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And then, I said, my task shall be • To soothe Ms heart so fond and tr How much his little wife can do, • My heart. my life ! Your little wife Must bid you dream that dream a Then let me lift those locks that fall So wholly' o'er year lefty lirow, And smooth with &nett' soft and am ; The veins that cord your temples HOw oft, when achedyour weary he, From, manly care of thonght,divin 'enire held me to _vase, heart and sa' Von wanted love so deep as mine! My own, my life! Your little wife, That love is all her life's design. And here itis—,a love as wild; As e'er defied the world's control;' . The4ondness of a tearful child: The passion of a - woman's soul, AM — tingled in m y breast for thee' , ,,, „fh one hot ti de-I Cannot speak ; Bat feel my throbbing heart, and ice • Its brightness in my burning Ghee „ „__ -My love, my life! • Your little wife Should cheer you or her heart would Ah! now tbe breast' found so cold, Grows warm within tny : fond emb And smiles as sweet alt, those of old' . Are stealing softly o'er your Lace; And far within your brightening ey • My Image, true.and clear, I see . ; • Each shade of careand sorrow fl i es,; And leaves your heart again to m : My love, my life! Your little wife - Its only queen must ever be.' isteilantou. Kissing a Sinsnise Girl's.. Wheel speak, of l kissing,' I don' kissing mother or gutter, aunt., or or the little people .c that's, all in t and a matter of course. I mean o sweetheart, and other femininea, kin or blood connection. to call kissing," and that's 'the sor ing to describe. I - There is a beautiful village about; twenty-four miles north of New Haven, calledin the In . diets tongue Pompensny. What it means in 'lndian I don't know. It was not taught us in the district school up there ;''where .we learned our A:11. C's and afterwards proves fled; as far as B-a ba,k-e-r, Baker, when LINDA allowed to graduate,- and enter the " Youth's Seminary," under the charge of the Rev. Mr. Fuller' One of the schoolmates in thilatter plape was a bright intelligent boy Of, the name Of Walter Marshall. I loied him, so did every body in the old village, love him.— He grew up to tnanhooa, but not there. , No ; New England boys don't grown at h ome ; before they reach manhood they , are trans planted, and are flourishing in all parts of the known world,wherea Yankee craft has been or the stars and stripes? . o i. ilio,. Walter Marshall;, when he rase ame fourteen:arrived in New York frai` 124 na tive village in the destitute situation, that is frequent among New England bo r p ; !that is to say he , had only the usual accoMpliniinents of those unfledged _chips,' who afterwards make the..merchants and great men of this country, and not unfreqnently of other lands: He had a little wooden:trunk. !pretty 'well s. stocked ; with " - hum nudes;' ;11l sixty-eight cent bible that his mother packed in for him, tearing that he might forget it ; Z three, dol lar New Haven - city tank bill, wail any quan= tits of energy, patience, perseverance and ambition. He entered the counting room of a large Mercantile house in South'street.,- ; His honesty, activity and indestry neon .him many friends. .Among them *ai l an , English merchant, who had a large cosri rcialh.e&se in Calcutta, and a branch at B mbay was in' this country on bus with hi s commercial fitm in C icuitit, and did his business for th e firm W ter clerked for; and here "the - latter attracted hifnotice. He was sixteen' years Of age onlydet the Bombay gentleman fancied him sn made him &liberal offer to go to Englatill ' with him; which, after a very little palvei .4 '‘triong , ..,. his friends, Walter accepted. New4l‘ ). .glaud boys don't often start off on that i tiVs' ally lOng wandering excuraica vitho* 4 . , get ting leave absence for a few days -preps exercises,,which they spend in' oink,. ,: iliere they came from ; and then; having t on a few pod looks at the straither-be teaiburch, the high old steeple, wich was w onderfully e reduced in size and elasiation si . they *it saw,it, to notices it, in schoolboy day& ;:theti they Must hear the old bell ring once sake, even if tneyliad to Woo s spell t tharope; —4hell take a turn among . use hfte.grave `stones, see if there am any moreunds,fresb — thade,and if so to ask what on of all their etio friends bare gone to their last !lasting -place; prittors. then to kiss mOther.ar withlather—and the the tavern, and they r go "anywhere" Walter went up to btit he did' not get in. ern. He walked do • the coach, and told t him . get in at the in . son Fuller's. Mary for she happened to daughter. She was little witch that ever of auburn •hair, and h only twelve years old seventeen. She did was almost all in all het battles for her th paign. aid she had Walter's cousin too in ; for her mothar hi of Walter's mother. related for purposes hi epart. \ re bright, Ito-night, Poor Molly ! he eyes out on this occa. Walteria solemn phii diculous in motion: 1 ~. I tea minutes as a win Three -days after andjuit four months on in Time's -'almana Voices and acting as the firm in Bombay. -I shall not stop to g enough to_ telt. bow . runny - times be went of see' . the -exhibition of venomous-looking c , bra do Capellos biting Sepoys, just for fun, To le , show to* inno-. cent_ the beauties we 4 and bow easy' their bite was-cured; how Often he visited fthe far famed Elephant-ceve t: bow many times be dined with Sir Biter ;Grant ' the GoVerner of Bombay, and Ito* he was with aim , and . what he said on . the sexy 'Morning of the„day the. old scourge—the cholera—made - the ex cellent Sir Robert,hislyictim; . all these I shall leave to another time ; and a more atipropriate heading. I skip over all these, and six' years of the time biside, and land Master Walter-at • Staten Island, bring him -up to the leityjn., steamboat, and leave: rim At a respeitabla tel, arid let him sleep all - night, anti trace 'lt good "shore vest," a ter a tedious veyage of four months and rnor. • ' The next morning and pay his bill, tali to the New Haven ! :_ board. It is sevea.'-, t'.. Si, Lhetoat`2ias trunks and traps are stage; he has take 4 destination is an inte alone' in the stage an old woman`on the byternin . clergyman o 'stage is up in the! ci about New Raven: tq gers,'who have sent office, as is still CUst,l 'sober city of Mineral , ologies in generali, r at- the door of a neat . 1 street to take up a ingtitli. include grandma,' e farnily, nes, w ife, at are not the sort I am go- " That' of sweet sixteen or.J had got. fairly insid • and she had noticed astonishment at the nose before h , the kind for several particle•. of copper part, half laughing, Lively_ ; pushes back almost shut in ber look, as if to be cer take. " Here is a sea the gospel_ preacher. Thank son sir, back seat with that me,' said the most ter listened to in so, ." Certainly, 1 1 4;ss, said the delighted Bow bayite ; and when .s e had seated herself: by' him, she gazed in 'his face with a kind' of wised : delight and astonishment, that -Walter actually too a look down upon him self, to 'ascertain hat there was about his person that appear , to be so ploasing to the fair maiden; but h: discovered nothing nn-. usual. The stage oiled on towards:by, *O% usual rapid to of five miles a ' our, and.-Walter and th merry maid; seemed as as chatty and 'cozy together as though ,hey hadlknown each o her for years instead of minutes, The miutater tried to enpge the ringlets in eonverntion, but he soon found himself " nowhere." She bad neither_ eyes ' nor ears fbr anybody else but Walter.; and he had told herrnore about his travels andßom bay scenery,,*l be ever told anybody else before or since. Id sister, shake hands I tage • 0 Is at the Door of re ready•for a start to to; and did all this; N. o. t he stage at the tar ,,l/ the road, ahead of !e driver to atop and let Infster's house—at Par uller lived there, • too, be: - the parson's only the merriest, loveliest ore long, loose tress • d .blue eyes. She was and Walter was nearly loVe him though ; . be °ler; he hid fought •ugh her childish caM- . Ino brother. She was l a sort of half first.cons '. d been the half sister They were not too near •reinafter named. i' would have °riled br,r .ioti,had it not been that "set her ideas of the ri nd she ,made a merry • up to their parting alter was in New. York, nd twenty days farther L. {vas making out in cdrres pondfng cleiir to . . • :. awake himi; get up, a. beak, and ei i ide down - teamboat sad go on '..:...1.... A. at . At .... !ached • the .1a ding; his n board the "tctifield 1 seat on the_ vls i side . ; his ediate i e. 'l.leis o not alone,—there Is • front .seat,, aid a Pris-: In tU middle lieat. ' The ~. Ity sloyrly meandering Ism picking ' . up passeit.: !heir names to the:stage i emory in that:staid and /.gy, theplogy and. other he stag Jetiu pulls 'up little Cottage in Chapel . - :nger. 7 -rt young:Tidy thereabout. .Before gie . Walter had noticed, bet him, too. Ile. gazes . in . - ect vision of loteli has. n't seen anything of years. There is not 'a bout her. She, on, ,her• -garded him very ikticn the golden ringlets that ace and takes _another ..: in she bad madonci mis- Miss, inside roe,". said ut I prefer sitting on the _entleman; if he ectrical voice that Wel- e time. ato Derby: Their horse, ,and four fresh , skeletons tackled, on the old stage. gentle girl back to hei lyjo he could have , done liombay, bat always rlc. They were alone -pow; e old woman had got' out At last they ca had to be changed, were harnessed and Walter handed the old seat as gracefei had he never , lived stopped in New Y( the minister and tl at Derby. " Well we are once - more,* how far are i v yon going l' i !said - alter:" " Not Apite so far as. Lile_tifield. Yon say that yourfriends reside at T'omperany. Row glad,they will be tb see, you." _ " Very probable unless they bre forgot ten me, which is li ely, for tsappose'l have altered some in se en years:' -, f "Not a 'partici ~ I—" , :: - t 4 WE IRE ALL EQUAL BEFORE (110111 AND TIRE CONI!rFiTVTION. I ;-.JF antes Buchania. - • i • 1 , • I Softest, 'Altsinttinita- ft eutta, fenit'a, ittitrshit 'Senting, 'Nugzst 7, igqtr, -- 1 • The pretty maid forgot what she was going to say, but at last remembered, and ,nclntinu ed " Ifrhould suppose that you bad not filter ed, for you say you were seventeen wlten you left home, and now you are only 'twenty three. You Must have been grown nearly as large as you are now." " • . "Perhaps so; but still, I am somewhat tanned by exposure in the East India cli mate." _" Yeti chink you will be_tecognited by everybody in the little village. Do you know a young lady in Pomperany of the name of Mary Fuller - L c , " What ! little Mary I My little wife, _as I used to call her! Bless lcier heart ! My trunk is filled with knick-knacks for her es• pecial use. Do I know her t Why; I hare thought of her ever since I went away.— Young lady ! Why, she is" a little bit of a girl : she is only ten years old. No ; abe roust be older now. I suppose I shall find her grown considerably. By the way, are you not cold I. Fts getting chilly." The delighted young lady was trying to conceal her face, which had called forth Walto's exclamation. "Yes, it is getting colder; it is nearly dark," and so it was. - Walter had 'a boat cloak, and after a very little trouble , he was permitted to wrap it around ber lovely form, and somehow or`other his arm went with it . ; and in the confusion be was very close to her, and his arm was around her waist,' outside the cloak, though then he had to pet his face down to hear what she said, and somehow those long ringlets of soft; silky hair were playing across his cheek. Human . ' nature could not and would not stand it any longer, Rod Walter, the modest Walter, drew his arm closer than ever and pressed upon the warm rosy lips of his .beatitiful fellow:triveler a glowing, burning, regular East India, Bom bay kiss, and then blushed himself at the mis chief he had done, and waited for the stage to.-upset or something else to happen ; but no, she had pot made any resistance; on the eon trary, -he felt very distinctly that she had re turned the kiss; the very first -kiss, too, he had ever pressed upon.* woman's lipssince he gave a parting'kiss -to little Mary Fuller, and he , woul.l have sw'rn he heard her say ing something (about " the very moment he had given her that first long kiss of youtir and love;) that sounded like " Walter 's dear Walter." He tried' the expurinse _tit iailinv - nis4l botore 0.0 end fairly reached. the village i he bad kissed and re-kissed her, and she had paid them back kiss for kiss at least a hundred times. The stage was now enteri - ng.tlte village.— In a few moments he would be at Mary Ful ler's houie. He thought, of her, and he felt ashamed and downright guilty. What would Miry, his "little wife," that was: to be, say; if she ketils;be had been acting . so! As these things passed rapidly through his mind, he began to study how to get. out or the affair quietly and decently. • ' " You go ; onin the stage, I suppose, to the next town, 'or perhaps you go still farth er !" - " Oh, no ! net me f' " What could she mean But he had no time to indulge in Conjecture ; the stage dve up slap in front of Parson Fnller's door, lied there was the venerable Parson and his good lady in the door-way; he with a Lamp in his hand, all ready to receive—Walter, as be supposed: " Where will you stop in the village 9 I come and see , you." "I shall stop where you stop. I won't leave you. Here you . have been kissing me this last half hour, and now you want to run: away and leave me. lam determined to ex pose you to that old clergyman and-his wife in the doorway yonder. More than that, your "darling little wife" that is to be , as you Called her, shall know ail about it." f ` What a situation for a modest., mars? It was awful. To be laughed at; and who was abet Could .it be possible! Ho had heard of such characters: - It must be; but she Was very pretty; and be to be the means of bringing such a 'creature into the very . house of the good and pious clergyinan and ,his sweet old pet and playmate-his Mary Fuller! • He saw it all. It. was a judgment sent:upon hip; What business had he to kiss 'stange girl _if she. was pretty I uncle and' aunt had come clear downithe stone walk to the door-yard_ gate, almoit to the stage door, Which the driver had opened. Walter felt that he was doomed ; but he had to get out. " Don't - for God's sake, expose me, young woman!'.' " I will--get out." • "Oh I" thought Walter,"tit's allover with me ,T" and now he shakes hands with the der , gyrnau, and Blow. his arms-around the aunt. " Mary r. exclaims the mother," our Mary in the stage, as Hive! So, so, you :would come up with 'your cousin, eb r . "Yes,' mother, and what do you thiril: the impudent Hast.lndian has been doing.? He kissed me at least a hundred times, and that tan's all ;tie tried`to persuade ma to keep on in the stage and not get out at all !" • '" kb, no wonder he kissed you; he hasn't seen `yon for aome years. ROw glad yint must hate been when you met. Bat what is the matter of you,' 'Walter!' Let the driver stop and leave yourtrunk at your father's as be goes by, and do you coins into the house: Wn3r, what is the matter Are you dumb r Annetrou *abutted of yourself, Welter, not to !peak tt my mother Wben she is talk ing to you I" chimed in M4i Molly. 1 Walter now found his voice, and befOre!he fairly got insj4de, Miss Mari was his debtor; or round dosen 01'1:isms which she took very kindly. But as for Wr4ter his mind Iras made up. Re had turned over the subject during the !ast thme eninites. li e wolild marry that strange , was grateful ; she bad saved him front degradation, lose Of character, and evecititing , else; but world she forgive him for being so free with a stn. 'ngi girl in a stage /coach f Doubtful ; but she should have the tiance, at any rate. The wanderer received a glad welcOrae from his family and/ friends in his own native village ; and Marf'Fuller was his traveling companion about 4 1.1ae piaci; and together they crossed the 4,r-sill of every old farm house within a eh:eke-of five miles around.— Walter had seen enough of the outside of the great world. Mcited made some money too, enough for his modest wants; be was old en ongh to marry-4ed so *as Mary Ful ler; and before three:oionths had rolld over their head; the vene4le old father made them one in the front parlor of the old globe.— When the vows,' bad been spoken, the last prayer made, and the blessing. Pronounted, Walter clasped! Miry to his breast an& im printed on her fiplinother first kiss; but obw, it was the first thrilling kis:i of married love, and, as he held .her r a moment in his ardent embrace, she whispered silently into his 'ear : " Walter, dear;it is understood in this vow, no more ' kissiPg strange' girls in a stage coach I" - - Yeari have fi;owti by since then, and now Walter Marsh 1 1 and his gentle wife - anti the little people they call their "stock in trade," aroiiv_ing plesiantly nail happy. .somewhere on this side off the Alleghenies, near n place called Pittsbuig, %dere he owbs large tracts of mines—not!.huthug, wihy-woshy,sbinikig gold, but real, 1 hard, substftetial, coal mines, productive to himself and to the country be Ives in. The icrieeknekt IWienessi A LAWYMIS STORt: In the apritig of 11348 I vraa Called to !tick son, Alabama; to Attend court, •having been engaged to defend a' young.man -who had° been accu3ed ;if robbing the - Mail. I arrived early in the rooming, ac .immediately had a long ootifereivireXvith_ my cilistu'rz.-glp.r4r toles i na il una'ttieen,recoured,ii wen ' a'. -the. letters from which the money bid beefs' rifled. The letters weie given to me (or examination, and I then returned them' to the prosauting attorney.. Having , got through my private preliminaries almut noon. and ;as the cease would not co r ing ..off before the next day, I went into the; court is the afternoon to see what was going on. The first case that came up was one! of theft, and the prisoner was a .young girt, not more than seventeen years of age, named Elizabeth Madworth. She was very pretty, and bore that mild,innecent look, which we seldom find in a culprit. She was pale and frightened, and the moment spy , eye rested upon bet, I pitted her: She had been weeping rofreely,but as she found so mans , eyes upon her, she becanie too much fright ened to weep more. ' • • The complaint against her set forth that shelled stolen one hundred dollars from Mrs. Naieby ; arid as the case.wanton, t, found that Mrs. Naseby, a wealthy Widow living in the 'town, was the girl's mistress, The poor girl declared her innocence in ,the most mild terms, but Orceinstancei were hard against her.. A hundred dollars. in bank. notes had been stolen from her mistress room, and she was the only one who 11 ad access there. • At this jUncture, when the misstress was upon the witness stand, a young man came and caught me by the arm, He was it fine looking.man,and big teFirs steed in hie eyes. "They tell me you are a, good. lawyer," be whispe4d. "I am a lawyer," I' answered. "Then do save her ! You c an certainly do it, for she is innocent." ' '' • "Is she your sister I" • - "No, girl", be said. '"Bat, hu—" • Here he hesitated again. "Has she no counsels b asked. "None that's good for anything—nobody that'll do anything for her. 0, save her, and I'll pay yob all iv'e got. I earo't raise much but cap raise something." I reflected fora moMent. 'I cast my eyes towards the prisoner, and she was at that mo ment looking at me. She . caught my eye, and the volume of humble entreaty I road in be: ginned, resolved me in a moment. I ar rose and Went- to the girl, and wired if she wished tivi,to defend her. Sho.said yes. Then I inforinedthe court that I was ' ready to ter into tiri case, and then 1 . was admitted at , once. The, loud murmur of satisfaction which rairquickly through the room told me where the sypmathy of the people was. i I asked ' for a moment,e cessation, that might! speak with my client. I went and sat down by her side, and asked her to state candidly . the whole case. She told. me sheltie!! !tied with Mrs. Naseby nearly two years, and hik never had any trouble before. About two weeks age, she slid, her mistress lost a hundred del. lads. t •i I "She mivied it from the idrawer,"l the girl said to mS, "and asked .1318 abOut :It, but I knew nothing about ,it. The esitrthing I Lather- told Mrs. N'aseby that she saw Die take the itsmy: from the drawer . .6-that sh Watched Me through the ierhole. Then they went to' I _ o 7 6iink and found twenty dire 4ollars of the -taisli4 money ; there. But, sir, I never took it-tend some body elm must have put it them. then asked her if she suspected any one. "Idea% know,". she said, "who nould have doae•it but Nancy. Elbe' Las sever liked me, because she thought that I was treated bet- ter than she Was. She is dm o. the chambermaid." She pointed Nancy Luther out t was a stout, bold-faced girl, sow dive and twenty years old, with bead, small gray eyes, a pug' no :- lips. I caught her glance once, on the fair youngprisoner, and th' detected the look of hatred whieb I was convinced that she was the "Nancy Luther did you ay name wits r I asked for broken in upon me. "Yes, air." "Is there illy other girl of that here - "No sir."_ i lo - "Then rent easy . Fit try hard I save you." I le ft the court room and went o the prose- . outing attorney, and asked him for the let ters I had handed him—the o esilat had been stolen from the mail, bag. He gave them to me, and having seleetsdF:sne,l return ed the rest, and told him I Would_ see that be had the one kept before night. I then re turned to the court room and e case went : on. Mrs. Naseby resumed her testimony. She said she entrusted the room to the prisoner's care, and that no one bad access there save herself. Then the described about missing the money, and efosed by saypg tbat she found twenty five dollars of it in the prison er's trunk. , She could swear it was the iden tical money she had lost, h twcl tens and one i five dollar note. .* i _ , "Mrs. Naseby,"said 1, "wheril sed the money, had you any re that the prisoner had taken it ! "No 'sir," she answered:, • I "Had you ever before detee dishonest*-1" "No '• - !tSbculd you have thought her trunk had not Nancy Loth and informed you t" . "No sir." Mrs. Naseby left - the stand and Nam'' , Luther took her place. She came up with a bold look, and upon me she cast a defiant glance. as muol as , . say, "step. ine if, you. can." She gave her eviienee i a fol . lowa : She said that - on the night wh en the money was stolen, she saw the prisoner going ,np stairs, and from the sly manner in which she went ttp, she suspected that al was not right. Su 5Le followed her up. "Elizabeth went in to Mrs. Naseby's room and shit the door af ter her. ' I stooped down and looked through the key-bole,and saw het take lout the money and put it In her pocket. Thn she stooped down and picked IT the lamp+ and as I saw that she was coming out, I hcrried away."-- Then she went on and told hew she had in forrnedlle mistress of this, and how site pro posed to search the girl's- trunk. called Mrs. Naseby b a ck "Yon say that 'no one', Tv the prisoner, had access to yi said. "Now could Nancy tered the rooms if she wished "Certainly, sir. I mean tb had any _right there." , I saw that Mn; Naseby, tui - a hard woman, was somewhati Elizabeth's misery. "Could your cook have k means in your knowledge, whi was !" "Ye, sir ; for she hat& often room 'when I was there, and money with which to burp ket men,who happened along ons." "One more question ; have prisoner's having used , an, this was stolen !" "No, sir." I now called NanoyLuthei began to tremble a little, thl was as bold and deflaet as.er "Miss Luther," I said, "why form your mistress at once, seen, without waiting for her the lost money r. "Because, I could not ma at once to expose the poor answered promptly. "You say you looked thron and saw her take the money "Yes, sir." _ "Where did she place the did so 1" "On the bureau." In your testimony you down when she picked it up. mean by that I" "The girl hesitated, and didn't mean anything, only up the lamp.- "Very wellinsaid I: "Ho been with Mrs. Naseby 1" "Not quite a year, sir." "How much does she , pay "A dollar and three quart. "HaVe you taken up any you have been :theie r. . "Ye*, sir." 'ilaw touch r, , don't hnow,ii,"!, "Why don't. you 1ct!0w...1" ow should It,. Om,* ant those, just . as' / want*/ oo account" ('Now i prisoner. • dollars to taitlon. "Then since Fes ' !EMI "No si owe me." fierb en lars wb .1 0 Ine. She 'herewboat ' low fore - and thick is it rested moment I I I read there irogue. "No, a the girl's Naseby I remembe very Se! crusher , Pet the ever,lw "Will Stater "I do, that girl's tight had name. about "In w She hJ ook fo 1 "I bet. I next ".Do 1/212 "Alw "Can e f" - ' "She 1, men " 0,1 lar proo i i f you c iel•ElZe t: id she west] Willingly go if the court 1 'd so. The court , did say so, and she went. er dw thug was not far off, .and she_ soon, turn and handed, me four receipts, which Itook ud examined. They were all signed na at ege. straglin,g hand,.by the witness. - "No , Nancy. Luther," I said, Aurnitig to the wit esa„ and speaking in a quick, startling, tone, a the same time looking her sternly in 'the eye "please tell the court, and the jury, Itell and me, too, where you got the seventy pve dot ars you sent in your letter to your sister i Somers r The _ittiess started, as- though a volcano ,had bu tat herTeet. She turned as palees death, -nd every limb shook . Violently.. I waited until the people could have an oppor tunity o see her emotions, and then I repeat ed the question. • "I--never---sent any," she gasped. . . "You did r' I thundersd for 'I waknow ex. _ • --"f-;-4 tdn't,"' Ale fattit t iy uttdlrrstapitie s elm irssipos by bar:aide for auppor "May it. please your honor and gentlemen of the jury," I said, as soon as . I looked the witness Out of countenance, "I caniebere to' defend] a man who has been ariested for rob bing the mail, and in the coarse of mv pre liminary- examination, I bad access to the let teis which - had been torn open and robbed of money. When 1 entered •upon this case, and heard , thename of the witness pronoun ced, I i went out and got this letter Which I now hold, for I remembered to have seen one bearing this signiture of Nancy Luther. This 1 letter J was taken from the Mail bag, and it contawed seventy-five dollars, and :by :look-. ing at the post-mark, you will observe that it wasailed on the, very day afteiqhe hundred, dolls were taken from ' Mrs. Naseby's draw rs er. will read it to you if you please." Th court nodded assent, and I read the folio l ing, which was without the date, save -thatwade by the poit-master , 'upon the out side. -I give it verbatim: ' v. "S DURAS :—I Bend yn beer seiente ;,2 five d lens, which i want yn too kepe fur me tili'cem how. i kan't kepe it hear coz.ime fraid "t. will git stole. don't speake wun word toal yen sole bout this coz i don't want no body u kno i hev got coy money. yn wont now Ail yu. -i am fust reit beer, only that gudc ur si nuthiu 'snipe v liz mad wurth is hear yit— ut i hope to git rid ov her now. you Noi Wrote to yn bout her. giv trif love too awl inqUirein frens, this is from your sister til deth NANCY Ltrutee.". re, your honor," -I said; as I. Landed le letter,and also the receipts,."you will at the letter is directed to Dorcas Lu ktners, Montgomery cOunty. And you so' observe that one. band wrote that and - signed these. receipts.. The jury so observe—and now I will only' add : lain to see bow the hundred - dollars. dispOsed . of. Seventy-five dollars ;was ll for ;safekeeping, while the remaining -five were placed . in - the prisoners s' for the purpose -of covering the real al. •Of the tone of the other parts. of ter,l leave you - to judge. 'And, now, imen4 leave my client's casein: your you first mis . u to believe her in any of searching r advised you the stand. e yontself and .nr. rooms." I intber have en. 1 • 1" . • 'at 'no one else . . . ! A I gh 1 nitttnitilyi rikoced by poor; sown, by •any re your money come up toimy t I have given herl visions, of Mar 'With their. wag- aNI him t i see th: ther, villa letter will I you known the money sine back;and shel ough her 100 did you not in what had been to ask abou e Aup my Myl •onng girl, ab It the .key-bole' r' that been have of i s have DO tn, note amp when. she id' silo stooped What , did yoit pally said she bat she picked long have yon. paid' I my om a, weep .!" f t yonrpay since ination :1 _448"8:,41,1r* of sAe Dayton Journal It w Ol4, grow teluatance that I appear _be fore the" I but, 4 same of that duty owe to the` profession W of ahl bete !Iwo metier for nearly thirty two yeiraWanipel* use l itcrolains for the navrand Marine corps. an for the navy and etudes cerpthitoul, the kw it at mem it, and have int yds had any wish to ham ib e ould ' you, hare raised twenty-Ike put in her trunk," ," . she repited, with virtuous hung- in biro not laid op any alone' have been there t", 1 --only *hat grs. Nimby may now oti didn't bace any twentrfive dcit mon cameiara r a what's More, the money found in rank was the very moue* that krt. t. You might known that if you'd what you beat." This was. said astically, and was intended - as a pots the idea that she could have oney the prisoner's trunk; How not overcome entirely. on tell pe if you belong to this asked ne=t: _ at !Ott 1" sitated, Mad fur a moment the bold ..k her. But she firmly answered : ng in Somers, Montgomery county." turned to Mrs. Naseby. •ou ever take a receipt from your n yon pay them 1" • lyou mend end get 'one of them for told you the truth, sir ; about my . - " said Kra Naseby. on't doubt it," I replied, "but . occur is the thing for the court room. So a, I wish you would procure me the case was . gtven to the jury immediate owing thew examination of the letter. had beird from' the witness' own mouth .he had no money of her own,and vtith eaving their seats. they returned ver ,l.f "Not Guilty." • ill not atttempt to deseribe_the scene allowed ; but if Nancy. Luther, had not imunediately arrested for theft,she woilld: 1 been obliged to seek the protection officers, or the excited people would maimed . her, at least, it they had done . re. On the next morning, f received a very hatulsomely written,in which . `l was hat"the within" was buts slight token of titude doe me for my efforts in behalf ..r, deferieeleatmaiden. . It was. signed • 1 Cifilisw," and Contained one bun= dollars. Shortly afterwards, the youth first bogged me to take up the ease.eal• , pon me with, alt the mousy he could 1 , but I showed him, that .1 Was elresdy r and raft:lied his hard earning. 13efore town- !mks' :r i pest, st weddieg— tr ohent , being the happibikt Fretless' ha Oilig.ridai. 6 ilivita MUM** to the following oom- #pti*,.l3 4 lXiiibii.4s.: - .:1 entire credit, it any is due, _far the con- rest of Califorrliicnavtag and azeepting the 7, personal serViCee- of the late General Kearney .1 -- - and his handful of offfcers and men, number- ! ' ,in in all not, more than , a disien persons, all .` ' 1 . , _ tha 'was left of'that gallant bind that met ",- 1 .....* -- ivit a &to so disestrotis at _San Pasqtrid:-- i Ihe particulars of the affair 'are' firishin the . 1 ' memory of many of - our citizens from _the 1 ' first; that in this borodies t f, 'action Of the / war . there fell one of tile most gallant and actom- 1 pushed officers of the army, Capt.- A. 'R.' 2 Johnston, of dragoOns, a native of Piqua, O. 3 and ton of Our Venerable and distinguised - - 4 fellow citizen, Colonel John Johnston. I again : repeat, that, with this eadeption; - all credit A for the nonquest of California as - dot - to' the 4, navy and marine corps. It =is :.well known . 4 , 5 that the late war With . Mexico' afforded Ina - • ::,.,. little opportunity - of distinction to , the navyr and it'is hard if the - little distinction it did . .1 gain is to be wrested from to Make capital. for an aspirant to the Presidency. 1, - Allnde t .., to the fads that the friends of Fremont. ifte claiming for him the lion's share of .thri ' - 4 glory achieved by that conquest. - lam prepared to prove that so far from, his being entitled to any credit for his patti- 24, ticipation in , the conquest of California; . that' , r his having failed ' .to co-operate heartily and -:-. efficiently with Commodore Stockton, so,far ' from assisting him (StocktOn) : in his opera- 'tions and rendering the victory less corneae . than it would have been had 'we -received from Fremont that assistance we had:a right to expect from, mounted, armed, andwquip- : ed as he was. I auzfurther prepared toprbve . that in'every engagenientand .eveii - route of the enemy which took place 'in trdiforniai . .- Fremont was invariably - too late totakipart" and, to sum all,l assert that daring the whole of his service in California ha never was-in hearing'distance of the enemy'' gees. ~ithe • , . cause of inefficiency I Will _not here 'dismiss, Ilis other claims to the distinguiskedhon-4 Or which it is- intended to. confer upon . hitrii I know nothing . of and- care nothing rato'catP- I run no politician.: I am' neither, forll4ll- - mom nor Buchanan, for Stockton or Ckerrittt 'Smith, and oeinudillywot - lor Fremont, Paoli- tn - thirii: as I do. Sint.e I . have' stepped :so_ far out of rey proper sphere as to ap . peirliii. foie the public in, the character of .a news.' paper paragraph-writer, I: &Ter tbr Ina excused for telling who I am, and. how . I came in possession of this infortnation e and, a great =deal more upon the same subject yet unto d. : • I went to California with Commodore. - Stockton, in 1810, and was at that -time si lieutenant of more than 'eleven years'. stand. ing, and _during - his operatiens:there 1: wria ..- his aid-de-camp, and : quartermaster _of iho forces. I was Iresent ana waisted with'reii .. own hinds tit holititig onr:fing at Sitrittriiim -bst - r at - Satt - Didro ..a.UEV..-attrusbla.loa.Ast= , gelos, and I was at!this latter place ilieweit, oiriaer is rank to ConnwildoreStotiktont, isrlicuir Brat Ilentattant and braver Capp, .Friansorit AO-- .. rived 'withhis !"biantireci" just thirty - Its' hours too late to take art in the rput of General Caste, whom we—the sailors and marines on foot—had driven before is for two days, and until his forces scattered, and he, together with ,the civil* Governor, General Pico, and his principal officers fled to Mexi co, and were never heard 14 after during ther. - war..' I-am compelled iti dris Manner to utterly -. annihilate, the beautiful story which appearl• in the. Jourvta of yesterday ,entitled •4Fre- , 1 moat, or_the ride of the one howbeit?! 09p.. 1 ied fro nt the-New York Post, which story I" . pronounce to be utterlywnd entirely false- s un= less the interview. With General Vallegio, as ' described, took place. and that - I never tioard • before ; but all the adventure and gallantry,, - attributed to Frettiont l'e . that. story I know. _: to - to be untrue. , I hope it will not be cOnSidered. :indelicate maple to make an appeal' to this people at Ohio, and especially to the people of South ere Ohio, where ram-best_ knOwn - ; claiming - their protection frier' a party of nien who are endeavoring to make political eapitai for , their candidate ,for the presiderfey, out of-, deeds performed by my companions and - niy 7 „ : self, in which he -took a very unimportant part. . .. .. , I ground my claim to your protection ep on my having the accidental .4:bail:lotion. of - being the - first -native of Ohio that ever en- -tend the naval service of the United .- States ,', and the first that ever , reaChed the rank tit COmmander; and I, trust ; that that State pride Which i you - haven right to , iudulge in will extend itself to your sons who have left your peaceful borders and ' embarked .in the military and naval service ' of "theircatintry... - JAtiES Firrinzt Sees:sok, _ ' Commander, U. S. Navy. .. • - 'Bridal Thoaghts. - - I hare speculated a great deal upon matrit :_s mony. I havescen young and beautiful wo men, the pride of gay circles, niarr4d as the world says: --welt. • Some ,have mpved ititd costly houses, and their friends have ail come find looked at their furniture and their aplen- did arrangements for happiness, and Ahoy have gone away,and committed them to their sunny hOpes cheerfully and iiithout terlr - r It is natural to be sanguine for the Toting; at. such tibias I ain!carried away byiamilar feel lags. -I love to get unobserved into a corner and watch the bride in her white...attire, and with her smiling andher 'soft eyes bless- ing me iii their pride'or life, weave a waking " dream of-future happiness. and persuade self that it will , be true. I think• how:they • will sit upon the luxurious sofa as the tea , light falls, and build.gay. hopes„ and murmur , lin !cyclones themol not forbidden tend s, and how thrilliugly the-allowed kiss, int the beautiful . endearments ..of wedded - life, Will - make-even.. their parting joyous,..' end how gladly they will come,- Meer from the crowd end the empty: mirth the gay, to Slush oth , et'i quiet company. liiiature to myself : that 'young areaturewho - blushes oven now at his hesitating_ caress, istening eagerli for his ,1 itli gy footsteps (a the ,tight ste ' Asn, afid , .svishieg that he would come; and hen he Otters, at last, and with an affectio n As undying sal ltis pulse, folds ber,te.his hostim; I canfeef the tide that goeiltoeing through the heartoitid gaze w ith him e a :th e ,giaoefutm, for Siiihe_ moves about tot. the kind' office* of 4 3 0t41es -soothing- all his unquiet eares,,audin eking hint forget evert blovelf is her loaaili4 PT!' shadoWed - beauty.' .. . I go fbrwlei(qt YeaTtittid simi'lieflisin , ni., lint hidttlit soberly away fmrn her•browsakt her Orfila-gm* resigned :.juto-441TAW:lnid her revenue* elmateeed. with tbsgalgh rws et umiteivel alfietiou.' Mg biabumi , , -
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