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PeArrricEs Ihe Operative Surg seal and Meehan 'cal Department. , of lleall-1.31, OFFICE Loeu.i , reel.liellVf`erl he h"...lahltil riot t'o.l niece C0i.111110.1 May 7 LNS9 Harrison's Courabian. Ink. nriocte. perm:111..1111r b a rk IT and not corrollilig the pen. 1...1 br 11.1 w out Qantity.nt the Putully tzlinre, and 111.tehel ihat F.nghUt Booi Columbia. Jude U. 1859 We Have Just Received DR. CUTTER'S Improved Chest Expanding -.11-W4i%ler ,1111. ...Wu/der Hp for fit op hire, and Patent Skiol Supporter :end Item, for I..ehe pi..l the I.risete lint lowtttied nine, t:non und net them at Family Medleihe Sim,. o.'ll t'e s on,.. I Apol 9. 1,1,1 Prof. Gardner's Soap. WE hove the :Vito. , England Snip for tittle, Who ,q. um °Multi it from the -town tun, to the cud will take grin-rnone Woo'. Goad,, therefore Ile hurntitsg. fur 1 tU 0.1 ilie worth of your mutiny al the P.lttal;y C01111.11,1U, Juno ii, (11.11/111AM, or, Bond's Boston Crackers, for and A. rillV til/1/1•k • • 1 . 01 • 1 n vullA~ told Pill l lll.l-111,, lei 0+14.01141.1, kn the Vann ly Medicine April 16. 16•19. SPALDING'S PREPAIILT allii,-.The want of such au airtiele 1, I,llln i•Vei ) in.! 11Y. Will 11(1W it can he supplied; fur mending lii While. .1. lona. Ware, o , llUrtielitat Work, loy.s. ke • there I- 1101117 og superior. We have found it u-orui in I rim! ring 111.10) arurtel WII 11.11 turner been Usele4b fur mond... You. Junatin it at lila 111.0U11A 1. FAH UV v 13)1C IN I: s 1 . 1 lit IL IRON AND STEEL ! lIE Si.L cu b. r• hncr reveived a :law and Larg .:Roak of all lc. lc mid BAR IRON AND STEEL! They are con-tautly sappaect with -tack la of his end c.m lame!, it la cu. anise- at large or small yuunuties, at the lute. .1 RUMPLE & SOS. Loeu-i street below Z. 4 1.e0.a1, ColwnLta, l'a. April ita, Julio. I.?ITTER'S Compound Syrup of 'I I- and u ‘Vild Cherry, tor I:otig!1., God. Ac. F avle he Goldcil Bloc or Drug:.(ort• Frnm .1. lo,yy YER'S Contpotind Coneentratal tract • :v.i.ti r dllir‘ r e ir r i :fut r o i • l :'LTrio ° :i t s. S a7lT ?L a u : 1 1 ( f; tfI s t received and for imli• by It. WILLIAMS, Front at , Columbia, FOR SALE. 200 CROP.rnetiou Matches, very fury for cash nor 25. H. WILLI.. ‘1,4 Dutch Herring! INy one fond of it gout ring stn bo cimplEed at F. E1111:111.12.:1,VS Nov. to. 18511. Gcocery Stone, N 0.71 Locust st. LYON'S PURR 91110 CATAIIBI BRINDY and l'U HE WINKS. crpectally tor liedmtnea std Sacramental porno-es-, lit to, Jan. 29. F t U t I.Y AIIIOIGI NI: F• 7 0111:. Nice RAISINS for 8 cu. per pound, are to be bud only at EUCRI.EIN'S Grocery Store, No 71 Lord., March 10. IFGO GAUEN SLED .--Fresh Cardvii Seeds, war hulled rule, IA alit k•ii ICVCIV, II 111 ESCHLFAN's 4.rocer, Store, No 71 I.osU-1 .irrel hlarell !O. IFAO POCKET BOOKS AND PURSES. A rat RGI: lot of Floe :tort Commo,, Vnekel Roo!, 11 god PUrSCS. at trout I 3 cent% ict tv.n duslar% each Ile Idyll:vier- arid Orpot. Columbia. April 11. 1410. A EEW EMU of those beautiful Prints wa,el, 1 , ,, -old chow, at SAYLOR 6r. AR U• )N ALD'S Colwniia• Pa. April 14 Just Received and For Sale. 1500 SACKS Ground Alum Sall, in large or ,wall qtaaall lie.s, at A PPOLD'S «'urrhnu•e. Cunui llama IdnyS,Vo FOLD CREAM OF GLYCERINE.--For the cure and preveni all 01 AC, F o r ...in ,at the GOLDEN 310firitti DRUG STOUP:. rk'n 3,tera Front .irtuu. Columbia. Turkish Prunes! FOR a arta rate aruete of Prune. you mu‘l go to S kittEICL LIN'S Grocery Store, No 71 Icteu.l .1 /i0r.119,19.19 COLD PENS, GOLD PENb lIIST received a large and fine nmortment of Coil ?COP. of Notion and lOrtewold'• manufacture, at SA YWR & AIcDONALIWS Hook Stork. API' 14 Front .tret.t. above Loro-t FRESH GROCERIES - - - - WF. continue lo peil the bee ••L Syrup. Mite and BrON/ItSugur.i.good Coffee, and choice Tend. to be gad ut Columbia at the New Corner Score. op. posiie aF t Fellows Hall, and ut the old .10 out u.fjoi lb tug the :uk. U. C. FON inapt MIT/1. Segasa, Tobacco, &c, A LOT of Gat-rate Seger..-Tobacco and Snotr wiil IL be Stood at the .tore of the PUb•Cribrt. tiebet. Leepe only a Stet rate article. Gan it. a. F. ESERILIN'S Grocery Spve. Logue.' at., Columbia, Oct°, G - CRANBERRIES, NENVCrop Truileo. Near Citron. at Oct. VO, WOO. A. NI. R A NH30%1 SARDINES, Ir i e r =ri:hlo sa r &17:1. 11 y 6 " ° , 4 1 . 1711 1 :itr.3;g: " . " C OCI. 1840. Tin. 71 L... 1.1 st. CRANBERRIES. ramelved a (rasa let of C.ranhertieo land New CYrrlanj•.>.l No ;I cu CM ME (We invert by req:.e•t the fohowing linen by the lute Moses Mel.ette, Esq , of Ilurrisbulg] ELM “Then said Jes - us, Fath,r, for•ttive them, for they know 1101 what they Jo.--1.171C 93.34 tom , • mourning snot. rejoice, be glad! Drive every fen r Come listen 10 :he dying And hear the Savior pray.. E~ Legion- of Anit , were his own. li , r , ll•'ill 10 u t, 1,V1,41; leni the itninort,il vedriiOrsi Lamed To vii.tlicale iheir Lord. M.cbael. of lie:wen"- , own nrmka l'rince, Thou did , a uo •ucror brine; No , grasp ill) •pcnr, 11. W e -terror once, T o -ave thy larerillg Fiagl To rur h no thunder: durrd io roll; No vrng• fa. n ones loppenro 'Thu di% beloy'd J••hovnh bireds, And Ilew/mi• ad in tears, Fo% him no x•nrrinr Angel+ fought, thuatter, ruled abroad; Foi meek r}ed Love their vengruce chain'd Fast to the throt.e of God. “rather forgive them!” Jests cried, Let vengeance not pur4uv; "Fauber forgive them," Ilia prayer, -They know not what they do:' Come, fuilhfitl eau% again rejoice, Can-a every• doubt to flee, Thy Saviour for Ile, tnur-terer's pray'd And lie will pray fur thee. Should par-ccution's edge, tdiart l'ur-ue tic while we li,e, jekeit, benevolent, divine, Oh, teach u; to forgive: The hand is the moat perfect instrument which God has given for the use and study. of ra in. It is replete with the clearest cvidenee of the most worploiful design. By r we obtain a more complete knowledge of ?he properties of matter than by any other .gall of touch. The eye atone could never communicate to the mini many of th•e quainies of external things—size, distance, position. The muscles of the shoulder, arm, wrist, and those dispased about the arm it give this meniber astonishing f ditty pci forming. the multhudinons operation, in which we 1.13 f! I t reaching. thrusling, There is a meaning in the incrinalittes of the fingers--the arming them at the tips with a horny. sub stance—in the separation of the thumb from the font- digits by a bed of muscle. Then only consider its bean ty: No Cafe, 110 hand. prnilmlina.llll.• or air ['rawly. too tor .11a•e Pala ad. re•t Whiteness Is thought a great point; and a fair hand is certainly very brantifol. But the whiteness ought to be healthy and natural, nut of a sickly hue; rather than that, give us a genuine, undeniable, un changeable rod. The most distinguishing characteristic of Aurora was her rosy hand, a hand glowing with health :IA freshness. A white hand seems to have been emble matic of innocence. Thus, in Mas±inger's "Great Duke of Florence,"—"Let ttiis, the emblem of your innocence, give me assur ance!" And Lydia replies: "My hand joined to yours; without this superstition, confirms it." A red hand, the baronet's cognizance, was symbolical of war, and a hard hand of vulgarity—for labor was ever accounted vulgar. Scipio Noisica, the enemy of Ttberia Gracehus, who was a great favorite fiche Roman populace, sto id candidate for the, consulship, and although he o,molied so far with the usual custom as to canvass fur vo cc, yet lie displayed in his behaviour the greatest c intempt fir the people. "What!" said he, as ho took the hardened hand of a la.' orer whose vote he I solicited, "do you walk on your h Inds?" Byron was of opinion that there W:l9 oath ing more distinctive of birth than the hand, and that it is almost the only sign of blood aristocracy can generate. Leigh hint has ridiculed Baron's nut inn--"My friend. George Bustle, used to lament that, in con. • sequence of Cie advancement of pulitenes and knowledge, there was no longer any distinguishing mark of gentility but a white hand. Poor George! he had better have thought otherwise. People who have noth ing but a white hand to show for their breeding, are in a bad way." Then its to shape: here grace is more satisfied by having the object rather under than over the usual size. The fingers should paper, be well rounded at the nails, and the whole outline should undulate and flow to please the taste for curves and formal beauty which nature has implanted in us. By;mn's hand. his biographer tells us, was remarkably small, so much so almost as to be out of proportion to his face. The first Villers, ' Duke of Buckingham, was, like the poet, proud of the beauty of his hands. Sultan ' Mahmoud 11., of terrible memory, was also noticeable for the smallness of this member; and Queen Elizabeth, amongst her other vanities, imagined that nature had distin guished her by the comeliness of this part of her person. She seems invariably to have,directed the painter to attend to her Ihands; yet, in her picture at Hampton Court they are long and lank, like an un tried pair of gloves. Paul Houtzner, in recording a notice of a public procession of ' the Queen to prayers, describes her hands J as small, anti her fingers long. He men I tions that a Bohemian heron had letters to present to her, and that she pulled her glove off her right hand, and gave it to him a marl of peculiar favor. We = nt,i i . "Father Forgive Them." griEttiOns. Touching the Hand "NO ENTERTAINMENT IS SO 011 EA L, AS READING, NOR ANY PLEASURE SO LASTING." COLUMBIA., PENNSYLVANIA, SATURDAY MORNING, IIARCII 2, 1861. have a hint of the Queen's vanity from another source, and at an earlier period of her life. In the second series of Sir Ilenry Ellis "Ifistorical • Letters," there is one from a Venetian minister, who was in Eng land at the time Elizabeth ascended the throne, and he describes her as a lady o: gloat elegance, both of mind and body; h' eves be tutiful, and, above all, her hand, which she did not conceal. "e saspra fl tut. Lelia memo de la garlic fit projessione."— Itilst I am quoting from the Italians, I may as well mention that Gr denigo, orate, •ft Roma. deseril:es Leo X. as ••of a ino,t o ,ble stature, with a very large head, an, with hands superlatively beautiful;" accordingly, in RE.phaers fatuous picture ••t the rope at Florence, the hands ate care tally p Limed, Fo.ssart mentions a cartel Gaston de Fuix surnamed Phoebus, wh. had remarkably "fine, Icing, and straight" fingers. He returned one day to his cacti. from hunting the hair in a hit sun, and t. cool himself, dipped I.ii lands into cold water, whrenpon he was seized with a vio lent fit, in which he died. Artaxerxes, son of Xerxes the Persian, is said to have had hands of such a length, that he could teach his knees when standing upright, and hence was surnamed Longimanus. Rob Roy we ' remarkable for the length of his arm and hand, which enabled hint to tic his garter• without stooping. Ever since the mortal taste of forbidden fruit brought death, and knowledge, and woe into the world, there has been no object more eagerly and perseveringly sought ofter by man than Jut acquaintance aftet futurity. It is finite certain that, except so far as God has been please 1 to make an express revelation, man's attempts to ren der the veil transparent have been entirely fruitless; yet he has often dece:ved himself with the idea that soma nostrum had ans wered his purpose. lie has consulted the stars of heaven; he lias perused the entrails of beasts and fowls; arid ho has rent on the table of his hand a portraiture of his life.— "Clardan," saith the credulous Sir Thomas Brown, in a letter to his friend, "bath a peculiar and no hard ob;ervation from a man's hand, to know whether he was burn in the day or night; which, I confess, hold eth in may own." This NV guessing back wards, but the chief promir,e of chiromancy was to tell things to be. Seven mountains stand on the palm, from Which diviners pretended they had views into futurity; and valleys lay at their feet, wherein were great mines of knowledge. Palmistry is asserted by the author of "La Chiromantie Univer selle" to be the most beautiful of the scien• ces founded on nature. In that work are long explanations of the signs to be read on the palm, and upwards of twelve hundred representations of the Itln I and it shines.— Shakepere ta , 'ri4ed 'astrology in "King Lear." and he ridiculed chiromanos in the "Merchant of Venice." There were many other strange supersti• tions connected with the hand. It was be• licved that the hand of a dead man was effi• eacions in the cure of warts and wens, by simply stroking w:th it the parts affected, It is stated on gaol authority that, at the execution of Dr. Dodd for forgery in 1777, a decently dressed young woman made her way to the gallows jit , .t only after life was extinct, to have a swelling on her face touclied with his hand, and that the hang man untied the culprit's wrists, and, dis gusting to relate, strokmrthe tumor several times with it. Robbers have used in their nefarious expio:ts. a deal man's hand, which they called the Hand of Glory, believing that the persons to whom it was presented were depeived, as by the sight of the Me dusa's head, of all power to move. The re ceipt for making this formidable instrntnent is given in "Lee Secrets de Petit Albert," a work pub:ished at Lyons in 1751. and it is to thi. effct: Take the hand, either right or left, of a person hanged and exposed in the highwny, wrap it up in a piece of shroud or winding, sheet, in which let it be well squeezed; then put it into an earthen vessel. and leave it for fifteen days covered with salts of various kinds; then expose it to the noonday sun in the dog days till it is tho roughly dried. A candle must he composed of the fat of a hanged man, virgin wax, and sisame of Lapland; and the hand of glory is used as a receptacle fur the lighted can dle. It is hardly credible that, so late as 1831, somes thieves attempted to commit a robbery in the county of Meath, armed with a lighted candle placed in a dead man's hand, in the belief that it was invisible to all but themselves, and that it prevented every person who was then asleep from waking. The relic which the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem most prized was a human hand. which had been given to the Grand Master d'Aubssson by Sultan Bajazet, as the right hand of St. John the Baptist. The tradition ran that .s dragoon at Antioch having eaten a morsel of meat touched with it, suddenly swelled to a great size and then burst. When carried in procession through the cot?ntry, it was supposed to Tredict a good year when the fingers opened; but, if it remained a threatening fist, unfavorable seasons were to be expected. When the en voy of Peter the Great visited Malta in 108, the Grand Master presented him with a Gross which bad been touched by the sacred band; and a hundred ;ears afterwards, when the chief of the order was expelled from the island, he begged to be permitted to carry this relic along with him—a request the French readily comylici with, as the hand was not of gAI. In barbarous times, punishment was fre quently inflicted by cutting off the hand.— That relentless Ibman general, the young Scipio Africanus, when laying siege to Nu mantia, was deeply angered by the people f Lutea on account of the assistance they 4ave the besieged. Ho fell upon the place, .nd when four hundred of the inhabitants were delivered to him to do with them what as listed. he cut off their hands and let them g,. In C,esar's contest with the Gauls, he caused the hands of all his prisoners, on one .ccasion, to be amputated, in order to strike terror through the country. The assassins ~verto,k Cicero at the sea side, severed his head and his hands from his body. The mouth, from which had issued mellifluous streams of eloquence before the Roman peo ple and the senate, the hands, that with their graceful action had tempered, or with their vehement motion had driven home the language of the orator, were now brought as a gratifymg offering to a cruel, ambi tious voluptuary. At the battlo of Leptnto, in 1571, Cer vantes was so maimed in the left hand that he lost the use of it for life. If rate shot cr the sabre had struck the tier, who knows what the world would have 1. st? Our rend ers, we dare say, have not forgotten that Cr, ugly blow from Harry Gow separated the hand of a gay gallant from his arm when attempting to climb in at Catherine's win dow, and that brisk, f. rward, corpulent little Oliver Proudfuto afterwards picked it up in the street. There is a tale, perhaps nearly as fabulous as that of Calllsl3lticius burning off hi: right hand on an altar in presence of Porsena, lord of Clusiam, because he had killed with it the secret..ry instead of the m titer. Part of the ceremony of taking, the oath of homage consisted in the feudatory placing his hands in those of the suzerain. Histo rians mention that Tassilon, Duke of Bava ria, after having taken the oath of vassal loge and fidelity, placed his hands in those of King Pepin le Bref, and swore allegiance and homage to him and his children on the Indies of St. Denis of France and other Tu swear by the hand was an oath of which we have many ex unples in our old plays. When the forest laws were in full vigor, if a man were taken in.the red hand. that is, with blood on hie hand, he was pun ishable as if he had actually killed the deer, though other evidence were wanting. In the old Sax.on law, there was a pledge called the hand-borrow for the good behaviour of the inferior people in each district. Last of all in this long catalogue, there is a curi ous custom amongst the ruling houses of Germany of contt.teting morganatic; mar riages in which the ceremony is performed by the left hand being given to the woman. A marriage of this kind is only celebrated when the woman is of inferior rank. The wife continues of her former 'station, and the children are not allowed to take their father's name or arms. --- Hr. Trathllea' Tale "D.Avn in Link',3 11.,110w, where tl.e gib bet was? ' Aye." "A. ugly plaen and nn ugly night. I wouldn't pl..' "It won't be the first time that gibbet kept him here,•" said the landl.n•d, between the whiff. 4 of' his pipe, "as his wife could tell. Ever hear abort it, sir?" "No," said the pimple-fared mon, who was a stranig?.r "Caine, sit down, Tradd and tell it," Mr. Traddles looked at the fire and at the window; he cast an upward glance at the shining braises on the shelf; a corner of his eve took in the preparations for sup per which were going on quietly; a pewter measure threw an affectionate twinkle at him, which said, "Stay;" the stout old arms of the wooden settle stretched them selves out in their rough but kindly fashion. and said, "Come, nonsense about going— sit down and don't bother!•' The settle finished it. Such beaming good humor there was in its polished back—such an air of reckless jollity in the way its arms were held out, and its feet, ono kicking one way, one another, and so shiny was its seat, from much rubbing of drab unmentionables and marvellously embroidered smock froths. It wasn't everywhere you could sea such a settle as that; fur the march of civilization and refinement is against settles, and chim ney corners, and high mantles with glitter ing brasses. Mr. Traddles then sat down obediently; he put out his knees wide, with a hand resting on each of them; he looked up amongst the barns and flitches for inspita• tion, and the pimple-faced man proffered him a pipe, which he refused; for Mr. Thraddlee couldn't smoke, it gave him a tickling sensation in the throat, and if per severed in, produced a short blur before his visual organs, in which the brasses were seen to make rapid circuits round the room the fire-irons to conduct themselves in a very light manner, and even the arms of the settle to go out with such violence against everything in general, as to give rise to the idea that it was parting company in the middle, and going to pieces under him. Mr. Traddles did not say all this to the stranger, he merely remarked that smoking was a bad habit fur young men to get into, and shook his bead with a self-denial very virtuous under the circumstances. '•lt was is the days," began Mr. Trail. dies, "wl.en there was a good deal doing on the road—act that Lilo trace is rialto used up but it's damag,ed; things are a little altered since Dick Turpin did his bit of a step with Black Bess—there was a farmer lived down yonder"—with a jerk of his thumb towards the window— " Link's Hollow?" "Aye; it was about the time my mother sent me—being a lad of genius, but, as she called it, poor soul, 'a Jack-uf-all•trades, master-o'-none'—away to learn farming, ex pecting I should hare money left me— which I had, but that's neither here nor there, for it's gone, somehow long ago.— It's a curious thing,•now," said the little man, looking into the fire, "how that mo ney did go! It was in a bank, safe enough. as I thought; I just drew a bit now and a bit then, thinking to mike it up by-and bye; and ono morning going to ack fur n small sum—a mero trifle—they sail it was all gone. I don't wish to wrong anybody, but it was curious, you know!" "But the gibbet!" said the pimple-faced. man, impatiently. "What about that?" "WeIL - the farmer was well to do; had no chick nor child, and plenty of money: a rich man, so to speak. lie used to like o•her farmers, to market, to sell his grain and get the money for it, and it 11*: a lonely ride enough between there and Link's Hollow, but lie was a bold man, and it didn't trouble him. He bad been to mar ket as usual, and•hail received money.—He hod it about him, bank notes and sovereigns tied up in a brown holland bag. which lurk ed all the richer because it was dirty. He took his grog well, and gown it fr2ely to the man who Lttd paid him, as ho always did, for ho was open-handed enough. There was a stranger sitting in the same room, but his back was turned, and he seemed to be just minding his own business and taking no notice of any ono, till, all at once, the farmer felt a sort of spell on him tolouk up. He did so, and found the stranger's eye fastened on the bag, which he had just tied "'Your health,' says the farmer, looking at him, and taking a pull at his grog. "'Same to you,' says he, laughing. 'lt's to be hoped you carry arms, if you mean ride far with that sort of thing at this time of night.' "'Arms,' says tho farmer. 'A yo, and fits at the end of 'em.' 'lie doubled his lists as he spoke, and the in On, laughing agtin, wishel hint a pleas ant ride, an•d went away. "The farmer mounted his horse and rode off. Ile had ten good miles !Core him, and most on 'em across a common, with no house near, not even a cottage. Ito looked about as he left behind him the last house he should see till he reached his own, and then set off at a trot, whistling as he went. lie had often done the same thing before; he had often ridden home as late, with as much money in his pocket and he had no fear now. Very soon be heard the ring of hoofs on the hard road behind him. Ile quickened his pace a hit, hut nut enough, fur, before he was aware, a horse was stretching neck-for-neck with his, and a blow front some weapon s'a,ggered hint in his scat. ''Aye, aye,' says the farmer, gathering up the reins, and rising in his stirrups, for the [noon had shone right across tho rob ber's face, and he knew him again. 'Arms is it? Aye, and fiats at the end of 'eat.— Your health, my friend!' "Hitting out, and sparrilg his horse, off ho started, and 'my friend' after him. The robber bad a tough nag, but the farmer's was tho fleetest, if she could only hold her pace long enough. Oa they went, the sparks flying up from the hard road after them. A neck•or-nothing race it was, but the farmer gained on his friend fast. He was just beginning to draw a comfurtabie breath, and think about home, whoa a sharp whistle came from behind, and another horseman sprang into the road right before him. He wasn't going to give it up even then; they grappled together for a minute, and the dancing and capering of horse's feet mingled with their heavy breathing.— It was but-for a minute; the farmer got his .bridle free, doubled suddenly, and sending bis riding-stick at his assailant, as a lost fond remembrance, he made for a low fence, cleared it, and got in front again. They were both after him, however, at a spank ing gallop. lie dug his spurs into the mare, and site spun along like the wind with hint, all panting and stiff as he was, fur he had got come blows, too. And now getting near his own hunse—wltere he could see the smoke curling up from the chimney; and knew his wife was sitting there waiting for him, and keeping up the fire fur him—the mare's foot caught against a stone. Sec what little things turn the balance; it was but a moment or so lost, but it was that too much. Ile was seized, pinioned and his pockets rifled. lie never spoke, never ask ed fur mercy, but he struggled hard, and the robbers had no cagy task to keep him fast while they searched him. They took his money, and one of them, with a curse, struck a heavy blow on the mare's reeking flank that made her spring off again like mad, while the other, perhaps his bad blood was up at the farmer's hard lighting, draw ing something from his bosom, steadied his hand a minute, took aim, and the farmer tumbled from his horse like a rock nut of a branch. That was in sight of his own door." "Was he den i 2•• "Fie lncl 1.;;12; cnJurli LI tell it, •tna t. 81,50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE; *2,00 IF NOT IN ADVL:nE s‘rear to the man who stopped him f.rst.— The other got off." "Ile did die, then?" "Ito did. His wife took on lo r.11)13; shot herself up, and nerer spoke a word t anybody, making no sound hut a m'aninr., which-kept on all d.,y and all Lif . o,#, aslo,;) and awake. At last :lie took a fanry •:o go about the house at ni,7, 1 1t. lil.e moaning ghost, up-stairs and down-stairs, along the passages, in and out of every room but the or.e ho had lain in; and ono night she tried that too. Perhaps she heard the. strange creaking outside, or perhaps tome spirit was in her, dra2ging her on; the must have pulled up the blind an] 11.4;ed out, however, and in the tree within a few yards of her, swinging backward , and f. ,r -wards in the wind—we know what the rne , n was shining on, and she must hlr. , seen it There came fr mt that room a sin irk that rung through the housa and startled every body out of tte'r bed, to see what was the. ;natter. But they mull only guess—she never toll." "Yuu don't mean to =ay—" "Mad!" said the little man, shaking his head—"ravingl" "Humph:" s:kid the pimple-faced stranger —"robbed in right of his 01,vn clout! that sonnds rather—rather—" "That man," Baia Mr Train!les, strik . -,g his drab kne . e.3 omphaticaliy, "w•ts my uncle. I waA at his h ,tts't ed. That horrible thing, in , swung there, creaking•, in sight .T the crowds cf people) coming to tee. it ex ery day - - ;warms of peoide, After ti.at kylit the too!: it down, 'Jut it was teu late in e y ountl" "And that gibbet," said the. lan ..ht,king the nshes out of his pipe sutemnk "was the last gibbet as ever I see, nod 1 d ,n't care if I never sLe another, nor hear on it. Pass the grog." Doestioks hears from Damphool My mind is much relieved. I have heard from Damphool—from the original Dam p/mob of whom I have fur some time pa-t lost track. I have had my fears that he had been elected President, and was the individ ual who has been boss of the country nt Washington under the name of James Bu chanan. James has done so many things to warrant the belief that he is my old friend under an assumed name, that I have often trembled in my editorial boots at the thought that I had been instrumental in bringing hint before the people. I cannot say that James himself has done so much of anything to relieve himself from suspicion; but I have had a heavy load taken from my mind by the receipt of a document which sets the whole matter at rest. James Bu chanan is not Damphool, that is, not the Damphool; he has., I have no doubt, been nearly relate.] to the family, and donbtless could "read his title clear" back to the great progenitor of all Damphools, a gentleman of the name, I think, of Adam, who lived in the town of Paradise, c.unty and State to the deponent unknown. But the grout Damphool is in Charleston, South Carolina. Ile is a sod liar there; he is serving in the trenches, or the batteries, or in whatever other place South Carolina puts her chosen sons. Ile has many rela tives there —in fact, I believe• that every man in Smth Carolina is connected with the Damphoul far Hy by blood or marriage. llawever, I will b.t the: letter of my friend tell his story: IN, JAIL 20, 1861 "Mr Dr-tr. OLD P illsricia:--Did you think I was lost? Did you think I was played out? Had you any wild idea that I was gone where glory waits me? I don't suppu,e you'd have fretted much about it, for there are plenty of us left. The Dam phools are well represented in the country: no-danger that the race will speedily be cu extinct. But here I am. serving S nth C.trolina. and getting ready to fight my old uncle S or any other mtn. South Carolina is all right; S wth can whip uncle Sam; she isn't afraid to try England single handed; in fact, there is no doubt that if she tho't proper, _she could manage Russ' t with her artillery, nod flat out Austria with her dragoons, at the same time that her infantry were engaged in giving England and France a en-partnership drubbing. "As for you Northerners, why, you don't know what we intend to do; hut I've no ob jection to telling you so much of our plans as will give you a slight insight into our intentions. After we have taken possession of WAshington, and hurled the batch of Wide Awakes we shall hare to slaughter there, then we shall step along to Baltimore and Philadelphia, and take those little places. When we have burned the pile of Wide Awakes and Repuldicans that we shall kill there, we shall run to Now York and help ourselves to sweetmeats. "We shan't born much of the town, as a good many of us think of remaining there :old making it our residence during the yel low fever season at the South. Pickens has promised me my choice of mansions in Fifth Avenue, in consideration of cer:ain services I have rendered. Pickens asked my advice about how to dispose of the Wide Awakes we shall have to put to sleep and the Ile publicans we shait kill. Pickens has re solved to tnake pretty clean work with all you Northerne-s. We shall kill about :0,000 men the first day; and as our men will most likely be tired out with their day's 143111035, they Rant wattt. to g) to work to [WHOLE NUMBER 1,593. bury you all, and I'm afraid that to burr. such a large pile of you waull make the air unplea;ant to the ladies. S.) I prio ri ...pd to Pickens to have a It of rbips rinily, pile our deal enemie.) alioard, tat:: thom out alriut twenty-fivemiiri to sea, ant them. Pic:ozone like I notion; and, return fi,r my ing. , tilotas proposal, be hai pioini.,ed me the cli,iee Of li•iuses in till city. I haven't exactly decided about it yet: but I shall d) so to-night. Must of our other fellows have selected their li:u.se7, sap! Piel:Pns' Fe.,!7+;:tariel !Ire till` deed,. 1 a 1 ,Iral ftre)ng the t.::tt . ).l f): these fans Fleece of eligible r mery. I knew ono folku, - :in by bad a deed of' the !lonia built by 51r.m:).,r.:1 , ,.T...tent ) en , ,1 on the Fifth avenue; !)I 17, it' 7 1 - nker la , t. night; Ira ,, a b g, "1:i he fur.,17:8 W:1 - 0 and thinZ4 were Tho garr.e got e, citing. thiplia had Circe kings nod a pqie ac g,)t w:I? and ~frered to het nay . - tbing tvnl e..ervtliing; one Cr the fable, t whom Po)kens had appo:tiene I the Penni man property en Math3o.l SCl , l , lre, put that property up; : . .z , rtigz bet T.Tany's Jenl:?r I'm :tit n•' 1; he ha bees It:ky th ,1.1, q 1,14? p rent is t A•s'X r." c'L-,1: OEM .or:r..crth etrcct , 13n et - 13 ‘Vtir:en street; IMES l y;•'1 it oteara EZ 11319 13.101 in eam.:4. op Clo .thee's• _ •a , fur h mso, an.i four large jewel , s eon N.r.11 in NToidon lain , ; Jen • ker replie I with rho .I.thintie dock property. and Third avenue railroad, and icanted to church, the Chemical Bull: an I the Union f:rry better, hat here Bopliu sail ito teas, broko, and demanded a sight for hie pile, hat it, tad that's all tho good it did hint. 1 - 1.%4 it an 1 aces were n , ,where. for .J Iter had a "flash," and little Squiggs raked tho pot with four nine epotß. EMI "S. eh scenes are common. I dare say the whole of I:trthat.tan Island has changed hand 4 a dozen times ever. Pi..rken4' cles•l4 are considered perfectly gond and sound. "I hare not e;anibled moth in that sort of property; but, as we have concluded t,) Fare all the wotnon, I have speculated some in pretty girls. I hare already won forty-niln girls under sixteen, and eighty-three young ladies under twenty iw)—lialf of them blondes, half brunette', all to bo plump, have fine teeth, and to be good singers; am fond of mush.; these are all to Le deliv• ered to me on or before the 7th of March. "We are g dng to take some of your prom inent Abolitionists and anti-Southern men alive, and have r. little fun with them nfter wards; Piekeuq, when found he wa gettir.4 ohart of money, sold "privile;;e3 ~f ter" at a large premium—thef , e are or entitling the holder to certain of the pr , 4- otters, to dispose of as he shall chom.e. Those orders tire also gambled for very et - tensively. The "privilege of slaughter" bearing Greeley's name wa. ser a 1, original! fur $4OO, and was afterward let in euelv.c, then lost again in poker, being won by IL fellow on three queens, who holds the order now. lie says he is going to skin Greeley alive in front of the City flail, on sme Sun day morning in March. Bets are made thnt G'reelcy dies before he's half skinned; bet the fe:lew NV 11owns him—who hts a great deal of practice—says lie can skin him e'D espcclitinn4y that Horace will hold out ant holler to the last shred of hide. "Beecher was won by n arm who Pwora he'd drown Lim like a dog; this follow. how: mer, bet him on a horse race. uml, Henry Itiard tray saved time a watery grave by no Alabamian, wiio has iorite,l 7.11 his friends to see him burn Beecher alive, untid the ruins of Plymouth Church. "You see. old Daesticks. we've get thingt an fixed. The privilege of ksilmg you was sold to a Georgian, who said he wea going to cut your heart out and' give it to his est; however. I coaxed him to play u social gamo of euchre, and won you on a. 'lona hand.' yon are now mime, ant I don't think I'll kill you for old ti m e.' ~aka. "When our arrmr gets up into the Sew Englnn'l Sates we slid' make a clean sweep; kill everyhode. We have contracted with Bell-Everett Yankce tai bury the folks; he' t going to list 'cin for manure, and is bean I by his contract to put them three feet undo; Sn yon perceive that Pickens and the ro-t of U 3 hate got the programme all ina.l3 cut. s•Yt)urs, Ott., AA of old Besides this letter. there 'WM?, in the sion.l envelope. another. ivritten pencil, which ran as Dena .r.sTlCKs:—The other letter tt--,1 written for the committee to see; this i 4 ft. our private eye: "I want to got nway: I want to r...r.t:r New York: I have I. eon pressed into thio seri - ter; l'%e got Ll:e rheomatistu sicepin4 out .lourn.: oli the ti m..k e; dr . :11.1:11 my feo: al e 1 from con.tatit in in; (.tl%. you (I. something fir me? hasn't grit 'nary re I;' Pickens tassesse4` it all ~ut of me. and all the rest of ur. Try and help me, there's a Lle.tr ol.i 13.1. Pturitt,nt.." I have nn reason to d,w t , , , trio authenti city of the first one of my letters. It was evidently written by the original South Carolina Darnplinol. I have my doubt abaor the last one, ns I dont believe m 7 DAM phi- , d Aco,lll I want to leave the Snutl., that the very T.lnce for him: all his friends aro there, and Otero rhould he remain the ntid,t thereof. If I hear mire, I wi:i rnm•nunienre. Sk~~iii,:.~llc ;.lit tip o , llc- a:-.:1 thre) .?..! • , n n.l UM :...a :.e the Sc A. D omnoni ." •, P:
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