The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1840-08-20

! QOdlntauCe Win W. Nuiuui anu Oh 0sSls
4 interview took especial care, on entering
4 into conversation with him, TO contrast the
rurc happiness enjoyed by the man whose
conscience could look back, like Nj. Cornu ;,
as be was pleased TO say, 90 life devoted
| TO acts OF charity and beneyolence, with the
horrors of the wretch who had amassed
heaps Of wealth by usury aud Injustice, aud
whose tormenled mind only gave him now
toretaste OF what he was to expect hereaf.
ter. The miser vas perpetually DESTROYS Of
changing the conversation; but the more he
tried, the more his companion pressed upon
him with it; till finding, on one occasion,
I that he appeared more agltated than ever,
the ventrlloquist conceived such an occasion
10 be the golden moment for putting his
scheme into execution; aud at that instant
low, solemn, sepulchral, muiier was heard,
as 10 the former case, which was al last
| found to be the vpICe of VI. Cornu's father,
who had been dead for some years, AMI
which declared him to have passed all this
! time in the fortunes Of purgatory, trom
which he had now just learned hat nothing
could free him bot his sons paying ten
thousand crowns into the hands Of Lewis
Brabant, then with him, for the purpose of
redeeming Christian slaves from the hands
OF the Turks.
i All, as in the last case, was unutterable
establishment but Lewis Brabant was the
most astonished Of the lwo modestly de.
cared that now for the first time in bis life
| he was convinced of the possibility of the
dead holding conversation with tie living :
aud admitted that, 10 truth he had for many
years been benes olenty employed IN re.
deemlDg Christian slaves from the Turks,
although hls native bashfulness would not
allow han TO ayow It publicly.
The mind Of the old mser was distracted
with a thousand con,endlng passions. He
vas suspicious without having any satistac
tory reason for suspicion; iilal duty prompt.
ed him 10 rescue his father from his abode
Of misery; bu, ten thousand crowns was a
large sum of money even for such purpose.
He at length resolved to adjourn the meeting
til the next day, and 10 change it to anoth
er place. He required time 10 examine
into this mysterious affair, and also wished,
as be told his companion, TO give his father
an opportunity Of trying whether he could
not bargain for smaller sum.
They accordingly separated bat renew.
ed their meeting the next day with the pune.
tuaty Of men Of business. The place
made choice Of by Nj. Cornu, for this ren
counter, was an open common 10 the ylcin
\ lily Of Lyons, where there was neither
house, nor wall, nor tree, nor bush that
could conceal confederate, even if such
I person should be in employment No s0ou.
or, however, had they met than the old
bankers ears were again assaled with the
same hldeous and sepulchral cries, up5raid
ing him for having suffered his father 10 re.
main for four and.tweuty hours longer IL all
( the ,ormen,s Of purgatory; denouncIng that,
unless tie demand of the ten thousand
crowns was Instantly complied with, the
sum would be doubled and that the niser
himself would 10 condemned 10 the same
doieful regions, and to an increased degree
Of torture. NJ, Cornu moved few PAGES
forward, but be vas assaulted with still
louder shrichs: be advanced a second
time, and now instead Of hearing his faith
er's voice alone, he was assaled with the
dreadu! outcry OF hundred ghosts at once,
those of his grandfather, his great grand
father, his uncles and auats, and the whole
family Of tue Cornus for the last two or
three generations VINO, It seems, we're all
equally suffering IN purgatory-and were
included 10 tue general contract for the ten
thousand crowns; all Of them beseechng
him lnthe name Of every SAINT IN the ealen.
OAR 10 have mercy upon them and to have
mercy upon himself 1t required more for.
tiude than NJ. Cornu possessed to resist thr
threats and ouicrles oil hundred aud fifty
or two hundred ghosts at a ume. He IN.
sianlly paid the ten thousand crowps into
the hands Of Lewis BrabaHi, aud felt some
pleasure that BY postpDniug the payment for
a day, be had at least been able to rescue
the whole family Of the Cornus for the same
SUN Of money as was at first demanded for
his father alone. The dexlerous veutrilo,
gust, having received the money instantly
returned 10 Paris, married his Intended
bride, and told the whole story 10 his sover.
ejgn and the court, very much to the enter.
taument Of all Of them.
A Pre3icamcn.-The Baltimore Clip.
per man tells Of meeting IL the street a
dashng belle of that city, whose conduct
as she neared bin, seemed passing strange,
as at one moment she would hasten her
steps, aud at another stop, as If IN doubts
whether to proceed Her cheeks were tia,
ged with bushes, and such was her evide ut
confusion that she ever and anon cast a
pleading look around, as if to fad some
open door % receive her. For a long time
ne was at loas 70 know what caused the
poor girls confusion, when he discovered
close at her heels two l,ile pigs, ~ho struck
up merry squeak squeak" as soon as
she walked forward, but were perfectly 81.
leut when she stood still. But Why should
those little pigs be 50 very attentive The
young lady doubtless had her swain--but
not her SWINE A he Dasspd her he oh.