r e :112 'BAKtr-L WRIGHT, Editor and Proprietor. VOLUME XXXI, NUMBER 36.1 PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING Office in Carpet Hall, North-west corner of Front and Locust streets. Terms of Embscription. oieCopyperanrum,irpaidin 'advance. •s ••• '• it not paid within th rec inontharrom commencementorthe year, 200 44 Clem:atat ~ copy. rt etiscripirdo received torn less time than air asPayoths; and no ;raper wall he discontinued until all Arrearage &are paid,wflessdt the optic:wall the pub ishea. irr.ychityma e•errattedbTataii nil hcpuhltsh- Cf 741.14 Bates of Advertising, .4virCtE[6.iner]one week, three weeks. -- ecedh•uhoequeniingertiorn, 10 [1.2 inc....]oe:E. week 50 three weeks. 1 00 each.oloielptenrin4ertion. :25 torgertdvortkernent , in proportion A iherol t io'o 0111..11 he I wolf. to early or • toy klitertisersomnoatestrietl3eonfined ' ,their business. DR. HOFFER, 11ENTIST,OFFICE, Front Street 4th door Locust. over so ylor & MeDmiald'a honk store Columbia, Pa. I:l7'notrunce, same a. Jolle) 7 ,. Pao togr.mh Gnllrry. (august 21, 1E459. THOMAS WEESIf. lIISTICE OP TN PEACE, Colombia, Pa. OFFICE. in Whipper's New Building, below Black's Hotel, front street. tc,FvPro e mpt attention given to all business entrusted m bet. '41,1857. H. M. NORTH, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW Columbia . Pn. Collections romptly made 1 nl..nnenqe )4 nd York ltinntlex. Colurrebtn,ls497 4,1959. .1. W. FISFIER, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, carucmicilksi. ddlumbia, Sep lem Urr 6, I s.itti I S. Atlee Backing, D. D. S. ibc Operative. Surgical and McNeal) teal Departments of Dentimry7, Orator. I .oeu.l .t reel. between be Frar•.L'lin nom, and Pom Office. Columbia, Pu May 7 i 5.59. Ifarrison's Coumbian Ink . , - 4011[C11 is a .auperior article. peranianentle Mark, IV and not corroding the pen. can lie land in any ..amity. al the Family Nledieric Store, and blacker get aaa than Eagliela -Root Polish. Columbia. /nue 9, 18$9 We Have Just Received 1 - IR, CUTTER'S Improyed Chest Expanding So.prialerllllll masuldor Bruer+ for 4.eollemen. and Patent Skirt Supporter Had Bruen for hadie+, Plat the urlielt Mdt to seamed ut tbk alum. Come and r•ee I hem M.Vunitly Aletheine Store, Odd Irellowid [April 9. 1€59 Prof. Gardner's Soap , TE have the New England Sono for theme te , lio did 11 not obtain it from the Sone, Nittn; it 1 4 plea...nut to the skin. mid milt take greitse 9101 E from %VG°len .C.loods. it In therefore no bunting. for you g,l the worth of your money nt she Family Medicine *tote. Columbia June IL 1859. aRAIIAN, or, Bond's Boston Crackers, for Opipipiic.,, and Arrow Rant Crnclrn, for and ehi Mien—new articles is Columbia, at the Vumily Medicine More, April Id. Itis9 SEt WING'S ,PREPARED GIME...The want of -.Jo. Oil tirlirle 1, fell lii erni . t family. and now it cart be Pupulird ; for mending lilirlilUrr, chum• tvarrortwinraitti work, toy., kir., there I. noil.ing Mir/prior. We have found in u-eful in repairing many article• Whirl. pane been 11-clots fur month, You Jirtv:trin at iti ilia In ounA: FAMX Al RDICINE sTo RE. IZON AND SWF.= ! rimE Sol”.creber. have rect.:vet] u New und J.nrge Z. Stuck of :ill km•lc nod ~ea of BAR IRON AND STEEL neystre.constainly 'toppled will' -lock in thin of his business. nod can tuotab It lo cu9minoir4 iu 'mire or mull quantities, ut the 1u0,e..t J ft um ' , LE& sov. Locust sl rent below :Second. Columbia. Pa. April dl. Inca. R ITTER'S Compound Syrup of 'I and NVIal Cherry, fee 1:01C. &c. F. r salc he Goidcn Mortar Drustitere. Front et. t ruly2 YER'S Compound Coneentrated h. tract Sarmintrillii me the cure of Semi Ivil. and al I •crafulou= iiireelionn, a Ire • urv-zle, Just received and for POP by R. WILLI ANIS, From at , Columbia, nept. 2s, ISSO. FOR SA Lt. pn GROSS Friction Nlntelles, very low for en.h. LO J , atte 25. , 59. R. ‘i4 Dutch Herring! A Ny one fond bf a good herring •oa be supplied at F 1,1111i:RI,N1 Nov 10. I SSD. Grocery More. No. 71 Locust st. J !OBIS URI.; WINKS PURR 01110 e.nCATAWBAtor BRANDY I,tni Peetaliy Med...nun. nd Stir rnmentul purpn-c4. n 1 the Jun.2B 1 7 17111LN' AILDICINF.S'IORE. ICH RAISINS for 8 ets. per pound, are to 1. be Mad only al EBKRIXIN'S Grorery Store. 11arch I 0. 1140. No 71 I.ocu-t , 11, et ( IaRDEN SEEDS.--Fresh Cardm Seeds, war- Li! ka.11.4.1U-1 leCelVed ,l 1 IitSERILEIN'S ttrocery Store, Alert.lt !O 1800 No 71 I.oga-I %w et POCKET BOOKS AND PURSES. ALA IVA Id F41)1 atttl C 0111.111.1 Pocket ßOOL• ul.d P'ause, w froto 13 cent- to two &din"- each Ilt Wriwarter , 1.11111 New, Depot. .Colutnltta. Anet l l4 1 410 A EEW more o[ tha%e beautiful Prints A. lett, ‘ritieti will lie et SAYLOR ac .%Ir Di /NT 41,0 , 4 'COlumbizi. Ap.il 14 Just Received and For Sale. 6nn SACKS Ground Alm Sun, in large tjv or mull quantit lc., nt A PPOLD'S 11 7 n r,•hrm Catiu/ Bran 81ay5,T . 0. , G O 4 LICREIM OF.G6ACEUIM—For the tart ct the " PI"' 418 ' al f iVIZI4 1 ;11)..K 1 1);i 1 ri . frki r FIR 1)..c ' Front 4rrei. Columbia 'Turkish Prunes! 'BAR a nos( Nat' anode cif Prune. you ITlll.f ktfl TO s i i BEIF:RLIAN'S -Nov 19,1.939. Groecry tt•tore, No 71 I,ortp,t GOLD - PENS, GOLD PENS. lIINT ref...seed a large nod fine lyntortment of Cold ki reap. of Newton nod lirtcwold'a manufacture, It S. YLOR Ik 1111cDON ALB'S Book taime. Akr:l I I Front r.trrLt. 'Move I meu-t. FRESH 9ROCERIES. rontmue to .ell the be-t -.1,e yr syrup While 4114 Brown Sages...goad Coffee. attaletatt•e !o be had al Colutattla at :he Neu. Corner :Pore. op. posne OJ • Fellowe 11414 and at the old n. - Ijoia• 'log the 'nit. 11. C. FONDERSMITIL _ Segars, Tobacco,, A LOT of fow.rote Segnre. Tobacco and Sor IT will be found at the score of die tub-criber. • lie kw*P 4 only is iirs rate arocle. Usti tt. S. F. ELIERI.J:IN'S Grocery Store. Oct Loeutt at., Coiumnia, l'a. C RAN BEFLRI ES, EW Crop Prunes, New Citron.at AN Orr. ots, Lew. • A. M. RAM HO'; SARDINES, Worroeirr. , hire Sauer. 111 o fined ?or,. Ac.. 04ezee:Ad for role :. CRANBERRIES. JVAT received a fresh tin of Cranberries and New Currant...at Nu. :1 Lot.u•t gives. Oct 21, loco. taILELLAN. lutt g. Peter's Ride to the Wedding EMI Peter would go to the wedding, he would, So he saddled liis ass—usid his wifr, She was to ride behind, if she could, For soya Pater, says he, •the woman she should Follow, not lead, through life. “fie's mighty convenient, the niis, my dear, And gentle nn :mice, and now You inlet. by the n u t., while I ?An* by the ear, And we'll get to the wedding in time, never fear, If the wind and weatherullow,” *0 nti The wind and wenthet were not la be blamed, But the nem he had let in a whim, That two ut a ttme was n load never framed For the buck or one as•. and he seemed quite enflamed That two ue stuck upon hue. "Come. DolMin," says Peter, "Pm thinking well ma." "Um thinking we wou'i,",ays the vas. (In the taltsungo of conduct and - stuck to the spat, _ As Moue, he hnd •ald he hod sootier he shot, Than lift op a ton from genii. Says Peter, 5n5,4 he, 'l'll ti hip him a little;" "Try to, rn in , deer." she: But he m,glit just as well have whipped n brass kettle, The an. he won made of ouch obittunte mettle, '/ hat tie rer a step moved he. elli prick him, my dear, with a needle—the steel Attty v - al .•r 010 mind," The as• felt the needle. and up went his hrela, tittekieg," eats Peter, ••he's reemtng to feel Some 110110110 f moving neimpl." ' , Now g've rna the needle, I'll tickle his ear. And set Vol [ter end, too. a going.” The aw. felt the needle, and urwards he reared, 130 It ,ci,ittg and tearing Were all. IL appeared, lie had any mien lion doing. s:,‘• Peter, .ay • lie," We are geninGnn glow, While one end is up Voiher •tiolis 10 the graun't, Marin lb hiking a mullion to march him I Mmes. We'll le', foi• both tail and ear go, And spur him ut mien all around.' So said mo done—all hand. were n purring. And the as. he did 'vier hi- nrottd— ror off went he, tike a partridge whirring. And got to the wedding while all were ,birring, But—left hi• loud behind. garttions. lay Very Singular Adventure BY THOMAS ARCLIER I don't wish to conceal anything. My name's Snelboy—Robert Snelboy; and I'm nervous. Nervous—that's the word: some of my friends have supposed me to be irri table—perhaps ill-tempered. Quite a mis take on their parts, though! I'm, in fact, possessed of an unfortunately highly de•el oped organism, which causes me to feel, very acutely indeed, things which,however trifling they may appear to others, do actually jar the strings of my constitution to that alarm ing extent that I hardly know what I um about; and, of course. being out of tune myself, I may be excused for occasionally interfering with the unfeeling harmony of other people. That's no crime, I hope. When I was married, two years ago, to Eliza Simeo, only daughter of the late 11. Simco, Esq., of the house of Smith, Simeo, and Baggnige, and of Eliza Simco his wife —a must remarkable woman, by-the-bye. who frequently comes; but this is not to the present purpose—when I was married to Eliza Simon, I naturally had very decided opinions of the duty which properly belongs to that state of life; and, though I might be said to entertain strict notions as to the obedient deferenee due from wives to their husbands, I trust I can manage my own household indifferently well; and I laid down certain plans to which, mind you, L was de tenr fined to abide. To pass over the minor details—such as generally settling the housekeeping bills myself, after reference to the weekly account which I scrupulously required of Eliza—l may remark, that I had a very decided ob jection to her going out on visits to places where it was either impossible or inespedi entthat I should accompany her, I confess I had a very difficult possition to maintain in this matter, since she had a host of fe male acquaintame, who would be asking her to tea once or twice a week at the least; and as I have a supreme, and, I hope, a commendable dread escitin4 ridicule, I was frequently compelled to foreg i even culling for her on her return from these ex cursions. I took the most obvious remedy which presented itself, however; and after...giving notice to quit our lodging at St. John's Wood fixed fur our residence on a house in a new thoroughfare at West Kingsland. I never quite knew what was the name of our road, since every three orfoor houses possessed an appellation perfectly distinct and remote ly different; the only resemblance b.ttween terraces, villas, cottages, and a row or two, - being, that those on our side of the way, as the property of a Scripturally inclined build er, had such names as would recur to the memory of a boy who had been but an in different reader at school—so that wo abounded in Bathsheba Cottages, Barak Terrace, and Gideon Row; while the oppo site side of the way, distinguished by a ro mantic taste, boasted of Brobdignag Villas, Arid Cottage, and Psyche (generally in quired for as Physic) Lodge. Ours was No. 2, Joachim ;Villas. 4 person of my temper ament need hark remark that he is of a poetically contemplative turn. I am; and when I walked up and down oar street or road, and saw the houses—all of them semi detached, all different in point of architec ture, and with great gaps here and there, where "eligible plots" waited fur an enter prising capitalist in the building trade—l frequently thought, and, in fact, repeated to my wife, that it wasn't unlike a king mouth with a bad set set of teeth. two or three "NO ENTERTAINMENT IS SO GMAT AS READING, NOR AM .- PLEASURE SO LISTING." COLUMBIA, PENNSYLVANIA, SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 6, places in which scaffolding had been erected helping the resemblance by looking like the broken stumps. Now it happened, unfor tunately for me, that at the last but one of the group of houses on our side (Barak Ter race) there lived a maiden lady (name, Pidgmore) who was a friend of my wife's mother; and as her intimacy was necessa rily offered us—and she had certainly sent us some very elegant presents in the shape of a silver milk-pot and two muff:Lacers—we soon got upon confidential visiting terms, an arrangement to which I offered no objection, inasmuch as I generally accompanied Eliza —or at least knocked at the door (or her at a quarter past nine, when I was sore to find a tray net with a glass of negus and biscuits, to which I was invited. It was about a month after I first paid a visit to this lady, that a letter arrived, ad dre-sed to Mrs. Saelboy, and delivered by a youth from the Free SJhool, who left the mark of a very dirty thumb upon the enve lope; n letter which at once excited within Me a nervous apprehension. Holding the views of the matrimonial relationship which 1 have before hintel at, it is almost unne cessary to remark that I make a point of opening all Mrs. Saelboy's letter , . This was tl:e purport of the not which caused me uneasiness; it was printed, the datca alone being filled in: Amiadtclab Cottages, "DRAM MADAM: Tacsday. “Your company is requested at a meeting where a number of ladies have formed a so ciety for making clothes for the poor of the district, The meeting will be held on Toe,- day evening, nt five o'clock, at Mrs. Mark ingall's, 3, Eliphas Villas." ••P. S.—(This was written). The Rev. Ignatius Cope is expected to meet the ladle. iifter tea." Now, this was a most extraordinary pro ceeding. Personally, I had no objection whatever to the Rev. Ignatius Cope: none, whatever, I repeat. But, why, I asked my self—why was he, in honor of his office, to be allowed to be wholly and solely the only representative of the accumulated husbands of an indefinite number of women agsembled together for a purpose, laudable enough perhaps in itself, but capable of inflicting great, very great uneasiness upon their nat ural and proper masters? The worst of it wag, I had heard that there was no Mrs. Ignatius Cope. That was nothing, I'm aware; that was nobody's business I alliw; but that I should be strictly forbidden to be present whenever my wife paid a visit on this particular mission, while that reverend gentleman was anxiously "expected" to at tend, was absurd_, ridiculous, and unbeara ble. • I placed the letter on the ball table, un der a great coat, and want into breakt.t.t without it. We had scarcely finished our second cup of coffee, however, when the servant an nounced Miss Pidgmore, and my wife, fol lowed by myself, went into the nest room to speak to her. To my unspeakable tiorror, there lay the letter I had just opened, on the table; and Miss Pidgmore tapved it with her parasol and said, "I see you've had an invitation to join our meeting at Mrs. Markingall's, Eliza. You know I was speaking to you about joining us the other day; and so I'le comp round, so inexcusably early, to ask you to come to my house to-night, where we shall all be at the preliminary ten. Mr. Ignatius Cope has actually promised to come and read to us while we're cutting out; and I mean to make Mr Snelboy promise to let you stay till to-morrow." Here was a pretty affair gathering round me! I'd actually left St. John's Wood for the very purpose of escaping this confounded tea-drinking, from which I was exclud••d; and now—but it was useless "You know it's impossible to have gentlemen," sail Miss Pidgmoro. "Except Mr. Cope who is our secretary and treasurer, we never have gentlemen. Besides, it couldn't be interest ing to them, yon know—women', mid ba bies' clothes, arid all that, and the convei sation of a parcel of ladies after tea; so yon must do without her till to-murrow, Mr. Sne I have intimated, I believe, that my ner vous organization renders me peculiarly, but, I tru4t, not unbecomingly sensitive to ridicule. The horror of it was upon me at that moment. and I consented to Eliza pay ing the expected visit—.-an admission bat fur which I might have saved myself from such desperate suffering and misfortune as need only happen to a man once within a life time. But lam premature. All that day I was restless rind disturbed; I had a presentiment of some coming evil. A borrib'e inability to remain in any place for mote than five minutes at a time kept me rambling about the house, on all sorts of self-pretences. I sat down to check the housekeeping book, and gate it up at the pence column; tried to read, and found my self sitting stolidly looking at the page, without an idea of the subject; finally, went into the garden aril sat despondingly on a cucumber frame, with a determination not to go indoors till tea time.* Tea-time ar rived,. and Eiiza came to the back door to bid tae "geed-bye." I answered her short ly; how could I help it! I think I said something about "pretty goings on!" So they were! I had- my tea brought out to me, with the Saturday Review which con tained several very savage articles. Even they failed to soothe. I began to dig des perately, and kept on working till nearly dark. It Was then that I formed an estraordi- nary purpose, alike adventurous and origi nal—a purpose which I instantly deter mined to execute. What if I could at once find the means to allay my civil lawful curiosity—still my un satiated longing to thwart the reprehensible secrecy of these detestable ladies' meetings, and obtain a consciousness of the ability to exercise a power over them for the future, to the confusion of the Rev. Cope? I had discovered the means. In my frequent strolls up and down our road, engaged in the before mentioned fan ciful contemplations, I had wondered that the scaffolding which stood round the un finished carcass of the next detached house to that in which Miss Pidgmore resided should have remained there so long without a corresponding progress in the building (this was afterwards attributable to "the Strike.") I had also observed that this house would have a smaller front garden than those already built, and come beyond Barak Cottages into the footway; this was the cause of the scaffolding projecting some two feet or more, towards the first-floor front windows of Miss Pidgmore's dwelling. I believe this will indicate my resolution. I had seen, also, on the very night previous that a short ladder had been tied to the poles which ran their ends into the brick work of Barak Cattages; and'this wan in strumental to the fulfillment of my cherished purpose. I would be there, unsuspected! Gloating over my triumphal determination, I could be an unknown spectator of this ob nexiaus assembly, and 'night one day be enabled to exhibit some mysterious inform ation as to their proceedings, to the utter confusion of the society, and annihilation of the lieyerend Cope. At eight o'clock I had wrapped my loose gardening blouse round ate, with the addi tion of a "comforter" to keep out the night air; and patting on my seal-skin traveling cap, with "ears" which would pull down, in case of emergency, told the servant that I should be hates in two hours, or perhaps still later; and I sallied forth upon my en terprise fully equipped, net only for the ac tivity which might be necessary for the achievement of my des;gn, but fur personal concealment of my identity in the walk to and fro. The ladder was still there, and I could see, that, as the night was warm, the windows were partially open at the top, and the front blinds not quite pulled down.— Firm, but I need hardly say deeply excited, I moved the ladder to a salient point of the spot where I had to mount, and after trying it carefully, succeeded in reaching the edge of the so affolding, where three projecting planks gave me a secure seat close to the last of the three windows of Miss Pidg more's drawing room. There they all were, with a long table before them, and (the tea having been re moved) with piles of linen, calico, and long cloth, cotton prints, and muslin, strewed all round the room; while all sorts of strangely shaped garments liming about on chair hacks, as though the place had been turned into an infantile laundry, and the clothes were put there to dry. Oh! what a terrific noise they were making. to be sure; I could hear them talking as though they had met for a speak ing match, and - ray wife's voice reached tne every now and then laughing. I should like to know what she had to laugh at, when she thought I was at home by myself ! I could not hear whet they were saying. certainly, for the ,window wasn't open wide enough; bat I saw cwerything famously, and almost shrieked aloud when I thought how their secret meetings had a witness for whom they were very little prepared, I imagine. There they were, cutting great piles of I stuff into all manner of queer shapes; crowd ing round the table, and snipping bits out of I linen; raking in work-bags and reticules for patterns, and needles and thread. I got so excited in my wish to hear what scandal they were talking about me, and the rest of their husbands, that I had to clutch the window sill, to keep myself from falling.— What a turn I experienced from this sudden danger m ty readily be imagined, when I mention that I bad totally forgotten to el umine the ground above which I was sitting. and felt morally certain that I should-have perished in the foundations of the unfinished house. I heard a light step coming up the garden walk, and, peering into the dark ness, saw a figure approaching the street door; a genteel crescendo passage upon the knocker revealed the identity of the intruder —yes, intruder there! I knew him; it was the "expected;" the Reverend Ignatius Cope! Such a hush inside, and such a fluttering of the women in their seats, and a hasty • disposal of some of the garments under the table, and into the chiffonnier. A moment of breathless suspense, veiled by a base, hyp ocritical, mean attempt to look perfectly ' unconcerned; and the reverend gentleman entered the room. I bad to hold on with both hands, and trembled violently. The ! ends of my comforter had blown round'my head, and confused me for a moment; but when I opened my eyes, there he was, (and mind, I don't deny that he was, and is, a i most respectable and praiseworthy person, • if the women would only let him alone,) in stalled in a large easy chair, with two can dles before him, at the end of the table, pre- paring to read from one of three volumes which he had brought with him. This was ' my first disappointment; I couldn't for the life of me make out what it was about. The low even voice (some people call h melliflu ous) of the Rev. Ignatius Cope stale mono- torronsly through the, window in one un broken murmur, no distinct syllable of which reached me. I kept my post, though, with a determination which nothing could baffle. Hours seemed to pass while I pressed my nose to the nearest pane in the vain en deavor to make cut what subject engrossed their attention. I said engrossed; but I could see them Whispering and nodding to each other every minute, something about the work on which they were occupied, in a manner by no means complimentary to the reader. I was actually getting sleepy, and my feet, which bad been hanging down all this time, seemed as though they would burst out of my shoes. A tray was brought in filled with sandwiches and wine-glasses. It must have been ten o'clock; and I had just gathered up my failing energies to a great attempt. I would try tp open the window at the bottom--even half an inch would have done it—when I heard a slow measured tramp coming along the footway at the nest houses. The full horror of my situation burst upon me at once. Once let me be discovered there by a member of the police force, and I should be incarcerated fur what they call "lurking about with an improper purpose." What should I do? Crawl through the window and discover myself/ Impossible! I drew my feet up to the nest pole, and rested my heels upon it, lying back in the shadow of the planks, where the fearful pul sations of my heart might have been heard inside. But they were laughing and talk ing again, and the revetend gentleman laughed and talked no loud as any of them. Ital hal what was there to laugh at, I should like to know! jingling their glasses, too, the wretched gormandizers! I saw the flashing of - a long stream of light, which shot here and there among the beams and posts below—if it had turned on the where I sat, I must have fallen - from that giddy height into the abyss at my feet—the officer had uncovered his lantern. I heard him coming to the spot where I had placed the ladder, and I held my breath. "A pretty careless lot they are," he muttered to himself; "to go a leavin' a ladder about like this ere;" and, while I stifled a cry with the end of my comforter, he had taken away my only means of descent, and deposited it at a distance. It was not till his villainous footsteps were lost in the next hundred yards of his confounded boat, that I ventured to move. I was growing desperate, and thought, with a gloomy foreboding, of the morrow, when my tnam,gled remains would be discovered in a stagnant pool in the deep cellarage beneath. I speculated upon cling ing to the poles on which I was sitting, and trying to drop into the garden; but diiimiss , d the thought with a shudder, when I remem bered that I was just over the spiked railings of the forecourt. Strangely enough, these horrible contemplations helped to nen, me to further endurance. "It ibert Snelboy," said I to myself, "compose yourself, and trust to those finalities Uiaitth 'mist he equal to such an occasion; tempt not the uncertain hut entle.tvor to hold out till 1/11ming." There came sound.: of a break-up of the ' meeting; some of the Inf , the roam, and came back prepared to go home. The Reverend Ignatius Cope was shaking hands with everybody, Eliza 1110104 and I hoard him say he hoped that they would be able to secure her valuable assistance at their fu ture meetings. Did he! not if I knew it! not if I could escape from the terrible ca lamity which they had brought upon tuel— I should have liked to howl at them, as they all stood to be asked to have "just half a ; glass more wine:" 'Why could'at they pass the decanter outside, the mean wretches! I was getting beside myself. I've heard of drowning people and people hanging on to points of rock over precipices, and people just ready to be devoured by lions and that saying 'afterwards that "the me-nory of a lite seemed to be concentrated in a single moment!" I was beginning t , . understand it myself; I'd got to one stage of it, in f.t..t, fur I seemed to have been clinging to that ( scaffolding for years; and I bad now to luok forward to hours of anguish, without even the miserable satisfaction of watching the proceedings through the wind ,w. When the last guest went out at the front door. and I heard their chatter cease ns the gate clinked after them, hope died Within me.— There was my wife sitting with Miss,,Pidg more, and partaking of warm brandy-and water and pastry; and I knew by the latter lady catingnishing all hut tic) candles, which came in in flat candlesticks, that they were going to bed. I felt the premonitory symptons of fever coming over me; my month was parched and a cold perspiration was running down my frame, when the ser vant esme and fastened the windows after drawing down the blind:4. It would be impossible to give any ade quate deseriptio.t of the em )tions of that fearful night. I was conscious only of ter rible and prolonged dur ttion of alternate mental and physical agony; at last, I think. stupor must have intervened, for I seemed to wake suddenly, and heard a long low whistle. This was repeated, and seemed to come from some spot below where I was sit ting. In my utter fear and confusion I at tempted to answer it. "Bob," said a deep, gruff voice. just underneath; "lit. Could it possibly be aid to uty failing strength! I was too distracts Ito reelect fur a moment, but answered "hallo:" •'lluw long 'aye you been a perebio' of youreelf up there'" inviire.l the some. "011 81,50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE; e 2,130 IF NOTINII:WAICE; 861. hours and hours. Can I get down?" I gasped wildly leaning as fur forward as I could to get a glimpse of my deliverer. "Git down! well, I should say, not azackly; we was to jine company at the lane, and I've been a doggin' about this 'arf hour; they've only just changed the beats though, that's one comfort." The voice, which was no more than a loud whisper, seemed to be approaching me near ear; and presently I saw a head come up above the edge of the scaffolding—a head with a cap on it, which looked very like My own. "Here, ketch hold, can't yer," en id this person; "I'm blest if it ain't jolly hard work a elimin' up this 'ere: give us yer fist can't yer?" And he put a long, coarse bag into the hand which I had stretched out to him. "What—what's this?" gasped r, entirely bewildered. "What's this!" said my companion, in a very surly way, as I thought; "whv, you do know what it is, I suppose. Why, it's the insterments—that's what it is: you ain't a comin' the sneaky doge ciong n me, I hope, are yer? Now, you jest do what I tell yer, or else you'd bettor say yer won't, and I'm Wowed if I don't pitch yer down into that there cellar in about no time—come now:" • What could be the meaning of this dread ful lauguagel I felt that I was in the pow er of a ruffian likely enough to keep his word; and as he had now crawled on to the planks beyond where I was sitting, I trem bled with suppressed fear, "Now; then, look alive!" he continued, in a low ruin.. nc opened the bag, which I gave him, and took out something; I soon saw what it was—a little dark lantern, such as I used to carry when I lived at St. John's Wood, and ex pected to be garroted every night. He look ed wonderfully like myself with respect to his habiliments, seeing that he also wore a linen blouse; and wore, instead of n com forter, a large, coarse cotton handkerchief tied round his neck in a loose knot. All this I could Fee by the light of the lantern which ho handed to me. "Now then," he resumed, "let me come alongside, and just you stow yer jaw a bit. When I gets the winder open you go in Lust, nn' I'll shot it I :trier myself. We've got a good twenty minutes afore the shiner comes along here agin, an' jest you bold the light in front on yer, where they can't see it down below."— I began to entertain a horrible certainity that this man, this ruffian, was a robber, and had forced me to. be hie accomplice.— Could he have mistaken me for another per 'son? Oh, that vile cap and the gardening blouse? I was doomed--Boomed to penal !servitude, perhaps; but I dared nut speak out. I threw the light of the lantern upon the window-frame, as ho bade ine. I saw him talte a piece of tapering wire from his I coat-sleeve; it had a small hook at the thin ! end; and almost before I knew that he had begun I saw it slide in between the two I parts of the sash, and heard the sharp click of the window bolt as it flow back under I the pressure. "Now then, in with yer!" he whispered hoarsely, "and douse that there i light under the shade; blow'd if I don't hear sum'un a main' up the street." He lifted the window gently, us I citing to the sill; !and while I was !raw irg, my legs gently up, thrust me through, with a brutal push, that newly wrenched my arms os'. I was inside Miss Pidgmore's drawing-room. I could not i describe the ensuing ten minutes. Mena eing my slowness and stupidity, my villain ! nu 4 companion swept the two c indlestielts, a dozen teaspoons and a milk p it, into the bag, which I held in my hand. The luck ,of the chifl'onnier was wrenched silently enough tel, in a moment; and i trembled ro 7 1 heard his annth mins at finding it only filled with unmade baby-linen, two or three 1 nickknacks from the "what-net" and the mantelpiece, and he took nfl' his slices, an I example which, after fumbling at the stringe—for which delay I got a kick from ' his fo - rtunately litre Pint--I e impelled to imitate. I remember no in ire, except that a wild notion of alarming Mei. Sael boy took possession of my faculties; that I placed my hand upon the knob of the door, which I hal conceived to belong to the room; that I was about to open it, and, indeed, had ejaculated "Eliza!" "Mrs. S!" when it Via, denly flew from my grasp, and Miss Pidg- I inure, armed with the tongs, appeared. I have reason to believe that she flung those instruments at my hea I, and that they closed renal my neck. I fell; while she ran serest ning back to the window, and I opened it, calling loudly for assistance. I heard my late companion calling me, in the room we had jitet loft, but dare I not follow, when I saw him making; for the window.— Fortunate was it for me that I had, even then; in that desperate extremity, the pres ence of mind to descend and try the back doot; it resembled ours at Joachim Villas, and opened to my trembling bands, in 1 which I still, thoughtlessly, held the bag I containing Miss P.'s plate. In another mo ment I was crouching under the wall in the back garden . The scoundrel whom i had so lately left bad been less fortunate, end I heard a strug gle going on, on the other side. Ile most have dropped from the 'craft dd. into the arms of the police, for in the midst of seedlings and imprecations, a rattle was sprung, which was answered immediately, and another officer came running up from the opposite (direction. I thought t •is would give me an opportunity to make my escape; but I had no sooner began to creep along, than the at roci one villain who had been the cause of [WHOLE NUMBER 1;595. my misery, shouted, '•There, it aint me. told per so; there he goes, t'otheiside of the wall." One of the officers immediately rushed to thespot indicated. I think he must have imagined me to be bare headed; for he grasped my seal skin cap with such Vio lence, while leaning with half his body over the wall, that it came nff in his hand: At that moment his brother constable shouted again for assistance, and I heard a sound of a heavy fall, followed by a loud laugh, and the noi..e of retreating footsteps. Nerved by desperation, I felt what is g. cum-ally sup• posed to be a strength more than human, and, with a hasty glance to the place where I had seen the last policeman disappear, bounded madly forward. Let me not exag gerate; .I fell more than once. But whit of that? Sixteen brick walls, four of them sur mounted by broken bottles, did. I clear in my headlong career; and then, flying, acroaa some intervening ground where rubbish had been shot, fell breathless, bruised and bleeding iota the cucumber-frame in my own garden. There I lay, stunned, and utterly exhausted, till, fearing that search might yet be made for me, I determined to gain admission to my house. The back door was fasten:d. "Susan," I said, gently tapping at the kitchen window, "Susan; let me in this way; it's me---31r. Snelboy." "The divil it is," hearc , a man's voice ejaculate. "Come along wid me, Susey. D'hear? An' it's of that'll guard ye." I thought I should have sunk to the earth; but tnere was no help for it, and, the-hack door opening, I sank fainting into the arms of Z 4.29. This active and intelligent officer (con found him!) had been looking after the premises in my absence; and although his presence in the kitchen was never satisfac torily accounted for, I could make no ans wer to his assurance that there had been "an alarum in the neebourwood." Finally coming to myself, I asked Z 429 to partake of brandy and water; and, perhaps inspired by the reviving draught which he after wards forced upon use, confided to him my belief that a robbery had been committed somewhere, and that I had seen somebody leave part of the proceeds of it in my own garden. We made the round of those prom ises together afterwards, and there, sore enough, was a bag containing two candle sticks, a milk-pot, and twelve teaspoons, lying in my cucumber-frame, which had been unfortunately broken to pieces. The recovery of this property did great:credit to the "sagacious officer," as lie was after wards called, and I believe helped him to his promotion. I went to bed, and was lying there - Stiff, sore, and broken down, when Mrs. Snelboy returoed the next morning. How she be came possessed of my secret, it is unneces sary to disclose. I lay there long, and profited by Eliza's gentle nursing.—for I ad mit that she is gentle when n person's sick. One thing haunted me—or rather, ono per son haunted mc, continually: ono who, from his frequent "nods, and bteks and wreathed smiles," (as What's-a-nameealled 'em; intimated that he knew where a screw was loose somewhere. This was Z 4i19, And I was obliged to tolerate him.. Every night that he was on duty did that zealous amnia. defatigable officer go the round of our l ower premises, and look to the fastenings; every night did I surreptitiously dispense drink . to assuage his perpetual thirst; and every night did I wonder that the simple fastenings of the lower kitchens required a great deal or precaution, especially as there were two pe pie, Susan and the above officer, to se,mi • them from violence. In the course of the week, however, Mr• Snelboy had sent for her mother, Mrs. Simco to come and stay with us. This most:re markable woman at once declined the visits of Z 429, who now only flashes his eye over all the front windows as he passes to and fro. In the company of th'ese' two devoted creatures, my wife and my moth'br- in-law. I am rapidly recovering froin the'ef feels of that fearful night; and as 7 nm in' treaty for a house M. Camden Town, there will soon be bills in th,e windows of Joa chim 'Mi.', N. lieNier or NAVARRP.—At his very muse it figure seems to leap forth from the mist of three centuries instinct with ruddy vigorous life. Such was the intense vitality of the Bearnese prince, that even now he seems more thoroughly alive and recognizable than half the actual personages .who are "fret ting their brief hour upon the stage." lre see atonce, a man of moderate stature, fight. sinewy and strong; a face browned with ' continual exposure; small, mirthful, yet commanding blue eyes, glittering from be neath an arching brow. and prominent cheek bones; a long hawk's nose, almost resting upon a salient chin, a pendant mous tache, and a thick, brown, early beard, pre maturely grizzled, we see the mien of frank authority and magnificent good humor, we bear the ready sallies of the shrewd Gascnn mother-wit, ore feel the electricity which flashes out of- him, and sets all around him on fire, when the trumpet sounds to battle. The headlong desperate charge, the snow white plume waving where the fire is lint test, the large capacity fur enjoyment of the man, rioting without affection in the ncrtaminis gaudia, the insane gallop, after the combo, to lay its trophies at the feet of the Cynthia of the minute. and thus to hir foil its fruits—all are as familliar to us set if the seven distinct wars, the hundred pitched battles, the two hundred sieges, in which the 13earnese was personally present. hsd been occurrences of nor own day.—Historq of the Dutch. &public.
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