, ild rroviaenoa - ui inns offT, The eviliarley eud beie. w The dis-. eases of Toe father are often transmitted; and a fe!1e mother rarely eaves behind her, vigorous, children. t' It, baa beenousv tomary, 111 Some ol our large oiues, ior young ladies to walk in tt io snoss ana aer- irete stockings u (mifl,wioter peauny bloominc' yonag k iO thus dressed Jo vior lalioir of heaven's ,law, paid, tho penally is chscked circolaticn, cpldsj, fever, dealii. 'What a , sad providence!' exclained her fiionds. j 4Was4it Providenoe or betownv folly t 1 Look al the mt" of diseases that are incurred by intempr"nee.in eating and drinking, jn study or )u!'Be8; DT t?Jbt of exercise, cleanliness, and puis air; 'rbjr . . ' a '.as t .' ... . liidiacreel dressing. 1ig'"'J"'K, and all this ifl nietly iinpnted to Provj. deiioe'. Is there no impurity as wellsSig,- norsoce in t,hi? . Ware the physical laws strictly observed (rom.generatioo to gene ration, there would is an end. to Uie fright ful diseas a that cut life shorV.aod .0 4hV long list of aldies Iflal make) Jifaia br mentor trii. I is thf rpu tof tbosn who best WsPnd ths pbyswaW systB.i lbs. this wonderful BMshjar, tb tody, tbiav fgoedly Vmpe"v:w.onld gTdrially,deen7.. ai,d sseiv.. would.dio ajs. if.fslUng aslsep. Mit-fiMgWWlJHnif. fe.ttf.1ed . i'JfMr.McDermoU.ofllifflin'tonship RwbUad tonoty, is" now in bU Watbysat -He is trobsly the eldest maa in Ohio. e