New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-08-12

Dreath the Ice on the panes OF my windows,
which gave me a.view,of the country whence
PaEl would return from the chase, / examined
every living being who went By, until at length,
| about ten in the forenoon, L7saw Count Paul
returning to the hut with slow and weary steps
He threw down the bag with the dead snimals /
and his large fur boots before the door. With
his gun directed downward, he walked into the
| hut. sag
About the same time as on the day before, i
stood in his presence. He Isy half.dressed ON
the bed and stared vaeantIy at the bare walls.
on the table stood his unprepared meal, near
ms mead was his gun; there was no FIRE in the
chimney. knelt down by the bed, and taking
his hand, called him BY his name; his lips
moved convulsively, but his eyes did NOT move.
PAUL. the world is again open to thee Here
is the Emperor's pardon His lips moved again.
He opened and shut his eyes quickly to repress
| the last-the only tear, and say: too late.s
| AT this moment my eyes fell on the black
stone tablet over his head. As / looked at it,,
ne hastily drew his hand out of mine, and closed
| his eyes The tablet was divided into three
columns. In the first was the month Of January,
with it's number Of weeks and days; in the Sec
ond, the month of February; in the third, the
month of March to the eighth; from this there
was nothing to the twenty first, which was writ
ten IN large letters. Under this line the whole
part OF the third column was white, so that from
the twenty -first nothing more could be written
| ON the tablet af 55 reisi: s 10
| e Thy mother and Amalia have sent thee
tokens OF their unchanged love, and also Prince
| Annoskoi has confirmed his kindness in his own
hand writing. Can we not, my dear Paul, Be-
gin our journey-home! Tomorrow ,.
Without saying word he rose up from the
bed, and he wrote on the tablet: March the
ninth" His look seemed to tell me this would
be the only answer to all said. He then turned
his face to the wall, and signifed that be wished
Ioa r Il. Al AZ L 4.
near the bed, lighted the fire, and full Of an
guish quilted the hut
The Governor was waiting outside, and re-
lated to him what had happened
Early the next morning, about two o'clock,
| saw him steal cut Of his hut. He appeared weak
ond languid. AT my request, the Governor
hired q man to watch him. - 9S1t 'q QH 74s
He did not return until two in the afternoon.
He was exhausted, and was without any game
He Immediately fell ON the bed - ~
When entered, his eyes were closed, and his
| face with its fixed, stern expression was turned
| towards the chimney The letters and the knots
Of ribbon remained untouched At nine, in the
evening, he opened his eyes, took the tablet and
wrote on it the day of the month--the 10th, and
signed to me to 60 away. On the eleventh, to-
wards midnight. he arose to go as usual to the
chase, but fell back on his bed With great
difficulty he arose gain, about the middle Of the
day, and placed the prescribed number of skins
in order for the delivery; wrote on the tablet
the eleventh. and staggered back to bed.
He lay during eight days, stolid, innoyable,
rejecting all help from human hands In vain
/ wept and prayed, kneeling by his bed in
vain the soft voice of the Governors daughter;
| in vain the physician and the priest
dreaded the twenty first, his self appointed
death-day. Dreaded or not dreaded, any day
will come in its course. AT FIVE in the after
noon he lay at the last extremity; around his
bed stood the Governor, his daughter, and the
physician; I stood at his head He still
breathed his eyes were closed. Shortly be-
fore six his eyelids opened with the last fash
Of life's fire; his lifted hand made sign for
the rest to 60 away. They went, and / re-
mained he saw me not About five minutes
afterwards, he suddenly rose half up in the
bed, drew heavy, deep breath, and fell back.
closed his eyes and prayed by the body.
The last words he spoke. even now ring in my
ears, g Too late!" [Household Words. ~
AFFRAY IN JEFFERsoNvnLE.-Am misunder-
standing occurred at the circus in Jefersonville,
Saturday night, says the Louisville Courier of
the 1st inst, which will probably result in the
death of one of the parties A boy named VIII
iiams, it appears, had handed his money into
the ticket Office, for the purpose of purchasing
ticket, which the ticket man says he did not
| observe. and accordingly refused to give the boy
| the ticket. Thereupon the, boy determined to
| go into the show at all hazards, lifting up the
canvass and walking under. An attache Of DEN
Stones establishment. tthe man who balances
the boy upon the pole) attacked the boy with
slung- shot, who met the attack by stabbing his
assailant with dirk knife The knife penetra-
ted the neck in the immediate vicinity of the
jugular vein, making fearful cash. The mans
life is despaired of
EXTRAORDINARY SURGICAL OPERATION Dr.
Toh, af fnrA ,aasah
removed from a lady in Garrard county, KY,
an ovarian tumor, which was adhered to a con-
siderable extent to the bowels and other abb
dominal viscera, and weighed after its fluid
contents were discharged, Ia pounds. It's en-
tire weight was supposed to be Is or 20 pounds.
The patient was under the influence of chloro-
| form during the operation, and felt little or no
pain. She is now entirely well, and visiting on
| horseback. Mobile News, 9th.
| The following humorous satire of the New
York Herald will excite smile even from those
who feel its edge:
| The San JUAN VIcToRY-WHe Is THE LUCKY
MAN?-We have heard it suggested that Cap
4 tain Ingraham for the Presidency, on the ground
| that the victory of San Juan was triumph as
glorious to the American navy, and the inchoate
/ American citizen, as the release of Koszta. But
there is this difference between the two cases
i
administration, Capt Hollins was but theinstru-
ment employed in its execution. The release Of
Koszta was an AFFAIR." in which Captain Ingra-
ham acted entirely upon his own responsibility.
The political capital of this enterprise, there
fore, belongs to Ingraham. while the laurels Of
the San Juan affair must be shared between
Captain Hollins and the Cabinet. & 81 5.
But who of the Cabinet is the lucky man |;
who is mostly entitled to the honors 5nques-
) tionably it is Gen. Pierce himself, the tomman-
der. Chief of the army and the nary. Who
comes next, the Secretary of State, or the Sec
, retary of the Navy i-Dobbin or MatJy Well,
we must decide that Marcy is the man. He
says, in his letter of instructions in the case.
!, that the insult to Major Borland was $ an in
dignity offered the nation as well as himself in
diVidually, which cannot be permitted to pass
unnoticed And he further says, that $ moth
: ing short Of an apology will save the place
e from the infiction which such an act justly
! merits" That's what Marcy says. Now listen
to what Dobbip says. He is good deal milder
J than Marcy. Dobbin says that ii is g very
9 much (mark that very much to be hoped thai
You can effect the purposes Of your visit with
out resort to violence" and that Sc the Depart
ment reposes much confidence in your prudence
and good sense But for more particular ao..
vice he refers the gallant Captain to the instruc-
tions of Marcy to our resident commercial
agent at San Juan. Mr.. Fabens. Marcy, there
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