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From the Waverly Magazine.
THE niHATURE ;
OR THE LAST TREASURE.
BV.ANXA LAURA.
Night's
dark mantle had overshadowed the
earth. It was one of extreme beauty; not a
.. cloud G'espread <tlie blue ether j'all nature was
lulled to rest. Lunavm her royal robes, had
scarce reached the meridian of her glory; her
gay attendants, decked in diamonds, twinkled
and sparkled around ,her ihroue in ecstacy or
joy, while here aud there one of a larger and
more, steadier appearance slowly, wound its
way through the void _of space, hanging like a
silken curtain from the floor x>f Heaven. The
time worn clock had just tolled the hour of
nnaiMgQBj aoa ail ltu> uuiauinmcs ut--.nu; 4?i?v
town of B? had retired to rest save a
fv\v moonlight ramblers that might, be seen
wahcjering here and there along the pleasant
streets, indulging their romantic fancies in fairy
dreams of the future: but now to our story.
From one of the windows of a long row of
buildings at the Tower end of the town might
* be seen . a faint Jighjb as though proceeding
from some midnight lamp that had almost expired
; into this room we will now introduce
you; upon a small ^table stood the lamp that
shed a dim light upon all around, making everything
look sad and mournful; beside it lay.
scattered, in confusion, a number of books.?
Theg|aze oft he lamp fell upon the open leaves
of Virgd, and Homer's dull pages lay as though
theyjhad recently. been perused by some one,
while many of. the other classics lay confusedly
around.
By the side of this table sat Alonzo Beau
Ford. He was but a youth?his'form slender
and U'ell .proportioned; his eyes, dark as ebony
; Jjis faair fell in wavy locks of raven blackness
upon his pure and.unsullied brow; a forehead
of Gxeciau mould told that he was no
common, character. So'uiething- so noble, s<>
grand, lurked beneath those dark lashes, and .
a keen observer-might there have read a tale
of future greatness.
Sueh \vasAlonz<>; but now a sad and mournful
look rested AUpon h*s countemfhce, as he
turned from the contemplation of his books to
another ohject that adorned the table; it was
the miniature' of a young girl, that scarce look
ed as though she bad reached her sixteenth
year. Her hdir, black as ebony, waifccarefully
looped up in braids;.her eyes, daik and expressive,
complexion fair, with the tint of the
rose upon her cheek *t her arms were bare and
gracefully moulded; hands smallj,and fingers
tapering; her form slender and graceful;
though she was not. what might be called a
grfiavbeauty, yet there was something in her
eye that'eent forth a look of more than common
intelligence.
Such way the picture of Louise Gooding.;
she was an only child, and an orphan ; her patents
had slept in their silent graves many long I
years. She lived with an uncle; she was
brought up under their own roof, and taught
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to consider tneir nresiae as tier nome. uui
Stiil she always felt as though she was not one
of their own; and often diij she wish sne had
a home of rest and happiness.
Three years previous to this, Alonzo first
beheld this gentle being, cihe was one of those
immortal spirits whom to know is but to love;
and Alonzo did love with an almost heathen
devotion, but her friends appreciated not his
worth, and she was forbidden to associate with
him. But now, as he gazes Upon this picture,
every feature is perfect in* his sight; his only
object is to woo and win the original, and for
this he strives and determines to accomplish
what is almost beyond his reach. His motto,
preservunce. Talents have been his kind creator's
gift, and he is resolved to use them to the
best advan^ges in accomplishing his end;
his studies have now almost surpassed his
years, but still his soul thirsts for knowledge.
But why this sadness upon his brow? this I
miniature is his last treasure and even this is :
demanded. This gift, that was once bestowed
with the heart's best wish, is now cruelly required
of him; she has blamed him for inconstancy
; her heart has grown cold to those feel- i
ings of pure affection she once cherished; and \
now she turns upon him the blame, while he 1
has only been fostering this love deep in his j
bosom, never doubtiogTne fountain that had
almost dried within her breast.
By the side of the picture lay a note he had
received that evening, stating that she no longer
wished to be anything more than a friend;
and supposing his love had vanished, wished
him to return her miniature. All else had been
taken; hope had been denied him. Yes, even
all hope; and now she wished to deprive him
of this last treasure.
At first he was so overwhelmed with astonishment
that he knew not what to do. lie almost
resolveil not to return the picture; and,
to turn his thoughts from the sadness before
him, he brought his guitar from its resting place,
and its gentle tones soon echoed along tho
streets as the words of that lovely song met
the ear of the passer by?
"Lipsjof love's melody, where aro yc borno-?
Never to suiile again, never to mourn."
But he laid it aside in despair; its gentle
tones only mocked his sorrow, for it carried
him back to memory's dim old halls, to the
times when tho9e silvery chords were only
touched for her, on some night as enchanting
as the present, as he sat in the vine clad arbor f
of her home, singing " La Serenade " of the
olden time. * .V
Again he sought his couch, thinking there to =
drown his thoughts in the gentle arms of Morpheus;
but soon the fairy land of dreams brings
her again before his eyes. In fancy that spirit
hovers around, and gently leads him back to
the days in which his life passed like n dream,
it was so happy ; but the early dawn aroused
him from these visits to fairy land, and he Ql
awakes to find it all a dream; and there lay ^
the miniature?the fatal note that had destroy- .
ed his happiness,and the unlearned pages stood ^
in silent reproof open, before him. ^
. Day after day passed, but still the miniature
was retained. But, one morning, as he wa- wj
kened from his troubled sleep,' the resdlve ],;
came ? "I will return it, she demands it; I am jj,
too noble to refuse, let.the pang be as bitter as flc
it may. The-midnight lamp found him pen- ajnine
nn.rrp after pnL'c: in which he told, in words
I ' D I O ' of
burning eloquence, his devotion for the piclure.
His letter was nut-a Jong list of senti- ty
mental phrases, joined together by love-sick su
sighs, but it was the pure and innocent devotion
of the heart, that had been nurtured and eD
fostered there for years. wj
Finally, it was sealed, and sent; the tninia- pr
turc was carefully enclosed and .sent with' it; of
and now all was gone. "I,he last treasure of wi
his brightest hopes had departed, but he was I he
determined not to let it stand thus; see her he wi
would, whatever it might cost him; and on the m
next evening, though dark and rainy-, ho sought lia
her mansion. She sat alone in the parlor; a vl
ring at the door bell announced a call fi cm wi
some one; he entered ; she received him with
a smile. After conversing on various, topics,
he asked her to sing the songs sfie used to sing f0(
long, long ago. She seated herself at the pi c|j
ano, and soon not a sound was heard save the m,
echo of "her voice and the gentle tones of the
instrument; her whole soul seemed to be in the t|,
music, and he sat as though spell bound to tire nt.
spot. Song after Song was sung, piece after Ju
- - ? -v?-M r>A xrckt cfill Jio troarltw! not** hnf -
waa jjuijcu, jwoi... uv >v?..v- ..w , ,
while she thus played, a new impulse-came over he
him. _ ha
"Shall I thus so easily lose my own Louise foi
- her whom I had so surely won ? No ?I will ne
ty agkin."' Soon she ceased?the^charm was to
broken, and uuw he told the object of his visit; sh
he told how the sweetest chords of his guitar m
had been poured out for her, and never should on
they breathe such strains for another. Words sh
passed, that we cannot relate; butt ere he de- of
parted, the picture was again his own ; now he di
was contented; tew energies fired his brain, cy
"1 will win lier in spite of friends and of for- in
tune. Fame shaj be.mine, if I am spared life fai
and health to obtain it. Ere another month in
passes away, 1 w 31 leave my native home and
dwell within the classic halls of a college;
there I will finish my education that I have so di
arduously begun ami th'en try my talent in the- w
world, and gain, if possible, what I desire.? ec
Time and expense tihaiUnot be spared fur the th
realization of tbis point, and I will }et cull that ra
jewel within tlie casket mine own." or
Ten years have passed. What an era of
time in man's existence ; but, oh, what a drop te
in the ocean to his immortal being. Time rolls
on, but brings with it many changes. in
Let me now introduce you to a lovely cot- w
taee in the outskirts of one of our eastern cities.
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It is t IjtfttUtllUI CVfllHlg 111 WIC Ilium II UI i ?
tember; the trees were just tinged with the m
golden hues of Autumn. Around the cottage
is a large yard, carpeted with the greenest ^
gra-s; here and there studded with beds of
the richest Autumnal flowers. The Elm, the ^
Linden, the Willow arid the Cypress wove their t0
graceful boughs in luxuriant beauty around the ?
cottage, while the vine-clad arbors scattered
here and there prove the taste of the inmates. M
But now let us enter. From air open window t'<
might he'seen a lady, looking long and anx- {,s
iously, as though waiting the arrival of some a'
one; she is surrounded by all that wealth or P'
taste could procure. A carpet <>f almost living ^
flowers greet your entrance. The chairs, cov- h
ered with crimson velvet, cast a lovely sliade
upon the richly embroidered curtains of snowy hi
whiteness that adorn'the windows. A piano, o'
of thrilling tone, ornaments one side of the
room, while a gentle harp lies silently by its HS
side. _ rt;
But let us turn again to the occupant of this J?'
room; with a little observation you might en- ,l
sily trace in those dark expressive eyes the
features of Louise Gooding, now Louise Beau
ford ; she scarce looks a year older than when
we last saw her miniature upon the tab.'e of ,p
the young student; but why looks she so anxiously
from the window, a smile of joy beam- e(
ing from her face ? It is because she is expect- r5
ing \Ionzo. lie is now about returning from I
ft* *111
"""inn m ..on mess. j he cares of his I !
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hn?-iiiess are now over, and hourly he is expected
by the anxious Louise.
At last the long looked for coach arrives,
and sho is soon in the arms of her husband. In
the course of the evening the guitar is brought fo
forward. Yes, that instrument that has pass- m
ed through so many scenes, is now kept as a
precious relic of the past, and she in her turn
sings the songs of long past. * ' ^
In one corner of the room stands a table of a,
exquisite carving, on which lay tho relics of the th
past, a book from one li'iend, a gift from an- |0
other, but the miniature, or the last treasure, ns
is now the most precious object that adorns it. c;)
A southern paper says:?A dentist in Wash- ki
ington has taken out a patent for g< iterating gas V
froin simple wood. This is no idle fiction.? b<
We examined the works, and saw the light to
burning in juxtaposition \vi(h that created from b<
tho Scotch coal, and it was equal to it both in in
purity and brilliancy. The inventor has en- fu
tered into a contract with a company in Wil-, di
mington, N. G\, to light up that town with his te
material. Pine wood, will) which that eoun- 'n
?J.. : r ?/./I l/i onti nllw.r nurl (Ko fli
try anounus, ^ prnvncu ^ umv., ?...v bi?.
gas generated iVoni it costs comparatively uoth- w
i?g. It is estimated that every house in Nor- vi
folk, and all the public lamps, cm he lighted d?
for a"sum not exceeding a dollar per night.? n<
This is almost as cheap as moonshine. The in
apHratus for generating this gas is extremely at
and simple, and we expect in a very few years ti?
to find it in universal use?accessible alike to in
the poor as well as the rich. cl
jflJisffUaitttiifc.
From the Lady's Book.
IIusbaml and Wife.
It is an act of injustice towards women, and
ic which ofteu brings its own punishment upon
ler.ted men, when they select, as their compan
us for life, the ignorant or the imbecile of the
her sex, believing .that, because the}' are so,
ey must be more capable of loving. If to be
capable of any thing else, implies the necessity,
must be granted that they are so. But of
hat value .is that love which exists as a mere
ipulse of nature,' compared with that which
ith an equal force of impulse, combines the
ghest attributes of an enlightened mind, and
ings them all, with their rich produce, like
overs from a delicious garden, a welcome and
ipropriate offering at the shrine, wherever the
;art is laid ?
Still I must repeat that it is not the superioriof
talent, but the early and the best use of
eh as we possess, which gives this and beauty
affection, by directing it to its appropriate
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d. f or, as in ouier unties ui ?uiu?us mt,
thout knowledge she cannot, if she would act,
operly; so in the expression and bcstowment
her love, without an intimate acquaintance
fh the human heart, without having exercised'
r faculties of observation and reflection, and
thout having obiainedby early discipline some
astery over her own feelings, she will ever be
ble to rush blindly upon those fatal errors by
lich the love of married life so often has been
cckedv
* " * * ' " * *
Now, it is impossible for any woman of right
dings to hide from her conscience that, if she
ooses to marry, she places herself under a
oral obligation to make her husband's home
pleasant to him as possibly she can. Instead,
ercfore, of behaving as if it was the great busiss
of married life to complain it is her peculiar
ity as a wife, andoue for which, by her natural
nstitution, she is especially fitted, to make all
r domestic concerns appear before ber busnd
to the very best advantage. She has time
r her troubles and turmoils, if such things must
leessarily be, a fact which I am a little disposed
question, when her husband is absent, or when
e is engaged exclusively in .her -own depart
. 1-1 .? i-- I.:. 1
cut \ and it si16 Wouiu muse ilia uuiuo ?uou
ight to be to him?"an ever, sunny place"?
e wilt studiously shield him, as with the wings
love, from the possibility of feeling that his
miestie annoyances give weight and poignanto
those more trying perplexities which most
en, engaged either in business or tn public afirs,
find more than sufficient for their peace of
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A Curious Case of Circumstantial Evi :nck.?An
Irishman named Patrick Grace
as arrested in Worcester on Saturday chargI
with the assault upon George W. Benlley,
e ca>h clerk of lire "Worcester and Nahua
ilroad. The examination developed a cin-iis
chain of circumstantial evidence, of which
e following narration is given in the Worcesr
Transcript:
"Grace took the Nashua cars at the station
this city, intending to proceed to Boston by
ay of Groton Junction. 'While on the road,
s singular conduct uttracted the attention of
r. Brooks the conductor, who, at a favorable
onient after the arrival of the train at the
ruction, asked him where he was going ??
race, who was apparently under the effects
'liquor, replied that he had struck a man in
oreester the night before, and was listening
i Boston to escape, the consequences] Mr.
rooks immediately and reasonably suspecting
m as the person guilty of the assault upon
r. Bcntly, engaged him in further conversa
an, in the course of which he (.Mr. Brooks)
iked him what had become of the hat he usu1>
wore, and to his astonishment Grace reied
that he had lost it in the scuffle! Mr.
.1 ?I.?.1 IriiiH nf tinf ih tvns?
, llit'II ct&I\L*U (illll nuui ui.iu ....w . ? .. ? .
race replied that it was a Kossuth hat! Mr.
, then asked him to describe the man whom
: had struck, and Grace proceeded to do so,
ving an exact description of Air. Bentley,
en to the color of his whiskers!' Mr. Brooks,
i it was his duty to do, caused Grace to be
turned to this city, where the evidence against
m seemed to derive lull confirmation in the
ct that the Kossuth hat in possession* of the
dice was found to fit him exactly, and heal.
> answered fully the description which Mr.
untley was able to give of his assailant, from
hat he could see in the darkness of the night,
his testimony would inevitably have convictI
Grace; but it was fortunate for him that the
ul assailant of Mr. Bently was discovered
rough the agency of the lost hat, on Saturday
orning. Grace was of course discharged on
is complaint."
How to,obtain* iiigiI Hraltii.?Walker iii
s "Original," lays down the following rules
r attaining high health. They are worth recmberiug:
"First, study to acquire a composure of mind
ul body. Avoid agaitiou or hurry of one or
e other, especially just before and after meals,
id the process of digestion is going on. To
is end, govern, your temper?endeavor to
ok at the bright side of things?keep down
i much as possible, the unruly passions?disird
envy, hatred and malice, and lay your
;ad upon your pillow in charity with all mnn
wl I n? twit vmir \irontc fintriin >-nnr mnnnc
IHJ. JJV, I. liwb J wui nnuvw wuvi u.i j wu. imvuw
/hatever difficulties you have to encounter,
j not perplexed, but only think what it is right
i do in sight ofllim who seelh all things, and i
>ar without repining the result. When your
euls are solitary, lot your thoughts be cheer '
1; when they are social, which is better, avoid
spates or serious arguments, or unpleasant
ipics. 'Unquiet meals,' says Shakespeare,
lake ill digestions;' and the contrary is projc<-d
by easy conversation, a pleasant project,
efcome news, or a lively companion. 1 adse
wives not to entertain their husbands with
micstie grievances about children or servants
yv to ask for money, nor produce npaid bills,
>r propound unseasonable questions; and I
1 vise husbands to keep the cares and vexaans
of the world to themselves, to be corn
unicativc of whatever is comfortable, and
leerful, and amusing."
TIic JLonton Poor.
The following extract, from a leading articl
in the London Morning Herald presents a gl<?
my picture of the condition of the laboring poc
in the capital of "Merrie England." God hel
the poor.
What an exposition of human folly in vie;
of thesad facts confhined in the subjoined, d
the grand preparations in honor of Mrs Stow
present to the world. Where in any Souther
State in the United States, can he found a
"Uncle Tom" in such destitution .and miser
as the white subjects of Queen Victoria, an
I he fellow-cfeatures and neighbors of the Duel
ess of Sutherland, mentioned in the followin,
sickening details. No more degrading exhibi
tion of fallen humanity, in our opinion,'has bee;
madc-in this enlightened and christian age tha
that afforded by the aristocratic furor now ex
isting-in England in relation to a lyi^j repre
sentation of the institution ofiabor with us, am
Lp the preparatory proceedings of welcome t
the author of the libellous fiction.
But there is no fiction in the subjoined; it i
penned by those who knew and daily witnes
the scenes they depict, and neither "Unci*
Tom's Cabin" nor "key" can unfold such de
graduation, miser}', and want:
"Not very far from the spot where we writ*
within no very great distance of the resident
of many of our aristocracy, lies one of thos*
dark and gloomy "courts" which nil over Lon
don are thronged by the poor.* It is not, w<
believo, worse than hundreds of others, but it i,
has been explorod, and the humanity of thos*
who have visited its dismal chambers, we an
indebted for a description of the-dwellings an(
the daily life of myriads of our swarming popu
lation.
The "cyurt" of which we write, Charlotte
buildings, off Gray's inn-lane,, contains fifteei
houses,'and these 15 houses give, each contain
ing 8 rooms, shelter, upon the lowest estimate
1000 persons. The description of one of thes*
houses is th6 description of all. Will our rer.
ders bear with us while we take tliern through it:
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apartments as tliev ace aesermea oy an eye
witness. We begin with the two rooms upoi
the ground floor. ... 1
lu tiie front room "there are no bedsteads
chairs, or tables, a few ragged cloths are dry
ing before a little fire in the grate, above tin
mantel are a looking glass, about three inehe:
high, and some torn prints of the crucifixion
&c.-; in tho cupboards, without doors, are pie
ces of broken crocekry; a kind of bed in on<
corner, with children asleep ; the floor rottei
in many parts, the walls and ceiling sadb
cracked. The rent is 2s. 8d. per week, whiel
is called for every Monday, and must be pai<
011 Wednesday."
We are not told who arc the inmates of thi
chamber, but the room immediately behind i
"presents a sad scene of distress?the man, hi
wife, and some children, earn a living by chop
ping firewood; the man had been ill and no
able to i i- y for two days; be was lying on J
quaiftity of wood-shavings, and was coyerei
with an old black and ragged blanket; hisskii
did not appear as if it had been washed fo
weeks; lie was very ill, and evidently in a stat
of fever; his wife was almost equally dirty ?
"We have 110 wood to chop,' was the im^fes
sion of their ultimate distress. Thi? room wa
much dilapidated, and they lwd suffered greal
ly during the late severe weather, owing to tli
broken condition of the windows. The ren
was Is. 9d. per week; the window overlooks
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DaCK vara, Uie conumuu ui niucu nus auutn
>"g.
These, it will be remembered, aro not th
haunts of outcasts of society, who live by pluri
tier. This wretched back room is the hiding
place of a miserable couple, who, with thei
children, attempt to euro their bread l?y "ni
humble, an ill requited, but an honest industry
The expression of their worst disteress is, "W
have no wood tOr chop."
"The first floor," continues the writer, "bot
back and front, was crowded with inhabitant:
The people acknowledged that fifteen person
slept in the two little rooms last night; the wall
were cracked and dirty, and the ceiling cor
stuntly falls upon the floor while the inmate
are taking their food. One woman said that
part of the cracked hearthstone from above ha
fallen among tho children. The rent of th
front room is 2s. 3d.; back, Is. 9d. Contimlin;
our way up stairs, we found the state of tb
staircase of the rooms worse and worse. I
the front room two pair, when our eyes had be
conic accustomed to the Rcmbrantish gloon
we found fifteen persons!! Some had been se]
ling onions, &c., in the streets, some bogging
one or two were seemingly bricklayers' laboi
ers, and others had been working at thccarrio
heaps in the neighborhood.1'
The others presented the same dismal pit
tore, with addition of holes in the roof, thong
which the winds, and rains, and snows, mad
their way unon the inmates of this wretehc
teiiemenlt For these attics the rent was th
k.same as for the lower apartment?an anoriial
accounted for by the fact that the landlord r<
moves to the upper rooms those who may be
shilling or so in arrear of rent." The annus
sum extorted from these miserable beings fo
the hire of this one house amounts to upward
of ?40!!?a rent infinitely greater, in propoi
tion, than is paid for the noblest palaces ofth
West-end.
It is difficult to realize the appalling trutl
that in one small court of this great me trope
lis, one thousand human beings arc at this mo
ment thus existing. Multiply this number b;
that of the similar receptacles of human miser
that surround us, and we may venture to sel
against all the degrnduation ot Human natur
that prevails over ten thousand square mile
.of the most savage district upon earth, the ul
tor abasement of our fellow creatures, which if
at the very hour when we write contained with
in the limits of the metropolis ofgreat and Chris
linn England.
Let men prate as they will about our pro
gross, we do not believe that scenes like tlies
existed in the olden time. Discomfort titer
may have been?distress, and hard and pinch
iug times, but we do not believe that any gor
oration but our own has ever witnessed so hid
eons a congregation of squallid, abject, am
hopeless destitution as to be found in thes
loathsome receptacles to which our busy civili
zation drives its cast-off victims to rot.'
I ?cttrral Htm
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>r Dreadful Assassination.
P The following are the details of a horrible
assassination in the'Island of Java.' contained
M in n letter by the last overland math
0 '' It appearing for some time past tliat pecuc
lalions in the coffee stores of the Government
n in Ponorogo, Madiven, had been going' on, un
n investigation was ordered. The native store)'
keeper, (dissatisfied or perhaps alarmed, and
d wishing to be discharged before an enquiry
l* was instituted,) in his official correspondence
S with the controller addressed his last letter ' to
' the controller,' without any othej title of resn
pect, as is usual in the proper style ofa native
n addressing a European ambteuaar, his immediate
chief.
On the receipt of the letter, Mr. Barsle, the
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11 controller, sent ror mm aim reprmiiiuuru mm i
0 for his want of the usual formality, and told
him that he would complain of it to the As3
sisttxnt President, Mr. Vincent, at whose kan3
tore (or office) he ordered him to appear tfie
e following morning at 9 o'clock. Poor Vin;
! cent had already given over his office to his
successor and was to leave at 10 o'clock for a
e new appointment,-but came into the office at
2 the request of Mr. Barsle, for the purpose of
2 completing an official document llarsle then
made his complaitit against the stdre-beeper,
2 and Vincent gave him. 1.0 days arrest with the
3 usual form of taking away, bis kits and pay2
ing, (an official amhrellairanking by its color,) j,
- both,of which he delivered up and requested
i permission to absent himself for a few minutes.
He went outside where otTe of his attendants
was waiting with his siri box and also another
* kris belonging to .him, which ho must have ,
1 given him to carry when he left his home early* .
in the morning. He snatched the kris, told
1 the-opassers, or attendants^" wait, I wish to
3 say a few words to your master," rushed intoi
" the kantore and stabbed Barsle through the
s heart. He fell dead at his feet without a ,
groan or struggle. Vincent on. seeing this (
1 took up the chair on which he had been sitting,
threw it at the fellow, knocking liiin down,
? and then escaped out of his office; the rascal
1 on getting on his legs wauted to run amok and
2 weut into the clerk's office. All of the clerks ,
s except one had escaped and he was in the act
> of running away, . - ,
The assassin parsued, hut soon gave op the .
2 chase, the country born clerks (half caste) be.
' ing too active for him. On turning round he
f beheld Vincent peeping from tbexomerfof.t)re
2 building, and made for him. Poor Vincent
ran for it, and would have escaped, but looking
round as he fled, he unfortunately stumbled
s over a stone, and before he could rise the as-_
1 snssin had stabbed him in three places in the
3 belly, and nearly hacked off the fihgers of hi* >.
right hand. Ilia young wife, hearing the
noise, ran out, and seeing her husband on the
^ ground attacked by a Javanese, came up at
the very moment the murderer drew out his
n knife from his victim's side, and striking him in
r the fqce with her hands, the fellow,instead of
e stabbing her, as he might easily have done> appeared
to come to his senses, looked at her
full in the face for a minute or moro, and then
8 turned round and went awayc
t- . _ . F .
0 ? t
Cooley Labor in Cuba.?A goo<J deal was
a said on Change, Wednesday last, in New York,
about the introduction of Coolies in Cuba. The
Herald says:
e According to the account of a returned raerchant,
from Havana, an interesting experiment
was making in the island of Cuba, with cooley
laborers. It appeared that they were being in?
troduced from "English vessels, and that there
. existed a good demand for them. Planters paid
y vessels $160'a head for adults?the cost of their
passage?and then had them bound to service
|, for eight years at $8 per inouth, and found, in
. food, but clothing at their own'expense.
It was believed' that very feW'wouhl ever reIjj
gain their former homes?that those whom hard
work, cholera, atid the yellow fever spared, would
s be too poor at the end of the cightyears to leave.
a In other words, it was slavery of the worst kind,
j in disguise. That while English -fleets were vigie
lant in abolishing the African slave trade, and iu
? preventing the introduction of Africans into Cu?
ba, who weitj bettor adapted by nature for the
? cultivation of sugar, they were tolerating a ntuch
more cruel trade in coolies. Their own ships
I tvni'P j illowed to transuort inoffensive coolies, and
|] virtually sell them and doom them to slavery
r for life, and to the worst of all taskmasters, the
Spaniards, whose system of servitude was alike
n successful in exterminating Indians, negroes, and
coolies. In Demarara large numbers had been
introduced, but they were prohibited in the En!'
gliah colony from laboring in the towns, because
their services came in competition with those of
? free blacks, to whom they were said to be supc"
rior in such places. The result, as fir as English
e philanthropy has gone, has been toabolisn black
y slavery, and reduce another race, less adapted
5 for such labor, to a barbarous servitude in its
a place, more intolerable than that of the African
lI race.
r (
3 New Description of Cotton.?The editor
r" of the United States Economist has received
e from Messrs J. C. Henderson & Co., of New
York, a remarkable specimen of Cotton, desi,
tined for the World's Fair. It was procured
i- by a merchant of Texas, from the "Pino/' Ini
dians. It is of a texture and strength of fibre
y to any ever before offered in that market.?
y To the touch it has the feeling incident to cott,
ton. It is a long staple and a beautiful clear
o white color. The discoverer has procured a
s quantity of the seed and intends to try its culture.
Negro Trading.?We learn that a day or
> two since, two men were arrested at the 79 mile
station on the Central Railroad, charged with
i. bringing negroes into the State, and selling
o them contrary to law. They had brought
e some eight or ten negroes from N! Carolina,
i- whom they had disposed of and had one in their
i. .possession wfcn arrested. They were taken
|. to Macon by an officer from that city, when
d they were hound in the sum of$l.QQ0 euch. to
o take their trial. 'The negro found in their posj.
session was committed to jail.
Savannah WVics. J
From the hT. 0. ricd^uhe.' \ <jjM
1/ Spanish Slave EmanCipaUoni' , '-.J
^ We alluded a few days since to tfje .t'eje-' r
graphic report that Spain bad .agreed,*
suggestion of England, to emancipateJmj-~ ;1
slaves, and made' some rerrfU'rks upon theluK-^ 'g
torical points of that question. We,
in our New York'excbanges the fdlowfrg.ej- ' J
planations of the matter, hv which If wirbe'.-.;
seen that the question is depiived of its un.- /-Tg
r\Aidan/io frvr 'thn nrocwnt "-g
The Madrid correspondent* <Jf the
Chronicle makes the"following important -state? . "qB
ment: tS
' Through theExertions' of. Lord Ilowdcn,. |
the Spani-h Government has agreed to give 1
complete liberty, before the end of the year, to \
that class of negroes called em.-thtipadps, after ' m
the completion of their five years consignation, . _ 3
or apprenticeship. Those eirtantjjados who,' 1
at the end of 1853,v shall not have finished tl.eif -3
term of servitude, shall be manumitted a?c6r?
ding as their several' probationary period* ex- _ -JB
pire. This measure has been occupying the i / ?
British legation at Madrid, one-way of ?n<rtjf- . 3
er, for the last thirty years, and jti cOticcttjon, |
now may be looked q^as an earnest Of'better -V#|
things, while it is not without.its tourage'iri *2?^
the present disaffected state of Cuba."_
With all due deference to "the Madrid cor^ |
respondent of the Moniing'Cb'ronicle,'* we,-- *3
would say that what he has here put fortbiias' . , J
news is a very old" thing^ftavin^been the ex- i J
act positron of the ouestioujbr tftgjast.thirfjuf 3
years. Under the treaty of 1817; there,
established at Havana a mixed tribunal, com/ -.J
posed of two* English and One Spanis^jlmg^' * - 3
for the purpose of adjudicating cases ofsfjy&rs; 1
Captured by British cruisers
Slavers thus taken tm& condemned .by this J
tribunal were at iirst sold, and la^3
up, in Havana, for it was found t^at thelcJtpr. ?
mer owners would purcha8e4heat.aniLi5t the?b v>J
out at once for another -voyage lo^, the^togfr
coast.; The,negroes v^ere placed a/the."$spp*^'y - J
sal of the .Spanish. .Colonial/Cioy^^^t,.^^.'^^
were by it put out as apprentices for a term of,
years, in order that;(hey .night /earn the lam.
guage, some uRejjfl. occupation and r the ;
mentsof the Christian reiiainn. }
The term of service vyas seveny^ats^d .
affair was a most profitable
tain General received from the grantee apref
mium for each negro, varying from six ouncety^Sj
($102,) to tert ounce<(?1703> head, according
to th.e Season of the year, (the demand for
labor during the cqne-eutting season increasing " - ,y
the price at that particular time,) and the value
of the apprentice. These apprenticed negroes ,<gj
are called emancipados, (emancipated,) and
are to become free at the eud of their terni of <
i v' - vl
service. ^
For many years past the greater portion of [
the labors of the British judges in the mixed ,
tribunal has been the huuting op of negroes
whose term of service had expired* but who
had not been Resented to the Government For
for the purpose of obtaining their free papers.
A very large proportion of the original number
apportioned would be reported dead,.and
certificate of interment would, upon inquiry,.
be presented from the curate of the parish.
Yet, from time to time, able bodied negroes,
long supposed to be dead, would fidd their way
to the judges and claim their liberty. This
subject.has been one of constant irritation be-' i
tween the Government of Quba and the mixed
tribunal, and the British Government has eda- .
stantly urged upou Spain thaf she should give j
to the judges of this court authority to go into
the country and question every negro they
might choose as to his origin and the time he
had been in the country. j . .
Spain clearly saw what a vast amount of
accumulated testimony of hcrJlcoii$tant infraction
of the treaty of 1817 would thus be procured
by the British Government, in the declaration
of negroes imported lit violation of <
that treaty, and she has steadily adhered to her
determination not to consent to it. CndW the
pressure and urgency of the English demand
she lias resorted fVgtn<time to time to various
subterfuges and concessions which have neVef
been carried out by the Colonial Government;
and the present arrangement though not clearly
explained in the above cited paragraph, is no
doubt one of the same evasions. The fact
u?* ? nfooorf ninnipnt the number of
l llttl/ iX% kUC j/l vs'fc***
einancipados is very insignificant, renders the
whole mutter of very little importance.
It is not, however^ to be supposed thai Em
gland gives up her cherished desire for the abolition
of slavery in Cuba. She pursues he object
with the greatest tenacity and skill. In a
communication addressed by Lord Palmerston
to Lord Howden, British Ambassador at Madrid
in October last, the following significant
passage occurs :
"With reference to that passage in Mr. Miraflores's
note in which he states that ihe Spanish
Government canrtot understand how her
Majesty's Government can seriously recommend
a measure which would prove to be very
injurious to the natives of Cuba, when thejr *also
recommend that the Spanish Government
should conciliate the affections of those Cubans,
I have to instruct your Lordship to observe
to Mr. Miraflores that the slaves of Ci-baS.'
form a large portion, and by na means an un- . important
one, to the population of Cuba, and
that any steps taken to provide for their emancipation
would, therefore, as far as the black
population is concerned, be quite in unison
w ith the recommendation made by her Majesty's
Government, that measures should be
adopted for contenting the people of Cuba, with
a view to secure the connection betweeu that..
island and the opanisn tjrowa; ana u must
be evident that if the negro population were
rendered free, that fact would create a m<?st ,
powerful clement of resistance to any scheme
for annexing Cuba to the Uuitod States, where
slavery still exists." - *
*
The special pleading of the foregoing is amusing,
but the moral conveyed and the design^
unfolded are not only instructive but of vital
importance. We do not suppose England will
abandon her designs so long as there is a Spanish
Government to work upon.
An ox 10 hands high, and weighing 3,500
lbs., has arrived at St. Louis from Weston, Mo.,
eu route for the New York World's Fair.
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