.dlommimm
n. I' • 81.0 . A NLUditor.
VOLUME 21.
tEiie Nem.
B. F. SLOAN, EDITOR.
OFFICE, CORNER STATE ST. AND PUBLIC
SQUARE, ERIE. ,
TER3IS OF Tin: PAPER
'pry subscribers by the Carrier. at 82.011
D) mail, or at tire office. in :mance, 1.30
Lrlf not r. id in advance, or within three months from the Mae
ohub•cnburg, trio dollars will be charged.
rrAll communications mast be post paid.
RATES OF 'ADVERTISINGy
('aril= not exceeding 1 lines, one year. $3,06
One :Amite GI ti MOO
In. do. six months, 6,09
do. do. three months, - 3,00
Thati,ient id % erti.enienis, 50 cents per tiquere. or (Mem' linen or
1..4.. for the firer insertion; 25 cents for each stihsequent insertion.
ji'Veatly ad% either:. have the privilege of changing at pleasure,
t,,,. al Ito time are allowed to occupy runic than two i.quares, audio
Cr iiiiiitrd in their tramediats-Inteiness.
Adt erti , einents tint haviiir, other directions, will Le inserted till
0 .-rind and charged accordingly; . i
2usviNt[s.ss LooPa.gQlronv,
GALEN B. KEENE.
I:. ai hion c lde Tnilor, belli een the Reed Howe and Brown'a ITotel,
o stairs. Ut/I"FING done on ehort notice.
-
OLIVER. EPAFFORD.
Bookseller and Stationer, and Manufacturer of Blank Books and
Writing Ink. corner of the Diamond and Stith street.
1 J. W. DOUGLASS.
-
Arronacr A g D'COUN,P.LIA)Vt AT
dooro north of browns Hotel. Erie. •
C01111"ION & HAfEItBTICK.
pen Its in Dry Hood', Hardware, Crotkery, Groceriei., And For
eign and lionicsiic Liquorc, Dim Merv, and 31antifaciiirers of
Salcrattio, No. S, Reed Holli.e, and corner or French and I'cnn
Siicets, Crie. ra.
W. H. CUTLER,
Attorney Ss enumodler rif Law. (Office No. 2, Eric Ural, corner
o( %sato & Lloyd week., Huilnlo, N. V.,
Colllvting and commercial hummers null receive prompt nitenion.
RFYLRKMCFP.-11. P. I )17R1.1N, Eig.,I3NNJANIV GRAFT, 'Esq.
1: - BT NLCKLIN.
SrrciAr. and general Agency and Commission businesF, Frank
lin, Pa.
•
RUFUS REED,
De►RIR in llngllt.b. Gemini) mil American Ilardwnretind Cutlery,
Also. NallF, AttvilF, V te(^4. Iron rind steel N 0.3 need llount
Erie. Va.
W. J. F. I,IIIuLE Sr. Co
U' Acirsortur. enri, jraae ant! IVngou Iluildcre, State Street. he
tweeu seventh &.: Eiglull. Erie.
,
L. STItONG. Ali - D. .
Outer. 01/C Door west of C. 13.1Vrigtu's score. up stairs. . ,
DOCT:J.C. - STENVKItT:
Orrtes with Poet. A'. th:Enp, Seventh near liap , ,afras street. .Ites
sidence. on,Sassafra4, one door north of Seventh FL.
Mil=
Wnoissit,:an.l Remit dealer in Groceries. Provisions. Wines,
Lopior+. be Corner of French and Pit* etrceLs,
opposiie the Farmers' lino% ❑r,e.
Isr •
JOH McCANN. •
p'mrten.r and Retail Dealer in Family Groceries. Crockery.
Elitism are. Iron, &c., Nn. 9. Fleming Mel:, Erie, Pn,
fqt - Tlic Itigiu. i price paid for Country Prattler...al
. GOA DING. . .
/I/CR(11 , 0 41 TAROT:. rind Habit 31riker.—: 4 tarc.Nci.512. - frd'er Mock,
(oppossitc the Hocken Block) cltrite street, Erie.
J. W. %VETNIORE,
r 7' 0 R l'ATLew,
In Wallitl'is (Afire, on So. coil] litrcct, Erie, Pa
HENRY CADIVELL.
InrunTra.Jolthei, and Retail Dealer in Dry Coeds. I (lms:cries,
e rrc iery, Clan are. Carpeting. Drirdwate, Iron, RM. Nana,
spdas, tie. Empire Stores eltate Ftrm et, fuur doors, ITlow
rflrovrtdsliorrl„ Erie, i:o.
dr, V IeCR, /14.1i0W v. Asp .%rnts, Springs, and a general
ast-ortinlmt of Saddle and Carriage Trimmings_
S. MERITi SNIIIII.
ATtmaxtv AT LAW and Jth.liee of the e , Peace, and .Agent for
the Key Stone Mutual laic Insurance Company—Utile,: 3 doors
west of tVrig*dti <MT, Eric, Va.
IN. 11,. IiNOW TON & SON.
DEAtm. In Watelivii Cloe, Looldrig Clai,icie, Piano Fortes
Laintei, ftritsonia t ' Var ewelry, and a eheiety of &Vier Fancy
Articles, Keyetoile Utiiklings, four doors. below Ilruwn llotel,
Stay! tiireet, Erie, Pa.
I' GEORGE H. CUTLEIt,
Arroaxer Al - LA", Girard, Erie Colllllr. Pa. rolfeetions and
other hopint," atiendeil to vi itli proiolitne.." and
WILSON LAIRD
kr , ORNLY er LAW—Office overt:. 11. WriAlit's Store, wiilt Mut
oi) Whallon, opposite iln• Court [route.
Collecting a wiotherricoremslorial buisuez4 a Ilended Jo rl Itliprompt
And dispute It.
I.IIIOWN'S 11.0FEL,
FOR 'I KRIM me comer orState street and the Public squary
Erie. Eastern We tern and Southern stage office.
B. A. CitAIN
WrinrriAt.e and Petal' dealer in ttriveries, Provkiong:Wine..
Litmilt. Ciente, Natio, Detroit Ale, llutt.cuit, Craikerit, &c. dcci
, Erie, In.
'l'. \V. MOORE, .
DEALER in Groceries. Prot 61011!, Wines. Liquor•, Candies, Fruit,
No i, I! or People's Row, state street,
- J9SIAII KELLOGG.
Forwarding & Conlin Itlerchant, on the Public Doek, cast of
•:_ttatc turuct.
Coal, Salt, PlatAcr and conqtantly for, sale. •
V11.1.1/o%is - .
ein
flanker and Malan , I:ruher. 1),,inl in 11111 s of Etch:lnge,
Mans, cerlincant.of liel:e.qw,C , ol and,iher Goin. &C.. do..
Oflice,4 doora l l,elow Lynn n's MM. Ern., Pa.
__________.
BENJAMIN F. DENNISON. '
Aril/114LT AT LAW, Cleveland, oA, Superior Wee!,
in Atwater's Mock: Refer to Cpler JnAme Farktr; Conti - o'o2e
Law: 4 (.llml; Hots. Richard Fletcher, to etale wt., lio , ton;
Ramp., 11. Porkies. Walssut st. - .l'lllla.lrlphin; Rie Until 11.
Ksq., 33 Waltstleet, New York. For testitnoniuls, re.
Pr to this rare.
MARSHALL & VINCENT,
Arromme AT LAW—Office up mutts inVanunany [tall building,
north of me Prothonotary's Once. Eric.
MtlltltAY W[IALLON,
ATTORNEY •VtICOVNIULLOR AT 1•AIV--OITICC OTC, C. 11. Wright's
Store, entrance one door wc,,t of State street, on the Diamond.
I.' ROSENZ
- -
Wnni.ISALE AND NtrrAii. DEAcrits , In Forleign mid Domestic Dry
Goods, ready mane Clothing, Hoots mid Shoes, &c., No. 1, Flem
ing Block, litatentrett. Erie.
_
C. 111. lIBBALS,
ileAtt it in Dry COOll4. Dry Groceries, Crockery, tirtrdware. ace..
NO. 111, Clicapside. Erie.
(511,1 -- it S - 51i: uf.
DeArrit intlroceriu nntl rrosh•lons of all hinds, Stote !met, three
doors north of the Diamond, Erie.
111 4 11 JACKSON,
De*trn in Dry Goods, tiroceriem, II r Iwnre, Queens Ware, Lime,
Iron, Nails, Erie, Pn. •
WILLIAMRIBLET.
CauiNtr MAKE* Uptiol.ter, and Undertaker, corner of State and
Seventh street.. Erie.
KELSO & LOOMIS,
Gamr!NA t. Forwarding, Produce and Connideam Merchants; dealers
In coarse and fine %alt. Coal, Plaster, Shingles, Public. dock,
Weal side of Hie bridge, Erie.
EDWIN J. K FM;
WALKEK & 'OOK
OIXIMAL Forwarding, Coiandwjan and Prodiwe Merehants;See
oud Waituhotweeabt of the l'uldie Bridge, Erie.
G. LOOMIS - & Co
Nissan In Winehe% Jewelry, Vilver, German Silver Plated and
fititannla Ware Cutlery , Military and fancy Guodskkl tate street,
neitly oppatite the Ihl6le llotel.,Etie
G. Loomis.
CARTER. , kiturliEß,
WOOLF:MIX and Retail dealers in Mug., Meillemer , „ Paints, Otte,
Dye-stun - it, Gltuta, Sze., No. 6, Reed House. Erie.
•
JOEL 30111180 N,
briar,' in Theological, Mii , cellanecaii., &undo) , and Classical
School RaokN, Stationary, ice. Park Row, Erie.
JAMES LYTLE.
FaxnurssaLF :ITerchaut Tailor, on the public square, a few doors
west of State street. rate. -
-
D. 8. CLARK,
Wirotrsttr. AND RETAIL Dealer in - Giocerits, Ship
Chandlery. Stone-ware, &c. &e. - . No. s.llonnell Block. Erie.
ETORD
Bealer In Lao•, Medical, schuoi Miscellaneous Books stationary,
Ink, ike.' State pl., lour doors below the Public square.
DR . . D. L ELLIOTT.
Resident Realist; Office and dwelling in the Beebe Bloc k, on the
• East side of the Public Square, Eric. Teeth Inserted on Cold
0 31 r, front one to au entire sett. Carious teeth filled with pure
Cold, and restored to health and Teeth cleaned
with in.trOtnenis and Dentifiee so as to leaye Mans of a pellucid
clearness, All n wit warranted.
a. I)ICKERSON,
PIIYIICIAN AND StilOFON--OSICC Zit his residence on Seventh street,
oppoite the Methodibt Church. Erie.
AMIN H. BURTON,
WsoLesata •win D LTA IL der der In Drugs, Medicines, Dye Stutrs,
Wuecries, ece. No. S. Reed Douse, Erie. • •
ROBERT S. HUNTER,
NALL' in Hots. Caps and Pars of all description/. No. 10, Park
Row .Erie. pa.
TIER WANTF:D.--300 firkins good Dairy Dialer wanted
in exchange for Cabh or Goode. J. 0. FULLERTON.
ARGE lot Of lionnetv,lthit received per Espress by
June I. J. II FILTILLERTON
•43i0 I
0 0 Y n tr i IJ up S
ti r y ll, , lNT ELI CALICOES at dell per yd
J. 11. FULLER7UN.
•
TATES a good atrorttneat at the Hardware eziote.
AVV.EI3 REED.
.
- - '''
--':, - ' *4 •17: - !''' --• •"7 ""t . f i ... fa ..1 • ,4. -, ..
. •
~ .-: v 0 A:' , ~.. , . • 74 ., .;:' ^ ,;';': t: ~ ~ ... 1 . ‘l' r • • ,:r:: ,' . ''
;',' ';' ~' v" ' '', ,I',l i ; 11 r ; '''
:"; '", •
.1" -';
i f .Z. 1 - - .
",:
r , • .A . ,. • .;..t .• t : - -.. ' ..- : ;r•-- . :`r , •`'.
. •,... , ;:' `.. . I
•-•._, . . -. .
' `' • ' I - 1:e A ' -'• : . .' •:` , . •-• ' . ,;.; . ••0..:., " • 2 ; . 1 •-`. `' • .`, •:I.` ' - :• i ` .`„. it ••'' • . ..: . ;
,• :. , `-. !.• .1 . •
.:1 ' ' 4.- • . "T ,
•••'-' ••, •- - ~ ;5; :-,,,,' 4 :••••,. - .
... , t• , t ,;. !
..:,.., _ . .. . .„
..- ..,:.-. ,- . '-• 4 - ;.;' 2 , 1 4 ... 'i , - • ,
... .
• .
. . . , . .
tyro:tee}
W W. Loomis
T. M: AI aTI•
pnetrq
Wlrts
lIT 11/16 - .IIIR Alt T. DOLT ON
lx CCENE IN A PALACE.
Over the moorland the wind ahrieketh driartlpi
lee-Jewelli glitter on heather and thorn;
Pale in the curt -light that flashis out thfUlly.
'Over a dome wh,:in infant is Lora.
Fold shkeitroheS round the little one carefully;
Lay hint to rest on his pillow of donut
Watch o'er the sleep of that scion of royalty,.
Dorn to inherit a sceptre and crown.
. -
Shut out the that tim room may be shadowy;
Fiala althea alumina around the proud bea;
Ladiea in waiting step voitly and sitentlit
Let not a word in a whisper be
Joy in the palaces lighted so brilliantly, • .1
Beauty and tFaVery are revelling tittle;
.
Wine in thf!Jewel-w•buglit goblets foams daintily -7
All things proclaim that the king has an heir.
Joy in (he i;:illages—churcli bells ring inertly—
. Rockets ate lighting the sky with their glare—
Bonfires are crackling, cannons am thundering,
!children are shouting, long life to the heir.
Down-trodden millions, go join in the revelry—
Go, in despite or the fetters you wear—.
Vassals and beggars and paupers right joyfully
- Flutter your tatters, the throne has en heir.
130EN.14 - 3 IN A HOVEL
Over the moorland the will wind wails mournfully,!
Ice Jewels glitter on heather and thorn— ,
Pale la the sunlight that trembles otitlittully,
Over a but where an infant is born.
None heeds hie waiting, although it sounds pititui,
Nt ne shields hie form from the wind, enld and wild;
Heir to,privation, scorn, misery and poverty, '
Lark is thy .. pathway beforethee, poor child.
Child, with the spirit (olive through eternity,
Burn to the yoke of the tt rant art thott;•
(Even the bread that is dealt to thee scantily,
Thrice must be earned by the sweat of thy brow
Cold is the hovel, the hearth-stone is emberless—
P Creaks the old door as it moves to and trot
O'er the poor bed,-where the mother lies si4vering.
Busily nutters the white-lingered snow.
Pale id the cheek of the ialielait sufferer.
Passing from govert)'s vale te the grave;
Better liptar had she died in her infancy, -
Ere to the millions she added a slave.
Yes, the is par, and her voice sounds huskily;
Begging in vain for a Meisel of bread;
flush! It is over, her heart slumbers silently;
Grim famine biande by the ;We mother dead.
The Volunteer Counsel.
A TA LE ot'7dllY TAirtnil
[WE copy the following from the New York Suin
day Times. The subject• of it, John Taylor, was
licensed, when a youth of twenty-one, , to practice
at. the bar of Philadelphia. ..He was poor but well
educated, and possessed extraordinary, genius.' The
graces of his perso6„ - ,combitied with the superiority
of his intellect,. enabled hitn to. win tile hand of
fashionable beauty. Twelve :months ofterwarde
the husband was employed by a, wea,ltlty'firin of the
city tit go on a mission as larubogent to the west,.
As a heavy salary was offered, Taylor bade farewell
to his n ifs and infant son. Ho wrote back every
week, but received not a line in answer. Six months
elapsed, when the husband received a letter - from
his employers that explained all. Shortly after his
departure fur the west, the wife and her father re
moved to Mississippi. There she immediately eb-!
tained o di%orce by en Let of the Legislature, mar
ried
again furthwith, and, to complete the climax of
cruelty and wrong, had the nu eof T aylor's
son
changed to Mark--that of he second matrimonial
partner!! The perfidy nearly drove Taylor insane.
His ceireer, , from that period, became eccentric in
the last degree; sometimes he preached,. sometimes I
he plead at the bar; until, at last, a fever carried
him off at a comparatively early age.)
At,an early hour, the 9th of April,lB4o, the court
house in Clarkesville . , Texas, was crowded to over'.
flowing.. Save in the war-times 'past, there had
never been witnessed such a gathering in Red Riv
er county, while the strong feeling, apparent on ev
ery flushed face throughout the assembly, betokeried
some great oceasion, A concise Iterative of facts
will sufileiently explain•the matter.
About the close of 1839, George Hophins, one the
wealthiest planters and moat influential men of
- Nottliern Texas, offered a gross insult to Mary El
listen, the young and beautiful wife of his chief
everseer. The husband threatened to chastise him
for the outrage, whereupon Hopkins loaded his gun,
went to n1;00011'8 house, and shot him in his own
door. The murderer was arrested, and bailed to
answer the charge:. This occurrence produced in
tense excitement; and Hopkins, in order to turn the
tide Of. popular opinion,. or of least to Mitigate the
general wrath, which •qt first was violent against
him, circulated tepotts infame,uslY prejudice) to the
character of the Woman who had already suffered
such cruel wrong at .his hands. She brought her
suit for slander. And thus two cause,, one criini
nal, and the other civil. rind both Out of-the same
tragedy, were pending in the April l 'ircuit Court for
1840. . ',.. .
, The interest. naturally felt by, the eamtnuriity as
to the Issues became fat deeper when it .was known
that Ashley and Pike of Arkansas, and, themelebra.
ted S. S. Print* of New Orleans, each with enor
mous fees, had been retained by Hopkins for his de
fence.
The trial, on the indictment fOr murder, ended on
the Bib uf April, with the aCquital, uf Hopkins.—
iEluch a result might well have been foreseen, by
comparing the talents of the . couroel engaged on
either aide, The Texan lawyerdwere utterly over
whelmed by the argument, and eloquence;of, their
opponents. It was a fight of dwarfs againin giants.
The slander suit Was' set for the . flth, and the
throng of spectators grew in numbers as Well as ot.i
citement;' and whatmay teem. strange, the current
"of public sentiment newton :decidedly for Hopkins.
Ills money had procured pointed witneu, who serv
ed most efficiently his powerful advocates: Indeed,
so triumphant had been the success,of,tho.previouit
day, that when the slander case was called, Mary,
Elliston was left. without an attorney--theT had all
withdrawn. The pigmy-pettifoggeri dare not brave"
again the:sharp - Wit of Pike and. the scathing thun
der of Prentiss- .
1 1lave you. no.eounsell" inquired lodge Mille;
looking biodltat the plaintiff.
."No, sir;•they have all deserted me, and tfirti too
poor to employ auy Loom!' replied the beautiful 14-
ry, kuveting into tears,
t ,
SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 5 1850 99
„ ,
"Iu such a, Ow, will not some chivalrous member
of the profession • volunteerr asked the judge, glan
cing around the liar. •,
Tho thirty lawyers were silent as death.
. Judge ?dills riveted the question.
"Lwill, your honor," said a voice from the thick
at part of the crowd situated behind the bar. At
the tones ofilthat voice many started hblf way from
their seats; and perhaps there Wes uot.a heart in
the immense throng which .did not, beat semdthing
quicker—•it was so, unearthly sweet, clear, ringing,
and mournful. , _ •
- The first' sensation, however, was eh,anged,into
general laughter, when a tall, g✓<unt, spectral figure,
that nobody prgsent remembered ever to have seen
before, - elbowd his' way through the crowd, rind
placed himself within the her. His appearance was
aproblem to ptizzlp the sphinx herself. ills high,
Pale - broW, and - small, nervously-twitching face
seemed alive With The concentrated essence and
cream of genius;' but then his infantine blue eyes,
hardly'visible bene l ath theirVmassive arches, looked
dim, dreamy, almost unconscious; and his clothing
was so exceedingly
i shabby that the court hesitated
to let the cause proceed under his management.
' "has your name been entered on the'rolls of the
Stater demanded the judge, suspiciouslyt
"It is immaterial about my name's being on youi
rolls," answered the stranger, his thin, bloodless
lips curling up into a fiendish sneer. "I may be al
lowed to appear once; by the courtesy of the court
- and bar. Here is my license from the highest tri
bunal in America!" and he handed judge Mills a
broad' parchment. The trial immediately went on.
In the examination of witnesses the• stranger
evinced but little ingenuity, as was commonly 06'1.
He suffered each onoN, tell his own story without
interruption, though he Contrived to make each orie l
tell it over twoar three times. Ho put few Cross
questions, which, with keen witnesses, oaly serve
to correct mistakesv and he made no notes, Which,
in mighty memories, always tend to embarrass.—
The examination. being ended, as counsel for the
plaintiff he had a-right to the opening speech, a 4
well as the close; but to the astonishment of every
one lie declined the former, and allowed the defence
to lend off. Then a shadow Might have been ob
serVed to flit across the fine features of Pike, and'to
darken even • the bright eves' of Prentiss. They
sow that, they had caught a Tartar; but who it
was, or how it' happened, was itnpUssible to guess.'
Ashley spoke first. He dealt the jury odish
of that closet dry which , years afterwards_re n .
dered him famouiln.thp*nate of,the Union,..-;
The poet, Albert. Pike, followed, with a rich rain
of wit, and n hail-torrent .of caustic ridicule, in
which you may be sure neither the plaintanor the
plaintiff's ragged atitorneywite - either forgotten ar
spareih . •
The great Prentice concluded tor tho,defendant.
witha,gloW' of gorgeous words brilliant as showers
of falling stars, and with afinalburst of oratory that
brolight the house down -in cheers, in which the
sworn jury themselves iiined, notwithstanding the
stern "order!" "order!" of the bench. k Thus won•
del-fully susceptible are the sough-western people to
the charms of impassioned eloquence!
It was then the stranger's turn. He had re
mained apparently abstracted during all the previ
ous speeches. Still, and strait. and ntotionless in
his seat, his pale smooth forehead shooting up high
like a mountain-cone of snow; but fur that *rind
twitch that, came and Went perpetually i n his sallow
cheeks, you would have, taken him for a mere man
of marble. era human forpi carved in ice. Even hie
dim, dreamy eyes were ih4sible beneath those gray,
shaggy eyebrows.
But now at last he rises—before the bar railing,
not behind it--and so near to the wundoring jury
film he might touch the foreman with his long bony
finger. With eyes still half shut, and standing rig
id as n pillar of iron, his thin lips curl as if in meas
ureless scorn, slightly part, and the voice comes
forth. I At first, it is low and sweet, insinuating it
self through the brain as an artless thne, minding
its way into.the deepeSt heart like the melody of a
magic incantation: while the speaker proceeds with.;
out.a gesture or the least - sign of excitement to tear
in pieces t he argument of Ashley, which melts away
at his touch as frost, before the sunbeam. Every
ono looked-surprised. His logid was at once a brief
and so luminously Clear, that the rudest peasant
could comprehend it without enlist.
Anon; he. came to the daztling wit of the post
lawyer, Pike.: Then the curl of his lip grew sharp
er; his sallow face kindled up; and his eyes began
to i open, dim and dreamy no longer, but vivid - as
lightning, red as fire globes, and glaring like twin
meteors. The whole soul was in the.eye—the full
heart streamed out on the face. In. five minutes
Pike's wit seemed the foam of ftilly, and his finest
satire horrible profanity, when - contrasted with the
inimitable sallies and exterminating sarcasms of the
stranger, interspersed with jest and anecdote that
filled the forum with roars of laughter. ,
.Then,, the 440 much as bestowing an alTution
On Prent as, he turned short on the perjured witness
es of liopkinii tore their testimony into atoms, acid
liurled in their faces such terrible invective that all
trembled as wilit an agne, and two of them actually
fled dismayed fronfthe courthouse.
The excitement of the crowd,was becoming tre
mendous. , Their united life and soul appeared to.
hang oh the hurtling, tongue of the stranger; Ile
Inspired them with the powers of his own passion-
Ile inturoted them with the poison'of his own mali
clous.feelings. Ile seemed to have Stolen nature's
long-hidden, seciet of attraction. , Ile . was the sun
to the sea Of all thought and emotion, ,which rose
and fell and bailed in billows, as he chose. , But his
greatest triumph was to come. ,
His eye bega' to glare furitively at the assassin,
Hopkins, as
. his lean, taper finger ,slowly assumed
the Same direction. He hemmed the wretch around
with a circtnvallation of strong evidence, and im
pregnable argument, cutting Wall, pope of escap.e,.
He piled up huge bastions of insurmountable facts.
He dug beneath the Murderer' anti slanderer's feet
ditChes of dilemthas, such 'tis no `sophistry could
overlap and 'tit; stretch of ingenuity evade; and
baying dll, as one might say,'lrnpoundeil the Vic•
tilt, and girt him about like a semiplon in a elrale'of
fire, he stripped:himself. to the Work of ma-ssaarel
Oh! :then, but. it was a vision both glorious and
dreadful to behold the orator. ' ;His action, before
;graceful as • the •wave of it. golden willow , in the
breeze,. grew impetuous as the motion of an oak •in
the. hurricane. His voles became a trumpet filled
t -0N an ..,
,
with wild ‘iihirltirinds, deafeninallie car with crash
ese of power, and yet intertwin, all the wh i te with
a sweet under-song of the oefte, cadence. Ilia face
was read as a drunkard's—'his 'rehead glowed like,
a heated furnace--his countenan6o looked haggard
like that of a maniac, ,and , ever and anon.he flung
his long, bony arms on, high, as if grasping after
thunder-bolts! He drew a picture of murder in such
appalling colors, that in comparison,hell itself might
be considereld beautiful. He painted the slanderer
solrlack, that the ion Seemed dark at noonday when
shloing on such an accursed monster; and then he
fixed both portraits on the shrinking brow of Ilocr
kios, and he trailed them there.forever. The rigita
tion of the audience nearly amounted, to madness.
_
All at once the speaker deseended from his peril
ous height. His voice wailed out for the murdered
deal, and described the sorrows of the widoWed /iv
ing,—,—the beautiful Na ry , m
ay, more beautiful eyeryo
pent, es her tears flowed faster—till men wept, and
lovely women sobbed like children. . ..
He closed by a strange exhortation td the jury,
and throng'? them to the by-standerei Ile entreated
the panel, 'after they, should bring n their verdict
fertile plaintiff, net to offer violence to the defen
dant, however richly he might deserve it; in 'other
'words, “not to lynch the villain, Hopkins, but leave
his punishment to God." , This was the most artful
trick of all, and the best calculated to insure yen
deande.
'rue' jury rendered a verdict for fifty thousand
dollars; and the night afterwards Hopkins was ta
ken out of - his bed by lynchers, and beaten almost
to death!
As the court adjourned, the stranger made known
his name, arid called the attetitim . of the people;
with . the annonneement—"John Taylor will. preach
here this evening at early candle light:"
,Tbe Crowd, of coure,„ail turned out, and Taylor's
sermon equalled, if 'it did not surpass, the splendor
of his forensic - eiTurt. This is no exakeration. I
have listened to Clay, Webster, and Calhoun—to
Dewey, Tyng, and
,Basc
om; but have never heard
anything in the form of
s sublime words even.remote
ly approximating the eldquende of John Taylor—
maisive as a mountain, and wilily rushing as a cat
aract of fire. And this is the opinion of all who
ever heard the" marvellous man.
A H ---
1 oneyaloon Scene.
From the Albany Dutchman.
A cones ancient thus desOribes a scene alit • tOok
place at i S. ratoga, a 'short time 'since, between et
newly intur ed couple Who were spending the honey
moon.
A bridal party came do*n a few days since; I
never saw n'nore honey-moonish I,toking sot in 'my
life. The bride / and groom looked, walked, and act
ed. love to the life. A more devoted coo e you nev
er - beheld. They were sitting , in the parlor 'one
morning, when' I accidentally he the husband
say,4ltit a 'melting tenderness f voice and man .
neP.
"Did you speak, deareStl" •
• "No, pet, -1 did• not—l was thinking," replica the
bride, loykingns angelic as possible . .
"Of What was youtitiitkingl i my love?" ,
‘.l hardly dare tell yeti, my. pet." _
"What, loveliest of your sex, distrust your adorer
SO soon?" ••
"Pardon—a thousand pardons, dear Ildgar, If I
have even Iseented to wrong so noble a being."
"Spoken like your own thus self—!ilte a fonl anJ
•
dearly loved wife."
Ntigar! Etigar! you are a flatterer; I knot ,
you_ are. Oh, yeti naughty man! You' know hold
dear
,you are to me?
' , Yon, will tell ne, then? good angel that you are
—you will tell me."
'will—but first give Ind assurance that you will
not frown on your too fond Rebecca. - A frown,
Edgar—nay, even a reproveing look from your
sweet eyes, would bre.k my now too' happy heart.
Say, then, you will not frown."
"Foolish child! Do the stars frown, when 'the
poet looks up to_them for inspiration? 'Does the
fond mauler frown When her first born looks up tc,
her eyes as he nestles - still 'closer to her bosom? -
Does love, fond, true love ever frown?"
"Oh, say no More, dear,- dear Edgar; I feel, I
know, you are the best, the kinder, the must devo
ted of men!",
'•Tell me, then, love, of what yeu were think
ing?"
"Of yom only of you, Edgar, on my troth."
"And what of me, my own Rebccar
"Alas! What shall I say? flow shall I extri
cate myself from this perilous dilemma?"
"Speak. loved one, I charge you!"
"Dear Edgar; you know—" •
"Yes, sweet Rebecca... , "
"That—oh, how shall I say it?"
"Any how--g o on—dear Itebec-4"
"That if you - 6ontinue—"
' "Yes—continue 7—"
"To eat—cabbage—" • , •
"Cabbage?"
"Cabbage—What then?"
"You may catch the cholera, (sobbing) and (sob)
and (sob) I may (sob) be left (sob) a widow (sob)
before (sob) the 80801) (hysterical soh) is over. " ,
"I didn't, I couldn't wait to hear any more of this
conversation. ' I do wonder if all • "just married"
folks go on after this fashion."
Onr node Ezra is in the habit sometimes, of
"stretching the'truth" a vicious sort of
propensity from which the rest of the family are
singularly free. I We heard him tell Snooks a Se
vere tale lust week, which we have conclude] to
give to the world: -
"When I lived in Maine," said he, "I helped to
break up a new piece of ground: we got the wood
off in the winter, and early in the spring we begun
plowing met. It wan no mistimed rocky that we
hal to git forty yoke ofq Nen to one plow—wa did
faith—and I hell the plow Moen a week-4 thought
I should die. 'One day I was hold'n and the plow
hit a stump which measured just nine feet and a
half through it -.-hard and sound white oak., The
plow split it, and I was going straight through the
stow, When'T happened to think it Might snop - tn.
gather again; so' I threw my feet out; and • had no'
sooner date this, than it snapped together taking a
smart hollof thq seat of my pantaloons. Of POMO
/ was tight, but I held en to the plough,handles,
and though the Teamsters did all they:COuld, that
tetinref eighty 'oxen couldn't tear My panttiloons; nor'
cause me to let go my gripe. At last. tliongh, after
• letting the cattle breathe ntvhilei,they .gave another
strong pull togetheri•smd the old stump
,tame out
about the anickeit; it had anottatrinni str on g mite,
.ton, let me'tell you. •My wife made . ille cloth for
them , pantaloons,-end I hewn% ware any' other kind
since. , •
The oily reply made to this was: I should. have
thought it would,hoT Genie hard upon year suspen-,
der,.
"Powerful bird. 'o r ' ,if
A Tough Story.
A WELL-GO VERNED MARRIAGE
The government of 'lv family is;nt4 indispensable
as the governtnentior a nation. If based on n prop
er system, and carried out With fit-innerl,Bnd sin
cerity, blending and harinOniling all the elements
of soder - and domestic life, it is likely to produce
iestiltaa's happy and pacific as a well governed peo
ple uncer the tibfloilly of-, liberty and law. One of
our correspondentsa gentleman of faintly and for
tune—asked us last week; whether there would be
any impropriety or social risk in rnairiing an hon
est, 'lndustrious and pool• girl, whorn•he liked, or
imagined he loved. We answered, "certainly not."
Where the education, habits, and manners rptalify
a girl for any, natio!' in life, her industry end purity
of character are alWaypatrong recommendations,
while her poverty ic,not objectionable, Jint, we
would not feel justified in cairyibg Out this recom
mendation to any extent. The,republican prinei
pies of equality.-tt hieh for' a fiature in a nation,
cannot always be applied to families. We may
I have singular notions in relation to marriage; but we
think, in the first place, that parties should belong
to the same religious denomination, in order to se
'cure a homogeniousness of thought or concert of
altion on that very important point. We think that
i family, character, habits and pursuitS, they slio'd
harmonize and assimilate as nearly as possible.—
Sudden elevations 'to fortune, and of course to that
position which foitune gives, are apt to make the
head giddy; and even gradual elevations from p 09 4;
erty to wealth, unless controlled by great good sense
and prudence, are calculated . to Snake the posses
sorsunhappy and discontented, nervous and dissat
isfied.. if a woman, she is always aiming at some
thing which, is not attainable and should not be
attainable for Itet.oWn happiness. Persons born in
ailluitoce and reduced to poverty frequently bear
such rude and painful changes with more philoso
phy than those suedenly and unexpectedly elevated
from obscurity. Elecation, equality of mind, and
resignation, are the pillars which sustain the Unfor
tunate in their reverses; whilst thoge suddenly 'ele
vated to fortune from the • most hurr4de pursuits
seldom know* how to appreciate and enjoy such
gifts; and wealth at once becomes it plague and an
embarrassment.
We have' just such a lady--'-so circumstanced and
crintlitioried...4n l our eye. We knew her, %%hen a
little sewing girl, a willing adjunct' to the dusting
department. She had -captivated the, heart of a
young Clerk, •who married her when he was in sufli
cleat credit to open a little shop, end where we i have
often 'seen her, behind tile counter, clipping ribbon's
and jerking open the kill with an air.. From the
shop to the store, from the store to thg large int
porting warehouse, and from the two'-story from&
house in Liierpool Alley to the three-story building
magnificently furnished iri Fropmore' Piacc, were
the labor, the luck, and the natutal transition of
some years of enterpriaing - speculation.`l : It was in
struc,iye if not amusing, to see het relied in 'her
heavy carriage, with liviriedcoachmenand footmen,
from her dour for a morning's shopping-excursion,
,visiting every fashionable store and milliner in the
city. In one she would purchase a rich shawl—in
another, a valuable rich dress; hero a beautiful pet
! erine—there a newly itnpurted French bonnet, lute
mantilla, blonde scarf; or blue silk velvet for &cloak
fur the approaching cold weather. All these pur
chases Were tumbled into the coach, and tumbled on
the strife whets she teethed home at 2 o'clock. A
I prett. servant girl then approached, and was thus
accosted—
"Betty, where's my lunch? Nothing prepared fur
ine? - you know I alwaYs have it jelly, or an oyster
pate, or a sweet bread, or.a cold chicken and a glass
of Scotch ale fur' my lunch, (ve remember
Whon a spare-rib and stewed onions for dinner were
considered ,quite a treat!) and now
.1 rim left to
starve. Mrs. Jenks! Mrs. Jenks: Mrs. Jeelts!!" whe
screamed with lungs consumption proof, and violent
ly jerking the bell. The cook ran up in a hurry,
her fingers covered with - tough, and was met with .
—"Am I to starve among you?* 'ls this treuttnent i
for a lady? Go about your business: 1 discharge
rnuAll. York! York! runAlOwn to Mrs. Green's,
d tell Ler to send me a first-rate cook and waiting
maid—no Irish, mind! Was ever a woman so tor
mented with servants?"
While sho was thus fuming and fretting:her
hUsband—a quiet s inuffbnsive sort of man—made his
appearance.
"Su you have come, sir!" said his wife. "I shall
go into a decline with this treat i ment. Not a mouth
ful to eat. since breakfast!"
"Well, my dear, why did you not stop at Thomp
son's and get a nice dish of oyster s3up?"
"Opner soup!, Homvulgarr
I.Well, thee, any thing, ynu might fancy. Why,
bless me you have beeu shopping! What's here?
Shawl, velvet, ailk-L—Why, my love, I we have al/
these things at our store. Wher'e did you purchase
them?" •
"At Steil-art'', to be sure."
"Whys my loVe,” . continued the husband, ,0 1 sold
him these very goods by the nBl4 and you could
have anything yoo demand et 25 per cent: reducti.m
at our store.'
"Your store, indeed!, DI you Oh*, sir, that I
will go down . into aPearl:atreet warehouse to be jos
tled about by your country customers from Arkan
sos, Texas, and the Rocky Mountains! No, indeed!
I:go where the fashionahle world goes; and if Ido
pay a little more, remetnber;"sir, I helped to earn it:
So no more complaint aboitt my extravagance?"
The husband was durrib,: and both Went down
pouting to dinner, Morintiring and" uncomfortable.
This-was not What We conceiVe lobe a well govern
ed Ittartiagci:•: ! •lStinday irintre.
07- The re is at Oswego, N. Y., a factory in
which corn is medin making starch. II consumes
900 bushels per week, and turns out 40,000 lbs. of
the'article; whit!' is said to be tile' whitest and moat
beautiful materia" l of the kitid yet discovered for ulf
domestic purposes. , "
tW! Dr. Wendell boa. just invented a new pill
"to purge melancholy." They ere .triade, of tun and
fresh Or g , in egnal,, proportions, and pro to be taken
with cold water three'times a day, without stopping(
iiAve:llfAsr —Atfacetioua iriend says pldan:
ciog-women wear their dresses at..o.l""ast, as
mark of respect to departed m0t1,04. Our friend
had bittlei be eiktefitl, or hfintsibe arraigned at the
bar of fashion, and.fOrced stake tegbail
$3l. 50 A TZAR, in Advance.
NUMBER, 21.
Falto4's Put Steam Vo3ritei
Tie following reminiscence of Fulton's First
Steam Voyage, is from the Buffalo CommercialAd
rertiser, where it was communicated try R. WA
4
"Same twenty years since, more or less—for I
cannot fix the date with more certainty—l formed
'a travelling acquaintance, upon a steamboat on the
Hudson River, with a gsntleman who, on that oc
casion, related to me some incidents of the first voy
age of Fulton to Albany, in his steamboat, the Cler
mont, which I have hever met with elsewhere. The
gentlethan's name.l have lost; but I urged hint al
the time, to publish what he related, which, howev
er, so far as know, he has hever done. I have
several times repeated the facts its they were told to
me, and have been often requested to secure them
from oblivion by giving them to the press.
I chanced, said my narrator,.to be ht Albany on
business, when Fulton arrived there, in his unheard
of craft, which everybody felt so much interest in
seeing. tieing ready to leave, and hearing that
Ibis craft was to return to New York, I repaired on
board and inquired for Mr. Fulton. I was referred
to the cabin, and there I found a plain, gentlemanly:
man, wholly alone, and engaged in writing.
"Mr. Fulton, I presume."
"Yes, sir." •
"Do you return to New York with this boat'!"
“We shall try to go back, sir."
"Can I have a passage down?"
"You can take your chance with us, sir.
to be paid, and after a mi
1, I think six dollars. was
r coin,' I laid in his open
fixed upon,it, he remained
supposed there might be a
I enquire
ment's hesi
named. T'
hand, and i
Ep long mm
mitctitint,
roused him
ed at me, a as brimming du his e e,
and his voi he Said, "mere m air;
but memory was busy as! I contemplated / I' is, the
first pecuniary reward 1 base received foyall my
ertions in adapting stehm to narigatidn. I would
gladly ° commemorate the occasion' over a bottle lit -
wine with you; but really,pkin too poor for even
that, just now; yet I trust w may ineet again when
this will nut be so." , • I
The voyage to New/York was successful, as all
know, and terminad z without accident.
Some years after this, when the Clermont had
been greatly improved, and her name changed to
The ;Vora firer, and ashen two other boats, viz;
The Cur of Xeptune, and the Paragon had been
built, making Mr. Fulton's fleet three boats regu
larly plying . between New `lurk and Albany, I took
'passage on one of these fur the latter city. The
cabin, in that day; was below; and gas I walked its
length to and fro, I saw I was very clOsely observed
by one I suilposed to he a 'stranger. Soon, !tower
-or, I recalled the features of Mr. Fulton; but, with.;
out disclosing this, I continued m 1 walk and await" ,
ed Elie result. At length; tri passing-hitt sestrour
eyes met, when he sptang:k to his feet, and eagerly
seizing my band, exclaimed, I knew it raust be yen",
for your features have never escaped me; and al
though I am still far from rich, yet I may venture
that bottles now.
It Was ordered; and during its discussion Ur:
Fulton ran rapidly, but vividly over his experience
of the world's coldness; and-sneers, and of the hopes,
fears, disappointments and difficulties that were
scattered through his whole career,of dis c overy, up
to the very point of his final, crowning triumph, at
'which he so fully felt lie had at last arrived. And
in reviewing all these, said hei I have again and
again recalled the occdsion and the incident of our
first-interview, at Albany; and never have I done so
without its'renewin . , -, its my mind, the vivid emo
tions it originally caused. That seemed, and still
does seem to me, the turning -point' in my dekiny—
the dividing line between light and darkness, in fey
career epon earth: fo;' it wns the first actual re
cognition of usefulness to my fellow matil,
Such, then, were the events coupled with the
very down of swum navigation—a dawn so recent
as to be still recalled by many—and such as Fulton
there related them, were the early appreciations, by
the world, of a Jiseovary which has invaded alt
waters, causin g a revolution in naviga r tir which
has almost literally brought the very Ads of the
earth in.contact
How Joe Won the Pencil
Joe, sports a wife, besides several other creators
comforts. Well, lie and his wife, Harry--:-, John
—, and Gi.iorgc—, and their wives all board at
the same !loose. A dny or two age, while they
were all at the table luxuriating on detached portions
of a boiletrturkey, which had been stuffed with eye
ters, the conversation turned on christian names when
Mrs. flarry—,gontended that she could name
more distinguished men who had borne the oame of
Henry, than any gentleman could'of 1119 own name;
and concluded by offering a gold pencil, as a wager
against a suitable equivalent, should she wins The
trial commenced, Mrs. Harry..--ma, started oft with
“Ilarry of the west,' adding a dozen others.
George—, now gathered up on George Wash
ington, the four Georges of England, Lord George,
Sze. "Now, Mr. John—, what have you to say!"
raid the charming Mrs. Harry--, "0, I can'
give you a hundred. The two Adams' Lord John
Russell, john Tyler, John, John, John bring me
some water, John---.." "Stop, . stop; air, Ton
can't win: Mr. Joseph=—, now your turn tomes,"
said the juicy little gamester. Now, if ever a bash
ful man lived it is my friend, Joe. re dared not,
look up. He i had been racking his brain - for an o'
n
steer, but to o purpose, and in despair, he ms , '" ° .. n°
grand &rift, 'and raising his head he reply •
dear madam, I have lost. I cannev think of
me of Joseph/--
any very distinguished man by the'
except the gentleman we re Act° in the Scri p t]
orite of Mrs.'Potiphar,
tires-41e wbo was such
but I •Wili not offs p+' for I £lthtk he tens the
do rudest ford eye ford of?" "Here's the pen
said M erry-- 7 tossing it over to him, al
she and other ladies scudded out of the doors
44 4 A woman in Jersey, standing over the corpse
tit her husband, exclaimed in an agony of grief, "li.
' 'a pity he's - dead, \
for his teeth were ta good as they.
eve were!" . , •
_
. -
The last case of modesty iv that of
who declared sl►e wouldn't pass
where there were so many' white o• 1
plain eight. r
in, ~ i s tint right, sirr This
d of revery, and.ns he fork- 7 /
re`,.
la young laityi
1 . a sbipiaid" ,
k krtee4;sll is