Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1858 — Page 1

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BUSINESS CAOS. mil OVE, BROWN «v co., WHOLESALE DEALERS IN Dry Goods, Fancy Goods, NOTIONS, HATS, BONNETS, &.C., ; No. 10 Purdue’s Block, ' - I Lafayette, indiana. Invite attention to their New Stock. : j. V. PABKISOJT, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE,' Barkley 'Township, Jasper Co., Ind. W ill net as agent in collecting debts in Barkley a Mil adjoining townships. -5-ts ItABDINE & PKACOCK, _ ' DEALERS I N ’ •. . Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils, DYESTUFFS, I’ERFUMERIES, POTIMEDICINES, BOOKS, PAPER, And uli IviuxlH of Stutioiiery, Ac. DAVID SMOF.iI, Attorney at Law, 5’ RENSSELAER, IND. WM. S. HOPKINS, , A TTOII NE y A T L A IV, Ksnsselaer, In<>. Will promptly attend to collections, payment of taxes, sale of real estate, and other business entrusted ts his care, with promptness and dispatch. ;>2 y Joseph ti. ckanl;, Attorney at Law, . RENSSELAER, •4 c -ly. Jasper Conntv, Ind' Si’Ll 'ESTER BOOT, Notary Public, WHITE'S GROVE, A Jasper County, Ind. I*. O. address, Iroquois. Til. 10-Iy ' . ! -■- - i W. I». LEE. G. W. Sl-ITLEK.. B.r.i-; a .•sma-g.vu, Attorneys at Lav/. I ler., NEXT 1,0011 TO I.A rue's STONE BuII.DING, ItENSSELAI'?!:. IND. i W ill |Tv:til-e in the Circuit and inferior Courts ' of the 'J welllh Judicial District. Also, in the. Supreme and District Courts of Indiana. tlp2D 11. 11. MiI.ROY. ' 1.. A. C01.F.. .-fIELKtH A roti;, Attorneys at Law, NOTARIES PC BEK', And Agents for the Suit of Rea! Estate, I’avmeiil of Tuxes, &<•., apo'.t RENSSELAER, IND.

EDWE\ S’. El A .It D, .Attorney at Is a W AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Will practice in tin- Courts qf Jasper and aditiihi ng coil titles. “ (’articular utti-iition' given tp the securing, and vol|ecting of debts, to the sale of real estate, and to all other biisiijess intrusted to his care. • itliicc in the room in the north-west Corner of the.'Court House, Rensselaer, Ind.. N. B.—11" will be assisted during IheAerms of. the Courts by A. A Hammond, of Indianapolis. S-ty TIIOS. M’COV, AT.l'tlEll M'COV. GKO. M’cpr. T’HOS, .Ylcf-OT A SONS, "Bankers and Exchange Brokers, i BUY AND SELL COIN AND EXCHANGE. Collections uiaclc on all Available I*o 3>ltS'. WILL FAY INTEREST ON SPECIFIED - TItUF. DEPOSITS. A'egotiate and do a General Banking Business. Office hours, from !) Al M. to 4P. M. ap29 W. H. MARTIN, M. D., ? I A VINO removed to bis residence ;uljoining I_L liie town of R*.nssolaer, offers his proses- ' * uional rviet’s to the citizens thereof and vicinity. Dr. Martin has been .actively eng’aged in tin* practice of MItDSFINi: AN D Si ISOFICV for twenty-three years in Rushville;.Rush Co., j Ind.; and as there are many residents in Jasper wlio were forincrly‘cilizetis of that county. 1 he would refer those interested in so doing to them. n-ty . % I «K. W. W. BSCKFOISD, Eclectic Physician and Vroscojiian,*' IYETJIRNS his sincere thanks to the citizens ; j'-V of Rensselaer and the surrounding country for their past, liberal patronage, and hopes, by prompt attention to his profession, to merit and receive a continuation of the same. He will be found at the. <{l<l office, ready to attend to all calls in the. practice of Medicine, Obstetrics, &<■„, at j all hours, when not actually absent■ professionally. Chronic .diseases of all grades especially at- ' tended to. - Me’dic.incs prepared and constantly kept on hand for the cure of Coughs, Colds and Diseases of the Lungs, Ague, Liver Complaint, Diarrhea, Rheumatism, &,c. 44-1 y -■ - - - "... g £ _ i REMO VAL. N. I«. BOWMAN, TAI LO R AND CUT TE R , I) EGS to inform his old friends and e.us- x .a<, ) tomers that he has removed his place of business to Rhe building next door east of ILf , r.aßuc, Boys & Lußuc’s store, where he. hopes to receive a continuance of that support he has enjoyed for the last seven ycaf-s, and which it will lie his constant study to deserve. ly DOCTOIt O. A. IHOSN, D.ffrs nn IVashingtoii Street, one door east oj Laßiie'.r 43 HENftSELAEK.TND.

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C |hctrn. X>OM9 r r BUN IN i>£BTi Don It run in debt —never mind, never mind IGjLhy clothes arc faded and torn; Fix ’em up, make them do, it.is better by far j Than to have the heart weary and worn. W hoi’ll love you more for the set of your hat? i Or your ruff, or the tic of your shoe;/ i The shape of your vest, or boots, or cravat, ! If t-hey know you’ie in debt fur the new? ' There’s no coftifort, I tell you, in walking the street In line clothes, if you know you’re in debt. And feel that pcrcfiahcc you jsome tradesman-may : i meet j_l i Who will sneer—‘‘they’re not paid for yet.” i Don’t run in debt—i»w dear girls take a hint. If fashions have changed since last season, , Old Mature is,cut in the very best tint, Anmold Nature, we think, has some reason-*— But just say to your friend that you cannot a fib rd To spend time to keep up with the fashions, That jyour purse is too light and your honor.toe bright I To tarnish with such silly passion. Gents, don’t run in debt —let your friends, if they cun, Have line houses, feathers and flowers, But unless they arc paid for, he more of.a man j Than to envy their sunshiny hours. i If you've money to spare, I have nothing to saly, i To spend your dollars and dimes as you please, 1 But nnipd you, the man who his note has to paly, Is the man who is never at ease. Kind husbands, don’t run in debt any more, ’TWill fill your wife's cup full of sorrow To know that a neighbor may call at your door With a bill you must settle to-morrow. O, lase my advice—it is gbod' it is true! But; some Gs you may doubt it, I’ll wjiif’per a secret Jiethig it’s you— I halve tried it and-know all about it. The chain of the debtor is heavy and cold, Ils inksa.il corroded and rust; * : Gild i . o'er as you will, iuis never of gold—- . 'fhe i spurn it aside with disgust. j 'Die n an who’s in debt is too often a i Thohgh his hcMit may. be honest and true; ✓ , (’an hie buhl up his head and look saucy and brave | When a note he can’! pay ’becomes due?.

Mtisccllauroiis. ; i T II E B L A N K SHIRE THICK E T: I Two Acl ven; itA in Sit ' Thickets in Blankshire, England, are not now the dense .masses of underwood which l they aire still popularly believed to be, and which;, perhaps, once they were. The rani ' of the patriarch Isaac would scarcely becaught in any one of these by his horns; vast quantities of sheep, indeed, make their : pasture-land of our thicket witlwut paying; further tribute to the briars and the prickly gorse Ithan a few handfuls of wool; and a man niay walk ini les and miles upon it without injecting with greater inconveniences than an occasional thorn in the flesh. The; lordly jStug (not seldom uncarted on j our thicket) finds scarce„.an obstacle which I his easy' v.anter- cannot surmount without a ’ bound; the large-limbed hounds, whose mistress is the queen herself 7 , dash through it at full speed, unheedful of the gorse which redtlelts their tail-t.ips; and the scarleti coated hunters takejdieir way and i by hundreds across the densest part ofi tal- j most as swiftly as along its open turf-roads. | A lonely spot it is at all seasons; bleakenough in winter, but beautiful and brilliant with Color in the summer time; then, except the little, round, bald patches which mark the halting-places of the numerous companies of Gipsies-, who at that period haunt our Blankshire thicket, all is green or golden. The soft south-wind is never weary of blowing there, although always somewhat faint with the odor of the gorse blossoms; the lark is never tired of singing in the blue above, jior the grasshopper in the green beneath; nor the butterfly of roaming over the dangerous blossoms, whose sharp jspears threaten ins.A'ain its delicate fairy-wings. There are few thickets like it, and those few are growing fewer day by day. It is not impossible that the Enclosure Act may I lay its claws, or one of its clauses, Before: i long, even upon Brierly Thicket.; indeed, I have missed a cornier here, and a good strip there; und what 1 have known to be a capital rabbit bank, has become a cornfield patch already, so that the sooner I say yvhat I have got to say about our thicket—while it I is a thiciket—the better: ' t ' In the good old times, which were live-and-thirty years ago exactly, Brierly, which ; is now a stagnant country town, was a place of importance. I’lie Great Western road i to London, the King’s highway, (which is now, alas! the railroad,) ran through it, and upon that road seventy-three coaches passed r and repasseii daily. Forty-five of these j changed horses at the Calderton Arms, . which was the best hotel in our town, and I was patronized by Lord Calderton, of Brierply Park, who in those days saved us the trouble of choosing a representative in Parliament by nominating one himself, and bid- ; ding us vote for him. In tlicise good old times, it must be coni fessed that our thicket was not so safe as it

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\is now. No coach ever crossed it after dusk ! without the guard haying his loaded hlun- ' derbuss ready to his hand, lest he. should meet with any- gentlemen of the road: and many were the robberies which, despite that ; precaution, passengers were obliged to sub- ' mit to. Brierly farmers, driving home from the market in the evepings, used to go armed, I and with at least one companion. Pedlars. ! who were foolish enough to eNpose the contents of a valuable pack at any place upon one side of our thicket, larely got scot-free ito the othVr; nay, if they made resistance.' j they someXimes never crossed it at all; for ! highway robbery being then a hanging mat-| Iter, murder was no worse, and ‘-it was as well;” said the thieves, with the proverb, “to be hung for a sheep as for a lamb.” There ■. . ; j was a patrol upon our thicket, it is true,_but he did not very much deter the marauders, ■ and simply nervous passengers, always mistaking him for u robber, suffered three parts i of the wretchedness of being fobbed in the ' fright. Nevertheless,' there were honest i men then, as now, who cared for newer a I thief living; and one of these was Farmer Johnson, of Stoat Farm, near Brierly, and 'another was my Uncle Jack. Farmer Johnson was accustomed to cross our thickot at all seasons and at any hour, as ; often alone as in company, and unless he walked, (which, as he was fourteen stone, he was generally loth to do,) without even an ash-plant wherewitiulto defend himself, lie ran such risks, indeed, -without ever : coining to harm, that it was popularly uni derstood (in fun) that he was.himself in I league with the highwaymen: which, in | those times, it was not such a very uncommon thing for men ol some substance to be. Nevertheless, even Farmer Johnson was ; stopped at hist, upon our thicket. He was returning late at night from Fuss* . worth market in hi.s gig, alone, and with a I pretty heavy purse in his pocket, the proceeds of a succeessful sale ol barley. ID's ■ good fortune made him whistle as he drove, and his good mare Saltfish, who was almost ' a thcrougljibred, spanked, along merrily without touch of whip, as if she sympathized with her master. When they reached about the- middle of our thicket, a man sprang out on either side the.road from amid the gorse, rand stood in the way, at the same instant., a third fellow laid.his hand upon the gig behind. 'Farmer under* stood the state of affairs at a glance, and knowing that he could rely upon the mijre, took bis measures accordingly. By a sharp pull at the bit, he caused tlie docile Saltlish I (who had come to a full stop upon two legs, ■and presented the usual sign in heraldry of ; a horse rampant in a gig passant) to run bucMvard with suprising agility, knocking i dawn the gentleman behind, and playfully i trampling upon him in her retreat. Thus 'Farmer Johnson extricated himself from the ; dilemma, and had he been wise, would have! I trotted back to Fusswortli, well enough sat- i |isfied; but he had just come from thence, land was bound for his own residence, Stoat I Farm, nor was he a man very easily induced 'to change his determination. Gathering up i the reins, therefore, and holding the mare ■ well together,-he rushed her at the two men, who still stopped the way, and . scattered 1 them like chall. “Good night, gentlemen!” he cried satiri-, cally, as he bowled along at some fifteen ; : miles an hour; but the words had scarcely left, his lips, when Saltfish,gig and all j heeled completely over, and Farmer John- ' son’s triumph was ended. The three thievs, it seems, regardless of omens, were the, proprietors of a lorig, stout rope, which was ■ stretched across the road on pegs, and had thus caused his misfortune. In another minute, and before he could rise, his enemies were upon him. Resistance from an unarmed man was useless; for though they had no pistols, they could have beaten out his brains with their bludgeons in a few minutes; so Farmer Johnson submitted as patiently as he could, and confined jhimselfj to make a particular study of their countenances, with a view to recognize them under more auspicious circumstances. They took his purse, and gave him a good dubbin" in return for the trouble which he had given them; and they Would have doubtless taken his mare also, but that she had in the mean time gone .off toward Stoat Farm, of her own accord, with the recusitated gig behind her. Farmer Johnson, as he started homeward !’on foot, amid the laughter of bis despoilers, ' was sensible neither of his loss nor of his bruises. An overwhelming desire- for re-' I venge swallowed up, like a Aloses’ rod, till I other He had scarce patience to i get a prudent distance away from hi.s late i companions, before he gave the long shrill 1 whistle, which Saltfish knew so well as her

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master’s summons. Back came the high- ' blooded mare at a hand-gallop, instantly, and the farmer climbed up into the gig. He . put ,his hand under the driving- seat and I brought.out e.yultingly a new sharp sickle. “Fool that I ?vas,” cried he, “to have for- ■ gotten this, which I bought onlv this very . ; ■ 4 " *■; day.” It was’ a present wiiieli he had promisdd to one of.his men. and ten minutes be-, fore would perhaps have been worth two hundred pounls to him. “YVhat-’s done, however, could not be undone,” according to the perseverin j farmer, and, giving the mare 1 a Hick with the whip-lash, lie turned her into a turf-roajl which runs through our I thicket from tl at place, and presently joins the highway again by a circnnibendibus. By this means lie could ebnie, from the same ■ directions as before, ovt-r tile very same . ground, and it th# thieves should be still there, he was prepared for them. His only j fear was that t,hey would have decamped with their booty. They, however, thinking I that “old twenty-stun” (as they had irrevor- ' ently called hii r) would be a long time go- ' ing afoot to Br.erly, had set their tjrap anew ! for more game from 'market, and J hearing the sound of wheels, pricked up , their ears and grasped their bludgeons. NoJ sooner, hovjever, did the running footman, ! the third man of the party, lay his hand upon the gig behind, than Farmer Johnson, who was waiting foi him, struck iilm over the head with the s ckle to such a good purpose that the man dropped in the road. “I forgot,” cried the stout yeoman, as- he , came up with the other two, “I forgot, when I met .you'before, sirs, to give you this," holding up the ircaion, and leaping out upon the left-hand mi n. This fellow, astounded .by such an address, and really bewildered at i seeing again the same individual v.hom he bird such excellent means for knowing was elsewhere, and in a sad phifht, made but a : feel;!e resistencej, and after his fall, his comrade took to his heels across the trackless , ■thicket. The firmer.was at no time very ; well calculated io catch a runner, am! pur- ■ suit was, of court e, under the circumstanced, j act to be-though s of. The stolen purse was ’ luckily in the p.o’ket of the first man, and with that and hi; two captives—most srrievyusly mauled by the sickle—the plucky old yeoman came itlto Brierly about daybreak, 'ami covered himself, as may well be believed. with provincial glory. The other adv .nture, which I rememb'er to have happened upon our thicket, occur- i roll to. my I neie Jack. He was whtit’was ' called in those giiod old times which I have I referred to, a red-liot-radical, or us we should I now say, a model ate YV’hig, and in.the clectioiieeriug practices of that date he was a .somewhat unscrupulous proficient. His hatred of the u ibie ’house of Ualdertjn, i Which arrogated to itself the right of ap-: pointing ths m'ember for tlw? borough, .was of a nature of moderns, Unacquainted as we are with what political, animosity really means, can hj>ve no conception. “All’s fair -at election time,” was a favorite moral precept with my uncle, and one, up to whic i, whenever Brierly was contested, he mosit conscientiously acted. The struggle between she nominee of his lordship and a*cerfain yellow candidate from the metropolis, was, upon one occasion^— the first in winch, the Cald-erton .rule was rebelled against w’ith any hope of success — excessively keen, and the screw'Was put very sharply up; n the Brierly tenants. Uncle Jack, the better to observe the ene-my,-was stopping at the Calderton Arms itself, from which he secretly sent forth his ukases, and regu ated liberal affairs. He saw that these were going badly, that more money was wanted, and that, for certain reasons, neither in Brierly mites,-nor even in those of the Bank of England, but. in -good, untestifyimj', unrecognized goldsovereigns frqm the Mint. There was very lit.tle time to procure it in, and the getting : ! it from, town was a highly important and most confidential task, so Uncle Jack, after i some consultation with those he considered Could be trusted, d termined to undertake it himself. Nobody, reasonc I he, would surely suspicion him, an inmat i of the Calderton Arms, of being the purse-bearer of the Friends of Liberty. Robert Supple, she landlord, who was, of course, Ciiklertonian to the backbone, and had a considerab|]e following, was a dull man, who thought- himself-shrewd, and of the easiest possible sort to hoodwink; while his son w-as a scamp, if not something even worse, whose feelings were not likely to bo interested in any electioneering matter whatever. Uncle Jack was iieither a dull man nor a scamp, ergo (us he proved it) he was more than a match for them. He ordered out his gig and his-hig brown horse in order to go .to Fussworth. ’Wiere was certainly no niis.-

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take about that; he mentioned Fuscw'-orth I twice., distinctly, to Mr. Supple, who was ; smoking hife pipe at the inn-door, with an ; expression jof counteno’nce ;is though lie; were personifying human wisdom at .the request of some eminent sculptor. Ho spokeof Ferss worth, casually, to Supple the younger, as he Ming about tire inn-yard, as usual, w ith both his idle hands in his pockets; and Fussworth; said lie. nodding to the ostler—as he snatched the horse-cloth clcicrlv o!: the brow n at the moment of departure; and yet. Uncle Jack was going farther than Fussworth that day, nevertheless. It was night—midnight, by the time :.iv unc|c -got upon our thickct»::ga'n upon h's ■ way home.; lie had nobody with him, and ■no weapon of any kind, and he had tw o | thousand .poutyls in gold tin b. r the gig-sejit-j It w as'upon tills last .account that he kept ■ his eyi?s so sharply about him, and list' n .■! I so painfully with his ears, t;nd not. through I any i'oqr .upon his own account, f. r Un . J ack was bold jas-. a lion. 11? was anxious j lest the cati.-w ol 11 bcriv should suffer a, dire loss; lest the Calderton clique should iriI umph < n this, as on all other circ/kin.--.: [through any mjt.ad venture of his; ami it was | for this alone that ho feared the changes of ; the dark, and highwaymen. Blindfol ldiUKe ■had almost known everry inch in th;' wav ; u-q he drove through the g!o ?m, softly as Jig; possibly could,'with his wheels low on th>) sand, and dumb on the turf, and . r .rat.ln" oil the hard road but rarely; Soinwtiim s he would even pull up to l.isl'eH, and ho did not press the brow’ij steed to speed at any time, but kept him as frosh as his long journey.; -would permit him to bo, in ease it should ‘ come to a stern; chase. I’respntly,. in the center of the way there | loomed a hcrs>?man, and the fatal—Stand! rang hoarsely 6vcr the heath. M/y uncle; would have made a rush, and trusted to the! fellow's pistols missing firo, but ho saw that! the muzzle covered him. and that the risk was too tremendous for that. The robber, who.was .masked, rede rrp to his side with the weapon- still leveled, and deim.ij.l 'd liis ir. niey. My li-ne'o a-!’. :- al !:!:n ' his watch, and s.ome' loose sovereign', but 1 the <Mier shook his head. “1 want the mom y under the seat,” cried' he, hoarsely; “J know you have it there.” “If you know that,” said mv , unc'e qni'.'f-. ly,''you must Tilso know that not a penny of it belongs to me: I w ill not vohtntarilv give it up to any mint—l w ill die first—but since you have a pistol, I cannot- help your taking it if you have a mind, and may I live to see you hung.you rascal.” Uncle J nek -used some re 1 . r exc! t: ng 1 :n----gunge besides, which w. Let! or bear'rep-' etition in these g'bod old times, than inlhese. and then sullenly .shifted bls so that the bags of gold under his scat could bo ■;.■; at. Th-fc liigliwayinan leaned forward to reach them with One hand, still keeping the pistol level in the other, as though he knew the man lie had to deal with; but in doing this he'b'nit his head for a second, and, before he could raise it again,- Uncle Ja'ck was upon him like a lion. By striking spurs into his horse, the robber managed to e:<! rioat" Ijimself, but in the brief struggle the pistol went off 'harmlessly, and remained with my uncle; and before he.could draw another,; the big brown was laying his four feet to the ground to some purpose; .they were nearly nt the end of our threket, before the enraged highway mail could come’within range of' them. “('buck out thc-j gold,” he cried., in a terrible voice, “or I'll shoot w .” s “Shoot, and ,” halloed Uncle Jack, whose ’flying'wheels, no longer particular about making a nyise, drowned the rest of the sentence. “I’ll* lay a pound that I'll f live to see you liutig.” He knew it was not an easy matter for ti man on horseback'to shoot a mail in a gig.— i both-flying, Aftelj they bad gone on in this fashion for some time, p “Patrol,” cried my uncle, joyfully, am! at the full pitch of his voice. “Death and thunder!” or son.i; thing of that kind, exclaimed the liighwaymah, as he pulled up Ills marc upon her haunches. By which device U l,( 'le Jack gained fitly yards, and got quite ou4 of the thicket. In fixe mi nutes more lie had reached the toll-gate, and was out of Robber-land. Not a word said; he of his adventure to the ostler. Loused up al one in the morning to attend upon him ; only,“\Vhat has become of the grayf’’' tiskijd he, carelessly, as his eyes rested upon- ail empty stall in the huge stable wherein his own brown was housed. “Mast"r Willum has taken him out to Wutton until the day after tomorrow,” was the simple reply. Uncle J a,< k retired to rest with the se-1 renest of smiles, and deposited the gold in' safety under his mattress. <>n the next 1

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.mprniiTg his landlord waited upon him after breakfast, by particular desire. “How many votes, my good friend,” said mv. uncle, --can you really command now. i w'op.'.ndcnt Iv of his 1 irdship!” ■Why you surely ain't a-coming that* game!” said the innkeeper, j-riinly. “I should have thought you had known me by this -ime bettor than that: I am a-going to d ring seventeen voti rsjip to poll next, week f.-.v ')• ' • True Blue, however, and I <1 -n't. bare who km>w it.” “S'ventccn,” raid rny uncle, smiling, ••:h::‘ wi.il <io capitally: A should not have tiu'.iig’ht,-Mr. Supple, you could have brought so la <ny.’ This will be equivalent to giving me thirly-four,” added he. sirliloquisiug, ■■;w ; ho i nly wanted thirty to win." ■•'.l'. , i. ing you thirty-four!” cried the’fn.iigiu'nt h : why, I'd see you hanged first; wayi.. t xri'./sir. but the whole yel- / “!)■? ye’i know this pistolexclaimed my uii< I ■, sii ' b uiy, and with a great deal of sternne. . -ml '-are y<«u aware to whom it belongs”’; -- “Yes, 1 do,” said, the innkeeper, a little tine rmiortiiulg. but not in the least suspei tiyg what Wiis to come, “I* L kings to my WTli dim.” ■; 11 coc!.-!' said t Uncle Jack. "I took it hit:? hist flight upon Brierly thicket,' Avhcre he t ri< I l<> commit a highw y rol '.a'ry wit h a i' -dly lit; Ing in::.- kon Id- luce; which is a l:ate matter,-Mr. Supple-.” The ay'-my of tile fat’yr (.who was only too convinced of rhe trntia of what w.as said, he had liim<eif moilt'ic nod to Ills son hi.s sir ph-lons of what'my uncle was really gone to Fussworth about) was terrible to witness, and moved the accuser greatly. “Spare him; spare my son!” exclaimed -the poor fellow. “Doi look like the sm-t of man to hang the son of ainybody who promises to-do' mo a favor’” said Uncle Jack, placidly: “but,” added he, with meaning, “you had better not forge? those seventeen voters, Mr. Supple.” And so it turned.out, that through Uncle Jack's adventure in the-Blankshiro Thicket, a the yellow candidate came in for Brierly, for two thousand pounds less than tire cost he had calculated. “

Sanitary Condition of Printiogoffices.

Amongst th. t 1..; and professions opposed to the duration of life which are followed in the metn polls Ly large numbers of persons, few air were Ah tai than that of the. compositor and printer. The. number of deaths from consumption amongst th?m is very large. Those who have visited‘dome of «the London offices. which have been adapted for th; - purpose from old-!rwhioned-d wi llinghouses, will not for a moment doubt Hutt the deaths and Joss ofHiealtli are to be attributed to jj[ condition of tike atmosphere, produced by t. the space, and setting at defiance u»l ■■■•nitary .principles. Xe.r are the editors’and of the press in many cases better acconimplated. Men. well aware of the danger, are shut into closets, partitioned-off from the ill-vent Hated-space, and little larger than : full-sized coffins! Sketches of somuof these literary i dens, in tyhich are accommodated men who are earnestly working to elevate taste and improve the condition of the c imhiiunity, would astonfsh ninny readers. Chamies for the better have either been imide (tr ;>re in progress in various quarters. .Much, however, that is bad still remains to be ialtereii; and taking the whole of the sanitary arrangements, that have been -proxidvd for those engaged in the printing profession in a mass, there remains defects sufficiently to. account as clearly for the loss of life in printing-offices as in the barracks of the.metropolis. —'l hi Jjiiilder.

The Editor of the Jouruetl \>eing asked to explain the cause of the protuberance on the came], thus, replies: “■We are ashamed to confess that dur knowledge, of the subject, which is derived from’the reading of Goldsmith's Animated Nature iii our school days, forbids our doing so in any thing like a satisfactory manner. We will mention for our'correspondent's benefit, however, that the Arabs have two legends in regard to it. One is that the campl'took offense at'not being allowed to head the prt>ees ! --ion into the ark, and. <?ei his Lach tip; and AHiah as a just punishment for ..his vaiiitv 'and presumption, and as a. memorable, and porik’tiia! w arning to others, never pemitted him Io get it down again. The other is that be was grazing at a distance.frem the Ai k when Noah put out his bills for sailing, and in order to reach the boat in tims was compelled to hump himself in a most extraordinary manner. We give these orieiitalif tiis fur what they are worth.’’

The Hump on the Camel