. . . . . ._ . , . . . .•. . . ..• .....,. . ~._ _ , - - .4 . . ••• ' I . . .... , a . r - ' .- -. . .. • _. ..., •• 1 . ..' ' . ' . . ; . ... . . .... . . . . . 'f - . . .4 . .' . ... I . 1 .:. • ....,..,...._..,:,_.... -• . .•-•,.--:,: 1-.::1C ' gi '" 0 a 11 . . '''' . . ' - - : 1' ' , 4 1 . ... .. . . . . . ' . . . 1 . • . . . ' . . . ' ...____-: 111.) . . I' ' :'-' . -.--. • , .. , ~,... : Agile . .....: „ .. , ~ • . ( . 5 etritsoi, lIIRMIONIGIIT RITE. . . There is 'a certain Anonvma, beau tiful anti fruitful, enjoying a far Darer air and warmer clime than ours, which does Great Britain, the honor of being her ally, and of even forinittgon integral part of - her empire, Without copying slavery her constitution or her laws..: The ;language. which prevailed amongst us after the Norman Congat still sutlFtes, atittour Norman code is still in effect Retook the Anonymese. Determined. pot to beindebted.fer new ideas to any pf their tvighbors; rtMi-..hrevitig little oriviality of deb rns; they haye bemtsitntenewith;ancit Tatlitictir ‘ 11 . 14 jualgilligkts atrtestycal-It were PliOsphiirescenilycfp*Cihealecayill anti rottea eaput morittutrt,sof - eicrituturies AO. The president of the Anonyms, still wears a r ed . gown j the thirty-six : who tft 4 ide up the parliament, and ste supposed to be rePreSera timbre, are almost all of the •sarne class,- and practical - elect thentseives—twelre priests, %ciao Sit in right of their curer.; tivelvesquireS, who are legislatorsfor - twelve me ,'clianical law-fig,ures', the periular elethlnt, re, 'turned by theirirpeotice parishes (otir24ui res.) and warranted to .izo for three'. y6ars. Eibtrty means its-right of rejectitif;:, any . pro . . . . _ pr.i , ed improvement eniar,uritg from 'Great Britain through thejaw4f6cers of thecrown; and reform.bas -- noTsignific;tion. there whit: ever. -Crinainal justice is administered with all the"glorious uncertainty" of Englislaaw, 'combined with the former rate of procedure i d of our Court,of Chaneety.;„ t e accused per son who ruigbl.lave.been sti matiseil by the •orikinal prosecuter stara pun reprobate, be, ..coming, before hislrial ;i, aged - if not a' hoary singer... .Afre,r a protrac tectinquiry of ibis deseriplimy, by the, time that all the diapesittotis have been 'written down in two languages, and tte court has adjourned the case for' the fourteenth time, it not 'lnfrequently happens , that the' acute Anonyrnese tribune) has been. concerning it , self with the wrong =in.',-It is not an_casy matter for one; however yinOcent, to go out of a medieval prosecution emanated tipou pa. per itt'an extinct 'tongue. I speak advisedly; and to the- exeretne length of-its prove-edin-g,s ,alotics and riot *at all ;he sr.poity of the court I aminyself indebted for my life. I am an artist, and spent the winter before last in Anonyma - pmeiisinz my profession: Nature is idililayql in miniature, in that is- I;eautifitily, and ha's a itoOl-ancr dell Afire such as-perbaps slie- seldom wears elsewhere; the-coast-line too, is exceetiißgly i 'Vag, and Ike „surrounding sca.has d 4 per Color=, and..rages with a-more terrible. wrath) thanis. corn .en to it about, the shores of I England. 'ln winter time, -in innermost Ano- I twine, you can hardly -find a spot.coit 'out I of bearing cf the storms ,water.- I had been 1 .sketching,ifi one. of its weertl l o o t ys on be-) cern*- - cr• -• Rrtrrfan - . ;vliiri - n : letrX-•e4 tni 'be ("midi ofr ' the whol, Ath , iltic; to 'T'ie d submerge the little i-land, and, enseni.e4l I • was in as well sbelteled a feq-ure . as I CORM • •aelect, the spray got at me iit la.t, wev e j me 1 ihrotigh,• and utterly destroyed the labor of 1 four hours. Several miles lav 'berwein me ; 'and my 'lodgings, and a vision of. possible t•heurnatism ler!dingtwing.s to my feet. I star. - ted at once homewards. In the Etkcond val ley from:the shore, however. I carne upp.n spetttncle which my. profes-ional seye was hound to eontemplete ct all }lns-arc's—to a poor catiratnrist like roy.elf, tna l'hing was wcrib at the least -five. poutiets.' In she road before. me. and making sienc, for rne to ttop and lo he silo-4, , were eatitioulily sealing up r,,onple of teens with gnu.. They were `neither native nor English sport , L4n ; their I gay apparel, their hz! , e shoo:jag bags hung, with tassels. their prodigious moustaches,.l, once .proelainied them to belots , :i to one or other of those crushed nationalities that are • in tV.e.babit of makir.z Anonynia their resurei in evil times. Their energetic \ rrpstnres con . ,winced me that they mnst he ether French ben jtaiiaus ; other could have so elo tpeatly telegrnphd that game or:Some rarest species was in view; and thaw to advance woulcrbe dearly purchased at the escare'of such a noble itrafq. Chilled as _I era', therefore, I remaiueu tia watch their sport. They had no 4A. , 12. ctith Ibern, but as they neared the desired-Aject, they both sae]; down upon all furs; 'and crept yr the " FraFty - road like wlarF . poi uteri, • I followed as ,weli. as I vrAtildlle:Ye direction, of their ere.; whielt weti.elei'afed. with rnitle i but I could Are nothing sky wr.rds - exeefit one solitary I blackbird upon a leafla tree. purely,thought, \,l, they are never in put'suit of that unoffend- I • tug songster 1 An .answer was given in the tepoh of both ; their gun's, followed by the hasty departure-of the bird himself. "Thou And thunders r exclaira_pd-Ahe fore most sportsmen, "we have misse — Lhiflfagain, Th. \ mon amt • "Where'us he gone r -- ctietl the other.-- j'"Rega'rdea, monsieur, what - yon call perk; if ' your please." - 4 I cou ld notiraaso overcome 4 , \ ivith met-tidier:a that I could-only sit "down and laugh. They were pleaed, how vex, with my stopping for them, and proposed to have ! some refreshments with in'a roadside ca?r -•• arat close by-. I .- Was in need Of warmth, _ internal as well as, external, -and agreed at °nee. Brandy s ib_ very cheap. in Anonyms, and very good; and the Anonymese are far 'fr‘m3 being neglectful of their. opportunities ion that respect. The tavern of the island have the worst looks and the best - liquors of.anv tavern I know. There was a . 7ood sea-weed fire-in this_ particular one; , and as the wind I beat against the. crazy ivalls;' and battered I vainly upon thelittle window-paues, I felt no inclination-to quit my stool h the chimney corner. There were studies enough in stliat smoky, floorless.eabi . n, besio'is_ary tit) comic gentlemen-sportemen ;_men in. dirty-Mouses and with unclean hands • wet . ", .here, under whose-tangled hair lay foreheada heavy with thonght;-re•olute - mouths lurked under their shaggy - monstachee ; and, light such as no • brandy can bt,tovr, gleamediforth from -their • eyes. These, were politicarreruges, each, with a real or a supposed wrong, :rand each coon . ting upon not sitting still tbr vier under its Inflictions .Ationyin . 4se fishermen, bronzed and sturdy, made up the rest of the Company, • - whose conversation, carried. on- in. French, modern and _Norzursn, was reinarkablyuncon., _strained, .One by one, these different parties dropped away; and ata very late hour of the tight. I found myself - the *last man starting homeward and alone. • The wind almost 'lulled,' driiing the - dard clouds liitlrer and thither4over the win-- . try sky, but touchily , only the tree-tops of . the - island and . .he•tutornitt of tittle bills. I could hear the oceaa, , ijike. some mighty watchdog partially,apte*d, akill. groat:hi its-hal f s lumber . There>was- Moon which •:_ . • nye ,. an d then shone bithtly for-an instant, making deeper the eveniteg gloom; and my way lying fur the - Ma* . pail threttr,b great even ues of trees belongiig loold_roi ned seign ctieisn., or dippitig intcierred valleys-with a treatii, , should. have tai.just the road to ,Please a painter. Wetlathe-strattge eta lacters ef. the men I haaja.st ,left, - however, Juni itirpressed OM to deeetieatnieheir lawless anectodes shaken -my aissiredesiciatoo mach in -the local police, I centititify Nit fill - at ease, -arid - b3i.;neeneauecia.theol4smforappteselat 7 ,ierklieleistalleAase- -it ': .es eMird t:t t- i ., canny seal of melt to..Ent ~...ikandl to wish: that I bbd" this meistaitit,i, or n r else none at all kow,,,r i euris 1 wofflti have &wen to t save been jh r my 4 own comfortable lodgings under the protection of my charm flag old landjady, in the high street, I demi% say insesid of feeling my way through a— Goodness gracious I what was that i ' .Foot- • reps that knew the road it'''tereat deal better than I did, and some beery:body being-dreg ged along with them—Ai:ably a- corpse d I shrank into ibehedge to let them pass, which they did at full trot, iaugbrng. . • . . !lust - the night for a job like this," - said one, •"Wlly,- it reminds one of bodkseatths ieg in the good d titnes.'_'. (Evidehtly a couple of resurrection -- , - ose ocapation was gone, and who, like eve y y else "In trouble" were now resident Anonymesi). "I-suppose this would-he sehaegink busi ness if we weer caught at it," observed the other with a hrutal unconcern that made my. blood ruff colder than e.ver.e., .... _ "I believe you," replied the first speaker; and the two together bffrat into such a guffaw as I should have thought peectdistr tedemone. The road, almost immediseely;got clear of the trees, and swept in a half-circle-round a little meadow'; - bet the two Murderers dragged their victim over a , sate and ',into the open space without the slighest hestitation, al though the =eon wens lust than shining. I , kept, of cosine, tinder the shadoW of-the ave nue, and watched their movements with I 'cariosity -that almost overmastered fear, They threw the body— e it vas ar body--caressYy upon the frozen ground, and then set to work collecting sticks . : it. was easier to burn it, it seemed., than to dig ( a bole for it, and in a very few initiates they had 'collected quit a" i funeral - pyre. - Planing- the - corpse upon- .t.tria;- l and kindling the, bruthw.ood which they had' set at bottom from a match-boa one of their carried, tire flame began to spread apace, and span lit up the faces of the, two men,- so that I should have sworn to them amain anywhere. One was a stout fellow of atTout,ferty, not ill-looking, i perhaps, if I could have separated _ him n My Mind, from his ope.-' - 4patimrbut, els:Angel •,,his eee chnnaLe3 - I '.1'41404dh..) -Asalkiiig.a . 't Pie,' ft,. .. t 'ern 7gream ' uit'a tornislakatle hatred. . "second, al : though a boy in years, e;itibited also no trace of pity for his victim. They had lit cigart,• l and were getting so rattly in their fiendish , way. thaCl could seaicely believe MY eyes. I tried in vain to think that, after all, it i might be some dead monkey or other animal they were burning, and not a human creature. Whatever it was, the smell' from its consnm- I ing carcess filled all the little valley, and Idrove up with the wind into my hiding place, so as almost to turn me sick, I,longed, like Robir.erm Crusoe., when he saw the savages at dinner, to ran in upon these wretches. ;Mt destroy them at. their abominable enter tainment; and had I had a Friday with me and half-a-dozen. ()there, I might perhaps have made the attempt: -as it was, I confined my self to making a . solemn . resolution to leave the igland of inonyme, by the nest packet, to its I , ,mugglersi, its refage., and its body burners for ever. Lpositivelv felt as if my hair was turning gray. At last the liorrid rite was over; and the performers, kicking about the ashes. , and laugbing-always laughing—after their frightfull manner, left the place, and came up the • road again. s he'll never bother me again," acid the elder. as he passed by. my ambush ; "bet we've, had tiouble erot2o.Cand to "spare in getting rid of. the old Mrfilmsalah." It was an old man, then, that tily Inui alispriskal of in this awful way, thinking that no eye could see them I . 'When their footsteps bad died crept out into the little field, and discovered among the dying embers a skull. I had studied anatomy for 'some time, for the better knowledge of my prOfession, and I knew at once that' the skull was that of a man. Ashes to ashes dust to dust—a smouldering beap, which the' breeze was already carrying hither and iiititer, was all which now remained of that human form.. •• Poor murdered Wretch!" cried I aloud, still holdirg the sluil in my hand, and be ginning to philogophise jike anatber flaMlet, how little couldit thud have guested' . Murdered, was' be voice . -close beside me; while 3 heavy liand fell upon my shoulder and.cloched it Aiken vice. -No gentlemen." I cried, trlnbling like a reed, in The belief that -the•tak) wretches bad ' come back again—" no, not -murdered, only put ont of the way very tenderly ; and in the highest and coldest sense of the woad, most justifiably, I am sore." " What a cold-blooded villain !" ejaculated ,a second voice. • " Tie his hands, and march him away to jail at once," cried d third. " My dear sirs.," exclaimed I, "pwidon mei I took you for roblierp, murderers; I did- in deed. Allow me to assist, you in detectirt the real offenders— = they took teat road to the left, yonder through the wood." And so. at two o'clock in the December morning. I found ativaelf at last going bomb ward; to the Police-office, with - Inv bands tied and in the custody of three piiddin-headed Ancnymese. The smell of the burning Corpse, it seems, had penetrated to their farm upon 'the hillside, and they had come down jtist in time to secure me and to miss the perpetra tors of the crime. So horrified were they with i,ts revolting Character ; that they Would titit s'o much as touch me with their hands; hot havitig- placed the scull in my pocket, drtitie -meefose them with sticks, as-though i - skgre is o and in thatlashion,l was escorted Vast lk the eerful fire=light stehieb still streamed from the windows of my lodgings, to' the prison' cell. Being much tainted to a roving life, I had feiv. stationary'. frietulii, and none at All In AncYnytnn. My, iandlady, of coure, could r.itsly, attest to my being " a !lice -spoken, well conducted young man." lily • counsel could only say that -it was absurd to suppose that a %OWE ARE ALL EqUALABEFORE 601) Aii) TIME Illucbanau. I ontrot,: . s l69l4,a* . ,4riountl,..# tkitl,.titsbig Doottiti, 3annarg 11; 0.5).1. , lanticapi painter, however devoted to • hiss a'rt, con a go the length of burning amen in alone vat(ey, at midnight talirodee3 trete. On the other hind, the situation in which I was fond, with a knit its lily very finger—the *ooe 1 used to myself;(and•the admissions I made,. in the first :osmium, to those whoisiized me„ combined with itresextrerne iintinhability •dr Ore smry-Iflutd to tit in my own defence, were of amnia very convicting proofs of my eriMinality. That a erirne - had heats conirnit ted 'who could doubt,..ritivtbe human- bead and; ashes still, .in exiistenicei; to appeal: td " Hetivenforytiageatran mur d ere r T Stilt, ilast - Vint . emit. emplace b r ittla!* ' het .-kprettioe; —lllll4orisaga vtailard po buil•osiiii.th ltand of.thi utioneq a hut here, whets so rdany strangers ~d weirldose objeatis,Se4istip thedistives linkman and alo4 Irian ?titers; the fact that no: one was inisaing, was not deemed at all extraordinary. I s&y, 'ifit had. not been for the providential deify; of the criminal court, tbe time that was taken:lip , in repeating the depositions again amlpigain, in confusing English and Norman- Ftebt..h fo.gether,.and :in adjourning the pro , ceediugs, I, the writes of this adventuye, 1 svbrkli is, in main -defails, a perfectly true statement, should have bead_ hung. 4fttir six weeks, how6-er, Captain Deban deur came back from England, where he had bee spending his Christmas, and-saved me. He teasel:lsoW gentleman of the old school. And, didti*ike: kb be contradicted. When anyithingthered him, a servaat or an um brepa, he would-kick the one put of the house and break the other across his knee, without a momenta warning. . He had brought over in cine of his voyages, a certain great curiosi ; ty f l rcim the East, and. very soon got tired of looking at it. He offered it to the new 41:71011• yttlse MllgeUlll, arid that accepting it. although with so,:ne difficulty, for it was by this, time broken and imperfect and worth but little, lie was appeased, or otherwise he would hale probably destroyed the greal curiosity outior hand. The new museum failing, this pr ions wonder came back again to its origi nal iproprietor,wto was iiilA - icitb indignation skits reappearance. He and his ton, there fore; after many attempts to annihilate it, whio r li ware:frustrated by the other members 'of the family, fired at last on burning **old -Me&melah" in the open air, on the night befte starting for England for a weeks' boll lay.. If he had taken seven weeks; I 01.0 1 114 bar k•ceo -a dead MM. ow old Methuselah was a mummy. A REENfIORN ON A LOCOMOTIVE. Mr. SnodgrassOualor,liss been "icooting ii aro nd" ai . the west, and as some of his es pet ences ar 'rather amusing, we copy an ex• &act as follows: ;pen we got tD.-t i he depot ) I tit around 5.... • .-.itkw. - Orr i ' .- ' ' . 1 • - - - ...n re lit: . ' - ;. 4 "------ it Warn% no more lika a hom7i.liorr a mietin l tic*. If I was goin' to deieribithe animule, Pd ;;ay it looked-like--well, it looked like— ciarlued if I know, what it looked like, unleAs it, Was a regular demon, snortin' smoke all a- _ The second wet k e'er this occurrence took roohd, and pantie' and heaven', and swellin', .place was Marked by" two evenly which, and ehatvin , up rod coals like they-was good. though both affecting the isallfare of the lit- A feller stood in a house like, feodin' hire all le community at the F. rt, were of Widely the!time, but the more he got the more he different degrees in importance. goti the more he wanted, and the more he The first was that Death had either sudden snokted. After a spell, the feller catched him ly lost his skill as a marksman, or that the by the tail, and great Jericlro l , b e set up a game had removed to a safer and more dis yell that splitt the ground for mokon a mile t tent mighborhood, for the officers' larder and a half, and the next minis I felt my legs bad been -found sadly wautim„ , in the s Weggin', and found 'myself at t'other end of items of woodcocks,blacktocks4fat main, 3:e.,- theisiring of vehickela. t . wastN shred, but for the week past—and-tire second and - most , I had three chills and a stroke of palsy in less important_ of the two events was, that in reg chhe five minits, and my face bad a curious elar aeccession, four sentinels had disappeared brown-yeller-green-bluish color in it, which from the eltreme left line, without leaving wag perfectly unaccountable. 'Well," says I, the slizlites trace to elucidate the mystery of ‘,,ontment is supper-firrerti,' end I took a seat their disappearancb. il the nearest wag : ain' or ear, as they call it The circumstances stria): such dread into —!a eonsarned long, steamboatlookin' thinz. j the breasis of the rest of the company, thati, with a row of pews down each side tee.that one of them could be found willing to vol endugh to hold about one man and a half.c unteer to take the post--well knowing Jest. as I sad down, the boss hollered twice it would be only sigaini , their owrrYdeath and started off likes atreak,pitchib MY head warrant to do so-, and Coll limit, not wising first at the head of a big IriTh Woman, and to wilfully sacrifice the Lies of his men by she, under the seat; the cars was i thumpin' gave a tremendous grunt, and crammed compelling them to go, eni i hined double cau- Mel riots to the remainder of thasentinels, and left an terrin' along Et nigh onto forty thou- the fatal post unoccupied lir a night or two. d sand miles an hour, and everybody was a bob- Two or three retonoilerirg parties had been bid' up - and down like a mill saw, and every i dispatched off round the neighborhood in wretch on 'en f had his month *Mb operiand bores of finding softie Chiei) the Mystery, or looked like they was laffin', but I couldn't obtain'ttg some intelligence af theetierny, but they had each of tlfeni re caned as Wise as hear nothin', the cars kept such a racket. Biineby they stopped all at once, and then they had started, with nc reward for their ' troubles except weary bones . i t such another laff busted out o'_ them Dasseng ersla,• I never hero before. Laffia at me,.too. It was on the third nighl of tl b desertion a the dense th es what made me Mad, and I was mad as -of the post, that o,ur hero, Eeatb, was return a thander too iris up, .and slrakin' my fist at tug to the Fort, after- paytig a visit to the y 'eni, says I, 41..,adie6 and gentlemen, look 2 - Stanhope's farm. The molt ras up, but hera light was nearly all obsb .1 li hero ! I'm pear:able stranger—' and away i. . the) darn train went, like small pox in town, masses of clouds which at ery Minute were jerkin' me down in the seat with a whack driven by a pretty-Stiff bre ; - over her face; while the huge trees, bow 4 full leaf, crack like I'd been throe n from the moon, sad their ed and groaned, and bent leis forma to and curised mouths flopped Open, arid the fellers wArt to bobbin up and down again. 1 p u t fro, as the heavy gusts trashed whistling Siant air of magnanimous contempt like, and among their branches , . talk no thore notictof 'em and 'eery natura Our hero had approaches ithin a hundred I fil l y went to bobbin' by and Gin myself." yilrds of the terthination E the forest that N - _ _ "-- skirted the small open sp4te in which the Fort stood, when suddenly he paused, and crouching down upon his l ands and Itnees, crept carefully forward a . feti_paces. Having' remained in this position f* a .few minutes, 1 he again stealthily retreatil hr the manner he had-advanced; and phi ing into the fur est again emerged - at a p l nt considerably lower than where be ioteu d leueing it be fore. . • CoT. letita sat reading abate in his Pritate s apartirient, -when an ordeqentered and in formed - him' that one of . hi , 1 teen wished to speak with' him. - l "Send him in," Said theleolOnel, and at the neit minute onr friend, Teath bud enter ed, and made his best bow to the command leg offieer. " Weil, what scrape have Yyou been get ting into now," stud the colorhl, when he saw who his visitor was. - I "None, colonel," replied :heath, " but I have borne to ask a favor." - , \ " Let ' us hear it," said ti;` colonel " and then we'll see what we can de." ~ . "Well, colonelOt is_simply this—if You - will put the rifles. under my orders to-night, and let me occupy the degerted po4, I 'will not only clear up the . mystery of tie disappear anee-of tFe four sentries bat take the post tenably for the , future." "But bowl" said the colonel in intense surprise. • ° "I guess; colonel," answered Death, "you had bettei let-us have the men, - and order us off, and I'll tell you the whole affair atrer._ I promise y ou that no one shall receive even a scratch, that is if they will follow iilt direc tions implicitly." . .pir SESSION Dit r tv'T MEET.—The sandy Hill Herald tells the following, as happening in !that neighborhood' last fall : • clergyman of Or t cluaintadce Nils calf led upon by an Elder in his church, whir urg ed! upon the b. D. the imPortaude of his in erdducing the subjeCt of politics into his pul pit—tellitig him there were great morallues liens involved in the then coming election, ckc. After patiently listening to the ar guments of the Fremont Sider, the Minister asked: t' Do yod, as the Elder in the church, aeyise me to - introduce politics into my ser mons!" " I do," was the reply. r Let a meeting of the session he called,and if a majority decide that it is my duty to preach politics, I will commence next Sunday" said chi) minister. I" It shall be: done," said the'eldied elder; but ag he was hurrying away to give the re qUired notice prhparritory -to the assembling pfltho session, the minister called out luillemember. good brother, that if the ses sin decide that it is my duty to preach poll tics, Label advise all my hearers to tote for Sithbariairfi (it it unnpctiniary to say that the session was nclt called upon to decide the question. A'S ART-FOL.—}.:o woman ever knows how bandsman she is, until she has her portrait p:`iuted. - , . . Law is like prdisin acid, a dangerous remedy and the smallest dose is generally sufficient: THE qIITPOST. • . A. Tale of the Frdntier. Towards the latter pelt of , the year 1751 the Fratich aided -by vait,,bodies of the Hunoks.-andiroquoia:lndianq had begun to Make themselves very diSag"-able neighbors to -thii 13ritish,.. - and Amettao - colonists in Vireikik;. ,Obio, and - lbe - thrsthwest portions Of New York State—thelritich by.their en antmenti'on'the frontier,a4 the Indians by their-ntimcrouslontya,-andlarbkrities to all who were:'aisfortunattvienolzgh to fall into digit lands.. i.-To„pil a .stop tO;titeso: ' ressire proceed& logs, ri erous.hodies, . Abe" regulars" kind mi i lia , were dispata ' 'to , the several points rts.sajled ;- mid atno ' theleat, k .Col. 1 Henry Innes.,..witli,a,AO, .by of thirty men, among whom were apart.. ofof some dozen Virginia rifle:is - in; Writi l r red 'to ocentiy a small , optpost, or log 'Tor at this pc; riodktood. within a feiii4lea from the north fork df the Allegheny ii;dr: Having-arrived safelltheir quarters the little patty set abou t rig ing'up the old pot so as to Make it as comfortable as circum; stances-would permit; and this being done,: and order once more reitored, sentries were placed at all advanced pants of the station, while-the strietest vigibrocii was both enjoin ed and- exercised by day and night. Among the Virginia :riflemen who had volunteered into the company, was , a tall manly looking voung ,fellow, who from his fatal and unerring skill ''its a marksman bad received the somewhat aite-inspirinc,r non de plume of Death. But with whatever justice this name' had • been applied to him for his skill, his disposition certainly entitled him to to such tenor-spreadinh epithet. Ou the contrary, he-was the life oreompany. His rich fund of Mother wit, large, social propensities' and 'constant good nature, ren dered him a general favorite with the men ; while -the fever failing stock of game viddch his skill enabled hinito supply the mess table of the- officers with, not only recommended hitnAO they toed graco, but caused many a little " shortcoming" of:his to be winked at anti. passed over in silence, which, otlierwi , o, perhaps, fit might not kart 'got over .5o easi ly. `ti - ^ The e,olepany bad not bit, stationed at the Fvrt much more titan a week, ere Death .4,-.,4,4,..4,--pu-n- 5 ., alse;o%'ered in on of biiict ;hitt ail, a sruAll house, 'tofu° three mites-or so from ' the Fort, theft flsed a certain Miss Hester Stanhope, whose equal in beauty and amiable qmilitie.; he -bed never met before. And to render himself more certain of the fact, le catleti7the 44tOwing,, under cover of the Pret,iiie- of,hst*ittg left hit- powder flasl-. ... /De i t.h.liv i i x d,.. Stwnhoffie tO Nl oatc - '''' - c . if) i)e-fr- -- ', the ercw. V . f Ruse palish as "the fti JT.-4 ouilierl and we need scarcely sav inte the invitation %as both eagerly and jo;fully'accepted, and often as ci feu iostances would ad mit, complied with. "You area strange man,'" sitid the colonel, but I :think I will let you have your Viva way this time. When, -do 1i:ow-start r - "In abOut an hour'i-tina,7 fatissfered the elated Death.' - "Very well; 1 will gig% the necessary or ders, so that you can start when you think proper. And abatis inore if you do as you have proiriised, acid don't cause the to repent har ing- humoredyou, you shall hire poor Camp bell's Glace." - • Rector Campbell was a brave but very -headstro'nt young Scotelnian,, who had oc cupied the post 'Crf lieutenant at the Fart. In tioudden freak of.dirinxte _hid yOlunteer. lost to luau' sentry* die . fatakspot from w . iCh -three r i en4sichild so7toptietiitily dial) ... , :., and bo4Vid for his' rialtilioa 'with .hiaji ,- . 4 ' tOw,.turbtdse tairEtextb, 6ia-a . • . t ao hour after the couversation...with Co Inner, u be approached the deserted !.• -at the bead of a dozen riflemen who : • been tell porarily placed . under his . Hers, "I will tell you what we are going to'do. The long and short •61 the affair is simply this; its a gang lof them cussed thieving Iroquois that' hare i circumvented and carried off four . of bur men —shooting them With.tlieir bodies. To-night - -as I was returning, to the; Fort, I suddenly thought ,I heard the sound of several voices, "and creeping on my heads and knees tdwards the'spot; I got near enough to-see and hear about a dozen Iroquois who were arranging theii: planS to surprise the Fort-te-night—tn tending to steal in upon it by the point which their cussed deviltry had rendered so easy of access. I only-remained long enough to learn this, when I hurried off to the colonel, asked him to place you - at my disposal, and here we are. I. did ,not say a word to him about what I had learnt, being determined if possi• lde that the "rifles" should IMve the hongr of exterminating the varlets. And now are you ready and 'willing to folli4w my orders!" Every man cheerfully answered in the af. fiimative, and with quickened pulses, san guine hopes, the little companY Again moved _funk ai . The post consisted..of a long narrow space liontided on each side by a rocky .shelving bank while its extreme eod was elw•ed in by the dark and impenetrable looking forest: The list.nk on crick side of the pass was thickly covered with ttrasb a'nd underwlod, and. among these DA . th now careilly concealed bin j taking care to arrange th'env.so that their fire would' cross each otUer, and bidding rbern nut to tire untll he' had given the sig } pal; and after they bad fired, Lot to stop to I reload, bat clUldag tbeit ' , lilies, jump down and finish the struggle in that manner. With steady ah crity each tnao took' the post as.igned him Land in another minute the post pi eiented the same lone, still and solemn appearance it had worn previots.to their ar rival., The tittle company a egan f grow very impatient, and Death himself, to fear that the Indians had either rued of making the at tempt', or else had changed their plan of at tack, when suddenly his quick eye detected the form of ore of his "crafty foes issue in a crouching- po•itiot from the deep shadow which the lofty trees threw far up the pass. " Three—si x--nine—ttwelve—thirteen," counted Death; as one after anotar they emeiged in a single file from the . Wood, and with quick, cat-like stealthiness of movetbent, advanced up to Ile pass; their titles in trail, and their faces and bodies rendered still more hidious and ferocious looking by the gro tesque marking of their war paint. On they came, swiftly and itt ;, leptly; and all Unconscious of the fate that was in store for thein. The foremost of the band, whose command ing stature, wolf , teeth collar, and eagle tuft, at once pioclainied hint as chief had advanced until he was directly opposite the bush in which Death was hid who, with startling distinct ness suddenly imitated the cry of the night owl, and discharged his rifle. Eight of the Indians fell bb the volley while the eater rifleiheil now poured in upon them': but strtintb to aay that one of the , five who did not fall was the Chief whom Death had aimed at. This unusual event was owing to the following cause:- the branyl of Abe built on which he had` steadied his aim. in firing, had suddenl} tit. thb Element he dischat ed . his piece, thus rendering herb less his otherwise unerring aim. Uttering au impreation at his ill luck, Death sprang down the Lank' with the rest o f his companions,' and with a lioUpd reached the side of the Iroquois chief. They grap pled and \both Ml heavily to the ground, clasping. in fe.arftil embrace, and darting glan cea hatred at 'each other beneath knitted a:-1 .cowling brows. • Keep off !" shouted Death, as he saw one or two of his companions stooping down to assist, " keep off; and if lie theaters me let him go." Over and over they rolled i strainfog, Via*. .