E LANCASTER INTELLIGENCE& • PUBLISTIED EVERT WEDIDIZRAT BY SMITH & CO. G. SMITH, A. J. STEINMAN. -mxlS—Two Dollars per annum payable all cases In advance. Ile LANCASTER DAILY INTELIIRENCER Is bllshed every evening, Sunday excepted, at per annum In advance. FFlOE—SountwE.sr Commt or CENTRE CARE. Vortrp. For tho Intolllgencor 31.11TER9 lIIATRIMONIAI liv It EA Father, \viler,. 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(Mc of my carlic-t arithmetical consisted in the discover): Witt I tail nine brothers and sisters, concerti ng whim, ns thej. are :ill alive :mil are mite or them I desire to speak Oily in complimentary terms. I believe publishers did nht pay so ilierally in those tlays - Irs - 1 have rceuou 111,111( they (lii ii(lo', possibly Illy other may have acquired dissolute hab- Is his emit:let with literary lieu ; hilt from some valise or other vas so slenderly provided \vith food, touting and education, :Intl my home \111(.11 ioillrortilble, that I lert it iit the age of iftc)en \vith an ion tit consisting of our •xtra shirt, one thin) pair of stiel:s, a quill), and thirteen-:till-sixpence that I iorrotVell, 51 . 11.111(111 alluding to it at he time, from my eldest sister, \lllll vas keeping house anti acted as treasti )er ; generally, and whose lialance in mint consisted of that amount. I have •ince pith! it her hack, \vitt' interest at per cent. As, however, my present turpose in writing is not to !\veil upon Ire varied and striking incidents in nay \wit fortunes tliroligli lire, so :IS to tortray certain scones into which its lestiny has led me, I \rill skip over the i rs t twenty y e ars alter leaving; home, mil land myself in a neat whit) chap warded house, \citli green venetians, Intl a verandah loll' round it, situated Hi a ‘Voided Billside, and commanding loVely View or a secluded 'alto abort ell miles long and three wide, on the 'horns of \vhich a few scattered clear ings indicate that we are across the At lantic, and in a part or the country not yet very thickly settled, Neverthe less we are in one of the eastern States ('America, at. no very great distance from a city of tiny thousand inhabitants, and call bear the shriek of he toighte ILS the ears stop :It the little village at the head of the lake. As to whether that lovely creature with fair hair and blue eyes, and hands so small and \\*liite that it is a marvel ho 1v she can do so much I(Rinse-NV(101: and preserve them as she does, and it pleasure to loot: for \rani to eating the bread they are now I:nead ing,-1 say, as to \vlietlier this young ! lady is my wile, or the "chattel," to take the legal .English View or her, of time handsome broad-shouldered man tinyiikhog a team at the door of the titan, is a matter in which we three alone art) converned. It does not signify, either, \Om the farm or the two little chubby eldiolren belong to ; the point to which I wish b, call lily readers' atten tion is this. Here 1 ((Ili, an I rishintin by descent, an Englishman by birth, a citizen of the I 'oitod 51(1115 by natural ;mil of tin) \vorlil by all eXteud e~l lutmwl;ilgr or it. I isinCess to wily one iii (Tier ilepreill(live,acquirell(lotilit lesS 11 , 111 a long residence among pure and :\ sixties, and this is an in tense itheinination of, and contempt for, :all society .calling itself civilized, and especially for that inmogrel race of nioney-grulibers, tvliether" they are 10- e(llolllnr , (44ysitle wf the Atlitatie or the other, \vhiell calls itself Anglo-Saxon, and which, to an inordinate conceit, adds an almost inspired ;acuity for "peddling." li, therefore, the t)xtreine ly sonsiti ye feeling et' my American readers are loot by this record of my experiences of village life in their country, I only request, them to \vait mail I publish a few observations upon which I am engaged in regard to the continereial morality or London as compared \ vith that if New 'York, when they 51i II hilVe au opportunity of judg ing for themselves of my extrentt) im partiality, and of venting their spleett against England, by republishing my very original and uncomplimentary eritiristils oil that country, and pocket ing the ()Mire proceeds or the labor of Illy brains. I give them fur notiee that for ever,' dollar of which 1 11111 thus rob bed I slmll stick a pin into thent sumo-) where; and people with such very thin shirts had better iliake friends NVitil me in tittle. I out 111 be bought. I have not purchtt,eil and paid,for so many of Illy fello \v-citizeint without knowing to a cent, what my \vti price is. My stock hi-trade consists of a certain faculty I have for wishing the dirty t)• soiled" call iL on this dirty " is con sidered coarse) linen of the Anglo-Saxon race in public. So Inches regards my- Self. The name of my broad-shouldered companion and fellow-laborer is Orange Z. Smith. As there are two other Orange Smiths in the neighborhood, we have to be very particular about the Z, pronounced zee, and not zed, in America, and so taught throughout the schools and colleges of the country. In the case of Orange, it does not stand for the first letter of any name, but is sim ply a distinctive middle initial ; hence it follows that lie is popularly known as Orange Zee. When our first little cherub was born, we called him Zuyder Zee, out of compliment to a Dutch an cestor on his mother's side. I may here remark that my name is also Smith. I dropped my Celtic patronymic and ap propriated the English one upon the occasion of my taking the thirteen-and sixpence from my sister above mention ed. The name of Zuyder Zee's mother is Mary, but she iscalled"Dollie." Allthe pet diminutives of female names in the States end In ic, and not in y as in Eng land, perhaps because there is a more refined flavor about is than about y: and all Dollie's correspondents address their letters to her, not by the Christian .Xix/itt . .t.t/cit sittclii4c/Itet VOLUME 71 name of her husband, or even by her own Christian name, but tenderly and affectionately as "Mrs. Dollie Van Snook Smith," thus as it were inviting the affectionate sympathy and interest of the clerks in the post-office. So when I was so unfortunate the other day as to upset her out of the buggy and she broke her leg, the editor of the " Van Snookville Democrat" touchingly al luded to " the limb of Mrs, Dollie Smith, one of the most beautiful and highly respected residents of this township." Ito lie's grandfather, Van Snook, had been the first settler here, and the town was called after him. When Zuyder 'Zee was born I asked Orange Zee wheth er the event ought not to be announced in the " Van Snookville Democrat," but he said it would not be considered proper to make any public allusion to the incident; and I remembered after wards that I never saw a column for births in any American newspaper.— Long may it be before our Dollie figures iu any other column ! but whenever she does, her affectionate relations will stick to the pet diminutive, and will an nounce the departure, not "of Mary, wife of Smith,'' but of " Mrs. Dol lie Van Snook Smith." It is not necessary to say how Orange Zee and I first became acquantanees and then frends, and then decided " to go to farm hug" together, and were at tracted to this pretty hillside, ;Ind to the immediate neighborhood of the farm where OoHie was living with her par ents. I had to trust to Orange Zee's farming experience in everything. My ignorance was so great that he never veased wondering where I had been „ raised." I should like to know how many or lily readers know how to drive a nail so as not In split the wood. I think the profound contempt with which ()range Zee regards all Eng lishmen, to whom he owes his origin, is principally based upon the intiu•ma tiou which I gave hint that there were actually many people in England who did not know how to drive a nail. Nor does he yet understand—as of course everybody must be constantly wanting to drive nails in England as in America —"what on earth they do, if they don't know how." After Orange Zee and I had Seen DlA lie, :mil found that the adjoining farm was for sale, We determined to buy it; and we accordingly went to Dollie's uncle, to whom it belonged, and told him that , the fences were all out of re pair and the house was billing to pieces, and the mellows were all "run out,'' and that it was a miserable old place " any way," :wit not worth taking at It gift. lull it's uncle saw at once from this that we were dying to g t* hold of the place, and, as lie was equally anxious hi sell, he said that he had now given up all idea of selling, and intended to " hang (in" to it. Orange Zee told me afterwards that the great art of buying and selling was to appear as if you did not want to buy or sell, and always to seem to hang back. So we hung back. As we were boarding with Dollie's pa rents, 1 found "hanging back," quite a pleasant occupation. At last one day Dollie's uncle mute and that he had been oll'ereil 7.1 dol lars :111 acre for his farm, and that if We wanted it we had better speak, as he was going to let it goat that. 'to my surprise Orange lee said he had just offered fin dollars an acre for a bet ter farm im the other side of the lake, :old expected to gel a decided answer from the proprietor to-morrow. I felt quite :Lrigry with Orange Zee when I heard this, ns I hated the looks of the other side of the lake ; and . when Dol lie's uncle went away. 1 told him he might go there if he liked by himself, but that. I should continue to "hang back." lie lang,hed at my innocence, and as sured me that what he had told Dollie's uncle was only as big a lie as what Dol lie's uncle had told him, and "how else could we expect ever to get hold of the farm So then, of course, I said that it was all right, and we weld on "hang- Finally, we Haifa talk with NME Itollie's father on the subject; and he said that, if we would give him a hun dred dollars down, and a note of hand at six months for a hundred more in .ase he sueeeeded, he would get the arm from hi:: brother at 50 dollars the lyre ; but in that C:110 We must leave the lace for the present and seem to have riven up all idea of settling here. On. man twe always called Dollie's father " the old mull'') had held a mortgage over his brother, and by threats or fore closure forced lam to sell. The old mail was highly respected and looked tip to for many miles round, as being the best horse-doctor and the "smartest" man at a trade generally to be found in that part of the country. Ile was also an elder of the Baptist Church, and exer cised a timiat powepful gift on the °Cell- Skill of "revivals" and "protracted meetings." \\lien he found out how matters stood between Dollie, Orange Zee, and myself, he got nearly all our money out of in 3 by secret promises of Dottie—first to one, and then to the other; and nothing but the accident of Dollie herself taking a decided stand of her own, prevented our being turned out of the house Dollieless and penni less. The whole details of this linan- dally romantic transaction were after wards reported in the an ;Moot:rifle Democrat;' and the old !nun received a sort of ovation fur sonic time after wards whenever he entered a store iu the village, in compliment to his skill in having thus turned the charms of his Rollie to such good pecuniary ac count. This did not prevent our having a wedding, which was the occasion of great rejoicing amongst all the mem bers of the church to which 1)ollie be longed, and which bore grateful testi mony to her popularity among the the f:u•nters' daughters iti the neighbor hood, who flocked to her marriage, in every elaborate Parisian toilets, in buggies and spring-wagons, and accom panied by " beaux" the honesty of whose intentions it was refreshing, to one ac customed to less primitive conditions, to contemplate. If I decline for reasons which may hereafter appear, to say whether Dallie was Married to Orange Zee or myself on this auspicious occasion, it is not because either Dollie or her husband have ever since done anything to tie ashamed of. Of the purity and simple innocence of our menage there has never been ()question. Nor did the fact that one or us had failed to realize h isaspirations in respect of this estimable young holy embitter our home relations. The sceptics in virtue on the other sideof the Atlantic may sneer, but I am proud to say that 00 cloud of jealousy ever dis turbed the serenity of our domestic hor izon. Nor was the disappointed Smith ever for an instant false to the pure and innocent sentiment of fraternal affec tion which bound him to the other two. Indeed I may say that we were ( and I trust still are) all three very justly con sidered models of propriety by the highly moral community of the village. The said village consists of a single street, with three churches and a school house, all facing each other, in a little square in the middle, with pugnacious looking steeples and a hostile cock to the gables, as though they were all longing to lly at each other. There tire three dry-goods stores, and a hardware store, and a drug store, and a black smith's shop, and a billiard saloon, and two taverns, besides grist mills saw mills carpenters' shops, &e. The population is a genial, good-natured race enough. Everybody is famil iarly known by his or her abbreviated Christain name; and the most minute details of the daily life of every family, and every obscure member of it, are accurately known and carefully discuss ed at post-time in the store that keeps the post-office, and which serves as a club and resort fur idlers generally throught the day. For although the inhabitants of Van Snooksville are tol erably industrious and prosperous com munity, they manage to spend a large share of their time in gossip, and find in the every-varying excitements of politics and religion abundant occa sion for quarrel: and intrigue. To one not familiar with their habits, their severe language and the harsh judg ments they entertain of each other might be supposed to lead to irrecon cilable feuds. But this is rarely the case, for the simple reason that an irreconcil able feud is a very unprofitable invest ment of time and temper ; and men seldom hate each other so much as to interfere with their prospects of being able to cheat one another. Of course the more rich and influential a man is, the more he can afford himself the lux ury of a temper. In America, as in England, civility is a marketable com modity ; and I had frequent occasion to •remark with admiration that my Van Snookville friends rarely permitted their warmth of indignation of feeling to in terfere with their prospective pecuniary interests. Orange Zee said that, until we could increase our capital, our best chance of becoming respected in the village would be to join the Methodist Church, and get the better of the old man " on a trade," He has therefore already become a "class leader ;" and in consequence of certain secret information regarding her father, conveyed to us by Dottie, we see a way by which we shall be enabled to obtain possession of a good deal of the old man's property, without rendering ourselves liable to imprisonment, We are indebt ed for the idea to Swomp, the pettifog ging lawyer, who is the old man's rival in polities and in piety, and who is to obtain a percentage on the whole amount resulting front the transaction. After we had obtained possession of the farm and of Hollis, we found that it would be necessary to improve our living acoom modation ; and instead of building we determined to buy a ready-made house which was for sale half a mile distant, and moved it to our own land—a pro ceeding which involved a great deal of the process known as " dickering." To dicker successfully, one must have a great aptitude for chewing straws and whittling. The great art is to force your opponent to be the first to puf a value on the article to be bought or sold. You choosea morning when you are not busy, fur it is ruinous to let ally indication of anxiety or haste appear. You walk slow ly with youropponent to a fence rail, and hoth sit leisurely across it, and chew straws thoughtfully. I say opponent, because, in one sense, every man is your natural enemy—all the members of the community, whether they are engaged in agriculture, commerce, or politics, being trained front their earliest infancy to prey upon each other's pockets. You find yourself engaged in a gigantic game of grab (which arenas getting all you can, and giving as little :is possible in return), and the weakest goes to the wall. Sonic win the game us bullies, others as sneaks; but you have very little ehance unless you arc either the one or the other. Moreover, it is impor tant to remember that i you do not treat every titan with whom you have any dealings upon the ti.ssumption that he is both a liar and a rogue, he considers you a fool nor is there the least danger of his feelings being wounded by your openly doubting and requiring proof of his most solemn asseverations.— This entire absence on your part of any gentlemanlike feeling excites Ilk respect for your "smartness," and leads him to doubt equally every state- Men L made by you in return as the highest compliment he can pay you. I remember my lirst attempt at a trade was made in Did lie's presence, and what I imagined were feelings of deli cacy she called weakness, and my sense of honor she said was non sense, —a fossil sentiment which had its origimin ages fitly called "dark," when idiots in armour devoted themselves to the protection of weak-minded women when they might have been making money, :Hid sacrificed their material progress to an abstraction called chival ry. I explained to Dollie that among the Anglo-~axons on the other side of the Atlantic it was only considered honorable to tell lies when they were necessary to screen the NVI)111:111 you had betrayed; and that, according to modern ideas of chivalry, it was not considered important that you should respect the virtue of your friend's wife, if you religiously paid Liar your gamb ling debts. Nor could I get this obtuse Dottie to admit that the unscrupulous pursuit of dollars by men of business in the New World, was a more degrading occupation than the unlicensed pursuit of women by men of pleasure in the Old. Orange Zee, who has an immense physique, trusts a good deal to his over bearing voice and manner in a trade, and it was amusing to hear him en deavor, by sheer force of will, to extort from little Deacon Brown n price for his house, and to see the little Deacon wrig- gle, and writhe, and protest that he had not the faintest idol of how touch it might be worth, that he had never sold a house in his life before, and that un less Orange 'Zee would make him an oflr, he felt quite powerless and para lyzed. At least two hours elapsed before either of them would name a figure. I think it was Orange Zee, tvlio, in spite of his browbeating, was forced to name a sum, which so wounded the Deacon's feelings, that he quietly rose awl walked oil without vouchsafing a word in reply, leaving our big Orange Zee ignomoniously chewing his straw. lit this game the little Deacon made the first score. It was protracted over many days with varying fortime, and might finally be considered drawn, as I do not think we paid either too much or too little for the house. 'The next thing was to dicker with the " house-mover to transfer our new residence bodily on to our farm, which he did for_a hundred dollars, with the assistance of an old ,broken-winded horse, a man, and a boy. The modes opetumli is simple enough. YOU go into the woods and cut down two trees long enough to pass under the whole length of the building, which is of cofirsv of wood. By means ' of screws the 14,...e is raised from its under-pinning ,and placed upon these timbers, whi • ch are in their turn placed upon wheels; the old horse walks round and works a sort of capstan lixed ill the middle of the road, and attached by a rope to the house, which moves upon the wheels along planks placed under them as it slowly progresses. Most farmers in America are carpenters :LS well, and build their own houses Without any assistance; but we were in a hurry, and Orange Zee had too great a con tempt for my powers as an m:sistant fur us to undertake it. The most expensive operation was the purchase of stock. Twenty-live cows at from 60 to SO dollars apiece, made a con siderable inroad into what the old man had left of our capital. Orange Zee and I work our whole farm of 100 acres without any help. We have a team for which we paid WU dol lars, and a lumber-wagon and a mow ing machine, With ploughs, harrows, and other farm implements. Dottie has a German "help" called "(.leer," who is not considered worth more than tier board until she can speak English. We are consoled for her stupidity by her cheapness. She:moll Dollic milk all the cows, make all the butter, wash all the clothes, bake all the bread, cook all the food, and mend and make a great part of our clothing, to say nothing of looking after the children and the house gener ally. ments made with dried " fall" leaves, and some cheap china shepherds and shepherdesses, and a picture worked by Dollie's mamma in worsted-work, This room is kept carefully closed, and its finery covered up, excepting on the monthly occasions when ()range Zee, in his capacity of class leader, has a prayer meeting in it. We live in the kitchen, out of which opened two bedrooms, a buttery, a wood shed, On attic staircase, and cellar staircase, so that the walls may be said to be almost composed of doors. L jeer shares the attic with dried apples and empty trunks. The cooking is all done at a stove, not an open fireplace, a thing never to be seen in an American larinhouse staple articles of diet are pork nud beans, and apple-sauce; besides which Rollie is an excellent hand at corn-bread and griddle-cakes. We get up at live, and Orange Zee and I go out and do " the chores"—in other words, attend to the stock, draw water, and make Dollie's lire, chop wood, &c. At six we break- fast, and at mid-day we dine, and at six we have supper and do our " chores " again. The quantity of things Dollie does by machinery is surprising. She washes with a machine, and she dries with a machine, and she sews with a machine and can knit a pair of stock ings inhalf an hour with a machine, and makes butter with a :machine, and pares apples with a machine; and she cans " tomatoes and sweet corn, and preserves blackberries, and saves wood ashes, and makes soap with "lye" which is water that has soaked through them), and is a perfect repository of domestic re ceipts; and turns out on Sunday to go to meeting with a big 'chignon' which she calls a waterfall,' and a long train as neatly chausce and gantce as if she lived on the Boulevards instead of on Beaver Lake. How she manages to ef fect these sudden and entire transfor mations is only one of the mysteries which attach to Dollie, and are a source of perpetual wonder and admiration to Orange Zee and myself. Then she takes in " The Revolution," and seems tome to have more advanced opinions on " Woman's Rights," than Susan B. An thony herself; and shereads " The Rad ical" regularly, and watches the new developmentlof the religious idea of Bos LANCASTER, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER 7. 1870 ton with such keen relish that I some times suspect she is a secret contributor, I verily believe she is cosresponding with those two strong-minded opponents of stringent ceremonial observances, Olive Logan and Eleanor Kirke, on the mar riage question ; but she does not at pre sent admit either Orange Zee or myself into her reasons for always going to the post-office herself for her letters. We have perfect confidence in her, and:are waiting without alarm for the results.— So long as she is the most efficient house housewife in the county we have no right to complain; and:l believe that It is when she is on her knees scrubbing the floor that her most brilliant inspira tions come to her, and suggest those ab struse problems of theology with which she occasionally plies Elder Fisher, much to that poor orthodox minister's embarrassment. Notwithstanding all which, there is not a Sunday School 'reacher in the district (pronounced d,c strict,) more universally respected and beloved ; and no " sewing bees" are so popular as those which our pretty little Mrs. Dollie gives alternatelywi th Orange Zee's prayer-meetings in the front par lor. Upon these occasions the neigh boring farmers' wives flock to the manufacture of our " pants" and pet ticoats, and discuss the latest inven tions in sewing-machines and theology over an abundant supply of tea. Dollie is a specimen of a new type developed since the race was transplanted to Amer ica, and is as peculiar to the soil as are the beavers which used formerly to in habit our lake; and I believe, notwith standing herregular attendance at Elder Fisher's, she is surely but silently sap ping the foundations of his theology in the minds of a large section of his con gregation. Like the beavers afore said, I sometimes think that Dollie acts entirely by instinct, and without any exercise of the reasoning faculty. She always speaks under some strong, quick impulse, which is irresistible to the listener. A beaver is taught by intui tion how to make use of his tail; why should not the sonic intuition teach a woman how to use her tongue? The fact that it has never done so yet, does not cause me to despair. Since I have known Dottie I have become sanguine. Orange Zee and I both feel that she is rapidly developing us into something, but We don't yet know into what. Time will show. Meantime, like Dollie, we (lo as much farm work as we can by machinery too. We have a sowing machine and a mow ing machine and a reaping machine.— Di the hot hay-time we mow before breakfast, and rake and cure our hay with horse-rakes and tedders, and load it by a patent process on to our wagon, and get our bright "Timothy" into our barn with another patent thing like a harpoon, the same afternoon. Think of that, you poor befogged farmers of the old country! The amount of hay that we can cut, cure ' and mow away in one day, is so great that I small not mention it, lest you should imagine that I had been born as well as naturalized in America. We never stack it out side, and have a hay-press of our own, which we work, as we do most things, by horse-power, and press for our neighbors as well. We have a horse-power threshing-machine also, with which we thresh our neighbors' grain at from four to eight cents a-bushel, and make a good thing of it; and by killingall our calves two days, after they are burn, and sending all our milk the cheese-factory, we are able to contribute to the large cargoes of cheese which an nually cross the Atlantic for consump tion in the British Isles. What old fogies you British farmers :ire not to kill your calves, and S. save the milk ! Then Orange Zee can do almost any thing lie wants with a plough and team; he has surface-drained all our farm with open ditches three feet deep with the plough alone. As for me, all my most brilliant inspirations in regard to agri culture 11:1V12 been suggested by the re markable farming experiences publish ed by Mr. Horace ( ireeley in the col umns of the ' 7MAufw.' I believe, in spite of orange Zee's knowledge, we should have been repeatedly ruined had it not been for the original ideas we de rived front the lucubrations of that truly great man. Indeed, :Ls I can't be of much assistance to Orange Zee by my practical knowledge, I en deavor to make up for it theoretically In' studying the rural 'New-Yorker,' f'l'he Country Gentleman,' and other agricultural journals. Had I been al lowed to have my own way, I should have invested in a variety of advantage- Oils patents, and entered upon a large scale upon experiments with all the numerous varieties of oats, potatoes, to matoes, and other produce which are warranted to make the fortunes of farm ers courageous enough thus judiciously to risk their capital. Among the varied occupations of Orange Zee, however, he had passed a year of his life peddling patent rights, an it the information he had thus acquired in regard to their value induced Itho invariably to prohibit my ever buying one. This was a great trial to me, for scarcely a week passed with out some eloquent traveler calling, and offering for a few dollars the exclusive right to make and sell in the county stoves warranted to season as well as cook meat ; or fences which were cheap er and more durable than either wood or iron ; or clothes-pegs which possess ed the remarkable property of drying the clothes as well as of attaching them to the lines; or lightning rods, which not only protected the house from light ning, but bottled up the electricity for private consumption ; besides many other ingenious contrivances which marked the fertility of the American brain. Its fact I feel sure that, had it not been for Orange Zee we might have Become proprietors of many exclusive privileges which would have secured us a comfortable independence for our lives. 1 was confirmed in my opinion of my own good judgment and abihty in these matters by overhearing myself spoken of one (lay as a "good, clever sort of fellow." As Dottie made the same remark in regard to the stupidest man in the neighborhood, I afterwards discovered that a " clever fellow" sig nified here a "good natured fool." After this personal application it was natural that the violent transformation which English words undergo after crossing the Atlantic should rouse my indignation. I once liked to 'dungen whole supper table into It douche-bath, because I remarked that a species of porridge called If raham Mush was " nasty." Ido not yet know the exact meaning of this awful word, but it is evidently something more than the opposite of nice and certain it is, that this cock-std-bull account of farm life in America will be called there a " Koester-and-Ox " story. Besides our agricultural operations, we arc called upon as good citizens to devote sonic of our attentions to politics. Theelection of thetown offleersevery year is an occasion of great excitement and intrigue. It is here that the youthful American mind acquires the rudiments of that exulted statemanship, which finds its full fruition in the adroit achievement of great state or national financial frauds. A "State" in Ameri ca is divided into counties and towns; the towns in fact are rural districts,each one large enough for half-a-dozen ordinary English country parishes; in each town there may be one or more villages or hamlets, though the villages properly so called, require charters of incorporation giving them municipal officers and independent local govern ment. Where there is no such village incorporation, the town chooses annu ally its own officers: these consist of town supervisor, road commissioner, sheriff, constables, &c. Politics may thus said to be brought into the minut est details of every man's daily life. For instance, Orange Zee, vowing vengeance against the old man, Dollie's father, and being also animated by the desire to attain the lirst round of the ladder by which he might possibly ulti mately climb to the presidential chair at Washington, determined to put himself forward as the Republican candidate for the exalted office of town constable. In pursuance of which design Orange Zee donned his go-to-meeting coat, and after consulting Swomp, who was going him self to run for supervisor on the Repub lican ticket, drove to several of the lead ing Republican farmers o and announced to them that he had been so urgently pressed by his friends to have his name put upon the ticket as constable, and that he had reluctantly consented, and that he would consider it a favor if they would support him. Meantime Swomp having held a private caucus of his friends at one of the " stores" in the • village, decided upon the list of officers which they would - offer to the Republi can party in opposition to the list head ed by the old man, who comes forward as Republican candidate in opposi tion to Swomp. A few days after, all the Republicans in the town rally to the Republican tavern, where Swomp's supporters hand each arrival a ticket containing his own name at the top, and Orange Zee's name at the bottom ; I and the old man's supporters hand each 1 arrival a list with his name at the top: on receiving width the voters plunge 1 into an inner room reeking with hu inanity, smoke and profanity, where ! all the respective candidates and their supporters are struggling round a table, at which are seated the scruti neers; and after a day of confusion. and excitement, Swomp's supporters an nounce triumphantly that they have carried their ticket, and Orange Zee re turns to our longing arms, covered with dust and glory, and smelling, of whisky But this is only a preliminary stage. The Democrats go through the same form a few days afterwards, and then both political parties having thus de cided on their tickets, try issues with each other. It is only to be expected that a number of the old man's supporters, I disgusted with their defeat, vote Demo cratic; but then a number of Democrats on thesameground vote Republican—so the one set of malcontents about balance th e other. Still the issue is as uncertain as it is in England, because a vote in Amer ica is worth as much money as it is in England, though it is only for the State, or United States Legislatures that they are worth paying for in money; in their local elections the consideration is vari ous, and may be illustrated by Orange Zee's own proceedings. He having a marvellous faculty for diving into the private affairs of his fellow-townsmen, went to some who had large amounts owing to them, and promised if they would vote for Min, to collect their debts in his capacity of constable, and charge them nothing for it; fifth he I went to others who he knew were t overwhelmed with debts, and pro mised that if they would vote for him he would always give them warn ing before he came to distrain, so as to enable them to convey thei r goods away in time ; in fact Orange Zee managed so to impress people with the extent of the powers which he could wield to benefit those who voted for him, and to injure Iris opponents, that many who voted Democratic scored - out the constables nominated on their own ticket, and substituted Orange Zee's name. Thus it happened that although the Democratic ticket was finally elected, turd Swonip and the old man both defeated, Orange Zee came in tri umphantly at the tail of the Democrats; thus in these early days proving political capacity of a very high order, and in spiring both Rollie and me with great expectations for the future. I did not then know that Orange Zee had begun life as a boot-black in the lobby at Al bany, and thus at a tender age had im bibed, as it were, through the soles of eminent politicians, those first princi ples which he was turning to such excellent account. \Viler° life is one gigantic system of barter, one of the earliest lessons to be learnt is, how much one's social position, political influence, professional knowledge, and religious standing, are severally worth "on a trade." Take the case of Gouge who was elected Democratic town supervisor against Swomp and the old man. (long° Wile a director of the Van Snookville and Bighole Branch Railway. The V. S. and 11. B. R. is Democratic ; no Re publican conductors, porters and brakes men need apply. At the State elections the V... and B. 11. It. vote Democratic to a man, and the nomination of the Democratic candidate for our Congres sional district may practically be said to rest with the President and Board of the V. S. and B. B. R. I touge had been first a porter, then a conductor and finally, had run a wild-cat uu said railway with such success that he was promoted to station-master. To run a wild-cat for any length of time on a single lino with out an accident, requires both skill and daring. A wild cat is a sort of extra goods train that has no stated times for running, but dodges from one station to another between the regular trains whenever the lire happens to be vacant, and the engineer thinks he can reach the next station before any train leaves it, and go fast enough not to be over-ta ken by the lightning express behind him. Metaphorically, Gouge had 11111 wild-cat all his life; he had a wonderful faculty of dodging past people on his up ward career. Ile knew so well the posi tion as station-master, that though Iris salary W tIS only 0 thousand dollars a-year, he managed by dexterous trad ing to exchange the information, op portunities, and power which his position gave him, for over twenty thousand dollars in two years. Gouge it was who saw how much money was to be made by a hotel at the depot ; and he sent for his brother, who was a hotel keeper, and promised to secure the priv ilege of the hotel to hint, on condition that he should receive a share of the profits: and so he introduced Gouge junior to the President, who saw no ob jection to the scheme, provided he had another share in the profits. So the President and the two Gouges share the profits of the hotel between them. In the swim way he secured a valuable rail way contract for the leading Democrat in Van Snookville, upon the understand ing that he should command the whole vote whenever he required it, a few re fractory Democrats being "squared" with small shares in the contract, and the whole helping to swell the political influence of the President of the V. S. and B. B. IS, who received besides a large pectin iary share in the profits of the contract. And so Gouge quietly- slipped with his twenty thousand dollars from being station master into the proprietor ship of the ' Anuokciac Donocrut,' which paper he worked so successfully for the interest of the railway and the Democratic party in general, and him self in particular, that when the Van Snookville National Bank was started, the voice of public opinion unanimous ly pointed to Gouge as president; and Gouge finding himself, to use his own words, "reluctantly forced into this position of responsibilty and prom inence by Iris appreciative fellow . townsmen " ( who are by this time so completely cowed by him, that they are afraid to call their souls their own 1, runs that flourishing in stitution, the First National Bank of Van Snookville, as he did tire wild eat, entirely for his own benefit. Is there ' any wonder therefore that, though the majority of the population of Vac Snook ville is Republican, by some mysterious' dispensation the vote of the town is al ways largely Democratic ? for could not Gouge, who is President of the First', National Bank, Director of the V. S. and B. 11. It., town supervisor, pro prietor of the 'Van Snookville Demo crat,' part proprietor of the Van Snook ' ville Railway Hotel, and joint-owner with his son, who "runs it," of tip. principal store in the village, with one half of the population in debt to his bank, and the other half dependent in sonic form or other on the V. S. and B. B. It.,—could not Gouge, I say, bring such terrific pressure to bear upon any luckless individual who ventured to thwart his sovereign will, that life in Van Snookville would be a burden to him If Gouge wants to force a public road across a man's field, all he has to do is to tell the judge, who owes his election to Gouge's influence, that he had better appoint assessors prepared to "lay" the road thus, and do his (Gouge's) will, or he need never more hope to dis pense justice in that neighborhood.— Gouge's life seems bent on the invention of political and social screws, and in struments of moral torture; and as all the functionaries are elected, and he practically controls the elections, he manages to work the electors and the elected against each other with such adroitness,that the power he wields may be said to be absolute. Providentially Gouge drinks ! Van Snookville, as un grateful as her rival Paris, to the man to whom she owes, if not her beauty, at least her prosperity,—Van Snookville, less bold than her " irreconcilable " sister, is afraid to vote "no " against her oppressor, but finds a grateful solace in consolatory reflection that he drinks. For a week at a time whiskey renders Gouge unable to rule over us. Then Swomp, who is perpetual arch-grand knight of the Good Templars, rallies Iris sons of temperance, and the leading church members enter into deep mys terious conclave as to the best means'of ridding themselves from the hated yoke of Gouge. The old man and Swomp sink their religious and trading animositiesto com bine against the common enemy ; and a holy alliance is formed between the Methodists and Baptists, which results in the announcement that Splurge, the great revivalist preacher, will shortly arrive, to quicken the slumbering con sciences of the Van Snookvilleites; and the junior members of the community, of both sects and sexes, look forward with some little flutter of excitement to the prospect of " a protracted meeting, - and unlimited opportunities of flirta tion. It is hoped that by a tremendous effort of religion and morality Gouge may be crushed. I did not take any part in the revival myself, because Doi lie did not approve of it, and she only allowed Orange Zee to go because he said he ought to be therein ' his capacity of town constable ; but his real object was to act as spy upon Swoop and the old man, and report their machi nations against Gouge, to that ac complished operator and boon com panion. Orange Zee, you see, did not believe that the great Gouge could he crushed, even by a Splurge, although that distinguished divine likened him to a roaring lion seeking whom lie could devour and called upon Ids hearers to " flee from him and his contracts, 1111t1 his newspaper, and his hotel, and his store, and his works." During the fortnight that the protrac ted meeting lasted, all farming opera tions were suspended. It took place at a season of the year when work was not pressing, and day after day wagon loads of old and young of both sexes, in their best costume, drove up alternate ly to the Methodist and Baptist church es; a d li c the voice of Splurge might be heard or some distance down the vil lage :,:s reet exhorting his hearers to comelorward to "the mourners' bench." Here those who had been most power fully acted upon made their confession and their profession, and from that time forward they were said to have "got" or "experienced religion." The exact number of persons who "got religion" during this visit of Splurge's was after ward published among those interesting , heart-statistics, if I may be allowed the , phrase, which are to be found in those , spare columns which the religious journ- als do not devote to abusing each other. It is quite an interesting study to turn over a tile of these, and add up the total of broken and contrite hearts that I have resulted during the year from i the labors of the, various Splurges all I over the country, and to read how bit ter these rival Splurges sometimes get : with one another, and how jealous of , each other's special•gifts, and how fn-' 1 rious are the feuds which arise from the 1 difficulty of sharing the soil. Peen now the war which resulted from air Van Snookville revival is still raging, for Swomp declared that the old man had persuaded a numberof those who intend eq to "experience" Methodist religion to join the Baptist Church; whereas it had been clearly understood, before Splurge's arrival, that all the broken hearts he made were to be divided equally between the two (tenon) i nations; but the faJt, is, on a trade, whether it be in human consciences or anything else, the old man is always more than a match for Swomp. The practical inconvenience of this revival was, that its influence was not confined to quickening the consciences only of those who benctited by it ; they seemed to get qu ickerall over. One young man, before he got religion, with whom I was dickering, for a horse, positively assured me he had paid :200 dollars for it, and could not sell it to sue for less. Our trade was interrupted by Splurge for a fortnight, and at the end of it, lie had undergone the quickening process, and swore as positively he had paid 215 dol lars for the animal. This is only one illustration. I did not know of a single instance of greater hofiesty in trade after the revival than before it. It never once seemed to oc cur to two 111011 of contrite spirit to say to each other, " Come now, we have persistently thought everything worth whatever we could get for it irre spective of its intrinsic value, and have considered false representation in regard to articles we had for sale a merely venial ofrence ; let us, now that we have got religion, never try to get inure for anything than it is honestly worth." If even Splurge cannot ven ture to recommend people when they are asked for their coats to give their cloaks also, without extinguishin,g him self and his popularity as an imparter of the Christian religion for ever, let him, at least, suggest that when a man asks for your coat, you should not turn upon him and strip him naked as an evidence of Christian "smartness." my dear Splurge, 1 am sorry to have to tell you that my experience has been that the sootier men get over the effects of your labors on their con sciences, the more I like to deal with them ; and I would also venture to sug gest that it is very difficult to give to others what you have not got yourself. Orange Zee did not get religion, but he got a good deal of useful information, by the dextrous management of which he hopes to increase his social and po litical influence, and thus rise to higher spheres of usefulness. I do not meant to divulge what these are—in fact I ant at this moment inter rupted by a piece of intelligence which for a time will disturb our domestic ar rangements, and which involves to no small degree the future happiness both of Orange Zee and myself. I have before alluded to the remarkable phi losophical and speculative character of Dollie's mind, and that we have both been conscious that her advanced habits of thought were not unlikely to produce a strong influence upon us. She has just imparted to its the impor tant discovery that she has married the wrong Smith. I need not say that we saw it both in the same light instantly. Why it never flashed upon us before during the last five years it is useless to attempt to inquire. It was the real so lution of a great domestic problem, which, like Columbus's egg, we had missed from its extreme simplicity. As the laws of divorce in the State in which we are now residing interfere in the most absurd and arbitrary man ner with the private matrimonial ar rangements of its citizens, we have determined at once to proceed to the more enlightened State of Indiana, and have telegraphed to have preliminary measures taken ; this will enable us to start to-morrow. _Dollle, who has made herself acquainted with the whole course of proceedings, assures us that in that State the ceremony of divorce by mutual consent will not occupy above half an hour, and she then wishes to proceed to New York to have the marriage cere mony performed by at least two lead ing liberal divines. She is strongly in clined in; favor' of Mr. Ward Beecher and Mr. Frothingliam. She says she does not care so much about the mere ceremony, but she wishes to commit those influential men to a great principle. Orange Zee asked tier stupidly whether she thought it likely she would ever change back again. Duffle, of course, told him to mind his own business.— Orange Zee said lie thought it was his business ; but his mind is so' little able to rise above the ordinary interests of every day life, that we never attend to what lie says on these more profound questions. Whether I am the Smith from whom Dollie is going to be di vorced, or the Smith to whom she is go ing to married, is not a matter of the smallest interest to my readers. I may tell them what happens to us in Indiana and New York, or I may not, on some future occasion ; but I don't know till it is over whether it will be worth telling. Meantime, of this the public may rest assured that Orange Zee, Dollie, and I, all have the strom9 . rsfVpossi ble affection, esteem, and admiration for each other, and are all profoundly indifferent to anything the world may think of us. Men Wanted The great want of this age is men— men who are not for sale ; men who are honest from centre to circumference, true to the heart's core ; men who will condemn wrong in a friend or foe, in themselves as well as others; men whose consciences are as steady as the needle to the pole ; men who will stand for the right if the heavens should totter and earth reel ; men who can tell the truth and look the world and the devil right in the eye; men that neither brag nor run ; men that neither flag nor flinch; men who have courage without shouting to it; men in whom the courage of everlasting life runs still deep and strong: men who do not cry nor cause their voices to be heard on the streets, but who will not fail nor be dis couraged till judgment be set in the earth ; men who know their message and tell it ; men who know their places and fill them; men who know their own business ; men who will not lie ; men 'who are not too lazy to work nor too proud to be poor ; men who are will ing to eat what they have earned and wear what they have paid for. These are the men who move the world. Five car loads of Coollies have arrived at Selma, Alabama, to work for three years on the Selma and Gulf Railroad. They are to receive board and lodging, and $l6 per month in gold. Madeline Jervis It was years ago, although I remember as it were but yesterday. A fearful fever had been raging in the town, and my parents liad both fallen asleep in one day, both been buried in one grave.— They said I had it lightly. Ido not remember being ill at all; I only re member praying to die. slow could I live': what had I to live for': and then Lucy would try to quiet me, and Dr. Rhodes conic in, draw his chair by the side of the lied, take my hand, and, in his own peculiar way, talk to me till I had no will to oppose 11110. Nothing to do but to obey. Then lie would lay his hand on my forehead, and the veins that had knotted up like tangled whip cords, binding lily temples, would smooth out perceptibly, and sleep, quiet and refreshing, steal over toe, while the doctor would tell Lucy what she must do; that, as , soon as I was able, I must go into the country—it would never do for me to stay there. "She will never get well, with all these mementoes of her parents con stantly in her presence. Sirs roust be roused from this state, or there is no hope." And I, half asleep and half awake, but quiet its low , as tire doctor was talking, wouhl iirtnry resolve never to ; I did not want to get well; I did not mean to. But what was my resolve to his firm, strong will?—his will that so completely mastered mine; and how ever much I right determine in his ab sence not to do, that very thing I was led to do readily. if he said so. Therefore it was not surprising that one morning, after I had begun to sit up, I felt myself wrapped very carefully in numberless shawls and blankets, and then I,ucv took me in her arms to the carriage, where Dr. Rhodes received me. There, nestled away among the cush ions, lie drew me up tenderly, laid my head on his shoulder, and talked rue to sleep, while Luey sat on the front seat, and tried to be very staid and dignified as she listened to the way and manner in \Odell 1 must sleep, eat, and take ex- ercise. After a drive of about two hours, we stopped at the entrance of a charming place. The great bronze gates swung ,men, and the carriage wound along the gravelled way, and passed on to where the syringa-bushes were loaded with their creamy blossoms; past the foun tain throwing its diamond spray over the japonicas, camellias, and pearly hued lillies; the gleaming of statuary seen through the rifts of green leaves, while an endless variety of flowers and fruit nodded their welcome. Up to this time. I had not even asked where we were going. We were going front home hail been my only thought; where, had not troubled me at all. Just as this question \vas beginning to tax my brain the carriage stopped. I had only time to see that the house was large, With gables and turrets, and pointed roof, and that it covered an immense stretch of ground, with a veranda of trellis work covered with vines, ruses awl honey suckle. "A beautiful place," I mentally ejac ulated, as :t sweet-browed woman bent over me, her good, motherly face sha ded by . a little lace cap with bits of pink ribbon and long, flowing lappets, while the light in her calm blue eye went to my heart like a ray of sunshine. "I have brought. my little patient, Mrs. Moore. Lucy will take care of tier, and breathing the atmosphere of your home will revive her better than any medicine of mine." And the doe tor seated me on the sofa, while Mrs. Moore put tier arms about me just as my own mother used to, and said quiet ly I used to know your mother when she was 0 little girl, my dear. lam very gla'l the doctor has brought you to me." The tears were in my eyes, while hers dripped over lily face, and from that mo ment there was a warm feeling in my heart for the gentle woman who had promised the doctor to do all in her power I,' make me well again. Those were happy autumn days, lying I here in theshade of the trees, and look ing out on the sea, tilled as it was with great steamers, beautiful brigs, and graceful schooners—a picture gallery, with nothing stationary, save the great black hulls in the distance. ISM if Mrs. Moore's house was large, it had no empty rooms. On account of my being an invalid, I was not intro duced to the inmates all at once. Mrs. Holmes, a young widow, was the first one that I remember. Beautiful she was Out, but there was a look in her great brown eyes, a tone in her voice that went to my heart at once, for it told me that she hail suffered, and I felt a nearness—a sudden outle aping of af fect hm that joy never gives. Mrs. Holmes was accompanied by her daughter,a littlegirlof ten or elevenyears. tier hair, just the color of a ripe hazel nut, was put away from a forehead not high, but full, and with blue branching veins in the temples. Her eyes, in hue just like her hair, were beautiful, but with a dreamy look, as if she was try ing to Whom something too hard for her. She had a rich, creamy complex ion, pale except when she spoke—then the red came in waves. The child had her governess—a good, practical woman who, as I grew stronger, used not 'infre quently to let me lean upon her arms, while Lucy supported me on the other side, and told me stories of her home— of the green, dewy hills that cradled the little village where she was born, where one could walk at their ease, hearing nothing but the soft, continuous flowing of brooks, the hunt of insects, and the gentle tones of the wind through the leaves—only these and the singing of ; birds, and the lowing of the cows in the L I pasture, and the crowing of the cocks as they called to each other from the distant farm-yards. My father had been from home, and this seas, perhaps, the chief reason why I was so glad wlidn Miss Young would talk to me in this strain. Besides these ladies, there was Miss Jervis, a niece of Mrs. Moore, and the belle of the neigh borhood—a beautiful girl, with rolling waves of fair hair, splendid in azure silk Lhat climiged to silver, and a great cape of white velvet with dropping buttons of carbuncle—a superb woman—a witty, gracious woman— a woman that turned all hearts, yet kept herself cold as ice. How I disliked her, this woman, with all the fascination of manlier, the sweet est smile, and softest speech, and still without a heart! Oh! 1 didn't know her then, Madeline Jervis. Without a heart?—she was all heart, and that was the reason why she seemed cold and un feeling. Her heart was preoccupied, tilled, inhabited. She could not help being beautiful, fascinating, queenly; but she could not open the door of her heart, for its owner had gone away— neither did she{ wish any body to enter till he returned; she knew [Masonic time lie would come, and this made her cheerful, happy—and still, seemingly cold. I said I disliked her, and so I did ; but as I grew able to join them in their rides, walks, and moonlight ex,- eursions on the shore, a strange faseina dim crept over me, and I was never happier than when walking by her side, hearing her talk in that racy, piquant manner so becoming to her—the pecu liar light in her large, melancholy hazel eyes—eyes full of lustre—the soft, dark, golden skin—the faintly impinged cheek—the scarlet lip, the whole color ing of the face ; and then a carelessness about her—the grace, the abandon of a little child. I remember, one evening, the sunset light was so low upon the sea that it left nothing there but a great golden high way. Miss Jervis proposed a stroll by the water's edge. Lucy brought my cloak, and Miss Jervis let Mr. Weston wrap her shawl close about her, and they walked on a few steps in advance, Mr. Weston talking in a low, earnest strain, while it seemed to me Miss Jer vis grew colder—more fearfully beauti ful. The moonbeams that danced upon the waves leaped up and sparkled on her dress and in her hair; but to all his words of passionate entreaty, that I was sure from his manner he was utter ing, she said nothing; his words only reached her ear—they could not touch her heart. At length she made a ges ture of impatience, and came and seated herself on the wooden seat where Miss Young, Lily, and I had ensconsed our selves, while Mr. Weston went striding up and down before us—sometimes stop ping and looking down upon the white hands folded in her lap—almost as much in his silence as In another man's speech ; still, she did not notice it. Her mariner, full of an airy sparkle, as though she lived in some buoyant at mosphere, and still it seemed to me an effort, as though she would have much preferred sitting there on the sands and dreaming of something long ago. Why I thought this then I hardly know—it was long afterward that I learned the truth, and knew what gave the far-away look in those unfathomed eyes.; NUMBER :36 It was the week that I was going home. Dr. Rhodes had been there, and i given his cons , mt ; besides, the winter was coming on, and I longed so much jto see the old rooms. Mr. Weston had been talking of going to Paris Miss Jervis was sitting before the piano, dal lying with the keys. . ome measure was singing in her memory—some old, sweet tune she seemed to hear—some words, once spoken, resounded again. The light was soft, and softer in the room—the air was like the suspended bloom 01' a plum—a wind canu• wander ; ing in, heavy with the breath of !towel , . I and from the fairy lingers trilled ,uit faint, bewitching melody, dial was little more than the murmuring air itself. silver cord might shake so in the wind —a bell might prolong its vibrant un dulation, tone after tone having ticaled out in joy bells, or for midnight ehimes —the faint waves rustle so :flow; the shore—a honeyed, doubtful music but a soul upbuoyed its passion. \Vas it sonic chorus rising out of the ,parkli lig water echo of a song sung by the nymphs who live in coral caves?--or was it but the pining of a heart for other days? \V hatever it was, I could not help folding my arms about the singer; and as I pressed my lips to hers, I felt the tears rolling over the white fare and falling on the ivory keys. "Have I troubled you, 'Miss Jervis'? Indeed, 1 am very sorry; I hati no thought you could he unhappy ;" and drew back. " You have not troubled ow, child." She put her hands on either side or face, while her kisses crowded to MN' lips. Then turning her dark eye foil upon Me, she said : " Ito you believe in presentiments, Olive "A something that tells us when :lily thing unusual is to happen to " Yes, [Thais it—the shadowing of our joy or grief before it colons." From a little child 1 have always known when any thing was conii rig to me sufficiently long before it rang• ti become accustomed to it nothing that happened has ever surprise,' inc." I thought so." And she drew my unit Within her own, and we Walkvti oui into the silver pathway the ninon was making. Then, after a little silence: - "Don't you think, Olive, that tool i~ nearer to us sometimes than at others": —that you can speak to Ilion freely, and He answers at once? Yon know alum; my father, Olive?" "Miss Lester told me that your lath er was a eaptain--that his vessel was shipwrecked, and the crew lost." " Yes, that was the story y -every Ludy. believes it, but Ide not. I hnow that my father will come bark gain. And there was another with him—Philip Atkinson—to whom I \ VILS to have been married. It is three years since the ship ; but I know they will come. I try sometimes to think otherwise, but Philip's lace always look., at lie cu reproachfully, seeming to remove inc for lily unfaithfulness. This is why I tun termed so cold and liiillow-heart.cil, Olive; but I can't. help it I know they will both come." And her ( , ye TM' tip the dark, hollow sky, where shone but a handful of stars, and 1 , 110 great planet blazed down the purple depths, ploughing up :t wake of light Itchind it. Poor Miss Jervis! and she was cher ishing this deep love l'or the absent all the time that I had thought her cold and heartless. My tears fill mi the soft hand that clasped mine. " Areyouerying,Olive? Doyou think this impossible said she. " Possible, certainly ; but I was think ing whether it was probable in this ease." " Ves, they will both coin,." Anil she went on to tell no of the many in cidents in her ehildhuud, :ill 1)r whhdi had been mirroed out to hers. t Ina she watt prepared to meet them. The moon had gone beyond a cloud ; the pathway of silver was WM,. \\ e turned and entered the house. The rooms were brilliantly Mrs. .loore arid Mrs. ll.)hties rensthiu: the evening papers—:\liss Lester and Lily having a game or chess, while the gentlemen were scattered about, discuss ing the all-alisorhing 1111C,ti1/11:01 poli tics, and the probabilities of the coming election. The moonlight lay wliito 1.11 the water again, and the foliage of the trees looked mottled:with silver, while their shadows lay nude' neat!' in great. lack flakes. From a long rang , ' Of lOM's just visible above the western ,orizon, hashes of k t•pt leap ng out. kThe reading gradually passed nto talking, and the political bias soon ierged into the small talk most. are ept ble in the drawing-room. Again the livid thu,h, only 0, he c.,1- owed by the startling, crashing thun- der,llash after flash, and the whole ar tillery of heaven seemed to he collected into one place, while the long, deep, gutural thunder reverberated along the shore, and the lurid flashes brought into bold relief each cord, and spar, and mast rising out of the black hull on the wa ter. There W:LS a nameless fascination in the storm, and one by one the rooms were deserted, the light, were partially extinguished, and all, with faces more or less white with fear, collected on the sheltered side of the veranda, looking out upon the bay so lately sleeping, Un der the silver moonbeams. Now the waters were leaping up like smne mad dened monster, intent on his prey. In 0 moment it came again, the terrilic light ning, and deep, guttural thunder, and again a minute gull at sea. Eagerly they looked, straining their eyes out into the darkness, for the flashes of light blinded them; but nothing except gray mist was to be seen. The winds( rid: the long,low stone house, planted out there on the reef, eddied, mounted, and rushed on. The rain rushed with it, and all the sounds of the tempest. tThe very light from the light-house raver that stood far out scenic(' to be st ped (or and Mr in broad flakes and pa ws, like split frag ntients of chrysolite and beryl. Dimly (amid they descry great towering giants of billows leaping this way and that, flinging forth and falling in shooting storms of spray; white acres of foam rose over the darkness and dispelled themselves in powdered blast ; huge columns were flashing up and winking ; the backs of long beakers, gored and I torn, plunged their angry masses of foals flecked billows, with a deafening roar. Suddenly all was wrapped in the blackness of ileath ; night and annihi lation shut down over the world; no ray, no glimmer, the indescribable din and echoes of the night, broke all :Moot ; the great sea seemed to bu rolling overhead with a weight of darkness and tlllllllll. ; the light had gone out; and still more terrible through the murk the minute guns boomed on. Once more there was a vivid and then a terrific peal—a huge ship with masts and cordage brought out dis tinctly. Would she ever anchor she live through such a gale? Closer and closer drew that little group, while Miss Jervis held my hand with the grip of the dying. Again the whole sea was lit up. Oh! the ship was still there, and two men were seen coming over the side, and swinging themselves down into a small boat, and then pulling for the shore.-- Would they ever reach it? What dar ing, to think of riding the billows in such a shell ! What is it Miss Jervis expects, as she strains her eyes to eateli but a glimpse of the frail bark? Again that lurid glare, followed by a tremendous crash, its though the whole artillery of heaven turd spent itself, while the little boat could just besecn— the two men still there, battling man fully to keep her front being submerged, while the wind and the driving sleet leapt up into our faces ; for by this time we were down to the very edge of the water, Miss Jervis still clinging to me, all her thoughts and feelings concen trated on one object. Then a tierce, wild cry broke from her : "Oh ! tgall no one save them? " and she tore away from my grasp, out into the surf, where a little pleasure-boat was tossing up and down. "Let me go," as a strong arm was flung around her—" Let me go. It is my father and Philip !—I knew they were coming;" while the sharp flashing, and fading gleams, the gray haze, shin ing scud, and flying foam-wreaths, mag nified her into something supernatural. And then I perceived this man had a long staff; and great coils of rope, and another rope wound round his waist, and held by clusters of half-dressed hands—a shadowy throng that seemed suddenly to have come out of the dark ness. Then another man, still larger, taller, caught up Miss Jervis, and gave her into the care of a murky group, while strange cries came now upon the wind—sad, wild sounds—and in a lull, when the listening storm also held its breath, I seemed to hear the cries or drowning men. What followed I hardly know. All my thoughts, will, heart, swung there RATE OF ADVERTISING BUSINESS ADVERTISEMENTS, Sri a year per nqure of len linen; $8 per year for eneh addi tional square. REAESTATE ALVEILTIEING, 10 cervix a line 15 , 1 and Ti eelltii fur each subsequent lu- Insertion. GENEa.sL ADVEnTISINO, 7 cents a line for the tirst, and 4 cents fur such sllnSequent In. e: SPF.CL T. NOTlcrs Insertotl In Local Colunms 15 cents per line. SPECIAL NOTICE:, prve,llug low - Tinges nod deaths, 1U rents per line for first Insertion. and 5 eelrai for every Sule.equera Insert ion. LEGAL AND oTHEII NOTICES— ESeOIItOrti. HOLICeX Administrators' notice Auditors' notleeK Satires," tcs hare, nr h three times in the 1/I:ICIM'SS, as I Sa‘V these ta'n 111011 1,1;111 . !Ze illl4l Illl' the rope paeel out I,y these black, sliaM'lry hands Twice, thrice had I seen 1111111 1 , 11111140 a :1111I11!:the WaVl . ,, them lightly Karl: ill cruel play; then again they were lost, 1111 illStallt ---I.llt tl h:11 eternities 110 ,1.111t.' IS compress Tile great lantern s‘viing round its swin, shining glare; :11111 . ghastly in the green lustre of the ray a lace gbeanied up on the samis--a ghastly ' , ale nice, the '.rater dripping front the hair —then another, 1111111' the stalwart swimmers staggered along . , an'l were ' . aught by thnse 1111 shore :and the bre:fliers 'lashed an'l hissed as they suel:etl 401111 zunnl 1111,1 treed, rnaring, and still clinthine up the hank as tlmugh illaddem.'l :it the Ins, of their prey. The next I kill•%v, %Ve hVynr in the boat-house 111111 1)1'. Hinnies and :\ lade line Jervis NVlsrl• bending over me. \Vas it real"—teas it IMI they C111.111..."' 11. tea: all I could say—NV the jny in her cave, the light ill lit•r eye burned dmvii into my soul, and 1 knew that Captain Jervis an'l Philip All:in son were both there. Dent!, 1,3 . I,llo,ll,iair our readers kill reateniber tl» , terrible Ili»»)ler storm at I, ingston, e»lnity, »II 'llmi - salty evening last, during' whieli tivo persons were kith,, anti »thers,evere ly injure)! by the same strol:t» , l lightning. t • mon avenue was ern ‘v)ltsl withperm», t 0 the eirons, the tent for o. Ineli had been pitched in Ilia; avenue. itt' the time the per.'oritiance coninleheed there could not ha e I won less than fillet, hundred lintinin beings tinder the canopy. '('his was just 15q . .0 . ). eight p. 111., awl large (trot,. of rain ttirvaily ,•0111111011 , nd to Cali. 411111 e the 1111111.1,• ,\ 011011( allllo,l ilr)ovned the voice of the ring-Master with in. .1 short distance trout the main tent teas a similar tout used asa fruit stand, and a fi.w feet fr , )111 this stand stootla Nvillo‘v tree, locatoll in the ~,cier of a yard of an adjoining dwelling. 1)11 the corner of the 'in-us ground, under :Intl near the tree, were gr»iip,»l a large number »I persons, who ll:tdtal:n shelter there from the storm. litter the fruit we T also vongregated about l‘solity-five persons, While hitched I» the tree 5r.110.11 A,lNvas a horse all:idled to a svagon, a i•tdi,•0,1111,111 bring waded ill the latter. • Suddenly ono blinding sheet of dame lit up the ender scan ; and a 'teal of thuntle" shook the earth, while the air sect:l - impregnated with The seellt . Own oeviirred insideof the circus tent tattles all description. How's or pallif fai . e. Werl`everytvintre, and a fearful NN:IS i111111:11ellt but the great pres ence of snail of the proprietor of 1.110 cirrus Ile shoulyd to the :11111:011,,, "1,0011 your seats," and called 1111 thin haiiil to play, it hile at the sonic lintel. , urged the iterlorining horses about the ring through little lakes of water, hoping there by to attract the attention of the audience, so as to 505 rush a ellfe , o4ll.lellt tra:111:1:11g to death, and he St:eV:W:lod \Veil. The I . lll{ll craclotti his jol:tts and laughed as loud :is ever, but it could la , easily novll I hat it was not a natural langli, :tout Murtha, too, \vat , theroughLy alarmed. NVliile all this is going on inside ..r the tent, the fatal shaft it lightning had done its wort: telt side. Never were sinth fearful results of a stroke of lighluiug recortli•tl before. 'l'll,, holt appeared to eitnie from llut %vest, ratting hole about twelve h.et square through thin (nip of the main canvas, thence :Lents, :111 open `Tat, to the w illo‘v tree ell er:ll,o\,, forty yards distant, shat tering the tree, illtngthe horse which lV:e. tied to it, and knock ingsensel,s the driver, tearing thin soles front his Louts anal singing his clothes. front them . ° it de scended ,to the uroup “t' ellierell 1101,011 S 'war the tree. Fit, were instantly killed. .lane Altaitanye :el !palling against Ow trio with her arnis folded, listening to thin others. She 101 l with her antis folded, and they could he hardly pried apart. Eliza- I teth WIL4 laughing end then, was a swill, ell her lips NV lien she was !ticked up. Arthur Scott had one arm partially raised, and utter death it was hard wort, to straighten it and thus they died. For hill live minutes alter the 1(1 'l'lll visitation 11 , 1 0110 01/11111 Stir 111 the Vieillil3'. \II over, struck duel, and illicon , eilies, and over)' paralyzed. TNventy-five 101'1,111,1 111111, the fruit tint were knocked and severely According to the statement of hystatitiorm, it WILS, 111111,11, it fearful sight. Hundreds under the 1111011 hut Were paralyzed, and incidents of an extraordinary nature were visible every where. AV hell the true state of affairs out side lCralllU 1,111/o'll 11111Iel . LllOllllOO there was no !witting the andienee, and then the entertainment for the evening ended ;It otil . o. AS a rush 501151118110 for the open air, it wan ascertaiticsl 111111 scores of persons not leave their seat,. II of thorn tyre more or less injured. (Me 111:111 had a part of his coat torn away ; another had lost the I'llll of his hat, and dozens \very almost uncottsciotfi. They sat likestaLues, and there NV:LS gaze of vacancy in their eyes that was frightful to look upon.— Friends shook 11111111 and urged them logo, hut they moved not, apparently Every one of the compositors of the Ulster o'ooollo was present, and every 0110 W:LS HO seriously affected that the conductors of that papa' hail to borrotv help from other others. TO NEUTRA LITT PROCLAMATION How Coal4l Fl4ll and Grantlttla It at AVnalkinglan when one was at I.ong - Itrattelt nod 11.. Other to Cin rrlson't. ? It ,rents to have escaped public attention that the recent wordy proclamation of neu trality, exceeding in length. ill former (3X perience, though dated here and ostensibly given out as executed at Washington, WWI a trawl to that extent upon the country; for the President who signed it, and the Secretary of State who, countersigned the document, were both absent from the Capi tal on the Y7d, the date used, and hail been for a long time previously. This is the first instance 4n the history of the Government where so deliberate a fal sification or an important paper has been made. lint it is quite worthy of those who committed the fraud, and entirely consist ent with their previous record. That proclamation regulates our neutral relations toward two great nations, now unhappily at war with each other. Niftily questions of great tel are involved,. roil in the possible event or a breach o f neutrality a nice issue might be raised up on this titisely-signed paper, which V . ;11.4 110 t dour at Washington, as is stated, for (fun eral tirant was then at Long Branch and Fish at his country seat oat the ILul see. I I anything was wasting to establish their contemptuous neglect or public duty, and their flagrant disregard of all ofileial pro priety, it would be tarnished by this im pressive tart. The President and Secretary . ~r state, wino are hired servants of the peo ple, and paid largo salaries nit. service which demands their constant presence at the seat of Government, not onlyilefy pub lic opinion and outrage decency by Wall tiering :agent the country, but upon an oe elision of exceptional importance, wide!' re quired a full and serious censultation iu Cabinet, refuse to come hero for a single lay to discharge that duty, and, rather than disturb their personal pleasure, bonito a document which on its very face carries the preen' of a concerted fraud. \\ hat confidence can be repose)] inn pub lic Mincers who are capable of so gross a deception ? I they will falsify nee docu ment, Why will they not betray trust :is tin an v other? This Mose system of morals is the natural result and fruit of the avarice, venality, and selfishness which have invad ed the highest places, and brought discredit upon our institutions.—N. Y. Nunn. A Gentleman Killed by him Friend We were, yesterday evening, placed in possession of the imperfect details or a very sad and heart rendering ullhi r. The affair occurred urar CuHeel., in Maury comity, and was the result of an attempt to have a little fun. The particulars are about us fol lows, so far as we were able to learn them: It appears that Mr. John Cook, Jr., and Mr. Elijah Ashton, both of Columbia, and good friends to each other, wer(!on fustiest of terms until the occurence. (in the night of the inst., Mr. Cook learned of the whereabouts of Mr. Ashton, anti thinking he would give 11011 a little scare, disguised himself in " Kuk lux " costume and pro ceeded to the place. Ito found Mr. Ashton at the point expected, not far from Culleoka, and began his threatening " kuklux" do • monstrations. Mr. Ashton did not scare worth a lig. On the contrary, thinking that his disguised visitor really mania mischief, and not knowing who lie Was, ho determin ed to defend himself. Ile drew his pistol and fired, the shot Call Sill a wound from the effects of which Mr. f'ook died. The atl'air created a considerable sensation in the vicinity at the time, and should servo as a warning against similar indiscretions.— Namheilic noon, August 26. Homicide Among Women A correspondent of the Abingdon writing from Estill ville, Scott county, Va., furnishes the following ac count of a homicide recently committed on the North Fork, Scott county: "On Sunday last a prayer meeting was held in the neighborhood of the occurrence, to which all the parties engaged wont. Miss Polly A. Hart started bouts from the meet ing, and before reaching her home, was overtaken by Nancy Johnson, when an al tercation took place between them, and they got engaged in a fight, when Polly A. Taylor, a daughter of Nancy Johnson, ran up behind Polly Halt and stabbed her in the breast with a penknife, with a blade some three inches long. Polly Hart died in about three quarters of an hour. Tho other two women have been committed to Jail.
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