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SUNUUKY, N OHTII UM IJEUL AN D COUNTY, PA. -SATURDAY, DECEMBERS, 1855; ... OLD SERIES, VOL- 10. NO. 11..
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nl sUAAU'e) Msaiissia for tale by
THE CLOSING SCENE.
8 T. BCCIIANAN REED.
Tlio North Br tish Review pronounces
this pouin thu best llint litis ever bt-eu wriN
ten by an Americun author.
Within this nW rrnltn of IpuDps tree,
The russet yeur inhnli the dreuniy nir,
Likeaoine titnnerl reuper in his Imnr oft-nee,
When nil the Quids uro lying brutvu and
bare.
The prrty bariip, lnokiup from their hazy hills
O'er the dim wuteis wiih'iiinp; in ihe'vitlcs,
Sent down IIih nir n proeliii"; lo the mills,
On thu dull thunder uf ultuinute llnil.
All sights were mellowed, ant nil sounds
(subdued.
The hills seemed farther, and the streams
saiifr low ;
As in a drentn, the distunt woodmnn hew'd
His winter lug with nmiiy a muffled blow.
Tit' embnttlcd forests erewhile nrnicd in
gold.
Thtiir bunners blight with every martini
hue,
Now stood like some sad beaten host of old.
Withdrawn alar in Time's remotest blue.
On alnnili'rous wings the vulture tried his
flight;
The dove scarce heard his sighing mate's
complaint :
And like it star slow drowning in the light,
1 lie village eliurcli vnne seeineu to pule
and iiiiiit.
The sentinel cock upon the hill-side crew j
Crew tin ice, and all was stiller than be
fore Silent till some replying wanderer blew
Ills alien hum, uuu then was heard no
more'.
White erst Ihe jay within the elm's tall crest
.Made gurruluus trouble round the un
fledged yuunif :
And where thu oriole, hung her swaying nest.
Hy every light wind like, a censor swung.
Where sung the noisy masons of the eaves,
I tie tniFV swallows uiicliiit! ever near.
Foreboding, us thu rustic mind believes,
Au early harvest and a plenteous year ;
Where i-very bird which charmed the vernal
hi list
Shook the sweet slumber from its wings at
luorti:
To warn the reapers of the rosy cast,
iVU now was sungiess, empty and lurlorn.
Alone, from out the stubble piped the quail.
And croukU the crow turuugli till the
dreary gloom ;
Alone thu iiheitsunt, drumming in the vale,
Ataue ectio to me uislani collage loom
Tbf re was no bud, no bloom upon the bow
ers j
The spider wove tbeir thin shroud night
by night:
The thistle down, the only ghost of flowers,
bulled slowly by passed noiseless out ol
sight.
Amid all this in this most cheerless air,
And where the woodbine sheds upon the
poich
Its crimson leaves, as if the year stood
there.
Firing the floor with his inverted torch
Aniid ull this, tha centre of the scene,
I he white-haired matron, with monotonous
tread
Plied thu swift wheel, and with her joyous
mien '
Sat like a fate arid watched tlio flying
thread.
She bud known sorrow. lie had walked
wilh Iters
Oft supped, und broke with her tho ashen
crust,
And, in thu dead leaves, still she heard thu
til ir.
Of his black mantle trailing in the dust.
While yet her cheek was bright with summer
bloom.
Her country summoned, and she gave her
ull.
And twice war bowed to her his sable
plume ;
He guvu the swords to rest upon the wall.
Re-gave the swords but nut the bund that
drew
And struck for liberty the dviug blow:
Nor him, who to his sire and country true,
l ell uuu tile ranks ot the Invu.lnig lue.
Long, but not loud, the droning wheel went
on,
Like the low murmur of a hive ut noon ;
Long, but not loud, thu memory of the gone,
JJicullicj lliroogli iter lips u sad und
tremulous tune.
At last the thread was snapped, and ber
head was bow'd ;
Life dropped thu dislufT through bis hands
Serene ;
Aud loving neighbors smoothed ber careful
shroud
While Huuth and Wiuter closed the
uutumil scene.
From Dickens' Ilnuieliuld Words fur UoeeniLcr.
THE LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS.
A decrepit old woin in, tempted hy a man
in black, bus signed with her blood on patch
ineiit a contract lo become bis. body and
soul ; has received from him a piece of money,
thu black king's (hilling to the new recruit ;
has put one hand to thu sole of her foot and
the other band to the crown of her heud; ami
has duly received a familiar in the shape of a
cat or kitten, a mole, a millertiy, or any other
little uuiiual which is the corporate form of a
demon, subject to the will of the said woman,
lodged hy her, aud provided with a daily meal
or hrr own blood, drawu from taps established
for its iis on different purls of her body. II
any old woman has hud an adventure of this
kind and keeps such a familiar, she is un
doubtedly, in spite of all Ihe lights of other
centuries, a witch. Hut whether any dec re
p.t old woman ever did make such a contract
and rejoice in the fulfilment uf its terms, is
certainly a question not worth uskiug in the
year one thousand eight hundred and Bfiy
Hve. However, let I bit pas. (Jrant hert'ie
. e non, and then let ui inquire what manner
of wucli the may be. AU will tiepenu upon
the nse made of ber ill-gotten power. Ir by
it the cboose to help people to recover t,oloa
ItitcCnift.
goods, hen I sickness, and make herself useful
to hi r neighbors, she is n while witch s if she
I e m illennia, u cunning thief, nn nfllicter ol
thildieu and of cattlu, bIih is u black witch;
II i-he be purtly white uml partly black in her
behavior she is a gray witch i und her famil
iur spirit is accordingly pronounced to be
black, white, or play.
Why ure almost all witches women, and, in
sooth, old Women? The popular idea of a
witch coincides at this day with the picture
of her sketched by Master Ilorsett a quarter
of n thniiHiind veins ago: "An old weather
beaten crone, having her chin and knees
meeting lor age, walking like n bear leaning
oil u slutT, untootbed, having her lips trem
bling witli palsy, going mumbling in the
streets ; one that hath forgot leu her pater
noster, and yet a shrewd tonguo to cull a
drib u drab, and who hath learned nn old
wile's rhyme ending, pax, mux. tux, for a
spell." His sngucious Majesty King James
Ihe First explained this by u theory : "For,"
hu said, "us the rex is frailer than man, so it
is easier to bo etit tapped in the gross snares
of the Hivell, as whs over well proved to be
line by the scipent's deceiving of Kve in the
beginning ;" and of course when the weuker
sex is at its period of greutest weukuess,
when it has fnlleii into bodily decay and do
Inge, then is the time for evil powers to make
sure of cat clung it in traps. So of a decrepit
old weniuii, if she wus poor and lived u lonely
life, without the aid and comfort of a loving
husnand or a sturdy son, the presumptiutt
was fair that she must have been caught in
thu trap, and. being n witch, ought in the
name of ull things holy to he burnt alive.
Moreover, there would be a disposition on the
purl of men to be very tolerant of women
who were well-favored or younir. and at leust
an equal disposition on their pail to be toler
ant of women who were old and ugly. Let
the tenderness of Col. Hobson testify.
In the year sixteen 'forty-nine the people of
iuwciistle-upoii-l vne were much troubled
with witches, nud'two or the town-sergeants i
.1 ...... .c.. .t i i.. ; .. i
were despatched to Scotlund in
ter into agreement with a Scottish witch-find- ;
er. On the arrival ut Newcastle of this pub-
lie functionary thu magistrates of the town I
sent bellmen through the streets inviting any ,
person to bring up suspected witches for ex
amination. Thirty women were accordingly i
produced at the town-hall, und most of tlieni.
alter trial by the thrusting of pins into the
flesh, were pronounced guilty. Thu witch
finder informed Col. Hobson that he knew
whether or nut women were witches by their
looks, but when the said person was searching
a personable und well favored woman the
Colonel replied and said. "Surely this woman
is none and need not be tried." Hut the Scot
said, "yen she wus, for the town said she was,
and therefore he would try her." Presently
uCterwartJs he run a pin into her and set her
usidu as a child nf Sal an. Col. Hobson pro
ved on the spot that the man was deceived
grossly, whereupon thu witch-finder cleared
Ihe woman und said she was not a child of
Satan. Nineteen women were ordered to be
burnt ut Newcastle upon the conviction of
this man, who then went into Northumber
land, where he tried witches ut three pounds
a head. It is poor consolation to be told
tliat this ruffian bimsell died on the gallows,
when it bus to be added that he confessed
himself to have caused the ileal li of two hun
dred and twenty women in Kngland and Scot
land, anil taking lliein nil round, to have
i ui iied about a pi, und upon each job.
Of the trial of witches bv water everv one
has heard. A scene like the follow inir used
in fact to be one of thu incidents of ordinary
life in lCuglish villages, and was mil altogelh
rr rare when Ibis letter was written, n hun
dred and eighteen years since, to tho Loudon
Magazine ;
"OaKI.kV, three miles from Iiedfnrd.
"Sm : The people hero are so prejudiced in
the belief of witches that you would think
yourself in Lapland wus you to hear their ri
diculous stories. There is nut a village in
the neighborhood but has two or three.
About u week tigo 1 was present ut the cere
in. my of ducking a witch, u particular account
of which muy not perhaps be disagreeable, to
you.
"An old woman of about sixty years of oge
had long lain under an imputation of witch
craft, who. being anxious for her own sake
and her children to cleur herself, consented
to be ducked ; und the parish officer promised
ber ncqiiituuce ir she should sink. The place
appointed was by the river Ous, by a mill.
'1 here were, I believe, five hundred specta
tors. A bent 1 1 o'clock in the forenoon the
woman came, und was tied up in a wet sheet.
all but her face and hands ; her toes were tied
close together, as were al-o her thumbs, and
her lunula tied to the small uf her legs. They
fastened u rope about her middle, und then
pulled of her cap to search for pins, (for their
notion is il they have but oue piu in tncin
they won't sink.
"When all thu preliminaries were settled
she was thrown in. lint, unhappily for the
poor creature, she flouted, though her bead
was all the while under water. Upon this
there was a confused cry : A wilch! n witch!
Urownher! Hang her! Hang her! Sho wus
in the water about a minute and a hulf. nnd
was then taken out h:iir drowned. When
she hud recovered breath she was tried twice
more with the same success ; for she floated
each lime, which wus a plain demonstration
of guilt to the ignorant multitude; for not
withstanding ihe poor creature wus laid down
upon thu grass speechless und almost dead,
they were so far from showing anv pity or
comp.ission that they strove who should be
the most forward n loaning her wil U reproucli-
es. Swell is thu dire ellect of pnpulur preju
dices ! For my part I stood against th" tor
rent i und when I had cut the strings which
tied her, hud carried her back to thu mill und
endeavored to convince the people of the un
certainty of the experiment, ami ouereil to
lay live lo one that uiiy woman of her age. so
tied up in u loose sheet, would flout ; but all
to no purpose, for 1 wus very near being
mobbed. Some time after the woman came
out, and one of the company happened to
mention another experiment to try a witcu
which wus to weiirh ber uiruinst the church
bible ; for a witch it seeuis could not out
weigh it. 1 immediately seconded the mo
tion (as thinking it might be of service to tho
poor woman.) and made use of an argument
which (though weak as King James' for
tbeir not sinking) hud somo weight with the
people ; for 1 told them that if she was a
witch she certainly dealt with the devil, and
as the Hible was undoubtedly the word of
Und it must weigh mure than all the works of
tlie devil. ins seemed reasonable to several,
and those that did not think so could not an
swer il. At last the question was carried,
and she was weighed against the bible, which
weigueu auoui twelve pounds. Khe out'
weighed it. This convinced soma and stair
ge red others ; but the parson who believed
through thick and thin, weut awavfullv assu.
red that she was a witch, aud endeavored to
King James's srguai.nl why witehaa wuul not sink
ras una : way aaa reuouiicen uuu uapusia by
Uttf slurs lbs wawr would aut raosiva Una.
n Incubate that belief in all others. I am,
4c."
A hnmlrcd years ago three men wero tried
at Hertford for the murder of Ruth Ostium,
who was suppected as a witch. The over
seers of the parish, wishing to save the wo
man (who wus seventy years or age) from
threatened danger, removed her and her hus
band to the workhouse. A body or ab(.ut
fivo thousand people, however, assembled at
Tyng. and behaved with so much violence
that the authorities were at length obliged to
give up the victim. The poor woman was so
much ill-treated by the ignorant mob iu their
experiments to prove whether she was a
witch that she died soon after.
It is not fifty years since Mr. Nicholson,
the incumbent of'Grent Paxton. in Hunting
donshire, preached against the belief in witch
craft to his ignorant parishioners, and told
them soma of bis experience. A poor wo
man, the mother of eight children, persecuted
as a witch, hud gone to him weeping, protest
ing innocence, and asking leave to prove it by
being weighed against tho pulpit Jliblo. M r.
Nicholson then expostulated with his people
in the church, but to no purpose, for soon uf.
lerwnrds their violence increased. At St.
Noel's market, a woman coming home in the
wagon was about to put her parcel of grocer
ies on the top of some corn sacks, and was
advised by Anne Izzard, a neighbor, not to
do so ; she did it, nevertheless, and on the
way home, by some accident, the wagon was
upset. This set the whole vi'.lage in an up
roar, and on the following Sunday night its
inhabitants went in a mass to the unhappy
woman's cottage, dragged her naked from
her bed, dashed her bead against the stones
of the causeway, mangled her arms wilh pins,
and beat her nn the face, breast and stomach
wilh tho wooden bar of the door. When left
to herself she crawled for protection to the
constable and was refused it; but in the
house of a merciful woman, who wns n widow,
she found refuge, and the widow. AI:co lins-
fell, bound her neighbor's wounds, and tint
her into her own bed. ftv this riirislian
own
deed she incurred the wrath of the people
brutalized by superstition, nnd was subjected
by them to indignities and kept by them in a
stalo of incessant terror, whereof, twelve days
afterwards, ska died. But on the day after
the first outrage Anne Izzard was again
dragged out for ill-usage, after which she took
refuge under the roof or the clergyman, w ho
was blamed sorely Tor the shelter he afforded.
The belief in witches, even at this day, sun
vives in many comers of the land, among nu
untaught people ; while superstition of the
grossest kind, though not the most utrocious,
is to be met with everywhere, tn tho Lon
don drawing room of the weulthy connoisseur
in ruppings ; in the remote hovel of the poor
mun, who, to ovoid misfortune, is induced to
swallow necromantic mixtures, and among
; whoso household treasures are to be found
constantly snch documents as this: "Tne
gar (jar) of mixture is to be mixt with half a
pint nl gen (gin.) and then a table spoon to
be took mornings at eleven o'clock, four nnd
eight, and four of the pills to be took every
morning fasting, and the paper of powder to
be divided in ten parts, und one part to be
took every night going to bed in a lit 1 lo hon
ey. The puper of arbs (herbs) is to bp burnt
a small bit at n time, on a few conies with u
I little hay and rosemary, and whiles il is bnrn
I ing read the two first verses of tho 68 Sulm,
I und suy the Lord's prayer ol'ur."
TKKKIBLE Tit An I'D Y K,f;l.M
Dr. Hermann Fruncks, a lierman of some
celebrity, killed his sou. and llieii himself, at
.-;.,l..... .... tl.a Q.I I.,.: M'l. ...... a. ..a 1 I.
Francks 'unioiig thu refugees recently S(,,i
away from the island of Jersey, and it is pos
sible that this is thu same person. The fol
lowing is a narrative of the tragedy :
lli.t'iiTi..' I 1.iiiLii.i....l.la arr.ilu.
mei.t was caused in Lrighlon to-day, bv a I w" 11,1 'llp c,irIl!!B' and his altitude and .ooks
lumor which prevailed e.nlv iu the morning, : 'x l"'c?s'"." h"!'r"r UI,J "I"'''- ' tollow
and which proved lo be too I rue. that a Pius- ', "X "inruing the animal was tolmd iu precise
Sinn gentleman, or fortune and high lilerurv : ft.'1'.1-' ne.,a,,? 5 ' '"om whs
reputation, had committed suicide hy jumping ull,,1 KiU ""icers of justice, l.e still remui I
out of a three story window of too Roval ! "Pt'arenlly iraiistixi il lo the spot. As soon,
Albion Hotel, thereby Biisluiniog almost in
stunt death, ufier having strangled his son, u
youth or fifteen, in the bed-room where they
both bad slept.
From inquiries, we learn that Hermann
Francks, a doctor of philosophy, at Berlin,
urrived at thu Albion, from Portsmouth, ut
4 o'clock, on Friday ul'tcrnoou, with" Hugo
Edward, his son. In thu coursu of the eve
ning they wero called on by Dr. Juge, a Ger
man refugee, residing at Hrightoii, an ac
quaintance of the father of forty years' stand
ing, who remained wilh them for some time,
About 11 o'clock the son retired to rest ( Dr.
Juge huving soon uflorwurds left, und then
thu father followed the sou, thu two sleeping
ill u uoublo-ueddeu room, is ut lung iu par
ticular occurred during the evening to excite
Dr. Juge a observation with regard lo the
mental condition of either father or sou.
The father had suffered from dyspepsia du
rum some former visits to Dr. Juge, at
Hrighton. It is now also known that he
suffered from an enormous goitru in the neck.
thu lutter, however, he bad ulways curelully
concealed ; and on Friday evening his health
waiin a fur better condition than usiiul. At
G o'clock this morning the housekeeper,
sleeping at the basement of the hotel, heard
the crush of a fulling body against the urea
railings, and on looking out saw the ml her
writhing iu the area. An ularm was ruised,
the attendance of Dr. Carter und Mr. Hlaker,
surgeon, immediately procured, but lito bud
ceased. 'I' he medical men then went up
stairs to apprize the son or the catuslrophe,
and, no answer being returned to repeated
knocking, the door wus forced, when the
window was found to be open, und iu thu
second bed was seen the sou, lying appa
rently asleep, a silk scurf tied round his
neck and Ins countenance livid, but ho was
quite deud, though the warmth of the body
betokened that death bad only just ensued.
llu uuu, apparently, been strangled, and the
inference was that tho father, huvinir first
deprived the sou of life, threw himself out
of the window, aud thus euded bis earthly
career.
Dr. I rancks was a native of Bresluu, in
Silesia, where his father was a bunker.
Eighteen years ago he married, at Home,
the daughter of Prince Henry, of Prussia,
who died ten years ago, leaving an only sou,
the younger subject of I bo tragedy in ques
tion. Having early evinced a taste for the
sea, he had been for some mouths pust re
ceiving a naval education iu a school at
Portsmouth, and was about to go to sea
for the first time in December next, in one
uf Messrs. Green's vessels. Dr. Francks
edited the AUtremeine Zeitunx, but of lute
he had retired from more active life, and was
living on his property.
An inquest was held on the bodies. The
jury returned a verdict, "That the son was
found slran led in bed, bat whether by bis
own band, or by the hand of another, there
was no evidence to show; aud that the fath
er destroyed himself by throwing himself out
of a window vbile iu so uobquu4 state of
Bind,"
0 c 1 r u
117 FRIENDS.
BT REV. EDWARD C. JOKES.
A blessing on those cherished friends,
So true, so wurm. so tried,
Who, 'mid the clustering cares of life,
Have wrestled by my side.
In service, and in counsel, too,
Through every change the same, .
Alert to speak the word of praise,
Hut slow to whisper blame.
When Rancour, with its vrmoned blast,
Had rushed upon my pence.
They turned the whetted shaft aside,
Or bade its sinilings cease :
Unbribed, iiiihought. unterrificd,
An adamantine wall.
My wealth the index of their own,
God's blessing on them ull.
Oh ! never while the purple tide
With gonernns life is warm,
Can Memory blot their m.bln acts,
These brothers in the storm
And when I kneel at. eventide,
The gushing prayer ascends,
While blinding trur-drops dim my ryes,
tiod bless mv cherished friends !
ntAIOMVO CATS,
Southy, in his "Doctor," gives a curious
chapter upon the cats of his acquaintance
a chapter iu which humor nnd natural history
are agreeably mingled together ; he was evi
dently a close observer of the habits of poor
ptiRS, and took much delight in the whims,
frolics, and peculiarities of his favorites.
Proofs or the domestication and strong at
tachment or the cat miaht bo adduced ad
nauseam. The story of M. Somniui nnd his
favorite cat may be recollected, ns a case in
point : "This animal." hu writer, "was my
principal amusement fur several years : how
vividly wus the expression of his "ut tachmeiit
depicti d n lien her countenance! how iniinv
times have her tender caresses mnile mo for
get my troubles, and consoled me in my mis
fortunes! My beautiful and interesting com-
anion at length perished after several days
of sufl'uring. during which I never forsook
ber, her eyes, constantly lixed on me. wero ut
length extinguished ; and her loss has rent
my heart with grief." Amongst the admir
ers of the sleek and gentle cut may bo men
tioned Mohumnu-d, Rousseuii, Petrarch, Jon
son, Cowper, und wo know not how many
other illustrious names. Madame llelvelius,
had a favorite cat. which, at tlio death of her
mistress, wandered ubout her chamber, mew
ing most piteously ; und ul'ler Ihe body was
coiisigueii to liie grave, it was lottml stretch
ed upon tho tomb, lifeless, having expired
from excess of grief. The Karl of Southamp
ton companion of Ksscx in the futul insur
rection having boeti confined some time in
tho Tower, as ono day surprised by a visit
from his pet cut, which is said to havu reach
ed its master by descending the chimney of
his apartment. The following anecdote of
combined attachment and sagacity, rivals any
thing that has been told of the dug, and pla
ces poor pussy iu a much more favorable light
than current opinion would allow. In the
summer of 1800, a physician of Lyi.iw was
requested to inquire into a minder that hud
been committed on a woman of that vily.
He aceoidinclv went to the residence of tlio
deceased, where he found her extended life-
j less on th.) floor, weltering in her blood.
A
large white cat was mounted on the cornice
of tho cupboard, at thu furl her end of I he
apartment, where he seemed to have takru
refuge. Hu sal motionless, with his eves fix-
However, us tne suspected parties were
brought in, hit ives glared with increased fu
ry, his hair bristled, und he darled precipi
tately from the room. The countenance of
the assassiii.H Wero disconcerted, und they
now Tur the first time during the w hole course
of the horrid transact ions, fell their atrocious
audacity forsake them.
V u might iustuiice cases iu which Ihe rea
soning pn eev'S was evidently exhibited ; but
let ino lolluwnig, related bv Dr. Stnellie, in
genuity of perl'omiunco was combined wilh
sagacity, suffice : "A cut frequented a closet.
the dour ol which was fastened bv a common
iron latch ; u window was situated near the
door ; when the door was shut the cat cave
herself no uneasiness, fo' so soon as she was
tired of her confinement, she mounted on the
sill of Ihe window, and wilh her paws devte-
1.. I:r. . 1 .1. I . I , ' . ...i
ruusiy iineo ine mien ann came, out. j ins
practice she continued for years. Many in
stances of Ihe kind are upon record ; and we
personally know of one. in which a cut. huv
nig been neglected at tho regular dinner hour
which was usually accompanied by thu ring
ing of a hell, would agitate ll.e bell wire.
The sagacity of the feline, race is so clearl.
evinced iu the following anecdote, that we
cannot help repealing it ; -.Mr. Tiedemanii,
llie lainous Saxon dentist, io.nl a valuable tortoise-shell
cat, (hat for days did nothing but
moan. Guessing thu cause, he looked inlu
its mouth, and seeing a decayed tooth, soon
relieved it r its pain. The following day
there were ul least ten cats ut his door the
day after, twenty ; nod they went on increas
ing ut such a rate that he was obliged to keep
u bull dog to drive them uwny. Hot nothing
would help them. A cut who had Ihu tooth,
ache would come any number of miles to him.
It would come down the chimney, even, uml
not leave the room till ho hud taken its tooth
out. Jt grew such a nuisance ut last that he
was never free from one nr these feline pa
tients. However, being huh morning very
nervous, ho uccidenlly broke (ho jaw or a
tabby. The news of Ibis spread like wildfire.
Nol u single cut ever came to him after
wards." Pi.attorms ark Da.nukhoi s. The compa
rative danger of standing on tho platforms of
railroad ears, is shown by the report of ihe
State Engineer und Surveyor of New York,
hy which it appears that over twelve million
passengers were carried over their main rail
roads during this last year. Out or this im
mense ii her twelve were killed, und of
t hese, eleven were standing on the phitfunn.
The same advice will apply to politicians,
hundreds of whom buve met a sail fate by
vtiuring to stand on dangerous plutlorms.
There is now in jail iu Cambridge, Mass., a
man who has been in-prisoned fur five year,
because of a debt of twenty-three dullurs.
Exchanq paper.
The lei low is a fool I If he would black
himself and pass for runaway nigger, be,
would he sent away free iu five uiiuutr,
LonitvilU Journal,
MWJKRRY nol'OIIT HIS FR ECDOM
Or, a Nut for Abolitiniitts.
' An incident recently happened in a neigh
boring State hetween master and slave, which
ought to go far to check tho mischievous in
termeddling of Abolitionists wilh our slave
population, the details of which we here give,
without nny attempt at extra display or fic
tion. The' story, simply ns wo relate it, will
prove quite amusing, we fancy.
A gentleman ol' ample fortune, nnd exten
sively known as one of the most, humane mns
ters. a kind neighbor, high minded, honnrnblo
and influential, owned a favorite servant-man
named, Jerry. Jerry had been "raised" in
the family from iiifaiiry, nnd was beloved by
bis ''Mnssa George" for his sobriety, honesty
and industry, lie was trustworthy nnu quite
intelligent. . Jerry prided himself greatly on
his honor much more than many "white lolks"
do, ns our story will show. He was petted
by tho family nnd generally permitted to do
pretty much ns he pleased. His master al
lowed him to work ut home or not, ns suited
him, and for tho most part Jerry ' hired his
time," and was nlwnys strictly punctual in his
puyneiitfl. lie had n permanent "puss," and
went when nnd where he wanted. - 1
The other day Jerry culled on the family,
after an absence of a few weeks, nnd when ho
had eaten plentifully' of ft good dinner, he
stepped inlo his master's library lo "settle
up," und talk of matters generally, but of one
thimr particularly. - '
"Well, Mussa George," sniil Jerry, after a
few formalities, "I wants to be free."
"What. Jerry !" answered tho master, in
astonishment. . .
"I wnuts to be free, Massa George ; how
mneh you ax for me t"
"Free ! why, you are crazy, boy ? Whut. do
yon want to be free for? Don't you do just
as you please nl ready t"
"Yes, Massa George ; but I just got n no
tion that I'd like tn be free. How much do
you. think I'm worth ? How much you ax for
mi'9"
' "Oh, I don't know. If vou want to bo free
why don't vou run nwny V
"Me run awav, Massa George 1" answered
Terrv, rather indignantly ; and putting hi
hand upon his breast, continued : "Vou much
honor nf the family! Jerry never, will run
away ! Hut sav how much much I got to
pay how mucli you think I'm worth. Massa
Gt'orgor.-e. -
"Will. Jerry. 1 don't know. Never thougnt
of how much you are worth. I suppose about
fifteen hundred dollars."
"Why. Massa George, T rnn't givoyou that
much. I ain't gut it. Cant you take noth
ing less for me ?" said Jerry.
Tho earnest inaiiiiei of the slave, nnd his
queer proposition, coming so unexpectedly
lo the master, rather umiised him. and he de
termined to let Jerry have his own way in
this mutter, as he has generally done in oth
ers. ' So he said ;
"Very well. Jerry; you are very foolish to
waul lo be any more free than you are. Hut
if il sails you to buy yourself, mid you can't
pay mn fifteen hundred, whut du you say to a
lliousaiiui
"I think n thousand is a little too big, too,
Massa George, Can't you suy eight hundred?
1 ltieve I can raise about thai much. I'll
go see, if ymi suys you take il."
"Oh, well, give me your own price -eight
hundred. Hut, Jerry, where did you get this
mnnev ?"
' W'here did I get it ? you ax, Mussa Georgo
Why, 1 made some of it on the river; some
of it by knocking und doing littlu jobs, and
one gentleman hired me to wait on him to
Canada. J wo or tnreo ilouu that belore.
"Canada ! Iluve joti been to Cauda ? you
are u fool. Why didn't you stay there if you
are so anxious tu bo five ? Don't yen know
you were us good us free when there ?''
"Yes, MaSMi George and they told mo so.
Rut the h'iniir nf the family, Massa George ;
1 couldnt stand it. 1 never forgit I was born
and raised in old Kentucky. Too much de
luiudy pride, Massa George."
Alter some further conversation, in which
the honest and fuithl'ul slave expressed his
dislike of Canadian niggers and Abolitionists,
he went off to see about bis eight hundred
dollars.
Next morning, Jerry again visited his mas
ter. There was a change in his countenance
quite perceptible. He seemed to be dissatis
fied and very uneasy, and his master, noticing
it. said :
"Well, Jerry, what's the matter? Do yon
begin to feci unhappy ut tho idea of being
Tree ?"
"No, Mass a George. I wants to bo free.
Dut uin l du mat. Hut I finds I'm short of
I he eight bundled dollars. Whut you goiu'
to do 'bout that ?"
"How much money have you got, Jerry ?"
"Only five hundred dullurs, Massa Georee.
Won't you tuku that, and trust me for the
balance' ?"
"Ah but will you pay if I trust yo'i ?" ask
ed the indubjeiit muster.
"The honor nf the family t Massu George."
"That's all lery well, Jerry ; but can't you
give me security ? Can't oil find some re
sponsible pel sun who will give mo bis note
for vou ?"
"Vliy, I don't know who go my security,
Massa Gcoigi, without you Uo it youmrlf.
You knows me better thuu uuybudy else.
Wu'i't jon bo security? Yon sure to get the
money. 7 ht honor nf the family !"
This was a u.".v ay of doing business ; but
"Massa George' thought hu wus good enough
security, especially when bucked by the "hon
or of thu family," und so he took Gie five hun
dred cush, u:id Jerry's note for three bundled
mere, hum gavu mm a regular bill of sale.
Jerry is now doing a thiiltv business, innni-
luins his family dignity, und loves "Massu
George," fur whom hu would shed bis lust
drop uf blood 1
uo it, Jerry !
DlKKKKKKT SlIAOKS OF GllKKN. A lady ill
Hostuu, Mass., last week, Wei I to a dry goods
-turu uml call :d fur soinu green silk. Piecu
alter piecu was exi mined without giving sat
iofacliun, until ut lasl thu iiiiluteU salesman
exclaimed, "Madam, 1 do declare utid verily
believe, lh.it 4'ou Uo not know whut shade oi
green you waul yourself." "J do, sir, tighl
well, reluinul llio lair, lastidious, uml wmy
oiiu ; "Select a pa! lei n just one sli.ule aretiur
I ban yuurscb, and lit laUu il ut once."
Wixri:a Wheat. The Chicago Citizen
suys thu Fall sown wheut looks vigorous unu
thrifty us thu f'ui liter cuttid desiro. Thu pica-
i I'll I rains have been us good us guano iu
rooting tho crop, to bland the severities ot
lb coining winter. Reports from other di
ruclioua are favorable.
Pksttv TuLOli A sweet potato has beeu
raised in 1 lot let our t County, Virginia, thi4
season, which in said lo meau.'(a fly lo4
eight inches long, aud nine inches iu diame
ter. A bill is before the Tennessee Legislature
to purchase the iieriritsge.
ANECDOTE OF' WEBSTER.
Daniet, WKssTFtt in tits YotTti. A col
lection of Daniel Webster's letters, with bio
graphical notes, is about to be published in
Boston, from which it correspondent of tha
New York Evening Post extracts a few pas
sages. It appears that Daniel, while a law
student helped to support bis brother Ezo
kiel, at College, by copying deeds, Ac, tha
latter also occasionally recruiting his finances
by school teaching. 'l'he correspondence be
twenn the two, nn tho ways end means, is in
terctimr. Daniel writes to his brother un
der dale of Salisbury, N. H., Nov. 4 lfc'02, ad
follows : ' . .
"I buve now by mo two cents in lawful fed
eral currency. Next week 1 will send them,
if they bo all. They will bay a pine with a
pipo you can smoke smoking implies wisdom
wisdom is allied to lcrt;tticie liom torn
tudu it is but one Ftep to stoicism, and stoic
ism never punts for this world's goods. So,
perhaps, my two cents, by this process, may
put yon quite si ease about cash."
Afrain, as late as June 10th, 1 01, lie writes
from Sulishmy, after having declined a com
fortablo oflice, in order to pursuo a profes
sion : ' '
' Zcke. I don't believe but whnt Providence
will do well for us yet.' Wo shall live, ami
live comfortubly. I have this week como
within an ace of being appointed Clerk of tbd
Court ol' Common Pleas, for Hillsborough
county. Well, yon will say, you aro no bet
ter off than if you had not came within nn aco
Perhaps I am say nothing, but think a good
deal, and do not 'distrust tho jjod.' "
There are fl'20 persons ot present confined
in the Ohio Penitentiary.
Mr. Fillmore, it is said, will spend the win
ter in Italy.
' Snow Tell in York co., on Wednesday, but
was succeded by rain.
' Ciiitnel coal has been discovered in Lu Salle
county, Illinois.
A quantity of preen pens from Savannah
wero received at New York, Inst, week.
Tho New York State Cnnnls w ill be closed
on tlie 15th of LVceuiber, unless closed sooner
by ice.
The patriarch of the Chipppwn India-is
wns lately baptized, with his wife and throe
children.
' Miss Caiharine ITaves. it is snid. has renli.
! zed a fortune bv M,i;iii". of ?2!!0.fl00. Sho
has visited California, Australia, China and
Uindostan. ..... f
Sixteen thousand ocres of land havo been
located for the University at' St. Anthony,
Min., under n "overnment giiiiil.
Rordt-r TtufTitin Wlhe name of a paper nboni
to be published ill tho town of Richfield, Clay
comity, Mo.
Gov. John Francis, nf the Po!unnqnn!dy
tribe of Indians, hos been chosen a delegate
to the next Legislature of Maine.
Two large crops of tobacco in Christian
comity, Ky W'cra sold last week at 5 cents
round, to bo delivered prized.
About $0000 have bean subscribed to es
tablish a Fem.ilo College at Thouiusvillo,
Georgia. -'
Mrs. Swcotman, of Medina. N. Y., has
been killed by nn apothecary, who put up
strychnine for her instead of morphine.
A number of mon from Kanawha county,
Virginia,, wilh thir slaves, bound to Kansas,
passed through Cincinnati last week.
The Lehigh Valley Times proposes A. E.
Brown as the Know Nothing caudidato for
President.
There is a printing office in Paris enpa'do
of printing the Lord's prayer in thrco hun
drod different languages. .
The Port Gibson (Miss.) ITeruId of tho
19th nit., snys that the yellow fever continues
to prevail there to a considerable extent.
Ora thousand tons of Pennsylvania iron,
Tor the St. Louis und Iron Mountain railroad,
were shipped from Pittsburg last week.
Mr. Win. Wymnn, n machinist, of Charles
town, Mass.. bus been sent to the mad-house,
at Cambridge, a victim of the spirit uul rap
pings. Cream upon milk is about the only article
which bus not risen of late. Nothing has
gone down but the mercury in the thermom
eter. , .
A report was recently published that the
King of Prussia had had mother attack of
apoplexy; but it is contradicted, and his
health is said to be belter than it has been for
many years.
Col. Collier, of Stelibenville, Ohio, has ro
ceive.l from Sun Francisco, n vest made from
the first piece of Japnucse silk imported into
this country direct from the hermetic Em
piro, A matrimonial alliance of on uncommon
churucter has lately been effected in 1-mvuna
county Virginia. Air. Rebert Grey, tho gal
lant groom, is 95 yeurs of agp, and the lute
Mr. Catharine Riley, (now Mrs. Giey,) W
yeurs of tto.
The low ers of the new Suspension Bridge,
now in process of const met ion about two
miles below Rochester, over tho Genesee
river, fell Tuesday with a tremendous crash
The towers lie on thu bunk a total wreck.
No persons were injured.
Rkoimkntai. Dmr TaANsriir.REn. Tho
depot of the Second Regiment of Dnigocii9i
U. S. A., now bicaled at Jefferson Hurrucks,
Mo., is removed, by orders from Ilia War
Depart incut, to Carlisle Hurrucks. Pa., whit If
er Jircvcl Col. May und bis command will
forthwith praceed.
Inland Navy Yards. During the brief
exi-tencu f the Navy Yard ut Memphis,
l'i ., from 1S14 to lH-tfl. it cost the gov
eminent tl.b'J2,lilG, and at its side brunt;!,!
only 45.05.', leaving a dead loss of fcl.O-lH MO,
He'ides this, t-T.iOO was paid in salaries to
officers there.
Another Rich I.KflArr The Ryractisn
pacr state that Messrs. Morris & Gurdncr..
iwo merchants of that city, have received in.
telligence that they are heirs to 50,1)09,600
in money and property in England. Lord
Gardner. ttU Lngludi uoblemun. is said to
buv been the origiual owner of tbis property,
ami oue of his descendants was, according tr
tha storv, Mr. Gardner, of New York. ha
was kiliud by th explosion on board the
Princeton, on the Potomac, The present
wife of ex- President Tyler was the daughter
of Mr. Gardserv and of course is oue U' the
beiis if there be eoy such legacy. .