0 ODLLAR PER ANNUM, INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. TOWANDA: Satnr&an Rlornmn, 11, 1855. |}octnr. GRACE ABOUNDING. TRAN-I.ATED FROM TIIE GERMAN OF I-L'THER. •• Where *in abounded, grace did much more abound." Almighty Goil! to thee, Ilv sbanie ami anguish shaken ; Incline thy gracious ear to me, And leave me not forsaken ; For who that feels the power within Of past remorse, and present sin, Can stand, O Lord, before thee! On thee alone my stay I place, All human help rejecting, Relying on thy sovereign grace— Thy sovereign aid expecting ; 1 rest upon thy sacred word That thou "It repulse him not, 0 Lord, Who to thy mercy fleeth. And though I travail all the night, And travail all the morrow, Mv trust is in Jehovah's might— My triumph in my sorrow ; Forgetting not that thou of old Didst Israel, though weak, uphold— When weakest, thou most loving ! Far though my sinfulness is great, Redeeming grace is greater: And though all hell should lie in wait. Supreme is my Creator; For he my King aud Shepherd is, And when most helpless, most I'm his, My strength and my Redeemer! |tl is r c 113 uco us. [From Irving's Life of Washington.] THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL. The sound of drum and trumpet, the clatter of hoofs, the rattling of gun-carriages, and all the other military din and bustle in the streets of Boston, soon apprised the Americans, on their rudely fortified height, of an impending attack. They were ill fitted to withstand it, being jaded with night's labor and want of sleep: hungry, arid thirsty, having brought but scanty supplies, and oppressed by the heat of the weather, Prescott sent repeated mes sages to General Ward, asking reinforce ments and provisions. Putnam seconded the n ijtie t in person, urging the exigencies of the ease. Ward hesitated. He feared to weaken his main I ody at Cambridge, as his stores were de -1 osited there, and it might have to sustain the principal attack. At length, having taken the advice of the Council of Safety, he issued or der- to Col. Stark and Read, then at Medford, to march to the relief of Presentt with their New Hampshire regiments. The order reach ed Medford about 11 o'clock. Ammunition was distributed in ail haste—two (lints, a gill of jowdcr, and fifteen balls to each man. The balls had to be suited to the different calibres of ?iie guns ; the powder to be carried in horns, or loose in the pocket, fur there were no cart ridges prepared. It was the rude turn out of yeoman soldiery, destitute of regular accoutre ments. In the meanwhile the Americans on Breed's Hill were sustaining the fire from the ships and from the battery on Copp's llill, which open ed upon them aUiut ten o'clock. They return ed an occasional shot from one- corner of the redoubt, without much harm to the enemy, ami continued strengthening their position un til about eleven o'clock, when they ceased to work, piled up their cntrem-hing tools in the V'-ar, and looked out anxiously and imjiatiently for their anticipated reinforcements and sup plies. A1 out this time, General Putnam, who had been to head-quarters, arrived at the redoubt on horse-back. Some few words passed be tween him and Prescott with regard tothccn trwhing toils, which have been variously re ported. Tut; most probable version is, that he urged to have them taken from their present place, where they might fall into the hands of the enemy, and carried to Bunker's Hill, to fie em ployed in throwing up a redoubt, which was a part of the original plan, aud which would lie very important .-hould the troops be obliged to f' treat lioin Breed's llill. To this Prescott <! marred, that those employed to convey them, and who were already jaded with toil, might not return to his rfedoubt. A large part of : 'e tools were ultimately carried to Bunker's Ihii, and a breast-work commenced by order ben. Putnam. The importance of such a WTk was afterwards made apparent. About noon the Americans descried twrn 'J-eieht barges crossing from Boston in para lb lines. They contained a large detachment i ' : _ grenadiers, rangers aud light infantry, ad k rably equipped, and commanded by Major b'tirral Howe. They made a splendid and rmidable appearance, with their scarlet uni !" riQf: , and the sun Hashing upon muskets and ;-<jonets and brass field pieces. A heavy fire the ships and oatterics covered their ad- Wt , lmt no attempt was made to oppose ' ! 'b nnd they landed about one o'clock, Moulton's Point, a little north of Breed's Hill. here Major Geueral Howe made a pause. I' : recotinuitering the works from this point, " Americans appeared to be much more r, 3glv posted than he imagined. He ob- troo H s also hastening to their assis- Ihese were the New Hampshire troops, led p| '> Stark. Howe immediately sent over to <mi. I ago for more forces, and a supply of brought by him being found, . I'l'-h s ome egregious oversight, too large I *. 1 ie or, lnance. While aw aiting their arri vj' r ;!* res hineuts were serve d out to the troops iirr" W h y the basketfull; and tantaliz eiaU*""ft 0* t0 hungry and thirsty provin aa-'\ k down from their ramparts of earth ' •'-+ their invader", seated in groups upoD THE BRADFORD REPORTER. the grass, eating and drinking, and preparing themselves by a hearty meal for the coining en counter. The only consolation was to take advantage of the delay, while the enemy were carousing, to strengthen their position." The breastwork on the left of the position extended to what was called the slough, but beyond this, the ridge of the hill, and the slojie toward Mystic river, were undefended, leaving a pass bv which the enemy might turn the loft flank of the position and seize upon Bunker's Hill.— Putnam ordered his chosen officer, ('apt. Knowl ton, to cover the pass with the Connecticut troops under his command. A novel kind of rampart savoring of device, was suggested by the rustic General. About six hundred feet in the rear of there doubt, and about one hundred feet to left of the breastwork was a post-aud-rail fence, set in a low foot wall of stone* and extended down to Mystic River. The posts and rails of another fence were hastily pulled up and set a few feet behind this, and the intermedi ate space was filled up with new mown hay from the adjoining meadows. The double fence, it will be found, proved an important protec tion to the redoubt, although there still remain ed an unprotected interval of about seven hun dred feet. While Know]ton and his men were putting the fence, Putnam proceeded with other of his troops to throw up the work on Bunker's Hill, despatched his son, Capt. Putnam, on horseback, to hurry up the remainder of the men at Cambridge. By this time his compeer in French ami Indian warfare, the veteran Stark, made his appearance with the New Hampshire troops, five hundred strong. He had grown cool and wary with age, and his march from Medford, a distance of five or six miles, had been in character. He led his men at a moderate pace, to bring them into action fresh and vigorous. In crossing the Neck, which was enfiladed by the enemy's ships and bat teries, Capt. Dearborn, who sat by his side, suggested a quick step. The veteran shook his head. " One fresh man in action is worth ten tired ones," replied he, and marched steadily onward. Putnam detained some of Stark's men, to aid in throwing up the works on Bunker's Hill, and directed him to reinforce Knowlton with the rest. Stark made a short speech to his men, ; now that they were likely to have warm work. j He then pushed on, and did good service that i day at the rustic bulwark. About two o'clock Warren arrived on the heights, ready to engage in the perilous de fence, although he had opposed the scheme of I their occupation. He had recently been elec-' ted a Major General, lint had not received his 1 commission—like Pomeroy, he came to serve iu the ranks, with a musket on his shoulder. Putnam offered him the command at the j fence ; he declined it, and merely asked where he could lie of most service as a volunteer.— 1 Putnam pointed to the redoubt, observing that he would be under cover. " Don't think I seek a place of safety," observed Warren quick-1 ly ; " where will the attack be hottest?" Put- j nam still pointed to the redoubt. "That is I the euemy's object ; if that can be maintained , the day is ours." Warren was cheered by the troops as he entered the redoubt. Col. Pres- | cott tendered him the command. He again declined. " I have come to serve only as a volunteer, and shall be happy to learn from a soldier of your experience." Such were the noble spirits that assembled on these perilous heights. The British now prepared for a general as sault. An easy victory was anticipated ; the j main thought was, how to make it the most ef fectual. The left wing, commenced by Gen.' Pigot, was to mount the hill and force the re doubt, while Gen. Howe, with the right wing, was to push on between the fort and Mystic river, turn the left flank of the Americans, and cut off their retreat. General Pigot accordingly advanced up the hill, under cover of a lire from field pieces, howitzers planted on a small height near the landing place on Moulton's Point. His troops | commenced a discharge of musketry while yet at a long distance from the redoubts. The Americans within the works, obedient to strict command, retained their fire until the enemy were within thirty or forty paces, then 1 opened upon thein with a tremendous volley. Being all marksmen, accustomed to take deli berate aim, the slaughter was immense, and especially fatal to officers. The assailants fell back in some confusion, but, rallied on by their officers, advanced within pistol shot. Another volley, more effective than the first, made them again recoil. To add to their confusion they were galled By a Hanking fire from the handful of Provincials posted in Charlestown. Shocked at the carnage, and seeing the confusion of the troojs, Gen. Pigot was urged to give the word i for a retreat. In the meanwhile, Gen. Howe with the left | wing, advanced along Mystic river, toward the ( fence where Stark, Reed and Knowlton were j stationed, thinking to carry this slight breast work with ease, and so get in the rear of the fortress. His artillery proved of little avail, being stopped by a swampy piece of ground,! while his columns suffered from two or three field pieces with which Putnanj had fortified the fence. Howe's men kept, up a fire of mus ketry as they advanced, but not taking aim, their shot passed over the lo ads of the Ameri cans. The latter had received the same or ders with those in the redoubt, not to fire un til the enemy should be within thirty paces.— Some few transgressed the command. Putnam rode up and swore he would cut down the next man that fired contrary to orders. When the British arrived within the stated distance, a sheeted fire opened upon them from rifles,muskets and fowling pieces,all leveled with deadly aim. The carnage, as in the other in stance, was horrible. The British were thrown into confusion, and fell back ; sonic even re treated to the boats. There was a general pause on the part of the British. The American officers availed them selves of it to prepare for another attack, which must soon be made. Prescott miDgled among his men in the redoubt, who were ail iu high PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. O'MEARA GOODRICH. " REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER." spirts at the severe check they had given " the regulars.'" He praised them for their steadfast ness in maintaining their post, and their good conduct in reserving their fire until the word of command, and exhorted them to do the same in the next attack. Putnam rode about Bunker's Hill and its skirts, to rally and bring on reinforcements which had been checked or scattered, in cross ing Charlestown Neck, by a raking fire from the ships and batteries. Before many could be brought to the scene of action, the British had commenced their second attack. They again ascended the hill to storm the redoubt; their advance was covered as before with discharges of artillery. Charlestown, which had annoyed them on their first attack by a flanking tire, was in flames by shells thrown from Copp's Hill, and by marines from the ships. Being built of wood, the place was soon wrapped in a general conflagration. The thunder of artillery from the batteries and ships, the bursting of bombshells, thesharp discharge of musketry, the shouts and yells of combatants, the crash of burning buildings, and the dense volumes of smoke which obscur ed the summer sun, all formed a tremendous spectacle. "Sure I am," said Burgoync, in one of his letters—" Sure 1 am, nothing ever has or ever can be more dreadfully trerrible than what was to be seen and heard at this time.— The most incessant discharge of guns that was ever heard by mortal ears." The American troops, though unused to war, stood undismayed umid a scene where it was bursting upon them in all its horrors. Reserv ing their fire, as before, until the enemy was close at hand, they again poured forth repeat ed volleys with the unerring aim of shar|Kshoot ers. The British stood the first shock, and continued to advance ; but the incessant stream of fire staggered them. Their officers remon strated, threatened, and even attempted to goad them on with their swords, but the havoc was too deadly—whole ranks were mowed down—many of the officers were either slain or wounded, aud among them several of the staff of Howe. The troops again gave way and retreated down the hill. All this passed under the eyes of thousands of spectators of both sexes aud all ages, watch ing from afar every turn of the battle, in which the lives of those most dear to them were at hazard. The British soldiery in Boston gazed with astonishment and almost incredulity at the resolute and protracted stand of raw mili tia whom they had been taught to despise, and at the havoc made among their own veteran troops. Every convoy brought over to the town increased their consternation ; and Gen eral Clinton, who had watched the action from Copp's Hill, embarked in a boat, hurried over as a volunteer, taking with him reinforce ments. A third attack was now determined on, al though some of Howe's officers remonstrated, declaring it would be downright butchery. A different plan was adopted. Instead of advanc ing in front of the redoubts, it was to be tak eu iu flank ou the left, where open space be tween the breastwork and the fortified fence presented a weak point. It having been ac cidentally discovered that the ammunition of the Americans was nearly expended, prepara tions were made to carry the worksat the point of the bayonet ; and the soldiery threw oil' their knapsacks, and some even their coats, to be more light for action. Gen. Howe, with the main body, now made a feint of attacking the fortified fence ; but while a part of his force was thus engaged, the rest brought some field pieces to enfilade the breastwork on the left of the redoubt. A rak ing fire soon drove the Americans out of this exposed place into the enclosure. Much dam age, too, was dune in the latter by balls which entered the sallyport. The troops were now led on to assail the works—those who fliiicheu were as before goad ed on by the swords of the officers. The Ameri cans again reserved tlieir fire until their assail ants were close at hand, and then made a mur derous volley, by which several officers were laid low, and Gen. Howe himself was wounded in the foot. The British soldiery this time likewise re serving their lire, and rushed on with their bayonets. Clinton and Pigot had reached the southern and eastern sides of the redoubt, and it was now assailed on three sides at once.— Prescott ordered those who had no bayonets to retire to the back part of the redoubt, and to fire on the enemy as they showed themselves on the parapet. The first who mounted ex claimed in triumph, "the day is ours !" lie was instantly shot down, and so were several others who mounted about the same time. The Americans, however, had fired the last round, their ammunition was exhausted ; and now suc ceeded a desperate and deadly struggle, hand to hand, with bayonets, stones, and the stocks of their muskets. At length, as the British continued to pour in, Prescott gave the order to retreat. His men had to cut. their way through two divis ions of the enemy, who were getting in rear of the redoubt, aud they received a destruc tive volley from those who had formed on the captured works. By that volley fell the pa triot Warren, who had distinguished himself throughout the action. He was among the last to leave the redoubt, and had scarcely done so, when he received a shot, through the head with a musket ball, aud fell dead on the spot. While the Americans were thus slowly dis lodged from the redoubt, Stark, Reed and Knowlton maintained their position at the for tified fence, which indeed had been nobh de fended throughout the action. Pomeroy dis tinguished himself here by his sharp shooting, until his musket was shattered by a ball. The resistance at this hastily constructed work was kept up after the troops in the redoubt had given way, and until Col. Prescott had left the hill, thus defeating Gen. Howe's design of cut ting off the retreat of the main body, which would have produced a scene of dire confusion and slaughter. Having effected their purpose, the brave associates of the fence abandoned their weak outpost, retiring slowly, and dispu ting the groand, ineb by inch, with a regulari- Tv remarkable in troops, many of whom had never before been in action. The main retreat was across Bunker's Hill, where Putnam had endeavored to throw up a breastwork. The veteran, sword in hand, rode to the rear of the retreating troops, regardless of the balls whistling about him. His only thought was to rally them at the unfinished works. "Halt! make a stand here!" cried he ; "we can check them yet. In God's name form, and give tliem one shot more." Pomeroy, wielding his shattered musket as a truncheon, seconded him iu his efforts to stay the torrent. It was impossible, however, to bring the troops to a stand. They continued on down the hill to the Neck, and across to Cambridge, exposed to the raking fire from the ships and batteries, and protected only bv a single piece of ordnance. The British were too exhausted to pursue them, they contented themselves with taking possession of Bunker Hill, were reinforced from Boston, and threw up additional works through the night. THE " KlNK." —Riding through one of our country villages, a short time before our annu al election, we chanced to meet a boy with books, slate, Ac., under his arm, whom we re cognized to be a Protestant clergyman's son of the village—when the following dialogue en sued : " Well, my son, have you been to school to day ?" " I don't know, sir." "\ ou don't know ! what makes von answer thus?" " Oil, my mother says I must follow the ex ample of my pious father ; and that is the way he answers when she asks him about the Know- Nothing party, and she says he don't lie, because there is a kink in it. " But when 1 asked you if you had been to school you said you did not know. Now is that the truth ?" " Oh, there is a kink in it; they don't call it a school—they call it the Academy." Truly, thought I, that is a young American, aud no mistake. AN UNFORTUNATE MAN.—I am fallen into the hands of publicans and sequestrators, and they have taken all from me. What now ? Let me look about mo. Thcv have left me sun and moon, fire and water, a loving wife and many friends to pity me, and some to relieve me; and I can still discourse ; and unless I list, they have not taken away my merry coun tenance, and niv cheerful spirits, and a good conscience ; they have still left me the provi dence of God, and all the promises of the gos pel, and my religion and my hope of heaven, aud my charity to them too. And still 1 sleep, and digest, and eat and drjnk ; I read and meditate ; I can walk in my neighbors' pleas ant fields, and see the varieties of natural beau ty, and delight in all that which God delights —that is, iu virtue and wisdom, in the whole creation, and in God himself. THE MAGNITUDE OF THE EARTH. —According to a recent authority, the circumference of the globe is twenty-live thousand and twenty miles. It is not so easy to comprehend so stupendous a circle as to put down its extent in figures.— It becomes more palpable perhaps, by compari son, such as this : A railway train, travelling incessantly night and da v. at the rate of twenty live miles an hour, would require six weeks to go around it. The cubical bulk of the earth is two hundred and sixty thousand millions of cubic miles ! Dr. Gardner says, if the materials which form the globe were built up in the form of a column, having a pedestal of the magnitude of England and Wales, tiie height of the column would be nearly four-and-a-half millions ol miles. A tunnel through the earth, from England to New Zealand, would be nearly eight thousand miles long. How TO CHOOSE A HUSBAND. —Never marry a man until you have seen him eat. Let the candidate for your hand pass through the or deal of eating soft boiled eggs. If he can do it and leave the table spread, the napkin and his sli irt unspotted -take him. Try him next with a spare-rib. If he accomplishes this feat without putting out one of his own eyes, or pitching the bones into your lap, then name the wedding-day at once ; he will do to tie to. B*b'" THE PEN —in a hand that knows how to use it, is the most powerful weapon known. A* the tongue of the absent, how cheering ! When the golden tints of virtue guide it, how beautiful! Where self-respect gives it a new vigor, how pleasing ! Where honor directs it, how respected ! Where wit sharpens it, how fatal ! When scrutiny wields it, how contemptible! 'Tis the weapon of the soul. A FUNNY CASE. —An old tojier, in flic last stages of dropsy, was told by the physician that nothing would save him but being tapped. Ilis little son objected to this operation, by saying, " Father, don't let him. for you know there ne ver was anything in this house that lasted a week, after it was tapped." gfej?" The Emperor of Japan's bedstead is superbly carved and gilded. By a singularly ingenious contrivance, a current of water may be conducted off around the tester, and at plea sure made to fall in transparent curtains of rain, completely encircling the royal couch, for the double purpose of keeping off the mosqui toes and tempering the warm air to delicious coolness, which, in that sultry climate, is the consummation of bliss to reposing listlcssnoss. ft®- I beg you to take to heart one maxim, which for myself I have ever observed, and ever shall —it is, never to say more than is m eessary. The unspoken word never docs harm; what is once uttered, cannot be recalled ; arid no man can foresee its consequences. KaT" " Martha, have you hung up your clothes?" "No, madam, I placed them "in a tate of suspension—bungis vu'gar." [From the Knickerbocker Magazine for May.] JUDGE NOT HARSHLY. JUDGE not harshly : kindly speak Of thy brother, frail and weak ; For the loving, gentle tone Often hath the erring won ; While the stern and angry word But the depths of passion stirred. Judge not harshly : dost thou know All thy fellow-mortal's woe, And the heart-corroding care Every human breast doth bear ? No! Each soul hath secret grief, None but HEAVEN can give relief. Judge not harshly ; for the sigh Borne to HIM who sits on high, And the penitential tear, Dropped when none but God is near. Are in heaven a richer gem, Than earth's costliest diadem. Judge not harshly : for, in love, JESUS judges from above ; And as thou His grace would see, Have HIM kindly smile on thee. Of thy brother, frail and weak, Judge not harshly—kindly speak. A Story of Colt's Revolver. An Irishman, formerly well known a? one of the choicest spirits iu Trinity College, Dublin but who, owing to the dilapidated fortunes of his ancient family, expatriated himself some few years since, and entered the Turkish army, wrote a letter or rather journal, addressed to"a frieud about a year since, of which the follow ing is an extract. It may suffice to state that lie was engaged in the Turkish campaign in Asia, and during a severe engagement was wounded on the heights of Basch-Kakik-Lar. After having described the horrors of the field and his narrow escapes in two or three skirmishes, he gave the details of his sufferings for a day and two nights during which he lay exposed among the slain and wounded on the field of buttle. The story of the manner of his escape from two plunderers oreamp follow ers, by means of a revolving pistol, is so curious that we make no apology for extracting a somewhat lengthy passage. We commence the narrative about the middle of the journal : All lias been long silent, save occasionally a groan from some poor creature wounded like me, perhaps dying, and the howling of the wolves from the forest skirting the field of bat tle—a pretty sort of wake for a decent Christian Turk, and worse by distances, I can tell you, my dear , than Fat Houlagan's grand mother's screeches the night we entered her cabin on the moor after that famous day's snipe shooting when they laid him out as they said, "so daceut wid the plate on his chest, the spalpeen." Well, to return from this digression. I felt how fortunate it was that I lay so near the middle of the plain—a sort of centre dish you see—since otherwise I would have been torn hy some savage or other, before any one would have been likely to inquire into the precise zoological nature of my decease. 1 knew very well the next morning I would be rescued, as I could see that the Russians were retiring, their fires being all out this night, and 1 had just said to myself, "Jack, it is all right, you will be easy and comfortable with your limb elegantly bandaged to-morrow," and I actually tried to whistle " The Bells of Shandon," aud " Rory O'More," and one or two other tunes to keep up my spirits. It was rather a failure both in execution and intention, I will own.— And now for a description which our old friend Charley Lever might do justice to. On a leafless tree near me sat six or seven huge birds of prey, gorged with their horrible repast. I knew they were not likely to touch me whilst I remained living—l cannot add, lively ; but I suddenly saw a figure flitting to and fro, like the ghost of my aunt , and occasionally stooping as if engaged in some office of mercy, und thereby now aud then lost among'the broken groups of men, and horses, Ac., heaped upon the plain, and now and then emerging into the bright light of the moon as it came forth from behind the dark masses of clouds that occasionally obscured the terrible landscape. " What is it ?" says I. Presently 1 became aware of the existence of four or five other figures similarly employed. At one time I thought they were women, and then priest administering consolation and aid. I thought of the Spanish stories poor Major Atk—ns used to tell us. I knew there were monks in Asia, though I could not tell where they came from. Then all kinds of strange thoughts of ghosts and vampires, the very creations of the country I was in, suggested themselves to my imagination. I gazed until I could gaze no longer at their forms, which seemed hardly to approach nearer, and at length fell back, contemplating a silvery halo round the moon, which puts nie in mind of the Cove of Cork and Lucy M •, the darling. 1 might have continued thus about half an hour, when a sound caused me to turnaround, and I beheld a sight that filled me with horror. A figure like one of the witches in Macbeth was stooping over and grappling with the wounded Russian General, who lay some ten paces distant from nie. I could hear every breath and movement of the pair as the veteran struggled with his fiendish assailant. There was a fearful stillness about the deed ; for the victim uttered not a word, probably in disdain of his fate. After a desperate effort he succeed ed in holding off her skinny and ensanguined arms, and while doing so uttered a few words in Russian which I could not understand.— Finding her task difficult, she gave a hiss like a serpent, and presently a male eondfederate, looking like Burke or Hare clothed for an Adelphia melodrama, such as I have seen in London, stole to her assistance and deliberately passed a long knife into the bosom of the hap less Russian. I heard the sound of it, and the low deep groan that followed. Vainly had 1 endeavored to shout, in order to scare these fiends from their prey ; but my tongue clove to the roof of my mouth. I was like one nnder a nightmare. Suddenly the moon dived beneath a cloud. When it came out again, the I spoilers of the field of death had finished | plundering the Russian general, whose white 1 ha>, livid features, and itarticg eye-balls I VOL. XVI. X 0.9. could plainly see, and were engaged in dividing or securing the booty. Tlic glittering eyes of the wrinkled Zingara, for such she was, then turned upon me. It was evident from their expression that my turn was at hand. A tumult of thoughts agitated mv breast. To die thus, after escaping with life from the events of the week ! It was horrible. Already I felt the clutch of those bird-like fingers at my throat. Already I fancied that butcher-like knife, red from a hundred murders, and warm from the old General's side, slowly passing into my breast. I could offer no resistance. My left arm was broken—my ankle twisted —my strength utterly gone. I raised myself partly tip, as with hidious deleberation the pair cautiously ap proached, one on each side. What would I have given at that moment to be heading a " forlorn hope to be struggling with the breakers as when lately wrecked on the stormy Caspian ; to be standing opposite the best saw handle shot in he county Galway ; to be hob nobbing over my father's claret, in my grand father's house, with the blackguard attorney who ruined us all ; to be listening to the un mistakable refusal to marry me of the only girl I ever loved, or to be arrested by a dirty tailor on the eve of a steeple chase, in which I was the favorite gentleman rider. Don't fancy that I thought of all these things at a time, though I never thought so much in a year as I did in those few moments. The ugly Jewish features of the man ap proached me with the fascination of a serpent. I twisted myself round to meet the still more fiendish glance of the woman. They neared me. The clutch of the hag is already at my throat. The knife of the man is upraised.—- Suddenly the chords of speech were loosened, and I screamed—screamed like a horse in the middle of the battle-field. I shall never forget the sound of my own voice in that unearthly cry. The monster drew back, but it was only to look at each other. At that instant I thought of something—with my right hand I drew forth my Colt's revolver.— 1 remember distinctly, during the instant it took to pluck it forth, all the incidents of the two days previous—each time I had fired it, and that there were two charges left when T was shot down from my horse. To snatch it forth, cock it, level it, to pull the trigger, was the work of a second. Down went the man, a filthy corpse upon the ground. 1 remember seeing the shadowy forms of the obscene birds cropful in the solitary tree near me lazily extend their wings as the sharp report rang out. The hag fled a half dozen paces, like a startled glioud ; but she was burdened with spoil, and her foot caught against the very corpse of him whom she had assisted to murder. Before she could rise, I had covered her with my pistol. One! two! three! "She has it!" I cried. But it was not fated that she should enjoy the privilege of instant death. She fell wounded and crippled. Her moans and maledictions were horrible I had struck her, I believe, in the hip joint. At length, 1 conceived the idea of dragging myself from that appalling vicinity ; for these two wretches had made the accustomed sights and sounds of the battle field familiar and en durable by comparison with their neighborhood either in life or death. I was not disturbed again that night, and indeed do not remember much more until I found myself on a litter and among friendly faces. Looking forth, as I was borne away, I saw only one sight in all that ghastly field of death. 11 was the old Zingara's corpse. Plundered in turn by my soldiers, it lay naked, stripped of its gaudy rags, and a monstrous vulture had selected it for his prev, as something more corrupt than all that lay around. My faithful Acbmet told me that for hours after they found me he could uot succeed in getting me to relax ray gripe on my Colt's pistol. If I survive these wars, and ever become a respectable citizen in '• ould Ireland," again, that weapon shall be a precious heirloom to hand down to my children's children as the instrument of my providential escape from such a death. THLKURAPFIIC.—When it was first reported that Professor Morse had succeeded in convey ing intelligence between Baltimore and Wash ington through the wires of the Magnetic Telegraph, old savant, who had been a school master and a member of the Legislature, gavo it as his opinion that the report was " a humbug !" lu fact, from his knowledge of "astronomy," he said the thing could not be done ! Shortly after, O'Reilly's men were seen setting the poles directly by the old man's dwelling. Ouc day he joined the crowd who were witnessing the operation of stretching the wire. Upon being asked what he thought of the matter then, lie hesitated a moment, assurn ug an air of importance, and then replied " Well, gentlemen, while in the Legislature, I gave the subject considerable attention, and after some investigation and reflection, I have come to the conclusion that it may answer very well for small packages, but will never do for large bundles—never 1" WIT AS IS WIT. —At a social party a few nights since, no matter where, a lady a.ked a lawyer, " Why is coal like a celebrated law book ?" " I have no doubt of its being Black stone,''replied the lawyer. "But," said the lady, "we burn Coke also." "True," said the lawyer, " but at most of the coal-yards you get a very Little-tou !" L-7U Physicians rarely t ike medicine, 1 w --v rs seldom go to law, and ministers steer clear of other parson's churches. Editors, however, read all the papers they can get. K-g- Our tempers arc like an opera glass, which makes the objects look small or groat, according to the end we look through. eg- Put a spoonful of horseradish into a yai of milk, and it will remaiu sweet for several di.y?. aar You may depend upon it, he is a good man, whose intimate friends ere all good.
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