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iTTORXEYS IT LAW.
rOHNT KEAGY,
,! A TTORN KV-AT-LAtV.
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mtl: , si> LIN- ; FXkeltek,
[V ATTt r.xtvs AT LAW, aeoroßo, PA. !
. e formed a partnership in the practice of
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3i ATTO3KLY AT LAW, Ucnrm. Pa.
< -j-eetfufly tec .* hit prufhwinaal services
the public. OS wish J. W. Lingenfeiter,
. Juliana stre- .
r*-c lections T futr lv uiade- 1 Dec.ivV)4-tf. j
j lay S3 VINE,
ATTORNKT AT LAW,
fully and promptly attend t < a! l-si
.. ' tuf,i to bis care oSee uUhtt. U. b'pang, j
a Jul .aim street, three doors - ; uffl*OT the !
Aiersel House. May 53:1t
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fa ATTORNEY AT LAW, BwaroKn, PA v
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Irairaeted'to bis care in Bedford and adjoin- ;
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VL ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
KEDPORI'. PESS'A..
e nearly apposite tbe Mer.gel House, will
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: _ n-S bounties and bark pay obtained and the ;
• Y.,-c fßeal Estate attended to. [majll,'<W-ly '
| { i'. CISSN'A,
.J, attorney at law,
c with Jon* CS*sa. on the sijcare near
. Presbyterian Church. Aii business !
■ • '.-.rasted t,i his cure will receive faithful and j
| ■ - it . Miirary Clniu s. Pensions. Ac.,
! • lily ccllected. [June , 1865.
i: B. STUCK EY,
fORNEY AND COI'NSELLOK AT LAW.
r.,1 REAL ESTATE AGENT,
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Opposite tbe Court Htw.se.
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PHYSKIAYJi.
Vf • M. TV. JA.MI.-i >X, - I- D.,
\\ Bur Res, PA.,
V t fully tenders bis professi ,aal services u. ;
I : e ale ">.f that place aod vicinity. [decß:tyr
I vK. B. V- HA RIYY
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icea to the -itiieaa of Bedford and vicinity,
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ethe Bank, one door north of Hall A Pal
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inity. Dr. Clarke's office and reaWcnte saaaa
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--e st .>r.and brick building opposite tbe Peon,
v.-cia P.ailroß-i Depot, and feave now opened it
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i •aw and first elass, and lam safe in say
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Central i'encaylvania.
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SAI D .HULLER.
BY J. 0, WHllTitß.
Maud Mulier, on a rummer's day.
Baked the meadow sweet with hay:
Beneath her torn hat gleamed the wealth
Of simple beauty and rustic health.
Singing, sin- wrought, and her merry glee
t he mock-bird echoed Irom his tree.
But. when she glaoeed to the tar-offtown.
White from its hill-slope looking down,
The a wee: song died, and a vague unrest,
And a nameless longi-g filled her breast
A wish, that sh<- hardly dared to own.
For something better than she had known.
The Judge rode slowly down the lane,
Smoothing bi= hon-'-'a chestnut m.sne.
He drew his bridle iu the shade
Of the apple-trees, to greet the maid.
Arid ask a draught Irom the spriug that
dowed
Through the meadow across the road.
She stooped where the cool spring bubbled
op.
And filled for him her small liu cap,
And blushed as she gave it, looking down
On her feet so bare, and her tattered gown.
"Thanks!" said the Judge, "a sweeter
draught
From a fairer hand was never quaffed."
He spoke of the grass and flowers and ♦*•;*.
Of the singing birds and the humming bees:
Then talked of the baying, acd wondered
whether
The cloud in the west would bring foul
weather.
And Maud forgo: her brier-torn gown,
And her graceful ankles bare and brottu:
And listeued. while a pleased surprise
booked from her long-lashed hazei eves.
At last, like one who for delay-
Seeks a vain excuse, he rode away.
Maud Muller looked and sighed: "Ah, me!
That I the Judge's bride might be:
He would dress me up in silk- so Sue,
And praise and toast me at his wine.
My father should wear a broadcloth coat:
My brother should sail a painted boat.
I'd dress my mother so grand and gay :
And the baby should have a new toy each
day.
Aff3 I d feed toe hungry and iothe t., - p )r.
And all rii iuld bl->. m< who left our do r."
The Judge looked back as he climbed the
hill.
And saw Maud Muller standing still;
"A form more fair, a face more sweet.
Ne'er hath it been my iot to meet.
And her tn 'lest answer and graceful air
Show her . -e and good us she is fair.
Would she fere mine, and I. to day.
Like her. a harvester of hay:
No doubtfui balance of rights and wrongs.
Nor weary lawyers with cr-diesstongues.
But low . : cattle and song of birds.
And health and quiet and loving words. "
But be thought of bis sisters, proud and cold,
And bis mother, vain of her rank and gold.
So. closing his heart, ihe Judge rode on.
And Maud was left in the field alone.
But the lawyers smiled tfcat afternoon.
When he hummed in court an old love tuue;
And the young girl mused beside the well,
Till tue rain on the unraked clover fell.
He wedded a wife of richest dower.
Who lived for fashion, as he for power.
Vet o". in hi? marble hearth's bright glow,
He watched a picture come at 1 go:
And rweet Maud Mailer's hazel eyes
Looked out tn rnelr oceoi surprise.
Oft. when the wine in his glass was red.
He longed for the wayside well, instead;
And closed his eyes on bis garnished rooms.
To dream of meadows and clover-blooms,
Aud the proud man sighed, with a secret
pain;
Ah. that I were tree again !
Free as when I rude that day.
Where the barefoot maiden rak i h.-. hay.'
She married a man ca-ta i anu ; ■ r,
.had many children played r .mid her door.
But care and sorrow, and child birth pain.
Left their traces ou heart ami brain.
Ana oft, when the summer ?un sh me hot
t tn the new mown hay in the meadow let.
And she heard the little spt tug-brook fall
Over the roadside, through the wall.
Its the shade of lite apple tree again
She saw a rider draw hi? rem;
And. gazing down with timid uracr
She felt h-s pleased eyes read her face.
Sometimes he r narrow kitchen walls
Stretched away into stately hafis.
The weary wheel to a spinne; turned.
The tallow candle an astral burned,
And for him who 'at by the chimney tug.
Dozing and grumbling o'er pipe and mug.
A ma .ly form at her side she saw,
Ami joy was duty, and love was law.
Then she took up her burden of life again,
Staying only, "It might have Wen."'
Alas for maiden ! aia? for Judge !
For rich repiuer and household drudge !
(tod pity thetn both ! and pity us a!!.
Who vainly the dreams of youth recall.
For of ail sad words of tongue or peu.
The saddest are the<e: "It might have been.
Ah. well! for u- ail some sweet hope lies
Deeply buried from human eyes:
And. in the hereafter, ange's may
801 l the stone from its grave awav !
LV FAIETTE W TUE AMERICAN
KEVULt TION.
BY JAMES PARTOV
lii the tear 1 Tot*, tbeie ap| cared in I'aiis
a little volume entitled, "Philosophic- L t
ters," which proved to be cue of the most
influential books produced in modern times.
lr wa= written by Voltaire, who was then
thirty si* years of age. and contained the
results of hi*observations upon the English
nation, "i which be bad resided 'or tw
years. Paris was then as far front Load
for ail pra tic: ■ purji.tr.->. as Nt-vr k orb
now is from Calcutta; so that when loi
taire told hi- -utitrynten of the freedom
that pre tiled in KngiamL of the tolerance
given to religious sects: of the honors pa*d
to untitled merit of Newton, buried in
Westminister Abbey with almost regal
pomp; of Addison, Secret ry of iftute, an J
Swift, familiar with prime ministers: ami of
the general liberty, happiness u 1 abun
dance of the kingdom; France listcnOT in
wonder as to a new revelation. The wor?
was, of <--ur*e. immediately ]Jat d undct
the ban by the French Government 3od th
author exiled. Which Only gave it iccrea--
currency and deeper inflatn e.
This wus the begnrag • f the bhiiumbl
which produced, at length th-- French Revo
lotion ofITCT. and which will continue tint?
France is blessed with a fr"C awl constitu
tional govermi.mt. It Ix can in the higbei
classes of the people, for at that day n<>'
more than one-third of the French con;
read at ail. and a much smaller fraction ou:
read -ueb a work as the "Phtl-t-ciphic Jx_t
ters"'ard the books which it called foith
86speUien*mai vtt&Aiil-.- in the (h
tea tlx ati-i drawing-rooms ol Paris : r uiaii. 1 .
years iXjfore the mass of the people knev
what the w< rd meant.
Among the young nolb men w It® wen
early smitten in the utidst <#S a despotist!
with the 1 ve of ii'x rty was i i.e Marquis <L
La Fayetu-, bin in IT-VT. l w liirniitts ii
Europe could boast a great-.r antiquity thai
his. A century before the discovery <•
I \tncrii-a. wc find the l*a Fayettea spoken ?
A LOCAL AND OEWERAL NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITICS. fcPUCATION, LITERATI JHK AND MORALS.
as an "ancient house:" and in every genera- j
lion, at L ast, one number of the family bad ;
i distingui-hed himself by his services to his j
king. This young man, omnia? upon ibe j
stage of life when republican ideas were :
teeming in every cultivated mind, embraced j
ibcm with all the aruor of youth and intelii- j
genee. At sixteen he refused a high port
; in the household of one of the princes of the
blood, aid accepted wcom mission in the;
i ariuj. At the age of seven teen ho was j
; married to tie daughter of a duke, whose
dowry added a consider?' 'c fortune to his j
own ample possessions. She wasan exct-t-d- j
mgly loveiy w. u.ari. and tenderly attached
■ to her husband, and he was as fond of her j
j as such a boy could be.
The A merlesn Revr luti n broke out in
J c; Ktuion withal! the high-born republicans j
of hi- time, his heart watmly e.-poased the
| cause of the revolted colonies, and he initio- j
Lately conceived the project of going to 1
America and lighting under her banner. I
j He was scarcely nineteen years of age when '
he sought a secret iatecaew with Silas |
! IVane. the American envoy, and offered his
services to the Consnis. Mr. Dean®, it
1 appears, objected to his vouth.
"When," says he, "1 presented to the
j envoy my boyish face, I spoke more of my
atdor in the cause than of my experience:
' but I dwelt much upon the effect my depar
ture would excite in France, and he signed
our mutual agreement"'
His intention was (oiHc-tk'd from his.
family and from au bis friends, except two
jor three confidants. While he was making
; preparations for his departure, most distres
: sing and alarming new- came front America
, —the retreat from long I .-land. the loss of
| New York, the battle of White Plains, and
the retreat through New Jersey. The
j American forces, it was said, i educed to a
I disheartened band of three thousand militia
: were pursued by a triumphant atrny of:
i thirty-three ihousaodEnglish and Hessian*.
The credit of the colonies at Pari* sunk to
the lowest ebb, and some of the Americans
'■ themselves confessed to La Fayette that
they were discouraged, and persuad d him
to abandon his project He said to Mr.
Deane:
"Until now. sir, you have only seen my
ardor in your cause, and that may not prove
at present wholly use-less. 1 shall purchase
a -hip to carry out your officers. We must
fees confidence in the Suture: and it is espe
cially in the hour ol danger that I wish to
.-hare your fortune."
He proceeded at once with al! possible
tsecresy to raise the money and to purchase
and arm a -hip. While the ship was gel
ling ready, in order the belter toe nccal his
iist- alien, he made a journey to England,
which hail previously been arranged byjhis
; family. He was presented to th • Brinish
■ king, against whom he was going to fight;
| he danced at the bouse of the minister who
■ had the depart a.-st of the colonies; he vi-i
; ted l*rd Rawdon. afterwards distinguished
;ic the Revolution-try struggle; aud he saw
i at the opera tfir Henry Clint ui, whom he
j next saw on she battle field of Monmouth:
he breakfasted with Lord Sh o ourue, a i
• friend ol the colonies.
"While I c :„-ea'i d my_ intentions." he j
, teii- us. "I openly yvow-.d my sentiments. j
! I often dri-ended the Americans I rejoiced i
at their s.rcv- -- at Tn nton: and it was my j
nif.-tuwit 1 iti.it
■ invitat: n to break:::-' ..:iti Lord t-hel- j
; bourne. '
: On bis i turn t trance his prnj -ct was*
j discovered and 1 s departure fu-bidden by j
i che king 11-<i l-.d, h iwe- er, in May, 1777,
i cheered by his countrymen, and serretlyj
i approved bv the government itself. On ar- j
S riving at Philadelphia, he sent to Congress .-
I a reUiikablv brief ; .-ti to the following
; effe. t:
"After my sacrifices, 1 have the right to !
j -ask two favors; cue is. to serve at my own ex- 1
! pen si-: the ether, to begin to nerve as a voluu- j
t ■vc-"
Congress it. ji.di.i:--.. Fsatt. - i him a ira
' jor-geueral of th Atueri, ;r. u .i;j an ! he at '
I once ret- -rted hiui.-eif to t; ' 1 i
ton. His .-wrvic. at the Brandj v. ipe, ■
where he was badly wounded; ia \ irgtma, j
; where he held aa important comuirnd; at i
Mi.titt. uth, wh-re fee led the attack: ate j
. sufficiently well known. When lie had been
j in America about fiitetu months, the news !
■ came of the impending de-duration of war :
I L jtween Franco and England. He th-.-n
' wrote to Congress that. - i- eg as he had
believed himself free, he Lad gladly fought
' un-kr the American flag, but that bis own j
country ling at war lie ow-.d to it the'
homage of his services, and he desired their
j permission to return b- me. He hoped, j
however to come back to America; and as- ;
sured tbciu that, wherever he wen:. he :
should be a zealous friend of the t tilted
Stat- - Congress gave him leave of absence,
voted littn a sword, and wrote a letter on
his behalf to the King of France.
"We recommend this noble young man."
said the letter of Congress, "to the favor of
iyi-ur Majesty, because we have even him
wise in council- brave in battle, and patient
under the fatigues of war.*
He was received in France with great dis
tinction which he amusingly describes:
"When I went to court, which had hith
erto only written for me orders for my arrest
I wa presented to the ministers. I wasin
terr--gated, complimented, and exiled—to
the hotel where my wife was residing-
Some days after I wrote to the king to ac
knowledge tug f'lvh. I received in reply a
i itghi reprimand arid the c •! onek-y ot the
; Royal Dragoons. Consulted by ail the min
, snd, what was much better, embrac
ed by all the women, I had at \ ersaiiles the
favor of the king, and celebrity at paris.
Iu the midst of his popularity he thought
always of America, aud often wished tbat
the oust of the banquets bestowed upon hint
cold be poured into the treasury ofUongress.
His favorite project at that time was the in
la-ion of England—Paul Jones to command
the fleet and hitu.-elf the array. When this
scheme was given up he joined all hisinflu
eoce to lhatof Frankiin to induce the French
i govemmetit to send to America a powerful
j fleet and a considerable army. When he
. had secured the promise of this valuable aid
! he returned to America and -eivt-d again in
. the aratit -of the young republic. The suc
, ce-sof the Unite 1 Sute:-- > confirmed him
I in his attachment to re; übtiuaa institutions,
that be remain- i their devoted adherent
and advocate as long as be* lived.
"May this revolution." said he once to
I : _re--. • a- a : o to oppre-sors,
" atid as an example P> the oppressed.
And iu out* of his l iter.- from the United
i .States occurs this sentence:
I *"1 havoalways thought that a king was
j at U-a-t aus s K'ing; vi wed front this
' sideoi tb; t. .-.u, a kiug cuts a poor figure
indeed.'
liy the tim h hud lift America, at the
i close < f thewar, be had expended in the ser
ol' ( ran— ssveit hundred thousand
' j,..,..— a free gift to the Cause of liberty.
Hue of the mo-t pleasing eireti-tanees of
. i lai Fayette's re-iil nee in Atuelici was th®
b wfFeeUoi;ate tidsli.p which existdi i. -
' ;wt •*!! himself ami Heot ial Washington.
|j. b„.k. i, up to Wsuhingt-oi as tea father
a.- weii a- a chief , and Wa bitigton regarded
I* him with ' 1 "• "!•- truly .-jrem-d Ij
BEDFORD. Pa.. I KII'AY. DECEMBER 6. l*i;T.
Fayette named his eldest son Georg* Wash
ington. and never omitted opportunity j
to testily his love and venttWOß lor the il- j
lustrious American. Franklin, too, was
much attached to the youthful enthusiast,
and privately wrote to General i> ashing too j
askii.g hiui, for the ?oke of the young *n<i
anxious wife of the Marquis, not to expose •
his ale except in an important and decisive •
engagement.
In the diary of the celebrated \\ illiam ;
Wilbcrforee. who visited Paris soon after:
the peace, there is an interesting passage
descriptive of La Fayette's demeanor at the j
Frt neh eou: t.
"He seemed to be the representative of
the dcuociacy in the very presence of the
monarch—the tribune intruding with bis
veto within the chamber of the patrician
order. His own establishment was formed
upon the Kngli.-h mode!, and, amidst the :
ga.vetv and ea-e of'Fonuinbleau, ke assumed :
an air of republican austerity. W hen the
fine ladies of- the court would attempt to j
drag him to the card-table' Tie shrugged j
bis shoulders with an air of affecud contempt
for the customs and amusements of the old
Ago Meanwhile, toe deference which!
this champion of the new state if thing* re- 1
ceived, above ail froiu the l&dics of the j
court, intimated dually the disturbance of
the social atmosphere, and presiged the
coming tempest.''
A.NKCDOTtS OF LAHVfcItS.
THOMAS CORWIX.
It will be remembered that (Arwin, in
the Senate, in 164.5 or 1x46, arguing seriously
against the morality of the projected war
again-t Mexico, permitted his appreciation ;
of broad bumor to lead him into the extrava
gant expression: "It" 1 were a Mexican, &s
I am ao American, 1 would welcome you
with bloody bands to hospitable graves.' A
few years after, when this expression had
been quoted by the newspapers until it bad
become familiar as "household words, Mr. ,
Corwin wa.- retained as counsel for a man .
cbargea with murder, and who, he claimed, ;
acted iu sell defence. Id his closing speech
to the jury Corwin pictured the condition of
hi- e!i<.ni as endeavoring to avoid the diffi
. uity. portrayed the murdered man as for
cing it upon him, dogging his steps, deooun
cine: hiui as a coward, and at last threaten
ing to strike him. "What, sir,' turniug to
the prosecuting attorney, "would you have ;
don.:? '
• Done!" replied the attorney, with great j
gravity "done! I would havt welcomed
him with bloody hands to a hospitable
grave.'"
The jury was convulsed with laughter,
and Corwiu lost bis case.
JAMES T. BRADY.
On one occasion James T. Brady had a
ca-e so very lame that he gave his client to
understand that it could not be wined.
The client insisted on trying it, and Mr.
Brady devoted hi- best talent to making the
best show he could. The case was ably put ,
on the other side, and was .-o pla:a that the
judge, who had made op his mind, rather
indicated it by several rulings entirely favora- i
Lie to the opposite side. Mr. Brady was '
seeking for an opportunity for covering bis
retreat from hi.- untenable position, an 1 on
son** ruling of the judge highly favorable to
his opponent. D t: —-•*'> *®l"ojed;
"Mar It please yonr honor, who sengugeo
uu the other side of the case besides the
j ■
JVfHiK KRAI>Y.
The greatest charm of Judge John B.
Brady's best charge- lay in ibe opening sen
tence. Smith and Jouts were fighting \,as '
txi print) over the valae of a certain ,
-1; 'ntr - >td by the one to the other, and
u i for carry ing sand from the Jersey fiats.
Smith sw >re that a sounder and more sea
vr rtby ves-.d had not existed since the days !
f the Aimuda —that every spar, timber. I
ami was peifect, and that lie would j
have bo i no -sitation in -rossing the At i
laotic in her in an equinoctial gale. Jones ■
swore that there was nat One timber, spar, !
or : but wa- so rotten . to be picked to •
pie - with the fingers, asd that he would
■ i t have cr.--.-tl the Nortl river in her from -
Fort YVc-hiogton to Gutt-nberg on a calm
Juy in n: tturner for an interest in Johns- '
t- wn. When the judge came to charge
he jury, his opening sectaoce was "Gentle
nen of the jury, upon one point I have no
ccasion to aM-i-t your delib.. atioas; if you
I know anthiogy in this world, it i- the sea
worthiness of the boat!' IV-rbaps they did
thoueh they "smiled audibly" as if tbey
iii not. at ail event-, tbey de-agreed, and
j the precise money value of thesand-schwn
•r probably remains undetcruined to this i
j d*y.
BEN. WADE AND JOSH I" A H.-tJIDDiKUs.
Benjamin F. Wade and the late Joshua
R. Giddings used to beconstati competitors :
1 at the bar in "old benighted Ashtabula," |
their place of residence. In tht early part
if bis practice. Wade was defecting a man
i again -t an action of slander, ani after hav .
: ing concluded a very" effective spech to the ;
jury, .-at awkwardly leaning batkwatd. his
!eet on the counsel table, andjfacing tjrid
dings. who was attempting to beloquent in
behalf of bis slandered client. "Old Gid," !
as be was familiarly called, kicw a little
smattering of Shakespeare, and now deter
. mined to bring that great auya* to his aid.
"Gentlemen of the Jury." srid he with
much ardor,
"He that steals tny purse sieik trash:
-"But he that rob? me of tny (o d name "
Ahem.]
At this point, to his great discomfiture,
Shakespeare deserted him. He repeated,
••But he that robs me of uiygood name —"
Another pause.]
"Taken that I never hat whi-jerea
Wade, as if prompting him, tnd so distinct
ly as to l heard by all in thtroom.
j Ami l the laughter and hi- iwn confusion,
Giddings brought his spetch to such a
"lame and impotent eonelusbn," that Lis
i client recovered but six and quarter cents
for his lost character.
FINI.Sti COCJiSE..
Judson T. Mills, of South Carolina, was
Judee of a district court in \ >rtheru Texas,
fond of a joke, hot very decited iu his dis.
charge of duty. Thomas Fannin Smith was
a practicing lawyer at the bar. _ and having
shamefully misstated the law in bisaddres
to the Jury, turned to the court and a.-ked
the Judge to charge the Jury accordingly.
The judge was indignant, and replied.
"Does the eounsel take the court to be a
I fool ? '
Smith was not abashed by the reproof,
but instantly resp< nded—
i T trust your honor will not insist on an
answer to that question, as I might, in au
> -werine it truly, be con-idcred guilty of con
; teu.pt of court."
. j "Fine the counsel ten dollars, Mr. Clerk,
: sai l the judge.
Smith immediately paid the money
and remarked that it was ten dollars ruort
than the conn could show.
"Fine the counsel fifty dollars." said tht
: judge.
1 ' Th< fine wus entered by the clerk, ant
Smith, not beingrcsdy to respond in tt>t :
sum sat down. The nest morning, on the ■
opening of.the court. Smith rose, aod with
much deference of manner, began:
"May it please your honor, the clerk took
that little joke of yours yesterday about the
fitly dollars assort jw; as I perceive from the
reading o! the minutes. Will your honor i
be pleased to inform hiai of his error, and
have it erased ?"
The coolness of the request and the im
plied apology pleased the judge, and he re
mitted the nue.
cei.TIC vr n\
An Irish counsellor having lost hi* cause, '
which had been tried by three judges, one
of whom was esteemed a very able lawyer,
though the other two were indifferent, some
of the other barristers were merry on the
occasion.
"Well, now, said be, "who could help
it, when there are a hundred judges on the
bench?"
"A hundred!" said a bystander, '"there
were but three."
"By SL Patrick!" replied he, "there
were one and two ciphers. '
WEBSTEB.
\\ hen Hayne, of South Carolina, urged
oa by his Southern friends, had made bis
speech which called fourth that immortal re
ply of the great "Northern Lion," many of
Webster's friends, struck with Jfayne's real
ability, began to say to each other, "cau
Webster answer that?" Mrs. Webster was j
present at the Capitol, and was greatly agi-,
tated at the fire and force of the hero of
South Carolina. >he rode home with a
friend in advance of her husband. At last
the "Lion' came tramping up the door and.
I'jarehed'in, in an easy, unconcerned way. j
His wife hastened into' the lia.il jut as she j
was. and with tears in her eyes said to him.
"can you— can you answer Mr. Hayne?" i
With a sort of grunt or quiet roar, her
lord turned upon her: Answer him? I'll
g-r i n d him-finer than that snuff in your
bo*!"
In due time the Websteriau thunder roll- j
ed through the arches of the capital, and
Hayne was ground fine.
4 What do yon think now." says the Gen-1
end's friend to his Southern acquaintance, j
"of our Northern lion?"
The reply came quick, but rather angrily: I
"He's a long jawed, strong-jawed, tongh-j
hided devil!" ■ * _* * *j
Among the Websteriana there is nothing
of his better than the answer to the French j
minister, who asked him while Secretary of:
State, whether the Cnited State- would rec
ognize the new Government of France.
The Secretary assumed a very soluinn
ton" and attitude, saying:
"Why not? The United States has recog-1
nised the Bourbons, the Republic, the I>i- j
rectory, the Council of Five Hundred, the
Ftrst Consul, the Emperor, Louis XVIII. !
Charles X. Louis Phitlippe, the
"Enough! enough!" cried the French
minister, perfectly satisfied by such a for
midable citation of consistent precedent-.
"77c- Stack and liar," by L. ■). Kifft' r.
W ASI I.tM FOK"T~ki.ks>* VOl At;
n i.s.
Iu e\ci> community there is a certain per
ccntaeo of useless young men, whose ulti
mate conutt ion must excite itu- sympatny
and con-ideration of ev< ry pbylanthropi.-t.
What will become of them ? We do not
put the question as to their future state,
but bow wij the;, round off their earthh- ex
istence? They have no visible means of
support, still ihey bang on, they vegetate,
they keep above the ground. In a certain
literal sense, they may be said to live, move
and have a being. They lounge in offices,
promenade the street, appear at social
amusements, play the gallant to good na
tared ladies and attend to the necessities of
lapi i/-. I'tiere moreq , : . t and uodemoo-
Mratire life may I* J scribed a an inter
mittent torpor, in which meals, cicars.
drinks and sleep mark the changes. Their
existence would be a mystery, but for their
substantial jeople known fan ihary a- "pa.
"ma." or "better half," who are able to
make provision for the wa.-te and protection
of their bodies in the way of clothes and ■
food. Still, ought these tender young men I
to be left to thcchanc s of parental or do
mestic affection? All are not uoequally
fortunate.
What shall we do when those dependen
cies are precarious? They do not admit of
any utilitarian disposition. In cannibal
countries they could be eaten as a substitute
for vea': their bodies would make excellent
fertilizer- for sterile lands: but the preju
dices of a christian people would revolt at
this solution of the problem. A certain
number would be employed as lay figures in :
shop windows to exhibit clothes on. but the j
tailors might not have confidence in thetn. ;
Most of thcra could color meersehams, bat j
this business would produce little revenue. :
What, then sbail be done ? The tax now I
falls upon a few. and oucht to be distribu- '
ted. We propose therefore a .State Asylum
for useless young men. An institu- !
tion ef this kind would be easily filled with j
those between the ages of eighteen and 1
thirty, who should be grouped and associa- j
ted together so that the rude jostling and j
friction of the working world would not dis
turb their delicate nerves.
Here they could cultivate their mous
taches. part their hair behind, and practice
attitudes. In this resort, with a little en
forced exercise to keep their circulation in a
healthy state, with dolls to play with as a
WIMf ■—>■-> *f \ -yl >V ~
-ietv. the.se useless young uien could be sup
ported in ease and comfort, and all muus
trious people would be willing to pay the
expenses of this institution rather than
bear the painful solicitude in regard to the
welfare of these sui erfiaous members of so
ciety. When provision has been made t v
the State for idiots, for the insane, poor,
aged and crippled, is it not astounding that
a'vlutns have never been erected tor a still
more helpless class? Let this philanthrop
ic enterprise be started at once. attr- j
ti.ICH Kcfj' iMJ .
A LATE Sandwich 1.-'iand paper says: j
"A correspondent at Kau writes: "The vol j
cam is lively, and having fine times. Ao ]
less than eleven fires are burning. In dii
fereot places about the "where the
road goes down, the lava has fiowe-j up six -
ty feet and cooled over. Vour feet will if
so hot after crossing, that if you should spit
on vour toenails thev would hiss, like hot
iron 1 But in the neighborhood of the cra
ter there are strawberries galore, large and
lueious. besides oheloa.
A DELICATE TEST.— Dissolve one grain
of silver in a small quantity of pure nitric
a. id, and then pour this solution ol silver
into 3.25" gallons of water, or about eighty
bariels. When well diffused through the
ma- 5 , put one drop of thi- water upon a
plate of glas-, and touch it with a glass rod
previously dipped into pure bydrocolone
aci<j The drop of the solution will beeome
turoid or milkv. indicating the presence of
silver, altbough there is contained in that
drop only the fin hundred millionth of a
pro in of stiver,
IUMt 49: XO. M.
ILLCSIVE MBXORIES.
. { have come 10 k' !<r * whether you
; think lam deraagcu or not,'' * a i-1 a young
lady out day, with a dire-erne-.?, ftauknesa,
1 and untoibarra,s.-faeni v< ry unusual. Ailer
aa hoar's investigate n. itwis demonstrated
that she was hopelessly deranged. The
form of thetuaiadv ®n-. that when .-he heard
an impressive sermon, an exciting address,
or read an interesting article in pr e or
verse, she bevame |h -v.---d with the idea
that she herself was ti. author, and that by
some unfair means oti >- had become pos
i .-.osed ol ber own idea-
It is set in the memory of .-oine, how earn
, etiy an estimable voauj lady claimed, a few
years ago, that W diiam Alien Butter had
found her lost composition, dropped in a
stage, and made owl of it the celebrated
. article about Miss Flora MeFiiiiisey, of
I Madison Square, who titer had anything
;to wear. There is at tins time a very exei
! ting controversy between a gentleman and
t lady, and their multitudinous irienda, as to
the authorship of that much-admit c<l piece
of poetry. "Rock Me to Sleep, Mother."
| Taking it for granted that the Lay and gen
tleman are equally honest and in earnest,
j may it not be, as to one of them, a case of
illusive memory?
Not a few reader.- u. y—the writer cer
tainly does—remember that dreams some
times come ovet them as if they were a con
tinuation of some fuimer dream, as if the
beginning of it had some connection with a
previous dreara. In precisely the same
way the present reality may be connected
with a dim, shadowy impression of a pre
| viotLS existence, when there had been no
previous existence. \t e are _ ail familiar
with the fact, that a person with whom we
are conversing may give an expression to a
j sentiment which strikes us with peculiar
force, from the faet that it had been floating
about in our mind's vision, but had never
formed itself into definite words or phrase,
jar.d we felt delighted in thus having it fram
ed to us. It may be that a higher degree
i of this thing may give rise to states of the
' mind in relation to the authorship in ques
tion. which are readily diseased or illusive
i memories, sonit what akin to the habit some
| times met with in persona who, in the ex
citement of conversation, will state facts,
what for their purposes they wi-h to be
i facta—or, as likely as not, in their view, to
be facts—thus misleading other.-. a;.i often
putting themselves in painful or bumiiia
ting positions. Tendencies of this kind
should be resolutely striven against, lor
they grow by yielding to them, and. in pc-ist
o! ... rais, tla-re is all the criminality of a
j deliberate falsehood. Censcientious uien,
of truth and of extensive learakg, are the
, last in nin the world to be p itive of aoy
i thing which is not akiu to demonstration:
i and, least of all, positive of anvihiog which
; ieau# on memory alone. The weakest-mind
: eu and the least informed are habitually the
most positive. The lesson is, adore Truth,
in writing, in conversation, and in action-, do
not assert as a truth that which cannot be
demonstrated cr ooirsborated, if need be,
by outside evidence. A true gentleman
habitually avoids miking positive state
ments. this- -< -tiring hitiis.lt freta the
charge of falsehood, and society would be
greatly blessed if, in addition, the habit
w ere-sedulously cultivated of making no
staseroent Which was not nreraity true, with
a wide margin, and if "often"' and "very"'
were our highest expletives, instead of al
ways, never, awful, and the like.— llhU'a
Journal of
VAMPIRES,
\ anipires, so called, arc by u- ereaus pe
cu .arto Bra.::', but the veritable creature
insinuated itself into the company of Amer
icans which arrived in that country a i'-.w
days ago. The writer says:
A party of Americans went up the Ama ,
zon a few day- ago, and one of them wa> .
bled so badly by a vampire as to awake, in a j
state of exhausti a, with a face like a corpse: j
the fc aof Lis hammock and the floor he- j
Death it were saturated with blood, the flow .
of which was staunched with great difficulty, j
It is the diffi ulty of staunching the blood j
1 which makes tie vampire so dreaded, the j
; quantity which the creature requires to :-at- I
J isfy his appetite- being comparatively trifling, j
J Some persons .- cm to be especially liable to !
I their attacks, while others can deep in a j
room infested with them nightly with impn
nity. A gentleman living near Para, and
whose house stands on the lank ofaoigar
ape, tells me that his room is seldom with
out one ot more vaiupires in it after dark,
and they have never molested him, aitho"
they have bled an unlucky goat in a shed
j beneath hi? window until the creature was
unable to stand, and was shot as an act of
, mercy. A young English lad; who wa.- vis-
I ititig at this house was bitten on the first
' night of her arrival, and in spite of the pre
! cautions used, was again bitten a few days
afterwards, bleeding from a wound on the
under ride of her toe until much weakened.
'' These animals only make their attacks in
| darkness, and a light kept burning in the
j Jeeping-rc mis an effectual safeguard. A
i physician, long resident here, tells me that
| although poisonous reptiles are somewhat
j plemy in the province, the serious accidents
from this cause scarcely amount to half a
doxen annually in a population of 30,000.
; But enough of reptiles for the present.
A Hi MAN TIMEPIECE. —A wonderful
story i- told of a man named J. D. Chevsl
lMs.~attfiFage
astonishing decree of perfection in reckon
ing time by an interne! movemont. Hewrs
in f: • t, a human timepiece or living clock.
In Li- vouth be was accustomed to pay
great attention to the ringing of bells and
vibrations of pendulums, and by degrees he
acquired the power of counting a succession
of intervals exactly equal to those which the
vibrations of the sound produced. Being
on board a steamboat on Lake Geneva on
July 14th. 1*32, he engaged to indicate re
the crowd around the lapse of a quarter of
an hour, or a- many minutes and seconds a.-
any one choose to name, and this during a
most diversified conversation with those
standing by: and further, to indicate by his
voice the moment when the hand passed
over the quarter, minutes, or any other sub
division previously stipulated during the
whole course of the experiment. This he
did without mistake, notwithstanding the
exertions of those about him to distract Lis
attention, and clapped his hands at the con
riurion of the fixed time. His own account
oi hi-gift was a. follows: "I have Acquired
by imitation,l labor and patient*, a move
ment which neither thought nor labor nor
anything can stop. It is similar to that ol
a pendulum, whieh at each moment of go
ing and returning gives me the space oi
three seconds, so that twenty of them make
a minute, and these I add to others contin
ually.
AN idle man always thinks he has a r 'ght
to • affronted if a lu-y man does not de
vote to him just as much ot his time as he
himself ha- H-ure to waste.
- - '
!
A COOL HI MB AND.
There is one sensible married man in this
State. He is a soldier, and was reported to
have beta killed, but was only a prisoner,
lie returned home to Sod that his wife had
turned over a new leaf in the marriaee ser
r rice, and that another man occupied his scat
in the chimney corner. Did he go to
work slaughtering the false wife and new
husband? Not much. He walked in, and
said:
"Well, old gal, bow is things?"
"Pretty good. Bill," said the double mar
ried woman, not taken aback greatly.
'"Which do you prefer, the ofi or the new
love?"
She hesitated for an instant, and then
bat—but—"
Ob, spit it light out. Don't mind fay
feelings nor the other chap's. I won' t be
angry if you come down a little rough on my
vanity. Count on tne being amiable. I
won't cut np ru=ty if you should go back on
me."
"I tn glad you're so thoughtful. Bill, and
1 acknowledge that ldo like my present
husband best: but if anything should hap
pen to him. 1 know nobody else I would so
soon join fortunes with again as you."
"That's the way to talk. I'll bid you
good-by, hoping that no accident will hap
pen to the other fellow and that ho will
live long to enjoy your delightful society.
Good day."
And the careless husband traveled off,
with his knap.-ack on his back, whistling in
a cheery, clear tone, "The girl I left behind
me."
Skeiku the Sen at Midkk.ht. —ln Ju
ly, 186j,_ Hon. J. 11. Campbell. United
•States Minister to Norway, with a party of
American gentlemen, went far enough north
to L :e tbe sun at midnight. It was in 00
degrees north latitude, and they ascended a
eliff l.'-'i) feet above the Arctic sea. The
scene is thus d eribed "It was late, but
>tili sunlight The Arctic ocean stretched
away in silent fastness at our feet; the
sound of its waves scarcely reached our airy
lookout; away in the north the huge old sun
swung low along the horizon like a slow
beat of the pendulum in the tall clock in our
grandfather'! parlor corner. We all stood
silent looking at our watches. When Loth
hands came together at 12, midnight, the
full, round orb hung triumphantly above
the wave—a bridge of gold running due
north spangled the waters between us and
him. Ibere he shone in silent majesty
which knew no setting. We involuntarily
took off our hats—r.o word was said. Com
bine. if you can. the most brilliant sunset
and sunri-e j HI ever saw. and its beauties
will l aie before the gorgeous coloring
which now lit up the ccean : heaven ana
mountain. In half an hour the sun had
swung up perceptibly on its beat, the colors
changed to those of morning, a fresh breeze
rippled over the florid sea. one songster af
ter another piped up in the grove behind us
—we had slid into another day."
Nk K-Tw;sTi.N<i is Chi kcil —The fol
lowing is old but it will bear reading again,
acd the hint may do some good; A curious
>; ry is told of an eccentric old minister,
who was sorely annoyed by a habit his peo
ple had acquired (and which prevails, by
the way. in all other churches, even now
and hi reabcui to s me extent of twisting
their necks round every time anybody enter
ed the door and passed up the aisle of the
••Lurch, to -ce what manner of person it
might be. Wearied with the annoyance,
the old man exclaimed, one Sunday; I'Breth
ren . if yon will only cease turning your
hi ads round whenever the door opens, and
you will keep your attention on me. 1 will
promise to tell you, as 1 preach, who it is
that comes in.'" Accordingly he went on
with the c or vices, and presently made a stop
one ol the dtacorn entered, saying. "'That
is Dcaecu , who keeps the grocery op
site." And then he announced in turn
the adv r.-t of each individual, proceeding
the while with hi- sermon as composedly as
•he eircmr.staiK' > would admit, when at
last a stranger came in, and he cried out:
"A 1.. tie old man in green spectacles and a
cab iV;.r at —don t know him—you can
ah lc ilr yourselves." It is hardly neoes
rv to add that the good man carried his
j in:, and there was but little neck-twisting
seen in his congregation after that day.
Tuk f •;];•• of arbitrary distinctions of birth
fine- so edd ilinsrration in the
i no ;:g recent letter to tbe /'( ''luk Times.
T; writer signs himself simply "A Young
er S< n:"'
"An incident which occurred to me not
many years ago may throw .-ome light on tbe
principles which guide the Chapel Royal
officials in their distribution of seats. On
c!.'. rii c the c-hapel doors one Sunday mom
.cg I J3- stopped by the verccr, who said
there was no place for me. I had never at
t. nded service in it in my life, for I was ol
an t creation, but I new that sons of peers
had certain privileges of entry; so with a
little pardonable*pride of manner I said, 'I
asa the son of a peer.' The eldest son?'
a-k<_d the verger, just as if he were a young
lady in her second season. Xo." said L
ruefully, 'a younger son only.' 'Then you
cannot have a <=eat until the second lesson.'
replied the discriminating verger. It is out
of my power to say whether the offer of a
two shilling piece would have raised me in
the estimation of the simple minded verger
to tbi level of an oldest son, for I did not
try him. but walked away, moralizing as I
went on the advantages and disadvantages
attending the position in this world of an el
der and ayouDger son."
A it it eat deal of trouble is borrowed by
the habit of looking at things wrong end
foremost. Mow disconsolate you look!"
said a bucket to a fellow bucket as they
were going to the we!!. "Ah ,J "' replied the
other, "1 was reflecting on the uselessness
of our being filled; for let us go away ever
so full, we always come back empty."
"Dear me' how strange to lock at it in that
way." said the bucket, "now I enjoy tho
thought that however empty we come, we
always go away full. Only look at it in that
light and you'll be as cheerful as I am."
Uuririi AATSiY OK Psesidbjt Jackson.—
New Orleans to Phiia3elpbis,*Wi..tattle of
President, a hale, buxom young widow,
greeted him with a shake of both at
the same instant exclaiming; "My dear
genera', I am delighted to see you; I hate
walked six miles this morning to enioy this
rare felicity." To this the President re
plied, with an air of dicniSed gallantry:
Madam. I regret that I had not known
your wishes earlier; I certainly would have
walked half way to meet you.
It is via that the Viceroy of Egvpt,
durine his late visit to Paris desired a lady
of great taste to purchase him eighty-one
silk dresses. These were for the ladies of
hi- seraglio, and the bill amounted to forty
senven thousand francs, neatly SIO,OOO.
<>n heating the above, a Parisian beauty.
Madame la Comtesee dc X., is said to have
exclaimed, "Ah! that is the right kind of a
husband, Lc does things up well.
A man in a blouse once said. "I have' uo
more influence than a farthing rushlight.
"Weil, was the reply, "a farthing rush
light can do a good deal, it can set a bay
sta k on lire, it can burn down a bouse, yea,
more, it will enable a poor creature to read
aeL uter in God's book. Go your way,
friend, let your rushlight so sbiDe before men.
that others seeing your cood works may
glorify your Father which is in heaven.
\ YOrsosTT.it who wanted liauor at tlio
Portland City Agency for a "mechanical
purpose." further explained tha it was
I needed for sawing wooa.