Erie observer. (Erie, Pa.) 1830-1853, October 28, 1848, Image 1
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'' , :• - i• ti:. ,-:. • . . . , . - . 11 . , .. . . , . ........__ OLDIE 19. ►_;clcct Pact nub illisccllann. I THERE'S ROOM ET.AIOUGEE l'Ort ALL. What need of all this fik3 and ‘trife, EA warring, with his fit other? 11 rte, ill the doted of IV, Keep trampling: down each other? there no goal that call be won, Without afiqueeze to•gain it— No other way of getting on, lint :-erambling to obtain it? Oh, tellow-risen, hear wkdoin, then, to hiendl) warning all— " Your claims diinlo the world is \\lid • There's loom ei n A. all!' What t.ea•atit ftn filth for honost lit Deed nut idlt - Tu flint-A I.is 'Flitiutaaland ith anato, :sh. NVldelt gold for toil k Where cvely bravroltand that strength, can v. imp a Jiving. (At, renththh.r then, Whatever ehatthe bvl dl. The - ivorld i, tt itle+ftheth tho , t• abid Thet, l.:1.11.'11 for ;.:1! 1 - ,ui❑ puriuc l ;:ir I.re i ;11 itutl !ii (i • :Llc l ull • nn•l 1(1,P11 . 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Neasrthok•,,, tny that. }pm,- '-1; In fact, I ' , tit e r ii (If a m.ithc- , oho leaboliN %Las not W.ll,1 -t 111i1 , 01Y, 11l n cn-e 01(.11 I cint!ing iu ol,c, of ti lt :her court,' of a ixigh!pqii.g crr tV, clop•solvil thr Intpititte , ..s and ttt 1.1 a whale f, unt l ) '• nud 111n1 nt lengllt. an Itt I.liiciont ttt ~,t t t in t tig h mean, annual ettittideett. a ~:,r. r contentlitetit and pct-tint•try it t 11 , 1)e rity, ‘‘ ere tt. red 1,1 ot tl.v bt:t M.., %% Mild 1„ a , .v.ldelc —oiratod from each 0t11..2r as the 11:}gale::t.,, or ttv,ll, d toward::: ovelniir_o. a.-. 4 my tired bar,. ()II my return 11r ,, t11 ‘esath 1 rp,,vr t zeo Irons a narrow, ilt•li!otp..l.,Act.o \lO i.reVi - .• 11,.1-. into a v.e.11 cultr—ited ‘afiry, ‘%110,c. lo‘el -Fo•ati out befffie we I,lu a hot:0111.11 , J. .111: 1 the range of bill- on the njyi iti ,ide, I a Nt.r comfortable 10,1;ing ,I%%clliog. of a! . . . •,-:- tu. 1 I.}o,,Latanee vote ~ .ui, e rior,O.o ne -t ul thoze I IT; Lide:rto p:ts , ed. Its three chunnev , z ...: , ent up t' , .. , ..k m. wadi,: of Wile ,rneke, and altegctl.er there %..-,. till 1111 of good cheer and prosperity about it, ' , J1.0, ;.-.,%. tw. hopes of Ia ila ho,puah;y recelled: , ,i, (o s,, ~ I'll 1 N%11 ., iginsr.tlit of the ce istsr's name, :Jr_ le , tir i, l .llr, , acit of [Light, and a -14 den-ely oier ,ot ss,:b -,m‘‘-e100.1., ad:mini-lied me that, ign.sr,- ts:,' r.- I sstk of lite cumin), it x‘inthl not Le iirmdmit , as, in prm•ced farther belle tnornintr. l-4o,ri , lllig ' tsa to th e gate, I dismounted, and tied iny her-e to • sy ‘‘, , et,eral hook , driven into tae side,- ill a huge I on a-hied horse-e•lshick; so hug ', indeed, that the j 'kie Irma iihicli it was her ii mu. t have stood for I c,itur:es crc it was applied to its pre-cut useful I :'',l.'-o. A ,iniiiie (4(iti.llle(lt OW I \VII , (1. M. 11) WO' li ( ",,, 'cr, and feratol of being isestiglirl ur ox , i 'ruby the rkit•g ptt . ,rlll, in it country with wli.e, , 1, a 4 llllaCtillfdlitt'd, Nl{l ., Sllirleiellt, tot gain me a 'ay wl.lcome trout the truly kii,d on tier of that •pstahle (11% el:mg. :\ly lease was i1:11111 . (ii:11( . ! V t', IQ a warm stable MO/ V. ell rated fur, and after , at Wing tbe plea-itig intelligi'nee that elsisper woulsl • . a Ales in hi. to halt ass hour, I tva, shown to a, ..:‘,.. •Aell form-lied (lhanilter, t% here a tire had bren 0 , ..h. that I might make iny itr.spardtitmslit the ~..1,.._ Ills my return to the family room, %% hero the `'...."'4 ls.rd Wn.r 011%' set out lNitli the attractive a., ~t a sub.lanti;ii meal, I ‘ , : , 5 ric e eli te,' to the ,-.., ...at:liters, sun and bristlier ot nn' 111,(1. The tisr 1113 a, 1111111 about 'fifty-11k brothel latlf•v i k a• tine m tv,.) )911:sm,sr: both gentlemanly, intelligent ~1,1,1., 2 ., via a, %%too had evidently Seozi more of the ~ sarl,l t',, , is 1 , ,,...:, c ., u s a lned within tlll'ir 11%% II narrow " 1 • -Th 'o' ". '- It IVOII i1;11 . 11 litioh-ca.p in (.111. II ` ril 1:,... is ~,.• room, "Is I tc‘eral routine, 1 -0,11- e: -I, Iv, 1„tC 0 3 , , iCiii, h. 1,11 , ..1 1 0 - .1.• II ,Ill.l' It I I my enter:a:l. , I's I ,ini,..-- 1 ~, c d at the tahl:., a, •i .41: - ii-,t1 . :, - ": 1 , • , .., •, , ,!,:,1 app,a-ed, I tiiiii ill my iiiiiii 1., 'i -- i ,-, , .: I !:ate ilr tr_r 1 , ,,--ei a mote pl - c 1-- 1 H , Lf than ti, It s-liont in the bosomof [hi ~ • ', I •? :,. I ‘i 111 educated shelf'. '' 1 .. , ' i 101 re-t at int early Iso.ir, an I lay fur a 1( . 1 ,, to tee I.! , rill V. loch by tnat time hind -I. Tee 14,i,,1 1. r , 41 lit II 011011;1.11 til initil lt.r ta:l old tr, e- :croon.] Ilm hot-c', mom mtmoe.:, i and drove the :sleety is 110' tt ::01, , is 5, in ti iiianni.r that mad.. me 'I my iris l flatter in ill it,lg ," 1i , ' , 1 -11 , 1- L.' I :i . m.,.1 ii putt, m,, that the ob i •ct of ~ 11441 been riCC , tfilpil-hod, that the nior: .• •.. l -host the snail t•o blocked a..; to bar illy '.l :0 -- tor a iliav or two. 1 - (kiiii toy weep- I,' - ti , ..1 - I wed, that I w a'- in no haste to 1 '.• "leo tuoriiine• came, the snow wni- still ( - ."..-• I." I s le o tiv o t ol iiithout wind: yet the air ; I ' '.'t'l.• ~,..s. I , e , that the (t‘elltismrittg; elottili well' 's I • -i• I l,..rped, ini th'it tile storm would elm ,tt,is the (I,:v. Atter lama:fa:4' I made' , .., (sle as•-•trtioon that I tins-1, re.inne ', c 1 ,, ,1 ' • I, 4,inv olelmiter I 1.1111 wool I not list s ~,,, ; •,* 1 i salt t think 11l goner on tton,s," :said e • ••••I I di lii . t, ad! tinaile I fond.) a clean • l '''''Ut I ' • • .. ~ , ,t1 01.: , 11 I ,110L11 , 1 btl tHighted to ; • , I. I '-t .nu. 'l'lli‘s can Slid coot"--inn , " , en ti pletsi-ant looting, tor they ' '• ' viti to dorlaro that a guest li,ie your ' • . 1 .. se- em., V.`ll , = a perfect Izoilsend to 1.. s-. I romi made myself al home, and ' • - v••-ell 72:1:1) 11l that delightful man '• , nt', : bat had it been otherwise, I • 11., u !erred to remain, for -0 deep were lit . ~, the ff ,,r(0. , , of tilts bilk, it two , . tit - -soh. tor st matt on lior,i.back to proceed '" stm• I iii :Act' to take. 'PoNtaido thu =II =I IMM FIOM Ith-west it i.va•: possible to leave the valley with great difficulty. 'in the secor day after my arrival, I saw, look toward tin t quarter, a single horseman, strug ng manfullN , along his clogged path, in the di- Ilion of 'inyrefuge. Alter a quirter of an hour lalighted at the gate, and ciaime i l food and shelter I myself bud done—for he, too, was a stramgrer---: ll h•eh were equally accorded to him. The uew M'er was a young, mum of Of thirty or thereabouts, a i.veyor, Mid wa , ,' making ,a prelruinary observa n p-relattatory to an accurate survey of the route the N—railroad, now building, o ur f am il y fir, us I said, I made myself at 1 home, and col ered that I was one of them—L ur family, then, .re very much pleased a i l th this gentleman; it trod practical ma-u, \\ln, had seen and read much, I w ii ., able t o ,ay., apr mos to any portion of the ibe l - When 1 sAiu , there," etc. I I ; ' wa a going in '-t same WiLet:on tl , : 1111,eity :MI; ‘lO agtotal,, when %\ a, luracicalule, to set out together; .hit before at !Imo ,-,,n0., throe da3 s had pa,-ed. " Ali. what a noble property, Al r. Willard!'' ex timed I, one irmrning, n, 1 letdild from the parlor i nilow over the wile stretch of well-fenced fields l ifore me in the ‘aley. "E‘erything a man can i:,ire in a farm: ;Whittled ill by hills whose sides I : , rousui von all e,,ur thewood and timber!" OEM W e were I together—ray hob(, hizs broth :mil their t; A> <r zniswered ho, sighit ti !, "it is a io.atitil l til ‘ , l ort : '• lh , )u-find cr I ~houhi think, — ,nit.l the bIIV- :art. 11\ olive huti.lied, - ered h€ •• p , rk;li ? ;1: "atidla ion,: quo , it: the (And .jo ;Lug - fro.l c,,inplete con.lition our eitate "forte-tine (_ , ar,s," replied I\lr. rd; "rot cher ated it tor ti_mity-tive.vears holore his tune. 1•A•oitr•I•1111 1 - 111110 ,I 1( 11l Ili, ..,11,011, ill 1111 1 , Itt%Iiig . and :ding it. ‘,litt't• gt,•atl3 M.-leased: bill, gentlemen, 1 HO p La..otte its possession, for it is not toursl - exclaimed the surveyor and :I (o- ' and lam sorry , 'ay I thought—o tin - e two pretty id - not C''.ollf.2 11l tor one i icd third part" I N't s. oent'imeoh • not' mortgaged , ltd - it- It 4 a pit) :" :Alia 1. " I tee, I see thirty-' 1 1111 l 111111 y -1-e1011!--terribie times, tipec . ttiation! si;e) mat boil demon no. lett the deett intptiut id it • hard hand open many a g,entlettain in the land bb properties gone a cloud—nothing to S'lk , 'N tor th,..4 - 1 - 1 hut t‘oithles•; - bonds' anal water-lot uon-eki-ient caws, and tho, honor of lin - ing some tdll..go battled alter 300, that is yet in its chrysalis Nut quite so bad as that, toy fr",e,nl!" said Mr. IVi;lattl, uniting. l hold a good legal title in lee simple. to these broad acres; they are not mortgaged in a legal sense, but ite%ertiwlesTs, they are dot mine; have lot its it I 1 1 :id a pre oirty in them. I am lint rho-[chard 01 atiotherl - I tunler-tand, sir: - said I. recollecting that Mr. -aid grac..!liiehtie)'tad family ' pi. p_l , Von tnaan that tiod has gd , eit }on 3 o too may your Leh:ow-num: and :nat. you Ina tiv-petis.• his uuuti ty ithout cue idcrmlg your-ca an o‘vtie,•. - 6` It •A ere Well said NA ' lllart!, soberly, "Jilt all ‘ll,O ',aye e;',.lth should think thin; but 0 It it., „'lt in that sviise thht I yibt now - I see, , rer.thAnun. that visa _are mouts, and as you are tit, ,region, m, ill nut, of eGtirr,e, re %vl,at I way tell you. 1 , hall grittily 'your curl -o,ity. neighbor., I ant not so communicative, though 1 bele•ve saute lit them Imagine many singu ,ar things, r mem ning the - 1 ale l'i.tortit, property, tliten 4 :l tome I.:low the 11 L 1,--ured Mr. IVlPard .1 our discreet silence, and ni.tli ;he moment this writing, that silence has heon Lep!, nor is it looke.s now, except by his n. • ...NI v t,. e6'r • ' euntomed host. "was lood ludic Isola,-,u lit the 1:1‘%, 11:1 early age began, or rather attempted tobegin. us pr.,ctice, in one al our cur's. But y card On and brought biro no elients. It t% as not that he minted character, skill, or tahmt—tint-that lie did not exert litomelf to sitered. thins Al% elle bad a m ife and two chit-, dren to support, and wti , , apparently, no more ult'l MO to du it tliau the day m. hen lie first wrote hinureil attorney-at-lacy.llotcuter, hu• nianaged to Ike, ;11111 . . that. too, lionc,tl)—mnrethan many ID Ili: position hate done. About this tube. Ii wi, accidently ell ed to wake the Will of a gentleman xv.ho,e own so licitor was absent from the city: the gentleman had inured lute-ell u hile maim* some experiment in clietniAry, to winch staenci he was pa,sionately I, ilex oted. Ile th , night hitns 'lf clN•ing: the gill yin, 21. 1 is df . - „., ___ unole. tondits contents cony' IciNl my father that his I some sense in shit tog alter li tininess . -1-; it , i, 2 first iespeetable client t as ; t least a - inan of wealth. ' now, let us ruin a rtsit ion, h m te•er e . n . y . nthl ' e ' . i . ii vl v . ils, property aas to he sit gidarly distributed dor of the minor path- of existence the thought, is al certam peouhar oublic pit poses, for he had not, as ways precut that it cannot ast. Age, with its it seemed, a relative or c timer-thin in the world weaknesses and ills, must cone: all our jit'vs 'lire :mown to him as such. \ 'bile he lay upon his sick evanescent. But suppose 11141111'8 cellar waS tilled, bed, he altered his null st.me dozen times as to I dle instead of Port, Madeira, Shelly and Champagne. dispositlon of hi. tin t - o et , and r, cour , e. the %yin aas with a lets puncheons of the }waitersof the rejuvel-- altered as often. Tbis urination brought my fa- ating -piing, then. indeed, tn.) might banish chilli Thor on loony occasions into his presence, and the cure. and s.ng the praises of thek W p flowing lidivl;—; 1 1 W stet: nod the leas , r, on clUser nequaintance, Perhaps there is such n ((Month . ho jcnoa sll i became excellent friends. In-tend of dying, the t.a- Perhaps, in these int entity lays, s unehod , , A l ' il-l-n,i i i.! tient got well, and res lined his chemical experi- cost the Elixir of lute, or d seoyer the Philosopher's; I I mmo- in.)(1) eagerly tie n eter. A year passe:tby. 1 -:.tone. It the motersal be i ,wf of nathms in I the 'ex- during a hell time t h e !Lex friends tit at least once i,1011,1 1 1(2111 ghost-, he an argument dolt they do exi-t, I l a au; k. and a 1 1.1;1 - ot:-ii t till WaS no ;. , seat intimacy us sdine would hate it. ash{ : t-. 1111111.1 o u t the India ()I ! —hot exactlt mutt ienti I, intetc mr-e, exce pt upon w i,e a n al l caiLe d me n i n tl 0 possible existe nce of ' motor- of Im-in,...3-,—yr t they felt for each other a I the s tone and the 11I12;11", I rgne us much i n their mutual c,t()) , iii. favor. The transmutation .If metal; seems to nie "finddenly my fat II is patron became very i quite ronsonahle: Chemists h (Ye, made dianiond , , and thoughtfol. Ile %%as al dent from the city weeks at I many other of their discos )1 es seem as astonishing a time, and on each real n seemed to be more retired to me as turning I( ad into gold. Both metals are al it on him- , )lf, as if / H , a wn coma - inn i ng. at W I hi s i heavy, both dense, hotlesolf all you have to do is (m it gt) at thooglit::. I e wasbury. t o o, in making to turn the lead yellow andi r stop Its oxidization, and preparations, settled up 11, affair-, and tinkered to pre-dol it-IS gold!" 1 I . be ;ii i mit to I, ave na a lo n , journey: hi 9 health. "Bravo!" sail Mr. Willa 101.1.10 I,lle. had on,-)roye I to 11a' hi g hest point 61' to Galion, nod boy ; 11 lead nil oN , ) , •11)).). ). At 1 -): : •11. -I,e day. he came ttr int •fa- "I hate 1).4 n ili.l.l;:to_ (tt' t'.o 1 ) ot;-) .. t.t3 I ,It or s , me httle c in'-atrus-t,tent. " 1:1:sir of ~ire,' said the -; i -•ii I: )Mr. Wilt 1I)1. I au til,,ii; to loate the country. my leettilect,on a singular )„ lo . : : .,,n e .-- 1 ),1))) sea r-• )t.tlia;) , never to i elfin), 1))1 a 1,1,1 i, it 'as erem l :ed to n I ro- 1 ,1 h. : , e ., ! , ~,e); t o nta J.: !tend , . 1 h:IVC hOal ea el) C..11:1. el e:, WIIII 11, .stt....; , );'a smith) nit 1 R parations ery carefully, and bop ,, , in I'd r. Viii.'-ard•s tall, cr ht ,I; g ,I),1 I ,tlin,), to tee ouch' Iwo: the blue tides of tone. I Lave beet) tr. 11)g Amelii a. There i- on' thing, howeve,, vetto be as is often the rain) as it! m dtme. in a iitC . a pin MU- a'..-Lnt rip:. and do it at Ocee, 111150 fort') nen it. hot I a t -10, altli ilt any introit -.maid() obj -ctious. tlr)ionde.l like a good bistoriam Iti ill f , ll as hat von ail! no do dJt.silliiv call ho le) ; and del- " When laas a Ind id 'donne id h , t•l m v: . year, ago—l li \ ell in a lilt: , . "AI:: fhther exres,-te 1 himzelf willinu to do any- cot-t id this state. My I , thing to oblige lion that aka lionorahletinad tio4lit poor—hut-they had noi air 'd ,, , anti his li ;end CC/HI:11111A : :-. oll lolllfle, With 1 _171.:11 1111 . 11( '•'\ . l..ry Well; 1 ask hothing inure. By these pa- son, that at: , could moron' pers; said Ite, prodnci ig a bundle, 'which I have a . summer time, the slime, ; ' mueureil to he dtawn ty a brother lawvir of yours, the creeks yielded us of null ha,!-properly tvithes-ed, acknottle,lged and . re- many kinds, for the troub corded, I hate conveyed to you, in fee t-iniple. all a good common-school cd my real estate, nod have also bar - trained, sold, as- fond of Itork, had contrit sinful, transferred, an I set ()tier unto you—as yon as much as most boys nt altv ers, as :111 ridiculous tautology, say—all my per- I things I had read, was nn sonal estate whatsott), ..r and a hosoever the same ((ire of Culundok; and it I) may be?l illations as hat had becom "Ai y father was dolt h with amazement, and lifter I in a keg and thrust n ore a litt•te reflection, ch iritahly, Coochnled ti it his i centre, a short acconnt of friend was insane, and endeavored humorously to ar- when he t• xpected iininedh me the lunatic into re ison. Bat the generous do- body ever found it? IVhi. nor saw w hat was pas-ing in his mind, nod assured Might I not find it? Wm him that he at a, net er more smious, sane and sober curiosity? How much sv in lii , life. , By accepting at once these deeds,' said Itoe for itl Bandon, then, he, 'complying with mv conditions, you will confer"dare say, the very dike is upon Weil great oblig,ittion; if you will not, I shall 1 as life," among his !ant I be sorry to lie obliged to Seek out some, person less ' were questions I nit 1 tisk , scrupulous, in, whom I shall have less confidence.' god in fishing, from my -1' "But at bat are the conditions?" asked my father. l on the beach. 1 mentiOl " 'These:—t hat y(:)11 shall, upon my do ?very to ; ('ring what followed, it i you of these deeds, bind yourself, by your path and 1 One morning, ns I was saered honor, to use all ordinary - diligence in improv- the tend-fiats, left bare SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 2g, 1848. -.._--: -1 - . lug and increasing this property, by fair, honorable we used to call long, clams, my heav l y, short-handled 1 and generous means=4-lit ing yourself, in the mean- hoe struck something harder than l usual, which I ! while, us becomes the possessor of a like property. haste:led to micovqr to the light. It was a small, f And if, at any time within sixty vears,ll shall, in wormenten wooden box, that looked as it it had Leen l person or by my legally anthorizemi representative, j buried many years.; " Some of Kidd's treasure," 1 demand my property again, yon shall deliver to me, thought I: Ma, on lifting it, I soon found-it was not I or to such representative, two-thirds of tt hat may heavy enough to contain gold or. sili,:er. Ihristeued,l then remain to you of 0, hat I now give you, togeth- with my prize, up ittnotig the bushe l s that skirted the' yr w i th ma-t hi r d s o f the increase t h ereo f, it a ny I beach, to be out of sight Of any accidental passenger,' there be. And you shall also pledge your honor and, 0 ith my hoe, )forced oil' the lid It contained n and solemnly swear, tlylk, at a proper time you shall, cake of what had been yellow bees s wnx, now of a by will;nive to your eldest Son all my property re- t dirty brown. "Nn doubt,7 . thought 1, ''the very mnining to you nt the period of your death, binding cake that Cplumbits threw overboard. But, then, hint, in the like manner as yourself, to deliver to his was placed in il keg! Neter mind, probably, in me, or to my representative, as I have said, two- time hurry un.l confusion of fla t ) storm, he forgot thirds of my property and two-thirds of its increase, whether it oas a beg or box, but I 'shall soon nscer if properly applia,l for ‘Nitlmmu sixty years, binding Min. - Taking tli) cake !tinder my larm, I ran hasti him alsoto bind Id s h e i r t o do the like, when he shall ly home, to show the prize to mit% filth/fr. t• Part ui be of a proper age to Hittite suck an agreement. I the cargo of some vreelted vesseVisa id he, on heat- - am well aware of all the ri=lcs and contingencies— in;, my story; "a very good mo i rtip i le,'s Work; it is et cry one Of )kern—that 1 run: 1)01 I take my chance Wit thy tu mit y cents a poninl." I l'lm ' ild Rijn u hat- I —will you accept my proposition?" had rcatkabout Colliminbto , ,nlol silgk •sted,, that this . "My father hesitated, a rglied, aliggested, oh- -might be the very cake. "Nana iiselti said lie. li.tcted, pondered, consideded and reconsidered, while "that was three lomdred venis ago; lid, besides, if fri e nd refused to alter in any respedt a lint lie I remember rightly, he did nom ilirew his-cake imo had arranged and finally ended by acceptirv:. The the -ea, but only prepared to do sit:'' Houeser, I required pledges were given, and my father became j fosi-ted so stronglY that the cake should be opened, the possessor of property wortls about an hundred that he conlented,ras-the wax Would not tie north thousand dollars. It is now.wortleanore l than tit ice' less on that account. In its Cf.'itrflae [Mind a piece that amount, fur sad have met with llosses in our 0 1 shed lead, about the size of an 1 ordinary letter, time, besides living at no meagre rate. The next I folded and soh - krt.(' together nt the edges,- On see day after the delivery of the deeds, the friend of my j ilt thi'• my fsthe'' was I,s astonisl ed and excited a - father bivie Lim aumrectionate I ireis, MI. It i+, now my': elf: with tremiling 10mi-a be s l eized it knife, and foi ty - tom ago, tail f rdni that ;l a) t o th i s , ire 1,„,,, fniced open the natal folds. Tlitiv! inclosed n piece miser bad tl,e sli g hte-t es ,ilence Itl liis exi•-teneo. of rarchmcmir, 4)11 which Au, pi intt4,l„ u ith n pee, in nor trace %shinier he depitrtcd. It V. as my I,lther's - ,50 1 ' lilack ii-trers, that :hi., m ei to rene lim c t1, 0 1, ;: ;- ) . lise mi te n t behet that he committed soleide )tune- 1.-411m-ta . tice el the -hum, nut to ,m I e as. di-titict on one' diately al - ter his gift, and that 1 .me tk - as 11,4 doubt real-; ,u!). :-.):- the other, these ,Nohl,: i '' Noah from t h e )mine, tine. although apparently iii I sis right mind-- l Mitre It••(‘4, ht. 41,•gici s; ea-4.1w,, mho:I-and twee , : I, I. Ipiwever h a i, ll l, i , i ya. irilittied t mt. lie would on e i„,e‘a-t fr-nn , the t--1! Indic. lice dei!loc-. ;midi: whine the day appear again. or no ward limn—though, it hi.- :.line4 cro", the—dig dm 0." All father tit's, i,Vor 'Jig id;ii, he iinold be hoar 11'11 , ly leurs id ago. 1 .11.. ; !3' d - al this discovery, nod enjoined um to the strict " When I Im.)caimie ci..!'litee , I mit eithe same P1e.1:4 - - ,e : -! silence en the t-tibitel. "It rs; no doubt," said es - to my father that he had giten td 11;-) friend, add ;• lie, -are' id ki.lit ., - plititiH rd . di.poilt—'ii 0 ' , hall b" of my son, it Win he teachiiil the:mine la riod of life, rich—bait 'mho ly Most Itipiv J. %%Old Of it—the di I required- the like. We fee!, qt-ri vet, mi-4 if v,, , ,0.cti,,, , arc %cr\ clear! -- - held our land- , and who).- p,is-essiqm in trust fir an- t t• The. Mitre RoCk, i. ( fill"- 1 1 , " m 11 cl "w llliA''' , 'sudi geoll"malh chat we' ' point= standit r lg out I meant Olen I said 'lt is not iniH)!' In - taut do I calico =Guth of thel exit-) reason that ht i, a thous old chances to one Si bether t;,ima i e on _ w h ic h I h a d I tut ever called upon to deliier up my trust—so ille iva, a tall, sleirp r• long, as I Icannot look titer my estate awl any it i= i from the shore, of the mine, I luso the greatest gratification that wealth ... a r omi d which th e • can gi,,,A. ' M au is ii liana-lo t ing animal, and the the 144 i. acme of love is selli-dv possession. _What we 10%e— , 11 • I avin,,, ,, proem be it. it fiend, a 1111StrOs.,, or a liandsOfin? C•t%te—wo • o , e d.. titdr • - „ , t ,i,,. ,do not like to shalt , : :Filch - iS 1111111011 illitilloL--We ' d ' ... • 0 . 1. , it - 1-L an d, , lIIII`A. mininctun'aesedlu own. One would thin!; that) ',, ° , - ',. 1 ,,': d * , - ;: 1 11 1 ,,,, I ' 1 a lease of land for nine hundred and ninety-nine l - s l , - , - ' t t - ,. ! h t , ii , -1,61 i t years, at a rppereorn rent. woold satisfy most men, tie ~..m:triv id o nd ' s . l , inn nine out of ten Would rather pay SuriWil"ng nnois, and as like c msiderable ler a warranty deed with full ci;venants• hillocks if time t i I min understand veryl well 'die feemings of the anti- - , „ my father conclu renters, my ester ' tmeiguours: the Wilts they pay I I . - ri t . whon ilk are almost nominal—they nor their children ii di "I ' l ' - - fur ourl a bors. ever be distorlictrin their possessions—the difficul ty is, they cannot env!, 'this is mine; and therefore I ' d eve" by daYj perceive US, r, i1 , 11 .! 1 do not fool free and independent of their fellow-men, as elod's creatures omielit.to feel.' Old as I ant 1, ti ",, su i r , e t s ; • he took forward to the Mirl of the term of sitar 'wars i we ' yr ; ° i w , ori , i Wit li 'inlaid mem), as 'die tdint V. heti I shall —nut 'lin'' , ' l lr. r h 7 1 :"'"i? "I t ii.ter‘eintig—bo alisollmtr lv vu-ted with my titles,— '-' ''' i ' u ' l l ' i n ‘il g r .',l I know the leeting i- looli•,11, nor should I. alte ! rthat "-,‘"' d '", 1 , 1 , 1 t a ;' - ',: time, con-)der Inv sell I tiny the less bound to deliver topped level. '`,-;,lti,ei'll' up p„ session of my right, if the real owner should sag eve we had to erect After we had exprei-sed our thanks for the curious tU - c) . 11 us. Mortiii piece of information )vhich our host had given us, and we had toun am l d oe l ar ed th a t w e should be quite willing le take welareu that we several fortunes Upon the same tetras, without fear had , lost out !abut of being distressed at! our Want of absolute oWlier attorm; it hit soon ship, the convensatinn . took a more general turn. I )tentCartiestly til t ob-erred, liu‘t ever, that the surveyor was soinowlint her of boards bat) ab-tracted, paying little. mtention to what pas sail. ~ , cm, ,i ,. )ou , tour The mit-mike he had jmit heaved seemed to have 1 :: , tii, tii he six Ii a wakened in hi s m in,. some memories that required . I . ,iiii . Icel. at the II ;dl his thoughts. Ilt and by - e we each took a hook'; with the limier pi in our Ilan Is, - and rt-i 'Ting into silence,, commtined found another of throu g h the pr in ted pi g e with the dead and the dis- others, precisely nut. The volunmi had taken up was "The Con-, snip, ii , .. , ..1 i wend,-y1 t.) quest of Florida, - is hick I opened at the chapter :, . , oat e been used' that spoke 4 the, l'''lßlr of the " l ' i s P n " i ' ll ' l "' nuikd to the side torers, that deep V. illmin some happy tiller of , that , aim, in the patel delightful flower-land, gnshed the sparkling crystal them lwo „ mu \ waters of the fountain of youth. That, indeed, ‘i as ' 1 pieces 0, ,. bottom , 01, sil -- -44 - and - - --- --- !it- worth seeking for. G u,. ,ver and pt . v(74ons %in. : all the trea,nres linatimetztn, a,l the ghiteling ,Al , - • riches of the Children of the Sun, IA hat werettle,e, coinnaiefl with the living :-trettin of the fountain of eternal youth, " What a pity, :%f r. said T, laying down the eliquiNit naffes, those daring Caballero: did not di-cover their That futit)(l, there %%mild he ),5111';'. (I,e in beiti rich, I) 0 N 1V A It n 2 •a, "you should emigrate me." H•hat you Qaid a i mut the 11.,e‘or. be i mirs to adze o‘N o. y .bly! haxo ;WI liy n hie!! ( 1 wk natiw: bro. . itt ro , :lnr.l to IkmeF, 1 iil toll yott my stbry: and, ln•p . in 1,, the Ilegioninn;: siNleen--Cont I,J, lilt - eel, e ,•,_.,,lnnt town,, on the part.ntA were 1)o r y vvry ‘ay, been so; and iL nay ill Cile - winter Fpa enough to eat; itnt, in tilt , ud watt, , r, (,1 the ba ., and heir abundance-, ii-11 ol cof cat ciiing them. I had ication, and, bring very ed, by burrowing, toread my age. Among other account of the first vn y. , as one of my boyish spec ! of the cake of wax, placed Oman), containing, in it, his voyage, Up to the time lute ,hipwreek I Had any in-e did it come ai.lune?— inldnt it be vnlimble as a i.mld the imusellin man give 1, was not known, but, I now to be seen, "as large thenue collection. These ice mysclf, as I was enga ka, or gathering ,hell-tish the fact, because, consid somewhat remarkable.— igging, near the water, in y the fallen tide, for what. ffZZIE=CIM3=9 MEI old :..liin's 'compass. we int- werin t ; th , ,, exact locality gieat dual'pf trJuido, ilit'Lli•U -.., U 1. , . at lt ,t, rixcil span a m. exctitbdl r. -, it %t , ,a lii. ~ I oult Imo:, con r,e beach ;' rep: tp l it loindrel otl er Attar wls had done thi••, delm.lurt her operations until would g ivt. tis sufficient light , f.tlu the place wub liale chi ne chance Itishertnan might l no ',orlon of nhowing nor , vt•ning, about bine a'dor'e, V.llll our expeetatirN and le,t rileh; we Inhorti I•,t. •w how our shoiels in all di ng rapidity, and btdure we do \Vele bl'hAV the tgirlound imorli becaine more dilly:II; ing, and place some boards ......, i.1 i „ , ,,,i1 Inlsw onitilla in gnu to Inge the eastern ~ , ky, ung; but, Ju-t US my lather I hate inistiilren the spot, and .tuck down his spade in sex • that felt (like wood. We i, and soon nocovercilla WWI - Si) Its to Make a illii, and cut ofrat the ends, g at, the bottom, tal.ering to it 14, :d'art! like the lettur A, t oil. OH initipg 1111,, wit awe rdiane: under that two liar, and la neatli theski 1%%u scouted, fioi t their shape; to enjoin.; 101 lon i e was a sleet he'two widel pieces id [wards, . we now ilk-Coveied, beneath We convinded that the' four rds had been placed at the top re,l al t tli-c ,ttor lEEE ITEM MIMI tw y led to moon '\ Itho 't t so ice ha -ato ir hi , %el 11 , oilir-ii qil 1 r iio, the I stagi b I Hutt ntub r, be 1 ethin )Utl" Wiled It Jet et lot ,art Cl dHi ish .., Nu .5 (II ,nunt, 1 hot Ira nal _o U ing t v‘.y (lithely sup y‘s, and the other te.o leaning (.1 the exeuvatio ported by the si when the %vere tour %you'd Lill inn arch., per we ?,.lupposed they supported, once fill the who'eexca‘ntion. Ich v‘e had now exposed, was by tout, with an nun ring to gh the centre of the slab, us zaruinst the fir:A, 111vay, initung the eartl t ) co% er thew, ; I 1 the pavement, a slab. about LW rai,e it by, and %%,.?. utterwards trbser 'ii, a Mll3ll.liole %%at: Mined ' about au inch MI than eter. l'ou may imagine the; I, paiolul, yet pleasing anxiety, ne felt, Its We paused,, I tor a few minntes, Infirm raising this stone. What were we to find beneath'? Perluips i a princely fur -1 tone:. perhaps e wecould imagine nothing else.— Neither my father nor myselt were superstitious; we did not belitlve that the det.il pr any of his angels acre detailed from II •il as special guards'iiver Cap= taut; Kiddy toot tl; I ut, standing there, in the gray i 0: the morning . , abut t to ll !louver what, perhaps, no A n had looked upon for a hundred ye:int—or, 'for aught we know, for u thousand—we felt tremulous. A t; m ig th we - ra i s ed the stone, and disclosed a flight of three or four I steps, lea& tig,to the th4r of the %milt. After waiting ;pi- a few minutes, to - permit the fresh air to miter, mil fall er lighted a lanieln and descen ded. I Was ab nit to follow him, when I heard him i,tter an exclamation of liorr. , r. and immediately, lie ru-lied up the steps overwriting me in his 11011, ;,, and extinguish' ng tis lantein. It teasSoule time before he reettv red his composure; hilt' he did, at ength, and diryle" , me to re light the lamp. " I was a tool to be so startled!" exclaimed he. "Ot 1 court it niu.st hay( been u dead b idyl—but so un expected! Come, - rt will try rtgt in: follow mei. - - t hi entering t 4 to alt, I -ate that it was a room about i.oght ItTt :qua eat d 11, many liii. On a sort of stone - conch, 01 one sil., 'ay Ow Maly of a Mail, Too -1 i0n1,..,; ,hut tprn (Till ly Lilt .. , -0 whose api ear neve 1 was as tae i sin:tied us my hither hadrwen. Ile tA il , cdruplt tely ilietsseth Ili- , eN C'i wide opus and iu-trous, Ins face 1... the Imo of health, mid his rigbt arm stretched ; I nit, with the haul Omni. a, ill to %lei c',lni• us. imined ittely, beneath[ his head: Oil the j door la\ ii Inolien ; h . tb. I Mt! hithlr , r, noha ae-perate coorage that made me shudder. al i tintinclted hint, and (melted the fa .e with his fingersi ‘• Cold," said he. "end hard as a stole:" Ile then struck the nand a ith a key that he took from his I pocket; the hand smug like ma dile. I "It is a :gam i er exclaitned he: ' tlion - St kingell' and he took out his handkerChieland threw ito;t2r ;he cold face, for there wa-tsdnWthing i i terrible in the 'glare of those eves I hat we cut Id neith• er of us bear t i look iii.on. Ile the side of the couch ails a little, to de, on which stood three or four hot• t le-, tilled with a colorless fluid, rind on every one Of them was a laliel; on which was cirit:ten. iniEnglish, LFrench and Lt tin, these words;—.•' M o rtal, 'white% e r I thou flit, that 6ntereA here. I conjure yon, in the ; mime of God. o imur•the contents of -one 'of these %lids betweeia•the lips of the body thou finilest here lying." Thil l label was also printed upon the to ur walls; in the same tongues—that is, English an I, as I afterwards learned, Latin and French. )With I In , request my father hastened to coMyly, hardly think lug What hetlid. • The gla-ts stopper of the vial rut mined, a pungent and not unpleasim.T odor diffnsed ' itself through the vault, but no effect folloWed from I pouring it into the mouth of - the body, or statue, -whichever it Might he.. After a time, my father made tlie samli o ge of d n other vial: hilt there the seeining man day stifrand stark as stone. l i We then (grin to seTh the vault: there were some dishes a d drink-ve J sels %% licit bore the marks If food.— So is few chrnibul instruments', two or three works . I I nicHt knov.' a'3-one 'with frifin tlitt—Anter, a I-in rt 1 11111 V tlit , barren sandy I • nand the box. 'l'h , • .rpne di-tance farther ‘estrria of the p i rmt. s swept cumingly up into on chemistry, a box, co in geld, on the top of n cOntents of which expla remember them, word times—and that, too, al 1 have been relating ta, the mind. This is the like the labels, in Lath • "'For hint wile shall .'vatilt, I write these lin ,1797 at midnight. Fr ' been devoted to cheini. pie fortune, I , have pe I the present line.. M science that pronit,ted My only might proluitg nv hi niches, or c%en to ad' ' t and thus to nd curse n.licl, :limits th and tenf. But my !a ho triciy on earthly i= ti disi - :.,vered any ins.;'..‘ moving and bleat:hug, weight of yrais.an.: it 11 , ,t I believe, I hone, I v.ay in which t'.o npu this century may after a thutisaud year one of in expo , x ith a nett - conibinati potver of suspending; lime. tin? hotly remain! hich ivatmntanet ',motions. I list ti 'Nit,• lain dead for let 1 1 ,ea11.11 and ti t l Cail:C to the deterinin may in the ntil I know it no-ism :lee ol ft;:lil moved. I thy catioeilthis vault to b troll, a lllStallre, n I.t) all , l C‘til meter ruimeil that by a sligi Ciii inyo , :if Icon , .Nature trill, in a few, of my reotom-plueo. came I receive that i and I hate buried in my liviu« tomb.; whiel tormer progre., of , tt ill be brought, toligh l tin! L.:a:reaching wate axiime the tomb it,clt in the llalllt' of tioil tt v} oily that I hsk—if Not vi ith If, Lt store me to life, I pra tt here it lies until all The ninney found wit di sent er IL And the wealth that it friei 1 throtmli his heirs, fu claim it, shall nano a per, continued the en et er warned ol the li mime—that I have tit hotteter, I coilhl tcl "\Vas it Isolmoteil ''Av! that %tits "G1)011 lied!/A/W the frien4oi mp lath iv hiug protein it. 01.14111.k/I - 41 - 114.0 /Lit store lai in?" 'Restore sn "NV hy, according to lying there thirty-thr if lits nwn uneilie!ne thing else u'•niLl. 1 had tahon had so elite that tiothiiilr so triy impret•sion thing valuable, cover audy li 1%: , found i p-rhap , . tho wtipisv his tomb iigr9 went of sCillice tvtll The discovery, Luke my father Gum thc, tl to self-respect, and al t•t) that he,now :Amid I the most wealthy an b t . F . l d es . gaye me a H The next day, we n! , reeabh2 ll‘‘litspered iu hi' e , ter you Calf silt', than ‘Vlteller he its ha ppie nut w- 3'0,1; ••••41, AN::coo - rul N nailial to snuff I 6,1. Ii nlipplyillg I i iy 1111. ill r. et, Many icia-on-; Ira Illg the imen l et of tit all II rtielo generally ; worthy of ittertiom dinacv man. On the eV(i ( . 11 the coil v. As rum' i the tweht t the eimil took 111, 11111 • box t) make of it: but quality emite - tit t %%Ten hi, finger and grill the finger, the difference \s.as no iovnetlottL: ,l , by way s one to a that an ahno-i n,-•antacil 'tile met depi ed it oh fl icions wore now col attemiht hail been mac hic dreat presence of none of the officers at snch a critical tir o pre‘ent a like nec Aitotin of his wais .V. o. o: .Ill:Tettiniy. 1\ EN TUC ik y.—The Qertioi , . el the (:ov lent), that the gradtt be serittn4ly n. , itate called to amend the av 4 .We are ver hear from v:ell infttr ttc the State. Ito,th ci ers, that the ry will meet with hi or removal the State, lie emiple A Nl:w licsiNLss. l in addition to (LISP world at the dwelt ;Rape of Tot ktes, now! for him to (10,1 of babies, at the yeti each, provided they In that event twent the town 1s healthy It is expected that I hi.; bran,,•li of bus infancy., THE HJ,tIII7HTY has wrilt i ln. "Not shed by ly order Mexican except in lor, on thO 30th rd; general 6om Math the •army, "I there, - ranted by the hostil give orders that all river should be hail, return, in case l tlieV be shot. i annex' a are supposed to hay I dollars I pt, the inining tiveatioilsatl( sick lay a tnanuscrl fled the whole inyst , r• word, for I read tht•t an ago wh6i such cal er).- 1 I to inn n V ents a s de a lasting impressul II Upon way it ri?ad, being , French and 'Men. of thi; re .cur I ve nu.um rupto penetrate the beerels , s, on the lust day of lon my earliest youth al studies, and having sued thew with ardo lin thought it was a ( love of ne—they were MI:. i ildit'll.— di,cover a means wh4rehy I to the age of the old pa tri ev ean earthly Immortality, and my- fellow•inen r of the years of, men to litre score has been in vain—i nntor lently impussibie: nor tave 1 • whiek,a mail may co itinue and still bid iletiquee to the e M3yond his allotted period. am sure that 1 bate robin! a ai who lives and bieathes in !nave and tireutile upon 'clad], 1 l cli hull have elas i , i 1 alter his intents, I i becalm:. ;legit tinted s o sof think which liti ( s the lite no 'indefinite leokth of . ~,,r, incorruptible, and.an4her usly 1 estm es. to life the-deep tried it upon ahllllill,—they ' rs;,l have r,-lured them to eir natural age hail ex tired. ration to try it u p.m it.:,zell; 1 f.i.opt Init.l still die iii a gINIt Id he mele,s to cu.! 1;1 the W-Illell until my tiicory it... I .iolted o attcmp: it alone. I Imilt I , by woil:men brought at, e WI '•lrrect tdvit (1 it,, pur 'eh ay me, and I havo ,o ar t eversion (.1 lii strength, I Lite' ti,„l:t of own forever.— v. e,1; , ,, c ,e, . op eye, y trace I hate t hoson this coast he n. gradmoilly 'wearing at% ay, rie:,ami, (E.ectimis for timlimi, tI hate calcilated from the he a Itance gil the.' wave , , • - t 111 10011 t. fifty year-: if not, l i s nim,t eventually reach and and I trust that called to act ill do Fur a fellow-mortal the mt, ina, the cents id tho dead teeter, the liquid fad , to le y that my body may lee lett grates give op their dead. - - i this 1 give to him tilt° :-.hall •my directions. If I ret tee, od holds for toe, And will hold, et er, to be restored when I opi'y reward hint.' 'llll, pii"- •Ve)or, emit a tiled all IA e have is tut y a that man, except his iw forgotten, it was German, 1 if I heard it." eNclaimeil NVC;lard. :zitne, - said surveyor. •othicrliil! it was the name of r—Lte4, circumstances, eve rlA a. imleett he"! four tins 'you ;ake au means else to re- d 'the surveyor, laughint.r.— Os ow•n net:mint, he had been e years. No. we, did not try; wild not brim , him to life, no the chemical lluid he tunny per ritied :1111 embalmed liar than a stone chi-el could I No, sir, we teinii‘ed evtry lil up the , vault, and loft it es-, llionie two hundred years. Incroaeliment of the sea Will' n, ahem ina he the athanre ,riiig him once inor.i , to liic. erl did oue good flou:, it rifled ,T !pi of poverty, ro,tor,ed him Idd srenii . tli to his exertions, I , at ati,tithaneeil mze, among I resi.eeted a his country ; it, 10,1 education." unit leave of Mr. Willard and and as I parted with my host. r, -1 40!, my dear sir, boreal. to 01111 % isit, tit is all miner " r it bein , rab'e so to say I kll w• tit of the' Tialcs. vot.p.o.N.—Nxpoloon was co o uced it to ext T-s, id general gurN from his ‘Vai.coat pock t. been tv=,i.2 - tieil for Ilia adopt- wai,"cont as a ,nl) , titote for red, and the f,11 1 ,0%%ing is one s an anvetlote 'of that uxtraur- intik of Wat(;rlon, as Napol i his tent upon ‘‘liat might he et about, to - be emilukenaed, • tha table, and proceeded to so familiar was he ‘Cith the that a:: he took Ow pinch he the tlonnb, he perceived it felt leling as naval, tho' vi-ihle to the e;e. of tirviwz its genuinenes , . gave iN tog in the teat. It had Is effect on the animal, and-In eNisteace. Rinapaite's suN fininei, he saw plainly, that an e to poi,on hint, but teas wind that he took care to let (proposing his stafrlkaw oh it le—his only precan - tion being urenee taking place—the soh oat pocket fur hi a auu. £ blox. .exiii2Ann ./ttns dein - J. , . the nF- Lmelter mid the D,1% too 13M. I etwineipation ot t-' , :avery tall trp the Convention recently in that State: troin what vt e 9e I per.mts from every eectinn teJtnlders and nom-sht ve-lmtd of , rradual nboliticin of Slave few supporter:, enlon the einaiicipated shows from 'with it." A butcher in Nev. ton. Mas sing the Bond things of this . lig of the inhabitants, in the lhieltens, &c , ., as it i 7 as recently added the weighing • reasonable price of fotirpeitce o not weigh ot,er t wel% e pounds. '-tit e cents-is demanded. As to usually receives lit , opiarter. large income will accrue front ine-s, although it is yet in its F :rim 'hum; ,—(;oneral Taylor drop of Ainerican blood was w hit e i n '.llesico, nor that of a Ihe heat of 'battle." Goo. Tay y, 1846, wrote to the adjutant oMs, that, to stop desertion from Ire deemed it my duty, and war t e attitude of the Mexicans, to men seem swimming, across the d hy our pickets mad ordered to did not return, that they would description of two soldiers v. ho • Peen shot under this order." 2 To rrilonor 'of San ALntoniO, l'nna ,A l e ...Yew Ortruns Dclt4 "A tarli.!'ee Ih treader, thrigh the mut I e made of Some of the sevreset n 11110.101) m;'il.l scrtitable Providence at times visits b! the effect of calking into action thp oilr nature—the in t esattcd virtues' the mind of non endowed. Seti, h I Charity opened the wide portals of granaries in this country to, feed the [ bons in Ireland when as sailed by f.t: and how freely—how liberally She I bounty while regretting thl cause ilia ' ferin , r micessl - • .)• !' When an ep,,lepric visits Mir wn city, end the destroying vntod pa-ses rapidly frrirb street to steet, an d f r om du 'to duelling. what an more pie ' rate our species la tint eyes ot the . 0 4 an I the good than the uncoasintr turd sleepless etihr s of •litlrjvo societies end individuals ninon •• us? The stranger anti the pour are the sped I •objects of lh it soinntrese----those they seek out in their obscure dweil;ngs. nut raking the r st nd between thrn and the priobence, ica•A• no untried that humanity and medical Can de‘ise to defeat it. The Me‘.cao war, too, chile it necessarily led to the de:trier ion,of in'ory ‘ainable lives—to pub lic injury and private sut&ri,:g—how much that was ',able in nature did it exlitbill lloW much that was virtuous in feeling an , l Lencrous lin soul? Much, Innen nu ct than \t - ”court hic the present rapid sketch even glance at Me instance however, may serve iilie-irnt • the troth t I the p ist;ulatri with which ue ironhu.cerl. triat -Le trill pror•fied to narrate, a‘ootirl , all artompts nt eib'et elaboration, to mluige ut olllH/ e ate t6ruiditeil l 'l:;; our proscribed silts ITtier , ‘ came it to 1111-Clty tile month or 1\ %%I'J b..'" ]3-1. Z:11 10 Cie capacity itf a wa iver t i ii -entire of ili' t':utcd States. lie ua ironi the interior of Netitutli, he had catered on his 1,013 agreeing -to fill it fur a:t l u - (u of :Ix in nth-or I,•i t_r.lti:-.llans were gray, .11k r i e,k: , mre even trout ..orrw t biolo.ol time, too, had left* it-. trac_-, up in I,lln. I,• intelligent—evident lv tin-tilted by pre.. toms habits for 11M .o,ation,whicb, t !t:it..tit-e, he had assumed. la \ ihg to repot t IL—, i n thi s eity, h..fore eorhar Hug f 0:1 0 that gentleman ‘‘a , e , nod viii re.s-rctable though Cflt3'W,,re appem , itie ,, .. "tjti,•.iioned him Ow tort of Itii life" wikich he brietiv'trild, and tvbirh Ue shall still more hritily repeat. lie ea- bred a I hysician; married w h o ,. voting , o ne x%t, lei lover and by ‘vhum he beloved, ant sett county, - Ky. An ,son was the only fruit of th t marriage—the only 'pledge of that mutual lot ell Pollowin,g the bent of l a wayward inclination,l:lie emigrated to , while coontry vas vet a pi-mince of Lei.° iti, ople proclaimed their in dependence. '.(hough young, he j played a daring it' not a consp.crion- part or thj early struggles of the colookts to sieltarri tb it frtetiorn, and was made prisoner by The,'W:yiny,,in one of the earliest battles —that of San Al,ttetio de 13...ixar, We believe. He uas carin: t i ill a captive to the City of Mexico, titre aitillifred in a doorroom and finally sentenced to cork a' a prisoner for lilLe in rumor the Mexican mines. The kmmledire of hio melancholy fate was too notch It r his motkr. it preyed upon her mind, and through her mind, triton a, constitution not na tura by 'robust. She - pined in grief for her only . child—she sickened—she riled. The father, ,finding thus bereft of his household gods—the, brancliesof bib homestead lopped off, like at blasted tree on a desert heath, neglected his profession—at times he resorted to the bout as a tempory,assuager of his griefs, anti finally became a burtlien on his hospitab,;e neighbor's, who knew him in his better days. 'When our ri my had entered Mexico—before even it reached the capital—his captive son was enabled to it rite Inin a b iter telling bun that for a ransom of six !omitted doll:its could secure his liberty. How ,or it Imre. the old ruin tt as to get the six hun dred rlidlars under Heat en he knew not, but like Maj. Miller, u hen a-ked it he-thought he could cap ture a celtain bvtiery of the enemy, l i te would try! As a fir -t -tip, then, in the accompli4liment of an enterprise so dear to him. he' enlisted or registered himself as a United l-:tatates teamster for the term of siY. months, Cant. having lien.rd his touching but truthful ,story, at onec i. t ihel force of that strong parental affection which of biz I nge prompted him to undertake - ,nch a taf.k, and under, too, such unpro pitious auspices. lie rather felt inclined to inspire him with hopes of succes4; and with this view, promoted him to - the rank of wagon-master. This gave him an inclea , e of pay and a position a little, at lea , t, core st,ited to his yetarS and his former, condition of life. In good time, having expressed' hi , gratitude tuj Cap% for his sympathy and kin lites - -;. lie cei. out for Mexico. invested with his nett command. lie Iluded at Vera Cruz,,proceeded tip \\ ill' one of the train Q; and reached Mexico with out an ucciden i l suhj-cting himself to a - reprimand. BY thi , tin) , his story became known to General F . cf the Ameriftan army, who interested himself iu hi , behalf. Ile also enliststed in the old. man's fivor the, sympathies of hit influential Mexi can t;etteral. and through the mtitual effortend ex ertions of both on the payment of three hundred donnr-i—one lull less th l an the sum originally stip iiot il fer—th , rri , on dnort- of theprisoner of Sqn Antonio den' - `‘ar, a tier twelve years captivity, wore m thri n opt l n, and the first use he tnade•of his liber ty was tit tusk to the arms of his devoted father. . About three months nog-, the father and son pass ed t i hrought this city. They called on Capt.B—.' Tie old 111 , HI, 1; ititt,lirs in log eyes. thanked him for Iris kindne , si'the son expressed his obligations, and both left ti.r their krone in the west on the next:boat. No laptell,ed Gemnal left Mexico a happier man than the loth& poi. None felt he had achieved a greater triuttioli than the son. They are living in the tit- Ingo ii her( that .son was born—the father has re sumed his profession and lives happy in the respect of his neie - hbors and the love of his rescued eon.— The latter fits raised a marble slab at the head of his mother's ;cocci in the t i•liage church yardon which, lin a :-It;gic .•titpnce. is carved a - son's .atl'ection. 134t - N's Tri,r.iin.Arn.-- T The New Y. l'ou}ier e , :))::wi , the dill renee, between these twet at nt ;=() I r rap;ility of opEratton is concern conow,:— tor,e's Telegraph (or anv other except Bain'S) can only'trammit matter as fast as one person can %%rite it, became only one operator can work at a time. Ott plan the matter is prepared be forchatl;,iind then Wound upon cylendar, when it to be triinsinitted„ the cylemfer is turned and this can bo &Me with alintet any degree of despatch; for ex-mple, in transmitting the President's message by Morse's ry stein, it call only be done as fa s t as 000 rite it. On Bain s' system, the message:, can be cot into one or It% o bundled parts and put in to the ha IJ< 14 . many Merl. It can thus be made ready, wound upon the cylender and wound off again, al imst instantly. Tbis is the theory of the in,t,tru went: hhethcr it will be fully sustained by practical result-s:remains to be seen."• Bralss•:0:4-We - ssed are they that arc blind;—for thou slutß see no ghosts. Blessed are. they, that a e dear; for they never, need lend money, nor ii-terl 1, , tedious stories. Blessed are they that :Ire afraid of thtmder;—for they shall htisonte about getting married s and keep nwnv from plitical tneetinas. Blessed are they that are lean; for there is a chance ! !10 grow fat. Blessed at. , they that are ignorant; for they ere happy in t; .d ing that they know everything. Blessed i that is ugly in form and feature, for the girls sl. it mol - est tote. Blessed is!sbe that would get married, but can't er the enst)lations of the ge:lpel,arc hern.l II a Bas Ir. MOE wbich an in- I nn - amity have 'nest traits of with which Av beneficent 'Cr well-filled starving mil lint Famine: gave of her made the of-