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POETRY.
From the Charleston New.
DIBLEMS.
fl MRS. M. ST. LEON LOUD.
I siw a snow-white lily,
The fairest of its race ;
Beneath a fostering hand it grow
In loveliness una grace :
A storirt'Cioud galhcr'd over it,
And Durst upon its hend,
It yielded to the shock and lay
Low go its grassy bed.
A young and gentle maiden
Dwelt in a princely dome ;
Tha pride and happiness of all
In tier own native home.
Not love nor anxious watching
Their cherished one could save,
And like the fragile flower,
rJhs found an early grave.
In a tweet cottage garden
A modest violet grew ;
And meekly to the passer by
Upturned its eye of blue ;
One in the crowd admiring
With rude hand plucked the flower,
The fragrance stolethen cast it by
'Twai withered In an hoar;
Within that vine-clad cottage
Wat innocence enshrined;
Beauty oli! union rare on earth
With pure and lovely mind.
Then came the cruel spoiler
' ' With words of witching power,
And like the violet, faded lost
Was that sweet cottage flower.
. Iaw the slender ivy
Cling to a raio'd wall ;
; Jt strengthen and sustain'd the pile
Which tottrtj to ita fall:
j And by ita green leaves cover'd
The time-worn towers looked gay,
ind braved (he summer storm and blast
, Of many a wintry day.
A noble heart waa breaking
, Beneath ita load of care ;
; But there waa one whose gentle voice
Forbade him to despair.
With words of deep affection
She chcer'd bis onward way.
And like the ivy green and bright,
Smiled on the darkest day.
In a row unfolding
And watch'd it dRy by day :
The dew and sunshine nourished it
, Could that aweet flowor decay t
Th autumn wind blew rudely
And chill'd ita tender form:
For bright it was, and beautiful,
To bide the coming storm.
An infant in ita beauty.
'. Slept on it mother's hreast,
Death came her bud of earthly hope,
Dropp'd to ita lowly rest.
Alas for that young mother !
Her brightest dream iso'ert
Enr wither'd rote, and spirit fled, .
Timv aever can restore. .
Tlfue ia each flower that tprlngeth
A type of woman' heart ;
- Of weakness, gentleness and strength,.
Ot hope that soon depart i
Of fading youth and beauty,
Of lasting truth and love ;
Of fond tie snnder'd here on earth,
To be renew'd above.
Then let ua in the pawing
Of summer flower away,
Learn that we hold on mortal life
A tenure frail a they ;
And guard the germ of virtue '
With watch! ul, jealous care,
That it may spring beyond the skies, .
And bloom unfading there.
MISCELLANY.
From the Democratic Review. :
CILL, aUasMIOX CCRRT;
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i THE VICTIM Or CIRCUMSTANCES.
A-TKVI SKETCH OT LIFI M alt KANSAS.
Among the truest friends of tlx people, of all in
the present Convention, may be named John Hill,
ef St. Francis. Ili energy, eloquence and cour
age fully entitle him to the proud place be holds,
and as are trust, will long retain- that of leader of
toe Arkansas Democracy." LitlkRock QateUe,
in ihi dayt f iht Contention.
i Blood ArraAT. A desperate rencontre oc
cured last week Id St, Francis. Two distinguished
citizens were killed, and three others dangerously
wouudvdi The difficulty resulted from an attempt
to arrest John Hill, a member of the last Legisla
tare, and former! j of the State Coatenlion, who,
as it is alleged, la the notorious rber, Nixon Cur-
! vy'jtliat rprcmittri? stirS stn 's fifte years sgn
in the mountains of Carolina." Little Rock Ga
zette, of May, 1840.
We have given the previous extracts from the
oldest and most respectable journ.il f Arkansas,
in order to satisfy every reader that the following
narrative, extraordinary as some of ita incidents
may appear, is no tissue of fiction. Indeed, while
Mating genuine events, nnJ pointing true scenes,
we have been especially direful to avoid all viviJ
colors. Should this kli"rt sMe.i, by Hny chance,
reach the fiirests of Arkansas, ihe peoile there will
deem its descriptions ume in comparison with the
deeds of the man. The writer, who has resided
long on the frontier, ha no use for fancy in pour
traying iig exciting life. Simple memory will
servo him very well.
About fifty years ago there lived in Iredell coun
ty, North Carolina, a Presuyterian minister by the
name of Curry, tin was a man in easy circum
stances, of irreproachable character, and had a
large family of promising sons and daughters. A
mnng those the favorite was Nixon, distinguished
when a boy for his fearless courage and the ten
derness of his heart ill ike, lie seems, from sever
al anecdotesof his early days, to have been a child
of impulse and intense earnestness and pnsiiion.
When only six years of age, he had a combat at
school with a bully of the playground, nearly twice
his own weight, and after suffering dreadfully, at
last achieved victory, due almost to the sheer pow
er of his endurance..
From the time he was six years old, that is to
say, from the first session he attended in the coun
try school honse, had Nixon Curry been in love.
Hi idol was a little girl ol the same age, and un
der the tuition of the same master. The attach
ment appears to have been mutual from the com
mencement. They stood up in one cla&t, and al
ways managed to stand together. During the
hours of recess, when the other juvenikt were a
m using themselves with boisterous sports, the pre
cocious levers, would wander amidst-leafy groves,
or by the mossy margins of silver rills. Forever,
to-eternity, and whenever, the soft spell of first love
conies, it brings with it the bright spirit of poetry,
scattering thick-starred dreams and divine visions
of beauty over all things. Even then they ex
changed pledges, and discoursed in sweet, sinless
whispers of their futuro bridal,
And thus they grew up into one delicious identi
ty of fancy and of feeling. - Their bias for the so
ciety of etch other, while children, caused no par
ticular remark. Such attachments are .common
among the youth of opposite sexes in the country,
and as usual, terminate abruptly, on arrival at ma
ture years. Far different, however, was the case
withNixon Curry and Lucy Gordon. Their passion
became so evident at fifteen, that all further inter
course was forbidden by her parents among the
wealthiest aristocracy of Carolina. Then follow
ed stolen meetings by starlight, firmer vows and
wilder love which always increases in propor ion to
its crosses, and, like the tree of Lebanon, sends
down ita deepest roots into the heart the more it is
shaken by storms.
Finally, at seventeen, when Lucy's relatives
were endeavoring to force her Into the arms nf an
other, she fled with the lover of her childhood.
They sre pursued overtaken ', and Nixon Curry
shot his rival a nd one of the proud Gordons dead on
the spot, and then escaped with his bride, although
holly chased by more men, and found an asylum in
the Alleghany Mountains, near (he sources of the
Catawba. Here, under the plea of necessity, he
embraced the profession of a robber ,and rendered his
name famous by the number and astonishing bold
ness of his exploit?. We may record it, not as a
matter of merit, perhaps, but for th sake of histor
ical truth that the youthful bandit never was
known to perpetrate any deed of murder for the
sake of plunder, though he did several to avoid ar
rest. At length the rnmor of his daring felonies
ceased suddenly, and notwithstanding a reward of
five thousand dollars was offered lor his apprehen
sion by the Governor nf ihe State, he was heard of
no more in North Carolina.
At the first setllenu'nt of the fertile delta border
ing on the St. Fr.ncis, there came an emigrant
who called himself John Hill, and who soon suc
ceeded in acquiring universal popularity. Although
of moderate means, he Was sober, industrious, ge
nerous and hospitable ; and such continued to be
his character, in the new country of his adoption,
fur twelve successive year. During all that long
period hti never h id a personal difficulty or quarrel
with any human being ; and yet every body waa
satisfied, that such a peaceful life singular for
that latitude, was not owing to a want of courago,
of deficiency in power to perform good service, in
any sort ef battle-field ; fur of all bear-hunters that
ever pierced the jungles ol cane in "the great
swamp," or descended by torch-light into the dark
cave of the Ox irk Mountains, he waa celebrated
as the moat fearless.
Ha was repeatedly elected to the Territoral Leg'
ilature,where he distinguished himself by a Strang,
impassioned eloquence, a a chief leader in the
Democratic ranks, lie was next, as we have e)
ready seen, a member of the Convention that form
ed the Stat Constitution: and was elected again
the entuing-year to represent Lis- -county in t!
Senate of Arkansas. A .
: At tliia nrini! rnmrnenrrtil )it.cw. ' Mario.. ..f
I misfortunes. Hill'l nearest neighbors were III
I renp, four hrotlwi of considerable wealth,
RALEIGH, FRIDAY,
more ambition, and if we may borrow the phrase
of the country, "famous fighters."
Notwithstanding their character was so dissimi
lar from that of the pacific "bear-hunter," a close
and cordial intimacy grew up between them and
Hill, in an unguarded moment, made the eldest
brother, George,' u confident as to the secrets of
his previous history.. It happened that this same
George conceived a violent desire for political dis
tinction, and requested Hill to. resign his seat in
the Senate in his illiberal friend's favor. Hill re
fused, anJ the Strongs conspired for a terrible re
venge. Writiu hick to Carolina, they procured
a copy of the reward offered for the arrest of Nix
on Curry, the far-famed robber; and then collec
ting a party of a di'Zen desperate men, they attempt
ed to capture Hill in his own house. The latter
had gone armed, with his enormous double-barrelled
shot gun, two long rille pistols, and a knife so
heavy, that few other hands besides his own could
wield it. The assault of the Strongs proved horri
ble to themselves. Hill killed two of the brothers,
and dungerously wounded live of their friends es
caping himself unhurt, although nioro than twen
ty rounds of balls and buck-shot were aimed at his
breast.;
The excitement resulting from the affair was
boundless. A requisition came on from the Exe
cutive of Carolina, demanding the surrender of
Nixon Curry. The Governor of Arkansas publish
ed an additional reward for the arrest of John Hill;
aud thus betwixt the two fires, the victim's chance
seemed perfectly hopeless.
Hill's conduct in the crisis was prompt and fear
less a ever, Packing np hastily, he set-out with
his wife and children, in a common moving wagon,
for Upper Arkansas, wliere he knew of a band of
desperadoea that he believed would protect liiiu.
He was overhauled at Conway Court Mouse by
two hundred men in pursuit, all thoroughly armed,
and some of them renowned "fighters." Hill saw
their approach on the distant prairie, and with his
dreadful double that sure death dealer to either
man or beast, within the range of two hundred
yards instantly marched to meet his foes. This
incredible bravery, joined to the fear before inspir
ed by his desperation, affected the Advancing troops
with such an unaccountable panic, that the whole
two hundred sought safety in a disgracefully rapid
flight.. :.: , ' -'.- .':..
Several other attcinpta were made to capture the
langerous outlaw, all aliko ending either in ludi
crous or bloody failures. In the meantime, Hill's
character and conduct underwent a' complete
change. Forced to be always on the look out, and
therefore, unable-to follow any steady business, in
order to support his family, he resorted to the gam
ing table. He learned to indulge in the fiery stim
ulus of ardent drink, and his disposition necessa
rily soured by recent events, Locmuo quarrelsome
in the extreme. v
Perhaps there never was a man, excepting only
that Napoleon of duellists, James Bowie, who was
so heartily dreaded. . I have myself seen persons ol
undoubted courage turn pale merely attheappear-
anceof Hill's gigantic form, broadly belt d and
bristling with pistols. He was waylaid and shot
at a number of times, yet still escaped without a
scar. But this could be no wonder ; for even brave
men's hands have shook when they saw him, and
shaking hands generally make very poor shots. ,
During tho September term, 1843, of the Cir
cuit Court of Pope county, in which Hill resided,
he got out of bed one morntng uncommonly gloo
my, and, while at the breakfast table, suddenly
burst into tears.
" What is the matter, my dear?" atked Lucy
that beautiful Lucy, who had formerly left her
wealthy home In Carolina for the robber and rob
ber' cave.
I have had a dreadful dream," answered the
husband, shuddering at the recollection ;" I saw
George Strong in my sleep, and be tissed me with
his pale lips, that burned like fire, and smelled of
sulphur. I am sure I shall die before sunset."
"Then do not go to court, to-day," said the wife,
in accents of earnest entreaty.
" But I will," replied the husband- firmly
"When a man's time is come, he cannot hide from
death ; besides, it would be the act of a coward to
do so, if one possesses the power." Then address
ing his son, a fine intelligent, boy of thirteen, he
continued, " Bill, you see my gun !" pointing hi
finger as he spoke to the great double barrel hang
ing on buck horns over the door J "practice with
that every morning, and the day you are sixteen,
shoot the loads'of both barrels Into the than who
will this day kill your father." " T ''w'"
Yondjr comes Mose Howard ;' he will protect
yon, Pa," remarked Mary, Hill's eldest daughter,
a lovely girl of fifteen; who was to be married the
next day to the youth theu approaching.
Hill and Howard departed'; Lucy with tear,
and Mary blushing, both calling, out aa they left
the guts, "Take good care of him, Mose, and be
sure and bring him back to night." .
"Never fear," answered thw-vonth, with a laugh:
Hill will never die till I.ftill him." t r
" Then he will liva forever," retorted Mary,
Unghing a'sOv . , ' , . .'.
A soon as thft friends reached the village, Hill
began to drink1 deeply, and- imtnifested more thsn
ordinary anxiety for a combat, Insulting eirry body
that crossed hi path, and all the youth's', entreat
les failed tr pacify him. - At last J'f - J'-spnradn
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swore he would clear the court honse, and imme
diately entered with a furious countenance, aud a
threat as to his purpose. Judge, lawyers, jury and
spectators, mado a general rush for the door. One
old drunken man did not run as fast ijill wish
ed, and he sprung on the inhcile wretch and com
menced beating him unmercifully,
Howard then caught held of his future fithcr-hi-law,
(alas ! who was never to be,) and attempt
ed to pull him away.
With eyes red and glaring like a mad dog, Hill
instantly turned upon his friend, and with a single
blow of his fist felled him to the floor. Then, fol
lowing up the violent act, he leaped on the youth,
and began & most ferocious battery. In vin How
ard endeavored tj escape, crying out in tones of
beseeching horror
" For God's sake, cease t Hill, don't you know
me your friend Mose? Remember Mary !"
Hill's anger only increased, till finally he threw
his hand to his belt, and clutched a p:'Uil. And
then Howard's blood boiled, and he resolved to
fight lor his life. He was of as powerful a frame
as the other the only person in nil Arkansas to
lie compared with the desperado iii physical'
strength.
Howard grasped the barrel of the pistol as Hill
cocked it, and the weapon exploded in their hands
without injury. Once more they clenched, and
the most dreadful struggle ensued ever witnessed
in the West. The advantage shifted from one
side to the other for the space of live minutes, till
both were bathed in streams of their own blood.
Even the bystanders, looking on through the
windau eof the log court house, were struck with
wrndor and awe. At length, while writhing and
twisting like two raging serpt the handle of
Hill's huge Bowie knife, unthougtit of previously,
protruded from beneath his hunting shirt. Both
saw it at the same time, and both attempted to
grasp it, Howard succeeded. Quick as lightning
he drew the keen blade from its scabbard, and
sheathed it up to the hilt in the bosom of his friend
and Mary's father.
" The dream is fulfilled !" exclaimed Hill; with
a smile of strange sweetness, that remained on his
features oven after he was a corpse. Ho then
sunk down, and expired without a groan. .
Howard gazed on him there as he lay, with that
singular smile on his face, and his glazed eyes o
pened. And then, awaking with a start, as if from
some horrible vision of the night, tho poor unhap
py youth fell headlong on the body of his friend,
crying in tones that melted many a hardened spec
tator into tears "Great God I what have I done?"
He kissed the clammy lips of the dead wet hi
cheeks with a rain of unavailing sorrow tried to
'staunch the bloody wound with his handkerchief
and then, apparently satisfied that all was over,
sprung upon his feet with a shout, or more proper
ly a scream, "Farewell, Mary your father is
gone, and I am going with him," aud turning the
point of the gory knife, towards his own breast,
would have plunged it into his heart, had ho not
been prevented by the bystanders, who bad now
crowded into the room. .
The same evening Mose Howard disappeared,
and was heard of no more fin nearly two years,
when a horse trader brought back word that he
had seen him in San Antonio, Texas.
When the shocking news reached Hill's family,
the beautiful Mary burst into a wild laugh. : She
i now in the asylum for the insane, at New Or
leans, I fad we been inditing a tale of romance, we
would have paused with a preceding page, but lit
eral truth compels us to record another fact equal
ly characteristic, both as to the chief actors and
the back-wood theatre of the main tragedy.
It will be remembered that the fallen desperado
had enjoined it on hi son to kill the slayer of his
father on the day he should arrive at sixteen.
Without any such charge, vengeance would have
been considered by that boy a a sacred-duty ( for,
on the frontiers, the widows of the slain teach ven
geance to their children, and occasionally execute
it themselves!
.Accordingly, Bill Hill practised with his father's
gnn every day for two successive years, and this
even before he bad any rumor as to die place of
Howard's refuge. He then learned that hi foe
was in Texas, and two months before be was six
teen set out to hunt him up. .. v -
At the end of four months, Bill Hill came back,
and hanging up the double barrel in their old
buck'iorn rack; answered his mother's look.
" Mother Mose is dead 1 let him have both loads.
Though I cried before I alone it, and afterwards,
too he looked so aril sera hie, pale, and bony aa a
ikeleton." - v ' 5- -;
Poor Mose ! said the mother, weeping ; bnt
it could not be helped. Tin ton of such a brave
man as Nixon Curry must never be called a cow
ard, and-besides, it was your-father'a order."
FREDERIKA BREMER. .
The nnmerona adiiiireraof this popular. writer
will be grsCfi.-d to leatq that there is a prlmbi!ity
of her visiting this country soon. The Boston
Transrript has learned that it was Mis Bremer's
intention to 'leave Stockholm for Attierica, the Lat
ter part of August,' She tt one of the few novelists
f rtmd: r: day wh'i works nre worth rcsnVij.
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From tho New Orleans Picayune.
PRAIRIE LIFE TALE OF REVENGE.
Although much has been writtoa on prairie life,
many a wild adventurer, and yet many a wilder
scene has been left undeserved. Poor Ruxton,
who died at St lx)uis, and whose highly entertain
ing and valuable work "Scenes 'in the Far West,"
is enriched with many a story and scene which,
nodoulrt, to the people of the Esst, seem like tales
from the Arabian Nights. There is so much ori
ginality about the manner and habits of the. trapper
and frontiersman, that one is struck with their pe
ciiliarlangungs or mode of expressing themselves,
as well as their singular costume. They are, in
fact, as distinct and marked class as sailors, and
have as many odd and quaint sayings.
It is generally tho commission of crime, Fome
disappointment in life, or a imtive love of adven
ture and peril, that makes theso men desert the
comforts o( eivilizod society for the iviVs nnd
haunts of the red man. We can imagine the ter
rible reaction which takes place when 'the. storm
of passion or wreck of disappointed hopes sweeps
over the tensitiye soul, and leaves a desolation
a ruin of the former man, ..It '.s 'misfortunes like
these which scorch and dry up tho finest feelings;
some moral wrong or injustice committed by oth
ers towards thei.i, in revenging which they have
been compelled to leave their homes and become
exiles in the Far West: ;
AstoryistolJ ofan extraordinary meeting, and
an act of revenge Ba id to have taken place many
long years ag ., on the fork uf the Pawnee. A
party of four who had been roving for marny years
in the West, all strangers to each other, were one
day accidentally thrown together, when a strange
and bloody scene ensued. Those men presented
a striking contrast in feature. The youngest was
delicately made, with long light bair and blue eyes; ;
Ins exposure had given him a rich, brown complex
ion, tie was of the medium stature, and mado
for strength and agility. There was a dark void
over his features, which told that with him the
light of hope had gone out. He wa travelling on
a mule, with his rifle in his gun leather at the' bow
of his saddle, when he overtook a man on foot, with
a gun on hi shoulder and pistols in his belt, who
was over six feet and had a deep, wide scar on
his right cheek. As day was drawing to- a close,
they proposed to camp, and brought up at the
head of the fork of the Pawnee. Shortly after they
had camped, a man was seeu reconnoitering them
with a rifle in his hand, and having satisfied him
self that the sign was friendly, be came moodily
into the camp, and after looking sternly at the two
men, was saked by Sear Cheek to "come to the
ground." He was a stout, muscular man, much
older than the other two, with a deep habitual
scowl, long, black, matted hair and very nnpre pos
sessing fe?turas. Some common place remarks
were made, but no questions were asked by eitlur
party. ..
Ii was near twilight when the young man, who
had gathered some buffalo chips to make a fire to
cook with, suddenly perceived a man approaching
them cn a mule; he came steadily and fearlessly
on to the camp, and, casting a look at the three,
said, "took ye for Indians ;". then glancing at the
doer-skin dress of the trio, he observed, "Old lea
thers some time out, eh ?" The man was a bout
fifty years old, and his gray hairs contrasted
strangely with his dark, bronzed leatures, upon
which care and misfortune were strongly stamped.
He was only half clad by the miserable skins he
wore ; ani, as he dismounted, Scar Cheek asked
"where from!" '-From the Kaw," (Kansas,) he
replied, throwing down a bundle of otter skins.
After unsaddling and staking eut his mule, he
brought himself to the ground, and taking his rifle,
looked at the priming ana shaking the powder in
the pan, he added a few more grain to it; then
placing a piece of thin dry skin over it, to keep it
from the damp, he shut the pan. The group watch
ed the old trapper, who seemed sot to notioe tlieuo,
while Scar Cheek became interested and showed
a certain sneasine is. Ha looked towards his own
rifle, and once oriwice loosened the pistols in his
belt, aa if they incommoded him, . The young and
the stout man with the scowl exchanged glances,
but no word passed . So far no question bad been
asked aa to-who, the other was; what little conver
sation passed was very laconic, and not a smile had
wreathed the lip of any one of them.
The little supper was eaten in silence, each nun
seeming to be wrapped in his own tlioochis. It
was agreed that the watch should be equally divi
ded among the four, each man standing guard of
two hours the old trapper taking the first watch,
the young mifli next, and Scar Cheek and he with
the scowl following. .
It was a bright moonlight .night, and over that
barren wild waste of prairie net a sound waa heard
as the three lay steeping on their blankets. The
old trapper paced tip and down, ran bis eye around
tho wild waste before him, and tlien would stop and
tnutU-r to himself. "It cannot be he," he said half
aloud, "but the time aud that scar may bar dis
guised him. That toy, too- it's strange I feel
drawn low. iris him: then that villain with his
scowl," and tho muscles of the old trap,ier's face
worked convulsively, which, the moon beams fall
ing upon, discioeod traces of a by-goQs.refiai)u'nt.
The trsjpper rMselessly approached rlie sleeping
men, and, kneeling down, gaiod intently upon the
f-tttnrrseteaeh and scann-d lltfirvd'.-eply.' Wak
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ing off, he muttered to himself again, savin? "If
shall be," nnd then judging by the stars that his
watch was up, lieapproaehcd' the yni-ng tain ard
woke him, pressing his fingtr ujiou'his lip to r.""
mand silence at the time, and motioned to him t
follow. They walked off sonic distance, when the
trapper taking the young nnn hy the phoulder,
tururd his face to the moonlight, and. aficr gazing '
"t it wistfully, whispered in his ear. "Are yi 'i
Terry Ward ?'' The yoqiig man started wildly,
but the trapper prevented bU reply hy s pying "E
nongh, enough." He t!!en told him that he wis
bis unclp, and that the man with thes-car wns the
murderer of his fa'lliir J t-.nd that he with the srowl
had convicted him (trapper) of forgery bv his fa!-"
oath. "The blood desrried I'm lin rt- 1'ie wm.tnr
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man, and his eyes glared nnd dilated almost from
their sockets. He squeezed his uncle's hand, and
then, with a meaning .glance ss lie looked to his
rifle, moved towards the c.v.v?. ''No, ho!"' said
the old trapper, "not in cold blood ; giro l!Tn a
chance." . They cautiously returned, to the camp
and found both the men in n tbep sle'e'p.
-.The uncle and nephew stood over tiieni. . Scar .
Cheek was breathing lis rd, when lie s'uddpn cried
out, "I did not murder Perry Ward!" "liar!''
said the trapper in a voice of ihunler. an J the two
men started and Iwundcd to their feirt. ' "Red shirs
about?" asked they in a voice. "No, worrp Lhan
red skins," Mid the trapper, "Harrv Ward is n-
bont .'" and seizing his knife he pinned it in Scar
Cheek's hoHrt. "Then t ike that." said he willi
the scowl, and, raiding his rifiV, the trmpr fell a
corpse. With a bound and a wild cry the young
man jumped at the murderer of Lis micb nnd
itnnis knife save him several fatal wounds
The struggle was a fearful one, however, and tllfl
yonng man had also received several bad cuts,
when his ailtArcurv foil frnm In. r i.i j i .
. nvw WE IWB VI UJUOU KllLl
soon after expired. Thus ended this strange,
meeting, and thus were father and uncle reven
ged.' :
A. GOOD STOIIV.
Old Col. W ., formerly a well known charac.
ter in one of our eastern cities, was remarkable for .
but one passion out of tho ordinary range ol hu
inanity, and that was Tor buying any lot of trum
pery which came smler the head of " miscellanea .
ous,"for the reason that It oouldinut be classified.
Though close-fisted in general, bo was continually
throwing away his money in fives and tens on such
trash. - In this wav he had filled all the nlri
ers in his dwelling and out-houses with a collection w
of non-descript articles that would have puszled a ,
philosopher to tell what Jhey were made for, or to
tuuiu ue nut. i ins, uowever, was
a secondary consideration with the Colonel; for ho
seldom troubled his head about su:h nrricW after
they were fairly housed. Not so with his wifcv
however, who waa continually rcmonstratins a-
gainst these purchases, which served only to clut
ter up the house, and aa food for t);.e mirth of th&
domestics. ' But th Colonel, though he often sub.
milted to these remoiitrHCce of his better half, ,
could not resist the passion: and so be went on5.
adding from week to week, to hia Lean of miscel. i
liviies. One day, while sa untering down the street, .
ne heard tire rich, tull tones of U.e auctioneer, and
of course stepped in to see what was heinc sold. I
On the floor he perceived a collection which looked
as if it might hav been purloined from the gtx
ret of some museum, and around which a motlev
group were assembled ; while on the counter stood
the portly auctioneer, in tne very height of a mocks
indignsut remonstrance with his audienc. , -
" Nine dollars and ninety cents!" crit-d the ane
tioneer, " Gentlemen, it is a shame, it is barba
Mtis, to stand by and permit such' a sacrifice of,
property ! Nine dollars and ninety good worn- '
ing Colonel ! A magnificent lot of ot antiques,
and all go.ng for nirnt doJLra and ninety routs.
Gentlemen, you'll never aee such another b ; srd
all going t-oing-for nine dollar and ninety cents. '
Col. W , can you permit eneb'a sacrifice f " TU
Col. glanced hi eye over the lot, and then with a .
nod and a wink, oisured him he conlo not. Tho
next itirl .m the hammer came down, and the pur-,"
chase wa his at ten dollar. Asthesrticles were
to be paid tut, and removed immediately, the Col
lost no time in getting a cart, and having acta v
ry thing packed np and on thuir way to the nouse.j
be proceeded to hia own alone, chuckliag srilhir,
himself that no, at least, Jie had made bargain ,
at which hia wife could not grumble. . r-)t
In due time, the Ciilonel.wa ittir;g a t the din-,
tier table, when lifting his eyes he observed a cloud
on hU wife' 4irow "Well, my dear I" aid be
Inquiringly. "Well," repeated his -wif j It is not
weli Mr. W., I am vexed beyond enilaratice. . Yi n .
know G. the auctioneer 1" "Ccrtaii'ly," replk & thu
Colonel, "and a very ger tlemanlv rersan he is ton ;
you may think so,'.' rejoined thV wife, "but
don't, and will tell why. A few dys a pi, I gauV.
ered togethcrall the trumpery wi'h whfeh you lime
been clutteringthe honse fur the last twelve months,
and sent it in to him with orders tost.il, t!ie U hn
metllatelv to the hinlwvt Cnr,ui, it.,
-sured me he would do so in all this wee!, at farC'.
tnest. nnd pay over th pmcwvls t0 my order.- An4
liere I have been conjjmtui.ttiiif myself,. two
thin:?: first. Ol. har-aor unt rid nf m,-t i, l 1 au,
nuisance; and aecnnMr, on recivtn" mi up i.
nough thtr f , to pur have that m iv v--,v i'th-t
yoa premised m so long B.i. ' And now abuti'V
you tank This morning, abnMnn t.pnr !,r:V
wMr had Vint kkk neurit tritK-mi it ,n,,f nf'xi-l.n-infant-
Ti.eCoMi.d .,krd M'liL i)t a imm:, nt
and then proceeded to eiefir i Ur- o l, ry. I;;
his p.l women -was u- .slv .Vv'tU pn Ulj,
of a Ml dollar ytW besl.U. (iml i il0 U nda of th,,
ucti"-cr ew. craslitin, l.owiv- r. t ,t wmiM
tirsfl.'li'jpiti Mpmi:i-8s,i,, ,-th.-rpttw':