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tograph Gallery. [august al, 1859.
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t y OFFICE, in Whipper's New Budding, below
Black's [tote!, Front street.
Or - Prompt intention given to all business entrusted
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November 28, 1847.
H. M. NORTH,
pA THINE! AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW
Cl Columbia.rn.
Collectione4romptlymade.i n Loneasterand Vorl
3ountues.
Columbia, Mny 4,1950.
J. W. FISHER,
Attorney aad Counsellor at Law,
ci0aa.1.322:k3.1.6%,, Par.
tieptetsilier 6, 0556 tl
S. Atlee ,Backlus, 'D. D. S.
PRACTICES the Operative. Surgical and Meehan
teal Departments of Dentistry;
°MOE 1.0CU.1 street. Iteiweret be Franklin
and Ito.nOdiee. Columbia, Pa
_ May 7. In5D.
Harrison's Conmbian Ink
i • it 4uperior article, permanently block.
TY and not corroding the pen, eon be had in any
uontity. nt the Family Medicine Store, and blacker
yet in that English Boot Polish.
Columbia. Stale 9.1859
We Have Just Received
R. CUTTER'S Improved Chest Expanding
-I.r . Sucpetiderand Shoulder Braces for Gentlemen,
and Patent Skirt Supporter and Brace for Ladle.,
just the article that is wanted at this time. Come
and see them at Family Medicine Stare, Odd re:losys ,
Hall. [April 9,1959
Prof. Gardner's Soap.
I'l"ff:have the New England Soap for those who did
I/ not obtain it from the Soap Man; it an plennant
.to the akin. and tniU take grenne •pot: from Woolen
. G00d.., it in therefore no humbug. for you get the
worth of your money nt the Family Medicine Store.
Columbia, June 11, 1859.
• G RAIIAM, or, Bond's Boston Crackers, for
uysinvics, mid Arrow Root Crileker4, for Id•
valid.% and childien—new articles in Columbia, at
.She Family Medicine Store,
April 16. IEIIO.
NEW CROP SEEDLESS RAISINS.
TIE beat for Pies, Pudding, kc.—n *ebb iniproly at
f f OA 31'
Grocery Store, Corner Frout.ind UlllOll eta.
Nov. W. 1659.
SHAKER CORN
JUSI recurred, u first rote lot of Shaker Corn
H. SUYDAM'S
Grocery store, corner Front and Union ft.
Nov. 20, 12,59.
SPALDING'S PREPARED GL,DE.—The want of
..tuch an tiroele is Mit lii every r ly. and now
it can be supplied; for mending furniture, china
wuretornamental work, toys. there ib nothing
superior. %Ye have found it u-eful In repairing mnny
articles which Mom been useless for months. You
Jan Cain it at the
tactunAt EMILY -MEDICINE. STORE.
Knorr awn STEEL!
T TlZtb:FrAe l z , h
j a s z d reLe ., 7 a il f New and Large
BAR IRON AND STEEL!
They are constantly supplied with stork in this brunch
• of his business. und con finial' it to customer: in large
-or *mall quantities, at the lowest rate.
SON.
Imenut street below J Second UM , Columbia, Pa.
Apni 28, ISM
ARTLiT'S COLORS. A general assortment
of colors in tubes. Aho. a variety of Arun
Jiruebev. at the Golden Nerinr Drug store. [July
I)ITTEL'S Compound Syrup of Tar and
Wild Cherry, for Cough., Cold-, &e. For mate a
be Golden Mortar Drugstore. Front at. pulp.
YEE'S Compound Concentrated Extract
Sarsaparilla for the cure of Scrofula or Cues
us!. and all scrofulous affections, a fresh article just
.received and for pule by
R. WILLIAMS, Front at., Columbia,
wept. 24, ISM
FOR SALE.
ra n GROSS, Frictton llfatchce, very low for cash.
ZUU 3 nne 25 . '39' R : WILLIAMII3
DRIED FRUIT.
DOR Dried Fruit—Apples. Peaches, Cherries,
the best in the market, go to U. sUY DA APS
Grocery Store, Corner Front and Union mil,
Dutch Herring!
ANT one fond of a good Herring can be supplied at
S. F. EffERLEIN'S
N0v.19, ISM. Grocery Store, No. 71 Locust rt.
LYON'S MB OHIO CATAWBX BRANDY
and Min eopecialiy for Medicates
act Sacramental purpose•. at the
Jaa.tia. F.,111.11LY MEDICINESTORE.
NICII RAISINS for 8 eta. per pound, arc to
belled only at
EGF:RLFIIN'S Grocery Store,
Marrh 10. N 0.71 Locum ntreel.
GaRDEN SEEDS.--Fresh Carden Seeds, war-'
rantedrantnita t or all k:wis.just recv.vad qt
s tirocvy.Store,
Al4retlaPll l 4 6 o. No ;71 Lotannrcet.
•PPCSCArfPOKS AND PURSES.
.
LARGE lot of Fine and Common Pocket Book.
'era purses, at from 15 cent. to two dollar. eaeb
Ht idquuners and News Depot.
..e.r!lantbia, April 14,1 150,
/ZW more of those beautiful Prints
41 Jell, which will be sold aloof,. el
BAtiLOR es. bleDONALiri
Columbia, Ts.
April 14
Just geceived and PofSal.:
1500 SACKS Grouid,Alem Salt, in 'argil
or •map tivati ue. r al
IVOLTAS
'Witrehntige. Cana Baain.•
ma T s.lso
LOW OF _CLICERINS.—Fir the cure
and prevention fn cbapord bond. de. For Pale
At the GOLDEN MORTA R M i7G STORK
Dee.. 2,18.59. Front street. Colombia.
Tarkis4 Pnutesl
FOR ant raretuticleot Pion. you most go to
d. F. EILVALMN'S
N0v.19, 1E49. .G rocery Store, No 71 Locust se
GOLD PENS,' GOLD PMS?
JITST nioeined a lame and fine st•scni;nen tof Gold
, Pens. of Newton and Griswold'n mannfilennte, at
• ," 1141Moak MeDONALDI3 Book Swore.
Adni Li - - Peontotneetorbone'hoed.r,
• • FSESSEI GROCERIES•v-
E cantatas leash the been -.Leer Syrnp.39hlie
aod amen Segura, good Coffees and ehoiee Teas.
to be had In Columbia at the New Corner Store, en
pestle Odd Fe'Sowell:an, and at the old llama aiem
tai
the Bonk. H. C. FONDEMBLITIV.
gettiotions.
Our Cottage Near Limerick.
SI 50
My father-in-law had asked me most cor
dially to pass a few days with him in his
suburban residence. So on my arrival from
Dublin, I ordered my hired car to drive me
out to Rathran, and hero I arrived at about
eight o'clock, P. M., one fine evening in the
month of September. The air was chill):
the light was fast declining; I was tired and
jolted to death by the bad roads I had tray
ersed. No wonder then that I had hailed
with joy the father of my wife, who
sitting before a blazing fire, was making
steady inroads into a bottle of Sneyd's best
claret. As I entered, I suddenly imagined
I had never seen a more perfect picture of
enjoyment. Major Voices WWI a good-look
ing, intelligent fellow, and his coutenance
like a frontespiece—bespoke his many good
qualities. But there was a bonliommie in
his smile, as be pronounced the "Cead male
faltha," which at once warmed the heart,
and guaranteed the welcome he professed.
For about half an hour we chatted cosily
beside the enlivening flame, and arrived at
that stage of perfect contentment, when men
least wish to be disturbed. In a word we
sat in that perfect tranquility and bodily re
pose which only Englishmen know—and
they only—when, with their handkerchiefs
over their knees, they sip cool claret, before
a burning fire. At least it used to be so,
On a sudden, Vokes started, jumped up and
rang a bell.
"You will excuse me. The fact is, I have
an important witness to examine. Will you
pardon my leaving you, or shall I have him
in here."
"In here, by all mecm."
"Send Micky O'lloolighan in!" said ho
to the servnnt who entered.
. The servitor disUppeared, and in a few
moments one of the most extraordinary men
I ever saw, entered. Lie was short, ill
clothed, and lame. His head was out of
proportion, and his face decidedly plain;
but he threw out bright glances from his
eyes—so bright, so intelligent, that it was
impossible to doubt his talent, while the
sneering leer which often accompanied these
looks, made one naturally shrink in terror
from him.
fib now shuffled into the room, and stood
sheepishly awaiting the orders of Major
Vokes.
"Well, Micky, my boy, are•you ready to
sail for America?"
"Sure you know that I am that same."
"There's a fine ship of Spaight's sailing
on Monday.
"Oh, sure it's I that know it, and hope
your honor'll send Biddy and lin it. But
they tell me young Moore is going in her;
and if so, I can't; for sure it was his father
I hanged when I turned approver. Some
times I think I was wrong—"
"Don't make an omadhown of yourself.
Here, take a glass of poteen. Sure, you're
better now? Ay, I thought so. Now, tell
me what you've got from the girl?"
"May I spoke?" and ho leered knowingly
at me.
- "Go on," said the Major. "It's all right
—it's my son-in-law. There, sit down, and
tell mo all about it, and divil a lie; fur by
the cross, if-you tell me a lie you'll never
see Ameriky."
I closely observed that, as Yokes wished
to gain confidence, he increased his Irish
accent.
"Is it me—glory be to your soul—is it
me would tell your honor a lie? God speed
your honor! Do you think that I'd tarn
upon the man who saved my life, and has
fed me ever since? Not I. The heavens
forbid. But, to tell you the truth, I csould'nt
get epochs of Biddy ➢l'Grath to-day. I've
not been very well, and I've scarcely left
the guard•roccn."
"Oh, then you've not been out all day?"
"Not I, faith."
"Micky, Micky!" said Yokes, shaking his
head and smiling, you're a bad boy, I fear
you would deceive me?"
"Not I, nor the like of me. I'll swear
on the Book I've never stirred beyont the
walls."
"Where did you drop this knife, you
roofer? Nay, don't tremble and start. I
know all. You met Biddy in the back
garden, and she gave you the note which
you have in your right hand pocket. yes;
St is there. Don't shake and lie any further,.
It comes from father Anthony, and desires
you not to betray the girl. You need tell
me nothing."
Down went Micky on his knees. pale with
fright. I began to fidget; and I verily do
believe I shared, at that moment, the gen
eral belief that Yokes obtained his informa
tion from some infernal Bonne.
"Oh, your honor's glory don't be bard on
a poor boy."
The fellow was fifty years oldi bat they
all style themselves boys in Ireland,
"Stand up, you boethoon, and if you don't
tell me the whole truth, by my cowl—and
you know I don't swear false—you sbillsee
the inside of the county jail before two hours
are over. It's not a traitor I'd nurse in my
own house. Sergeant Ready, (in a moment
Abe Sergeant appeared), take Micky, oat,
and bring Paddy Malone in. ' He'll tell us
the truth; SO coed evening, Micky &Mal
•
igen."
Ina moment the wretch 'seemed to recov
er. Ife epring to hie feet and roared rather
than tip4m,
"NO ENTERTAINMENT IS SO CHEAP AS READING, NOR ANY PLEASURE SO LASTING.''
, COLUMBIA, PENNSYLVANIA, SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 10, 1860.
"Is Paddy Malone here? Oh, then it's
all °r. Oh, then, Major, it's not Paddy you
shall trate with. By the soul of my moth
er, I'll tell the truth—l'll tell you all. Bo t
don't let Paddy turn approver! Oh, now,
Major Agra, you'll listen to me, won't you?"
and his voice assumed the tones .of su.ppli
cation.
"Well, we'll see, sit down again. 'Stand
behind him, Sergeant Ready, and if I nod
take him off; and bring Malone. Harry,
my boy, take a glass of claret. Now,
Micky, begin."
Micky fidgeted for a time and then slowly
spoke.
"Sure I happened to be strolling down
the back garden, and quite by accident I
met Biddy 14'Gratta."
"That's false, you met by appointment;"
and Vokes nodded to the Sergeant.
"Come along, Micky," said the policeman.
"Arra!), not so; I know I was lying—your
honor's right. Only let me stay, and I'll
spoke as I would to my clergy. (Vokes nod
ded.) Well, then, you see I met Biddy in
the lower summer-house, and she towld me
all. It was her brother—you recollect Jerry,
Major? Well, it was Jerry who hold the
cow-keeper down, while Biddy and her
mother finished him with burly sticks."
"An' how could Jerry hold him down so
easily?"
"Sure ho gave him lashins to drink; and
then he took him into the Linnie, and made
him a nice straw bed; and when be was
fast asleep, Jerry stole in and stunned him
with a big stone, afore the women set-to,
and they finished him entirely; for when
the body was found in the river—it was two
days before it could be recognized—the
head was so nicely mashed up; and oven
your honor—great glory to you!—would
never have 'dentified him, bad'nt you found
the process paper in his pocket; and then
you knew who it was."
"Well, I knew all you told me before from
Malone. So no thanks to yon. Malone it
was that carried the body down to the river.
he'll make a good witness."
"Arrah, your honor, then, would'nt take
that thief's word before mine? Sure, I've
a right to the reward. Wasn't it I that ca
joled Biddy to come here? and isn't it I that
towld her you'd do her no harm? and ain't
she ready to swear that the Macmahons did
it? and ain't she pissed With the kind way
she's treated? and if I did not toll you at
once, was'nt it for fear of Father Anthony?
and sure I'd not have towld you now, only
as Paddy Malone is here, it's all over; and I
claim to be approver."
"Does Biddy know that you communicate
with me?"
"Not at all. She believes I'm kept here
to keep me from O'Kelly's, against whom I
swore."
"Thqt will do."
yokes nodded and the witness was led
out of the room.
"There goes the greatest villain in fro•
land. I'll try a gloss of toddy. The fellow
makes me sick."
"Who and what is the?"
"lle is what we call an approver. With
out such means we could never succeed in
obtaining information in Ireland. The his
tory of the fellow is simply this: lle and
his foster father were taken up for burning
an old woman in her cottage, and strang
ling a poor child that endeavored to escape.
The case was clear, but we had no direct
evidence. I sent for Micky; I treated him
as an agent, and never pretended to suspect
him. I gave him every luxury. One fine
day, I committed him to the jail, and de•
sired him to be rigorously treated. I affected
to have heard some details, and accused him
direct of the murder. The charge was too
startling for him. Ile at once turned ap
prover (or King's evidence, as you call it in
England), and on his testimony, corrobent
ted by less important witnesses his foster
father was banged. Since then he has
wormed himself into the confidence of sev
eral ruffians, and betiayed them. Ile has
joined conspiracies, and• enabled me to
crush them. Micky is a good tool in his
way."
"And can you sleep beneath the roof with
such a villain? I strongly suspect he'd have
even thrown you over, if you had'at got
hold of hie partner in crime, this Paddy
Malone."
"Ila! ha! ha!" roared Voices; •come,
that's good. Why Paddy is safe in New
York. He escaped me."
"Lte's not here, then?"
"Not a bit, I only wish he was. I mere
ly hinted at it to make Micky let out the
truth. But the little rascal is getting so
false that I'll send him off, after the assizes,
to America. lie can't remain safely is this
country. If unguarded, his life would not
be worth four and twenty hours' purchase.
So he's bound band and'fbot to serve the
Government,- wbo "will now. probably, give
him some twenty pounds and a free passage
to New York: I confess he'll be a loss to
me. But now you shall see another sort of
individual. Sergeant Beady, bring in
Bridget IK'Gmth," and in a few moments
his orders were obeyed. •
The girl who now entered was one of the
loveliest specimens of Irish beauty. She
was neatly; almost coquettishly dressed.—
Her brown hair Sowed down her beet, and
as she liobbed a'curtsey to the Major, I re
ally thought I had never beheld` anything
so enchanting as her smile-=—so full of truth
and innocence.
"Come in, ma colyeen; come near the fire
and tell. na, lava you any news of Paddy
Malone? (I started.) I've made every in
quiry, and I think he may be in Dublin.—
We'll want his evidence to convict the Mac
mahons. They'll never bo found guilty
without more witnesses."
"Sure, Major, I am here; and I saw them
dragging the body across our field as clear
as I see you."
"But your evidence must be supported,
and Paddy cannot he found. Take a glass
of toddy, you look cold. By the bye, hare
you not a mother? Where is she?"
"It's myself don't know; I think she's
gone to England."
"That's a pity; for, you see, it's no use
taking up these Macmahons; they'd get off
without a second witness. So Biddy, agra,
you can go back to-morrow, and I'll insti
tute fresh inquiries myself."
"God be good to cs—you wouldn't think
any one else did it?"
"Well, I don't know. I'll go to Rath
kettle myself, and inquire into it."
The girl turned deadly pale; the Major
listlessly sipped his grog.
"Good night a eushla," and he made a
sign to dismiss her. Sho lingered.
"Stay, Mnjor. Sure, as your honor says
my mother was with me, and so was •my
brother, when we saw the Maemahons drag
ging the murdered man across the field."
"Well, but where are they?" suddenly de
mended Yokes.
"At the cross-roads in Cratloo Wood!"
replied the girl, who the next moment
seemed bitterly to repent her candor, and
would have withdrawn her statement. She
again and again declared she had mado a
mistake, and the Major apparently believed
her. Sergeant Ready arose and conducted
her out.
"What a lovely creature!" I involuntar
ily ejaculated. "How young and innocent!
Surely she cannot have offended?"
"Listen! That girl, her brother, and her
mother, committed the most frightful mur
der, only a few weeks ago, that ever dis
graced Munster. This was one of the girls
whom 3lioky told you, just now, battered
out the brains of a poor process-server with
hurley, or (as you call them) hooky, sticks.
By the bye, I've left the identical sticks in
your bed-room; see that they are not touch
ed, for there is a portion of the brains and
hair of the victim still sticking to them;
they will be produced in evidence. This
girl was the most savage of the party, and
struck the face of the corpse, when about to
be thrown into the water, to prevent its
recognition. She now wants to nocuse some
neighbors, who have deeply offended her, of
the crime, and hopes : to ace Munn executed.
But she's quite mistaken. After her con
fession to Micky, there'll, be no difficulty in
getting her to turn round; so I think now
the case is complete. But I see you are
tired."
He rang the bell. "Take a light into my
son-in-law's room, and send in Corporal
Vesey." That functionary arrived.
"Take four mounted men: manage to ar
rive about two o'clock in the morning at the
cottage near the cross-roads in Cratloe
Wood. Bring ?natty McGrath and his
mother. Don't lot them speak to each
other; and lodge them in jail, with orders
to keep them 'solitary' till I see them in the
morning. Be off!" and away went the
Corporal.
I now sought my bed room. and found the
Major's English valet waiting for me.—
From him I learned that the "gentle mur
deress" slept in the next room, end that
Micky had a room to himself over the
kitchen; half a dozen other witnesses, gener
ally speaking, murderers, slept over the
guard-room—for so was the wash-house
called—where four policemen sat up all
night, as the cottage would probably be
some night attacked. There was a recently
mended hole in :my shutter, through which
a ball had been fired, (for I must tell you
the whole cottage was on the ground-floor,
bungalow fashion,) and in the corner I
beheld the hockey sticks made use of to
destroy a human being.
Shall I say how I slept? and when I slept
what dreams I dreatapt? No. Suffice to say,
I never spent a less pleasant night, and
that I unhesitatingly refused to prolong my
stay, though earnestly pressed to do so by
the hospitable Major, at breakfast the next
morning.
After the meal, I drove back to Limerick,
while Yokes went to examine his newly-ar
rived friends in the County Jail.
Facts Concerning A If eerschatan.
I first saw it in possession of my boy=
friend Puffer, on his return from the Conti
nent.
I was a bard reading lawyer's clerk then,
on a small, and, as I thought, inadequate
salary. I bad quite a talent in the legal
way, having debated successfully at old
Bedevillem's Inetitute, where I gained my
astute knowledge of the world, since a clas
sical budding of the young ideas enables it
to shoot much more, perfectly. It waa my
parents' s intention to fit me for the ban--for
which purpoes I devoted agreater portion of
my time to hard reading. I read Story and
Scott, Coke and Comer, Blackstone and
Bulwer, and a great many other eminent
jurists and novelists. It ,wil/ be perceived
that I endeavored to combine the -practical
and:losaisnatite, and I would recommend
that plan to other young men about to take
np a profession It has its faults, however.
owing to the perversity of the youthful eta
dent to displa the lightest on the surface,
and although he may yet hold the law of
those revered jurists fixed in his memory,
he is apt to apply the arguments of the
novelist thereon—which, though ingenius
and entertaining, is, I believe, not consid
ered, authority.
As this is a moral episode, I may be par
doned one more egotistical confession. At
this, and in fact at an early period, I was
troubled with a besetting sin of imitation.
I was continually assuming other people's
habits, and adopting other people's peculi
arities. As another of my proclivities was
not to imitate anything good, it is some con
solation to reflect that most of my faults
were other peoples'.
Is it any wonder, then, that finding Puf
fer a metaphysician, I became a transcen
dentalist; or that, seeing his meerschaum,
I became convinced that cigars were but
half-measures, and that the meerschaum
was the true source of inspiration for a stu
dent? Of course not. I coveted Puffer's
meerschaum; and when one day Puffer said
to me: "11., friend of my soul, that meer
schaum's yours," I was happy. In imita•
tion of his impulsive foreign style, I fell up
on his neck and kissed both his cheek..
It was a most delectable instrument, large
and exquisitely formed—for some German
student had expended upon it between the
intervals of hard study. his artistic skill in
carving. The bowl was small and goblet
shaped, supported by a round limbed cary
atid—it might have been an Indian girl or
some Cleopatrashy female—tinct with the
dusty juice of the herb. I did not remark
it then—but it was none of yournew highly '
polished, waxen-surfaced affairs, with a su
perficial parvenu glitter; but old and respect
able, stained through and through with
the collected juices of half a century. For
such a pipe a man might renounce his relig
ion—his mistress; to have created such, he
might have willingly entailed upon his chil
dren, shattered nerves, and lustreless eyes
and clouded intellects.
When I took the green shagroen care
home, I met Dully,'my, landlady's daughter,
at the foot of the stairs, Between Dolly
and myself some acquaintance exi,ated. I
I looked upon Dolly with that disinterested
feeling which metaphysical young men with
vivid imaginations usually bestow- upon
young and pretty women. I had nn doubt
I that Dolly, who was pretical and red-lipped,
looked up at me from her every-day level
1 with the profound respect that my transeen
dental turn of mind, superior attainments,
and indefinable longings demanded. But I
did not want Dolly to see the pipe. Iknow
that in her practical way she would regard
it simply in the sense of tobacco, and possi
bly object to it. So, when I saw her small
gaiters occupying, the centre of a periphery
of laco edging, on n level with my eyes, I
concealed the coveted treasure in my bosom,
and reaching my room, locked the door, and
prepared to give myself up to metaphysics
and Puffer's meerschaum.
The filling and ligbtiog of a pipe is an
operation which should ez. - clude all indecor
ous haste. A. moment's carelessness or tri
fling on the part of the smoker—a hurried
or reckless packing of the weed at the
sertion of the cherry stern—produces asth
matic laboring, phthisis, and not unfre
trendy asphyxia and extinction of the vital ,
spark. The would-be smoker protracts a I
lingering wheezing exihtence, and his pipe
at last goes out. I filled Puffer's merschaum
with the genuine Latakia, (manufactured in 1
Connecticut,) carefully and deliberately lit
it, and applied my lips to the amber mouth-!
piece. You, oh, tobacco-loving reader, know
the raptureof that first draught--the strange,
indefinable thrill which pervades your very
being; the delicious absorption of that in-;
finitesimal drop of nicotine, following your
veins from your fingers' ends to the toes of
your boots. Talk of an infant at the breast:
the shipwrecked mariner squeezing the wet
canvas in his mouth; the Arabia Petrmn
traveler transported to Arabia Felix at a
well—anything in the way of a first draught
—and they are but weak comparisons. I i
drew a rocking chair toward the window,
threw myself in it at the national position,
contemplated the toes of my slippers, and
smoked Puffer's meerschaum.
With my eyes fixed upon the red light, I
thought of the strange and fabulous origin
of the "meerschaum." I pictured to my
self bleak cliffs, whereon the North Sea
lashed in fury, sending its spume in viscid
flakes on the clayey banks, to be collected
by mermaids and ?Irons, and fashioned into
fantastic bowls. - 1 thought of the Narcotic
Vegetal° in the home it loved best, and a f
vision of tropical beauty glimmered through
the fog—of black and oily. figures toiling
beneath atropine] sun, and carefully loosen
ing the soil about the roots of the broad I
leaved plant, letting them absorb the intox
icating influence of the dreamy but luxuri
ous atmosphere. And th ns thinking I beard
a rustle, and it stood before me!
What, even now, in the calmness and
quiet of this little room, I cannot—dare not
say! What it was that rose up out. of that
straw-colored vapor, floated mistily 'lllefore
me, and gradually resolved itself fro'm
cloudy chaos to palpable and awful outline,
I never knew. Whines it came, with those
large scarlet lips and rounded limbs, what
man can tell? Bettisiiful it-was—but with
a beauty nottifthis - world ot'age—a beauty
that might have - oome - to the lotus-intoxica
ted fancy" of '4112 ICvptinn sculptor, and
grdwn into 'sternal marble with sit its undo
lating lines, its voluptuous carves. its hese
ing bosom, its braidsd'blsck hair and pout.
ing lips.; du awful and suggestive =gni-
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fleence, that might have entered the hash
eeeh dreams of a Mahommedan devotee but
not the heaven sent vision of Christian
neophyte. Not even thatmlassicel beauty,
modeled by Cytherea and baptized in the
.Egean-'low brewed and perpendicular
nosed. Not even like Dolly—amber eyed.
scarlet dyed, with electrical hair like thin
spun glass. None of these—but yet glori
ous—entrancing—magnificent and an ful!
It crept toward me, and coiled up at my
feet. Half-veiled in some strange fleecy
garment, that shifted and waved as it mored
and stirred by invisible air currents, seem
ed to wreathe and writhe about it, even as
smoke—through which the polished mahog
any of its inner surface scented to glisten
and glide duskily like a serpent's skin—
; always graceful and charming, even in its
ophimorpheous outline--I saw it lean it's
head upon it's hand and turn it's awful glit
tering eyes upon mine. I tried to rise, but
could not. I tried to turn my eyes away,
but was fascinated like a bird in the scr
pent's toils. But it was not the relentless,
Qnwinking glitter of the rattlesnake, al
though I felt all the dreaded entrancement
cf its gaze. Its eyes were softened nod
humid as it looked, at mine, and bright with
ineffable longing. Again I . tried to move,
but my lips were torpid. I tried to speak,
but my lips were powerless. 'I could only
look; my faculties found expression in that
one sense, until the weary lids sank over
nod veiled the other lustrous orbs from my
benumbing consciousness, and slowly, quiet
ly, I
fell asleep.
When I awoke it was bright moonlight.
There were the long parallelograms of lights
below my window, and above the twink
ling city, the firmament, starred and resplen
dent. I rubbed my eyes. I was cold, ner
vous and trembling. There was a bitter
taste in my mouth—the room seemed close
—the air heavy with tobacco smoke.—
Puffer's meerschaum lay beside the on the
floor. I picked it op. and was about,to re
turn it to its case, when my eye caught and
became riveted to the bowl. It was the odd
brown tinged car and which seemed to
possess thin fascination and which recalled
something of my past experience.
You, oh reader, who have trespassed upon
some forbidden ground, who have indulged
in some prohibited vice—you can recall how
much easier becomes the descent after the
first downward step, than to retrace your
footfalls to that dreadful verge. Let me
then hurry over the feverish impatience with
1 which I reviewed my impressions of that
1 awful night and the gradual absorption of
' my faculties in the repetition of that first
excess. How often, after a visit from that
awful presence, restless and tossing upon
my couch, feverish, with parched tongue
and that bitter, burning taste yet lingering
on my palate, have I prayed to be delivered
from it's awful fascinations. How often
has this been, only to rise again and invoke
it's soothing, tranquilizing, stupefying pres
, enee from out of it's misty habitation. How
this record has been told over in shattered
nerves and trembling limbs, clouded intel
lect and vision, and remorseful conscious
ness, perhaps none but myself can know.—
One other, perliaps—Dolly'.
She eyed me narrowly. She often spoke
of my failing health and jaded looks. I
sometimes fancied she had detected the
secret, with the insight peculiar to practical
young women. Who discovers the skeleton
in your friend's closet, gentle reader?
Always a Dolly? You go about, stumbling
hither and thither, in your masculine
knowledge of men and things, opening
musty hook-cases, and conning over black
letter, and looking into street corners fur
the old skeleton. Dully, long ago, has gone
into your friend's room, and looked into the
closet at his bedside—which was always
open, and—seen it. I began to fear that '
Dolly knew it—and had seen it, too.
I had retired one night wearily to my 1 1 1
room, and took from my closet the green 1
shagrcen case. I once more filled it's bowl,
but in my feverish anxiety to invoke it's
now familiar presence, I omitted the precae
tionary rule I laid down at the beginning of
these pages, of clearing its concave alembic.
It answered but feebly, to my inspiring
breath. It seemed clogged and sullen. I
applied my pen-knife, and again resumed
my seat. Then slowly, as befitted it's awful
advent, out of the ascending smoke-wreaths
it grew in all its dim, mysterious glory.—.
Again it crawled toward me with its burn
ing eyes, again it coiled up at my feet and
leaned its braided musky locks upon it's 1
hand, and took my palm within it's own.—
Again I felt the strangc; indefinable thrill
possess me as I gazed into it's lambent eyes.
But I strove to shako off the familiar torpor,
when, as if divining my intent, it seemed to
raise! great heaven! to a level with my
breast. It approached me with liquid, lov
ing eyes, and big, pouting, scarlet lips—it's
mephitic breath 'was upon my cheek, it's
dewy and velvety lips touched my forehead.
I was fainting, when—fix—bang!
There had been a tremendous explosion
somewhere. I picked myself up from the
floor amid the scattered fragments of Puf
fer's meerschaum. Tho room was filled
with smoke to suffocation—but it was not
tobacco. It smelt of gunpowder, The door
was open, and somebody was giggling in
the hall. It was that practical young wo.
man—Dolly!--and she had peeked half en
ounce of Deportee in the concavity of Puf
fer's meerschaum.
In consider.,tion that I gained ten pounds
"one month afterward, I forgave Dolly. "-
I My health' improved to such an 'extent
' that I afterward married her.
[WHOLE NUMBER 1,577.
Where does Ivory Come From.
As ivory enters so largely into the Dom
grime of the day, either in the crude state
in which it is wrested from the huge ele
phants of Africa and of India, or in articles
,f luxury and use, we have been at some
pains to investigate the sources of its supply,
:be demand fur it, and the purposes to which
a is most applied,
That ivory was at a very curly period en
irticlo of traffic and adornment, we have
,nly to turn to Sacred Writ, and to the ear
liest profane poets of antiquity. Solomon's
*hip' came triennially laden with "gold and
iilver, ivory, and apes, and pettoocks;" and
"moreover the King made a great throne of
ivory and overlaid it with the best gold."—
David (in Psalm xiv.) sang of "ivory pal
aces," and the propot Ezekiel, speaking of
the luxury of Tyre, (xxvii—G,) states that
even the galleries had "benches of ivory."
Homer tells us of the magnificence of the
early and most barbarous Greek princes, in
whose mansions—
'Tile fpolls of cirphncts the roof•
From Africa, perhaps, more than from In
dia, the lung tusks were imported, thatgove
to the most splendid monarch of Israel, and
to the warrior chiefs of Hellas, their coveted
white adornments. May it nut be a clue to
the v oyages of the Tarshishian ships of
Solomon that at the present day commerce
has taken its old channel down the Nile,
and Cairo is once more a mart whore "gold
and ivory" are to be procured? Until with
in a few years, the Egyptian pashas made
trading up and down the Nile a monopoly;
now, Egyptian, French, German and Eng
lish merchants explore the remote resources
of that river, not fur the purpose of science,
but for those of commerce. In the last re
port of sales of ivory in London, tho head-•
quarters of this trafftak, we find that 85,000
(eighty-five thousand!) pounds of the ivory
sold was "Egyptian;'.' that is, found its way
to civilization through Egypt.
Herodotus distinctly tells us that Africa
yielded her tribute of elephants' teeth to the
King's of Persia. Tho Greeks had master
pieces of art composed of gold and-livery,
while the grave senators of Rome sat in ivory
seats. That Africa. was the• source whence
the ancients of southern Europe-drew their
supply, we learn from Pliny, the younger,
who says that the vast consumption of-ivory
for articles of luxury compelled the Romans
to. neck for it in another. hemisphere, "as
Africa had ceased. to furnish 'elephants'
tusks except of the smallest -
After the overthrow of the Roman empire,
the commerce between Europe and Africa
was suspended for centuries. At length
the enterprise of Portugal. the :eldest
daughter—the:Lusitania--of Rome, opened
anew Africa and India. In the meantime
the lordly elephant had multiplied in his
native forests, and if the long tusks were
secured by the natives they served merely
the plebeian purposes of door-posts, of .the
defenses of wooden idols. Battell, a quaint
old Englishman, who served in the early
Portuguese armies, says that the Africans
"had their idols of wood, fashioned like a
negro, and nt the foot thereof was a great
heap of elephants' teeth, containing three
or four tons of them." It is a well-known
fact that the inhabitants of Angola and
Congo, when the Portuguese first occupied
those coasts, were found to have preserved
an immense number of elephants' teeth, the
accumulation of centuries. For a long time
this ivory was exported in vessels of Portu
gil to various parts of Europe, and this
traffic formed one of the most lucrative
branches of the early modern trade with
Africa. About the middle of the 17th cen
tury this store became exhausted, and the
sons of Ethiopia were instigated to imitate
their nncestore in renewing the battle with
the wide-eared, long•tusked Elephat
canus. .
To-day the amount of ivory cmnumml in
the work•shopq or Europe, .Irnerica and
India is immense, and yet, greet as it is.
the continent of Africa furnishes -seven
eights of all that is worked up into orna ,
meats, toys, and crucifixes in France, hea
then gods, boxes, and fans in India and
China; billiard balls, boxes, miniature
plates, chessmen, mathematical rules, keys
for pinno-fortes, organs and melodeons, fans,
combs, folders, dominoes, and a thousand
and one things, in England, Germany, and
the United States.
Portugal was the England of the' 16th
century in more respects ths.'n one.
i two centuries Portugal held, in - the East and
on the African coast, the power and influ:
once now in the hands of England. 'Lisbon
at that time was the head of the ivory mar
ket; now London is the mart where ivory
dealers must do congregate. It sometimes
occurs that the Salem and other American
merchants engaged in the African trede,ship
their tusks (or tec/h in commercial parlance)
Ito London after they hare brought theta
from the Zanzibar and Mozambique coast to
the United States. In the world's great
imetropolis there occurs at regular intervals
one of those sales which furnish the manu•
faeturers with the stock of elephant's teeth.
While we associate ivory and India to
gether, but very little of the former comes
from the latter. It is estimated that to sup
ply ivory to the British market. for the last
few years, it has required about 1,000,000
lbs. The ivory which is put down in the
printed reports of sates as ."Bombay," in
nine cases out of ten is shipped by Kalmar
etan merchants froze the 'East coast of. A
frica the large northwestern commercial
emporium at Bombay, We do not mean,