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NORVVALK, CT. \\’EDNESDAY, MARCH 18, I840.
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NUDJEER
TI-IE NORWALK GA ZETTE
Is Publls/iezl
_E‘VEl3.Y \VEDNESDAY MORNING,
BY
JAMES REED. Jn.
TERt\IS.—'I‘wo dollars per annum, payable
in all cases. quarterly in advance. _
.'J‘o subscribers who live out of the Carrter’s
district and call at the Oflice for their papers,
:31 50 per year, if paid in arlvancr_z-—otlierwise
« $2 will be charged. Mail subscribers $2 per
éiiintim, in advance. No others attended to.
To companies of si.I. or more, receiying their
.;,,,pers by mail, 31 50, payal-le in tzcwarice.
Executor’s and Adiniiiistrator’s Notices. 3
insertions. ‘.iBl—Conttt'tissioiier’s notices, $1 25.
—Y-early advertisers. oncsquarc, $10 per aiinum,
payable quarterly in.ad.va'iice. The [it'tV'll.€gB
ofyearly advertisers is lttitited to their own tin-
inediate business-—extra advertisements will be
charged at the usual rates. All other advertise-
mentsat the rate of$1per sqtiare for 3 insertions.
and25 cents for each subsequent insertion.
All casual advertisements sent to tltts Office,
/must be accompanied by the cash. No others
{will be inserted. 7
M33 lf-’3lRlllNlli\‘lllli\l©,,
_ or ALL, KINDS,
j, MEALTY EXECUTED AT THE GAZETTE orrmt.
DENTA L N0 TICE.
I OCT. A. HILL, thankful fortlte patronage
. he has received in his profession dtti-ing
-12 tnonths past, in Norwalk, begsleave to in-
form the public, that he still eoiittitues a few
doors west of the Bridge, in Burrall’s Buildings,
where he will be happy at atiy time to see his
friends, and answer all their calls in Dental
Surgery. _
litcorruptible teeth inserted from one to a
full set. Also, teeth cleansed, separated. ex-
tracted, &c., and all those diseases of tire teeth
attended to; which, if suffered to contitiue, are
productive of so much mischief.
Rc_fercnccs.—Eniery Bissell,' M. D.: 3- D-
M‘Lean, M. D.: Ilon. 'I‘liomas 8. Butler;
Hon. B-ttljilmln lsaacs. Norwalk. Nclieniiuh
Perry, l\I. D. Ridgefield. R. B. Bt)tsf()rti, .l\I.
D.; Duct. D. 1?. _Ktiapp, Dit.t]l)t]l'y. Duct.
Howell Rodgers, Colchester, Ct. William
'VVitter, M. D. \Villi:tmantic, Ct.
Noveriiber '20, 1839. 1
POETRY.
M A R Y.
’Tvt-as morning, and Mary rose.
Her stockings and garters put on ;
Iustitictively followed her nose,
And walked with her back to the son.
She smiled arid the woods were illumed;
She sighed, and the vales were depressed;
She breathed, and the air was pert‘tiin’d;
She t'iown’d, andsaw nature distress’d.'
She nodded, the trees notldcd too;
She iiiurniur’d, and so did the rill;
Site wept, and the evening dew
Fell in tears on the neigli‘3orhing‘hill.
She slept, and fair flowers sprung up ; ;
She blushed, and the rose looked more red;
She was hungry, she went home and supt;
She was tir'd and so went to bed.
F or the Norwtilk (.:‘aze.lc.
E N l G M A.
I am composed of Five Letters.
My three and two, tiiy one and five,
Is iieedful to keep men alive,
Antl yet the same some people dread,
For by its means there's many dead.
My one atid five, my five and four.
\Ve see men do at ttiatty a store;
My one and two, my four and four
You often see when near the shore.
My three, one, two, my five and one,
Is used each day by niatiy a one;
My fourth, my second, and my fifth
Has sent full many a one adrift.
My four, my five and five you see,
In office high. once placed was be,
My four, and two, my three and five,
ls deer to all who are alive.
My one. five, tour and two, five, three,
\Vhen‘in distress we like to see.
My three, two, three, and five abhor,
Because ’tis often found in war.
My tltree, two, four, anil five is seen,
VVithout an edge to ctit most keen;
My one, and five, my five and three,
Has caused ittucli grit-faiid misery.
My wltole it is an ugly thing,
Tltat hits been feared by tnatty a king.
Yet by my use some people live,
Now it Stilttlltm please to give.
\V. M. C.
Court of Probate, District of Norwalk,
State of Connecticut.
3'1‘ :1 Court of Probate. lioldeii at Norwiilk,
within and for the District of Norwalk, oi)
the 29th day of February, D. 18-10. upon the
Petition of Jane Church pf the City and County
of New York, as parent and guardian of Fran-
ces Church, I.‘It.'l‘tnOl'ld Clitirch. and Sarah A.
Church. all of said city of New York, and mi-
nors under the age of twenty-one years. showing
to this Court that said minors own an nndtvitled
right in certain Real Estate lyingin said Nor-
.\valk,in quantity about ten acres, being the saute
prnperzy set ofl'aiid distributed to the heirs of
',Daniel Church, dec’d, front the estate of John
Church, late of said Norwalk. dec’d. and is re-
_ corded on the Records of said Probate Court, for
a particular description, reference thereto is had,
and praying for liberty to sell the same, as per
petition on tile will appear :——Ordered that the 2d
-Monday of May next, at2 o’clock, afternoon, be
assigited for a hearing on said petition. at the
Prtibate Office in said Norwalk: and the said
petitioner was dircctetl to give notice thereof, by '.
publishing this order in a newspaper printed at
,l\lorvvalk, three weeks successively, at least six
weeks before said day of assignment.
3vI6 Bl-jl\'J.. ls.-mes, Judge.
Court of Probate, District of Nor\valk.?
State of Connecticut.
T a Court of Probate, lioltleri at Norwalk,
_ - witliiti antl for the district of Norwalk, on
the second day of March, A. D. 1840, upon the
Petition of Charles \Vickcs, of \Viltnn. in said
‘district, as Parent and Guardian of Emile
\Vickes, \Villiam E. \Vicltes, Harriet \Vickes,
Mary E. \Vickes and George M. \Vickes, mi-
nors uiider the age oftwenty one years, showing
to this Court that said minors own an undivided
right in certain land and buildings lying i.n
Weston, Fairfield County, in quantity at:out
sixty-five acres, bounded North by Turny Os-
horrie ac Cyrus Osborne, East by Horace Smith,
South. by Cyrus Osborne, and West by Benja-
min Gilbert, with a higltway running through
the same. One other piece of lantl lying in
Redding, in said County, in quantity about
eleven acres, bouttded North by Orace Stnitli
antl Joseph Goodsell, East by Joseph Goodsell,
and South anil VVest by Isaac Osborne with the
usual driftway, and praying for liberty to sell
the same. as per petition on tile will appear:——
Ordered that the 11th day of May next at 2
o’clock, afternoon, be assigned for a hearing on
said petitions. at the Probate Office in said
Norwalk: and the said petitioner was directed
togive notice thereof, by pnblislting this order
in a newspaper printed at Norwalk, three weeks
successively, at least six weeks before said day
of assignment.
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BENJ. Isaacs, Judge.
FUR NI T UR E.
THE subscriber, grate-
ful for past favors, would
solicit a continuance ofthe
same. He is now matin-
facturing Furniture of all
kinds, and will keep oti
hand, a good assortment
. — . , not to be excelled by any
country estalilishrnent. Any kind of Furniture
not on ‘hand, will begmade at the shortest notice.
’ A good assortment of CHAIRS will be re-
ceived between this and the 1st of April, and
will be sold cheap for CASH. Don't forget the
place, a few doors east of the Bridge.
N. B. All accounts due the subscriber to the
presentdate, must be settled without delay. when
"h as wish to, may have an opportunity to
' aiiew score.
o, for sale. a Horse Power, suitable for
ing a lathe or saws, or both. It will be
heap, \VttI. A. BAit1.ow.
orwalk. Feb. 20th. 1840. If I5
‘ CLOCKS! CLOCKS !!
$8, and warranted. Also, Spoons, aspure
as coin, or no sale.
Budge, » C. E. Dtsmtow.
Norwall-t,, Marclt 2d,,1840.
HE subscriber has new Clocks from $4 to
Spectacles, Thinibles. Pen
Knives. Combs, Looking Glasses atid Watches.
Jewelry, &c. cheap’ for cash. East side the
MISCELLANY. --
lt\’l"LUE;\'CE.
' ‘his world is :1 world of inliui-nee, tvherp
every one, like the ttiottld, is giriitg iinprrs-
sions, and every one, like tva.\, is 7'£CL’l'L'l7l_.g'
them. Evcry.ont—- has an influi~nce——it may
be an imperceptible, but 0fl.t‘l] it is a ft-.:t.t'ful,
and even real and an eternal influence, oti
every other. The departed dead are exert-
ing it upon us, by their recorded example,
and by the memory of all that they were.
Ages may have passed since they were gath- ’
ered to the tomb, and yet, through the still-
ness of all those ages, they are speaking to
us. By tradition, or biography, or history,
for all the purposes of influence they are
still -‘7n'esent tvith us—a Bonaparte rousing
the hero to conquest—-a Newton firing the
scholar in his studies--—a Milton inspiring
the poet, and a Brainerd or a Martyn, the
Missionary in his work. Every page that
we have read has left its influence. Every
letter that we have received—every friend
that we have met-—-every accident that has
occurred to us, each has left its stamp, indel-
ible and eternal on the soul. Foster's noble
essays on "Decision of Charitctcr,” and on
'One’s writing his own Memoirs,” have
moulded many an one both for time and eter-
nity. The single chatge from Patrick Hen-
ry to a child», “to: remember that every man
is the maker o-f his own standing and desti-
nv,” ntade that Cdfllld one of the most distin-
gluislu-d“ men of this country. And the re-
mark from a popular preacher, that “resolu-
tion is omnipotent,” has modified. the char-
acter of many who heard it fbr all eternity.
And as with the past, so it is with the pres-
ent. On every side influence is flowing to
us and from us—'evcr extending. like the
circle in the tvater—merging and mingling
character with eharac-:tei'., and soul with soul
——weavi'ng around’ us be complex web of
good or evil, and moulding us with cease-
less and with tiiightypotver, for life or death l
And ifsttcb be the case with all, itiuch more
is it true of the Christian, standing, as he
does, as “a light to the world.” "as a city
set upon a hill, which cannot be bid.” In
the religion of Jesus, there are more of the
elements of influence, and of influence in its
strength, than in all. other principles in the
universe. The Christian, then, who profess-
es this religion, cannot stand as an isolated,
or as a neutral being. Whether consistent
or inconsistent, upon every one he is lea-ving
impressions, as if he had graven them upon
the rock; and there they will not only be
fixed, but grow forever deeper, on to the
judgment, (where he must meet them,)"and
to all eternity. Yes, it is the ever-living
law of moral beings and of a moral state,
that influence is ceaseless and deathless.
And in all its fulness this law applies to the
Christian.‘ Sure as the sun by its h_eat,.or
the ice by its chill—sure as the Wlltl‘l\\'md
by its might, or the earthquake by its heav-
ings—so sure will his influence be felt. If
inconsistent, it will be felt like the sirocco
of the desert, to blight and waste and destroy;
but if consistent, like the gales of paradise,
to cheer and bless, as with the touch of
heaven.-—N. Y. Obs. '
From the New Orleans Bulletin.
MYSTERIOUS.
A curious discovery has been made by
some workmen employed in erecting houses
on the site of the old Calaboose. ’I‘bat.an-
'-cient building, which dates far back into
Spanish times, was recently pulled down
The purchasers of thc.gI'0UF_1d’ on which it
stood immediately commenced improvements.
the property being valuable from its location.
16 In the course of operations to.this effect, it
was found necessary to dig several feet tin-
der the surface to lay a substratum for the
tvalls. The laborers in excavating discov-
ered their progress was retarded by some
hard substance, which resisted any impres-
sion froni the working tools. On examina-
tion, the resisting substance was found to be
a bar of iron. Curiosity was excited. A-
nother and another bar of iron was discov-
ered, and at length a space in the bottom of
the hole gave way, or rather sunk, and dis
closed between the hoops ofiron the interior
of a dungeon. This horrid den of cruelty
was arched over with thick brick walls and
ribs of iron. The height from the floor to
the ceiling was four feet, and the width be-
tween the side walls about three." The ex-
tent of this cavern of the Inquisition is not
ascertained. \-Vhen first opened the inside
tvas dry, the ooze from the river being ex-
cluded by water cement. It contained no-
thing but a few human bones, the remains
of some victims of tyranny and superstition.
In consequence of the watet"flotving in it
tvas found impossible to explore the subterra-
nean passage to arty great extent. The stip-
position is, that the cavern is extensive,.and
has branches in various directions. To trace
this subterranean labyrintli through all its
raniifications, would be a curious and anti-
quarian research, calculated to throtv light
ttpon the dark deeds of a past age, and dig
tip its buried crnelties to the gaze and exe-
cration ofthe present generation. It is to be
hoped that the authorities will take the mat-
ter in hand, and institute a thorough inves-
tigation. When tve visited the spot, a crowd
was assembled around the excavation, and
efforts were making to pump out the water.
As popular curiosity was much excited, ex-
ertions will doubtless be made fully to ex-
plore the subterranean structure. Various
cotijec.tut'cs are indulged as to tvho were the
builders of the diabolical contrivance. It
was doubtless CODSttt]Ctt"fI sintultaneotisly
tvitli the prison, and the best clue to the dis-
CO‘.'t't‘y will he t.o trace tlte_liistory ofthe old
Calaboose, and ascertain its fOt1t)d‘c‘l‘S.
T ll E TEA PARTY.
in rear. ADI]-ZS.
Corney Uti(lei‘t\‘OOd was one ofthe cruel-
cst and most disrigret-‘-able old fellows I ever
had the irtisfortune to know, and being a
man of great strength, was altogether a most
loruii«.l...ible person, arid the terror of the
iteighboiliood. Nobody who had any re-
spect for their personal safety, or who had
the smallest grain of prudence in their com-
position, would ever think of quarrelling
with ttim, as it blow frotn his powerful arm
would be S0tt]L‘.ll]l't}'g' similar to a kick from
a horse ; this propensity of Corney’s had
cost hitn many good pound suits in the shape
of damages to p.-trties injured, but the habit
was incurable; the disposition to strike—to
have recourse to violence in. all cases of op-
position, or provocation of any kind, was
perfectly unconquerablc.
~Now Corney was a. man» well to do in the
world, and had made a- great deal of money
by dealing in pepper and mustard, and one
would suppose he had it: bibed a great por-
tion of their inimitable qualities in his com-
position. He had sever-.il children, but all.
of them died pt‘eiitaturel_v, excepting one.
This one was a daughter, Caroline, :1 pretty,
lively, and most amiable. girl‘. Like other
young tvomen, Caroline was fond of a little
gaiety, of mingling in society, and tint averse
to the attentions of her equals of the other
sex ; but ofthese cnjoyments she was whol-
ly dcbarred by the cross-grained temper of
lter father, who, without giving any reasons
for it. would neither allow her to go abroad,
01' receive any visit at home. He could not
endure the thought of her tnarrying, and on
that account entertained a particular aver-
sioti to any young man who might stand in-
the relations of a lover to his daughter. It
tvas not necessary, however, that such corres-
pondence should be concea."ed from her ino-
ther. Partaking little of her husband’s dis-
position, she wished her diitigltter to see as
much of society as possible, and greatly
though silently, disapproved of the restraint
in tvhich she was kept, and, most particular-
ly, of her being denied all intercourse with
the respectable young men of the neighbor-
hood, amongst whom she would gladly have
seen the husband ofher daughter. The con-
sequence of this sympathy of feeling bettveen
mother and daughter was a cortfederacy,
which had, for its principal object, to defeat t-he
vigilance of Corney, in the matter of pay
ing and receiving visits. Such opportuni-
ties were a rare occurreiice——very rare ;. still
they did happen sometimes, as the following
"will show.
It happened‘ that Corney Under-tvood‘~ was
summoned‘ to attend" the County Sessions as
a juryman ;‘ it was distant about thirty miles;
and there being no coach communication be-
tween the two places, he must of necessity
perform the journey on his otvn pony. . This
was an opportunity not‘ to be lost by his wife
and daughter, and great was the secret re-
joicing and preparation of the two ladies at
the delightful prospect. ’T\vas settled that
invitations, in the name of Mrs. Underwood
and her daughter, should be sent to some
half dozen young bachelors oftheir acquaint-
ance, on the day preceding that on which
Mr. Underwood was to set out on. his jour-
ney. This invitation set forth that the la-
dies would be most happy of Mt. ’
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company to tea on the following evening at
six o'clock, and the bearer of these messages
wasdesired to hint in each case that Mr. U.
would be from home on the nightin ques-
tion. This may seem supet‘fluou;, but it
tvas by no means so in reality,—'—-antl the la-
dies knew this. They knew tliafnobody
would come unless assured that Uulertvood
was out of the way, for they would ‘as soon
have faced a Russian bear, as faced liim un-
der circumstauces which might prolloke his
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The time at last arrived; Corney setout
on his jottrney, and Caroline and her mother
were determined to make a night of it. The
largest room in the house was selected, and
there was considerable difficulty in prepar-
ing it for the occasion, on account of its be-
ing nearly filled with large bags or sacks of
pepper, which for want of warehouse rootit
had been stowed in here, to await transport-
ation to the city on the following day.
These unseemly incumbritnces, however,
were gotrid of—a lot of them thrust in be-
lo\v,a bed that stood in a recess in‘the room;
t.-their parcels were stowed into the presses
and closets that opened into the apartment,
until the whole were fairly disposed of and
out of sight. All preparations having been
cornpleted, the two ladies. and ttvo female.
relatives,attired in their best, awaited the
arrival oftheir guests in joyous anticipation
of 'a— merry and pleasant evening. The
guests arrived, and were happily seated a-
round Mrs. Undertvood’s tea titblt-.—-a liveli-
er, more hilarious little party you could not
have met any ‘where; the laugh and the
jest went merrily round along with thctca
and the toast. After tea came the drinking
ofhealths and the singing of sotigs, and all
the other et ceteras of a particularly happy
and a particularly merry party. At the iiio—
ment when, they had obtained the zenith of
their hilarity, a sudden scream from Cairo-
line who commanded‘ a view of the avenue
that led up to the house, insta-nt‘ly arrested
the tnirth of the revellers and threw them
into the greatest alarm. _ .
‘My father! my fatberlt’ cried Miss Un-
derwood, in the most dreadful agitation;
‘oh—motlierl there’s father!’
‘ Oh dear! what will become ofus,’ cried
the mother, ‘what in the world brings him
biick so sobn 3’ B.ut there was no time to be
lost, the great and instant business in liand
was escape, evasion, drispersion, concealmetit
—avoidance, rcfuge——all or any of the ex-
pedients by tvhich danger may be eschetvcd.
This every one felt—but' liotv was it to be
done? There was no getting‘ out ofthe house,
for there was no egress except by the front
door, atid of this old Corney had the com-
mandos he rode up the avenue; the ferinertt
amongst them was extreme. They flew in
all directions in seai'ch' of holes and corners
wherein to hide their devoted heads, and die’
only effect of their ar'ixie.ty~ was to keep them
runn.itig. con-ftisedly up and down the room,
croseirtsg and recrossing each other, as it" on-
gaged in some strange and irregular contra
dance. In the midst 0ftl'1lSlt‘t;‘mt‘l”l(lOUSl]t]l‘~
ly burly stood the motlter and dang-hter,with
outstretched arms, endeavoritig to catch the
fugitives, as they flew distractcdly past thertt,
in order to direct them to places of conceal-
ment. This after much exertion and ntuch
ttzcuble they finally accotiiplishcd.
'A couple they packed belotv the bed, an
individual they stuffed into a press, another
they thrust intoa closct,a fifth they squeezed
into a locker, and so on, till all were removed
ottt of sight; having previously requested
each one in the most earnest manner not to
make the slightest noise in his place of con-
cealment. They then removed from the ta-
ble every trace of the evening’s festivities.
On matters being made quiet, Mrs. Under-
wood and her daughter took seams apiece,
and comtnenced sewing with great apparent
assiduity. Old Corney, who went himself
into the stable with his pony, unbridled and
rubbed him down with his own hands, had
given his wife and daughter ample time to
complete their a1'.rangements. They had not
dotie so long before they were alarmtd by
strange voices suddenly arising at the saute
time from the different concealtncnts of the
members of their patty; These voices re-
sembled those that proceed from persons
struggling fiercely to suppress some over-
mastering convulsion. lt might be either a
laugh, a cough, or a sneeze. It could notbe
a laugh, for in. their present situation there
was very little to lauglt at. Greatly alarm-
ed, Mrs. Underwood and- her daughter‘, avail-
ing. themselves of‘ the delay of old Corney,
opened the door of a closet’ two or three
inches, in which was one of the noisest of
the party, and were about to beseech hitn to
be quiet, when they were rendered incapable
of doing so, by the strangeness of the atti-
tude and condition in which they found him.
He was liol‘ding on his nose firmly with his
finger and thumb, and was almost black in
the face with the violent efforts he was tnak-
ing to suppress asneezethatwas r-elentl =:sly
insisting on being distinctly expressed. He
was frightfully distorted by the agonics of
the resistance which he was practising. He
was making hideous grimaces. ‘VVhat is
the matter, Mr. VVi!son Cl’ whispered Caro-
line, in the greatest? alarm,-on seeingthecon-
dition of the sufferer‘. But the sufferer could
not answer the question. He neither let go
his nose or opened his mouth. He, howev-
er, finally got out, piecemeal, and by a sud-
den jerk, the words ‘ The pepper—-the pep-
per—oh ! gicha ‘.1’ These words, which
would have-been incomprehensible to astron-
ger, spoke volumesto Caroline. The closet
into which the unfortunate sufferer’ was
squeezed, was crammed full of sacks of pep-
per, and from the smallness ofthe place, and
its particular interior, his nose was held right
over at least a. couple of hundred weight of
it, and powerful was the ex-lialation it emit-
ted. The consequence was such as describ-
ed, and to render matters worse, every one of
and exposed to the same irresistible stieezc-
provoking influence; there being pepper
bags in every place of concealment. At this
moment old Corney’s foot was heard op the
stair; in the next, he had entered the room.
He was looking most appallingly grim but‘
there was nothing apparently wrong. The
room was all ot'derly,and his wife and daugh-
ter were demurely seated at their_seams
Even the sneezers were quiet, for they had
the gentlemen were in the same predicament, H
?came off in New York a fetv days since.— -
Corney, but the effort must have been a
dreadful one. Of the feelings ofthe mother
and ditugliter, I leave the readertojudge.
Old Corne_v~sat down by the fire, and desired
his pipe might be brought him_. Here, then,
was a certain prospect of a sedurunt, and-
that too, under the. full conviction that the ref-
ugeescould not be inuclt longer suppressed.
Up tr.» this instant, not the slightest noise
was emitted in any of the cortci-a!itients.—
Their contents tvere behaving tt(l."tlll‘.’.1l)l€‘, he-
roically; although it must have been to the
expetise of great bodily suffering. But alas
for poor human nature! a crisEs must cotne;
the first indication of the impending storm
manifested thetnselves in at certain effort, ab-
rupt stifling sputterings. On hearing the first
ofthese ominous sounds, which both motlier
and daughter knctv to be sure prelude-s to
more open strentiations; to he in truth, the
grumbling of Mount ]Etna,. previous to
an eruption; they oxchangecl looks of her-
ror, attd both instantly coiiintencecl coughing
some vigorotts shuffling of the feet succeeded
for a time in preventtiig Coi'ney’s attention
being attracted by the iiiyst=ei'ious sounds in
the apartutent, ‘out itcould not last long; an
openpuadisgtt-ised and tremetidous sneeze,
from a press at length succeeded...
‘ W'rtat’s that?’ grotvled Corney,dropping
his pipe, and starting fiercely to his feet--
‘“wbe.~t’s that Cl’ inqtiircd be, looking hard at
the place whence this noise pt‘oc.eed‘ed ; but
he had not time for tarther l't‘m£ll'l{S. Ano-
‘tbcr sneeze, equally lotid and vigorous, soun-
ded the alarm in another quarter. [-1etut'n-
ed quickly a1'ound this llP.\V‘St.'t’llC of myste-
ry. Another and another‘ followed in vari-
ous tlircctions, keeping him wheeling around
as ifon a pivot until he found that every rc-
ceptacle irt the ap:irtmet-t was occupied by a
Snt?cZ:'t‘; but who they were, or how they
got there, was beyond his comprehension.
In the meantitite this sneezing, in the
place ofteriitinating, tvith the. simple ster-
ituation already emptied, continued with in-
creasing atiitttation attd spirit. It became
now in fact getit-ral round the whole apart-
metit, sotrietvliat resembling the ruiiniiig of
a regiment on it held day. In the midst of
all the sneezing, stood Corney Untlerv.'ood—-
all incarnation and amazeinent, anger and
revenge. Still he had neither said nor done
any thing beyond ‘ tvltat’s that,’ already men-
tioned. lie was evid.-rttly tltinking tvhathe
should do At length he seemed to have
inade up his mind. Seizing art immense
cudgcl, which stood in one ofthe corners of
the apartmetit, he opened one ofthe closets,-
and catching the tinfortunate sneezer it cort-
as loudly as they could; tvhiclt added to,
:
action in‘tlie court of ,lbve, and was so am;
°‘’53lUl, 19 his. pleadittigs,—that he obtained
possession of the fair lady's fqrson, which
together with his own, be deposited in is
cal‘t‘tagc, &. drove out of town, doubtless for
tlie_ pui'pose_of c'onsumtnating'31 fll8i;l’I'tD0nlflI
union. Being pursued by the vigilan‘t.un--
-‘cle: oti horseback, the fugitives were ovena.
ken on the road to Harlem; the uncle used
a club, the lover a pistol, which refused‘ lira;
the uncle dismounted, the infer got out of
his earriitge, and both got into a fi'ahr,. in
\\'l]l('l1 the lawyer was prostmted, wlien the‘
gentle_ Eveline sprang from the carriage,-
itnd with her qwn club laid her belligerent
uncle at tier fett senseless by a blow on the
head. She then assisted her wounded k-niirrht
into the vehicle and drove off] leaving I-ier
fitllon uncle to the care of any good Samari-
tan that might percbance pass that’ way.-—
In siicb a condition he retn-ain'ed- titll found
and restored to his'sei‘is'es'.- '
Tlze good w£fe.——Stie command-eth‘ lief
h—ttsbat=i.l in any equal matter, b_v'ol5eyirig
hint. She never cross--th‘ her husband in
the spring tide of his anger, but stays t’i'l3l it
be ebbing water. Surely m’cri‘,-cortt'=rarv to
iron, are worse to be wrought upon when
Phot. Her clothes-ta-t'e rather comely than
costly, and she‘ makes plain cloth‘ t'o be'velvet-
‘by her lirtndsorrie wearing it. Her husband’s’
secrets she will not divulge; especially she’
IS careful to conceal his infirmities. In her
husband's absence she is- wife and5 depu‘,
jhusbund, which makes ht-it double the files’
of her diligence. At his return, he finds
all things so well! that he wonders to- see
liimselfat home when he was abroad. Heir
c.’iildren, though many in number, are none
in noise; steering them with a look whither
she listetlt.--Cl"/tom-cos Fllfl€¢,- D. D.
tained, by the collar, dragged him, sneezing
violently, itito the middle of the room.-
‘\Vhcre are you from, sir ?’ shouted Cor
ney, in his most ferocious tones :. and at the
same time brandishing his stick over, the
head ofliis victim.
you here ‘.3’
lingly answered, but he could not—-the fit
of sneezing was still on him; and all he
could do was to loolcappealingly in the face
of his intert'ogator,.to deliver sortie abortive
attempts at speaking, and then gave way to
another hearty peal of sneezing. Corney
could make nothing of him as a convct'sable
being, but he could: as a- punisbable—and
to this purpose be was about to proceed to
apply him, when the other sneezers sympa-
thetically all‘. cred by the- pt'edicanfent‘ of
their unhappy associate, and in tnotnent'ai'y'
expectation of sharing his fate,-—-begaii to
holes and other places ofconcealment‘.
sneezing heads emerged from beneath the
bed, another was thrust out of a press—-and
the others out o_fthe differ».-tit closets,-—where
they kept nodding and sneezing, and looking
with dismal countenauces on the appalling
scene before tbem;~wi'.hout' uttering a word
or daring to venture further. The exhibi-
have excited the risibility of any man but
Corney; but on him it produced no such
result.
attracted his attention from the ttnfortunate
man whom beheld in his grasp. 'I‘liis person,
availing himself of Cot'ney’s m0ti't€t‘1l2Jt‘_V in-
attention,»eluded his-grasp, and bolting from
the room rushed sneeziitig out of. the house.
The other’ sneezers, seeing~tbe«success~ of
this bold measure, instantly determined on
doing so likewise; they rushed simultarie—
ously to the door.- Corney in- the meantime,
having abandoned all idea of selecting indi-
viduals, directed his vengeance against the
whole party generally and incliscriiriiriately;.
antl in ptirsuance of this particular line of
tactics,» stood with his stick,-and showered
his blows without aim or mereyfamongst
the flying sneezers. This part of the exhi-
bition, hotvevcr, was of short duration, for
the latter soon got out of the apartment-, and
finally escaped, rushing ina stritig from-the
house, and all‘ the while maintaining a run-
ning fire of sneezing along the whole line.
How the mother and daughter fared, has
never come to my knowledge: but I have
reason to suppose that Corney became more
civilized, as in little more than sixtnonths
after the above affair, Caroline was married
to the same M-r. Wilson, before mentioned,
and thus ended the Tea Party of Corney
Underwood’s daughter.
Loire and Ba.ttcr_7/.--A bit of romance
It appears that Miss Eveline Hamilton, a
eautiful young lady, with the addttional
charms of $300,000! which will be hers at
her trtitjority, a few months hence, recently
from Europe in company with her uncle.
G. F. Ledwith, of Agtista, Geo. duringa
three weeks’ adjournment in N. Y. became
acquainted with a young lawyer whose
name is not given. The young gentleman
-become aware ofthe dreaded presence of old
received a wound in the ‘heart,.brou-ght his
‘ Vi/ho or what brought
The person questioned, tvotild have \vil- I
sneeze their way out of their respective’
7‘ .
Iwo
tion was a most ludicrous one, and- would ‘
The sudden protrusion of nodding _
and sneezing heads,.had one good effeet—it ’
_ T/"re .spon;,=‘e fi's/iery--When at the Island?
of Rhodes, 1 went to the sponge fishery,
which is curious and interesting. It is a la‘
‘borious and dangerous employment, but so
ltt(‘.t'al.it’t‘, that five or six successive days'a’f'-
ford those engaged in it the means of sup-
port‘ for an-ci'it’irfe yea r. The s'potig_e”is attach-
.~d to rocks at the bottom of the sea, serving
as a retreat to'my.riads of small crustacious
nniintils, which occupy its cavities. The"
fishermen dive for it to the depth of even» a
hundred feet,-andisometimes continue for fi’ve'
or si.-‘x- minutes under water, unless the quan-
tity of sponge they may have collected‘ be‘
comcsinconveniertt or unmanageable, when
they are hauled to the surface by the crew
ofthe boat to which they belong ;‘ the divers‘
occasionally fall victims to sharksthat attack
them under water. '1-‘he sponge is preparcdi
for the frnarket by, being pressed to dislodge
the animzilculaz it contains, and after-w-ards
washed in lye to deprive it of mucilagihous
mattet'.—-.7lIars/tal ]lIa.rmont.
‘ Tile most an/tappg/.'- Cosroes,‘- kiiig‘ of
Persia, in conversation with _t-‘vvo philosophers?
and his vizier asked—--‘ What sitflation of
m:m is most to be deplored?” One of the
pltilosophers maintained,-.that it was old age
accompa’ni'cd with extreme poverty; the oth.
er, that it was to have the body oppnessed by
infirinities, the mind worn out, and the’
heart broken by series ofheavy misfort-‘tines:
_“ I know a condition more to be pitied,” said
the vizier, “ and it’ is that of him wlio-has,
passed through life w.it’houtdoing good; and?
who unexpectedly surprised? by‘deat-h,- is sent.
to appear before the tribunal oft-he Sov-ereign=
Judge.”
Common Al2surdit2'cs.——'I-‘o ask a‘ t’rades=-
man if the commodity which he offers to
sell is of‘ the flrst quality.
To. supposeyou please your vi_sitot' by
showing your irtfant child to hint.
To tell a man of whom you wish to bot‘-
row money that‘ you are in great want of it.
'I‘o suppose that all c-riaicisms. are vv.r.ittep.-
by critics.
; ‘ Toasle a.mar-kct-woman. if‘
fresh: _ ,
To imtnure a man in prisorr wl'io"* owes‘
you money and has no means of paying it,.
except by his industry,
To suppose the cider‘ which you buy at:
two dollars a bottle is champagne.
For a monkey to suppose when he re-
turns from‘ his foreign travels sensible people
will take him for a lion. ‘_
For an author to denounce the age as~illi°.‘-
erate because his book is unsaleable.
To ask for ‘a second joint’ when you-
want the leg ofa turkey.
To occupy the attention of a dinner with
aitecdotes- relating to yourself.
To advise a self-eonc'eited- friuendito aliam
don a foolish undertaking-
To expect to retain the friendship of a-
manafter having asked him to» return bor-
rowed money to‘ you’.
'I‘o suppose that distinguished authors?
have too much dignity to puff tlieir own
writings.
For a man to have pockets made in his-
clothcs when he has nothing to put in; them.
To suppose all those who style themselves;
professors’ to be learned men:
To commence a donning letber with. ' my
dear sir,’ and end it ‘your most obedient,
humble servant.’ ' ,
\Vben- in a hurry, to get in a New---York
omnibus. . . _
To eat four courses in seven minutes,.and
complain ofindigestion afterwards.
Telling. your wife when you- go home
at one o"c.lbc'k-in. the morn-ing,. that you have
been at your office writing. . _
To encore a concerted‘ piece in-';in opera,
to please the performers. . . _
'I‘o stippose a ltt’ll'l£," may be‘ obtainedr'h'yi-
writing for periodicals. _ c
. Affecting eccentricity to be-' tdtougift a
man of genius.‘ ‘
bet’-‘ eggs" are
A line of empty carriages follbwing a._
fiear:-:e.~——Mz'rrm-..
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