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V &2 PER ANJSJJM^f " IN ADVANCE -, if^1 "Sw. ^ 3 /amilg nnii ^olitirtil ?fJrinspnprt?-Bfunttil tu tljc Arts, >rirnrf3, litrrnturr, driiurntioti, ilgricultnrp, 3ntrrnnl 'Jiiijironmifnts, /ortigit nub JDamrntic jL'tuis, nuii the Binvktts. VOLUME V. LANCASTER. C. H., SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY MORNING. DECEMBERS, 1856. NUMBER 42. " 1 ? ? n......>. , , .,?... .... ? ? , x i tflfrteii fluvtr|)rs. Front Porter's Spirit of the Titer*. BUT LOVENGOODS DREAM. nV S OF TENNESSEE. 'Well, Stil, what was your dream I ? Tell us; if ever you droamo 1 auytliuii smart your friends ought to knon i'. f.?i tlic benefit of your car?ae t< r, f?>r cu-. me if you ever thought anything stuar awake Thus bantered, Sut leaned against tin rough board counter of the doggery, will a tumbler of wliskey in one band, win! the other sounded for the bottom of i hole in his breeches, by courtesy called : pocket?took a small sip, and began l< tell bis dream. Ileal him, reader, .-pea! for himself: *f.?etitle*(tieu ! I divampt an unpo-sibil itv last t.ite. I sur in Washington Cilv an 1 know I never will be thai utilethey take me thlir Hi hang ttr crucify m lot driuk'K moie nor :u\ sluir ov 'tin people's drink,' old lot gni. 1 ut in nr dream 1 was that, and no ini-luke?.-ir lain-sure? at a hutuleiin big tavern, wba they ring little hulls In keep frtun hollerit alter the luggers an mikiii a noise ; am v.'nar they called ui l<> vnr mush b\ rat tin on a big still bottom jn-t fur the -ak ov the noise ; and whar they lo<ik thirt; d iocs a day fur doin iiiithiu fur yo; am wbar tliey gin yn snss onuf lit maku y.n tile (hi home) fur tmlliin at all. D.ir; the seal ov government ! l>aru die leg an b.tdv ov govetutneiit ! ? an dan: ever body. " say.' Tell'} our t!ream before you get drunk you long legged euss \ou,or let .sotiusb.?b tell it for >ou.' Titus reproved Sut, sh-*ered into tin channel again : Well, iirter supper awhile I nosed :i round until 1 got inter it room whnr seed :i lite, und lluir set three fellers ; playing OV old sledge.' Old What r S.'vcn up, JOU diulud ? euzel-ekinncti frog? cgg&l ton of a kangaroo.' [ I'll:s was addressed to n young sprei men of the oider in tenon Anuricanicu auti J'obfntibus, mnJlcHstmna who nh< ii< resplendent front in tights, small . mi and a watch rdibon, and bad a I iudih' desire to learn something of tlio liiudei mysteries bf 'old-sledge.' 11o played <>i nu aslh luetic trombone and 'selmsV wliei in the Vseily.'] 'Thev war a pl.ivin seven up with l.rai now herds, spank span new, nn.l no maiks every feller fur hi* self snerninglv. Nov gentlemen, I believe 1 kin smell Uer.N, v they nr in motion, as fur a* frum here ti 'lor spring, ur bow the devil did 1 liHppei hi bit onto that room wliur gamboling wur n gwincon I But tbar I did go bj in stink. I reck in, and the three toiler nr nobody on yeartli but Buch-cannoii Kiilmofe and Fremont, an I bay wur r plavin n single game ov seven np for tin President's rheer ov these free and nwfti I'liited E I'iurihus States, tbirtv one it number, an kiverin tbo whole voartli.? Tbar wur anolber eliup inter that room with one baud under bis coat tail, an tnth or a strokin ov of iiiacliin, a wu'.k'n hIkmi i i i i ? *"riri v?re|V?? UKO, Ulll Ill?t -X '?> kill lllti Fillmore's hand an then infer Fiemount' nhil then .i tvink in rind n frownib, fust n one of them and then totbor. Thou he\ tipino ?n trv to peep into Rndi'ii hand Hnt the old follor liftl it under Dip shad dor n? I ho table. ami I or lor looked lit i sidowav* his roll', an ?;?? a uAtrhin tlx ueepin feller, too, all the while rite elost M s name was Sea ward or Ifnihwnrd. ui amotion ov that sod. no matter wliii li Mc?| ii?t !*| L kill . w !??' myself rite pearl, and when I seed lha{ it ?itr a gpune ov two pluck one, am that Itiick eatuton was bound to bo skin nod ef his lode didn't prow feat onto hit Ikhio.s, I pnt as mad as a boo in swarmir t'nno, an I ii*t thought (mind T aed nuth in) that I'd like In nock enuflT off ov tlx I . hap'^jfknll til mnkfl a biatlit iadol, ef 1 slaredTu. Ho i? a darn'd snako in tbi grass. sure. Well, arter they bad played out thai bands Mister Uneb cannon sex, j bowiu mit y pur lite, *[ heli?ve, </entl? men, I med? bijfh, jack, an that basset me ait. of I ai^lt mistaken* Then botb on em. Fill in ore nnd Kremonnt. apnfad o* Muck'i tricks out onter the table till fltev saw Ida See of trumpa and the jack of trinnpr which be bad cotch from Fillmore with the king. and 'hen ijicy agreed that lie w.?s k!x. Sea ward *? <!, 'Vn, be rccuned that was I lis state of lbs ffSine,' Kill more then, aa modest ns a fifteen yeat old gal, sed, *! made lowr ; von kotoh .ui. sr: .._ n-J. "7 J""v ""M '?'? ?? ! ni?-f 4*i?*njr punr cannon ; and that act* mo il?ro??* ATI on tlml iHtnnt, nn Fri?m<pwt leaning hi? cha#r back wiiiof?nrf*1 behind hi* hand tit me, 'an d-? ?i low it wa* too, don't yu think bo V An hi* Mark mti*4Inch its tw'Mrtf up like onto two cotekBcro*? ; but nil agreed that Fillmore uti throe and no mwuka. Framount then otV 'I made jfBin*, ami that wt ma ?i* with von, Mr I'neh caniton.* Bneh how. ml again tti thnf, hilt Pillmoro Si r r Til count (rama with y?*?? \ th:? ia not ad. arfTy t64mr undarafacliit, di*r Mftf I <mM| . I * f ? A* J i ' m au f'li the fust tone lie lookeil like lie ' hi nought l?e made to Hie. S*e:i-ward frow n ! in j ed, pdmok I;i-* head, winked, and sweat- \ d< cd miiflilly. Fiummmt did so too, an nil ; li I at old Fillmore, l?u*. it wHrn't 110 use,Count In Unlin; lio would ; and Lie mount heat him fo j olie. bo thai sol the gaiuo? Duck >ix, j Fremotint six, and Fillmore three?an fr I tuck's deal, mii Lieiiiounl'a beg or stand, j v i 'Duck li k. d Ins thumb nil dell em te - ' inity slow and keeiful. I looked at Fiil si . nnuc's l.i ids as he no; em from the deal, 1 w 3 I ' I r nnd it like tu knoke 1 ni" down. Thar I w s was Mio nee, the kin;*, the oiiccn, the ' m t I jack, the ten an the juice ov lrnm|is !? j h i Thinks I, O I. irdy I an then I looked at j c . him, at d iliac the old teller sot, his l>ody | a i j kiverin the cheer all over, and nearly out n e ! I a lis knee*, as s ileum, as bio, hii b nt j ti i as w ise as an ole Dutch s.piiie a tryin ov i ? i . a case wiih good prool agin tho person.] < ? j I tell ye, l>o\s, lie looked just like lie had w 11i> fust big horn of whiskev tor the nite. T an felt it in his bouts. I tho'l O Lordy ! I - njjin. J li , 'Du.-k never turned up his hand, but ] ii s axe! Freeniount what lie meant tu do. [i c II" looked at his k"ids. sorted em, then . d u looked at em again, ^Iiei up at the laui|>. | m f j then at llu.'k, seratehe?l lii? year, >hoi up I, - , his eyes, an very slowly sod ?1 beg. Dy j d r , the juiiipkiii Jehus* phut '. l'?nek run em ( tl i ] ijtiiel.', an I lliot ii no harm lu take an- , a 1 t< . I look at old Kill. lie folch a low : ( ' eobkv coil ov giuut, and then he I lowed, w e ' I svvnr, die wind come outen his nose, 1 S v ! mouth, eye. and years, an l:k?$ t>? put the' p I i lamp out. li i 'I dodged and tuk a p**ep into Lie- \ b li momi's hand, and I now svvar, that wlou I. s ( a man's six on a big game, ov scroti up, j g V I neVo* seed j'st si. ii Kcrd~. lie hilt to , tl g.lherll.ive net's, hound t<> be hi;l. let r what would come ?an nut au out 1'iesi- j a \ dent at that lliink- I, < !- r -ly. Duck ! h ) Lordy, Fillmore ! and watched to s,.,. r, : wliiit suit vvas to make the I'resident out- I s en that darned mule oaten Fremount ? i when tl.ars nara no iiotkiu in hell, ef1 1 I I Hill-!* ilt.ln1! f ill 11 1 ??*L* I . V t u-a li'UV n ? < I ~ ii I thnrM heen fifty iwo of em in the deck n n<I then only ito?l hack and simlud j ^ | iDiui fur (i i'rtsidtht ! Fiilmoru r..rcd | p I, j I'.n l: a jiiils uaUu liis cheer and t.uiitc 1 a.s ; a I comfortable on tho floor us an old maid ii - . at a ijUiliir. when llie kiMiu begins. Frc- j ii ? ; mount's eye* turned green?the liar on ii u ' the bn<-k "V his hed ris up like the tceUi I Ii e ov a comh, his must-touch us turned up ?i e , low aids his eve, he heated like a mule, a i ' an at one jump lie kiverod old Fill as lie ci > | lav, ami then sot in tu hit in an ohokin 11 i j ami a mi ulin ov him like the iJevil hoa- d I tin lioiniiiv. This sort of excitement foteli , n i the old lei or tu, and Rs soon as lie f. t ill j a , the liurliti that was u gwine on all over h i- him, inside an out, he sot rile in tu iitin el f i tu like an old how, and lhar they hed it. i h i I 1 looked til lim-k, (olio still hilt the kerds j it t | in his hand with the jack turner) up on ti r the lop,) as lunch as to any, 'shall I part i tl f ihein ? He shook his head, and I put ' 01 a ! my hands in my pockets and kept outen I ,t j iher wa\ Tliov lit some hy this tiino, I 1 r i 'tell ye har-woo'-fnr-an feathers (lew 1> f j .sorter like ginni i cotton. Sea-ward cut i | , dirt as soon as thai swlul j ick was turn- ' si ! e<l, locked the door ?>n the outside, ami , tl I went strait tn n prni meet ill in North l> street, whar I reckon ho is yet. Well. r< thar they til an grunted, ami every now e and thru Krcmount would l>ray like on c to a mule, mi Fillmore would |^rmat out n j snineihin about somebody's box an fu !i ( ion.' Now ef fusion means tnixin, tlicy l? I wera f'tnetl, about as well as any two y j pints ot' bilillace in a <|uart flask'on a s< j hard tiotten hnv. An ov all the darned n<>ise.-> 1 ever did hear, they shook that ' si big tavern ill the grouno. An I waked I. | all over a s'vet and llicti ji.?t tinned over st I in tlie hc?i an cried like a Lady.' i p What for. hut J' | O' 't'ase ' n ?ke>| up afore "ither hollorcd, j u and I never will know which whipped.? hi Old llpck know*, an if ever I set eve* on lii him, I'll ax im. liivo us another horn, L old boss. 11 CURI03ITIE8 OF THUNDER STORMS. in . j The peculiarities of that terrible bnf. oi 7%rr iiinuv iiii* r subject "f ill) intereaimg paper in a recent' |o i liuiuU-r of tli? irrilhdi tjuatcrly Review, ci > from winch wo condunsosums of tho most, l>( f prominent statement*. Two clouds ore w not necessary for tho pro<)uclion of light- Ir i nitJir, wltfclt i* frequently discharged from j.? - n lOliUff clump of vapor when n coniieo el i lion can I ? established with the earth.? |M i . A French Aciideinicnn unmeij Morcolfe, tli ? { iln-A a cam w here a mere cloud'ot, w | > altoul it foot in diameter, killed a poor ti< . , woinHii by dropping' M thunderbolt upou pi pierhead. 1 Imvo keen shown by Kara- tu i | day that the electric fluid contained in a ii| -ungls ll.inh, toiglu'perhap* be supplmd by lb 11 tho decomposition of oi^e grain of water mi ; alone. M. Ar.igo has divided tho light- bt ning into ihreo roil*. Tho first includes fo those where the discharge appears like ih , luminous line*, bent into angles and zfg | a zags, Mini varying in completion from (' i! white to fi'ue, nitrple or red. This kindj fo is known as forked lightning, because it, in ?kvh*u?dmIIv divides Into two branches. ? , 01 (hirpentiers rr.lates a case where a fasM th i towered into three fo'ks, each of which id "A struck on points savors I hundred feet ! *|u?rt. Wf,| ruore numerous furcations w I' + w* ****+-+ .**+4 htt*i V *** : u r -. / # ' ivo been reported or it is said lluil tlur. I wl g a tempest at L imlerneati and St Pol- ' fal * Leon, twenty four churches were struck sa lough only three distinct claps were j de aid. Tins was eight churches apiece (J? r the three explosions! ' h;i I hi' second class of lightning differs i itv otn the firs* in the range of surface over in hit h the Hash is diffused, and is designa- ' to d as sheet lightning. Sometimes it j ?< in pit glides tlio edges of the cloud : tli hence it leaps ; hut at others it floods t vn ith a lurid radiettce, or else suffuses it* j as irfaru with hlttalics of a rosy or violet j in tie. The third class of lightning are remark- 1 ro Me for their eccentricities, and have been ' lit iade the subject of considerable conten | p; >ii among the meteorologists, nianv of i ,'n iiotn have denied their right to up treat j ov I as legitimate lightning*, they differ so I to id i ly from the ordinary sort of flashes. j oi hev exhibit themselves as balls or globu m ir lumps of lite?not momentary appari i tli ons, I'Ut meteors which take their own ; si ue, ami travel at returnkablv slow rates. ' lo ( i? this it.celerity which gives tliem their i m oubltul character, as an elccliica! bolt is is apposed to In one of the leading em pi loins of velocity. Among other aneo- I in tes related of this kind of lightning is in) following incident, which occurred to .d taiior in liio Hue, St Jaijnes, \ a! do 01 dace, about the year 184Jf. M liahiiiei hi as commissioned by the Academy of <y cienees to investigate the facts, and re I |)( orled substantially as follows . i(l 44 Alter 11 inihl thnndcr clop, the tailor ni ein;; tini>li:nor |,is meal,--iw the chimney , oaid fall down, a* if overset l?y a slight ' u>l of wii.il, and a clol?e of tii?*, ahout ' t, 11o size of a ill11<I*m he.nl, come oat iioi- ; ,_r, ll\ and move slowly about the room, at : hi smal1 height above i|n' Hour. The tai- J ,| >r said it lookeil like a omul s zeil kitten, , el oiled ?ij> into a hall, at.d moving without ' ,u how in" its paw*. It was bright ami |c hitting, hat lie felt no sensation oS? lieat. *>< lie el.die eame near his feet, like a vounjj ' n| al that wan's to ral? itself ajjuinsl it* f, raster's letx*; hnl bv uioviuo them aside j w entlv, he avoided tlie contact. It ap ; i| ears to lime played for several seconds j sr bout his feet, lie bending his body over | in . and examining it attentively. Ait r || ryino some excursion* in ditVeient direc- ' t| ions, it rose vertically to tiiu height ofliis 11 ead. The globe elongated a iitlle, then ct leered towards a hole in the chimney of hove the mantle piece, which hole re- vt eived a stovepipe in the winter, hilt was ow pasted over w itli paper, "The thun jg er," lie said, Conld not see the hole ; hut, jj evei tlieless the hall went straight to the pert tire, removing the paper without nrting it, and made its way in'o the |t. Iiiinnev. Shortly afterwards, and when , * i i I h siip|iost.k<! it li.nl tim* t ? reach nlio top 1 made a dreadful explosion, which des- ; VJ royed the upper part o( the chimney, and j tj lirow the fraginet ts on the roof of small j tr I.H idings, which they broke through. ' (.f he tailors'* lodging was on the third slo | (| t ; the lowei ones were not visited al all ! sj y the thunderbolt." j Lightning, ulicii it meet* vvit.i hm oli rt MK'tioit in its couiae, frequently shutters 1 (|) !< I.on conducting olijed, dispersing mid a( nrsling substance* asunder in every di ! ||( .'Ctioii, as if they Inel heen charged with ' x unpowder. The stone piuimclu of a ' Hy liurch in Cornwall, was struck hv light- U1 ;ng, and one fragment weighing three j w n ml red pounds, was huiled sixty yards j w the Southward, another four hundred a| nrds to t!ie north, am! a third to the I ?ni!iwe*t. I tj, In !8:)8 the topgallant roast of II. M. ' lv iip Uodney was literally cut up into chips | y n iVisli of lightning, the sea being . (j rewn with the fragment* as if the car F), enters had been sweeping their shavings i cerboard. Sometimes in striking a tree - .? r mast, the electric fluid will *l?e?j it into j 0, tig shred or lilainenl,so that it will appear 1 j ke a huge broom or uhumlle of laths.? i j|( ightning holts wiil occasionally dash fv irough resisting objects hy tearing great )( penings, us in a Cornish church, where |^. |>crtures were made in the solid wall of j? is belfry fourteen inches square and six W{ iclies deep, and a* truly tegular as if cut c0 it by art. tk in other instances small holes are dtil- er d, which are surprising for their perfect C< rcnlsrily of form. Window panes have he )en frcqm-i.tly pierced in this fashion, |,a ilhout allecling tlie rest of the glass.? nn i forming these apertures, a hurr or pro- he ction is left upon the edges. Juvenile nu ectricians are in tho habit of making sei "des in esrds hy pacing discharges i (.!? trough them, when a hurr or projection ' ill he observed on both side* of the ori- j sh OIMIIHIIIU'S II *!II Ul^Cll'TmJ Will oduce two hole* in h curd, each punc- , un re marked by a single burr one on th*s , vi? jut ami the other on the under hide of in/ o card. In tome instance* tlie results (w 0 audi as to suggest that a flash may ; iiij ? split up into several flerv filament* Ia?- gr re it strike* nn object. fci "7 777 a ivca- I roi ereock of tinnod copper wae hurled by ail lltundeiholt from the top of a church in frc remonia, and, upon inspection, was to ufid to tm pierced with eighteen holes; he nine of there the hurr wae conspicuous sic 1 on.i side, it waa ?<pi*'ly prominent on To e other, while the slope of the burr was r?i euticai ?n ail. i od Among the curioeitica of lightning are ?b hat ts iciuied " fulgurites," Of lobes an it'll 1110 lightning constructs when it ! lis upon ii silieions spot, by fusing the | ml. They may be called casts of thunrbolts. In s.?ine hillocks of land in > iiuhcrland, Kngland, these hollow tubes i ive been found from one tilth to two Hies in diameter, tapering perhaps to a ere point. The ??ntire extent of the bes may bo thirty feet, but they usually parate ill o mmiemus branches and have ' e appearance of the skeleton of an in irled tree. They are lined \sith glass, smooth and pet feci as if it had been , ade in a glass house. Lightning will n|>o ve.il'v the s rftceof cks and fuse metals. In 1837 several tks of the iron cable of an American uket ship were melted, and the glowing ops falling upon the deck, S"t tire to art thing they touched. It would seem o, that lightning can liquify imtals withit harming or even Hinging more fragile ! aler'als connected with them. Arlstoi? sa\s copper has lieen incited off a lield without injuring the wood, and slice nflirins that money has hcen fused a purse without burning tho lat'er It a capraeiou.s meteor, and the pranks it a\s are something inexplicable. A man Cornwall was once struck hy a bolt, liiih horned the sleeve of his shirt and so of his c mt to cinder, without frizzling even damaging the outside of the coat the least. Halls of electrical matter, ipahle of firing combustible object*, have sen seen to issue from the sea, or to drop to sheets ol water, without producing uy hissing sound, or occasioning any inplouiH of ebullition. As il lustra ive of the power of lightning > magnetise metals, it is related hv A rail that the tools of a shoemaker in Swatnia wore thus treated, and he had con ant'.y to be freeing liis Ii a miner, pinch's, and knife from the nails, kneedles i i. - i -> i ?wi?, wiiicii were constantly getting iiight hv them jih they lay upon the melt. Noar'v two ????nturics ago a cottj 1 English ships were sailing from niiilott to llurhndnca. One of them as struck with lightning, and suddenly i?*. captain of the suffering ship was oli ive.l to alter his course ami turn Iris row, as if making l"??r England again.? !:? consort inquired the reason, loit found to whole v'lcw weio still proceeding to art.adocs, as they firmly believed. A ireful inspection showed that the poles ' tflo compass had been Completely re:rsed by the lightning. EMARKABLE CASES?CRIMIALS WHO HAVE RETURNED TO LIFE AFTER EXECUTION. The fdiow'ng singular circumstance in corded by I >r. 1 Tot, in this Natural His try ot Oxlordshire : In llto year ICoO, A title Green, a seriiit of Sir Thomas Ileeil, was trier! for ie murder of Iter new born child, and and guilty. Shu was executed in the nut-yard at Oxford, where she hung [tout half an hour. Being cut down, le was put into a coffin, and brought iVhv to a house to be dissected, where, hen they opened the collin, notwithstattdg the rope rein timed unloosed and ratght nbouv> her neck, they perceived i?r breast to rise, whereupon one Mason, tailor, intending only an act of charity, t liis loot ujwin her, and, as some any, iu Oruin, a soldier; blruck her again itli the butt end of Iris musket. Notiilintandihg all ibis, when the learned id eminent Sir NVi'liaiu Ferry, ancestor the present Marquis of I. rndsdowne, ion Anatomy Professor of the Universe l)r. Wallis and L>r. Clerk, then Presi. I lit of the Magdalen College, an I Vice- ! Iiuncellorof the Univerily, came to pre- ! ire the liody for dissection, lliey perceivI some small rattling in hei throat,* they osently used means lor her recovery by | KMiing a vein, laying her in a -aarm bud, id also osiug divers remedies respecting r senselessness, insomuch that within urleen hours she began to speak, and xt day talked and prayed very hearli I till ing tbotiine of this her recoveig, the otliC'Ts concerned in her execution julil needs had iter away again to have inpleted it on her ; but by the media in of the worthy doctors and some oth* friend* of the then governor of the city, >1. Kel?y, thoro w ?? a guard put upon r from all fuitber disturbance, until they nl mit'iI mi! Itnr nur/lnn !?** - ' ........ ?..? ; ent. Much doubt indeed nroso as to r actual guilt. Crowds of people in the enmiine came to see her, and many as rtod that it must he the providence of >??, who would thua assert Iter innocence. After some time, l)r. .Petty hearing e discoursed with those about her, and | "peeling tiial (ha women might suggest ' to her to relate something of strange , liona w*"J apparitions she had neeu dur- j I the tiiue she had seamed to be dead, 1 hich they had already begun to do, tell I that she said she had been in a hue een meadow, havings river running Utid it, and all things there glittered like ver and gold,) he caused all to depart mi the room but the faculty, who were have !>een at the diasection, and naked r concerning her sense and apprehen 1 >us during the lime she was hinged which she answered, that she neither inentherrd how tlto fellers were knockort ; how she wen. out of orison ; when a was turned oA the ladder ; wbelher y psalm was sang or not; nor was sbf sensible of any pains that alio couhi remember. She came lo herself as if she awakened out of sleep, not recovering the use of her speech l>v slow degrees, blit iti a manner altogether, beginning to speak just where she left oil on the gallows. Being thus at length perfectly recovered, after thanks given to <lod, ami the persons instrumental in bringing her to life, and procuring her an immunity from fuithcr punishment, sho retired in the country to her friends at steeple Barton, where she was afterwards married, and lived in good repute among her neighbors, having three children, and not dving till 1050. The following account of the ea"> of a girl who was wrongfullv executed in 1 700. is given by a celebrated French author, as an instance of the injustice which was oft. n committed by the equivocal mode of I trial then used in France. About seventeen vears since, a young peasant giil was placed at Fare, m the service of a man, who, smitten with her beauty, tries! to inveigle her, but she w,?s vir* ! tuons and resisted. The prudence of this I girl irritated the master, and ho determined on revenge. Ho secretly conveyed into her box many tilings belonging to liim marked wiih Ids name. lie. then cxclaiiied that he was robbed, called in a commbsaiio, (a ministerial ollicer of justice,) | and made his deposition. The girl's box was searched, and the things werodiscov: ered. The unhappy servant was imprisoned. She defended herself only by her tears; i she had no evidence to prove that she I did not put the property in her box; and her only answer to the interrogatories was I that sho was innocent. The judges had no gtispie'on of the deprnvi y ot tlio ace ser?, whose station was respectable, ami they administered the law in all its ligor. The innocent gill was condemned to he hanged. The dreadful ollice was inetl'eclu' ally performed, as it was the tir?t attempt ' of the son of the chief executioner. A surgeon had | uruhaacd the body f rdissoc I son, :iinl it was conveyed to his house.? On that evening, being about to open the hi-ad, lit perd'.'ivcil a gentle vvaiintli about , 111 u ho.lv. Ilie dissecting-knife toll front his I ant', and ho placed in a bed her whom ho was about to dissect, i 1IU efforts to restore her to life wore el! fectual, and at the srote lime scot for a clergyman on whoso discietioii and expe. ti.'ine ho con Id depend, in order to consult , with him on this strange event, as v.ell as to have him for a w itness to ids eon| duet. The. moment tho unfortunate girl opened her eyes she believed herself in the other world, and perceiving the figure J ol the piiesf, who had a marked and majestic column nice, - ho joined her hands : tremblingly and exclaimed : " Eternal I Father, you know my innoocno , have | pity on me." In this manner she cotitinj ued to invoke the ecclesiastic, believing in her simplicity that she beheld her (rod.? j They were long in persuading her that | she was not dead ? so much had the idea | of punishment and death possaescd her t imagination. Tho girl having returned to life and I health, she retired to hide herself in a di.s ! taut village, fearing to meet the judges or I the officers, who, with the dreadful tiee, i incessantly haunted her imagination.? . The accuser remained unpunished, bo; cause his crime, although manifested by j two individual witnesses, was not clear to | the eye of the law. The pooplo subseI quently became acquainted with tho re| siiriection of this girl and loaded with roI proaches tlie author of hot* misery. THE LOSS OF A WIFE. No man hut one who has been called on to mourn the loss of a dear ami beloved companion, can fully appreciate the beauty and truthfulness of tho following article which wo coppy from an exchange: ' In comparison with the loss of a wifu all other berenv moots are trifling. The wife ! she who tills up so largo a space in the domestic heaven i she who has busied herself so unweariediy for the precious ones around her ; hitler, bitter is the tear that falls upon lurcohl clay. You stand beside Iter coffiin ami think of the past.? It seems an amber-colored pathway, where the tun showr. on beautiful flowers and the stars hung glittering overhead.? Fain would the soul linger there?no thorns ?ro remembered save tho60 your hands may unwillingly h ive planted. Her noble heart lies open to your inmost sight. You think of her now as all gentleness, all beauty, all purity. Hut she i? dead ! '(lie dear head that ha? lain upon your bosom reals in die still darkness upou a pillow of clay. The hands that have ministered*so untiringly are folded, while and cold, beneath the gloomy portals. The heart, whose overy beat measured sn eternity of lore, lies under your feet.? The (lowers she bent over in ttniles trend now above her in tears, shaking dew from tlreir imiuIa, that the verdure around her utay be kept green and Ireauliful. It is stated that Mr. Marble lately married % Miss Atone. The nurtriago ccromotiy took plaro in the (J ramie At ate, and the nuptial knot was tied by the Rev Mr. Fliot Wooder if thev have the 4 rnehs f "I LOVE YOU.' VN lio do you suppose said it ? No ! Not that bright creature, by whose side stands a lover, looking so tenderly in those glorious eyes. She is very beautiful, with her cheek of rosy hue, and the curling auburn tresses that the wind sports with so gallantly ; but she did not say it. Nor yet the dimpled babe, with the cherub face, lifted to the more mature but not less innocently sweet features, with the holy light of mother glorifying every smile. Then who doyou suppose said it ? Wrong again. Not that newly wedded husband, whose homo for a few Meeting months he has aptly called heaven?full j of smiles and tenderness, and oft repeated j vows (lilting like a bird of paradise in I rainbow plumage ; wheie a pretty, white | robed being with girlish, matronly air, ; glides about the neat kitchen making with I her own hands the snowy bread. Where, | when the wdious shop is olo3ed, he can ) come home with a bounding heart, and j sitting with her hand in his, rove with a pair of brown eyes over his "Daily," every little while stooping to snatch a kiss from : the red lips so close to his cheek. Altlio' j he wltinpcis many titles of love, yet this "1 love juii" was not spoken then and j there. A tired woman sits hushing to sloop her nestling babe. Ueauty ouco made j that face radiant, peihaps, but all that beauty has gone now. The blue eyo is dim and failed ? the whole expression is sui row full?the pale brow covered with lines of care, l'erliaps, with that far-oil | look of hers, she sees three little graves green with as many summers. Her homo j is very humble?all day she has toiled, j and tin- fainting spirit almost surrcndeis to fatigue, the downcast eyes tremble in I tears?she i* so weary. And every nerve ! tingles when the hoys come hungry from school, some with weeping and tales of ! sorrow that mother must hear. And after they are hushed with kisses or chidings, it is time to get supper for seven hungry mouths, and then tho accustomed never-ending routine of putting away and clearing up, t'll liio worn-out j creature wonders with a sigh if there I really will come a rest to her?an cter rial rest. At iastshccnu scut her weary limbs in I tho old cornor rocking-chair. The Lube, J whoso eyes close fitfully to a low lullaby, I lies in his father's lap. Ho is a plain i man, that good father, with an honest j face, and great heart, that would if it could, take in all thu care and sorrow of the household. 1 lie babe sleeps. Willi a rude gentlei ness lie lays it on its mother's bosom, and ; as tho ruddy tire-light plays over her j care-worn features, he looks upou her with eyes suddenly grown lustrous and beautiful, lie lifts bis great band soft| ly, till it rests on her shoulders, as bo ! says: "I love you, dear Mm/." How tho poor heart leaps into love light, and rest! How vanish tbo cares ! that trod upon her very soul. She no more remembers that toilsome washing. , .She reflects not that the pretty babe ! its pink flushed cheek against her breast lias worn her patience thread bare with its constant tears and unrest. She forj gels that the broth was burnt?that the children tensed her?that the hue broke, | and that every limb in her frame ached with fatigue. v\ iiat wore ttieso in comparison with l llie steadfast love that had burned fur eighteen yearn in the sunlight of happi ; ness, through (he clouds of despair when I beauty made her winning, and when her { charm of loveliness had gone, and the freshness of her youth departed forevor. What eared she for aught outside her home, though she had made sorrows, I while such words thrilled her whole i being I "I 'ove you, dear Mary." Ah ! you long-married husbands, who ; exact every attention as a duty?how much would it cost you to make your home thus beautiful with all its cares ? I tell you one word of love will loosen great burdens from the shoulder of the J toiling woman you call wife. Try it. (.fo | home some night, and look U|>on her heart when she married you. Then ten deriy clasp ner nana, ana sne looks with wonder-opened eyes, say to her in a low and steady voice, not carelessly nor sportively, but earnestly : ,-l love you." Trust mo, it will bo to her and to you both "better tlnn diainouds." Ladils vh Gentlemen.?Three things that ? lady cannot do: 1. She cannot pass a mi liner y shop without slopping. 2. She cannot see a piece of lace without asking the price. 8. She cannot see a baby without kissing it. A lady of our acquaintance turns the tables on die gentlemen ss follows : lie cannot go ihrough the house and shut the door after him. 2. lis cannot have a shirt made to suit hint. i 8. Ho can never be satisfied with the ledtee' fashions. ! SCENE AT A GAMBLING TABLE. Tlio Springtield Republican tells the following singular story : As a company ! of our fast young men were busy over the ! card table, a few evenings since, a singular noise attracted their attention. It was of so unusual a nature that they immediately began to look about for its cause.? It was repeated in another direction.? i Something more than curiosity was now excited, and playing was suspended. Immediately one of the company dropped into what spiritualists call a trance, and proceeded to utter, as if front his doj ceased father, a homih against gambling ) and its associate vices. This was followj cd by an adinonitiou purpoiliug to como i from a deceased sister of one of tIre cotn! pany, couched in such terms, and uttered j with such sisterly feciing, that the whole j group were irresistibly moved to tears.? There was no more card playing that j night. None of those present were be; Levers in spiritual manifestations, and the i scene was wholly unexpected to all.? j Whether it was indeed spiritual, or is ea: pable of some other solution, is a i^ucstiou. Gctta I'ekciia Hoops fok Ladies.? The ladies claim so much latitude, or rather circumference, now in the matter of . diess, that it is very dinicull for fashion I to give spread enough to their garments | without subjecting them to inconvicncet | not easily overcome on narrow pavements and obstructed passage-ways. A new j and better article than whalebone, far disI tending tho dress, has been introduced,? ; It is a cord, made of gutta, percha, which j is not so heavy as whalebone, is'inore flex1 ible, so that the dress can be folded close ! to the person, when necessary, and preserves elasticity enough to resume its proper position again. For the ladies' dresses this is just the very thing needed, and it ' can be united by simply putting the ends j in hot water. There is, thciefore, no i springing of the ends and tearing of the j dress. Gutta-percha is 0110 of the most useful articles know n. We have no doubt l that the above referred to, would make I excellent clothes lines, and lor skippingI ropes for the young ladies, nothing could be Letter or more desirable. [A'. Y. Evening I'out. " I sav, bov, whose horse is that von are riding ?" 'Why, its daddyV - ? no is your daddy !" " Why, don't you know ??he's uncle Peter Joues." " So you're tlws ron of your uncle? how do you inako that out, young mnnL' i " Well, I dont know 'zactly how lis," ! replied tho boy, ''but you see daddy got j to be a widdorcr, and married mother's sister, who is aunt Sally, and so he's my j undo now." " Teltiuno'' Again.?There wan old ! slave eolorcd woman, familiarly know u a? i Aunt Relay, in this city, who is now one | hundred and one years of age, and has a | new set of teeth just beginning to peep , out from bcr gums. She resides on I Mark's ally, which runs from Old street ; back to the b'oulli Side Railroad, a few j steps above Grace Church. [ V ettrsb u ry Erprtac. An Anaconda Slaughtered.?Tl?e Royal Gazette, of Graytown, Ikruernrn, publishes an account ot the seizure of u I largo Camodie.a specie of Ilea Constrictor, i ile had seized a tine sheep, and coiling aiound its body, crushed the bones of the ' animal and killed it. A laborer, who was near, ran up to the monster end destroyI cd it with bis cutlass. When uncoiled, it ' wus found to measure 2 5 (eel in length. " IIisu.'?Here is the last " gocd thing''about the hoops: Little Boy?" Ma, what is hush Mother?" Wbv, my dear? why do you I ask ln i.illle boy?' because I asked aisi?r Jane yesterday, what made her new dres* stick out so and she 6aul "AwrA/"' A Western editor says that a child 1 ruu over by a wagon three years old and cross-ejed and winch never spoke afterwards. lie also gives his readers some lines which ho says were written hy a young miui ulio has long since lain in the grave for his own amusement. A Straykd Wire.? A husband thus announce* the departure from his bed aud hoard of his dearly beloved : "M.v 1 wiffl. Anno Mario liaa ?lro?/.^l . ? > -J VM VI WVII j stolen. Whoever returns bo-r will get his | bead broke. As to trusting her, anybody : can do as )m thinks fit ; for, as I never Eay my own debt*, it's not likely I'll pay era." "1 stand," enid a Western stump orator "on the broad platform o( the principles of '98, and palsied be mine arm if 1 desert 'urn." "You stand on nolhieg of tho kind," interrupted a little shoemaker in the crowd ; "you stand in my boots that you netar paid ine for, and I want the money." An old widow, when her pester aaid to her, God has not deserted \ ou in your old age," replied, " No, sir; I hare a ?# if good appetite still I"