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j keep them on, ihe oilier side of the -wall.
;for a few moments, at least, and then are
A Legend from George Lippard, E'.q.'s will have to trust to God mm the rest V
Fourth Lecture on the liornance of, Look down there, and see. a hand steal
the Revolution,' delivered bffore the ing over ihe edge of the wall ? The oh!
fRlliam Hut Institulie. j.ftSn levels his piece thai Bri'ish trooper
In a thic k wood, not more than half a Trills hark with a crushed hand upon his
; mile from the Schuylkill, there stood, in comrades' heads
No longe- quivering with suspense, hut
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m attention paid to any order unless the money per some ypar3 before the great
$11 00 aDr'fN built of mingled logs and stone, and grown suddenly firm, that young girl pas-
20 00 j encircled by a palisaded wall, it had been ses t mailed rule to the veteran s grasp.
and stlenuy awaits the result.
For a moment alt is silent below ; the
accompanies it
n'nr? Lrl umearL lhat wa,, when a stout old Retle,'
apostle of peace first trod our shores. as, British bravoes are somewhat loath to
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the Indians.
And now it stood with its many roof--,'
rifle in hand, is looking from yonder win
dow ! Here is a pause low, deep mur-
its numero'is chimneys, its massive square j murs they are holding a eouncil !
windows, its varied front of logs ami stone, A moment is gone, and nine heads are
its encircling wall, through which admit- thrust above the wall at once hark? One
sicceedlng mwrtibn. 25'per cent will be d&Iuc- J tanee was gained by a large and stoutly- j two three ! The old veteran has fired
r-d fro n an idv riism hill waen it biikbws i gale . a slomj in t,e nwiist of the, three shots, there are three dying men,
ilwiy i !9t)n 'VJJjj $iVmnJH u n" ag-wom trees enclosing its grovelling in ihe yard, beneath the shadow
1 xTl'r-'al 'advertiscin: nu charged 25 per cent veteran outline on every side. of the wall!
ni(rhr. rrom its eastern mdw you might ob-
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Princess streets, opposite the Bank of the State.
Quick, Bess, the rifles!'
And the brave girl passes the rifles to
while a large casement in the southern her father's grasp : there are four shots,
front commanded a view of the winding one after the other; three more soldiers
road as it sunk out of view, under the shade
of thickly-clustered boughs, into a deep
hollow, not more than one hundred yards
from the mansion.
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fell back, like weights of lead, upon the
ground, and a .-ingle red coat is seen slow
ly mounting to the top of the wall, his eye
fixed upon Hie hall door, which he wili
Here, from the southern casement, on 1 foree. ere a moment is jjom
one of those balmy summer days which
look in upon ihe dreary autumn, toward
the close of November, a far ner's daugh er
was gazing, with dilating eyes and half
clasped hands.
Well might she gaze earnestly to the
south, and listen with painful iu tensity for
the slightest sound! Her brothers were
away with the army of Washington, md
her lather, a griin old veteran he siood
nungton and its vumity, that she will ex-jsjx reel a((j ,;irL,c Uirhes in his stocking
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these men. in the simple words of that
vonng girl, who stands there, with the
.ifle laid against the powder keg.
They stood, as if epell bound, on the
threshold of that chamber!
At last, one bolder than the rest, a bravo,
whose face is half-concealed in a thick red
heard, grasps his musket, and levels it at
the young girl's breast!
Stand back, or, by , 1 will fire !
Still the girl is firm; the bravo advances
a step, and then starts back. The sharp
ccA;' of ihat rifle falls with an unpleasant
emphasis upon his ear. -
Bess, 1 am ding,' gasps the old man,
faintly extending his arms. 4 Ha, ha, we
foiled the Britishers ! Come daughter
kneel here ; kneel and say a prayer lor
me, and let me feel your warm breath upon
my face, for I am getting cold O, dark
and cold !'
Look ! As those trembling accents fall
from the old man's tongue, those fingers
from the fruit of unhealthy trees for ex-j
ample, trees affected by the yellows pro
duce in turn trees liable to the same dis
ease. N. Y. Eve. Post.
THE GAME OF THIMBLES;
OR. BLS I TWO IN THREE.
Who has notheard of the game of Thim
bles. For the edification of those who
have been 6o fortunate as never to have
seen it, we will succ.inily describe it.
The sporting gentleman produces three
common sewing thimbles and a small ball,
and placing them upon his knee or some
smooth surface, commences operations by
rolling the little ball by his third finger
under each of the thimbles, which are in a
row. lifting first one and then another, as
the ball approaches it, with his thumb and
fore-finger, and passing it along from one
to the other. When all is ripe, he suffers
the ball to stop, halfdisclosiiig naff-con-
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who had manifested his love for the red
coal invaders, in many a desperate contest,
had ihat morning left her alone in the old
mansion, alone in ihis small chamber, in
charge of some ammunition intended for a
band of brave farmers, about to join the
hosts of freedom. Even as she stood there,
gazing out of the southern window, a faint
il'.impse o! sunlight, from the laded leaves
above; pouring over her mild fare, shaded
by clustering bro - u hair, there, not ten
paces from her side, were seven loaded ri
fles and a keg of powder.
Leaning from the casement, she listened
with every nerve quivering w ith suspense,
to the shouts of combatants, ih hurried
t ead of armed men echoing from the south
There was something very beautiful in
that picture! The form of ihe voting girl,
framed by the square massive window, the
contrast between the rough limbers, that
enclosed her, and that rounded fare, the
lips parting, the hazel eye dilating, and the
cheek warming and flushing, with hope
anil fear; there w;is something vrrv beau
tiful in ihat picture, a young girl leaning
from the window of an old mansion, with
her brown hair, waving in glossy masses
around her face !
Suddenly the shouts to ihe south grew
nearer, and then, emerging from the deep
hollow there came and old man, running
nt full speed, yet, every few paces, turning
round to fire the rifle, which he loaded as
; he ran. He was pursued by a party tif
ten or more British soidie-s, who came
i rushing on, their bayonets fixed, as if to
snike ihrir victim down, ere he advanced
ten paces nearer the house.
On and on the old man came, while his
: daughter, quivering with suspense, hung
tlt'lT J leaning from the window; he reaches the
B '-UW-W Lt.l. I .
-ii"uog grtic ncii : fie is surroun
ded, their muskets are levelled at his head,
he is down, down at their leet, grappling
for his life! But look again ! He dash
es his foes aside, with one bold movement
he springs through the gate; an instant,
and it is locked; ihe,Britth soldiers, mad
with rage, gViZe upon ihe high wall of logs
and sione, and vein their anger in drunken
curses.
Now look to yonder window ! Where
the young girl stood a moment ago, quiv
ering with suspense, as she beheld her
lather struggling for his life now slands
Now the lasi hall is fired, the old man
stands there, in that second story w indow,
his hands vainly grasping for another load
ed rifle! At this moment, the wounded j down the mansion; then a contest on the
and dying band bolow, are joined by a j stairs; then the echo of rifle shot anil ihe
party of some twenty refuges, who, clad j light of rifle blaze ; then those ruffians iu
in their hall robber uniform, came rushing (the doorway fall crushed before the strong
Iroui the woods, ami, w ith tine hound, are
leaping from the summit of the wall!
Quirk, Bess, my rifle !'
And look there even w hile the veteran
stood-looking out upon his foes, the brave
girl, for lender in lorm, & wildly beautiful
in lace, she is a brave girl, a Hero VVonian
had managed, as if by instinctive im
pulse, to load a rifle. She handed it to her
father, and then loaded another and anoth
er ! Wasn't that a beautiful siohi? A
cealing its resting place. Hands ara then
unloose their hold of the rifle already the i lifted, and the easy dupes make their be
troopers are tenure of one victim, at least, as to the identical thimble under which the
a young and beautiful girl; for affection for j ball may be found. The strength of the
her father, is tnauiering ihe heroism of ihe ' game lies in the legerdemain by w hich the
moment look ! She is about lo spring i gamester removes the ball and places it
into his ar.ns ! But now she sees her dan-j under any thimble he may choose, after
ger ! again she clutches live rsfle ; again ihe bet is made
although her falser s dying accents are in Thousands of dollars have been lost at
her ears Mauds thrre prepared to scatter
that house in ruins, if a single rough hand
assails thai veteran form.
There are a few brief terrible moments
of suspense. Then a hurried sound, far
this gane. About three years ago we
took a trip upon one of the fine Western
steamboats up Red River to the foot of the
Raft. As usual, there'was a large number
of passengers on hoard, among them the
celebrated Dr. B , the inventor of
anus of Continental soldiers. Then a w ild
shriek quivers through the room, and that
young gir! that Hero Woman, with one
hound, springs forward into her brothers
arms, and nestles there, while her dead fa
ther his form yet warm lays, with fixed
eye-balls, upon the floor.
THE POTATO AND ITS DISEASES.
The London Examiner has the follow
ing article, headed 'Anticipation of the Po
tato Disease
"In a note in Darwin's Temple of Na
ture, we find this remarkable conjecture :
4 'Mr. Knight first observed that these
apple and pear trees, which had been
propagated for above a century by ingraft
ment, were now so unhealthy, as not to
be worth cultivation. 1 have suspected the
diseases of potatoes attended with the curl
ed leaf, and of strawberry plants attended
with barren flowers, to be owing to iheir
and ue lock will he burnt Irorh "us sockets j having been too long raised from mots, or
the passage will be free! Now is the j by solitary reproduction, & not Irom seeds,
fair young girl, grasping powder and hall,
with the r.wnrod, .ising and falling in her
slender fingers !
Now look down to the wall again !
The refugees are clambering over Us sum
mit again that fatal aim again a horrid
cry, and another wounded man toppling
down upon Iris deatl and dying comrades !
But now look ! A smoke rises there, a
fire blazes up around the wall ; they have
tired the jate. A moment, ami the bolt
or sexuial reproduction; and to have
thence acquired these hereditary diseases.'
"The poetic text illustrative of this opin-
fiery moment of the old man's trial ! While
his brave daughter loads, he continues lo
fire, with thai deadly aim, but now oh
horror ! He falls, he falls, with a musket ion is as follows ;
ball driven into his breast the daughter' ' ars successive, from perennial roots
, i i .1 ., ; The w ire or luilh w ith lessened vigor shoots
otil-stretched arms leceive ihe lather, as,1 u . ..
...... . . i I ill curled le,ivt-s or barren flowers betray
who me nu.on spouting iron, nis wouno, A W;mjng lineage vermg to d cay ;
lie topples hark Irom ihe window,
Ah. it is a sail and terrible picture !
That old man, wriihing there, on the
oaken floor, the young daughter bending
over him, the light from the w indow stream
ing over her lace, over her father's g;ev
Or till, ami tided by connubial powers
Rise seedling prouenies from sexual flowers."
" Thai the potato is an esculent, is the
creature of cultivation, is quite certain. In
Dr. Paris's Pharmacoloyia we find lhat
" ' Molina, iu his history of Chili, speak-
hairs. while the ancient furniture of the ; ing of the potato, says : 'Il is indeed found
mall chamber affords a dun back-ground
so the scene !
Now hark ! The sound ol axes, at the
hall door shouts hurras curses !
U e have the old rehle, at last!'
The old than raises his head at that
sound; makes an eft'-rt to rise ; clinches
for a lifle, and then falls hark again, his
eyes glarino. as the fierce pain of that
uouml quivers through his heart
Now watch the movements of thatdaugh
Ur. Silently she loads a rifle, silently she
rests its barrel against the head of lhat
powder keg, and then, placing her finger
on the trigger, slands over her father's
form, while the shouts of the enraged sol
diers come thundering from the stairs.
Yes, they have broken the hall door to
Iragments, they are in possession of the
old block house, they are rushing toward
that chamber, with murder in their hearts.
and in their alariuo eves! Had the old f
ih; t old man himself, his brow bared, his j man a thousand lives, ihey were not worth
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arm grasping the rifle, while his grey hair
wave ba.-k from his wrinkled and hlood
dahbled face! That was a fine picture of
an old veteran, nerved for his last fight ; a
stout warrior, preparing for his death strug
gle. Death-struggle ? Yes ! for the old man.
T ITT k
isaac am pole, had dealt too many hard
blows among the British soldiers, tricked,
foiled, cheated them too often to escape
now ! A few moments longer, and the y
would be reinforced by a strong pattv of
refugees; the powder, ihe arms, in "the
old block-house, perhaps that daughter,
herself, was to be thetr reward. Ther
was scarcely a hope for vhe old man and
yet he had determined to make a deap r
ate fight.
We must bluff off these rascal V he
said, with a grim smile, turning to his child.
Now, Bess, my girl, when 1 fire this rifle
do you hand me another, and to on, until
the whole eight shot ara fired ! Thai will
a farthing's purchase now.
Still thai girl grown suddenly white
as ihe handkerchief round her neck stands
there, trembling from head to foot, the rifle
in her hand, ils dark tube laid against the
powder keg.
J he door is burst open look there !
Stout forms are in ihe doorway, w ith inns
kets in their hands, grim faces, sunned with
blood, g'are into the room.
Now, as if her very soul was coined in
to ihe words, that young girl, with her
face pale as ashes, her hazel eye glaring
with deathly light, utters this short yet
meaning speech-
' Advance one step into the room, and I
will fire this rifle into the powder there V
No oath quivers from the Hp of that
girl, to confirm her resolution hut there
she stands, alone, with her wounded fath
er, and yet not a soldier dare cross the
threshold ! E mbruted as they are In deeds
in all the fields ol this country, but the
plants lhat grow wild, called by the Indians
maglia, produce only very small roots
of a bitter taste.' Dr. Baldw in also found
the w ild parent of the potato plant at Mon
te Video ; and Mr. Lambert informs us
that this statement has been confirmed by
Captain Bowles, who not long since re
turned from the South American station ;
he says, 'It is a common weed in the gar
dens, bearing small potatoes, but too bitter
for use.' "
With regard to the notion that the dis
ease of ihe potato may possibly arise from
the cultivation of old and worn out varie
ties, without resorting to the method of
obtaining new sorts from cultivation by
seed, the Examiner does not seem to be
aware lhat all this matter has been very
thoroughly discussed by the agriculturists.
Nor does the Examiner seem lo know that
from lime to lime, .ew varieties of the
root, raised directly from the -seed, are in
troduced, ami the older ones abandoned,
as no longer fit for cultivation. Yet thee
new sorts are subject to the potato disease
as well as the old, though some contend
that they are not affected by it in so great
a degree.
As to the apple and pear ami other fruits,
the theory of Mr. Knight, lhat the varie
ties which have been cultivated for above
a century by grafting, grow unhealthy,
has long been familiar to cultivators, and
at one lime seemed to meet with very gen
eral reception. Lately, however, it has
been controverted, with an appearance of j torVexperrse.
much force of argument. In Downing s
excellent book on Fruit Trees, the reader
will find a summary of the facts and rea
sonings on the subject.
What Darwin calls the hereditary dis
ease of plants, may be propagated as well
by the seed, as by slips; or cuttings, or
grafts. It fs thought by gaitieners to be
the game of 'thimbles!' The Dr. frequent
ly amused the passengers with several
games particularly one called 'Calcula
tion,1 which seemed to be his favorite, and
brought him quite a revenue during the
trip. The Doctor himself, was quite a
subject of curiosity and study to us, having
heard so much of his unrivalled shrewd
ness as a sportsman, and the vast amount
accumulated by him by the little game of
Thimbles. Indeed, it was said that he
was the moving cause of several penal
statutes iu regard to gaming, having been
enacted by this State and Georgia.
One evening after supper, it wa3 insisted
by some of the passengers thai the Doctor
should exhibit the game of Thimbles,
which, with his usual modesty, he decli
ned to do, protesting among other things
ihat he had no thimbles. This difficulty
was easily remedied, a messenger being
despatched to the ladies cabin soon return
ed with the requisite number. 'J he Doc
tor made him a little hall of paper, and
commenced ihe performance. At first he
was quite unlucky but he paid up punctu
ally, ami consoled himself with a favorite
expression of his. that 'sometimes I am
veri severe, then again not quite so sly.''
Among the mokers tin w as a young gen
tleman from good old Connecticut, on his
(itsi visit 'South.1 He w as on his way to
the head of navigation, with a pretty little
stork of groceries, by way of trying his
fortune in the Greal West. He soon man
ifested considerable interest in the game,
declaring he knew the thimble under which
the ball might be found. The Doctor gave
him a knowing wink, and desired him in
a whisper 'not to tell. But so ofien did
our friend 'guess1 right, lhat at last he laid
aside ail scrupless of conscience, and de
sired to be permitted to bet a few dollars.
To this proposition the Doctor at first ob
jected, declaring 'he did not like the young
man1 eye it was too keen,1 that he saw
the ball, &c. This seemed to please
'Connecticut' very much and made him
the more anxious to bet.
After much parley and a good deal of
reluctance on ihe part of the Doctor, it
was at last agreed that 'Connecticut,
might bet a few dollars, 'just a few,1 if
he would allow the Doctor a liule chance
against two such piercing eyes as he had.
by betting two to one. This being at
length settled, our young friend put up
his twenty dollars against the Doctor's
ten. Hands off and all being ready, he
lifted the thimble and sure enough there
was the ball. The Doctor gave up the
money and all enjoyed a hearty laugh at
his expense. This w as the largest bet
which had been made lhat evening. The
Duet obseved, 'sometimes he was not
quite so sly 1
The ball and thimble were again put in
motion again all being ready our lucky
friend proposed to bet but ihe Doctor
declared he must have some chance against
sucn great odds as Yankee eyes,1 and in
sisted on three to one, or thirty dollars to
ten being made. This was also accepted
again the thimble was raised, and sure
enough there wds the ball. Our friend
again poeketed another X, and again the
social hall rang with laughter at the Uoc-
lle unrolled a portion of the paper ol which
it was made, stuck out from under one of
the thimbles. This onrinnecticul IriewJ
plainly saw, and we presumed the Doq
tor, through old age, (now about 70.) had
his sight so impaired as not to be able to
see it, and could not, therefore, play fiis
game with his accustomed adroitness.-
But the tale was soon told. Our 'Yan
kee friend' proposed to double ttte fcet
'having the thing so dead.1 The Doc
tor impatient ol repealed losses told Iiirn tq
make il hundreds instead of fens. This
was done, and our friend bet three htm
dred dollars against one hundred dollars.
(Just here we thought it a shame to take
advantage even of a professional game
siers blindness, for the location of the ball
was so evident.) .
The money up, Connecticut was all
impatience to realize hi3 expectations and
in great eagerness he raises again the
thimble and sure enough il was NOT
there!!! He had reached the climax of the
Doctor's expectations in regard to his
ready cash and willingness to bet, and he
could not win We have seen many pic
tures of disappointment, but the appearance
of that young man's countenance we can
never forget. The laugh was now" up
roarinus. As much as you have pitied
the poor dupe ihe laugh was irresistable
but the poor fellow, 'like the boy the
caff rim over, saw nothing to laugh at.1
He W53 a stalue of amazed misery. "Tim
Doctor cooly pocketed his cash, while
our friend stammered out his astonishment
with the declaration that all was not right,
that he had never bet before and had sure
ly been taken in.
Nevermind,' says the Doctor, 'what's
a few hundred dollars to a young man
with yov r eyes ? The ladies all admire
them I heard them speak of them today.
and you won twice out of three times
thaVs the best two in three any kow.
The Ladies Can Till4ffte editor of
the Louisville Iris, on his way home the
other night, picked up a very extraordina
ry piece of decoration belepftng to some
young woman. He appeared to bo ai a
less to know what to call it. We presume;'
however, that some of our female acquain
tances could give him light on the subject
Hear him describe it: I
It is shaped, or rather was, a good deal
like a recent half moon ; some like an India-rubber
life preserver, and some like. t
iiig yoke ; felt a liule soft like, and was
covered with bed ticking. We had near
ly broke our neck over it, and as we never
had any luck in our life, we thought may
be we had found a treasure at last. We
didn't know but it was a new way the banks
have adopted of making remittances so as
to prevent robbery, for the ugly thing had
a string at each end so that in an emergen
cy a man might tie it around him and car
ry it a short distance. W ith anxious hand,
therefore, we seized our knife and tore in
to it, it iipt about six inches, and the first
thing that protruded itself from the orifice
was an old roundabout, and then, in rap
id succession, three short shirts and two
long ones ; an old fur cap ; a pair of
breeches, old and ragged ; the skirt of an
old calico dress ; a pair of old calit o draw
ers, with fringed bottoms; four old night
caps ; two cradle blankets ; one. old leg
horn bonnet; one old morocco boot; two
table c'.oths ; ten small pieces of diaper,
very much worn ; an old pUno cover; two
long night-gowns; one ragged chemise;
three quilted petticoats and six bippins.
What on earth could these things have
been? Do teli?
of blood, there is something terrible to (pretty well ascertained that peach atones
The thimbles were again arranged.
This time we observed the game closely,
as wa thought from his repeated losses
the Doctor was hardly entitled to that great
reputation for cunning and sagacity which
had ever been attributed to him. Now in
the moving of the little paper bail, we
thought we discovered the source of the
Doctor's mtefortiines, for becoming a lir-
A Man with One Hundred and Forty five chit
dren ! The Worcester shield, published at now
Hill, Maryland, give the following account of an
extraordinary man, now firing in Sotterct coun
ty, in tKat state.
"There is at this time, in a neigh!orhood In Som
erset county, Md., a gentleman named Nelson,
in his 9Ut year, who ha 145 children, gTand
children and great grand children nov Hvirrg with
in the sound of his voice. In hia own language,
h "can stand at hia door on a calm morning, anil
make every one hear him with the exception of
three." Hp further says, reasoning from what
has occurred, "if hi life is spared five years ln
fr, he will have 200. instead of 145 co lateral?,
iiniiieiUn hj around him." He yet retains th
vigor and activity of yonth i foif of sporting
and often amuses himself by hauliof the seine
and sometime stand fur boars waist deep in the
water, without expMncing any bad eflect from
it. He lost hi wife about three winters ego, wUh
whom he bad lived in happy wedlock 69 jear.
It bas been 20 year eince IiOhas had any sick
ness and 40 years since be bas required a pbysi
can for himself. He is quite a monument oi am,
tiquity, being perfectly familiar with the scenes)
of the Revolution, during which tune he was en
gaged in the then profitable business of oy storing;
and supplied Gen. Washington' table with oys
ter at Mount Vernon until his deatb. He has
feqiienly been In bis house and received the mon
ev for the cargo from the great man' own hand
lie rty it wa hi custom never to boy Jess than
fifty bushels, part of which his noighbors would
get irom mm.
Ways of the West. At Little Fort, there r
being storage room sufficient to accommodate the
ira amount of produce coming forward at that
thriving point, we loam, the Court Howe tMriag
full, that a commencement hbeen made to fill
the CjtoreAewth wheu--CAtccrgo Jour.
rrge IHvidend.ThB Atlantic Mutual In
eoreiicf Company of New York, declar
ed a draioend of Pr 5er on wt
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