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ft , > i * M ' ' J THE CAROLINA SPARTAN. ' " "** ' ' * ' *. i C i ,, ?J?d by cavis & trimmier. Doiotcfr to Southern iiigljts, Politics, Ql^nculturc, antr Hlisccllamj. $2 per annum. '* VOL. XIV. SPARTANBURG, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1857. NO ~9~ THE CAROLINA SPARTAN. BY CAVIS & TRIMMIER. T- 0. P. VERNON, Assooiate Editor. Prie* Twc Dollars per iiununi in advance, or $i.50 at tlio end of the year. If not paid until after the year expires $3.00. Payment vvill be considered in advance if mndc within three month*. No subscription taken for loss thru six months. Monoy may be remitted through postmasters at our risk. Advertisements inserted at the usual rates, and contmots made on reasonable terms. Tile SfARTAt, oircuMtes largely over this and | ?djo ining districts, and offers an admirable medium i io our friends to reach customers. .fob work of all kind* promptly executed Blanks. Law and Equity, continually on hand < br prin'sd to order CAROLINA SPARTAN.il j KlMltl BtilckWiKlftS Mu<jC:tZ;lll*. J Recent Conlession of an Opinm-Eater. There is no necessity for lolling the re.nl. 1 Or how I canto into (lie company with j which he will find mo associated in tlio en tilling n art-alive; and there arc several rea- ' sons why lie need not bo informed on that point. In tlio Hrst place, he has no right s to inquire; for I hold, and always have ' held, and maintained, both in argument and j Eraclice, that a man is responsible only to j x iiuself for the company he chooses to j c keep. 2dly, Supposing lie had the right to ask (which, us already slated, I deny,) till it would be inconvenient for mc to teli - ' him. 8dly, Supposing ho had the light, v and I were willing to acknowledge it. it ; ! would nevertheless be useless to the purpose ! ' of the story I am about to narrate, and f therelore a crime against art. lihly, lie j N cause any consistency nnd completeness 1 which the narrative might gain by the relation of the circumstances antecedent to the ! position,at once intensely lionible and high ly amusing, whither they conducted me, are sufficiently attained by the mention of the fact that, while enjoying with the full appreciation of a refined and extremely sensitive nature the appliances of luxury and wealth, I have never shrunk from studying , the aspect of humanity in the lbeinbratidllike cninroscurn of vice and crime. In 1 search of the harmonies which slumber i : in the soul of man, 1 have sounded the ' 1 bass string of society. Leaving the splen- ; 1 dours and decencies of the upper legion of ; our social atmosphere, I have voluntarily ' descended into the depths filled with foetid j and noxious exhalations, and 1 have eve? . ' returned to iho liglit of common day with ' v an intensified sci.se of the unfa dioinahh- > 1 mysteries and the unutterable melodie> ; 1 hidden in the piofouudeal abysses of out 1 v nature. Some of my readers will probably re-j 1 member that particular ejrocl? in the liisto- " ry of crime when muider became the hand- 1 maid of medical and surgical science, whose j ' requirements, at that lime greatly extended j by the ardor of discovery, were by no means satisfied cither l?v the legal offerings of the bodies of criminal*, or the more ad venturous, though less legitimate, conliil.u lions of surreptitious exhumation. The impulse communicated to that branch of stinh 1 which deals with the mysteries of our physical nature, l?y lliu great anatomists and physicians who stand in conspicuous array on the lino which sepataies dusky c-mpiri cism from luminous science, had awakened ' craving* in tlie mums < ! our >iuuenis winch ; I could no longer lie stilled by such eleonm.sv * nary and desultoiv aid. T<? satiny Ili? -? 1 cravingi?, a race of miscreants arose, whose ' peculiar province in the H?*!<I of a*sa**iua 1 t ion may be denominated enlightened Thuggism. But their atrocities, though ' ? serving a more practical purpose than tiiose 1 of the Thug, had their origin in a fat le * 4 elevated motive. There is ton much reason 1 to believe that a mercenary desiiu to obtain ' the price of the body predominated, in most ' instances, over the wish t<? advance the in- I lero*ts of science; while even the better of 1 these influences is still far inferior to the re 1 ligious fervor which prompted the tighten- 1 ing of the Oriental noo.se. lie thai as it mar, ' it was at a time when the horrible trado ' had gained the utmost extent and organi- 1 zation it was destined to attain, before the ' revcalmeut of its iniquities ti;ul caused thai 1 outburst of popular execration which extin- [ 1 guittliuil it utterly, instantaneously, anil fur 1 ever, as with (lie blast of a hurricane, that ' the incidents occurred to which I am about ' to draw the reader's attention. The scene, then, is a squalid and dingy 1 chamber in the topmost tl it of one of the * many-storied and ancient dwellings which ' still givo individuality to the Old Town of 1 Edinburgh. The sole furniture of the apart 1 inent was a battored'aud Iiin? defaced table, ^ stained witli grease and liquor, having a ' bench of similar character on each side. ' In a bottle on the table was stuck a long car.dle of the commonest description. who?e I flaring and drooping wick shed a dull light 1 on the faces of the company. How I camo to bo in such a scene, and among such persons as I nut about to describe, is, as I have already intimated, no business of the reader's. Suffice it that I was there, the occupant of one of the benches, while opposite me sat three individuals, two men and n woman. Long nosed Bill, the central per- . son of the three, possessed a remarkably villainous physiognomy, which, the index as it was to menial features equally singular I and truculent, rendered him a highly inter- ; eating subject of philosophical contemplalion. His nose was, as bis name indicated, very long, and overhung so as almost to conceal a month so small, thin, and compressed. as to appear to have been made with a knife after the rest of his countenance was designed; while on each side of the main feature, sparkled an eye. deep set, small, gray, and inexorable. His head, phrenologically speaking, was not had, ho- | ing of sufficient height, though ihu forehead was concealed by stra:ght black locks; the countenance, widest at the forehead and j narrowing almost to a point at the chin, was of a pale clay-color; and the solo ox-' preesioa wss ono of truculent vigilance and resolution. On Williams' right was seatei a more commonplace miscreant, who* coarseness of appearance and conversatioi l>etokened atrocity unredoemed by refine merit, and whoso name of Squabby (b; which his companions addressed him) wa not without a certain philological fitness One of these external indications ofcharac ter, which garments often convey, appeare< in the contrast afforded bv the diessof thes< men; for while Hill's shabby, scanty, aiu close buttoned black c<>Ht, rather exaggera ted tho unfavorable impression made l>i his thin angular form and cadaverous coun ten a nee, and seemed to show that he des pised those little ameliorations in costume which are within reach of the humblest Squabby's gaudy waistcoat, and gorgeous jewelry of glass and copper, showed all tin inclination, without the power to be wlial in these latter days is denominated "n swell." The word dandy, which, ai the lime I speak of, was tho generic term foi ill who cultivated ostentatiously, with whatever degree of success, the art of costume, fails to convey the idea of exuberance mil floriditv ex| re?sed in the newer appelation. Squabby, theieforc, was a vulgar iwell. Their female companion?faded, though itill young?possessed, nevertheless, a face vhose expression fiequently ilrow my gnze. I lli* was owing not so much to her beauty, vhicli could never have been of a sliiking liaiacter, as to the likeness sho bore to a oung girl with whom I had some years efore been curiously, intimately, and most oinantically connected. Ah, Catharine! von now, when I summon from the dim >ast thy angel face, with the mild implorng look I last beheld there?imploring a peedy return, where fate was even then rriting, with iron pen, tho stern decree hat for me to thee there should he no re urn?even now, as those eyes so beseech nglv beam on mo through the distance of nauy lustres, rny heart owns that there are ympathie? over which time has no control, l it.11 lik?*ne>s, faint as it was, perhaps alto ;e'.her fanciful, awoke feelings which, as hey arose, brought with them a crowif ul nctrr ries?and licncc the charm which a i?eo, to others, pcilisps, commonplace, hail or me, though there was nothing in the minner, nppeaianco, or conversation of this oung woman which distinguished her af any way very superior to the scene and he society in which the reader finds her. It must not he imagined that wo had 10 other occupation in this dreary and ill' ighted apartment than that of looking at sach other. Another bottle, besides that vhioh olliciated as candlestick, stood on the able; or I should rather say, paced round t, for it seldom halted much longer than vai necessary for the filling of the cracked jla-s which stood lieforo each of us. Our iqtior was port, a choice made at my sag lestion, and Long-nosed Hill had coincided vith a hearty cordiality which Ids appear mco did not cerlainlv nroini-e l?nt ih?? m.. ive of winch I afteiwards divined. Hi ihd sent the girl out for a dozen bottles; ttill though almost abstaining himself, and est raining also the manifest inclination ol squabby for the generous liquor, lie pio*s:d it on me with a hospitality that seemed ncapahle of being repiessed or chilled. Meanwhile the eonvers alioti did not flag Squabby, finding in me an interested and ilteiilive auditor, talked much and !<>u llv, ut with a ceitain coarseness which would lave di-gu?led tile had not his loquacity lerpetuall V started subjecU which the saga ious William treated with a matteilv ersi-ness, sm h as I havo seldom hearil .'quailed. Hut the great charm of his con .ersition was its mystery. Til? niiinen>u? idveutures in which he appeared to have een engaged had neither beginning noi md. Ol secret expeditions, of hairbreadth scapes, of rapid flight*, there were siiflieieiil o set up a modern uovellisi f.,r several sea tons ? but the spring and motive of all these >ii re wanting. Why these expeditions wen dunned, what pursuers lie had escaped from md why flight was necessary, weie quea ions which I had to call in my imagtna ion and invention to respond to, and ihtn o string on theories of my own the broker inks of his narrative. Equally mysterious hough more boisterous, was lim conduci >f Squabby, who frequently made jest ug allusions to their peculiar vocation iiliicb, though to me utterly devoid o neaivmg, caused a cynical smile to flit icioss me ii'-iiite physiognomy of hi-, fiiem >v1111o 11)o woman responded with a low am; iiustcul laugh generally smothered in tlx lie corner of her shawl. This mystery oiling the subject of their conversation villiout concealing its main outlines, lent t< t the interest which awakened ami ha filed 'iirio-ity has always excited in my mind 'rout my earliest days. My part vvas not, how iver, merely that of a listener or a gtiesser, hesitated not to exchange sentiments ami xpericiioes with these humble friends, wh< panted me the sumo attention which 1 in ny turn gave to them; and I remember 10 jarding it its a sinking proof that no elo pience, if genuine, is beyond the apprceia ion of liie rudest minds, when on one oc '.anion, 1 having deliveted a magnificent quotation in a riiannner (as I flatter myself 0 do full justice to its sonorous flow, am laving told thein the words were those n lie great Burke, they heard his name witli itarlled interest, and were silent for som< nouteiits after. However, I now coiijecluri hero might bo other reasons for the agita ion cause.I by that glorious name. 1 had drank probably about two boltlc< >f wine to my own share, Squabby neailj is much, and the abstemious Hill perbap ibout a bottle, when I thought I perceivoi 1 diminution in the cordiality of this latte interlamer. I am naturally extremely sen litive in such matters?indeed so morbi.llj dive to tho faintest indications of failing losui'.alitv. as sometimes to conceive simh I * , B - ~ r. lions regarding tho sincerity of my wcl mine, wliirli I Htn u t?>e? n 11y satisHet ire groundless. However, in the prcsen natance, there could be no doubt tha ix>ng nosed Bill not only censed to tall liinself, but listened to me with insnifes inpatieoce, and sometimes exchanged glan J j ces with his two companions, while those Hill, the 0 I ho cast on me bore rather the character into my 1 of animosity than cordiality. Under these potion f< ; circumstances I comidered it due to myself, ; never A f as well as to mv hosts, to rise and bid them (here I t s good night. This sudden move of mine but the i produced an instantaneous change in the , tny g!a? - manner of Long-nosed Hill, who pressed me , cheerfuli I ; to stay with more than his former hospitali- | I nolii 3 ty, while at the wink from him, Squabby Bill and I | placed himself between mo and the door, i mo, (Sip and, with boisterous but good humored re- blind dn j proaoh on my breach of good-fellowship, re- usual vq fused to let me pas?. All this, however, ed that 1 would have had small effect in inducing mo * intended i to lemain after the change in 1 Jill's man- ot an alt , nors towards me; but just then the woman latidattui > also joined her entreaties to his. Iii so doing mind, ill s ?he used a tone and gesturo which at once venting L arrested me. They wore such as recalled llowevei i vividly the tone and gesture which a young ty, and > girl had unconsciously assumed some yeais thing, at before when I wns parting from her in an- entertain i , gor. All, Ktnily! potent indeed was the thus astc I charm of thy pleading over my often Jed did the < '[and recusant spirit. Hard indeed would pudding, it have been to turn front those eves?to tending repel that offered embrace. Years bad my shan passed, Emily, since 1 had seen thee?many for glass feelings and many memories had crowded ing! lb i in between?but the voice and look of a in envio , ; stranger recalling thine, showed that even learned t the faint and distant echo of thy powerful lie well 1 spell could still enchain me. 1 need scarce- pass! ly say I resumed my seat. Now t 1 Long nosed Hill now beenmo more to fill mi 1 agreeable and hospitable oven than at first, and cotil 1 relating passages in his career still more drinks a< marvellous, and passing the wine with in- ami look i creased rapidity, insisting at each round of tinues to | the bottle on filling tnv glass himself, and to our or i calling out pleasantly, "No heeltaps," befoie grows ia doing so. For a time this amused mo; and and is in i 1 was also interested in watching a little become ( ; by play carried on by Hill's eotnoanions. a rapt st i The woman was no doubt united to him in rablv del j ootids more <>r le*s hallowed, and Hill, with my alien the watchful prudence which his counte- Hill's nsj , nance betokened, seemed perpetually on ' unulteia | his guard to prevent the slightest familiar i wotnati i ' j ty between her and Squabby. Nothwiih- ain't a g , standing all his vigilance, I observed, how- a inoinei ever, that, whenever his attention was dis- was in. traded by the friendly otlice of tilling inv perated glass, or whenever ho grew so interested in put him any of his narratives as to relax his watch say noth fulness for a moment, the woman,steallhilv i only olis1 passing her hand heliind him, clasped that j faculties, of Squabby extended to meet it. To a phi ' to a stall losopher and student of human nature this presently slight incident was amply sufficient to ro- terlv unr veai ;i laie 01 passion?a liilo which il ! rlenlv til I s;kIdened me to read. I saw in i,ongno?ed Mill in.j? Mill an instance of the insufficiency of the j on tne. most astute ami powerful intellect to res i u'?-s to n train lite erratic propensities of the female war.I nil heart. Here was this great man, who ha<i to snore j lavishe-l perchance his whole heait, staked "'twas al his wliole faith, on the woman beside him, 'ere cove while she, like the base Ju.hean, throwing taking u I . I tins pearl awav rieher than all her tribe, an inner ! bestowed in secret her love upon one con by Hiil N ; | spicuouslv 1 oil's inferior in every respect, j It ma ! | except that Ins personal appeartiuce was |iftc?, I up F | rather less revolting. Miserable mistake, j intense : accursed error! yet one to which the fenii I was siua [ j nine nature is peculiarly liable. The re- and a sa j incmbiance <>f such an error, of which I was j?jr ,,t te | myself the victim, is still as a dagger to clothes, : inv heart. For thee, Augusta! for thee my mid wei; nights were nights of sleeplessness ? my man, eat lays, .lays of reverie; to thee i gave the mid the : thoughts of my philosophic eoul. Ami ,.n mid how dnlst llim^ icquitc me? With tin m\ mim doubting faith and untiring constancy? -No! f,,r,. _ tin the night of that ever memorable bill um, w ks ? a bait which still haunts my remem smothcri > hiance a> if peopled with spectre-1 and rle ,,f nim, . mmii?tlicie Hilted before thine inconstant urge its . eye that gaudy figure, rich indeed in ?ii mm scarlet and embroidery and clanking spurs, lio.lv -mi but poor, beyond all measuro of poverty, in ei>! ! ! that philosophic refinement which coiisti The ll ,! tulcs true wealth. From that moment I passed t , was forgotten, and since then a permanent mo hum shadow has settled on my soul. jc bearin This train of thought naturally made me course, si | melancholy; and my spirits were further osopher, k depressed by a cause which I will now interests i stale. At this period I had resolved gradii to bcliov , ally to wean myself from my opium, aril, become i l after terrible struggles ami enormous suffer to insure ings, had succeeded in limiting myself to a scientific , pint and a half of laudanum per diem, earthly I oh tins particular day 1 had taken in-st im i only a pint, for llio following reason: the in a citu I druggist with whom I generally dealt, li.nl isliahlo I I sent ine a hatch of 144 dozen,in which my dissolve.; i experienced palate at once delected adulte- far loss ration. 1 had therefore returned it. retain- leave oil , ing only a bottle lor the day's consumption, body h> i Willi this bottle in my band i had gone pnative I down to the kitchen to speak to my cool: milting tnaid, when a family of beggars made their <?! ag--?, appearance at the door, consisting of a opium ei , father, inolhcr, and two children. The ea-r; hut plaintive tones in which llrey enlieated things w > charity went to my heart. Ye god.-! said inovitibl i I, here are people hungry, cold, m.serahle, 1 r,uncut craving a inoisol of food, while 1 hold in my My? na hand this bottle, the key of the seventh tola! v u heaven. Am 1 justified in withholding the habits, a - celestial panacea? Shall I not nay, drink inconip-and he happy? I i Compliance with this pearnncr | natural impulse, I at once gave each one ot and the I (hem a glass of laudanum, which they tlrem, ht f drank in solemn silence and went away, lion, mi; i What became of them 1 cannot say; hut of ad van ) HS 1 never heard of any family being poison- pled wit j oil about that time, I conclude they were tone, do all continued opium eaters. However, this accordm liberality on my part reluced my dose foi Ail tl r that day to about a pint, and 1 was now man sta < ocgniuiug 10 icei tlio elldCU ot this unusual kh often s abstinence; the chief of which eireels win their li t 1 of coutho ?lo|>ressicm of spiiits?gradually tlio "pp? r my head sunk on my bosom. I ceased to turned t respond to Hill's call of "No heeltaps; ' the and win r liquor I craved waa not thu growth of ploto oh ? Oporto. It was then that 1 till, seeing my inodanu condition, but ascribing it to a wrong came, ty of tin nsed this remarkahlo expression; "He's inenl of 1 pretty near done?let's finish him;" and suppose* t the woman gying to a cupboard returned seated I with a bottle, which Hill uncorked, and fill thorn, h c ing mv glass from it, pressed tne to d'ink. I except ii ti Half absently I complied; but the moment! literalur -1 I put my lips to it I started with )ov. Could Hubbao ii, read my heart??could lie pry 1 to I oili? Wliy, here wuh the very evoi jr which I had been thirsting as Itiul rab thirsted in the desert, and now cacl lipped again)?it was no mirage, a*to divine nectar itself. Tossing off , seat is, I at once resumed my wonted add less. | sed ,:ed that, instead of talking as before, j toas the woman now intently watched , tliei lahbv was by this time very ueaily did ink); and my intellect regaining its whi porous clearness, I at once perceiv- , We! Hill, with what design I knew not, wliii to "Iiocum" inc. l'he absurdity due einpt to render me insensible with peri 11 presented itself so vididly to my bilit at I hail much dilliciilty in pre- thci myself Iroin exploding in laughter. ene? r, I managed to preserve mv gravi sjd ? entering into the humor o f the llie once resolved to drink against mv stag er?Laudanum versus l'ort?and II nisli liis th bile faculties, as .I n k mini Hindi's in the matter of the hasty- ! I all , only that, instead of merely too- pecu by ii mean subterfuge to consume inn l?, as Jack <1 id. I would drink glass 1 iio d What a triumph of opium eat- even ?w woiiM the fjieat Uolerid<;e scow I held tit bitterness ol spirit, when l.e whit IihI I had achieved a feat which Sipi! iiiew be never could hope to bur- , thro epa lien for it! Bill drinks, and offeis of ?i* i;lass. 1 till it myself, quaff it off, trior lime to convener clieerluliy. Bill i Afte fain ? I imitate him ? Bill stares lliro s astounded, bill nevertheless con- bier <11ink: so do I. Wo each stick skeli vii bottles, the lienor in which jaws pidly lower. Bill gets confuse I, in," > longer master of his utterance ?I echo aimer and calmer, and ll <w on in toil ' rain of eloquence, w hich imtneasu in ll lights myself. I'resentlv, however, in, i lion is arrested hv a change in surjj lect; he has fixed oil me a gate of evei l?le malignity. lie mutters to the class n a th ck husky whisper, that "he crow niti' to stand this much lunger." In 11'J? I 1 became a'ao to the situation I | h\ I was in the pieseneo of an cxa> and rttflian, who saw in ine one who tenij to considerable expense iti wine (t > C-dl ing of the laudanum,) and who not door tinalely refioel to part with his sileii but was rapidly reducing his host the 3 of intoxication. Affairs became bow ' more serious, when Squabby, lit Aga ihle to sit uptight anv Imig-.T. slid- the appeared under the table?when fore a!lenity started up, glating fiercely * inn I iiistautlv stiiiiuioueil mv eiier lei! .! i.ii: ... i.i" icv. '.iv ?: ;?::'*u+ :i * : # I . *' ^ I ? r ,lk my head mi the laMe. nlhvied .,|IX, huavily. I licu.l Ihll remark that |?j,| I ri^ht at last, hut ho believed that titei was the devil;" when the woman, ,,| ,, p the candle, opened the door < (' ||u>1| apailmeut, an I eiitori 1, folio we I cept villi uncertain steps. y easily he imagined that I now thro my head, and watched thein with root: interest. Tho room they entered ed t II, and its only fnmiluro worn a he I ami ck. I lie bed wa- peculiar, on-isl I'pv to thick mattresses, without hed lain ind a coin plica' ion ol ropes, puiU-v s, jjav i lit-. Presently Ihll and the w tin* It Mczinjr a rope, bej?an piilliii ', foitl upper matties- slow I y nw. ll.-av toll aith! what a lll.uiohl Hashed acio-- tmh 1! 1 11 v 1 heard of ?uch tlnU<j^ |>o tni^ e unhappy being, stupefied by oj.i 1 placed hot ween two m ill re?e-, and but d s i as to produce tlio appeaiance low al death, at d his ho.lv sold to the com ! The tf.i.'X'was it re-i-liblo evidence n> > ?t l?? so! 1 was in the company of loro itchcrs, and was ahuul to l?e m kk j?!i >r ?T.) J iiill of horror which now naturally to u hrotioh inv heart did not prevent lam seeing theca-e in all its plnlo-oph- tool, os. Mv n itiiial impulse was, of ft:411 elf preservation; tail still, as a phil 1 I was bound to consider a so the who of tlio public. 1 had every reason of 1! e ill it my or.?aiis ami functions had \\ hi. so vitiated by the ti-e of opium, a- I til 1, to him who should lay bore, w ah l?>tt knife and anxious inquiry, this !\ ii tabernacle, tiie disclosure of 11 *? tiie u:iik il.li> phenomena. II id I then, mig ten, tiie 11 111 to withhold this per -aid mine, which would inevitably be -tar I in a few years, and peril i|>- tin let I in impoitau'. conditions, (f.>i I might tapi opium, and, thus restoring 111 \ .low a healths condition, render it com lent ly valueless,) w I it* 11 I by sub. \ to the l iti! deigned for me, remain -j?> > in *j?ii?t ? of wnif, .1 in >iiiiiih* it of ilit> ItillgJ litis was niii1 view of tin: t| ni |oc-i illy, wiili tli ?t clear view ?>l alar lti> !i llm practised metnplivsici.au ?:i v Hi1 iniri1-, 1 pe ifi i\ t*il .hi objection. win ihered that inv I > Iv ivoniii |?iol>a tl-> . y eeltaiuly, he sold to some surgeon stir^ tiiiCiiuaiiiti1 I with my perm aii<l t'l.it Oil wlio ivoiiM tlici'Joiij be wholly eiio lent to i\|> on the remarkable ?|i- thei > which dissection would reveal; butt theories broached to account for lhi-> ?iiijr 111iihiised on ineie stipposi s(<e, ;lit nrohablv j>i*i|> < \ science instead lliij cing it. Tills view of the case, coll r.ij>i It a desiie to live my appointed sw.a riiled mo, hiki i look my measures g?e> gly. ing Hi timo I have left Itill and the wo- Moil tiding by lliofatal bed, vvheie I >eath ten; took iiin repose, with the ropes in gen nds. hastening them so as to allow van if mattress to leinain npi111o>I. they heft ow;ir<ls mo; hut helore they did <>, reat In 1 was still left in almost Colli nigl scanty, I filled from my bottle ol a t mi b >tli tlioir glass,s. Tlie porpleri sloe ) woman, and llio drunken astonish - i< |> Hill, when, on reluming for the g |>< I insensible victim, they found me the upright and cheerfully sniveling j slia avn probably never been equalled sho n that remarkable passage of the the o of my childhood, when Mother i uni rf, having gone to tho undertaker's | new my h coffin for her dog, (whom she had ! i y reason to sup|>o?e dead,) returns ami I s the presumed corpse in a statu of j 1 donation or laughter. They were so I nislied that, when I desired them to he I cd, they mechanically complied, ami, < resting them in a litllu speech, I propo- < the health of the lady as a convivial t, and, tossing off my glass, invited i n to pledge me. Totally bewildered they 1 so. ami sat for a time staring at me, I le I watched them with calm certainly, t II did I know the train of symptoms |?y t jh tliey who dare to trespass, without i initiation and neephytism, on tlio im- | al domains of opium, approach inneii*i- | y. Gradually their muscles re'axed?1 r heads sank?their inspirations length- j I am] deepened ? till lhoy sank side by | .m tl.e floor, not in the divine dream of qualified practitioner, hut ill the dull ( nation of the presumptuous quack. . laving now the field to myself, and mv . 1 being relieved from the sudden strain, , owed myself to lapse into one of those , iliar ami refreshing trances which opi | couimamls. The vision I beheld was [ Is>nl>t suggested by the events of the ^ ing. Mvthought that I actually he by body laid upon tlio hateful bed , :h, uplifted by countless myriads of x thhies and Longnoscd Hills, was borne j ugh the air, while I. seeming to have a r rato existence fiom the body, (a species , j.ilify I have often observe I in these , ces.) w as coinpelieil to folio w ami obsei vo. , r floating apparenllv fo? centuiies i j ugh immeasurable regions of space, the , was laid in a vast hall surrounded by . uloiis. who shouted from their fleslile*s j , in full chorus, as my body was borne ' ] Kouni f>M the Opium eater!"' ami all the , ies answered, "li ?..in for the Opiutn-ea t ? like the people answering the priests j to service of a ea'hodral. Tlivit llneked x ii endless procession, all the mighty f eons ami plivsieiaiis whom the world saw,headed by the divine ulapius in j ie rnhes, an I whose nutria brows wore , tied by a chaplel. (ralctl followed, ami . pociates a d Cclslis and llie wizard ieiati Cornelius Agrippa, ami Garth j Ilarvev and lluntvr. with all their r .ii aura tie*. nil A>lley Cooper headed the t i'gu "I Surgeon* (.f our 11 iy. Then the , s weto closed witli a mijjhty sound? v re was proclaimed hy a herald?and j whole pruce>>ion, tiling past the hier, | ed U? it u> an army t? its warrior chief j in (lie herald proclaimed silence, and > venerable K*culapiu?, standing forth he- ? all, said, in purest Attic Greek, in sol | (ones, "Let '.is dissect the < )pium ea , and ail answered, "Let i* dissect him." ? hell the shadow of the g?cn'. father of I sic, approaching with reverence the hier, | open the temple of the hraill, when ! ! i 0 stiaiglit way i*sucd fortIt such a swarm i leas that the vast hall could not contain n. I pwaid thev floated, bright con- t ioi,-, iik! >d ais it letaiices, iiuperisha- ? images, iinutterahlo thoughts, and t nged the atino-plieie from pavement to i ; while Mill froin that small skull flow t he tiuciuliiig stream, like the mighty ? fertilizing Nile from > '.s fount till source, i iaril still they p? I, till lheir aci uinu i >n grew itic^isiihle -joi-t and rafter i : w iv with a crashing sound, (it was | 1 r mi 1111 >11 of mil id over matter,) ami : 1 fl.uto I th" joyous liberated thoughts ; ieir k ii !i??I sky. And ail tiie multi- I howed down and acknov\ ledged the hi and majesty of genius. i know not liow long tho vision occupied, ? w I It'll I re a -ed 11? tl i on 11 i.,l l.? in the > >ckvt, ur i;?111 ? the bottle. Mv pinions were still prostt ;iW\ ami showed ' | ugn i>f existence except their heavy #ler- j it-. I?ri tilling. They 111 gilt, however, i lly recover, an ! I llieief.>re resolved to I it once, while they worn stiil insensible i it movement*. Hastily lini-hing die i I itiiiiii which rem lined in tin* l> >ltle, I | : up the candle un.l proceeded down i I think I had got down about ten stoiies, | ii, taking tho wrong tu.ii at tho foot I m Mail*. 1 opened the door of a room l'Ii I I ninl fnli of lumber and straw. As rue.I to leave it, tlie c.tinlle f.-'i from the le among the straw, which was instant \ i a ti nne. It I bad raised an alarm, , onestioti <>f ''ore / h ij^nm I to Ik tfnre* , lit have a i>eii, which I have nlieidt it did not miii me to answer; and ;f I | ed to attempt to extinguish (he tl mi"*, iglit lail to escape, for the lire spread ill v. II is ily (putting the scene. | ran , n to tli.. let el of the street, and slipt si- , ly away in tho dntknesft. ( .> the wind, iisino hy decree*, fiisi Is witli tho dead leave , (lien i title* at casements, till tile and ro.ifl eo go ii hef.'ie the liliriicaiie, so arose the m <>f I-tin;. First a watchman shouted chance passenger joined him; those > lived on the basements and ground rs next issued forth, and the chords j Jed and swelled into a llii^hty di apusop. leiing thin igli die slieots eaine the tire meson llicir errand ot silvation; beside n run l!.o tiremen. (iallant IHitenix, , re Sun!?well done both brigade*! Ihil night your efforts shall be in vain! For the llallies leap forth at every window! iter they climb, story after utorv, witli d step. They Ink the walls ? lliey l|ow the rafters -and ever s-lili their pro > is upward, like bright lii mollis |M.int heavenward; w bile the ba?e in ni.ir and ips and clav, falling inward lik? low ma il naliires trying to smoiher the light of ins, iniso for a m no.-lit a <111-1. which isht's, leaving the thimes blighter than re. Still upwind! nil now thev hav? luul llin ch imher where I p t> ed the III. Hill, inv pin?l?*!?tioyc, where :lion? where too is ihv partner, she ?li<> |>s 111 thy l?o?om! sIihII slm ever tr.piin i>e there! H i, Son il>l?y, not nil ihy -s an.I jewellery can avail thee now! S-e. firo lias encompassed thein ??ee, the ilow*, hum ing frantically on tho ceiling, w that lliu lloor i? in a Maz**! Ami now y nioli to the window. E? en at this dis- i L'e I recognise Bill hy the length of lliu e" lie tear* tho woman from the window i nmj looks down. Shall lie leap? No! sixteen stories is a height to appal llie bravest. Destruction iii front, destruction in reai! to be toasted or smashed!?dreadful the alternative, William?vain the hope of es"Hpe! Ami now the problem, which he lare r.ot solve for himself, is solved for him. I'lie woman from behind casts her atma ihout his neck with frantic gesture. and lioth rall back into tlie room. Higher rush lie rejoicing and victorious Haines, niching heir cre-ls and crackling joyously, till the sails crumble ami sink, burying n their uins the ashes of the Body-snatclieis. Dcitih of the High Priest of Japan. The I)aiii, or High l'riest of Japan, intabils a spiendid palace in the city of Mia <o, on the Nland of Nipon. His court is :o in posed of 20,000 prie?ts, who ate inru?ted with the charge of the 4,000 tein lie* of this immense city. His costume is i long tunic, over which he wears a large ed die**; a white transparent veil, orna nented with golden fiinge, is worn upon lis head; falling about half way down the widy. Ilis coutilvnaiice remains always inrisible. Uii tlie 1st of July, 1850, the Dairi was liken ill. Immediately the chief priest, villi his ghostly colleagues, 200 piiests of lie first rank, who are endowed with the vligious power of the empire, were suiunuiied to the palace. By the next day the n vahd's situation became more ci ideal, am! hi the 3d his death was pronounced to be neviiahle and close at hand. The priests ( paired at once to the temple, and inform >d the populace that the Dairi had entered nio a compact with the Seven (iods of leaven, and was upon the eve of rcjuvenaing his mind in the embrace of Ted syolai sin, the piincipal of these deities, who lie Japanese believe to have created the vol Id. She has been at the head of afaiis for about 2o,0u0 years, and from her piing all the royal families of Japan. To ter the inhabitants of the entile empire ad Ires* their invocations as the protectress of lie land. At ilie conclusion of the first prayers, the iticsl.s declared that the inhabitants could mmcdiately enter the palace and regale heir eyes with the sight of their highlyreiterated High Priest. At once llie crowd licauied to llio palace, where they beheld > tin lying stretched upon a bed of state. Ie was dressed in a white tunic, and hi* eatures, covered with a very thin mask, vere dimly perceptible through a veil pread over them. The piie?ts prayed loud v, and vvafied the sweet j>erfumea from h?-ir cen?ers around the dving man. At , * .1 I. .1 - - ' a - < * ? ' o tl'HK III II. O HIOIIlMlg (II lite Old OI Jtl y lie breathed hi* hi?l. As lite last breath > ts?e.l through Itis lips, the chief priest, ai-ing his nuns as a token of the departng life, assured the bystanders that the .mil of the High Piiest had ascended to he abodes of the God*, but that it would diortly return and resume its earthly habiation. I'poii this announcement a sol iiiii silence perva?led the audience. After lie lapse of ten minutes the chief priest, unrounded by a crowd of his religious Miupaiiions, threw over the still warm ^ rps.j of the iJuiii n large white cloth, which he instantly withdrew, and in the [dace just before occupied by the body there ippeaied another siinilarly attired, but tlueatui strung, who, raining ?.iiu?e!f from us recumbciit position, went to an altar landing near the bedside, and bestowed upon the people present Ins blessing. The . io\vd instantly hi ok* mil into exclamations f gladness and rejoicing. l?y a well concerted sliatagein, the piiests had abstracted tlio body of the Dairi, sup (dying it* place with his son, who inherits us father's station. The state bed being liung around wi;h drapery, tendered it ail .1 . ?*l - - : I- - nit: i-.i-it r u> j it-r i? n m UIO lllCK wuiiout arousing the suspicions of the cieduhnis in liahiiatils. I he corpse of the Dairi was cariieil in the in^lit time to tlio Vcio temple in lite piiests, where it was laid upon ? l'\ re am) limned to :ishe?. This being tloue, the temple is closed, and nil peisons are forbidden to enter it. A violation of this law 1-. punishcil l?y hurni eg to ileatl:. The Vein ten: pie, the handsomest one in ihe city, contains several rows of earthen tattles, of tin* deity l en?yo-dai-sin. These iallies are ul> ut one vard high, are hollow, ami hate each a large opening in the hack of the head. I lie a-lies of each L).iiri tie preserveil in one of these statues, tlie ante as in an inn. The inhabitant* are not permitted to enter the portion of the temple win re llie-e limine* stand. On the lav alter the death occurred, Ceremonies of a tery dliferent character take place?the inanguialien of the new High Priest, tthfr, as the people suppose, has ha.I his soul renewed in the residence of the gn >! girds. On lire 7th ot Julv. the new U.iiri, surm mi n - led hv chosi-n piiests. issued from Iris palace ami paraded the different portions nf the city of Mtako. I'iie people threw iheuwb.'ei to tlie earth, and nddressed pravers to hint as a god. Upon this tiny all woik was lot hidden, all prisoners were set a: liberty, ami all criminal proC6S?C* annulled. A Yoi'no Lady Si.andeiikd.?At ilic recent Court <>f Common Pleas for Gieem vill l>i?trici, there w is a ease of .slander?a foul slander, on a voting. innocent and hemimil school giii, )u?t verging into woman hood. She brought lor action, bv hei lather, in vindication of Imr chiiiaclvr, and i Greel) vi'lo jury awarded her lite sum ol four thou-'iiul <loll os. We hope this ver diet vviil show the wmld the estimate put on character hv aG conville jury. The tie' lendanl was a mm <>f propenv, and he fled the country, with his luiiilv, hut the ver diet shall o\e tak? him. N >t one dollar however, is the plairilitf disposed to touch hut her counsel have not the s ihih delicacy of feeling or repugnance to the touch of tin defendant's money. At" er the payment o counsel fees, the remainder can he appro printed to vniions patriotic and charitahh purpose*, witliom o|}'. ndiug the iUk'MV' o any one. 'file slanderer must bo pun ished.?OrccnviHe Patriot. f New Way of Detecting Counterfeits. Mr. John S. Dye, of Nov* York, has cutqe before lite public with a now plan Tor detect! ing counterfeit, spurious nod altered notes. ' tie presents it in Dye's Wall street Drokef, : and lie pledges himself to take every coun terfoit, new or old. a*, its full value, that is not thoroughly described in his publication so nearly as to be detected; and it is to make no difference whether the bill is now in existence or should come into existence months or a year hence. The plan of detection is set forth iu English, German and I French. The chaiacler of all genuine and spurious bills is minutely descril?ed. Seven rules for detection are given, as foliowe! First. Examine the form and featdre* of all human figures on the note. If the ; forms are graceful and features distinct, ex| amine the drapery?see if the folds lay natural; and the hair of the head should bo observed, and see if the fine strands can be seen. Second. Examine tire lettering, the title of the bank, or the round handwriting on the face of the note. On the genuine bill# the work is done with great skill and perfectnesa, and there has never beeu a counterfeit but was defective in ilia . - ?> 1 Th rd. The imprint orengraver's names. By obseiving t!?? great perfection of the different company names?in the evenness : and shape of the fine letters, counterfeiters never get the imprint perfect. This rnle alone, if strictly observed, will detect every j counterfeit note in existence. Fourth. The shading in tire back ground of the vignette, or over or around the letters forming the name of the bank, on a good bill, is even and perfect; on a counterfeit irregular and imperfect. Fifth. Examine well the figures on other parts of the note containing the denomination, also letters. Examine well the die work around the figures which stand for the denomination, to see if it is of the same character a> that which forms the oruamenta? ' work surrounding it. i Sixth. Never lake a bill that is deficient in any of the above points, and if your ttriI pression is bad when you first see it, you j had belter be careful how you heooine convinced, to changeyour mind?whether your opinion is not altered a* you become confused in looking into the texture of the , workmanship offlie bill. Seventh. Examine the nartteof the Stale, name of the bank, and name of the town where the bank is located. If it lias been altered from a btoken bank, the defects can be seen, as the alternation will show that it has been stamped on. The New Use of Corrox Seed.?In rt | recent number of the New Orleans Creole, we find a very interesting description of ait establishment in that, city for tlie nianufac' tore of oil from cotton seed. After describing the process, tlie Creole says: Cotton seed has heretofore been regarded as useful only for the purpose of manure. It has added nothing to the value of Southern production; but ir is now shown to be little inferior in intrinsic value to the silky fibre in which it is enclosed. The establishment to which we allude produces five hundred barrels of oil per day, from the diy cotton seed. A novel and Ix-auliful piece of machinery hulls it with the utmost precision and the greatest rapidity, leaving the oily meat free from everv loteigu substance. l?x posed to a confident* ble heat, and suluected to pressure, oil is produced, which, by a new chemical process of clarification, becomes fit for every purpose for which olive, lard, or sperm oil is adapted. To day, it is used on the tables of many of our cui/.en as olive oil. It burns in the solar and astral lamps in our parlors. It is | U"?ed o'i machinery as a lubricator, and answer every other purpose for which fine native, or foreign oil is needed. The establishment is ?c If sustaining. Tha refuse hulls furnish tha fuel to drive tho engines. Not a single slicrrof wood has been purchased since the machinery was first put in motion. As an experiment, a portion of thu accumulation of tho waste has b?en shipped to the North to be w.,rfced up into bookbinders* hoards, lor which purpose this material is believed to bo admirably adapted. Six months have not yet elapsed since the machinery was set in motion, and now ' the oil is finding its way into the country ' in preference to lard or sperm oil, and is for sale in many establishment* of this city. I'he sale is quite equal to the possibility of prodirction. The efifecl of this favorable experiment with cotton seed ujion our domestic economy is likely to be most favorable. For years the price of pork lias steadily advanced. We are burning up so many hogs, in the shape of oil, that the pi ice of meat, unless a new source of oil had^ >een discovered, tnu-l have proved a serious unconvenience. Let, however, the cotton seed, which now rots in millions of tons on our plantations, be pressed into oil, and the Soiiili w I be independent ot" Northern fish eturen, and jnsfo.nl of befog consumer*, will I soon heco \:c exporters of oil* that are sir* potior t<> and cheaper tlinn any other now , n-od. Tim cotton fields will prove richer mines of wealth than the most pioduotive t gold heating Stales <?f California. Pork, . no longer wasted for light, or manufactured I into lahle oil, or into perfumery for the toilet, can agiin l?o furni.-hed for live or ten | 1 dollars per hart el. r] , ; A Dutch paper in the i.iteiior of Pennsylvania exptes-es its opinion of President Duehan oi's inangntal in the following lit| cid and concise terms: "Und tier Deutches vcr saint-lung whor ioht met die gmseti Inaural loon der Shame* Ihn-hanan, sell ish shaney, tier huiuiuclriffh der D< inocrati-V 1 uicht* cum a ran*! Dei Malt! ein p>etzel! . > mi lite! Sanlsacepe holitiiii'l sv.et glasses ft lager tight nvay. Secretary <ier Sweitzer . Chfos ti I H>n der Washington tnit Ja? k-<*n , fchutH*h<>arden. Dei Schmidt? ?Nt! Der f \ ig? Ni! Der Sellwatl/etihover? Ni! . i Kin blate limherger out itron^fiigu! Km i glas-er hfer mit pretzel! Sooulitc! YlhP