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'You are not afraid, Magg ieY 'Me afraid! mill Ma fie, 'IM n>> lear born with me. As lor the house it's the strongest fastened ever I was in. 1 You say yourself there is 110 loch a j burglar could force, ami I am not the: one to let tramps or the like in of inv j free will, (lot! knows the place will be safe enough when you come b'.ck? as 11 safe as though there were a regiment of sobliers in it; ami I'll have all bright tor your new wife. .Mr, Aiehibald.' She called her master Mr. Archibald still, this obi woman; but she was the only one who still used his C'hiisli.m name. lie was an elderly man him-1 sell, and had few intimate fri *n Is, hospitality not being one ol ids \irtm \ - Ho was rich, and there was much thai j was valuable in the house; more ready money, too than most m< n k? n about them; but then it was as .seeare as a j bank vault- ]?a!ent lock an I regular j one who sought to enter by sioaUii. and then ran ;'a bell to waki li ehold, were attached to every ileor and j , a furious watch-.log that lived on raw j lineal, was in the back garden. The i Van Nott mansion could have stood a i seigc at a moment's noliee. Mr. Van Null was a iu<>i;o>*-<I? : 11? r. j lie luid ways of aceumuhitin g pr pml\ which were my Me: o is t > hT i i; r and they were nop: emu t: it. 1 lie back parlor,.sacred to business, had even seen sueh 1? : ,-cr dealin ?> a the loan oi money on good watelns, i easlnnere shawls, and diamonds oi l genteel distress. Two or tiuve mortgages that, he had bought uj? !md b. i n rather cruelly foreclosed; and lie was a hard landlord, and a bad person to owe money to altogether. On tin* ' I whole he was disliked in the place, and, rich as lie was, would have louiid it hard to get a wile to ids likiioj among his neighbors at Oakham, j However, ha\ing resolved to marry , ' 1 again ?there had been a Mrs. Van j Nott. who died \a us before- he leul i sought out a wealthy wit low oi a avin? disposition, who lived c?n a small farm some miles out ot town, and, having already disinherited herdangh ter for espousing an estimable man ol small means, and turned her only son out of doors for equally prudent icasons, was i o likely to lning any troublesome generosity into her household, and had offered himself to her, and had been accepted. And now, though both their economical souls revolted against it, custom decreed a wedding ot some sort, and a honeymoon trip somewhere, and they had decided to ^ ?lo it as cheaply as possible, 1* or this brief time Mr. Van Xott must leave his business and his house, and it was I upon llic ovu ?>t hj.s departure that lie lield llie above conversation with his obi servant standing with bis portmanteau in his hand, and regarding / 4 O O her gravely. 'Yes,' lie said, $I presume it is all safe enough. And 1 will speak to the night watejimau and give him a dollar j to take a particular look at this house. < \Y ell, good by, Maggie; make things 1 as neat as possible, lor it they look dirty my wife may think the furniture old, and want something new for the parlor.' and .Mr. \ an Nott departed. 4 Yes,' said old Maggie, bio doubt she'll have line, extravagant ways. Poor Master! what a pity lie should marry, after all ? but old fools are the worst fools. A young thing ?>t eight and forty, too, when he has a sensible servant, sixty last January, that I knows what belongs to good housekeepings. If lie wanted to marry why didn't he ask me? I d not have gone grfllivanting and spending. Ah, well, ll/lM ! L2 1 1 4Yi ?V 11 AJ I 1 ? V ? * . 1 I .. 1 ' ..^ j. uiimvi, nut ?. -vim H'CH- j ted away to begin her sweeping and d lifting. SI 10 had said truly that there was no tear born with her, but as the night drew on she began to ieel somewhat lonely. Her master's presence was I strangely missed out of the great house, and there was something ghostly in the look of his empty chair when she peeped into the little back office. If I was superstitious," she said to j herself, *i should think something dreadful was going to happen. 1 feel chilly up and down my back, and it?*p J\ 11 J tidopoi r\\rAYIU)RO, s. c., s.i keep thinking of funerals. I'll make myself a c*uj? i?1* ton, and see it I can't rcL ovcV it.' And accordingly old Ma u> shut herself into the snujjj kitchen, and lighting two candUs, drew a pot of the strongest young byvon, and putting her feel close 1<> the cooking stove, began to foci much more comfort able. The oM clock ticked away on the matitd, the hands pointing to half-j past eight. 'I am going to bed at nine,' said j Maggie. 'I've worked well to-day. j mucli thanks I'll get lor it, I doubt, i iark! YV baths that?' It was a sound outside the door ?a . . loot trod t lie pavement and the bell : ismtiy. 'A eariiage!' cried Maggie, 'has lie changed his mind and brought her i home at. once? Hut that can't be, he is not married yet.' And taking one i of ilc caudles she trotted to the door, I but not before the bell bad rune; 1 again. '\\ ho is that?' she cried, holding! t lie door slight 1 y ajar. 'A si anger,' said a voice, 'one who , has something particular to say to you.' i\ ou'll have to wait for to-morrow,' sai l Maggie. \ oll come in tonight.' '-My g.md woman,' sai l the stranger, 'you are .Margaret Mack'."' 'Hills 111 V II : I II I I '.Mr. \ .111 Noll's liou/e-ki't'jKT for l\\ only yea in':1 4 Yes.' '..ivgood woman, il you are all u-h <1 to your masror, i have very bad news lor you.' '( raviotis Lo'Yl!' cried Maggie, bill liil not open 11 n? door iiinrli wider? only enough lo llirusl her head out. ll)on'l sea re ni", Mister. What is il?' 4Tim worst you can think <>1/ said the man. 'Mr. Yen Noli travelled on (ho railroad. There has keen an accident. 'Preserve us!' cried Maggie, let l ing the door fall hack, 'and him on his way to his wedding. lie is badly hurl, then.'' 4I le is dead,'said the man. 'Dead and we have brought him home.' Maggie sat down on a chair and began to cry. 'We have done what we could,' said the man. 'The ladv he was to marry and her liicnds will he down to-morrow. Meanwhile my instructions arc that you shall watch with him, and allow no strangers to enter the house, j There are valuables here, I am told, and .Mr. Van Xoil's lawyer must take |?i.p:-e?sion of the in, and seal them up before strangers have access to the j i ooms.' 4()h! dear, dear,' cried old Maggie. 'That it should come to ihis. Yes, I'll watch alone, I am not afraid, bill? j oil, dear!' Then who shrank back and lei I wo i men carry a horrible collin into the parlor. They came out .villi their hats oil', and the other man held hie also in his hand. 'J regret to leave you all alone in the house" he said. 'I don't mind that,'said old Maggie, 'but it's terrible, terrible.' If you'd like me to stay,' said the man. 'No,' said Maggie, 'I have no fear of living or dead folk. You can go.' Then she locked the other door and went, into the parlor, and putting the candle on the mantel looked at the collin through her tears. 'lie was good enough to me,' she said, 'Poor Mr. Archibald! And this comes of wanting to marry at this time of life, and gallivanting on railroads. I wonder whether he is changed much? I will take a look,' and Maggie crossed the room and lifted the lid over the fnen of ilio < >? closed body, '1 will lake a look,' h1;o said to herself again. I am not afraid of dead lolks,' In a minute more Maggio dropped the lid again, and retreated, shaking Ironi head to loot. She had seen within the collii? a face with its eyes shut, and with bandages about the head, and the ghastly leaturcs of a clown in a circus, minus the red mouth. J Jut it was a living lace well chalked, - ^ -y~ -T;. - ^ \K H I < \\ a *? JL "*? jli j ideiit: ?I 011 rii: 11. iTl'.RI)A.Y, Allil'ST j and not luw mast'rV, and M;i'/yn' know slu1 1. id luvn woll Imndni 'o I ; tlia* .lit* story ot 1;cr iii'i-li i s dath ! was a lit*, and licit a li'iryl u* lay .% i111In tln? I'M (I'M r.ii,!\' l.? MiiMn.r ' I ... ^ v. ..... I VMM > %?' 1IIM7II , hind her, or perhaps murder Iht at j anv minute. I She could, of course, open tie door i oi the man \vi ) " doul?ll?,,;> outside. It i } was a I?hitC distance to the nearest i j house, aiul even il thev did not, kill | la r, they won't! execute tin if purpose and Kill the pkio- before she returned, OI aster look - natural,' said Manvh ! aloud, and tru? 1 to eolhet her thonv'ltS. .Mr. Nan NMn's ri'vulu ri w re in the iu.'\t room, she knew, loaded, six shots in each. M'e.fie ceathi toa* pistols. She ha>l aimi"! it < rouhlesoinc cats with '.jreat sin-res; more than opee. il she could secliio these she leiV sa'c. '1'oor dear master,* sli > st M>ed and i edoed toward the leu k loom. 'Pom I dear tttasi < rskc iili .1 lie desk lid. | Shi* had t hem "ale. She olid.i d hnek to the front parlor j and sat down on a < hair. She turned up her >!ecvs and erasped a pistol in i ae 11 hand, and watched the eoilin 1 i?I ipiiel'v. la i all and, lamr the lid j stirred. A rani nuts hand crept up thci side. A w iry i ve peepedi out. Il I'd I j upon ihe armed n:;uie and closed 1 ayp.iii. \ ou'd latter/ said to her j i sel f. Attain the le ad lilted up. I hi lime .Ma?i'_'ie s prune; lo her leet. 'Vouraie lied ouite kaudv,1 sin said redly. O'o ue? d of laying you | oil t it I I'ro, ahd 1 <-a!i aim lir*l-r.H e, | e pe-iaily u i:< n I'm a I raid of ghosts, ail am n ovd | The head heldied down a^aiu. M ai(| oie rcsci'ed !h l ? iI. She knew this could not la t Ion;.'; ? t l.a* there must, j I i..... a . n. i ..' i - i - I i>i a i VIM... i 11 v . v 11? i'?11 . i i. was : i K she supposed. A moment, more and 1!!" eolkn was fini?l v, and n f'eroeious j y.?ung fell-ov sat at its t ?1 fnul thus i j addressed lmr: '\\ e 11'< ait {(? do it nil (jtiii!Iylie I said 'ami ! dmiT want to frighten old i i u ci*iiai. .) imt put t licin Mown.' j 4I am not liighti in d,' said ]\I:iLX*ri?. '1 am < <im*:n'.j: to take them tilings i away limn yon,* said the man. I j '( mih',' said Maggie. 11; :a 1 v:ila'f t! niic s'ep. She t.otd; : aim ami he dodged, Imt Inn bullet went through liis left ana, and it. dropjH'd by his si-In. J l'urious with |>ain, 1m daslird t<>war*I In r. She lirel again, and :! ;s timet wound* d him in tin? fight shoul )er. Faint and ?piite helpless, he staggered against tin* wall. I 'There, you've done it, old woman,* I he said. Open 11 u door and let me ,, 1 , out. -My game is up. j '.Mine isn't,' said old .Maggie. '(Jet | back into ymir collin again, or tins lime I'll shoot yon through the heart.' I he burglar looked jnteonsly at her, imt he saw no tuerey in her lace. He I went hack to the collin and lay down in it. 1 lino*1 dropped Irom his wounds, and lie was growing pale. Maggie I did not. want to see him die before, her | eves, but she did not d ire go for aid. i To leave the house before daybreak would he to meet this man's eompan; ions, ami risk her own li!e. '1 here was nothing for it hut to play the surgeon herself, and in a little while she had top| -1 the blond ami saved the burglar's life. More than this?she [ brought him a eup often, and fed him with it as il he had been a baby. NothI : i it- i 111'_rj iiowcvci', cou 1*1 uuiucc tier to let liiisi out o! 11i> collin. I AJm>uI one or two o'elork she heard slops out:-nlc, and know that the other ! burglars were near, but her stout l heart never quailed. Sin- trusted in the bars and holts, and they did not hot ray her. The daylight, foun 1 her sitting 1> side her wounded- hurglar, and the milkman, bright and early, was the etab.i: idor wlio summoned the otlicers of just ice. Win n the bridal party returned the next day the house was neat and tidy, land .Maggie, in her best alpaca, told the new - in laconic bullion. | M r: !.lciic-dM she said in answer to the sympathetic ejaculations ol her new mistress. 4brightened! Oh, no! j-'ear w asn't horn in me.' \ lawyer's Advice. An Iii-hman hyr the name of Tom j Murphy once borrowed a sum of moil1 ey irem one of his neighbors, which lie nroini-; 1 to lUVV IIDOII :l r.erOiin linm II t I ' I " " V ...... . lint nn ntli alter month passed by, and no si/ us of the agreement hcing kepi, his creditor at last warned him that ! unless he paid it upon a certain day, ! lie should sue ior it and recover by ! law. This rather frightened Tom, and not being able to raiso the money, he went to a lawyo to get advice on the matter. Alter hearing Tom's story to the end, he asked him: "lias your neighbor got any writings to show that you owe him this titty dollars?'* "Divil a word," replied Tom, quick* ly. "Well, then, if you haven't the 1 money, you can take your own time; 4 " 0 '% %"r C <i \\ /%/ VV 1ST !. NO. :L\ :\t nil events lie cannot collect it by 4 rilMlit \<>r linn..!- '-1 - i " | - ' , ?" ?' ! "II I I^C* I, s\i<l toui, r:ii>i11 l ami n'oiiu; to the door. j Hlold on, in v friend,1 snid the I lawyer. j '\\ hat lor?' asked Tom in astonish I men!. N on owe nm t w o * lol larR.11 i 'What for?1 A\ hy, lor my advice to he sure. \ on *h>u t s11j 11oso I can live l?v e'uaia; iejf nothiny; do \ on?" 'r.im sent ho*| his heml a moment in evnhiit perplexity, ho he li.ul no m< m y. At h.st. sin idea sennit d to strike him: 'An' have yees anv paper to show 1 thai 1 owes \ e?>s low dollars?1 lie! ask* ?1, with a twinkle in his eye. AN hy, ii", "i course not; luit what Joes t hat siyplit \ ?' 4'l'heii l it jiml he all"r takiu1 yer nvai mlvme, an' pay natlier you nor my iieioh.hor'.1 saving which. he h'fl the oliiee an I Us oee'lpaut to meditate on a lawyer takiny; ius advice, ami a ' * h i < l * ; \ al. my hi < \ !i nie*lieine. -*V* ? -Olrs : \ vj * v \ msii niavs. The Tailed Stales Iin fed h> Send Troops ; 1 a < aim. 'i he New Noi i. Sun has tlie follow ; <lispa'; !i h orn \\ ashiny;ton, which I we i.:;i!i only r ay is very important, il [ t i u.". ! am rl.le to inform you with positive certainty that tin? Spanish legation hero have i count !v heen inslrueled j | from Madrid to approach Sectary | j Hamilton t'idi u it h t he impiiry whet li- 1 (T the I lilted f"M,.teS WOllhl he ?1 is* ! id nitci vriic with armed lone ha w i111 a \ icw of fis:i 1 iii11lc j | whether the j km > j. ?I that island realIs desire or !i /1 to separate themselves ! ii< iii the mother country. This propos l ion conns in a certain connection , with an intrigue which has for some t me hcen maturing in Kit rope, by virtue ol which (iermany and I'inglaicl are to intervene in Spain itselt, [and hy means of snlVieient bodies ol t n ops put a stop to the ci\ il war now ; iito ; on i l.ci i and j iace 1 Voice Alfotisp on l lie tli rune. This scheme has been managed especially by Prussian diplo! macv. and as all the money which Sorrano has had h r some time, past, for ' the purpose ol paving troops and cari*\ iug mi hi-- go\ eminent, has been litrnished to him Iroin the 1 Vussinn treastit ry, it is e'en that the proposition to make Alfonso km;; is not to he opposed j by him, a'.th nigh cominmt Mecenc.y i would iorbid his taking a leading pari j in putting it into execution* When j it is done, by fo'cigri armies, he; can submit to it w ithout incurring special odium among bis country men. Part lot the projeet is that Prussia shall have some small island in the West I Indies lor a water station, and the consent of the Pniled States to this is i to he compensated by giving us I ('tiba. An b\lrami!inary Medium. Young brown, i be mind reader, j w ho is pnz/.ling New York, lias a l< rmidable ri\al in a Mrs. Miller, who is puzzling C hicago. The mental .experiments to which she is subjected are -\i 1 to 1 ?t^ wonderful, but her physio: d no'.vcrH still more striking. ilav' ing I!"? o^ncti/ed a small table, by passing her hands over the t' p and along i the legs, she turns it en its lac(5 and ! l! on riajiiosis any gontlemnn present to turn it, leak to stand upon its b os, I simp1 y allowing lu-r to place thfrlip ol her ling T upon any part of it. Scores I o,t;11 .vari men In.vo pitted their lull strength against the little linger o! this little woman, but have ignominious!) Jail d. liven lour men when the ! 'power1 has b en strong, "have combined their strength, and tailed as ' well, though generally the table is I broken in the ellbil. It is a very ii Investing e\pi ianu-ut' While the slal| wart man is trying to set it on its legs i the table will absolutely float all over j the room. That is to say, it is continually trying to get away from the lady's antagonist, and will carry him / n ' / about, now here and now there, ami will generally sustain a position over his head. The moment the sensitive removes her hands the table becomes docile and allows itsell to be set properly upon its leet, the same as any , other well regulated piece of family luruiLurc. Another phase of Mrs. Miller's mcdiumship is slate-writing, d ue visitor is allowed to bring his , own slate - a double-locked slate il bo ! It -I 1 * <jiioun?'s?ami wnen Hie medium nas held it under a table, intelligent ansu'erors to questions, or othei tests, i are in variably found written on the j inside ol the looked slate. l>ut her i piece (I reshtuit.ee is her materalizing phase. For M-.ienlilio and test experiments this lady is the best medium ever seen in Chicago. When her hands are securely tied, sewed and sealed together iron rings, chairs, coats and vests are put on her person no quickly that absolutely no time ift consumed. Conceding that sho was not tied at all, but was tree to do ^ -xm f ** / % # v K>:uTiMK5idrvih? \ . ' : '? < i M jti.tu f<>r in-! ,in<t hi! \ 11rtoii'n'li s'i 1 immit 1 us . i <? < i i. ? !t will fij ini", v. Imflw.. I . I.... i ?: .J ... - ..-mi .rr ?n:i|n;iv in f"' K'tliiliin iiu iiioli nil) '?? < !i.ir "<l tor ah a s<|Uatr. .\fiirri.i?(< Motifs rr'*#*. ? I>?viflis ami ! moral uofl^M free. Olntii.uitH of oiio sup tare fro**; over ?* *. snare Hi i- i'.I r-f aifvertisMiij raiCA.' 1 Ii?_T??r l >t v ??1 oil*' sfjtl.ilc fme. A liitiM 11 !j-??-i??i??t Will Imt made It* Mi >- i whoso advertist'ii t?nf.s am le he kept in t*?r form <>f ila e" months or longer. with he?' hands as she choose ?d:e cuiiM not manipulate three lai;e chairs a> 11 n arc mmii|>t11>it?'<I in ) r presence. T iken all in all, .Mrs. M;'< r in tin- v iriet v <>( her phases stand j r. 1?al?!y at tin* head of the physical uiedii IIliis ot ! Ill* ( Hint I V, till' more SO as six? i ill poses i!fnos| mo coip I i I ion s. rule I \ I. i:A I,KM \i>. I'lohuhio SiiIpIIIi" >t of I l?.i e of (' >1 toll, (From 11 io I inoii-Iloralil.j Tim I'.'-a ilnrt Standard atd t'ommcrcial is cut lni<iast in upon tins i < ? ', a s f o i I o w s: On toe 1 11? instant, a \ e r inlercsliin/ mc? t int; of the directors ..t the Tori Ijoval liailrond was held in An-jpista. A cm milloe was appointed t?? make arrangements tor iniproye*I leeoiilo | illolis in Augusta, an I a ' closer connection with the (ieorgia I oiilroad. The erect inn ot one ot Taylor's threat, cot ten presses was decided upon. It w ill I"- put up at once in August a, an I will linis he aide not only to work lor this poii, Inn aUo lor the other ports of i i * a lie -i on ami Savannah. (,'ottoii set t from Augusta to Port K-ov.il ii be 11ir-s. 11 in Augusta, That coining Ijvmi. west of that point will l?i' j>ri <>< <! at Port lioyal. The two l>r<'Hs?'K will l)c put in complete order, v.- th some improvements. There is ?i t a doubt hut that wo will ship .* It 0,000 bales hum '.his port during t ti' cumu g sca<<mi. lit purls were received from the ( Jeurgia coal mines proposing to fur- * liish ail the coal necessary for the lines of ocean steamships touching at Port I iu yah I lie steamship .Mimics- ? "t i was reported as coining to Port w !i >ya! to try its laeiliics lor coaling. 1 his i a new line between (da-mow . . and N? w ()i leans. ' * ' /Jlh The l.i\ori> ?ol ammt of the road reports the advantages ot Port lioyal are now tally appreciated in that coin- -f, Hernial centre. The reports of tho captain ot i he steamships which have touched hero during the past yar j have been so favorable that the transfer of many steamers lrom New Orleans to Poll lioyal is lively canvassed. Judge iiing spoke warmly of the immense advantages certain to accrue, to Augusta from its connection w ith Purl I iu \ ah '1 he bir?inc ?s ol the road under President lhaaclds active adininist ra- * lion lias been improved, and a greater economy intodue.ed. Instead of trying i to depress tin bunds and stuck of the road, he is# endcavoiiug to make it worth something. In every department there is mure energy, hopefulness and attention. The business ot June pod ?1,400 over expenses. ('apt. K. <h Fleming waft elected snporinteinh i.t and .Mr. John M. Cook I treasurer. An extension of the wharf ' faeilties was decided upon, and 1,0*10 feed ol new do k will be coiftracled tur at an early day. Tins N?:w Posiaok, Law. ? Coder the new iinslollice.act, there are two . . ' . 7 AiyMl * 111Ut Cl'iaI changes ;vs to postage JUKI till! manner ot paying postage. One ol these, (the- prepayment of postage ? w on newsp.i; crs, periodicals, Ac.,) does not go into operation until January next. 1 he other change is already in. operate n. I in-, relates to the postage on book pa Uages, samples, nicrchan- a r di/.e, Ac., and ill those miscellaneous.- . ISf articles which have heretofore been ! rated as tkthir?l class" mail matter at two cents for each two ounces, 'i ho new chat gy. is one cent for each two ^ ounces, ami samples, merchandise, Ac. may he put up in packages not exceeding four pounds in weight, instead of >1 O ' ; being hunted to l wolvc-onnco* paeki ages as heretofore. This greatly H.niplilies the postage rates, for there m now hut one rate and one maximum s limit of 'veiglit. for all third-class mail ^ I matter. ?.\z.\ (>m*e<nt lor every two y ounces in p teka res up to four pounds. Fridr y night a package of mail matter was received at the New IIuvcm I'ostotliee from the North, (joiiml for Vineyard JlavUn, Mass. The euriosty of the ban Hots thereof was awake/ml hy a ticking noise as if the matter way ! alive. An investigation followed, ' when it v as dijjcovei'ed that the pa kage contained a clock, which w vs ticking as steadily as if i' had kcctii upon some staid mantel] ieo?\ The time indicated hy the hamts was which was exactly the time by Lite ( it v Hall clock. -J c' 11 o sv like it*. lather it is!1 exclaime' , iho nurse, 011 the occ tsion of the ohton:i*g ot a baby wlnw father v. i* ; over seventy, and had married a 1 young wile. "Very likely,' replied a satirical lady; "it hasn't a tooth m*iu head.' Don't ho stubborn unless you are sure you oan afford it. Wight in tlx* midst of the Jato panic, hu I0W4 man % chose to ho perversely obstinate, llie daughter wanted a ih)0 silk dress. % ami ho wouldn't get it, and ho l<mt $G0 by t he operation. She took e.?ld uoiprin, aud the funeral expense* were $1*0. > e