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THE PISHER'S COTTAGE.
Translated by Heinr.ch Ile'ce, by Ixland.
'Howrazucud wild yet how many picltues
i . a 1
-ks it Bummon to tbc nrn-.rs eyei w tat a
to there is about it! llnlne u the Eenibraudt
ut poets.
We sat by the fiher'ii cottage,
And lookM at the stormy tide ;
Th ovoning mist caaio risir,- ''
Aud floating far and wid..
One by one ia the light-houe
The light shone out on high ;
And far oo the dim horizon,
A ship went skiing by.
We spoke of storm and shipwreck,
Of Bailors and how thsy live;
Of J-mniya twist sky and water.
And the arrows and joys they glTe.
We spoke of distant countries.
In regions Htranga and fair ;
Aad of the wondroua beings
And curious cuntons there.
Of perfumed lamp oullie Gsnge,
Which are lauueh'd iu the twilight hour ;
And the dark and silent Brahmins,
Who worship the lotus flower.
Of the wretched dwarfs? of Lapland,
Broad headed, wide-mouthed and gjr.all ;
Who croueh round their oil-firea, cocking,
And chatter and scream and bawL
Ad the maidens earnestly listened.
Till at Iwt we spoke no mere ; ..
SThe ship like a shadow had vanish'd,
And darkne fell daep on the ihore.
A GEM.
The aanexl beautiful line, from T.yron, upon
"Henry KUV White, you are familiar with, and as
tbey are entirely appropriate toour own lamented
KLakb,' the child and riciim. of acivnee, I should
M much oblige! if you would gire them a place
im the Inquirer.
" "Oh what a noble heait wai Lf re undone
"XVhen science Bclf-destroyed her favorite son ;
Yea, ahc too much indulge-i thy fond pursuit,
FheMwedthe seeds, but death has" reaped the
fruit;
TtM thine own genius gare the Curd blow,
And help'd to plant the wound that laid thee low,
So the struck eagls streched upon the plain,
Ko wore through rolflns clouds to sar RSin,
Viewed hii father on the filal dart,
'And winged the shaft thftt quivered in bis heart;
Ka were his pangs, butket:r.cr far to feel,
He auned the piuiou which iinpeUe-i tha tte?i, -While
the game plumage that had warmed hL nest
: Drank the last Ufe-rop of his blooding breast."
BEAUTY.
Oh, what a pare- and sacred thing.
Is beauty, curtainM frcm the sight
' Of the grow world, illuming
One only mansion with her hghi;
Urceen by man's disturbing eye
The flowr, that blooms beneath the eca
Too deep for suu-bsams, doth not lie
Hid In more chaste obscurity !
R HEN ESS.
T"h, rall-juioed apple, waxing over mellow.
Drops in a silent autumn night,
All its alloted length cf diys,
The flov. cr ripens ia its place,
Pipens and fades and falls,
All things have rest and ripen toward tho grave.
2T The folio-wing, though old, will be
Interesting to those who are fond of sausages.
A lady having purchased feme sausages of
oup! of boys, ovrrbeard them talking abou
.. ..-.- i if -. i
a
i bout
ithemoncT " Give me half of it," says one.
I won't" aid ths other. " Now that ain't
Air, jou-inow 'taint, Joe, far half the pup
was mine "
X" A Western editor, having heard that
"to persons in a drowning condition, all the
events or tueir past lile tucWeniy riS3 viviaty
3efore them, modestly expresses a wish "that
-some of his delinquent subiaritcrs would take
-a bathing in deep water.
: JC3T A dying Irishman was asked by his
' eonfessor. if be was prepared to renounce tho
lTil and all his works. "Oh, your honor,"
-tid Pat, don't ask me that ; I'm going into
na strange country, and I don't want to make
SBjmlf enemies I" ,
SiEhere, my friend, you are drank!"
"'Drunk! V b3 sure I am, and hare been
-for the last three years. ou see my broth
r and I are on the temperance mission. He
lectures, vLile I set frightful oxampld I"
My dear sir." said a candidate, accosting
ttttrdy wag on the day of election, " I'm
glad to wf jvu.v . You needn't We I ve
trom the Pennsylvania Inquirer.
A ROMANCE OF REAL' LIFE.
MY EARLY LOVE.
A KEMINISCEXCE.'
To such of my .readers as may be desirous
cf knowing who and what I am, I will mere
ly say -my name ia John II . . I am a
retired merchant, and by the world reported
wealthy. Out of a largo family, all my
childreu have married or died, but : one my
little pet, Mary. I still cull her "my little
pet," although eighteen winters havo glided
by since T clasped her to uiy bosom. VI love
her very uauie, and whether on this account,
or because the is my youngest, I know not,
hut I hare always felt-for her-a more paternal
fondness. Ect ic is not of myself or family
I intcud to speak. To-night, seated ia my
studv, surrounded by every comfort, tuy
mind has reverted arn.in'and sraiu to an iu
cident which happened long ago, until I have
determined to record it. '
It was twenty 3'ears ago, this very day,
March, IS . The morning was blustering
and unpleasant, as March mornings generally
are, when I started from my home to the
counting-house. I was (I am sorry to con
fess it) in a bad humor. Tho baby had cried
all night, my coffee bad been badly made,
and altogether I was what is vulgarly called
toctof sorts" T gave my overcoat a hurried
jerk, and waiting to button it and put on my
gloves co the way down, I slammed tho door
and rushed off ! At the corner, my rapid
propress was impeded by a figure which had
been crouching -on one of the door steps.
Justus I cuius up, it sprang forward, directly
ia my path, and seemed to be intently regard
ing something down the street. With a sigh
of disappointment, it was shrinking back
again, but not before I had exclaimed angri
ly, Vt'oman, get out of my way." She
turned around, and with a look.
I am an old man now. and yet that pale,
wasted face, with that reproachful look, is as
vividly present before mo as then, and -will
haunt me to nt-y dying day. She fixed her
gazo upon me for a moment, and then, in a
-voice hollow and weak ah ! me, weak, I
doubt not," from hunger, said " Sir, you
ought not to speak to a miserable creature so."
I felt ashamed of myself, and in a kind tone,
inquired whether sho was expecting any out
lier frame shook with emotion, which she
vainly strova to conceal, as she replied My
boy Harry has gone some errands for me. and
I am waiting for hiui." Iler head sank upon
her breast; and, throwing her some money, I
was passiug cn, whe, with a sudden mo
tion, she streched f.rth her hand, all purple
with cold, and said fjlr, did you ever
know Mary l?ercLfkll ? Caa you - tell ma
where she lives r"
Mary lieechcl 1 ! What a flood of memo
ries that name seut through my soul! I ex
claimed involuntarily (and my heart whis
pered, she was your first love " know her
why 1 ci.n s'ie uer now. feo tall and graceful,
with brown hair, and such liquid eyes. The
last time I r-atr her wa" but remembering
myself, I answered very quickly "Yes, I
kuow her, tut it is many years since I moved
frciu tnc placj her2 she live!, and I have
not heard of her pinco Why do ycu ask ?
for I felt it alir.ost profanation for such an one
to have Mary'a name upon her lips- She
c!rew her hood more closely over her face, a3
ia taUnr.g aec;tits
She
was t
Kind to me ence
Something about the voineu interested me,
and asking several more questions, T promised
to call on the morrow, and hurricd on. It
was late when I reached tho store, but all
that day I could not attend to business. 1 hat
one question, uttered on that quivering voice,
"b:r, u;d you ever knew Mnry Ececbheld?
rang through my cars and in my very brain.
Kuow her ! Why I loved her with my whole
soul.' How well I recollect eVca now when I
met h;r. It was at her uncle's country F.oa.t.
She lived w.ith her old uncle, Mr. Siuridan.
He was rich, and would at h-3 death, it was
supposed, bequeath h"i3 fortune to his niece.
He took me into his oflce, and with his ac
customed hospitality, invhed me to call upon
him I did so, and was sauntering about
the grounds, when I met Mary She was
reading hen I approached,-but perceiving I
was strange, received - rre with a dignify of
manner peculiar to herself. r- .
"', From-that moment my heart was gone. I
worshipped her. My blood fairly leaps in
my veins to-night, when I think of br, .aad
yet I am an old grey haired man cf sixty,
with a dear, good v.ifo I respect aad love, but
not with the kind of lore I bore towards Ma-
ry. l must Lurry over this put or my story,
for I cannot dwell upon it.
Suffice it to eity-, cireamstance3 were such
we did not murry. I moved to another city,
where I married aacl heard no more of Mary.
But to return to my story. All that day I
felt uncomfortable. At one time I would
blame myself for speaking harshly to the wo
man one Mary had treated kindly ; and at
another time, I would 'feel provoked to think
so small an affair could unnerve inc. I went
home early, and determined to find the wo
man I continued to make inquiries for her
during several weeks, but with, no Eucce&sl
No one had seen such a person.
A year passed by, and I was beginning to
forget the incident, when one evening, in con
versation, a friend turning to me, said
'John, you were oneo a great admirer of
Mary Bccchficld, were you not Yl' .
I assented, and inquired why she spoke" of
her then. t ......
" Because I heard this morning she died in
a miserable alley near here. You know her
Uncle disinherited .her when she marriod
Jackson, a worthless fellow, and since then
the has lived in great poverty."
How every word pierced my heart! I
waited to hear no more," but seizing my hat
hastened to the gloomy abode. - On my way
the words, " Sir, did you ever know Mary
BeeehSeld,"' came fresh to my memory, and
tho thought rushed across me that it must
have teen her. No one can imagine my feel
ings." My haml tremblesand my blood run3
"chill, when I remember tbat night. To have
spoken unkindly nay, ' ordered her from my
path ; it was too much. I reached the hovel,
for I can give no other name, and there, ia
the person of the poor woman, I found my
lost Mary. : Her poor little boy hung over her
inspeechlasa grief . . Everything about tho ap
artment spoke of poverty, exirema : poverty, and
yet such neatness prcvaibu that you felt you
were not awav from refinement. Ah ! no ;
her every thought was noble. Sha was fitted
to adorn any station, however exalted, and to
be brought to this. . -
When I encountered her in the street, she
evidently had intended to reveal herself. - Hut
when I spoke ia such glowing terms of tho
Mary of my remembrance, her pride her
woman's pride forbade it. All tbat day at
tho cfSco I felt like writing her came - upon
every check, and Heaven knows, had I thought
sho needed them,1 I would have filled them all
Well! well! Such are the changes of, for
tune I am becoming weary and niut close.
My only restitution was to take the boy into
my lsmily. lie has always been as my
chili, and no one, not even my wife, knows
the reason I take such a deep iuterest in Har
ry, or why he has succeeded - me as head of
my aSVire. .
REKASSABLE CASES. CRIMINALS
WHO HAVE RETURNED TO LITE AT
TER. EXECUTION.
Tho following singular circumstances is re
corded by Dr.. Plot, in his Natural History
cf Oxfordshire:
In the year 1C50, Anne Green, a servant
of Sir Thomas Reed, was tried, for the mur
der of her hew born child, and found guilty.
She was executed in tho court at Oxford, and
hung about . hilf aa hour. On being cut
down she was put into a cofSn and brought
away to a house to te dissected ; where, when
they opened the cofin, notwithstanding the
ropo remained unloosed and straight about
her neck, they perceived her breast to rise,
whercupou oue Ma?sau, a tailor, intending
only an act cf charity, set his foot upon her;
and as some say, one Oruru, a soldier, again
struck her with the butt cud of his musket.
Notwithstanding all which, when the learned
and eminent Sir Wm, Ferry, aucestor of the
present Marquis of Lan.sdowne, then profes
sor of Anatomy in the University, Dr. Wal
iis and Dr. Clark, then President of Magde
leu College, and Vice Chancellor cf the Uni
versity, camcjo prepare the body for dissec
tion ; they perceived soma small rattling in
her threat ; thereupon desisting from their
purpose, they presently usod meaDs for her
recovery', by Opening a vein, laying her in a
warm bed, and u.-aog divers icmelies respect
ing her senselessness, insociuch that within
fourteen hours, she began td ppeak, and tho
next day talked and prayed very heartily.-
Darin" the time cf her recoverinr. the offi-
! cers concerned in her execution would needs
have had her away aain, to have completed
it ca her ; but by the meditation of the wor
thy doctors and some other friends with the
then Governor of the city Colonel Ive'scy
there was a guard put upon her from ail
further disturbance, until they had sued out
her pardon from the Government. Much
doubt, indeed, arose as to her actual guilt.
ivrowus ox people in tae meantime e.ai to
see her, and. many asserted that it must be
the provider c? of God, who would thus as
sent her ihuocffnce.
Afcer Eome time, Dr. Petty,- hearing that
she discoursed with those about Lcr and sus
pecting that tho women uiiht suggest unto
her to relate something cf strange visions
and apparation3 she had seen during the
time she appeared to to dead (which they had
already begun to do. telling that f he. said she
had tweu in a ae green meadow, having a
river runniug round it, and all things there
glittered Hire silver and gold) he caused all
to depart from the room but the gentlemen
of the faculty who were to have been at the
dissection, and asked her concerning her
sensa and apprehensions during the tini:? she
was hanged. To which she answered, that
she neivher remembered bow the fetters were
knocked ofT, how she went out of the prison;
when she was turned off the ladder ; whether
any ps-.il ui was sung or not ; nor was kuo sen
sible of any paia tnat she could:' re3:?mbcr.
She came to herself as if rdm had awakened
out of s'.eep, cot recovering the use of her,
speech by slow degrees, tut ia a manner al-.
together, beginning to sp:ak just whero she
left oil on the gollows. '- -'
Being ; thus at length perfectly recovered,
after thanks given to God and the persons in
strumental in bringing her to life, and pro
curing her an immunity from fu;th?r punish
meut, she retired into the country, to her
friends at Steeple Barton where she was af
terwards married, and lived ia good repute
amongst her ueihbirs, having three children,
and not dying till IGoi).
The following account of tho case of a
girl who was wrongly executed jn 1766 h
given by a celebrated French author as an
iustauce of injustice which was often commit
ted by an equivocal, mode of trial then used
in Franco : :
About seventeen year3 since, a young
peasant girl was placed t Paris, in tho ser
vice of a man, who smitten 'with her beauty,
tried to inveigle hsr ; but she was virtuous,
and resisted The prudence bf this girl irri
tated the master and he. determined ou re
venge. He secretly cunveyed into her . box
many things belonging to hiua, marked, with
hid name He then exclaimed that he ' was
robbed, called in a commissionaire,, (a minis
terial officer of justice,) and made his deposi
tion. The girl's box was eearched and the
The unhappy ser-
; She defended herself only-by her tears;
she had no evidence to prove that she did
not put the property ia the bos ; and her only
answer to the interrogatories, WE3 that she
was innocent. Tho judges had no suspicion
of tho depravity of tho accuser, whose station
was respectable, and they administered the
law in all its rigor. The innocent girl was
condemned to be hanged. The dreadful of
fice wes ineffectually performed, as it was tho
first attempt of the 6on of tho executioner.
A surgeon hid purchased tho body for dissec
tion, and it wa3 conveyed to his house. On
that evening being about to open the head,
he perceived a gentle warmth about the body.
Tho dis3ccting knife fell from his hand, and
ho placed her in a. bed whom he was about to
dii-JoaW-v Ui. efforts to restore her to Ufa were
effectual, and at tho sirae time ho sent for a
clergyman on whose discretion aad experience
ho could depend, in order to consult with him
on this strange event, as well aa to have him
for a, wltuess to restoration. ; Tho moment
the unfortunate girl opened her eyes, she be
lieved herself in aucther world, and perceiv
ing the figure of the priest,-who had a marked
and majestic coantcnanee, she joined her
hand3 tremblingly and exclaimed 'Eternal
Father, you know my innocence, have pity
on me" In this manner she continued to
in the ecclesiastic, believing in her simplici
ty, that she beheld, her God. They were
loi? iu persuading her that she was not dead
so UiUch had the idea of the punishment
and of death possessed her imagination.
Tho girl having returned to life and health,
she retired to hide herself in a distant village,
fearing to meet the judges or the officers, who
with the dreadful tree - incessantly haunted
her imagination. . The accuser remained un
punished because his crime, although mani
fested by two individual witnesses was not
clear to the eye of the law. The people sub
sequently became acquainted with the resur
rection of this girl and loaded with reproaches
the author of her misery.
Oppossd to Hatrirnony.
Is y'our family opposed to matrimony F'
" Wal, no, I'd rather guess not, seen' as
how my mother's had four husbands aad
stands a smart chance of bavin' another.
" Four husbands! is it possible?"
"Oh, yes, you see my mother's christened
name ws.a Mchetable Sheet, and dad's name
was Jacob Press, and when they got married
the printers said it waa puttin' the sheet in
press. They said I was tbe first edition.
An' mother was thetaruelcst critter te go out
to evein' meetin's She used to go out pret
ty late every night, an' dad was afraid I would
get in the saino habit, s he put mo to bed at
early caudla light, co rercd me up with the
pillar snd put me to sLep with the boot-jack.
VI, did Lad to get up every night and let
mother in ; if ha didn't get down pretty darn'd
quick, whea she cum, lu'd - ketch particular
thunder, so dad used to sleep with hi3 head
out of the winder. 50's Le wake up quick, an'
one night he got a leetb ' too far out, ' and
down dad cum cuCumux right down on the
pavement, an smashed into ten thousand
pieces
" What ! was Lo killed by the fall?"
' 4 Wal, no, not exactly by the fall. I rather
kinder sorter guess 33 how it was the sudden
fetch up of the pavement that killed him. But
in arm cum hu:a and found Liiu lyiu' thar and
sue hii i
hole du.
him swept up
together, an had a
in the burym v
arJ, an naa caa
put iu an J bui i'dip an' had & white-oak plank
put to his beid, aad white wasiiei all over, for
a tombetcna." ' .s
" So your mother was left a poor loae wid
ow?" " Wal, yes, but she didn't mind that much
twasnt ion sr' fere sho married Sam Hide.
You ree the married Hi
just about dad's eizo and
.1 1 -1.1 "IT!
bckase he was
wanted him to
wear cut uau s c.otnos. Vt a
.1 the way 0I0 Hide
useu to iiiuo rue was a caution to my hide
Hide had a little the thoughest hide, except a
Wall's hide, and the way Hide used to hide
away liquor ia hi hide was a caution to a
bull's hide. Wal, oue-day old Hide got his
hide so full cf whiskey that he pitched head
long into a enow bank, and thar ho stuck and
friz to death. So ruarm had him pulled out,
and laid out, and had another hole dug in the
same buryiu' yard, and had hiui buried and
had another white-oak plank pu up at his
head and whitewashed all operand ";
' So your mothtr was again a widow ?".
" O, yes. but I guess sho didn't lay awake
long to think about that, for in about three
weeks, she married John Strong and he was
the strongest headed cuss that you ever"seen.
Ile went fishing the other day and got drown
ded, and he was so tarnal strong headed I'll
bo darned to darnation if he didn't flont riht
up agin the current, and they found him a
bout three milea up the river and it 6ok three
yoke of cattle to pull him out. Wal, marm
had him buried along side 'tother two, had a
v'uite-oak plank put up at his Iiead an' white
washed all over nice, and there's thr on "era
all ia a row.
" And your mother was a widow for the
third time?"
. ".Yes but marra didn't seem to mind it a
tarnal sight. The next fellow she married
was Jacob Hayes' an' the way : marm does
make him haze is a . caution now I tell ye.
If ho does a leetelout of the way, marm makes
nin take a bucket and white wash brush and
go right up to tho buryn' yard and white;
wash the three oak- planks, just to let him
kuow what be my come to when she phased
him in tho same row and got marriod to the
fifth husband. So you see iuy family ain't a
tamed sight opposed to a dose cf matrimony.
' t3?"0n a recent rainy day a wag was heard
to exclaim ' Well, ray umbrella is a regular
Catholic 1"- -"How so"?" inquired a friend.
" Because it alway keeps izvx.' '
things were discovered,
vant was imprisoned.
A Portrait of Erihan Yomg. .
- " The Husband in Utah" is the title
of a work rec&ntly publishej in New York.
It i3 by Austin X, Ward, end it gives many
curious details in , relation toUtah, the run
ners and habits of the people. The following
sketch of the miste-pieee of Mornionidm,
which wo copy from iis pags, will bo read
with interest at this time. By the way, it is
stated that Major Ben McCullongb, cf Texas,
-has been offered the Governorship of Utah
He is a man of energy, courage and determi
nation, and at the sam time, of integrity
and character.
' Brigham Young l a remarkable man, sec
ond to the Mohammed of the Western Con
tinent, and like Aubeeker and All, abundantly
qualified 0 "carry out and 'nernetuste his
scheme of imposture aad fanaticism He can
act the' part of chief magistrate and supreme
pontiff; or. with equal facility, he turns moun
tebank and astonishes the world by such du
ties as few civil or religious functionaries
would dare to attempt. He support by
precept and example a domestic ministration
never before admitted among 'enlightened
people. Yet his community receives month
ly accessions of strength by the arrival of
emigrant converts from the different Europe
an nations. Young, beautiful, and accom
plished women ; men of property and intelli
gence lay their offerings on the shrine of his
faith ; solicitous for h"i3 bendictious, and obe
dient to lib mandates.
Some of his messages from the pulpit are
perfect gems in their way, witty, original, in
many respects decidedly, laughable, aad un
like anything of the kind ever heard before.
He choosea t;xt3 from a Bible, a newspaper,
or an almanac.; He quint'y touches on every
conceivable topic war, commerce, peace, in
dustry, art, and love. Thess comprehensive
addresses generally involve a pretty sharp dig
at the President, and rather severe criticism
on Governmental affairs "at Washington. In
deed, it is evident that indistinct visions of
future greatness, aad supreme independent
power, sometimes float through the brain of
the distinguished hierarch ; yet his strong,
good sense provent3 and undue display of
vanity or self-importance. At this time 'it is
impossible to balance his faults and virtues,
or to decide whether the title of enthusiast or
imposter more properly belong to him or his
predecessor. There is but one step between
the two.
This man ha3 likewise managed to acquire
and retain an almost unbounded influence j
over the minds of his followers Neither
envy, malice, nor rival leaders have succeeded
in dethroning him. Even the worthy Presi
dent seems to have considered the experiment
of forcibly ejeetieg hii from authority as an
act of dangerous' tendency. Why else was
the appointment of Colonel frieptoe to the
territorial government of Utah and Mormon
dora suffered to fall quietly to the ground,
when it wa3 ascertained that Brigham would
not willingly resign. This step affords a dan
gerous precedent. Either the appointment
should never have been made, cr else carried
out at all hazards. If the general govern
ment cannot or does not mak them respect
its authority now, what are we to expect when
the poDUiatioa of Utah has iucreasud s ven-
fOld ?
Yot it must be confessed that Brigham
Young has shown much d:scretl on .in th-e exer
cise of the "ne mau power, and ha.-? is ant lined a
creditable city gov4 rameut at little expense.
Setting himself above the laws of his country,
and scorning the wisdom of others. ; his o a
mother-wit, readily served r.3 substitute fL-r
both. Yfcl, like many other t-rat men, tho
Morman leader is not eminently dibcinjruiched
for tho moral virtues. Ia fact, ho affects no
superior sanctity, but is rather all things t
all men to tho man of business, he is a man
of business to tho man of pleasure, he 13 a
man of pleasure ; to lhat class who, above all
others, obtain the urst placo iu tua affections
of a hero, he is most devoted in his attentions,
and liberal of his gifts here a broach, ai. 1
theic a ring; here a collar, and there a muff.
To those who have property to sell, ho is a
liberal buyer ; and to his credit be it rpokcu,
he ?.lways pays his debts, lift is tho munid
cent patron of artists, and mechanics, rapeei
ally those of his own people, and cither em
ploys himself, or obtains employment for them.
Yet Brigham YcuDg would be a dangerous
enemy, aad many fearful though secret
crimes have been imputed to him, with w hat
justice it w inTpcfsiblc to say IVrhzps th.'-.
greatest evidence that these report ara not
without foundation, is afforded by the fact,
that ho is so afraid of' assasinatioa, as to be
unpleasantly suspicious of strangers. Is this
mere frailty of mental constitution, or is there
another cause in the promptings of a guilty
conscience?
Tnis Conviction of Ward at Toledo. The
murder trial which has been going oa in Tole
do for tho past and present weeks, has resulted
in the convictions cf Ward for tin murder of
his wifa. The Blade, of thursday, says : ' .
" The murder is one of tho most brutal,
horrid and disgusting ia all the annals of crime.
A husband not only murders his wife, after
cold-blooed premeditation; but sits up at
nights, with his doar .locked, cats hsr into
small pieces, and burns up her remains in the
stove. This process occupied several days,
iu which he drew largely oa the uhops around
for shavings, and " the unsavory scent went
forth from the chimney, and filled the nostrils
of thosa who happened to be .in the vicinity.
Ward occupied himself with this disgusting
and appalling work, till ho thought ha had
obliterated all traces of his guilt, and then de
fied dejection But "murder will out."; It
is amazing what an array of facts, unimpor
tant ia themselves, have been brought to bear
on the case, and what an irresistible convic
tion of guilt they carry te the raind.'
A Hard Case.
Iu the pretty village cf UaddonSeld, Netr
Jersey, soma years ago, there resided an oa
fellow who was familiarly known, town and
country round, as " Old Joe." He had no
particular occupation except doing chords"
or errands nor any particular location. Ho
ate where he could get a bite, and slept whore
ever he could find a lodging pIac-3. Joe was
a regular old toper and Jersey lightning bad
no more effect oa his. insidesthaa so much
water. He generally mado hu head-quartera
at the tavern, for there were two in the town.
He would sleep and dozo away tb afUruooa
on jlu old bench" in one corner of the bar--room,
but was always awaka when there waa
any drinking going cn. When ho was no
asked to drink, he would slip to the bar, and
drain tho glasses of the few drops left ia
them. One afternoon, Dr. Bolus,' the vil
lae physician, was iu tha tavern mixing up
a preparation. He placed, a tumbler half
fuli of aquafortis on the bar, and turned round
to mix up some other ingredients. v A few
moments after, ho had occasion to ue tha
poisonous drug, when he found, to hij ditmaj.
that the tumbler had been drained lo the lut
drop. " Mr. Wiireins." exclaimed t.h .?a
lor in affright, to the landlord, "what Las
become of the aquafortis I put ca the bar a
few moments ago?" , .
"I don't know," replied the landlord,
" unless Old Joe slipped in and drank it."
In this suspicion they were soon confirmed,
for the ostler Eail he had seen Old Joe swall
low the fatal draught. The doctor, knowing
that he muit die after such a dose, instituted
a search at once. After some hours spent in
looking through the barns, out houses, and
woods, for three or four milea around the
village, Joe was abandoned to his fato 'It
was a cold night, and as the -village topers
assembled around the blazing hickory fire ia
the bar-room, nothing was thought of, or talk
ed of, but the unfortunate end of poor Old
Joe. Some four days had elapBed, and noth
ing having been heard from Old Joe, they
ail came to the conclusion that he was a goner.
The doctor, about this time, had occasion 'to
visit a patient, some eight miles distant;
what was his surprise, when about five mils
from the village, to see Old Joe in front of
farmer's house, splitting wood.
" Why, Joe," said the doetor, riiiny tp lo
the fence, "I thought you was dead and
buried before this ?"
" Why, what made you think that. Doc
tor?', said Joe, leaning on hi3 axe handle.
"Didn't you drink that dose I left on old
Wiggins' bar, a few days since?"
" Yes," replied Joe, half asbamcd to
own it.
"Do you know what it vas?5' asked tia
Doctor
" No '" returned Joe.
" Why, it was a-pafyrtij eaough t kiu
a dozen men !"
" VVd, now, Doctor, do vcu know that T
thought there was s-Jine-thine Queer about that
aarueu stun, ter alrer 1 drsn
I blowed r.iy nose I burned
pocket handkerchief."
it. every tnuii
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EXTHAOKDIN ARY CxZlSS I.NSTINOT. The
most ru:narkab!e iostince of iustinet or ssaoi
ty in a dog, that we remember ta hava heard
of occurred in thy town of FaLrhaven a few days
since a'nd it was this : Two child era between
the ages ot sis and seven years Wire playins ia
the middle of tlu street. "in FairlrSveD, wlea
an unloaded w.igoa without a driver, drawn by
a runaway hora-s waj s-eu approaching at a
furious rate. A larg3 dog, a crcu of tha
Newfoundland and mastiff breeii, who waa
lyiug near, saw tha approaching peril, aad
going to the rescue of tL-; uncouseiou inno
cent., to.k them up by their clothes in his
ti-cth, first one of the child ;-rn and deputed
the littl thing out of danger on the sidewalk,
and then returned aad lok the o'-her acd aLa
placed it satViy ou the w .iir. As the wagoa
was pas?i,1;r, the dog made a spring at the
horsJ and tried to sejza hi: by the nose but
failed tistop Lim. We Lavo "those fets froai
a jcntlcnian wjio.se veracity MUuquestionahle
Who shall say that rhe brute creiiioa is devoid
cf rational intelligence- JVVk JivJord JLr
cury. ' -
Artesian Wells.
The artesian wel!s of New York chy. own
ed by the diff.-rent sUjrar refiners, brewers and
ethers, will give ovrr two millions cf csllcna
of water per day, which, at the rate charged
for the Croton, would cost the coasamaraover
seventy thousand dollars per year. This g ma
is equ.il to the interest of one million dollars,
while the wel's have cot h'ss than fifty thcu
ar.d dollars. As the actual sutlstlcs are cf
considerable importance, we present the fal
lowing relating to several of the most suocets
ful :
No. of gals.
Montgomery et. well,
Harris & Kuhn,
Ilarenmeyer fe Moller,
John Harrison,
Oekcrshausen,
Dudley & See,
Tatham & Brother,
Johu Taylor,
per minute.
100
S50
S50
100
100
100
; 100
100
Howell & Co. (noi now" in use.) 130
Total number of gallons per minute 1430
after makiug all allowance. Scientijic Am
erican. Extension op Slavert. When the Con
stitution was formed every State toleratod
slavery, aud the "encroachments of the Slave
Power., have increased the number from AiV,
tven, to fifteen, while the encroachments of th
Free Power have: increased the unniber ef
Free States from naujht to , teventcen. This
shows a hoirible state of tlinr 7.--J-.-. .
proclivity to make Slavery Xalional and Free
dom SttiriinnnJ 1. 1,H w . . t-
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