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ODd et L. AL Hitdwm.. Brooklyn. Jolt' 14 1866._71. Da. E. L. GARDNER, PHTSIIOIAII AND SUMMON, Motittom, Pt. Otte. OM Wahles turn. Baud. &Lamle% Hotel. , m °straw ,June 9.1865.-tt - GROVES it REYNOLDS, FLSHIONARLE TAILORS . Shop am Otaxdkerl Stun. Pudic Wren., Xosarnse, Janet% 11565. Dn. CHARLES DECKER, lrfatCllAN A Runnenx. having located himself at P 817,te 1,11 vi I :e, Susquehanna Clematy. P. adll attend to all the ea ~e with iinch be may b favoned lat th promptataaaadattazdlott. 62, re Weld, near °Mee Moll's. tad. anzaardalile. brag. Co_ Pa.. May . JOHN BEAUMONT, T vool. OA.T 4 ER.CIotb Dream. tbs old ound knn•ro as S=lths o rdtna Yacht.. Texas made ber the writ is brougbt,, J,ksup..llsr^ti 18d5. DR. G. Z. DIMOCE., PIITSIrIAN .and SURGEON. MONTRosz, pi. ome. ~ t , p voffir• Road• at jeans. troteL Nonimse. F•brcary ell, Ma.-lirp B. B. BENTLEY, JR., NOTARY PUBLIC, NICYNTYIOI3M. PA-. tHES Annarledemeni of need.. Monne* &O. for any etase in the C'o nut* Pend= Vouchers and Pay Cer• seturriedind done him do not require the centheate of*. C.ert ... " he Court Montrose, J. .1, 16118.—M, Da. E. L. ILANDRICII, o,slClew stidBlllo3Bo3l, toepoothally waders his profoi E cinntl services to the dttsots of Ifetendrlle and vicinity. OF P!t thvilla. e Mike of Dr. Lee. Boands &I I. Boefeeda. m July It isse—if k W. SMITH, A!TOMMY & 0017D5KL1,013. AS LAW and Lloccued Claire A e, eat Office over Lea's Dreg store. eeepuebson Depot JIIMIXT IS: 1814. • EL BURBITT, DHALER In atage vi ar i :Parcy Dry Good& Crockery, Hardware, fro, sUmea 011 a. and Paint. Boon sad Shoes. Map and Cam Furl. Buffalo Deg. Oroceriea, F.011431=8, ac Prwllthrora. Pa- ABlal ii, IBM.-ff & EL SAYRE & BROTHERS, at / A.151 , Y A ritrItZFIS of MlllCksi.Viingn of all kind 31 Stom. TIE and Skeet Iron Ware, total Implement' Denmin Dry Gooda,Grocrilta, CrOC , Ilocurne. P.. February 11,1864. STROUD & BROWN, rICRE AND LITZ lANITELIANGE AGENTS. 0121 a over 11 , c mer. e•mber 165—U J. D. VAIL, M. D., inr 01111:0PA TRIO PEll3lCLilir. kus permanently lotlied tuoise:f 1n Minton.. Ps- where he wlll promptly attend to s, il. le me proreasioa senh which he may he fawecd. O szd ilitodeace Wee., of the Cowl Howe, new Bentley Awn.. ontme, Felonry 1.1861-Oct. Els 1861. A. 0. WARREN, A TTOENAIr AT LAW, BOUNTY. BACK PAT and PIM A. SION CLAIM ACIDICT. All Peas Lem ChartNo:artfully prit p.n..: 0121, te room formerly occupied by D. VAIL NW. El Dor.re I,.ldtryr.„ below Searlea Hotel. Feb. 1,1864.-febl7illB4B. LEWIS KIRBY & E. BACON, ESP constantly on hood • full afoul, of every variety d R OFLOC IeRIA3 and CONFECTIOIIEA. By etrlet stir. lot. 10 business and fairness in deal, they hope to merit the libmal patronage of the public An OYSTER and EATING SA Loon 1 'filched to the Grocery. where Maslen, in lammed'. are Nerved to in tro rtyle !bat the taster of the public demand. Remember=f to old Mott Grocery ran& on Main Street, below the P Montrose. N0v.17, 1563.—eneh17.18.-tf DR. CALVIN C. HALSEY, INICIAN AND MIIRGNON, AND EXAMINING EVE 0 EON for PENSIONERS. Gan over tbe dare of J.llon Son,Public *ream Bose. at Mr. Etherldgea. netrnee, October. IS.M.-tf D. A. BALDWIN, A ITOANET AT LAW, sad Penton, Basony, add Back ?I7 AArat. Cima Bend, Sasi =Jams °Aunty. Ps. GTest send, Aug= 10. IPit —ly BOYD & WEBSTER, EALEBS In Storm Store Pipe. Tin. Coma., and Mae 1.1 Iron Were ; also, Wind°. Saab. Panel Moo.. Wind.. Ptodt, Lath. Pine Lumber, and all Inn& of Rolldlng Materials Bhop mouth of Scarlet Hotel. and Carpenter eto:rp nor tba tt,noList Chttren. Posrnost, Pt., Jantary 1. 296 E-t! Ha. WILLIAM W. SMITH, v:ra ccoee c loj o i DzAn o r . . VIct . o: 1 11,IIS Sitakh2s tM~.i will be performed In 612 usual ► good= Ltd vz Yiemmrnber. office formerly al B. Smith rt Soa. Hommee„ January 1, Ig&t.--if E. J. ROGERS, Acearcrecromace of CI dem-lotto. °MAG A). ONh. CeftB.lAo6B. SLEIGHS, fn We betty of Wwkonexontne and of the beat materiels. et the well taown nand of 8. 11. IWGIERS, a few rode east • Searle . . Met In Montrose.. where he *III be bsppy to r• the calls of all who leant anethhei to EL One. M Astro...l one 1.1861.—tf DR. JOHN W. COBB, PHYSICILA era BURG EON. rerratettally Leaden his scroun LW... a Rugg; Oetara COSIOLy. He lOW Or I. etTECLILI enl. to the scri,tal tatoil=l trvatmeai a disease Cl the and tar, av oe emu Ateri relative to sortical operations of eharre at Max. over ~W J& S H liniroolreSJore .r. deo. o Maple street. our of .1. 8. ?when l. Hote outrou, Saag. County, Pa.., June 11.11383.-H BALDWIN I ALLEN, LAIXELS In FLOUR, Salt, Pork, Ftet, Lard.Graln, Feed Oandlra. Clove,. and Ilrnothy Seed . Also GROCZHISS, I,L. Onzart. liolosocs, Syrups, Teo and Coen. West olds ol P 7 'lc A venue, one door Wow J. Ethioido. M - Amore, January 1. 1864.-tf F. a WEEMS, MiIoRA(..7ICAL BOOST AND SHOT. MA[LH: also Deslntl! 80 ,- 0. Shoes. Lestber,and Shoe nalHam Repairing do= Et t sad dispatch. 7".t0 Clow. above Searle'. Hotel. tl , attose. Jssuary 1. 18154-4.1 WM. & WM. H. JESSUP, TTORNETS AT LA W. Mantrap , — P. Practice to Snag • A. awn, Bradford. Wayue. Wyoming and Lase.. Qnnnlld kl..ntrore. Ps.. January tat. 1241. ALBERT CHAMBERLIN, rhISTESICT UTTOTLIVEY LND ATTORNEY AT LAW.— LY qfece over the Soce formerly occupied by Poo Brothers. Muttocc. I. MO. J. LYONS & SON, ra , LERS IN DRY GOODS. Groceries Crockery.fiaTeTaLli D D646.re, nertA., 41,odeons, Planoa and a/I kin& of IVO tal Ineonment, Onset Homo, Sc. Also aoTy On Ilaa Book Mod tnt It all It. branches. J. Timm Maumee, Jou owl 1, 1564. T. A- /Yana. ABEL TERRELL. T ESL EE Iti DICLIGh, VIEDICLICISh, CHICIIICALLE, I, Ytle4 OH,. Dyestuffs, Varnishes, Window Glass. ; •in.cerits, drochery.Glsassrare, wsji.pspe, .'" r.nee Goods, Perfumery, &orgies' lestroments. Sri BrumOss, ike..—and Agent for all of the sonsk.pojeO s• P mesa Medlclnes. Montrose. Jinnsr7 1. IMI. C. 0. FORDHAM, A.NUTACTUR Ell of BOOTS & SHOES , . MootrooS P 2 , Shop , over Detir Coors =oz.. da : Alr t tr mark man Montrose Asoll i 1861.4! CHARLES N. STODDARD, DEALER It BOOTS & moms. Laster and Find ings,_on Main r.. third door below Searle'. Hotel. LC\ N S. Wort au•Ae to orelez. sod repairing done nasty. MD...MSC, Pa_ December it. 1860. L IL BURNS, TTORNET AT LAW. ° with William J. Tartsli. oltroolte bowies Ht.AttL. Penthott and Boy calmoxd al ly Cottedwas made. lieutrorti. No, El. DSc- B. R. LYONS & CO. Dcm-Eit 3 - 4 in MIT 000 M GROCERIES. BOOT? 'WOES. Ladlea' Gallen, Carnet.. 011 Clotba, Wall and Windy* Ps Palma, 011 a. &c. [(lore on the esid Ede of Public Amnia. - J. D. LTOSI Rontrone. January I, 11364.-if READ, WATROUB & FOSTER, DCALERS 11 DRY eit:roDri, Drat.. Dedlebseg• 0 .^." 6 ... llnCivam, Jrockery, Iron, Clock., Watches. Jew. Ir., &Ever Perftmery. hc., Brisk Block. Monsoon. 1.,. CIAO ar.claterlX Ilontrare. January 1. tOO4. WILLIAM W. SMITH, W. 06.11LICET /MD OEMS NAPIII. Una wroaanity as band all larrfir derma= imurrxras. ar for shed at short arnica. dp_ _sad Wart Boum toot of Hats IL Mouth:6c ea.. id.rri , A. 1863.-11 PHILANDER LIASITIONaBLC Tr}LLOR. BCY Bladr o artar 1.11.1 u a Foomere 11.0. a. Fa. Molnar., Fa- JIM, t 7, awl THE ONLY PLACE ay!: you fal me ham Fun made s$ hams sad mom& all r • inward a& __ c):t1;100y:s:clill4s1 There is the roots where we slept, Only a year ego— Quietly, and carefully swept, Blinds and curtains like StioW; There, by the bed in the duity gloom She would kneel with her tiny eissit'd hands and pray Here is the little white rose of a room, With the fragrance fled sway! Rifle, grandfather's pat, With her wise little face-- I seem to bear her yet Singing about the place But crowds roll on, the streets are drear, The world seems hard with a bitter doom. And Effie Is singing elsewhere—and hero Is the little white rose of a room. Why if she stood just there, As she used to o, With her long yellow hair, And her eyes of blue— If she stood, I say, at the edge Of the bed, And ran to my side with spving touch, Though I know she be quiet, and buried and dead, I should not wonder much. For she was so young, you know— Only seven years old, And she loved me, loved me so, Though I was gray and old, And her face was sn wise and so sweet to see, And it still looked Heinle when she lay dead, And she used to plead for mother and me By the side of that very bed! I wonder, now, if abe Knows I am at/indica here, Feeling, wherever she be, • - We hold the place so dean It cannot be that site aleepaloo sound, Still to her little night-gown dressed Not to hear my footstep sound In the room where she used to rest. Nail though T am dull and blind, Since men are bad and bate, The Lord Is much too kind To mar such a sweet young face. Why, when we stood by her still bedside, She seemed to breathe like a living thing! And when I murmured her name and cried, She seemed to be listening! I have felt hard fortune's stings, And battled in doubt and strife, And never thought much of things Beyond this human life; But I cannot think that my darling died Like great strong men with their prayers an true— Nay! rather she sits at God's own aide. And singe as abe need to do I A weary path I have trod ; Aed now I have no fear, For I cannot think that God Is so far, since the was here! As I stand I can see the blue eyes shine, And the small arms reach through the cur tain gloom— While the breath of the great Lord 'God divine Stirs the little white rose of a room! poi,encilml Only the the sea intoning, Only the walnecot mnuse, Only the wild wind moa ni ng, Over thelonejy house. "Darkest of all'Decembers Ever my life has known, Bitting here by the embers, Stunned and helpless, alone. Dreaming of two graves lying Out in the damp and chill; One where the buzstrd, Pauses at Malvern HILL • The other—alas! the pillows Of that uneasy bed, Rise and fall with-the billows Over our sailor's bead. Theirs the heroic Itnry— Died, by frigate sod town! Theirs the Calm and Glory, Theirs the Cross and Crown_ Hine to linger, and languish Here by the wintry se.; Ah, faint heart ! In thy anguish, What is there left to thee? Only the Sea intoning, Only the wainscot mouse, Only the wild wind moaning Over the lonely house. [4.rauca. ONLY FM OBE WEEK. "Here we are, snowed up," said I to Constance Nedley, who bad been staying with us at our quiet parsonage-hone since the beginning of December. I had known her ever since her widowhood, which dated tack some nee years before the time or which I am speaking, and both myself and my husband felt a great respect for her. She was mneh admired, only twenty-nine years of age, and fond of gaiety. Contrary to our usual habite,. which were somewat secluded, we had given different entertainments to enliven her visits, and on the evening before—which was New Year's eve—we had taken her to a ball at the house of some friends le the neighborhood. She was unusually silent the nextinorning, and I fancied she was over tired with dancing, or that the weather bad affected her spirits, for the snow which had commenced falling the day before had not ceased, and the sky was the color of lead. We had every prospect of being kept prisoners to the house for a time, which as we were five miles from a railway station' und had Stashed all the sensation novels sent us from Mudie's a fortnight before, was by no means an agreeable nne. "You doubtless imagine that the dreariness of the weather has given me the blues," remarked my friend ; "nothing of the kind; I assure yon if lam a little hit thoughtful this morning. It is quite from another cause. Last night a gentleman asked me a question which took me bask seven years into the past, for just so many winters have gone by since the same question was put to me on the same night of the year. I have often been on the point of re lating to you en adventure which happened to um when I was a girl, but of which I have as yet never spoken to any one out of my own family. 1 will no longer be reserved on this subject with so true and valued a friend as yourself. But, before I tell yon what the question was, I must give you some unin teresting preliminaries." I made a biasing flre, before which we drew our easy chain , and Cctnstance began her story. I never could listen long to anything, however interesting, in an uncomfortable position, and should have been a very restless being had I lived in those days when all the seats were uneasy—though the Yankees may keep their horrid rocking chairs to themselves as tar as 1 am concerned, for the swaying caused by the slightest movemont, reminds me always of being on board ship, which I detest, even when the sea la as cairn as possible. Here Ls my friend's tale in her own words: When 1 was just twenty-two I went with my ra mps to a fancy ball, on New Year's Eve, at Lady L's. I had many partems, and danced bell the Bight when soon alter supper a friend of my father's intrndneed a gentleman to me whose name I could not distinctly hear In the cOnfrothin of voices around me, and the striking up of the band for the next dance. Hurriedly engaging my band for the next quadrille, my prospective partner disappeared in the throng. I had time to see that he was about twenty-two or three years of see, wore a plain domino, and that the look of anxiety which est upon his features wan strange in so young a face. Nevertheless, I had forgotten his existence by the tims be came to re mind me of my promise- He led me to my place and we commenced dancing without his once ad dressing me. At the end of the Snit figure f turned to reply to some remark I fancied that he had at last ventured to make, when I met his perplexed look ing gaze, and perceived that he was talking to himself, for be said : " Yes, it may do; tali, the same name, too ;" then suddenly to me, "Pm ' Miss Porte:acne, do you consider yourself tall? Whig may be your height r' Not a little surprised at this brusque manner of opening a conversation, arid thinking I Would an swer him someway in his owe style, I replied, "ft may be seven feet, but is old." 'But scarcely ander five feet eight luches", he resumed, " have you any relations la Canada?" I answered In the affirmative, .and though with a haughty tone, yet I Emit have looked amused for he , presently added. I see that you are more diverted than offended by the extreme audacity of my mode of addressing you which perhaps strikei you as lee. eccentric, In the midst of this motelylerowd, than it otherwise might; but I assure yy I have no wish to ap pear original or ; lam actuated by very different motives. Before entering this ball-room I received a letter containing Intelligence of g most perplexing and annoying; Astute and which has thrown me Into a state of the fretted anxiety. I am placed in a position of anme difficulty, and with out assistancefiem.yonA feel / can acarcely.extri. este myself. However you may and must th ink tee to be, with tails w I venture to beg nr aaW.11126:111.11a11011rillii MM=EIMMI allgo MONTROSE, SITSQ. CO., PA., truESDAY I ,DE.CEMI3ER 26 1865. stranger to ask. But you have the option of choos ing to listen to them or not." By this time our quadrille had come to an end, and leading me to where my mother was sitting, 'II I. pi a e yon r r e'td deelsion, and toil me of It when you waltz with me, as I trust you will when the next dance is over." I agreed to this, end he left me. When he esme to elsim my baud as the first notesof the denztempli struck up, my curiosity urged me to grant his re dnest, and he put question the first to me, after the ot round. .• Your ehrlstain name ?" " Constance," "How fortunite," exclaimed my partner. Number two, otter the second round. " What fortune, if any, do you possess I , " I answered, "Only a thousand pounds." " Lucky again," muttered he. "One more ques tion, the last and most Important one, I will, if you allow me, make to • you in a letter of explanation, which having read, I trust you will not be ao cruel as to refnile your aid. May Fwrite to you or noir" This was not to be answered at once or without consideration. " I do not preen you now, but hope to have your [acorn Ole answer to my earnest request when you leave the elosk•room," said he, returning me to my mother's tide. What an odd eirerimetance! Did ever agirl have such a strange partner? I thought of but little else but him and has fanny questions for the rest of the night. The more I thought about It, the more re luctant I felt to refuse his explanations; and before the time for our departure arrived, I had resolved to accept hie proposal of writing to me. He might any what be chose, but I was a free agent still, and would take care not to armmit myself to anything. I could tell my parents about it all at some fnture time, but there could be no harm lo receiving a let ter. 1 had made up my mind that, having heard no much, I would know more; and when, on leaving the cloak-room, I encountered my hero of the night, I arceded to hia urgent request, then laaatily re pented. "1 return to London In a day or two," said he, "and you shall receive a letter before I start." I can acarcely describe hnw strangely I felt all the next day. I could hardly believe that I had not been dreaming—that there was no reality In the affair. At all events., my partner must haye been play lug me a practical Joke. I should, of course, get no letter. But I ahould have felt disappointed If none had arrived, and I passed that and the next day In a state of feverish expectancy. At last the unlocked• for epistle came, and tearing it open, I read the ex planation which ran thus: "Dear Mlles Fortescne—l feel very grateful to you for allowing me to make a full explanation of what must appear to you to have been my extraordinary behavior to you on the night of the ball, and if after the perusul of this letter you will consent to glee me your assistance my gratitude will be boundless; for Indeed you will help me out ot a great difficulty, one through which my happiness might be ship wrecked, unless I can manage to evade It. I most tell you all, from the beginning, before I can expect you to judge of the case. When I was about fifteen years old my father, who was then my only surely lag parent, died, leaving me to the care and guardianship of his half-hrother, who was twelve years his junior, then just twenty-eight years of age. My lather's marriage had been an unhappy one, and his dying request to my uncle was, that he would use his utmost endeavors to prevent me from con tracting an early marriage, in order that my judg ment and taste should be so far matured as to render an Imprudent choice least probable. True to the promise thus exacted, my uncle, as I grew older, used every means in his power to exclude me from female society, keeping as vigilant a watch over me as was consistent with the exercise of the duties which his profession Involved. His regiment was ordered to Ind la, when I had completed any twenty orar year. Before his departure he made arrange ments with a friend of his who was on the point of sailing In his yacht for the Atlantic, that I should accompany him. This plan pleased me, as offering an opportunity of gratifying my long cherished wish to see the world and something of lite, for I had till then a limited experience, my University career hav ing prohibited travel In the vacations, which I usnally bad spent with him in some place. It was with delight that I heard we were bound for Ameri ca., and that we should probably visa Canada, whom the gentleman whom I was to accompany had a bachelor brother residing. In his last interview with me, before starting, my uncle talked to me long and seriously as to my future, and upon the importance of my exercising the greatest discre tion in the choice of my wife, should I at any time be matrimonially disposed. He reminded me that my fortune bad been placed by my father at tale disposal for me, until I should reach my twenty ' filth year. After this time he should cease to exercise his right to influence any actions, brit that until then be would in no case cowent to my marriage, or, in deed, to any engagement of the kind, uniess.he should himself be perfectly satisfied with the lady— who most possess no leas than three requirements of his own making—namely: That she should be tall, that her name should be Constance, and that she should possess at least, one thousand pounds. To these he annexed a condition which boned me to wait to engage myself until he should see her, and be, able thus to form Lid own Judgment. I had AQA as yet dreamed of marrying at all, and troubled myself very little about the promise which L readily made to what I considered my uncle's eccentric e s. actions. Nor did I think then that he eariowdy in tended to stand to them; but fancied he was jesting in a grave kind of way as he often did In conver Batton with me. After o delightful voyage we reached the New World, and soon arrived at To ronto, our destination. I was kindly welcomed by my friend's brother, -who, though a single man, was of a very sociable disposition, and had a large acquaintance. The brothers were not so vigilant over me as coy uncle might have wished, in their kind-hearted zeal to interest and amuse me, and 1 had plenty of opportunities of becoming acquainted with the lair sex.. Among the many charming girl!. , whom I. met In society, Mss Forteseue attracted me most, and alter repeater! meetings I felt that I was falling desperately in love with her. She did not discourage me, and we were not long in establishing a mutual understandlog. I did not mention to Mary. for that was my lady love's name, anything about my uncle's strange conditions, but simply told her that I must gaiu his consent to our engagement, and that 1 should not be free to marry her until I bad attained my 25th year; hut secretly I began to think of my promises with some degree of anxiety. I discovered that Mary's second name was Con stance, to my surprise and intense relief. She was more than commonly tall certainly, but the third requirement, the one thousand pounds, was want• bag! It was such a pieta of good lock aCesut her name and height, bat particularly the former, that the importance of the money difficulty did not weigh with me much. As for that, some god mother or distant. relation might leave her some thing, and a number of contingencies might happen to help us lh this particular; ao I wrote to my uncle to tea him thatTi had chosen a dear, fascinating girl, whom he could not fail to approve of, that she possessor' the requirements which he deemed neces sary, and I felt certain of his consent to my engag lug myself, as soon as be should be able to make her acquaintance My Constance, I told him, was all he could desire. I never said a word about the for tune. In reply my uncle told me he was surprised at my having so soon found a young lady who an swered so completely to his pattern, for be bad imagined It would be more difficult for me to meet bin requisition in these particulars. However, he would not withhold his consent to my engagement, if he found that she fulfilled his conditions In every sense, and II she should please him, on his hemming personally acquainted with her, which be said he trusted tb have the opportunity of being In three months' time, when he should he home in England on leave; bat that I should incur his serious dis pleasure if I committed tomtits) any sort of engage ment before he should have seen and passed his ver dict on tna ebjeet of my chorea He had beard from me that I should return to England in the yacht early in the next month, and that Constance would follow me almost Immediately with some friends, having accepted an Invitation to visit some relatives in the north of Devon The people with whom Constance (for I now always called her by her second name) was to travel were obliged to post, pone their going to England, mach to my vexation, and I was a little anxious at leaving her, surrounded as she was with admirers, whom her beauty and love of admiration and attention attracted. I com forted myself, however, with thinking that though I must now go, without being able tfp bind her by promise to me, yet It would not be for long. She pro bably would be with me in a couple of months' time again, and when once my uncle had seen her, I was certain be would allow us to be engaged, for I felt that he would no more be able to resist her powers of charming than myself, and in spits of having no money, for was not my own fortune, which was con siderable, enough? He was a rich man himself, and would no doubt help us, for he had always been moat kind and generous to me. I arrived In Eng land •• fortnight ago. and remained le London till within the last few days. I came to look up a col lege friend to the neighborhood, and wag induced by bias to accept Lady L's Invitation to a balL Just before leaving my friend's house with him that evening_, a letter was put into my hands. On opening it found It was from my uncle, and dated from Paris. He told me his return had been hurried by dreamt/wets, which took blm to France, that business would he settled in • few days, and on leaving tho continent be should make some visits among his friends in England, and , should after wards present Ismael!' at my lodgings in town, when he expected me to conduct hint to tde place wCoaataaca yea staying, sad Oat be should lest am Talk tiviiskti, mil Jour solfplil - R ht ragailkOt..;'Shiverrf , indir Wtong." - once before he must leave Europe again fgr aletiith ened parted. Ile promised, however, to write and inform me of the exact time when I might expect him, mentlonini; three weeks as probably t h e nut., aide time beford we should meet. Here was aEr for me to helm What should I do? If I wrote to beg Constance to hurry tier departure, even If she would undertake the voyage alone, there would be no time for her to make her preparations and to sell, so as to reach England before my uncle should have left It. I was Wl:Lead dilemma, and wanted to rush back to London by the next train to consult a friend in whom I had confided my affairs, and whose advice I valued; bat ktonekton, my collegolrlend, persuaded me to accompany him still to the ball. " You can think the matter over, old fallow," said ha, "as well there as anywhere else, and there is not time for you to catch the London train now." I chanced to see-you when the night was half Over, and being struck with your resemblance to Cott stance begged to be Introduced to you by the gentle man with whom you were speaking, of whom Monekton knew something. I did so partly to acquiesce in his wish that I should dance, as he said my not doing so looked so remarkable,end Lady L had asked him, "If his friend never need."' On learning your name, it all at once occurred to me that Constance had once told- me that Abe Wilts uncle and aunt living in the north of England. It struck me, too, that It was just possible that you might be a cousin of hers—hence my second ques tion to you while dancing the quadrille together— my Ideas were In such a desperate state of erfolu aim at the time that I hardly comprehended how excessively Impertinent you must have thought me when I asked you the other questions. Your replies pet the other Idea luto my head, which Induced me to beg you to let me write and explain myself, and now I come to the disclosure of the design by which I hope. with your aasistince, to obviate the diffi culty of my position. Knowing my uncle's resolute purpose when be has made up his rulud to anything, I felt sure that he would keep his word, and that unless he could see Constance and be able to judge for himself, there would be no hope of his consent to an engagement, and It we walled until he should again have an opportunity of so doing, we should usee to remain as we were until--I am twenty-no.. I would keep constant to the end of time Itself; but I do not feel so sore about my love., imeronnded as she Is by admirers, as I said before. &h if she should forget me' No, 'it Is better to secure her at all risks. Lot use Implore you to help me—you can if you will—you have the same name, are her cour,in. lam almost sure. If you world consider my peti tion, oh! how happy you would make me: you would relieve me from &tremendous load of anxiety. If you are her cousin, you cannot fall to know hoe near relatives who live in Devonshire,. Cannot you per them a visit in about three week.' time, end confer the immense fever upon me—of consentlag to personate my Mary ConsPeice for the week which my uncle proposes to pass In her company? I will let you know, In case you afford Inc this happiness, the exact day when I shall have to con duct my uncle to v1•lt the Fortcscues for this pur pose. I shall await your decision anxiously, and shall tear the worst until I hear. Bo ended Henry Ashford's letter, Corby this name he signed himself. What a strange request ! It was, however, quite true that hearths half engage• to my cousin, for I had heard in a letter from Cana da, about a month before, that she was likely to be engaged to a Mr. Ashford, a young man of good prospect's. What should I do—what did I do! did what many a girl who loved excitement and a !title adventure, placed to such peculiar eirctnatan vs, might have done. I consented to lend my aid in this romantic affsir, which, anyhow, was at all events a family one. I received a grateful answer from Henry, and wrote to in cousin', who lived near Bideford, to accept the oft-repeated invitation they had given me to vialt them, fixing the time in accordance with the plan in which I was engaged.— _ . So there I was, betrothed, as it were, but without a lover, or prospect of marriage Was ever a girl so curiously placed Octore? Nothing served to remind me of my unprecedented predicament, till the arriv al of a locket, with Mr. A-hford's photograph in IL The day after the fancy-ball I mot in society a gen Semen whose manners and conversation were very pleasing to me. I bad frequent opportunities of see ing him, for he visited at our house. after awhile. constantly. I was flattered by his attentions, and he appeared to take an Increasing interest In me. Our pursuits were the same; he would sing to my ac companiment, criticize my drawings, and land ma some of his own, which had real merit, to copy.— He would read aloud my tavorite poems to my mo ther and myself, and things were becoming serious. My partotts, hardly knowing whether his attentiou• should be encouraged or not, on so short an ac quaintance, Were not sorry to know that they would soon necessarily be at a stop to by my de parture for my proposed visit to my friends. Ha was muting the 'Pahee of Art" the afternoon fol lowing that on which I bad let out that I was going away; my mother had been called out of the room; when he made me a declaration of his love. I hard ly can describe what I felt. when he did so, and beg ged me to tell him if he might hope. He would not have intruded hie feelings upon me so soon, had he not known of my intended absence; but he could not bear the soapstone ho must endure, he said, 111 went away without his assuring me of his attachment. I had seen so much of him in the three pleasant weeks that I had known him, and had liked him so much, and felt such a happy (lettering at my heart when he told me of his own feelings, that I began to nnderstand a little of the)oyof being loved, which is impossible unless to one who can love in return, though I could not at that moment analyze my fen sations. I told him that I had known him for too short a time to encourage him to hope, but that I was grateful for his interest to we Wh a t cou ld my more° However it might be another time, e mid not engage mysell until the extraordinary farce had ceded, In which I was to take so promin ent a part. In the momentary embarras,ament the occasion caused, I inadvertently dropped the locket which was fastened to the ..hairs of my watch, and asnally lay concealed In my dress, for I had been playing with the chain, and had accidently drawn out this token of Henry's. He stooped to pick it up, and must have seen the portrait on one side of ' it, fur turning pale, he returned it to me with the remark : "I fear I have no chance. This Ls a slg, doubt less, that I am doomed to disappointment' Seizing my hand, he pressed it convulsively, and looking at me with an expression of pain and regret that 1 shall never forget, he suddenly quitted the morn. I knew that I ihved him after no was gone, when I felt the sorrow which the fear of never per haps seeing him again ceased me. 1 would have given much to recall those live or six minutes which had given in. , so much pleasure, yet had per haps robbed me of a greater joy. Ala! Why had I not told him all It is always better and wiser to be perfectly open In these kind of affairs, particular ly where the heart is engaged as mine was. Had seen so, how much suffering would hare been spar ed me. Bat It was no use to wish that 1 had acted differently, and the next day was the one fixed for my journey. 1 must go on with this miserable bus iness—there was DO drawing back now, for the illy subo.onent to my arrival at my cousin's house would be that of my Immo/action to Henry's uncle. I must keep up my courage for there was much to be done. I wished heartily that I had never under taken what had probably lost me a true heart. In gratifying the whim of the moment, I 10,1 ship. wrecked my life's happiness. I arrived at Whitetaly Manor in a very worn-out state, haOng sesre.ly slept the night before, and my nerves were fearfully strained. It appears Henry had let Mr and Mrs. Fortescoc Into the secret, and they, though evident ly not approving of the deceit about to be practised, had, out of commiseration to him, not seriously op posed It, thinking also, that his uncle's conditions and exactions were very absurd. I received great kindness from them both, and they did all they could to cheer my spirits, fearing I was overcome with the fatigue of the lengthened railroad traveling 1 bad endured. They little knew what a heavy grief was knocking at my brain and heart—how f hated myself for what I had promised to do. An other sleepless night—a headache In the morning, and I was in the drawing-room with my cousins when the boar et trial arrived. The carriage had been sent to the station for the gentlemen, and I beard the grating of the gravel on the drive up to the house under its wheels, an wank% and abutting of doors, and the visitors wore announced. I had been standing at the piano, tossing over some mu. fie, when they entered, and I did not turn round.— Hy this time my heed was swimming from the ten-' Mon of my overwrought feeling, and my agitation was extreme—a step towards me. Mr. Ashford's voice. "Constance—allow me—my uncle." I experienced a rushing sensation in my ears. I turned—tome one stood before me—some one was bolding my hands a face bent over them and then—all was black—l bad fainted. When I retie ed I was lying on a sofa, and my cousins were bend. hag over Inc. lag Heaven that you have opened your eyes again et last," said Ellen Fortescue. "Henry's an. do knows all—we will leave you to maks, your peace with him for helping to deceive him, and to play a practical joke on so good a man." They left me, and some one from the other end of the room advanced and said: "My poor child, your troubles are ended. My nephew has confessed all to me. I must, however, exact one penance before I forgive you your Dart in the dupllelty." Theo, f nit hie voice to its natural tone : "Instead of being engaged to the a'- -Mew , for one week, you mast consent to belongto the uncle for life." The voice thrilled every chord of my being. I , turned to look at Hearts wile end IMO 0/014 to the besslielesva I mot •• - I= "I am so thankful to that rascal, Henry" ex claimed he,. "that he chose Mary Constance instead Constance Mary, When I saw that you wore his portrait In your bosom, I felt there was no hope for too, though I was Ignorant at the time that his true loyal surname, which he had never mentioned, happened to ba the same as yours, or that you were related. I have, in the moment of happiness he ,conferred on me by disclosing that your promise to him only bound von for one week, forgiven him ful ly, and granted all he wishes of me." Henry, ft appears, had been Struck with remorse when he saw how 'seriously I was affected by the complications he had brought upon me, and being of a generous nature had at once made a clean breast of It to hie unc le. Of course, I nerd not tell you, added my friend, that Colonel Hedley and I , were married at once, and that I accompanied him to India. Henry married his Mary as soon as she arrived, which was before we started, and the thous and pounds, which was wanting to complete his requirement, was oresented to her by my hothead, in the shape of a set of diamonds. He made only one condition now, and that was that Henry should WI her by her Brat name, and leave Constance to him. I was reminded of this strange incident, last uvening, by an old gentleman who had not seen me oldee I woe a very piing girl, who remarked to Ida bow tall I had grown, and Inquired what my height was. I thought then, as I often do, of my strange partner, and my relation to him for one week. TEE ORDERLY'S STORY A dark volume of smoke shot up from the city [Atlanta! in one vast spiral column ; and then came a dead, heavy, rumbling report. One of the arse nals was blown up by a shell. This was followed by a fierce tire, which shot up, almost slanultaneonaly, in different points. A cheer came from our batter ies, and was taken op along the whole line. "War Is a cruelty , ' acid the general beside me; "we know not how many innocents are now suffer ing in this miserable city I'm dog gone if I like It," said a soldier, slap ping his brawny hand upon hie thigh; "I can fight toy weight of rattlesnakes. B.:emu/ouches, or sneak ing rebels; but this thing of smoking out women and children, darn me it it's fair." - Pena!" exclaimed an orderly neat ns,.on whom the general placed great confldeace as a scout, and who went through some hairbreadth escapes; "the women are the worst of them; one of them put the rope once on my neck to bang me." "Indeed! how was that Bentley t" "At the battle of Peach-tree Creek I got captured, and was brought before General Rood to be pump ed ; and as he could not get anything out of me, he had ordered me back to the other prisoners, when au officer, attended by an escort, rode up and salut ed the general. " 'Ha! Mademoiselle Major, hoW do you dot' re plied the general. doillig his hat. general ;' and she jumped off her horse, threw her bridle to the orderly, and politely return ed the salute. "The she-major was strangely dressed ; she wore a cap clacked with feathers and gold lace, flowing Pants,with a tall kind of velvet coat coming Just be. ow her hips, and fantened with a rich crimson sash, and partly open at the bosom. "In her belt she tarried a revolver, and by her side a reinalatlon sword. I looked at her; her fea tures were rather snehurned, giving her a manly ap pearance. Only for her voluptuous host, little hands, and peculiar &Ira, I might have taken her to be a very handsome little officer of the masculine gender. 'As I gazed at her, she looked 101 l In my face ; and turning to the general, she pointed her whip at me, and asked, "Who is that fellow, general " "A prisoner that has lust come in—a dunce ; I couldn't get a word out of him.' " 'lndoed, general, that la a spy ;' and she again pointed her whip at me. "0, no; he is only just brought in captured.' "'That may be ; hut he is a spy. I saw him at General Johnston's one day, and h., was lull of lying information, which cost the general many a life.' " 'ls that so !' said the generaL. "'On my honor; come here, Hartly ;' and she Balled over her orderly. 'Did you ever see that man before?* , - " 'Yes, Mademoiselle Makin' 'Where ?' " 'At General Johnston's, where he was giving in formation as a scout.' 'What have you to say to all this, mylnan ?' said the general. "I had nothing to say, for It was true. " 'What shall I do with him ; shall I hang him ?' sold the general. 'Give him to me,' said she, with a sweet smile; 'I em going to General Johnston's; It might be well to take him there.' '• '1 make you a present of him, said the general. "After spending some time with the genera In the tent, she came nut, and placing me between her and the orderly, rode off. When she mime into the wood she and her orderly alighted, and she pulled out from under her dress a strong, but fine rope. •Sneaking dog of a Yankee!' she exclaimed, looking at use with a vengeful eye, 'you hang the only man I ever loved ; I swore I'd have vengeance. I have had It; I have It doubly now, by gist ag you a similar death.' "My hands, all this time, were firmly tied, so I was powerless. While the orderly stood with a pistol before' inc, she tied the rope firmly around my neck, giving it several good pails to make sure it was all right_ They thee helped me get upon the saddle of one of the buries. so as to have a tall, while the orderly proceeded up the tree to tie the rope to a limb. •..Now was my ❑me. While the orderly was climbing, I dung my two hands across the rope and snatched it from him, Jumped into thasadole, and plunged my heels furiously into the horse's aide, which made him plunge and rear. She held him bravely with one hand, while palling out her pistol with the other. Before she could Ore I got a chance, and struck her with my heavy boot right to the lace, spoiling her beauty and giving the dentist a ob. She felL The horse bounded off with me, and "After that, I believe I would swear against wo men in general, had not a woman saved my life In return. "I could not get off the mule chain with which she fastened my tull3clo. though I tugged until the blood .was oozing out of them, and my teeth filed almost to the gams. The cord, too, was so firmly tied to my neck that I could a .st get rid of it. There I was, like a balfstrangled whelp, with all my cre deuttals about me. I had no control over my horse ; en, fearing that he would take me back to the rebel 1 slipped from him and skulked away as well as I could. I got into a little by-road, and thought I would venture up to a shanty where I saw some nigger children playing around the door. They Mu in frightened when they saw my hands tied and I trilling my rope. I foliowed them in, when—heavens how I shook I there were two rebel soldiers drinking some whis key. " said one, 'here is a d—d Yank that cheated the gallows; well, I hitin't against a man ettilas bin accounts ; so we'll take care of him un tillte gets another swing.' - "They questioned me and taunted me with brutal Jeers and laughs. "At length they took mo away ; and not having enough of whiskey to get there, they called at an other hoe.° for more. To make the more sure of me they locked me In a dark room without a win dow, so that 1 could not possibly escape while they were enjoying their debauch. 'Tor a time I heard the drunken soldiers, noisy and singing; and then they had evidently fallen asleep for I heard their loud snores. "It was now a bit Into the night I presumed they bad made up their minds to remain where they were, so I threw myself down and tried to sleep.— Though death stared me In the face I had fallen into a sound slumber, when I felt myself gently shaken by the shoulder. I looked up, saying, 'l'm ready ;' bat Instead of the two drunken soldiers, a gentle young woman stood ove;,me with a shaded light in her hands. " '!take no noise,' she whispered, 'but get up.' "I looked at her as I sat up. ahe took a knife and cut the cord from my neck, and then tried to open the chain. " 'Your poor hands are all torn,' said ahe compat slonately, as she unloosed the bloody chain. "'Alas! yes,' said I; 'but why do you try to isave me V " 'Because I am a woman, and true to the in stincts of a woman, which is to save, not to Poor boy ! tome slater or mother would fret for you. If you should ever meet one in such a situation, do as much for him. Now go, but very qoletly.' "'But you! will they not hurt you "'No, no. I know them; It would not do for them to quarrel with me ; hollow me.' "I gilded through the kitchen; the two rebels were Bleeping beside the are. I passed put. then Im printing a gratmal kiss on my deliverer's cheek, fled and got into camp next day. Bum Stexon.—Perhaps the shortest sermon on record was once preached by the late Irish Dean Kirwan- no wail pressed, while suffering from &se vere cold, toprescha charity sermon in Be. Peter's church, Dublin, for the benefit of the orphan child ren of the parish school. The church wee crowded to Iniffoottion, and the good Dean, on mounting the Pulpit , end announcing his text, pointed with his hand to the children in the aisle, and simply said— " There they st % The collection on this ocelot= exceeded sit . i to h . oakof Miaowd so moue Bo- =SO MEE OR Lk= ET IikERIET E. PRESCOTT. Sooner or later the storms shall beat 2j, Over my slumber froth bead to feet: Sooner or later the wind shall rave In the long grass above my grave. I shall not heed them where I lie, Nothing their sound shall slimily, Nothing the headstone's fret of kin, Nothing to me the.dark day's Sooner or later the sun shall shine With tender warmth on that mound of mine ; Sooner or later, in inmate, sir, Clover and violet blossom there. I shall not feel In that deep-laid vest The sheeted light fall, over my breast; Nor ever noteln those hidden boors The wind-blown breath at the tossing flowers. Sootier or later the stainless snows Shall add their boob to My mute repose ; Sooner or liter shall slant and shift, And beep my bed with their dazzling tidfl. Chill though th at froteripill shillitiera Its touch no colder can mikethe draw: That reeks not the sweet and sacred dread Shrouding the city of the dead. Sooner or later the bee shall come And fill the noon with his golden hum; Sooner nr later on half poised wing The blue-bird's warble about me ring,— Ring and elarrup,and whistle with glee, Nothing his music means to me ; None of these beautiful things shall know How soundly their lover steep; below. Sooner or later, far out In the night, The stars shall over me wing their flight ; Sooner or later toy darling dews Catch the white spark In their silent ooze. Never a ray shall part the gloom That wraps me round In the kindly tomb; Pewe shall b., perfect for llp and brow Sooner or later,—Oh ! why not now karTf BIDER. • Kneeling by the stream, I saw Kate, the farmer's daughter Drinking—ln her rosy palm, Dipping up the water. She had thrown her hat aside— Bare her arm and shoulder; Each maconscions charm displayed, Made my love the bolder. So I slowly, tenderly, Went and knelt beside her, Drank with her from out the stream— Blushing Kitty Rider! And I said, "The poets think Lila is like a river,m Shall we not Its waters drink, 41waya, love, together ? Many yeare, libre passed u by, Like the flowing water, Bat t drink llfe'a etream to-day, With the farmer's daughter. KEEP TO THE RIGHT "Keen to the right as the law directs, For such is the law of the road, Keep to the right whoever expects Securely to carry life's lead. "Keep to the right with God and the world. Nor wonder though folly allures ; Keep to the right, nor ever he hurled From what by the statute Is yours. "Keep to the right within and without— With strangers and kindred and friends; Keepto the right, nor harbor a doubt, That all will bewell In the end. "Keep to the right, whatever you do ; Nor claim but your own on the way; Keep to the right, and etiek to the true From morn to the close of the day." OLD BOBTAIL BY MBE.. !DANCES D. GAGIL "Ob ! ho! be ! aunty, what a name for a .01" "Never you mind the name, Titmonae; but eat stop that laughing a little till you come to the right place, for I want you to laugh when we get there." "How will we know, aunty, when the right place comes?" "It will tell Itself, and if It don't, don't you laugh one bit. All ready ? Let me see—trig papa of little bright eyes looking at me ; two pains blue, two pain gray, one pair black, and one pair brown, and all ready to twinkle into a laugh about old Bobtail. "Well, once upon a time—that Is the way fairy tales begin, you know—away out West, on the hanks of the Mississippi river—oh, yes, Carley, get your atlas and find 'he places. That's a grand Idea; I'll wait—on the bank• of the Mississippi lived a man named Charley, too, who drove the stage between the town of Louisiana, Pike county, Mum-marl and Pittsfield, Pike county, Illinois—the two Loam.' twenty mile' apart "One cold winter day, a great steamboat, called 'War Eagle,' landed me at Louisiana, to go from there to Pittsfield. There stood the wagon. I did not have to 'watt for the wavy& that time. It was waiti for me; and such a queer old thing to carry the m all in you never saw: All the nice new news • papers, that grandmas and grandpas like to get so well, and pamphlets full of pretty stories for little boys and giria, and,lovelettera, notes, and Valen tines for bigger children—for It was the day before Bt. Valentine's day—and all the good letters from fathers and mothers to their dear ones ; there they all were In the Iron-mouthed mall-bags in that old wagon, without cover, with broken seats, and the tire half oil the wheels, tautened behind two horses with chains, and leather straps, and tow strings, and hickory pegs, covered with hits of sheepskin and old raga to keep them from rubbing the horses. "Oh I such tunny horses I one was black, curly, long-tailed, fat, short, thick, lazy, and cross; thn other one white, poor, lank, In a hurry, good-tent , ed, willing, croplsazed, and bob-tailed. Thal:deck one's name was Mope, and the white one's was Bob tail, and a great time they had of It. "When Mope wanted to go slow, Rattail would canter straight up and down, and pull all the load ; and when Charley held Bobtail in and whipped up Mope, Bobtail would seem almost crazy, andp itch about at a great rate, and, though you could count every bone In Lila body, be seemed to know nothing of weariness or trouble, and, blind of one eye and lame in one foot, he cantered upon three legs. The roads were In a bad condition, but old Bobtail can tered up hill and down, and puffed and blowed like a steam engine, but wouldn't give It up. "Oh I It Is too bad," said Ito Charley, "to drive that poor home so." "Yam, It are so," said Charley, "httt them as owns this 'ere wehicla says as how Idopewould new , er git over this road 'thou% Bobtail" 'But Mope Is young and stout, andßobtall Is old, and worn out, and lame, and broken-winded." "Yis'm, that are an. Mope la eve years old, and there Is more work in old Bobtail than tour on her, now." "Mork work I" said I, with a tone of contempt; "why, the old fellow wilifall down before we get to Pittatield." . "No. me'm, he won't," said Charley; "but Ido think them u owls him ought to. give Win clear a. few days till he gets four legs to stump on. Why, that are old hoes Is twenty years old ; and the last sixteen years be tuts run over this twenty mile of bad road every day 'cept Sunday, year In year out, and the boss can't glt nothin' that will stand iglu him." "I stayed In Pittsfield two or three day s, and when the stage went by, old Bobtail was not beside Mope. When I went back, I asked Charley what d - become of the old servant, and he told me that the limt day they kept him In the stable and fed him welL 'But the next day,' said be, 'I turned the old rack-o'-boom out to die. But mo'm. you see I was a leetle arter time getting started, andye wouldn't , maybe, believe a feller, but its the truth I tell ye, at exactly nine In the morning, old Bobtail walks up to the poet-office door, he does, pricks np his stum py ears, turns up his bobtail, gives a snort, and aft be canters of Ida own will, all the way to the river, steppe just long enough to change the mall at ev ery office door ; and, as true as you live, me'm, he tried to gitan the ferry•boet and cross the Mississip pi, he did, and would a' done It, if they hadn't , bate him off with sticks and left him whinnerin • on the bank; and there be stood and waited all night, till nine in the mornice, for I was behind Unto ',Ott.. Thenuff he put, and stopped at every place; abbe lute me Into Pittsfield by two hours be did. en the boss said they should put him up and take care of him till he got over his foolish .bollon of nmatte twenty miles a day on three legs, just because he was used to It. And did ye ever; me'ut, hear tell, the Imo And this is a true story of old Bobtail. 'Horace dyttmn manted it'd's:udder of "Clair Umber North." - 'When he proposed 107 her, which he did holdthg her by the band, Wilson said sloth• bg, tut took up one of the numerals/ presentation volumes 1 ing= around,. and tearing out a'-gpleaf, gon 'with r, the Inscri oloil p t to 10 tion, 'e mnibb the sat a*, cm** , " vti a: a* bit to it*" aftoa 114 r ,14131014 0 2 - 00 P!riOiluPPA NIIIIIIBEIt''.$2: , la mon =wail SPITS bElf. NAO. STINGER, OF SOUTH CIAEGLINA. Waanzntosr. D. C. Not. IS. Bence the November elnctimui I hey bin ependln' the hell at nut time is Washington. IWs Ind. ankoly Ideaanre In Unerta' aroma the seems= so many Dernekratic triumphs. Here It wits that , Brooks, the herole,, bludgeoned Sumner; here It was that Caihoon & Yancey and B achieved their glory and renown. HorldeVta li t, , easiest place to dodge baud bill, In Die - yoonitet States. There'a ao awry COMITIOMMM hoes Mitt steam* me, that I het, no clilnenity In ' one two-thirds tie the time, Yesterday I met In the ratan' room , we Willard?", OinralMaeStibger, of South frarlbrv.. The Gland Is here on the sena blethers most uy theliouthern mow" bey to this classic city that tnr proltoOrin apodm. with he bed prokoored, and wuz gittin may to go, home and accept the nominashen. for Cougc In his dilated. The Moral with gloomy. Things didn't toot Mau , he observed, and be wus steered th at tb.:O=.2 wee on the hi road too roan.' He had been frourthe yorrulted Wats enthhv Weer-Tette Yeldl, 4 Web time be bed spent In the sou th ern eondiderley.,, When he went out, the Constitoosbnel tHroderlsy, bed some rites wit h woe respected. On Ids returni" what did ho see? The power In the handeof .1141- cals, Ablishiltism In the msjor s i d tz h e s very-whaeos tailor President—a state ay In the.: extreme to the highly sensitive So uthern Be bad accepted a pardon only bacon he felt Masai constrained to put hisself in 2 position to go to Con gress, that the country might be rescood 'teem %Its impendle peril. Be shoed go to Congress, and then , he shoed ask the despots-who now heir costrtile whether, L They spored the South wood submit to boo millatin conedshere 2. What Androo Johnson means by dietatlngtO the convenshuns fir sovereign States? "Why," see be, "but a few days ago this howbeit the ashoorence to write to the GeoraConscoshun that it `most we—mark the term -91IIST NOT se-. soom the confedrit war debt' Is a taller *to sq. , muss nor to shiralres Geom ? Good God I—whero. are we &flan ? For one, Tinwer will be eons:Mt ed on them terms—oeverl I never was awl to that style uv talk in Dlntekratic convensbuns. "Ez soon CZ I take my mann Congria," rammed he, "I abel deliver a speech, wish I writ the day el.. ter Lee surrendered, so es to her it ready, In wW-h. I shel take the follerto ground, to-wit: -"That the Booth hey buried the hatchit, and hey - diskivered that they love the old Toonista abdye coy thing on earth. Lint, "The North must meet us ball way, or we wens be answerable tor the consekences. lamb tor a settlement, I ehel Insist on the follerta eorkillabenst "The Federal debt must be repoodlated, principle and interest, or II paid, the Southern' war-debt mast. be paid likewise—es a piece