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DoHie anti the Two Smiths
31y father \vas an Irishman and a \vri
er :Illicit,: lot: Magazines. I have
lever \vriltim in a or any
!wig) e l se myself. r\ly" 111(it1(er 1 don't
Site died shortly after my .
(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
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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
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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.