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WISHING.
BT JOHN O. SAXC
Of all amusements for the mind,
From logic down to fishing,
There isn't one lhat yon can find
So very cheap as "wishing!"
A very choice diversion, too,
If we but rightly use it,
And not, as we are apt to do,
Tervert it and abuse it.
I wish a common wish, indeed
My purse was something fuller,
That I might cheer the child of need,
And not my pride lo (latter;
That I might make oppression reel,
As only gold can make it,
And break lh tyrant's rod of steel,
As only gold can break it!
1 w ish that Sympathy and Loye,
Anil every human passion
Thnt has its origin above,
Would come, and keep, in fahion;
That Scorn, and Jealous 'y, and hale,
And every base emotion,
Were buried fifty fathom deep
Beneath the wavas of ocean!
I wish lhat fiiunds were always true,
and motives always pure :
I wish I he good were not so few,
I wish ihe bad were fewer;
1 wish thnt paisons ne'er foigot
To heod their pious teaching J
I wish lhat practising was not
So different from preaching!
1 wish that modest worlh might be
Appraised with truth and candor;
I wish that innocence was free
From treachery and slander ;
I wish lhat men iheir vows would mind;
That woman ne:er were rovers;
I wish lhat wives were always kind.
And husbands always lovers !
1 wish in fine thai joy and mirth,
And every good 1 deal.
May come, erewhile, throughout the earth,
To be Ihe glorious Real ;
Till God shall every creature bless
With his supremest blessing,
And hope be lust in happiness,
And wishing be possessing !
Spiritualism.
lTI-.Rr.STIG 1NTKKVIKW BETWKLN
JllMii; I tfflOMIS AD A HKVOIlTlitt OF
TUB KUYV YOltK II tit At. D.
The Now York Herald of (lie 3d lilt.,
contains a Ion?; and interesting account of
an interview between Judge Edmonds and
one of the Reporters of the Herald, on the
subject of Spiritualism.
Judge Edmonds is well known in New
York as a distinguished Juiist. About a
year since he became a convert to the doc
trines of the "Spiritual rappers," and has
since written a book on the subject. The
Reporter of the Herald having called on
the Ju!ge, and introduced himself, stated
the object of his visit, when the following
co!loquoy ensued :
Reporter (loquitur). Ever since I read
your letter, published in the Herald in Au
gust last, on Spiritualism, I have taken a
deep interest in the subject. I kbew you
were not an impostor, and the only ques
tion with me was whether you were decei
ved yourself, which it is difficult to believe
in the case of a gentleman of your educa
tion and ability, and particularly a judge,
whose office it is to scrutinize the character
of human testimony. On reading your
book I feel still more embarrassed, and am
wholly at a loss to account for the phe
nomena which it describes. Before you
declared yourself a convert to Spiritualism,
I regarded the matter as unworthy of seri
ous attention ; but your public adhesion to
the new creed enlirely alters the case.
Jud'jre. What then?
Reporter. I have come to get some
further light upon the subject, and would
like very much to witness some of the
rappings and other phenomena.
Jude. But we cannot control the Spir
its. They come and go when they please.
As for rappings, they are the smallest part
of it. Any one can rap. (Here the
speaker suited the action to the word, and
gave two distinct raps on the floor with his
knuckles, and, unless the Reporter's imagi
nation greatly deceived him, he heard these
knocks responded to by two fainter knocks,
as if from the room underneath.) It is tho
presence of an intelligence that can reveal
your secret thoughts, or communicate what
is going on in the farthest parts of the
earth, and even in the spheres millions of
miles distant.
Q. Mr. Bennett takes a great interest
in your book, and the progress of the new
faith. He would be glad to have the views
of the Spirits upon the affairs of this coun
try and of Europe for instance, as to the
result of the quarrel about the spoils In (he
democratic party, and the issue of tbe war
between Turkey and Russia.
A. The Spirits da not trouble them
selves much about politics or worldly af
fairs. Q But if the Spirits would tell us what
is now going on in Europe, or what would
be the upshot of a series of events that are
attracting tbe attention of mankind, would
uot that go a great length to spread Spirit
ualism all over the world 1
Not at all; people who don't want
to believe will not believe from any amount
of evidence J men every day witness in
private stronger proofs than that, yet they
do not believe ; wheu Christ fed the five
thousand with the five barley loaves and
two fishes, the multitude did not believe:
notwithstanding all the miracles of Christ
and his apostles, the progress of Christianity
was very slow at first ; besides, with regard
to future events, the Spirits have only the
same means of judging of them that we
have ourselves, unless it titey are nigiiiy
developed Spirits they know the present
better than we can, and therefore can form
a belter judgement of the future ; Spiritual'
ism is maxing silent progress, both in this
country and in the Old World ; there are
at least thirty thousand converts in this
city, and there are a million in the country
at large ; it was revealed to mo by the
Spirits seven months beforehand that Spir
itualism would break out in Europe as well
as here, and now it is extended over Eng
land and other countries of Europe, and it
has found its way even into Asia ; the most
intellectual and most learned men are be
lievers in it.
Q. Is that the case here!
A. Yes; if you only saw what letters
I got from nil parts of the country from
judges, clergymen, editors of newspapers,
men of high position vou would be as
tonished ; in this city the most respectable
and intelligent classes have become con
verts.
Q. I think the rapid sale of your Book
at a dollar and a quarter per copy is a proof
of that. I have learned from the publishers
that it has already reached four editions,
and is likely to equal the sale of Uncle
Tom's Cabin
A. Yes, they cannot supply the de
mand. Q. Would it not have been better to
have made it cheaper!
A. That was my opinion; I wished to
have it sold at fifly cents; but for the first
10,000 copies the publishers have an agree
ment, and I cannot reduce the price till
after that number is disposed of ; I don't
want to make money of it, but to diffuse it
among the people.
Q. I perceive it is but the first volume.
Is there another to come?
A. Oh, yes. Look at that pile of man
uscript under the table. There is more
there than would make another volume of
the same size. Besides, I have materials
for still more.
Q. What is lo be the nature of Ihe sec
ond voiume 1
A. It will enter more in detail into (he
occupations and employment of the Spirits
in the spheres. The public mind is hardly
prepared for thrse revelations as yet.
There are some things we have seen and
heard that we dare not tell now, because
we would not be believed.
Q. Is it not possible to account for the
phenomena mentioned in your book by re
lerring them lo the workings of Ihe imagi
nation. A How thed 1 could ten persons'
imaginations be affected in the same way
at the same time 1 They have said that my
imagination has become the prey of a mor
bid melancholy on the account of the loss
of my wife, and lhat this will account for
what I have seen and heard. I candidly
confess that I was laboring under mental
depression about the time my attention was
directed to the subject. But what has this
to do with lacts witnessed equally by my
self and others? It is useless (o talk of
imagination when we know that we have
been conversant with facts. What amount
of persuasion wonld induce me lo believe
that 1 am not now looking at you ? Then,
when we find such men as Judge Fowler,
of the Supreme Court of Kentucky, firm
believers in the system, from their own ex
perience, what other conclusion can any
rational mind come to then that this is a
tremendous reality ? Judge Fowler called
on me some months ago, and I conversed
with him on the subject, and introduced
hint lo the circles. He not only became a
convert, but is now preaching Spiiitualism
in his own family, members of which are
mediums. You have seen Gov. Tallmadge's
letters. The first time I ever had any
communication, was one night when I was afraid to speak out, on account of their con
lying in bed awake, reading. I was not ' gregaiions. Thuy aie beginning, however,
thinking on the subject at all. The mani- : to preach it from their pulpit. 1 had a let'
testation was as distinct to my senses as any ter a day or two ago from a clergyman who
thing ever was. When my friend Isaac j deliveied a sermon to his congregation on
Hopper was sick, 1 called to see him, and ; i,e subject. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher,
uii my nay iioine i. visiiea a memum ana
bsked a question mentally about the. health ;
of Mr. Hopper, and whether he would re
cover. The medium answered he was ;
already di ad. No one present knew the '
question I asked. I went back and found i
my friend dead. His spirit has since vis
ilej me. Where is the imagination in 1
this? I could mention many names of per- 1
unnu in liiirll :il i,.-r ivhrt nru huliufd,. I.nl '
tor the learol the ridicule with which they
would be visited. Look at Ihe manner in
which I have been mtsrepresenler; in (he
Times and the Journal of Commerce. This
is what destroys the influence of the press.
The Evenivg Pod is a good paper. Judge
you lor yourself. H (his thing be Uue,
(here is something worth knowing in it,
and it deserves investigation. Unreasona
ble tests ought not to be asked. For in
stance, a man wrote to me to say that it
would have been better that Bacon and
Swedenborg had communicated with me
in Latin, in which they wrote, when' liv
ing, that the public might have an oppor
ntuily of comparing their style. How
many in the Uuited States are judges of
the Latin style ol Bacon and Swedenborg?
Q. I should like very much to be pres
ent at some of these circles, and see and
bear for myseif.
A. We have private circles whicn are
only for the initiated, and those somewhat
developed. There is a private circle at
my house twice in Ihe week Sundays and
Thursdays ; but there are public circles
where money is charged. There is a Mrs.
Coan, ol White Street, and a Mrs. Brown,
of West Twenty-sixth Stree(, at whose
residences tappings and Spiritual communi
cations can be witnessed.
Q. And is money charged !
A.-Yes; I had to begin there, and
plodding through much that was perplex
iag, worked my own way upward. It re
quires a vast amount of patience and perse
verence. I know another lady a Mrs.
Seymour of Sixth Avenue who it so ex
quisite medium that she can describe most
accurately the character of any person
whose handwriting it inclosed in an enve-
lope, or as many envelopes as you please,
without breaking the seal. In every in
stance she invaraibly succeeds in this.
Q All (his is very wonderful, Judge,
and I want to see it.
A. There are things more wonderful
yet to be told. What would you think ol
a chair running up stairs? A gentleman a
few days ago told me that a chair followed
him through every part of the room in
which he was, and he then went up stairs
to see if it would follow him, and it did,
step by step.
Q. But can you rely on his telling you
the truth.
A. (rather indignantly.) -What the
deuce motive could he have in deceiving
me ? I have myself seen a chair shooting
across the room like a rocket, in the pres
ence ol a large company. (Here the Judge
took a chair, and putting it on ils back on
the floor, described the motion.) It would
fly to the farthest end of th room, and
then come back toward me, with the speed
of a locomotive, and would inevitably have
cut off my legs did it not stop suddenly
within an inch of me. Then, when I put
my foot upon it to hold it down, it darted
away from me as if impelled by some irre
sistable power. (Here (he Judge put his
foot on (he chair and showed how it slid
from him, as if by magic.) Then, again, a
short lime ago, at one of our circles, in
which we were in the habit of sitting in
the dark, a box of lucifer matches was laid
on the table to save the trouble of lighting
the candles when the meeting was over.
One of the ladies felt on the table for (he
matches, but could not find them. Upon
calling on the Spirits (or a light, an unseen
hand rapidly rubbed a match against the
wall over the mantlepiece, when it ignited
and lighted the candle. The whole circle
then saw the box of matches stuck against
the ceiling, with two or three of them
dropping down. The medium then called
down the whole box, when it immediately
came upon the (able, where it was origi
nally placed.
Q. Do the Spiritualists believe in the
Bible?
A. Most certainly they do both in
the Old and new Testament. In both we
read of the very communications of Ihe
Spirit-world, now so much derided. The
Spirits spoke "in unknown tongue?,' in the
days of the Apostles, as they do now. In
Ihe Catholic Church, during the dark ages,
miracles were continued, and they are
now revived. The present developments
are but modifications ol what has taken
place among the Wesleyans, the Quakers,
and the bhakers. An ignorant man,
brick-layer, at one of the circles, used the
two Greek words, Gnothi seuuton ("know
thyself"); and his wife used the word
"microcosm," which she certainly had
never heard before. At another circle one
of the mediums used (he word "lole ;"
whereupon I began to think what language
that could be. I knew it was not Greek,
Latin, French, or Italian. 1 asked, was it
a word of an African tongue, or of some of
the tribes of Asia ? The medium said : "No,
it is none of these." "What then?'' I
asked. She replied it was the language
ol the Marsians. "Who are the Marsians?"
I interrogated. "Why, of course," said
she "the inhabitants of the planet Mars."
The word meant an assemblage of worlds.
The mediums frequently speak in Italian,
French, Spanish, and other foreign tongues,
without knowing a word of these lan
guages. Q. Do any of the clergy believe in it !
A. Yes, many of them; but they are
hearing of my views on Spiritualism, was de
eiious of seeing ma. We met at Ihe house of
a mutual fiiund in Brooklyn, and ihe result
was lhat Mr. Heecher preached a course
of four sermons on Spiritualism, covertly,
and ns his congregation, cnuld bear; but
ere long he will no doubt come out plainly.
Ho believes now that he is preaching by in
spiration. This, then, is a system of religion?
A. Exactly so; and it is one which is
calculated to lefnrm the woild. Something
is wanting lo do so. Out of the twenty five
millions of our population, about twenty
millions never go to church ; and the ma
jority of those who do go aie very little in
fluenced by what they hear. The Mosaic
and Christain dispensation were suited lo
their day; but another and a better dispen
salinn i now required, and i, about tu be
established. Man is a being of piogiess,
ana religion must keep wcn with thai pro
grass, in order lo influence him beneficially.
(J. How is the new system better calcu
lated lo reform Ihe world than Ihe old?
A. Because, when men know lhat Ih
Spirits are ever present, and can read Iheir
very thoughts, they will bo afraid even lo
think what is wrong.
Q. It not God always present ?
A Yes) but we do not realize bis pre
senee. It it imposible for a Spiritualist lo
be a rogue. It will make men belter. 1
know it hat made mo belter. A curious
ease occurred in a circle which shows Ihe
importance of Spiritualism. A medium said
to a friend of mine, "You have had a diaa
greemenl with your wife, and have fallen
oat with her because the did a very mean
thing." This was literally true, and 1 was
the only man present who knew it. What
a solutary effect, therefore, must Ihi have
upou domestic matters 1 See how it would
reform onr legislation, too ! If men were
Spiritualists Ibey would never consent lo
capital putiisniiiuni lor crime.
Q.-Whyso!
A. Because it would be removing a man
from a worse to a better condition.
Q Do criminals that are hanged go di
rectly to heaven ?
A.So) but any conditio out of this
world is better than their condition here.
The wicked continue in hell after they die
until they are developed and putifled.
Q. Do the spirit ef negroes ever come ?
A. No, not that I am aware of; I have
never Ihonght of that, and it is impotlaiit,
because you know they say the Afiicrn race
have no souls. I saw two colored mediums
in the South.
Q. What is your view of hell ?
A. II is a condition, and not a locality ;
and though there is no literal fire, or that
soil of thing, the Spit its of the wicked suiTer
dreadfully ; they are in tho most horrible
and black despair, and are kept in ignorance
of the heaven that awaits them. When bad
lie the are only delivered fioin the
bondage of ihe body, and nol of the mind
Q. Dj these Spirit ever communicate
their sufferings to the circles?
A They do, in the most fearful manner;
and Ihe Spirits of ihe just also communicate
Iheir happiness.
Q. Have the Spirits bodies after death ?
A Certainly; but Spiritual bodies, which
are continually becoming more highly de
veloped. They have homes, but they can
wander fiom planet lo planet, and over the
regions of infinite space. That is Ihe teason
lhat sometimes they are not within call.
In sleep the spirit is absent from the body,
unless, perhaps, connected by some little
umbilical cord. What the Spirit does in
tleep it concealed from us in life. When
we die it is all revealed, and then both our
sleeping and waking moments will make
tip our exisler.ee. such is the philosophy of
sleep, and it shows how important that our
waking life should be pure, fur our sleep will
partake of the same character.
Q. Do the Spirits always tell trulh ?
A. No; for there are evil, lying Spiiils,
as well as good, and we must learn to dis.
tinuuish between Ihem bv our own reason
just as we distinguish between Ihe good and
Ihe evil in this life.
Q. Then we are liable to be led astray
by some of the Spirits?
A. Certainly; and some of ihese lellows
cut extraordinary pranks, and do immense
mischief; and Ihe only way lo defeat tl em
is by bringing discredit on their teachings,
by the agency of good Spiiils. There is a
great deal fan ilicism mixed up with Spirit
ualism. A man who was led astray by a
fanatical medium was cured in this way:
He was diiecled lo dig into the earth six
feet at a ceitain spot, when he would find
a vast quantity of gold. He did so, but
found none. He was then directed by the
Spirits to dig two feel more; but still he
found none. Again he was directed to dig
another foot. He did, and found nothing-
upon which he said lo the Spirit, ''You are
humbugging me." The Spirit replied, '-To
be sute I am ; go home, you fool, and attend
to your business." There is another case of
a man who is operating in stocks in Wall
Street under the influence of a fanatical
Spirit, which is keeping h m posted in ad
vance of the mails about the operations of
the Ruthscilds in Europe. This man will
probably be ruined. How absurd it is lo
consult the Spirits on such matters !
Q. Do ihe Spirits always know what i
going on in Ihi world 1
A. That depends upon Ihe kuowlege or
ignorance of the particular Spirit. Some are
highly informed and developed In a higt
stale of perlee.tion, while others remain coin
paratively ignorant and undeveloped. Some,
again, have wandered so far away from this
world that they have never found theii way
back, and sunie do not w ish to come back.
Though my wife died only a few years ago,
I have had fteqiietit visits from her. But
my sisler, who went lo Ihe Spirit WoilJ in
18J7, lias only come twice, ami that re
cently. Shu had much trouble in this life,
and she did not desire lo return lo it. Lately
a distinguished historical character, who
lived in Ihe reign of Heuiy VIII , visited our
circle, & was totally ignorant of Spiritualism,
and of almost eveiy thing else I am very
fond of reading "Pollock' Course of Time "
Pollock i a very fine poel, who, like Milton,
is only beginning now lo be appreciated. I
expressed a desire lo have communication
with Pollock' Spirit. He came and looked
at me earnestly, and stalked all around tbe
room.
Q.--Did you see his person?
A. Mo, ho spoke through a medium, a
woman, ol whom he toek possession.
Q Do you ever see the Spirits Ihem
selves ?
A. Yes, sometimes; bnt it will not do to
tell that lo Ihe vulgar, for Ihey would not
believe il. The Spirits of Bacon and Swe.
denboig generally communicate by writing
through Ihe hand of my associate, Dr. Dex
ter, at a medium ; and w hat Is so singular,
ha doet nol know what he wrilet till after,
and hat lo read it to find out, and tometimet
I have lo decipher it for him. In the same
way, when I was in Central Ametica las,
winter, Dr. Dexier consulted Ihe Spirits about
Ihe state of my health, and wrote Ihe re
sponse) In a book. Ha did now what he bad
written, or had forgotten il. On comparing
my journal with his, I found lhat Ihey ex
actly corresponded.
Q. How do yon know that the mediums
are not imposing on you when ihey profess
to be posseted by the Spirit?
A. Jusl at I know when any other person
is uot imposing on me. For instance, one
niglif, just as the clock on the manlle i ce
struck, the medium possessed by the Spir t
of my wife, eje'nim "d, ii h ' unit it akab'e
lone of the deceased, "Oh, lhat old, familiar
sound !" We know that the medium it act
deceiving nt by infallible testt.
Q. Is (he writing of the Spiiils always
done by the hand of a medium ?
y!.-Not always; sometimes the Spirits
wrile themselves.
Q. The Spitits, then, have bodies?
At Yes, Spiritual, sublimated bodies.
You have mentioned lhat the Spirits
are sometime seen. Do all nreient see
Ihem ?
A. No. For all have not the camo devel-
opement nnd the snme ncuieness of vision.
Q This reminds me of what I used In
hear of ghosts when 1 was a child lhat
when two or three person were logrihet
one saw the Spirit while tho rost could see
nothing.
A Exactly so. 1 know a lady w ho can
see a flame issue fiom a magnet ; and 1 have
myself seen something like an electric flame
proceed from Ihe top of the head in a con
tinned stream. Have you seen the work of
Reiuhenbach on this subject I mean his
'I'hysico-Physiologieal Researches ?
Q. No, I have not ; but 1 will take a note
of it. All this is most extraordinary. BuT.if
it is a revelation Irom Heaven, why arj not
the Spiritualists, who are so numerous, or
ganized into a church? and why do Ihey not
come openly before the world? because, if
these wonders were only seen by the mul
titude, converts would bo made in thousands.
A. You will see something of lhat kin,
very shortly. Belore another mouth we will
appear before the public, and I myself wil
take part in the matter.
Q. You legard Ihe revelations made in
your book as a following up of Ihe New Tes
tament, and a step in advance in Ihe progress
of man to perfection.
A. Exactly so. And I tkiuk it will be
the means of reforming the world.
Q I have never attended any of Ihe cir
cles; but from what you have told me, I am
determined to do so. Goad-evening Judge
A. Have faith, patience, and persever.
ance ; begin at Ihe beginning, and go up on
step by step, and you will arrive at the trulh
at last.
The stars were now beginning to twinkle
in the heavens, and I took my leave of the
Judge, strongly impressed with his usability
and good-naltue In answering my questions
so readily, and giving me so much iuforma'
lion on the subject ol my inquiry. It was
also struck with Ihe familiar way in which
ho spoke of the apparitions, just as if they
were evety-day acquaintances. The inter.
view occupied Irom two to I Dree hours, anu
was, to m, most interesting. Occasionally
the Judge' eye would seem lo rest on va
cancy, and again his lace would light up
like that of a rapt prophet, a sybil, or a pyth
oness. As 1 returned home, 1 meditated oi
what I had heard, and made up my mind to
carry my investigations to the utmost limits
into this new phase ol the science of psy
chology. GntiT ImPaovk.ment i.n Milling. The
llarritburg Union, referring to a new kind of
mill highly praised in England, say
"Messrs. Wilson and M'Collough have re
ceutiy completed a new steam mill in our
borough, in which Ibey ron 41 feet flat
French buns, two hundred revolutions
minute, mat lurn out Hour taster man we
ever taw it inn from a mill spout. These
gentlemen calcuUte to grind regularly fiom
six to seven barrels ol extra flour per hour
on each run vf stones, and Ihey may be able
to do mere. At high as thirty bushels of
tehtat have been ground on one run of stones
in this mill, in an hour! We ask if Ihi has
ever been beaten any where ? If uny one
hat bealen it, he will please send us woid
We have been using the flour made at these
mills for tho last two weeks, and find it su
perior to any we have ever had."
OfK National Financi-s. The Pari Con
slilutiotiuel, treating of Ihe linanees of the
American I'liiou, commence thus: ''The
situation of M. Guthrie, Secretary of the
Treasury, is unique in Ihe world; he nut
only hat loo much money, bnl he forsecsand
dieucls u considerable increase of his silt plus.
The oilier Stales of Ihe woild experience
the utmost possible diHiculiy in making the
two end of the year meel ,"
Nkw York Elkctiok. The foil vole, and
mostly olficial, for Secretary of State, iho
highest candidate on the State Ticket, fouls
up as follow i
Whig, 160,671
Hard Democrat, . 9U.489
Soft Democrat, . - . 91,187
The Legislature will stand thus: Senate
!2 Whigs, 8 Hard Democrat, 2 Sufi Dem
ocrats, House 80 Whig, 34 Hard Demo
crats, 23 Soft Democrats, 3 Free Soilert.
A Bisiior't Palaci;. The following it
given (in a new work, "Salad for tbe Solita
ry," jutt published in Loudon,) at the epi
taph of Samuel Rutler, Bishop of Soder and
Man, ttanlaled from the Lalin inscription on
hit tomb :
In Ihit house
which 1 have borrowed from
my breihienihe worm,
lie I,
Samuel, by Divine permission
Bishop of this 1. laud.
biop, reader :
behold and tmile at
THE PALACE Or A BISHOP !
who died May 80
in the year
1653.
DEATH OF A CtfMSCIEKTIOtia MISER.
Aii old Dutchman named Shumm, wholiv.
ed in one of ihe wretchedesthotel Ikat Hand
in Ihe rear of Sheriff street, and whose appa'
rent poverty and manifest sufferings from
dreadful case of hernia had long excited Ihe
sympathy of bis human neighbors, died of
alhsma and a complication ol olhef diteate.
He was well known lo be of a tery obstinate
uud eccentric disposition ; and although he;
had been confined lo his bed for some weekt,.
he not only rejected all medical aid, but per'
sisled to the last in bit habit of sleeping iir
the whole of his wardrobe, which consisted
ohiefly of a pairef breeches, thai at some re
mote era had been constructed of blue velvet,
and a sailor's jacket, and a frie.e overcoat,
all of which exhibited accumulated proofs of
(he old man's attachment. He sunt for Mr.
Van Duerson, a respectable couutrymen of
hit residing in Ihe neighborhood, who had
given him charitable relief, and privately re
quested him to make his will. To thit gen
tleman'! great surprise, he beqneatfied Vari.
ous sums of money, amounlins altogether to
$3700, lo children and grandchildren, resi-
dii.g in New York nnd Albany, and confiden'
t mil v informed him where hit nronerlv wa
leposiled. lie thon related lo Mr. Van
Duerson the following remarkable facts in
his history -
He stated thnt about twenty-fire years ago.
he wat a porter lo a mercantile bouse in
Hamburg, and having been )on in ifs em'
ploy, wat frequently entrusted with consid'
erable sums of money for conveyance lo
other establishments. In an honr of evil in
fluence he was induced to violate his Uttst ,
and absconded to this country with a large
sum . Having arrived, he invested the ereV.
er part of it in the purchase of two houses,
which adjoined each other, and which, be
fore he had effected an insurance on them,
were burnt to Ihe ground. Considering this
a judgement of heaten opon his dishonesty
he determined lo devote the remainder of
hislifotoa severe course of industry and
parsimony, with the single object in view of
making full restitution of the persons whom
ho had injured, or to their decendants.
He adopted another name, and with the
mea-,3 hn had left, commenced business in
this city, as tobacconist ) and although hi
trade was a retail one, and had suffered a
heavy loss by fire, he had succeeded five
year since in acquiring sufficient property to
accomplish his jnst and elevated purpose.
He then, accordingly, sold hit slock In trade,
and was preparing lo transmit the necessary
amount to Hamburg, where the mercantile
firm he had defrauded still contii i. wliei.
he ascertained that it had a bmueli s .l.i.slw
ment or agency cuuutiiighouse at 1': I
phia. Thither he went and paid th1
$1-1,000, being equivalent to tin .. (
sum he had embezzled, with a . i;i ral.
of interest. The hitler, hoi. ever, n ieiier
ously returned to him by the son i one m
tho paitners, and thit, together M h sorr.e
surplus money, he has bequeathed, ac ub- V
stated.
For the last five years he has lived iu u.
ter obscurity, and in severe accordance s
hit lung-formed habits of paisimony.
executor, Mr. Van Duerson, found Ihe above
named turn of 33700, principally in doo
bloons, curiously concealed in a certain pri
vate department of tbe tenacious breeches
befoie specified; and it was ascertained
that the old man't case of hernia wat a case
of something far lest objectionable. The
remainder of hi money wat found under (he
patches of his jacket, with Ihe exception of a
small sum iu shillings and sixpence, discov
ered in an old iiutT jar, which seems to have
been the. depository of bis curient funds.
Albany paper.
I.MrORTANT TO INVENTORS.
In consequence of l be want of room in the
1'aluut office, the Commissioner has issued
a circular iu reference to the size of model,
as follows :
"The model should be of durable materi
als, and be firmly constructed, so as to bear
the frequent handling lo which it is necessa
rily exposed. If of any sort wood it should
ba painted, stained or varnished. It exter
nal dimensions should not, if piaclicable, ex.
ceed one cubic foot in measure. The name
of ihe inventor, and that of ihe assignee, if
Ihe patent issue Iu him, should be perroa
iiuntly affixed to it, either by engraving op
otherwise.
1 Whon the rao.Mj or specimens eome
unaccompanied with a name, so much diffi
culty has been felt in assigning Ihem to their
proper destination, lhat Ihe office cannot an
swer foi ihe in if they are mislaid or even
lo.t."
A Candip Wits is. Iii ibe examination
of an liish case before ihe Ceurl ef Magis
trates, in Providence, for assault and battery,
counsel, on crosi-examining on of the wit
nesses, asked him what Ihey had at Ihe first
place ihey Hopped? He antwered, "four
glasse of ale." "What next t" "Two
glaue of wine." "What next?" One
glass of brandy." "What next ?" 'A fight
of course, '
The Canal Commissioner have r-p.
pointed Major John Cummiiigs, Cargo lu
spector at Columbia and D. Shaefer, Esq.,
Inspector of Cara en the Columbia Railroad-
A Svi toouM David waa a Jew bene
"the Harp of David" was a Jewsharp. Que!
lion-How the deuce did ha sing at p.loi
and play ou it at lha tame time ?
There are four hundred and thirty lioeuee4
oiwiibuste, hatkt and calt ia Button.