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The Voiceless DT OLIVEn. NVCSDELL 1101,71188 We count the broken I) res thin rest 'here the sweet wailing singers slumber, But o'er their Celli sister'n breast The wild (lowers who will stoop to number? A hew can touch tne magic •trio And noisy Fame in proud to win them;— A lan for those that never sing, Mt die with all their music in them! Kay, grieve not for the dead alone Wilo4e con— has g told their hearts' tad story,— Weep fir the voiceless. who have known The cross without the crown of glory!, Not AVII. re ',ell=filen breezes sweep isTer Stipplio's incinory-haunteil billow, But where the glistening weep On nameless sorrow's churchyard pillow. O helmets that break sad give no sign Save whitening lip and fading tresses, Till 3 Dcrith pours oat his cordial witie Siow-dropped froamakery's crushing presses,— singing, breath or echoing chord To ev..y hidden pang were given, What endless melodies were poured. As sad as earth, as sweet as heaven! grltttinito. A Pleasant Night What a very happy period of my life that ms when I was supposed to be studying '.oman law at the feet of the great Profes or Mittermaier at Ireidelburg. Little did ny fond parents reek the way in which I pent my nights, or the mad scenes of which was sharer among the feather-brained lurschen. I had only recently quitted Os lwd, after four years of college experience .od forgetfulness of what I had learned at ebool, and the contrast a German unirer icy presented was most striking. Still I vok to the new mode of life very kindly, .a by the time I was enabled to express ny wants and wishes in fearfully broken terman, I was perfectly happy, for life is o pleasant at twenty! Perhaps, though, I enjoyed my vacations :yen more than I did my terms, fur I was my own master, and could wander whither I pleased. I had a passport in my pocket, and a respectable amount of florins; and with knapsack On back, I trudged through the whole of Black Forest, learning German (of sort, it is true) rapidly on the road, and meeting with various queer adventures. One of the queerest, however, that befell me was in the Vosges, and I may as well narrate it here, as another instance of those strange things which travelers sometimes sec. I had ever a predilection for Alsace, for in that happy land the quart bottle holds not merely a quart, which is a rarity, but just three pints, which is a marvel. Nor is the quality of the wine depreciated by the quan tity; on the contrary, Chablis is not a patch (to use a chaste Americanism) upon the white wines that grow on the sunny slopes of the Vosges. "If you doubt what I say take a bumper and try;" which yon can easily do, reader, on your next visit to Strasbourg. by calling in at the Rebostock, and asking for a litre of white wine with the ochre seal. However, as I knew that I was going into the country where the delectable wine grew, I did not daily at Strasbourg, but strode manfully away towards the Vos ges, full of glorious anticipations, and care fully studying the patois by conversing with "every peasant I fell in with. There is only one defect connected with Alsace; when it rains there, there is no mistake about it. I was fated to discover this tneterological fact at the expense of a thorough wetting. I had dined at a little village inn on the inevitable cold veal and pickled plums, and when I set out on a atuiik to my night's quarters, seventeen miles off, tha clouds were beginning to col lect ominously in the west. I buttoned my blouse round me and trudged manfully on wards along q. road which had not been tra versed by a respectable conveyance within the memory of man. It was full of ruts, hard enough at first, but which the persist ant rain, which had commenced by this time to fall, converted into so many pitfalls, into which I was continually slipping. To add to my troubles, night set in with that rapid ity peculiar to Southern Germany, and there was no sign of the village at which I in tended to spend the night. Not a creature did I meet, nobody was foolish enough to venture out in such weather, save pleasure travelers like myself, and on I went, making about half a mile an hour, and growing very savage—whether the result of the wet ting or of indigestion, I really cannot say. My brandy-flask had long been emptied; there was no chance of filling it, and I was wearied—so wearied that I could balm kin down to sleep in a dry ditch, had there been one handy; but against that the elements had carefully guarded. There was no hope for it; I m‘..st trudge onwards. Suddenly, through the rain, I fancied I could see a light glimmering a short distance from the road. I stopped and looked stead ily; it was no Will-o'-the-wisp, and by a sudden impulse I bounded over the hedge, and went stumbling over a plowed field to wards the house, as I now felt certain it was. Up to the present, I regarded the peasant's cabins with considerable aversion, and pour cause; they were the dirtiest places imaginable, and I had no desire to sleep in them so long as an auberge could be found. But now I would have gladly pald a hand some sum fur the use of a dog-kennel, so long as it sheltered me front the pitiless rain and held out the prospect of a glass of brandy to warm my inner man, which stood so much in need of that refreshment. 01113 CM 1 soon approached the cabin, which stood beneath the shade of some gloomy trees, an the light, which probably came from the fire, burned so dimly ;that I hesitated for a moment. All appeared so unutterably wretched about the house, that I had a ner vous timidity about approaching it. I am not constitutionally fearful—on the contrary, I am usually prone to run into fool-hardi nees; but now, whether it was the soaking or the veal, I felt horribly nervous. A mo ment, however, 6ufficed to recover me, and I walked across the yard, and knocked boldly at the door. All remained perfectly quiet in the house, except that I fancied I could hear the growling of a huge dog, like distant thunder. Then I knocked again, somewhat more loudly, and a dog began barking violently. At the same time, how ever, I had the satisfaction of hearing foot steps approach the door. "Who is without?" a voice was heard say ing, in execrable Jewish-German. "Is it you, Benjamin?" [Atlantic Ifonthly. " 'Tis a stranger," I shouted, fearing lest any hesitation might . render my friend in side suspicious. "I want shelter for the night, and will pay you handsomely fur it." "Are you alone?" the voice asked again. "Quiet, Nero! down dog! what du you mean by growling when I did not order you to watch him?" "All alone, but as wet as if I bad been dipped in the river." "You'd be clever to keep yourself dry this day," he said, as he pulled back the bolts, and opened the door slowly and cautiously. "Come in—the dog won't hurt you when I'm wit,i you. What weather! Come to the fire and dry yourself." He walked in front of me to the fire, stirred np the smouldering wood, and threw a few sticks upon it. An this while I could notice he was taking a quick, sharp glance at me, then he went up to my knapsack, which I had lain on a chair, appeared to feel its weight fur a moment, and brought it to the tire to dry as well as myself. "And you're hungry, too, I suppose?— Out for pleasure, eh? Young blood? young blood!" and grinned in a manner to me quite diabolical. lle then went to the ta ble, spread a very dirty table-cloth, on which he placed a loaf of black bread, stuck a knife into it, and then produced a large green glass jar, containing the much desired fluid. After filling arcirou sauce pan with but water, and putting it on the wood, he quitted it fur a. while. During his Lib . sence I surveyed the room in which I was seat ed, and the very sight of it made me uncom fortable. It was quite destitute of furniture, contrary to the usual fashion of the pea santry, and I shuddered involuntarily.— But, nonsense, it could only be the cold and moisture • the fire was drawing out of my clothes, and yet, for all that, I be gan to wish I had trudged on through the rain. And then that immense dug that lay close to the fire-place and kept its small, suspicious eyes fixed upon me. And the walls were shining with grease and soot, and the small cupboards fixed against them, and shelves—but Heavens! I could hardly suppress a cry of surprise when my eyes fell on an old mummy , like, woman who ruse from the dark corner where she had probably been sleeping, and walked towards me and the fire. She was a model of ugliness and disgust, this old woman with her tangled masses of gray hair hanging over her forehead and temples, her sunken cheeks, hollow eyes, and wrinkled neck, as she stood there shivering with culd, and stretched out her thin, bony hands to the fire. I fell back a step to give the old creature room, but on my first attempt to quit the chimneypince the dog growled, and as I turned towards him his eyes sparkled so vividly that I thought it advisa ble to stay where I was, and not anger him unnecessarily. The woman now turned her face to me, and after gazing fixedly at me fora moment whispered a few hurried words in a language of which I did not understand a syllable. I looked care fully at the old woman, trying to find out from her gestures what she really meant.— Again she began her whispering, turning her head timidly towards the door, and pointing at the same time to the table. •"I can't understand you," I said, in the usual patois, hoping she would understand me, at any rate. '•Ilush!" the old crone said, quickly and fearfully, holding up her finger in warning. At this moment the door opened, and the Jew, on seeing the old woman by my s'de, went up angrily to her, and spoke harshly in the sane unknown tongue, The woman "NO ENTERTAINMENT IS SO CHEAP AS READING, NOR ANY PLEASURE SO LASTING." COLUMBIA, PENNSYLVANIA, SATURDAY MORNING., OCTOBER 7, 1858. crept timidly away, wrapped herself more closely in her old cloak, and lay down again in her corner. The Jew then said, pleasantly enough, to me. "Don't bother about the old girl; she is quiet and harmless, but not quite right here," be said, pointing to his forehead.— "When we're alone I let her do much as she like; but when strangers visit me, which is seldom enough, she must keep iu her corner. But here," he added, in a louder voice, "is something for you eat— bread and Munster cheese I lately brought from Strasbourg. and a famous glass of brandy, which will do you more good, I fancy, than all the rest. The water will be hot by this time. Alt, I see it's boiling, and I'll mis you a glass of punch in the mean while. So, now, go to the table (11..1 begin." I was really alm.st starving, nod 3-et I could not swallow anything. That con founded dog had his eyes still fixed so dans gen,uAy upon me. "The dog won't hurt ynu," said din Jew, calmly: "he is not accustomed to s tram- ME "But if I'd stirred while you were nut of the room he would have sprung at me," I said, rather angrily. "It's an old dog," the man cnntianed. with a smile, "and has'nt a tooth left in his head, but he often pretends to be savage.— The time is long past since he hit any one. and you can go up and pat hint and he won't say a word." However, I did not feel the slightest in clination to try the experiment. I there fore proceeded to the table and cut a hunch of bread and cheese, while the old Jew stooped down to the fire. and after shaking something out of a paper into the glass, poured the water upon it. "There!" he said, as he came to the table, "now put in as much brandy as you like, but the stiffer the better, for it will keep you from catching cold." "What have you put in the glass, my friend?" I asked, as I held it tothe fire. "Sugar and water. The sugar is good, and takes off the strength of the brandy." "I'm not fund of sugar," I replied, sus piciously; "and, if you've no objection, mix for myself." "Not like sugar! Why it's the best part of it," said the Jew; only taste it, and you'll soon see how good it is." However, I persisted in throwing my mixture away: and, after carefully washing the glass out, I filled it afresh with wafer, and poured in some brandy. "More, my friend—more;" the -Jew ad vised me; "that's not half enough, and won't draw the cold out of your limbs.— Why, my old woman would drink stronger punch if I'd give it to her." "'Thanks thanks!" I said, as I turned away the bottle, from which the Jew pc:- sisted in paring more into my glass. "I'm not accustomed to strong drinks, and shall hare a headache to•murrow morning." "Oh! to-morrow! I'll guarantee you against that," the old man laughed to himself. "The brandy is capital, and 110 one has a headache from it." I really felt such a sh:ver come over me at these words (though. of course, I ascribed it to my wet clothes) and the brandy really tasted so wpm!, that I took up the glass and emptied it at a draught. By Jupiter! how it burned. "And now you had better lie down," the Jaw said. after removing the brandy and the other things from the titbit , : "it is late in the night, and after your sleeping draught, you will sleep sound in spite of your hard. bed. The best place for you will be here by the fire. Before we go to bed I'll put on some fresh wood, and by the time it is burnt out you'll be warm enough. The nights are beginning to grow fresh." I was glad enough to lie down, so 1 took up my knapsack, which had dried a little by this time, to serve as a pillow, and the old man brought me a blanket and a sheep skin, regretting that he had nothing better to offer me, but all his beds were occupied. "But I'll bring you something to keep your feet warm;" he added; "that's the chief thing. and by the morning yo'll lie all right again," With these words he took a can Vil.4 sack, which appeared to me to be ominously stained, from the chimneprack, and then, bringing it to my feet, (fir I had lain down by this time,)requested mo to put them in it. "In the sack?" I said in amazement— " Why?" "Oh! you'll see how warm that will keep your feet." "No, I'd rather lay it over therm that will nnswer the same purpose." "Not half so good I tell you," the old man continued, and tried to draw the sack over my feet, but I strentiow.ly re sisted. There was something so dan gerous, in my opinion, in knowing my feet were in a sack, which I could not easi ly remove in the dark, if I were obliged to spring up in a hurry. If—? Besides, the old fellow's pressing me made me feel uncommon uncomfortable. What reason could he have for insisting on my putting my feet into the sack? However, when the Jew found that I was obstinate, he laid the sack over my feet, and went back to the fire instead of retiring to bed as I hod expected. and sat cross-legged, staring fixedly into the flame. Well. I shut my eyes and tried to 7,.) to sleep, but somehow- I could not iminnte it. The fire burned low. and I could see the old fellow still sitting there; but I felt that his eyes were fixed upon me. and that ha was watching my every movement, every breath. Why? I lay thus fur half an hour, and the strangest feelings came over me. Then had a curious taste in my mouth—the bran dy, of course; hut why was it so mafallic?— And my head began to go mood, and my eyelid grew heavy as lead. At last, could stand it 11,i lnger, and determined to jump up; but I was unable to do so. i‘b limbs refu-ed me their service. a veil see.ued to be let down °Ler my eye., and I felt that a deep irresistible sleep was overpowering How long I . lay in this srrt of half dream ing condition I do not know, although 1 straggled against the Iman:rid state with all the streiigth of toy mind, mid I should finally have yielded to it bail not a slight sound just at the right eminent come to iny aid in resisting it. The Jew, who was still seated at the fire. stove I—gently and noise lessly, it is true; still, he got up, and now stood with his fare tattled towards me. 1 tried to close my eyes ;laid dispel the odious vision attic!' my fancy screw,' to summon up; but at that moment I Gilt the light, crawling steps of the old titan on the floor, felt diat he was drawing nearer and nearer; and when I half opened my eyes, cautiously enough lest the scowling fellow might see 1 was awake, I saw him standing a few paces from we, with his Is dy half bent to listen, and watchiag uty every larath. Whitt was he about?—what did he want? Should I jump up and meet him. iuease he attempted to attack tine?—hut then the dog, which was still lying in the room? And, again, was the Jew really going to attack into, or might it not be anxiety whether I slept manful,' lily? I. determined to wait and judge fir myself, even at the risk ot• exposing myself to his attack, fur I was sound and st•oog, and if the old titan designed evil he should meet with a resistance he little anticipated. So, in order to leave the old man at leisure to carry out his designs, whatever they might be, 1 began In eat long loudly and rceulany, t while watching him carefully through my half-closed eyelids. The Jew remained for a while observing me, as if to 'take sure that my sleep was real; but then, as if evety doubt were re routed, be crept quietly back to the chimney. threw some brush-wood on the glimmering charcoal, which began toglisten Wilt crackle, and gout to the opposite end of the room, where the crockery kept. Anxiously I watched him; lint 1 must confess that my blood appealed to stagnate, and an icy feel ing ran down my latch, when 1 saw him tale up a long gleaming knife, and while trying its edge A% ith his thumb, seem to measure the distance between himself and victim As I have told yo❑ before, I believe I Lin anything but a coward. I Late stood be hind a four-foot hart trade and looked into din gaping muzzies of the causes_ as they pouted a shower of bullets on our slight de fen-e-; but I ant humid to bay that the present wa- the Dies( I.l3lConlfortaiile nlnnlent hi Illy life. The calculating villainy of the odd scoundrel, and the simplicity with oltich I hail entered the snare, seemed to reader escape almost impessilde. Still I made up my mind to sell my lire as dearly as possible. Fortunately I hail in my pocket a Spanish s pringd nick stiletto. generally empluyed in the peaceful dutiesof cutting bread anil elwese—German anti French knives being made, like Peter Ptn dar's razors, to sell and out to cut—and I cautieubly moved my hand to my breast pocket, arid nniseles-ly diem it out. When I once held it in my hand my confiolence returned to me. I opened it very quietly, :Ind then. laying my left arm across may I breast, to parry the fi rst blow, which would I probably be aimed there, I held my kiiife firmly clutched in my hued, nail awaited the attack with ground teeth but no failing determination. My heat:, though, would beat so loudly and violently that I feat eil the Jew 11111 , C hear it: bet whim I saw him approaching. with the knife eautiou•ly held behind his back—when I felt his foot agnin , t Imy own—when he bent over me, and felt bong the wall with his left hand, to find a spot oft which to rest it and give his blow I more cc:l:duty. my fear entirely disappeared. It is a well known fact that danger really exists only so long, as it threatens us, and it is robbed of more than halfits terrors when it it breaks over us with undiminishedforee. This was just my ease. I had felt terrified, and could hardly struggle against the feel ing, so long as the danger was drawing nearer and nearer to me; but every thought, save that of self-defence, disappeared when I. knew that the knife was direcied against Illy heart. So soon as he struck at ate. I determined to parry the blow by means of the left arm, and the blanket lying over it would niTurd me great protection: but then I would start up and bury my knife in the villain's ribs before be could recover from his surprise or summon the dog. I should soon be able to overcome the weak odd man. and, as for the brute, 0114341 an nay legs. I dare say I could keep Ilion from doing me an injury. Such was my line a thought, and I wn quite prepared to carry it ir.to eiTect. Ito; why did the Jeer he-itate so long? Ile had advanced his left foot a little, hie arm wn still supported ag;aiii.t the wall, yet lie dai not raise his ',tiler arm to strike the blow.— Wu. lie afraid! I [allay teeth in re together. and al in. t lowed for the decielt,' zuomotent to come, so excited did I feel— anything, rather than endure this horrible !suspense. Suddenly the Jew drew back; he did not strike at me; his left arm quitted the wall, and he hell in it—l hardly knew whether I was awake or dreaming—the sa m e loaf from which Iliad previously been eating. lle walked with it to the fire, cut of a hunch with the fearful long knife, laid the remainder on the chimney-board, and, after poking up the wood fire till it threw a nrilliaot light over the room, he began quietl2, eating, without troubling himself .my further about my pre-mice. I drew a deep breath—it was a-if ;[large slime had been rolled my chest—and I lay for a long while in t sort of dreamy cotolitiou, hardly able to realise this statenf pet feet security following closely on the danger which 1 had fancied so shortly be liefore had menaced me. I really begun to feel ashamed of the cruel injustice I had •tie—though only in thought—to a Ma II who had so hospitably entertained me; and almostl felt inclined to jump up and tell him of my foolish suspicious. But no, that would not do—he would laugh at me. Still I felt as if I must do something., if only to reconcile my own conscience. I therefore shut up my knife as quietly as possible, re turned it to toy pocket, and then, pretend ing to wake from a deep sleep, I threw off the blanket, took the sack, and put my feet quietly into it. "Alia:" chuckled my host. who, on hear ing my movement, turned his head quietly towards me. "one's feet generally get cold of nights, if they have bee* wet during the day, but the sack will keep them warm enough." "I think so too. I fancy it will be better so," I replied; then fell back on my some woat hard pillow, drew the blanket up to my chin and in a few seconds had fallen into a deep and sweet sleep. When I woke the next morning I found that the sun was high in the heavens, and on the table a comfortable breakfast had been laid. A pretty little girl was tidying the room, and her presence really rendered it quite cheerful. "So, sir," she said, gond humoredly, "you are awake •at last. Uncle did not like to di-turb you. I ant sorry, though, you had no better bed than this; but I only came home last night from Strasbourg or: a visit, and we had all gOne to bed for the night." The old Jew now came in and gave me a i hearty welcome. I hardly hail the heart to look him in the face, I wits then forced to sit down to the breakfast•table, nt which the old man's son, a line young fellow of tweets-fitir, joined us. Hearing from hits that he was going back with his light cart to Strasbourg that morning, I willingly ac cepted his offer of accompanying him. 11 had quite enough of adventures thr this bout; and, beside.i,sundry rheumatic twinges told me that I ought not to venture away so far from civilization, lest I might be laid on my hack in a rustic village, and my mourn iog relatives never learn where they should set up a cenotaph to my memory. When the light cart came up to the door I inquired what I had to pay; but the old Jew 0,11141 no be induced to accept a farthing for the accommodation. Bed and breakfast, lie said, had huh been poor enough; rind I shirk his hand heartily upon leaving And;upon my honor, in the bright sun shine, he wasn't half such a bad looking t old fellow. There was something quite pa triarchal about him. rrom the li" , ,irkerbocker lily Adventure in Smithburg. BS' JOBS BRADSZIAII "Make you a pair l'efore Saturday night sir." said the shoemaker. "Can't wait," said 1, "going out of town by the nest train." AeII. now I think." he replied, "here is an uncommon nice pair that may he'll lit. They Wit< made hir a gentleman who did'nt take 'em, too small ttero.s here, you see. Try 'mu no sir? Al,! yes so, ex actly. Why„they fit like—like they had been made for you! They did fit tolerably well, so I bought them. In five minutes mire I was seated aboard the cars in Chatham street, and in half au hour more I was steaming and rat tling out of the city, toward my destination. I was going on a collecting expedition to that secluded little "rural paradise," Smith burg, which, as you arc aware, is situated about a hundred miles back of City Hall, and is about the same number of years be hind the metropolis in the "modern im provements." One of the Smithbutzers was in debt to my employers, (the great It .11,e of Naryred Co.. of whom you have doubtless heard, Pearl street, just below Fulton.) The aforesaid Smithburger was rumored to be on the eve of "suspending," hence my hurried journey. Be it remora bored that these events occurred two years ,! ago, at which period debts were still collec table. I Certainly the "lintel" had pot filrth its “The shades of night were falling fast, " most strenuous efforts to get up that break when the train deposited my carpet-bag fast. There were boiled chickens and and myself at the Srnithhtirg station. I chickens fricassed: there was a huge turkey ~00n enscoused iu the tavern—an am-, there was a roast surloin rf beef, there was pious wooden sanctum', rerS garishly a cold leg of tu Elwin, ham and eggs. and barn ,vitite. nod very lavish of piazza without, without the eggs, and eggs without the 'ditch qualities were counterbalanced by ham, pork and beans, beefsteaks, cutlets, b e i ng very dirty, and very cramped for , and chops, cabbages. beeets, caulilmerv, room within. I tomatoes, corn and other vegetables; SA tlfaß• When I went over in the evening, to the hornmony, oysters and clams. salmon -tore of my delinquent debtor, I did not and shad, buckwheat cakes, biscuit and find him; ands brief eunvenmtion with the •johnny cake, pickles to an extent, pies, $1,50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE; $2,00 IF NOT IN ADVANCE people whom I did find, served to inform me that I had come on a fruitless errand.— He had not only suspended, but had de camped out of Smithburg into parts u:.- koown. He was a dead loss so far as Na ryred & Co were concerned. All that could be done with him was to put him on the debit side of the profit and loss ac count. There was nothing fur it but to go back. "And when does the next train go down?" I impaired of mine host at the "Hotel." "No train down till 11.15, A. 31.," was tbe curt response. Just my luck. No money, no assets, no colleetioo, and now no train. I should have to stay fourteen hours longer in this dismal country tavern. Tired and very ill humored. after nodding an hour over the same paper I had read the day before in town, I took my candle, and myself off to bed. It must have been near midnight, when I was suddenly roused up by a thundering explosioh. "Bang!" Bewildered and sleepy, I cat up in bed, trying to make out whether Naryred & Co., hod “burq," and were unable to pay ten cents on the dollar, or whether I was aboard a Mississippi steamer which had "eollap , ed a flue," and Wll9 about to be scalded with hot steam or whether— •'Bang!" suddenly went a second explo sion, and I made out to comprehimd that something was being, fired oft' under my window. Jumping up, I rushed to the sash and peered out. Sure enough, there was a crowd of men and boys, gathered round what looked like a dilapidated anvil, ram ming down for a third discharge. It must be election day in Smithburg. thougut I, and they arc rejoicing over the result. Omfound the successful candidate whoever he is, making such an infernal racket! Just than, one of the youngqter, looking up, caught sight of me standing in my shirt at the window. He hurriedly spoke to the others, and then one shouted— " Boys, let's give him three cheers:" And they did. "Hoo-00-raw!" '•IIoo-oo-oo-raw" "1100-00-ra-a-raw!" I shrank back, and crept shivering into bed just as gun number four went ofl amid another set of cheers. Coe and thirty times did that infernal piece go off; I devoutly praying each time that it might burst, and so stop. Then there were more cheers.— Then there was a bon-fire blazing up so suddenly into the window that I thought the house had caught fire. Then there was "Hail Columbia" and "Yankee Doodle," on a broken fiddle and a wheezy clarionet.— At last the Babel quieted down, and I, won dering, considerably what it was all about, fell asleep. But if I was mystified about the doings of the night, I was considerably more puz zled by the doings of the morning. My host met me with a profound bow, and was defer entially solicitous about my health. The barkeeper bowed reverentially when I past-ed him. The bar-room idlers all re spectfully rose to their feet, (staring hard meanwhile) as I walked through. The chambermaid dropped as many as fifty cour tesies, one after another when I happened to meet her in the hall and so overwhelming, by civil was everybody that I half imagined that I had stepped out of free and easy America into courteous France. On looking round I perceived the house was marvellously changed, over night.— The scrubliinglonsh must have been in use since daylight, for the floors werefresbly scoured, while the windows glistened with polish. while the furniture was "set round" in the prinaest kind of order. The landlady, although the slatternly hour of eight o'clock in the looming, was arrayed in majestic black silk. and her cap. with its multitudi nous cherry colored ribbons, wasmiraculous to behold. Mine host evidently had on his Sunday black suit, and had thrust himself into a clean shirt, starched to an extent that kept him perpendicular as a grenadier. h must be, thought I, that this is country fair day; or perhaps they are going to have a wedding in the house. "By the way what was the firing for last night?" I inquired. "Oh! a mere six pounder, sir! but the best .we have in Smithburg. The boys thought they must have it out to honor your arrival." "In honor of my arrival:" ejaculated I, taken all aback. "Y e ., your Excellency: but brenkfa.t is ready. Will your Excellency walk in?" My nrrival! my Excellency! I Nras n.. tounded at the Pudden distinction with which I found myself invested. that I could only mechanically walk in, and seat myself, nt the table. DI/TOLE NUMBER. 1,471. cake and sweetmeats, and whatever else it ever entered the head of a country hotss wife to put on a breakfast table, and a great deal that never was thought or before for any such purpse. And my folitrav 'chair was the only one set fur this repast:— It was truly appalling. For attendantQ. I had the landlord atel landlady, the young lady ''help,'' olar,nti cent in ribbons and jewelry, and the bar keeper in a blue coat and brass butto.ls, and an enormous display of wrictband.-- They all four bustled about, running over .ach other in their eagerness to FOI ve while the host, rubbing his ban]: • remarked: "Sorry we have nothing better t, you. Sir, but your coming our privpte;y ls'-t night, took us rather pri •e. you'll be able to nmke a breakin , d, Sir." I ate brealsfa-t in amaie, cogitating, whether these evraordinaryattention.emild he the result of the wile spread fame of the house of Noryrcd and Company, rd l v.bether I had really ac deveil distingu:she 1 rep utation without being aware of it. ;tan , rate, the breakfast wut substa , ithd n•i illusion. I inwardly re-olved I 'v, it l always patronize this tavern), whenever I came to Smithburg. Presently I observed indications that I was not only an object of attention, but of curiosity. races, as of persons standing nn chairs, appearing behind the three Hanes of glass over the door staring intently at every mouthful I took. When I looked, the faces suddenly ducked out of sight. When I looked awf.y they re-appeared, or were suc ceeded by others staring in turn. The window opening on the street, was darkened all at once, and on turning round to see the reason, I surprised a crowd of urchins, piled in tiers, flattening their noses against it with intense staring. all of whom vanished as I looked. The landlord by incautiously opening the door which led to the kitchen, caused a sudden rustling and scampering, and a suppressed scream, which led to the irresistable conclusion that a bevy had been tidting turns there, staring through the key hole. Breakfast was hardly over before there came a rap at the door, followed by the an nouncement that some gentlemen from the village were waiting to pay their respects to me. By this time I was past being astoni , lted at anything, so I unhesitatingly desired diem to be shown in. The door was flung open, and in bustled a pompous looking elderly man in black broadcloth, with a huge gold watch seal dangling from his fob, gold-headel cane in his hand, and a pair of gold spectacles astride his nose. His face was very red, buts stern determination was written on every feature of it. A long, solemn visaged individual, another short, stout and smiling, followed. Behind them came, I should think, nearly the entire pop ulation of the village, of all ages, sorts, and sizes, squeezing in so as to completely fill the room; and every one of them staring at me nF• hard n , ,t Lc knew how. Ath aneing to the verge of this opening, the pompoms man, with one arm evtcntled at right angles to his body, and the othcr t:rust beneath his cunt tail adares.sed inc after this fashion: •'Mr. rtez r ident : dronnrod and reqpoCat2 , i Sir: This is a proud day for Unexpected as was your cumin ; _, it is 7-P: come—welcome to our our hearth-. and our bosoms, Long have we watched your gig:lntl,: career, whether in t-Ite, 7 ding. your blood in vour country's catn . e, upon the fersid plains of Mcx.i.o, or in boicliy guidin,g the holm or the Ship of State, amid the tempests that thr.'atear..l r.irmentatily to wreck her on the shoals cf a fatiuwnie<4 abyss! But we knew the e:-cs or th 1- Amer icanle wa. 8 Ned upon atcl the I.P. salt iroul.l justify our pi t , l'a 11 - 0 knew that the—a—a 1-haft , of 1;10 enician.- were ainie , l at vour del etc 1 knew al,r, flint they ranlch - 1 ng-Cnst nn im penetrable shichl, which wonhi (7 - ..ts:i thorn forever into the ground.. Sir, ym: me -eel come. In the name and on the hohnlf my fellow-citizens. I tenter yott the ito.Ti tolitie4 of Smithburg, and the I:cc-ion - 1 or the city. trusting you will C":C115" the with which, for lack of tiroci7 ore unprovidel " I stammered cut Fntllo I!!` . ‘7:l:lC're I :lc knowedgements in reply to itnrar.gne. apparently to the disappeintment eft:Jig semblage, :who evidently e ., :reeted fr ire Tne a speech, in similar style in return- But nA their orator rem:lrk:el :then: the 1.0 7 ;. it'l l:lrk or previow; warning. I waq with any speech to make. P.eco‘erin::: him , rif a ranri-nt ell:en. file F p e -man hiandiy in:: , dueed t n , ? General Smith.and then preceded to intro duce his towncmen. "This. sir, k Deacon Jones, one of onr first men, and a fellow member of the Com mittee of IZeecption, of which I hove thee. honor to be chairman. Dr. Davis. sir, the other member." The Dencnn and the Tk.etor rnsped hand until I thor.zlit they nmer would leave off .finking it. Twice did the Deacon epen his mutt]; as if in the net to speak; twice were his emotion.; or his modc..ty ton much for him and lie mouth clo..ed again without utterance. Meanwhile others I,eltind pa.sed forward to be introduced and shake hands in return. "Squire Staples, sir, n great friend of yours and nn original Janltgon man from the .tart; Mr. Tompkins; our ..eirtrgyman, Rer. Mr. Peters, Mr. Bette, Mr. Maguire, Judge 7 , lm, ,r, ..:all". ^.O
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