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Bromley is a delightful little village, nestled down peacefully beside a broad river, full of neat cottages, tiny, well kept gardens, and long avenues of elms. No roar of machinery distracts the ear, no army of labor is daily marshaled by the: clang-of tie factory bell. Invention hast kept aloof from smiling field and shady street, reluctant to disturb the dreamy beauty that lingers in every nook and corner of the quaint old town. * It is hardly to be wondered at that Do? rs. Rushton loved her home, and believed that no spot this side of the antipodes could compare with it for loveliness. Though it must be confessed that Dora's ejipenence was somewhat limited, being confined, outside her native village, to the neighboring town of Westwood, whose Eden-like ajripilicity had vanished with the entrance of the serpent, steam. So, r/aturally, Bromley ana Westwood each vaunted itself on what the other lacked? progress and quiet. ? And if Dora was firm in the faith that Bromley was the prettiest place in Amer? ica, aU the youth of her acquaintance were equally convinced that Dora was the prettiest girl in Bromley. The mer? riest, best-tempered, busiest little thing in the world; not a bit vain, but simple and natural as the children who swarmed like bees-; about her, she was a general favorite and universal pet with young and old. Every body loved her?every body, that is, with one exception: her grandmother. Now of course this looks as if Dora turned a sunny side to the world at large and kept a shadier one for home. But if you have painted on your mental canvas a poor, forlorn, loveless old creature, just strike your brush across it, and come and look at Grandma Gardner. Did you ever see anything more like the ill-na? tured old feiry.of your nursery tales than those little black eyes snapping out from under a huge cap border, those yellow, vnnkled cheeks, and that hooked nose ?id tthin that look as if they would grind whatever came between fhem? And, trust me, nearer acquaintance does not dispel the illusion. - Alan for agerthat is unlovely! when the crown of silver rests upon n brow that has not gained the peace it typifies, and no higher love and hope have replaced those passionate ones youth buried long ago! But Grandma Gardner's trials had been many. She had outlived her children, the sole compensations of a most unhap? py marriage. Her only Bon went dovro before her agonized eyes in that treach? erous river now flowing so calmly past her door; while Lois, her daughter, the beauty of Bromley, who might have wedded where she chose, who plucked down hearts to pleasure her, as you might leaves from yonder bough, per? versely fell in love with a young good for-nothing from New York, with noth? ing under heaven to recommend him but his handsome face. During the few troublous years of her married life, Lois obstinately refused to her husband. But when?as the ?i^BflM^fliiaDered?-he came to is death" in some disgracef^1 jjdow returned to her native lie shadow of the bright-chcekeH girl lio had left it. ,And paler and frailer she grew with eim succeeding year she lingered on in the pleasant Bromley air, while little D?ra had passed from babyhood into hoydenhood. and emerged into a bloom? ing girl of fourteen, who did not "favor" hnr mother's family at all, but was "just Rank Bushton right over," when that poor patient mother died at last. Dont never seemed one of her own arid kin to Grandmother Gardner, children, like herself, had been dark black haired; so this pretty, roguish little thing, with her deep blue eye* and golden-brown curls, served only as a pain? ful reminder of the wild young fellow who had robbed her of her daughter. What does Father Time mean by sha king his hour-glass so vigorously ? He will be putting spectacles on the baby and furrowing little Willy's forehead ere we know it. Can that be Dora, that plump maiden of eighteen, sitting so ee? rily wilih some one on yonder door-step that, overlooks the river??that little "frolic sprite" rehearsing the old story, Father Time, your hour-glass is a cheat! "Dora! Dora!" calls a peevish old voice; "I want you, child. And you and Mr. Lynde '11 ketch your death out there?" The sentence terminated in a wheezy cough. At this summons Dora sprang up with alacrity. True, it had interrupted a charming conversation, but that could be resumed to-morrow evening, when the moon would doubtless shine as brightly as now upon the rippling water, the flower-laden air be just as sweet, and, in short, everything drape itself in that rose color life is wont to wear at eighteen? under certain circumstances. Is it well or ill that the. young eyes, dazzled by that soft splendor, do not see that it is "such stuff as dreams are made of?" So the girl ran into the house, hum? ming a blithe air, and the young man looked regretfully after her a moment, then turned his gaze upon the river. -?Meanwhile Dora pauses to peep from her grandmother's window at her late companion, with the moon lighting up the beauty of his unconscious face, mav king it look colorless and clear as a dusf ky lily leaf?if such a thing exists. That face seemed just a shade too dark for the fair culling hair, but when he lifts his eyes you see the explanation. At first they are a surprise, almost a shock, to you?those large eyes of concentrated shadow, into whose black depths the broadest daylight strives in vain to pierce, until you see that the hair, full of bright threads like southern sunbeams, the opaque Warmth of the complexion, and the dusk of the tropic eyes unites to form, a harmony as rare as beautiful. For three weeks Baymond Lynde had been an inmate of Grandma Gardner's dwelling, and, of course, in village par nce. was already known as "DoraBush n's beau." To the eager queries, "Who he?" "Where did he come from?" d "What's he here for?" the knowing es responded that they had it on his n authority that lie was a teacher of wing in several New York schools, I been quite ill, and was here to re er his health. But no amount of ng could induce him to exhibit any imens of his art. Probably the mill-round with vexatious pupils nade him weary of the very thought ncil and paper. f?wever this might be, he mixed free d socially with the Bromley people, d in the games at the rustic parties, I the red-cheeked maidens with willingness, listened to the wisdom ? elders with a deference and atten eldom accorded them ; in fine, won earta by.his mingled gayety and breeding? r. combination somewhat in Bromley. every day the fetters strong as ft-and sweet as flowery garlands, eing tightened around little un ing Dora. She could not realize tonth ago this chapter in her life been opened, for it seemed to omc that life itself, ?lthough?he I ANDERSON, S. 0, THURSDAY NOfBER 4, 1875. did not know its jneanjj Jelt the change. She wasip0? who had given a glass o\ra?" trftr ft fptv Krinf nroal'^ "C ger a lew brief weefcVV: breathed a spell uponsr back to her that h?mour round her? And whi1??^ singular, her grandnrc e,5 to his enchantment. :?mer' who made no secret Jc?n *? young men in generat1^.^ come in and rest, h?~,~}.m most affably in her sto?d ?s* tened with complacent1?6?, the pleasant prospect s'tuf ation, and finally, wh*18 ?"j he said, with a littl<be liad already trespassed' td0Ei hei hospitality, but he foii0.lea{? so charming a place, a8'10?? often look back to it df^ noj months, she piped or co? stay with us this sumn^11;?0 Ho. Why, mercy sakeV0*?, ?* teacher nigh on to f> faU ^e married Jooly GrigJioutto the deacon's farm. T3pe gen" tleman the room." y f ,. Dora obeyed in mutt bi" ting north wind that;? fle3k shiver and your teef sh(?uia suddenly chance into ^Sj1' yoir could not be mor>ed tban was Dora at this new Pict ne* grandmother appearer10 truth was, something aw ^?niajf stranger had touched %J chord> long silent in her hear . , ,, Of course he wasl*1*11 ?g cozy white curtained jp ^ Wltb the pretty cicerone wj?eai*i',a tliat very night saw ltftanly es? tablished in the apartf concen? trated to Mr. Neheia16*- Ev*" dently that glass of ^nchanted, for it had furnished a?r with a home, softened a stdbeart an,d opened a new univera?1111^ Sirl s dreams? ? . _ Bromley boasted # society, consisting of about a embers, un? der the direction of a?nk 3'?^ man named Abel Vo4ped by his ixjwn's-people a verv;3 .Mi". *ose had been endowed bif^b- 11 to/" eiable voice and earJfatalvanity Lat scorns improveippled e country metbodr&-ing,. had ?>ng since made hilf * V03? to fcdtivated faste, did j??ng east in romley. I' JSTow it will not be?ch of coufi Rtence if we reveal, ^very one m Bromley knew, thawment mccstro was decidedly enam? Dora .Kush ton, and viewed yoifnde with an unfriendly eye. H?P looked for? ward with eagerness opportunity of displaying his |1 superiority over this interloped completely crushing "that peskwing master/ The occasion c^Che B. M. fe. held one of its ical meetings for the practice of.d and secular music, and Mr. Lyfas present by invitation His rival's hu ly believed, by taking part in the lame plea of prefe: But the sight of " Sparks merrie that was. Ycfe to remember y sum as any -p.^ jet-bL>.ck,wit^!d Mighty- soft-s^jii riage, but the way afterward there's he used ter be^t h) trary streakj&o femilies that hi like seler-atusy bi| so [y Brace too young was harn ?'shair was skim-milk. mer abused her Some say ee, it's con different tly mixed? 'n t|ey"re death nrfP1S0n dealing so m#"3UUj ev*e,7 bodJ" sily, as the speaSF^r h|* *"C1* fuf theory toSft ^ unusual cloqueifCdcausedher to let fa"'But Mr. Lyfk^je making of his eyes," mAWlSSf blame him fort^?es, they are aQ?Do^t toll Suri Aunt'tadv having made ^T tl^S teU me. First timsl0^ F VI ter myself, TaCfalf theft-what you air. fal ter losc*| e yer, Do;| did yer mo j3 Dora's c5 little scarl$ in the knil3 samebook with. Mr. Vose as to After the? been sufficiently c chants, the song^ first selection bef known opera, in tion was wont to To-day, however, rupt transition f music, or to the , and brown ringlet ing each other, work of his mast the flock, as in over the same tripped up theirt Poor Abel's h creased three-fix Lynde's face, as to Dora that "Perhaps," legan, as fond ed to decline ance, on the isten to others bent over the so discomfited im of half his Ii? had iynde, as he and lean opposite them, er, and can't t your wife JPencd, the fa a well el'sself-admira ecstatic pitch owing to the ab pposite class of f the fair curJs actually brush ose made sorry and the rest of und, stumbled bars that had redness were in .1 expression-on perea something bite her lips, /m 1 with suppres/ to aiaarnsam face, etin'tflise you, as we ori ye?' ' d rBIder than the ngtwitclied to and fro rdtic Rogers, but she had no chaiwa%r- \ , _ " "Efhis nrwaa'tLiade-I used ter know Lj aHe,f #ve"/'EbSn Lynde, I gitf?,W ,^Sot Driscoll ycftsa'diunkhe was a fur riner Did? evennotiee the funny way lie talksletimeej lUf the words he passes otf rmis|oge4er. I'U ask him ef he's'ben a1"?st ?e Etlantic, just ter drs^ out, ier ttowg. "Well ? your <fPojnmtyj" said Susie Bow as shacsfht ?S^j: of Lvnde co^uP the?>path; then mischievo#^"ra=i' Hp approached, "Mr. LynSe've beehlinngall sorts of news ^you" \ "Who?jat! ?? dropped i*ray of ed againSj great ni "Oh, tfru're a f< talk Eng and wi when y<#ve one? wse your eyes don't mafoujhairj: ? "Stop^, for pi^M wjusper edDora,f>nngly,VlAunt 'Mandy sat rigid*? indignatf Lynde&bed, as Ij?it to pick up k^i^e?|esire info^on, Miss Su? sie " he*, coolly, '^ave appealed to the nrPerson? wjjwould save a world ojcertainty i?t cases." "Profl they speai truth," said Susie, Jpg daunted ?-prei(y," repliectyoung man. "To tlparge of bet foreigner, I hardly?*' whether W guilty or not, foihough I atf Imencan pa renta^washorn irot Myfather was a?st, who w?at from place to pla^e an Arab 5>r my Eng? lish, If aware of n Oj?ncy in it; neitha I think ?sdiorc, blood tirstfiuthe gen|uitf mankind. Oil al!*?e points, hice^I am re.idy to su^ to the decato .iistinguish ed cr|" with a boyaaipluded the wholpty, for ^g.Han was, se cretljxious to knghe^rce of this sameUcism. tP?lJ.nc|^gto wait. "S Bowen," s|thefiiter} tart? ly ,'olooking the.^t thfe, ()0ne }ia(j ' |een implies* {n?, rsaidthat bide eouhBffWk ipfe I ^ey^oaie J fen w yeS" Mr, onl Ofl mal I*j pije n tteleveret, lotra the! sen AWfea$mateh foone wa _ Id remeirfoetl the don't rays cum. ,T het did edad you ever [ch othejr, !ber bl ? LTh^'^onhis hder laugaaVy? fe?voted^fi knov f #nce at ? feU ould demol^ iceberi Dor^ kl? are, Mr. wouldn't with a if her wrath, "Mr.' LyfI be goo!eno?^f^ howeTfwered, how ti, ^Certainly, Jfi^j wb to take the lead iiow song should be ?d ?" ^r Mis8 DoralSf "to To which 4s sarcasm Lynde Emotion, it flg"}f?0 amazodhis nv^ponding, quietly 0Wj who ^ eCn(^ at >o "Certainly, If if you like. _ i R me what sS?r ?f o an ?^tl am not entir^amili?r with the H air." ai?^*6 ^forz was finished ?^0r a few days Abel Vose hadlen his intention of tjV11de A criticising. H&sed sufficient mu- Lin ti,Pn7t&' sicalknoWw that the voice iTJrtuce^ whose echoes la m the room was Jage errand one ;v\3 - 5;\u?ea*y cd be* "Dora ! Dora!" called, the f retful old voice from the sitting room: "I want you." "The gloomiest week that Dora had ever known succeeded the bright weather. Ram, ram continually, until thu villagers cast anxious glances on the swollen river, that sometimes flooded the door-stones of the houses on the banks. But Dora found enough to occupy her thoughts in the illness of her grand? mother, who had been seised with a sud? den and violent attack of her chronic ail? ment, and was pronounced by the physi? cian in a most critical condition. For a few days she continued thus. Dora and Aunt'Mandy watching with her, when, ontheafternosn of the fifth, Dr. Staples declared that uhe could not possibly out? last the night. Unwilling to leavewkDora at such time, he had gone to fake a little rest, directing her to call him if any change should be apparent in her grandmother. Aunt 'Mandy also had retired for a nap, leaving Lynde and Dora a lone with the invalid. The light within the chamber was to:aed down to a Rembrandt shade, where object after obiect grew slowly on the vision. A feeble nightlamp shed a nar? row circle of rays around it, leaving in* obscurity the remoter portions of the room. On the great high-posted bed lay the old woman who had slepi there so many years^wrapped in her last earthly slumber. No oreathing stirred the air, no sound from either of the others broke the silence. But the stillness was only that of humanity. Outside, the night was one wild conflict of elements, and in the intervals of the storm could be heard the rushing of the turbid river. Just without the window a gigantic maple writhed and taaed as if in agony, beating the pane with jin unearthly sound which seemed the work neither of unconscious nature,! no:: of any mortal agency, but rather ;a ?umiaons from death, grown weary of waiting for his victim through? out these long years, impatient to seize the prev now almost in its reach. Lynde, watching Dora's face, saw all the changes wrought there by a week of care and sleeplessness. Her cheeks pre? serving the roundness of extreme youth, had lost their color, her eyelids were heavy and languid, and her mouth had a touching droop. The pose of her whole figure Betokened weariness. Presently the drowsy head began to sway, and the tired girl was asleep, upright in her hard chair. Noiselessly Lynde drew his own be? side it; passed his arm, without disturb? ing her, around her shoulders, and gave her head an easier resting place. As the storm had gradually abated, a deep peace settled upon nature. The maple no longer wnthed, but fluttered its wet leaves gently, and the faint moon, issuing from a sombre bank of cloud, sent in a few struggling rays where the chintz curtains partea, producing that fantastic effect al? ways caused by the blending of blue moonbeams with the yellow artificial light. For sometime the young girl did not move. Then disturbed, perhaps, by the strong breathing of the heart oh which she rested, or by tender, pityir g eyes bent on her, she stirred uneasily and then awoke. Still half unconscious, she placed h ~ hand within'the one that lay beside it. The contict of the clingir g finge thrilled through every nerve of the they touehefl. Yielding 1? the sudd impulsubjAnikhis head and kissed h NowlshJHMH|gghly awakened, nJ4Jnf|^BHi^^f blocd up over^er whice^s^pifchadta a pressed cry, she sprang drew away her chair. He wat following her, but I_ jself-reproach for the happiness slie co toot disguise from her own heart, pointi putely toward the bed. * The gesture restored Lynde to himself, jand he resumed his seat just where the moonlight fell upon his face, so that a little later Dora saw from an expression which crossed it that some change had ['come to the silent sleeper. A half-hour more, and stillness once ore reigned within the chamber, but is time it was the stillness of death. A close pressure of the hand, one look !to each other's eyes, a few common ce words of farewell?that was their ting. And was this, indeed, the end ? 3 the sweet blossom of summer never ipen into fruit? VOL. XI---NO. 16. the self-same placed" h?Pe ?hec* ed the dismal refraelhnS W* was yet ]oo soon aftei re?nt4 J?B for Lyna'e to speak ong .8ubJect Elth? she would hear f?im he would come again next &W.? b^e mus*: not missthe chancel1^ him- w,th the earliest days<! ,she wo."ld.retu;n to Bromley, andj.lea,ve lfc tlU the first frost touchedfaP f3- J., Holbrook's fam By November ly had been C3 within their cit; found the new li urally buoyant/si for some, weeks e, and Dora had pleasant. Nat Id not be expect a double wedj "Isn't it day, with ui know how dir that splendiy sur/,1 ed to mourn in# y/ot ?De w?? had not only Sfm *? who was more thanfe 0 bld adieu t(> a life of suffering? J^'8- a The Judge T T? kind> and hls young partner^oted- Aa Belle had said, the/ W might well be proud ofsucfe111,?: Singularly sincrre and nL^lf> fro?n the first he had been d ?nP01*? and the feel* ing had stead 7,^d int0 something deeper, whil'^cf dge wished him Godspeed, atifto/cently anticipated ^Ityear. 4" said Belle one xcitement. "You Jed I hare been that ju troupe should go back To" EuiJpeJN Dora had heard them. AndfnoBfe will have an op portunity afer ?*>r Wednesday even ing vre arepaffem here, 'positively for the lastt^a'i Dora im M; although th York for it she would troupes 5ii? yet had itl him. Still, she found h interest, th singers. A Lynde's pn With his " haunt the scious of a always a her. Jl The cun and brillia woman, whf first attracts, whispered B had \randen little apart man1 with a dark; eyes. Dora fell as colorless It is he them r "Why erjof't he be?" airily an swered Belle,? had caught the scarce ly audible Jiqur. "That is the great tenor, Gab'ief Isn't he magnificent? Pity ZarelP if his wife, instead of that odious EnpsJoman. But hush ! they are begini/ftat exquisite duet." Novel b/D?3 aud delicate young la? dies faint?Sfa was a hearty country girl, and cweif good old Revolutionary Block; soalliavely "faced the music," as htr anCepjhad done at Bunker Hill. Orce opljJr self-control deserted her. Daiing aTVvperfect solo?a thtng to held yo?. r y breath and hear?some? thing ha< i oVu the dark eyes of the singer straight j0r own. She saw the sudden deadly I aliand caugh t the momentary quaver <j | (voice. Then the eyes were averted! rtt, was all. Overall! Stunned and bewildered, alone vfjj room, Dora sat late into the night ,bri the dying fire, with Bello's cbatWne sense of which she had hard in the carriage?ringing in her 3e to the prospect, lome one else in New Jt glimpse of'whom liven all the opera e; but alas! never happy fate to meet the evening arrived, [raiting, with no -mall ince of the celebrated this a conviction of Jnong the audience.? Rusic, he was sure to ? She was even con ?magnetic feeling that Ir when hexras near upon a scene of lights Res. A tall, beautiful jed and full-throated, attention. "Zarelli," but her cousin's eyes slight graceful form a I the others; a young ice, fair hair, and. large in her seat, with a face rhy is he there with nzo 5jJ?1 ,fe^ple?--married^ ty?Englishwoman - ten years j not handsome, but very wealthy. S said that was why he married hbut Belle wouldn't believe he was tenary. Others declared it was be f> she was dying of love for him. had no doubt it was out of pity, they say Madame Gabrielle is ter jealous of Zarelli. For her part, e thought it served her right." jhatter, chatter, chatter?still ech g in Dora's ears. ."n the grate lay a spray of clematis 1 one or two worthless scraps of pa with writing on them. Yesterday, treasures?to-night, smouldering in that rarest J-un, a perfect s words had ^; tenor, perfectained?sweet and -jj jjer ]ieaJj^ rich as the mmjf the south wind or ,"?cd mn<t ?n the hum of beftid-summer, flexible 1 %oahe ?"t as achainof^vrought gold now v\,r to rest an? rising clear, soifresh, like a "disein- I fat hnr rUc1^ that brought abofore the eyes. \M th(i j'm* "Hooray !'%u.3d an enthusiastic youth breakinjjilence for a few rn^J. "That is singiir\ Abe, b'pose yjfcn this afternoon, and let him lead The propo^seconded openly by several of ?er young men who had tolerated* patronage hitherto, because of lfopo3ed) unparalleled genius, andjpy by half a dozen right eves, tum Lyn admiration. 9 But they loomed to disappoint? ment >rm| in I in enthusiastic 8L?that^Lvn i th?t^owed U his' faceK lat u sinwii?! Tjing him Mf him af as about to^jJ hiiaed his hey hj His face frfflw of wonted swt? shw a set, sternl. hi lines betweenjc to es narrowed i? tbenofes intense^, >u do notlook-U, saDora. "I am^ "Mr. Nos^ perfectly competent leader," ans4ynde, "and you are tSTou ," ^ 1> more accus* to him. No one i . L?L?. ih*l By which-r<very trravelv spoken, ?* ,?? M. . Abel Vose W;ucnily flatWd, for 1^ c e^ienco K he now knefmUch to estimate the mo; SCSI a3J? w e flames. A long future stitches before eighteen, iut more practical questions also en-i^ny hopes may yet arise for Dora. A ed Dora's consideration. How should]?? faithful love is waiting her ac maintain herself? Obviously sheWnnce. Ten years hence may behold Id not remain alone in the old housa^ a happy wife and mother, or the ?fciati- } the river, wich only the cat for com^ite snow may be drifting down above onew. ny. While thus deliberating, whqer quict grave in Bromley church-yard. :beeESould come to Bromley but Judge Hol?ef0rC us, of course, her fate lic3 like hot a)0k and his daughter Belle? Thfen open scroll; but we leave it unre Utucce had kuown the former as a frequen/ycaled, and drop the curtain on Dora itor in his earlier days. He was a dis^ alone with her first great sorrow, she d no t relative of Grandma Gardner's, anj?a'ZC3 at the ashes of her dead Romance. nient? been a lover of pretty Lois. Hini-m em,;left a widower a year or two aft? A Reminiscence.?In the year 1826, tac-riage, he had renewed his suit whej after *\ save one 0f the band of pa^ pearly love was once more free to r? ^te it. Of course it had been in vaifl U'heUthe Judge cherished pleasant mem( loonj\-ard| 0f Bromley notwithstanding, an iv mi a^ter a ^0D5 aDsence> revisited it it " ^l"?'i,any with his only daughter. "JtQ,,ra> if unlike her mother in appear-j Vndj had man* ways suggestive of he| ^i'ay e who hao known her in her brigh 3&; nod. So, what with her inherite! i'. j on his rejard, and the influence <i jsvn attractons, Judge Holbrook ft so strong that she should male ome with them, or at least my a visit <,? indefinite length, that little Dra willingly consented, uQot 1011 I aid triots vhose signatures arc borne on the Declantion of .Independence had de? scended to the tomb, and the venerable Carrollalone remained among the living, the go\5rnnent of the city of New York depute, a Committee to wait on the illus? trious urvivor and obtain from him, for deposi' in the public hall of the city, a copy (i the Declaration of 1776, graced and iithenticated anew with his sign manu'l. The aged patriot yielded to the reques, and affixed with his own hand to the ?py of that instrument the grate ful^olunn an&pious supplemental declar? ation wiich follows : '"Grauful to Almighty God for the fare readit-that Cousm Belle" and *f<?ind which, through Jesus Christ our Dra ..id taken a violent fanov^or^H, has conferred on my beloved country h her emancipation, aud on my? self in prmitting me, under high prais^ty clapped her ever ready plastejis ranking wound. He did not see fie look that Lynde had given DoraJ the gathering cloud was disperse Honest Dfowever, was somewhat troubled. '4ould not understand saying one t^nd mea.iing another. Itseemed tot! like "the false witness" she had .b|Qrned against in child? hood, He^head held many old fashioned v?om one of which, per? haps, aiose^faiiing reverence and patience wft. fretful old grandmo? ther. \ Some one-ring clematis down by the river b??ar(f ftt intervals a peal of merry daughter, a hum of voi? ces, from tflLe above? out of sight. Faint and't noises came to him, mingled wi^pi^hes of the river on the wet stor jfjg feet. He smiled in? voluntarily^ cau??ht the lowest of the three vja tender half smile, and began to aft'ttle love-song under his breath as M(| the long trails of cle? matis, i In the du. beaming down benig nantly thrd/e'r apectades upon Susie Bowen antf Rushton, who sat on the step Iff loomed up the tall fig? ure of Ai&'jjjy Driscoll, a spinster noted for j,lubjiity. "Now, Mr don't want to sot yer agin him,?f ?g ncr head in an oracu lai- monniif. ?VPS r It is a bad d wil ie. You -1 tend." Jo] sira{ In lat is the uA i\ I t I am snr!? ? - am th!P4 k n it is someth eyes \t suVho" Mr; th!ff? W of fasti 1{t?j one on w frienj fHuiniversart"" dcat^'Tci rvZ^*? isonl orfi ofl hasifejjjr' ' Y- '? year^o (Ug my *fI ^vidvownhanat1 a^nt,rthenvKntcS lneJed]word8from "'orsVtuifhen is t0. hea^I1(| the hirthX ness t caever?0 dT\ ?mm chief f&fi angedoibas, i8 toJ jponhe ed ith^Q 0,c^eriensified to ^Jvaslcked and . 1 ari)t well, ^uldsomethiri ea J1** b and h chaihn ,-tment. \ n?!hinit a UttEI littl*1" ?L'ullv 'vlu l,aiiCU u violent fauoy |i other, iL were already quite in; pie. / hcai? Holbr(^, a few years Doha's ^ was a h??some, styliish girj,' de ro fasihionnd amusemonM^ith no lakedPC amoui of brain ancUieart, but Bomc1ed of an inndance of good nature jidered hi a general favorite. Ioomyhig Homebat exhausted herself keep10 gttyeti^of the past season, trav . h p a quie&ay, during the summer had bej, recommended in lieu jring-platflissipation, which pre ri had bd> followed, not only by {ient, buly the Judge himself, r with ?little party of their ?his, decled Judge Holbrook, 'cally, waj;he very thiug to re J color to >ra's pale cheeks like jj which Oiion he wa3supported Martner, h Caldwell, a manly, Sking youlAVcllow, v/ho seemed t(Wa undtVi* special care. [ can tclUWlittle puss," said ^Helle, "youijna well feel flatter f seldom iotVs a young lady, , clhero are eiiouAwho notice him. ' fi not eng^gedtivself, I never ide W^S1 u*m t0 y0^"1'113 *8? ^ yowal you will siipach other per Eole fiThichit may fathered that, [ jir intimacy, l[a's new-found t,a|d not a9 yet fiess her entire R5R had really lot her, why had ? Athing furtherttor the night Id revealed t\ love? And ? ^1'ept whisper,' in her ear a rlgU \ long ago rcl "What does \ii death and fo choose out circum? stances oi mercy, to live to the age of eighty-nirc years, and to survive the fif? tieth year if American independence, and certify by my present signature my ap? probation tf the Declaration of Indepen? dence adopted by Congress on the 4th of July, 1776, which I originally subscribed on the ??'? day of August of the same year, and of which I am now the last sur? viving signer, I do hereby recommend to the present and future generations the principles of that important document as the best earthly inheritance their ances? tors could bequeath to them, and pray that the civil and religious liberties they have secured to my country may be per? petuated to remotest posterity, and ex? tended to the whole family of man. ? "Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, "August 2,1826." ? SnKkins staked his all on the result of a game of euchre the other night and lost. Throwing down the cards very peevishly he broke forth in the following pathetic strain : "T'was ever thus from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes take flight, and every time I played the left bower some one took it with the right." ? Mr. Theodophilus Popp, of Popp ville, in Popp county, fancying himself to be vcrv popular with his lady-love, popped the question to her under the poplar tree, when she referred him to her poppy, who, when asked for his con? sent, laboring under the influence of ginger-pop, popped him out of tho door to the tune of ''Pop Goes the Weasel." Is Tills a Nation or a Constitutional Union of States. The action of the Alabama Convention setting the Union ab(rve the Constitution has rejoiced the hearts of the consolida tionists. The Philadelphia Nor1.h Ameri? can, the leading consolidationist organ of Pennsylvania, is greatly elated at the re? cantation of the Alabamiaos, which it re? gards as putting an end to the doctrines of State rights for all time, and rherefore to be regarded as the grand clin, ix of Radical revolutionary achievement. The editor says: Against all of the detraction that is or may be published; against all of the mis? representations, and in partial apology for real shortcomings, and positive as well as negative errors, the Republican party may file the clause incorporated in the Constitution of Alabama by t he Con? vention that recently adjourned: "The people of this State accept as final the fact that from the Federal Union there can be no secession of any State." Re Eublican achievement has been unparal ilecl in variety and importance, and com paratively brief as the: sway of the party has been, after surpassing all former deeds of all preceding panies in war, in the Jtromotion of industry, in commanding breign consideration, in elevating a race to freedom, in perfecting and national izing a financial system., it crowns these by that expedient con duct under which a question that has perplexed all former administrations and disturbed the pro gress and development of the nation, is forever laid away by those who held it. The baneful doctri?eof the right of se? cession is destroyed in the constitutional acknowledgment of Alabama, "There can be no secession of any State." The country is one and i3 a nation. The doctrine of Siate rights and its corrolary, the right of secession, was first taught by the politicians of Massachu setts, and, under different circumstances, that State might hav; been the first to test the practicability of enforcing the doctrine. Had the constitutional ri;_~ and equality in the Ualon of her people been denied as were those of the people of the South, Massachusetts might have been the first to demonstrate to the world that there i8 really no practical difference between the right of iiecession and the right; of revolution. If the war of coer? cion proved anything, it proved lihat in our boasted Republic constitutions, com? pacts and solemn pledges afford no pro? tection of the weaker against the stronger party, and that whatever be the jruaran tces'of the constitution, whatever the rights of the individual States under that instrument, there is no such remedy for theii violation as peaceable secession from the Union. The editor of the Amer? ican indirectly admits the injustice which impelled the South fcD seel: a severance from the Union. "There iii," says he "no manner of doubt that uome share of what the South claimed as State rights, under the original reservation and concession, is claimed justly. The extreme doctrine of consolidation was defeated when as? serted by the Federalists. The question is rather of degree than of kind. But there is as little doubt that the definition of these rights should, be judicial; and that their denial, should they at any time be improperly withheld, is to be cured by the usual legislative method rather than by civil war. This waa the fundamental error of Calhoun and all who accepted his doctrine?not that there are real State ights beyond these rights granted to the nation, but that their infringment or de? nial is sufficient warrant for civil war." The Editor confuses the "right of se? cession" claimed by the South with civil war. There is no affinity between peace? able secession and civil war. On the contrary they are utterly inconsistent ?^Tg^o^hc^ The'right of secession implies peacelHto^esiiioi^ for if it is a "right" it must be pejuieaTuT^ti}^ fore precludes the idea of civilwar> while civil war equally precludes the riyht of secession. Mr. Calhoun and those who accepted h is doctrine did not maintain that the infringement or denial of the constitutional rights of a State was "sufficient warn Jit for civil war." They maintained that i;he Union was a voluntary compact between free, equal and independent States, formed to "pro? mote the general welf a;:e and secure the blessing of liberty" x> the people and their posterity, and that whenever the compact was violated, and the stipula? tions upon which it was based were dis? regarded so that it ceased toiiubserve the ends for which it was made, then, as a last resort, the States whose rig-hts were violated, being the judges of their own grievance, had the right peaceably to withdraw from the Union. In the con? cession and maintainatice of this right, they recognized not only the difference between a Republican government of consent and a despotic government of force, but the strongest incentive to mu? tual good faith and fidelity to the con? stitution. There waii no civil war in such a political faith, a. faith which?had it been held in common by all parties to the compact, would have preserved the Union and the constitution inviolate and perpetual for all time, and thus "promo? ted the general welfare and secured the blessing of liberty" more effectually than, all the blood that has been shed and all the treasure that has l>een expended in the Radical war of coercion. But the editor of the American flatters, himself that the revolution of the gov? ernment is complete in the acknowledg? ment of Alabama that "from the Federal Union there can be no secession of any State." We attach no such grave im? portance to the clause in the new consti? tution of Alabama. It is not a question for the Alabama Convention to settle ; nor is the constitution of that State the place to look for the true aud authorita? tive interpretation of the constitution of the Federal Union. It is not to be pre? sumed that the authors of this clause of the new constitution intended it as the recognition of i. principle of sover? eignty inherent in and co-existing with the constitution of the United States, making secession treason. Such an act on their part would be the grossest stul? tification, and would stigmatise the mem? ory of thousands of Alabama's sons who fell in the Confederate cause. The clause alluded to has no such signifi? cance. It is only an admission?albeit out of place in the organic law of the. State?of the impracticability of peace? able secession of any State from the Union, while the despotic doctrine of coercion by the Federal Government is held to be paramount to the Constitution itself. It is, so to speak, a constitutional acquiescence of the people of Alabama, in "the legitimate results.," so-'ealled, of the war of coercion. But it neither changes the Constitution nor the rela? tions of the States of the Union to the Federal Government. It creates no new Empire, no "Nation;" and even, if every State in the Union were to follow tho example of Alabama, and. declare that peaceable secession hi-an impiacticablo remedy, it would not change the princi? ples upon which the Federal compact was founded, nor osfoiblish "jta Nation" upon the ruins of the .constitutional Union of States.-Strxanndh New*. Going to Housekeeping. It is considered a very nice thing to have money enough to buy or rent a com? fortable house; furnish it amply and set? tle down to cosy housekeeping. Until this can be done a great many couples think they must board. To begin as their fathers and mothers did i3 not to be thought of. How can they be happy in just two or three rooms without any par lor or any fine furniture? Household happiness, then, is a matter of tapestries and guildings, and carvings and drape? ries. Yes, in some cases, that is all there is of it, and those whose aspirations stop with the* possession of these externals must fain content themselves with those. But there are those who look deeper and higher for domestic felicity than in the mere fireside surroundings of even the most luxurious home. For such is this little essay designed. It seems fitting "that when the solitary are set in families," they should, set up immediately their own household god, and make sure to themselves such seclu-! sion as will enable them to lay without any disturbing influences from without the foundations of their domestic struc? ture. Each family is a unit with proper? ties peculiar to itself, a. solution with laws of crystalizatipn, all its own, and it is impossible for any father or mother or friend to interfere wisely and attempt to regulate the action of these laws and say thus or thus they must operate. Sugges? tions delicately given or barely admissi? ble, but the inner sanctuary of the home belongs solely to the dual unit; any other person entering there is guilty of sacrilege. * ;?-?'* | No boarding house, no private family, no hotel can afford a married pair the' seclusion, the independence, the freedom they can have in even two or three rooms of which they are sole proprietors and where they keep house. Curious eyes are prying into their affairs, busy tongues meddle with ? their actions, officious friends try to help them, and they miss the supreme joy of seeing the delicious growths of gracious household ways that can spring only from the garden enclosed of a sacred home, if they have not this seclusion. If voung married people instead of thinking what Mrs. Grundy mil say 'bout their style, their resources and their expenditures would put this mischief niaking dame, entirely outside their thoughts, and taking into sole considera? tion their own requirements, likings and abilities, act according to the dictates of sound judgment in the direction and management of their affairs, what infinite happiness they may enjoy, what untold annoyances escape! Two that love each other can be happy with Axminister of matting, with China or stoneware, with staffed demask or cane-seats; these no more create the happiness of a home than draperies create the beauty of a per? fect human form. Though very well in their way, they are the merest accidents, and have no vital connection with the home. Nay, unless there is "tbat within which passcth show," these* oufedde trap? pings are mockeries and tortures to the love-hungry heart. It is also to be con? sidered that the outside world knows the circumstances (pecuniary) of the young couples generally about as well as they do themselves, and just how much of a spread they can afford to make. No one LEGALADVERTISING -W? >?s with the ofdw- ln*ert?* ?hon t?> two insertions, . Ices, three insertions " &00 qttentionte^13' fiv*iniertions" - " ?00 bythetrn^^^A^Sl-Ih order ln " ^00 jected manu?Pacatiqna mujt be wcbnSl! necessary stailfel address of the wi?5r ^ thereon. ^ttj not bo returned, uniti. Tv" OS- We are n*nIsheatorei?ylheS^ opinions of our corn. .: ; All communicatiofaible for the tic ws and itors Intelligencer," antata. orders, &c.,. should be n^be addressed to "Ed of ' ^Jcs. drafts, money le. to the order go., rson, s. C. o y s, y 9 A Faiufal Scene and a fession. ? The soul t the soul that deceived by a grand display. It is surely not worth while to begin life with hypctcrisy. It is well to come into an estate by degrees, and the full estate of housekeeping constitutes no exception to this remark. The simple joy o f having a home, however humble, all to their own two selves, is or ought to be enough in the beginning for any reasonable pair. Let them add little by little as they are able and their requirements increase; each addition will be separate pleasure multiplying all rest, and the delight of building up a home may thus be pro ?te^ough years of growiiig wealth anffelicitv^^rWoe Prolonged till the twain pass to that-ftlt^J^iere there is neither marrying nor givlll*^ mar? riage. The History of Postage-Sitamps. The introduction of the postal system, as it at present exists in all countries on the globe, has been credited to England, when, in 1840, covers and envelopes were devised to carry letters all over the king? dom at one penny the single rate. This plan was adopted through the exertions of Sir Rowland Hill, who has been aptly termed the "father of- postage-stamps." It now appears, however, that mere is an? other aspirant for the introduction of the stamp system. In Italy, as fir back as 1818, letter sheets were prepared, duly stamped in the lower corner, while letters were delivered by specially appointed carriers, on the prepayment of the mon? ey which the stamp represented.^ The early stamp represented a courier on horseback, and was of three values. It was discontinued in 1S36. Whether Ita? ly or Great Britain first introduced post? age stamps, other countries afterward be? gan to avail^hemselves of this method for the prepayment of letters, although they did not move very pronptly in the matter. Great Britain enjoyed the monopoly of stamps for three years, and, though the first stamps were issued ih 1840, she has made fewer changes!in her stamps than any other country,;and. has' suffered no change at all in the main design?tho portrait of Queen Victoria, In other countries, notably in our own, the Sand? wich Islands, and the Argentine Repub? lic, the honor of portraiture on tho stamps is usually distributed among va? rious high public officers; but in Great Britain the Queen alone figures on hex stamps, and not even the changes that thirty-five years have made in her face are shown on the national and colonial postage-stamps. The next country to follow the exam? ple of England was Brazil. In 1842 a series of three stamps was issued, consist? ing simply of large numeraln denoting value, and all printed in -black. ThenJ camo the cantons in Switzerland, and | Finland, with envelopes which to-day aro- very rare, and soon after, them, Bavaria, Belgium, France, Hanover, New South Waleji, Tuscany, Austria, British Guiana, Prussia, Sax? ony, Schleswig Holestein, Spain ^en mark, Italy, Oldenburg, Trinidad, Wur teraburg, and the United Star.es. Other countries followed in th? train, until, at the present moment there is scarcely any portion of the globe, inhabited by civi? lized people, which has not postage stamps.?St. Wclwlas for Nov. ? The forthcoming marriage of Mr. Marshall O. Roberts is causing a flutter in fashionable circles in Gotham. Mr. Rob^ erts is seventy-three. His intended bride> is a very young and pretty lady whom he first met but a short time after tho recent death of his first wife. A rather apology is made for him, however some of his friends, who assertA * ever may be said of the " it is pardonable, in Mr seventy-three has no *' ? A handsome by a rather In the Maroa (111.) News o of September is an account of t nation of Elder J. V. Beekman tor of a church in that village some time past the reverend gentlema habits have been such as to cause grea grief to his friends and bring reproach upon the Church. At the close of the sermon, which was preached by a neigh? boring pastor, Elder Beekman made the following address, which we give as a warning to all men, both young and old, to avoid the sin arid shame which have come upon this man: As a man I have the highest concep? tion as to what the life and character of a minister of the gospel should be. I know tbat he should lead a consistent and upright life that can be looked to by the community as an example of pu? rity and righteousness. Knowing that my life has not been such in all respects, I desire to tender to this church, for which I have labored so long, my resig? nation. You are aware that I refer to my sin of intemperance. This may be my last opportunity of addressing you, and I want to ask you that you will not charge this great shame to the religion of Christ. It teaches better things. Charge it all to my own depravity and sinful nature. To you who nave not this habit it is strange that I should thus yield to temptation. I well remember the time when I thought it strange that others drank and ruined themselves with alcho hol. I am glad that there are bo many young men here this morning that I may lift my voice in warning and beg them to profit by my example. You think now that you are strong and in no dan? ger. I well remember the time when I believed the same. Twelve years ago, when I reached forth my inexperienced hand and took thev intoxicating cup, I thought I was strong; but I developed a habit that now holds me in chains, and in the most awful slavery that humanity was ever subjected to. It holds me in its embrace when I seek my bed for repose; it disturbs my dreams during the weary hours of night, and seizes me as its prey when I rise up in the morning to enter upon the duties of the day Profit, oh 1 profit by my example. See what it has done for me. - There was a time when I stood as fair as any minister of the Church in Illinois; there was a time when I had as bright pros? pects aud as cheering hopes for the future as any of my class-mates. But now they . are all gone because of intemperance. 0! that I could bring the whole world to hear my warning voice. Young la? dies, you can do much to remove this cause from the world by not countenan? cing its use among your companions. Brethren, I sever my connection with you as your pastor with a sad heart. It would be sad upon the most favorable circumstances, but much more so as it is. - But I shall remain with you in the church and labor in the community for a livelihood; I will come to your social meetings and work with you in the San day school, and will do all I can to atone for the great sin I have commit? ted. God knows I do not wish to injure His cause. Pray for ine that I may yet over? come this besetting sin. I trust that I shall be able to conquer. But shall I go down under the withering influence, I ask that you remember me kindly. Wher? ever you meet me, and under what cir? cumstances, remember there was a time when you were proud of me. But treat me as you may, act towards me as you choose, I beg that you remember my wife kindly. Do not give her pain and sorrow because of my wrong-doing. Poor woman, she has always ? suffered enough. I married her a sweet and inno? cent girl. She has been a patient and faithful wife. Again I ask that you will kindly remember my wife and children. Shall we Organize.?This| is the question which is now^tttating tligjpress eople^Jgfflrn we orgamze, ratherT^TJorgamze the Conservative Democratic party ? We do not see how there can be two opinions on this subject. Whatever may be the purpose of the Democrats, and this is a consideration which should not be discussed, much less determined upon, before the reorganiza? tion, they very much need to be united and organized in such a manner as to in? sure unanimity of action and so as to make their whole strength available when the time for such necessity arrives, as it surely will at no distant day. Whether they determine upon indepen? dent action or a coalition with the inde? pendent Republicans or any body of our citizens who may favor a continuation of reform and good government, they will need the assiHtance of every voter who has heretofore allied himself with that party. The organization of political parties' is a matter of too much importance, and is too well understood by every intelligent person to require argument or discussion. We have tried every policy, and have learned that the_^ most detrimental to our interests is the* passive policy. We have, therefore, beei' very much surprised to see some of thr press again advocating it. It is cowar/ ly, as well as suicidal. The best way' preserve peace i& to prepare for war. . any fact of interest to our ^people 1 been developed in the political histfe. of our State during thfi^last two yeg it is that there are large ..climber of|^ Eublicans, both wl ave become disjT" Jgonsei va tion and profli are willing to un tives in establishing-^ ^r[tt vi which we must be a tWjSrag^ question is, then sba*uft#?g olir^ in a position to be ab. \vflP'a''- -' ? courage thjs sentimen t'>i; indifference and inactit ?^couragfe 1C> and drive them' back;r6V^ that samo passive policy which iai>?$osed ^ot ?Merchant and Farmer. > A Fiend.?An unknown jnan ?J^H,t thirty years old is in the^ra&ibe^.081 iVood [e sees a he con it ing around the dental ward avenue, and wheneve victim about to go up up s^ fronts him and asks. "Got the tooth-ache ?V, "Yes-oh 1 blazes! yd 1" ? ttarreply "And you ai- ?? to have pulled?'" top of youe neuA coming off when he pulls 1 It's awful to have a.tooth jerked I wouldn't have onejyjled for a thou? sand dollars, but-then $ you are bent on t go aheS^ see yot when weomc out subcase of any fcccideut I'll go W ng*t away n and the victim rfes right home