New York Clipper (Nov 1862)

';:'')11IJ'1f.,inJ( *).UI\;I iCrtl. ▼oil. , ■.. ■ ,j ■ 'BKBDADDIiBll ..' , roa zHK auam, wacat tbb bombiw or ur t nB M Wt) , ' BYfiPABTAOOT. •TBiftev»nponTU,thtomlnlojuiBiopJglil .„•, V. . merefttlionsuidcuDp-AraihsTeorbiuoneaiMu^: . i ' iruelr proud bannuB wive In tbelr nurtlil Mfnj, , ' 'Bat Vtith mi DlaeaM shall waleoma their ttaj.-i ■ Tba proad Und of Dixie, wbloli Bontb^ons do lOTt, Invided by mudsills wUo root np (bOTe^ ' 'Batoiiraniistlieytresttongiandourliei^theyarebikTe,, '^dTrell bqrl bock oor foes from tbo lasd of tbe aUta,. ' Hbe (;duion'B nlld roir, and the shrill bugle's blMt, 'flWes.prMf that the oraven approooheth ns fast,. , ., to hone, mon I to horse, manl an^ fino ^ aaddle, 'our Stralegj teaches, skedaddle I.skedaddlel - 'BlMiiddlsl skedaddle I bear ,yonr .general speak— ^ere'4 that aurs'd Yankee rag, now aksdaodle a str^ % 'Halt! hiltVI obimnend yon, and dress on the right I I«ok not for.the foe I've removed from yonr slg^l Our Ood he Is with ns, the hirelings shall f>U, For "Beauty and Boo<?"' Is the motto of all; . , . Oa I on to our valleys J where tbe nale f&ee of death, ' Shall strengthen oar hand with bu pestilent breath I The lost dlidh shall entomb, ere that onnt Yankee rag- . .Bh^ displace the proad folds of our deafly loved flag, 'Oar right la oar might, and onward bar oourse, tjntll might makes It right to bow deiwn to. brute fkirce. 'Ay Heaven! they're upon us I 'ttathemuaketryrattlel To^orse, meni to horse, men I ske.d«ddle, skedaddle I' . ^Skedaddle I skedaddle I near your Oenenl speak— ' There's ^that can'd Yankee rag, now ekefaddle a slgreak. llona.' He UtM iom«,tlma.^ift' ^e;« lerrant; while M^4^f JobJeJiMicltliiQt ]iavIo(( ue for . . llowediiiiii OS baadred poandAner aqntni iimploTinea^ end when Orookfom^n^ Us new boa86, bte loidehlp got rid of hie depeaaeiit, ond-eated hie ban- dred poonda a year. r . .' -/ : The o\ab oonelated of eight bnndreil menheis; oaoh of whom entMorlbed ten gatneu pee koniim. and wan gov- erned by the ordinary; regolaifopfbf-net^ltibs. The lecretarywas Hr. W. sL Page, who abo MttS as «jwnpter at the Jiaaard table. r'.ij* . Jut to the play part of .the olab, many statementettM; beefir made and have pused onirent, the effeot pf whloh baa .beim. that while tbe major part of the pnblla arisleft entirely In the,dark„othera are In great error as to the r^al state of affdira In that parllenlar, I wtlly.therefof.^; Mt them right, and vonoh for the aconraQv of my details. Of :^e eight bdndted members, not molb than leventy (ware really "playmeo;" that is to say, men who played 'gamte oif cbuiM^^Bzard, foi' Inatanoe. Many of . them [WdnH not even totuih a oard/othera play.e4v&t wMtt.or gamciB of eolenbe, bat deollned to partaking of Uteatanle- ments of the dloe-boz. The game of hasard was 'pUyed In a small ftmi rodm of the eepohd flbdr.w right wldg ojf the bolldlng. That room waa neirm.elibvn td: tmy. Tialton but snob as had obtained froma ^emb^ryatloket to' tmrrey tboee tralym^gpiecentptetDliies.' . The nionilnK play'ciommenoed at fonr o'olock Iii'tbe..aftenidoi),:and oontlnned^^ I'eTen. The atakea played at that time of tbe day werttJlrom ten abllllogB to fifty ponpds, and the bank put down was X2 600.. At eleven o'oTook the ntgbt play be^an, and then tbe bank was Inoreised to j£lO,000. and tbe atakea may be said to have been anlimited^ Orookford took bis aeat at a deek at a oomer of the room, the baatnen of the hazard table was iDaoaged by Meaare. Page/and Darklng. Hr. Orookford, In lS3o,'finding that many of the anbscrlbera had got d6eply' Into his debt, adoptfd the plan of playing fof ready money only, and. Intimated to those on his booki that he woold, (h tlie event of thelf wlonlog, pay them wlthoat reference to by- gone acoonnto, If they broagbt ready money. Into tbe nonte. Thia oonrte of proceeding had the deslrjed efi'eot, for many who were indebted to bim w^re In the habit of going to try their lack at thetalnor belle, fearing, if they won at hie table, he woQjd expect them to settle tnelr old obllgeitlopk. The remit wae^ manybf the old flook re- torned, and:>08t opndderabje snme. Of ooorse there were tome ex(epiIooB to the rale. I Uany gentlemen who had,bfi^!Bved honorably to Orbok- ' lord he oontinned to. ^ocoinmodaie. Some who Inboired CPEBBATED. OAMBLINQ SALODlfS. OAUBLnro IN iLoiison. . OTOOKFORD'S-^HB GAOTLBEMmO^^^^^ I debta of honor even tnmefer,«)hoasea and other property ioomct aooonnt of Mr. ttOT establish- to him in llqaldation of hia olklms. A bonae next to the ««.t,.the8.,Jam«,(?ub,.^E™neojj^^^ ' Beftiin,andUde's first Intro- that-Way, and another in Broton street, nnder ^mllar ohariu Uby.—His patron's | olroDfflatanoes, from Lord Seagrave. The pnbllo bae been Indnoed, by false aooonota of the olnb, and tiie proceed- logs therein, to imagine theit the yonth of . the aristocraoy were led there by blaohlege, for (he parboie of plnnder and rain: Bdoh never waa' tbe faot 'Tnere can be no doobt but that yonog men riaehly lost large Bama.'ahd uot.onlreqaently their whole fortaa«s,.by play; botno' meana of the aort Imagined were made oae of by Orook- ford to Indaoe them to do so, nor was- It the faot that false dloe or cards wr^i fopnd their way li^to the flab. '•'"i»ca» te a$aate e nol>,»j)fi^^ infloentlal, would have been exposed, and ex- pelled the olab. , The sapper , and re&eshmenta,.,that were .provided nightly, gratis, for tbe haeard room company, ooet fifty ponnds. It wba not generally known that Orookford carried on manlileenoo add good advice.—The charity of Ur, Cfockford ^ and hU family.—Approval bf the' rich.—I^ralseB of the poor. In the year 1828, liamblera and gambling bonaes were in the ascendant at West end, London. Orookford'a hew Ixraie In St. James's street had not yekbeen opened. I Kiircely need eay that the gamblers—,ayB, tbe highest oltst of them—were the very best onatomers' to the pawn- ifoker's chop in Green street, Leloeater eqaare. Tbere I leoame intimate with many of them; some, Indeed, #t«hea of .the. leviathan helL. Orookford'a, or .the 81 '^VOItabf^rbay Ifeife ahomU^-tiit^ d episode, a deBortpiton of the principal establlebments i that olata, which fioariehed with fortnne-maUng v^or «t that period, In tbe fashionable world. Forem?at on the list atood Orooktord'a. In giving an- aocorate and faithful deaorlptien of this' appear ae if hewrald liot^ke Ursapher'qlilta My/and'his eteia as ottdiitaAedly; If mahet mpDortaahadaeblllbigtotey a ooathhMii, tng to p^vlde » breakfMIhmeinomIiig<' >Tet,' ^tna^faotfron-both sfdee^mioh is gambling life. i0 would wllIlo|^{ asalst a (lite&d,'the next day, iNth tea 0^ twenty ponndaTwIU not lend him a shilling Borosa tbe plcgr table. -Forty or fifty exonses.are fonnd. MHUfloent e8tebllj.hment,there lB,ImayBBy^^ of a wlie merchant, and bad, perhaps, a 'iwlaoe, nolhlog of the marvellons to relate. Iheabsnrd' - ^ - [etalls of fiction, which have-been i^om time to time more extendve oonneotloa omoogat the ariatooraoy than jj^ 1 1.11 I > X A... . . I any other in the trade. Hie stock of wines was of this looted onthe pabl^-in relerence to thto place, each of Ln^jt qaaUty and most extenWve deaotlptlon, and was ttemparporttpgtobeaconectaeoountofl^^ £200,000. The bnal. rajeialt a Somewhat dlfflonlt taik to set« before the negg waa-oondaoted under the snperintendenoe of his son pabUoof these later dajs as it really was thirty yeara Edward, at the ceHara of the St. Jamea' Bazaar, the <go. entirely dlveaUd o its engaging and myeterioua em- „hole of which building was Orookford's property. «mentB. Not willing, however, to oreale a falee In- one singular charaoteriaUo of thU eifivMnity man tort at the expense of veracity, I ahsll proceed in my that he made It "very atuff o' the conaoleoce'' that Aetob, guided by truth, unacocnipaided by prejudice. no pig, ahoald be allowed untU after the. dloqk had ^ce that has oiten been olUd to Ms pivjndloe. but one j omuot conclude this aketch without observing that rtloh l, In coBinon wl«h aU right-ttlnklng Indivlduale, Ur. Orookford wae a man of the moat humane and be- 3lr t'^T! 4'?«eot .l'gl»*- Ab It Is my pwpose to nevolent dlqposltlon. Be never dlaoharged a servaht If portray his character In one pwuUot phaae ot hlallfe. Ue could poSelbly avoid It If be dlecovered that any «m y. aa a gambler prinoe-and to dew^^^ them feU into vlolcus connes, he fiot rid df them' «l*Mmentwlth which hlsname iB undjlng^ that they might not corrupt ;tbe tett of hi? nmneroiu " 1^°'^•V''*?' ^'."IS,*"'"''!* i?, esUbllahient One olrcui^tanoe which oame: wllhlri tj5?.,'^!t*° I*"" o''*""'?' ^ eMl^lfej_bnt wlllL,y ovni knowledge will admirably illostrate the kind- onely do him the passing joalloe to observe that, Inde- iiiea^ of his natnw, and the wladom of hla aoflone. ,"A peMently of keeping a gamkg hoase,.hla character was ,onng man had'been Iii hla employment upwarde In P^^iVo. « ^.l :i ; L . , of flliewi years, cbnttaoted the habit olftequentTng; the i?v'!i?if." i?.?*' Orookford a parlnet ln Wattler's j common.gambling houaes of tbe metropolis. Mr. Orpok- icugh h< ■ ible, Imi reading him a' strong Ahftnt .1, r.l T' Jiv—'•'V-':. .... I fitnre conduct In life, and the banafal ptaotloe Pf gaine- i^in" part Of the yea* 1824, a person of the ing, and making him a present of one hundred poands SIiPJS' Orookford's-managing man, waa Lver and above the wages due him. «niinlBaloned by him to take a houBo ln 8t Jamea's' ■ ■ . e,. -- west. Orookford then separated htinaelf ttoai battler's, w oomnenoed operations on hla own aoconnt at the X°^taken by Guy; and upon the alto'of that houae and uetvo adjoiulDg.the splendid atrnobore known to. all we world aa "OrookfordV," was erected In the year 1827. <i.v "8 the progress of building, the businca of tbe faSi'S*?""^** -0 NO'««. Pa" «nd there Orook- !l" ™,tM foundation atone of the prlnoely fortune he !!|'',"*''y amasaed. Lack aeemed nevpr to desert him; mwMj wlnnlnge amounted to | nMn-waa thia.yonng man In afte^life wai the prototype of bia old master. He reached the .topmoet height In the "play ring," and waa as emioeht - as Hr. Orookford on; the tuit He wag generooa to hla own ruin; and many have gratefol reoojleotlona. of hla charity, which baa so often lighted the weary tp reqt; a«d Inspired the foriom with comlort anil hope ren<iWed. "Why ahould I healtate to give oiedlt where It la due l Why conceal a name which has so freouently extended benevolenoe to the broken< down and'helpleedt' The man—one of, nature^ noble Wwardj cf £100,000. Ha Incurred a h'eavy Ices, how-1 oirolea for the last twenty'years. Oharlea Lt)ey, well known In the .aportiog he laattwenly years. i . . Mr. Orookford had a splendid flmhold eatate atNew- if need&K Hflteqaently eaya, "I, don't lend mopv to gamble wKh''4^a wlae' .lr .ooVa trathfal'. enhse.. .'!lf I lend money Jt ohaggtf nly .lack.! I always lose after lending money"-^a sapehHtloas pnt^ifl;'.bnt of ten had recoqns <to. Othen will answef on Importdnate bor- rower, If they are accosted while box in,haind, Ihmaii- ner f6\lQ^g:> "i pre'sdme you wlah me to throw In, don't you t" The Invariable response Is, "I do, old fel- low.'^ • vWeU, then. If I Were to lend yoii a sovereign, I ahoA^' throw oat dhwotly." -Suoh are the evasions employqd by those' wise enough' to'deteimine on not lendhigaioney at the'play tablft Some,'however, who have left regard/for .-Ote- teeUtga of the wionld-be bor rowen,,BtQ lass pollle in their responses. For Instance, a veteran In the gambling world, when he was broke, once atked his son, who had^weo eooeeeaful. and had a heap pf l^ank notea balne bIm, tolend him a "flvejt" (<.«.'. lflve;poDhd^) when thedntUiil eon replied, ma(4i .tp the amaaement of the company, "Oan't, &their; yoa're.saol^ a bad principle."'. . ■ , ■ . . When men enter a gunlng (ibaae, firiendahlp and .sym- pathy at ay outside., Menio uere to whi money, and whose money, that of-<rlend orToe. (aperfectly Immaterial; and: yet It is a straoge'anbmdlythat, apart from the table, pro- fessed gaciblers are the most liberal'men tb.be met with. At the date of wbloh I am speaking,' in their manners, the proprleton and esalBtants^cronplerB, groom porters, ha, —were gentlemen; If not born ad, it waa the practice to atudy the character, and, in tbeatrieal pfaraeeology, get themselves well op In tbe part. It Is but joat otlUDism on theirperioirmance8tosaTi,thatoneand.aU aoqutted themeelvea with respectabUlfy... John Aldridge^was a fln9,;portly man, with a remark- ably handsome ooantenaiide. He was a most jovial com- panion, aiid the best carver and ptialrman I ever met at a dinner pariy. His.flrat toast, after the nsaal loyal onea, was eltDsr"The board of green.oloth,"^ or "Fhe ohildren In the woPd."t. Aldridge was hot only ge'nnona. l^t ex- travagant In hla hospltall^. Hla entertainments In St. Jamea' iqaare were given on a scale Pf pirlnoely magnlS cence, and he vied wUb Hr. Orookford In obtmbgwhieB of aaperior vintages. John's gaesta ware all noblemen and gonUemen of the higheat ftimliles In the lani The eoteriet-however, conslBted of Lord Stair, Major Faooonrt, (a desperate player, and a great friend of the late; Duke of Oombetland, with whom the mejor went to Hanover ashls Hajnty'a private secretary,) tbe latp honorable and eccenWlo Qeo. Talbot^ CoL Harrach, Lord Allen. Hr. Orlel.tCoont D'Oraay, Sir Godfrey Webster, Lord Ohes- terfleld, Hr. Wanand, &0. .. . Ecmia tat great atakai^ waa played at No. 6, St. Jamea' eqaare," a^'well as whist and'dnilmlted loo. Prior to John Aldridge opening thta establbUment, he was part proprietor of Wattler'a. .-On.hIs leaving the honae It waa rebnllt,.ahd afterwards occupied for many yean by Jem* my Bland; a well-known 'celebrity of the turf and bet- oooarred one night to Hdghee Balli That golden apeol- nien of hnmanlty'had been'-pTaybg'.with nnnsnal bad look for many'honrt,'and; On' rlalirg; took'up the dloe. The next' day they were brokeD, fond 16 be'lotided, and were eibiblted In the window of a 'backgammon board maker In Bond street Aldridge was highly Indignant and contended that some person .playing must have In- troduoed them, or. In faot, exohanged them for genuine ones. No matter how they got there, thev were fonnd, and the Injury Inflicted on the Pharabter of the proprle- ton of the olab waa severe and dlsastrooa—inerited or ohmerited,! havo no meana of afloertainlag. il ls, how- ever, but fair to add, that many a bank has been cleaned out by.strangen "ringing" In false dloe. ; There la an (old story, with which, pcobably, the reader, la aoquaLated, as an andent joke, one, however, whloh I and many others' aaw verified In the following why:—One Obarley Oraoroft, apereon identified with the houae as a croupier, was a man very mnoh addict^ to the dlaagreeabl^. -practloe. of ohafBog, and parlloiilarly with thoee he .Imagined could not taketbeir own part in that leapeot One bitterly odd night, rather late. Fan- court came {n with a friend, who waa. evidently what la tariqed the worsci for liquor. ^ l have,metwlth .bat.tew men who have been the better' for It Oraoroft, having nothing to do, entered Into ocnvenatloh with the hal( Intoxicated atranger. Fancduft wais smoking a' cigar In theroiMe room with JPhn Aldridge, when hla friend called out'tohlni— ' ■' • "Uajori lend nHi'a t^-poand nblel!' "No,".responded' the major: "yba ore too fte gone to play to-night" • . - • ■ ' ' "I an not going top1av,'|saId.theBtranger.impatIentty, and Fancpiirt advanbed Into the.rbcm., i"What aire yba going to do T" said ha j'lThls fallow," anawered the luaby'gelitlemahVnaa of- fered tb bet me ted pbnuds that he wUI pa^'ilie'on Ida ib^k three timea rohnd the sqnarq .Mihbat'titopplng. Lend me ttle money.' I want'tb make'tbK'bet''''' ' iFanoonrt, certainly with some exhibition of relaotanoe, palled out the money. : i ■.. ■ "Now, sir," aald the stranger, addieadng,Oraoroft, "oover, air—cover."- ; •. . wv, ■<■. iThla was done, and the parties proceeded down Btalrs. i"I am ready," said the nujorla frlepjl ."Rnt. all. >> aald flranrntt.' "v'on uo ——.w.wvw. u0 wwutAvu n ucnvj judo, aiwvt- ireiS In Moldent that happened while the old houses. .Mr. urocKiom oaa a apienaia ireanoiu eaww at aew- mwo7b??SI^ °^tjkoMown to make roomfor the jaimi, where bU wjlfe and family realded. They were OrMwL I? 5 ?' houM, the. Guards' Olnb, fell down, and greatly i^espeotad bylthe lnhabltanta of . the sanoandlog S IBMT.^^'SI' <he expense of rebuilding It SelgbborhiSd, partfonlarly by the poor, who rften ffeft A oommittflb Lv" 'k"^^^^^ -Tf l*' toe>nefl¥,of thefr hnmaiilty ,and genertjelty. • ' tka iSS .17*"the chair of which was filled by . ' ■' :, Zzf " ?.*"<l''> three hundred noblemen and gen- * ', __i,...™.«„ t^emenenrolUd thelpnamea as m8mben,TiX the title , ' AMBinaa'a natiBwraireiir. 8'' Olnb." Lord sSlXwed OrOOk- NiUber 0, at James* Boaaro-^ohn AlWdga and Us estobUsh. 5«ed7S'''''»°"«''^' "3 SsprODizeT^d SSl^ ■ "-t. d^orlbed-Se games.,1.,^1-Vl.ws pf..gambltng tweabia hoogjg^ The oalebraUd Ode,the Frenoh cook, somneM*^?^''"" "'^^^ *8 puWIo haveJieard poSS, fln'nl''"*,^'''!" ^o** of humbng, and oontem- KM«..M '"n'oenM oonaldered him an Impoator; i>, hSwaV?' '«•<»» '"V or jealousy. Certain U nes flayed- . _ ostomen, and the feeung of the onstbmers'towatda tbe gaining honae proprietors—vlsltoiv —'the fMnlly party—Playera no londers-IntoreaUng excuses -^Cronpleis and groom porters-gentlemen tducated In that (diaraotar themsuves—'Iha gambler's toasts—Wattler's and the loaded dloe—Hogbcs Ban's aoonsatlon—John Aldrldge'a denial-Hr. OraQnlts equeatrlan eihlbltton and Itansulta— Ohurohlll's Insolvency. " ' . .i vBesldea Ocookford>, there .Were, In ,fhe, parish of St ~ ilandid gambUng honaee, f^MUent- Bra WM «nt originally a jeweller, and: there- «il than S? *° ^aom mon of.itba. qullnery Jitoea', a number of spU— . „ . . ., ^ntDTOiL ° learned and praotised U under In- ed bylnien ot rank and fashion, the same Indlvldnals be Thoi.t.T aw ' log members of Orookford's club. The foremost amonpst hrtiiVrn«. i ■'''*y«°™ ootaplalnelof at^^ Jbbn Aldridge's. No. 6, Bt 'Jde tbK ^P'J.P"''^' and even went so-far aato tell Jame*' square. The first flooMOom, IpoUng Jntp the novedan^k • V -''^ onunlng Frenchman had it re- aquare, was devoted to iha'royal game ol hazard; the kelW «nn«.?S'^^""B''' to.t»We with a peculiar aanoe; larger room, or aBloPn, oVeriboklng Pall Mall, was ocou error rttlga e( wlr atid nM. Play for ubUmlt«d lortv i-„ ' noWe peer ate of it wlth grbat relieb. atakes waa allowed; bat the arleloorals who nightly gath ^ to tha ..uku'!'*'''"'''' out of llveiy, were attached and round John Aldrioh'a table,.were really mora like i •alona ana .fw''S.*'.*^iy ^eUM and well pijld, IBkliy patty than a taest bf deliberate jjambleraj strivlng llItoreLlrli Jifn^®'"**MB^^^^ . .. ^. (OMvihrlr^f ^'^"^ V*** <»t ofttiat he bad king, a aboelaaa bagnr In the atieet&wNordldlbeflne, oariw me back Into the boale|'^'•Bd, with (Mi>lt|»r t<»> rviueetaen 609ks,twpUt*^'AiUI«.U&t«o Mttl|,'lBuly,Jo^yHo^^bhn/Lllrioh,' the ot>U«tii(( W^uA^Utat)^^ 4.|^tW.^^ ^^MW^^, tihfph Indiibed htm to lui* V afcpMd tljfhe naohedlhr"" for.'Moi6,aodhaiintf'! :«r, and ibadktd the no*. "But, air," aald Oraoroft^ "you are not prepared. have laid the wager that I would ciif^, yoo, not yonr olothes." • • ■■■ ' ' . "Ton areaewlndler, elr," said the stranger; "but yoo all not eeoape by that ruu d» guttn. I'll take^oa at ybnrword." ■In another Instant the stalwart haU-llnBy man stood before OB In a state of primeval buff. - Tnere ww tif al< tern|iUv6) the next moment thd atdrdy e on.to.poor Oracroft's back, whipping us naked'heels Idtb. his ribs aslf he had mounted someelogglah Jiottnants. and wlahad to try Ila higheat speed. Oraoroft jogged off w|Ui -hla' spltefdl and ttonblescm'e btiTden,!:in the hoi that soiae of,his friends would by to make It a win, tl 01 a wrangle. AlasI he reokoned without hla host—he h^t np chance; but bis Mends, lacking ^ympalby.'ren- dered the task more dUBqult ' Tlie' enow was nearly a foot deep on tho gronnd, and .tbe whole parly oommeaoei snow-baliiog hofte and taian,' John Aldridge oommenced 'FAnopnrt took up the mohlng, and At' length the etoM felli' the naked man cUnglbg to hla neqk and abonldera '^'OetTip,''my man, and let na tfo .on." aald tha'alran- for; almdat throttUng Creoroft "That worthy gentleman, owever, <*ooald hot see it" as we now say in modern slang. With a straggle he stammered ou[|; ihat he had Ibat the Wagbr. "Get off me," said ba te his rider, ' i"The deuoe a blt^" responded the vindictive and obstl nate alrangen "If I gat oir, -I.bhaiI get iby feet wet Tbit woald have robb^ m(| of.teh ilol;iti(U ybiir qalb- >ile:if .yoo 'ooaldt now, by ths.epaliof .ine, yon shall me back Into the hollle|'^'•»i, with (Malltter ■■'■<. ■'•'■! otatii^jookey on the inatiln^^epaaaage.^ ,. '! The'pe^eriaig'friend,ol./it>ioonrt was. Jack Ohoiob-.., Ill, n maa of facetious memory, a, great wit.and orator of that .tlffle^ well remembered for hla inld/^ght eooonnten - of the tongue, at the Boyal Balpon, Plbbadllly, with the , Hon. George Talbot to whom he was alw»8 opposed. . Ohorohlll accompanied hla friend Hajor .Fanooott to . Hanover, In tiie oapaolty of eeoretaiy tb the king's score- . taxy. He returned about tbe year 1842, and boon after- ' wards.Was arrested and taken to Wfalteafoss Ureet, at thesolt of a cabman, for aaventy .ponnda odd, for oab - fares. I foraet the man's name, but he was remarkable for his clrilfty, and a great favorite amongst. thajweUs^ and known 'to them aa "Black Jem." l,,fihlnlf XaeK Ohorohlll b ihe.only.man upon record who,eyeir ilipuii^.tli^ benefit.of Jhe Inaolvant Act for cab fiares. ■■ :^: ; niu an •Thaludbdtahto. ' tl>lc«'°'^^<* ' ■"■ tlblsmanmovsd In the voy Vest society, and WTa.*f .!80» ' family. He. doftauded UeasiB. Dranmonds, tlM-b*dBni:.«C>') £80,000 by meahs of forged paroohlal paving boDdo. B««lBqMlt< fKonJusileetotheeoDttnent .. ■: ..-.if a^i.^u/ ■ ■ : A•rmuiiiiiiie atimBsr,- ■■ '•'■' ! The foUowlog gr^pblo sketch of an looldent whlpIroHr" onrred soma yeart nnce at the' JHatnnl Bridge, \a:Yiir,\ ginia, (a a piaarage ,In a lectore on Genlua, delivered'bjr.i the belebrated Ellhu Barritt, the Learned BlaokBmltb^^'' ' Thesobne opens with the Great Natural Bridge In YIt-^l'^ gtnla. Tbere are thf ee or fbar lads atand lug In tbe phauir nel below, looUog np with awe to the'vest uch bf nU^: hewn rocka whloh tbe Almighty bridged over thbe'e. ever-'< laatlbg abntments when the morning etaiB sang together.'' The little piece of sky spanning thote -meeearelesfl' plei.i^\ Is fall of Btara. although It Is mid.day. . It Is. almost fi^e' hnndred feat from'where they stand, np these perpenduft', lar balwarks of limestone, to the kev-rook of that vast ( arch, .which appears to them onlv the size of a. mah'v .- hand. The sUeooe of death la nndeied more ImpranlvA ' bv the little stream that falls flrom rook to rook down the , cheiimeL The BnnlBdaTkened, and the boys'bikVe..)^: ! oonsotously nnoovered their heads, aa if atandlng in ito.ii preaenoe ohamber of the Majesty of the whole/eaxUc At last this feeling begins to wear away, tbey Mgin to lookaronnd them. -They see the names of huodreda ,oat. In the limestone abntme^its.. A new feeling cbmea.ovisr their yonog'hearts,' and tiielr knlvea are In hand l«anlil'.., etant "Wbat man has' done, man. m^y do," Ib' tlieir' : watoh-word, while they drew np themaelves, and carr» ' their names B foot above those'of foUigrown -men,'wlift . had been then before Uiem. ■ - ' . They are all eatlafl^ with this feat of phydMlexerUPIa^ except one, wboie example lllnatrates tbe perfectly ftr- . gptten tratb, that there Is no royal road to Ihtelleotgial eminence. Tbia amblUona yonth seesa name jost abovA hla reach—a name that will be green in the memory of ^ the world, when those of Alexander, Ctssar, and Bona> '> parte, shall rot hi oblivion. It was. the name of WaOiJ Ington. Before he marched with Braddook tb that fatal '. field, he had been tbere, and left. hls neiffleafobt abpT^i ' all his predeoessotB. It waa a glbrioaa thobghi of u(r. > boy to write hlahame ride by aide with that ot tbefather. ^ of hi# opnntry. He grasps hla knife with a firmer handf ' and clinging to a little jotting crag, ha cats again Into' ; the limestone, abont a toot above wberahelaatanAIoe; ' .'h^thgi;^eabliw w>od ootaaiicther f br hla a da'bgerdns advSnt^ but ae.he pots his fe«t and buMla Into thote'jgralna, aiid'draws himaelf bp.'carefnlly jblils full length, he finds hlqi^lf a foot above every name . obroololcd In that ibrghty wall While Jkla oompanlmt' > are.regardlog him wlth'OPnoern and admiration, be cntv his name In rode oapltals, large and deep, Into that flhitf '' album. Bia knife la atUl In bis hand, and strength In ma\, sInewF, and anew created asplntlon In bia heart Again he onts another niche, and again he carves hli : name In capltala. Thla la not enough. Heedleaa of ths entreaties of hla oompanlods, he cats and climbs again. ^ The gradallona of his aeoendlpg scale grew wider/apait^ He measures bia length at every gain he cnta. The vblpo : of hla friends waxea .weaker and weaker, till U.Is loston, the ear. He now for the first time oasts a look benealh. . him. Had that glance laaled a moment ^at moment would have been bis last' He clings wlth'a oonvnlalva. abudder to bis lltUenlohe in the rook. An awful abya awaits hla almost certain fall He is faint with sevai* exertion, and treobbllng from the sudden view of the' dreadfnl deatniotlon to which he la expoeed. Bia knl(^ la worn half tvay to the - haft He can hear the yolpea, but not the words of hla terro>stricken oompaslbns belov.^ What a moment I What a meagre chaobe to escape do- ... atraotloni There la no retracing hla etepa. Itlalmpoe^ slble to pnt hla bands Into the eame niohe with his feet, and retain his slender hold a moment 1 His Isompanlona. Instantly perceive this new and tearfol ^lemma, and await bia fall with emotlcna that "freeze their young blood." He Is too high, too faint to aek for .hla father ; and Dother.hla brothen and akteif), to .come to avert Ua ., deslraotloit Biit.ciie of hla companlona anttclpateBhla ... deslrea. Swift as the wind he bounda down the channal '. and the situation of the fated.bby is toldapon hla fathei'«, hearth-stone. Mlbutee of aWoet eternal length roll on, and there. ar» handreda etandlng In that rool^'channel, and'.hundred* ' 00 the bridge above, edi holdhig their breath, and^awalt^" , bg the fearlhl bataatropha. The poor bov hears tbb hank of! the new and nomeroaa voices both below and abov^- i He oanjaat distlngalah thetonea of hla fatbrr, whojto Bliouttog with all the energy of de8pairL-<'Wllllam t WIK '. Ham I don't look down I lonr mother, and Henry, ant Harriet, an aU praylngforyoni Don'tlookdownl Kee»'>' your eyea on the ton I" Tbe boy didn't look down.: Hb i eye la Uke a fixed flint towaida Heaven, and bis vonng i i heart , on Him who reigns there. He grama again . Uk ,:i knife. He out anoiher niche, and another loot u addal ,i i to the hnndreda that remove him from the reach of hor . > man help from below. How. carefully he aaee bia waatrr. ,. ; Ing blade 1 How anxloasly he aelectsthe. aolteat plaMt ;.7 Id that va^t plerl How ne avoids every flinty grain i • ' How hb eoonomlsee hla physical powera-reetlng a «ao;_„.. meat at each gain he cute I How eivery motion Is w|ttbp-, : .., edfVombelowl There atanda hla kindred on the vet];, spot where. If he fella, he will not fall alone. , . , The ann Is now half way down the.weat The.lad. u*. made fifty additional niches In that mtahty wall,' «Ul- . nowflDds bimself directly under the middle of tha^ vaat oroh of rooks, earlb, and trees. Hemnat calhlb'wbyin . a new dIreoUon to get firom nnder thiB overhanging' mountain. ThelQppIration of hope isdylu^1n'hlBboeota( ' Its vital heat Ib fed by Inoreeeed shouU of boodr^ - perched upon olUb and treee, and othars who ataild with - ropaa b tbelrbanlB on the bridge above, or with laddtf ;< below. Fifty galoa more must be oat before the loflgtsa rope can reaobhbi). Hla wasting blade strikes . agaU Into the llmeilone. The boy is emerging ;<palDtnlly tuv^ - by foot ftom nnder that lofiy »roh. SpHoed rpp«» ' Oy loot, irom nuaw (UM mu,. - au'tv^ •yr-- TT^ ■ ready In tbe handa of:.thiOBO.;who :are ^ibaolog .oier • no -i..; outer edge of the brldgp,. ;;,Twp mlnntes - will be over. Tha blade le worn to tbe last ball ln« The boy's head roela-f-hlB . eyea are aterUog ««J; eocket*-hia Iwt ho^ ««.<^I»8'In h'»^«",'t:'' !lu''S5 ban. npon the next galnie onta-tbat nloto Is W »»'!i. 'AttbelaatfaK ga«bemake8, bls *f«'"^ ^.'J^S^"'' nerveleu han4..apdiin^ aU «ho pcecIpH.'^l" MA^lM ■. / ■