New-York tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1841-1842, 1841-09-16

and spoke-he sat comfortably with his back TO Ire
house put his legs upon the bench, then MS apron
over his face. and fell sound asleep.
How long he slept, matters not, but Il was Tor
no brief space, for when ne awoke. the rch light
had faded. the soulbre hues of night we're falling
fastupon the landscape, and few bright were
already twinkling overhead. The birds were all ct
roos, the daisies on the green had closed their fairy
hoods. the hsnevsuckle ,winn. round the porch ex-
hailed its perfume in ,wofold degree. though It
lost is covne.s al that silent time ard loved 10
shed il deep green leaves. How tranquil. aad how
beautiful il was
Was there 10 sound in the sir, besides the gentle
rusi!ing OF the tree. and the grasshoPpers merry
chirpl Hark Something very faint and distant
no, unlike the murmuring IL a sea-sheil. Now II
grew louder fainter now ssd now It altogether died
away.
Presen,l--it came again. subsidized. cam. once
more; grew louder, fainter ,.welled inJo roaE- Il
vas on the road and varied with its windinss All
az once ii burst with distinct sound-the voices.
and the tIarping fee, Of many men.
Ii Is questionable whether old John Wiilet even
then. would have thought of the rioters, but Tor
the cries OF his cook and hsusen1aid, who ran
cr-ag1iug 10 stair. asd locked themselves into
Of the old sarret.-shrekins disually when they
had done So bv wav OF rcndern. their place OF re-
fuse 4er;ec,y secret and secure. These Two te-
males did afterwards depone that Mr. Wilet IN ms
CONSERVATION uttered but word. and Gales that
I'd the stair. in stentoran voice SIX cisunc, times
But as this word monosyllabc, which, how
ever nohen.ive when applied Is the quadraped II
denotes, is highly reprehen,ible when ased IN con-
nexion with females OF unimPcacheb- character
many person. were inclined to believe that the
Young women laboTed under some hallucInation
caused bv excessive fear; and that iher de-
ceived them.
Be ,hi, ~ it NAV, John wille5, in whom the very
u,errno.t extent OF dull-headed perylexity supplied
the place O. courage, stationed himself in the porch,
an4 waited for their coming ur- Oace, dinly &C.
Cured to him that there kind OF door TO the
house. which had lock and bolts and ut the same
time some shadowy idea. of shutters to the iower
windows fitted through his brain. But ne stood
stock still locking down the road in the direction
in which the noise rapidly advancing, and did
not 80 much a. take his hands out OF MS pockets.
He had not to wait long. a dark mass. loom
ing through a cloud OF dust soon became visible :
the moL quickened their pace; shouting and whooP-
ins like .ayages they came rushing pell-mell :;
and in few seconds he bandied from hand to
hand. in the heart OF a crowd Of men.
Ha.loa - cried voice he knew, as the man
who spoke came ceaving through the throug.
Where Is hcl Gire him 10 Do Mt hurt
him How now, old Jack Ha, ha. ha -
Mr. Vile, looked al him. and saw it was Hugh :;
but he said nothing, and thought nothing
These lads are thirsty, and must drink :" cried
Hugh thru-ting him back toward the house Bus
tie, Jack, hustle. Show Is the best TIE very bes,
the over-proof that ysu keep for your own drink
ing, Jack -
John family articula,ed the words, "Who 5 to
pay -
He say, Who's to pay" cried Hugh, with
a roar of laughter which loudly echoed by
the crowd. Then turning to John, he added, Pay
Why, nobody
John stared round at the mass of iaces-some
grinning some fierce, some lighted up by torches
some indistnct. some dusky and shadow: some
looking at him, some at his house, u. each
other,-and while he was as he thought, in the
very act of doing so, found himself, without any
consciousness Of having moved in the bar; sitting
down in armchair, and watching tie destruction
OF his property if ii were some queer play or en-
tertainmen;, of an astonishing and SUPPLYING ma
,ure but having no reference to himSelf-that he
could make out-at all
Yes. Here was the bar-the bar that the bold
entered without special invitation--the
sanctuary, the mystery, the hallowed ground; here
il was, crammed with men, clubs, sticks torches
pistols filled with deaiening noise oaths, shouts
screams, hootngs changed all ut into bear
garden, a mad.housc an internal temple men
darling in and oul by door and window, smashing
the glass, turning the taps drinking liquor out o
China punch-bowls, sitting astride OF casks smokin:
private and personal pipes, cutting down the SACRED
grove of lemons, hacking and hewing at the cele
brated cheese, breaking open inviolable drawers
putting things in their pockets which did n belong
TO them, dividing his own money before his owl
h,on LING
and tearing up; nothing quiet, nothing private
men every wherc-above, below, overhead, in TN
bedrooms. in the kitchen, in the yard, in the sta
Merchandising in at windows when there wer,
doors wide open; dropping out of windows whe'
the stairs handy; leaPing over the banister
into chasms of passages; rev faces and hgures pre-
sentng themselves every ins:ant-some yelling
some singing, some fighting, some breaking glas-
and crockery, some tapping the dust with the liquo
they could nj drink. some ringing the bells I'LL the!
pulled thsm down, others beating them with poker
I'LL they beat them into fragments more men still
more, more UNDERSTANDING on like insects
noise, smoke, light, darkness, froc, anger, laugh
ter groans plumber, fear and ruin
Nearly all the time while John looked on at thi,
bewdering scene, Hugh kept near him; and though
he was the loudesr, widest, most destructive vii
lain there he saved his old masters bones score
OF times. Nay. even when Mr.. Tappertlt, excited
BY liquor up, and in assertion OF his preroga
I'VE politely kicked John WiIlet on the shins, Hugh
babe him return the compliment: and if old John
had had sufficient presence OF mind to understand
this whispered direction and to profit by it, he
might no doubt, under Hugh direction, have done
so with impunity.
A, length the band began to reassemble outside
the house, and to call to those withis to join them
for they were losing time. These murmurs IN
creasing, and attaining very high pitch Hugh