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cCoilunt iSerrits it,
OgiCe
. ; THE - LITTLE WIFE ,
PrOwn not., my love, ah ! let me cha
Away
. the shade of care that lies.
l'enight . so darkly en your face, •
And mist-like o'er your manly ey =
AO let meiry the winning ways.
You said, were-minethe angel
pour at once ten thousand rays
Of dancing sunlight on your heart
My love, my life!.
• ; Your little wife
Mast bid . these gfoomy thoughts
'%Vhonhove was young and hopes . we
I thought in all that Aream of
That thong.hte might come like theim
And hours of sorrow such as . this.
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
, , -