rVBL.ISUEl
avsxt? SATU21D AIT
In advance, per year ,S3 00
Not paid in advance, 4 50
Nut paid until six
months have expir
ed, 300
Not paid till the year
ha expired, 350
rtl frf rfl rO rff . .
JP
fro;
No subscription received
ur a less time than a year,
aniens the price be paid in;
advance.
CHARACTER IS AS IMPORTANT TO STATES AS IT IS TO INDIVIDUALS J AND THE GLORY OF THE STATE IS THE
COMMON PROPERTY OF ITS CITIZENS.
B3T CTltt. XX. XJATZNE.
FAYETTEVILLE, S. C, APEIL 6, 1850.
DR. J. N. BAIRD,
Of the firm ofMcKenney V Baird, Dentists,
JVbrfolk, Fa.)
Respectfully announces that he will be in Fay
etteville the third week in March next, for the
purpose of tendering his professional services
to the citizens of the place and vicinity.
0(3- All orders left at the Fayetteville Hotel
will meet w ith prompt attention.
Norfolk, Feb. 11. 573-tf
CLOTHING
C. T. LOXGSTREET, & Co.
54 NASSAU STREET,
NEW YORK.
ARE now fully prepare 1 for the Spring trade with the
Largest Stock of CLOTHINO that can be found in any
house in the United States, aud a much greater variety
than we bare ever had the pleanure to offer to our patron.",
and st yle to suit purchaser from any part of the United
State or California,
OUR FOREIGN GOODS
Are of our importation, and our Domestics direct from
the manufacturers. liicli enables ns to Bell our stock at
a lower price than cau he found at house that do hut a
limited trade. Our ntyles and extensive stock haring
placed us at the head in our line of trade, we intend to
remain in tliix position no long a thesr recommendations
will keep us there. Jf purchasers will favour us with a
rail we will take pleasure in showing them through our
extensive stok which will answer for itself.
New York, March 9. 1S'0. 57G--iu
Ml FOR RENT. M
A comfortable Dwelling, with convenient out-houses,
and from 30 to 40 acre. cleared ground, o miles west of
'ayetteville, recently occupied by h:is. Montague. Ksq.
mill known a Mrs llybart'ai country resilience, is now of
fered for Kent
Also. -Mrs Weeks residence in Kayetteville, on Mason
street and llaiford's Uaue. Kor terms apply to
WJI. BOW.
Feb'y 16. 18.r.0 573-tf
PREVENTION. & CURE OF. CONSUMPTION.
A treutife on the prevention and cure of consumption,
by the water treatment a valuable work hy John Shew,
M. I). Only one copy,' fur sale, at th Carolinian Office.
Trice 50 eta.
At the lowest Market Prices,
40 Hhds. New Crop Molasses,
1200 sacks Salt,
5000 bushels Alum Salt,
(.000 lbs. Cotton Yarn,
Osnahurga an ! In-own Sheeting.
With a general stock of articles iu the (irmm line.
JNO D. WILLIAMS.
Fayetteville. Feb. 23. ISoO
A. .A. McEETHAN
Still continues to carrv on tlie
CARRIAGE BUSINESS
jn ;il its Inanches, at the OLD S PAND. He re
turn: thanks lor the liberal patronage he has
heretofore received, and hopes, by u strict atten
tion to business and a desire to give entire satis
ljotio:i, to merit a continuance ot the same.
He has on hand a very tine assortment of
Carriages, Barouches,
Buggies, Rockaways,
AM SULKIES,
finished, and a very l;irie assortment of work
p.irtly (unshed, which, for t-leance of shape and
liiiish, will comp ile with any other work.
Persona wishing to buy, would do well to call
and ex unine the work, as he is determined to
sell low tor cash, or notes on short time.
CCJ- All work warranted fr twelve months,
and repaired free of charge, should it fail by bud
workmanship or m.iteii;il.
CJ- Repairing faithfully executed at short no
tice, on very reasonable terms.
January IV, !.')(.
0 Rowland's extra thick Mill Saws,
f cross-cut Saws,
I dozen line Handsaws,
-1 dozen Codec Mills,
4 dozen fine house Locks,
4 ditto Car,ienteis' ditto,
5 Wood Saws,
'JO dozen steel and iron Noes,
'2 dozen lonr and hort handle Forks,
12 beg Nails, assorted,
C0 dozen Knives and Forks, some vers line,
f p.iir brass tip'd Andirons,
12 pair Shovels and Tons.
Feb'y IS. H M. S. LATTA.
Cheap as possible !
SPRING DRY GOODS.
The Subscribers are receiving and opening, at
their Old Stand, North East corner Market
Square, the largest and richest stock of
STAPLE AND FANCY
Ever offered by them in this market, consisting
in part of
FASHIONABLE DRESS GOODS :
Plain and fig'd Dress Silks : plain black and
watered ditto; Silk Tissues; plain and fig'd
Berages, Fouland Silks ; embroidered and color
ed Swiss Muslins; Linen Lustres; plain and
dotted Tarltons; Grenadines; English and scotch
Gitighams and Gingham Lawns ; Printed and Or
irandie Lawns; mourning and second-mourning
Dress Goods ot every description ; a splendid as
sortment of English and American Prints ; Prin
ted Jaconets, &c. &.c, including, we have no
hesitation in saying, every style of Dress Geods
ever called for iu this or other markets.
ALSO
Black, blue, and fancy col'd French Cloths ;
black and fancy Cassirneres, ; plain and striped
white and colored Linen Drillings; Marseilles
Vestings of every, pattern; black and fancy col'd
Silk ditto ; Scarf and Cravats; black and col
ored Cashtnerets, for coatings ; Drap D"etes,&,c
A very pretty and fashionable lot of
HEADY MADE CLOTHING.
HO doz. Ladies' and Gentlemen's Kid Gloves,
of every size and color; a beautiful lot of white
and colored Lace Capes, p!ain and embroidered
Canton Crape Shawls; French worked Collars
andCufl'.-; hem-stitched and embroidered Linen
Cambric Handkerchiefs ; Swiss and Jaconet Edg
ing and Insertings; embroidered Lace Muslin
Curtains, &c. &.C.
A very pretty lt latest style Bonnets, Misses'
ditto; Ribbons; Artificial Flowers and Wreaths,
Parasols, and umbrellas; Moleskin, Panama, and
Leghorn Hats ; Boys' and Youths' ditto; sup'r
Calf-skin Boots : Gentleman's Shoes, very fine;
Ladies white Kid, Satin, and other Slippers.
The above Vtock, we are assured, embraces
every style of Goods called for in our line, to
which we invite the attention of the public.
E. L. & J. A. PEMBERTON.
March 23, 150. 57S-tf
SOMETHING NEW!!
And the best article known for cleaning and
polishing Brass, Britania, Tin, Glass &c.
Every family will have it when they know its
value.
MOUNT EAGLE TU1POL1.
Directions for Use en letalic Surfaces.
Rub the finished surfaces with a little of the
Tiipoli on a damp cloth. Finish with a dry fine
cloth or wash leather. On Brass, use oil or al
cohol; Silver and Gold may also be cleansed and
polished with a soft brush, slightly dusted with
the Tripoli, and used dry.
Kor Cleansing ffasa Plates or Hlndows.
Slightly moisten the cloth for the Tripoli, with
water or alcohol; rub it on the glass and follow
immediately after with a line dry cloth.
For Cleansing the inside of f7..s Chimneys fur
Lamps and (las liuruers
Attach to a stick or wire of sufficient length, a
piece of sponge or wisp of cotton, then moisten
with wafer or alcohol, and add a little of the Tri
poli ; this rubbed on the glass will ellectu.dlv re
move smoke, or burnt stains and grease, and
leave a be.itiful lustre. Simply rinsing in water
completes the process.
Fur sale bv S. J. HINSDALE.
March :23d, 100.
Col lard Seed, Just received, mid
.Marrli 22 for Hale by S J HINSDALE.
LIVERY STABLE
.Jollll .1. I'llillip is prepared to
foruih the public with Horses. Carriages, and BuKgiti.-t,
F OR HI R E .
He U also prepared to send passenger to any of the
neighboring towns, on reasonable terms.
His stock maybe found at the stable of JACKSON
JOHNSON, who will attend to the business in bid sib-
The Subscribers having associated themselves
fogether, would respectfully inform their friends
and the public generally, that they carry on the
paddle and Hariiess-m-ikiiig
BUSINESS
an Person street, at Owen Houston's old stand,
yher,e they would be glad to receive a share of
Kublic patronage. They keep constantly on
and Saddles, Harness, " Bridles, Martingales,
Whips, &.c, made of good materials and by ?ood
workmen. Persons wishing anvthing in their line
will please examine their articles before pur
chasing elsewhere. Prices moderate.
REPAIRING neatly executed and at short
notice.
O. HOUSTON,
W. OVERVY.
Aug. 11, 1519. ly.
DENTISTRY.
I z -
S. S. GILCHRIST, Dental Surgeon,
respectfully inform the citizen of Fayetteville aud vicin
ity, that he has taken an office in the Fayetteville Hotel,
where heia prepared to perform all operations in his pro
fession, and would be pleased to wait on all who njay favor
him with a call. AU work, warranted
Oetobsr 27 . IMP. 637-tf
tence.
March 23. 1850.
57S-3t
A fresh supply of best winter
S PK It 31 OIL.,
and a (Vw barrel of T miners' and Linseed Oil. just receiv
ed and for sale bv
March 23, ISjO." B. ROSE k. SON.
Mill, Pitt, and Cross-cut Saws,
For sale by B. llOSK k. SON.
March 23. 10.
Taylor 8c Underwood
Arc now receiving their stock of
SPUING & SUMMKK
C-S- aJ5 H& EL JO $Qi 9
Embracing a general assortment of
DKY GOODS, Hats, Siloes,
Itonmts & Sfiaw Goods.
Coopers' and Smiths' Tools ; Turpentine do.;
Hardware, Coffee, Sugar, Iron, Nails, and Crock
ery. March 1'5, lS-"f. ,1m.
SPRING GOODS.
1850.
H. & E. J. 1,11,1,7
Are now receiving a heavy stock of
SEASONABLE GOODS,
to which they invite the attention of their cus
tomers. March 10, 150. 577-St
NOTICE.
The OopartnercLip heretofore existing umier the name
and style ef McNabb 8c Warner, is this day disi-olved by
mutual consent, and Kobt. McNabb i? authorized alone to
close the business of the firm .
ROBT. NcNABB.
1). O. WARNER.
Parthage, K. C, March 11. lSSO. a77-4t
LAND FOR SALE.
About 40 Acre Valuable Land belonging to the F.state
of Ana Burkloe, de'd. 2 miles North of Fayetteville, and
on tha west Bid of Capo Fear River, joining the Lands of
Messr Isbam Blak and W. J. Anderson is now offer
ed for Sale. If not disposed of before, will be offered at
public Auction at the Market House on the 10th April
next, at 12 o'clock, A.M. JOHN BURKLOE.
Mareh 16 1850. 677-t
AYERS'
CHERR Y PECTORAL,
For sale by
Feb'y 1G, 1S30.
S. J. HINSDALE.
NORTH CAROLINIAN
Win, II. Iiayne, Editor and Proprietor.
FAYETTEVILLE, X. C.
APRXXT6, 1050.
DEATH OF MR CALHOUN. As was expected by
those who knew of Mr Calhoun's illness, he has gone to
his final rest. He died in Washington city, on the 31st
ult., of pneumonia, perfectly calm and serene in mind and
feeling. His remains were deposited in the Congressional
burying ground (to be removed hereafter) with all the ap
propriate honors.
CONVICTED Dr John W. Webster, whose trial for
the murder of Dr Geo. Parkman, both of Boston, has been
progressing in that city, for the hist two weeks, has been
conTicted of murder, with malice aforethought. We are
not informed as to whether the punishment is death or
penitentiary for life.
All the leading facts in this case were published in this
paper at the time of the murder.
RIP VAN WINKLE
A TALE,
BY WASHINGTON IRVING.
Whoever has made a voyage up the
Hudson must remember the Kaatskill
mountain. They are a dismembered
branch of the great Appalachian family, and
are seen away to the west of theViver,
swelling up to a Loble height, and lording
it over the surrounding country. Every
change of season, every change of weatlter,
indeed every hour ot 4he day, produces
in the magical hues and
some change
shapes of these mountains, and thev are
regarded by all the good wives, far and
near, as perfect barometers. When the
weather is fair and settled, they are cloth
ed in blue and purple, and print their bold
outlines on the clear evening ky; but
sometimes, when the rest of the landscape
is cloudless, they will gather a hood of
gray vapors about their summits, which,
in the last rays of the setting sun, will glow
and light up like a crown of glory.
At the foot of these fairy mountains, the
voyager may have descried the light smoke
curling up front a village, whose shingle
roofs gleam among the trees, just where
the blue tints of the upland, melt away in
to the fresh green of the near landscape.
It is a little village, of great antiquity,
having been founded by some of the Dutch
colonists, in the early times of the pro
vince, just about the beginning of the gov
ernment of the good Peter Stuyvesant,
(may he rest in peace!) and there were
some of the houses of the original settlers
standing within a few years, built of small
yellow bricks brought from liol'and, hav
ing latticed windows and gable fronts,
surmounted with weathercocks.
In that same village, and in one of these
very houses (which, to tell the precise truth,
was sadly time-worn and weather-beaten,
there lived many years since, while the
country was yet a province of Great Bri
tain, a simple nood-mi tured fellow, of the
name of Hip Van Winkle. lie was a des
cendant of the Van Winkles who figured
so gallantl y in the chivalrous days of Peter
Siuyvesant, and accompanied him to the
siege of Fort Christina lie inherited,
however, but little of the martial character
of his ancestors. 1 have observed that he
was a simple good-nat'ired man : he was,
moreover, a kind neighbor; and an obedi
ent hen-pecked husband. Indeed, to the
latter circumstance might be owing that
meekness of spirit which gained him such
universal populaiity; for those mem are
most apt to be obsequious and conciliating
abroad, who are under the discipline of
shrews at home. Their tempers, doubt
less, are rcnderctl pliant and malleable in
the liery furnace ol 'domestic tribulation,
and a curtain lecture is worth all the ser
mons in the world for teaching the virtues
of patience and long suffering. A terma
gant uife may, therefore, in some respects,
be considered a tolerable blessing; and if
so. Rip Van Winkle was thrice blessed
Certain it is, that he was a great favor
ite among all the good wives of the village,
who, as usual with the amiable sex, took
his part in all family squabbles; and never
failed, whenever thev talked those matters
over in their evening gossipings, to lay all
the blame on Dame Van Winkle. The
children of the village, too, would shout
with joy whenever he approached. He
assisted at their sports, made their play
things, taught them to fly kites and shoot
marbles, and told them long stories of
ghosts, witches-, and Indians. Whenever
he went dodging about the village, he was
suriounded by a troop of them, hanging
on his skirts, clambering on his back, aud
playing a thousand tricks on him with im
punity; and not a dog would bark at him
throughout the neighborhood.
The great error in Hip's composition
was an insuperable aversion to all kinds of
profitable labor. It could not be from the
want of assiduity or perseverance; for he
would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long
and heavy as a Tartar's lance, and fish all
day without a murmur, even though he
should not be encouraged by a single nib
ble. He would carry a fowling-piece on
his shoulder for hours together, trudging
through woods and swamps, and up hill
and down dale, to shoot a few squirrels or
wild pigeons. I!e vvould never refuse to
assist a neighbor even in the roughest toil,
and was a foremost man- at all country
frolics for husking Indian corn, or building
stone fences: the women of the village, ton,
used to employ him to run their errand,
and to do such little odd jobs as their less
obliging husbands would not do for them.
In a word, Rip was ready to attend to any
body's business but his own ; but as to do
ing family duty, and keeping his farm in
order, he found it impossible.
In fact, hf. declared it was of no use to
rvork on his farm; it was the most pesti
lent little piece of ground in the whole
country; every thing about it went wrong,
and ts-ould go wrong, in spite of him. His
fences were continually falling to pieces;
his cow would either" go astray, or get
among the cabbages; weeds were sure to
grow quicker in his fields than any where
else; the rain always made a point of set
ting in just as he had some out-door work
to do; so that though his patrimonial estate
had dwindled away under his management,
acre by acre, until there was little more
left than a mere patch of Indian corn and
potatoes, yet it was the worst conditioned
farm in the neighborhood
His, children, too, were as ragged and
wild as if they belonged to nobody. His
son Rip, and urchin begotton in his own
likeness, promises to inherit the habits,
with the old clotches of his father. He
was generally seen trooping like a colt at
his mother's heels, equipped in a pair of
his father's cast-oft galligaskins which he
haf much ado to hold up with one hand, as
a fine lady does her train in bad weather.
Rip Van Winkle, however, was one of
those happy mortals, of foolish, well-oiled
dispositions, who take the world easy, eat
white bread or brown, whichever can be
got with least thought or trouble, and would
rather starve on a penny than to work for
a pound. If left to himself, he would have
whistled life away in perfect contentment;
but his wife kept continually dinning in
his ears about idleness, his carelessness,
and the ruin he was bringing on his fami
ly. Morning, noon, and night, her tongue
was incessantly going, and every thing he
said or did was sure to produce a torrent
of household eloquence. Rip had but one
way of replying to ail lectures of the kind,
and that, by frequent use, had grown into
a habit. lie shrugged his shoulders, shook
his head, cast up his eyes, but said nothing.
This, however, always provoked a fresh
volley from his wife ; so that he was fain
to draw oil' his forces, and take to the out
side of the housethe only side which, iu
truth, belongs to a hen-perked husband.
Rip's sole domestic adherent was his dog,
Wolf, who was as much hen-pecked as his
master; for Dame Van Winkle regarded
them as companions in idleness, and even
looked upon Wolf with an evil eye, as the
cause of his master's going so olten astray.
True it is, in all points of spirit befitting
an honorable dog, he was as courageous an
animal as ever scoured the woods ; but
what courage can withstand the ever-dur-ingand
all-besetting terrors of a woman's
tongue ? The moment Wolf entered the
house his crest fell, his tail drooped to the
ground or curled between his legs, he
sneaked about with a gallows air, casting
many a sidelong glaiue at Dame Van
Winkle, and at the least flourish ofa broom
stick or ladle, he would fly to the door
with yelping precipitation.
Times grew worse and worse with Rip
Van Winkle as years of matrimony rolled
on: a tart temper never mellows with age,
and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool
that grows keener with constant use. For
a long while he used to console himself,
when driven from home, by frequenting a
kind of perpetual club of the sages, philo
sophers, and other idle personages of the
village; which held its sessions on a bench
before a small inn, designated by a rubi
cund portrait of His Majesty George the
Third. Here they used to sit in the shade
through a long lazy summer's day, talking
listlessly over village gossip, or telling
endless sleepy stories about nothing. But
it would have been worth any statesman's
money to have heard the profound discus
sions that sometimes took place, when by
chance an old newspaper fell into their
hands from some passing traveler. How
solemnly they would listen to the contents
as drawletl out by Derrick Van Bummel,
the schoolmaster, a dapper learned little
man, who was not to be daunted by the
most gigantic word in the Dictionary; and
how sagely they would deliberate upon
public events some months after they had
taken place.
The opinions of this junto were com
pletely controlled by Nicholas Vedder, a
patriarch of the village and landlord of the
inn, at the door of which he took his seat
from morning till night, just moving suf
ficently to avoid the sun and keep in the
shade of a large tree; so that the neighbors
could tell the hour by his movements as ac
curately as by a sun-dial. It is true he
was rarely heard to speak, but smoked his
pipe incessantly. His adherents, how
ever, (for every great man has his adher
ents.) perfectly understood him, aud knew
how to gather his opinions. When any
thing that was read or related displeased
him, he was observed to smoke his pipe
vehemently, and to send forth short, fre
quent, ami angry puffs; but when pleased,
he would inhale the smoke slowly and
tranquilly, and emit it in light and placid
clouds; and sometimes, taking the pipe
from his mouth, and letting the fragrant
vapor curl about his nose, would gravely
nod his head in token of perfect approba
tion. Fronveven this strong-hold the unlucky
VOI.. 11 -MO. 500.
TJBItoVS or
ADVERTISING :
I
i Ones'iuareoftwenty-ore
; lilies or less, lor one inser
tion, GO cents : every ub-
i sequent insertion, 30 cents
'except it remain in lor sev
j'eral months, when it will
t charged $3 for two
months,!! for three, &c,
.will I a 1 iL.
i eive in on
liberal deduction
for large advertisement
by the year or six mor.th.
Rip was at length touied by his termagant
suddenly break
naught;
in u )-.; i
the assemblage, and call
nor was that
Nicholas Vedder him-
wife, who woulil
the tranquility of
the members all to
august personage.
self, sacred from the daring tongue of this
U'rnb.e virago, nho charged him outright
with encouraging her husband in habits of
idleness-
Poor Rip was at last reduced almost to
despair; ami his only alternative, to escape
from the labor of the farm and clamor of
his wife, was to take gun in hand and
stroll away into the woods. Here he would
sometimes seat himself at the foot of a tree,
and share the contents of his wallet with
Wolf, with whom he sympathized as fellow
sufferer in persecution, Poor WoU,"
he would say, 'thy mistress leads thee a
log's life of it ; but never mind, my lad,
whilst 1 live thou shalt never want a friend
to stand by thee!" Wolf woulil wag his
tail, look wistfully in his master's face,
and if dogs can feel pity, I verily believe
he reciprocated the sentiment with all his
heart.
In a long ramble of the kind on a fine
autumnal day. Rip had unconsciously
scrambled to one of the highest parts ofthe
Kaatskill mountains. He was after his
favorite sport of squirrel shooting, and the
still solitudes had echoed and re echoed
with the reports of his gun. Panting and
fatigued, he threw himself, late iu the af
ternoon, on a green knoll, covered with
mountain herbage, that crowned the brow
of a p eripice. From an opening between
the trees he could overlook all the lower
country for many a mile of rich woodland.
He saw at a distance the lordly Hudson,
far, tar below him, moving on its silent but
majestic course, with the reflection of a
purple cloud, or the sail ofa lagging bark
here and there sleeping on its glassy bosom,
and at last losing itself in the blue high
lands. On the other side he looked down into
a deep mountain glen, wild, lonely, ami
shagged, the bottom filled with fragments
from the impending cliff's ; and scarcely
lighted by the reflecting ras of the setting
sun. For some time Rip lay musing on
this scene ; evening was gradually advanc-
the mountains began to throw their
blue shadows over the valleys : he
ng J
long
saw that it would be dark long before he
could reach the village, and he heaved a
heavy sigh when he thought of encounter
ing the terrors of Dame Van Winkle.
As he was about U descend, he heard
a voice from a distance, hallooing, " Rip
Van Winkle! Rip Van Winkle!" He
looked round, but could see nothing but a
crow winging its solitary flight across the
mountain. He thought his fancy must
have deceived him, and turned again to
descend, when he heard the same cry ring
through the still evening air ; Rip Van j
Winkle! Rip Van Winkle!" at the same
time Wolf bristled up his back, and giving
a low growl, skulked to his master's side,
looking fearfully down into the glen. Rip
now felt a vague apprehension .stealing
over him ; he looked anxiously in the same
direction, and perceived a strange figure
slowly toiling up the rocks, and bending
under the w eight of something he carried
on his back. lie was surprised to sec
any human being in this lonely and
unfrequented place, but supposing ii to
be some one of the neighborhood in need
of his assistance, he hastened down to
yield it.
On nearer approach he was still more
surprised at the singularity of the stranger's
appearance. He was a short square built
old fellow, with thick bushy hair, and a
grizzly beard. His dress was of the an
tique Dutch fashion a cloth jerkin strap
ped round the waist several pair of
breeches, the outer one of ample volume,
decorated with rows of buttons down the
sides, and bunches at ti e knees. He bore
on his shoulder a stout keg that seemed
full of liquor, and made signs for Rip to
approach and assist him with the load.
Though rather shy and distrustful of this
acquaintance, Rip complied with his usual
alacrity ; and mutually relieving eacli oth
er, they clambered up a narrow gully, ap
parently the dry bed of a mountain torrent.
As they ascended. Rip every now aud then
heard lone rolling peals, like distant thun
der, that seemed to issue out of a deep
ravine, or rather cleft, between lofty rocks,
toward which their rugged path conducted.
He paused for an instant, but supposing
it to be the muttering of one of thoe tran
sient thunder-showers which often take
place in mountain heights, he proceeded
Passing through the ravine, they came to a
hollow, like a small amphitheatre, sur
rounded by perpendicular precipices, over
the brinks of which impending tree shot
their branches, so that you only caught
glimpses of the azure sky and the bright
'Vfiiinr rloud. During the whole time.
Rip aud his
silence; for
reatly what could be the object of carry
in" a keg of liquor up this wild mountain,
vet there was something strange and in
comprehensible about the unknown, that
inspired awe and checked familiarity.
On entering the amphitheatre, new ob
jects of wonder presented themselves. On
a level spot in the centre was a companv
of odd-looking personages playing at nine
pins. They were dressed in a quaint out
landish fashion : some were short doublets,
others jerkins, with loiig knives in their
belts, and most of them had enormous
breeches, similar style with that of the
guide's. Their visages, too, were peculiar;
one had a large head, broad face, and
small piggish eyes; the face of another
seemed to consist entirely of nose, and
was surmounted by a w hite sugar-loaf hat,
set o AT with a little red cock's tail. They
all li id beards, of various shapes ami col
ors. There was one who seemed to be
the commander. He was a stout old gen
tleman, with weather-beaten countenance;
lie wore a laced doublet, broad belt and
hanger, high-crowned hat and feather, red
stockings, and high-heeled shoes, with
roses in them. The whole group remind-,
ed Rip of the figures in a Flemish painting,
in the parlor ol Dominie Van Shaick, the
village parson, and which had been brought
over from Holland at the time of the set
tlement. What seemed particularly odd to Rip
was, that though these folks were evident
ly amusing themselves, yet they maintain
ed the gravest faces, the most mysterious
silence, aud were, withal, the most mel
ancholy party of pleasure he had ever wit
nessed. Nothing interrupted the stillness
of the scene but the noise of the balls,
which, whenever they were rolled, echoed
along the mountains like rumbling peals of
thunder.
As Rip and his companion approached
them, they suddenly desisted from their
play, and stared at him with such fixed
statue-like gaze, and such strange, un
couth, lack-lustre countenances, that his
heart turned within him, and his knees
smote together. His companion now
emptied the contents of the keg into large
flagons, and made signs to him to wait upon
the comp.iny. He obeyed with fear and
trembling; they quaffed the liquor in pro
found silence, and then returned to their
game.
By degrees Rip's awe and apprehension
subsided. He even ventured, when no
eye was fixed upon him, to taste the bever
age, which he found had much of the flavor
of excellent Hollands. He was natur
ally a thirsty soul, and was soon tempted
to repeat the draught. One taste provoked
another; and he reiterated his visits to the
flagon so often that at length his senses
were overpowered, his eyes swam in his
head, his head gradually declined, and he
fell into a deep sleep.
On waking, he found himself on the
green knoll whence he had first seen the
old man of the glen. He rubbed his eyes
it was a bright sunny morning. The
birds were hopping and twittering among
the bastien, and the eagle was wheeling
aloft, and breasting the pure mountain
breeze. Surely," thought Rip, have
not slept here all night.'' He recalled the
occurrences before he fell asleep. The
strange man with a keg of liquor the
mountain ravine the wild retreat among
the rocks the wobegone prty at nine
pins the flagon 4Oh! that flagon! that
wicked flagon !" thought Rip: what ex
cuse shall I make to Dame Van Winkle!"
He looked round for his gun, but in
place of the clean, well-oiled fowling
piece, he found an old firelock lying by
him, the barrel incrusted with rust, the
lock falling off, and the slock worm-eaten.
He now suspected that the grave roysfers
of the mountain had put a trick upon him,
ami, having dosed him with liquor, hail
robbed him of his gun. Wolf, too, had
disappeared, but he might have strayed
away after a squirrel or pari ridge. He
whistled after him and shouted his name,
but all in vain; the echoes repeated his
whistle & shout, but no dog was to be seen.
He determined to visit the scene of the
last evening's gambol, and if he met with any
of the party, to demand his dog ami gun.
As he rose to walk, he found himself stiff in
the joints, and w anting in his usual ac
tivity. These mountain beds tlo not
agree with me," thought Rip, "and if this
frolic should lay me uji with a fit of the
rheumatism, I shall have a blessed time
with Dame Van Winkle" With some
difficulty he got down into the glen: he
found the gully up which he and his com
panion had ascended the preceding even
ing; but to his astonishment a mountain
stream was now foaming down it, leaping
from rock to rock, and filling the glen with
babbling murmurs He, however, made
shift to scramble up its sides, working his
toilsome wav through thickets of birch,
sassafras, and witch-hazel, aud sometimes
tripped up or entangled by the wild grape
vines that twisted their coils or tendrils
from tree to tree, and spread a kind of net
work in his path.
At length he reached to where the ravine
' had opened through the cliffs to the amnhi-
i theatre ; but no traces of such opening re
J mained The rocks presented a high, im
penetrable wall, over which the torrent
came tumbling in sheet of feathery foam,
and fell into a broad deep basin, black from
the shadows of the surrounding forest.
Here, then, poor Rip was brought to a
. t a . t
companion had labored on in j f - . . aam Ca . anU wn,8V . u
though the former marveled i ,u luS i he. ag only ans.vered by the
cawing oi a nock ol idle crows, spoiling
high in air about a dry tree that overhung
a sunny precipice ; ami who, secure in
their elevation, seemed to look down and
scoff' at the poor man's perplexities. '.What
was to be done? The morning was passing
away, and Rip felt famished for want of
his breakfast. He grieved to give up hi
dog and gun ; he dreaded to meet his wife;
but it would not do to starve among the
mountains. He shook Ids head, shoulder
ed the rusty firelock, and, with a heart
full of trouble and anxiety, turned his
steps homeward.
(Concluded on 4th page.)