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RICHMOND HILL ANDEONGEST.GENERAL ADVERTISE-R. HENRY SMELSER, DAVID EYER. Jun, GEO. H. APPELBY P. A. SCOTT: ISSUER 0F OR THE :- 1 3 d Concession AND PEEL. R. GRAHAME 499 497 'l'llc 479 l-tf 22 Unsullied b5! one base thoughtâ€" A heart that beats with love and truth, Is a prize I long have sought. I seem to ask for the wealth of earth, It would bind my spirit free; _ But the worshipped one of a. faithful heart Is what I would like to be. r A soul that is noble, kind, and good, . ‘ I._ Is a gift 1 would value more I I Than sparkling gems from the diamond mine, Ur the pearls of India’s shore. Beauty, at best, is a fading flower, And for it I would not care; But when I gaze in the soullit eye I would find it beaming there. To the heaven-born gift of intellect Alone would my spirit bow, And ne‘er would ask for clustering curls To shadow a noble brow. With hope and faith for our beacon lights, While virtue guides our way, Secure we’d pass temptations by That would lead our hearts astray. And each to the other kind and true, While earth was our sprite" haven, Would pray that we ne’er might part on earth But to meet again in heayen. THE “ It is well known that, without absolutely taking the form of an animal, man has often the instincts of such, and, despite his oulward casing of humanily, doth nourish a tasle for blood; and with all a beast's unreasoning cmelly will desroy for destroying sake. The gift I ask is a priceless boon, And for it I'm wandering through The weary maze ofa thoughtless worldâ€" It’s a heart. tha’t's warm and ti‘ue. A soul where purity ever dwells, H16;"5'51ii'h"'f“¢hahcba 10 make the acquaintance 01 an old- union- cello player, engaged in the orches- tra of the Adelphi Theatre. ALBERTUS DIAGNIZ'S â€" TREATISE LYCANTfiROPy.’f He was a quiet, shabby-genteel personage, devoted 10 his prelession lmm which he gained, poor fellow, when linings were at llla best, the meagre stipend of twenty-four shillings weekly. The Old musiciagl greafly inter; ested me. His superior in wordly means, I was enabled to render him many little servxces. His thanks were always quietiv and gratefuin expressed ; and such trifling pecuniary loans as I forced upon him when i knew the black ox to be treading on his foot, were returned when the better day came round without any solicitation on my part, and in such a manner that to have endeavoured to make the loan a gift would have been an in~ snlt. It was a miserable nightâ€"a London night in December. when the Streets were slippery with mud, and the damp, cold fog curled about the lungs like a wet snake. I had quitted the thearlre after witness- ing one of O'Smith’s more than usually powerful performances. and no cab being immediately forth- coming, I turnea into Bull-in-court and, entering the Nell Gwyun Tavern, called for a glass of still" grog. to give me strength to face the inclemency of the weather. . I walked into the bar-parlour, in which a large Sea-coal fire 'was bYaz'mg, and found its only occu- pant to be my friend, the old musi~ cian, Andrew Ticknapp. Our conversation turned natural- ly upon the piece I had just seen, which, as far as my memory serves, wascalled theManWolf,or the Loup- Garou, its hem being an accentric gentleman. living somewhere in the south of France, who, a model nl propriety and good conduct in the daytime, played such fantastic tnch when night set in as must not only have made the angels weep, but the moon tum pale With horror. There is no deriving lhe appar- ent absurdity of such an idea, said Ticknapp. as, after stirring the fire, rubbed his thin. active hand over the blaze. Yet the characters of the lower grade of animals do seem sometimes to embody themselves in the higher form of man. I myself know an instance of a very terrible To my surprise, I found my fnend well up in that old-world superstition of lycamhropy. an idea described by Sir Waller Scott in his ieltcrs upon demonolgv and witchcraft BY MRS. S. P. MESERVE HAYES MAN-CAT: A LEGEND OF YORK. figmmm THE GIFT I ASK. ammo “ Let Sound Reaso'n '117e7g/z moi‘e witfif‘ys .t/wm; :Popular Opinion.” - ‘ w - s . . . RICHMOND HILL; FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 1868 Oh! never mind a ‘t that. Let. us drop the shop Ti ‘ and try simply to pa "hour. I know your-x” and have rung the be of steaming hot pun which we- know. on the authn , . of Harry Fielding, is, a; liq} “t nowhere spokeri against in SC} 4’ “fire. The punch Was b~ _.2ght more coa's heaped on the fig. and in its usual chirriping manné,‘ , Andrew Ticknapp cummenced .'.5 story. u'rite tap, r a glass My father, named. like myself. Andrew TicknaDP. \vaét'an actorâ€"I n shelling player, noting more, sir, one of the wander? g. children of Thespis. with whotz'fife is a Chaplet of small carefind petty miseries, which they (grigeavour to shake Will] a laugh. kind. which. had it. 11"“: been-relat- ed to me by. my dear ‘l‘ajéh‘e'r. long long since dead,'l shnfld have dis- believed as firmly as‘bi‘ have no doubt you will do. Pray tell it me, Ticj‘napp. This fire is far too jouvfm" "ither of to he anxious to [9 “far an'Txour at least. We’ve go . room all to oursolveq, (ind a .‘sâ€"fm" 'ypur stories are alWavs g jjsfinesâ€"will freshen me‘up. wom filly. The old mari smil, I! isvynu who are a Mr. Balfour; and if give vou an idea for 0d listener, ould only‘ of your-â€"‘: It was on a Christmglfieve, when the twilight shadows W fife Ealhel“ ing fact over the drear; fihndscape. “181 my father and me f’iéfitlie Hoop oi strollers, of whicfi'h ghen iorm‘ ed a part, came pioddi 7 along the road that led to the m ciple gate ofthe ancient city of Y i'k. it was cold, a chil-l ; md swept the highwav. and frbaZ' Ate mar- Tom‘aThrqstTe, 1113; ,W tleman. Befktallv bills ’ ~ ' My fathcr, who was general utili- ty. brought up the rear. He was accompanied by a tall, seedy youth with weak eyes and light hair, known in the troop as Flamingo, supposed m have run away from somebody and somewhere. bills, ' ~ 05 I " * S'fifi'g’l',“ limped dolefully in advance of the rest. After him came Mr. and Mrs. Stanwood. known as the ‘heavies; then Midgelv and his wife, a mere child, whom some cruel chance had linked to his fortune; while, behind them. mounted on a small donkey, was Mrs. Euphemia Maw, the wife 01 the manager 01 the troop. She held an infant in her arms, while her lord and master, onr manager and head tragedian, Mr. Octavius Maw. walked at the don- key’s side, clad in a threadbare cloak, and with that stride and stop movement which is supposed to belong to the highest order of legitimate drama. Flamingo, who was as timid as a girl, and as nervous as anv tea- drinking old woman, stammered out that he was very sorry ; but my father, irritated at the man‘s tone replied, sharplyâ€"- n was com, a Emu-'1} the highway, and {mag row in._their bones. 2'“ ‘ The snow was beginning to tail fast, and the mnltituduous flakes darkened more and more the heavy air, when my father, who. with Flamingo, had from sheer exhaus- tlon dropped far in the rear of the troop, was startled ontof a lethargy bv the quick gallop of a horse. Honest fnlkl said the/rider, with a sneerlng laugh. I dare sware you’re litilc better than a couple of loolpads. and I shall see you bmh slrnng up one 01 these days outside of York Castle. The énimalr canie alongr so rapid- ly that it was nearly upun and over them before they could draw akide. ' 7] should like to know may be that you Ihink right to ride Honest folk the king 3 lfighwrv. The rider rained in his horsejust in lime, pulling it, ~ back upon its haunches with a farce that showed a hand of iron. Halloa! Are you Iired 01 your lives, you fools, that you go to sleep In the middle oi the road. My father was about to make an angry reply; but Flamingo, grasp ing his arm, whispered; impluring- iyâ€" ‘ 0 Speak 111m fair, Andrewâ€"speak him fair. 'Our companions are a good hundred yards in advance, and there’s something in his face that chills me more than either the wind or snow. Whul is that scarecrow mutter- ing about ‘3 asked lhe man. with a quick movement of his right hand, which seemed like a menace. who you you've a down on zen- While the horseman was speak- ing, my father had ample time to examine his face and general ap- pearance Picture to yourself a large man, with a lithe, sinewy figure; thin, reddish, bristling whiskers, which advanced so close to the corners of the mouth that they looked like the commence- mentol a moustache; the head covered with a tightâ€"fitting cap, made of the skin of some wild ani- mal, descending to the ears, which, delicate and pounted, stuck out lrom the head ; the eyes ofa green- ish vellow; the eyelids hall closed; the forehead flat, and retreating from the brows; the mouth cruel; the teeth small. find, and pointed. Yet, with all this, when the man was not angry, nothing could be more soltly deceitful than the gen- eral expression of his face. The eyelids droode more and more over the eyes; the thin lips wore a vhlvety smile, and a murmur, that was almost purr. showed, or was meant to show, the integrity of a pleasurable satisfaction. Players! Well, I thought you were vagabonds of some kind, and was not wrong, you see. Take care how you behave vourselves, {or the authorities in York are se- vere, and whip and pillory are both handy. "Nothingrnmhing, Worthy sir, put in Ftamingm before my father cbnlagpcak. \Ve are oqu poor players journeying to York for lhe Christmas festivuies. It was the face of a cat-a cat that half slumbers in the sunlight. V.Â¥._,y... .u may outlllfilll, \vhcse lalons are sheathedâ€"whose faintest sound is a sort of a sleep- ing egress. Yet, let a bird flutler nearfibr a mange scamper by, and. in a moment. the spirit -of cruelty is there! The‘eye will flash with the li-glitepiiagvpf: dam, and the .---~ "n""',""'b ‘f- claws dart form'to' stray. Here the manager had secured iodging for the troop, and in the general roomâ€"a large apartment, with huge cross beams above the head, and a red brick floor beneath the feetâ€"hunger and cold were forgotten, the first being appeassd ;by a plentifully meal, and the se- ‘cond removed by a great wood fire. We have no cause to be afraid of either whip or pillory, said my father, angrily; and, for what I know. you may be nearer to them both than either of us. The man started in his saddle, and flashed upon my father such a look of malignant ham that he stepped hastily back, Just in time :0 eseape a savage cut from tho horseman’s whip. You dog! he said, you ing dog! you shall dle death vet! By my tather’s advice, Flamingo said nothing of this meeting to the rest of the troop. He dreaded the effect of an untoward prophecy up- on their already depressed spirits and jaded nerves, and both by Flamingo and himself the rencon- Ire was soon forgotten. It was eight o'clock m the even ing when they entered York, and made their way through the quaint but now sloppy and dismal. streets to the hostelry of the Blue Boar at Castleszate. It was not my father’s first visit by many to the Blue Boar. [ls robust landlady had a niece, an orphan, whom ' she had taken jn her employ. Her keep was not much. She svrvcd the gueSts, and saved her aunt money. The charl ty that begufrflt home stopped there, Then, siriking spurs into his horse's sides. he galloped ofl“. and was soon hidden by the curtain of falling snow. cfifd’When Mrs. Mary M'Cubbin adopted Nelly Gomm. she did a thing that was very much to her own advantage. I will just observe here, though it has nothi-ngrto do wilhlmy story, that Nelly. Go'mm became in time Mrs 'l‘icknapp, and was my mother rest her soul i The old musician 100k anolher sip at the punch, checked himself injllc middle nl'a sigh and smiled. ‘ I shall see her 30m, he said. She was as gentle a creamre as, ever walked the earth. She thought no harm, anddid no harm. It makes the threshhold ol' the grave less dark, Mr. Balfour, ' when such beings have gone belore, and are wailing [or us. ‘ Another sip of punch, and {€87 5 RH Y6 p1 ay-act- a dog’s From what cause? Every cause! Oh, Andrew! dreadful things have been going on in York since you lelt, though that is not more than two weeks ago. You had scarcely lelt the city when Mr. Peter Tomilson, the great cloth merchant, was discovered early one morning, stabbed to the heart in his counting-house, where he had remained after the clerks had gone home in'ttte evening. Two nights alter. Alderman Kelly was found 'murdered in his bed ; and ‘the night after that the sacristan ol lof All Saint’s Church was killed l while returning home, near Mickle- ‘gate Bar. Since then, though some ‘of the new officers have been sent down from Bow-street in London, there have been twenty-seven mur- ders. No one sleeps easy of a night ; forwho can say when once he or she closes his or her .eyes 1whether theV will again Open...lhem lyinaahiswwerldi v, ,7 t ‘ r What’s the news Nelly ? asked my father, speaking very distant; as before alhird party he believed it proper to do. What has been going on since I was last in York? Nelly clapped her hands. Awful goings on! The whole city is in a slate of fear and up- roar. Nelly showad my father and his companion their room, and stood chatting While they exchanged their soaked boots for carpet slipp- ers, which she. for their special be- hont. had provided. My 'l'ather, with, Flamingo, was billited in a garretéâ€"a queer little room, in one 01 the gable ends of the fantastic old taVem, which is situated, asvperhaps you know, in one of the most picturesque, if not one of the most comfortable, quart- ers of ancient York. ‘ My father was much alarmed at this news, which threatened to materiallv interfere with the re- ceipts of the company during its stay a1 York, few person beingr so enthusiatic in rheir support of the drama as to risk a stad on their wav home from the theatre. Andrew Ticknapp took up lhe dropped'thread of his story. Flamingo said nothing. His eyes and mouth were open wuh aston. ishment, and his always pale com- plexion grew livid with telror. Not lhé slightest. But, most strange of all, whoever We the mur- derer may be. he robs his victims of nothing but life. No article of value,eitherin silver 01' gold. is ever found missing from the person or purse. ' EveryBodv continued Nelly, is alarmed. The authoilies are on fhe. alert, and everv person who is a stranger in the _citV becomes an object of suspicion aqf] fear. “And they have discovered no 011191 my fathef asked.“ Fla'mmgo, still .1135dking 0f the dreadful catalogue, onlv murmur- edâ€" ' Here the conversation Was inter- rupted by Mrs. M'Cubbin shouting from the foot of the stairsâ€"â€" Nelly! Nelly! am 1 to be wait- cm the people myself? Where are you go! to hussy? a. va‘ C"‘ '" """J V Coming aunt, coming! and whh a sly pressure of the hand for my father, and a pleasant smile for Flamingo, Nelly'started down stairs like an arrow. The two poor play- ers when she. was gone looked in each other's faces with blank do. spair. They descended to the general room, and after a substantial meal, durng which no other subject was talked about by the guests, but the murders which had struck terror throughout York, they again retired to their airy bedchamher, in the stove, 01 which Nelly had secretly managed to make a small fire. Bafl neWS, indeed, said my fath- er, folks will be afraid m stir abroad after nighifall. We shall make no money in York this ChnstmaS. Twentvâ€"seVen murders. Why it’s worse than a Jacobite rising! The light given by the flickering flames, for the friends had no. candle, was anything but cheerlul It splashed the lattice panes of the garret windows and the dark oalcen beams that traversed the low ceil- ing with red, which, to Flamingo’s and my father’s excited imagina- tions, appeared like blood. It sent great waving shadows about the room; or, rather, seemed to draw them out of their lurking places in hole and corner, and set them dancingin q hundred grotesque and TERMS $51.00 IN ADVANCE 1Vhole N0. 525. It must have been, bv his calcu- lation, about two. hours alter ~ "mid- night, when he was startled 1mm his first sleep by a noise 01 a pecu-l liar character. He first thought it the movameht. 01 some cat, stealing along thér gutters and over the slated roofs: but as he raised himself and Ilsten- ed mor attentively, he became con- vineed they were steps, cat-like and cautious, ofa human being. A First one'leg and then {be ’other was cautiously passed through plae _window,>tilll‘1he man himself wgth- out an atom'qf liaise, 'lstood, Erect temamthe rqgfhf .the garret. ‘ He nudged Flamingo {vim-dds elbow. 7 My father still remained rbv me window. watching the moon,3as it passed in and out of the clouds. rushing wildly, like some hunted thing, irom one hiding place to the other. A quarter of an‘hour passed thus and then my father crept also into bed. The warning was unnecessa‘fv ; he was Elan-awake. ‘ " The fire had sunk dowmvfii ow and cast but a hlful, light upo ~ he waHs. My father was' About “to rise to look out of Hue \vind%xy, when, to his horror, it was 991mg! by some one {rom without, lurid a. man’s‘head was thrust 4-,imo the room. Wards flit!~ bed, the intruder moved to thgh’re, which he regarded, as it appeal'yed» to my father, with some surprise, and, as the red light of the dying embers was reflected on his face; both the trembling occupants of the bed recognized in the strange the horseman who had accosted' flight so roughly on the road- 7 b‘ “‘7 Let us got into bed at once. said Flamingo, beginning to throw off his clothes as he spoke. I don’t know why. butl shan't be sorrv when 1his night is over. No sound but the 'wind disturbed the oppressive silence, except, per. haps, at intervals, the sharp grind of a rat’s teeth against the wood- work ofthe wall; and the scamper of mice over the flood-boards. The cat-like face, the . greenish, phosphorescent eyes, the snfiking savage mouth, and thin. brisimg whiskers, with ears pricked for- ward, listening and watchful, were indications there could be no misâ€" taking. It was a sad nightâ€"a nigllflwhen belated wanderers draw their wrappers closer about them,_ and hurry rapidly «hemewards, starting at shadows, " and ' rarely: glégacing over theifi gihpilil’dgrswa high} when the veryjoul 01. man seems to be chilled. ii” it-shudders'with a drear foreboding in ils’fleshy casihg. Outside of the? wine!le irradiat- ed! here. and were Iliy‘llzfi cold moonlight, stretched a forgst of chimneywpms, deep gutters, poitued roots; llx'rongh.~’which‘ a melancholy wind went moaning as i1 scattered lmzon snow into ‘ pmvder, that linkled likevlnéédle- points as it struck against the gar- ret window; ' » . ~3 Despixe the excessive cold of the, night, he was wuhout a. boat. Hi3 shirt-sleeves were turned up above. Ihe elbow of each arm, and a large broad-bladed knife glittered in his right hand. ever- changing @hapeg,‘ like fieués-m a wxltohes‘fesuval. * ‘My father gave himself up for lost, while Flamingo, speechless from terror. trembled so mat, he shook the bed under him.‘-‘- ' As yet, owingm the slope of ~the roof, and the consequent. shadow in which the bed was placed, the mys- tcrious Visitor was unaware for the moment. of their presence. p He bent over the embers of the dying fire, as finding comfort in the heat; then the; city ciock chiming the hour, he drew a. large and apparently old-fashioned watch from his packet, regarded it at- tentively, and laid it on the chimney- picce. " An invincible curisoity' seized upon myfather, and for the ‘moment over- came even terror. Springing from his bed, he hurried out on the staircase; but already the strangér had descended to tilescoi'ridor on the floor below, and a noise told my father that he was opening a window. Some mortars captured at Magdala have reached Gosport; also some VAbyssinian dogs of a. curious vmiety. ’ Chat Moss, between Manchester and Liverpool, had been’ burning Tor several da a and mafiy hundred~ head of game His nostrils seemed to infla'te, his red whiskers to bristle, and his lower jaw to project forward savagely, as an animal about to spring. Thank heaven! said my father, the terrible eyes were lemoved from mine ; and the stranger, with swift, silent=steps, crossed to the door, flung it open, and disappeared. ‘ ‘ Ashe did so, Flamingo's trembhng became so violent that it reached the man’s quick cars. ‘ He started, and glanced round. His eyes seemed to penetrate the dark- ness, and, in their greenish glitter, to meet and fascinate those of my father. Suddeniy tHe voices oi the city watch were heard in the street; far down Below, calling fihg hour. pe‘rished. MISCELLANEOUS. To be Continued.