Carlisle herald. (Carlisle, Pa.) 1845-1881, August 22, 1855, Image 2
M tai - giltrt alt. From nu Englif SMUGGLED RELATIONS. When I was a child„ I remember to have had my cars boxed for informing a lady•visi tor who made a morning call at our house, that a certain ornamental object on the table which was covered with marblo, 'wasn't mar ble.' 'Years of reflection upon this injury have fully oath-fled me that the honest object in question never imposed upon any body; further, that my honored patents, though both of, sanguine ti 7 mparament, never can have conce'ved it possible that It might, could, should, would, or did, impose upon anybody. Yet I have no doubt that 1 had my ears box- cd for violating a tacit compliet in the family and among the family visitors, to blind the stubborn fact of the marbled paper, and agree upon a fictiotif real nurblC Long utter // this, when my cars had been past boxing for a quarter of a century, I knew a man With it cork leg. That ho had a cm k leg—or, at all evenn;, that he was at 1111111CIISe pains to take about with him a leg which was not his own leg, or a real lcg—was so plain and obvious a circumstance, that the wheit universe might have made affidavit of it. Stilt it was always understood that his cork leg was to he regaided as a leg of flesh and blood , and even that the very sulject of colt in the abstract was to be avoided in the wearer's society. !awe hnd my share of going nbout the teotld; uherever I have been, 1 hate found the marbled purer and the co di kg. I hate found them in ninny forms, but, of all the Protean shapes, nt once the commonest and and strangest has been—Smluggled llcln t ions. I was on intimate terms for many, many years with my late lamented friend, Cogs font, of the great Greek house of Cogsferd Brothers end Cogsford. I was his executor. 1 l a b e eo he hail no secrets from me but one—his:poth er. That the agreeable old lady who kept his house for him was his mother, must be his mother, could not possibly be anybody but his mothe; was evident : not to me alone but to everybody who kaew him. She was not a refugee, she was not proscribed, she was nut hiding, there was no price put upon her venerable head ; she was invariably liked and and respected as it good humored. sensil , !e, cheerful old soul. Then why did Cogsford smuggle his another all the days of his life! 1 Lave, pot the slightest idea why. I cannot so much as say whether she had ever e6n tracted a second marriage, and her name was really Mrs. Bean : or whether that name was bestowed upoefier as part of the smuggling transaction. I only know that there she used to sit at one end of the tat le, the living im age in a cap of Cogsford at the other end, au 1 that Cogsford knew that I knew who she was, Yet, if I had been a custom house officer at Folkestun, anti Mr•s. Lean a I'renr•h dock that Cogsford was furtively briugitig from Paris in a hat-box, he could not have made her the subject of a more determined nod d o . liberate pretense. It was prolonged for years upon years, It survived the good old lady herself. Ono day I received an agitated note font Cogsford, entreating me to go to him innuediately 1 went, and found him weep iug, and in the greatest affliction. 'My dear friend,' said he, pressing my band, have lost Mrs. Bean. She is no more.' 1 ivent to the funeral with him. Ile was in the deepest grief. lle spoke of Mrs. Bean on the way hack as the lest of women. But even then he never hinted that Mrs. Bean was his ,mother; and the first and last acknowledg ment of the fact that I over had from him was in his last will, wherein he entreated 'his said dear friend and executor' to observe tlfat he requested to be buried beside his mother•-:-whom he tildn't even name, he was so perfectly confident that I had detected Mrs. Bean. I was once acquainted with another man who smuggled a brother. This contraband relative made mysterious appearances and disappearances, and knew strange things.-- He was.called John—simply John. I, have got into a a habit of believing that he must have been under a penalty to forfeit some weekly allowance if he ever claimed a sur name. Ile came to light in this way ;4 wan ted some inforMation respecting the remotest .of the Himalaya range of motuktains, and I applied to my friend Beating (a member of the Geographical Society, and learned on such point's) to advise me. After some considera tion, Beating said, in a half reluctant and constrained way, very unlike his usual frank manner,. that he 'thought he know a man,' 'who could tell 4me, of his own experience, what I - wanted to learn. An appointment was made for a c main evening at Beating's house. .1 arrive, it f st, and had not observed for more than five minutes that Beating WAS under a curious cloud, when hiti servant an nounced—in a hushed, and I may say unearth ly matmer--qdr. John.' A rather stiff and telabby person appeared, who called Beating by no name whatever (a singularity that I always observed whenever I saw them togeth er afterwards), and whose manner was curi ously divided betwqn familiarity and distance I found this man to have been over the Indies, and to possess an extraordinary fund of traveller's experience. It came from ttint drily at first, but he warmed, and it flowed freely until he happened to meet 13enting's eye. Then he subsided again, and (it op poured to me), felt himself, for some un• known reason, in danger of loosing that week ly allowance.: This happened a dozen tithes in a couple of hours, and not the least sari ous part of the matter was, that Denting him• self was always as much disconcerted as other man. It (lid not occur to me that night, that this was Benting's brother, fur I had known hint very well for years, and had always understood hint to have none. Neither can 1 now recall, nor, if I could, would It matter, by what degrees an 1 stages I arrived at the knowledge. However this may ho I knew it. But we always preserved the ile• that that I could have no suspicion that there was any sort of allini.ty between theta. Ile went to :11-exivo, this John—and ho went to AWAIIIII/I—std he went to rhina--and he died somewhere in Per , in-- and one day, when we went down to dilllll . l' at !tenting's I NVIIIII.I find 111111 in the dining roomy, already tainted Os if lie had been violating do allowance on the table cloth], and another day I would hear of hint being among scarlet pat rot , ' in the tropics; bat, I never Itoew ! 1 011, en In' ever dime ati3thing wrong, or whether he hail ever done an)thing right, lit It by 111 , went tibotil Ow world, or how. As I ilit'Vt" rtlrondy signiliod, I got kilo Ii I ila o f Lulu c ; uuJ I v i 11110 n Itti of 1,4111 V% ill that :11r. John lind , oniethini.. to do th dip of Iho ningtietio nro llr hr ih nll V3r,11 sh:ttioW nu•, olVev Mid I 010.1' 1:110 him for vvrtivin to hovo boon 3 nntup.h►rkt volt BBI! Other veoplv . again, Olt 1111,1 , 0 " Volillmbliti 00111111oLlitle , vutlioly to% tiy hom the._ Wit, !I siiitigglori of wino mid, briitth bury ttili, I:nt•o hoard of it limn who Ile V 01' luil inrletl, his firieitih tho tortitho hAki a relation in the world, oxeept %Olen h Jost one by death: 'and then he wOald down by the greatness of the coland ty. refer to his liereavtnent as if h los: the very shadow of himself fro! whom he had nerer been separated since th days of int . :lnes. Witiiin ray own inpevionee, I -have observed smuggled relations to t es;:ess a wonderful quality of coining out when they die. My . own dear Tom, who married my fourth sister, and who is a great Smuggler. never fails to speak to me Of one of his rela tions newly deceased, as though, instead of never having in the. remotest way alluded to the relative's elistenee before, he had been discoursir4 , of it. .31y poor, darlibg .Etzany,' fie kliid to rne, nilLru theme Fix 'the i lout her •-- lever until !lint /want -tit had Tom twettilwil olirf r)l;atite to no! u 1 tho . rtzlo<iflet, or lis,y Emmy /1,011061:ii•r-tm Motive or this 011t'i lit whom ha bad the homilest loteresi. Ile had neareely allowed are to nodefidand, iiiy dittlfilfily Mid ge111•11illy, that, he had he called them—down in Yorkahlre. .My 'own dear, darling I:tomy,' says 'Tom, notwithstanding, 'silo has left me for a better world.' (Torn must have left her for his Owe world, at least fifteen years.) I repeated feeling my way; 'Emory, Tom?' :My favorite niece,' said Tom, in, a reproachful tone, 'Emory you know. I was her godfather, you remember. Darling, fair•haired Emmy! Precious, blue-eyed child!' Tom burst into tears, and we both understoed that leceforth the fiction was etsablished between us that I had been quite familiar with Emmy by repu tation, through a series of years, Occasionally, smuggled relations are dis• covered by accident: just as those tubs may be, to which.' have referred. My other half LI mean, of course, my wife—once discovered a large cargo in this way, which has been long concealed. In the next street to us, lived an acquaintance,,,of ours,, who was a Commis sioner of something or r,ther, and kept a handsome establishment. ‘Ve used to ex change dinners, and I have frequently hoard him mention his own father as a 'poor dear good old boy,' who had been dead for an in definite period.' He was ratlMr fond of telling anecdotes of his Very early days, and from them it appeared that ho had been an only child. Ono summer afternoon, my other half, walking in our immediate neighborhood, hap pened to perceive M,rs. Commissioner's last year's bonnet (to every inch of which, it is unnecessary to add, she could , have sworn), gOing along before her on somebody else's head. Having heard generally of the swell mob, 'my 'good lady's first impiessiOti t s, that the wearer of this bonnet belonged to that fraternity; had just abstracted the bonnet from its place of repose, was in every Sense of the word walking off with it, and ought to be given into . the custody of, the nearest police man. Fortunately, however, my Susannah, who is not distinguished by closeness of rea soning or presence of mind, reflected as it wore, by a flash of inspiration, that, the bon- ‘%,iLioltrt Qt)lirfsLtio, net might have been given away. -Carious to see to whom, she quickened her steps, and de scried beneath it, an ancient lady of an iron bound presence, in whom (for my Susannah has an eye) she instantly recognized the.linen ments of the Commissioner! Eagerly pursu ing this discovery, she, that very afternoon tracked down an ancient gentleman in ono of the Commissioner's hats. Noxt day she came upon the trail of four stony mai ) duns, decora ted with artificial flowers out of the Commis sinner's epergne; and thus we dug up the Commissioner's frillier and mother and four sisters, who had been for Rome years secreted in lodgings round the corner and never enter ed the Commissioner's house save in the dawn of morning and sliudes of evening Prom that time forth, whenever my SWOIIIIOIII outdo a call ut the Commissioner's sh'e always listen• ell on the doorstep for any slight preliminary scuffling in the hull, and, hearing it, was de lighted to Etimorh,.The fluidly are here, and they :Ire hiding thew!' ~.. I have never been personally acquainted with any gentlemen who kept his mother-hi lOw in the Ititehen, In the useful capacity' of Poole; hot I have tleard of mach a ease on go of Authority. 1 lIIII'I, lodged ill the 11011 Mil Of IL lll'llk'l'l lady ' , tattling, to be a widow whit b ad faun PEVIIY v ill lilldren, rind light lie neeosion al ly overlie/ eoereing au olisenio 1111111 ' I II sleeved wolstoont, iiho appeared to liertio• ed in some l'it below the foundation' of the house, outline he wits cou'letutied to he always ',leaning itnives, Onv 'toy, the smallest of the ehildeen crept into toy room, sold, pointing. I , MliWnr.l With n MOO Vhilldly linger; 1 11 0Ii ‘ t 1 ,. /! IC" VW: Mid Vhilholl'd On tiptoe. Lino °owr twfwvi, or (h. Nou g giing tr a de , 11'111ti hilt. 11 11 aril atylition before I t aladady. \ly friend of it Mink in illy linelielor days, beennie the di 'lend of the house alien I got married. HO Is .‘1111. 1 111 . :1 goilfllllllll . i A ni.dia being the vhlce,l of one cherubs, Through iipwniiit or fro yoni.,, Ito teas 11111'1,‘VIIrch and lora ords it our house three or four times n week, and ulwnsn found his and fork renily for him. IVloit \VIOL Illy 10 , 10111A1111011t 011 01110111 g 1101110 0110 ihtly 10 111111 811101111/011 101111‘ 111 , 011 1110 1111.1 . 10t11 111 the )11111, holding her brow milli both Intinl3, nnil meeting my when I admitted myself with int. latch key, in it ilistrneted manner! •Susatimili,' 1 exelnimetl 'whet I n n hits happened?' She tuerely ejneolateil, ...Larver'—that being the mune of the filen(' in question. 'Susannah,' said 1, 'what of Larver? Speak! Ilits he met with our accident? Is he ill? Susannah re plied faintly. 'Married—married before we were!' and would have gone into hysterics but that .1 make a rule of never permitting that disorder under my roof. For upwards of ten years, my bosom friend . Larver, in Close communication with mo every Jay, hail smuggled' a wife! 'lie had at lust cnnii le] the truth to Susannah, and hail pre -10:1.111:'11 )Irs. I.trver. There was no kind of riato.ti for thin, that we coithl ever find out.-- Even tiuntu,unh hail not a doubt of .things be It, till liorreet. Ile lind iron' Into voting. In Ilertforibildri% mid no• body / 1 1 ,1 '1' 11111/W 1111', or ever will know. In boil, 1 believe thine wits no why in It. Tim Hoist astonishing part of the matter is, that 1 bitve known other tutu de exautly the sumo filing. I could give him 1111111V3 or it (h aw , in a footnote, if I thought it right. Newton Blowing Soap Bubbles. When Sir Isaac Newton changed his resi dence, and went to live at Leicester Place, his next door neighbor was a widow lady, who was much puzzled by the little she had ob served of the habits of the philosopher. One of the Fellows of the Royal Society of London called upon her one day, when, among other domestic news, she mentioned that some ono had come to reside in the adjoining house who she felt certain was a poor, crazy gentleman, 'because,' she continued, 'ho diverts himself in the oddest ways imaginable. Every morn ing when the sun shines so brightly that we aro obliged to draw the window-blinds, he takes his seat in front of a tub of soapsuds, and occupies himself for hours blowing soap bubbles through a common clay pipe, and in tently watches them. floating about till they burst. lie is doubtless now at his favorite amusement, she added; 'do come and look at him.' The gentleman smiled, and then went up stairs, when, after looking through the window late the adjoining Yard, he turned round and said, 'My dear madam, the per Son whom you suppose to be a poor lunatic is no other than the great Sir Isaac, Newton, studying the re fraction of light upcn the surface of a common soap bubble.' This anecdote serves as an excellent moral not to ridicule what we do not understand, but gently and industriously to gather wisdom from every circumstance around us. gEr. The subjoined, _ advertisement is ex tracted from an Irish newspaper: .Missing. from Killarney, Jane O'Fogarty, she had in her arms two babies and a Guernsey cow, all bluok, with rod 'air and tortoise shell combs behind her ears, and lam!) spots all down her back; which squints awfully.' 311iir;iirintotio. MEDICAL ITEMS. The beneficial. effects of camphor as nn antidote to strychnine, is illustrated in a case reported by Dr. Tewkesbury, of Portland, Ale. It appears that a boy wits seized with convul sions, and it was ascertained that he had just eaten a biscuit picked up at the door of an enting house, that was in - fide for the - purpose of killing rats, and contained about one anti a half grains of strychnine. The bay's spasms were so severe that immediate death was in evitable, though all the usual remedies were resorted to. Camphor could not be introduced into the stomach on accountof the continued lock jaw. Accordingly, strung injections of eamphor were used, and the body immersed In a lolt camphor bath, and in a few hours the boy was comparatively well. Dr. Jeniiings, of Salem, was recently called to visit a child that had been extremely trouble some for some months past. ,On examinatien, he found it small bunch on the Child's breast, which bring opened, a needle of about an inch long was discovered and removed. The Journal of the Academy of Medicine, Itl TIIIIII, conhtiud tiolllo CU1'1011:4 !"filtiStieti on human life; among others, the statement that married mon livo longer than bachelors, and tall num longer than those of stfl . o stature. An English ivriter in ono of Ulueßeviews, givoß litnllo curious items concerning the ex tensivo adulteration of medicinal stuffs. }'!r instance, (Thom salts are adulterated with suipitlite et ,goin; cailmiotto or soda with enl of coda very injurious substitute; morcury iH mom( times falsified with lead, tin, and bismuth; gentian with the poisonous drugs nennita and belladonna; rhubarb with tumeric and gatolioge; cantharides with black pepper, end liver and castor oils and opium in a dozen diflorent lift) v. Prof. Perfidy lately showed, by some curious experiments, the nature, of the changes that a re going on in the lungs ilu'ring respiration. In order to prove the absorption of carbonic acids in the lungs, he presented on n plate a m o s s of charcoal, weighing Hite() pounds, no rep resenting the quantity that passes from th e lungs of a man during every twenty-four hours. 'the volume of carbon in the Minos. phere, though it contained only one per cent of carbonic, is, according to Prof. F., greater than all the carbon that is stored in coal strata in the earth, or spread on the surface of the glebe. Mr. Richmond has presented a memoir to the Society of Medicine at Lyons, with the title, 'Fresh Living Blood as-'h Remedy-and Aliment.' He proposes to administer fresh and living blood in a large class of cases, and particularly where there is great exhaustion, privation of sleep, fatigue, grief or excess, where vegetable and mineral tonics have proved inellicient. He argues in favor of this plan from the fact that milk drawn directly from the mother by the infant is more whole some than when standing settle time out of its natural reservoir; from the fact that the BMWS, often reeommended, are better digested raw, end the same is often the case with oysters.-- .11esten Pont. -. "You Forgot Mo." A good joke is told at the expense of ono of our church-going citizenslvho is the father of an interesting family of children, and among them a bright-eyed boy numbering four or live summers. the pet of the household, and unnni mously, voted the drollest little mischief alive. On Saturday night ho had been hi ibcd to keep pence and retire to bed an hour earlier than usual, with the promise that on the-morrow he might go with the family to chuveh. On Sunday morning it was found inconvenient to put the youngster" through the 'flyer course. of washing and dressing • necessary for his proper appearance at the sanctuary, and the family slipped oil without him. They ha'd not, however, more than got comfortably seated in their pew when in walked the young ster with nothing on lint a night-wrapper and a cloth cap. "YOu forgot me," he said in tone loud enough to ho heard all over the church. The "feelings" of the parents can he more easily imagined than described.—Lajay die Journal. 11=MEE! be'. Two wealthy gentlemen were. lately conversing in regard to the period when they had hest enjoyed themselves. will tell you, says one, 'when I most enjoyed life. Sion after I was twenty•ono, I worked for Mr. —, laying stone wall, at heavy cents a day.'— 'Well,' replied the other, 'that demi not ditler much from my esperionoe. When I was twenty, I hired myself out at seven dollars a month. I have never enjoyed my life better since.' Thefexperieneo of these two individu als teaches first, that one's happiness doeS not depend on the amount of his gains, or the etation ho occupies; second, hat•very Spud beginnings, with industry and prudence, may socuro.wealth. PJROiITAOLE.=TO road the Herald. A Bachelor's Soliloquy. A very worthy single gentleman, who had early and snugly ensconced himself in one corner of the hall to hear a popular lecture, was forced to vacate' his seat in consequence of the rush of ladies ; On reaching his lodg• ings, he is said to have delivered himself in this wise:—'Where in grace and thunder & these hosts of women come from? They are on hand in every emergency, and are as gre garious as sheep. They havh a hand in every. thing, and are in tiv.2ry place. No matter what may he the occasion, the women are sure to muster. Go into our places of amusement, and there you will see them as thiCle as fließ in'August. Look into our churches, and three quarters of the congregation ap e women. Gc to a public oration or a charity lecture, or at abolition meeting, or a concert, or a meetint of spirit mediums, or a lyceum address,—any place where they can cong.regate,- 7 —and en fair average, three quarterS of the people present will Le •female wenaen.' Where in thunder can they all come from? Go where yon will, this woman rush is tremendous; ah solutelyLvt-vemendous. Why., look into f.amilies. and in nine cases out of ten, the— seen six able-bodied women for c,ne man! take our social meetings; from the utipvitet•l• jug visits up to the great .Ci:er:l4 Liu le <;.s modern fashionable life,—the Boston Ainiack's, —and 'tis just the same. Nromen evvrj - ar . r.er% preponderate. They are in a majority. I.: constitutes, unquestionably 3L De T,.c,;;:ie ville's celebrated 'Tyrany.' An 3 th , :re no help fur it, not a peg to hung a 1..-co upon As it is so here, it will be so Len:a:ter. It is so on earth,' and, said he in tunes uf atter detTair, kW/ be so in MCI ttiy . " in certain cities of our favore-,1 akt , ittiottal to the pr.,ctice of printicg iil/lIS, 011 boat d , the colpw•tcura lure bt•CLI Ii gia the S/11110 :11e1111.4 of tml rcacuu into then.' zt.,..7 vice, uud priutitig ou them :icriptur.ll iLjur:c bona. A Aciitt,ulu w;Ls ii:using through the street, to read erou lettee, Nuke 11.WetiSttek's Liver azd directly beneath it, 'Prepare to tweet thy BEN r,S;iTlf. IS 11 curious fact tla.t at parties, Lath, ur where %er a rellertitueut tab . .e is spread, - every wan seems to regard it as: Ls just duty to 11411iiruselt ti the very mouth with ull .the delicacies of the L`Vll.n . ll, ' uad to accomplish it in the least tin.e possib!e—as Le was a gun, and anxious to ascertain nis calibre, :qui laid Out Low quick Le could be loaded in case of necessity, iNIEANNEss.---A few days since a man weat to the railroad depot in Holyoke, Mass., jufr.: as the cars were starting, and tool:. the ull uu intant's !cut us part puy fur u debt ;ts mother owed him. u.f. a ,, It has been ascertained that peolde who take the paptrs and pay tor thew in ad vance are seldom ctruck by lightning. TLc setthon of thunder showers bus arrived acti delinquents will find it cheaper to pay up, than to purchase lightning ruds. 'Dry ()oohs. I‘T I; 001)S ! NEW 6()01)S ! THE T 1 1.1.5: WU now rovviVtlig irt in :tow Ynit: and Hsi:ado:111:a till inutionso stork td to, , dosnahlo and l hall Wio111(1 +;l11 the taletallktt lot :in and custontris, as a 01l an 11 11' lontlik gQllf•fati. 11:1 1 111; tIIONt ot toy grans Importin4 huttnrn lit NOW Viork, I ant enabled Lu grto fttter Lo g:this than t . :111 to tlelttly 01Itor buunu /If lI.ICCOULa.:I• &MU' astairtatont. of NEW STYLE DRESS (100DS is large. complete and heitutlful. Another lot of elegant and cheap 111,A1'1% mulloiderrd Land kecchmts, meet et, collarn, rulllvn, v4ings. and in,rt • him, a stook that for extent and chcapnos deMs a.: 1 competition. Musilus, glnghatuF, calivoce, Mines. tick logs, cheeks. n tremendous ah,rtutent.--- tlloves and Hosiery cheaper than L'Vet'. (141 S, 1.1i,•1- men's, coral>, cotton:ldes, Se. Sc. it full assortment L very loo• In price. CARPETI MIS AND 31ATTINOS. An entire zrow stock or iiiree ply, ingniln, cotton and venitian c+u•peW:g, boug'bt very cheap and wIII to ,14 very low. Also elite tad colored Mattiusb. WWI'S AND :.+1101:t.,. A larg . o supply of hulks and gentlemen's boots, shoos and gaiters. Intending to gl‘e up the GreeerY dePdrt wont. 1 will dispose of what 1 hate on hand in that line, at low prices. Also sumo well made ('tithing (di hand, 'which 1 will boll for let's than east as 1 want to close It out. one and all to the Old Zqaild oil last Main street, and select your liuutlei trim the largest and cheapest stock over brought to Carlisle. npr4 (MARIA: 4 0(111.111 11DRY (6506-r. NEW AND SEASON - A BLE.—The-undersignedhsv ing oniar. , ' ed and rated up tile Stem-room formerly M utinied as the Post Unice, imundiately opposite the Oboe of the American Volunteer, in South itanorer Swot, has opened a largo and general assortment NEW AND SEASONABLE DRV. 600175, ''homprising a great variety of fancy and F tziplo Fronk, British and domestic go °deo; a general suetertatent of L o oo et i• Leghorn, Straw, Neapolitan and (limp llonnhts. Bloomers of various kinds and dJentletnoo, Youth and Children's Panama, Leghorn and Straw hats, white and colored Carpet Chain, tiroceries te., &C -all of w rich will be sold at rho lowest prices. 11 in, Banta DICK. 11114 ST NTE ESTII ER D - cE,A§E)).—Nateu is hereby given that Loiters Of Administration tin tile 14 tato of EstherMidur„ lato of South 'Middleton twp., Cumbeiland.COun.ty,Mkessed , have been grunted by. the Register of said cetatt4",l4 6 subscriber. rositifulc in the stuns tatrushdp.. P"'" knowing themselves indehted to said estate are re quired to make iminediettepayment, aud4.l l 9 4 l. loo : in g Maims to presuutthent for settlement.ftt-„• • li'lLlo44,cotnAw a " . • AdOr. Juno :IT, '55 QILK FRINGES.—Just opened a Ihjte vr pieces of knottedand crimped black Silk Fringes also coiorea Silk Fringes black Bilk Lace and other Trimmings. jqn,* 20 . W. ere may b -F. BE