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1017 Tromp!. u t tention given to all business entrusted
to htecate. --
November 58,1857.
,`• 301 t. G. W. twirl ,
DNIIST, Locust street, -a few doors above
the Odd Felltitivat Hull, Coloiabia, Pa.
Colombia. May 3. 1856.
TTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW
Columbialrk• - • *
Collectlons,r.romptly made,i n Lane asterand York
3ountiet,,
Columbia,
QM
J. W. FISIIER;
A4orney and Counsellor at Law,
Clcauxics.laia,
Columbia, September a, IxsB-tt
C. - D. HOTTENSTEIN, M. D.,
SDOG ON AND PDYSICIAN; -Columbia, Pa.
otaec in the rooms lately occupied by Dr. L. S
Filbert. May 14, 1E594.
S. Atlee Socktus, D. D. S.
P -
ft/LCTICES the Operative, Surgical and Mechan
ical Departments of Dentistry.
()emit -Locust street,, between the Franklin Dionne
and POO. Office, Columbtaira , . .
May 7.1858. .
Smita COVi — .-I — fresh — Tot of Shaker
Corn, for smithy litiblßY SUYDAM,
Nov. 13, 1858: Corner 1 v ' trcet s.
GEORGE .1. SMITII,
WBOLESALB and Retail Bread and Cake
Baker.—Constantly on hand a variety of Cakes,
vo numerous to mention; Crackers; Soda, Wine,
and Sugar. BIECUiti Coukctionery,.of every description,
ice; tue." • • ' • LOCUST STRUM',
Feb. 4'58. Between the Bitak and Franklin House.
JUST received, three dozen Dr. Brnnon's
Vegetable Sitters, a certain cure for Dyspepsia;
also, a fresh lot of Sap Sago and Pine Apple Cheese,
Purina - and Cote Starch, at D. HERR'S
Sept 5,1557. Grocery and Liquor Store.
JEST RECEIVED, a beautiful assortment of
Gloss Ink titurido, at the Headquarters and
Nowa Depot.
Columbia, April 18,1887.
CHEWING TOBACCO.
AT lIENRY TFAHLER'S, Locust street . opposite the
Franklin House, can be bed CUBA LEAF. CON
GRESS, and several other brands of the best Chewing
Tobacco, to which the attention of cheerers is invited.
May 1,1858. •
TN PORTED Lubin's, 'Deo, Moan's Doublerstracts,
1 for Oa hattattetelier, at
HARRY GttEEDVS,
Opposite Cola. Bridge, From St:
Feb. 19. 'S9
NOTICE.
GO TO FENDIIICH BBD'S for the Best
Teti : see°
The Best Sweet Coven Usti,
Twiss,
" • CC Peach Leaf,
can he bought cheaper of Fendrieh& Bros.,than else
where. The only established wholesale and retail
Tobacconists sa Columbia.
FRONT BTRIMT ABOVE LOOLIST.
March 12. lesB.
GOLD PENS.
A FRESH lot of lot A. G. Bagley's Oold Pros,
rdilreteut sizes and prices. VW. received, at
SAYLOR Sr. McDONALD'd,
Head Quarters and News Depot, Front Rirect, sec
oud door above Locust.
ttureb 27.-11103.
ThrlOW:-10 - 0 Doz. Brooms, at Wholesale
or-Stela il. at H. PFAHL.M.S.
Dec.l2, 1857 Leiewnt ei rect.
11 , 111113 • Couipouad of Syrup of Tar, Wild
v.. ; ): Cherry and idoarhound, for the cure ot Coughs,
Colds, Whooping Cough. Croutt.:&e. • For Sale at .
J IticCOß FILM & DELLETT'S
Family Medicine Store, Odd Fetlowal
October 23, Oat
• Patenv-Steam Wash-Bolters.
knOvins Boilers are kept constantly on
hand at - 11 EKRIt PPAHLBWS,
Locust street. opposite the Prank/in Undue.
Colombia, July is, t 857. : .
Ukata tot sale by the bustle! or larger glum
truly by - •D. F. APPOLD.
Columb is Dee. 25. PUS. - &Mina
- pgai and Super fi ne Neuf, Buckwheat
..rj Floor, Cora Meat , and whole Corn and Onto.. at
Corner of Third and Union sireeta. /Jan- 13,,59,
Tuoltivs Es.. of Cannibal and Sarsaparilla, for
taivatAboUolden*artar Drag Bare.,
TOBACCO'Bia and Seiis
t ot the bed brands,
wholesale relati
Ja`39.. 13RUNEW:4
tove 'oLts
A SUPERIOR article of Masa that requires
.11.. loss labor, and produces a pcnisb unattained by
any elber.• •
F'cor`salest•the:Goldou Mortar Drug Store, Front at.
13opt. 24; um
if/ST fa store; freeb lot of Breisag & Prouflelda
cf celebrated Velcdibla Caldlehroder, and for sale by
. AIWA& Nis,
• • . ,
'Pept4ll;lBs9: .Frout etreet,trolcnnble:
Boxes of Dufrerergere Soapy es bred) said fox
Z sale l ower the corner of "Tbirdentr U fowl Ste.
A otkild64lWe • 0"
lecif i Aea "Ai:4:4lle; beaoufnl .lot .of Vanilla
Beeps, atL.I.,I)ELLib'TT Jr, CO'S
GolBaii.:44) - tat Dry Slam **rant Street:
•
Stiff'ek n'olcagerlOsh Conti.
Golden M c rae Deed more y Iroetare
cu ti l
in Unclewarrant which lS warraed ye ( vencreF :t orns in
S-12 - •
1.01 11 1 .71 L
A tieartititatiltliti at Fir ,Pap:!:. For the aenti is
non otaifies; kci-hits Jest been received's( the
DEng Storo of - ". R 11(111,LIAMS, Front street."
Celtunbis, Jelly •
.Columbian Ink; „ „ ,
winco Matt.
and not eon c a n be had taiga,
quiettty.bt lila Family^ Metheibe , Attore,Niadi bleaker
H that English Boot Pt:Orb. - •
Columbia. Jaime 6n2866 r • •:
. 4 ,3*..ltiaid.',ot", Chewing Tatineco:
Ten webeasit;et bee Mot streived 40 Boxes of their
erlehreted home •••PENIIIRICIPs RAVI2IIIOIItI
fikIISWING.4)3I3hGCO,n which •they
oderarire•dtplow tater Their obeteo h a trst4ele
meet, manafeeteseil expressly for this market. The
Plussionbiegior *OW- li4 the SOSIMEOlidgellY
tree from say deleterioss sobstoorm.
FENVIRiciI 4 nos:,
Ant.13, 4 7*. • Friett street, Celarphte,r
Ugtttg.
A DALLAD-
Ile? tam vetts bent. her atepswere
She came up the path alone?
And she sat her down CVO the cburch-yard wall,
With her feet on the stepping-atone.
81 50
A look she wore of the wasted year,
Whose beauty and strength were over
But her voice was low, as of old, and clear,
And Ae sang of her buried lover.
11038
' , The year is dying, its leaves nre red,
Its sights and Its wands are dreary;
The year is dying above the dead,
And the living are kne . and weary.
“Drearily swinge the church-yard chime,
And drearily ercaue the ycw;
Re died in the goodly summer time;
May I die is the ET:rimer too!
"Ile died whiletl4 corn was tall andrgicein
Ere the brood ofthe lark had flown;
Hedied while the blossom was *tribe bean,
He died while the fields were mown
"He died while the scent was h: yon
.And the woodbine that wreathed it blew;
He diedin the goodly summer-time:
Slay I die in the summer toot
"I kept my last watch over his bed,
'Twas noon, and his hour drew near;
would took once more on the earth,' be said;
`Will you show it me, ➢Lary, dear?'
"So I raised him up till he saw the skies,
The fields,and the church, andthe river;
Then I laid 'him down rind closed his eyes,
The eyes that I loved, forever.
"God giant me to live till the epring be here,
A ed to look on the young year's bloom,
'Twere sad to die while the earth is &ear,
Amid wituereinds and gloom."
She rose, and udder the wall she passed,
To her borne in the village lona;
Through the yew-tree branches hurried the blast,
-And the belle brake forth again;
nut there teemed a voice in their clanging chime,
itllda voice in the creaking yew,
That anid "He died in the suauner-time,
Thou shalt die lathe summer, too?'
_[Onceg Wick. . . _ .
Summer is Dead
limb!' tell it not to the flowers and trees,
Whisper it not to the birds and the breeze;
Let math° blossoms of crimson anti blue
fieazthe sad tale, though its burden be tree,
nflamer is dead!
Bash! foram sea bath suspended its breath,
Fearing to catch the first summons of death,
And the bright clouds that are passing away,
Fain must drop tears could they hear what you say,
ommer is dead;
Aye! though her metic of glory bestial
Spread over gurdrn and meadow and
Though the rich bloom bath no tomb of decay,
And the bee twin through the long sonny day,
Sumner id dead:
Aye! it ti ended' From forest and glen,
From cities alive with the conflict of men,
From the grass et our feet, from the now silent bird
From earth, sea and sky, is our spirits is heard,
Summer is dead!
So mach of oar glory and gladness Is left,'
We sigh not an those of her presence bereft;
Her crown and her garlands antaded are hung •
Where they dropped when aside they were care
!early fang. :hammer is dead'
glistliJauo.
From the Southern Literary Meseenger.
My Debut at the Ear
My client was a-respectable butcher; his
opponent a well-to-do farmer. On getting
to the court house, I found the court in ses
sion. The clerk was just rending the min
utes. My case—l can well speak in the
singular—was the first set on the docket
for that morning. I looked around and
saw old liasm, who somehow had foisnd out
that I was in the ease, with his green bag
and half a library of old books on the bar
before him. The old fellow gave me a look
of malicions pleasure—like that of a hungry
tiger from his liar, cast upon an unsuspect
ing calf browsing near. I had tried - to put
on a bold face. I thought it would be very
unprofessional to let on to my client that I
was at all scared, though my heart was
running down like a jack-screw under a
heavy wagon. My conscience—l had not
practised it away tben—was not quite easy.
I couldn't help feeling that it was hardly,
honest to be leading my client, like Falstaff
hie men, where be was sure to be peppered.
But then it was my only chance; my bread
depended upon it; and I reflected that the
same thing is to happen in every lawyer's
practice. I tried to arrange my ideas in
form and ex-cogitate a speech; they flitted
through my brain in odds and ends. I could
neither think nor quit thinking. I would
lose myself in the first twenty words of the
opening sentence, and stop at a particle;
the trial run clean out. I would start it
again with no better luck; then I thought a
moment of the disgrace of a dead break
down; and then I would commence again
with,,'t3entlemen of the jury," etc.; end soon
as before. -
At length the,Judge signed the minutes,
and took up the docket: "Special Caso—Rig
ginbotham vs. Swinly,slander. Mr. Glondys
for plaintiff, Mr. Kasai for defendant. Is
Mr. Gl': in 'coirri?' Call him, sheriff." The
sheriff, called three times. Re might as
well - tiave called the. dead. No. answet of
course came. Mr. Haste arose, and told
the Courithat he was - sorry his brother was
too much (stroking his chin, and lociking
deoivn:Mid Pitug!ing) *disposed; oratherwise
engaged to attend to the case; but he- most
insist on' its being disposed of, eta.; the 'wart
said it should be. I then spoke up (though
my voice seemed to be very low dole, and
ve ry bard to get up,) that I had just been
spoken to in the case. I believed we were
ready, if the caw must. then be tried; but I
should much prefer it to be laid . over, if the
court would_ consent, wail the nest dsy, or
even that evening. • Kasw' protested vshe•
Nary
"NO ENT4RTAINMENT IS SO CHEAP AS READING, NOR ANY PLEASURE SO LASTING.".
COLUMBIA, .PENNSYLVANIA, SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 12, 1859.
meetly against this, reminded the_ court of
its peremptory order;_referred.te the formor
proceedings, and was going on to discuss
the whore merits of the case, when he was
interrupted by the Judge, who, turning
himself to me, remarked that he should be
happy to oblige me, but that he was, pre
cluded by what bad happened; be hoped,
however, that the counsel on the other side
would extend the desired indulgence; to
which Kasm rejoined that this was a case
in which he neither asked favors nor meant
to give them. So the case had to go on.
Several members of the bar had their hats
in their hands, ready to leave the room,
when the case was called up; but, seeing
that 1 was in it alone, suffered their curi
osity to get the better of their engagements,
and staid to see it out—a circumstance that
did not diminish my trepidation in the
least.
• I had my witnesses called up, posted my
client behind me in the bar, and put the
the case the jury. The defendant had
pleaded justification, and not guilty. I got
along pretty well, I thought, on the proofs.
The cross•examination of old Kasm did not
seem to me to hurt anything; though he
quibbled, misconstrued and bullied mightily
—objected to all my questions as leading,
and all the witnesses' answers as irrevelant;
but the Judge, who was a very elver sort of
a man, and didn't like Kassa much, helped
me along and over the bad places, occasion
ally taking the examination himself, when
old Kasm had got the otatements of the wit
ness in a fog.
I had a strong ease; the plaintiff showed a
good ohmmeter—that the Lodge of Masons
had refused to admit him to fellowship un
til he had cleared up these charges; that
the Methodist church, of which he was
a class-leader, had required hint to have
these charges judicially settled, that he had
offered to satisfy the defendant that they
were false, and proposed to refer it to dia•
interested men, and to be satisfied, if they
decided for him, to receive a written retrac
tion, in which the defendant should only
declare he was mistaken; that the defendant
had refused this proffer and reiterated the
charges with increased bitterness end ag-
I gravated insult; that the plaintiff had suffer
' ed is reputation and credit; that the defen
dant had declared he meant to run him oil
and buy his land at his (defendant's) own
price, and thatdefendant was sigh, and often
repeated his slander at public meetings, and
once at the church door, and finally, now
justified.
The defendant's testimony was weak; it
did not controvert the proof as to the speak
ing of the words of the matters of aggrava
tion. Many witnesses were examined as to
the character of the plaintiff; but those
against us only referred to what they had
heard since the slanders, except one, who
was unfriendly. Some witnesses spoke of
butchering hogs at night, and hearing them
squeal at a late hour at the plaintiffs
slaughter house, and of the dead hogs they
had seen with various marks, and some
thing of hogs having been stolen in the
neighborhood. This was about all the
proof. The plaintiff laid his damages at
ten thousand dollars.
I rose to address the jury. By this time
a good deal of the excitement had worn off.
The tremor left only gave me that sort of
feeling which is rather favorable than oth
erwise to a public speaker.
I might have made a pretty good out of it
if I had thrown myself upon the merits of
my case, acknowledged modestly my own
inexperience, plainly stated the, evidence
and the law, and let the case 7,o—reserving
myself in conclusion "for a splurge," if I
chose to make one. But the evil genius
that presides over the first bantliegs of all
lawyerlioge would have it otherwise. The
citizens of the town, and those of the coun
try then in the village, bad gathered in
great numbers into the court house to hear
the speeches, and I could notmias such an
opportunity for display.
Looking over the jury, I found them a
a plain, matter of fact looking set of fel
lows; but I did not note, or probably know
a fact or two about them, which I found
out afterwards.
I started, as I thought, in pretty good
style. As I went on, my fancy began to
get the better of• my judgment. Argu
ments and common settee grew tame.
Poetry and declamation, and at last pathos
and fiery inventive took their place. I grew
as "quotatioas"as Richard Sniveler. Shake
spears suffered. I quoted among other things
of less value and aptness, 'Re who steals my
ponteeteals trash,' etc. I spbko of the woeful
sufferings of my poor client, alumiet broken
hearted - beneath the weight the terrible
persecution of his enemy; lind 'growing bol
der I turned on old •Katart, end congratu
lated the jury that the rainier dander had
foundwn appropiate defender in the genital
of chicane and malignity. I "complimented
the jury on their patience, pa_ their estimate
of the cab:sof character; spoke of the pub
lic expectation, of that feeling outside , of
the box which. would welcome with , than
dering plaudits the righteous vmdiat the
jury would render, and wound rip by de
claring that . rhad'never known s case of
slander soeggravated in the tonne of my
practice at the bar; sod felicitated myself
that its grossness and barottrity justified
my client in relying upon even the youth
and inexperience of an unpracticed *dee.
tate, whose poverti of riseatwee was amid:
ed by opportunities of previous preparation.
'Meath more I said that happily has now • es
caped sae.
- When I concluded, Sam Hicks and one
or two other friends gave a faint sigh of ap
plause, but not enough to make any impres
sion,
I observed that old Kam held his bead
dawn while I was speaking; I entertained
the hope that I had cowed himf His usual
fort was that of cynical composure, er bold
and brazen defiance. It was a special kind
ness if he only smiled in covert scorn; that
was his most amiable expression in a trial.
But when he raised up his head I saw the
devil was to pia.. The face was of a bur
ning red. He seemed almost to choke with
rage. his eyes were bloodshot, flamed and
out fire and fury. His queue-stuck out be•
hind, and shook itself sillily, like a bull's
tail when he is about to make a fatal plunge.
I had struck between wind and water.
There was an audacity in a striplinglike me
bearding him which infuriated him. lie
meant to massacre me, and wanted to be a
long time doing it. It was a regular auto
de fe. I was to be the representative of the
young bar, and to expiate his malice against
all. The Court then adjourned for dinner.
It assembled again after an hour's recess.
By this time the public interest, and es
pecially that of the bar, grew very great.
There was a rush to the privileged seats,
and the sheriff had to command order, the
shuffling of feet and the pressure of the crowd
forward was so great.
I took my seat within the bar, looked
around with an affection of indifference, so
belying the perturbation within that the
same power of acting on the stage would
have made my fortune on that theatre.
Kasm rose—took a glass of water; his
band trembled a little—l could see that;
took a pinch of snuff, and led off inn voice
slow and measured, slightly, very slightly
tremulous. By a strong effort he had re
covered his composure. The bar was sur
prised at his calmness. They all knew it
was affected; but they all wondered that he
could affect it. Nobody was deceived by it.
We felt assured that "it was the torrent's
smoothness era it dashed below." I thought
he would come down on me in a tempest,
and flattered myself it would soon be over.•
But malice is cunning. Ile had no idea of
letting me off so easily,
He commenced by saying that he had
been some years in practice. Ho would not
say he was an old man; that would be in
had taste, perhaps. The young gentleman
whu bad just closed his remarkable speech,
harangue, poetic effusion, rigmarole, or
whatever it might be called, if, indeed, any
name could be safely given to his motley
mixture of incongruous slang—the young
gentleman evidently did not think he was
an old man, for he could hardly be guilty
of such rank indecency as to have treated
age with such disrespect—he would not say
with such insufferable impertinence; "and
yet I am," he continued, "of ago enough to
recollect, if 1 had charged my memory with
so inconsiderable an event, the day of his
birth, and then I was in full practice in this
court house. I confess though, gentlemen,
I am old enough to remember the period
when a youth's first appearance at the bar
was not signalized by impertinence towards
his seniors; and when public opinion did not
commend flatulent bombast and florid trash,
picked out of fifth-rate romances, and loam
byparnhy rhymes, repeated by the upstart
sauciness of a raw popinjay toward the ex
perienced members of the profession he dis
graced. And yet to some extent this rant
ing youth may be right. I am not old in
that sense which disables me from defending
myself here, by words, or elsewhere, if need
be, by blows; and that this young gentle
man shall right well know before I have
done with him. You will bear in mind,
gentlemen, that what I say is in self-defence
—that I did not begin this quarrel—that it
was forced on me; and that I am bound by
no restraint of kindness, or of courtesy, or
of respect. Let him charge to the account
of Ilia rashness and rudeness whatever he
receives in return therefor.
Let me retort on the youth, that he is a
worthy advocate of his butcher client. ll
fights with the dirty weapons of his barbar
ous trade and brings in his speech the reek
ing odor of his cllent's slaughter house.
Perhaps something of this congeniality
commended him to the notice of his worthy
client, and to this, his first retainer; and no
wonder, for when wo heard his vehement
roaring, we might have supposed that his
client had brought his most unruly bull-calf
into court to defend him, had not the matter
of the roaring soon convinced us the animal
was more remarkable for the length of his
ears than the power of his lungs. Perhaps
the young gentleman has taken his retainer.
and contracted for butchering my client on
the same terms as his cheat contracts in his
rise—that is on the shares. But I think,
gentlemen, he will find the contract a more
dirty . than profitable job. Or perhaps it
might not be uncharitable to suggest that
his client, who seems to be pretty well up to
the business of "saving other peoples' bow
ean." may have desired, as far as possible,
to save his own; and, therefore, turning
from ,tbe,,members of the bar who would
have charged him fur their services accord
ing to their value, toot, this occasion of get
ting off some of his stale wares; for has not
Shakepesre said—the patlernan will allow
me to quote Shaltopeare, too, while yet his
reputation survivor Isis barbarous mouthing
of the poet's words-711e inevr an attorney
"who would deleud,.aeause for a starved
hem, or alog of mutton fii-blown. I trust,
however, whatever was , Ate_ r" the
gentleman will . make his egnally : worthy
client stand up to it; for I should like that on
one occasion it might be. said the -excellent
butcher was made to pay for his swine.
I find it difficult, gentlemen, to reply to
any part of this young man's effort,:except
his argument, which is the smallest part in
compass, and next to Lis pathos; the most
amusing. His figures of speech are some
of them quite good, and have been so con
sidered by the best judges for the last thou
sand years. I must confess that, as to these,
I find no fault than that they were badly ap
plied and ridiculously pronounced; and this
further fault, that they hare become so com
mon-place by constant use, that unless some
new vamping or felicity of application be
given them, they tire nearly as much as his
original matter—videlicit, that matter which
being more ridiculous than ire have ever
heard before, carries internal evidence of its
being his own. Indeed, it was never hard
to tell when the gentleman recurred to his
own ideas. Ile is like a cat-bird--the only
intolerable discord she snakes being her
own notes; though she gets on well enough
as long as she copies and cobbles the songs
of other warblers.
But, gentlemen, if this young orator's ar
gument was amusing, what shall I say of
his pathos? What farce ever equalled the
fun of it? The play of "The Liar" proba
bly approaches neerest to it—not only in
the humor, but in the veracious character of
the incident from which the humor comes.
Such farce—so woe-begone, so whimpering,
as if the short period since he was flogged
at school (probably in reference to those
eggs falsely charged to the hound-puppy),
had neither obliterated the remembrance of
his juvenile affliction, or the looks he bore
when he endured it.
There was something so exquisite in this
picture of the woes, the wasting grief of his
disconsolate client, the butcher, Higgin
botham, mourning—as Rachel mourned fur
her children—for his character, because it
was not. Gentlemen, look at him? He
weighs twelve stone now. He has three
inches of fat on his ribs this minute. He
would make as many links of sausage as
any hog that ever squealed at midnight in
his slaughter pen, and has lard enough in
him to cook it all. Look at his face! Why
his chops remind a hungry man of jowls
and greens. If this is a shadow, in the
name of propriety, why didn't he show him
self, when in flesh, at the last fair beside
the Kentucky ox; that 'were a more honest
way of making a living than stealing hogs.
But Higginbotham is pining in grief? I
wonder the poetic youth, his learned coup
eel, did not quote Shakspeare again. He
never told his woes, but "let concealment,
like the worm in the bud, prey upon hie
damask cheek." He looked like patience
un a monument snuffing at grief—or at beef,
I should rather say. But, gentlemen, prob
ably I am wrong; it may be that this tender
hearted, sensitive butcher was lean before,
and, like Falstaff, throws the blame of his
fat on sorrow and sighing, which "has
puffed him up like a bladder." (Here Hig
ginbotham left in disgust.)
There, gentlemen, he goes, "larding the
lenn earth as be goes along." Well has
Dr. Johnson said, "Who kills fat oxen
should himself be fat." Poor Mg., stuffed
like one of his own blood puddings with a
dropsical grief which nothing short of ten
thousand dollars of Swink's money can cure.
Well, as grief puffs him up, I don't wonder
that nothing but depleting another man can
cure him.
And now, gentlemen, I come to the blood
and thunder part of this young gentleman's
harangue, empty and vapid words, and
nothing else. If any part of this rigmarole
was wider than any other part, this was it.
Ile turned himself into a small cascade,
making a great deal of noise to make a
a great deal of froth; tumbling, roaring,
foaming; the shallower it run, all the noisier
it seemed. He fretted and knitted his
brow; he beat the air, and he vociferated,
always emphasizing the meaningless words
most loudly; he puffed, swelled out, blowed
off until he seemed like a new bellows, all
brass and wind. How he mouthed it—as
those villainous stage players, ranting out
fustian in a barn, theatre mimicking-11%0
steals my purse steals trash.' (I don'tdeny it.)
"Tis something,' (query?) 'nothing' ex
actly. "Tis mine; 'twaa his, and has been
slave to thOnsands—but ho who filches trate
me my good n • anie; robs me of that which
not enriched) him,' (not in the
,least) *but
makes . tnepoor indeed,' (just so; but wheth
er any pOorer than heti:ire •hii • 'Parted JAB)
the encumbratieeie another matter.)'
But the young gentleman' - refers to his
youth... He ought_tiot to itiProtich'iis of mi . -
turer age that indirlict wey; - nodneironld
have auspeoted,it . iif hit:di:tit: if ho
had not told it; indeed, from hearitil Ida)
speak, we Were prepared le give Um credit
for - almost/Pay /maga of ars: But doei not
the ' , Oath reineirißei that Gr s ottutrivitO only
seventeen when he was in` falliractice, and
that he was attorney general at twenty-two;
and what is Grotias to this greaterlightl—
Not the herein of my smoke house to the
oonflagraitioii *of Moscow! •
'And yet young °reties tells nu in the next
breath that he never knew snob a slander
in the course of his practice! Wonderful
indeed! seeing that. his practice has all been
done wlthisi the last, six hours. Why,. to
bear:bins talk, you would suppose lie wa s an
old Continental
,lawyer grown 'gray in the
Why,
.lye's
just in his 'legal .ewaddlirag . clothes!.,
$1,50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE; $2,00 IF NOT IN ADVANCE:`"
. • .
practice! But I don'twonder he
,don't see
the absurdity of such talk. how long does
it
- take one of the canine tribe, after birth,
to open its eyes?
He talked, too, of outside influence; of
the pliblic expectations, and all that sort of
dentgogueism. I observed no evidence of
any -popular- demonstrations in his favor,
unless it be a tailor I saw stamping his feet;
but whether that was.because - he had sat
cross-legged sq,long he wanted exercise, or
was rejoicing because he bad got orders for
a new suit, or a.prospect.of payment for an
uld one, the gentleman can probably- tell
better than I can. (Here Hicks left.)—
however, if this case is to be decided here,
the gentleman will allow me the benefit of
a writ of error to the regimental muster
to be held next Friday at Reinhart's distil
lery-.
But I suppose he meant to frighten you
into a verdict by intimating that the mob,
frenziel by his eloquence, would tear you
in pieces if you gave a verdict for defen
dant; like the equally eloquent barrister
out 'West, who, concluding a case, said:
"Gentlemen, my client is as innocent of
stealing that cottiog as the setting sun at
noon-day, and if you give in again him his
brother, Sam liotchins, nest muster will
maul every mother's son of you." I hope
the sheriff will see to his duty, and keep
the crowd from you, gentlemen, if you
should give us a verdict!
But, gentlemen, I am tired of winnowing
chaff; I have not had the reward paid by
Gratiano for sifting his diszourse—two
grains of wheat to the b - ushel. It is all
froth, all wind, all bubble!"
Kasm left me here for a time, and turned
upon my client. Poor Higginbotham caught
it thick and heavy. He wooled him, then
skinned him, and then took to skinning off
the under cuticle. fig never skinned a
beef so throughly. He put together all the
facts about the witnesses hearing the hogs
squeal at night; the different marks of the
hogs; the losses in the neighborhood; per
verted the testimony and supplied omissions,
until you would suppose on bearing him
that it had been fully proved that poor Rig
had stolen all the meat he had ever sold in
the market. Ile asseverated that his suit
was a malicious conspiracy amongst the
Methodists and Masons to crush his client.
But all this I leave out, as not bearing on
the main subject—myself.
He came back to me with a renewed ap
petite. He said he would conclude by pay
ing his valedictory respects to his juvenile
friend, as this was the last time he ever ex
pected to have the pleasure of meeting
The poetic young gentleman had said,
that by your verdict against his client you
would blight forever his reputation and that
of his family—that you would bend down
the spirit of his manly son, and dim the ra
diance of his blooming daughter's beauty.
Very pretty, upon my word! But, gen
tlemen, not so fine, not so poetical by half,
as a precious morceau of poetry which
adorns the columns of the village newspa.
per, bearing the initials of J. C. R. As
this admirable production has excited a
great deal of applause in the nurseries and
boarding schools, I must beg to read it, not
for the instruction of the gentleman, but for
the entertainment of the jury. It is ad
dressed to R— B—, a young lady of
this place. Here it goes.
Judge of my horror when, on looking up,
I saw him take an old newspaper from his
pocket, and, pulling down his spectacles,
begin to read, in stage actor style, some vet.,
ses I had written for Rose" Bell's
Rose had been worrying me some time to
write her something. To got rid of her im
portunities, I had scribbled off a few lines
and copied them into the precious volume.
Rose, the little fool, took them fur some
thing clever, (she never had store than a
thimble full of brains in her doll-baby
head,) and was so tickled with them that
she got her brother Bill, about fourteen, to
copy them tiff as well as he Could,"and take
them •to printing office. Bill threw them
under the door. The printer, as big a fool
as either, net only published them, but, iu ,
his infernal kindness, puffed thew in some
critical commendations of his own, referring ,
to the "gifted author" as "one of the most ;
promising of the younger members of our
bar."
The fun by this .time grew fast and 'fn
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lions. The country, neeple,tiho hive about
ai much sympathy for synungfinsvulawyer
badgered' iiy , art: elder one, as fur a. young
eisb - beeeTby curs, and' who bitye as much
idea or respect for poetry as for witchCraii,
jainedlrslbiinirth - with glee': They crowd;
ed around old Kama, and stamped and
roared as at a circus. Tlie judge andaber
fif in - yells tiled to keep drier. Indeed; his
honer' inn Ted 'out load onrinr twice, aed, to
corer his retreat, pieteadectte ,cougb,
_arid
fita,crtlie sheriff five dollars for not keeping
silence `in court. Even the old clerk, whose
immemorial :pen 'behind hrs right ear bed
worn the hair from that side of his head,'
and wba had not smiled in court for twenty
years, and boasted that Patrick "Henry
could'ut disturb him in making up njudg..
merit entry, actually..turned his chair from
the desk and put down his pea;. afterwards .
his hand to . his head three times in
search for it„,forgetting, in, his attention to
old E.asm, - .what be bad_done with it.
Old Kasai went on readingaillncintntent
tarns; I forget ;idiot the ineffable
trash was. I trottld'at recollect:if I could.
My ociganititity wi/.1 only stand a phrase or
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twolhat still lingers . 'in my memory, fixed
there by old'Xrism's ridicule. 'I had-said
something about my "bosom's' anguish"—
about the passion that was consuming 'me;:
and, to illustrate it, or to make the linejin
gle, put in something about ".Eijit'S Queen ,
taking the asp to her bosom"--wrttralt,' foi
the sake of rhyme or metre,-I' called ; the'
venomous worm—how the confounded thing'
was brought in I neither know 'noi"wrint'for`
know. When old Kant '-earrie-te-thit;-le
said he fully appreciated what the jog
i bard said—lie"elieVed- - -it. =spoke - of
venomous worms. Now if he (Kasm) rtiight
presume to give the young gentleman:. ad.'
vice, be would recoremetid Sivalin'S patent
veratifuge. Ile had no doubt bat" that it
would effectually care him of his malady,
his love, and last, but not least, of leis
rhymes—which would be the happiest pas—
sage in his eventful history.
I could'at stand it any longer; I had
borne it to the last point of human endu
rance. When it came only to skinning I
was there; but when he showered down
aquafortis on the raw, and then seemed dis
posed to rub it in, I fled. "-41rii, erupi, cva
si." The last thing I heard was old Kasm
calling me back, amidst the Shouts of th.: .
audience—but no more.
* * * tt.
The next information I received of the
case was a letter that came to me at Natchez
my new residence, from Hicks, about a
month afterward, telling me that the jury
(on which I should have stated that old
Kasm bad got two infidels and four anti
masons) had given a verdict for defendant;
that before the court adjourned Prank Glen
dy had got sober and moved for a new trial;
on the ground that the verdict was against
the evidence, and that the plaintiff bad not
had justice by reason of the incompetency
of his counsel, and the abandonment of his
cause, and that he got a new trial, as well
he should have done.
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A Death-Bed Two. Hundred Years Ago-
When the Rev. John Janeway, who was
converted by reading the Saints' Rest, was
on his death-bed, he was filled 'with painful
apprehensions respecting the safety of 'his
soul. His beloved son was with him. "Oh;
son," said herthis passing into eternity isa
great thing. This dying is a solemn business,
and enough to make one's heart ache, who'
bath not his pardon sealed, and his evi
dences clear for heaven. I am under no
small fears as to my own state for another
world. Oh that God would clear his love!
Oh, that I could cheerfully say, can 'die,
and am able on good grounds to look death
iu the face, and venture upon eternity with
well-grounded peace and comfort,'" .)
On heaving these words, the eon retired
and poured out his soul in prayer to God-for
his parent. Ile besought Him to fill his
soul with peace and joy in believing. When
he had fiuished his prayer, be returned to
his father and asked Idni.how he felt: IIe
received no answer. For some time the
father kept silence, but wept profusely. •
At length he exclaimed, "Oh my son, now
Ile is come; now Ile is come, now ,Lle is
come! I bless God, I can die. •The Spirit
of God has witnessed with my spirit; that I
am a eltild,of God. Now I can look urito
my God as my father, and to Christ as My
redeemer. I can say, 'This is my fHeriiit'
this is my Zeloced.' My heart is full; it hi
brimful. I-can hold no more. I now knee,"
what that means, 'the peace of Gctee/tich
passelh.all understanding.' That fit of weep
ing which you saw me in, was a lit of over
powering love and joy.' It was so grent thaL
L could not contain myself, nor can I expresi
what glorious discoveries God bath made to
me, Had that joy been greater, I question
whether-it would not have separated my
soul and body. Bless the Lord, omy soul;
and all that is within me, bless his! bole
name, who bath pardoned all my sins, 'and
sealed that pardon. • Oh, new I can die:
bless God I can die: I desire to depart-"and
be-with Christ."
His son then told him how he had wrestled
for him in prayer. Upon this, his joy - was
still more increased. --lie exclaimed, "Novi
let thy servant depart in peace, for mini
eyes have seen t hp sal vation. When 1 watt
through the 'valley of the shadoi of death;
I will fear no evil. now lovely is the eight
a a smiling Jesus. when one isdyingl How
refreshing it is, when - heart and Seth• and
all things fail, to have God for the strength
of our heart, and oar portion forerer."-- , -:*
lie then departed to be numbeted frith
the blessed. Let me die- the deatlearetbe
righteous; let my last end . be hTa-
American Afersenger. • - :+4'
Who is any Neighbor!
In the Bible the word neighbozzio oat,
ramps !'ope who Brea near..sootk.er.;',.bgt. it
nlso means onewho ptaodsirt
t iucludee:oveiy one,to,who*ara.jare • I!it
opportunity of doing g00d,..
It is in this extended settee 4u:dour blessed
Saviour made use of the tern, when be said
tothe.Jewish lawy.er who asked Liza .about
thaoorunutndinents„ that the first aud ova;
cowman eat is, to lax God with, ali,,,,thp
heart;„asnrthe second• is, to love our, "Oah e
bor,ai airselves. Ma et. 22: ,
Oa another occasion, when one Amid- hi*
hi®, "Master, what shall I do. to inherit
eternal lifer and whoa Jesus bad reeved
bint.to this law of love, sa d the. mass, , will
ing te justify himself, s aid unto Jean;
"And who is mvseighborr • Jesus tol&bil
a beautiful parable, Which yea c-ri find is
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