dollar per ANNUM, invariably in advance. TOAVA ND A : £!]AVoiit'i ftlorumo, December ISSIj. jrelfctcb IJotfrij. [From tin- On'.ilia l.'uivcr-ity Magazine.] AUTUMN. Tlie Autumn liglit is sleeping I'j, ,n the yellow plain ; The harvest men are reaping The swarths <>f (ioUtrit grain ; The merry maids the furrows throng, ml l.iiui the sheaves with rheelTtii song, While ehihlivu stoop the ears to glean, That lull the niaUlen'.s hands between. At length, with day's deeiining. The westering sun sinks bright ; The harvest moon, now shining. Floods heaven with mellow light; F.iou the green sward merrily, To notes of rustic minstrelsy, Voting men and maidens, five from care, I lame in the evening Autumn air. Xow sere the leaves are growing \\ ith many a russet streak, JuT i:ke the death bloom glowing on .1 dying maiden's cheek, >.l bleakly I I ovs the Autumn breeze. Ami -a eps the leaves from moaning trees, Ami r.u.i by day and frost by night O'er-:.1. ;.1 the flowers and liehls with blight. llat tiei igh the leaves are dying. And dowers iiave lost their Mount— Though blight on earth is lying, And heaven is tilled with gloom, I), trustful heart! he of go,, j cheer, For time brings r mm! the rolling year : Win •; Winter and Spring and Summer are o'er, Tin ■ 'den \rl imn will te itu once more. sele cll b C;il c. [From Putnam's M:iga7.inc.] TilK COl NTliiil KIT COIN. CIJAITKK I. Litie otic Saturday afternoon, in a certain JV. ember, 1 sat by a good sea coal tire in my niliee, trying to muster courage enough for tin li.eoiuiHr with the cold winds and driving -t iin outside. Half ashamed to confess my iwnnliee to my self, I had done every ttune em-ary tiling I could think of to kill time, till, •b.t, 1 was reduced to the necessity of count ing over the contents of my purse. This, how ever, wu.s but a brief resource. " A short nst hi- pro verb bath it, "is soon eur r:. i " The only coin worth lingering oil was '■-111, m-.v hali'-eagle, given me that morn i:.g ! y sonieeliauceeiistoiuer, as my reeompetice f.T " doing a deed." l.in.ited a- my practice and mv fees bad nl v.ays been, half-eagles were not entirely a no v-ify tn me ■ and yet, from a pp-ionged atten tion with which, in tny procrast: atitig fratiu •■!' mind. 1 regarded if, ii looker-io might have 'Osed ! was studying some rare antique, -lead of a very ordinary specimen of I m-ie daily spending money I examined it re-'clogieally, with r< fereiice to the date, and, -i "graphically, in respect to the mark of the "et whence it issued. I compared the eagle, i tie one side, with my remembrance of such * !•!lio'ogiettl specimens as 1 had seen in tra iingmuseums, and of the effigy—then solemn ly believed to lw> of solid gold—which, in my y : -!i day-, kept watch and ward over Tom ray Tow ax nd's coffee-house. I scrutinized the ■ml o| liber'y wftli tin- eyes of a physiogno M'-t ; and in attempting, with n sharp-pointed k !c, to give the hvbrid profile a more ii'.:i 'a'- nmnth, I accomplished sundry seratch • whirl, might very well have passed for a ittstaehe, b< ,-id< s cutting my fingers, and break - at once, the knife blade and the third eoiu iwhni'iit. A kui.-k at the door checked the half-utter ' niali-diction, and was only repeated when I ""I " Cuim- in." Had spiritual tappings been i then, I might have thought that Sa " las patience exhausted by this new devel ; i:or of wickedness, was about to foreclose " lnort.-aao lc- is popularly supposed to hold lv, i'y uu ruber of onr profession ; as it was, i'v rose and opened the door. The ruddy : _!it streamed ont into the dark entry,and ' J:l figure thiit seemed almost the n:ent of its coldness and gloom. The - f'-. however, was too familiar to me to in re any npcrnatural fears, being that of a •'-'woman who earned a scanty livelihood . "pv.r g for l iwy rs. Why need F describe An employment requiring easy penman mill Mime acquaintance with commas and * "'\ :f not with the more essential parts of ':on. falls almost, as a matter of course, ~ p who, at some period, have greater ad- : i'-'s— to those who, ill that common but '"■ wiling phrase, " have known better Ihe n ult is easily guessed. It might ■' ni many a talc of patient suffering and ": of bright eyes dimmed with late watch - ■■? red c!k-( k- blanched to the hue of the : ' f'Te tin in ; of young hopes withered •" 'link, till they are as lifeless and void of - to the weary heart, as the dry legal '-f tin- copy to the tired hand that tran tiu-m ! . ' ■ v 'ib- f had been lingering idly by my , '-" aliiig to face the storiu, this seantily '- r had walked all the way from her dis - irr.-t. She did not tell mc that she was - and ehilled to the ve y heart ; but I . i" her pinched face, in the frozen sleet "O'Tcd her dross of faded mourning, and . ni' 1 *- w j her of the trifling sum she was to f 1 the enj,ving. This was the first , • I ever employed her. In fact, I did •'find it necessary to obtain such ox <'i'i in getting through my busi ' '•! > -cut 'ire-asioil was due h-'SS to the pressure of my own occupations than to the whims of one of 1113* best clients, who had declared that lie would see ine in a still worse place than Wall street, before he would speud time in deciphering my legal chirography, or the school-boy pothooks and hungers of my only and very juvenile clerk. 1 took the package and ran my,eye over its contents. They were written in a neat piain hand, just stiff enough to show that the con sciousness of copying for a lawyer had marred the writer's ease. As copies they were scru pulously correct, and finished even to the num bering of the folios in the margin. I silently reekoued the price, and, as 1 did, it. occurred to me that 1 could only pay it that evening by the sacrifice of my half-eagle. It was in vain that I once more opened my purse, which, cer tainly, was not Fortuuatus', for 1 found noth ing more there than I had seen in it an hour before—small change of the very smallest va riety. Could I put her off until Monday ? Without that half-eagle, my Saturday night's marketing would lie a very small affair. Hut what will tier's he without it ?" said my conscience. "If you feel the inconvenience of an empty pocket so much, what must it be to those who earn food and shelter from day to day { Daily Dread is something more than a mere form of speech 10 them !" Perhaps a little, will serve her immediate wants. ►Selfishness received this suggestion very approvingly ; and 1 turned, from my pa pers to the copyist, to make the suggestion. She stood, on the other side of the fire-place, as motionless as il'she had been a caned pil lar, placed there to support the mantle,against which her shoulder rested. One foot—a neat one, even in its worn, wet shoe—peeped from beneath her dress, as if drawn irresistibly to ward the grateful warmth. Indeed, her whole attitude seemed to express the same feeling.— S' " did not bend ami crouch over the lire as a beggar would have done. She did not sit before it and court its cheerful heat as if it had blazed on her own hearth-stone. Scarce ly swerving from the most erect position as she leaned against the marble, her clasped hands hanging before her, she seemed to be bracing herself against an attraction that would draw her completely into the flame. I could almost fancy that, ii' left to itself, her slender form would be drawn closer and clos er, till liuallv, it mingled with the dickering blaze, and, with it, passed into viewless air. Hut, when I lifted my eyes to her face, F saw that she was, at least, unconscious of the fancied impulse. Jler fixed eyes, and a faint smile on her lip, told that some pleasant tho't had beguiled her, even there, into a day-dream. Following the direction of her gaze, 1 saw that it rested on the same solitary coin which had been the subject of my own meditations, and which lay ju-'t where I had dropped*it, on the table, when startled by her knock. Modern critics are very fond of talking about the sgg'.v/irc in art and literature. To my own mind (because it. is hackneyed and woFdly, I suppose they would say,) there is tio '• •>!,; ;u t;„. language so suggestive a- /.- uty —no work of art that brings up so varied thoughts ns those very remarkable profiles and eiligics which adorn our current coin. Dross in itscit, if the philosophers will have it so ; yet, as a means, a tool, a path, is it not won derful in the versatility of its power '( What magician ever worked such wonders in the ma terial world ? What spirit works so univer sally, so unfailingly, so unceasingly, in the moral ? Kveu that single coin 011 my table— that infinitesimal drop in the great ocean of wealth—how much lies within the circumfer ence of sin ii a small piece of metal ? To my own mind—worldly and hackneyed as I have before observed—it had been suggestive of a great many things. Compressed within its disc, I had seen my Sunday dinner, ample, done to a turn, rich with dripping gravy, and smoking hot from the roasting jack. From its metallic rim 1 had already sipped, in imagina tion, the rare old Amontillado. A fragment of the gold had curled my lips in fragrant wreaths of smoke. And if I, to whom even half-eagles were not unfrcqueut visitors, and who, if I had known poverty at all, had known him only as a neighbor to be shunned, and not as an inmate to be fought ; who, even in my worst estate, had been spared the pain of see ing him enter at my own door, and sit down with my dear ones at their .scanty meal ; if I could see so much in a half-eagle, whatu world wide prospect of happiness might it not open to that poor girl's eyes ? J dared not dwell on the tilings she might see there, lest I should loath myself and the well-fed Christian men around me, who so rarely grant such visions to the starved eyesight ; but I immediately gave up all thoughts of sending tiie girl away without her money. Yes, her money ! For hers it was, by all that can make good title in law or equity ; earned by the fragment of her young life she had given for it ; earned with the very flesh from her wasted frame, and the blood from her pale cheeks. What badness had I to be speculating and sentimentalizing thus about the affairs of a young lady with whom I had only a little bu siness transaction ? I might have known that such an unprofessional train of thought would lead to some blunder ; the earthen pot and the iron one can never swim safely together, in fact or fable. Consequently, I broke in ii|i -011 the poor girl's reverie with the most auk ward question in the world : " Have you any change, miss Tiie scarlet blood rushed to her face, as she shook her head ; and mine was already on its way there, when I tried to mend the matter by hurrying out : " No, no, of course you haven't V And there I stuck ; and if ever a middle aged counsellor—at-law felt like a fool, in his own oflice, I did. ller eyes were filled with tears at what must have seemed the rudeness of my remark. I could have gone oil my knees to a>k her par don, if I had only known in what words to phrase the entreaty. The scene was so em barrassing, that 1 cut it short by pressing the coin into her hand, and telling her that wc would make it all right, if -he would come for PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT TO WAN DA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. O'MEARA GOODRICH. " REcIARDLES-S OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER." mire work on Monday. Very likely she would have said something in reply 1; but. not feeling inclined to test mv conversational powers fur ther, after such an unlucky beginning, I hastily bade her good-night, and opened the door. \\ hen her back was fuirlv turned, I took inv candle and held it at the stair-head, till she had reached the bottom of the last iougilight; and then going back to my arm chair, wonder ed what. Mrs. Quidum would say to a cold Sunday dinner. CHAPTER n. " If that rascally boy of mine has not made a good lire,' said I to myself, as I walked down town, the Monday morning following, " I shall certainly give him the thrashing in which I have stood indebted him so long." I'rom this novel species of accord and satis faction, however, the lnuch-thcreof-descrving youth was saved by an unexpected incident.— Seated by the cheerless and neglected grate, as 1 entered, 1 beheld my visitor of the preced ing Saturday night. Her pule sad face was even paler and sadder than before, and I thought there were tears in her eyes, and tra ces of many that had preceded them. But, perhaps, this was owing to the smoke now pouring from the mass of paper and wet wood, with which Tom, as usual, greeted my arrival. " I am sorry to tell you, sir," she said, after answering tny salutation, " that the coin you gave me was a bad one." A bad one—my beautiful half-eagle a coun terfeit ! In what of earth can confidence, then, he placed ? I took it in my hand ; it certainly had every appearance of being ge nuine. " Positively, you must be mistaken, mv dear. I could not be deceived so easily." And feel ing that 1 undoubtedly appeared to her as a gentleman, whom the daily inspection <>f un limited gold coin had made a perfcet Sir Ora cle upon the subject, I drew myself up before the lire, " As who .-liould say, " Let no dog Lark." " ller lip quivered as she replied : " Indeed, sir, I am very, very sorry ; but it must be so, for—for you know I had 110 other but that." " And pray how did you learn it to be a counterfeit ?" "\\ lieu 1 left here, sir, I went directly up to—to a place where some of our things were, 1 went to pay the little sum we had borrowed of them when my mother was taken sick, and the man took the half-eagle, and said it was a counterfeit, and gave it hack to me." " Nonsense, child, the man was mistaken." She did not argue the point ; but made a brief apology for the trouble she had given me. and hesitated " I trust," said I, still somewhat grandilo quent and condescending, as a man whose re sources have unjustly been suspected, " that the fcilow s stupidity has caused you no incon venience A bright hectic flush crossed her pale cheek as an instinctive denial rose to her lips. Fur ther than that the falsehood could not come ; her head sunk between her hands, and the poor girl, weak, and cold, and starving, as 1 afterwards know, sobbed violently. Little by little, I learned lier sail storv. It need not be repeated here ; it lacks, alas ! tin* ebarin of novelty. Years of still deepening poverty—and yesterday, when .Mrs. tjuidam and 1 were grumbling at our leg of cold mut ton, this poor child and her sick mother passed the long cold day without food or lire ; even the warm clothes and bedding, which this mo ney was to have redeemed from the pawnbro ker's denied to their shivering limbs. I put on niv hat, and stepped over to Bul lion's to get change for the half-eagle. The clerk threw it carelessly on a balance, and had already handed me the change, when he saw that the delicate arm, after vibrating a little, did not decline with weight. He took it tip, and handed it to the head of the linn, and, af ter a short consultation between them, I was a.-ked into the inner olliee. A chemical test soon proved the worthless character of the coin. Bullion asked uie if 1 knew where I had received it ? " Certainly." " I have seen two or three, of lale, precise ly like it. The counterfeit is a dextrous one, and we have in vain tried to trace its origin. If you can assist lis in tliis, it w ill be a great service to the community." I took up the deceptive coin, and scrutinized it curiously. The workmanship was perfect ; the thought at once (lashed across my mind, tun perfect : where was the knife mark I my self had made ? I could not be deceived—the coin had certainly been changed. And this was the end of all my fine sentiment about the interesting young girl ! In a few words, I communicated the circum stances connected with it, to .Mr. Bullion, w ho jumped at once to the conclusion. " I thought so," said lie, " i thought so ! I knew that some fresh and unsuspected parties must be made use of in this matter. The old hands we know too well," lie added, with a chuckle. It was soon agreed between us tliat the girl should be detained, and no time lost in extract ing front her a confession, as to the persons whose tool she undoubtedly was. We accord ingly repaired together to my odiee, where we found her patiently waiting. In answer to my qnsstions, she repeated her story with much apparent frankness, until I asked the name of the person to whout she offered the coin. Af ter some hesitation, she named a very respec table pawnbroker, in C street, to whom, as well as to the police oftice a messenger was immediately dispatched. Mr. Forceps soou came, and we received hiui in another apartment, llis answers to the inquiries we made completely confirmed our suspicions. Such a coin us we showed him, (the counterfeit,) had beeu offered to him on the previous Saturday night, by a young woman ; and on being confronted with our prisoner, (for such we now considered her,) lie at once recognized her a- the same. Her own frightened, pullied lace would have satisfied us of the foot. Half-rising, as if to -neak, she caught sight of a police officer, just entering the door, and she fainted I went homo that'night ill-pleased with my (Itiy's work. That the girl was guilty, seemed bui too clear. Dut I could not believe that she was anything more than an instrument, and my experience in eriniiual law, slight as it was, i taught uie how slender the chances were of ar resting the,guilty [Ktrlies. Had we obtained a confession before she fainted, something might have been done ; but, now tlie matter had got into the hands of the police, such shrewd ras cals as they evidently were, would pretty sure ly get wind of it in time to escape. " And so the whole upshot of the matter," said 1, to myself, " will be the ruin of the young woman, .and tin article in to-morrow's pa]tor, which fpr the effect it will have, might as well be inserted under the head " Personal," and rend thus : " If the gentlemen who have been in the habit of employing a young person, in fading , mourning, to disseminate fallacious half-eagles i in this community, do not find it convenient to remove their business, for the present, to soine I other place, they will incur the danger of be- I iug involved in the unfortunate disaster which j has befallen her." " And this, Legulcius Quidam," I conclud | ed, " is the great service to tbeeouimuity which \ you and Mrs. Quidaiu have rendered !" t j An officer had called in the afternoon to tell , me that the prisoner's residence had been found and searched, but that no further discoveries , had been made. This, however, enabled me to find the unfortunate mother, and provide | some scanty comforts for her in her terrible I affliction. In doing this, I felt that I was but performing a duty. Society, I reasoned with ( , myself, finds it needful for i!s own protection, to take the guilty daughter, and shut her up j in jail ; but the daughter is the innocent mo-, liter's only support ; ergo, society must take I thai daughter's place. And as 1 felt that so- | , ciety, in the abstract, might be somewhat re- i miss in the performance of its duty, I ordered ! I some fuel and groceries, and went home, feel-1 ing myself to be an embodiment of the whole social economy. That night I dreamed that I was playing in a very poor and very tiresome tragedy, called Lite, and that I was suddenly called on to . take the part of Brutus, the Koiuau father. CHAPTER 111. The course of retributive justice, as adminis-1 tcred here on earth, has more different paces ! than Rosalind has attributed to time ; but. ! " those with whom it lags withal," arc not of- ! ten the poor and friendless. A few days only j elapsed before I was summoned as a witness I to attend the trial of Alice Sumner. In the ! meantime, both Mr. Bullion and myself made I great, but fruitless efforts, to obtain a further | insight into the true facts of the ease. The! prisoner herself made no confession, but con- i stoutly asserted In r innocence, to ilie great j discomfiture of the broker, and the unutterable perplexity of mvself. I sought in vain, for a j Haw in tin; chain of evidence against her, or a j chance to establish her innocence by other facts. Even the general testimony of good ' character, the Inst frail reed on which she leant, i seemed to bend beneath her. She and her j mother had but lately come to the city, and to ' all our inquiries, as to their former home and j friends, we received only courteous, but eva-j sive answers. It was evident that some dark j eloinl of sorrow, if not of crime, hung over their past history ; and this, while it did not diminish the interest 1 felt in her, sadly weak ened mv confidence in her defense. It was tlie day before the trial, and I satin ruy oflice musing | >aiiii'ul 1 y on the dark features of the ease, when a stranger entered. The first glance assured nie, that he was one of a class of clients with which most of our city lawyers arc familiar A seedy, decrepit old man, hum ble yet querulous, dejected, and yet visionary, bearing about a tattered and worn collection of papers, and pitifully urging his talc of wrong and suffering, from which the patient listener gleans at the same time, a belief that the sad tale is true, and a melancholy conviction that knavery has so cunningly hidden, or time so long obliterated the evidences of the wrong, that no court save that of the Omniscient, can ever set it right. I turned from the man more pettishly than 1 should have done but for tlte subject that en grossed my thoughts. The poor old man's spirits were too much broken to take offense at my rudeness. .Beseechingly he added " 1 did not mean to give yon trouble for nothing, sir. i have lint little to offer yon now, but 1 will pay you liberally when 1 gain my ease. You shall have—■you see 1 mean to lie generous—let me see—l cannot recover less than twenty thousand dollars—it may be thir ty, or even forty—and you shall have a quar ter of it all. Think of that, sir ! Ten thou sand dollars for one' case !"' And my client threw himself back in his chair, feeling for the thousandth time, poor fellow ! that his trouble were almost over, and the phantom, in pursuit of which his life lrad been wasted, at least within his grasp, >'o doubt in his blissful vis ion, he already began to look on me us a re cipient of his bounty and to wonder at the cool ness with which I regarded the glittering prize before me. Hut I had been dazzled more than once in the same wav. " How much can you afford nie as a retain er T " Now ?" I ft* seemed to be engaged in an abstruse calculation as if over the resources of H nation. " Ten thousand dollars when the ease is finished, sav, six months or a year hence. Suppose we say live dollars, sir, ou account." There was something so painfully eager in the look that accompanied these words, that I suppressed the smile which had been prompt mi by the pathos in his oiler, and signified my acceptance. My client drew from his pocket a lank purse, and from the purse a solitary coin. Poor dreamer ! he was paying his all for this one more ticket in the lottery. I had opened my lips to bid hun leave his pa pers and take back the coin when my eye fell on it. One scrutinizing glance, and 1 jumped from my si at as if electrified by the little piece of gold. " Where did you get this money, sir ?" A transient gleam of former fire shone in the old man's eye. " I do not see, sir, what that has to do with my ease." " By heavens !" I shouted, collaring the old man and fairly lifting him out of his seat : " if you do not tell me this instant Just at this moment tny office door ojiencd to admit my learned and eloquent brother Flourish. What that eminent counsel, thought of the scene, I do not care to guess. The personal appearance of my client was not suggestive of any temptation to a felonious assault, nor did his maimer indicate any provocation which could have called for chastisement; and those two suppositions being impossible, Flourish stared with undisguised amazement at mv un professional conduct. His presence brought me to myself, and, with many apologies, I ex plained that this coin, which, as my hearers would notice, was peculiarly marked and for merly been in my own possession and that I was anxious, for particular reasons, to trace its subsequent history. The old man hesitat ed, and stammered, and east so many side glan ces at the door, that I began to think we had fallen upon one of the chief conspirators.— Here Mr. Flourish came to my assistance, with his bland smile, and most mclifbious tone, and in five minutes had drawn from my client all that he knew about it. Assuring mvseif that he would attend and testify to the same facts on the following day, I dismissed him, and then rapidly recounted to Flourish the facts of the ease. The hard old lawyer listened complaisantly, and when I had finished, drvlv expressed an opinion, that the young woman should be acquitted. I had conceded a hope, while telling tin-sto ry, ot interesting Mr. Flourish sufficiently in the case to induce him to undertake tiie man agement of the defence. For that task I felt myself disqualified by other causes beside my want of experience in criminal law. 1 was li able to be called as a witness for the prosecu tion, and was a most important one for the de fense ; and above all, I felt that inv own per sonal sympathies were too strongly excited for the prisoner to manage the affair with requi site coolness and skill. Flourish, however, who saw in the case nothing but a very com monplace incident of criminal practice, was no! easily to be persuaded. The sensibilities of an elderly lawyer, in large practice, lie ve ry far down, and are covered by a thick rind of world I v wisdom. " Consider, inv, dear sir," said lie, " how ma ny cases of this kind are occurring every day, and how precious my time is to me. Ton my word, my clients would be in a pretty mess if 1 spent my time on petty affairs like this." " l'etty affair to you, Mr. Flourish, 1 know, but not to that young girl, the late of whose whole life here, and perhaps hereafter, hangs on that trial. One hour of such assistance as vonrs may save her." " lleally, Quidam, " " If such a fee as I could offer out of my own pocket would tempt you,— —" " it would tempt me, sir, if you offered it. It would tempt me to kick you out of your own office, and then go home, feeling that I had broken friendship with the softest-hearted, simplest-headed fool at the bar. Why, man, you would turn the whole fraternity into a trailg of knight-errants roaming up and down Wall street seeking to set this crooked world straight again." And so they ought to bo, Mr. Flourish." " Hum ! 1 can't say I'm ready to give an opinion on that matter. liiit the girl, I sec, i< fairly oil my hands. I'll just step down and tell my young men to put one or two things off till next day, and come back to go over the case again with you." Glorious old Flourish ! The sensibilities are there, after all, hard as it is to find them. Beneath all his rich clients, and worldly wis dom, and long briefs, there is a true man's heart beating, still, as there is in the bosom of many a hard faced, wrinkled old lawyer beside. Fraud, and wrong, mid heartlessuess there are among us, Hod knows ! But lie and lie on ly knows, also the deeds that have been done i i secret in those dingy, dusty offices, which shall stand forth effulgently when the great book is opened at the Judgment day 1 cn vIT Kit IV. I was busy with the police authorities that evening, and had no time to communicate with Alice ; but the next morning when I saw her brought into court, looking so broken-hearted and helpless, I blamed myself for having left her thus to drink the enp of bitterness to the very dregs. In a few whispered words I bade her be of good cheer ; but she scarcely seemed to heed me at all, so oppressed was she bv the sight of the crowd, and the keen sense of her forlorn condition Save her poor mother, who had risen from a sick bed to accompany her, she did not know that she had a friend there. Hven I though she knew 1 meant her kindly, had been the unwilling moans of placing lief there. I looked eagerly around the court room. On a front bench sat Mr. Forceps, the pawnbroker, chief witness for the prosecution; and some distance behind was my old client, true to his promise, and pleased to have a part to take in court. It seemed to him like a lit tle rehearsal for the great drama of his own case. The district attorney opened the case, atul was about to call rne as the first witness. Mr. Flourish had not yet made his appearance.— Greatly to my relief, the pawnbroker came for ward, and whispered into the attorney's ear, who immediately called him to the stand. " 1 believe I must give Mr. Forceps the precedence," he said to me. " 1 think yon h id better, brother How land," answered Flourish, over my shoulder, at tin* same time divesting himself of his overcoat, and distributing good-humored though somewhat patronizing recognitions among the smaller fry of lawyers around him. Mr. Forceps testified to the attempt made to pass tin. counterfeit coition hitu, a orei !•.- VOL. xy ir. IS O. 20. • y 11. IIIs c.ireet examination was sooti over, and jie turned to Air. Flourish with a smile of confidence, which to me seemed not altogether natural. It looked ns if lie were bracing himself' up for a eontostof nerve with the counsel for the defense. I have seen u great many very honest witnesses do the same thing. Rut if Afi*. Forceps looked for a grand dis i play of iiK|i\isitr>rial tactics, lie was destined to |be mistaken. Air. Flourish simply turned one moment towards him remarking; " I only want to know if I have understoo I you aright, Mr. Forceps ; I think you said this was your only transaction with the prisoner— I mean the only occasion on which you receiv ed money from her." | " I never received any money at all from | her, unless you call that thing niuiiev," point ing to the coin. " Perhaps you call that mo ney ; but I don't, sir." And Air. Forceps smiled approvingly at his own retort. " How long did I understand that you had this com in your possession ?" blandlv rejoined the counsel. " Mo time at all ; I knew it was bad the minute it touched the drawer, and took it out and returned it." " Von took it out, and returned if," replied Flourish,as if mechanically repeating the words. " That will do, sir.'' Mr. Ruliiou then testified to the character of the coin, and to the prisoner's admission in my office that it was- the s.mie one she had of fered to the pawn-hroker. The prosecution rested. Without any formal opening of the defense, Mr. Flourish nodded to me, and T took the stand. The district attorney threw himself back in his chair, and listened carelessly while 1 detailed the particular- of my interview with Alice on the eventful Saturday night. But when I mentioned the knife-marks ou the coin I hail given her, his practiced mind foresaw at once our line of defense. It was,doubtless, the first intimation he Imd received that anv suhstantial defense would be attempted ; and in his surprise he started to his feet, and di rected a searching glance, first at me, and then in rapid succession at the prisoner, her coun sel, and his own witnesses. " Have you ever seen that marked coin since, Air. (juidiun T " I have." " When and where ?" "It is here," said I, producing it ; "I re ceived it back, about ten davs ago, from u client, Air. Richard Grosvenor." Having satisfied myself that 1 was jxisitivu as to the identity of the coin, the district at torney allowed me to stand aside, and Mr. Flourish called Grosvenor, who, of course, con firmed my statement, as to the receipt of the coin from him, at the time of its reappearance. " \\ ill you state, Air. Grosvenor, if you can, how that coin came into your hands ?" " I received it," said the ohl man—a slight, color coming into his bloodless face—" on the evening of Saturday, the—tli of Hecember, from Air. Forceps, the pawnbroker." " How can you be so positive as to the pre cise date, Air. Grosvenor, and the identity of coin f " asked the district attorney. " The date, air, I fix by this," producing one of Mr. Forcep's tickets; "and tin* coin —all nic, sir, it is the only gold piece I have had for many a long day. I have spent ray money in the law, sir ; but I am going to get it all back soon. Vou know I must have u case, sir " From the details of Mr. Grosvenor's case, we were saved by the district attorney. His hawkcye had caught, a glimpse of his chief witness gliding softly through the crowd, to ward the door. " Mr. Forceps ! Mr. Forceps 1 officer,close that door, and let no man pass/' he thundered, "llbirg t .a; witness back here 1" Flushed with excitemcut, his fine form draw n nj) to its utmost height, and his glorious eyes Hashing with indignation at the foul wrong which had been attempted and almost cffctcd in the sacred name of justice, he stood, sur rounded by an astonished group, the only one that seemed to retain any self possession. Fv n we who had been in the secret, and planned the surprise, were less masters of the scene.-- He looked, indeed, all that he was—tin* faith fid minister of retributive justice, magnifying hi? office by a love of right, before which afl petty ambitions sank into nothingness. Alas ! tlmt form and face live only in the memory of us who loved him. A sad, sad day it was when we heard that the lustre of those ryes Was dimmed in untimely death, and heavy hearts, mourning as but few sorrows can make strong men mourn, bad we, the funeral train, when the bar followed their chieftain to the tomb. In the midst of Ids years and bis la bors, as a great ship goes down in the van of the battle, so went lie down into the depths of tlie grave. it scarcely need tip added, that the jury ac quitted Alice, without leaving their box, ami that the paw a broker, charged both with utter ing counterfeit coin, and with perjury, slept that night in the cells -ho had left. IVrhnps sometime 1 may tell oi what afterwords hap pened to her, as well as to my old client, and his interminable ease, lint now there is sad ness on my heart, as I think of that scene in court, and I am garrulous no longer. A brother of the distinguished TOdiuund Burke was found in a reverie after listening !• one ot his most eloquent speeches in I'urlia meiit, and being asked the cause, replied, " I have been wondering how Ned has contrived to monopolize all the talents of the family ; but then I remember, wheu we were at play ho was always at work." ftap-The following equivocal notice is said to swing out on a sign-board somewhere in the Western country : "Smith A lluggs—Select School— correction. " My eyes, .lack," exclaimed a tar, on seeing a soldier chained to a ball for pu N'i iie.,', "if l!i, re ain't a •■oldier at on '