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THE INVISIBLE EYE
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About this time (said Christian), poor as a
church-mouse, I took refuge in the roof of an
old house in Minnesanger Street, Nuremberg,
and made my nest in the corner of the garret.
I was compelled to walk over my straw bed
to reach the window, but this window WII4 in
the gable-end, and the view from it was mag
nificent, both town add country being spread
out before me.
I could see the cats, walking gravbly in the
gutters ; the storks, their beaks filled with
frogs, carrying nourishment to their ravenous
brood ; the pigeons, springing from their cots,
their tails spread like fans, hovering over the
.streets.
In the evening, when the bells called the
world to the Angelus, with my elbows upon
the edge of the roof, I listened to their melan
choly chimes ; I watched the windows as, one
by one, they were lighted up ; the good burgh
ers smoking their pipes on the sidewalks;
.the..yottut girls, in their red skirts, with their
pitchers under their arms, laughing and chat
ting around the fountain "Saint Sebalt."
Insensibly all this faded away, the bats com
menced their rapid course, and I retired to my
mattress in sweet peace and tranquility. '
• The old curiosity-seller, Teubac, knew the
way to my little lodging as well as I did, and
was not afraid to climb the ladder. Every
week his ugly head, adorned with a reddish
cap, raised the trap-door,' his fingers grasped
the ledge, and he cried out, in a nasal tone:
" Well, well, Master Christian, have you
anything ?"
To whichlreplieti :
" Come in. Why in the .devil don't you
come ? I 11111 inst finishing a little land
scape, and you must tell nie what you think
of it.''
Then his great back, seeming to elongate,
grew up, even to the roof, and the good man
laughed silently.
I must do justice to Tout= : he never
haggled with me about prices ; he bought all
my paintings at fifteen florins, one with the
other, and sold them again Ibr forty each.
„ This was au honest ..few l"
I Megan to grow fond of this mode of exist
ence, and to find new chnrms in it day by (lay.
Just at this time, the city of Nuremberg.was
agitated by a strange and mysterious event.
Not far from my dormer-window, a little to
the left, stood the Inn Bumf-Gras, an 'old
aaberge much patronized throughout the
country. Three or four wagons, filled with
sucks or casks, were alivays drawn up before
the door, where the rustic drivers were in the
habit of stopping, on their way to the market,
totake their morning draught of wine.
The gable-end of the inn was distinguished
by its peculiar form. It was very narrow,
pointed, and, on two sides, cut In teeth, like,
a saw. The carvings were strangely grat
tesque, interwoven and ornamenting the cor
nices and surrounding the windows ; but the
most remarkable fact was, that the house op
posite reproduced exactly the same sculptures,
the same ornaments ; even the sign -board,
with its post and spiral of iron, was exactly
copied.
One might have thought that these two an
cient houses reflected each 'niter. Behind the
inn, however, was . a grand old oak, whose
sombre leaves darkened the stones of the roof,
while the other house stood out in Ladd relief
agaimf, messy. - co c p u •ie um oescription,
this old building was as' silent and dreary as
the Inn Bomf-Gras was noisy and animated.
On one side, a crowd of merry drinkers were
continually entering in and going out, sing
ing, tripping, cracking their whips; on the
oilier, profound silence reigned.
Perhaps, 'once or twice during the day, the
heavy door scented to open of itself, to allow
a little old woman to go out, with her back al
most in a semicircle, her dress hitting tight
about her hips, an enormous basket on her
aim, and : her hand contracted against her
breast. '
It seemed to to e that I saw at glance, as I
looked upon her. a whole existence of good
works and pious nwditations.
The phisiognomy ol• this old woman had
struck me more than once: her little green
eyes, long, thin nose, the imniense bonnets of
flowers on her shawl, which must have been
at least it hundred years the withered
smile' which puckered her cheeks into a cock•
ade, the litre ot• her bonnet falling down to
her eyebrows-7-all this was Ihuttnstic, and
(crested me ❑ o uch. 11•hy did this old woman
live in this great deserted house? I wished
to explore the mystery.
Oue day, as I paused in the street and fol
lowed lief with my eyes; she turned suddenly
and gave me'a look, the horrible expressiim of
which I know not hurt• to painr; made three
or Mur hideous grimaces, and then, letting
her palsied head fall upon her breast, drew her
great shawl closely around her, and advanced
to the heavy door, behind which 1 saw ; her
disappear.
"She's an old fool r• I said to myself, in a
sort of stupor. My faith, •it was tic height of
folly in toe to be interested in her !
lloWever, 1 would like to see her grimace
again ! old 'l'oubac would willingly give me
flfteen florins if I could paint it for
I must confess that these pleasantries of
mine did not entirely reassure me.
Ile hideous glance, which the old shrew
had given ate, pursued me everywhere. More
than once, while climbing the almost perpen
dicular ladder to my loft, feeling my clothing
caught on some point, I trembled front head
to foot, imagining. that the old wretch was
banging to the tails of my coat, in order to
destroy me.
Toubac, to whom I related my adventure,
was far from laughing at it ; indeed, he as
sumed a grave and solemn air.
" Master Christian," said he, "if the old
woman wants you, take care ! Her teeth are
small, pointed, and of marvelous whiteness,
and that is ❑nt natural at her age. She has
an ' evil eye.' Children tier from her, and
the people of Nuremberg call her • Fleder
tnausse.' "
I admired the clear, sagacious intellect o
the Jew, and his words gave me cau, 11w re
tlection
Several weeks passed away, during which I
often encountered Fledermausse without any
alarming consequences. My fears were dissi
pated, and I thought of her no more.
But, an evening came, during which, while'
sleeping very soundly, I was awakened by a
stmegc harmony. It was a kind of vibration,
so sweet, so melodious, that the whispering di
the breeze among the leaves can give but a
faint idea of its charm.
For a long time I listehed intently, with my
eyes wide open, end holding, my breath, so as
not to lose a note. At last I looked toward
the window, and saw two wings Buttering
against the glass. I thought, at first, that it
was a bat, caught in my room; but, the moon
rising at that instant, I saw the wings of a
magnificent butterfly or the night , delineated
upon her shining disk. Their vibrations were
often so rapid, that they could not be distin
guished ; then they reposed, extended upon
the glass, and their frail fibres were again
brought to view. , ,
This misty apparition,. coming in theemt to idstl
the universal silence, opened my heart
an
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VOL. XXIII
"Be tranquil, sweet captive, be tranquil,"
said I ; "your confidence shall not be abused.
I will not keep you against your 1011. Return
to heaven and to liberty." I then opened my
little window. The night was calm, and mil
lions of stars were glittering in thc•sky. For
a moment, I contemplated this sublime spec
tacle, and words of prayer and praise came
naturally to my lips . ; but, judge of my masc.
molt, when, lowering my eyes, d HMV n .man
hanging from the cross-beam of the sign of the
Bmuf-Gras, the hair dishevelled, the arms stiff,
the legs elongated to a point, and casting their
shadows down the street
The immobility of this figure, under the
moon's rays, was terrible. I felt my tongue
freezing, my teeth clinched. I was about to
cr . )* out in terror, when, by sonic incompre•
hensible, mysterious attraction, my glance fell
below, and I distinguished, confusedly, the
01(1 WOlllllll crouched at her window in the
midst of dark shadows, and contemplating the
dead man with an air of diabolic satisfaction.
Than Iliad a vertigo of terror. All my
strength abandoned nu', and, retreating to the
wall of my loft, I sank down and became in
sensible. .
I do not know how long this sleep of death
continued. When restored to consciousness,
I saw that it was broad day. The mists of the
night had penetrated to my garret, and depoF
ited their fresh dew upon my hair, and the
confused murmurs of the street ascended to
my little lodging. I looked without. The
burgomaster and his secretary were stationed
at the door of the inn, and remained there a
long time ; crowds of people came and went,
and paused to look in ; then recommenced
their course. The good women of the neigh
borhood, who were sweeping before their
doors, looked on fromfar, and talked gravely
with each other.
At last, a litter, and, upon this litter, a body,
covered with a linen cloth, issued from the inn,
carried by two men. They descendcd to the
street, and the children, on their way to school,
ran behind them.
All the people drew back as they advanced
The window opposite was still open ; the
end of a rope floated from the cross-beam.
1 had not dreamed. I had, indeed, Been the
butterfly of the night ; I had seen the man
hanging, I had seen Fledermausse.
That day Toubac made me a visit, and, as
his great nose appeared on a level with the
floor, be exclaimed :
" Muster Christian, have you nothing to
•
sell ?"
I did not hear him. I was seated upon my
one chair, my hands clasped upon my knees,
and my eyes fixed before me.
Toubac, surprised at my inattention, re:
peated, in a louder voice
"Master Christian, Master Christian !"
Then, striding over the sill; he advanced and
struck me on the shoulder.
" Well, well, what„is the matter now ?"
" Ah, is that you, Toubac ? '
"Eh, parleuu ! I rather think so ; are you
ill?"
"No. lam only thinking."
"What in the devil are you thinking about?"
"Of the man who was hanged."
" Oh, oh !" cried the curiosity - vender.
" You have seen him, then ? The poor boy
What a singular history ! The third in the
same place."
" llow—the third'!"
".W, yes I I ought to have warned you ;
but it is not too late. There will certainly be
a fourth. who will follow the eXIIIIIDIP of the
others. // n'y a gut le premier pus quicouls."
Saying this, Toubac took a seat on the cor
ner of my trunk, struck his match -box, lighted
his pipe, and blew three or four powerful
whiffs of smoke, with a meditative air.
"My faith," said he, " I ant not fearful ;
but, if I had full permission to puss the night
in that chamber, I should touch prefer to sleep
elsewhere.
" Listen, ..Master Christian. Nine or ten
months ago, a good man, of Tubiogen, whole
sale dealer in furs, dismounted at the Inn
Ili:of-Gras. Ile culled l'or slipper ; lie ate
well ; tic drank well ; 111111 was finally con
ducted to that room in the third story—it is
called the Green Homo. Well, the next morn
ing he was found hanging to the cross-beam of
the sign-board.
"Well, that might do fur once; nothing
could be said.
" Every proper investigation was made, and
the stranger was buried at the bottom of the
garden. Hut, look you, about six months
afterward, a brave soldier front Netkadt ar
rived ; he had received his final discharge, and
was rejoicing in the thought of returning to
his native village. During the Ivhole evening,
while emptying hiswine-cups, he spoke fondly
of his little cousin, who was waiting to marry
him. At last, this big monsieur was conducted
to his room—the Green lloom—and, the same
night, the watchman, passing down the street
Minnesanger, perceived soniething hanging to
the cross-beam ; he raised his lantern, and In !
it n as the soldier, with his final discharge in a
bow on his left hip, and his hatols gathered
up to the scam of his pantaloons, as if on pa
rade.
" • Truth* to say, this isextraorelinary,' cried
the burgomaster ; the devil's to pay.' Well,
the chamber was touch visited ; the walls were
replastered ; and the dead nnin was sent to
Neustadt.
The registrar wrote this marginal note:
'• • I)ied of apoplexy.'
" All Nuremberg was enraged against the
innkeeper. There were many, indeed, who
wished to force him to take down his iron
cross-beam, under the pretext that it inspired
people with dangerous ideas.: but you may
well believe that old Nickel Selmildt would
not lend his ear to this proposition.
'6 ''This cross-beam,' said he, ' was placed
here by my grandfather ; it has borne the sign
of Bumf-Gras for one hundred and fifty years,
from father to son ;fit harms no one, not even
the hay-wagons which pass beneath, for it is
thirty feet above them. Those who don't
like it can turn their heads aside, and not see
it.'
" Well, gradually the town calmed down,
and, during several months, no new event
agitated it„ Unhappily, a student of Heidel
berg, returning to the university, stopped, day
-before yesterday, at the Inn Iltenf-Gras, and
asked for lodging. Ile was the son of a min
ister of the Gospel.
" How could any One suppose that the son
of a pastor could conceive the idea of hanging
himself on the cross-beam of a sign-board, be
cause a big monsieur and an old soldier had
done so? We must admit, Master Christian,
that the thing was not probable ; these reasons
would not have seemed suffielent to myself,
or to vothl'
" Enough, Co, ugh !" I exclaimed ; " this Is
too horrible ! I see a frightful mystery involv
ed in all this. It is not the cross-beam ; it is
not the room—"
" What ! DO you suspect the Innkeeper, the
most honest man in the world, and belonging
to one of lime oldest families in Nuremberg ?"
" No, no ; may God preserve me from in
dulging in unjust suspicions ! but there is an
abyss before toe, into which 1 scarcely dare
glance."
" You arc right,' said loubae, astonished
at the violence of my excitement.. "We will
speak of other. things. A propos, Master
Christian, *here is our landscape of 'Saint
Odlilp?' "
This questlau brought me,,bpek to the world
of realities. I shosre4 therohl-aisAthlpal,nt
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scentled the ladder, entreating the to think no
more of the student of Heidelberg.
I would gladly have followed my good
friend's counsel ; but, when the devil once
mixes himself up in our concerns, it is not
easy to disembarrass ourselves of hint.
In my solitary hours, all these events were
reproduced with frightful distinctness in my
mind.
"This old wretch," i said to myself, "is
the cause of all ; she alone has Conceived these
crimes, and has consummated them. But by
what means Has she had recourse to cun
ning alone, or has she obtained the interven
tion of invisible powers 3"' I walked to and
fro in my retreat. An inward voice cried
out: "It is not in vain that Providence per
milted you to see Fledermansse contemplating
the agonies of her victim. It is not in vain
that the soul of the poor young man came in
the form of a butterfly of the night to awake
you. No, no; all this was not accidental,
Christian. - 'Mc heavens impffse upon you a
terrible mission. If you do not accomplish it,
tremble lest you fall into the hands of the old
murderess! Perhaps, at this moment, she is
preparing her snares in the darkness."
During several days, these hideous images
followed me without intermission. I lost mt•
sleep ; it Wits impossible for me to do any
thing; my brush fell from mt• hand ; and,
horrible to confess, I found myself sometimes
gazing at the cross-beam with a sort of com
phweney. At last I cfml , l endure it no longer,
and one evening I descended the ladder. and
hid myself' behind the door iff Fledermausse,
hoping tO surprise her fatal secret.
From that time, no day passed in which
teas 1101 rn I,llk, following the wretch. watch
ing, spying. never losing sight of ; bat she
was so entitling. had a scent so subtly. that,
without even turning her head. she knew I
was behind her.
I hocyey
IT, she reigned not to perceive this ;
she NVVIIt to the market, to the butcher's, like
any good, shindy WOlllllll, only hastening her
steps, and murmuring confused words.
Al the close or the month, I satyr that it was
impossible flit me to attain my object in this
way, and this c•oncicli o n made nie inexpressi
bly sad.
" What ran Ido ?" I said to myself. "The
old women divines my plans ; she is on her
guard ; every hope abandons me. Alt ! old
hag, you think you already see me at the end
of your rope." I was continually asking my
self this question : " NYlnd can I do'l* what
can Ido r At last a luminous idea struck
me. My chamber overlooked the house of
Fledermausse ; but there was no window on
this side. I adroitly raised a slate, and no pen
could paint my joy when the whole ancient
building was thus exposed to Inc. "At Inst.
I have you," I exclaimed ; you cannot escape
me now ; front here I can see all that passes—
your goings, your comings, your arts and
tobtres. You will not suspect this invisible
eye—this watchful eye, which will surprise
crime at the moment it blooms. Oh, Justice,
Justice ! She marches slowly ; but she ar
rives."
Nothing could lie more sinister than the den
now spread out behire me—a great court -ytinl,
the large slabs of which were covered with
moss; in one corner, a well, whose stagnant
waters you shuddered to look upon ; a stair
way covered with old shells ; at the thrther
end a gallery, with wooden balustrade, and
hanging upon it some old linen and the tick
of an old straw-mattress; on the ti rat floor, to
the left, the stone coveringola common sewer
indicated the kitchen ; to the right, the lofty
windows of the buildinhilooked out upon the
street; then a few poll of dried, withered
tlowers—all was cracked, sombre, moiSt. Only
one or two hours during the day could the
sun penetrate this loathsome spot ; after that,
the shadows took possession ; then the sun
shine fell upon the crazy walls, the worm-eaten
balcony, the dull and tarnished glass, and
upon the whirlwind Dr atoms floating in its
golden rays, disturbed by no breath or. id,
1 had scarcely finished these observations
anti rellections. whin the old wltlnan entered,
having just returned From market. I heard
the grating or her heavy door. slur ap
peared with her basket. She seemed ratigned
—almost out or breath. The lace or her bon
net Fell to her nose. NVith one hand she
giltsped the banister. and ascended the stairs.
The heat w:IS 111E141'1101h'.:nlTocatin;_ ; it
was precisely one or those days in which all
inseets—eriel:els, spiders, mosquitoes. ete.--
inake old rain; resound with their strage
songs.
Fledernutu , , , .. crossed the gallery slotcly,
an old ferret NOM fel•tt , ;It She re
mained more than ;t quarter of an hour in the
kitchen. - then returned. spread out her linen,
took the brooni. and brushed aw ay Same
of sUtnv 111 ti llaur. A t last slit. raised her
head, and turned her little green eyes in even•
ddrection, searching, investigating carefully.
l'ould she, hr some strange intuition, sus.
peel ittly thing? I thdo not knoo • ; hut I gently
tracery(' the slate; and gave tip my watch for
the day.
Inn the morning, Pletlet mausse appeared re
assured. One angle of light fell upon the gal
lery. in passing, she caught a fly upon the
'wing, and presented it delicately to a spider
established in a corner of the roof. 'ne so
der was so bloated, that, notwithstanding the
distance, I SIM it descend front round to round,
then glide 'along n tine well, like's drop of
venom, slew its prey front the hands of the
old shrew, and remount rapidly. Fleder
mausse looked at it very attentively, with her
eyes h a lf closed ; then sneezed, mul said to
herself, in it, jeering tone, `' God Mess you,
beautiful tine ; God Rtes; you!"
I watched during six weeks, and could dis
cover nothing concerning the power or He
&mousse. Sometimes. seated upon a stool,
she pealed her.polatoes, then hung out her
linen upon the balustrade.
Sometimes I Sane her spinhing ; but she never
Slllllll, as good, kind old women life accustomed
to . do, their trembling voices mingling well
I with the humming or the Nowa
profound silence alway's reigned around
her ; she had no-tat—that, cherished society of
old women—not even a sparrOw came to rest
under her roof. It seemed as it' all animated
Nature shrank front, her glance. The bloated
. spider alone took delight in her society..
I cannot now conceive how to r patience
could endure those long, hours of observation:
nothing escaped me ; nothing was matter of
indifference. At the slightest sound I raised
my slate ;my curiosity was with o ut limit, in
satiable.
Tanbac complained greatly.
"Master Christian," said he, •` how in the
devil do you pass your time t formerly you
painted something for me every week ; now
you do not finish a piece once a month. Oh,
you painters ! Lazy as a painter' is it good,
wise proverb. As wlOll as,you have II few
kreutzers iu possesSion, you put your hands in
your pickets and go to sleep !'•
I confess that I had began to lose courage—
I bad watched, spied, and discovered nothing.
I said to myself that the old woman could not
Le so dangerous as I had supposed; that I
had perhapS done her injustice by my suspi
cions ; in short, I began to make excuses for
her. One lovely afternoon, with my aye fixed
,at my post of observation, I abandoned my
self to these benevolent reflections, when sud
denly the scene changed.: Flederntausse pass
edlhrough the gallery
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walked with grand strides, her gray locks !hint
ing behind her.
"Oh, at last," I said 'to myself, "something
is coining, attention I" But alas, the shadow
of evening descended upon the old building,
the noises of the city expired, and silence pre•
wailed.
Fatigued and disappointed, I lay down upon
my bed, when, casting my eyes toward toy
dormer-window, I saw the room opposite illu
minated. So ! a traveller occupied the Green
1100 m—fatal to strangers.
Now, all my fears reawakened ; the agita
tion of Fledernmusse Was explained she
scented a new victim.
No sleep for me that night ; the rustling of
the straw, the nibbling of the mice under the
floor, gave me nervous chills. I rose and lean
ed out of my window ; I listened. The light
in .the room opposite was extinguished. In
one of those moments of poignant anxiety, I
cannot say if it was illusion or reality, I
thought I saw the old wretch also watching
and listening.
The night passed, nod the gray dawn came
to toy windows ; by degrees the noise and
movements in the street ascended to my 1011.
Jhu•rassed by fatigue and emotion I fell asleep,
but my slumber was short, and, by eight
o'clock, I had resumed my postorobservation.
It seemed as if the night had been as dis
turbed and tempestuous to Fledermausse as to
myself. When she opened the door of the
gallery, I saw that a livid pallor covered her
cheeks and thin throat ; she had only her
chemise soul a woollen shirt, a few locks of
reddish.gray hair fell on her slioulders. She
looked toward my hiding-place with a dreamy,
abstracted air, but she saw nothing ; she •was
thinking of other things.
Suddenly she descended, leaving her old
shoes at the bottom of the steps. " Without
doubt," thought I, " she is going to see if the
door below is well fastened."
I saw her remount hastily, springing up
three or four'steps at a time—it was terrible.
t -Me rushed into the neighboring chamber,
and I heard something like the falling of a
great chest ; then Fledernmusse appeared upon
the gallery, dragging a manikin after her ; and
this manikin was clothed like the Heidelberg
student.
With surprising dexterity, the old woman
suspended this hideous object to a beam, then
descended rapidly to the court-yard to contem
plate it. A burst of sardonic laughter escaped
from her lips ; she remounted, then descended
again like a maniac, and each time uttered new
cries and new bursts of laughter.
A noise was heard near the door, and the
old woman bounded forward, unhooked the
manikin and carried it off ; then, leaning over
the balustrwle with her throat elongated, her
eyes dashing, she listened earnestly'. The
noise was lost in the distance, the muscles of
her Mee relaxed, and she threw long breaths.
It was only a carriage which had passed.
The old- wretch had been frightened.
She now• returned to the room, and I heard
the chest chose. This strange scene confound
ed all my ideas. What did this mtinikin sig
nify ? I became more than ever attentive.
Fledermansse now left the house with her
basket on her arm. I fifflowed her with toy
eyes till she , turned the corner of the street;
She had reassumed the air oh a trembling old
woman, took short steps, and from time to
time turned her head partly around, to peep
behind from the corner of her eye.
Fledermausse was absent fully live hours.
For myself. I went, I came. I -meditated.
The time seemed insupportable. Th. R-odi
heated the slate of the roof, and scorched my
brain.
Now I saw, at the window, the good man
who occupied the Mtal Green Chamber; he
was a brave peasant of Nassau, wielt a large
three.coraed hat, a scarlet vest, and a laugh
ing face ; he smoked the pipe of Clin tran
quilly, and seemed to fear no evil.
I felt a strong desire to cry out to him:
•• llood mini, 'he on your guard ! Do not
allow yourself to be entrapped by the old
wretch ; distrust yourself I . but he would not
have comprehended me. Toward two o'clock
Fledertnausse returned. The noise of her
door resounded through the vestibule. Tien
alone, all alone, she Mitered the yard, and
seated In•rself on the interior step of the stair
way ; she put down her basket before her, and
drew out first some packets of herbs, then ve.
getables; then a red vest, then a three-cornered
hat, a coat of brown velvet, lauds of plush,
and %1'410111 . 11111/Se-thy complete costume
of the peasant from Nassau.
Por a moment I felt stunned ; then flames
passed before my eyes.
I recollect those precipices which entice with
an irresistable power; those wells or pits,
which the police have been compelled to close,
because men threw themselves into them;
those trees which had been cut down because
they inspired men with the idea of hanging
themselves ; that contagion of suicides, of rob.
berries, or murders, at certain epochs, by des
perate means ; that strange anti subtle entice
ment of example, which makes you yawn be
cause another yawns, suffer because you see
another suffer, kill yourself because you see
others kill themselves—and my hair stood up
with horror.
HOW could this Pledrmausse, this base, sordid
creature, have derived HO profound a law of
human nature ? how had she found the means
to use this law to the profit or indulgence of
her sanguinsry instincts Y This I could not
cokuprebend ; it surpassed my wildest imagin
ations.
But reflecting longer npon this inexplicable
story, I resolved to turn the fatal law
against her, and to draw the . old murderess into
her oWn net.
So many innoceut victims called fur %enge
I felt toy,elfto be on the right path
I %vent tii all the ohl•elotlies sellers
in \ur
eutherg, anti returned in t lo;'afternoon to the
Inn Ilrtetif-Grag, with au enorntints packet
antler my arm.
Niehel Schmidt had known me ror a long
lime ; his wife was fat and good.looking ;
had painted her portrait.
•• .11t, 3faster Christian," said he, stpteev,ing
my hand, "Irina happy eiretun.4tanee brings
you hear ? NVlott•proettres Inv the pleasure of
seeing, you ?"
)ly dear .Moniietir Schmidt, I feel a vehe
ment, iu alial 1, de,ire to sleep in the t;ret•n
Room."
We were standing on the threshold of the
inn, and I * pointed to the room. The good
1111111 InoLed at me distrustfully.
" Pear nothing," I said ; " I have no de
sire to hang myselL"
•'.l la bun tie heard ala bonne heart.' For
frankly that would give me pain ; an artist of
such merit ! When do you wish the room,
Master Christian Y'•
" This evening."
Impossible! it is occupied !"
'• Monsieur can enter Immediately," said a
voice just behind me, " I will not be In the
We turned around in great surprise ; the
peasant of Nassau stood belbre us, with big
three-cornered hat, and his packet at the end
of ills walking-stick. Ile had just learned the
history of his three predecessors in the Green
Room, and was trembling with rage.
"Rooms, like yours I" cried he t stuttering ;
"but It Is murderous to put people there—lt Is
gresinatlon You deserve to' be sent. to the
gAdie intmedtately :
''° l3 4 l l 4i * ti ' * 1 " 3 0V.!. .°l44**ii
"Happily, I said uy prayers at night,"
said the peasant ; " without that, where would
I be ?" and he withdrew, with his hands raised
to heaven
" Well," said Nickel Schmidt, stupefied,
" the room is vacant, but I entreat you do not
serve Inc a bad trick."
It would be a worse trick for myself than
for you, monsieur."
I gave my packet to the servants, and in
stalled myself for the time with the drinkers.
For a long time I had not felt so calm and so
happy. After so many doubts mid dis•
quictudes I touched the goal. The horizon
seemed to clear up, and it appeared that some
invisibli power gave pie the hand. I lighted
my pipe, placedanielhow on the table, my
wine before me, and listened to the chorus in
" Freischutz," played by a troupe of gypsies
from the Black Forest. The trumpets, the
hue And cry of, the chase, the hautboys, plung
ed me into a vague reverie, and, at times rolls.
lug up to look at the hour, I asked myself grave
ly If all which had happened to me wits not a
dretun. But the watchman citrate to ask us to
leave the aatle, and soint other and more solemn
thoughts were surging in my soul, and in deep
meditation I followed little Charlotte. who
preceded me with a candle to my room.
We mounted the stairs to the third story.
Charlotte gave me the candle, and pointed to
the door. • •
I opened the door. The Breen Itown was
likc any other inn•room. The ceiling was
very low, the bed very high. NN'itli one glance
I explored the interior, and then glided to the
o i nflow.
Nothin; was to he seen in the house or Ile
dernutusse only, in some distant room, an
obscure light was burning. Some one was on
the watch. "'That is well," said 1, closing
the curtain ; " I have all necessary time."
I opened my packet, I put on a W011111,11 . S
bonnet, with haiaging lace ; then, placing my
self before a mirror, I took a brush and paint
ed wrinkles in my face. '`Phis took me nearly
an hour. Then I put on the dress and a large
0:awl, and I was actually afraid of myself.
Fledermausse seemed to me to look at me from
the mirror.
At this moment, the watchman cried out
I." Eleven o'clock !" I seized the manila]
which I had brought in my packet, ton
muffled it in a costume precisely similar to Um
worn by the old wretch. I then opened tin
curtain.-
Ce.lainly, after all that I had seen of the.
Fledermausse, of her infernal cunning, her
prudence, her adroitness, she could not in any
way surprise me ; and yet I was afraid. The
light which I bad remarked in the chamber
wati still immovable, and now cast its yellow
rays on the manikin of the peasant of :Nassau
which was crouched on the corner of the bed,
with the head hanging on the breast, the
three•cornered hat pulled down over the face,
the arms suspended, and the whole aspect that.
of absolute despair.
The shadows, managed with diabolical art,
allowed nothing to be seen but the general
etTek:t of : _the face. The red vest, and six round
buttons alone, scented In shine out in the dark
mess. 13M, the silence of the night, the com
plete immobility of the figure, the exhausted,
mournful air, were well calculated to take pos.
session W r it spectator with a strange power.
For myself, although forewarned, I was chilled
even to my bones.
How would it, then, have fared With the
poor, simple peasant, Wile had been surprised
me", 11C WOU/U MITLL,II)
down. Despairing, he would '
havu lost all
power of self-control, and the spirit Or imita
tion would have done the rest.
Scarcely had I moved the curtain. when
saw Fledermausse on the, watch behind her
window. She could not see me. I opened
my window softly; the 'window opposite was
opened ! Then, her manikin appeared to rise
slowly and advance before me. I, also, ad
vanced my manikin, oil, seizing my torch
with One bo n d, with the other l quickly
opened the shutters. And now the old men
man and myself were face I.) hire. Struck
with sadden terror, she had let her manikin
full!
IVe gazed at each other With :thll.l , t 1 . 1[11,1
. .che extended her
mine. She moved her lips- 2 I agitated
She breathed a profound sigh, mid
upon bee elboNv. I imitated her.
To describe fill the I errors oftlik scene hoot
be impossible. It bordered man!
deliriiint. It was a deatli.struggl
between two %%ills ; bet %veva w o int elligenve!
hets‘Ten itrn Siilll,-1 . 11(11 our %V e kliillg to iti
stilly the other; mul, in this straggle, I It
the advantage:—her victims struggled will; ink
After having imitated, for some second!
every moment of Fledertnatisse. I polled
rope from tinder me shirt, and attached it t
the cross•beam.
IMES
The old woman gazed at me with apin
mouth. I passed the rope around my noel;
her pupils expanded, lightened ; her fitet. iVI
•• Old fool she exclaimed, straightening
herself up, and her hands contracted on the
cross.heam. •• Old fool "• I gave her no tune
to go 1)11, blowing, out my lamp. .11 stooped
liken man about to make a vigorous spring,
'and seizing my manikin, I passed the rope
around its neck, and precipitated it below.
A terrible cry resounded through the street,
In the morning, all Nuremberg' learned
that the old wretch had hung herself, and this
was the last event of that hind in the Street
! Minnesanger.
A. sentinel chap intends ti petition Con.
ftatijAiliataarliTircire channels• of
- 003 * or trin ,
"vAr;7*-I:air
There," she said, and descended rapidly
No, no r'.saiLl she, in a whistling voice.
1 pursued her with the impassibility of a
executioner.
Then. rage seemed to take possession of
and then silence, which I se . vined to feel.
Perspiration bathed my forehead. I listened
n long time. At the end of a winter of an
hour, I heard, far away, very far away. the
voice .1 the watchman, crying, "Inhabitant.;
of Nureniberg, Midnight, midnight sounds'"
" Now justice is satisfied," I cried, '• the
three victims are avenged. Pardon me If
MIT
Abdul live minutes •a ter the cry or the
wattelonatel saw Iledcrinausse attracted. al
lured by toy manikin (her , exact image).
spring fronLthe window, with a rope around
her 'leek,. and rest suspended from the cross
I saw the !dulthler tleath undulating
through her body, while the moon, calm, si
lent, majestic, inundated the summit of the
roof, and her cold, pale rays reposed upon
the old, dishevelled, hideous head.
.lust as I had seen the poor young student
of Heidelberg, just so did I now see }leder-
JonN A. P. Fish, President or the •' Put
Man's Club," who weighs :158 pounds, keeps
a restaurant at No 47. Williams street, New-
York. He is very found of a good Joke, us
indeed all corpulent men are. When stangers
come into his saloon, they frequently poke
fun at him nhout his size. lit retaliation he is
'accustomed to tell them that he is the smallest
boy of six. They look at hint in consterna
tion. "Good Heavens I" they say, "what
must the others be I" " Yes," continues John
A. P. Fisk, " I ant the smallest boy of six.
But Um other five aro girls." : .
13EIZ 15, 1869
A GEORGIAN IN NEW-YORK.
From Major Jonefe Sketchem 01
E=l
=I
It was 'bout three o'clock when I got to the
hotel, and after brushin' and scrubblin' a little
of the dust off, and gettin' dinnee;•-•Quels,a
titre out into the great Broadway, what I've
hertr&so much about, ever settee I was big
enough to read the newspapers, to (WO ir it Wilti
what it's cracked up to be. Well, when I got
to tile door of the hotel, I thought there Must be
a funeral or something else gwine by, and I
waited '' one time, thinkin' they would all get
past ; but'hey only seemed to get thicker and
faster, more of 'em, the longer I waited, till
binieby I begun to. discover that they was
gwine Moth ways, and that it was no proces
sion at all, but jest one everlastin' Stream tit
people passin' up and down the street,
lean all parts of creation, and !ovine Lord
only knows whin.
I inix'd in with 'cm, but I tell you what, 1
found it monstrous rough travilin'. The filet
is a ChiCkell.Sollp nought as wigl expect to
float . done the Savannah river in a freslwi,
and not gel knocked to pieces by the drift
wood, as for a person what alma used to it to
expect to git along ill Broadway without
gettin' justled front one side to Uglier at every
step, and pushed into the street about three
times a minit. A. body must watch the cur
rent and eddies, and follow 'cm and keep up
with 'tint, if they don't want to get run over
by the crawl, knocked tilt the sidewalk, to be
ground into mincemeat by the everlastin' ont
inybusses In the first place, I undertuck to
go up Broadway on the left hand side of the
pavement,dn I !nought just as well tried to
paddle a s.)tioc up the fall olTaltutu,, In spite
of all the Alialgin' I could do, Salability was
all the time bunipin` up light me, so that with
the humps I got from tie noon, and givin'
back for the wimmin, I found I was Josin'
ground instead of twine abed. Then I kept
" to the right as the law directs C t but here I
like to got run over by the crowd of men,
Willlllllll and children. and niggers, what was
prim , as fast as if ther houses was afire, or
t.y was tannin' fur the doctor. And it' I
happened to stop to look at ally thing, the first
thing I knowed I was jammed out among the
ominylaisses, what was dashin` and whirlin`
along over the (MMUS like one eternal train of
railroad cars, makin' a noise like heaven and
yearth wits commin' together. Then there
Wfls enrringes , (UM hacks, and market -wagolut,
and milk-carts, rippin' and teal-ill' along in
every direction—the drivers hollerin' and
poppin' their whips—the people talkin' to one
another as if their lungs was 111100 not or sole
leather—soldiers marchin' with bands of music
beatin' their drums, and tilt 0111' and slidin'
their tremboons and trumpets with all their
might—altogether as kin' a noise cilia to drive
the very Old Nick hini,wlf out Or hits
It was more tint I could stand—my dander
begun to git up, and I rushed out into the fast
street I cam to, try to get the racket before
it sot me crazy sure valid, when Willa gllOlllll
meet hut a dratted great big nigger with a bell
in his•hand, ringhe it right in my face as hard
as he could, and hollerin' loud (muff too
split the head of a lampliost. That was to
much, and I maili'; a lick at the fellow with my
cane that would lower his key, wit tow hit
bim, at the same time I hat I grabbed Mtn by
the collar, and ax'd him Willa in the 'name of
thunder he meant by such imperdence. The
rollin' up the whites of hia eye, 'lluait
sayin' a word he broke away r u in me as hard
as lie could tear, and I lut,tetted ~n to find some
place It.,s like bedlam than Broadway.
Ily this tint,. it ‘t as most lurk. ;out i i rtor
,lown uur sprit till I 1•11111 ton grate
pig ‘t . llat it ‘‘as so .till that it noises
In imlttral In 111,• ;Iglu,' 1 sot ,Imv n
on th, , and t . ,•st,l ittysrlf awhile, an,l
ling] s,.t out ror lay 11101,1, I \Vallri'd amt
yallad Car latt S4JIIII . IIIIW ur orill . r
I COlll , lll ' l fiat! 011' \Vay. I inquired for the
American hotel tttu nr them times, ;Intl gut
th, airoction hat tho st,•,•ls t %%1,1,11 about
tlot it nas out "run. ym sonn hle to 11/Ikr
' rill I% hen . 1
hey told in, 'and I begun to think
I',l haye to' take lily sonwtyllar rise
for that night. I wits find. Ititnnby I hint to
a Arco that \Sli , very still mill quiet, what they
pall t'han,l,nrs ; and N\ hilr I was standin*
mi the eiirtif . r. IV:ty I Sjlolll4l
'lute, 11111 it pour %VlOlllllll With 1111111111h'
noire her 111111, Ilh•11:11S if she wmic
a 61r In my,ok. \vh,n sh, nw. she cum up
to nue ;111,1 pot her hattilh,;rchier tit her eye,.
:
I • nt n pour 11,111311. and my lt,:
bad' , so siel: hr :tint :MI, to do :my worl:
and mean! toy . poor eltililren is almost starvitt
for trill. NVoit't pnu 6r gull t•notigli to givt
DIV I%Vo
I looked al Ina a Lit, ses I.
" IL• u t't you got no illations or nriglibor
that out you
"No ! no Ar; tin too poor to have relations
or neighbors. I was better off once. and then
I lutd jilenty of frit tuts."
That's the tray of the world. Ihiukv t ; we
al%vay,. have friends till are need 'cm.
" 0 sir ! if you only burr hard
have to ‘vork, you'd pity Ille —I know you
would."
•' What do you do Foy a liven' Y" St . t4 I, lit
Fhc 100k1 . 11 tun tieileate to do much.
•• I tilt tine trashily and ironin, — ses she
'•hut sick much that I can't 'Hake clod
to support us:" And then she cutlet n rva
graveyat•d colt.
•' \V my don't you git sonic ca' Schenck'
l'ulinonic Stiiti r.scs I.
.. .sir!' says she: '• I'm to poor In Int
no.dicite, whim iny poor HUI, children is dyit
for bred."
Platt think sic!'
young eretur us her should linve to struggle,
hard, anti 1 tuck out nv pun, tund gin her t
"Thar.— srs I. " that will la!1p
" Ula ! Ides, you • sir. yOll . l , SO kind. Now
I'll buy suwr plt akin' tar [HMI' 1111A1): . 11111.
IVill you hr good to hold this bundle for
mu till I step hack to that •ltug store cm I.lip
corner'.' It's .o nvv--I'll 1.• bark
minis.'' ~., she.
I wit so sorry for' the poor it ottani that 1
couldn't refuse her ,itelt a little favor. so I luck
her bundle to hold A tor her. She said she
was •naid thelitte dress, s 'nought it rumpled,
and then her (moonless WOIIIIIII . I pay her ; so
I Wei: eon in fity arms %pry careful. and she
, went to the store alter the ittedieht . ..
'There tens It good many people pasta' by
i and I walked up from the corner Il link gays,
SO they shouldn't see me stantlin' titer with the
bundle in my arms. I begun to think It was
.1 , time for the woman to come Intel:, and
bundle Ives beginnin' to get heavy, when
I I thought I felt something movie' in ie. I
stopped rite still, and held toy broth to hear if
it wits tiny thing, will4l it begun to squirm
about mitre and more, and 1 heard a noise Just
like a turn cat in the bundle. I never wits HO
surprised In my life, and I cunt In MI acre or
kutio• it drop rite on .the pavement. 'Flanks
1, in the mane or creation wind !sit t' . I walk.
etl down to the lamp post to see what It was,
and Mr. 'rhompson, would you believe me, rr
WAS A LIVE BABY I I was so completely tuck
aback tint I staggered' up nen a lamppost,
and held oh to it, .ohllet,t.kleiced and equalled . ,
,like a young Pant4r;:ittl; 'llisitiiiiat Jest tiopr4 . ,
ed.but of ineln"natiefn -IlAlfla4 - an yetOcktn;!
7,1
1410-411 drill , J i ..' ;ifnr, , Aitinne.
''''';*Oitiii 4 " .
the street with a little young lathy In my arms.
I never was so rand at a female In all my life,
and I never felt so much like a dratted fool as
I did that minit.
I started for the drug store, with the baby
squallin' like rath, and the more I tried to hush
it the louder it squalled. The man who kept
the store sed he hadn't seed no such woman,
and I musn't bring no babies in than
Ily this time an everlastin' crowd of people
--men and whomin—was gathered around, so
I couldn't go no war, all gabblin' and talkin'
so I couldn't hardly hear the baby'. squall.
I told 'em how it was, and told 'em I was a
stranger in New-York, and ax'd 'cm wliat.l
should do with' the baby. lint Cher was no
gettin' any sense out of 'cm, and none of 'em
woultht't touch it no mor'n if it cut been so
much liken.
n That won't do, — se:. one feller. " You
can't come that game over this crowd. • •
" No, indeed," ses another little rnsty
lookin' feller—" we've got mina' to do to take
care of our own babies in these diggiu's.'•
"Take your lathy home to its ma," said an
other, " and support it like an 'cutest man."
I tried to get a chance to explain the busi
ness to 'em, but drat the word omid I git hn
edgeways.
"'fake 'eon both to the 'rooms," ses one,
and make 'Nit give an account of them
selves."
With that two or three of 'em cunt toward
111 e, 1111(1 I grabbed my cane in one hand s
while I held on to the bundle with the other.
'• Gentlemen," sig. I—the baby sucelin' all
the time like hilly cats in a bag—" Gentlemen,
I'm not gwine to lie used in no rich way. I'll
let you know that I'm not gwine to he tuck to
no 'rooms. I'm a stranger in y' our city, and
I'm not going to support any of your babies.
My name is Joseph Jones, of Pineville, Geor
gia, and anybody that wants to know who I
tun, can find me at the Anteriean—"
" Major Jones," ses a cleverdookin' man,
what pushed his way into the crowd When he
heard my name, "don't be disturbed in the
least," see he, "I'll soon linen this matter
fixed."
Witli that he spoke ton man with a tether
ribbon on his hat, who tuck the lathy, bundle
and all, and carried it iii' to the place whin
they're got made In New•l'ork a purpose t o
keep sich poor little (elms in.
A GREAT ILLINOIS FARM
A correspondent of the chie. q p, Teihum:
contributes to that Journal it roll and interest
hug account of the well-known Broadlands
farm, of 20,500 acres In the southeast e01111.1.,,F
Champaign county, originally the property of
M. L. Sullivant, but purchased for about
$400,000 in 1806 by John P. Alexander, the
present owner—a man who migrated from
Ohio to Illinois in 1841, with little beside his
'own energy to back him, and whose present
fortune has been made out or cnto, and farm
ing. Broadlands has heen under the manage•
meta of C. L. Eaton, fir. Alexander remain-
Mg on his forlber farm in Morgan county.
NVe extract and condense us follows:
:llr. Eaton estimates the capacity 1.1 hi; farm
when it is trill stocked to the eilltivalet
grasses, at ten thousand head for snootier pas
linage. It is six Miles frolit east tU tt I . SI, :116
nearly seven front north to SOlll.ll, icetipyi
something over It lutruship. Ihi the west an
two pastures, one . and n hilt by three miles, o
2880 acres each. I hte of these past ure.; is it
he trench-plowed for corn in the spring ::
I Sri 11, 111111 vie tither in 1t371. 11115wIrt - 1 , 1111
1111.1 t• the tweaking a the whoh• 26,5011 iwres
To the vast of these pastures is a Strip (wow'
hall's mile wide. On the south side, Section.
:33, :14, :15 and 311, lire in corn, exceptimr -101
acres in winter wheal, It 2llll 111 1.1115. ion olive
and 120 to I Itingarian grass. On the
Sections 13, 21 and 25, are also in I.'n. Aft,
deducting the small grains and vie: spot.
vv•liich Could 11111 be prevented this
SOll, Ihere are 1114 1,, 111:111 :MOO :ICII corn
Illell 11(1%V gives proilli , se of at era 11.,
1111111 fitly bushels, to the acre. or on a ~1,1,11
of h gliarter of million a 111151111,.
farm. Which. ill teltlition, grazes tioir dual,ito
fat cattle. In addition to this, lout
11 INA 111 . 1,S weir 51(1 11 lit 1,111 :11111 Vit•
turnedl, over. 1111,11 5.11110 Sias dropped into Ih
furrow. This hadl
1114,e a %(•ry
and will he pasturi din t 4.loher. .\ bout 1 , 11
111,1151111.1 1111..111'1, 1/1 ,1.111 ',in] 113, t• li 1.11 11.1,
his spring.
Till . Oink 11:14 hcl.ll 1 . 1111 . 1%;11 , 11
with the lilllibli.,lll/Vl.l 111 , 1%1 1111 i,l
WWII is twbelioiii• %%jilt
.\limit Italy till' auto i. drille l will
Ilrmcn': tutu drill and iiii•
iii I . lliiiii. Itro%k owl Valt.li•
veer planter:, hits littli,•'4ll . it i,
Tine thin
trite r(plantv4l uu ao•mlitt or the drrp 1 .1,00
iagal tilt. %%ctiili
liiivi• stiVi•il that tutu prinkei il n bet
ter crop.
'no' i'l'etddlig - Plow , il'i' ll l o'llY
plows;“ but the long 1111/111.111111111 plow is 111'1.
leered,% 1111(1 %%111 he 11,1•11 111 11.11111.1", It , the i'.ll,
11114 is better adapted to - ra w - than pastured
prairie. The plows are mostly from the Peru
factory of .1. It. Brewster. Tit,. 1411 1111' pintos
of all desuripiliim, was, ill 181/7, $l. - ,(111; 11411:i,
$lOOO ; 181111, Vitlll. 'fie I'lllll'l's art. iiit4t 4,11
the farm, IW oak plank, and handed with iron.
The harrows are also made on the hum, as II
11111C101111411 111111 carpenter shop are ill vonstant
use. The harness is also made tool A...lmbed
on . the farm. Twentydlve us ',got's. six mow
ers, with dropper attachment for Ihe grain, are
made or grass seed. of which 1 111111 bushels
are to be saved this nl'll,llll. I , iari,nrs,
rakes, and one threshing-machine 111111,1• 1111 the
list 1/r impletiwnt:,
Fifty yoke of oxen and filly span of 11111,1'S
111111 1111111'S make up the teams.
The superintendent. a general 1,,4,,i,m, ,ix
Ilireinen. it boot:diet-per, a halter. a li:•icksinith,
carpenter, butcher, 11,11 tradesmen, sev.m
cooks and ninon oi e hundred and I Wl'llt%' 1111'11
111111ie the operating dopartoolo•. Tio. faro' is
divided into seven departments. The le ad
quarters art- in the centre, tool the *ix stations
are located at convenient points on the farm.
From tell to twenty men are I.t pi at ..;l1.:1 1/1'
1111,1', 111g1'1111.1' Willi 1111..111111S 1111.1 11,1111, fi..
(1 11 . 11.“1. (hi,' (111ilt is M3611111'11 111
. I'lllll 11,11111,
IVIII/ 111'11W, daily hlllll,lles 1 . 1.1/111 111 1.11111111 . 1 1•1',,
,
Ili is (111111' ill the army. '
The 1-4 of ,fault .1000 head '(''e suit -le. I ,
were landed at Horner Station - by nit .•t. to
('air,,, 111111 then by rail. Ninny elßo se st,ers
arc now good heel', and will all he sent to New
I . lll'h within the 111.Xt lime 11111111 11S. and their
places supplied mainly by purchase ~fitiierior
fatted stock sent to the Chicago market. 11,.. - - •‘:' , ''''77:: . " .. ".
.tlexander 11111k1.8 a regtdar pure'..llA. 111 . I'm.' .
\ Clll 1:1i SF.l(ll,ll.llliii•iltfii). e.
till/111(1111d 111.11(1 Offal stock w. , eidy in l'ilielig,, ~, ,, 1 6. , w , •i „,,,, : ), e , a g l :• o r ri ,
~
to ship to New York. The inferior 'dock will w
~.„,,
slapped in .,. n i i i 0,„•, ;n . t w,, , ,.
he seal 111 Ibis farm for fall fjeding on pasture
Rud
otter thing
ii•v'ii..w.,tr....got,
anti corn, and will ill lit' (.111,1.11 (1111 11y 1111' 1,1 . who w ,.„ ,•
vntiwil . o „,\a i i i `44
or n•hrunry, %%Awn it oi . w . / . I , ldY of Temo 4 , ( ,, , ,,i n g 1.1 :my of thettillbeiti
cattle will take their place. flue two sets of audibly, first to hlntaidrtilid.'. 1,16
i
steers are led anntitilly on this, Ihrin--one ex: peciant lommito.r..: . l..Thr. I tt . ol
closi,(-ly 'on grants and title 1111 grass anti shock t u l:!::; . :. /. "7. 1. : st l a i L l t . ' 1 04 C rt „:' ' l ' ,..!ltt" - j
corn. About fifteen Moulted tons of hty are wii i„1,,ii 44 :, , ,,44,7 1 ., i„ ' 3 `...i
fed to the teams and the few hundred head h tralghtem . .,4 nit 4 1 ( t s,:r j n,..i
~:
that cannot be sold and which go over to the bace,(; Ilv(4coatAo4,,f‘, ,'
next season. -There are now on the farm "I . i m ":!;h•"'I. l ( , ) bl. 10 '' .•.,:r11,4 •
about three hundred head of the stuffs Of last
g s 7:: .. l 4 e , ', s. ' l 4 l ;: g vAl ., l . . s niVi ro WS i t ;,,,,,!:...;,,....
season, the most of which are now good beef. , Intr, , •ivlxii thoir,v.r , k
There aintiow about tlyolnitlrea.liettd citbii;olii , Aii; .. : ;,: 4 ,,.
~ -,-
.boisoorial Igo', bf3s3l,46:* 7 l l 99dredt'.ooMi li r. i tgr- ;' . ..4 , ''.
, hf , - ,
:thelfity o f my 'deli: - - AllnaililnlsiCi•eti o'2' kt. o c . -,‘ , .;,. , •: . 4,,j,..
' . .w ' islfe."-itrintli ' for lheir : itin4nili iced. (1 , -AG „ '''
`,.7r ':, '
diitwaita-Ortt the , linliii.fintn thit'Atio44;..
. .. . .. • , , .
.
ROBE
illaiit antr• .
r,, , ... i44 ,
No. 17 EA.87,;
.:...
xis
.• MilW DESIONB -, ' - • - -',...
. .. ::
.• : 44.714 b
Stamped' Chorkp, Cilnis,. Circular:, pinti:ltiluk
tuu.....! Ily- Lawn o , slooi n t hi rigrimw ),
Er li v iii.",'T'lch i ":a u d er ehipp ° hle cart 4:, ro l itzAii .
xl to. etc., etc.,/ reltited.s phort:, . ~
7-1,
NO. 38
thrown into the feed lots, of , whlott'lli
three. A small onionnt of coin andiak
sional load of oatii hi the shinfare.eoilo;
breed is a mixturp 11.0Kkalitre ftila 'Chia
White, the limner predoniluatled, .1116 11 4
is mostly eta apd.put4iie . sheCk end eedj!!!,:'
fattening cattle fn open-110(1; rind Gin high:
-
among Owns, *king, up itil:thnt . h.i
trampled into the.ecid!:; ~A ! , .fAitiF . ,. l 4 ,
reeding, and one that tho tnenagemunt
fitrm intends to,digpensawith 'IiBIIIV.VA
Able.
• •
NN' I ,11A .M • . .
PIT- --V-: FE'
S - -• -'SE.N g p N -•i .,.
•..-.4..,. .
.1 telegram la wool: trl aatCCa; the atett.l
.•4
1 , .
„ft
or somitor leseentlen, ta!l'rretaiiil, , Irl•
11c Was lmrit at ihateaWall, ,NMAt_ i lallipa4l . .' '.. ,
oil the lit h day of Ocolicr, 1.500: - ,,jiitilbifi - 04&
Samuel I , essenden, was a li:faiths.. filtirOdefaig
the liar in the State of Moble , l ls i l 44', , : rver- 1 1 14 : tik
erid terms the Legislatutdi
been once or twleo the Ltborty
date for Governor: Greta ikiinoli , ,os inko,dur.,
iiim in the Nlttentfor, of hitt ethldrett,
.. . . . .. , . .
pveially with the subject o f this 81CCie11...;14:; .
Mr. Fesi.•nden was gnduated front 13ewd0.0 :•;"
College in 1828 ; spent four years In the stii . l,;;:•.;
of the law. and' opened tut olllce , ht .180atAv s ,
Bridgetown. In 1829 he reinoved'.t!C Mil
Land. lle was elected to the.• .I.,e,,islatitte :el . : .:
Oh. Slate in 1831, and took rant 'once 5ie . ..11
dihsti•r. Ills 5p9,9,01q 1 1/oi,Aftii#4 l ii,Fttirgged:
the uilit, d Statesi.l3aWiyas ) teniarkible fer ql
.pirit and ability,?.-,461 . 4(5ed11y 'Attained .euil . . , : ; ;:✓
nenec in his proteiCen„4 In 188iI1t5 again be,l
(nine a menthol' .Of the I,eglittatire, • and alp
n:4h om the llonse . waslarBel Pvtnocraqi 7441 ' 1 '.1.
tea, placed at the head of the coltunlttee tii•:.k.
IT% isv ill . statutod itf the State:...: • . -:,,,.:!(•:
The next year'he 'was eleeted Yig chi)
to the National flonse Repres'entativesr. ,
Ile took ti 'imminent - part - IR' the- debatitiiittN
that Maly, supportligAll th a pronllq nt,mep
'; t
sure, Intd.encounicring fearlessly Kr. Catali4,
ing uad other champions of MT: Tyler.
declined further coritlauanee in publiollfa i tniOpk*:
eept a year 01 1 ,serVice ,In ihe',L,igittlatuifti.'?lA
During this period Ito gained an important. 7 t
elve in the. Bliprethe Cont
'tat es in relation to the responsibility.
innocent person for the frandulant'actvof-W,i
atictiotwer. In this trial Ito-was' titisOc4ded
with Daniel Webster, 'and Judge:StOry::had . ...4 •
pre V (athly given n' decision adVe . rse,' to' 104. t
client.
In 1850 Mr. Fessenden was agalit'a eatidi-1 , 4,,
date for Congress, but , defeated by 'Criortetitikt,
ill 111.114. Ile refused, however ; to contdsl.l4 . 4l
seat. Iltit he' as now to be called tigattilittO4.:'
public life. Ile had kept alive his ititerk
eidl,F,
polities, and was a member, of the first WIdt;:; i 0
National l'ortvention "ef'ill3ft,.,WhiCli r .Tiotitt,',' ,
lotted General Ilarrison, and. of the last a0r. , ; . ; ,.
vent ions of that patty held in 1848 and
,1852;
supporting Mr. .Webster at one, and Geueral,',, - ,
Scott at the other. lie 'oppolind , and votelitY. ,.
against 111, Wkig platform of 1812. ' :1 - ":4 1 : ,
In 185:1 ha was a candidate for the. Unlte4-A
St a t,.s t's . nate; but no choice was effected. - Tiirt' . ,':;!! . 1
next tar several Free-sellers were eletitetif!i;Q4A
lie I.e;d•lat arc ; tho Nebraska bill c'as infro'::4'
iii I, and made a general exeitch omt, Miti - ;1,;. "'
••)I r. 1 , ",,,,,, , in1en. wits chosen to 'll,, Seiftitt..,‘ ' ,
Though the Free-soil rote seemed hi, oleetIon::::'
he c :1, very particular to accept 110 , ninkilfia-,:.
Zinn ii , a Whig; and lie would Drive cvntintied ',. ~
Id , all:Inc, with that party, eeeiii that 111:'
Fr.,. ~ ,ilers had entered 4 111t1 WOD . 11... field ii..,
no t. c, ar tinder the name of Ileltitblleit"!
tt lii,lll,,,ante from that eireuntstaneo thelfzi.ifty
--- - • ---- ---aelttAttit of 111 , •'Nnith: 1
Mr. dell verir7" l T
again-4 11, Nebraska wati:r.r,el
ill IS:19 A% Montt, the' formality
aml doring . llav stormy years 'the
toiniArati , at of Mr. Lincoln w'as ii ientido'f
tlu Polathlicans in OW ge111111`•
lu .Ittly. 18(14, he wns appoilot..;
%.itholit hta ()iv 1 Sycie-)
!..; tio• 'Crvastiry, and 116 d itlnit.t:',ll•ll!
t•l.h. tlit yttnr. Ins Ittml.':',wa)4'.foiy!
th•lit•nt • Ito. tlielnlbors or tIO.
n itittned, iu 78tt7t, lu OW Silt. tt.. •
,
.', tt -I , t ttLer 'Ali% P essentleit was eciektlitc- ,
1,3-.1,,11e.te, anti not. Illtiqtt, Ili.- 01 , ..:t1131.1 1 1:ii .
;.iii.-le ,1 ~raturs. lie ettreltsß) 'se', etell lit
131,..:‘..-,e, ttloing tt every iinditio dlittli - It't"',
:-.‘1 , ..h,iii.•,1. :le exhatisthig the toti.ti iti.:lth
~,•,..
..
, :11.1;er Cain Or Ile env very se% ere . Itt, 7 „ierktmal
SIiiYLLINK
rog.ln Vlll4 pif.11.:0111y fitll.
;I'. IllenOWV , i 1:',1i.50111,1t!,11., '
:111.1 tvinporeil glow Or'
idi VI oil. A lilllr apart froin
frond In iltor.. over the TurVii. .e4rifvf
,a 1 1 1 10 , 13.111.5. MI tt red SOfil, ()IC;
dr:1111'1'y 01 Uu WIIIIIOIV. a n r,p,
r, might •littvi , ;44;.6):tios ,
i:n:antt} in 1!m flllud W.' e;
•• ticar, I wish to show you. .•.tittiliitto
ont• of thl•si• days, you VIII I " . frnildt ll :,,rf
1,111 , 1111 AT DO you' littow ' lathes. .:;.'tt,‘
.1.:% . .•ry rhild d)f. kueN%"..N'•eil the
tit Ince " Little"--110W
••II kV' . 1.1 " Litt
,i 1 youth its ,
Mr-. Sonwrvine I'' ~. ; ,
•• ; the ucst r" • •
,
col. so 111411111 W Or So 111146101 e, .:114i119t , `;.
rat miti, rtiltiettnil, unit ratitermet,eatititarintleft•f!
or Ike silent listener; sprrespuittlttif, lotjio
i•t tam denomination or " Lit tior.!'.
:%1 ?"
it,
bin ; you know
)',,, :mmr, owl %se did latom;
fy:.:01, drooping with itt,
aat ping -willow draped iwritio . cAOTO4.
•I'lo• :%•••,viallon ‘ll,l gloomy, ling Ni• `= l Mo}lil2
:15% l • I r 11111 hp We trptiillllll . or.ll6 . 4l , l4le* .'. A
Sir,. Iltmvnittg." '
`• the three 1111441 (list ittgatittlti.4
i Inn ern. side by sltle..
A:JO and iitethattglit, l" ,
It 4VII , 11 gathering oe literal)
in the old time, Itotht•r (lit!':
th.n _ the itith's tin plat`lll'.l * .rna)%
, •11,•(1 In Illy svnge that they wcro
th.• arti.l :ilia audeni.
1, 4% maul:erupt...l by the unitro
pmgrea.:, each 11111 vile/11,f
11. 1 , 111'111 1 r ,outta tinut (lie
ar. 'll had '404 ;
elem. 11...Iliquid ani
lnsithern; , ".
1:1111.11 , Is 1111 411 1:111/01 1 111111 ; 1 4 . 1 1 1 # I ,
;,) ,411111,0 ; 1110110' 1 111e El111'11ii,:: • '1.A .f 1 :1 ;,7
flue 11111111 .1. 11111 1l1 , 1111:11 .1 ,1 * -' . 1019
5 11'1.11111' 11111it,:.11/4111.el1l1.FY •51..
City.
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