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Rates of Advertising. - 4 110tlare[6ttnesjone week, +039 a g three weeks. 75 each4uhseqoeniirtsertion, 10 [l2ines]oneweek. 50 three weeks, t 00 rt enchtubsequertinsertion. 25 tynegerldvertieement.in proportion. Alibernidisconntwillbe made to quaxterly,hall• e arlyoryearlyttivertisersembo nre strieti3eonfined o their business. DR. 110FFER, TWITIST,—OFFICE, Front Street 4th door tram Locust. over Saylor & McDonald's Book store Columbia, Pa. [l:r.lharance, between the Book and Dr. Herr'a Drug Store. [August 21 1858 THOMAS WELSH. TIISTICE OF THE PEACE, Columbia, Pa. OFFICE, in Whipper's New Building, below ')Heel's Hotel, Front street. Ur - Prompt attention given to all business entrusted to is care. November 29,1857. H. Id. NORTH, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW. Columbia ,Pa. Collecuons,p rowdy made,i nLaneasierand Yorl °unties. Columbia,May 4 1850 J. W. FISHER, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, Columbia, Cotambm, September 6, 1ti584( S. Atlee Bockius, D. D. S. PRACTICES the Operative, Surgical and Meehan ieul Departments of Dentistry.; Orrice - I.ocust street, between he Franklin [louse and Post Office, Columbia, ra May 7.1859. • GUSTAVUS REGIT.AIV, Professor of indent and Modern Languages. MADAME IiEGMA.N, Teacher of Vocal and Instrumental Music- Walautstreet alcove Front, south side. Coltnb.u, May 12, 1660. TOMATO PILLS.---Extractof Tomatoes; a cathartic and Tonic. For sale at Di.:LIAiTT dr, CO'S Golden Mortar Drug Store. Dec 3:59 BROOMS. ---1110 Doz. Brooms, at Wholesale or Retail. at H. PFAlll.litt'S, Dec. 12, 1857. Loeu4t street. SINE'S Compound of Syrup of Tar, Wild Chefry and Hod 'hound, for the Cure of Coughs, Coble, Whooping Cough. Orono. he. For Ptah. nt Met:Olt & Family 51rdictne Store, Odd Fedora' Hull October 2.3. Patent Steam Wash Bolters. mu ESE well known Boiler' , ure kept eon.inntly on hand at II EN RV 1.1 , A HUM'S, 1.0cu.1 Pt met. oppottte the Franklin !louse. Columbia, July 18,1837. lots for sale by the bushel or larger quart my D. F. A1.1.01.D. Columb ta Dec.2s, 1959. Client Bu-in. JUST in store. n fre.li lot of Efreinig h rronfield's celebrated Vegeta')le Cultic Powder. nod for tale by IL- W11.1.1.A315, Front street. Colon ion Rept. 17, 1959 Harrison's Co umbian UTHICII is a superior article, permunentlr VT and not corroding the pen, con be had in any quantity. - at the Family Medicine Store, and blacker yet is tout English Boot Poluth. Columbia. Jou.: 9.1859 On Hand. - H II RS. WINSLOW'S Snoilung Syrup, which will Ji greatly facilitate the process. of teething by re ducing inflarnation. allaying punt, rpa-modes action, gr.e., is very short. time. For sale by R. WILLIAM :4, Front street. Columbia. t.17,1e59 pEDDING & CO'S Itissia Salver. This cx jA) iremely popular remedy for the cure orevernal ailments is now lor sale by R. WILLIANIS. Front at.. Columbia. sew. 24, 1350 CISTERN PCltle.s. 111111 F. subscriber has a large mock of Cistern Pumps and Rams, to which he cabs the attention of the public. lie is prepared to put them up (or u..e is a substantial and enduring manner. H. PFA lir. ER, Locust street. December 12,1857 es Just Received and For sale, 2fin Bbls. Ground Plaster; 50 lib's.. Extra Family uu Flour; 23 Ws. No. I. Lard Oil or best quality; 300 bun. Ground Alum Salt, by B. F. APPOLD, Not and 2 Canal Lta+in. nrurch 26, 40 aRIIIIO, or, Bond's Boston Crackers, for Dyspeptics, and Arrow Root Crackers, for in valids and ebildsen—new articles in Columbia, at the Family Medicine Store, April 16. IRMA NEW CROP SEEDLESS RAISINS. .111 NE best for Net, Padding, tcc.—a !resit erupts , . at If SIT It DAM'S Grocery. Store, Corner Frontond Union eta. N0v.19.1859. Seedless Raisins! ALOT of very choice tiecdtc,4 Rtikine...irtat receirei.. at F. EDER LEE WS N0r.19, '59. Grocery Store, No. it, LOCUM St. SHAKER CORN. JUST received, a first rate lot of Shaker Corn 11. SUYDAM'S Grocery Store, corner Front and Union pt. Nov. 26,1efin. ec k PALDIMPS PREPARED CLUE.—The want of 1,7 such an article is felt in every family, and now ,it can be supplied; for mending furniture, china ware, ornamental work, toys. &c., there is nothing superior. We have found it useful in repairing many ankles which have been useless for months. You Jan dSin it at the FAULT MEDICINE STORE. EICEIZTI AFIRST-RATH article of Dried Beef, and of Ham, can be bought at BEIERLELN'S Grocers , Store, N 0.71. Locugt ctreet ,plarch 10, 1600, Ing TEAS, Black and Green, of differ• ein varieties. A argil lot Jost received at ELIERLEJN'B Grocery Store, March 10, 1560. No. 7t I..vcart street. THE FATE OF RIIIJOEN FRANKLIN, the au thorized edition. IlleCliotoek. Price, 81,50. frootfalls on die Boundary of Atmler World.— Priee,lll,2s. Memoirs of Carvosso. Prier, 40.oent•. ELIAS B a.rut & co, Opposite Court Mouse. Feb. 11. LY"'S PUB C1T1171.1 BRANDY.-1 very superior and genuine article for medicinal par. poses. J. S. DELI,FITT h CO, Feb.ll;6o. Agents for Columbia. COAL OIL lIEADQUIRTERS.—Bewart of spn rioas Coal Oil. Owing in the large inereawl in •Ibe consumption of Coal Oil, the market Is fall of Lo gas oil. The premium article can always be hod a 1 . S. DM aLM'T& GO'S Golden blortar Drag Stone. Feb.ll:6o Pa MIRO SOU. A superior article of Soda Ash ea hand sad for sale. by IL WILLIAMS, Front Erse 1.. Match 44,1880 alastvg. -The Spinning Wheel Song. Mellow the moonlight to shine is beginning; Close by the window young Eileen is spinning; Bent over the fire her blind grandmother, sitting, Is moaning. and moaning,. and drowsily kniring; achnra, I hear some one tapping." "'Tie the ivy, dear mother, against the glues flapping." "Eileen, I sure hear somebody sighing." "'Tie the sound, 'mother dear, of the summer wind dying." Merrily, cheerily. noisily whirring, Swings the wheel, pins the reel, while the foot's 81 30 alining; Sprightly, and lightly, and airily ringing, Thrills Mc sweet voice of the young maiden singing "{Vhat's that noise that I bear at the window, I wonder" , '• 'Tie the little birds chirping the holly-Intsh under." "What makes you be shoving and moving your stool on, And singing all wrong that old song of 'The Coolun? , There's a form at the casement—the form of her true love— And he whispers, with face bent, 'l'm waning for you, love; Get up on the stool, through the lattice step lightly. Welt rove in the grove while the moon's shining brightly.. Merrily, cheerily, noisily whirring, Swings the wheel, spins the reel, while the foot's stirring, sprightly, and lightly, and airily ringing, Thrills the sweet voice of the young maiden singing. The maid shakes her head, on her lip lays her fingers, Steals up from the •eat—longs to go, and yet lingers; A frightened glance turns to her drowsy grandmother, Putt. one foot on the stool, spins the wheel with the other. Lazily, easily, swings now the wheel round; Slowly and lowly is heard now the reel's sound; Noiseless and light to the lattice above her The maid steps—then leaps to the arm! or her lover. Slower—and slower—and slower the wheel swings; Lower—and lower—and lower the reel rings— Ere the reel and theiwheel stopped their ringing and moving, Thro' the grove the young lovers by moonlight ore roving. grtutimu. Old-Time English Justice In the good old times, when Wretches swung that jurymen might dine the judges not unfrequently resorted to what the law aptly enough termed the peine forte et dare—namely, "pressing to death" for re fusing to plead. This system continued in vogue till 1772, when an act was passed by which any one refusing to plead should be deemed guilty, the same as though by ver dict of a. jury. The "press-yard" at New gate, and perhaps at other prisons, yet, we believe, retains its name, albeit it is no long er used for its original purpose. We have before us a curious print representing a criminal in the act of being pressed to death. Ile is extended flat on his back, his arms and feet drawn apart at full stretch, and secured to staples in the floor ; a piece of plank is on his body, and on that a number of heavy weights. • There seem to have been two hinds of criminals who formerly refused to plead to their indictments ; the one, men of property, who, by suffering death by pressure instead of by banging, preserved their landed es tates to their children or heirs, which would not have been tho case had they pleaded and been found guilty by the jury. The other class were ignorant, determined men, who foolishly imagined that by obstinately refusing to plead, they should eventually escape the punishment due to their offenses. When no argument could induce a man to plead, the judgment of the law was read over to him as he stood at the bar. It was thus worded : "That the prisoner shall be sent to the prison whence he came, and put into a mean room, stopped from the light, and shall there be laid on the bare ground, without any litter, straw or other covering. * * * lle shell li9 upon his back, his head shall be covered, and his feet eball be bare. One of his arms shall be drawn with a cord to one side of the room, and the oth er arm to the other side ; and his legs shall be served in the like manner. Then there shall be laid upon his body as much iron or stone as he can bear, and snore! And the first day after, ho shall have three mor sels of barley-bread, without any drink; and the second day he shall be allowed to drink as much as he can at three times of the wa ter that is next the prison -door, except run ning water, without any bread ; and this shall be his diet till he dies; and he against whom this judgment shall be given forfeits i his goods to the king." The last time that this punishment was inflicted was, we believe, upon a shipmaster, charged with piracy, who, to save his landed property to his family, remained mute when called upon to plead. Io January, 1720, two highwaymen, named Spiggot and Phillips, refused to plead, unless the affects taken from their persons when they were apprehended were restored to them. This was refused, and they, on their part, adhered to their resolution.— Thereupon they were sentenced to be press ed to death: but when taken into the press room at Newgate, Phillips was terrified, and begged to be taken back to plead, which, as a mercy, he was permitted to do, al though in strict law he could have been denied the request. Ills companion, how ever, was pressed, and bore. the amazing weight of three hundred and fifty pounds fur the space of half an hour; but when an additional fifty pounds was added, his forti tude gave way, and he also begged to be al ;owed to plead. The evidence on the trial was perfectly conclusive, and the two men —both of whom were very hardened robbers —were duly hanged at Tyburn. • The following year another highwayman, "NO ENTERTAINMENT IS SO CHEAP AS READING, NOR ANY PLEASURE SO LASTING." COLUMBIA, PENNSYLVNIA, SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 1, 1860. named Hames, likewise refused to plead to his indictment, alleging as a reason that "the people who apprehended me seized a suit of fine clothes, which I intended to have gone to the gallows in ; unless they are re turned, I will not plead, for no one shall say that I was hanged in a dirty shirt and ragged coat." In vain was the dreadful alternative explained to him; ho continued stubbornly mute, and was taken to the press-room, and bore a weight of two hun dred and fifty pounds for seven minutes, when he cried out to be taken back to the court. He there pleaded "Not guilty," but was convicted and hanged. Afar more remarkable and more cruel case than the preceding occurred at Notting ham assizes in the year 1735. A poor creature, commonly reputed to have been deaf and dumb from infancy, was arraigned on an accusation of murder, Two witnesses —who were subsequsntly known to have born him ill-will—swore positively that they had heard him speak ; he was therefore called upon to plead guilty or not guilty.— "A lawyer represented his case most feel ingly to the judge, but the law on the sub ject being supposed to be imperative, he was taken into an adjoining room and ac tually pressed to death ; continuing, says a register of the times, obstinately dumb to the last." The latter fact, we think, most incontestably proves that the wretched be ing was naturally dumb. In another instance—and it is the last we shall cite on the subject—a man was pressed to death, who assuredly was an impostor, so far as his pretended dumbness was con• cerned. Ilia name was Matto, Ryan, and he was tried, or should have been tried fur highway robbery, at the Kilkenny assizes, in 1740. When in prison, he affected to be a lunatic ; and, in court, counterfeited dumb ness. The judges impannelled a jury to to try "whether he was mute and lunatic by the hand of God, or wilfully so." The jury returned in a short time, and brought In a verdict of "Wilfull and affected dumbness and lunacy." The judges on this desired the prisoner to plead ; but he still pretended to be insensible to all that was said to him. The law now called for the peine forte et dare; but the judges compassionately de ferred awarding it until a future day, in the hope that ho might in the meantime acquire jester sense of his situation. But this de lay had not the intended effect. Ile re fused to plead when nest brought up, and was pressed to death two days subsequent ly in Kilkenny market-place. "As the weights were heaping on the wretched man, ho earnestly supplicated to be hanged; but it being beyond the power of the sheriff to deviate from the mode of punishment pre scribed in the sentence, even this was an in dulgence which could no longer be granted to him !" During the whole of the eighteenth cen tury, the gallows bore profuse crops of aw ful fruit, and the hangman had incessant occupation. Now-a-days one can hardly realize the fact that within the memory of many yet living, six, ten, fifteen, and even more men, were hanged at one time and at one place! In a hook printed only about fifty years ago, we have an engraving, "an exact representation." it is called, of the "new scaffold" at Newgate, with.ten men hanging at once! Oa the 23rd of April, 1785, nineteen men were executed together and not one for murder! Most were hanged fur robberies and burglaries, and no less than three fur returning from transportation before their time had expired. On the 10th of November, the same year, eighteen were hanged in frutit of Newgate, and not one fur murder; and on December Ist, nine more were hanged, all for robberies and burglaries. The bodies of murderers, we may remark, were almost invariably given to the surgeons for dissection—unless or dered to hang in chains—and they were publicly exposed to the gaze of young and old on the dissecting-table of the Surgeons' Hall, Old Bailey. It was a very ancient custom for the bell man of tie parish of St. Sepulchre to go be neath the walls of Newgatn on the night prior to the ezdcution of condemand con victs, and, ringing his bell, to recite these admonitory lines: All you that in the condemned hold do lie, Prepare you, for 10-morrow you shall die, Wutch ail, sad prey; the hour 14 drawing near That you before th' Almighty must appear, I.:Asinine well yourselves; In time repeat, That you may not t• eternal Mantes ha seat, And when St. Sepulchre's belt to-morrow tolls, The Lord above have mercy on your souls: Past twelve o'clock: St. Sepulchre's boll tolled on the morning of the execution, and the cart used to stop before the church, whilst the bellman again did his office by ringing his bell and repeat ing certain lines. It would appear, bower. er, that& clergyman ought to have been, and originally was, the reciter of the verses, fur in an edition of Stowe's Survey of London, printed in 1618, we rearthat "Robert Done, Citizen and Merchant Taylor of London, gave to the pariah church of St. Sepulchres the summa of £5O, tht after the several sessions of London, when the prisoners ro maine in the goale, as condemned men to death, expecting execution on the morrow following; the clarke [the clergyman] of the church should come in the nigttime, and likewise early in the morning, to tho win dow of the prison where they lye, and there ringing certain toles with a hand-bol', appointed for the purpose, he doth after wards (in most Christian manner) put them in mind of their present condition, and en suing execution, desiring them to be pre- pared therefore as they ought to be. When they are in the cart, sad brought before the wall of the church, there he etandeth ready with the same bell, and after certain toles, rehearseth an appointed prair, desiring all the people there present to pay for them.— The beadle, also, of merchant Taylors Hall bath an honest stipend allowed to see that this is duely done." It was also customary for the cart to stop on its way to Tyburn, that the malefactors might be presented with a bowl of ale— their last draught on earth. This custom prevailed in the county of York later than anywhere else; and a curious anecdote is told of a saddler of Bawtry, who "lost his life in consequence of declining the refresh ment; as had be stoppea as usual, his re prieve, which was actually on the road, would have arrived time enough to save him. Hence, arose the saying that the saddler of Bawtry was hanged for leaving his ale. It is startling to read of mere boys being hanged for offences which, now-a• days, would probably be punished by a few months im prisonment, or by seclusion in a reformatory. Peter Bl'Oloud, aged sixfeea, was hanged at Tyburn, May 27, 1772, for housebreaking. Another boy, not sixteen, was hanged for murder at Wisbeach, July 13, 1807, and we notice his case on account of the very extra ordinary expedient used to render him peni tent prior to his execution. This boy had committed a most atrocious murder at Whittlesea, by killing a child, aged twelve, in revenge fur the child's mother having ac cidentally thrown some water over him!— The hardened young wretch threatened to murder the clergyman who attended the jail and any one else who dared to approach him; and so ferocious was his conduct that it was necessary to chain him down, hand and foot, in his dungeon, and even then ho behaved in a frightful manner, We will quote what followed in the words of the narrative be fore us: "At length, to prevent the termina tion of his existence in this depraved state, the expedient was devised of procuring a child about the size of the one murdered, and similar in feature and dress, whom two clergyman unexpectedly led between them by the hands into his cell, where ho lay sulkily chained to the ground; but, on their approach, ho started, and seemed so com pletely terrified, that he trembled in every limb, cold drops of sweat profusely falling from him, and was almost momentarily in such a state of agitation, that he entreated the clergyman to continue with him, and from that instant became as contrite a peni tent as he had been before callous and in sensible." What would be the comments of the press on such an affair as this, had it occurred at the present day? The manner in which prisoners, both be fore and after conviction, were allowed to conduct themselves in prison was disgrace ful in the extreme. Those who had money seem to have lived much the same as though they were in a tavern, treating their fellow prisoners and the friends who came to visit them with dinners and suppers—drink be. lag supplied to an extent often sufficient to intoxicate the whole party. We could give many curious anecdotes of the actions which various doomed malefactors wero permitted to perform. One Avershaw, after being sentenced to death—which he richly mer ited—no sooner got back to prison than he procured some black cherries, and diverted himself by using their juice to paint on the white walls of the room in which he was confined a number of sketches of the high way robberies he had committed; "ono rep. resenting him running up to the horses' head of a post-chaise, presenting a pistol at the driver; another, where be was firing at the chaise; a third, whore the parties had quitted the carriage; and another, in which he was described in tho act of taking the money from the passenger, and being fired at, while his companion was shot dead."— We are not surprised to learn that this man died impenitent, "laughing and nodding" to his acquaintances in the crowd on his way to Tyburn. A highwayman, somewhat resembling him in character, actually shot dead Mr. Sperling, the head turnkey of the court at the Old Bailey, in the presence of the court I He did this because Spurting would not let him speak with a woman, an acquaintance of his, then on her trial for coining. The woman encouraged him to the deed, and the: i horror-stricken courtlin steady arraigned them both for the murder, of which they were of course convicted on the spot, everybody present being witnesses of the deed. They died desperately wick ed. A robber named Hartley, who was con victed, with a comrade, of robbing, in the open fields, a poor tailor of twopence and his clothes—which they stripped off, and bound him to a tree—adopted a moat extra ordinary expedient with a view to save his neck. ''He prowared six young women, dressed in white, to go to St. James's, nod present a petition in his behalf. The sin gularity of their appearance gained them admission, when they told the king that if he extended the royal mercy to the offender, they would cast lots which should be his icye: but his majesty said he was more deserving of the gallows than a wife, and accordingly refused their request." lie was hanged at Tyburn, May 4, 1772. One would naturally suppose that a man who had suffered all the horrors of hanging, tbejust short of actual death, would never risk gallows again; but much in one case at least, was not the result. A house-breaker named Smith was banged at Tyburn, De- cembor 24, 1705, and when he had hung nearly fifteen minutes, the people shouted, "A reprieve!" He was cut down, bled, and recovered! When asked what his feelings had been, he replied, in substance, that "when he was turned off, he for some time was sensible of very great pain, occasioned by the weight of his body, and felt bis spir its in a strange commotion, violently press ing upwards: that having forced their way to his head, lie, as it were, saw a great blaze of glaring light, which seemed to go out of the eyes with a flash, and then be lost all sense of pain. That after he was cut down, and began to come to himself, the blood and spirits forcing themselves into their former channels, put him, by a sort of pricking or shooting, to such intolerable pain that he could have wished those hanged who bad cut him down." Ever afterwards, he went by the name of "half hanged Smith." This fellow soon returned to his former evil habits, and was again tried at the Old Bai ley fur house-breaking; but the jury brought in a special verdict, leaving the affair to the decision of the twelve judges, who decided in favor of the prisoner. Even the second wonderful escape did not deter him from re suming his malpractices, and a third time be was to have been brought to trial, but the prosecutor died before the day appoint ed, and thus he once more got free. Noth ing is known of his subsequent history. It would appear that when the body of a convict was not specially ordered for dissec tion, or to hang in chains, he could dispose of it whilst living, for among the papers of a Mr. Goldwyr, surgeon, of Salisbury, was found a letter, addressed to him by an un happy and friendless criminal, lying in Fish' erton-Anger jail, and bearing date October 3, 1730. It is as follows: "Ste: Being informed that you are the only surgeon in this city (pr county) that anatomises men, and I being under the un happy circumstances, and in a very mean condition, would gladly live as long as I can; but, by all appearance, I am to be executed next March, having no friends no earth that will speak a word to save my life, nor send me a morsel of bread to keep life, and soul together until that fatal day; so, if you will vouchsafe to come hither, I will gladly sell you my body, (being whole and sound) to be ordered at your discretion ; knowing that it will rise again at the general resurrection as well from your house as from the grave.— Your answer, sir, will highly oblige yours, JAMES BROOKE." We are not aware what crime Brooke had committed, nor whether the surgeon com plied with his piteous request. ' So late as the year 1751, a man named Colley was executed and hung in chains for being a ringleader of a mob who ducked a' poor old woman to death for being a "witch," at Tring, in Hertfordahire.. Her husband was ducked at the same time, but he sur vived. The curious part of the affair is that the leaders of the mob on this occasion ac ted so openly and deliberately that they previously employed the crier of Hemel- Ilerestead to give notice, -paying him-four pence for the job, and giving him a paper to cry from, of which this is a copy: "This is to give notice that, on Monday next, a man and woman are to be publicly ducked at Tring, in this county, for their wicked crimes." The notice was also given at two neighboring towns, on their market-days, and the overseer of Tring removed the two helpless old people to the work house, in the first instance, and subsequently to the vestry of the church, to protect them from their threatened fate. On the day appointed five thousand people assembled, and almost tore down the work-house ore they were con vinced their intended victims were elsewhere. They searched every part of the house, "ex amining the closets, boxes, trunks, and even the sull-boz," and "swore they would pull clown the house, and set fire to the whole town of Tying, except Osborne and his wifo were produced." They at length learned where the old people were, and the result has been told: Bachelor's Love Making You would have known it for a bachelor's den, the moment you put your head in the door I Blue, spicy wreaths of cigar smoke circling up to the ceiling—newspapers un der the table—Castile soap in the tiny bronze card-receiver—slippers on the man tel piece, and general confusion everywhere. And yet Mr. Thornbrooke—poor deluded— mortal—solemnly believed that hie room was in the most perfect order ! For hadn't he poked the empty champagne bottles un der the bed, and sent the wood box to bear them company, and hung his morning gown over the - damp, towels, and dusted the ached, sprinkled hearth with his hest silk handker chief? He'd like to see a room in better trim than that—guessed ho would. And now he was mending himself up, preparato ry to going calling, to call on the very pret tiest girl in New York. Not that be was particularly fond orthe needle, but when a fellow's whole foot goes through a hole in the northeast toe of his stocking, and there isn't a button to his shirt, it's time to repair damages. Noir, as Mr. Thornbrooke's whole stock Of industrial implements consisted of a lump of wits, an enormous pair of scissors, and one needle, tho meuding didn't progress rapidly. llis way of managing the button question, too, necesaarly involved some de lay; be bad to cut all these useful little ap pendages 1101:12 another shirt and sew them $1,50' PER MR IN ADVANCE; $2,00 IF- NOT IN ADVANCE on, and neat when the second shirt was wanted, why it was easy enough to make a transfer again 1 See what it is to be a bache lor of genius I It never occurred to him to buy a few buttons extra! "Buttons are not much trouble," said Mr. , Tbornbrooko to himself, as he wiped the hot perspiration from his brow, "but when 'it comes to coat sleeves, what the mischief is a fellow to do? I haven't any black thread either ;" and he looked dolorously at a small tear just in his elbow, where some vicious nail had caught in the broadcloth. "A black pin may do for to-night, and to-mor row I'll send it to the tailor. The fact is I ought to bo married : and so I would, if I only dared to ask Lillian. 0, dear! I know she would'nt have me —and yet I'm not so certain either—if I only could muster the courage boldly to put the question! But just as sure as I approach the dangerous ground, my heart fails me! And then that puppy Jones, with hiscurled moustache and hair parted in the middle—always hanging round Lillian, and quoting poetry to her— if I could have the privilege of kicking h:m across the street, I'd die happy. He isn't bashful, not ho If somebody would only invent a new way of popping the question —something that wasn't quite so embarrass ing I" Our hero gave his black glossy curls an extra brush, surveying himself critically in the glass, and then, with a deep sigh, set fourth to call on the identical Lillian Ray mond, revolving as he bad done a thousand times before, that if—perhaps—may be— Oh the bashfulness of bachelors. When Mr. Thornbrooke arrived within the charmed precincts of Mr. Raymond's handsome parlors, velvet carpeted, chande liered with gold and ormolu, crowded to the very doors, with those charming knick knacks that only a woman's taste provides, Miss Lilly was "at home" in a bewildering pink merino dress, edged with white lace around the pearly shoulders, and a crimson moss rose twisted in among the rippling waves of her soft brown hair. She never looked half so pretty; and, thank Provi dence, Jones wasn't on hand, for once in his life=but what was almost as bad, Lilly's cousin was there—a tall, blender, black eyed girl, with arch lips and cheeks as red as a Spitzenberg apple. 0 bow Thorn brooke wished that Miss Esther Allen was at the bottom of the Red Sea, or anywhere else except in that particular parlOr. And then her eyes were so sharp—he had't been doing the "agreeable" more than four min utes and a half before she exclaimed : "Dear me, Mr. Thorabrooke—pray - ex: ouso me—but what on earth is the matter with your elbow?" - Mark turned scarlet—the traitorous black pin had deserted its post. "Only a compound fracture in my coat, Miss Allen," said he feeling as though hie face might do the duty of Mr. Raymond's chandeliers put together, "you know we bachelors are not expected to be exempt from such thinge." "Hold your arm, sir, and I'l set it all right in one moment," said Esther, instantly produeing,from some secret recess in the folds of her dress, a thimble and needle, threaded with black silk, and setting ex pertly to work. "There now, consider yourself whole." "flow skilful you are," said Mark, admir ingly, after he bad thanked her most sincerely. 'Tut then you have so many nice little concerns to work with. I have only a needle and some wax, besides my scissors l" "You ought to have a house-wife, Mr. Thornbrooke," said Lilly, timidly lifting up . er long lashes in his direction. Lilly never could speak to Thornbrooke witout a soft little rosy shadow cn her cheek. "A what 7" demanded Mark, turning red. "A house-wife." "Yes," said Mark, after a moment's awk ward hesitation, "my—my friends have told me so very of very often—and I really think so myself, you know. But what sort of a ono would you recommend, Miss Ray mond ?" "Oh, any pretty little concern. I'll send you one in the morning, if you'll accept it," she added with a rosy light on ber cheeks again. "If—l'll—accept it!" said Mark, feeling as if ho were in an atmosphere of pearl and gold with two wings sprouting out of his broadolotb, on either side. And just as he was opening his lips to assure Miss Lilly that he was ready to take the precious gift to his arms then and there, without any un necessary delay, the door opened and in walked Jones. Mark was not nt all cannibalistic in his propensities, but just then he could have eaten Jones up with uncommon pleasure. And there the fellow eat, pulling his Jong moustaches and talking the moat insipid twaddle—sat and sat, until Mark rose in despair to go. Even then he bad no op portunity to exchange a private word with Lilly. • "You—you'll not forget—" "Oh, I'll be sure to remember," said she smilingly, and half wondering at that un usual pressure be gave her band. "Ladies often do provide their bachelor friends sot" Mark went borne, the happiest individual that ever trod a New 'York pavement. In deed, so great was his felicity that he in dulged in various gymnastic capers indica tive of bliss, only pausing in them at the gruff caution of a policeman, who probably bad forgottan his own courting days— [WHOLE NUMBERI,SS4. "Come, young man, what are you about 2" "Was there ever a more delicate way of assuring me of her favorable consideration? W,as there ever a more feminine admission alter sentiment? Of course she will come herself—an angel, breathing airs from Para dise—and I shall tell her of my love. A house-wife—eht the delicious words I Won der what neighborhoodohe would like me to engage a residence—how soon it would be best to name the day ? Oh if I should awake, and find it all a blissful dream 1 . Early the next morning Mr. Thornbrooke set briskly to work, "righting up things." How he swept and dilated and scoured—the room was nired to get rid of the tobacco smoke, and sprinkled with cologne, and beautified generally. Andlat length, when the dust was all swept into one corner, sad covered by a carefully ( ! ) disposed news paper, he found the window glass murky, and polished it with such vengeance that his fist handkerchief and;all,went through, sorely damaging the hand and necessitating the ungraceful_accessory of an old hat to keep out the wintry blast for the time be lug. However, even this mishap didn't long damp his spirits, for was not Lilly com ing. Long and wearily he waited, yet no tinkle of the bell gave warning of her approach. "It's all her sweet fomine modesty," though t he, and was content. At length there Was an appeal below, and Mark's heart jumped up into his mouth beating like a reveille drum. lie rushed to the door, but there was no one but a lit tle grinning black boy, with a box. "Miss Raymond's compliments, and here's de housewife, sir."- "The housewife, you little imp of Ere bus." , :Yea, air,•in tho:box all right." Mark slunk back into his room and open ed the box, half expecting to see a full dressed young lady issue from it, a la Ara bian Nights, but no—it was only a little blue velvet book, and full of odd compart ments in azure silk, containing tape, need les, scissors, silk, thimble, and all the little work-tables accessories 1 "And she calls this a housewife l" groan ed Mark, in ineffable bitterness of spirit at the downfall of his bright visions. "But I won't be put off so." Desperation gave him courage, and off be hied to the Raymond mansion, determined to settle the matter if there were forty Joneses and Esthera there. But Lillian was alone, sin ging at her em broidery in the sunshiny e ndow casersent. "Dear me, Mr. Thor rooks, is anything the matter 7" Perhaps it was the shadow from splendid crimson cactus plumes in tholvrindow that gave her cheek such a delicate: glow—per haps—but we have no right to - speculate. "Yea." And Mark set down by her side, and took the trembling, fluttering, hand. "You sent me a housewife this morning V' "Wasn't it right)" faltered "It wasn't the kind I wanted at all 1" "Not the kind you wanted?" "No; I prefer a living one, and I came to seo if I could change it. I want one with brown hair and eyes—something, in short, Miss Lillian just your pattern. Can't I have it?" Lilly turned white, and then red ; smiled, then buret into tears, and tried to draw away her hand, but Mark held it fast. "Nu, no, dear Lilly ; first tell ma I can have the treasure I ask fur." "Yee," she said with the prettiest °eau sion in the world, and then, instead of re leasing the captive hand, the unreasonable fellow took possession of the other, too. But as Lilly did not object, we suppose it was all right. And that was the odd path by which Mark Thornbrooke diverged - from the walk of old bachelorhood, and stepped into the respectable ranks of matrimony. A Journey Under Paris. A correspondent of a Swedish Journal furnishes an interesting account of- a sub. terranean voyage made through one of the admirably constructed sewers of Paris.— The boat which conveyed the party was reached by descending a flight of steps to the depth of about 45 feet. The boat, a flat bottomed affair, was lighted by four lamps. The sewer is an archway, fifteen feet hlih„ and of en equal breadth, with a ditch, or canal about ten feet wide, wherein all the dirt and filth of Paris is carried away. On the sides are'sidewalks, which, together, are about four feet wide. The whole is built of beautiful white sandstone, and is kept re markably neat and clean. No stench or bad smell was perceptible. The denser portion of the filth is carried away through large drains beneath the sidewalks. The side walks are excellent, and exhibited no signs of dampness, while the walls of tie archway are kept whitewashed, and are at all times as white as the driven snow. The structure possesses the property of an immense speak ing tube, the workmen being able to eon verse at the distance of two miles from each other. The echo is very strong and lasting. The fabric is said to be built after the model of the satacombs of Rome, aided by all latest improvements. On both sides, at about two hundred yards distance from one another, are openings through which the workmen can ascend by means of a perma nent iron ladder, in ease a sudden rainstorm should cause the water to rise cver the sidewalks, which is, hoWtreer, oft itoteur renew.
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