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Le I ./Llu uu.i. for I am :.art It t v;. 6 %Link !,t)•lactJrN rea,urt tA afker a t td - . 4 pof the v§,..„Lue SO to 1 cr the r,. r • va, pted do . r cp.v. , st: )15 put 1; f ‘A- • artswPr 11:1E ! ' t ... D'ot au . (pr: I r - MEM oth , :r ni•):ive for ul have pill 41J.3 ri .i~.~ 1lJn~•q "I. "A e&ttii 13 r 11;' .•f my 1, L o L. nts, awl U ,i, , ur 11 .W It WA, ' '' ' r '.f , TrY, I ztu.t L.L‘Lt. to. in _ . ha sods no enoswat. However he pstikal out a! by a short "come In." As the doer, opened, one I Adman C t rlugty, pieoe of paper and began to write upon it. When glance 'Aced to marina* Heinrich that his Ihe had finished he turned round to Heinrich, friend in the mnd, and the king, where one and ' The Canton correspondent of the N Y. Times saying, that be observed he had been smoking, the same person. The poor cousin-seeker great 1 / furnishes that Journal with an acootint of and that be felt inclined to do the same, but had / ly confused, knelt before Frederick-Wi ll iam, and I matters and things in the Celestial Empire, from forgotten to bring tinder with him Could Herr i began faltering out contrite apologies. 1 which wo cut the following description of the way Meyer oblige him with a light? I "Rise, young man," said the king, "you have' in which rebels are executed: "Certainly with great pleasure," was the not committed treason. How on earth could you I Many of the Europeans go to see the executions, prompt reply; and Heinrich, taking a tinder boz guess who I was? I should not Wavy' quietly if I 1 as they are performed outside of the walls of the out widlis wallet, immediately began to strike a meant to be everywhere recognized." city. The ground has beoome so complete:y sat litert: Now, it has been said, that the evening After re-assuring Heinrich, the King told him. I grated with blood that the stench is s i c k en i ng was damp,—tt was so damp that tlvre seemed that he was pepared to do what he could to push for a considerable distanoe. Th ere are t h ree little enough prospect of the tinder's lighting; . bum f•rward in the profession he had c h osen executions a day—Mie it morning, noon and night moreover, the wind blew the sparks out almost ' "But, first," he said, "I must hear bow you —arty at each time. Two long sticks of timber 1 , becore they fell. preach. Oa Sunday nest, therefore, you shall aro laid parallel to each other, with just room for f. "Well, if your mains ars not more easily to preach before me; bat, mind, I shall choose the the executioner to pass between them, from the be tr ot at, than your light is, I pity you, young' text You may retire." blocks The prisoners are driven into the in sir, ' was the cold remark to which the stranger By the time Heinrich Meyer resohed his own closure like so many sheep, not chained or bound condescended, as he watched Heinrich's laborious room in the inn, he had fixed in his mind the In any way In fact they seem to look upon the endeavors - fact that he was to preach to the king. The fact while thing with apathy, Owing, I suppose, to I was only too clear, and all he could do was to set their religion, or irreligion, which is fanaticism. about his sermon as soon as he should have been I At the word of the.tudge, they all kneel and "Nil desperandum is my motto," answered the young man; and when the words wyr. scarcely uttered, the light bad been struck In hi 4 delight at succeeding, Heinrich jumped up on the oar• riage step, and leaning through the widow, thrust the tinder eagerly in the direction of the gentle man's faoe. "Burrs, sir, puff away!" After a short pause,' during which time the I.trauger had been puffing at his pipe, he removed it from his month, and addressed Heinrich in this way; "l have been thinking over what you have been telling and perhaps, in a bumble way, I might birable to assist you, and thus act the part of the main you are ueking At all events, when you get to Berlin. take this note to Marshal Grumbkow, who it somewhat of a friend of mine, and who wilt, I think, be glad to oblige u,c But wind! Do exactly as he bids you, and abide strictly by his advice If he says he will help you, rely upon it, he will keep his word, but he is rather eccentric, and the way be seta abut do ing a kindness may perhaps seem strange io you And now," be continued, "as the road is improv ed, I must hurry on my horses, and so bid you ,i)d evening, bop.ng you will prosper in your new career ' /ran tie Cati/eraista A night Smith° In the Feather Aim Country. --......--- Years agooe, when Indian diggers were plenty, and white diggers were not—before auriferous dreams were dreamt or "auriferous strains" were sung in Sonora, my friend Jnbn B , "Mac," and myself started from Cordna's Ranch, now Mares title, for a isuut among the head streams ot Fca• tiler River There had gone abroad through the lend a whisper of gold discoveries en the "American Fork," and a pretty large population As Heinrich began to express his thanks for were gathering at the reported place of discovery the g ,od wishes of his unknown friend, the signal But it so happened, curiously enough, that the was given to increase the speed of the horses, text winter and spring before the gold mania set in, -tut:, before he hail time to make any acknowledge Heinrich went to the church appointed, and the most intelligent elass of the American tobab ' tneuts, he found himself alone again The young was critidested to the seat always set apart fee the itants'were anxiously and energetically pursuing . MAD was no little aetenished at what had taken i preacher of the day The king, with the royal the thteads of suspicion and conjecture which place, and as he gazed on the slip of paper, could family, occupied' the accustomed places. gave clue to the existence of every other species not help wondering whether any good would The service commenced, but no text:—the of mineral in Califoruiabut gold Vast deposits come of it. These were the only w,Ads written prayers were ended, and whilst the organ pealed of quicksilver were reported in the track of these on it: f , rib the solemn ibuods, the preacher was led !o adventurers, and iron and copper were cropping '•Dritit %tastier. —lf you cen forward the the pulpit The congregation were astouieleel. out all over the country. Gold - wee views of the bearer, Heinrich Meyer, you will not only at his youthfulness, but at h,s being an metal thit, seemed at all to "stick in the crops" I oblige your friend utter stranger. of the treasure hunters. There were "mines" Let me know the result ut your interview with I The pulpit steps were gained, and the thought of "sulphur ' salt, saltpetre, and black lead," bur him " flashed across Heinrich's mind that possibly he Why didn't the Know Nothing Party oarry niug in the brains, or making a mark in the dia "Time will prove this, as it dues all other i should find the text placed for him on the desk. Louisiana? ries of half the foreign pepulation • thlow," thought Heinrich, as ne proceeded on But, as he was on the point of mounting the ' —es.— , It was on a general excursion after each and hi, way Somehow or other, the road appeared stairs, an officer of the royal household delivered ' The editor of the New Orleans Crescent, who 1 all of these mmeral and cuetallta wanders, that less wearisome, and he felt less tired and foot- to him a folded piece of paper, saying, "His has beep a good deal bored by correspocideots our party left the banks of the rot/moue Yuba, sore, since receiving the mysterious bit of paper majesty sends you the text " , inquiring why the Know Nothing party did not as aforesaid. Of turuiog up something we w ere lope was stronger within him than she bad been I After having recited the preliminary prayers, carry L .uisiana, takes his text from one of the pretty sure. We tad a proud faith in quicksii letters, and thus discourses:— I , r many a day, and on her wings he was car- the preacher opened the paper, and lo.—it was ; ver, a firm trust in iron and copper, a belief iu teed pleasantly along, so that he reached Berlin blank—not a word was written on it What eWhy didn't you carry Lousiana? We all ; silver, and hope of gold The month of May, by nightfall was to be done? Heinrich deliberately examin e;Fleeted you would up here." . , the morning particularly beautiful—for I welt The noise and bustle of the capital was new to ed the white sheet, and after a short pause, bold Yeti '-eil expected" we would there, did you? remember the oruad flowery landscape, the pur him; and he found some little difficulty in rusk i it up before the congregation, saying, "His um- Well we expect you are ceuf•undedly dieepo iiet pie Butes catching the 111.1a'a first rays, and the ,e lio , way to the gasthaus, to wluch he bad been Jest) has furnished the text for my sermon But ed We expected t i carry Lout-isua down here, green leafy shelter of the riser side, where we ' rev mmended by the pastor of his parish The , you may perceive that nothing whatever is but we didn't, for the enemy "PLYeel on a harp raked together the last bight's embers and boiled pastor having been once in Berlin, was consider- ; upon this sheet of paper. "Out of nothing God ,ay a thousand strings," and deluded toe many our morning coffee There were four stout men ed, in his part of the world, an oracle in all was- I created the world;''J shall therefore, tali , a wl people into voting the wrong ticket! in the saddle by the time the sun began to glint t •rs cenueeted with town life Creation for the subject of my discourse this l "Tau 'anti.' know 1140 ' 110 e b l lPPewed?" We . " I the stream throagal the interlacing and netting ' The inn was, however, found at last, and after morning I tell you in short order—quicker than a short branches, and forth we went, while a f.u..tal supper and a good night's rest our friend ' In accordance with this decision, the preacher horse was ever curried In the Catholic parish- .. u . rey res. rye lark sad shoos taa dew dr op from he: arose, ready t•i li pc and believe everything from , went through the whole of the first chapter of es the people voted against our ticket because win g "' the mysterious note, which he started forth to Genesis in a westerly way, his style being furci• 1 they were told by the high priests, scribe'., Pea We must have been a very jolly quartette deliver immediately after breakfast ' tee and i•lear,and bin fluency of language remark- risees and Sad.lueees of the enemy, each one of We had picked up "old man McCall" somewhere "played on a harp uv a thou-sand striu Obliged to a.k his way to Marshaltirumbiew'• able 11,, audience, accustomed to are king's , , whom the mosquitoes and wild bulls, at the moult that we were opposed to Catholics he was amused and surmised at the aatocitshin• ut . ,•:eutrieities, were far more astonished at the of the Plumate e ‘ that' Feather in Spanish,)4l.l d,picted on the countenance of those per-,us el iexterity with which the preacher had extricated In the prriteetant parishes, the people voted g 9 t among we were liso wog to the veteran's account of h. , whim he made the inquiry; as if they would say, tee:serif trove tilee diffi silty, than at the dilemma ageiust our ticket because they were told by men eiskrituasagee with the lojuns," and his trapping "What business can you have with Marshal in watch be had heen placed. At last the ser- in authority that we are opposed to Protestants stories, when he was "e% ant the Sary Nevady," because we had nominated a Catholic as a candi• Grumbkow?" mop was ended , •hie congregation dismissed , arid dealing death to the beaver—and dealing in tb, r The house was, however, at la.. t rained. and Heinrich found himself in the sacrists receiving date for Governor, and each man in authority, firs afterwards. "0 get along:" says MeCa:!, having delivered his missive to a B,•rvint, 11. mu , he congraethations of several dignitaries ot as he c ~,,, ,uclud , so, ' "payed on a harp uv a thou- e y e can't tell me saythiog about shootiu . is - I rich swatted the result in the ball le a few the church, who all prophesied for him a brilliant sand erring., and thereby enticed the people pus! Ninety-seven S.)01 (Sioux) in the war , ni,nutes the servant returoed, and request . . 1 him future to fellow in their footsteps. paint agin a couple of us, me and ole big Fallon ' :uthe in ot respectful mahner, to follow Lim to Heinrich ventured to express h ktl, then, five eixtus of the foreigner. voted is amazement - —that's big oils, boys! We fout 'em a full day the marshal's presence „-erneed there, he was at the singular proceeding of the king, but was ' against us because they were told that the die and clean to sunup the next mormin', sod made received most cOurteow4 l y; and the marshai made t ,li coat be could only have arrived recently helical Know .s son of them, after the elects ,o, Nethiegs lutend to hamstring one bite the d ust every crack: There was DU win): iticiu.ries as to hi, past life and future from the provinces, if he did net know that such every mother fool's' . alral yer amminition there:" "How prrepeet- e _requeeted to be told the name of the vagaries were quite common to his majesty I, and the orators aforesaid, in the most earnest many ernes did you shoot, McCeli?" asks B t •see or two wanner imaginable. "pelyed on a hatp eve thou in which he bad been last resel ' be widest of the conversation a messenger ar-Whs just as fast as we could load and fire, in tug, the sch.u.d in which he had been edu,:•..t..!, rented to conduct him to the royal presence "aud eileag, ' and the foreigners f.iuew'.d the c iuree:" says Mc—"ser see that thumb?" very at what inn he was hue; in Berlin, and so forth Beiug totally unaware what impression his ser alLl‘l° quickly, as :Leigh he would get away from feg- But ;till, no allusion was made either to the note men might have made upon the king, the Co Arid it reined ill over the interior on thy day usin ores in the aocount—etbat'll neve r be straight e or the writer of it The intervii.w lasted ab77 m aleroter rather dreaded the approaching audience lof election, cud so about two tb usatiel of our awe: The vartuoits shot one of their arrers twenty minutes, at the end of which time tee. But Heinrich bad scarcely crossed the threshold ' folks, having fear of wetting their beloved feet through it. Go long you d—d cuss" to his inar , hal dismissed lonm, desiring that be would lof the king', b. l , re de ir eyes , and havieg each one purehas room when his majesty jumped up, 'mule, whose long attentive ears, sod grave medi call again on that day fortnight ' and thrust a roll of paper into the young preach- cd a "harp uv a thou saud strings, e concluded tative face seemed the very impereonification of ll,Aurich employed the interval in visiting the l er's hand, exclaimiog. . " Horn : sir—puff away: to stay at borne aud pracese niueic incredulity The subject was changed end Mc li . ins of the town There was a grand review of , —take this fir the light you gave me." Furthermore, in addition to the foregoing tea- felt easier the troops on the king's birth-day; and, like a Then, throw mg himself back in a chair, he ' eons, wed' lu't and contact' t—fsund tt utterly tin,. Now, be it know, we were going on an enter luyel subj et, our friend went to have a reverent laughed heartily at the yo ung p oac h e r, l oo k o f possible—to gem votes tnutigh, t t h e e nemy prise of some interest, from certain Indian also stare at his majesty, wl ow he hail Do Vey eeeu ' surprise and confusion The latter scarcely " Payed on a carp uv a amuse's , ' strings , " and eiations connecting with the upper Feather re- At one point of the review the king stopped al kuew what reply to make or what to do, but j ust . great multitudes followed and joined with the gioo,in our molds There was no road over the c0,..t opposite to Heinrich , and th e n was sugges. ;as he had got as far as "Your majesty—'' harps _ ' broad plain in the direction we were traversing— L.. 1 to bun, a s the reader prehably auspect•, that the king Interrupted him, saying, "Make no fine P S —lf uur correspondent it'ot satisfied with there was scarcely a "cattle trail " The tracks after all, he must have seen that facebefore speeches, g., home quietly and examine the con- I this luminous etnlanation, he must put his te- were all inward, towards the mountain, like those Wes it the friend who Laded him in the muddy tents of the paper You came to Berlin to seek I terrogatories in a different shape, and we will eto at the mouth el' the Giant's den, in Bunyan.— Taal' Impoasible! H deavor to answer them, at least to tat. best of How should a king be tra a cousin; von have found one, who, if you ge onDreadful stories bad been told of the savage and v• long at that time of the day? At any rate it ' steadily, will not neglect you " our ability We may (we want this kept secret,) f,Tosidable character of the Pikies who lived on %ex el iiim to think that be had not treated the It is nardle necessary to add, that the roll of by continually trytug our hand, arrive at the the head waters of the Rio de lea Pintoes. How true reason ourselves. g ee loran in the coach in a very ceremonious : paper contained a good appointment at the uni- they bad restated the, inroads of the trapper upon wanner He had thrust tinder to his nose, and ' veisity of Berlin, and made Heinrich Meyer one N B —lt is positively untrue that the Amer- their streams, and built their salmon dams, in cried to him "Puff sway!" ' of the royal preachers. ican party has ordered ten thousand harps—each joinership with the beaver, for many, many peace- At last the time appointed for his second visit"uv a thou•send strings,"—for use during the Ail yeara, to Inc marl:hal arrived His reception was again "Lit ov AT FIRST Stoat "—The Buffalo Com Presidential e a . Presid campaign We desire to nip this Wherefore it behooved us to look to our rises, mercia/ of Monday says—"As a very interest- atrocious calumny in the bud. CD •st favorable. The marshal begged him to Le and to keep our powder dry, and we d.d; though tug young lady was passing down Main street ~e.it,-,.1 at the table at which he was writing, and we candor compels me to say we neither kept dry proceeded at the same time to el yesterday morning, she was somewhat alarmed l :ey es ." re. a bering some one behind her in earnest Haunted by an Assassin. ourselves nor were our pleket pistols so well le e ktog a drawer, and bringing feral a small upon ....—............_ -charged as we had started with them in the mot bundle of papers, he asked Heinn .h, as he drew entreaty she beheld a man apparently well dressed, but , t sew forte , one by one, if he knew in whose ourg,(V. a ) Republican, a citiFo of Sin) I h o ver a long,distance, in total abnegation of soi• with a wild look, rapidly approaching her With ~an I writing the various supereeriptions were county, George IV Riahardson by name, has fir w e t wearuess, and as the sun drooped low 1,3 admirable coolness, the lady waited his approach, Heinrich answered, that to the best of hi- several years past been pursued by a maliguaut the soft Ludlow sky behind us, and upon the and upon hisresting his hand upon Ler shoulder, beliet one was that of Herr Mudel, his forth, r foe, with the view, apparently of broad newer deked prairie in ule's "'l—'Weil, sir, can I do anything for you? . schoolmaster; goober, that of Doctor Von Hun, mur d er but for what object, is a complete airs ears began to e s m uneerthly dime n sio n s and .y.., madame, yo u can,' replied the maniac. 'I m, r, the principal ot snch a college, and so Ott. eery He has been assailed with rocks, fired flicker and flap likenn exhausted flame, we began mu in seareli of a partner and bosom friend ' 1 "Qaite right," remarked the marshal, "amid upon beat. n wi ts' e tiub, and stabbed during the to discuss the question of "camp." We were 'Well ' said the lady, 'almost any one who be. ' - p.rhaps it may not surprise you to hear that I ' hem.' of darkness; and yet he has , escaped with very near the base of the fuet•hills whence the hatch himself in a proper manner could, I should have written to these different gentlemen to in his life , although at tubes WI inj ured ersen- clear stream along whieb , we had traveled emer yink easily find one. 'Do you really think ally ° hisbarn Y SP ore into your character, that I may know with ; think , ' - La , t summer was set on re, a +ad gee on the plain; in another half hour our path rejoioder, 'Limo, ma d ame , ' laying a3 ' %eh et, I have to deal, and not be working in the ''''' was t oo 'h ie crops destroyed, probably by the same mile would be along the precipitous side of the canon, his bawl impressively upon his breast, 'allow me t , derk " As he said these words tbe marshal fixed recent lya pa cka g e was sent among the dark - and cold shadows which adept • t r.ous enemy, and , ake v•ei • formal offer of my heart and hi s eyes on Heinrich to see what effect they bad, h ° tu ,,', .. p. .- e lad ty Mr R , which was found to contain a large ly, slowly, were swallowing up the hills. y, not at all taken aback by an but thejoung man's countenance was unabeshed; t " . " apple; but he forbore to taste until he had I thought there might be the least possible iii feel astuutelleg a declaration, quietly replied, 'that es evidently feared no evil report examined it, and well for him was it that he did shade of uneasiness on McCall's features as we the ete_ent- , t was hardly a proper place for so i , , bound," continued the marshal, "to tell yeu that o — l er ls rit eappl was thoroughly poisoued with neared these wild unexplored solitudes. He would pertant a decleretieu —that a more private on e ' ail they say of you is most favorable, and I sin arsenic ' often look up the ravine one above another ner would be . better suited for so delicate a commu• . evally bound to believe Redact upon the op , nion s During the last m ,, oth, while Mr R. was vously and in silence. As for myself, I was mien ' 'lee maeisre soothed and delighted 1 nave now to beg of yon to follow me o &friend's , "`' young and unaccustomed — it might be my first beue." wet, % ,P.L... perhaps , Of 't C , .Z.V tete•seete with visiting a relative mu Martun, a negro left wor d , ndian war pith ! All day long fancy had cou lisr Thackeray says he our. had 4n ides of ' fur him that his aunt was lying dangerously ill In d ian . The marshal ti , noended a private staircase his lair iiitcrloeutor at m ime t u t ors time sai d — ) used up in the blue, misty wilderness we were collecting all the lies the English e.iiil about the 'I umiak yo u fur your good advice. Gav e l morn• some three miles distant He immediately re- leading to the court yard, crossing wbiah he pas . opproaceng, eery scene and incident recited in Frenclestel the French about the English during ing,'mad d e p arte d wit h a graceful bow, l eav i ng . paired to the place an d found his aunt perfectly sed through a gate in the wall into a narrow sidehold ' r e man fi v er ories I settled myself down to the Napoleonic period --Et the y .ung lady to pursue her wa lk without fur- . well. Concluding that there Was a plan to way- down which he cmducted Heinrich, till believe, at all hazards, th at our chances for life. But Thatiteray abandoned the idea the tno tiler molestitom " , lay him on his return, he determined to remain they am red at a private entrance to the palace down to l in come of a"skrttutuage,' would be one in "pipes . moot the disciples of "Sam" and Sorsdeu con where be was. During the night he lay He,/rich began to get exceedingly nervous; the Igor Newspaper reporters should notdrink . sleep near a window, but was soon afterwards ,ty • seven"' I watchel toe moveu t ts eu of the eluded to Fe/4. The lies ut the Fusiouista are c&ele iceou that his idea was not a mere trick of Here IF a seer hand ed yin by one o f the craft, awakened by the report of a inlaid, acid a ~mart old Indian kilter with particular interest, and so far ahead of either Eug,ish ur French lies, ! the imagioation became stronger and strooger w h ic h s h e ars la very strung colors, the manner set:ma:ion of pain in his face sod head. It was I was awed into silence awl watchfulness by has both in number and venalty, that :Lev will fill Could be bare bad his own WiStl Heinrich Nle ) er in wn,ril things become distorted by viewing soon disedvered that be had been fired upon manifest aPPrebenaluaa- , - at least five more volumes vr..u,d at that moment have been forty unties from them threngh the bettom of a tumbler: througu a broken glass in the window sod that i We halted •Ii was time. ,McCall was get— i erne B -er Tito A' last as he found himself following oYeelay m o'clock, M, a the ball had birel) gr a zed the skin of Las Level, , ' morning, at 4 P• ing its , d ant creas It was getting dark, more- Oa' The Know Nothings .a Missouri hate Grumbkow oven into the palace, he could not re- Mail L u als, named J .nes. er Brewn, ur Smith, an d lodg,d in thet;low This la s t o • rage had over, and tue roar ot the waters in the chasm be joined the crusade a gainst the Methimlist, and frein (rim exclaiming, " luJeed , Her Marsha!, we e a h. 1 ,u the hole of his t - reweere, commit .c, g re 'try aro.i., 3 the indignation •1 the colleens low, came up hollow and loud from uncertain refuse to tolerate their preaching and camp meet• there must be some moitaker ted arsenie hy, -wallowin g a d ose of suicide The o f Sms, to, 'het every e ( )neelesble effort will now depths We staked out our animals and made mugs.— ind Sentinel No answer was vouchsafed, as the marshal verdict ef the inquest returned a jury that the be made , to di.criver the fieudish author of our camp is a Ittee shelf of the bill side, a tosa• Why not? If auy suppose that "doin with continued to load him through various galleries deceased came to the facts in accordance with thes e foul designs This Is certainly the moat 'fired yards perhaps from the summit. We kin- the Catholics" wilt satisfy this organisation, they aud apartments until at last they reached the hi • death He leaves a child and six small wives remarkable insta nc e of persevering viiiany aud , died a little fire, drew our blankets around as, know little of the human tiger when once let ' door of one situated in a corner of a wing of the to lament the end of his untimely loss I n death miraculous preservation frog death that we ever I for the night bad come on dewy and chill, and 1 , oe•--Ind woe be to those that loosen bus:— - . pabioe, where the marshal's kapok was saswarsd we are in the midst of Ufa." i beard of. I broiled over lerkey" (dried beef) in Wise woo •Ohio 3 asuman. i - furnished with the text. For the remainder of that day, he never stirred ont; every step on the stair was to hii ears that of the bearer of the text. Nevertheless, evening and night paned, and the next day was far advanced, but still no text. What wu to be done? There were only two days before Sunday'. He must go and consult the marshal, but the latter could give him no further i3formation; all he oottld do, was, to promise that, if the kin; sent the text through him, it should be forwarded with the utmost possible despatch The day and the next passed, and yet Hein rich heard nothing from either king - or marshal Only an official intimation had been sent, u was customary, that he had been selected as the preacher on the following Sunday at the chapel royal If ►t bad not been that Heinrich know him self to possess no mean powers of oratory, and that he could even extemporise in case of emer gency, be would have certainly run away from Berlin and abjured b►i diseovered cousin As it was, he abided the course of events, and fortified himself by prayer and philosophy for the mo inentous hoar Sunday morning arrived, but no 31 50 A YEAR, D ADVANCE. ERIE, SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 22,1855. place their necks on the logs, each row with their beads inwards and she face of eaoh turned to wards his neighbors back on one side, while the nest on the other faces his. At another signal the executioner grespe his heavy two-handed sword and beginning at the end of the row towards which all faces are directed, strikes right and and left. But one blow to each is required, the head flying across the space and striking the opposite victim, bus ere he had a chance to shrink the sword de cends upon his own neck There are two executioners Each has twenty. five to behead at each execution—the whole opera- tion d uo not Conan me over Are minutes—at the eod of which the whole fifty trunks are in their {sat struggle, spirting the blood and throwing their limbs convulsively about. Such a noisy rabble is there prevent that you find it difficult to per , ee.ie yourself that they are human beings whom you see thus burned loco eternity. T wo weeks since. the scene, they had a crucifixion d lulu in was sentenced to be crucified fur the crime of bating given birth to one of the rebel chiefs If a father is a rebel, his father is considered the same and the whole family, from the old man of fourscore, to the child of four years share the same fate The poor woman was nailed to the cross, while living, a gash was made across the forehead to the bone, and the skin peeled as to hang over her eyes; after which the breasts were cut off; they then proceeded to break every bone in her body; a large knife was next trust into the throat and passe,' downward, catting the chest open The executioner then thrust in hie hand and grasifing the heart, tore it from its socket and laid it beat ing and reeking before the Judge. At Shanghai they drown them by dozens. TEN PRZ11111?. Do not mooch to-day and worship TEN old Past, whose life Is 1.4 Dash lyour rotes to toodwr romrewor, Croi►oed he lies, bet fold ead dead; Per the Proems re►su wet tamer* 'i►itih an added weight of h 41431, Amon her for she 11 mighty' Room her for she to Ooze See the shadows Olds berths girt atoned her eloody threnA And each day the ranks me streagthesed By great bouts to him anknown; Sable things the great Put promised. holy dreams, both etrange andtiew; lot the Present shall fall/I *ea, What he promised, Air shall de She inherits all hi. treasaree, She is bah to all Ms fame, Lad the light that lightwas rsaad her, U the loon of his sum !h. Ii wise with all his wisdom', Living, on his grave she stands, Oa her brow she bean his laan/s, ♦nd his harvests La hew Maas. Owen* ens dae Pato sad augur If we tiles her glory dint? Let ns fight for her as nobly ♦s oar fathers fought for taw God. who crowns the dying ages, Bids her rale, sod Beebe,— Bid as out oar lieu before her, With oar loving hurts to-day! sial eseekie. Whoa ir. hailisermi sad light- t _ 141 , A.Struier than pig • . ed our pipes , McCall went out from our littlkeir- ....4........ eh to look to the mules, and in a moment we ! A widow lady, advanced in life, raw • Mit. beard his 'sloe bidding us "lock up the branch , dent of the city of Philadelphia, tea tell triii on the big monatain to the left." where sure i truth tae following story, showing km Muse just , mini:idioms the current of events will atimatiol, enough, as be had mid, a oright fir- bad been lighted "That's 'em: That's a aigual bring to light. The lady owns real estidn b fire: I kuow'd it! They'll be down upon us be- Michigan , and the following facts wereOm 1 11 us by her attorney, who learned them from IN, fore mornin! And see'. there's another just a• us This lady was born and broughl lop 000:1113' out way berme. Boys, we mustn't stay 1 own timer i in the State of New Jensoy,and upon beiges,. r i e d remov ed to Michigan and -settled la tie Bat we diek It was to late to move then. We shouid be'rolliag down into the tar. rent below, if we attempted to go backward or forward, and it mould not .inprove matters to climb the bill, as we said So we staid where we were, and covering our fire, fresh taping our arms, began to main preparatior• for a night's repose McK. and myself contributed our blan kets and saddles 'o .. joint heA, B. boilt hie nest singly on the other side of the fire, and the old Injun killer shook down on the lee side of a bush, bound his bandanna around his head, gathered his weapons by his side, and after a long earnest look in the direction of the waning fires, ducked his face under the blankets But he did not go to sleep. I heard him battling with rest lessness or ettinething else--turning, serstehing, sighing, groaning, long after the others began to breathe heavily , I certainly Lad no intention of sleep myself that night I should have faded in my respect for Mr McCall, if I had deliberately planned a snoote in the face of so many dangers. I kept bravely awake. I heard the mules cropping the scanty berkrtz; I heard the night icseets, and once an owl set up its shrill qua7lr, very near old McCsll's head He took wing at toe shoo of the Indian killer, however. I heard thr-ugh all, above all, tire vicepsounditig waters, and list• ening to their solemn, tuneful voice I fancied I could distitictly trace with ear- tie sublime march of tueiod;o.,s Ab the night breeze playing thrlugh the gorge, varies( the f , ..ntiDu. ous sound—now rising, now swAing in grand diapason—now sinking softer, softer—l recog ait..d many old and tsvorite anthems and oi ato.. no combloaCiona Tb"n, as 1! to i.ompieie the orchestral effect, my ear could detect pro. party adjusted pauses and stops, and once it seemed to cease altogether )lore and more mu s i ca l th e sounds beestue---and now I could hear sweet vc.ices miuglihg with toe harmotions strains The voice irf one it the ch.,rlsters I well rememberrd was a prr..ity, blue eyed girl, of my early anu tender ammo' v 1 looked for ' her among the choir, but her old p , „,„ was filled by another, Pronently she came forward and— Hall": My G,d , there' Turn out: b it possible: hallo: do you 1....ir B—: 31cK—! turn out They've come: Gil. j...ur guns and tura out: 1a it passible you can !ay there and sleep and Itijuus all about us: The wind and water orches,:ra broke to with a ers•h. and I was itaudiog on my feet: :MeCall was poising his ri fle over a bush Why was I not ridd'..d with arrows in the socond of time t i' I stood there: 1 certniuly give up even tn., ninety seventh chance: But I still heed, and groping my way to a cover, gun in baud, I i retied for the war cry and the zip, s 1.. zip, of ,he at rows "What's the um asked 8,, wi u i coolness sod deliberation that was gull- dr •adfu: under the circurn•tabc es—‘• what the d--1 is all tat.. hubbub about?" What a qu. stiuti to ask at such a time' and au.. .) tag them: ' Can it be p.issiti'e teat y.da dotkit bell - the lujuns all about us, Mr B "Where are they, MeCtll•'' asks Mel( , tr. , tn out of the biaotets I bogaa to breathe frely again " Listen' I at.ppea breathlog at once "W t 4,," aft,r s pause only' d.-tLat),..l by the craut. - ebing of the mules, -I 6e,r awning. sa j s 13 • I says )1. K r I saNs I tnye If, r. suiting my breath, awl b. iz.autug to te..i as If I 1.1441 Uocrii CtleaLci ‘lll,o 31017,:, t CC.ll3Call 111,q1 Wah 3 pit of ioevriichlo r ; b tie eyes, b, sloes b• tug pretil.atuiely auJ antrup..l JD war path Tt.LU wo.a• was mit I beet,: j ist a tuna. ti i?" CI. ta.,,n 'ea )let: ,i! of ant J cmpauy g t. %tr.) con ecup•o us:', deviates MeK eug• ge.t.e... I, to 01 v,r) buw. , r—bc.,,r,d by an ....soh: "It war a war "as if I ~.1,10 t ko iw what a,. it,jur, war wioop was "t'asit ,ilo a•ged 13 to saird ere,' Loom and ruaklog a o-Ne !ate bout D in• to an empty bottle. a ith his twu bawls the breat, pa.iinb t,cl - xe,o tto.mbs Iwo a vaccuw, (B with Laughter all the time ) "Of course it was:" "It was nutoing else' "Hare I lived, - prey ,4t,roke tot.th poor McCall. "forty )e.trs iu the w unt..us, to be played triAs ,u this way:' I didn't tvr -Lieu d—n hoys' p'ay frow you, J. L:. B : Indian killer was sauquisb. d It seems B hau awaivned in the night, and recollecting McC Lucas,nt ss—uuab,e to loreg9 his fondness of a j.,ke—gave till. alarm The old trapper was probahiy in a doze, and the sound fell on his ear, confirming all his fear+ and suspicious of Indian Proximity He never for gave B f'-r the hoax Lie cursed and groaned , throughout the remainder “t* the night NeK and B. laughed thealsel%e i to sletp, and 1, thoroughly satisfied that my chance,: of lif‘ were as ninety to seven, being fully cured of my Inch an fright, went off after the blue eyed girl un the , strains of an aria, from the oratorio of the Crea tion. Not over two hundred yards from the seem. of the above -memorable relation" the •iatne part. on the suzcileding day discovered their first win• eral treasurs—the metal was gold Abroad bar of the mil' opens where the waters come thun• dering and foaming through toe r $4.41 pass. aril here the writer of this brA remembrance, halt ing at noonday, with his companions, washed in his "tin," taken Crum the sada:, lashings (a quart pot, such as sailors use.) the first gold on Feather River From a quart of -crevice dirt" be took away 83,00, which was am , c; the first specimens sent to Washington. f r the bar. fliaming torrent, and —a' that, a Lange has come over its wild spirit Blocks of stores and busy streets stretch right and 1, tt Ihe r,ver is :panned by (I believe) a wire bridge, and above its din of waters may be heard on the quit Sal: • bath day the church going bell, and it IMP not lung since that the writer read in the weeily pa per of the place that some of the '•:adies of Rd• well were about to give a donation party 0 their minister " Such is the "past and pri.sent" cf Bidwell's Bar, it pl.ice now numbering perhaps three thousand inhabitants B. F. SLOA.N, EDITOR. NUMBER 32. county of Monroe There her husband bails e house. impr?r' i iend, and they straggled oa tF gether, as many a young couple has dew bedew and since. Upon that farts this lady busied bee first born child, and a few years alter her her baud died and was buried there. Afterhis death she sold oat everything and removed with her two sons back to New Jersey, where owe dhow eons died from the effects of a fall received ea the passage across Lake Erie on the way beam. The other son removed to Philadelphia with WI mother, acquired property, and seeking to ii crease it, went to California in 1858. Wilde there, designing to return home, he szokeasall property in Marysville with a man who owed pseparty in Michigan, fur a farm, of whisk too deed, without knowing t he shads@ MI character of he property. While preparing le return to Philadelphia he was taken risk wed died, leaving his mother sole geit. The deed d this property in Michigan came into her basely and after a time she wade a journey to visit it. Upon reaching the place she found it to be the very homestead which she and her husband bad built more tuan thirty years before, and fogad on tee wainscot her own initials cut by basely years before. She now is again the posiemor her early homestead, the graves of her hooka& and eldest child.—Detroit Daily Advirtissr. FASHIONABLE CEMEICH Nrw Toss.— You enter the church porch The peed,' aexten, with his thumb in toe arm holes of his ern, meets you at th.: door He glances at yea, par coat and hat are new, so he graciously MOOS% yin to an eligible scat to the broad aisle. doe behind you follows a poor, meek, pisinly dad seamstress, deprived from her treadmill round to think one day in seven of the immortal. Tw sexton ►s struck with saddsa blindness. EU stands embarrassed one. moment, then, as the truth dawns upon her, retraces her step= w;th a crimson blush recrosses the at which she has profaned with her pleb= fee. Hark to the organ. It is a strain from Noma ? sightly Sabbath tied N. , tv the worabippersoss after another glidein—silks rattle—plume's?* —satins gl•sten--diamondh glitter, and ware of forty dollar handkerchiefs shake out their perfumed (.../ois What an absurdity to premise the Gospel of the lowly Nazarite to snob a et. The clergyman knows better than to do so. Ka values his fat salary and handsome parsonages.. h ig h l y So with a velvet tread he walks all around the ten commandments—places thedows iest pillow under the dying profligate's lead— and ushers him with seraphic hymning into an upper ten Heaven —Fowl Fern. A Ca.sz —Tao Harrisburg Unioa is respond• ble for the foil wing: - Not many year. ago, • etztten of this Borough was elected to the Ass of Conatitile After his clecgon it was discos ercii %bat Le could not enter upon the discharge of his official duties for the reason that he was not a freeholder. To remedy this dillkadty, a plailanthripic Fire Company, of which it aeons, t he officer eiect was a member, deeded to bile a piece of ground, about three feet by four, ISMIT tbeireogiuenouscoltil the underatatading that the u.„ t r o %, rt back to tie eouipsey as the officer ^Lcu a become a private cid zcn slain Ot cour s e tln. sct - •s prompted by kin only. as tr, c ,nsiicratirn was vest for tLe -teeet ••%qite man mighty me sa:talc,- auld NI; So , whAll f and we must retard an, , thor zrtd. Dec of tLe correctnelis of the TO- A '.2is d..ys S e ") •be same Ere company received trfle• , to ci , se the door of their °Demo Louse. wtii:b" , ipetp!.l un•'n tb,a piece of ground, as said pct. of gr , uwf had been purchased by a gentleman for the sum of firo doidars from dm 911., , ndam TL, ye of money wu stron g, r than. g-a I.ale, and il.,e mur, who had bon lilt ie 1 first. Id r hp his friends, had oot only sold his fr,•<:,,!d3, br.' his friends also. Be ,taud, tut cast iiow n will terannato time will ,e.l" ISM D (loot, usauds of men breathe, mows and •:ive—pass off the stage of life, and an to-a:d of u) w .re IVa:,? They did not a par ti,le of good ,n the world; and none are blessed rs C.CD C U:LI point to them as ths, is strumentg f their red..mp;ion; not a word'they siy.ke c4d be rec-di,d, sod so they perished; light, went out in aarkness, and they wen r,uiembered more than the insects of yaw day NV:li ycn thus ;iv,. and die, 0 man ilia mortal' Live fk..r s , ,inething Do good, and leave behind you a ear nument of virtue that Es Ai , 111:1 of time can never destroy. Write year CALI." /u it:t.dnese, love and mercy, on the beans tb , usands you c , me in contact with year by year, and y , u aid never be forgotten. No, you Dome, yrur deeds, will he as legible on the hearts ou leave behind , as the stars on the brow of evenirie (1. , 0d deeds 11'2,1 shine u the sum of Heaven —Dr. Charmers SAVED BY LIN WIFE'S COELPSE.—A abooklig locuivut, o! the 1.7 -sry..t.on , 1 life by a, corpse, is g1 , 1 , 9:1 in Lloyd a Steamboat Directory. A Mr ',Walters. a pa. senger on the steamer, As. ft ooy Wayne, wa. taking from Chicago book to Philadelphia the remains of a fo nd . and loving wife, to be buried iltucmg her relations and friends. During the trip, the.ill fried boat exploded all her ballets, killing nearly every one on board. Mr. W was lifted several hundred feet into tits air, and fill into the water almost lifeless. The night was dark and dreary. and, in his bade struggles to keep Limsef afloat, he accidentally , truck again -t a box, to which neclung 41 alibi long with desperati-a When deylightappear• ed, he dis.sovered to h ., s horror that taw bon which had saved his life contained d i 'e corpse of wiff. =ME N AN MOVEMENTS AT WAISRIVOTOW... -- A W'shing:`-'n correbPoudeut t'f the Richwad EirrA)rer says that— -Letters have been receice , l here from Gov. Nise, giving as bib opinion, in the present stag of parties and attitude of the ct untry, that the S , uth should prts(nt no candidate for the Pres oleney in 1‘. , 5t; [I. thinks it said and bo• lieved) that there abonld be 4 rdinl union of the party on thischanan Never have I sees dm Denwcrata in finer Spiri' t I more ivubdowt d auece-s in 1856, and the u.: , mate, and Pn 2 l 4 "lni tr.atnph of sound prtwiples The names of neither Gen Casa nor Judge Douglas wW presuteci to the Clb. inuati 4"ouveutioo. Of this t. is you may 1:* abs tirei I !peal' kaowiegly oa the subject." A PfiItENOI..)O I ST POSEY) An Itinerant pkine nrl-,;,: st s topped at a rustic farm boon, is ON tbe er u States, the prop:aior of whisk was t - ngagesd in ttreabing. "Bir, las a - g Woold 3 , (41 ::ke to hare se ea ' kiN.D , tLe h;.‘tds of yettr ;h:ldren! I will do it rbeap " the farmer, wising b. tweet' two strokes, "I rayther guns they We need it. The old worn** agetie 'en wig cilia I teeth esetit ow • wssW" t .-.-- , . , v•
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