The New York Herald Newspaper, March 9, 1867, Page 4

4 BARNUM AND WIS HUMBUGS. where they had refused to apnoar and sign their names unless their creditor would preseat them with @ hand- some bonus, Tho name of one of our pensioners was Bevans, His nickname) was “Unele Bibvins.” Ho loved his glass, and was excessively fond of reiating apocryphal revolu- tionary adventures, We could hardiy namo a batue which he had not beon in, a fortress which ne had not helped to storm, nor any remarkable sight which be had not seen, A “ used up his pension in “Unele Bibbins”? had pearly trate at our store, We held his papers, but three months. aw his mouey, We de- were to elapse before he cou sired to devise some plan to get him away for that length of time, He had relations in Guilford, aad we hinted to him that it wonld be pleasant for him to spend a few mouths with his Guilford friends, bat he did not seem foctiaed to go I finally hit on an expedient that I thought would effect our A journeyman hatter named ‘Benton worked for my uncle Nicholas, He was of a joke I in- duced him to call Uncle Bibbins” a coward, tell him he had been wounded in the &o., and thus pro voke a duel. He did 60, eadat my suggestion ‘Uncle Bibbins” challenged Benton to fight him with musket and ball at a distance of twenty yards, The challenge was ted, I was chosen second by “Uncle Bibbins,"’ and the due! was to come off mme- diately. My principal, taking me aside, begged me to a nothing in the guns but biank my my I assured im it should be 60, and therefore that he might feel Perfectly safe. This gave the old man extra courage and caused him to brag tremendously. He declared that he had not been so long in bloody battles for nothing, and that he would put a bullet through Benton’s heart at the first shot, The ground was measured in the lot at the rear of our store, and the principals and seconds took their How the Showman Deceived the People. HIS EARLY TRAINING, ke. Ke. Be. of P. T. Parnum, candidate for Vongress pisos ioe ag Fourth district of Connecticat.) Barnum’s First Lottery Swindle. On one occasion a pedior called at our store with a Jarge wagon filled wish common green glass bottles of ‘various sizes, holding from half a 7 toagallon, My employers were both absent, and I tered him to trade hus whole load of bottles in exchange-for goods, Think- fing me a greenhorn he accepted my n, and I managed to pay bim off in unsalable at exorbitant tices, Soon after he departed Mr. Keeler returned and ound his little store half filled with bottles, «What under heaven have you been doing?” said he surprise. or ave been trading gots for bottles,”’ said L. “You have made a | of yoursolf,” he exclaimed, “for you have bottles enough to supply the whole town for twenty ah I begged him not to be alarmed, and promised to get rid of the entire lot in three months. “If you cam do that,” said he, “youcan performa in miracle,” At the word given both partics 1 then showed him the list of goods which I had ex- |¢*Uncle Bibbins,”’ of co OS Reker but Benton ebanged for the bottles, with the extra prices annoxed, sevoral Toot feo the ‘alr, and fell upon the and he found upon figuring that I had bartered a lot of worthless trash at a rate which brought the new mer- chandise to considerably less than one-half the wholosale price. He was pleased with the result, bat wondered what coutd be done with the bottles, We stowed away the largest portion of them in the loft of our store, ‘My employers kept what was called a barter store. Many of the bat manufacturers traded there, and paid us in hats, giving “store orders’? to their numerous em- loyés, including journeymen, apprentices, female hat pty ‘&e, Of course we had a largo number of cus- tomers, and I knew them all intimately, I may say that when I made the bottle trade I had a project in my head for selling them all, as'woll as getting rid of a large quant ty of tiaware which had been in the Biore for some years, and had become bogrimmed with dirt and tly specks. ' That project was a lottery. On tho first wet day, therefore, when there were but few cus- tomers, I spent several hours in making up my scheme. Tue highest prize was $25, payable in any kind of goods tomer desired. Then I had fifty prizes of $5 oach, g 10 my scheme what goods each prize should stance, one $5 prize consisted of r cotton hose, one cotton handkerchief, two tin four pint glass bottles, three tin skimmora, quart glass bottle, six ' tin nutmeg — graters, n half pint glass bottles, &., &c.—the glass tuware always forming the greater portion prize. I had one hundred prizes of one doliar each, ona hundred prizes of fifty cents each, and threo hundred p izes of twenty-five cents each, There wera ono thousand tickets at fifty cents each. The prizes amounted to the samo as the tickets—$500. 1 had taken an idea from the church lottery, in which my grandfather was manager, and had many rizes of only half the cost of the tickets, I Fendea the scheme with glarimg capitals, written in my best hand, setting forth that it was a “Magnificent ground with a dreadful yell, as if he bad been really shot. ‘Uncle Bibbins’’ was trightened. As his second T ran to him, told him that in my burry to take the ball from Beuton’s gun I had by some mistake neglectod to extract the builet from his, and that he had undoubtedly killed his adversary. I then whispered to him to go immediately to Guilford, to mone. quiet and be shouid hear from me as soon a8 it would be safe todo 80, He started up the street on arun and immediately quit the town for Guilford, where he kept himself quiet antil it was time for him'to return and sign his papers. I then wrote him that ‘he could retura in safety, that almost miraculously his adversary lad rezovered from his wound and bow forgave him all, as he felt himself much to biame for having in tho frst place insulted a man of his known courage.’* “Uncle Bibbins” returned, signed the papers, and we obtained the ponsion money, A few days thereafter he met Benton. “yly brave old friend,” said Benton, “T forgive you my tornble wound and long confinement on the vory: brink of the grave, and I beg you to forgive mo also, insulted you without a cause.” . “I torgive you freely,” said “Uncle Bibbips,”’ *but,’” he continued; “you must be careful next time how you insult a dead shot."” Beaton promised to be more circumspect in future, and “Uncle Bibbins” supposed to the day of his death that tho duel, wound, blood and all was @ plain matter of tact, Barnum Humbugs a Poor Irish Pedler—Tho Bogus Trial. Notwithstanding my pressing basinoss goments Toccasionally indulged in what always’ gave mo so much pleasure; a practical joke. On one occasion an irish pedier callod upon my uncle, Edward Taylor, for a writ against one of our neighbors, who, ho said, had Foltery!”” “$25 tor only fifty cents!!? “Over 550 | turned him out of his house and otherwise abused him. prizes! 11 “Only 1,000 tickets!!!!"” “Goods put in | My uncle told bim that ho knew our neighbo 1 re he at the lowest cash prices!!! ! 1?" &o. ‘The tickets went like wildfire. Customers did not stop to consider the nature of the prizes. Journcymen hat- tera, bosy batters, apprentice boysand bat trimming girls bought tickets. ‘In ton days they were all sold, A day was fixed for the drawing of the lottery, and it came off punctually, as announce The next day, and for several days thereafter, adven- turers came for their prizes. A young lafly who had drawn five doliars would find herself entitled to a piece of tape, & spool of cotton, a paper of pins, sixteon tin skimmers, cups and nutmeg graters, and a few dozen gines votties of vartous sizes! She would beg me to re- tain the glass and tin ware and pay her in somo o:her ‘oods, but was informed that such a whoa would contrary tothe rales of the establishment, and could not be eutertained for a moment. One man would find all bis prizes to consist of tin- ‘ware. Another would discover that out of twenty tickets he bad drawn perhaps ten prizes, and tbat they peace bie, well disposed man, and that he was ad never turned.any person out of bis house without good reason; he should therefore decline being engaged in the case. Tho pedier came into my storo, and after hearmg his story I was _convineod that he was himself to blame. I told him I practised at tue bar aud would issue awrit against tho cuiprit if he desired it, He handed mo a tee of a couple of dollars, and I pro- ceeded to issue a writ, naming the bour for trial at eleven o’ciock the same day. The writ was put into the wands ofa mock constable, with orders to serve it instantly upon the defendant. Owing to the importance of tho easo I brobgie it before turee judees, consisiing o: my grandfather, Mr, Parsons (a mason who happened at time to be buliding a chimuey in tho village,) and Zachariah Porter, our. village butoher. The anticipated trial was immediately noised all over the place, and at cleven o'clock my mother’s barroom was crowded with spectators. three venorablo judgos were upon the bench, bearing themselves with as consictod epticely of glass botties. Some of the cas. | much dignity as if thoy constituted the Court of Erroi tomers were vexed, but most of them at the | It was decidediy a demootatio-court im appearance; for joke. Tho basket loads, the —_ sin bags rer eee ren lox bat home, series ie _ garden and i, me Of wollod tin ond giewgvat tow daye ‘atter the lowvory | directly from his untalsted ‘chimusy, woro eh old palt of overails and a leather apron, besides being pretty cl Fre swith mortar and (elt Jerod seo 18). one or more specimens of tin or green “Su ‘orter,’ without a other days every giass bottle had disappeared, and B00 ta — opens 1 aie eens nd blood Of @ onif ware replaced smaller quantity ag | which . ailver. = ate ‘The prisonor had not yet arrived; aed of course-would My uncle, Aaron Nichols, husband of aunt | not, inasmuch asl had really not sent. for ‘bita: (hy. Laura, wass hat mauufacturer on ‘a larze poate | client took bis seat by Shenae L pretended 10 ba in Grassy Plains. His employés purchased quan- | titensely ocou 1a writing out the heads ee Oke tities of tickets. He bough’ twelve, and was very | mout, notes of the evidence ko, lucky. He drew seven “thoy! | Biinutes I apologized to the “honorable court” for tho were all to be paid slang le \ergad eats banedhend any pestis gap of the oye L hoped had rot in his looking like @ tim pediar as he went | escay ance ould, “{ m the atreet, fo days unt Laura | fore soon be ties Se “aha was brought them ali back. ST bave spent glx Bours” aid abe, “io passer ie Kp aa | and pome of this tin bright, but tt te im; ae ag i ae to the to give me some other goods for it.” I told her st was 4 id nigchrs, would be to. quite out of the question. aoe tient in 2 lot ane RewSOU NC AOUN conaire wnt What on garth do you suppose Toan do with allthis / fti™ Mi ing testimonials of his good character ‘into Troplied that if my unclo Michols had the good for- | court. He roplied that a days would be meeded, dune to draw go many prizes, would be mption in | Inasmuch as he resided in Fairfield, Coon, 1 suggested ‘what use ho abould make of thea. to him that we bad better tho oourt a weok for “Your uncle is a fool, or he would never bave boaght ‘any ticke:s in such a worthless lottery,” said she. Yianghed ‘outright, aud. thes only added to hor vexe- | that he was @ honest and Well disposed tion. She called me many hard names, but I only | ¢kizeu. I then rore with much di and made the motisa to laugbod in return. Finatty, says 1, “ Aunt Laura, why don’t taxe | adjourn the court for a stating my reasous there. ‘ * J hear. for. The court considered the question, and foguten (tenap her tagde weete ae afather dolivered Its desision.. Tao honorable Ober your tin over tnquiring this morning at the breakfast table where she could buy some tin skimmera.”” “ Well, 1 can supply her,”’ said my auot Laura, taking half-a-dozen skimmers apd an assortment of other ar- ticles in ber apron, and proceeding at once to my board- ing house across the street. the door," I ut Rusbia,’’ said she, as she entered me to sell you some tin skimmers."? rey on us!” exclaimed ‘Auat Rushia,’ “I have ‘kimmers enough.’’ justice Co ng gl 16 was customary, said Aunt Rushia, laoghing; for I drew seven skimmers in the lottery.” Auvt Laura returned more vexed than ever. She empiiod the whole lot 0” tin upon the floor of the storo, and declared she would never have it in her house agaio. She returned home, I immediately dospaiched the lot of tin to her house in a wi It reached thero before she did, and when she entered her kitchen she found th tioware piled up in tho middle of the room, wiih foliowing specimen of my pootry dangling from tthe spectators. Tho prigoner did not arrive, but I assured my clieut he necd-give him. gentlemen a3 weil as self no uncasiness upon that porat. have him in the bande of the eh heavy bonds for his appearance on Thursday of tho fol Stood adjourned, My cient thon siarted for Fatrfield to procure affidavits of character. Tuis was ali wo ox ated to hear about the haudle of # tin coffee pot:— Case, ag Wo Wore quite sure that the first persons to whom There was a man whose namo was Ni he retared his adventure would undeceivo him in regard Tle drew seven prizes very # ick; wey to the facts, aud of course that he would be tov much For the avails he took tinwers, ashamed to reappear. Which eansod his wife to fret and swear. ‘On the following Thursday, at about one o'clock, a ‘Tt was several weeks bofore aunt Laura forgave | lawyer irom Newtown rode into Bethel, dismounted, and ‘me the joke. At about that period, however, she sent | walkod into the law office of my unclo, Edword Aylcr, me a mince pie nicely covered over In clean white paper, | After passing the compliments of the day be said, “ marked on the outside, “A mince pie for Taylor Bar- | brother faylor, we have a case to try to-day, T boltove ?° num." “Not that I am aware of,” said my uncle, I was delighted. Y cut the string which surrounded it “O yes,” returned the Newtown counsel; “I havo ‘and took off the paper. The pie was baked in one of the | been earagod toa alst you in the prosecution of a man ‘unwashed tin platters! Of course, I could not eat it; | for abusing our client." ‘Dut it was an evidence to me of reconciliation, and that “Who ts oar client ?* asked my uncle, afternoon I took tea with my aunt, where I had enjoyed “An Irisu aan, a pedier,”’ was the response. many an exce)tent meal before, and have done the same My uncle saw what was tn the wind. and moroly thing scores of times since. replying, “O yes, I had forgotten it,” excused bim- My grandfather enjoyed my lottery speculation very | self fora fow minutes. He then came and informed much, ond seemed to agree with many others who do- | mo of the state of the case. Iwas somewhat alorme. a, clared that I was, indeod, ‘a chip of the old block.” end ran with the information to my grandtathor. He Barnum’s Eurly Education—The Tricks of feared it would prove a serious matter, and locking him- Trade. self in his vedroom gave notc. to his houwseboid that Mesere. Keoler & Whitiock sold out their store of he was “not at —— danas saan . The chimney on which Judge Varsons was engaz% goods to Mr. Lewis Taylor in the summer of 1827. Ire | was just peering through the roof of the build. mained s short 4ime as clerk for Mr. Taylor. They havo the venerable dispenser of law, sitting ‘8 proverb in Compeotieat tbat “the best school in which to have a boy learn vuman nature is to permit him to be T would be sur) to and fridge of the house, was ' cailing, “More mort!’’ (more mortar,) just as my head aa: & tin pediar for afew years.” I think his chances for | shoulders became visibie on the top of the ladder. I “getting his oye. eth eut’’ would be equally ina to acquaint Judge Parsons with the seri sus turn country barter store like that In which Iwas olork. As | our law joke was taking, upon which, in much fright, he Defore stave! mamy of owt customers were hatiers, and ged me to go down as soon as possible, so that he we took bate ia MY. « turers dealt pretiy t.riy by way fry occasionally shaved us prodigious. tno trade whieh, there can more was could place himself bey ond the reach of the Newtown law. yer orauy otheradvorrary. I descended; the Judge immo- @iately drew up the iadder, and thus cut off all comma- nication with terra firma. I jumped on a borso and in bat. If « ———_ m7 a “4 started for Danbury, giving opment thy Sate aheenes otherwise, perhaps aout a io “~~ house I passed upon ive way, ‘it woul 3 was sure ibe met ‘wp, smoothed over, and lipped for ‘him to approach the village at that time, in with others to send to the store, Among the furs used The Irishman soon made his appearance. My uncle Ed- for the nap of hata im thowe days were beaver, Kussia, ‘Butria, otver, coney, &o, The best fur was otter; the poorest was cong. ward had in the meantime explniued the affair to tho New- town lawyer, who was exceedingly chacrined at tho “(ake-in.”” Calling bis client aside he demanded a feo of + The hatters mixed their Inferior fare with a little of | ¢3. The Irishman handed over the money, whoreupou their best, and sold us the hate for “otter.” We in re- | his counsel sald, “Now I advise you to get out of this turn mixed our eu, teas and liquors, and gave place as soot as possible, for they aro all making a fool the most valuable names. It was ‘dog eat doz!—tit ” for tat." Our cottons was ee Se ee ‘astonished Hibernian asked for an explanation, ‘but none was vouchsafed him. The lawyer mounted his horse and starved for Newtown, leaving bis amazed client in asad qoandary, Entering my store quired for me. My clerk tuformed him I was out of town aod might not be back fora tavunth. Several of the neighbors camo in ‘and began joking the Irishman about trying his cause before a farmor, mason and butchor, with a lottery tickot sollor a8 his counsel, who manaxed to muiot him in “a our We 4 less that we heard. Our caters would Me calicoes wore all "' according to our representations, and the ron “fast” enough and show company for tho priviloge of having boen them a tub of soapsu: Jar ground cofles was as good Salone doors. i ‘fas burned peas, beans and corn could make, and our ‘The Irishman started off, swearing he would prosccute under was tolerable, considering the price of Ht Legit ‘of trade’ corn meal. | the whole of us for swindling and obtaining y’ were numerous If “pedir false long time we were much afraid ranted to trade with us for 8 ox of beaver haia'worth | {tit Be'emond ec as good ‘an hi word He. talzht $60 por dozen, ber yor shro to obtain phen s, 1 Coneys”” | undoubtedly have done 90 Secossetally; bet, fan pres A dear ' our such @ prosscu' ould cause arranted to Koop good time, the ‘ctator, | [07 08 he concladed that such & Pree ey reflection y eat heat of drawers | was ailithat saved Ue mason, who is still living in like Pinder's f be ae 5 momo of whenascit | Danibary, will carry the te ‘Judge Parsons” to nis sary to form & clook could be ‘within the ease It ‘waa as lucky as extraordinary. Buch a school would “eat ay 4? bat if it did not nscionce, morals alt the root Swoala be becavss ne end ag eters their educa- tion was completed! Barnum Hambags Uncle Bibbins—The Bogus Dael. AY, MARCH 9, 1867~ gut coming to trial ‘In the issue’ of the other, I was | retain therefor one-half of the recelpta. The re- wasen sutomaton, Then Gear, io) edhe tapas | Sioned a oes EERE soogs | EMER OREO a, ee a i ae iF Bixt: in the co st ngage jst, ti othe aa he ythonsht + | Dei Scan Prnaising: im Pram Woo, Be Me me was] WE “ sca alte fener ed bi 0 ad been pri in Pena ‘ a “ : ” a Bous offen-e, judged by the ral standard of ei An ing, a le . ly, mother, ' said the son, with evi e ment, “what ry ee are you talking about the gentleman and fis tamily mal rity of countenance, and the roy: nape tsriag be vue set poy 33 Mev 5 ‘unsophisticated old lady. wad ~ shrewd, od more parccularly meotivned; but the moat sericus of the libeis will justify a few lines ip detail, I was indicted for informing the readers of my paper that egertain Jay dignitary of @ chureh in Bethel had /beea culity of aking useryof aa orphan boy.”? The general fact was accompani-d by severe editorial eor- ‘pos. good knowledge of human nature, was polite, reeable, could converse on most subjects, and was ad- puirepig celoalaiad to fill the position for which I en- ed him, *S carry! f course, in ‘ont my new vocation of show. man, Lapared no Teasceabieatioets to make it successful, litical warfare; the suit entered, but not tried need not | | zal 1 was aware of the great power of the public press, and m Boston we went to 1m, and thence in suc- menlary, and criminal prosecution Was instituted against | T To amene Oe Oe eect my ability. Lyman wrote | oassion: to Lowell, Worcester Geriegteld aud Hartford, ‘The caso came to trial, and several witnesses, includ. | brief memoir of Joice, and, putting it into @ phiet | meeting with» most satisfactory success, Everywhere ing the party accused, proved substantially the truth of | form illustrated with her porirait, sold it to visitors on | there appeared to be conviction of the extreme longevity my stateinsne, But,'dast “the greater tho ceutn the | Bis own account at six conts por Copy. Sac anien 1 ere, ‘ \ @reater the libel;’’ and besides, I had employed the 1 had the same portrait printed on innumerable smal We hastened ‘our return to New York to fill a form “usury,” T termed the died anextorsion, or | bills, and also flooded the city with “posters,” setting | second T ‘bad made with Mr. Niblo. note-shaving, or grinding the face of the poor oephas ee = peculiar seupeuons Oe ce 4 ~ aa nJnstitute ‘ashington’’ presented. Here rt dae ertce mnlghy Reve deen didereai—pat } bad | advertisements and notices of that day:— at the same time, cailed the act “usury."” The judge charged the as though he were the asiscasy to woe rma’ Ninto's Ganoex.—The greatest curfosity {a twas believed 10 experionce personal gatistagtion In'pro- | the mont ularly to Americans, 1s now or jcanta that Touueing tho sentence which Thave airosty mentioned, | boitag atthe axloon Frontingoa Broadway, 16, the build. | appllcanta that the ball was Twas very comfortably provided for in the common | {24 terat George Washingion (ihe father of our couniey). | hurry up the wabritens, 2 Jai of Danbury, I bad my room papered and carpeted | who has arrived at the atsetah ‘age of 161 years, 44 2U- | anawer questions with great aaa lity, ‘tous to taking possession as a tenant for sixty days; | thentic documents will ‘and in full possession of her the front door ry lived well; was even oppressed by the almost consiant | montal facuities, She {a cheerful and healthy, althong': she ed be seed Vislis of cordial friends; edited my papor ag usual, and | weighs but forty-nine pounds. She relates many anecdotes | opening the a her youn; ‘+ faeived several hundred additional subscribers to my | $f/'n0 fio revolutionary war, but docs not appear to hold From Niblo's we webt uring the term of my imprisonment. them in high eatuantion, where the orowds were as ‘large ‘When that term was ended the event was celebrated | She has been visited by erowds of ladies and gentlemen, | turned to New York amd procecded to 1 by a large concourse of psople from all the country | among whom were and physicians, who t with a je where 2 round, It was cotebrated in the court room in which I | have pronounced her most ancient specimen of mor- | me! usual succoss. From Newark we returned had been convicted for libel, An admirable odo writion | tality the oldest of them has ever seen or heard of, and con- | to New York and went to Albany for one week to fill an fore craton wan sn, nd an slot oration x | “hc, ty fttnSur ft nao church oc uownre | Sntgn™s made Wit MF Mose the proprietor of the tho Freodgm of the Press wa dolivered by the Rev. T. | oc‘ononundred yours, aad acems to take great sitistaotion | Museum. Z Fiske. Several hundred gentlemen afterwards partook the conversation of ministers who visit her. She fre- Meanwhile poor old Joice had sickened, and with her quently sings and repeats parts of hymns an‘ pssims. Another advertisement contained # still closer appeal to both patriotism and curiosity :— Joice Heth ts unquestionably the mostastonishing and in- teresting curiosity In the world. She was the slave af Augu:. tine Washington (the father of George Wasitington), and was the first person who put clothes on. fhe unconscious infant who was destined in after days to Iead our heroic fathers to glory, to victory and to freedom. To use her own language when speaking of her young master, George Wasb- ‘ington, “she raised .* Editorial notices were abundant in many papers of the day, news, literary, political and religious—of which the following may serve as samplos:— Joie WetH,—The arrival at Niblo'a Garden of this re- attendant, a faithful colored woman whom Ighired. in Boston, had gone to my brother’s house in Bete where sho was provi with warm apartments and the best moslog snd other a mm tho Zist of Februury, 1836, my brother's horses aad sloigh slapped at the dbor af ing boarding baneste New York, Tho driver, handed, me # letter from my brother Philo, Sain Aunt Joice wag no more,’ She died at his house on Friday night, the 19th, and her body was then in the sleigh, having been conveyed to New York forme w dispose of as 1 thought proper. Tatonce determined to have it returned to Bethel and interred in our village burial ground, though for tho proseut it was placed in’s sinall room of which I had the key. ‘The next morning I called on an eminent surgeon who, of a sumptuous dinner, and the wasts and Emcee while not lecting the subjects usual in political social festivals, Felated prominently to the circumstances which had catied the people together. ere came os — ane pe of ne Leeroy ‘was reported and described as wa in any paper Decomber 12, 1832 :— igh P. T. Barourn and the band of music took their seats in a hich had been prepared for the preceded by forty horsemen and 9 thi was the carriage of the orator and Pres. followed by the Committee of Arrangements e3 of citizeus, which joined in esoorting'the in Bethel. ‘ a hors The coach wa marshal bearing the national standard. Immediate! Fear of the conc ‘When the proveaston commenced its march, amid the roar of cannon, three chooss were given by soveral hundred aicie | nowned relic of tie olden time has created quite asensation | pon visiting Joico at Niblo's, had expressed a desi Zens wlio uid not join in the rovess/Ga. ‘The band of music | among the lovers of the curious and the marvellous, and a | ¢P% wins eae ccaninalionAd ake oeteut sontivued to play ® variety of tadonal airs wall chelr ar- | freaiey objeokof ariel, nai,curiosy asnerar Rrosoated | fi, a tate” boantey. agreed. that he.” shoud Fival in Betivel (a distance of three milea), whon they struck | ttseif for their gratification, From the length of her libs depose? fl B une’ of “Home, Rweet | aud the size o! her, ones, it is probable sue was a large, | have the opportunity, if unfortunately it should up the beautiful and appropriat Home.’ After giving three hearty cheers, the procession returued to Danbury, The utmos) harmoay and unanimity stout womaa in » bub now" 6 occur while suo was under my protection, I now in- oue's idea of an animated mummy. formed him that Aunt Joic> was dead, and ho reminded ‘comes up exact! to weight 18 ea. of feoling prevailed throughout the day, and we are hoppy | be less thn Ofiy pounda, hor feos have sbru ms of my promise, I admitied it, and tinmodiately to nd tat no wecident oocurred to mar the festivities of the | and Your, mal, fer Jon thet ana proceeded ta urrange for the exaimmation to take place Feit withstanding her burden of yeara and { on the following day. No ove will bo surprised t hat I should have regarded lively, and 8e in the mean a mahogany coffin and plate were such areturnto my homo and family as a triumphal | hearla, is niuno-t as acule a thas of aay porson of weecined. eas taken \o'tua Bal Ware the cone naan march. [4 wasin effect @ vindication, because an ap- | xge.—Je was to take place, A large number of physicians, stu- proval of my course, and ® condemnation both of tho | | The Ghemsls oF dads dents, and t olontymen and editors were proseat. “common iaw of libel,” and of all who had been en- | sertleme Y Wit af eats | Among tho last named class w ard Adam; Locke, gaged in iny prosecution. ar of the celebrated * father, we can foon Hoax,” who was at that 2 ly editorial careor was one of consiant contest. have no doubi thar sie is 16) ys Her appear- | (ie edilor of the Now York ‘Sun. Barnum and Joico Hoth, Hea lets Futter 20 MLS ae mm, | site teen af tha ft an dred oy aot In thoJatter part of July, 1835, Mr Coley Bartram, of Fo venture : hat sine? the ood, @ Hkeciroum. | “tte region of tho heart was decined by \ue disseotor and. most of the gontlemen present an evidence against the assumed age of Joice. When all lad withdrawn excepting tho surgeon, his Prrticu ar friend Locke, Lyman and myself, the surgeon remarked, addrossing ‘m2, that there wa3 surely somo listake ja regard to the allezed age of Joico; that in- siead of being ong hundred and sixty-one yoars old sho was probabiy not over eighty. Tetated to him, in reply, what.was strictly true, that I hat hired Joice in perfect good faith, and relied upon her appearance andthe documents as evideace of the trvth of her st.ry. Tho samegentioman had examined hor when alive on exhibition at Niblo’s. He rejoined that he had no doubt I bad been deo-ived in the matter, that her personal appearance really did indicate extrem? longevity, but tuat the documents must e.tucr have bec forvod, or else they appil)d tosome other individual. Lyman, who was always ready for a joke, no matter What the cost nor at whos expense, here made a renark yegarding the jaability of the iaculty to docide with tawch precision in regard 10 a com» of this kind. is ob- servations wor.nded tue feolings of the surzeon, and tak- Ing the erm of bis triend Locke they loft. the Lall—I fear fo wot very food humor. 7 The Sun of the nextday (Fébruary 25, 1338) contained mmeoncing as witnessed equal (9 oa whi pon this week, Ancient oF modera (mas reat age of this woman. Methuselah ears old whea he died, but nothing is said e of his wife. Adam atiatued mesrly the age 1 descendant. it is not uniikeiy that is about ‘nish 10 resident of thy Reading, Conn, aud at presony, Staie culled at our store, Was acquainted with Sir, Moody and mysolf. Ho informed us tuat he had owned an‘inierost in an extraordinary uogro woman, named Joice Heth, whom bo believe to bo ono hundred and sixty-one years of age, and whom he also baiieved have ben the nurse ‘of Genesal Washington, “He bad sold out his interest to his partner, it. W. Lindsay, of Jolforson county, Kentucky, who was now exhibiting her in PhiladelpUta, but not having much tact as « ahowman, he was anxious to sell out and return homo. Mr. Barirain also handed mo a copy of the Pennsyl- vanla Inquirer of July 15, 1835, aud direoled my ation- tion to tho following adveriscwent, which I here ribo verbatim: — Cuniosity.—The citi the sex prosent exception; she cones vut boldly, and says she is ristng 160,— New York Daily Advertiser. ‘This old creature is sald to be 161 years of age, and we see na reason to doudt it. Nobody indeed would dispate it it she claime:l to be live esnturies, for she and the Egyptian mummy t the American Museom appear to be about of aw ga Now York Gorter and Bnguirer. he dear old indy, after ing om @ desperate flirtation with death, hus fin iy jilted in. En the iutnre editions we shall expect to se her represented as the impersonation of Tims in the Pruner, old ‘ime having given her #ceason Ucket for life, ‘The Wandening Jew and herself are the on}; two people we wot of that have buen pus on the free list 0} this world (or the sesso of elernity.—New York Spirit of the ‘anes Joico was an inveterate smoker, and Grant Thorburn (bottorknown as Lawrie Todd) save some ces ion of triumph to many editors by pubsishing ew arucle in the Evening Star, from which the following i3 ah extrackt— yo gen to gee Jotoe” Hethto day. Fmt that with all olen time were Nis the daughters at tho —uriwilling to toll their age. Jorce Heth is an ng of Philadelphia and ite vicinity have an opportunity of witnossing at th Masonic Hill, one Of the greatest natural curiosilies ever witncame dy’ vide, Jolce Heth, a no.xoss aged ony |undsed and sixty-one years, who formerly belonged to the father of Geueral Waahing- ton. She hs member ol the Baptiac church one hundred and aixie rs, and can rehearse mauy hymns, and sing them according to former cusio;n. ‘She was Lora near the old Potomac river, in Virginia, and has for ninety Or one hundred yeara lived in Yaris, Kentucky, with the Bowling tamily. 1 All who have seen this extraordinary woman aro satiefed | 0. ‘Save muatiien; bbete-a-grorauadumnatte, “Te ain editorial, written of course by Loeke, co: oftag itl tin espountf sho ngs Hoe crdowenot the | Qa ate dod t whsage! tha fuser ics us hips | fovowas “ Filo hale ot Augustine Washington, hisowe |) WOU"! never be ous of, ler smouii. Lasked or how font and sb” auswered “Une lundrad au Sow 1 Homi woh sara ahoncteal eeauatedl ot the beat at Fates theth Eeitdirng, ‘nd other evidence which the proprietor has im on the wos: iueredalk ‘twen ars. MUOKOg DO a poison, ib ‘o, lo Ber cave iorty reauied in ine Fe of onc ef the most prest. Minaya gtiond at ihe halt daring tie afccruoon and | St least, a very slow polson. or {bus hnibugs thet over was hpen # credulous cam. | evening for the sccommoecation of those ladies may ‘Onr exhibition usually opered with a statement of the | mauity. ene New York had Jal ‘vara cart ie wer Ce tho neha Hoth oe fag aid dui Locke them proceeded to give hsm ‘Account Ld nowspapers li ready furnished’ de-'{ as well 28 the account leced dissection, the reasons. he hed for-déubing scriptions this wonderful personago, and a readin: of the bill of sale. We would them:ques- poe oy " edusiderably excited upon tho satject 1 a her in refation to the birth and th of General Here me fay a word pa ht 4 who ouce.to Philadel, bia snd bad ag interview with Lindsay |.Wasbmaton, and she always gave answers | may claim that. bwas over credu! in ting the ab the dMasonic Hall, Anevery particular. Individuals the audienge | story of Joico and hec.exhibitor as.@ master oc fact. FE T was fai ly strnok wiih theappesrahoe of tho old } would frequently ask her quostiona, put ber to-tho } asvert, then, that when Joice Heth was. living | never woman, far as outward indications wore concerned ast crpss-examiaations, without evor flnding ber to | mot with six persons out of the many thousands..who she mnight @imosias po deca ye vece a * Cor] dav ue wre a ope ene of being @-piaim, pcg oecotal Agere oop of ho age any we ‘upon a hi, sl ent of fick «| an . Hundrec modi web assy! me 3 middie 0 room ; fds pete earemniiion Joico wag very fond of church music, to which she that they thought the statement of was | woro drawu up, Pas knoos clovated some two test | would beat time waving her 1 ~arm | and Dr, Rozers bimseit, in his c ‘above the top of tho lounge. Sie was apparently in | On cae cdcesion it York an aged. minister to mo that 6 have 40d health wad api ‘butdormer d'seaze or old or tse hdiae Gorn eho was sloging onv ef her favorite SaeaeaSa Aone kotvenin aemaaion \ieation ta bad rendered ber un: to | hymns, ho joined ber, and lined cach verse. She arteries around the region of tha and chest. habe could Was maoh pleased by tits clroumsiance, and sang withire- | Indeed, Mr. Locke ptainty indicated * in hor luabs were newed animation. After the hymn was finished: the | story by the following romarks found in the ‘not straizhtencd. clergyman lined off the verse of another Lymn, and | from which I make the above extract: f ranken’ immed remarkin:, “I kaow that hymo,’* “We wore halt toa the ty of theeyedalls nocined to Pave disap- [ajoined bin tt. Ho lined in this Soeeas, 5 We Prared siiogothen dav tad ‘se 5 ‘a | era! hymes which were entirely now to me, pour 0. ‘detehoutd 2 hoad of thigk, basmy gray hair. [Hor left arm lay across | case Joce knew , aad in ong OF two instances re- and Rot so much on Bot breast, ai she Had ‘ns Boxer to romove le “ue | tresied his memory when be found bimeol: at aloes to | sean of er Sxcuine od age and he, Publ euroaly ber i! wor awn down 80 a8 meart, Fors ine exact e the versea. ice loved te ‘Voclose'it, and remalued fixed and iminovabie. | coavers> ‘apo roll sions subjects, and frequently insisted | {0° {he high honor with whic she yas endowed im being the nuise of tae: y Locke's oditorial assorted that the age of Jeice did not excoed seventy-tive or eighty years, Whoa tho Sun newspaper appeared, and the account of the post mortem @.amination was read, thousands of, ou tho attendanco of cierzy nen for that purpose The question naturaily arises if Joice Heth was an imposter who taught her these things? au. how linppened it that she was so (amiliar, not toes also bad grown to the tuickness of noarly a quariur of an ined. She was very sociable, and would talk so | only with agciont psalmoty, bi: also with the mmute long aisltors Soule converse with hor. Sho sang a | dotails of the Washington faintly? To all thie, I unhosi- io tan bs lle ‘seen hor when alive, mre Tauch aston- Varioty of anciont hymns, and was very garrulous. when | taungly answer, 1 do not kno ed. ") mus bea mistake,’ one, “for her apeakin, of her 6,” “dear little 2," a8 she | theso things very appoarance Indicated her age to have been at lcast a Cormed tbe groat faiher Sfoureountry, She dociared ther | before L. ever saw her, and she taught ne many facts in:| RUAdred and twenty.” “She could not have-been loss than o hundped,”’ siid other, while still others believed abe was. prosen: at bia birt, that ras formerly the.| rolation to the Washington family with which I was not resonted. slave of Augustine ‘Washington, the faiuer of Goorge, | before acquanted. gy Ae Gf tne pootie & Lyman determined fand thatene way tho first person who put cluttics upon. mt where the oxhibiion waa highly | i Dut a, upon 9h ‘Gordon’ anett, of the him. ., “im fact," anid Juice, succoasfal, we went to Boston. This was my firat ap- Bech ‘ip therefore port, Be — 0 aion of hers, pearance in tho modern Athens, and I aw muon that we fab feos Baer Ong was now and ‘interesting to me. I attonded various churches, aod was pieassd to see such an almost universal observance of tho Sabbath, The theatres, too, were net permitted to be open on ‘Saturday evenings, and my mind reverted to the custom: of wany of our neighbors in Connecti- told him: that we had been bambagging Dr. Ro; that in fact Joico Heth was now b exh in Conneeticat, and that tho body ‘whi dissected as hers, was that of fn ta who at Harlem, Bennet wed the |. He dociared it was the best hoax ipsing Looke’s this, mixed with hor conversation upon reiig b Joots, for sho cintraed to be a member of ihe Baptist choreb, rendered her exhibition an extremely inierostiug ous. Tasked Me. Lindsay for tho proofs of her oxtraordinury . . rn bo ever Lesed of, eclipsing “moon. hoax”’ en- ‘and ho oxhidited what purporied to be a-bll of gaia | cut, why, according to the old Puritan fashion, ‘4 . fire Auguanne Washingtow of the county of Westmoro. | Saturday nght,” tiat ts, they considered that the pe fae asain gg ong Soo th land, Virginia, to “Elizabeth Atwood,” of “one negro | bith commenced with te setting of the sun on Satur | were vented by Lape ie heoes th woman, named Jotce Heth, aged fifty-four yeara, for and | day and closed at sundown on day, at which time | ¥% al Vonmaay oth 9 je from Re - in ihe in consideration of the suin of thirty-three pounds law. | they would recommenoetiarr labors aud recroatiens, Crete ae j, 1838, preceded by ng opened our exhibition In the small bali room of Coneert Hail, at the corner of Court and Hanover 8 The same of Joice had preco.ted her, the city was woll postod with large bills announcing: her coming, and the newspapers had heralded her anticipated arrival in such a multipleity of styles, that the public curiosity was on. tip-tos, [remember that ono of the papers, afsor giviug a description of Joic: Heth, and the groat fui money of Virginia.” The documon; bore the date “fifth day of February, ono thousand seven hundred and twenty-seven,” aud was “séaled and \vored ia pre- gence of Richard Buckoor and William Washington.’ The etory told by Lindsay and “Aunt Joico” was, that Mrs. Etizabeti Atwood was a sister-in-law of Augusiiae Washingion, that the tusband of Joice was a slave of Anotixn Ioax !—Annered ts @ tong rigmarole account of the dissection of Joice Heth, extracted trom, m Sus, whichis nothing more sor lossthan o fete hoax trom bemaning to end. Joice lieth ts nob dead. On Wednesday, last. as we learn from the best authocily, she was uving at sebron, in Connecticat, she theu was, ‘The subjedt on which Dr. Kogers and the mediet faculty of Barclay sweet have boon exercising their kote and their ee esa atwond ‘wash neat nelgivor of Me, | saiiataccion, which her exhibition had ‘viven in Now | U0 is the romaine Of & reapeciabio old nagress Washington, Aunt Joice was presoat at tho birth of “Iii | York, added. “It rejoico-heth us excoedingly to know | fouse by horsetia taclem Delonging to Mr, Clarke. She tleGeorge,”’ aud sto heving long, boon the oid family | that we shall be permitted to look upon the old pate | ts, a» Dr. Homers sagoly erate and Dr. ‘Locke, Tita col. eoree, ascursiely Fesusis, only eigniy Youre tr ores a tho firs parson upob to clothe the new reel was exhibiting be equally ga Nally taco ier death conapisioad oF latte tind atm. soemod ptaucibl “ 1] ebrated “autom! cuose-player” in the iarge She ‘vaberivise In ood ‘ eon tre bens A eee Th as coh eitel ie | Foo of Concort Hall; but the crowd of visitors to eee |. boWweYer, his beon very seteta, and so she gave uD che ghost had every appearance of antiquity. afew 8 it that our room Could not accom~ days age, @ giass , Was very salto' > Ba ee P| zat wae ane Vedio aavbhatlt ten i be potters enact he advertising time that the folds were worn nearly through, and ia jon give us his large room. Thad frequent | the manuf.cture of whieh it t« now believed that Dr. Rogers ‘some parte entirely so. “ jes and jong convorsations with Mr. Maeizel, | luad aprincipal hand, aloug with Sir Richard A. Locke, re- Tinguired why the existence of sachan extraordinary | looked upon him as the great father of caterers for | solvedns son ns he hoard from a friend of the death of poor old woman bed hot beon discovered and made knows | Public amusyment, and was pleased with his assurance | AUc40C AY Woot tye unedioc fawulty fur the veritable Soles long ago. The reply was that she had boen lying in an | at 1 would certainly make a successful showman, Heth, The trick took. Soveral of the hoaxed went,sooxed, “T see,” said be, in broken English, ‘that you undersiand the value of the press, and that is the greas thing. Nothing helps tho. showmans like the types and the ivk. Whon your old woman ates,” he added, “you come to me, and 1 will make yoar fortune, 1 will let you havo my ‘‘caroural,’’ my aatoma- ton trampet player, and many curious thiags which will make plonty of money.” T thanked him for bis gencrous proposals, and assured him tha: should circumstances render it feasibie I should apply to- bin. Our exhibition room continued to attract large num. bers of visitors for several weeks before there was any visible falling off. I kept up @ constant succession of novel advertisements and uuique notices in the powspa- woadered, and held up their hands in ‘sstontshment. Her eats wad auno:ics ih ite Sua, and « post mortem eraming. tion prepared. ‘Ihe public swatiowed tt "Tetenne I, neg. unpiied when alive, wh object of decver iuvestigation when she died. She di ugly an if, and in that respect 1g exactly. verrlonof the hoax, as given us by auiuoriiy, of the story told in the following piece of husal Five rete yesterday's Sun. i This editorial preface of the Hezsap introduced the account of the dissection as it appoared in the Sun, and Bennett subjoined the comprehensive comment :— “Thus far the Joice Heth hoax, -for the verncity of which we have names and in our posses sion, outhouse of Joan 5. Bowling, of Kentucky, for many yoars; that no one kmew or sesmed to care how old she was; that she had been brought thither from Virginia a jong time ago, aad the fact of her extreme age had been but recemtly brows ht to light by (he disoovery of this old Dill of gale in the Record uiice tn Virginia, by the son of Mr. Bowling, who, while looking over the ancient papers im thas oflice, happoned to not.ce the paper en- dorsed Joice He:h, that his curiosity was excited, a from faquiries made ia that neighborhood he was con- vinced that the documout applied to his father's old slavo then living, and who was therefore really one hundred and sixty-ono years of age; that he therefore took the paper home, and beeame confirmed in regard to the identity of Joloe with the slave described in that Footed, nkoway ‘Such Is the tr papor. pers, which tended to keop old Joico fresh in the minds Upon reading the article from the Hast, a larzo. This whote account appeared to me satisfactory, andi | of eg and served to sharpen the curiosity of ihe jon of a grr and consoled thi ve% , “Ab, I waseet woman was a inqatrod the price of the negress, Threc thousand dol- La~ eM citer ae ihe : saying, ‘old, : Consider ‘more than eighty. makes the matter all clear,’’ Locke insisted that he bad not, beea bumbugged, end Benvett persisted that he had, lars was I rece.ved from Mr. Lindsay a writing, stipulatin; should have the right at any time within ten t red in one of the news| days to become her owner upon paying to bim the sum of one the sum named, but before leaving Phiiadel ay antoation & thousand dollars, . of sev start ‘detorm: the simple trath was told in regard to the exhibition, it | then beingexhibited In Connecticat! After a while the wante to Dana ‘oiee deta. fae ok iat ame ‘was reaily vastly Curious and interesting. “fue factis,”-| editor of the Hanatp, himself hoaxed, cried still than five bundred doliars in cash, bat my glowing repre. | 8@d the commanication, ‘Joico Heth ig not a human | the louder that he was right, and several Aeti- sontations ton friend, oF the golden harvest which Twas | being. What purports to be a re old woman ia | tious certificates purporting ta have been written aud sure tho exhibition mast produce, induced him to loan | Simply a carlously constructed sutomaton, made up of | signed by persons residing iu Haris ating Ly- me the other fivo hundred dollars, and after a fow days, india rubber and numboriess springs. ingo- | man’s story of “poor Aunt Nelly. nioaaly put together, {to move at the slightest In September of the seme (while 1 wasab- during which time I sold my interest in and made ag to the will of the operator. store to my partner, Moody, I returned to Puiladelpht ‘accord: The ox- | sent at the th), Bennett mes Lyman in the street hibitor is a ventril and all the conversations aud proceeded to “biow himaky high” for having i rope SOUT, G08) Coenen Ghd: prePTIOeE eS | gual rneid rite tnclont lady are party imaging apon hak Lyman anges; Be said he only iéant say hee concerns an tase harmless joke, Snow, as a recompense MO ate moat ator Hen cidenta porting to be given and related by, her are | forthe lapesitiny ho. ‘ould amish Bennet with “the York. Oe ees Te ingenious mechanism somewhat. prepared | the Juice Hoth himaveg.* ae Lapplied to Mr, William Niblo, who, I belleve, had the way for this anpouncoment, and hundreds who had Bennott.was ‘They went to his oflco, and. seon the old negreas in Philadelphia” Hie did pot recog: Bot vinlted. Joie oth were now anxious to see the | Lyman distated while the editer took down thorbeads of nize nie aa the person who a few montas proviously had | cuFiows antomalon; while nny who had seon her were | what p to.be the Of Joico; of her haw, applied to him for the situation of barkeeper, We soon | eaually desirous of a second look, in order to determine | ing.been first fouad by mein, the outhouse of « plan! a. made a bargain for the exhibition of Aunt Joie imone | ¥ oF Bet CS Das Deen deceived. The come: | tion te jot my ; alt h of the large apartments iu his dwelling hoase in the | Genes was our au agal ey scene, taught her the nobingion story; called her one b: vicinity of his saloon, which was at that time a I On ie Sak main ‘ongresa, his wife, | drod aad ten yaers old in Lousville, ono hundred and open and airy establishment where musical and tight | Wo children end his aged mother Aitendod the exhibi- trenugue ta Cinslnnalh twenty, years older tn Late entortalumenta wer given, the guests during the Inlor- | Set nigniy aateemed, and as his family approached the | Tile ridiovlous story, being a ten times bed where Joloe was resting, tho visitors respectfully gave. | bug than Dry ne Upon the editor of the I was sooa engaged in conversation with | Hana, wae daly out and emballished by Ts sssistilth daijneted he, ackedy end’ Giresied.soveral ef" my femurs to bie | Bimwatoy Sf, Thorsday.. Septombee%, nad Tusssay, Sent side eit Tostoons of lampe et sartepaacd cuises, ana | wife Hn'vho mnenntime his olf mother was closely sou. where the first articla under the edie. the grand walk through the middie of the gardon was tint Aunt Joio*, wndor the immodiate direction of | rial head bas title In capitais, “The Joice Hath illuminated on each side by chasto and pretty transpar+ "Lesaay ah re Hoax.” Thon follow several columns, pacgortl tor ences, about seven feet high and two feet wide, each lady spoke up inan andible tone, | gi sc sotans of dense trom bor frst in Ren- surmounted with @ lar iamp. ‘These tranapar. | and with much apparent satisfaction, “There, itis alive ‘until her arrival in Philadelphia, On the 12th of ences were then new In the eity of Now York, and wore | Suralll follows another chapter under the Yory attractive, They were up by W. J. and | — beaught instantly, and was giad to per. with @ wood engraving of her ik. Hazainston, whe have soe Goovae so ctabratea fur | selva that bet gon di not hear ik, Kept up a conver and prestige flow tome hea = neces Rang hte-btéte which his mother and Lyman were in his of the 6th already mea. ine ‘at the same time, however, I hetened anxiously tinal? ra : propared me had ‘Upon 8, 7 i @o you think it is alive?” asked’ Leman, eernent with Mr. Nil blo ah Wh nd tiverdane sna tt sole never, until @ word by way Gens ve cussed) served While exhibi ments Yet given. part of whi ft spinning, balancing’ quite new in this count ‘Was algo ag su of Antonio uy stilt alk &o. “Si bi _ wi And. spinuing of crodkery was nearly or try—to me it was entirely so. ‘Tho. dart fous and Signer Antonio, alias Vivalla. at Albany light eveni re in tho thealre of the i he consented. Iimmedintely wrote anotice announ tho extraordinary just arrived from wonders of his performances, article of news dozen copies to the several theatr! owl York and ¢ in ono of tho city jualities of Signor Vivatla, who italy, elaborately seiting forth the ‘This was publishod a I fc arded an dtrloal toanogers tn Now anything which Vivalla could do, ho would not think @f engaging him. “Now,” ea} bot I mist be You bi no doubt seen strauge things in your. I, “ir, Dinneford, I beg your pardon, emitted to say that fon are. mistakem, fe; my dear sir, I should never have imported Signor Vivally from Italy uniess 1 had authentic evidence that ho was the only artist of the kind who eyer left that “What are your terms?” asked Dinnefor many worthy young iadies and many other of the first water—was evidently ” ho like, ublicans ining to mei under the magic influence of a foreign is “You shall have him one night for nothing,” I re plied. him the remainder of the week for $60—I “7 you like him after one trial you shall H t, understand me, this is only that the public may be able seewhat he 1, After that my terms are $50 ‘My proposition for the one nig! Iie. yoked the powers of ‘4 tok” and wood cuts for three days and nights previous to the: first apy ot ha ee fae valle,” am my purpos3, val bed assist 1 machet oon to pintes au » ad other “crockery ware,” to hand him the gun.40.@9e when le hoa divested hisel’ of oni ot his stile and was hopping across the stage on one : high, prey bergen ink ne rng yee kets, do. This-wae - rt appearance on any stage. ¥ 6 applause which followed exch of the Italtan’s feats Brewstor, tho son of a wealiby gentleman living at: was tremendous, It was suct as ae: it wads accepted. ARREST OF A FUGITIVE, About ten daysago a young man named Charles Wy Taunton, Massachusetts, suddenly disappeared from) that place under suspicious circumstances, much to the wonderment cf: his family and immediate friends aad: the anutterable consternation of certain individuals whe, it will be seen, were heavy losers by his having lefv' tits. native town without having awaited the orderof bis, going, It appoars that young Brewster, who, far@, few years past, it is alleged, has been rapidly squandem ing by bis fast way of living and manner of ‘enjoying: life,” a*arge fortune of which he two weeks. age found that ho end, of his tether, the had been sunk Lp bap ter oer was baa Bi A = i i i | te fe viii; if uP 4 | ye cay he show: the wen nates bed Speakon we sears io feanton ha ows freo wil, ‘ On ‘at headquarters, Superintendent ivered Prisonor into the castody of loft the for hie ne ws.