wiiiMffil i Tin nil f h ! i hi TERMS -PAYABLE IS ADVANCE, A T TTnT?TJT?TTM?Tm A TirTT tr ttthtciti TTn ( TERMS PAYABLE IN ADVANCE, (wiTHn.THn.cooNTT.) AN INDEPENDENT FAMILY NEWSPAPER. ' (wd.fW.cunty.hP0.tWelnol..al.) $1.26 per Tear i 75 Ots. 6 Months. ) . $l.BO per Year; 86 Cts. 6 Months. Vol. VIII. New J31ooiiiflelcl, Titewdny, October 13, TVo. -11. IS PUBLISHED EVEKY TUESUAT MOHNINO, BT FRANE UOSTIKEB & CO., At New Bloomfleld, Terry Co., Va. Being provided with Steam Tower, and large Cylinder and Job-Presses, we are prepared to do all kinds of Job-l'rlntlim lu good style and at Low Trices. ADVKUT1SINU 11ATKSI lYBtuienf 8 Cents pcrllno for one insertion 13 " " twolnsortions 15 ' " three insertions Business Notices In Local Column 10 Cents per line. .Kor longer yearly adv'ts terms will be given upon application. Just the Same as it Used to Be. Tbe girls ore planning to get a beau ; They dress for party and ball and show, And the old folks tell us it wasn't so When they were young and used to go! But the difference is no more nor loss Than a little change in the stj'lo of drees ! And human nature itself, you see, Is just the same as it used to be I After the verses and prayers are said, The old folks light tho boys to bed, And they He as still as though they were dead, 'Till daddy goes off to his dreams hmtend, Then down the back stairs so sly nnd slow, With their boots in their hand6 and away they go, And the old man laughs in tho morning to see It is Just the same as it used to be ! Those good old maids are waiting yet Over love affairs they froth and fret Of girls they never saw such a set FuarvAna 1b a alllv nnnilPttfl 1 But if backward something like forty years They would carry their meddlesome eyes and ears, In flirts and freaks of their own they'd see It's Just the same as it used to bo 1 Of course to the aged 'tis right to hold The years they were happy, tho best that rolled, But tho truth is plain, and ought to be told, That the world grows bettor in growing old ; And only love In its show and flarao Is ever changing and yet the samo Freaks of fashion and charm you see, But it's Just the samo as it used to be ! A Night's Adventure. 11V F. DE LACY. TT was in tbe spring of 18 . I had Week, aud had taken a place in the dili gence for Naples. There wore two routes, one by way of Terracina aud the other by the Via Latina, more inland. Tho dili gence, which made the jonrney only twice a week, followed these routes alternately, bo that each road was traversed only once in seven days. I chose the inland route, and after a long day's journey arrived at Ceprano, whoro we halted for the night. The noxt morning we' started again very early, and it was scarcely daylight when we reached the Neapolitan frontier, at a short distance from the town. There our passports were examined, and to my great dismay, I was informed that miuo was not n regie. It was covered, indeed, with stamps and signatures, not one of which had been procured without some cost and trouble ; but one " vita" yet was wanting, and that the ull-lmportant one, without which none could -enter the Kingdom of Naples. I wws obliged, therefore, to alight, and to send my wretched passport back to Rome, my wretched self being doomed to remain under polioe surveillance at Ceprano, until the diligence should brine it back to me on that day week at soonest. " I took up my abode at the hotel where I bad passed tbe previous night, and there I presently received a visit from tho Capo de Pollzia, who told me very civilly that I must present myself every morning and evening at bis bureau, but that 1 might have liberty to 'circulate' in the neighbor hood during the day. 1 grew to weary of this dull place, that after, I had explored the immediate vicinity of the town I be gan to extend my walks to a greater dis tance, and as I always reported myself to tbe polioe before night I met with no objec tion on their part. ," One day, however, when I had been as far as Alatri, and was returning on foot, night overtook mo. I bad lost rny way, and could not tell bow far I might be from my destination. I was very tired and had a heavy knapsack on my shoulders, packed with stones aud relics from, the ruins . of tbe old Pelascle fortress which I had been exploring, besides a number of old coins and a lamp or two which I had purchased thore. I could discern no signs of any human habitation, and tho hills covered with wood, seemed to shut me on every sido. I was beginning to think seriously of looking out for some sheltered spot un der a thicket in which to pass the night, when the welcomo sound of footsteps be hind me fell upon my ears. Presently a man, dressed in the usual long shaggy coat of a shepherd overtook me, and bearing my difliculty oil'ered to conduct me to a house at a short distance from tho road, whore I might obtain a lodging. Before wo reach ed the spot ho told mo that the house in question was an inn, and that he was tho landlord of it. He bad not much custom, he said, and he employed himself in shop herding during the day ; but bo could mako mo comfortable, and give mo a good supper also, better than I should expect to look at him ; but he had been in differont circumstances once, and had lived in ser vice in good families, and knew how things ought to be, and what a tignore like my self was used to. The house to which ho took me scorned liko its owner, to have scon better days. It was a largo rambling place, aud much dilapidated, but it was tolerably comfort able within, and my landlord, aftcr ho had thrown off his sheepskin coat, prepared mo a good aud savory meal, and sat down to look nt and converse with me whilo I ate it. I did not much like tho look of the fellow, but he seemed anxious to bo nocia blo, and told me a great deal about his former life when he was in service, expect ing to rccoivo similar confidence from me. I did not gratify him much, but one mtiRt talk of something, aud be seemed to think it only proper to express an interest in his guests, and to learu as much of their con cerns as they would tell him. I went to bed early, intending to resume my journey as soon as it would be light. My landlord took up my knapsack aud car ried it to my room, observing as he so, that it was a great weight for me to travel with. I answered jokingly that it contained great treasures, referring to my coins and relics ; of course he did not understand mo, and, boforo I could explain, he wished mo a most happy littlo night, and loft mo. . "The room iu which I found myself was situated at the end of a long passage ; there were two rooms on tbe right of this passage, and a window on the loft, which looked out upon a yard or garden. Having taken a survey of the outside of the house whilo smoking my cigar after supper, when the moon was up, I understood exactly tho position of my chamber the end room of a long narrow wing, projecting at right an gles from tbe main building, with which it was connected only by the passage and the two side rooms already mentioned. Please to boar this description in mind while I proceed. " Before getting Into bed I drove into the floor, close to the door, a small gimlet which formed part of a complicated pocket knife which I always carried with me, so that it would be Impossible for any ono to enter the room without my knowledge ; there was a lock to the door, but the key would not turn in it ; there was also a bolt, but it would not enter the hole intended for it, the door having sunk apparently from its proper level. I satisfied myself, however, that the door was securely fasten ed by my gimlet, and soon fell asleep. "How can I describe tbe strange aud horrible sensation which oppressed me as I woke out of my first slumber? I had been sleeping soundly, and before I quite recovered conciousnoss I had instinctively risen from my pillow and was crouching forward, my knues drawn up, my hands clasped before my face, and my whole frame quivering with horror. I saw noth ing ; but a sound was ringing in my ears which seemed to make my blood run cold. I could not have supposed it possible that any mere sound, whatever might be its nature, could have produced such a revul sion of feeling or inspired such Intense horror as I then experienced. It was not a cry of terror that I beard that would have roused me to action nor the moaning of one in pain that would have distressed, and called forth sympathy rather thau aversion. True, it was like the groaning of one in anguish and despair, but not liko any mortal voice ; it seemed too dreadful, too intense, for human utterance. The sound had begun while I was fast asleep close to .the bead of my bed close to my very pillow ; it continued after I was wide awake a long, loud, hollow, protracted groan making the midnight air reverber ate, and then dying away until it ceased entirely. It was some minutes before I could at all recover from tho terrible impression which seemed to stop my breath and par alyze my limbs. At length I began to look about mo, for the night was not entirely daik, and could discorn tho outlines of tho room and the.several pieces in it. I then got out of bed and called aloud. " Who is thore? What is the matter? Is anyone ill?" I repeated these inquiries in Italian and in French, but there was no one that answered my questions. Fortunately I had some matches in my pocket and was able to light my candle I then examined every part of the room carefully, and es-1 pecially the wall at the bead of my bed, sounding it with my knuckles ; it was firm and solid there as iu all other pluccs. I un fastened my door and explored the passage and tho two adjoining rooms, which wero unoccupied and almost destitute of furni ture ; they had evidently not been used for some timo. Search as I would I could gain no clue to the mystery. Returning to my room I sat down upon my bod in great porplcxity, and began to turn over in my mind whether it was possible I could havo been deceived whether tho sounds which caused mo so much distress might be the offspring of some dream or nightmare ; but to that conclusion I could not bring myself at all, much as I wished it, for tho groan ing had continued ringing in my ears long after I was wide awake and conscious. Whilo I was thus reflecting, having neglected to closo the door which was opposite to tho sido of my hod where I was Bitting, I heard a soft footstep at a dis tance, and presently a light appeared at tho further end of tho passage. Then I saw tho shadow of a man cast upon the opposito walls ; it moved very slowly, and presently stopped. I saw the hand raised as i.1' making a sign to somo one, and I know from the fact of the shadow boing thrown in advanco that thoro must be a second person in the rear by whom the light was carried. After a short pause they seemed to rotrace their steps, without my having had a glimpse of cither of them, but only of the shadow which bad come beforo and which bad followed them as they withdrew. It was then littlo past one o'clock, aud I concluded they were re tiring late to rest, and anxious to avoid disturbing me, though I have sinco thought that it was the light from my room which caused them to retreat. I felt half inclined to call to thorn, but I Bhrank, without knowing why, from making known what had disturbed me, and whilo I hesitated they wero gono ; so I fastened my door again, and resolved to sit up and watch a little longer by myself. But now my can dle was beginning to burn - low, and I found myself in this dilemma ; cither I must extinguish it at once or I should be left without the means of procuring a light in case I should be again disturbed. I regretted that I bad not called for another caudle whilo there wore people yet moving iu tbe bouse, but I could not do so now without making explanations ; so I grasped my box of matches, put out my light, and lay down, not without a shuddor, in the bed. "For an hour or more I lay awake thinking ovor what had occurred, and by that time I bad almost persuaded myself that I had nothing but my own morbid imagination to thank for the alarm which I had suffered. ' It is an outer wall,' I said to myself, 'they are alt outer walls, and the house is built of stone ; it is impossible that any sound could be heard through such a thickness. Bolides, it seemed to be in my room, closo to my ear. What an idiot I must be, to be excited and alarmed about nothing ; I'll think no more about it.' So I turned on my side, with a smile (rather a forced one) at my own foolishness and composed myself to sleep. " At that instant I heard, with more distinctness than I ever beard any other sound in my life, a gasp, a voioeloss gasp, as if some one were in agony for breath, biting at the air, or trying with desperate efforts to cry out or speak. It was repeat ed a second and a third time ; then there was a pause ; then again that horrible gasp ing ; and then a long drawn breath, an audible drawing up of the air into the throat, such as one would make lu heaving a deep sigh. Such sounds as these could not possibly have beon heard unless they had been closo to my ear ; they scorned to come from the wall at my bead, or to rise up out of my pillow. That fearful gasp ing, and that drawing iu of the breath, iu the darkness and silence of the night, seemed to make every nerve in my body thrill with dreadful expectation. Uncon sciously I slu auk away from It, crouching down as before, with my face upon my knees. It ceased, and immediately a moaning sound began, which lengthened out into an awful, protracted groan, waxing loudor and louder, as if under an increasing ngony, and then dying away slowly and gradunlly into silence, yet painfully and distinctly audiblo even to the last. " As soon as I could rouse myself from io freezing horror which scorned to pone trato even to my joints and marrow, I crept away from tho bod, and in tho farth est corner of tho room lighted with shak ing hand my candle, looking anxiously about me as I did so,oxpecting some dread ful rovelation as the light flashed up. Yet, if you will believe me, I did not feel alarm ed or frightened, but rather opprcssod, and penetrated with an unnatural and over powering sentiment of awo. I seemed to be in tho presence of somo great and horrible mystery, some bottomless depth of woo, or misery, or crime. I shrank from it witlna sensation of intolerable loathing and sus pense. It was a feeling akin to this which prevented me from cnlling to my landlord. I could not bring myself to speak to him of what had passed, not knowing how nearly ho might be himself involved in the mys tery I was only tiixious to escapo as quietly as possible from tho room and tho house. The candle was now beginning to flicker in its socket, but the stars wore waning outside, and thore was space and room to breathe out thore, which seemed to be wanting in my room ; so I hastily opened my window, tied the bedclothes to gether for a rope, and lowered myself silently aud safoly to tho ground. "There was a light burning in tho lowor part of the bouso, but I crept noiselessly along, feeling my way carefully among the trees, and in duo time came upon a beaten track, which led mo to a road, the same which I had been travel ing on tho previous night. I walked on, scarcely knowing whither, anxiously only to increase theHis tnnco from that accursed houso, until tho day began to break, when almost tho first object I could see distinctly was a small body of mon approaching mo. It was with no small pleasure that I recognized at thoir head my friend, tho Capo di Polizia. Ah !' he cried, 'unfortunato Ingloso, what trouble, you have givon me ! Where havo yon been ? God bo praised that I see you safo and sound 1 But how 1 What is the matter with you ! You look like one pos sessed." " I told him how I had lost my way, aud whore I had lodged. "And what happened to you there?" he criod, with a look of anxioty. "I was disturbed in tho night. I could not sleep. I mado my escape, and bore I am. I cannot tell you more." "But you must toll me more, dear sir ; forgive me ; you must toll me everything. I must know all that passed iu that house. We bave had it under our surveillance for a long time, and when I heard in what di rection you bad gone yesterday, and bad not returned, I feared you had got in somo mischief there, and we were even now upon our way to look for you." "I could not enter into particulars, but I told him I heard strango sounds, and ' at his request I went back with bim to the spot. He told me by tbe way that the houso was known to be the resort of ban ditti ; that the landlord harbored thorn, received their ill gotten goods, and helped them to dispose of their booty. "Arrived at the spot, ho placed his mon about the premises and instituted a strict search, tho landlord and the man who was found in the house being compollod to accompany him. The room in whlcbI bad slept was carefully examined ; the floor was of plaster or cement, so that no sound could have passed through it ; the walls wore sound and solid, and there was noth ing to bo seen that could in any way ac count for the strange disturbance I had ex perienced. The room on tbe ground-floor underneath my bedroom was next inspect ed ; It contained a quantity of straw, bay, firewood and lumber. It was paved with brick, and on turning over tbe straw which was heaped together in a corner, it was observed that the bricks were uneven, as if they had been recently disturbed. "Dig here," said the officer; "wo shall find hoiiio thing hlddon here, I Im agine." " The landlord was evidently much dis turbed. 'Stop,' bo cried. 'I will toll you what lies there ; come away out of doors, and you shall know all about it." "Dig, I say. We will find out for our selves." " Let the dead rest," cried the landlord with n trembling voice. "For tho love of boaven come away, and boar what I shall toll you." " Go on with your work," said the ser geant to his men, who wore now plying pickax and spade. "I can't stay here and sco it," exclaimed tho landlord onco more. " Hoar then ! It is tho body of my son, my only son let him rest, if rest ho can. Ho was wounded in a quarrel aud brought home here to die. I thought ho would recover, but there was neither .doctor nor priest at hand, aud in spite of all wo could do for him he died. Let him alono now, or let a priest be sent for ; he died unconfesscd, but it was not my fault ; it may not yet bo too late to make peace for him. "But why is ho buried in this place?" "We did not wish to make a stir about. it. Nobody knew of his death, and wo laid him down quietly ; ono place I thought was as good as another when once the lilo was out of him. Wo aro poor folks, and could not pay for ceremonies." " The truth at length camo out. Father and son were both members of a band of thieves ; under this floor they concealed their plunder, and there, too, lay more than one mouldering corpse victims who had occupied tho room in which I slept, and had thoro mot their death. The sou was, indeed, buried in that spot ; he had been mortally wounded in a skirmish with travelers, and had lived long enough to re pent of bis deeds and to beg for that priest ly absolution which, according to his creed, was necessary to secure his pardon. In vain he had urged his father to bring tho confessor to his bedside ; in vain he had en treated him to break off from tbe murder ous band with which bo was alliod, and to live honestly In tho future ; bis prayers were disregarded, and his dying admoni tions were of no avail. But for the strango mysterious warning which had roused mo from my slcCp and driven me out of tho house that night, another crime would have been added to the old man's tale of guilt. That gasping attempt to b peak, and that awful groaning whence did they pro ceed? It was no living voice. Beyond that I will express no opinion on the sub ject. I will only soy it vas the means of saving my life, and at the same time put ting an end to tho series of bloody deeds which had been commited in that house. " I received my passport that evening by the diligence from Rome, and start ed the next morning on my way to Na ples. . . m Brought Him to Time. In ouo of the upper counties of North Caroliua a young follow by the name of Ben SykeB had courted a fair one for somo years, but either was not ready or willing, as ho never came to the point. At last she got mad, aud declared she would marry Bill Patterson if be ever courted her again. Bill, hearing of this, went and once more put in his claim ; but be was a scurvy fellow in some things, and neither dad nor mam was willing. So bo secretly goes to B., gets a lioeuse, and that night they made oil' for a Gretna squire. On their road to happiness, however, who should they meet but Beu Sykes. He got an inkling of what was going on, and when he met them he understood bow tho case lay. "Sally," says ho, "I've foolod with you, that's a fact, and I'm sorry for it. But if you still prefer me to Bill Patterson, just say so and I will givo him a thrashing, take his license, and make Moody marry us to-night." Tbe old love was too strong for the new. Ben gave Bill a thrashing, took his gal, aud (what he bated most) his license, which cost bim soventy-flvo cents, and was off with bis plunder to Moody's. . Tbe old Squire did not , so woll under stand bow one mau could be married in virtue of a license granted to auothor. Ben said he did not himself understand law quibbles, but this ho knew, that un less he did it, he (the squire,) would ketch it too. The hint was enough for Moody, who, without more ado, pronounced them man and wife. ' rieanuut Surprise for a Family. Frederick lioightmyer, an old German, of Madison, Ind., has delivered to tho family of the lato Dr. Schussler a tin box which hud been placed in his custody by the Doo tor some time previous to his doatb The box contained twenty-five thousand dollars in money and bonds. No oue knew of the existence of the box save lleightmyor. tJT A baby was born In Columbia, Lan caster county, reoontly which has but one arm and ono leg, the only foot being shaped like a trowel.
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