PA
~~u¢lcy.
A LAY OF LOVE.
DT GEO. D. PRENTICE
Yet once again I've-sern thee,
And my every thought is thine
Ay, I kneel to ,thee in worship,
As to an idol shrine.
In my spirit's,silent chamber,'
Where hope may never be,
One lonely light Is \buzning—
'Tis a holy love of thee. -
I Fee thee—oh, I see thee
In the shadows on the river ;
I Fee thee hi the moon's sweet beams
That on the bright lake quiver;
I Fee thee in the mists that metro
Like spectres o'er the streams;
And at 'Midnight deep I see thee
the shadowy world of dreams
I see thee—oh, I see theo
In the gentle flowers of Spring,
And in the tint the rainbow wears
Upon its fleeting wing;
I see thee in the sunset hues
That gush along the west,
And I see thee in the dewdrop
That gems the rose's breast. •
I hear thee—oh, I hear thee,
In the chime of evening bolls,
And in the tone that o'er the deep
At solemn twilight swells;
I hear thee in the forest lyres
Swept by the breath of even,
And In the low deep spirlt•volce
That tells the spill of heaven.
I love thee—oh, I love thee—
There's naught iii the bright blue skies,
Nu lovely thing of earth, but brings_
Thy sweet form to my eyes;
a
I love thee. and there's not a sound,
A tone, to my spirit dear—
A breath fro" nature's lip. but gives
Thy voice to my ravished ear.
I love thee—oh, I love thee—
Thou art,, lu the darkest hour,
To my soul a star. a fount, a bird,
A music•toue. a flower;
1 love thee, and thy dear thought thrills
Each Mae of my frame,
Like, heaven's own lightning; and my heart
In each throb calls thy Dame.
I love thee—oh I love thee,
And I would these words were borne
To thee on every holy breeze
Of eventide and morn ;
I lovo thee—nod I would these words
. ,
• Were writteh on the sky,
And on each star anti flower and leaf °
That greets thy gentle eye.
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A IIiVLROONY STORY
PETER AND THE LAWYERS,
BY SYLVA.NUS URBAN, TILE YOUNGER
What it was took me into the court-room of
T , whether unpleasant business or igno
ble curiosity, need not be known even unto
you. clear reader. The only fact I wish you to
understand is, that I was there, and while
,there it became my fortune to meet once again
with my old acquaintance, Peter Mulrooney.
When I entered the room, there was quite
a mixture of oval Irish and rouild 'German
faces outside of the iron railing which forms
the barrier to encroachments upon the dignity
of the bar : and, judging from the broken
heads and blackened eyes exhibited by many
of the spectators, it was not difficult to sur
mise that the occasion whichhad brought them
together was to obtain the plaster of the law
for wounds which had lately been received in
one of those spirited rows which warm up so
delightfully the old Celtic heart.
But let me describe the scene. Within the
railing, and running from it at right angles,
were some seven or eight benches, crowded
with quite a respectable number of witnesses,
consisting of a delicate sprinkling of all na-,,
tions. Parallel to the benches, but on the op
posite side of the court room, on eleyated
seats, sat the terrible jury. The centre was
occupied by a fair mahogany table, covered
green cloth, around which were seated quite a
number of daintily dressed gentlemen; who
Styled themolves act orneys-at•law. Seated
in the centre and.rear, on an elevated platform
dominiating the humbler desk of the-clerk,
were a" couple of grave, elderly gentlemen,
with keen,eies and placid faces, whose post of
honor indicated the judicial nature of their
functions.. '
hioh was already up for bearing,
as , as lex looted ono of asdault and batie_g.
The facts as they. were dimly , elicited, appear
to have been thede: The' Irish, who were the
defendants, 'had, sane short time rtTio,6,
been invited to wake 'one Mr. McShandi at a
short distance in the; country, while, on the
same evening, H tlie Cl6rmatis' had been out clan-
1 ..
cing at ,one of,tleir customary festival 13alls.
These two ,parties returning homewards some
where in the small hours met; •and; meeting;
fought ; bufihA begun the . affriiy, seemed tutt
difficult :6k 'tll6ove . ry . as. the philosopher's
stow)
difst as I entered the counsel for the defence'
was in the ace-of examining a slip of paper.—
Presently hesaid the.clerk—
Call Pater Mulrooney, if you please.'
, What do you expect to prove by him?' said
the attorney for the preeeeution.
'A good deal that may take you by surprise,'
responded the other with a smile.
• 'Ah I dare say,' said the prosecuting at
torney, whom we shall call Mr. Bibulous. 'I
dare say; the Irish always hang together'
'Speak your semiments more plainly,' said
the other with a laugh; 'perhaps you would
rather they should hang together.'
don't know said Bibulous, who, being]of
opposite politics to the Irish party in T—,
regarded them with no little aversion.
Teter Mulrooucy,'"cried the clerk;
' 'Peter Mdlrooney l' exclaimed the stentori
an crier.
There was no answer beyond a quick shuf•
fling of feet, and and an eager whispering, in
which a touch of the brogue predominated.
'Si-lence' shouted the crier. And then he
called out again at the top of his voice—
'Peter Mulrooney!'
'Whist! ye Omadhun !' said Peter, who had
all this time been standing quietly by the sitle
of the other. 'Sure, as I'm not a little gas
soon lost in a crowd, there's no nade to bellow
afther me like a great bull calf.'
'Why didn't you answer, then ?' said the
crier, surlily..
Arra!), haulier manners to ye !' retorted
Peter.—.',,Would I be after disturbin' their lion
ors in that dirty way ; an' I a gentleman of
standin' and a Metier of the decencies?'
You swear, Mr Mulrooney?' said the clerk,
proffering the hook.
'Do you take me for a haythen ?' said Pe
ter, indignantly. 'Sure it's not respectful to
swear in e'court of justice.'
'But you must swear,' said the clerk, sharp
'Did yer honors iver hear the likes of that ?'
said Peter , appealing to the bench. 'A chris
tian mint, and a dacent lookiu' man, too, bar
rin' ho has lost his crop of hair intirely—an'
put on a sthrange looking thatch"—the clerk
wore a wig—"to make me burglariously an'
feloniously swear before the fade of yer hon
ors, an' the gintlemen of the jury,. an' the gin
tlemen of the bar. Oh I but the vartue in me
won't let me do that same.'
'Muirooney, said one of the judges, vainly
striving to repress the quivering about the
muscle of his lips—his associate was stuffing
a white handkerchief into his moutli—'Mul
rooriey, you must 'be aware that it is always
n ecessary for a witness to take an oath before
he can be permitted to give evidence at the
bar.' -
'Sure, sir, I know,' snid Peter, innocently
'That is what the clerk requires of you,'
continued the judge, who added, with a faint
attempt at gravity, "ybu will also recollect
that it is our duty to commit anyone to pris
on for contemptuous behavior in court.'
'Long life to yer honor,' said Peter; sorra
hint disgrace meself by hurtin' the feeliti's
of-any respectable grey-haired gintleman like
yerself, or yer honor's brother yonther, who
ik atin his white handkerchief to stop the hun
ger pain. 'Deed sir, I'd be takin' great shame
to meself if I did.'
'Swear him !' said the judge, nodding hasti
ly to the clerk, and sinking back in his well
cushioned seat.
'Now Mr. Molrooney,' said the counsel for
his friends, 'tell us what you know a out this
4ffair.'
Peter's story is a perfect rigmarole. Ile
has been to his friend McShan's wake—lmjuid,
returned from it—his friends
.got into trouble
with the Gprmaus, but as to how the affray
commenced, his memory, clear enough before,
became suddenly very hazy. All ho could re
collect was, thai sundry of the Irish being
soundly pummelled by the Germans, pummel.
led quite as soundly their antagonists in re•
turn.
The crosS-examination now commenced; and,
as Peter caught up and repelled every move of
die keen-witted attorney, the contest between
cultivated sharpness and native shrewdness,
becttme gradually very exciting.
'Well, Mr. Mulrooney,' said the attorney,
'you sriy you left home in the evening, to.as•
sist,in observing this national custom of yours.
About what time in the evening?'
"Deed, sir,' replied Peter, with the utmost
simplicity, 'but that bates me to say. 'Twas
betwixt and betwaue sun-down and moou-h
riso.' a
'You are at least sure of that,' said the at
torney, quickly.
'Oc,ll, by the powers! that I am,' said Peter,
with a keen twinkle of the eye.
.aveyou nn ITTCantll. -- Crell. a - PC.4y se e
at what time the' sun sot and the mbon rose
on the eighth of
'Sun set on the eighth of 4pril,' drawled
the clerk, in his usual natial.tone, at twenty
four minutes past six; moon rose, at thirty
seven minutes past eloveri.',,
There was a sudden roar i throughout the
'court, like the surge of waves upon the sea ,
hooch; the face of the prosecuting attorney
flushed &Hinson, whilo Peter ,Mulrooney look
ed the very pioturo of unconsojous innocence.
;' 'You must speak to the point; witness.'
said . the judge, with all the sharyness he could'
command.. 'Your answer is he'pertineut.'
'Troth, yor honor,' said rotor, res'pectfully,
'it's sorry I am-for that. Sure, 'tis the thruth
am toll in', by vartue of me oath." "
.Ulreiticiatt - .4.treuV.l-4 ,
'What o'clock in the evening was it, sir ?'
said the prosecuting attorney, whose red nose
- 1 43 now getting fiery. ' • -
'Sorra bit I I,cnow,' said Peter
'Think ; fix upon some daily occurrence for
your guide, and tell the jury if it was before
or after.'
'Oh,' said Peter, after apparently reflecting
a little; 'it was after tay.'
now we shall get'at it !' said Mr. Bib
ulous, triumphantly. 'lt was after tea, you
say. Well, sir, at what hour do you usually
take tea ?'
'That depends upon convenience,' said Pe
ter, with an air of profound thought. 'Some
times we have lay for dinner, an' sometitues
we have dinner for tay.'
The attorney looked vexed. 'I want to
know your usual, hour of taking the evening
meal we call ten—is it four, five, siX, seven,
or eight o'clock ?'
'Yes, sir, that's the truth,' said Peter, hea
ding his head.
eWhich of these hours ?; said the attorney,
sharply.
'lf it '‘ufl be placing ye not to be after both
ering a poor boy, I'd be thankful,' said Peter.
'lt's little I know about the one hour or the
other, we clinic() the tay time up and down
the night so.'
The attorney bit his Bps. 'Are you mar
tied ?' said he.
'Oh, but that does be bothering me entirely;
sure I think so.'
'What ?° don't you know whether you are
married or note'
'Aisev,-aisey, if you plase—sure.,,'tis
troublesome question any way, nn' that's no
lie. 71istliress 'Biddy Conn°ly courted and
married me «•oust; but it sthrikes me I must
be a giddy now.'
'A widower you mean, I suppose Your
wife is dead, then ?'
11;110 ? Biddy Connoly ? Troth, sir, it's
my Envious opinion the fat ould woman is pre
sarvin' herself for another husband twinty
years forenent us.'
'You nre divorced, are you ?' said the attor
ney, looking significantly at the jury, as much
as to say, 'llit, La! Lore's a pretty witness
for you.'
'Divorced ! not a bit of it,' said Peter, qui-
etly.
.Seperated, then ?'
That's it !' said Peter ; and then, bursting
out into a low, rich laugh, he added, 'Oh, by
the mortial! but it was glad I was when Nli
chael Connoly came back from his shipwrack,
and aised me should 4: of the matrimonial
desacer.'
'When you reached the house of the late
MCSlinne, what did you and your party do ?'
'Whit In, sir r said Peter, with the utmost
simplicity.
:Inat next
`Gave Dinnis McShane as daeent a wake ns
ever was seen out of ould
'Now, Mr. Mulrooney, you have told us you
were present when this riot took place. 1
wish you to state distinctly who began it.'
'l'd like to know, av it phis° ye,' said Peter
humbly, as he smoothed the crown of his bat .
—•l'd like to know av a wise, an' a understan
din' gintletnan liko yerself, if yo can tell me
when two dark clouds com 6 thegith'er, an'
sthrilco lightnin', which of the two sthruck
first?'
'This is no answer. Clouds cannot be com
pared with two parties of drunken men.'
think the answer quite pertinent,' said
the attorney for the defence, with a smile ;
'for both clouds and men appear to have been
charged with the fluid.'
'Ali. ha said Mr. Bibulous, nodding sig
nificantly at Peter ; 'ah, ha! the man is no
fool, I see.'
'l'd be sorry to contradict, yer experience,'
said Peter, smoothly ; sure PO like to re
turn the complement, but for the vartue of me
oath !'
'What kind of a piece of road was it where
this affray took place ?' said the attorney an
grily ; was it straight or crooked P
'Natherally, it was as straight and purty a
piece of Raid as y'cd like to look at ; but,
circumstantially, it was as crooked as- a gin
tlsppthat has lost his timpor,' said Peter.
'How do you make that out ?', ,
'Sure 'twas the liquor that made the dif-
Ei22l
'Oh 1 then you confess to your party having
bei,n-drunit-V-
'lt's my serious opinion that it woe them
Germane that , was'batin' about liko a wrack
at say ; an' that my friends behaved them
selves like dacenepeople, but it's not, aisoy to
say.'
'When you wore at MdShanB93 did yon eat
and drink ?'
'Sure, sir ; what did we go' there for ?--
Would y - have us, starvin.'„wid the hunger, on
otiooonoion the, likes o' that 7' . "
• ojertairkly , not---of course, certainly • not.
Now please to toll tit() 'jut"? what; the xtefrosh
inents consisted 'of,'
•Lashires of eau'. and . dhrinkinY said Peter
Never mind the eating ; what kind of drink
had you?'
'Poteen,'.said Peter, 'wid the thrue 'flavor
of the pate about it.'
'Poteen! 'poteen said the lawyer, affecting
ignorance of the liqUof., 'Pray,lroo
ney, will you oblidge me by explaining what
poteen is?' -
'Arrait,' said Peter, slyly casting his eyes
at the rubicund nose of the questioner, las if
ye didn't know !' ' • • •
The prosecuting attorney, with his` obnex
ions•nasal member grortving treilder and redder,
turned to the bench and gesticulated vehe
mently. What he said could not be heard
amid tho storm of laughter.
'Silence!' shouted the crier.
'Witness,' said the judge, absolutely snort
ing in the effort to maintain a becoming gra
vity,—'witness, this cannot be allowed ,any
longer. What is the reason you evade a di
rect reply to the question ? Answer him ; he
must be answered.'
'Troth, sir, I'll do that thing. The raison ?
Sure I supposed it was makin' fun o' me he
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'Why should you suppose that?' said the
attorney, flerce
'Beknse ns I looked at yer Vesuvius of a
hose, I thought ye must be well acquainted
wid the crater.'
'rho judges fell back and exploded; the
prosecuting attorney sunk into a chair as if a
ten pound shot had fallen suddenly., upon his
head ; the auditors were almost purple in the
face; and there stood Peter looking all about
him with a sort of inquiring wonder upon his
face, as if utterly unconcious of any cause for
such a noisy outbreak.
'Have you done with the witness? inquired
the counsel for the defence. -•
•Let him go,' said the attorney, sharply. 'I
can do nothing with him.'
Peter's eyes now fairly twinkled. As ho
left the box lid drew down the corners of
mouth with the most sovereign contempt.
'Hugh he muttered. 'lt lutl take a dozen
little red-nosed men to bate Pother Mulrooney
ayther Rid the tongue or the shilelah, I does
ho thiukin !'
Electioneering Speech
One of the grentek electioneerers of the age
is a Mr. Daniel It. Russell, a candidate 'for
Auditor in Mississippi. His mode of eleo•
tioneering is_to deal with the •sovereigns' with
the most blunt frankness. The 'following
sketch of a late speech delivered by him must
have puzzled his opponent to reply to. It is
exceedingly appropriate to the times:
LADIES AND OvrrLEmEN:—lrise—bat there's
no use telling you that; you know I am up as
well as I do. lam a modest man—very---but
I have never lost a picayune by it in my life .
Being a scarce commodity among candidates, I
thought I would mention it, for fear if I didn't
you would never hear of it.
Candidates are generally considered as nui
sances, but they are not; tbey are the po
litest men in the world, shake you by the
hand, ask you how's your family, what's the
prospect for crops, &c., and I am the politest
man there is in the State. Davy Crochet says
,the politest man he ever saw was one who,
when he asked a man to drink, turned his
back so that ho might drink as much as he
pleased. I beat that all hollow; I give a man
a chance to drink twice Hilo wishes, for I not
only tt.n.n around, but shut both oyes. lam
not only the politest man, but the best elec.
tioneerer. You ought '-to see me shakin g
hands with the variations—the pump-handle
and pendulum, the arose cut and wiggle wag
gle. I understand the science perfectly, and
if any of the county candidates wish instruc
tions they must call on me.
Fellow•eitizens I was born—lf I hadn't been
I wouldn't have been a candidate,•but I am
not going to toll you there; 'twos not in Mis
sissippi, but 'twos on the right side of the
negro line; yet that's no compliment, as the
negroes aro born on the same side. I started
in the world as poor as a church .mouse, yet I
came honestly by poverty, for I inherited it;
and if I did start. poor, no man can say but
that I hold my own remarkably well.
Candidates generally tell you, 'lf you think
I am qualified,' &o. •Now I don't ask your
thoughts, I astryour votes. Why, there's no
thing to thinleof, except to watch and see that
Swan's name is not on your ticket. If so,
think to scratch itoff and put mine on. lam
certain that'l am competent, for who ought to
know bettor than I do? Nobody. I will allow
that is, till I am elected, then perhaps it is not
proper for me to say anything more. Yet, as
an honest man, I rim bound to say that IVO-
Hove Ws, a grievous sin to hide anything from
my.fellow-citizons, therefore, I say that it's
my private 'opinion, publicly expressed, that,
I'll poke the best Auditor the :United
• • f
StatcBA „
• 'Tie not for honor I wish to bo Auditor; for
iu thy county I was; offered an office that
"Was; all honor—Coroner—, Which ! I 'respe'otfullY
deolined. The Auditor's office is worth some
GPO 'a year; and I am' in 'forit like a thou
haMrof 'brick ; To show my gOoduess of lietift,
tlf make this - offer to my competitor. lam
3
89kro of being eleeqd, and he will lose some
thing by the canvass; therefore, I am willing
to divide equally with 'him and make thes e
two offers—l'll take the salary and he may
have the honor; or he may have the honor
and I will take the salary.
In the way of honors, I have received quite
enough to satisfy me for life. I went out to
Mexico, eat pork and beans, slept in the rain
and mud, and swallowed everything except
live Mexicans. If ordered to 'go,' I went;
'charge t ' I charged; 'break for the chapparev
you had hetter 6clieve 1 - 15 - 6eVa quarter nag in
doing my duty.
My. competitor, Swan, is a bird of golden
plumage, who has been swimming for years in
the Au'ditor's pond at $5,000 a year. lam
for rotation—l want to rotate him out. and to
rotate myself in. There's plenty of room for
him to swim outside the pond; therefore, pop
in your votes, forme. I will pop him out, end
pop myself in.
lam for a division of labor. Swan says he
has to work all the time, with nose down to
tho public grindstone. Four years must . have
ground it to a pint. Poor fellow; theapubllo
ought not insist on having his mug ground
clean of . I have a large full grown and well
blown nose, red as a beet, and tough as sole
leather. I rush to the post of duty. I offer
it up as a sacrifice; (dap it on the grind
stone. Fellow-citizen, grind away—till I holler
enough, and that will be some time first, for I
would hang like grim death to a dead African.
Time's most out. Well I like to have for
get to tell you my name. It is Daniel—for
short, Dan. Not a handsome name, for my
parents were poor people, who lived where the
quality appropriated all the nice names, there
fore, they had to take what was left, and
divide round among us; but it is as handsome
as I am—D. Russell. Remember, every one of
you, that it is not Swan.
I am sure to be elected; so, one and all,
great and small, short and tall, when you
come doWn to Jackson. after the election, stop
at the Auditor's office; the latchstring always
hangs 'out; enter without knocking; take off
your things and Make yourself at home.
[Dan cravvfished: out of the stand, bobbing
his' head like tip up, amid cheers for iDari—
Dan Russell,' and young 'Davy Crockett.']
P. S. Dan was elected, and the Union is
ME
33u5ine55 tgarb9.
FIRFIR. S. B. .KIEFFER'Othce in North
.
street two doors from Weise & Campbell's
store. lire hours, more particularly from 7to I) o'clock,
A. M., and from 5 to 7 o'clock, I'. M.
south Hanover tartut,-7-
Reit, door to thu Pubt
10)W111 be absent from .Carlisle the last ten days
of each month. [ Aug. 1, '65
TAIL GEO. W. NEIDICII
DENTIST carefully attends to all
••••= O, operations upon the teeth and adjacent
parts that disease or irregularity may require. lie will
also insert A rtitielid Troth of every descriptii u. such as
['hot. Single and Block teeth, and teeth u
uous Gums. - and will construct Artificial Palates. 01.-
turators, Regulating Pieces, and every appliance used in
the Dental Art. —Operating room at the rehidehce of
Dr. Samuel Elliott, West High street, Carlisle.
1° PR. GEORGE Z. BRETZ,
M
h a ir D ENT oFFICE at the residence of
41 1;1111441ja hisbrother, en .North l'ltt r_•treet, Car
lisle.
N-OTlCE.—Notiee is hereby given
that I have, this day, associated v. ith we in the
practice of my profession. R tu. 31. Penrose and Thos. M.
Esqrs. All but:Weis:s,, in future will be attended
tehy the above under the firm of
Fel.. 11th W.M.131 1 / 1 /I,E, .11;ty at Law
P. HUNI RICH, Attorney at Law.
V) • —Office In Itootem'N Row. -All - businct.4 entrust+-
ed to tiltri will In. promptly attended to.
I t L I LI . A.o)linv o
lin , t i l i lE s E?l t , a cuArlitth.orpnaey
-Business entrusted to him will be promptly at
tended to. 7.'66.
A N. (.4 It Attorney at law, has
,:etned in Mechanicsburg, for the practice of hiS
prtai.,,ion. All kinds of Legal Writing, Collections,
Court business, Ac., promptly attended to. tAlco oppo
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B. COLE Attorney at Law, will at
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°nice In the room formerly occupied by William Irvine,
Esq., North Hanover street, Carlisle.
April 'Ai,
W. 131tANDT, illanufacturer of
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North.Easf Btroot, near thelLail Road Bridge, Carlisle
QCRIVENER AND CON VEYAN
CER.—A. h. SPONSLlWiatelingister of Cumber,
hunt county, will carefully atriterul to the transaction or
all such business as may be entrusted to him, such full
the writing of Deeds, Mortgages contracts, &c, lie wlll
also devote his attenttbn to the proenring of Land War
rants, Pensionsoirc. as well , as the 'purchase and sale
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West High Street, formerly occupied, by W. M. l'onmfm.
Esq. near the Methodist Chureb.
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impraved styles.
THRASHING MACHINES of' tho
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