THE BEDFORD GAZETTE M PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORMXQ BY B. F. MEITKS, At the following terms, lo wit: $2 00 per annum, if paid within the year. $2.50 " if not paid withiu the year. C7"No subscription taken tor less than six mouths paper discontinued until all arrearages are paid, unless at the option of the publisher. It has been decided by the United States Courts that the ■toppage of a newspaper without the payment of arrearages, is prima facie evidence ot traud and as a criminal offence. C7"l'he courts have decided that persons a re ac countable for the subscription price of newspapers, if they take them from the post office, whether they •nbscribe for them, or not. professional (Cavils. F. M. KIMMELL. >• W. LINGnM-E'r.TEK. KIMMELL & LINGENFELTER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. tormed a partnership in the practice of the Law. Office on Juliana street, two doors South fc f the'Mengel House." "TJOITMANN" G. H. SFANQ. MON&SPANG. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. The undersigned, have associated themselves in the Practice ot the Law, and will attend promptly to all business entrusted to their caie in Bedford and adjoining counties. on Juliana Street, three doors south of the Mangel House," opposite the residence oI Maj. Tate. Bedford, Aug. 1, IS6I - JOHN CESSNA. O. E. SHANNON. CESSNA & SHANNON. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA.. formed a Partnership in the Practice of the Law. Office nearly opposite the Gazelle Office, where one or the other may at all times be found. Bedford, Aug, 1, 1801. JOHN P . R F, E I). ' ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA., Respectfully tenders !us services to the Public. tX7"office second door North of the Alengel Route. Bedford, Aug, 1, 18C1. W. M. HALL. JOHN PALMER. HALL & PALMER. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA • K?" Will promptly attend to all business entrus ted to there rare. Office on Julianna Street, (near, ly opposite the Mengel House.) Bedterd, Aug. 1, 1861.. A. U. COFFROTII, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Somerset, Fa. Will hereafter practice regularly in he several Courts of Bedford county. Business entrnsted to hit care will be faithfully attended to. Decembar 8, 1861. S A .111) E L li E ITER II AIS , BEDFORD, PA., hereby notify the citizens of Bedford county, that he has moved ro the Borough of Bed ford, where he may at all times be found b' persons wiebing to see him, unless absent upon business pertaining to his office. Bedford, Aug. 1,1861. ' JACOB REED, J.J. SCHELL, HEED AND SCIIEIX, BANKERS Ac DEALERS IN EXCHANGE, BEDTORD, I'ENN'A. REDRAFTS bought and sold, collections made end money promptly remitted. Deposits solicited. REFERENCES. Hon. Job Mann, Hon. John Cessna, and John Mower, Bedford Pa., R. Forward. Somerset. Bunn, Raiguel Ac Co., Phil. J. IVatt St Co., J. W. Cuiley, At Co., Pittsburg. CHARLES HOTP.L, CORNER OF WOOD J ND THIRD STREETS T I T T S It V B G 11, P A HARRY SHIRLS PROPRIETOR. April 12 1861. ~ C7NTH IV K O K , DENTIST. Will attend punctually and carefully to all opera tions entrusted to his care. NATURAL TEETH filled, regulated, polished, Ac., in thR best manner, and ARTITCIAL TEETH inserted from one to an entire sett. Office in the Bank Building, on Juliana street, Bedford. CASH TERMS will be strictly adhered to. In addition to recpnt improvements in the mount ing of AltTinciAt, TKKTII on Gold and Silver Plate, I am now using, as a base for Artificial work,a new and beautiful article, (Vulcanite or Vulcanized In dia Rubber) stronger, closer fitting, more comfort able and more natural than either Gold or Silver, and 20 per cent, cheaper than silver. Call and see C. N. HICKOK. Bedford, January 16, 1863. PITTSBURG. PA., Corner Penn and St. Clair Sts. The largest Commercial School of the United {states, with n patronage of nearly 3,000 Students, in five years from 31 States, and the only one which affords complete and reliable instruction in all the following barnches, viz: Mercantile, Manufacturers, Steam Host, Railroad and Book-keeping. First Premium Plain and Ornamental Penmanship; also, Surveying and Mathematics generally. $35,00 Pays for a Commercial Course. Students enter and tfcview at any time. sons'tuition at half price. Foi Catalogueof 86 pages, Specimens of Business ?itid Ornamental Penmanship, and a beautiful Col ege view of 8 square feet, containing a good vari ety of writing, lettering and flourishing, inclose 24 cents in stamps to the Principals. JENKINS & SMITH, Pittsburg, Pa. Jur.e 19, 1863. JUNIATA MILLS. Th subscribers are now prepared, at their old atand, 4o do Carding and Fulling in the best style. They ate alto manufacturing and keep constantly on hand for sale or trade, CLOTHS, CASSIMERES, CASJNETTS, BLANKETS, FLANNELS, Ac. By eare and attention to business they hope to merit a abate of the public patronage. Carding will be done from May 13th to September 13th, and Fulling from September 15th to December 15th. Wool and goods will be taken from and returned to the following places, viz: Robert Fyan's atore, in Bedford, A. C. James'. " Rainsburg, J. M. Barndollar & Sou's Bloody Run, W. Terms for Carding and Fulling, strictly cash. Hyi'he highest cash price wilt be paid for good eteatl tub-washed wool. J. A S. S. LUTZ. May S, I^6l—tf BEAUTIFUL SUN UMBRELLAS Tust opened at GB kMEU'S. ily'k, IM*. t* - VOLUME 59. NEW SERIES. EDITOR OP GAZETTK, DEAR SIR : With your permission I wish to say to the read ers of your paper that I will send by return mail to all who wish it, (free) a Recipe, with full directions for making and using a simple Vegetable Bairn, that will effectually remove, in 10 days, Pimples, Blotch es, Tan, Freckles, and ell Impurities of tha Skin, leaving the same soft, clear, smooth and beautiful. 1 will also mail free to those having Bald Heads or Rare Faces, simple directions and information that will enable them to start a full growth of Lux uriant Hail, Whiskers, or a .Moustache, in less than 30 days. All applications answered by return mail without charge. Respectfully yours. THOS. F. CHAPMAN, Chemist, No. 831 Broadway, New York. August 11, 1863—3 m A GENTLEMAN, cured of Nervous Debility, Incompetency, Premature Decay and Youthful Er ror, actuated by a desire to benefit othen, will be happy to furnish to all who need it [ fee of charge] the recipe and directions formakit g the simple rem edy nseit in his case. Those wishing to profit by his experience—and possess a Valuable Remedy— will receive the same, by return mail, (cnrelully sealed) bo addressing JOHN B. OGDEN, No. 60 Nassau Street, New York. August 14, 1863—3 m Children owe much of their Sickness to Colds. — No matter where the disease may appear to be seat ed, its origin may be traced to suppressed perspiration or a Cold. Cramps and Lung Complaints are di rect products of Colds. In short Colds are the har ! bingers of half the diseases that efHict humanity, for as they are caused bv checked perspiration, and as five- eights of the waste matter of the body es capes through the pores, if these pores are closed, that portion of diseases necessarily follows. Keep clear, therefore, of Colds and Coughs, the great prccursers of disease, or if contracted, breax them j up immediately, by a timely use of Madame Por ter's Curative Balsam. Sold by all Druggists, at 13 \ cents and 25 cents per bottle. Jan. 23, 1863.—1y. NEW JERSEY LANDSI'OR SALE .-Ails j GARDEN OR FRUIT FARMS. Suitable forfjrapes, Peaches, Peais, Raspberries, j Strawberiies, Blackberries, Currants, Uc., of 1, 2s, | 5, 10 or 20 acres each, ut the following prices for the present, viz: 20 acres for S2OO, 10 acres for | sllO, 5 acres for S6O, 2$ acres for S4O, 1 acre lor S2O. Payable by one dollar a week. Also, good Cranberry lands, and village lots in CHETWOOD, 20 by 100 teet, at $lO each, payable by one dollar week. The above land ami tarms are situated at Chetwood, Washington township, Burlington county. New Jersey. For further infor mation. apply, with a P. O. Stamp, for a circular, to 8. FRANKLIN CLARK, No. 90. Cedar street, New York, N. Y. Jan. 16, 1863,-1 y. EXCELSIOR WATCH AND JEWELRY STORE. D. BORDER respectfully inlorms his old custom ers and the public generally, that he has greatly enlarged his stock ot Watches and Jewelry, and that he is now prepared to sell, on the most reasonable terms, the finest and best goods in his line ever brought to Bedford. His stock consists in part of WATCHES of all styles and qualities, IVatch Chains, Finger Kings, Jewelry of every description, Lockets, Thimbles, Gold Pens, and also a great variety ot SPECTACLES. The public are invited to call and examine his stock and judge for themselves. RyWatches repaired (warranted) on the shortest notice. D.BORDER. Bedford, August 28, 1863—3 m F O il & A L B'i OR TRADE! I A Farm in Bedford township, owned by John H Ru9h, about lour miles from Bedford, containing 1S acres, about 80 acres cleared, with log house, log barn and other out-buildings thereon erected ; also, an apple or hard thereon. A new two storied Brick House and I it of ground in the bn-ough of Bedford, formerly owned by Wil liam Spidel, situate on West Pitt Street. 00 acres ol land—lo cleared and under fence with a log house thereon erected, adjoining George Tioutman, George May and others, partly in Juni atta and partly in Londonderry Townships, lately owned by Andrew Wolford. ALSO Eighty acres of limestone land, on the Hollidays burg pikp, miles from Bedford—a part of the Wm. Smith lands—about 12 acres well timbered and ballatice under fence and in a high state of cul tivation. ALSO—I 66 acres near Stooerstowu- within 4 mile of Broad Top Railroad—about 100 acres clear ed, with a two story dwelling house—new bank barn, stable. Ac., thereon erected; also, two apple orchards thereon, of choice fruit. The soil is a rich loam, an I capable of producing every variety ol crops of this climate. ALSO—I6O acres best quality of prairie—near the Mississippi river, close to the county seat of Harrison county, lowa. ALSO—Two 160 acre tracts, adjoining Elkhorne city, in the richest valley of tfce west the Platte Valley—about 20 miles west of Omaha city, and close to the great national or government road lead ing west in Nebraska Territory. ALSO—I6O acres, two miles above Omaha city, on the great bend of the Missouri. This tract is well timbered and very desirable. All of these lands were located alder a personal inspection and careful examination of the ground, and ran bo well relied upon for future wealth. Maps showing the precise location are in my possession. ALSO—Three desirable lots in Omaha City, Ne- j braska Territory. ALSO—A lot of ground in the city of Dacotab, j Nebraska Territory. The above real estate will be sold at such prices 16 to insure safe and profitable investments. Notes i obligations of any kind, that are good, J will be ien in exchange—particularly good bank , lotes. Maj 8, 1360. O.E.SHANNON. DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP- j The partnership formerly existing between the undersigned, was dissolved by mutual consent, on 1 the 20th day of Afay last. The books will remain , in the nands of S. States and R. Steckman, for set- | tlement, until the first day of September next, af- ' tor which time they will be left in the hands of an officer for collection. The business will be contia- 1 ued by S. States and R. Steckman, who will be able j lo accommodate their old customers and the public ' generally on the most reasonable terms. j WM. STATES 8c CO. I JMy 31, 1664. . 1 Freedom of Thought and Opinion. BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 16, 1863. THE TRADE IN HAIR. I Curious Customs—Hum the Peasant Wo men of France Sell their Hair. | A writer in an English magazine describes ; the trade in hair which is carried on in some 'of the departments of France. He says: "This singular traffic exists exceptionally in two or three districts, but in parts of Western Normandy, and especially in Brit tany, it is carried on with vigor. In the Morbihan, Finisterre, and the Coles du Nord it i 3 a regularly accepted system, and three fourths of the peasant women of those de partments apply it resolutely. "It is not because their hair is partieu-j larly long or line that the Bretonnes have taken up this trade; they have no more of. it than their neighbors. Wet weather and : buckwheat bread, which are two specialities of Brittany, ctuinot be supposed to contrib ute to the production of hair any more than the hydroinel on which the fathers get drunk affects the hirsute properties of their proge.n iturc. Indeed, the iuale Bretons are not a j very large bearded race; it cannot be said j of them, as it is of some of the huge-whis- j kered Alsatians, that 'their faces look like a j four penny piece in a goo.wb—ry bush. ,It j is not from their geographical position, or be-1 cause their names end in cc, that the women ! of Brittany have become the purveyors of, tiio raw material of wigs, but solely because i they have adopted the thing as a habit, and j that they are, with few exceptions, tho only j female inhabitants of France who will en- j sent to the sacrifice of their locks. The J sacrifice is, however, less real with them! than it would be anywhere else, in conse- | quence of the shape of their caps, which 1 entirely hide their head, and would show | no hair if it existed. "Brit while all the Breton caps possess this distinctive peculiarity, they assume in detail a thousand forms; nearly every village has its special variation, which, though too delicate to strike a stranger's unpractised eye, is still sufficient, to enable the natives the locality it hails from. It may be that tiie shorn females console them selves for the privation of their legitimate head covering by this prodigious diversity of starched coiffures. "The trade in hair is carried on by the country hawkers, who go about from cottage to cottage inquiring for crowns to shave.— But the Brctonnes are suspicious, and gen erally prefer to take their merchandise to the towns. Those who have hairy goods to sell come into the markets and station themselves in a corner which is especially reserved for the class of transactions they have in view, just as other particular spots are respective ly appropriated to dealings in butter, hay and bullocks. Some chairs from the neigh boring wineshop are placed there, and on I them sit the candidates for shearing, waiting j for a buyer. Some of the more important | hawkers are polite enough to provide their j lady customers with a tarpaulin shed, but this attention is very rare, j "When the trafficking parties get face to ; face they haggle for houra over the price tp lbe paid for the offered crop. The woman j takes off her abundant cap and the tight eoiffe of white calico which is bound round J i her head, unties her knot, lets tall her hair, ' and then expatiates, always in a tone of in- ( I dignant reproach, on the merits of the hair j ! which nature has given her. The hawker | of course depreciates its qualities. 'You. call that hair,' he says; 'why, it isn't longer than a duck's feathers; it is almost as tine j as barley straw, and it grows as thick as ap- j | pie trees in an orchard. I would be ruined i if I were to buy such stuff.' The woman | shrieks hack: 'Now yon know that my hair I is much better than that of Yblande Kero- j kckodec, which you bought on St. John's i day two years ago, and for which you paid j two cotton handkerchiefs, ten yards black j binding, and a packet of pins, and I won't! take less.' The hawker finally consents to j ruin himself, but he refuses to accept the , precedent of Madame Kerokekodec, who, as j lie well remembers, had hair as long as the j cord of a well, as soft as curdled cream, and j as shiny as the Prefect's boots. "Until very lately the payment was never | made in money; it was solely composed of articles from the hawker's pack; but the hair j sellers arc now beginning to insist on cash, j and the hawkers mournfully say that the ! trade is going to the dogs, because they can J now only make one protit instead of two. j The price of an ordinary shock of hair is 1 from eighteen pence to two shillings; if it' be a first transaction, the crop luxuriant and ' virgin of the scissors, it may get up to the ! fantastic sum of four shillings, but that is 1 an ideal rate of which the neighboring coun- j try would talk with bitter envy for subse quent months. "As soon as the treaty is concluded it is ! executed. TheNmyer brings out a formjda- j ble pair of shears, gathers up his victim's ; failing locks, and prepares to give a first slice a quarter of an inch from her crown. But the paticut won't have that at all; she bounds from her chair in boiling indignation, antl insists that at lea3t an inch shall be left all over. i I "Another long dispute takes place, and is usu ally followed up by half a dozen more during | the progress of the cutting. When it is finished , the hawker rolls up his purchase and stnfl's it , into a sack in company with previous similar ] acquisitions; while the shorn female ties up her skull, pockets the miserable nrice she has received, | and trudges back to her village, calculating how I long her hair will take to grow again, so that ! she may arrive at another bargain for it. | ' "From (Ificriii to forty years of age the hai: 11 ; saleable about seven times, but the price di ( minislies on each occasion, because of the greater | coarseness of the product. Now, as the total I female population of the three hair-growing de -1 partinents stands at 893,000, of whom at least ; one-half are above fifteen, it follows that, if I three-quarters of lliem pursue the trade, some ' 250,000 heads contribute, in that district alone," to the supply of wigs and fausscs queues to the ! richer classes. "The thing is such a habit in Brittany, and is regarded as so natural,( though there arc symptoms that it is diminishing.) that if a young girl wants a pair of sabots her mother will sim ply send her to market to exchange her hair a gainst tliem. The women regularly, as long as they can get a crop, cannot bear to have their itair long afterwards, so when it tnrnsgray, and is no longer saleable, they hack it down them selves, and keep if. in such a bristly state that when they take >tF their roiffes it junq -. no into a fact that Geoffrey's stories were not Welsh. From different circumstances connected with thorny aureole, like a lire-work in expLsion. There is a grizzly old peasant woman near St. J' it tie. who has smouldered into rheumatism and neuralgia, and who always sw :iis indig nantly at her hair as the cause of them ; when a twinge comes oil she tells her grmvlehil 1 to 'cut off a Jit lb square, there, just there; • at is where tho pain is; it will go away wit' the confounded hair.'" CHASED BY A PIE,ATE. vi joiin' h. uutoEnvrooD. "Sail lio!" cried the lookout man from the force-royaiyard of the old Pollywog, on lino afternoon la July—the ship being, at the time, a lew degrees outh of the Equator, and some wherv between twenty and thirty degrees west longitide, and tumbling along at the rate of four or tivt knots on a taut bowline. "Where away?" demanded Captain "erglos, starting up from the lieucoop upon which he had been taking aa after-dinner nap. "On the weather quarter sir." "What does she look like?" "I think she's a topsail schooner, sir, I can see her fore topsailyard, when she rises on a sea, but I b'lievo she's got a gatl-topsail aft." "Well, slay and sing out as soon as you can make out what she is." "Ay, ay, sir." "What iu the world do you suppose a topsail schooner is doing way down hero ! ' exclaimed Captain l'igglcs, addressing his mate, who had just come aft. "I don't know, sir, unless she's a slave r." "I (lou't believe she is. In fact, it's my op ■ pinion (and here tlie captain lowered his voice to i an ominous whisper) that she's a pirate." j Now Captain Piggle'a prevailing idiosyncrasy ! was a fear of pirates. Although, man and boy, ' lie-had known salt-water for upwards of thirty years and had never been molested by the knights of the sktdl and cross hones, and although he was not, in the broadest sense of the term, a coward, lie was over and always in fear of fail in" a victim to some blood-thirsty rover of the sea; and the sight of a strange vessel, particularly if site possessed any or all of the supposed pe cularities of the pirate, and was described by j the lookout craft, would instantly throw him into a fever of excitement and trepidation. ! On the present occasion, there seemed to be ! indeed, more than ordinary cause for alarm; lor. las the stranger rapidly overhauled the slovv- I goin" Pollywog, and, one after another, her low ] er mastheads, the gaffs of her fore and aft rails | ;vnd finally her hull, rose into plain sight from I the deck of the Pollywog, it was apparent to all that she was truly a low, black, raking top ; sail schooner, of the yenun "sharpshooters," and —what was still more suspicions—that neither ensign, nor hunting of any description whatever, was displayod at her masthead, or floated at the peak of her mainsail. Whether Captain Piggle's chief mate really believed the stranger to be a pirate, or whether lie wished to make sport for himself and all hands by playing upon the "old man's" fears, it is im possible to say, at all events, he immediately coincided in the opinon of his superior in regard to the character and designs of the schooner, and boldly offered a bet of a jnonlh's grog thai the "whole ships company would be in eter nity afore bells'." • * "What shall wo do, Mr. Barnacle? We can't get away from her very well," exclaimed l'igglcs, trembling in every limb. "No, I should rather think not," replied tho mate, drily, as he cast his eyes towards the schooner, which was outsailing the Pollywog three miles to one. "But we kin tight, y u know; and, if wnst comes to wust, we kin blow the old scow up, and so cheat the buggers oat o'their prise." At this moment Mrs. l'iggles, the letter half of tho captain, and the actual commamkr of the ship—for, to tell the truth, she was in the habit of assuming that bifurcated garment intended • to protect the lower limbs of the male biped of! the genus homo, vulyate, "of wearing tho breach- j cs,'' —made her appearance on deck, and, over hearing the mate's proposal, exclaimed: "Ton wont do no such a thing. Blow up the Pollywog, indeed! Captain Piggies, do you wish to be blowed up? ' "No, my dear," replied the captain, meekly; "hut you know f shouldn't wish to bo taken by tho pirates. I don't care so much about myself, but I shudder to think what your fato would be when exposed in all your iriuocenco and beauty > WHOLE YUM BE: 22, 3078 VOL. 7, NO li. (?) to the power of those desperadoes. I should only be murdered, probably; but you would be reserved for a fate far worse than death;" and the captain sighed like a dying bullfrog. Mrs. l'iggles being a scrawny-framed, hatch et faced, red-headed vixen of forty and upwards the captain's solicitation in her be half seemed altogether uncalled for; but every woman likes to be called handsome, and his words were like , oil upon her troubled spirit. She was about to make a conciliatory reply when the mate pu; in this malapropos remark: "Besides, ma'am, lie aint used to bein took by pirates; but he's been blowed up every day since he married youA nd as he spoke, he leaped down upon the main deck just in time to avoid a belaying pin which the indignant Zantippe (lung after him. In the meantime, the schooner had approached within a tew miles of the Polly wog, and Captain Piggies, whose fears of his wife was lost in the still greater fear of the pirate, immediately re called the mate to the quarter-deck bade him get out all the small arms and have them care fully prepared for use, and have some cartridges brought on deck for the two carriage-guns. The small arms consisted of a dozen muskets, an u ! qual number of rusty boarding-pikes, and six ! pistols. The firearms were immediately loaded, j and distributed among the crow; while Mrs. Piggies took possession of a hoarding-pike and inusket, declaring that she infinitely preferred "death to dishonor," and would send a bql- 1 let into her bosom sooner than be taken i p'ivo by the pirates. Had she found occasion to at tempt. this method of leaving the world, how eVer, we fear she would have been disappointed; for it is a fact well known to military men that c on breastworks are impenetrable to musket Captain Piggies himself attended to the load in?; of the carriage guns—two four pounder?, mounted amid ships—dnit, in his fright and con fusion, placed the ball first and the cartridge, in each gun, and rammed them home in a man ner which did credit to liis muscular powers. As soon as this important operation was com pleted, the captain ordered 'lie mninbrace to ho spliced, for ho felt the no ;d of a little sham courage himself, and wished to infuse a portion of the suuie spirit into the bosoms —or rather the stomachs —of the crow. Mrs. Biggies, ob serving this was suddenly seized with a pain to which she was subject, and which could only be relieved by a stiiF glass of brandy air? water 1 —a kind of clirouio spasm, in fact, which al ways seized her when "anything to take" wus easily procurable. Accordingly the steward was ordered to bring her a glass of her favorite med icine ; but, at the iirst sip, the lady declared tl.at it "tasted too strong of the water," —a fluid, she was ready to admit, which had been of great benefit to navigation, but was nearly useless for drinking purposes; and, the decanter having been brought, she proceeded to neutralize its injurious effects by a free addition of the more potent liquid. By the time the spirits which the lady had poured down for the purpose of keeping her own spirits up had produced its due effect, the pirate was almost close aboard the Pollywog, upon the weather quarter; and Captain Biggies, having ranged his men along the weather bulwarks, briefly addressed them to behave like brave men, to follow his example, and to let their watch word be, "victory or death!"—though all tlio while his teeth chattered in his head, and his limbs trembled beneath him. Mr. .Barnacle, the mate, with two or three of tho men, had taken upon themselves the duty of navigating the ship, leaving to their valiant cum* mander the task of defending her. As the schooner glided nearer and nearer to the doomed ship, Captain Piggies gazed with eyes starting from their sockets upon her crowded decks; and his hair bristled up "like quills upon the fretful porcupine," ns he observed the muz zles of several polished brass six pounders pro truding from her.main-deck ports. Altogether, she was a wicked-looking craft, painted black from stem to stern, with high, sharp bows, and a flush deck that descended, upon a gradual in cline, to tho tafirail, with long, slender and rak ing spars, and an immense spread of canvas for a vessel of her size, which could not have beau more than one hundred and fifty tons. Although a largo portion of the' men who stood upon her decks wore the dress of lands men, und although they seemed to be armed with no weapons whatever, Captain Piggies and most of his men had 110 longer a doubt ns to their being pirates; but, while the eourugo of tho men rose in proportion as the danger seem ed to approach and become real, the reverse of this was the case of Captain Piggies, fie grew paler and paler and trembled mora violently as the schooner drew nearer; and when, at length, licr jib-boom almost touched the mizzen riggirtg of the Pollywog, lii.s musket and boarding pike dropped from his "nerveless grasp," and turn ing to his wife, with outstretched arms, he cried: 'O, Betsey, we're lost! Come, lot me clasp you to my bosom, and let us die, like men, in each other's arms!" But the "spirit of '76" had been nroiised in the lady's bosom by the oath or spirit which she had taken, and her only rosponso to her husband's pathetic nppcal wds an angry "Let mo alone, will you!" Then, raising her inifskct to her shoulder, she took deliberate aim at the schoon er's helmsman and pulled tho trigger. A terrific report followed, for the old musket had been heavily charged with buckshot; and a piercing scream from tho unfortunate Mrs. Piggies followed the report, as the buckshot rat -1!, 1 among the heads of (lie astonished officers , of the schooner's quarter-deck. The musket had recoiled with terrible force, not only capniz- , ing the poor woman, but knocking her—in | nautical parlance —"end over end," until she j Struck with a crash upon fhe skylight of the | forwafd cabin, and immediately disappeared. j 1 The steward, who had skulked away from , 1 tho dangers on deck, had kneeled down upon 11 the cabin floor directly under the skylight, arid, 't Htttta of One Squire, three weekaor lei*. $135 One Squire, each additional insertion lest than three montha as „ 3 MONTHS. 6 tyOKTHS, 1 VIA* One square • S3OO $4 00 $6 00 Two square 400 500 0 Three squares ...... 500 700 13 i Column 600 900 15 00 J Column . 800 12 00 20 0 4 Column 12 00 18 00 30 00 One Column 18 00 30 00 50 no Adminiitrators'andExecutora' notices $2.50, Au uitore' notices $1.50, if under io lines. $2.00 if more than a square and lets than 20 liireua. Ksirayt, $1.23, if but one head is advertised, 35 cents for every additional head. The space occupied by ten lines of this sizeot type counts one square. All fraations of a square under five lines will be measured as a half square and all over five lines as a full square. All Icrsl advertisements will be charged to the person hand ing them in. at the moment of the accident, wa9 engaged in a fervent prayer for deliverance from the pirates; but his prayer was most suddenly and unexpec tedly brought to a conclusion by the headlong descent of Mrs. Piggies, who fell directly upon his liead, and caused him to roll over upon the floor instanter. Without so much as adding an ninen to .liij unlmisliad supplication, the steward sprang up with a tremendous oath, and forthwith pitched in to the newcomer, who had so unceremonious ly entered the cabin, accompanying each blow with a violent imprecation upon her head, her eyes, or some other portion of Iter physical or ganization. Of course no red-headed'.woman could endure such treatment as this without an attempt at retaliation; and Mrs. Piggies, who had not been serine '/ .injured by her full, im mediately p oceedcd to give the steward '-asgood as he sent," and twat him ton practical iihv ra tion of her pugilistic vigor. Forget tin;: ci re ly yi the heat of their own battle th 1 hostilities which wera about to ha waged on deck they con tinued to fight, until the steward, after lis 1...1 lost nearly ali hisjmir an his fney had been deeply scored by the (bur r-n his ot' List etc say, suddenly fled to the pantry, and locked himself in, thankful for having escaped with his life from the clutch s of the turem ia the meinitrae, the schooner had ! iffl-d up a little as sh" ranged along- ido of the'l'olly.vig, and by keeping her sails ei.aking fore and aft, had chocked ! or headway smhuentlj' to prevent her from forcing alien 1; while her ao n.nander, seizing his speaking-trumpet, hailed the Polly wog. "Ship ahoy! What ship is that, pray?" "The —the l*o—ji'i—polly—vvtig," stuniineied Piggies, almost <l"t .1 with .'right. "The Seallywag, eh,'' renliel the captain, afloctiiig to misunderstand.— "We!!, who's the cuptuiu? and what tld you mean, by firing itt US:" "O, I surrender—l surrender gasped PlggleS, sinking upon his hilars. "Surrender be biowe!! What do you take us for ?" "Aint you pirates?" eagerly demanded Pig gies. "Pirates, you rascal! Do you moan to insult us ?" "No, sir ;- : r—" >rtainly not, sir; but may I ask what j a want, sir, and what you have been chasing 43 for?" - , "I have run you ' down for the purpose of pnrc.'t iMriy svnepotutoia, if you have any to snare," was the reply. • "Potatoes—pirates—-potatoes! 0,. pes, sir! you shall have every potato I've got. fyut who the deuce arc you?' replied Piggies, in I lank a mnzornent at tlio unexpected d -nand. The captain of the schooner waved hi? hand to one of the officers, and in a moment morn the flag of the New Yoik Yacht Club was flont i ■; r r en iho peak of her mainsail. "Now you know Who we are, I suppose f" said he. "O, yes sir!'' replied Piggies, rising from his knees with uiuciity at the welcome sight. "This is a most ridiculous blunder. Of course I didn't really think you was a pirate, but I thought it was well enough to be prepared in case you should prove to be one," "And yet, you were going to surrender with out firing a gun," interposed the schooner's cap tain. "0, Unit was only .1 stratagem, I assure you. [ meant to decoy yuu along side, if you Rboukl turn out to be u free Looter, and then blowyou out of water." "Yes, ycsil presume so. It \vn3 a very inge nious stratagem," shouted the stranger, laughing heartily at l'iggle's reply, "itut how about those potatoes—can you let nie have some!" "Yes, sir—certainly, sir Come a board, sir." "Ay, ay.'' And in a few moments more, botb vessels were hove to. A light gig, containing the captain, his first officer and several oarsmen, was then lowered from the schooner's davits and pulled alongside the Pullywog, The commander, who introdu ced himself as Captain LoVering, of the schoon er Wild Wave, was received with the utmost politeness by Captain Piggies, who iiumeti ately invited his guest into the cabin, and, after- in troducing them to his wife—whose personal ap pearance had* not been greatly improved by the recent melee—culled for "something to take." A bottle of brandy WAS brought by the stew ard upon the contents'of which tbo whole par ty soon becaino exceedingly convivial. Mrs. Piggies, considering it her duty to pay all pos sible respect to her guests, pledged the "he ilth of each iu a full bumper, and very SOOII drown ed all recollections of the injuries suffered in her recent battle in the generous liquid. Before Captain Covering and his officers left the Pollywog, several barrels of potatoes had been sent aboard the Wild-Wave, for which Piggies absolutely rcfused'toreceivo the slightest re muneration; nnd when at length the two ves sels separated, the ensigns of both were dipped, simultaneously, in token of amity. Capt. Piggies often entertains his friends with an account of the fust and last time that ho was ever c/iased bp a pirate, and never fails to boast of the manner iu which ho had planned to blow the piratical craft into "kingdom come," had ho not fortunately discolored his mistake it) time to avoid such a disagreeable event, An old lady said her husband was very fond of peaches, and that was the only fault ho bad. "Fault, madam!" raid one; "liow can you call tli.it a fault," "Why, because there are different ways of eating them sir. .My husband takes tliein iu the form of brandy. OI.D IlAlir.—But going in four-wheel cabs! f am so afraid of small pox I" Cabby--" You've no call to be uloured of, my cab, mum. for I've had the hind-whccls waccinated and it took boau liful!"
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