11/51112 ZILM ~+•,....^. TOWANDA: w on filorninp, Ilk 21,11352. vartrq, THE. OLD 13 A CHELOR6 The Bachelor's lonely chap ;hog entle wife has he To hare,his slippers warm at night, Or pour a cup of Thonati cold may blow the wittily wind, And cheerless are the streets. He wanders forth to look upon. 111$ (nen is' much envied sweets. The " tOrie.o' ne'er trouble married melt, O'er loin they have control ; por luc kless wight ! from morn to night. • The gout disturbs his soul ; And if he goes up to his room lb grate is full of rust ; His pocket full of emptiness, lila clothes are Cul. ofdust. Noir lonic upon the married man;--, • What sight can be more fair! lie has—what bachelors have not— ' An indeper.dent air, lie has no fear that he will die For want of proper care ; In pain or health, he kneiwe that he Will get the best of fare. t.ee him in his parlor now. The fender 'neath his feet ; He' , reading to his wife the news— The picture looks comp!. to ! Plenty, health and ease are his, And all the joys of life, He 'inews he has.the sympathy Of his children and his wife. rrom the French of Holstein THE IVWTE WITNESS; OR TUE DOG AND THE ASSASSIN DY Mat , . A SOCLE tra..e.trare!ii, in 081', throw4h the beautiful ter of Leipzig, I observed about a half a league in ra , fie gate of the town a few rods from the high an. a wheel, and the bone% of a chained corpse eo..e I w the gaze of every pasimr. tott.laiog is the history of that criminal, as i ..no.ett it from the lips of the judge who conducted re trial. a:,,1 condemned him to be broken alive. A Gcrinan (wiclier being benighted in the midst a f his way, and while er.dcavcrring to :he road was attacked by three highwaymen. Berra.- ott horseback and accompanied by a large g 0 ie oi Die robbers seized the horse by the to wht,e to r n others dragged the butcher from r! , ,1 I Ile 3:1.1 letted him. The dog leaped im me,ti.i ety .yon one of them and strangled him F o :ler woutided the animal severely that he ihe thicket, tittering the most learlui ' f;,e butcher, who by this time had disen- I.:trik , ll from the grasp of the second robber ;.t-knife auJ killed him. But at the same inment he received a idiot from the tliiid, he who ;,a,i l .lst wou.illed the dog and felling was ileartich r.: t.y thief, %%to found upon him a large sum 15 a sliver watch mid a few other articles of Ta.Le lie plundered the - corpse, leaped upon the one and fled. Tne next tnorning, tWo wood cutlers, happening inai pail %%ere surprised to fild three dead bod es end a large dog, who seemed to be .garding ilein They examined them and endeavored to itYiire hie, but in vain. One of them dressed the 6OGIUS ul ilie gave him some food, and sought .11rr:e for him, while the other hastened to *sr. :;earebt inturm the magistrate of the , : , very. The officer accompanied by several so.ia 4:1 the spot ; a surgeon ex- ara;:ifil the wounds of the three bodies ; they drew rettml process and itrerred them. Tae do_ had dragged t;imselt, in the course 01 ni4io. when all was quiet, to the corpse of his mace?, where he WAS lontid the neat morning.— Ile aloxed his new mends to dress his wounds, tc.,i as d fueseeing that he must consent to live he might one day avenge the murdered ; he a.a al. I thank but would not leave the Spot. He csrd on xe I v while they dug the g rave and a. .seal them it, bury the bodies ; but as soon as 10.; f wa.s replaseJ, hestretched iiiinself upon mournfully, and resisted all the efforts of bystanders to induce him to move. He snap ;P.] a: all wlit; came near him, except the wood :Lao \‘bo had tended him. He bore his caresses, tat no sooner d d the man attempt to take his paw :a remove him horn the grave, than he gnashed site!h and would Lave wounded him severely ti tie had not quickly lied. Every one admired :oe ti,lelq of the Jog and when the woodman of tete,' t.) Larry him mod and water every day, that he inlght not perish, the magistrate proposed ta op a collection to renumeraie the man, who ryas poor and the tallier of a large family. With Q.LE:utly he' was induced to accept the money; but I€, finally did, and from that Moment burdened tarnsell a rdt the careof his new pensior.er. Toe details et this horrible event were publish• el in the principal journals of the country.. M. 4 1.er, a brother of the butcher's, reading some hale afterwards the advertisement of the magistrate hastened instantly to his presence, saying he had teat, which he believed now were only too well hairin], that his brother had fallen into the hands of robbers, as he had left home with a large sum in 'o.] for the purchase of beeves arul hail not since Peen heard Irstrn, fits suspicious weris only too 'Li utii.ti turd when the magisirste reihlett to him tr 'e singular condor( of the dog which he .described. J 1 Meyer, accompanied by the officer and several °: '.!Ts repaired to the grave. As soon as the dog perceived fits maste's brother, he howled, lapped and evinced numerous' other demonetta lorn uf grief anti joy. ,By. different parts of his die s, Meyer recognized the body of his brother h en they disinterred it. The absence of the gold dad the watch, the wounds of the butcher and his L t hose of the two other bodies, together with wn l 'huppearance of the horse, convinced the ma• , • I . . , , . . - . ' . , • ... ..;:.,.. ~ i ~ -I . ~.*;._.,:_:-..: a....:1:` . 1 ......:. d..ik 1..; ."7.4 • I , . ..y . ., ~ - ~ .!'., 2 . 1 :.1•..:11t71 1 =-11 ~ . ..1 . •, i. ..:.: , ) . . :1 , . . , ... ~ . . FL. - - - - , , . - -' . . : a .•• ' • • - • • , ~.., ...• • • gistnne and the witneases that the deceased had not only been assailed by the two, but also by one or several others, who had fled with the horse and the plunder• Having obtained permission M. Meyer, removed his brother's corpse to his native village and inter- red it in the adjoining cemetery. The faithful dog followed the body, but by degreacbecame attached to his new master. Every effort was made by the most diligent search and the offer of immense rewards, to discover the assassins. But in vain ; the horrible tragedy re mained an enigma. Two years had passed away, and all hopes of solving the mystery vanished, when M. Meyer re ceived a letter urging him to repair without delay to Leipzig to close the eyes of bis maternal uncle, who desired to see him before be died. He im mediately hastened thither accompanied by his brother's dog, who wait his companion at all times• lie arrived too late. His relative had deceased the previoOs evening, bequeathing him a large fortune. He found the city crowded, it being the season of the great fair held regularly there, twice a year. While walking one morning on the public square attended as usual by his dog, he was astonished to behold the animal suddenly rush forward like a flash; He dashed through the crowd and leaped fu riously upon an elegantly dressed young man, who was seated in the tenter of the square, upon an el evated platform erected for the Uke of those specta tors who desired seeing the shows. Be held him by the throat with so firm a grasp, that lie would soon have strangled him, had not aid been instant• ly rendered They immediately chained the slog thinking of course he must be mad, and strove to kill him. M. Meyer rushed through the crowd, arrived in time to rescue his faithful friend, calling eagerly in the meantime upon the bystanders to arrest the man, for he believed his dog recognised in him the murderer of his brother. Before he had time to explain himself the young man profiting by the tumult escaped. For some moments they thought Meyer himself was mad, and he had great difficulty in pursuading those who had bound the dog, that the faithful creature was not in the least q'langerous, and begged earnestly of them to- release him that he might pursue the as sassin. lie spoke in so convincing a manner that his hearers finally felt persuaded of the truth of his assertions and restored the dog to his freedom, who joyously bounded to his master, leaped a few times, and then hastened away. He divided the crowd end was Mon tipna his enemy's track. T;le police, which on these occa sions is very active arid prompt ; were immediate• ly informed of this extraordinary event and a num ber of officers were soon in pursuit. The deg be came in a few moments the object of public curi osity, and every one drew back to give him room. Business was suspended, and the crowd collected in groups conversing of nought but the dog, and the murder which had been committed two years before. Alter an hours expectation, a general rush indi cated that the match was over. The man had stretched himself upon the ground, under the hea vy folds of a double tent and believed himself hid den. But in spite of hie landed security, the aven ger had_tracked him and leaping upon him, he bit him, tore hie garments and would have killed him upon the spot, had not the ass•stants rushed to his rescue. He was immediately arrested, and led with M. Meyer and the dog, then carefully bound, before the judge, who hardly knew what to think of so ex traordinary an allay. Meyer related all that had happened two years before and insisted upon the imprisonment of the man, declaring that he was the murderer of his brother lot his dog could not be de ceived During all the time it was (bond almost impossible to hold the animal who seemed deter mined to attack the prisoner. Upon interrogating the latter, the judge was not satisfied with his re plies and ordered him to be searched. There was found upon him a large sum in gold, some jewels, and five watches, lour of them gold and very val. uable, while the fifth was an old silver one, of but little consequence. As soon as Meyer saw the last, he declared it to be the same that his brother wore the day Weft home, and the description of his watch published months previously, corroborated his assertions. The robber had never Jared expose it, for fear it would lead to his detection, as lie was well aware it bad been described very minutely in all the principal intimate of Germany. In short after the most minutely and convictive legal proceedings of eight months, the murderer was condemned to be broke alive and his corpse to ten alp chained upon the wheel as an example to others. On the night preceding his execution, he confessed, amongst other crimes, what till then he always denied, that he was the murderer 'el Meyer's brother. He gave them all the details above related and declared that lie always believed that the accursed dog died 44 his wounds. "Had it not been for him," he repeated several times, " I should not have been here. Nothirg else could have discovered me, for I had killed the horse and buried him with all that he wore " , He expired on the wheel and his was the corpse which 1 beheld betore entering the city ol.Leipzig. " BUT TS 'CAN'T Vole"—Great was the amaze ment and dismay among the Irish laborers when the sieam•shovels were first pm an Operation on a certain section of the Vermont Central Railroad, and one sif the sturdiest of the Hibernian'', after gaz ing at his huge rival fur a few moments, thus apos trophised the enemy : Well, faith, ye are a big deg it of a baste, and mighty strong in the imams may be, now, ye think yerself as good as an Irish man, but (with a looker inefiablecontempi) yer s&wl, ye can't vote r—Post. ft"- CompunexTkay.—The Boston Mad says that a number of ourang, ontangs can be seen pass• ing along Washington street s every pleasant day in the week. PUBLISRED EVERY SATURDAY Tr TOWANDA, 'BRADrORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. O'MEARA dOODRICIII BEEN " 11.116ARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION PROM ANT QUARTER." Dkk IMlley's Great Stamp Speech. Fet.unv CrMIMS :—This are a day for the , pop erlation of Boonville, like a. bobtailed pullet on a rickety hennoost, u be lookin' op. A crisis has ar riven—an someihin's bust I Where are we ! Here I is, and Pd stand here and expirate from now till the day of Synagogues, if you'd whoop for Daily Fellow Citizens—Jerusalem's to pay, and we hain't got any pitch. Our hyperbolical and majes. tic canal of creation has onshipped her rudder, and the Captain's broke his neck, and the cook's div to the depth of the vasty deep, in search of dimond ! Our wigwam's torn to pieces, like *shirt on a brush fence, and cities of these ere latitudes is a vanish in' in a blue flame. Are such things lobe ail 1 I ask you in the American F.agle, who whipped the shaggy headed Lion of Great Britain; and now sits a roostin' on the magnetic telegraph, if such doing is goire to be conglomerated l I repeat to you in the name of the peacock of liberty, when he's flew in over the could-capped summits of the Rocky mountains, it we's goin , to be extemporaneously bigyogged in this fashion t " 0, answer me ! ' Lel me not bust in ig►norand," as ehakapeel says. Shall we be bamdoozlated with each unmitigated ondaciousnessl Methinks I bear you yelp—" No sir, hoes fly !" Then 'lent me to Congress, and there'll be a revolution sure. Fellow Citizens—lf I Was standin ) on the ada mantine throne of Jubiter, and the lightnin' was a clashin' around me, I'd continue to spout ! I'm full of the (Min' lather of Mount Etny, and I wont be quenched ! I've sprung a leak, and must howl like a bear with a sore head. Flop together—jump into ranks and bear me through. Adler Citizens--You kr•.o* me, and rip my lungs out with a mill grab if f won't stick to yer like brick dust to a bar of soap. Where is my opponent !No where ! I was bro't up among ye, feller citizens, and papped in a school house, but he can't git me with his hifaulin' words. Hictum, albranto, catnip, Brazeel, Torjoottey, and Baffins Bay ! What do you thing o' that t Go it porkey—root hog or die !" as Shakopee! said when Caesar stabbed him in the House of Representative*. Feller Citizens—'Lect me to 'Congress and I'll abolish mad-dogs, mnaketeens, and bad cents, and go in for the annihilation of nigger', camp meetings and jails. I'll repudiate crows, and flustiftben hocks have barn raisins every day—Sundays ercepted---=and tiluor enough to swim a skunk.— Yes, feller citizens, 'Sect me to Congress, and I shall be led to exclaim in the sublime-n-the terrific language of Bonaparte, when preachin in the wit dernese—" Richard', himself agFin On, then, onward to the polls—" gallop apace firy looted steeds," and make the welkin' tremble wi;h anti fpasmodic yells for Daily. Cock your muskets, I'm comm. Hence ye Brutes, broad aze and gl:►ry Let's Licker. A t AtnASNAKI: STORY —Last fall, a woman reu siding in the vicinity of Worcester, was picking blackberries in a field near her house, having with her, het" :tray Child, a bright eyed little fellow of less than a year old. The babe sat upon the ground in an open opals, iirnDs?ng, itself with grasping at a clump of yellow weed that grew within reach, and eating berries that were brought him from time to time by his mother. The latter, at length, intent Upon gathering the fine fruit, passed around a rock which hid herchild from view. She, was about to return to him, when hearing him laughing and crowing in great glee, and thinking he [Mill be safe as long as he was so happy, she remained a little longer where she was. Suddenly the little voice ceased, and after anoth er minute's delay, the young Mother stepped- upon the rock and looked over, expecting to see her babe asleep; and instead of which, he was sluing per fectly motionless, his lips parted, and his wide open eyes fixed with a singular expression. upon some object winch at first she was unable to dis cern. Vet who can judge of her horror when on closer scrutiny she perceived, some tour feet from the in. Pant, a rattlesnake, with his glittering eyes fastened upon his, and nearing him by an almost impercep tible motion ! The eight nl her darling's peril, so nearly paraly. zed her, that fur an instant she half believed the dreadful fascination had Mended to herself :ebu t the certainty, that, unless she was fbe instrument of salvation to her child, he was inevitably lw.t, in some degree restored her powers. She glanced wildly around for something that might be used as a weapon, but nothing appeared, and already the venomous reptile had passed over hall the space which divided him from his victim. Another mo ment, and all would be lost! What could be done? In her hand she held a broad do pais, and spring ing from the rock, quick as thought shecracen34l the snake with it, and stood span it to prevent his es cape. The charm was brolten ; the child moved, sway ed to one aide, and began to sob. At the same time the mother recovered her voice and screamed for aid, retaining her position till it arrived, when the cause of her terrible fright was dispatched. A Goon Name—Always be more solicitous to preserve your innocence than concerned to prove it. It will never do to seek a good name as a pri mary object. Like trying to be graceful, the effort to be popular will make you contemptible. Take care of your spirits and conduct and your reputation will take care of your sell. The utmost that you are called to do as the guatilia‘t of your reputation is to remove injurious aspemtionti. TASTE V`R R2A/AM.-1f I were to pray for a taste which :should stand me instead under every variety of circumstances and be a source of happi ness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills however things might go amiss, and the %yolki frown against me, it would be a taste for reading. Incident In the battle of New Orleans. A British officer, who was in the battle of New Orleans, mentions an incident of thrilling strangeness and one very descriptive of the Western hunter, many of whom marched to the defence of New Or. leans, as volunteers in the army under the renown ed Andrew Jackson. " We marched," said the officer, 4 in a solid col. umn of twelve thousand, in a direct line upon the American defences. I belonged to the staff; and as we advanced, we watched through our glasses the position and arrangements of nor enemy, with intensity nn officer only feels when marching in the jaws of death frith the assurance that, while he thus oilers himself as a sacrifice to the demands of his country, even action, be he successful or other. wise, be judged wjth the most heanless scrutiny. " It was a inane sight, that long range of cotton bales—a new material for breast-work—with the crowd of beings behind, their heads only visible above the line of defence. We cou'd distinctly see their long rifles laying over the bales, an d the bat tery of General Coffee directly in our fr i ent, wiih its great mouths garing towards us, as if waiting to de. your us, and the position of Gen. Jackson, with his staff around him. But what attracted our attention most, was the figure of a tall man, standing .on the the breast-works, dressed in linsey.woolsey, with buskskin leggins, and a broad brimmed felt hat, that tell around the face, almost concealing his features. hie was standing in one of those picturesque grace ful attitudes, peculiar to those natural men, dwell. era in forrests. The body rested on the lett leg, and swayed with a curved line'upevard ; the right arm was extended, the hand grasping (he rifle near the muzzle, the butt of which rested near the toe of his right foot, while with the left hand he raised the rim of his hat from his eyes, and seemed gazing in tensely upon our advancing column. The cannon of General Coffee had opened . upon us, and tote through our ranks with dreadful slaughter; but we continued to advance unwavering and cool, as if nothing threatened our progress. "The roar of cannon had no effect upon the figure standing upon the cotton bales, but he seemed fix ed and motionless as a statue. At last he threw back the rim over the crown with his left hand, raised the rifle to his shoulder, too aim at our group. Our eyes were rivetted upon him ; at whom had he levelled the piece? But the distance was so great that we looked at each other and smiled.— We saw the rifle flash, and my right hand compan. ion, as noble a looking fellow as ever rode at the head of a rigiment, fell from his saddle. The hun ter paused a few moments, without moving the gun from his shoulder, then reloaded, and assumed his former attitude. Throwing the hat rim over his eyes, and again holding it up with his left hand, he Axed his piercing gaze upon as, as if hunting out another victim. Once more, the hat rim was thrown back, the gun raised to the shoulder. This time we did riot smile, but cast short glances at each (At er, to see which must die, and when again the rifle flashed, another of us dropped to the earth. There Naa something most awful in thus marching on to certain, death. Gen Coffee's battery, and thousand's of musket balls playing upon our ranks, we cared not for—there was a chance of escaping unscathed —most of us had walked as coolly upon batteries a hundred times more destructive whhont quailing —but to know every time that rifle was leveled towards us, and its bullets sprang from the barrel, one of us must su-el) tall ; to see the gleaming sun flash as the deadly iron came down, and see it rest motionless as if poised upon a rock, and know when the hammer struck, and the spank flew to the 101 l primed pan that the messenger of death drove unerringly to its goat—to know this and still march on, was awful. I could see nothing but the tall figure standing on the breast-works—he seem. ad to grow, phantom like, higher and higher, as. summing through the smoke, the supernatural ap pearance of some great spirit of death ; again did he reload and discharge and reload and discharge his rifle with the same unfailing result; and it was with indiscribable pleasure that I belied I, as we neared the American lines, the sulpherous cloud gathering around us, and shutting the spectral hun ter from our ;am. We lost the battle; and, to my mind, the Kentucky riflemen contributed more to our defeat than anything else, for weile he remain ed to our sight, our attention was drawn from our duties; and when, at last, a e became enshrouded in the smoke, the work was completed, we were in otter confusion, and unable in the extremity to restore order sufficient to er:ake any successful at tack. We lost the battle." So long as thousands and thousands of rifles re main n. the hands of the people—so long as men come from their, childhood able, era the down up pears upon the chin, to hit the centre of a mark or strike the deer, at one hundred and fifty yards, in the most vital part; so long as there is a great pro• portion of the republic who live free as wild Indians know no leader but their own choosing, knowing no law but that of right, and the honorable obser vance of friendly intercourse, America is uncoegur able—and all the armies of the combined world, though they might drive them from the east of the Allegheny Mountains, would he able io subdue the free•souled hunter amongst the mountains and great prairie, and mighty rivers of the West, RAILROAD DIALOGI7E.—R:IIIIO34 Official,-" You'd better not smoke sir !" Traveler—That's exactly just what my filen& sal , ! Railroad Official—but you must not smoke here sir ! Traveler—So my doctor tells me. Railroad Official--