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From the Home Journal.
Talei of the South.
BV A SOUTUERX MAN'.
THE AVENGER.
OontinutJ from last Week.
u I forgive voj my death, because I de
serve to uie by your hands. I am ono of
tout father's murderers. Listen, ami
I will tell you, in fev words, the story
of mv life. Without knowing some
thing of it, you will not be able to under
stand why I became both a murderer and
a gambler.
"I was born in Savannah, Georgia.
Jly parents were obscure, but honest and
hardworking. Having many children be
sides myself, and being very poor, they
were hard pushed to support us and bring
us up in the way they wanted. My mo
ther was a quietgentle, deeply pious wo
man. She taught mo to pray, kneeling
it her feet, with my head in her lap, every
night before I went to bed. 1 learned from
her, nlso, tho most of the catachism, bo-
fore I was able to read. Liut hard work,
care, anxiety, nnd the harassment of a
heavy debt which my father contracted
by seeurityship for a friend who broke
nnd run oft", soon brought her to the
i .1: ..!
grave. 1 Wits very young wnen mm uieu,
but I remember how fair and had she
looked as she h'y in her shroud upon the
bed. 1 kissed her cold hps ami cried bit
terly, for my heart was very heavy. 1
bad good reason to ci v ami to tool heavy
at heart, !' c I had lost not only a mother,
but a friend, who, if she had lived, might
have kept mv feet in the paths of virtue.
and saved mo from the vices which have
mado my 1 i to miserable and brought me
to this untimely death.
1 As soon as my mother died, my lather
broke uo housekeeping in Savannah, and
moved to a small farm which he rented
down on the coast. It was a very hand
some situation which looked out, in one
direction, upon the. Atlantic (Ice in, and
in all otheis upon rice plantations. 1 soon
grew to love the ocean, and used to play
for hours upon t'.e beach when tho tid"
was out. Its solemn roar and boundless
extent tilled me with awe, and a feeling
which I cannot even now understand or
express would steal over me as I gazed
upon its restless waters. Somehow, as
won as I revived to-day from the stun of
your hall, I felt my old love for the sea
return, and requested to be pbieed in tho
situation you see mo in, that I might look
upon tho waters of the (Julf. I wish, too,
1 could see a .rioo plantation with the
grain waving green and shiny in the
breeze.
"As soon as I was old enough to labor,
my father put mo to work. We continuod
to live upon the samo littlo farm for seve
ral years, until my father took it into his
head to marry a second time. The woman
ha married was bad-tempered, and a terri
ble scold. She made my father s house
unpleasant to all of his first wife's childien
who were with him. for some had married
and settled in homes of their own ; others
had gono into business on their own ac
count; ono was dead, and four of us re
mained at home.
" I was sixteen vears old ; could read
nd write and cipher, and was very im
patient of my stepmother's rule. My fa-
mor saw my unhappiness, ana proposed
to apprentice me to learn a trade. I
gladly consented, and was put under a
house-carpenter in Savannah. For a time
I got on well with my employer, and mado
, . ' ... !..!
"nm progress in tno uso oi ioois. jhii,
ty degrees, I formed acquaintances with
pung men of my own age and older, who
J me into bad nracticos and tho neglect
pf mv business. Mv father died, mv em
ployer discharged me, and I started, with
one suit of clothes on my back, and a lit
tie money in my pockets, to seek my for
tune in tho world. I concluded that I
wouid eo un into the interior of the State
o pursue my .trade of a house-carpenter.
ettled in a small village, got work,
TDado mnnau ntwt knitnn In nroKllOP 111
....... jf .uu wi.....
the itnraediete neighborhood lived a very
j v ealthy planter who had a son who was
I "'wipated and reckless. His father, alter
fruitless efforts to reclaim him, cut off his
ffcuppliog 0f rnonev, and ovon threatened
I In I S . t 11
jwcwniuo I inn Irom Iiih Iiousq n no am
,M ruforn.. Tlii firwl hin priijo, ami ho
'lUlt Ilia lniiu rxF hiii itL't nnr(V ntwl
Wined to drinking and gambling, fingcr
M ll tho while in the Neighborhood, as
for the purpose of annoying his father.
In an evil hour I formVSd his acquaintance,
)"i ho acquired, from the first, an un-
winueu lntiuence over mff. Step by step,
' iea me down the steeps of vice, until l
'M as fond of drinking and gaming as he
i
j
! lis snent all nop mrncv. had no
elit, and scarcely knew what to do.
My associate was too proud to nsk his fix
tiler's assistance, und I had grown too idltt
unci dissipated to work.
"In this desperate extremity of our
fortunes, wo stal led, on toot, to vinit a ro
lution of his, who lived in ono of tho
western eountiesol ( icorginnnd from whom
ho hoped to receive a loan of moniy on
tlio credit of his future expectations, from
his father's estate. The cautious old gon
tleman not only refused to lend him a
dollar, but treated us with such cool civili
ty that wo turned our backs upon his
house in a very short time after we had
entered it.
" We were now almost desperate with
out money, without credit, and literally
without friends. We concluded to return
to our old haunts in central Oeorgiu. On
our way back we. stayed all night in the
neighborhood in which your father lived,
anil learned, trom tho conversation of our
host, that lie was to start in a few days,
on horseback, and accompanied only by
his littlo son, to Louisiana, to pay for
some lands he had just bought in that
state.
hint enough to put evil
" lias was
thoughts in
u.,,.v.l immosn in his l.enrt. V.'U ....
, . 4 , ....i i. "
retired to our room, he proposed that we
.....u.u uj. .mu uu your mmer, sug-
much risk of detection, as ho was to go
through tho then wilderness of the Mis
sissippi Territory on his way to Louisiana.
The proposition was extremely revolting
to my feelings. I was poor, needy, dis
sipated, with a growing passion for gum
ing ; but to rob, una, perhaps, to murder
J"1'
,0,'
uu n v it iruiier-s iiiul uu ii-ver so inucu
as entered my mind, und the bare thought
ol it made me shudder. Somehow, too,
the remembrance of my inotlicr revived,
and I felt strengthened by tho recollec
tion of her gojuness, and the prayers she
had taught me, to resist the importuni
ties of my associate.
" 1 kepi silent, nnd he continued, nearly
al! night long, to refuse my acquiescence,
lie had. as I have said, an unbounded in
fill
luenceover ine, and, at last, the devil at
ns instigation, entered my soul, and be-
ore we left our room tho next morning I
his
for
had consented to a-sist him in the rob
bery.
"Wo lingered several days in the neigh
borhood, under cne pretence or another,
I. ut
out
in reality, for the purpose of finding
tho route your father was to travel
tho day he was to start, how armed, and
what sort of a nun he was in point of
courage and nerve. Having ascertained
all these particulars to our satisfaction, we
agreed upon our plan of operations, and
at once set about its execution.
" e decided to ruli your lather lar nut
in the wuiieiiics to avoid detection, then
to strike for the Mi-
Ippl liiver, take
the first watcr-cialt upon which ivu could
get passage, and go to New Orleans.
knew the general route he wouhl tnivel
the Indian lubes ulong it were all friend-
ly-ai.d so, about lour days before your j a ,,,.ot.k , lici, c10sse, the trail, and wash
hiih.T was to start, we set out on toot fur t)u. ),1I,11,,ia,.i (,.,,, olll. fj,.,.s anii liK.
the Mississippi! c.Titory, provuled with I hhod ,Vln m. lllin(s nnil ,.f,,u!, M
a small paper of lampbl ick, two liglit shot xMlt ,vo t,lv,,t ilto tlv),c tuwUct MK
guns, and a few trinkets to pay our way remaincd until day, as it luel clou.lcl up
with among the Indians, in which pur-! ,in, i)(.,.alne t0 dark for us to follow the
i - x i .. : tvnii. A-coon as it was. light enong!i lor
der supply of money, l.ulore having the ; U3 to sco vp un,,.,! f. journcv, avoid
neigiibt.rhood, however, we inanaged to ; (Ilft Miltion nll, l,ite "setth nients on
get to see your father several times, at i t,ie rmitc hv nuking a circuit round the. j
church nnd elsewhere, so as to know htm
when wc met with hi i in the wilderness.
We even found out the color, size, and
general description of the horses you and
ho were to ride.
" There were some leading points along
tho route which you wero to travel that
served to guide us through the wilderness.
We spent the nights in the huts of tho In
dians, tolling them w o were merely out on
a big hunt, und to get a general look nt
tho country. We carefully avoided the
white settlements, nnd keeping a close
watch ns we travelled in tho day, we man
aged to escape bting seen by any but In
dians, who were ablo to give us nil the di
rections we needed as to the route.
" In the interior of what is the present
State ef Mississippi there were two noted
stands or trading stations, many miles
opart, a denso forest stretching ulmost
from one to tho other. About midway be
tween the two there was, immediately on
tho edge of tho trail, a thicket of under
growth, close enough to conceal our per
sons, and yet open enough to permit an
easy passage through it in any direction.
Knowing that your father must pass di
rectly by this spot, we selected it as the
place to rob him. '
" Although wo had four days the start,
vet, as we travelled on foot nnd your fa
ther on horseback, wo knew that by this
time he could not bo far in our rear. It
was in the evening, about three hours by
the sun, w hen we camo across tlio thicket.
Wo had stayed tho night beloro at the
cabin of an old Choctaw, some twenty
miles back, and had brought provisions
enough with us to hist two or three days,
having determined to spend tho nights in
tho woods, and to avaid being seen even
by the Indians as wo expected to rob
your father that day or the next. Wo
blacked our faces, and hid in tho thicket
until dark. As you did not come, wo re
tired some three or four hundred yards
fvom the trail, and spent tho night, sleep
ing by tho side of a large log, against
which wc rakod up a pile of leaves for a
" At laydght we got up, put more black
ing on our liices, examined our guns
which we had lienvily charged to see if
all was right, nnd then returned fo the
thikct nefir tiie trail. Neither of us be
lieved nt least, 1 am sure I did not my
self that it would be necessary to kill
either you or your father. Wo expec ted
that, as soon as we presented ourselves,
with cuns in our hands, and demanded
Ins purse, no wouiu give u up.
looded with buck shot and a double charge
of powder, merely to provide .igainH
"EXCELSIOR."
CLKAKFIKU), PA. WEDNESI)A MAY 11,
possible resistance by your father, who,
we were informed, was a very bravo man
and would bp well armed. It was ngrccd
between us that, as soon as yon and your
father came near enough for our purpose,
wo should rush together into tho trail bo
fore you; my associate was then to level
his gun at your father nnd demand hia
purse, while I was to level mine at you
and fori id your interference or attempt
to draw a weapon.
"It wns ns you may remember, between
ten nnd eleven o'clock in the forenoon
when you and your lather arrived nt our
place of concealment. We rushed forth
and acted as we hail agreed. Your father
was in advance of you a short distance,
and both of you drew your reins and stop
ped when you caw us". He not only re
fused to deliver his purse, but began to
dismount on the fur side of his horse, evi-
uonuy lor uio purposed defending him
self. My ossociate fired upon him, nnd lie
ien io uie ground. I had no V
r.cart to
snoot you, and, as soou fis
n you saw vour
miner law, you turned, ..; iircU in tho di-
fr'm ,Vl'ic" 5 im... We wen
cnt
dm
I 1 "UC
lof
. tiuck-sliot having passed tlnou'di
bo(ly. doping down, we M-urched
his
lis
In
pockc,8 for 1U0I1(.V ,., Vl,u.i1
turning him over, my left hand j;ot dub
bled with blood, nnd happening to place
it upon your father's vest, a most distinct
impression of tho whole hand was left
upon it. I remember the incident dis
tinctly, because, happening to speak of il
I soon after we left the hotly, my associate
: remarked that I ought to have effaced the
hmn,.. ,,. nu it.. ,...,. I ;.,,.;, . , i :.. ..
,;,.. b,.in2 ,.. ,:. ,, ,.
lurnish a clue to Inv iletection.
ccn
cumpas! teen dollars in money, a pocket
and peiikhite, a puir ol silver s-lecvc-lmt-tons,
which we unloosed from the wrist
bands, and two pistols, were nil the mo
ney and valuables we found in the pock
ets or upon tho person of your father. Wo
were greatly disappointed in the amount
ol the money, ns we had l:mul that
was turning to Louisiana to i i,v forsome
hmh tmt h(J hou::Ut thl.v; .,,, V(.
naturally concluded that he was carrvin-
le
a considerable sum with him. I'ut we
learned, from the accounts nf the murder
which we afterwards read in the papers,
that a large amount of niunev. sewt d ui
I ;n l lt wl.iM. -n n .,.,, ..!'. i... .i.;..
I l,.,,i ,..,,,,,,1 ,,,. n,.,.i, v: .,.", ,'.
ly agitated, and in a hurry to leave, and
so did not think of searching anywhere
except in the pockets.
"Inn few moments wo left the body
and began our flight, following the trail
between the stations, w hich, boingcoverod
i wjt,
leaves, upon which our feet left no
impression, furui.-hed the easiest and. snccd-
, j,,st ,mI. v .... A-wn w.to 1,,M, mn.l
j waikcr!i c.out ,,,,,1 a. live, we were many,
! ,,t.r,,.s tweh or fifteen miles on o-.r wav.
; ,,,, ,,0 ,inio vo, nn,t ,(.tters jeach.'d
,i". i,.iv ,.( f,i,.. .,,
through the woods. Wo bought provi
sions of the Indians, ami stayed two
nights more with them in their huts.
They bought our guns the second day l'
ter the murder, paying us a small trille in
money for each.
" At length, soiled and weary, we reach
ed the Mississippi River, and were fort u
nato in meeting, almost immediately,
with a boat, upon which wo took dock
passage for New Orleans,
"on tho way down wo divided evenly
between ns tlio money which ho had
found in your father's purse; tlio pistols
fell by lot to my associate tho sleeve
buttons, knife nnd pocket-compnss to mo.
Having no use for tho lattor, and fearing
to dispose of it to nny ono else, lest it
might lend to the discovery of mv con
nection with the murder, I threw it into
the river. I used the knife, which was a
new one, until it was nearly worn out,
when I lost it. Tho sleeve-buttons I was
afraid either to wear or to part with, and
so I deposited and kept them for nioro
than thirty years in a small box, in which
I was accustomed to put -jewclrw and other
littlo valuables of one kind or another
whioh I picked up in my wanderings here
und ther and retained as a reserved fund
upon which to draw whenever my money
gave out. Thinking that thero could not,
after so long a period, bo any r.sk in dis
posing of them, I staked and lost them in
a game, ut Mobile, several weeks ago.
They camo, as you told tno before wj
fought this morning, into your possession,
and havo led to my detection and pun
ishment. I have never learned from my
associate what bcoame of the pistols.
" As soon as wo arrived in New Orleans
we separated. I'.oth of us became, and
have continued until the present time to
be, professional gamblers. 1 have lived a
most miserable life, and have never ceased
to regret that 1 abandoned the huniUe,
but honest trade of a house-carpenter for
tho hurrassing, uncertain, and soul-destroying
pursuit of tho gambler. lean trace
all my misfortunes, my rvil life, my blight
ed enreer, nnd this untimely death, fo my
acquaintance nnd association with (he
man who led mc the guilt of your
falher's murder. ".I Is the most wicked
person I ever knew. I have met him
frequently, hut can never look on him
without loathing and aversion ns tho real
author of my ruin. lie piused through
Mobile, only a few days before I left that
city, on his wny to Vicksburg, Mississippi,
where he said no expected to spend ine
ii-ti iv months. Ho changes his name
quite frequently, but I cannot imagine for
what reason, as his person Is so peculiar
that, once seen, it can never bo forgotten.
His hair, once intensely red, is now shad
ing to gray ; his left eyo squints ; he slam
fners badly ; his look is almost unbeara
bly malignant, and ho has a deep dent or
senr on his right cheek bhnped almost
precisely like a horse-shoo, with the heels
pointing downwards, and a littlo slanting
in towards his mouth. Ho is the only
living human being that I now find it im
possible to forgive. He in reality has made
me livo a miserable life, mid has brought
mo to this terrible death.
".I nm going fast. My heart is sinking,
my strength is falling, my eyes grow dim,
and I shall soon be with my final Judge,
lieforo I go, I have ono request to make of
yen. It is the request of n dying man
who has wronged you deeply, but can
never wrong you more. 1 have told you
the talo of my almost involuntary connect-on
with your father's murder. It
tilled me with remorse at tho time, and
deeply have I repented it ever since. 1
am paying the forfeit of my life for my
part of tlio crime. I can do no more to
atone for it. ('an you, then, forgive me
your father's death'? Somehow, I feel
that if you will cay that you forgive me, I
shall die oasier and more content."
A. M , whose nature was both
magnanimous and forgiving, had, in his
own feelings, anticipated the request oi
Orme, nnd purposed, ns soon as Ids con
fession was closed, to tender tho oiler of
lorgiveness. meaning lorward, ond ex
tending, at tho same time, his hand to
the dying man, he said, in a voice tremu
lous with emotion :
"I forgive you, Orme, tho murder of
my father, and I rray that Heaven may
forgive you, too, Hepart in pence, anil
may tiod be merciful to your soul."
Tears welled up into tho eves of Orme,
nnd, for a moment, lie seemed too full for
utterance, (irasping the extended hand
of A. M , und looking him tenderly
in the face, he ut length was able to say':
"Ood bless you for that sweet word
roticivE. It has rolled a dark burden
from my soul. I. too, freely forgive you
my own death. The blcs.ing of a pour
sinful man like me is not much : but, such
as it is, I give It tc you. J'arewt 11 !''
The fatigue produced by his long con
fession, and thu emotion excited by the
scene which followed its conclusion, fatal
ly accelerated the hemorrhage from his
wound. His pulse fluttered, failed, nnd
then returned with feebler throb. His
grasp upon the hand of A. .u , which
he had continued to hold, gradually re
laxed, the eye grew glassy and fixed,
ind reason wandered in the brief deliri
um ol the tinal moment. A prolonged
tremor passed over his hoi I v. he grew
deeply still, and was apparently dead.
At length he seemed to revive. His mind
was with the scene: and the ew.nts ol hi.-.
earlv lile. I Ins names nt his mother ami I
playmates, and allusions to boyish sports
the green lields ami the roaring ocean, oi l
his childhood's home on the beach, in his I
native (ieorgia were indistinctly, but fre
quently littered. He drew a long breath. ;
turned on his side, ami, in a hr.v, di.-.tiiiet I
voice, exclaimed. " Mother, il is very dark,
nnd 1 am so sleepy now. It is tune for
little buddy to go to bed. Let nie say my
little prayer--
' Now I lay me down to
I pray the Lord '"
The voice failed ere the couplet was
finished, the change of death passed over
the countenance, and the heart of the'
penitent Orme had ceased lo beat. j
The attendants w ho had witnessed, :
with astonishment, the ex t ni dinary inter
view, without hearing any of the conver j
sation between A. M and Orme, !
now approached, nnd tho former, leaving
the burial ot the body to their care, re
turned to the city.
( To if cnnlinui il.)
An Affectionate Wife.
A ludicrous attempt to murder a hus
band, which recently occurred in Halifax
in England, is thus related:
'A certain woman felt her spouse an in
cumbrance, and applied to the druggist of
the village for a sixpenny worth of arsenic.
Ho very properly refused, nnd informed
her husband, nt the same time inquiring
of him for whiit purposo his wife could re
quire it. The husband told tho druggist
that if she applied again he must sell her
some harmless article in lieu of arsenic,
and seo what her objects wero. She did
apply again, and tho wary apothecary de
livered her somo carbonate of soda, telling
her husband what had occurred When
hewent homo ho found a moat pie prepar
ed for dinner ; ho pretended at first for
want of appetite, and invited her to help
herself. Sho roftised, and at last ho nto a
quantity of tho pio. In a little whilo ho
professed himself unwell, then feigned
thirst, ther. alarming sickness, and finally
death.
The treacherous woman monifested great
concern during theso proceedings; but the
instant death appeared to her to have oc.
curred, she passul a rope through t Its
chamber floor, nnd knit it to her husband'r
neck, In order that when tho noighboso
wero culled in ho might appo.tr to have
hanged himself. She then ran up stairs
to draw up nnd fix tho ropo. Tho instant
sho had disappeared, the dead revived, re
leased himself of the rope, and passed it
round the leg ofthotiblo, and tho wo
mnn liunc thatusefnl and domestic article
instead of the other one, Ihn husband.
The latter also ran tip stairs, inquiring of
tho failhlesg woman, what she was draw
ing tho tablo up in that wny ?' Tho affair
has ended for the present, in his, as the
Fhrnso is, taking the law in his own hands,
lo has given her, as fhe Yorkshiro folks
sny, 'a right down hiding.'
lleJ-A punctual man is very rarely a poori
V . . f i . i . r 1 , I
man, ana never u w.ui w uounnui emu -utter
or creed.
As "IIimv Pi., I" A r.i:r.. :.. !
.uu. , .- vuiuui inn paper
wulksintoan unweleoino correspondent
in the following rough-shod stvle:
"Wo have received a communication,
iiiieiuied 10 uaningo a noighuor, which
the writer tric3 to bribe us to publish, bv
promising to subscribe for tho paper, oil
condition of his miserable article appear
ing. Wo've half a mind, you cowardly
villian, to tell your name, and print tho
article, und get you a drubbing. We'll
instruct you that you deplorably mistako
the character ol tho journal by which you
would dill'usc yourassassin liko poison.
Ilav'nt you the courage to confront your
enemy and toll him what you, skulking
anonymously, would print of him? You
aro one of the "grumblers," aro you?
lou n grumuie ut the postmaster, priest,
1 resident, at Ood Almighty himself, il
you were not alraid of being eternally
humed for it.
loud bribe tho village
paper, winch should b a messenger ol
pence, to stir up quarrel und dissension in
a neighborhood. You'd cause a faithful
wife to sherl tears of mortification by
niultii'lying a lie about her husband !
Oh, you're a beautiful specimen of the
( Yeutor's handiwork ! Let's look ai vou :
Six feet high ; dark hair ; thiok full beard;
downcast eye; cadaverous jaws; visage
like a fellow w ho had been buried long
enough to let humanity und manhood out
of him you look iust like tho man who
would put a widow woman "in tho pa
pers," and abscond and lenvo the editor to
i tar and feathering. We'll tell vou what
10 uo: rind a throe-story warehouse :
in M a ong the ridge pole ; discover a big
Hut rock, on a line dropped from the ter-
initiation ; turn your moccasins up lo the lna,ie y0ur house, Miss Jessie; the win-:
sun, , und let yoursdf go-the discovery ers are riddled, the doors broke, the fur
of your brains on tho rock below will bo uituro ruined, ami everything at slxcns
conclusive und gratifying evidence that a .md sevens "
1IU1:
mice has been abated."
Thk Ketcrnino Ansf.rs. Hear the
story of the child who went forth into the
mountain ravine. Whilst tho child wan
dered there he cried aloud to break the
loneliness, and a voice which called to him
in the same tone. Jie called again, and, ns j just ! Some of them arc even now reaping,
he thought, the voice again mocked him. tho reward of their villainy. Look at
Flushed with anger, he rushed to find I those expiring wretches who foil near tho
the boy who had insulted him, but could door. Listen to their moans of anguish 1
find none. He then called out to him in : What thought have they to comfort then
anger, ami and with all abusive epithets and soften their pains of dissolution?
all of which were faithfully returned to , They die a horror to themselves and ev
him. Choking with rage the child ran to. orv mstico-luving mind. What a remem-
his mothei and complained that a boy in
the woods hud abused ami insulted him
with many vile words, Put tho mother
took her child by the hand and said: "My
child these names wero but the echoes of
thiiioown voice. Whatever thou didst
call was returned to thee from tho hillside.
Had, st thou called out 'dcnsanl words.
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a-eint words find returned to thee. Let I
this be thy lesson through life. The world
win no me eeiio oi mine on n .spu n. without discovering them. Thesurround
Tre.it thy fellows with unkindness and ing scenery was as quiet as if it had never
they will answer with ur.kiu dne.-s ; with j boon disturbed by tlio sound of human:
love and thou shalt have love. Send forth conllict ; nothing broko tho quietude savo
sunshine from thy spirit, ami thou shalt i the groans of tho wounded tin tho .house,
m ver have acloudy day ; carry ubouta vin-1 and, nt long intervals, the cry of a wolf in
dicative spirit and even in the flowers shall the tangled hedges of Laurel Swamp,
lurk curses. Thou shalt receive ever wht, The fears of tho young ladies began to
thou givest, nnd that alone." Alwaays subside : an assurance faint and tremb-
said tho speaker, is that child in the ;
mountain passes, ami every man and ever-
v woman i- that child-
A neighbor of mine was fairlv or other
wise accused oi stealing sheep, and the i
day was set when he was to answer l he !
chargo before a court of justice. Put as
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it happened, before the day of trial ho
sickened and died. His old mother was
overwhelmed willi grief, ami sat long by
the corpse, lllling the house with wailing
and lamentation. At last a thnught seem
to strike her; sho brightened up, and
throwing up her hands, she piously ojac
ulated: "Well, thank li
the sheep scrape nnyhow."
1, bo's out of j
BPvU'ien. Washington once stopped at j sullered loss, but not onough to prevent
a hotel with a squad of subordinate officers i brave, or persons of even ordinary hardi
and attracted tho attention of an Irish j hood, from making further nttomps.
servant. Pat was very attentive to tho Paul Ilozlehurst at first shared llutter's
(Ion., and promptly attended him. The inquietude, but finally joined tho ladios,
general observed tho man gazing at him confident that there was no immediate'
and his ollicers as they were acout depart
ing, and asked Pat, "how he liked tho
looks of his boys."
"Well, yer honor, replied Pat, I'm not
competent to judge of the stars in the
presence of tho sun."
B--An Irish woman, who kept a littlo
grojery was brought to her dentil bod.
When on tho point of breathing her last,
she called her husband to her liodside:
'Jamie, there's Missus Maloney, sho
owes mo six shillings,' said sho faintly.
Och Piddy Darlint, yer sensible to the
best,' exclaimed the husband.
'Yis dear ; and there's Misssus McCraw,
I owe a dollar.'
'Och ! be jabbers yer as foolish as iver.'
B)uA Misissippi "poick" became indig
nant becauso his "Susan" had married
somo other lover, nnd gave vent to his
'feelinks." in the following graphic nnd
exquisitely beautiful "pome." Hear him
sing,
She has married ! !
And sad, oh, sad to relate,
She has married
A stTKF.it! from Illinois stale.
BXThn tomb-stone of a woet blind
girl, blind from her birth, licars tho ap
propriate inscrplinn, ''There is no night
there," Tho tomb-stono of a child w ho
died at tho age of throe years, hns inscri
bed upon it tho befitting words: "Went
in tho morning."
UP1-A would-Le prophet down South,
said lw'cly in ono ct his swmons, thnthe
"wns sunt to redeem the world and a'.l
things therein j" whereupon a native pul
led out two five dolhu- bills on a broken
bunk, and u.ked him to fork ovor Uie spe
cie for them.
TERM8-$123 per Annum
NKWSEHIES-VOL. IV.N0.i7T
A New Revolutionary Story.
ONE EYED SAUL,
OR THE
TORY LKACJUE OF SEVEN.
A TALK OK SOUTH-CAROLINA.!
BY DR. J. hTrOBINSON,
Author of "Nick Wuirn.Es," "JIickBu
son," " Half-witted Nat," "Marion's
BlUUAbE," "TllEriONEERSOFKESTlCllV,''
etc.
Continued frnin last week.
"You nro too brave, too generous !" an
swered Jessie, with emotion. "You ex
nose vniiK.ilf ,,,,,.IIL.U . V., 1
much contempt for danger"
"There is no such word as danger when
I battle for the safety nnd honor of
Jessie I'urnside."
"Too chivalrous 1 too chivalrous!" ex
claimed Jessie.
"I can't quito undoriitand this silence,'"
said Hutlcr, approaching Hnjiollmrst,
"Wax my flax, if I don't believe th$
critters has got enough on't 1" said Podi
jah, "You seo they can't stun' near sa
much hamnierin' as folks can as are
fightin' for liberty. A few right smart
knocks takes tho starch right out of 'em."'
"They're cowards if they don't try ifr
again," returned Hut ter. "There's a doz
en of 'em, at least, and they ought to bo a
match, in tho course of natur,' for four; -
l,i,t .nti,;.,.. ...;.i.: .. .u...
thcy lJllVen't-love of friends, home, coun
trv nnd insiiee. Son !,. !.
and sevens.'
"Wo love Lnurelwood," replied Jessie,,
"but we love the cause of freedom better.
The destruction of property will griove us
but little, if valuable lives are spared and
the Tory miscreants punished."
' 'Punished .'be assured that thev will !'
exclaimed Paul Ilozlehurst. "Heaven is.
braneo tho Tories of South Carolina will
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leave to posterity." i
"Tho word Tory w ill Le the synonym of
infamy," said Judith.
Tho night had set in quite dark, and ob
jects could be seen nt a short, distance on
ly. Tho tress looked dim nnd misty in
the nocturnal gloiiiu. Tom Huttor nnd
his companions strained their eves in ev.
cry direction in search of their foos, but
ling, at first that those lawless men had
retired and would not return to renew
the conllict, took possession of their minds.:
A glow of hope returned to their pale
cheeks. As their own danger crew less
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"ullll"-llli usiuuuiiuu, icemigs oi
compassion for tho wounded.Tories visited
their hearts. They would have produced
lights to examine their condition and
mako medical applications, had they not
, had they not
been cautioiHui
d by tne
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their nioro experienced
defenders.
Half an hour elapsed. The silence con
tinued unbroken. Tom Huttor was not
at ease, but walked about norveously.
casting prying glunccs from one window,
then from another. Ho was suspicious.
and unsatisfied. He knew that thev had'
danger to npprehend.
"I can't comprehend it!" muttered1
Hutter, in a perplexed manner. "There's
allers mischief goin' on when folks are'
still."
"That's about my own wny o'thinkin',"
remarked Podijah, who heard Tom's re
marks. "Tho most mischief is done with
th- least noise, 'cording to my experience;
fust and last, hero and there, by and largo,
as the world goes. Did you ever go a
courtin,' Mister?"
"I never did," said Tom.
"Well, that'snbouttho stillest wotk you
can find, I reckon, though sometimes,
there' a henp 'o business done."
"Hark 1" said Tom.
"1 don't hear nothin' but Taul and tlio'
gals. Paul's ru ther sweet on ono of 'em,
I should Fay, though 'twould be hard
to choose atween 'cm. Wax my flax, if it
wouldn't!''
"Jt strikos ine," f-aid Tom, "that the air'
is growing hot and oppressive. Listen! be'
quiet there, 1'iiul nnd tho gals."
F-neh of tho parties became attentive.
A hissing, roaring sound was hoard over-
head.
' The house is on fire I" cried lluttcr.
"Some of the blood-thirsty villains haviv
ellected nn entrance through Ihrt rootr.""
Tho scout rushed up stairs nnd threw'
open a door. A denso voluiuo of smoke,
mingled with flame, met hitn nnd drovo
him back. Pods, garments, everything
combustible had been piled in a he.in and
fired. The straw, the feathers, the linen.
were like tinder j it needod but rt spar)
to kindle the mad blaze, and that had
been applied somo minutes before by a
cunning and malicious hand.
Scorched by the furious element and'
half tufl'ocated, Hutter mounted a tho
stairs again, in hopes to combat tho flw
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