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ELI AS EMERICH,
Wp ESPECTFULLY informa the citizens of
gqi, of Lower Augusta township arfJ the pub
lic eer.erally. that he has purchased tho Storo
lately kept by Inane Maalz. in Lower Augusta
township near Einertch'a Tavern, and hat just
epeneJ a splendid stock of
Fall r.iscl Winter GOODS-
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EPKINQ, AUTUMN AND ETER
NITY. lie batb made everything beautiful in Lis
time." Ecci.KslASTioa, in, 11.
There uro two things I dearly love
In nature's circling vear,
Which lift my spirit fur above
The weight of earthly care j
They btiii( before ruy eager view
The brightness of a home,
Whore all their loveliness in true,
Nor change can ever come.
The early titnei of Spring's first hours,
Brings freshness to the heart ;
They rouse the wearied spirits power,
Aud sweeter life iindarl;
Her dancing breezes gently foa
The blonaotns of the rose,
All wet with sparkling morning dew,
Their Jielels to iiiclcso.
The weary sufferer with paiD,
The bowed with cure or grief,
lluil ber returning ouce again,
With hopes of sweet relief;
Spring hours cannot fail to bring
Culm and cciusolilig thought,
Her inuny voices ever sinjr
Of joy to morula brought.
But how, O Autumn, shall I dare
To puint thy gorgeous hues ;
The coftness of thy morning uir,
1 Line evening s pearly clews :
The sulemn gruudeur cl thy uight,
W bote starry crow n is set
With gems more radiuutly bright
Than earthly cofuuet?
Tho glory of thy sunset hour,
Wtu n ull is culm and still,
J5riun9 full conviction of the Tower
That heaven mid earth doth Gil ;
Oh ! 'who can gu.n upon thy skies,
As twilight shades them o'er,
And nut Irom early areuniiiigs rise
Their Maker tu adore?
The wreath of fudiug Summer flowers
is yet upon thy brow,
lut all tho mirth of Summer hours
J s changed to iuducsa uow.
Aud jet, upon thy dying head
A solemn beauty lies,
More glorious lliau the riches spread
'N'jalu Sumiuer'i glowing skies.
Ever, O Autumn ! shall thou be
To us au emblem meet
tf spirits sinking peacefully
To slumber culm and sweet;
Though thy delights not long may last,
Vet ours shuli still incivuje ;
Thy reign ba soon forever past,
Cut curs shall never cease.
Xh oo liko thee shall pans away
'1 he Christian's hope aud joy ;
Wh look look for an eternal day,
And bliss without alloy
For glories hid from mortal sight,
Ueveulcd in realms above
i'or fadeless Cronus of heavenly light,
Acd perfectuess of love.
From the Atlantic Monllil).)
THE BEST OR1G1XAL STUllY OF Till-:
D A Y.
THE KINLOCH ESTATE,
A.NU UOW IT WAS StTILtD.
CUAl'TKli VIII.
Hugh had ordered George, the Asiatic, to
saddle llio ponies after dinner, inteuding tu
ak .Mildred to take a ride northward through
the pine woods; but on muting inquiries, he
found that alio hud walked, leaving word thai
sho would be nboent al! day.
"L'onfuuud ill" thought be, "a mishap at
the start ! I'm afraid the omen isn't a good
oue. However. I must kill time someway.
1 can't !. up hare, like a ship in ordinary ;
better bo shuketi by storms or covered with
barnacles at sea than be housed up, worm-eaten
or crumbled iutu powder by dry rot ou
shora."
lie went lo HJe alone, but did not go In
the direction of the pino woods.
Mildred could uot get over the unpleasant
impressions of the morning, so, rather than
remain in her room this hue day, she bad
waiked across the meadow, east uf thu uull-
pond, to a farm house, where was a frcqueut "J
and welcome visitor. On ber way, he called
for Lizzy llardwick, the blacksmith's daugh
ter, who accompanied her. Mr. All'ord, the
runner, was a bluut, good bumoted aud rather
eccentric man, shrewd and well to do, but
kindly and charitable, lie bad no childreu,
aud he enjoyed the occasional visits ol his la
voriles heartily; aodid hi wife, Aunt Mercy.
Her broad face brightened at the taw the
girls coming, aud he plump bands were both
l;'i)ded to greet them. They weut tu the
dairy to eco ;u crca!::rij cueeee-prctsei, ate
of the fresh curd, taw the golden etorea of
butter ; thence to the baru, where tbey clam
bered upon the hay-mow, found the nest tif a
uanlam, took tome of the little egg tu tneir
pockets ; then coming iulo the yard, tbey
patted the calves' beads, scattered outs for
the doves, that, with pink feet and pearly
blue neck., crowded arouud them to be fed,
and osxt began to chase a Cue old gander
down to the brook, when Mr. Alford, getting
ovur the fence, called out, "Hold on, girltl
dou't bother Uncle Kalpb ! don't!"
"Wbere It Uncle UulpuT" asked UiidrAd.
"Why that gander you've been cbmin' ,
aud be't about the ban'tuinest bird I ;uow on
loo. Talk about twaut ! there never wat a
Guer neck, nor a preitier coat of feathers on
anything that ever twuin. II is wings are
powerful ; only let him tpread 'em, aud up
he goet ; bat es for bit feet, be limpt just
little, si you tee. No offence, Lizzy. 1 love
your father at well at yoedo; but when I
bear biro, with bit iduet to grand, the minis
ter don't begin with him, aud yet to be both
ered, as he it sometimes, to gel a word cut, I
ihiuk of my good old fellow bere, whose wingt
are to much better'n bit legs. Come bere,
Ralphl Yon tee be knows bit name. There!
patting bit bead, "that's a good fellow !
Now go ond help oiarm attend to your got
lina." The kindly tone and the carest took away
from the comparison any idea oi disrespect.
and the girlt laughed at the odd eooeeit, .
Llzzr. at least, uot a little prouu or (be lui
plied compliment. Mr. Alford left them, to
attend to bit tffairt, tad tbey went OB with
their romp, running on the top of the tmootb
wall betide the meadow, gathering clutten of
lilac blotiomi from the fatherly great potey
(but grew on the mot) side af the hoot, and
Select Calc.
admiring the solitary ttala of the peacock, as
with dainty atop, he trailed hit royal robe
over the swan). Soon tbjy heard voicpt at
the house, and going round the corner of the
shed, saw Uncle Ralph and Mark Davenport
talking with Air. Allord al the door.
Not to tnnke a mystery of a simple matter
the blacksmith bad come to borrow of Mr
Mr. Alford tbe money necessary to make up
tbo amouut owiuir by Mark to the Kiulocb
estate.
Tbe young man had shown great readiness
to accompany hit uncle, pruiseworltiy, cer
tainly; bull am Inclined to think he bad
somehow got au intimation that tbe girls bad
preceded him.
Fortunately tho farmer wag able to lend
the sum wanted, and, aa he hud an errand in
town, be took Mr. Llardwick with bim in bis
waaon.
Mark was left nothing loath, to wulk borne
with the girls. Do not ibmk he wat wanting
in affection for bis cousin Lizzy, if he wished
that she were, just Tor an hour, a hundred
miles away. They took a path that led over
the plain to the river, intending to cross upon
a foot bndife, a short distance above the vil
luge. Hut though Mark was obliged to be
snunt on the matter ba bad most at heart.
Mildred was uot uuuware of his feelings. A
to':e, a look, a grasp of the band serves for
an lodes, quito us well as the nnst Turveiit
speech. The river makes a beautiful bend
near the foot-bridge, and its bank is covered
with a young growth of white pines. Tbey
sat down on a hillock, under the trees, whobe
spicy perfume tilled tbe air, aud looked down
tho stream toward the village. How fair it
luy in the sort air of that June day ! The wa
ter .was deep and blue, with a reflected hea
ven. The mills llut cluster about the dam,
a mile below, were partially conceuled by
young elms, silver poplars, and water maples.
Gardens slopjd on either bauk to the water's
edge. Neat, white houses gleamed through
the trees and shrubbery around the bases of
the bills that hum iu thu valley; and the lull.
slender spire of the meeting-house showed
l.itrly against its deuSely-wooded back-ground
erily, it 1 were a painter, 1 should desire no
lovelier scene for my canvas than that ou
which Mark and Mildred looked. Lizzy
walked away, and began hunting checkerber-
ries with an unusual ardor. She tliil under
stand ; she would nut be Mademoiselle ile
Trnp any longer. Kind soul ! to unlike
young women in general, alio won't step aside
gracetully, wbeu tbey should ! l'urtber I Can
vouch, that she neither hemmed, nor made
eyes, nor yet repeated tho well-worn proverb.
I wo s company, but three s noue. " No.
she gathered hemes and sang suutchet of
sonss as though she were quite alone. J
.Now those of my readers who have the
good fortune still to linger iu terns are ex
pecting that 1 shall treat them tu a report of
this delightful fete a tete- But it must not be
told. The older people would skip it, or say.
I'sliaw!" And besides, if it were set down
faithfully, you would be sadly disappointed ;
the cleverest men, even, are quiet sure to ap
pear silly (to other people) when in love The
speeches of the Romeo's and Claude Mel
unties, with which you have been so enchant
ed, would be common-place euough, if trans
lated into the actual prose iu which they
were. delivered. Wheu Sbakspeare wooed
Anna Hathaway, it might have been different
but consider, you will wait some time before
you find a lover like bim. No, when your
tiinu comes, it will be toon enough. You will
tee your hero in his velvet cloak and plumed
hat, with the splendor of scenery arid the in
toxication of the music. I dou't choose to
show him to you in morning dress at rehearsal
nodur daubed canvass and dangling machi
nery. However full of poetry and passion Mark's
declaration was for Mildred, to bim it was
tame and hesitating enough. It seemed to
bim that be could not force into the cold for
mula of words the emotion that agitated bim.
lint with quickening breath be poured out
bis love, hie bopet, and hit fears, the old
burden 1 She trembled, ber eyelidt fell ; but
al length routed by bit pleading tone., she
looked up. Their eyet met ; ue look wat
enough ; it was a reciprocal electric flash.
With a sadden energy he clasped her in hit
arms ; and it was a very pretty tableau they
made! Dut in the quick movement bis heed
less foot chanced to touch a stone, which
rolled down the bank and fell into tbe stream
with a splosb. The charm was broken.
"What't that !" cried Lizzy from a distance
forgetting her discretion. "Did a pickeml
jump!"
No, replied .Mark 'the pickerel know
me of old, and don't come about for Tear that
I have a hook and line in my pocket. It was
only a stone rolling into the river,"
"You cum hero a moment, continued tho
unrtiougtful Lizr.y ; "here's a beautiful sassa
fras sapling, aud 1 cau't pull it up by the
root alone.
"rieud for the dentist, then.' i
"Go and belp her," .aid Mildred, softly.
"Well." taid Mark, wilb a look of euforcud
resiunation, "if 1 mutt."
1 he sapling grew on the tteep bank, per
haps fifty yirds from where be had been tit
ting, lie did not ose tuffJcivnt care to brace
himself, at be pulled with all hit might, and
in a moment, be knew cot how, he rolled down
into the river. Tbe girls first scrermed. and
then, as he came out of the water, tbakiiiff
himself like a Newfoundland dog, tbey laugh
ed immediately. Tbe affair did not teem
very funny to Mark, and he joined iu the
laugh with no great heartiness. The shock
bad effectually dispelled all the romance of
tbe hour.
Tut to sorry !" taid Lizzy, still laachins
at hit grotesque and dripping figure.
-xou must hurry and get dij clothe, on,
Mark" laid Mildred. "Sciuire ClamD'a is
tbe nearest house across the bridge."
ilang oquire Clump! bit clothes would
poison me. I d tt liuf go to a quarantine
bospital to be dressed "
"Don't 1" taid Lizzy.
But be kept on in the tame mercurial ttrain
"Clamp livet on poison, like Rappacciui's
daughter, in Hawthorne', ttory ; ouly it
makei bltn ugly instead of fair, at that pretty
witch wat. Hit wife never had any trouble
wilb spider, at long at tbe lived be had
only to blow into a nett, and tbe creatures
would tumble out, and give up their veno
mous ghestf. No vermiu but himself are to
be teen iu bit neighborhood ; tbe ratt even
found they couldn't ttaod it, and bad to emi
grate." " The breath that killed spiders most nave
been a tittle too powerful, at timet, for Mrt.
Clamp, one would tbiuk." laid Mildred.
"It wh," laid Mark, "kibe died one day,
after Clamp had cheated a widow out of ber
dower."
"Don't stop longer for yo.r fun," laid Mil-
urea, "you'll tarely take cold. lietiuei, j
cau't have you making any disparagiug re
marks upon my ga.rdiao."
"Dlett an toul ! voer cnardiao I bow tm
pradeot, to he tare 1" with a tignittcaut
twinkle. "Well. I'm going. Baubeld'i it
tbe nearest house : ao we'll Dart br."
The girls went towards tba village : and
Mark, making vigorous strides across the
meadow, took a straight line for Banfleld't.
Near tbe house it a piece of woods, one
corner of the leafy mantle that covert the
bill slipped cown its tide and trailing npon
the borders of the fertile field below. Just
as he passed the woods he saw Hugh liisn
nlug letting down the bars and leading his
pony out into the road. Tbe only bridle
path through the woods led over the hill to
the little hoiipe on tbe westerly slope, where
lived Dame Ransom, Lncy't bowed und wrin
kled grandmother. Mirk wondered not a
little where the midshipuion bad been ; but
as lie still retained the memory or the old
quarrel, be did not accost him, and presently
thought no more or it. lieaching the house,
be got some dry clothes and then weut home
with bounding steps. I he eurth wus never
so beautiful nor the tky so benign. The
cloud of doubt had foiled off nnd left hit
heaven blue. He bad spoken aud found that
the dream of hit boyhood and the hope of hit
youtli bud become tbe proud triumph of bit
manhood. Mildred Kinlocb loved bim 1
loved him at sincerely as when they were
both children ! What higher felicity wus to
oe ihougut ol 7 And what a motive for exer
lion had he now ! He would be worthy of
her, and tbe world should acknowledge thut
the heiress bad not stooped when the mated
wuu U1IU.
CHAPTER IX.
Mrs. Kinlorb was surprised at finding that
neither Hugh nor Mildred, nor yet Lucy
minrom, wus u ine house.
Mildred cume borne first and was not ac
companied by Hugh, as Mrs. Kinluch had
hoped. He hud Hot found her, then, per
hups he bad not sought for ber. Next Lucy
returned, coming through the garden which
stretched up the bill, lieing questioned, she
answered that she had been to ber grand
mother's, and had come back the uearest way
over the hill, through the woods.
. "U hat bud sho gone for after the fatitrue
of washiug-diiy i"
liucause feqmre Clamp, who owned the
house her graudmolber lived in, wauted ber
to tuke a messuge."
Airs. Kinlocb began to become interested.
"Squire Clump !" she exclaimed, "wheu did
you see bin) I"
"lie called here yesterday cvenincr. on bis
way tu Mr. Hardwick's, 1 guess."
"Why didn't he usk uie if you could no ? 1
thiuk lie', pretty free to seud my gills about
the town ou bis errands."
"You were oat Ma'am, in the next bouse:
aud ufter he'd gone 1 forgot it."
"You remembered it tu-duy, it teems."
"Yes'm ; alter dicuer 1 thought of it nnd
hurried right off; but granny wat sick aud
foolish, uud didn't want to let me come awav.
so 1 couldu'l gel buck at quick at I u.eutil
10. '
"Well, you can go to tbe kitchen."
"Yes'iu."
"I must keep au eyo on the girl," thought
Mrs. lviuloch. "Sho is easily persuaded, tic
kle, without strong sense, acd with ouly a
very shallow kiud of cunning. She might do
mischief. What can Squire Clump want!
The old hovel ber grandmother lives in isn't
worth City dollars. Whatever bus been go
ing oo, I'm glad Hugh is not mixed up iu it."
Just thuu Hugh rudu up, and, tying bit
horse, came in. He feemed to have lost
something of the gaiety of the morning. "1
am tired," he said. "1 bad to get oil and
lead the pony down the bill, aud it'i sleep
and stony enough."
"There are pleasant roads enough, in tbe
neighborhood," suid hit mother, "without
your beiug obliged to take to the woodt uud
clumber over the mountains."
"I know it," be replied ; "but I had been 1
np toward, tbo Allen place, and I took a
notion to come buck over the bill."
"Then you passed Lucy's house!"
"Yet. Tbe bridle-path leadt down the
bill about a mile above this ; bat on foot one
may keep aloug tba ridge and como down
into the valley through tbe garden."
"So 1 suppose; in fact, 1 believe Lucy bat
just returned that way."
"ludeed! it's strange I didu't lee ber."
"It it strange."
Hugh bore tbe quiet tcrutiny well, and hit
mother came to the conclusion thut the girl
had told the truth about ber goiug for the
lawyer.
l'reteotly Mildred came dowh fron ber
room, and a few mtuutet Mrt. Kinlocb went
out, casting a fixed meuuing look at ber son.
She teemed at impatient for the issue of her
scheme, us the child who, after planting a
teed, wails for the green shoot, and twice a
day digs down to tee if it ha. uot sprouted.
Mildred, as the reader uiay suppose, was
not likely to be very agreeable to her com
pau'oo ; the recollections of the day were too
viviu, voo ueucious.
She could uot part with them, but con-
ttautly repealed to herself the wordt of love.
Of hope, aud onthuiiasui, which the had beard
So she moved or talked at iu a dreum, ine
thauiually, while ber toul still flouted away
ou the summer tea uf reverie.
Ilugb looked at ber with real admiration:
and, iu trutb. the deserved it. A fuirer face
you would not tee in a duy't journey ; ber
smooth skin, out too white, but or a rich
creamy lint, .yet brown uud invliued to be
dreamy, her hair chetnut and wavy, a fig
ure rather below tbe medium size, but with
full, graceful lines, these, joined with a geu
tie nature aud a certain' tremulous lemihiiity,
constituted a divinity that it was turely no
tin to worship. If tin it were, ell the young
men in lunisDeld bad need of liuiuediale for
giveness.
Hugh bad tome final nit about approaching
tbe goddess. . He was seusible of a wide gulf
between himself and ber, and be could uot
but think that the wat aware of it too.
"You have been to Mr. Airord't!"
A mon.eutary pause.
"Did you speak, Hugh!"
Ha repealed tba qu.ttion. Her eyet
brightened a moment at tba nodded in the
affirmative 5 then they grew dim ajuin, like
windows teea Irom without when me ngui it
withdrawn to an inn-r room, hhe teemed at
unconscious as a pictured Madonna.
"A beautiful day for your walk," ba ven
tured sgaiu. Tbe same pause, tbe same Mo
mentary interest as sba answered, followed
by tbe tame abstraction.
"1 suppose," tuid be, at length, "that 1
am haviug tbe last of my idle days bere J I
expect to be ordered to lea thoitly."
. "ludeed I" Mildred looked a p.
' "1 shaft bs very sorry to tears bere," ba
continued.
"Yet, Innisfieldif quite pretty tbit turn
m.r. hut 1 tupposed that the pleasures of
the seaport aud of adveotura abroad wore
more attractive to rot than this monotonous
lire."
" Tis rather slow here, but I I meant
to say that 1 shall ba torry to leave you."
"Me! Why, mother can take care of ma."
"Certainly the will, but 1 iball mist you."
"No doubt you'll think of nt when you are
away j I'm ture we shall remember you. We
shall never sit down to tba table without
tbiukiug of your vacant chair." .
li was impossible to misinterpret ber kind,
simple, li.t.rly, ttoes. And Hugh eoold bat
feel that tlmy indicated no particle of ten
derness for bim. The tusk of winning her
was yet wholly to be done, as there was no
prospect thai nhe would give him the least
encouragement in advance, if sb did not
utterly refuse him at the end. He saw he
must not couut on an easy victory, but pre
pare for it by a slow aud gradual approach.
M ildred sut some lime leaning out of the
window, then opening ber piano, for the first
tinie since her father's death, she sat down
and played a nocturne by .Mendelssohn. The
music seemed a natural expression of her
reelings, suited to tbe heurt "steened in
golden laneuors." in the "tranced summer
cairn." 1 be tones rang through the silent
rooms, pervading nil tho charmed air so thut
me car tingled in listening, os the lips find
a sharpness with the luscious flavor of the
pine-apple. The sound reached to the kitch
en, aud brought a brief pleasure, but a bitter
er paug of envy, to Lucy's swelling bosom.
It calmed for a moment tho vile spirit in
II ugh't troubled huurt. And Mrs. IvinlocU
iu her solitary chamber, though she had
always duUsted lb piano, thought she had
uover beard such hiumu before. She bad
found a new sense, that thrilled her with an
exquisite delight. It was a good omen, the
was sure, "thai Mildred should now, ufter so
long a time, feel inclined to play. Only a
light heart, and one supremely cureless or
supremely huppy, could touch the keys like
thut. "Hugh must be a fortunate boy," sho
thought; and .he could huve hugged him for
hat thought Hugh, as she rote from ber
seut at tho instrument like one in n trance
und walked towards the hull! Conflicting
emotions struggled for mastery ; but, hardly
knowing what lie tint, be started up and
offered her a caress. It wus not uuusuul, but
her nerves had acquired an unwonted sensi
tiveness ; she shuddered, and rushed from
him up the stairs. He could have torn his
hair with rage.
Am 1, then, such a bear, he ashed bun-
self, "that she is afraid of me !"
A light at the end of the hull caught his
eye. It wus Lucy with her tear stained
cheeks going to bed, unconscious thut thu
flaring caudle she carried was dnpping upon
her dress, unconscious thut the oue nhe bulb
loved and feared was looking at her as she
slowly went up the back-stairs. Truly, how
little the inmates of that house knew of the
secrets or each other's hearts! It was
strange, was it not? that, after to long an
intimacy, they could pot understand each
other better! How uiany hearts do vu
really know !
TO UK CONTI.NUKD J
American and English Railroads.
Considerable discussion bus arisen of lute
years, with regard to the comparative cost of
English aud Americuu railroads, und accord
ing to ull ihe inforinutiun thus far gathered,
tlu account preponderates sudly nguiiiDt the
lutter. 1 be New York Lveiung 1 ost has a
veiy able und analytic, editorial upou the
subject, aud for equul leu. lbs of mileage,
gives the subjoined relative cost or the rail
way system ol the two uutiotis :
Annual expense of Americau
ruilway., 8120,000,000
Anuual expense of English rail
ways, same mileage, 80.0011,000
Annual difference, $10,000,000
Average annual expense for
maintenance ol way ol Amen-
cau liues, 33,000.000
Average annual expense or Eng-
Hsu lines, suma mileuge, 12,500,000
Annual difference, 820.500.000
Average auuuul cost of fuel fur
American lines, 18.0JC.000
Average auuuul cost of fuel for
Logli.b lines, tame mileage, 7,500,000
Annual difference,
$10,500,000
Total annual expense of Ameri-
cau Kuilwayt, 8171.000.000
Total auuuul expense of rail- .
ways, , 100,000,000
Total anuuol difference, 71,000,000
f o that for the same miluge, there is a
difference agaiust the American system of
$71,000,000 iu tbe total expenses, whilst iu
the consumption of fuel alone there is the
European system, less than Crf per cert, or
the quantity burned in our locomotives.
Obviously, thu basis of any comparision of
European and Aniericau railways, must be
their relative economical results. Here it a
lubulur statement of the receipts and expen
ses cf certaiu lines iu Europe uud America;
Ter eeuliiKa
Rreeiptt l:ipensea ol eXjienaea
per mils run, ocr luile run. vu raccijiia.
England, 181C, 1.44 fO.Cyj 44
France, 1855, 2 03 0,87$ 43
New York, ld55. 1,7(5 1.00. 57
Massachusetts, '05,1b'.) 1,05 02
Massachusetts, '5U, 183 1.U3 61)
With regard to time, it it stated thtt the
average speed 00 English railway! it 25 per
cent, luster than thul of Aniericau trims.
The Great Western wst the fastest road iu
the world, and ill express ran regularly 117
mile, iu precisely two hours, or 58:5 miles
per hour. Iu New York State, in. 18.(5, the
average rale of trains wus 24 miles per hour.
Iu Massachusetts, iu 1831, the average rate
wut 23.'J'J milel per hour, aud iu 1857 the
average tuuk to 22$ miles. We buve only
published a luw albeit thu most important
items from the document before us yet there
it sufficient to suggest idea, uf railroad re
form in many leading particulars.
I'ltiNCK Ai.bkrt Tbe ouly incident which
occured during my short ttay in the quiet lit
tle city was the visit of I'riuce Albert to bit
brother, Duke Earnest 11. Tbe 1'riucecauie
to bit parental Slate for the first time since
tjueen icloria't visit iu 1845. He traveled
iucoguito, and wat accompuuied by Col. 1'ou
sonby. Iu company with the Duke be visit
ed tbe new observatory, 00 which occasiou I
bad tbe opportunity of beiug preseuted to
bim. He is now about forty years of age,
quits stout, a little inclined to corpulency,
aud bis browo balr is gutting thin. 1 like
him much better in ordinary civilian's dress
then when 1 taw bim in bit Field Marshal'!
uniform lo Loudon. He it still a strikingly
handsome man, and must have been captiva
ting fifteen year. ago. 1 wat ttiuck with tht
purity uf bis English pronunciation. Duke
Earnest, although be is the older, appear! to
be younger of the two. Hit uiauners are ex
ceedingly dashing, off baud, uutetlraiued and
frauk ; be violate! antediluvian etiquette in a
way most alarming to the old fogies, but the
people like bim, aud thore is no Priuce in
Germany who commands so much respect.
He is a composer, an author and a capital
actor, and withal at liberal iu bis political
ideas at it it possible for a nian in bis poti.
lion to be. Bayard Ttiylor.
It is to ba presumed that great numban
of hogs will be fattened io Iowa this year,
or corn la pieoiy,
0 c 1 r 2
1 he following pmtry Is going tbe round?,
signed T. W. Higginron. The tubject it
thut treated under wuter :
Tho Atlantic CaM
A school of mackerel got d.smissej
, To ponder this new ttuily ;
Tho alewives paused amid ilieir drink
And thought their heids were muddy,
The lobsters turned, in sudden fears,
As red as when they're boiled ,
The whules Bhed spermaceti tears
Till all the sea wat oiled.
Tho frightened toles together came
Io oue substantial body ; .
Each cod looked bluer than blue pills,
Or Warren's I'lllicoddy ;
The great sea serpent wundeting asied,
"What's all '.his stir and coil 1"
The eels a giant brother knew,
And stopped to see him broil.
Tho black fish turned a liUle pnlo,
(As big as a ship's jolly bout.)
And trembled all, from head lo tail,
Tho melancholy halibut;
The oysters got np from their beds,
With rather Bleepy faces ;
The plaices flapped iheir startled fin,
Aud went to other places.
But when the first brief messagn went
Through the wido watery bourn!.
To dumUlsli straightway were transformed
The ocean's tongues ond sounds,
Till (while old hunkers of the deep
Were wondering ami gulping.)
Young swordtish sent by telegr.ph
A challenge to young sculping.
And when they nnder stood the thing,
The wutery fun grew better
The seals desired to Ptatnp themselves
un every passing letter,
i ue gruve wuue beurs camo swiramiu?
.i
uowu
To inquire, for Doctor Knne,
While the frightened herring only asked
What tidings from the Seina !
(From tl.e Detroit Tribune, Sept. IS.)
BALLOONIST LOST IN THE SKY.
Terrible Adventure A Man Seated on the
Valve etf a Balloon Can ltd into the
Clauds.
Wo have learned full particulars of I ho
Balloon Ascension at Adrian, on Thursday,
its subsequent desceut, aud its secoud asceu
sion aud runaway with the tcroeuut while
beyond his control. It is a brief narrative,
but of thrilling interest. A man lost in the
sky 1 There cun scarcely bo a more terrible
thought. It makes the flesh creep aud seuds
a shudder through every uerve.
The first ascension took place about nino
o'clock io the morning. It wat on the occa
sion or a largo Sunday school cclebrulion at
Adrian. The balloon was a very . large and
well constructed one, being aboul tlio heigbtof
a two ttory building wbeu inflated and ready
to cut loose from its fastenings. Messrs.
Uaunister and Thurston took seats in the
cur, attached to thu balloon, aud ascended
safely aud steadily. After remaining about
fcrty minutes iu the air, tailing toward Tola
do ull the time, they alighted iu iho woods in
the town of Riga, Lenawee county, near
Kuighl't Station, on the Southern Road,
distaut aboul eighteen miles west or Toledo.
Several men came to the assistunce or tbe
adventurers, and they proceeded to prepure
the balloon for packing to be tuken back to
Adrian.
In' doing this the monster balloon wat
turned over and partially upside down to
disentangle the netting and to reach tb
valve. To do tbit Mr. Ira Thurston, one of
the rcronauts, took off hit coat,, aud got
astride or the valve-block. He than sugges
ted that the car bo detached from the balloon
while be should bold it down with bis weight
This proved a reurful calcululiou. Tor no
soouer wus the still inflated body relieved of
the weight of the car than it shot iuto the
air wilb the suddunuess of a rocket, takiug
Mr. Thurston along wilb it, seated upon the
valve or the duIIqoii, and holding on to the
collapsed silk or the airship in that portion
or its bulk.
In this perfectly helpless condition the ill
fated man sped straight into the sky in the
full tight or bit companions, eveo more help
less Ibau himself. So fur as is known, there
was no means fur him to secure hit desceut,
whether sufe or otherwise. The part of the
balloon filled with gas wat full twelve feet
above him, to that there was no chance for
blQ to cat it und escape. He could only
cling to bit precarious bold, ond go witherso
ever the currents of air should take bim.
Without regulation and coutrol or any kind
the balloon continued to mnuut upwards, tail
ing oil' in tho direction or thii city and Lake
Erie. The fatal ascension' took place about
11 o'clock, aud at few minute past noon it
wui seeu in the town of Blissfit Id, Leoawee
county, apparently full three milel high, and
about tho size of a star io appearunce. It
wut ttill going up and ou. At a quarter past
three o'clock, it wa3 last dimly visible going
io Ihe direction or Maiden, us ascertained by
compass bearings taken by parties observing
it.
What is bia exact fate baffles conjecturt ;
that it it horrible, almost beyond precedeut,
tbure can be no aoubt There is not oue
chance iu a miliiou fur a tuccessful escape.
Whether tie unfortunate man wus carried up
so high at to become benumbed and tense
less, death ensuing, or w hether be rait off at
length fro bis tremendous altitude, to have
his breath sucked from bim in bis fearful des
cent, and lo be sunk iu the lake or daubed
into a shapeless mass upon tbe earth, it is
doubtful if any save God will ever know.
The mind stands appalled in contemplating
tun icariui disaster and biimlly gropes in
nazes of wonder at where bis place of sepul
ture man oe.
Mr. Thurston was an sxperiencid balloon
ist, bavins; built several ; and this beiug bis
thirty-seventh .scansion. He was formerly a
resident iu the vicinity of Lima and Roches
ter lu Western New York, but has latterly
resided iu Adrian where be wat exleusively
engaged in busineta at a nursery mso. He
waa a widower, having lost hit wife lust Wiu-
ter. He leaves an iuterVtting daughter about
teventeeo yean of ago to mouru ber father's
uukaowu, terrible rule.
TBS MISSIKa jEKOHADT THI tUl.LOOM HE. so-
FROM.
tFrara Th Deuoit Tubune MundaT 1
Tbe anxiety to bear tidings of the milting
cronaut, Mr. Thurston, is very great, per
vading tbe entire community, giving rise to
countless inquiries and many rumors were
widely circulated that the balloon bad de
scended in Canada, and that its precious
freight, a human life, was safe. Tbe tidings
seut a thrill of joy to every beart. Some r
ports locsts tst tpot were tba ballooa bad
iscdlantwts.
fallen in the woods nenr Bear creek in the va
cinily of Lake St. Clair to ths north or Chat
I a n. Other made it at "the Puce," other
Hill at Belle River, and oilier at Buptitt
C'rei k, all locaties on or near the G. W. Rail
road. .
We have mode c ireful and extended in
quiries upon the other side, sufficiently to jus,
lily us in stating that the hnlloon has come
to th earth, and further, that in nil proba,
bility, if ca. empty 1 From a gentleman who
was at Baptist Creek on Sunday afternoon
betw.-eu ;t and 4 o'clock, we leurn that a large
hnlloon was seen to descend to the ground in
the viciuily of a tract or woods, ncros a wide
morab, some, three miles from the station,
early in the afternoon. This Tact was told
him by the station master, who (It the time
had In ard nothing of tbe ocrunenco at Ad.
rain, a. hud not the gentleman our informant.
There was, therefore r.o eagerness to furnish
news or tu feed excitement which would lead
any person to exn.f.erste, but evidently the
simple statement of the fact. , ,
The getitleman being in haste to return to
Windsor, and knowine naucht or the inter.
est atUched to this balloon, made no further
inquiries, and immediately left. The bulloon
wus described as a large one, and is, there is
little doubt, the same that took up tbe ill.
foied Thurston. What is his fate is still
wrapped in as profound mystery as ever. If
tt shall prove, as there seems little doubt it
will, to be empty, the Tate or the roronaut is
lendercd almost certain. But whether it will
ever be known tor a certainty may well be
questioned. The balloou wasjscen at Chat
ham about 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon, so
it was thought by tho telegraph operator.
It was about as lariro in ar.enranr aa n.
kite, and was thought to be such until tho
news of this affair reucbed there.
Questions Answered.
The Nebraska Post, under tho above can.
j lion, goeth it thut :
a lew days siuce, wo received a letter from
a friend at the east, making inquiries in re
gard to our territory, from which we clip the
following questions, and append the answers.
We have been ip Nebraska, but a short
time and our kuowledge being sotnewbat
limited, we hope due allowauco will be made
for any misstatements.
"What kind ofcouutry Jo yon live in!"
"Mixed and extensive. Jt it made up
principally of land and water."
"What kind or weather !''
"Long spells or weather are frequent.
Our luushiuej conies ofl principally durioz
the day-time."
"Have you plenty of water, and bow got !"
"A good deal of water scattered about, aud
generally got iu railt and whiskey."
ill. L ..Ian
is it uuru i
"Ralher to. when roe have to pa hair a
mile and wade in rnud knee-deep to get it."
v uat Kiud oi ouildings 7 '
Allegoric Ionic. Aa.Calcric. Loir and
Slabs. Tbe buildings are chiefly out door's
aud so luw between joists thut the chitnueys
all stick out through the roof.'1
"What kind of society!-'
"Good bad hateful, indifferent and mixed."
"An aristocracy !"
"Kury one." .
"What do your people do for a livinir most-
ly 2"
dome work, some laze round, ooe's a
shrewd business mauager, aud severl drink
whiskey."
"Ouly five cents a glass, and the water
thrown in." .
"Any taste for music?"
"Strong. Buzz and buck-saws in the day
time, and wolf-howliug aud cat-fightuing of
nights " ... . .
"Any pianos there !"
"No ; but we have cow-belli, and a tin ptn
iu every family."
"Any manufactures!"
"Every household. All our childreu are
home productions.".
"What could a genteel family io moderate
circumstances do there fo: a living I"
"Work, shave notei, fish, hunt steal, or if
hard pinched, buy and tell town property."
"Are your people intelligent I"
"Some know everything that happens, and
some things that do not."
"Would they appreciate a well-bred fumily
oftoniarul daagbleril'
"Certainly. Great on blood ttock ; would
take tbem to the next territorial fair, and
exhioit them. Dear friend,, your questions
areaoswertd. Bring on your well-bred stock
and make your borne with us."
' The Rev. Bisuor Jnm Shot. The De
troit Advertiser, of Friday, sayt that the
"Rev. Bishop Janes, of tbe Methodist Epis
copal Church, was accidentally shot in in
diaiiapolis, ou Thursday, while walking alocg
the street from the residence of Bishop Ames,
and narrowly escaped Iroto deutb. A ball
from a gun, carelessly fired by a boy, struck
him iu the free, euteriog hi. left cheek and
penetrating to tbe nose. It was promptly
extracted, and the wound is not considered
daugerout.
The fall fashion! for bonnets, if tbe Phils.
delphia .YuciA American is properly informed
provides artificial nulla ss a substitute for
flowers. The lattur will pass entirely out of
use. Instead ol rosea, Jotiuy Jump. ups and
daffy-dowu dillies, the bonnet, of our belles
will be graced with clusters of artificial cur.
rants, or crapes, cherries, and other fruits.
done in glass, or tba least possible thickuees.
1'he new bonnet is a unique affair, aud resem
bles a cabbage leaf trimmed wuu tomatoes.
The pi ice is cheap, only (30.
SiMicLAR Cal'se op Pkatb. Last Tbori-
dny, at the Mount Yernoq furnace, l'enna.,
a cow broke into a womau's garden for tba
forty-seveulb time. The provoked woman
became sq exasperated at the cow, while;
turning ber out, that the, by the intensity of
ber passion, ruptured interuully a blood-vesT
sel, uud before medical aid could bo reudered
bled to deiub.
An Alligator Hiktes The New Orleans
Ficayune, notices a hunter or alligators, wha
bas captured four hundred in the swamps
near that since Msy. He goes oat at night
wit,b a pan of Ore, aud sbonis tbem as they
crowed round tba light, Tbe skins ara sold
al 75 cents each, aud make boots. Tbe ail,
tusk and bides of these four hundred have
netted tbe captors $500 in tbrea mouths.
The Hon. j. R. biddings, of Ohio, is en.
gaged in writing tba "History of the Antk
Slavery, Eight ia Congress," and bit retire,
meat will eotble bim to Duish the work ia
das time.
We Intra that the brava fellow who d
seeoded iuto tba abytt in the Mammoth.
Cave, nacer before explored by mortal, it a
ton of George D. Prentice, Lq., of the
Louisville Journal.
!
For the year ending May 31t last, 13,912
l!..m.r. . ..I..,! .1 V t IrL.n. I . V...
i ly 10,000 of these went to St. Louiu ii'
'Lest than 3,000 of tbe uui&vtr tmlt