PUBLISHED KYXST WEDNESDAY BT H. G. SMITH « CO A. J. STEIHMA.H £l, G. Smith, TERMS—'Two Dollars per annum, payable In alloasos In advanco. THE LA.NCASTBB DAILY INTELLIGENCER lB published every evening, Sunday excepted, at 6 per Annum In advance. oobstxb or Centre JFPICE—SOI DARE, Foliclen’a Three Wishes. FROM thb FRENCII They had dined—and dined well; they had sung, smoked, played, ramb lingly discussed the great political questions of the day, chatted aboot stocks and railroads, and disposed of the usual amount of scandal looked for on such occasions. What furthercould they do? Borne one suggested that they should form a circle, invoke the spirits aud interrogate the tables. Aeliug on ihe timely suggestion, a lightstaud was brought in. One of the guests, who pTofessed to unite in him self all the requisites of a first-class me dium, laid his hands upon the stand, and in a solemn tone of voice inquired, “ la there a spirit present?” Rap! rap! responded the left foot of the table. In the quaint language of the tables, two raps mean ‘‘yes,” while a single one means “ no.” “ Are you a good spirit ?” Rap ! “ You are a bad spiiit then ?” Rap! Rap! “ Will you dictate a sentence for us?” Rap! Rap ! “Proceed then.” “Wait a moment,” interrupted the master of the house. “It will be necessary to write under the dictation of the table. Felicien, take pen, ink aud paper, and remember that one rap represents the lette? A, two raps the let ter B, aud so on to Z.” “Are you ready, Felicien?” asked th'e medium. “ (to on!" The expert placed his hands anew upon the little mahogany stand, wljich, without moving from Us [dace, began a sort of nervous trembling, ucooinpanied by the strungest contortions.. This druuken agitation lasted some live mi nutes, after which the table became quiet. When the impromptu secretary had linally put into shape the vowels and constants rapidly recorded by his pen, the following singular sentence was the result: “ To-night, the 31st of December, all the wishes formed by mortals, between the eleventh and twelfth stroke of mid night, will be iustautaneoully grant ed.” The company broke into a loud laugh of irreverent skepticism. The medium ulone compressed his lips and frowned. “ You are wrong, geutlemeu ; upon my honor, you are wrong,” cried he. — “ You should not thus make sport of serious things. You do not know at what moment the spirits may show their readiness to take offence and ex hibit their Hpitefulness. Ah! gentle men, you will yet have to repentof this indecorous iiilaidN. l»ut stop, I will wager you that the spit it lias ll .-d to re turn no more !” lie again questioned the table. Ildid not budge. “ I was sure of it,” sighed he. “A pleasaut evening to you,'gentle moD,” said the host; “ and since I may speak to you with entire freedom, my friends, I give you notice that 1 will detain you no longer.” “ You send us away, then,” said re licien. . v. , “No! most assuredly not. Stay, if you like. But here, it is half-past eleven, aud I am expected at the opera ball.” 80, with a few lively words, the com pany separated. Felicien and the medium lived in the same street, in adjoining lodgings. They went home in company. Oa the way the medium was the only one to speak, but he talked enough for both. He was in some sort a dreamer, whom his friends jocosely called the magiciau.— lie had directed all his mental powers towards magnet ism, somnambulism and alchemy. Seeking for the phi losopher’s stone, lie obstiuately en deavored to make diamonds out of charcoal. What his religion was, if he had any at all, no one knew. But, if he had ever been baptized, it must surely have been in (lie frontof Mearner with Cagliostro for his godfather. As they went along, the magician favored liis companion with some very erudite remarks touching the Medes, the Syrians, the Fgyptians, Zoroaster. Confucius, Albertus Magnus, Dr. baust, the sun, the moon, the slurs, and a great variety of kindred subjects. Felicien, who heard not a word of this stud*, was exclusively occupied in thinking of three things ; first, M. Du rand, his tailor; second, M. Yaillant, his broker ; third, Madame Dc.-grauges, a young widow with whom he was in love. “ Has M Durand sent home my dress coat, which is imlispensiblo for my New Year’s call?” asked he of himselL “ Does the house of Vaillant consent to discount bills remitted to it during the day by the house of Felicien? Has Ma dame Desgrangts received my ardent note? Has she deigned to honor me with a reply? Will this reply bear to me the joys of heaven or the tortures of the condemned. ?” The two young meu were by this time standing before their respective doors. “As I was saying to you,” con tinued the Magiciau, “I tirmly be lieve in the table tipping ami in spirit rappiug. And fur this reason, in a few moments, betweeu Ihe eleventh and twelfth stroke of midnight, I shall form the wishes nearest my heart. Aud you, Felicien V ” Felicien shrugged his shoulders, ami, saying nothing, entered the h >us<’. The purler received him with that nauseating smile which, on all merce nary lips, iuvariubiy makes its ujipear ance the 2")ih of December, ami which disappears not less invariably the 2d day of January, lie politely handed Felicien three letters, and his lodger having of fered to repay the postage at once— “ Never mind, sir,” said he, in the suavest of touts, “we will settle some other time.” Felicien took (lie letters, and,.recog nizing their .superscription, unsealed and read them eagerly in the glimmer of tiie gas which still lighted the stair way. The lir.-t ran as follows: “pfiu: Your black coat is ready for you. Never have my shears been more ! fortumite in their labors, It id a mas* j tcrpieee. You cau seud for it at dawn to-morrow; but, aa your little account has already risen to a respectable figure, the coat in question will be sent you upon the payment of one hundred nud fifty fraucs, the amount which you promised me some three months since, nud which 1 have uot yot seen. In case you cannot make ready the said sum, in failing to send for the coat you will spare yourself useless trouble. Yours, etc , ‘ Durand.” “Brigand!” muttered Felicien, and passed on to the second letter: Sir : I have received your two bills, amounting joiutly to live hundred francs, enclosed in your favor of to-day. Not only is the signature of the endors ers,permit me the expression,very faint, but you are doubtless well aware that the close of the year renders tanking operations, if not impossible, at least exceedingly difficult. Money has hid den itself, has taken to itself wings, has disappeared. Nevertheless, since I be lieve it will be agreeable to you, here are my propositions—l will say fur ther —here is my ultimatum: I will pay over to you two hundred francs cash, aud will reserve to myself the re maining three huudred francs for brok erage, commission, interests, suits, pro ceedings and costs of all sorts. More over, you will give me some boxes in the theatres wheu your friends have their pieces played, and some tickets to the opera bail, for Ernest, my nephew. “ Y’ours, etc., Vaillant.” “Infamous! ” muttered Felician, and passed tp the third letter, thus written : “I have received with surprise the unjustifiable letter which you have dared r to write to me. Do not forget in future sir, that lam sincerely attached toM. Delanoue, who is shortly to become my husband. To him and to him alone, belong all my thoughts, all my affections.” Felician did not stop to finish this letter, tearing it to pieces in hla rage. “ Her husband! shortly to become her huflband!” thought he aloud; “what th© deuce does she care for that fool! ’ J As he entered his chamber he fixed hie eyes mechanically on the hands of the clock. The two points seemed but one as they stood over the figure XII, •and already was heard the warning whirr-roftho wheelwork preparatory cEl)c lancastcr Jntdlujcna'v. VOLUME TO to striking. Felicien counted one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve. But in the short interval which separated the last two strokes, the sentence dictated by the table re-entered his mind, and he ai lowed himself to wish for the death of M. Durand, of M. Vaillant, and of M. Delanoue, the-ffiture husband of Mme. Deseranees. (* “Good heavens! Ihavemade myself as great a fool as the magician!” cried he, when he had formed this triply homicidal wish. He glanced through the ratrie, the evening journal, meanwhile smoking a cigar, undressed and went to bed, and was soon in profound slumber. The next day —which was the first of January—Felicien was awakened by the garcons of the bureau of adminis tration to which he was attached, if the drawing of a salary of two thousand four hundred franco a year was any proof of the fact. He distributed among them his little remaining change, which yielded to him in return an infinite quantity of salaams and genuflections. “ M. Felicien,” said one of these men, “M. the Director will receive his em ployees at two o’clock precise!y. There is no admittance except in white cravat and black coat.” The while cravat is worn by all the world—by those (if the lowest degree as well as those of the highest. A pocket handkerchief, a fine piece of paper, a fold of a curtain—the first thing that cornea to haud—aud your cravat is made. 11 i 3 equally necessary that a black coat should be of as easy construction ; but it is only the character in fantastic romance who dare to display themselves before the world clad in a dress coat made on the spur of the moment by pinning up the llaps of one’s frock coal. “ Very well,” sighed Felicien; “I must allow myself to he trampled under the cloven lioof of M. Yailluut; itcau’t be avoided. I will take the two hundred francs cash which he sees fit to oiler me, iuexchauge for my noteof livehun.lred ; I will give to that uureleuliug Duraud the seven louis and a half which he so imperiously demands; I will puton my new coat and «go to see tiie Director, aud there will remain fifty francs for spending-money. Who can tell hut this coat may be destined to melt the triple case of ice iu which is enclosed tue heart of my cruel widow ? ‘On the Influence of New Garments in Matters of Sentiment’ —a philosophical thesis, in which I will find material for a piquant octavo, on the publication of which, instead of being an insignifi cant government employee, I shall be come famous as a man of letters.” When he reached home toward six o’clock, the porter, already less polite than the preceding eveuiug, handed him a letter from M. the Director, containing a dismissal in due form. “Sir,” wrote the Director, “I have suspected for a long time that you were a revolutionist, a Voltairist, a free thinker. Your conduct on this import autday has confirmed all my suspicions. You alone, of all you colleagues, have dispensed with a mark of deference which, in'you, was an imperative duty. ‘•Be it known to you, therefore that I dispose of your place in favor of a v'cll bred young man, who is warmly recommended by an intimate friend. Dating from to-day, your presence is no longer required at the oftice of the ad ministration which 1 have tiie honor to direct.” “Where is my key?” demanded be licieu, overcome by this unexpected blow. The porter smiled with an air of at tempted shrewdness. “Monsieur knows very well where his key is,” said he, lowering liisvoice. “ If I knew, I should not ask for it,” replied Felicien in a surly tone. “ Parbku. . I have given it to a lady.” “What lady?” I “I do not know; she is veiled and | dressed in black.” i “And you have, given her my key without knowing her?” “ Ah, sir, one immediately perceives 1 how affairs stand,” parried the porter, | who had received five fraucs from the j unknown lady. | Felicien was amazed to recognize ! Mme. Desgrauges installed in his sit : ting-room, tranquilly warming her feet i before his fire. j “You here, madarae ?” cried he; “can ! I believe my eyes? After the letter 1 which you wrote me last evening ” “ Last evening I was engaged to be ! married,” interrupted Madame Des i granges. “ And to-day?” I “To day, lam free.” Felicien clung to the back of a sofa. “Free?” repeated he; “you are free?” “Last night, M. Delanoue blew out his brains, at the moment when the j clock was striking twelve; so lam told. ! Listen, Felicien, and do not interrupt me. 1 love you, but I would have died 1 ratiier than have confessed it, even in I my heart, while I was promised to ! another. You see what use I make of I my liberty. Now there is no one to ; come between us; and I hasten to you ! and say, ‘ My life isyours ; take it, for I ! give it to you.' Iu ten months you will j marry me, willyou not? I can therefore . speak to you as I would speak to my hus ; band. I am completely penniless. The ! suicideofM. Delanouemustbeattributed I to heavy losses which he met with at the j Bourse from time to time. Not only his I own fortune, but mine, which he bad ! already taken eharge of, was involved. I But what matters wealth when there is I such love as that which exists between j you and me, dear Felicien? You will i redouble your labor, that is all. I have 1 a daughter at school. I have told you j that she is nine years old ; the truth is, ! she has just entered her sixteenth year. - 1 She must .he married and portioned j forthwith. This care you will look to ; —you her second father. \ou will also j remember to render comfortable the Rapid flight alone snatched Felicien 1 () u {) f my parents, also involved from certain death. He llew rather ,j n ni y liuanciul ruin. Dear friend, than ran from the rue Bu’<;crc to the y OU twenty four years old, I rue 1 'ivienne —from the house of M. ; Know. As for me, 1 am tliirty- Vaillant to that of his tuilor. When he eight. And this difference of age is a opeued the door of the shop, lie was not j flure guarantee of our future happiness, a little surprised to hearclumorouH lam- j inall well-united households a direct entatioiis uttered by four children »f j j n g mind i 3 necessary, is indispensable, the tenderest age. The clerks and j will he the governing power, while workmen went and came in a-tate of you shall have the name of sovereign, bewilderment bordering upon idiocy.— ulH i we shall h4vo no revolutions to The tailor’s wife was breaking out iuto f ear> ” ahistericaisobbing, which boreastrong Felicien listened to this long dis resemblance to the pulls of a locomotive course without saying a word. Mme. about starting. Desgrauges. whom he had never before “What has happeued here?” was j seeu except iu full dress, a model of Felicien’s question to a clerk. ‘ neatness, with eyebrows penciled, face “Ah, sir, a dreadful misfortune! This powdered auu are in Piccadilly.’ “ Kirby Mallory, Jan. 23, ISI6. “ ' Dearest A. : 1 know you feel lor me as I do for vou, and perhaps I am better understood *thau I think. You have been, ever since I knew you, my best comforter, and will so remain, unless you grow tired of the office, which may well be.” “ ‘ January 25,151 G. “‘My Dearest Augusta: Shall I still be your sister? 1 must resign my rights to be so considered ; but I don’t think that will make any difference In the kindness I have so uniformly experienced from you.’ “ ‘Kirby Mallory,Februa6i£4' 1816. “‘My Dearest Augusta : You are de sired by your brother to ask if my father has acted with my coucnrrence in propos ing a separation. He has. It canuot be supposed that, in my present distressing situation, I am capable of stating in a de tailed manner the reasons which will not justify ibis measure, but compel me to take it; aud it never can be my wish to remem ber unnecessarily (st'c) those injuries for wliicu, however deep, I feel no resentment. I will now only recall to Lord Byron’s ruiud his avowed aud insurmountable aversion to the married state, and the desire and determination he has ex pressed ever since its commencement to free himself from that bondage, as find ing it quite insupportable, though candidly acknowledging that no effort ol duty or affection has been wanting on my part. He has too painfully convinced me that all these attempts to contribute toward his happiness were wholly useless, aud most unwelcome to him. I inclose this letter to my father, wishing it to receive his sauc tion. Ever yours most affectionately, “A. I. Byron. “ ‘February -1, 1816. “•I hope, my dear A , that vou would on no account withhold from your brother the letter which I sent yesterday, in an swer to yours written by his desire ; par ticularly as oue I have received from him self to day, renders it still more important that he should know tbe contents of that addressed to you. I am in haste, and not very well, yours most affectionately. J ’ “A. I. Byron.’ “ ‘Kirby Mallory, Feb. 14,151 G. “‘The preseui sutleriugs of all may yet be repaid ia blessiugs. Do not despair ab solutely, dearest; aud leave me but enough ol your interest to atford you any consola tion, by partaking of that sorrow which I urn most unhappy to cause thus uoinien tiouallv. You will be of my opinion here atter, audnt presentyour bitterest reproach would be\jrgiveu ; though Heaven knows you have considered me more than a thou sand would have done—more than any thing but my uffection for B , one most dear to you, could deserve. I must not remem ber these feelings. Farewell! God bless vou from thu bottom of my heart. J ’ •“ a. i. b; ” Few who ever heard of Lady Anne Barnard, her intellectual qualifications and her social position, will deny that her report of conversations with Lady Byron in ISIG, directly after the separa tion, on its cause or causes, is better de serving of attention than Mrs. Beecher Stowe's account of communications ou the same subject thirty years after wards. Lady Aune writes : Tho separation of Lord and Lady Byron astonished the world, which believod him a reformed man as to his habits, and a be calmed man us to his remorses. At that period a severe fit of illness had confined me to bed for two mouths. I heard of Lady Byron’s distress ; of the pains he took to give a harsh imprest >:i m her character to the world. 1 wro.c to her, and entreated her to come and let me see and hear her, if she coueeivfd my sympathy or counsel could be of any comfort to her. She came ; but what a tale was unfolded by this inter- , eating young creature who had so fondly : hoped to have made a young man of geni us and romance (as she supposed) happy ! They hud not been an hour in the carriage which conveyed them from the church when, breaking into a malignant sneer, ‘•Oh! what a dupe you have beeu to your im agination. llow is it possible a woman of your sense could form the wild hope ol re i forming me * Many are the tears you will i have to shed ere that plan isaceomplistaed. llt is euough for mo that you are my wife i for me to hate you : if you were the wife , of any other man I own you might have i charms,” Ac. I, who listened, wa*» aston ! ished. “ How could you go ou ul. jt this,” | said I, “ my dear? Why did you not re i turn to your father’s?” ‘'Because I had not i a conception he was in earnest; because I ! reckoned it a bad jest, and told him so— that my opinions of him were different from his of himself, olhcnvisc he would not find me by his side. He laughed it over when he saw me appear hurt, and I forget what had passed till forced to remember it. I believe he was pleased w’ith me, too, lor a little while. 1 supposed it had escaped his memory that I was his wife.” But she de scribed the happiuess they eDjoyed to have j been unequal uud perturbed. Her situa- I lion in a short time might have entitled her | to some tenderness, but she made no claim |on him for any. He sometimes reproached 1 her for the motives that had induced her to I marry .him—all was “ vanity, the vauity 1 of Miss' Millbaoke carrying the poißt ot re j formiug Lord Byron ! He always knew I her inducements ; her pride shut her eyes to I/us; he wished to build up his character j and his fortune; both were somewhat de ' ranged; she had a high Dame and would have a fortune worth his attention—let her look to that for his motives.” “ O Byron, Byron!” she said, “how you desolate me !” Ho would then accuse himself of being mad, and throw himself on the groand in a frenzy, which she believed was affected to conceal the coldness and mnlignity of his heart—an affectation which at that time never failed to meet with the tenderest commiseration. I could tind by some im- plications not followed up by me leßt she might have condemned herself afterwards for her involuntary disclosures, that be sbon attempted to corrupt her principles both with respect to her own conduct and her latitude for his. She saw the precipice on which she stood, and kept his sister with her as much as possible. He returned in the evenings from the haunts of vice, where he made her understand be had been, with manners so profligate ! “O, the wretch !” said I, “and had he no moments of re morse ?’’ “Sometimes he appeared to have them. One night, coming home from one of his lawless parties, he saw me so indig nantly collected, and bearing all with such a determined calmness, that a rush of re morse seemed to come over him; he called himself a monster, though his sisler was present, and threw him self in ugoDy at my feet. * I could not—no—l could not forgive him such in juries. He bad lost me forever !’ Aston ished at the return of yirtne, my tears, I believe, flowed over his face, and I said, ‘ Byron, all is forgotten ; never, never shall you hear or it more.’ He started np, and, folding his arms while he looked at me, burst into laughter. ‘ What do you mean T said I. ‘ Only a philosophical experiment, that’s all,’said he; ‘ I wished to ascertain the value of yoar resolutions.’ ” I need not say more of this prince of daplicity, except that varied wore his methods of ren dering her wretched, even to the last. When lovely little child was bom, and it was laid beside its mother on the bed, and he was informed “he might see his daughter,” after gazing at it with an exulting smile, this was the ejaculation that broke from him, “Obi what au implement of torture have 1 acquired in you!” This, we should have thought, com pletely disposes of the apeeihe charge, | and must be taken with many grains of allowance in its bearing on the gen- eral one. Byron admitted that his wife, who never would or conld understand him, might well have mistaken nis mystifications (for which he had a mor bid fancy) forinaanity. But the obvious conree, after having been taken in once or twice, was to let him see that he was Dlavine the fool to no purpose and to laugh at him. She should have gone on asshe began, when she told him that he was guilty of a bad jest. She might have said, an old oue, for it was a French roue of tbe ante-revolutionary period Lauzun or Biehelieu,who said ol his wife a month after his marriage, it she was another man’s wife, how fond I shonld still be of her!” Byron was annoyed atfindiDg that the lady’s maid was to travel in the same carriage; but tbe expression of annoyance on that account was the reverse of offensive, and the presence of the abigait (if she was present) affords an uuauswerable presumption that he said nothing of the kind attributed to him. (c) Again, may not the ejaculation that broke from him on tbe firet sight of his child have been identical with the re flection in his journal, “What a torture she may be to me ?” Or he may have meant nothing more than what he said of his cousin’s child, “She will grow up a beauty aud a plague.” A jest’s pros perity lie 3 in the ear of him who hears it. Lady Byron hadno taste for jesting at any time, and, with all her show ol candor, did not spars him in the relation of her wrongs. In the case of any other woman she or her friends would have been asked to explain why she kept her father and mother persistently in the dark ? Why she reserved a part of her case from “even" them ? Why she Bent her mother to London imperfectly in structed? Why she pursued a course a thousand times more damaging and an noying to Lord Byron than a direct and open charge? And (above ail) why she persisted in making a myßtery of her specific charge until bis death, his sis ter's death the destruction of his auto biography (in which she concurred) aud the lapse of time had destroyed all or most of the direct evidence in refuta tion of it? What she must have told her parents was more likely to shock and alarm them on her account than what she is asserted to have kept back. We cannot so much as imagine any thing that might be told to Dr. Lush iugton and not be told to them; and when she says in effect that if the iu sanity had been established she would not have resisted a reconciliation on his recovery, she implies that in such a con tingency the specific crime (whatever it was) would not have prevented her from returning to him. ut * * w w tv- * A. I. B. To tbe Hon. Dr. Lushington, R 3 we have said, re garding what passed between Lady Byron aud himself as a matter of pro fessional eoulidence, states that he never has revealed what passed aud never will. But surely the obligation to secrecy has been virtually cancelled by Lady Byron, who, during the last ten years of her life, had made no scruple of repeat ing the charge right and left to almost anybody who chose to listen to it. The following letter is one of many to • .e same purport that have been to the newspapers To the Editor of the Pall Mall Gazette fcjjß—Lady Noel Byron resided, on aud off, many years in Brighton, and her circle of friends coincided very closely with my own. For most of these years I hoard but of one crime of which she accused her dead husband, but latterly of two which need not be named. Six or seven persons more or less known to me received hercommunica tions, three of whom were Americans. Her communications were Dot given as secrets, but, on the contrarv, as facts to be used for the defence of her conduct, character, or memory. Some of these persons received them as Mrs. Beecher Stowo did—tbe Rev. Frederick Robertson for one; others thought “ her mind was touched upon the subject of the separation.” In 1547 one of her best friends asked me to talk with her on the liabilities to error of private judgment when deciding questions involving criminal charges which can be properly investigated only by public tribunals. No one, 1 told her, bad a right to repeat such charges, ex cept as decisions of c- urts of law. Her stories differed. Here narratives and memoranda were given away, light and left. The confidants who knew her best, her peculiarities, her troubles with her daughter, her elder grandson, her servants, never would have repeated her stories with pens aud types. They thought her mind was touched. Suspicions had become de lusions. Three of her friends, myselfbeing one, came separately to this conclusion. The sealed papers held by her trustees, if they contain the accusations she made, can only be records of her delusions ; for the charge she made most frequently is not capable of proof, and the charge Mrs. Stowe has pub lished is comparatively receut and utterly incredible. John Robertson. 12 Norfolk Road, Sept. 12, INiJ. The liev. Frauds Trench, after slat- ing, first, his conviction that any public revelation of the kind recently made would have been deemed most objec tionable by Lady Byron herself, pro ceeds in a letter to the Times Secondly, it is desirable to obviate the impression that Mrs. Beecher Stowe was anything like an exclusive or even raro de positary of the statement which she has made, so as to obtain any title to publica tion on this ueeouut. At many successive periods Lady Noel Byron had fully stated the cause of her separation to many of her relatives aud iulimdte friends. But in all these instances she knew whom she could trust; and, so far as I know, not ono of them, much to their houor, judgment aud propriety, has broken that profound silence and secrecy which, so far as the public is concerned, should have been continued forever. A secret is no loDger a secret when it is told at successive periods to mauy relatives and friends; and whatever liberties Lady Byron might take with Lord Byron’s character, we do not re cognize her right (except as an angel or on the angelic theory) to whisper away Mrs. Leigh’s. Mr. Trench, in a subsequent letter, disputes Mr. Robert son’s conclusion that Lady Byron was acting under adelusion ; butsurely this is the more charitable hypothesis, when we consider the frequency with which her damning revelations were volun teered, the extent to which theydiffered from one another and the variations with which the main charge was occa- sionally dished up. The story told as coming from her by a lady of unim peachable veracity was this: “That not only had Lord Byron confessed the charge, butthatthe partner of hisguilt, on the faith of a promise to be spared exposure, had delivered to Lady Byron a written and signed confession, which Lady Byron had forthwith deposited with the Lord Chancellor (Eldon) as a bar to an v future proceedings that might be taken by Lord Byron to obtain the custody of his daughter.” There can be no mistake in this instance, so far as our information is concerned. We are convinced that it was her story (or rather one of her stories), and, “like Aaron’s serpent, swallows up the rest.” To expatiate on its improbability would be to insult the reader's understanding. A written expression to avoid exposure or punishment would only be given when there was overwhelming evidence to convict. Judgaa are not in the habit of receiving ex parte statements in non* existingsuits. Lady Byron, by her own showing, broke faith. In all her other versions, so far as we are acquainted with them, she relies on what she calls Lord Byron’s confession, and makes not the remotest allusion to Mrs. Leigh’s. The story of the confession was cer tainly told prior to ISSI. It is impossi ble to fix precisely when Lady Byion threw off all restraint in her communi cations, as described by Mr. Robertson and Mr. Trench. In a letter to Miss (the Hon. Amelia) Murray in IS2O she writes: —“I hope to leave this world without having said a word that could damage anybody, so I must let people say what they will of me.” Her tongue, like Conrad’s sabre, “ made fast atone ment for its first delay:” and surely somebody was damaged by her words, oral and written, in 1810, or still more cruelly by , The Insignificant eye Which learns to wound with silenc3. Was not her husband damaged by her words when (in the September of that year) he wrote : The means were worthy and the end la won; I would not do by thee as thou hast done. Mr. Wm. Howitt, who had known her intimately, gives the following in stance of “a constitutional idiosyncrasy of a most peculiar kind, which rendered her, when under its influence, absolute ly and persistently unjust:” She was in great difficulty as to the selec tion of a master for her working school at Kirby Mallory. It was necessary for him to unite the very rarely united qualities of a thoroughly practical knowledge of the operations of agriculture and gardening with the education and information of an accomplished school master. Sheasked me to try and discover this rare, avia for her. I knew exactly such a man in Nottingham* 1 shire, who wasatthe same time thoroughly • honorable, trustworthy and fond of teaoh* log. At her earnest request I prevailed (n him to give up bis then comfortable post lion and accept her offer. For a time he was everything in her eyes that a man and a schoolmaster could be. She was contin ually epeaking of him when we met in the roost cordial terms. Butin the course, as I remember, of two or three years the poor fellow wrote to me in the utmost distress, saying that Lady Byron, without the slight est intimation of being in nuy way dissat isfied with him or with his management of the school, bad given him notice to quit.— He had entreated her to let him know what was the'cause of this sudden dismissal. She refused to give any, and he entreated me to write to her and endeavor to remove her displeasure, or to usceilain its cause. I felt, from what I had seen of Lady Byron before, that it was useless. I wrote to him, ‘ Remember Lord Byron ! If Lady Byron has taken it into her head that you shall go nothing will turn her. Go you must, and you had better prepare for it.” And the poor fellow, with a family of about G\e children and his situation tilled up, was turnod out into the world to'comparative ruin. One morning Lady Byron requested the attendance of the clergy man of Ham. He came obedient to her summous, and she immediately proceeded to expatiate on her unremitting kindues9 to her grand eon (Lord Ockham, now, deceas ed), the ungrateful return she had re ceived, and the infinity he had given her. After she hatTYun on in this strain till she had fairly run her self out, the clergyman ventured to sug gest that he did not see how he could be of auy use co her uuder the circumstan ces ; a proposition to which she assented, and then stiffly bowed him out. The pleasure of hearing herself talk on her own merits and sacrifices was apparent - )y her sole motive in sending for him. The solicitors of the representatives of Lady Byron have addres-ed a letter to the Times (September 2) distinctly repudiating and discrediting Mrs. Beecher Stowe,and stating that all Lady Byron’s manuscripts have been left to three trustees, who alone are authorized to makeuseofthem* asmightbejudged best for the interests of her grandchild ren.” Lord Wentworth, who wriLes under eyident restraint and embarrassment — as well he may, considering his conflict ing obligations to the memories of his maternal grandfather aud grand mother —has addressed a letter to the Pall Mall Gazelle, in which he says: About three years ago a manuscript in Lady Noel Byron’s handwriting was found among her papers, giving an account of some circumstances connected with her marriage, aud apparently intended for publication after her death ; but as this seemed not quite certain, no decision as to its publication was come to. In the event of a memoir being written, this manuscript might, perhaps be included, but hitherto it has not beeu proposed to publish any other matter about her separation. This statement iu Lady Byron’s own handwriting does not contain any accusa tion of so grave a nature as that which Mrs. Stowe asserts was told her, and Mrs. Siowti's story of the separation is incon sistent with what i have seen in various letters, etc., of Lady Byron’s. From this recapitulation it will be seen how matters stood when Mrs. BpecherStowe appeared upon the scene, and what are the real objections she has to meet. That Lady Byron repeated the charge to her is no justification or apol* ogy at all. Bhe would have found on inquiry, if she did not know already, that she was one among many deposi taries of the supposed secret; that, in point of fact, it was no secret at all; that, instead of trusting to an Americau lady of whom she knew comparatively little, Lady Byron had made careful provision for the posthumous vindication of her fame. Before taking aDy step in the matter, Mrs. BeecherStoweshould have placed herself in communication with the family. If, in defiance of all rules of propriety and taste, she was resolved on printing her story, she should have beeu severaly simple in herstatemenis, scrupulously accurate in her facts; reso 1 lutely self-denying in her comments and inferences. She has been the ex , act contrary; and the story in her ver ! sion is so colored, amplified and overlaid ! that it is utterly impossible todistiu ; guish what rests on Lady Byron's au thority from what has been added on other or no authority by Mrs. Stowe. The truthful aud probable bears about the same proportion to the fanciful anil improbable that FalstafFs bread bore to his sack; and if the charge rested exclu sively ou her article we should have adopted a much more suceinctand sum mary mode of dealing with it. t * * ~ The improbabilities of Mrs. Beecher Stowe's drama thickeu with the plot and culminate in the catastrophe. After quoting and inis-describing Lady By ron’s “remarks” of 1830, which she calls a letter, she goes on : Nothing more than this letter from Lady Byron is necessary to substantiate the fact that she did not leave her husband, but was dnVcufrom him—driven from him that he might iollow out the guilty infatuation that was consuming him, without being tortured by hei imploring face and by the silent power of her presence and her pray ers in his bouse. for a long timo before this she had seen little of him. On tho day of her departure she passed by the door of his room, and stopped to caress his favorite spauiel which was lying there; and she conferred t > n friend tho weakness of fooling a willingness to be something us humble as that poor little creature, might she only bo allowed !to remain anti wuteh over hitn. She went into the room where he ami the partner oi his sins were sitting together, Hnd said, “ Bvrmi, I come to say goodby, : ’ ojl'erint/ at the same time her hand. Lord Byron put his bands behind him, retreated 10 the mantelpiece, and looking uround on the tvyo that stood there, with a sarcastic smile paid, “ Wheu shall we three meet again ? ’ Lady Byron answered, *' In heaven, I trust.” And those wore her lust wurds to him on earth. Iti3 wonderful that even a seusatioual novelist should risk her reputathm upon such incongruities. Inteudiug to endow her heroine with alihumau aud some superhuman virtues she has for gotten a qualily essential to the true dignity of the sex. She has forgotten to endow her with self-respect. To represent her living for years or months on the same footing with Lord Byron and Mrs. Leigh, after the disclosure or discovery, or as much as tolerating Mrs. Leigh uuder her roof, was bad enough in all conscience, but to introduce tier seeking them out to take a kindly fare well aud give them a rendezvous iu heaven, would excite contempt if itdid not inspire incredulity. The scene is a moral impossibility. , Again, in one paragraph it is stated that the reactionof society brokeup the guilty intrigue ; in auother that Lady Byron made it a condition that the un happy partner of his sins should not fol.ow him out of England, and that the ruinous intrigue should be given up. The fact is, nothmgexistiug was broken up at all ; there was never a thought of Mrs. Leigh’s leaving England, with or without him; but she remained with him at Lady Byron’s request, and their correspondence {as we have shown) con tinued unaltered till his death, and his tenderest verses were addressed to her, •when, according to Mrs. Beechers Stowe's theory, “Oh, no, we never mention her,’ 7 should have been the burden of his song. The time for mak ing the one condition (which was never made) was when the revelation came “ in a manner which left no kind of room for doubt.” “ She had him in her power, and he stood at her mercy! ” Yet it was he who turned her out of doors, refused to take her proffered hand, kept the greater part of her fortune to him-.elf, com plained bitterly of her not speaking out, defied-her, ridiculed her, insulted her, and by the frequency of his domestic revelations in prose and verse provoked Curran’s sarcasm that “ he wept for the press and wiped his eyes with the pub lic.” . . .. The audacity of misrepresentation cannot be pushed farther than in the following passage On his death bed it is well known that he called his confidential English servant to him and said to him, “ Go to my wife and tell her * * * ” Here followed twenty minutes of indis tiact muttering?, in which the name of his wife, daughter and sister frequently oc curred. Suddenly he turned aud said, “ You will tell her all thi3—have you writ ten it down? ” “ My lord,” said his attendant, “ I really have not understood a word you have been saying.” “ 0 God ! ” said the dying man, ” then it is too late! ” and he never spoke more. The authentic report (Fletcher’s) runs thus On the same day, when he knew that be was dying, ho was most anxious to make Fletcher this old servant) understand his last wishes. The, servant asked whether he should bring pen and paper to takedown his words, “Oh, no,” he said, “it is now nearly over. Qo to my sister—tell her. Go to Lady Byron ; yon will Bee her, and say J3is voice faltered. and he contin ued to mutter to himself for nearly twenty micnte3 with much earnestness of manner, but in such a tone that only a few words could be distinguished. These too were only names.—“ Augusta,” “Ada,” “Hob house,” “Kinnaird." Hethensaid, “Now I baye told you all.” "My lord,” said Fletcher, “I have not understood a word your lordship has been saying.” “ Not uuderstand me?” exclaimed Byron, with a look of the utmost distress ; ** what a pity ! Then it is too late ; all is over.” “I hope no',” answered FMcber, “but the Lord’s will le donV’ “Yes; not mine,” said Byrou. He then tried to utter a lew words of which none wereintelligibleexcept “My sister—my cAt'W.” That the'wild turkey id migratory is totally erroneous. They certainly do change their residences, but this Is in* variably caused by want of food in the old locality they inhabited, or a super abundance being obtainable elsewhere. Iu a country of such gigantic magnitude as America such frequently occurs, and the influx of these birds into the tem porarily productive neighborhood is often wonderfully numerous. From north, southeast and west they steadily push for the goal, aud with such inde fatigable perseverance that frequently on their arrival they are so prostrated by fatigue that they fall au easy prey to sticks and stones hurled at them by youngsters aud farm laborers. On these traveling expeditions their legs are made use of as the principal means of locomotion; but if a largo aud widestream should iuterveue. then they ascend to the highest limbs of the mar ginal trees, from whence they wing their way to the other side. On such occasions it is not unusual for some of the young birds to fall into the river, but they are excellent and rapid swim mers, aud soon regain trrra firma. After performing such a crossing as above narrated, whether it be as a man ner of testifying their pleasure iu suc cessfully accomplishing a diflicull task I caunot say, but all appear temporarily seized with madness. They rush about flap their wings, spring into the air, anil perform a number of absurd antics quite ludicrous to the beholder. The birds of prey at this time are particularly atteu live to the effete and wornout, or to those whom au accident, such as the breaking of a limb, may have weakened. On the bauks of the Wabash, near its confluence with the White River, I witnessed two hawks make a most de termined assault upon a very large gobbler. The struggle was fiercely waged for nearly a quarter ot an hour. The turkey lought willi determined gallantry,and several times, . although oue or other of the lords <> r prey lixed itself upon its intended vie- , tim’s back, he mauaged to shake them j ofl', but from being pinioned he must l ultimately have succumbed had I not , interfered to save the veteran. In Southern Illinois I resided for some time upon a rise of hilly laud ; this tableau was übout a mile and u quarter long, and nearly a mile wide ; it was intersected by ravines and water courses, the whole being covered with heavy timber aud brush, except liliy or more acres cleared for the purpose of cultivation. The surrounding country for teu or more miles was a dead level prairie subject toiuundation in Autumn aDd Spring. When the tlat lands be came overflowed, all game, far aud near, concentrated on these heights that sur rounded my residence. When such took place, few men had such a splendid preserve, or could show’ such a variety of game in an hour’s tramp. Deer, wild turkeys, Virginian partridge, prairie fowl, hares, water fowl and even wood cock would flush on all sides, while the crafty fox, frolicksome raccoon, cunning possum, plucky woodchuck aud hand some coated minx, all flooded out of their further retreats, glided or peeped from behind logs and roots at the passer by, anxious for their presence to remain unknown. While residiog here, 1 had • i i ,i Jan old hound, almost blind and perfect tufkefthrmo“t T w^ j s"; £. r i m their award,) viz . “ hMlJfl i ticulir good, once laid on a trail lie the largest, it is without doubt the tin- „ not f orsa , ie it. The first day after tst of all the Gallinaceans for table use, j water hali r j 9eni with him as com again, it is almost always in condition, . j weu t out to get some venison ; and lastly from their wariness, and the j f I m j nu t e s' walk the houud struck difficulty to approach and afierwards troil aull not beill g possessed from his shoot them, brum its hem,, exceeding ] OKe with greater speed than Icould keep ly swift aud c| ever on _ th ®| i if? L lcTin'v lup with, X followed in close attendance, as strong on the wing, alike’select g ' had buckshot iu each barrel; timber or ground for its retreats, every y h , .. , we descended t 0 the sense of the sportsman must be oni the marcjn of tbe water whe[l> from among ey sfius h e d , U an til* tho ?or- tune** ‘ ertiug alibis skill, return nt night un- brace with my left barrel, successful, heart-sick aud footsore, al- Ou a particularly wet day in the though his range had been through a month of November I weut on horse beat known to abound with the desired back to see what was going on among the game that frequented a piece ot ° The male bird, which is always the heavily-timbered bottom land a few handsomer in plumage, is seldom over miles oil'. No frost thus far in the sea twenty-four pounds, while the female bou bad occurred, so that the Indian does not often exceed one-half this corn or maize was green aud ungather weicht. The color of the feathers is a ed. Dripping from head to foot, by sooty black, with a metallic lustrous coming iu contact with the wet brush, shade perceptible on the breast, should- I was commencing to believe f “ era and back, which is seen in almost enthusiastic fool. The cow-path that 1 all lights. Their wings have a percep- followed led along the edge of a corn tible mottled marking, as well as the field, one of those fields apparently tail which sets ofl’ to advantage the cleared for a freak, or to denote posses otherwise sombre hue of the body.— sion. tfor no residence was near. On Their walk, when conscious of security, rising my eyes I perceived a turkey cock is upright aud bold, and their demeau- come from the direction of the cornfield or that of proud dignity ; but if alarm- and halt on the road ; a moment more a ed should they run instead of taking second joined him, soou followed by towing their necks are stretched for- others, till there were upwards of fit ward and the body depressed, wheu teen or twenty. My nag I had reined the rapidity with which they use their | up, and he stood as still as desired ; a lees soon carries them beyond the range ' moment I kuew would put all to flight, of vision. i and the horse 1 then strode would not Their enemies are numerous, the fox, I permit me to shoot oil him. A snap bav linx and great horned owl being ahot was all 1 could hope for; and how the most dreaded ; at the same time the splendidly the birds were aligned, one raccoon minx aud weasel, aud even beyond the other! A steady aim and house dog, do not lose an opportunity of five or six must fall. Imperceptibly i killing the wild turkey wheu occasion dropped my reinsaml got my gun reai.y oilers. The domestic cat, which fre- for a sudden pitch to the shoulder; nuentlv becomes wild from neglect or a gradually as this was done, my horse rovimr disposition, may also be counted commenced to shake his head, a sign I amou* their bitterest foes. All know well knew foretold that he was aware what “havoc this diminutive tiger can of what was coming. At length, feeling make in our home preserves: emigru- ready, up weut my guu, and up went lion across the Atlantic has altered my horse ; the former sent the contents either its disposition or lovoof carnage, of the barrel to heaven, the latter very In the month of February or March nearly sent me to mother earth ; alight the wild turkeys mate; the exact date seat saved mu the indignity. Rut my is governed by latitude and the ad- troubles were not over; the horse gut vance of the season ; the sexes remaiu Ids head down and dashed ofl’ through ogether aboutsix weeks, when the hen 1 the wemis, until 1 recovered the reins wauders oil’ from her lord to form a l and got a pull on his head, nest and commence laying. The reuson | wus once my fortune to shoot a ' for this course of conduct is that t l, e j nurn jj t . r of turkeys over a favorite setter, 1 cock is a most unnatural sire, that his Aa iL i!S all utl usual occurrence for these embryo progeny would not be safe if be j b i r( j d to lay iu front of a dog, I will nar was cognizaut of their hiding place, so ! rale bow j t happened. In the western the lady carefully secretes her material | p ort j on 0 f the .State of Missouri, I was treasures from his view. The eggs vary ( re turuing oue eveniug from ten to fifteen, according to the age ; p rair j e fowl in the month of October; of the parent; after the full comple lbe aea3()U had been warm and mild, ment has been laid, they are sat upon 1 consequently few of the leaves had yet with the moat indefatigable persever- 1 f a jj etJ> As the huh dipped the western auce, hunger alone compelling the bird horizon I reached the timber land on my to leave her nest for a few’ minutes relurn home, with a heavy bag. On daily, when she carefully covers all the . p a a a j uy r a shanty about a mile from my eggs with dry leaves, tobidethem from | temporary residence, the occupant, a the prying jays aud crows, ever ou the ! w hiuw, informed me that it was to be qui rive to satisfy their appetites cn so j regretted that I had not beeu a few dainty a repast. On return to the nest ■ Jnutes’ sooner, us .she hail seen a large the hen turkey carefully removes aU j j| oc k o-f wild turkeys on the c-dge of her the leaves, and agaiu reseats herself lor j diminutive garden; dismounting, I tied four aud twenty hours. For four weeks ; U p m y horse aud the least reliable dog, , this monotonous duty continues, wlieu i taking the other, gave him the' the little ones chip theirshell and burst j In a few moments he drew’ aud | forth capable from the first of using came to a set; on advancing, a single l iheir’legs and following their parents. pushed, which I cut down, and ere | With the greatest tenderness and care | j bat j bagged one several were lj ing on the little family are nurtured ; the most : tbe ground hors dc ••ombnt. productive feeding grounds are sought j have heard of bimilarcircumstances for their retreat, and every titbit that tTans . l j r j n n r but lam ltd to believe my the experience of the old bird detects is j uc j. wa3 { . aU3tM i by the appearance of a divided between her numerous pro- j hawk that was hovering io the geny ; and should a suspicious or dan- .° - t iisSSfllil the heavy and cold Spring showed, and ia to cal them up by imitating the yelp the nightly dews, nil rlceivo shelter ing of the female; a hone from oue of under her ample wing*. By Septem- tlm bird's wings nr a olmcco pipe a her the brood aretwo-thirds grown, aud generally employed lor the purpose | oer ineuiuu .ipvtpritv select the shooter is well hid, often several, fly with c lartre trees can beshot before they become alarmed. Zeto U&temforthffr JosUngUce* Weil,. I was yelping as this perform- , There they sit in a row, apparently con- anco is familiarly culled , and, after i lu scious of Safety, but the wakeful old exercise of considerable patience, quite | lady hM not neglected to make use of a dozen old cocks made their appear- ( previous experience; her watchful eye ance. When within easy range, my and ear ever remaiu on the alert, and rifle cut one of tho gallants o\ei, u hen the approach of a hunter or a predatory 11,6 remainder of li s comrades attacked anlmaF s notified to the children, who the struggling victim ami pecked nut auiumi i» u .. . rrnn.l re- whatever of )ife might be ieft. ihe too frequent y . . fury they displayed towards their com ceive such mforma mu with apathy . tllo ferocity wiLh > About the period of tho year when whicblU assaulted him may bo more ■ the beech nuts commence to fall tie ea3 jjy imagined than described, sexes reunite. At the same time, if a . .. . . ~ , . hen has a sickly or backward child, A favorite foediug-jilneo of wild tur with care and watchfulness she keeps it keys Is along the vnrluus linea of rail close to herself, aud as far as possible road that bisect their liauuts I from the from the old males. The food of the trucks quantities of grain pridmhly full, wild turkey is composed of grain and doubtless the attractlou. X rnm esso in,ects and fruits. Ait the wild berries c ation they become so accuslomed to and many of the nuts are favorite diet, the train that, although the mnattlmld but the papaw is supposed to be the of birds, they will do scarcely more tban most attractive. If turkeys frequent a step out of the way to savo themselves neighborhood, and there should be a from being run over, grove of papaws near, at the time the In severe frosty weather, when enow fruit is ripe the sportsman at morning covers the surface of the country, tur and evening will not fail to be reward- keys will remain on tho roost tho entire ed by several shots, if he secrete himself day. On such occasloua thoy select with due attention to wind. Another the highest trees freo of bruuohea.— attraction which Is irresistible to these When so situated, they are moro than birds is the bean of the catalpa. This 1 usually suspicious of danger, aud tlio Will Mrs. Beecher Stowe have the goodness to explain why “Go to my sister —tell her," the four names begin ning with "Augusta," andhisconclud ing words, "My sister, my child,” are suppressed? or why “You will tell her all this" is interpolated ? except to make it appear that Lady Byron was the sole object of his dying thoughts—which •she was not, nor even the principal ob ject—or to suggest (as would seem from what goes before in the magazine) that the message to her expressed repentance for thecrimewhich liadseparated them. It is difficult to conceive anything more offensive or in worse taste than the paragraphs relating to Lady Love lace, or the wretched ciut by which what ought to be a plain narrative is defaced : Aa a mother her (Lady Byron’s) course was embarrassed by peculiar trials. Her daughter Inherited from the father not ouly brilliant talents, but a restlessness and mor bid sensibility which might be too surely traced to the storms and ogitutious of the period in which she was born. It was neces sary to bring her up in ignorance of the true history of her mother's life, and tbo conse quence was that she could not fully under stand that mother. During her early girl hood her career was a source of more anx iety than of comforts. In other words, Lady Byron did not get on much better with her daughter lhan with her husband or her eldest grandson, aud for thesame reason. Sbe could not understand characters so dif ferent from her own. The daughter learned euough of the family history to come to tiie conclusion (which she de cidedly expressed to Mr. Fonblanque) that the sole cause of the separation was incompatibility. It will not be forgot** ten that she was christened Augusta Ada. The Wild Turkey. When the continent of North Amer ica was discovered, the wild turkey was to be fouud in the greatest abundance all over the country,, from the Gulf of Mexico to the great lakes, and from the Atlantic to the upper waters of the eastward -flowing rivers. But at the pres ent time, from the increase of popula tion and the clearing up of wild laud, the same causes which have ex term in at edsome.and much reducedotber descrip tions of game, the haunts of the wild turkey have become much circum scribed. In the southern portion of the State of Illinois, where timber still retrains abundant, and where from the mild ness of the seasons vegetation is re markably dense, where on every baud magnificent giant rivers intersect the landscape, stilly and tranquilly -flowing to the all-absorbing giant Mississippi, this noble game is still to be found abundaut. It was in this locality I studied their habits, learned their ec centricities, admired their cunning, watching them day and night, till I al most believed I knew the import of every note uttered by the respective sexes. NUMBER 16 baautiful tree ia found in the vicinity of nearly all water courses where repeat ed inundations have left a deep al luvial deposit. The bean, which re sembles the locust, drops in Autumn, as soon as the dry weather parches the external covering, aud all the denizens of the forest, whether bird-or beast, hurry alike to eDjoy the luscious re past. BATE OF ADVERTISING. JUBiaras 'ADvximsMxicre, 813 a year p<* Snare of ten lines; $6 per year for eachac;* ltlonol square. EBTA.TX abvebsibxso, io conta'a line for. the Ural, and 5 cents for each subsequent in-, sertlon. Advehtisino 7cents a lino for the first, and 4 cents for each subsequent inser tion. Special Notices Inserted tn Local Column 15 cents per line. Special Notices preceding marriages afid deaths, 10 cents per lino for first insertion* and 5 cents forevery subsequent insertion*! LEGAL AKD OTHfcB NOTICES— Executors' -.otlces..-..^....,-... Administrators' notices, . Assignees’ n0tice5................. Auditors’ notices, Other “Notices,'*ton lines, or less, „ three times,...— 1.50 sportsman may save himself the troublo of endeavoriug to obtain a shot. On the other band, if a favor!to roost has been found out, visit it of a misty, foggy night in Au turan when the moon is full, and nearly all may be killed in rotation, provided the lower birds are sbot first. Their manner of avoiding the attacks of the great horned owl is novel in the extreme. As I have never been eye witness to their modus opcrandi under such circumstances, I will duaorib-* them from information I received. — When the owl swoops at tho roosting bird, the attacked throws its tall, ex tended to full breadth, over its back and leans forward ; the foe glances oft .this inclined plain, and before tho assailant has recovered himself the turkey has dropped down from its perch into the surrounding brush. The male wild turkey is much covet ed by breeders of poultry, as he is con sidered more prolific and the producer of a hardier race than the tamo bird; also, the progeuy thusobtained grow to an unusual size. In lowa I was struck with the excessive weight of mauy of the turkeys in a friend’s yard ; ull of them he assured me, descended of a wild father. — y. Y. Citizen. Meeting ofFrcNbytcrlc.n Assemblies. Pittsburg, Nov. 10.—Tho adjourned meeting of the general nssem biles ot the Old mid New School Presbyteriau churches which mot in New York in May huve con vened iu this city. In Iho Old School as sembly tlu* proceedings were opened wnli prayer by the moderator, Kuv. W. M. Jacobus. The roll was called, and one hun dred and eighty six cornmNsloners were present. Atler devotional exercises it was resolved that in ibe absence of principals al ternates ba admitted to beats. l)r. Mils grave moved that all rnuMers nqutring tho concurrence of both assetnbli«H bo relerred to the eommitleo on conference. Senator Drake, of Missouri, read tho report ol cauii mitiee appointed to investigate tlioditticul ti« s in connection with the seminury of tho northwest, at Chicago, congratulating tho assembly ou its amicable adjustment.-- The report recommends that l)r. Willis S. Ivord be retained in the M’Cormick chair of systematic theology, uud that Cyrus G. M’Ooruiiek bo released upon pay ment of the fourth instalment of $2o.00l) of bis gilt of SIOO,UUC to the institution, uud bo be re garded us having lulliUed his obligation'--, and that tho three trustees elected by tins assembly bo requested to resign, and their places filled by persons acceptable to all parties. Dr. Musgruve, of tho joint com mittee of union between the old school and new school and tho united Presbyterian churches, repoitod that tho meeting ol tho eommilteo in Pittsburg iu August adjourn ed sine dic r contrary to request, and that an other meeting had boon asked by represen tatives of tho old und now schools, but Dr. Pressley declined 10 consent to any further consultation on the subject. Tho following resolutions were passed : Ilcxolvcd, Thai rejoicing in the immedi ate reunion of tho two Presoytorian bodies so long sopemlod, wo would gladly hail a Presbyteriau union embracing all brunches ; of tho Presbyterian family holding (n the same confession of faith and form of gov ernment. Jteaolvetl, That until such desirable uuion be accomplished wo will gladly welcome to our church connecliou nil congregations, pastors and members embracing doctrines of confession. Hexolvctl, That all uniting with us may freely enjoy tbo privilege of using Mich songs of praise to Almighty Clod us their consciences dictate, as, iudeod, is already allowed in the several congregations now in our communion. The new school general assembly met in tho third church ami was called to order by the moderator, Key, P. H. Fowler After devotional exorcises the stated clerk reported that tho whole numberof Presby teries connected with tho body had voted favorably with tho union, ouo hundred unanimously and three with one dissent ing vole each. Dr. Adams led the-prayer of thanksgiving. A committee was ap pointed to inform other assemblies of this result. In tho afternoon session a small amount of unfinished business of the May session wus disposed of. In tho evening a large union prayer meeting of two assem blies was hold in tho third church. Fire iu Camden, X. J Pini.ADEi.rHiA, Nov. it.— l'urly this morning a lire broke out in a row of nine frame dwellings situated on Point street, Camden. The buildings were the property of Garrison, Gllliughuxh it Co., uud were occupied by the hands workiug in the mill of that timi. Tho lire was first discovered in house No. 413, occupied by John Fox and William Elliott. Tho cause ol tho lire is supposed to huvo been a defective line. Tho family, in their endeavera to slop the pro gress of tho Humes, were nil more or less burned; and when at last they found that the buildingcould not bo saved, it was too lato to remove the furniture, all of which was lost. Mr. Elliott was badly burned, also his wife and five children. His aged mother was thrown from the second sloiy ' window, and received injuries and burns. Sbo is so badly injured that her recovery is not thought possible. Tho Harms spread rapidly to the whole block, all of which is a total wreck. It wan first discovered about two o’clock and by five nothing re mained. Mr. Woodrow, residing at No. 410, It-j-t Ibo whole of his furniture. Tho families in the other houses escaped uninjured, ami saved most of their property. Tho loss is estimated to bo about $O,OOO, ono-hul I cover • ed by insurance. The proprietors and citi zens of Camden are taking every care ol the sutrerers, and contributions tiro being received for their relief. A tire in Camden ut the present time may become very ex tensive, the tire department being in 11 very disorganized stato. Tho volunteer depart ment is mostly disbanded, and the paid department is not yet in working order. ()l the four volunteer companies only two were In active service, one having sold their carriage and another their hose. A scarcity of water was also felt, owing to the insuflicient siz-s of wutor pipes. Tronblc Anionc Medical t- tudent*. The Ledger has the following account of a recent dilllctilty between male and female medical students at the Pennsylvania Hos pital in Philadelphia: When tho classes were dismissed, rho male students, numbering between two and three hundred, left the lecture room in ad vance of the ladies, and ranged tliemselvi-i along the foot-walks leading trom the Hos pital buildings, inside the enclosu’p, to tie* Hrghth street gate. At this point, several propositions were mudo by the male stu dents to “give tho women three cheers ' when they should pass along, to “give them a round of applause,” “to take oil' I their bats,” t thought that any great body of Jew were of this progressive faith, and pet here right on tho heels of a great liberal li.tb binieal Council in Europe, we have a American one, in which distinctive Jinis' ism is reformed away altogether. Heine’ praj’ers are abolished as unlnltdligibb tho law of Moses Is declared to law had only a temporary authority, il doctrines of the Messiah and < the restoration of Israel are spirt utilized Into vagueness, and l\V some. d« tie itlveiy abandoned. U is plain from th: that the day of Jewish seclusion Inovct. The '‘peculiar people” are giving up tin greatest peculiarity, that ol holding tuts ail their religious traditions. U Is the o story of the traveller’s cloak over ag.n Tho cold winds of porNecuttan and o i tumoly havo blustered In vatu tor two th - sand years lotear their lollgnut* xeMuwn from the Jews. They only wrapped the; selves tho olosor m them to AhteUl th.n selves from tho storm. Hut to the nte toeutb eentury the ium el tMw'poiUv at religious loUmitlon has shelve on t Hebrews hut a little while, and thc.x » already throwing otV their ohv*k* ot'vh, own freewill. Pretty »vsm they will men | into the mans of thetv eoxiUlt vmen, amt Ino longer Jew and llotvtilo, hot on American oUUoua.— Now Hampshire has decided egalns prohibitory Ihjuor net, by a huge tu.\t>nt In a Ughl'pnpuUvr vote. The following uio somool the pllnelj artloloa exported iretu Iheetty ot Plitlad pltia during the month of Octobers Pen leutn, a gallons; bread, iojv.ln .* lard, pta,Kki dm; tallow,JJliyiM do 5 tv 101.g.-i0 ilo. ; oil I’liUo. WW-UI >'"• ! r>'‘ k > J KlWilo. | ’Aia.. 1.1 v' OS2 lutrroU. nml corlum'ul, do. *" »' nil thowlwn* wnmout U> Liverpool, I'oW nml lioiulomlorry.