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Well, if it will give you plea sure, so be it. The circumstances are still fresh in my memory ; but if I trip, there sits the other partner in the Arm—God bless her comely face !—ready to amend the record. , Just thirty years ago, last Hilary term, Col. Tonish Stark, H.E.1.C.8., CB., en-commander of that famous regiment the Bogglywollah Fencibles, returned home from India. Age seventeen, he sailed away, with a smiling, ruddy countenance and a gleeful heart; age sixty-seven, he came back with a sallow, war worn visage and a diseased liver. Truth com pels me to admit that the colonel was neither preposessing in appearance nor amiable in , character. Tall, broad-shouldered, and grim, with large irregular features, and iron-gray hair kW/in like bayonets, he did not strike you, even at first sigat, as a man likely to do a kind action; you felt instinctively that he would have looked upon it as weakness. Woe betide the beggar who salad Qg him an alms If a man, the colonel growled out a stern in quiry why a sturdy fellow like the applicant wasn't at work, or serving the king, and omi nously twirled his cane ; if a woman prayed assistance and bread for starving babes, he held her in conversation until a policeman pas sed, and then gave her in charge for vagranoy. During his residence in India, Col_ Stark bad shaken the pagoda-tree to some purpose. Yellow sovereigns, bright and glittering with the effigies of the first gentleman in Europe ; or pleasant, crisp papyri, bearing the signa ture of one Mr. Abraham Newland, were the fruit he bad gathered. When the cold con sidered be bad amassed not enough— ut ie ble man ever does—but at any rate a dent to live upon in comfort for the rest of his days, he turned his thoughts towards home. One crowning pleasure he reserved to be still en joyed, and this consisted in setting up as the great man of the neigborhood into which he had been born. So Col. Josiah Stark retired from the service, and returned to England, bringing with him, as appendages of his state—item; one shivering Hindu servant called Johtee Lail, attired in white garments, with the turban like unto the hues of the rainbow ; item, one large and heavy bamboo, brass-tipped, many-knotted, with whose weight and calibre Johtee Lall was painfully familiar ; an item, one red-eyed, handsome white cockatoo; reported well versed in oriental slang. Finding, upon his return to Bayfield, a plea mount country /eisiecnoo tAnta 61.‘c X . C.11/10, mbooi two miles from the town, the colonel hired the place, furnished it with the luxuries long rest denim in the east had rendered neeeeseries, and installed himself and his household in this new. abode. Then came a difficulty. The colonel, after realizing his property in India, and laying out the plan of campaign for his future life, had overlooked the fact, that he must have somebody to superintend his household. A week's residence at the Ferns awakened him to the necessity. Why did he not engage a housekeeper ? you will say. The idea aid just flit across his mind, I admit, and With a lordly air he looked down the columns of the Timm for the article he required. As he read, a vision uprose before him of an el derly female in black, with a sharp nose and. vinegar aspect, who cast in her employer's teeth, when rebuked, the recollection of the dear departed. • -Never, no, never in all the years as we was married,' the colonel seemed to hear his house keeper wail, 'did my Mr. Kenspeckle find fault with his victual& Never would he have al lowed anybody to say an 'arsh word to his Harebell& But alas ! the dear saint has long been a hangel in 'seven, and his poor lone wid der must suffer in peace.' To which the cslunel caught hironelf reply ing : 'D—n it, ma'am, and I wish you did.' Or, yet worse, he might engage a house keeper with matrimonial views ; and the colo nel shuddered when he thought of what a ter rible catastrophe this would be. He was rich, single, and elderly—not old ; I should think not, indeed. What if the limit of man's years were placed at threescore and ten, and he only wanted three years to complete that period ; age, after all, is only comparative, and should be reckoned by vigour and strength of consti tution. 'There's many a youngster at five-and-twenty not half what I am at sixty-seven,' quoth the colonel grimly, as he tossed aloft his brawny arms. .1 should be a devil of a catch for some designing jade, I should. No; that would be worst of all.' In short, the chances of comfort in engaging a housekeeper were terribly hazardous and dead against the colonel Whether he was wept at or married, the result would be equally fatal to happiness. 'And what can I do with a woman that don't suit me ?' pondered Col. Stark.,'Not what I should if we were in India- here I should have a khansamann to look after the house ; and if he didit tdo his duty, he'd be triced up at the halberds, and the drummer be laying on fifty before the nigger could squeak Jack Rob inson. But what are you to do with a wo man ?' And the colonel groaned again in utter per plexity of spirit. suddenly, a bright idea flashed across him—his daughter Lett) , I Why, she was the very thing; open to none of the objections that had troubled him, hie own child, who would naturally look after her old fathet's comfort—here the colonel grew pathetic—and smooth the passage of the few remaining years he yet might have to live. Besides, there was economy in this arrangement. For eight or tea years he had been investing capital in his daughter's education ; she should now repay the outlay with interest by her affection and care. So Letty Stark, aged seventeen, was brought home from school to superintend her father's household. There was one peculiar feature in Colonel Stark's character which rendered him a very difficult man to agree with—this was mistrust. The author of his own fortunes, compelled from early youth to keep a watchful eye upon his interests and expenditure, the habit had increased with age , to universal suspicion..—: He may have had cause. A long experience of men in an arduous profession has taught me that the majority will swindle you if they can. I don't mean to - say there are not ex emption, but there being Bach only proves the eorrentness of the rule. Never give any one an opportunity to get the advantage of you, and you will be spared many vexations and mu& less. This is my candid opinion as a professional man. I should 'charge a stranger six- and-eightpence for the advice; but I give it to yen, reader, for nothing. Still, there are limits to all things. Colonel Stark stepped over the limits, eat distrusted HARRISBURG, PA:, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1863. everybody without distinction. His causeless jealousy poisoned his wife's existence. Mean ings and intentions of which the poor lady was entirely innocent were attributed to all her words and actions, until, she being of frail and nervously susceptible organization, the colonel positively worried and suspected her into the grave. Nor did he entertain a more favorable opinion of her daughter or of the sex in gene ral. Cats, sir,' he would designate those de lightful creatures—' cats, nothing more. Al ways trying to dip their whiskers in forbidden cream, and purring meekly about you, to make you believe 'em honest.' Coupled with universal distrust, the colonel entertained another unpleasant persuasion— this was, that all the world had entered into a conspiracy to hoodwink—or, as he expressed it, to do'—him upon every possible occasion, which naturally begat a strong determination upon his part never to be done. Successful evasion of various artful snares had produced its necessary consequence, an overweening trust in his °WU Sagacity and clearness of sight; so that I verily believe there did not march up and down upon the earth's surface a more self , confident and conceited individual than he. Now, at the time Letty Stark came to live at the Ferns, I, Caleb Stutely, was articled to my uncle Ferri!, a solicitor in large practice at Bayfield, and the professional adviser of many of the County families round the, town. He had acted as the colonel's agent for years. To his care Letty had been consigned upon her mother's death in India; by him she had been placed at the same school with my sister @pee, now in London, married ; in hiihouse the girls had always spent their holidays; and the in evitable consequence of all this was, that though both of us were children in the eyes of our sagacious elders, Letty Stark and 1 were very old and intimate friends indeed. At what precise period of my acquaintance with Letty I first began to—to—well, ib feel a tendre towards her, at this distance of time I am quite unable to say ; I only know that, when the sentiment did manifest itself, its growth was marvellous. Like Jack's beanstalk, it sprang up in a night. The first symptoms were, an unusual diffidence, a strange embar rassment in Letty's presence, exaggerated , by a painful sense of personal deficiency. Up to that hour, I had thought I was rather a good looking fellow than otherwise; thenceforth, I believed myself hideous ; I depreciated my teeth, I abhorred my budding whiskers, I con sidered my figure anything but fine. Of a night I established myself before the looking-glass in my bedroom,. with a candle on each side the mirror, and fell to abusing my perfections se riatim. Call this coarse, ropy fibre hair I' I would exclaim, holding up my hyacinthine looks— which, by the way, must be surely blue; Ah ! look at Letty's curling around her delicate head like the tendrils about , a sweet young vine. That a comelexion, that -'mottled, sunburnt skin ! Not for a second to be likened to my .Letty's _lovely red and.white, blending so ex quisitely thatyou - cannot note the line where lily blushes into Yotre: - lentex perfection ! Lwonder at, and hate myself for the presumption.' I made a great fool of myself, my dear, but I had taken the fever badly, and went regularly through all the stages of the disorder. How ever, in spite of my conviction of Letty's in finite superiority, I did somehow one day mus ter courage to enter my suit. Perhaps my pleadiog was too eloquent to be resisted; per haps the judge was kindly disposed towards me; anyhow, the summing-up was entirely in my favor, and, to my extreme delight, the verdict also. Therewith, one step in advance was certainly made, yet not the most important one. It was all very well, and gratifying enough to the parties especially concerned, for Caleb Stutety, bachelor, and Letitia Stark, spinster, both of the parish of Bayfield, to ex change vows of eternal constancy and plight each other their troth, as these two rash young perms did upon various notable occasions ; but they were not, after all, the chief parties to be consulted. What would the colonel say, when he came to hear of the matter ? Ah ! what did he say? Even after the lapse of thirty years, I still shudder at the remem brance. The event happened at a party given by my uncle Ferril at his house in Bayfield.— Hunting about with his customary suspicion, Colonel Stark obeerved that his daughter and I were absent from the room ; he instantly pro ceeded in search of us. As ill-luck would have it, Laity and I, having just finished a quad rille, were at that moment resting upon a seat in the adjoining conservatory, my arm en twined about my charmer's slender waist, my lips in the act of imprinting a salute upon her tender cheek. When I subsequently raised my eyes, they encountered the wrathful orbs of the colonel, glaring through the blossoms of a passion-flower. Medusa's head could not have turned Perseus, if he had only happened to see it, into more sudden stone. Colonel Stark burst in upon us like a tornado. ' Come along, come along, you—you jade I' he shouted, hauling my poor girl by the wrist into the midst of the astonished dancers. 4 I'll put a stop to this. We'll have no more billing and cooing behind the old man's bank, I pro mise you. Be off this instant; toss on your things, and order the carriage. And as for you, young Parchment,' continued the colonel, turning to me, and thrusting his bony fist like a smelling-bottle close under my nose, demon_ , sir, I've a great mind to break every blank bone in your blank, rascally, pettifogging car cass.' The commotion occasioned by this proceed ing may be easily imagined. Letty rnahed with crimsoned countenance to the door, fol lowed by many of the younger ladies, who were indignant at the colonel's coarse violence, and stood by their order. The more severely vir. tuona and moral—wall-flowers these mostly, by the way—drew themselves up with an air of conscious rectitude, and frowned reproof upon the culprits. For my part, I was furious. I recollect making a rush at the colonel, with some vague intention of choking him summa rily upon the spot, but was promptly collared and held off by my uncle Ferril. , Others threw themselves between us, and edged me into a corner, while the colonel was half persuaded, half hustled from the room. In five minutes more, I heard the carriage which contained my Letty drive away. This untoward accident broke up the party ; gentility both dreads and loves nothing 80 much as a scene, and here had been a scene with a vengeance. One by one our guests pleaded fatigue,ed other pretexts for what was in rea o l r 4 i d eg esire to get away and talk over what had taken place; and in a shdrt time my uncle Ferril and I were le ft , alone. 4 Well, nephew Caleb ?' mid my uncle calmly, raising his eyebrows into notes of interrogation, when the last visitor had quitted the house, This is a pretty businese, truly. Don't you feel avhamed of yourself, sir V Not a bit,' I"answered stoutly. ' There's no shame in liking a.charming girl like Letty, I should hope, uncle. The only shame in the matter belongs to her brute of a father„who called me a pettifogger too—confound Mai ! If you hadn't stopped me, uncle, I'd have bad an apology out of the old tyrant., or I'd have known the reason why." ' Pish !' replied uncle Ferril, leisurely taking snuff. ' You speak like a very young man, nephew. If you really felt offended at a hasty expression, the law affords the remedy. Col. Stark is a man of substance, and the epithet is no doubt actionable. See Skinnum v. Jagg, Q. B, Rep. 44, where defendant telling plains tiff he was no gentleman, plaintiff obtained a verdict upon the ground of being entitled by act of parliament to write himself Esquire. Again, Diachylon v. The O'Blatherum, M. P., C. Pl. xtrx. 96, is even more in point. In this case, an Irish defendant refused to defray plaintiff's charges for plastering a broken head. Defendant, who had been bred to the bar, conducted his defence in person, and be coming excited, pleaded that plaintiff was only " a low thief of an -apothecary," not a duly qualified practitioner ; but muck, C. 8., quo ted high authority to show that the objection was shabby, and could not stand. Same plain tiff then brought a second action, arising out of the former, against same defendant, for the libel uttered in open court. Defendant pleaded license of counsel as a justification; but a ver dict was recorded against him. He appealed, and carried the case before all the tribunals, until it reached the House of Lords, where judgment was finally delivered in original plaintiff's favor—Bruffnm ' at that time chan cellor, opining defendant would have had a better plea if he had alleged irresponsibility from imperfect cure; as it was evident upon the merits, that all (if any of) the brains ori ginally knocked out could not have been re placed. A full report of these interesting and important proceedings will be found in Platter and Clatter's Remarkable Cases, t. 87.—But with respect to Colonel Stark; I leave you to judge how far an action against the father Would advance your suit With the daughter.' should have brought a very different kind of action to that you hint at, to bear upon the colonel, uncle,' I retorted bitterly. '1 pass over the personal insult, however; I can treat that with disdain; but the cruel annoy ance to which he has subjected Letty is quite another matter, and for that I shall certainly call him to account.' And I paced up and down the drawing-room in great exasperation. My uncle was a bit of a philosopher in hia way. He leaned back in his chair, and watched me for a minute or two with some amusement. It's curious,' he said presently, to ob serve how completely passion blinds even tole rably sensible persons to positive fact. Here have you, by an ill-timed display of attach ment to Lofty Stark, provoked her father to exercise his legal authority as a parent over that infant, and you now feel immensely indignant at the consequences of your own act.—Have the goodness to pick , up the chair you have just kicked over, if you please. The set is valuable. Thank you. You feel indignant, I repeat, and threaten Colonel Stark with personal violence—most reprehen sible and unprofessional, I must say—because he rightfully rebukes his daughter for impro priety of conduct. Love, Caleb, appears atx--I.lsoy ^ 4 — 4 " . in.sonr mind. May 1 trouble you to replace the coaTicuT- - fib ? I Then you actually mean to defend the man's brutality, uncle?' I demanded, in greater anger than ever. My uncle had a most annoying way of putting things, which made him seem generally in the right. 'No Caleb ; there you mistake. Your usu ally clear mind is not apparently at this mo ment able to perceive the true gist of my ar gument. Ido not excuse the manner in which Colonel Stark thought proper to exert his au thority ; I only assert his. undoubted right, and your consequent unreasonableness; that is all. And now we will proceed to discuss what had better be done.' So my uncle, having satisfied his forensic mind by placing the question in its correct legal bearing, yielded to his natural kindly heart, and sympathized with my unfortunate love-trouble as fully as an unprofessional un cle might have done. The position was certainly awkward. But while it was simply unpleasant to me, for Letty it was really serious. Te be the subject of comment for the sneers and innendoes of the malicious and the spiteful, is bad enough ini an extensive sphere; in the little circle that constituted the Bay field world, it was so. 041 death. Letty must be rescued from this situation without delay. My uncle therefore u4dertook to proceed next morning to the Firns, and propose in due form for the lime dhte recognition of our engagement. This decided, I felt comparatively at ease. Binguine and tolerably self-assurocl, I had little fear that the colonel would not consider 114 a fit match for his daughter. My uncle wig wealthy, and I was his heir ; I had pir pro tty of my own even then ; and when my sr ti es expired I was to enter the firm. Some t ing difficulty might perhaps be raised upon t score of unequal rank, but the colonel had ndaneestry whose names might be offended by a i ptesalliance, while I was the descendant of an aticient family. Even my uncle admitted that is F .a. h did not believe this obstacle world be hien p ble. las ! short-sighted lawyers that we were 1 ither of us conceived in what direction the h drance would be found. i . ORAPTSB II Were I to live to the age of Methueelab, *WI Heaven forbid, I should never forget tle tremor of nervous anxiety in which I pissed the time of my uncle's absench upon to mission to the Ferns. Very sagacious people aver that whenever u have to wait for anything, time passes Wiest in occupation. lam not prepared to ny the fact, but I do maintain that in this rticular men are at a disadvantage. Ladies e more favorably placed. Many ways of playing time are open to them which are °Bed to the Sterner sex. The excitement of covering a dropped stitch, the absorption of ctifying a mistaken pattern, are exhaustless urces of feminine delight• It will not seem singular, then, that I con dered the two hours and twenty-five minutes Uncle Ferril's absence at least thrice that. riod. When he finally returned, I sprang to eet him. Well, uncle,' I exclaimed, what news ?' Now, my, uncle Ferril was a very methodical ran. Nothing less than an earthquAe, I ink, could have moved him to omit A habit ; o I was not surprised to see him deposit his sne in its accustomed corner, hang up his at, on its usual peg, slowly draw off his loves, and folding one within the other. place em in his pocket, and sink into the convert his /other-backed chair, before he pre- . red to deliver his report. As for expecting gain a clue to what bad passed from the ex ression of his countenance, was he not a so citor of many years' bonding? But I was 0 eager now to give these circumstances due eight. Well, uncle ?' I repeated hastily. What id old Stark say ? What Will he do 1' When an I see Letty ?' • Unfavorable. Very little --nothing. Not t returned lay uncle laconically, 11,118Wer g my questions seriatim. PRICE TWO CENTS. ' Good heavens, uncle ! Why, what can you mean ?' 'Just this—it is not Colonel Stark's inten ion to permit Mies Letty to marry.' Not at present, I suppose. Well, no mat er. We are young, and we can wait. What line did he fix for probation, uncle ?' The colonel mentioned no particular period, Caleb,' pursued Uncle Ferril. ' The impression he conveyed to me. in fact, was that he did not intend Miss Letty to marry at all.' What!! never I roared. Why, the un conscionable old barbarian! Does he expect to keep the poor girl in single wretchedness all her days ?' ' Such, I was given to understand from his own lips, is his anticipation,' returned my uncle gravely. I Oh, preposterous, ridiculous, absurd !' I shouted. The thing's impossible, upon the face of it. Why, uncle, he can't, He surely never intends to seclude her from society altogether, to make her a female hermit, to shut her out from the world in the bloom of youth ! He doesn't en tertain such medieval notions of parental au thority as that would argue, uncle ?' 'Something very nearly approaching thereto, I am afraid, Caleb,' replied Uncle Ferril with a sigh. The eolonel'a line of argument, eo far as I was able to follow it, appeared to be this. He has no especial objection to you personally, further than that you desire to take sway his child—to rob him of her, was his expression. You seem a decent young fellow enough, he obligingly observed, and would probably make as good a husband as another. But he objects to any husband. for his daughter, aa I gather, at least, during , his lifetime. er first duty, he remarked, is• to her father. He has had her edacated and• brought up at considerable ex pense ; he has never yet reaped any benefit from the capital thus laid out, and he intouds, again to use his own expression, to make his money of her now. He has no notion, he says, of some good-looking gawk—don't be angry— stepping in and carrying off his child,. just when she is beginning to afford some return for what she has cost. Ii Shen, he considers that, as her father, he has the best right to her ser vices. And really, Caleb,' concluded Uncle Arra, offering me his snuff-box, the colonel's position is, legally, so entirely unassailable, that Ido not Bee what can be done. Try the mixture ; it's genuine blackguard, I assure you. 'Done, undo?' I repeated, aghast at this un expected turn of affairs. tell you what's to be done. If I can't get Letty with her father's consent, I'll have her without it. I'll carry her off to Scotland, and marry her at Gretna. That's what's to be done, if we can't - bring Colonel Stark to reason' • 'There's only one trifling obstacle to that course, Caleb,' returned my uncle, 'and it hap pens to be precisely the one the colonel expects you will adopt. ilia, last words to me, in fact, were: "Tell your youngster, Feral, I wouldn't advise him to beat up my garrison in search of the prize ; I'm too old a soldier to be taken unawares. A lawyer's skin may be of parch ment, but it won't keep out a brace of bullets." ' ---- dirne - orute r --- r ejecta. a:" dismay. uncle, what on earth is to be done ?' Tin the present, I should recommend noth ing. Perfect quiet and apparent resignation. For a time, of course, the colonel will be upon his guard, but his vigilance will soon wear off. Time and a little patience will solve the dirt , culty, I make no doubt. I'll trouble you for Mr. Verney's deed-box, if you please.' Therewith the subject dropped. But it was impossible for me, however easy to my uncle, to bury my sorrows in Mr. Ver ney's deed-box ; and, catching up my hat, I rushed away—out of the office, out of Bay field. out of the world I half intended, in the mad ness of my rage. What might have occurred, I hardly know, if, turning a sharp angle of the road, I had not encountered and almost trod den under foot the colonel's Hindu servant, Johtee Lall. Ordinarily, I shunned this man. There was a writhing servility in his manner, so different to anything I had heretofore en countered in persons of a similar class in my own country, that I could hardly bear to speak to the fellow civilly. Even his color was a fault in my prejudiced eyes. But there were other circumstances which swelled the dislike I en tertained. The Hindu was a coward and a bully; I had seen him fright, children when he thought himself unnoticed, with hideous faces and uncouth gestures, until the little things ran shrieking for refuge behindAheir mothers' gowns. Let hut a sturdy laborer ap proach, whose Saxon heart and strong right arm were ready to protect the helpless, and Johtee, fawning with obsequious grin, would try to attract the tiny creatures he had just re pelled. The spiteful mischief of the ape, the sinuous, gliding motion of the snake , and the ferocious appetites of the tiger, where their in dulgence appeared secure, seemed mingled in the fellow's nature. Thinking of Johtee, I have wondered sometimes at the siege of Delhi, but could thoroughly understand the horrors of the Indian mutiny. In my present frame of mind, however, the sight of the Hindu was welcome. Two bribes he found it impossible to resist—his fingers al ways closed with an instinctive clutch on gold, and he could never withstand the temptation of a glass of brandy-pawnee or grog. From him, therefore, 1 knew I could obtain valuable in formation as to the colonel's proceedings at the Ferns; perhaps I might even persuade him to convey a note to Letty. Telling the Hindu to follow, I went straight to the bar of a country inn upon the Bayfield road, and administered a strong dose of the liquid bribe. It proved only too effectual. His weak head was unable to bear the liquor ; and although I gained the intelligence I desired, I saw it would be too hazardous to intrust him with anything which, in his intoxication, he might easily betray'. That same evening, shortly after dusk, I set out to reconnoitre the enemy's position, for you may easily suppose I was not to be deterred by Colonel Stark's threats from attempting to gain an interview with Letty. I walked slowly' down the road, and it was dark when I passed the swing-gate on the path leading to the Ferns. Treading very gingerly—partly from profes sional caution, partly from dread of man-traps —I approached the house. Lights shone from the dinning-room windows, lights streamed from the casements of the servants' offices. Cautiously I stepped up t 6 the dinning-room, and breathing upon the rime-clothed panes, peeped in. The enemy was seated at the table, alone, over hie wine, big and burly. Behind his mas-. ter's chair stood the Hindu with folded arms, hie dark features glistening over his white robes and beneath his gaudy turban, the light falling nylon the yellows of his gleaming eyes. Something had evidently put the colonel in high, good hamar perhaps he felt pleasantly reple'e with dinner; perhaps he was medita ting upon the success with which he had that morning repelled my uncle. Whatever the o.,use, he laughed aloud, and called to Johtee s o bring him the big bambop. The Hindu glided to the - corner where this inatruntent was usually kept, raised it reve rentially between his palms, and laid it, with a low 'lslam ' before his master. The colonel took the bamb oo, poised it' like a sceptre in one hand, and ordered his slave before him. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING 111711IDATS BECIPTID BY 0. BARRETT et CO Tii DAILY PATRIOT aurn tritox will be semi to grab. scribers resitting in the Borough for mg czars rim trim. payable to the Carrier. Mail subscribers, ma , lor.r.asO 121 Malt. TM WIRIM! Pwrinar AND l UNIONiII pubileked at Two DOLLARS PIN ANION, in.variably in advertise. Ten Gelds to IMO address, Veen dollars Connected wit this establishment n exterudve JOB 011110; mintaining a,variety of plain and hem type, unripened by any astahlithment in .the intetiat of the litate, for which the patronage of the public is so Belted. 'Now, Jades, you see this 2' Sala the colonel. 'lse, Sahib.' 'You know what I keep it for, eh, boy ?' les, Sahib.' 'Well, then, now listen to. me. If ever you come home drunk again, Johtee, as yen did this morning, or carry any messages, Johtee, or letters, Johtee, except for me, or break any of the rules and regulations of this garrison, Johtee, do you know what'll happen to you, you scoundrel, eh ?' 'N-n-n-no, Sahib,' stuttered the trembling wretch. 'Why, I'll flog you within half an. inch of your life first, then clap you in jail for five years, and have yon blown from a gun after ward. D'ye hear, ye rascal 1. , roared the Col onel, ai he brought down the big bamboo upon the table with a rap that made the decanters reel. gas, Sahtb,' stammered affrighted Johtee, with a lower salam than ever, as he received back the instrument of torture, and reconveyed it humbly to its appointed place. Leaving the colonel to the magnanimous amusement of practising upon this wretched creature's fears, I slid on tiptoe around to the servants' offices, and looked in at the kitchen windows. The prospect here was not more promising than in the dining-room. The eve ning being cold, the servants were gathered about the fire in a group. How was Ito gain speech of one of them alone ? Fortune here stood my friend. The man I desired to speak with was the gardener. Letty was fond of flowers ; she must be often in the greenhouses an& garden ; this man would have frequent opportunities of conveying a note. As I was thinking how to get held of him, the man rose, grumbling that he must go out in the cold to look after his fires. lie lighted a lantern. opened the door, and stepped into the garden— I followed. When he was a little distance from the house, I called him in a low voice. The man turned, held up. his lantern, saw my figure looming large through the darkness advancing towards him, was seized with sudden panic, and fled with a shout back to the house. 'Thieve—thieves murder ! robbery !' yelled the gardener, as he burst into the kitchen, arousing a chorus of shrill screams from the terrified women. Anathematising his coward iee, I !Mt fi hasty retreat, and retiring behind the shelter of a friendly bush, awaited what should follow. To the voices of the faightened women were speedily added the gruff tones of Colette/ Stark, calling to Johtee to bring his pistols, and inquiring why they were making all this hubbub. Gazing from my concealment I saw the enemy's portly frame blocking up the doorway, while the women peeped timidly from under the shadow of his wing. Next moment he rapidly fired a couple of barrels right and left, one ball singing closely enough over my head to enable me to realize being under fire. 'What savages these old soldiers are!' was my involuntary exclamation, as I crouched closer than ever to the ground, and wished niy protecting bush of twice its size. The house was now thoroughly alarmed, and further at tempts at exploration useless. As noiselessly as possible, I regained the high road, and made the best of my way baoh - to Bayfield. Next morning I received the following char acteristic note from Colonel Stark . Then, YOUNG PARCHMENT—My house was dis turbed last night. The ass of a gardener, whom I've just sent about hie business, says by thieves ; but,it's my belief that you were the culprit. Now, mark this ; I've just sent up to town for a couple of the fiercest bull-dogs that can be bought, for money. They will be here to-morrow. Look out, therefore, for the safety of the professional hide. 'Lacy knows I'm writing, and sends word she has nothing to say to you. Truly yours, Josian Szaitx.' This was atrocious. I ground my teeth as I banded The epistle to nay anolo, who mined it with a smile. (Upon the whole, Caleb, not unpromising, I think,' he said, as he returned the billet. is something to haTe made the enemy speak. Now, keep quiet for a little, and let us watch the effect.' Well, I took my uncle's advice, and restrained my ardour, though Heaven knows it was a difficult task. I went about my ordinary duties, made no attempt to communicate with Letty, behaved as if there were no such tor menting little person in the world, for falls a month ; then also by my uncle's advice, I re commenced hostilities—in a clumsy way, how ever, and by channels sure to be detected, if the colonel exercised ordinary sharpness. I bribed the laundress to smuggle in a note with the house-linen, taking care to be previously seen talking to the woman by one of the ser vants at the Ferns. Next day, the colonel came down to the office in high glee, and with quite a polite air banded me my note, remark ing he should be sorry to detain any property upon which I possibly set a value. Similar measures were met in the like manner, until at last sagacious Colonel Stark, convinced of the utter futility of any efforts of mine to break his blockade, and strong in the conviction of his excessive cleverness, came forward with a proposal which, at a given period, should ter minate the strife. 'Uncle not in, young Pounce ?' said the col onel, swinging one morning into our office with an easy air. 'No matter. It's yon I want to speak to principally. Now, just listen to me. For the last six weeks you've been trying your utmost, in one way or another, to communi cate with my daughter Letty behind fay back. Letty's a good girl, and I don't believe she would have anything to say to you against my wish. However, that's not the question. The plain state of the case is this I you say you love Letty, and want to get her. I say I've got her, and I mean to keep her. Now, it's quite evident we can't go on playing hide-end seek like this forever; either you must give in, yield all claim, and shake hands amicably. or I must carry Letty away somewhere—to town, or abroad, or even back to India—Where you can't follow. Hey, what do you say to that; youngster ?' I could only reply that, much as I should regret to be the cause of Colonel Stark and his daughter, even temporarily, leaving the Ferns, I could not oonsent, in fairness to the lady, to give up the hold she had afore& me I possessed upon her heart, save her own desire. 'Very good. That's as much as to say you won't give her up. Now, leak here. Lye come to propose an arrangement. Yon him plenty of assurance, I know, and no doubt fancy you will ultimately win the day. I have a fair share of experience in strategy, and I don't think you can. Let us put the matter to the test. Try you, for the space of six months, to take me in, deceive me, clearly, plainly, in my own house, under my 9WP Pose, if you like, so palpably that there shall be no mistake about the matter. If you succeed, I'll surren-' render Lettyr If, pp the contrary, you fail to litoodwizk me win those cis muf M., pm shall give me you word and honor—even a lawyer's got some, I suppose—to draw off your forces and raise the siege. You shail re linquish all right, claim, title, and all the test of your jargon, to take advantage of any promise my girl may have given you, and leave her free and uum9lteted to marry or wet, to