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~ mtCauaistfr fc&ger. \; VOLl'ME XVI. LANCASTER C. II., S. C., DEC., 5, 1807. ' - NUMBER 43. . SELECTED, STORY, r [From Moore' Hu;*i Sew Yorker.] f A. Sketch ot Enrly Days. 1 o BY NX I. UK LISUKK. 6 * _____ r T* my early life, as in lint of every ; 1 boot girl, there were?cenoe and incidents | * which in old age come thronging back to i memory and 611 n>y heart with pleating I ? sensations?remembrances of the happy i ^ past which, while I muse upon, I soem to 1 ' live all o'er again. At the age of fifteen I waa sent from my childhood homo to a 6 n distant city to attend a young ladies' boarding school. Those who have passed I the trying ordeal of a "first day" at a new a school can imagine my feelings when T was ushered into 9 room where wero aeated shout sixty young ladies, varying tn nge troni nine to tweuty year*. No mile of recognition met my eye, for I was * nil utterMranger to ell rave the Preceptress, j " It wxi n lonely dry to mo, and glad indeed n wm! when tlie liour of rotiting c*me, for ^ I longed to indulge in thought* of the ^ happy home and kind fiiend* I had left, 1 apart from the gaze of uiv ttranger j aohoed m?toe. . \ T . * . ^ ^ < wki a?*igned a room with a young " girl^mmrently a hoot my own age. Khe v ^Ha^Mgi*pdfq deepiK mourrhng, ami. her ' ieatnre* wofeairnudeue<] expres?ion, winch, nMociated with her dre**, Ud me to * -conjecture that *h?? had lo*t a Ttoar and j ^ dear friend. Hut being a atranger, I I ariioly retained my thought*, and we went 11 to rest iltdtlleirxr in hut lit I !e rtftnu<?r??l i.,n i r " ~ ? " ----- "' J The next day I particularly noticed that lie we* favorite with ell from the "kindiies* with which she wss treated, and ' tin mauner In which rhe we* loptceJ to r fi?r advice and assistance even by those r -?ldeT then herself. Lxzie Montgomery J " was not whet tho world calls hvantiful, -but "Iter soul spoke in her eyes," and her ' kindly smile and reedy willingness to do ^ ^oed in every [dace, had so won the " 'hearts of those around her that it would ' have seeaied a desecration to call her " aught that lovely. She was one to win r heart's best affect iris, and ce.M out the 1 ?>areat feelings ot the sop!. About three months after my entrance 1 in school, ss we were one evening eealed " on the parlor appropriated to our use, one ^ of the pcfcing ladies handed L:zzie a volume v of llrs. ^marvt's poems?and requested c Iter to read a piece of her own selection. f fin a dear and sihmry voice she read that ' .moat ueaumui poem, "ine mi<ie t>! the 'fat**k Iele,H bat acarcaly had *l?e finirhed ' ^ereerery roice WaaTrfiael to plead for one 1 .more. She aeleete 1 *TI.? hJmienger 1 .Mrrd;' but Iter eve* grew dim with teara 1 she proceeded, uotil at the fourth eerie 1 hepamei', cloaed the l>ook end left the ^ cootn. I quickly followed, for I had * become deeply Interfiled in her aadneii ^ end determined, if p<waible, to diapel the .gloom which darkened her youug spirit, il panted at the door ot our rootn and a beheld'Lluie weeping eonrulaively. Her r long,Hack treaaea huog around her pale ' .cheek ?, and tbe aoft wind of a aummer | " evening played gently round her brow, i 1 wining^ 10 aoome ner irouniau apmt? but in vain. 8he would raiae her eyes to '' -the ry t>ky, but its calm and placid ' beauty toothed not her heart. I entered , ' the room nnd kneeling by her tide atrote I ' ?to calm her wild emotion. Like a weary 1 1 ,child aha liatttied, until I apoke of Heaven *' and ita gtoriea, when ahe exclaimed, "Oh, , * Willie, my only hope la there ; I aba!! not j ' long remain to Buffer here?my Heavenly ' ^ (Father it kind and he will lake u>? to r 'hiulaolf. You have often aakrd thecauae * of my deep dejection?you ahall know mil ' Two yeara. ago I waa the child of Wealthy parent*?loved, careaeed and moat happy. If evjr Angel rpirita dwell on earth in human form, ! helfete mother waa one. Oh, how 1 loved to aet at her c feet and liaten aa ahe told me of that home 1 beyond (be^eky where she wu soon going, , f and bee L'txie would then have no tnotlier. 8inre my earliert recollection the wae ' t feeble and delicate. Hut my father would ( not, could not believe that abe would ' ] brighten hie pathway in lifa ao abort a ( time, and fadv: forever from hia endearing r eight All that medical skill could auggeat | waa promptly executed but all to no avail. ^ Two yeara ago to day they laid her In the cold boeom of the aaitb, to aleap her laat, long aleep. One year after her death I i I entered thia aehool. 'I he kindneaa of Mra. 1 c Arvington, oar preceptrese, rendered thia ' 0 a home, a reat to my weary heart after ti that mournful event, and we I aeemed h mora content here than eUewhare, my 9 father conaenied that I ahmiM remain 1 b tiotil I had finiehed my aludiea. Hut i< Nellie, 1 fear there will never be a home J i> of kiiidueae for oi< elaewhere. In the^b ileasures of study I ofttimes lose thought if my sorrow, but when alone tbe pent up aelioga of my yearning heart burst forth. ; pause?but oh, the past year has been >ne of Joap affliction. My father became uddeuly acquainted with a lady of eputed worth, and, needing soma person o take charge of his no^loctod houseliohl, flered his hand in marriage to Mrs. loverly, She was a widow, and has but J ne child?a little girl of five summers.? j Jpon Ida is centered every affection of j ujr liAart. Four months ago, T (or tho irst time since their marriage, visited my j arly borne, "Without, it wore the same , ppearanwe as in former day*!?-but witliio i iow changed ! A strangers hand had 1 rranged my mother's apartments so j ridely different that I scarcely felt I was t homo. I was at first cordially received , iy my step mother, but in a few days she ; eased to notice me at all, and I w?s left o my own will. One morning 1 Btepped ! nto the parlor to look once more at my | nothei's piano. It was a birth-day gift | rom father one vnar after marriage. I iad never opened it since her death, and I t seemed thpt it would he a relief to mv ae'iinga once mora to awaken it* well j ;nowo tone*. If eated and iocompanied itssoPtTWe^music with m^N oico in a familiar melody, hut scarcely ; iad ^ finished whet;, looking v.p, ! , ?er(^^ V}' *i'do, j rrath kini^P* iiiAevoK^vf^ktur^Vf ace. She stood a moment, and e.rclair.ied, | Miss Montgomery, I request that <his nay never he repeated. This piano is J iot to be used until Ma is a young lady, j design il expressly for her, and would | >n obliged to you if you would consider I hat this is now my house, and theso ' I tnrlors are not designed a?, a morning . esort for a scbcohmiss. .If you cannot, idhere to my request you can go where mu are more welcome." T shrank from j epeating this to my father, fot ! well i ;ne*7 it would grievo him and call up igain the memory of "the loved and lost." n silence I retained my heart bursting inguiah and returned shortly after to my >elo?ed teacher and school mates, 'or in heir kindness I find a halm for my rfflicted hparl." As Lizzie concluded her t tit cling narrative she took from a casket i small gold locket?snshrined within ?a* the imtge of her mother. "There, 'fellie," said she, Mis all T have loft to :?rre for now." I wonder not that she artfully cherished <ibe memory of so >eautiful a being. About midnight I was aroused by Jzzio calling for water. I immediate')irose and found her very ill. A physician as sutnmoued. hut he cave us no limw r. ? ? ? ?|-"i ind when the morning dawned our Lizzie ?as in Heaven. Pure spirit. I look >ack to that death bed scene and the tear tarta? ?Hto my dim sunken ejra 'or thought* 61 the bright put can never die." I recall ber look aa ahe turned to n>e ind, taking from her finger a diamond ing?a gift from her mother?bade me :oep it nnd "remember Lir.zie." She ia X re*t by her mother's aide. -She was 00 pure for earth, and the angels came | >nd wafted her eririt to tbeir own bright | and. I waa present when they laid her '.own in the silent grave. -Tt waa one of j 'fature'a moat beautiful days. The aolt ( rind and singing lor da seemed chanVng 1 aad requiem to the memory of the j leparled. Years have passed since then ; hare wandered through the world? I lave mingled in festive throngs where .right eyes shone and oerry laughter j ang?but never amid earth's gayest , cene can I forget my early friend. Slic has gone to lite I nnd ol the Meat, The land where the weary rcposo, Safe moored in that heritor of rest, No longer aflh< lion slid knows. Ami'siko Pxprhimcxt.?Let somo of! >ur young ronders try the following e*pe? j iment?we did, and the programme waa i ully carried out: "Fasten a nail or key to a string, and uspend it to your thumb and finger, and ' be nail will oscillate like a pendulum.? ' ..et some one place his open hand under | U?. -.11 1 ?in -t . ia u?n, miki it win ciiaugu 10 a circular notion. 1 hen lei * third pemon piece tie hand upon your ahoolder, end the nail ecomee in a moment stationary." It i? Rteted that io a certain window on iroadway, New York, in an unobtrusive aee of ordinary eite nad pattern, fciOD.i >00 worth of diamonda are lying eipoaed ' o public new. Tbie it tbe famous col, , jction contributed by tbe ladiee of tko , outh to aid the war, and ia to be uaed . y tbe Gettysburg Association in the rateig of funds for the enterprise of found ig a homo for crippled soldiers cn the atUe-Coid at that place. How Old Jake won the Ghetto. Some years since I was employed aa warehouse clerk in a large shipping house in New Orleans, and while in that capacity, the following funny scene occurred : One day a vessel came in, consigned to the house, having on board a largo lot of cheese from New York. During the j voyage some of them had become dam- ! aged bv bilge water, (the ship having I proved leaky,) consequently the owners refused to receive them; they were therefore sent to the consignees of the ship, to be stowed until the caso could be adjust ed. I discovered a few days afterwards, that as to perfume tbey were decided too fragrant to remain in the warehouse in the middle of June, and reported the same to my employers, from whom T received orders to have them overhauled, nnd send all that were passable to "Heard and Calhoun's auction mart, (then in the old Camp Street Theatre,) to he disposed of for the benefit of the underwriters, and the rest to the swamp. I got n gang of! black boys to work on them, and when ' they stirred 'fin up, "H>o the bones of Mot! ltelly's quirt pot! but the smell was^Uegnut intirely." ! kept arespecta-fh&i);/ niggers and strong cheese on a hot Juno'Vlay iust.banes all common dLlVvipea inolii/tlnn ' a certain "varmint" we n^vFubout. tLe ',a^ .turned out^n immense ft-ncHv, aboii^t^rVh .feet niches "across the stump,1,1 from which tne box j bml rotted ; in the centre a apsco r.bout ten inches was very much decayed, and appeared to ho about the consistency of musli, of a blush tint?caused by the bilge water. The boy a had just sot it up > on its edge on a hale of gunny hags, j when I noticed ovor the way a big dan key (then on aalej from Charleston, S. C. who was notorious for hia hutting pro? pensities, hawing given most of the niggers in that vicinity a tar.te of his quality in that line. I had seen him and another fullow, the night previous, practicing ; they would atartd, one on each aide of a hydrant, Rome ten yards distant; and run at each o'her w ith their heads-lowered, and clapping their hand# upon the ! hydrant they would butt like veteran j rams. A thought struck me that I might cure him of his bragging and hutting, I 1 _ A . 1 * ? * ' him hi kh thmif nine nave ?onm lun, so i told the boys to keep dark, aud called "Old Jake" over. "They tell me yon are * great fellow for butting, Jake." "I is some, Mass*, dat a fac?I done butt de wool 'tirely orf ob old J'eler's head lata night, and Maaaa Nicbola was gwine to^ib me gosal I kin jias bang de head orf any nigger in deae parts, myself?I kior j "Well, Jake, I've got a little yib in I'that lino for you, when you 'haven't anything else to do." I Hl'ge on band for all detn kind ob^obe, myself?I ia." "Well, you sco that Urge cheese back, there ?" "T ,!.? ,).? t i A... - 11" "Now if you can butt a dent in it you shall bate ft." "Holly, Mnsaa ! you foolin* dis nigger!' | "No, I'm not, 'Jake?ju?t try me." "Wot ! you gib nio hull of dat cbaese if T butt a dent in 'um ?" "Yes." "L?t Lor! I'll hunt 'eni wide open,1 j will myaelf. Jess stand back dar, you i Orleans niggers, and clear de track for ' Ole Kouf Carolina, 'caae I'se a com in' myaelf?1 ia.' And Old Jake started back tome fifty feet and went at a good quick run, and (be next instant I heard a dull, heavy sound, a kind of a S'/unsh, and Old Jake's head ditappeard from sight, with the top just visible on tbe other aide, aa he rose with his new fashioned necklace, the soft I rotten cheese or down all around i him, as it settled down, so thakjunt hia ; eyes were visible. <From the centre of it \ <> *? roice wiis scarcely aomme and i half smothered, a* be vainly tried to re move tbe immense cheese. "O-O-o-o I er <ie iior ! Masa?--teok nm ort fV-o-o I bress de Ix>r ! 'Lif 'uni up ! (?or-a-mighty I I . Meanwhile ! waa nearly dead, myself, I having laid back on a cotton bale bold- ' infc myself together to keep from bursting while the boys stood round old Jake, pay- ] ing him off. I "l>e Lor 1 how de nigger's bref smell I Yoa doesn't clean your teef, Old Jakwl" " I say, you didn't make more dan four times dat han, did you, old boas f' " Well, you is m nasty nigger dat a fad' "Well, you ie de biggest kine of Welsh llabbit?you is I' "Whar you git your bar grease f" And thus tbe boys run old Jake?now I half smothered?when I took compassion j on him, and told thain to take it otT.? Jake didn't stay to elaioi bis prize, but put oat growling. "Gor-a-mighly ! I done got sole dut time. 11H a caao ob yellow feber?lie, myself !w Terrible Calamities. osk of tor west india. mi.auds 8mmkrobd and tkn thousand mhroki dkowxro. Torlolii, ono of tho British West Iudia Ik lands, has been submerged, and loo thousand persona drowned. A (crvlhle hurricane .had visited the Southern portion of .he Island, destroying all the cropa. Two hundred lives were lost, And four thousand families are death tute. Subscriptions bad been opened in Ha. vanna for the relief of the sud'erors nt St. Thomas. Tue Liverpool steamer which was sunk during the hurricane carried down *5,000,0^0 in specie and merchandise. The loss of the Steamship Company, at St. Thomas, will amount to $ 12,000,000. Some five hundred bodies remaining unburied have been burnt on iho.slaud. Torlola, which lias been submerged, is ono of the Virgin Islands, West Indies, belonging to (treat Britain, situated bet tween Virgin Gorda and St. John's.? The length of the Island is twelve miles J ita breadth four miles. It consists mostly of a range of hills miner to 1G00 feet in elevation and in its north part en circling a harbor, on the west side of which n> the town of Tortola. The island is very unheal thy to Europeans, ,Tortola has its Governor, Couucil and Legislative Assembly, It became a British possession in 1GG0. OTIlKIl OlSSHTKUa. The State Department has veceived from Lucius A. Very, United States Vice Commercial Agent at Matamoras, a letter dated October 12tb, giving an account ol the tornado which passed over that city and vicinity on the night of the 7th and 6th inst. Lie states: The amount of losses in Matamorai cannot vol bo computed. Five million! of dollars would be a low calieate al least. Six hundred bouses have beet destroyed, including ninny valuable ware house* containing large stocks of goods -Co far as heard from all the ranches arc thrown down for thirty milaa around Matainoras. At the eiouth of the rirei the destruction was great", scarcely a house io left standing. All the rivei steamers were wrecked or disabled, except the Taniaulipas No. 2, which was still serviceable. Considering the great destruction of buildings, the number qf casualties is not great, probably 20 killed and 40 or 50 more or loss injured. Brownsville authored equally with Mat< amoraa, very few buildings being left uninjured. Much suffering, the Commercial ays, must necessarily follow this terrible disaster, when so many are left without i shelter, aud all tbeic property destroyed Masonic. We extract the following paragrapbi from the annual address of Grand Mastci Orr; "Tbo ravages of war, and the disa?toci to the crop* of the last year,brought mor* or lean suffering to tbs doors of.inanv whc bad just claims upon the order for assia tanee. In this emergency, tbe lodges ol the State have provided as liberally ai> their scant means would allow for tbe re lief of tbo sutTarora, while private charity has accomplished much in the alleviation of the prevailing distress. From abroad, we have had the most tangible evidence* of the generosity of our brethren, in tbe large donations made through the Grand Masters or their associate officers. From New York, we have received two donations?one of $500, another of tlf>0.? -Illinois and Missouri have likewise rernem bered us. and rendered aid. Minnesota, far up in tbe North'west, with a compara< tively young organization, has contributed the handsome sum of &S00 ; while from the Montezuma Lodge of New Mexico, the hardy, generous pioneers of tbe plain* have tent to their brethren of South Can olina $100 ? thus beautifully exemplifying Lite lennrfh ??.! -t ?!._ ?1 1 ? ? ^ ? ??va ui?inu?u ai lUKl HQUIC charity v.bich underliea and auaiaiaa our order. "The entire Amount thut reeeieed by me frotn variooa lodgea ia l,780. Of this rum, I placed $ 1,730 in the handeef the Grand Secretary, the Deputy Grand Maater, and Hrolber William Gilmore Rimrua, requesting them to take charge of the diatribution of the funda, and after making proper inquiry of the various lodgea in the State, aa to the extent of the suffering in each, to carry oul ihe ioslruo*. tiona and intentions of the generous doi nors. A circular was addressed to all of the lodges, and their reports will show that tho land has been faithfully and fair* ly dispensed. "Brother Joseph Kasky departed this life near (Jolumbia, in January last, leav* iog hia last will and teetainent, by which he devises his entire estate, real and personal, in this State and Florida,-to the Grand Lodge of South Carolina, in trust for the use and benefit of deceased Master , Masons within this jurisdiction ; and he designates the Grand Master as executor, iuaamuck as that otlioer may he changed at eaoh annual communication, and cease thereafter to stand in such relation to the brethren, I determined to renounce the executorship and bring the matter before the Grand Lodge for its consideration." Methodist Episcopal Church. A statement is published from a care^ ful compilation of the summaries of the j official statistical returns from thd several ! annual conferences of the MetliodistEpiscopal Church, which exhibits a marvellous progress during the past year. We condense ecn?? of these staLstiec, as they will doubtless bo of interest to many of our readers. There are sixty eight annual conferences, being an incroaso of four over the i previous year. This increase has been obtained by extending the work iu the South since the close of the war. The new conferences organized aro Virginia and North Carolina, Texas, Georgia and Alabama. Tho records show the num ber or traveling preachers to bo 7,088 ? an increase o*or last year of 412 ; local preachers 8,080?an increase of 833;? members 1,1-14,763?an incroaso of 112,570. The number of churches la 11,183 ? i an increase during the year of 070 ; number of parsonages 3,570?an increase of f 250. The total value of tbeao church edifices and parsonages is estimated at $41,012,479?being an increase for the year of $6,007,517. The increase in par > son ago property aloae ie nearly $1,000,i 000. The centenary returns of collec I lione from thirty seven conferences foot up i a total of $6,141,027. It is aetimatod I tl>At, when all the return* are in, the a. mount will he over $7,000,000. The re. > porta from Sunday schools show a very I encouraging advance. There are ever r 4,000,000 pupil*, under the *epenrisioo of about 175,000 officer* and teach era. ' A table is published, showing the com t parative progress .of Che church by deI cade* from the year 1776. We have not room for thia table : hut to chow the .wonderful growth of the denomination, 1 would etate that, in ?776, it had 24 tree elliog preacher* and 4,020 member*, and 1 that, ic 1866, it bad 7,676 traveling preachers and a membership footing up I 1 1 AO rt * A ' i a,uoLt?a?. i By the withdraw*! sod separation of i Southern conferences in.n1 844, orgauiafog the Methodist Episcopal Church, Sootb, the M. K. Church loet 1,845 traveling preachers, sad 495,288 members; snd t vet, ao rapid was the growth and increase of the church during the decade, that, at its close, two years after the separation, there was a net gain of C34 preachers ' and a lack of only 5,874 members qf ' making op the number lost. ' ! We havo no statistics of the M. E. . Church,-South, which, when added to the ' above figures wouh] doubtless show Meth< ' odiam to be one of the moet extensive of the Christian 'Churches in this country.? We hope yet to see lbs two seetional 1 branches re~uniled, ee it evidently would , be not only advantageous to the cburcb, i j but would be an advance step tpi(.4til* , I-reconciliation between the people. Columbia Phatnir, Howard's Bureau. The Cherleston Ntw? learns that Gen# Howard has issued an order, removing all ofCcers and agents of the Freedmeu'a (| Bureau who ^ere candidates at thereceat election for a Convention. However ob* i. .i._ i? o ? j'-viixiiauiu ui? nuitiiu may appear, viaq. ' J low an] bat administered ila affairs, vkh i justice and iri^arliality among aIL classes, i In but forthcoming report, aa wall aaio bis - recent article -published At Washington i upon the educational progress of lha freedmen apd their increase in population, be advocates a liberal endowment Ly Congress for public schools in all .the South' ern Slates, suJ alea suggests that the two clsssea, white and colored, shall be kept entirely distinct iu separate .schools. ! Qen. Howard, during the .peat year, has made liberal advances to fplanU?ry, I without distinction of.political creed, in | every Southern Stale, thus enabling many , to resume planting operations by the pur chase of agricoUera! implement#, *pr6vi* si one, atockr Ac. These advances, Geo. Howard reports, have been faithfully returned by (be red* pienta, affording a conclusive anawer to the alleged punio faith of the Southern people. The Bureau baa expended, during the past year, $215,000 in the Southern States in aid of educational institutioQe, under the auspices of all denominations*/ christians. - What our Soil Needs. A correspondent of the "Perm atid (JirdWTtkufdiicwifm on the in temperate uie of guano : Mr. Epivor : I feel constrained to caution you and your readera against guano. Used a> the majority of our'termere use it, it ia a humbug?worse than that, it is a crying evil. We do not wish any longer to farm after the old system of farmi ing what land wo own to death, sad than throwing it aside as old field, for the par* pose of clearing up a new ground or maring'WcsL Our lands are suicepllble of high improvement, and hereafter we must loo1: to tbeso as bound to last ua our life* lime, and still be (H for our great grandchildren to cultivate. Now, air, the way oar farmers use gu* J ano ia after the miserable, old, exploded system of land murder. Pat on wiliswat any other-manure, guano ia a positive im jury to land, and will wear it out in oiiehalf the time that oo manure at would. It is a stimulus and notbiag more. It adds nothing to the permadlnt ingredients of the soil; it forcea the whole strength of the apil into actios, wfekh ee? tivity will be followed by yean of barrenness. Xheeoil certainly needs twe 'things be* side elbow-grease? possibly three. H needs food and reat?possibly stimulus* To use a parable : We have hiro/t.aJai borer, And net him to work at early dawn lie works till late at eight witbcuVney ietormiscion, without even food. ,Tbe moou cornea oat, and we any . tohfoa, "Work away, my lad', work away5 the night in beautifel and timai*freoiouljn All night be-loile on, with neither.nleep nor food, and in the<?norn*ag thnpeer fellow in completely broken' down. >B?A we come oat after ecr own comfortable rest, and UJ, "Here, awallow this drink of wbirfcey, aad work on my bey." lie drinka, becomes excited, and works finely till the iqlueoec of the liquor lee res Mm, when he finds that be is completely wofta out. So we treat our land. -#ie gfofc no appropriate food of lime, planter, bons, ire. We give ao needed net, aad then. when the strength M our laud ia almost goue, we make it throw out ita little remaining force, under the aUtauIetiag it* i?at erf guano. I admit that gueno b ac excellent thief to uae when the land ia in a very highly manured condition ; but then, end only then. J[ knee tried guano, end bene made excellent turn onta, hot-it-alwaye leave* the ground comparatively ?*huit< ted of ita hnmua. . It b cot, - however* againat guano, hut againat the iutemper> ate .aae ef it, that 1 oomplpip. Whiskey ia not food, neither ue guano ma a urn? there ie something elee needed beside the atimulua. Ouano mav bo tued with era** pr<^3t on .rented land bj itself, bet npf ?btr? ?1m, unlet* composted with was nure*. ? . * " 4 give you above th*-r**ult of my ?z* perience. It differ*, I know, from lU idee* of ?oai of yoar readers, but I up right, Md?L know it. J. ' ' Xb? lno Merchants Our iDevil took out ki* poetic*) me* obine aad bu turned off tbe following narrative. Tt convey* * moral: When trado grew dull arid not**-fell .due, the Merchant* ??ai gteta long ana blue; his dresm* were troubled througn the night, with sheriff*, beHff* aH Hi aiglil. At l**t hi* wife unto hjm said : Jdiee up at once out of the bed, *nd get jour pjn per, ink and pen and *aj these word* un. to all men: My good* I wish to eell'lp you, and to jppr w^e* and daughter! too ; my pricee they shall be *o low that eack will buy Wore tbej go." die did a* hie good wife advised, and I il. T -a ? i iu tun iibuukk advertised. v^rowas cat?4 ' And bought of all bath-Ad ; hia nntee vtri ' paid ; hp drearhs mida glad, and ha i tall jou to thU d\j jjowweft dfcT prinUra , ink repjyy. JHe'told u? thia wiihjioowing while, haw hit waa aareo by.printera tab* Tha other in a plsca aa tigktr ecntaott ad waa tha preae to flight, And did n6t let the ,peop?e .know of what ha bad aV where to go. Ilia drafta fall Ju#rA*d were not paid.; a lay on hia e<xjia wera-road a; the store wad rloaad until the sale, and for some time he waa ie jail. A bankrupt now without a cent, at ieiaure he can repast that ha was fooliah and unwise and ,4gl | not freolj adrertiae.