Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 24 January 1857 — Page 1

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MYSTERIOUS MUSIC.

Xi a certain point on the. sea coast of this State. (Pascagoula,) .there, is heard al night a mygteriou3 music, which comes up from the depths of the sea. It is very sad and has an indescribable effect upon all who heaif it. itU. Southern waves 4# «f,f3 Wwh India* graves, j. f.»T.., Iabe*rd amnio wild and loae

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»si«* Birds and-flshes, Lingering, listen to !ti iono To thntlono, so nwed nnd under, fT fp13" Like the sile^co after tbender.- ^9Pl v. ht -3»:-id^Softpnd *to«r, -Tiill of-vroe, "tl'i". & £tjiBrcatbin«r 6n tho midnight air

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fcttW .Dylrtj wijliioat God or prayor, •frj.' TK.Co:n2g tliatimusic to the enr? ... ,»rjfr Music whieli.thc spirit herns.

P"7 "\Vh99odertieritI,r'-' 'P..* iSdoirijit e'er to winder there? I "Wild witli woe, .- ."'^"'Whone oVrflow, '-In tlioutmoat'«r'despair the pang of ons vhocrioth viler/ With tho vr'otto that xtartr dietii

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{SET Tho following fi on« of Barrj Cornjvnll'd little.^em», full of grace»nl boswty^^ v' /0 tho summer night, %t:-

Ilua a smilo of light,

_.And,she *ita on a sn'phire throne. Whjist the sweetest v/iub load licr AVhh gnrlnndidf odor, '4*

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Froni the binVofthe rose tt'erhMxtn"/" W,.i ftf.i

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'•:iv -iJl the autumn night, '•, a piercing bight, j,/(iAud uBtsji both strong und free

JVii'.l a volcc fjpr v/ondor. tho wrath'of tbundur,

When he shoutli'to tlie'fettiriuv sea .4"'

A«d tho .winter night, lacold and white,

And ahosingctli a song of pain, ji itilirL'/i j.T'illilie wijd bee liumino 'j, -s»^ii..'And tho Wiirm spring e.vniy'Ji, i« j,,AV,hon HI.O ilics in ndronm of rain.

'V tlio night, tho n'ght, .• "'Tin a lovely sijrli'.,

•••.*, Whatever theellmo'or time, ,'i1'or sorrow tlioi: soareth, V\iid thu lowr ont-poureth, 1)1 Ills! soul iii a star bright rhyme.

-ft bringcth sleep To tlio fo/e.-'t deep,

The fciest birdti»iU-nest

To earn, biiglit honra,

JV 'j'UVnd drenm of tlowern. ri if it And that laliti to thu weary—IIEUT.

KIWrORATlOXO!'- Till: IIESCU/UTKTO £C t'lio .KS«I,ISIT—VISIT of the QUICKf 'I'lip old Arcti::"'discfltcry ship 1'esolute —-jSyjeovored ly an American wlialc ship ,! mid presented to (he JJrifish nation by tlio •4 United States ('ongrcss—arrived at Spithjjad on the 12tli of December, under the ooinniand of Capt. ITartstcin, of llie United .•I States Navy. She was uuder American colors, but ou letting go her anchors the

British onsign was run up along-side the American and on tho following day, cxchange salutes being fired, the Kepohuc clinnged her colors to British. On tho morning of the 13th Captain Hartstein landed at Portsmouth, and paid official visits to Chevalier Pnppalardo, the United States Vicc-C ousul. and tho military and civil authorities. An invitation to a banquet from the corporation and inhabitants of Portsmouth has been accepted" by the captain and .officers, but the day is not yet fixed, and every mark of respect lias been shown to the American officers.

Tho Resolute was towed up to Cowes on .Monday, the Queen having intimated her wisli to pay a visit to hc vessel, and the steamship .Retribution was also sent up to salute on tlio. occasion, and several ships and giuiboats were stationed in the roads. Tho Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied

sonic of the royal children, paid their visit about 10 o'clock on Tuesday morning, -the JCth, tho English and American flags flying at the pealc of .the Kcsolutc, and the royal standard was hoisted at the main as noon as her Majesty stepped onboard.—

Captain Hartstein roccivea the royal party, the officers being grouped on cither side in full uniform. .The following gontlcmca assisted in the reception of Uer Majesty Mr. T. It. CrosJkev, U. S. Consul Chov. Vincent Pappalartloj Viee Consul for the U. S. at Cowes Capt. lliggins, of the steamer Hermann and -Mr. Cornelius Grinncll, son of the projector of the American expedition in search of Sir John Franklin. Her Majesty havibg received a cordial welcome, inspected the vessel, and retired amidst much clieertug.— An elegant (hje'.oicr was afterwards served in the wardroom, when Capt. Ilart•iteiji proposed "the. Queen and Royal Family," and next, "the President of the United States," which were both drunk with applause. "The British and American

NaViosandArmios" were toasted, aud Capt. per the name of father and sister—death ilartstcin's healtli was drank with loud,—and no soft hand, no gentle voice to soothe cheers. "The Consul, Mr. Croskey, and

his cxccllentYice Consuls," was responded to by Mr. Croskey in his usual felicitous Btyle, and ho concluded by proposing "the /Union Jack and Star Spangled J3amicr" with an appropriate sentiment. Subse-

THE BRIDAL WINE CUP

A THRILLING SKETCH.

"Pledge with wine—pledge!" cried ioe young and thoughtless Harvey Wood "pledge with wine" ran through the crowd.

The beautiful bride grew pale—the decisive hour had come. She pressed her white hands together, and the leaves of the bridal wreath trembled on her brow her breath became quicker, and her heart beat wilder. "Yes, Marion, lay aside all your scruples for this once," said the judge, in a low tone, going toward his daughter "the .company expcct it. Do not seriously infringe upon the rules of etiquette in your home, actas you please, but in mine, for this once, please me."

Every eye wasinrncd toward the bridal pair. Marion's principles were well known. Henry had been a convivialist, but of late his friends noticed the change in his manners, the difference in his habits, and that night they watched to see, as they sneeringly said, if he was tied down by a woman's opinion so soon.y

Pouring out a'fbriirirhitig beaker, they held it, with tempting smiles, toward Marion. She was very pale, though more composed, and her hand shook not, as she gracefully ^accepted the crystal tempter, and raised-it to her lips. But scarcely had she done so, when every hand was arrested by her piercing exclamation of "Oh! how horrible!"-.' .'»} "What is it?" cried onCarid all, thronging together, for she slowly carried the glass at arm's length, and was fixedly re garding it as .though it, were some hideous object. ,.

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she ans*.vcred, while an inspiring

light, shone from her dark eyes "wait, and will tell you. I see," she added, slowly pointing one jbweled fingerat the sparkling liquid, "a sight that beggars.all description and yet listen, I will paint it for you, if I can. It is a lonely spot tall mountains, crowned with verdure, rise in awful sublimity around a river runs through, and bright flowers.grow to the water's edge.— There is a thick, warm mist, that the sun seeks in vain to pierce. "Trees, lofty and

beautiful, wave to the airy motion of the birds but there—u group ox Indians gather they flit to and fro with something like sorrow upon their dark brows and in the iuid lies a manly form—but his dark checks grow deathly, his eyes wild with the fatal fire of fever. One friend stands beside him—nay, I should say kneels—for see, he is pillowing that poor head upon his breast.

Genius in ruins—oil! the high, holylooking brow, why should death mark it?— And he so young! Look, how he throws back the curls! Sec him clasp his hands! hear his thrilling shrieks for life! mark how he clutches at the form of his compauion, imploring to be saved! Oh! hear him call piteously his father's name—see him twine his fingers together, as he shrieks for his sister—his only sister, the twin of his stul —weeping for him in his distant native land. '^.1'. "Sec!" she exclaimed,"while the bridal pariy shrank back, the uutastcd wine trembling in their grasp, and the judge fell, overpowered, upon his scat "sec, his arms are lifted to heaven—he prays, how wildly, for mercy! but fever rushes through his viens. The friend beside him is weeping awe-striken, the dark men move silently away, leaving the living and the dying together.

There'was a hush in that princely parlor, broke only by what seemed a sob from some manly bosom. The bride stood }-et upright, with quivering lip, and tears stealing to tlio outward edge of her lashes.— Her beautiful arm had lost, its extension, and the glass, with its little troubled red waves, came slowly toward the range of her vision. She spoke again: every lip was mute, llcr voice was faint and low, yet awfully distinct. She still fixed her sorrowful glance upon the wine cup. "It is evening now the great, white moon is coming up, and its beams lay gently upon his forehead. He moves not—his eyes are set in their sockets—dim are their piercing glances—in vain his friends wliis-

"Ilis head sinks back! One convul, shudder—he is dead." A groan ran through ihe assembly so vivid was her description, so unearthly was

uucntlv, Mr. Croskey proposed the health ... ,. Of Mr.'Cornelius Grinncll, xvhich that gen- so inspired her manner, that what she described seemed actually to have taken place then and there. They noticed, also,

!cman acknowledged in an eloquent speech. "Tho future success of the Resolute, and may she be again employed in prosecuting the" search for Sir John Franklin and his comrades," was proposed by Capt. Higgins, mid seconded by Mr. Grinncll, and evoked cordial applause. The authorities of South

furnished a special steamer for the

"occasion. Capt. Hartstein was invited to dine and sleep at Osborne, and all the officers were inrited to visit the royal grounds a privilege of which they availed themselves. The. Resolute returned to PortsrWouth the following day.

jSrThe French beat us in our 'New Year's visits.'" They give one day to marking calls on tint dead! The second of

November this posthumous anniversaryIt came thu y«ur,on a Sunday, and the day being beautiful, promewjes ,swere quite deserted for the fcskiooablc cemeteries.

that the bridegroom hid his face in his hands, and was weeping. "Dead!" she repeated again, her lips quivering faster, and her voice more broken "and they scoop him a grave, and there, without a shroud, they lay him down in the rocking earth. The only son of a proud father, idolized brother of a fond sister, and he sleeps to-day in that distant country, with no stone to mark the spot. There he lies—my father's son—my own twin brother! —a victim to this deadly poison. Father!" she exclaimed, turning suddenly, while the tears ran down her beautiful cheeks "father, shall I drink now?"

Tho form of the old judge was convulsed with agony. He raised not bis head, but

a. smothered voice faltered^ "No, no, my child, in God's name—no!" She lifted the goblet, and letting it fal suddenly to the floor, it was dashed to a thousand pieces." Many a tearful eye watched her movement, and instantaneously every wine-glass was transferred to the marble on which it had been prepared.— Then, as she looked at the fragments of crystal, she turned to the company, saying: "Let no friend, hereafter, who loves me, tempt me to peril my soul for wine. No firmer are the, everlasting hills than my resolve, God helping me, never to touch or taste that deadly poison. "And he to whom I have given my hand who watched over my brother's form in that last, solemn hour, and buried the dear wanderer in that land of gold, will, I trust, sustain me in that resolve. Will you not, my husband?"

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His glistening eyes, hiB sad, sweet smile, was her answer. The judge left the room, and when, an hour after, he returned, and in a more subdued manner took part in the entertainment of the bridal guests, no one could fail to see "that he too had determined to banish the enemy at once and forever from his princely home""""

Those who we're present at the wedding can never forget the impression so solcmnlyiuadc. Many, from that hour, forswore the social glass.

GEXEliAL CASS.

The following beautiful tribute to'the great statesman of the ago, is from a speech of Col. Forney delivered not long since at Westchester Pennsylvania. "Mr. Burkce, in one of his finest speeches referred to a British statesman who had touched, during his lifetipie, two great extremes of national prosperity and I have often been reminded of the picture while reviewing the career of the great Michigan statesman. Begining with his own humble adventures, and while the great west was in infancy of its development, he has marched onward from scene to scene, from stage to stage, comprehending within its range alike his own rapid and brilliant advance and the rapid and brilliant, advance of his country itself. But suppose that the angle of this auspicious man, foreseeing the many virtues which made him the most eminent, as he is one of the most fortunate, leaders of his age, had opened to him in vision in lis early j-outh, that in the fourth generation the thirteenth President of the United States—lie having seen the first elected— should take his. seat in tho chair of the chief magistracy of the Union and suppose, amid the exciting scenes cf the earlier life of Lewis Cass, that augel should have drawn up the curtain, and unfolded the ris iug glories of his country and whilst he was gazing with admiration on the advancing grandure of America, the same genius should have pointed out to him a spot of earth hardly appreciated in the mass of the sational interests, and should tell him—

Jfoung man, there is the Northwest—which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attrats the envy cf the world." Had this state of the country been foretold to him, would it not require all tho sanguine crcduality of youth, aud all the fervid glow of enthusiasm to make him believe it? Fortunate man, he has lived to assist in it. Fortunate, too. that the greatest act of his life has been to contribute to that victory which has secured to his country uninterrupted peace and freedom, Ictus hope throughout enduring ages. What need such a man repine at the false judgment of a perverted public opinion?"

SEARCHING FOR FRANKLIN. It seems to be settled by last accounts that the English Admirality have determined upon another and final search for the remains of Sir John Franklin's party and the survivors, if such there are, who have been preserved by the hospitality of the Esquimaux. The searching expedition will probably be divided into three parties, one overland, one via Bchring's Straits and a third by Davis's Straits. The area within which search is to be made, is now so narrowed down, by the discoveries of Dr. llae, that the parties will act with something like precision and these may, if they do not recover the lost or better still, the living survivors, stumble upon the abandoned ships, and thus ascertain with c-cr-tainty the history of the ill-fated squadron from the date of its entrance into the fatal charmed circle of the ice demon, down to the hour of the final abandonment. We have ever inclined to the opinion that the two vessels seen drifting at sea by a merchantman, were the abandoned vessels of Sir John Franklin, but even if that were e, there still would remain somewhere inn a specified limit, the bodies of the ead, their private appurtenances and probably the records of tho expedition. For the"recovery of those the new search is to be instituted. As the routes of survey will all be far south of the severest climate of that region, and as the parties will be operating within limits, clearly defined, the dancers and disaster to which previous expeditions have been subjected will be in part avoided by this one. The fear of further sacrifices of human life can scarcely enter into the argument upon the propriety of this new expedition, and as long as there are several officers and scientific men anxious to volunteer for its "prosecution, wc can see no objection to it. But wc trust that every advantage will be taken of the experience of the Hudson's Bay Company's people, and that Dr. Rao may have a share, at least in the fitting out and instruction of the surveying parties. The worst incumbrance the English searchers found, was that rigid, uncompromising routine, which crippled and disabled them eventually.— The expedition will start early in the coming Spring.

There arc 80,000 Jews in Now York city.

TOLUMEiOT. CEAWEORDSYILLET MONTGOMERY COUNTY, INDIANA, JANUARY. 21, 48-57. NUMBER 27v

A SCENE ON THE BATTLE FIELD.

AN INCIDENT OF THE MEXICAN WAR.

BY RICHARD EVERETT.

The bloody battle of Molino del Bay was finished, and the American arms were again victorious. But it proved a dear bought victory. The battlc-Seld was red

Meantime, upon er.ch wing, the fight progressed with great fury, and the ditchcs in front of Molino del Key and Casa de Mata were rapidly filling up with dead and wounded. In front of these defences the carnage was tcrrific. The gallant Col. Mcintosh was shot while cheering on his men. Lieut. Scott fell in the front rank, and no? bio Waite sank under a mortal wound. Among the Mexicans there was a heavy loss of gallant officers. Old General Leon, grey haired, but full of lire. Balderez Hucrts, and Meolcos, all accomplished officers fought their last fight upon the ramparts of Casa de Mata.

Bu-:, direful as was the conflict, no power could stay the Saxon's rod right arm. Over broken ground, gaping ditches, and bloody rampart, ia the faco of nrc and steel, the American troops pressed forward, trampling he dead bodies of friend and foe, beneath their feet, until covcred with the stains of battle, they stood triumphant upon the Mexican fortifications. Oh! it was a glorious moment, when, as the smoke rolled away, the stars and stripes were seen waving from the Mexican flag-3tafF, proud emblems of American valor.

But we did not intend to describe the battle of Molino del Bey at length. Slowly the scattered remnants of the American force retired from the hard-earned field, and upon the Ninth Ecgiinent devolved that most painful cf all duties, burying the dead, and picking up the wounded. About sunset tho labor commenced. Some six hundred men divided into small parties pursued the melancholy duty. Day faded, but the moon, soon rising, shed a pale sepulchral light over the scene, which no man could contemplate with a thrill of horror. Over a large expanse of ground the bodies of dead and wounded men were thickly strewn. In some places a hundred corpses might be counted within the space of a few square yards while the sandy soil was wet with human gore. Large pits were dug, and friend and foe found a soldier's grave Luropeau countrie ever, as in all fabies

tion. American and Mexican, who a few|deatll)

pitals filled with wounded men, whose

had crowded to the banks of thi slake that terrible thirst which a severe wound always induces. collecting such injured soldiers as would bear removing, the wail of an infant suddenly attracted the Lieutenant's attention. He listened, and again the sound came faintly upon his ear, so plain, however, that there was uo mistaking its source. Search

mother, wailing and graspingwith its little hands her long black hair which was damp with the cold night dew. Oh! it was a picture which made the heart swell with emotions of pity too deep for utterance—that helpless, innocent infant stained with its mother's blood! Often have we thought of the dreadful scene, for it was a picture never to be forgotten. The gloomy battle-

with Anglo Saxon blood, for never did the ,, ., jncld strewn with dead and dying the

Aztec army make a more desperate defence. Those who participated -in that glorious battle will never forget its many eventful circumstances how at faint dawn of morn, when the stars looked sweetly upon the earth, our army moved silently into its position, corps after corps, artillery, infantry and cavalry the muttered word of command, the rumbling of wheels, niid the muffled tramp! tramp! tramp! of the devoted storming party, which pioneered the main force. It was not five o'clock in the morning, when the battle commenced.— With a thunder which shook the earth, the heavy guns of Huger's battery belched forth the signal of attack. Then the stormers carrying their ladders and fascines, started forward, cheering as they ran, and were soon lost amid the thick smoke which rolled from the Mexican cannon. Now and then a broad flash of fire showed our gallant follows fighting hand to hand with the encn^'s cannoniers. On pressed the centre of our line, and like a rushing tornado swept the. enemy from their guns. But bravely they rallied, and in turn our troops were driven back. Here the carnage was dreadful. Of the fourteen officers of the storming party, eleven were killed or wounded in le than fifteen minutes.

brook murmuring gleefully along, unmindful of its bloody ripples the groupe of soldiers standing with their, spades and picks around those dead parents and the living babe, and over all the moon gleaming with ghostly glare, formed, a striking scene ,for the dread panorama of war!

The man had probably met his death while in search of water, as a leather bucket, such as is attached to an artillery carriage, was lying near by the womap must have received a chance shot, while binding over her husband's body, for the Mexican women, with heroic devotion, often followed their husbands or lovers into battle.— The Lieutenant, giving orders that the two bodies should be interred in one graVc, wrapped the babe in a blanket, and in company with two of his men, started in search of an ambulance, intending to send the little orphan to the Mexican camp. lie had not proceeded far, when a couple of Mexican friars were discovered prowling, as was their custom, among the dead bodies, in search of plunder. Ordering them to desist, the officer related the scene he had just witnessed, and in conclusion offered one of the priest3 a liberal reward if he would take the babe in safety to the camp of his countrymen. The priest assented with alacrity, and receiving his reward took the infant aud turned away. With a consciousness of having fulfilled the dictates of humanity the Lieutenant, prepared to join his party again. He had taken but a few steps, however, before an exclamation of horror from one of his companions, caused him to.turn quickly, as lie did so they bounded from his side in pursuit of the two priests who were running rapidly towards the Mexi 'au lines.

A sudden .suspicion of horrible import glanced through the officer's mind in an instant, and calling on his men to fire on the fugitives if they did not stop he looked earnestly along their track, and soon discovered the reason of his companion's conduct for, thrown down amidst a heap of corpses, was the dead infant, with a bayonet driven completely through its body!— The inhuman wretch, to whom the officer had confided his little charge, had not proceeded a dozen yards before committing the atrocious deed. The pursuit was successful, and in a few moments both friars were brought back trembling, and in broken English begging for mercy. But justice was quick and sure. A file of men were soon upon the ground. "Five minutes for prayers," said the Lieutenant, looking at his watch—"five minutes you bloody, scoundrels! Sergeant, tie their hands." Men, form fifteen pae'es in front." Those orders were quickly obeyed, the victims mean while begging for their lives. "Your time is up," said the officer. "It is no use a man who would murder an infant deserve* worse than death." "Arc you ready, sergeant?" "Yes sir," was the reply. "Then, God have mercy on the souls of those villains. Platoon! ready, aim, fire!" A sharp report rang out upon the still night air, and the two friars were dead.

THE FABLE of the WANDERING JEW. The legend of a Jew ever wandering and never dying, even from the crucifixion of Jesus to this day, has spread over many

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the main line of attack through wluoh ran tl.o doorkeeper Wilms.

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hours before were striking for cach others cross, he wished to rest himself a little lives, now laid peacefully side by side, inear the gate, befurc the house of a shoe-' their animosity subdued. Ambulances and

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,, ever, siran«' forth and thrust mm awav.— wagons rolled away to the temporary hos-j

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groans of anguish were awful to hear. And from that time he has had no rest, It was while the work of burial progress- and is obliged incessantly to wander about. ed, that a Lieutenant, in charge of a ^.nall Another version is that by Mathias Parisems, a monk of the loth c-enturv. W lien parlv cai-JO to a ravin- not for rc.norcd from!

a babbling brook Many wounded men cd him from behind with his icet, saying j,,^

stream to "WilL on, JejU*, qiiiejdj tiv osv

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strength, and hence it is that after so many

centuries he does not look much older thai.

a septuagenarian. is ior iccgdic.?.

was instantly made along thc margin of the -Not one of the ancient authors makes men-, VQWS

brook, and in a few moments a sight was •. tion of such an accoun.. 1 he first who re-

ports some such things is a mon, ofr ho

disclosed, at which even the most hardened heart grew faint. Two dead bodies lay upon the sand, a few feet, from thc water's edge. One, a young Mexican artilleryman, whose head was badly crushed, apparently by a large shot thc other a young and very beautiful Mexican girl, from whose neck a rivulet of dark blood was yet oozing, for a musket ball had penetrated the jugular vein. The young man lay upon his back, apparently just as he fell, while the position of the women indicated that she received the fatal ball while kneeling by his side. But this was notall. Naked and all dabbledovcr with the gore of its parents, an infant, evidently abont three mouths 9&~ There wore on the 1st, 384,000 barold, was laving upon thc breast of its"deadrels of flour iu store in J*cw York.

13th century, when _the world was filled

with pious fiction. However, the

—"He runs about like a wandering Jew.

There are persons even who assert to have seen the wandering Jew. But when their evidence is examined by thc test of historical credibility, it is found that, some impostor had made use of this fable to impose upon simple minded people for some purpose of his own.

Illinois within the past six years

has built more miles of railroad than any other State in the Union, and still railroad traveling within her borders is in thc very infancy of its beginning.

ANECDOTE OF THE ROTHSCHILDSBurckhr.rdt in his clever sketch of the Money Kings, thus gives the chief step in the rise of that no* historical family. It is a very striking illustration of "Honesty is the best policy:"

The season was September, 1793. The Landgrave of Hcssc-Cassel saw the French revolutionary banners approaehing his dominions, and waving at his very, frontiers.— Hastily lie packed up his jewels and valuables, together with between two and three millions of thalers, and took the way to Frankford, hoping there to find means of placing his wealth in security.

Arrived at the city, the fugitive Landgrave knocked at the door of the humble Jewish banker, Meyer Kotbschild, richer in children than in thalers, but withal a distinguished archaeologist and numismatologist.

The sovereign, who was himself an expert in these sciences, paid much respect to the knowledge of the Jew banker, and bad a few years before bestowed upon him the distinction of the title of "Mcdaillcur" to his Court-. "3Ieycr," he began, as he handed biin his well-filled case, "I know you to be honest and conscientious. Here is all I possess take it, and return it to me when this tempest shall have blown over, and when better times dawn upon us." "Such vast confidence docs me great honor," replied the Hebrew, "but your Highness must not forget that the republican army ia almost before our doors." "Wc are in the bauds of Providence," replied the Landgrave "I ask you for no receipt."

The Prince entered his vehicle and hastened off, without listening to the renewed protestations of the banker.

What Meyer Rothschild had anticipated came to pass. Before a week had passed Frankford was in the hands of the French troops, and the banker, who had been denounced as an anti-revolutionist and an ally of the tyrants, found his domicile sacked and his cash box plundered., in the name of liberty and the people.

No sooner, however, had the victors left Frankford, than Meyer Rothschild r'e-opcu-cd his banking house, finding at first creditors among, the Jews, and ultimately with ail the business world, and soon was reputed richer than ever. In 1802 he was considered one the most reliable bankers in Germany.

About this time there came a short period of rest for the crowned heads of Germany. The Princes of the Rhenish Confederacy rested under the high and forced protection of Napoleon. Raised by the will of the great commander to the dignity of an Elector of the German Empire, the Landgrave of Hesse received permission to return to his dominions. On his way lie passed through Frankford. The journals had before informed him of the plundering of Rothschilds' house, and he naturally believed his own wealth long since a prey to the Jacobins. Still he determined to visit his numismatic friend, if only to ensure him of the continuance of his confidence. "Good morrow, 3Icyer," said the Elector with a frank and hearty shake of hands.— "At last we have peace, old friend, but it costs us dear enough. Before you stands a ruined man: as poor as Job." "What! you poor, your Highness?" "Certainly, for have not those confounded sans culottes stolen my wealth along with yours? If I do not now too much inconvenience you, I should like to borrow a small advance upon the indemnity which I shall receive in Hesse Cassol." "An advance is not needed, your Highness, for all you confidcd to my care is safe and untouched." "What!" exclaimed tho Prince, "and were you not plundered then?" "The French have taken everything 1 had, and I was very careful not to excite them by resistcnce otherwise they would have searched more thoroughly and might have found your diamonds and money where it was hidden in my cellar." "How! is it possible?" "Yes, my surrender was a stratagem.— They never found what I had hidden. For the last nine years, in order to indemnify myself for the moneys I had lost, 1 have taken the liberty of using some of yours. All my enterprises have proved successful, and without embarrassing myself in the t, can now return you the entire sum five per cent, interest." he Prii'cc was deopl}' moved. I' ."Meyer," he said, "you are the most honorable -low 1 have ever heard of. Keep my money, and continue operate with it.

From to-day for two years, want no return of i', and only two per cent interest." And thus Rothschild became a millionaire.

A Sl'ECK OF 1'OMANCE— 'Win:,

F..?h-

,)nt

And his man, still alive wan-. ^!!t

ders from place to place in constant uread

of the wratn to come, iir c.seiu at

that this wandering Jew falls sick every.

hundrcd years but recovers and renews his

was*acce«ctL

(ubout starting

TICK WONM

(jt n. il| 0„

and strcefft%

wce]cs

Sr'J'c the

art

maUon (.,f ljjs thcrc 8{a]keii a ?Y'im

nl0n£U'r.

with

a heavv The V(

when tjlC fir,t lovcr C0I1fronted

0jd chap

andantic ryplea£Ure.

}n thc &f ]lis S0ll],

Ory aS firm liiirwirfir] fmil fifVv iImUm

.. out one hundred aud fifty dollars from his and the prison, employed aright c« spread ar, so at as ceomc a pro* er ji p0ci.ct

and

1 1

REVOLUTIONARY 'INCIDENTS. The hero of the fol'owing thrilling story was embodied in the person of a stout blacksmith, nyc, an humble llacksmith, bat in his stout frame hardened with toil, throbbed as generous-an impulse of freedom &3 ever beat in the bosom of La Fay. ette, or around the heart of mad Anthony Wayne.

It was in full tide of the retreat that a' follower of the American cam/ft who had at least shouldered a cart-whip in his country's service, was dragging a baggage wagon from the field of bathe, while seme sliort distance behind, a body of continontals wcro pushing forward with a body of British in, pursuit.

The wagon had arrived at a narrow point of the by-road leading to tho south, whore two high banks of rocks and crags, arising ou either side, afforded justspaco sufficient for the passage of the baggage wagons, and not an inch more.

His eyes were arrested by tho sight of a stout muscular man, apparently some forty years of age, extended at tho foot of a tree at the very opening of the pass. He was clad in the coarse attire of a mechanic. His coat had been flung asido, and with his shirt sleeves rolled up from his muscular arm, he lay extended on the turf with hid rifle in his grasp, while thc.blood poured in a torrent from his right leg, which wasbroken at the knee by a cannon bnli.

The wagoner's sympathies were arrested by the sight, lie would have paused in the very instance of his flight, and placed the wounded blacksmith in.his wagon, but the stout-hearted man refused. "I'll not go into your wagon," said he, in his rough way, "but I'll tell you what will do. Do you see yonder cherry tree on the top of that rock that hangs over tlio' road Do you think you can lift a man of my build up there? For you sec neighbor he continued while the blood flowed down from his wound, "I never meddled with the Britishers until they came trampling over this valley, and burned my houso down. And now I'm all riddled to pieces, and haint got more than fifteen minutes in mo but I've got three balls in my caK-» ridge box, and so just prop ni'c "up against that tree, and L'il give the whole thrco, shots, and then," exclaimed tho blacksmith,-

I'll die." The wagoner started his horses ahead,, and then with .sudden effort dragged thc^ wounded man along the sod to the foot of the tree. His face was to the advancing troopers, and while his shattered leg huug over the bank, tho wagoner rushed on hisway, when the doomed blacksmith proceeded coolly to load his rifle."

It was not long before a body of American soldiers rushed by with the British in pursuit. Tho blacksmith greeted thoni with a shout, and raising his riflo to his shoulder he picked the foremost from bis spirited steed with the exclamation: "That's for General Washington."

In a moment the rifle was reloaded, and again it was fired, and the pursuing British rode over another of their fallen officers. "That's for myself," cried the blacksmith, and then, with a hand strong with the feeling of approaching death, again loaded, raised his rifle, fired hie last shot, and another soldier kissed the sod! Atcarquivcrcd in the. eye of the dying blacksmith.

A lovely widow, fair, fascinating, that want, like an armed man, has come into his family. And to keep herself from absolute want she has been compelled to

bCftn for some

the object of devot. 1 attention on irt with her clothes and her

of a young gentleman of the city, j-iients

Url

He progressed so far, inuc d, as an engage- the career of crime has one more beacon

bet^CJJ hi,„ i»d

dlow

ovcrba!ancc(1 thc" vou{h and ?0( !ooks

(1). vcncl„,)K, !ovt.r bccn P(ampci]. v..ith0„t

yester,Jay the couple were

out to celebrate their mutial furtablc

"And that," he said, with a husky voicc, which strengthened almost into shout, "in for mad Anthony Wayne!"

Long after the battle of the Brandywino was past, the body was discovered against the tree, with the features frozen in death smiling grimly, while his right hand still, grasped the never-failing rifle.

And thus died one of the thousand bravo mechanic heroes of the Revolution bravo in the hour of battle, undaunted in the hour of retreat, and undismayed in the moment of death.

CKI.MI: i.\ TEXAS.—Crime is so prevalent in Texas, that the Chronicle and Advocate a religious paper published there, says: "The number of homicides, murders and assassinations in Texas, for the last few years, is utterly appalling. When wc first became the conductor of the Advocate, wC noticed, as items of news, the different killings, as they occurred from week to week. But the horrid list has so rapidly increased, both in numbers and bloodiness, that wo shrink from making our columns a calender of crime, and iVoni familiarizing the iniudH of our readers, especially the young, with such demoralizing scene:-/'

W'u.f. IT A \VAitM.vr .—A correspondent of the Boston Journal says that the wife of Huntington, tho forger, has bec-n stripped of her home and her all in one hour. The sheriff lias sold her house over her head, [for jewels, valued at Slf,00U, are with the Bcider.s. What has been done with tho vast sums of money Huntington had none can tell. But this is true,

ittle

remnants of Lett dais. So

tho comsnm- set up in the pathway of life-one more

fa}ni^ has IK en hurled from the summit of

in the slumc of "ii ancient gentle- iii^h position and honor in a momenl—one

gold more wife and mother to gather up her lit-

oi !tlc children, on whose held.- dishonor has

their fault, black as

the brand of Cain, and go out fr.m a com-

home

meet

was all alive with excitement and feci thc hot breath of its sneer—one

want and scorn, and

them brave thc cold, glassv eye of the world,

He consequent-! more example is given to us to teach how

puliedUhe same talents which led to high crime

hoped the j-omig man would be fer honor and permanent sueces

satisfied. The young man was satisfied,' possessor, and be a blessing to the land.— and although minus a wife, is $150 in funds Like a convict who falls from a ship, Ilunthis morning.—Louisville Journal. tington has parted and agitated thc wares •». r»i I for a moment, and cone down beneath tho

A SAD STOGY.—Some time last summer surge, and the rolling flood sweeps over his a lawyer of Hamilton, C. W., eloped with place, and the tide of life waves on forgctthe wife of Mr. Brodgin, another lawver. ting that he ever lived. But who will bo Her husband shot the seducer, was

tried

L. Johnson & Co., type founders,

Philadelpliia, offer to give $1,000 towards founding an Asylum fer rftu cranuatcd printers.

could conon the

counselled, warned, saved by hia end

for murder and acquitted. It is now said 1 Who will believe the lesson that thousands that Mrs. Brodgin has committed suicide of years have taught, that integrity and by cutting her throat.

honor a*e the only paths to permanent success.—Phil. Times.

Recent accounts from Mexico state

thist gold is being discovered all over tho couurrv.