New York Clipper (Apr 1862)

1 or . IT AMERICAN SPORTING AND, THEATRICAL JOURNAL. Edt^r mnd rroprlttBt.f NEW YORK, SATURDAY, lAPEIL 26, 1862, IFRIOB FOVB CBBTB. •. >. ••HDTHIW' BHOBTBB." •' ■warrmr »0B IM Biw lOBi oupsw BI "BLACK WAI." If I TO « toonda-yonng gal or a^trtjUw I never .honld rtop *?„<??!^.'!tate. 'WhoUur I slionJd renuln to > B»d md wne Bt«* AndIwo^dn.tl»...=«U|^w»^ itdtbramf — Theal'd "bUl and ooo" 'round 1 Butfcoliap that was "joungi-.vwo ^*n^^diM.5i^4"uSd'^''Se"l?^r^ AndaboSdhe oome home with a "briok 1" I^n*tlurily UUnkl ehoold even mind tlut. Pot. oft-tlmea, when men are trsTellng Monnd, Theiririoto" are m plenty and eaalfr tomid. That the wlmmen I IhJhl ehonld »*^'"J" . .. With a hoahand or loreyer when a "leelto Mt blind. Aodlftogetmarriedl ehonld e'er hate the chanoe, I would hop, ehlp and Jump, and merrily danoe, And my hoabanl a gtlLmt young soldier should be, Vho bravely has fought for Columbia the see I Bbooelik, April, IMl 4-11-441" OB, THE LOTTERY 09 lAVK IN A OBBAT OTTT. wuiTiaM BxrasaaiT ron tbz mw tobi ouffsb, BT JOHN COOPEB TAIL. [According to what we Ihonght a liberal estimate, we Increased our edlUon of last week on account of commenclDg tbls new Btory; but, it seems that the approval of our rea^rs always goes ahead of oar anticipations, and, as there is gr«at probability that V'ws may not now be able to supply the demand for last week's Is- ms, we here offer a brief sketch of the leading points of Interest in Kr. Yall'a beautifully graphic and instruotlvdy exdUng narra- tive, so fu as the point sow resumed. The flist chapter opens wltbaapldted description of a winter's night la NewTorkat Ithe dose pt 183X The oholera, during the previous smnmer, had almost desolated our olty, but many funlUes returned In the tih, and some semblance of business was resumed. Some fiml- Uos, living in affluence and splondor, in the fishlonaUe neigh- borhood of the Batteij and the BowUsg Oreen, bad remained without making more than their usual sommer travel. Among theae were the Fosteis. Xemuel, the Other, bad become Im- monsolf doh by a life derated to business ; but, on-the-wtoler's evening oar anthor has jnat described, the oM gentleman was attacked by the dread spldemlo^ -Bis ph^sldvi. Dr. Parker Papa, considered that recovery was not Ukdy, and annonnoed that dlaeolutlon could not'be moro than a question of time, Barry FoSter/the son, Is, at ths date of commencing this story, about twenty years of age. Be Is articled in business to his fk- 1 ther, but an hla ideas and surroundlngsjrove him as most likely dcflUnedlo scatter the wealth his father had amassed. On this ' very evening, the young hopeful waa out on a sleigh ride, study- ing "Ufa on the road" with some boon companions, and stop- ping attheEalf-warBonseto "takeanobservatlon',' and<'grease the runneis." Among Harry's IMends are Obarlsy OBbert, Tony dements, and such like "bloods" of those days. Hlddle- aged readers and old Enlokerbockers can readily recognize the real names of the parties thus peisonUed and described, \nille at the Balf-wsy House, Harry and his Criends get so merry as to make their' lady IMends the principal toplo of eonvetsatlon. Harry proposes a toast tohls "ladyeIove"in such extravagant language as to cause general remark and require some eiplana- tlon. Ibrry praises her beauty, and confesses that her virtue soems unaasallable. This announcement la received with Jeer- ing laughter, and bets ofTered, an even hundred eaob, on w^- niog the prize. Hany takes the bet with one of the partjr, and a ride home by way of the Boweir Is proposed. While these Rcenes are going on, the death gripe of the oholera has become more oortain upon Lemuel Foster; and Dr. Parker Peps, at a qoartar before 10, announced that midnight waa the eitant of hope fbr his rich patient The dying man kept toniinnally Inquiring for his son, and all the ingenuity of people accus- tomed to obsequious obedience was fully taxod topaolfy fretful eagerness, whenever the patient's remaining siraigth ennlAed Um to call for the absent Harry. The Doctor, of course, knows ) thing or two about city life, and sends for Blchard Bradsbaw, a well-known detective, to hunt up thetment Five hundred dollars Is no otject. If tbe detective can flnf Harrjr within two hours. Dick wants another hour, but undertakes the job any- how, as there was no time for multiplying words. The detective aeoures the hbck and team of Blim Jim (who may be recognized as another well-known obaisoter around New Tork), and the Widow Harvey's, In Beade street, Is the first place where Dick makes inquiry for Hany Foster. The trmmt is not there, but Dick gets the Widow in a good humor, takes one of her whisky tidus, and flnds out that Harry bad invited her daughter Bamh oat that very afternoon, Putting that and that together, vros Vilte enon'gh for such an old campaigner as DIek. BUm Jim's learn were next headed fbr the old Earlem road, and through the pitUesa storm they are driven.DlckmaUngaure ofhlsmnnattlieHalf-WoyHonio. It was one of those nights whon oven "the old set," mch as Hairy Aroularins, Will Walter- mice, or Bteve Dubois, wonJd think twice before going ontoDco on the "OldBoatonBosd." . Oolng upon what Is now commonly called Third Aveauj, aum jim oarelUIy kept a keenlook out and bis equipage on iheiciown of ttie rojid. The Jingle of sleigh bcUs Is soon heard, anil Bradehawfs eagerness to watch every chance, causes him to haU' the aleigbing party. Voices are recognised, and Bradshow stops the (Ingmg of a Jolly old rood song by In. Ibrmlng Harry Foster of tha oondlUonof bis fitther. The awe- stmok youth is sobered by tUs IntelUgenoe, and he hastens with Sradsbaw to tho deathbed ot Lemuel Foster. The dying IHthor recognizes his darling son, arUeaUtes "Harryl" and expires. This leaves Hany the suppossd poeaeisor of his bIhoCs wealth. Kr- VaU-e pen next takes on this swie night, to another part of tho olty of Hew York, commonly celled -ihe Book " where wo find a Widow Paine, who is soliloquising .bout tier "Busy." Mother and daughter appear to have been cast off by Lemuel PMter,andwe are left to suppose that the WMow had'been seduced by the minionairo In his younger days. Olher portions of her rambling sojiloquy also show that the oldUayls somewhat of a dreamer on the "i-ll-M" buslooss. For h«r daunhtei sake, the Widow Paine Is led to put in for any chance The soolaloompailionbstween her Busy and Barry Foetor soe'ma to upsetan the lone widow's phUoeophy. Ber rambUng and tout- taring, amid the storm, are Interrupted by the arrtvU o( llan I»der, one of, those Jolly good fellows.who sevor rsqutie a» •atter lewardforagood attloo t)u& tht pisasnreof doing it^ although Tan was. what the world sometimes calls "a prize fighter" In a tone of oontempl. Tan has brought some good things In a basket for the widow, but she is more than ever tempted by her eagerness in the lottery boalness, (for her daugh* ter'a salie,) to almost ride a free hone \o death by asking Ttn for one more loan of money to be invested as previously. Tan stands her "confidence" once more. The old lady is also paisUled with her own hopee, once more. Just then in comes ber Susy, only seventeen, but tor the previous three years "on ths town" In the great city of New Tork. Susy brings the news of Lemael Foster's death, as told to her by Dick Bradsbaw. A storm of passion, from tbe old lady, reveals more dramatloaUy the peeu- llar position of both mother and daughter, and thus we become prepared to trace the vivid oharaoterlzatlon and startling events of the ensuing chapters.] . CHAPTER H. WBO wms TBK oipiTAz, mzsT The picture of Joeeph Caul with his siaggled teeth and broad grin, while In each oi his homey hands a bsg was'portrayed as containing the ronnd sum of 180,000, cautht many a wayfarer's view who passed Scudder's Hnieum on thecomer of Brosdway and Ann crtreet The spirit to tamper with fortune ran as high In the days we write about as at the present time, and almost evetr block on ths principal Uioroughtarea bad its nominal Exchange Ofllees, with signs depleted In an the colors of the rain- bow, each s»-"Ihis is ths Mart of Fortune"—"Walk in, and try your lack"—"Fortune's Emporium"—while paduges of tickets wonldba temptingly displayed in the windows, with placardsas- eertlng that M3-40, or 1S-1S48, sold at tbat office only a week since, bad drawn the capital prize of a hundred thoussnd doUsrs. In the days we wot m, men of character, merohants, and tradesmen often inveeted more In the purchase of tickets than their means would admit; the consequence of which rash act was that they were compelled to fall in business, and when their bottom dollar was reached in trying for the golden bait, the only satlstietlon they could have was that they had paid a large amount for the benefit of the Erie Canal, or some other public Institution. Those whose peounlary mstten were limited among the poorerdassea, istronlsed the policy shops of ChapelstreetandOrange;for lottery ickets and the policy business sprang up simultaneously in the city of New TorlL when the new plan of eomblnatioh numbers was Invented for the managere, Yates and Holntyig, by an Italian who was good at figures, and who recdved a large reward tnm the firm, as it made the chances Infinitely less for the players to obtain a respectable prize, while the schedule looked as interest- ing aa ever, A worthy Israelite, "in whom there was no guile," feeUng disposed to turn an honest penny In the way of bnslneas, opened an establishment in the vicliut^ of Croat and Orange sseets, with a largs sign of "Exdiange," and was one'of the first to Inltlata the Innocent denizens of that clasdo nelgbborhood Into the mysteries of saddles, gigs, horses, whips, and station numbers, Byvnyofvariety,healsointimatedlnglafingcspltala that he bought gold and sliver to any amount, but as a twenty shilling hit on his books made it convenient for him to go with- out a dean shirt for the remainder of the week, we donbt his having done much In the way of the Rotliachilds. Ths colored popnlaUoa who patronised him dreamed dreams, and worked roots, and the business of Mr. Isoao Nosebaum fiourished im. mensely. It Is a cold December morning, but the commercial establish- ment of Ur. Nosebanm is quite warm and comfortable, made so with a stove of Illllputlan dimensions, asalated by the breath of some half a dozen colored gentlomen, with a eprinkling of the female sex, whose vocation as washwomen and people who live wlthont8llverspoons,isverTapparenL Something has occurred to make his trade more briak than ut ' prietor Is as busy as a bee. "WeU, I dedar, Uassa Nosebaum, yon hin Just take and put dem numbers right down for die chile once more, sold a stout wench,' whose curly hair waa confined by a red bandana. "I goea anodex cent on dat gig if I neber tries agaln-rl-U-M, whew —a hundred tooaand—breaa de lord—what de woman do wid all de money. Was you dar, XTnde Pete?" she added, addressing a gentlemen in tbe white washing pro&sslon, as his brush and pall denoted.. "Yes, honey, I waa nowhardse; forlwas adolngof abltof work for de Eagle Bote], trhar dey draw de numbers; on de oomer of Broadway and Dnane street, and when de little boy pnU •em from de whed, Oloiy to Ood, how de old woman did go on. Ebory bodjr said de lottery dean gone, tmrated." , "Be Jabers,1t was enough to niake bar dance lUW'aimTCliaaii,' if she wssasonldas Finn HeCooI's cat," said an Irish latwrer' who had been an attentive listener to Uncle Pete's story. "What beciame of the dacent respectable old cratur?" "Well, bossy, ss dey bad to keep de game a going, dey took her into de porter house a little waya below dere, kept by de widow Harvey—bery nice vroman la Mrs, Harvey—dere where aD de young sports go and spend lots ob money. UOssa Nosebaum, phsase gib me a boss, I dieam I found a lot of ailver last night, and silver plays 6; I likewise dream of ladders, and ladders plays 11, asd den pnt mine and de old woman's age In 49 and (2, dat makes t-lMMl, bery good numbers, Mssaa Nosebanm; and if dey do come out, Lord wont die nlgga cut a shine I" "There lah your bosh," said Noaebaum, as he wrote Ott a allp, 'and now where la the monlsh ?". "Dere um is, Massa Nosebaum," responded Vnde Pete, as ficom the capadons pockets of his wellwhAs-wsshed overhauls he snaked up three cents, and deposited them on the counter. "Ish there any body vrants any more niuibers before the book doebes," eald the proprietor sharply, with an eye to business. "Yes, please, Mr. Nosebaum," said a small ragged girl, whose head buely cams up to the top of the counter; "my mother wants number 43 In the second station for ten shillings, and 6 even a handsome appearanceibnt that myetorions flash of Ivail-. ity that Sras never fapwn to leave a girl's eree who has once fxod the pavs tor a livelihood, stlU lingered In bcr's: but whether to be softened by the acquirement of wealth or to beam with a deai3> Iter glale on the sterner sex fat tht Aituro, tlme'wlll'Show. - She- was sopetlor In many things to moit of those who bad followed ber prol^sdon, and sold themsdves for the wages of sin. In the earlier years of her mother's llason, they hod not wanted for the. comfortt and even some tit the luxuries of thlslife; but She bad never 'Bi<wm what It waff to. possess a father's love, for he bad contnctM a wedthy marriage about the period of her Urth, and bis visits to their house were ft long InCervals. As her mother ^ew older ihess vidts grew fewerl'and at last ceased dt^gether. lien came letters of reorimlnhtlOil, charges of Infidelity, and mu- tual reproaches, that ended in a suit at law, which aUowed her mother a sum which, now grown reddess, she sqnsndored In a year. Previous to this, however, little Susan had acquired soim of the minor branches of femds education at a public school, and bode fiUr to grow up a bafidsome and accomplished young woman, but when the mother took.to drink and polloy.playlog, the doom of (he ohlld was sealed. The hand-writing ihK ap- peared to the andent Jewish prophet, when it gleamed in fiery., characters upon the wall, could not have told her fate more cer- tain in the future; The pairtk'shop first became thslr place of refuge, and one by one their artldea of luxury soon dlssK>sared. Then Mrs. Paine vrrote'to her former paramour a letter coudied In humhls terms, and etatlng that they were in sore need; but he waa adamant to all her prayers for aid; the law bad set him tree, and not one penny of his weslth would he advance to save ths mother or the ^Ild, who then were clinging to a single straw upon the sea of ruin. Then, like a wild weed, grew up pvt^ Susan Paine, vrithont a hope or mother's fostering care, until toe fool iMtrsyer met ber In his path, and ahe became his prey, while yet in years a dUId. The mother and tbe daughter for a time lived on tbe wages earned byahame, in somothlng Uke their former aflluence; but launched upon the sea of vice, uelr bark was ever settling down, and when her dieeks—that once bad vied wlih the summer rose- grew pde, or shone bedaubed with rouge, 'twoa hard to find a victim on the brilliant sidewalks of Bnadwar, and ehe was farced to seek the'fblacker thoAmghiares that made lees visible bar fa- ded charms. Disease had wrecked her frame, and in her path of lUb the bttdgeon bully and the panel thief could call themsdves her equals and her mends. .Buehwasthe history of the past. How was her future lot to be when ehe became the heiress of a hundred thousand dollais? A oheerfol fire blazes is the parlor gmte of her new home, and there is Brussels carpet on the fioor, and several handsome paintings on the walls, as much anhko her former garret resi- dence as Eden, from its bleak outside, entailed to man with thorn and briar; and yet she gazes on the bnrhlng coals with that same look she wore as on ins night when demon cholera's last breath was borne far out to-sea upon the pinions of the stormy winds. Eer mother, llkewiae, seems to nar . her as she did of old, but she can Interrupt her reverie more freely now, for hers haa been the magio wand that brought about this state of things. At length she ventures to remuk, bnt not vrithont some quivering in her tonee of voice— "Cheerup,Susan. Whatwasyonthlnklngo^mTdeary?" She turned, but did not wear the look her mother fbared to le. "What am I thinking of? Astoiy that you toU me many years »go, when I was but a little child. I've often thought of it beftore,but never did it seem so vivid to mymemorr as now.- You know the iUry tale about the toads and diamonds t". "I forget it, Susy, deoiy, what was it, good or bod, my hand- some girl?" "Why, when I learned It ttom you, mother, at the first I thouQht It was the prettiest tale that I had ever heard. It was the story of a mother who had two dinghten—one obliging, gen- tle, truthful, good; the other, wicked; wUtal, and perverse. "I have only one daughter, Busy, deair." ' "And am I wicked, Trilful, uid perverse," she uttered, turning, sliarply round. "No, no, my deary. . Yon are .everything a mother's heart could wish. I only spoke because I love and think of yon so much; go on." Tbe girl mused a moment, and continued: "The mother and her doaghtere lived dose by a haunted spring, where fairy folks were said to dwell; and one day her dangnter ('Us the good one that I speak of now) came there to fill her pitcher at the fountain. An old, old woman, olod in rags, and bending dqwii with age, was nigh, and asked her for a drink. She held ber pitcher Und. ly to the beldame's lips, when anddenly tbe withered hag ohanged to the bright and'lovely fol^^ of the spring, who gave her the rich gift, that every time ehe tpott a pearl or diamond should drop at tho word. Mother, It la too late f^r ^e to ever think of. .sn^^Jt^^earlaond^UaxDoiHlsiiow.'-'- and 99 in a saddle for adoUor, and she says she will send you 'round the money for them to a quarter of an hour." "How often have I told you. Miss Jinny Jones, not to come fooUng 'round my office and totermpttogbuslnese; and now dear right home, and tell your mother the nut time she oomes>to my eetabllohment, to read the sign—^No trust on these premlshes.' Whatoan I do for yon, Mieter Barney UcQnade 7 Yon wash to the big luck laatnlght—etrudtagig.andtheflist drawn number." That's true enough for the likes of ye, bat didn't every divil's Senny of a week'a wages go before I made a hit for a quarter of le amount I won through your ewtodling sohomes 7 I sent my childer barefoot, and Biddy without a second shift to her back, and all comes of the divil's lottery-game that is deodving people out of their wits. Yon will get no more of my money, Mlslei Nosobaum; forasymanwhoflilnksto get a prize to the lottery might 08 well tiT to hunt for a crook of goold, and there's dlvU a one this side of tbe Qiant's Causeway—oo re mind that." "You forgot, MlshterMcQuade, that only yesterday a woman drew the capltd prize of one hundred thousand dollars," said Nosebaum, dwelltog on the large amount, "and the lottery in forty days will pay her eveir penny of the monish. Come, oome, yon Ish to excellent .luck, let me write you out tho whip you always play, and your old Olg; you know If you hits ono namber to £he whip yon gets your monish back, and a man is foolish when bo Is to luck li he don't follow it up, Suppose I write you out—' "Now bold your whist. Mister Nosebaum. It's no use to orge Barney McQuada wheiT he has once made his mtod up n'ot to do a thing; beddes, Itookabook oath last.night to have nothing moro to do with the devilish policy. I've won for once, no thanks to the Ukes of ye, and I am not fool enough to think that llgbtntog is going to strike twice to the same place; and so, Mis- ter Noseoaum, the top of the momtog, and from tlila Ume to the world's end your digs, Baddies, Whips, and Horses may bU go to tho dtvil;",and so saying, the 'Hibernian stalked (tom the oiBoe, with the Air of a man who had made up his mtod. Mr. Nosebanm was to no v^ good humor to hear his hnstoess thus oriUdsed, but the brawny fists of the Irishman were a sort of knock-down argument to make him keep his temper, and perhaps he thought that by toktog thtogs coolqr he might eveilt- uolly get book one of his best customers, who, according to hb means, had been a heavy loser at the subUe game. The time having arrived for closing his books, Mr. Koiebaum, for fear of betog "pigeoned," Informed bis friende that be was nnder the necessity of ehntttog up the establiahmont for the present, as his exertions needed a stimulant to'tbs way of a glass ef beer and a mutton chop at tho cook's shop ronnd tbe comer. Tbe andl&oo took the btot and dispersed, although there vrere many of th^ stlU eager to purchase; but Blr. Noeebaum was im- poraUve, and he bowed them out and doublo-looked the door ef his royal Biiobange, where gold and silver (by the nulnitlated) ware supposed to so bought and sold to unlimited quantities. As the reader has surmisedi Tan Seeder, thougn generally a good Judge of matters and thtogs, had made a great mistake as regarded the widow Patoe's luck, and the identtod numbers of which she bad so often dreamed had todeed drawn the capital firlze. The event ha4 oaused even a greater excitement among be upper ten thousand than It hkd with the poor polioy players of Orora and Centre streets. There was not a lottery Ucket dealer on Broadway who would not have paid a round sum fbr the por- trait of Mrs. Potoe to adorn the vnndow of his offloe, bnt when applied to for her ploture she resisted every overture, however liDerol, that was offered. She oould now obtato any amount of funds 10 mako her oomfortable, and to forty days the ticket she hdd would be worth within fifteen per cent of Its nominal valne. Broken could now be found at eveiy street comer, only too glad to sdvanco her such sums as she desired; bntin good as to evil fortune ber resource was ber old Mend Tan. No one was more rejoiced than ths honest fellow at her good ladi, and he toU her that until her funds were forthcoming he had a thoueand dollars to ptooa at her disposal \ntb that amount, a neat but unpre- tondtog house waa taken to Monroe street, notbr bom Tan'e own reddeiloo, where he allowed be could be on hand do you mean, m^ Susan, deary 1" oold her molher,'wlth a troubled Joolc "Because, when snoh as I go to the bad, there is no turning to the right sgato. It's dways downward, till they die. A month ago it might have been In Potter's Field—my fame will not bteach whiter yeais to come, though to a marble tomb. A harlot once, a harlot ever, is the world's loud cry, and purple and fins Itoen will not hide the shame. 'Whore was it that I left off'to the Btory 7" "Where she spoke of pearls and diamonds; Busy, dear." "WeU, the good and vlrtnous daughter refilled her pitcher, and went home (the story goes the mother loved her evil daughter beat), and when ehe ecolded her fcrstaytog at the spring so long, the virtaons girl made an excuse, and pearls and cUamonds sparkled on the cottage floor, Bhe told her stoir, and her mother and her sister both were envious of her splendid gift, and then the evil girl resolved to make - a Journey to the magic fountain, and for a simple draught to dupe the (a]J7 of an equd prize. Bhe went and filled her pitcher, too. This time no old and vrithered crone asked for a drink, bnt a mdden fair and well attired; end the minx refused the boon with words of scorn. ■Speak toads and serpents,' was the eentonce ahe received, for baig and maiden fair were both the eame—the foiry ip disguise. Mother, my eUij'a done." . "What do you mean, my Busy, deary)" "Why, that my f%to has been but evil all throughout, and I must spit out toads and serpents till ihe day I die." "But Susan, deary, now-thatwe art rich—yon won't be angry. Busy, if I speak out plato?" "Why, what should I be angry for 7 Bay on." "Now tbat wedth is ours, we can tixn good, and go Into that society that should have been your etoUon bad I became your father's wife instead of mistress to mj younger days." "Toads and serpents still, for I should meet my brother there. Because we have acquired wedth, have we forgot the purport of OUT Uvea, revenge? If yon have, mother, t have not. What better blood flows to his veins than to mtoe, that he for years hoe dwelt to luxury and ease, while I have dragged dong to mis- ery and want U; blood Is bolltog at tbe thought. I'd give, I'd give—" "What, Busy, deary?" "Ten years of life—and not the blaok and dreary ones I've passed to harlotn and shame, but ten that yet might oome if I were vtrtnoua and good, to drag him to a crust of bread, toorusb him down vrith Innuiiy like mtoe; but then the latter is im. poseible." "Imposdblo, my Busy, doary 7" "Besnreltls. Hie may turn out a beggar—what of that? He never can become so base and aUeot as i fod mysdf to be. The pit is bottomless when woman falls. UnpiUed and unpardoned, she can nover rise agato;- but man, repenting of hhi errore, though black as midnight's darkest shade, Ik taken by the hand and made an equal to soolety once more." "And don't you think, my Busy, dsaiy, that onr riohes wlB make people overlook the past, if we do right for time to oome?" "Uolher, are you growing ohlldlsh (and now the scowl her mother feared flashed over Susan's brow). I ten yon that the world's a l^e, and it la much too Ute for such as you and I to seek Ito trutti; and it you thtok that I am speaking toads and serpents wtthoQt oause, I will read to you a letter that I have reedved by post this morning, to prove the troth of what I have to say. This Is a predons document to recommend a girl Ilko me to good so- dety," she Mded, as she took a ommpled paper Oram ber bosom. Listen, mother, whUe I read: Niw You, feb the second, Dbos Bun—Old gal we havent hoard anythtog at you to a month Bnndaysdownto Dan darks or any of the other cribs. They oU know what good luck yon have been a having of, and fed anxious whether yon are gotog to gobaok.onthocrowdot old ttiands or come out like a lavUioL Dldent Dutch Jake when he found the thing was coped to rights set out a ronstog liuoh with goes of mm, gto, ana brandy all ronnd and nary red to sock up. He sdd he knowed that you was the right stripe to itaod the shot and there waeent an old bummer to ihe neighbor- hood bnt what tucked himself out to prepare for a week's fasL I thought wall-eyed Jerry vroold have bunted; All the coves would be glad to see you and wish yon look vrith your good for. tune. Yon was aDways snoh dear grit we thought yon would be glad to hear the news so I'll Just sail in. BUI sart who wanted to cap in to be your lover when yon shook him has got his mut- ton oooked for ten etretohes np the river. Be and bis pnl Coffee- pot Lis weeded a flats leather of a century on the panel lay, but uMy ^msnt sharp enough to keep the trick to IhemketVes and tt got blowed about IIU Bradsbaw got e&the soentand thsnthe game was ui. Fidlar Jack is on the stuff and heel but has to play mloey aa the offloert have a grudge against bim., Tom Fen- too looks OB gaUna OS they make'em and won't have bis pants I win, I allwayi said to the boys that Bake Paine waa thebe^ worker that travelled on tbe cross and anoisamesttto baru? aivameaaightdsarBukelf there's any fctod of a show andnl . ■xyonr loving trlend'till death do as part aim, Bmjmioi. ° ' P. & pireot your letter care of Dutoh Jake st the oomer gr»f c'rr ana If you haveahtatraton about yon don't be afraid t« - .ehove it to aa the rounders aU want to drink yooi good hedtb Yonrs forever, Baub'BunxNKnb ' Yon are the gayMt smartest Bsl' That ever cmped to with a pal It'a the biggesttrick I evw took If I cap to with gdlos Soke." •;''Th«,Vsald Bnaas, "yon now see, mother, by tbls MN* iUtt ihave-jealvejftomonewhose repntsitton U asiride aalteif Jotte^u A noted thlet that I oan never hope to mingle wiDi theyiftqansof mysei. Once lost,fbieverlost Toadsandssc penu evetmoie.' ut^^ and the girl, blddtog the vis. iter come toittimst ihe crumpled letter uato to hu boeoBr The person who entered was no other than their Mend and ad. ^••*l?'255'»'?™'yi*n»>>one8tTanK«eae)r.. , e«^aroand hero; I reckon," aai« Tan, with a jgrin that nearly stretched his imoonth month frca esr to esr, "I'm damned if lottery hu not done kmiMhCm seed tor once; thongkbefore this Ume 1 always tlSn^htitvras a lead beat game. Why, what's the matter 7'Ton^k<ratrtsoS old woman; teUafellow whofa up, and if Xaa Kmdareaa a3 yonrigM, he win do it, if It costofitalastred^eimi" . , Hrs.JWne related how her daaghtwhad reoelved &at nun. togatettor firom thenotorlons Saul Bludgeon, md Tto'i ene opened to their ntiaost capacity when Susan, at hat moibtn argent rcoueetrMead ths Ddsslve for his edlflcatlon. "WsU; I'm btowed," he exclaimed, when he had heard <b« predons document from begiimtog to end, "if I don't knock Wit whole ride of bis.bead oirthe fltst time we meet lowethat. man an old gradge, and as soon as I come acroa bis tra^ PH psyhlmot^'sure.- He cametoto-myorlbosenlght wltbaloteC hisbuliy friends, when I was away ftom home, and as tt'senir bis gdtto lick slgk women, he raised gensral hell, and had o^!i< m aU his own way. He hangs out about Dan Clark's, and redhead Bill's, and I'm gotog to cruise down that way this evening, saA I'm Just the boy that can makeaU thasaokers shoot theiestef wrillnglettars.or talldng about you to any shape or manner; now yon are placed so far above 'em alL I go to for woman's rlghla^ Ido; andifaBirlwantetoreform,why,letherreform;andit'« not a damned bit of bnstoess to any oalaldeis, especially sock foo-foos as Saul Bludgeon. Damned If I don't think IH refom one of these days myself, and then if I fed like oetUng npa prayer meefing or praytog club to my moral crib, and any snoef Interforee, I'm damned if I don't lamb baste hen ont of tiim. x lust dropped to to see yon fox a moment now, and if you hear to-morrow that Saul Bludgeon's nose is split toto Uke a veal outlet^ yonean Just take and bsf ybnr lUs that I had a hand along; so, good momtog to yon, and dont fed put ont about the dlr^ thlefs letter. VU settle bis hash;" and Taii, iritbODt anotoer word, bnt with his fiste tightened hard, strode from the - aparnnent. For a time we will leave the fortunes of the widow Patoe.aid her pretty daughter Susan, and relate how Tan kept hla word la ploUng is quarrel with Saul Bludgeon. In the days we write about. Water street, from Pike to FnltOBr vras the last nsbrt of the depraved and vioions of all oonntrie* andcUmes. Ihe street fbr that distance-was Itoed oh both sldea of the way with the worst Und of houses of oaalgnatioD, where, lewd women aoU their charms at most raasosabls terms to those who sought snoh haunto of vice to purchase dlasase and death. The Cyprians by day would atahd on the etoops or side-wilk, anA chaff and barter with every passer-by. It was a dugerons pr*. ceedlngforabnstoes man to make a short out for any deult* . Ct through the vile neighborhood, and to reprimand the on. hing tsyprian who urged him to treat or trade for her tade< charms. Their bludgeon bullies, or fancy men, were dwassBav at hand to pick a muss with the stranger, who was Inoky, likleed, if he escaped lh>m their dutohes with his watoh to his pockety and a whole aUn. It was the city'a licensed sanctuary tor brawV dmnkennesa, and conttoual riot. There were a few good ofllcera who did their duty taltbfidly and well, but they conld not be here, there, and everywhere at the same time. The system cf watehmen, known to the past generation as leather^hMds, to Vogde, and It appeared to be the standard policy of the dtr fathers to bestow the- situation (we suppose from sympathM upon the moat aged, impotent, and UMa old men. unw^ tt* . olrcnmstances, II they had ihe povrer to spring their rattles, andl. cry ont fbr help to a treranloua tone of voloe,'they were eenald. ered worthy 'of 'tho; birth, and set down as obis and effeoUvs ' Ruardlansl.'It^hod'.gtven half adosan.of .thsm-eerioaa'tfonMv.' to take the Manralsof Watorfoi4. aItlu>aAli 'fliraweekaftarha. had crossed the Ailantlo he had been on a joUy spree, wrenohlnK . off door-bells, npsetttog apple stands, and playing this devU gen- erally to a very promiscuous manner. Pfnues can overcome ' giants by force or nnmbere; and Ihe Marque, wholiad ooBeeted severd of their dubs end rattles by way of tK^hlee, was finally overpowered, but the whole force of the ci^ combtoed nevB dared to attack the gang of the notorious Jaik Chichester. By . night the leprous hsunb of Water street shone with oU candles or gas, (the rays of the latter betog conddercd a luxury and mk-' niod fram the oommon herd) and then tbe sound of the ylolto (everwdcome totheearsota sailor tredifiomeloiig sekvoy- age) could be heard at every comer, until the hours of one, twc^ and even three to the morning. There waa no resort for ttia weary Uagdden then but the buck mould of Potter's Add, and' Water street was the pariah home where the tUlen ontcasto of sodely dragged their weary bones to die. There were onb twv men that the bullies and fiuicy men of that vioinity dreaded <» tackle, and they were Bradsbaw, the pdlce officer, and the ia- domiteble Tan Seeder. Tao, to use his own emphatlo language, had never. Whavm- under but once to bis life. The boys aU ^owed that without be-. bull-dog if any shyatorlawysn or stuupersoame ronnd her ont of her money. Bosao, now weu olad, mads » nsat and ItoEeS opened a ohM game of hto for anokers down'iii Bed-head telU'a aoadmny. This Is about all the totereiting news I havetoteU old oil at present eicepttog that all the darken an bucking at M144evar atooa you made such* rooalog pUe on them asm- bets,. ThatwMa trlokworth taking and no mistake. Soke,'! dlwajs thought a thundering slaht of yon, I 4ld, and if I can «Blr «ap to t« bo you lovefi XH •«• m «nt of any kiiidof mus, tog possessed of any great quaUUes of sdence, he always wdit to to wto, and teeth, foet, and iianda wore at vrork aU the time.' 'As ' bowle knives and pistols were conddered only fit wespons for an assssstoor highwayman .to.ths dayswevnito about, bedway* made bis opponent eicepttog the one instance wo quote, sing out enough. We wiU relate the particulars of tbls enooanter, as after the bid for superiority they became boon compintons and friends. On board the United Stales rocdvtogehip that lay at oa- ohor to the bay, there was a stdwartformed, donble-flated ssIIm; of almost superhuman strength, who was also a perfect marvd to his compadons, and who christened him, for want of a better' title, "Bruin the Bear." Tom heard of Ihe prowess of this man, and resolved. If ever they met, to bavo a dtooh with him, to test' which should wear the lanrd orown of victory. It chanced one night, when the hardy Bailor had lecdved • month's pay and leave of abeonce for fonr-and-twenty htfors, that tbe two cocks of the walk, who had never been oonqnered, met to a famous sporting house on the eastern side of the town. Eaeb bad thdr numerous friends about them, and each had heard ci the formidable powers of the other. Tan vras strong, wlrr as an' ed, and, to speak to sporUng terms, waa as quick as a flash of . Ughtoing. Bmto the Basr 'possessed the same reqnldtes, not- wlthstandtog hisglgantio size; and to addition, aa we have staled before, could boast of almost superhuman strength. The firlenda of Bruto snowed tiut there was never a bctternatured or more harmless fdlow to the world, exoepttog when he had a glataar two of whiskey on board, and then he proved a very rough ens. tomer to deal with. TanwasneverknowntodrlnkaglassofUanor to his life, and wetit.toto a fight morefor theflm of the thing ua* anythtog else. There wen few preliminaries when Ton wanted to pick's, muss, ond'half a.doien words had not passed between theiil' when they dtoohed and went to, ft coud soarody be eallea: a fisticuff fight, for there was no gmdge between the men, but a sort of rough-and-tumble, to which the great strength, of Bmto tho Bes^ prevailed, for he chudked Tea, and hdd him down with ease, without, however, attempttog to strike a blow. Whon Tan's friends saw that their champion had not a living sight they sang out "Shall we double-bank him, TanT" Bat the brave fellow repUed,- "Don't hurt a hair ef his heU.- Be Is the best man I ever met to my life. Let me up, straagor.. I've got enough." Neither of the men wore hurt the least partfels^ but when Bruto complied, Tan vras lost to admlratton at his prowess. "When do you hall from, stranger?" he toqulred. "From way down oast, Btate'ot Hatoe," was Ihe reply.. "How low have yon liberty to atop ashore?" "Twen^*iur hours." ■ "Yon BhaU stay a week, and bo treated to the best mr hooM fords, or my name te not Tan Keedor/'was the rqjoln^er,: Tan was as good as his word. The next aomtog he toek k yawl and skulled ont to tbe frigate, and poUtdyadfiessed'the' oaptato wlth'the remark—"You have a.man belnagliiB to iUa oraft called Bruto the Bear?" "Ihave,"wastheoaptato'srep1y, "andweeoukt himthsbesi. seaman on board the ship. What of lH" "Oaptato," sdd Tan, "i should like to have bim stop a week en' Bhorowitbme; he ia putting up at my house, at present and X , hate to part with him so sooD."^ Tan was not particular as 'toihe ktodof atotheahewen^aaa., his dd sou-wester and monkeyjacket did not Impress the etfwf ' that he vrns flush of money. Onardtog against a direct denial, k*.<!. merely sdd, "I would not lose Ihe serrices of Bnlto for anyolMF. , ten men on board the ship, and if be stops on shore wiibyon^F aweek,Isbould rcquln security for his satontun to ths-mKC of one thouand dollus," "Certainly, certainly, toto the pocket of his i and he drew It out filled vrit& gold pieces '„ Jacksonyelk[wboji, . • ■ . lo ..i-.j-lc-.l ..1 I ; /.((. y, captato," soya Tan, diving downhli.ha^..,i,i, iiiK>nkeyJadMt,''honi8d«nMethewmt'» ., ,, led with gdd pieces known at th*tdi(y»» with I y,' 'whb' ^edevd are youT"'sold thaoj£Uii,taktaiAaoil. ' ntasTandlnUyedtbsgllilsragMU. -Tan Keedte, and nobody else, captain." ^ . •Tl tdl yoA what It licsdd tLs oaptato ^todngM TkB wllk aoorieueye, "Brain nay go wid step wwrM u hb« aiyos.