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A Itberni diseount willl,e Insole to s oartedy,holl. ,yearty or yeurlyad vertisers,who are atriell 3CW/ fi ned t. , , , to their bus.sness. gthis. The Cane-Bottomed. Chair I=3l In tanned 018 clirisers that to: at the bars, And a ragged ohijacltet perfumed with eigu rt, Away from the world and its toils'and its mires, rye a snug little kingdom up four pair of stairs. To moat to this ccalm w a toil to be .ure, But the fire three to bright, land the :or rather pure; And the view I behold on a sun,luay day I S grand through the cbiutuey-plate over the way This snag little chamber is erninniti in all nooks With worthless old iiieklmek. and' , illy old hooks, Anti foolish old odds and fools-lt old cud,-- Crack',lbargains from brokers, cheap keepsakes from friends. Old nrinor, prints. pictures, pipes. china crack'd.) Old rickety tables, und eliaire broken-liack'd; A twopenny yea:Airy. wondrous to ece; What matter! pleasuid to you, friend, and me. No better divan need the Sultan require Than the crealimg old .ola that by the fire; And . a4 wonderful, surely, vi hut mu , te you get Prom the rickety, ramshackle, wheezy spinet• Tien praying rug came from a TllMolllolein camp; Hy Tuber once twiekled that brivelt old lump; A Matneluke fierce yonder dagger lion .lraw•n; Via a murderous knife to toast noodles upon. Long, long. through the hours, and the night, and the 1111=11 llgre we tall: of old Look;, and old friends, and oil tones' As w•e sit in a fog made of rich itattikie, This cliarnher is pleasant to you, friend. ant] MIL Dot of all the cheap treasures that garuie.lt lay ncst, 'ullen one that. I love out I chervili the tie,t; For tho fi oast of COSIChaa laahl. it Wail hair I never would change thee, my cane-bottomed chair , Tig a Lardy-tegg'd, trigh-altouldered. worm-eaten scat, With a creaking old hack nod t, oaed old feel; But wines the fair ntonioZ when Funny .at there, I Wenn thee and losethee, old caue•Lottouud ohuir. It chairs have but feeling, in holding %uch c hurins, A thrill mtvd hove pa,'d through your svolived old tains! I look'il, and 1 ktng d. and 1 wi.li d in dv.patr; 1 orish' , l mysrlf turned to a cane-bottonid chair. It Was but a moment she sate in this 'dime; She'd a scarf oil her neat:, mitt a Haile oil her face! A smile on her lace, a wse in herlegor i And she sate there, mid Limited in my cunt-botuimed chair. Anil RO I have valued my chair ever since, like the thritte",,f a faint, or the throne of a p /Diet . ; Sndat Fauray, my patroness sweet f tine luxe, 11fre,looq“4f heart and the caue-hoitoneil chair. 'When mulles bunt low, nod the company'. gone, An the 'deuce of uigLt. flt. I ~it here nit...le— i tut Lore alone, Lut we yet are u pair y Vaulty 1 see in say eune-buttoutud t hair. She comes from the past and revi.its nay room: She looks as she then did, uti beauty and (doom, So stalling cud tentleroso fresh and no fmr; And yonder 2lnt sits in my eitne•lnittoniti chair. gthttinits. John Wolfe's Rich Wife. I was passing Wolfe's sture the other day mith abrotber book-keeper, M hen we noticed very neat carriage stop at the store, and ,ono of the prettiest women in New York get ,out of it. "There," said my companion "is John Wolfe's rich wife. What luck some fellows have in this world I Burn rich themselves, they continually gather riches, while we poor fellows never can seem to get rid of the blamed wooden spoon that Dame For tune stuck into our unfortunate mouths when we came into the blessed world. But, rich or poor, hang me if I would hunt up a rich wife any how. It is rather mean busi ness to be marrying a woman fur her money." " Well, my good fellow," mid I, "you happen to he wide of the mark this time. I know how John Wolfe got his rich wife, and can assure you that he did not marry Baer for her money ; and moreover, did not ,dream of ever getting one cent with her." ." Ay," said ho sneeringly, " all those rich fellows pretend that they don't care anything about it; but don't think I am waltz so green as to believe any such stuff as that. Facts speak louder than words, And we all know that John Wolfe has a rich wife. " Yes," I replied, " and pretty as rich, and good as pretty, and loving us good." "O, l" he exclaim .d, I guess you must have fallen in love with her; rather a pity you were married so long ago ; you might have cut out John; and got e. rich wife yourself." " Not a hit of it," said I ; but you shall bear the whole story if you will come to my /louse to-night; and while we have our smoke on the piazza, I'll see if I cannot wipe some of the cynic out of your compo sition." "Agreed," saidbe, "I'll be with you after supper." About five years ago, John Wolfe's book keeper married a nice, pretty little girl, up in his native village, in Vermont, brought her down to New York, and started housekeeping in a very sang cottage in Brooklyn. I IV ai invited to the house warming, and a more delightful evening does not often checker the dull business of life than we passed. There were not over a dozed of us, male and female; but we were all old cronies, and intimate enough to be as free and pleasant together as wo would be at home. f 5 50 The party broke up at twelve, and Mrs. Dick and myself trotted home, as satisfied with our evening's enjoyment as need be. Just one week after that my wife told me, with tears in her eyes, that John Wolfe's book-keeper had been quite unwell for two days past, and not an hour before, had sud denly expired, while sitting by the fireside, with scarcely a spasm or a pang. A disease of the heart had carried him oil thus unex pectedly, and his wife was in terrible afflic tion. I did not lose a moment in running around to his house and offering what little sympathy and assistance it was in my power to bestow ; and of course, took upon myself to du whatever was necessary upon so sad an occasion. The young widow was terribly cut down, and at such a distance from her own friends and relatives, seemed more than usually forlorn. We did all we could to relieve her afflictions, and, after the funeral had taken place, succeeded in calming her grief to sonic small extent. I then took the liberty of inquiring a little into her affairs, and discovered that my poor friend had involved himself consider ably in debt to furnish his house for his )(Jung wife's comfort, having purchased every particle of their household goods upon credit. This matter I undertook to arrange for her; and, by going around among the various creditors, persuaded the most of them to take their goods back by my paying them a small per ventage fur their trouble in packing and fixing. This, however, re quired the outlay of a couple of hundred dollars; the funeral expenses were one hun dred and fifty more, and she had not twenty dollars in the world towards it. The next morning, therefore, saw me at John Wolfe's store; he had just returned front a business tour South, and was quite shocked to hear of his book-keeper's death. I briefly related to him the situation in which the young wife had been left, and the arrangements 1 haul made with creditors, and awaited his answer. "Call as you go home this evening," said he, "and. I will attend to it. I am very busy MEM When r called in the evening, he handed 111 C a letter for the widow, and, begging me to let hint know if he could be of any ser vice in the future, he started for home, and I did likewise. I left the letter with the widow as I went home, and after supper, Mrs. Dick and my self walked over to see her, a little curious, I must say, to know the contents of John Wolfe's letter. I confess I had never entertained a very favorable opinion of John Wolfe; he lied always seemed to me overbearing and proud, and looked, I thought, as many young men do, who have never known anything of making a living fur themselves, and are very apt to think that they are made out of rather superior stuff to the rest of us, and must be hulked up to and smiled upon by all the rest of the world. But I tell you I got a new insight into the human heart when I read that letter. It was without exception, the 'kindest, most feeling, most consoling letter I ever read—so full of deep sympathy for her sadden loss, so OA cr flowing with expressions of esteem and re gard for her husband, and winding up with sentiments so divine and heavenly a trust in an overruling Providence, and the sweet consolation of religion; that I declare I could scarcely think the letter could have emanated from a man so wholly engrossed in himself, as he seemed to be. The letter, moreover, contained his individual check for one thousand dollars, to meet, he said, the expenses incidental to so sudden and unexpected a bereavement. " Well, John Wolfe," said I, after this I will never again judge a man from ap- pearances." " I should like to know," said my cynical friend, interrupting me, "what this has got to do with John IVolfc's rich Nvife?" "Certainly," said I, we shall probably come to all that in the course of time. Here take another cigar, and don't be impatient." The young widow returned to her friends in Vermont, and what followed, although I did not get acquainted with the facts until a very short time ego, I shall proceed to tell you in the order they occurred. Within a week or so after arriving at her old home, John Wolfe received a letter from her father, returning him the thousand dol lars so kindly advanced to his daughter, with a profusion of thanks for his kindness to his bereaved child, and expressing a strong desire to he able to repay it by any service it might be in his power to perfrom in return, But there was another enclosure, Nv hi eh John, it seems, thought a great deal more about than tito old man's and the thousand dollars, and this was a letter from the young widow herself, so brimfull of gratitude that he began to be almost ashamed to think that he had done so little fur so rich a return, and was rather sorry that Inc bad nut found time to have gone personally to comfort her in her sore affliction. I du nut know exactly- Low iteamc about, but one letter brought un another, until a pretty regular earresponcleacc k.prang up "NO ENTERTAINMENT IS SO CHEAP AS READING, NOR ANY PLEASURE SO LASTING." COLUMBIA, PENNSYLVANIA, SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 23, 18,55. between them. It happened, also, that the widow's father, who was a retired lawyer, living on the frugal savings of a frugal life, was able to confer a very considerable favor on John's Wolfe's house, by saving them from a severe loss by a dishonest customer who had suddenly taken it into his head, after a lifetime of honesty, to turn rogue, sell his goods to a cash customer who pre sented himself just at the right time, and slip of to California with the proceeds. A friend of the old lawyer was employed to draw up the bill of sale, who mentioned to him casually, that so and so was selling out and going to the land of promise ; and knowing that this individual was largely indebted to Wolfe's house, he quietly slip ped himself off to New York, by the first stage, without mentioning to any one but his wife and daughter, where he was going. Arrived in New York, he introduced him self, personally, to John Wolfe, and then proceeded to inform him of the important business which brought bins to the city. As the rascal creditor was expected to take the next California steamer, no time was lost in getting matters fixed, and just as the gentleman was depositing himself, car petAng and plunder, on board the steamer for Aspinwall, he found himself rather un expectedly obliged to relinguish his journey and pay a visit to John Wolfe's store, where after paying over his full indebtedness, he was released, only to be carefully attended to by the rest of his rather anxious creditors. The while affair proved a most successful one, and highly creditable to all parties concerned, but especially to the young widow's father. "You see, Mr. Cynic," said I, addressing my friend, "how one courtesy begets another''?" For all this important service, the old lawyer Vould only accept his expenses from home and back—said the jaunt had been worth something to him in the excitement and life it had given to his stagnant blood. and would not take a cent in cash on any account. John Wolfe managed, however, to be upsides with him fur all that. The old gentleman had hardly been home a week when a package,arrived by express .from New York, duly addressed to his wife, which upon being opened, disclosed a very handsome silver tea-service, with an ac company letter, begging her acceptance of the same, as a mark of respect and distin guished consideration fur important and disinterested services rendered to sundry firms whose names were all attached, headed or course, by the respected and respectable house of Wolfe, Waterford Co. Things went so for about two years, per- Imps a letter passing between the parties once a month, and John Wolfe and the young widow almost began courting by letter, without either one hawing yet seen the other. At last, one warm July, business being somewhat slack, John won took a trip to the White Mountains fur a week or two. and, while there, became acquainted, as trawling bachelors often will, w ith a party of liVe young folks—three ladies and two gentlemen. The two 'eldest couples were men and wives, not very lung past the honeymoon ; the third lady was called cousin Jane, and like other cousins we can all remember, was about one of the liveliest, most piquant little creatures you ever saw. Dark spark ling eves seemed to dance and laugh all the time above the most blooming cheeks, and darling,est little nose, and sweetest month, and roundest chin that ever belonged to be witching woman. John was quite smitten; he danced with hor at the evening ball ; be rode with her up the steep mountain paths ; he went fishing fur brook trout, and nothing delighted him more than, when they came to a deeper pool or more rugged path than common, to lift the little thing in his great brawny arms, and carry her like a child. For three days and nights, John Wolfe was in a paradise; on the fourth morning he woke up and found his happiness gone ; a letter had been left on the dressing-table, 6t.ding that the Pinkertons—the name of his new friends—had been obliged to depart by the Rage, at an early hour in the morn ing, having received news of sudden illness in their family; should be most happy to renew acquaintance with him at a future day, &e., &e. Our friend had a great mind to start off at once for New York, perfectly disgusted with the whole world ; but as one of his purposes in coming East was to pay a long promi.-ed and often desired visit to the young widow's family in Vermont, he felt rather ashamed to back out of his deter mination, although all of a sudden the lung cherished wish to make her personal ac quaintance had vanished, fur a certain-fano Pinkerton, as he called her, had played the %cry dickens with the platonic affection he had been secretly nourishing fur the last two years. "1 declare, Dick," said my friend Cynic, "your story b, getting to be rather a long winded affair, fur I hate . got to the end of my third cigar, :Ind yuu hate hardly com menced the story." "Well," said I, "if you will only have patience a little longer, you will find that I have nearly gui to the end of it. John Wolfe was received with high grati fication by the old lawyer and his wife, when he presented him elf at their hug-c. If he bad been the l'resident himself, they could scarcely have been prouder to receive im as a guest than they were to welcome John Wolfe. The daughter, however, was absent when he arrived, but a message ❑was sent off to her by the old lady, and it was not long bc'urc she made her appearance. You may guess the surprise of our friend John, when the young widow arrived, for there stood, welcoming him, with her danc ing eyes and beaming smile, no other than his fairy friend of the White Mountain, Jane Pinkerton, as lie called her, because she was with her niends the Pinkertons: and she, the laughing puss, although she knew by his name well enough who he was had never revealed herself to him as his lovhig correspondent, Jane Willoughby.— The women naturally love a little mystery, and so she had kept her own secret, in order to have the plea,ure of surprising liim when he should visit leer father's huitc according to promise. John 'Wolfe was a happy man that even ing, as he sat at tea, where the handsome silver service was duly displayed in his honor; and the young widow was as happy as he was, I guess, and the father and mother were running over with gratified pride, as they did the honors of their hum ble home to the young New lurk merchant, who had shown himself' such a true gentle man, in all their intercourse with him. ..1. delightful evening was passed by all parties; and -when John Wolfe was ushered Icy the old lady to the state bedroom, and had laid himself between the whitest pair of sheets that were ever bleached on Ver mont snow, he was so full of pleasant fan. cies and joyous hopes that he could not go to , deep for hours. However, toward merit ing he dotal off; and, as will happen at such times, his day dreams turned them selves into night-dreams, and he found him self again traveling up the rugged paths of the White Mountains, with laughing Jane Pinkerton at his side, joking and joy ing together, lifting her sometimes over some rough obstacle-3 in it path, and then again fairly carrying her across some big drift of snow which the summer sun had not been able to penetrate near enough to wake up; and so on, and on, until wearied out they stood to gaze upon the magnificent prospect bane and around them. Suddenly John thought he was on his knees before her, pouring out a torrent of passionate wor d,, declaring that life and hope, and happiness dweltonly where, &e., when, before be could get an answer or know u !tether the demur girl smiled, or frowned, behold he woke up. 110 was dreadfully Int wtilled at first, but presently recollecting where be was, and seeing it was broad day light, he jumps out of bed, makes his morning ablutions, and dresses himself in great haste, determined to wait no longer an answerithan it would take to fluid the ob ject of his dream. Down stairs he gees and into the parlor, site is not there—looks into the garden but does not see her, when, suddenly bethinking such a notable little dame might be a, good housewife, he starts for the kitchen—where, forsooth, he finds liar singing like a bird, elbow deep in the bread trough, kneading away for dear life. John's heavy tread betrayed the intruder— she looked up. "Do you want to know how to make johnny-cake, Mr. Wolfe?" she exclaimed, merrily. "Su" said he rather seriously, fur, like a man of deep and earnest feeling as he was, he felt that he approached a crisis in his life; "no, I do nut—my johnny-cake is mixed already--I only want to know whether I can get it." The widow did imt know what to make of it. "Well," said she,: "I do not know any reason why you should not." "That," replied John, "is what I want to find out; and as you know, my dear friend,' that two beads are better than one, I have come to consult you about it." Su, to make the matter plain to her; he related his dream to its termination. "And now, Jane," said lie, "ram here for an answer. Will you be my Johnny cake?—ley or no," Jane had held her head down while he spoke, blushing celestial rosy red----as is quite proper, I believe, on such occasions. But Jane's was an rarne't nature, likewise, and all trilling and run dad Nand,lied, when, looking up to him, lice bright eyes priming full of joyous tears. she gave him just one of the sweetest kisses he ever had in his life. "Fur ever and ever:" rlic cried; "fur ever and ever, Jelin, if you will have me." Just at, this instant the old lady mother stepped into the kitchen, and IJronglit them both to their Fer,e: by exclaiming— " Why, Jane!" "0, 11106 - ter, mother," :aid Jtum, "I atn su Lapp):" ,he ica ;min to embrace her mother. ".11e :eked iac to be hin wife, mother; give me juj—l ant to ue Julio 11'01 re's %vire:" There were jully time , , be Ft/re, in the old lawyer's hou,e, that week, and when .1 ha Wolfe earrie , l (.ff his little wife to New York, the/e na the merriest wedding party in that village that ever druve dull care out of fluor,. "Well," said ray friend Cynic, when I paused, "now, with all Sour 3 aro, you have not Bail one twordatlmut being rich, I:413111d rather thiuk the uhi lawyer, her father, tailor ha: e been rather pour; how oilJ hii daughter he rich? and folki.4 do Bay that JAI' Wolfe marl ied a rich wife!" "Fulk9 say a good many thing=, some times, that thoy du not know anything about," said 1, "John Wolfo's wife was not worth ten dollars in money when he mar ried her; but it so happened that very soon after her marriage, an aunt of hers in Bos ton died suddenly, and as Jane had always been a favoriteofher's,:t•he left her hear en tire fortune. I have beard say it was an hundred thousand dollars, but I don't know, and I don't care; but I do know, and. John Wolfe knows, too, that she herself, is an ample fortune fur any man—and that. Cynic, is the way John Wolfe got his wife." Frum 11.,L1.1,11V0rk6 A Traveling Acquaintance On Tuesday, the twentieth of July last. I had occasion to set out northward, as usual, from Eaton Square. I was a little late and hurried, and there was not a very varied collection of pa,,oo g ors to olioo,o from. As I walked hastily by the side of the already occupied carriages, the unthink ing guard would, in his impatience, lase twice consigned me to a durance vile—once in company with a w•hule w•ho had already commenced eating and smelling of ham sandwiches, and once with no less than Ike Caledonians, only waiting for an Englishman that they might begin to dilate upon the perfections of their native land. 1 ca-t myself into the last through carriage in despair, and without so !nue!' as looking before me. It was probable that my luck would be better: it could hardly, at all events, lie very much wore. Beside myself, the carriage had but one other occupant; a young man of an alto gether gentlemanly appearance, except. per haps that his clothes looked sit-1,4;4,11-1y new, and his hat somew•h;tt too glo.-y. llc was not reading the so intently bat that lie could spare a scrutinizing glance at the new arrival, as I rammed my carpet-bag under the seat with my hands, and kept a pretty sh:u•p look out, water my right arm, on hint. When I rose, lie was again buried in—yes!—in the advertisement sheet. The gentleman, then, had probably some good reason fur concealing his talent or obser vation. Nobody who is not in want of a situation gets wrapped up in an ad% ertise ment sheet: and my etimpanion. 1 felt, wm in want of nu such thing. Ills profe-edon, whatever that might be, hal been settled long ago, and the fishing-rod and guidedotok which reposed over his head, disclosed a young gentleman with money to spare, who was about to take a smuttier holiday amu»g the trout streams of the mirth. One circum stance whicli occurred just before We St.ll.V , i • pe r suaded Inc that he must be a lawyer, (and indeed, :IS afterw:u•ds turned out, hi pursuits did L.oniewhat partake of the na ture of that calling) so much did it smack of ready reasoning and practiced acuteness. Leaning out the window as tilo train began to mme, the wind carried away his glossy hat, whereupon, instead of sitting down for lornly, and muttering good gracious! or confound it! the young 1 / 1 1111 seized upon his hat-box and launched that after the missing property. "31y hat-box," he explained, in answer to my stare of amazement, "has got :ay Edin burg address in it, but my hat has not.— The one is of little use without the other, and it is probable, since ace lime barely left the station, that they will both be found and forwarded to Me by the next train." Hero was an original! Here was a grand exception to live-fifths of the human race who travel in first-class carriages! I hugged myself with the nutiuu of has iog secured so promising a companion, and that, too, after such a couple of previous e-capcs. "But how du yousknow?" I urged, because I had nothing better to say, and was deter mined, at all risks, not to suffer the conver sation to drop; "how do you know that somebody won't steal them?" "I don't know," replied the other, with a contemptuous dryness, "but I do nut think it probable; the articles would fetch so small a price that the reward would be likely to be quite as remunerative as the swag itself, and, of course, without the risk," The swag! I lid anybody who travels first class ever• hear such an expression? 1 was a good deal piqued, also, at the tone of tin noyanec in which lie spoke, and I replied tartly: ••I. don't understand thieves' logic, nor the language either." "And, I dm" responded my companion, carelessly. And he resumed his paper. We had passed Rugby, and were through the dark dominions of King Coal, before either of us again breke silence. "Come," cried lay bare-headel mein:Lin t:ince, suddenly, "there is no ecoa.iell her ns two to quarrel; only nettling put-; me so out of temper as to see a loan preml „r ignorance. Now you are a keen, leng headed fellow enough, 1 can see, but you don't know anything. "Perhaps not," I replio , l,>till annoyol the man's imumer, and Ow inowenstonted position of second fiddle, in whiolt I found myself; "but 1 have really ito awbrtiva t• learn thie‘es' 1.;_;h2." "11 . 11.:A a type or the of this country you d afford," tuu•ul the other coolly, "iu this your• exec-45e nary and euo.euit. Y.. 1.1 hate .1.0 ;11)::,;l3.41 to learn, amt yet, I (Lire ,ay, tldtt y :ut ,elf arc conecrttetl, either diroetly :,r in li rcctic, in !to er:lne, and put down the pn,fc•-'iun of r. nery Von help to elect a member of pat:id:now, trho vote, upon sub scribe to bonevol: :it a , cueiatiote , , Ln• tit.: mural re coo of triwi• yyd c-. 41 itlez 81,50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE; 82,00 IP NOT IN ADVANCE convict quediun to be an exceedingly im portant one, and yet you—" Here till , ir reverent huh% idual actually buto , t out laugh ing. "What would you think of a df,ctor. now, who had preccribed fn• a patient into the particular feature of whoqe ca-e he had really no ambition to inquire?" "I am not a doctor!" I roared. oat of all patience; "and I wish all the thieves in England. were to be hung to-morrow." "The country would he very sadly del,op ulatea," relied the other impa-,i‘ely: "you and I would certainly never meet again." ":1111.5. 1 , downright insult," I exclaimed, with indignation; "I ehail take cal e to ehauge earriage and eJnipany at the very next ,tati on." "\ ay, I meant no ofTener , ," re-p-ol,lcl my coin ptniion, g ravely ; ''l referre 1 n0.1:,- my-elf a , Leing thanntal to Le cot 141' iu ILO 'lower o r my if your i-he, ,Loohl Lr carried into eireet. I !lace Leona 1.:e1.1,,:::ot from by very tnallo; 0:1.1." a 1.1e.1 Itt`r pauno, 1 Out tha:lkro,l to :-.ly that 1 110 , . c not been altogether un.3ucee.,,titl hi my cu- MEM I Iva, ,tattlel f r an inomnt LS tlte man', neriomme.tt, an•l itt , tinetkely—althowAli ,ca , .; at the other entl llf the compartment— loukmi for Ilk wielo.l nand,. They mete lying, in hit l.ip itet're him, neatly :410% el. a them ,Liu the "_kli," he •aid, and ;Li onee emit preliending my g 1,111, , ,, " 1.10 , 0 are nothing. They are merely my whitel wall-, my out -I,le ro-peet:,liilitle= my 0 , -letitations ebati tit-, toy prayer, I , ..fttro cceiin lVe hate our little hyoeri.ie.i. like the commit wort]. hero," lie rose tip to his foil height, :milt lie two imiiiiii eolored, ari.toeratio hands fell on the floor Ith a thin]. "Here are Inc natural dig: i t,/ lic continued, proiliteimg ither :"et digits tingloveil anti not particularly clean: "no- Imily can sti , poet a man of l i Ling pocket %s lit) aki'llyS keep , his handh before him, am? remls the City Ai tiele in the 71,,,5." "Yon were re:tiling the nil ertisernent sheet," 1 said, iiiten-ely intered, but still inclined for contrailietion. "Yes, sir," he retorted, "liecani , c I saw that pretence of that kind to a your intelligence would lic futile. 1 sheave change my tactic , with lay company." I began to feel very tenderly fin. this poor fellow, wheat doubtless circumstances hail driven to his present dreadful calling, lint whose mental endowments had evidently fitted him for fir better thi ng s. "But why," 1 "not have nicked poeLet, my good yoliztg man?' "Became, sir," he ant4wcred, "I am now bent on plemiure, and hot ou something very enticing should conic in my way; open and mire ,e reel e inver,a tion, too, such its 1 felt I et/Uhl I:1 , 11114C in 11 id/ you, 15 to one in my situation" (the poor fellow sighed) "too rare a happilie-s to lie easily forgone; be-ides," he added, TC -5111111,11g his natural tone, "you don't car. ry your bank notes inyuur pocket at all.'' I felt myself glowing all over as red as beet-rout or boiled lobster, but 1 managed to articulate as calmly as I could, "Bank notes'. ah, that's a good Joke. I very seldom have anything of that kind to carry, I'm sorry to :ay." "le::, but when . you have?" interrogated the other, slily. "Well, sir, when I have, what then?" I retorted, with a , anne,l earele:zsness. "Why, what a very stran4e place,'' TO marked he, eery slowly and impressi; ely: "your neckcloth scelaS to be fur keeping them safe:" “Ifuw the devil did you come to know that?" I cried, in a , toni "What duei it sigaill)! What can be the value of thie‘ou' logic?" he annwored, de rbdrely. "I am sure you have nu ambition tv be informed." "I'ray tell," I entreatetl, "pray tell! I humbly apologise:" I hail tcry tatatly rubbed mys.elf of a must intent-tin:4 eon er-ation through my own ill lunaer. "It is very true that 1:::ve a Hu:niter ul Sc,teit notes ill the pla,te you mention , tyliirh my purse tvoultl nut but what cm eat th made you discus er "It was very simple reasoning," he ro plied, "awl t-calt_•ely tieetls explanation: feners are , eltlein worn tt.tw, alt , l yet tour tie, lt , r,ltief sometlting in it: yun were tot \ieus about that , tuttellting, alt,l put Sour fiogers to it involuntarily a tloien tiatt—: it a , it It , I1:2,11 `,11CiLIIIII• for 3 oar ap pe,tratteo, for } oune‘er tout•ltel the it,st of it: ilurt the thing mistit you, or tiel.le yo u r uot•lt, beean-e yeti simply taNtrtl it, a, a luau taps hi, fob to he :t , surctl—tlittro, clviip; it thp ,Lrety ‘• 1 . ..1 I an'!" I eN . eluitn.A,t,>tily. " Nay," lao, it. wottla Ci‘ll 1 :1 2. ; Irr toll. err •ti n." " I do e.ailidiniont I m itL I [11111; :tre :,Lll r. rliti,l ele er H " ,al , l 11.-, it i. n t., tIJ.It : I .w t.ll - 14 ..r that tn..p .ut ,13,ur rool I v I a uLI I.llt u up to the iivw. d I:: in ~•\ t 1.11 r•." Put :no up t it," 1 er:oi, with chtlitt- an,l v.it , ,l m la-t. I a1:1 a i:4 1t r,ui. a-; I f,el ; 0,1, I entre,,t put me =lll up to it 11 - 11...reuton, I ant Loup,' tbat 0o:111,11j...1 c inatutdcatel to 1111; ,11 , 11 411 array yr I;tet, regard Li; rafting [WHOLE NUMBER, 1,47f3. as would have shannsl a parliamentary blue back, and boguile. - I the way for loitinz with conversation, or rather mono] Lme., of the most exciting kind. Lor,l Byron states that one of the plea , aritest person, he crar 'net in his lire was a pickpocket, :toil I has tone I to emicrQe hi , ' lordship's opinion with my own. I felt all that L•ati,laction iii li-tening to my to:favictri acquaintance to an intelecturt-e with one 'dat'ing a temptrary truce : the delight tvhich feel, in playing at cricket with peLlag , gue ; or the. plea-ore which is ex iterienceti when a hi-1, Ithappen, mita, for once, in the chorn, of one's men unnlu :•;) So alino-t friendly, an air remark , that the nn ,, t perfect wit , 4 engendered no. I coultl t-aareely inntAino that my tte.reealtle compani..o e;,old base ever been in reality conterne I in a fraudulent trans ' aetitot. um! lar le- , in any deca4 Ave lta l ju.t kit Pi o , ton, and he ivai con ch) ling a 111: , hly inteve,ting account of how 1,1 , 1 tilled \\ nti,irettlatetl itt the prtt%inee-t, when tt thotOtt , tt ttek me. 111 WhiCii III" 1'1'111.41' , 4 1 -e.trr, • iy 1 . 1101. to alio% I Felt to knwty Kat.tiy lt.nc tr::11 , 11112," a.n ,11 . 01•ti•11.:l ..1 \ :I I to put ,:1,11 a , i , l o, 4ltril to ;001 .\t I !nu I, imp t,) ni oe.iti.tilit.Pico 11 t, ttiroll , lll lui , rrt;tilo or ‘ , liiorttilr., in Chi' 1,;.13)+.1)1, or 1 24 ph,!;•-•Son. Butt - t dte I tieulhh!ru• hi, Or, V 41,1 halt . rop.2nted , ail anytl in 4 tu , le a, ,on the titte , th,u ha , l kft tuy lle, l e dhl nut hht , ll an , ll,rvoutaingly, , ulll,l NCith the c , utfuloueu pi!' a mater in -inco it, i hi i. ignot ;Italy intorrugal,,l to hi: ktu,wh , kl:4o or it , lir,t pullul up hi, r,tl , c collar wit h hie real hands, at th u , ero,l tit fty. 'ingalarly enough, bie, ga rotte is my partiettiar JIB zcatitsfactioit at this avowal wmt, a•-; he imagined complete. It wa, like tho que,tiou ah,alt Hug mumott mooted among the omnibus pa—enger,, being. referred to the t,tratige geutleiriati in the corner with the lionitin \ ho turned out to he tho Ihike if How eloquent did my fraudulent fi rend become abJut his favorite topic! What hairlireadth escapes from the police and other intruske persons interrupting him in the pursuit .r his vocation, he had at 'ani ons times expmitmeed ! Left alone with' his man he had rarely indeed been unsuc cessful. Once, hOWC\ er, with a f•yinnastie gentleman—a hatlequin, in plain clothes, returning home from the theatre—who had thrown a sinnincrsault clean over his head and once with a stout party trout a city din ner, who hail no neck—pa...nicely none—to :Ilford the operator a ihanee, and who bit my friend's arm in ucL a manner that it as for a week. •• Lid you did these feats of yourself and without any as , istance?" I inquired, with some increil u lit y. "(2 t iite alone, ,ir," replieil he, " Ina, in 11 eaNe , , the garette,r; were several inches zip» ter than iny,elf: with a inan rd your ,iie, for iii•tanee," niPl he good huinereCily, " it 'would 1 C alino,.t an hopes- siLilitv." 1 laughed very heartily at this notion too. Would he he n :;,,,,t1 a , to Lou• wo, jtt , t to 100 011 CA Ull/:,)(2 of how the thing Was dune .• I thruly arie fre:n the baek of your neck, like he. the action .) the werl, hut Nvith the I.2ry gre;Ltent deli teu,:ll. •• Vuu ,ute 1 aut uut in- cute euienuing 3 uu 7'' Not at all, 'ail I . •` U.. oa ," •• I then ch,-e the lhre :u•at tightly. St,,,p a little Ltt cr, plea-e ; thank pia, and coin pre• .4 the windpipe . . ." 11 - here wa, I AVilv I the e;a: i.t4 iu t t 1 ~r t he ,r ;l e r NVIly tva- , mp ileck,•lotli v,Qro thc which it 11,1 , 1 eump.i. - ly with 1,1.t0y orla•rs. pie , entedl tlicni , olvei to my mia.l ac liic train glidcd 'Alto , tatio,,. Alpo"; all %Olen,: NVlri toy .tgrooll,lo e-,npanion I knew 1,3 the. 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