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Me Winds taken in exchanjre for jroods. tt inl.tnl for past favors, we hope to merit ; 4 fi cive a continuance and increase of the s P. H. SHIKLDS & SOX. -it... Nov. ir,, ISTi.-tf. 5CASTSR IKTELL1GEKCER ! f.f Croat Family Xewapaprr. Ty.Y. I.anrastrr Workly Intcllifrrncer is unsnr v, ! m a family Journal. Koiial in size to j ; jm il H. n nu '.apir pnlilisli "f .Miitaoi-: a vat nn, M irntilic lished in I'cnnsy I viima. eiu n is- ried store of Literary. Ponti ne matter, toiretner witn au 51 nr THK. WKt.K. Oh ricin ural department alone is wor'h than inn price if tho paper. 8 i the oldest Democratic journal in Penn S'W.oim, having been established ill and 'fip!iii?al iii stions are freely and fairly dis-t'-"i in its columns. lar circulation makes it a very valua us -iTtikinir mcil.uin. Iinv-Mnii' copies cj per year. To clubs '"i "r ""'re.lIJVi per year. I"rnnrii I 'ii. iit AVr. ' lilt Intrlligcarpr is pnldiiiliedjevery day. P. rici i.ic.l. Price a year. Il none :itb.vi a ivertisinir niediuins. Address; H. SMITH fc CO., Lancaster,. P. "- KfllllAT JOS-fM. IICSS. rtr pnopuiprroRS or Fill Mi!!V WW STOVF. WORK'S H'lLUUAVSHCKa. VA. purchased the establishment lately Hi I IT CASTING S - - ..intiijim l C of every description. Tie Various Styles of Stoves nifm-tvired at our estalilishment are in all t.-vt is -iim1 t,, anv in .. ,L ain Enpnesand all kind of Machinery promptly and satisfactorily repaired. 57'" ',llr '"'"rk is warranted to be exactly it is represented. LAujr. 3.-tf. mi , 2 J""nn fr,r Ihe thorouRh practical edn ''"'" yoiiiiar and middle aired men for all ut ' oiiuuercial life. 1' ne tu.ti-st. larifest and Miost complete praeti 2A',lJSI" ss t.'olleire in America, and tlie only I'wvin connected with it au Aiti al Rusi- r H llf.fi.. rl 1 . ri, ' ..i-uiinuLll.il unuiri i lii uir IHA1H. "i-roiuz,.,! by the wins of Merchant. Uank ', ,',u'r8 Mechanics, and ituttiucss Men, '"1 ail hurla of il ri.,i . . .a " . HIV I IIIIVU I lU . Students pan .- . ... .. '"'R-'i descriptive Circulars frivlr foil I 11 . "IKH I l'-"5,n J. C. SMITn, A. M., rrinclpAJ. P'ATIOXAL HOUSE! I . ' ' -""' s w., .uSC:.S?.VA0- Proprlotcr. ''Ply iiroOVn.;;'! '"T.,Jove h"'". . tui, ....... , ""' resoects lur t ho pntfr i.v "T" "r travelers a, all k" J I -rit , T, WA,h . thf, s,.hserit.er hn, to ' ' aim U. 1H r Ctl.-tf, ,.r niil.U,,. n,. "uiDTimviLlri, Nov. -,....:lm; IllllVI M , llolND. 1873. THE WORLD. 1873. A nr w political era. i opening Wfore the country. The nojrnwycle of our politic, him romu'etl tolls titiiclii-iim thrtmirh civil war, ooinl vio lence, industrial disorder, and ha ended In riv inr fnffiiitn to four millions of the negro race, Mtid the ballot to i!a Hdillt males. "The old order chungi-th, yicldintr place to new." j Tlie polities of this now era will come home to every man's business and Ikisoiu rs never lie fort", ticinir ital to privute prosperity and the maintenance of a Kemocratic Republic For not only are the manifold encroachments ' of Federal upon State powi-in and of both upon the I n rife liberty of American freemen now as nlwavs to lie repel led with ceaseless vigilance; not only is home rule nr local self-jrovcrnment I now as' always to be maintained for the best ; iruurnnteeotVivil liberty and of national jrrcnt- tiess, but. tlcitles, the victories of peace which are to jrive splendor to the new political era i must he won against every advantage whi-h 1 even enemies ot f ree insflt u tious could desire ; or tosesi. I A g-i;rant ic Pebt, which the honor of the con n- try is pleoired to pay. encumbers all our indus tries with its oppressive burden. Nevertheless our systems of Municipal and State Taxation are crude, unequal, and defraud the poor to rt '. lease t he rich. Nevert lieless ou r system of Fcd j eral Taxation is such an infamous masterpiece of iirnorance and incapacity, put to the vile uses I of monopolists and favorites and thieves, as never any where has disgraced modern civiliza ! tion since Louis A I V., with his methods of tax ation ml her than its amount, paralyzed the in- ! dustries of France. And alon with The Tariff, ' which prohibits the export of our munufac ! tu res. abridges the number of our industries, i cuts down the profits on the expoits from all . our farms, plantations and mines; abolishes i our shipping f om tiff the hiirh seas, and tilches " from the people's pockets every time it puts 1 into the I,. S. Treasury. alopjr with this en I K'ne of oppression, stupidity and fraud pocs a ! Currency of tluct uat intr value as the measure of valiii-s in every act of domestin exchaiirre. Whatever parties may arise or fall, whatever their defeats or triumphs, and whatever their i naiiu . Thk Woiii.d now is and always will re main the uutlinchinir champion of I I.IBKRAL PI!OOKlSIVt: HE.MOCIIACV, i whereof Freedom, defended and defined ;by Justice, ts the polar-star. Ah a i'chicls if Actr. TftE Wont.D will spare no exiense, no energy, to maintain and ad vance its place in the first rank of metropolian journals. Its fresh, abundant, various, and ac- irate news, comprising inc wnoie t-ircic ui irate intelligence and literature, will lie rtis- CUSt OtH, w d as becomes a irunlitiirintivrtian "J t'ptH h candor, with steady devotion to. sound I public t. . d private morals, with special know- I ..I r r.- "H?Ctal tneines. anil nn a- nusini wide reach apprehension of the manifold me nam. unt women in their homes. JbHr" market-pS8-tlic,r wortahops, and their farms. 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Hook lliuiltd,ll'. il.t.ol I.tiINO llitVAN'r,Iiuffalo,N.Y. 1 $2 r $7 JO $12 20 f'O AO fZO JOO $100 Jip the Cnfes Came A jar. 'Twaa vn:spercl one morninpin heaven, T'.ir-t the little chiM angel, May, In i lie fclimlow of tlie f.reat vviiile po. La1. , at Mi.-row.ng ipghi and day ; How sbe s;iil in ;he .".lately warden, j He Oi i'.ie key anil liar, j "O ancjel ! dear a"jj"l ! I pray you ! Let the Ieuuiil'ul 'tites ajar.' I "I an hear tnv mother weeping She is lonely and cannot see i A gl;nipse tit' i he lijht in the darkness j Vbere the pines t-hrt al'ter me ; O ttirn once the key, tlear a'pel, I'll" splentlor will f-h'ne so t'a." j Urttlie anel aosweicd, "I dare not Iet the la-p.tttif'.il gates ajar." j Then up rose Mary :he Messed. Sweet Mary, i he mother or Christ, Her hand on she hand of the angel She lap?, and !he touch sufficed ; Tnr',"d v.:s the ky in he joral, j Unloosed was the golden bar, ! And lo ! in the angel chrid's fingers . Siood he bentitii'ul gates ajar. "And the key for no fiirlher using I To niv blessed Sou shall be given," Said Mary, the mother of .leans, I Tentlerest hef.i t. in heaven. I Now there's never a sad-eved mother Bui. may . ai. h the glory ai'ar, Sl i e saTe in the Saviour's hotsoni Are the keys of t lie gates ajar. DOOM OF THE "BETSY JANE." CHAPTER I. "See how upon her gallant course sbe r-oc, Her w hi te wi nps fly ;nr never from her foes ; Who would not cash a twenty dollar check lo tnoe tee monarch oi her painted oeek?" RvntiN. O, Loe ! 'he well-spi ing alike- of man's l" iliicst cat I lily hopeaixl joy, and of in..t's d.ii Un c; i lily gliMim and despui r ! Dot for lie tl;' tne which tlioitwiili ihitie inextin guish.iblc toicli dost kndle uon I lie altar ot 1miiii.hi heaits, a gallant la-k now slnm l.ct iojj t'.ir low ti w here the purple mullet and tlie gohl-fihli love would -ti:l come lioiiie U licr haven under the hill, and i lie liclist had not liecn called njion to atll this slinngely tlnilli.'g sloiy to the be;mti ful constellation of American lilria.ure it was about the middle of the afternoon on the 15; li r-f June, in the ysar 1H(J7, that a lieant ifully modeled f.rr.ack, liak-viggcd at.d jiaintf d a lovely lien-green, lay quietly at anchor off Spanish Alley in the haibor of Mobile. . Not a cloud dimmed Ihe ceru lean splendor of 'the beautiful aboon not a zephyr disturbed with a touch of its invisible pinion ihe calm mi face of the Hay, nor kissed the snowy blosoms of tho magnolias clustering on theshote. .All na ture seemed .o have read an a-ticle in the Daily , to have taken some other liarc'otic avid fallen quietly lo sleep. The fcv"c.'ie wasooeof peculiar uanquility. Upon ;he w'l;'-'f stood a Military Kay. the horse attaei"'- theielo quietly but ft loni n.! y jjjtj'ij,,,,, r, a bale of hay. It was indeed a 1?ine aurmc, a"1, ioTr, , . The Betsy -e Jigle of I he hea, as she was fondly t'med by her gallant crew lay as M ill and nndistui lied nt.011 the waieis as a painted Jck mioti a painted pond. Suddenly a tall, majestic foim ap peared ujion her huri icane t'eck, and wal!; iug proudly to the MarboaiJ bulk-head, exclaimed ia tones, which rarifi" out upon the s.aguant air like ihe notes of a trumpet: "Boatswain, ahoyl" "Aye, aye, sir," answered a ptentorlan voice abaft the mizzen capstan. And at the same moment there stepped forth a person of Herculean frame, whose caibci'Dsistingprineipallyof a pair of trow seis and a shirt collar bespoke him every inch a sailor. Touching his tarpaulin with the fore-finger of his right hamUvy way of salute, he waited respeciful'y lor the com mands of his suj erior oilicer. "Belay Ihe quadrant and report instant ly the hour," atd ihe captain with a fear ful frown, at the same time bending upon his kiibordinale a brow with passsion as da;k as midnight. The boatswain descended the narrow steps lead'.ig to the binnacle, and in a few moments re timed to the deck, and, again touch! ig his hat, said : "Just on tho stroke of three bells, your excellency." " "Now then, inexorable dog. begone F' exclaimed -.he captain, with a frown more feiiifiu than the first. Knowing that disobedience was death, the man turned to obey, wheu the captain ci ied in a voice of thunder : "But hold !'' And instantly the boatswain held. "Have you icefcd the forecastle abaft the mat I'm spike, asditerted?" asked the captain, with a look that showed that he was not to be trilled wi;h. "Aye, aye, sir," was the reply. "And have you lashed Ihe mainmast to the jibbooni and furled '. he after yard-arm?" "Aye, aye, sir," was agai.i '.he reply. "'1 lieu immediately belay Ihe main-jack, brace the forward davils, aud let the anchor be taken aboaid and weighed." In ten minutes the boatswain relumed and reported the captain's orders fully ex ecuted. "Very well," said that officer "now un furl the starlHtard locker, brace the stern sheet halyaids, and head her out to sea." The o.der was obeyed with Mie rapidity ofmagie, ami the Betsy Jane, with hei topgaflAtit hatchway spread lii.e a snowy cloud to catch Ihe freshening treee, was soon sweeping like a majestic swan through the rippling waters of Uie Iwy. Uixni the deck stili si-ood her command ing oilicer, thec!iiv:drous('apiain DePum pano. But the splendorof the scene around him brought no emotion of pleasure to his heaving breast. Alas, within that breast an insa-.iate vulture browsed upon the once green leaves of hope and happiness, and had already rendered it is a-s barren and desolat as the dreariest solitude of tlie Arabian desert! That insatiate fowl was the vuhure of unrequited love : J "His life was io the yellow leaf; 1 be fruits nd tlowers of love were gone ; Tne worm, tUe canker, and lhcu;-ief Were bis alone !"' The victim of scorned and slight affec tion 1 Alas 1 hot punches "or brandy cock tails nor all the drowsy julipsinthe world, can medicine him to the sweet sleep he knew yesterday ! No longerthe obsequious lover ! but now the embodied spirit of Ven geance ; and every breath lie drew waa tlie Slogan of immortal wrong! CHAPTER IT. "'Sr pbontotn of dellKht. , The brifhtet str hi beautv's skies, ; Ami all that's bestof dark and bright Met in her aspect and Iter eyes." . WuiinswoitTir. Mnd Geraldino Fitrpcrkins was almost the only daughter of ber doting parent, of which Ihey hatl two. Her doling pa rents, it is line, had one other female child, but as she Has turned of her thirtieth year and was si ill unmarried, they had cettsed tt) count her. Beautiful as adieamamid the llowcrs, it is no wonder that Maud Fitzperkins was the idol of her ptireu. Fair as a lilly. Lovely as t ho rose. Eve-y day hr beauty Sweeter charms tlisc'ose. The buttercups and joquds of but nine teen springs hatl bloomed along her um brageous pal h way, and Ihe frost of nine teen win'eis had 'left untouched their se rene f.eshncss. The winds of heaven had not been p;tnit,'cd to visit her cheel.s too roughly, ard scarcely a dozen f.cckles maned their alabaster loteliness. Her father war, one f the wealthiest residents of Spanish Alley, and could well alio d lo lavish upon his almost on'y rip tighter ev-ey luxury -he market aflo'ded. IV lo' ?.'d sjioilrd by the entire household, she ! new not Ihe agony of a wish ungratiiied. Did she sigh for a bait of fiesh oysc.s? her adoring trot her cheerfully handed her four bils ;o boy them. D'd siie dream of a new set of patent hoops? her idolizing f-'her insipnily die'.vfoih ado"ai ad a ha'f a-d told her to go ami gel them. Did she ---der her embi-redcted skirls lobe sn:l"d and done up for a pic.de e.;cti '), n io l-'ia.s-caii? her worsliijii.tg sister iti"Kt'i.-:ely put the iron to ihe li.e. In short theie was no endearing tenderness thai wealth could purchase that v.as pot lavisb-d upon the pelted and sjioiled Maud Fitzjietkitis the liclle of Spaicdi AMev. Such was i he heiome of our sfory at the time Ihe gallant Betsy Jane shook her sails to the b'rcz? on ihe memorable loth of June, 1S;"7. I-t gazing ujHn her peerless loveliness wcil m-ght llie jaiet exe'aim : "Come J.i.'o f.ie jrr.len. Vimil, For t'e black b it. nitln. liaih flown ; Come loot . tie sriirilon. Muuit, You'll loid me out hc e alone : for to meavder throi'gh teds of ofliTerous iloweis, spaikling with crystal dew and kissed by the enamored lieamsof the rising sun to wander thusand Ihcn with a being of such radiant beauty were indeed atoucli of happiness beyond the bliss of dreams. "Such was Maud lit '.pe-'Vins Snch arnonil hr si'fine The many ii.iiiis of loveliness Posses.s-il by her alone." But let us enter ihe. splendid mansion id which sh3 6weetly dwells and observe in what she gi-acely squande's the golden hours upon this beautiful spii-ig mo;ning. Uptin her linger we piare : be ;ojj of ' jes, or, in the absence of thai, we invoke ihe aid of AsmiKleiis, p.:d eo'c:-uusecn -H u, anuotiuced. iSwtct, dc'-'c'oi-s pi-;vdege of the rotnanc'st. thus lot updeat w-ll t!ie sa cred penet;al:a of unsm j-cc'i tg loveliness. Ukii a coujile of chai. s pen r the window of a gorgeous boodwor iteliues la belle Taud, lovfiest she among 'he lovely. Her dove-like eyes sulVused niJi tend-r tears, r.ro bent v "d h inexpressible illic it re.-s tipon the fascinating Jages of one of l.-.l!e's dime novels. Leaving her 'ost in ihe be wilueiiiig f-iell of roiua-ice, let ns look around uponthisapailmcni, fii'-n:.-liel wi-h more than oriental splendor. Ukii a man telpiece i"genict::-ly paliried in imitation of charcoal stands a comparatively antique clock framed in pure mahogany, a birthday present from her pdoring fat he, who at a pit"; entertainment paid his money and took his choice. On cither side of this wonder ful piece of mechanism stands a vae of Anglo-Saxon china, the da: k-b.ovvn hue of Thosegildingallestsitspifily. Fiom cadi of ;'ie-e ptict let.s vast s tlroojis a magnolia blossom which Maud's own fair hands gathered during her last visit to Choctaw Point. Ou an elegant what-not but why attempt to desctibethe innumerable arti cles of verttt a::d biiekbattciy scattered around with such lavish profusion or the couch with its rose-luted mosquito drapery the dainty but coquet ishly soiled night cap hanging upon the bedpost the sea-island hose lying beneath the couch anil bearing the . indescribable hue which breathes an unanswerable argument in fa vor of that necessary evil the laundress the empress trail hanging behind the door with the elliptic springs gleaming through their abraded coverings? Why note these ex quisite evidences of taste, opulance and re finement, which allmaydescrilie, but which only the hand of genius cau adequately im ag'ine ? Nor shall wo attempt a description or lwj4:. v."t i f.f 1 1 1 f clilrm in cr Maud. Suliioe it to say, it is ail that paint ing can expres or youthful mantua-iuakois fancy when they love. Her r. chtrthe robe of pink mouslin tie Merrimac. worn without belt, 1kkt or collar, and open at the back to "ive fuli play to the! emotions with which her gentle birst is filled by the thrilling page over whic.'t ler dewy eyes wander, lig'uing it up with .heirown subdued splen dor; her raven hair, ps''!lv I'l iu ' y a dark comb oiTametiieti with rows of vit reous pearls and partly stanJi'ig on end in affright at the terrors depicted J'l the vol nme. Wfore her: her ful'-oi bed waterfall which she has not donned to-day, and which, tho playful kitten is romping i upon the hearth ; these things we shall leave to the imagination of the reader. CHATTER III. She never bad In love been crossed Who let this foolish m.ixitii faH : l 'Twas better to have loved an.1 lost Tban never to have loved at all. Fan-nv Kembli. At'the conclusion of the last chapter we left the peerless Maud Fi'tzperkins seated at the window of her gorgeous boudoir reading the latest novel. As the gentle creal u: c thus sar and read the sloi y of love and romance, seeming unconscious that she was hei-self beloved wildly, passion ately beloved and must ere long become the subject of the most wonderful roman ces, Ihe door of her chamber turned notse lesslv upon its hinges "d her sister a sweet, gushing, full-blown rosebud of thir ty summers, though carefully kept in the background, as if born to blush unseen. And waste her sweetness on the k.tchen air," the door, we sav, turned, etc., and the sister of Maud entered the room, bearing in Ler hand a card. Upon that card was inscribed the name of Captain do Pompano. 3Iaud cast an imperious glance at the name aud exclaimed, with that petulance which is so winning in the maid and charm ing in the wife : "My goodness gracious me I I do won der what that fellow's come back here for f He's a fool if he think Tm going to have "O Maud ! he's neh a nice fellow !" said her sister ; "I am sure if he were to eome to see) me " - " ' ' ' " -t "To see youT' and tho willful young ber.uty bitrst into a silvery laughter, w hich w.- oisi inctiy nea'u aiomut the next block. "'Ihe idea of a gentleman comir.g to see you!" and again the Hood of silvery laugh ter deluged the whole neighlMihoK?. '""in the midst of it Gloriana for such was the ridiculous ci eature's name silently turned and left the apartment. Maud at once laid aside her book, and Laving kicked the kitten across the room and adjusted her waterfall, she threw her self gracefully it.to her hoops and descend ed to the parlor. For well knew the belle of Spanish Alley that Captain de Pompano had come to pay her the highest compliment that man can pay to any woman- i hat he had come to oiler her his heart, and hand. Why, then, did she enter the parhu- with a cloud upon jici j-cciiess uniw ami a smite oi rc ni upon her crimson lips ? Because her lily finger was already zoned by the engagement riii" of another! - Captain de Pompano was at no loss for words to declare his passion. He was a man of poet ic temperament and extraoi d in ary memory. His declaration had been cut and dried for tho occasion, and now lay coiled upon the end of his tongue, like a string of many-colored beads. Si an in such moments is prone to forget all he intended to say ; but Captain tie Potnpruio, ever dis tinguished for his presence of mind in per il's darkest hour, was- complete master of the situation. Advancing to meet the love ly Mand as she walked proudly into the room, he took her by the hand, and kneel ing upon the magnificent two-ply carpet he thus addressed her : "Beautiful Maud star of my life ! per dition catch my soul, but I do' love thee ; and when 1 love thee not chaos has come again ! Speak but one word of hope and lift me to the seventh heaven of terrestrial happiness. Alas, those eyes beam not with the tender l'ght of answering love, and those .-uby lipa speak only the inarticulate eloquence of scorn ! Maud Maud, cruel, cruel Maud ! Oh. drive me not to dcsai-."! Tell me at least that your heart is free, and the sweet assurance will give me life !"' For some moments the gentle Maud could not speak. Her emotions were too numerous. Never h:id she read in any novel a more beautiful declaration of love than she had just heard. Of course she was not aware that Captain de Pompano had paid the author of this five dollats fur writing it. It sounded so much like a de licious romance that she was tempted to forget her vows toanother and aiiswerhim "tear for tear and sigh for sigh." But she sjiecdily mastered the weakness and was herself again. "You'd just as well get up and take a chair, cap'n,' she said at last ; "it's no use talking ; you've come the dav after the fea-t." "Then you love another?" exclaimed Capt. de Pompano, springing to his feet, whi'e streaks of chain-lightning flashed f.-jin his flaming eyes. "I do," murmured the frightened girl, as she blushingly owned the soft impeach ment. "And are engaged to him ?" "I am." "And his rome is " "Captain O'Groupa, of the Martha Ann." sThen, by all the saints, the e;fidious O'Groupa dies !" With a wild and piercing scream the stricken gill fainted and fell with her ex quisite feet in the grate and her lovely head in the spittoon. Clearing the house at a single bound, having paused but to kick away the spittoon and adjust a stray hoop or two, Capt. de Pompano rushed frantically down tho street, and da-sliing into "Tho Sailor's llepose," called for a claret punch. The heart-broken lover was about to drown his sorrows in the flowing bowl. Alas! how often aie we called upon in this weary world to witness such scenes ! How oflen do we see youMi and genius squandering in the whirl of despair his in estimable postal currency for the intoxi cating beverage ! CIT APTER IV. No more shall feel the Captain's tread. Nor sail the watery main ; The harpies of the Martha Ann Have plucked the Jietsy Jne. O. W. HO'.VES. The conclusion of the first chapter saw the white-winced Betsv Jane plowimr her way "o'er t lie tlarK waters of tlie deep-blue Bay," aslho poet tastefully observes. Upon her quarter-deck stood tlie unhappy De Pompano. for whom Hoh? had ceased to smile, and o'er whose wounded spirit fell Despair brooded like a demon dark as Erebus ! As he strode the tleck his brows indicated a breast swept by a temjiesr of thoughts too deep for tears! Ever and anon his eagle glance wandered, liko an electric flash, far across the murmuring waves. "If the log lie not," he at la..t muttered in a hoarse whisper, "wo arc nea-mg the -mouth of Dog river. If the accursed hound is to return to the city to-night, it is high time he had left the shore." Suddenly the man at the masthead an nounced a rail in sight. "In what quarter?" cried Capt. De Pom pano, while a fresh conflagration seemed to rage in his dark eyes. "To the windward, abaft the head light," was the reply. Capt. De Pompano turned and gazed eagerly in the direction indicated. He in stantly recognized the Martha Ann by the saucy cut of her jib. The recognition seemed to transform him iuto a mania de mon. Dishing his spyglass against the scupper and flinging his hat overiioard, he sprang into the rigging with the bound of au enraged tigress, aud running up the mainmast hand over hand, he unfurled tho black flag and nailed it to the topgallant yard-arm. Then descending the mast with the rapidity of a thunderbolt, he seized his meerschaum aud fiercely piped ali hands on deck. When the crew, consisting of the boat swain, the cook, and the chambermaid, had assembled at the startling call, Cipt. Pompano, with nostrils dilating, ami eyes aflame, pointed to the ebon ensign floating darkly aliove them, ami hoarsely exclained: "Behold ye yonder flag ?" "We do, we do," shouted the crew in one voice. . "And do you 6ee her?" exclaimed the captain in a voice of thunder, pointing to the Martha Ann, which came dashing on not a hundred yards distant. "We do, we do !" again cried the crew, enthusiastically. "Then clear the deck for action and go for ber 1" exclaimed the captain iu a voice of sevenfold thunder, at the same time seizing one-ounce howitzer (of the Capt. Grant pattern) and firing a bunch of grape- shot across the bow of the enemy, thus, creating a terrific commotion on her deck. ' Capt. O'Groupa, hurrying on the wings ' of love to Maud and matrimony, had no cause to anticipate a hostile collision wiLh his rival, the impetuous commander of the ' Betsy Jane, but his frequent encounters . with the pirates which infest the bay, had taught him the necessity of being constant- ! ly pit pared for any emergency. He saw ; the Betsy Jane unfurl the black fla g he heard the pattering thuds of graicrhot as j they plunircd into the bav .m,l i.;s .-.,,. lar pi d pi.:phctic soul told him that anoth er deal h-st niggle whs at hand. To snatch off his shirt, to b; ing it in contact with the character of a "Southern Loyalist" he hap i leticd to have on boaid, and to nail it to (the jackstaff as a substitute for a black flag, was but the work of a moment Then : r it.. i - - -. , . " mi.iiniy inning ins in-iMoni aiiu bclaviiiir i j""- joii: ., nuiii mii oy i tne imam, ami navitg unlimlieicd the hog- chain ami double-shotted his gun-room, he I lashed himself to the luaiiibrace of the for- i , ward jHMip, and calmly aw aited the coming st i uggle. I He did not have h ng to wait. In much less time than we have taken to J describe t his thrilling scene the Betsy Jane, j whose fiery soul was in arms, and evident i ly eager for the fray, dashed up alongside , the Martha Ann. and the teirible conflict began. With unerring precision the crew j of each vessel llircw their grappling irons , simultaneously, and the velocity of the one vessel overcoming that of the other (for they were sailing :n opposite directions), they suddenly came to a standstill. "A ml? then fheiep rosea jell As if the liemls fiofii In-aven fell Had run? the banner cry or 1" But let ns draw a mosquito bar over flic frigid fid scene whh-h followed ; an oidi n.t.y veil would scarcely cover Hie case, nor conceal half its Stygian horrors from the gaze of a shuddering world. Far lie it from us to seek to curdle the warm blood of the gentle reader by repeating here the fearful story of Aetyuni or of Icpanto. Ten days after the celebrated naval en gagement lietween the Jietsy Jane and the Martha Ann, to which we have so feebly alluded, there was a magnificent wedding in a splendid two-stoiy mansion in Spanish alley, at winch, it is hardly necessary to say, soft eyes looked love to eyes which looked the same thing, aud all went inei ry as they usually do on such ioyons iweasion. The Initio was the lica-ilif'nl Maude Her ald Eitzperkins the belie o, Spanioh aliey. The bt idegroom was Ihe gall. ml naal hero, Capt. Cassabianc.t O'Groupa, of the invincible Martha Ann. O't Jroupa was the happiest ami the luck iest of men. Scarcely bad he risen i.om the breakfast table on the limming imme diately succeeding his marriage, when the munificent Kit zperkins handed him a cheek on the Kieedmen's Savings Bank for twen ty-seven dollars and a half, which the do- lighted O'Groupa, knowing the peculiar titiee.taiiitv of such institutions in this country, immediately had cashed, and the fond papa was scarcely less generous to his darling Maud. A deed of a gift of a t went y dollar cow and calf, duly recorded in the office of Judge Bond, will forever attest I he magnitude of that paternal generosity. Ncvt r did a young couple enter upon the flowery field of matrimony under more goi geous auspices. Time's ever rolling time, which bearsall its sons away, passed ou as usual. Under the rolling process', Ihice days were tlnimn back upon the irrevocable past, as Ihe body of the drowned mariner is thrown back npon the shore three days since the hero and heroine of this thrilling story were legally authorized to feel that they carried about them a couple of souls with but a single thought anil au equal number of hearts that beat as Oiie. Three days days thronged with rose-leaves, flutes and moonbeams and as a happy pair landed at the foot of Spanish alley on their return from a bridal tour to Tensas and Blakely, they beheld a r..on standing on the wharf and gazing at ihem with a scowl so unut terably full of malignant hate that but for the consciousness that there was a strong aniiiearto protect her, ihe gentle bride would have screamed and taken to ber heels. With both arms iu a sling, his l.o.l thttin,! ti, n enttoo hrmfllri li'hii I'. iioil ..- ... .- ' i- it natl re- f cently come out of a prize light for the championship with a cross-cut saw or a patent threshing machine, he was certain- ly not an object to soothe into serene t;an- quility and iepo:;c the breast of a gentle woman. As.tlie reader must have already guessed, that dreadful wreck of humanity was no other than the once haughty being who so proudly trod the deck of the Betsy Jane. It was, indeed, all that was left of the once loidly De Poinp.uio. Beneath the daik waters of the bay lies the broken wreck of the ill-fated bark inwhi.-h the re jected lover went forth with nieiciicss siti-l to seek the heart of his rival. - Such w as the doom of the Betsy Jane. Pleader, my story is ended. Tf I have succeeded in implanrtng iu one youthful breast a love for the pine, the beautiful, and the good, or in banishing therefrom a single desire to engage in naval pun nt.s, I shall feel amply repaid for the midnight oil I have consumed. Mobile HftjUUr. Too Mitch fob. Him. An aged negress whose eminent piety had secured an exten sive reputation, in walking her usual round of visits dropped in upon a neighbor, who was equally well known as a temperance man atxl a hater of tobacco. After Wing courteously received, tho negress pulhtl from ber pocket a long pipe, and com menced smoking some very t tiong tobacco, to the infinite disgust of her host. The man maintained his composure sev- j iiuiu iiinni uiiioi iii. oiuipi.-.iu t .-rl- CI ill llJlllltlVa i Lilli lilt- 4UHI MHUKU liaiat.ta r.ku-Ai-riil I'ix. r 7 1 A A'V l . J V I I 111 l't Jl I Ally aitll rising fiom his chair, said "Aunt Chloe, do you think you are a Christain?" - "Yes, brndder I sprrks I is." "Do von believe in the Bible, aunty?' "Yes brudder." "Do you know there is a passage in the Scriptures which declares that nothing u,7 clean shall enter the kingdom of Heav-'1 "Yes I've heard of it." "Do you believe it ?" "Yes " "Well, CLloo, you smoke, and you can- , not enter the kingdom f lleawn. beoanse there is nothing so ...-clean t""1 mcwheIBwIIe'wn'" - - MR JOHN mookv. ni uiu, K. ,zlflI, u , x. Not a sound ws h,-r.l on the o -,.,. As bome from the com c rt we inn, ., .! ' rorTe intimi not a street tar, :iri. 'I-IIS And we felt considerably wrrried. We hailed a orirer we nsed to kj?rv, And liMrrieillv asked the reason : He said, as he Molly shook his head. That the horse wi re all a siieezin'. or And so we silently went onr way To the place where we kept our iHIy ; We found her wcepii'p at rcs and ln'se. And .'.baking as though 'twere chill v. I"i va:n we off- red her tempting oats And a "bran tna-h" warm and smoking; Sbe turned her head from the fragrant bait, A -ui swallowed as if she was choking. w.. , . , , - e , .iM.i i w,. nazetl at the saddle overhead. i n ns Killing stirrups and holster. v e nonet ,ve looked in Cc glazing ere, That her troubles would soon t. v,.7 . ' ' Never more would sin- crop tt,,. ,jr;isSi ' Or graze on the crimson lover. Slowly we turned fVom "he stable door. With heart that was wildly U-ating; And when vi-e Mi nt in tl. early morn' We found her quietly eating. ST11AXGK MAlllllAGllS. Amid tho variety of strange, manian-ps, the palm of oddity must certainly be con ceded to those from which man has Ik.-cu excluded. One case of this sort came to light this very year, when the Edinburgh jwil ce lm'd their liands upon a young wo man who was "wanted." from informal iou supplied by a servant girl, ulmm Ihe mas querading female in question had married, while employed as a laborer iu the neigh-b-uhood of Kirkuewton. The couple had lived happily together for some time; but qnaireling over some domestic matter, the wile lcsolvcd to part company, ami inform ed the police what manner of a husband she had married. A stranger storv of tho same nature is fold in the Uentltnwn'a Magazine for lTti'.. "A discovery of a very extraoidinary kind was made at I'ojs lar, where two women had lived tor-ether 1 for thirty-six years as man and wife, had j kept a pub he-1 1 on so, without ever being sttsctcd. Hut the wife happening to fll ill and die, a few days before yhc expired revealed the secret to ber relatives, made her will, and h ft legacies to the amount of half v li.tt she thought they w ere worth. On apiK-idu-ig (.. the i .t tl i.-dt d husband, she endeavored to Fiipjioit her assumed chatacfor; but being closely pressed, sho at leug'h owned the fact, accommodated all matters amicably, put oil the male aril put tea tho female diameter, in which sho appeared to be a sensible, well-bred wi. lnan. though in ber male character she had always af'.ccted the pVun, plodd rr ale-house keeper. It is said thev bad ac- j quired in business three thousand pounds-. l'x'lh had been crossed in love w bt n vonnir. and had chosen this method to avoid fur ther imjiortunilics."' The female widower afterwards prosecuted a man for extorting money from her before the disclosure, by threatening to proclaim her real sex ; and proving her case, had the satisfaction of hearing the offender sentenced to four years imprisonment, and exposure in the pillory. In 1777, a woman was pilloried, in CJieapsuIe, and afterwaids sent to jail for six months, for dressing herself in tn.iio attire, and marrying three women, v. ;rh whose clothes and money she had ! camp ed at the first opportunity. In 1T7. zui other deceiver courted and wedded tin o"d woman, in hopes of gaining possession ot" a hundred pounds; but instead cf linger ing the money, the w oniaii-busbai d was introduced to the Lord Mayor by be cheat ed sjKHise, and paid the penalty of detec tion. The Bev. David Mackenzie relates an instance of a man getting married uninten tionally. Some thirty years ago, a decent con j tie appeared in church to be married, afterduc proclamation of the banns. They asked the clergyman to wait a bit; ho waited for a hour, and then,, at their re quest, proceeded with the ceremony. Ho bad thought the delay ai-ose from the ab sence of some expected friend, but the truth vn, it was the bridegroom who hatl failed to put in an appearance; and his brother, who brought the bride to church, ! unwilling, as he afterward said, "to o-o, home, after coming so far, without doing; some business, so as to make sure cf tho I young woman," had, in all innocence. wetlticU her himself, as rroxv for hw brother. How the lady and brothers ar ranged matters, the reverend gentleman forgets to tell us. Another odd match is noticed by Pepys in one of his letters a match that, for a time, served to give tho folks of London something to talk about, more enliveuing than the unwelcome war news of the day. Two rich citizens hatl died, one leaving his wealth to a Blue-coat lxiy, t':c oilier making a Blue-coat girl his heiress. What could be more proper than that the lucky Blues should unite their for tunes ! Neither of them were out of their nonage, but that was not allowed to inter fere with the plan. Accordingly, one Sej tember day in 1795, the boy, dressed in blue satin, led by two girls; and tlie girl, ar ranged in blue sarsenet gown, green apron, anil yellow petticoat, led by two Blue-coat boys marched from Christ's Hospital through Cheapsidc, to Guildhall, where they found the Dean of St. Paul's waiting for them in the chapel. The Lorel Mayor gave avay the bride; Bow bells pealed their best ; and everybody concerned ad journed to the sclond'hall, to take part in au entertainment there in honor of tho happy event. Chambers Journal. Wages ix the Fifteenth Ci sir,ir- - Before the discovery of AnnnV' it is said , '.v tnv m. vv i -- - - , . i niv-iuj rt ' 'V. - ,. . . . fi-tvu -. f 1. vv : W ilVfll It' I " '- " ish Parliament, in l."V one ptiinv per .1 t :.. in allowance of tbei tlttV , fllltl in .it-. .1 -' V ... -ot-ll 1 11. ! il iS.T II, .,1 chaplain to prison in . --v. ... . . , 1 .... . At. this time, twenty-four eggs u:i was t u ree iiair penco pc wild for a penny, a pair of shoes 1 r ' .ur tiencc, a fat goose for two and a half I .. t e - . i ... .t j dice, a lieu tin ,i penny, wucai iuhu pence er bushel, and a fat ox for six shil lings -and eight pence. So that in thoso days, a day's work would buy a hen or two dozen eggs ; four days work would buy a pair of shtx's. On the whole, human lalmr brought, on the average. ab"ut halt as much food and perhaps one-fourth as much cloth or clothing as it now- docs. , These are encouraging icls lur ,awr IW I formers. . , . 1
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