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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.