BY DAVID OVER.
-For thi fnqiirrr and Chronicle.
The Tmibifs of a Dimecrat.
K -ATTEK I.
.Mr. Mi>i tor :—Dear Sir, when a man
has troubles, it n-iieves him of them in a
measure, to toll them to his sympathizing
jrientls; and as I expose that you area
,-ood dimecrat, too, as lam a dimecrat, it
incut be as you would have a feller feelin
iu vouv bosom for me, who am so much af
flicted. But my troubles i not such as
ketch a holt at the outward man, but they
is of them sort as get at the sperits. And
what makes my troubles the more harder to
bear is, that 1 have to carry them myself.—
It is an undoniaWe fact, that I have a good
many kin-folks, but it is jest so with 'em:
there is none of'em about, when they know
as how I want 'cm. There is a fuller
"away down east iu the State of Maine,'"
what is some akia to uie, and then 1 have
route connections in Indianuy ; one of 'em
j>r,.ac : i's a little sometimes, and if you ever
read his sarmiut ua "He played oil a harp"
Si -o forth, you would say as what, be jxst
< in preach ; but I won't say no more about
'cm as they can speak for tboirselves, but
i -st leil you uiv troubles.
la the lost place, I was born, if my metu
ory savves me right, away off in Harrison
Townsb'p, and 1 was rai>cd a dnueerat as
tiv; •; a dimecrat; and such. fine times as us
uiniecrats had sometimes, was a caution. —
it was jest so : thar was a good uiauy diui
.i-rars-, and then thar was a heap of a rich ;
so we could ncai ly always carry of the 'lec
tion, till onee upon a tiuie the old sarpiut —
i calkelate it was him as did it—sent a lit
lie man along our way, vim played bob with
ni-. lie had an appiuuueat for night meet
en neerdiiy every week some wliar or other,
and the people got to runnin to his night
iiieetitts—raiig or shiny—an<l there they
turned in with him agin us dituecruts, and
■cor Jarniio breetberiug, and wouldn't vote
arith us no more, so we had to q i earning
,<ff the lections— am! thar commenced my
troubles.
1 was more sfe-ird vvlv n that, little man
gut among n*, than if all army had .1 cum
agin us with spearda and Logouts : and 1
cac tel! vou the reason that I was afeard:
it was testns nice and plane tome, as the
seat of a dutchman's pair of breeches, that
our Giiicial fierce and Mr. Oambell had
jest got things in a fair way to work like
clockwork, when he had to come among us
ves, look, j'-st. for a minnif, how nice
fierce raised the nigger question agin, bv
removing the Mo.-ouri Compromise; and
bow nice he was a conjuring up things iu
Kansas ; and how tiicte and slick Pierce and
Canibcll was a working the Government in
to the bunds of foreigners. Weft*, by Jin
go, you know, nobody can manage carnal
affairs, that is, govern other people aud
themselves, like the Irish, and Dvfchj and
who coal-1 watch over our speritual and
darnel interests like the Ilowly Murder
Church!
Well, as I was a saying, they hail jest
got things to working about tight, that, iu
a few years, our clumsy big Government
moat be divided by slavery ami .<0 forth, in
to a lot cf sueli pretty little slapjacks ot
kingdoms like llessc Gusset and so lordi, in
Jarmany, when that dreadful feller come
among us.
When I knowed he was in our neighbor
hood, I tried to keep a stiff upper lip, and
be as tight as possible at all times, hoping
that !>e mout not do much harnt among us
but I soon found as how he could do as
much mischief in our little viuciuity, as
what he done at every other place that he
fotched up at. Why a lot of fellers jiued
hiui net rdly every week—didn't / sec how
he knocked 'cm out ? Aud wasn't, that or
ful ?
Well, it l;ep on so, as regular as could
be, while I lived tliar; and jest before 1
was agoing to move my effects to this ere
jlac, be left an appiutmeat for one night
at my house. Well, ho coine as be .-aid he
■would, ana I was as perlite as 1 could bt
aud he was pcrlitc too; and when the time
for the service cum on, he commenced the
motions, and 1 held the candle ; aud I tell
you uow, it didn't take him long to get one
of the uiccsv fellers in all our diggens to
jine hiiu. Jest to think ! Why it nterly
hosted my gizzard; but it eouldn't be
helped. And whir I live now, 1 have sitch
trouble's, Sain is round nerc too, a eatin
into my party, jest like a pig would cat a
tater. And tother night, as I was a settin
in uiy house, I seed a big light away off ir.
a pitch of a field, and I jest exposed that
.Saiu had a meetin tbar agin. Yes, says ]
to myself, he is dctnrniincd" to use us up,
and tbar he is agin, a trying to git more
stronger yit, when be is strong etiuf BOW.—
M ell, I couldn't sleep good about it that
night, hut in the 'nomin I found as hour
Sam wasn't tbar for all; aud then but I
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was glad ! Iloorah ! Ilail Coluniby ! Why
I felt like crowing. Speaking of crowing,
puts iu in mind of our Rooster—that big
one what the General used to show us some
! tines. Confound it 1 I wonder what has
become of ft? I wonder if it has died, and
been gathered to its fathers, or if any one j
has booked it! or what is the reasou that
4
we don't get to see it no more ? Oh, if 1
could ee that Rooster agio!
I am too much affected to write any more
now, so Mr. Editor, farewell for a while
till I eao write agiu.
Truly yours,
A DIMECRAT.
From the Indiana | Pa.) Register.
LEWIS, THE ROBBER.
Lewis was the master-spirit of a gang of
highway men, who lived by robbing travel
lers and committing depredations upon resi
dents, chiefly between Chambersburgb and
Redfotd, where they harbored in the forests
of the mountains. They were a terror to
the community, and western merchants who
travelled on horseback generally armed
themselves when going to the east, so as to
be prepared to repel an attack, and for
greater security sometimes weut in cornpa- j
pies. It was understood, or at least belier- j
ed, that sbme of Lewis' band were stationed j
In Pittsburg, where, by mixing in genteel f
society, and being unsuspected, they I
would inform themselves of the time when j
merchants of that city and from parts farth- j
er west intended making their semiannual
trips to Philadelphia, and would then find j
means to convey the intelligence to their
accomplices along the road.
Lewis was a young man man of handsome
apperrence and agreeable address, and it
was said he supported his mother and sisters
upon the fruits of his unlawful pursuit.—
Ilis more immediate associates were Conner
and Oonnely, who, at the tithe of which we
are speaking, kept among the gorge's of
Sideling llill, where, at a distance of sev
eral miles from the public road, they had
erected a shanty, which was well supplied
with provisions and other comforts, whether j
Lewis, after remaining about Bedford and j
Bloody Run as long as he could do so j
without exciting suspicion, or uutil he had'
received letters which he expected, would j
resort and remain for days and weeks, con
ceiting measures for robbing some unsus
pecting traveller or for obtaining booty in j
some other way.
Persons who have travelled the turnpike j
between MeConnellsburg and the Crossings •
of the Juniata will remember Reamer's i
tavern on the eastern slope of the mountain ,
and Xyeutil's on the western, the intervening ,
distance being about eight miles, which '
formerly presented little else to the eye than i
serab-oak thickets, interspersed with locks ]
and falien timber, with bere and there a j
slight opening, through which tlie cattle ,
feeding during the summer bad trodde 11 j
paths which setved the hunter as a guide and
passage when following the game along the !
mountain range iu winter. It was, indeed, |
a gloomy road, with nothing to break the
monotony, save perhaps, ocasionally the j
cawing of a crow as she hovered, overhead,
or the sudden bound of a deer aroused from j
his lair by the noise ef approaching footsteps j
—and the louely traveller, as he wended his |
way slowly up the steep ascent, now urging j
his jaded steed to greater effort, and now re
lieving it by leaping from the saddle and
walking by its side, would long to gain the
summit, where he might proceed more speedi
ly and with more comfort to himself and
his animal.
On ascending the mountain from the west,
one sees now on the south side of the turn
pike a patch of cultivated ground, embrac
ing several acres, which has been cleared
for a number of years, but was a dense for
est at the time to which our story has refer
ence. It was here, immediately opposite
the cleared field, that Lewis performed one
of his most daring exploits, aud which led
to his arrest and subsequently cost him his
life.
I It appeared from what transpired after
wards, that Lewis had received intelligence
: from of hi- gang, of an individual carrying
a large sum of .money going eastward on
horseback, and thut Lewis and two associ
ates were on the look-out for him, ready to
make an attempt at securing the rich prize
whenever it should coiue within reaeh.—
From some cause or other, however, that in
dividual's departure was delayed; but about
the time designated by Lewis' spy, a Mr.
McClelland, a merchant in Pittsburgh,
started for Philadelphia to purchase goods,
traveling on horseback and having in his
saddlebags some two thousand dollars in
silver. He had got to Nycum's on Saturday
evening, where he remained until Sunday
nioruing, and then early prosecuted his
journev, thinking to breakfast at Reamer s
As bf was walking his horse up the mountain
and when lie had proceeded several miles, he
espied some distance ahead, a man, who
wore a slouched hat an ill-fitting, somewhat
tattered coat, walking rather awkwardly,
his body inclined forward, now shooting
i diagonally across the road, and then, taking
tip and balancing hitnseY, moving on again
in a stnigbt line. As McClelland ne'ared
him, the man once or twice looked around,
exhibiting a {.air of blackened eyes, as if
be had been recently engaged in a tight:
and McClelland inferred frotu his whole con"
duct and appearance that be had been in
company drinking and got himsoly hand
somely purauicicd, without baring becu so
bered by the operation. As they approach
ed the summit, McClelland gained ujiou
the fellow, until at the point which we
have been endeavoring to describe he was
about passing him ; but at that momeut
and before he suspected any danger he found
himself dragged from his horse, the drunk
en man. as he had taken him to be, having
sprang upon him at a single bound, while iu
the same instant a man with a cocked pistol
jumped up from either side of the road, the
one seizing the horse's bridle and tbo other
coming to the assistance of their leader,
i who was no other than Lewis himself and
who had assumed this disguiso to proven 1
j suspecton. The two had been lying in wait
; were Conner and Connelly—and there can
j Iks 110 doubt but some ouo of the gang ha'*
| seen McClelland the day or evening before,
I and that they had prepared themselves
i during the night to attack him in the morn
ing. Had tarried at Nvcum's nntil later iu
i tbo day and perchance got some company,
he would most likely been permitted to pass
unmolested, and the counterfeit drunkard,
who with painted eyes and tattered gar
ments, had been seen staggering along the
road would scarcely have been thought of
again.
The spot was well chosen by the robbers
for the accomplishment of their purpose.—
On the north side of the road, for a distance
of at least a quarter of a mile, the woods
were more open here than at any other point
on the mountain: and whilst McClelland was
hurried off by two of the men among the
thickets, his horse was galloped at full speed
through the open space, so as to be out of
sight, should any person char.ee to come
along the road. Having commanded
M'Cleltand to observe silence if he did not
wish to have his brains blowu out, they led
him onward for several miles, the other man
with the horse bringing up the lear, until
they reached the robber's hut, which had
beeu constructed ef light logs and covered
with bark, where they halted and forthwith
entered upon an examination of their booty.
After ascertaining the amount, Lewis turned
to McClelland and smilingly said he was 'not
the bird they had been watching for, never,
theless these were pretty rich pickings' and
bus associates were auiply compensated
thereby for t heir trouble. Conner and Con
nelly then proposed they should put Mc-
Clelland to death alleging as a reasou that
if he were set at liberty he would inform on
them and might cause their arrest; against
which Lewis stoutly protested an at the same
time handed to McClelland his watch and
ten dollars, saying that would carry him back
to his family and fiieuds.
This done, preparations were made by the
robbers to start with the money taken from
McClelland to some place where they would
deposit it for greater security, and he was
told that if he offered to move front the spot
before their return, his life should pay the
forfeit of bis temerity. That they intended
to return has always been doubted and it has
beeu judged, and with very good reason*
that their object was to induce him to re
main there during part of the part of the
day, whereby they would have gained ample
tiuie to get out of harm's way before he
could give the alarm and start anybody in
pursuit. In order to make sure work, how
ever, they produocd a pint flask filled with
whiskey and ordered him to drink freely,
thinking no doubt that by so doing he, a
man uncustomed to strong drink would soon
t fall asleep and might not awake for many
hours. McClelland thought the liquor con
tained some deadly poison and the' robbers
were taking this method to get rid of him;
and knowing be was in their power and that
if his death had been resolved on, all bis
pleading for life would be unavailing, lie
concluded to die with as little pain as possi
ble, and therefore, to their groat surprise,
drank the entire contents of the flask
fortunately, however, the liquor was not
poisoned; but the robbers thinking their
prisoner had taken enough to answer all
their purposes, now left, after ordering him
to lie down in a corner of the cabin.
M'Clelland was uow alone. The inci
dents of the morniug clustered around his
mind, and his distress was indescribable.—
Within the space of a few hours all his
earthly hopes had been blasted, lie was
BEDFORD. PA.. FRIDAY. MAY 28,1856.
uot pillj beggared,but iu all likehood doomed
to die, perhaps in a few moment--, away from
his friends and where his bod v
might become food for vultures and wild
beasts and bis requium should be the w : nds
as they passed howling over Lis bleachiifg
hones' He pictured to himself he distress
of his family consequent upou his sudden
HUJ mvsterioius disapjttJarauee, and their
j fruitless conjectures in regard 10 his fate,
and then ran wLULLs cdvd'w- eye over the
pages of their future history, lamenting
their desolate aud forlorn condition as they
should be drifted without an earthly proete
toron life's wide ocean, tossed by the wave's
j and exposed to the tempest, But he fel l
admonished to dismiss, these reflections
and turn unto others. Every moment he
expected to feel a deadly stupor coming
over hint, and ever and anon he ea.-.t his eyes
upon surouuding objects to assure himself
that all was not a dream and that he was
i still in possession of his reason. Such was
the intensity of bis feelings that it coun
teracted the effects of the spirits which he
had swallowed, and impelled by that love of
life which cliugs-unto man to his last mo
ments, he ventured to ascend to the too l
of the shanty and theu cast inquiring look
far into the forest, anxious to ascertain
weather the robbers had actually taken their
j departure or whether tliev were still U iier
j ing about, awaiting bis death. In a slight
j opening iu the woods at the distance of half
; a mile he at length espied them, pressing on
| with all possible speed, and in a moment
i his resolution was taken to attempt his escape.
Mounting his horse he enter* red a ravine
near by, which bo judged must had hiiu in the
direction of Reaper's and theu urgiDg the
a uimal forward cs fast as tie nature of the
country permitted, he kept in the ravine*
leaping over rocks and fallcn trees, and in
an incredibly short time reached the point
be was aiming for, whet a he gave the alarm
j and urge d immediate pursuit.
We may here remark that among those
j backwoodsmen who employ most of their
j time iu bunt in" ■*. yi- not
! generally reverenced as it should be, and it
| therefore caused no surpiise to learn that
j wheu M'Clelland arrived at the tavern just
i mentioned, he found there some half a doz
|en or more of rugged mountaineers, who
! had called in for their "bitters," propara
| torv to starting into the woods in quest of
j game. Mo sooner were they made acquaiut
j od with the robbery that had been comiuit
j ted, than they voluuteered to go in search
|of the robbers, and iu a few moments had j
ail things in readiness and set out, resolved
to do their best,
j The hunters had a general knowledge of
I the topography of the mountains, and di
| rooted their steps toward a point some dis
! tance beyond that designated by M'Clel
i land *is the one where he had last seen the
! robbers; having reached which they divided
! into two parties and moved some distance
J apart, and in this order had not proceeded
i very far when they espied the objects of
their search, by whom they were seen like
wise at the same instant. The robbers
tried to escape by tunning, but before they
could get beyond the reach of the hunters'
rifles, Lewis was wouuded by a ball, and
one of the others killed, whilst the third es
caped unharmed. Lewis was secured and
taken to Bedford jail, there to await his
trial, but afterwards made his escape and
was pursued, and whilst rowiug himself
across the West Branch of the Susquehan
na in a cauoe, was shot dead by one of his
pursuers.
While in prison, Lewis stated that he had
concealed a large sum of money under a
rock—the specie in a vessel and the bank
bills in a bottle—near a small stream on
the west of the Allegheny mountain; and
after his death diligent search was made for
the treasure, by different persons and at dif
ferent places, but it is not known that it
has ever been found, and the probability is
that it bad been moved by some of Lewis'
associates.
Had Lewis' mind been directed into the
right channel and subjected to a proper j
course of traiuing, he might have lived an ;
honor to himself and his family, and been |
useful in his day and generation; but hav- j
ing a ptnehant for the romantic aud lawless
where be could indulge his passions without
restraiut, he became alienated from society
an outcast and a by-word, and in bis death
we have but another proof of the truthful
ness of the proverb 'bat the way of the
transgressor is hard,
' —**'" I s
Q3^"A young fellow eating some Ches
hire cheese, full of skippers, at a tavern one
night, exclaimed;
•Now I havo done as luucb as Sampson,for
I havo slain my thousands and tens of thou
sands.'
. •Yes,' retorted another, 'and with the
same weapon the jaw bone of an ass.'
THE GAME AT CARDS.
A SCENE ON THE MISSISSIPI.
"The darkies are mine'" said the game
ster, striking his fist upon the table; "show
'em op, and let us see what tbeylook,
like."
The young planter, who had lost, sent
one of the boat servants below for John and j
Helen. The passengers awaited the ap
pearance of the slaves in silence, for a long
time; but they came not. The servant had
informed them of the change of owners.—
They were attached to the young planter
and wife, nnd did not like to leave tbem;
beside, they had children of their own at
home; and what was to become of them?
The winner began to wax impatient at
the delay, and exclaimed—
"Home, Danton. hurry up the niggers.—
They must move quicker than this when 1
send for 'em or they'll never know what
hurt 'em."
j The young planter's aristocratic face flur
! ished criiuson at this rude and brutal ex
i clamation, but he made no reply. He was
: about to send auother servant for John and
! Helen, when his purpose was stayed by the
' appearance of Mrs. Danton. Her hs*band
j had been gaming, and she had been weep
| ing ever since the boat left H ncinnati; and
jwe were uow far down the Mississippi. No
I wonder, then, that she was pale and wan,
! and that her eyes looked as though they
had been nearly wept away, but she was
made exquisitely lovely nevertheless.
Although many years have passed since
that evening, I can see the sorrow-stricken
young wife, as she glided up to the table
! and looked her husband in the face. He
could not bear up under her gaze. He had
lost all their money, and in a fit of desper
ation had also staked and lost the two
slaves. Laying her little hand on his arm
she said:
"I if true, Charles, that yon have lost
John and Helen?"
Her husband made no reply; lie conld nut
' ttp ~—" Q . .* ■ - - .
The passengers were now fast gathering
! round, and the scene was growing painful.
! My father, (who had come north to fetch
! me from school, and was taking the longest
j possible way home,) Was holding rue by the
j hand, and I knew by the tigbtning of his
| grasp, that he was becoming . much ex
city.
j As Danton did not seem inclined to n
--? swer liis wife's question, the gamester rough
| !y said"
"Yes, ma'am. J.-lin and Helen are mine
i —and I want to see 'em quick-"'
Danton sprang to his feet, and stooping
1 across the table, hissed in the teeth of the
1 gamester.
"Villain! don't you presume to speak to
my wife again."
The look with which this menace was ao
, compauied was perfectly Lla-tiug, and made
i the swarthy aud pitted face of the gamester
j fairly turn white.
j llow inconsistent is man! That accom
plished and high born husband could de
liberately jeopardize the property and cor
rode the happiness of his wife, hour after
| hour, day after day, and iear after year.
but he-could not bear that the man whom
j he had chosen for a companiou should even
t so uiuob as to spek to her.
i "Yes, Mary; John and Helen are lost,''
I ho said at l ist, as he let the gamester from
under his gaze; they are lost, and it can't
be helped now, so don't let us have a sceuc
about it."'
j "I shall not let theoi go," said Mary
I firiuly, "and 1 shall have a scene about it.
i I did not say a word about the money- but
) now that you have played them away
| Oh, Charlie!" and she leaned her head on
i her husband's breast.
"Ah* here they come!" said the gatnes
' ter, as John and Helen approached.
John was a powerful and fine looking
mulatto; his face indicating unusual intelli
gence and kind-heartedness. Helen was
much whiter than her husband, and remar
\ kably handsome. The gamester's evil eyes
1 gleamed as he Surveyed her, and turning
! to a savage looking man near hint, said.
"I'll sell you John iu the morning, Ham
mond. but Helen I shall kepp—at least for
a few days."
"I'm agreeable," said the slave trader,
for sueh he was, but I'd like the gal as soon
as possible."
A look of indignation ran round the group
at this brutal colloquy. My father's grasp
grew tighter still; and encouraged thereby
1 whispered to him to buy John and Helen
himself; but he shook his bead and motion
ed ine to keep silent.
"I tell you I shall not let them go," re
peated Mrs. l)anton, addressing the stran
ger: "They were brought up in my moth
er's family; besides, they have children at
home, from whom it Would be cruel to sep
arate them."
The gamester and slave-dealer exchanged
sneers at Mrs. Diuiton's sentimental rea -
iou for not letting the slave* go, and her
husband said:
"It can't be helped now Mary , let us
go to our room.'*
"0, Missus, don't go and leab r.ie wid
: dat man." shrieked Helen: '•! shall die. o f
: jump eberhoard. O, don't leab A our
j true Ilelieti who sabed your life when you
' fell in the byoo."
1 "I shall not leave you, Helen. Do not
'be alarmed. I "
"Bress de Lord for dat." Interrupted
Helen, '-I know* we're safe now. ka-o you
allers dees just what you say yon will."
"I think it is about time this nonsense
j was stopped," said the gamester, risiiig
. from the table—v' You acknowledge Dan ton,
that these negroes are my property: conse
quently they are mine, and I've a right to
do what 1 please with them, no bill of sale
is necessary be'trfem t*o gentlemen. And
now, you niggers, just eeffie iileng with me,
and don't make a fuss, or I'll have you
| flogged and fut in irons."
The scene now became extremely oxcite
] ing. John drew Ellen to his side, and
! clenched bis tee.th and fists, while their
j young mistress stood close iu front, as if
, with her feeble arm, she would protect them
! fioin the clutches i f the gamester.' I was
' wild with excitem-nt. and bogged my fath
ier either to buy the slaves or shoot the
j gamester—l did not care which. A bloody
j fight seemed ineuTtable: when a young New
| Englander, who had keen very quiet during
the whole trip, elbowed his way to the table
and asked the gamester at what sum be
, valued bis slaves.
"Two thousand dollars," said be; "do
you want to buy?*'
'V have only a thousand dollars," the
young man answered, "I will rive you that
for them."
"No, sir; but I'll stake 'em against a
thousand dollars, and play you a game of
pfker for the pile."" *■
"I don't understand the game," said the
New Eiig'ander.'
j "What game do you play ?'*
I have played a few games at all-fours,
j (seven-tip,} but I never played for a cent in
| my life."
"Weil; I will play you a game at n']-
fours then, if you like, and stake the ni -
gers against your thousand dollars."
To the snppri.se of every one pteSMit, the
young man accepted the challenge, called
for a new pac-k of cards, staked his thous
and dollar*, and the game commenced—the
gamester having the first diuf.
As the company drew more closely round
the table, it, seemed jis though a watchma
ker's shop were in our midst, so distinctly
i we hoard the tick of the watches.
The first band the New Englaucier made
three to the gamester's one, at Which a buzz
of pleasure ran round the group. Thescc
| ond hand the gamester made three to his
opponent's nothing; the third hand th-v
j each made two, which left the New Ear
! lander two to go; while the gamester had
' hut one to make, and his turn to beg: this
! was a great advantage, and everybody seem
'ed to give tip the thousand dollars as lost.
The New Englander dealt the cards with
a steady hand, however, and turned up the
jack of hearts, which placed hitiiereo with
1 his antagonist, hut whet) he raised his cards
i
I saw that be bad not a single trump in his
! hand, and his adversary was hesitating
whether to stand or beg; if the former, the
game was his to a certainty; If the latter,
there would be another chanoe for the
slaves. After drumming on the back of his
cards for a short time, he looked at the New
Englander to see if he could determine bv
his manner what was best to do, but the
young Bunker Hill met his gaze without
flinching, and there they sat for a long time
gazing into each other's eyes.
"Run the cards," said the gamester at
last. I could have hugged him for his
mistake.
Buuker llill again dealt, and the qneen
of spades was turned. Every heart stoo'd
s tilt us the cards were for the last time
lifted.
'•Tltcy are mine!" shouted the Now Eng
lander, "or rather, they are jour's madam,"
said he in a milder tone, to Mr.-.'Dauton, as
he threw down the accot spades,
Tlie beautiful and impetuous Southern
threw her arms around the winner's neck,
and three deafening cheers told the satisfac
tion of the audience.
Many years after I met the New Eng
lander in Mississippi, and claimed his
acquaintance, on the score of having been
one of the most enthusiastic, partizaus on
the night of his well leiuernbered triumph,
lie had prospered in business and become
rich. He was making his annual pilgrim
age to the family hearthstone- -astone which
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has more potent chants for pood than that
a t which knwl Ma boon Jan devotees in the
city of prophet. Lie Mid i.e had neve r
touched a card since that memorable game
that the thousand dollars that Le then
: risked was the sum toial of savings for many
toilsome years; hut that the stated it, -an J
played the game with a perfect conviction
i of success.
Ddßton had songht !dm cut, and kept up
r-tiie aequoiutaAee over since; vnd .Mrs.
' Datitnii could now travel the world over
with her has band without four, for he had
j forsworn gambling fmtn that ncver-to-be
| forgotten night.
i'ITV.
As blossoms and flowers are strewn
jon the earth by tlie hand of sprintr, d, e
j kindness of summer produced) tn perfection
the bounties of harvest, so the smiYta of pfty
| shed blessing# or. the cliildren of rnisfor
, i tanei.
lle who pi ieth another, reontuuiendetii
| hioweif; hut he who is without compass ron,
descrvetb it not.
i ite butcher rdientetii not at the bleatirw
iof the Jamb, neither is the heartof the eru
! el moved with distress.
Hei thcj (ears of the compassionate are
, ! sweeter than the dew drops falling from
roses on the Lo>oni of spring.
Shut not thine ear therefore against the
. cries of the poor, neither harden thy hea¥t
j against the calamities of the innocent.
. ! M ben the iadierleso call upon theo, when
( the widow's heart Ls sunk and she iuiploreih
. the assistance with tears of sorrow, O pitv
r j her affliction, and extend thy hand to llto.-e
who Lave none to help thetu.
j H hen thou seest the naked wanderer of
t the street,hivoting with cold, and desti
lute of Liljiaiion, let bounty c>pen thine
1 heart, lei me wings of charity shelter theui
: from oeatb, that tlitne own soul may live.
0
U kilst the..poor man groaneth on the
! bed 01 sickness, wtiiist the •nfbttfnnate lan
t guisu iu tlie horrors of a dnngeon, or the
f I hoary head of age lifts up 3 feeble tv u.
i fboh for pity, O how caj.st thou riot in M
. j pei fiuwtt cterwnients, regardless of their
j wants, uul'ecungot their woes.
liKXTOX A SI) FKKKMQ3PT
There is a story afloat, which, whether
true or not, is too good to be lost. It ruts
thus: (Yd. Freeman*, after writing his famous
♦■j isiie to Robinson, the bogus Governor of
Kansas, proceeded to join his redoubtable
fa therm-huv, Oid Bullion, in Washington
city. After the interchange of salutations,
the very perceptible cloud which had gatb
' ereil on the brow oft he veteran politician
relieved itself in the following flash of graph*
ic inteirrogatioo
14 W ell, sir, 1 perceive from the prints, vir
from the prints, sir—that you have been
nominated for the Presidency."
To which the Coiuucl meekly and blandly
responded:
'•dome too partial friends, sir, have taken
that liberty wub my name, no doubt on your
account, tLiukiug that uiy connection with
you would render niu acceptable to the Amer
ican people."
"Vts, sir,' thundered Old Bullion, "no
doubt of it sir; no doubt of it. But when
these parties learn, sir, that 1 am opposed to
the nomination, they will drop you, sir, like a
but potato, sir —like a Lot po-ta-10, sit."
'Mr. Filkins, you say you know the de
fendant— w hat is his character.'*
'For what, sir - apreeing or integrity'*
I 'For integrity.'
'Hell, all 1 eat) say about Jones is that
jtf he is honest, IK'S got a queer way of
! showing it.
*YV hat do you mean by that''
| 'Just this——that the night before lie
uines on turkey, somebody's poultry coop
is always broken open.*
j 'That will do, Mr. Filkius.'
/"'"l'nt, what are you digging there?"
"l'igging the ground, sir!"
'•I don't want my garden dug up in that
manner; what aie you digging that enormous
1 hole for?"
"Bckase, sir, ye tould ma yistherday that
! ye was goin' to eet a post of honor from the
government, and that hole's for yj to put it
in."
iEF**A countryman entered Mr. Whip
ple's Daguerrotype Saloon, Boston, a few
days since, sad wished a daguerrotype of
his uncle.
"1 can do it, sir: but where is be?"
Oh, he's dead," was the simple reply
"but I'vo got r description of him in an old
I passport."
03' s ~Tbe young lady that fell in love has
! just been pulhd out by the dariug fellow
who successfully struggled with the world.