Terre-Haute Journal, Volume 5, Number 19, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 4 February 1853 — Page 1

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BEWARE OF THE WIDOW. The widow is a dangerous thing. With soft, black, shining curia And looketh more bewitching

Than a boat of roam tog girls Her i*Hfh la eo deliciona— So knowing, clear, beside— Yon'd never dream ber thinking

Soon to become a bride.

Her drees, tbongh made of sable, Givsa ronndneee to her form,—• A touch of something thougbtfol,

A witching, winning chvm And when she sita down by yon, With quiet, ea#y grace, A tear m»y fall unbidden,

Or a smite light up her face.

Her voice is eoft, melodious, And lute-like In its tone She sometlmee sighs, *'Tls dreadful

To pass through life alone'." Then she'll tell yoo to remind her Of the loved one dead and gone Yonr step, yonr form, your features—

Thus toe widow will ran oa.

Oh! listen y«t be careful, For well she plays her parts Her lips distil the nectar

That deoh enslave the heart Be guarded, or she'll win you W llh sighs, and smiles, and Wars, And when von are bafely weddoid

She may box yoor silly ears!

My Debut at tho Bar.

(We have laughed so heartily at the following story that notwihstanding its length, we present it for the entertainment of our reader*. It ia one of a eerie* oalksd 'Sketches of the Flush times of Alabama,' in that ever welcome periodical, the Southern Literary Messenger. It i« only necessary to premise that the hero's olient had been falsely accused of stealing pigs, that the action was laid to recover damages for libel, and that the young lawyer had been unexpectedly called to oonduct the case, owing to an elder member of the bar being 'taken suddenly drunk.')—Home Journal.

My olient was a respectable butcher his opponent a well-to-do farmer. On getting to the Court House I found the Court in aeseion. The clerk was just reading the minutes. My case—I can well speak in the singular—was set the first on the docket for that morning. 1 looked around and saw old Kasm, who had somehow found out I was in the catie, with his green bag and half a library of books on the bar before him.— The old fellow gave mo A look of malicious pleasure—like that of hungry tiger from his lair, oast upon an unsuspecting calf browsing near hiin. I had tried to put on a bold fsoe. I felt that it would be very un professional to let on to my client that I was at all scared, though my heart was running down like sjack-sorew under a heavy wagon. My conscience—I had practiced it nway—was not quite easy. I couldn't help feeling that it was hardly honest be leading my client, like Falatsff his men, where he was sure to be peppered. But then it was my only chance «ny bread depended on it: and I reflected thai the same thing was to happen in every lawyer'a practice. I tried to strain my ideas in form and excogitate a speech: they flitted through my brain like odds and ends. I oould neither think nor quit thinking. 1 would lose myself in «he first twenty words of the opening sentence, aud stop at a particle the trail run clear out. I would start again with no better luck, then I thought A moment of the disgrace of a dead break-down and then I would oommence again with 'Gentlemen of tho Jury, &o., and go on as before,

At length the Judge signed the minutes and took up the docket 'Special case— Iliggingbottom vs. Swink: Slander. Mr. Glendyefor platnttf.* Mr. Kasm for defendant. Is Mr. O In court! Call him sheriff.' The sheriff oalled three times. He might as well have oalled the dead No answer of oourse, oame. Mr. Kasm rote and told tho court that he was torry hia brother was too much (stroking his ohin and looking down and pausing! indisposed, or otherwise engaged to utend^to the oase but he must Insist on tit being disposed of, &o.« the court said it thou Id be. 1 then spoko up. (tho1 my voice seemed to me eery low down and hard to get up.) that 1 had been spoken to in the cause 1 believed we were ready, if the cause must be then tried but 1 should much prefer it to be laid over, if the court would consent, until the next day or even that evening. Kasm protested vehemently against this reminded the court of it* per« emptory order} referred lo the ferme^pro* ceedings, and going en to discuss the whole merits of the ease. when be was interrupted by the judge, who turning himself lo me, remarked that he should be happy to oblige me, but that he was precluded by what had happened he hoped, however, that the counsel on the other tide would extend the desired indulgence to which Kasm immediately rejoined thai Uis was a case in which he neither asked favors nor meant to give them. So the oist had to go on. Several members of the ber had their hats ia hand reedy to leave the room, when the owe wee oalled but seeing thai wee In it alone, suffered their curiosity lo get the better of other engagement*, tad eteld to see it out— a circumstance which did ad diminish my

trepidation ia the least I bad my witneee oalled up. po client behind him in the ber, and case to the jury. The defendant justification ana not guilty. I got pretty well, 1 thought oa the proof*. cross examinatioa of old Kami dUJa*t to hurt anything, though he quibbled, misconstrued, ana bullied mightily objected to alt my questions leading, and all tba witnesses' answers a* irrelevant but the judge, who wae a wy clever sort af a man and who did not like Kasm much, helped me along and over the ted pieces, oooaiioa ally taking the examination himself wbea old Kasm had got tbe statemeals of ibe witness in a fog. had a strong

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The defendant's testimony was weak it did not controvert the proofs as to the speaking of the words, or the matters of aggravation. Many witnesses were examined ss to the character of the plaintiff but those against us only referred to what they had heard since the slanders except one, who was unfriendly. Some witness spoke of butchering hogs at night and hearing them squeal at a late hour at the plaintiff's slaughter house, and of the dead hogs they had seen with various marks, and something ol hogs having been stolen in the neighborhood.

This was about all the proof. The plaintiff laid his damages at 810.000. I rose to address the jury. By this time good deal of the excitement had worn off The tremor left, only gave me that sort ol feeling which is rather favorable than otherwise to a public speaker.

I might have made a pretty good out of it, if 1 had thrown myself upon the merits of my case, acknowledged modestly my own inexperience plainly stated the evidence and the law, and let the case go: reserving

myself in conclusion for a splurge, if choose to make one. But the evil genius which presides over the first bantling of all awyerings, would have it otherwise. The citizena of the town, and those of the country then in the village, had gathered in great numbers into the court house to hear the speeches and I could not miss such an opportunity for display.

Looking over the jury I found them a plain matter of fact looking set of fellow* but I did not note, or probably know a fact or two about them, which 1 found out afterwards. 1 started, as I thought, in pretty good tylo. As 1 went on however, my fancy began to get the belter of my judgement. Argument and common sense grew tame.— Poetry and declamation, and, at last, pathos and firey inveoative took their place. 1 grew as quotatious as Richard Swivler. Shukspeare suffered. 1 quoted among other things of less value and aptness,'He who steals my purse steals trash.' &c. 1 spoke of the woful sufferings of my client, almost heart-broken beneath the weight of the terrible persecutions of his enemy and, growing bolder, 1 turned to old Kasm and congratulated the jury that the genius of slander had found an appropriate defender in the genius of chicane and malignity. 1 complimented the jury on their patience, on their estimate of the valuable character spoke of the public expectations—of that feeling outside of the box which would welcome with thundering plaudits the righteous verdict tho jury would render and wound Up by declaring that I had never known a case of slander so aggravated in the course of my practice at the bar and felicitated mysell that* its grossness and barbarity justified ray client in relying upon even the youth and inexperience of an unpracticed advocate, whose poverty of resources was unaided by opportunities of preparation.— Muoh more 1 said that happily has now esoaped me.

When I concluded, Sam Hicks and one or two other friends gave a faint sigh of applause but not enough to make any impression. 1 observed that old Katttn held his head down when 1 was speaking: 1 entertained the hope that 1 had oowed him! His usual port was that of cynical composure, or bold and brasen defiance. It was a special kindness if he only smiled in covert scorn, and that was hit most amiable expression in a trial.

But when he raised up his head I saw the very devil was to pay. His face was of a burning red. He seemed almost to choke with rage. His eyes were bloodshot and flamed out fire and fury. His queue stuck out behind, and shook itself stiffly like a buffalo bull's tail when he is about making a fatal plunge. I had struck him between wind end water. There was an audacity in a stripling like me besrding biro, which infuriated htm. He meant to massacree me and wanted to be a long time do* ing it. It was to be a regular auto da ft I was to be the representative of the young bar, end to expatiate his malice against all. The court adjourned for dinner. It met again after an hour's recess.

By this time the public interest, and ee pecially that of the bar, grew very great. There was a rush to the priviledged seats, and the sheriff had to command order the shuffling of the feet and the pressure ol the orowd forward was so great.

I took my teat within the bar. looked around with an affeciioo of indifference to belying the perturbation within, that tbe same power ol acting oa the stage would have made my fortune oa that theatre.

Kasm arose—took a glass of waler Ws hand trembled a little: I could see that took a pinch of snuff, and led off ia a voice alow and measured, but slightly—very slightly tremulous. By a strong effort he had reoovered his composure. The bar was surprised at hie oalmness. Tbey all knew it was affected bat tbey wondered that be ce*M aflbat it. Nobody was deoeived by it. We Mt assured 'that it wae dm teirrent's smoothness ere it dash beiow.* I thought that be would oome down oa ma ia a ton* flattered myself it would sooa be over, •a&oe it canaiog. He bad aa Idea of off so easily.

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a good character, that the lodge of Mssons h*d refused to admit him to fellowship until he could clesr up these charges that the Methodist Church, of which he was a class-leader, had required of him to have these charges judicially settled that he had offered to satisfy the defendant that they were false, and proposed to satisfy the defendant that they were false, and proposed to prefer it to disinterested men, and to be satisfied—if they decided forhim-to receive a written retraction in which the defendant should only declare that he was mistaken: that the defendant refused his proffer, and reiterated the charge with bitterness and aggravated insult that the plaintiff had suffered in reputation and credit that the defendant had declared that he meant to run him off and buy hi* land at his (defendant's) own price and that defendant was rich and often repeated his slanders at public meetings, and once at the church door and. finally, new justified.

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in bad tasle perhaps. The young gentleman who had just closed his remarkable

speech, harangue, poet:c effusion, or rigmarole. or whatever it might be called, if. indeed if any name could be safely given to this motley mixture of incongruous slang the young gentleman evidently did not think he was an old man. for be oould hardly have been guilty of soch rank indecency as to treat age with such disrespect he would not say with such insufferable im pertinence, 'and yet I am.' he continued 'of age enough to recollect, if I had charged my memory with so inconsiderable an event the day of his birth and then was in full practice in this court bouse. I confess though, gentleman I am old enough to re member the period when a yonth's first appearance at the bar was not signalized by impertinence towards his seniors, and when public opinion di not think flatulent bombast and florid trash, picked out of fifth rate romances and namb)-parnby rhymes, rr* deemed by the upstart sauciness of a raw popinjay, towards the experienced members of the profession he disgraced. And yet. to some extent, this ranting youth may he right. 1 am not old in that sense which disables me from defending myself here, by words, or elewhere if needs be, by blows: and this young gentleman shall right well know before 1 have done with him. You will bear in mind, gentlemen, that what 1 say is in self-defence that (did not begin this quarrel that it was forced on me and that 1 am bound by no restraints of courtesy, or of respect, or of kindness. Let him charge to the account of his rashness and rudeness, whatever he receives in return therefor.

Let retort on this ycuth that he irf a worthy advocate of his butcher client. He fights with the dirty weapons of his barbarous trade, and brings into his speech the reeking odor of his client's slaughter house. •Perhaps something of this congeniality commended him to the notice of his worthy client and this, his first retaiuer and no wonder, for when we heard his vehement roaring, we might have supposed his client had brought hia most unruly bull-calf into the court to defend him. had not the matter of the roaring soon convinced us the animal was more remarkable for the length of his ears, than even the power of his lungs. Perhaps the young gentleman has taken his retainer, and contracted for butchering my client on the same terms as his client contracts in his line—that is on the shares. But I think, gentlemen he will find the contract a more dirty then profitable job. Or, perhaps, it might not be uncharitable to suggest that his client, seems to be pretty well up to the business of saving other people's bacon, may have desired, as far as possible, to save his own ana, therefore, turning from members of the bar who would have charged him for their services according to their value, took this occasion of getting off some of his stale wares for has not Shakspeare said (the gentleman will allow me to quote Shakspeare, too while yet his reputation survives his barbarous mouthing of the poet's words)—he knew an attorney *who would defend a cause for a starved han, or leg of mutton fly-blown." I tru^ however, whatever was the contract, that the gentleman will make his equally worthy client stand up to it for I should like that on one occasion it might be said the excellent butcher was made pay for his swine. *1 find it difficult, gentlemen, reply to any part of the young man's effort except his ar gumont, which is the smallest part in compass, and next to his puthos. the most amus' ing. His figures of speech are some of them quite good, and have been so considered by the best judges for the last thousand years. I must con less, that as to these found no other fault than that they were badly applied and ridiculously pronounced and this further fault, that they have become so commonplace by'oonstaut use, that unless some new vamping or felicity of application be given them, they tire nearly as much as his original matter—videlicet, that matter which being more ridiculous than we have ever heard before, carries internal evidence of its being his own. Indeed it was never hard to tell when the gentleman recurred to his own ideas. He is like a cat-bird—the ocly intolerable discotd she makes being her own notes—though she gen on well enough as long as she copies and cobbles the songs of other warblers. iBut gentlemen, if this young orator's ar gument was amusing, what shall 1 say of hi* pathos! What farce ever equalled the fun of it? The play of 'The Liar,' probably, approaches nearest to it—not only in the humor—but in the veracious charactei of the incidents from which the humor comes. Such a face—so wo-begone, so whimpering, as if the short period since he was flogged at school, (probably in reference to those eggs falsely charged to tbe bound puppy, neither obliterated the remen,berance of his juvenile affliction, or the looks he bore when he endured it. 'There was something exquisite in this pic Hire of tbe woes, the wasting grief his disconsolate client, the butcher of Higffinbotbam mourning—as Rachel mourned for her children—to his character, because it was not. Gentlemen, look at hiui! Why, he weighs twelve storte now. He baa three inches ol fat on his ribs this minute! He would make as many finfM off sausage ait any hog tact ever squealed at midnight in his slaughter-pea, end has lard enough ia him to cook it all. Look at bis face! Why, his chops remind a hungry maw of jowls and greens. If this is shadow, in tbe Etame of profiriety, why didn't he a how him«elf. wbea in flesh at the lesi lair, beside tbe Kentucky ox that were a more honest way of making a living than stealing hogs. Bat Uig is mains ui grief! 1 wooder the poena youth, his learned counsel—did am quote Shakspeare again. 'He never

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bis* ia tbe bod, pfsy upon hie dsofesk cheek.*He looked like paiieoco oa a monument ynMt»g at grief—or beef I should rather say. But, gentlemen, p&babiy I em wrong it may be that that tender-hearted, sctmove. batcher was lean before, and. like FaJataff, throsrs the blame ot his fat oa*aorrow and sighing, that 'has puffed htm up Hke a Wad der.' (Here Higgiabotbam left ia disgust.) 'There, goatfa&ea, be goes, *brd tbe lean earth as be walks eloag.* has Or. Jobaeoa satdr'Who ksflebL' Htg! staffed tfte *e of his Meod pen ji»s

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dings, with a dropsical grief which nothing short of ten thousand dollars of Shink's

money can cure. Well, as grief pufis him up, I don't wonder that nothing but deplet ing another man can cure bitn. 'And now gentlemen, I come to the blood and thunder part of this young geatlman'* harangue, empty and vapid words, and nothing else. If any part of his rigmarole was windier than any otfrter part this was it. He turned himself into a small cascade, making a great deal of noise to make a great deal of froth tumbling, roaring, foaming the shallower it ran all the noisier it seemed. He fretted and knitted his brows he beat the air and he vociferated, always emphasising the meaningless words most loudly: he puffed, swelled out aud blowed off. until he seemed like a new bellows, all brsss and wind. How he mouthed it as these villainous stage-players, ranting out fustian in a barn-theater mimiciog—'Who steals my pur*e steals trash.' (I don't deny it.) 'Tis something,' (queryf) 'nothing,' (exactly.') '"Pis mine 'twas his, and has been slaves to thousands—but he who filches fmm me my good name, robs me of thai which not eriricheth him,' (not in the least,) *but makes me poor, indeed. (ju§t so. but whether any pooier than before he parted with the encumbrance, is another matter.) •But the young gentleman refers to his youth. He ought not to reproach us of maturer age in that indirect way: no one would have suspected it of him. or him of it. il he had not told it indeed, from hearing him speak, we were prepared to give him uredit for almost any let.gth of ears. But does not the youth remember that Grotiu.* wad only seventeen when he was in fu practice, that he was attorney general Bt twenty two and what is Grotius to this greater light? Not the burning of my smoke-house to the conflgation of Moscow! 'And yet. young Grntius tells us in the next breath, that he never knew such a slander in the course of his practice? Wonderful, indeedl seeing that his practice has all been done within the lest six hours. Why hear him talk, you would suppose that he was an old Continental lawyer, grown grey in the service. His pr-a-ct i-c-e 1 Why, he is just in his legal swaddling clothes! his practice! But I don't wonder he can't pee the absurdity of such talk How long does it take one of the canine tribe, after birth to open his eyes? 'He talked, too of outside influence: of the public expectations, and all that sort of demagogistn. 1 observed no evidence ot any great popular demonstrations in his favor unless it be a tailor I saw stamping his feet but whelhor that was because he had sat cross-legged so long he wanted exercise, or was rejoicing because he had got orders for a new suit or a protpect of payment for an old one, the gentleman can possibly tell better than I can. (Here Hicks left.) However, if this case is to be decided by the populace here, the gentleman will allow me the benefit of a writ ot error in the regimental muster, to be held, next Friday, at Reinhert's distillery. 'But I suppose that he meant to frighten you into a verdict, by intimating that the mob, frenzied by his eloquence, would tear you to pieces if you gave a verdict for defendant like the equally eloquent barrister out we&t, who, concluding a case, said, 'Gentlemen, my client are as innooent of stealing that cutting, as the sun at noonday, and if you give it agin him, his brother, Sam Setuhins, next muster, will maul every mother's son of you.' I hope the sheriff will see to his duty and keep the crowd from you, gentlemen, if you should give us a verdict! 'But, gentlemen, I am tired of winnowing chaff I have not had the reward paid by Gratiano for sitting his discourse: the two grains of wh*at to the bushel. It is al|-r— wind—-all buble.'

Kasm left me here for a time, and turned upon rny client, poor Higginbotham. thick and heavy. Ho worried him, and then took to skinning off the under cuticle. Htg never skinned a beef so thoroughly.— He put together all the facts about the witnesses hearing the hogs squealing at night the different marks ot the hogs, the losses in the neighborhood perverted the testimony and supplied omissions, until you would suppose on heariug him. that it had been fully proved that poor Hig had stolen all the meat he had ever sold in the market He asseverated that his suit war a malicious conspiracy between the Methodists and M&sous to crush his client. But all this I leave out, as not bearing ou the main subject -—myself

He came back to me with a renewed appetite. He said be would conclude by paying tbe valedictory respects to his juvenile trieod—as this was the last time he ever expected lo have the pleasure of meeting him. •The poetic you ft gehtlemafi" had said, that by your verdict against his client, you would blight forever bts reputation and that ol his manly son, and dim tbe radiance of his blooming daughter's beauty.' Very pretty, upon my word! But gentlemen, not so fine, not so poetical by half, as a precious morceau of poetry which adorns the columns of the village newspaper, bearing the initial* of J. C. R. As this admirable production has excited a great deal of apphiuSe iff the tiursertes and boarding schools. I rmwt beg to reap it not for the instrvction of the (eotheno, he has already seen ft but for tbe entertainment of tbe jury. It is addressed toR***B**\a young lady of this place. Here it goes.*

Judge my horror when oa looking ap. I saw him take an old newspaper from bis pocket, and pulling down bts spectacles, begaa to read off, xa a stage-actor style, some verses I bad written tor Rose Bell's Album. Rose bad been worrying me sometime to write her something. To get rid of bar importunities, bad scribbled off a te# lines aud copied them ia tbe precious vol IIOM.

Rose the huie foot, took tbem for

somettag very clever, (she aew bad more' than a UumUeftiil of brains la ber doll-baby head)—aad wae so tickled with tbem, thai she got ber brother Bffi, about fourteen, to copy tbem off, as sreit ee be eawld, and take them to tbe printing olfioe. B& threw tbem under tbe door the printer at big a fool at either, sot only published tbem, bat la his infernal katdness, pafled tfceat ia* Some arttiaaf oomtaeadaiioae of bis awa, ttftfi log

'o the gifted author, as 'one of the most promising of tbe younger members of our bar.'tf*. f.4?|

The fun, by this time, erew fast and furious. The country people, who have about as mach sympathy for a young town lawyer badgered by an older one, as for a young cub beset by curs and who have about as much less idea or respect for poetry, as for witchcraft, joined in the mirth with glee They crowded around old Kasm, and stamped and roared as at a circus. The judge and sheriff in vain tried to keep order Indeed his honor smiled out aloud once or twice and to cover bis retreat, pretended to cough, and finftd the sheriff five dollars for not keeping silence in court. Even the oid clerk, whose immemorial pen behind his right ear, bad worn the hair from that side of his head, and who had not smiled in court for twenty years, and boasted that Patrick Henrv couldn't disturb him in making up a judgement entry, actually turned his chair from the desk, aud put dawn his pen afterwards he put his hand to his h*ad three times in search of it forgetting, in his attention to old Kasm, what he had done with it.

Old Kasm went on reading and commenting by turns, I've forgot what the ineffable trash was. I would'nt recollect it, if I could. My equanimity will only btand a phrase .or two that still lingers in my memory, fixed there by old Kasm's ridicule. I had said something about my "bosom's anguish'— about the pas&ion that WHS consuming me and to illustrate is, or to make the line jingle, put in something about 'Egypt's Queen' taking the her bosom—which lor the sake of rhyme or metre, I called the 'venomous worm'—how the confounded thing was brought in I neither know nor want to know. When old Kasm came to that, he said he fully appreciated what, the young bard said—he believed it. He spoke ot' venomous worms. Now. if he (Kasm) might presume to give the young gentleman advice, he would recommend Swain's Patent Vermifuge. He had no doubt that it would effectually cure him of his malady, his love, and last, but not least, of hia rhymes— which would be the happiest passage in his eventful life. couldn't stand it any longer. 1 had borne it to the last point of human endurance. When it came only to skinning, I was there but when he snowered down aquafortis on the raw, and then seemed disposed to rub it in, I fled, *Abii. erupi, evasi.' 1'he last thing I heard was old Kasm culling me back, amidst the shouts of the audience —but no more.

The next information received of the case, was a letter that came to me at Natchez, my new residence, from Hicks, about a month afterwards, telling me that the jury (on which I should have staled old Kasm had got two infidels and four anti-masons.) had given in a verdict for defendant, that betore the court adjourned, Frank Glendye had got sober, and moved for a new trial, on the ground that the verdict was against evidence, and that the plaintiff had not had jueiice, by reason of the incompetency of his counsel, and the abandonment of his cause and that he got a new trial, as well he should have done.

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A Story of New Year's Eve. ,"f ST J. T. TROW SRI DOC. Never shall I forget the last New Year's Eve I passed in the villiage of Even at this day, the strange and terrible event, which has impressed indelibly upon my soul the memory of that night, haunts my immagination in the black mid-winter hours and not unfrequently disturbs my dreams. I have often thought it singular, that it is only at the close of the year—in the dull and dreary December—that these recollections less and silent at the'bottom of the force themselves upon me with such a degree of force. It must be something in the association of the reason with the incident Whatever it may be. it is that something which impels me at this moment to look back with memory fresh and strong to thai fearful night, and relate its slo *y.

It was the night of the thirty-first of Deo. There was to be a graud bail at P—— a village eleven miles from youth and pleasure meeting to dance at the funeral of the old year, and to welcome with hilarious mirth the birth of the new

A considerable party of young people in early made preparations to at lend this ball. 1 was one of the company of six gentlemen—as boys advanced in their teeus like to be called—who chartered a large sleigh to be drawn by four splendid black horses, and to be driven by the celebrated horse-tamer (so well known in L. and who may be still living there.) whose services we consider ourselves iorti*» uste in having secured. -A

It was just seven when having faithfully picked up our party in didbreut parts ol the village, we set out from "L——. The air was bitter cold the glowing constellations twinkled with unsurpassed brilliancy in the clear, frosty «|y the crisp crackled beneath the hoofs of Um horses and the runners of the sleigh and the chime of the bells filled tbe air.

We were a merry partyj: sod oti rfetting out. every heart beat hi^b in joyful unison with the chime of tbe be is.

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wttli straw and •buffaloes,' we defied the cold, aad only laughed tbe louder when we felt the frost spirit tingfiiig In our fingers sod toes, maliciously atijtfiking our face.

Having been disfppointed. in not being able to obtain fo£ a companion the young queen of my hearty—*vbO had cruelly engaged herself for aeother scene of pleasure. although sheJfcnew 1 expected ber to go wiib me to toe t^df, was tae -bachelor* of the compsay J|ut my companions being provided with partners. To conceal the aching void in f$y heart, I assumed an exceeding gayety, and declared myself happy ia tsv liberty, since it afforded ma an opporUioity try ay Skill i»i drfvtog four bamL acoummodeted mawith tbe retns, lodl a sod tbem a» OMMtasi bis spprt&alioa, aad at the same lime to ex* cite etmdatjoif fa the hearts of one or two of my compaakms.

Wbea was too aoid to tfiprf driving aay Joogar lerept iatotbe body of tbe sleigh ia dm aui^t of tbe ba&ioes and straw wfateh etrvJoped the party aad Wsfflm O—proposed to take «y pUcc.

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*No—do William,' I heard his partner say, in a ueseeching voice. |This was Ltzzte L^re—who will not blush now to see her name writen in full. Wjih the exception of my perfiidlous Mary {looked upon Lizzie as the most charming girl in our village. She was then .sixteen tall, slender, graceful—in short, the most perfect lily I ever beheld. My Mary Was rose. Had I prsferred lilies to roses, 1 might have preferred Lixste to Mary. Aa it was, 1 thought her without an equal in beauty end grace—with one exception.

William was Lizzie's beau. They were quite devoted to each other, and quarrelled often enough for their friends to suppose there was a great deal of jealous love on both sides. They had some sort of misunderstanding that evening. William had been somewhat too attentive to some other fair one and Lizzie feelings had been hurt.

It might have been as much spite as emulation of my driving, which prompted William jp volunteer to take the rein3.

As 1 said before. Lizzie begged him not to change his seat. He was by ber side of course, •Why not!* he asked. •Oh!' said Lizie. 'I am so oold! But go if you like,' she added in a trembling voioe. 1 suppose William was ashamed then to yield. •Are you cold?' he asked, somewhat eanrestly. But he added quickly, in a gay tone, alluding lo myself— •Well, Fred will keep you warm! He understands, it Hal ha! do your duty. Fred!'

And Wdliam took his seat with the driver. I sat down by Lizzie's side. Too gallant to allow Wil|mu'«) suggestions to pa*s without taking "SulvanUge of it, I lei m\ arm gently gride aroud the Lily. Sh as gently repulsed me and heaving sigh. I took care of my unruly arm. 1 wa.sorry I had not put it where it belonged at firsts Lizzie was nevertheless inclined ti f.i t.

I tried to talk with her without meeting with much encouragement towards sociabii ity I was not at all sorry when Wiiliam finally returned lo take his seat. 1 heard him whisper to Lizzie but sh answered him very briefly. I thought ah must be very angry with him to be so si lent. 'Arc you cold now?' he asked.

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W do a he 'I don't feel like talking/ answered Lizzie in a low tone. 'You are angry with mel' 'I am not angry, Wdliam!' 'Displeased!'

Lizzie made no reply. •Well, if you are,'said William between his teeth, I can't help it. It is Impossible for me to please you always. You are continually getting angry with me about tri fles. When you get over it just let me know.' 1 always thought William was a little cruel. He turned to Jane H—-, and began to converse wilh~her in the gayest lone he could command. Still Lizzie suid nothing. She only sighed.

Once more I endeavored to draw hor into conversation: but she scarcely answered me. Observing my object, William put his face to hers, and said with a light laugh: 'Aro you pleased yetf'

She made no reply but seated herself iti a more comfortable position in the bottom of the sleigh. 'Let her pout,' toughed William. 'I am used to it. She'll get over it soonest If you leave ber alone. 1 must confess I was partly of his opinion and thinking I had done all duly demanded, resolved to loliow his advice. did not speak to the Lilly again She sat motionleigh.

Meanwhile ail was gaiety around her.-— Wdliam's laugh was loudest. I joined fn the general mirth. in our merriment we bung a full chorus, the silvery voices of the girls, and the clear, rich tones of their partner's ringing out with the joyously jingling bells upon the cold air beneath the twiok* ling alars! •.

And our four black horses prancedgatly and still the snow shrieked sad crackled beneath runners and hoofs and as wo flew onward dark fences seemed jagged lines traced upon the white ground.

Still Lizzie. ir the midst of sll this mirth, sat motioulesj-rand silent on the bottom of tffe sleigh.

Thus We arrived st Tf F—^ drofe

Op to iHe hotel, where the ball was to be, in graod-'jtyle. Wheeling the four blacks into a t/iifui circle, and bringing the sleigh hin half an inoh of the steps. Just at that our merry voices Were pouring forth tile ft'lirring tones of the 'Canadian boatman's song.' which to my ear hsd never sounded so beautiful, aud grand, and full of sootstirring melody as on that winter night. I do not like to hear it now. Evef since it brings that scene vividly tfef&re tire, and fills my soul with sadness I Ob. memory! how dost thou by one link, drag up from the dark gulf of the past the endless chain of joys snd sorrows, forged irr (he fiery furnace of youth! Its clanking falls hesvily upon my hesrt, like the sofamn sound of Ssbtftftlf bell*!

Our song cea#ed with the chime of the sleigh bell*! Our merriment had protected us against the cold, and ft was no great matter to overcome the numb sensation which sitting long in one position hsd produced snd we rose tfpon our feet. Youih* leaped to the steprf. and with playftrl compLaiiits of being froirn, the giri«, with their assistance, did tbe same, with one exception Lizzie sat still.

Lizzie,* said William. There Was no reply. •She asleep!* said one of the girls gaily. •I'M risk that in tbe tiobfe We made!* ex claimed another, •She is making believe!' said William peevishly. 'She i* only wsiiing for me to

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And Wdliam, to show Himself independent —I have aiway#Supposed—walked proudly Iota the betet U. •Come. Uz»r etcfaimad Ellen V—, knpatioutly, 'we are waiting lor you.' •She is actoallY said I. 'Shs woatd not set so. 1 im sure, if ibei wes not. Take bold of ber.'

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Ellen shook her compMiion's shoulder. The Lily drooped iffe more. Ellen pushed aside the thick Veil, and endeavored to raise her head. •She won't wake up!' aire etcfalttesJ half frightened. 'There is something wring,' muirerr.i who hsd given the reins to the os»l«r. •I am afraid!' said Elhn. stalling back,

J—J—think she hast fainted!' bounded into the sleich. I saw him tear the thick glove from his hand, and lay his palm on Lizzie's face, A suppressed exclamation escaped his lips no more and lifting the Lily in his arms as if she had I oeu an infant, he bore her hastily into the hotel.

A vague terror had come over me. believe 1 feared the worst. Uncertainty mad* horror more liorribla. I heard call for help the moment he ente.ed the hail, and being wholly beside myself with foar. I rushed into the public parlor. I tnvi William near the «.'oor. 'There is something the matter with Lizzie.' I articulated.

Either my words or my manner conveyed a fearful meaning to* William's heart. Laughter died on his lips. Irom his countenance. Ha became deathly pale. •."With Lizzie?'he gisDed.

Making a strong effoit to nfipear possessed in the presence of the crowd which pressed around me, 1 said—1 think she is dying!'

A cry of eonsternation quivered on every lip. Only Willia-n was silent. II* dissppeared like a shadow. No direction was needed to lead him lo the Lily, Already a crowd pressed around her indicating the ipot where she lay hi the arms ofthose^who were ondeavoring to restore sensation.

It was too late! I heard a murmur fall from the ashy lips if Jane H—, who had penetrated tho ihrong, and obtained a view of Iter companion. 'Frozen to death!'

Dizzy and faint I turned away. For a moment I seemed staggering under a horrid I ream. Th» walls reeled around me. Ghastly faces and spectral fornu fl tated beore my vision in a mist.

My perfect consciousness was restored by seeing a p:tle figure approach, with wild gestures of despair. It was Wdliam! His lace was hajrgnrd I never h.iw a countenance so full of grief unutterable, lie Wrung 'lis hands, and muttered,— 'Lizzie! Lizzie!'

That was all. I took him by the hand. I endeavored to say something-1 hardly know what—something to lessen his griefhut he pushed ino liom him with ado^perate gesture, and falling heavily upon chair with his hands clasped fiercely to his brow, groinod aloud.

How deeply was the terror of that nig'it stamped into my young and ino*perionc«d heart! How vividly the scene flashes now upon my soul Onoe mare I seem to guza on the pale face of the Lily as she lay in the cold embrace of death, still beautiful in the magnificence of her ball room dress!

Oh the vain and hollow heart or youih 1 Not even the fate of one so young and fair could check the mad pulse of mirth, or Impress a serious thought upon the gay beings who had met to celebrate the death of another yearl Tho musio pealed forth in joyous tones the dance wont on the ballroom resounded with gayety and in another chamber lay the corpse of the beautiful and young and there we, her grief stricken friends, poured forth our lamentations over the untimely dead!

William hat how a fair young bride, and he is hnppy but I ween the solemn anthems those winter winds—the golden coristellaiious which glow in those winter skies even the chime of bells and the measures of the dance—often and often call up to his soul remembrances ol the fair Lily of Land of that tearful Saw Yeur's Eve—as they do to this saddened heart of miimj

New York. Beats London.

The newCunard steamer, Arabia, tots fn heat th|,American steamer, Baltic, but she dldn The National Intelligencer shows that Jonathan bests Hull in ntfolher point, as we find in that paper of Tuesday:

Land has been recently sold near the Royal Exchange, London, at the rate ot foUt millions of dollars per nore. This beats the fifth avenue and Broadway out of sight. —Foreign hems, N. Y. Evening Pcpt.

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superficial feet, and the price above named is st the rste of a little bs* than $92 per superficial foot.

The New York pnpers announce the isle, at public suction, within (he last week, ot a lot of land about 25 by 80 feet, (2,f)(!0 superficial feet.) on the northeast Cornoa of Brosdway and Fulton streets, in that city, upon a lease of twenty-one years, at an annual rent of 914.600 the lessee to pay alt taxes, dco., end to erect buildings which shall belong lo the owner of the lee at the expiration of the term.

This rent is equal to the interest (computed at five per cent.) of a principle sum of #200 000. which/nay iherclore be tsken as ihe value of the fee of the lot. This is at the rate of about 6145 per supetficial foot, or upwards of $5,300,000 per sere, being nearly sixty per cent ahead of the "land near the Royal Exchange, London."

London muai try again before It beats New York.

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I OCKO JauTHKit—(who is extremely sen* timentaloiilfcujetftjg (bather first-born.in the cradle, is excetrtfiely restless)—The gels are wh»perln| to thee, my own darJinc babe.

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fttet)— It's oa sucb thing, Laura the child bas only got wind in its stomach.

Tba number of going vessels fa fhf? world is about 85.000 of which two third belong to England and the United Stat«