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VOLUME VIII
THE LEHIGH REGISTER
Is published in the Borough .of Allentown, Lehigh
County, Pc.. every Wednesday, by
A. L. 111111 E,
Al $l5O per annum, payable in advance, and
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rirOffice in Hamilton Street, one door East of
Vile German Reformed Church, nearly opposite
iHe "Friedensbote" Office.
LiST,
For Beet.libber Term, 1853.
1 William Fry vs Solomon Gangwer. .
2 H. & D. Peter vs John Treichler.
3 Jesse Weaver vs William Kuntzman.
4 Charles Loeser vs William Frantz.
5 D. & C. Peter . vs Daniel Boyer.
6 J. J. Turner vs Charles Loeser.
7 William J. Kaul . vs Solomon Fogel.
8 Waterman & Young vs Solomon Fogel.
9 Waterman & Young vs Jacob Erdman.
10 Henry Haberacker vs Nathan Whitely.
31 William Mink vs Reuben Mtnk.
12 Reuben Mink vs Nicholas & W. Mink.
13 Henry Raup vs Jonathan Dewald.
34 The Administrators of Durs Rudy, dec'd,
vs Jonas Peter.
115 Samuel Steel vs School Directors of
Hanover.
16 John Backensto vs Benjamin Fogel.
17 Christian Pretz and others vs William
gm
18 Carolina Deibert vs Jesse llallman.
19 Daniel J. Smith vs Ephraim Bigony.
20 'Peter Stauffer vs John Kern.
21 Daniel Kohler vs Mlchael Kelchner.
22 Solomon Apple vs Nathan Lerch.
23 David Ileimbach vs David Heil.
24 David Heil vs David Heimbach.
25 John H. Rice vs Luckenbach and Ja
coby.
26 Henry Dillinger vs Kemerer & Garis..
27 Executors of Peter Cooper deceased vs
Israel Rudy.
28 Jonas Heil vs Henry Schmidt.
.29 Reuben Luclrenbach vs Geo. Wenner.
30 Jonathan Wenner vs George Wenner.
'3l William Wenner Os George Wenner.
32 Abraham Rohn vs David A. Tombler.
:33 Yohe & Schwartz vs John Wagner.
..34 David Erney vs William Kramer.
FRAN. E. SAMUELS, Proth.
Allentown, Nov. O. If—tc
PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS, the Hon. Washington Mc
- •Cartney, President of the several Courts of
-•common pleas of the Third Judicial District,
composed IA the counties of Northampton and
Lehigh, State of Pennsylvania, and Justice,
of the several Couto of Oyer and Terminer
and general Jail delivery, and Peter Haas,
and Jacob Dillinger, Esqrs., Judges of the
Courts of Oyer and Terminer and generally
Jail delivery, fur the trial of all capital of
fenders in the said county of Lehigh. By
their precepts to me directed have ordered
the-court of Oyer and Terminer and Gen
eral Jail Delivery, to be holden at Allentown,
county of Lehigh, on the •
• First Monthly in December, 1851,
which is the sth day of said month, and
Will continue two weeks.
Ncrricu is therefore hereby given to the
Justices of the Peace and Constables of the
county of Lehigh, that they are by the said
precepts commanded to be there at 10 o'clock
an the forenoon, of said day, with their rolls,
records, i nquisitions, . examinations, and all
• other reatemberences,' to do these things
• which to their offices appertain to be done,
end all those who are bound by recognizan
sesao prosecute against the prisoners that
ore or then •shitil be in the jail of said coun
ty of Lehiletorre to be then and there, to
prosecute them shall be just.
Given tindea my hand in Allentown, the
nth dayof November in the year of our Lord,
me thousand eight hundred and fifty three.
God save the Commonwealth.
NATHAN WEILER, Sheriff.
Sheritrg Office Allentown, 2 .
Nov. 12, 1853. -li—tc
A chance to go into Business.
The stibscriber would respectfully inform
the . public, that he intends to relinquish
buitness in Allentowni and therefore oilers
his vokire stock of Store. Goods on the most
reasonable Terms to any tibiSoh. or persons
wishieg to go into ageddUnd safe business.
J. W. GRUBB.
11-6 w
S6tember . 2B
•
New Supply or Coal !
Fartnerq L ntebitriters
14001 E HERE.
- This undeisigned have filo received, and
bonstantly ke'ep on.hand, a large supply of
all kinds of Coal, suitable for Farmers and
Limeburners, and the coal consuming pub
lic io general, whirl they will dispose of at
the followin gg prides:
.Chestnut Coat at $2 25
Extra Mit Coal, . $2 34'
Egg, Steil/ and Lump at • $3 at
14DEINEr. 4 .•11ANSE & Co.
Apia 20, 1853.
•
pocticctl Departincnt.
The 'Voice of Autumn.,
Thou lonely man of grief and pain,
By lawless power oppressed,
Burst from thy prison—rend thy chain—
I come to make thee blest;
I have no springtide budt and flowers,
I have no summer bees and bowers,
But oh, I have some pleasant hours,
To soothe thy soul to test.
Plenty o'er all the quiet land
Her varied vesture weaves,
And flings her gifts, with liberal hand,
To glad the heart that grieves;
Along the southern mountain steps,.
The vine its purple near weeps,
While the bold peasant proudly reaps
The wealth of golden sheaves.
Forth, with the earliest march of morn,
He bounds with footsteps tree;
He plucks the fruit—he binds the corn,
Till night steals o'er the lea;
Beneath the broad, ascending moon,
' He carries home to welcome boon,
And sings some old•remembered tune
With loud and careless glee.
Then come before my reign is passed,
Ere darker hours prevail—
Before the forest leaves are cast,
And wildly strew the gale;
There's splendor in the day spring yet.—
There's glory when the sun is set—
There's beauty when the stars are met
Around Heaven's pilgrim pale.
The lark at length path left the skies,
The throstle sings alone;
And far the vagrant cuckoo flies
To seek a kinder zone ;
But other music still is here,
Though fields are bare and woods are sere—
Where the lone robin warbles clear -
His soft and plaintive note.
While heaven is blue, and earth is green—
Come at my earnest call„
Ere winter sadden all the scene
Beneath his snowy pall ;
This fitful wailing of the woods—
The solemn roar of deepening floods,
Sent forth from nature's solitudes,
Proclaim my coming fall.
.
I;lll9ccitancou9 3fleCtiolls.3.
The Journeyman's Secret.
FROM TILE DAIRY or. ; :n JOURNEYMAN PRINTER
"You can take this case," said the fore
man ; "here - is a stick—here is some copy ; I
and if you would like a quiet and steady
partner, you will find this gentleman still
enough in all conscience."
The "partner" merely looked up and
faintly
,smiled in acknowledgment of the
foreman's complement, and kept on with his
work, while the foreman turned away to at
tend to something else.
We worked on steadily until dinner, as
we were in a hurry to get the paper out,
without exchanging a word, or even a look.
In the afternoon, I had more leisure to study
the physiognomy of my neighbor. He was
a young man of about three or four and
i r twenty, with handsome features and a Toth
et intellectual cast of countenance. His face
was quite pale, and the raven darkness of his
hair, aye-brows and eyes, made me imme
diately come to the conclusion, after thor
oughly studying his physiognomy, that he
was a hard student during his leisure hours,
or that. depriving himself of the recreation
of books, or other sources of enjoyment,. he
spent all his waking hours at the cop.—
The latter supposition time proved comet.
As day after day passed away, I became
acquainted with him ; and I found him to be
s singular character. Beneath his stand he
'had constructed a kind of a closet ; which
contained a spirit lamp, a mattress, with
bedding, a few cooking utensils, and a small
stock of the plainest kind of food. When
the hours for meals arrived, he would light
his lamp, and putting some food over it to
cook, would work until all the rest of the
hands had left the office, when he would sit
down to his frugal repast: He worked in
cessantly during work hours, hardly leaving
.he ofhce, unless to . purchase food, or upon
some errand. of that kind, Morning, noon
and night, when I returned from my meals,
I invariably found him at-the case, working
away with all his might as if some great is
sue depended, upon the improvement of ev
ery minute. I suppose he slept upon the
cot which ho kept in his closet, but as he
was always at work when 1 returned in the
!horning, I could not positively assert that he
did so. lam not very garrulous, especially
when employed at the case, and as he would
not first address me, I would not speak to
him ; so while the fun and joke were pass
ing round the other cases, we were silent as
the grave. I was not long in diScovering
that there wa s some mysteryconnected with
him, and that his intense application to la
ber was not prompted merely by a' esire to
make money ; for if there is anything in
• pbreuology, judging from the formation of
ALLENTOWN, LEHIGH COUNTY, PA., NOVEMBER 24. 1853.
his head, he was the very one whom I would
have selected from a score for a spendthrift.
Occasionally his cheek would flush, his eyes
light up, and a happy smile overspread his
features ; then the smile would go away, his
eyes would fill with teers, while an expres
sion of sadness—almost despair-..-would seat
itself upon his countenance. I have been
tempted athousand times toask him the cause
of this, but as he appeared so cold and isola
ted, 1 refrained from doing so, as it is not
pleasant proffering sympathy unasked.
"Well, how do you like your neighbor ?"
asked one journeyman of me, as we were
descending the stairs ono evening.
"I can hardly make him out," said I ; he
appears to be a strange sort of being. You
are better acquainted with .him than I ; how
do you like him ?"
"For my part I hate him, and what is
more, he has not a friend in the whole office.
That fellow has been here for three months,
and he has hardly spoken to any one, A
man who makes such bills as he does. and
hoards up his money like a miser, t have
very little friendship for. We wouldn't any
of, us care so much if he would be a little
sociable, and spend a dollar, or even a dime
occasionally ; but no--every five-cent piece
he gets he hangs on to as if he was afraid
the eagle on it would spread his wings and
fly away with it, doing him out of a five-cent
piece. But he can't stay here long. We
have insulted him a dozen times ; and he
has less spunk than I think he has, if he
don't resent it some day. We'll get him
into a quarrel then, and have him discharg
ed."
"But," said I, "do you know anything
about his history ? He may have some all
absorbing end to accomplish, which is the
cause of his untiring assiduity. You should
have a little charity for the fellow, and taking
Crockett's motto, 'be sure you're right be
fore you go ahead.' "
"No, we know nothing of him ; and if cir
cumstances are as you suppose, it will be
his own fault if they are discovered too late,
for we have tried often enotieli to scrape an
acquaintance with him. You had better
not take up on his side if you do not wish
to incur the cusp teusuie of Lliv ofiloa
Good night.
I had sonic Charity for the fellow, and was
r?solved to see him righted should he get
into it difficulty. I soon saw that he uas
very unpopular, and that I, as I felt rattier
disposed to make allowances for him, was
considered his friend. Many were the jokes
cracked at our expense. Whenever the
"Qualcer corner" (as the place occupied by
us had been dubbed) was mentioned, a uni
versal titter ran round' the office. These
little things irritated me some, but as I was
not the. principal object at whom these ar
rows were aimed, I resolved to forbear and
let him be the first to speak.
"I say. fellows," ,said a rowdy• looking
customer. who went by the name of Zelte,
"do the Quakers ever have a camp meet
ing?"
"Yes," answered another, "they have a
camp meeting over there in Quaker corner
every night. That fellow camps out upon
the floor every nap he takes."
"Well," said another, "I've head of,
boarding at the market house and sleeping
on the bridge, but I never saw en illustra
tion of it before..
"Wonder if they wouldn't take in board
ers?" asked the first speaker. "I'll see if
they don't want the rules and regulatiOns of
of the house printed. If they do, 111-board
out the bill." *
I glanced at my neighbor to see hoed ho
bore this ridicule. His face was flushed
and his lips firmly compressed, as if to choke
down the rising indignation. But he said
not a word. I fancied, however,.that
picked up the type faster than usual.
Things could not go on this way much
longer, for as God-like a quality as forbear-
ance is, it cannot hold out against every
thing. I saw that 'a storm was gathering,
and prepared to act my part as a man when
it burst forth.
It was Saturday afternoon . ; the hands were
ranged around the "stone," with their bills
'in 'their hands waiting to be paid off.—
"Quaker" happened to be at one end of the
"stone," and immediately opposite him stood
"Zeke." As usualoQ.uaker" was the "ob
served of all observers," and sly whispers,
which were answered. by a titter or a nudge
of the elbow, passed around the group. As
the foreman paid "Quaker" the amount due
him, he gave him a new ,quarter dollar to'
make out change. This did not escape
"Zeke's" eye, and ho said in a tone' loud
enough to be heard by all—
'"If that eagle on that quarter had life, and
I were a State prison. convict, I woiald'nt
swap places with it, for my confinement
would be far preferable to being squeezed to
death."
This was the, hair that broke, the camel's
back. With the 'exclamation, "You scoun
drel !" he 'mode one bound, and with a
stunning lifti r w„brcilight"Zolte" to the floor.
'Then jerking off his coat and placing him
self in a fighting attitude, he turned to the
astonished group witli"Corrni on, now, cow
ardly riiffierts; if you cannot, let me alone
peaceably; I will make you do it by force.—
I lithe boThilur insults 10.4,0netki antii.
if you have any more to oiler come on with
thefn !".
This: i challenge was . suf fi cient. Coats
came dff and sleeves were rolled up in a
minute. I saw that my friend would be
apt to 4et the worst of the fight, and forcing
him into a corner, I exclaimed
Gentlemen, one word, if you please ! It
would'le cowardly for you all to attack this
man'; lijwill not see it done. And if you
will attempt it, I have something here (tapp
ing my breast significantly,) that will slop
it. L-le• is not to blame ;he has only re
sented an insult, which any of you would
have done. You have insulted him because
he has conducted himself strangely ; let him
explain his conduct, and perhaps we can
make up our quarrel. He owes you an ex
planation—if not to you, he certainly does
to me.. And now, sir, said I, turning to him,
"I demand it of you as a right."
He, hesitated a moment. "Come, my I
friend t " said I, "let us have it, whatever it
is, anil at once pit an end to this quarrel."
gentlemen," said he, "I am not
disposed to lay my private rtflairs open to
public gaze, but I suppose I must do it ?or
once. - You must know, then, that from my
earnings I must not only support myself, but
my mother, two sisters and three Small broth
ers, Ivho reside in a distant State. I could
earn enough at home to support them well,
but my reason for coming here is this : One
of my, sisters, who is now a beautiful girl of
sixteen, and the pet of the family, has been
blind from birth. We had no hope of her
ever acquiring the faculty of sight, and were
content to abide by what we thought a dis
pensation of Providence. But .recently I
have 'seen a case similar to hers—a young
man—who was restored to sight by an .emi
nent, physician of Paris. I have corres
ponded with that physician, and he has high
hopes that in my sister's case he can effect
a cure. This, gentlemen, is what I have
been laboring for since I have been here—
to raise funds sufficient to ttrize her to Paris.
I love that sister as I do my life ; I have la
bored day and night—have deprived myself
of many comforts, and borne your taunts and
jeor for her sake. But I can bear it no
longer. IF Llu atu meu ,
you do nut, I warn you of the consequen
ces !"
"Zeke," had risen to his feet and heard
all my friend had said. As he listened to
the "Quaker," I could see the, moisture
coining to his eyes ; and when he had fin
ished, he stepped forth, and grasping "Qua
ker's" hand, while the tears trickled down
his face, he said, in a voice quivering with
emotion—
"My noble fellow, we have wronged you
deeply, and I, for one, ask your forgiveness.
[lad you but told us what your object was,
we would not have placed a single obstacle
in your way."
"I forgive you freely, sir—l forgive you
all,"—:said "Quaker."
"And how much have you to raise yet,"
I asked, "before you will have the requisite
•
sum ?"
"About one hundred and fifty dollars. If
I have my health and continue to make good
bills, I shall be ready to start to Europe in
about two months."
"You wont have to wait that long," :said
"Zeke" laying the money he held in his
hand, upon the stone, "if my wesk's wages,
every cent of which you're welcome to, will
help you along any. Come boys," he ad
ded, "how many of you will follow suit ?"
"Well, there's mine," said Jim, laying an
X upon the pile, "and mine," "and mine,"
said a dozen voices, as each had deposited
an equal amount, until they had made quite
a pile of bank bills.
"There, stranger, take that, and may God
prosper you," said "Zeke," tendering him
the money.
"No, gentlemen," answered the "Quaker,"
"I thank you for your liberality, but I can
,
not take your money. lam no beggar ;.all
I ask is that I may be allowed to do. my
work without being disturbed."
. "But you must take it," urged "Zeke,"
growing warm, "we owe it to you, and you
shall take it. We've done . you - a great
wrong,—we've abused you, we have no oth
er way of making amends. Besides, if you
don't take it, it will be spent before Monday
morning, and I know that for my part it will
be - much - pleasanter to commence the week
with the consciousness of having appropria
ted my money in n sensible way, than with
• the foggy head, aching limbs, and empty
pocket, which always follow a "free and
easy."
Still the stranger hesitated. "Take it—
take it for your sister's sake," said two or
three voices.
acceptit, gentlemen," said the "Qua
ker," "as you say, 'for my sister's sake,'
and I hope to be able some day to return it,
principal and interest."
"Quaker" left for Paris shortly after.; and
in a few months we had the satisfaction , .of
hearing that his sister was completely resto.;
red to sight, and that they were on tlipir
way home.
I have heard from him several times since.
His line's have been drawn in pleasant pla
ces, and he is now a judicial functionary*ia
neighboring State (liesiuieliy.)• • •
A Visit to the Ugly Man,
As we stepped over the low fence, I heard
the hum of a spinning -wheel, and another
moment, one of the sweetest, rosiest faces l
ever beheld, looked out nt the door. It was
Lucy Wallis, the pretty daughter of the
Ugly Man ! Saluting us modestly, she asked
us in—and to be seated—and resumed her
work. There be few more lovely girls than
Lucy. In her moist blua eye, was a blended
expression of mirthfulness and something
more tender, that went into your heart with
out ever asking leave. Clad in n homespun
frock, coarse but tasteful in its colors and
adjustment—and oh ! how brilliantly sport
less—her fingers tipped with the blue of the
indigo tub—her little feet in buck skin moc
casins—she plied her task industriously :
now with an arch toss, shaking into p!ace
her rich auburn hair, and now, with a bound
forward garcefully catching the thread that
had slipped from her fingers. Sweet-voiced
too, was Lucy Wnllis, as she stood at her
wheel, spinning two threads. One of cotton
on her spindle and the other of gossip. with
my excellent and loquacious friend Dick
McCoy. . •
Plague take the girl ! She has made me
forget her ugly father I Mr. Wallis and
his "woman" were from home when we got
there—having been on ,a visit to the sick
neighbor—but in• half an hour they return
ed.
"Thar they come !" said Dick, as he heard
voices outside the cabin ; "seat yourself and
don't be scared !" Then looking at Lucy.
"You've never seen daddy, squire have
you ?" she asked, slightly coloring and pout
ing.
"Never have—always had a curiosity ;"
but the wounded expressions of the girl stop
ped me, and in another moment the Ugly
man was before me.
Truly had McCoy said "nothing on the
breathing yearth could match him." His
face generally had the. appearance of a re
cently healed blister-spot. His prominent
eyes seemed ready to drop from oft his face
and were almost guiltless of lids. Red, red,
red, was the almost prevailing color of his
countenance—even his eyes partook of it.
t-rensneia-rube red, and looked as if it
had been very lately Ricked oy n ov.sh ‘..ht.nl
mule, after having been originally mnrin by
gouging a hole in his face with a nail grab !
The lout ensemble was horribly, unspeaka
bly ugly.
"So you've come to see the Ugly Man,
have yon, Squire ? I've heard of you be
fore. You're the man as took the sensers
of this country last. It was in Georgey
then. Well, you're mighty welcome. Old
'omen, fly round, get somethin' for the, squire
and Diolt to eat. Lucy, ain't you got no
fresh aiggs ?"
Lucy went out at his suggestion, and her
father went on : 'They called me ugly,squire
and I am. My father before me was the ug
liest man that ever lived in I-Ircpck court
ty. But I'll give you my elpertence after
supper. I dikes you've hearn that I've been
through the rufls. No ? Well, Mien we
get somethin' to eat, I'tell you more about it;
old 'Oman for heaven's sake, do fly around
that I"
The old lady did 'fly around; and' Lucy
got the 'aiggs,' and between theta they got
an excellent-supper.
The purity of the table cloth, the excel
lence of the coffee, and the freshness of the
eggs, not to mention Litcy's good looks were
more than n set-oft against the ugliness of
Bill ; so that Dick and L continued to eat
quite heartily, to the evident gratification of
our hospitable though ugly entertainer.
Supper over, Old Bill drem out his large
soap-stone pipe, and filling and lighting it,
he placed it in his mouth. After u whiff or
two he began :
"Its no no use argyfyin' the matter—l
urn the ugliest man on top of dirt. Thar's
narry nuther like me. I. an a crowd by
myself. I alters Was. 'rite fiat I knowed
of it, though, was when I was 'bout ten
years old.. I went down to the spring branch.
one mornin,' ;p wash my face, and us r look
ed in th; water I seen the shadow of my
face ! 'That's the last time I've seen my
countenance—l darseiVt but slier my eyes
when I go about water,"
"Don't you use a glass when you shave?
I inquired. •
• "Glass.! Thunder! What glass ould
stand it—'would, burst • if it were an inch
thick..
.Glass—piih !
Lucy told her father he was 'too bad ; and
that he knew it was no such thing,' and tile .
old man told her she was a "sassy wench,"
and to hold her tbilgtle.
"Yes," he continued, "It's so, I hav'nt
seen my face in forty years. butl know how
it looks. Well, when I growed up 1 thort
it would be hard to find''' woman thrit'd'be
willing to' fake Me, ugly as I
"Oh, you was not onCommon hard-favor
ed whim yi: was a Young man," said old
Mrs. Wallis.
, •Oncommqn f I tell you when I was ten
years old, u fly tvould'utA r ight on my face ,
and it con.'t be much wuss now. Shoup
and let me tell the 'squire my experience."
"It's no use put in Lucy, "to be runnin'
one's own self down that way, daddy I' It
ain't Tight."
411Unnin' dowal ThWder armoieit,
NUMBER 8..
nin,' Lucy, you'll cave me as good looking
as John Bozeman, your sweethart." As
he said this, old Bill looked at me, and suc-.
ceedad in covering the ball of his left eye,
by way of a wink. Lucy said no more.
The old man continued : • •
"Well, hard as I thort . it'ud •be to get a
wife, rust thing I knowed, I had Sally, here•
and she is, or was as pretty as any of them."
Old Mrs. Wallis knitted convulsively and
coughed slightly.
' , However, she never kissed me afore we-
was married, and it was a long time arter
afore she did. The way of it was ;we had.
an old one-horned cow' mighty ornery (or
' dinary) lookin,' old as the nord star, and,
poor as a black snake. One day I went nat.
to the lot—"
"Daddy, I wouldn't tell that," said Lucy'
in a persuasive tone.
' •Blamed ef 4 don't though—it's the,
truth, and ef you don't keep still, I'll send
for Bozeman, to hold you quiet in the cot- .
ner."
Lucy Feinted a little and was silent. •
"Yes, I went out to the lot, and thar, sure ,
as life, was my old 'omen swung to the cow
and the old thing round, and cutting
up all sorts of shines. Sea I, what the duece
are you up to, old 'oman ? And with that
she let go, and told me she -was trying
to practice kissin' on old Cherry, and shei
thort, after teat, she could make up her mind•
to kiss me I"
"Old man; you made that—l've heard yeti
tell it a ore—but you made it," said the old)
lady.
"Well, well ! I told her, 'squire, ses,
come down to it now 1 shot your eyes ! hold ,
your breath !—and upon that she, bussed me,
so you might heard it a quarter of a mile;
and sence that, nobody's had better kissin'
than me I Now, that was my first ixperi-,
encE about being ugly, arter I was grown,
and it warn't dad, neither !
, "The next time my ugly teeters came in.,-
to play, was in Mobile. Was you ever therl,
Greatest place on green yearth : steamboats.-
oysters, free niggers, furriners, brick houses.
--that's the place ! I went dawn on a flat',
boat from Wetumpky, with old John Toed,
We had lust rate time of it till we got most.
a.+.l atra otocamhilatß would run so
Close to us e that the sloshin' would , pretty.
night cupsi. LIQ. Thmy dene.it ,for
ment. How old John cussed—but it done
no good. At last sea I, I'll try em ; efthars
enny strength in cussing, I'll make 'elm'
'ashamed. So the next one came along, ca•
vorting and snorting like it was gwine right
into us, and did pass in twenty foot. , Isise
up on a cotton bag, and ses to the,crowd- -
and there was a most almighty one on the.
guards of the boat- - Ses 1, you infernal rack•
et-makieg, snorting sons of"—
"Afore I could get any further in my cus.
sin', the crowd gin the most tremendous.
yearth-sholcin' howl that ever was hearn—,
and one feller, as they Were broadside with'.
us hollered out, .It's the old Ho ugly him-.
self!, Jeminy I what is mouth V With that
thar was somethin' rained arnct
boat like hail, no. heavier; and direcifyilltr.
and John Picked up a level peck of buck- .
horn handled rives."
Old Mrs. Wallace looked to Heaven. as:
if appealing there for the forgiveness of some,
great sin her ugly consort had committed.
but said nothing.
"So I. lost nothin' by bein' regly . thrtt time.
Arter I got into Mobile, howevere.l was'
bothered and pestered by the people stoppini:
in the, street to look at me, all dirty and.
light-wood smoked as I was from bein' ea
the boat.
4 1 think I'd a cleaned up' a little," inter
posed the tidy Lucy.
"Old oinon ! ain't yet! 'got marrycold tater
to choke t h at gal with ? Well theyYd look
at me the hardest you ever seen. But I got
ahead of my story.., A few days afore that.'
han been a boat busted, and a heap of the
people scalded and killed.; one way and an
nether. So at last I went into a grocery.
and a squad' of people followed me in; and
one 'lowed, sea he, it's one of the.unfortu
nate suflerers by. the„ burs in' of the Frank
lin ; and upon thdt he axed me to drink with
him, and as I had,rny• tumbler half way to
my mouth, he stopped me . of a suildint—e-- .
"Beg your pardon stranger,—but," seat
he
•
“But—ivhat r sea T.: .
“Just fix your month that way again I":
ses he.
.•
I done it, just like I was gwine to drink. ,
and I thought Oh) whole of, em, would , go
into fits !—they yelled and hoopod like at
gang. of wolves Finally, • one of .'em , elesiv•
don't make. fun of the unfortunatel hehnrdv '
ly got over bein' blowed up yet. Let's make
up a puss for himl Then they•nllithrimed,
in and' they made me' up five dOlfars, .Ate
the spolteernan handed. me, the..chs,nge,
axed me g . ‘Whprflid PM find yourself
the 'splosion.• •• ••
4•ln a flat boat ses I. ,• •
"How far from the Franklin r" see.te.
"Why," sea never seen lieill•liutiet
nigh as con guesai it must have
what they tell the, nigh no to three hundred,'
and seventy‘fivo miles I" •.• Yon ongittee,
seen that gang scatter. As they lefrioseefi
one it's him. We Tun Uouv PAN OP AiPe.
--N I:, TholcOnmer