Pittston Gazette and Susquehanna Anthracite Journal

              % 19t*8maa*rf vnr-'iyviwwtMaUiti.  imMS »rfj ? THE PITTSTON GAZETTE, AID WfflHIfIA AITHRMTI JOJMAt. - ■' 1 J. i Ml"".'.' I- - '1,1,' .'.,.11 I' 1 • [ , I v ■—awiiiV II ———nil I mmmmmm— $mBpttftt~(Xm1th Id Urns, litrrntiirf, t|it SSfrranfilf, fining, JHrrjtomral, trail %itnltnrnl Sntrrrats nf t(rt (Cnnntrij, 3nstrurtinn, tammf, kt. )--®q SitfiW 'C pfillifs. 3 BJftbltj VOLUME 1.--NUMBER 29. PITTSTON, PENNA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1851. $2.00 PER ANNUM. THE IKHrJST ©53 MW, do no harm. If you please, 1 will accompany you to your room.' I was delighted at the idea of getting clcar lor a while of my tormentor*. ' Alter tea,' said tha Counsellor, 'we will take a little walk over my estate, it is a fine day.' ' 1 cannot conceive;' continued the counsellor, 'what bloodthttrsty spirit has got possession of my daughter. I assure you that otherwise she is one of the gentlest creatures in the world.' I was beside myself. Prom mv childhood I had had an extraordinary respect for snakes. With horror! remarked that Ernestine had taken off Iter necklace, and wm holding it towards me. •' 'Afraid of snakes!' laughed Oken, 'and yet interested in natural history ? That is not possible!' I began to long for bedtime. The counsellor perceived my weariness at last, and, to my great joy, accompanied me to my sleeping chamber. ' Now,' thought I, ' 1 shall have some rest at lttst, after all my fears, and dangers, and sufferings of the day.' We wished one anoihera pood night, and I found myself alone. I was so tired that I instantly undressed, extinguished the lights, and groped in darkness towards the bed. After some fumbling, I fortunately reached my object, drew down the coverlet, and was almut to make use of my couch, when I sprang hack with horror; l had touched some hard object that moved. If I was not deceived, it was a tortoise. No power on earih could have induced me to use the horrible bed. While I was thinking wheth-1 should cry murder, or let the matter rest, something bit my great toe so furi-. riously that 1 shrieked with pain. A large crab hung on my foot. I danced about so frantically, that at last 1 shook off the monster and huiled it against the wall.— I fled to the sofa. A harrowing thought seized me. What if they have fastened me up in Erncstin's cabinet ? The idea became every moment more and more probable, for all around there was a creeping and a scratching, and a rustling, that sounded most suspiciously. Instantly something crawled close to my ear. I clutched it, and seized with a shudder a great beetle. I hurled it with fury away from me and hoard it crack against the wall. Scarcely was I free from the beetle when something bit the calf of my leg. The idea that the new enemy might be an earwig made me raving ; for no living thing had 1 a greater aversion than for the aforesaid earwig. I had heard dreadful stories about this creature. I caught like one possessed at my claf, but I could not catch the biter; the thing had certainly crept up higher, for 1 certainly felt a twinge on my thigh. I now sprang from the sofa and sought for means to light a candle, but nothing of the kind was to be found. 1 trod upon some frightful kind of reptile. All the tortures of th* Inquisition were nothing to my situation. I could no more sleep than on the edge of a precipice ; my excited imagination painted everything more frightfully. Suddednly 1 heard a hissing. ' There's a snake,' tho't 1, ' 1 shall certainly be stung.' I now began to shout like a wounded Ajnx. In the darkness, I upset the table, several boxes that stood on it were thrown down and broken, and I heard with increased agony how a new biting world had been let loose. ' You have during the past night injured the property of rtiy sister Ernestine in such a way, you hove shown for several of Ernestine's favorites such a contempt, as borders upon insult, and demands atonement. ! have considered the affair;—we wHl exchange three shots.' ' You have lost your senses,' 1 exclaim' ed. ven away many a wooer from—W. When any strange gentleman appears, we sisters instantly form an alliance ; and if one ( let does not succceed, we try a second and a third. Confess yourself, would you, bad you been disengaged—would you have taken one of us for a wife, after we had shown ourselves to you as we did yesterday V ' The Devil's grandmother sooner,' lexclaimed frankly ; 'one's life would at leasi be safer with her.' raiNTSD AND PUBLISHED WKESI.V BV C. 1. Rickart 4c H. ». Phillips. OBtt West side of Main Street, second Story of tkt ** Long Slort" of Wittier Cf- Hood. ' But,' snid Junghauel, «you must really huve been in danger. Emilie has a sharp eye, and would never Itave bled you, had it not been necessur/.' 1 But what could have ailed me?' I asked ; 'at the most 1 was only a little deranpr-J by the tooth-pulling.' 1 could not 9ee it so. Tin "OaZETti" is published evert Fad ay, at Two D'H.lars ;Der annum. 1 *# Doli.*** *D»•D '' I vfATS will be cliurgo! if C-ot paul wiUun the No "per will be discom'ttmirt until nil arrearages JL lvartisnment* ore inserted conspicuously at Ome Doti.tR per natiare uf fcurteth lines for ! three insert®... , anU Csnts ad' ditionil Sot every, mibsequ-nt insertion A II D- * era! dedu-tion to those who advertise for six I was shown a comfortable chamber, beautifully furnished, witji a delightful prospect from the windows. ' llere vou may find amusement too,' -.aid my fioit, pointing to a richly filled book case. ' If you uetci anything you need only ring.' With this, the cursed snake's head, with its forked tongue, persecuted me like a fiend. The terrible maiden seemed to feed upon my agony. She held the monster right at my face. 1 That you will won discover,' she coolly resumed, 'whether I am in my semes or not. Consider the case. You have brok. en the shell of a sea-crab, a very rare specimen ; you have thrown a valuable beetle ngninst the wall with a violence thnt ruined the poor creature; you have further broken certain valuable boxes containing insects. Do you not admit these charges ? ' Very much obliged,' said Louise, with a bow ; 'a proof of tho success of our plans.' I had now to describe my lady love to my new friend, and how I stood in the saifie plight with the dnughters of the Counsellor, as my uncle had no suspicion of my love for Wilhelmina. M % ' A little loss of blood,' continued the coumellor, excusing his daughter, orderC*d by a careful physician, and etfectod by an experienced hand, never did any harm'; I am satisfied of that.' 'I pray you for God's snke!' cried I conjuringly, 'free me from this horrible sight.' '1 see nothing horrible,' she returned very quietly ; 'just look ho* gracefully it moves !' Again the snake's head danced directly under my nose. ( sprang up and began 10 retreat. Ernestine followed with the snake. Wishing mc a refreshing siesta, the councilor withdrew. I was alone. 1 looked out of the window and wus r. freshed by the beautiful prospect. 'This is really a charming residence,' thought I, 'if it were not for these girls with their deviliah The old man is much too weak against these furies. That Dieficnbach has pultecS out one of my teeth, so that 1 spit blood as if I were in the last staire of consumption, lie really seems to regard as a Iricndly service ; I suppose he is quite delighted wuh his daughter when she pulls out his irienda teeth.' months of the whole year. ... . . Job Work-— We have connected with our e»tnblitih ncru u w»U selected assortment of Job Tvfk, whi -'n »vi!i enible us to execute, in the neatest rtrlc evry ™riety of printing. BunC praetical trinters ourselves, we can afford to do w,Drk on a. reasonable terms at any other office itt t|ie j ouiily. All lettcri and communication! addressed to the Oarette must be post paid, and endorsed by a responsible name, to receive attention. The singular tnnn seemed to find some justification for all his daughters' foIlie». 1 believe if they had cut my head off, he would have thought it all right. ' I wish the d—1 had the whole crew of spiders and reptiles !' cried I, in crcat ex. citement, upon finding myself called to account for my doings. ' Yoij will please to follow me,' said Leuise ; 'injuries of this sort can only be cancelled with Wood.' 'I can't urvders'and,' now began her father very coolly,'why people have such an aversion to snake*.' While we were chatting thus confidentially, a blooming head was seen at the door, which seemed to be not a little surprised at our intimacy. ' And as to the tooth,' said he, 'you ought to be right glnd to get rid of it. I hate examined it, with EmilietI don't believe ft would Jtave held out a year.' This oonsulation could help me little. If the lOoth were not sound, 1 don't know uhat soundness is. And even if it were right to have tlie tooth out, one migjit wait till he was driven to it by pain. My lost grinder had never given ine the slightest trouble. •The d—I!' cried I, continually drawing back before tli* pursuing monster ; 'I can't endure the beasts!' * Come it), Einilie!' cried Louise, laughng. ' IV ace is concluded; our supposed enemy is engaged ; we have nothing to fear from him.' ;p 3'sT.ii'y D ' Quit these fooleries,' I replied ; I fight not with ladies.' •Awnv!' said Ernestine angrily ; 'you are no genuine naturalist.' And with that she slapiCed me in the face with the snake, so that I absolutely cried out with fright, and then she wound the animal like a chain round her beautiful swan-like neck. (pubi/MICD BV fcratMTj ' Fooleries !' asked Nimrod, stepping up to me with raised pistol, while her eyes flashed, 'Does your courage fail you 7' ' For every con test there must be some reasonable ground.' 'You are quibbling, sir; follow me!' ' But what if I declare that I will in no case fight with you 1 1 could not answer it before God, were I to level a pistol at you.' DitlTenbneh entered, and likewise manifested a gentleness of which 1 could not have dreamed the barbarous dentist capable. And soon Oken made her appearance. They expressed the greatest sorrow for the tricks they had played me. They declared, at the same time* that if they bad not discovered that I was engaged, they had made all the preparations to render the day mote intolerable than the preceding. I thanked Heaven 1 had gf.t tCf be on such good terms with them. We made a league of friendship. I could not desire more amiable friends. At the same time I had to promise to remain several days at W—. To show myself worthy of their friendship, and in order to heap coals ol fire on their heads, I undertook the office of intercessor with their father, and resolved not to leave W until' the Counsellor and given his consent to the betrothal of his three daughters to their respective lovers. In this good work I eventually succeeded ; and within a fortnight after 1 left VV , the three ladies were formally' affianced to the objects of their choice. In return for .all this happiness, the counsellor undertook to get my uncle to consent to my marriage with Wilhelmina, and was successful. Uses on tbs Papal Aggression '.At *11 events I'll not stay here long. 1 will gee Oken, however, and fulifll my uncle's wishes to the letter, and then I'm off. Ifl were to stay here much longer, I believe Dieffenbach would have my legs and arms off, unless they were first idiot away by Nimrod.' Ehcland ! Queen among the nations. Chosen Empress of the sea, Pmudly waves tliy lion banner, O'er the enlightened anil the fret; And across thy watery ramparts, Like a meteor in tlie sky, Lands in midnight darkness lying, Hail thee star of Liberty. I considered not without anxiety the whole state of my health, and reflected whether there plight not be something out of the way with me, that could attract DiefTen bach's notice, for I was not sure that some new operation might not be impending.1 had enough now ot the counsellor's third daughter. He had seen mv annoyance, and had repeatedly bidden Ernestine to desist from her cruel play, but the maiden seemed possessed by the devil, and she tortured me so that the perspiration dropt from my forehead. Duriug these cogitations I continued spitting blood ; 1 felt no pain, but the hole in my juw was very uncomfortable. ' You need not aim at me—shoot into the air ; 1 am the injured party ; let yourself be shot ut!' Yet not ever thus fair Albion— Thoucans't well recall the d«y, When thy free-born sons in dungeons Chained for truth and freedom lay ; When the fires of fatsl Smithficld Cast around a lurid glare, And above thy slaughtered rhildren Rose thy wailings of despair. • I must certainly confess,' said 1 to myself, 'I never saw more beautiful creatures. They could hardly be handsomer; but w hat is ail their beauty if one's life is not safe ? But I want to see the third sister, Ernestine. Tujudgeby her portrait she is softer than the others ; she is a naturalist, and at least dors not operate upon human beings, like Louise and linn lie. What her papa has told me of lie-r fondness for spiders and similar insects 1s, to be sure, not very recommendatory, but it doC*s not endanger one's life. This confounded bloodspitting will never cense. I guess I shall get along best with Oketi. After we had wandered over n good part of stole, and 1 had admired everything as the day was declining, wo turned towards the house, w here the tea tabic stood 'The deuce take you all three!' said I to myself, as I wiped my forehead with my pocket handkerchief. 'You won't see me here again very soon. To-morrow I'll be off, and say good-bve to this house, where no man, no wooer, least of all, can stand it.' ' Your obedient servant.' ' I ask, for the last time, will you follow me V Tlie young ladies were again absent.— Heaven only knew where Nimrod was hunting, Dieffenbach cutting off limbs, and Oken pursuing her investigations. readv ' Well, then, i will publish you for the most pitiable coward the sun ever shone upon.' 1 In no case.' Oken, after she had settled it that no scientific conquest was to be made of me, followed the waj of her sisters, and treated mo with marked contempt, quite en bagatelle. My sprouting love could not have been more effectually withered. But the heavy «torm blew ever, And with blood and »ann«e«r* fed, Sprung the gloiiotwtree of freedom From the ashes of the dead. Long that tree has grown in beauty, Long in heauty may it grow ! But an arm is raised to lay it, Foot and trunk, and branches, low. ' You will do as you please.' I was indeed curious about Oken, and I must confess I longed to see the lovely maiden. In her case one would have nothing to fear; I was not a beetle, butterfly, or tarantula. ' And I will put a murk upon you, which you shall carry as long as you have to remind ynu of your cowardice.' Jiinghauel remarked, not without dissatistaction, the change in the behaviour of his daughter. He appeared almost to blame me for it. ' A mark V I asked myself; 'what does the horrible cri-uture mean 1 She seems to be capable of anything.' i was exceed, ingly uncomfortable. Louise approached me with her pihtd cocked ; her look was fearfully menacing. Horror seized me. 1 began to retreat. The perspiration burst forth. The fuiy followed mestep tor step with pistol presented. At lust, excited to the uttermost, 1 exclaimed in despair. 'Let me alone, you hateful creature; / was just on the point of leaving this inhospitable house.' ' It is lucky for me and Minna,' thought 1, continuing my reflections, 'that these maidens have such singular passions ; and besides, they certainly give themselves n.D particular trouble to make an impression upon a young man's heart; in fact, they seein to be bent upon maltreating me. ll it were not so, and if they ouiy kept themselves quiet like other girls, I should have to look out for my heart, and no one would wonder at that in the case of such e.xtraornarv beauties.' The Counselor seemed annoyed at the absence of his daughters. He must ha\e fell" tlie rudeness with which his worthy guest was treated. He was hard put to it to find excuses for the maidens. Treble crowned, and soft smiles wearing, See the haughty foe draws nigh, Fiercely in his bosom burneth All the hote of yearn gone by ; AU the will, but power is wanting, Will to bring those dark days back, When for truth our noble fathers, Bore the chain, tbe fire, th6 rack. Hark bis progress, track his footsteps, Crime and ignorance attend ; See, he claspcth superstition As a chosen bosom friend. Conscience bound with heavy fe'.ters, In bis gloomy dungeon lifs, W hile bis priestly shadows veileth Heaven's pu-e sun-light from our eyes. I.e, be cometh. robed in darkness, Poisoned shafts around him fly, All that's generous, pure and noble, In bis pathway droop and die; For he clips enquiry's pinions, Chains the spirit's sky-ward flight, With a pale of dim tradition, Shrouds God's glorious lamp of light t Lo he cometh! Men of Britain, Will ye welcome him once more 1 Will ye hail his standard waving Upon Albinon'a peaceful shore 1 No ! by the past dark memory, By the soil on which ye tread, BoH made sacred tiy their ashes, Who for freedom nobly bled. By tbe love yc beai your children, By each fond domestic tic, By the holy faith ye worship, By yoar dreams of liberty! Men of Britain ! raise embankments, Stem the desolating flood; Crush the life-destroying Vatnpire, Panting for the Nation's blood I '1 could not hove believed,' said he, 'that you would have been so disturbed by a little, harmless snake. I have seldom heard my worthy uncle laugh so heartily, as when 1 related my adventures at VV . To brin'- C?ur 'You must not take it ill of these wild gitl#,' said he ; 'I confess it to my sorrow, left to themselves, they have grown up without restraint, and that with their odd tastes, they have no idea of what passes in the world for politeness. I see very well, it can't go oil thus much longer. They w. ill grow perfectly wild ; I must take tliem in hand. They all love me devotedly ; in this respoct I could not wish for better children. 1 am not without hope of getting them into order. On the whole, I hud rather that they should grow up thus, unsophisticated by city life, than that they should lie mere fashionable ladies, in whom all nature aud purity of heart are lost.' I have never met with a father who seemed to dote so ou his children. He kept on talkiog about their manifold good qualities. 'He it friirhtened, isn't he?' roid Emetine, with a smile; 'we are a different sort of prople.' torv to a close. Although I brought nc •ride froQd VV , and although 1 maried the poor widow's daughter, my uncle, nevertheless, took me into partnership. As to the loss of my grinder, the gentlenen who were the happy husbands of the hree Ix-aulies, never failed to express their sympathy for me; but Dieffenbach, the operator, always insisted that I deserved to lotte a tooth, lor appearing to woo one of the sifters when my heart was no longer my own—and my good YVilhelmina always agreed with her. 'One cannot help his nature,' said I,sul I raved like a possessed man ; it was all one to me whether any one in the house wished to sleep or not. At lust the counsellor was uwakened. He come with a light in his diissing gown to my chamber. He saw at once the cause of my outcries, ui.d cried 1 The thoughtless girl, site will turn the whole house into a cabinet of natural curiosiyes!' 1 seemed to myself like Adam on the sixth day of the creution, where he is painted among the beasts.— Junghauel transferred me to another chamber, which the naturalist had spared. ' Here you have nothing to 'ear,' said my host consolingly ; 'you will sleep all the better for the disagreeable things you have suffered.' lenlv 'Nature!' exclaimed she, 'what do you know of naturo? Pray, never mention the word. ' You are goipg to leave W—!' asked Louise ill a strangely joy ful lone, and letting the pistol sink. I would gladly have sin iked my cigar according to custom, but tlie blood in my mouth would not allow it. 1 was greatly excited by the strange adventures which had befallen me within so short a time. A brief hour's sleep on tlie sola could not fail to be welcome. I took of}'my coat, stretched myself out in my shirtsleeves on the sofa, as it was rather warm, antf with my remaiuing one-and-thirty teeth, laid my tired head on the cushion. She grew positively uncivil. I was filled with resentment, and was about to answer the unfeminine maiden somewhat tartly. when she made a suspicious movement of her hand towards her live amulet. 1 swallowed my retort, and resolved upon retreat. ' I never would have come here but for the urgent wi*h of my uncle?' ' Utter no fulnehood,' said Loui.«e, gravely. ' it was not your uncle's wish ulone that brought you here. You kad other views.' 'Suppose,' said the counsellor, as he pushed hack his chair, suppose we should snvDkc a cigar V ' /ndced, I had not. lady.' ' Did you not come,' asked Louise, 'to marry me, or one of mv sisters V ' Good Heaven !' replied I; 'marry you ! What an idea ! It neverentered my head. I am already engaged.' We have all been living now, for some years, in the most friendly relations, and in constunt intercourse. The descendants of our (bur married couples amount now to five little gentlrmen, and seven young ladies. Hence bloom new loves and new romances. It is the way of the world. Sleep came, bill it was no ileep that coulil refresh me. The torture I had suffered willi the weird sisters was worse in my dreams than iu reality. Now Louis" was shooting off*my head, and now Emilie was digging at my teeth. Bo they altertutted, each vision growing worse than the precodintf, Thw perspiration .started from tne, ns if I were in purgatory ; 1 uched and groaned enough to draw pity from a stone. After Ninirod had shot n hole through ray body, s-D tlint the sun shone through, then name Diellenbach with a string, on which hung my otift-and-lhitty teeth. 1 was toothless, like an oM r»«ni of eighty ; but my torture was to be rtill greater. Diell'enbach produced u long thin iron, sharp as a needle, and was about to operate on my heart, I protested naturally, and strove to keep her off with desperation, but it was in vain. Invisible hands seized and held me band and foot; 1 could not move; my heaving breast was laid bare, and with a demoniac laugh, the horrible creature plunged the steel iuto my heart. The perspiration rolled from me. 1 cried out and awoke. The proposal was by no means disagreeable to me. A burning cigur in my mouth, might afford me some protection against the African reptile, t meant to smoke so f iriously, that Ernestine and her amulet might be suffocated together. 'But you kno'v, dear father,' exclaimed the maiden, 'Uibi cannot bear tobacco smike I can you, Bibi V i was heartily glad that neither Louise nor Kmilie was present. My appetite would ,ctit(iinly have been spoiled, The counsellor stcpt to the window.— Evening was coming on. 'We cannot wait tuiy longer,' said he, 'Henven only knows where the girls are. Let us be seated.' ' Heaven grant it ! said I, gathering up my clothes out of the murder hole. 'What!' cried Louise with delight, throwing away the pistol, and almost full, ing on my neck. 'You engaged! Why did you not tell us so before ?' The counsellor had spoken no untruth. After I had crawled about on my hands and feet and flashed the light into all the corners of the chamber, 1 became pretty well convinced that there were no natural curiositis there, either living or dead ; and so I went to bed once ogain, but none the less resolved that this should be the last as well at the first night that I spent in VV.— I determined, all my host's solicitations to the contrary, to be off" at the earliest possible hour, before the charming but dangerous daughters of the counsellor should have left their beds. After these resolve# 1 stretched myself out, and made myself comfortable, while the tortoise in the bed originally iniended for me probably did the same. An Insane Attempt.—Some rascal (or rather lunatic) stopped a "jour" printer, in Washington City on Wednesday night, and demanded his money. Compliance with this demand, says the " Republic" would not have been very expensive, as " quoins" were not abundant; but Types stood upon his rights, and in a jiffy ibrdst one foot behind the heel of the besieger, as he tapped him on the smeller with his fist. The result was that the gentleman fell on the pavement, his occipit striking it with severity. Types, finding himself thus emancipated, and ignorant of the arms, equipments and reinforcements of his assailant, thought it judicious to shuffle off, which he did in a very remarkably expert manner. In our opinion, Barnum should endeavor to catch that man. Attempt to rob a printer. Ha ! ha f! ha !!! / knew not what to think as the charming maiden embraced me so stormily, and looked at me so joyfully with her beautiful eyes. 'You are right, my daughter,' replied the counsellor ; 'I forgot it;' and turning to me, he added, 'Excuse me, my dear sir, hut the graceful little animal really cannot bear tobacco smoke.' We took our scats. The exercises had made me right hungry, ohough the refnenibrance of the amputated arm from time tp time disturbed my appetite. We had been at the table some fifteen minutes, the lights had been brought in, when the door openod, and the long-expected Oken entered. « No one ever asked me about it, lady,' I replied. ' And how many unpleasant things would you, poor man, have spared yourself,' said Louise, much excited ; '/ should not have shot at you, Ernestine would not have worried you with her snake, nor Emilie taken your blood, and pulled your tooth out.' • Jt is much to be wished that the latter had not happened,' I confessed. ' You would have found us all very amiable children.' And so for the sake of the graceful lhtle animal, 1 had to renounce my habit of smoking after tea. Things were carried pretty far. I rose, made my bow, and my admiralion of the beautiful maiden became ruptu- Like hersisters, Ernestine still continued to torment me. I was not for a moment free from the fear of the horrible Bibi. .Arm, t|i'- element* are gathring, A fierce c an file t U at hand, Alt the powers of evi| marsliall'd In enit..tilled legions stand. Arm, let untoo he your watchword, Faith in God your magic-spell j To the scenc of carnage hasten, Fearless of the darts of hell! Martyred ones, of days departed, From your glorious homes look down; Animate your sons with courage, Death-defying, like your own / Let your mantles fall upon them, Let your shades to conquest lure, That the blood-bought gift ye left them, May to time's last pulse endure. Dec. 18, J8CD. Mast or Swsnsm. rous Yes, this Oken, the divine Ernesllne, this was the one for me. As beautiful as Iter sisters, but gentle, amiable in the highest degree. She did uot, like Nimrod and Dieffunbach, run rudely by me, without n Hieing my presenoe, but modestly bowed to tne. She excused herself prettily for being so late,—had she known that so agreeable a guest had arrived, the most interesting scientific investigations would not have detained her. 'If tills naturalist,' thought 1 to myself, 'would only be off and go to the d—1 with her snake !' But friend Oken had no idea of going. I supposed she wished to compensate me for her long absence. The night passed quietly bv ; I slept soundly, so that ( had no bad dreams, as I had feared. Hurdly had the first light of morning looked into my window, when 1 sprang wildly from my bed, and set about to put my purposes into execution, dressing myself with all despatch. My purpose was irrevocable. I was delighted at having awaked so early. 'You will make great eyes,' thought 1, ' ye tormenting spirits, when vo'u find the bird has suddsnly flown. Heaven keep me from such a wife. ' Oh, my Minna, when 1 think of your sweet simplicity, what a difference ! Soon, beloved gill, shall I fold thee in my arms.' • With all re»pect.' J replied, 'but lady, /do not exactly understand ' '/will solve the riddle for you,' said Louise, every moment growing more and more charming; 'we too have disposed of our hearts.i, For two everlasting hours 1 had to suffer; so long the soiree lasted. I could not take any pleasure in the beautiful eyes of Ernestine, for my eyes were (listened on the snake ; I was in constant dread, lest Bibi should slip off fVom the neck of his mihtress, and muk" me a visit. At all events, tho little eyes of the snake glittered most suspiciously.A Lawyer's Story. A fter my eyes were open, I thought I was siill dreaming, and i»y hair stood up like so many tapers. Emilie stood in reality before me, a lancet in her hand, my urm stripped up, and a dark red jet was flowing from it into a basin, which a maidservant was balding. ' Meroy, what is the matter with me !' I murmured, in a most melancholy tone for the loss of blood had made me faint. Tom strikes Dick over the shoulders with « rattan as big as your little finger. A lawyer, in his indictment, will tell you the story as follows : ' All threeI In spite of our unwomanly passion*, /confess it, in matters of the heart, we are still girls.' ' / am delighted to hear h.' ' Delighted, are you? So are we, tqo. But father, good and Indulgent as he is, is on the point of love, immovable.' ' How no V ' All three!' 1 sit in the third heaven, and Imd to guard my heart with all my care against the sweet eyes of this charming maiden. "And that whereas the said Thomas, at the said place, on the year and day aforesaid, in and upon the body of the said Richard, against the peace and dignity of the State, did make a most violent assault and inflicted a great many and divers of blows, kicks, cufls, thumps, bumps, contu. sions, gashes, hurts, wounds, damages, and injuries in and upon llic head, neck, breast, stomach, hips, knoes, shins, and heels, of said ficlmrd, with divers sticks, canes, poles, clubs, logs of wood, stopes, daggers, dirks, swords, pistols, cutlasses, bludgeons, blunderbusses, and boarding prices, then and there held in the hands, fists, claws, and dutches of him the said II torn as." Eniestinc wag dressed, although somewhat fantastically, yet with great taste.— One thing I did not exactly lilce, and that was a heavy singular glittering ring which she wore round her white neck. 1 could not conceive how this beautiful girl could happen upon such an odd neoklaoe. 1 Khali never forget that evening. I thanked my stars Unit the two other sisters wore not visible. Thus far 1 had only one to deal with at a time. That was some comfort. If illry had concluded a triple alliance, and nil three operated upon me at once, | should havo been lost beyond redemption. In every evil, there is a good Which neutralises it in some degree. 1 had suffered so much all day with fright, loss of a tooth and blood had come upon me in Mich rapid succession, that my energies were completely prostrated. Every noise at the door madu me start, for I was in continual feartliat Nimrudor Deiffcnbach, pr both together, would come in and begin to practice some new und unheard of mischief upon me. Nimrod would have set about snuffing the candle with pistol -bo IU, and Deifirnbach, as $oon as she remarked my feverish condition, would have been for administering pills and blisters. ' Hush, hush strhl my murderess, for so I really took her to be : 'be quiet, or you will disturb the bandaj/e.' Front Snrtain'a Magazine. ' The cleverest thing,' thought I, would be to adopt the French fashion, without a word to any one. ] foresee tlie conflict I shall have with the counsellor; he will not listen to a departure so much like a flight. 1 will write to) him at the end of the first day's journey, and represent to him that with the best will in the world I could not consent to slay any longer to be the target of his daughters' humors.' I was resolved to write as politely as possible, that I might not wound his feelings. My uncle also would be satisfied when he should leiru all I had suffered from the sisterly trefoil.' He thinks too much of what are called good settlements. Unfortunately, our gen. tlemen are not exactly pood, in the worldly sense. One is a penniless lieutenant, an,other a poor candidate of theology, and the third, a poor artist! But all three are rich in heart and intellect, and real Croesuses in their love for us.' THE DANOBB0U8 BEAUTIES [run THE GERMAN OF P. STOLLE. ] • Are you going to kill met' I stumnjer. ed. [CONCLCBED.] ' Bv no mean1*, but yotlf feverish state, a real deleriutn, in which, as I came into the room without knowing you were here, 1 found you, led me to fear the worst; I saw that nothing hut instant bleeding could relieve y6u. See here, for yourself', how feverish your blood is.' But I saw nothing, for my hrad sonic back upon the cushion and my eyescfosed. ' Only a bleeding,' sighed 1 ; 'God ! thy WiyWare wopdterful.' A fu hi ting fit came ttD my relief. In the course of an hour nnd a half afterwards, I was staggering, pretty well weakened bv th* cursed bloodletting, at the counsellor's side, over his beautiful estate. Okun took her seat at the table. The conversation became very lively. It turned upon natural history. Ernestine spake will) animation ; her dark eyes beamed most brilliantly. •The sudden cry with which I had pro. tested against a continuance of the barbarous operation, had no doubt reached the ear of the Counsellor. He came hastily ig and inquired the cause of my apparent • And which of these three happy gentlemen,' I ashed, with a smile, 'hassecured the heart of the lovely Louise V To ingratiate myself with her, I pretendml to fuel a great interest in her favorite seietiBe, although I had never given it any attention. Father Junghauel was quite happy. Th« good man looked at us as if everything word settled between us. AVine and love overpower me with equal facility. Oken was speaking of the amphibious animals, and mentioning some of the latest discoveries made by naturalists; -but I troubled myself little with tl»e learned lecture, and looked only at the beautiful mouth, which spoke so fluently, and at the beautiful eyes, whieWparkled so brightly. Suddenly a most Was dunoing directly under my nose. I stared at it with *11 my eyes, and had nearly' fallen backwards, d»air and all, in my frfcht.— Merciful Heaven, there was a real, live •pako, stretching out to me its horrible head and wicked tongue! 'Here you have a vary fine specimen of the—' Ernestine named a Latin name. "Well, I Guess Not."—A toper some time since, says an exchange, went into a ler. oar-room in the Western part of a _ state, ' You consider me than, as quite too where it is unlowful to sell liquor, and wild for the pious mart. called for 'something to drink.' 1 Well! • preacher of peace, and a bold C We don't sell liquor,' said the law-abid. huntress ■ , ing landlord j but wo will give you a glass 1 Love equalizes everything,'said Lou. and then it you want a cracker, we will ise, with a w inning frankness; 'and do you sell it to you for three cents.' think i csnnot be gentle.' «Very well,'sai(* the custom**,' hand 4 What is impossible for you V down the decanter.' •Oh ! I can be as soft sh a little lamb,' « The good crrature' waa handed down, continued the beauty, 'when it gives kim and our hero took a stiff *b»rn,' when torn! pleanura. But let me go on with my story, ing round to depart, the unsuspecting land- Our 8th«r insists, by all the saints, that lie lord handed him a dish of crackers, witl will bear nothing of these tender relations- the remark. We, all three sisters, pray to the dear God • You'll buy a cracker V * ftvwv » the temporal cir- ' Well, no,'said the customer, ♦ I: guess oumeteooea of our lover* mjuf be improved, not, you sell 'em too'dear; I can get lot* so that thoy nay 00«e 6«*Wl*«»' cl»im on 'em, five or si* for a eem, anvwbera OUrljapds- For their sake*. we have dri. els?.' f ■ «The theologian.' • The theologian!' /exclaimed with won. * Your lady daughter,' said I, not in' the ftflitest tone, 'has been pleased, not withstanding all I could say, to deprive mc of * sound tooth, a service for which I'can hardly thunk her.' 'Sound T' said he with a shake of the head ; *1 am a little doubtful on that point. Ei9i)i«D as the best physicians havo pa«r-ed me, is very skilful, and especially in 41 havo learned that, answtfrrd I, Coh though 1 hod not tho slightest desire to test her skill.' Apnid these cogitations, I came at last to the end of my lunette, and was just on the point of starting oflf, when I was slopped by an unexpected obstacle. While I was giving up to the glad hope that the counsellor's daughters, like all maidens loving sleep, were still deeply ip the feathers, my door suddenly flew open, and to my no small horror, in came Nimrod with two duelling pistols. ' I walk too fast for yon ?' asked my comiMinCiii,observing Histoffxts 1 made UD keep up with him. •Yes indeed,' 1 replied, 'I', feel rather weak.' From all these possibilities, liowever, Heaven be praised 1 I was saved. Neither Loujse ndr Eu.iily nwde their appearance. Ernestine at last retired. The old gentleman, as was his oustom, instantly took oecaeioj? to desparjt gpoo the merits of his' darling, as he called hj*y$u»g«»t d»ugh' One gets appustomed to lDer strange taste in time,' t»id he;' Mjl J aw D not without hope that she will forget a}l these things wfeen she is once married-' ' You aliOtftd be thankful,' said Jang, hauel, io a tons ofconribrt; 'by a little Cyott itvtoboen coved muoh 'saffering after. You have nothing to fear from my daughter's Aure hand. The operation happily over. But, my friend,' he addtd, 'you will need rest; an hour's nup will 'Good heaven !* sighed I: tar: myself, • any ,torment is beginning anew ;■ 1 mast oonfeaathelovely trefoil begins its day's work betimes. Oh ! if I only' once bad this cursidplace behind my back !' Without any compliments, Nimrod cool]y began i Junghauel stopped, and in a' kind and sympathizing tone, remarked: ' My poor fellow, yon little dreamed, when you set out on this pleasure excursion, that you would need to be bled.' 'That I confess,' I answered.'