Mt. Vernon Republican (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1854), 1855-11-27

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Sweet Sabbath of th yciir Wliilo evening lights decay, Thy parting steps incihinks 1 hear, Steal from tho world away. ( 1 Amid thy silent flowers Tin Mid but KWeet to dwell Whom falling leaves anil drooping llort-crs Around mo breath farewell. Along thy Minuet skies Their glories melt in r-Ii.ulo, And, like iht things wo fondly prize, Seem lovelier as they J'iulo. A deep nod crimson Rtreak lint dying leave disclose; An, on Consumption's wanning chock, 'Mid ruin, blooms the rose. Thy sceno cadi vision brings Of beauty in decay ; Of fair and early fadu.l things. Too exquisite to slay : Of joys that coino no more ; Of flowers whoso bloom is fled ; Of farewells wept upon tho s bore ; Of friends eiutranged or dead : Of all that now may seem, To uu'in.iry's tearful eye, The vanished beauty of a dream, UY-r which wc guzu aud sigh. November. The following verses from l'utiiam's Muga-Kinn are not only beautiful in themselves, but jieculiurly appropriate to the day. The wild November comes at last fleuoulh a veil of rain. The night wind blows its folds aside Her lace is full of pain. The latest of her race sho takes , The Autumn's vacant throne ; She has but ouo short moon to live, And she must livu alone I A barren realm of whiibered fields ; lileak woods and fulling leaves ; The palest morns that erer dawned ; The dreariest of eves. It is no wonder that she comes, I'oor month ! with tears ofpnin; For what can one so hopeless do but weep aud weep attain ? Irlrrt Jiiini'dlanij. TEE DOC TOE'S THIRD PATIENT, on KE511NISCENCI3 01'' DR. 1IIC.VII ASIIKIt. UV KLV. JOHN TOM), U. 1). I had made up my mind to live nnd din jioor. There were nostiums, indeed, or, which I might have ridden into notice, and 1 knew that with aloes, eolocynth, and cui omul, I could make pills ljy the bairel, and promise that they would cure all the dis eases that ever afflicted liumanily, and I could roll up a fortune by lying daily about jtlasters and lozenges ; but from my soul 1 abominated all empiricism, and resolved (hut I would be honorable in my profession, or I would starve. My third patient bad not yet called fur me'. Full of manly resolutions to do right and honorably, 1 could not conceal from myself a feeling of jealou-y when I saw carriages loaded with jieople go past my office and call " Dr. JiraJis, the celebrated Indian doeior." I inew the charlatan could hardly read cr write, knew nothing about the human system, and next to nothing about diseases. Yet with his impudence and cool boasting, he had no lack of patients. How people love to bo imposed upon 1 At length when my hope3 began to sink, on returning home one evening from my solitary cilice, tor home, I called my boarding-place, I found a short note, written in a neat, and I thought, trembling hand, intimating that " Miss Lucy Braisely desired to consult Dr. Asber professionally mid confidentially, this evening or to-morrow morning, ns will best suit bis convenience." It was too late to go that night, especially as having seen Miss Braisley wdking out just at sunset, I knew she could not be very sick herself. How I lay that night, half sleeping and half waking, nnd forming all manner of conjectures ns to the D.ituro of the consultation desired I But who was Lucy Braisley ? This I did not know, except that alio was a beautiful stranger tJ whom I had been introduced, who had come to spend a few months in our village with a distant relative. She was dressed in deep mourning, was an orphan, understood tJ be poor, though once in gfeat effluence, and beautiful she certainly was, as every beholder testified. By some means or other, I had got into the good graces of her relative, and suspected that it was to her influence that I was indebted for my call. Hid the young stranger the first "slightcough,"andthefirsi"hect;c flush," which are such sure heralds of that awful destroyer the consumption T ' I resolved that never should a patient be1 treated more carefullyi Had she some ohronio disease, bidden, but sure to make war upon, the system till it had destroyed it T I would leave no efforts unmade, by which to dis-loge the foe. Long before morning I had imagined and treated n score of diseases in my new and fair patient. I even rose an hour earlier thtin usual, and read what books I. had on "Scrofula,": "Phthisis," and "Spine." Nor need I feel ashamed to own that I brushed my boots, coat, hat and hair with at least common care, and drew on my best gloves at an early hour. On my way I studied what might bo the golden medium between the cheerful buoy ant look with which a phyioian wan s to encourngo his patient, and that long face of sympathy which ho wihus to put on In show that ho has deep sympathies, una fetds the responsibilities of Ins position,. 1 am inclined to think the latter pr lomina!uil, for on my saving to tho voting la.ly that I hoped she was not soiiou.dy ill, she bunt into a liiutrb, nnd said she wits never in belter health in hur lifn. I throw myself at onco upon my dignity, nnd said that its flie had done mo the honor to uiuinatc Unit she wished to consult me professionally, nnd as she wns in such perfect health, I was at a loss to know hotv I could assist her. She dismissed her looks and tones of levit.v at once, and gavo me to understand that she wanted my assistance in behalf of an uncle, a ricli merchant, who was at that very moment confined in chains a nudum I ' We have consulted many distinguish ed physicians, sir, but they give us no hope of Ins recovery, lie is so violent that no has to bo chained day and night, and is especially ou'.raeou i wiien 1 come into his presence. My mint, his wife, received a terrible shock on hearing my undo return fiom Europe, where he wontjm business, raving in madness, nnd slier is now on a bed of sickness. tShn had heard of you through the praises of aback-woods-m in, whose wife he says you cured of a " fit of ravin" distraction in less than no time I Is that so ? 1 was commissioned by my aunt to come to this village, and if your character stood as she hoped it would, to fee if we could not get you to tal;o my uncle under your special charge, with the hope that ho may bo restored to reason ; but if this may not be, that ho may be made as comfortable as possible. I have been reading some French writers on Insanity, and I have acquired some new thoughts in relation to it. Perhaps you would like to read them ? If so, they are at vour service." She pointed me to at least a dozen volumes which by their binding I knew must be French. What could I do ? I could read French but very imperfectlynext to nothing, nnd I longed to get at the thoughts nnd views in those volumes, nnd yet I dared neither to say that I could or could not rend French. I believed my face must have shown a troubled expression, for she said in a kind voice, " Doctor, pei haps you would like to think of our proposition a few days, nnd in the mean time I will send over the volumes, and you can dip into them or not as you can command leisure." It appeared in evidence, as the lawyers say, that the history of her uncle's mad ness was as follows. At a very early age the two brothers, James and John brais ley, left their hone among the hills to try r . ! .1... . rpi ineir lonunes m mo cuy , nicy nnu prentioed to the same mercantile house, and served their time tv;p!her. It was l soou found that J:unus dm the buy fi r n bargain. If a forced bale was at h-uid, he i knew it, and apprised his employers nc-I eordiuirly. If a l"t of goods none the choicest came in. James would contrive to sell them without delay. On ouo o,;raio i a largo lot of molasses was to be sold on the wharf. When the first hogshead was put up with the privilege of tikir.g "one or the whole," it win observer! that a carman, with his face dirty, nnd in his well soiled frock, and a whip in his band, was very eager to bid. He (lid not hnng back nnd Iry to appear indifferent as lh merchants did. He was prompt, and the merchants concluding that the poor fellow had contrived to scrapa money enough together to buy "a whole hogshead," did not b'd against him. Down came iho hammer of the auctioneer, and, "Well, car-man, how many will you take ?" "I'll take the whole I" " The whole I who will bo responsible for you ?" " Griffin and Lang." The auctioneers and the owners raveil, but there was no help, and James Braisley, in the car-man's dress, had m ule two thousand dollars for Griffin and Lang, by that stroke. Griffin and Lang pocketed the money, praised" James for his shrewdness, and prompted him in their store. On another occasion, being sent to the ofiice of the commissary of iho navy on somn errand, and while the officer was out, he took the liberty to pe p into his papers. Among them he found an advertisement soon to be printed, inviting proposals for a large quantity of vinegar for the navy, to be delivered at nn enrly date. What does the fellow do, but whip round to all tho vine gar-dealers in the city, an d rngnge so much of their stock as to render it impossible for them to throw in proposals. Tho result wns, that Griffin nnd Lang, at an enormous advanc3, furnished the vinegtr, nnd made it a very profitable job. On tho contrary, John was so open, fair, and guileless, that though everybody liked him nnd repoc:cd him, yet he was not allowed to do much of the buying or selling. He was kept at tho books of the concern, nnd Ihey were well kept. In process of time, the two brothers had completed their apprenticeship, and commenced business for themselves under the firm of J. Si J. Braisley. Jamea brought into it all tho cunning nnd overreaching policy which bad been called shrewdness and sagacity ; and John that accuracy in accounts, and that urbanity of manners which gavo tho firm great popularity nnd respectability. It came to pas?, too, thai they accumulated property, and became rich, and they wtre caressed. Inspiration hath testified that " men will praise thee wiien thou doest well for thyself." After many years of successful business, at the desire of James, the firm teparatcd. It was said that John was greatly grieved by the movement, but had to yield to the strong will of James. After the dissolution of the firm they both continued in businecs. At length the business of John led him to a distant part of the continent. There he was taken sick and there he died. His wife was just leaving the world when the news came, and it hastened her departure. Their only child was the orphan Lucy, in whoin presence, I was now sitting, and learning thew particulars. Oo the deth of John, James hastened to tho place where he died, and much to his amnsement and horror, lound the estnte of John so involved in 4 complication of specula ioas, thnt ha was a bankrupt, and not a farthing was saved from the wreck. He camo back not a little d.Diessed in snirits, nnd taking the doath ot his brother luriier man auyujuy supposed ho could, Indeed, hu never seoinod to bo the sanio man afterwards. But everybody admired and priised his conduct towards his orphan nieo. Ho so iihod her, nnd touk hur to his own homo, and nssurcd her that sho should never w.mt. She had never known tho want of money, and tho loss of her property in'idu no impression upon her. It was for her parents nnd tho endearments of childhood's homo that she mourned. With her uncle she lived. His own children were sons, who promised to spend all tho estate which ho might accumulate. Gradually, however, his feelings towards Lucy seemed to undergo a change. Ho seemed to grow cool, then ilUiu'u, moody .and finally it was plain that lKr society was irksome to him. About two years after tho death of his brother hu was called to go to Europe, While absent, cotton rose at once, and the whole world seemed mail with the cotton speculation. James Braisley wrote home to his ngents to buy, buy buy nil they could. Letters camo fast nnd urgent, all urging buy, buy. Soon tho bubble burst, anil thousands were wrecked. Just as ii hurst, James was leaving England for home. Then ho began to figure up how many orders ho h id written, how many hales had been purchased, ho much he had lost on each, till ho saw that ho was a bankrupt, and ruined. The fact was, the bubble burst hero so early that his agents had not obeyed h'n orders. Money had been his idol, lie had lived for nothing else, and now his goods had been taken away, as ho supposed, nnd what lia I he left? lie figured and computed unlid he became wild, frantic, and deranged, and had to b'i brought homo in irons. When he reached his homo ho did not know his own wife, but seemed to recognize- Lucy, so far as to shudder, and howl, and screech at her presence. Ho could not bear the sight of her person. Such, in substance, was the story which the poor girl told ma with many tears. For my part, I could not see anything in tho youug lady that should m ilto even a madman hato her. It wis evident that she loved bim much, nnd was very grateful to him for bis great kindness in giving her a home. On taking leavo I loaded my urnn with tho French books, assured Miss Lucy, of my doep interest in the case, and promised to consider tho subject, and let her know my decision in a few days. How I hasten ed to my office, and pored over the books day nnd night, I need not say. Never did a poor fellow study harder to acquire the language, to master the contents of the volumes, and to acquire information, than I did durintr the three weeks that followed. Hv the end of t' at time I was ma-ter of wiia'. seemed to bo locked up in ail unknown tongue. My reader will bear in mind that halt a century ago, the whole treatment of the insane was to bear with ihein if they were gentle, and to ch .in them, put them in cages and dungeons, and treat them like wild beasts, if they Were wild nnd fienzied. The hope or the tho ight of curing a deranged person w is not dream d of. But I now got a new idea in my head, and the very experiment caused my heart to exult with txoitenvnt. At the end of three weeks I called on Miss Lucy, and intimated that I would umbr- take the cise of her uncle, aiming nt a cure, on two conditions, viz., that I should have no one to interfere with me, I being allowed to manage my patient in my own way, and that I should bo allowed to charge twelve hundred dollars a year. This last ilem seemed to staittrer the niece and the aunt, but I assured them that it would cost me every farthing of that sum to make my experiments, without any compensation for my services. He was immensely rich, and what was that sum in comparison with the saving of the man ? At length they a"rced to it all, and I wns to be ready to receive him in a single week. I had no time to lose in making preperations. I procured a small, but convenient house, rather retired, wilh a large garden. I next procured two strong, handy, palicnt young men, who were to obey my orders implicitly. Ono was a long legged fellow, and tie other, small, lithe and quick as a cat. I next hired two saddle-horses, the hnr- dest-bit'ed, and the hardest-trotting crea tures I could procure. Then a good, faith ful housekeeper, and my accommodations were ready. At tho time appointed, a carriage drove up to my new habitation, nnd two men got out, dragging a large, powerful man, cursing swearing and resisting wilh nil his mijrht. I kept out of the way till "the Doctor" was sought for and loudly demanded. At length I carelessly went in to the room, nnd taking no notice of the keepers, but fixing my eyo on the eye of llie maniac, and witn a smnegmu mm my hand with great politeness, and suid " Mr. Braislev. I believe ?" " Who in the name of all God's lowest creation are you ?" said he. " Dr. Ashcr, nt your service," still keeping my eye on his. . " Dr. Asber, sir, the doctor who takes care of so many deranged people." ' The deuce voti do 1" nrowled my pa tient. But I saw that he gavo in under my steady gaze very slightly. ' Yes, sir, that's my solo business, and I cure them, too." " Cure 'cm, yon son of night and darkness invisible, yon imp of a Jack-o'-Ianteru yon cure 'em eh ?" " Certainly, sir," said I, with the eye fixed sharply on his, and with tho most imperlutbablo gravity ; " certninly. lir, 1 never, had a deranged or insano patient thtt I did not cure." He looked puxzled a moment, and Ihtn broke ont into the coarsest invectives and abuse. I took no notice of it, but applying a small ivory whistle to my mouth, I blew a loud call, and my two men appeared. " Fairloog show Mr. Braisley to his room. Stay : those irons on his hands must bouncomfortable.- Mr. Braisley, now on your honour promise me that you will be gentle and quiet, and we will lake off thosa irons, and you shnll bn free," Tho men who came with him begun to remonstrate- and talked about him just as they would about a wild animal in chains, I paid no attention lo them, but looking at my patient. " I say, you owl's head " sdd ho. " Dr. Asher is my name, if you please, Mr. Braisley," snid I.,, " Well then, Asher; Dasher, Thrasher, Smasher, whatever you be, you're a qui cr ono. Why don't you know for what they put thoso things on me, 'eh ?" " How should I know, when no one ever told mo ? For some crime, doubtless ?" " You may well say that. Why, Doc tor. I bouirht all tha.cailon in creation ; I hnvo stripped tho country of clothing, 1 have ruined thousands and thousands of families, widows orphans, ay, orphan! Thousands and millions of orphans ! no wonder they put me in irons, All ruined starving, ruined ! ' And horribly did ho gnash his teeth, shake his irons. I calmly repeated my question, " Will you bo quiet nnd gentle if I'll take them off ?" " I'll try, Doctor'- In a few minu'ea the irons were off, he stretched himself up lo his full height, and lifted up his-nrmsj as if to strike. But it was just as I expected. His linns worn so still' from, long confinement, and felt so strange that ho knew not what lo make of it. The men who brought him burned out, ns if a tiger hud been unchained. I bade my men show him his room, nn 1 to my joy, ho followed mechanically. Iliad fitted iip'ii neat'ro "lit for him, wit.ii a door so strong that he could not break it, nnd with iron ban across his window on the outside. ' He was about fifty years old, n powerful frame, and a nvm of great muscular strength. Ho evidently tried to res-strain himself for a lime, nn I to keep his promise. But by night ho was howling, screnming, and tearing his clothes. I did not go near him that night, though neither ho nor I slept much. Hut in the morning what a sight ! lie had torn everything in tho shape of clothing into iho smallest shreds, and rubbed the straw in his bed tiil it was litterally powder. Bed-clothes and all were ued up, and there the creature was without nn article of dress of any kind. I went into his room alone leaving my men just at the door, and ready to jump at my call. " Well, Mr. uraisley, I hope you bod yourself well this morning, after a comfort-' able night's rest. How soundly you must have slepf, not to have heard any of my insane patients." " Why, Doctor," slid panting from exertion, " I haven't slept a wink all night." "Ah, why not?" "I've been making flour, Doctor. See there five hundred barrels of best Baltimore, Howard Street brtind, all ground in ono night I What say you to that, Doctor ?'' And he came up nnd bpan with both hands to rub my face. " A good night's work, truely. You'll pay all your debts soon at that rate I" " Debis," said ho with a start, what debts?" " Why the families yon told me you bad rtiiivd by the cotton speculation." " Oh, yes ; you know about that do you ? Who told you ? Well their cries nd groans do ring in my cars d ty and idlit. The orphans ! Oh, the orphans!" I now left him, directing my men to dress him, soothe him, and prepare him for breakfast. To my surprise, he made no objections to being clothed, or to have his room cleansed. To humor him, the dirt was put into a clean (lour barrel. Just bt-foro his breakfast, Fairlong and Stacy presented him a tumbler, desiring him to Ui ink it, with my bos t wishes for his health. It was an ounto of Epsom salts dissolved in water. "The Doctor wants I should drink thnt stuff! The Doctor! Tell the menching, cowardly, ignorant rantum-scantum scab-wag that I won't, that's all I "But you don't mean to send that word to tho Doctor, do you?" snid Stacy. "Yes I do, though." In an instant Stacy and Fairlong chucked him down in a chair, had his arms and body lashed in, his mouth open, nnd the salts down. He could make no resistance; all he could do was to swallow. He was then liberated, much humbled at the victory, and amazed at their quickness. At the breakfast table I had him with me but neither of us mado any allusion to the snlts. My men were at hand, but not in sight. I treated him not as an insane man but as a visitor. Ho was very talkative, and had to go over all his history of having ruined so many thousands of widows and orphans. After breakfast, I merely said, "Mr. Braisley, Fai long will sl ow you a pleasant walk, and I think it will be benehcial tor your health to lake a fooil -'! long walk." I saw by the flash of hu eye ! that he thought ho could now run away, and the proposal wns received with glee, To Fairlong my instructions were, keep in sight of him, and let him walk or run to his heart's content. But don't lose sight of him Awny they wer.t, Braisley half running, muttering to himself and steering to himself, and steering right onward, while poor Fairlong had need of all his legs, long as they were, to ktcp up with him. On they went, walk walk w ilk, five, six, eight, and nine miles out. There seemed to be no tiro to him. Suddenly ho stopped, and waited for Fairlong to come up with him. "There, now, you pill-smeller, what do you think of that ? Don't you wish you had a pa:r of legs, hey? And what will tho Doctor say to you, to drivel, nnd lag, and can't keep up ?" " The Doctor will never believe you beat me in walking, unless he sees it with his own eyes." " He won't ? Well, just for the joke of it, he thall see it." And greatly to the delight of tho weary attendant, he wheeled about nnd put back again in less than five hours from the timo ho left. I was watching anxiously the result, when in he bounded, apparently fresh, while Fairlong came limpiug after him, hardly able to stand. " Doctor, can't you send somebody wilh me next time that can walk some ? That curmudgeon ha no walk In him." I did not fail to congratulato bim on having heat one of the greatest walkers in the State. " Hut, Mr. Braisley, Hluny will show jou a warm lia'h, which you will hnvo jti'l time to luku before diii'iur." That night he actually tdept. quietly morn thai) half the night, and I lilt that I had got in tiip right pith. Tho next morning, as Fairlong was too much used up to walk, I directed Suny lo bring out the two hor.-os saddled, to lie one, and leave tho other wilh the bridle carelessly thrown over his head, nnd then for himself to bo rather ou' of sight. Presently I camo walking round tho Ionise arm-in-arm with my patient, nnd ns wo camu near tho horses, 1 said, " Ex-cuie ma a moment, Mr. Braisley, must get an outside garment hel'oru I leave." 1 Scarcely had I turned my back ero ho was in tho saddle of the loose horse, and chit tering out of tho yard tho very trap I had set. Stncy mounted tho other horse instantly nnd was after him, Tho horso on which Braisley had mounted could by no matter of arguments bo mado to canter, and his trot was long, and terribly hard. But away lie went, und Siacy in an easy gallop, after him. After he had ridden about ten miles, he began to sober down. Stacy designedly kept back. At length hu came to a road which seemed to run parallel with his. It led directly back again, though not quito as direct. It was now that Suu y screamed for him to slop, and put up his own hur.-.o. B.ut the fellow got in'o his head that he was certainly running away, nnd that Stacy was trying to stop him, and ho cheered, and kickud, and made his horse almost break his bard trot, when, before he knew where he was, pop ! tho horse bolted directly into the yard whence he had started. 1 was out in a moment, admiring his horsemanship, and inwardly laughing at his evident chagrin nnd fatigue. " Doctor, what's tho name of this brule ?" " Trip, I believe." " Ti ip iHinwii!-, you mean ! Why I had rather lido a trip-hammer all day than mount tho brute again !" " I believe nobody oi.-cyou lo lido it," said I rath' r drily. " Stacy," said he, as he wns going to his bath, " do horses, and roads, and men, and everything here do just us the Doctor wants to have them ?" " Yes, everything except l.is patients they sometimes try to run away, but always contrive to fetch up here again." ' By kind treatment, daily nnd severe exercise, and the cooling draught of salts on alternate days, I thought in a few weeks I could see a little improvement in my pti- tient. Siill he was at limes wild, exciied, nnd furious ; but wo coitid make him swal low Ids salts without confinin'', nnd take exercise at my bidding. But ho harped upon his crimo of ruining so manv fami lies, til I was fairly worn down with it One niordinitig he rushed into my room nnd began to mourn and lament over the same old story, when turning romd suddenly nnd glaiing him in tho face, I snid, " Mr. Braisley, I think on tho whole, that you are (ho greatest villain I ever met with !" I had heretofore heard him with great urbanity, nnd even delicacy. He started, ns if stung by an adder. " What do you mean, Doctor ?" " I mean just what I say. I think you the grea'cst villain that overlived 1" " Ah I lias Lucy told you the minx I What makes you say so ?" " Why, from your own lips. You tell mo again nnd again that you have rui..cd thous inds and thousands of families, rob-bd widows and plundered orphans. Now I know enough of mercantile business, to know thnt nobody could do all this mischief without coolly sitting down for years and planning and plotting to do it. You must have been years in thus planning before you effected your object. What am I to think of such villainy ?" Ho was thunderstruck and taken all aback. Ho saw that my conclusions were correctly drawn from tho premises, and the premises he had himself furnished. Ho merely said in a subdued voice, "I protest. Doctor, I never was so bad as that!" The shock was beneficial. Ha never mentioned his supposed crime again. But my task was no easy one. Sometimes he would conlrivo to eludo our vigilance unaccountably nnd get away. I remember ono day Stncy camo to me in distress, saying that Mr. Braisly was gone. Stacy had slept in tho room with him, and having locked the door, placed tho key under his pillow. But the pntitnt watched him till sound aideep; then ho crept nnd got the key, opened the door, nnd was gone. Our search w-'s long and anxious, looking into wells, examining river-banks and cisterns, till at length we heard him singing! We found him in a ta'l grove, perched in the very top of one of the tallest trees. Wo , ,'i 1, tried to coax and flatter htm down, all to Ill, M1I 1U.-C At length I called for an nx and began to cut the tree down. Ho rub bed his hands with delight: '.That s V, Doctorl that's il! Now I'll havo a good ridel "Mr. Uraisley," said I, resting as if pxatinted with fatigue, "Mr. Braisley, lalways thought you wt re gentleman oeiore: "And why ain't 1 now?" "Would a gentleman sit there lo ride, and maku nio cut down tho treel No, he would come down and cut it down himself " lus miiiule he was down nnd pecking away at the tree- We then a-sured him that the axe was too dull, and that dinner would wait too ni', and thus we got him home. Ho had been with me about right minlhs, gradually growing calmer and belter; but there was something which I could not understand. He was moudy no'emn, and gloomy during the day, and restless during the night. He would tart, and talk in his sleep. During this time my interviews with the niece, Lucy Draisley, were frequent to report progress, to express my hope and feam, and to explain my reason for such nmr-snch treatment. Her aunt, the wife, was too feeble and too nervous to attund to it, and so she resided in the city, and lull it all to her niece and myself. Was il wonderful that she should thinh nty plans wise and judicious, and that t should admire hrsiitifnl orphan who was watching over a innnisc with so much interest, and who could 10 reaciily appreciate my services? It was evident that my calling bim a villain had made a deep impresoion npon Uraisley. 1 could detect him fishing for my real sentiments on that point, and so apparent was hi desire lo know what I thought ol hint, that my own stis-p'cions began to be awakened. He had now, ten months after h came to mo, becotus aln0S entirely rntlnml: and yet them u'ns a dark! Klriuik from I lot cloud still left, which I could j nor, explain or fathom. 1 his I was anxious lo unravel, nnd t set mywilf to work luaordingly. After he hail retired to his rest and wu asleep, 1 slipped into his mom in tho place of S'Hcy, every ulher night for a firtniliU These wure sleepless nights In nut, but I win wellcotnpun Milcd. rtclore this. 1 hud nflercd an empty hand but a true and siiicerx heart U Lucy, tint por-lionh'Ht orphan, iti'd hliu h id consented lo unite her desls'iiy with mine. We looked forward lo privations and perhaps poverty, hutyoillh looks only on Iho sunny side of thtt future, nnd hope peeps out, from tin) darkest khadn. Wil limit telling her or any on my suspicion. I lid a plan of my own, Hr:iiley was so near recovered, ih -tt he begun tntit'k of resiimligf his business, Flo evidently felt c'raleful tn me fir what 1 had done lor him. Hut ho never spue of Lucynever liiipdrrfl nfler her any more than if there- had been no xil.ill person created. And now I ho tone had arrived, wlnoi mv patient was prniiuuneed by all to be cured, and was to lenve inn on ll.n morrow, 1 had one tsl. vetlo apply If lie couhl bear that, lie was cured. Undid hear it. It, was thus. The (lay before he was lo li-HVe toe, 1 sent for liim to coniit to me in my little parlor. Hu camo in and sat down in a chair which I hiul dosigneilly placed in a si rung Hichr. I iiroseand locked tho doors and put iho' keys in my one; el. I then sat down In f ire him and looked him full in the fore. He was troubled, but said nothing. "Mr. Uraisley, months ago you n"d lo talk and groan about having mined and robhed orphans! 1 want to know how much of it was insanity, and how much was living I nil )i ?" "What, "takes villi ask me such a question V said he haughtily. 'because, sir, I have mv tnispicimis." "Whrro did yon get them ? Has bury It rais-ley been pi.tlirig them into your head' 1 hear you nre thick with her.,' "No, sir. Lucy never said ft word, and I pre-sumo never indulged n thought prejudicial to you. I have it from a better witness." "vl'honi do you mean ?" "Yourself." "I 1" "Yes. I havo hbpt In you room, or rather watched in your room, while von were sleeping for a fortnight at a time ; and I have In-ard the revelations of a roiiseiriice which sleep could not quint." Fie was now palo, and shook in every j.iint ami limli. "What do you suspect, Doctor ?" "That, you have robbed Lucy of soventy-five thousand dollars." Hardly gasping as ho tried to breathe, he added, "This is all you suspect ?" ".To, sir, I suspected you murdered vour brother John for the sake of robbing his child." ,"bw could I,' whim ho died away from home?" ' !y kIo-.v roisov I" lie said not a word, but sank down on the Hour like lead, faint, and heardly breathing. Now, then, thought I, a lew moint'iits will decide whether lis is lo bo a maniac lor life or not. I threw water on him, nnd after a while he opened his eyes nnd looked anxiously around. It was not tin- eye of a madman. "Doctor! ttli! just heavens I T am in vour hands. What shall 1 do? As you would have mercy at the Ureat Day, show mercy In m !" Mr. Uraisley, 1 shall requiru you to do two iniiigs nrsi to rcHtore to Tour niece til" seven ty-live thousane" dollars, with interest, from I he (lealli ot her father; and second, that, within two months von leave vour country for ever. On ihese two conditions I promise never to di vulge your secret, ami ou their lullilim nt, I can safely promise you that you will never Rgain divulge them in your sleep." Never did a poor wretch more cheerful! v make tho required promises than did he Nav, it seemed lo take a load off his mi ml and heart at. oui-e, We were both aware that I had no legal evidence thnt could convict him, and yet lie as gladly accepted my proposals, as I made them. He kept his word to tint letter. Ho paid over the money, nnd poor Lucy always toippie-ed it was the recovery of debts due her father, unexpectedly recovered. I need nut tell you how I married tho beautiful girl what a patent of a wife she was how many years she whs l he light of my dwelling, and a blessing to inn and mine how she loft me nt length in my age, tvnen i neeueu ner the most, and loved her tho most left me and went up to that pure world where there is no death because there is no sin, how my aged eyes weep at tho remembrance of what sho was. and ween. too. with lov at the thought of what sho will lie when f timet her again. J am now an old man. I have had mauv cases of insanity since, and have had many years of anxiety in my profession, but no year lias been so anxious, and no patient has been of such cimscquciico to me as mt inmn patient. A Word to Young Men. There is a practice too prevalent union ' tho young men of our day and generation ;" a practice, tho result of w.noh is not only the momentary gratification of a vicious and passion-led mind ; but a self- conscious shame in the wrong door, and a want of respect for those for whom he should entertain the highest sentiments of regard, and whom he should desire to place in that position which would alleviate Ids mind nnd not degrade it. We mean the too frequent practico young men, and old ones too, have of speakingly lightly and carelessly of the good name of woman the fairest creature of the handiwork of God. What is more shocking- to a pure. and modest mind what is moro grating upon the affections of n truo manly heart, than to hear men, for an evenigs entertainment, discoursing lasciviously upon woman a subject which should ongage only the purest thoughts of tho mind and tho highest encomiums of man. Young man 1 beforo uttering one careless word of disrespect for her stop and remember thnt, you have a sister, if not a ...... uiuviii.1 u nr, n wuiiimi , o,vu i KM,i gllrllljSB Vuur ft.eijn, pf d;,, nnd Bltpr r,,ltf mtlllAH Ofna M nmnm .Inn I j contempt for tho man should vou be an unooserveu nmutor to his remarks whose lips were wantonly dallying with the sacred name of a sister ; or her whom your heart prizes most of earth's gems. If you would not havo your heart lacerate d by such remarks as depreciate the virtue of woman, never give utterance to them yourself; but discountenance them nt all times under all circumstances. This littlo set mon which we preach is no over wrought picture of the imagination ; it is of too fre-nuent occurrence, and would to God it were less so. Wasmixotow, Nov. 10, Tho Secretary of the Navy withheld his instructions from Commodore Paulding until the arrival of Pacific, and it Is now understood that in consequence of official intelligence from England assuring our Government that the despatch of the British . sqnadron to the West Indies has no reference to Central American matters, nor any object hostile to tho United States, only one vessel of the home squadron will proceed to Nicaragua, viz; The fl ig ship Potomso w;h Commodore Paulding, in chargo of the general interest of the United Ptes in that quarter; ' "I am going to dra' this bean into a knot, ss tbe younfj iady said wh"a she '.ood at tho hymenml alt. ji;vd &4T Tho lady whose heart " swelled with indigmitio.i," had it reduced witn, politics. '"'''' ' Stu! wns the first Know Nothing on record, When he got in a tight place, he called up the hpiiit of "Samual." .' ' ; A wedding recently came off at Memphis which wns made the occasion of a. graml charivnii. from the fact that it was. tho ninth lime the bride had been married. Some impertinent old bachelor' says if "Show me all I he dresses a woman nasi worn in tho course of her life, and I will wiite her biography from them." '' ' " Ptiianob InpicKr. Said a Scotch glrf, "I dintm ken wiia mak's brother Will like the lassi-s so. F t my part, I'd rather; have one laddie than two latses!" ' ,; Fins Timbs An ear An Arkansas p. per fpeaking of the prospects in that Slate) says : " t'oin will be at l.r cents a bush-, t-l, beef at 'I cents a pound, pork at 2 cents a pound ; ami btbies to give away!" I thought you wnf born on the first of April, said a Benedict lo a lovely wife who hud mentioned the 21 si asher birth-bay.' Mo-t people would ihinkiso from the choice) 1 made of a husband, she replied, . A ch Id, when asked why a certain tree grew crooked, replied" Somebody trod upon i, I suppose when it was a little fellow." How painfully suggestive is that answer I A lawyer in Portland lately moved hi nn ofiice that had been vacated by a relig- , .1 1 , -. 1 1 his news paper, nun upon me door is sun seen, under his name, those exceedingly questionable word : "Zion's Advocate." A clergymen la'ely elucidated hi text "He that is without in among you," Ac, by this consummately recondiie paraphrase "It is the prerogative of innocence to project the initiatory bowlder!" riKcnrs, what Kams. The mnrriagn of Mi.-s Polly Scherecongosl is unnounced in a western paper, and we perceive that John Olieiibaiibeiigrapcnteinersliob nhi. cher has a letter advertised in the Cincinnati post office. A Dutchman being a ked, on the evening after the elec i'n in Downieville. what liekel he voted, replied lhat he didn't knowj but it was "de ticket niit do wings on." The Know Nothing ticket had the Aiueid can eagle emblazoned on it. . .... A discontented man was perpetually in the habit of reminding hi second ni) what an excellent manager his first wife was. Out of all pitience, she one day comforted him with the remark- that no one regretted her death more than she did. A company of twen'y-eight parsons, moving west, passed through Lafayette, Indiana, tho other day. Nineteen of tho number were xlmkinij with the ague, from which fact the edhor of the Journal infers) that they came from a "shaker" settlement.Two unnccup'ed frame dwellings, owned by a New York millionaire, wew stolen and carried away a few days ago. The owner excuses his folly in leaving such properly exposed, by saying that a captain of police lived opposite the stolen houses and he thought they were safe. The captain thinks he will catch the thieves when they come back for the lot , A rr.an who does not claim to be a judge of swine, snva ' Last spring I bought .1 little pig out of a drove, and ho was good for eating, but wouldn't grow much. He got so afier a week or two lhat ho would eat a large bucket full of dough, and afier he had swallowed it all, I picked up the pig nnd put liim in the same bucket I had fed him Irom, and the Utile cuss didn't fill it half lull 1" A sweet little boy, after reading Bun-yan's Pilgrim's Progress,' said to his grandmother, ' Grandma, which of tho characters do yon like best 1" She replied, " Christian, of course ; he is the hero of the story." He responded, "I like Christiana best, because when Christian set out on his pilgrimigo he went alone ;; but when Christiana started she took, the children with her." ' . . A gent was called upon- to, apologize for words uttered under the ipfluence of wine; ' I beg pardon," Buid he;- "I did not-mean to say what I did; but I've had the misfortune to lose some of my front teeth;; and words get out every now and then without my knowing a word about It1 Ho was going on when a fr'nnd pulled him I down by the coat-tail, saying, "Don't say- one word more: never, never was II ere a. mnro pefect apology. If you add a worL more, you'll spoil it completely. The best retort we have seen for ling timo was that of a gentleman, as reported by a contemporary, who, on being-awakened by the ciptain of the boat with 1 the announcement that he must not occu py Lis berth with his boots in, very considerately replied: "Oh! never mind; the bujs won't bnrt (hem much, I guess; they're an old pair. Let'em rip."- . . ( , . , , . ' Do yon lnow, Mr. IMutes, thai I was very much frightened, when I first traveled on the la'ars," said MrsBlloicr lo Mr. P., at the breakfast table this morn-lug. ' Il was jut af er mv marlIage.,' " Why. madam why ?" inquired Pi Why V inquired the excellent land- lady; "they ran so fast that tbe house a and tree on the road seemed just a, if they-were flying." - , ' " Tut, tut, that's oo'hing. madam; notn-nff. .t all. Wht-n I first traveled frora, Baltimore to Wbfeling, on1 the great Baltimore ami Ohio Railronl. the ears ran, so. fast that the telegraph poles- on the rovl. looked exactly like a small tooth eomb '? Amanmina, Ama-nn-th. another eup-of coffee, if you please." Wat h. Oran By alongjonrniy we kiow fcVy strength, so lesgth of days shown 1 rTrr-rrT