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THE WIDOWED INEBBIATE'S LAMENT.
KY ALOISTINE J. U. DfSASSE.
Tm thinking on thy smile, Mary
Thy bright and trusting smile;
li the morning of our youth and love,
Ere Borrow came or guile ;
tthen thine arms were twined about my neck,
And mine eyes looked into thine, -And
the heart that throbbed for me. aloue
Was nestled close to inine!
I eee full many a smile, Mary.
On young lip? beaming bright:
And many an eye of light and love
Ii flaliiiiS in my sight;
Fut the smile is not for my poor heart.
And the eye is strange to me.
And loneliness steals o'er my soul
When its memory turns to thee !
I'm thinking of the night, Mary,
The nirht of grief and shame,
uhcn with drunken ravings on my lij.s.
To thee I homeward came.
O, the tear was in thy enmcst eye,
Aud thy bosom wildly heaved.
Vet a smile of love was on tby cheek.
Though thy heart was sorely grieved!
But the smile som left thy lipa, Mary,
Ah! thine eye grew dim and sad;
Fvr the tempter lured my steps from thee.
And the wine-cur) drove me rnad.
Frcm thy cheeks the ris-iS tjuirkjy lied, .
And thy ringing lsu;rh was goue,
fit thy heart still fondly clung to me,
And still kept trusting on.
0'. my wcrds were harsh to thee, Mary,
Fit t!i( wine-ctin drove me wild:
And I chid thee when thine eyes were sad.
And cursed thee when they smiled.
Gl knows I loved thee even then,
But the fire was in my braiu.
And the curse of drink was in my herrt
To make my love a bane.
Trfis a pleasant home of ours. Mary,
In the spring-time of our life.'
tthcn I looked upon thy sunny face,
And proudly called thee wife
And 'twas pleasant when ourchildrcn played.
Before our cottage door;
But the children sleep with thee, Mary,
I shall never see them more!
Thcu'rt resting in the church-yard now,
And no stone is at thy head !
But the sexton knows a drunkard's wife,
Sleeps in that lowly bed ;
And he says the hand of God, Mary,
Will fall with 'crushing weight.
On the wretch who brought thy gentle life,
To its untimely fate !
But he knows not of the broken heart
I bear within my breast.
Or the henry load of vain remorse
That will not let mo rest;
H knows not of the sleepless night,
When thinking of thy love,
I seem to hear thy gentle roice,
Speak sadly from above. ; .
1 live raised the wine-cup Mi my hand,
And the wildest strains I've enntr
ith the laugh of drunken mirth
The echo! no ;? ima r, .. .
EuU pale and sorrowing face" looked put
f rom the glittering cup on nie.
Ana a trembling whisper I have heard,
h ca I fancied breathed by thee. .
Thou an slumbering in'the peaceful grave,
Eur i 7 ?kep is drenless now.
B the seal of Rn llB(vi kf
J? mourner's brow?
And my hrt is chill as thine, Mary, :
"ta the cold and silent dead!
Not W fClote ol rra"ll"-
i;tine Cr 'i3111'" Frnnklin ctmmenced
b!e freed Dews,'aPcr' Le noticed, with considera
fflpnf iJ'n' PWic conduct of one or two
rtanSrr,ftn9fn "'Iclphia.. This circura
tiitixZl ?r'h'l h? some of h! Perrons with
ey to f' ?a T' "n'1 ind,lccl ne of them to con
Sard to iV"1 Tia lle Pinion f his friends in re
the rprirn;f fIoctr listened with patience to
tomr im ,Vflnd hePSeJ the favor of his friend's
n.me,i nt t) " an veninS "hich he
otWjenfL s'fe t'me requesting that the
rmTU CTe uts8,,tied with him
C01"l:Ir l ' 1 Doctor received his guests
lnflsorae'nH 9- rial conduct was canvassed,
aounced glvea' ' SPPcr was at last an
ror"n. Th. v, 8116813 touted to an adjoining
Paldinr, " , e wa8 only supplied with two
erVh!v ? sUne :Vr filled with water.
IJ Purt, ? crmld at t Uie Docur.
fri'K) rC!J, f tl' pudding, and urged his
tr hoVt y Vlste1 H,ld tasteJ in n- When
fce arose J , dlfflcuity was nnconquerable,
" ho d,VeMeJ tbem : ; "M frinI, any
wer 1 ,7 8uLt on sawdust pudding and
S,It- Cour- CaD' Ueeds 110 naan's Patronage."
t ishj. than the sword."
OLI) it 1 I. I. SIMO.VS.
BY JOHN OF YOBK.
' TLere are many now living upon the banks of
the Susquehanna, who have seeu rafting ia all
its pride, in the good old times when u short run
to -" tide," aud hq almost equally short waik
back te th head waters cf the crooked river,"
with "bald-face" and hain-and-cces accompani
meius, were the glory of the then backwoods
denizens all along shore from Liulimton to
Columbia. Rafting has by no means fallen into
disrepute yet; but the rough edges of the pro
fession have been smoothed off by the wearings
of Time for the forests have given place to
sprightly villages and thrifty farms, and the
" innocent depredations" of the I'ipe Cieek and
i Apalacou men are among the things that were.
I Even the broad stream does not seem to run so
swiftly as it did of yore ; the schutes, that were
once the terror of the hardy navigators, have
been so much improved as to bo passed with
comparatively little danger, aud tho grand
t wrestling matches in-d foot races, once so widely
j famous, are seldom indulged. Once in a while
j u match lor whiskey all round is got up, but a
; bet to the amount of a is a stranger eveu to
Coxeitown.
In old times it was the commonest thing in
! the world for a party of a dozen to travel on
( fuot all night, and ride on freight boats the
j broad-homs of the Susquehanna during the
: d-iy, when the time was passed in sleeping and
curd playing, These nocturnal marches were
! often funny affaire, and wLtn the raiting season
commenced, tue owners of poultry and small j
Instable aaima!s generally moved their stock
j ito th ii.terior, to keep it out of the hands of i
1 the rufiuieii. These, whose cupidity led them
j to keep their saleables on the river roads, to
; realixe double prices, watched them all night,
with loaded fowling guns.
j The lumbermen had a way of catching turkeys
i that was quite original, as well as successful.
I A light reed pole was secured, and on the top I
end a brimstone match affixed. When they
: came near a f irm house, one of the party w ould
! remain behiaJ, while the others went up to iU'
quire for drink, or food, or, perhaps, their route J
j of travel. While the inmates wire thus engaged,
! the solitary raftmsiu- would creep silently under
. the trees where the turkevs roosted, and, liuht
s nig hisTrimstone mat.-h, poke it under the m se
; of fowl after fowl, until as many of them tuiu
: b!-d off t'ue trees us Le could' carry. The next
' day the turkeys were s.,l. the towns, the
! story always told by the r..:;:yen being that
! they ha.l won them raffling, and, .-.s they were
! an incumbrance, they would part with them
j cheap.
. Sansuinary battles were often fought by these
j men, and the rough-uud-tuuible system, with
j its horrid gougiDg and biting, was iu high vogue.
I Men were frequently terribly maimed, and even
, deaths from these encounters were not rare ;
j but the law seldom took coguisauce of either
i the fights or their results.
j Among the celebrated ruffians whose names
: were sworn by among the raftmen, Old BUI Si
; mons was one of the worst fellows that ever
; handled an oar-stem, or gouged out the eye, or
curtained the nose or ear of an antagonL-t" lie
; was, when the writer of this saw liim, fifteen
; years ago, fifty years of age, still erect and full
j of strength, lie had lost the sight of an eye,
his nose was'c'aved in from the effects of a blow
i from a handspike, and Ids entire face was rough
j with bruises, and covered by a grizzly beard of
f flVu.Ilt tvf. ltlf.l.4..i in I......!. 1 .
, ....j ui unigiu nn'i great tnieKness.
He was still a formidable antagonist, old as he
was, and as horrid as lie looked. '
It was at. a place called .Skinner's, Eddy that
I first set eyes upon Old Bill. There "were a
) large number of rafts and arks tied up' for the
night in the eddy, uuul their crews were in the
tavern on shore, carousing, as usual." The old
villain was soaking his clay pretty deeply, A-fining
a half-pint cup of "bald-face" at the close
of every song a stammering fellow was singing.
As the night wore away, the raftmen, one by
one, dropped off to their rafts, or laid themselves
out upon tLe benches, until there were not more
than a dozen left to keep up the debauch. Old
Bill would hear of nobody's leaving till morning,
and, about two o'clock, had drunk enough to be
come quarrelsome.' There was a young .man
present, who went by tlie name of Jabe Snow
a quiet, temperate man, so far as regards the
I use of ardent epiritsy though he chewed tobacco
excessively, always swallowing the juice, and
was celebrated for his- strength and endurance
he being not above five feet five, and very light
weight. Jabe was about leaving the tavern for
bis raft, when old Bill, then perfectly unreasona
ble from the drink he had swallowed, sprang to
the door Hi.-: held it fast. - :
"You. don't go from here to-night, unless
you're kerrltd out!" shouted the buliy. :
Jabe looked at him steadiiv for half a dozen
seconds, and then said, calinly-r -
"It is necessary for me to see to my men. We
shall start at the first streak of day, and I must
have some skep." I'.
, Sleep, ghouted Old Bill, his face red-
deuing with anger and rum, until he looked like
a demon. " Who's goiu' to talk about sleep in
this cr:'J, r- -7.y ? Here, I'll wake you up,"
aud, accompanying the .words with a euddeu
movement,, he d ached the cup and its contents
directly into the face of the young rafrman. : .
For a minute, Jabe's eyes were blinded with
the whiskey, but after he had wiped the liquid
""' "ia tJVV uy "i"ay me least, time , on oenina witn a front of nearlv a mile. I could
tion. At 1-iigth Lc pi.iw.l.ed.-thq old ..bufljprfnot have cleared It had the bull stopped and left
and demanded that Le should let him pass. . He me on the prairie, withstanding the peril I
"j ' irom me wii
of Old Bill, which felled him to the floor, stunned
uuu uieeuuiir. ieiorc lie COUIU rccovtr. tlie
heavy frame of the giant was thrown upon hiui,
and, in less time than I am writiu; this, poor
imiejaoc was a lump ol jelly, bleeduig profuse-!,y
ly, and aWt . irrecognisable. His face was
iiieraiiy -cnawea up, ana nis lei t elbow dislo
cated, while his huge antagonist had not received
a scratch. ' . .
A few days after this, a fleet a hundred
rafta were lying at the big dam below Nauticoke.
The river had risen to a fearful he,ght, and it
was dangerous to venture through 'Jie narrow,
boiling schute, which was renderci still more
,.j a. iuuv. uum, Ul iu, ma, tweive ,
h 3 luc Li,, oniy to
rise again still more furiously, whiriing lumber
or heavy timbers around with equal ease, and j
dashing them into fragments against its idamant I
aides, or upon the rocks below.
There was a ball that night on the ' HUl,"
7 , l present- .
among them Old Lill. Jabc was there, Uo, but J
so disguised that but two or three persoml j
friemls recognised him. Bill, as usual, draik
! deeply, and about twelve o'clock went aboard
his raft. As he went out of the ball-room, I saw
--be aa wafunt. Jlis keen eyes glared upon V.s
enemy like balls of fire, aud contrasted
wonderfully with hU usual quiet demeanor. The
devil himself could not have displayed more
malice in his ieatures
when he dragged Lewis' j
Monk down to the infernal regions.
As soon as Old Bill was beyond the light of
the open door, Jabe stole sliiy out after him. I
fancied that his cbject was assassination, but,
hearing no outcry, turned my attention to the
dancers, and soon tliuJit no iaore,yf Utlur
them
It two o'clock when myself and companions
luruea into our cabin. The wind was blo-aing
herce.y, the waters . roared upon the falls still '1
.oudcr for ii, and a cold.xnin came down with its
November;- n.lt.i'uu tjc si-'pery; planks.
rreitnt!y, I lelt ajar, wi.icii seemed to indicate
that some of the flotilla had broken away, and
run into us, and soon after a loud crtsh uud a
wild yell broke upon the car, hicii above the '
howling of the storm, and tlie roaring of . the
water. Then again ail became as before, aud I
dropped asleep, amid the music of the elements
and tlie labored snoring of my weary comrades.
At daylight next day, it was discovered that
one raft uo mUshiff. It was Old Bill's! Jabe
was looked for, and found sleeping, as quietly as
a child, in his cabin.
1 don't think anybody asked Jabe Lis opinion
as to the coxae of Old Bill's going off without
saying good-bye, nor was anything publicly said
about it; but Here was a pretty lij thinking
around Nauticoke dam about that time. X. '.
Sunday Courier.
An Impromptu Ilufialo Ride.
I sprang to my feet, flinging aside my blanket.
A fearful spectacle was before me. Away to
the West, as far as the eye could reach, the
prairie seemed in motion. Black waves rolled
oyer its undulating outlines, as though some
burning mountain was pouring down its lava
upon the plains. A thou&and bright epots flashed
and flitted along the moving surface Jike jets of
fire. The ground shook, men shouted, horses
reared upon their ropes, neighing wildly. My'
dog barked aud howled, running around me.
For a moment I thought I was dreaming; but,
no, the scene was too real to be mistaken for a
vision. I saw the border of the black wave
within ten paces of me, and still ' approaching.
Then, and not till , then, did I recognize the
shaggy crests and glaring eye-balls of the. buffa
lo. "God of heaven! I am in thoir track! I
vill be trampled to death!" It was too late to
attempt an escape by running. I seized my rifle,
and fired at the foremost of the band. The ef
fect of my shot was not perceptible. The water
ofthearroyo was dashed in my face. A huge
bull, ahead of the rest, furious and snorting,
plunged through the stream and up the slope.
T i:r .... ..... 1
mm iosscu high into the-air. I was
thrown rearwards and fell upon a moving
I did not feel hurt nor stunned. 1 felt 1
mass.
myself
carried onward upon the backs of several animals,
mai in tne dense drove ran close together.
These, frightened at their strange burden, bel
lowed loudly, and dashed on to the front. A
sudden thought struck me, and, fixing on that
which was most under me, I dropped my legs
astride of him, embracing his hump, and clutch,
ing the long,, woolly hair that grew upon his
neck. The animal "routed" with extreme ter
ror, and I lunging forward soon headed the band.
This was exactly what 1 wanted;, and on we
went, over the prairie, the bull running at top
speed, beleiving, no doubt, that he had a panther
or a catamount between his shoulders. 1 had
no desire to disabuse Lim of hia belief; and,
lest he should deem me altogether harmless and
come to a halt, I slipped out my fcowie, which
IB I Ml
happened to be "handy," and pricked him ur
whenever he showed symptoms of lagging. At
every fresh touch of the "spur" he roared out,
nud ran forward at a redoubled pace. 'My dan
ger was still extreme. The drove was Pmt,,,
was in, I could not resist laughin" at mv ludi-
crous situation. 1 felt as one does when looking
at a o-on.T rmnwlr .W c 1. n 1 - . -..
r. - oiiun ii;ruugii a vmage
, of " prairie dogs." Here I fancied, the animal
(was about to turn and run back. This brought
mirt-: to a sudden pause; but the buffalo
J usually runs in a "bee line," and fortunately
tely
mine nif..i
wci:t. sr '.
from t :
wltii r-
direct
this fr.;
them I w. .
o exception to the law. On he
to the knees, kicking the dust
.'il. hills, snorting and bellowing
-d terror. The "plum buttes " were
Ve line of our course. I had seen
start, and knew if I could reach
' ' " safe. They were nearly three
t:.o bluff where we had bivouacked ;
miles j;-oi..
but in KT i-; le I had fancied them ten
1 small
one ross r ,or tlie r(ra:r;c. SCTt.ral hull(,rp,i vnr(U
lBW tj,..n the raa5n Le;ght-. Towanls this I
pr;ckcd the foaming bull in a last stretch; and
Le lrou?ht nie clevcr1y witLrn a Lmdred varJs
of hs h&;iC u WM nQW t-me to take of
my dusky companion. I could have slaughtered
hln &3 j leaneJ over hU back M kuife
upon tLc mo8t nerzUe part of his huge body,
j would not have slain that buffalo for Koh-i-
Noor. Untwisting my fingers from his thick
fleece, I slipped down over his tail, and, without
as much as saying " Good night," ran with all
j my speed towards the knolL I climbed up, aud.
sitting down upon a lcose rockr looked out over
the prairie. The moon was still shining brigbt-
( ly. My late companion had halted not far from
wlere haJ kft Lim stooj glaring back
with a look of extreme bewilderment. There
was something so comical in the sight that I
yelled ith laughter as I sat securely on my
perch. The Scafj'-IIunlert ; or Jiomaatic Adven
ture! In 'orlAem Mexiro.
Tlie Progress or our Kepubllc.
. The census of the United States, for 18-jO, is
enough to astonish all the world but ourselves
whom nothing can astonish in the way of do
ing thicks up si.ick. The increase of our wealth
t,- r.Oj 1' :t':ou me. ei i-.'es of our great pros
jcrity. Tor the p;st eight years, especially, we
Juve reason to be deeply thankful fur the steady
::i 1 prosperous advancement of our commerce,
d internal resources. There have been no
tudden fluctuations, and nothing but general
progress. Some interests have suffered, but the
Republic as a whole ha3 not felt them.
. How striking tlie contrast between our coun
ty and the civilized countries of Europe. Our
siperiority, in every respect, has been striking
It manifested. Wc have beheld Europe con
vulsed from centre to circumference. France
aas spouted out her r;ice of monarchs, and her
titizens have made the streets of Fari3 reek
rith human gore. Rome cast out her spiritual
ruler, who was only reinstated by the cannon of
the Gaul, who, more than once, in the days of
ld, has become master of the Eternal City,
jerhaps yet to pay the debt to a more than
Cicsar's vengeance. The fields of Italy have
been stained with blood, and the eannon of Aus
tria have battered the walls of Venice. Bloody
fc.ive beeu the struggles on the plains of Hunga
ry, and Vienna has , smoked - with the ashes of
the slain. Every nation in Europe but llussia
and England have had. the knife of civil war
barred in the savage contest of father against
Bon aud brother against brother; Ireland has
lost tw o millions by the famine aud pestilence
nd what country in the old werld has escaped
some scourge or reverse of fortune ? Not one.
-.We have been engaged in war, and wc glory
not in that, because wc are the friends of peace.
We have also had the pestilence; but it would
seem as if those things which injured and re
tarded the progress of other natiods tended al
ways to advance. and prosper ours. Strong are
we now iu population, and strouger than all
other nations in enterprise, and never-tiring
onward pushing. Iu the year J800, the popula
tion of the United States was 5,300,000; it is
now 23,500,000.
The number of States then comprising the
Union was sixteen ; it is now thirty-one. Our
territory was then 1,000,000 square miles; it
is novr " "00,000. All our present domain west
.' of the V'.-3,ssippi then belonged to France and
Spain,
da w '
on!. ."
Yor .
Ttnr
feci-'
vag.
of 01 .-gr-u-tor
t 1 -fuctuv
s an unbroken wilderness, r lori
;. by Spain, aud Georgia was the
it-.e Gulf of Mexico. Wct,t of New
v- were no States but Kentucky and
:-.nd tiese had spest most of their
-'.s in the bloody strifes with a a
i.is, Indiana, Michigan, and half
" . ;i States, were yet but hunting
j re Indians roamed unmolested. At
the total value of all kinds of raanu
products of industry iu the United
States hardly exceeded a hundred millions of
dollars; the total value now of our products or
industry will be about six hundred millions:
The exportation of cotton ; alone has" increased
from $5,000,000 annually,1 to 61,000,000 and
71,000,000.
Our inland lake trcde Las increased frtn
an amount too insignificant to be estimated, to
the enormous value of 200,000,000 annually.
Our foreign marine is now hardly inferior in ex
tent or value to that of Great Britain, and we
arc now'gaining faster than ever on our gigan
tic rival, rifty years ago, scarcely oue of our
present four thousand miles of canal existed,
aud not one of our present eight or ten thousand
miles of railway, or our present sixteeu thousand
miles of telegraph were either known or dreamed
of. Iu thort, under the influence of free insti
tutions, we have grown great and strong, with
a rapidity wLich is enough to astonish and con
found even the gigantic ambition of the Czar of
all the Russians. The Emperor of Russia is
called the Colossus of the north ; his empire is
about three times the area of the United States'
possessions, with about three times the amount
in population. It i about one-fifth greater in
area than the empire of Great Britain. On the
other hand, the British sceptre exercises do
minion over one hundred and eighty millions,
three times more than Russia. It is the great
est empire at present in the world, and its in
dustrial products are in proportion to its popu
lation. Next to England, in productive indus
try and commercial enterprise, stands the United
States; but in rapidity of advancement, in giant
strides to be the first empire in the world.it
requires no " mystical lore " to predict that
in thirty years hence, the result will be accom-2
plished.
Fright ftil Outrage.
The district of Plainehaute, in the Department
of Cotes de Nord, has been the theatre of a crime,
the details of which have caused horror and con
sternation throughout France. In tlie month of
July lat, Pierre Barthelemy Lecoc, a man of
dissipated habits and desparate disposition, was
convicted before the Criminal Courts of Saiat
Briene, of a violent assault upon his wife, and
sentenced to one months imprisonment. During
his incarceration, his wife sought for a limited
divorce, and while awaiting the action of the"
Court, she lived with her mother, Mrs. Gauvain,
at Mauvais. Lecoc, on beiog informed of th:B
nnx-porliiif bimmfi verv much irritat-id. and on 1
f. ,. , - ,
his discharge from prison, vowed vcrgeanco
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against his wife and mother-in-law. On Sunday,
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tee 31st of August, towards four o clock in the
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afternoon, Lecoc presented hiaiself, armed with
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a fow;inx piece, at the house of his niotbtr-in-
.e . 1 -j v
law. Calling upon his wife to stand aside, he
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leveled the piece at Mrs. Gauvain and pulled the
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triccer. but although the cap exploded, it failed
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in causing the discharge of the gun. roiled in
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this. the murderer threw himself upon the old
lady, and sought to strangle her, but a woman
named Boudet, living in the next house, had
heard the cries of distress, and quickly entered
the : room, prevented the catastrophe. Lecoc
then drew his child towards him, embraced it,
...
and departed
But a few minutes had elapsed, ere the door .
was again thrown open, and Lecoc appeared
once more, a diabolical smile lighting up his
dark features. Again the fatal weapon was
I raised, the trigger pulled, and au expposion fal
lowed. Mrs. Gavain, w ho had been reclin"ng on
an arm chair, and whose previous ten or scarcely ;
allowed her to observe the presence of the man, i
I -m.Jl.lli.- ur rvrsHpd lirr Imnds tn lirr ;
Bil ll-'J t. ..in.. . 1 - - - .
breast, and sank lifeless to the floor. The wife . , , ..
, , ,. , 1 , 1 - 1 1 : exhausted the supply before night,
of Lecoc, holding her child in her arms, sank 1 . 1 . .
on her knees before the murderer, imploring h!s , Fatal Consequences or Folly.
mercy, but the wretch spurned her from him j An occurrence, which happened at a young
with his foot, and was in the act of leaving, ; ladies' seminary iu New York, is uientioaed iu
when he once more turned around, seized his the Times of that city, which presents another
gun by the muzzle, and let the butt-end falL with proof of the folly of indulging in the thought
stunning force on the unprotected head of his JCss practice of attempting to frighten others,
wife. She fell; her blood mingled with that of ; Two cf the young ladies in the initiation wero
her mother, but the inhuman wretch was not j engaged in their own room, convening uj-ou tho
satisfied yet, aud blow after blow descended on science oi" anatomy, in the course cf which one
the head of the victim until it became one mass of them proceeded to relate some experience sbo
of gore. The w oman Boudet who had witnessed ; b.aa formerly acquired in a dissecti-.ig riOJi.
the terrific scone, had ucauwhile sought shelter
under the bed, and the murderer left without
perceiving her.
Lecoc took the high road to riainchcaie, and
met several workmen, to whom he recited the
dreadful event, and to prove his words, showed
his blood-stained handi aud clothes. He spoke
calmly, as though it was an every day occur
rence, aud instead of exhibiting contrition,
showed satisfaction with what he had done.
Tho men were too much frightened by his ap
pearance to venture any attempt for his arrest.
He made for the woods, and has not since beu
heard from, but every chance of escape has
been cut off, and unless he commits suicide, he
must eventually fall into the hands of the au
thorities. .
"Wall, thar's a row over at our house."
"What on arth's-the matter, you little sar
pint?" .
" Why dad's' got drunk, mothers' deal, the
old cow's got a calf, Sid's got married and run
away with the spoons, Pete swollered a pin, and
Lui's looking at the Aurora Borax until he's got
the delirious triangles. That ain't all neither."
" What else upon arth!"
"Rose spilt the batter-pot and broke the pan
cakes, and one of the Maltese kittens has got
her head into the molasses cup and can't get it
out, tn eh. how hungry I tm!"
M1E B-KIEE 4
Tlie Cliiucse In California.
The Chinese are destined to exert au impor
tant influence in this country. For the last six
mouths they have supplied a larger number of
immigrants than any other country not excep
ting the Atluutic section of the Union. I mean
to say, the excess of immigration over emigra
tion has. been more in their favor. Scarcely a
week elapses without the r.rrha! of 150 to 250
Celestials. Very few of them' alanden th
country. They appear to shape their course
for permanent residence. The greater number
equip themselves for mining and set off in
search of gold. But many have settled down
in trade or business in this city.- The various
grades of society are well represented. . They
all hail from Canton. It would net he credita
ablo to come from any other place.
It is a curious fact that although there are
from ten to twenty thousand of these people ia
California, very few of them are fvinalcs! Th
women do not come. 1 know of only two or
three Chinese women in this cityr. Oae of tham
is the noted Miss Atoy, whose reputation is n.t
in the least degree doubtful. This d.stinguished
character has no pretensions to beauty, though
she is not homely. She lives in a very publio
place, and shows herself at the loor, a' ways ia
regular national costume, with Chinese panta
loons of pure white, or lrghly wrought satin.
Her visitors are Americans, and tlie names of
some emiuent politicians are sometimes coupled
with hers. The Chinese do not enter her dwel
ling. It is said that some of them waited on
the Committee of Vigilance, when that sover
eign tribunal was making oo.nici'ary visits t
suspected persons, and g'ning them notice to
quit,- with a request that Atoy should . be stct
home, as they considered her a disgia e to their
j country and a pest to society. Lut S3ine o" tba
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LuiuumictucairiBg 10 oecome ucuer acquainted
with her ladyshiji before proceeding to that ex
tremity, she was not moleste L
You can scarcely look inu the street but yoa
see troops of Chinese. Here are a dozen marcL
iBg in a single file, irregularly, anl making a
tour of observation, notiug with curiosity eery
thin": arouad them. Here is aLo:her trosD.
' twenty or more, laden with tia pans, boots and
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1 various preparations for the mines. Still larger
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bodies may be seen with sacks of sugar and
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rice on their backs, carrying them to their store
houses after the manner cf ants. O.- if tie
(load be too heavy for c no, two of them tug it
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on a pole. Thera is a chap with a huge basket
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' of c:othmg, at the heels of ai edd looking
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genius who wears odd look.ng spectacles, and
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. who reads his book as he goes, to find the rro-
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on'i''iu jjwicco. otcasiuuaii you Deuoii
fifty or 4 hundred in one gang, just arrived, and
staring with amazement at every thing, getting
along about as fast as children going to schcel
, . J"
The Chinese are slow in assatninc the Amrr-
ican costume. Their cloray shoes first come
otF, and are replaced by boots, ofteii much too
large. They are fond of big boots, aud will
s.-ldom suboiil to a good fit if t'.iey can get a
pair of boots of greater capacity for the samo
money. Their feet tre generally small. A fric: d
of mine had a stock of small boots which he did
not know what to do with; a Chinaman, at
tracted by their cheapness, bought a pair, anl
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Just as the conversation reached this point, tho
door of the room oaed and auothcr of th
inmates of the seminary eu.ercJ with slow aud
solemn tread, Laving a white s iect wrapped
1 about her form, and her face powdered to per
fect whiteness, htr jet-black hair, eyes aud
brows presenting a contrast which gave a start
ling lividuess to h r ghi st-lil;o coi n ina.c:. Ti e
la ly who was rehitlug her experience, as already
stated, is said to be menially superior to any of
her classmates, aud noted for her strength cf
mind aud freedom from ucrvousuess and absurd
sensibility. So sudden, however, was the ap
proach of the figure, just at a moment when her
mind was leait prepared for anything associated
with thoughU of tho de-id, that upon bjholdiug
tho apparition she fell senseless to the floor, aud
awoke to tho scenes around her oa'y to stiow
her anxious attendants that reason had fled and
left ead tokens of the mental wreck. At last
accounts.no change wasdh-csvcndle in the dis
tressing symptoms of the uufirtanate girl, and
there is little encouragement to hope that lca
50 a will ever resume its scat. This occurrence,
of course, has produced much distress, both in
the seminary aud in the families of the respect
ive parties.
The mind, in its own place, and ia itsalf.
Can wal? a hesven cf tc.1, a LVJ of heaven.
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