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VOLUME XXVII, NUMBER 433
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Heine.
Coltital•ia, April 15t,1856-1f
DR: G. W. MIFFLIN,
D'ficTWITIST, Locust 'street, near the Pod 01
e.
Colombia, Pa.
Columbia. May 3, 1858.
H. M. NORTH,
A TTORNEI AND CPUNSELLOR AT LAW.
~,D,_ Columbia, Pa.
Collection*, 1. romptly made, in Lancaster and - York
'Counties.
Columbia, May 4,1850.
3. W. FISHER,
Attorue-y, and Counsellor at Law,
Cfca - cll-22: 11 aorlety
September 0, lIMW•it
GEORGE J. SMITH,
WIIOLESILE and Retail Bread and Cake
Baker.—Constantly on hand a variety of Cokes,
too numerous to mention; Crackers; Soda, Wine, Scroll,
Sugar Biscuit; Confectionery of every description,
l.c. Li3eusT STREET,
Feb. Between the Bank and Franklin Rouse.
B.F. ELPPOLD & CO.,
..
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GENERAL. FORWARDrNG AN!) COMMIS
"SION MERCHANTS, 4 1 1 a,
RECEIVERS CM' , •
€OA LAND PRODUCE,
.And Deliverers on any point on the Columbia and
Philadelphia Railroad. to York and
Baltimore and to Pittsburg;
DBALERS IN COAL FLOUR AND GRAIN,
WHISKY' AND BACON, have just received n
large lot of Monongahela Rectified Whiskey, from
Pittsburg, of which they will keep a supply constantly
on hand. at low prices. Nos. 7, 2 s ad 0 Canal Basin.
Columbia, January 27.1854.
OATS FOR-SALE
J..? THE BUSHEL, or in larger qnantities,
at Nos. 1,2 &.6 Canal Basin.
E. F. APPOLD & CO.
Columbia, January 26, 1850
Tnst Received,
finf i
50..,mh.ig 1 Nago'leGsitalji;;.1 Retell Zoile t o J.
er F ;
entablnOment. Front went, two doom below the
AVitshington !loupe, Columbia- [October 25, 1850.
Just Receive
20 RHOS. 8110OLDERS 15 T/K.ItCES
For sale by - A.PPOLD &
Nos. 1,2 and 0, Canal Bairn.
Colombia, October 18,1850.
Ra.pp's Gold Pens.
CONSTANTLY on hand, an, assortment of
t here celebrated' PENS. Persona in want of a
good article are invited to call and examine them.
Columbia; June 30, 1855. JOHN FELIX.
Just Received,
LIEGS LOT of Children's Carriages,
Gigs, Rocking Horses, Wheelbarrows ' Prenel-,
etw ursery Swings, &c. GEORGE, J. SAIITIL
'April 19, 1856. Locust street.
"
CIIIIVA and other Fancy Articles , too numerous to
mention, for sale by G. J. ShilTll, Locust street,
between the Bank and Franklin Goose,
Columbia, April 19, 1856. • ' -
.
IA.III andersigne have been appointed
agents for the sale of Cook & Co's GOTTA PER
PENS, warranted not to corrode; in e laslicity
they almost equal the quill.
SAYLOR & hteDONALD.
Columbia Jan. 17, 1857
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Just Received,
A BBAUTIFUL lot of Lamp
atter Shades, viz
Roses,: Tie
_Lk. wine, Volcano, Dram. B Fly. Red
and the new French Fruit Shade, which can beam
in the winlhw *Me Golden Mortar Drug Store.
November 29,1826.
AMGR lot of Shaker Corn, from the
Snakes settlement in Nsw Yolk, lust received,
at 11.SUYDAN&SON'S
Colombia, Dec. 20,1856
gilt BB'S. lour Batchelor's, Peter's and
sgyptiap haledyes, ssarranted to color the hair
any destredabade, withom injury to the skin. For sale
by .
-FR. WILLIAMS,
May 10i ront st.., Columbia, 'Pa.
VASS 4 111011IPSON , 8 justly celebrated Com
mercial and other Gold Pena—the beet in the
znarket-:-Jaat received. P. SHREINER.
Columbia,Anril 28,11356.
- Girrt& FAMILY FLOUR, by the barrel, for
JUJ sale by B. F. APPOLD a CO,
celanibia,/nne 7. Nos. 1,2 and 6 Canal Basin.
•
• , HY should anypemin do without a Clock,
wher:Ony can be had forsl,so end onwards.
at SHREINER'S?
Columbia, April 9£1,1855.
S •
APONEFA L or Concentrated Lye, IN.-MlL
king Soap. • 1 lb. la auffriient for one barrel of
-Soft Soap, or
. 11b.f0r.9 lbs. Bard Soap. Fall dire°.
=Aril' be gavenat the Counter-for making Solt,
and Lead Soaps. -./I T 4t y e r. vnuualdi•
!WNW*, *Arch-31,
, ,Llllffit lot of Baskets; Brooms, baciets
•a, So., for male by it. SUYDAM di SON.
.
WElXEL'llinstantauseans ,Yeastor Baking
Powder, for sale by H. SUYDAM k SON.
2eDOZEN BlKOkfla - ,,UPBOXVi CIIEFAE. For
1411%liejtkobY. D. F. APFOLD k. CO.
Cbitzil 7, bar 25, leth. B.
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A 317,PERIOR aeticlo.of P.Atiptr a Othlizair
Mir 10,1E56. 'Front Street, Columbia, Poi
TUIST RECIVVEID, a large andwell Wonted ..tanety
4t), ofiitraghes, connisting4a part of %we, Hair, Cloth.
Crumb, ?,ail, Hat and Teeth Brushes, and for sale by
_Ft._WILLIAMS.
rnontlansatr.otaanbnin Pa-
Marelrike,• l s#
RlOR•anleto orTOMICBEIOESITTEF4
A l fg4tTinier noted Keepers, for %are by
A. WILLIAMS,
Front street, Colombia. "
%ay 10,1856
MiIETSERS4I. elerars on haiid aad co
eby S„ WILLIAMS, '
Wa3 , 10,11856. Front Street, Cotelimi
VST ice -aired, ERZBEI CA 6IPMENP,..aaI foe sate
al by R. WILLIAMS;
May 1 , 1&8. .Ptosi Street, Paasabia, Pa._
Aft SOARER of Stock Sit the Odd Pelletisi Ha7C seao -
ration, an °Erred for sale
_by the sobeenber.'
I. C. PEARLED..
e,_Mareh 7,19574
I
000 New City Cared Munn and eboakiers,
jinn reeelatd and rat sale _
Feb. 31,1857. iLIUTDAM & SON.
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Journal of Music.
THE PREACHING or THE TREES.
FROM THE GERMAN OF HRORN
At Midnight Reno Wimp sileitce reigns
Through in the woodland eriaeoz,
•
Begin the bushes and the <roes
To wave and whisper in the breeze,
All talking In their places.
The Rosebush flames with look of joy, •
And perfume breathes in glowing;
"A Rose's life is quickly past!
Then let me, while ray. time Shall last,
Be richly, gaily bkiiving!"
The Aspen •Whispenr, lynken day! , •
Not the thy glare decetirefh!
.
Thy sunbeam is a deadly dart,
That quivers in the Rose's heart—
CheeSentietlx;thro;n4 seethe
To stretch her green hands higher;
"Up yonder Ilfes pare river flows,
So sweetly murmurs, brightly woods,
•
To that I still aspire!"
: The'N'ollrotWoVecii7;27hqtrd3p " glil " F " " " ' :"':274
"My annyaold
I let my hair float down-to-thee;
Entwine therein thy flowers for ma,
As mother her child adornethr ^ •
And ne=t the arealthyßlum-treer sighs:
"Alas! my treniures emelt me!
This load with which my. shoulders gnaw!,
Take off—it is not urine alone: •
By robbing yon refresh me!"
The T•ir-tree speaks in cheerful- mood
"A blossom bore Inever; .
But steadfastness is all Env more;
In summer's heat, in winter's roar,
I keep tny green forever!"
The proud and lofty Onk-tree speaks:
uGod's thunderbolt confounds me:
And yet no storm can bow me down,
Strength is my stem end strength my crown;
Ye weak ones gather round me!"
The ivy vine kept close to hint,
Her tendrils round hint flinging: -
"He who no strength hns . of his own. -
Or loves not well to stand alone, - -
May to a friend be clinging?
AlutthalitaiumaraisdijugoiAbay.aids.
Al l 4 suititcs l l29.o lll °A reqPi • : •
Low.yvhispered words, upon the air, •
While by the grav,e alone stood duns( • -
The Cypress mutely weeping.
O! might they Teach pne , hum r Mart,
These tender - accent's creeping!
-What wonder if they do not reach?
The trees by starlight only preach,
When we.raustineeflyhe gleepipk.
gltertizuz_.
EDWARD DR'TSDALE.
About the year 1708, James Bradshaw
and -William Drysdale,' hoth Invalided mas
ters of the Royal Navy, cast anchor fox-the
remainder of their ,lives at about twelve
miles distance froin Exeter on the London !
road. Bradshaiv named his domicile, •an
old-fashioned ~straggling building; Riidney,
Place, in honor of the admiral in whose
great victory he had fought. _Drysdale's
smaller; and snugger. dwell igg; afloat halta
mile away from Rodney Place, was called
Poplar Cottage, and about midway between
them stood the Hunfir's Ina, a,road-side
public bonne, kept by one Thomas Burn
ham, a stout-hearted, jolly-bellied individual;
the, comelinCia of -whose rubicund figure
head was coneiderably,datnagad, py r the - loss
of an eye, of. wbichi, however, it is right tn.
say, theestinguishedAight appeared to hare .
been transferred ;in undiminished intensity,
to its fiery, priereing Allow. The retired
masters, who had long known each other,
were intimate es brothers; ;notwithstanding
that Bradshaw was much the richest of the
two, having contrived to pick up a consider
able amount of prize money, in addition to
a rather large sum inherited from his father.
Neither did the difference of- circumstance.
oppose, in BradshaW Mon„ the slightest
obstacle fo the Union of tie niece and heir
ass, Rachel Elford,' with . Edward Drysdale,
hie fellow veteran's only surviving offspring.
The precedent eenditiori, however, was, that
Edward should attain_ permanent rank in
the - Royal Navy, and• with this view a mid
shipman's warrant was obtained in '9O for
the young man then in hie eighteenth year,
and he was despatched to sea.
The naval profession proved to be, unfor
tunately, one for which Edward Drysdale
was altogether3pAttmkbyteranerament and
bent, ofrnind, and red censequencesfollowed.
Ije had been at sea about eighteen months,
when news reached England of a desperate,
but succesaful, euttlng-out of the boats of
the frigate to which he belonged. His name
was not mentioned itatha - offioialreport,—
but that civildhairdiyhave hoirchnineflltri-77
neither was it in the . list of killed; and
wounded. A map . of_the:coast where the
fight 'took place waeAproeured;- the-battle
wee fought over and, aiel4itinhy, the ,t - tvo,
veterans,, and they were,spl: indulging in
the pleasures of-the imagination, in the par
lor of the "Ilunteetv--lail " When -the-lend
4--
lord entered4garTirlih paper in his
hand,'„WPctiVunrAiia' t ti f 4hrell• -bir
single orb Of = iiiioniliiie'd
"nation. " It was' as frem •a. letter
writtem,by one of-the frigate' officers, Plain;
ly intimating that midshlpman,
Dr data
had shown, the white feather in the late
brush with the .snenair„ 'and- wou:ld bly sent
heipe,ky.itiefirst . uPpor‘ruity. thite,stroke:
ofpii ir _l.444. ll 4rieiliPeii ticgit4:
with- . the,shaß agony which such an'
announcement inflicted on the.yotang.tonn's
,1 1 44.17: grWrOgifflcatqW .fitg. rot
metrts equally- - thnoderatrielten.
quickly rallied. William Dryads:lei noire
cvrnantl Two: 01 1 14104, 1 1 41 1* PIPrO
-r-impoisObler twil l 1 1 1 7 1 3, 1 1r..t7. - wge_
maledictions, savagely sehoedbylturrihaw '
with whom young Dryidale was ii,,innitt
"NO ENTERTAINMENT IS SO CHEAP AS RE.4I/14Oi.NOR ANY PLEASE/AP. SO.LASTINO."
COLUMBIA, PENNSYLVANIA, SATTRDAY MORNING, MAY .2„).857.
favorite, of the lying lubber that wrote the
letter, and the newspaper rascals thatprin
td it.
Alas! it was but too truel On the- third
evening after the appearance of *alarm
ing paragraph the two mariners were sitting
in the perch of Poplar Cottage, separated
only by a flower garden from the main road,
conversing upon the sad and constantly re
curring topic, when the coach from London
came in sight: A youthful figure,•in naval
uniibrm, on the box-seat, instantly riveted
their attention, as it did that of Rachel El
ford who Was standing in the little garden,
apparently absorbed till that moment by
tire shrubs and. flowers: ' Tbe - eoach.rapidly
drew nein., stopped, 'and Edward Drysdale
alighted from it. The two seamen, instead
of waiting for his approach, hastily arose
from their seats and went into the cottage,
as math perhaps to avoid the humiliating
though compassionate glances of the outside
passengers, as from any other motive. The
young man" was deadly pale, and seemed to
have hardly sufficient strength to move back
the light wicket-gate which admitted to the
garden. Re held by it till the coach had
passed on, and then turned with a beseech
ing, half-reproachful look' towards Rachel.
She, poor girl, was as much agitated as
himself, and appeared to be eagerly scan
ning his countenance, as if hopeful of read,
ing there . a contradiction of the dishonoring
rumor that bad got abroad. In answer to
his niuto appeal, she stepped quickly 40-
wards him, clasped his• proffered .hand in
both hers, and with a faint and trembling.
voice ejaculated—
" Dear, dear Edviartll It is not true—l
am sure it is not, that you—that you—"
"That I, Rachel, have been disthissed the
naval service, as unfit to serve his majesty,
is quite true," rejoined Edward Drysdale,
slowly, arid with partially recovered calm—
"quite true."
"The young woman shrunk indignantly
from hits; , fire glanced in her suffused eyes,
and her`light, elegant figure appeared to
grow and dilate with irrepressible scorn, as
this avowal fell upon her . ear. "A coward!"
she vehemently exelainied; "you that—but
no," she added, giving away again to grief
and tenderness, as she looked upon the'fine
intelligent countenance of herlevrey, "it can-'
not be; there 'must
,he
,soMe„erior—some .
mistake. It is impossible!"
"There it error andmistake,llaehel; but
the world will never, I fear, admit so•muoh.
But oome, let us in; you go with'me!?
We -will not follow them until the first
outbreak of angry excitement is past; till
the father's passionate, heart-broken • re
proaches. have subsided to' a more patient,
subdued, faintly-hopeful sorrow, and Ms::
label's wavering faith in the manhood of her
betrothed - his regained something of its old
firmness. 'Entering there, we shall find
that only hli; Bradshaw has remained ob
stinately and contemptuously deaf to what
the young man has falteringly urged in
vindication of his behavior in the unhappy
affair which led to his dismissal from the
service. Ho bad, it appeared, suddenly
fainted at the sight of the hideous carnage
in which, for the first time in his 'Efe, ho
found himself involved.
Itltou...have.s.lettor.pvytomtus - -
tabs Otway," said *r...Drysdale, partially
raising his head from 1411 ) ands, in -which it
had been buried while his son wits speak
ing.." - is. to". Rachel; I
cannot see the words."
The note was directed to' Mr. Drysdale,
whom Captain Otway personally knew, and
was no doubt kindly intended to soften the
bloW, the return of his son under such cir
cumstances must inflict. Although deciding
that Edward Drysdale was unfit for the
naval profession, ho did not think that the
faihire of the young man's physical nerve,
in one of the most arduous-encounters that
had ocauriedAuring the - War,.wai attribu
table to •cleficiency of true courage; and as
a proof that it was not, Captain Otway men
tioned that the young man had jumped
overboard during half a gale of wind, and
when night was falling, and saved,-at MIIOII
peril to himself, a seaman's life. This was
the substance of the. note. As soon as Ra
ohel ceased reading, Mr. Drysdale looked
deprecatingly in his friend's face, and mur
mured, "You hear?" • •
"Yes, WiMara Drysdale, I do. I never
doubted thatyour eon was a good swimmer,
no more than I do that toward Means coward,
and that all theletters'in the alphabet can
not spell - it to mean anything else. COme
Rachel," added the grim, unreasoning, iron
tempered veteran, "let us bo gone. And
God blese r aiidlt- aloe possible, comfort ye,
old friend. Good-byel No, thank ye,. young .
sir!" he.continned, with renewed fierceness,
as Edward:Dryidale snatched at his hind.
"That hand-iris once grasped by Rodney,
in some 0613.•"anotber business as the letter
speaks-of,whiti.ite.owner did not. faint!—
It must not be touched by you!" • :
The elder Drysdale took not long..after
, -wards to his bed. '-'He bad been ailing for
setae time; 10 no question that =edifica
tion at his • son's failure in the profession to
*Mato had with fro much-pride devoted
hinOelperto - -molten the 'springs of life,
and accelerate his end, Which took place
abont.Eir months after Edward's return
home. Illiftither and•son had become an
tirelrreeopoiled with each othei, and aiinosi
the kisi.accents which faltered from the lips
of the dyingeeamani were a prayer tolitrad
shairto forget 'whit luid,rassed, 'and - renew
.141 sanction to the marriage of Edward end
.his niece. The stern man was inexorable;
and his pitiless reply - vists,j - thitt he would , a
thousand times rather fOliciW Ititchel to lief
grave.
The constancy, however;_ of the young
people was not, however, - to be subdued,
and something more than - e year after-Mr.
Drysdale's death they zriii . rked; their present,'
'resources, the rents - about one hundred'
and twenty pounds per annum—of a nun
•ber of small tenements at'Exeter. They
removed to within three miles of thlit•city,
and dwelt theye in stdificiqupy and peace,
for about five years, whep exigencies,of
a fast• increasing family „induced them to,
dispose, not very advantsgeously, of their .
'cottage property, and enlark the. proceeds
in a showy speculation, promising, of course,
immense results, and really ending, in the
brief space of six months, in their utter
ruin. Edward Drysdale found himself, in
lieu of his golden hopes,, worth about two
hundred pounds less than nothing. The
usual consequences followed. An unde
fended suit-at-law speedily reached the stage
at which execution might be issued, and
unless a considerable sum of money could
be instantly raised, his furniture would be
seized under a fi. fa., and sacrificed to no
purpose.
One only possible expedient remained,
that of once more endeavoring to soften the
obduracy of Mr. Bradshaw.' This it was
finally determined to attempt, and Mr. and
Mrs. Drysdale set off by a London morning
I coach, upon the well-nigh-hopeless specu
lation. .They alighted at the Hunter's Inn,
where Drysdale remained, whilst his wife
proceeded alone to Rodney Place. Thomas
Burnham wits friendly and good•natured as
ever. Tne old mariner, he toll Drysdale,
was visibly failing, and his chief amusement
seemed to be scraping together and hoarding
up money. James Berry, a broken-down
tailor, and a chap, according to Burnham,
who knew how many beans• make five as
well as any man in Devonshire, had been
for some time valet, gardener, and general
factotum at Rodney Place, rind appeared to
exercise great influence over Mr. Bradshaw.
The only other person in the establishment
was the old cook, Margery - Deans; who,
never otherwise since he had known her
than desperately hard of hearing, was now
become as deaf as a stone. Drysdale, it
was afterwards remembered, -listened to all
this with eager attentiorioind was .especi
- • • inquisitive_ and talkative respecting
Mr. Bradshaw's hoarding propensities, and
the solitary, unprotected state in which he
lived.
Mrs. Drysdale was :long gone; but the
tremulous hopes which her long stay called
feebly forth, vanished at the sight of her
pale, tedrful,.yee resolved aspect. "It is
useless, Edwaid;" shO murmured, with her
arms cast lovingly.. about her . husband's
neck, and looking in his face with far more
lavish expression of affection than when,
with orange blossoms in her hair, she stood
a newly-consecrated wife, beside Lim; "it is
useles to expect relief from my uncle, save
upon the heartless, impossible condition you
know of. But let us home. God's heaven
is still above our heads, though clouds and
darkness rest between. We will trust in
Him, Edward, and fear not
So bravo a woman should bate been
matched with a stout-hearted man; but this,
unhappili,,Wee not the case. Edward Drys
dale was utterly despondent, and he listened,
as his wife was afterwards fain to admit to
herself and others, with impatient reluc
tance to all she said as they journeyed
homewavds, save when the condition of help
spokeit of, namely, that she should abandon
her husband, and take up her abode with
her children' at Rodney Place, was discus
sed—by her indignantly. Once, also, when
she mentioned that the old Will in her favor
was not yet destroyed, but would be, her
uncle threatened, if she did not soon return,
a bright, almost fiery expression seemed to
Leap from his• usually mild, reflective eyes,
and partially dissipate the thick gloom
which mantled his features.
This occurred on a winter's day in early
March, and the evening vtp to seven o'clock
hid passed gloomily away with the Drys
dales, when all at once the . husband, start
ing from a profound reverie, said he would
take a walk as far as Exeter, see the attor
ney in the suit against him, and, if possible,
-
gain a gam a little time, for the arrangement of the
debt. His wife acquiesced, • though with
small hope of any favorable'resalt, and the
strangely abstracted man left the house.
Ten"o'clock, the hear,
,by - which Edward
Drysdale bad promised to return, chimed
from n.-dial on the mantle-piece. Mrs. Dr's
dale trimmed the fire,' lit the•erindles, which
for economy's sake sbe„liati; extingujahed,
and had the frugal supper ltqg. He came
not. Eleven o'clock! SPhzt can be detaining
him so late? Twelvel—half-past
Rachel Drysdale was jest a bout
. hi'bid the
servant-maid "wha win sitter*. up in • the
kitchen; go to bed, when, the sound of car
riage wheels going cowar ds Faiter stopped
at the door. lt was a return post chaise,
and brought Edward Dryidale. lie stag
gored, as if. intoxicated, into the kitcthen,
reached doww a half-bottle-of brandy -from
s cupboard, and took. it to zha past-boy, oho
immediately drove off. Anne Moody, 'the
servant girl, was greatly startled by her
master's appearance; he sbe - after-
Wards stated,liiere ih`tr : ebliirrAit a; whited
,-than of goal[ and l'ilookand ibook and
'"eowered," as if he had the ague. 'Mrs.
PrisAkale. flt*-AhlfkitcheFl , sod stood
at her husband, White.
/dad of way (I am,tratracribing literally
from , the- girl's : statement); till the outer
door was fastened,-when they both went up
stairs into a front_si,tting-room.. Curiosity
induced. Anne Afootly..to'.follow,, , and she
heard, just as ,the door-closed upon them,
Drysdalesay,;;lcott have 4 not been to,
Exeter, lam ; This was said in a.
nervous, ehalcingyoice, and her master re 7
plied' in the same- tone r ”No; I changed my
mind," or words to that effect. Then there
was a quick whispering ,for a minute or
two,-, interrupted, by, a half -stifled. cry_ or
scferup frono_Mrs. Misdate. .4 sort of hub-
bal:! ,of-words followed, which the girl, a
very
,person of her class by-the
by,. .
c ‘ oald. not bear, -or at. least coaldnot
make out, till Mr. Drysdale said in a tender,
slow way, "You, Rachel—the children are
provided for; but 0 God! at what a dread
ful price!" Anne Moody, fearful of detec
tion, did not wait to hear more, but crept
stealthily up stairs to bed, as her mistress
had ordered her to do, when she left the
kitchen. On the following morning the girl
found her master and mistress both up, the
kitchen and parlor fires lit, and breakfast
nearly over. Mr. Drysdale said he was in
a hurry to get to Exeter, and they had not
thought it worth while to call her at unsea
sonablo hours. Both husband and wife
looked wild and haggard, and this, Moody,
when she looked into their bed-chamber,
was not at all surprised at, as it was clear
that neither of them had retired to rest.—
One thing. and the other, espezially kissing
and fondling the children over and over
again, detained Mr. Drysdale till half-past
eight o'clock, and then, just as he was .
leaving the house, three
,men confronted
him! A constable of the name of Parsons,
James Berry, Mr. Bradshaw's servant, and
Burnham, the landlord of the Hunter's Inn.
They came to arrest him on the charge of
burglary and murder! Mr. Bradshaw bad
been found, early in the morning, cruelly
stabbedto death beside his plundered strong
box!
I must pass lightly over the harrow
ing scenes which followed—the tumultuous
agony of the wife, and the despairing as
severations of the husband, impossible to be
implicitly believed in even by that wife, for
thecriminatiag evidence was overwhelming.
Drysdale had been seen skulking about Rod
ney Place till very late, by both Burnham
and Berry.' In the room through which he
must have passed in going and returning
from the scene of his frightful crime, his
hat had,..been found; and it was now dis
covered that ho had taken away and worn
home one of Berry's—no doubt from hurry
and inadvertance. In addition to all this,
a considerable sum of money in gold and
silver, inclosed in a canvas bag, well known
to have belonged.to the deceased, was found
upon his person! It appeared probable that
the aim of the assassin had been only rob
bery in the first instance, for the corpse of
the unfortunate victim was found clothed
only in a night-dress. The fair inference,'
therefore seemed to he, that the robber, dis
turbed at his plunder by the wakeful old
seaman, had been compelled, perhaps, re
luctantly, to add the dreadful crime of mur
der to that which he had originally contem
plated. The outcry through the country
was terrific, and as Edward Drysdale, by
the - advice of Mr. Sims, the attorney, who
subsequently instructed Mr. Prince, reserv
ed-his defence, there appeared "to be nothing
of a feather's weight to oppose to the tre
mendous mass of circumstance arrayed
against the prisoner.
And when, upon the arrival of the King's
commission at Exeter, Mr. Prince received
a very full and carefully drawn brief in de
fence—a specious, but almost wholly unsup
ported story of the prisoner's, appeared all I
that could be relied upon in rebuttal of the
evidence for the crown. According to Ed
ward Drysdale, ho merely sought Mr. Brad
shaw, upon the evening in question for the
purpose of concluding with that gentleman
an arrangement for the separation of him
self from his wife and children,.and their
domiciliation at . Rodney Place. It was
further averred, that he was received with
greater civility than he expected; that the
interview was a long one, during which he,
Drysdale, had seen nobody but Mr. Brad
shaw, although he believed the aged and
deaf cook was in the kitchen; that be had
arranged that -Mrs. Drysdale and his chil
dren should be early on the morrow with
her uncle, and that lie had received the
money found upon his person and at his
house from the deceased's own hands, in
order to pay the debt and costs in the suit
wherein execution was about to be 'levied
on his furniture, and that the residue was
to be applied to his; the prisoner's own use;
that the expressions deposed to by Anne
Moody, and his own and Mrs. Drysdale's
emotion after his return home, which had
told so heavily against him in the. tatatniva
dons before the magistrates; were perfectly
reconcilable witlrtbis statement—as indeed
they were—,-and did not, therefore,, bear the
frightful meaning that had been attached to
them. With respect to the change of hats,
that might easily have happened, because
his hat bad been left on entering the ball
passage, and in his hurry in coming out by
the same way, ho bad no doubt mistaken
Berry's for his own; but ho solemnly .denied
having been in the
- room, or near, the part of
the'house whore his hat was alleged to have
been found.
This was the gist of the explanation; but
unfortunately, it was not sustained by any
receivable testimony in any material ptistio;
Oar. True, Mre. Drysdale, whom every.
$1,50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE; $2,00 IF NOT IN ADVANCE
bit;dy fully believed, declared that this ac
count exactly coincided with what her hus
band told her immediately on arriving home
in the post-chaise—but what of that? It
was not what story the prisoner had told,
nor how many times he had told it, that
could avail, especially against the heavy he
probabilities that weighed upon his, at first
view, plausible statement. How was it that,
knowing Mr. Bradshaw's almost insane dis
like of himself, he did not counsel his wife
to niake terms witliher uncle, preparatory
to her; ,returning to Rodney Place? And
was it at all likely that Mr. Bradshaw,
whose implacable humor Mrs. Drysdale had
experienced on the very day previous to the
murder, should have so suddenly softened
towards the man he so thoroughly hated and
despised? I trow not. And the first con
sultation wore a wretchedly dismal aspect,
till the hawk eye of Mr. Prince lit on nn
assertion of Thomas Burnham's, that he hnd
gone to Mr. Bradshaw's house upon some
particular business at a quarter past twelve
on the night of the murder, and had seen
the deceased nlire at that time, who had
answered him as he frequently did, from
his bed-room window. "Rodney Place,"
said Mr. Prince, "is nine miles from Drys
dale's residence. I understood you to say,
Mr. Sims, that Mrs. Drysdale declares her
husband was at home at twenty minutes to
one?"
"Certainly she does; but the wife's evi
dence, you are aware, cannot avail the hus
band."
"True; but the servant girl! the driver of
the post-chaise! This is a vital point, and
must be cleared up without delay."
I and Williams, Sims' clerk, set off in
stantly to see Mrs. Drysdale, who had not
left her room since her husband's apprehen
sion. She was confident it was barely so
la - ta as twenty minutes to one when the
Bost-chaise drove up to the door. Her evi
dence was, however, legally inadmissablo,
and our hopes rested on Anne Moody, who
was immediately called in. `11• er answer
was exitsperating. She had been asleep in
the kitchen, and could not positively say
whether it was twelve, one, or two o'clock
when her master reached home. There was
still's chance left—that of the post-chaise ,
driver. He did not, we found, reach Exeter,
a distance of three miles only from Mr.
Drysdale's, till a quarter to three o'clock,
and was then - much the worse for liquor.— .
So much for our chance of proving an alibi.
There was one circumstance perpetually
harped upon by our bright one-eyed friend
of the Hunters' Inn—Cyclops, I and Wil
liams called him. Witat had become of a
large sum, in notes, paid, it was well known
to Mr. Bradshaw, three or four days before
his death? What also of a ruby ring, and
some unset precious stones he had brought
from abroad, and which he had always es
timated, rightly or wrongly, at so high a
price? Drysdale's house and garden had
been turned inside out, but nothing had
been found, and so, for the matter, had Rod
ney Place, and its two remaining inmates,
had been examined with the like ill success.
Burnham, who was excessively dissatisfied
with the progress of affairs, swore there was
an infernal mystery somewhere, and that he
wouldn't sleep till he had ferreted it out.—
That was his business, ours was to make the
best of the wretched materials at our dispo
sal; but the result we all expected followed.
The foregone conclusion of the jury that
were empannehal in the case was just about
to be recorded in a verdict of guilty, when a
note was handed across to Mr. Sims. One
Mr. Jay, a timber merchant, who had heard
the evidence of the postillion, desired to be
examined. This the judge at once assented
to, and Mr. Jay deposed, that having left
Exeter in his gig upon pressing business,
at about two o'clock on the morning of the
murder, he had observed a post-chaise at the
edge of a pond about a mile and a half out of
the city, where the jaded horses had been, he
supposed, drinking. They were standing
still, and the post-boy, who was inside, and
had reins to drive with passed through the
windows, was fast asleep—a drunken sleep,
it seemed—and ho, Mr. Jay, had to bawl
for some time, and strike the chaise with
his whip, before ho could awake the man,
who at last, with a growl and a curse, drove
on. He believed,-but would not like to
positively swear, that the postillion ho had
heard examined was that man. This testi
mony, strongly suggestive as it was, his
lordship opined did not materially affect the
case; the jury concurred, and a verdict of
guilty was pronounced,-and recorded amidst
the death-like silence of a hushed anxious
auditory.
The unfortunate convict staggered visibly
beneath the blow, fully expected as it must
have been, and a terrible spasm convulsed
his featuress and shook his frame. It passed
away; and his bearing and speech, when
asked what be had to say why sentence of
death should not be pronounced according
to law, was not without a certain calm dig
nity and power, whilst his tones, tremulous
it is true, were silvery and unassuming as
a child's.
"I cannot blame the gentlemen of the
jury," he said. "Their fatal verdict is, I
am sure. as conscientious as God and my.
self know it to be erroneous—false) Circum
stances are, I feel, strangely arrayed against
me; and it has been my fate through life to
be always harshly judged, save only by one
whose truth and affection have shed over
my chequered existence the only happiness
it has ever known. I observed. too, the tell
ing sneer of - the prosecuting counsel, eon-
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fleeting the circumstances under which I
left the nary with the coictircUcc of the deed
of which I stand here accused—convicted,
I suppose I should say. I forgive that gen
tleman his cruel sneer as freely as I do yon,
gentlemen of the jury, your mistaken var
diet—you, my lord, the death-sentence you
are about to pronounce. The manner in
which I hope to pass through the brief, but
dark and bitter passage lying betwixt me
and the grave, will, I trust, be a sufficient
answer to the taunt of cowardice; and the
I future vindication of my innocence, not for
my own,
.but my wife and children's sake,
I confidently leave to Him into whose hands
I shall soon, untimely, render up my spirit.
This is all I hare to say."
The prisoner's calm, simple, unhurried
words produced a marvellous effect upon the
1 court and auditory. The judge, Chief Baron
Macdonald, a conscientious and somewhat
nervous man, paused in the act of assuming
the black cap, and presently said, rather
hastily, "Let the prisoner be removed; I
will pass sentence to-morrow." The court
thou immediately adjourned.
I was miserably depressed in spirits,
which the cold, sleety weather that greeted
us on emerging from the hot and crowded
court considerably increased. I was think
ing—excuse the seeming pathos—l was only
a clerk and used to such tragedies; I was
thinking, I say, that a glass of brandy-and
water might not be amiss, when whom
should I rudely jostle against but Cyclops,
alias Thomas Burnham. lie was going the
same way as myself, in prodigious haste,
his eye bright and darning as a live coal,
and his whole manner denoting intense ex
citement. "Is that you?" he broke out.—
"Come along then, and quick, for the love
of God! i'Ne missed Sims and his clerk, but
you'll do as well. perhaps better." I had
no power, if I had the inclination, to refuse,
for the enthusiastic man seized me by the
arm, and hurried me along, at a tremendous
rate, towards the outskirts of the city.—
"This is the place," he exclaimed, as ho
burst into a tavern parlor, where two trunks
had been deposited. "He's not come yet,"
Burnham went on, "but the conch is to call
for him here. He thinks to be off for Lon
don this very night."
"Whom are you talking of? Who's off to
London to-night?"
"James Berry, if be's clever enough!
Look there."
"I see; 'James Berry, passenger, London'
These, then, are his trunks I suppose?"
"Right my boy; but there is nothing of
importance in them, sly, steady-going Mar
gery has well ascertained that. You know
Margery—but hush! here he comes."
Berry—it was he—could not repress a
nervous start, as he unexpectedly encounter
ed Burnham's burly person and fierce glare.
"You here!" he stammered, as ho me
chanically took a chair by the fire. "Who
would have thought it?"
"Not you, Jim, I'm sure; it must be,
therefore, an unexpected pleasure. I've
dome to have a smoke and a bit of chat with
I you, Berry—there isn't a riper berry than
you are in the kingdom—before you go to
jLondon, Jim—do you mark?—before you
go to London. Ha, ha! Ho, ho! But, zoundel
how pale and shaky you're looking, and be
fore this rousing fire, too! "D—n thee, vil-
I lain!" shouted Burnham, jumping suddenly
I up from his chair, and dashing his pipe to
fragments on the floor. "I can't play with
thee any longer. Tell me—when did the
devil teach thee to stuff coat-collars with
the spoils of murdered men, eh?"
A yell of dismay escaped Berry, and he
made a desperate rush to get past Burnham
—but in vain. The fierce publican caught
him by the throat, and held him by a grip
of steel. "You're caught, scoundrel! nicked,
trapped, found out, and, by whom, think
you? Why, by deaf, paralytic Margery,
whose old eyes have never wearied watch
ing you from the hour you slew her good
old master till to-day, when you dreamed
yourself alone, and she discovered the mys
tery of the coat-collar."
"Let me go!" gasped the miscreant, down
whose pallid cheeks drops of agony were
streaming. "Take all, and let me go."
A fierce imprecation, followed by a blow,
replied to the despairing felon. A consta
' ble, attracted by the increasing uproar, soon
arrived; the thick coat-collar was ripped,
; and in it was found a considerable sum in
Exeter notes, the ruby ring, and other valu
ables well known to have belonged to Mr.
Bradshaw. Berry was quickly lodged in
gaol. A true bill was returned next day
by the grand jury before noon, and by the.
time the clock struck four, the murderer
was, on his own confession; convicted of the
foul crime of which a perfectly innocent
man had been, not many hours before, pro-
nounced guilty! A great lesson this was
felt to be at the time in Exeter, and in the
western country generally. A lesson of the
watchfulness of Providence over innocent
lives, of rebuke to the self-sufficing infalli
bility of men, however organized or empan
nailed; and of patience under unmerited
obloquy and rebuke.
Edward Drysdale was, I need hardly say,
liberated by the King's pardon—pardon for
an uncommitted offence; and he, and his
true-hearted wife, the heiress of her uncle,
aro still living, I believe, in competence, and
harmony.
geroJack, year trite is not so pensive 8.5
she used to be."Well—a—hureph—no,
she has left that off, some time ago, and
turned ex pensive.'