Daily American telegraph., 1852-06-07

| part OF the globe from which he had come and
cause himself to be recalled to the regions of
gold. He was put into no form Or class but
learnt alone, as little MS he liked-and he liked
very little-and there was belief among us
that this was because he was too wealthy to be
taken down" His special treatment, and our
vague association of him with the sea, and with
storms, and sharks, and coral reefs, occasion
ed the widest legends to be circulated as his
history A tragedy in blank verse was written
on the subject-if our memory does not deceive
us by the hand that now chronicles these
recollections-n which his father figured as a
Pirate and was shot for voluminous cata-
logue of atrocities first imparting to his wife
the secret of the cave in which his wealth was
stored and from which his only sons half
crowns now issued. Dumbledon the boy name)
was represented as "yct unborn when his
brave father met his fate; and the despair and
grief of Mrs Dumbledon at that calamity was
knowingly shadowed forth as having weakened
the paror-boarder's mind. This production
was received with great favor, and was twice
performed with closed doors in the dinng-room
But it got wind, and was seized rs lbellous,
and brought the unlucky poet into severe afilic
ton Some two years afterwards, all of sud
den one day, Dumbledon vanished. 1t was
whispered that the Chief himself had taken
him down to the Docks, and re-shippcd him for
the Spanish Main but nothing certain was
ever known about his disappearance. At this
hour, we cannot thoroughly dsconncct him
from California.
| Our school was rather famous for mvstcri-
Gus pupils There was another-;t heavy young
man, with u large double cased silver watch,
and fat knife the handle of which was IA per-
feet tool-box-who unaccountably appeared
one day at Il special desk of his own, erected
close to that Of the Chief, with whom he held
familiar converse He lived in the parlor
and went out for walks, and never took the
least notice of us--even of us, the first boy
unless to give us dcpreclatory kick, or grim
ly to take our hat off and throw it away, when
he encountered us out Of doors which npleas-
ant ceremony he always performed as he pass
ed-not even condescending to stop for the pur-
pose Some of us believed that the classical
attainments of this phenomenon where terrific,
, but that his penmanship and arithmetic were
defective, and he had come there to mend
them others that he was going to set up a
school, and had paid the Chief twenty-five
pound down." for leave to see our school al
. work The gloomier spirits even said that he
was going to buy us; against which contin.
gency conspiracies were set ON foot for gen.
eral detection and running away. However
he never did that After staying for quar-
ter during which period, though closely oh
served, he was never seen to do anything but
make pens out of quilts, write small hand in a
secret PORTFOLIO and punch the point of the
sharpest blade in his desk, all over it, he too
{ disappeared, and his place knew him no more
There was another boy, a fair, meek boy
with delicate complexion and rich curling
hair, who we found out or thought we founC
|, out, 1--WE have no idea now and probably had
, none then, on what grounds but it was conf
! dentialy revealed from mouth to mouth was
the son of Viscount who had deserted his love
ly mother 1t was understood that if he had
his rights he would be worth twenty thousand
a year And that if his mother ever met his
father, she would shoot him with a silver pis-
3 tol which she carried, always loaded to the
muzze, for that purpose. He was very sug-
4 gestive topic SO was young mulatto who
was always believed (thoagh very amiablc) to
have dagger about him somewhere But.
we think they were both outShone, upon the
whole, by another boy who claimed to have
been born on the twenty-ninth of February,
and to have only one birth day in five years.
We suspect this to have been u fction-but he
lived upon it all the time he was at our school
; The principal currency of Our School was
slate-p pencil 1t had some incxplicable value
that was never asccrtained, never reduced t.
, a standard To have a great hoard Of it, was
somehow to be rich. We used to bcstow it r
charity, and confer it rs precious boon upor
our chosen friends. When the holydays were
coming, contributions were solicited for certain
boys whose relatives were in India. and wht
were appealed for under the generic name o
Holyday shoppers appropriate marks of re
mcmbrancc that should enlivcn and cheer then
in their homeless state Personally we alway
contributed these tokens Of sympathy in Tho
form of slate-pcncil and always felt that il
would be a comfort and a treasure to them
g Our school was remarkable for white mice
Redpoles, hnnetS and even canarIcS, were Kept
in desks, drawers, hat boxes, and other strange
refuges for birds but white mice were the ia
vortc stock The boys trained the mice much
better than the masters trained the boys. We
recall ono white mouse, who lived in the cover
ofa Latin dictionary, ran up ladders drew
Roman charots shOuldered muskcts, turned
wheels and even made very crcditahlc appear
ancc on the stage az the dog Of NOntargS
He might have achieved greater things, but for
having tho misfortune to mistake his way in q
triumphal procession to the Capitol when he
fell into IL deep inkstand, and was dyed black
and drowned Tho mice were the occasion
Of some most ingenious engineering, in the con
structon of their houses and instruments ofpcr-
formance The famous one belonged to a com.
pany of proprlctors some OF whom have since
made railroads engines and tclcgraphs the
chairman has erected mills and bridges in New
Zealand
The usher at our school who was considered
to know everything, as opposed to the Chief whc
was considered to know nothing was u bony
gentc-faccd, clorical-looking young man, II
rusty black. 1t was whispered that he was
sweet upon one of Maxby's sisters (Maxby
lived close by, and was a day pupil and further
that he favored Maxby As we remember
he taught Italian to MaEby,s sisters ON half