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'MVI. - t . I ! SMB HI - - , - " T' " - - ' I : VOL. I NO 42. . UPPER SANDUSKYy OHIO, THURSDAY, FEB 23, ; 1854. :.. WHOLE JSC). 424;. S&iH- .ffJ5JA.fUEHI.-j hu 7.cZ r yhf ollowing 4ina , were , written f. lay Mrs. Eabkikt Keitek, of1 .Findlay, while on a visit to this "laCe; and wtlch is respectfully dedica ted to Mfti HrXtisiLra ; bne ' ' Deal IfTenH, ;olF loV ihM our acquamtance has f nabeen,. ;i riJ Ja' ,of-J -f-1 "'" ''! JVj, hlwhy Isrny desUny thus, ., . That, rny fond WelUng heart must so often be ,-, gnevecl, '... .,: . . -v ,,, By the parting of friends that I trust. ' .4, t-o'f" .':'.,', '.; ' i . : i: . ThyJund friendly face has endeared thee to me, And my heart aches to leave thee so soon; Brifihe bright golden links of fobd friendship shall last, , . TjU my formhall bqUid in. the tomb. y $corl, soon', shall I leave thee forever, while life Ia this sorrowful world shall endure j , This world where- the heart is so oftei made , V-( .weed, , f ?,r .( ... . f And where all earthly joys are impure: ' Where the, canker worm gnaws at the heart of .'the'rose- '''' "'"' .- - And' where mildew and blight spread their wings " Where death and distraction its ravages make, ' ' And where eveiy joy has its fctings. - ' si I 'love thee? because thou art good and art And faia would I dwell with thee ever; But duty has claims and forbid roe remain , In a land where my darling would suffer. , - l!ir'f3 Zil T i ?'"" ''1 ' i.ffi-fV In a land where dishonor at. ever stepw ., Her innocent soul woald be crushing; Tcs.'lTl sacrifice all'my own feelings for her,f In Ja land among strangers I'm going. ' 1 ; Farewell,' then farewell, one long list sad adieu, Mj heart is new bleeding with 'sorrow; - -F$r I know- that thy face 'shall be far, fai from :ip; v.,W'yt-l -r. -.-.I I; When the sun rises bright on the, morrow. Fare thsewjell, fare the yell,, and may God be thy guide-.,.. . .. , .r OhI pray for me when I am gone, , That we may all meet in that bright happy land :WliCre the sorrows ol eartn cannot come. - Yes', lis i - !!?. THE me to accompany young Leroyjn his boat, , The waning moon had not revealed the to fish jn the Channel one calm and bright extremity of ray despair: Out now it was . m ' ' ' I - l- , L1 lt.i Tliil fflllAM 'I amMa iA summer morning, , ne peremptorily a,n-1 cieariy visiDie ina x uu inu utture swered, "No! I do not wish you to learn height ! supposed,' But for the turf which tobeVsmuggler.V 0 But then, he instant- had fallen under me, I must have been ly checked himself, and afterwards . was killed on the spot. :- The hole was too large more anxious and kind to me than ever. - for me to creep up,: by pressing against it Still Richard and I continued playfellows with my back and knees; and there were until we grew up, and both admired Char- no knots or protuberances, visible up its lotte. He would have made a formal smooth sides.! The.chasm increased in proposal for her hand, if the marked dis- diameter as it desended, like an inverted courao-ement of her family had not shut funnel. I might possibly climb up a wall; out every opportunity. This touched his but could I creep along a ceiling? pride,' and once made him declare,. in an I I shouted as 1 lay no one answerea. "J. ntr.uTA urav that it "would cost him but shouted nain and Rffkin. Then I tho't vu unuu TV vmj f I " o o verv little trouble to land such a light car? that too much shouting would exhaust my : j- ' 1 : I i ...1. .. J ...C raf fy tVin taclrn eo as mai, some uicttsctui- cvciiiulj, iu sirengiu, auu uuui. iw France, or even on. one of the Asore ls- mounting. 1 measured witn my eye ine lands, ,!if j 'orange L groves and orange distance from stratum, to stratum of eaeh blossoms were what my lady cared about. 1 Well-marked layer of chalk. And then, It is wonderful how far, and how swiftly, the successive beds of flint--they gave heedless words do fly when once they are me the greatest hopes. 1 If footholes could uttered. ; Such, speeches did.not close the only be cut? ' Though the feat was dim- breach, but instead, laid the first founda- cult, it might be practicable. The attempt tion for one of , those . eoufirmed estrange- must be made. I arose, stiff and bruised ments which villae-e neisrhborhoods only Ko matter.- The first layer of flints was 0 0 -I--. --r . . . , knnw.s To reDUJrnance manifested by Lot more1 than seven or eight feet over Charlotte's friends was partly caused by head. ' Those" once reached, I could; se the mystery which hung to Richard's anvr cure a footing, and obtain a first startmg pie means. The choice was unhesitating- pace for escape. I tried to elimb to them ly made in my favor. : In consequence,, as with my feet and hands. Impossible! the a sort of rejected candidate Richard Le- crumbling wall would not support half my roy really did lie, ( amongst ua, under an weight. I As fast as I attempted to get unexpressed and indefinite ban, which was handhold "or footing, it fell m fragments to by no means likely to be removed by the the ground. roystering, scornful air of superiority with I ! a better thought to dig it away, which hemostly spoke of, looked at, and an mate a mound so high that, by stand- treated usw ? v:w; .t? ;, ' inff on: it' I could manage to reach the Charlotte and I took leave of my father fljnt w-lth my hands. I had my knife to or that grey September evening with the me; andf after much hard work, my full conviction that every blessing was m 0hjcct was accomplished, and I got within store for us which atlection and wealth had reach of the shelf. the power to procure. , Over the green, jjv hands had firm hold of the horizon i I. ...... and up the lime-tree avenue, .and then, taj flmt They were cut with clinging good night, my lady-love ! Good-night, thus parting, for the, very last time. To rn nrrow ah? think of to-morrow. The seswere lead, it what happened atter- wards had occurred, at that time, ' there would have been no story, for you to lis ten to. . 7 " - Once more a burning thirst. ' Hunger had entirely passed away; I poked up,' and all was dark; not even, the stars or the cloudy sky were to be seen at the opening of my cavern. , A shower ,ot earth and heavy stones fell upon me as I lay. . I still waa barely awake and a groan was the only evidence .which escaped me that I had again recovered the use of my sen ses. , "Halloa! . Wha't that down there?'.' said a voice whose tone was familiar to me. I uttered a faint but frantic cry I heard a moment's whispering, andxhe hollow echo of departing footsteps and then all was still again. The voice over W r - head once more addressed me; r , .. . i Courage, George; keep up your spiritu all "In two minutes I will come and hual you. r Doht you know me?" I then did know that it could beno other than, my old rival, Richard "Leroy.. Be fore I could collect my thoughts, a light glimmering aginst one side of the well; and then, in the direction opposite the fal len table of flint, and just over it, Richard appeared,1 with a lantern in one hand and a rone tied .'to J a stick across it in the other. ' ' . Have you stregth enou'ghtleft to sit on this and to hold by the rope while I haul but I found that, by raising myself, and then thrusting my feet into the chalk and marl, 1 tQuld support myself with one quarters of the church,. clock strike half- hand only, leaving the other free to work past nine. Good-night, dear mother-in- j work; clearing away the chalk above law. -And, once more good-night, Char- the flint, so as to give me greater room lotte? . il :v-: : - i At last, I tho't I might venture upon the It was somewhat early to leave; but my je(jge itself. " By a supreme effort, I reach father'splans required it. He desired that . j tu Khell: but moisture had made the RESCUE; ' . qr;uncle GEOBGP'S story. "We had devoted the morning before my wedding day to the arrangement of those troublesome,'5 delightful, endless little af fairs; which the world says must be set in order on sucH occasions; 'and late in the af ternoon we walked down,' Charlotte and myself, to take'a last bachelor and maid en eep at the home which, next day was trffcif' ourain nartnershib. ' Goody Barnes, already installed as our 'cook '.and house- we should be marrjerjnot at the church of chalk unctuous and slippery to thebafled k'e'eper, stood aUhe door, ready to receive the, village where 'we all resided,' but at grasp. It was in vain to think of mount- n's 'as we crossed the : market-place' to- in- one distant a short walk, m which he took 5ng higher, with no point of support, no spect'out cottage' for the twentieth time, a peculiar inrest-where:i he had selec- firm footing: A desperate leap, across the -cbttape'DV courtesy next door to my ted the spot for. a. famil burial-place, and chasm afforded not the slightest hope; be- fatheW -mansionv by ;far the:best, and where he wished the family registers to be cs even jf successful, ! could not for han'dsomest in thefplace.: ' It was some kept. It was: a secluded hamlet; and my one moment maintain the advantage gain- diatanee ? from y Charlotte's house.5' where father had simply made the request that 1 d t Was determined to remain on the sheand ber"'Vtdowed; mother lived; all would lod'ge' for a while at a; farm-house ge Qf flmt. Another moment, and the way down the lime-tree avenue, then there, in order that the wedding might be rattinff on' the floor soon taught me my ovSr'the breeiy common,' besides travers- performed at'the place he had fixed his J Cowerlessness. Down sunk the chalk be iflgthe prihcipal'ahd only street,-which ter-J heart u only just failing to crush ihinated in the village market place. n 7 ' were to lobey. .' 1 "V''. ": me under it. Stunned, ; and cut, and The Trent of our house was quakeflike, "Good night, Charlotte,"- had not long bruised, I spent some time prostrated by in 'point of neatness0 and humility. But been uttered, ;before I was fairly on the half ' conscious but acute sensation of mis- enter! It is not hard to display ! good way . to my temporary borne. Our vil- tafeta when" the banker's book -nuts no veto lage, and. its 'few scattered lights, were othe-'thdice-'gems' of furniture! R which' soon left behind, and I then was 'upon the giye'the fihishing: touch to the whole. open -downV walking on with a springing Then-pass through, and bestowj i "glance step.; On one side was spread the English updh' W living rooms looking " down upon Channel; and from' time to time I could the greatest of" luxuries; a terraVedga?den, mark the appearance of the: light at Cape J eommandlngthecount- ahd Wt a'little Grinez; ' on the French coast opposite ordfat 'country' 1 mme' alreadf the ; farm There it was, coming and going, flashing which -.my father had given me, to keep out ana aying away, wim uever ceabiiig hrary. 13ut the lull consciousness me quiet and contented at home. For the coquetry:" lhe clitt.'lay between my rapidly succeeded presented each moment clfoinir perspective s bf our view, there was path and the sea. There was no danger; with hideous truth. It was. now broad w . , . ... ... . . you up?" ' "I think I have,," I said, I got the stick under me, and held by the rope to keep steady on.my seat. Richard planted his feet firmly on the edge of his standing place, and hauled me up. By a sleight of hand and an effort of strength, in which I was too weak to render him the least as sistance, he landed me at the mouth of a subterranean gallery opening into the well. I could just see, on looking back, that if I had only maintained my position on the ledge of flint, and improved ' it a little, I might, by a daring and . vigorous leap, have sprung to the entrance of this very gallery. But those ideas were now useles. I was so' thoroughly worn out that I could scarcely stand, and an entreaty for water preceeded even my expression of "thanks "You shall drink your fill in one instant and I am heartily glad to have helped you; but first let me mention one thing. It is understood that you keep my secret. You cannot leave this place unless I blind fold you, which would be an insult- with out learning the way to return to it; and of course, what you see along the galler ies are to you nothing but shadows' and dreams. Have I your promise?" I was unable to make any other reply than to seize his hand, andburst into tears. How I got from the caverns to the face ery. Sleep, which as yet, I had not felt, began to steal over me but could gain no mastery.' With each moment of incipient unconciousness, Charlotte was presented to me, first, in her wedding-dress; next, in our terrace, beckoning me gaily from the garden below; then we were walking arm-in-arm in smiling conversation; ' or seated happily together in my father's li- But the full consciousness that fh sea, like a bright blue rampart rising for, although the moon was not up, it was day; and I realized Charlotte's sufferings, before tiV. ."White-sailed vessels; or self- bright starlight.; I knew every inch of the I beheld her awaiting " me in her bridal willed'steamers. flitted to and fro for our way.' as well as I did my father's garden n"ow hasteninc to the window, and " . T . t . "111 amuSettent.' ;- ' "! -': ' ' ' ' ' walks. In September, however, mists win straining her sight over the valley, in the -A W tripped down' the'terrace steps, and rise; and, as I approached the valley, there hope of my approach; now stricken down Of bourse leaked m upon the little artifical came the offspring of the pretty steam by despair at my absence. My father; too grotto td the' right which I had caused to whichran through it, something like alight whose life had been always bound tip in be lined throughout with foreign shells and cloud running along before wind. Is there minet These fancies destroyed my power glittering spars, more gifts from my ever a night-fog coming on? Perhaps there 0f thought. .1 felt wild and frienzied. I bountiful, father. Charlotte and I went may be; 'J If so, better steer quite clear of rave'd and' shouted, and listened, knowing lafrghiiu' along the straight gravel walk, the cliff, by means of a gentle circuit in- no anSwer could come. . ; ; " flanked on each side with a regiment of land. - It is quite impossible to miss the : But an answer did come; a maddening .dahlias;- that led us to the little gate, ralley; and once m the valley, it is equally ansWer. The sound of bells, dull, dead, !pening to give us admission to my father's difficult to miss the hamlet. I Richard Le- and in my well-hole, just distinguishable. own pleasure-ground and orchard. ' ;!! roy nas been irequenuy DacKwara ana ior- They rang out my marriage peal. Why ?S-Th4 "dearold: man was rejoiced to re- ward . the- last few evenings; it would be was j hot buried alive when I first fell.' 'ceiveTil. -X daughter was what he so long strange if we should chance to meet here , I could have drank blood, in my thirst, ;had wished for. " We hardly knew wheth- and on such an occasion. , had it been offered to me. Die' I must. I ef to' smile; or weep for joy, as :we all sat On, and still on, cheerily. In a few jyt fun we) but let me not die with my together on the same rustic bench; over- minutes more i, shall reach the larm, and mouth in flame? Then came the.struggle shadowed by ' the:tulip-tree, which some then, to pass one more solitary night is 0fsieep: and then fitful, tantalizing dreams, 'one said my 'father had himself brought almost a pleasurable delay, a refinement Charlotte appeared to me plucking grapes, . . - i i w - ii r i - , . irom JNorth America. ': But of the means m nappiness. x couia sing ana aance ior d dronDincr them Dlavfullv into mv J . r . w.. j. ii .1 xi. . .1...?. xm. a. . . . i . J, . ; t ly Which he become possessed of many joy- es, uance an aiong, on me eiasuc mouth : or catching water in the hollow of x( his choicest treasures, he never breath- trufl ihere, just, one foolish caper; just her had from the little cascade in our one- . . ; .. . . it j :i t . i ii i i Good God! i4 this not the shock of an Srouo' urana. umarKi anp, anp, j t ii: i i-iio -t earthauake?. I hasted to advance another aSam ur! luls ,maaness SU11'' '-u..i vri-t. There must be water oozing somewhere " . : ... .O . U . .... -J .1. . J .( I. . J J 1. -1- and Kinks. I o-rasn at t.hp. sin nl a vawn- 1 ? ' . I lnornirfall hnr. orrnsnin vain I lAwn drran 1 ' again another 1 present I where the green patches are brightest and When mv senses returned, and I could wlQest sPread ,0Qtlie clammy sides ot my look about me, the moon had risen, and liTing 8epulchre' thcre wil1 be the sPot to was shining in at the treacherous hole aiS ana lo searcn w . . a xi. il:f- : ii through Which I had fallPii A lan Agam lUe Kmle- rJ 010W S1VeS a was onlv too' sufficient to enlain mv no- more dead and ho1 sition. , Why hid I always so foolishly je- dislodged is certainly not moister, but the fused t6 allow the farmer to meet me half- DiaQe BllCKS lf W.-"J nrmr artn anrnniTianv me to his nmisp vprw o j o ii jr , r -j - - evening ; as I did kno w, how the chalk and limestone of the district had beerl under- minded in caiacombs, sinuous and secret, for wells, flint, manure, building materials, and other purposes? My poor father and Charlotte! very ed a syllable to me. ' His father, I -well knew - was nothing - more - tl - homely farmer, cultivating no' great extent of nat too! productive sea side land;:. but 'Charlotte'- lace dress which she was to wear to-morrow from him-was, her'mother proudly pro Enounced,1 valuable and handsome enough ''Charlotte had whispered,1 half said aloud, that she had no fear ' now that Richrd Deroy, her boisterous admirer, vwould dare to attempt his reported threat p carry her off to the.continent.in his cut 4terj!jAchard'a .name .made jrly . father frown, , so" we -aid .no -more; we dapsed again into the dreamy atate of silent .en- jym1.'wMc w .the; best expression of ;W happiness.; v,:nb ,.M.' (VLerpy's father.was"ficf(.&.fanne5jbut on pur portion of .theuglishcoast there are many things that are well :iniFstood j ratbeci than clearly and qistinctly express ;ed; and no. one bad'ver enlightened my ignorance. , My, father - was on speaking term with him, thatwas all ; courteous, but Miataat,' half timid, half misterions. : He seouied' my childish' intimacy !.with Richardj yel he did not go' eo'fa'r as U for- ld it :-,J Once,vwheri I .urged hiiiitatajW of the cliff,.how thence to the beach se cluded hamlet, and the sleeping village does really seem to my memory like a vis ion. . On the way across the downs, Le roy stopped once or twice, more for the sake of resting aching limbs, than of ta king breath orrepose himself. During those intervals he quietly remarked to me how prejudiced and unfair we had. all of us been to him; that as for Charlottee he considered her as a child, a little sister almost even as a baby plaything. She was not the' woman for him; he for. his part, liked a girl with a little more of . the devil about her. , Ko doubt he could have carried her off; and no doubt she would have loved him desperately a fortnight af terwards But, when he. had once got her, what should he have done with such a blue-eyed milk-and-water angel as that? Nothing serious to annoy us had ever en tered his head. And my father ought not quite to torgetthe source or his own fortune, and hold himself aloof from his equals; although lie might be lying qui etly in harbor at present.. Really it was a joke, that, instead of doping with the bridegroom! I fainted when he carried me into the father's house, and I remember no more than his temporary adieu. But after wards, all went on slowly and surely. My father and Richard became good friends, and the old t gentleman acquired such influence over, liim, that Leroy's "pleasure trips" soon became rare, and finally ceased altogether. At the last run, he brought a foreign wifeover with him, and nothing besides a Dutch woman of great beauty and accomplishments; who, as he said, was as fitting a helpmate for him as Charlotte, he acknowledged, was for Remarkable Manifestation. When Queen Ulrike, of, Sweden, was on her death-bed, her last moments were embittered by regret at the absence of her favorite, the Countess Steenbock, between whom and the queen there existed the most. tender and affectionate attachment. Un fortunately, and by; the most singular co incidence, the Countess Steenbock at the same moment, lay dangerously ill at Stockholm, and at too great a distance from the dying Queen to be carried to her presence. After Ulrike -had breathed her last, the ; royal corpse, as customary in that country, was placed in an open coffin, UDon an elevated ; frame, in an apartment of the palace, : brilliantly illu minated with wax candles. ; .. A de tachment of . Royal Horse Guards was stationed; in the anti-chamber as a funeral watch.. During the afternoon, the out side door of the ante-chamber opened, and the x Countess Steenbock appeared in deep grief. . The soldiers of the , guard immediately formed into two lines, , and presented arms, as a respect to the first dame of the palace, who was ; i-eceived and escorted by the commander of the guard , into the chamber where lay the body ofher dearest friend. The officers were surprised at her unexpected arrival and attributing her silence to the intensi ty of her grief, conducted her to the side of the corpse, and then retired, leaving her alone, not choosing to disturb the ex pression of her deep emotion. ; The offi cers waited outside for a considerable time, and the Countess not yet returning, they feared some acciednt had . befallen her. . The highest officer m the rank now opened the door, but immediately fell back in the utmost consternation. The other officers present then hasted into the room, and they all beheld the Queen stan ding upright in her coffin, and tenderly embracing the Countess! This was ob served by all the officers and soldiers of the gusrd. ; Presently the apparition seemed to waver and resolve itself into a dense mist. ; When this had disappeared, the corpse of the Queen was seen repo sing in its former position on the bed of state; but the Countess was nowhere to be found. In vain they searched the cham ber and the adjoining rooms not a trace of her could be discovered. A courier was at once dispatched to Stockholm with, an account of: this extro dinary occurrence, . and there it was learn ed that the Countess Steenbock. had not left the capital, hut that she died at pre cisely the same moment . when she was seen in the arms of the deceased Queen! An extraordinary protocol of this occur rence was immediately ordered to be ta ken by the officers of the government, and which was countersigned by all pres ent. This document is still prcsetrved in the archives.. 1 then, feeling me. He also took a neighboring church and its appurtenance into favor, and set tled down as a landsman," within a few miles of us. And, if our families con tinue to go on in tne friendly way they have done for the last few years, it seems likely that a Richard may conduct a Char lotte, to enter their names together in a fa vorite register book. down. It is brandy. r Brandy! shalll taste it? Yet, why not? I did; and soon for a time remembered nothing. : , I retained a vivid and excited conscious ness up to one precise moment, which Patience.. It can hardly be possible that -S" v j " . " . , . and then all outward things were shut out. now. fin the. aire nt mar nacre. I am silfl- I .. , - . - o- , , , . - f 1 1 1 1 . denly doomed to a lingering death. : , The as enij iamP De ex"T tiitrht.tn.7ilt TA nou on AorrYtht gUlShed. A xOHg, , - i mi I have no further recollection either of the will show some means of escape. I will v j v v ' e .t. xi r ii duration of time, or of any bodily, suuer- liA rfntim nn this hpn nf pnrt.h that fpil nn. j I TT. J T J ! . .1 V l..V..lir nnicnn a derme. . ' : ' Amidst desparing thoughts, and a hid eous walking nightmare,' daylight slowly came. : '' '' ' ' -:-,. ' .. . ring. and it is a miracle the brandy id n.ot kill me then would have been the ead of my actual and conscious existence. My sen Awful ' Calamity! A correspondent of the Green River Whig, writes as follows to tht paper, under date of "Christian county, Ky., Feb. 4th:" On Thursday night last, the dwelling of Mr. Jno. Parker, living in the northwest part of this county, was entirely consum ed by fire, together with its contents, and three of his children, and slightly injur ing others of. the family. His oldest daughter, 18 years of age, was severely burned,' but is recovering. i The huose caught from the chimney, after the fami ly had retired to rest. The ages of the children burned range from 4 to 12 years. There are only 6ix children left. " Victims of the Scaffold. Don Rodrigo Colderon wore a Francis can habit at his execution, as an outward and visible sign of penitence and humilia tion. As he ascended the scaffold, he lift ed the skirts ot the habit with such an air that his attendant tonfessor thought itne cessary to reprove him tor such an in stance of ill-timed regard to his appear ance. Don Rodrigo excused himself by saying that he had all his life carried him self gracefully. When Thistlewbod was on the scaffold, his demeanour was that of a man who was resolved boldly to meet the fate he had deserved. In the tew Words which were exchanged between him and his fellow criminals, he observed that the grand question, whether or not the soul was im mortal, would soon be solved for them No expression of hope escaped him, no breathing of repentance; no spark of grace appeared. Sir Thomas Moore's wit accompanied him to the scaffold. The frame-work was weak, and some fears were expressed lest the scaffold might break down. "Mr. Lieutenant," said the old man, "see me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for mvself." The executioner, as usual, asked forgiveness: "Friend;" said Moore, "thou wilt render me to-day the greatest service in the power of man. But my neck is very short; take heed, there fore, that thou strike not awry, for the sake of the credit of thy profession." He was not permitted to address the specta tors; but he ventured to declare that he died a faithful subject and a true Catholic. After prayers were said, he placed his head upon the block; but he bade the headsman hold his head until he removed his beard, saying with a smile, "My beard has never committed any treason." Then the blow fell, and the neck was severed at once. . .. : On the 19th of May, 153S, AnneBoleyn, the second queen of Henry the Eighth, was brought to the place of execution on the green within the Tower of London. Some of the nobility and companies of the city were admitted; rather to be witnesses than spectators of her death. From the scaffold Anne addressed a few words to the "good Christian people." After these words she bared her beautiful neck, and kneeling down kept repeating, "Christ have mercy on my soul!" "Lord Jesus receive my soul!" until the executioner of Calais,; at one blow, struck off her head. - " ' " " ; ' On the scaffold, Sir Walter Raleigh be haved like a hero and a Christian.' He vindicated his conduct in a pathetic and edge of the fatal instrument of death, ob served with a smile, "It is a sharp'iriedi cine, but a Bufe remedy for all woes.'--1 Being asked' which' way- he would lay himself on. the block; he rt plicd, "So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lies." After this, composing himself as if he had been'going to rest, his head was sev ered from his body at two blows. On the 12th of May,', 1641 ,' Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Stfafford, was bro't to' the scaffold, on Tower Hill; he Wend ed it with perfect composure, and took an affectionate farewell of his relations and friends.' To his brother, who was . weep ing excessively, he thus addressed himself with a cheerful countenance:' "What do you see in me to deserve' these Hearst- Does any indecent fear betray in me guilt or jny Innocent Wldness' any atheism? Think now you are" accompanying me the third time to' my. marriage-bed. Never did I throw off my clothes with greater freedom and content than in this prepa ration for the grave. That stock," pointing to the block, "must be my pillow; here shall I rest from al my ' labors ; no thoughts of" envy, no dreams of reason, no jealousies nor care for the 'king, the state, or myself, shal interrupt this easy ' sleep.. Therefore brother, with me pitty those who, contra ry to their intentions, have made me hap py. Rejoice in my felicity, rejoice in my innocence." " Then kneeling down, he j made the following protestation: "I hope, gentlemen; you will not think that either the fear or loss of life, or the love of repu tation, will suffer me to belie my God and my own conscience at such a moment. 1 am now in the very door going out ; and my next step will be from time to eternity either peace or pain. To clear myself before you all, I do here solemnly call God to. witness I am not guilty, so far as I can understand, of the great crime laid to my charge; nor have I ever had the least in clination or intention to prejudice the king but with my best endeavors to serve all, and to support all. So may Godbe mer ciful to my soul!" Then . nsing; up, he expressed his desire of addressing the people; and a profound silence ensuing, he made an harrangue, in , which he, en- j deavored to exculpate; himself, of. every principal charge that had .been alleged against him ; professed the rectitude' of his heart, and his attachment to his sover eign and the constitution in church and state; declared his forgiveness of all Ms enemies, and concluded with requesting the pardon of all whom he rhad offended by word or deed. Having finished, he saluted the friends who attended him' on the scaffold, desiring their prayers, and with the utmost devotion addressed him self to Heaven for nearly half an hour, concluding with the Lord's Prayer. Af ter this he sent his last blessing to his family; and preparing himself for the block, laid down his head with calmness, and at one blow was no more. - Dads Experiment ith Billf' , ::'.! , ; Less thaji a hundred miles from Syra-Y,7 -cuse, lives an old farmer, whose, given . y . name is Zury a hard working, honest; oi old Englishman, owning a good . farm of ; j orpr . a hundred acres, and two faithful 3. boys', who have been brought up to wield.-.; the "agricultural implement." ' .Erom.pnaV-. of these I have my 'story :'--.':& K.hv. Old Zury had an old goat on the farm,, , ; who was not one .of the most peacefully t. disposed creatures in the world, .and 'on: , this account the boy's take no little delight . in putting his lordship on his taps, bnce .in a' while, by way of amusement; for: along .s j time the old man had noticed that' when o J Billy corned home at . night hewas com-,! ?r pletely covered with' mud and water; and for his soul, Zury could hot imagine how.: ,' he could "become so; so he determined, if y- possible, that he would find out the caused-. poor Billy's .daily; misfortune. , 4j .J One day he left the boys to pick up the rakes, &c;, after a hard day's work of haying and walked around to the'.: t .1 t ' tmi . ' : n l.. - i.,4i r , ridge; wnere isuiy guneiaiij jcpu uim- If: 'Tl ' i ,..4.' x;n ' V r. rrnni tn J.U WHS ctUUUb HUiC 1UI w tLjav w ExTHAORDINARy DEVOTION OF A MOTHER to two Insane Children.- The Hagars town (Md.) Herald records the death of Mrs. Nourse, an old lady, at the alms-; house in that town, and adds: About forty years ago a son and daughter of this old lady, both insane or idiotic, and were brought to the Almshouse of this county Soon afterward the mother, left her home; and those, of her children who were able to take care of themselves, took up her residence atHhe almshouse with her afflicted and helpless offsprings, and and watched over them and ministered to their wants as a mother only can do. until the bodily and mental infirmities attend ing the aged disqualified : her r entirely for a longer and arduous discharge of this duty. She was worth about ten thousand dollars in her own right, and she thus im murred herself in this unattractive build- inc; but .she cheerfully surrendered all the comforts and enjoyments which such pecuniary competency afforded severed tli o. tip's nf fripndshin. and trave up the v- a- o pleasures of society, that she might be stow a mother's love upon those who most needed it. What a proof of the intensity of that love! What a fact for the records' of heaven! self. o-o to the house, but there he lay quiet and "h dry; so old Zury seated himself behind a- ; stump, determined to watch his move-. ; ments, for1 that night, at any rate V He" ' had not been there 'more than fifteen min-w ' utes, when who't should he.' sc$ coming ' along the ridge but, the. two, boys T. His;;. first impulse was to tell . them to;.keep "i back, but upon second thought, he 'sail- nollnng: ' - "Take my load, Hank," said Dick;- "its my turn to take the feller to-night."1'-4 Hank took Dick's load from his back; and Dick going down the hill a litne;Wa)v?; 't soon showed himself ; within a few yards of where the goat was lying. Billy had already - caught a glimpse , o-. . the boys and was soon on his feet. ' Hank laid flat on the ground, and Dick, on the'' . edge' of. the ridge now presented a fuU.. fruuf, winch did not seem exactly to please f , his goatship, for he pointed for htm, and ,4 down went Dick to aggravate Billy t& gt'll more desperate lunge; again , the sig--' nal rose, and Billy jumped, but as .he got : within a few feet, Dick lowered .himself about two pegs; and Mr. Goat ; lowered , himself about; fifteen feet inta a. ditch:of marsh; mud and water. Hank had caught :: si!ht 'of a small cbrn'er of .the old ' man's v hat above the" stump," and" sloped forHhe barn, while Dick was n9t alite'sufpri'sei at the sudden: transformation of thei pld j stump into a human being,rand that too, L the old man, at fifteen paces,1 who; by the -way, was not the most forbearing person' in the world; and as he looked around on the ground, Dick thinkingHhat a, club or stone might possibly be the; object of dus, search.started on a keen jump fdr the barn, j The old man made up his mind that thfe mystery was solved. That night' Dck : ' and Hank didn't come to supper. - ; I thought I should not be able to, hold? myself together, as Hank related the sur-' prise of old Zury and his son,;; asV.they stood face to face.-' ' - -" , " "But hold on," said he, "I havn't told ' you the best of it.yet; about two weeks ; from that time, one day me ana jjica. iidu . been working all day, and we made up our minds that we ' should find old dad bucked, for he hadn't been in the .field at all in the afternoon, and he always .kept a good barrel of ale in the cellar ; but.: when we had started, who should we 6ee, but the old man edging around the ridge; . so Dick and mc went ..over thatway .-r--There was. old, dad, . and there was .the goat. "... - . . - . . . :' ' .' AVe laid flat on the ground, anxious to . to know what the old man would, do," when what was our surprise to see . him ' take the exact position Dick'.had taken a couple of weeks before. ; , ,.,:.: We said nothing, for we hadn't seeri any of that kind of sport in a long time; old man presented, "rather a formidable ap pearance, but Billy, nothing daunted.poin te'd for the mark, the old man loweredj; but a little too late, for the goat; took him "plump." We heard something strike in. the mud, and it wasn't Billy, for he stood looking down over the ridge. . Me : and Dick pulled' for the barn, and in , a few minutes we saw old dad paddling for the; house, covered with mire from head to toot: The Old Man. Bow low the boy; do reverence to the old man. young like you That night the old man man dressed up in his best clothes. I ventured to aslt head, Once the vicissitudes of life have silvered the hair, and changed the round merry face to the worn visage be fore you. Once that heart beat with, as pirations coequal to any that you have felt; aspirations crushed by disappoint ment, as yours are perhaps destined to be. ; Once that from stalked proudly, through the gay scenes of pleasure, the beau ideal of grace; now the hand of Time that withers the flower of yesterday has warped that figure and destroyed the noble carriage. Once at your age, he possessed the thousand that passed thro' your brain, now wishing to accomplish deeds worthy of a nook in fame,1 anon imagining life a dream that the sooner he awoke from the better. But he has lived the dream very near through. The time to awake is very near at hand; yet his eye ever kindles at old deeds of dancing, and i.Iia hnnd takes a firmer grasp of the staff. Bow low the head, boy, as you would in your old age be reverenced. j2TYou must advertise if you want to make money, and purchase of advertising met, if you would save it. , him if he was going over to see the Dea con. : "See the Deacon! no!; . Can't a man put on good clothes without, going to see the Deacon!" ;." . , - "Yes," said Dick, looking put the door j "can't a man go.and see the goat without tumbling in the mud?" .. .. Dick was gone, and the old dad looking at me, and then very signmcuuiy heavy wooden boot jack, I stepped out of the door. " Arrest of Madame . Restell. This - . 3 r -NT., Vrti-t- notorious, woman arrescea in : on Saturday by Capt. Walling, of the 18th Warl Police, cn a warrant issuea py Justice Stuart, m which sne sxanus vur ged with producing an abortion upon a young female, who had fallen a victim to the snares of an individual living in the fashionable quarter of the city, who, after effecting her ruin, induced her last sum mer to visit several watering places with him.and afterward, to conceal her fhame to boafd at a farm house about ten miles from the city. ' . . .. She waVheldby the Magistrate to await examination: : A complaint has also been made against the seducer,1 and the : police are on the look out for him; ' ' ; : : ' '