LI ' I . • C.TIA.RL I ES F. READ _ H. KRA.ZIy..I4, F4pITORS: , valley of the `East branch of the Ttinkhan nobkl wltieh.m9ets ' the West` branch nearly half la mile below 'Gl+viood,, and has its I sonu4e . ',uoine diatanCe to the North-Eaat of the Elkintoam a .t- S '' . l'- • I .. . !,ALfew ,rods . ' . froiti the bridge I found ' 'the reSidenee (if Win.' Hartley, ESq.,'Ex-Sheriff No. .2 • 1 ofthis county, and now 'ttil extensive farmer, I' I My friend, whom I met atGlenwood, is an lumherreatk dm. I atnl k told _he rtm or had employee of Mr. Kinney; a brother-in-law/of on' hind th e rim; early Iti - The Spring, about the grows, and we. hid quite an interesting 1,,(),00,6041 feet 'of ',good 'lumber. The farm c onversation in regard to the fortunes of the loOkel thrifty•l' and -welf . 74ttended. I 'saw founders and altdest sole; owners of Glen- twelye or fifteen - eeows, in not a very nice wood. There are four" brothers now in the 1 Yiral, buk they, were in excellent 'Condition elm, And one brother-in-law, (Mr. Kinney.) and 'cry prolific of, 'milk, as I learned from G. A.- Grow was received into the firth, last theAairynitin who had j(ist finished milking fall and attends to all thelegal and ,variausisele the' t: 'I - think' it:WOulday hint well to have er business of the Company. Edwin an ago9d cow barn tend o her cOnvieniencee - in the mercantile business ein Glenwood ; -also aceOrdanm 'l'discolerefl nothing Of the kind superintends the buying and selling of stocke, abot4 the preniiSee. Suth things are almost produce,. &c. Mr. Kinney attends to the indiiieti‘able (ci. the . successlbl conducting of farming interests, while Frederkk - carries on a large' airy, `And are tni) often , neglected by a large mercantile establishment , In Carbon- thoeeahundaritly Able to leave them. There dale. They, last fall, diseiosed of their large :are dweiliets a feel rods further on, in \ charge commodiouehotel . to ,Mr. Swoyer, and -whit ' I prestim l e live tedent.e, or hand s i n hi s I Samuel, who had cha of it, fen - toy to ed emp ny. Half a' mile further from the Ho ti Cennecticut; and is now engagen an exten. F ueltel al road branches offl and leads to , t sive Cotten Manufactory. Thus a these va c Ben l on Centre,l i Abingtore eke. At Benton rious interests are carried oil' this this amily Mr. lllartley hes a.stor•ept by his son-in e ,firm._ They also in addition to the alio ' e do . law,Mre_Rober i ts. Just ab ove where this road a heavy lumber business, running large quart- turtle -off there lis a large saw-mill Which. is tities e eyery spring. Glenwood is one of the ownsl by kr.l Hartley is it is well ,stoeked mostifleti_satitly situated villages in all, the withilogs, and cie.s an"excellent husiness.- - -, Tunkhannock 'valley. Beautiful and fertile Ne.at here I saw a small lot on - which all the. i . d•l l s and Hats.recede from the creek' on eithe_i Side; ol . pe e stamps . u wer . cleanly picked and themonotony isfrequently and happily broken nifti l y piled, exhibiting much taste ior tidy by the dark green . foliage of the wide spread- fin-ming; but. tse soil here is not very good."' ' 'clay ey ' one Butternuts, and the proud majestic , Elm: be in g of a col( e wet, nat ure I now The hills on both sideseof , the valley are one passel thrOsigh,ahort sphce of woodland and continuous range, occasional% broken by deep issued from thence mem A pretty litte flat on , ravines, running nearly at right angles with the il i ank of the cre&\Some . Sixty rods in the insin valley, and along which course length and twenty in wid*; andwhat is most raving, tumbling mountain brooks which remirleable is, that it. was e(Ot e emelosed. ...'Hie find their support far back in the countrY.,--- soil ie'a rich eandy . loam `with hardier a stone The bill to the East of Glenwood mounts up ' upon it ; and it really seemed to \ M wasteful, ~ - in salsa sublimity to the height of several . when thousande were. suffering for k ' sol, that hundred feet, and sullenly 'thrusts its -rocky, this "Lbould lie , unfenced, producing . nothing jagged form between -the light of , they morn- but .; 'Pitiful ~;qbantity of grasi to feed e .-• ing sun and the inhabitants'in -the- valley be- -eon - in - ion herd that flock the road. 'At th .' - low. . . EaStI end of this flat the rind crosses the creek' , The Hob.' G. A. Grow stared for Europe by! al substantial bridge. ITo the left' hand,' the day l Was there, (May •12,) having return- far , i . p the sitlehill, I sa4v a niost excellent . 1 . ed the day .prelious from accompanying his field, of winter grain--wheat, I should judge.. soungeSt sister a' portion of 'the journey she The hill sides along here tarerocky in the ex- , was, making towards her new Witern home, -trent°, while the greater lsortion - Of, the' tilla.. sty aavtlig she Ttiesday before, given up the ble land between the hilli is not yet cleared • ' bliSsof single blessedness,' and united her oftinber. This portion! is decidedly new 1 ,„ fortune with the l llon. I: F. Streeter, the and • liable of being greatly imprOeed. As . present Mayor of Joliet; Illinois, and the' sec- nigh, drew on I grew weary and fteqUentle ond son of Dr. Streeter -of Harford, this coun- cast, Imy,, eye over my shoulder tssi witch a ty. J. E. Streeter 'was formerly a clerk in glimpse of ',thee r Stage which I knew could not the store of the Grows at Glenwood, finally be far ba.k on my track, as it started from ,• . went, west,-built, up his owes fortune, and re- - Hoppettom at :five, and arrived in i Carbon turned thi s spring to 'claim the object of his 'dale at eleven. ' i h was now • two heurs and 6tlection. _ ,- . a hall oet of Hopbottom, and I watched for , i , But I must linger no longer in Glenwood. its appearance with much eagerness: In the I beiadieu to my friends - .at. half past six meatitidie I pas.seci, a piece of road which 4 and tened one q natieed in Mr. Kinney's ,wied.s along a high bank of the creek—a kind door yard some most_ beadtifui ornaments and , of iltigevay--which was in a very data serous shade trees which displayed a well cultivated cotOtiou for terirs of any kind. to Pais, part , tasie and added much to the homelike appear- of !the road having sloughed off into the ante of the residence. , A tastefully arranged yy l creek, and the iiig.h bank above the read hey- I • .1 arbor 2 house near the corner of the yard, which I ing tumble d the - remaioing portien, rein is undoubtedly to be covered with vines and detlig it exceedingly narrow, uneven and dan t shrubbery, (it haring but just been con o iplet- ger i sof passage. It would seem to be a ed,) will. add new charm to the whoelsome alinclst impassable in the night. , I keiet mov and farm-like appearanceof all the surround- ini? l ,l .inwly s oti, the country being new and ing scenery of the dwelling The homes are spy reely populated, with but little to attract , I . n o w capacious aed comfortable and several in attention and then a small . hOuse ep . number. A few rods below the store lives peare(d wit a little clearing around It. •At C. W, Conrad, an ietelligent and enterprising last f saw he ,Stage approaching, -apd I at blacksmith. He ocettpies'a nice, tidy little once i resolved to , hail the driver for' a little , . cottage, , and , has erected one of ( the finest aid sl,n my 1 weary...pilgrimage. I felt like blaeksmith shops in the muntry—probahly" making bnt fe* more views on foot that night, . ,; : the most commodious and costly, A •small and y l ,moiirited the drivek.'s seat , with a heiney , e erelidence intervening and I -came to a large I good willy favorite; place on a etage in --m , i. s huilding on which, I read, in large letters, pit Weather. The ktage Contained four . sGlenwood Mill '-ia gristemill which does all ,pass gers, Mr . Elisha 'Phinney of Dundaff, ea.;l3 1 . . i • the custom work of the country around, and 1 a stetive Spaniard just fiom New-Yerk, and e,. in '. common SqISOUS, some flouring for its ; two ladiei-estheir company. The Spaniard , - , • '' I owners. '',-. 1 1 i.thou ht th,e people alon g route must im . • 7. The next is a small, rickety house on the, laginl the 'visual line. that girds them! round, ..., , ".' edge of the road, at the door ofwhich stood lithe wOrld's extreme' or they would leave this ' se r -twe bright-eyed little girlS'ofeibout eight and !,, [portion of creation as soon as passible. - We -,tenyeara. I gale them a smile and they re- l i eoont came to the Postoffice at. Lenoxville . turned the compliment—whyno * t 1 like be- ' wheie we vraited . for the mail to be olerhaul . . • gets like, and I had rather see a smile than a ed. . Waiting here, fer a passage to carbon „ , . frown ;or does a frown impress the young dale ayes E. P; Fartiune Esq., but we could --I.'with a serious ceommoda fur there were two on ~, conception of your (Jinni- not i te him, te ! Some think so, but they know little of ever seat already and the Squire weighed the child-like perceptions, which instinctively full wo hundred.. I must tell you a little penetrate such flimsy gossamer, the. shield . of anecdote of the Squire. . Two men had a per ,',.'.." , th , (- ~. arrogant and ,conmited. Butt was sud-seitai difficulte rn -cae to blows, and could ' '(lenlY arrested in my cogitations 'by casting not, settle the matter .to the entire satisfaction - ::Eay” eye to the right a few rods North of the or ali concerned, so they agreed to abide by Betel. 0 ! Glenwood, for shamel what a the eonditions'Of Settlement the Squire l should dark spot on this bright picture on the m mplsap ie. Thinking .both to blame, he fi ned • , . of creation! Can it be possible, Glenwood, them five dolbtrs each, and sentenced them to . that you are willing to see your Pennies, your work it out with, their own bands on the pub * idols, your household . gods, your children, lie highway as_ touch j ,road tax.. ' huddled together in snith a wretched, ungenHal Lenoxville contains agrist-mill, a saw -mill, and unhealthy pen as this for the dicipl'ne of i and A foundry.. We passed rapidly along, mind and body ? - Betterb - f • t o e' y far that they and nothing of transpired' till on left never se9 the.in side a " 448( iful ion • of beyoid the Laiesdale /louse (notes of which _ .lectrning than to waste their ysuthful vitality . and the country around I have preserved fur in such an unwholesome apartment as the .i.ies. -.) we mei:nearly a dozen young ladies, walls of this School housebound. t B u t why i which furnished ; ism for, gossip i ns i de t h e berate this one so, and let' the one back OD, 1 es s eeil, thehill pass so easily r Why ? because thi s I se„nel They-benieligracefully-1 recognized of t h e i r il lesete t . is in Gientoood and that is not . : but was incog m so on we one should' have learned better Gle- 1 we:nti 1 'loft tit '. coach at-Farmersirille at wood : things ere . 1 tine p'eloc . .els in ,en e ss" . evening, lait-f-can (see node 1 this--in fact; I beliele she knows better al- .1 i ing litiw th:'p'lace looks m -night, and therefore • -, ready. But , here's Illy hand, I must go and jmulti wait till I view i,by the morning li g ht leave you—youve got a pretty.. place th,eres4... of the thirteenth pf Msy ere hay mote, all except two school houses-4ou will, oer. Viningwood, susq, Co, P ee -' tainly allow me to- file my exceptions - 'ai I i i._ pass along.. I turned, to the left -and North of :the Hotel, cro* the bridge_, which spans .the Turildsannock; and - proceeded along to: ;'.wards Clifford. My I road now lay up the eolteSpnaeiNe. For to Republican: OLEYWOOD TO CLIFFORD, VIEWS AFOOT. ---• I . • • ' . - t t . . , , . . _ . , i• '.. ^!. ",iil 5 i * , ,t; - i .. 4 ,-,-,-'! '. ...:1 - --,,;,.. :41 I - ....,t ~ • , -,‘,. ~.,?,!' .\.• .. r,i, 1,...-: •• :.:.,. , ; r• ;',.,:.r. I, I I - ' ' “" i ';. '''''-; ' I.'•;l''' ' ' ' n'-: ' .......' 'filf.! !' ' ',:. , :i . .,'•: i. ' . :I t qt , l l . : 1 1: iil - ;' , • - i- ' ? ' i :' •-' , '..",, -:::, - ;;i , • .. ." ? 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Room a &iv nights agone. dropt my pen 'and, Nrnt _own to hear the music: his iiistrumenproved , tb be one of' superior merit,and aided by a girl, a fair bbrnette of a dozen years„ 'we had - a pleasing entertain ment. BUt the idea,' (if there is idea about it,)" pop goes the weasel," . has very 'Often occurred to my mulct sincethen. 'The. evening Was wearing away, and the' musician closing his Orian carefully .placediit in the corner of"the room—the little girl sat down beside it, and was soon'nodding--flst asleep,. weary with the day's travel.. • Pop goes the weasel "—SOMe one propos es ochooSing bp for a Bird hunt—but who-Will choose ? that's, the rub; for no one is anxious to incur the risk of gettinn• beaten.' After a prdtracted discussion. that,patter is- settled, , for. Dan agrees, to choUse with if ho can have' the first , eltOice,.and that is agieed to.--. Soihey. prOeeed, to eliooseon their respective sideS,igree upon the conditions of tthe hunt aiid.iime of nipeting to count off the game. - gOea the weasel meanithe • shot • guns long gens, short guns, muskets, rifles, .and Shooting irns4 a variety of descriptions, from. morn i o i night; .po i 6,ling,bang, to the infatitelerror and.itntnense destruction of :grows, - .11 . 4vk5, Blue . Jays, (T Is, King Stinirrels s and Woodpeckers The boys are all at, it, eleaning:up. their, uns,!run ningi bullets; and the•lik.e„withas much zeal as if.theii well, being depended upOti. it. FA ., . . ery: moment that can be spared from their taskS is Spent in pursuit of game. ~' ykro.be to the Squirrel or ; Woodpecker that comes in their.; way, fir the boys are' all wide awake to the, time of ‘I - Kip goes the - weasel." it isn't all iti'shooting and trapping , either; there is sometimes a good deal dine in the way of coaling from each other, and smuggling. in game from other bunts.. It may. happen as the poet- says, -that "The race-is•not forever got - ; - - . ~ . -By bitn who fastest rims; - . lioribe batde by those peelons.. Wh6 shoot the'longegt gung." 7'e,this. l. "1,1 . ; to day Abe . partiesmet at place to . 1 ,t 1 't the gaMe. .It fell to•my lot to keep the I tally being disinterested and , thought bond est'*ithal,) anti 1 8m sorry, to say, , that the i party of - `y . , friend Jim was badly beaten, ,but he insist. : upon it, that if . hii Men had.it hunted faithfullY. od brought ingarne enough, the % . .,ietory would e rtaitily have bclen in - his/ -favor: -The , vantias:he \.lbare their defeat with 1 the heut possible gr..tee, aid promptly footed' , the hills. - 1 t, •_ '. • • 1, Pop goes the .wea; , el"—T4 marksmen i . are all at it, tdAtina thir 2, kill in e eise-. !, M vary Close Otots are •14de„ and" , it wOuld,be dditeutt in all this wide world to: 'find better inarksnien than some who have; this day displaYed their skilf. ' = 1 .,, . : ". pop goes the W . easel "-The bell, "ringsfor' • - - firipg_ ceases, and half a hundred; dinner-therush 'for the Well spread board; -a good dia.-! ner, as all the:--einest.4 declared; ,notso mach; in Ariird'as inaction;'ln its prepa:ration and; sereing, rnineliost did his house great credit. "Pup goes' the . weasel "-The boys bavej chosen up foria gaffe of Ball, , and 'all handti are going out on the: Green for that purpose. I flilkiW - out ti witness the sport: it is an . old 1 fashis'aied airne•lionored . garne,and when plaYedl with spirit is a noble, manly exercise'. I don't,'' know that there was any thing at stake, butt; the games - wee sharply conteSted..*henthel players quit, it was only tOrenew"their 'skilli in firing at anlark.and they einitintl'ed as king', ~: 1 : . as a,,hit of Wlnte . 'paper was discernable in thq : • i, ~ ' - tivtlight. - 1 -'I 1 - .1 violin • Pop gocHalthe ... *easel "-A on is utii tering itS enlyyJning music down stairs in thql spacious.Didihg . in, Which . .haS been .cleari .ed .for a datie&i ,merry company -there is{; : . • 1.,:. • and Until-long' past the - noun of night,: they! -V' ' ' trip the lightl finnastte toe.' I ne;;er could understand this dancing - ; one monient they:: seem in inextricable-confusion and 'presently' all is in Order again; plain i enough, no doubt,. to those who kitow-how,- and thOse Who share. in it appear, to enjoy it inimensely.,l Once more, 'pop goes the weasel'--Some one has broken, a pane of glass, and.therie is noth ing but. noise and confusion out on i the-.plat- ; rein. A couple ;;fyppung fellows, jevidentlY. instigated •by'evil spiritfri, are trying to whip, each other for some real or linaginary The' ccpmbatants don't progress far, however, bel;Pre the Constable interferes, and pulling them apart, order is pprtially restored.., But the noise and 'confusion continuo to such an', extent that I . have given up the idea of gettioi much sleep tonight. - • •-* I:think the . schoolmOier "is ahoye and juts` written a letter to some of his friends hers.! ThiSis the ,stipenfcription •a letter whict', ltitCtly.carne.tvour t P.. 0. . "JameS McGill • Yome County . . . Puucanick , teepot, . • Nich6.es township' • State of Peensylvania.'„ 3 3.. 8. - Nicholson, Pa., June 1, 1855, BOLD GROUND.—OreStes A. Brownson tbet I note4.Roman Catholic writer, recently lec.l turgid in NeW Orleans. The C.reo reports! him as followsl, on the destiny of the' Romish. t Church ;must become the whiter be-, tween the .State r. and the subject: It 'must' ,guard the ; nutrp interposing, the flaming; sword a*,atiefeace, J! ,niff centime tutions oldopoutso laws, - , deciding where the limit of centralized pßwert- !wh4 is its absolute duty tp_ Perform." ! • . • . • . i • peicei 4..Rie. IKE ELITE DIAGOON. MIMI I 1 ltiftheDutishsowtsof M ,", there resid e/ 'ri at the :close of tho'lest century, .an aged 4idqw, !mown by the, name of Madame. An. ;drieht. ' The only occupants of the house, which w as the; widow's 'property, Was herself ftriti, a maid' servant, of about the same age.— tskaithe widow was in it, preearioos state of health, she kept.no society, and did not hstve ..her, room for Weeksitogether. 'Her onlysrec , , ? , 1 she . . .. , . ireatipri *as, that went in spring, , ,u hen the weather was settled, to Visit her son; who re `.si/ed ii.i'a• neighboring villais ° e, and 'on theSe leieurs iotts she was' always accompanied, by Iter:rvitnt; who was accustomed; to her tern- Fgq t r,, ndi was the only nurse she would ha is ebpittsher,'„ -Dnring these absences from town • the bouSe svai:uninhabited, and though care 'lol)l looked - up, nut guarded with any special attention. s i , . . 'Tbe Widow 'returned from her annual,- ex etirsion on the 30th of june,-17- 7 , and found that Purjrig he r absence: the house had been bri'iken into, and besidei 'other valuable'ss all her, Plate ,and jewels. Carried 'off. The 'au., thfirities i viere l immedlately inforrned,and both burgomaster and polieel began making a dil. igent: inquiry. ; It was not di ffi cult to tliscov 'er hilw the thi eves had broken into the house. Tbe window of a back room looked on the gaideisittni had been secured within by a bras-s serist on eithd i r side. - .A pane of glass' had beenibroken oo each side the screws had been taker out, anti:they had carried (a their plun. sier t y the back door, which was found un fasteoed; Ail the other windows Were still seeurielyl bolted, and several rooms had net even been entered. It 'Was evident that 'the thieves had set to work in great security; had _taker their time, and had not been apprehen sive f tieing disturbed. .They had removed the top of a heavy old escritoire, ' which had beenarefidlyilocked, and had lifted' out the don . - This 4peration had been , effected so elare IrShat ttere was not. the slightest tracti r f of Vi lerice. , ut of thi4 escritoire the jess , els. ; aiti Other' IvaluableS ' had been taken.— ' TW - o vhest's hail also been broken open,, arid gold, rimer, and apparel curried off. The vat ne..of Ith ObjeCts missed amounted to about 2'600 1 Dutch florins. ' ) i It waS conjectured that the robbery bad been fleeted by more than one person.;' it was.' ually. ptobable that the plan had been, matu ed lOng before.... It, was also apparent thit't e'robbeil , had' Isten committed by per -1 ...,. tiot Unacquainted With s the, house and the ‘vijow's.icircumststaces. The widow's house was . situated in an outlaying tstreet,and was the , only respectable' one i n the neigh bortsiisd. Persons in inferior circumstance, and among thrit seStml suspicious eharac tem, , occuptsd the adjacent houses. At the end oi the garden :d behind the house; from syhichisids theAlsieves must have come, ran the jailer town ditch Which was navigable, and only divided froni it, y a quiekset hedge. The next house was a corner one, and a nar row path ran along its, side and the garden hedgeNS a plank laid across the ditch.' lt .vas II (1 , t suppofed, however, that, the thieves . had elsobed over the hedges if the two gar dens, but it was much More likely that they had wi i ne i a , boat to the hedge and climbed . . over t, , N o tsuspiciotis footsteps could be notice/ in ;the garden walks or flower beds. Thei t dis4ivery immediately caused great' exc 4 .teatent ;: the 'whole. neighborhood - was astir, tin/ a mob at curious persons surround ed : the' honse.i The. police were: compelled to use s their utmost efforts to prevent them ,enteri' g : _still, one of them, a, baker, Who lived ill the hoose right opposite :to the wid oWi'lrail :siicceeded in finding his way in With the bilitCrs: and' satisfying his curiosity. ,His acquaintances who had:seen him enter_await edhisetUrn With impatience, to learn from him a I that ' the police would nirt. impart- to ir them. Their hopes were deceived, however, for he maintained an obstinate silence, or on ly : gave equivocal motes.' A ',wool -spinner, -Leencl4rt, van N—, Who lived in the for ner hontie,jwas.far more talkative! , Wherev er people put their heads together he hurried up; to ttipm, listened to:their conjectures, and fo'ored them With - his oWn :he spoke tort, in a Very dedided.manrier, and hinted at certain person:seat/114gs. llia wife did . the same ainongiher neighbors in a louder kev. She shook her'bead at one !thing, nodded at.i sp.' ether, and repeatedly said she Would not, be surprised if thieve , were carried to-pris on,'befitre 'night. Among the moit'which i lter husband was honoring ! with his remarks. was a 4ewier, Who was constantly visible in th 6 str eta with his wares- .An ttelttaintance 'twitch I, tbe wtolspiiiner by the 'sleeve, and whispered:to him that 'he had better, be cis tions, ftlr, the Jett was a spy. Th e warning came tort late. is The same morning the wool .spinnetWits siimmoned, to the town-house, to_givel .ous : the btirgounot'ter an exPlanation of sus m 'his Iremarks.r Ile hesitated ; de .d, a d f .ried , de unite, evade the questinos, tint when the burgrimaster: pressed him, lie de termini/ on siking,:tbough he would OA ly• base . Saved he persohs, whoj had never done hi m' any injury..' ' '.. _, , s At t. t end of the street 'in which the, wool sPlnn' sr, public' , holi • se had r been' open e d ived , 1 for several years, kept by a certain Nicholas Ds-----4 1 -The people of the town, however, rarely . - ,ealled him by .hiii name, but only spoke of biro as the " Blue Dragoon ' " as he had furinerly Served An poi. Von Walter barth's]regimedt, who* uniforth was of this color.- i When garrisoned in the 'town some -years liefitre ' lie had made the acquaintance of - Madame An/ref:l4's former maid,,Hanne lA' twin he eventually married. , The.girl'. hail been slii years 1 in the . Widow's service; and po , ssessbd her *tire confidence. :As far as wits kndWn, the old lady had.given them the ~means to open the public house, ter neither °Oben - , 'had anything. It was also known that Winne and her Blue Dragoon, as long as they we re: unmarried,' 'had had few opportu nities' lizif '; meeting . Consequently lialine waited,, her mistress had gone to bed, st : the *raise door, andthe- Blue Dragoon ntwer fitilvd to (juke his appearaisces : If the Weather, was fairs they ,would remain talking there :; if bad, Hanne took the liberty o f in lifting her lover into ;the lionse. - Thli aid not ione rennin hidden -; from the - old - lady, and sha'aia nog approve. of it ; she therefore NW, the, 'tweet door locked each .oightsbeforti 61%0 bed, and took; tYe, key ,with. her.-- The itie'ers however were Pot balked at Ilia ; the'Blne Dragtion sought a road throtigh the liolspintter's garden. 1 One evening the lat tr, heard, the clang of spurs ; he went to the •-. , • ~ • . hack.door liu iedfy *ith''a light, and jaw Nielialiti; el im . ink #vei the fence of Ma aide' AndreditVgardett: He did not makel,l_lny dbiturbatice,.for he', knew. of the lovi, ait','l and, the .Blup Dragoon told him laughingly Ithat he - was -going to bid his 'Rue 'good'', however, , :When, hoever, the thing Went 0n,',,, iand the pine Dragbon dimbed.over tilglat if.i, ter' night, he put a_ atop "to it.' - 1- The. Blue Dragoort.did not climb °eel any :more, yet the woolspinner saw hiii in they 'garden with his.'llanne. The enigal,wasi 'solved one - evening -when he can e hOmei r , 'I very !Mi., and saii. a boat fastened t .al post; dose to Maditne.Andreteht'agarden. it , was on 6 of those in which the • dragoons usUally '', fetched .' their . fodder; from the stores,l and, NidiolaS, was at that time servant to lone of ,the;offieers, and attended te,his horse iMan andArife laiighed heartily -at the Oen' that' Idire wilt. alWaysifind 'll , way - and ttiei-•fre-1 quentlyisaw the boat under tle hedge.. [Such waS thdwoOlspinner's explanations ofr.hU mcs• tives which formed the loondation. °fib's sus pielons. • Hel found, however, more nourish 4.meitt for them in facts that had recent !y home,, to his knowledge: Some ten daya l .hefore! thi,diSdnvery or the robbery, while 014 sirid-; nwiwas r still in • the country p he' hadlotind a' -eoltwed pocket-handkerchief at the si de 'Of t . he: town ditch, close te his neighbor's g#dins.-- 'He; put it in, his pocket 'Without thinkmd any 4 thingabout it. . At dinner he told l i the eir-1 cumsttineelo, his wife, and shdwed 114 the' handkerchief,, remarking innocently i act the.' , same time, "'lf Madame AndFecht -irre in` town aid Hamm Sfill with her, we should; know' what it meant. The Blue ragoonl had been courting-again,. and Lost bi hand-: kerildef." His with took it, looked a i t, It i andi * pointed to one corner,, in hid] the Ittters' N. ID. were marked.' ~ Neither of thern!tho'tl ofthe cireumstanee during:the followingiinys,! tilVthe'diseovery Of theiebbery re lied it. .to mind. .• 1- - i , , - ' Suapicion,' consequently, rested on the, Blue Dragoon, and another eiretonsta cc ma.! terially. confirmed . it. : On the first 'eXa'tnina4 tion Of,the house, a partl,!4urnt spill had been found on the• ground near'the eriteire.l Had Madame Aridrecht or her serval 4 used, the ; ptiPer to light a candle it wOuld n i; have; sl been thrown ,on the ground, fur their feanlii ness was ,notoriouS. 'No other persOn had; entered the house lately, and„ had it betn so, they would net haVe dared to transgress. in; such a wily.; -The police had not sa l liirked,l ; anti, therefore, the' thieves could be t ( only, persona 'who, had, thrown the: spill ttin this, spot. - On unfolding :he rest of ;he pit.er it waa found to, bee declaration or rece i pt for', the town dues on ; spirits' that had be ii itn-' imported. , Whet' the spirits had once, beell , carried home, this,receipt was of.no rther; use; and the papers were not general pre-i, served by the landlords. , The `greate I pm , : lion of the receipt:found in '''the - hong . was', btirat, the name of the landlord • was lgone„I but -the lower , part was in good conditi ,n,and: upon it was the 'signature 04: the exeiemttni and the date.' -It was easy with these diciri, to 4nd out -what landlo'rd had declare , spirj i its %,,n, ' that' 'day.', - The:hooks showed'' that Nicholas D-----hiid received several i 4 as of Geneva.- . This, in 'connection with the;a 001-1 spinnees etateinent,determined the po ice to arrest the Blue Dragoon, as, well as' hi Am--; ily, - xotisisting of his wife, ,her, father and bro-,I tber„ who, lived with him. An exarniti:ation: of t he house led to the discovery of a r souk refill. , " : behind fhb shutter of the taproom wintio*, which nndoubtedly belie - Igd td, aiMadame Andretcht, for two -letters- dres-! sed ;to' her *ere found in it. , ' - While thelwhole toivp was busying itself , , in. forming conjectures' on , the subject, a re spectable tradesman made his appearan e be-, ford the. 'police and gave in the full wing ! 1 statement : 1.1-le I,was a 'wood-rnerchan ,andl milting his,customers - wai ; a carpenter, Isaac; yan',CH----, who as 'alwaya ,in arrea with! his payments. he tnerchant pressed him,' and ",at length in co etieed legal procee ings. f A, few -days before the discovery of therob bry,, the carpentdi cmMe to his house and begged him not to proceed further, air he! +mild be a , ruinell man. "See how ill am; paid'!" he exclaimed, a* hre- placed a,' 14sket. I on the table and produced from it a ; pli!ir -of 'silver eandlestieka and a ceifee-pot. 1"4 had i . sixty florins to ; t receive of a party, , t ne,, ! begged me to take his silver' in partpaylent, l and .1 did so, as I. saw I should not- grit i my; . mrtey; in any other way. I did not like to` sell it to the silversmitlis here, as f' should; - no get halt the value, bat waited till filvent to itlonsterdam,where I could dispose of them.; I Will leave the silver iu pledge with yitt till!, tireeeiVe ray money:" ' The wood-merchant; he'ailattul at first but at length 'consenthd.—.! The 'silver was in my hinds. When he h'eard of die f robberi at Madame Andrecheel, land read the list of . ;things stolen,*he ,fiad I no doubt that these Objects forme d part of them ;1 He did not wish to throw any suspici4 on the . rarpenter ; he could no _doubt e4plainl whenee he obtained them, and he seal sur prised 'he had.' not so already, to proyel tholatidlord'srpilt or innomnee. The pOliedl imMediately. EClltlfoy IN silver, and the ixtr- yetiter p Isaac can C----- - . , - . I . ,- ' - The carpetiter I arrived hreathles'sly.llire; seemed perfectly prepared-, and bet* they procheded id question him he -voluneetired' the following statement :--He hat-beedpres-i lied by the wood l merelumt, and;was lonse.i, quently forced to , press his debtors. Among; theni was Nieholas. D—, who owed!, film 1 sixty florins for sem* . done in his hotisei---1 Nicholas lied come to hint sonic twelvirdaysi ; before(and begged him to wait a littlepOlg-i er. , Wien, _the carpenter declared it wits tin- 1 passible; he had o i ffered him seine old river, in part payment. 'The carpenter sus. ecied nothing wrong,but asked Wm!, accidental shbari he hatr got it 1 ''he Blue Dragoon rOplied' that ,it•belonged to his father-in-141w, to iwitcani it had .been, lekby an old lad,y, whose'eeach- 1 man'he had , been for several years. .?rhey', 'agreed' -that it. should. be - taken for A ceri -taro 'price ,' price, and ',the landlord brought it , to: him the-same'eyeningin a covered - basket:'— At the- time be requested him not •to diaposS of it, in the town, for he ,would I ranlyl ' get half its value ; ,and heside,s, he, thelland4 'lord;: hid' reasons i for 'des ring it., - ' i • I The-Blue Dragocei was now examined ;I -tind -hilt statemetit'atillied4ith that'of , tii . edar4 .penter. to' a ceartaie,- eitent. „ He allowe,) ;kit he aired him.sixtit florins, but had nst yet been, able to pay hirn-any part. He; ihowis .every denied any knOWledgenftlid'ellie_.!--- .-- r.l The refit of the family made the Berne 't, meat, but-, all - declared that Nicholas hiid,lin .thdr, preeetuaNthree months previously, ouitt-, e 4 .out twenty„ -flOrins, which he said iwte , • ;; . 1 ~j 1 I RCORIOdi & • SNi ITH,..PUBL4SHERSL-VOL : . 1.'.50.•24i intended for , the .carpenter.., Blue Dragoon, on further exaniinntion, econtanled that this was a fact, - but, bd ., bad Used the money: tet pay some old gambling debts; and that. be had told his wife he I .intended; them' for "the u4penter. This . was, the first :instance in which any of the aceused'had been convicted fidieluxxl ; and,although it referred , io au immaterial eirenmstance,it threwan unfilvor alile light on their t stateinents, awl his assur; :nice that he had paid the carpenter. no part, of the debt by means , of the silvei; found'no cr6dence. The carpenter, moreover, did not rtg'it hi his endeavor to convict the landlord of falsehood ; he produced a species of ledg er, in which an -entry was made that, on the 23d June; the' landlord, Nicholas D--;--, had piiid thirty florins 6'llw:count in old silver.-- Tile carpenter's' hoUstkeeper and apprentice bith gave their tis imony; that they Were Present when the Bihie DragoOn bad spoken with their . master on the subject,and swore to the truth of.tlie state ent. In consideration of ail this, and as th landlord persisted in' ass l erting his innocence, the authorities deter- Mined on bringing him to confess / by means oil torture. - All preparations were madcand the torture would be applied ' the following day, when a letter reached the authorities by the Boterdam Post. . ; 1" Before Iv* thia country, and 'read' ii spot where neither :the authorities ofl?!_1---- 1 niir the court-martial can touch nr,.l will save four innocent persons who are - now im prisoned in 31—, tare must be taken not td punish them for a' eriinnef which' they ,; . . cannot be guilty. How the 4 pdr . pentOr ts, eon. nhcted with them I cannot cOnjeCtuife, and I heard 'of it with great surprise. However, ~ .. the carpenter may not be perfect innocent. May the judges pay due attention;] at this hint! They may afterwards . bitterly repent. ng ; gleding it. They need nut attempt to. 'fol. lo me. , If the wind remains in the; present . qUarter,' I shall be in England before this let •tsr is receive . ' ' > I "JOESPEI,CTIRISVAN: RVIILER, f' Ex-Corporal in the Company le Long."- ; The authbrities gladly avail:A theMselves of this opportunity to delay the. torture. It sgemed, at first sight, no mere invention of te prisoner's friends. A - company corn men d -. c, e . by Captain le Long was, really 4n gar. ri n : a corporal of that name had served in it; but had disappeared or . deserted , four weeks back, Till then, all inquires after him hid been useless. The police also found that the corporal had disappeared on the very night before the robbery was 'made known.— A connection ,between the two facts appeared evident. A =new divert', however, des ; troyed this conclusion.' The letter froin Rot terdam was laid before the commanding, kiffi ctir, and he declared it at first sight a forgery. The band writing was not Bhuler's ; all 'phis c4misides asserted it, and' several old Cornpa ny's listsochich Ruhler was kuown - to hfive written, proved it, to the satisfaction'of 'the jUdge. Consequently, the.letter , was; nothing niore than a trick ofsome friend or *deem pike of the' Blue Dragoon to liberate him from the torture.. This 'was the preval l ent oinion, When two new and very importimt wSmesses made their appearane6.-.. They. had no connection together, nor were their, o it4te- Ines the least alike ; the faces they brought ht ward contradicted one another in A , -mea sure, and which, on one hand, throwing a light on the „Matterom the other, they only' .rien-,., d4red.it more obscure. ; 1 . '; - A tradesman of the town, who was A en eral dealer , and lived in the neighborh of j i t e widow Andrecht, had been absent in the s lath of • Germany wring the whole Of the trnii. He had but just returned and bhen told of the affair ' when he voluntarily aiPear ed before tbepolice, and made the following vry 'im m portaut stateeut :—Abent the dine i ur en the robbery must have taken place he w s still in the town. - The carpenter, ;Isaac e t van C----•:; called upon hinfand begged him td .lend him his boat, in which_be- usually I - transported his .bales and heavier- goods.— This beat 'was generally fastened behind 'the hOuse, ;near his warehouse', rich .,waselose toj the town ditch. He had a large quantity of casks to deliver at that time; and could riot ipare it. Isaac, however, begged. him very' earnestly, and stated he only 'wanted t e boat for a couple of nights, and would re t rn it to its place in the morning. 00' hie inquiring why he wanted it particularly at ni4ht,'he replied, after a pause, thathe Wished WI move . fhe furniture of seine people, who, were leaving their.house.."By;tfightr the Owner of the boat asked.' " WhO -leaves his house by night 1," ' The airpenter replied, liith a cunning smile, , that the people' were bankrupts and ' were going. to,-" shoot the noon!" nI" . The owner was- indigent, and re-; fuked the use 'of hi.A boat., The carpenter, luisiever, quickly said that he had' been in je4t, and his intention wai to go fishing with hi 4 apprentice during the night, He had not told him his real object,: for fear he might suit like his boat dirtied. H 6 at length yield ed to the mrpenter's pressing entreaties, and lent him the boat on condition that; he r e turned it again the' next morning. The I penter-kept his word' faithfully. When: hi went to his warehouse the, - next Itilf;tili.ng at/ an early hour, he saw the carpenter; and MI; apprentice just. fastening the beat,. It snuck him directly that they had no nem or flailing implements.' • He examined the - beet, and was still More stirprised at finding it dry and clean inside. He i, d therefore, detiteted th carpenter in a false.aood. In the boat he piked up a parcel, consisting of two silver foilta wrapped in pa r." The carpenter's fi' t statement- ' was Erect, therm '; ;he had .11 ped the bankrupt to retnove his ; furniture el idestinely. In I iderable anger at; it, bei ' put. the forks in - is pocket -'and went sttaight to li.utc v . C...... The,orp e nter; his housekeeper, , , . the apprentie44 were in tb work - shop. Ile held out the forks to t m, saying.--;" You le ft them in My Boat: i ppose you used them to eat the fish you Pl igh t. I hope they will - agree with you." 1 u a TI ey were evidenkly confOund The house ,'firsth e that' her master "bad reallyberl some p 4, pia to more." ' This was in itse fno Very' crWttable action, and he presumed :that their eolifusioe arose from . their. fee lings of shame. Whenhe asked the - name o r the rrson, the etkpenter said that he could n ot to I him then, ; bgthe would explain to him alters:Ws. " Hs w silent, but inquired cautiously Who- bad: ~.t tly quitted the toniu t though yr,4l29ut re r'ee ving any satisfactory . inAirmatieu. ~fits f en joUrnet to Gerrnahy had * caused - him to'cdr get the matter , but naw he bad snot" least doubt.that -Isaac van C.-.--. - w a s the-guilty _:..+,-....+:ku:`:w2'ti~.uy.:..- : the =carpenter,`and' his filthily' were'-im mediateiy 0r640;4nd hii -- hairie 4atoo. They. found in it, with thiceiteeption of 0 few tiifinig - mattera all thit.:itiai missed - -from Madame Ana4aies: - They were threatened; - with-thetorture; and at ;last confessed that b)ey_ hid cominitted, thil robbery.: On ;the .. morning wheti - the discor ry was made, mss-" - ter and Oprentice : !Weie among the crowd, to hear what reports We, spread. The, ap prentice heard the woolspinneei wife openly` state 'that ,she suspected t he Blue Dragocrn:- . -.- ' i He told his master ofiti. and they . deterrnin ed on inereasingthese.': - Ithspicions by all the means in their powee . The opprentice,soen: after wcnt, to the:Blue Drair.kovii to drink a. glass 4spirits. He aske d fir a coal to light his, pipe.. While he wasene - tiro& it, he employed his -absence to slip the'sthrienir be ! . hind the shutters, ' Their unanimous confes sion entirely'exonerated the diagoon and - bis family ;froth the, charge of having, committed the robbery, but`there was mecikyet te - be - explained. How bad Nicholas D' 's hind-. kerchief been lost at the hedge 11,1thir did the spill, made of one of his `receipts, find its way into the house 'l The carpenter and. his-4e cornplices &dared that they knew . 'nothing about it. Even whet threatened - with the torture they asserted s,- their ignorance.' The suspicion MILS excited:that other.accomplicea still remained undetected.' The retorted to the corporal's letter. If nothis handwrit ing,' he might have bad it Written by sonie one else, and was mixed up some ' way in the affair, end his desertion was evidently in close connection.- with:'the..rObbe4' -Duringl the carpenter's trial, hoWever, a new witness volt untarily came forward, the.schooltnaster ofa -village about two miles from the town. lie. showed the judge a piece'of paper, on which only the-words " Joseph ,Christian Rehter" -were written, and inguired whether a litter" in the tamehandwnting had not , been lately received by the authorities' - On cotnparing it with the letter Rotterdam, - it Was fitund that they were v4rrit,ten - . 1)); the sane person, and the Schoolmaster gave the follow ing explanation, - 76;0 .materially.altered the whole affair: 1 • In his village there was a deaf and dumb bey, whom the par4l Lid given hirti sui a boarder: He had suciveded in' teaching-the unfortunate to *rite, and he had .brought it to such perfeetion -that he -was employed. by many persons, even the burgomaster of the •village, in-preparing' documents, A short tine back,-'nn 'unknown person bad come to the 'village - during the-schoolmaster's absence, and asked fey the deaf and dumb boy, assfre quently happened, and taken him with him to. the inn. There he.ordered .:a private 'room and-a bottle. of wine. -He then begged .the lad to copy hint a : letter which he clete his slate. - The boy:, did so at first without suspicion: still the 'contents or-the letter ap -peered Singular to himotedlthe demeanF of the unknown revealed-fear and autiety:' , But when he was directed 'to write the aa-- diess, To the Burgomastef of 'he refused to comply at first, and' was only' diteed to do se by the pressing entreaties . of the stranger, - whO gave a florin, and recom mended himz r :ilretterve.strict silence. The bey was - at inclined to dq so; for ha knew be had, done something wrocg ;- but he at length confessed to his master, who imme diately perceived that•thia mysterious affair was in close connection with the uniVersally spoken-of trial. 1 He went to - 'the landlord of the inn,- and asked him- if he 'remembered a stranger, who had brought the deafand dumb _ boy to his house ? The lincllord,retalled the circumstance, but did 2: not - - - know the. - man.;' his wife, however, - called to mind that she bad seen him speaking fa miliarly with anoth -er well-known man from- : the town, the mil- ler Overbliek, Who bad just - stopped with his wagon 'before the:dOor. They shook hands ,on parting,-and called =one-another hy ; name. The schoolmaster inquired farther, Relent directly to Overblink and asked the name of the man. -The miller remembered the eir eumaiance perfectly:• and said the mati was -'no other thaahieold aeiluttintance, the baker H—, of that very . townl ;This seheo}}nas= ter, after reCoutmedink the miller to oh , serve the strictest secreeyi . had then come straight to the police. The baker eras-immediately arrested and examined. He Must have' given some 'hit- formation, for the wootspiener.Leendert van N.-4nd his wife were alto imprisoned du ring the course of - the day.' These were the persons who hat' first raised sitpicion against the Blue Dragoon, and had made such a Wel,l founded denunciation against him before the authorities. The crime of which =they Were accused was quite a different one from ,the preceding, and, had as little contiectiOn „With the carpenter and hiaaplicea, es the - ter with the Blue Dragoon and his relatit Without,the robbery, however, in , which last persons arrested were partipipat this dark erime, would hardly-lave been tested We find -in the dirty low room of it he woll-spinner Leendert van .11 - -----on lug of the 29th June, a :company of card-play- - ere who,as regarded their _antecedents,. had not much to reproach each other with. The players were Corperal Rader, the baker Leendert , van, They were well acquainted,' though .414 hated uud detested each othei v lint common criminal interest connected thtuu together. The ba ker and corporal were old allies; the former baked the bread for the garrisne, and the lat ter bad' the 'duty of[receiving jit from him. The baker employed the Coticitoti trick, of rendering:the breld the proper- weight by mixing deleterious ingredients; in the dough: The corporal: detected it, and gave the baker the choice of being denounced orbribmghhin. He' ehosetbe latter.. The corpenal t however, treated hint harshly, and he, , temsequenify, bated him. The enmity between - the. carp rat and - the wool-spinner was. atilt - more vio- , jdot. The latter had formerly_all the Tole'. hie of supplying the garrison 'for,thetaiters, but the corporal had lately deprived , him it. Hehad lost considerably-'blit, and -hi. was furious. The carpets]; however, had power-in his handa, and - could -deprive thew. both of ether advantages whichtthey derived from the - garrint. = .They were,- therefore, 'fbreed.tosuppresa'their" - passien,'suffer his to,' • - bitrary treatnient,'atuffeel honore4f when he visited theta. • They. were. playing der tethei. out such deeplproOted temiti i 'estes in such pleees; and!with peoplei=of clias, irer'or -teal- the provocative' of riViolehl- They began quairelingdo , thbf evening.'- 'The corpora) employed throats. From i Words they proceeded to blows; and the rear was x. EIM E =I i at ,the In, d-