~•...• • ..• •r' - • • . . •• VOL. 6--NO. 51.] Office of the Star & Banner : Chambersburg Street, a few doors West of the Court• House. CONDITIO NS : T. The STAR & REPUBLICAN BANNER is published weekly, at Two DOLLARS per annum, (or Volume of 52 Numbers,) payable hail - yearly in advance—or Tiro -Dollars and. -Piny alas if not paid until after the ex . pirntion of the year. ' 11. No subicription will be received for a shorter period than six months, nor will the paper be discon tinued until all arrearnges are paid, Olen nt the dis cretion of the editor—A failure to notify a discontinu ance will be considered a newengagement, and the paper forwarded accordingly. 111. Advertisements not exceeding a square, wi be inserted TIIIIEE times fur ONE DOLLAR, and 25 cents for every_ subsequent insertion—longer ones in the same proportion. The number of insertions to be marked, or they Will bo published till forbid and char ged accordingly. SIVE ILIFY ALTY. George W. McClellan, ippETURNS his sincere thanks to - has IL. ' FRIENDS .and the PUBLIC generally, for placing him on the return with the pres ent Stumm", at . n fiTrmer election; and'res 7 pectlUlly solicits their votes and interest, for the SIIERIFF'S OFFICE, at the ensuing EL E CTION. Should he be honored with their confidence by being elected to that Office,. no exertion shall be wanting on his part, faithfully, to discharge the duties of that important trust. Gettysburg, Jan.,25, 1836. SHERIF F To the voters of Alan's county. FRIENDS AND FELLOW•CITIZENS: APT the request of a number of my friends, !:announce myself to your considers• tion as a CANDIDATE for the NEXT SIIERIFFJLTY and most respectfully solicit your support Should I be honored with your successfu approbation and favor, it shall be my firs wish and aim to discharge the duties of tha office with fidelity and humanity. JOHN JENKINS. - Gettysburg, Feb. 1, 1836. to-44 SILIERIFF Y To the independent Voters of Adams co.: FELLOW-CITIZENS: I offer my self to your considerlttion as a Candidate for the SIIERIEArIis OFFICE, at the ensuing Election. Should Ibe elec ted, I pledge myself , that I will perform the duties of dint Office with fidelity and impar tiality. JAMES McILHENY. [NI ountjoy tp.] Feb. 22, 1836. tc-47 SHERZPPALTY. To the Voters of Adams County: Once more, Fellow:Citizens, I offer my self to your consideration s as a Candidate for the - SHERIFF'S OFFICE, and respectfully solicit your support. If you elect me; I, as is customary, most cheer fully pledge myself to discharge the duties faithfully. Your obedient Servant. MICHAEL C. CLARKSON. Fehrunry 22; ISM. to-47 SELE/lIITALTY. To Me Independent Voters of Adams Co.: FELLOW CITIZENS: I Oiler myself to your consideration for the office of SIIERIFF, at the next GENF:RAL ELECTION. Should be so fortdnate as to be elected I will die• charge the duties of the office faithfully. Your obedient Servant, WM. TAUGHINBAUGH. Petersburg. (Y. S.) Feb. 29, INN. to-48 SHE stirrAzTY. To the free and Independent Citizens of A dams County: .FELLOW-CITIZENS: 1 offbr.mself for the SHERIFF'S OF FICE, at the next election—and should I be so fortunate as to succeed, I pledge my word and honor to serve with honesly,with out respect to persons. - - ABRAHAM MUMMA. Franklin tp., March 7, 1836. to-49 SHERIPFAXITY. To the Independent Voters of Adams Co.: FELLow-Crrizmvs: I offer myself to your consideration as a candidate for the SEMI:IMP S OFFICE, And respectfully • solicit your support. If you elect me I most cheerfully pledge my self to discharge the duties faithfully. Your obedient Servant, •• GEORGE bI YERS, New-Chester, March 7, 1836. te!. SINEIRLETALTY. To the free and Indqenden:' Wiers ; o f A _ dams County: - - FELLO W- CITI Z ENS: Through kind persuasion from many of my friends, I have been induced to' offer myself as a candidate for the office of SHERIFF • at the ensuing Election, and respectfully solicit' your votes; and should I be so fortu nate as to receive your confidence, by being elected to that office, I would pledge myself to discharge the duties of the office with care and fidelity. WM. ALRIGHT. Couowago tp., March 7, 1886. te.49 1 1VITE GARLAND. -"With sweetest flowers enrich'd, From various Gardens cull'd with care." TO A FRIEND AT PARTING. Can I forget thee? ask the heart That never ceased to love thee. If thy remembrance will depart. While heaven is bricht above me. Tito' the blue waves between us flow, What ever be mylot, Thro' this (lark world, in weal or wo, Thoul't never beiorgot. Row oft we've-watched yon.brilliant star Since childhood's sunny iitry- • Its light, tho' I may rosin afar, Shall guide my darksome way; The world may frown, in sorrow's hour, My heart to thi:e shall stray; And friendship's prize, and sacred power, Shall ne'er on earth decay. Thou tho' I close my eyes in death, Far from my home and thee, Thy image till my latest breath, :fly star of hope shall' be— Thy smile, shall gild my hour of gloom, While hero on earth I stay, And light my passage to tho tomb, To realms of endless day. SEEING'S NOT BELIEVING. BY T. HAYNES BAYLEY. I saw hor as I fancied fair, , Yes, fairest of earth's creatures; I saw the purest red and white O'orapread her lovely features; She fainted, and I sprinkled her, Her malady relieving; 7 waded both rose and lily off— Oh! seeing's not believing! I looked again, again I long'd To breathe love's fond confession; I saw her eye.brows formed to give Her face its arch expression; But . gum is very apt to crack, And whilst my breath was heaving. It so fell out that one fell off! Oh! seeing's not believing ! I saw the tresses on her brow, So beautifully braided; I never saw in all my life, Locke look so well as they did. She walked with me one windy day— Ye zephyrs, why so thieving? The lady lost her flaxen wig Oh ! seeing's not believing ! I saw her form by Nature's hand So prodigally flnish'd She wsrojess perfect if enlarged. - Leas perfect ir diminished; „ iterloilarr surprised-the worst Of wonders then achieving;— None knew the bustle I perceived ! Oh ! seeing's not believing ! I saw when costly gems I gave, The smile with which she took them; And it she said no tender things, I've often seen her. Zook: them; I saw.hor my 'affianced bride— And then my mansion leaving, She ran away with Colonel Jones ! Oh ! seeing's not believing THE REPOSITORY. SUNDAY EVENING ADING THE HUMAN FRAME. It is made for health and happiness, and when we look upon a countenance blooming with beauty, and observe its expression of great enjoyment, • we feel that the being who formed it is a God of love. But we must not forget, that within that very blooming cheek, there is contrived an apparatus capable of pro diming something very different from enjoyment. A fibrous net-work spreads over it, coming out of the trunk from the brain, extending everywhere its slen der ramifications, and sending a little thread to ev ery point upon the surface. . What is this mechanism for? Its uses are many; but among its other properties, there is in it a slumbering power, which may indeed never be called into'action, but which always exists, and is always ready, whenever God shall call it forth. to be the instrument of irremediable and unut terable suffering. We admit that in almost every case it remains harmless and inoperative; still it is there, always there, and always ready; and it is call cd into action whenever God thinks best. And it is not merely in the cheek, but throughout every part of the frame that the apparatus . of suffering lies con cealcd; and it is an apparatus which is seldom out of order. Sickness deranges and weakens the-other powers, but it seldom interferes with this; it remains always at its post, in the eye, the car, the brain, the hand—in every organ and every limb, and always ready to do God's bidding. YE HAVE 1:0T CHOSEN ME. Christ taught his disciples that divine influence up on the hearts of men was essential to their repentance and salvation. "Ye have not chosen mc," said he, "I have chosen you." What a declaration I How solitary it makes the Saviour in the world he bad come to redeem. 1111ordithan thirty years he had spent here, doing good continually, and proclaiming offers of reconciliation and pardon, and now, on the last night of his life, surrounded by inveterate foes, already. actually sold to them, and with but a few hours of liberty remaining. ho gathers privately his twelve friends, that he may have one last sad inter. view with them;• and here he had to reflect that even these his twelve friends,,among ten thousand enemies, had nut chosen him; he had chosen them He stood alone, after all; the only example of independent, original holiness. The universal reign of ungodli ness and sin, had been broken only where he had chosen individuals to be saved, and trained them. by his own power, to moral fruitfulness and beauty. TUE. SAYIOIUR'B NIGHTS. OF PRAYER. He sought solitude, he shrunk from observation; in fact ailmost, the only enjoyment which he seemed really to love, was his lonely ramble at midnight, for rest and prayer. He spent whole nights thus, we are told. And it is not surprising, that after the heat. ed crowds and exhausting !Aims of the day.he should lore to retire to silence and seclusion, to enjoy the cool and balmy air; the refreshing stillness, and all the beauties and glories of midnight, among the soli tudes of the dallilean hills; to find there happy cam , . . • B 7 noßralr WHIT ICUDIDIZTOLT, EDIT6t, PIJELIESHER, AND PROPRIETOR. "I WISH NO OTHER HERALD, NO OTHER SPEAKER OF MY LIVING ACTIONS, TO KEEP MINE HONOR FROM CORRUPTIOIV."--,SDARS. saiw2lroatFocu o rka.. 9 armwroar4 azizatma silo auct. JACOB Morita gave so many proofs of his valor during the Nilar, that, just previous to the bottle of Plattuburgh, he was promoted to the honora ble post of second corporal; and his feats °Noble dating in that memorable action would . no doubt have ensured 'him a commission, as soon as a pro per vacancy occurred, had not his hopes of pro- motion been cut off by the close of the war, and the disbandment of his company; when he re turned to his former residence in the capital of Vermont. But by two years residence in the camp, he had become unfitted to 'settle down' to his old trade of shoe-making—so, without much ceremony, he lett his 'wife, and started with a pack on his back, to try fora 'speck' in Canada.— Ha first• directed his steps towards Montreal, where he intended to tarry a few days on the look-out fora job—for he was ready to turn his hand to any business, if se be he could obtain what a Yankee generally likes bettor than every thing else—save the fair--money. In his man ners, he sometimes exhibited a polish becoming a feeder on soups and ragouts, and at others that uncouth appearance which the land of "blue-law' memory supposes to bo the characteristic of tier untamed sister, Vortuont. From iis first arrival at Montreal, a disposition was 'shown by his fel. law•boarders to make him and his conntry the general butt of ridicule. But most of them soon found that their jokes turned back upon them selves, like the balls of Atilt 'Majesty's ship trom 'Rook Dunder' in Lake Chathplain, which the British Commodore attacked• in the night, and came near sinking .his own 'ship with his own balls, as they bounded back from the supposed A• tnerican. 'there was, ,however, one Proctor, a lieutenant in the British Army, who could not sit easy under a well turned joke; and he got mad in true Engfisli style. But Jacob had mule Blends of the rest, and when the lieutenant was made to writhe under his sarcasms, he found but little sympathy in 'his fellows. While Jacub's jokes fell ufion him like the blows of Wallace upon the soldiers who undeltook to rob him of his fish, per. sonality and abuse were his only weapons.. Take thefollowing as a specimen: The company were seated at ,the dinnar.table, when the Lieutenint, in a swaggering manner, stuck his fork into a surloin of beef, saying-- =tuition with his Father, and to gather fresh strength for the manors and trials, that yet remained. IDEA OF TILE DIVINITY Banish all material ideas of a' Deity, and do not let your imagination struggle to find its way upward to some material heaven, with indefinite and idle con ceptions of a. monarch seated on a throne. The striking and beautiful metaphors of the Bible never were intended to kive us this idea. God is a Spirit, it says in its most emphatic one. Where he acts, there only can we see him. He is the wide-spread omnipresent power, which is everywhere employed —but which we can never see, and never know, ex cept so far as he shall manifest himself by his doings. HEAVEN AND EARTH. As distant as they may be thought by the world, heaven and earth are so near together, so shot into each other, that good men are truly "foreigners on earth have their conversation in heaveu,aud are fel low-citizens with the saints, and of the housc!'old of God." To speak allusively to the patriarchaivi sion, good men are angels;—only, as yet at the bot tom of the ladder; and some angels arc only men made perfect, at , the top of it. CONVERSION. When a man stands with his back to the sun, his own shaduw and the shadows of surrounding objects are before him. It ii the same in spiritual things God is the sun of the universe. Creatures are but shadows. While men look away from God,all their shadows occupy their thoughts and their affections.— When they turn to God, Ho then becomes their all in all. THE MAN OF PLEASURE. He has his little clouds at the brightest; the course of his happiness is retarded by a straw; and any con siderable, scarce considerable, accident puts it qnite to death. Not ouly the necessaries or conveniences, but the decorations and superfluities of life, are vital to his sickly felicity. In any of them he may receive a deep or deadly wound. CHRISTIAN DECISION. They that have been long tossed by folly, when once landed on a good life, should burn their ships, an Caesar burnt those of hit legions on the British coast. The soldier of the cross should destroy every desire of embarking in ill, and render his return impracti cable. FAITH IN CHRIST. Re whose soul reposes on his firm trust in his Re deemer, like the halcyon that builds on the waves, if storms arise, may be tossed, bat not endangered.— Or, granting even the worst, those tumultuous bil lima that devour others, rock him to everlasting rest. DIVINE MERCY. In the midst of our rebellion against him, God, like the sun when smiling through a cloud, shows us a merciful face; not that he approves of our impiety, but because by these beams he would warm our _ aro," is . th . ci name of a new invention recently announced in Eng land, .which, to the groat dismay of the barbers, is to enable persons to shave themselves without the aid of razor, soap or water. NUMBER OF PHYSICIANS IN PARIS.—The number of Doctors of Medicine or Surgery for the present year is 1222, being an increase of about 250 since 1833. A DA:vacuous QUESTION.-A simple ostler being one day at Confession to his Priest, was asked by the Father, if he had never greased the teeth of the guests' horses to prevent their eating their al lowance of hay and oats? "Never," replied the ostler. At a subsequent confession the ostler ac knowledged the frequent commission of that fraud. "How," said the Priest, "I remember at your last confession you said you hnd never done so?" No more I had then," answered the ostler, "for till you told tne, I never knew that greasing a horse's teeth would prevent his eating." FROM THE VERMONT FREE PRESS. YANKEE! NECROMANCY: Or the way a ermonter Fights a Duel. I"I am as ready to attack this, as I should bo to face a regiment of yanked 'flood wood.' " 'A much safer enemy todeal with, aint it!" Isaid Jacob; "and likely to come off"-- "Hark! the Vermont bear speaks!" haughtily Iretorted the Lieutenant, interrupting him. Jacob know how to distinguish between ajost and an intended insult. Ho rose from his sent, and casting a bitter look of defiance at the 1 jou tenant, cooly, but sternly answered him thus: "The sons oftho 'Evergreen Hills' often en counter bears in their excursions among the mountains; and when wounded, they have over found thorn a most dangerous animal !" "And the 'sons' partake of their Savageness, without a particle of their courage," replied the Lieutenant. .Jacob 101 l the lion struggling in his soul, but 'he answered not. His pride of country was wounded, but he checked himself, ere ho.horled defiance at the braggadocio who insulted him. "1 wish," continued the Lieutenant, "that 1 could find the horse which Jim Madison'rode out of Washington, at the time we (lie had never been further south than Plattsburgh) burnt the. Capitol; for it would bo a great acquisition to the British turf." "Do you, indeed!" slid Jacob. "Then, as good luck will have it, you can be accommodated. •I own that horse myself, and have it now at Mont. pallor. And now, if you will procure in exchange the ass on which Provost htirried out of- Platte. burgh—there's a bargain!" • . • The Lieutenant thus finding himself headed on that tack, tried another. - "I'll bet that I can throw any yankee that over lived," said he. "Dono!" said Jacob. "What the company can drink." They repaired to the bar room, and taking a "side hold," at the first effort, Jacob laid the cox comb sprawling on his back. The Lieutenant declared that it was.not fairly done, and insisted upon another trial. Jacob consented, and again floored him with as little ceremony as before. "Equally unfair," said the Lieutenant. "We will try again, and you shall not make an attempt till I have declared myself ready." "Just as you say, Mr. Ross," said Jacob. "And now are you ready?" The Lieutenant placed his feet in various brae mg positions, till he believed he had got s substan. tial foundation, when he declared himself regdy. "But get perfectly ready," said Jacob, "for I shall give you an "Irish hoist" this time!" "Well, I am ready," said he. The Lieutenant was dressed in fashionable thin a .Licon - remeriaberod the - olBritt of "three times and out," thought he would give him full satisfaction by throwing instead of him, his breeches; and accordtngly,tlio first strain he gave, they wore rent "as though the heavens and earth were coming together!" The Lieutenant was satisfied: but the throats of the company had to 4 go dry, till he could on. sconce his neither limbs in another pair, and stop the tour his inutfortune had nccasioned,by calling for the Chamoaigne. • Jacob retired to rest early, and had been asleep but a short time,wheri.he was awakened by a pres sure on the outside of the bed, which he found to be a saddle. Listening, he heard the voice of the Lieutenant below,exultingly boasting that he had "saddled a yankee,"—as proud of the exploit, as lie was of the many battles he bad—never won. "Well,-my fine fellow," said Jacob, "let them laugh that lose;" if you can make any thing 'in this bargain, "go it, you pippin!" He threw the saddle out the window, which was stolen during the night—making a draft upon the Lieutenant's purse of eight pounds to the owner. Jacob slept as soundly as though nothing had occurred. On the following night,ths Lieutenant returned from his usual debauch about midnight,and ing out his light—in as direct a manner as his reeling senses would permit, threw himself into the bed; when the house was instantly alarmed by cries of "Get out! Get out! Murder! Help! Mur. der! Oh!" Jacob was the first who entered the chamber whence rho cries issued; where he found the Lieutenant groaning & writhing like a wound ed snake. The room was soon filled with sleepy, halfdressed characters, some rubbing their oyes to convince themselves they were not dreaming— some trembling under the opposing influences of sleep and fear—and others rushing in, eagerly in. 'wiring the cause Grail this uproar! Amidst the incoherent exclamations of the lieutenant, "the D—I:" was occasionally heard; and some of the company who were Catholics began to think the evil one had indeed anticipated his piey, and that poor Proctor had already begun the pains of pur. gatory. Jacob, however, assumed to himself the office of exorcist, and approached the bed; while the trembling superatitionists shrunk into a corner of the room. • "Now,then,by the remembrance of old Ethan!" said ho. "Hold on, and see if I prove as success ful in laying the Devil, as Lorenzo was when ho touched the candle to the barrel of cotton." He pulled down the clothes, under which the Lieu. tenant had been trying to hide himself; and "Oh, bloody bones!" an enormous double-spring steal- trap, strong enough to hold a buffalo, had fastened its iron gripe upon the arm of the victim. "Ho, hot" . cried Jacob in surprise, "this was no doubt intended for the `Vermont bear:' how came the British wolf in it?" He assisted to take off the 'iron dog,' and , send for a doctor; when the sleepers retuned to their beds, fully realizing the truth of Sencho Parizes maxim: "Blessed is the man who first invented Bleep; for it covers one all over like "a cloak." It was nearly three weeks betore. the Lieuten ant was able to take his usual place atthe table, He bed lost none of hie insolence, by his late humiliation, and he began again to boast of his ex., ploits in the battle of Plattsburgh. "And I guess you got a wound or two there; did'nt your said Jacob. . - "Yes," said he, "two; and severe ones too!" "On yOur back! Pll bete, "shin o i mutton agin a shad's gamble joint!" replied Jacoh,tvitha most moaning look. " • —"That vine the only battle I ever lost," said he; "and thievtlis only the result of unfavorable cir- • cumatances." "Did you see me .there?" said Jacob.. "No ,1 "I reckon 'you might, if you had looked round. But what other battle was you ever in 1" - Tlio Lieutenant paused--heried—"the—bat---" The compriny began to titter. "Of the kegs !" roared Jacob. The eyes of the Lieutenant flashed fire; and, when the cheering had subsided so that he could be hoard, ho began : • "The valor of the yankees is not to be corn pared to that of. Englishmen. Their bravery is more bullying; and they would be as likely to run for - ten men as for a.kundred. There is no dis cipline in their army, and their leaders are wholly ignorant of the great trade of war." . "What a pity 't is," said Jacob, "that British troops can't stay with them king enough to learn them something ablut it !" "Give mo the same weapons—the same num ber Of men—and equal advantage of ground," said tho Lieutenant, "and I'll engage to beat them in nineteen battles out of twenty." • - !'Always-excepting the bear.traps, - I 'sposo !" said Jacob. The Lieutenant could command himself no. longer. "How I ache to have, a ahot at that fel. I , tvv!" said halo the person who -eat next'him.— Jacob overheard the remark, and ho replied moat gravely— "If you ache,yuu had better be 'pulled' at once." The face of the Lieutenant glowed with n more crimson hue, and the rays of his wrath seemed also to have come to a focus in his heart.,, "I have not, till now," said ho, soon fit to take any notice of the cowardly and assassinous design upon my life, a reference to which that Republi- can blackguard has seen fit , to throw in my face. But I am now nearly recovered from the danger ous contusion in my arm; and can revenge the contumelious insult.', - , "What words oflarned length, and thundorin' sound!" said Jacob. '"lt reminds me of Bur. goyne's attempt to march through the United States with ten thousand men." "I'm now prepared," continued the Lieutenant —not noticing, or more probably not understand-. ing the remark—"to offer a reward of twenty-five guinoas to the person who will inform me what assassin placed the trap in my bed." "Double the sum!" said Jacob, you can well afford it; for now. When.vou return to Praoland. ou can show his worshipful Majesty a wound re ceived in your contest with tho Yankees it some other place than the back." " " '•' "Do you avow yourself the wretch?" said the Lieutenant. "I helped you out of it; did'nt I?" "But do you seek the irrecoverable doom that awaits the victim of my ire, by acknowledging yourself the criminal?" "No;" said Jacob, "but I will, If you'll 'doublo the sum!" "Lunderstnnd you," said the Lieutenant rising, and brandisking his knife aloft: "And the cam. pony will boar mo witness, that I proclaim you, first,a yankee--second,a coward—thirdly a knave —fourthly, a Vermont bear —and lastly, an .unciv ilized heathen; and challenge you to meet me on this day week - , with such arms as you may select, for mortal combat!" He leaned back in his chair, and , awaited from Jacob an acceptance or rejection of the challenge. The company beganto think the affair was assum. mg a serious aspect; and all eyes were fixed upon . Jacob, to see how he would sustain his part in the play. .He rose in such a manner auto" force smile up - on every cheek, and ;Aiming a huge carv. ing-knifo in tho position of a half drawn sword proceeded: "Most honored gentlemen, and contemporary pork devourers: According to all the ancient and established usages of knighthood, I prognosticate that you anticipate a 1 ejoindel to the elegant dec. larnation and rhetorical flourish of tho—the- 7 excuse the want of words; language is not COlll. potent to describe the thing that has just taken . its seat. Not having witnessed but few such scones of blood and .carnage . as was exhibited to his eyes at the "battle of the kegs"—the wreath of fame having never encircled my pericranium and in all my peregrinations amongst the rattle. snakes and hedgehog's of my native hills„ or my silent meanderino;s on the shores of the tenebtious Virinnoskoui. never having shed a single drop of life's purple liquid, your perspicatious judgMent will at once decree,. that I should most r:uperla ively regret the mysterious concatenation o evonts, which b:inge my irroproachablo identity 3nto suet, horrific collision, with my lord! Nefer„ till this auspicious inomonf o has aid dream that my name should be made immortal by an encounter with a man so great, that only he and unother him "came over in throe ships," burst upon the vision of my mind's astonished eye. But, Willr hero of Plattsburgh hus not yet won sufficient memorials of daring in his contest with the yen keeiaia prerogative shall be sustiiiiiecl in demand ing my moat mortal services: And, most valiant 'y ob.streperous and august Sir: While claim all personal retaliation, and speak like an unpolished disciple °filatures noisy school, your - prominent e9f, and this respectable assemblage ordisinterested attestators, will bear me witness, that, in deferential imitation ofgour learned lingo of incentive sounds, I pronounce you first, Iv Bit ton—secondly, a bravado—thirdly, as "honest as a Coblees cow'—fourtlity, a.little panto'. than all natur and part of Camel's Rump—and lastly, oneumatti fool! So, there's at ye! and I ask only the privilege of killing one Briton before I return tb Verthoni." About a mile below the city, a hill rises abropt-_ ly from the shore of the St. Lawrence, which , at tho appointed time, wee covered with spectators °Weise:me to behold the duel. • • "I hope," said a gay young lady, who leaned on the arm of a tinselied officer, "that Proctor (WHOLE N0..311.., will make quick Work of it; foritla Bunt to stand and see porn fire at each other time :111 and again." The:feelier may doubt the trutliat this, and ask, ifirupq was her objection', was there. I can "only answer, ,by, referring yed to the principal instigators of our riots, end,atric. them how long they !Uwe been "opposed to "Yes." said the officer' "but I ahould rather .. deal with Tecumseh himself; tor these :Ya'riki;e9, insignificant as they ap'pear, will figh!,:liiti,.tite :""'St. Patrick curse the Yankeepl" , eitclai*ti , liY);".;.,:: drunken Hibernian, whose ear hadcanyht tffifilc`ift\o 1. ..''.. t mark: "I like well to see one of 'ern in atild'lti;ls4.;s4,..J; land; and I think as hOw-we'd be aftsiegrefri rape' c 1:: Nearby tO 'im ony. way!. An' sure, ho . Yfiti*..-' l l, this same blatherin gpalpeen a bit Of 4:shi , lii.:- . T , :tk lA, baring this botheration of a sore heel :iihat.:4%- over else may do!" - • ' . . • - •. .'..i ; , ' -r,„...,. "True," replied 'the officer, "you arti..,tiii,iO4 ,- ,.....': ; ;,:l quired to perform, physical iinpossibilities; but..,`lgi:...q.' J' . .. - - • ..ie.-;• .t 1 one will doubt your valor." - - ..: .i. i ...., ,,i . - ce "No;" said the lady, especially when cveceiteld• ! ;:' ,:°..-,-, or his 'sore heel: It shows that his betterpar..,o% valor was discretion ! Indeed, William, , ffiere:l4 .- % - ;4" nobudy i so much despise, as a man that will raft :.if;a.'A from an enemy !" -. . • . '" ;4 , -'4l l. l li i A hectic blush overspread the face of the_ofll*e4•4, , ,- which, had the lady noticed it, would havelyieitiVz' ~_e '/ ed to her the discrepancy between her tlieary.siinl;44 practice; but fortunately for both, her attentiOn'AV, Was attracted .by a hustle at the foot 0r0e;hii:1;;.....:4; which showed that the bonnbetantli had.lirrived. , .- '' '' '' ) it r : The Lieutenant appeared,dresSed in vAtitopan-,- `,),,•4 tnloons, 'trimmed with red lace,without. any coat, .. - :,. - Fl' - and his ruffled shir,t-eleeven fastened above. hie-'. elbows: A star on his 1011., breast,partly_cenceali ' 1 1!•',.,..'ii 4 by a blue, handkerchief tied around over .his leit.::-=... shoulder, and under his right arm—affight cloth, ,- ?) . i; cap, hound With a purple ribbon, and 'a s carf of '':;;•,1a the sa m e color, frineed with gold,' bound around. . 2 .;;.,..5' his waist, completed his equipment. ' Jacob stood`-,t before him in a gray limiting frock, with !ar(;a -..'•‘,. , cowhide boots drawn over his tow paiitalnons,end ' ..f.,,,..4' an old quaker hat, on which the word "Veriticint" ~..-', 1 1„ was printed in conapicuous characters. He Mid -, Vf thrown off the character of the pedantic gentleManl! which he assumed when he accepted the challenge. ~, ;.:--i, and taken up that of the Country, clown, for the: .:'' present occasion: They` stood at . about thiity - . ~..- , 4 paces distance for some Moments Without speak. ; '•:-':. 1 ing, a spectacle to thousands win) waited In Silent' '•,.''f:_ anxiety. for the mortal strafe.' Jacob first broke- - !-. the silence with— - - • '...t "Wal, anger; what. news? Nnt much, I tame." A suppressed bustle was' heard arnglig the snit munt,,,Lic.--ror a - moment; aid& again. all war still as the hush of midnight; and nothing to bet heard envo • the waves ofthe St. Lawrence, as they broke • gently against the , shore. Jacob looked at the immense company who had met to see him kill or be killed, and turning again to the Lieutenant, ho exclainied-- • . , “Gosh,you: there's a tarns! lot o' folks this yeirr; flint they? They look„ like bees on a may-tlower. Wye, over-.,think.whet a lot o'holos they is inr a skimmer? - But they, flint agar there that'S fit to 'rake arter' some we've got in Nounrpelieri--- We've ecit some there, that 'it would make - Your eyee water to look at, I toll ye! If you couldsee ono of "em a Minute, I griesi-you woUld'ut want "Where are your arms?" sternly demanded the Lieutenant, not caring at the present time to hear . , more of the excellencies oldie Vermont damsels, of whom Jacob spake true. . -• ' "Oh, arms!"'exclainied Jacob. , "Wal, fact .1 didn't think o' that. But, if you're in'a hurry.: we'll have some arms so quick ,it'll make your head swim, I guess. Have you got any blunder. blushes?" said ho, turning to his seconds -One. of thorn handed him a brace of pistols.' He look - . ed at them with curiosity, end examined them as thOugh he had never seen any thing of the kind before. "What du ye [epos° we are going tudo with such short critters us thesci9 4 said he, ' "A Varmounter never'd think O'.shooting a wood chuck with sick a thing..: -shouldn't hit in three weeks. Now you See; I've agreed 'fore all thesefolks, to meet that British wildcat in mot... tal confab;' and they wouldn't see no spot tat all if we . didn't do nothing but squizzle away with these era slam bang things. No, they wouldn't never do the , job no how." So , saying. he gave the pistols e - throw, and in less time than ram say. ". irig it, they were in the bottom of the St. Law- renco. ""Now," said he turning to the seconds; "that thing there; with a purple wainrinm—you see him, don't you? Wal, he's' been standing there a laughingstock for fools long enough; and he!. in a teriible hurry to have mo go at him. Plow • 1 want you to—" "Stop your nonsense, clown!" said the Licaten. ant, advancing three or four paces. "If you in. tend tofight, produce your arras, 'andiots shall soon bite the dust. 1 come not here to see a bear dance!" • ' • "WO, wall" said Jacub; "don't be In such a,. • - mortal hurry.. The world warnt made in a min. :1 ute. I'm all kindoi trepidory. My knees knock -'. togethei like old Belshazzar's. But don't be a. (raid but what. I'll git you low enough vit,'' • "Now You see what a stew the eritter's tinned he to the secOnds, "and - LwantYou to it up to the_city like sat sin! grertio, in aleretle' less than nor time, (raising hie voice toe moat ARV. age yell) two good, new; smart, doOte ; iirritigtd BEAR TRAP}!" The duel was over . Jacob had wwon ihn to a "dead certainty." The Lieutentott not, but, amidst the shnuts 'which rose in detiki.. : . ing chorus from the multttude. disappeared - e101;.-f was never after heard Of. .Jacebretrireititohle!`:',4, lodgings, borne by the housing whom heartily rejoiced ln 'the defeat of the conceited Lieutenant' i r roctoi.::a i !?' soon returned tattle Wise, thiektiiittit NOW:- A . glory enough foe one oarrimign, entl'ist a respectable citizen ofthe Mritrcpoll'! and often does he set the M 414.1041: cost ing the foregoing story. • . 'Ali 7,...:.. .0 4 %: .4 1.:• 1 4 .4.c.f. c1!: -. 4 ,,,...,.., -A !.„.i, , ,,,:;,-, ;: •:--.,.:.;..!,•fi - ,;......5-:-.: , % - 4:;,.1;:::':7,0 r4.;E'..:2••: , ,:' , , , -1 .xi..,A.,-.,.,..... , -q ~.....• . ~ .. • .:,. ~~.,, - ,, ce , '1te . .',' , '..1.5, , 7:. 1. '::' , ..!::- , . 1 1 . 4 . .` 4 , : , ..Z,. ,
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