D. A. BUEHLER, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR
VOL. XIX.-50.1
[For the "Shu i eor t l Butner."
THE POET'S FLOWER.
CZ=
Iu his study sat a youth alone—
' foulAght illumined Wiley.,
Aod dirt& lofty brow there shone
Thought glorious and high.
"Hew ti One entraned in song,
Altlisaissiega, (rom the soul
A.Oko' some vivid drew along
His spirit's chords had stole.
•
.4.0 humble flow': beside him lay—
' The pussluct of that clime.
Where, wreath'd in dance and join'd in play,
'Despot the tamed Nine.
Veins ',bens the eatiiest gifts they
,sent
. •
Init serrated boot us cheer;
krkle. Hope aid Jay were iu it blest—
, His spirit bald it dear.
A maim whiapeat in his car,
And twis4wer vows his eye—
'ram that he loos had wished to bear,
k linswght and& his heart high
Ifopes, had prinuied ',wad his brow
A beeriness wreaths.. Woe.
If with his humble flew': bed bow
Ilefore that spirit'. shrine.
Mime lie went with a beating beat,
And laid his inprible flower,
And tarried king it the beauteous wreath,
To bir ouli'd Grow glory's boner.
That dimples 'round ha longing brow
Wia never twined, and where
Hope pee epeed to Lis spirits flow,
Hang darkening despair.
Cottyaburg, Feb.
I rot the - MUT ael rlimartrr."
TEE 871113 T OP THE CORAL ISLE.
eir it sit
When die word neer teeth, •ed &Wel the donna
Oyer earth free. Siewara, [ light
A fate, where deepeeteceen entices it #Ol,
lhow.we was giwea-
But still,ahe depths of that datik lestaay
Were net so Jbarp, 414 dad,
'Thal }Mops and mighty Will despaired to Lee
Mr from dug -worse than death.
14 . 14 t Croiii the emus time, like as
Uf aileau, ler the haute
Of Genii twaele, who, &sing titer?, ~egad.?
With light the wead'rer lone ?
What on the are reposes as its Queen,
lu dazilag beauty hest,
Ax thit'soiao etarillatl taste to beam
lipaa the wee e's intent 5
That is eny coral We, where ever shine
The siin's selectee booms,
Add where the sea nymph conies, hor hair to twine,
14'hilo splendor 'round her eireanio.
A thueteOrkeet re, beneath the mighty wave,
[l4trutbkratwied, Ater ./ept,
- Ten ourrgin, dripping, from iu sceat-grave
The ALLA aeut.
L.tittt tont no spirit, nor the tentless nea
A mermaid, nor the air
A !tug, but will linger here with ine,
Liam this isle au fair.
Traveller* emit,. sea, as ye pass pear,
F. 1.1 up your wiugs aud give
Your trintilortug thought to •pirigs, How they
IH !ware and &Atte., live! j here
Gettysburg, lett. LO, I)4L
•BR WILL. FOi:GIVZ YOU, FATHER.'
He stood leaning upon a broken gate in
front alias miserable dwelling. His tat
tered 'hat was in his hands, and the cool
breeze lifted the matted locks which cover
ed his noble brow. Ills countenance was
bloated and disfigured. but in ills eye there
was as asweined look—a inisigled ex
pression of sadness and regret. Perhaps
he was listening to the melancholy voice
of his patient wife as she soothed the sick
babe, on her bosons; or perchauce he was
gazing 011 the sweet face of his eldest daugh
ter, as at the open window- she plied her
needle to obtain for her mother and the
poor children a sustenance. Poor Mary !
fur lierselPshe cared not ; young as she
wits, her spirit was crushed by poverty,
unkindness and neglect. As the inebriate
thus stood, his eyes wandered over the
miserable habitation before him. The
windows were broken and the door hinge
less, scarce a vestige of comfort remained, l
yet memory bore him back to the days d i
his youth, when it was the abode of peace
arid happiness. In infancy he saw again i
the old arm-chair where sat his father with
the' bible on his knee, and seemed to hear
again the sweet tones of hie mother as she
laid .her hands upon the head of her dar
ling boy aid prayed that God would bless
him and preserre him from evil. Long
years, had passed away, yet tears canto in.
to the eyes of the dreakard at the reeol•
foolery of his mothees love.
NM. Mother," he Muttered, 4 , it is well
that thou art sleeping in the grave; it
would break thy heart to know that thy
son is a wretehed drunkard and degraded
boinr—a miserable outcast from society."
Ile lotted slowly away. Deep within
an adjoining forest watt a dell where the
beams of the sun scarce ever penetrated.
Tall trees grew on either side, whose
brauphes. meeting above, formed a canopy
aloieres, where the birds build their nests,
and poured forth happy songs. Thither
the drankard bent his steps. It had been
his favorite haunt in the days of his child
hood, and ea he threw himself upon the
soft green swardohe'lecollection of psi
flebilet came movvdlag over his mind.—.
Ife'eovered Mir face 'With his handy, and 'I
the, prayer of, buret from idit
qh God! receive a returning wam I
darer I" tibiddenly a soil irm waa thrown
around hisck, and a 'sweet voice Mar-
inured—".le will forgive you, Lather,"—!
Starting to hie feet, theloebriate saw stand.
ing before him his youngest daughter, a
child of six years.
" Why are you here Anne?" he said.
ashamed that ilk innocent, child should
have witnessed his grief.
" I came to gather the !lilies which grow
upon the banks," she replied ; seq I
have got my basket full, and now I am go
ing to sell them."
" And what do you do with the money?"
asked the lather, as he turned his eyes to
the basket, where among the broad green
leaves the sweet lillies of the valley were
peeping forth.
• The child hesitated, she thought she had
said too much; perhaps her father would
demand the money, and spend it in the
way in which all his earnings went.
" You are afraid to tell me, Anne," said
her father, kindly. " Well, Ido not blame
you. I have no right to my children's con-
fidence."
The gentleness of tone touched the heart
of the affectionate child. She threw her
arms around his neck, and exclaimed.
" Yes, father, I will tell you. Mother
buys medicines for poor little Willie. We
Lave no other way to get it. Mother and
Mary work all the time they can get to
buy bread."
A pang shot through the inebriates
heart. have robbed them of the com
forts of life," he exclaimed: "from this
moment the liquid fire passes my lips no
Anne stood gazing at him in astonish
ment. She could scarcely comprehend her
father's words ; hut she saw that some
change had mien place. She threw back
her golden ringlets, raised her large blue
eyes, with an earnest look to his face—
Will you never drink any more rum ?"
she whispered timidly.
Never: dear Anne," her father replied
sole tu nly
Joy &need in her eyes. "Then we
will be so happy. Oh, father. what a
happy home ours will be !"
Years passed away. The words of lit
tle Anne, the drunkard's daughter, had
proved true. The home of the reformed
man, her father, was indeed a happy one.
Plenty crowned his board, and health and
joy beamed from the face of his wife and
children—where once squalhd misery
alone could be traced. The pledge had
raised him from his degradation, and re
stored him once more from peace and hap
piness.
INFLUENCE OF MUSIC ON THE MIND.-
Of the solace of music, nay more, of its in
fluence upon inehmeholy, I need not look
fur evidence in the universal testimony of
I antiquity, nor remind such an audience of
its recorded effect upon the gloomy distem
per of the perverse mind of Saul. Imy
' self have witnessed its power to mitigate
the sadness of seclusion, in a ease where
Imy loyalty as a good subject, and my best
feelings as a man, were more titan usually
interested in the restoration of my patient;
' and I also remember its salutary operation
in a case of a gentleman in Yorkshire
many years ago, who was first stupified,
and afterwards became insane upon the'
sudden lose of all his property. This gen
tleman could hardly be said to live—he
I merely vegetated, for he was motionless
until pushed, and did not speak to, nor no
tice any body in the house for nearly four
months. The first indiration of a return of
July sense appeared in his attention to mu- 1
sic played in the street. This was ob-
Served, the second time he heard it, to
have a more decided force in arousing him
front his lethargy ; and induced by this
good omen, the sagacious humanity . ; of his
superintendent offered hint a violin. lie
seized it eagerly, and amused himself with
it constantly. After six weeks, hearing,
the patients of the house pass by hie door
to their common room, he accosted them,
" Good morning to you all, gentleman, I
am quite well, and desire to accompany
you." In two months more he' was die.
missed cured.—Sir Henry Hatford's Es.
says and Orations.
When the celebrated engineer Brunnel,
who accomplished the desperate experi
ment of tunnelling the Thames river, was
brought before a committee of the British
Parliament, he was asked if a speed of
eighty miles per hour on a certain railroad
would be much more dangerous to tjae
traveller upon it than a speed of forty.
"It would be just the same," said he.
"And a speed of ninety 1"
"Just the same V 1
"And a speed of one hundred r'
"Just the same ! .For," . said he, "qf the
care should be run Wills track at the rate
of forty miles per hour, the passengers
would all go to ruin, -and at. one'hundred
miles per hour they could not convenient,.
ly go any farther." ' " • •
QJ What, Mr. zpialter, what shall 1
.
say to lay oonstituentAst oxelairned a
wrathful member Of Congress cm the pas,%
sage of IV bill tO which he was utterly/ op.
posed.: .* Vr hat shill tuy '" he repeated,
but found Impossible to get beyood the
interrogatory.
Tell them," replied the waggish Speak
er, that you tried to Amite a speech and
couldn't." t.
GETTYSBURG, PA. FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 23, 1849
DAN MARBLE IN A POSITION
Actors are very tenacious about their
'"position" in their profession; and some
of them are even particular about their po
sition in private ; ' ht the most anxious
man about the latter, that we ever knew of,
was the famous Dan Marble, upon °neve
casion. IVe believe it was at a supper—
or some sort of a conviviality—gross af
fairs which we never attend, our "Senior"
usually taking on himself such responsi
bilities—when one of the company, a
grave faced man, declared that he could
not only see as far into a millstone as oth
er people, but much farther through a atone
wall ; in short let any man go into a
passage, shut the door, place himself in
any possible position, and he would tell
what position it was ! This stirred Dan
to an expression of incredibility, but the
proposer stuck to hia point, backing his
assertion with an offer to "bet the wine,"
the company to decide, which was finally
accepted, and out went Dan to put himself
in, posilion.
There was a table in the entry, an empty
armoire, a chair or two, and the come
dian was puzzled as to how he should
bring them all into requisition, so as to
Present a combination which should dely
investigation through an inch plank, and
the further to secure himself, he stopped
up the key-hole with afive dollar bill, the
most available matter for the purpose at
hand. After sufficient cogitation, and con
sultation with the friend accompanying
him, and a nervousness as to whether
there was not upeeping" going on, Dan
mounted the table, and at the risk of his
neck assumed his position! lmagine the
broad figure of the Yankee, heels up and
head down, supported on his hands, as we
see the bad boys invert themselves against
sides of houses—his watch in his mouth,
and his coat flaps forming s drapery at the
back of his head, and the blood at the sa me
time filling cheeks and eyes to bursting !
"Will that do ?" said Dan to his friend.
"Oh, just the thing, exactly !"
"Sure they ain't peeping, eh ?"
"Nu, you're safe enough !"
"Very well, then," and in a tone of ex
ultation he gave the challenge :
"What position am I in now ?"
"The position of a fool !" was the re
sponse.
Dan's coat tail took its natural hang ama
zingly quick ; he did nit conceive it nec
essary at all to refer the matter to the com
pany ; the wine came, and the next morn
ing, the "sell" having prevented him from
thinking of it earlier, an inquisitive Yan
kee was heard inquiring if any body had
seen afive dollar bill in the keyhole
ADVICE OF COUNSEL.—There is a well
known custom prevailing in our criminal
courts, of assigning consel to such prison
ers as have 110 one to defend them. On
one occasion, the Court finding a man ac
cused of theft, end without counsel, said
to the lawyer who was present—
., Mr. —, please to withdraw with the
prisoner, confer with hint, and then give
hint such counsel as may be best fur his
interest."
'rho lawyer and his client then with
drew, and in fifteen , or twenty minutes the
lawyer returned into Court.
Where is the prisoner'?" asked the
Court.
Ile is gone, your honor," said the hope
ful legal limb. " Your honor told me to
give him the best advice for his interest,
and as he said he was guilty, I thought the
best counsel I could offer him was to cut
and run,' which he took at once."
A GOOD STORY WITH A BIiTTER ILLUO
TRATION.--Tile Louisville Journal says
that a certain Democrat went to Washing.
ton to get an office from Mr. Polk just be
fore the Presidential election. Mr. Polk
designated an Indifferent office which he
could give the applicant then, but told him
that if he would wait till after the fourth
of March, Gen. Cass, who would then un
doubtedly be President, could give him
something ,better. The poor fellow, as
his ill luck would have it, chose to wait
until after the fourth of March.
This reminds us of Pat's dream, con,
tinues the editor
, of that sprightly journal.
"I once dreamed," said Pat, "I was with
the Pope, and he ax'd me would .I drink ? -
Thinks I, add a duck swim, and seeing
the Innishowen, and the lemons and Fuger
on the sideboard, I told, hint I didn't care
if I tuk a entrap of Punch 1 .Cotold or hot?'
axed the Pope. /lot, yer holiness, I re
plied, and be that he stepped down to the
kitchen, for the biting water, but before he
got back I woke straight up, and now its
d is ffiressi ng me that! didn't lakeit cowls! I"
—Portsmouth Journal.
BICAUTIVIL SATINOOI , A DYING Mi
TIM late Professor Caldwell,- of Dickin
son Collegeta 9 40 time before hie death
eddreued his wife u. follows ; s#Yoil
not mourn for me when God has beanie
good to me. And when you visit the spot
where I tie, dondtchoosea sad and mourn
ful time; do not go in the shade of he
evening, or in the dark night. These are
no times to visit the grave of the Christian ;
but go in the morning in the bright sun
shine, and when the birds are singing." I
"FEARLESS AND PRE,E."
TERRIPrd THEORY.
Prokissor Silnman intentions the feet,
that in boring the Artesian wells in "Par-,
is, the tomperature of the earth ineresuied
ache rate of one degreee for every fifty feet
towards the centre. Reasoning from•
causes known to exist, he stays
That the whole interior portion of the
earth, or at least a great part, Of it, is an o
cean of 'melted rock, agitated by violent
winds,, though I dare not affirm it, is still
rendered highly probableby.the phenoin
enon of volcanoes. The facts connected
with their eruption have been ascertained
beyond a doubt. .How-then-are•they-to
accounted for Y The theory prefaleitt
some years since, that they are caused by
the Combustion of immense coal beds, is
perfectly puerile, and is entirely abandm
ed. All the coal in the world ward
not afford fuel enough for a single capital
exhibition of Vesuvious. We must look
higher than this, and I have bat Hubs doubt
that the whole rests on the action of elec
tric and galvanic principles which are con
stantly in operation in the earth.
Ly ell does not regard the theory as found
ed on any sufficient data, which teaches the
doctrine that the whole earth is a mass of
melted rock, except a crust of a few miles
in thickness, as an outer covering. True,
there are ever three hundred active volca
noes to exist ; but these are more like
ly to be strictly local and limited in their
extent downward and laterally, than the
outlets of one continuous mass of liquid
minerals, reaching from the earth's centre
to the base of these volcanic cones. Prof.
Silliman encouraging the comfuning opin
ion that the fragile shell un which we
live is from one to two hundred miles thick,
and little likely' to burst asunder and let us
drop into the biding iron and granite.
QUICK IN HER APPLICATION. -"It ama
zes me ministers don't write better ser
mons-1 am sick of the dull prosy," said
a ludy itt the presence of a parson. .
"But it is no easy matter my good_wo
man, to write go.nl sermons," suggested
the minister,
"Yes," rejoined the lady, •but you are
so long about it ; I could write one in half
the time, if I only had the te.Xt.
"Oh, if a text is all you Want," said the ,
parson, "I will furnish thal.. Ttike this
one from Solomon—qt is better to dwell
in a corner of a house top, than with a
brawling woman in a wide house.'"
"Do you mean me, sir?" enquired the
lady quickly.
"Oh, my good woman," wius the grave
response, •you will never make a good
sermonizer ; you are too soon in your ap
plication.
"Aye, faith: an' ye always was the boy
who know'd how to save pennies. But
where is that letter agoin' n
"To Misther O'Tuule in Kilkinny."
"Au' who'll carry it if the Post Office
don't."
.Well, you see going to Kilkitiny
myself, to sec Mr. Toole, and I thought
I'd write this letter and take it along, as I
shall save the postage, because you know
it takes a power o' contrivance to get a
long now-u-days, the times is so hard."
Lover tells a good anecdote of an Irish
awl giving the password at the battle of
Fontenot, at the time Saxc was Marshal.
“The password is Saxe, now don't for
get it," said the Colonel to Pat.
“Saoke, and I will not, wan't my father
a miller f”
"Who goes there t" cried the sentinel,
after he arrived at the post.
Pat looked as confidently as possible,'
and in a sort of whispered howl, replied :
--'Begs, yer honor."
I'VE DONE wrru TosAccn.-4 ` writer
in the Boston Recorder cordially *adjust.
ly congratulates the author of the above
decisiOn, on behalf, first of personal clenn
linens ; second, the joy of his wife ; third,
his pew in the church ; forth, hie purse ;
and fifth, his children. I make you wel
come,he says, to all the quietness of mind,
calmness of nerves, cleanliness of person,
household, purity, and feminine Nmiles, l
which thorough purgation from tobacco
carries in its train.
When Benedict Arnold was about to
die, he rose• from his bed, and with diffi
culty clothed himself in an old suit of the
American uniform, with which he had
never puled during all hia peregrinations,
and then, with the name of his country up
on his lips, expired. Poor Arnold, but
forone false step, no general officer in the
Revolution would have reaped more honor
then hs, A braver man never exitted ;
and his perseverance' and energy in his
Canada campaign were alone enough' io
immortalize him.
Tilt Matuttaas lisLaTturt...-The eels
bmted• Englieh writer, itslifison, hatrleft
o wreenrd the following niacin:nen
Two persona who havn chosen '
tithe; out of all din, species, which design
to be each other's mutual, nomfort and en
tertainment, have in that action bound
themselves to be riodThumoied, affable,
discreet, forgiving, patient and joyful with
respect to each other's frailties and imper
fections to the end of their lives,"
, A '
O did you rICIF heir in year lisreery
the tale thit portim ieil,
Of two' 11*; that putt" to drink::
At a cattalo GO
The wools el the younger were unrest
Au the addle of toy ruby lip ;
Bat the tonal's oldie eldest ateatood to nine
Am if:renoos were on ta.tlp.
Af the well a begoi decoded , th*,
(A sprite in mean
The eldest .palls wits a seeternlbroW; .:
The younfest with teiaifttleyea.
Cried the tiP•irh "Whouerrey you *peek. etwetteds
Pure glans from your 4,44 fell t.
Betwiteeeverposetter irworth"proadveddr-r-.
From year tongue ehellaorptinterievi."?
And have you hot met with thus ideteri on,
In the hauiti of'the old 'and yeehg,-
The lint With her pure taintullied lip, ,
The hue with her serpent toegue 1
The first is iIOOD evroax,—diedeme bright,
O'er the darkentheme rho thtewe
And the lut it nienta. laming the Wight
Of the snake wherever she goes.
trio, the New Nempetite Oezette.
A New 'Hampshire .Mystery.
Tax remarkable history we '
are abpnt
to relate, occurred within our recollection.
and near a certain locality in New Hemp ,
shire. The exciting event will•be recog
nized and remembered. About two miles
from a small town in the State we have
mentioned, the road crosses a considerable
eminence, beyond which a valley of 'a
mile broad, called by the 'people in - “inter r
vale," lay extended ! This piece of laud
from, over tillage, was worn out, and be
longed to a man who kept a•tavern by the
road side. Near the top of the hill, on
the side nearest the valley, was a depp
pond!—a orange place,, it is trueo.for such
a thing td exist. but- the nature. of:_the
ground made a permanent lodgment of the
water in the hill perreetly natural. Neat
this pond there stood a rude tenement,
in which there lived a woman, looked up !
on in the neighborhood with great • dis
trust and suspicion. She had a little girl
with her, a child of five Yitire of age.
whom she called her daughter, and who
was her only companion in the hut in
which she lived. ,
A fanner, who resided upon the out
skirts of the town, upon opening th'e door
'one morning, discovered this poor little
girl, bare-footed and ragged, crouched. be-
neath the cave of the house; and seething=
ly very terrified. When he queStiohcd
her, she said she had come to tsillbimstite
thing dreadful, but she feared her mother
would kill her for doing so.
"•Oh, good sir ; I think it is right that
should tell you, for it is something very
bad—but my mother would kill me if you
tell her."
The fa raltr quieted the child's fears, and
then heard front her tbe horrid relation
that her mother had last night murdered
and robbed a traveller, who stopped at her
house. It had stormed dreadfully during
the night, and a strange man, she said, had
come to the lonely hut looking for shelter.
He had gone to sleep ,stretched ,upon the ,
Boor, before the fire, and hearing a groan
in the night, she woke up' and saw het
mother killing the stranger with a knife.
She lay still, in great terror, aud•eaw her
mother take money from the man's pock
ets and hide it, sad then drag the body in
a narrow apace behind the chimney and
cover it with brush-wood, used for , fuel,
after which the miserable murderess crept
into bed by the child's aide. The ppor
girl could not sleep, and at the first peep
of morning she saw her mother rise again,
drag the body from the chimney to the
pond, at the back of the house, tie stones
to it, and with ,a long pole, forms it down
into the thick .mud at the bottom. Terri
fied, pale, almost speechless - with fear, the
little girl fied from her mother's habitatiOm
and ran a mile and a half to a farmei's
'house, to relate the horrible details.
Of course, the alarm was instantly
given, and the terrible ',excitement flew
through the town, and among the neighbors
for miles around. An early hoer:ills the
miniting tumid' constable's, and ; fair,
crowd of people, asse na bled at the vroiweit 4 e:
dwelling. The unhappy wretch instant,
Jy turned pale, , and exhibited every sign ,
of guilt : first reiusingibe 'officer's adnili
sion ; then forcing herself
,between them
and the space behind the chimney, as if
eager to retard investigation. but stilt yr,.
ciferously asserting' her innocence. An
oltcer got behind the cl • ney and'.picked
up a large knife, which. together ; With
the floor around, wee•newly elouttit with
blood. ; but the woman continued insolent
ly to deny her guilt, end accused her child
of lying, in revenge for having litiien whip
ped the night before. This rash usertiou
instantly confirmed the guilt, for 'it end;
evidOnt a child of fire years old could nev
er -igvent such a etory, and a burst of in
dignation agaiost'the mother for her liana
tural, charge, told the _strung feeling that
wattalready awakened against her. The
girl 'still overcome with terror. and kept
in awe by the mother's frown, it required
long persuasion and promises of protection
before she would reveal where the ifloney
was hidden. At lain she pointed to the
spot, and the sum of thirty dollars was dug
r410'4 for whielt,a
114 41f1;40V•iii4 4 laiiichecl a human being
into • " , •
, • The' Invetniglitioir was continued ; the
tin 'Clistody, and the
t !inerter of wide, was
dragged, with , grappling lingo in every di
. rection.ytet no body was iliseoVered. The
neat day the , teen* went on with like !MC-
Coi, end if tinge]; When all other efferta
seenied;fisOicei, it avu' suggested that the
Pcm 4 fellldl.beiraiPed dry, and by this
proceswthe body must inevitably come to
light. • Thlividan t(lifter some further search
tehliertitiliriiiiiiifieried` by ilie"child
wait loon stained with blood, and with
4 •
some lesinants of apparel attached to it,)
wait adopted by the autherities,and a since
whit titletto let the' Witter off down, the hill
sap,
,' , 11, - i`tilierfilmi,'oecOPieil some time,
set) NheO ePeeed, the
impetuous reshiof water swept away near
ly the liehtsle bulge' of the .pond upon the
hill aftle, letting dfl'the' flood 'at one bound,
filtie!ied by ft m4l o f pitch, black.th4d,
dead frog", freshwater turtles, oatfisit. pad
&mks, eels, water snakes, and' all the
stritige tenatuit ofthepoM. Still the' body
did not taPpeiir, and after a thorongh'exam
'
natation of the 4tlek- cotton , Q t. Ile pond,
vague suspicions of some : Other• kind of
roguery began to be entertained by the
croed. ' The child was again' eXiiniined,
the pond again scraped, and thouinterval!,
,over w the dark, tiedimentot nil , . Oh: of
• the pond sow lays,a-foot deep, was care
fully inspected in all dinictitine,•CutPstift
the dreadful EtsYstiit'f'U*V`ntit'utietielled.
The ev.4°Pe
the pole. the money, the blood,, ;hp
man's besidess and horrid homtm "botch.
.ery that'had'been perpetiiited and finittees
!caret) aller the body, ''' erred to add n,ew
terror to. t he e x pitegio. Who wag the
unfortunate, strangest • Evidently ~some
traikeller limn it diettineo, for nobildy in the
neighborhood was mictied: *h t
net the body be f,ufld t
,",Ten thciiisand
conjectures flew around, each of which
added to the perplexing myetery. A strange
uncertainty fermi& imelf upon the thilidi of
the people. fly's!! appearanCe4lt tiPpeitif
ed certain dint rn4rdored.mite had, never
been thrown_into the pond wt,all t• yet chat
the bloody deed had beenpla4lietre,te,cii
from the evidence , exeittitively,eittablitibal,
Thus • the affair continued, enveloped iw
darkness, , and all hope was abandoned of
discovering the body. The;womait could`,
not be convicted '" upon
,tite'evidenc.e Of the
child, and that evidence , iteelrePoWnethez
substantiacid Without finding .the
SO While, every" was' satisfied
her guilt, ie w ' s 'ii.kro g but tier
own confeeficsa would ever bring !fsilier
&roes witlfin power of law, .c
undinehing
, i obstitury, ros tinned i to deny
all knowledge of the murder. At, length
she wat, actually;, .released, from. confine •
meet, no possibility appearing of ever being
able to secure het codylothin.
,
A few m onthe passed Ou t and the "in
tervale" upokwhich the pond, had empii.
ied and whioh helot* had been 'latest
worthless. maw grew to be a flourishing ,
•
pitted of land. and Fkkople t • would , reirnatit,
that the draining of the big pond proved;
good thing kola, tavern keeper,„who QWEL
ed the land +below.
Novi fOr the development of Air iiiyeL
tenon, tragedy. A quarrel occurred be
,
t wenn the beroineof tO,ii story end trip
keeper of the ,4 .intervele." • 111 her - exasr
. penition, she came forward• antlihrew•a:
blaze of light upon This wysi
tery, which at once tifie"Oed"eyeawith
astonishment. A acheqie; 14r411,in.id .
. .
the cunningly devise d wheals oftwhielt
could never have been set in motion betty ,
genuine bred, end bora. and therqughly
educated. son of,Yoskeeland. The tar
Vern keeper wonted hia , laraltimproved
he wanted the Viand turned chi to
soon lot upon vi plan tit have the Jul), on.
fry" o% expense. - He —laid &mike:chum
nightsematored his , pled,• contrarted ;with
the luxe. *omen 'for hftYfire; le Okli
in epecalinti, 'end jhs;l4lth'itieii!iiditisioe,
of a consp111 1 )1!Sly artful i Id; es rr t i eiA ;l i eut. ;
She killed:a pig,,emeared a Italie add:pole!'
taught her child' the story to tellegad wet ,
ed out the garde In x manner worthy' the
best living represeni:alive of 't:adi Mia=
beth:' 'The iiverd keeper had tioitialceld
the thirty "dollars of Ali", murdered;
money, but when his objects were gained,
he refu se d to' ipay 'the filly, not baring a
pin whether thb wonian would 'emnSeei his!
plan'or not Tine led to 3:: grand detelnp' 7,
lnent, and t h us, 'opr 'thrlll4 nerrialqn Itf
A Now Hampshire' Mystery," gentle
reader, wort out' lo be neither 'MOO n6r
toe than a aupnt. exnefiniii 'and aurii4iinig?
IY * A 4 cuied .
A gentlemen sent a lad with . af leiter to
thei Poe t O ffi cer, and money to pay the
postage. Having
postage. kilarkng returned with dm mo
ney, he said, ..Guess Pre done the thing
slick; Pre seen a good many folks puttio'
letters in the pest. Office through a hole,
and so I watched my chance and got mine
in for q►.
.11:10Q6 hee de
clined the nomination for United Stated
Senator fron► Ohio. Ilia realona are
private character.
.
TWO POLleA*l PER'
IXEW SERIE---.1+10;
WONDERFUL DiSOCPVERY
We find in the &sum Atlas en' iottireato '
ing communication from a correapmultialr
in the copper milie region of Lake - lihiptW
rior. One of them details some remarks- , '
ble discoveries which have been 'receiatlyi
made a few miles interior 'from the meta!'"
of the Ontouagon river. A large mass of
native copper—the iveight estimated T at
seven tons—was found in the loose ground - ,
A vast amnont of labor had been made W
pq it Up and plaeo it on a platform.
AU this was the labor of a race ofbe4ngi;
long minim passed away. There his, teas
much skill manifested for the present race
of Indiana, and yet the workings are too
ancient to he those of white men. Many'
loads of rude stone hammer's are found be-•
ried a few feet below the surface. They
are so abundant that in stoning up a cellar,.
it was found more convenient to use them
than throw them out. HemloOk trees two
feet in diameter, and, from eisminatiooy' .
two acid three hundred years old, are;
growing over the workings, and have tO
be felled to enable the Miners to excavate
the earth. Remains of charred wedges,.
and levers and copper gads are found,uo,
der , :these trees and under the principal
maiss. These ancient workings can ba:
traced for'nnore than half a mile threngts:
thefOrrnd. and an expenditure of 115p,006
al tbistime, would not pay for the accons+
pliehment of a like amount of labor.
!Their great antiquity would seem to
'back to other tribes. ' Yet it .
not , that the presern Indians;
may be the descendants of . those who
wrought them.
nap Ono ANorano.—lt is the or
Providence for the allotments of mitakinti
to bo various. The general wisdom - it.
this arrangement is apparent in the adsti..
teflon of all classes and events to each
other, and in the ability of the Gospel to
give contenunent in every condition of
life. It is the duty of all to render to each
other thai assishince which God'may put
ii in our power to grant. In the language;
of„ Sir , Walter Peon, the race of mankind
woultt perish they cease to aid each .
001,, From the time that the mother
hit,* the child's ; head, till themoment that
my/10010 assistant wipes the death-dattip
front,.die brow..of the dying, we cannot ex
ist without , mutual help. All, therefine,
who need. aid, have a right to atilt it from,
their feliow mortals , ; ; no one who holds
die power ,of granting can refuse without.
Pitt.
, Mady was overheard it earnest discus.
aion witty* gentleman noted !bile tenacity lir
his own opinion. Waxing Warm. the
goalies:air observed, i* Mw. 0:‘ facts. lire
stubbon things.' > Anti the lady yejdittett;
" Then, Mr. M. what t gFort'feet you'
must !" ' '
is Has your Timothy failed ?"
qulretl Oulibities of Stebbins, the other
day. , Oh,' !tot at all ; he has assigned
over Ills prope y, and falle n ribac k t o lak e
a iviitio
belierri," 'was the reply.
io What are you going to give me for a
g!gietteue pressor.? "..remarked a gay
dam* to us the other day. We ,meek
ly raped ,that we had, nothing to offer but.
our humble self. The smallest favors
grelefeilY :received," was the merry re.,
5 1) 0 91qt, :We FertllstePifiga.
IntßBllrD 18 Mir I'EACKMAICKC-- 01 Y0ii
have broke&lhni Oitcher; you' !little
for :nothing; Ail 'in pieced. • ~
ga - Well,'ilitithar; you 'know that , bkikeit
{he:piece "
ISaistei IisNRY.--The fullpwetg is the
einaltieparagreph in the will of Patrick
henry :
4 have now disposed of all say propertyllo my faMily ; there to one thing more'
1 wiili 1 could give them, and that is the'
Christian religion. If they, had this, and E
had not given them one shilling, they
would be rich, and if they had not that, uti4
I had gieen them all the world, they wo u ld,
be 'plitir.7
„
- „
Rote "re I,urto.—A venerable min.
hap preached some 65 yegrs
the seine place, being asked whatowes ,the
secret of lung life, replied, ” Rise early,
live temperately, work bard and keep
'cheerful: . ' Anethir pergola, who lived to
the sYeat aki„'Uf ill:lit:Ars, said, in reply
to
• 04 ,ltspirY, Uow he had lived so
have always been kiutiend ,
,obliging ; ,, hage;neger' quarrelled with any,
one and'ilhank onlY to siiiisty
nodlteve never been
, ,
° 2 7P 4 4 Ito? or FAUN
weed'utinlifiiends," said, an old acesntrio,
friend, "hy haitgiiig a !Asa! pf stair narpot,
'out ,of my !krat 11'opt window with the IrQ.
,kqr 4 s appounclmenkaliize,ll. Chmkt
the devired .etti.t.t. I soon• saw• who wars
toy friends. ',lt was like , firingti guntiearn
pigenn bowie thez'all Ihiltook
ing at the first report. and I have iape t h4,.. :
occasion spnco W ysa she 1141 otiar ,,
Aiming'
" Mr. IVAutvi ii:447411u, Asta , § o lo l OP,
bluwn out. beside rmiviogimmortioviSh,l,
on. eteunday *tet t by ibei•gr6lnMi'd I"
rork;lin the limestone 46iity): Jr Nfi
bra horn he Was Sl 14' 411 1 41.'
vbatling.-4-44trogi Gb. Dew.. .
BEIM
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