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ci,GLER'S REVENGE.
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wrolug, livetl John Brown,
postautial yeoman farmer, and the
1 n about to tall —a fine,
ouug f,ilow was he 1u those
s, en .agli tam Ow lieuls of half
ra , ,ou's ride of his fitthrr's
but tdr• ht. rest ' oolS ill . 4llke ul
, de J 1 ill!, he alight perhaps have
4 .1 ug A ;1%11.1t11111 old age. But the
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tuc bide haippitiesii for
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hai Ir.a di,r, put-tide than
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au•l , uc.s, and wilt+ Laving EA., ri
4 , by hl. Nth, r, at gr,ti
HO, he 114.1 1./. f4.11t, for L..
Ile uu. , 111 t 4 tp etkil !hell
f;.r hinm.ll, Jia I me
tam I and gruartog I ir..l of
att.l having too much v.pirit to
a, a, a 11 , (1•1 ,, Lit!r or paternal g,Hkl
t P , trell ad vultures
;1, , Mewl-, yet never were two
utterly di.istmdar in mind and body
rth, geoid! Jack Brown, the quiet,
iit:bert mule a p str figure—
• him than a stranger would
t -muggier+ •ioon discover
' .a Hoar,. with a face wrritre.to a
I —in I ttiOn it war a ...Mill!
, riot (41U /ay frown—with uothitag
1. moonlight—a 'Simile of
IAI , r11••• Gro
Wr isiVail.ically the brain of the
• i H.• it vita- who planned for ath , ra
• AL,L,, v. r to. , calculating spirit,
.a.l persev, ratite , were
ter: urt. I lie man w ti.) farniaile.l
- 3 1.1,1 i tu g coterprixe War t-0, be
ut!l.trong nerve, a reckie44 heart,
nub& theu Jack Brown %via truly
'Mk!" Little wou.ler then if, with
let t,t0.1,1 togeihrt iu one eau**. thi'
' f0i1,.114 (or nuereg.ful rue
ranin. -evr-t, —or that h• r ere,/ who
1104 / ' N.. rin k tu.l of parruerghip,
• I way to rraliie a haoti4otua
it ;:t•feari.,u+ praetiOea, io spite
`lead
tilLtigti it no 113”11119 my itittzuti-u
1 1; t• wilt, too much sentimentality
•'lir..tilvirs, still I suppose I
siku,ver interest my story
••-•. • t amtt lag s u c h love nrittrirs
4•O Y tt. •I,•veloptuetit •
0.!.• lat• i‘
'' 'trti 11 '.... , 1 %tut , ii , it IL, pretty a girl se
'ill: , ir , ..4, or kis,rtl •
1 ,1,: 'Art::: r —K lie Furueoet_ It
wi... -1,1)•• I 11 Iti, tout:. that (Jeorge
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1,.. L ~',.:-Le hat •HglitAA G ilbert in a
'11,...• .1 —f I. ivoirt . v,r hatith sod utt
a ' q ivt r "1 ,..01 . WI ht LIVC , heel' the
".. (;-,,rg.• I ;l4,eit he loved her wtth
i'lt—l 'sad wril might .ai.l---dern
' l ' •t,,, L •uell ',atop a —mud ' , nett
~ t,e .1545 1,, f"re Ow fortuall ) de
kl. 'a • h IL I i , i.. 1 a o..mlier life, ant
I0 " , 1 il .ii. W •u i rl httly liffer him Hut
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lit Li w• uld 1....0 .. to I,•fluilltt anti
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41k"' 14•Hu:, N.. Log ~:tilor, awl poor
,;... ri l t e of , yela advatonize•,
'''., *I.-. like filially a Letter in .ti
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cessful suit, adding threto sundry facetious coin.
meats of her own, which went like swords
through the heart of the proud man who heard
every word. then spoken; acd never forgotten or
forgave one—and Jack Brown, with a hoarse
laugh, said, "Poor devil!" till ho roared again
Little-thought fickle Kate Furness, that pleas•
ant evening, of the fearful consequences that
would ensue from those foolish words of hers,
spoken, after all, in merry jest, but taken by one
of the listeners in fierce revengeful earnest-•-
little thought she how a moment had alienated
from her the faithful heart that had loved her
for bears. Little thought Brovfn how his coarse
laugh, in which there was not the least particle
of ill-nature, had severed a friendship that had
existed from childhood between himself and his
aGt seliool fellow, Gilbert, turning the friend into
a deadly enemy henceforward But it was so.—
Front that hour Gilbert hated Kate and Brown
atilt -all that intensity which belongs to tempera.
11/..U(S • Like his
Still, Gilbert and Brown sailed together as
heretofore. till one day they were cruising off
Jersey, a few hasty wsrills between the two led to
a quarrel—blows were exchanged; and cheesiest
h minis were separated by their crew Directly
they landed, Gilbert demanded satisfaction on
the spot, an 1 8r.,w0, after a few well meant but
v.iin attempts at reconciliation, took his ground
and shot his quondam friend through the arm.
At fits own request Gilbert was left behind in St.
!leiter+, and the Petrel sailed home His wound,
who. It w.ts a simple flesh waund, rapidly healed,
and froiii that time his connection with the Petrel
ceased But he had formed his plan already to
wish his hated rival.
lo a few mouths Brown was married to Kam
Forties., and for year all willtit on happily
li.thert, by exerting with little interest his
father r55..1.120.11 With the country members, pro
cured an appointment in the coast guard, and
from that day it was remarked that more votive+
were made alp g the attire; and the Petrel went
more rarely to the coest of France Knowing
w.. 11 the character of the wan they had lost as a
frit-lid, the Petrel's crew became dispirited, and
speedily Loired that the wurst day's work
he ever .1..1 w,s tits quarrel with George Gil
bert
flue uight after they had sacer
taiu , • I that Gilbert taw, uu the sick list, the suiug
Wei.. had arraogrilqii effect a landiug of several
tubs of spirits, soil this 11 1 / I vo to be brought *bout
as follow,:
About a 'dale from their usual lauding plane,
wit r Th. .hors was less rocky than nearer home,
ton -ti„ on the summit of the cliff, was attach
ed t ,tr .tig block and pulley, with one man to
Wolk second as a general assistant in muse of
tie itl.l a third slam quarter of a mile off on
slit , „,k oat Then the lugger ran in shore as
possible, and the tubs were floated tiff
ati , t ~.uv..yed by the smugglers to a snug cranny,
!itch of to a pulley, and then wound up to
do brow of the cliff, when they wete conveyed
y the seemol man to the third, who soon dispos
them in it convenient ntackyard, to wait
tt:t e tiled for But the smuggler's had "reckon
latt b. tic their host," as the raying is The
ek h-[ wr, !tit rely a sham, and in less than
eutive) 1 ,or tub , up to the Ade frAn
th • 4 , • , i, 4 froin'the smuggler's
uu:pted, .!uuoutie,:ti 'bat danger was abroad The
smuggler. .41 'Le beach regained the lugger and
await d the safe advent of the rest to sheer al.
itut it wwi too late George Gilbert, with four
r live men, was runningAti the scene of action,
t::, et high ground were intere.2pt
el, In r r short conflict were worsted, and
b} lit o'. or ler retired, Irt'aviog one of their
wol) iiol through the it•ttly on the grass, anti
It.owt him -•1 it prison, r, thiough not hefore he
tit,t, tit testes through the hat of one and the
Lg ol oe , tlitr f id. its•titauta.
Ile M.l., i rtgi, • . l --ff to the Preventive station,
and there de atiled In safe custody till morning
when he e t titer) hef ire a tuagt.druto, - -
During that night he bitterly reproached Gilbert
with has Ireaebery to 111.1111Ug ills hand againet
his former shipmates, au•l taking advantage o f
No; knowledge be bad acquired on board the
Petrel, to capture her _captain, lie then went
oti to his trid schoolfellow if he thought that a
nn re trilistr - quarrel justified such haired as his
For a tow !ninnies, Witt rt looked at him with - a
smile of hate, blended strangely with (Ito/tempt',
ere he replied:
Think you, Brown, that a pretty squabble
Ilk that would liar(' really turned the old friend
of twenty years standing tutu a life long foe, or
that a few blackguard words, followed by a Well
itrieted bullet from a wrong headed idiot like
you, could have made we what I amp flu—it
tweiled something wore to do that "
" And that. -something wasp" asked Brown,
eagerly, in spite of himself—
'. I,lsten, and you shall know a %elver, said
the tit her . • -
EMI
A year or two aj o I ' h ived deeply. purely
and truly, a viii ige girl Aye—you may stn.le
—tint men like me ran love as well—or far
better than people of your kind—your love may
ba , ,e been a plaything for your vanity—mine was
the one hope of life r loved—was rejected,
after having hero coldly deceived—and loved on
:till I could hive borne that... Aye—l loved
and was a (mil for my pains. She I loved might
have been a girl with no more heart than bead
—a jilt—but though thus driven from the only
hope -whereby my tool then seemed to anchor—
my trusting love flung in my face—l forgave
/hot, and would have carried my &emet forgiving
ly to my grave fibs loved another. ' and I was
to furnish mirth for my rival. Well—one even
ing I was walking out over yonder cliff—l saw
her sitting by the side of him she loved—who
Gould not love her with half the intensity I had
-.lone—l beard words of endearment—words I
h a il never wore bear or speak in this, world
now -=then I beard my name mentioned with
many a heartless jest by her, for whom I bad
suffered ti.) much unrepinjogly I heard enough
Co tell me that in their eyes! was fit to be moot
ed au.l,sneered at by a r i te coquette—to be the
topic of the coarse je of an empty beaded
x)r My blood was turned to pH:—that night
I swore a bitter oath—l have kept the first part
of it already—for that girl was Kate Furness,
and that man was—yourself; aye—you—John
HI-own—the prisoner of the (oast Guard to-night
—the n ntn;tted for trial to•morrow—the trans
ported—if there be justice in the land—at the
nest assizes. And Iso ell keep that oath still
further "
So saying, he walked out and left his prisoner
to his 'vacations—which were not of a very plea
sant nature. Not that the stoat heart of Brows
feared for hiinself—but for his wife who was
hourly expecting her oonfinement. He knew
that, if be was transported, she could be at the
mercy of Hilbert in some measure; and he knew
euougli of the iugeouity of his captor to feel
..ure that lie wauld allow ',tithing to baulk him
of his revenge
° Scoundrel !" she he in his despair, "if
I ever helr that my wife and the child yet U1:1.•
61,11 .uffer aught at your tiewelisb bands,--( will
e toe back, if it be three thousand miles sod
tw.•uty yearr hence•, to take such a revenge as
au an snail u•ver forget "
These words were heard—not by the ear for
1,11101 111.1 were. intended--but by one tic the
emt.i guard outside the prisoner's do,r, who re ,
tueaulsore.l them lung after the prisoner v as wear
tug has heart out in a foreign lend
Wolin' was tried--fouud guilty of stain ling
mud &Mg, with 41klasit to kill, at two of Hi
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ajesty's revenue olleers, &c., and sentmeeed to
d. th—which was commuted to trsasportation
be ... the seas for the term of his natural life.
There what the local newspapers of the day
called ' affecting scene in court," when bid
greys. ~. father entreated the mercy of the
stern Jahe on the prisoner for the sake of his
poor wife and is unborn child. There was a yell
of execration frm the assembled mob out side
the Sessions Ho4e as Gilbert passed out—to
Pl yth
which that amiable nonage vouchsabed a eon
temptuous sneer as * e
reply. And in a few
months the capture of e Petrel by the ever
vigilant Gilbert broke up itrown's gang, and the
story of the trial and the seet t euee were speedily
forgotten, save by the convietts wife and a few
sympathisers, smugglers, who, Oster their pipes
and grog, would often avouch that pinion that
Brown would yet come back again keep his
oath, of which—thanks to that loquaei s mem
ber4\,,, of the ooast guard who originally ov beard
it—they were aware With one of these en
Brown kept up a correspondence and thus k . w
every thing that took place in his absence Be
Gilbert appeared to have forgotten big old grudge
against Kate, and so Brown's heart grow light
on that score The revenue officer only bided
Lis time till he could wreak his vengeance more
terribly through her son 4
* *
Tweety years Gs) passed away from the night
when Jack Brown was taken by the (loast Guard,
and Mrs Brown, who had b•en established by
her relatives in a shop in the towu adjoining her
girlhood's home, was, with a fest friends celebra
tiug the birthday of her son Harry, a line young
man who had inherited from his father a baud•
some face, and athletic frame and as adventurous
a spirit as his who was far away. His mother
WWI calling to mind her long lost husband, and
instituting fond comparisons between hies, and
her wild boy, regrettiug that both would follow
a lawless course of life, when a tap name at the
door, it was opened, and in walked Gilbert and
two of ho followers The poor mother saw all
at a glance Rushing to the side window, she
threw it up, and screaming "Ply—dearest !ferry
—fly!" endeavored to impede the further advance
of the .(}Tier.. Tne effort was useless; in a
moment they had dragged him from tlie window,
and had led him away a prisoner to the door,
where be stood breathless with impotent rage and
astonishment at the suddenness of his capture.
l'oor . "Mrs Brown rushed to the door, and then
stood writ:two. b her bandit in all the helplessness
of despar, till she saw the men'peeparing to march
Harry off, when she said:
"George GSlbert, I did not think two and
twenty years ago, *heti you and I stood together
in guy father's garden that. you would ever bring
me sorrow like this—that you could ever ruin
the husband and child of one who never sought
to injure you or yours "
"Softly, my dear madam," sneered Gilbert,
in a tierce whisper, which, though unheard by
his men, was perfectly audiole to the wretched
mother "l)u you remember sitting on the cliff
twenty one years ago, sod giggling with John
Brown, at that 'poor simpleton, George Gilbert,'
as you then phrased it, as though a proud man's
love were worthy of nothing more than a weak
girl's heartless laughter ?" Then, motioning
her a few steps further from his men and their
prisoner he continued, "if you have forgotten
that, / haye not--do you rem( tuber It, Mrs
Brown, tiOte
Btbe tail, Indeed, remember ell tow well --
taiitargc, - gasped shil, "mercy—mercy fur the
sake of my bay who never harmed you I was
Gut a silly giri Tu tlsise days —yuu wit out— s ou
cannot se. k to crush toy h Hue (or such a girlish
(• day Pr. that ticorgc—if you ever ,caved toe,
pity at, ti,i* I have Chl
far by the p .J .hu th, re i n , nu rcy,
George'" asked she, looking up imploringly
into tie IL • • fiteer'x' sti nit which h.r
au lONCaUI w..rsed eon% ulsively, and hien
sete d int . It w.iiited passionh... xpressiou
After a while he answered in si husky voice,
"K tin U think of what I miyht have
bismi ; for, though the son of a ruined father, I
sonic fails said, talent, and I would, fur
your sake, have yet made a place fur us in the
world—and then think of all I have suffered—
think i.f what I am—the detested Revenue spy
Think of the struggle that must have been here,
where a heart once was, ere love was turned to
undying bate like wino, and then ask yourself
if there ran he any mercy for you, at the hands
of a luau like we '.'"
Ei3
Sh e answ e red not a word, but glued at him
like ..ue distracted, as be said to his men,—
. "Sow, my bids, away with him," and turning
to the w, eping mother added, "to share, I hope,
if not at present, his father's fate," and the
young tan-vm dragged off. But the party had
not advanced many yards when, with an effort
of desperate strength, be wrested his arm from
one of his captors, knocked him down, and
snatching the cutlass from the other's grasp,
struck him a (earful blow across the bead. The
man fell bleeding lit his feet, as Harry, waiving
his weapon, shouted to Gilbert to come on. In
an instant Gilbert, who was some yards in the
rear, stood before him, and pointing a pistol at
the young man's breast, said, iu a voice of quiet
determination,—
"Yowl* man, will yin; surrender, and come
quietly with me IP"
The only answer vouchsafed by the gallant
young smuggler, was a rapid thrust at the officer,
who as quickly parried it with his cutlass,
and
saying, "Your blood be upon your own bead !"
—bred. flurry Brown bounded up in the air
and fell on bii face at Gilbert's feet, stark dead,
with a bullet through his heart.
The neighbors, hearing the report, rushed out
with lights to the scene, and there found Gilbert
standing, with a pistol in one hind and his
sword iu the other. Even his iron heart relen.
ted, and his eyes grew dim as the childless
mother flung bersalf upon the body of the dead
boy, and poured forth her lament over Ulu in
all the wild eloquence of sorrow. And filmy
Brown shortly after was borne to the churchyard,
and buried under the grey wall looking seaward;
and everyday for three wretched months did his
heart-broken mother come to sit upon her child's
grave, to mourn, like Rachel of old, refusing to
be comforted..
Fier mind, which had never been strong, gave
way at lait, and in six months from her son's
death reason fled forever. She went to reside
with a relative of her busbands'a as a hopeless
idiot. She was very quiet and perfectly inof
fensive, and spent long hours each day in sitting
on the brow of the cliff, looking over the sea,
asking every passer-by "if be (meaning her
husband„) had come back yet Y" One morning
they missed her; from her accustomed seat on
the cliff. Tbay feared at first she. had fallen over
into the sea, till some villager mid that be had
seen her entering the churchyard ; there by her
sun's grave, with her arise peacefully folded
offer her bream, lay poor Mrs. Brown as though
asleep—lying there de'l in the bright sunshine
by her boy's grave. ,
And Brown, inzilis convict borne, thousands
of miles away,,heard of these things by letter
from his friend's iu England.
,Five years had passed since the events I have
Jult narrated, when John Brown, wh0,.14y his
good cOnduc't had obtained a ticket of•leave, and
had'antassel, by honest industry, a good ,utu
utOney iu the colony, whittler pursu ince ~f
aenteuce be bad been scot, escaped to
gland Tune and sorrow had altered the ooee
$1 50 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE.
ERIE, SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 10, 1858.
Jutting smuggler into a eierewern man, with hard
lines on his brow, and griuled leeks, and a face
so sadly changed, that he had small cause to fear
recognition in his native place, where many of
his old frientli were dead and gone. He felt he
might safely pay a visit to the scene where be
had spent his fiery boyhood--where be bad wooed
and won his poor lost Kate.
One wild night in November the escaped eon•
via sat ou the oaken settle by the fireside of
"The Fut tune of War," in —, a tavern where
he and his rollicking companions of "hang syne"
had spent many a jovial hoar and while silently
smoking his pipe, and listening to the converse.
Lion of a few sailors who were spending their
evening there, he caught the following :
"Aye; it is just about twenty five years ago
since young Jack Brown was taken by that in
fernal Gilbert. I remember Jack well—as brave
a lad as ever "ran in" a tub of brandy under
yonder cliff. I wonder if he is still in foreign
parts, poor lad."
"Ah," said the other, "it is well for Gilbert
that Jack is a few thousand miles away over the
- trring pond, or I fancy .one fine morning we
ht see George Gilbert with a slit in / his wizen,
',ve hear! 'em tell as how Jack swore, in a
e wrote, when he heardfrem a friend here
s death, that he w6ttlii have his re.
1101 he w.ut, d long years, and came
ds of wiles over the sea to take it "
w
for
lettet
of his
vetige -4 a
hack thousa
"Aye, lad; nd Jack Brown will keep his oath
home day- —depend on't "
Thus talked they It wah evident they had
forgotten him of whom they spoke
nothing ; hut ever and anou they eou;4l se•e a
grim smile curl hi. lip, the firelight plati•ed
over his weather beaten fare
At last one or the sailor3+, turning t. 3 the
stranger, -4131 •
t 3 'Hy 1,03,1 . ) ; t , b like inter, st
in our talk-31h! )333u know aught 331 I„++r .I.tek''''
"I. did,” rep!le3l the stranger Iseouivally "hut
let Illt• •8 4 33 k in turn what Lab hocimie ,if
"Ile is —, stint. tcti wile, from here,"
Wits the answet j ttlittu the stranger ro,e, vaned
for tit. reekoniugatttl "glattcovi roue l," and hack
theiu.,:souti night ill, tat-. the last tune tito
John Brown saw lug ntitve Nat... again alt. r
long abnance
The next night, in a iniseralito Intl at the piwu
where t; t was tiovl tatiunrl, L. Preventive
wan and a tkit, lullsentar stranger 11) , w:daring
dretta, were In close eiiiiVi•rsati•in over Ilieingrog
They talked heal mailers in ceneral, :10.1
Prouggliug to particular
:" the Preventive man. "there's ui,t
much eliauve of or making mutt' I.y izitr.
now—there are lew to makc, , Ifil•e Mr lid
Bert came hero - .1 mighty clever officer is he,
ton, I can tell yen 1)11 you ever hear the story
of his taking .lack Itro•vo, the moat adroit suing •
glee a l o ng 'hi, ~.)90 7 !onto five and twenty :, , ars
ago r'
The strang , r r. plied that h. It t,l not —and
listened patiently to the man'.4 am, in which
the real hot+ wore magnific.l b ) i•
gmation itch an • *tent that ill stralic. r
could hardly surpr, s .t smile at um.'
"Ili. must b., getting au .1.1. Hy na.o II ow,
this Mr (;ilbort r•
•tu.l thud. 'ow jt•arN ol Ir t 11.111 ) --
but ,111 1.. Itt• d. ; 1-c 11• i ;
gloomy Nm 4,1 11.1 J, ilia' way tualo:. 111.1)
look ..idt "
•• I +OlO WITI/ 01:11 1111.
al Id .1 th.• 'Ol-Auger I m6..1.11,1 IrK, r., ••••e
huu apaiu ,'•
'rat ),tu eau t 16.1 t. r ply, "lie I.
the k., r 1i:1.1 A t. ‘.• at-FY . 446M! 411
auy no bun g , tlig tti , rtutol, au, night
r tit•ll J..el•pek
1.u.1 t -!, ..k :yid pan 1.4
It Wai .1 dark 111,4 , 11 , the totkiti w,. rattily
airuggliug d.,11,1. Ls t
Stu torr walk•••I th tuft r , turno ,L ~n
his ho.r. 01,0. r ,ff m t • titre,:
Ili.licate• I by bist 13.0 et)mit.itirm b I
13 ,1 N.llee i t quart, r ot t Mil , in the d trkno••
lAA .rt be 11,414 the -ttund ttt approachteg 10..)t
mt,p and adt ep,,ttera V tlve a-ked,
there r"
"Ot ce 3ou knew itteil, • " wan the answer.
'•{lune.t wen are !lot uhaoted of their canto:
and I nu•pet you are aft,r no good "
At all.. upituent the ni , ) ,, u shoo , from a
cloul un the two men, when Brown shouting,
"Gilbert, do yzsa know we now—Jack Brown
the convict?'' -sprung at the officer like a tiger,
before cutlass could be unsheathed, or pistol
drawn, grasped his throat and falling with him
to the ground, knelt .in his prostrate foe. For a
few moments, stunned by the fall, the officer lay
perfectly still ; but shortly, recovering his (sell
ties, be writhed de perately in his assatlaut's
grasp Though a I,rays man, and one who felt
that his life depended on his exertions, after a
few vigorous, but aisieti%e efforts to free him
hts puattii,n ou Cho ground or to crutch
his pistols, he found utterly powerle•A
in the !lauds of one •rtisl as John Brown
—fur he it. was
1:!3
Tighteniugliis gra.-p on Gilbert's thrtrii,
Brown ooutrived with the other hand to draw
both pistols from his enemy's belt, and lay them
on the grass beyond his reach, Gilbert summon
ing his strength for another effort, welt nigh sue.
ceeded in hurling Brown backward,, and drag.
ing his weapon from its scabbard Quick as
lightning, the convict ree.vereil,i,ue of the pis
tols, corked it., and presenting it close to Gilbert's
temple, bade him be still—or, accompanied by a
fierce oath—he would scatter his brains on the
turf. The revenue officer, though a bad man,
was a brave one, yet it had required something
more than rational bravery to disobey, the corn•
mend in a situation Gilbert was still
waiting a better opportunity for resistance He
could not call for help—for Broern bad Assured
him if he attempted his cry would be followed
by,shot Suddenly the idea dashed through his
mind that Brown, who seemed in no hurry to
harm him,_ might, on his return to Engl an d be
short of money, and have had recourse to high
way robbery for subsistenee
"If robbery lie your object," grasped Gilbert,
as well as he was able, for the ex-smuggler's
hand clasped his throat—"take all I have—l
will give / it you unhesitatingly." The reply was
an oath--a tighter squeese—and—
"l am no thief, George Gilbert. I swore I
would take a heavy revenge for my sou's slaugh
ter. I will not blow your brains out as I clearly
might; firstly, because the shot would bring your
men upon me—and secondly because—"
" You surely would not murder me unarmed,"
said Gilbert, with a cold sweat breaking out at
every port Loosening his hold for an instant,
Brown drew the cutlass from the offieer's scab
bard, and hurled it over the cliffdelWsecuring
the pistols in his vest, leapt to his 'feet--an ps
i ample s p ee dily f o llowed by Gilbert who, with
breast heaving and eyes glaring like a tiger's at
bay, was preparing to .lash at his foe, and esi
cape or die at once.
Drawing p pistol once more, Brown said,—
" Gilbert, I strove to have my revenge for my
murdered son I will not slay you unaruted—bo
this a t 7 kcn,"--and be threw nue pistol from
him over the cliff—"but one ..f us must perish
to-night 1 will give you a last chance for your
life —hen tuse vtlitan th.tu4li y are, you were
Mee my d•"tress friend " No itaying he hurled
the ...cowl pi s tol after the first, and, extending
his anus, shouted—"(mm. on! There is a fall
or eighty Pert ben..ath us, your la.. or mine to
ttiwhi!"
Then ensued 3 deadly struggle between dim
two bitter foes—;-both were strong men and el
pert wrestlers, as all men in the West limitary
are; but a ;poker on would have seen that Gil
bert could not hold out longer against the Boren
lean strength of his antagonist. ,After a short
struggle, in which neither gained any positive
advantage over the other, they paused for breath;
and, as the moon gleamed down on them, they
gazed in each other's eyes with a settled glare of
hatred, only tt be quelled by death. Dropping
suddenly upon one knee, in a manner well known
to all wrestlers, Brown, with a terrific effort of
his giant strength, hurled Gilbert over hie shout
der They were both upon the very brink of
the beetling eliff; the wretched man fell down
ten feet, when ho clung desperately to some
bushes which grew upon the precipice.
Ills quondam antagonist : looked down upon him
for some moments in silence—but no thought
ot pity influenced him in that evil hour. By a
desperate effort Gilbert had succeeded in gaining
a temporary resting place for one of his feet up
on a stone that projected from the cliff, and was
hauling strongly for his life when Brown, look
ing over the cliff's brow, muttered hoarsely—
" Though you showed no mercy to me and none,
I would nut destroy body and soul together. 1
give you five minutes to make your peace with
flod;" and seising a branch he slowly descended
auJ bent it down withe those iron hands of his,
till Gilbert could grasp it I know out what
may have been the thoughts of that proud, stern
man, as he hung by that frail branch between
time and eternity—perhaps for a moment a
thought of repentance flashed through his mind
—but the old spirit broke forth at last. "Brown!'
(Tied be—"you robbed me of Iva. I loved—you
now are about to murder me—a dying man's
curse is yours to night " wended a
fki if lower—drew his knife--and -severed the
liratieli There was a wild cry —a fearful crash
—Oren all was .1111. The tide was running in,
thkk tall 1, knifed rocks ti,•!,iw rec..ived the miss r.
able in his fall And a' the moan shone
ibis 0 II pi 11l OW ashy lie.• of the murderer, her
twain , te‘ealed t.l his 11 , ,rr•kr strielteu sight a
apse
Brown fled Next morning, the ri•vettit , (Pffi•
(yes body wss found by a tbdieruaii,
high oil iry by the tide into a fissure (.I tile cliff.
The br .w of the cliff above presented tnarkli of .a
fitful struggle—buta coroner's inquest return•
e d a n o pen vordiet—mad, beyond vague rkurtnises,
nothing further was known Low Ueort., Hilbert
met his death.
Years aft. r 010.4. events, ,ao old MIA 1 / 2 14
kuack•d dowu 11 a 4:arL to one of our ueap•.rt
taken to the hompital where he :.(0,0
lay at the point of death A clergyman was tient
for, to him tike_ dying man conferised all that I
h•Lee told, 3tpl'lled 'flat roan wa. the
John Brown
Then- iv a new town out in the North
west called 13,trt.m (eontrart of Beartowa) At
thi. point a po.toffice has been established; the
root" xtend. Yotne distance beyond, and thin ,
are s••ver-ii office. farther on Soon after the
estabiishment of the office at. Barton, au , post
master beyond began to be troubled by a strange
irregularity in Ili, mail. This week, oiso thing
w.m1.1 be missing; the next, some other package
w,ml-1 be mos ~t; and quite often lottery for B.
wouil lei‘ •to iwyent hack This ytat.• of affair*
b, cam • .itiite wienditrible; and Agent Ifall way
sent on to itive.tiyoe the matt , r lie went
.trai i !lit to Barton, where be fonnd the postoffice
in a hick talon of .1 little grocery It was about
ti me for the to til t arrive, and he took a soot
in the yr .eery, where a plump and good-naturcd
worn ot, .0..11 In year.. and pole Yessed of a 'Trich
brogue' . attended blind the counter, dealing
out small quantities of herr, cheese, cakes pea
nut., err, to a company of loungers, wha seemed
to wait for snore event.
Hall bought a quantity of peanuts, and treat.
e.l the crowd to beer, by which course he Rue
coedml in removing all suspicions which his de•
cent garb had created against him. Soon the
stage drove up, the tn.til-bag was thrown out; The
lady picked it up, and retreated to the back room,
followed by the crowd—including Hall who
blocked up the door
After opening the b.ig, and turning its con •
tents on the floor, the postmistrehs produced a
box and deliberately proceeded to measure a peck
of miscellaneous matter from the pile on the
floor. Having done this, Pbe commenced re ,
turning the rest, when Hall found his tongue
Why, what alr you doing there'" he eon.
trivcti to•stammer out
" ltilakle" said the postmistress looking up,
~i t's changing the mail that I am".
"13ut bow do you know yoy got the right
matter? Why don't you look it over aria se:
lect your °war,
" Faith tin' it's a fool's job you'd be archer
Lavin' ml do," rsplied her letitiv-ship "I etn't
read ntver a bless' d bit of ruin,' an' when my
son 'lent t had school larnio' ) isn't hem /jest
yigl rrs t, ul vrtl Mil sheer w (IIII1 see tli I icieS 'fna."
Ettit.gut:'n —Love will laugh at guar
dian., a. it ever basa4 locksmiths An instance
in proof came under our ohm rvation )er.tertlay.
A young girl, between 17444 18_years of age,
au orphan, was scut from Louisaille , ur near that
c ity, to Cincinnati, to be educatetlat a boarding
8(41001, and ha.l remained_ in the Institution
for some Limo Previous to leaving her former
born-, however, she bad been wooed and wort by
a plain young Kentuckian, neither otter -stylish
in personal appearance or dress, nor yet heavily
laden with gold, stocks or mortgages. The guar
dian of the young lady, a prominent citizen of
Louisville, was opposed to the association, And
forbade, not ezaetly the bans, for be had no Won
matters woulTreach that climax, but the totem.
Li o n.' of the young gentleman, and posted his
ward off to her lessons at school.
But "where there is a will, there is a way,"
14 a remark the young lovers proved the truth
of The Kentliaisin vi,ited the city, and mans
aged to communicate with his affianced, who
was closely watched and guarded, and a plan
was finally arr.tuged for -an elopement. Oa
lidonday afternoon the lover went to a well.
known clothing establishment r and procured a
full suit of boy's clothes, fromfap to boots, and
Rent the bundle to the ladyls house. resting
himself at a convenient ooruer, he soon had the
satisfaction of seeing her emerge from the build
ing unsttended, and admirably disguised in her
new suit. Forthwith, through the aid of friends
somewhere, their heart's wishes wore gratifl'd,
and the two were made one.
About 9 o'clock in the evening, two young
gentlemen inquired for rooms at the Walnut
Street House ; and registering their names as
W. sod A. K. Dewey, Delralb, III," and were
shown to a double bedded apartment. Myste,
doss circumstances in the morning_ led to an
inquiry by Judge Sweeney, the latullord, when ,
the fact was exposed that Mr. "A K. Dewey,"
was a woman. An explanation followed, and
the history of the affair was given about as - we
have related it above, the 'gentleman giving his
own name, thft of the lady and her guardian,
and such references as satisfied mine hoot that
it was an "o'er true tale" of love and elopement.
What adds still greater interest to the romantic
runaway, is the fact that the young IA; is heir
to a, large property in her own right, said to be
at least $lOO,OOO, as soon as she arrives at legal
agA. The happy couple left by the river y. ster-
Jay, on a honerroots trip, to remain beyond
the reach of the r guartlian until AG heiress Rhin
arrive at the Wet eigidees, of whick period she
leeks some five or six months.—Cfa. Gazette.
OVER TEE TERRY.
IT 1111111111111 A OO&WI.
Lordly dip itio liaary oars—
Calm and darlt le the blunted river—
Above and bolo* it Whet aad roars,
But here, like alike, lertxt euseteel *bone,
Beautiful gdoßtAtepe Somer.
Bing, maiden, sieto, as we slowly Ode
over the terry et eventide.
Timmer a blood;reof arch, tha chasm ash,
And Idea river tows namely under—
Dim Fr Wien on the shore are amend with woes—
ap, trent ones their branch.' taw,
And the Wry Talley from natal' animier—
Awl the 01byre beyond seems a Tillage of drama,
Ae " T er the ferry the sooset gleams.
:thrill shrle►a the sadden beds that Hee
(ler the well that giant kuusde have plastid
In the teasel wont *Se cisatarrdiais—
Sol the mystic valley In silence Iwo.
But fi.r Eden's .oag to its shorn enehantird
O tarot, ronng girl, with the eheetnat hair'
steer the Ik.try*s world of rare.
The Amor River Repleration.
In 1855, Mr P McD. Collins, of California,
had his attention attracted to the Gantry on the
Pacific, north of Chins, as offering great induce
ments for the extension of the commerce of the
Uuited States, and he determined to explore it.
Ills first object was to obtain the authority of his
O. wn government as a means by which to induce
the Russian authorities to grant the necessary per.
mission for exploration and travel. When Mr.
Collins made application to Governor Marcy, the
Secretary of State, for an appointment as Consul
at the Amoor River, be was gravely asked,
"Where is the Amoor River?" After explain
ing -why he wanted the appointment, and show
ing the supposed advantages of his proposed
es ploratious to the commerce of the United States,
t; iveruor Marcy and President Pierce entered
with Leal into his views, and the commission to
the ,kinoor Itiver was granted. Armed with
this, Mr Collins immediately left fur St. Peters.
burg, where he had to remain six months before
he could obtain permission of the Russian gov
ernment to titter upon hits travels. When be at
last received the authority he departed on his
journey", in company with Russian government
officers, for lrkoutsk, the capital of piasters Si
beria At this place—which has a population
of ls,ooo—he remained three months, exploring
the adjacent country. Forty miles east of Irks
outsk is Lake Baikal, a fine sheet of water, five
hundrei mile, long and fifty or sixty mil" aide.
This lake is directly north of Siam,_ and the ex •
treme eastern point of the travels of Mr 'Atkin
sun, whose work on "Oriental end Western
Siberia" has lately been published. After ex•
ploring the country in the vicinity of Baikal
awl visiting the celebrated Russian and Chinese
fair at Maimattechio and Kyachta—the stockade
towns between China and the Russian Possess'
sions through which the whole Russian and Chi.
tat -,e. trade iu tea, silk, wool, furs, /to., d.c., is
ir.iiieacted —he left by the way of the Staten°,
mountain. for China. The Stauovoy mountains
di5i.1...1 t h e s..tirs winch flow into the Frozen
Oe.e., ir,.io thoze whieli empty into the Pacific
Mr. C -lbw Was wins iu a country never before
tr ie , i 1 by .. F,uropeati or 'au Auaerioau, at a
point eight hundred miles north of Pekin, boy
di ring upon Mongolia. He made explorations in
tie: (toiletry doting a period of three amnia a,
visiting the ritensive gold and silver mines,
winch ere largly worked, and travelling from
towu to twin noting the customs, habits, and
religion of the inhabit:on. The oonotry of the
Trans-Baikal monies a population of 846,000
inhabitants The people are largely engagedin
mining, agriculture, and commerce, witbna,
and are said to have more than two million of
cattle and sheep From China, Mr. Collins
embarked it a boat in company with the Govern- 1
or of Ayran and five Cossack soldiers, and pro
ceeded down the Ingodah and Schuella rivers to
the Amour, and down the Amoor to the Pacific
Ocean. a distance of twenty six hundred and
seventy seven miles by water Ile stopped at
various points on the route, and explored the
adjacent country, which is inhabited by wild,
Tartar tribes, 'Mantochous and Chinese. -14
found the pe.ople ready to trade and barter theit
products, coneisttiog of wheat, rye, barley, Indian
corn, buckwheat, cattle, sheep, horses and camels,
for cotton and wet len clot ha, iron, tobacco, liquors,
looking gime:zee, cheap clothing, sugar, rice, trin
kets, &c., kk.
Thwvarious tribes were at peace with each
fetter, and, although he bad numerous sod in.
o•resting adveutures among them, he had no se
rious difficulties At the Mautehou city of Igoon
on the A moor, he was entertained by the Goes
eruor in a pavlllion of Line cotton cloth, con
structed for this purpose Igoon is under the
ueo trot of the Chinese goverment, has a popu
lation of 15,001/ He was treated with kindness
at this place, but au application for permission to
go further lotto .Chios was refused. Ile was
questioned by the Goveruor as to the objects of
his journey, and the interpretation of his answers
were carefully, rendered. The Governor and
people exhibited a desire for trade, but even an
application to explore the city was refused. Mr.
Collins states ghat the whole of this river, for a
distance of twig thousand six hundred miles, is
susceptible of ettearii navigation, and the country
drained by the ; Amour bas's population of about
five millions. , There are already four vessels
trading from Su Frucieco. to the Amoor, two
front Boston, and two from Hong Kong—the
latter being ouned by American houses. The
Russian goveiatment is rapidly extending its do.
minions,lu the-,Amoor country, and last year
two iron steatnerS,Nbuilt in Philadelphia for the
Ittiesiaoe, were slopPeil round Cape Horn and
put up. at the month of thiAntoor for 'the pur
pose of trade and exploratioh„ Mr. Collins states
that the Russian. government:slesire that the
Americans should have all the adrattages of the
great trade of tbis new country, an bold out
every inducement for that purpose. Afte•uaehs
log the mouth of the Amoor, the theatre ofNliji
consulship, he thought be had discovered so mink
facts of great importance to the eosanterce of the
Unitca States, libet he determined to return im.
Anediately and Ire port to Lis government. The
report which ht has made to the Secretary of
State occupies home two hundred and fifty pages
of closely written manuscript, and is a condensed
account of the Country in the vicinity of the navi
gable waters o the Amoor, its population, trade,
products, Ste., llke ,as well as • sas to
the proper articles of commerce, which our peo.
plelmay export. there with profit. The report
from which the facts are gleaned is one of the
most interesting se
ever made to the Department of
State. I leard that it will be ebited for in the
House in a feW 'days, and will no doubt be ex
magnet; read by our business UM. Mr. COMM'
has brought house numerous specimens of the
minerals and other products of the countries
through whiche passed, and it Is his intentionto deposit the in the Pa tent Moe. He de
ii
ecreee much credit for his enterprise, and is so'
little of a politician as to have sensed an aloe
without pay m a means to gratify his love
,of .
travel. Havi g.made ido; repott to the govern
ment, be is n w engaged in writing a book of
. his travels, which will be valuable to the geog
rapher sad mineralogist, and which peoutiow to
be of interest ;to the general reader, iminaisolt se
it will ooatai' travels and scenes of adveguil I.
n I
a witry al oat unknown to the eivilkoodworli,
I
and never In
ore visited by a European et i an .
-American.
B. .1 1 6 SLOAN; .Eplllol
NUMBER 48.
[rem tie O. Imale Up !Mime el the Oft d►]
George H. Lamb wes taken before Jetties
Horeb:ma yesterday afternoon, for wowing
doe on the charge of having, on the 17th of
Notate° last, destroyed the life of his wife,
Sarah S. lamb, by drowning, in the Miseiwippi
river. He plead guilty sad waived as entities
ties, on which be was fully committed to the
meaty jail to answer as the Criminal Court.—
Before being taken thither, however, be rotes.
tally made oonfessitna of his crime.
THIC 00111%MUNI
I was married to Sarah S. Lamb. at the court
house, in Quincy, 111. in November, 1856, by s
justice of the peace. I did not take my wife to
Mendota but left her with her father in Ilamllton
I went in Novembei to her father's house to re.
move her, forjlip ptupore of going South to
spend the wintia o . Myself and wife came to St.
Louis, arriving on PAO 27th or 28th or 29* of
Nireember. We got here before daylight in the
morning, and took breakfaat and dinner at King's
Hotel. We left King's Hotel and went to the
Astor Rouse, no Franklin avenue, kept by Her
mon Norp.
During the time I remained at the Astor
House my wife was unwell/ I had a phyrioian
attending on her—Dr. Christopher and Dr.
Washington. Hit sickness was caused by my
gluing her poison--4tryohnine, obtained on
way 1 think I gave it to b r twine. My
intention wait to destroy her life. I went. for
physielaus to keep the people in the house from
suspecting. I administered their prescriptions
I think she recovered from the effects of the
Olson I bad given her. She vomited up the
poison before the prescriptions were ailminis.
tared, I think, It must have been three or four
days after we arrived at the Astor • House that
gave her the poison She was confined to her
bed as much as two week , '
About the 17th of beeetulwr we left the Astor
House. I told her we were going down theriver
to Carondelet Nobody but the driver went
with us. My wife seemed perfectly willing to
go We went down to the lower ferry landing
Ido not know who the driver of the baggage
wagon was, nor the number of his wagon. I
think the driver wee a colored mat. We went
hit° a little room on the ferry. wharf boat There
wits a young man on the landing, Nod f !piked
him if my wife might sit in there; he said she
"tight. I told two boys to bring me a skiff
We staid there until the-two boys came up with
the skiff-
We Went down the river atel !ituppeil below
the steamboats about fifty rude. I stoppe4 to
get a weight, telling my wife it was to put in the
bottom of the boat to keep it steady My real
design in getting this weight w' to sink the
body of my wife. We went down the river ow
the east side, near the channel where the steam
boats run. It was getting considerably dark.—
It was rather on the Missouri side, about forty
or fifty yards from the shore. The steamboat
channel is between the llHouk shore mid where
we Were.
When we got there, I put my hand on the
back of her neck, and. pushed her head down
under the water, keeping it under the water about
tem miettles. She was then dead--caused
4rou l
My holding her head under the water Inn
her shawl off, andPtionnet, and tied a twine
tie atone two or three times, and attached it to
her neck. The twine was from four to six fret
is length, between her neck red the stone
then lifted the stone over the skiff, and Ow
dropped right down. The stone was tea car
ttrelve pounds in weight. I got the twine or
cord for the purpose of using it thus. I then
et out on the island, and shoved the skiff oat
Tito the stream. The skiff was of medium size,
frost twelve to fifteen feet long.
I left the oars (three or four) is the boat, but
did not leave any atones there. I then helloed
far some one to come and take we off ibe sand
bar. I helloed about one hour, sod an old
eitantryman, a German, and soother, came bed
leek me off. It was getting dark when I threw
my wife overboard. I designed drowning her
lilies we left the Astor House. My reason for
clinging her death was that I felt satisfied I could
opt live happily with her. She had never done
or said anything to cause me to feel in that way.
I' bad neither ill-feeling towards her nor towards
shy of her relatives. I felt as though I could
opt go back among my neighbors with her, be
eituse I was afraid they would think I had mar
ried one below my station in life.
After Setting ashore at the island, I came up
to the city, it being about nine o'cloek when
I arrived. I left here the next day after and
Went to see her parents, taking all her baggage
except what she had on. I told ber parents
I! had hurried her in Memphis, and gave thein
the names of the doctors who attended on her.
I represented that I bad hurried her in Memphis
because I wanted to screen or cover up tl.e facts.
1 married again, on the 30th:day of December,
Louise Shortliff. At that time she did not know
that I had previously been married to Sarah &if -
fbrd. I married so soon after my former wife's
death, because she saitL she would . not wait fur
Me any longer. I kept company with ber along
in the fall, before 1 mrtitd my other wife.
I can offer no other excule i for murdering my
other wife than for the purpolie of marrying this
Mae. If there is a virtuous woman in,ibe world
my present wife is one. I have made a confes
sion in which I stated there were two men with
rite in the skiff when I drowned my wife. I made
it to Mr. Stafford. lam sort) , that I said it
That statement was false; this one I am makiag
is a true one. Two men knew of my design be.
fore it was executed, but not a great while be.
fore. I told them of my intention, and asked
one io assist me in the matter. lie expressed
his willingness to do so, out of friendship. He
Went:down alone to the river, not in the wmoa.
•fus name is Josiah Moyer, who was boar din g
where I lodged the night I came back. I:paid
him
&, I think, for assisting me.
1 I wanted him to go with me in the skiff at
first, &Alta changed our minds about the as -
°amity of Ong. The other man's name is Jo
seph Sawyer. NI cannot say where be is now,
he was in Mendota the day I left there. I
told Mr. Moyer o after the deed, that ever thug
had gone wider. Moyer is a ssokl•senad sisa l
that would weigh about oisaikundrod and thirty
spare-faced, dark ionplesioned, had
iselt hair, • painter by trade. N I, do not think
e is a permanent raidentof this elty. Ile may
pounds,
be about tweak),-live years of age, or*, may
be over about five feet high, not over tista, I
think. These are the only person. I tilt*"
ty sign. There was a man named Thwiese
Beale to yam I said something about 'it;
he left the city before it transpired. I ''kate
endeavored to make a frank emilhedae: I
cites left the church.
Lamb made a passe of same voisstes
mesa the biet gestate* zed the prieedlitir he
which he exhibited mush eutotke,
had nixo his heads, sad sheddisig tem—
Motors thad f hie Maslen was ealea, delibeests,
aid isia
The primmer de.iliaed having any oosaselo.—
The proseesties was oovideeted by Willbie C.
Jesse,• Veg., wbo istenegated the prisasei tail
is asswer to wham queetiose the eeifbidos was
owls sp. He replied to the questious withest
hadtaitios and greets* with alacrity.
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