Pittston Gazette and Susquehanna Anthracite Journal

              » D--«— . ,—  .  ANNA" ANTHRACITE PITTSTON GAZETTE, AND SUSQlTEH JOtRNAL, 51 Htokltj JStinflpptr- (JDfonfeii tn %ttm, litemta, tjie ffierrantilt, joining, Jllerljamral, nub %iraltirnl SntmHts nf tlje Comttrtj, SttHtrurfimi, fttimaeHttnt, kt. )~€tnn Sollars Jj8n ) I VOLUME 3.--NUMBER 2d. PITTSTON, PA., FRIDAY, MARCH 4,1853, WHOLE NUfoBEfe 133- Such is the only fragment from the biography ol a wonderful genius ; the sole twinkling ray of a dazzling luminary, that rose and set in the wjlderness—a torn leaf of Paul Denton's book of life. Peace be with his ashes. He sleeps in that long isle of evergreens, surrounded by the evergreen sea of the great prairie. Nature's beloved son inherits her costliest tonb— that last possession, the inalienable feesimple of all lime. bed. Jones, in his confession, says he then " trembled like a pople leaf." Young Dean went to bed, and when he had fallen sound asleep. Jones crept out, stole his wallet, with (1100 in cash, slipped slyly out of the house, wen; up to the Revere House and took lodgings. In the morning, he stole from a boarder in the hotel, a dress coat, pants, and vest. Every thing that he had about him, even to the shirt on his buck, was either stolen, or paid for with the avails of stolen goods. God! Great God Another long pause, while he again waved the indictment around his Head-Awhile a deeper impression was made on the auditory. Resuming his speech— '•May it please yottr Worships, there are periods in the history of man, when 6or. ruption and depravity have so debased the human oharactCDr, that man sinks under the weight of the oppressor's hand ; bccomes hi* servile, abject slave : he licks the hand that smites him ; he bows in passive obedience to the mandates of the despot ; and in this state of servility receives his fetters of perpetual bondage. But, may it please your worships, such a day has passed away ! From that period when our fathers left the land of their nativity for settlement in the wilds of America for liberty, for civil and religious liberty, for liberty of conscience, to worship their Creatoi according lo theii own conceptions of Heaven's revealed will ; from the moment ihey placed their feet upon the American continent, and in fhe deeply imbedded forest, sought an asylum from persecution and tyronny—from that moment despotism was crushed ; the fetters of darkness were broken, and Heaven declared that man should be free to worship God according to the Bible. Spiritualism- Extraordinary Developments. A young man calling himself A. K Pease, and who said that he learned his trade in the Gazette office, Elrtiirn, has been at work in this office for a week or two past. He professed 16 be a strong believer in spiritual Philosophy, and had in his possess/on quite a number of copies of the Shelinah, Spiritual Telegraph, and other kindred w6rks, and 6orresposftled with S. D. Brittan, and others of the new tchool. He professed to be governed in all his ao. lions by the advice of the spirits, but for the credit of the latter, we hope that his statements in this respect were false ; $Dr on Sunday evening last he made his exodus from this village, takine with him a coat, vest, pair of pants, an(f boot*, belonging 10 the junior editor of this paper, and leaving in their place sundry articles of no value whatevei, with the exception of a new jewsharp. Pease had been expressing a wish, several days previous to leaving, that he might get a situation in the mechanical department of the Shtkinah or Spitiluvl Telegraph, dnd seemed to think that it he would visit New York, hi9 "friend Brittan" would be very happy to' " see him, and would procure him the place lie so much coveted. The probability is that he has gone to New York Said Peaso is about five feet seven inches in height, sandy complexion, carroty hair, long peaked nose, and white eyebrows ; and probably has our clothes on, as he has nothing else to wear. We hope he will stand easy in our boots, but are inclined to think they will pinch his toes some before he gets through with them. After all, we cannot blame the thief much, for it is generally considered a violation of the ''rules and regulations," for a' printer to have more than one suit of clothes at a time, and as we had transgressed in this matter, we suppose we ought to be punished. THE PITTSTON GAZETTE, hypothesis was negatived by the statement of Peter Brinson, proprietor of the Double Spring Grove, who in/ormed all inquirers that he had been employed and paid bv a stranger calling himself a Methodist missionary, to provide an ample barbecue at the period and place advertised. " Bui the liquor—-the better  you to furnish the liquor loo?" was the invariable question of each visitor. mands ; no oiisons for different places times or objects; and no implied instructions as to the administration of the gov. ernment Of the universe. It related ex. clueively to the present people, and the present hour; it was the cry oi a naked soiil, and that soul a beggar lor the bread and water of heavenly life. AND ■tuinetaana Anthracite Journal PUBLISHED WEEKLY BV «. M. RICHART 8 H. S. PHILLIPS «Ut W..t tid. ./ Main Stmt, *f «*« Stun" of IViintr 4- H nod. tm uoutrri k Jowojai." l» published etefy ftUy, at Tito DuLiiKi pur annum. Two Dollars and Fifty clou will be charged If not paid within lb. /ear. Bo paper will be discontinued untUall orreurafes are paid. Apt*RTiscmrrs are Inserted conspicuously ai O.ia Dot- Lao Der tuuuro of fourteen lines for three liwertiony and TwKSTi'flvo Costs additional for every subseqnMtf Insertion. A Itliural riedaclion to those who advertise for six months or the whole year. Jib WoaK.—We have oOQMOted with our establishment a well *uiocted assortment of Job Type, which will en* ble us to execute, in the neatest etyle, every variety of painting. He ceased, and not till then did I be. come conscious of weeping, i looked around through my tears, and saw a hundred faces wet as with rain ! " The missionary said that he would tend to that himsell," replied Brinson. " Me must be a precious original,'' was the general rejoinder. A proposition which most of them afterwards had an opportunity to verify experimentally. " Now, friends," said the missionary. " partake of God's gift at the table, and then come and sit down and listen to His Gospel." The Hartford Times, of the I7t!i, gives the following account of that hypocritical thief who has been sentenced to the Connecticut States Prison, for a term A few weeks since he went into Dean's store, on a Sunday evening, unlocked the desk with a brass wire or skeleton key, stole $132 in cash, and packed up between three and four hundred dollars in goods, which he carried off and concealed in a barn in Commerce street. He then went up atid attended a prayer meeting at Mr. Dear's house. Before the meeting broke up, this robbeiy was discovered by a clerk, and Mr. Dean was informed of the facts. Jones sympathised with his family on aocount of his loss. He returned early in the morning, took breakfast at Mr. Dean's, and wiih affected sympathy expressed deep regret nt Mr. D's misfortunes and the frauds which had been practiced upon him "by those whom he had considered his friends." I need hardly add that an intense excitement resulted. The rumor took wing*; flew on the wind \ turned to a storm—a storm of exaggeration, every echo increased its sound, till nothing else could be heard 'jut the " Barbecue Camp Meeting it became the focus of thought, the staple of dreams, And thus the unknown pres. clier had secured one thing in advonce—a congregation embracing the entire population of the county, which was likely the purpose of his stratagem. 1 C*as travelling in that part of Texas at the time, and my imagination being inflamed by common curiosity, I took some trouble and attended. But although my eyes witnessed the extraordinary scene, 1 may well despair of the undertaking to paint it—the ped of Homer or the pencil of Hogarth were ulone adequate to the sublimity and burlesque of the complicated task. I may only sketch the angular outlines. It would be impossible to describe the sweet tone of kindness in which these simple words were uttered, that made him on the instant five hundred friends. One heart, however, in the assembly was maddened by the evidence ot the preacher's wonderlul power. Col. Watt Foeman exclaimed in a sneering voice i " Mr, Paul Denton, your reucrence lius lied. You promised us not only a good barbecue, but better liquor. Where is the liquor?'' " There!" answered the missionary, in :ones of thunder, and pQinting his motionless finger at the matchless Double Spring, gushing up in two strong columns, with a sound like a shout of joy from • he bosom of tfie earth. "There!!" he lepeated with a look terrible as lightning, while his enemy actually trembled in his feet ; "there is the liquor which God, the Eternal, brews tor all children !" of four years POETRY. "His career of crime for ihc past three years has been remarkable, and is worthy of something more than a passing notice. To cover up his wickedness, and to shield himself from suspicion, he affected much piety and devotion to religious duties. He kept a prayer-book and a bible about his person constantly, a.id frequently as he made afternoon calls, or hung about the stores of his friends, spying out goods for the purpose of stealing them) he was seen to read these good books with great devotion. He could beat a whole crowd in looking pious. He had a long, sombrelooking countenance, and when he cast down, as he frequently did, his full dulllike eyes, and puckered his oval lips, he was a splendid picture of devotion. BuU to the close observer, his physiognomy presented that cold, wiry, selfish, and completely heartless appearance which marks the deliberate and calculating villain. He came to«HnrOord lftDm Mont pel ier, Vt., about three years ago. He took an active part In certain prayer meetings and religious services, and thus scoured the confidence of Mr. John Dean, a dry goods dealer. Mr. D. procured him a situation in the factory of Kooebs Brothers, nnd permitted him to board in his family, and to sleep in his store with a clerk. Jones wanted no richer berth ; he helped himself whh a pretty free hand. Mr. Dean missed many articles trom his otore, such as silks, handkerchiefs, crapo shawls of, high value, etc., some of which, (a valuable shawl, among other things,) have been recovered. But still Mr. D. did not suspect the true thief. He remained about four months, and then went away without paying for his board, but he had done considerable In the way of pravfng and pxhorting for th« benefit of wiefced souls in general. He went to Glastenbury, and secured o situation in Cortiss' factory.— Here ho cheated his-employers out of $150, by reporting about three times as much work as ho did, and by adroit management generally. When discovered, he acknowledged all, begged oir, and gave his note for 8150, which can now probably bepurchasrd at a cheap rate. Mr. Jones then left the employment of Mr. Ccktjss, and set up preaching for the EpNcopoIians in a school-house, within a few rods of the scene of his fallen latest raD" calitiea. lie told his friends in Hartford that the Episcopalians had employed him at a regular weekly salary, but this was not true. Ho was operating entirely on his own hook. He trimmed his pulpit with costly broadcloths and silk fringes which he had stolen at Dean's store ; and with stolen goods he paid for a pulpit bible, prayer book, hymn book and a large armed chair. He hung some splendid French cuitains in one corncr of the room, as a screen behind which he dressed1 in his silk robe. He stole these curtains from Mr. Dean, and also the silk for his robe; and he broke Into St. Peter's Church in this city, arid stole Father Brady's robe, using it as a pattern from which the stolen silk was made up. Ho also, we believe, stole the silver chalice and some other articles from the cliuroh. About this time or a little later, be went to a daguerrean gallery, put on his stolen robe, pluced the bible, bought with stolen property, upon the table, rented one hand upon this holy book, and rolling his round dull eyes languidly upward, and pointing the foieflnger of his upraised right hand heavenward, he stood for his likeness. In this way it was taken and shown around among his friends as a fine thing. He paid for the likeness from money stolen from Mr. Dean, and he stole the outside case from another galUry. MODERN OIRI«S. We cannot subscribe to the following sweeping rharge ; and only give it place that the " girls" may sec what is said of them. Ever ranging, constant changing, Sometimes pleasing, sometimes teasing, Sometimes coaxing, sometimes hoaxing, No expressing how much dressing, Little knowing, little sewing, Little walking, greatly talking, Mischief-making, promise breaking, Dutv shirking, hating working, NeVer reading daintly feeding, Idle dreaming, sudden screaming, Lap-dog doating, Byron quoting, Body bracing, tightly lacing, Over-sleepinp, often weeping, Dandy loving, white-kid gloving, Thin shoe wearing, health despairing, Puily fretting, sickness getting, Kver sighing, almost dying— What blessed wives to cheer men's lives 1 The lellow carried his skeleton key, and stole money constantly, and for along time Mr. D. was perplexed to know why his cash accounts repeatedly fell short. "Were it not for tlii?, in vain were all the buffeting and bloodshed to subjugate this new world, if we, their offspring, must still be oppressed and persecuted. But. ■nay it please your worships, permit me to inquire once more, for what are these men about to be tried J This paper says for preaching the cospel of the Savior of Adam's fallen race !" And in tones of thunder, he exclaimed, have they vIClated ?" While the third time, in a slow, dignified manner, he lifted his eyes to heaven, and waved the ind:ctment around his head. The court and audience were wrought up to the most intense pilch of excitement. The face of the proscutrng attorney was pal id and ghastly, and he appeared unconscious that his whole frame wa* agitated with alarm ; while the Judge, with a tremulous voice, put an end to the scene, now becoming excessively painful, by the authoritative declaration— "Sheriff, discharge those men !" After making his last robbery, Jones left town and was suspected. He was followed and arrested. His confession to Dean developes a series of crtmcs, and of cool audacity rarely met with. On Friday and Saturday lie feigned insnnity.— Deputy Sheriff Alden, jubt betore his re. moval from the County Jail to Wethersfield, found him in his bunk, dirty and playing'possum. Alden directed him to pel up and to wash and shave himself.— He made no reply, but rolled up his eves, and "looked up to heaven." "My cove," said Alden, "you can't play that game, h will tre a bud job for you. No living man belfeves that you are crazy, and the hoffr that you arrive at Wethersfield, Gen. Weli.Es's men will have you in such a 'pair of traces that you'll see stars the minute you look that way; but it you behave yourself, and don't play 'possum, or pretend to be crazy, you will bo treated as kindly as the prison discipline will permit. Now take your choice !" " N#t in the simmering still, over smoky fires, choked with poisonous gasses, and surrounded with the stenph of sickening odors, and rank corruption, doth your Father in Heaven prepare the precious essenco of life—tho pure, cold water. But in the green glade and grassy dell, where the red deer wonders, and the child loves to play, there God himself brews it ; and down, low down in the deepest valleys, wnere the fountains murmur, and the rills sing, ar.d high upon the tall mountain, where the naked granite glitters like gold in tl.c sun, where the storm-cloud broods, and :he thunder storm crash; and away tar out on the wide, wild seo, where the hurricane howls' music, nnd big waves roll the chorus, 'sweeping the march of God' —there He brews it, that beverage of life, health-giving water. And every where it is a thing of beauty—gleaming in the dew drop; singing in the summer rain ; shiniAg in the ice-gem, till the trees all seemed turned to living jewels—spreading a golden veil over the setting sun, or a white ganz" around the midnight moon ; sporting in the cataract ; sleeping in the elacierj; dancing in the haii-showor ; folding us bright snow curtains sofily about the wintry woild j, and weaving tho many.colored iris, that seraph's zone of the sky, whoso warp is the rain-drop of the earth, whose woof is the sun beam of heaven, all chequered o'er with celestial flowers, by the mystic hand of retraction. Still always it is beautiful—that blesstd lile watet! No poison bubbles on lis brink ; its foam brings no madness and murder, no blood stains its liquid glass; pale widows and starving orphans, weep not burning teurs in its clear depths; no drunkard's shrieking ghost from the grove, curses it in words of eter. nal despair! Spt ak out, my friend*, would you exchange it for the demon's alcohol ?" A space had been cleared a'way immediately around the magnificent Double Spring, which boiled up with force sufficient to turn a mill wheel, in tho very Centre of the evergreen grove. Here a pulpit had been ruised, and before it, was the inseparable altar for mourners. Beyond these, at a distance of fifiy paces, a succession of plank tables extended in a great circle, or the perimeter of a polygon, com plelelv enclosing the area about the spring. An odoriferous steam of n:ost delicious savor, diffused itself through the air; this was from the pits in the adjacent prairie, where the fifty slaves t.f Peter Brinson were engaged in cooking the promised bar- Some poet laments as follows over the gradual encroachment of womankind on the territories of pathnloons. He — Mr. Pease tvas quite anxious when here, to be placed fn juxtaposition with some ex. pert rapping medium, and we take this op-, portunity to inform him that we know of one now, who will be happy to give him some striking manifestations at the first opportunity.—UorneUsville Tribune, Februa. ry 15. They take our hats—at first we hardly missed them— then they ape our illckeys and cravats ; T!le_v stole onr sacks—we only laughed and kiss- eCl them ; rinbolJcnctlthen, they Wore our Very Heft* Until by nlo* unit ture degrees the witches itsvc taken all our eont», hats, bootf and breeche*. JOQ A WHISPER TO GENTLEMEN. becuc. The " Old Guard" at Waterloo. The following description of the last charge at Waterloo, by Napoleon's imperial Guard, is derived from a French work entitled "Historic de la Garde Imperiale, relue par M. Emile Mareo de la Sk Hiliare," and is interesting at the present moment.PAUL DENTOiN, Tho grove itself was literally alive, teeming, swarming, running over with strange figures in the human shape, men, women, and children, In every variety of outlandish costume. All Fhelby county was there. The hunters had come, rifles in hand, and dogs barking at their heels j the rogues, refugees and gimblers, with pistols in their betys, and big knives peeping trom their shirt bosoms; while heio and there might be seen a sprinkling of welldressed planters, with their wives and daughters. BY FANNY FERN -THE- ■omasa raiseirasOT. This little address had c wonderful effect upon him. He got up, talked fast enough, promised to behave, shavea and brushed up, and quit pla/lng 'possum, and went down like a lational rascal. His robes are now a jacket, halt brown and half white, cap of same chaste colors, and pants with legs of different hues. And instead of a carpel bag, filled with stolen goods, at morning, noon, and evening, he carries upon his arm a well made bucket. May he live to learn wisdom, and to grow better." The ladies are requested not to read this. Jupiter Atnmon ! don't I with I was a man, just to show the mftsculins how to play their part in the world a little better. In the first place there ain't a mother's" son of you that has got as far as A B C in the art of making love, (and I've seen a few abortions in that way myself, as well as the rest ol the sisters,) What woman wants to be told that " her feet and eyes are pretty," or " her smile bewitching !"— Just as if she don't know all her fine points hs soon as she is tall enough to peep in the looking-glas*. DY CHARLES SCMMERHELD "During the day, the artillery of the Guard, under Drouet, maintained its old renown ; and the Guard itself bAd frequently been used to restore the battle in various parts of the field, and always with success. The English were fast becoming exhausted, ami in an hour later, would doubtless have been forced into a disastrous defeat, but for the timely aarival of Blucher. But when Oiey.saw him approaching with his thirty thousand Prussian#, their courage revived ; while Napoleon was filled with amazement. A beaten enemy was about to form a junction with the allies ; while Grouchy, who had been sent to keep them in check, was nowhere to he seen. Alas! what great plans a single inefficient commander can overthrow. »iiring the last week of September 1836, the tirst successful Camp meeting was held in eastern Texas. 1 employ the epithet 'successful,' because several pievi. ous failures had apparently rendered all efforts of a like kind perfectly hopeless.— indeed, the meridan at that period was most uncongenial to religious enterprise. The country bordering on the Sabine, had been occupied by adventurers almost as wild as the savages whom they had scarcely expelled, and the beast of prey which still disputed their domain of primeval forest* ; profcsional gamblers, refugees from jail, absconded debtors, outlaws from every land, forgers of felse coin, thieves, robbers, murderer?, interspersed among a raoo of uneducated hunters and hC rJsmen made up the strange social miscellany ; without courts or schools, or even the shadow of civil authority or subordination—a tort of municipal pandemonium, where fierce passions sat enthroned, waving its bloody sceptre, the naked bowie.kuifo! Let no one accuse me of exaggeration, for the sake oi dramatic effect ; I am speaking Bow ot Shelby County—that home of the Lynchers—the terrible locale, whero ten years later, forty persons were poisoned to death by a marriage supper I It will be obvious that in such a community, very few would be disposed to pa'ronizecamp meetings; and accordingly a dozen different, trials, at various times, had never collected a hundred hearers, on any single occasion,* But even these were not allowed to worship in peace ; uniformly, the first day and night, a band of armed desperadoes, headed bv the notorious Wait Foeman, chief judge and exeoutioner of the 8helby Lynchers, broke into the altar and scattered the mourners or asoendea the pulpit and treated the preacher with a gratuitous rope of tar and feathers !— Hence, all prudent evangelists soon learned to shun the left bank of the Sabine, as if it had been infested by a cohort of deer. and two whole years elapsed without any new attempt to erect the cross in so perilous a field. At length, however, an advertisement appeared, promising another effort in behalf of the gospel. The nolioe was unique, a perfect back-woods curiosity, both as to its tenor and mode of publication.— Let me give it verhaiim el lUeratum.' " Barbecue Gamp Meeting. The tumult wo? deafening ; a tornado of babbling tongues, talking, shouting, quarrelling, Letting, and cursing (or amusemenl. Suddenly a cry arose, " Col. Watt Foeman!" " Hurrah for Col. Wait Foeman !" And the crowd parted to the right and left to let the lion Lvncher pass. Patrick Henry vs. Intolerance No, yoa .ineffable don-key, if ydu must use the small coin of flattery to pay toll at the bridge of our affections, let nle whisper a secret in your long ears. Compliment her upon some mental-attraction she does not possess, (if you can find one !) and don't wear the knees of your pet pants threadbare at her feet, trying to make her believe that she is your " first love."— We all know that is among the things that were, after you are out of jacket and trowsers. Soon niter Henry's noted case of "Tobacco and the Preserves," as it wus called, he heard of a case of oppression lor con.science sake. The English Church having been established by law in Virginia, became, as all such establishments are wont to, exceedingly intolerant towards other sects. In the prosecution ot this system of cmversion, three Baptist clergymen hud been indicted at Fredericksburg, for preaching the gospel of th« Son of God contrary to the statute. Henry, hearing of this, rede some fitly miles to volunteer his services in defence of th« oppressed. He entered the Court, being unknown to all preseot, except the bench and the bar, while the indictment was being read by the clerk. He s»t within the bur until the indictment was finished, and the King's attorney had concluded some remarks in support of tho prosecution, when he arose, readied out his hand- for the paper, and without more ceremony proceeded With the following speech-— I turned to the advancing load star of all eyes, and shuddered involuntarily at tho devilish countenance which met my glance ; and yet the features were not on. ly youthful but eminently handsome / the hideousness lay in the look, full of savage fire—ferocious, murderous. It wss in the reddish.yellow eye balls with arrowy pupils, that seemed to flash jests of lurid flame ; in thin, sneering lips' wiih an everlasting icy smile. As to the rest, he was a tall, athletic, and very powerful man.— In his train, a dozen armed desperadoes followed him. In a moment Napoleon taw that h®' could not sustain the attack of so many fresh troops, if once allowed to form 8' junction with the allied forces, and he determined to stake his fate on one bold cast, and endeavor to pierce the allied centre with the Old Guard, and thus' throw himself between, the two armies. For thin' purpose the Imperial Guard was called Up and divided into' two immense columns,' which were to ineet in the British centre. That under Rielle no sooner entered th®1 fire than it disappeared like mist. The other Was placed under Ncr, " the bravest of the brpve," and the order to advance given. Napoleon acoompanied them part of the way down the slope, and halting for a moment in the hollow, addressed them' in a few words, tie told them the battle rested with them, and that he relied on' their valor, tried on so many fields. "Vivw 1'Empereur !" answered him with a shout that Was heard abov£ the thunder of artillery.The whole continental struggle exhibits no sublimer spectacle thart this Ins: effort of Napoleon to save his sinking. Empire.' The greatest military energy and skill th® world possessed had been taxed to the utmost during thd day." Thifones were tottering on the turbulent field, dVid the shad. oWs of fugitive tings flitted throtigh the smoke of battle. Bonaparte's star trembled in the zenith—now blazing out in its' ancient splendor, now suddenly paling be. fore his anxious eye., The intense anxiety with which he watched the advance of that Column', and the terrible suspense which he suffered' whert the smoke of battle wrapped it from sigh;, and the Utter despair of his' great heart when the curtain lifted o*er a fugitive army, and the despairing shriek rang out, "the Cuardjrecoils!" make ua for a moment forget (all the carnage, in sympathy with his distress. Tiie Old Guard feltrthe pressure of thin immense responsibility, and resolved not to prove unworthy of the great trust commit- • ted to its care. Nothing could 1 imposing than its motetpent' It had never rcooifed " A shout like the roar of a tempest an swered, " No I" Critics need never tell me again that back-woodsmen are deaf to the divine voice of eloquence ; for I saw at that moment, the missionary held the hearts of the the multitude, as it were in the hollow of his hand; and the popular feeling ran.in a current so irresistible, that even the duellist, Watt Foeman, dared not venture onother interruption during the meeting. What a splendiferous husband I (Fanny) should make, to be sure! had Providence so ordained it! Do you suppose that when the mother of my gloriotre boys wanted a sixpence to buy their shoe-strings', I'd scowl at her like a hyena, and pull my port-monie out of pocket as if 1 Were drawing a tooth ? Do you suppose whfn her blue eyes grew lustreless, and the rose paled on her fair cheek, trotting round the domestic tread mill day afterday, then I'd come home at night sulky and silent, and smoke my cigar in her face till her eyes were red as a rabbit's! or take myself ofl to a club or a game, and leave her to the exhilarating relaxation of darning stockings ? Foeman spoke in a voice sharp, piercing as the point of a dagger: " Eh ! Brinson, whero is the new missionary 1 We want to give him a plumed coat." I have just revived my report of thatsingular speech in the foregoing sketch—but alas ! I discover, that I have utterly failed to convey the full impression as mv reason and imagination received it. The language, to be sure, is there—that 1 never could forget—but it lacks the spirit; the tone of the unutterable pathos, the cadences of mournful music, alternating with crashes of terrible power; it lacks the gesticulation, now graceful as the play of a golden willow in the wind, anon, violent as the motion of a mountain pine in the hurricane ; it lacks that pale face, wrapped in its dream of the spirit land, and those unfathomable eyes, flashing alight such as never beamed from sun or stars ; and more than all, it lacks the magnetism of the mighty soul that seemed to diffuse itself among the hearers, as a -viewless stream ot electricity, permeating the brain, like some secret fire, melting all hearts, and mastering every volition. Tho Camp-meeting continued, and a revival attended it, such as never before or since was witnessed in the forests of Texas. But, unfortunately, on the last day of the exercises, news' arrived on the the ground that a neighboring farmer had' been murdered, and his wife and children carried away prisoners by the indians. 'flie young missionary sprang into the pulpit and proposed an immediate organization of a company to pursue the savages. The suggestion being being adopted, the mover himself was elected to head the party. After several days hard riding, they overtook the barbarous enemy on the grand prairie. The missionary Charged foremost of his troop, and having performod prodigies of bravery, fell—not bv the hand of an Ihdiati—but by a shot from one of his own horsemen I " He has not yet arrived," replied the planter. " Well, I suppose wo must wait for him; but put the barbecue on the boards, I am hungry as a starved wolf." "May it please your worship*, I think 1 heard read by the prosecutor, as I entered this house, the paper 1 now hold in my iiand. If 1 have rightly understood, the king's attorney has framed an indictment for the purpose of arraigning and punishing, by imprisonment, three inoffensive persons before the bar of this court, for a crime of great magnitude—*-as disturbers of the peace. May ,it please the court, what did I hear read ? Did 1 hear it distinctly, or was it a mistake of my own 1— Did 1 hear an expression, as of crime, that that these men, whom your worships are about to try lor misdemeanor, are charged with—whutf" And con:inuing in a low, solemn, heavy voice, ''preaching the Gospel of the Son of God I" Pausing a.uid ( tne most profound silence and breathless astonishment, he slowly waved the paper ihreo times around his betid, when, lifting his hands and eyes to heaven, with peculiar and impressive energy* he exclaimed— "Great God!" The exclamation, the burst of feeling (ram the audience, were all overpowering. Mr. H. resumed— "May it please your worships, in a day like this, when truth is about to be aroused to olaim its natural and inalienable rights; when the yoke of oppression, that' has reached' the wilderness ot America, and the unnatural alliance of ecclesiastical and civil power are about to bo dissevered, at such a period, when liberty ot Conscience is about to wake from her slumber, ingsj and inquire into thfe reason of such charges as I find exhibited here to-day, in thjs indictment"—"-another fearlul pause, while the speaker alternately cast hi* sharp piercing eyo8 on the court and the prisoners, and resumed—"if I am not deceived, according to the account of the paper 1 now hold in my hand, theso men are accused of prcaching tho Utispel of tho Son of '• I cannot till the missionary comes— the barbecue is his property." A fearful light blazed in Foeman's eyes as he look three steps towards Brincon, and fairly shouted, " Fetch the meat instantly or j'll fill your own stomach with a dinner of lead and steel!"' Do you suppose that I'd trot along like a loose pony at her side, in the street, and leave her to keep up with me or not,'as her strength would permit? Do you sappose I'd fly into a passion and utter wdrds to crush the life out of her young heart, and then insult her by offering her a healing plaster in the shape of a new bonnet 1 And don't you suppose When the anniversary of our wedding day came round. I'd write« dainty lhtle note and leave it on the toilet table, to let her know Pwas still a married lover t \ This was the ultimatum of ono whose authority was the only Uw, and the plnnter obeyed without a murmur. The smoking viands were arranged on the tables by a score of slaves, and the throng prepared to Commence the sumptuous meal, when a voice pealed from the pulpit, loud as tho blast of a trumpet in battle: " Stay, gentlemen and ladies, till the giver of the barbecue aslu God's blessing!" Every heart started, every eye was rii. reeled to the speaker ; and a whisperless silence ensued, for all alike were struck by his remarkable appearance. Ho was almost a giant in statue, thouj/rlt sqarcely twenty years of age; his hair, dark as the raven's wing, flowed down his immense shoulders in masses of natural ringlets, more beautiful than any ever wreathed around the jeweled brow of a queen by the labored achievements of human ftrt; his eyes, black ai midnight, beamed like stars over a face pale as Parian marble, calm; passionless, spiritual, and wearing a singular, indefinable expression, soch as might have been shed by the light of a dream from Paradise, or the luminous shadow of an angel's wing. The heterogeneous crowd, hunters, gamblers, homicides, gazed in mute astonishment. Dvring his stealing and preaching business, he made a visit to Vermont. But he first took occasion tcrgo into Dean's store and steal goods, which he pawned and sold, thus raising the tunds to pay the expenses of his pleasure excursion. He-rtmde his mother valuable presents of silk dresses and other things, and gave his sister dresses. a crape shawl, 8c., all stolen. He told them he hud drawn 9200 worth of dry goods in a lottery. Jones also furnished a tenement in Glastenbury with stolen goods, exchanging these goods for such articles as he wanted, teliing the dealers that to some extent he look his pay io dry goods for preaching. But he soon found it hard sledding in Glastenbury and came back here, taking up his old quarters at Dkan's store. He generally carried a carpet bag with hftn. This hefrequently filled with goods, while Mr. Dean's clcrk was sound asleep. In this way he stole, as near as can be ascertained, $2,000 worth of goods, about 9700 of which have been recovered. Pshaw! I'm sick of you all! you don't deserve the love of agenerouf, high souled woman !• If you want a housekeeper, hire one, and done with it. If you want a wife—but you don't. There will be a Campmeeting, to commence the last Monday ol ibis month, at the Double Spring Grove, near l'eter Brinson's, iti the county of Shelby. Ctne woman will' answer as Well as another, to sew on your buttons, straps and strings, and make your pudding, and ao forth and so oiiV " The exercises will open with a splendid barbecue. Preparations are being made to suit »11 tastes; there will be a good barbtcue, better liquor, and the best of Gospel! Paul Dbnto.v." Sept. 1, 1836;" Do you suppose me have cultivated our minds, and1 improved" the bright and glorious gift of intellect to the best of our capacity, to minister only to your physical want ? Not a bit pf it 1 When that is over we want something rational. Do you ever think of tharj you selfish wretch ! when you sit with your feet on the mantlepiece, reading the newspaper all to yoursell, or sit from tea lime till ten o'clock, stating th,e ashes in the grate out of corn), tcnance ? w Cn «nori .,i to the aaaault. before a human Deheld with awe iu firm .0 the final charge.— baltflriea stopped pfayceased along the British •he beating of 4 drum, cheer their steady' courn dead silence overthV td was like muffled ftuq, helmets of th« .Unna light be- This singular document was nailed to the door of evo ry public house and gro. c«ry ; it was attached to the largest trees at tho intersections of all cross-roads and principal trails, and even tho wandering hunters themselves, found it in remote dells of the mountains, mil's away from the smoke of human habitations. On ope occasion ho was at Dkan's housij1 Iftr. D's son came ib, and was preparing to go away. In his wallet were ten 910 bank bills, which Jones discovered. The rogue, near evening, bid them oil good afternoon, pretending that ho was going to sleep out that night. But instead of going out at the front door, ho slipped up stairs, and Kid himself under the bed of Mr. D's son. During the evening, Mrs. Dean canio it) and spread some clothes on the foe, and the allies For a moment the and steady advance ing, and the firing line*, as, without I need scarcely n*me the assassin, the reader will have anticipated me. The incarnate fiend was Colonel Watt Foeman, chief hangman of tho Shelbv Lynchers, and ten years later a master cook at tho Poisoned Wedding. The missionary prayed, but it soutided like no other prayer ever addressed to the throne of the almighty. It contained no encomiums on the splendor of the divino attributes ; no petitions in tho tone of corrt- Lord Harry F if 1 had suoTi a block of a husband, I'd scare up a ghost of a lover some where if there's any wit in wo4 man ! or a bugle note to age, they moved .. field, Their treat* cier ; 'while the cuiinssiore ftashe At first many regarded the matter as a hoax played off by some wicked wag, in ridicule of popular credulity. But this