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Offict in Centre Alttiljn tfte rcarqf If. B. Mas rr Stiitv.) THE" AMERICAN" id published every Satur day at TWO DOLLARS per Annum to be paid half yearly in advance. No paper discontin ued till all arrearages are paid. No subscription received for a less period than am month. All communication or li tter on business relating to the office, to insure attention, mnat be POST PAID. i. ' . ." 1 ' " ' ' 1 ' ' --" " HON. MOWIS r. 1.1XN. In the Senate, Mr. Benton announced the death of hid late colleague, Dr. Linn. His ad dress made a deep impression, and was exceed ingly appropriate and interesting. Mr. Benton said : Mr. President: I rise to make the Senate the formal communication of an event which lias occurred during the recess, and has been heard by all with the deepest regret. My col league and friend, the late Senator Linn, depar ted this life on Tuesday, the 3d day of October Inst, at the early sge of forty years, and without the warnings or the sufferings which usually precede our departure from this world. He laid him down to sleep, and awoke no more. It was to him the sleep of death ! and the only drop of consolation in this sudden and calami tous visitation was, tliot it took place in his own house, and that his unconscious remains were immediately surrounded by his family and friends, and received all the care and aid which love and skill could give. I discharge a mournful duty, Mr. President, in bringing this deplorable event to the formal notice of the Senate ; in ollering the feeble tri bute of my applause to the many virtues of my deceased colleague, and in asking fur his memo ry the lust honors which the respect and affec tion ol the Senate bestow upon the name of a deceased brother. Lewis Field Linn, the subject of the annun ciation, was born in the State ol Kentucky, in the year l''Xt, in the immediate vicinity of Lou isville. His grandfather was Colonel William Linn, one of the favorite officers of General George Rodgers Clark, and well known for his courage and enterprise in the early settlement of the Clreat West. At the age of eleven he fought in the ranks of men, in the defence of a station in Western Pennsylvania, and was seen to deliver a deliberate ami effective fire. He was one of the first to navigate the Ohio and Mississippi from Pittsburg to New Orleans, and back again a daring achievement, which himself and some others accomplised for the public service, and amidst every species of danger, in the year 1770. He was killed by the Indians at an early period; leaving a family of young children, of whom the worthy Colonel William Pope (father of Governor Pope, and heid ofthe numerous and respectable family of that name in the West) became the guardian. The father of Senator Linn was among these children, ami at an early uge, skating upon the ice near Louisville, with three other lioyF, he was taken prisoner by the Shawnee Indians, carried off, and detained captive fir three years, when all four made their escape and returned Inline by killing their guard, traversing some hundred miles of wilderness, and swim rung the Ohio river. The mother of Senator Linn was a Pennsykaiiiiiu by birth ; her maiden name Hunter; bom at Carlisle ; and also had heroic blood in her veins. Tradition, if not history, preserves the recollection of her courage and conduct at Fort Jefferson, at the Iron Banks in 171, when the Indians attacked and were re pulsed from that post. Women and boys were men in thoe days. The father of Senator Linn died young, leaving this son but eleven years of age. The cares of un elder brother supplied (as tar as such a los could be supplied) the loss of a father ; and under his auspices the educa tion of the orphan was conducted. He was in tended for the medical profession, and received his education, scholastic and professional, in the State of his nativity. At an early age he was qualified for the practice of medicine, and com menced it in the then Territory, now State of Missouri; and was immediately amongst the for most of his profession. Intuitive sagacity supplied in him the place of long experience; and boundless benevolence conciliated univer sal esteem. To all his patients he was the same, flying with alacrity to every cull, attend ing upjn the poor and humble .ealously as on the rich and powerful, on the stranger as He entered this body in 18:13 ; death dissol ved his Connection with it in 113. For ten years he waa a beloved and distinguished member of this body ; and surely a nobler or a finer character never adorned the character ofthe American Senate. lie was my friend ; hut I speak not the language of friendship when I speak his praise. A debt of justice is all that I can attempt to discharge ; an imperfect copy of the true wan is all that I can attempt to paint. A sagacious head, and a feeling heart, were the great characteristics of Dr. Linn. He had a judgment which penetrated both men and things R'x' give him near and clear views of fur distant events. 1 Ie saw at once the bearing the remote bearing of great measures, ei ther for good or for evil -, and brought instantly to their sr.ppnrt, or opposition, the logic of a prompt and natural eloquence, more beautiful in ils delivery, and more effective in its ap plication than any art can bestow. He had great fertility of mind, and was himself the au thor and mover of many great measures some for the benefit ofthe wholo Tnion some for the benefit ofthe Great West some for the benefit of his own State many for the benefit of private individuals. The pages of our legislative history will hear the evidences of these meritorious labors to a remote and grateful posterity. Brilliant as were the qualities of his head, the qualities of his heart still eclipsed them. It is to the heart, we look for the character ofthe man-, and what a heart had Lewis Linn ! The kindest, the gentlest, the, most feeling, and the most, generous that ever beat in the bosom of bearded men ! And yet, when the occasion required it, the most daring also. He never beheld a case of human woe without melting before it; he never encountered tin apparition of earthly danger without giving it defiance. Where the friend, or even the stranger, in danger or distress, to whose succor he did not fly, and whose sorrowful or pcrilious case he did not make his own? When where uas he ever called upon lor service, or a sacrifice and rendered not, upon the instant, the one or the other, as the occasion required ! The fccnatotial service of this rare man fell upon trying times high party times when the collisions of party too often embitter the ardent feelings of generous natures; but who ever knew bittcrnces, or party animosities in him! He was, indeed, a party-man as true to his party as to his friend and his country ; but, beyond the time of duty and of principle beyond the debute and the vute he knew no party, and saw no opponent. Who among us all, even after the fiercest debate, ever met him without meeting the be nignant smile and the kind salutation ! Who of us all ever needed a friend without finding one in him ! Who of us all was ever stretch ed upon the bed of sickness without finding him at its side! Who of us all ever knew of a person: I difficulty of which he was not, us far as possible the kind composer ! Such was Senator Linn, in high party times, here among us. And what lie was here, a mong us, he was every where and with every body. At home, among his friends and neigh bors ; on the liiirh road, among carnal acquaint ances ; in foreign lands among strangers ;' in all, and in every of these situations, he was the same thin-.'. He had kindness and sympathy for every human being; and the whole voy age of hi life was one continued ami benign circumnavigation of all the virtues which adorn and o.alt the character of man. Piety, chari ty, benevolence, fjcnoroity, courage, patriotism fidelity, all shone conspicuously in him, and might extort from the beholder the impressive interrogatory, Fur tchut j'lnev was thin man math? Was it for the Senate, or the camp ! For public or fur private life 1 For the bar or the bench ! For the art whivh heals the dis- point, omnng his measures for the benefit of the whole Union, to the Oregon Bill ; among his measures for the benefit of his own etote, to the acquisition of the Platte Country; among his private virtues, to the lovo and affection which lie bore to that brother the half-brother only who, only thirteen years older than him self, had been to him the tendcrest of fathers. For twenty-nine years I had known the depth of that affection, and never saw it burn more brightly than in our last interview, only three weeks before his death. He had just travelled a thousand miles out of his way to see that bro ther ; and his name was still the deepest theme of his conversation a conversation, strange to tell! which turned, not upon the empty and and went to Baltimore, leaving both wife and children almost destitute, where ho remained about three months and returned with promis es of reformation. His father-in-law emigrated to Ohio, where ho purchased for all his chil dren a section of land. Helhnan received for his wife's share a section in Carroll county, to which lie removed, selling his property in Vir ginia for iJCMHHI, though everyone was astonish ed ot his possessing so much wealth by the mere use of his needle. During the five years of his residence in Ohio, the lot ol his poor wife was every way miserable. Ho left. Carroll for Iigan county, and then possessed two fine farms, and resided near his two brothers-in-law, Gen. John and Mr. George Abel, who were fleeting subjects of the day, but upon things j comfortably conditioned with large families, solid and eternal upon friendship, and upon ! Hellman had three fine children, and about a death, and upon the duties ofthe living to the i year after their residence in Logan, he attempt dead. He spoke of two friends whom it was j cd to poison his wife, which she discovered and natural to believe that he should survive, and to prevented. For the year following this event whose memories he intended to pay the debt of friendship. Voin calculation ! Vain impulsa he apparently became more morose and sullen, but his family had become used to it, and e.v- tion of generosity and friendship! One of ! peeled nothing better, these two friends now discharges that mourn- j I ih0 month of April I:?!), all three oi the fill debt to him : the Other has Written, Hie a children worn Kiiililenlv taken sick, rind laid in letter, expressing his "deep sorrow for the un timely death of our fiiend, Dr. Linn. Cose of Horn Driprrnle Cliarnclrr. We have already staled that Horn was con victed of the murder of his wife at Baltimore. great suffering for about -IS hours, when 1-ouisn, the oldest, aged 17 years, and John, the young est, aged P2 years, died, and both were buried in one grave, leaving tho mother inconsolable lor her loss. Her whole attention, however, was still required for poor Henry, who laid several days in great suffering, but he finally leeovered. This was a sad stroke to the heart after the jury had been nut but a few minutes The Baltimore Sun has been able to collect ma ny interesting and startling fids concerning ; of the already grief-stricken mother, which w as his history, which are worthy of notice ot this : doubly heavy on her, from the firm belief she time. entertained that their death had resulted from It appears that his real name is Adam Hell- poison, and that that poison had been adnvuis man, lirn at Worms, in 170'J, and conse- '; tered to them by the hand of their father ; by quently is a Hessian by birth. He was op- ' that hand which should have brushed away prenticcd to the tailoring business ; and after i from their path every thorn that could harm serving out his time, he worked his way over I them ! The belief is now-general throughout ( ' i r i . i . ... wermany, ami nnaiiy arrivco in liammorc m 117. He worked three years in that city as a journeyman, and was much esteemed as on in telligent, industrious, well-beloved young mnn. Bui it seems that he hud imbibed a strong dis- like to the female race, as much as an inipres- the country that their blood j-also on the bead of Andrew Hellman, but whether true or false, remains to be decided between him and his (iod. It would seem if the charge bo correct. to have been a miraculous intervention of Pro vidence that poor Henry, the child of misfor readily as on the neighbor, .discharging to all eases of the body, or that which cures the in the duties of nurse md friend, aswdl as of ! ,inni'ic8 (,f,l,e S,,1,e 1 IV which of all these physician, and wholly regardless of bis own in. terett, or even of his own health, in his zeal to serve n', to save others. The highest piofessional honors and rewards were before him. Though commencing on a provincial theatre, there was not a capital in Hurope or America in which he would iwi have nttaincd the front rank in physic or surgery. Put his fellow citizens perceived in his varied abilities capacity and aptitude for service in a different walk. He was called into the poli ical field by an election to the Senate of his adopted State. Thence he was called to the performance of judicial duties, by a Federal ap pointment to investigate land titles. Thence he was called to the liiirh station of Senator in th Congress of the United States first by an exacutive appointment, then by three suc cessive almost unanimous elections. The last of those elections he received but ono year ego, and had not commenced his duties un der ithad not sworn under the certificate which attested it when a sudden and prema ture death put sn end to his earthly career. was he born ! And the answer is, tor all. He was born to fill the largest and mo.-t va ried circle of human excellence ; and, to crown all these advantages, nature hail given him wliut tho great l,ord Bacon calls a perpetual letter of recommendation a countenance, not only good, but sweet and winning radiant with the virtues of the soul captivating uni versal confidence , and such as no stranger could bcholJ no traveller, even in the desert, could meet, without stopping to reverence, and saying : Here is a man in whose hands I could deposite life, liberty, fortune, honor. Alas! that so much excellence should have perished no soon 1 that such a man should have been snatched away at the early ago of forty-eight, and while all his faculties were still ripening and developing. In tho life and character of such a man, so exuberant in all that is grand and beautiful in human nature, it is difficult to particularize ex cellences or to pick out any one quality, or cir cumstance, which could claim pre-eminence over all others. If I should attempt it, I would sion that they were entitled to no rights or i tune, tho one alone above all others that his fa consideration. Woman, according to his n- ther disliked and ill-treated, was the one that pinion, was only created as a convenience for j outlived the effects ofthe deadly poison. After the other sex, to serve in the capacity of a j protracted suffeting we come to the history of hewer ot wood and drawer of water, to cook : her hard fate. On Saturday morning, the Cth his victuals, darn his stockings, never to speak j of Sep'ember, 1QW, Mrs. Rachael Abel, the but when spoken to, and to crouch in servile , wife of Mr. George Abel, came to the house fear whilst in his presence. He regarded the n SP( ,rr sister-in-law, and so soon as she en scriptural pnrasc appucu to tnc sex, as a help ,rroi the door she was surprised to sec Hellman mate tor man, in its literal sense, whilst be lying in bed in the front room, with his Iwad would deny her all social privileges and rights. fHP0 , c0thinr covered with blood. Will nnu u.is is n.s present opinion ; lor wUen ho an exclamation of wonder, she asked him hat was sending a message to hi son in relation . was the matter. He replied, affecting to be to marrying, and was recommended to advise scarcely able to speak from weakness and loss his son to marry a religious woman, he said, I of blood, that two nights previous, r.t a late Ao, no, no women must know how to hoid hour, a loud rap had summoned him to the door, their tongues and obey she has nothing to do on opening it, two robbers had entered, one a witti man. : large (lark inun, (inraning a negro,) ami a small In 1'J() he emigrated to I.rudon county in 1 white man, when he had immediately been irginia,and hoarded with a German farmer 1 levelled to t!ie floor with a heavy club. How of character by the nome of Abel, who took a ; be had got into bed, ho could not tell, but that great fancy to him, and concealing his opinion he had been lying there suffering ever since of the sex, he was a welcome inmate in his unable to get out. large family, rind in the course of time sue- On hearing his story, and from his bloody ceeded in securing the affections of his daugh- ', appearance Bnd apparent faiutness not doubting ter. Mary Abel wasal this time in the twen- : if, Mr. Abel exclaimed, "Where in the name t iet.li year of heragr, a blithe, buxom, and light- ol God, is your w ifo !" to which he replied, "I hearted country girl, with rosy cheek and spark- do not know ; go and see." On pushing open ling eye, totally unacquainted with the deceit- the back room rioor, a scene of blood met hi fulness of the world, and looking to the future view that it would be impossible fully to de to be a counterpart of the past, which had truly ; scribe. In the centre ofthe room lay the mnn been to her ono continued round of innocent : "led corpse of the poor wife, with her blood pleasure and happiness. With a kind Jnd affec- drenching the IW,r, whilst the ceiling, wa tionate disposition, and a thorough and practical and furniture were heavily sprinkled with tho knowledge of all the varied duties of honr.e. streams w hieli had evidently giii-hed from th wiferv, rhc would be iiit such an one as would ' numerous Wounds she had received in the be calculated, if united to a kind and affection- dreadful struggle. At this inoinuiit, Gener; ate liustiauii, to nans turou2u the eliemiereu Abel entered, atul riu.rtiv alter nun a coroner scenes ot life with all the sweets of content- and a physician. Twelve nu n were iminedi ine;:t, and but few ot the bitters ot discord. She alely selected as a jury of inquest, 1 1 examine married Hellinan with the consent of the I'umi- into the cause of the death of Mrs. llellinan ly, and lived with them two years, restrained The jury 'neing sw orn, and having entered on by their presence from evineipg the fiendish. ' their duly. General Abel openly charged . n- ness of his temper ; he gradually lost all aflec- j drew Hellman with being her murderer. Tho tion for her, and after the birth of a daughter jury wero struck with astonishment as they he became furiously jealous of lief, accused her ( looked at Ilollinnn, lying prostrate on Ins bed, of infidelity, and treated her with the greatest and demanded ot the accuser what evidence ko cruelty and contempt. In return for every at- ; had to substantiate such a charge, The atllic- lention and kindness, she received nothing but ted brother, in reply stated that ho unfortunate- " i, of the deceased his knife was covered wi blood, was found concealed on the hearth of tho chimney his tailor socks were found in the cellar, covered with blood arid the shirt he had on, as well as his arm, were saturated will) blood up to the elbow. There was, therefore, nothing wanting lo i dentily him, fully and conclusively, as the mur derer, mid he was forthwith committed for trial, and the remains of his victim, having laid two days exposed before discovery, were, on the e veiling of the same day, followed to the grave by a large concourse of friends and relatives, and deposited by the side of her two children, wlrom she had sorrowed over but five months previous. The body was lying on the floor, but from the fact that a quantity of blood was found in the of tire bed, it is supposed that she was lying asleep at the time ofthe attack, whol ly nnconcious of any impending evil. The stains on the pillow indicated that she hud par- t inlly risen tip afier the first blow, and had been ain knocked back on the bed. The 6olcs of icr feet were saturated in blood, which led to the belief that she had managed to get out ol bed, and had stood erect in her own Wood on the tloor before she was finally despatched. Six listinct cuts, apparently inflicted with tho han dle of an axe, were discovered on her head. The hands and arms were dreadfully bruised, as if she had, in the same manner as his second victim, endeavored thus to ward off the blows aimed at her head, whilst tho little finger of the left hand, and the fbrc finger of the right hand were both broken. A large gish, laying open the llesh to the bone, was visible on the right thigls opparently inflicted with an axe, and across the wholo length of the obdomen there extended a heavy bruise, in the shape of a letter X, in the centre of which was a large mark of bruised blood, at least six inches square, An attempt had teen made with the axe to se ver the head from the body, and three separate gashes, ptssing nearly through the neck, the edge ofthe blade entering the floor, appeared lo have been the finishing stroke of the bloody deed. Hellman was arrested, charged with the murder, but being wealthy, employed able counsel, and after fourteen months' confine ment, broke jail and got off, concealed himself for pome time in Pennsylvania, and finally, in II, married Malina Ilinkle, murdered her, cut up her body in such a way as not to expose himself to the difficulties encountered in the tmmlcr of his first wife, and is now waiting for sentence nnd execution for tins murder, and cannot, it is hoped, escape. 'Oh! whilabaloo! wilabaloo! sure I'm mad, or enchanted by the good people,' roared Pat, dancing round the room. But there are conditions,' said Lady C. 'Af ter the first day of our nuptials you must never pee me again nor claim ma for your wifo.' 'I don't like that,' says Pat, for ho had been ogling her ladyship most desperately. 'But remember Kathleen O'Reily. With the money I'll give, you may go and marry her.' That's thruc,' says he. 'But thin tho b threats and imprecations. Instead ofthe en dearing name of wife, she was always called "my woman," and his ideas of the degrading duties and dishonorable stution of woman fully applied to her. He had, however, never used any personal violence, and she consequently felt bound, for the 6ake of her children, not to desert him. In tho spring of 1Q1, he rented a small place in lioudon, about a mile from her father's, where they lived for nearly eight years, during which time in June, lt!7, John ly had no evidence, but desired that the phy sician in attendanco would examine Hellmun's wounds. The examination was accordingly' made, and the result wr.j that not a cut, or a. bruise, could be found in any part of his person. Not only morally, but pract'cally, vas it thus established, beyond the haduv of a doubt, thai ' her blood was oi his heud." Ho had evident ly taken up a quantity of her blood and thrown it on b.s heuu and shoulders, in order to give credence to bis story, which act alone served as Hellman, a third child, wan born, at which ! positive evidence of his guilt. On a further time he openly declared that if she ever had an other he would kill her. This however, was her last child. On one occasion, whilst living on this place, he left her, in a tit of passion, search being made ofthe premises his axe was found leaning against the bar post, about fifty yards from the house, recking with blood, and hair sufficient sticking to it to identify it as that A. FLEET MAltlUAGE, BV AN IRISHMAN. Lady C. was a beautiful woman, but lady C. was an extravagant woman. She was still single, though rather passej extreme youth. Like most pretty females, she had looked too high, had estimated her own loveliness too dearly, and now she refused to believe that she was not as charming as ever. So no wonder she still remained unmarried. ljidy C. had about five thousand pounds in the world. She owed about forty thousand pounds; so, with all her wit and beauty, she got into the Fleet, and was likely to remain there. Now, in Ihe time t speak of every lady had her head dressed by a barber ; and the barber of the Fleet was the handsomest barber in the city ol Iindon. Pat Pbilan Was a great aJmirer of the fair sex; and w he re's the wonder ! Sure Put was an Irishman. It was one very fine morning, when Piiilan was dressing her capti vating head, that her ladyship took it into her mind to talk to him, and Pat was well plcsscd, for Lady C.'s teeth were the whitest and her smile tho brightest inllio world. S.i you're not married, Pat,' says she. Not an inch! your honor's ladyship,' says he. ' tid wouldn't you like to be married V a iain asks she. 'Would a duck swim!' 'Is there any one you'd prefer V May be, madam,' says he, 'you niver heard of Kathleen O'Reily, down boyant D,inerail? Her father's cousin to O'Poniijrhmv, who's own "tewardto Mr. Murphy, the U'.ider-agent to my Lird Kingstown, and' 'Hush !' snys she, iire I don't want to know who she is. Bu would she buve Voa if vo-i asked her !' 'Ah, 'Vm, I'd only wish I'd ba after trying tha. same.' 'And why don't Vou V 'Sure Pin too poor. And Philan heaved a prodigious sigh. 'Wo'jld you like to be rich V 'Does a dog bark V If 1 make you rich will you do as I tell yon?' 'Millo numbers ! your honor, don't be tan talizing a poor boy.' 'Indeed I'm not,' said Lady C. 'So listen. How would you like 13 marry me 1' 'Ah, thin, my lady, I belive the King ofllus sia himself would be proud to do tho tame, lave alone poor Pat Philan.' Will, Philan, if you'll marry me to-inor-tow I'll give you a thousand pound.' gamy V I'll never appear against you,' says her la dyship. 'Only remember you must take nn oath never to call mo your wifo after to-mor row, and never to go telling all the story.' 'Bit of a word I'll ivcr say.' 'Well, then' says she, 'there's ten pounds. Go nnd buy a licence, and leave the rest to me;' and then she explained to him where he was to go, and when he was to come, and all that. The next day Pat was true to his appoint, mcnt, and found two gentlemen already wi'U her ladyship. 'Have you got the license !' says she. 'Here it in, my lady,' 6ays he ; and he pavo it to her. She handed it to one ofthe gentle, men, who viewed it atlentively. Then, calling in her two servants, she turned to the gentle man who was reading. 'Perform the ceremo ny,' Bays she. And sure enough in ten minutes Pat Philan was the husband, the legal husband, ofthe love ly Lady C. 'That will do,' says she to her now husband, as he gave her a hearty kiss ; 'that'll do.' 'Now, sir, give me my marriage certificate.' The old gentleman did so, and, bowing respectfully ti the five-pound note she gave him, he retired wilh his clerk ; for sure enough, I forgot to tell you thai he was a parson. 'Go and bring me the warden,' 6ays my la dy to one of her servants. Yes, my lady,' says she ; and presently lha warden appeared. Will you be good enough,' says Lady C, in a Vorce that would call a bird from off a tree ; will you be good enough to send and fetch a hackney-coach 1 I w ish to leave this placo immediately.' 'Your ladyship forgets, replied he, 'that you must pay foity thousand pounds before I can let you go.' 'I am a married woman. You can detain my husband, but not me.' And she smiled at Phi lan, who began rather to dislike the appearance of things. 'Pardon me, my lady, it is well known yoa are single.' 'I tell you I am married.' 'Where's your husband V 'There, sir !' and she pointed to the astonish, od barber ; 'there he stands. Here is my iiKir. riage certificate, which you can peruse at yoir leisure. My servants yonder were witnesses) of the ceremony. Now detain me sir, one in stant at your peril.' The warden was dumb-founded, and no won der. Poor Philan would have spoken, but ne: ther would let him. The lawyer below wa consulted. The result was evident. Inlulf an hour Lady C. was free, and Pat Piiilan, her legitimate husband, a prisoner for debt, to th amount of forty thousand pounds. Well, sir, for some time Pat thought lit? wan in a dream, and the creditors thought, they were still worse. The following day tin y held a meeting, and, finding how they had bee it tricked, swore they'd detain poor Put foreveu But as they knew he had nothing, and would'nt. feel much shame in going through the Insol vent Court, they made the best ofa bad bar gain, and let him tmt Well, you must know, about a Veek after tins', Paddy Philan was setting by his little fire, and thinking over the wonderful things he hail seen, when, as sure as death, the postman brought him a letter, the first he had ever re ceived, which ha took ever to a friend of his, one Ryan, a f.u it-seller, because you see ho was no great hand at reading writing, to de cipher fur him. It ran thus: 'Go to Dor.eraile and marry Kathleen O' Reilly. The instant the knot is tied I will fulfil my promise of making ' comfortable fur lifi But, as you valuf your lite and liberty, never breathe a syllable of what has pari!. Remember yon are in my power if you tell tho story. The money will be paid to you c'i rectly you enclose your marriage cer' flif". I send you XMfor present expenses C Oh, happy Paddy ! t) i!n't be st -.rt n.-xt J .y for Cork, sn.l didn't he marry K it! een mid touch a thousand pound! By the power Im did. And, what is mere, be to. k a Cottigt, which perhaps you know, not a huii lred nn!e from Brutlin, in the county of Limerick ; am1, I'laix, he forgot his first wife clean and entiie. ly, and never lold any one but myself, under i promise of secrecy, the story ot his 'Fleet Mm riage.' Every foul knows how often ho has been a rogue, but every rogue does not know how o: teu h has bk-n a fool.
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