Delaware State journal, advertiser and star. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1832-1833, 1833-07-26

was upon the bed, and a dressing had been
put upon the wound. The Count was alone
with her in the room, his eyes steadfastly fix
ed upon her, his lips parted with smile
He appeared happy in observing the differ
ent impressions wrought by fear or pain up
ON his victims count .nance.
81 have changed my mind, Madame"
said he, when he saw she had entirely reco-
vered from her insensbility, s'you shall live;
but your life will depend altogether upon
YOUR discretion At the slightest whisper Of
what has or may hereafter pass betwixt us.
l shall know how to insure our silence for
ever
The Count continued his usual life. Eve
ry day after returning from the chase he
went up to his wife's apartment, and Curl
ousy examined, but without speaking, the
wound he had made. One evening, when il
vas nearly closed, after carrying the point of
his dagger from one part to the other of the
Countess body, doubtless to increase her ago
nizing suspe nse, he inflicted new stab, skill
| fully directed, at the same time commanding
her, on pain of instant death, to utter no cry.
The wound made he appeared for some mi
nutes to revel with delight at the sight OF the
spouting blood. He then cooly applied the
| bandage as before.
This second wound healed, he had every
successive fortnight made fresh one, and
always with the same calm and inexpressi-
lble cruelty. No one in the castle suspected
t he true cause of the alarming and progress
sive state of weakness shown by the Countess
VIII, was almost always confined to her bed.
Meantime, nothing could assuage Pehf-'s
sanguinary monomana. The Countess beau
tifu body was no longer but one horrible ul-
Ger, furrowed as it was by her husbands
dagger-although the wounds were not deep
(the monster with a refinement of diabolical
cruelty, taking especial care they should not
be mortaD yet they were so numerous that
they threw the poor victim into a violent fe-
yer, and her life was in imminent danger.-
The Count after much indecision, dctermln-
ed to call in the surgeon, after new threat
ening his wife with the whole weight of his
vengeance, if she betrayed his infernel secret
, and strictly enjoining the surgeon not to en-
deavor to find out the cause of his patients i'll
ness. He, like every body else in the cas-
tie, imagined the Countess to be in a con-
: sumption from the austere, secluded and
mysterio is life she led. Well skilled in his
profession, he soon traced her situation to a
more extraordinary reason; man OF be-
, nevolence and intellect s~en. ssi'ilirsf Oh
Il i.rc virtues and resignation, he succeeoea 'h
: wrthing the secret from. her.
Without leaving the castle, he informed
: the authorities of what had taken place
One afternoon, as he returned from the chase,
the Count found the castle-yard filled with
was tried, condemned and beheaded.
--n4e Q e+~~-
f BRorHERLy LovE.-Don Miguel late
: ly visited his army before Oporto, and at
one time, in riding along the lines, was
visible to his dear brother, Don Pedro
, the two worthless, accounts state slmulta-
neously cooked Retrospective telescopes
!. to their eyes and viewed each other, "hke
two strange cats in garrett" On Ped
: ro's putting down his glass, he remarked
: to Sir John Millcy Doyle-'I sec no al
i teralion in the scamp" and we have heard
t from Head Quarters that, by "curious
t coincidence" SO closely did their frater-
: nal knowledge and feelings assimilate,
. - that Mig, on finishing his examination
e of his brothers mug, exclaimed, she
: has the same scheming vagabond coun-
n tenance he always had. '-English paper.
: ANEcpoTE, As Messrs. Webster and
d Ewing were vending their way to Centre
i Vile, when about seven miles from the town,
,e their passage was intercepted by tree,
IS which had recently fallen across the road,
OF and which an honest yeoman was lelsurely
as cutting out. They surveyed the premises 10
D see how the difficulty might be overcome,
Our knight of the axe, not knowing either OF
1t; himself on the timely arrival OF two sucr
re hale and able bodied men to his assistance,
= and very frankly advised them, as the pes
o. means of escaping the difficulty, to get dow
he from their carriage, and aid him in the re
en- moval of the obstruction. Pleased with inc
II republican plainness of the suggestion, ahe
Is, finding the mans strength inadequate to th'
cy task in hand, they followed his advice. Nj .r
mt Ewing first took the axe, and welded Il VIII
effect, AS he does his arguments in the oena.'
ne and at the Bar. He was relieved by MI
Ks Webster, who was less familiar with choP
nut ping logs from the road, than with remov'
as ing the distractions Of cog-loglc from th'
lis wheels of government His efforts were 81
,r laburcd and Intellectual, as to attract the no
I'd tce of the woodsmar, who declared to nm
n ''you are not doing your best sir!-ysn mus
en- be playing the fossum! You don't oen'
your back enough sir" The tree cut oii anS
he The way cleared, our travellers resume'
IRE their iourney-and left the countryman bless
see ing his stars that they had been directed ina
He way, (Which was OFF the main ready at ina
~ propitious hour.
I'LL x
M Letter from the Hon. LEVI WOODBURY.
" Secretary Of The Nary