Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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/ " ' I 'I ' A.'.. DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, THE ARTS, SCIENCE, AGRICULTURE, MEWS, POLITICS, &C., &C. fcERMS?TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM,] "Let it be Instilled into the Hearts of your Children that tho Liberty of the Press is the Palladium of all your Rights." Junius. [PAYABLE IN ADVANCE.' VOLUME 5---X0. 34. ABBEVILLE C. II., SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 25, 1857. WHOLE NUMBER 242= RATES OF ADVERTISING. | The Proprietors of the Abbeville Banner nml j Independent J*rm, have established the follow- 1 ing rates of Advertising to be charged in both papers: Every Advertisement inserted for a loss lime than three months, will be charged by the insertion at One Dollar per Square, (1 i inch -?the ?pae? of 1'2 solid lines or loss,) for tin- finst Insertion, and Fifty Cent* for each subsequent insertion. fr??" Tlie Commissioner's, Sheriff's, Clerk's and Ordinary's Advertisements will be inserted in both pnpers, each charging half price. Sheriff's Levies, One Dollar each. 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DAVIS ?t CREWS, For Banner ; LEE A WILSON, For Prrs*. IVIISCEI/LAISry. . Ohio Life and Trust Company. Mr. Chnrles Stetson, the president of the Ohio Life tuul Trust Company, has returned to Ciu cinuati, after an attempt to investigate the affairs of the branch of that, concern in New York, lie has published an account of his inquiries, in which lie states that the a (fairs of the Trust Company have been so mismanaged that it is utterly impossible to make any intelligible and satisfactory report concerning theiu. lie further says: i One serious source of embarrassment arises i from the unwarrantable hypothecation by the 1 cashier in New York of a large .amount of pa- ' ij>er sent to the agency for collection only. It is 1 impossible, at this time, to conjecture for how I much of this the company may be ultimately 1 jiauie. . | < Witliin the past two wceke protested bill* of ! exchange to the amount of ?25,000 sterling, ' ((equivalent to about *125,000,) have been re turncd upon the company in New York. Nearly all these bills had bee n purchased and remit- < teil to meet various drafts drawn by the cashier < ?pon a credit opened in London with Messrs. | Hell Grant. The acceptors of these protested . bills, bs well as the drawers in New York, liav- ' ing suspended payment, and being perhaps in- J solvent, what dividends will be obtained from their estates, *nd when, is very uncertain.? | This is another of tli? many causes or reasons i why a statement caiurot now be prepared, and is here introduced nearly *s kji illustration. 1 In addition to the foregoing is the almost I endlc?s litigation caused by numerous attach < inenLs and other legal proceedings, causing a-J- | ditionul embarrassment in the liquidation ami ( settlement of claims in favor oi as well as ' against the company. The various assets of I the company, pledged and unpledged, are of j such a mixed and varied character, that iu the | preasent disturbed and unsettled state of mon<y matters, it is wholly impossible now to lix a value upuu litem. The caus a which have 1 brought the company to insolvency are wliolly | owing to the unauthorized ami disastrous trans- | actions of the cashier in New York. 1. In his dealings with, and large advances to the Cleveland and Pittsburg Kailrond Coin- ' pany, to aid in the completion of said* road. < This account him not yet been adjusted. 2. lu i speculations on his own account iif the stock ol i ;tUis company, as well as other companies, as ,also in biate securities. 8. In tliedepreciaiion .qfstock? and securieies helfl by iiiui as collate!*- ' abto unauthorized louna made by him iu New ! Yurjc. ! TAvoseare the prominent items, and the lose sustained on them aloue will, 1 fear, be of sutKcieiit amount to absorb the entire capital of the company-?twtf millions ol dollurs. The Removal o * Secretary Stanton.?We firjd the following dispatch from Wellington in the Baltimoro pafera, conccrning the re.mbv'al of Mr. Slanton?a fact of which we hava brief telegropbic report. "The administration having been advised by telegraph that Acting Governor Stanton hftd called a special meeting of tbe Territorial Legislature of Kansas, <the President to day forthwith removed him, and nominated to tbe Senate as his successor, Gen Denver, now Comtuiteitiner of Indian Affair*, wlio left WashingAh flirt Wont loot njflul/ TiiA r/>oann mv. en foi this removal is that Secretary Stanton has violated the instructions heretofore given to both' Gov. Walker and himself, to do no -act whiclf could possibly diatnrb the peace of tHe Territory, but to exert all the ?epns in t^frpoWer to preserve it. sole object and purpose of convening 'tHe Legislature, it is considered, can only be *t<j Engender strifes and embarrass the people in'Votihe on the slavery question in the form .proposed by the constitutional convention. No definite action was had to-day by the Senate otf Gen. Denver's nomination. It. isanticipal. .a A: :n ??i._ ?i ... i/cu ujoii a ucawu uiouuooivu win who |;iavu Vfien the subject shall agaia come before that bbdv i ft secret session. -Last week instructions were sent to Mr. Btartton to take every precaution to prevent yJJjrturbnnce at the ensuing election and afford s'frtre'and unmolested exerciseof the elective franchise: Doubts are expressed aa to whether Gov-.^Walker's name will be sent to the Senate far confirmation. *MK Laurence, of the Ohib delegation, distilbcalV contradicts the statement that the damotfratfc members of that delegntion have resolved to vote against Lecompton constitution. Tftefe hod been neither action not discussion otffcfie subject among them: i f- gp , ^ ii-: They areg^tlina Ir'ish iWUtd* til ttafttta, CHHJlrdm T?on^2W,-iara"ld1)? arfOrt 'to from the North. ' Gov. Wish's Message.?The Virginia paper: contain a very long ami elaborate Message oi Oo\. Wise, lie despatches Federal Relations in few words, the fo.lowing paragraph contain ing all: "Fkhkraj. Relations.?Dining the Inst ycai an election for President and Vice President o the United States wa? held, which portended results of the deepest interest to our people, Tliey weresaved from aimreliendcd evils, wliieli I will not recapitulate, in order to avoid irritat ing thv temper of the times. lint at.- one mo muiit n dark cloud shrouded the heavens of oni lia|>|>y country, and seemed rendy to burstovet ami destroy our ninny ricli and glorious blessill};*. Then it .was that I felt called on toaddress to certain of the State Executives a letter of which the accompanying is a copy. Its objects were to defenu the rights ami liberties ol the State of Virginia, to protect her people and to save the Union. Happily the election itscll aecompli.-lied these objects, ami there was nothing more for me to do but to rejoice with every patriot in the result. The omens for the future are far hotter than they have been ; and tin warnings of the past are potent to dispel the clouds which were lately so dark and threatening (Jur Federal relations arc now in safe hands, and with nbidini; confidence 1 leave them there, to bo watched and guarded by a zealous vigilance, but uot-to be disturbed by mere faction or to be destroyed by the selfish, sinister or sectional spirit of disorganization. I recommend that we all, in all the departments. nii it? iis a IiiiikI o! lirotlicrs, to attend, undivided and unspent, l'??r this one session at least, to llic business relations of our own blessed commonwealth." Tin: City or tiik Oaks.?Our lirot.her?editor i?f I lie Kilgefield Advert isr in liis last letter I'roni the Capital to that interesting sheet speaks as follows concerning our City : The city of Columbia is evidently improving. It. is truly n lieuutif.il plane. On all sides are. to be found evidences of the tnstefulness and refinement of her citizens,?in their trracoful mansions, in their lovely gardens, and in the universal cleanliness and" well kept-lip condition ,.r i...:.. . v/i - I viiiire premises. lucre was one thing however which I was really grieved to.observe. The ten wateronks planted twenty-five years ago hy Col. Blniidiug. near hifl then-residence, are nil in n state of rapid decay. These were the fir.it trees of the kind planted in Columbia. Since then, long rows in a number of localities have been made to flourish nud shade the side walks. What we fear is, that twenty years more will find them all perishing in their places, nt:d that the pleasant air of nt.t in urbc which they now impart will be exchanged for a garish nakedness of aspect, at once uncomfortable and uninviting to the eye. Against this howevei, the Athenian pride and tj.^t-e of the Columbians will doubtless provide in due time. A Diabolical Yotrxo Scoundrel.?A singular nfTuir is related in a tjileasian Journal. Five little children belonging to two tradesmen in Bolkenhavn, in that country, went a few (lays ago to play in n garden, and were joined by a boy of eleven, who lias always been noted for perversity of d .-position. After awhile their parents sought for them, hut to their astonishment, found thut tliey had disappeared. After looking along while they found them lying piled one on another in a large wooden ease in a shed in the garden. Four were dead, and the tilth though still breathing, was in riO desperate a slate that he died shortly after. The lad referred to was then questioned, and lie calmly related the astounding fact that he had persuaded the children to enter in play?had litem slammed down the lid and rented him self on it, remaining there for three-quarters of in hour listening to their erics and groaus. lie liivii iiiinvu inc uu iu ee u nicy were u??uu, iiul finding tliut they were not so had fastened it by iiiciuiii of a ha?j), after which he had jone away to fly his kite. The little monster lias been arrested. A Candid Deacon.?M. was nn honest :>ld codger, a kind, obliging neighbor, and % good church-going christian, believing in ihe Presbyterian creed to'the fullest extent; but alackaday ! this piller of the church was :?t times a little shaky"?in fact the deacon ivould occasionally get exceedingly "mel lowand almost every Sunday at dinner lie would indulge in his favorite cider bran. Jy to such an extent that it was with some little difficulty he reached his pew, which was in the broad aisle, near the pulpit, and x-tween the minister's and the village Squire,s. One Sunday the parson told his luck that he should preach a sermon to them it the afternoon touching many glaring sins dial lie grieved to see so conspicuous among -.11 I .1 ..4 1 1 1 *1 ?' - nii-in, it11*i mat ne unpen uiey wouiu mien attentively and not flinch if he should happen to be severe. The afternoon came and tlie house was full; every body turned out to bear their neighbor's "pressed down" by Lhe minister, who, after well opening his Sermon commenced upon the transgressors in a loud voice with'die question, "where is die drunkard ?" A solemn pause succeeded ibis inquiry; when up rose Deacon M.with liis face radiant from copious draughts ol liis favorite drink at hisnooulide meal, and, Rt..nrlv.;.n? .....u ? i.~ U L uiiincit <to nvn as uu UUUIU uy the pew-rail looked up to the parson anil replied in a piping and tremulous voice, "Hero am I." Of course a consternation amongst the congregation was the result -ot the honwui deucoiTs response; however, the parson went on with his remarks as he had written them, commenting .severely upon the drunkard, and winding up by warning him to forsake at once evil habit* i! he would seek salvation aftg^fiee the coming wrnth. The deacon then made a bow and seated himself again. uAnd now," oul spoke thn preacher-man in his loudest tones "where is the hypocrite f" A pause; but nc one responded. Eyes were turned upon tbii man and that innn * hut thn >nr?l <rlunr.? seemed directed-to the Squire's pow, and in deed the parson seemed to squint bard it that- direction. The deacon saw where tlx shaft was levelled, or where it should lx aimed, and, rising once more, leaned ove bis pew-rail to the Squire, whom he tappec on the shoulder*, and thus addressed "Come, Squire, why don't you get up; ] did when he called on me."?Boston Pont ? ? ? A Southern Port.?The Knoxvilh Southern Citizun. in the course of an artio le which strongly advocates a Southen seaport, uses this langeage: One of th< obvious remedies for temporary panics, a well as for permanent impoverishment ai the South, is to fix upon and establish om or tWo ports of direot intercourse between tb< South and the rest of the world. Already this matter baa. received a rather vague an< fluctuating kind of attention, . from a fev Sublic writers, and from members of.th outherrt Convention. 'Stirley the events c the pafet fa^ ^jpe? fchiy -Well help to fi pod ,tip6a[$om practical plan* 4 { Circumstantial Evidence. 1 i Til tho year 1*793, a young man who [ was serving his apprenticeship in London to a master sail-maker, got leaf to visit his r mother to spend Christmas holidays. She r liveel a few miles beyond Deal, in Kent. ' He walked the journey, and oti his arrival | at Deal, in the evening, being much fati. gued, and also troubled with a bowel com plaint, he applied to the landlady of a public lloUSfi U'lm WH? nr>/inuinl<ul ...III. 1.:.. ... .1. _ ^ -- 4. ?.? < ...? ii.im.I er, fur a night's lodging. Her* house was i full and every bed occupied, but she told liiin that if he would sleep with her uncle, who had lately come ashore, and was bo.itJ" swam of an ludiaman, he should be welr come?ho was glad to accept the offer ; ! and after spending the evening witli his new comrade they retired to rest. In the middle of the night he was attack! cd with his complaint, and wakening his bedfellow, ho asked him the way to the privy. The boatswain told him to go through the kitchen, but as he would find it dtflicult to open tlio door-in the yard, the latch being out of order, ho desired him to take a knife out of his pocket with which he could raise tlm h.tnl. The young man did as lie was directed and aflcr staying half hour in the yard, returned to bet I, but was much surprised to find his companion had risen and gone. Being impatient to visit his mother and friend?, he also arose before day, and pursued his journey, and arrived at home at noon. The lady, who had been told of his intention to depart early, was Hot much surprised ; but not seeing her uncle she went to call him. Shu was dreadfully shocked to find the bed stained with blood, and every inquiry after her uncle was in vain. The alarm now became general, and on further examination, marks of blood were j traced from the bedroom into the street. \ and at intervals down to the pier head. Rumor was immediately busy, and suspicion fell of course on the young man who slept with him, that he had committed the murder, and thrown the body into the sea. A warrant \Vas issued, and he was taken that evening at his mother's house. On being examined ;i?d searched, mmks of blood were diseoverd on his shirt and trowser, and in his pocket was a knife and a remaikable silver coin, both of which the landlady swore nostivelv were Iwr nrwli.'s ? < J property, and that she saw tliem in possession on the evening lie retired to rest with the young man. On these strong circumstances the unfortunate youlli was found guilty. lie related all the above circumstances in his defence, hut as he could not account'for the marks of blood on his person, unless he got them when he returned to bed, nor could account for the silver coin being in his possession, his story was not credited. The certainty of the boatswain's disappearance ; the blood at the pier, traced from his bedroom, were two evident signs of his being murdered ; and even the judge was so convinced of his guilt, that he ordered the execution to take place in three days. At the fatal tree the youth declared his innocence, and persisted in it with such affecting asservation that many pitied him, though nouo doubted the justness of his 1 The executioners of those clays were not so expert at their trades as modern ones, nor were props and platform*, invented. The young man was very tall, his feet sometimes touched the ground, and some of his friends who surrounded the gallows contrived to ive the body some support as it was suspended.?Alter Ix-iug eut down, those friends bore it speedily away in a coffin* and in the course of a few hours animation was restored and the innocent saved. When he was able to move his friends insisted on his leav mg Hie country and never returning, lie accordingly travlled by night to Portsmouth and cutered on board ot' a inan-of-war,*on the point t>f mailing to a distant part of the world ; and as be changed bis name and disguised bis person bis very melancholy history was never discovered. After a few years of service, during which i his exemplary conduct was the cause of his promotion through the lower grades, he was at last made master's mate, and his r ship being paid off in tlio West Indies, he , with a few more of the crew were transferred to another man-of-war, which bad just ar rived^sbort of bands from a different station. What were his feelings of astonishment, and then of delight and ecstacy, when alr most the first person he saw on board his i new ship, was the indt?nlical boatswain for I wbose murder he had been tried, comleinet! i and executed five years before. Nor was ; the surprise of the old boatswain much less f when ho heard the story. An explanation of all the mysterious circumstances then ' took place. - It appeared that the Itoalswain had been ? bled for a pain in bis side by the barber, ' unknown to his niece, on the day of the i young man's arrival at Deal, that when the * youug man bad awakened Imp -and retired to the yard, be found the bandage had came 1 off his arm, during the night, and that the 3 blood was flowing afresh. J Being alarmed, he arose to go to the barj" ber, who lived across the street; but a press - gang inia 1101a 01 tntn just as be left the * public house. Tbey hurried him to the * pier where the boat was waiting, and a few * minutes brought them on board a frigate, then under way for the East Indies, and he 3 omited ever writing borne to account foi * his sudden disappearance. These were the 1 chief circumstances explained by the friends 9 thus strangely met. s The silver coin being found in the poe1 session of the young man, could only be ex9 plained by conjecture?that when the boat8 swain gave him the knife in the dark it i? y probable, as the coin was in tbe same pockel * it stuck between the blades of tbe knife and ' in tbismanaei' became . unconsciously the ? itronsest Droof airainait him. lf Oq their cMorc to England*,Ibis wonder * fill ?XpUn*tion 'wm told to. ibe jodgo *oc jury wbo tried ths caw? k; prObabto that mt?k aiW ooriviotod* 1 . , 1 _ . 4si*~ -'i ' circumstantial evidence. It also made great noiso in Kent at that time. ?? A Widow's Perplexity. A disturbance of a somewhat unusua character look place yesterday morning, ; the dwelling ot' Mr. Thomas Fothergill, fine old gentleman of sixty-five, who lisi been a widower for eighteen mouths. M Fothergill, having become tired of his sol larv condition, advertised for a wife, statin according to custom, the* qualification which applicants for the situation were rc qu iied to possess. The advcrlisemen could not have been more than an hour he fore the public, when a brisk widow, Mr: Kacliel Morrison l?y name, mi<rhl have bee seen ascending llie steps of Mr. Fotliergill1 residence, in Eight street. Tliis laily re membeiing tin; proverb that "the earl] bird catches the worm," presented hersel for the advertiser's inspection almost a there was daylight enough to answer th purpose ; and, to reward her busiuess-lik alacrity, she proved to be the first competi ! tor for the prize. Mr. Fotliergill, being a man o.f mercar tile habits, is very prompt making a bai gain, and moreover, is not tery hard t 'please. Having examined Mrs. Morrison credentials, lie seemed to decide that sh would suit him exactly, and the whole a fair was about to be concluded, to the sat isfactioti of all parties, when a hard pull ;i . the door-bell announced another arrival. A1, :mmediately, u second lady et .ouin and glanced around apprt , as if afraid that she had coin She was si thin, elderly feinah whose name afterwards proved to ho Mis Noam a Price. "Are von the. trentlema who advertised for a wile?*' said MisslVn* as soon sts sfie entered. Before Mr. Foil ergill could reply, Mrs. Morrison answerei for him. "Yes, "madam, lie advertised hut I reckon he's supplied." I spoke t the gentleman himself, madam," answerei Miss l'rioe sharply, "and I suppose Ii knows his own mind." lie made a deehi ration of his intentions before yon came.1 said Mrs. Morrison. "I think you inus have misunderstood him, madam ; person at your time of life arc apt to hear impel fectly," answered Missl'riue. "Youappea to be very anxious to change your condi lion, madam," said Mrs. Morrison. "Yo seem to be much in want of a husband, too, said Miss Price. "I never found it dillieul to get one," said Mrs. Mori^son ; "and wish you to know that I have had two al ready." "Oh !" cried Miss l'ricc, "I se your husbands were much to be pitied, am I don't wonder that their lives were c short duration." winle tins altercation was going on be tween the ladies, Mr. Fothergiil looked am listened with extreme einharassment. Pos sibly he could have been happy with eithei "were the other dear charmer away"?an< lie seemed totally unable to decide whicl deserved bis preference. Tiie contest be tween the rival candidates was carried o with increasing bitterness, Until the hand < M i?s Price, while performing an energeti gesture, happened to touch the somewlu protuberant nose of Mrs. Morrison. Whs followed we gladly suppress, but, for tin sake of making ail accuratc report, it i necessary to say tbat the bonnets of hot ladies were demolished, and their face rather badly scratched. Mrs. Morriso made a charge of assault and battery j gainst Miss l'rice. That the scene &e hav described made some impression on Lh mind of Mr. Fothergiil tnay be judgei from the circumstances that when givin in his evidence at Mayor's office, lie sign fied his determination to remain single tV at least six months longer.?PliiL Press. A Human Hair Pair?Woman Bringin thoir TresBes to Market. Very few of our gentle readers, probnbl ever heard of or imagined such a thing * a Human Ilair Fair. As few, perhaps, ev< thought of inquiring into the source of tli beautiful trcsi-ci which are seen every da in those armories of Venus, the windows t the bair-dresseA. We are reminded, how ever, by a late French paper, that this i the season of the annual hair fair at Moi lass, in tho lower, Pryenees, in Franc Morlass is near the city of Pau, and it from a Pau journal that we deri've b soni account of the fair the present season. T1 hair-dealers were crowding into the p'ai irum ail points, Horn Toulouso , and evt Bordeaux ; and the young peasant girls i the neighborhood, famous for their line an abundant heads of bair, were Hocking < thii market like sheep, to be shorn of the locks for thealornment of other and prom er heads. Even young husbands accoinp; uy their wives, to insist upon their despoi ing themselves, for a tritiing consideratioi of tbeir beautiful heads of hair. Twcnt francs is the highest price which is give !.? i i ..ri?:- < - ? u. tuu iuuoiii, iiciiu ui imir, HIJU H lllHJuril of tho damsels | art will) thoir locks for teutb part of that sum. This singular market is held in tho ope street, and attracts crowds of curious a well as interested persons. Girls are see to bo sheared in public, while others ai waiting their turn, with their caps jn the hands and their long hair combed out an hanging down to their waists. Tho shea era are iuen as well as women. Some < i our fair readers will conolude that this mui I be a degrading scene. But how else coul the stock of wigs and frizettes,,and banc , and top pieces, and curls, which is neede to prop up the tottering beauty of the . so: ' be supdlied 1 Tons of black silken hai u filiAavorf Sn ?I>a * m ?iu tuoiuBiiuer Huove aescriDed trot i tbe Leads of the peasant damsels of tti South of prance, are imported into th country annually. There are fairs in olber places in lb South of France and in Brittainy, wher i adventurous, virtuosos buy up and shear tfa cjope pt*be fair-haired At fin I flush, it, Would seem that female vanit ? would effisoUmUy prevent suob>a traffic t this. But cupidity and indolent* are strong* . passions than vabitv \ and fashion eve I lends it* *id eu?U>iri,?f pa * " * 9 ? a In lirittainy particularly, where the finest and most silken black liair is procured it ii tliu universal fashion, from childhood upwards, to wear caps so close as completeI Iv to conceal the hair. The peasant girls there have particularly fine hair, and in the a greatest abundance. It is so common as 'S not to be <?mark of beauty ; and the peo[' pie are morally incapable of appreciating i- it as intrinsically beautiful and attractive, g It is a truth which ought notto betold,pers haps, in tl le presence of all our ladies, that the charming frizettes and tresses which t beautify the heads of our blooming belles, may possibly have been shorn from Hrc' ton damsels of verv filthy and loathsome ii I. s Bretons are neither Normans nor French, hut more WeUli than anything else, and V they are wild and savage, and as idle and ! dirlv as human nature can well he and cxs ist. The poor women wear their dresses e till they becoinu dirty, patched, tattered and e ragged, so that the maierial of which they i* arc made can he scarcely traced. The houses of the peasants are generally built of '* tnud, and without convenience. The chesnut, which abounds in the country, furo nishes, to a considerable extent, the food of s the poorer classes. Although inhabiting L* a tiuu country,capable of rendering thein ' prosperous and wealthy, the Bretons grovel on in supine idleness and dirt. No wontier the women sell their hair, which is in abundaut and marketable. The people are '* accustomed to subsist upon tins pianluctsoi J- spontaneous crops. In the Pyrenees, the e people are industrious and frugal, and the women are accustomed to regard a line s head oi" black or dark brown hair as only a " luxurious burden.?lioston Courier. [' Tho Story of Death. 1 R...-I.1..P lisn'ii 7 T 1 ; been. I will tell you the story of death, u Dr. lJenmh W. .Somes, of Essex county, I N. J., was my physician. I shall not curso o him now. Times has taught me that it is i- better to bless than to curse. And 1 feel, " bitter as my malison might be, that a more it miserable condition were not possible to him - : -*' * 0 tu<ui inv; uuusuiuusii^a ui ins inuruerou.s - wantonness must bring upon himself, hardr tilled as I fear liis nature is. But let thai i- pass. 11 1 will (ell you tlie story of my death. " I died at the age of 23. A stalwart man. It who on my farther's farm mo veil my swath 1 or hoed my row with the best, in an unfortunate hour I became the victim of the e practice of medicine which thou prevailed, 1 but which now, happily, is nearly disused, if I had some sort of fever ; no doubt I was ill enough. From my right arm one day the i- physician took ounces of blood?how many 1 I knew not; certainly, in liquid measure, a >- gallon of the red fluid flowed. I did not r, mend that day; at least I suppose I did not, ;1 for on the next day he cut my left arm li and took thence a like measure?the crim son measure of half a life. I was a dead n man then. I5ut a shudder or two always >f must come before the conscious soul lets c go its hold upon the frame. With-me the it shudders were iu the shape of cold sweats, it There were three of them, liy the clock? j. so some one at my Oedsnle whispered?the is chill and sweat lasted six hours. Six dim, 1) dark centuries they were to me. The third is ?its commencement, its tierce chill, its dead n colli, compared with which ico were a pleai sing warm til?its dread,, slow inarch 1 rec member, but nothing more. In the midst e of it 1 lost all sense of life and its pains. J The great gates of the valley of death rolled g on their ponderous hinges and shut me in. i- I do not recollect the circumstances of >r funeral and interment. In fact, I do not deem that I was buried. The weight I felt above me I knew was no mere ten feet of S ,ww.i- ...m. .i..:.: - cnaiti) in <? IIUWIX, >?ivi? uaiDiua springv ing iVoin it. The mountains were resting [s on me, I realized tlieir weight. ,r Strait up to the light?if light existed ? as under the centre of the central mountain I lay, it was many miles through solid jj- rock. I was not imbedded in the rock, like u cold toail,caught in during the formative js era of the geologists. It lay upon me. 1 felt all its weight. Sense had gone, but , consciousness was with me. Forty millions |8" of millions of tons weigiit was upon me. ie vii, now 1 suuouaieu ami smooinereu i LJut, , dead as I whs, consciousness cruelly clung to mo. I liad died?why could I not cease 'n to be! Time had passed away; there was 3j- no day, no night. But if mortul measure j could indicate the period 1 lay alone, and , dark, and autibcnte bmiealh that weight, jbenjr turies might have liown above my head, j. The silence was dread as the eutibcation was terrible. There was no sound. All j. was still, still, dark and hopeless. Had the j mountain roared as it crushed, it would have ' been au alleviation. But it did its works ? without sound, without remorse, like Fate, ? grim and sileDt. a 1 have said there was no measure of time to tell how Qiensureless weight pressed me n down, luere came a re not. A sense of 8 bearing came to ine, or the interna! fires of q earlli had rolled nearer to me. I' beard rt, their voice, distant as yet, like the wind in jy the leaves of^fcn thousand forests?like the j surge of a thousand unseen oceans. I felt r. its heat. But it was far away. A new 5f sense of suffouatidn'came upon me. This 3l suffocating force now surrounded me, cainu j within me, and pressed lue out. The suf|g focation within was like some vast expandj ing force, but it did uot lift the weight of ithe mounlarttbat was upon roe. Th&t still r'' held its awful pressure. But I heard the q Titans breathing -aa they fed the fires. This i:A ifitafo l<3 O f <i/l . . ??i k k*l>ull ann lt/\m l/Min? 7 fO j moivu-^nuw -ouoii oa,jr uurvr < j4 Then came?was it true I?could i believe it ??n dim sense of Higbt I saw; dirrrly and ie afar, the forma of those giants who. fed the e central fires of tba planet, Tbey moved siie lent and grim watching .their work; and when arill of ino11en rock glided apart: from v the mam, tfoy staid it witb tbeir ponderousMi b*?k ft fU P'0^. * hands. ? i .Then themMuntaiabegun to Wi.Mid sw?ll?, r* It seemed slowly 10 me?-tbo bundretlv back it sank, U ft*' j in rising that littio spacc. But at times I 1 colli.1 tool that it was rising. Into the chinks < , that it made as it rose, pressed, hot and s ' fierce, vapors of sulphur from the fires, i These enveloped me more closely than even I j the mountain's weight. I prayed that the i i mountain would again shut down and press i , them out. Its blank, dead suffocation, with I | all its eternal weight, was better. I 1 Jilt thu vapors thinned as the mountain ' i sliglitl}'. almost inperceptibly, lilted, threat : God ! I felt the touch of a human finger? a live finger. It lay beneath my arm, in the arm-pit. I f?*lt it plainly?the artery ! throbbed against it. Was tliere life? was ' it life ? No, no. The touch died away, I j ! was a dream ofthe sleep of death. I awoke j to eternal death, the mountain's weight, and , hot fiery vapors. Unyielding, they pressed : me still within and without. Again?was it again a dread ? I had a I sense of light, veiled and clouded light, as i through a sleep'* unopened lids. Th? light, ; dim as it was, was steady and continued. I watched it long?long! Acres was the ! only measure, if measure beyond the grave I there could he. But so dim it was that . j hope grew sirk and died,and rotted within i me ; and I fell hack into the old desolate : suffocation?llu? eternal, unvarying pressure of the mountain's weight. More ages went I l'yThen all at once was light, and a voice | and a human hand. Light, sound, touch, , i flashed at once upon me. How they niing! led and throbbed with the dead suffocation! i It w(h too much. N<>w, on the eve of relief < I had mv former prayer answered. Sensation i passed away. 1 was not. Annihilation i hail come. J From annihilation?or from an utter j blank of consciousness?I awoke, with pain j and fatigue,and still the sense of weight | utterable, to find that there was indeed light and touch, and hearing. The touch?it I was a nvfl Hand?a human hand. (Jod, j j tin; merciful and kind ! it was my own fa* | (her's hand ! It was liis finger beneath my I armpit. Now I felt it meet the artery, j T myself felt sympathy with him, the throb. I had come back to life. Death was over. Though it was no dream, this awaken* ing?though I knew it to be real, yet for hours I held but a stale of semi-consciousness. Hut I knew that death was over?1 knew I lived. I recognised the various members of iny family in my room. I heard my father's voice, subdued but joyful, pror claiming his unwavering faith, dining all, i 11,of I Then the doctor came. lie entered tbe room where I !;iy. "The boy is alive, doctor !" exclaimed my father. v "Nonsense!" was the heartless knave's reply?this devil of a doctor. At times I feel I must hate him, this doctor who had college warrant on parchment to murder and bury beneath mountains. ' He does live doctor!" persisted my father. "Keel beneath his arm !" The doctor put his hand?his faithless, cohl, skillessHx'ncath.niy arm. The little "life there was in mo recoiled from the contact, fled back to its sources, and gave no response to his muderous touch. "There is no bent then*," said he contemptuously, turning to my father. "It was all your fancy." My father put his hand beneath my arm again. Trembling, faith-shaken; wavering j ?his touch told all that, as he pressed the : artery long and UT!> throb responded. The i lit lit! lill lit' life. IVilS tnr? tVmt oiwl mnnl- In ! tlow. Longh? held his finpjor (here, and through it I could feel his hope die away, lie withdrew it at last, and lie <j:?z-.;d on the face of his dead son. llo looked long. llo was kind good father. I know where the grass grows above his grave. IIo gazed long. urn luiiu'u u>v<iy ;is mm win) uiwie lareweu. An liour passed, He came bark resolute, hope daunt less in his eye, as if some inspired frenzy made him hope against hope, and hear liis faith into the presence of despair. He touched again the artery beneath my arm. He felt the throb. It was fuller and faster, as hope seized and animated me and him together. The pidse was clear?small weak, as it might be, it was still marked and clear. lie felt it, and knew it was no fancy. He brought wine, and put a teaspoon filled with it to my lips. The palate and nostrils felt the sensation. Tliey slightly moved. The shadow of color came in my face. He knew I lived. My recovery was slow. For three days my sustenance was half a teaspoonful of wine paused to' my hps every two hours. After that they gave mo a whole spoonful at the sainu intervals. I gained strength slowly. At length I was able to get up. . But I was crippled forever. From the hour when life came back to me to this hour 1 have not been able to lift my right arm from my side. Below the elbow the limb is powerless. My left hand I cannot raise above my head. I was bled iu either arm. Sometimes, without thought, I make an effort to raise one arm or the other beyond the line which the paralysis of either has fixed. Then, oh a sudden, all grows dark before me; my head qwiips, and for an int r'?i >V.o. ~ ir..i wiuij x icui bug ovtiut uiuuiuam o nci^ut upon me. The spasm passes away, and I live again. - I commenced no action for damages against the doctor. Aside from the fact that lie did not then possess means to respond to the possible verdict, my friends, with the prejndices of the time, would have dis- . suftded me from suing him at the law. i PpurU.Htjd "faculty" in those day? believed in blood, and Lbo latter took it when they ! would. ..4/4 ? ? .! I. (l ?! M,\ .<>. ,tv ! ?c^pot'deem, reader, that tfce foregoing nnsMi^i Flainfield i and Whitfield, io j jUnbn(formerly E*sox)eoiiRty,-.My name j ?. *&? hr^iOTJffeW I iuir(T.-o!?r "e*re bftTfl piuwd, but the jnomo*} .. . - ' iniiii ?? wan ; ry of every hue and circumstance of those Jread ages of death is diatuict and vivid still. For often, even now% thoughtless ' movement of either limb bring iheir terrors bodily back, and once again?thank God,; it is but for a moment?I lie suffocated find pressed beneath the mountain's remorse-* less breast. rhe Frenoh Necromancer in Algeria How Ho Scared the Arabs. Everyone lias seen or heardspeak of ihe great Robert lloudin. Besieges being the prince of conjurors, be is an able mathe-" matician and mechanician, and his electric clock, made for the Flolel do Ville of bis | native town of lMois, obtained a medal at. the Paris Exhibition. It is not generally known that he was sent to Algeria by the French Government, on a mission connected with the black art?probably the fhsl time that a conjurer has been called upon to exercisu liis profession in government employ. Some details of his expedition liavo just been published. Its object was to destroy the. Influence exercised among the Arab tribes by the Marabouts?an influence often ?1 r>.. .. e..... ~i 111 i^uijilm humv ii|>|)iiv:u. uv ? ?cw eium^ (licks and impostures, these Marabouts pass themselves off as sorcerers ; no one, it wa9 justly thought, was better able to eclipse their skill and discredit their science than, the man of inexhaustible bottles. One of the great pretensions of the Marabouts was to invnlnerablity. At the moment that a ' loaded musket was fired at him, and the" trigger pulled, he pronounced a few cabalis-; tic words, and the weapon did not go off. Iloudin detected the trick, and showed that the touch hole was plugged. The Arab wizard was furious and abused his French rival. ''You mav revenue vourself." ouietlv re plied Iloudin; take a pistol, load it j'ourself; hero are bullets, but before doing so,, mark it with your knife." The Arab did* as he was told. ''You are quite certain, now," said Iloudin, "that the pistol is loaded and will go off. Tell mo, do you feel no., remorse in killing me thus, notwithstanding that I authorize yon ?" "You are my enemy." coolly replied tho Arab; "I will kill you." Without replying, Iloudin stuck an ap.ple on the point of a knife, and calmly gave the word to fire. The pistol was discharged, the apple flew far away, and there appeared in its place, stuck on the point of tho knife, tho bullet tho Marabout had marked. The spectators remained mute from stupefaction ; tho Marabout bowed before his superior; "Allah is great?" said he,-"I am vanquished." Instead*of the bottle" form which, in hurope, liobt. lluudin pours nn endless stream of every description of wine and liquor, lie ealled for an empty bowl, which he kept continually full of boiling "coffee ; but few of the Arabs would taste it, for they . made sure that it came direct from the devil's own coffee pot. He then told them that'it was in his power to deprive them of all strength, and to restore it to them at will, and lie produced a small box, so liglit that a child could lift it with his finger; * but it suddenly became so heavy that the strongest man present could not raise it,and the Arabs, who prize physical strength above everything, looked with terror on tho great magician, who, they ^doutbted not, could annihilate them by the mere exertion of his will. They expressed this belief. Houdin confirmed them in it, and promised that on n day appointed, he would convert one of them into smoke. The day came; tho throng was prodigious ; a fanatical Marabout had agreed tof give himself up to the sorcerer. Thev made' him stand upon a table and covered him4 with a transparent gauze, then Iloudin and another person I i I ted the table by the two* ends, apd the Arab disappeared in a cloud of smoke. The terror of the spectators was ill-5 describnble ; they rushed out of the placed and ran a long distance before some of the boldest thought ot returning to look after the Marabout. They found liirn near the place whore ho had been evaporated, but lifc* * could tell (hem nothing, and was like ai drunken man, ignorant of what had happen-: ed to him. Thenceforward Houdin was" venerated, and the Marabouts despised ; the* object of lb#French Government wbs com' pletely attainedr _ The fashion of "testimony als" having, it appears, infected even th# Arabs, a number of chiefs presented'tlm conjuror with a piece of Arab writing^ won? derfully decorated, hyperbolical and eulogjftic, and to. which they were so attentive ft* to append a French translation. this memorial of his Algerino trip, IIoufdiD has a rosary which he one day borrowed* from art Arab to perform a trick with, and which the owner persuaded that Shejtan In* rVQMAtl moo KofrtfA Kim Ji- 1 |/VI0VH n?o W>Vi? biui) IOIIIOOU W back.- 'f ?! 1 ->;* - -)(!? | A dentist in- Boston, after extracting* ** tooth M a married lady, last Friday, tooB the liberty of kissihgher. Her husband ing informed ofth'q insult, wrote tlie Docto^ a note with a fictitious signature, requesti pg^ his immediate professional attendance afe No. 4 Norfollc t*faoe, In the meantime 'heft h*d J* ' I and po the Pra arnv^ at tb^cofoet of % Place, htf commenced Jaying tho hid* QOb ] hia fkee ahd back tUtb such sev wity; aat? . > drAw thebtotfd (Veelf. A?.W>otf' as-pottibfc? tho partiea were Reperated and iW Dr. t*r j ken away. H?i <&?>? the aocna^n aff^M^ i b?*de6Uwt>fo^ti?w*W***K?n* .>ju^ ?*?*> | v~' H i I