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X-I'N'Sx.CLAN AND SURGEON.
Boot. H. Hinkley, ---
1.• c on :%lain Sneet, near Me Post 1)1*
Jr. 11. is prepared to we Ora rail i , lll
as .t r......ed..dage.n. 'Who trewneni of Paraly•
sin, N....r.11,..mt and 11.10mniatte alftstmns, hilt
_dass,Jusl.4Ltutsani.ve sticees from its
..I.ll.ll.oation_t_O....
all or ..You any o'l thmo discase.9. .12.01.0 has
been given awl curbs elb;ciod in a number of
ins...moos, and May be In others.
dl troll 27, 1830, ly• •
Doctor Ad. Lippe,
llt imotiloi'ATli Physician Office
in \LIM street. in the house formerly (me
Fn I m
hy 1. 1 . 13. Lechler. ;fp '4‘.l
•
• fir, F,t A .
/- 1111,11 perform al
()perm tots upon the
'Teeth that are requi•
red for their preservation, such as l.tlettling,
iSz..e or will restore the loss of them,
by inserting Teeth, front a single tooth
/, n Call se tt, Vitt/lice on Pat. street, n few
ours south of the Itailr.mil Hotel,. Dr. is nit
wit the last ton days 01 every ',non'''.
a Card.
1 .1 . ••%Y. Surgeon Dentist
tanner patrons that he has re•
tom; I to Garliste, nut] will be glna to attend to
all e i!I• tin the line or his procession. loet3l
John Williamson,
'I"I . OIZN.EY . AT- LAW.—Orrice, in the
er Miss near the store el
A & \\* 11,•wz, Smith Honorer stteet, Cat lisle,
Penn'a. ap] 0 50
Carson C. Moore,
A, ORNEY AT LAW. Office in
iI rosin laidly occupied by Dr. roster,
deceased. , moor 31 '47
Wm. IL Penrose,
4, 1' FORNEY Al' 1A W, practice in
the several Court's of Gumberiand county.
Ol I'lo in m utt strew, in the room runwa
y occupied (4. Brapdebuiy.
. James R, Smith,
A TTORNE Y AT LAW. Has RE
' -``. ED his nuke to Lteetem's Row, two
onr.§ ft tint Burkholder's lintel. kw
6.74t0 G.E_ MGM
USTICE OF THE PEACE. Or
" FICI: at lt,s,apsidange. corner of .Maio Street
and the PtilittiS•tv%Sivare, opposite Burkholder's
Httef. In it,lditi.m to the duties of Jtisti.•e of
1.11•3 Peace, will atuitid to all kinds of writing,
su di as deeds, bands", molar:lc:es, indentures,
articles oltagreemettLitotesi &e• . .
Carlisle, ;kit Fi'49. •
IXTGO.D'S 1-ZOTFL,
Corner owl Pitt et , nt the I
1 1. Railroad Depot, Ca
John •8, NV 'OO4. •
•
rlim II tieing completely chanted and
rciltivalcd, end ,vill ',crueller (dlee nicien.s-
e d; die ,•m iiin dalions to the travelling public, fur
e•hiab its convenient location isladmivablycal-
To those persons who wish to pass tlie warm
season in the eouoiry Jew places will be found
ut inch mire lbws to
being surriiimilml by n beautiful limitary, and
haying the best Sulphur Springs in thin Slate in
he itinpedinte Ljel9,'os
Plainfield Classical Academy,
NILES iVE , T OF , ARLISI.I7.
' The Ninth SesSioll. nil? commence on .110.1
I). r, ..1 orc mher Ilh, 1850.
eonhequetice of increasing ini , ennage a
Lugs and eiininiodiuus blick edifice has
desirable tn.titunous iti the 51/Ile. The various
departnieiii, are •undei the CdIC of etinipetiit
end 18100+11 instructors, and ever) endea‘or kill
be made to promote tire moral and intellectual
improvement of student;. surronading
country is beautiful and healdilud tied lint
stinitioll stillicieinly distant inn!' town er village
to preveitt evil essoeiutioa3.
--4350i3ep-'xissi.u3
For eireidsrs with lull iiifooliation adduss
K 13 II,N S, Principal
Plainfield P, 0., Cumber - rand County, Pa.
nct2'so -
Fresh Drugs, Medicines, &c• Eke
‘ .. „741. I IMO: jot received from PHI:idol•
phis and New York very extensive
'
additions to my former.stock, embrit-.
clog nevly every article of Medicine
now in use, together with Paints,
Oils, Varnishes, Turpentine, Perfumery, Soaps;
Stationery, Fine Cutlery, Fishing Tackle,—
Bridles of almost every description, with nn
endless variety of other art I ant
terminal tossell at the vr v LotersT prices.
All Physicians, Coun y Merchants, Pedlars
and others, are respectfully.requested not to pass
the OLD STAND, as they may rest assured
that every article will be sold of a good quality,
find upon reasonable terms.
S. ELLIOrf,
Main street. Carlisle.
May 30
Extensive Furniture Rooms
TAAIE I?..WE'A.VER. would respectlully
el call the attention of House Keepers and the
public to his extensive stuck of ELEGANT
GRNI 1' • including Solos, :Wardrobes,
Centre and other -Tabli,s, pressinKantl„pliiin
Bureaus and eVery,„4l,ll , :u'iirltae•nrhisimielt of
business. All-1u ~ n nw on hood the largest as
sortment of Cll.tlttS in Carlisle, at the lowest
prices. VI - Collins made at the shortest notice
and a Hearse provided for funerals. Ho colic.
its a call at hi, ,:stablislitnent on . North Ilano•
ver street, near Glass's 110 TEL.. N. 8.-Fur
niture hire,l out by the month or year.
Carlisle, March 2y. 1850.—1 y •
John P. Lyne
..,VII.OLEISALE and Retail Dealer• in
Domestic Hardware, Paint,
Oil, Glais, Varnish,..ke, at the old - stand in N
Hanover street, article, has just received Iron)
Noll York ard Philadelphia a large addition to
hii hornet stock, 16 which the attentkiii - of hny•
ere is requested, as he is determined to sell
lower than ;my Other Amuse in town. aprl9
GEORGE Z. RELETZ,
URGEON I)EN:PIST—wouId respectful.;
ly inform - the public that' he is nuly prepar
ed to perform all operations on the Teeth that
may be 'required. Ariilicial Teeth inserted,
from-e..sing_le tooth to an collie set, upon the
latest'and most . approved principle, The pa
tronw of the public is respectfully solicited.-
7{e tii•ty lie lu - rind• thir residence of his bro
ther on North Pitt street. ..
Carlisle, Sept 18, 4150.
Lumber-Yard.
THE sub„scriber would respectfully inform
his friends ininlre public generally-that, he hue
just, Opened n now LHIIIIER AND COAL
,YARD in West High airect, a row doors cant
'uliVressra".l 14'D Rhoads's Warehouse, when?
'he has hod will keep constantly on
hand a first rate assortment of all kinds of sea
soned pine boards and plank and all other kinds
of atoll', ail or which he will sell low for cash
Aptil 3,1850. JOHN N. ARMSTRONG
:Notice
.TIIG Ccunnivioncrs of Cumbeiland county
doom it proper to inform the public. thel tho.eta
eti'meetingsbr the Board of Cdininiasioncre will
be hold on the epcond and fourth lion(laya of
each month, at Which titrm any persons having
business with .anid Board. will meet them at
tnewr
• ‘, wm. RTLEY.
Dyeing and Sc,auing,
WILLIAM BLAIR, in Lowther Street,
v v 'near Iho Canoga, tlyoS Ladies' and (/tio
' apparrel, all colors; and warrants all work
oloi satisfactory. Orslers in his lino rospedtfolly
—0 sop 2 '46
IINOLi11).. writing fluid, a very. 'eu
' "`• tur nalr. nt 111 1 BRA RD'S
_ ,
a l _Family -alltaysPezPer,-- Devoted to Literaguke,‘ agricultuie, 'Politicsq Itarsincss onertyromer a i integri t y ence.
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THERE ARE TWO TIHNGS, -SA ITH LORD BACON, WHICH MAKE A NATION- GREAT AND PROSPEROUS—A FERTILE SOIL AND BUSY WORKSHOPS,—To WHICH, LET ME ADD, KNOWLEDGE AND FREP:uom._Bo,ho i , tldL
1 1 ) 9req. 1 .0)
'.t • ••••
THE OLD TURNPIKE.
NS'e heat' an more the clinging hoof,
and 1111! Align conch nulling by;
I:or the. straw king rules the travelled world,
And the old Pike's% left to die.
The grass creeps o'er the [linty path,
And the st.lrhy - thrisies - stral,
hvre once the' singe-horse day by day
I.llled his Iron heel'.
No more the weary starer dreads
The toil of the coining morn
No inn, Ihe bustling landlord runs
Al Ihr sownd of the . echoing horn:
For the dust lies still upon road,
And hright-eyed children play, '
lVhere litre t he clattered hoof and wheel,
Rattled along the way.
No more we lien.' the cracking Whip,
Or trie strong wheels rumbling round ;
Alt ha. the water ;Nees Ile oil,
And an ilea horse is 1 . 01110 !
The coach slands rusting in the yard, .
And the horse has 5011011 liie lOW ;
We have spanned the world with - an iron rail,
And the ste ‘ ati4ing rules us now !
flit old Turnplke,is n pike no more,
Wide open stands the gate ;
We have made-us a road for our horse to Stride,
Which we ride at a flyina rale.
Wolin-ire tilled flre - Valrey.ihnd levered the Mils;
And tunneled the mountain's side.
And round the Trough crag's dizzy verge,
Fearlessly on ire ride
On—On—On—with n hnughly front!
A pull'. n shriek and a hound,
While the tardy echoes woke too late,
To luildde Lack the sound ;
And the old l'ilie-road is tell alone,
And the stager's sought the plough
We has2ir, led the eari s li with an iron rail,
And sltTin-king tuts, en now
Select
TuE HAUNTED INN.
ll=
My horse had cast a shoe, and i•toppiug about
sunset, at . a blacksinith's c thin in one of the
most savage basses of the Alleghenies, a smut
ty-fliced, leather-aproncd fellow, was noon ell-.
gaged hi putting Ins feet in order, to encounter
the 111,16., toadaolihe mountains, when the up
ciatiotr-kvas inierrupted in the manner here re
lated :
.`Pardon mc; sir,' cried a middle aged travel
ridir.g up to thd Smithy, and throwing him
self from Iris horse, jo,t as the shaggy-bonded
vulerin, linving taken the heels of 'my nag in
to his lap, was proceeding to pa're oft' tire hoof,
preparatory to fitting- tire shoe, which he liad
wrought Into shimq and thrown upon the block
soil beside him -- 'Pardon me,' repdated the
stronger; raising his brritid-brimmed beaver
frefin a head remarkable for what the phrenolo
gist wonld c.. 11 the uncommon developement'of
revealed by the Melts which parted
over a pair of melancholy gray cycs—.Matters .
of icemen!. 'peke it important for me to bd a
dozen miles hence before nightfall, and you will
place me, sir, under singul rr obligations, by
intoning this good fellow to attenlly beast
immediately.
The confident, and not ungraceful manner
in which the stranger throw himself upon my
courtesy, sufficiently marked him as a man of
breeding, and I, of c o urse, complied With his
l't guest by the ticcessar order to the
blaelcs.mith. His hors - c was'soon put in' travel- .
fog trim, and leaping, lig,litly into the saddle,
Ire regained the highway at a bound ; cheeltio r g
his horse then a moment, he turned in Iris
stirrur-s to thank me for the blight service I had
rendered him, and giving an address, which I
AILLVe now forgottenTfie ridded ihul. -- Fleie - r I
should enter-_- 7 -,-.'s valley, 1 might be sure of a
cordial•Arvedeorno from the proprietor.
An hour afterwards I was pursuing the
same road, and rapidly approaching the end of
my day's jour . t . ey. The immediate district tltro'
which I was travelling, had been Fettled-. by '
Germans in the curly days of Pennsylvania—
a scattered community that had been thrown
somewhat in advance of I.lle,moio sluwly extol].
dcd settlements. In populousness and fertility
it did not compare with the re,.ions on" the eas
tern side of the 'moluttains; but the immense
stonobarns, which though but few and far he!
Emelt occasionally inct the eye, not less Ilan
the language spoken around me, indicated that
the inhabititifts were ofJ the same origin with
the industrious deni z ens of the lowqr country.-
One of these stone buildings, an enormous edi
flee, stood upon a hillinimediately baek l of the
Welfswelti Hotel—a miserable wooden hovel
where I was to Pass the night—'and while dc•
seending the hill in the rear of the village, I
Mad leisure to-observe that it preselled a kiifie.-
w,hat ditTerent.appea ranee from the other agri
cultural establishments of the kind which I had
met with during the day. The massive walls
were pierced here and there ivith narrow win
dows, which looked like loop-holes, and ri'elum
sy chimney had been fitted up by some unalcil ! -
ful mechanic against one of the gables, with a
prodigality of materials which Made its jagged
top show like seine old turret, in the growing
twilighti. "The history of this grotesque man
sion, as I subicquently learned it, was that of
a hundred others se.atered over the Country,
and known generally. in the neighl
`Smith,' or `Thompson's fully.' It' hod been
common eed upon an Jambitious scale, hy a per- .
son ‘hoso moans were inadequate to_ its. corn- .
pletien, rind had been sacrificed' at 'public sole
when half finished in order to liqUidate tint
claims of the mechanics employed upon ..it.—
After that it itad heen used ado granary fhr a
while, and subsequently, being rudely oomph
tedwithout any rettirence to the original plan, •
it trod bean occupied as a hotel for a 114 years.,
The ruinous inn hati r howMfer, for a long peri
od been abandoned, and now enjoyed thn gnu •
oral reputation.in the neighborhood liar ing
haunted; for the gibbons aro always sOrb o
take a big house off a landlord's halide when) a
can-got no ether tenatit.....-. .... .- ' ':
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c i \,
...: 'We hpve'nti root» forer
mynke,' se , irfiii - ne .
hosi,, i?eter .§eltinidtsen:llaying his tine od my
bridle as,l rode up to Outdoor of a collar t near
this old building; while three or four wai: nero
smoking their. pipes upon a bench in front' of,
the house, gave a grunt of confirmation to llio
Trunk. eltual of :Peter. I wus too old a stager.'
however, to be summarily turned. away from '
'an hat at such
.arrhour ; and throwing myself
from my"' itot,e without, further parlay, I told •
,tlio landlord to grit. some supper, and WO would .
talk of lodging afhirward: ' -- - 7 . :
It !matters not ho w 1 got Omagh the evening
until the hour offied-time arrived. I mind seen'
ascertained that every bed in tlio hostelry was
- really:taken up, slid that ;micas 1 ohm to share .
ills straw with one of the migoners, who are
accustomed to sleer. in their luinbpritirilehleies
there. was no resource for me, except to occupy
the lonely building, Which had at flint caught .
sty eye upon entering the Itantlet.Upoti' inqui
ring as to the accommodation it iifforcied,l
learned that though long deserted, by any per
manent occupants, it was still occasionally, Mit
_witliblarlding_itsjevil_repolation,-resortiid-to-by
lite passing traveller, and thuNiine or two of the
rooms were yet in good repair and partially
furnished. The good worried' of the house,
MiWever, looked very portcu - tous, when I ex
pressed my determination to take up my abode
for the night in the haunted ruin—though she
tried, indleetually, to rouse her sleeping bus•
band to guide me thither. Aline host had been
luxuriating too freely, en some old Mononga
hela, brought by'a return wagon from Wheel
ing, to heed the jogging of his spouse, and I
was oldiget - Thil - et as my own gentleman ush-
The eight was dark 'and gusty, as with my
saddle bagel!, ono hand, and a stable lantern
in thei+mberj sallied from the.door of the cab
aret, and iltruggled up the . bridotOtill nrita
rear, ti, gain my upinviting place of rest. A
rude porch, which, scorned to ;have been' long'
oncon-cious of editor,'ndmittied me into the
nod tracking my way with some dif
ficulty through a long corridor, of which the
floor appeared to,4tive:heersliwi here and
theret in order to apply the boards to' some oth
er purpose, I came to a steep and narrow stair
case without any balusters. Cautiously ascen
ding, I loundmyself in a large half, which o:
',coed on the hill side against which the house
wm built. It appeared to be lighted by a couple
of windows_only, which were partially
, glazed
in some places and closed up in others by rough
boaids, nailed across in lieu of eltutters. It
had evidently, however, judging from two or
•three ruinous pieces of furniture, been inhabi
ted. A heuq dear, when unken latch . and bin e
ge s, being incapable oh rust, v - ere ntill in and
- repair, admitted Incline an adjoining chamber: -
This-had evidently been the dorMitory of the
establishment, where the gfiests, after the gre
garious and most disagreeable fashion of our
country, were wont to he huddled together in
one large room. The waning 'noon, whose
bright autumnal crescent - was - just beginning to
cart shadows above, the hills, slnolle through
high circular window full into this apartinen
and Indicted a comliirtuble lo king truckle
bed ut the farther end, betbre the rays of my
mkerable lantern had shot beyond the thresli-
Upyn a pproaching the palkt, I observed some
indication of that ad of the apartment being
still occasionally occupied. The heavy booms
which traversed the ceiling appeared to have
been. recently whitewashed. Thero teas a small
'piece of carpet .on the flour beside the bed, and
a decrepit table, and an arm.ehair, whose burly
body was precariously supported upon thrite
legs, were holding an innocent Lett-a-teye in the
Eli=
.I'vulid a ranging' roosting place than this,'•
thought I, as I placed my lantern upon the tl
ble and dvmp,iting my ittiodlit biiga beticiatt it,
r,-
My light having now burnt low, I was coin
pelled.to expedite tli operation of unuressing,
which _prevented Me from examining the apart
ment; and indeed, I had, when first welcoming
with some pleasure - the idea of sleeping in a
u n tetbouse-, -determined - folly xplAin - for
my on n satisfaction, before retiring for the
night, yet fatigue or caprice made, me now read
ily abandon the intention, just when my means
for carrying It into execution were being with_
drawn; for the candle expired while I' was o
pening the door of the lantern, to throw Its
drapery more fully. upon a mass ot apery which
seemed to be suspended across the further end
of the chambei% The complete darkness that
momentarily ensued blinded me entirely ; but
in the course of a few momenta , the shadows
became 111014 distinct, and gradually by the light
of-the moon, I was able to make out that the
object opposite me was only a large old-fashion
ed bedstead, prodigally hung with tatteredcur
taine. I gave no further heed to the subject,
but turning over, composed, myself to rent.
Slet p, however, whom Shakspeare alone has
had the sense to personify as a woman, was coy
in coming to toy couch. 'Tito old mansion
wheezed and groaned, like a brohun•winded
buffalo hard pressed by the hunter. The. wind
which -had-been high-, becanre — soonmmre
terous than ever, and the clouds huddled to
gether io rapidly over the face of the moon,
that her begins were as broken - as the crevices
of ihe seined building through whiclrthe' 1011.
- A shddenktist - would every now and then
sweep throtlifh the long corridot below, and
'aulkejfierW ,i ikety stairetisevack us if ityield
ed to the feel of 'some portly passenger ; again,
the blast would die away in a sullen moan, as
hullied_ou_somew --errand,—while
anon it would swell in monotonous surges,
which came booming; upon the ear like 'the
rear of a dislunt ocean.
a',l) not easily discomposed,- and perhaps
none of these uncouth sounds would have given
annoyance, if the clanking of window•shotters
Murnot heenadded to the general chorus, and
elleetnally kept mu from sleeping. My nerves
were at last becoming sensibly affected by its
ceaseless din, and wishing to cut short the fit
,of 'restlessness which I found stealing upon me,.
I deteimiined tO. rise anil descend the stairs .at
. the tit•lt of my neck, to try nod secure the
shutter sans-to put - on end to the nin6unce.
But now, as I ruse in my bed for that pur
pose, I fotlnd mason' subject to a new source
of annoyance. The tn.mking win.lwhich had
appeared to me more than once to syllable hu
man sounds, came upon ivy ear dibtioctly char
ged, with lobes %%hie!' could riot ho tni,taken.-
1t wits the Itartbsuppressed breathing of amtan.
llistened, and it ceased with a slight gulp, like
that of one laboring under suffocation, 1 lip-'
toned still, and it name aerie--stronger bud .
more fully upon.iny Mir. It was like the thick
stopirations of an upopieetic.• - Whence it
proceeded 1 knew not ; but • that it: teas near
Inc, 1 was certain. A suspicion' - of: robaery— .
possibly as.iaseination. , --tlislied up'dn 'ine; but
was - instantly discarded - , 'll4 foreign - to' the'eliar::
actor of the people among whom I was traiel
The moonlight nbW fell upon the curtained
„
bed Opposite me, midi say the tittered drape
ry 'nova, as if the-frame,- upiM Which it, was.
suspended'was dgirated. 1 watched, I•tiotticse,
with peculiar feeling's Of Interest, I Ives.
not tifirMed,"but- an unaccomilable anxiety
CARLISLE, OCTOBER, 30,
crept over me. At length the curtain parted,
a
and naked. human leg was protruded through
the folds—the fodt came with a' numb, dead
like sound to the floor, restin,g,,it seemed to me,
at least half a minule'before the body . to' which
pallid and khearThly-looking figure emerged
.om_the—cobeh,_andAtodiLtuth stark
talents clearly drawn against (he dingy curtains
behind it. It appeared to be balancing itself for
moment, and then began - to move along fronf
the bed. But tht:re woo something : horribly
nn
nataral In its motions, Its feet, came to _the
floor with a doll, hew) , sound, us if there was
no vitality in them. Its arms hung, apparently
paralized by its side, and the only nerve or
rigidity in its frame appeared abbtit its bead ;
the hair, which woo thin, scattered, stood out in
rigid tufts from Ito brow—the eyes were.dila
led and fixed with an expression of ghostly
horror, and the petrified lips moved not, as the
hideous moaning which came.from the bottom -
of its chest, escaped them. .
it 'began to mere perms the floor in the di
_rection of my-bed with a sudelen_jeali,_..iteai:fy—
(o its body, and its feet coining to the ground
as if they were moved by some. mechanical
impulse, and wholly - wafiting in the eigsficity
of living members. It approached my bed . .-
and mingled horror with curiosity kept ate still.
I Caine and stood beside it, and childl•lta I stilt
citing to my couch most% only to the farther
side. Slowly, and with the same unnatural
footfalls it pur,tied me thither, and again I
changed nay pusition. It placed ilsetf then at
the foot of my bedstead, and moved by its pi
teous groans, 1 It ied'lt, rally my thoughts to
reason with 'myself, and speculate upon the na-
tare of. thesubjjet before,md. One idea_ that:
Went through my brain was too extravagant
not to remember. 1 thought, meting other .
things, that the Phantom was a corpse mutated
for the moment by Mlle 'galvanic process in
order to terrify me. Then, as I recollected
that there was no one in the village to carry
sucli a lriclr sWpposin.;:even the_ex
periment possibl;, 1 rejemed the supposition.—
How, too, 6(4110 those awful moans be produ
ced from an inanimate being? And yet,' it:
seemed as if every. about I t were dead, except
,the mere callabilny of moving Its feet and uts
teritivtliose Linea - rutty expressions of Suffering.
The spectre, however, if so it may be walled,
gave me but little:Opportunity for reaection
ghastly limbs were raised :mew with the
,Moe automatoes inuvc meal; and placiug one
01 its feet upon She bottom
.of toy bed, w hile
its were fixed steadfastly upon me, it be:
gan stalking towards my pillow.
I confess that I was now in agony of horror.
I sprang from die Minch had fled .the apart
ment.. The .keen-sightedness of fear-anAbled
me disOover an open closet upon the other side
of the hall. Springing through the threshold,
closed the, door after 'me. It had neither
lock nor bolt, but the closet was so narrow,
that by placing my feet upon the opposite wall,
could brace my back against my human as
sailant who had only his arms for a lever.
Tire perspiration of moral fear starlin.: thick
upon my forehead, as I heard the supernatural
• n - rstra ige visitant pproac ling, ic
spot. It seemed an age before Ilk measured
step brought him to the dour. He struck it
the blow was sulleh and hollow, as if,ilealt by
the hand of_a___corpse. It, was like the dull
sound of his own feet win') the door. He
I _struck _the.deor_again. and the-blow---was-.more
feeble and the sound duller than before. Sure—
ly, I thought the hand of no living man could
produce such a sound.
I know not whether it struck again, for now
its thick breathings became so loud that even
the meanings which were mingle•l,with every
suspiratton became inuadiblc. At last they
subsided entirely—becoming at first gradually
sneaker, and then audible only in harsh sudden
subs, ivhose duration I cuuld•not estimate', from
their mingling with-the blast that swept the
hill-side.
The long, long night had at last an end, and
the cheering sound of. the. awakening farm
yard told me that the sun was up, and that 1
might venture from my blind retreat. But if
it were still with o slight feeling of trepidation
I opened the door of the closet, what was my
horror when a human body fell - inward upon
Me, even as I unclosed it. no weakness, how.
ever, left me lhe moment I sprung frdm that
hideous embrace. I stood for andtistant in, the
fresh air and the reviving light of - the ball, and
then - proceeded to iiemove the body lo it - Onto --
where I could examine its features more favor
ably. Great, heavens, what wns.ply horror up
on.d tscovering that they - Were those of time
iorestiristranger whom I had met on the even
ing previous. , ' , •
The rest of cry. story is soon told. The,
lirmseheld of Hui inn . were rapidly collected,
and half the inhabitants of the hamlet identfied
the body 'as that of a gentlemen well known to
lire country. But even after:, tho-coroner's-im -
quest was summoned there was no light thrown
upon his fate until my drunkenland lard was
brought before the. jury. ills own testimony
would have.gone for little ) , but he produced, a
document which in a fox words told the whole
story.. It was it note, loft him the evening 64-
fore by Mr. be-handed to be handed
to me as soon as 1, arrived at the ins. It briefly;
thanked me fur the cuurtefiy rendered.rhitn
,at
the blacklinith's, and mentioning, that ietwith.
stauding allirrecaution, his hursch3d'fallen
rtelid-fameiand he slit:Mid:fie obliged '_lo jtass
the night at.VVolfrvald, he would still, further
tresspass upon my kindness, by begging to' 00-,
'eupy the same room,wlYll - me. , Ire stated - that
owingtoso ire organic alfection of the systeni,.
he had long been subject to the inost grievous
tits of nightmare, during which ha preserved '
sufficient pokvers of volition M moved° the bed
of his servant, witty being used to his attacks;
'would of course tokathemecessary means: to
alleviate them. Thehote'colialnded by eoying
that,the ° Writer had less:diffidence in preferring
his request to, be my ruoimmate,"hicantuch as
owing jodhe crowdertstate ofthe'lmitinei I Was'
sure of being thfust in ;Mon Sum°
Tire reason, why Inc ill-fated gentleman
been so urgent to press: homowayd,;,;wart 'now '
byt too apparent, and irny' finllgjjet,/Ou,„,aLltio:
rirmikerrinnkeePer,tn:Magjeiting .1u Mind me . ;
'his note, knew no bounds ! Alas h years
which have,eince'gintri , by;- - therjs bus been More
ropr l oticiiii4l Then,
til.,4lyeelf, for
life piteously appealing look of tIM (lying mart,
lung haunted me ; and, I sometimes still hear
hirOutoan in' olie autrimnel blast that wails a
ruCmd my . • ,
How a Tailor Collected a Debt.
Near the close of the last century, a Quaker
knight of the shears and - thimble, who exerci
sed his vocation in Philadet . phia, was imposed
upon by an adroit scoundrel, who, contrived to
g,,t a suit of clothes on credit, and after Wards
sloped without * paying for them. The Quaker
was too_poor,.. to. hose, the debt, but, like too
many others of his cloth,:he had apparently no
alternative, The account was placed on his
,books and soon forgotten. Some years after
wards he was examining his old records of debt
ainferedit,yrolitand toss, - when his attention
was attracted to this aecoune, and all the cir-
Ott milanee9 attending it came In bto mind,
Suddenly an odd thought sug;ested itself.
'l'll try the experient,' said he io:himself ;
'perhaps I may succeed in catching the ..rogue
and getting my pay.',
He immediately prepared an avertisement,
in substance as follows, which he inserted in
the PhiWell:hitt Gazette :
J-11 C who was; in Philadelphia
atoll: the month of --, in the year 1795, will
„send his aild - i'isti - tri r the edit& of this
trill hear el something to advantage. Prot-'
ter m in the neighbiring. States are requested to
copy. ,
Thu I met. clause was inserted from a vave
suspicion that the rogue had taken up his ahJde
in New Yurk.
Having instructed th•e editor not to disclose
his :name to Ilie'fbgric if be stiliuld call, but
to request the latter to addre-s, the
Quaker 3 waited patiently the result of his ex
peiiment. In a short limo he was alarmed bi
a note from' the printer that the iinfividu .1 allu
ded to in the ads ertisement, having arrived
- from - New - York, be ---- found at a given
place in the city.
The tailor lost no time in preparing a trap
script of his account, not forgetting loseharge.
tile interest from the time the debt was incur
red. Taking a constable with hint who bore a
,legal..procets_snited. to iho ociialaon, he soon
- arrived at trio lodging - of the - swindler. 'rile
constable was instructed to.stand at a little din
lunee Lill the signal shoull" indicate the time
for hint to approach.
The Qialrer now ran:, the bell, and, when
servant appeared, regal:sted him t inform the
gentleman- of whom lie - we; — 'in •search, Thal
a friend wished I..ispedl.c with Win al the door.
- The roan obeyed the summons, arid soon
both debtor_ and creditor were ,looking each
other in the face. .
'How dottlthou do 1' kindly inquired the Qua
ker. 'Nrhaps thou duel not know me.'
believe I have not had the pleasure'of your
acquaintance,' politely answered our hero.
Dust - thou , remember purchasing a suit of
clothe* several years ae s of a poor. tailor, and
forgetting to pay for them?' asked the Quaker.
'0 no,' said the gentleman, blushing slightly;
you must be nilstaken in the person. It cannot
be me •tou wish to find."
'Alt, John ! know thee very well.. 'Tau
ail 11. e yin . ) , man I wish to see. Thou lint on
at this veiy.moment the very waistcoat l mule
for thee- Thou hest acknowledged it was
good staff and well made—or it would milli:tile
lasted - thee so
' yes,' said the gentleman, appearing sad
denly•to recollect hirrlanlf ;‘I do remember now
the eiretimitanee to wh i icli •you atlllde ye
yes—l had intended to call and settle that little
bill before leaving Poiladelphia, and you may
.dopend-upoit-ray-doing-ao. have....-aoine---here
to take posses,ion of a large amo lilt of prop
erty whioli has been left me by will. Sec !
here islhe'advertisement which apprised me
of my good *tune.'
Here he hand,l to the Qd'aker a New York
paper containing a copy of the ativerli„,eutelit
whose history ive have given above. The Qua
ker looked at it with imperturbabie gravity and
cokinued—
'Yes, I see Pion art in Lick, but as• my de
mand is a small one, I ti;intt I Joust in s ist, on
payment before tliee comes ia pbsse?iiun of Illy
ilrge estales.!
The,proper.signal here brought the constable
into the presence of the:parties. The swindler
was particularly astonialied at the appearance
of this functionary ; who itninediatel:Y began to
execute his part of the (llama.
`What P exclaimed the rogue in an angry
tone ; 'you surely hav'ilt sued nie P
`Yes 1 . have,' replietl•ttie Q/aker,'o:antl tho
should's( b 6 'thankful that nothing eNo thippon
ed to thee."
--- ic - then,'sa id• the- debtor, - fin,' in- him
fairly caught; 'come in, and I will pay you if
The three went i to the house together, and
the slippery gentleman hay lag „ascertained the
amount of-the-bill,- paid-it-in full. - -
The tailor having signed the receipt, placed
it in the hands of his late creditor, with feel
ngs as may read ily be imagined. - The
swindler took it, 'and fur the- first time glanced
the - various items of which it was composed.—
Ile said nothing until he came to the last charge
which was 'for ,advertising,' when he broke
forth—
what's this?' adveriising, 9'—
'That is an odd charge inn tailor's bill. - You
aro cheating,. toe.'
.011,no,tecolly,replied.the Quaker ; that is
all right: I have charged thee cost of publish
ing the advertisement which thou just • n ehowed
lee.'
Here the swindler uttered tiorrid • oath, as
he demanded,
you mean to say. that you caused the
publication of that advertisement 1'
'Truly,, I did,' replied Inc Quaker with most
provoking coolnesi. •
.You told a cursed lie in it,' quickly retorted
the rogue.. -
...„ • •-,
'Convince me of that,',saiii the quaker, .`ai;d
thou Wilt find ins) reedy to con fess the fault.'.
'You'amil that I should hoar soutottpa; to
my advantage, if 1 should come here.'
'Thou'art•inistalied,t 'immediately responded
the Quaker; 4 1 only prointsed that ihnti shOuld'st
boar of something toadvaniage ; and is it no.
to the inlvaniagdof it•poor tailor to oplleot 'an
cild debt?' • •• ''•
.If 1 can catch you in. the ,street,' said then
. ,
swhidlcir With ah oath_and huhu _deepest rage,
q'll.givo you such' a coWhitling as will not leave
o)ol:heath' in your'bodY, l
4Turisenie,' now said the Quaker ;'if thou
really iiiteadad . to do anything of that sort, we
had better stemma
into Um back yar d 'and fin.;
- - —_
1611 the business al'onee. , ,
1 Alin rogue was eumplelylion plusSed by 'the
l'coultieBB of the Qsakor, and stood speechless
and petrified. ' •
said the tailor good naturedly,
give thee n piece of advice. When nes], thou ,
halt occasion to get a suit a clothes, thou
had'et butter not attempt to Cheat a f our t a ilor,
hut pay him ‘ honestly, for then wilt thy eon-'
science not di i sturb thee, and thy 'sleep will be
sweet and refreshing. - Farewell P•
How Fortunes ar:olladle,
No person, who has not investigated themat•
ter, can be aware of the effects of small savings '="
and spendings, when long continued upon men's
fortunes. Iy_bat laborer is there who, with
goad hdTf t, may nut save $9O yor year ? And
yet this trivial sum, compohnd with only six
per cent interest, amounts to $650 in ten years;
$l,BOO in twenty ; and „$5,950 in thirty ; and
$T,700 in forty years: This fortune—a com
fortable provision to say the least, for the fu
ture, to a man sixty years of ago—maybe ac
cumulated by saving only thirteen rand . three
fourth cents per day I It is not uncommon to
see families side by side, equal in numbers, and
passessingse fur us the public can judge . , the
same sources of prosperity, whereof the ono
grows wealthy, and the other labors under the
contirampressure of debts and pecuniary em
barrassments. The old proverb 'that some men
aro horn with golden spoons in their Mouths,
and some with wooden ones,' is often resorted
to as the explanation of such mysteries. The
truth is, what appears a mystery, when exam
ined a little more closely, is no mystery at all.
Yliirteerior fourteen cents may slip, through,
any man's fingers imperceptibly' , not only to
others kit himself. He may Iteep'an invisible
bad habit, which will csct him twice that sum,
daily . ; and which he will never think of as a
considerable source of expense. A very tem
perate and Worthy man, niter each meal, calls
regularly at the next hotel 19r a few moments,
and smokes a cigar which costs him three cents.
Frotti:twenty until he is seventy, he continues
this' UieCTllliture, with . the ac
ctimulated interest upon it, will at that time, a
mount to inure than nine thousand dollars I
And if, after an enterprising and indhstriuus•
life, he has accumulated that sum, he will, in
almost any country town, be reputed wealthy.
A fottunp of $1 . 54,00.0 may -tie acquired in ( - My
years by earning, and keeping safely invested,
oidit shillings-arid -three-pence, New. England
,enrrepey, per day.
A Jaw BREAKER..—The followitg actually
occurred at the house Qt . a lady in the city of
New York, some fifteen years ago. It is thO
custom to hand . round cracked hickory nuts,
walnuts, apples, figs, raisins, &c., to company
that may happen to be in of an evening. The
lady of' the house had hired a servant a few
days before, a green Irish women, fresh from
the Euferald Isle,' by the name of Peggy.
Some nuts were to be cracked one - evening;
Peggy was called, and receiving a dish of nuts
from the lady, was told to Like them down to
the kitchen and crack them. It was thought
PeAgy knew all about crackingnuts.
rime enough lied. elapsed for Peggy to have
tatted thetn_ovllea Lady_aLeppld to lil2
stairs and _nailed-2.
"P.-ggY
"Mu ni 1"
"11.1ve you cracked those nuts set 1"
"No marm !"
"Well, matte haste,we are waiting for them.'
Another half hour elapsed and no nuts op.
poured
"P , ggY Pegg) !"
"Cume,conic, kayo, you those cilia cracked
pet 1"
"No marm-- 3 they ain't half cracked, and
me talhe are almost a!! out of ate head Wridy !"
D....r" . 1.-3.uw du you' sell peaches?" asked a
young gentleman yesterday of ono of the bop
wvitot,deal . in the article, to our streets.
" , Two fur a cent," was the boy's polite an
I=l3l
"Two for a cent!" exclaimed the gentlema
with tppac cot astonklnent, for lie peaches
were very large. "Iwo fora cent I" and he
began fumbling in hiS pockets. "Two for a
cent !' and ho kept up the search with his 'fin
gers. "Two of them great peaches for one
Cent?" lie repeated very deliberately. It was
evident now that his lingers did not find wha , t,,
they were. searching for. '"Two for a Cent!"
he said once more in a somewhat lower tone.
antrturiiing round - fo leave the basket, - "two for
a cent! VNlell; by thunder!' that is oheap—if
I only /ml'o cent.",
Hon AND Islon.—"Have you heard," asked
Hub "that the sea serpent has appeared oil' the
coast of Ireland, and was nilweover,..scen to
scratch itself against Certain rucks called the
"rhave heard it," an,wered Nub.
"Have you further heard,". Said—ltiob, "that
the sea serpent left some of Its scales Lpon the
reell6." "L have," said-Nob 7 "bird I ha'se
diseo%cred why the sea serpent left those very
scales behind it." "Why P , asked Hob ,
when quick as the electric wire, the wag Nob
replied, "seeing its,appearance has been doubt
ed, the sea serpent left the scales, to weigh the
evidence."
;I....rJerrny Lied has been but six weeks in
Aineriea, and' given .16 coneeris: which the
Boston Transcript says, :have netted mot' for
Irate $1611,000, 'which - ofter . .tire payment of
ilwavy, expendittires in getting up; the salaries:
of her-ossistinta, &AL; is divided' between par
otid Barnum, which leaves'
. veri'ltandsomo
sum to both.—ln this . brief stincenf. One kiss:
Li . nd gave to tha charities of New , York, $lO,
000 at a single disbursement ) . $lOOO tna Sweedr
4;6 Church in Chicago; and 0 ce ikdditiqn4l
thousatids;;lMprivata dehotions,- Sits has nevi.
for distribution to the charities of .13dston
A IiASIC OF CONSOIENCE , -A dint time singe,
the RoY,A: H. Lockman, of York,Pti.,ibeohi s ed
the following , anonymous communication, con-'
tamping $140: 1
'!Reverend Sir:-The money enclosed.is fOr
the Stile and County—,..one half to . .Oaeli. -
the go.vinees . _ to put it tO He :roper pitied, • Itie f '
for taxes which had•noebeen-aerioileed."
According to the • requol of Vie: writer; the
Rev ! gbittluntatt has paid to' both theStatn and
gotinty s7o.each, and pt Wiahee formal recuipti;
therefor,
ESE
0:rT116 . Holm of Representatives at' its
late session; consetned fifteen , hundred bushels
of ice. '
Q. t' ~~1
J
VOLUME .Ll.--Nd) 9
b 31,1)ilbren,
ipatento
"From the Prr .
JAMES' SIMPSON.,
Amchig the rcoollectioq Of' . my youth there
are none more vivid than those of on whom 1
Simpson, a young, and - bow - tat
elderly man, whose years aro notlar_fron)_my:_,
Own. Ho had been taught in his childhood by
pious parents, and knew his duty as well as any
boy in the school to which ho and I were sent
when we were about a dozen years old. Jamcs
d u tender btihscience. Ho would not do the
wrong thing when he know what was right, and
though the other boys sometimesjaughed at his
squeamishness, as they called U. ha said that if
boys laughed at him, God was pleased.with him,
and he thought that of more consequence.
I recollect a Saturday itternuort when we
were all off in the woods gathering chestnuts,
and had received permission to get as many as
we wanted in the woods of Mr. Richards, but
not (hiding thorn as abundant there as we ex
_peeted, we were quite disposed •to cross the
hill, and try the trees -on the 'Farm of another
man, to whom wo had made no application.—
The whole party agreed to it except James and
(me:other. They stood out decidedly, and when
it was urged that lie would have no objection
to our getting them, James, who was always
ready with a reason,'suid-that was no argument
against stealing than. It would bo wrong, to
take them, he said, from a man who was stin
gy, and surely it would be wrong and very
mean to take them without leavelrom a man
who would give them to us if we should ask
. "Yes," the rest said, "but-who is going to
aslc him ; it is more than a mile down to his
house, and nobody will go,that tar to ask for
chestnuts."
"I will go," said James, "if you will promise
to stay here till I come back; or if you are in
stick a hurry ro gelthe nuts' just - lookl - out - for
me, and when I come out of the lane down .
there at the feat of the hill, if I swing my cap
you may start, and I will come and get us ma
ny us I want" .
"Agreed, agreed," they all cried, and away
went James on the full ruit down the hill. He
was not long on the way ; ho did nut let the
grass grow under his feet, ; and it was not more
than twenty minutes before he made ap
pdarance swinging his hat - with' all his might.
The boys set - a shout that he might have
heard, and were just startingroff fOr the woods,
when one of them said lie thuught,,it tee bad to
'calm Jimmy to coma on alone, when 110 had
taken so much trouble for them.
This Woo received with Arcot' applause, and
we all ran down to meat him, and when we o
vertook_hini, he met us with a face haunting
with smitee, and said theuld farmer told hire
we might get as many as wo liked only We
must not break our necks. This we had no
notion of doing,and after, we had picked as
many as we could well Cary beim, we 1011.
and iire'd with our afternoon's work, trudged
back to school.
As we nvrnvaltring homew - arn — with — less
excitement than we came up, one of the bays
said the chestnuts were very heavy.
'Rut they are not so heavy,' saidaTT!es 'as
they would have been, if we had hooked . thein. ,
'Right for you, and you are alwaysright, dr
about-right-, 1 -tive-other answeredramtirreom- --
,
mon consent it was agreed, that all future ex
peditions, we would respect the rights of prop
erty, and never enter even the woods of a man
to get his fruiti without first gaining his per
mission.
Now this incident was a very simple one, but
it tad a very strong and. a very lasting effect
upon the., whole school. Nut one of those boys
but inought more of James Simpson than they
did before, and all of them felt that the way to
be happy, and take real comfort in the pur
suit of pleasure, was to do right.
But James and the rest of us except one
bright Bellow the merriest of that chestnut
party who died in the South, where he went an
clerk when he was 16 Years old, but
_with, this
exception, and I drop a tear as 1 write, we all
grew up to be men. James Went.into business,
and the same strict regard for the rights of oth-'
ers has marked him all the' way through life,
and gained for him the confidence of the whole
community. He gave his time to his employ
ers with the most serupalous•integrity;‘ for 'he
said to himself, and sometimes he ventured to
iiiiikelhe rem ark - to•those - who - wOrer - svith - hiln
in the store, it was quite as wrong to take an
employer's time as it was to take his money.
This was being faithfitkin that which wad
the-least expected, mid a lad- who would 'not
cheat an 'employer out of a 'minute' of time,
would not be likely to neglect his. inteicst or
waste his money. This was observed,' and it
laid the foundation , for that great success in
business, and that eminent reputation for integ
rity that new distinguishis hi en anong the mer
chant princes of the day. He uniy,-or he may '
not hive forgotten his early schoolmate; who
• tt ook quite a diffeient turn in life and-became a.
gospel preacher, - and ho . v writes this sketch of,
phi times, but if his memory , of the cast in
,as
good as mine he will not fail to recell,tho cheat
nuts'and ,h is run down the hi 11...
13oya,Thero is ri lesson 'in this for you, and I
'reckon that you will learn it, without the aid .
of a sermon to . liolti you. • Be honest and true.
Do the right thing in matters that appear small,.
acid firm , a habit 'of integrity. Not because
ihis is the best policy, though' we know
• it is
tut be honest-because Gred . .loiee honesty and
Ma. Bucumitogr—Thel4emoerac'y of Lan
easter ore quarretling about the relative claims
.
'o'f 'Leith .Frazer,, , their °Wit .”war horee," add .
'Wei. Bigler for the governorsliiii : ' FrnF'er's
friends are in the majority and. appointed a
dew County, Committee, buto.ll9 % old Buchanan
County Committee .refused to, yleld,.tind,,th.o
'two are p' uhlishingraddroseenhgalisst each otb=
er, Frapi gees for Case. ' . •..
'Tobacco; /ccdroci,'n'nd',lnigtkr: , _
Ai) risolus oke 6Y:ll,ft:rennetJo', baring &-'
Co'ir London cdfoitio:r anditt ''da`atittehtiii
hots. , Tho British Nvitotit' . ' br ip 'la 'ciatrie'dly''
short' of on average; according .to..iho: Landow.,
Noroantile 9azette,.. . ".
Z'A .queer genius I;oing naked' wil : jlo
did au t attend the 'funeral of his toils replied
"that he could not leave his shop, and that it
was always better to attend to business before