The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1857-02-04

my seat, and move away. The murderer
follows me his eyes all the time fixed on
me with basilisk's glare. l endeavor to
turn away my eyes from him, but it is in
vain. He still approaches. / dart round
the room--he follows me with hoarse
laugh. He gains upon me. / can feel
his kissing breath on my cheek. His
hand is on my shoulder; l sink exhausted
to the ground The demon raises another
mocking laugh and clasps my neck with
his long, bony hand. His grasp tight
ens--I am suffocating-I am dying. /
can no longer breathe.
"What in the name of fortune are you
pulling your neck handkerchief in that
way for?" exclaimed a voice in my ear.
started up, it was daylight, and ny
friends Ernest, Alfred, and Jean were in
the room l gaZed around 1t had been
only frightful, hideous dream. Cou-
rade's body was there, exactly in the same
position as the night before.
"Come," said Ernest. "you have stay
ed here half an honr longer than the time
agreed upon. 1t is now half-past six.
When we came into the room you must
have been dreaming something not very
agreeable for we found you pulling at your
neck handkerchief until you were black in
the face "
1t appeared I had fallen asleep over
the FIRE, and my situation, together with
{ tbn liberal cunnnr la6 o.I.p tho niuht
previous, had given me the night mare.
l won my wager and kept my own
counsel.
sg Away down in the smart village of
Cincinnati there vegitates certain hotel
keeper who for cuteness is 'some, !"
you may depend. Having been frequent
ly imposed upon while supplying his boun
tiful larder with the article of geese. by
the wide awake Buckeye" hucksters, he
deemed it high time to try if cheating
wasn't game that two could play at
SO one morning, bright aud early, he pre-
sented himself before one of the numerous
farmers wagons, surrounded the market
square, with Al say, friend, g-got any
g-geese?" (The poor fellow has got Charles
Lambs defect of speech.)
"Yes, fine lot--2
'W-well, I've g-g-got up at my house
the aliredest SCI of boys for g-geese You
ever d-did see and | want to h-head 'em
off few with some tough ones--c-ean't
you pick me ont "A few old h-lie feilers?"
"Well, don't know but l might find
one or two," and turning over his pile OF
poultry, he collected on one side of his
wagon some eight or ten geese, which to
the title of ''old h-he fellows" needed no
corrohorate proof of "Nootka Sound Con-
veDton," or Treaty of Florida" but
might justly be pronounced unqnestiona-
ble
"Mine hostn eyed the progress of sep
aration with evident satisfaction.
care those all the tough ones you,ve
got?"
Yes"
We'll" was the reply, II g-guess I'll
take the other lot"
TIE GREAT IRON STE.>MER--The fol-
lowing are sone of the main particulars
Of the enormous iron steamship now i'll
course of construction on the Thames
Her whole length is 6S5 feet; bredth ol
beam So feet; diameter at paddle wheels
l2l feet; depth OF hold 10 feet; depth OF
paddle wheel G9 feet; diameter of screw
Al feet. There will be tunnels and seven
masts, two of the latter being square rig
gpG. The nominal horse power will be
$500, but it viii work UP from 5000 to
| l0,O00. Her measurement will be 32,-
go tons 1t is expected that her crew
! will number 150 to 500 men, including
twelve chief officers She will have ac-
commodalons for 20, 600 persons, includ-
ing 1900 first class passengers, or fused
/ for transport, she can carry 5000 troops
and five thousand horses. She is expect
cd TO run at the rate of sixteen miles an
hour Surely this is one of The wonders
of mechanic powers i'll the nineteenth cen
! turV