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lIIRMIONIGIIT RITE.
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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."
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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
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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*. .<ominirty . - e4ther •,otomaning
any ad'runtate over the ; other. At hug the
head of the Iroquis stUbdenti came in con
tact with a pOiirt of a reek that protrubed
from the bank, stunning bitn so that he re
laxed his vice-like grasp of Deith's threat, and
the latubr thes released, springing to his feet,
finished his career by bringing the heavy
breach of his rifle withiledge hammer force
down upcn his head.
The remaining four Indiana lad NA
like
~visedispatched; and idle victorious riflemen
(none of Whom bid received a wound - worth
mentioning) now get , ilti etiont of Asitithph
for the victory,-rib that the echues cif thii,old
wood rung with it for Matiy Minikes after-
wards. •
, As Col. ?noes had prorillsed Death Was
.prthnoted to the ?meant port of lieterrata.
And-now, dear reader, we beg to inform
cot( that our hero ana the tincotriprotaising
vetran, Gen. Morgan of revolution notoriety,
,Wero ono and the cards indiridual.
Alma. a fortnight after thii eventful night,
Stn-lhopo's farm became the scene of as much
tni rtb, good eatiid afid dancing as hould pos._
be disposed of ati tin Et tqet7ty-four hours;
and, though we think it wilLbe almost
fluous to do so, we will add that the cause of
this " merrY ; making" wrikthe marriage of the
beauteous Rester StantOpetaith . Lieut, Heiry
Morgan. •
/far A man should study to get through,
the world 'as he gets,throVgb
as little annoyance and ioterruptjon• as, possi.
ble from the shabbinies sitoeidhiCe.
. -
/Troubles spring from Wellies, and
grievous toils from needless ease. Many with
out labor lire by their wits (Ally, but they
break for want of stock.
THE NEW SCHOOLMASTER.
BY B, P., BHILLAHSR.
That was. a strange school at Rock Valley
perfect dethocracy--Ltor the - Hiolars al-
ways tad tkeir "ollfii way; land settled, the
matter with theittindit promptness fegarding
their teachers. If they liked him, good ; if
-not, dovin with him. The consequence was
that die teacbers in the Rock Valley: school
had not sucdeeded very well in advancing
the minds of the young republicanslitirusfed
to their charge. Tlie boys acted their own
pleasure about litUdv, and never troubled
themselves much whther they , learned any
thing or not--4t-anY. rate * 'school master
didn't dare 4.lick diem in case of failure.
At last the pare'n thei ' mell
proficiency their b were !making, looked .
into it little, and - big sfii,4wd,and sensible
people, guessed at the difficult y, .They at
once advertised for a new teachaiiiiistinctlY
specifying ihat be mustiossess iidik'n and spi
rit--iinderstood by the very - expressive word
Several, presented themselves for trial.—
Young . students came ivith excellent recom
mend ttio - iis,• bat they stayed only a day or,
,two. They could not withstand the ridicule
and opposition they had to encounter. There
were large boys'in the school, r‘mi ibe teacher
-measured the muscular . de.velopment of the
scholars.inlits'estimate of his chances of sue
ces ifi the event of a Struigle. It was a
queer state Of thinks in Rock
...The, boys were not really malicious, but
were naturally bright and capable, but their
leader, a boy of sixteenofras a hard case—
the master:of them all by conquest—and held
it sway over them as powerfnl as the grand
est monarch holds . over his subjects. They
acknowledged bis poWei,and b'eliev'ed him
1 . 11 - e` invincible. it was his word that had de
cided the professional faith of all the teachers.
After a year's bootless _trying to secure a
• teacher, one made his appearance, pasted exa
ilination creditably, and `was accepted by the
school committee. A notice was placed on
I the door of the school-house, and on the door
Of the 'church, that school would commence
Ou the following : Monday, und'r the charge
lof Mr. Judson, and the minister read the no
! tice from the pulpit. Speculation was rife as
to the new teacher,-amb a few have seen him,
Lumpy luestioub were asked ini regard to-him.
The boys held rapedial coileds; at which. of
arse, Bill Brown was MOderator, and it
I w a•k.voted that thb new master must Ve put
down,' as it was the bat ,fishing season, and
the books would interfere with din spoits of
the
.brook. •
Orr Monday morning the 'boys were soon
movingin little knots toward the schoolhouse,
buiy in arranging their plans ofopper.atious.
"1 wonder bów big he is
"I_ h '!" said Seth Good-
Ars
wi • ' -- isn't one of them savage
4 1 don't car how big be is, nor how savage
he is," said 811 Brows ; "if he don't Walk
Sparliskikless than a week, than I misa my
guess." -. . ~---
or don't s':,j how Pe -. •are bG7o to learn
anything, if tte aon't have a teacher," said a
little voice of this:number. •
"You shut up," said the: leader; "I don't
want to hear anything of that kind again."
• The boy was silent and they - walked 'on,
kill talking of the hew teacher, uhaware of
the proximity of delicate lookibg Stianger,
apparently about twenty- , years old, iv ho
walkingsin the same direction with themsel
ves. They approached the school-house,
and when they got there, they: became
of di pale yoking than in their midst.
"Good. Morning, my lads," he "said iihiling
ly ; "ve are to begin a new career together
to-day, and I sincerely hope -we shall like
each othei:-..Lsball try everything in my
power to please yeld, that is consistent with
duty, and I shilrexpeut the same from yen.
I wish yon to regard me as your friend at.
the commencement, and I shall . certainly act
from friendli feeling, I like your appearance,
and-I believewe shall find bEit little trouble
about agreeing."
The, speech evidently inade an iwtireision,
bUt 13tH Bicir6 west
"that's all bosh, for I see the shape a a cow
hide in his pocket," Which at once awakened,
as he inteeded it should, a ...combative spirit
in all he spoke to. They went into, the
school house; the boys took their_places, and
the master mounted. his tripod. But little
'was done in the morning. -.The restieficis of
arrangenieut—'the getting used to the school
house=produced confusion, and the com
mencement of business was deferred until
next day. The schOol was dismissed at noon.
and master and scholar separated—th'e fOrs
mer with the impression, that:fie laid a viio
rous and bright set
,of . heyi to manage—a
little hard in die :month peitaps, but who
'could tielithßia frt..
cue teacner - Mild e, aged lily. the _per-.
suasive fa e`o6f Stroh "aims; it , wiis best,
to wait and see how t iritslwould work.
They canie tetetheiiiiitlt - toe adfife feelifig
the next Morning; classeewere formed, and
all preliminaries settled, Ind everything cam
menced as happily as need be desired. 'The
teacher's heart wee hatmy in the _thought of
his succesi, when, glanemith down through a
lane of boys, he detected an improper gest
ure from Bill Brown, and saw it repeated even
though the boy's eytt, he Itnese, were fi x ed
npOis his ov ii.
"Young man, come up hire;" he said in a
gentle but firm totio. . •
Brown looked round upon his compan
ions. and . with a fierce tiovement of a bra
vadO lett his seat and approached the ma.
ster.
"I expect a spirit , of .4;e-dimwit in my
school, my yonng friend , "! said the teacher,
"and I shall insist upon it,"
"I don't care what you expect," 'growled
the young ruffian, "I shOuld like'to see you
help yourself."
The teacher bit his lip, while his face whi
iened, eapecially• as . , he }{bard a•s ticketing
laugh among the scholars liiisliriwesl
,• other signs of temper, unless - it; Might have
. . .
appeared !ulna exe.
'"Will you terern• to yOue seat surd behave
3'o4teelf tr"seid he, _"and' thus remove the ne•
cessily of my helping myself." 4 ,,
"No, t itoiet," was the reply.
"Then," said theyeung leacher, "ynti shall
•be made to obey me." • . ' • •
Be reached to his desk,i at be spoke, and,
took his ruler therefrom, *him, turning to. the
rebel,, he told him, to htild out hie hand. The
boy with a surly,•and inipadent bow,- kept
his hands persistently !II bimioeketi, rooting
at the , seine time around the school ifor en
aourngemeht. He, evidintl7 regarded his
3iotumt 16 Su -Ma-3.
linnifer as east of contpiest,
strength wit in bite& to coke -
schoolmaster - .. , ' : •
"Bolt oitt . yoir . hiimd; fe*.ber
peated in a more cothiruandiro time. ,
Refusing to'obb,y,'lte received 'A Atitart"rrii,
On the knuckles.from the tircr; .When draw
ing his rightband stiddinly from his pohket,
he gave the teacher a severe - 61HO' 0,1,6 aid.
of The bead, ands then 'ycetrati
Mordent the actionl wan ciiittui•ioil. 11fe
bolder boys mounted the beriehe.s,io see the'
progress of the row, and the timid Ones stir
trembling, waiting the result very aniiritisly;
The master ! , when thus. assailed „ did put.
hesitate rorls taoMent..: dtdioate Pain see -'
rued: t o the - eirtrit envoked by the
loting rufibit_t,,,,inr4 . ff)inewy strengtVto'OF
vade eL*es,alititlier than his ourtiag‘ ,
Mat, but had-by gdinias training :.develope d.
his muscle ;in a powerfalsdegree . Arm',
his rifler away And grappled with' his antagri
hilt, and the strugtlelor MiSTery'colitiiiirt - 4tl
in earnest—science against att. - smith: ~T'he
boys ;evidently thought their associate' .needed "
no assistance, for they did nothing to aid
him, and thus the field was lift to,the trio
comb nts.
They sw: this way rind ; that-ray, back
and forth, 'tither and thither, straining and
striving, pulling and jerking, till,With a ma
t ster stroke of science, the mastertiro!ght his
pupil forward on his knees, and then b:y nn
adroit twist turned hiM over on -his back,
like a turtle at, waiting for the immo
lating knife.
Immediately improving .his . opportunit,
be threwhimself upon his proierate f6e and
c - ommenced mauling him in the most appro
ved chancery rnanner—harnmeling, away at
him, perhatys in a style not exactly sanctioned
by the rules of the ring,_ but. fully justified bi.
the
. exigency of the case: The boys- seeniea
paraly.ed with astonishment , at. the- unexpec
ted result, and the bully, after un unsuccei
full struggle to release hittself; roared- oAt
lustily for quarter, which was granted, ou the
condition of good behavior while in school.
He was then allowed--to get up, and in the
vocabulliry of the ring was •foind to be sovb
rely "punished." His nose had suffered, and
his eyes were essentially bunged Up... He loci
ked -the iineatilt and used up : wretch, and
stood • before' his mates a conquered gat
chicken. His influeu e was froth ihattno
ment gone, and - *lien the master stood up before the school, as e v and colleeted,as if
he bad merely been Betting a copy instead_ 6'
•fin e±dmple, not 1 'found Wai heard from one
of them.• '
. .
"Well, boys," said lie "if there is arty 'Other
one here who is disposed to disobey. me, .I.
should like to have the matter disposed of
"nuw. Tt iise disposed co .be obedient, and
pledge themselves to obedience wHl,fircate
to rise from their seats."'
"Now - T will t.n.j.imi." said he„i‘thati am
disposed to yield equal and eiact justice
all—kindly, if you. will, but as '1
-you *ill,
(lOoking, svnificantly, at .Br i ciwn,) be gocid
'boys and I\ am yolfr friend. lam going to
takes bOtatticsil stroll in the woods on Wed ;
neaday, and those who behae irrtifi
meantimsAlay accompany ficie. Do you 'wish
to go t"
"Ye t :, air," was the unanimous voice.. - '
He felt that 14,1ii'd tilttelplied; :slid titiiia
them be seittd. ,
-, \ ,
..
"NOW BrOwlto , '"-sald it; i'l iiinst finis% iht.
, ~
this Matter with pie. Yon peel sore la lib,
dy add shiritiand you may,either go orettijr.
If you think you have been unjustry, dealt
- with, appeal to these who. mayy right y ou"
Ilrevrn #ret.lit his situ, - and igatliered tip.
his Uooki, and with A snestio n o 'Bait areal:-
he depatted. The boys settled 'down. their
studies, and the school ba2ame cheerful and
industrious, , - .
The twilit day Bill Brown's motilrei:ciele t'o
abuse the teacher for 'his violence te . ,tbabo,: ; l .
He referred her to the, school committee acid
bad her gftd MortinZ: The school commit
tee itirksttOlted thg, eat*" end' 'iaid 'be bad
serred Min right, atakthe justice of thwitil
lage, when aware of the' decislam of the eianti
mitteq,,woeld hate hiatlai to do.with it- In
a week's time the boy came and risked per
mission to enter the school, whiCh was grah,-
ted witheut a word ofsreircatith Or &word of
promise. He Was etideittly Mired. He grew
to he the best scholar in the whole school—
graduated with honer--became a seccessful
merchant in Boston, and every-veer when lie
goeso IloBt .- alley, visits the g.ebool, and
tells, id, teats ib his eves, the lesson the'neW
schobl aster taught him, and tle geed 4.
did him.
t \w0,...,,
, - ;
The schoolinciter is now growing oldinit a
shttidn where Le commenced so strange . l7.4 -
dozer; years ago, lie. has hilt botanicat.sr
still which al). -cif
oreoisor ore cob on o t r
so don., ...11e4-excursionak-on---Viredneada+
and Saturday afterfirisans, have quite . killed
several circuses that came irr the vilh . rg,!!, as
one of the sch Main todeptive their):
selves of the walk for the auk of other
attractions. . •. • • •
I 'Was at Dock Valley Last winter,
Wednesday, and went &sir to the pleasure
pond near the school house to indulge LIP.
old sport of, skating, which J had not demi.
fur years. s theAuy was fair and:theice
clear as criatal. `Hearing a tremendous."tou
ting, I looked towards the end Of.the pond,
and saw a crowd of boys on skates irursur rag
a mad who kept well ahead, and *hen they.
came to where 1 was' like tit army with ban' , .
tiers, I saw it was the tertribir: He recogritzed
rue and etoled. •
"Air," Sat I,"Mr.judirob; I are thP
same old bey." •
"Yes," he replied, "it ififi all boys on
such daYseri thls;'fibil gWoliskiting as this."
"Don't the parish% think strange of you
for built fiiroluriaotrderst I! I asked. -
"Yes," said he, "seine like those described'
by rtobn.ll—"
. .
"Distrust the - sin 4 llowOr that blossoms oc
- .the sheet, ' • "
toast *tiring& old potato° IMO iot flout
in the root.", . ,
• " *li:tbff boys are my.ittapltitioni 's,uti AS
the / a r g i jii ikileg i 10,11 X 1 4: • :
Ife . swept away, with hitt ttain of Ixtrt,.and
si hiPthr , bond atoto , -.10,1*- g . taa,wwes otti:
of *loom than those srpe *NO 42 chase to tient
the school waster, jle h never, ha42ots
casione, as I afterwards litarheA) lo'frol I, m'
in his school after the first tiny an to hail
the reputatioh of haiing the best Ahhi:4l in
the country:
sir A. coat out at the elbowe tlia"v bel t u .
toned over a treneromi
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