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J r ^ . _ J PT?P A1VNTTM u chained to n'o party's we cleave to truth, where-er tVt ATYV* A "NTtf"1!? nn^ -t XLiXV Al^l 1^1 U Itl'. arbitrary sway, sue leads the way." 1 IN AJJ V jclil vlu. NEUTRAL IN POLITICS?DEVOTED TO LITERARY, COMMERCIA L AGRICULTURAL, SCIENTIFIC, GENERAL AND LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. VOLUME II. LANCASTER, C. H, SOUTH CAROLINA WEDNESDAY MORNING. APRIL 27.1853 NUMBER 13 =???- . : jhu d1 nqiii ? 1 ?,-,-r * !? ' ? ?? . ~ " (WRITTEN EX l'KKSSLY FOR Tl " ' ' TlE ^ < > Man's Weakness and 1 A V M Woman's Weakness an A Tale of Things BY R. 8. BA [Continued.] ' the CIIAPTKH IX. M Clementina, you say you love EdwaVd, mP Vut 1 know you do, so why do I ask the 1 qinwti Clementina, do you know,that Mj, Kdwur?l Iiiim. * 1 " - VMM Hiunit; lirai'IKT, i.11189 Brown P |lc,u " I believe lie does, undo, and Edward ou-rlit not to serve me so." nov " Well she is a pretty woman, Clemen- tole tiua, and you can't blame a man for fall- tur, ing in love with a pretty woman. I would it >, not be surprised if Edward should marry ? her." try "Uncle! you surprise mo! Edward rtc!t fi marry that Miss Drown!" gur " Certainly, it -is it plain case, if lie loves her, and she loves him, why, that answers you nt once. I tell yon, Clem- J cntinit, Miss Brown knows liow to work whi her cards, she loves Edward, and he is a any prim worth getting, and iho will get liiin vilfi too. Voii had better look out Clein, yon st t Vill lose Edward !" p!ie " Uuole, you are trying to annoy and j ma! fret me. Edward. I expect. onlv nretends I ii??n to love Mi** Drown, in order to tieze me, bliti 1 wonder I did not think so before. If I froti had have la>en indifferent, and careless till -al?out the matter, he would have been on dw< Ills kliccs to me." refu 44 Ah, Clementiun, yon know better;? qui.? I tell you in earnest. Edward loves that l>ett yxirl, and if I aid not mistaken, will tnarry the her, and you should try to got him back, vint or got her out of the way." autl The earnest manner in which this was the spoken, touched the woman, her eyes fill- at ( ed at once. all "Oh, my dear uncle, tell mo what to sen! 'do. I will do any thing. I wish the |tm wretch of a woman had never come here, con Toll me, uncle, what Us do !" pro Bardott was silent. fror Again did Clementina ask for advice, one 44 Clementina," said he, "can I tru*t adu vou, and if I promise you to bring back and ivdwurd, will yon assist ine to do it I" ' tint1 44 Oh, yes, my dear uncle, anything, on- ero< Ay say it and I will do it." wor 44 Listen well to me, Clementina, and tnm 'then toy if you will act in concert with the 'hie. I have lovod this Sarah Brown, yes, Oil 1 wanted a wife, I felt lonely and I want Wli ed a companion, acting up to the teaching* * fscripture, it is not well for man to '{ live aione. ' 11 / I proposed to this Miss Brown to l>ecome my wile, Ami she refused. This .\m galled mo, and I determined to Is- reveng- ( ed. I have tried am) tried how it was heat to accomplish this, but as yet willi (((| . 'out success. I have now decided ujhui a plan, where you can assist me, and ' ; which will in the end estrange Edward from 8arab." 'j 44 Say It, uncle, and I will co-oja-rHtc j0j| with you." |,er *' liusb let mo speak on." "Clementina, I must make Sarah Brown JUU1 luy paramour, and in order U> do this tuuuh depends upon you. ?Ul in oOowderaiton of your a??ifttaii<-e, I , ^ will do more than bring Edward back. ? ?,t|l I will alto have an instrument of wr.ting ,mw drawn up, and leavo you my property, oll understand me, the proviso in the HNt; deed will be lb*/, you assist ?ne to ar- ,jor complisb my pur j* we." j 14 Undo you may depend upon me. 1 j{r( am more than muhoua to aid you to crush #mj the woman who I* the cause of my wrotcji- m|t| ednefi*. Yet, it la almost exteudiu^ too no inuuh of a favor to Mis* Brown to make ^ her your miatraair*. ( spaat 00,n aaid Hardntt. mm * Yon roust go and tee Mi** Brown . the partlythrough my exertions, ahe w now | M I reduced pretty low. You mnat appear kin sorry for fc?U; stAoondole with her; apol- aek ogixe for not continuing to take tniuto leeeons, and offer her jouM-'Utuco. But in do- con tog all thia, you mu?t act very cautiously Brc or she wwloapeet foul play. After you u M have engrafted yournelf son -.her cou favor you iQt^nmtc her jig* I will *rrange*u8^B^|^^^9B^I^^P* dcratand me. Chmoniin V*nd ttdif yoti do ued at I ndriaa f j you \ ^ a I nip. . and d< 11K L A N C A S T E R L K P (I E R. ] * -* *" llame< ?? " L you. 9 /R\ WPP wl,-v 0 If We "c''m for HHS The rati sp Wemail's Strength, call fo deterrr id Man's Strength. tumolt " SH al ways as they Are. ",u* j Sarah, * 1 will i ?LEY. Sm?1' and sn kisses. She ' \ ? ?, uncle, I will do anything against vih? worn in, Lilt how will that brinj* s',( k Edward!" " ?ho coi Why, don't you see J I thought wo- l'*'*011 ti were quicker sighted than men.? efforts n't you see when Edward finds thai a1"' s Sarah Drown has become my mis- wo,l'd is ho will l>o ashamed to own he ever iitl of her evt?n I" uallv s 'Oh yes, uncle, I see through it all ':lx '' ?. antl I will do my part, I had ahoadv :u.'^ ^r; I Jane I would try to get the hasecrea- ' ) out of the way, and your plan will do " '>n recisely. When shall I go, uncle f ward, 1 1 To-morrow, but mind you must not *c# 1 to bring her helre at Once, you must -vmlwith great caution, for I assure you il c' ah is a smart woman.'' ^"rt at that it CHAPTKIt x. " Ye ks the candle by which i write burns, for my lo all around is still, and bit', few, if . keeiUII" lis mmntiiio i.. a*na.. I , .I, ,.Ui uuiei 1 HiwTTu't. ?n,JK> burn "41 <->'1 ho^iiiduight hour, while her ueodlc Wanted .1 tho stie^i* in tho garment she was ai1^ 'ot . iiig! with ever ami anon a bViuf cessn- " Oh , to enable her to wine the team which 8afe?( led her right. Work, work, work, ii morning till night, nn.l from night strcngt morning. Obliged to live in a rented h?ur ol siting, for " world said " christians had Ood, si i?ed her a home, and obliged to relin- P'Tjon ?li an occupation by which she was '*)' a 8 or enabled to earn a Hiip|?ort, through ?'*lecto?. overbearing, usiirpating and malicious rah, an liclivcncss of those in authority, (in 'v> w',t' liority on account of their influence,) htu poor girl was reduced to a situation, oooupai mco forlorn and destitute. And with thing ; these troubles, greater ones were pre- thcexo Lid to her mind, ill meditating u|k>ii j04 dott's throat, and Edward's laso-vious turoof iliict. Where could she go to seek for 1 lection ? Could she seek protection |?r?>ntr:? n the authorities of the town ? At an e the worl.l would construe this as an atl01 lission of her guilt. Sarah knew this, of in no I there, reader, at that ijuiet hour, in Sara t lonely house, while these reflections ?*hnu* srded upon her mind, she dropped her "bleed i k, and on her knees supplicated ussis- 'l requi ce from on high. In the language of I*ot?t she praved : # ] an(' hy 10 u ! dark, awful, vast, mysterious power,' tention iota christians worship, yet not eouipro' These I prebendi divert I piorant of thy new laws I stray, forrt w| d from thy distant hoav'n where o'er it |,M>|COlj shines, , ray of guardian light, to clear my way ; Prnat''1 I teach me first to find, then act thy will. ',e he iietililia had acquainted Jane with oiisly concocted plans of her . ""V* i . i r young holy very warmly Tr *1isiveil of' them, la-sides, volunteered to I si Clementina in tho diabolical work ** nsnaiiiig Sarah. 1'hev had called on Saruli, and in con-' ^'vyi' ing language expressed their sorrow fur . , and their kind intentions. Jane, w wing her pride, would not offer her ticy, hut gave her some work, said she . retted that from unavoidnhle circuin- {',m? ices she had fa-en unable to continue ,oUK J ii'ir miiiio lessens, gave her ten dollars, l'? I >ln- wished no change, as she had re worn, mm pHKl her that in advance " inc.>ulit. Clementina alsopromised to *t her, anil also left some work to bo ** ! . ie, promising to call the nest day again. s'ow When k? i .var> 1 called to aeo m.? my?? iwii :n the evening, sho wore a pleasant ",ero'7 lie, ami was bcwiichiiigly beautiful, tnd ' Rj?? lough she bad requested hint to call w> ' more, treated him lesa harshly, on ac- j\ ,n'inj intof the lightness of her heart, and hI- ? >n account of Iim slater's ktndneas. F>l- . ,e, rd was not aware that Jane had been !10 )0* re, but when Harah txpteaaed herself 'l Wft* taring so grateful to his sister for her t,on w rineaa, be had more shrewdness than to nowledgu his ignorance. My sister will agwuy* take pleasure in Old tnbuMttg to thjTcojufbrt ?f Miss to aha >wn, said ho, H and Jret," br continued, mioati iSift * h do please stop this conversation." ,id, " think ot my situation, Mr. 1). Mist." s hut only encouraged Edward, f?>r once noticed tho servant was alwent te exquisite beauty of Sarah now in1 his love more than ever before, ove you, Miss Sarah, I can't, but love Oh Sarah, my own dear Sarah, ant you love 1110!" lie Rat near to ad at*on?ptod to take her hand, r. B. you must desist or I will shout istance." i peremptory manner in which Saoke, took him a little by surprise, i soort 'recovered himself, when he how futile it would be for her to r assistance in that lone house, lie lined to tnke advantage of the presportuYifty, before the servant girl retrain I tell you I love you. I will j love you. You will be my Sarah will he your Edward. Sarah, my yes, I will make you my wife, and call you my Sarah, mv dear, dear " and he clasped her in his arms, lothered her with warm passionate tried to break herself from his ce, hut Ue clasped her as with a vice, * struggled with all the strength ild command, and endeavored to his hold ; at length she found her were vain, and she teas in his sl... .dwi? ' ? ?? 1 ..../utvu >?-i luun iis ner lungs permit Iter for assistance, struggled and struggled, l>ut gradlie found her efforts of resistance ree pressed her closer to his heart, (dually bore her to a remote part oom. n't cry, my dear, I am your Ed[ will love you and will seal by this flV love mv iiiofn.il ? v - -y UVVWIKIII IUr \ (>H, I will," am) again lie imprintss on lier crimsoirnp?, with an efrwistHiH'p so feeble on lier pari, served only to inflame his desires." s, dear Sarah, this will repav me true, devoted' ? next moment Edward II. was lying is on the floor, itio scounorei I Let inc cut his throaff Yes, bring me a knife me put an end to all such villains !" no, Mr. Lake, don't do that, I am Jod bless you !" ro was an evidence of woman's b; though physically wenk, in the 'adversity by the P ovidenee of tccor was extended to her, in the of her father's old friend Mr. Lake, ingular c "incidence, old Lake had I that very evening to call on Sa-1 d was approaching the house slowin her cry for help caught his ear. riod liis steps, and unheard by the n's the one in despair, lost to every whilst the other carried Away by itemeut of his feelings, he unlatched >r, ami at a glance seeing the naall'airs, in an instant with his slonclistrnck Rlward in the temple,which tod him on the floor ; and there he instance of the weakness of man, npting to battle against the virtue Cent woman. h wits completely overcome and led from the sudden reactio . proby the pmoly aid of Mr. Lake, ami red an effort to seat herself on the Lake handed her a glass of water, fanning her, 'and sundrv other atf?, she iaJCnino partially composed, little attentious to Sarah, served tc liis mind from Edward, and there ion the latter opened his eyes, and nround, and then got up and aped the door, neither said a word, was allowed to leave, his conscience ns only accuser. a remained with Sarah until the the house came back, and commitiss Brown to lier care, promising to >n again, left; tVelitig glad within r that it had been his privilege to issbtancO to a distressed fcinalo. at wore bis reflections wliilo wendway to his quiet home, which was listauce from Sarah's t ery man," said ho " is capable of some good. Hero was I, who it I was lit for nothing have l>een _ * ? itusoi nwciuiiga weak woman from soned fanifs of a venomous reptile ! reptile. llud it not boon for me alio have boon pollute J, conlamin.v t. An<1 why may I not U? capable g morel I have Ix-en standing in n light 1 have been unhappy, lx?cnu*? I never exerted myself to d. Farewell alcohol, by fJod'shelp not uuito another drop ! I will be , and act as a man should." Hy help, ho wonUI live a sober man.? aire was tliero, and aa the wish of irt was communicated to Uie lips, wafted on high, and a Arm resolu*] aa granted by Heaven in exchange. O H A ITE ft *1. Lake now that he Anally reeolved rtdon alcohol, acted up to hi* deteron, and John the son waa more than d. Days and weeks past, and John i that hw father waa a strict abatiown. T In extreme happineas which I not permit him to rcmanHP n<I h* a proper spirit, he so expressed ^Hhiid the father, MI had thought lit drinking, but not until some 'Sir W : *wr'; I-1 | nights ago, did I make 6p rriy mitul to do so. John, had it not been for me, a poor weak innocent flower of a woman Would have been crushed, blighted. Yes, it waH through my intercession, that a tiend in the shape of a man, was prevented from consummating his hellish designs. After i I found what I had done, and reflected what I could do, I determined by (Jod's | assistance to remove the obstacle which < has always been the barrier in my way. < And John, since we have commenced to < talk on this subject, I had may as well j say, that it was through your kindness, t I was first induced to abandon liquor." ' "My kindness, father J" j | "Yes," said Lake, " your kindness.? i Had you bare spurned me when I was ' drunk, and relinked nie for doing so, when t it was redounding to your injury, had you i even treated ttte disrespectfully, 1 would t have kept ou. But no, John, although t for thirty years,the poison ha i been seared c over my c<uiscienoc, your father still had t a heart, a heart capable of feeling and I alive to feelings of gratitude. In . justice c to you John, in coqpderati< n of vour <lu- l tiful attention, I concluded to he less in- s temperate, and when accident led ine to t this lady, and only through my exertion s site was spared ; I resolved to quit tho c poisonous liqour eternally and perpetual- c ly." ? ) Atter this there wfcs a pause. At length c John inquired who the lady was. v " That," said Luk^, " I cannot toll you, li and have rc:isons for keeping secret." ?J John now, of course was more than ev- I er anxious to learn who the lady was,but t the father refused to tell, and left him d alone John was in a quandary; why a should his father keep the lady's name 11 from him I How caine bis father to be c there just at that tvDDortune in mmnt ?? t Those things perplexed flini beyond men- r ?ure, and the idea flashed upon his mind s tliiit the lady was probably Miss Brown. I As soon as he conjectured this, he at once t believed it, and delorinined to trace tin matter out. t [to UK COXTI XL'Kl>. j ^ ' mw. >c wm lo"w Everybody. ' Some few su in mere ago, I spent several 1 weeks r.t a pretty little watering-place, in * one of the southern counties of Scotland. x The village, during the period of my stay, 1 was Hiled with visitors of all classes and r descriptions. Numbers of real or itnagin- F ary invalids from among the wealthier or- 11 ders of society, were spending ht the spot v their usual term of country residence, while v many of a humble rank were seeking v relief from true illness by the Use of the medicinal springs in the neighborhood.? '' Among all these various residents, for the time being, a perfev equali y reigned, and * indeed, this was in a measure inevitable, % seeing that there was no alternative Ikjtween absolute solitude, and the adoption 1 of such companions as chance was pleased [ ' to bring in the way. c Those who lodged in the iilu Of the c village, in particular, being cliieily young c men, like myself, who had come to while' 1 : away a week or tvo in fishing and other j | I amusements, were brought into daily and I ! ; liourlv fellowship, h iving to bicakfast, 1 j dine and sup at a common table, and, in 1 ' short, enjoying nothing individually and 1 , undividedly but their bedrooms. For my * part, I enjoyed this fortuitous associate- 1 ship very ntueh, for the three or four I weeks of my residence in the village. A 1 great part of this enjoyment was owing to ' one individual, the only person among T iny co-lodgers who had anything remark* i ' I able about him; the rest being idle, gen- | 1 tlomanly young fellows of an ordinary 1 | cast. Not that I mean to insinuate that 1 1 the individual particularised was not as ' idle ami gentlemanly as any of them ; ' only, lie was not an 'ordinary" person- 1 I age, and there lay the distinction. Hie 1 first extraordinary thing altout him was, ' that nolxxlv knew his name, or who and > what he was. though lie knew everybody ' j and all a bo (it everybody. Ho was gene-1 1 I rally termed "Mr 8.," or the "gentleman 1 with the whiskers," his visage lieing doco- ' rated with an ample pair of these appcii- I I dages. The chainbern aid it was, I lie- 1 liove, who gave us this initial glimpse at 1 his name, having olwervod the letters J. ' 8. on his portmanteau. Genteel in his 1 IH-fson, coUrtcoUs even to exoesa, in his ' manners, and scrupulously neat, if not. ' elegant, in his attire, Mr. S. was calcula- 1 ted, at first sight, to excite a prepossession \ ( in hut tavor; ami on turther inter-Murse with liiiu, this impression certainly had no tendency to decrease. Of tiie evorpday ; email talk of society, he a first-rate master; ; he abounded in Anecdote of the most picas- ' ing conversational kind* lib stories gener- ; ally relating to living persons of note nnd i rank in the world ; and what was of all about the good things he told, he almost uniformly gave yod them at first hand,! exactly as they had fitllen from the lips of the (initios conoerned, in his preaonoe. No comm m place quller and ftfrilor of fly tiroes tohl an#Written bon mat* was the "gentleman with the whiskers,'* Every throg that came from his mouth hore the sump of freshness ami novelty. You oould not mention one man's name, hut. Mr. 8. would tell you something about him yon never heard before. ' ' T The reader must have a touch of 8,'g veinitn order to comprehend the myxte- \ riotts curiosity respecting him that grade . a * " ? ,< a . ?>' . ie \ # illy crept over my mind whilo I lived I Bide him. This curiosity, as has been ready said, none of the rest of <Jur Wat ing-placo companions could gratify. ) was unknown to all; though, strange tell, several of them wero at times firm the belief that they had seen him son where before?but where or when th puzzled their brains in vain to recollc Over my own mind a glimmering feelii jI the same kind occasionally came, a jnded in the like dark uncertainty. 1 general impression among us came to I that Mr. 8. was a man of consequent who found it convenient, from some tei pornry pecuniary dilfiulty, to keep hi: self and his whereabouts quiet fot a sb while. How could wo think Otherwi when we found a man capable o'deser: ng accurately, from personal Obscrvati lie appearance, dress and manners of t iry peer and gentleman of note in t iountry ? Suppose the subject ol l urf and its heroes to be started by o ittle club of diners at the ordinary, o amcS. with his0bservntion-MOd<l lengtl ieeu sportsmen do sonietirAcs go, to 1 ure, with their passion for racing and lu ing. Some men, from morning till nig eem to think of nothing else; andthoni ine would say that they cou'd not car in turf sports and dine at the satqp tim el I have actually known it done. nice heard Lord K offer a hear vager at dinn'ef*, that ho would leap li imous hunter Roziuante over a chair bnc lirectly in the face of a rousing fire. T1 ict was taken on the spot, and thestak abled. The horse was brought into tl linn ing room in a few minutes afterward ,rtd ih<J chair placed, according to agre nent, at the distance of a certain numb if feet from the lir#. His lordship mou ed, ami in another instant the docile iu ual had cleared the chair, and stcx toek-still within a few inches of tho blaze Vfier some remarks had been made 1 he company upon Mr. S.'s anecdote lianced to observe, that "wliero spor nen could not conveniently make tin Inmin^-rooms a raee-coGrse or huntin ield) thoy could always bet, at least, ai mrnuMU lw ai a icon iot" unurs to t ipciir, its every one would allow, that r< ?llecte?l the story of the two sportsrm vho, when con lined to tho house on vet day, commenced wagering with ea >ther tin tho comparative speed of t ain-drops coureing down the windt nines." 8. instantly capped?as they s it Cambridge?my good old Joe Sfill vi h an anecdote, fresh as a daisy, ai vhicli showed his familiar intercom villi tho great as much as tho last he tol They don't always bet in a way So hari ess to themselves," said he of the initia The well known Mur hv, as keen portsinan as ever wore spurs, once laid cry heavy wager, that he would stick Kindred pins, of the common length, i o their heads in otio of his limbs. I ultilied liis undertaking with the eoura; if a martyr, and won his bet. lint t! wnsequence of his feat was, that he w omiiieu 10 t>eu lor months, and ran tl greatest risk of losing both his liuib ai lis life. I heanl the engagement enter tito, but its execution, I believe, took pla n his own bedroom. Not quite so da jerous to himself," continued S, "was tl uanner in which another keen sportsma Japtain Murray, afterwards Lord K? exhibited Ilia betting propensities. 1 iroud was the captain of the iron lirmni which a long course of hard exercise < lorseback had given to !iis limbs, that vaa in the habit of laying bets, that I >ne could nip or pinch him in that qui er of his body. When he could get n xtdy to take up such a wager with hii t was no uncommon thing for him toof) jalf-crowns, sometimes in a public mark ;o any one, groom, hostler or jockey, w would succeed in effecting a nip.n Who, thought I and all present, wh our friend with the whiskers gave <u ilories as these?who is this, that is ias l?een so intimato with nobles and gi .lemcn of rank, rt: to have l>een a witm if the sayings and doings of their irt retired and convivial moments) If a a picion of his being simply a retailer things heard from others ever crossed t mind, it was speedily removed agjain the diceovcry of his correctness in point or other, that could scarcoly hf twen known to any one bdt an eyesijo >bsjrver. And yot, would a man of hi rank live unattended in a nnltrw to country inn, and the inn, too, of a wat ng-place, a public resort I lies ides, tie were a man of note, surely somebo <r other should have known hiiu. One remarkable point in the charac if this strange person puzzled ine mu< I tiever hoard hiin utter a single reins >n literature or books, although I ofl sndoavored to load him into tho subj.i rhis ind'.ced roe. after much cogitatu to set him down as an author; he did i wish to commit himself on the matter 3thcr men's writings; like Sir Wal Scott, he wished to Hye at peace with bis brethren. Therefore, tfftcrt this tri i>f thought sprung np in my mind, f him down m an author?only to set h down as something else within the n lerf niinutes. Noilher did ! ever hi hint give utterance to a single remark science, unless, indeed, ventriloquism ranked as <km* On this subject, I reoM ber, he once told us a very curious ?i dent, which hsd taken pi act, as tfst ?r- ' r lie- trndeV trie 6wn eye. Mr. Cartnicheel, a al- VentViloqiuiVof some note, was invited to SV- h hritel by fcomo admiring patrons. A ie bottle of was ordered, wlieu, just as to the waiter was about to draw the cork in and decant it, he and tho company were ie- astoimded by a plaintive voice exclaiming: ey "Oh ! gentlemen, help me out of the Z?m" ct. ?that is, tho chimney. Tho landlord ng was called, and 011 the voico repeating its ud l plaintive petition, he exclaimed: "llow, lie 111 tho name of wonder, did you get >e, there ?" "I cam down the wrang luin ce, this morning," cried the prisoner, "and I in- ennna gang up again ; and, O dear, as 111- , \ttle can I get down!" The angry land?rt , load declared the fellow must have intense, ded thievery, sent for a policeman, and at ib- the same time, procured a couple of chirnon ney-sweeps to Examine the vent, while iv- every now and then tho voice kept cryhe ing: "I can't get dowb!" Tho sootylie men explored the chimney, Arid declared ur that tho man was gone. A repetition of ut the "I can't get down," belied their words; lis and the landlord was on tho jioint of sendL?c ing for masons to break i'rito th'e v'ent, ?t- when, to tho astonish merit rif all, iVlcluaing lit tho ventriloquist's patrons, who were cornel pletely taken by surprise as well as tho ry others, the dexterous juggler revealed the ie, deception. He had imitated tho crying of 1 a person from the chimney, and no one 'y had noticed the deception, lis After spending a week or two in daily k, listening to such anecdotes as those that 10 have been related, my desire?and I bees licve it was participated in my many othie ers?to know who Mr. S. really was, Is, knew no bounds. From liis stories, one c- sometimes would have imagined him to er be a peer, sometimes a sporting squire, n- sometimes a lawyer, a merchant, a physiii cian, or a daily associate, at least, of one or >d other of these classes of the community, s." Sometimes I imagined tho mystic being by might be a member of our senate, but, , 1 seeing that half-a dozen at leXst of Mr. ts- l'.'s bore the same initials, I was here as iir much at a loss as ever, ig- TI10 appointed term of my stay in the nd little watering-place approached, and I >?t was yyrctehed. Had it not boon tor tho ic- medicinal waters which 1 drank every :n, morning, I must have fallen into a "cuna ous" consumption. The man with the un wmsKcrs?no ot lite initials?J. IS.?had ho made me miserable, lie was as courte>w ous, as much admired, and as nnecdotical ay as ever. One day, however, while half-ner dozen of us were sitting at tho onlinary, ad and just as I was thinking of announcing *o my departure on an early day, one of the d. party who had taken up a newspaper, roil marked that visitors had at last begun to Is. return from tho country to town, and read a a long list of arrivals, including many of a the nobility, at tho National Hotel. For a the fir<t time, as this list was read, I saw ip emotion depicted on the usually unpcrIc turbed countenance of the mysterious S.; ?c that countenance which I had so long ho watched with absorbing interest. "An as attachment," was my iinniedUte thought, tie 'to some lady named in the list of arrivid als." As soon as I coiild, I got the paper ed into my hands, and instantly looked at ce the arrivals. The celebrated beauties, tho n- Hon. Misses A , were among tho lie number. "Poor J. S., or happy J. S., as m, it may be, has an attachment to one of ?, them, it is quite clear," was my cogitation; So and it was confirmed by his announce *a ment, shortly after, of his intention to reon turn to town by next day's coach. Doubt he le?j the ardor of his passion induced him no to fly to his love without delay. Mooro ir- deeply interested in my friend of the inio tials than ever, I quickly formed and made n 1? ^ ? i~ ? Kiiunu inj tu ucj?ori uy mc same Tf* conveyance. ot After I had taken my seat, at an early hour next morning, on tire top of the coach, J. S. made his appearance, but, to my great surprise, his cheeks Wetc AS bare as my hand. His whiskers Were comor pletely gone. As I was ruminating or 'n* the cause of this, 8. jumped up beside mt ass on the cbach; and etrtrv thing was nearh ^ ready for the start, when one of our com uv panions of the ordinary, of whoin we had ol taken leave on the preceding night, cam< ,',r to the door of the inn, and looking up U y us, was aliout, as I thought, to say "good - oy, out instead 01 that, he tlxed liis eye k*e on my companion1* unwhiskered counte ?"/ nanco with a look of amazenieut, gavo J 8" slap to his leg, and cried ; "I have him a last! it's the *'Yu hip I" cried tlx *!"" coachman ; oft dashed the horses, ratth lf went the wheels, and what the gentlemar was about to say was drowned in th? commingled noise. But it was not alto ter gothcr lost upon mo. I saw that th< ch. speaker so untimooiisly interrupted, hrt< irk at last discotefed, by the denudation o his chocks who J. 8. roally was. Wha !ct. would 1 not have given for one moment' )n, delay of that coach's career I as it was, tot had learned something. The Irtst wdrv of #bic i I had heard?the tftc?indicate ter that J. S. wat no common man. ^ all a titlo. People'talk of the, Viscount, th nin Lofd Advocatt',* t*ie Lord Provost, hut * set man irt an ordftrafy fitnation of life, * im lawyer or merchant, can be distinctively ext pointed ant by the prefixtnre of the din i' Wlf article the. The gentleman with th on initials must nnodestion ably bh ft rtafi c bo no mean distinction, tm- With ibis impression on my mind, Jci- confess I almost insensibly heightened th Ml, respectfulness of my tone in addresamj my coach companion as wo bowled along tho road, and it seemed to me that he also became more respeatfnl, while there was a pensive reserve about hirrt alkr, which I attributed to his meditations, poor fellow, upon one of the Hon. Misses A As wo were driving along, dying with euridrity ail 1 was, I did not like to offer an exchange of cards, which would bo next to asking his name, a thing he seemed desirous td keep secret. The end of our jodmey AppVoachcd, Add I thought internally, With a bitter sigh, that it inust be left to k'dffio future chance to unfold this myste'ry. The coach reached Edinburgh. Before it came to what is called its stand, the mysterious bearer of the initials jdrrtped dff. Ho touched his hat, aud bade mo good-by. My heart sank within me with vexation and disappointment. As a last resource, having observed S. to speak in a familiur whisper to tho coachmnn, it struck me to ask the latter if he knew the gentleman who h .d left us. Conchee was a sort of half Cockney. 44 Vy," says tho handler of the whip, 441 knows him very veil. It's Jo'e Swipes, as is tho vaitcr at the National. A rum feller he is too, and no mitf,ake. I'll Varrant now he's been a'-playing the gon'leinan some where, while the 'ouse is slack. And a right good gen'lemnn he makes. I never heard sich stories as he can pump dufr. But tihisTcer-timeya over, as wo says, wot knows him?the gentry's a'-coming in, and ho must look sharp Aflor husinos^ now!" trailer or iora, joo rswipes was a gentleman. From the Christian Intelligencer. Extempore Preaching. AS ANECDOTE OF DR. JOHN M. MASON, BY GllANT TllORBl'RX. If memory in correct, it was in 1802 <>< 3 that there lived in New J orgy qLjxr named Win, Ballard. He had hero a r?gularf though forma), uttendant at tlx; house of prayet* for thirty years; but no vv Syar'iii'rWoiij.5.. He Went to every church rind prayer meeting in his district, vet rio peace was found. lie sold off his property and removed to New York, hoping aiaog so many prechers to find a physician who might understand his case. LI is id ode was in Greenwich street, near the Battery. One Sabath afternoon, while the bells wore tolling he came up Rector street, intending td enter the Middle Dutch Church, between Broddtvay and Nassau street, in Cedar street lie srtw people of worship which lib had never sfecn previous to that day. He entered without asking a question. J_)r. Mason rose in the pulpit and read four verses from the 83 Psalm, Scottish version, the tunes and the metro the same as were sung in the days of J no Knox, two hundred yeari previous. A specimen; "Oh, greatly blessed the people are, The joyful sound that know; In brightness of thy face, O Lord, They ever on shall go," &c. At that time 1 was Presentor (as it ifc termed ill Sootlandl fnr l)r Mm/mi T ?? the tune, and read off the psalm, line after line. Dr. Mason was in his thirtieth year, tall, thin and sickly. IIo wore a cocked hat, hair in cilrt and powdered?similat to the portrait of Dr. Livingstbn now id the Dutch Consistory room, in Fultonstreet Ho looked more like ka military officer thau a prcachter bf peace I Mil givti Mr. Ball&id's infpTOsibriS ih ilift owti words. Say she: "Being a stranger, sat iH a pew near by the door- In ft few minutes every pew auti passdgb &as filled by thb crowd that were pressing in. When the preacher, with a quick step, asended the high i stairs leading to the pulpit, X thought hfe looked moro like a play-actor tnan a i minister, The reading of the psalm, line; i the plain;solemn tur.e|in which it was sung, ' all consnired to rivet my whole attentoii: - When Dr. Mason, in a strong, sonorous 1 voice, addressed the throne of fcrace, 1 3 thought there was something so original ) and so familiar in his manner and expfefi siohs, that my whole soul was w?at>t ih s astonishment, lie addressed his Maker - as one talketh to #d barthly friend, face to % face. His toxt was from Rom. vii,24: t "O wretched man that I am! who shall 3 deliver nie from the body of this dcathtn 9 Mr. Ballard remarked that he had i Jeen his wretched state many months i brovious, but never fbiinl deliverance till - tie beard that sermon. Scmfcb being i ended and the assembly dwiriissed, he 1 Stood Cta the pavement opposite thfe . builf ding, lio fcatl bn the^bajwdone, over t tli0 door, "I'll? Scotch Presbyterian s Church: Hitherto hath tho Lord helped," I and he went on his way rey>'ui W? 1 became a constant bearef tand a ctdcf cf | the Word. r m I ? he 10 ^r* . MaXfc pfrp*tst<#$r I 0 to becoming a mnmtar. I t> the' tlbfte as *bore narrat<?1. Or. 1m|h> h ttbserved that it wpte very ningulrvr. r he; "On that 8 abWh,'between tly? fbro ft and afternoon service. I ha J al rail red f tny thoughts to speak from anuUfcr tef L When I entered the nuipt|2^Bo neither 1 McoUect the test n#the iroWflet White e the eonjNftatioi lWp|htf the "cond < tiroe -anW*(W^$3iri ?mu* **