True itnerlcan Story.
9e ancestor of the good peoplo of
jo United States went to that country
ostensibly to escape the persecutions of
aristocratic England, but alas ! for the
inconsistency of human nature, they
were far from abandoning aristojracy
when they left their mother country.
They took it with them, together witb
all its accompanying notions and absur
dities, and have lett it to their children,
on inalienable legacy, which they seem
to be trying to increase every day.
la the duys of tho good colony of
Virginia the distinctions between the
rich and the poor were based upon laws
which, like those of the Modes and Per.
sians, altered not. One of tho most de
vout followers of this code was a weal
thy planter, living in what is known as
the Northern Neck, lie was iu all oth.
cr respects a trank, open hearted, manly
gentleman ; but his estimate of his follow
men was iounded upon the principles
which governed his selection of his
?torse blood. Wealth, too, -was by no
means an unimportant feature with him.
He had our human weakness, and like
all of us, was influenced more than he
ever believed, by pound.-), shillings and
jicnce. This Mr. O. had quite a large
family, and among them was a daughter
w'jo e beauty was the standing toast of
the country. Hie was just eighteen and
budding into lovely womanhood. Not
only was she beautiful in person, but an
amiable disposition nud many accom
plishments made her still more attract
17C, and half the gcntletnon of the North,
crn Neck were already sighing for her
love.
There was in the country at this time
a young man who was Already rising in
the esteem of his neighlors. He came
of a poor family, nnd was, as yet, a poor
young surveyor, who had taught himself
his profession, and who spent much of
his time in traveling unkuown forests
with nothing but Ins compass lor his
guide, and his chain (or his companion,
locating lands and settling disputed ti.
ties, lie was a model of manly beauty,
and excelled in all the various feats of
strength in which tho olden time Amer
icans took such pride. He was calm
and reserved and there was about him
dignified sweetness of demeanor that ae.
corded well with his frank independence
of character. lie was a great favortte
with all who knew him, aud there was
no gathering to which he was not asked.
Mr. (J. seemed especially to like tho
vouok man, and it was not long before
he insisted that the lattor should aban
don all ceremony in his visits to him,
and come and go when he pie s :d. The
invitation was hastily given, and as
promptly accepied. Ihe vounx man
liked tho planter, and he found the soci
ety of the beautiful Mary Vr. a very
strong attjactiou. Tho result was that
he was frequently at tho planter's resi.
dence, so frequently, indeed, that Mrs.
G. fell called upon to ask her husband
it he did not think it wrong to permit
him to enjoy Mich unreserved intercourse
with their daughter. He laughed at
tho idea, and Said he hoped his daugh
ter knew her position to well to allow
anything like love for a poor surveyor
to blind her duty to her family.
Nevertheless, Mary G. was not so ful
ly oppressed with couviction of duty as
was her lather, fche louud more to ad
wire in the poor surveyor than all her
wealthy, aristocratic suitors: and, also.
before sho knew it, hei heart passed out
of her keenius and was given to bim
She loved him with all the honesty and
devotion of her pure heart, and she
would have thought it a happiness to go
out with him into tho back woods aud
ehare his fatigues and troubles, co mat
ter how much sorrow they might bring
her.
Nor did she love in vain. Tho young
man, whose knowledge of the world was
afterwards so great, had not then learned
to consider as binding tbo distinction
which society drew between his position
and that of a lady. Ho knew that all
that makes a man, in iatcgr'ty and lion
esty of purposo, he was the equal of any
one. He thought that except in wealth
he 6tood upon a perfect equality with
Mary G., and ho loved her honestly aud
manfully, and no sooner had be satisued
himself upon the state ot lug own Icel
ings than he confessed his devotion
simply and truthfully, aud received from
(he lady's lips the assurance that she
loved him dearly.
Scornful to occupy a doubtful poei
tioo or to cause tho lady to conceal
aught from her parents, the young man
frankly and maotully asked JUr. U
for his daughter's hand. Very angry
grew the planter as ho listened to th
audacious proposal. He stormed and
ewore furiously, and denounced the
young man as an ungrateful and impu
dent upstart.
"My daughter has always been accus
tomed to ride in a carrmc," he said
''Who are you, sir ?"
"A gentleman, sir," replied the youn
Dian quickly, and lelt the House.
The lovers were parted. The lady
was married soon after to a wealth ly
planter, and the young man went out
airain into the world to oaiue wun ins
heart and to conquer his unhappy pas
eioo. He subdued it, but although he
afterwards married & woman who was
worthy of his love, he was never wholly
dead to his erst love.
The time past on, and the young man
bean to reap the reward ot his labors,
Tie had never been to the house of Mr,
ft ilnra ha rriifil rcnulso bv the plauter,
but the latter could not forget him, as
bis name soon became familiar in every
Virginia household. Higher and high
THE ELK ADVOCATE
R IDG
JO JIN F. MOORE, Editor fc Proprietor.
er, ho rose every year, until he had
gained a position from which he could
look down on the planter. Wealth came
to him, too. When the great struggle
for independence dawned he was in his
prime, a happy husband and one of tho
most distinguished men in America.
The struggle went on and oon the
"poor surveyor" held the highest and
proudest position in tho land.
When the American army passed in
triumph through the streets of Williams.
urg the ancient capital of Virginia, at.
ter the surrender of Cornwallis, the offi.
cei riding at the head of the column,
chanced to glance up at a neighboring
balcony, which was crowded with ladies.
Kcc.igmz'ng one of them he raised his
hat and bowed profoundly. There was
commotion in the balcony, and some
ono called lor water, .turning to a
young officer said gravely :
"Henry, 1 tear your mothor has fain"
ted. You had better leave the column
and go to her."
The speaker was George Washington,
onco tho poor survejor, but then com
mander-in. chief ot the armies ot the
United Mates. J he young man was
Colonel Henry Lee, the commander of
the famous "Light Cavalry Legion ;"
the lady was the mother, and formerly
Mary G., the belle ot toe Noithern
Nock.
Mlubils or Jt'ew for A- Million
aires.
The Boston Journal's New York cor.
respondent writes: A. T. Stewart works
probably more hours than any mechanio
or laboring man in the state. His vast
business is in his own hands. He con
sults Dobody as to buying or selling. He
has many partners in the profits and not
n the management of the business. 11
system is exacting but efficient. His
men are all timid. If they are late, or
if they .overrun the time allowed for
lunch, if they set down during business
hours, if they eat in the store, they are
liucd. No person is allowed to take
bundle into the store unless the "walk
ing gentleman marks it." No bundle
leaves the store without being examined,
Mr. Stewart is about the first one down
in the morning He takes an early
breakfast, and in one-borse coupe rides
to the store. He indulges in a leis ure
ly dinner ata public house at five o'clock
aud then returns to his den and contin
ucs his labors until every item of busi
ness in the store is finished. Pleasure
seekers going home from the theater of
ten see the twinkle of Mr. Stewart's
light in the counting room, showin
that the great millionaire is hard at his
tasks. But it is his recreation. He
finds his pleasure in work, and asks noth
ing more.
Vanderbilt is a gigantic speculation
Like Frederick the Great he takes his
leisure to mass his troops, and in an un
expected moment throws himself upon
his loc, sure of victory, lie is af
ter the Harlem and Hudson roads. II
is after the New York Central an
means to control the Erie. He takes his
leisure in the morning and divides it be
tween his breakfast, his cigar and his
horses. He spends a great deal of his
time in the stables. He hag a trotting
track in his yard, so that he does not
have to go fat to try his favorites. At
ten, precisely, he enters his up.town of.
fieo. At twelve he rides up to the
Harlem, and then over to the Hudson
railroad. The rest of the day he give
to business aud rides. He seldom ap,
pears at the Stock Board. He buys
through other hands, because he can do
it better.
D aniel Drew is a very quiet man, of
plain simple habits, seldom speaks and
in his down town office in Broad street,
would be taken for a rustio farmer or a
New Jersey trader who is not bright
enough to sharply invest his money.
Olafliu, who is tradiug so close ou
the heels of Stewart, in the dry. goods
trade, was a small trader in Worcester.
He bought goods in very small quanti
ties and was not for carrying home his
own bundles. Like Stewart he manag
es his own business. He found his
complicated tiade wearing upon him,
and like a wise man, as be is, he pur.
chased a little place up the river. He
leaves his store at four, every afternoon,
drives up his own team, and spends the
evening in the quiet of his own family.
It is the younger class of traders and
speculators who trade in the night and
give themselves no rest on Sunday.
They reap their reward in premature
decay, 6udden failure or great losses.
The line of Demarkation between the
old style of doing business and the new
is very broad.
rOver 5,000 different articles of
cojimon use are manufactured from the
basket willow. It will best grow where
nothing but grass can be produced, and
tbero are many waste places where not
even the grass is saved in which the
willow will thrive.
The God of the Ring Back us.
WAY, PENNA. NOVEMBER 21,
From Ballou's Monthly.
THX HIGLICTED.
T Z.ACBA M. WATKtHSO.
I sit beside our cottage door,
And watch for thee to come !
The shadows darken o'er the moor,
And yet thou art not here.
Ah, seldom, seldom do we meet,
As in the long ago I
I listen for the Urdy feol
That lag and e omo so slow.
The moon is rising bright and eloar
Above the forest trees.
The hound'i deep bay falls on my ear,
Borne on the evening breete.
My thoughts a gloomy coloring take ;
At every sound I start ;
Ah, come I thy presenoe still can make
A sunshine in my heart.
1 fear that thou art careless grown,
Forgetful of each vow :
Or else 1 would not ait alone
In solitude as now.
Though thou art distant, cold to me,
Thy presence, love, I miss,
And envy stars that look on thee,
All trembling with their bliss.
The roses twining round our door,
Their fragrance breathe for thee ;
The birds their notes of musio pour,
To lure thee back to me.
Return, beloved one, return I
Why live we thus apart T
Bright on its altar still doth burn
Love's flame within my heart.
And as the lonely watch fire
Shines on mid death and doom,
Shooting afar its rays oflight
O'er the surrounding gloom-
So Love survives, though Hope and Joy
In their pale asbes lie;
All that thy coldness could destroy,
All dead that e'er could die.
Tet once thy voice was low and soft,
Trembling with passion's fire,
As the sweet south wind murmurs oft
O'er the ..Eolian lyre.
But now thy glanoe is cold and stern
As bleak December's sky :
Alas I that we should live to learn
That love can never die.
We think not in youth's sunny hours
How soon joy will depart.
And all life's fairest, brightest flowers
Lie withering in the heart.
JTetvs and Other Items.
The Demooratio majority in New York
state is 4,M1'12.
Land in Tennessee sells at from 76
cents to $32 per acre.
It costs $20 to take a lady to the opera
respectably in New York.
Twenty-five liveB of Abraham Lincoln
nave afflicted this poor public.
The Italians shout ' Long live Prussia
Straws abow which way the wind blows.
Captain David flinckley, of Livcrmore
Me., died some days ago, aged 10- years,
Over four million gallons of sorghum
sprup are made in this country annually
Four persons were drowned at Grand
Haven, Michigan, a few days ago, by the
upsetting of a boat.
The arrival of a large number of Ger
man emigrants in Texas is announced by
the papers of that State.
The majority for (Jen. McCormick
Democrat, a member of Congress from the
8d district of Missouri, is estimated at G5U.
Over 7,000 new buildings have been
erected in Chicago, within a year, at a cost
of from $8,000,000 to $a,000,000.
It is estimated that 600,000 pounds of
beet sugar will be made in Illinois the pres.
ent season, from the produot ot 600 acres.
There were 357 deaths In New York
week before last preoisely the same num
ber as during the week previous.
The population of Chicago is 276,000
against 161,044 in 1860, being an increase
in seven years ot 113,956.
The first Christian marriage in th
United States took place in Virginia, be
tween John Laydon and Ann Burrat in 1608.
Col. UcCantie, editor of theTicksburg
Times, has been imprisoned by direotion of
General Ord, it is supposed lor reflecting
on the Ueneral.
The Alabama Reconstruction Conven
tion has rejected a proposition to insert no
proscripiive provisons In the new State
Constitution.
The order of Judge Fisher suspending
Mr. Bradley from practicing at the bar,
was sustained by the Supreme Court of the
District of Columbia.
Statistics of the corset trade in Boston
seem to show that one woman out of every
three over the age of sixteen uses these su
icidal abominations.
Sis members of the Colored Union
League in Pickens District, S. C, are to be
hung next month for murder in a late riot.
Eigbteon others go to prison,
A waiter in an Albany restaurant
knocked a man down aud broke his leg the
other day, because he had muttered an in
timation that his steak was overdone.
Eour American prima donnas are now
singing in Europe. Patti. Kellogg, Laura
Harris and Jennie Van Zandt. The last
named lady is tba daughter of Signor Blitt.
A young lady living near Weston, Pa.,
saw a squirrel running through the yard,
and took down her father's rifle to shoot it.
The gun had not been used for a long time,
and ia order to ascertain if it was loaded or
not she pushed back the hammer with her
foot, and applied her mouth to the munle,
when her foot slipped off, and the gun was
discharged, the ball entering her mouth
and killing her ton ant ly.
18G7.
VOLUME SEVEN NUMBER 37.
Bachelor's
Marriageable men
J'erils.
are beginning to
be wary. Even if a man is allowed to
visit in the guise of a friend, the chances
are that be will eventually drift into
matrimony. Supposing there are sever
al daughters in the family where he vis
its, be will look on the number as the
greatest safeguard. He may imagine
that he will never attempt to single out
one, from the difficulty ot discovering
which ono to single out. The girls
wonld, of course, lead him to behove
that they looked upon him as a brother,
and that papa and mamma looked upon
him in the light of a son not a son in
law 1 The lucky bachelor would thus
be lulled to sleep. He would become
unguarded in his actions, and would al
low his feelings to lead him whither
they listed, and as a consequence he
would eventually single some one rose
from these flowers ot womanhood, as be
ing a little fairer, having a little more
charming manner, or for in some way or
other coming noaror than her sisters to
his ideas, of all that is excellent to a
woman. If a bachelor of middle age,
he would most probably have selected
the youngest of the family, cheating
himself into the belief that he did bo
simply out of a sort of fatherly regard
for her. He would christen her the
"baby" of the house, though she might
be a fine maiden of eighteen summers,
and have all the airs and ideas of a wo
man of three times her age. He
would prefer walking with her, that be
might point out the beauties of nature,
or illustrato the harmonies of creation ;
and in effect, he would fail to show his
preference in spite of his awkward apol
ogies and grotesque efforts at conceal
mcnt. Ihe sisters would be careful not
to check legitimate sport. They would
manoevre so that the lovers, as tbey
would jokingly call them, always sat
next one another at the family board,
that they are partners in all amusements,
and that in party drives or walks they
should oither bo lett behind or be lelt
in front. Of course this style of pro
ceeding would not fail to be observed
The lady friend of the family would be
in duty bound to tell her husband, and
the husband would have, no other alter
native, than to intorm his friend that,
owing to the talk of the neighbors, he
must cither ecaso his visits altogether,
or continue them on a diffcroat looting.
Ihe poor bachelor has but one course
open to him as a man of honor and a
gentleman, he must as speedily as possi
ble raise the "baby" of the family to
tho dignity of matron.
Getting SCvcn.
A few days since, a scene occurred
in the Railroad Hotel, at , which
was exceedingly rediculous, and excited
the mirth of the whole city
Mr. Reynolds, the showman, had just
landed with a largo collection of wild
animals, among whi ch were bears, lions
and monkeys rare birds and hage an
acondas. Ha went to the hotel, secured
a room, and took his snakes with him in
a large trunk. The first night or two
he did very well, having no one with
him in the room, boon, however, an
other person was sent to his room at a
late hour of the night. He, the new
oomer, pulled off his clothes, lit a cigar,
placed a candle by his bedside aud com
menced reading a book.
Mr. Reynolds being much fatigued,
requested the stranger politely to put
out the candlo and allow him to sleep.
The stranger, objects, and says that
he has hired half the room aud his bed,
and has the right to burn his oandle just
as long as he pleases.
Mr. Reynolds turns over and tries to
woo the sleepy god, but all in vain. No
sleep nor slumber would visit his rest
less couch. So, in a fit of desperation,
he jumps up and addresses his room
mate thus :
' I say, stranger, if you havo a right
to burn a candle in this room all night,
I have a right to bring in my boy."
The impurtuiable stranger locked over
hia book and simply said:
"You can bring in your boy, and your
gal, too, if you like," and went oo read
ing. Mr. Reynolps seized his pantaloons,
jerking out of hi3 pocket a key and pro
ceeded to unlock his trunk. He took
therefrom the enormous spotted snake
approaehed the bed of the stranger, and
said :
"Permit me to introduce to you my
boy," (boa,) at the same time presenting
the distended mouth of the monster close
to the affrighted man's faie.
The stranger gave one look of awful
horror his faco became as pale as death
his book fell fioin his hand, he over"
turned his table, candle, and all ; gave
one leap from his bed and in puris na
turalibut, he ran down stairs, out in the
street, and yelled for the police. What
became of him afterwards was never
known.
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JUrxico.
The elevation of Juarez to the I'rrsi
dency of the Kepublio of Mexico does
not promise peace, repose, and tranquili.
ty to that torn and distracted country.
(Jen. Diaz is reported to be discontented
with the manner in which tho elections
were conducted and the result obtaine I,
and Mendez and Guzman, popular lead,
ers, to not pretend to recognize as legal,
honest, or lair the Juarez movement.
It is said that these men, who have great
local strength, will unite with Corona,
declare against tho government of Jua.
rcz, and attempt to form a Northern
UonfederBtion out of the States of Chi
huahua Lower California, Siualoa, So
nora, and Duiango. If such a revolution
is started, it will be popular in that por
tion ot Mexico bordering on the United
States. The people in this section of
the Mexican Republic detest Escobedo.
They pronounce him a monster; and us
he is one of the favorite counsellors of
Juarez and dictutcs the policy of the
llcpublio, they are desirous ot escaping
from under the Juarez administration
of public affairs. In addition to this,
the inhabitant!) of the northern pnrt of
Mexico long for Union with the United
States. Many of them are natives of
this country, while all have become ac
customed to Amsrican manners and cus
toms by constant intercourse with the
people north of the luo (Jrande. If,
therefore, a movement is started to
a separate republic out of the portion of
Mexico touching this country on tho
south, it will be championd by thous
ands of bold, adventurous men, and may
prove a success. The people of Mexico
arc dissatisfied with Juarez. A lute
writer from the capital says, "what they
" desired when war ceased was that con-
' stitutional government should resume
11 ita flnrnv. tlmt. tVift sVinttnrnrl nrtiiiinia
. v.. -J, ...... .... .
" trative and judicial spstems of the mar
tial law, the suspension of cotistitutinn-
" al guarantees and all exeiciseof arbi
" trary powers should wholly cease, and
" the people be called upon without de
"lay to recognize theii general, state
"anil munininnl ivn.firnmpnla TIia
. ,. "
" charge againstj uatea by the Leiberals
' seems to be that he has been perform
" ing in Mexico the part of the Radical
" Congress in the United states, acting
" outside of the Constitution, usurping
" unconstitutional powers and violating
" the fundamental law of the land."
A correspondent of the New York
Tribune, in a letter from the Ctty of
Mcxioo, under date of October 8, de
clares that there is a prevalent, almost
universal conviction among the peoplo
of Mexico, and foreigners residing in
the country, that another outbreak is
near at hand. All trade and business
is suspended, and the finances of the na
tion are in a most deplorable condition.
In the meantime, and to couip licate
matters still more, the J uarez party have
proclaimed their attention of ceasing
diplomatic relations, aud refusing to car
ry out treaty obligations with all nations
which recognized the authority of Max.
imilian. This is a dangerous position to
occupy, aud France and Austria and
other European powers may not agree
that their subjects shall be robbed and
plundered by Mexican officials. If Jua
rez makes a stand upon such a policy
as that stated, he will assuredly embroil
Mexico with more than one foreign na
tion, and ic such a manner and in such
a platform as to deprive his government
of all sympathy from the peoplo of the
United States. In case such a war
should take place, a Northern Mexican
Confederation would be a certainty.
The Trundle-Red. The balmiest
sleep wo ever experienced Was when wo
were nestliug in the old trundle-bed
with a curly-headed brother just turned
out of the parent ne jt to make room for
a new customer. But trundle-bed
dreams were soon at an end, for when
the next customer come no were crowded
out of the trundle-bed to make room for
the next that was turned out of the pa.
ront nest, and so they kept alternating
for years, until fairly turned out into
the world.
0 ! where are tho little heads, that
wo have kissed a thousand times o'er as
they nestled in the old trundle-bed ?
Some of them have grown old and gray ;
and others are resting on their everlasN
ing pillow in widely separated lands.
We aie always sad when we thiuk ol
the old trundle.bed.
Kit Carson ;s thus described by a cor
respondent : Fivo feet six in his stock,
ings, deep chested and squarely set, with
the slightest stoop of the shoulders ;
feet and hands small, an oval face, very
young looking for its fifty. eight years of
care ; light blue eyes, gentle as a woman's
and clear as a boy's the mouth well out,
but with straight lines around tho cor.
ners, and the appearance of having been
made from a harder material than tho
rest of the face; the nose not remarks,
ble, but the brow broad, rounding and
smooth, with thoroughly Saxon hair
falling to his shoulders, and looking a
little thin on the top and streaked with
threads of silvor; a moustache of tho
same color ws the only hair on his face.
He wore his brigadier general's uniform
in a carelesn, half-indiau way that look
very comfor'able.
Fnglishmen in Iudia are complaining
loudly of the expense of British ale in
that country at the present time a fact
due lamely to the immense loss by leak
age (25 to 50 per cent,) from the casks,
causad by the perforation of the wood
by a small insect. The staves become a
mere honey comb, beld together ouly
by the hoops.