~, HE LANCASTER INTELIAGENCER, PIII3LIBITILD EVERY WNDMISDAY BY H. G. SMITH et CO A. J. STEINMAN 1..AA:4--Two Dollars per annum payable n all canes In advance. THE LANCASTER DAILY INTELLIGENCER II uldished every evening, Sunday excepted, at 5 per annum In advance. OFFICE -SOUTIINVEST CORNER OF CENTRE QUARE. Vortyp. Tit emusTnws All the year long tile ',Mutt gives light And nudist, a silver day of night ; lint once a year Site Meeting more near,— ehuws olght her neadnist tare, And tills the aky with I vanillin grave, - 11 H }turd 111 tell when day le d de). :del night dow Into one, • Att Heaven shines downward whilv, And lights IN with Its 14.1uNtant ,11110; lad once IL year It draws more !tear; Wide open standm the shl hint.; door, Willt ult.:dux of light h e h,r,•: And all across thallt glitapses Iteet of upper Joys and radiant rcut. .TIN ever AO sl urrloVe Lroke thri,ll \ tot doa'❑ the W 104.1111114 Silalso , ili yvnr lur Lord neat': I"! 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Iu I Y 22 hi' NV;LN Lydia 1111alip, a lady td' wally pi.r.oil:tl The 1 . 1111c)\1111V extrwt film! a It•iter ‘vritteri In nap'', in twtolaa., hdrovtimiale la•garli "II was thirty-six years tg pistol!. taunted your titiratint. 1110 nettly lights and shatimrs hav e Ilillyd by daring those eventful years! lime niany. itlys \'‘,l•lli lhelr ill 11111•111. 0, •liilw many poig nant nail itinitterithlegriershaelitiallseti Illy 'Wall 1.0 itagnish too ter tilde ct . Hiatt heaven leas dealt Wi• have learned lit leitionther that this is nut. an 'altitling eity: Ull4lllllll. HIV luyrd and Lite lust, whit have gime litiftwe us, will toil ret turn, tit us, luta we sludl Ru Is them. 'this marriage 11.7 . 111 a. 1 . 111, wile, 1111i1 'WI' relatives Imyr over Lreu as d+ar lit :IS lily II." A hcattiiitil wrilk•ii din's :Hid I 1111 it'll I'l I " /.1/r 1 if I I t / ill• I lain Sit t' Aft, v i ew „t• the Itiany eNpenses or a legal education, he Ili:vide:l to engage l'or a linty In theoc 4.iipation whirls lie had learned. Av eordiligly, in the Spring or Is:12, :it the soli:it:aim: 4.r t Clienango l'otinty, he removed there, and eonimenced the erection :urn small whirls he designed fora ,q4, t h. dr4..sin g w4.4.1-,•anlii4g-Amp. when ow building was partly closed, he NVaS olio day al \Volk upon it. Those who weer engaged tvith hint waived all 111111:Mal relieiellee in Ilia Illallller, anti that 1in...n . 111(41 deeply engaged in study. Suddenly he threw his hammer heltind a door, ex:dud:Mug, „ 'There, I shall never touell that again;" then, putting run his rural, 1,,, left:hehuiWiugwithout !uttering another word. Seeking his \vile, he informed ht r that he liad de ckled to leaVe the business in which he was engaged and to comniellee prepar ing l'or the legal lororessi:111. Willi in true drvuliun allki lolly :Lllll6llOll, she clicollraged hies in his ionljecl, assuring nun dust ho had I lie ability to sueeeed, and that she would make any saerilire to aid him. Ile 1211111101 to the 1:11Silleos or lea:•liing :wit surveying, employing every leisure moment in the study of Nv la, in this tray two or lit rev yearS away. \Vide intruding the Vari.illtil'ollrtS ill central \o\c YOrli ILS a witness, he made the acquaintance of the late Lot who, in those ;lays, was a resident or Nonvieli, N. V. Mr. 'lark Nvas eminent al the bay', awl widely distinguished in the politb•al, financial, and affairs ILiti..;-:Ltate. Ili, discerning and sagaci ous Wind disenVered in the young sur veyor abilities of the highest order. Learning that be to audy 111 W, encouraged him in the undertaking, invited him to pursue his studies in his ;Mice, generously offering any a , ,klatice in his power. 'rho iri.mt,hip of Lot cliak WILL the cireunistaime which led to the future ,-,llreeSS of Mr. Dicli•inson. Completing the necessitry arrange ments, he soon beratne astudent iu that gentleman's ollice, nuJ, tinder his -trwtious,rouuut•ner~l (be regular pros ecution of his studies. T. his surprise, t larl: in a feW days discovered that 11 is student had already msill red a V e ry et, rrel'i knowledge of the elementary pri tteiples 111 W, and Nv:ts well versed ill the rides of evident, that by devot inv a few IlliMt lIS to the study M . the lirih•tice, he would la; \yell qualified for his admission to the bar. lint there existed all th e \ s. :t y, o.hich seemed altno,t Ltit.iiiltuble. The rules ,if the SIIIIrt.IIII Court, at the time romired seven years' study in the (Wive of some practleing lawyer, berpre a silo lent could be ad mitted to his examination ; and although Dickinson had eirectually ptir sued legal studies at least three years, the was isinsidetTil by law as having now just Commenced his legal educAttion, not having studied areording to the rule of the t 'owl. Years must elapse before he could even be examined for his admis sion to the bar. " I am determined to persevere," said lie one day to Clark, after he had been in the office a few weeks; " though I hardly know how I shall sustain my self and faintly for so long a time, but . I believe there will be some way provi ded." " \'es, persevere, make yourself thor oughly acquainted with the practice and rules of the twirls ; when you have sue ceeded in this, I will see what else can be done Mr you," said Mr. ('lark. Accordingly, Dickinson applied him self to his studies as he was directed ; the business in the oilier Was extensive, and hence he had an opportunity to learn the practice from actual experi ence, as well as from the books. He did not neglect to review the common and statute law which he had previously read; in this way eight months passed awri—, when, one day, Mr ('lark said to him " r think you can now pass a very creditable examination." " I feel conlideni 'hat I can; but what will all this avail nr Mr. Clark informed :tim that the chief justicd sometimes suspended the rule and ad in i Red students cxgratia to their examination. " It is very rarely done, I know," he continued ; "but I have thought It best for you to acco pany me to Albany next week; the General Term will then be in session there; I will introduce you to Chief Justice Savage, with whom I believe I have some influence, and en deavor to induce him to give you an or der for your examination in the class 'which will be examined at that term." A newlterld of hope opened before Dickinsot-:his suggestion, and he eagerly a, d, to it. The first Konday of October, 1828, :0.)4t .3i-latttittet:-.;•'-..:.::::rftttietz.tivgcit.,c..', VOLUME 72 - saw Daniel S. Dickinson at Albany for the first time. He, who in a few years , was destined to return there—to enter' Its Senate chamber the gifted Senator, and, as the lieutenant-governor of the State, to become its dignified an I pre siding officer, and the profound states man, now, obscure and unknown, awaited with trembling hope the fiat which would place him upon the step ping-stone to all those honors. In the course of the day, Mr. Clark called at the rooms of Judge Savage ; after some general conversation, he said to him : " Judge, I have a student wino wish to have admitted to the class for examination this term." "'You know, Mr. Clark, that Ow clerk is the proper person to make the order for exanowiti.n students,” ',lid 111(- 1 Judge. " Ruh this is a ease, Judge, is here you alone have the power to make the order; isor, although he is a well-read student, he has not actually pursued his studies within the rule, but a little over eight months, told I desire that you will sus end the rule and give hint an order for his examination." A ,Thatle passed ttyt'r Ihr brow ill' Iht• J 11.11.!,•, :IS he listened to his request. '?lr. Clark,'" said he, " I should he most happy to oblige y o u 111 this ,/1' any other matter, but my duty will not per mit me to grant theorderyou desire. have d e ehl k l to, admit In/ 11101, sludenL In exautivaliva who have nut euulplicd will, rule. I have twousiowilly done so, I um sorry to -ay, where the ,q 11,4,111. was unworthy; unless it is a very extraordinary 1 . :1-0, ll not vary the rule again." " I eonsider this to he a very t•Xll'll,q -tlillnry Pa.°, or I cell:6111y - , 110111.1 not tune applied It• pm," said r. lark. "Theme k but one way fir me, and Ihal, is In rigidly adhere ht the maetice established by long 'nage," said the Judge. Well, Judge, will you hear the eft n sta ne,. under which the yowl:tin:oh la,nlol mi., 'Hake, "1 it will In. LISI•11.-s ; hilt 11l you, I will ; proceed Mr. Clark." "I propose that the young nom shall ' relate the eireunktances," said Mr. Clark. "I think thal is IttJt wortlt ,;till the .IttilLti•. • "Judge 4aVuge, I a.-1; a, a partiolliar l'aVor, that full st•t• and talk this Mall, and if, after that, .11:111 The .111.1g,0•011,viit,t1, 11.1111'11111111,1 . 1111e DielillSllll :1.111110 NVitil the Chief till' or t h e statoor Now Volt. Ile Uud tilt' 111,111'S of coning year,, rested the res uIL ”r that ; Hut( it lit , ri,itiesl Nett , denied, several weary years lutist (dap:Au before he could at lain that. goal Nvhich from lii., childhood he had S. ardently dosi rod to reach. His fritold had hirortioal hint that tio•re \vas Stine.h ull as tit and he entered the ilre,elll, of iii roan who was tit deride Ili, fate, I,ll,eittli that he was to plead his oNv II t•till , e, 81111 'nlllllllll/fled :till his soli-los.e.:ion :aid Illalllit/1111 to Iris Judge vuvu e trrrive l hitt' will' 11iitt I'lliirto.•tis dignity liar o hirh ho wit:: [ld nl uy 1/1 . WV, WWI ho " niti it thriitigh even 11 , 111 his cd . Ills early Je.ire In ,11I3• law, id hin ,ti.tiggle elaSSieal lI4PW, when the Ilay ' S laht,t Was 1/ver, he applied himself to his studies how, tvliiiii attending the carding ninepins, with his hoot: by his side, he lice:tine acquainted with the author:of antiqui ty—and how ht. Worketi out these prii hlents which gave him his It tioNvltitlge of iiitirviiying, and Low he coninieneed and continued the study of law, down hail, Onto when he lied iipealllo no .ll.lll.illtell With Mr. Clittik; but he melt. uo Itpre:ll fir sympathy; he rested his cause on the hare, unvarnished facts ; he answered promptly and respect rut ly all the numerous 41111 , 11011 , him by the Judge. The iiitereie‘‘ lasted an hour and a half, and when Dickinson left the roont, he carried. ht his hand the order for his admission to the class ~f students which were to be esamiuedthe ensuing eve ning. With a light and joyous heart, he returned to his hotel, where he found his friend anxiously waiting for hint. yuu -ueeced with !h e chief justice' . ' _Dickinson replied hy 11:m11 . '14410in the order ol Judge Savage. Clark rapidly. glanced over it. " You have won your lir,' great ease," said he, " and it is indeed a great ono; what is better, you won it yourself. you have stieeeeileil I have no hesitation to inform you that Judge Savage utter- ly declined to grant this order WI my request. ISM I did not dare inform you or it, fearing that you would lie dis couraged and refuse to undoe any fur- Ono . eiliirt." " I made nu part icularelrort, >I ti.t 'hub: : the Judge seemed willing enough to grant theorder. i related to him, in a plain way, the history of toy life, :11111 answered all his ilooaious as isir rectly as I 11 lit , NV " Exactly, sir: you will liaN't• the tal isman of seeress, the girdle described hy Houser, whieli gave tin invisible silver, I'ou were modest and unas suming, but deeply in earnest ; a strain ed ellint. wouldhave ruined your cause with the Judge. Now for your exami nation. Give this paper to the clerk, lie will enter your 'Mine (ill the list of stu dents to be examined; be on 1111151 111111 Logilorrow con Will lie a I:lNVyer," said That, day .1 Usti., gliil Lnt Chill: ling at a dinner given by an etn nent citizen of Albany, to the Judges and members of the hair. " Judge," said the latter, "I am luippy that you decided to grant niv student an "rile!: for Ids " 11v. in 11 young man of extraordinary abiliticLi, \1 r. Clark ; a person or Ivarli -1114. NVIly, sir, 1 isgisitler him a good lawyer already ; he will be an ornament to the profession, anti in a short time; he has the :thinly to make his marl: in the world , and lie steely Nv said the Judge. Massed a very crcilitable examination, and µan dilly ailigilttsl to the liar. Justice Savage left the bench of the Supreme limit in September, lis37, but before that event, Daniel S. I)iekiti son occupied :L seat with him ill till'. Court for the I iiirrect inn or Errors--then the highest tribunal in the State, and with :him adjudicated the great legal question null 1 . 11.1110 before it, and their opinions are committed In posterity in liaise reports which record the decisions of the New Vat_k courts. I! /mh /Poi. m saturday afternoon the long, event ful, bnlustrions, and singularly useful Ca reer of till` ary. Al beet ,Woes was brought to a sudden but screncly peaceful In company with his daughter, he had left his residence, at No. \Valuta street, %Vest Philadelphia, to pay it visit of condo lence to au attlieted family residing about a mile distant. Ile walked the entire dis tance, but soon after entering the house he lidl nick in his chair and ,spired without struggle or a word. Mr. Barnes was horn in Rome, N. Y. Deeember Ist, 119 s. lle graduated at Hamilton College iii 1521), and entered Princeton l'ollege the same your, lie ty /LS licensed to preach in April, 1121, and inn February, 1522, sn is ordained and installed as pastor of the Presbyterian Church, in Morristown, N.. 1, While there, one ,if his sermons was printed and attracted the :d -tendon of members of the First Presby terian Church, inn Philadelphia, then va cated by the retirement of the Rev. Dr. Wilson. In 1530, he accepted the charge of this church, and for forty years devoted himself with on wearying fidelity to its in terests. Daring the last two or three years the failiire of siglikat one time threatening to blindness, compelled his • retirement front the active pastorate of the church, and the Rev. llerriek Johnson, D. In, was elected pastor. ;But neither Mr. Barnes nor his people were willing to sever the old ties, and he retained his old relation to the congregation, being elected Pastor Emeritus, and preaching occasionally, up to as recent a period as the Sunday before his death. The death of Mr. Barnes makes a wide breach in the ranks of the divines of the Presbyterian Church, and inflicts a severe blow upon the largo circle of his parishion ers and more intimate friends. There was probably no clergyman in Philadelphia so widely known or so universally esteemed and respected as the Rev. Albert Barnes. The New York Globe wants Susan B. Anthony, Henry Ward Beecher, John Russell Young, Theodore Tilton and Horace Greeley to start a comic paper to take the place of Punchinello, just de ceased. The Newark Journal, on the other hand, thinks we will never have a comic paper that will live a year until we annex San Domingo and Mexico! The Robbery on Christmas Eve 'rile Earreqs Me,menavep. Story When my mate asked of me, last Christmas Eve, permission to remain with his family at the eastern end of our route, and not to make the tedious forty hours' journey towards the blue waters of the Pacific, on which I was about to start, I hail too much heart to refuse him.; He—Jo? Niel was his name —had a young bride and a younger babe and it was bard to separate them. True, our orders from the company were that both of us !should always jointly make the trip, fur we were tarrying large quantities of greenbacks and national notes, for the payment of the Pacific . railroad contractors; awl of course there was no lack of robbers who were awaiting every chance to clean out our trunks, and perhaps clean we poor mes sengers out of existence. Shortly before an express car had been entered on our line, and Bill Ilughes, the messenger, beaten almost to death, and his valuable charge taken ; and it was to guard against such future sur prises that a mate laid been given toe ; but Joe pleaded so hard to stay at home and explained to me so clearly a little plan of his own, whereby I could make the trip in safety alma', that I gave iu to his request, and hastened with him to set coo. little plan fu motion. Joe's brother, Ned, the engineer, was to run his engine for the first One hun dred miles of my journey, and he was to help in the plan. You see Ned was courting It younger sister of .1 iic's wife, and so it all being almost in the family, he was willing to don good deal to give Joe his Christmas at home. First, we went to the railroad superintendent, and gut his permission to take my through express tat out of the train and substitute therefor :1 grain tar. My tar was one of those kind with a passage outside, and doors in cavil end besides those at Lill' SUCH. This made it easier or attaclt, should robbers get on the train, IS the MUM -111110 of dams n• q uirvil a stricter guard against surprise, with all increase of danger. The grain car had only the two side doors, which looked from without, but hail two little grated windows for ven ihltOrS, uuc 111 etch (.1111, with wooden 911111 h•l's all the inside to HOSE., them up tightly. Ned was to lock nie iu, arid to 11111111 the Itey to the next engineer that cameo'', with some private instructions. \Veil, at 7 o'clock on Christina:4 eve !lie train was ready to start. (Mr ex - pn,is superintendent was down to see us off, anll noticed the chatigtsi rill but supposing the other to be out of repair, said not hing. Ile ‘vatelied nie place the valuable puckagt44 1 had received ill my ,1111' and iron chest, and then springing into the ear warned both .100 and my self la be very careful, as he had news that mischief was intended before long. (Ohts helping 010 in the ear so as to appear before the superintendeut to be going with me. Ned came and locked us in, Joe first kissing his wire, who Ivas on the phttrortn,good.by,and pretending fellmv -- that was SI, sorry he (0115 going away at 1 liristnias. :111011 110 the door was shut and inched Jac went through that on the oilier side, tirst planking me again for befriending 111111, and then I heard him lock the other door with the key Ned hall sent to him by his 1111.m:tn. NVe were oil . ' n a few moments, and I had time to look :wound and arrange may traps to 111alte the trip 115 14.111fOrtlIbi0 us posslblc.— 'l'here (1110 1111 receiving or handing out .r packages to lw done till the (lost morning, (111111 the 111.1 V engineer (0011111 I,llell my door. Ned 10011111 lellVe 11S about midnight, and till then, when he would look in upon me, 1 might myself as happy or :is miserable us 1 cllll,O. n less than an hour after leaving I had slung a hammock I carried with and hail turned in. The shutter over the forward ventilator-111y ear was next to the unginc--1. had closed down and fieitened it with a wedge, to keep the wind rriMi blowing iL open. The rear ventilator I left open, the little six by six hole, guarded by three iron liars, giVing Nonr I h/.1 slung my hammock, and then, with iny revolver in a box close to my hand, and with the bell roperunning just over my head, I surely was in safety, and dropped asleep. 1 tow long 1 slept I could not lilt he rone I awakened with a start as some thing passed over my mouth. It seem ed like it mouse or rat, but it left an overwhelming smell, a close, sulliica . tmg feeling, and before I could open my eyes to see clearly, or could come to lily senses, I was again asleep. Again I awoke, this time completely, lout with a fearful weight of oppression over lily eyes. My head ached, and I strove to place lily hand upon it. My hand would not obey my wish ; 1 unrest he paritlyZud ; it seemed as it' I Was yet dreaming; 1 111111 no power over head or limb. Another etrort I would nmke to shake (or this deadly feeling, but as I strove 11l turn in :my hammock, or to nit myself, something cold touches my forehead with a refresh' ng coil floss, and a grail' voice bids me lie quiet. I turn my head with intense dinicultY and pain, and I - see a Idack-visaged man standing over me. He repeats the in junction to he quiet. I trace his 111111 down towards my head, and see that it isa revolver, which is touching my tore head. In a half asleep, half foolish manner, I glanee at the deadly instru ment, and wonder what it cost, and whether it will shoot straight and into nib• brain should it bp fired. - The effects some drug are still working upon we and as I come inure to life, as it were, recognise the fumes of chloroform. Two other black-visaged men :ire busily sorting out my valuables,and are thro \\slog all dangerous howls and pa pers into 011 e turner Of the ear, while they are placing in bags the curreney and notes. The man watehing nn. speaks, and says: "No. 1, he is come to." No. I conies Cli,Se and looks at rne; Ile also is black visaged, made so, I now see, by a crape veil or mask. Without speaking, he returns to his work of sort ing the money. Having nothing else kMla, I look inare closely at myself thin Clink which cut deeply into my flesh, are tied around my wrists and ankles, while others tie me tightly to the hammock. I must, indeed, have been far gone in sleep, and deeply drugged, to have allowed this. The robbers evi dently mean me no harm, but how can I face the company after this rubbery How account for the absence of Joe, without bringing about his immediate diAnissal? As fur myself, it will be the old story. The papers will say 1 was it willing confederate, and submitted to being tied and roi - ilsal. I shall be im prisoned, perhaps for life. My poor wife and children Will be WiirSe [11:111 father No. 1, who is hard at work yet with his companion, ,ipening the bundles! :111,1 sorting out their contents, here fur ! the first little speaks. " We're nearing the hog tunnel, No. 2." he says, in a light, lisping voice. Even in my half' stupor 1 know that voice. If it is whom I think it is, his left arm is slightly • crooked, the palm of the hand turned nearly outwards. As he moves intothe light of the solitary lamp to glance at. some bonds I plainly see the turned hand. "]Sill Lane," I call, "won't you free my hands? this turd hurts me." With tt horrible oath he springs forward : " You've sealed your doom," he says; ''you must die now." I plead for life, for he has cast aside the crape and I see the devil in his eye. Bill used to be on our run as messenger, but a robbery occurred of which lie was sus pected of assisting in, or at least of al lowing himself to be robbed, and was discharged. But I plead in vain. The ,4,nspirators confer among themselves for a few mo ments, and then toy hammock is un hooked and thrown upon the floor and I am rolled up in it, and into an incred ible small space. The bundle Is then tied up tightly, and one of the robbers tries its weight. am slight of form, and he can easily lift the living bundle up, and throw it on his shoulder. How can they get me from the car? How they got in is as yet a mystery to me. ?The doors are locked on the outside, and could not be broken open with the train at full sped front without. As I Slie upon the floor, nearly sutlbcated and in fearful pain from my cramped position anti the tightness:of the ropes, Bill hisses in my ear, "We are going to throw you over the Rocky Run." Even death in the form of being cast a living bundle from the cars into the waters of the run, which we cross in a short time at an immense height, is preferable to the agony I am enduring. I think I prayed with all my soul then. I have prayed before going into battle, when expecting to be wrecked at sea, and at other times when my life was LANCASTER, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING JANUARY -1 1871 in danger, but I never prayed before I united them. Always cherishing an pit,—in an instant his powerful arm is think with all my soul. Then there was undiminished love for her only par- round its neck, jamming the beard's a chance of escape, here there was none. eat, this banishment from him wore throat in an Iron clasp between his side My senses quickened with the agony of on her, notwithstanding the rich con- , and elbow ; while with his right hand the moments, were wonderfully acute, pensation of such a husband's devo- ,he seizes its fore-paw, and holds the or else I was already in delirmin. I lion, and the new maternal love which brute as In a vice, lifting his voice at :he thought I heard voices at the forward their golden-haired boy awakened.— same moment in a wild cry for help,-• ventilator. I thought I heard him say What she feared came upon her I Her I And now begins a terrible struggle. No " Watch close and shoot if there is din- father died without leaving her even his time to snatch up the trusty axe which ger." Of course it was fancy, for the I pardon, and her feeble physique never has fallen just in front of is a train was going at full speed, and Ned quite recovered from the shock. Few I tug of sheer strength now. Tiu• Must be at his post on the engine. witnessed the strong grief of that mor- i erect ou his hind-legs, strains t.very Next I heard cautious footsteps on the ally strong woman. I saw her after her , nerve to tear himself free; once free, roof of my cur—probably, if anybody, first wrestling with the angel of sorrow, one strangling, gripe of Michael's throat i it was a brakesman going over the car and perceived that with the calm token j will pay for all. Hold on, U.S you lose to the engine for his lunch can, which of his blessing, still she dragged a main I your life ! though your joints crackle, was there keeping hot. Iby still pray- life. and your sinews start, and your head rig a few moments longer, then more swim dizzily, bold on stilf,—tighter, footsteps are plainly heard on the roof. .Al (lase-Quarters With a Wulf. tighter, tighter! And so, amid the This time I wins Mire there were two or "gray beast of the forest," as the i tomb-like shadows of the lonely forest, three persons. Ah, I forgot, no doubt, I old Norsemen used to call Will, has a I with the cold loom) looking Pitiless they were confederates watching out- ' sadly restricted reign now-a-days. In ly down upon it, does the dean side, while the three within did the France and Spain he appears but rare- , grapple proceed. That iron pre-sure plundering. All of a sudden the bell- / ly, and then, for the most part, in the is beginning to tell at last, - the pull overhead rattled as If energetically neighborhood of the Pyrenees ; and the , tierce yellow eyes arc growing rlim. pulled ; the engine whistled brakes, romantic tourist, who has long yearned 1 the hugh jaws writhe convulsively, and brakes, and I felt every brake on the for a chance of stuffing into his forth- ! from their edges the hot flukes of blood train was being put down to a purpose. coming book of travels an appropriate I and foam spurt over Michael's lace. The rubbers consulted for a moment, quotation from Macaulay : I But how long can that hold be mainl and then one said, "It is nothing, they Th e p i , en woe st yep and 1,14,11: mined ? Are not the strained musele , are stripping Mr a hot journal perhaps. Tit, won, c. lowl,l owd 1111111t,1 .. already yielding? the stiffened fingers Bill sprung to lire and pressing his re- is too often doomed to be grievously rlis- / already relaxing theirclutch? And the wirer hard against my body, hissed, :Ippointed. tin Switzerland, again, fse live stanch eornrades who would rush to " , Hi th e y run for y o u, sa y a ll right." lie- bpnpont, f ou l,. are almost unknown, the rescue if they but knew—where are lore I could reply, a rasping noise was except in the wilder parts of the (Iris- they Ine last despairing cry for aid , heard, followed by the report art pis- ow , :and , v , ll th e r e , th e en t er p r i s in g which the r•ehoes ril the lonely forest ton, and the fall of some heavy body sportsman, who has begun to vongratu- ' give back as if in mockery—and then / twross toy already overtaxed it'unne. I late himself tin having mei with "a i everything swims around him, shadows fainted. • real live wolf" at last, frequently dis- / dance before his eyes, a rushing, roar- When I cantle to Ned ‘vas chaffing my covers, with mingled relief and sound sweeps past him, there is 11 luunls, :and bolt a dozen men were rub- ' Ileation, that the huge gray ',east which I dull crash close to to his oar and hr falls bingluy swollen and chafed lindis,while comes slouching towal (I him through exhausted to the earth. brandy was being placed on my lips.— I the rising mist is merely a stray dog " Was fur yin " says the (Ire - Ned Ned was almost hysterical when I came ' from some outlying chalet. liut the I man, admiringly, tearing Ills reeking to, but the craziest of all was little Jack, boundless forests of Russia atileal t o I knife from the throat of the )monster, the wood passer or the engine, who kept this outcast from society a safe and emu- / whose skull Is literally shivered In' the shuting, "I shot him, I shot him," modirius lodging, rent. free, leaving him formidable hatche. som o e one knocked hint down to make only his food to think aboUt ; \Odell ' W'hen we lifted ts Michael, we found I him quiet. I latter he provides by midnight raids hini, to our astonishment, comph tidy Then It all came out. The robbers had I into the scattered villages, in quest of n I unwounded, though utterly agent been concealed on the rear of my ear, I stray sucking pig; 'r, better still, a Iris superhuman exertions. ills first act and had watched me through the grat- homeless dog t for his civilized on enuring to himself was sufficiently lug. On my going to sleep, a slender brother is always a tit-bit with " tatter characteristic. After crossing himself stick, with a sponge soaked in elder, Isegrint "'I or occasionally even by I devoutedly, and murmuringa few words form lit one end, had been placed , stopping belated travellers, brigand- of prayer, he staggered up to the spot , under wy nose, rousing me Isor a nut- fashion, o n the Czar's highway. N o rwhere the wolf lay dead, and, bending I ment but to send me into a deeper is he by any means so difficult or areeSS i over it, said with a taunting grin, "Non, sleep. Then with a tine saw aportion 1,1 as many imagine ; fin' hunger is a pox- I le•at, ya vlgral, Ado Well, liroth the end of the ear had been removed, erful pleader, aide to vanquish the er. woo, / ll ' Ithrough which they crept, and then I grained unsociability of this hereditary We rewarded the brave fellow as lie I closed it behind them. Ned :titer outlaw. Even here, in the iargest and deserved; but in the hope (if obtaining a while thought Ire would have a look most populous city but one in Russia, ' hint at further reward front the govern :ll me, so crawling over Ids engine hr one need only take a walk of ;Itree merit, we thought it best to publish the essayed to open the ventilated shutter ! nib's Into th e e nvir o n: a ft e r d a rk, t o , whole story in one ot' the local found Russian and peep through. Finding it fast he s e e ( lusters of pale s pots of light, I papers, whenee it soon after its looked through the hell-rope hole, ' like the dame of a half-extinguisbed way into the journals of the metropolis, • which happened hi l ie a l a r ge nor, and I coal, Lancing sWirtly all1011l; die trees, exciting thereby an interest in behalf of taking in matters at a glance, he had , and hear a long dr e ary wail, like tire / the hero, which is now I am glad 14.1 called little Jack to him, and handing , moan or Lila Wind 011 a gusty winter- learn) likely to bear abundant fruit. his revolver had given him the message night., going up through the still, frosty / - 11 / hail heard. Then crossing the car he air. Only the other day, I fell in with ' , had obtained the services or rho 000doo- a peasant who had acquired some re-' tor, brakesmen rural some willing pas- l flown by killing one of these n// , c,//,/rs sengers, and having surrounded as fur , rlu beouilluril barely a mile beyond the us they could a last-moving ear, he had r:akoluiki Barrier, which bounds .Nlos ulledthe bell and so signalled the lire- , e ms' tri the north ; nor is such a since by / man to stop. When Jack saw' Bill point any means exceptional. his revolver at one Ine thought lie arse Last DelielLiber, I happened to he on going to shoot one, so forcing the Ventil- I expectedly detained at a small outlaying sting shutter open he brought hill' I hunrloC in the Vilna district the name , with a well-aimed bullet, killing hint , which Ido not remember , , and al ; instantly. W e t oo k th e o th er t wo to a mo-t the first man I lighted upon there town on our route where justice was was a I lertnan engineer whom I had I *me them. They got thirty years free formerly k \vii at Konigsberg, and board. As for Neil, the e xpr es s folks who now insisted Upon Making Inc his I were vexed at first, but :IS I had Starer- guest till 1 emild get forward toward ed or much and pleaded hard for both Smolensk. \\'e sot latd over a very him and myself, we kept our old places I primitive supper, and my host who is :and still do. Christmas day I spent in a keen sportsman , jllst III:It:11g :It bell and :111,10 a few (lays afterwards get- the possibility of getting! up a hunt for thing well, but they brought nay wileand , de s truction of a wall' of uncommon fawns' to ow nod fart• so had- , size and strength, which had Intel ly The 111'1111nIngs' Courtship and Marriage mr,. E. I'. Kinney, in her article in P'B Mlllahly for Deceollier Hon., tells how Robert Browning wooed, and won It poet : By this time the reaction or hingour, after unwonted excitement, came over Mrs. Browning ; she fell pro , trate on the graas, where site lay With closed eyes, a stone nu. it pillow, like Jacob in his dream -and doubtless she hail a vis ion of the ladder on which the angels were descending and ascending as ner ministers. NVithilrawing a abort disc noice, so that our mellow voices might 1101 reach her, while lunch was being prepared under the trees, Robert Brown ing put on his talking-cap again and diseouraed to two delighted listeners, of her who slept. After expressing his joy at her enjoyment of the morning, the poet's soul took lire by its twit friction, and glowed by the brilliance of its theme. Knowing well that he was be fore fervent admirers Of his wife, he did not fear to speak of her genius,which he did almost with awe, losing himself so entirely in her glory that one could see that, he did out feel worthy to unloose her shoe-latchet, lintel' less to roll her Lis own. 'Phis led back to the birth of Lis first love for her, and then, without reserve, he told us the real story of that romance, "the coUrse or "true love never did run smooth." 'There have been several printed stories or the loves of Elizabeth and Robert Brown ing, and we had read some of these, but as the poet's own tale differed es sentially from the others, and as the divine genius of the heroine has return ed to it, native heaven, whilst her life on earth now belongs to posterity, it cannot tie a breavil of eon lidence to let the truth be known. Mr. Barreft, the father of Elizabeth, though himself a superior until, and capable of appreciat ing his gifted ehild, was; in some sense, all eccentric. He had :Lit unaecountable aVerSioll tO the idea of " marrying off" any of his children. Having wealth, a sumptuous house, and being a widower, he had somehow made up his mind to keep them all about him. Elizabeth, the eldest, hail been tin invalid 1 . 1,11111er eatly'youth, owing partly to the great which her exquisite nervous or ganization reeeived when she saw an idolized brother drown before tier eyes, without having the power to save him. riel at this event naturally threw her much within herself, while shatter- I (al health 11'pt her confined for years to her room. There she thought, studied, wrote; and from her sick chamber went forth the winged in spiration of her genius. 'Plies,' came into the heart it . Hobert Browning, :Ind nestling there awakened love rm. "The (treat Unknown," and he sought her out. Finding that the invalid did not receive strangers, lie Wrote her a letter, intense with his desire to see her. slit, reluctantly consented to an interview. lie tlew to her apartment, was admitted by the nurse, in whose presence:only I could he see the deity at whose shrine he had lung worshipped. But the gold en opportunity was not to be lost love became oblivious to any save the presence of the real of its ideal. Then :LIM there Hobert Browning poured his impassioned soul into hers; though his tale of love seemed only all enthusiast's dream. Infirmity had hitherto so hedged her about that she deemed her self forever protected front all assaults of love. Indeed, she felt only injured that a tel should take advan tage, as it were, of her indulgence in granting hint all interview, and request ed him to withdraw front tier presence, omit attempting any response to his pro posal, which she could not believe in earnest. Of course he withdrew front her sight, but not to withdraw the effer of his heart and hand (moon (mite, to repeat it by letter, and in such wise as to convince her how " dead in earnest" he was. Her own heart, touched already when she knew it not, was this time fain to lis ten, be convinced and overcome. But here began the tug of war! As a filial daughter, Elizabeth told her father of the poet's love, in return, and asked a parent's blessing to crown their happi ness. At first, incredulous of the strange story, he mocked her; but ,when the truth flashed upon him, front the new lire in her eyes, he kindled with rage, and forbade her ever seeing or commu nicating with her lover again, on the penalty of disinheritance and banish ment forever from a father's love. This decision was founded on no dislike' for Mr. Browning, personally, or any thing in him, or his family ; it was simply arbitrary. But the new love was stronger than the old one in her—it conquered. On wings it flew to her beloved, who had perched on her window, and thence bore her away from the fogs of England to a nest un der Italian skies. The nightingale, who had long sung in the dark, with "her breast against a thorn," now changed into a lark—morning had come —singing for very joy, and at heaven's gate, which has since opened to let her in. The unnat ural father kept his ivow, and would never be reconciled to his daughter, of whom he was not worthy ; though she ceased not her endearing efforts to find her way to his heart again ; ever fear ing that he, or she, might die without the bond of forgiveness having re- milted great ravages, when a terrible , noise from the upper end ,if the village, like a score of voices all shrieking ;it hllikl` Iu 111,011 our Clll4t. "An t licher Gott ! was ist das cried my companion, rushing to the door, and throwing it open. The whole place seemed in the height M . confusion ; men Were running wildly hillier and thither, women screaming, children crying, lights glancing to and fro. I seized the arm ut a man who was rushing past, and hastily asked what was the nuttier. " \Volt again!" gasped the fellow, who could hardly speak ; " up yonder--wo t man devoured— run forthe watchman ;" • , , ev i n t a i r s , t❑l \ i ,, i . t ei n e la t ii i yrs first eff t s r( i ) t i g u i , i ,, s ., i i i , ii i . n i: i t pi i i , y , i , . y r ' 'l'lle next moment, my comrade an d we h a y,. nut only collars awl cuffs, but were running at full speed toward the , doors, imitation wood-work, and all inn- scene of the catastrophe, on reaching : finite variety of articles, including rIIC- which, we came suddenly upon it spec- ling-boats, made out of paper. It is re-' Wile which I shall not easilyna- g et • ' hated of the late ( icorge \1 akeman, that The fitful glimmer of the rising moon, happening to hear an important poli ti and the dying glare of a lire kindled cal speech one night when he was acci- overnight, ill the vain hope of away the wolves, lit up a circle ::` i . .", i ,.. i i i i i ,g i ' dentally without his note-book, Inc took clown notes in ;hurt-haul on his cull's, figures :mil grim-bearded faces, con- collar and shirkbosoni. \Vlien this pa• , v " 1 ' 4 " 1 with ever y v"rYi"g: furor " t 1 " s- per clothing is introduced, the future slow -dumb horror, tilanl: astonishment, I short-hand reporter need only to take panic fear, the spasm of hitter sorrow,' oil his coat in true eilitoriztl IlLsbion, and the stern calmness or concentrated , spread it before him, to have abundant wrath. Inn the bitekground, the gaunt copy paper to takedown tine most wordy white ;trios of the leafless forest stood harangue. There seems, however, to out against the surrounding blackness be no real reasAn . why this new paper like giant skeletons; while, in the cen fabric may not work a revolution in the Ire of the group, half buried 111 the tralll matter of clothing. Inn I lermany, pap,' pled and blood-besmeared snow, lay a napkin , bay , been n swd mi . very n ,„„y . IllOtiOnleSS, shapeless so/ml//i/w. from years, and have priived cheap and sat will'h " 11 i""1""t"rilY averted their isfactory. The fahril: would seem par eves - the lifeless wreck, mangled out of ocularly appropriate for handkerchiefs, all semblance of humanity, of what had , , wo,:co could Inc thriiwn away when been but a few hours before the pride of . used, as is the practice with paper nap a happy household and the beauty of tine kills. , and away Li• flow There are certain catastrophes ill the presenceof which. every one is instinc tively silent. For several moments not a word is spoken ; and in that dead pause of expectation, I have leisure to remark the face of a peasant who stands opposite me. lie is a young man of twenty-live or twenty-six, though his broad chest and powerful limbs, :is well as the magnificent brown beard that waves over the 110901111 of his sheepskin frock, might make him appear much older. His fare is coarse and weather beaten enough; but there is something in that broad low forehead, and square ruthless jaw, and small, deep set, glit tering eye, which tells you at a glance, that, whatever danger might confront him, that man would be very hard to turn. While I am stil,l looking at him, he suddenly steps forward and speaks: •' It's time to finish ,a)•, he, in a tone which there i, un inist.al:in,g. " \Vim will enure with lie inn) the for- 11111'0 flit' :11l The summon,: (1‘,(,4 not remain long unanswered. There is no braver man living than the Russian peasant, when his naturally sluggish blood is once fair ly up. Three men instantly volunteer to join him ; while my German friend and I already sufficiently excited by all that we have seen and heard i, hasten to follow their example. Our prepara tions are soon made, and about two in the morning, under the full splendor of the winter moonlight, we set forth on the trail of the destroyer. There is but one gull anin.tag the six of us, the rest being armed with clubs and hatchets; but the I ;email has likewise a short hunting-knife, which has done• him service before now. Tramp, tramp it has been for miles, without sight or sound of uur lurking enemy: and the Russians, unused to such severe marching, begin to fall be hind. The German, myself, and one of the peasants at length find ourselves alone, and halt, in order to give the other three time to come up. Already their steps are hearll crunching over the snow, and, a few moments later, the (lark figures come gliding toward us through the floating shadow; but, to our astonishment, instead of three men, only two make their appearance. Our leader is still missing. " Where is Michael asks the f ier man. The men look at each other without answering, and every face re flects the same look of dismay ; for we all know what going astray in a Russian forest in winter really means. In the dead hush that follows, we suddenly hear a distant cry,—not the deep manly shout of a hunter calling to his mates , but the shrill agonized yell of a man in his extremest need,—the cry of the climber who feels his hold relaxing, of the swimmer who finds his limbs failing him. The next moment, we are all fleeing in the direction of the sound. Michael, while quickening his pace to catch us up, had been brought to a halt by the bursting of his shoe-strap, and must stoop to adjust it. But there is one watching him who fully appreciates that defenceless posturC. Poor Michael does not hear the rustle of that stealthy tread, does not see the gleam of that tierce yellow eye; but he cannot fail to hear the sharp crackle of the dead branches as a huge grayish mass shoots from the dark thicket, and falls right upon him as he rises, clutching fiercely at his unprotected side with its sharp white fangs. Yet even in this deadly peril the brave fellow does not lose heart. Oue moment's grace is allow ed him, while the assailant's teeth fail to pierce his tough sheep-skin frock ; and that moment suffices.— The wolf's head is under his left arm Paper Clothing If the accounts that reach us from over the water are true, our cloth-man ufacturers will soon have to contend against 0 formidable competition from the paper-mills. It appears that :in Euglishinan has succeeded in produc ing a paper which is said to make up admirably into garments of all sorts, for men's and women's wear. This paper fabric is a compound of various animal and vegetable substances, the former being wool, silk, and skins; the latter, flax, jute, hemp, and cotton. -- These articles are all reduced to a tine pulp, are bleached, and then felted by means of appropriate machinery. The mixture of these several substances produces a fabric of wonderful flexibil ity and strength. It call be sewed to- gether With a Machine as readily as woven fabrics, and makes as .trong at Paper clothing is no sew Ihiuj In China and: Japan, and may bellt/1111.' coin mon here. In these countries, u good paper coat is sold for ten cents, and an entire suit twenty-live cents, or ! about as cheap as the old-fashioned penny-whistles now are with us. our large clothing houses now advertise their goods at what seem marvelously low figures, when we try to have fair clothes made to fader, but even their f cheapest "bankrupt side" pricefi will scent ruinously 1,1111- pared with the cost of these paper gar ments. --Thc, paper-cloth made by this Eng inventor is said Lf be of a very servb,:- able nature,. find is made into table cloth:4, napkins, handkerchiefs, quilts, curtains, shirts, skirts, and various other articles of dress. The petticoats uncle t'rein this felted paper are of very elab orate design and wonderful beauty.-- They are either printed or stamped, and hear so close a resemblance to linen or cotton goods of like description as to al most defy the scrutiny of the ablest ex perts. The stamped open-worked skirts display a delicacy of pattern that it would be almost impossible to imitate by any ordinary skill with the needle. Imitation blankets and chintz t'or beds, furniture, or curtains are also made very cheaply. Embossed table-cloths and figured napkins made id' felted paper so close l y resemble the genuine damask linen as to lie palmed otr upon the un suspecting as the genuine article. 'rids felted paper is also capable of hieing made into lace, fringe, and trimming, and for these several purposes it is said to lie unequaled in point of cheapness and durability. Imitation leather is also made from the same material, which is perfectly impervious to water. It is soft and pliable, and is a very use ful fabric for covering furniture, nicking into shoes, or belts, and for many other similar purposes and articles.—/fiYirth mid /Tome. Influence of Newspapers T ht. ii.stmit 1,71 , r states that a school teacher, who had enjoyed the benefit of a long practice of his profes sion, and had watched closely the influ ence of newspapers upon the minds of a family of children, 'gives as a result of his observations, that, without excep tion, those scholars of both sexes, and all ages, who have access to newspapers at hoine,when compared with those who have not, are: 1. Better readers, excelling in pronun ciation, and consequently read more un derstandingly. 2. They are better spellers, and thqiii, words with ease and accuracy. 3. They obtain a partial 'knowledge in geography in almost half the timeli t requires others, the newspaper has made them familiar with the location of im portant places and nations, their gov ernment and doings. 4. They are better grammarians, for having become Nniliar with every va riety of style in the newspaper; from common-place advertisements to the finished and classicat oration of the statesman, they more readily compre hend the meaning of the text, and con sequently ananyze il. construction with accuracy. . . 5. They write better compositions, using better language, containing more thoughts, and still more clearly ex pressed. From these simple facts three impor tant things can be deduced: 1. The responsibility of the press in supplying literature which shall be un derstandingly expressed. 2. The absolute necessity of personal supervision of a child's reading by his parch 3. Having once *lit:lined a good able paper, no matter what the price, don't begrudge it a hearty support. On Sunday afternoon, in Philadel phia. a lad: named: Geo. H. Furey was shot in the temple and mortally,wouml ed by a private watchman, named Frank McGaughran. It seems that a gang of boys were quarreling and throw ing stones at each other to the annoy ance of the neighborhood. The watch man, unable to disperse them, tired a pistol shot among them, the ball strik ing Furey; was 200 yards distant. Artenm %%ard JAME , 1' .11: 1I N In the beautiful town of Cleveland, ten years ago, 1 was introduced, one Sunday morning, to Mr. Charles F. Browne, win, had recently acquired ce lebrity by his A rtetuus Ward letters, in the Cleveland Ilftimb r. He wastheu 29 years of age, of somewhat slender but with ruddy cheeks and a gen eral appearance of health and vigor.— l le was the local editor of the Pluilukul ,t, and had the ready, cordial and Mr hand manner of the members of the Western press. Like other professional humorists, he was not particularly funny in ordinary conversation on the contrary, he Was less so than Western editors usually are. 1 was far front an ticipating tin' career that was in store for him ; still lesiscould 1 have foreseen the premature death of a young man who presented an exceptional appear :muse of f4 . 00d health. If he \Vete alive to-day he wonlil he only :in years aLle. Ile wits horn at \Vaterford, In Maine, where his father was a surveyor. Ills native village, as he says in one or his papets, -does not contain over forty houses, all told ; but they are min.:- white, with the greenest or blinds, and for the most curt are shad• d with beau- Lind cans and willows. To the right of us is a mountain ; lu the left a lake. The village restless between. ur emirse it does. I never read a novel in my lire in the village did not nestle. Vil lages invariably nestle." In this se cluded nook of New England, he passed the lirsl fourteen years or his Illeoluring which he aetluired such odueation as rather idle and sport-loving buy could acquire in the common and high schools. Ile went tolearn the printing businessat a n e ighboring town, called Skowhegan where, in the tithe of the Skowhegan Clrrii,m, he learned to set type and work the hand-press. To the last of his days he held this place iu abhorrence. (Me or his friends lure recorded that he was accustomed " to set up a howl of deri sion," wheneverits name was mention ed and that whenever he desired to express the last degree of contempt for :iny person or thing, lie would speak of them ns worthy or Showhegan. Iluw many a buy has reaped a fell n•verigt• up,i, a teacher or an employer by turn ing Ma to he :unit consigning Ilion to universal ridicule: At sixteen lie found his way to Boston, where lie obtained 1.1111/10y1111.•11t. as ii etltilpli,itur iii the oillee or the funniest periodical then published in Boston, the I ',try , tho.q, to which Shillaber, Vul pine, and Saxe contributed. As lie set up, from week to week, the humorous contributions of those writers, the con viction grew upon him that he too could write a piece that would make people laugh. I think he must have been read ing Vraul:lin ' s autobiography, or the preface to Plekliellik, l'or in putting his talent to the test, he employed a device similar to that used by Franklin and Hicl:ens in offering their lirst produc tions to the press. Having written his piece in a disguised hand, lie put it into the editor', box. Ilreal was his joy %Viten it was tO ililll, soon after, to set in type. • 'Phis list piece I tadieve, was in the style of Major Jack Do‘vning, whose letters, lie once said, had 1110 re 10 110 with inal:ing hint a humorist than the pro ductions of :my other writer. About this time he happened to road ltayard Taylor ' s "Views :\ foot," in Nvhieli that popular autho gave an ac count of his making the tour of Europe, and paying his way by working at hie Fade, whivli was that of a printer. Cap tivated by this great example lie started tor the (treat \Vest. When the money Wits exhausted, he would stop for a while in some large town where there was a printing oillce and replenish Ids purse: w‘,111,1 Continue his journvy. Ile stopped short of China. however. At the town ot'l'iltln,tlhio, heobtained a place ita cionpositor and assistant edi tor, at lour dollars a weel:. 'Cillltt he removed to where he proem.- Toledo at live dollars a week. It was upon this paper that his talent as a humorist first attracted atten t and he was soon permitted to de vote his whole time to tilling the local column \vitl , ammdllgalmse of the rival Raper. 11,. acquired so touch celebrity in (Miff at a writer of facetious para graphs, that he was offered at length the place of local editor of the Cleveland rfi l mb,il. at a salary, munitleent.at the time and place, of twelve dollars IL week. Gist of the notiiii humorists -and the great master iit humor Itiutself, l'harles Iflekiimi -have a particular fond- Tit , . (I,r pcl ,, l)liS who gain their liveli hood by amusing the puldie --showmen of :dl kinds and grate, from the tutn liter ill Lite vircti , hi the great. tragedian "1 di, 118 y. In the performance of his duty a : I. ieal editor, Charles 13 rowne hail :mond:int opportunity of gratifying his taste, and hegrailuallylievanitmegmtint ed with nl etol'tietavellingtihuwmen ~1 t h e \VC-4,111 country. Ile delighted to sway- f heir Ital,its, and he used to tell many a good story a their ingenious devices for rousing the entrhusiitsnt of the nubile. of this showman's lore he turned to account ill the letters or rienitis \\ - u rd. There are dull time, in a place like Cleveland —times when the local editor hard put to till his columns. No ,how, no c.,111'1, no accident, no police report, nn trotting match, no fashiona- Ide nii surprise party, do anything.. Uue day, in lii!, when the local editor cf the( leveliiiiilPitii/id, ‘t/, wa, in desperate want of a topic, lie dashed upon paper a. letter front an imaginary showman, to ‘‘ high lie.allix ed the iiitineot . a Itevolutionary General which hail always strucl: him as being odd, .\rteniiis \Varil." The letter be gan thus: c tic L'ilitcr : I'm moving along—slowly :long—down bolls your place. I want you should write me a letter, sayin lows the show-biziness in your place. My show at present consists of three moral Bares, a Kangaroo—a amoozin little Ra.skal ; i'twould make you larf to deal to see the little cuss jump up and suneal--WaX liggers of ti. Washing ton, Oen. Taylor, John Bunyan, Dr. Kidd, Dr. Webster in the act of Rutin' Dr. Markman, besides several miseel lanyus moral wax statoots of celebrated pi ruts and murderers, etc., ekalled by few and exeeld nose." The showman proceeds to urge the ed itor to prepare the way for his cloning, awl promises to have all his handbills "thin at our otllyss.” "We must fetch the public somehow," he continues. " %Ye must work on their feel i ngs—come the moral on 'eni strong. 1 f it's a temperance community, tell 'ern 1 slued the :pledge fifteen minits arter iso born. But, on the contrary, if your people take their toils, say that Mister ' Ward is as genial a feller as we ever met —full of conviviality, and the life and sole of the soshul Bored. Take, don't ' you ?' Mister Ward concludes his epistle by condensing its whole meaning into a very short postscr'pt : "You scratch my back, and Ile scratch your back." This letter made a wonderful hit. It was immediately copied into many hun dreds of newspapers, and was generally taken as the genuine production of a showman. Other letters in the same vein followed, which carried the name of Artemus Ward and the Cleveland /I, f hafra/cr to the end of the earth. For two or three years they figured in the 1 funny column of most of the periodicals ' iu America, England and Australia. But except the leputation which the letters gave, they were of little advent age to the author. His salary may have been increased a few dollars a week, and he added a little to his income by con ; tributions to the comic papers of New York. No man, indeed, is so cruelly plundered as the writer of short amus ing pieces. easily clipped and copied.— : He writes a comic piece for a trifling sum which amuses perhaps five millions of people, and 110 one emnpensates him except the original purchaser. There are, for example, comic dialogues which have done service for fifteen years at ne gro minstrel entertainments, and now make thousands of people laugh every night for which the author; received three dollars. Artemus Ward, anxious to buy back ' the family homestead in which to shel ter the old age of his widowed mother, soon discovered that he could never do it by making jokes, unless he could sell them over and over again. So he tried comic lecturing. The first night the experiment' VMS a failure. A violent storm of snow, sleet and wind thinned the audience--In Clinton Hall, New NUMBER 1 York—to such a degree rer lost thlity dollars by the enterprise. tour in New England, however, had better result.Q. I-le leetured a hundred nights, by %%Adel' lie cleared nearly eight thousand dollars r and he \vie:soon able to establish his neither in the ni.lll - village Inane in which he wa- , born. 1 thrnight I ought not to,..ll,•linie article without letti I rellth - l' 1.110 ‘l* Wll3' this bright and genial spirit hinge! hore to add to the world's harm less amusement. \Veil, thi , was the reason: NVlterevi - r he leettir,l, whether in New England, Calirornia or I.otidoil, there was sore to he a I; not 'or young fel lows to gather round iII ii,:ind honie with hint to his hood, order-upper, and spend half the night in and singing songs. To any Mall Rees will he fatal in thin. 11, nightly carouse performance before :to stweeeded, hy the nex t day, the waste Of Vitality is ie:u:ullp rapid. rice years of -itch :I life iiiiisto,l poor Charles Itro \rile. Ile died in Lon don In 1,07, aged :;:t years HMI he now lies buried :It the home oi lien childhood , ca, 110 t 11 Mall ut ,t wog a ppyt Ile-. II wtt- , the :tight, Nva,ted iu ,ffivivi,t!ty tohi 11 Ilk system heyded for that , yot him tt. hi, grave forty Vear , heitOre lii- Lilue. 1 .. 01' 1.1 . “1,--i , .11 ca,t clutraYter, for ;di yditor , . 11101 anti arti , ts, they, only on, ,afety --tectolkin. Ile shoal,' have tstl:yn the advice ut a alage driver to whom lie once thiliqyd ,only ; and 1 rutumeuhl it , IliPlltdy t" :hi' •• hi , I,llwr t.V,•ry WVPI: ; " I don't I Ns oil't .\nil I don't like le ,•1.• atiyhmly drink. opitiieik of tliu.o in ninLtin•— They've :1.,•t I've go)t the lirktnia, )111i, 10111 011.1, t•,11110 lllt' ,Imphords .J 1 1,1,, sm •i, as !lo v e r l w ror o uor gl:ohlmi ed mortal eye-. Niuht, peaocfol ;l:141 11‘,Iy,11:1111•:1,1 veiloy,r I tll ami Main; tars "La from thoir homes; the ,0111111 , of hu-y \ven• urns, I)\viy unal w,•re alum with Nature : 11 1(1 1 Suddenly a light, ilHther I un !wt . broke upon their , 1:;/./10 , 1 and radiant faces beamed upon them, and exultant voices sang the new liv it or "(dory t,,(;,t in the high,,t, 4.ii earth peace, 1;0ml-will to Inau.. Thu, was announced In' nie ,, engers the grandest event In the world's hi-40- ry. Not untoimiacesand gorgeotn, tem ples did they carry the glad il‘lings, but unto the poor and lowly ; 11 , , the Savior, Prophet, I(ing, who " horn this day," lay ill cra dled in a manger. 111 lquitemplatitig the eireonktanees of Ilis birth, rank, pride and Helms dwindle and are lost a+ Maio 111.111 an ocean-wave. inc I god, Saviour of the world, liedeetnet NV:IS sent in Ilk infancy, not to the Itonian governor or the Jewish high-prie-t, hut to Joseph and lary, to he reared in their humble home, t,, I:11.r with and for them till Ilk higher eaide; wan ready and he Mle‘ier . W. ThaglOrhnl , ; anti !lOW, U11%111)411 a lin , ,tl . centu ries, If is 1101111.'11(4' ha, been widcuiug, Ilis spirits permeating other spirits mory awl more, and M - ' l ".r , and holy emotion, \ e , dehrate II iq birth, anti ren,•‘v 111 . I..ve and allegiance. Wekome the day \‘ ith rijoieimm with evergreens typical ut 1 li. un failing memory, i‘ lilt I<l II tt Iv NVi-.11 and Si 1111110 ;21114 nt remembrance, for Ills advent brought that which gives new slgniticance and value to life, and revealed immortality, ti which life were a mockery. The cheerless -table. the tininger-era tile, Joseph and :llary wateliing the new found treasure, the \% men with their gilts, thewiiiidering,curions eruwd —how vividly the mind van ; but it is the babe it-elf a round which our sympathies cluster, for in Him iv,. sec all that Ili was to hrenun• t , us friend, guide, comfortrr, n uealitc , the Father to Ilk children. I haVl' 1101•11 looking un, Ihi , ,V1•11h1V, at it merry ennipany of children assem bled round that pretty iernian toy, a l'llristmas tree. The tree \vas phi titi•il in the of a great, round table, and towered high above their heads. It wits brilliantly lighted hy a multitude of little tapers; and every%vhere and glittered with bright iihjeets. ;noire were rosy checked dolls, hiding behind the green leaves ; there were real watches with moviialile h:unls, it least, and an mulles.: capacity of being wound up, dangling from i unierable *t wigs ; there were French polished lades, chair's, bedsteads, wardrobes, and eight.- ilay and Val . k , ll , 41(1,1 ,fflj,d.. Oldnlnt,dir furniture Wonderfully !Dade in tilt at \Volverhainnion perched among the houghs, as if in preparation for some fairy housekeeping, there were jolly, broad-faced little 111,11, nnnCh !Wire agreeable in appearance than many real wen and DO th e ir tOOk and showed them to he full ()I' sugar-plums; there were fiddles and drums ; there were tambourines, hooks, work-la(xes, paint boxes, .weeluDeal- Luxes, peep-show Kind" of boxes ; there were tritti:ets for the elder girls, far brighter tutu any grown-up gob' and jewels; there were baskets and pincushions in all devices ; there were guile, swords, and ban (leis ; there were witches sttuiding in enehatited of pasteboard, to tell fell tine- ; there ‘vert• teetottuns, pen-wipers, smelling-bottle-, tional eards, Louuluet Bolder- , ; real fruit, mode artilleially dazzling with gold leaf; imitation apples, pears, and ‘val nuts, crammed with surpri -es ; in short, as a pretty child la , fore nie delight fully whispered to another pretty child, her bosom friend, " There was every thing and more." This motley col lee tion of odd objects, of mitering On the tree like magic fruit, and Ilash Mg hack the bright looks directed toward it from every side—snore of the diamond-eyes admiring it were hardly on a level with the table, and a few wet e languishing in timid wonder on the bosoms of pretty mothers, aunts and curse.—made a lively realiz:ltion of the fancies of child hood ; and set me thinl:i lig how all the trees that grow, and all the things that clinic into existence on the earth, have ' their wild adorniti(Mts at that well re t membered time. /fiek,m. A Christmas day, to be perfect, , liould he clear and cold, with holly-branches in berry, a blazing lire, a dinner with mince-pies, and games Out forfeits in the evening. You cannot have it in perfection if you are very li n e awl fash ionable. N either, alas! can it be toijoy ed by the very poor KO that, in fail, .a perfect Christmas is impossible to Ist had till the progress of things has dis tributed comfort more equally. list when we do our best, we are privileged to enjoy our utmost and charity- giye WI a right to hope. The completest en joyer of Christmas next to a lover who has to receive forfeits from his mistress is the holiday school-boy who springs up early, like a bird, darting hither and thither, out of sheer delight, thinks of his mince-pies half the morning, has too much of them when theycome pardon him this (nice ), roasts (dwsnuts and rut apples half the evening, Is conscious of his new silver in his pocket,and laughsat every piece of mirth with a loudness that rises above every other noise. Next day what a peg-top, will he not buy' what string, what nuts, what ginger bread ! And he will have a new clasp knife, and pay three times too touch for it. Sour oranges also will he suck, squeezing their checks into his own with staring eyes; and his mother will tell him they are not good for him—and let hint go on. A Christmas evening,should, if possi ble, finish with music. It carries off the excitement without abruptness, and sheds a repose over the conclusion of enjoyment. A word respecting the more serious part of the day's subject alluded to above. It Is but a word, but it may sow a seed of reflection in some of the best natures, especially in these clays of per plexity between new doctrines and old. IL appears to us that there is a point never enough dwelt upon, if at all, by those who attempt to bring about a reconciliation between belief and the want of it. It is addressed only to the believers In a Providence, but those who have that belief, if they have no other, are a numerous body. The point is this lIATEEOF AD VRTISIIid BUM:4MS ADVERTISCHENTS, tl2 a year per eqnre of ten 1111e4 ; Stl per year fur each ;add'- , donut square. - • RrA ESTATE A uvIOLTNINO, lu eelltfl n line for the ilrta, and 5 coin{ for eueh snhsequeut In- Insertlnn. UENKRA I. ADVEHTISI N, velits a line for tho lirat, alai vatits 0,1(11 ~.oim:oguent Iwo), Lion. SPErTA r. NorireA In. rt d In DieHl Polrunnl 15 cent. 14.1. SPEC' A NOTICV,I pree.l.lna nutrrln2em Ilti dent hs, 10 eOll tes per line for first Innerlit ni and 3 come fur every hubsewlent _ LEGAL AND OTIIF:R NryricKs— Executors' : lit her .• ecro," lint:s, ur less, three times -that t'liristhtnity, to say the - least of it, is a firrat ri, - nt. I t has WO a won derful etreet on the world, anti still has, even in the workings of its tipparent ly-untilial daughter, itiodt•rti Philos°. phy,oo'llo could never have Lira what she is but for the hoot rite or boundless ympathy, (;called upon the elegant sole'-relerellee of (Ito tireeks,ttml the:pat riotism of the Romans, which \Vas s 0 - len :0 mere pretext for the most utineigh borly N /SO' , sn g,real an event niuol have been in the contemplation 01 . Providence -olic 44t he mountain lop-of Its Inallifesntlion ; :ma ir 000 0, 011 :-.llakesnealle and a Plato “Ind 111 reason Ilial I here hi Me divine ONO thimz 111,,r• rnrrgrto :1011 kal.l e n e rcjnn -pint brouth, , ,i hull h !limo, and t, ith boo touch we n. reverential a 1010, 01100 NVI. 111:1 10 , 11:11.1• :1 divine impression of wt. nalilre of Itu to who drew the great line 10100,1. n lhr narro‘Viless nl the 1114 \Vorld nod the tiniVersalitic , of the :X ow, :Intl tillvr ed to the earth, through the angellcal ergali of His 50 hole that truly celestial doctrine, "'Thine. 111 . "th,,,4!" ihmr. Eng Chrint.etrim l'ere I APPW Part Pi s It Chi ISt - 1,13.4 Nyvri• derived trill ‘va. evidoilly northern mitriti. lii the even Inv 111, Yule•lnt„ n l'hristnins-sock, tcrol in the principal :tparinligit, the 1•1)1111 , 3- 11V gathered mum! the lire, awl 1,1, roadful cup was passed round. \V Iml remains to modern times or vami.”ls cifilimenved; and unriwnl Christian plays are still to be traced Almon; them. Illinil•inan's•bia, lonic the•slipper, the game of the goose, snap igish-pin, robins-allve, elr., etc., together %%Ills forfeits, ilativing, etc., Corm the amusements or the yotiimi'r part or the assemblage. lu 5551110 I.:BOUM' the J'ulr-lo;; dill ":"."C on the blazing hearth, while the rnaining pass merrily round. In our land, also, appropriate test Ivit still tint he wanting; and In many a household this night :mil Miler rcslive ;4111111'M N% ill spied (11r citill4 while the gramkire, ~catrd iii In is ent nnu-'lnail', with Isis gro\vn-is • .on s and daughters around hilt), still gaze with delight upon the sparkling :ind merry raves or the younger trinity, until the aniusimienls or the .Young, and the esdloquies of the old are hrmight to 11‘' the elM•k, with its intul tongue and braztui voice proelaini- Mg the hour ml' retiring. \Vo are not atvare,linwever, that any thing is kiiimgi among our ruunldn people or the yule- Mg ; • ivy cam look lte': with pluasure upon 'Unity It Christmas festive ,11.111., When the hirgest 111111 bra maple 31111 hickory wide selected Mr Ilse Christina , Ilre, which, when the evening . eaine, "Went 111:1r111,;. tit. the chllllll4`V While 1:111,1 and Lases went. tripping shunt with j,iyotim faces, and the (alt., he dance, :and the game, the nil:we-pie itittl the spit, lam!, rendered s aced Ity the approvintz sinilesoftlidight tal t.tottplt.ltal llii gt•iieral Cataittit. Minor Christmas Notes 1*.V1•11 in rude ti 111 1 .4, ChrktllllH 11.1 1111. 11 , 1WCr to mitigate the ferocitie of war. I tarititz the View. of Orleans, lo I h2s, the I.:110,11 historian says, lie .wlenittities and festivities of l'ltrlsltints ease a short Interval or repose. The lords requested or the Fretteh ematoanders that they might have a tlit;ltt of loia,treky with trumpets and clarions. This tvas gratited, and the horror , lo • w,tr \VI.II• thought lo he delight ful. Lot tioloworatotl Ii the 111111111111ill11 of n•ligimoi worship tinil to ciallbaiaily; to worship solemn, 11111 gloomy--hut or heart, awl love; to social lii•itlvlty --cheerful as laiooliiing the day lit frionils hr Et.• the poor reel Hutt they arc inclwlcil in our In I • \spry !wart Itil there la , peace leer; awl ovor all, the luright blue heaven of radiant wit li Ilio trold.in nu n,hin of The Christi:to nations solid honor Ho. iir the Saviour' , 1111111 and ii illi Hid joy ; with the iwpron.ive p o mp of religiousl,•rollionlitlN; with 11111 , it . , 1•1.1l/e111 , , 111111 .1;1 [Alai 1 , 1111- 11111 II ill (Ilk boaiitif ul tyslival Ho. gratulti,l and l'estival of the Thep volobritto the spirilo al rogenoratlon of nulnl:iml. '111(.11. vpry eurlmis served by ;noek Clitirch throatfil)- ~Lit ttli la. IL k th, halals':tat • 11114 , 114 llm lillll,lll - ,: tint. Each village un a earl, ,ity ln4v 11. In the larger euretilmly rerforini4l by IL A ,•1 0 .ns 1. 0/ 1 in till, anti tili . 1111.(1 , 11 - Sllint, l'ulii'l• - ,ented by a ..arvod h•il. Th.•lwauliful.piritol lii 11:1. t•11,1..ar,1 Christmas-day t./ the poor:Lod Ow young. NVlutt a joyous Hull. II I,rlng, to th.• heart of ,hildhood ! AuJ how ph•asatit it !mist be to a truly gen -1.1',/IIS Malin, to participate in thc.neual felicitie, of I holiday season, :11111 ob:erve the exultation of the young uI the tol:en,i of alreetimi they receive' Christmas snout,' be vonseerated to high and holy uses, and the day made subservient not only to present enjoy- Melt t but In' happy retlections In the future. 'l'lte memory of such IL season hnnlil always sparkle and brighten with the joyous, the generous, the ben t and the goad- su that, it trill be, ititlo•tl, n " Merry Christmas." Christmas is each year wore genet ally 01,-erved in New EnghLiitl, where it wan one e proscribed by lalv, and before tin other generation, it is probable, most of the !envious dt•nontitiations here will observe the anniversary by public relig ious services. (11H:4111M-day 1111,1 110 W heel' coase rr3ted fur so many centuries, and its ohscrvam•e is so closely :associated with the religious ideas of the great lIIILYS of the Christian world, that the discussion of the historical accuracy or the date 11114 eellSed to be important. The Saviour hail not where to lay Ills head, but His Scriptures are translated into a thousand languages, and the grandest strueturesof the modern world are the home of His Church, and the temple of lie worship. 12r=! *.-zinuel Read, said to be the oldest :\la,on in the West, filed at Covingtim, I<.y., mu Tuesday.; At Alemphis,NJohn Downes, ex-Dep uty eominitted suicide on Tues day night. Poverty WaS the eallSe. in Wednesday last, oh n 11. orth, (Mi. (Jr the publishers of the Clinton died at 1.oel: Ifaven, of ulcer ation of the bowels. Mayor Selby, of San Francisvo, '.ha9 giv,n to public eharitiee, bin official ~alaries for the en,ning 7year, amount ing to zi,Loo. The name .1' :‘1 ilsson's intended k announced us being a Mr. Itosseau, now in Paris, by whom the late balloon letter received by her Iv said to have been written. At Harrodsburg, liy., on Saturday, James NVickershatil killed Hobert Alex ander. Wickersham resisted arrest and was shot :old dangerously ‘saninileil In) the ofiliaas. l'resiolent c ira: t has remitted the 11111. ~1 imposed out E. Porter I)yer, lat.. Cashier of the Newholville Nation al thank, for complicity in the Roston — Stale street irregularities." liyer has nerved his six month. sentenve of iIII - In \ lecirn county, last Vridny, a "difficulty" issiurred between twu brothers, named Nichults, in which 1111 e ol'themwu_ twice wounded. A brotheti in-law, named Shope, Interfered to stop the atrray, when he W 11.4 shotdead by one of the brothers, who has since been ar rested. Ilovernur I teary has signed the death warrant 01 . John Hanlon, convicted of the murder of Mary Molirman, fixing the Ist of February for the day of exe cution. The warrant was read to the Ole 'yesterday by Sheriff Leeds. Ile listened to it with stoical indiffer mice, and on being asked if he wanted any thing, only comphfined that he was not allowed to see his wife every day. It is stated that while Pennsylvania has in the House but one chairmanship of a coninlitlee of any importance, and only three altogether, New England has fourteen, and generally of leading com mittees—Massachusetts alone having six. This, while the whole New Eng land delegation In the House numbers only twenty-six, to twenty-four from Penns,lve,•is.
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