The Wabash Courier, Volume 17, Number 45, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 7 July 1849 — Page 1

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THE EVENING WIND. BT BRYANT.

Spirit that breathest through my lattice, thou That cool'st the twilight of asoltryday, Gratefully flows thy freshness round my brow.

Thou hast been out upon the deep at play,

Riding all day

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the bright blue waves till now, 1 crrevioUslv realized what the end Roughening their crests, and scattering high their spray, Andswelling the white sail. I welcome thee To the acorcbed land, thou wanderer of the sea!

Nor alone—a thousand bosoms round Inhale thee in the fullness of delight And languid forms rise up and pulses bound

Livelier, at coming of the wind of night And languishing to hear thy grateful sound. Lies the vast inland stretched beyond the sight Go forth into the gathering shade go forth God's blessing breathed upon the fainting earth.

Go, rock the little wood bird in his nest, Curl the still waters, bright with stars, and rouse The wide old wood from his majestic rest,

Summoning from the innumerable bougli9 The strange deep harmonies that haunt his breast: Pleasant shall be thy way where meekly bows The shutting flower, and darkling waters pass, And where the o'ershadowing branches sweep the grass.

The faint old man shall lean his silver head To feci thoe thou shalt kiss the child asleep, And dry the moistened curls that overspread

Ilis temples, while hiabrcathing grows more deep And they, who stand about the sick man's bed, Shall joy to listen to thy distant sweep, And softly part his curtains to allow Thy visit, grateful to his burning brow.

Go—but the circle of eternal chango, Which is tho life of nature, shall restore, With sounds and scents from all thy mighty rango,

Thee to thy birthplace of the deep once more Sweet odors in the sen air, sweet and strange, Shall tell the home-sick mariner of the shore And, listening to thy murmur, he shall deem He hears tho rustling leaf and running stream

TIIE AWE OF IKREVEKENCE. BY ALFRED TENNYSON. You might have won the pool's name,

If such IK) worth the winning now, And gained a laurel for your brow, Of sounder leaf than 1 can claim.

But you have made the wiser choice The life that moves to gracious ends Through troops of unrecording friends, A deedful life, silent voicc:

And you have missed the irreverent doom Of those that wear the poet's crown, Hereafter neither knave nor clown Shall hold their orgies at your tomb.

For now the poet cannot die, Nor leave his music as of old, But round him here ere he be cold Begins the scandal and tho cry:

"Give out the faults he would not show! Break lock and seal! betray the trust! Keep nothing sacred 'tis but just Tho many-headed beast should know."

Ah, shameless! for he but sing A song that pleased us from its worth No public lite was his on eartb. No blasoncd statosmanhe, uo king. 4m lie gavo tho people of his beat:

His worst ho kept, his best he gav®. My curse upon the clown and knave Who will not let his ashes rest!

Who make* It sweeter seem to be The little life of bank and brier, The bird that pipes his own desire And dies unheard within his tree,

Than he that warbles long and loud, And drops at glory's temple-gates. For whom the carrion-vulture waits To tear his heart before the crowd!

BEAUTIFULLY EXPKESSED No man, however degraded, is utujrl* beyond reformation. Beautifully has NV hittier, in oue of his poems, expressed this troth: ••As on the White Sea's charmed shore.

The Parses sses Ms holy hill With dim neat smoke-clouds curtained o'er, Yet knows beneath them evartnore.

The low pale fire is quivering still 80 underneath its elonds of sin 1 The heart of wan retain*th yet, Gleams of its huly origin

And half quenched stats that new set. Dim color of i» faded brow, And early beauty linger there, AndoVr its wasted deeert blow

Faint breathing* ol it* monung Oh! never more upon the scroll Of the sin-stained but priceless soul.

Hath Heaven inscribed 'Despair C,8t not the clouded gem away, .* Quench not the living but dim ray-

My brcAbcr roan beware! With that deep vote® *hich from Ofc skies Forbade the Patriarch's sacrifice,

God's angel rrlr*. *Fort#ar

NEW RAJEOK.—The London Pateoi Journal contains guarded razor, warranted not to skin in the process of Wakelv in the London Lancet, calls 11 a splendid invention, and affirms that" "con be used by the operator almost any situation. It can be used to bed, on a railway, or even io a carriage on »ne common roads. The operation of shaving is effected in an Inconceivably short space of time, even by the mow UflM" or tiervous."

yeaR was a man of rather superior mind and

and THREE DOLLARS if paymentbe delayed until acquirements, but unfortunately became

paid, unless at the option of the pobliaher. urally fond of company, and possessing A failure to notify a discontinuance at the end superiorconversational

addicted to habits of intemperance. Nat-

out. and chargpd accordingly, illustrating one of those singular laws of |m|^ A/^u«rtiaincr 1 i« .1

powers, his com-

pany was much sought, and he became eventually a sot. His wife was a feeble woman, without much decision ofcharacter but an only child was the reverse.

nature, that the females oftenest take af ter the father in character and personal peculiarities, and the males after their mother.

Mary was well aware of the consequences that would inevitably follow her father's course, and had used every exertion of persuasion and reason in her power, to induce him to alter his habits,

but

without avail his resolutions and promises could not withstand temptation, and he pursued his downward course till the poor girl despaired of reform, and realized what the end must result in.

John Dunn was a young man from the east, possessed of good education, as all our New England boys are, and their indomitable industry and perseverance nnd was working on the farm of a neighbor by the month.

Mary, on going some errand to the next house, met him on the road with the usual salutation,'good morning Mr. Dunn.' •Good morning, Miss Watts. How is your health?' •Well I, thank you, but,^to tell you the truth, sick at the heart.^ •Pray, what is the trouble?' said John

What can affect a cheerful, lively girl ike you, possessing every thing that can make you happy?' •On the contrary,' replied Mary, ev erything conspires to make me miserable. I am almost weary of life. But it is a subject I cannot explain to you and yet I have sometimes thought 1 might.

Any thing that I can do for you, Miss Watts, you may freely command.' •That is promising more than you may be willing to perform. But to break the ice at once—do you want a wife?

A wife! Well, I don't know. Don't you want a husband?' 'Indeed I do the worst way. I don't know but you may think mo bold, and deficient in that maidenly modesty becoming a young woman but, if you knew my situation, and the afflictions under which I suffer, 1 think it would be some excuse for my course.' 'Have you thought of the consequences?'said John—, my situation—I am poor—you are rich—I am a stranger and—' •Indeed I have, till I am almost crazy. Let me explain—you and every one else knows the unfortunate situation of my father. His habits are fixed beyond amendment and his property is wasting like tho dew before the sun. A set or harpies are

drinking

his very hearts

blood, ruin and misery are staring us in the face. We are almost strangers, it is true we have met in company a few times,but I have observed you closely. Your habits, your industry, and the care nnd prudence with which you manage your employer's business, have always interested me.'

And yet, my dear young lady, what can you know of me to warrant you in taking such an important step?

It is enough forme that I am satisfied with your character and habits—your person and manners. I am a woman and have eyes. We are about the same

age so,

if you know and like me well

enough to take me, there is my hand! And, my dear Mary, there's mine, with all my heart in it. Now, when do you desire it to be settled?'

Now, this minute give me your arm. and we will go to Squire Benton's and have the bargain finished at one. I don want to enter our house of distress again until 1 have one on whom I can rely, to control and direct the affairs of my disconsolate home, and to support me in

determination to turn ove a new leaf in our domestic affairs.' But not with this old hat, and in my shirt sleeves, Mary.'

Yes and in my old sun-bonnet and dirtv apron. If you are content, let it be done at once. 1

hope

•Now,

you will think

am not so hard pushed as that comes to but I want a master. I am willing to be mistress, but none to be master ts more than I am equal to. 1 will take you home and introduce you as mv

own

dear husband—signed sealed and delivered.' •So bo it-i-permit

m0 10

s*^

have alwavs admired you from the first minute I saw you. for your beauty and energy, and industrious, amiable deportment.

John, if this is sincere, this is

the happiest moment of my lifts *nd

trust our union will be long and happy. I em the only one my poor father lisieas toj but alas, his resolutions are Ime ropes of sand. I can manage him on all other subjects, vou must take ch/»rge of his business, and have sole control there will be no difficulty—i am conndent of the result.'

They were married, nnd a mot® happy match never was consummated.— Everything prospered, houses and barns were repaired, fences and gates wer« regulated, and the extensive fieldssmiM and flourished Hke an Eden. The oft fortunate father in a few years sunk imo drunkard Kr*t*e. Marv and John raised a large family, and tW st.H b*e respected and wealthy—all from an energetic girl's resolution ferethought and ©oarage

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a 0 a a a a

A Noble Act.

Lieut. Beali, U. S. Navy, is already well known to the country, having particularly distinguished himself, on several different occasions, as a bearer of important dispatches to and from California, both through the heart of Mexico, during the war, and across the prairies and Rocky mountains, forcing his way. with equal spirit, through civilized and savage enemies. As a gallant naval officer and intrepid traveler, with the*courage to face and the energy to overcome every difficulty and peril, we can well believe he has no superior but we have recently heard an anecdote told of him, being the account of a circumstance which happened on the last journey to California, from which he" has only so lately returned, which, while it illustrates the dangers of the road, proves that there is another quality in him higher than mere resolution and bravery,—a humane and generous disposition, which gives to those virtues the character of heroism.

It was, we believe, in the Gila country, that Lieut. Beall, having encamped his party, and placed it in safcy, went out hunting. He set out alone on a favorite saddle mare, which was generally kept up or spared forsuch occasions. About six miles from camp he had the good fortune to kill a deer and he was on the ground dressing the carcass, when on looking up he suddeniy beheld a troop of mounted Apaches, who had discovered him and were dashing furiously towards him. They had, doubtless heard the report or seen the smoke of his rifle, and so were on him before he was aware but he knew very well that to be overtaken by them, a single white man among those naked hills, which they called their own, was certain death and accordingly leaving his quarry and mounting in hot haste, he relied upon the mettle of his mare which he put to her full speed, to carry him back in safety to the camp. Away darted the young lieutenant, and on rushed the savages, thundering and yelling in the certain assurance of their prey. But confident as they were the fugitive was quite as well satisfied of his ability to escape although their horses were fresher than the mare, and it was pretty certain they were gaining slightly upon her, and would give her a severe contest before reaching the camp.

Thus assured of his safety, but not relaxing his speed, Lieutenant B. had recovered half his distance from the camp, when, dashingover the crest of a hill, he was horrified at the sight of one of his own men, on foot, climbing the hill, and, in fact, following in his trail to assist him in the hunt. The sight of the Lieutenant flying down the hill at such a furious rate was, doubtless, enough perhaps the poor fellow could hear the whoops of the Indians ascending the hill from the opposite side at all events, he understood his fate, and spreading his arms before the horse's head, he cried out with accents of despair, "O Mr. Beall, save me! I am a husband and the father of six helpless children!" Never was prayer more quickly heard, or more heroically answered.

The lieutenant, though riding for his own life, immediately stopped his mare, dismounted, and giving her to the man, said, "You shall be saved. Rido back to the camp and send them out to give my body decent burial!" And so they parted—the footman to escape, the officer as ho supposed, to be slain for the hill was utterly bare, without a single hiding place, and he thought of nothing but selling his life as dearly as possible.

For this jjvrpose he drew a revolver, and, sitting down ot the ground, waited for the savages, who in a moment camo rushing over the brow of the hill, and then, to the unspeakable amazement of Lieut. Beall, dashed past him down the descent like madmen, not a soul of them paying the least regard to him, not soul, in fact seeing him. They saw in reality, nothing but the horse and horse man they had been pursuing for three miles they knew nothing of a footman and perhaps the sitting figure of the Lieutenant appeared, to eyes bent on one attractive object, as a stone or huge cactus, such as abound on those sterile hills.

At all events, Lieutenant Beall, by what seemed to himself almost a direct ProvidentiaNnterposiiion in his behalf, remained wholly undiscovered, and in a moment more the Apaches were out of sight, still pursuing the horse and its rider to the camp. The latter barely succeeded in escaping with his life, the Indians having overhauled him so closely just as he reached the camp, as to be able to inflict one or two slight wounds upon him with bullets, or perhaps with arrows.

As for Lieut. Beall, he was not slow to take advantage of his good fortune and selecting a round-about course, he succeeded in reaching the camp just about the time the poor fellow whom he had savetf, and the other members of the party, were about sallying out to obey his last request, and give his body decent burial.

Upon such an act as this it were super fluous to comment. It is an act, how ever, jvhich deserves to live in men's recollections like the story of a great battle and victory—Philad. Amer.

Catch not too soon at an offence, nor give too easy way to anger. The one shows a weak judgment, and the other perverse nature.

The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as we usually find that to be the best fruit which the birds have been picking at.

•isTBMEfflADW IND„ JDLY:7r 1849

Latest from the Gold Lasd.

New York Regiment in California— Their doings at the Placers—A California sub-treasury—The

Hells'' of

'San Francisco—Curious state of society at the mines—The Penal Code and the way it is administered—Vessels in Bay—Prices of bread, washing and clothing—High price of drugs—Quacks, ifC.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 28, '49. The '•Oregon," the second steamer that has ever ploughed the waters of the Pacific, leaves this place to-morrow for Panama, and 1 improve the opportunity to drop you a line or two. not in reference to the extraordinary richness of this wonderful country—for of that the writers hero for the newspapers at home will give you plenty—but as regards the prospects and pursuits of some of our New York adventurers, and others, from that section who have found their way here.

The volunteers who came out in Col. Stevenson's redoubtable command, lords of the country a while ago, it is now difficult to identify or single out, so rapid and so precipitous has been the torrent of gold seekers and gold digging humanity, which has been pouring in upon us steadily since August last. Such of the volunteers, however, as have not been ruined at the gaming table, have done very well at the placers. All, or nearly all of them started off to the auriferous region, just after the discovery of the precious dust near Sutter's Fort, and many of them, by industriously plying their digits in the soil, have become possessed of a fortune, two or three times over. Some of these carried their gold to San Francisco, to wait the first opportunity to ship it to the States, but a delay of this kind proved extremely fatal.— San Francisco, albeit a mere inud hole abounds plentifully in hells, deep enough to swallow up the unwary, along with their gold. In these traps many of. the gold diggers have fallen, bat extricating themselves again, have hurried back to the Sierra Nevada, to replenish their pockets, only perhaps to go back and have them rifled again.

The most of our New York boys however, have done well, several having •already gone home, and others will follow in good time with a "pocket full ol rocks." You will remember we had a great many printers in our regiment when we left Governor's Island these fellows have been particularly fortunate, but none more so than Foster, once a compositor on the Express. Captain Nagle has started an exchange office here, a convenience that can hardly be over estimated, and one which supplies the wants we feeU in not having a branch mint, whereat wo could deposit our dust and get back a drait on Uncle Sam.

Patterson, who lives, or rather who did live, in the Third Avenue, has two

or three buckets full of the "real critter," but it cost more than it comes to to keep off the thieves, who won't dig, if they can gel it by stealing, or by knocking its owner on the head, and in a quiet way sending him off to kingdom come. There is another man here, who calls himself Sancho, for the want pf abetter name, who came out

also

in the New

York regiment, a perfect picture of the genus tatterdemalion, who has accumulated several tubfuls of the glittering stuff, but where he keeps it or how he manages to stow it away, puzzles the most inveterate Robert Macaire among us. There are others who hid their treasures in the earth, for safety, but we have a set of scamps who go about goug ing the soil, as a customhouse inspector would try a barrel of sugar, or «lb of butter,and the consequence is, a frequent ren.oval of the deposits. Fights, of course, often ensue, but we have a code which operates wonderfully in repressing the pugnacious propensities of the b'hoys. We hang for every thing. If a man inserts his digits into your sieve, or your bag, or bucket, wifh the intention of extracting a few scales, the penalty is hanging.

Murder and gouging have the same penalty prescribed, and the consequence is, we have but little stealing and less rioting. When we have anybody to hang we don't erect a gibbet, tho way you do at home, but just hoist 'em up on a tree that has been specially chaiked off for the purpose. The system works well.

Great times at the diggings, where all the world has its representatives! Oval faced Chinese, greasy Sandwich Islanders, "whole or none" men from "54 40," skinflint Yankees from down east, chivalrous gentlemen from "off south," Hoosiers, Buckeyes, and Kangaroos from out west. Here, too, without number, are the subjects of hqr Britannic Majesty, cheek by jowl with the people who came from the territories of the King of the Cannibal Islands. All are scraping and a scratching away, like so many hen's on a dung hill all the languages are spoken and taught about every religion under the sun has its devotees, and all bow down before the shrine of Mammon, the god that has the sincerest and most enthusiastic worshippers—next to the Golden Calf.

I took a pleasant sail round the glorious Bay of San Francisco yesterday, and counted between 60 and 70 vessels—of all dtsses—lying here and there, entire ly deserted by their crews. Some of them have been fortunate enough to their cargoes discharged, but the greater number are still rotting in the water.with their freights. Common laborers cannot be had for less than $11 or 915 per day. I also observed three vessels of war at anchor—the Ohio, St. Marys, and sloop Warren. The Lex

ington,

In San Francisco, the price I am paying for board is $5 per day—and only two meals at that—and both of these

would

hardly make one of Sweeney's

shilling plaies. The whole number of houses in this place is about three-hun-dred—all of them what we call shanties at home. Most of these are turned into warehouses for the storage of goods, and often the boarders have to pick up the softest plank to sleep on at night.

We have doctors and quacks here without number—at least fifty medicine men to one patient. Mechanics plenty but carpenters make out better than any others—some of them gets from #15 to a day. Farmers are not wanted here. Nobody sows wheat, digs potatoes or follows the plough. A newspaper is about to be started at the Upper Washings,to be called the PlacerTimes, a copy of which I will send you when it comes out.

Building lots in the city sell at 825a $30 for every thirty-three inches, (vara.) 1 know of some lots purchased two years since for $170, now selling for $18,000, cash down. A small plat of ground not bigger than the Bowling Green in New York, was knocked down yesterday at $7000. It is situated on the outskirts of the town. The right and title to some of this property, are of course involved in a good deal of mystery—quite sufficient to justify the getting up of an anti-rent party.

A good field here for some of our"peculiar" politicians at home. None better. The opinion among those who hav6 visited and studied the general character of the placers and their yield, that so soon as art facilitates the exraction of the metal and the labor now mending it, tiie "crop will be beyond alculation." Those interested there have greater apprehensions of its becoming a drug than of its scarcity.—

Then as to the profits of the diggers the success of each varies according to the ndustry, experience and sagacity of the persons engaged, few, if any, reaping less ilian an ounce a day, while some few have obtained over $1,500 in a day's la bor. I have seen here a single speci men, pure and free from stony deposits, weighing eighty-two ounces. Generally one may calculate, after a few weeks experience, upon finding and washing from one to four ounces upon an average. Deduct from this incessant toil, constant liability to sickness, living at the rate of rom $4 to $ 10 per day, and you can eal culate how desirable and profitable the employment.

Were 1 a mechanic, I should certainly prefer the certainty of $16 a day—the price of such labor here, where it would not cost an economical person over $2 a$2 50 per day to live, with at least the shadow of comfort, to the hazardous and laborious task of digging, which all unite in representing as the hardest kind of work.

The cooks and the stewards ere the aristocracy of Eldorado. They get high er salaries than does the Governor of your great Empire State, and a washer woman makes more than some of your Wall street brokers do in a week.

If a man undertake to live "on his own hook," here is a schedule of retail prices, just now current, which he has to pay. Butter, $1 25 per lb.—nnd very stout at that eggs, do. $7 per dozen potatoes, very scarce, 9a12^ cents per lb. beef, 85 cents per lb. pork, $25a $30 per bbl., or two ounces of dust Raisins, $14 per box. They have a victualing cellar dug in the ground, where they charge you a couple of dollars for a cup of bad coffee, and a slice of beef steak or horse steak. Sausages find no sale, though dogs are plenty. You can procure a clean shirt at reasonable rates, if you can persuade a feminine to perform the necessary labor for a thimble full of dust. Seamstresses scarce and wanted. Good wives in great demand. We have no ladles here and but few women. Send out a few cargoes to humanize us, else we shall all degenerate into barbarians.

The Mormons and Indians arc disposed to be troublesome, but, unless they keep quiet, we shall enforce the capital punishment code mentioned above.— There are two accomplishments the yellow skins practice to perfection among us,scalping and horsestealing—and the vagrants always contrive to do it so slyly that it is but seldom they allow themselves to be caught in the act.

The Mormons call each other saints, but a more graceless set of scamps, am

sure,cannotbefound

T.'r

that sailed from this place in No

of our New to board her, In NewYork.

a &

vember Inst, I presume has arrived in New York by this time. *1 f» Provisions and clothing "are not half as dear as they were three months ago. Every ship that comes hero has a load, und. as a glut in the market is inevitable, as things go on now, every thing by and by, we expect, will be as cheap as in New York.

an appalling magnitude, that admonishes me to stop. I shall write to you again by every opportunity that presents, for the next three months—about that time I calculate to pull up my slakes, ship the comfortable quantity of gold I have got, and gel back to Gotham, as soon as possible. Adieu. R* -k*

terday

evening previous,

two

persons from this city,

the most

affliciing

particulars of this painful affair are

patch,

o'clock, while a party

gentlemen were visitin® Luna

among

Young Addington came up and said playfully: "I am going to throw you in," touching her lightly on the shoulder—when she sprang forward with a

tier

WUCII

alio ^I'lCUIJj iVIVVU.V-

the young

gentleman

was

young

gloom

could

not

beincr

PenT"mo.st

fact every

this side of auld

clooty's domain. There are several Chinese here, chin-chin-ing, inasmuch as they sell all they dig for bad alcohol. They are drunk about half their time, and the other half they employ in scraping up dust enough to buy more of the rascally fire-water. 1 wish you could have witnessed the scene that was here presented, when the first steamer, the California, arrived. All the inhabitants of the town came run ning down to the stream, screeching and screaming for everybody. The Indians didn't know what to make of her, the Chinese "junks'* looked both ways at once, and the Yankee thought the skipper looked "pretty considerable.

intense'—no event has ever cast such a drawing a long deep sigh

the little girl has just been recovered.Buffalo Express.

PATRIOTIC THROUGH ALL.— During the war of our Revolution many Americans were seized by press-gangs, taken Lj,

on board of British ships and forced to

found utterly intractable,

They

highest honors. They would not fight against, and could not fight for, their country, but they displayed the patriot's will as gloriously as though they had won an hundred scars in battle.

CURIOSITY OF LITERATURE.—The au thor of "Bertram" could only write with a wafer pasted on his forehead, Alexander Dumas, whenever he wishes to

work,

dav "thev really sav that your

she "came steaming up the Bay. Some York b'h loys were the first search of newt from

But my budget has already assumed

beats you. Is it true?" Yoy," draw led John with ihe most provoking cool ness. "Yoy?" responded the master with indignation. "What do you mean hy that you, lout? A great thumping fellow like you, as strong as a steam en gine or an elephant, to let a little wo man like your wife thrash you! What blockhead you must be!" Whoy, whoy," was the pntfejit reply, "it pleases her, and it does me t»o hurt."

NEVKH SATISFIED.—Nobody is satis fied in this world. If a-legacy is left a man he regrets it is not larger. If he finds a sum of money he searches for more- If he is elected to a high office he wishes a better one. If he is rich and wants for nothing, he strives for more. If he is a single man. ho is looking out for a wife, and if married for children. Man is never satisfied.

*A Whopper/'—-They tell of big rtfts on the line of the Ohio canal, and one of them is said to have towed a boat, using his tail for a tow line. "That'sawhopper,f——ofa rat we mean. If we should attempt to beat this story, we would tell of that mosquito in the Montezuma swamp on the Erie canal^ who stole a boat pole for a tooth pick.

Laugh at no mnn for his pug nose you can never tell what may turn up. Blessed is ihe woman whose husband has a wooden leg. for she will only have one stocking to knit.

mhp^&MMN

Distressing Accident at Niagara Falls. 00 A gloom was cast over this city yes- whole group singularly antiquated and

morning, by the sad intelligence out of fashion. Afier a long and eager of an accident at Niagara Falls the stare at goods, candlebras, mirrors, &c.,

resulting in tho death I and with looks of astonishment at the

under

circumstances. The eously asked by one of the clerks

con-

tained in the following telegraphic des- waiting on them

received yesterday afternoon. "Well, now, that polite in you Last evening at a quarter

before

ladies

and

She was instantly followed by Ad- mirror, where she saw herself at full dington, who caught her, and in the ef- length, and was highly pleased with the fort

prostrated by the force of the beautiful article. The whole family water, throwing the little girl at the passed an opinion on its beauty and besame time so near the shore that the

over our village. Tho body of you believe it sjr?—why that'ere shawl

of°hiT prodtionsTn bell in A roguisliboy stole the glasses frorn

author has his peculiar man- hi«,grandfaiber spectacles, and when ner of wooing the iunef.il nioe.. Balfe,J the old gentleman put them on, finding for instance, never thinks of writing *n Ue co^d not see, Jie

Opera without having first swallowed a Ley on me, I ve Tost my sight. But I .* I thinking the impediments to' vision composing a [might he the dimness of the glasses, he "John," said his master to a man one took them off to

stoics,

•vl

¥HOLE=NO.'"877,

A Scene at "Stewarts*."

Noah's N. Y- Messenger grves the following picture of an amusing scene that laiely. occurred at Stewart's goreous, paluce-liko store, in Broadway, ew York. An honest countryman from Putnam county dropped into the store, with his wife hanging to one arm, and his daughter on the other, and his boy Dick clinging to hts coat tail—the

bustle and confusion—they were court

whether he should have the pleasure of

8 said the old manv "My darter would

Island,

Charles C. Addington, and several oth- from which he selected a yellow shawl ere, and while the little girl

was

ing on the very brink of the river, and only some 20 feet from the Falls, and holding by the hand of a young gentleman whose namo I have not learned—

have a shawl to go to our village

church with.

whom were the lady and little The clerk, who looked like a wag, daughter of Mr DeForest, and

young

produced a package carefully made up,

stand-1 with a broad rich border.

'Well, now," said the old lady, "I vow this feels like the back of a mouse •so soft and velvety! Feel it Joanna."

The young lady felt it, and said, "its mighty smooth and soft!'* She asked if the colors would last, and was assured that they never would run or wash out. Dick crept up sofily and had a feel at it.

vv.v.. a vp

sufficient force to slip from the hand of Finally, the clerk threw it gracefully

who

held her. over her shoulders, and took her to a

coming

gentleman who had her by the ence they resolved to have it. hand° nearly caught her, but lost his "What might bo tho price of this balance, only saving himself by catching ere shawl?" said the honest farmer. hoid of some brush on shore. In an "Fifteen hundred dollars, sir," said instant young Addington and the little the clerk. girl were swept over the Falls. It was a camel's hair slutwl, from Cir

No human effort could avail them, cassia, one of the richest and most A single moment threw them beyond costly articles ever imported. Thefarthe reach of all mortal aid. Young mer looked at his wife, and the wife Addington was a young man of excel- looked significantly at the daughter who lent character, of high and generous

hung

impulses. He was the only son of the little Dick with one finger in his mouth, bereaved family residing in Buffalo. had been awed to silence by the price. They are now here—their griefis

colors, and afier a long confer

her head down despairingly, while

me, sir,"

said the countryman,

with terror.

fight against their country. Occasionallv, however, men were caught who SERIO-COMIC INCIDENT. A solemn

be forced to such work. Two occasion was interrupted, day before of these, James and Richard Tomkins, yesterday .by an incident of a character

were

droll

t4would

and peculiar that

sent below during a battle between a Brit- frain from relating it. A negro burial ish and an American vessel. Finding was going on at tho Protestant Cemetery port holes open on the side of the ship where the water is about two feet deep next to the American vessel, they tore off and the large n-imbers of mourners their shirts, and tacking on stripes from attendace would persist in standing on a red handkerchief which oue of ihem the plarik platform which Mr. Blakcsley happened to have, each waved an A.ner- had erected from wall to wall, and which iron banner through a port hole during he informed them would not sustain so the entire fi^ht.

were recognized great a pressure. This platform stood

on board of the American ship, and the about fifteen feet from the water, just victory inclining to the stars and stripes, over a ditch about three feet deep, bud the brave fellows soon found themselves] denlv in the very midst of the ceremo liberated, and were treated with the ny, the scaffolding fell with a great

you

is the price of my farm in old Putnam county thiity-two acres, house, barn and piggery."

The clerk smiled and the old mail looked grave, the ladies looked frighten-

nnc

whole party slid outof tho

cannot re

crash,—and the whole crowd were precipitated in the water. The agitation and floundering in the water were terrible to behold. Five hundred of the largest size porpoises straying into duck pond could not have made a greater fuss. The preacher however,

clung

shuts himself up in an unfur-....

nished room, containing nothing but a regret for tho occurrence, the ™veren table and chair, whereas ihe muse of gentleman

than eastern splendor. A celebrated 1 ter."—N.O. Delta, 10th.

to*the cornice of the wall, and being a man of considerable strength, was saved from tho genoral immersion. In reply to the Sexton's expression of

very

Theirs and that of Eugene Sue are only "Never mind, brother Biakesly, they at their oase in an apartment of more are all Baptists, and

consolingly remarke

are

used to the wa-

M^*

wipe

wife feeling

them^ when not

them, being still more frightened,

tf 1 ... I 1 1 -.1 U/ Uif titliof'c nVAl*

ho cried out, "Why, what's fcomo over me now? I've lost my feeling too." Ex. paper:x "1

THE COURT OF DEATH,—The New Orleans correspondent of the Conccrdin Intelligencer, in speaking of the funeral of*Dr. Harrison, says: 'To have an idea of the multitude of Doctors in New Orleans, you should have seen this funerrtl. Brace after brace, filo after file, column after column, on the came a grim array, enough to frighten death itself men of noble natures, but dark as night, saturine as

solemn as the grave and who

have faced disease and suffering in so many shapes, ih.l ihoir fowuro. have becomo fixed and incapable of emollon. As they

stood around

looked

the vault they

more like funeral statuC8-than hu

man beings.' ..

NBAT REBUKE.—"Are a man and his wife both

one!"

asked the wife of a cer

tain red eyed gentleman, who, in a stupefaction was holding his aching head with both hands. 'Yes, 1 suppose so,' was the reply. "Well, then," said she, •*I came home drunk last night, and ought to be ashamed of myself." The back handed rebuke from a long suffering but affectionate wife, effectually cured him of his brutish propensity.

An humble soul, like awhitesheot, must be prepared to receive that which ihe hand of heaven shall imprint upon it.