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Vermel ASCENT OF MOUNT POPOCATAPETL. VTDinpmNlRT PERFORMANCES OF'A L.AUI, You can oroeeed now. r-Mr. iStoddi- u-a a a.vr our readers will COMMUNICATION. Th following is an extract of a letter Irom a I The following is an extract of a letter publish-1 of I Fnrlish tviDcr from the C3 -n 1 specimen of trial l.y I .4 hi-h 11 person travelling in the wild portions ot OJcia- i.

I 1QII! ion; Knel. M. dated Mexico, Jan. s. ioi, ana i iuc ariiiTnn ware and Sullivan counties, New lork: IT, Aa wa trudffine aloug one afternoon in the describing his saccessful attempt to ascend Popocatepetl" in the depth of Winter: u.wiimi, in iberonnt an allered IhKhm 3 aH htlA an 1.

.1 town of Fremont, one of tho border towns of Sullivan ounty, I was overtaken by what I first supposed was a young man with a rifle on his shoulder; and being well pleased with the idea of i FOB THK OBSERVER. I HILLCOX vs IjAWSON. "That mare ain't dead, sir." i I "What mare?" says wheeling round in my chair to see the speaker. i "The Brown mare sir; I bought her from Squire Lem Jawson and give my note for one hundred dollars due on the first of March" I ve hitched her up three timesjsence and every time wU.c nidi grnueman mht.1 ford. Witness AM wan't you there yourself I Whjr don't you tell 'em yourself? You seem to know a darned sight more about it than I seed, Jackson No, Mr.

Stoddiford, I thought she was dead, I Witness Well she didn't die by a jug full; nor she ain't desd yet nitber; and another thing I don't bleeve jshe's going to die. Well sir, when Mr. Johnson1 told Mr. Brown that he wfs glad his mare was dead, the old gentleman went off blubbering, but all him stop and look QnmAthine in the pannel of the fence. He run via as IO "I returned yesterday irom an expeamon 10 Popocatapetl, the highest mountain in North America 17,000 feet above the level of the sea.

there is no record of an ascent before at Tl i.t--,.. uc mine on trial nl tl. "i- ar. 1H1G, before Si assizes, in ir t- "'H this season of the year, although it has been fre the evidence clenrlv estM.i.li "'i. quently done in May and June.

The first night more than right to at least a portion r.f A she's had the choho and swelled up having company through tuo. wooas, iumra around and wid, "Good afternoon, sir;" "Good afternoon," said my new acquaintance, but in a tone. of voice that sounded to uie rather peculiar. My suspicions were at once aroused, and to satisfy I made some inquiries in regard to hunting, which were readily answered by the t.i i ol. of our ascent we siepi at a nut at nuc when vou tended her down'! here.

retired to conW xT thing that the Plaintiff said. I'd rather Wardy Hillcox would getiup and tell his own story. Up jumps Wardy, and was along-side of Buggy in a minute. But Mr. Jackson told him'- to sit down.

A Vi Buggy proceeded: Well child, any how, he had the mare and sho'iwas frisking about and I tells Wardy she must have been hauling Turpingtime, she swelled ho -strong of the sper-rets. He said no, that she was natally gaily jist to look at her tail, and it was right straight np. Jackson Did you sec Wanly pay for her? i Witness Ye, I did honey; 1 nml Wardy pay him one hundred dollars, and he give up Wardy his note. Jackson Did Squire Jawson, or Wardy in the presence of Squire Jawson, ay what the money was paid for? Witness He did; be said it was for the note, I tell you, child. r- 1 I Jackson But did he say what the note was for? Witness-r-No; he jist told liim he'd make him smart for it.

i Johnson Cross-Exami nation (Old Buggy a-gain went through tho motions of licking his lips, taking up collection, and chxtxatimj,) Didn't vecretation ceases and perpotul snow commences, "Whv she's dead." past nine o'clock at mpht, 1 ih "Woll now she! ain't I and at 5 the next morning we started for the onminlt. one of ttie euides leading. At 8 o'clock into the pannel of the fence and grabbed up a big bunch of mullen and a a looking at the Judge as wish she had been She come to I heerd absence returned into a defendant, to th utter '''t- 1 dead afore I ever seed her after vou I hundred yams aneaa 01 me in. and the sbectatoro I A "i if he could help him with the. word) this smart weed and rolled them up together a run young uuy wnom i xuus ueounwreu.

ou fonud she had beer, out ever since fol- the parfyf ne the signt oi tne parvy 'lenxc such an absurd verdin .1,. tU gave such an absurd verdict ning to the mare and got down on his knees and went to rubbing her side with it from the hip to the shoulder as if 'twas for his life and not hern. readied the crater, wounded hiiu, but as there was little snow she could not get him, and was going to try him the T'6 if A "Tbft crater ia a vast basin, three miles in cir uext day, hoping that she could get another shot He's glad mt mare is dead eh! is he. He hadn't up for the night they had gr to half-penny, and if it i 5P "But is it possible Wardy Hillcox, that after I took the trouble to warn my fellow citizens of that mare, that you should with your eyes open" X. "Why sir, I can't" -i "Stop sir," says "having fair notice, with a full knowledge of her chronic ailment give your note for one hundred dollars for; her? Why sir, vmi MtoDoed.

hprecluded and will never be cumference and 800 feet deep; in some part per oughter have said it he hadn't oughter, says Mr. at him, and she was quite certain that she should kill him. wu ixz lur me piaintilt, tnit if tl 1 pcndicular; in others great masses projecting rock form I old; and stupendous outlines, with enormous icicles hanzine from every point. The Althoueh I cannot give a very good idea of me mr uciruaant a ij Brown whenever he could ketch bis breatb, no hadn't oughter says Mr. Brown.

Mr. Johnson, says he; 'twas spiteful in him. And did you no her appearance, I will try to describe her dress. Unfortunately for the plaintiff, a tail and a verdict for the defendant i. volcano itself ha long since ceased to show an Tue only article of teruale apparel visible was a i tice how he said it Mr.

Htodditord, sua rubbing permitted to tell anything about her having the signs of eruption. I began to feel very nine given. "Nothing but a close-fitted hood upon her head, such as is often away for very life 'twas that what 8 rued me. cholic." him, was long afterwards a i.v.JLj numbed with the cold, and my eyes sunerea a good ileal from the glare of the snow. I should you, the next time you saw nquire Liem Jawson, ask him if he ever sold tho Brown mare to Wardy? Well, I did, honey.

I axed Squire Jawson one day, when he was coming vby my house, if he didn't sell her to Wardy Ef I could only git her on her feet once more Mr. one appeared to be in imminent Stoddiford, just to spite Mr. Johnson! And "Impose I can tell the truth about it sir." "No sir. If you are estopped you will never be permitted to tell the truth again as long as worn by deer hunters. Next, an India rubber hunting coat; her nether limbs were encased in a snug, tight-fitting pair of corduroy pants, and a pair of Indian moccasins upon her feet.

She had, a It have been very glad ol sometning to ear, naving story has a sequel, which the i had nothinff cup of coffee and a biscuit be Jackson I object, your Honor, to the decla presently sure nough her legs begin falling dis-tinctually to the ground. Here do rub her some fir me, Mr. Stoddiford, and rub hard. This arm fore leaving the hut; but the guide who carried that is to say, the toss, did a good-looking rine uion tier snouidcr, ana a sir, and I can't read you "Well, that is very hard, the breakfast had remained (the ruffian!) with the brace of double-barrelled pistols in the side pock plaintiff was sued for them, and thro rations of the Defendant as to whether he sold the mare to the Plaintiff. i Johnson replied at great length, and insisted WI into others who had not come up.

Having examined marthan lai hcinr uu'v. cts of her coat, while a formidable hunting-knife pains me which 1 nave bad the fheumatis. Well we did rub her, and Jake come up and he rubbed her, and arter a while we helped her on her legs. She'd suaged mightily. Mr.

Brown said he would gardener to John Lloyd Price hung suspended by her side. Wishing to witness the crater for alibut'a quarter of an hour, I told the guide, who had persevered with me, to lead that he had the right to ask the question, that "Ah!" says 'well that may alter the case somewhat. Let's see. You are bound -to pay the note any how Pay it up, come to me and I'll see Squire Jawson and recover it back for nlly. Ueicg unable to procure i.

her skill with hunting instruments, I commenced bantering her with regard to shooting. hue the way up to the top. I lie tellow declared it was impossible; uot intending, as yon may like to spite Mr. Johnson by carrying her 'long him to file his petition as an inlTent'iu'' John Cure remained in the smiled, and said sue was as good a aho as was this was a cross-examination, and he had the right upon cross-examination to get out of the witness all he knew of the matter. That all he wanted was the truth.

That his object was to clinch the nail and cut short this case, by proving by the before his house so 1 run one arm under one fore imagine, to give it up (having come so far) with you." I The case stood on the Docket thus in the woods, and to convince me, she took out jail for seven long years, and wis nnlt i out anv push. 1 Btarted for the top alone. 1 was on luesdav last, and tl.pn i -KI1 leg and Jake on the other side run his arm through the other fore and Mr. Brown he her hunting-knife and cut a ring four inches in J. 1 i an, now only able ta taxe tnrce steps at a rime witu of the Thatched House Case Incip: required before pleading.

i This is an action diameter in a tree, with a small fpot in the cen out as lees beirau to give way. and Wardy Hilcox vs. held her head up, and so we marched with her down the Columbus road. I Jist before we got tre. Then stepping back thirty yards, and draw Plaintiff's own witness that his client did not! in fact sell the mare to the Plaintiff.

That the Plaintiff seemed to be very much afraid of the whole i. lr.l. 1 on the case in deceit for the sale I of a horse called the ing up one of her pistols, put both balls inside 1 uau opprcsniuii ui iuc utrau aim hicji. marks this journal, "this narrative sWj jVi jurors to beware how they tamper the sacred, obligations of their oath." facing Mr. Johnson's Mr.

Brown said that he Lem Jawson, J. P. i Brown Mare by the D'f't. "A little after- 1 P. M.

I reached the top, and toPl'ff. i the ring. She then, at thirty-five rods from the tree, put a ball from her rifle in the very centre. We shortly came to her father's house, and I isnum would like mightly to ride her by Mr. Johnson 'twould do him so much good and he 'sisted 'pon me and Jake letting her go.

Well we did and enjoyed one of the Gnest views conceivable of the great valley of Mexico, and looking down on the Pleas Qen. iss: Stat: lim: acc: and Sat: arb. and awd: pluribus unum tout tempti swet horse du combat caveat emptor and de korie the record with leave Amen' f.W. In a recent utU. she come down on her knees, and I don't think gladly accepted an invitation to step there over I twin volcano (I forget the Mexican name, but in night.

The maiden hunter, instead of sitting I English it means the White Lady, from its top Geology of the Globe, by Hitchcock, tie to add. Jackson for the Pl'f Johnson for the D'f't. truth coming out. Mr. Jackson replied at great length, meeting the arguments of Mr.

Johnson seriatim, and denied that he was afraid of the truth coming Out in this case, but wanted the evidence to go to the Jury out of somebody else's mouth that that! of the Defendant in the case who was interested to show that he did not sell the mare to the Plaintiff. I His Honor remarked that the point presented down to rest, as most hunters do when they go resembling a woman lying in full length,) seem- pllsbed geologist, some interesting fact 'twas for Mr. Brown to get up nither. Mr. Brown concluded not, to ride that time and so we carried her on to his house that night.

Witness for the Plaintiff-j-Sandy McCallum (He pulled off his hat and! put it on the floor uomc, reiuamcu 111a tuie uau iuc cnores 10 uo. i ingiy roues oeiow me, out aciuauy oniy auuvu Lt 2.000 feet. The cold was too intense for me to 0 respecting the extent and inexhaustibility coal regions of the globe, panicularlT th 1 the United States. In Nova Scotia it i behind him.) I Jackson Do you know if Mr. Brown sold the bo out sue went; led, watered and stabled a pair of young horses, a yoke of oxen and two i-i a i a remain more than ten mmutes at the top, and Jackson "Mr.

McCallum. did vou raise the mare, and to whom. IJohnson You must not commenced the descent to the crater. By this jtrunswicK tbe coal held eovi-rs narlr i. due men went to tue saw mill, ana brought a horse called the Brown mare: speak of any thing sand square miles.

In the sontWf time tho mountain was enveloped in clouds, and was one of importance involving the nicest rules of discrimination in evidence, that it was now after the Dinner hour and the Court would take I wish to ask the yon heard but of your own personal knowledge Johnson; Stop witness. slab on her shoulder that I shouldn like to carry, and with an axe and saw, soon worked it into Massachusetts, and in Rhode Island. Un I could see nothing distinctly, so I commenced a witness one question, may it please your Honor, Witness ell 1 don t. As we was going long, stove wood. further descent, and in a few moments came in Mr.

Brown says to he. that I needn't say I an advisari upon the question before he proceeds to answer that question. covering nearly five hundred square great Apalachian coal field, extenline (t-m xl Her first business was to change her dress and sight of the pole. of Mr. (one of my conv Jackson I objectPto thisi irregular mode, your get tea, which she did in a manner which would jtatHOHM tin royagej) and soon after of himself, a or, to Aiauama, is seven nundivJ n.l any thing 'bout this, as Squire Lem Jawson hid spo- I The Court charged the Jury that they wore to ken to him 'bout the mare and said he would like to keep together until the call of the Court; that have her and as he was a neighbor he didn't like they were to converse with no one nor permit any have been creditable to a more scientific cook lying down, black in the face, and wishing to be miles in length, and covers nearly one lal 1 1 rr Honor.

This is a cause of importance to my client and I wish it to be conducted withj some regularity. When I am done with the witness Mr. Johnson can cross examine him and ask as many After tea she finished up her usual housework, let alone to die. A little lower down I saw Mr. to misappoint him.

But he wanted to git her I one to converse with them about this Case; that tuuuaauu wiuare uiiica. 1 ne Indiana e-ni and then sat down and commenced plying her if the Court should hear of any one saying Horse needle in a very lady-like manner. I ascertained about fifty thousand square miles, la Mid rolling about like a drunken man, but still, with undoubted pluck, struggling towards the summit at the rate of about a yard in three sorter well fust, as he wouldn't like to sell the Squire a sick But I don't know that he did sell her of my own personal knowledge as I questions as he pleases to them or their saying Horse to any one, that the offender should be visited with the- utmost that her mother was quite feeble and her father Johnson It is but one question, your Honor. is another, one hundred and fifty milrs 1, which covers twelve thousand square milfs. minutes.

However after a little rest and en penalty of the law. i may say, but 1 heerd I'll pledge myself to ask Mr. McCallum but one 1 single question, never mind what his answer may couragement, they both rallied, and "I returned and J.owa coal tu lda cmbraw fif-i IJohnson Stop sir Don't you know, MrJ Stod- confined to the house with rheumatism. The whole family were intelligent, well educated and communicative. 'They had moved from Schoharie county into the woods about three years before, LOne of the Jury rising "Judge, my horse has en tied ever since" By the Court "Clerk sand square miles.

Tlie irranJ 'n diford, that you can't give in hear-say testimony? be. And whether it goes to his competency or with them as far as the crater, but no human effort could get them any higher. I attribute my nited btates amouuU to mure than twjlii'nj fine that Juror ten Dollars. Mr. Sheriff he is in Witness hy Squire Jawson himself i there and the father was taken lame the first Winter and twenty-five thousand squire SV being able to reach tbe top, to my wind; i never your custody until the fine is paid." won't deny itj Johnson Was Squire Jawson 'present? felt want of breath at any time, while the others I The Judge had scarcely got to the bottom of after their arrival, and had not been able to do anything since.

Lucy Ann, as her mother called blew like porpoises. Witness On course he was 'twas he told me the steps, when some one cried out. "Whoopee, whoopee, go it old Horse." her, has taken charge of, ploughed, planted and harvested the. farm, learned to chop wood, drive The sheriff came running up the steps and said 'In our descent from the crater we encountered the only real danger. At first the snow was good walking, but as Jwe came lower, where the sun himself that he bought her from Mr.

Brown." Johnson pross-Examination Mr. Johnson rising from his seat and looking very earnestly and gesticulating violently Now. Mr. Stoddiford. we think of the inimenso extent to vtiri -X.

use of steam will hereafter lie oo continent, in consequence ot the of el, at can form no adequate conct fti-m of tkt fut populouaness and prosperity of the couatrj. The Jmrniitg Etate. We take tbe he was directed by the Judge to take the man in not, your Honor can decide. 1 By the Court You can ask the question Mr. Johnson.

-J' Johnson (Speaking very slowly and distinct- I ly,) are you any relation, Mr. McCallum) to a family of what you may call 'ems who used to live on the white marsh. I I Witness No sir, (very meekly.) Johnson You can proceed Mr. McCallum. (More meekly still.) I Jackson Well, Mr.

McCallum, did, you raise the Brown mare? jj If so state her pedigree, how I long you owned her, what was her condition while (you had her, and what you did with her. 1 to his custody who had made that noise. Looking team and do all necessary work. Jlame being plenty, she had learned to use her father's rifle, and spent some of her leisure time in hunting. She had not killed a deer yet, but expressed her I want you to! state to his Honor and the! Jury, I around he saw Old Buggy kneeling down and pre makes a sheet olj ice or the surface ot the snow, it became so slippery that we frequently lost our footing, and if.

after a slip, you get so much from the Virginia Smtinfl: impetus that. you can't stop yourself, the certain whether, when you were marching down this road tending to be tying his shoe. The Sheriff tapped and Mr. Brown was leading jthe mare, and recol- Mm on the shoulder. Old Buggy rose up and lect, sir, that you're upon your oath, sir, whether, putting his hand to his ear asked him if he spoke ty is that you arrive at the bottom in much the determination to kill one at least before New Years.

She boasted of having killed any quantity of partridges, squirrels and other small game. After chatting some time, she brought a violin same condition a the man who jumped off the 1 say, you and Jake had the mare legs or the I to him. "Didn't you hollow go it old Horse mare had your and Jake arms? And recollect monument. At one time I almost gave myself Inst now?" says the Sheriff. "Me say norse, loney, I never! said norse in my life." The Witness Well sir, her dam was a Buzzard and her sire was Wolf and a Clipse She from a closet, and played fifteen or twenty tunes, and also sang a few songs, accompanying herself on the violin in a style that showed she was far up.

However, no accident did happen, though it makes me creep jo think of the slide I took. At five P. M. with my hands cut to bits, my nails again, sir, that you're upon jour oath. jWitness The witness scratched his head and.

studied for some time; well, I'm blasted if that an't a poser. Will you say it over was a pretty fair animal until she was nine or ten Sheriff left. Old Buggy this time threw open his mouth until it seemed that the upper part of his head "just worked on a hinge of grey hair at the back of his neck, wiped that tongue entirely worn to the quick with holding on, I reached the to droop and get of by degrees, and years old; then she began jcholicky. It come on Bort from destitute of musical skill. After spending a pleasant evening we retired.

The next morn Mr. Johnson, and say it slow? I after she had it right down good once, then after Mr. Johnson rose again, straightened himself I around and chassaurd across the Court-room It is now a pretty well aKtrtain-l Let, much talked of Jennings Estate ie not rer.Til by any one of the name of Jennings. 0.1 Mr Jennings married a iss I'ortiu, and LiriLx childreu, he bequeathed all his prorty tu Li vlt in fee. Mrs.

Jennings died pome few yv Kht intestate, and const-tjucntly this imraetLtes or two hundred million of iC passes over to Lot relatives. The cim urrti Britain has advertised that the money Rainess, that the heirs are in the 1'uited So 4 America, and requests that they ecraf fjnnri and claim the same. The Corbins of Virginia, are the rigt 'JA k'j of the Jennings Estate, and through tbem, Balls of Fairfax. tbe Jones's of Wai hut and there got my breakfast, glad to think it was over, as hungry as fourteen hours' abstinence and battling with 17,000 feet of mountain snow ing she was up at four clock, and before sunrise had the breakfast out of the way, and all her work out of doors and in the house done, and up, and repeated the question more earnestly and II At 3 o'clock the case was on again The Judge gcoucuiatcu muie viuicuuy man neiore. and ice could make me.

One of my eyes is completely 'bunged the other just enables me to Liooking very intently at Mr. John when I left, a few minutes after sunrise, she had on her hunting suit, and was loading her "rifle for another chase after the deer. son Well, I'll be dnrned if you an't got me there. Not specting to be called upon, I did'nt see to write this. My face is a mass of.

raw fesh and blisters; but I have the satisfaction of having every feed she would be attackted. She would up and groan and stick her head down in jthe trough and hold her tail straight up, just in this disposition (and the witness turned round, bent down and put his head in his hat, humped his back and held up the skirt of his coat.) By the Court (Sternly.) Witness, turn your head to the Court, sir. I Witness The trough is where my hat is, Judge. Jackson Mr. McCallum, did she get well, and delivered his opinion in writing in which after descanting at great length upon the point, how far the declaration of the parties of record might be given in evidence upon examination in chief and upon cross examination he summed up by saying that the witness might be asked the question but he should charge the Jury that the answer of the Defendant should be received by them not as 1 a perencu upon a nigner mountain man exists in charge my memory; but I spoee it was pretty much of a mudhness, first one and then tother.

The influence of a long summer day in the Arc Europe, and climbed 2500 feet nearer to heaven tic Regions has often been described, but than Albert Smith oonnson xou say that you heard squire say that he boughtot mare from Mr. Brown. D. and the Gordons of Alexandria, Va. T-j having descended in a direct line from i with more force and beauty than in the following passage from a history of the Grinnell expedition: Now, sir, did Squire Jawson what mare1, and fact but only that it is a fact that he said what he Thief nntinj.in the West.

A few years ago, lbe perpetual daylight had continued np to this was squire Jawson present when he said ltx Be did say The last of a XoLle Bond.k vcnenV rtlic i there was no individual in Arkansas who caused more trouble to jthe good people of that State how long did you keep her; Witness She got better warn't fed nor worked, and at times, when she particular, Mrj Stoddiford Johnson here whispered to his client that after moment with unabated glare. The sun had reached his north meridian altitude some days before. was a good looking Witness On course! on coarse. Mr. Johnson.

this intimation from his Honor the Jury could be than Dick Hatcher, a notorious horse-thief. the past has departed. Jonathan last survivor of the gallant band wh ireretrr- in the first conflict of the American died at Lexington, (Mass.) on if un.hy, ia animal. One day about a year 'after she was first attackted, Mr. Brown came to my house and was but the eye was hardly aware of change.

Midnight had a softened character, like the low sum Squire Jawsonj told me that he bought the Chol-icky Brown mare, and gave Mr. Brown a load of at no loss. I Old Buggy on the stand again. Richard's exploits were not only daring, but numerous. His movements were cunning and stealthy.

He would come down on the barns praising the Clipse and Buzzard stock, and said mer sun at home, but there was no twilight. I 'Johnson Didn't you ask Squire Lem Jawson shucks and two bushels of slips for her as she lay. And that wa'nt all: he told me that he if he ever sold the Brown mare to Wardy nillcox? year of his age. lie was a hler tor tte m.w men who assembled at Lexington Crei At hrst the novelty ol this great unvarying day made it pleasing. It was curious to tee the and cattle yards of the community with the sud that was a fine mare of mine and he had come iover to look at her.

She was in that disposition Vould make his Jack raf Wardy flillcoxL that And Johnson rose up and looked triumphantly at denness of a night-hawk, and before you could "midnight Arctic sun set into sunrise," and pleas J. showed yon just now when he I the Jury. say 'look and would be off with booty Johnson Will the witness go through it again ant to find that whether you ate or slept, or idled Johnson But. sir. was Sduire Jawson nresAnt 1 1 enougn to Keep mm in sin ana cnampagne ior a Witness 1 es I did child.

Johnson Well sir, what or toiled, the same daylight was always there. -rhen he said it? That's the question: for if he did Squire Jawson so as to impress it upon the Jury. The witness was bending down I to his hat, when the Court month. 1 hings at last reached srach a pass, that the citizens made: up their minds to offer a re No irksome night forced upon you its system of say jfcas not present, yon have no right to speak of it, Mr. Stoddiford.

I I memorable morning of the lUth April, He was at the time then but seventeen preparing for college, but the events ol the resulting in the destruction of his boots, cbif tho course of his life. It has been hi trx see his comrades in the opening struggle pendence one by one passing from the 1 he atone remained. At length, at the pl age of ninety-five, he has been gathered toia mm to stand up. compulsory alternations. 1 could dme at midnight, Witness Be didn't av noihina, for he never Witness ell she was in that disposition Witness Now how on arth.

Mr. Johnson. sup at breakfast time, and go to bed at noonday; heerd me. anyhow, when we went into the stable. I went could he've told me so onless he was present? The Judge crammed the written opinion into ward of one thousand dollars for his arrest.

Among those who went in for the prize was Bob Smithers. Bob armed himself with the usual cutlery, his! bowie-knife and a revolver, and set out in pursuit of Hatcher. He started at ana out ior an apparatus ot colls and cogs, called a watch, would have been no wiser and no worse. to her head and raised it up. She has good eyes, jonnson very well, sir, you don say he was bis coat pocket.

I Mr. ohnson took his under lip between his fore says Mr. Urown to me and very early to be bo present. You', can stand aside. My feeling was at first an extravagant sense of undefined relief, of some vague restraint removed.

heavy in foalj and what a tail she carries. She Jackson Stop, Mr. Stoddiford: do you know finger and thumb, pulled it out about an inch and fathers. Jlay his reward oe commen the wishes of a grateful country! I. I warrant she's jdoes carry her tail high, says! I seemed to have thrown off the slavery of hours.

or do you not know whether Squire Jawson! sold sat down very slowly. nine p. in. and arrived at the supposed residence of the robber about midnight. Bob approached cautiously, examined the outwork, and took a Brown.

Mark me In fact, 1 could hardly realize its entirety. The Johnson Mr. Jackson have you any other wit a capiuu anunu, says iir. gentlemen Juriors, I never A eoxnt said warrant once astral lamps, standing, dust covered, on our lock nothing, for Wardy nesses! i tne mare to wardy llulcoxf Witness Jist as well as Hillcox told me. Johnson Stop, stop, sin Mr.

Brown said he was a capital Judge of a horse ers 1 am quoting the words of my journal puz- Jackson No sir, this is the case for Plaintiff. and after some little chaffering Mr. Brown and zica me, as tilings obsolete and fanciful. what yon can't tell preparatory peep in at one oi tne windows. Things were just as he desired; no one at home but the housekeeper.

Bob knocked, obtained admission, and took up a position near a blazing Johnson Pulling out his lip again; let's submit gar thus laconically addressed a bdy: WJ ma'am, give me a drink of water, far -hungry 1 don't know where to We doubt whether more meaning coull be ea died in so few words. me traded He wanted to take her over then II 3 1 ii .1 mt 1 his. was instinctive, perhaps: but by-and-bv the Plaintiff said. Stand aside, stand aside i uuuer we cnarge oi tne uourt. ibe case was but I told him I would not trouble him with her came other feelings.

The perpetual light, garish xSias LArnes called to the Stand. submitted. Verdict for Plaintiff $100, Int. and hre of oak and' hickory. Having done this, he i i but would send her over that night, and I did so Jackson Have you seen the Brown mare late and unfluctuating, disturbed me.

I became gra- costs. Jackson Did Mr. Brown ever complain of the dually aware of in unknown excitant, a stimulus, re1uraeDUJ TC eT cf aroan(j for landmarks. "Who owns that buffalo trader Examination Day. It was examination dav otuuK tuusuuuy use me diminutive oi a cup or a i f- i overcoat, and that fox-skin cap?" he inquired, strong coffee.

My sleep was curtailed and irrcgu- our school we had "read and spelt," told ly and what is her condition? Witness I haven't seen; nothing else 'for a month. Wardy Hillcox come to my house more' an a month since; and she swelled up so that she busted the shafts off the cart before we could eet kU. .11 it. Il II I Uw mm wmm II II Wfl mjK I UK 1 1 1 1 1 Witness Why, not expecting to be called on I didn't charge my memory; but it strikes me I did bear some complaint from him or somebody tue auunua uiau tne letters tnat naa any sounds uJ i noura iroa upon eacn other's heels; MSWer. wnnw 'hnwt said the "breviations and "mortification ta ana out ior stringent regulations of my own im- m-A tk i me: baying this.

Uob got and tried them The proposed new cent to be of whiu resembling silver in ajipearance, wiia and slightly raised edgel It is about WW an inch in diameter, larger than a tea centpw-and less in size than a quarter dollar. Aof ire' The following appears in an "My wife Anna Maria, has strays! off stolen. Whoever returns her will 113 up else about her having a slight attack of the cholic posing, my routine would have been completely on, and again reseated himself at the fire. ner out, ana wnen i lert home this morning the childreVwere rolling her 'bout in the vard. and i up.

ble" without missing a word and then were ranged on the floor in front of "visitors" to be looked at and to answer such questions as they or the teacher saw fit to ask. Where was John His object in thus disguising himseif. was to every now and then, but I'll not be positive. Johnson on cross examination: I understand you to tell the Jury, Mr. McCallum, that you My lot had been cast in tho zone of lirioden.

she rolled just as well head over, heels as the other way. i I i deceive any member of the gang who do as he drons and sugar maples, in the nearly midway hid peep in for the purpose of reoonnoiterinc. sold this mare to Mr. Brown as perfectly sound can Jackson Why. don't you knock the poor thing Kogers burnt to deathr" said the teacher to me 1.

r. l. A. mc latitude at 4UW. I had been habituated to day Bob had not chuckled over his well-laid strata and night; and every portion of these two great in the head, Mr.

Lames? It is cruel to treat her gem for more than five minutes, before he saw divisions had for me its periods of neculiar asso- in that way. I in a commanding voice. I couldn't tell to the bext no answer "Joshua knows," said a little girl at the foot of the class. "Well," said the teacher, "if Joshua knows he may tell." "In three or four ferocious-looking men looking in at Witness I don know where her head is. I'd nation.

Jiven in the tropics, I had mourned the and in foal by Eclipse. Witness No you don't j-you are altogether wrong, altogether wrong. All the' recommendation of the amniil came from! Mr. Brown 'twas he said she was heavy in foal 'twas he said he warranted her. Besides, Mrj.

Johnson, I never the very window through "Which he himself had as soon try to knock a frab-ball in the head lost twilight, liow much more did I miss the obtained a glance at the household arrangement V.a fi no 1 T-T 1 I anntkmn rl A I. 1 1 I Johnson You can stand aside, Mr. Lames. ug uii iu wusuua, very uieuin auu i awmiuic uaikuvw vi wuica twuifrnt snouia nave I wise. That was the last question.

We had lib- heen the precursor! I began to feel, with more i i frtv tn malra oil Vin nniao no I rf dmntinn fVion mnn f. 1:1 I lead, he HDIDCU iiot Knowing to what it would iately left his seat and made an (waving mm oil very politely. said A-clipsl said she was a Clip's and a Wolf v. v. h.u ULUti lUd iu 1 A A- I- I 13 3 -Do Old Buggy takes the Stand.

The witness looks very much like Gen'I Houston of Texas.) He say e-buzzard and you minutes, and go home. confess to, how admirable, as a systematic law, is who sees fit; for, as I never pay my it is not at all likely that I shall lie thinking about other people's." Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, thTauthor of tragedy of "Ion," died at Oxford, MffTr, the ICth ulk He was 59 years of age, tJ a member of the British House of Commas was, at the time of his death a Jaw Court of Common Pleas. following is a short history of BK dissolved in San Francisco: Married Jan. 19th, '54. Quarrelled 20th, '54.

Petition for Divorce filed, uui ui a Auzzara-y e-wolf Well then- attempt to rusnj out uoor. ust as be was crossing the threshhold, however, a four-pound fist knocked him flatter than the stock-market. pulled off his hat and held it in both hands be is Mr. Brown' was called, but did not answer. tne alternation et day and night words that type the two great conditions of living nature, action and repose.

To those who with daily labor earn fore him, bending over as if he were going to take up a collectionj He raised his right foot as if he The next thing big-fist did was to gag him with The Richmond Enquirer i says that in the vicinity of Richmond, and in all Eastern Virginia, so far as its knowledge on the subject extends. Beeve Stoddiford is on the Stand I Jackson Mr. do you know any thing of the condition of the Brown mare? Did a bandanna and throw him across a mule. This their daily bread how kindly the season of sleeo! were going to chasgay across, the Bar. He opened was also done in a moment.

When Bob recov the growing crops of wheat present a green, thrifty To the drone who, urged by the wanintr davlitrht. uiB iuouin ana put out his tongue, which looked ered from the "stunnin" swoon into whirr, th 1 you ever see her when she was diseased? By the like a third hand with RnnVaVin nln.o nn .11 ana lively appearance. yjix au i by it strikes me now that you were in Lumberton when she had that attack of cholic tne nngers one. With this he wiped bid hps What is Virtue? A student put this question nastens me aeierrea task, how fortunate that his procrastination has not a six months' morrow! To the brain workers among men, the enthusiasts, who bear irksomely the dark screen which falls blow bad plunged him, he undertook to right himself, but met with such a severe reprimand from a pair of cow-hide boots, that he did not re irom one ear to the other, and then shut his o-k. lveienaant p.f to me late ut.

Arcmoaia Alexander, ills sim Johnson Oh, Mr. Jackson, Oh! Don't lead dav. Rferrod lamp dav. Report mouth tight. 1 y.W-k I ple and -admirable reply was, "Virtue consists in your, witness, don't lead Mr.

Stoddiford, he can recommendinir divorce filed Feb. Vina you see that lick that Old upon their day-dreams, how benignant the dear peat it. After a) long tramp through mud and darkness, the cavalcade arrived and halted at the Buggy doing our duty, in the several relations that we rendered aI i go it alone. I ted to the Court same day. Decree I night blessing, which enforces reluctant rest: Jackson Well Mr.

Stoddiford: wp von or sustain, in respect to ourselves, to our fellow-men, magistrate office; An examination immediate parties divorced Feb. 23 th, '54. and to God, as known from reason, conscience. The report of the last Grand Jury of San Fran- ly took place, when it was discovered that Bob had fallen "a victim to circumstances Th .1 n.lyiflili)tt ia and revelation." cisco shows a most horrible state of affairs in that his lips?" said Johnson in a Bar whisper. "Now that what I call aea.

And then (sotto voce,) I don't know but what I should be perfectly safe in saying two feet." i Jackson Will you state to his Ilonor and the Jury, Buggy, what you know about the sale of the Brown mare by Squire Lem Jawson to Wardy Hillcox? I Buffalo overcoat with which he had robed himself, city upwards of two hundred wilful assassina- Anot ner jxanci uucorfmi. auc announces the almost simultaneous discv another nlanet. between Mars and Jo.P,w IT A Deep Hole. The deepest hole for mining bad misled a scouting-party of "wolverines," were you not in Lumberton at the time the Brown mare had that attack of Cholic? Johnson I object to the question in that shape, your Honor. It is still leading the witness to speak of an attack of Cholic, when no foundation has been laid for it.

(Here Mr. -Jackson and Mr. Johnson conferred together and it was agreed to save time that the -orintod wmnrt tions, out of which there has been only one con purposes yet aug in Ualifornia is in Trinity conn- viction and execution. Norfolk Herald. who, having heard of "tbe great reward," had gone forth to make the same arrest that Bob had embarked in.

Whether the explanation 'was astronomers at Bishop's and RadcUSe w-' ries. This is, we believe, the twenty-eighth now known to exist between Mars and JoP' eight for nine?) of which were discovered DJ iVame Changed. We have been informed that ty. It is 700 feet deep, and the bed rock has not been reached. Gold has been found all the way down, even in the boulders, which had to be cut through in the course.

The work was com Witness Yes, honey. I meets Wardy Hill satisfactory to the injured party, we never could cox, coming from Squire Jawson's, and he the name of the Post Office "Kernersville" has been changed to "Berlin," on account of other tells or the attack of cholic in Lumberton should be i a learn; all we know is, that it was the last time menced in 1841, and has been aided by subscrip read in evidence to the Jury. It was offices in the btate being so near the same as the Bob Smithers appeared in disguise, or went Johnson Stop! stop. sir. You can't tell now another by an assistant there.

BoUon tions ana other aia irom the miners of the vicinity. old name. izxilem Ireu. thiei-bUQUng.