MrMe* for the Winona:xi ARCHY DALE. CCIMEE! Iwae known to all the °gentry mad— . bnt of globe sed, Built dith a hatchet sod a Paw Aod fall of cracks and holes. ' A gardenAtunid It tilled with care, And trait hues very Rd with OhOITION, and blue with plums, In the golden summer Ulan. Her*, Araby lived, for twenty year* Although it waive small, The people wondered, bow he stood, Or turned in it at sik Ho lived aloes, but In hie barn, That stood morose the lane— With lustrous eyes, and heaving breast., Livid Mary, Van. abd Jane. They did ■ot wear falai waterfalls, Or dress in crinoline ; But every night, they Ailed the pail, With moth's nature's wins. And they were dear to Aroky's begat, Aid when he milked and fed, Morning and night, is taTked to them,, .And they knew whet he said. \ Ago oontoo to nll, In hut and hall— Old time with eagle eye, BIM every one beneath the Pus, And rich and pew, must die. One night, when Ara., lay:slole In the lent midnight gloom, ile law the hoe of (bath peer out, rrom • corner if the room. And ano'.her night when deep had tried To dere We eyee_ln vain, Death, came to the middle of the room And then, went bank ROA. Then Arehy knew that be must die, Ite told hoe friends, sad Paid, When you shall mist me pasalog by, You will look and find me dead. The week, went un, 'twas a winter'. morn, The snow lay on the ground, A neighbor came to Archg'idoor -- And found no tracks aroused. No tracks around, although tlivrats, Had laic a weak or mon— The .mods war gone that o'er the roof. Had always curled befo.e. • mi death, And ell was still- 7w as lath Alter be dying grban, And while in awe, he told his breath crow the stables came • wean. Like a sound Jr sor-ow ind d'rettoes Shut up in prison walls, And Mary and Yen and Betsy Jane Were-starving in their stalls. The !maul waa told. the neighboss came irrom every booze io dread, Ind marched to the sot of Araby Dale. With slow and solemn tread., AwLentered in, but found uo one thud they saw the Led; The b , ddest pulled the god' sway And there was A rohy—dead• There were trembling hearta: -. a s nd frightened And rraying sinners that day: And Archy was laid in hi', narrow bed And ....peered op with the clay Sicinamon. Pa.. Feb. 15 1888. IWrittuo for the W#rci 4.1 The Chronicles of Tettletown. I=l CIiAPTF:R I! Num Peck's gratuitous contribution of neon, for the benefit of the Mrs Grundies of Tot lletowtr, being, not only highly colored. but slightly ( 9 ) exagera• led withal!, the historian beg; leave to put before her rootlet s the few facts. up• on which Mine Nonoy'n imagination has built PO largely True It wan that for tune favored her during her journey. and lIIIIC ilk' Charles Compton suspect, se old Mrs. Peck said too truly, "who sat within earehot," or perhaps bin low toned conversation would have' been much !your •pnheu If there was one thing he.dieltked more than Nlitts Nanoy'n mischief mak ing ‘Tropen.ities, It was to know that his family affairs were hip topics of ()herita ble (1) remark by the aforementioned Sire Grundies, and ex his family had %Tear' discourage , ' any effort merle to bring them into the churrneti citale of huipy-bodies .114.1 declined all proffers of information to reitt;rd to their neigh• beer affairs, they had, by this breach rf the laws regulating the society of Tattle,own. been crow' e "stunk-up" mud and ristormatio set; the letter , atios being s • stench - in the fle,moeratie “nnetrilo"of setid Mee. Grua Cep. oonvequeially they considered it their est.emial melting to purge the so 'IelY• end moral! of Tettletown of it, by all NMI,. etiritahlr. or. otherwise. Rot in order to eel those few facts be fore my renders, 1 mast go beak to the week rireyieus to Mice Nwney'a •isit to the oily Introduced them to this personage. it will only be neceseary take her t urdnn fur whet tt i s worth. .It was at the close of a diaagreable evening, if week bi• Yore story oplll4 'bisi We! Compton eat before a • bright kV, thiofin Liekury loge, blazed, and mankind. ingrrily. ea boyish bidding do. hese," to ib.* storm witbo6r, l'bo rain pattered apiort the nlndowe, and on the On arith,oo, freezing ill it fell, while 'he grind 1, 1 1:e in angry rate around I (, VOL. 13 B ' P I'' 1a a 6,1:•:. the corners, end ehaok impatiently the bare brandies of the old oaks on the lawebeforeShe door. The little room was a picture of com fort and migkit be fbrmed both sitting mein, and library, as the well filled bookshelves that lined one side of the room, and the little article. of feminine industry lying about, in the form of work basket and embroidery frame in dicated. There pervaded the room en air of refinement, notwithetanding the evidences of what is Galled shabby gen tility, as seen le the ingeniously relab el carpet, the old, but wonderfully pre served (Wasik eurtains, and table Dover, to say nothing of the cushioned arm chair, whose threadbare appearanoe, was mysteriously concealed with dainty cow er of • network, wrought by the fair hands, oe—lhase Compton gale," or In more polite phrase Miss Augusta Comp on, and her „loss queenly, but equally loveable, and beautiful sister Dahty. Of the chairs around the fire, only one was occupied, and Aire. Compton glanced impatiently et one on tiOuppo site side of the fire, upon which a Grim son dressing wrapper iree thrown, keep ing company with a pair of Owen; near by, while awaiting the arrive! of its owner. • P ly • step, quick, but firm, and manly was heard on the porti co. end soon after the sitting room 4000 epeoed.,and a gentleman entered, and divested himself of overcoat, and 00111 (crier, cants up and • hissed affectionately the lady, who perm to fake it as a mat let of course - "You are late, my non. What detain ed yon---ers there any letters from the girls T" .. - • "The mail was later than usual, moth er, but to recomuenso you for such pa tient waiting, there it totter for • you. and, to judge from its size, voile an im portant document . Mr.. Compton took it eagerly, will only gimlet, at it." she said ! to see if the girls are well. I ann read it after supper, which It Al.l been waiting belt an 'tour, and I will not try old Mollie's pa tience any longer. Come! "she added an the tea bell rung." I know you must appreciate Mollie's effort. after en long and cold a walk," and she led the way into a cozy little dining room, where a simple meal - was nerved up in anit gue silver, and rare old' china, retained when the llall and its content had been cold by Mrs Compton, who felt reluc tent to par} with every thing that re- minded her oT happier, and Incrs prow porous day; Tea was anon ever, Charism having. for once lost hie iipprecioi inn of ••Aunt Mod tie's ' culinary genius, while his mother ee toed equally indifferent to all save, the ern lying beetle her plate, of whom i•,mcuts she won almn•t ignorant. tier antiety regarding the news from her daughters, may be more easily account ed for by too fact of this being then first from home, f.ir although Au gusts Compton was ulneteen years old, and conefiquent'y suppose.' to have •-- rived at year. Rf discretion, at least In this flu ago, she bad never been br)ond the precincts of her native village, until this winter, when their mother. i.libeugh rehotant ti give hem up, decided 'to 'incept, for them that pr:•ssing invitation of en old echo tie of her own, who was now living in the city of --.and who. knowing Mrs Compton did no , mink in gay society, begged the prlvi loge of matrimony thorn, for one win ter siid with her own daughter., make their debut in th.i gay society of whioh she rive the acknowledged loader Mrs. Compton felt that though she sacrificed,her own happiness, she could but admit the mistaken policy that would shield them still a little while long er, from the temptations with which she feared to subject their young, and Je fensoleps girlhood the read the letter siviia, end ■gain 'ere the reliseinkered that Charles was "MATZ 'ZIGZiff; ' AND riannaAL UNION." patiently wilting to br rhe contents of it; and when she lookc pbe smiled plesovitly." 'What do the girls say molhe I have waited for fifteen'minutes now for the revelation of its mysterious eiMnu niestions, , -when may we look for their ladyships home '!" 'They make no mention of returning very soon, though there are frequent al lusions to 'when we mime.' The dear children are enjoying themselves 'so muoh, that I cunnot find it In my heart to, insist Ifitoik a return, at least for some time yet. By the by, th.:y mention har iog met with Claudia Henry 1 Perhaps y remember her. AS the little girl who visited wi.h her father at the 11.11 seven years ago ! Judge Henry was a wirier of your dear father when they began the praotize of lax. You remember her— do you not ?" '•I have an indistinct recollection or a eenaLination ut-miony etirls.soft mtl lid and lases, blue eyes, and rihone, and a bird-like voice, that constituted what Judge Henry „loved, to call, my little Claudia. au4 'Birdie.' with "a thousand pet names that she readily accepted as a substitute for her real name, and her right It seems hut yeeday that she d odoed thciitigli corridor, and ball to the time of her'.uwil sweet wings," end he sighed as he laded, "Time fie! earthly in the retreapect yet What changes have occurred." • Mrs. Compton smiled, ••You are grow ing sentimental, and. from yuur dtecrip glom, mien to have retained undimmed by the clouds of sorrow that hovered over us for so lung, a bright recollection of the young lady in question. Augusta tells me. that the Judge is dead.• I grieve truly to bear it, as he 1/111.1 an esteemed friend of this fin:idly. I wonder if the flail will change hands again' It has always been ► comfort to me that he pur chased it, though It way strange be nev er occupied it I should be sorry to see it go into 'grangers fosseaston now " Charles did.....utit answer immediately lie seemed diglerat/ In manner, an ono- SIMI thing to him. mother looked up from her knitting and wits on the p.m' of inquiring as in the reason of bit adobes, which he said; "The old Hall, dear , mother has changed hands A letter feeeiked to day from the °feculent of Judge Henry's will, inf,,retteti me of the 'art," he paused on neein,4 her azint 'ion. an I taking her hand, held it, while speak ing Can you bear go-al mother dear? I have in thil letter that which will mike your sad heart happy." an I h. held ul..t lct ter that he had been reading, while his mother was no deeply abnorbed in her ..What is it, Charles" Tell roe! can I bear joy. an well as sorrow! Alt! would I could belieco the future of my beloved children could be brightene4 —3l for one, there can be no silver lining to the cloud that 6as darkeneT, not only my own life, but I fear of those, who if I could tio will it, should hoe onlylhobriFht aide of ilfe's picture." and 4he hp quiverered and I...trs gathered slowly in the ,oft eye. "lint mother yon 10 Ull -co the ...dyer lining that this loiter displays I can hordlrreslise 'hit it is an myself, yet listen! This letter is fr,,in the executors of Judge Henry's will' who here en closed a copy in which he has remem bored the widow of his best "'fiend, and given her b irk her old home, On one eon dition only, that you will take to your heart, and home, his only and beloved ohild, Claudia, and do for her tee your owp ; while to me he bequeath* a legs• not only 'sufficient to complete my ',lndies, but to settle me in the practice of his chosen profession Tsars —grratful tears stood in Mrs Compton's eyes, when he Ilniehed speak ing, an back Jo her chair, ehe murmured, "Truly he ha+ .remembered the fatherless, and the widow ' Ifow sinful hai been illy m4rrouring heart, that doubted his love, 9.4 0 oars who see it now in the light cr(thiseomfort ! cart see It in !4.11 its ►6lin ingralitthil l e to wards my fleevenly F.ttherr who has c%re.l for me, and minr for Cl rainy .3r- row 'u I yeari." It wag some momenta 'ere Charles broke upon her reverie whlph foriettiog his preaence, she bail auto, and be tali reluctant to intrude on those mo menta which he well knew, were oonve eroded to unuttered prayer Aber ilftro wiseoalosed a-lotier from Judge Healey to you. wrlttea s "rook prevFoul to' hie death Will you teed It now t" She- silently assented, and carrying the letter to her chamber there read it, and there'in solemn prayer took upon hvrtalf the oblige lone to perform a moth • duty to the orphan Cisuilia, and that'reaponsibilitf was all the more cheerfumed, fo'r Claudia Henry, because she wail. e daughter of a cher ished friend, and be o her marriage a ward of Mrs. Corapton's fa On her return to the sittin -tem, Charles informed heii of the necessity b visiting 8 - on the following day, iso4 if she agreed to it, to bring his Rim I 'era bank with him. alas Claudia Henry. if she wished it. To This hire Compton consented, yet making it optional with the girls, to remain until the winter was over. as she wee unwilling to have her own preferential weighed in the balance with their inclination. The morning after he left for the cur; hut not until he bad been called upon by the foreman of the workman engaged by le executors to put the Hall incomplete repair, for any commends. their presence, and business, was as yet, unknown to theidrs. Grundies of Tattletown, owing undoubtedly to M Ise Nancy Perk'o absence from home ; for no well known wee her dexterity in ferret ring out new', that they had resigned their interest in the business, fully tuttiefird sh• would do justice to them in keeping them posted in every one's affairs, her own included. Mrs Compton wentto and fro, from the Ilan, superintending the improve moot, being made, on the beautiful house, for '•Compton Hall," or the ••flail' as it was morefanuillarly,known. was one of the finest estates in the neigh borhond. the natural advantagee of which had been rendered more at(ractive "till by the antique mansion, that for three generations bad been the pride of the Compton fa who spared no expense or tale In keeping it in such splendid order. Flume Mr Compton • s death the place had Buffered very little from neg loot, the only repairs needed,"being in • and around the house, which ha re mained unoccupied, save one wing in which the servams, and 'a house-keeper lived. Therriwas a sad pleasure in thinking she should return to her old how. around which lingered Romany hallowed associations. There •he had spent the jiiyouis days of ehildhood—the happier days of her married life, and here known her first, and her kat great vie( Well might She say as she roamed again aver ibe - soenec bet &ought beak. so vivid ly ohecquered life— "Therefore a nurrent of sadness deep ; Through lb. strain of my trteruph is heard to weep, 1.11, a moan of tho breeze through a mum mer's sky— Like the osine of the lost, when the wine fosmi high " "Yet !peek to cue still though tby tones be It-aught With ~sin remembernnee and troubled thought— Speak ! for thou tallest my soul that its birth, Links' tt with revons, more bright than ot,rth " I holes, MI reaching the city, called on his sisters•, and found them mill fresh, and blooming after their winter campaign , and on venturing a hint rel afire to their return with him, met with a volley of objections, and entreaties from their hospitable host aria hie lady, not to mention the young ladies of the house 'win) had truly to - bring the battery of bright eyes; and to sieetly . pleading Neat* Mr Compton ! do let them stay," that be fancied !•discretion thp better part of valor," and surrendered emir • more weighty reasons of their hostess, that "It would he unsafe to return at this time of the year to the colder olimate of the valley," finally de. sided him cu leaving the* and banished 411 - hopes of seeing their brlsktsfeces at home. for some time yet. A peissiog Invitation to Charlie' was given to re main until the sisters should be permit ted to leave them, and the before men. tloned bright oyes pleaded eloquently ; but he knew how ',possible it was to do sm, and him ookipelled to divulge his of jest in visiting the oliy, and sower qiigAtly the necessity of returning, before they rousented to recoasider the matter, and isid it ruder the table The nest lay Charles,' accompanying hi■ sister Augusts, and their accom plished hostess; Mrs. Mmeon. ride wit to A -- Seminary, where Claudia Hen ry lovi been fur sersrel years a pupil. On totoikaring for her, they were inform• ed that the young lady' was not *ell,. ehd begged ezeo6,l, Mrs Meece, NO. 10 however took • card from her oard ease wrote - a kw harried lives on, it, sod handed it to the t, saying they would await an inewer. Claudia was Vending alone et the *ohnel room window, wanting bee 60m pullout as they engaged in a noisy game of snowballing; not a very dignified *alinement, perhaps, for the very lady Eke pupils who had Won !be admiration of said school managers, and propriety loving maidens Aunts; but • very helthity one nevertheless, and the model princiOvAr. Bell, bad seen nothing to condemn in lf;•-aktwefore, it had become quite the thing mann,"the fun-loving portion of his pupils. ----- Claudia stood looking at tinni„and . _ present!' her aching temples against t. cold window panes. Their voices gra ted harshly on her 1 - eart, sweeping roughly the minis c‘f memery, as they carried her back to bet. own harpy childhood. Jibe turned from the win dow, and seated herself before the fire. i now almost burnt out. A servant enter ed a few moments-slier. "Two ladies, and • 'gentleman, Idles wdo wish to see you." "Albert you most muse me, really lam not well enough to see them Be eo kind as to give my excuse, and say I regret not seeing them " e The servant Left the roma, and Clan dia was ororeing the corridor on the way to her own room when he overtook her, end banded her a oard. Glancing hastily at she put it into her pocket, and passed or, to the drawing room. She received her visitors with grace and digutly, but her sweet face wo , e, a sadly weary ezpression, while her deep mourning dress, only heightened the fairness of her ezquieite beau!) , Charles could not recognize in the beau tiful woman before him, the Vesture of Claudia Gent) . as he had seen it seven yews ago The •ieit was short, but °buries found he should be obliged to return without her, an she WAS really not well enough to undertake the journey; but Nlrs hleson, and Augusta essurred him they would take the best care of her. and have her sufficiently restored to an company them back in the latter part of Mereb. and with ibis. be was compelled to content himself lie remained only a few days, but during that time be, in company with hie slaters, visited Clau dia often. endeavoring to establish the sintetly regard sho was hereafter to claim. nal which else eo gratefuliy ac cepted, and returned Five days allot his ,14iparture, ho found himself again homeward bound , but disappointed in securing the convent of the girls to so company him At be mot with n friend of his, and an intimate acquain. tance of Judge fierily, to whath be re hated the fade, that Miss Nancy contrib uted to the Nt las Bulletin of Tattlelown, nn her arrival Mrs Compton was much disappointed no his arrival to find he ipul felled in bringing not only her own daughter; but Claudia, with whom he wee no mnx iOll9 to become acquainted, aid whom she longed to take to her heart as a daughter - (TO DICCONTIMUND A NICE LITTLIi ROMA/ICC -10 1864. ono of Price's rebe got left behind after a raid near Glassgow, No , being den , gerously 'wounded in the neck. Mica Sarah J. Smith, a school teacher, hap pening to pace by, took pity on him and staunched hie wounds, probably saving bits life She remained with him till near nightfall, when the soldier advised her to leave, saying that his companions would probably come in the night and take him away—if not, she would find him - there in the morning. lie told her that hie name was H C. McDonald, and tbatkie was from Louisville, Ky. The next morning he Was gone, and Miss Smith did not bear from him.again until a few days ago, when she reoelved . a let ter from the a,firninistrator of IL C. Mc- Donald, denier, informing ber that she was named in the will of ihs deceased as the legatee of 560,000, in oonsideration of her having' saved the life of his nephew and only heir,the H. C. Mopes. aid named in owenecton with the inci dent of 1804. The Glasgow They voabli• es for the ootreoluess of Has stvw7. - Mr. Thompson lielhig In Palle Carbon, Sohuy !kill comely; nod employ ed ip wmo lading shop, was hilted in w pool at mul b ten iron into -wiioh pe bsd fallih, Whets tsk from It he matiobtlt one Sigh and ospirett. - • The Origin of "Dixie.!' The writer Wale New Orleans says: I do not wish to "poll- s47 , pecety illusion. but the real truth is that NM* is en indigenous Northern negro.refrapt as common to the - writbr as the 4e ' posts in New York City.seventy or wen ty five years ago. It was cue of In every day allusions of boys at that time all their out dpor sports. Mid Me • one ever heard of 'tiiiieNt 'lend being more than Manhattan island, until re • • tly-,---wben -it was erroneously Step - posed to refer to the Bouth,from its eon neetion with a pathetiolallesory. whew slavery /Meted in New York, one Ms, but a large tract on' Manhattan island, and a large number of slaves.' The in of slave's end thin increase of abt lition sentiment, caused' an emigration of the slaves to'cnows thicutsiumuisecura slave emotions and the soirees who were thus sent off naturally looked back to their old homes, where they bad lived in clover, with feelings of regret.as they could not imagine any plies like Dirie's. Hence It became synonymous with al; ideal locality, ostobining ease, comfort and material happiness of every descrip, lion. In those diye negro singing, and minstrelsy Were in their infancy, and any subject that could be brought into a ballad eras eagerli poked up. This was. the seas with Dixie. It originated in New York, and assumed the proportions of a song there. In Its travois it has been enlarged, and bas grothered mom t has picked some here and note there. AMontt?' hes been added to it, and 'from en indisilhat&Aantof two or three notes it has become einlaborate melody. ,But the feet that it is 'not s Southern song cannot be rubbed out. Thti f4llacy is so popular to the contrary, that I hair thus been at pains to state the real origin of it. —The Patvbstro Commercial of the 14th lost , sad a : John W. Steele, for merly known as Johnny Btecl,and some what nittinguished as an '•oil prince,' having for a considerable length of time enjoyed the princely income of $2001) per day, yesterday filed in the U. 8 District Court a voluntary petition in bankruptcy. Many of our readers wi remember the remand° history •of hie exploits in the East, published some time ago, during which be is reported to have squandered 1 hundred thousand dollars. After having "sowed his wild oats," and losing his oil farm, he found himself in rather stiiiightened 01701101 stances, and was recently compelled to earn his living by driving an oil team Ilia indebtedness, as set forth in his pe tition, amounts to over $lOO,OOO. Some of the items are quite heavy. a few of which we note • To Money W Kann', dr the Girard lions*, Philadelphia, he owes $l9 824; to Wm A (l'lbcaith. at torney al-law, Eric. $10,000; J. F. Caldwell 9• Co , Phtladelphia,'for jewel ry. $5,805; John D Jones, for harness, $1 250; Wm Horn t Cu, for cigars, $502: E. A. I:anklet', Philadelphia, liq uors, $2.024; Phelan S. Collender. Phil adelphia, for billiard tables, $1,500; to .n unknown cred.tor for oil paintings, $2 200; to the accouut for bats, $3OO A considerable amount of indebtodnem, is for money borrowed, notes judgments, Ste When ••Johnny” took a, notion to rent a hotel fora ftw day's he would do en; sod whenever be saw anything that pleased his fancy he was bound to have it. regardless of cost. Perhaps no man in the United States ever squad lered so much money in the some space of, time 1 CCIIIOIIIIISII OF A CONATITUTION -It seems a paradox to say that those pet• son. who shodt loudest for liberty are commonly the most illiberal; but the world abounds In proofs of the assertion. The telegraph brings fresh evidence from the State. of Arkansas. • The con vention which has beets- incubating at Little Rook for a long time pest bee at last batched out a constitution which combines the extremes of freedom sad tyranny to an event hard to be par.llel• ed in history After giving the ballot to women and negroon, it proceeds to de olare how voting ebalt,pe done on the new constitution. •-eitroteiii, 4 „are re9uired to swear thatilejfitlevernever given ■id to secession In any State This offers a premium to perjury, or abuts the door of repentance and reformaticn against those who have erred, and is of itself a monstrous instance of injustice. Not enflelled with this, the framers of the constitution clap a muzzle upon every man's mouth. by requiring hint to swear that 6e aooepts for ap times the seals' sod political equality of the whits and• black races; not merely the —,polltical." observe, but the '•social! I" But the essential despotism of this new emulate- Lion roach,s the climax when, error In insistieg on all these qualilloatleas for voiles it disfranchises all persons Wise shalt sets against the new .Constltutlen. Wd match this against anything Chit can be found in the previous history of the World.—New Ychellt Jeered of 4- .. mem. • - —A riot saki *doe bet beta dig mitered ataVyroat, Blair Gotta's. The ore it mild to etitati'alkibe teals, aid ill proauaamit geaultie gold airA ao ---.Csotuat a , sidwili.--putting Ira 14 s *if bpi., , ,