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A Family Companion, Devoted to Literature, Miscellany, News, Agriculture, Markets, &c Vol. XI. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 28, 1875. THEHERALD IS PUBLISEED EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING, At Newberry, S. C. dtor andProprietor. i rubly in Advance. --r itopped at the expiration of . The M' m&,denotes expiration of sub stcription. TggsDDEST THOUGHT. Once 'twas my saddest thought, Ere I began to doubt you, That sometimes I must learn, 'erhaps, todo without you. For death parts dearest friends; -From him there's no escaping; And partings worse than death -Our fars are ever shaping. Now with new dawns of hope No thought of you is blended; Day deepens evermore, Though morning dreams are ended. And now the saddest thought That haunts my heart about you Is this-that I have learned, At last to do without you. THE BOON AFFAIR. --o A sTRANGE STORY OF CIRCUMSTAN TIAL EVIDENCE. -0 On the mcrning of the 28th of November, 1819,1 read in the Rut land (Vt.) Herald the following notice: "MURDER!" '-Printers of n e wsp ap ersa throughout the United States are desired to publish that~ Stephen .8oern, of Manchester, in Vermont, is sentenced to be executed for the murder of Russell Colvin, who blieen absent about seven years. Any person a ho can give informa tion of said Colvin may save the life of' the innocent, by making imme aiate communication. Colvin .is abogveeet; five inthes high, lighA complexion, light hair, blue eyes~ and about 40 years old. Manchesgr, Vt., Nov. 26, 1819." This: ~in niio was copied very generally by newspapers, sad createda ;great deal of interest. Beifore describindr events that fol lowed, 1st us go back to the year lamd to the little town of Man chester, Vermont. B~a'ney Boorn, an old man, had two sons, Stephen and Jesse, and a daughter, Sarah, wife of Russell Colvin, a half-crazed, half-witted day laborer. They were a bad lot, poor, ignorant, and in doubtfal re pate for honesty. T wo miserable hovels served them for sh6lter, and' a few acres of pine barrens -constituted all their possessions. MjIheyraised a few potatoes and garden vegetables, and eked out a yagacgtylivelihood by. days work for the neighboring farmers. In May, 1812, Colvin was at home. In June he was missing. At first this occasioned no remark. "He was always a tramp, absent from.homie sometimes for weeks together. But this time he did ~not come back. As weeks grew into months inquiries began to be madr among the neighbors about the.missing man. There are no tongues for gossip like those which wag in a Yankee village. One spoke to another. Excitement grew. Wonder, like a contagious disease, affected everybody. It was known that there had long existed between the old man and boys a gradge against Colvin; it was in proof that the last time the missing man wras seen he was at work with the Boorns clearing stades from a field, and that a dispute was going on; and Louis Cojvin, a boy, son of Russell, had stated that his father had struck ils ncle Stephen, and that the other had returned the blo w, and that then he, the boy, becoming frightened, ran away. Again a Mi' taldwin had heard Stephen Boorn, in answer to the inquiry as to where Colvin was, say, "He's gone to hell, I hope." "Is he dead, Stephen ?" pursued Mr. Baldwin. "I tell you again," replied the man, "that Colvin has gone where potatoes won't freeze." For seven years the wonder grew. -Colvin's ghost haunted ev ery house in Bennington county. There was no known proof that the Boorns were guilty, and yet everbodyhelieved it. A button . Five years after Colvin was missed, Stephen Boorn, removed to Denmark, N. Y., while Jesse re mained at home. After the former had left some bones were accident ally found in the decayed trunk of a tree in his house, and, though all surgeons said to the contrary, it was universally believed that they were part of a human skeleton. Of course, then they must be Col vin's bones. Jesse was arrested, Stephen was brought back from Denmark and both were held for examination. Although all the testimony when sifted was found to be worthless, yet two brothers were remanded back to jail, and Jesse was worked upon to make him turn State's evidence. The jailer tormented him with sugges tions, which his wife followed up' with womanly adroitness. Neigh bors helped. Beset with preach ing and prayers, tracts, and ser mons, religious conversation and pious directions-that there was no doubt in any one's mind but that Stephen committed the mur der-urged to.make a clean breast of it and thus save his body and soul, what wonder that the man confessed, or was alleged to have confessed, that Stephen Boorn did murder Russell Colvin ? On Sept. 3, 1819, the grand jury found a bill of indictment against Stephen and Jesse Boorn for the murder of Russell Colvin. Wil liams Farnsworth testified that Stephen confessed that he did it and that Jesse helped him; that they hid the body in the bushes then buried it, then:dug it up and burn ed it, and then scraped the few remains and bid them in a stump. Upon this unsupported evidence the jury returned a verdict of guil ty against both prisoneis, and they were sentenced to be hung on Jan. 28, 1820. And now the men came to their senses. They asserted their inno cence. They said that they had con fessed as their last hope. Somecom passion began to be felt for them. They might, after all, be innocent. A petition for their pardon was presented to the Legislature. But it availed only to obtain commu tation of Jesse's sentence to im prison ment for life. No more. Stephen was to be hanged. Let the reader now turn to another chapter of this strange history. In April, 1813, there lived in Dover, Monmouth county, N. J., a Mr. James Polhamus. D u ring that month a wayfarer, beg ging food,- stopped at the door. Being handy, good-natured, quiet and obedient, homeless, and weak of intellect, too, he' was allowed to stay. lie said his name was Russell Colvin, and that he came from Manchester, Vt. Not far from Dover lies the lit te town of Shrewsbury, then a quiet hamlet, now invaded by the cottages and villas of Long Branch pleasure-seekers, Here lived Ta ber Chadwick, brother-in-law to Mr. Polhamus, and intimate with the family. Accidentally reading the New York Evening Post, he met, not with the notice of the Rutland Herald, but with an ac count of the trial of the Boorns. Convinced that the Russell Colvin, alleged to have been murdered, was the very man living with Mr. Pol hamus, he wrote to the Evening Post a letter, which was published Dec. 9, 1819. Upon the arrival of this paper at Manchester it excited but little attention. The letter was believ ed to be a forgery or a fraud. Md not the best people in the town long believed the Boorms to be guilty ? Had not one, perhaps both, of them, made full confession? The bones of the murdered man, a portion of his coat, his jack-knife -had they not all been found ? Had not an uprigbt Judge made solemn charge that the evidence was conclusive, and 'an intelligent jury found them guilty, and the Legislaure sanctioned the findings? There was no doubt of their guilt -none whatever, and therefore no benefit of a doubtehad been given by jury, Chief Justice or Court of Appeal. Mr. Chadwick's letter was,never theless taken to Stephen's cell and ead alond. The news was so overwhelming that nature could scarcely survive the shock. The poor fellow dropped in a fainting fit to the floor, and had to be re covered by dashes of cold water. Intelligence came next day from a Mr. Whelpley, formerly a resi dent of Manchester, that he him self had been to New Jersey and seen Russell Colvin. The r-Lembers of the jury which had convicted the Boorns, however, hesitated to accept anything short of the man's presence, and Judge Chase, who had sentenced them, pointed to Stephen Boorn's confession. The third day came another letter. "I have Russell Colvin with me," wrote Mr. Whelpley. "I personally know Russell Col vin," swore John Rempton; "he now stands before me." "It is the same Russell Colvin who mar ried Ann Boorn of Manchester, Vt.," made affidavit Mrs. Jones, of Brooklyn. But it woqld not an swer. Pride of opinion is stub born. Doubt of opinion dies hard. Manchester intelligence, not to say piety, was on trial and it behooved all good residents to hold out against conviction to the last. However, Colvin, or Colvin's double, was on his way. As he passed through Poughkeepsie the streets thronged to see him. His story was printed in every news paper and told Lt every fireside. At Hudson cannons were fired; in Albany he was shown to the crowd from the platform; and all along the road to Troy bands of music were playing and banners were flaunting and cheers were given as Colvin passed by. Some men become famous from having been murdered. Russell Colvin was famous because he was alive. Towards evening on .Friday, December 22, 1819, a double sleigh was driven furiously down the main street of Manchester to the tavern door. It contained Whelp ley, Kempton, Chadwick, and the bewildered Russell Colvin. Im mediately a crowd of men, wo men and children gathered around, and as the sleigh iIoaded its occu pants and they took their place on the piazza, exhibiting the last man to view, "That's Russell Col in sure enough! There's no doubt about it I" came from the lips of scores of gazers. He embraced his two children, asked after the Boorns, and started for the jail. The prison doors were unbolted and the news told to Stephen Boon. "Colvin has come, Stephen," said the Rev. Lemuel Haynes. "Has he 7" asked the prisoner. "Where is he ?" "Here I am, Stephen," said his brother-in-law. "What's that on your legs ?" "Shackles!" replied Boorn. "What for ?" "Because they said I murdered you."~ "You never hurt me in your life," replied Colvin. The sequel is soon told. Ste phen Boorn was released from pris on, as was Jesse also. Russell Col in returned to New Jersey. But the judge who suffered an innocent man to be convicted of murder by the admission of extra-judicial confessions-the members of the jury, who deliberated but one hour before agreeing upon a verdict of guilty upon evidence that should not hang a dog-the deacon and church members who urged confes sion and preached repentance-and the ninety-seven members of the Legislature, sitting as a Court of Appeals, who refused re-hearing of evidence-what became of them ? Of this be certain, that no trade can be so bad as none at all, nor any life so tiresome as that which is. spent in continual visit ing and dissipation. To give all one's time to other people, and never reserve any for one's self; is to be free in appearance only, and a slave in effect. The accumulation of wealth is followed by an increase of care,and by an appetite for more. He who seeks for much will ever be in want for much. It is best with him to whom Providence has given that which is sufficient, though every annem-anit be withheld. * ittllntsM. THE GRANGERS ON CO-OPE RATION. The Grangers, or Patrons of Husbandry, still have a large or ganization, although it has greatly shrunk from the dimensions of its best estate. Many persons who joined it under the belief that it was the rising power, destined to become a formidable element in American politics, Lave deserted it now that it has conclusively shown its weakness. At this mo ment the Patrons are unable to control the election of a single Western State, and are reckoned of so little importance that the two great parties have ceased to flat-. ter them in the platforms of their annual conveitions. The Gran gers have been hardly less fortu nate in their efforts to compel the adoption of lower rates by the railroad monopolies. This was their primary purpose, and in their contest with those tyrannical cor porations they had the good-will of a large majority of the Western people who did not belong to the order. For a while the railroads feared their new enemy, and sho w ed a disposition to propitiate them, but this disappeared as soon as the numerical strength of the Grangers was revealed at the polls, and was seen to be far less than had been estimated. The Grangers are no longer dreaded by the railroad combinations, any more than by the Republicans or Democrats. The failure of this society in its great aims is due to the bad man agement which has afflicted it from the beginning. It was projected in good faith b3 the farmers of the West. They sought to make it the means of mutual protection and material advancement, but the politicians who soon came to the head of it, saw in it only a new instrument to be used for their own benefit, to secure offices and plunder which they could not hope to get from the rival parties of the4day, We w a ae 4 the Grangers against the danger of allowing politicians to take charge of their affairs, and the result has exactly accorded with our pre diction. A body which at one time promised to do a needed work of economy and reform at the West, has degenerated to a mere faction now almost wholly destitute of influence, and visibly dwindling day by day. At the late meeting of the Executive Com mittee of the order at Washington, the great question seems to have been-how to utilize the remains of the Grangers so as to keep them from absolute extinction ? For this purpose a new scheme has been proclaimed-that of establishing co-operative societies, under the Granger auspicies, on the plan which has been successful in some parts of Great Britain. The ex treme good fortune which has at tended a few of the co-operative unions in England has long excited the interest of sociologists in this country, but in no instance, we be lieve,bas the :English method of co operation been adopted. In fact,co operative enterprises of any kind are very scarce here-the genius of the American people favoring freedom and individuality of ex ertion in business operations rath er than combinations of rich and poor, and weak and strong. Should the Patrons of Husbandry be able to transplant the English system of co-operative industries in America, and make it thrive here, they will have accomplished a great feat for this country and this people and this time seem all unsuited for it. Co-operation ap pears to us to have its proper home i a land overcrowded with human beings like England, where the millions are almost hopelessly shut out from the attainment of even a moderate property by their own labors,'aind naturally cling to each otheria a mutual effort to bet ter their impoverished condition. In. looking over the list of highly prosperous - co-operative societies in Great Britain, some persons for get to inquire, and perhaps do not care to know the number of those which have miserably failed. We har mnnh ni the "Stockdale plan." and a few others which have turn d everything to gold and built up whole villiages of factories, I (welling-houses and stores from humble beginnings. These are the boasts of English co-operation, und if the Grangers can make the Western wilderness blossom after this profitable fashion, their expe rimont in co-operation would be P a blessing indeed. But they must not expect to do it by any pecu liar virtue that resides in the co operative priaciple i t s e I f. A thousand men combining capital tl and labor in the establishment of a co-operative farm, or foundry; or store, or anything else, are all it the more liable to fail by reason of their number, unless the busi- b ness affairs of the association are t conducted by one clear-headed, in corruptibly honest and masterful man. Such a rare pet-son giving s all his time and his abilities to the organization - studying its VQ best interests with preoisely the solicitude he would bestow upon his own concerns-may be capa ble of making co-operation pay. Iu all the English rses quoted it b will be found that the surpass- it ing business talent and integ- 0 rity of the general manager or su perintendent has made them pros- Y perous; while divided councils, b poor judgment and the lack of strict honesty have been the ruin of hundreds of the most promising E of co-opeartive undertakings.- fl The Granger should study the causes of failure, as well as those v of success, in the English oo-oper. ative forms, before they seriously essay to adopt them here. h [N. Y. Journal of Commerce. t HE DOESN'T SUIT.-There was ti a man named James A. Johnson, 'I otit in California, who has been in u Congress two terms, and who re turned to his home as poor as b when he went awy. The Xen- a docine Dispatch has hoisted his ti name as a candidate for Governor, g and speaks of him -as in every b way a man. We think a man who l( has passed four years in Washing- t ton, without becoming corrupted, could be trusted any number of years in California. The Virginia t (Nev.) Enterprise, after speaking n in terms of eulogy of Mr. John son, says: This calls to mind an y anecdote to the point. When Johnson's name was under discus- a sion for the Gubernatorial nomi- d nation, one of the constituents, in b Colusa county, spoke desparingly of him. n "What's the matter with John son ?" asked a friend. y "Why, the man, is a fool," said si the constituent. c "How so," was the next inquiry, n "Why, Jim Johnson has been in q Congress two terms, and he had to borrow money to pay his fare a from Colusa to MNarysville. Now, if I'd been in his place I'd have owned a quarter section of the Northern Pacific 1Railway." s It isn't natural that a man of that sort should go very strongly for Johnson. r A LAwYER SotD.-A horse trader si got away with a lawyer in the a following neat style : "How many drinks had you ta- t< ken that day?" "One or two. Igenerally drink o whien I feel dry." s "Well, how many drinks do you s3 usually take in a day ?" "Sometimes one or two, some- n times ten or twelve. I have taken 3s as many as seventy drinks in a t) day." "Ah! seventy drinks did you si say?" "Yes, I said seven ty." f "About how much did you take .E at a drink ?" p "About half a tumblerful." I "And you did not get drunk ?" ii "Not in the least." r "Seventy drinks did not make you drunk ?"e "No si:-." "What kind of liquor did you p drink ?" "Water."' g "That will do, you may step d down."v The destiny of any nation atc any given time depends on the a opinions of its young men under g fie.sndtwenty. OUR SLOUCH WAYS. ORE TRUTH THAN POETRY OR FUN EITHER 'Hallo, stranger, you seem to D going to market?' 'Yes, sir, I am.' 'What are you carrying that low along for?' 'Going to send it to Pittsburg.' 'To Pittsburg in Pennsylvania?' 'You're mighty right; I am.' 'What are you going to send it iere for?' 'To get it sharpened.' 'All the way to Pittsburg to get sharpened?' 'You bet! We've started our lacksmith out; he pulled up stakes ie other day and went to Texas.' 1 'Well, that's a rather novel lea my friend-sending a plow > far to get sharpened.' 'Not so novel as you heard it as. We do our milling in St. ouis." 'Is that so?' 'You're right it is. We used to ave a mill at Punkinvine Creek, at the owner got too poor to keep up, and so we turned to getting ir grinding done at St. Louis.' 'You don't mean to say you send our grist all the way to St. Louis y rail?' 'I didn't say nothing about grist -we hain't got no grist to send. at we get o ar :our and meal om St. L:>uis.' 'I see you have a hide on your ago4I,' 'Yes our old cow died last week. [arch winds blowed the life out'n er. Sendin' her hide to Boston ) get it tanned.' %.11 the way to Boston ? Is not iat rather expensive, my friend. 'he freights will oat the hide p. 'That's a fact-cleaner than the azzardb did the old critter's car iss. But what's the use bein' Led to build railroads'thout you t the good of 'em? Used to ave a tanyard over at Lickskil it and a shoemaker, too. But 1Iey're kerfmmued.' 'Keiummuxed-what's that ?' 'it means gone up aspout,-and vixt you and me, that's mighty igh the case with our State.' "When do you expect to get our leather ?' "Don't bxpect to get no leather b all-expect to git shoes, some ay, made at Boston or therea outs.' 'Rather a misfortune to lose a bilk cow, my friend.' 'Not so much a misfortune as ou heard it was. Monstrous ght of shuckin' and nubinin' a aw and milkin' her night and ornin' and gettin' only about 3 uarts a day.' 'What are you going to do for iilk ?' 'Send North for it.' 'Send North for milk ?' 'Yes; concentrated milk and Go dien butter.' 'Oh ! 1 see the point.' 'Mighty handy things these rail >ads-make them Yankee fellers o all our jobs for us now-do our nithin', and grindin', and tannin', ad milkin', and churnin'. 'I see you have a bale of cot 'Yes, we go our bottom nickel a cotton. Sendin' it up to Mas whusetts to get it carded, and un, and wove. Time'll come rhen we'll send it there to be gin ed, then we'll be happy. Mon rous sight of trouble runnin' ese gins.' 'That would be rather expensive, anding cotton in seed.' ''ho more so than them Western llers pays when they send corn |ast and get a dollar a bushel and ay six bits freight. Besides, as said, what is the use of pay ig for railroads 'thout we use the mads?' 'I think we ought-we pay rough for 'em.' 'I rockon you fatten your own ork.' 'Well, you reckon wrong, stratn er. I get them Illinoy fellers to o that for me. It's mighty con enient, too-monstrous sight of ouble toting a big basketful of >rn three times a day to hogs, in pen-especially when you hain' t ot none to tote it to.' ' should think so.' ADVERTISINC WATES. Advertisements inserted at the rato of S'.00 per square-one inch-for first insertion, and 75c. for each subsequent insertion. Dobible column advertisements ten per cent on abc ve Notices of meetings, obituaries and tribi.e of respect, same rates per square as ordinary advertisements. Special notices in local column 20 ccnts perline. Advertis3ments not marked with the ntm ber of insertions will be kept in till forbid and charged accordingly. Special contracts made with large adver tisers, with liberal deductions on above rates. Jo Pa wAr Done with Neatness and Dispatch. Terms Cash. DAHLGREN'S RAID. THE STORY OF A SOLDIER WHO WAS ENGAGED IN THE PLOT TO FIRE RICHMOND AND CAPTURE JEFF DA VIS AND HIS CABINET. The :ears which have flown since the last gun's echo died away and the drifting smoke floated down the valleys of Virginia have, in a measure, served to obliterate many of the questions which, at that time, were uppermost in the public mind. But the recent let ter published to show that General Beauregard was such an earnest advocate of black flags and no quarter to prisoners naturally has served to recall inany of the char ges made subsequently well sub stantiated against that Federal raider, Colonel Dahlgren, of Rich mond memory. It has not been forgo,tten how this leader pierced the Confederate lines through an unprotected route made for the city of Richmond, followed by his troop of cavalry. After his death and the rout of some and the capture of his com mand, it was publicly charged. that his bold expedition had for its object two things-firat, the capture of President Davis; and ' second the burning and sacking of Rich mond,without regard to what ever might be the loss of life to women and children. Dispatches found and combustible material captured corroborated this 4llega tion and when the direct statement was made the Northern press in dignantly denied its correctness. As Daniel Webster, in his cele brated speech to a jury, said, "Mur der will out;" and now, after ten years have stolen away, steps forth a witness who at the risk of much personal discomfiture, fully and with every internal evidence of the truth of his tale, relates a sto ry, which, for its terrible inhu manity, is a fit nut for those to crack who so thirstily seek out such subjects from the events of the late war. A private of the Thirteenth In fantry United States army, a regi ment now quartered in this city, yesterday made the following vol untary statement relative to the Dahlgren raid: I am now a private in the army. I belonged at the time when the Dahlgr'en raid upon Richmond, Virginia, took place, to company .E, Fifth Michigan cavalry, and I took part in the advance with Dahl gren on Richmond. I was under his command from the commence ment of the raid, and I don't think there are more than seven of the party now living. In regard to the purpose of our advance .1 can only say that almost every man in the command knew them. They - were these :, To capture Davis and his cabinet, and then 'to fire the town at once. We had along with us the things to do it, and if we had got in would have done it. Colonel Dahlgren said in my hearing that the Cabinet must be captured at all hazards, and then the fire must be touched at once. No one was to be assassinated, but the fire-balls we had were to be used right off by the men all over the city. I heard some officer speak about hanging Davis if he was caught. There is a lieutenant living who can verify all that I say. Perhaps they may put me in the guard-house, or make me-work ' outside for telling this, but .it is true. Kilpatrick was to look af ter the Libby prisoners and xe lease them, and they were to arm themselves in some armory in the city and come over and join us. The above needs no commenta ry. The publication as made in the Conservative press is now proved to be true, and Colonel Dahlgren will receive the deserv ed obloquy of his attempted deed. [New Orleans Bulletin: There is nothing like courage an misfortune. Next to Taith in over ruling Providence, a man's faith in h imewlf is his salvation. It makesa 'There's one thing I a e k i n g hough to make the business com )lete.' 'What's that ?' 'They ought to send them hogs eady cooked. Cookin' and pre >arin' wood for cookin' takes up a ieap of time that ort by rights to >e employed in the cotton patch. was sayin' to my old woman he other day, if we Mississippi oks got our cookin' and washin' Lone up North and sent by ex ress, we'd be as happy as office iolders.' 'Your horse in the lead there eems to be lame.' 'Yes needs shoein'. If he wasn't he only horse I've got, and I can't pare him I'd send him up where hey make horse shoes and nails 6nd get hira shod. Can't get such thing done in our parts. Per iaps I can at the depot.' 'How do you manage to live in rour parts, my old friend ?" 'Why, we raise cotton. My 'oad turns off here, stranger. ree, Ball; back Brandy. I'm ;lad I seed you stranger.' These Venuses are wonderfully ,xpensive, no matter where you ind them. If in the daily walks f .life, in the tender flesh and )lood that has to be decorated with laces, satins, fine linens, silk itockings, gold and precious stones nd false hair, man has to come town with the "gelt;" if the pure ?arian marble, that under t6e hisel of a modern Angelo is rought forth almost breathing Lnd palpitating, and yet harmless, nan has to work all his wits to ay for one; and if in the starry .egions away up yonder, a Venus letermines to make a transit, the safe doors must be flung open and ;he money bags must be tumbled )ut and depleted so that she may )e safely seen through her journey. Perhaps if she had chosen the nilky way instead of this eccen ric trip across the sky, she might 2ave tripped along like any other Jairymaid, without being so ex pensive. But then it is the nature >f Venuses to be expensive, and all that we poor star-gazers can lo is to bend 'low the head, after the thing is all over, and because we can't help ourselves, say, "Thy will, not mine, oh Venus, be done." But they never will 'be done. Billy Henderson was engaged .n cleaning out the cellar the >ther day,' and sorting over the apples. It was during the thaw, and the cellar window was open, mnd as Billy seized a rotten ap ple to shy at .Timmie Browne 's log which was passing, he didn't iotice that his father was just put ~ing his head in at the window to 3all him to dinner. Billy will probably be able to sort over the rest of the apples next week, but uis father's eye will. never resume .ts wonted brightness. A French dramatic author was -emarkable for selfishness. Callin g ipon a friend, whose opinion he wished to have on a new comedy, ie found him in his last moments, ) u t notwithstanding, proposed ;o him to hear it read. "Consider," said the dying man, "I have out about an hour to live." "Ah," 'eplied the author, "but this will >ccupy only half the time." A country youth, who desired o0 know how to become rich, sent Squarter in anss er to an adver ~isement, and received the follow ng recipe: "Increase your re 3eipts and decrease your expen litures. Work eighteen hours a lay, and live on hash and oatmeal ~ruel.". By love's delightful influence, he attack of ill-humor is resisted, 1he violence of our passion aba 1ed, all the injuries of the world illeviated, the bitter cup of afflic ~ion sweetened, and the sweetest lowers penalty strewed along the >ath of life. "This having to run in debt f'or 'espectability is enough to break he heart of an angel, but how is i body to live without it ?" ex ~laimed a lady who is a prominent nember of shabby genteel socie