Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-08-23

he had last risen upon the ruins OF deoauch,
and had much difficulty in restoring the BAG
chan.lians TO their waking senses. In two in
stances it appears to have been more easy to
wake than 10 rouse the guests.
"All being duly in order, we at length awak-
ened Joe Kelly and Peter Ally his neighbor-
they had slept soundly, though with no other
pillow than the wall; and my brother announced
breakfast with UieW hohoa!
"1he twain Immediately started and roared
in unison with their host most tremendously!
1t was however i'll avery different tone from
the uie,u haLoa-and perpetuatad much longer.
"'Come boys SAYS French giving Joe pull
come
"'Oh murder! says Joe Il can'tn!-Murder!
--murder!' echoed Peter. French pulled them
again, upon which they roared the more, Still
retaining their places. have in my life inc
laughed till | nearly became spasmodic; but
never were my risiblc muscles our TO greater
TENSION than upon this occasion. The wall as
said before, had only that day received coat
of mortar, and was of course quite soft and
Welding when Joe and Petr thought proper TO
make il their pillow; it was nevertheless set
ting fast from the heat and lights OF an egh-
teen hours carousa'; and in the mornl g, when
my Brother awakened his guests, the mortar
had completely set, and their hair being the
thing most calculated to amalgamate herewith,
entire of Joe'S stock together with his queue,
and half Of his head, was thoroughly and ire
vocably bcdded in the greedy and now marble
cement, 50 tina, if determined to NOV, he must
have taken the wall along with him, Tor sepe
rate it would not. One side OF Peters head
was in the same state OF Imprisonment. Nobo-
DIV was able to assis them, there they both stuck
fast.
" A consultation was now held on this piiful
case. whicn lmalicionsly endcavored oprolong
as much as | could, and which was in fact, eve
:, now and then interrupted by a roar from Pc
ter or Joe, as they made fresh efforts to rise
It length, it was proposed by Dan Tyron, 20
senl 'or the stone-cu'ter and get him to cut
them out of the Wall in chisel. | was litter
ally unable to speak tw sentences Tor laughing
ne old woman meanwhile tried to soften the
oDiur,t, wall with 'uelted butter and new mix
--hut III vain related the school story, how
Hannibal had worked through the Alps with
hot yin, gar AID hot iron:- this experiment
likewise was made, but Hannlbafs Solvent had
no better success that the old crone's. Peter
being Of a more passionate nature, grew ulti.
mately quite outrageous; h. roared, gnashed
MS Getn, ana SWOIC Vengeance aSdiiiS' NhN
so-,;--but as he was held BY one ,ide, thought
at least struck him: he asked for 'wo knives
which being brought he whetted one against
the other, * introduced the blades close to his
skull, sawed away at cross corners till he Was
liberated it'll thu loss only OF halt his hair. and
piece of his scale, which he had iced off in
zeal and haste for liberty. l never saw fel.
'4w 50 ex,ravag utlv happy! Fur was scraped
5 "a of. a tho h,ppI N y.
ms aead va, div ii d up with i've oldwoman's
| prdskg.q. aud he was soon in state of bodily
ccnvallscence Oar licitude was now rcqur
Ell soielv for Joe, whose head was o deeply bu
ried 10 be examined with 50 much facility AT
this moment. Bob Casey, OF Ballyna&ll! very
celebrated wig maker Just drop ed in to see
what he could pick up honesty in the way OF
his profession or steal in the way OF any thing
else; and he immediately undertook to get Mr.
| Kelly out Of the mortar by a very expert but
| tedious process, namely; clipping with his sCis
sors s then roofing out with an oyster knife lie
| thus finely succeeded, in less than an hour. IN
! ST ting Joe once more at liberty, at the price
of his queue, which was t'tly lost, and At the
exposure of his raw md lecding occiput The
operation was indeed, Of mongrel descli ption
! Some what between complete tHnSurc and
an imperfect scalping, to both OF VIII n demon
matt n il certainly presented claims Vol.
lpp al-S+
This ofcourse is alipcrfectly tr"e-though an
ill-natr red person might say tnat the ads OF
the sufferers were mo likely, all things consid
cred, to yield 10 the wall, then the wall to them
Poi',csi ond 'lo,oi hieresi-The politica!in-
terest Of tine publio appears 20 be IN an inverse
promotion W the geographical distance ct
the place d the immediate Importance OF the
subject; is moral concern on tie othe hand
is in omethiug more than the dir CO proper
ton Of he distance and the in erse OF the I'M
portance Of e matter to our own community
Political interest for examp'e ..Ce,y reaches
India; While moral concern Is here in its
greatest Force, and flags as approaches home.
A statement of III. defective so esnment OF a
hund cd mi lions in the East 81 not COM
mand SO much atten ion as tie case OF an dp-
pie woman's stat, orDressi,eh upset IN Oxford
street; but let qurssi-n % 'itner hr aRitsteh.
and We consider The irrc -alarit! with an ear
n, stnes incre. S up vita me space by which 1t