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lewis m. grist, Proprietor.! Jit |nbepeitbeitt Jamilg ftetospp:: Jfor % promotion of tjje political, Sacral, ^griniltural mti Commercial Interests of % Seratjj. TERMS?$8.00 A TEAR, IN ADVANCE. VOL. 16. * YOEKVILLE, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1870. ;;U NO, 85. ?&f #t0*g Idler. A PLOT IN PRIVATE LIFE. CHAPTER VI. On the third appearance of ray mistress and myself before the justice, I noticed some faces in the room which I bad not seen there before. Greatly to my astonishment?for the previous ; examination had been conducted as privately as possible?I remarked the presence of two J of the servants from the Hall, and of three | or four of the tenants on the Darrock estate, who lived nearest to the house. They all sat together on one side of the justice-room. Opposite to them, and close at the side of the door, stood my old acquaintance, Mr. Dark, with his big snuff-box, his jolly face, and his winking eye. He nodded to me, when I looked at him, as jauntily as if we were meeting at a party of pleasure. The quadroon woman, who had been summoned to the examination, had a chair placed opposite to the witness-box, and in a line with the seat occupied by my poor mistress, whose looks, as I was grieved to see, were not altered for the better. The lawyer from London was was with her, and I stood behind her chair. We were all quietly disposed in the room in this way, when the justice, Mr. Bobert Nicholson, came in with his brother. It might have been only fancy, but I thought I could see in both their faces that something remarkable had happened since we bad met at the last examination. The deposition of Josephine Durand was read over by the clerk, and she was asked if she had anything to add to it She replied in the negative. The justice then appealed to my mistress' relation, the lawyer, to know if he could produce any evidence relating to the charge against his clients. "I have evidence," answered the lawyer, getting briskly on his legs, "which I believe, sir, will justify me in asking for their discharge." "Where are your witnesses ?" inquired the justice, looking hard at Josephine while he spoke. "One of them is m waiting, your worship," said Mr. Dark, opening the door near which he was standing. He went out ef the room, remained away about a minute, and returned with his witness at his heels. My heart gave a bound as if it would jump out of my body. There, with his long hair cut short, and his bushy whiskers shaved offthere, in his own proper person, safe and sound as ever, was Mr. James Smith. The quadroon's iron nature resisted the shock of his unexpected presence on the scene with a steadiness that was nothing short of marvelous. Her thin lips closed together convulsively, and there was a slight movement in the muscles of her throat. But not a word, not a sign betrayed her. Even the yellow tinge of her complexion remained unchanged. "It is not necessary, sir, that I should waste time and words in referring to the wicked and preposterous charge against my clients," said the lawyer, addressing Mr. Robert Nicholson. "The one sufficient justification for discharging them immediately is before you at this moment in the person of that gentleman. There, sir, stands the murdered Mr. James Smith, of Darrock Hall, ative and well, to answer for himself." "That is not the man!" cried Josephine, her shrill voice just as high, clear, and steady as ever. "I denounce that man as an impostor. Of my own knowledge I deny that he is Mr. James Smith." "No doubt you do," said the lawyer; "but we will prove his identity for all that." The first witness called was Mr. Philip Nicholson. He could swear that he bad seen Mr. James Smith, and had spoken to him at least a dozen times. The person now before him was Mr. James Smith, altered as to personal appearance by having his hair cut short and his whiskers shaved off, but still unmis takably the man he assumed to be. "Conspiracy!" interrupted the prisoner, hissing the word out viciously between her teeth. "If you are not silent," said Mr. Robert Nicholson, "you will be removed from- the room. It will sooner meet the ends of justice," he went on, addressing the lawyer, "if you prove the question of identity by witnesses who have been in habits of daily communication with Mr. James Smith." Upon this, one of the servants from the Hall was placed in the box. The alteration in his master's appearance evidently puzzled the man. Besides the perplexing change already adverted to, there was also a change in Mr. James Smith's expression and manner. Rascal as he was, I most do him the justice to say that he looked startled and ashamed when he first caught sight of his unfortunate wife. The servant, who was used to be eyed tyrannically by him, and ordered about roughly, seeing him now for the first time abashed and silent, stammered and hesitated on being asked to swear to his identity. "I can hardly sayf&r ceitanr, sir," said the man, addressing the justice in a bewildered manner. "He is like my master, and yet he isn't If he wore whiskers and had his hair long, and if he was, saving in your presence, sir, a little more rough and ready in his way, I could swear to him anywhere with a safe conscience." Fortunately for us, at this moment Mr. James Smith's feeling of uneasiness at the situation in which he was placed changed to a feeling of irritation at being coolly surveyed and then stupidly doubted in the matter of his identity by one of his own servants. "Can't you say in plain words, you idiot, whether you know me or whether you don't ?" he called out, angrily. "That's his voice!" cried the servant, starting in the box. "Whiskers or no whiskers, that's him." "If there is any difficulty, your worship, about the gentleman's hair," said Mr. Dark, coming forward with a grin, "here's a small parcel which, I may make so bold as to say, will remove it." Saying that, he opened the parcel, took some locks of hair out of it, and held them up close to Mr. James Smith's head. "A pretty good match, your worship," ! continued Mr. Dark. "I have no doubt the gentleman's head feels cooler now its off. We can't put the whisker's on, I'm afraid, but they match the hair; and they are in the paper (if one may say such a thing of whiskers) to speak for themselves." "Lies! lies!! lies 1!!" screamed Josephine, losing her wicked self-control at this stage of the proceedings. The justice made a sign to two of the constables present, as she burst out with those exclamations, and the men removed her to an adjoining room. The second servant from the Hall was then put in the box, and was followed by one of the tenants. After what they had heard and seen, neither of these men had any hesitation in swearing positively to their master's identi- j ty. "It is quite unnecessary," said the justice, as soon as the box was empty again, "to examine any more witnesses as to the question of identity. All the legal formalities are accomplished, and the charge against the pris- { oners fall to the ground. I have great pleasure in ordering the immediate discharge of both the accused persons, and in declaring from this place that they leave the court without the slightest stain on their characters." He bowed low to ray mistress as he said that, paused a moment, and then looked inquiring at Mr. James Smith. "I have hitherto abstained from making i any remark unconnected with the immediate matter in hand," he went on. "But now that i my duty is done, I cannot leave this chair i without expressing my strong sense ot disapprobation of the conduct of Mr. James ' Smith?conduct which, whatever may be the j motives that occasioned it, has given a false ' color of probability to a most horrible charge 1 against a lady of unspotted reputation, and i against a person in a lower rank of life whose ! good character ought not to have been imper- t iled even for a moment Mr. Smith may or t may not choose to explain his mysterious die- i appearance from Darrock Hall, and the equal- ] ly unaccountable change which he has chosen 1 to make in his personal appearance. There 1 is no legal charge against him ; but, speaking i morally, I should be unworthy of the place I < hold if I hesitated to declare my present con- i viction that his conduct has been deceitful, i inconsiderate, and unfeeling in the highest i degree. i To this sharp reprimand Mr. James Smith j (evidently tutored before hand as to what he i was to say) replied that, in attending before i the justice, he wished to perform a plain duty ] and keep himself strictly within the letter of j the law. He apprehended that the only legal < obligation laid on him was to attend in that e court to declare himself, and to enable competent witnesses to prove his identity. This t duty accomplished, he had merely*) add that he preferred submitting to a reprimand from f the bench to enteriug into explanations which < would involve the disclosure of domestic cir- t cu instances of a very unhappy nature. After ? that brief reply he had nothing farther to 1 say, and he would respectfully request the 1 justice's permission to withdraw. The permission was accorded. As he cros- ( sed the room he stopped near his wife, And i said confusedly, in a Very low tone, f "I have done you many injuries, but I never ? intended this. I am sorry for it Have you * anything to say to me before I go?" My mistress shuddered and hid her face, ? He waited a moment, and, finding that she ? did not answer him, bowed his head" politely ^ and went out. I did not know it then, but I t had seen him for the last time. t After he had gone, the lawyer, addressing c Mr. Robert Nicholson, said that he had an i application to moke in reference to the woman I Josephine Durand. * At the mention of that name my mistress > hurriedly whispered a few words into her re- i lation's ear. He looked toward Mr. Philip c Nicholson, who immediately advanced, offered s his arm to my mistress, and led her out. I I was about to follow, when Mr. Dark stopped e me, and begged that I would wait a few minutes longer, in order to give myself the pleasure of seeing the "end of the case." 1 In the meantime the justice had pronounc- i ed the necessary order to have the quadroon t brought back. She came in, as bold and con- y fident as ever. Mr. Robert Nicholson looked i away from her in disgust, and said to the law- t yer, 1 "Your application is to have her commit- i ted for perjury, of course ?" 1 "For perjury ?" said Josephine, with her ] wicked smile. "Very good. I shall explain 1 some little matters that I have not explained |' before. You think I am quite at your mercy s now. Bah! I shall make myself a thorn in i your sides yet." ' "She has got scent of the second marriage," 1 whispered Mr. Dark to me. t There could be no doubt of it. She had i evidently been listening at the door on the i night when my master came back longer than ;' I had supposed. She must have heard those i i words about "the new wife"?she might even ? have seen the effect of them on Mr. James c Smith. i "We do not at present propose to charge J Josephine Durand with perjury," said the I j lawyer, "but with another offense, for which j y it is important to try her immediately, in or- j 1 der to effect the restoration of property that ( has been stolen. I charge her with stealing t fmm hpr mistress, while hi her service at Dar- i rock Hall, a pair of bracelets, three rings, and a dozen and a half of lace pocket-jhand- t kerchiefe. The articles in questron were ta? ken, this morning, from between the mat- ( tresses of her bed ; and a letter was found in 1 the same place which clearly proves that she ? had represented the property as belonging to j j herself, and that she had tried to dispose of ( it to a purchaser in London." While he was j speaking, Mr. Dark produced the jewelry,, 1 the handkerchiefs, and the letter, and laid ' i them before the justice. 1 Even Josephine's extraordinary powers of i t self-control now gave way at last. At the . i first words of the unexpected charge against. f her she struck her hands together violently, ; j gnashed her sharp white teeth, aud burst out' j with a. t?rreut ot fierce-soundinrr words in < """" "" * * O ? ( some foreign language, the meaning of which 1 I did not understand then, and can not ex- I plain now. j "I think that's checkmate for marmzelle," I whispered Mr. Dark, with his invariable < wink. "Suppose you go buck to the Hall, j i now, William, and draw a jug of that very j' remarkable ale of yours ? I'll be alter you j in five minutes, as soon as the charge is made j out." I could hardly realize it when I found my-1 self walking back to Darrock a free man j again. In a quarter of an hour's time Mr. Dark joined me, and drank to my health, happiness i and prosperity in three separate tumblers, i After performing this ceremony, he wagged his head and chuckled with an appearance of such excessive enjoyment that I could not avoid remarking on his high spirits. "It's the case, William?it's the beautiful neatness of the case that quite intoxicates me. Oh Lord, what a happiness it is to be concerned in such a job as this!" cries Mr. Dark, slapping his stumpy hands on his fat knees in a sort of ecstacy. I had a very different opinion of the case for my own part, but I did not venture on expressing it. I was too anxious to know how Mr. James Smith had been discovered and produced at the examination to enter into any arguments. Mr. Dark guessed what was passing in my mind, and, telling me to sit down and make myself comfortable, volunteered of his own accord to inform me of all that I wanted to know. "When I got my instructions and my statement of particulars," he began, "I was not at all surprised to hear that Mr. James Smith had come back. (I prophesied that, if you remember, William, the last time we met ?) But I was a-good deal astonished, nevertheless, at thp turn things had taken, and I can't say I felt very hopeful about finding our man. However, I followed my master's directions, and put the advertisement in the papers. It addressed Mr. James Smith by name, but it was very carefully worded as to what was wanted of him. Two days after it appeared, a letter came to our office in a womants handwriting. It was my business to open the letters, and I opened that. The writer was short and mysterious. She requested that somebody would call from our office at a certain address, between the hours of two and four that afternoon, in reference to the advertisement which we had inserted in the newspapers. Of course, I was the somebody who went. I kept myself from building up hopes jy the way, knowing what a lot of Mr. James Smiths there were in London. On getting to ;he house, I was shown into the drawing room, ; and, there, dressed in a wrapper and lying on a sofa, was an uncommonly pretty woman, who looked as if she was just recovering from an illness. She had a newspaper by her side, and came to the point at once: 'My husband's i lame is James Smith,' she says, 'and I have ny reasons for wanting to know if he is the jerson you are in search of.' I describe^^qur i nan as Mr. James Smith, of Dorrock Hall, 1 Cumberland. 'I know no such person,' says ( ihe?" "What! was it not the second wife, after . ill ?" I broke out. < "Wait a bit," says Mr. Dark. "I mention- i id the name of the yacht next, and she start- i id up on the sofa as if she had been shot. 'I ; ,hink you were married in Scotland, ma'am,' ays I. She turns pale as ashes, and drops jack on the sofa, and says faintly, 'It is my i lusband. Oh, sir, what has happened?? i fVhat do you want with him? Is he in j lebt ?' I took a minute to think, and then i nade up my mind to tell her every thing, i eeling that she would keep her husband (as (he called him) out of the way if I frighten-; j id her by any mysteries. A nice job I had, i iVilliam, as you may suppose, when she knew I ibout the bigamy business. What with < tcreaming, fainting, crying, and blowing me 1 ip (as'if I was to blamet), she kept me by 1 hat sofa the best part of an hour?kept me i here, in short, till Mr. James Smith himself ] same back. I leave you to judge if that ] nended matters. He found me mopping the I >oor woman's temples with scent and water, J1 ind he would have pitched me out of the ] I vindow, as sure as I sit here, if I had not j net him and staggered him at once with the ] :harge of murder against his wife. That j topped him when he was in full cry, I can jromise you. 'Go and wait in the next room,' I ! ays he, 'and I will speak to you directly.' " 1 "And did you go ?" I asked. i "Of course I did," said Mr. Dark. "I i mew he couldn't get out by the drawing- I oora windows, and I knew I could watch he door; so away I went, leaving him alone 1 vith the lady, who didn't spare him by any ] nanner of means, as I could easily hear in i he next room. However, all rows in this i vorld come to an end sooner or later, and a i nan with any brains in his bead may do wnat > le pleases with a woman who is fond of him. ' Before long I heard her crying and kissing 1 lim. 'I can't go home,' she says, after this. 1 You have behaved like a villian and a mon- 1 iter to me?but oh Jemmy, I can't give you 1 lp to any body! Don't go back to your wife !r I No fear of that,' says he, 'my wife wouldn't ] lave me, if I did go back to her.' After < hat I heard the door open and went out to J neet him. He began swearing the very mo- i nent he saw me, as if that was any good. ] Business first, if you please, sir,' says I, 'and i my pleasure you like, in the way of swearing, j iftervard.' With that beginning, I mention- 1 ;d our terms to him, and asked the pleas- < ire of his company to Cumberland in return. < Eie was uncommonly suspicious at first, but I 1 iromised to draw out a legal document (mere 1 vaste paper, of no earthly use only to pacify 1 lim), engaging to hold him harmless through- ' jut the proceedings ; and what with that, and 1 ;elling him of the frightful danger his wife 1 vas in, I managed, at last, to carry my point." "But did the second wife make no objection i e his going away with you ?" I inquired^ ! "Nnt she." at"d D"rk "f stated the i tn i?or tiiat n9 it. strwf. nod soon satisfied : 't*OV VKf UVi JMW* MW . ~""7 ler that there was 110 danger of Mr. James Smith's first wife laying any claim to him. \fter hearing that, she joined me in persua- 1 ling him to do his duty, and said she pitied 1 four mistress from the bottom of her heart. iVith her influence to back me, I had no great 'ear of our man changing his mind. I had ;he door watched that night, however, so as ;o make quite sure of him. The next mornng he was ready to time when I called, and 1 quarter of an hour after that we were off together for the north road. We made the ourney with post-horses, being afraid of 1 jhance passengers, you know, in public conveyances. On the way down, Mr. James Smith and I got 011 as comfortably together is if we had been a pair of old friends. I told the story of our tracing him to the north 5f Scotland, and he gave me the particulars m return, of his bolting from Darrock Hall. They are rather amusing, William: would j'ou like to hear them ?" I told Mr. Dark that he had anticipated the very question I was about to ask him. "Well," he said, "this is how it was: To begin at the beginning, our man really took Mrs. Smith, Number Two, to the Mediterranean, as we heard. He sailed up the Spanish coast, and, after short trips ashore, stopped at a sea-side place in France called Cannes. There he saw a house and grounds to be sold, which took his fancy as a nice retired place to keep Number Two in. Nothing particular was wanted hut the money to buy it; and not having that little amount in his possession, Mr. James Smith makes a virtue of necessity, and goes back to his wife with private designs on her purse-strings. Number Two, who objects to being left behind, goes with him as far as London. There he trumps up the first story that comes into his head about rents in the country, and a house in Lincolnshire that is too damp for her to trust herself in; and so, leaving hor for a few days in London, starts boldly for Darrock Hall. His notion was to wheedle your mistress opt of the money by good behavior; but it seems he started badly by quarreling with her about a fiddle-playing parson?" "Yes, yes, I know all about that part of the story," I broke in, seeing by Mr. Dark's manner that he wait.likely to speak both ignorantly and impertinently of my mistress' unlucky friendship for Mr. Meeke. "Go on to the time when I left my master alone in the Red Room, and tell me what he did between miduight and nine the next morning." .. ? "Did t" said Mr. Dark. "Why, he went to bed with the unpleasant conviction on his mind that vnur n&ftress had found him out, J and with no comfort to speak of except what he could get out of the brandy bottle. He couldn't sleep; and the more he tossed and tumbled, the more certain he felt that his wife intended to have him tried for bigamy. At last, toward the gray of the morning, he could stand it no longer, and he made up his mind to give the law the slip while he had the chance. As soon as he was dressed, it struck him that there might, be a reward offered for catching him, and he determined to make that slight change in his personal appearances which puzzled the witnesses so much before the magistrate to-day. So he opens his dressing case and crops his hair in no time, and takes off his whiskers next The fire was out, aud he had to shave in cold water. What with that, and what with the flurry of his mind, naturally enough he cut himself?" "And dried the blood with his night-gown!" says I. "With his night-gown," repeated Mr. Dark. It was the first thing that lay handy, and he snatched it up. Wait a bit, though; the cream of the thing is to come. When he had done being his own barber, he couldn't for the life of him hiton a way of getting rid of the loose hair. The fire was out. and he had no match es, so he couldn't burn it As for throwing it away, he didn't dare do that in the house or about the house, for fear of its being found, and betraying what he had done. ?o he wraps it all up in paper, crams it into his pocket to be disposed of when he is at a safe distance from the Hall, takes his bag, gets out at the window, shuts it softly after him, and makes for the road as fast as his long legsrwill carry him. There he walks on till a coach overtakes him, and so travels back to London to find himself in a fresh scrape as soon as he gets there. An interesting situation, William, and hard traveling from one end of France to the other, had not agreed together in the j case of Number Two. Mr. James Smith i found her in bed, with doctor's orders that she j was not to be moved. There was nothing fat, it after that but to lie by in London till the lady got better. Luckily for us, she didn'f hurry herself; so that, after all, your mistress has to thank the very woman who supplanted < ber for clearing her character by helping us j to find Mr. James Smith." "And, pray, how did you come by that1 loose hair of his which you showed before the ' justice to-day ?" I asked. "Thank Number Two again," says Mr. j Dark. "I was put up to asking after it by what she told me. While we were talking about the advertisement, I made so bold as to j enquire what first set her to thinking that her husband and the Mr. Jaines Smith whom we ! wanted might' be one and the same man. i Nothing,' says she, 'but seeing him come J home with his hair cut short and his whiskers ; shaved off, and finding that he could not give j me any good ieason for disfiguring himself in j that way. I had my suspicions that some- i thing was wrong, and the sight of your advertisement strengthened them directly.' The | hearing her 6ay that suggested to my mind I that there might be a difficulty in identifying j him after the change in his looks, and I asked 1 1 I ? -.1 il _ 1 *_. I turn what he had aone wild uie loose nair uefore we left London. It was found in the ; pocket of his traveling coat, just as he hud Jled it up on leaving the Hall, worry and fright and vexation causing him to forget all about it. Of course I took charge of the parcel, and you know what good it did as well as I do. So to speak, William, it just ?ompleted this beautifully neat case. Looking at the matter in a professional point of view, I lon't hesitate to say that we have managed aur business with Mr. James Smith to perfection. We have produced him at the right time, and we are going to get rid of him at the right time. By to-night he will be on his way to foreign parts with Number Two, and lie won't show his nose in England again if lie lives to the age of Methuselah." It was a relief to hear that, and it was almost as great a comfort to find, from what i Mr. Dark said next, that my mistress need fear nothing that Josephine could do for the future. The charge of theft, on which she was about to be tried, did not afford the shadow of an excuse in law any more than in logic for alluding to the crime which her master had committed. If she meant to talk about it she might do so in her place of transportation, !... nl>n i?nnlrl nnl liova fho olifftifMf nhariPA nf UUt OlIC TTUUiU UVV ilHfV VMV uaigMWHv vi??miw v? j being listened to previously in a court of law. > "In short," said Mr. Dark, rising to take his leave, "as I have told you already, William, I it's checkmate for marrazelle. She didn't, manage the business of the robbery half as! sharply as I should have expected. She cer-1 tainly began well enough by staying modestly at a lodging in the village to give her at'! tendance at the examinations, as it might be ! required; nothing could look more innocent1 and respectable so far; but her hiding the j property between the mattresses of her bed? . the very first place that any experienced man j would think of looking in?was such an araa- ^ zingly stupid thing to do, that I really can't account for it, unless her miud had more I weighing on it than it was able to bear, which, considering the heavy stakes she played for, is likely enough. Anyhow, her hands are tied now, and her tongue, too, for the matter of that. Give my respects to your mistress, and tell her that her runaway husband and her lying maid will never, either of them, harm her again as long as they live. She has j nothing to do now but to pluck up her spirits ; and live happy. Here's long life to her and to you, William, in the la,st glass of ale; and ! here's the same toast to myself in the bottom of the jug." With these words Mr. Dark pocketed his large snuff-box, gave a last wink with his bright eye, and walked rapidly away, whistling, to catch the London coach. From that time to this he and I have never met again. A few last words relating to my mistress and to the other persons chiefly concerned in | this narrative will conclude all that is now j necessary for me to say. For some months, the relatives and friends, ; and I myself, felt sad misgivings on my poor j | mistress' account We doubted if it was pos- [ I si hip with Rimh a. nuink. sensitive nature as ! hers, that she could support the shock that had been inflicted on her. But our powers of endurance are, as I have learned to believe, more often equal to the burdens laid upon us than we are apt to imagine. I have seen man^ surprising recoveries from illness after all hope had been lost, and I have lived to see my mistress recover from the grief and which we once thought would prove fatal to her. It was long before she began to hold up her head again; but care and kindness, and time and change wrought their effect on her at last. She is not now, and never will be again, aa she was once; her manner is altered, and she looks older by many a year than she really is. But her health causes us no anxiety now 5/her spirits are calm and equal, and I have good hope that many quiet years of service in her house are left for me still. I myself have married during the long interval of time which I am now passing over in a few words. This change in my life is, perhaps, not worth mentioning, but I am reminded of my two little children when I speak of my mistress in her present position. I really think they make the great happiness and interest and amusement of her life, and prevent her from feeling lonely and dried up at heart. It is a pleasant reflection to me to remember this, and perhaps it may be to you, for which reason only I speak of it As for the other persons connected with the troubles at Darrock Hall, I may mention the vile Josephine first, so as to have the sooner done with her. Mr. Dark's guess, when he tried to account for her want of cunning in hiding the stolen property, by saying that her mind might have had more weighing on it than she was able to bear, turned out to be nothing less than the plain and awful truth. After she had been found guilty of the robbery, and had been condemned to seven years' transportation, a worse sentence fell upon her from a higher tribunal than any in this world. While she was still in the county jail, previous to her removal, her mind gave way, the madness breaking out in an attempt to set fire to the prison. Her case was pronounced to be hopeless from the first. The lawful asylum received her, and the lawful asylum will keep her to the end of her days. Mr. James Smith, who, in ray humble opinion, deserved hanging by law, or drowning by accident at least, lived quietly abroad with his Scotch wife (or no wife) for two years, and then died in the most qui?t and customary manner, in his bed, after a short illness. His ' end was described to me as a "highly edifying one." But as he was also reported to have sent his forgiveness to his wife?which was as much as to say that he was the injured person of the two?I take leave to consider that he was the same impudent vagabond injiis last moments that he had been all his life. His Scotch widow has married again, and is now settled in London. I hope her husband is all her own property this time. Mr. Meeke must not be forgotten, although he has dropped out of the latter part of my story because he had nothing to do with the serious events which followed Josephine's perjury. In the confusion and wretchedness of that time, he was treated with very little ceremony, and was quite passed over when we left the neighborhood. After pining and fret- , ting some time, as we afterward heard, in his lonely parsonage, he resigned his living at the ( first chance he got, and took a sort of underchaplain's place in an English chapel abroad. , He writes to my mistress once or twice a year to ask after her health and well-being, and , she writes back to him. That is all the com- , munication they are ever likely to have with each other. The music they once played together will never sound again. Its last notes 1 * 3 aL? L.t nave long since iuueu away, auu me itust words of this story, trembling on the lips of the teller, may now fade with them. Papal Infallibility Defined.?VicarGeneral Starrs delivered an address in St Patrick's Cathedral, New York, a few Sundays ago, in explanation of the recently adopted Roman Catholic dogma of papal infallibility. He said it does not mean that the Pope cannot err in what he says or does, for, being human, he is just as fallible as as other men. But when he speaks officially as head of the church, declaring anything as to matters of faith, he is infallible. The speaker illustrated his idea as follows : "In the United States we have a Supreme Court, with a chief justice and associate justices! Many cases are"referred from the lower courts to this. But after a case has been decided in the Supreme Court there can be no appeal. These final decisions are as near like those of the Pope as any secular matter can be like a spiritual one. When the Chief Justice is not on the bench his opinions only pass as those of an ordinary citizen ; when he presides in the court his decisions are final, and the whole country submits to them. And so in the church, now that the great dogma is announced from the Papal chair there is no appeal from it." ? Jte?*The Paris correspondent of the New i York Times writes: "An impression prevails, both in England and America, that the war will not be of long duration. This idea is founded on the marvelous improvement in artillery and arms of all descriptions, and is partly justified by the rapidity or the Prussian conquest in the war with Austria. But I can assure those who entertain the idea that it is a fallacious one. The present war is undertaken under very different oiroumstan-ces from any previous one. The point at i issue is the supremacy in Europe, and the two nations which are now face to face are the first military powers in the world. The ' contest must, therefore, bo a rude one. The Emperor indulges in none of the illusions which the official bureau of publicity would fain encourage in the public mind. He says plainly in his proclamation that the war now commencing will be long and trying. At the same time his confidence in the success of the French arms is unwavering." fpsttllanwuis jUtirtw. For the Yorkvillc Enquirer. A SKETCH. "I do not know what it is! I do nt>t be lieve there is such a thing!" bunt impetuous ly from the lips of dark-haired Bessie Vane "I have heard you?I have heard others? speak of love; but as the world is now, I d< not believe it exists." "You have never felt its magic power,' was the sad response, in low tones of heart broken anguish. "Farewell, forever 1 Yean hence you may learn the value of the tru< heart you have wantonly crushed." A mo ment?and he was gone. George Amesly had met Bessie Vane but i few moments before the conversation of whicl we have given our readers a glimpse. Throwi continually together at a quiet watering-place * * - - ? .i a he had yielded, heart and son J, to tne iasci nation of her bright, gay disposition, whicl gleamed in every sparkle of her rich, browi eyes, and seemed entwined among the locb of the waving curls that fell over shonlden which sculptors might have sighed in vain U copy. Tall, stately, handsome, with all the wealti and accomplishments that heart could desire, he had laid all at the feet of his 'idol, thinking it was golden; but now, alaftl bad found it was only dross. What a change for him, from floating softy by the light of the moon on Heiowee's fair bosom?from wandering by the Bide of her he loved best, where the cascade's merry play seemed to laugh in unison with his own too happy heart, the laurel and the cleinatis adding new fragrance to the air, which seemed already too sweet, to return once more to the hard life of reality amid the rush and whirl of the world. And Bessie, what of her ? She had lost, she knew not what After his departure, she remained seated on the marble steps where they had parted. How beautiful she looked! One fair hand supported her head and gleamed through her dark ha^y, like ivory, seeming whiter than the marble on which it rested. For a while an arch smile curved her rosy lips as she thought of his farewell words, and she murmured, "He will come again ! he loves me too well to thus part." But when she recalled his sad, impassioned manner, and thought what light words she had spoken, the smile faded from her lips, and her heart trembled; for now she knew that she had loved and lost . y Months rolled on. The rich, golden lighte of summer faded into mellow autumn; wintei put on her hoary garments; spring onoc again returned, bringing joy to every heart but one, and that heart knew not joy, for "he" had not returned. She lived, it is true; and amid the gay crowd that filled, her father's halls, few would have thought that she, the envied possessor of such wealth, of such beauty, surrounded bj every luxury wealth could command?with all the handsome, the noble, the wealthy, at her feet?on whom she had but to smile, and they were but as slaves before her?could be broken hearted. "Ah! if I could but forget!" she often murmured; but still her heart replied, "Ob, for the touch of a vanished hand. And the sound of a voice that is still J" For she knew that George Amesly, disgusted at the levity which had destroyed the hopes that had entwined themselves around his heart and had become the fibres of his being, seeing that he could do nothing for his native South, (whose people groaned under an 'oppression scarcely exceeded by that inflicted on the Turkish slave) had left his native land, determined to seek among the stirring scenes that Europe promised to offer, oblivion of the past. For he was a born soldier, and for over four years had borne his country's flag, unsullied, against the thousands that threatened, and, alas! who overpowered his native land; and had but furled it?furled it, did I say ??there were few rags and tatters of that war-worn flag to furl?at the command of a chief whom he had always loved too well to disobey. But his broken heart soon found rest; for of that noble band that sailed?all but one so fell of hope and life?none ever returned. The deep blue sea, and He who holds the winds and the rains in the hollow of his hand, only can tell where the winds sing their last requiem "O'er a heart so true and soul so noble." The spring and summer glided once more into winter, and all the world seemed the same. But ah! what a change had passed over Bessie. No longer roved those tiny feet through hall and grove.; no longer floated her bird-like voice at eventide toward the heaven she soon hoped to reach. Murmuring, "Oh! if I knew that he had forgiven me!" she passed into the unknown world (4 death, relying on those blessed promises He has given to those who ever and truly repent. For the YorkvUle Enquirer. NORTH CAROLINA "CORRESPONDENCE. Swaicnanoa Cheese Factory, \ August 20,1870. j Mr. Editor : I promised you some account of my visit to this place. It is situated on ? - ? ? 11? /i Swannanoa river, two and a halt miles trom Asheville, and a half-mile above the bridge leading to Greenville and Hickory-Nut Gap, This establishment commenced operations on the 23rd of May, of last year?late in the season, as summer is the only time of the year in which cheese can be made. I will describe the method of making cheese as well as I can, The machinery is very simple. We first notice a vat of four hundred gallons oapacity, whioh is lined with tin and fiirnished with flood-gates and a heating apparatus. The vat, in which floats a basin containing milk, is so constructed that a flood of cool water from a spring near by, can be turned on. Into this vat the milk is emptied, night and morning, by a simple arrangement, from the wagons ooming in from the pastures. The milk-wagons are driven to a window, near which stands a large can on scales. Into this can the milk is flowed from that containing it in the wagon, and after being weighed is then conducted to the vat The water in whioh the milk-basin is immersed during the night is kept to a temperature of 61 degrees, Fahrenheit, and the cream of the milk is prevented from rising by keeping it constantly in a gentle motion by means of a wheel and rake which traverse, twice per minute, the entire length of the vessel. In the morning, after the morning's milking is emptied into the vat, by the same means above described, the current of cool water is shut off, and a gentle fire raised in the far nace, by which the milk is heated to a temperature of eighty-two degrees. The rennet is soaked in whey and poured into the vat - The coloring is done with anotta, which is - also poured into the vat, and in from fbrty; five to sixty minutes the milk is in a curdled state. An instrument about ten inches wide, > containing thirty steel knives, is next passed gently through the curd, from end to end, ' outting it up. This cutting separates the ' whey from the curd. Another system of ? knives is passed at right angles, across the 3 first After a time the curd is stirred and cut by the hands, cut again with the knives, and agitated once more by the hapds, when t heat is applied to raise the temperature. This i latter operation is performed slowly, and oc> copies a long time. The writer thought of . nntnocflinrr (Iia whnln niwratinn t?> the end. - but time and patience gave oat The card in i dae time is removed to the press. The press I. is a tab of galvanized metal. The power is ? a hand-screw, working in a stationary head or * ram which fits the press. The power is grad> nated nicely and easily by the hand. I contrasted the superiority of this arrangement i with that I have otteia witnessed and assisted i in about King's Mountain, which was by * means of one end of a pole under the houseI sill, and the other end weighted down with rocks, rails, Ac. In this factory the cheeses ' are kept in press from twenty-four to thirty' six hours. I learn from Mr. J. 6. Becker, the pleasant gentleman who superintends this establish1 ment, that the cheese and dairy business is a very profitable one in the North, and might be made so in the mountainous districts of the 1 South. He informs me that in Oneida county, whence he came, the laboring population are wholly occupied in this business, and that factories there make from one to five thousand pounds per day. From the information I i gained from him, we of the South do not pay sufficient attention to our breeds. It would pay well to improve our stock?and pay upon every hand to give more attention to the dairy. land in Oneida county, N. Y., which i a few years ago sold for $20 or $30, now sells ' for $1Q0 per acre. Today I leave the Swannanoa* rivOr?a pretty name?meaning "nymph of beauty." Why don't some one who has a fancy for pretty and high-sounding names, call a lovely 1 daughter "8wann,-\noa ?'?and when she gets 1 age enough, or gets off to the seminary, they may nickname her "Swanand if it is a white swan it is no less lovely and significant of ) beauty and purity. - The day is hot, and the sky is sweetly blue. R K B. ' Orange Peel Poisonous.?The Pacific Medical and Surgical Journal says: Now that oranges are in every child's mouth, it is well ' enough for parents to know that fatal conse1 quences may follow the swallowing of the rind. * Many years ago we had in charge two little ' girls, sisters, four and six years of age, who ' were seized with violent inflammation of the ' bowels from.this cause. Qne of them died in ' convulsions, and the other had a narrow es cape. Since that time quite a number of instances, similar in character, have come un* der our observation. Quite recently we have seen a child, something over a year old, that was attacked with violent dysenteric symptoms, for which no , cause could be assigned. The attack came on , during the passage of the steamer from San Diego. The symptoms were so identical with those which we had previously noticed to arise from poisoning by orange peel, that we woe induced to inquire particularly if the child had had an opportunity of getting this ' substance in its month. We were informed * that it bad been playing with an orange and nibbling at it just before the attack of the disease. The discharges from the bowels were frequent, and consisted of blood and mucus. After a week of severe enteric inflammation, the child died. We have no doubt that the disease was brought on by the rind of the or- , ange. Though but a small quantity must have been swallowed, yet a very small quantity of snch an indigestible and irritatinor sub t stance will often prodace most serious consequenoes. The oil of the rind is highly acrid, and adds greatly to the noxious quality of the indigestible mass. We learn that it is a common practice among the children of some of our public schools to eat therind, and that juvenile merchants have been known to trade off the inside of the fruit for the skin. Congressman Morbjbsey's Gambling House at Saratoga.?John Morrissey's famous gambling house is one of the great lions of Saratoga, for the great public. A correspondent writing from that plaoe says: "The average number of visitore there for the week ending August 8th, was over one thousand for each day, and of this number some three hundred are ladies from the hotels and boarding houses! The motive, I presume, is one of pure curiosity. Even clergymen go and take their families to see the gaming tables, the cards, the balls, the dice, and the elegant and spacious dwelling, justoppo' site the famous Congress Springs. The appointments are superb, though about all in the way of furniture and furnish are of na1 tive make and from the city of New York. Everything is grand, showy, expensive, ind 1 startling, even to the lota of $70,000 by one 1 unknown party, who the same night turned ' the tables upon his antagonist ana won $iZ4,000. I hear of another quite distinguished 1 citizen in his way, who loet 113,000, and then ran his loss up to $24,000, and all in one ' night The losing is easy enough, and the winnings, I presume, are the exceptions, al* ' though the always, courteous and intelligent ' attendants of the so-called bank will tell you 1 that the bank can only make a small, though , generally, very certain per centage. And ' this certain per centage is certainly necessary to keep up the splendid tables, wines, segan ( 1 and attendance, all of which are as free as Congress water to those who play and to the invited. Hard Study Kills Nobody.?Thought is the life of the brain, as exercise is the life of j the body. There can be no more such thing as a healthy brain, as to the mental depart- i ment, without thought, study, than there can be a healthy body without exercise. And as. physical exercise preserves the body in health, so thought, which is the exercise of the brain, keeps it well. But here the parallel ends; we may exercise, work too much, in the way of i expressing ourselves, for both writing and i talking are a relief to the mind; they an in a* nine its play; its diversion. Foot np thoughts may kill, as pent up steam wrecks the locomotive. The expression of thought is like workipg off the steam from the boiler. When clergymen break down, or public men, or professors in colleges or other literary institutions get sick and die, the universal cry is "over study," "too much mental application." It is never so; not in a single case since the world began; we defy proo? and will open our pages to any authenticated case. If a man will give himself enough sleep, and will eat enough nutritious food at proper intervals, and will spend two or three hours in the open air every day, he may study, and work and write, until he is as gray as a thousand rats, and will be still young in x_T j i. flva uieuuu vigvr tutu ucmuob. man of renown who lived plainkj^Vflgularly, temperately, and died early 7?HcJPe Journal of Health. ,t , Germans and Dutchmen.?A correspondent calk attention to what he terra a frequent mistake of Americans. He says Dutchmen in * this country are very often called Germans, and Germans are called Dutchmen, while the difference in nationality and language is almost as great as between English and French people. Dutchmen are Hollanders, natives of that industrious and illustrious little nation, from whence came the first settlers in New York city and State, and in portions of Pennsylvania. Holland, or the Netherlands, is a kingdom, independent from any other power, governed now by William HI of Orange. Holland has never been a part of Germany. As for the language, the correspondent says: 'Though there are a few words in the German language that are the same or sound like the same in Dutch, a German cannot understand the Holland language, neither can a Dutchman the German, unless he has had the neoessary instruction." J&~If any poison is swallowed, drink in* stantly half a glass of cold water, with a heaping teaspoonful each of oommon salt and ground mustard stirred into it This vomits as soon as it reaches the stomach. But for fear some of the poison may remain, swallow the white of one or two eggs or drink a cop of strong coffee?these two bring antidotes for a greater number of poisons then any other doxen articles known, with the advantage of their being always at hand; if not, a pint of sweet oil, lamp oO, drippings, melted butter or lard, are good substitutes, especially if they vomit quickly.4--American Housewife. :.<> n: v Hoxs CHRERFULKEsa?Many a child goes astray not because there is a want of prayer or virtue at borne, but simply because home lacks sunshine. A child needs smiles as much as flowers and sunbeams. Children look little beyond the preepnt moment If a thing displeases, they a^ prone to avoid it. U home is the plaoe where fhoes are sour and words hanh, and fault finding is ever in the ascendant, they will spend as many hours as possible 'elsewhere. Let every father aad mother, then, try to be happy. Let them j look happy. Let them talk to their children, especially the little ones, in such a way as to make them happy. ... We a&e Still Ahead.?South Carolina j sent the first negro to West Point, and will probably send the first black nogro to Con gress in the person of R. B. Elliott, if ho is a 1 genuine negro. We give the convention some 1 credit for nominating three negroes, Wimbush, DeLarge and Elliott, for Congress, instead of ^he carpet-baggers who have heretofore represented Sooth Carolina at Washington. This shows that the negro is elbowing the carpet-bagger out, and he deserves credit for it. Hoge, Bowen and Whitteniore will have to hunt some other locality in order to obtain office. We advise than to pack their carpet-bags and "git"?Winnsboro News. Who is Kirk ??The Detroit Free Press says, that the wretch, Kirk, who is executing the atrocious orders of Orant and Hoiden in North Carolina was a land pirate during the | lafc as. Tf aara Iia nlonv) Kimsfilf at *Vta S i(?w ttwi av owjg ?iv |inr<^vu mmuwva* h? ?uv *m head of a band of deserters from both the I rebel and Union armies, and wentaboot plundering the people.. In one locality he plan- 1 dered rebelb as a Union man, and in another I he plundered Union men as a rebel. He I traversed the border counties of Tennessee 1 and North Carolina, committing murders and ' 1 other outrages upon the people, and is, really, J| at present, a fugitive from justice. Death op Hon. John P. Kennedy.? are called upon to chronicle the death of Hoi^^H John Pendleton Kennedy, which took plac^^f on Thursday evening last at Newport, R. 1.^^ while on a visit with his family to that plac^^ for the benefit of his health. Mr. Kennedy had a national reputation as statesman and author which reflected credit upon the city of his birth. He was born in Baltimore, October 25,1795. He was the author of "Horse Shoe Robinson," "Swallow Barn," Ac.; was a member of the Legislature and of Congress, and once Secretary of the Navy. What is a Mile??The following table, showing the length of a mile in different nationalities, will doubtless prove of interest to a number of our readers daring the contest now progressing between France and Prussia; Yards. Feet. English mile 1,760 5^06 Russian mile 1,100 3,900 Italian ,. 1,407 - 4,401 Irish and Sootch .2,200 m > 6,600 Polish 4,400 13^80 German 5,866 * 17,508 Swede and Danish 7,233 21,099 Hungarian 8,830 26,490 French league. ..3,668 10,998 J?- A poor fellow begins' to go down hill, and, as is usual in such cases, he keeps on till he reaches the bottom, lhen people begin to -m say, "God's hand is very heavy on ?o a*d x>," I when, in fact, God has no hand, nppn hoa at> fl all. It is only the feet of certain harddieait* I ed rascals, who ought to be Ms friends, that I have been kicking him from step to step downward. J?" The Chinese determine whs&fr ' thy fear will be good orbed by placing at the; commencement of the year a measure of sesd fl in an earthen vessel, and leaving the vessel H in a dark cellar fifty days. 'They then re- H measure the seed, and as fh6 bttjfc he* it- fl creased or decreased, the season wSTtie good H or bad. ? . . I ' OliUj A J?" It is estimated that the whole number jH of cod fish caught annually oh Newfoundland shores is one hundred and forty millions. H &-&&& * , - ^^H