American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1846-07-23

repaired to the spot. After much labor, by the
help of dogs, and closely noting where the flies
gathered in the greatest numbers, their search
was rewarded by discovering the remains OF
Mr.. Wiley, his wife and one child lying near
each other, and afterwards three Others. Three
yet remain hidden in the avalanche that over
whelmed them. The body of Mrs. w. was
much mutilated; the top of the head from the
brows was taken away, and the space filled with
rubbish, Mr.. w. had his head likewise split
asunder. A fragment of the stone found i'm
bedded in his skull was given to me to bring
away.
The slide on reaching the rock in the rear ofthe
dwelling, parted as Mr.. w. predicted it would;
the one current took the right of the house,
while the other took the left, carrying with it
a stable adjoining the house, containing yoke
ofoxen and two hogs. On passing the build
ing, strange to say, the two currents closed,
and the stream pursued It's course to the valley
below, without disturbing the dwelling from
first to last
The "Willey House" stands as it did at the
period of the catastrophe which has made it no.
torious; and it is intended to let it remain for
the qualification of the curious who may give
it a call. The board partitions of the main en-
trance passage is surprisingly rich in penknife
sculpturings and far-fetched hyeroglyphic pen
cilings, such for example, as T. U. c.; Nj. S.;
A. S. S.. while few less known to fame 60
farther and spell their names in full while 9TH
eIs again, fearing they may be unknown to at
TERRACES, add the place of their nativity to the
prefixing initials and full spet patronymics.-
An odd way truly of making ones self known
to posterity. Would it not be better for these
would-be aspirants to fame, to place themselves
by the side ofthese sign-board evidences oftheir
weakness, and say to the passers by, that they
are not only the veritable Smons, but that they
have the full permission Of their mamas to be
out?
A building capacious, commodous and well
calculated for the accommodation of visitors, is
now we'll nigh completed. When finished it
will enable the proprietor to extend that atten-
ton to his visitors, which will ever tend to
make call here gratifying. 1t is in contem-
plation to erect monument to the memory Of
the Wiley Family, and place it at the spot
where the remains of Mr.. W., wife and child
were found. 1t is to be built from the materi-
ais that destroyed them. The rock-of some
fifty tons weight-against which stood their
tent, will form the base of the monument.
To wear away the tedium of a long morning,
it was suggested that should try my luck at
trout fishing. Ben was called to furnish the
necessary fishing tackle and bait. Now this
Ben was one of those hangers-on at country
taverns-one of those fetch-and carry jack-of-
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., who were ever found in
times of yore, negotiating at inns located in the
interior, when liquor was drank with freedom
by all classes of travellers from the burly team
ster to the smock-faoed urchin just entering his
teens. But since temperance has fourshed, it
is SO rarely that we meet with one of the true
original stamp, shall be pardoned in devoting
moment to the praise of my quandom fishing
companion.
Ben has maintained his reputation as tavern
loafer against all mutations of time. He has
been SO stepped in rum, that little else is left Of
him but the power to pray and plead for more.
He is puckered and shrivelled up like picked
corpse, with not half the substance Of one. Just
fancy a suit of what has once been cloIhes,-
through sheer habit alone, they maintain the
semblance Oft man, instead of the man keep
ing them upright and in shape-surmounted
with a fgure-head, made up of paroxiysm of
cramps, body like collapsed mail bag, and
limbs all joints below the hips, which disdain
ever again to bear wastband, and you have
Ben himself before you, better than can de-
pict him. Had Hackett been present at the
scene which first threw Ben into the favor of
my attention, it would insure him plumper
at each benefit night he should have to person
ate this original. | was sitting over the embers
in the bar-room, modify thinking what poor
exchange had made in coming from Fabyan's,
when my attention was attracted by overhear-
| ing Ben, in an undertone, earnestly Emporium
ing the bar-keeper for something, that was met
lo,U, The which importantly was stove off for
while, till patience could endure it no longer,
when the controversy was brought to crisis,
by Ben's being told, that to get more liquor, he
must first get the key from the proprietor, who
was absent in the new building.
Ben, throwing himself into an attitude, as
rich as unique-"Now, you know if the old
man catches me out there, he'll set me to work,
and amt agolng to do it. No sooner than he
lights on me, than there's a job to do; and then
he'll follow you up as though you liked it..
The old rip! he's the ID on me, if he catches
me idle. Come, come, just you go, and say
some one is suffering. Why can't you say Tin
halfa Whisper the gentleman here (alluding to
mel would be glad of little2" Clerk. ooh,
90 tell him yourself" Ben. "No | DON'T
catch me at it. | shouldn't get off till pitch
dark. The rip-he'd asooner stand over me,
and see me work than work himself And by
and-bye, the women folks will want wood, and
| amt there! Then where'il be the supper?
NoDooy's 10 DIaHlc oul Duh, anu Deh D Ut Jul
somewhere that he won't touchN scowling de-
fiance at the thought Of going to work. At
length, he so far gained upon the bar-keeper,
that the key was produced, and Ben had a
moiety of creature comfort, when he hustled
about, and piled wood enough upon the fire for
a Siberian night.
Perceivng what would bring out Ben's best
qualities as an angler, obtained a flask of ia
maica and let him see that | secured it in the
sporting basket, which swung to my shoulder
He lightened up like spark in a -ball-he
said, confidently, that he knew all the best holes
and corners of the stream beyond any one else
and that he always kept them for gentlemen