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Mvaiiff, sii.gle pie i" nwi, Advertise
menu, 1 511 p rf lot' Hifitst
iiiH-rtion, mi 91 tor e r Tw iiwertion.
A lfit'KKARD.
tli: dim and VM ll ,'ht of winter'a
Mnitrated into warn court, and
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uic wiu "-.voo un ma uuvr
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vé tens it MM there ,wu no
ive hiinseli, llting occupied (lie
giit.rfHiKiiiqiiirfil of other
A sighbors) M his dangliterfiad
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nearu w. w i.muieii uirougn
l'ujied eich wri'chcd (ice, among
'litnRcd lfco,ilh anxious eyes.
l íru'"i M k relumed to
eir nií'S1'' , desolate and
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ranr,bulM-uI':C''1''eif1ue! lhe Kmt
Utra(.m?Aher.t,lík. At
Man i:,!ilcivirliiii,, and
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or ere-
mtelf was
over his
Ittred him fni I'1 that had
ne,adiB brkX;T;wura,,,ler
wa some war t, .,, , .' X e there
lewanthwj,2;d;'rie.
At l.st, one biltir K,lt ,Mki 0 VV
tfP, faint and ill. -i wn"Moor.
-I profligacy had 1Jra h!m
eeks wero holl,i....i i:...m . .
t vice
His
sunken. ,.,..:" ,"'u u " M
MJ .'- "fJW" Hm. His le,
bled beneaiR T.li-fci-ir-
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i Mineini of tbo.. , . '" en
A IfrSJSm theI), u(iít1,.-í;ZfS .vni-ac41
TTHU 1
med to rise InB tu f el"er children
In so plain, so eitai anU disliT"! they were,
It he could touch ml feel them. I Looks that he
long forgotten, were fixed upon him once more
oices lon- bushed It death, founded in his ears,
Js the music of village bells. But it was only
It an instant. The rain beat hoarily upon him,
cold and hunger ver gnawing at h; heart
He rose and dragged his feebli limbs a few
res farther. The (treat was silen and empty
i! few passers I'v; at that lute lour, hurried
lickly on, and his treinilous voir vas lost in
le violence fjf the slorn. The heavy chill again
ruck througli his frames and his blood seemed
Ístsgnate beneath It lió coiled himself up in a
ojecting doyrway arid triej to il-erj. I
But sleep h,ad fled from lift MtTSrS gÍ'7dl eyes,
is Bind wandered strsnjr, but h Was awuke
itnd conscious. The well krown shout ctf drunken
mirth sounded in his ear-j-th glass was ú Inn lips
the board wiu covered ,ith rich eynl they
were before1 him, he could them ellU bad
but to retch, his hand and taltj them end though
the illusion vas reality itselfjie knew thai he was
sitting alone! in the deserted itrset, watching the
rain-drops te they pattered on he stones, end that
Iheie were 'nonelo care for orelp hinu ";
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led-.Mfr)
I j j Suddenly he started up in the. extremity ,of ter
f J He hid heard his own vetee shouting in the
!' aight.tiri ne knew not what it why. Hark! a
Vjrroati jyiotherl His senjes 'were leaviSg him
t-litMoahed and incoherent W4rh4jai.i jni his
lips, and his hands sought to teat and lacerate, his
flesh. He was going mad, end he shrieked for
help till his voice failed him. I y ' 1 4
; He raised his head and lookJd up (lie king Ji9.
pal street. He recollected tha outcails like him
'elf, condemned to wander day! and night ii, these
''dful streets, had sometimes gone distracted
" I their loneliness. He remembered to hue
iti many yean before, that ii homeless wretch
ebnee been found in t solitary comer, sharpen
b rusty knife toplunge it into his own heajt,
''erring death t that endless, jmsry wandering
sfd fro. In an instant his resolve was taken):
r'limbs received new life, be
ypot, and paused not for bread
. Li river side.
Be crifrNoftly down the steep
I from the emrjmencement of Waterloo bridge,
!;'. W water's level. He crouched into
rnr,aod held his breath as thelpstral passed
ver did t primer's heart throb Wilh the hope
KWrty and !if half M eagerly S did lht of
IT , H ,Uh, VHW "i. Tlie
,tili passed ln to him Uk...u; l ..k
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4m. .!., ... icBiiiw uiivw j
toeceuded ,doi beneath the elooilv arch Umt i
,;rms the un,,,, pi, from th ' . i j
bt wate; fiLd, at J.Í.
U The frVX.W
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va -voy A -..
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fas quickly fronl
pi uitU lie reach!
alone' stairs that
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and liRgihly on. Strange and fantastic forma
roM to) its aurface, and beckoned him to approach j
.djirkjeaminf: eyea peered from the water, and
cerned to mock hia hesitation, while hollow mur
mura from behind urged him onward. He retreat-
a few paces, took a short run, a desperate leap,
arid plunged into tne river. ,
ot five minutes had passed when he rose lo
thi water's surface, but what a change had token
place in that short time in all his lhouKhts and
fellings! Life, life ui any form j poverty, misery,
ahd starvation, anything but death. He fought
and struggled with the water that closed over his
and ii-reamed in agonies of terror. 1 lie
curse of his own sonjurang In his ears. The shore
but one foot of dry ground he could almost
touch iltt. step. Oi:e hand's breadth nearer, and
he wa saved-tnt the tide bore him onward, Un
der Uta dark Wches of the bridge, and he sank to
the bottom. : - : i , ,
Again ho ton and struggled for life. For one
Instant forfone brief instant the buildings on the
river's -tank, the lights on the bridge under which
the current had borne him, the black water, and
the fast flying clouds, were distinctly visible
once more he saik and again ha rose bright
ñames of fire shot tip from earth to heaven, and
reeled before his eyes, whilst the water thundered
in iiu cus, aim stunned lain with its furious
roar.
A week afterwards the body was washed ashore
some miles down the river, a swollen and disfigured
mass. Unrecognised and unpitied, it was borne
to the grave there it has long since mouldered
away.
TWO IN A CHAVE.
Old Tom It. was a man of good feeling and no
little wit, and yet a terrible drunkard. An awful
spectacle he was when I last saw him but I'll not
think of that. Let me ralher leíate an adventure
that befel him.
'Pretty well over the bay,' as usual, Tom was
one Saturday night heading for home, when he
took a lee lurch and brought up in the grave-yard.
Now, it is not my opinion that Tom went there
for the numose of meditation, for he was not
much given that way. In fact he always declared
that the only part ot him that ever rejttcltd was
his nose j and it certainly was t great and shining
light in its way., Tom found the laud moro bil
lowy here than In the road, and Instead of looking
upon the last earthly tenements of the departed as
incentivee to serious thought, only found them
that t" exin na(l "1,t AJ lu'! 1 Pl;ive ,or
M widow P., who was to be buried on the mor
row. This he had left uncovered, not supposing
lhftLjny one would seek t lodging time. ' Af""
iimmwrl,; . , , ,-OTnd him-
seinnne bottom of this gr-r, n of
heap.' 'Down among the dead men,' sure enough
said he, quoting a part of thechnrus of an old song.
After some ineffectual attempts to rise, 'well,' he
continued, 'I suppose I shall rise when the rrat do,'
and with this he settled himself to rest In his nar
row bed.
Now it fell out that Johnny Jones, who kept t
bit of a store on Fore street, was, about this time,
wending his way to his tire-side and his wife.
Johnny had the reputation of being t very 'snug
man,' and, well knowing that time Is money, he
was in" the habit of saving, t minute or two by
striking across the grave-yard on his way home.
on this occasion he hd with him a new'lpair of
boots, which he had been to the extravagance of
procuring for the morrow's wear. On he went
over the graves thinking only of his gains, when
he should have been considering his ways, till, not
suspecting any pit-falls, he pitched head foremost
Into the opn grave, much to the discomfiture of
our hero, who considered himself the lawful tenant
by right of pre-discovery. Raising himself, there
fore, with an effort, he hic-coughed forth, with
much drunken indignation t - . .
For God's sake (hie), can't you let the dead
rest?'
If Johnny had been discomposed by his fall, he
was horrifiel by this interrogation. Disturbing
the dead was the last thing he desired to be guilty
of. How he eot out of the frrave he nevvr Vnw
nor how he got homev-but when he recovered
himself, he replied to his wife's interrogations by
exclaiming :
'Captain B. came out of his grave, as I passed
by, and swore at me like a pirate.'
As for Tom, he awoke next morning t sober, if
not a wiser man i and finding t nice pair of boots
at his feet, appropriated them, tnd went his way,
well satisfied with bis dealings with the dead.
Port Tfuuertft. . , . ,
, From the Western Tuian.
Important lppjal deoision.
Martina Arnold, Ailtninistr'x,
George Martin, Administrator.
This case, decided at the present
term of the District Court for this coun
ty, is fraught with such consea ner; p.p.
ito the people of Texas, that we have
inoiijrht proper to give a brief statement
of the C.cUhiiiI a .vnotnin of tho pnnci-
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wvb uivoiveu 1H uie tleoisioh., . ' .
i j'... i i ....... ' ., ' , aseo,
to recover tin negro girl
i," . ' , . Husscs:,u' o ueorge
íf "ct J" the
liart n answer
strator of the estate of
deceased.
Fartin answered, that his intdtnf
oougljt the girl of Hendriok Arn
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his lifo lime und' iJ
gation of freeing her at the end of five
yean, and mat ne was iukuir ici i
discharge said obligatiAi by sending
the girl to a ties Mate, ana mar, me
gitl was by the lawsof Tetas free, hav
ing been born in the Province of Texas,
then part of the government of Mexico,
in the year 1827, and after the forma
tion of the constitution of Coalmila and
Texas, after which no skies were born
ti said States.
The proof showed that Harriet was
born on the Brazos in July or August,
1827. It was also shown, that the con
stitution of Coahuila ami Texas was
published in Bexar in the éarly part of
April, 1B27, inu on tli urazos in uie
same month. Oliver Jones, one of the
early settlers of , Austin's' Colony, was
examined on the stand, and stated that
slavery was not recognized in this coun
try by tlte laws of Mexico even prior to
the publication of the constitution of
Coahuila and Texas. His testimony
was fully coiuborated by he old inhab
itants of this plar.R- t
Dolly was oneof thoitfu'iclared slaves
by the 9th section of the General Pro
visions of the Constitution of the lictnib-
lio of Texas, in 1835. Harriet having
been born in the. country, was not em
braced in tins provision of the lonsti
tution.
The Judtre charged the jury that ac
eording to the laws of Mexico, slavery
did not exist in this country piiorto the
Constitution of 1846; that even it the
laws of Mexico were abrogated by the
revolution, the declaring of those slaves
who emigrated to the country prior to
the adoption of tne Constitution, would
not make slaves of the issue born previ
ous to that time.
It was admitted in arcument, that if
the laws of Mexico, not positively re
pealed by the laws of the new govern
ment, proprio vigore, : continued in
force no slave was born in Texas pri
or to the repeal of those laws in 1840.
But it was contended, that all laws of
of governm' ",U ll,at 1116 condition
Qnhc: oilspring, whether borii before
0r after the revolution, was the same
as the mothers, and that the mothers
who emicrated to the countiv. havinn
been declared slaves by a high act of
sovereign power, made slaves of the
offspring, especially those under age,
mum diere remained in torce some
particular law that took tlie offspring
' ui uie uBiierii ruie.
It was also admitted, thiit the decis
ion ot tlte Supreme Court seemed to re,
cognize the principle that the lawi of
uie lormcr government remained in full
lorce until positively repealed by those
ol the new government, unless incon
sistent with the constittitio. the nature
of our institutions and the laws newlv
BUUIHBU. j
The Jury, after a retirement of five
minutes, rendered a verdict declaring
Harriet born free and no a free wo.
men. Ii 1 believed this decision, if
sustained by the 5upprem Court, will
have the effect to set at liberty some
thousands of pereons who heretofore
have been considered slaves. But in
the expressive lancuarre nf JikIob 11.
vine, if such be the law, the duties of
courts and juries is plain, An appeal
will be prepared for the Supreme Court.
A letter from Cominissiojier Baitlett
to the Secretary of the Interior, dated
at the Piino Villages, Juljt 9, announ
ces the completion on the lit of the sur
vey of the Gila River. Bt recent let
ters from Major Emory it appears that
the survey of the Rio Grande has ad
vanced as far down as Presidio del Nor
te, where Major Emory how is, and
that Lieut. Mickler, who was encased
in surveying the ,ver mnvtiwur! f.-om
Engle Puss, (whic 1 is, vr ht-ütve-, a-,
bout five hundred I M hei, . !' e 're
sidió del Norte,) . -I c)u',l. 'td the
survey of about kr, Jv n, m
consequence of tli moro f l! , i ll. p t
tion of the work t.-t-.;-ee,i P., -sidio .1,1
Norte and Eagle P
to work nnwnrds 1 ii '. .m' ! ,. . I
Major Emory'sdowiiuurc : ii, v, Imn
they would oil rest " i- wot , i;r,i ;..
Pass, und continue1 ti e 11 mli of ilm I
river.- Commission' JÜ-.tW an i Us
.pnrties have probably 'orivid tEI Pi-!
so belore this tune,
"You've destroyed mv pence of mind,
Betsey," said a despairing lover to a
truant lass." ' 1 ('
- "It can't do you much Win. John,
lfr tiuao an ninrinn ,niiiiriiAf
you
A GOOD STORY. .
We have heard a funny story told of
a young fellow, residing in one of the
tobacco growing counties of Virginia,
who recently made his first visit to the
capital of the "Old Dominion," for the
purpose of selling his crop, seeing the
sights, rubbing off the rust which his
backwoods "fetching up" had thrown up
on his manners. He reached Richmond
about the middle of the afternoon, and
was fortunate in selling his crop at an
advantageous rate, and almost lmraedi
ately. Meeting with an old school
mate, one who had lived in that city
long enough to know Us ways, he was
advisen to take up his lodgings at Boy
den's, the crack hotel of the place, and
thither he went wilh bBg'and baggage.
Just before dinner his city friend called
upon hint, and found him comfortably
loented m a room just at the head of the
stairs1 It was close upon dinner-time.
Said hit friend:
"Suppose we take something to start
an 'appetite," said the chap who had
just come down.
"Agreed," rejoined the citytnend,"a
class of wine and bitters for me."
"Let's go down to the bar and get it;
dinner's almost ready," continued the
tobacco grower.
"We might as well have it up here,"
was the rejoinder.
"Ring that bell there."
"What bell?"
"Pull that rope hanging there."
The young fellow laid hold of the rope
and gave it a jerk, and just at that mo
ment the gong sounded for dinner.
Never had he heard such a sound before;
and the rumbling crash came upon his
L - ,rl lit, ut .."AB !.!. TJ
SVIIH V "pr' PtMIIMCU llllll. A4U
staggered back from the rope, raised
both hands with horror, and exclaimed:
"Great Jerusalemwhat a smash 1 I've
broken every piece of crockery in the
house! There ain't a whole dish left I
You must stick by me, old fellow," ad
dressing his frend "don't leave me in
this scrape, for my whole crop wont,
half pay the breakage. What did you
tell me to touch that cursed rope for?
But before his friend, who was burst
ing with laughter could answer, a acr
vant entered the room with:
"Did you ring the bell, sir?"
"Belli no blast your bell I never
touched a bell in my life. What bell?
I never saw your bell." 1 .
"Somebody rang the bell of this room,
that's certain," continued the servant.
"No they didn't. There's nobody
here that ever saw a bell." And then
turning to his friend, exclaimed, aside':
"Let's lie him out of it; I shan't have
a cent to go home, if I py the entire
lamoge. What do they set such ras
cally traps as that for, io ti le in folks
from the country?"
After a violent fit of laughter, the
friend explained that it was only the
Cong sounding for dinner; a simple sum
mons to "walk down to soup," got- up
on the Chinese plan. Thpy made their
way to the dining-room, but it was some
time before the 'young tobacco grower
could get over the stunning and awful
ffeU of that gong. "Itwas agodsend,"
san. no, '-'.iuit the crash did not turn my
luir (,;:;! ; oil the Jpot." . ' --
"Somebody U't off the iiillowinaon
rn?ini?a ot jur John Iti.iii ; o
Sa.tih.Ca
r:,es
l't I
ii did thu mu-len I mt,
' 'ly.iwn's conté Lriakp a brji
iU lirst tl, iii,t t with t CüNT'tl.
D'jt HOW s) r
K'jfs it WHil 1 i 3a
B'aug a Per!h.r.
If there is really any diifici'
V-.!.5-'V'''V".e
to effect it, commend me tr1
wit for the purpose. 'j, ; r
Now,, there was a c
pedlar, traveling the city
tions to such as were '
He was a perseveiiMg,
i
to be bluffed off with a ihkil
One hotis, jn particular, lie rl.
:...,,.! rohiifla and assurance! l
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nothing was wanted they never lo'B: ,
any thing in tliat way, Nevertlnlesi,
he made his call steadily with eac. tep
ular post, and in reply to the nl1!
that it was of no use to calli F
known his purpose to do 'ju 3Jt" v
as he pleased. : r .
One bitter cold day the be si
the good lady hastened to get -put
of the dough In which! th
busy, to answer the call wh
reached the door, there stood the js,,
lasting pedlar. I
''Any tin-ware to day, ma'am? f
"Have you any tin kitchens?'?
"Yes, ma'am," and away he got
bring samples, chuckling at tha
that his deal was suooessful at V
"There's nothing," muttered j
hanging on, any how." '
The tins were brought, and ii.
were next inquired for. The pant
brought, and other articles etW
to seven different kinds, until
portion of the pedlar'i load had
transferred to the house. ;
"Is there anything else you1
ma'am?"
"Oh, no I don't want fny of tf
I only asked if you had them.' v'
The pedlar was fairly uoi,n fl
moment felt like getting angr
the idea rather tickled him, and h
menced returning his wares to tl
without uttering a word. Heb
called at that house since." ,
An exchange paper, remark
chineri'ched. . -pe91
lliiitrtion
says :" '""" J - "; '
"We saw some burnt pe
the hopper of coffee mill, th
day, and in less than two mlnu'
occupying a place in a grocer
labelled, 'Old Government Java,?
The following parody on Moore's beanrjí
ot the 'Last Rose of Summer,' possesses t)
of quaintness and originality. It is tlractf
however to parody such a beautiful song
which we refer, and which will be 111:
mired by the whole world,' as long ar
language shall exist. Con. Cant,
PARODY, j,.,','
'Tis the last cake of supper, 1
Left steaming alone,
All its light brown companions
Are hutttr'd tnd gone, . '
No cake of its kindred,
No cookie li nigh,
To steam on the pi
Or near Its mate I
I'll not leave thee, H
To meets cold f1'
Binee thy mates ersTi ,,,
Come lie on my puis Í"
Thus kindly I'll butier - ,
Thy steaming aides o'er,
And think on thy sweetness
When thou art no more.
Th us all cakes must follow ,
Three times every day, , , ;
When breakfast is ready ' .
They vanish away.
When hunger is mighly,
And sickness has flown, ,t
No cake can inhabit .
The table alone- , '
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THE PRESENT. ; '
Look not fir ever forward, '
With anxious heart and eye,1
But heed, with watchful eamesti
The moments ts they fly, -
He who upheld thee in the p"rt
1 Will leave thee not alou '
8a, let tlie future re
1 a