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"ltd win, I have come to bid you a fare well?it, indeed, yeu go to-night, in thii world we shall never meet again; neithei hart after, if half that you believe is true It eeta one thinking, does it not! a parting that we feel to bo for ever, from tho* with whom we havo been in dailv inter I comm, even for a few abort month*!'1 "And |*r*jr, Catherine," he aaked, try inj to talk calmly, "why should we not mee again? Even if I were about to visit th< antipodes I should look forward to re tun some day; indeed it would grieve me mucl to think that I should never enjoy agair year company, where I have spent so ma 1 ny pleasant hours, and of which, believ< 3 me, ( shall ever cherish a grateful recol / lection. Be kind to poor Annie and ini mother when I am gone, and if you think S it not too great a task, I shall be verj i. glad sometimes to hear the news froin you I and sw return will write vou of my wandefines in the Highlands.^ I "Well, good by, Edwin," she repeated "for all yen aay, my words may yet prov< I "But I do not go yet for some hours mid we shall meet again below before I Jesrvq why not defer good-by till then!* j There was another pause before she aa t ' ewered, with passionate energy, and grasp I sag hia arm tightly: _v u _ o -a e \f - 1".vnu it inia nil you have to sayl IS'ou listen to me, Edwin: kuow that I lore you, and judge of iU intensity by thus owning it I am no bash lb 1 English girl, to die a victim to ooneealraent or suspense, but mutt and will know all at once. Now, tell me sir, havtff misplaced ray lovel? Tell me, I say, and quickly; for, by lh< power* abore, you littie know how much depend* upon your answer." 8lie felt his hand, cold and tremblings; liis face was eren paler than her own, as, overwhelmed With confusion, Edn in stammered out. vN k "itcally, Miss Arnatti?Catharine?1 eraa wet aware; at least, I aaa so taken by ?prist. Oire me time be think, fiat? M What, then, joa hesitate," she said, etnas ping her feet; sod then, with deeper ?U calm?ft, added, in a softer tone, "Well, be it sc; body and soul I offer, and yen reject the gift." A violent struggle 1 wsaraaking the young roan's breast, and, by the workings of his eouateaenoe she saw, and paused. Hot still he never raie^|| ed his dyes to hen, that wete so fixed on 4W him; and she continued,14 Yon ash for time T be think, oh! heaven and hail, that I should name to thial But take it, and think well; it ia fber hours before you qnh this/wet; I will be there to say adieu. O, better, per yen will write, and give a leisure tu>UM remit* ?f deHbermtioo*." Sho *poki) the Imi word* with * Wu?? ?o??r; yet Rlwm<li*g4u?t cJMswiggmtion, Md replied. "Y??, I win write, I promtM fon, with ' |f \ * 7* . * M)ir I ' =*1 TO LITERARY, "Hush!" interrupted Catharine; "your t sister calls; why does she come here now! i ! You will not mention what has passed, I ; know; remember, within a month I am to i hear. Think of me kindly, and believe ] that I might make you love me as I love I you. Now, go to her, go before she finds you here." < Kdwin pressed her hand in parting, and i she bent down her forehead, but the kiss i imprinted there was c8ld and passionless. 1 lie met his sister at the door, and led her back affectionately to the drawing-room < she had just quitted. I f The old gardener had deposited a port- 1 ^ manteau and knapsack on tho very edge ] of the footpath by the side of the high s road, and had been watching for the mail, with a great horn lantern, some half-hour I or so before it was expected; while the J r hourto-raaid was stationed insido the gate; f upon the grave walk, ready to convey the 1 intelligence, as soon as the lights were vis- i iblc coming up the hill, and the cook stood ' ? at the front door, gnawing her white ' i apron. The family were assembled in < l that YOrV 1innla*aanf alato /\f i always tclt an agonizing and unconquer- * able fear during a thunder-storm, roused I ' from her light slumber, lay hudled up, and trembling, with her faco buried in the ' 1 pillow. She did not hear the door open 1 or the footstep that approached so stealth- ' ily, before a hand was laid upon her ' ' shoulder, and starting up she recognized 1 ' her cousin. 1 "Oh, Cathariner she faltered, covering 1 her eyes, "do stay with me awhile; I am ] so terrified?and think of Edwin, too, exposed as be must be to it." "I hare been thinking of him, Annie." , "But you are frightened, also, a little, , , are you not?with all your courage, or , I what made you shake so then!" said the j , poor girl, trying to draw her oousin nearer , ( as flash after flash glared before her eye- t i lids, and louder daps of thunder followed f , each other at shorter intervals. , "I frightened?" replied the dauntless t woman. "I frightened; and what at?? | Not at the thunder, surely; and as for : lightning, it H strikes, they say, it brings a sudden and painless death, leaving but * eddew even a mark upon the oorpee.? ? Who would not prefer this to lingering oo a bed of sickness." "Do not any so, Catharine, pray do not; only thinking if?5 Ond, have mercy on us. Waa not that swfMf uP; "Was it not grand? Magnificent:--aw- * fml if you will. Think effes wmuwl * revefing unoeutrolled, 9 I - ? '%??v-o VI VApCV/VHIIUIIj 4 that generally precedes the departure of a ' friend or relative; Edwin, walking about < 1 the room, wrapped up for travelling, impa- ' - ticnt and anxious to bo off. At last, the I r g-rkner halloed out lustily; Betty ran to- i I ward the house, as if pursued by a wild t Wast, and screaming, 4,It's a coming*," and ' t-nok, who had been standing still all the ' timo, rushed in, quite out of breath beg- < ging Mr. Edwin to mako haste, for the < . coach never waited a minute for nobody; ' . so he embraced his mother and sister, am) ' . then, taking Catharine's hand, raised it I hastily, but respectfully to his lips. Miss . Kecd watched the moveincut, and saw r how he avoided the piercing gate her coui sin fixed upon hiin, not so intently though, but that she noted the faint gleam of sat. itfaction that passed over Annie's pale i face; and cursed her for it Strange, that s the idea of any other rival had never i haunted her. Hiood-by, once more,** said Edwin. "I . may return Wore you expect me; God 1 bless you all!" f And, in another five minutes, he was f seated by the side of the frosty old gentleman who drove the mail, potHng away vigorously at his meerschaum. The ladies passed a dismal evening; more so, indeed, than the circumstances * would seem to warrant. Annie commenced a large piece of cmbroiderv; that,judg1 ing from its size and the slow progress made, seemed likely to afford her occupa tion and amusement until she became an old woman; while Mrs. Rood called to tuind all the burglaries and murders thet had beeu committed in the neighborhood during the last twenty years; deploring their station, discussing the propriety of iiiiTin^an alarm 1*11 hung between two j 1 of tlie chimneypot*, and making arrangement* for the gardener to sleep on the premises for the future. Miss Arnatti never i raised her eyes from the book orer which 1 * the bent. Supper, generally their moat 1 cheerful tneal, remained untouched, and, 1 r earlier than utual, the}* retired to their re- < * spective chambers. I ? For tcrcral hours. Catharine tat at her I 1 open window, looking out into the close, < * hazy night. The sod wind, that had ev- ! cry now and then rustled through the ' \ trees, or shaken dewdrops from the thick I 1 iry clustered beneath the oyer-hanging 1 5 eaves, had died away. Aa the mist set- ' 1 tied down, and a few stars peoped out just I 1 orerhea*!, a black curtain of clouds teem- s 1 ed to rite up from tlio horizon, hiding tho j * nearest objecta in impenetrable darkness. > - The only sonnda now heard were those I ' that told of man's vicinity, and his rest- ' r Icssnesa; the occasional rumble of a distant * : vehicle; the chime of bells; sometime* tho < ' echo of a human voice, in the direction of ' * the town; the ticking of a watch, or tho I hard breathing of those that slept; and < these fell on the ear with strange distinct- I i ness, amid the awful stillness of nature.? < Presently the clouds that hung over a val- I ley far awav, opened horizontally for an J i instant, while a faint flash of lightning i ' flickered l>ehiad, showing their cumbrous I outline. In a few moments a brighter < ' flash in another quarter was followed by - the low roll of distant thunder, and so the < storm worried round, nearer and nearer, ) ' until it burst in all its fury over tho hill on 1 i which the cottage stood. I ' Misi Heed, who from her childhood h*<l ' AGRICULTURE (| \ W ^.m i n^d py l B COMMERCIAL, LANCASTER, C. H., SOUTH ind what it will, without a bound or limt to its fun*. And fancy ouch a storm ::nt up in the narrow compass of a hunan breast, and yet not bursting its frail orison. What can the torments that thoy ;ell us of, hereafter, be to this!" "And what reason can you have, dear rousion, for talking thus. Kneel down by me, for once, and pray; for surely, at such ? ? time as this, if at no other, you must < feel there is a God." "No; you pray, Annie Rood, if it will 1 somfort you; pray for us both. There, ( iow, lie down again, and hide your face. ' I will stand by your side and listou to ' foil." 1 Sho drew the slender figure gently back. ' Then, with a sudden movement, seir.ing a targe pillow, dashed it over Annie's face, grossing thereon with all her strength.? Tho long, half smothered, piteous cry that followed, was almost unheard in tho roaring of tho storm that now was at its height. By the vivid light that every initant played around, sho saw the violent jfforLs of her victim, whose limbs were moving up and down, convulsively, under ?.u:?. u.j j-.i - '?'i? mv> niiiio uvu i;iuuiv?> i iicn, iiirowing the whole weight of her body across the t>od, she clutched and strained upon tho frame, to press more heavily. Suddenly all movement censed, and the murderess felt a short and thrilling shudder underneath her. Still, her hold never relaxed; untouched by pity or remorse exulting in the thought that the cruel deed was nearly lone, so easily, and under circumstances where no suspicion of the truth was likely to arise, dreading to look upon the dead girl's face too soon, lest the mild eyes diould still l>e ojien, and beaming on her with reproach and horror. But what was 1 it she felt tlicn, so warm anil sticky, trick- ' ling down her arm? She knew it to be tdood, even before the next flash showed the crimson stain, spreading slowly over 1 the pillow. Again tho electric flud darted lrom the clouds, but this time charged ' with its special mission from on high. The murderess was struck! and springing up, die feli hack with one shrill, wild, piercing direik that reached tho ears of tuoso below, before it was drowned in the din of < falling masonry, and the tremendous crash i that shook the house to its foundation, I until tho walls quivered, like the limbers I >f a ship beating on a rocky shore. < Day was just breaking; a cold gray light i dowly gaining strength over the yellow nf ?iim? l.n.nulT^I ..1.M- .1- - I 3 ?. t.uouuuvu vnaiuiv^, V? fii?w- Ul?J jccasional boom of distant thunder told i that the storm was not yet exhausted.'? 1 Kitended on a low couch,, and hold by the terrified servant*, was the wreck of die one* beautiful Catharine Arnatti; at i diort interval* her features U-came horriMy distorted by an epileptic spasm, that seized one side of her body, while the other halt appeared to be completely paralyzed; and the unmeaning glare of the eye, when the lid was raised, told that the organ of vision wan seriously injured, if not entirely destroyed. Close by, the mother bent soblnng over the helpless form of her own child, blanched and inanimate, with s streak of blood just oozing from her pallid lips. Miss Heed, in her fearful struggle, had ruptured a blood vessel, and, faint ing from the loss of blood, had lain for tome tiine to all appearance dead. Shortly, however, a slight fluttering over the re- j gion of the heart, and u quiver of the I lostril, told that the principle of life still i lingered in the shattered tenement. With i ihe aid of gentle stimulentqshe recovered < luflicicntly to recognize her mother; but ' is her gaze wandered vacantly around, t fell on tho wretched and blasted crea- I ure, from whose grasp she had been so ' wonderfully rescued. As if some magncic power was in that glance, Catherine oee up suddenly, despair and horror in ho glassy stare sho fixed on tho corpseike form before her, as, with another yell, iuch as burst forth when first struck by he hand of Ood, she relapsed into one , A the most dreadful and violent proxysms [ have ever witnessed. Annie clung ! iglitJy to hor mother, crying, in n faint, j . mploring voice, "Oh, save me?savo me roin her!" eiv, with h lioavy sigh, she >nec more sank into insensibility. For a long time Annie lay in the shadow >f death. She lived, however, many years, a patient and buffering invalid.? Edwin married his betrothed and brought tor home; to a homo, darkened, indeed, >y crime, but gradually brightening unler the genial influences of domestic hap>incM. Catharine Anatti was fearfully punishh1 for her great crime. Tho light of ronton never fully rctunie<I to her mind; the ineainents of lier countenanco were awully. changed; the sight of one eye was otally destroyed, and her wholo nppearrnce was frightful in the extreme. She vas placed in a lunatic asylum, and alvays spoken of aa the "Blind Sister."? iometiraes a gleam of reason would dart kcroea her intellect, hor wild screams of >itter anguish would be heard riuging hrough the dreary chambers, and then ho would relapse into a sad reverie. It vas indeed a sight to rend the sternest leart. How full of proof that Crime is dwavs followed by Punishment and biter Remorse. On ner destfi-lmA. *) < ? ally in the poaseaeion of her right mind, J ind her Iwt moment* were agonised by ( he horrible and distinct remembrance of . ter awful tin. J It ie aald that the Hon. Joeiah Quince, j ten., has cleared $60,000 by the aale of 19,. 00 feet of the Beaten city Wharf property, < rhieh he purchased at auction a few weeks i inee. I We understand that pardon has been re, t aired from Gov. Raid, of WWW, Boyd, from he jremainder of the term of"Ihaprlrtonnient f i m? CAROLINA. WEDNESDAY Irtirlrs. Privileges of Odd-Fellows, Lkt no'one unite with the Order mew ly to learn its secrets, wear its regalia decorations, or insure himself provision ii case of sickness and distress. These ar privileges, it is true, to those who hav other and Holder objects in view; but the cost more of labor, and time, and inone; thnn they nro worth to the merely curiou; vain, or selfish man. Such will find it ; burden to preform an equal share of ou duties and labor, and lie may possibly b insured against sickness as certainly aiv more cheaply, in a mere insurance ossoci ation. But to one whoso generous lieart d< lights in well doing, and admires our prir ciples, and desires to find means for in creasing his usefulness to sufficing mar our Order presents the stronj^cstVinduet ments. Wo oj>en for him a held oeVon the limits of his party or his church, a well as within it, needing his labor an offering joyous recompense to his toils. No church in its present state is exten sive enoinrb in it? ?** ? ???.. o ? " ... many good men who need the tninistra lion of kindred spirits ?or far-reach in; enough to reach even its own mcmbut when distant from it, and needing aid am protection. But if an Odd-Fellow, fa away from kindred and home, falis dowi by tlio way-sido, penniless and faint, h lias but to inform' the nearest Lodge, am hands are readied out. to provide, am watchers are at his side to uphold hi drooping frame. Or, if he falls under th cold suspicions of an unfrendly world, am is cast unmcritcdly into a felon's col brothers arc active around him with coun sel, and lnl>or to remove tho dark web c circumstances that becloud his fnme or en dainger his life, to secure him a fair trial and, if just, a proper requital and a saf return to society and friends. In doing this, and other deeds of lik< kindness, we interfer with no indiridua duty; call for no neglect of proper interest; supercede no social, ecclesiastical, or pel iticial action. \Yc leave every mcnibe free as before in bis obligation, duties an< opinions, llut'we/mlarjje his aeqvvaintanc around liiin, and associate him in labo with thousands with whom ho has neve before acted. Wo oj>en all around bin a field for good, in which his feet had nev or trod, nor his mind and hands laborec We increase his means and measures fo blessing others, and thus happifying him self, bylplacing the resources of our Ordc at his disposal. We extend indefinite! his operations, so that the suffering an needy, at the extremities of our vast brthci hood, may feel the succor and share th bounty he aids in directing. And, by tli most beautiful lessons, Vo instruct bin in those great principles which will n< only inform his own mind and rendc more susceptible to goodness his ow heart, but will enable him, if he so wills to l>ocome an apt teacher and ready c> ample to others, in all those virtues thn adorn and bless humanity. To all, then, who are willing to lear and to do good, we give the invitation t join our ranks. And to remove air lingering scruple of the conscientious, w iny, should Odd-Fellowship tender yoi any obligation, or require of you anydutj soiiflicting with the duties you owe to to humanity, to your country, your famih or your friends, we enjoin you to leave i forever, as hollow in its pretension am unworthy the favor of the community.? fellow's Manual. From the Charleston Courier. The Moving Table. Mkshrh. Hornets :?On a late visit t the North, I was invited to witness thi phenomenon. Four persons stand aroum \ light small table, one on each side, am place their open right baud tint, on th table near one comer, ami their left on th right hand of the jierson to the left, place* near the corner. After 15 or 20 minute the table moves in a circle, the person running around with it, keeping the hand in the same rclativo places. The wonde is, what is the cause of this motion. Th opinion of many is, that electricity is iui parted froin the hands of the individualuid gives this motion?altltougli, the tabl inay be a nun-conductor according to th knowledge wo now possess of the natur of this tluid. I have said that I was in ritod to w itness this wonderful phenoinc non, but 1 did not see the table move i * circle, except when the persons pulled i wound with their hands. Their hand were disposed in llio best manner to brin] 11 vol 11 thai effect- I account for ?h? l.h.i lomcnon, in this way : the hand has iiaposition to return to the body, as th nuscles that extend the arm bwomo fn iguod, which taken place in a abort tim ?there is a pulling of the corner of tho tr. >lo then toward* the individual, as we! is a downward pressure, and a pullinj o wards the right, as the right hand is up >n the table and ia on a better surface fo pulling than that of the left, and from it .emperatura having caused a vacuum, ala sticks to the taUe. The right ami is more >ver more commonly employed in pulling ind so far as Uie will may operate in bring ng about this phenomenon, would be tb irst to Dull, in which case the body i irawn back on the right and ntovod foi sard on tbo left, and causes the left ham o push, while the right ia pulling?witl heee fcrm Uius applied to it, a small ligh able mores in a circle. To aee the principle more clearly c brco thus applied, kt a sheet of papc >o canght in t|io same place between th hrnnb and hotin^rhy four individual*. mm .v, I? *. wM ILi Wt J? HQ lL, general a MORNING, DECEMBER 22,1852. bclicvo that this phenomenon, which has coused such a great sensation at tho North, is brought out by tlieso moans, because, r although the experiment to move tho table was made by those who were distinguished for exhibiting this phenomenon, it s did not in a single, instance move around J when I used tho precaution to arrest the a heavy pressure of their hands upon it, but c it ceased to inore the instant that the presso ing hand was detected. 1 have no doubt y that th'A table is sometimes moved through y mere mischief, sometimes through an un- ] S conscious pressure of the hand of a fatigu- , a ed arm, and sometimes through the strong r will of individnls inclined to tho innrvclo lous. d Tho power that Uto will may exert in i- this experiment may be estimated, when wo reflect that a button suspended at the I- end of a thread held between tho tlmmd i- and forefinger, will move in various direei tions at the will of him who holds the i, thread. I would not ask a place in your !- paper for this, hut that I found so many d intelligent gentlemen, clergymen, lawyers, ? doctors, and men of science, in tho most d confident lielief that this phenomenon was truly wonderful. This moving tabic b'i longs to the family of "tho spiritual rap0 pings." The table was first moved from - tho wall merely, and although it astoundg ed thousands of tho most intelligent poo's pie in the North, it was the grossest hutnd bug ever practiced. I cannot conclude r this article without stating a case, to show n how for credulity may supply facts. While e the individuals were engaged in tho expo1 rinicut of moving tho table around, they d would frequently ol>servo that they heard j s the table crack?that it would soon begin o to move, under the belief that it was elccd tricity that moved it, when 1 could hear I, no sound, although 1 put my ear in a fai. vnmKlo 1 ? - < vi??/iv |oraiuwn lu iiunr. >f The editor of the New-Yord Tribune i- has written that the tabls continues to I, move after the hands of the individuals c are removed from it. Wo have all seen a top movo after it leaves the hand of the B boy that pulled the string. J There may bo more done in the "land ? of spirits" than I saw, or was eallod to |_ witness, that belongs to this part of Northr ern wonders, therefore I limit what I have J written. 0 I offer the above as an answer to the ! ,r eall of the Haltimore Clipper. f J. 1*. (>, MITTAG. n ? From the Southern Rights Advocate. I. A SHAM DUEL. I- IIY IKK WIGGINS. r y A few years ago, as 1 was travelling in d the upper part of South Carolina, I hapr pened to arrive, in the town of ( ? 10 just at dark, and put up at one of the Hole lels of tho place for the night. After 11 dispatching my supper and seeing that >t my horse was attended to, I took a seat >r in the hall, where a number of young n men and boys were assembled, con vers *. ing on a subject that 1 considered very serious. It appeared, from what I could it gather that two persons had had a difliculty; that one challenged the other; the n other had accepted, and that nothing ! o short of a meeting on the "field of honor' v would satisfy them. e Having a curiosity to know the cause u of so much excitement, I enquired of a , good-natured looking gentleman, whom i I, they called Hugh, and who appeared to | , be the "head man," if ho could inform me it of the particulars. il "Wait a little while," said he, with a - wink, "and you can see for yourself." Everybody in G knows Hugh, lie! is always full of fun, and ready to amuse the way worn traveller, especially if he "takes a liking" to him. I soon became very familiar with him, and lie related 0 the whole circumstance tome. J[o said that there was a fellow who lived in town, | j by the name of Hill It , who took j a delight in insulting everybody that came in his way, and that he had been at the hotel that evening and attacked ^ one of the hoarders whose name was John II . John is a young man who loves a joke as well as anybody, and is as good . as the next one in playing them ofi". It r seems that Hill proposed to fight John, 0 which he refused, knowing the disposih lion of Hill, and that it would amount to t nothing. Hill, not satisfied with that kind : ^ ot treatment, still insisted on a tight"?John, c to get rid of his tormentor, proposed a ^ duel, which Hill accepted, and which was to take place that night. He also informed j my that ho was to act as second to Hill, (| and that another young man, whom he i, Pnrt wuu copautI Ia A A**? i II *" n.UT s learning the particular.-*, I concluded that ^ I would accompany thom to the "field of battle," and wo the fun. I also been mo a very familiar with John 11 , the ! 0 "duellint." I asked him if ho thought k. ho could act hia part without the joke 0 1 wing detected, lie said he thought he . could; which ho did, an will tie Men. II Whilo Hugh and Tort, the two seconds, ? were consulting relative to the "order of i- the day," Bill madoliin appearance. He r looked to bo about twenty-one years of a age; square-built; with one eye on the o ground and the other counting tho stars; ? coat buttoned up to the top, and his hands i, crammed down into his pockets up to his elbows, Ho was undoubtedly, from ape poaranco, pno of tho "b'hoys." ; * "Well, Bill, said Hugh, "have you got ' rverything ready?" * Yes, I'm ready apy time/'said he. ^ ' After arrainging tho programme? the ' orowd started tdr the "field of battle."-? The procession marched on with an air of >f daep Solemnity, headod by tho principals t and followed by the seconds and spcctae tors AH womAil to ha doortlv (TVvOo.l I ( withihc ?c?no. Tlio plncc for tho in*ct ! > * * r ^ 4 I- ? -'*9 tHk. ^ ? J;'*' e-Jrutro ND LOCAL INT] ing was a bridge, about a mile and a lialf from town. When the procession had p reached the brigo, Bill began to show m somo signs of backing out, but Hugan g told him thatwould never do, and that lie must stand up and fight like man. g "I ain't a /card to'figlit," said Biil, "but I'm w illing to make it urtpif Jolin is." 11 '"That will never dt," saiil Hugh, "John is not going to make it up; so you 1 may sis well agree to fight, or l?e called a cow ard, just which you plesise." ci 'T told you at fust that 1 warn't afeard" said Bill endeavoring to screw up his I courage. ''I Lave you got your gun loaded, t< Hugh!" said Port. si "Not yet,' said Hugh, "hut will have v in a short time." si "Jhit two bullets in my gun, Hugh," o said Bill. ri "Very well, I'll fix it for you." a The boys had now everything roadv, ? except loading the guns, and as it did not take long to ram down a charge of pow- fi der, that was soon done. While Port <1 and Hugh were loading the gnus, Bill up- ? peared to l>e engaged in prayer. Every h now and then a deep sigh would escape s? his lips, and the tears would steal down ? his cheeks, but when he would hear the n encouraging voice of Hugh, he would 1 h ! brush away the tears, and for a few min- it ales appear reconciled; but when death, b coffins, graves, ?te., were held up before ? him, he would ngainc look melancholy, h I felt a little sorry for the poor fellow a hut I w as determined to bear w ith it and sec the fun. The boys had now finished s< loading, and had again made their ap- . poaranec in the. crowd. "Now, Bill, which end of the bridge do you prefer!" said l'ort. "I ain't ready yet,''said Bill. "What's the matter now?" said Hugh, = almost choked with laughter. "I'm perfect Id willing to drop it," said ! Bill, in a trembling tone. "Oh, it will never do to drop it now, p after wc have gone so far with it," said Hugh, biting his lips to keep from laugh- " ing. b "I don't think fighting will do any r< good," said Bill, " and I'd jist. as soon not ngnt as to light." "Hall Hill, you ain't getting seared; ? arc you?" said Port, as ho handed John ^ the musket.. s< "No, I ain't scared, hut I hain't got a s< tiling agin John! and 1 don't see the use ^ of figktiu' without we was fightin' for somethin'," said Hill. "We are fighting for something," roared " John. s< " Now, you sec John is not going to h make it up, don't you f" said Hugh. * "I ain't neither, said Hill, ngain en- . denvoring to pick up spunk. 1 While Hill was in the notion, the boys j lJ thought it best to pla?o them at once at I t a proper distance and have it over. They p were soon read) for the word to be giv- j en ; but just as the question was put? "Are you ready f" Hill again roared out, "Stop?wait! I ain't ready yit?give a < fellow time!" fi "What on earth is the matter now/" v said Hugh ; "I thought you wore ready long ago." "It ain't worth while to be in sieli a powerful hurry," said Hill. ? "Yes, it is worth while," said Hugh; U "we have no time to loose ; it's getting 8 late." a After coaxing and begging for half an ^ hour or more, tliej' got Hill once more in the notion to fight. The seeonds again a placed him at his stand, and called for the o word. 1< "Are vou ready 1" c i>:n ? i . i Mil iimuw no ,'iu.nvcr, inn snxni irembling as if lie were shaken by an earthquake. " "Arc yon ready/" was again asked in ? ft solemn tone. ii Itill still said nothing, and the coninian- t der proceeded? "< )ne?" " "Stop?hold on?don't shoot! 1 ain't a ready," stammered Kill, frightened almost k to death. "What sort ot a way is that to do ?" de- ^ manded Hugh, in a serious tone. "I'm gittin' siek," said Kill, taking a seat " on the bridge. ? "Come, come 1 don't get frightened! tl stand up and defend your honor." ^ "I tell you, I ain't scared," said Kill ; . "if a fellow is a little sick, you think he's afeard !" v It was sotno time liefore they got Kill ^ in "fighlin' humor" again ; but the l>oys S were determined not to give it up, so they spared no exertion in endeavoring to "brace tj up his courage.*' In the course of a half t| hour, Kill was again in his place and the question ? as again put? "Are you ready 1" tl "Yes," drawled out Kill, in an under ^ i tone. tl "One ! two !?" "Wait !?don't!?.stop r roared Bill, tt the top of Ins voice. "I want to exam- a ino my gun before 1 shoot." c "I caii assure you that the (run is well- k loaded, for I loaded it myself," said Hugh p "Maybe it?it?hain't got any prim in'," , stuttered Hill. "Pshaw ?" said Hugh. * "It's best to l?e ctrtainsaid Hill. ? "Give the word," said Ilugh. "One?two?th?" f< "Hold on 1 wait a minuto !" screamed Hill. 01 "Oo on ! go on I" said a half dozen. "Give me a Httlr time," said Bill , "I'll I1 be ready after a while." * While thev were all waiting for Bill, ln? ' | was begging Ilugh to permit him to secure ' | himself under the bridge ; "for" said ho, r "I can poke my musket over the bridge b and shoot, and he will never know but a what I am standing on the bridge. a =? ELLIGENCE. NUMBER 40. Hugh, believing it to be the only chance, ermitted hitn to get under the bridge. "AW, I'm ready," said Kill, poking his un over the bridge. "One?two?three !" Bang! went Bill's un. "Oh Lord !" screamed John. "My God ! have I killed him I" statutercd Bill. "Yes, you've killed him," replied I ugh. "Oh ! mercy 011 me ! what shall I do!" ried Bill, almost scared into fits. "Come, let us go up and see him," said [ugh, "perhaps lie is only wounded." Bill walked with a trcmlbing step up "> where John was stretched ; but one iglit was enough. The blood (red ink) as streaming down his face, Ids eye* I retched wide open, his tongue hanging ut, his hair torn ; in fact, he was a hotible sight. Bill gazed at him a moment lid then uttering a shriek, fell senseless t his side. In a short time, Bill had recovered sufciently to l?e taken home. Ho passed a ir.'.i ?i-> t . iii^iii iiic npua UUllll lltiUlll* J his l>ed nil night. When morning came, c started to see his friend-Iingl), to make )inc arrangements to leave the State. He nquired if John had been buried, and if nyl>ody had found it out. Hugh told iiu that no person had found it out; but . was best for him to leave, as he would e certain to be arrested if he did not. It as some days before Bill discovered that e had been "taken in," and when he was ssured of the fact, he made himself very \*ircc about the town, never having been ;en or hoard of since. Iiuiiiiuj Igniting. Just Views of Sabbath Keeping. Hugh Miller, in his First Impressions of England, makes the following just and liporlant remarks on the mode of Sabath keeping recommended by our modern ifinery. "Among the exciting varieties of the enus philanthropist?benevolent men cut on bettering the condition of the mas?s?there is a variety who would fain snd out our working people to the eounry on Sabbath, to become happy and inocent in smelling primroses, and stringdaisies on grass stalks. An excellent ihcmc theirs, if they "but knew it, for sinklg a people into ignorance and brutality ; >r filling a country with gloomy workouses, and the workhouses with unhappy aupcrs. 'T'is pity rather that the instiution of the Sabbath in its economic eatings should not be better understood >y the unitarian. The problem which it urnislics is not particularly difficult, if one ould be but made to understand, as a rst step in the process, that it is really est i monies of our hutnble martyrs, her* nd there corroborated by tko incidental ridonce of writers, such as Burnet. In these addresses from prison and'scaf?ld?the composition of men drafted by pposition almost at random from tko eneral mans?we see how rigorously our 'roabyterian people had learned to think, fj nd liow well to give their thinking i ression. In the quietor times which foW >w?f the Revolution, the Scottish pcasanry existed as at once the inost provident n<l intellectual in Europe; and a Morails ndlnstfucted people pressed outward pf** * *4 rortli solving. The incrc animal, that as to pass six days of the week in hard ibor, benefits greatly by a seventh day f mere animal rest and enjoyment. The cpose, aecording to its nature, proves of ignal use to it, just because it is repose coording to its nature. But tnan is not mere animal; what is best for the ox tid tbe ass, is not best for him ; and in rder to degrade him into a poor unintel'ctual slave, over whom tyranny in its apriec may trample rough shod, it is but cccssary to tic him down: animal like, uring his six working days, to hard, cn;rossing labor, and to convert the seventh nt<? a day of frivolous, unthinking rclnxaion. History speaks with much cmpliais on the point. The old despotic Starts were tolerablo adepts in the art of ingcraft, and knew vtqII what they were oing, when they backed with their an Iiority the Book of Spotts. " The many nthinking serf*, who early in tho reign f Charles I., danced on Sabbaths round lie Maypole, wore afterwards the ready :k>1s of despotism, and fought that Engind might be enslaved. Tho Ironsides, rho in the cause of civil and religious eedom, love their crown, were staunch abbatnrians. In no history, however, is the value of lie Sabbath more strikingly illustrated, ian in that of tho Scotch people, during 'ic seventeenth, and the larger portion of lie eighteenth centuries. Religious and the ahhatli wcro their solo instructors and liis in times so little favorable to the cultiation of mind, so darkened by persecution ltd stained with blood, that, in at least the arlier of theso centuries, wo dorwre our nowledge of tho character and amount of Alii or int nl 11 rroiion ntOinlt' CeAltl ilaafli