Delaware gazette and American watchman. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1837, 1830-06-04

q ken my arm from the shoulder joint Ny
poor mother, (the Majors eyes fIied,J
There she stonl waiting behind the hall
4 door folded me to her heart, and then
held me al arms length 10 assure herself
] Of my identity; Was this her striping
poy IA bronzsd, black whiskered strap.
lping fellow of six feet twu--with a
slash over bis eye, and the ribaud of 3
foreign order at his button holef
| Nor was my aunt O'T0dle less ira
cious, considering that had come homs
with neither wooden leg or Twelve aud
SIC psoce per diem. Ii short, The night
lofT seturn vas one VI uuhsunded hap
4 psaS..S, sharliie feSvn having collected 10
welcome mel and Get drunk win one
who had been for seven years fighting 10
Picion's own division, The far famed
fighting SIN. What nightit was all
went to bed fdddled and happy. Y
| The morrow came. had slept long
aud soundly. l found the family collected
in the parlOr-the breakfast table in full
preparation--the urn gurgled, the eggs
were ready = my aunt had actually raised
the congo to her lips when the door,an
our old butler stood gaping aud terror
struck, exhibiting equal alarm 10 that oe-
casiuned by the gentleman who drew
'Prim's curtain in the dead of night My
mother laid down the teapot--aunt's cup
paused at the very lip. "Wno's deadp IL
the house on fire?--speak and be ----.r
said my father. Mark fetched desper-
ale inhalation Il beloved, ,"Fhe banks
Oroke!" Ne.i aAds
/" Mother Of Heasea!'' ejaculated my
aunt O'Toole, "I'm ruin'd.1
Every sIxpence Of The November
Trent, received in his Internal notes."
reared my father. "Rau, Denis, aud SEES
IT the news is true; but stop, here comes
Mr. Doran, and he'll put Us out of pain"
A laundering knock shook the tea equi.
lbage--my aunt groaned heavily.
"All's iost," remarked my father,
for the doctor sounded an alarm on his
nose, proceeding which was uniyers
! sally done when patient was in ex-
tremity. lis this as bad as---,'-- my
\ father was intefrupted--sAs bad az
may bel the house. rs besieged, the doors
!, closed, and Luke Lynch has gone Off
with the accounts "S
! Tfns Il was that the one eyed clerk
! had levanted, and had taken the dog
I cared ledger along with him
/, A few days elspsed--lhe state OF the
E town was iRdiscribaoie classes had
/ suffered alike,ior Cons smiling notes had
I reached even 10 the pocket Of the kitchen
I maid. The church itself was involved
lin the general calamity, & Father Mala-
; chi MaCbride was left lamenung,a smart
: sum, being the produce Of tnat gentIe-
mans spiritual labors. Society was for
the present at an end-amusemen cut
. OF the qnestion--a sickly attempt made
by my aunt O'roole to collect loo party
turned out dead failure, for there CONS
j paper currency had been the circulating
medium. and any play nov must neces-
lsarily be credit transaction. Alta full
meeting of my auhi's, to play for moth
ling was voted sinfu, vase Of time, g.
to play on credit dangerous slterna-
tive; and the loo club came to the des-
perste determination Of dlscontinmng
these meetings for the present; and re-
solved that this visitation was inflicted
no them for their sins through the agen-
Icy of Con Carney.
i During this period Con Carney reiS-
sed all preferred interviews or eonsols-
ton TO all inquiring friends, it was
answered that he was III VI the govt in
both legs, and that his heart was broken
in the bargain.
he magistrates found il difficult To
prevent the mob from pulling down the
house; when late one evening note ar
rived with e. G. upon seal as large ss
a saucer. Hastily my father opened it;
land dispatched Mark for DR. Deran aud
Father Malachi. They came, and he
read Cons epistle. 1t was roundabout
concern, set forth misfortunes at large,
dwelt much on his uBbounded honesty,
touched feelingly on the suGerings Of
his little girls--all this my aunt 0'1'ool
designsted fl1mmery. At the close, Con
requested suspension Of all opinien
until he could see his valued friends nv
father, the doctor, and the priest, and
then he, Con, could open the state of
his aiairs to these trusty coniederates,
\ O had no DOUBT put that any Impression
made against his integrity would be re
moved in toto.
i The Doctor was the FIRST to break the
Isilence- "He never could doubt the hon
Iesty Of Con Carney. What! would he take
in friend, who had known him man g.
IIboy for fifty yearsf and moreover, at
tended Mrs Carney ia her last illness.
IearIy and late NO no; he felt assured
! that Con had only waited dill he had
accurately made up the accounts Of
ne present party, and that to prevent
Iany Inconvenience, he would pay them
A onca. and the remainder nf the cred .