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The Bank op F.ni;la.d. Thuriow cedT the editor of the Albany Evening Journal, iu one of his recent letters thus describes the "Old Lady of Threadnecdle street." We availed ourselves this morning of the per-, mission obtained by Mr. VViggin visit the Bank of England. An offieial'Macer or Usher) with laced dress coat and three-cornered hat, escorted us to another servant of the Bank, who took us leisurely through an Institution that is so potent in controlling and regulating the money pulsations of Europe. It is situated on Threadnecdle street, but fronts upon a half a dozen others, and occupies an irregular area of eight acres.

There are no windows through the exterior of the building, light being supplied by sky-lights and open courts within. There is a clock by which Bank time is kept, with dials indicating the time in sixteen different offices. The Bank with its various offices is open from (J A. M. till 5 P.

M. The Bank has its printing; office, book bindery, engraving-office, Checks, blank-books, Sic. Stc. are all printed within the Bank, as are the Banknotes. In the-room where the circulating notes are printed there are eight presses, all constantly employed, and which throw oil' about 81)00 impressions daily.

We saw two presses rolling off five pound notes, and others upon the various denominations up to .1000, which is the largest note the Bank issues. The dates and numbers are supplied by smaller presses in another room. The paper is delivered to the presses counted (a hundred sheets at a time) and when worked and returned, another hundred sheets are given. Pressmen work-five hours and earn from two to three guineas a week. In the office here redeemed notes are examined, canceled, Sec.

l.lti clerks are constantly employed. When we entered this room our attendant was sharply reprimanded for bringing strangers there, but upon being informed that it was by "the Governor's order," we were allowed to pass. Forty thousand different notes are frequently sent to this cilice to be canceled in a day. The Bank, you know, never reissues a note. Wdicii returned to its counter for payment, a note is canceled, filed away, to be burnt at the expiration of ten years.

The Armory ef the Bank contains un hundred stand of muskets, with pistols, cutlasses, hand-grenades, 8cc. Stc, and has a night-guard 38 strong. In the office where the Bank notes are counted into parcels, tied with twine and placed in pigeon-holes, we found five staid, methodical, matter-of-fact looking clerks, whom you would trust for their faces. One. of these old chaps, with the precision of "Old Owen" and tlie good nalureof "Tim Link- iivwater," took his keys and unlocked the depositories of paper wealth.

The "rags" of each denomination were in separate parcels. When we came to the "high he placed four packages in my hand, and remarked, "Younow liold sterling in your handt sir!" Yes, 1. actually was in possession of twenty millions of dollars, a sum much larger than the whole estate of John Jacob Astor! Bat it all returned to its pigeon-hole, and left me a far happier man than those who arc encumbered with such overgrown fortunes. Another of the old cleiksopcn-ed the golden dormitories, where repose an endless number of bags, each cotilainingcight hundred sovereigns. We were next a rid finally conducted to a subterranean region enriched by gold and silver bullion.

Here bars of the precious metals were as plentifully heaped ns those of iron and steel are in the stores of our friends Benedict, Townsend and Corning. Thu Silver we did not meddle with, but we handled bars of (told, each weighing eight thousand pound: sterling, that were piled in barrow-loads of seventy thousand pounds sterling each. Much of this bullion was recently received from China, as an instalment upon the sum John Bull makes the Celestials pay for their obstinate refusal to 'lake Tlie Bank of England has now, in paper and specie, nearly thirty-eight millions of pounds sterling. There are eight hundred persons, in its various departments, constantly employed within its walls. Nkwspapkp Boiikow'KRs.

Ilis an opinion we have often expressed, and wc believe is pretty guuerally entertained, that the meanest of all kinds of borrowers is the borrower of a news- paper. Some not only put their neighbor to the expense of furnishing them with the news, but they are loth to allow him the privilege ot look ing at it himself, and scum to consider they are doing him a favor by borrowing it, not that they have received a favor in the neighbor lending it. Let the borrower, when he reads this paragraph, consider whether it is not just as cheap for him to take a paper as his neighbor, and whether it would not be more just to allow the latter the privilege of reading what he pays for, without the annoyance of being asked to lend it, before he has half completed the pe rusal. Dollar Newspaper. It is generally conceded that the newspaper borrower is a Lore, and this concession, according to the rules of either logic or common sense, proves him to be excessively hoggish.

It is therefore hardly to be expected that he should be able to understand a hint or appreciate a delicate use of the pen. He requires rather to be drivenhy kicks. Our carriers have informed us of many instances of the ir being desired by their subscribers to defer serving the paper for a week that they might through that means en-dcaver to get clear of the regular daily annoyance of the borrower. It is disgraceful, particularly in the case of a penny paper. An instance ol a practical joke worth recording came to our knowledge a few days since, which wo will merely relate, having the reader to decide whether it was a hint or a kick, for we understand that he who received it don't know how to take it.

Mr. sat reading the paper at home in the morning, before leaving for his store, when the boy of a neighbor entered with the usual errand upon his tongue, which he delivered in the usual way. "Mr. 8., pappy wants to lxrrw your Sun a few minutes this morning." "Tell your pappy," replied Mr. "that I am tiding-my Sun, but" drawing a penny from his pocket and handing it to the boy, a penny which I am not using just now, with which hr can buy one.

Tell him lie neediijt put himself out. of the way about returning it to-clay. I will send for it when I want it, the same xs I frequently have to do for my paper." Mr. S. ba been allowed the use of his own newspapcrsiuce.

Without annoyance famijliat neighbor. (JyThe negro who robbed the schr. Arandi, at New York, a few days ago, was arrested Tuesday at Harrisburg, hither he had been tracked by one of the New York polkr oflicers. SiHRP Sloop 1-aJy Clir.t.'ii returned to Nantucket from the after su absence of niini days, with Mevtnty-tisM twf-Jish! LASDf.R. Whenever you alUck yo'Jt Ki-igf bor's character, do it behind h'w buck, tk n.4 to VfOMJil tis ffMslixjgJ, THE WKEKLY sVH, Js published every Saturuait, on a large, handsome iCl ZJ mir annum i.

t-l few ai mnnlha. Btieei.tug". rv Dry Goods, SiC TER No. 153 BALTIMORE STREET. GOODS, including an extensive assortment of rich French and articles, with a imimlete stock of DOMESTIC GOODS; then: prices will be low by wnoiesaie and retail, a-iut 1ARD TO THE LADIES.

Wiil open This Pav, a large assortment oi new style MUUSfclitrvts, real French CHINTZ; English and American CALICOES; alarge assortment of LACE GOODS and HOSIERY, which the Ladies aie invited to call and examine, aa the subscriber is determined to sell foods cheaper than usual; in fact the ladies wiil be the best judges 'bvcallimr and tidying poods at their own price, at BALTIMORE oTBERT, -near Fredwick. ntM-3t W. BROADBENT. EXTRA RICH DARK MOUSLIN DE LAINES. Just received (via New York) one ease of extra rich new style dark MOUSLIN DE LAINES, unequalled in the market.

The tidies will give us a speedy call. B. il. RICHARDSON a21-tf 165 Bait, next door to Umbrella Store. jtf 1 LOTH STO RE 11 OLESALE AND RETAIL, SPLENDID FALL QOODa.

Just received -superfine and medium wool, black, blue and fancy CLOTHS; super French, English and American CAS-61 MERES; 9 cases CASS I NET comprising a general assortniPot new Fall MOUSLIN DE LAINES; fancy fig'd VELVET for diesses: blk ami Mop black BOMBAZINES; blk and fancy Plaid SILKS; 7 cases kl) LugcLiii vjuiu yiienii assonmeni of Beaver and Pilot CLOTHS and FLUSHINGS, Kentucky and Rob Roy JE ANS; brown and bleached Canton FLANNELS; 3-4, 7-8 and 4 5 bleached and hrown DOMESTICS, with a lanro and genera! assortment of seasonable GOODS, wirx-h will be sjld on terms whiu'h cannot fail to please by JOHN W. RICHARDSON, No. 23 Baltimore street, 'f one door below Frederick. FRESH FALL DRY GOODS We are now daily receivinz at our Retail branch. No.

15 BALTI MORE an extensive and choice assortment of ALL GOODS, which we are determined to sell for the cash, ni surh prires at will defy competition, viz: CLOTHS, CASSIMFRES, CASS1NETS AND FLANNELS, of every shade and quality, and purchased at the lowest factory prices. Silk Waip blue black ALPACA, a superior article Satin striped and figured black ALPACA PLAID VELVETS, a large assortment of choice patterns GALA PLAIDS, a superb article, for lad ea dresses MOUSLIN DE AINES. new styles Also, a heavy stock of FALL CALICOES, ranging from 4 cts. to bleached arid brown DOMESTICS, of all prices; ENGLISH MERINOES; best IRISH LINENS; Canton FLANNELS; and every variety of wvuuo in a mmi rermi assortment. WILKINS WONN, Ketail Branch, No.

15 Balto. street, a21-tf 3 doors above Market Space. TEWFALL GOODS GREATRATt(iA INfC J.M The truth of the above caption mav oe seen bv calling at the st. re of the subscriber, who has just openeu a large assortment ot ALL UUUDS, some of which have been bought under peculiar circum stances, at great sacrifice from the original cost of importation and manufacture, consequently Great Bar- gatns may tie expecien. mv assortment ot CLOTHS, CASSl.MERES AND CASSINETS is full and complete, comprising every variety of shade and quality, which have been purchased at a great sacrifice, and which I shall otTer at a small advance, assuring purchasers that CLOTHS, CASSIMERES and CASSINETTS, will be found in prick and quality inferior to none in the market.

I shall also open a mil apiirimeiii ui VVH1TE, RED and YELLOW FLANNELS, 3-4, 7-8 and 4 4 wide, some of wl. ivh arcof very supe rior quality, being soft finish and eniirelvfrcef om cot ton mixture, and highly recommended for family use; together with a full assortment of other Fall Goods, i now uiter iii puces inai cannot ne neat. B. V. RICHARDSON, a-21-tf No.

79 Baltimore street. blue Rob Roy Pelise CLOTH; 1 do. Plaid CLOAK- Uior. i.LiUiti Aiu I 1 ease i.ge, lorCIottkLiiiines. For sale low by POWLES HOULTON, al9-tf No.

13 Baltimore street. CJ UMK'I HINQ NEW FOR LADIES' kj Received this day, FLKU DE PERRE, a new and rich article for Dresses. Also, a loi of beautiful dark MOUSLIN DE LJIINE; a few pieces still on liana oi mose oeautnui cnap JOHN W. ROYtTON, No. 41 Baltimore street, 2d store west of Gav.

SOMETHING VERY BEAUTIFUL. UMBOS- XKD TJ1KLK, CO ERS, JIT LEWIS LEV CLOTH DEPOT We have just opened Deauwui emoossea i uuv KS, ill all colors ot an entirely new design which being bouaht a great bargain we are enabled to offer the public at st-iirceiy uau uiuir usual price, 161 BALTIMORE STREET, between Licht and Charles, CLOTHS AND CASSIMERES. West of Kn. land CLOTHS purchased in the Springand Summer, and far below the present prices. Persons in want of cheap Cloths are invited to call at atl-tf JOHN W.

ROYSTON'S, No. 41 Baltimore st CALICOES, CALICOES. We have iust re Vy ceived and opened 6 easel new and beautiful Fall CALK JOES; 12 cases bleach'd SHIRTINGS and SH LEUNGS; among which are some very superior inn; uliUTMS, lor tamily use; 15 hales brown DO MhsllCH, of various kind, all of which we will ell by the piece, at wholesale prices, and by retail at a very smaii auvance. POWLES HOULTON, al9-lf No. 13 Baltimore street THRESH FALL GOODS -J.

FISHER CO j. no. dj BALTIMORE have list received Home vety superior wool black and fancy colored CLOIHS and CASSIMERES; superior silk Velvet and black satin ESTTNGS; beautiful English Meri no MA.lKiNL, blue and oilier desirable color GALA PLAIBS, very pretty for boys' wear; CRAPE nr. t'tMfl; piam black waved and satm stripe ALPACA, cheaper than any that have been sold in Mns market. A laree assortment of CASSINETTS twilled and plain I LANN ELS.

Those who buy to mane up, can get, uarg uns tty calling soon, on J. FISHER alS tf 2il door below Tripoletts alley EWIS ic CLOTH XJ CARD Strangers vMtinir our citvforthe nnr pose of purchasing DRY GOODS, either to sell again tr tor tfieir own use, ure respectfully invited to ex amine our well selected Hloekof'all and every variety t.DV IVirtltJ nl. II. i irit i. in fflliTHIIHI SIOCK OI FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC WOOLLENS.

which, in point of selection, choice and prices, has not iieenanu snail not uc excelled in tins or any otln market. CLOTHS In every color, from the most superior French and English manufacturings to the lower qualities of Yorkshire and Domestic makes the hit of which are very suitable for clothing men and inner niiiiiuiariurers ot clothing. BEAVER, PILOT CLOTHS AND FLUSHINGS SATINETS. hEHSEYS. TWEEDS.

A full assortment of every variety, and at very low rm i -co. New style Domestic ELASTIC CASSIMERES, Of riueieu, mimiicsex, aim otlier celebrated makes. French and English Fancy CASSIMERES, of the l.liesi piiuenis. TAILOR'S TRIMMINGS of Very kind. uur prices are as near in possible uniform; our Goods are warranted in point of strength and color, and the great quantity ot Wool em ii have hemi selling of late years, is the best commentary on the ciic.Hpniws oi ou; mr nniin or dealing in ireneral.

101 BALTIMORE STREET, between l.mlitaiid tf Next doorMJImpiimn's Soda Shop. TVTEW FALL GOODS. HAMILTON EASTER XI N. 1.13 HAL tin Un f. SltlKET.nre dni ly receiving GOODS, suitable lor the approaching sea- on.surn as Ilandsoini; new style changealtle Heavy gro grime blue bhiek SILKS; Superior et black SILKS; Rich figured, Rtriped and shaded colored SILKS; Rich Mourning PRIN TS and SHAWLS; A superior assortment of BOM II AMINES; fi run! qr.

Tuilatan MUSLlivH; ssorted Silk mid Raw Silk HOSE; CLOVES, with clasps; fancy MITTS; SCARFS, ke. Surwirior Irish LINENS and SHEETINGS; Flenched and brown Domestic coTT NS, nl different makes, viz: New York Mills, Hamilton, Boutt Wfllthain, Lousdalu, Ainnrcan and Imnorteil FLANNELS. Prices will be made very low by wholivule ami ro 1111, mi l' A CARD. Atrmll lot of OIL CLOTH left, nt low price; Iso, a few pieoei for co makers, uij BUirt, g. JJYT3NUE, -tf PRICE ONE CENT.

One d.iy she accompanied me, upon some household errand, into the cellar of the old building which our poverty compelled us to inhabit. The. cat followed me down the steep stairs, and, nearly throwing ma headlong, exasperated me to madness. Uplifting an axe, and forgetting, in my wrath, the childish dread which had hitherto stayed my hand, I aimed a blow at the animal, which, of course, would have proved instantly fatal had it descended as I wished. But this blow was arrested by the hand of my wife.

Goaded, by tho interference, into a rage more than demoniacal, I withdrew my arm lrom her grasp and buried the axe in her brain. She fell dead upon the spot, without a groan. This hideous murder accomplished, I set myself forthwith, and with entire deliberation, to the task of concealing tho body. I knew that I could aot remove it from the house, either by day or by night, without the risk of being observed by the neighbors. Many projects entered my mind.

At one period I cutting the corpse into minute fragments, and de stroying them by fire. At another, I resolved to dig a fcrave for it, in the floor of the cellar. Again, 1 deliberated about casting it in the well in the yard almut packing it in a box, as if merchandize, wit the usual arrangements, and so getting porter to take it from the house. Finally, 1 hit upon hat I considered a far better expedient than cither ol these. I determined to wall it up in the cellar as the monks of the middle ages are recorded to have walled up their victims.

For a purpose such as this the cellar was admirably adapted. Its walls were loosely constructed, and had lately been plastered throughout with a rough plaster, which the dampness of the atmosphere had prevented from harden ing. Moreover, in one oi tne wans was a projection, caused by a false chimney, or fire-place, that had been filled, or walled up, and made to resemble tho rest ol the cellar. I made no doubt that 1 could readily displace the bricks at this point, insert the corpse, and wall the whole up as before, so that no eye could detect any thing suspicious. And in this calculation I was not deceived.

By means of a crow bar I easily dislodged the bricks, and having carefully deposited the body against the inner wall, i propped it in that position, while, with little trouble, I re-laid the whole structure as it originally stood. Having procured mortar, sand, and hair, with every possible precaution, I prepared a plaster which could not be distinguished from the old, and with this 1 very carefully went over the. new brick-work. When 1 had finished, I fill satisfied that all was righl. The wall did not pre sent the slightest appearance ot having been disturbed.

The rubbish on the floor was pickud up with the minntc.4 care. 1 looked around triumphantly, and said to myself "Here nt least, then, my labor has not been in My next stop was to look for the beast which had been the cause of so much wrelcbedncsss; for I had, at length, firmly resolvid to put it to death. Had 1 lie.cn ablu to meet with il, at the moment, there could have been no doubt of its fate; but it appeared that the crafty animal had been alarmed at the iolencc of my previous anger, and forcbore to present itself in my present mood. It is impossible to describe, or to imagine, the deep, the blissful sense of relief which the absence of the, detested creature occasioned in my bosom. 1 It did not make its appeaiance during the night and thus for one night at least since its introduction into the house, 1 soundly and tranquilly slept; aye, slept even with the burden ol murder upon my soul! The second and the third day passed and still my toriiicnter came not.

Once again 1 breathed as a freeman. Tlie monster, in terror, had fled the premises forever! I should buhold it no more! My happiness was supreme! The guilt of my dark deed disturbed mc but little. Some few inquiries had been made, but these had been readily answered. F.ven a search had been instituted but, of course nothing was to he discovered. I looked upon my future felicity as secured.

Upon the fourth day of the assassination, a party of police came, very unexpectedly, into the house, and proceeded again to make rigor- ous investigation of the premises. Secure, liuw ever, in thu inscrutability of my place of concealment, I felt no embarrassment whatever. Tlie ollicers bade mc accompany them in their search. hey lelt no nook nor comer unexplored. At length, for the third or fourth time, they descended into the cellar.

I quivered not in a muscle. My heart beat calmly as that of one who slumbers in innocence. I walked the cellar from end to end. 1 folded my arms upon my bosom and roamed easily to and fro. The police were thoroughly satisfied and prepared to depart.

The glee at my heart was too strong to be restrained. I burned to say if but one word by way of triumph, and to render doubly sure their assurance of my guiltlessness. "Gentlemen," I said at last, as the. party ascended the steps, "I delight to have allayed your suspicions. I wish you all health, and a little more courtesy.

By the bye, gentlemen, this this is a very well const fueled house." Li the rabid desire to say something easily, I scarcely knew what I uttered at all. "I may say an "excellently well constructed house. These walls are you going, gentlemen? these walls are solidly put together;" and here, through the. mere phren.y of bravado, I rapped heavily, with a cane which I held in my hand, upon that Very portion of the brick-work behind which stood the ghastly corpse of the wife of my bosom. But may God shield and deliver me from the fangs of the Arch-Fiend No sooner had the reverberation of my blows sunk into silence, than I was answered by a voice from within the tomb! by a cry, at first mullle.d rind broken like the sobbing of a child, and then quickly swilling into one long, loud and continuous scream, utterly anomalous and inhuman a howl a wailing shriek, bull ol horror and halt ol triumph, such as might have arisen only out of hell, conjointly from the threats of the damned in their agony and of the demons that exult in the damnation! Of my own thoughts it is folly to speak.

Swooning, I staggered to the opposite wall. For one instant the party upon the steps remained motionless, through extremity of terror and of awe. In the next a dozen stout arms were toiling at the wall. It fell bodily. The corpse, already greatly decayed and clotted with gore, stood erect, belorc the eyes of the spectators.

Upon its head, with red extended mouth and solitary eye of lire, sat tlie hideous beast whose craft had seduced me into whose informing voice had consigned me to the hangman. 1 had walled the monster up within the tomb! A I.Ksso.v in PaIWINU "What case is Mr. Maddlc?" said a country schoolmaster, addressing one of his grammar pupils. "lie's a hard case, thir," was the answer. "Wrong.

The next." "I To's an objected case, thir." "I tow 'Cause he objected to pay daddy that $5 he owed hint so long." "You may all go to your scat'!" Striiunu. Philadelphia, nt present presents quite a strUcing spectacle. The weaver have had a strike, and turnout the Journeymen Tailors ate now "on a sfrtAe," and the firemen are continually striking each other. Wc hope they'll all get the wiifffi they arc utriking (t.Ilrp. ing the fire, I visited tlie ruins.

The walls, with one exception, had fallen in. This exception was found in a compartment wall, not very thick, hich stooil about the muullcol the house, and oganwt which had rested the head ot my bed. 1 lie plastering had here, great measure, resisted the action of the lice a fact which I attiibutea to us naving been recently spread. About this wall a dense crowd were, collected, ind many persons seemed to be examining a particular portion of it with very minute and eager attention. The words "strange!" "sin gular!" and otlier Minilar expressions, excited my curiosity.

I approached and saw, as if graven in bus relief upon the white surface, the figure ol a gigantic cat. lhe impression was given with an accuracy truly marvellous. There ad been a rope aoout the annua Is ncclt. When I first beheld this apparition fori could 'arccly regard it as less my wonder and my terror were extreme, lint at length rcllcction came to my aid. The cut, 1 remembered, had been hung in a garden adjacent to the house.

non the alarm ol lire, this garden bad been im mediately filled by the crowd hy some one of whom tlie animal must have been cut from the tree and thrown, through an open window, into my chamber. 1 his had probably been dune with the view of arousing me from sleep. The fall ing oi other walls had compressed the. victim ot mv cruelty into the substance of the freshly- spread plaster; tlie limb of which, with the flames, ana the ammonia I ruin the carcass, had then accomplished tlie portraiture as I saw it. Although 1 hus readily accounted to my rea son, il not altogether to my conscience, lor the startling faett just detailed, it did not tlie less lad to make a deep impression upon my lancy.

For months I could not rid myself of the phantasm of the cat; and, during this period, there came back into my spirit a half-sentiment that seemed, but was not, remorse. 1 went so far as to regret the loss of the animal, and to look about me, among the vile haunts which I now habitually frequented, for another pet of the same species, and of somewhat similar appear ance, wit li Inch to supply its place. One niglflas' I sat, half stupified, in a den of more than infamy, my attention was suddenly drawn to some black object, reposing upon the head ot one ol the immense hogsheads ot (tin, or of Bum, which constituted the chief furniture of the apartment. I had been looking steadily at the top of this hogshead for some minutes, and what now caused me surprise was the fact that 1 had not sooner perceived the object thereupon. 1 approached it, and touched it.

with my hand. It Was a black cal a very large one fully as large as Pluto, and closely resembling him in every respect hut one. Pluto had not a white hair upon any portion of his body; but this cat had a large, although indefinite splotch of hite, covering nearly the whole region of the breast. Tpon my touching him, he immediately arose, purred loudly, rubbed against my hand, and appeared delighted with my notice. This, then, was the very creature ol which I was in search.

I at once altered to purchase it. of the landlord; but this person made no claim to it knew nothing of it had never seen it before. 1 continued my caresses, and, when I prepared to go home, the animal evinced a disposition to accompany ine. I permitted it to do so; occasionally stooping and patting it as I proceeded. When it reached the house it domesticated itself at once, and became immediately a great favorite it my wife.

For my own part, I soon found a dislike to it arising within me. This was just the reverse of hat I had anticipated; but 1 know not how or why it was its evident fondness for myself rather disgusted and annoyed, liy slaw degrees, these feelings of disgust and annoyance rose into the bitterness of hatred. I avoided the creature; a certain sense of shame, and the remembrance of my former deed of cruelty, preventing me from physically abusing it. 1 did not, for some weeks, strike, or otherwise violently ill use it; but gradually very gradually I came to look upon it with unutterable loathing, and to flee silently from its odious presence, as from the breath of a pestilence. What added, no doubt, to my hatred of tho beast, was the discovery, on the.

morning after I brought it home, that, like Pluto, it also had been deprived of one of its eyes. This circumstance, however, only endeared it to my wife, who, as I have already said, possessed, in a high degree, that humanity of Iceling which had once been my distinguishing trait, and tlie source of many of my simplest anil purest pleasures. With my aversion to this cat, however, its partiality for myself scented to increase. It followed my footsteps with a pertinacity which it would be dillicult to make the reader comprehend. Whenever I sat, it would crouch beneath my chair, or spring upon my knees, covering me with its loathsome caresses.

If I arose to walk, it would get between my feet and thus nearly throw me down, or, fastening its long and sharp claws in my dress, clamber, in this manner, to my breast. At such times, although I longed to destroy it with a blow, I was yet withheld from so doing, partly by a memory of my former crime, but chiefly let me confess it at once by absolute (trend of the beast. This dread was not exactly a dread of physical evil and yet I should be at a loss otherwise to define it. I am almost ashamed to own yes, even in this felon's am almost ashamed to own that the terror and horror with which the animal inspired me, had been heightened by one ol the merest chiniicras it would he possible to conceive. My wife had called my attention, more than once, to the character of the mark of white hair, of which I have spoken, and which eoMlil.iiled the sole visible difference between the strange beast and the one I had destroyed.

The reader ill remember that this mark, although large, had been originally very indefinite; but by slow degrees degrees nearly imperceptible, and which for a long ime my reason struggled to reject as fanciful it bad, at length, assumed a rigorous distinctness of outline, It was now the representation of an object that 1 shudder to name and for this, above till, I loathed and dreaded, and would have rid myself of the monster had I dnred it was now, 1 say, the image of a hideous of a ghastly tiling of the (i.u.unvs! oh, mournful and terrible engine of Horror and of Crime of Agony and of I leath! And now was I indeed wretched beyond the wretchedness of mere. Humanity. And a brute beast whose fellow I had contemptuously destroyed a brute beaut to work out lor mc for me a man, fashioned in the image of the High God so much of insufferable wo! Alas! neither by day nor by night knew I lie blessing of rest anymore! During the former the creature left me no moment ahinc; and, in the latter, I started, hourly, from dreams of unutterable, fear, to find the hot breath of the thing upon my face, and its vast weight an incarnate Night-Mare that I had no power to shake off incumbent eternally upon my heart'. Boiiertth the pressure of torments such as these, tho feeble remnant of the good within me succumbed. Evil thought became my sole int imates the darkest and most il of thoughts.

I he momHnen of my usual temper increased to i i. il i i i -1 hatred of all t'dngs and of all niinkind; while, from tho sadden, frequent, and ungovernable out bursts of a fury to which I now blindly p.b in cloned mysell, my uncomplaining; wife, alas! was the most usual and the most patient vt DUS. PEERY HAMLIN'S VERMIFUGE. The proprietors of this invaluable medicine, have appointed the subscriber their Agent for its general sale. Such has been its wonderful success in the Southern and Western States, in destroying Woims, as to obtain for it tlw name of "A Dead Shot." The very small quantity of it, necessary to test the exist ence of woi ins, or to remove them from the system, its speedy alteration, unaided by any other purgative, and generally without reiieatina the dose, together with its unerring success, justly constitute it one of tne mcst important discoveries oi trie nay.

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Navy Agents' Office, Washington, July 28, 1813. Proposals will be received at this Office until 3 o'clock on the first day of September ensuing, to deliver at the Navy Yard in this City, the Knowing Chain Iron, for eighteen Chain Cables, 1 11-16 inches in diameter, each 150 fathoms long, constituting the following bill of Iron, viz: 35,100 links 1 11-16 inches in diameter inches long 450 links 1 13-16 inches in diameter 22J- inches long 20 feet 3i inch by Oval Pin Iron 90 do 2 do 2 do do 70 Swivel, 198 Shackle, and 18 Box pieces. pecifications of the Swivel, Shackle, Box pieces and Ova! Pin Iron, can be seen on application at this office. All of the above Iron must be the very best American, and undergo such proot under the increas ed tests and inspection, as the Commandant of the Yard, may subject it to; to be delivered free of expense to the Government, and in as short a time after the contrai is made as is possible, which time will be desicnatedin the contract. Bonds with good and sufficient sureties in double the amount of the contract, will be required, and a reservation made from each payment ot 1U per cent.

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Jy28-3m PRINTERS' AND HINDERS' WAUEROO; Nos.29and 31 GOLD STREET, Now York, April, 1H43. PRICES GREATLY REDUCED. The "HOE" PRINTING PRESS MACHINE AND SAV MANUFACTORY, in consequence of the nrf dition of new and improved machineiy to their work, and the reduction in the cost of materials and labor, are enabled greatly to reduce the prices of their Pres ses and of Printers' and Binders' matena ene. rally, as will be seen by their newly punted circular, to which they beg leave to refer. This establishment is still undcrthe personal superintendence of RICHARD M.

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porc. For the most wild, vet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, 1 neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I he to cspect in a case wheic my very senses reject their own evidence. Yet, mail am not aim very surely do I not dream. But to-morrow and to-day 1 would ununruieii my soui.

iuy immediate purpose is to place be lore the world, plainly, succinctly, ana wiuioui, eommciu, a series of mere household events. In their conse quences, these events have terrified have tor turedhave destroyed me. Yet I will not attempt to expound them. To me, they have presented little but Horror to many they will seem less terrible than barroque.s. Hereafter, per haps, some intellect may be iottnd which will reduce my phantasm to the common-place some 1 i i i i intellect more cairn, more logical, inu iar ics excitable than my own, winch will perceive, in the circumstances I detail with awe, nothing more than an ordinary succession of very natu ral causes and eliects.

From my infancy I was noted for the docility and humanity of my disposit ion. My tenderness of heart was even so conspicuous as to make me the iest of mv companions. I was especially lond ot animals, and wastnauijreu ny my parents with a great variety of pets. With these I spent most of my time, "and never was so happy as when feeding and caressing them. This pecu liarity of character grew with my growth, and, in mv niaiiiiooa, 1 uenveu iroin n.

one oi my principal sources of pleasure. To those who have cherished an attection lor a faithful and sagacious dog, I need hardly be at the trouble of explaining tlie nature or the intensity of the gra tification thus derivable. 1 nereis something the unselfish and self-sacrificing; love of the brute, which coes directly to the heart of hiin who has had irequcnt occasion to test the paltry friendship' and gossamer lidelity ol mere ilau I married early, was happy to find in mv wife a disposition not uncongenial with my own Observing my partiality lor domestic pets, she lost no opportunity of procuring those of the most agreeable kinu. VV had birds, gold-fish a line dog, rabbits, a small monkey and a cut. I his latter was a remarkably large and beau tiful animal, entirely black, and sagacious to an astonishing degree.

In speaking ol her intelli gence, my wile, who at heart was not a little tinctured with superstition, made trequent allusion to the ancient popular notion, which re g-arded all black cats as witches in disguise. Not that she was ever serious upon this point and I mention the matter at all for no better reason than that it happens, just now, to be remembered rluto this was the cat name was my la vorite pet and playmate. 1 alone fed him, and lie attended me wherever I went about the house It was even with difficulty that I could prevent hun irom foHowma: me through the streets. Our friendship lasted, in this manner, for se veral years, during which my general tempera ment and character thror-gli the instrumentali ty of the fiend, Intemperance had (I blush to confess it) experienced a radical alteration for the worse. I grew, day by day, more moody more irritable, more regardless ol the feelings of others.

I guilered mysell to use lntcmperat language to my wife. A length, I even offered her personal violence. My pets, of course, were made to teel the cnansre in my disposition. I not only neglected, but iJl-uscd them. For Plu to, I still retained sufficient regard to restrain me lrom maltreating him, as I made no scruple ot maltreating the rabbits, the monkey or even the dog, when by accident, or throng affection, they came in my way.

But my dis ease grew upon me for what disease is like alcohol? and at length Pluto, who was now becoming old, ami consequnlly somewhat pec vish even Pluto began to experience the effects ol my ill temper. One night, returning home much intoxcate from one of my haunts about town, 1 fancied that the cat avoided my presence. I seized linn when; in his freiirht at mv violence, he inflicted a slight wound upon my hand with his teeth. I he tury ot a demon instantly possessed me. knew myself no longer.

My original soul seem ed, at ones, to take its flight from my body and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured thrilled every fibre of my frame. 1 took froinjm waistcoat-pocket a pen-knife, opened it, grasped the poor beast by the throat, and deliberately cut one ot its eyes lrom the socket! I blush, burn, I shudder, while I pen the damnable atro city When reason returned with the morning when I had slept off the fumes of the night': debauch I experienced a sentiment half ol hor ror, half of remorse, for the crime of which I had been guilty; but it was, at best, a feeble and equivocal feeling, and the soul remained untouched. I again plunged into excess, and soon drowned wine all memory ol the deed. In the meantime the cat slowly recovered. 1 he socket of the lost eye presented, it is true, frightful appearance, but lie no longer appeared to suller any pain.

He went about he house as usual, but, as might be expected, fled in cx treme terror at my approach. I liad so much of my old heart left, as to be, at first, grieved by this evident dislike on the part of a creature which had once so loved me. But this feeling soon gave place to irritation. And then cami as if to my linal and irrevocable overthrow, the spirit ot Pkiivkiisknkss. tM tins spirit philo sophy takes no account.

Phrenology funis no place for it among its organs. Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than 1 am thu pervcrseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart one ol the indivisible pn mary (acuities, or sentiments, which give direr1 tion to the charaoterol Man. Who has not, hundred times, found himself committing a vil or a silly action, for no other reason than be cause lie knows he should not Ilavewoiiot a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgment, to violate that which huw, merely because we understand it to be such? This spirit of pervcrseness, I say, to my final overthrow. It was this unfathomable longing of the soul to vex itself lo olfer violence to its own nature to do wrong lor the wrong's sal only that urged me to continue and finally to consummate the injury I had inflicted upon the unollcniiing brute. One morning, in cool iilood I slipped a noose about its neck and hung it to the limb of a tree; hung it with the tears streaming from my eyes, and with the bitterest remorse at my heart; hung it because 1 knew that it had loved I felt it had given me no reason of oflctice; liung it became I knew that in so doing I was committing a sin a dead ly sin that wotilj so jeopardise my immortal soul as to place it il such a thing were possible even beyond the reach of the infinite mercy of the Most Merciful and Most I ernble tod On the night of the day on which this cruel deed was done, I was aroused from sleep by the cry of fire.

The curtains of my bed were in flames. Tlie whole house was blazing. It was with great difficulty that mv wife, a servant, and myself, made our escape from the conll gration. The destruction was complete. My entire worldly wealth was swallowed up, and I resigned myst It thenceforward to despair, I am abo've tlie weakness of seeking to es tablish a sequence of Cauie fetid effect, between the disaster and the atrocity, but 1 am detail ing a chain of facts and wi'di not to leave even a possible link imperfect, On the day sucwed'.