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COULDN'T THINK WHERE.

We met, though before I'd ne'er seen hira, It warned that I knew him quite well ... Though why It should be so, to save rao,

I iievtr could certainly telf.' I uw his blue eyes fixed upon me, With a sort of a comical utare I had seen them before, as I thought me, i, Though I certainly couldn't think where,

He spoke, and his voice seemed like music, A familiar, stili long forgot strain: And I listened, and listened, and wondered,

Then listened to hear it again. Then I spoke, and no answer was given, I know that it hardly wn* fair, But I knew that before I had heard it,

And I tried, but I couldn't think wljere.

Then wo ported, and months quickly fleeting, 8cnt a year to the grave of the past Then we met, and tho moments swift flying,

Were passing away all too fast. And I gazed und 1 listened, and wondered, With a feeling of happiness fate, For I knew that before 1 had known him,

But I certainly couldn't think where.

And now that again we'ro divided, I muse on cach action, each word, And I live o'er and o'er our last meeting,

And I think what I saw—what I hoard, And to me has come a great blessing, A measure of bliss that is rare, Tor—comc nearer—I've e'en learned tolovc him.

Though I certainly couldn't think whero.

MARY KINGSFORD

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THE STORY OF A DIAMOND BROOCH.

BY A LONDON DETECTIVE.

It was toward the Christmas holidays that I was hurriedly despatched on official business from London to Liverpool, but linding my visit fruitless, I immediately ant out on my return to London. Winter had come upon us unusually early the '''weather was bitterly cold and a piercing wind causcd the snow which had been falling heavily for several hours, to gyrate in fierce, blinding eddies, and heaped it up here and there into large and dangerous drifts. The obstruction offered by tbc rapidly congcaling snow greatly delayed our progress between Liverpool and Birmingham and at a few miles only distant from the latter city, the leading engine ran off the line. Fortunately, the rate at which we were traveling was" very slow one, and no accident of moment occurred. Having no luggage to care for, I walked on to Birmingham, where I found the parliamentary .train just on tho point of starting, and with •Komc hesitation, on account of the severity of the weather, took my seat in one of the then very much exposed and uncomfortable carriages. We traveled steadily 3ind safely, though slowly along, and reached Rugby Station in the afternoon, where we were to remain, the guard told us, till a fast down-train had passed. All of us hurried as quickly as we could to the large room at this station, where blazing fires und other appliances soon thawed the half frozen bodies, and loosened the tongues of the numerous and motley passengers. After recovering the use of my benumed limbs and faculties, I bad leisure to look around and survey tho miscellaneous assemblage about me.

Two persons had traveled in the same compartment with me from Birmingham, whose exterior, as disclosed ly the dim light of the railway carriage, created some surprise that such a Gnely-attircd, fashionable gentleman should stoop to journey by the plebian pcnny-a-milc train. I could now observe them in a clearer light, and surprise at their condescension vanished nt once.

To an eye less experienced than mine ^in the artifices and expedients familiar to a certain class of "swells," they might perhaps have passed muster for what they assumed to be, especially amidst the varied crowd of a "Parliamentary but their copper finery could not for a moment impose upon me. The wateli-chains were, I saw, mosiac the watches, so frequently displayed, gilt eye-glasses the same the coats, four-collared and cuffed, were ill fitting and second hand ditto of the varnished boots and renovated velvet waistcoats while the luxuriant moustaches and whiskers and flowing wigs, were unmistakably mcTopicccs d'occasion—assumed and diversified at pleasure. They were both apparently about fifty years of age one of them perhaps one or two years less than that.

I watched them narrowly, the more so from their making themselves ostentatiously attentive to a young woman—girl rather slio scomcd—of a remarkably graceful figure, but whoso face I had not yet obtained a glimpse of. They made boisterous way for her to the fire, aud were profuse mid noisy in their offers of refreshments— till of which I observed were peremptorily declined.

She was dressed in deep,* unexpensive mourning, and from her timid gestures aud averted head whenever either of the fellows addressed her, it was evident, terrified as well as annoyed by their rude aud insolent notice. I quietly drew near to the side of the fire-place at which she stood, and with some difficulty obtained a sight of her features. I was struck with extreme surprise—not so much with her signal beauty, as an instantaneous conviction that she was known to me, or at least that I had seen her frequently before, but where and when I could not at all call to mind. Again I looked, and my first impression was confirmed. At this moment the elder of tho two men I havo partially described placed his hand with a rude familiarity upon the girl's shoulder, proffering at tlie same time a glass of hot brandy and water for her acceptance. She turned sharply and indignantly away from the fellow and looking round as if for protection caught my eagerly fixed gaze. "Mr. Waters!" she impressively ejaculated. Oh, I am so glad'" "Yes," I answered, "that is certainly my name, but I scarcely remember Stand back, fellow!" I angrily countinued, as her tormentor, emboldened by the spirits he had drank, pressed with a jeering 0rin ppon his face towards her, still tendering (he brandy and water. *Stjtfid bac*?" he replied by a curse and thv*t, ..

The next moment his flowing wig was whirling acro.ss the room, and he standing with his bullet-head bare but for a few locks of iron-gray, in an attitude of speechless rage and confusion, increased by the peals of laughter which greeted his ludicrous, unwigged aspect. He quickly put himself in a fighting attitude, and backed by his companion, challenged me to battle. This was quite out of the question and I was somewhat at a loss how to proceed, when the bell announcing the instant departure of the train rang out, my furious antagonist gathered up and adjusted his wig, and we all sallied forth to take our places—the young woman holding fast by my arm, and in a low, nervous voice, begging me not to leave her. I watched the two fellows take their seats, and then led her to the hindmost carriage, which we had to ourselves as far as the next station. "Are Mrs. Waters and Emily quite well?" said the young woman coloring and lowering her eyes beneath my earnest gaze, which she seemed for a moment to misinterpret. "Quite entirely so," I almost stammered. "You know us, then?" "Surely I do," she replied, reassured by my manner. "But you, it seems," she presently added with a winuing smile, "have quite forgotten little Mary Kingsford, "Mary Kingsford!" I exclaimed almost with a shout. "Why, so it is! But what a transformation a few years have affectcd!" "Do you think so? Not pretty Mary Kingsford now, then, I suppose?" she added with a light, pleasant laugh.

You know what I mean, you vain puss you!" I rejoined quite gleefully, for I was overjoyed at meeting with the gentle, well remembered playmate of my own eldest girl. We were old familiar friends— almost father and daughter—in an instant.

Little Mary Kingsford, I should state, was, when 1 left Yorkshire, one of the prettiest, most, engaging children I had ever seen and a petted favorite not only with us, but of every other family in the neighborhood. She was the only child of Philip and Mary Kingsford—a humble, worthy, and much rcspected coupic. The Hither was a gardener to Sir Pyott Dalzell, and her mother eked out his wages to a respectable maintenance by^ keeping a cheap children's school. I he change which a few years had wrought in the beautiful child was quite sufficient to account for my imperfect recognition of her but the instant her name was mentioned, 1 at once recognized the rare comeliness which had charmed us all in her childhood. The soft brown eyes were the same, though now revealing protounder depths, and emitting a more pensive expression the hair, though deepened in color, was still golden her complexion, lit up as it now was by a sweet blush, was brilliant as ever whilst her child person had become matured aud developed into womanly symmetry and grace. The brilliancy ot color vanished from her check as I glanced meaniugly at her mourning dress. "Yes," she murmured in a sad quiverinT voice—"yes, lathes is gone, it will bo. six months comc next Thursday that he died! Mother is well," she continued more cheerfully after a pause, ""in health, but poorly off and I—aud J, she added with a faint effort at a smile, "am going to London to seek my fortune!" "To seek your fortune!" "Yes: you kuow my cousin, Sophy Clarke? In one of her letters, she said she often saw you."

I nodded without speaking. I knew little of Sophia Clarke, except that she was the somewhat gay. coquettish shopwoman of a highly respectable confectioner in the Strand? whom1 shall call by the name of Morris. "I am to be Sophia's fellow shop-assist-ant," continued Mary Kingsford "not, of course, at first at such good wages as she gets. So lucky for nie, is it not, siucc I must go to servicc? and so kind, too, of Sophia to interest herselt tor me! "Well, it may be so. But surely I have hoard—my wife at least has—that you aud Richard Wcstlake were engaged. Excuse me, Marv, I was not aware the subject v:as a painful* or unpleasant one." "Richard's father," she replied with some spirit, "has higher views for his son. It is all off between us now," she added "and perhaps it is for the best that it should be so."

I could have rightly interpreted these words without the aid of the partiallycxprcsscd sigh which followed them, ihc perilous position ot so attractive, so inexperienced, so guileless a young creature, amidst the temptations and vanities ot London, so painfully impressed and preocupied me, that I scarcely uttered another word till the rapidly diminishing rate of the train anuounccd that we ncarcd a station, after which it was probable we should havo no farther opportunity for private converse. "Those men—those fellows at Rugby— where did you meet them?" I inquired. "About thirty or forty miles below Birmingham, where they entered the carriage in which I was seated At Birmingham I managed to avoid them."

Little more passed between us till we reached London. Sophia Clarke received her cousin at the Euston station, and was profuse of felicitations and compliments upon her arrival and personal appearance. After receiving a promise from Mary Kingsford to call and take tea with my wife and her old playmate on the following Sunday, I handed the two young women into a cab in waiting, and they drove off. I had not moved away from the spot when a voice a few paces behind me, which I thought I recognized, called out: "Quick, coachcc, or you'll lose sight of them!" As I turned quickly around, another cab drove off, which I followed at a run. I found, on reaching Lower Seymour street, that I was not mistaken as to the owner of the voice, nor of his purpose. The fellow I had unwigged at ltugby thrust his head out of tho cab window, and pointing to the vehicle which contained the two girls, called out to the driver "to mind and make no mistake." The man nodded intelligence, and lashed his horse into-a faster pace. Nothing that I could do could prevent the fellows from ascertaining Mary

Kingsford's place of abodes aud as that was all that, for the present at least, need be apprehended, I desisled from pursuit, and bent my steps homeward.

Mary Kingsford kept her appointment on the Sunday, and in reply to our questioning, said she liked her situation very well. 3Ir. and Mrs. Morris were exceedingly kind to her so was Sophia.— "Her cousin," she added in reply to a look which I could not repress, "was perhaps a little gay and free of manner, but the best hearted creature in the world."— The two fellows who had followed them had, I found, already twice visited the shop their attentions appeared now to be exclusively directed to Sophia Clarke, whose vanity they not a little gratified.— The names they gave were fleartly and Simpson. So entirely guileless and unsophisticated was the gentle country maiden, that I saw she scarcely comprehended the hints and warnings which I threw out. At parting, however, she made a serious promise that she would instantly apply to me should any difficulty or perplexity overtake her.

I often called in at the confectioner's and was gratified to find that Mary's modest propriety of behavior, in a somewhat difficult position, had gained her the good will of her employers, who invariably spoke of her .with kindness and respcct. Nevertheless, thecark aud care of a London life, with its incpssant employment and late hours, soon, I pcrceived, began to tell upon her health and spirits and it was consequently with a strong emotion of pleasure I heard, from my wife that she had seen a passage in a letter from Mary's mother, to the effect that the elder Westlake was betraying symptoms of yielding to the angry and passionate expostulations of his only son, relative to the enforced breaking off of his engagement with Mary Kingsford. The blush with which she presented the letter, was, I was told very eloquent.

One evening, on passing Morris' shop, I observed Hartley and Simpson there.— They were swallowiug custards and other confectionary with much gusto aud, from their new and costly habilliments, seemed to be in surprisingly good case. They were smirking and smilling at the cousins with rude confidence and Sophia Clarke, I was grieved to sec, repaid their insulting impertinence by her most elaborate smiles and graces. I passed on and presently meeting with a brother-detective, who, it struck mc, might know something of the two gentlemen, I turned back with him, aud pointed them out. A glance sufficed hi in. ''Hartley and Simpson you say?" he remarked :ftcr we had walked away to some distance: "fjiose are only two of their numerous aliases. I cannot, however, say that I am yet on very miliar terms with them but as I am especially directed to cultivate their acquaintance, there is no doubt we shall be more intimate w:th each other before long. Gamblers, black-logs, swindlers, I already know them to be ana I would take odds they arc not unfrcquently something more, especially when fortune and the bones run cross with them." "They appear to be in high feather just now," I remarked. "Yes: they are connected, I suspect, with the gang who cleaned out young Garslade last week in Jermyn street. I'd lay a trifle," added my friend, as I turned to leave him, "that one or both of them will wear the queen's livery, gray turned up with yellow, before many weeks are jntst.-— Good-bye."

About a fortnight after this conversation I and my wife paid a visit to Astley's, for tho gratification of our youngsters, who had long been promised a sight of the equestrian marvels exhibited at that celebrated amphitheatre. It was the latter end of February and when we came out of the theatre, we found the weather had changed to dark and sleety, with a sharp, nipping wind. I had to call at Scotland Yard my wife and children consequently proceeded come in a cab without me and after assisting to quell a slight disturbance originating iii a giu-palacc close by, I' went, on my way over Westminister Bridge.— The inclemeut weather had cleared the streets and thoroughfares in a surprisingly short time so that, excepting myself, no foot-passengers was visible on the bridge till 1 had about half crossed it, when a female figure, closely muffled up about the head, and sobbing bitterly, passed rapidly by on the opposite side. I turned and gazed after the retreating figure it was a youthful, symmetrical one aud after a few moments' hesitation, I determined to follow at a distance, aud as unobservedly as I could. On the woman sped, without pause or hesitation, till she reached Astley's, where I observed her stop suddenly, and toss her arms in the air with a gesture of desperation. I quickened my steps, which she observing, uttered a slight scream, and darted swiftly off again, moaning and sobbing as she ran. The slight momentary glimpse I had obtained of her features beneath the gas lamp opposite Astley's, suggested a frightful apprehension, and I followed at my utmost speed. She turned at the first cross street, and I should soon have overtaken her, but that in darting round the corner where she disappeared, I ran full butt against a stout elderly gentleman, who was hurrying smartly along out of the weather. What with the suddenness of the shock and the slipperiness of the pavement, down we both reeled and by the time we had regained our feet, and growled savagely at each other, the young woman, whoever she was, had disappeared, and more than half au hour's eagor search after her proved fruitless. At last I bethought me of hiding at one corner of Westminister Bridge. I had watched impatiently for about twenty minutes, when I saw thc-objcct of my pursuit stealing timidly and furtively toward the bridge on the opposite side of the way. As she came nearly abreast of where I stood, I darted forward, she saw, without recognizing me, and uttering an exclamation of terror, flew down toward the river, where a number of pieces of balk and other timber were fastened together, forming a kind of loose raft. I followed with desperate haste, for I saw that it was indeed Mary Kingsford, and loudly calling to her by name to stop. She did not appear to hear me, and in a few mo­

A change of dress, with which the landlord kindly supplied mc, a blazing fire, and a couple of glasses of hot brandy and water, soon restored warmth aud vigor to my chilled and partially benumbed limbs but more than two hours elapsed before Mary, who had swallowed a good deal of water, was in a condition to be removed. I had just sent for a cab, when two police officers well-known to mc, entered the room with official briskness. Mary screamed, staggered toward mc, and clinging to my arm, besought mo with frantic earnestness to save her.

What/.? the meaning of this?,, I exclaimed, addressing one of the police officrs. "Merely," said he, "that the young woman that's clinging so tight to you has been committing an audacious robbery"—• "JS'o—no—no!" broke in the terrified girl. "Oh! of course you'll say so," continued the ofiiccr. "All I know is, that the diamond brooch was found snugly hid away in her own box. But come, wc have been after you for the last three hours so you had better come along at once."

Save mc!—save me!" sobbed poor Mary (inclined to believe anything of her. The as she tightened her grasp upon my arm and looked with beseeching agony in my face. "Be comforted," I whispered "you shall go home with me. Calm yourself, Miss Kingsford," I added in a louder tone: "I no more believe you have stolen a diamond brooch than that I have." "Bless you !—bless you!" she gasped in the intervals of her convulsive sobs. "There is some wretched misapprehension in this business, I am quite sure," I continued "but at all events I shall bail her—for this night at least." "Bail her! That is hardly regular." "No but you will tell the superintendent that Mary Kingsford is in my custody, and that I answer for her appearance tomorrow."

The men hesitated, but I stood too well at hcad-quaricrs for them to do more than hesitate and the cab I had ordered being just then announced, I passed with Mary out of tho room as quickly as I could, for I feared her senses wore again leaving her. The air revived her somewhat, and I lifted her into the cab, placing myself beside her. She appeared to listen in fearful doubt whether I should be allowed to take her with me: and it was not until the wheels had made a score of revolutions that her fears vanished then throwing herself upon my neck in an ecstacy of gratitude, she burst into a flood of tears, and continued till wc reached home, sobbing on my bosom like a brokenhearted child. She had, I found, been there about ten o'clock to seek me, and being told that I was gone to Astley's had started off to find me there.

Mary still slept, or at least she had not risen, when I left home the following morning to endeavor to get at the bottom of the strange accusation against her. I first saw the superintendent, who, after hearing what I had to say, quite approved of all I had done, and entrusted the case entirely to my care. I next saw Mr. and Mrs. Morris and Sophie Clarke, and then waited upon the prosecutor, a youngish gentleman by the name of Saville, lodging in Essex street, Strand. One or two things I heard, necessitated a visit to other officers of police, incidentally, as I found, mixed up with the affair. By the time all this was done, and an effectual watch had been placed upon Mr. Augustus Saville's movements, evening had fallen, and I wended my way homewards, both to obtain a little rest, and hear Mary Kingsford's version of the strange story.

The result of my inquiries'vmay be thus briefly summed up. Ten days before, Sophia Clarke told her cousin that she had orders for Convent-Garden Theatre and as it was not one of their busy nights, she thought they might obtain leave to go.— Mary expressed her doubt of this, as both Mr. and Mrs. Morris, who were strict, and fomewhat fanatical dissenters, disapproved

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ments the unhappy girl had gained the end of play-going, especially for young women, security, so that onlv the person to whom of the timber-raft. Oneinstantshe ^used I Nevertheless, Sophia asked, informed Ma- it was addressed should easily understand of with clasped hands upon the brink, and in another had thrown herself into the dark and moaning river. On reaching the spot where she bad disappeared, I could not at

ry that the required permission had been readily accorded, aud off they went in high spirits Mary especially, who had never been to a theatre in her life before. When

first see her in consequence of the dark there, they were joined by Hartly and mourning dress she had on. Presently I caught sight of her, still upborne by her spread clothes, but already carried by the swift current beyond my reach. The only chance was to erawl a piece of round timber which projected farther into the river, and by the end of which she must pass. This I effected with some difficulty and laying myself out at full length, vainly endeavored, with outstretched, straining arms, to grasp he.r dress. There was nothing left for it but to plunge in after her. I will confess that I hesitated to do so. I was encumbered with a heavy dress, which there was no time to put off, and moreover, like most inland men, I was but an indifferent swimmer- My indecision quickly vanished. The wretched girl, though gradually sinking, had not yet uttered a cry, or appeared to struggle but when the chilling waters reached her lips, she seemed to suddenly revive to a consciousness of the horror of her fate she fought wildly with the engulphing tide, and shrieked pitcously for help. Before one could count ten, I had grasped her by the arm, and lifted her head above tho surface of the river. As I did so, I felt as if suddenly encased and weighed down by leaden garments, so quickly had my thick clothing and high boots sucked in the water. Vainly, thus burdened and impeded, did I endeavor to regain the raft the strong tide borc,us outwards, and I glared round, in inexpressible dismay, for some means of extricatiou from the frightful peril in which I found myself involved.— Happily, right in the direction the tide was drifting us, a large barge lay moored by a chain-cable. Eagerly I seized and twined one arm firmly round it, and thus partially secure, hallooed with renewed power for assistance. It soon came: a passer-by had witnessed the flight of tho girl and my pursuit, and was already hastening with others to our assistance. A wherry was unmoored: guided by my voice, they soon reached us and but a brief interval clasped before we were safely housed in an adjoining tavern.

Simpson, much to Mary's annoyance and vexation, especially a3 she saw that her cousin expected them. She had, in fact, accepted the orders from them.1 At the conclusion of the entertainments, they all four came out together, when suddenly there arose a hustling and confusion, accompanied with loud outcries, and a violent swaying to and fro of the crowd.—The disturbance was, however soon quelled and Mary and her cousin had reached the outer-door, when two police-officers seized Hartley and his friend, and insisted upon their going with them. A scuffle ensued but other officers being at hand, the two men were secured and carried off. The cousins, terribly frightened, called a coach, and were very glad to find themselves safe at home again. And now it came out that Mr. and Mrs. Morris had been told that they were going to spend the evening at my house, and had no idea they were going to the play! Vexed as Mary was at the deception, she "was too kindly-tempered to refuse to keep her cousin's secret especially knowing as she did that the discovery of the deceit Sophia had practised would in all probability be followed by her immediate discharge. Hartley and his friend swaggered on the following afternoon into the shop, and whispered to Sophia that their arrest by the police had arisen from a mistake, for which the most ample apologies bad been offered and accepted. After this, matters wen ton as usual, except that Mary perceived a growing insolence and familiarity in Hartley's manner towards her. His language was frequently quite unintelligible, and once he asked her plainly "if she did not mean that he should go shares in the prize she had lately found Upon Mary replying that she did not comprehend him, his look became absolutely -lcrocious, and he exclaimed "Oh, that's your game, is it?— But don't try it on with me, my good girl I advise you." So violent did he become, that Mr. Morris was attracted by the noise, and ultimately bundled him, neck and heels, out of the shop. She bad not seen cither him or his companion since.

On the evening of the previous day, a gentleman whom she never remembered to have seen before, entered the shop, took a seat, and helped himself to a tart. She observed that after a while he looked at er very earnestly, and at length approached quite close, said: "You were at Convent Garden Theatre last Tuesday evening week!" Mary was struck, as she said, all of a heap, for both Mr. and Mrs. Morris were in the shop, and heard the question. "Oh, no, no! you mistake," she said hurriedly, and feeling at the same time her cheeks kindle into a flame. "Nay, but you were though," rejoined the gentleman. And then lowering his voice to a whisper, he said: "Aud let me advise you, if you would avoid exposure and condign punishment, to restore to me the diamond brooch you robbed mc of ou that evening."

Mary screamed with terror, and a regular scene ensued. She was obliged to confess she had told a falsehood in denying she was at the theatre on the night in question, and Mr. Morris after that seemed

jsntleman persisted in his charge but at the same time vehemently iterating his assurance that all he wanted was his property and it wag ultimately decided that Mary's boxes, as well as her person should be searched. This was done: and to her utter consternation the brooch was found concealed, they said, in a black silk retieulc. -Denials, asservations, were in vain. Mr. Saville identified the brooch, but oncc more offered to be content with its restoration. This Mr. Morris, a just, stern man, would not consent to, and he went out to summon a police officer. Before he returned, Mary, by the advice of both her cousin and Mrs. Morris, had fled the house,

aud hurried in a state ot distraction to find street-bell rang, and Saville announced the me, with what result the reader already arrival of his confederates. There was a knows. twinkle in the fellow's green eyes which I

It is a wretched business/' I observed thought I understood. "Do not try that to my wife, retired to

the poor girl's perfect innocence: but how to establish it by satisfactory evidence, is another matter. I must take her to Bow street the day after to-morrow." ^v "Good God, how dreadful! Can nothing be done What docs the prosecutor say the brooch is worth.'" "His uncle, he says, gave a hundred and twenty-guineas for it. But that signifies little for were its worth only a hundred and twenty farthings, compromise is, you know, out of the question." "I did not mean that. Can you show it me? I am a pretty good judge of the value of jewels." "Yes you can see it." I took it out of the desk in which I had locked it up, and placed it before her. It was a splendid emerald, encircled by large brilliants.

My wife twisted aud turned it about holding it in all sorts of lights, and at last said: "I do not believe that either the emeralds or the brilliants are real—that the brooch is, in fact, not worth twenty shillings intrinsically."

it, to the individual who had lest or been robbed "of a false stone aud brilliants at at the theatre, to communicate with a certain person—whose address I gave—'without delay, in order tcr save the reputation, perhaps"the life, of an innocent person.

I was at the address I had given by nine o'clock. Several hours passed without bringing any one, and I was beginning to despair, when a gentleman by the name of Bagshawc was announced I fairly leaped for joy, for this was beyond my hopes.

A gentleman presently entered, of about thirty years of age, of a distinguished, though somewhat dissipated aspect. "This brooch is yours?" said I, exhibiting it without delay or preface. "It is and I am here to know what your singular advertisement means."

I told him the situation of affairs. i, "The rascals!"-. he broke in almost before I-had finished "I will briefly explain it all. A fellow by the name of Hartley, at least that was the name he gave, robbed me, I was pretty sure of this brooch. I pointed him out to the police, and he was taken into custody but nothing being found upon him, he was discharged." "Not entirely, Mr. Bagshawc, on that account. You refused, when you arrived at the station-house, to state what you had" been robbed of and you, moreover, said, in the presence of the culprit, that you were to embark with your regiment for India the next day. That regiment, I have learned, did embark as you said it would." "True but I had leave of absence, and shall take the Overland route. The truth is, that during the walk to the station house, I had leisure to reflect that if I made a formal charge, it would lead to awkward disclosures. This brooch is an imitation of one presented mc, by a valued relative. Losses at play—since, for this uufortunate young woman's sake, I must out with it— obliged mc to part with the original and I wore this, in order to conceal the fact from my relative's knowledge." "This will, sir," I replied, "prove with a little management, quite sufficient for all purposes. You have no objection to accompany mc to the superintendent?" "Not in the least only I wish the devil had the brooch as well as the fellow that stole it."

About half-past five o'clock on the same evening, the street door was quietly opened by the landlord of the house in which Mr. Saville lodged, and I walked into the front room on the first floor, whero I found the gentleman I sought languidly reclining on a sofa, lie gathered himself smartly up at my appearance, and looked keenly in my face. lie did not appear to like what he read there. "I did not expect to see you to-day," he said at last. "No, perhaps not: but I have ncw3 for you. Mr. Bagshawc, the owner of the hundred and twenty guinea brooch your dec-cased uncle gave you, did not sail for India, and"—

The wretched cur, before I could conclude, was on his knees begging for mercy with disgusting abjectuess. I could have spurned the scoundrel where he crawled. "Come, sir!" I cried, "let us have no snivelling or humbug mercy is not in my power, as you ought to kuow. Strive to deserve it. Wc want Hartley and

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jumped from my chair, for my wife's words gave color and consistence to a dim and faint suspicion which had crossed my mind. "Then this Saville is a manifest liar and perhaps confederate with But give me my hat I will ascertain this point at once."

I hurried to a jeweller's shop, and found that my wife's opinion was correct apart from the workmanship, which was very fine the brooch was valueless. Conjectures, suspicions, hopes, fears, chased each other with bewildering rapidity through my brain and in order to collect and arrange my thoughts, I stepped out of the whirl of the streets into Dolly's chop-house, and decided, over a quiet glass of negus, upon my plan of operations.

The next morning there appeared at the top of the second column of tho "Times," an earnest appeal, worded with careful ob- potenoe.

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son, aud we cannot find them you must, "what on earth did you throw tbc kitten aid us." into the well for?" 0, coz I crazy?"— "0!i yes to be sure I will!" eagerly re- "Come to your ma, you little cherub!" joined the rascal. "I will go for them at I once," he added with a kind of hesitating' assurance. "Nonsense Saul lor them, vou mean.

rife, as soon as Mary Kingsford had IOHi Sir. Augustus Saville," I quietlv re- life, the golden fruits of autumn, to rest at about nine o'clock in the marked: "we are but two here certainly cSrThe journeyman hatters in

Like you, I have no doubt ot j_,ut there arc half a dozen in vraitingbclow.

No more was said, and in another minute the friends met. It was a boisterously jo'ly meeting, as far as shaking hands and mutual felicitations on each other's good looks and health went. Saviilc was. I thought, the most obstreperously of all three. "And }-et now I look at you, Saviilc, closely," said Hartley, "you don't look quite the thing. Have you seen a ghost?" "No but this cursed brooch affair worries mc." "Nonsense!—humbug!—it' all right: wc ail three embarked iu the same boat.— It's a regular three-handed game. I prigged it Simmy here whipped it into pretty

gentlemen to join in it.

I must not stain the paper with the curses, imprecations, blasphemies, which for a brief space resounded through the apartment. The rascals were safely and .to ^c purpose.

_eparately locked up a quarter of an hour afterwards and before a month had passed away, all three were transported. It is scarcely necessary to remark, that they believed the brooch to be genuine, and of great value.

Mary Kingsford did not need to return to her emplov. Wcstlake the elder withdrew his veto upon his sou's choice, and the wedding was celebrated in the following May with great rejoicing Mary's old playmate officiating as bride's-maid, and I as bride's^father. The still young couple have now a rather numerous family, and home blessed with affection, peace aud com-

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6©*Mr. B. P. Mathews, of Virginia, has a diamond weighing one hundred and forty-four carats. It is valued at $2,000,000. The Koh-i-noor diamond, which wa3 supposed to be the largest ever found, weighed only one hundred carats. MtV Mathews has been offered £24,000 for it. It was found by the father of Mr. Mathews in the gold mines of Buckingham, Virginia. 9S"The unfortunate tfutk who is at present in the claws of a committee of "gentlemanly" council members is said to havo inquired of thi interpreter: "What makes these men spit so eternally?" In Turkey, and, indeed, in Europe generally, no man ever spits in the presence of another, excepting in the public street and with his head averted while here thoro is such a continuation of firing aud cross firiug of tobacco-juice in front of, across, and sometimes actually upon rcspectablo people, that even a Turk cannot conceal his disgust.—N. Y. Post.'

FISTAITMHD ENGLISH MORMON EMIGRANTS.—An inspector of Customs in New York, whjie engaged in his official duty of examining the baggage of some Liverpool passengers, on their way to Utah, found it contained'iiew fire-arms, guns, pistols and swords. He seized aud detained tho arms, and a quantity of ammunition, ou tho belief that they were brought here for tho purpose of resisting the laws of the United States in Utah, and making war upon the Govcrnmen'.

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£A?*TIIE CAPITAL OF PENNSYLVANIA.— The people of Philadelphia are again urging the removal of the State Capital from Harrisburg to Philadelphia. In thccourso of time this will doubtless be done. Tho capital of Maine, too will probably bo moved from Augusta to Portland. Tho massive State House is the great anchor that has kept it in Augusta so long.

Csai^A gentleman of Boston who takes a business view of most things, when rcccntly asked respecting a person of quito a poetic temperament, replied: "Oh, he is one of those who have soarings after tho infinite and divings after the unfathomable, but who never pays cash."

BSf'A few days since, a pious old lady, preparing to go to church, was seen to take a considerable quantity of gold from her trunk, wrap it up carcfully and put it in her pockej. She remarked that it was her habit, that it. kept her mind steady at her devotions, "for where the treasure is,there will tho heart be also."

FLSFSOLLTAILV AND ALONE. TLLO BoSton Bee claims to be the only paper in that city which "unqualifiedly indorses tho removal of Judge- Loring. The fact is crcditablc to the other paper3 but not to tho Bee.

SSS*A correspondent asks, what is the "milk of human kindness?" We presumo it means the milk used at hotels on tho tables, after having tho cream taken off for "private boarders." fiSf*"Whcn thou art buying a horse or choosing a wife," says the Tuscan proverb, "shut thine eyes and commend thyself to God." ... #3™"'Sam, you little imp!" said a ten-

hearted mother to her dear little son,

S£?~A bill was passed through the New York house of assembly a few days sinco in consequence of one of tho most activo and influential opponents of the bill having been seduced away just in the nick of time by a rose-colored note from an, angel in curl3 and flounccs.

Do so, and I will wait their arrival." His note was dispatched by a sure hand and meanwhile I arranged the details of the expected meeting. I, and a fr.end, whom I momently expected, would en- SST'There appears to be a very great sconce ourselves behind a large screen in mania for turnpike roads just at this timo the room, while Mr. Augustus Saville in this State. Almost every paper that would run playfully over the charming plot we take up, that is published in the Stato, (villi his two friends, so that we might be able to fully appreciate its merits. Mr. Saville agreed. I rang the bell, an officer appeared, and we took our posts in readiness. We had scarcely done so, when the

has cither a call for or the proceedings of a turnpike meeting. ttS""The American party of Terrc IIaut« are to hold a meeting to-day, to determine which of tho two State tickets they shall support. &a>"*Jcrroid says that young boys who marry old maids "gather, in tho spring of

journeyman hatters in Danbu-

ry, Ct., are on a slrikc, at an estimated loss of S«U00 a week to the different partits.

CS?"Dean swift says—'-ft is with nar-row-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles, the less thev have in them tho more noise they make in pouring it out."

CS7"OM .N'I:.'G or rnv CANAL.—Laborers arc now busily engaged in cleaning out and deepening our canal. The work will be done and water let in by Wednesday or Thursday next. Next Saturday the whole length of the canal will be ready for navigation.

The New York Canals will be opened April.—Ft. Wayne

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Mary's reticule, which she, I suppose, nev-j Times. cr looked into till the row came audi ©STTHE DESKS OF CONGRESS.—'The you claimed it—a regular merry-go-round, desks in Congress are one great^ causo of aiutit, eh? Ha! ha!—Ha!" long speeches, protracted sessions, and "Quite so, Mr. Hartley," said I sudden- tal£ for Buncombe. The members sit ly facing ing ou the merry-go-r

him, and at the same time stamp- comfortably in their seats, read the papers, he floor "as you sav, a delightful write letters, frank dockuments, and ad-o-round and here, vou perceive," journ. In tbc British Parliament there

are no such conveniences. The members go to the House to attend to their parliamentary duties, men who have nothing to sav are not allowed to speak, and thoso who have anything to say arc allowed only

RATTLE-SNAKH BITE.—The Mctlical Journal says the following proscription ia an infallible cure for rattle-snake poison:

Mix together four grains of the iodid of potash, two grains of corrosivc sublimate, five drachms of bromie, aud keep the mixture in a glass-stoppered vial, well secured. Ten drops of this mixture, diluted with a tablespoonfnl or two of wine or brandy, constitute a dose, which ia to be repeated, if necessary, according to the exigencies of the case.

The American Journal of the Medical Sciences contains the results of quite a number of experiments niado with this antidote, resulting iu its complete triumph.