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Harrison's Coumbian Ink .47111 C u ouperi or article, permanently black, 1'1" nod not corroding the pen, con be hod in ant .antity. at the l'aurilp Medici to Store, and blacker yet to that Engli ell Boot l'ulielt. Columbia, Joon 9, 19,59 We Have Just Received R. CUTTER'S Improved Cnest Expanding su.,pender mid Shoulder Braces for Gentlemen, and Patent Skirt Supporter and Grace for Lathes, juin the article That I. wanted at this time. Come and see them at Family Medicine Store. Odd Peilows , [Apr119.1859 Prof. Gardner's Soap AVE have the New England Soap for thrice who die VV not °Muni it From the soap Main it k pleikant to the and wilt mite grease spots from.Woulen Good+, it is therefore no humhug. for you get the north of your money at the Family Aledicine Store. Columbia, June LL, 1659. aRAIIAN, or, Bond's Boston Crackers, for Dyspeptics, and Arrow Root Crackers, for_in valida and rhildeen—new article.; to Columbia, at the family Medicine Store, April 16, 1639. QPALDING'S PREPARED GLIJE.--The want of such on nritele is felt in eve.ry fmnily, and now it eau tie supplied; for mending furniture, china ware. ornamental work ; toya. /re., there is nothing superior. We have found it ueful in repairing many which have been Ufelead for months. You Jun.2,t , in it al the tu.ouu As EMILY MEDICINE sTo RE. IRON AND STEEL ! num Sulmerilb..r.have received New and Large. T Stock of all konO , nod size< of BAR IRON AND STEEL! They are consuinily siippliedsivith •inr•k in this branch of his business. slid eau (1.11111911 it to customer. in large or small quantities, at the lowest rates J. ►tUM PIE & SON. Lomat street below Second, Columbia, Pa. April:lo, Will. "MIER'S Compound Syrup of gar and LU Wild Cherry, for Coug'J ,told, ke. Nor Vile a lie Cloldcii Mortar DrugSture, Pruitt st . I I uly2 A lER'S Compound Cumulated hairnet A Supiaparillo for ibe cure of Scrofula I Pied. tout all PacoCulotta affections, u (real, an.tlt just received and for sale by It. WILLIAMS, Front at , Columbia, wept. 3i, FOR SALE. 200 CROSS Friction tion . Matches, e lirlifT.icz,.:ll4 • • • - Dutch Herring! A 'Y one foutl or a good Herring ton he suitplied at • s. F. F.181 , ..R.1.E1 YS Nov. 19. 1859. Grocery *tore, No. 71 Locust at. LYON'S PURR 01110 CATAWBA BRANDY and PURI,: NVIS eepecially for 111edtemeh nd Sacramental purpote4. at the. FAMILY MEDICtNfISTORE. NICE RAISINS for 8 cts. per pound, are to be bud only at EBERLEIN'S Ornrcry• Store, March 10, MO. No. 71 Locust street GARDEN SEEDS.--Freslt Carden Seeds, war rained pare, of iill . l6l*.in. ju=t received at EBERLEIN'S Grocery Store, March 10.1E40. No 71 LOPU*I reel POCKET BOOKS AND PURSES. ALARGE tot of. Bane and Common Pooket Books and Purses,ut front 15 cents to two dollurs each. He ulquarters and News Depot. C. 11111 31 , id, April 14.1 030. ABIM more of those beautiful Prints which will be cold cheap, In SAYLOR & Plc DONALD'S April 14. Columbia. Pa. Just Received and For Sale. 1500, SACKS Ground Alain Salt, in large or small quautities, ut APPOLD'S Wstrehoup.e. ennui Liustn. SayS,llo. COLD CREAM OF GLYCERINE.—For the ear and preuemom cimppeal bond s ace. Sale St the GOLDEN MORTAR DRUG STORE, Deu.3,18.59.011/ Street. Columbia. Turkish Prunes! _ volt first rate arlicleof Prunes you must go to NUERLEIN'S Grocery. Stone, No 71 Locust st ---- GOLD PENS, GOLD PENS. JUST received a large and fine nssowtment of Gold Peas. of Novemn and Griswold's manufaeture, at 1 • LOU fe bIcUONALO'S Book More. 14: Prom strut. Mame Loeu.t. FRESH GROCERIES. E continue to •eir the huit A Lent" ST , I , P.Ite s and Brown ezugarA,Frood Coircen nod choice Teas. . to be 'Yee in Columbia of the Nets Corner Store. Op. potion 04, Pellagra' 111111, and at ill, old :on tog the :Ist. It. C..PONUEESMITIL Sagan, Tobacco, It Lc. 4, of A:4 Segars. Tpliaceo and Sue will oul7l r 4 Lirvcinere Cil rulitcriber. Ile keeps 14. F. EuEni.}: l iivs Grocery Store' tweet al., Columbia, l'a. OCI-6,11 I CRAN BEfiRl E 74, w-siv crop Prunes, New I:armor .1.11 Oct. 20, L. 460. A. M. RANIBO.3, SARDINES, 'We reester.bire Sauer. Refined Cocoa. fie- ie.t re ewes( and for sole by S. F. Eli KRI.INN. Ost- ets,,s Km. No. 71 I.oeu-t St. CRANBERRIES, Turn' ,eeelv.d fradh lot of Cralibervica ant New J Corr& /:..ax No. 7t Loew.t .t3ct Si, Ina/. S. F. coaitt.clx. gElettino. Memoirs of en.AdoptedBon $1 50 cfpxxsTaxces Fuipki PRECEDED 1.11.4 lIIRT/I Towards the beginning of the eighteenth eentUry; there stood on a rock in the sea, near 'a fishing - iillage on the 'coast of Brit tany, a ruined tower with ft very bad repu tation. No mortal was krin N io to have in habited it within the nietnorry of liVing man. The one tenant who'na traditioii associated with the occupation of the place, at a re mote period, had' removed into' It from the infernal -regions, nob Ody know why—had lived in it, nobody knew how long—and had quitted possession, nobody knew when.— dersuch circumstances, nothing was more natural than that this unearthly individual should give a name to his' residence. For which reason, the 'building was thereafter known to alrthe 'neighborhood round as Sa tan's Tower. Early in the year seventeen hundred, the inhabitants of the village were startled, one night,. by seeing the rld Team of a fire in the tower, and by smelling; in the same di rection, a preternaturally strong odor of fried fish. The next' morning, the fisher men who passed by the building in their boats were amazed to find that a stranger had taken up his abode in it. Judging of him at a distance, he seemed M be a line, tall stout fellow; he was dressed in a fisher man's costume, and he had a new boat of his own, moored comfortably in a cleft Of tl.e rock. If he had inhabited a place of decent reputation, his neighbors would have immediately made his acquaintance—but, under existitig circumstances, all they could venture to do was to watch him in silence. The first day passed, and, though it was fine weather, lie made no use of his boat.— The second day followed, with a continuance of the fine weather, and still he was as idle as before. On the third day, a violent storm kept all the boats of the village on the beach —and, in the midst of the tempest, away went the man of the Tower to make his first fishing experiment in strange waters! He and his boat came b.tek safe and sound, in a lull of the storm; and the villagers watch ing on the cliff above, saw him carrying the fish up, by great baskets-full to his Tower. No such haul had ever fallen to tho lot of any one of them—and the stranger had taken it in a whole gale of wind! Upon this, the inhabitants of the village had called a council. The lead in the de bate was assumed by a smart young fellow, a fisherman named Poulailler, who declared that the stranger ut the Tower was of infer nal origin, and boldly denounced him before the whole meeting as a Fiend-Fisherman. The opinion thus expressed proved to be the opinion of the entire audience—with the one exception of the village priest. The priest said, "Gently, my sons. Don't make sure about tho man of the Tower, before Sunday. Wait and see if he comes to church." "And if he does'nt come to church?" asked all the fisherman, in a breath. "In that case," replied the priest, "I will excommunicate him—and then, my children you may call him what you like." Sunday came; and no sign of the strap• ger darkened the church-doors. lie was ex communicated, accordingly. The whole vil lage forthwith adopted l'oulailler's idea, and called the man of the Tower by the name which Puntallier had given him "The Fiend-Fisherman." These strung proceedings produced not the slightest apparent effect on the diaboli cal personage who had occasioned them.— Ile persisted in remaining idle when the weather was fine; in going out to fish when no other boat hi the place dare put to sea; and in coming back again to his solitary dwelling-place, with his nets full, his boat uninjured, and himself alive and hearty.— He made no attempts to buy and sell with anybody; he kept steadily away from the village; he lived on fish of his own preter naturally strong frying; and-he never spoke to n. living soul—with the solitary exception of Puulailler himself. One fine evening, when the young man was rowing home past the Tower, the Fiend-Fisherman darted out on to the rock—said, "Thank yea, Pea'mil ler, for giving me a name,"—bowed politely —and darted in again. The young fisher man.felt the words run cold down the mar row of his back; and whenever ho was nt sea again he gave the Tower a' wide berth from that day forth. Time went on—and an important event occurred in Poulailler's life. lie was en gaged to be married. Oa the day when his betrothal was publicly made known, his friends clustered noisily about him on" the fishing-jetty of the village to offer their con gratulations. While they were all in full cry, a strange voice suddenly made itself beard through the confusion, which silenced everybody in an instant. The crowd fell bask and. disclosed the Fiend-Fisherman sauntering pp the jetty. It was the first .time he had ever set foot—cloven foot—with in the precincts of the village. "Gentlemen," said .the Fiend• Fisherman "where is my friend, Poulailler?" . Ile put the question 'with perfect politeness; he looked remarkably well in his - fisherman's costume, be exhaled, in the moat appetising manner, a relishing odor of fried fish; he had a cordial nod for the men, and a sweet smile for the women—but, with all -these "NO ENTERTAINMENT - IS SO CHEAP AS READING, - NOR ANY PLEASURE SO LASTING." COLUMBIA, I, personal advantages, everybody _fell back from him, and nobody answered his ques tion. The coldness of the popular reception however, did not in any way abash him.— I ; Ile looked about for Poulailler with search I jog eyes, discovered the place-in which be was standing, and addressed him in the ;friendliest manner.. - "So you are going to be married?" re marked the Fiend-Fisherman. "What's that to you?" said Poulailler.— Ile was inwardly terrified but outwardly gruff --not an uncommon combination of circumstances with men of his class, in his mental situation. -"My friend," pursued the Fiend-Fisher man, "I have not forgotten your polite at tention in giving me a name; and I came here to requite it. You will have a family, Poulaillert and your first child will be a boy. I propose - to make that boy my Adopt ed Son." The marrow of Poulailler's back became awfully cold—but he grew gruffer than over in spite of his back. "You won't do anything of the sort?" he replied. "If I have the largest family in France, no child of mine shall ever go near you." "I shall adopt your first-born for all that.," persisted the Fiend• Fisherman. "Poulail ler! I wish you gbod morning. Ladies and gentlemen! the same to all of you." With those words he withdrew from the jetty; and the marrow of Poulailler's back recovered its temperature. , The next morning was stormy: and all the village expected to see the boat from the Tower put out as usual, to sea. Not a sign cf it appeared. Later in the day, the rock ou which the building stood was examined from a distance. Neither boats nor nets were in their customary places. At night the red gleam of the fire was missed for the first time. The Piend-Fisherman had gone! lie had announced his intentions on the jetty, and had disappeared. What did this mean? Nobody knew. On Poulailler's wedding-day a portentous circumstance recalled the memory of the dia bolical stranger, and, as a matter of course, seriously discomposed the bridegroom's back. At the moment when the marriage ceremony was complete, a relishing odor of fried fish stole into the nostrils of the company, and a voice from invisible lips said: "Keep up your spirits, Poulailler; I have not forgotten my promise!" A year later, Madame Poulailler was con fined, and a repetition of the portentous cir cumstance took place. Poulailler was wait ing in the kitchen to know how matters end ed up stairs. The nurse canto in with a baby. "Which is it?" asked the happy father; "girl or boy?" Before the nurse could answer, an odor of supernaturally fried fish filled the kitchen, and a voice from in visible lips replied: "A boy, Poulailler—and I've got him!" Such were the circumstances under which the subject of the Memoir way introduced to the joys and sorrows of in)rtal existence. 1119 11311110 D AND EARLY LIFE When a boy is born under circumstances which lead his parents to suppose that, while the bodily part of him is safe at home, the spiritual part is subjected to a course of infernal tuition elsewhere—what arc his father and mother to do with him? They must do the best they can—which was ex actly what Poulailler and his wife did with the hero of these page.. In the first place they had him christened instantly. It was observed with horror that his infant face was distorted with grim aces, and that his infant voice roared with preternatural lustiness of tone the moment the priest touched him. The first thing ho asked for, when be learnt to speak, was "fried fish;" and the fist place he wanted to go to, when he learned to walk, was the 11:- abolical Tower on the rock. "Ile won't I learn anything," said the master, when he was old enough to go to school. "Thrash him," said PJulailler--and the master thrashed him. "Ile won't come to his first communion,"said the priest. "Thrash hint," said Poulailler—and the priest thrashed him. The farmers' orchards were robbed; the neighboring I-alba-warrens were depopula ted; linen was stolen from the gardens, and nets wore torn from the beach. "The deuce take Poulailler's buy," was the generatcry. "The deuce has got him," was Poulailler's answer. "And yet be is a nice looking boy," said Madame Poulailler. And he was—as tall, as strong, as handsome a young fellow, as could be seen in all France.- "Let us pray for him," said Madame Poulailler.— "Let us thrash him,' said her husband.— "Our son has been thrashed till all the sticks in the neighborhood are broken," pleaded his mother. "We will try him with the rope's-end next," retorted his father, "he shall go to sea and live in an atmosphere of thrashing. Our son shall be a eabin-boy." It was all one to PaulaillerJaniur—he knew as well as his father who bad adopted hint— he had been instinctively oonseious from in faney.of -the Fiend Fisherman's interest in his welfare—he cared• for no earthly disci pline—and a eabin•boy lie became at ten years old. After two years of the rope's end (applied quite:ineffectually), the; gulden of this Me moir robbed his captain, and . ran away in an English port. London became the next scene of his adventures. At twelve Agars old. ho persuaded society io the Metropolis that ho was the forsaken natural eon or a ENNSYLVANIA, SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 6 - , 1861. French duke. British benevolence, after blipdly providing for' him for four years, opened its eyes at last and found him out at the age of sixteen; upon which he returned to France, and entered the army.ia the ca pacity of drummer. At eighteen he-de serted and bad a turn with the gipsies. Ile told fortunes, he conjured, he danced on the tight-rope, he acted, he sold quack medicines, he altered his mind again, and returned to the army. Ilere ha fell in love with the vi vandiere of his new.regiment. The sergeant major of the company, touched by the same amiable weakness, naturally resented 'his attentions to the lady. Poulailler (perhaps unjustifiably) asserted- himself by boxing his i fficer's ears. Out flashed the swords on both sides, and in went Peulailler's blade through and through the tender heart of the sergeant major. The frontier was close at hand. Poulailler wiped his sword and crossed it. Sentence of death was recorded against him in his absence. When society has con demned us to die, if we are men of any spirit how are we to return the compliment? By condemning society to keep us olive—or, in other words, by robbing right and left fur a living. Pout:tiller's destiny was now accomplished. He was picked out to be the Greatest Thief of his age; and when fate summoned him to his place in the world, he stepped forward and took it. His life hith erto had been merely the life of a young scamp —he was now to do justice to the di abolical father who had adopted him, and to expand to the proportions of a full grown Robber. His first exploits•wero performed in Ger many. They showed such novelty of com bination, such daring, such dexterity, and, even in his most homocidul moments, such irresistible gaiety and good humor that a band of congenial spirits gathered about him in no time. As commander-in-chief of the Thieves' army his plpularity never wa• vered. Ilis weaknesses--and what illustri ous man is without them?—were three in number. First weakness--he was extrava gantly susceptible to the charms of the fair sex. Second weakness--be was perilously fond of practical jokes. Third weakness— (inherited from his adopted father)--his ap petite was insatiable in the matter of fried fish. As for the merits to set against these defects, some have been noticed already, and others will appear immediately. Let it be merely premised, in the first place, that he was one of the handsomest men of his time, that ho dressed superbly, and that he was capable or the most exalted acts of goner ashy wherever a handsome woman was con cerned--let this be understood, to begin with; and let us now eater on the narrative of his last exploit in Germany before he re turned to France. This adventure is some thing more than a more specimen of his method of workmanship--it proved in the future to be the fatal event of his life. On a Monlay in the weekrhe had stopped on the highway, and robbed of all his val uables and all his papers, an Italian noble man—the Marquis Petrucci of Sienna. Oe Tuesday, he was ready for another stroke of business. Posted on the top of a steep 1 ' hill he watched the road which wound up to the summit on one side, while his follow ers were ensconced on the road which led down from it on the other. The prize expected ' in this case, was the the traveling carriage (with a large sum of money inside) of the Baron de Kirbergen. 1 Before long Poulailler discerned the ear -1 riage afar off, at the b atom of the hill, and in advance of it, ascending the eminence, two ladies on foot. They were the Baron's daughters--Wilhelinina, a fair beauty; Frederica, a brunette—both lovely, both ac complished, both susceptible, both young.— Poulailler sauntered down the hill to meet the fascinating travelers. lie looked-- bowed—introduced himself—and tell in love with Wilhelmiva on the spot. Both -the charming girls acknowledged in the most artless manner that confinement to the car riage had given them the fidgets, and that they were walking up the hill Ao try the remedy of gentle exercise. Poultitler's heart was touched, and Poulailler's goner osity to the sex was roused, in the nick of time. With a polite apology to tleo young ladies, he ran back, ,by a short .cut, to the ambush on the other side of the hallo which his men were poited. "Oentletneep'-cried the generous thief, "iq the . ekerining : name of Willielaninade Kirbergen, I oharge you all, let the Baron's carriage pass free." The band was not suaceptiblo—the band de marred. Ile bad, appealed to their hearts in vain—he now appealed to their pockets. "Gentlemen'." he resumed, "excuse my mo mentary miseonce:ption of your sentiments. 1 flare is my one-half share of the Marquis Petrucci's property. If I divide it among you will you let the carriage pass free?" The band knew the value of money—and accepted the terms. Poulailler rushed back up the hill, and arrived at the top justin • time to hand the young ladies into the car riage. "Charming man!" said the. -white Wilhelmina to the brown Frederica, as they drove off. Innocent soul! what would she have said if 'she,had known that leer per: sonal attractions had saved her father', pro perty? Was she ever .to see the charming man again? Yes: she was to see him the next day—and, more thaw that, Fate was hereafterto link her fast to the roblier's life and the robber's doom. Confidingthe direction of Ms birato'his first lientimant, Pooluiller followed'tt}o car riag.oa hirree: back; and ascertained the plape of the Baron's residence that night. The next morning a superbly dressed stranger knocked at the door. "W hat name, sir?" said the servant. "The Marquis Pe trucci of'Sienna," replied Poulailler. "How are the.young ladies after their journey?" The Marquis was shown in, and introduced to the Baron. The Baron was naturally de lighted to receive a brother noblemen—Miss Wilhelmina was modestly happy to see the charming man again—Miss Frederica was affectionntely pleased on her sister's ac count. Nut being of a disposition to lose time where his affections wore concerned, Pouloiller expressed his sentiments to the beloved object that evening. The next morning he had an interview with the Baron, at which he produced papers which proved him to be the Marquis. Nothing could be more satisfactory to the mind of the most anxious parent--the two noblemen em braced. They were still in each other's arms, when a second stranger knocked at the door. "What name, sir?" said the.ser vent. "The Marquis Petrucci of Sienna," replied the stranger. "Impossible!" said the servant; "his lordship is now in the house." "Show me in, scoundrel," cried the visitor. The servant submitted, and the two Marquises stood face to face. Poulail ler's composure was not shaken in the least; he had come first to the house, and he had got the papers. "You are the villain who rubbed me!" cried the true Petrucci. "You are drunk, mad, or an imposter," retorted the false Petrucci. "Send to Florence, where I am known," exclaimed one of the Marquises, apostrophising the Baron. "Send to Florence by all means," echoed the other, addressing himself to the Baron also. "Gen tlemen," replied the noble Kirborgen, "I will do myself the honor of taking your ad vice"—and he sent to Florence accordingly. Before the messenger had advanced ten miles on his journey, Puulailler had said two words in private to the susceptible Wil helmina—and the pair eloped from the bar onial residence that night. Once more the subject of this Memoir crossed the frontier and re-entered France. Indifferent to the attractions of rural life, he forthwith estab. lished himself with the beloved object in Paris. In that superb city he met with his strangest adventures, performed his boldest achievements, committed his most prodi gious robberies, and, in a word, did himself and his infernal patron the fullest justice, in the character of the Fiend-Fisherman's Adopted Son. nil CAREER IN PARIS Once established in the French metropolis, Poutallier planned and executed that vast system of perpetual robbery and occasional homicide which made him the terror and as tonishment of all Paris. In-do ws, as well as out, his good fortune befriended him.— No domestic anxieties harrassed his mind and diverted him from the pursuit of his dis tinguished public career. The attachment of the charming creature with whom he had eloped from Germany survived the discovery that the Marquis Petrucci was Poulailler the robber. True to the man of her choice, the devoted Wilhelmina shared his fortunes, and kept his house. And why not, if she loved him?—in the namb of Cupid, why not? Joined by picked men from his German followers, and by new recruits othere I to gether in Paris, P., uleiller now set society and its safeguards nt flat defiance. Car tottche himself was his inferior in audacity and cunning. In course of time the whole city was - pauic stricken by the now robber and his band—the very Boulevards wore do. sorted after nightfall. Monsieur Iferault, lieutenant of police of the period, in despair of laying hands on Poulailler by any other means, at last offered a rzward of a hundred pistoles and a place in his office worth two thousand livres a year to any one who would I apprehend the robber alive. The bills were posted all over Paris-and, the next morn ing, they produced the very last result in the world which the lieutenant of police Could possibly, have anticipatek Whilst Monsieur Iherault was at breakfast in his study , the Count de Villeneuve was announced as wisbiog to speak to him.— Knowing the Count by name only, as bc longit.g to an ancient family iu Provence, or in Languedoc. Monsieur lleroult ordered him . to be shown in. A perfect gentleman appeaed, dressed with an admirable mix ture of magnificence and good taste. "I have something for your private ear,, sir," said thaCount: ',Will you give orders that no one must be- allowed to disturb us?"— Monsieur Henault gave the orders. "May I inquire, Count, what your business he asked, when the.door was closed. "To earn.the reward you ofibr fur taking Pon lailler," answered the Count. ."I dm Pon lailler." Before Monsieur lierault could open his lips, the robber produced a pretty little dagger and some rose-colored silk cord. "The point of this dagger is poisoned," he observed; "and one scratch of it, my dear sir, would be the death of -you." With .tbese words, Puulailler gagged the lieuten ant 'Of police,' bound him to his doir with the iosacolored cord, and lightened hie wri ting-leek of one thousand pistolee.- "I'll take money down, _instead of taking the place in the office which you so kindly offer," said Poulailler. "Don't trouble yourself to see me to the door. (load morning:" A. few weeks later. mobile Monsieur Her ault was still ibe 'popular rubjeet of ridicule tbrouihout Paris,. business took Poulailter on, the foal to Villa and Cambial. The only $1,50 PER YEAR I ADVACE; N,c,lL#r inside passenger in the conch besides him self was the venerable Deun Potter of Brus sels. They . fell into talk on the one inter esting subject of the time—not the weather, but Poulailler. "It's a disgrace, sir, to the police," said the Dean, "that such a mis creant is still at large. I shall• be return ing to Paris, by this road, in ten days' time, and I shall call on Monsieur Horanlt, to suggest a plan of my own fur catching the scoundrel." "May I ask what it is," stlid Peulailler. "Excuse me,'-' replied the Dean; "you are stranger, sir,—and, moreover, I wish to keep the Merit of suggesting the plan to myself." "Do you think the lieu tenant of police will see you," asked Pou hiller; "ho is not accessible to strangers, since the miscreant you spak of played him that trick at his own breakfast table." "Ile will see Dean-Potter, of Brussels," was the reply, delivered with the slightest possible tinge of offended dignity. "Oh,. unquestion ably!" said Poulailler,—pray pardon me." "Willingly, sir," said the Dean—and the conversation flowed into other channels. Nine days later the wounded pride ofd Monsier lien:telt was soothed by a very re markable letter. It was signed by one of Poulailler's band, who offered himself IN King's evidence, in the hope of obtaining a pardon. The letter stated that the venera ble Dean Putter of Brussels had been way laid and murdered by Poulailler, and that the robber, with his customary audacity, was about to re-enter Paris by the Lisle coach, the next day, disguised in the Dean's own clothes, and furnished with the Dean's own papers. Monsieur Herault took his precautions without losing a moment. Pick ed men were stationed, with their orders, at the barrier through which the coach must pass to enter Paris; while the lieutenant of police waited at his office, in the company of two French gentlemen who could speak to the Dean's ithritity, in the event of Pon lailler'simpudentlypersisting in the assump tion of his victim's name; At the appointed hour, the coach appeared, and out of it got a man in the Dean's costume. He was ar rested in spite of his protestations; the pa pers of the murdered Potter were found on him, and he was dragged off to the police office in triumph. The door opened, and the posse comitatus entered with the prisoner. Instantly the two witnesses burst nut with a cry of recognition, and turned indignantly on the lieutenant of police. "Gracious [leaven, sir, what have you done!" they ex claimed in horror; "this is not Poulailler - - here is •our venerable friend; here-is the . Dean himself:" At the some moment; a servant entered with a letter. "Dean Pot ter, To the care of Monsieur Derault, Lieu tenant of Police." The letter was expressed in these words; "Venerable sir—Profit by the lesson I have given you. Be a Christain for the future, and never again try to injure a man unless he tries to injure ycni. En tirely yours, Poulailler." These feats of cool audacity were match ed by others, in which his generosity to the sex asserted itself as magnanimously as ever. Hearing, one day, that large sums of money. were kept in the house of a . great lady, one Madame de -Brienne, whose door was guarded, in anticipation of visit from the famous thief, by a-porter of approved trustworthiness and courage, Poulailler un dertolk to rob-her, in spite of her precau tions, and succeeded. With a stout pair of leather straps nod buckles in his pocket, and with two of his band disguised as coach. man and footman, he followed Madame de l Brienne one night to the theatre. Just be fore the close of the performance, the lady's coachman and footman were tempted away for five minutes by Poulaillee's disguised subordinates to have a glass of wine. No attempt was made to detain them, or to drug their liquor. But, in their absence, Poulail ler had slipped under the carriage, had hung his leather straps round the pole—one to hold by, and one to support his feet—and, with these simple preparations, was now I ready to wait fur events. Madame de Brienne entered the carriage—the footman got up behind—Poulailler hung himself horizontal-- 1g under the pole, and was driven home with them, under those singular eirzurastances. Ile was strong enough to keep his position, after the carriage had been taken into the coach-house; and lie only left it when the doors were locked for the night. Provided with food beforehand, he waited patiently, hiddeckln the coach-house, for two days and nights, watching his oppmiunity of getting into Madame de Ba ienne's. boudoir. Oa the third night the lady went toagrand ball--the servants relaxed in their vigilance while her backs was.torned—and Poulailler slipped into the room, Ile found two thou sand louis d'ors. which was nothing like the aura he expected; sad a pocket book, which he took away with him to open at home.— It contained aome stock warrants for a comparatively trifling .amount. Youlailler was far too .well of/ to care about taking them; and fir too polite where a lady wus concerned, not to send them back again, under, those circumstances., Accordingly, Madame. de Brier:me received her -warrants with arrow of apology fresta.the polite thief. 'Pray excuse my visit to your charming bou doir,". wrote . Pouleillcr;. "in . consideration of the false reports of your wealth, which alone induced:vae to enter it. If I had known what your pecuniary circumstances really were, on the honor of a gentleman, Madam, I should have been incapable of robbing you. I cannot return your two thousand fouls d'ors by post. as I return EIVI-10.LE N UMBlit I your warrants. But if you meat nll pressed for money inTuture; I shall be Proud to is ! sist so distinguished a lady by lentling‘lter, Ifrom my own ample resources, - doubfe the sum of which 'I regret to have' deptiveir her ,on the present occasion."' This letter Was shown to roytiltrat'Veritailles: it cieited the highest admiration of the Court—'espe cially of theJadies. Whenever the ratter's name was mentioned they indulgently re ferred to him as the Chevalier de•Nulnillor. Aid that was - the age of politeness. when good breeding was recognized, even in a thief. Under similar eircumsinnbmi; who Lwould recognize it now? 0 -tempoin! 0 mores! On another occasion, Poulailler was net, one night, taking the air and watching. his opportunities on the roofs of. the lonises; a member of the band being posted in the street below to assist him in case of neces sity. While in this position, t...i1:4 and groans proceeding from an open back-giarret window caught his ear. A parapet rose he ron the window, which enabled 11tH to down and look in. Starving children sur rounding it helpless mother, and chanioi mg fur food, was the picture that our Ins eye. The mother was young and beautiful. and Poulailler's hand instinctively clutched his purse, as a necessary consequi note. Defore the charitable thief could enter Ity the wit: dow, a man rushed in by the door, with a face of horror; and cast a lantailful of into the luverY another's lar,..._••My boom.' is gone," . he cried; "but our children urn ria% o „! Listen to the circumstances. I met .1. man in the Street below; he was tall. and thin; he had a green patch over one eye; ho w.ts looking up suspiciously at this hou-.e ; appa rently waiting for somebody. I thought of you—l thought of the children—l I,e:zed th auspicious stranger by the collar. Terror overwhelmed him on• the spot. •Tak.e my watch, my motley, and toy two valuable gold snuff boxes,' he said—'but spar! tnx. I took them." ."Noble hearted maid" cried Poulailler, appearing at the wti , low. Ti:o husband started; the wife .scieitned; the children hid themselves. "L..t me_ entreat you to be composed," continue I Poulailler. "Sir! r enter on the scene, for the Inarposo of soothing. your uneasy conecieoce. From your vivid description, I recog..ixe the man whose property is nor in y;.y.r p.— Resume your mental tranquility. Y:o.a have robbed a robber—in other wor.ls you have vindicated society. Accept my euoytr.co!a tions on your restored imincenee: Too lois erable coward whose collar you seize 1 is. tie of Poulailler's band. Ile has !,nthjs_.l4 ,let] property, as a at punishment for hi*• d . .s• graceful want of spirit." "Who are you?' exclaimed the husband. "I ttua.Poulitilier," replied the illustrious man, with the sim plicity of an ancient hero. "Take this purse; and set up in business with the coat:tuts. There is a prejudice, sir in favor of honesty. Give that prejudice a chance. "The're was time when I felt it mYself,' I regret to feel it no longer. Under all varieties 'of misfor tune an honest man - his hie c.onsolation still loft. Where is it left? floral!' fle struck his heart . --and the family . fell nit their knees before him. "Benefactor of your species:" cried the husband--"how can I show my gratitude?" "You can permit Me to kiss the hand of madame," answered poultuller.— Madame started to her feet, and embraced the generous stranger. f'Whne et.sU con I do?" exclaimed this lovely , tv;',riala 42ager!y "Oh, Ileaveris: what else?" "Vta can Ley; your husband to light me dawn mates," re plied Poulailler. Ile spoke, pra, , eel their hands, dropped a. generous tear. and depart ed. At that touching moment, his nwa adopted father would not have krOlvra him. This last anecdote closes the rev ,rd of Poulaiiler's career in Pieria.. The Jiefaer and more agrceablo'nspecte of I:La t, career have - I:Athena been designedly prespriied, in discreet - remembrance of ate cootrdat ichicn the tragic side of the picture must riots- pre sent. Comedy and Sentiment, twin misters of French extraction;" farttrekll , irryr Y. enters next npon'thestagentid entire ase-- come, in the name of the Fiend-Ffseerinau's Adopted Sun.— . • III! SILT FROM TUC CClgt The nature, of FoetalHee* more keriutvm achievements in the art of robbery 'limy 1 . 3 realised by reference to one terrible Ice. In the poljce records of the period, m .re than one hundred and fifty men and * li..men are reckoned up as having rue; ;114...deaths at the hands of Poulailler and his band. It was not the practice of this robber to take life as well as, property, un less life kappitiektO stand „directly in his way—in which_extelie immediately swept off the °betide without heiitittion and with. out remorse. Ilisileadly - cleleiriniiiation -to rob, which was thus felt by the poPilation in general, vies toatchedly his Meriiilnation to be obeyed, which Was felt by hielidloivers in particular. One of their n istriber, for example, having Withdrawn ifrOnx:filiCille giance, and having afteirivirdsitiemptia to betray his leader, task iineketefelft Ming place in a cellar, and was there wralledup alive in Pouhtiller's ••prissenceirthe robber composing -the asafertenate wretch's' epi taph, and ,scratching.ic on the wet plaster witty/As - own , ht,tmer.4z Xeitra afterwards the inscription. - woe 4 nictioetk7when %the' house fell into possession. of ir new tenant, and ere supposed 'taliez.nothing there - that one ..f the many4ests..which_thedamons robber bud practiced jo,his tittio„,„ Was re-4 2 91:64.!haskeititon,,celk ou;,,,LiAd ;ci tified that .RouLaillsr was is earnest,
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