J. M..WEAKLEY.I J. M. WALLACE.' THE OLD TURNPIKE. heaino ntorathe changing hoof, And the stage coach rattling by, For the steam king rules the travtil worldi And the old pike's left to die. Th • gmse creeps o'er the flinty path, And the,ptealthy dotes steal Whore once the stage borao, - day by day, Lifted hie Iron heel, No moro,the wenry ;anger dreads The toll of the coming morn; No FllOl . O the bugling landlord runs At the nutool.lf the echoing horn ; drat Ilea still open. the AM, Alld the bright eyed ehlidren,play Where once the clattering hotif and wheel Rattled clung the No more we hear tho crocheting whip And the strong wheels rumlillng sound ; And all I the water drlies us on, • And an lion limo is found I Thu stage coach rusting in the yard, The horses hare`, sought the plough ; We hove spiloned 'the world with an iron rail, --And tho steam king rubs 113 now. 'The old turnpilto Ix tt,plke uo more ; Wide open gentle the gate ; Wo hero mode ua n rood for oar horse to stride, And WO ride at a.tlylng rate. We Lavin tilled the valleys and levelled thd hills, 'And tunnelled the ounintalieti side, And rouild the : rough crap dizzy verge ' Fearlessly now we ride. 'Oll--on—on--with a haughty fruut,- A puff, a shriek, and a bentali, • While the tardy echoes wake twlato yo echo back the sound. - And the old pike. road is loft dhow, ,And the stagers seek the plbngh ; We have circled the watts with an iron rail, Add the stead, king rules no stow. THE GOLD GAMBLERS. As the, operations the gold and stock market 'during the last wook 11:0, attracted the attention of the whole country, we copy from one of the New York Minks the hillow ing interesting, aceount of the great fight between the hulls and hears 00101 stmt.—[Di. How the great bull ,clique,, who got possession of ten to fifteen millions of gold last summer, entangled the great boar clique into the enormous " short" transaction's ivhich culnfinated oil iiday last; and how the great bear clique, in the midst-of their dilemma, secured the interference of the y SeCretary of the United States Treasury, so that the in il'iged price of tbiD . .-gold in the bulls' pos session came tumbling down about their heads, are problems, the explanation of whicli in a concise and homely way will clear the minds of men allover the coun- try.', The names of the men in the biill clique are already - Pretty sell known. Th• names of the men in the bear clique (without, the existence of which clique the hands of bulls could not have carried on their scheme) are ventilated on Wall street,' but have not got into the newspapers. It is not suffi cient for the puipciSes o£'tbis—explanapon to, under stand that both cliques consisted - of some ••• • . _ of the rieheSt bankers, brokers, and Ei pee illatorbs in the metropoliS. The bears—having entered the market first, the objebtof the bulls was to " cor tin." them, and all other dealers in gold. The first step of the bulls was, therefore, to get possession and control of the'ana jor•quantity of gold in the market. As the average . total quantities of gold in New._YorkL-in the Sub Treasury, in the banks, and subject% to the drafts or iodi-- viduals—rarely exceeds $ 20,000;000, and as a good deal of that amount belongs td the government, or is held by parties outside of the field of speculation,,any ring which can obtain the control of say from ten to' fifteen millions, is of course enabled to.dictato the price of gold at the Gold RooM and on the street It required enormous capital to pur abase this sum of gold, and a low pre Valling price to make the purchase worth ..while. Both these conditions existed. The bull clique had an enormous capital to operate with, and the bear clique had so Urea= down the gold market that the bull rin - g, watching their chances, suc ceeded in buying ten or twelve millions at 135'and under. Another condition, precedent to the success of the bull purchase, and abso lutely essential to the success of the bull scheme after the purchase, was the se- - - crecy of the purchase, and the blinding of everybody to the fadt that this twolvo millions of gold was being brought into -the possession of this clique of bulls. If readers will pay attention, they may 'perhaps ho made to understand how the thing was done. It must first bo remembered that the bull clique Was formed of several firms, and members of firrn, accustomed, and known throughout the banking and spec ifiatixe community to ho accustomed, to largo transactions in gold and „securities. Next, it mist be., remembei : ed 'that purchases of gold at the gold board, of government securities at the National Stock Exchange, and of railway and Other shares at the New -York Stock - Ex, change, are very' rarely, in- fact almost never, -made b' members of the great banking and sp?culative.firms, or by per .. Sens who are pubilclykuown to represent them. It OftenFhapPons that a single house hati noedi - on a certain day, of a or two millions of gold or secu- rities. if it should 'tend its _known b. e i market - to-mako- that puyeas • all holders of the gold or,securities ' manded would instantly become aware of the firm's necessity, and lonld . tably band together to raise 'the price. ' So the, groat firm having the million or two millions to buy, adopts the cue • tomary , niethod of self defence.. It sends but; throughlts `confidential - clerks, te4lohA to, a 'half .a dozen, or a dozen, ,diffe'rent - brokers to buy each a hundred thousand, or two hundred ; and fifty t`li.l3l - sand,ris the case May be. The brokers,• with these orders in their pockets; pro '''ceed to the Gold ;ffoorn , or the Stock Ex change, and effect, one by ono, the pur chases. 'Every broker (as in honor bound) .keeps the secret of who he is buying for. ?Islo one broker knows that anotherbroker, ' , oh 6 .'May be standing by his side, holds a, commission, similar to . his, from the il.:.Rame principal for Nrilioni lie is negotiat big. broker, present l. ,enaployed - by other principals to sell tho .gold or secu -', 'rities asked fori`knOws to whom ge is 'gelling: The,' brokers are •them the go hetweens of - the great 'speculating -on . . either Side ; and ,it is only by sharply ivatehing the offers and bids that the gel ' linebiokets may possibly ascertain Or ,„ , *moped that an unusind demand is.being ;..niade for gold or the Securities in'their trust—a suspicion that' inaucer them 4n.. stantly to raise the price. AithiSmethod of procedure is habitual,. ~7'-Adopted by single ; firms in , he ragiari • of .Wall aired; it,iyaa, equally practicable. .). tho baud of , lirms 'and mornbere. of • 'ilf*whb had poorotliforiued,thinuudvbi . . . .. . • -1- ' : ' - 't • • . . • I , • , . . _ • . .. . ._ .. . r - 1 . _ • .. .; :, , - ~, ~, —,, .:•:-_;- t+-f - '-' -- '• - - ''.. - r L'• - • , , i• - , ',. : ' ,'• - '-, ', '-- :•••: -1- ; ---- , --- j ------- '- -- - ---' ''.- . :-- . . ~ ~ - . .. . •- , . .. . • ~ —----—-- - - - - - - • -:-, , -=_ _ _,— ,-_- ; ; ' • ___.',.i.,.1,-:_- -,.:.H1.- , =,,, ,,2 . 2 ..--±'-:',. '.''',,, - --.-. ~,, 7 .. ,:.,,,,,,:,:,:,.: : ~_7 _,_,._7_,......„..______,.,7__. , ... ..,... , ‘.. .. ~.• . ... ~ 9 . . , . . . . . . e • , • ~ • - , • ... A •.", . .. . ~. ._ ... „ ... ... .. , • , ... .• ... • .. . . , .. _.. .„ . . . . . . into.the great bull Clio*. Day after day 'and week,after week: the rich coalitiorrof bull operatbrs proceeded—by changing their brokers so as to blind' oven those mole eyed being 4 to the, colossal job that was being " put up "' against the beais 'and the whole speculating, and business community=to gather in and lock up the vast hoard of 'gold which they finally. accumulated. , This was done so, quietly, so dexter ously, and with so little effect upon the gold market at large, that scarcely a suspicion the truth was -whispered until quite recently, except through the columns of The World. And The World, which sent forth louder and louder notes of warning as the plot thickened, and prophesied, before last Friday, the crash to come, did not happen to have the of the bears who were too helplessly involved and cramped to " Stand from under." Meanwhile this clique of bears kept on at their big game. The game of the bears was that of selling gold "short." Let readers again attend while we at tempt to explain, for the comprehension. of minds outside of Wall street, what the process of selling short " was in those days. .The bear clique—mdre than equal-in wealth to the bull clique, of whose exis tence they had not the slightest know ledge—engaged in this Way : On a certain clay gold was, say, firm at 135. The bears, through their brokers, sold, res pectively, a hundred thousand, or three hundred thousand dolla - M, gold, to parties wanting it, agreeing to deliver the gold next day at noon for per cent be low the price on the day of sale. To` the inexperienced mind, this agree ment of the bears to deliver' such an arnount of gold at ono per cent below its current market value must,- at first Bought, seem inexpressibly foolish. But how foolish must 4 it seem when it ki,con sidered that,: at the time when the bears entered into the agreement, not one of them had any gold in his possession? That, be it remembered, was the truth : the bears who sold the gold, promising to deliver it to the purchaser on the morrow, had no gold to sell ; and, except that they were-rich -men, able to-own the gold, and competent to. get it in some way and de liver it at the appointed time, they would have no moire right to sell the gold than any boot black, with only his day's earn ings in his pocket, in the City Hall Park. The sale was nia - db;rgold had to be de livered ; the sellers (the bears) had 'no gold. They,had, first, to obtain the gold . t6 doliver,.and thus make good their bar gain and their credit._ They had, second, to secure themselves against a loss, of the one per cent difference between the price.of gold on the day_of agreement and the price they had agreed to deliver it for. Or else they were, in evitably, losers by the transaction. The first thing the bears did, after selling short in the way described, was to borrow the gold wherewith to make good theirileliveries. This borrowing pro cess was effected through their brokers, with brokers representing the plrtids having the gold to loan. The thing that the bears now hoped and expected was, that the gold market, under the influence of their short sales, would decline, so th'at they could go and buy next day, or the day following. that, an antount of gold eqUivalent to that they had sold and bor rowed fat l say, 1321 or 133, If they could `do thls,.they could return their borroWed gold to the lenders and retain a profit of one-half or one per cont. To the chagrin of the boar operators,. their short sales failed to weaken the gold, market. So they had to renew their loans day after day, and trust to the future. Weeks passed.; thy continued their stunt sales, and continued borrow ing, and still hie market, although vacil lating and apparently weak, did not once descend' below the rate which existed when they first began their operations. They were disappointed, but still utter ly dazed and blind. . - They failed, all.the while, to find out the fact that the bull clique of operators, with ten Or twelve millions of 'gold in their Tossession, wore actually loaning them, through ono set of brokers, the gold that they harrowed, and buying back again, through another sot of brokers, the gold that they sold I Title' bears at last became enraged. They formed a poolpnWednesday of last week to seliAl2,000,•000 of gold 'short. They'- sold it short ; and without. their knowledge the bAll clique. took nearly every dollar of itij They, had to borrow the gold, and the-'bull clique lent them, 4 nearly „every &Alan receiving it back again, of course, on the day of delivery, through their -brokers, who had boUght it. . Htill Clio market, thus entirely mlhe hands of this tremekdous clique of bulls; would not go down in favor of the boars. 04 the contrary, the immense short sales . of Nednesdn,ydiselosed to the bulls more fully than before how completely the bears anctall clasl>es of speculators besides outside ho bull, ring were in their (the bulls') Hs. . , ' They raised the price of gold _in the market: This iiras a terrible move. . Thedilera ma of the bears was now a desperate one. For we must omit to consider that the bears, who had - kobton borrowing:over and over . again :tlie gold neeessary to make good: their contracts,' had, some or another, to buy the gold to return finally to, the lenders. Their hope and endeavor had all along been to break the market down,. buy•tho gold at a reduced rate, and. thus make their profit. , But, when the market rose .against them, im. agino 'tho . congternation of those men, Who had bythat..iime engaged in short salmi amounting to millions pponmillions ! They Made onemere.vouture7zanother short sale of iiremlllionsormore..: -Again the bulls took it. But whoa' the bears went to berro r w the 'gold to Make 00 last sale good, CM - bulls Stopped lending; there ivas no gold. , s • • •• • This vas on Friday. ,Dismaircd and frantic,. the bears then rushed to' the Gold Ifoonflo 'buy gold, and got out .of• the Whole -lisiness. Their necessities wore ,toe, , Well . known.. 'llp : went the price, higher, higiter; higher. The tempest,,threatined td'', sweep, them all into banktiptcy r y '; Then it wis, thkt Bee start' , 80, trait: eanui, the rescue pr,oxiiige LOU fOur nitions.;. whemith,,:, \ to J , • relieve their nef3ds. — _Thon it was - that the fog and smoke descended - upon4all street and its environs, whichstillmakes that region appear chaotic. , The bulls: ran up Old too high—there fore so many failures resulting from the gold transactions. Many of the benight ed boara who bid for" and agreedto take gold . at the extreme rates on Friday, found themselves unable to take it after' all. - Ilat.the bull eliqueootwithstanding their excessive avarice, are presumed to have emerged bettor off than their victims. __The_tightness Of the money_ market which resulted from this crash in gold was followed by, the panic in stoolte. Men and firms wore compelled to reiffii6 money on railway shares, which, when forced heavily upon the market, suffered: The fictitious valuei of. them burst at once, and the real-value of others fell under suspicion, or were sacrificed from, necessity. . To nominal, depreciation et.railway shares above is estimated .to be not less than two hundred million ' ' Tho stock panic, fir more than — the. gold panic, affects business mon and the rural banks throughout the count 7. • In cities such as Buffalo and Cleveland, and in the cities. throughout , the West, merchant's andl*nks have lost heavily— oven disastrously.' The banks here and in Philadelphia are not, it is believed, cramped as yetby the downfall of stocks and the great firms dealing in them. It • is the custom of New York banks to pro tect themselves by the retention of heavy margin loans on railway shares 7 -margins which have 'constantly to be kept good, as such shares decline. It is tliCkeeping good these; margins which drains the resources" of dealecs •, and - whenever a house to which the loan is - granted fails • to keep good its margin the bank has the privilege of selling the collaterals forth with for its own protection. The price which the securities thus bring; together with the margins already in -the bank's possession, will generally make 'good, or nearly - good, the risk which the bank has taken. Still, there is yet room for 'doubt as to what may befall. A tTBIT TO COMMODORE VADERISILT'S PRIVATE OFFICE., - At the corner of Wall and William .is the Bank of New York. -During this present panic it has been the headquar ters of the Spirit of Central. Fromits comfortable offoes, upholstered as a Fifth Avenue drawing4oom, the Corninodore has worked hie \snip. From it he'; las dispatched his boardeis. to . the assault of of Junior. Jim Fiske. From it h has sent words of encouragement thosp who have been winged on hiA side, or in his fight. .There he has held his council of war, which, unlike all other councils of war;has done something. From there; his shots have been well aimed ; his allelic, •well filled, have been sent amongst the pirates who want to wreck the old ship "Central," and make its commodore walk the plank. The old tar has fought bravely, as he has said, "to protect him self." He has resolved as bravely, for if rumor be not--as she mostly is elseiyhere,. but always in Wall street—a lying jade, he has nailed his flag to the mast and has sworn not to go down while there is a shot in the locker. "He ain't so sure, either, that ho shan't mash that damned pirate the Admiral." To the corner of Wall and William then, Qll yesterday at full noon; our re porter's footsteps bent. Trinity, with a burst of brazen music, told the hour of twelve. In tolling it its tones were' as dulcet and as cold as if indifferent whetli 'er it was a knell of death to the.broken, of a chime of exultation to the conquer or. Thi? pleasant September sun shone as pleasantly for bull as for bear. Wall street and Broad and their vicinage were just at the moment-quiet. Yet in the faces of theses surging crowds which shot about in the financial heart, of the republic like ' the animalcule of a a. drop of wxtor ther i e„was a shade hero and there of deeper 'anxiety than even normal Wall streetlan prOducii. Thay hurry along as flocks of seagulls on the ocean. The corner of Wall and William is reached. Passing in, the first official met is a careworn man conning over fig ures with a deoper energy than ever a Thomist devoted to the arguments of an opposing Scotist: There is no pause; "one, five, fifteen, twenty-two, three, four,, ;ix; eleven, nineteen: " "Tim, eleven; forty-four, seventy-six, one, thirty-three." • ""Is Commodore i.randOriiilin 2," "Five, four, six, elov—" 'ti" Is Commodore Vanderbilt et present in the bank?" Three, two, Commodore; five; six, Cothmo—three, four—Commodore Van-, derbilt, did you say? R, The question was rather peevish. A face, anxiousin calculation, looked, up; but before an answer could be•given it sank again to its task. • " lees, COmmodore Vanderbilt. ' Ten 't there - such •___ After another round•of calculation the interrogated admitted to his persistent interrogator that such a person as Com inodore Vanderbilt did exist, and that ho was not a ruyth, created to tease naughty boys who' would play at' bulls and bears, or to disappoint young maidens who pur %tasp gorgeous. trousseaux: Before the gracious informant could relapse into arithmOtical unconsciousness ho was re 'vived by the quick quory, .f Where can he be seen ? " • . " Can't say; bettor inquire in the other room?" ' The othdr room was not fare distant,' and behind its enshrining glass „and ir9bdwork was a gorgeous individnid, whose appearace suggested that ho-;teas one -of `those younghaea " whew, help se, frequendy wanted, while it equally . forbabo„ the idea . , that he received- "a hundred a year, and was expected to live with' his parents." . • ," Can I see COmmodore Vanderbilt?" 4 " Well,. non , , - , I really can neg say, Perhaps it would be well for you; take a Seat and wait until the XishlMemes." In a fevr minutes the " Kishhe caMe: A word explained the errand quelgoner, and a werpatisilcd the, cashier. ' AAA , ." Go tight 'thrdiuglt • ilia, bapi;" courtioutly • feplild. ",41.t tha of it you sea a stairs up stairs ia the CPni. , modoro.. I don't think : ho coatitio you much•infikiaati v oii - L-Tnate 'than 'you al jiatdi have." . ' , ' Remembering a'previous statement of the-jolly-old Commododore to.one of, Ths Wor(oF seekers. ;liter knowledge—that , he wasdamnodst 'follow for, knowing nothing. that there ever was—these words of the c4shiiii seemed prophetically true., Forcing a - 'way through the• horde. of gamins,—who, if, :as Wordsworth poeti cally foresaw, they are to be the fathers of- Wall streak of the future, will make that region hotter than it seethes at p_res*- ent—tbe iron stairs of the " keep " wore reached. Its gate was unbarred, and neither 'mYrinidons of the law nor con ' servators otpedce stood iliercto guard the way. 'No bounds—Well, Columo dere Vanderbilt 'is Monarch or Central as is Admiral Fiske• Prince of Brie, butit may be do - übted if either of them could rim up that stairs—two hounds brought the interviewer to the Pretience. .Chapenu lets chapeau Las, Monel!.mr le Marquis de Cambris. . • All hail, Thane of Cawdoi. The Com modore is at his table. I A burly rustic by his side is the picture or rude health. With a neckerchief twisted around his throat, and swinging hid muscular arms as if conscious of thews like cords, his boid-: terous -laugh and abrupt manner-con trasted unfe;w:F . p ) bly with the poliShed style and keen ;courtesy of the great nay:Tend railroad hero. The conclusion, of course, Was irresistible—the rustic, if not the janitor, was the first deputy sheriff met round the building: He scorn ed, however, remarkably intimate with the Commodore, considering the short time whichhis apparent services of keeper had been needed. But there are some Wise laws, as well as modern instances, which justify the belief that misery, which gives us such strange bedfellows, makes companions of us all. So the .Comino ddre sat with his Man Friday. A bundle of papers was before 'the former. He had just raised his eyes from a statement as the repel-ter entered - the - room. "Commodore Vanderbilt, I believe." "ine same sir;, what can I do for you this morning?" / It was a keen eyed old min who spOke. Ho spoke with lips and with eye. His. words have lid'en'iepeatcd. Hisbye said, "Who ale you, anyway? What the deuce do you Want? .Get right through your business and git. When you call on a business man in business hours,• see that you do your business and go about your 'nosiness." It said this and a few vol umes more, accordi . ngly as it was inter preted. It nißlist "No," if you took no for an answer. Yet all the time it was a diplomatic negation by glance which meant "I have no objection, I'm sure; can't say I'll tell you much, but you just try." What a stOdf_these A3vo_faces .were, the,' henchman — and his thane. The latter past his sixties, bright, keen and. adarrianthie, with a silent tongue in silent face. Half an hour over a dinner table would reveal every thought of his companion to that eye. But to interview the Commodore; and not study ,his face or tireless - interesting one of his stolid companion, was the business of the mo ment. " Well, Commodore, I have been sent to obtain frOm you, any views which you hive 'formed on the present crisis in Um money market." A shake ,of the head said "no;" the eye, although endeavbring, to_ say the same, quite as strongly, " I know too much, too much, indeed, about this thlit,% but you don 't catch me just yet; uo in deed, young man, not if I know myself, and I think I do.t' So the lips. moved and said: P really don't know what to make of it. " Are we, in your opinion, likely to hare such a serious commercial re:yid_ si on of proceeding from Wathitrect, and af footing other channels of trade, as swept over the country in 1857?" " Well, now, really, sonaly,'! . (Wouldn't it be glorious to be "sonny !' of $300;- 000,090 ?) I really cannot tell you any thing. I don't care about funning opin ions.. All we wont is to protect ourselves." Here wns an opportunity to get ~at, somethi4 so so the questions: "Against whom and in what was, was-this. pro tection needed "` - wero almost ready, when the Man Friday put in his lingual "What opinions do you want?" '" I stated very clearly to Commodore Vanderbilt that, my, inquiries werc 'in reference to the present crisis and. its I probable adjustment." " Crisis be hanged. I toll you there ain't no crisis. Thete is only a crisis in the newspapers. It ain't anywhere else." This might have ; been immensely satis factory to that person who uttered it, and as it is does t finds a place here ; liut further conv9 ation with hint was likely to result in similai; information. Turnittg, to the courteous, old Commo- - iore, some leading questions were again, .put, with the invariable result : "I don't kndw nothing, 'sbnny ; I don't know nothing, I'ye no opinion and I've no factS." , - . . • . . " If the jury behove from the evidence _that_tho'• plaintiff and defendant wore partners in the grocery, and"that the plaintiff bought out the defendant, and that the defendant paid the, note by do livering to the plaintiff a cow; which he , warranted not broaehy, and the warran ty was broken by reason of thObreeching of thO Cow, and ,he drove the cow, back and tendered her to the defendant, but he 'refused to receive her, and the do fondant took her home again and f put heavy yoke on her to prevent her ,from jumping fences, Ml . by reason, of her yoke she,broke her neck and., died ; and if the jury believe' that the Vofondant'n interest in .the grocery - was worth any 7 thing, the plaintiff's note was worthless; and the covrgood for nothing, - either for hOof or milk, then the jury must find out , fortheinselvos hoW they' will decide, the ease ;ler the coint-‘4lon't know . how Lsuch a case could be decided." %. • . . • . , _.../.. • Many of our rcallere - Who have visited Niagara 'will. air*, With' Mark. Twain, who said that the . first 'time ho was there, the hack fares Were se ;much higher. than the. falls, that the falls appeared - insigni-: leant:. It locattio . apparenti.ihat either. the ,fas:ha4 te , be discontinued or the hOokinen,. ,had to . subside: . They could pot llioni ,tike. falls, and so they damniod the ha - ekplen.,, ; , . If ,yop. would, preserve esteein,, lie gen: If yeti woul(t obtain powei.,' be coolie- GOOD ,LUCK. I , always was: a lucicyfellew, andA e Most fortunate_ thing that ever happened to me was being bern. - Listeb: Three years ago I had just been jilted, and was out' of • Money.j That doesn't sound lucky but it was the prelude to the - best of luck. • ' I concludedto go doWn to Plymouth, to my • uncle's hous&---- partly that themurthurs of the sea might soothe my inwa,rd' perturbation, and, part: ly to save n,,month'S board. • , I stepped' on board - the early down train. It was full of silly six o'clock pas senger's, mostly — men - . - 7 - Tilly — sun — was shining on the water, but , the, fog Wei hugging the banks, and clinging to the burnished surface of the tido. I suppose a poet could have made something pretty out of the sight, but I only wrapped my, self closetFA my overcoat, and looked at it sulkily. After a while I got listening to two men who sat behind me. • ~. . "A pretty girl with a fortune isn't al ways to be had for the asking." "Oh, but the girl isn't asked, I take it. It's all arrange!' by her aunts, and she,'ll acquiesce.. She 's shining pretty, but a mere. child—not Witco'', I believe. They had another fellow booked for her, hilt he.died id New Orleans of the yellow fever last fall."- " "And she 's never seen this Smith ?" "No, nor they either. The aunts plotted with Mr. Dunbar, the guardian, and he picked Smith up for them, opened a correspondence, and got Rose to write' a letter or two. Smith professes to be in love with her letters, and her picture but of course it 's themoney—forty thou sand, if she marries before she 's sbven teen." ~ • - "If the girl amounts to anything, it 's• a deuced shame 1" . • She does amount to something. 'She has the making of a splendid woman in her, but nobody knows it, or cares. They are bent -only .. on saving the. money for her. if she forfeits it, it goes to some pet charity of her crazy old grandfather's. lle was allays an old tyrailt, and as ec centric as the d-1." "You know Smith?" "Only by sight, but I know a chum of his, Burton, and-got the story, with - a copy of a letter of the girl's: I've seen her many a time down- oin the 'shore, al ways i6ith hei•.dragon aunts',!'.7 " Where's the - letter?" " I've g,Ot it here in lie e• allot. • Now you know the right sort of a limn won't; havo his._girrs .letters hawlced about among his associates. 'Ho let Burton take this copy, and Burton gave it ,to me. Let me See—this is it. Listen. !Dear Smith.—illy aunts wish me to—reply_to_your hind letter. lao not snow what to say. lam not accustomed to'sViiting to gentlemen, but I must tell you that I was sorry to have aunt Sophy send you that picture of nic,; 1 ant not near so pretty ;.it Hatters me very much. You a - re so handsome that' you - . will ;Want a beautiful wife ; so I don't think you yop ought to be deceived'. I don't want to be married ; but my.aunts say I must, on account of Ole money ; and perhaps it may, turn out ,all right. I am very lonely here. I would lise to live . in a large - city, - and aunt Sophy says you would do everything to please me. Have' you any sisters? Will your „mother liso nie ? I always wanted sis ters, and a mother of my own. Ido not kno what else to tell you, except that if you love me, I will do whatever you want me to. Very truly yours, Rose Rodgers.' There wore comments upon, and a laughing discussion of the letter, which was certainly very uniqui. But as co rattled along there minas a buinp, a shoc.., the cars stood still, and everybody teas in consternation. " We are off the track ; bo patient a little said the conductor, passing throughi But in consequence of this little acci dent, it was two o'clock before we got -down in Plymouth. As.we swarmed out upon the platform, I noticed a, very pale young man, not. unlike' myself in looks, emerge Worn the foremost car—his coat sleeve torn out, and a violent •purple bruise on his forehead. , "If that should , be the lover Smith, mw," said I to inyself, "what, a plight Luis in I" He seemed very much• outoChumor, and beckoned angrily to a hackman, jumping into„a carriage, and desiring to be takerrto the best hotel, After that I saw Several other. persons more or less disordered and bruised by the railroad accident.., I' wag leaving tho depot, when a co oked conelunail bowed before me. • - "Beg pardoni sir—Mr. Smith ?" • " Clitrriago is waiting.. Step this way if you please." wondering. if indeed my uncle - had - SC . lli up,a dirlage 7 - -It Used to be my aunt's pet.' Ike. barmiche,. with the old English coat of arms, which had, indeed; belonged to us, but had been' in disguise since the impoverishment of Raleigh' Smith, of ' England, I-wasn't quite su;o what they trove, butgbelieveil it was a sword and a helmet upon a piece of parchment ; but it proved to.be a pen and a sword against a Rialetp; which ryas very appropriate, its there had been Rchplars, artists, and military Men among, our ancestors. • "All Tien 2" asked good naturcd)y "All woll,"' anu*ored,,SainbO, grin, shutting the dope. Thou ho lOoked back to say with a'grin vory gay this morin.' If my staatoly aunt and cousin wore gay,.it was .certainly ; worth., romarking; so I laughed:a litthiand Sainho'ohuckled again and jumped uptinhis soat.7 . . . . We rattled though, the stmets, under an arch,, up ah avenue. 'Pangs to loolc strange. , • • . •, _ ".Where aro we?" I 'asiced,, as Saufbo opened .the_ carriage "Do they lir here ? " . . • '" Yes Mr.'' , 'info's Mr. Dunbar, At the same inonienenn elderly gentle Main. , ruehed out to the tore co to. mee , . ‘ , .why, SU - Atli, you r aro' , .wonclerfully lido," ha ex(lnkined,lilmking w" me, Tho s orris inn - Ott 'the track,'" 'I an awbred; and hdfdro efirdit tar anything ohmic 111.1,8000, ma - wEip: A.l oo4 w tody. ~.gm:ry,)ritl) your toilot'nild•comutlo.3yns .Pity . yun triutUrcl. your;iFhipir.ere ii l o 8 F;; i allivi'At yQUr uri pearaxi,co vory:auuch; '101i 0 ,4,t,/ 1 0P• • ' ' Smith dross: Right inpzerl.r. ark waltina.". I found myself in a luxiirious dressing morn; and a mulattii u , as respectfully in attendance. 1,, Sat .down and looked at What is youi name?" • "Robert, sir. Will you be eo kind its to lnirry,, sir. They are waiting on you." I gay() hint the key to my portmanteau, and resigned myself to my fate, whatso ever it might be. But things were very strange. "Where is my uncle asked I, as Robert Alexterously_arrangeLay::gaimek. sleeve buttons. "Your 'uncle? Oh, yei sir,." with a. bad atteMpt at not smiling, "be 's with the ladies, now." " HoW, long have you lived hero ?" ." Don't know, sir. I-'ve only been 14e aday 'or two. There, sir; do you Want anything more ?" " No; 'I WaS arrayed in my best appa rel, and looked well, though my 'Whiskers, instead of,being trimmed, were of early grOwth, and had never been of any length: I was met at the foot pf.the stiirs'by the irrepressible '3li. Dna*. "It 's all fixed," said he.. " You 'll be married at once. I, had different . ar rangements made; was going to give you and Rose a chance to get p, little ,a,cl. Mminted; but the ranipad-delay spoiled that. The . Rev. 10. Lawson is hero. 'Come right - along. A stiff upper HE He led mei into a long reception room. Some ladies ,shook hands with me. pA tiny, .goldeii haired creature was put . at my side. The clergyman married us. Then there was a chatter of .cOngritula tions. One - woman with a horrible scarlet head dress put her head—on my arm and drew- em aside. , " What arrangements have you made for your wedding trip?" asked she. "None," I ansNyered,• truthfully. " But yon are going to New York for a week or two? " I thought New York as good a place as :lily, if I was expected to go some -where, and answered yes. " Aunt Sophy," Said a trembling little voice at 'our elbtrws,,"What must I' do ME "Run up stairs and put on your travel ing :dress, child. Your aunt Magarot will nssls,t gou." " 4 ' It was my wife. She never looked at me but ran away again. Refreshments were circulating. I tried very bard not - to go crazy. . At last Dunbar came to me again; " All ready, Smith. Carriage ip wait ing. Yon 'll catch the_ evening train with smart driving. . They hustled inc out .again, kissed Rose, shook hands with.me, and we two, alone, were driving poll men to the depOt. I bought tickets for New York, gave Sa:Mbo five dollars, and we were oft Well we got into NOW York about midnight. I took a carriage to the St. Nicholas, took rooms, locked the door and told my wife all about it. She looked at one awhile with hergreat blue eyes, and then said innocently: "Well I don't know Its it notices any fferenee." After all what difference did it make? The disheveled young man with the bunii)e4 forehead proved to be the ex pected Smith, but ho didn't arrive until half an hour after, our departure. Dunbar came after us, raving,,but there was nothing to be done. • Rose was . satisfied.; the other — man „wasiVt, but I imagine ho was a fello4 of bad luck. BiatiAlES OF T.IIINGS? ' [From All LbTear 50n54.1 • , What lice - miles Of the enbrmous quan tity of objects, natural .aud artificial,. which are daily, Weekly,, monthly, an nually, and perennially produced and sent forth into the world? ' What becOnics—to plunge in vsediae ros 7 -of all the pictures which our painters paint .and exhibit 'at the metropolitan and provincial, exhibitions, season after season, year after year? We 'see them ht thii Royal Academy, at the Asylum • ; foiqtejecteil Contributions to the Royal Academy, at the 'Water Color Galleries, and at all the other art exhibition rooms. What becomes of than all? Of seine of them—the best—We know the fate: They go into the hands of certain collectors in the m:pittfacturing districts who luckily - „ have a taste, foi art. Of..some others, also, we know 'the fate. They hang pup , in the studioS of our friends who painted them. Sometimes,. again, we come upon one ini some ca . tver's, and gilder's shop. But where are all the rest? Where are the views of "Bettws-y-coed " 'and of: " Loch Coruisk;" the production ofwhicli las necessitated • Icing jouilieyings inueh eking out under white umbrellas' Where emthe representations,of " Dead Gaine,'7" , the " Italian .- 1 3 easute;' "the " Studi9Ei of Heads ?" • The . hooks, again, - .itltatl3 hecoum of them ? These .come out in legiOns season' after. season; -ropresehtiug,. in addition tp an enormous amount, of labor of different kinds, .a :considerable accumulation of . , actual material of mill board, of cloth, •of lcathOr. What becomes of all this materiel?. What. sort of ,proportion do the number of books that aro sold.bear to. those that Aro brought out? And again,'of 'those tlit, are sold,—what be cams of theml- Those that wo sae on the sholVes• of libraries, or • oven lying about tables and chiffonniers, are.:but, small percentage of the- number contin nallycisseing from the press. What be comasof the thousand 'page novels which •appear, in great numbers, id the course of every season'? j 1:IAv does it happen that, our rooms lore not :entirely, roAded with full' boOk shelves, or that there exists in any apartment,' hall or passage, auk 'vacant PorticupaTtliat space ;uneccuPied by books - onrwhichAcc put things doWn?:'lltindreds l ,Of thousands of voltimea are cast upon the , world every 'oar; and have been since one Is afrOid to says When ;where are they all .at this Present Writing?' VhcbeolcsollerS' shops furnish,an amnia of Kt/MU, 'the libraries of Others, and some the trunk makers and,thubutternten Icnow about; but ttiO real,-Ivllcre are they? • ' daYst as la all the days have , prcipetital '