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i *" -* ? * v im awmiLB mmxto. TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM. 1 "THE r> n ICE OP liiDERTv T? ^rp-nrt^T -IT ... ' - - - - ? j A ^ a ^ vio-zxj a axr oe." ? fe..~Vv -*7=*g?=- - ^ . ==*- ' .... -? ; ===. -7 [PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. BY DAVIS & CREWS. ABBEVILLE, S. C, THURSDAY MORNIINU, AUCiUSl C>, r ~Tgpncm i^r-m ? > COUSIN KATE; * OR TIIE LAST FLIRTATION. ' ' ' \ ?? BY CAROLINE B. STANTON. ^ ^ LI "**' ' " Tlio sunlight of a bright spring morning streamed into tlio chambcr windows of a fashionable mansion in New York, and startled tlio occupants of the room into which it had made so sudden and unceremonious an entree, into the conviction th:it it was lato in the day, and a most unseasonable hour for breakfast; so, with a long yawn Arthur Melville leisurely tumbled out of bed, and commenced his toilet. J le was a line looking lellow af about .six and twenty, Tvitli a fine clear cut face, an crcct fig ure, and a high, white forehead, which gave promise of a 111010 titan ordinary measure of intellectuality. He 16 tying his craval, however, with a strongly marked expression of disgust 10. fleeting itself in the mirror before him, and il'fcrould puzzle a conjurer to divine what had caused the ominous frown that wrinklod his brow. Arthur Melville-possessed youth, wealth and talents, a dowry that fortune larely bestows on her most favored sons. All the young men envied him his fast horses, his inexhaustible purse, and his talents f?>r setting the table in a roar at a convivial supper, and all tlio belles paraded their various | fascinations at his approach, like so many fancy articles at a fair, cach with tlio hope that she might bo the mistress of those splendid greys, and wedded to the possessor of thoso irresistible melting black eyes. Nevertheless, the fortunate owner of all those enviablo qualities looked on this morning decidedly cross and stupid, and as the disconnected sentences which ho mutters half aloud, may give some clue to the cause tiic oniiAi?oi>/*n **'ill "I can't for the life of mc imagine," lie muttered, impatiently kicking aside a pair of shining boots that confront him ill his search after slippers, "why 1 who Heaven knows have sense enough to he angry at myself for yielding to temptation, can find any pleasure in the empty delights of a champagne supper, and the profano, scurrilous jests'of the noodles who arc my associates on such occasions. I am getting cured of all those notions that my chum, Frank ITart used to call "radical," and 44 Quixotical," and am fast degenerating into the New York roue, almost a leader of J! i. l i* ?t * ' uiMi?miuu lenows wuii ueuncr ciwuirc nor refinement. I intended to attach myself to tbo New York bar, and to have stood high in my profession,.but I find my natural itidolenco of disposition over mastering all theliigh resolves 1 liad formed in m}- youth. I wish I had been born a country farmer's son, with no capital but liis bend and hands. I might then feci the necessity for work, i. and be spurred into exerting tbo powers God has eivejno. After all. I believe if I were comfortably married, with a wife with whom I could spend my evenings,' I really believe that I should have tho?proper impc ' tus to set nie going. But who can I tnar-. ry J?there's the rub. What coqld I do with one of those fur belowcd and flounced machines in silks and whalebone^, v?lio sigh and simper and sim, ' -' per and^aigh so incessantly. If I could find ?a a nice little country girl who would love nitS * for my own sake, and would grace my-firc1 "^dein that cnchanting, home like way, that '* ?-^X|co"Mafyc] describes in his."Reveries," it T.? A^oujd bs tlie lihppieat idea, but T never . <$t>ald find such a one here. /UT5v Jove IV * ' l.~ ?t-- it'- i-1 I?-. ^ . iiu i.umuuui:u, suuiiuuiy airiiviu^ um liilHU IIJ, y * ^*liis elbow,fuulil llio dcliento fibres. of tho' *. w/sticTseparated undor llio blow, " I'll follow <* ' ? '^ea. 4 X've half a numl" to gQ *nd v * <s? BCO Liriton, who lives in the snuggest oT - country ..villages, an<l seo if I can't find f' ' ,^e(' arjjia|p"vfllago .beauty who will love - .*. * v?^ ^itJv-i?H h'cr heart, and will make mo *'h%pf?y by' becoming Mrs. Arthur Metj i. - %; r 'V'j ii piortrcr of our hero, and tbo ^inMrafe5^t^:ar^cbol6r cstfxblishhlentf way ?*'^T5l^??bfiit &^irlJddjSVbis*"abruptly atTiipupc* ft.sumrner'a nojourh in" the <'r,?^^ttlO;VlnlFjgp of' GreeiifiolJ, bu? sho wa% toQ $*' bii cccoptrio-njovqp * > * f ' v M " Just liko that Kate'," said Mr. Linton, laughing, "sho is an artaut flirt, Arthur, you must look out for her." > " Never fear for me," said Arthur, as they arose from tlio tablo. "It is most provoking," lie said to himself, ouc day, as Mrs. Linton loft the room, after recounting a lung list of virtues, represented to be combined in the person of cousin Kate, " that after leaving tlio city and settling down in this country town, avowedly to escape from sight and hearing of the fashionable ladies who annoy 1110 at I101110, 1 should be obliged to have one of these same frivolous, senseless beings cast inlo the same household, whero at least I shall be obliged to show her somo little atleiilion. lMiaw ! I detest the whole class. I am resolved to treat her with studied coldness, and will give her no opportunity to Hatter herself that she can flirt with me." "Cousin Arthur," said two or three curly headed, rougish children, just llion peeping through a ereviec of the half open door; | "if wc will come in, will you play with II lls> . " Walk in, Master Henry, and see," said Arthur, starting up, and in rushed the children, whilh whom Arthur laid aside all dignity, and who loved him with all the affection that children usually feel for a superior, who will unbend and mingle freely in their sports. A glorious game of roinps had begun. Master Henry had unscrupulously tumbled the usually smooth and spotless linen of our hero, and his loug and luxuriant hair had been milled nvm* hi* head, to make liiin resemble tbc bear, whose gro\. lings, much* to the amusement of the children, he was endeavoring to imitate. ITo had just placed himself in' a quadrupedal altitude, when the door of the room suddenly'opened, and Arthur, hastily scrambling up, confronted a young lady, whose charming face expressed the' most unfeigned astonishment at the awkwardlooking figure .before her. As he caught a glimpse of himself in the mirror opposite, and saw the irrisistfbL desire to- laugh dimpling the mouth -and cheeks of the unknown, he felt his facc crimson with mortification, find, was half i./> ? i...? ? ?i ~ i .VIIUVU IU 1/U , OlIU iia II1VJ iiiuiorunsncss of his appearance rccjirrcri to him, ho gave up all attempts to recover his self possession, and joined the young lady in a licarly hurst of laughter. "I take it for granted," said Arthur," when they had partly regained their composure, "that I am addressing the cousin' Kntc, whose arrival has been so eagerly expected." * * " . X "Yes," she replied, "I wanted to find Annie, and as I found the door partlvopencd, I walked quietly in. - I hope you wllf excuse my unceremonious intrusion."' -m " My dear Kate," interrupted Mrs. Linton's glad voice, as she entered .the room,, "you aro very welcome U> Groenfield " and amid the exchange ?of salutations and V c words of welcome, Arthur slipped aw.-^y to his room, feqling the. uncomfortable consciousnes that ho had been caught,- as ho emphatically expressed it, "making ar confounded fool of himself." " _v Arthur dill not relish the first cncfountO): "with Mrs. Linton's fair rolativoj sufficiently j to attempt any further acquaintance, and under pi;eloxt' of pursuing his studio8t-he , Tcoptliis room witfi praiseworthy perlinaci* * ty, and except the glimpses winch lie cafight ; ir..i. r .1.- i 1 ui ivinu ^iuiir mo winuow, as iicr merry laugh cchocd ^roin. the gulden, and the general conversation *in which thoy both 1 mingled at the dinner or tcft-tafoTGT-4br Kate was usually out of doots aml^^ftway before A rthnh had began to tlfcikd {y rrfhgbmon(i* for breakfast?they had mado little progress of bcconmig.ifcqualritc*],, and as Artllnr co'qld not help a drifting* lo b nil self she wa* appHVqntly as unconscious of his proseiice nfc ifthc fiad>bccn ajjtockof wopd "or stoncf'insteai'of p IjamJj'onto y^ung man ebiM>idefe<t "^ligi^Icl' by >he first families iir One morriing,Mj'owA?ir, .when n lowering jjky and lira falling^r^jjra i^ rain .-against ?u<V\yindow, gave. promt?& ajtormy def, vArtlmr'foumt hwP&ookjlftiisLlho four walls ? , but j?tupy] .^ompniuan^ a?$Jlkoving Black ;st^?ao* andlaw ^j?porfe a^d'd'mfttj Inking a pfiiQifi'of Shakajicnro fromjfl^de table, lie -^sccyded to tb^sittuig* rooW* ?' *. # L "^Ics." Liaton <&t by tffo.j^io, fortiflad/on jS^fcjeidc Uy*a Kugoof'thc family ^uog^Hig; Y<^bgt.Wjfe' ft thrift^ houaflwifo, ti^^ty-in^io-old mlifagoK ?'^A-etitch'iii timo saves nino^' jtvltil'o Kate ' a4^4 HJpking^iii.df tfio jpindfrtv.^f r^ally^ .^beauliftil cojjut^ance^istovU^'by a^frtfcfTfJ ^ <Jbolnrctl oq, AfthuV'a ?n*trnn% <J^t? the rrtin was spoiling-Jter phio ffor^fi^nj^aur^n'/yiU elio did jw'ufr jt . lookfrg -up. \v uWa/tpJ I^Wwinll wtittfrei : lirU'rQftlly ^VeB ub witii a Jifc-.ft# dfch'is^sOeietj," ^ '' * *;. T" *\r <? ^"Vi* soitl'Wrlbgr, 'ianiWf i.ean do < anything to pncvciK {to time -from hanging ><ur*liam]8 Lstiall bo lmonv.? "With that hope I Ijrtvc- ventured to bring *9?$10 't viil fte r : \f-Stori? Xiiuion MTd *KaI?- botli cbully tlfenk- ? 2&)}unr (UidK?t<V4lmvjilg bar chair- closo Ijt&Mrs. Linton's atrjyr of stockings to bp hjatfied, profoKs^d liorsolf ruady to dogrerU^ ldcc<k ju tbnt drpartmont, wliilc- Arthm 4 opened Shakspearc and selected "llamlet," for tlio morning's reading. Our hero had a cultivated taste, and a keen appreciation of his favorite poet, and with a clear, mellifluous voice, that maJo his reading deeply interesting?at least in the eyes of'ono of his listners; and tlio needle, which, shoved half its lentil through the rent in the slocking, paused and proceeded no further, seemed to speak as much, and when dinner was announced, all tlireo were astonished at -the rapidity with which time had llown. In the pleasant chat which followed in the afternoon. Mrs. Liutjii Lunied to Kate. aii?l said? "I tliink my dear it is but jur-l dealing, that as Mr. Molvillo has added so much to our enjoyment, we should contribute to.his, and if lie will bring your favorite, Mrs. 1 Irowning, from the book-case, 1 will promise him that he shall be as much delighted with your reading as we have been with his." "You will gratify me, will you notV said Arthur, "I should like nothing so much." Kate took the volume without any alb-elation of diOideuce or hesitation, and after turning over a few leaves, she commenced the poem, "IJertha in the Lane." ?? T - .1 i r ~ .i j iu.iiuv >wu, >i muuMiiiu nun's, iur Hi'.' pleasure you have given mc," said Arthur, as she finished, and lio received tlie book from her hands; " I cxpeelcd lo be grali lied, but I am charmed'and astonished." She gave him a quick flash of the eyes and a slight curl of the lip, as she replied? "You arc pleased lo flatter nie." " I beg your pardon," said Arthur, a little coldly, "1 should have remembered that you had been Haltered so much, as to male*, it impossiblo lo distinguish between the rincr of tile true coin of sincfrn find the hallow sound of llio base metal, llatterv The indifference with whieh Arthur had treated their guest had been sulliciently marked to excuse the knowing look whieh MY. Linton bestowed on his wife, when, the next morning, our hero appeared at the breakfast table with the request that he might join Kate and the children in their Usual morning ramble. Both Mr. and Mrs. Linton judged it must have been spent, pleasantly, for from that time, Arthur always managed to be included in all the walks, drives, and fishing excursions, which Cousin Kale's crenius was so fertile in planning and arranging. Half unconsciously, Arthur found himself captivated by the strange medley of fascinations that made Kate the charming crcaturo slio was. And what a different being sho was from Iho frivolous, coquettish girhhis ihiagination had painted her. Ho found horn warmhearted, impulsive woman, faulty in many respects, it is truo?but still a "woman with cultivated taste, expanded intellect, and a light and gay manner boJ. 1 - ? ? " iic-iwi which iuikou n weaiui oi generous arid good impulses. Ono morning as ho sal in a dreamy, delicious reverie, into which lie had been soothed by the murmur of voices in an adjoining apartment, his fancies peopled with tho iuiago that of late had haunted his sleeping and waking moments, he wasstartled from his dreams by Mrs. Linton's exolamation of? J ^ Willi Arthur Melville, Kate you are incorrigible. I wonder when yotir llirting days \vilf "bo over. What an account of brokon hearts you will havo to answer for some dr.y ?" " Don't trouble.your kind heart," rej incd Kate, in a gay;.t$uo ; " tho hearts of my vi$,ims aro not easily broken ; tlicy are elastic, like India rubber, and full back into cueu umginai fli/.o ami snapo wiLliout any difficulty. As for your protcgo, Mr. Melville, Ihcro lifted bo no cause for anxiety on his accouht; ho is, I think, as invulnerable as Achilles, and even if he were not, you could not object to my relieving the tcdiotisueaS of a summer in tho country by a Harmless little flirtation." ~.<Ji Arthur had seen how the deep blush on KflfftV nrtiinfiinonnn /iAnli ?ijl!n(?.l ' WMVIUUIVIUU UllUlUVliy Ui licr manner, lie might have pardoned llio hear tlissii ess of Iho words: ns it was, lio started from the chair on whfch lie was sitting^ jnado ttfo or tlirco lmsty .turns across tho room, and then pushed open tho door of tho porlor in which Jvato fiat, engaged in spwing. Mrs. Lintou had just passed from the room, and Kato looked rip with a smilo <rf wclcOmo, which faded into n staro of astonishnTent at ArthurVpale face and excited ?anner. "Ono of your victims begs pardon for acoidof^aMy ovorliearmg your designs on Iris peaco of mind," ho said, bitterly. " ttntd&Jrtleapieo myself for e?to^Sring to tclioi^tliat * ftivilous owbri <&tWfcea 1 cd a warq^UTO heart. And yet, lot mo.o8sure ypu, tiiatrif h a^b^vergaihered Iftpe from my rnapner thatkmj|tot help to swell jlho. number of lovers, you usury uiiiieicu ^vui^ui igro qjycu, and that I retain for ^our igdiQVfincc unuLtorublo Bcorn for vomr y?u#M ^Tn ^giber.^^^^^^b<tok. from b^(L fixotfupou ibO|Sg& v . -~rx Ilia thoughts must liar? boon too ful (u basic been coirtrOTcdby *bct <3ull vol-1 uiiio lio had selected, for ;it length ho threw, it asi<le and went out into the garden. Oppressed by a thousand conllicting enio- 1 lions, ho turned towards a summer-house, 1 at tho farthest extremity of tho grounds.? As ho approaehed il, his oar caught tho | sound uf luiuulluous sobbing, and stepping in front of tho entrance, he beheld tho usu- ' ally gay juid light hearted Kalo half reclin- ' ing on tho little bencli, and weeping in an agony of unrestrained grief. At ihesound of his footsteps in the arbor, sho started up, and would have llod from him; but Arthur, with fin indefinable ming- 1 ling of hope, fear, and iuexpresiblo rapluro, arrested her. 1 lo bent on her a piercing, ea jrC1- giance, uiuicr winch a burning blush glowed upon her faco and nock liko scarlet ilam<\ '' O, Kale you do luvo nio," .?c said, impulsively ; "do you dare deny it V' K ilo in;t<lo not tho l'ainlost attempt at denial, and the next instant she was gathered clo.se to 1 tis heart, and the tear-wot faeo hid itself in his bosom. " Forgive,1' she murmured, when the first tremulous hush of joyful emotion was past, "if I seemed frivolous and wicked, and believe I shall never again oll'end you thus." T will not slop to relate how Arthur forgive her; but I will assort, in all truthfulness, 1 that it was " Cousin Kate's Last Flirtation !" 13 THE MOON INHABITED 1 It has long been known that the moon revolves on its axis in the same time in - I i * * * which 11 revolves iouikI the earth, aiul thai it consequently always presents nearly llic same side towards tho earth, while the other side is never seen from our globe. No bodies of water"nor clouds can be seen 011 the moon by the aid of the most powerful telescope, nor is the apparent direction of stars close to its cilge changed by refraction, as would be the case if an atmosphere . enveloped the moon. 1 Icnce it has been inferred by Wbowel I, the reputed author of a late work entitled " Of plurality of Worlds," that the moon ban 1:0 atmosphere ot water, and, consequently, 110 inhabitants. This inference is shown to be inconclusive by ii recent discovery of the astronomer Hansel, whose study of llio moon's motion, continued fur many yeais, lias established the fact that the ccntre of gravity of the moon, instead of being like that ofear.th, at tho centre of figure, is beyond that centre^ and farther from the side next to the earth than it is from the other side by seventyfour miles. The nearer side of the inoon, therefore, is a vast, expanded protuberance or mountain, seventy-four miles high ; and any fluid, whether air or water, would llow downwards from the nearer to the farther side of the moon, where, for aught we know, intelligent living beings may exist. Tho nearer side of the moon cannot be inhabited, at least by beings to whose existence air and water arc essential, as is tho case with all terrcstiul animals. The laic celebrated mathematician, Gauss, .proposed as .1 means of settling tho question, whether tho moon is inhabited, that a huge monument should bo erected 011 the steppes of Siberia, as a signal to the inhabitants of the moon, in the hopo that they might bo induced to erect a similar signal to apprise us of their existence. TI10 discovery of J lansol shows that such an experiment could bo attended with no success, inasmuch as tho inhabitants of the moon, if there aro any, being on the farther side, could never sec a, monument on the earth. It may not be uninteresting to add, that it has been discovered, within a few years, by means of long continued, hourly obser vations with the barometer, that tho naoon exerts an appreciable influence on tho press-, i urc of tho atmosphere; and also by means , of long-continued magnetic observations, that.it exerts an influeneo on tho deelinatio.n "of the magnetic needle.?Boston Courier. The Way tltc Swedes Drink.?Bayard Taylor, in 0110 of his lottcrs to ^o New ( York Tribune, writes :? ( "Drunkenness is a .leading vico among ( tho Swedes, as wo havo daily cvidenco horo. , Six^years ago tho consumption of brandy , ttff&gliout tlio kingdom was nine gallons ( for every man, woman and child, annually, ] but it hau decreased considerably sipco then, mainly Ihrouglt tho manufacturo of >'beer and porter. " Cajcrskl ol" (Bavarian beer) jwiow to bo had ovorywliero, and is rapidly 1 Pfccoming tho'favorito drink of tho people. 1 Sweden and tho United States arc fast ' proving tho fact that Ingor beer is. moro ' , /r* . : i! :? 1 Wi*. :i cuiuacions in prcvemiiig uiiumperaiico man * any amount of prohibitory law. Bramly- 1 drinking is still nevertheless, ono of the 2 greatest eurscsofUwodeo,-. It is no unusual 'j tiling to see bop of twelva^or fourteen toko tJs?ir. glass of- $ery ftrilifa' beforo dinner. ;J Tho celebrated -Qwediah punch, fcuujQof } arrack, Vfi^Q and ^ugar, ir-a uni*Crsob'* craning drink, and pjkO of UiO' most iii&idi- % l^^ei^ontcd, deapito. i6 i6 * ' V - A FEARFUL DREAM. Somo ninety years ago, tlicro flourished in (jhisgo, a clnb of yougg men, which, from the cxlrcino profligacy of their orgies, was commonly called tho Hell Clnb. Besides their nightly or weekly meetings, tlicy licld one grand animal saturnalia, in which each tried to oxcel the other in drunkeness and blasphemy; and on theso occasions Lhero was no star among them whose lurid |ij;ht was more conspicuous than that of Mr. Archibald 1J , who, endowed with brilliant talents and a handsome person, held out great promise in his boyhooil, and raised hopes which had been completely frustrated by his subsequent reckless dissipations. One morning after returning from tlii:; j annual festival, Mr. Archibald ]{. having retired to bod, dreamed the following 11 ream: lie fancied that he himself was mounted oil a favorite black horse, that he always rode, and that he was proceeding on towards his own house?then a country seat, embowered by trees, and situated upon a hill, now entirely built over, and forming part of the city?when a stranger, whom the darkness of the ni^ht prevented his discerning, suddenly seized his horse's rein, saying, 'you must go with uie !' 'And who arc you J' exclaimed the young man with a volley of oaths, whilst lie struggled to free himself. "That you will see by and by, returned the other, in a tone that excited unaccountable terror in the youth, who, plunging his spurs into bis horse, attempted to ily, but in vain. However fast the animal llcw, the stranger was still beside him ; till at length, in Lis despcrato 9fTorts to escape, the rider \>;u> uiiuwu, uur, instead ol licmg dashed to the ground, as ho expected, lie found himself falling, falling still, as if sinking into the bowels of tho onrth. At length a period being put to this mysterious descent, lie found breath to iutpjirc of his companion, who was still beside him, whither they wero going. ' Where am I' Where are you taking me V lie exclaimed. 'To hell!' replied the stranger; and iin i i ' itviuntii-ij ni'.'.'iiiiiiiiiuiu ccnos rcpeared tlio fearful sound, ' To hell! lu hell! to hell! At length a light appeared which soon increased to a blaze; but, instead of tlio cries, and groans and lainentings ihc terrified traveler expected, nothing met his car but sounds of music, mirth and jollity ; ho found himself at tlio entrance of a superb building, far exceeding any he had scon constructed by human bands. Within, too, what a scene ! No amusement, employment or pursuit of man on earth, but what was l^rc being carried on with a vehemenco that excited his utler amazement. 'There the young and lovely still swarm through the mazes of the giddy dance 1 There the panting steed still boro his brutal rider through tlio excitement of the goaded race! There, over tlio midnight bowl, tlio intemperate still drawled out the wanton song of blasphemy! Tho gambler plied forever Ilia ntullnca mn ???/! tlm "1"""" (I1IU UIO Ul iUUIllmon toiled through etornity their bitter task : while all tho magnificence of earth J ? : r palled beforo that whieh now met his view. lie soon perceived that he was among old acquaintances, whom ho knew to 'be dead, and cnch, he observed, was pursuing the object, whatever it was, tliat had formerly 6hgorsscd him, when finding himself relieved of tho presence of his unwelcome conductor, he ventured to ad dross his former friend, Mrs. D., whom he sav .. its had been her want on Garth. nhsorbiWl >.?. I loo?requesting her to rest from tho game, ami introduced him to tho plcasy^fes of th?? placo which appealed to him to bo very mfc li!;o what lie had expected, -and indeed an extremely ngrcablo one. But ?tfth what a cry of agony*..!* answered, that thero was no rest m hell; that thoy must over toil on at those very pleasures; and innumerable voices ocliocd through the interminable vaults, 'thero is no rest in hell!' wbilo throwing open-thcir vests, oacli disclosed in his bosom an over-burning flamo ! These, _ thejrsaid, wero tho pleasures of hell; their choico on earth was now their inevitable [loom ! In tho midst of tho horror, this sconc inspired, his conductor re&rned, and ?? 1.:_ * ? 1 A!.? 1_ lib . 4JIO vmuuok J oreVIVU 19IIII iv sartb; but as bo quitted him, ho said, "Hemember! in a year and p day wo meet igain !* " At this crisis of his dream, tho sleeper lwokc, feverish and ill; and whether frtfttv tho effect of tho dream or of his preceding jrgics, ho Was so unwell as to bo obliged to keep his bed for sovoral days; Wiring which period he hadHirno foi* many serious 'ofloqlioiJH, which terminated in a resolution the club and bi^licentlou& comaltogether. W*J&l^80<?n<3r wc^' however, than hoy flo^lwd- around him, bent on rocovorngib valuable a nicmlorof their society; nil>ltsvwffmfi>tii? fcAm Win n. if i ?MV? " P *0 *' ' ' ^ 4U??1"11 Ul v* ' -' '" ' and a day ainco onr last anniversary,' ?fcc.t &c. The words struck on tlio young man's oar like a knell; but ashamed to expose his weakness to the jeeis of his companions, lie sat out llie feast, plying himself with cv?n more liberality than usual, in order to drown his intrusive thoughts ; till, in the gloom of a winter's mornig, ho mounted his horse to go home. Sumo hours afterward the horso was found, with his saddlo and bridle on, quietly grazing by the road-side, about half way between the city and Mr. li.'s house, while a few yard's off, lay tho corpse of his master. Now, as I have said in introducing this story, it is no fiction ; tho circumstances !1K IuTH 1V>1*|I..,I An Iiiuinunl nf ----1-1- - it was published at ihc time, but the copies were bought l>y the family. Two or three, however, were preserved, and the narrative, has been reprinted.?JIrs. Crowe's SViyhls'ulc of Niilare. . THE EMPTY CITY. That notorious ohl scoundrel, the Duke of Queensberry, whose name is almost as familiar to the disgust of the present generation as his L'olyphemie face, ogling I'ieeadilly from a bow-window, used to bo to our lliilish forefathers, was wont to justify himself for never quilling Loudon, by aver ring that, though London might he empty, there were more people than he could find in the country. ji me one-cycu unite were with us now, to make l?roadway hideous from a clubwindow, lie would find as "ood reason for ' 'J tpiarreliug with llic people who declare thai every body has gone to llio " watering places." If you wish to ride up town in a Tliird Avenue car, do you find any more disposable room for your legs now, in the middle of July, than you found in the middle of December! If you wish to ride down town in a Broadway omnibus, do vow nntw .1 lirir>f * ' J I cr purgatory 011ihe corncr of the street now than you did then ? l)o you got your let Icr.s any sooner at tho l'ostoflieo ? Docs your tailor keep his promises any better, or your bootmaker ' A ro your debtors tempted back to town by the hope of finding it a desert ? Or your creditors driven from it in despair of their " litllo collections?"? Doubtless tho " watering places" arc full.? Tho great Eastern steamers go of nightly from our wharves, as black with human beings as whortleberry-pudding with \vI10ttleberries, or a pound cake, in summer, with flies. The railways?Northern, Eastern, Southern, Western?groan andscrcam with their mortal loads. If-any man should take tho trouble to calculate how many g:.dons ol utterly nauseous mineral waters have been imbibed during iho last fortnight in great pasteboard hotels by lank nietropalitau visitors?or how much indigestible fooil -?or hew much inLolerablo tvino has been consumed during tho same period by our friends and neighbors, tho results would stagger a veteriau compiler of Uluo I?ooks. Promiscuous city polkas liavo been danced in many a corridor and shining hall through all tho rural districts ; promiscuous city flirtations havo scared tho modest woodnymph and the sky dryads in oil the Arcadian haunts of fashion. Adventurous yen tlemen go boldly yaleliing up tho broad rivers and along tlio smooth sea-waters of our happy coast. O^iors not less adventurous rido hurdlc-i^Ctok in the presence of admiring beauty, and risk their necks or their roputpiion with a daring worthy of JTippcr*ry or St. Gornmins. *';'***. But is the town empty ? Look at the streets; look at tho Park; look at the hotels ; look at tho Academy of Music, swarming with its thousands of devotees. If the Uown is ompty, what shall wo do whoii it comes .to bo~<ull again. Ono lesson, and not tho least serious that may bo drawn from thisinapprceiublo emptiness, thisimporceptiblo desolation of the town, is surely worth tho drawing. It is i!_- t ^r ii.. i ? l.i- ? luu iubsun ui uju jnuciicaujo iiiKigmiicnncG which i iho porlio.ii or all Lho sons of men, in the midat of th<rbustle of llieir busy lives. Would tlic ronr of tlio streets by day bo less loud, the glnro of tlio streets by night bo less brilliant, if all tlio ardent and noisy life which has been passed out of our^pity had boon passed into far and foreign regions?into tlio farthest and most foreign ? Wo all "tnrn tho crank of tlio universe," while wo hold it in our hands, yStf know ; but when wo, shall bo enforced to lot it go? when our hands shall drop from it, be those hands tho strongest and tho steadiest?will the univcrso ccaso to mo^> do you think? Look on tlio fullness of -empty Broadway, and ponder an answer wor$|pondorii)g!-? lifao York Times. "I say, old boy,"ffcriod Tari^Pry .to an c^rivatoriuNor^^hioldsj.wbotn he Mptod at tho bottom o^pawn i n g gu 1 f, "what aro you digging there J" holo," the _i.i i ilwii'il irt.Lt ' uiu oujr- ivjjhbu* j|?ui- w?tt.uoi 10 DO put o ff jit thia faddop. "What are you g^\pg to do with the hole lM u Goirg to cuN titled th^old boy, "$d forfop gaVo. posts." Paul an being actesl$d by nn f the name of -Cobb, repr|i>o,?r.w "Myname jie man, who was about *?pHed flto-dcrb so much corn io you I ~ ru" - ' THE MATRIMONIAL TRIBULATIONS OF JANE PARKER. Wo rcceivcd tho following communication by mail from a neighboring village, with a request to publish it. Wo assure our readers of its genuineness, so far as wo arc posted, and call down tho thunders of female vengeance on the reprobate Bill: " This is designed to let all tho world and therestof mankind know that William Parker, my husband, has left by bed and board without cause or provocation.? Scarcely had the honeymoon passed by before he sold my house and lot in Scott, near Stamping Ground, and took m e to a w: etched hut in a desolate place, in tho Franklin hills, where he commenced collecting all what was due mo, and selling all I posses sed; alter soiling my nigger woman and child lie loft, and located in Lcxiugton, where he is now romping with llio gals, rigged from lop to toe in broadcloth, bought with my nigger-money, and left mo destitute, foiloii and wretched. v ' "Said Qld Uill l'urker is about sixty-fivo years of age, Idw in st&turc, heavy built, round shouldered, bald-headed, makes a wretched attempt to be polite and agreeable, and a countenance sufliciently base to convict him to the Penitentiary or gallows. " Dear sir, you will do justico to right by publishing the above, and- requesting . (ho editors throughout .the Union to give it/a place in their columns. "Oil llr.it liia lied may bo made of briers Ami liis puili licsct with thorns i And llie balunco of liis days 1haunted by thu Doast with seven huads and ton lioriiH. Wedlock has licon a woful thing to mi>, For marrying is not wliut it is cracked iij? lobe; I thought my pathway would be strewed with flowcru and rosea. Hut the way old Hill has mudo urn wretched is a sin to Moses. ^ I foci like a tree by the north wind shaken Wretched, forlon, sad and forsaken. "Jane Parker.11 ^ m ? SuMmity.?A northern paper gives tlio following specimen of snblimo lftngnage uttered by an itinerant vender of soaps: "Oh that I wci'O an eagle! I would seize Columbia's Hag unfurled, and soar aloft until I rcacbed tbo upper air. I would wave it o'er the thorns of tyrants, an emblem of hope and promise to tlie downtrodden, and bang it from tlio coiling of tbo skies. I would steal tlie nectar : from tbo gods, and suck from every cloud ambrosial sweet, and when I descended again to earth would make than into soap." Tbo abovo will do vory well for a col d climate, but it pales before tbo bold and brilliant conceptions of the itinerants of this latitude. We listened to ono 3, fow wceka ago who was engaged in soiling Patent Salvo. Ho bad a crowd aronnd him wbo seemed to doubt tbo truth of bis extravagant assertions, whcteiipon bo fired up and exclaimed?"Could every man "l>o frapsformed into an hrtist?the heavens infoj>' canvass?the Illi<rlif.v nrnnna tnfrt rwotr.* - o--j could wo have tb'o stare for scaffolds?tbo midnight darkness for drapery and gloom-^tlie lightning's Hash for tingo ?the thunder for shrieks, groans and cries?the Oouirtless drops of rain for tears?tlio howling wind for sighs?and could we, with the pious Joshua, command tlio glowing sun ja the East, and blushing moon in tlio West' tb starid still till the laboring artists dashed" upon the canvas the sufferings reliovOjLfl.C'lthc blessings confi'-ri-cJ -^y nils so^w, -it would flli heaven's oxp/?tisivo bluo ~jfrom. polo to polo, wear out 'QVory brush,' -^ire every artist, and fail to givo you a full view of the great benefit of this wonderful oom pound to tho human family.*?Motifs Tribune. < . " Tom, why did you not .think of rtfnrry* ing Miss G V' 11 Oh, alio had a sort of hesitancy in licr spccch I Why, I never heard of that beforo. You are certdinjy mistaken!" "Oh, no; for when I asked her if she would liavo mo, sho besUatadto say yes, and she hesitaied so long tbMTcqt her for auother girl." .V-v.In tho bull fighting days, a blacksmith, who was rearing a bull pup, induced liifcoljl Ouhor to go 014.ail fours and imitate tho wl. Tbo caniho pupil pinnOd the old rrifiii . ;by the nose. Theson,'disregarding tho pa- s? tomal roaring, exclaimed, "Hold, him, Hrnwlnr Kaw hnl/1 fcSw* U bch'r it! It'll bo tlio Wffing of her iinprCii^^appQifl^ttce. " Yon nre gtlilty of fcttefy"- said tlio lady; "Not so," replied tlio gcntlfcnwi, 44 for t vowr you ftra as plurrff as partridgelM 41 At first," replied tho lady, " t thought you guilty of flattery only, but" now I And actually 'mating gnma of mo." II When you say, in a nliraso which is now Americanized, such and such a man is 4, 44 brick,"flo you think 6r do you know tbo origin of it! It is this: An Easterripriifce i on Wing nskod, u Whero aro tho-fortifioa#jori3 of your city 1" repliod, pointing to his fsoldiers, 44 Evory man you see Is % brick," "Sambo, sp^rn ia .ix .MAen. in ? coofcaod Ud ^arr itdli tbroo, many k doro loft ?" **W*t?|. 0m? ?f flay wft^itf' * Wlmt has dat to d j*M It r u A good deal; if it flOor <tork, darwould be none left} Sat is, if you lippfwicd to corao aloi)fp.(|at wj#.? K ' '' y*J* m >