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His story is | pretty fairly told, and lie possesses talent in the way of spinning "yarn" that would do j j credit to one who has entertained his mess j | in the forecastle of a whaler, or releived the i tedium of^&wdtch on deck : ' Vou see I went to bed pretty all-fired |j used up, after a hull day on the road before I tfui plank was laid, calkalatin on a good i, biiihw.'. jiisi aa me suivers t>egan i> , ease off, I kinder felt snthin tryin" to pull ( . off my shirt, and diggin" their feet into I lie , Kmnll of my hack, to gil a good hold. Wig- ! gled and twisted, doubled and puckered? }] nil to no use?kept a going it like nil sio, J: IMmeby got up and struck a liglit to look j around a spell?found about a peck of bed !, bugs .scatlerred around, ai.d inore dropping j, off my shirt and ruunin down my l?*g every . minitw Swept off - a phice on the floor, *hook out a quilt, down and kivered up | for a nap. No use?mounted right on me j i likjj a parcel of rpts on a meal tub?dug a j ( hole in the kivenld crawled through, and ( gave r?e fits, for tryin' to hide. 4,Got up ( again and^went down stairs, got a p1ii>!i ( bucket from the wagon, made a circle of tar on the floor, lay down on the inside', and .felt Comfortable that time anyhow. I left the ( "light burning," and watched" em, see" <m get together and have a campmeetiu about I " it, and they weiit>off in a iqund, \vith?p<j old grey headed&ue on the top, right liy? V tbo wall an* to the ceHin," tiii tiiey "got?io the right wot, then dropped right plum into my faee! Vftct, by thundec. Waal I swept 'em up again, and inade a circle on the ceiling too. Thought I had'eni fi>uf thin time.; butfftswan to man if they didn't pull st caws out of the bed, and build a bridge incredible expression oti our vis ; ace. fWOTTMiehcd his storvJhus : I /S.*v "It i* bo, whether you belcive it or not, ar.d cotoe of tfiern - walked across on stilts. Bed ' btfga are oautloys (jrittors, and J}0 mistake? tt?ncclallyjtho Kalamazoo kiok." T *' pfMrouNDEniNo?A man pf unblenmh. ** *&i- ctoaracte?' was *a candidate for a large /conSlHttettoy,*>od Jht-Jollottiiig means were nse? to get fid of him. At a large public jjy^ating, an elector got up and said: "I ' the exeroifto of my right to a*k ^iMiirt??n<KtIate a question. /Will lie answer HMrn airen ye? wjv, iikc an uonesi man i 'MWl f A TOOst incautious W tbe reader will we.r "Well, th^fc said tfcfc elector, "I nak that gentleman ' jjpAo killed' JU# wMhenfomanjF "What poor man to say f What yet pr ?.. ?o coold aqaWtf} tUe question I He he?i* jj tated, be stammered?the: meeting was ,; ;Si againMm?he w?? hiutfed oyt of the /room, ami.to ti??? day he labors under the ??*? ii?jpat*tion, in rospy peopled minds, of hafring> feloniously accelerated the death <fy^yg*t' "dJwh?p? % ?< . fop oo^vi?* btawlf mulldf by Freacotttha Historian. The July number of the Massachusetts Teacher contains a very interesting article, from tlie pen of HeV. George E. Ellis, upon Mr. Prescott and his histories. In this article Mr. Ellis introduces a friendly and communicative letter from Mr. Prescott, ex plaining the origin and extent of the difficulties under which it is well known he has labored in the composition of his histories. It is, savs the Boston Journal, apleasanlly-related tale of a faithful pursuit of knowledge under difficulties : ki ? ? ? - ? ? ou|t|iw^i; juu iire nwiirv lliai, WIICIl in college, I received an injury in one eye, which deprived me of the use of it for reading and writing. An injudicious use of the other eye, on which the burden of my studies was now wholly thrown, brought on a rheumatic inflammation, which deprived ine entirely of sight for some weeks. When this wns restored, the eye remained in too irritable a state to bo employed in reading for several years. I consequently abandoned the study of the law, upon which I had entered ; and, as a man must find something to do, L determined to devote myself to letters, in which independent career I could regulate my own habits with reference to what my sight might enable me to accomplish. 4,I had early conceived a strong passion for historical writing, to which, perhaps, the reading of Gibbon's autobiography contributed not a little. 1 proposed to make myself a historian in the best sense of the term, and hoped to produce something which posterity would.not willingly let die. In n memorandum book, as far back as the year 1810, I find the desired intimated; and I projH>sed to devote ten years of my life to the study of ancient and modern literature?chiefly the latter?and to give ten years more to some historical work. 1 have had the fortune to accomplish this design pretly nearly within the limits assigned. In tlie Christinas of 1837. inv first work, The History of Ferdinand a> luabclla, was given to the public. "During my preliminary studies in tlie field of general literature, my <-yes gradually ncquired no much strength, that I was ; . nablcil to use them many hours of the Jay. The result of my studies at this time I was in the habit of giving, in the fbi ni of essays in the public journals, chiefIvin the North American, from whti-.h ? : number, rjtiile largo enougn, have been transferred to a separate volume of miscellanies. Having settled oil a subject for a j particular history, I lost no time in collecting the materials, for which I had peculiar advantages. But, just before these | materials arrived, my eye had experienced ' severe a strain, that I enjoyed no use of it again for reading for several years. It ' lias, indeed, never since fully recovered its itrength, nor have I ever ventured to use it igain by candlelight. I well remember the Idank despair which I felt when my liter- 1 #ry treasures arrived from Spain, and I ?iw the mine of wealth lying around ine, ; which I was forbidden to exnlote. I de- ' termined to sec what could be done with the eyes of another. I remetnbeicd that Johnson had said, in reference to Milton, that the great poet had abandoned his pro- i jocted history of England, finding it scarce- ! ly possible for a man without eyes, to pur- j sUC <! UlMUIlUai wuilv, ILMjUlMii^ rcicicucc IU various authorities. The remark piqued mc to make nn attempt. ''I obtained the services of a reader, who knew no language but his own. I taught j liiin to pronounco the Castilian, in a mantier suited, I suspect, much more to my. I sar tlian that of a Spaniard, and we began aur wearrisotne journey through Mariana's noble history. I cannot even now call to mind, without a smile, the tedious hours in' which,seated under some old tress in my j country residence, we pursued our slow and melancholy ways over pages which ottered j no glimmering of light to him, and from which the light came dimly stiugcjling to inc through a half-intelligible vocabulary. But In a (ew week* the light became strongMM Mitil T attfia titi/inr.t.1 Ki? tlio AAiie/iiAiiannifa v:i, illiu A nit? V/ilWVIVU I'J IIIU of my own improvement; and when we had toiled our.way through seven quartos, 1 found I could understand the book, when read, about two-thirds a? fust as ordinary English, My reader's office required the more patience ; ho had not even his result to cheer hiin in his labor. "I now felt tlio great difficulty could be overcome ; and I obtained the services of a reader whose acquaintance with modern and ancient tongues supplied, the deficiency of eyesight on my pnrt. liut though in this way I cogld examine various an thorities, \l was not ca*y to arrange in my mind the results of my reading, drawn from different and often contradictory nc.counts. To do this, I dictated copious notes ns I wentnlong : and when 1 liad read enough for a chapter?from thirty to forty, and iifty pages in length?I had a mass of memorauda in my language, which could easily bring before me, at one view, the fruits of researches.?The notes were tarotuMy read tome ; and while my recent studies were fresh in my recollection, I ran orer the whole of my intended chapter in .my mind. This process 1 repeated at least half a dozen times, so that when 1 finally ?ut my pen to paper, it ran off pretty glily, for it was an effort ef memory ralber than creation. This method bad tlie, advantage of Raving roe from the perplexity of frequently referring to the scattered passage in the originals,and it enabled me to mate the Corrections in my own mind whioli we osusjjy made iir tf?e manuscript and wbieli. ??to, my mqgte of writing?as 1 ?b*ll eiplain?would hatfo much emta* Tw?e&je<M. Yet-I must adroit that lJW< =*: iiMESiUi ! since. It is a simple apparatus often do j scribed by m<\ for I lie benefit of person? whose visions is im| cfoct. It consists of; : frame the size of a sheet of paper, trnversec ( by brass wires, as many as lines are wan tec on the page, and with a sheet of oarlionit , ed paper' such as is used for jjettidg dupli , cats, pasted on reverse side. Willi an ivo ! ry or agate stylus the writer traces his char siclcr 1 Hit ween tlic wires on the carbonated j sheet, making indelible marks which In j cannot see, on lite white page below. Thi> i tread mill operation has its defects ; and 1 i have repeatedly supposed 1 had accomplish; ed a good page, and was proceeding in all I the glow of composition logo ahead, when , 1 found I had forcrotten to iusort n Jn.?t , of my writing-paper below ; that my labor I had been thrown away, ami that the leal looked as blank as myself. Not withstand, ing these and other whimsical distresses ot j the kind, I have found my writing-case my , best friend in my lonely hours, and with it ! have written nearly all that 1 have sent into the world the last forty years. "The manuscript thus written and dei ciphered ? for it was the naturu of liier*.rr. lyphics?by my secretary, was tlicn rend , lu ino for correction, ami copied off a fair , hand for tin? printer. All tliis, it may be j thought, was rather a slow proc?'S-?, renuirj ing the virtue of patience in all the parties ( concerned. Tint in time my eyes improved again. He fore I had finished "Ferdi; nand and Isabella'' I could use them some j hours every day.?And thus they have con* . tinned till within a few vear.?. tlioiinrh ?nt>. | jccl to occasional interruptions, sometimes of months, when T could not look at a l>ook. ! And this circumstance, as well as habit? j second nature?has led me to adhere still to iny early method of composition. Of late years I have suffered, not so mur!i from i inability of the eye as dimness of the vision and the warning comes that the time is l not far distant when I must rely exclusively 011 the eyes ofanother for the prosecution of my studies. Perhaps it should he received as a warning that is time to close them altogether." Dress. coming snows llie character or an individual more tli:in tlic dross. What a lathwears, ami how she wears it, the material, lit, and suitability to the occasion, of her i dress, are generally good criterions to her habits of thought and action. To a close observer, the purity and refinement of her | nature can be detested by certain indications in the selection and arrangement of the external adornment of her person. True refinement, that which springs from native modesty, a d?*lie.n*y of thought and feeling that from intuition becomes a habit, is discernible as much in the neatness and adjustatiou of a color, the hue of a ribbon, its in any word that may be uttered or act that may be performed. The observances of fashion, it is true, demand to n greater or less extent n certain style of dress for nil who follow its dictates; nnd fashionable dressed ladies, to be in tlio fashion, must appear in the ru.-tle of gown, mantle, lint, nnd nil the minor et ceteras thai shall have the freshness of newness to recommend tlietn; and they are, therefore, so far ns cleanliness goes, unquestionably neat. Butmmkhow the dress is arranged, nnd how its dolors nro chosen, if you would ascertain whether the mind is an ill-assorted or an harmonious one; and above all, take occasion to note how the lady dresses in her own home, ...t.,.? -.? t.?. - i u_. u_.i_ i... i? mivti vii ??v? wu?? uvyviy uui IKT husband" to see her. One of the greatest physiological observeis of any age, Lavater, paid particular heed to all outtvard babits us the true indices of the inner life. It whs a remark of ; his, that all persons, male or female, who manifested an habitual attention to nicety of dress, displayed the same neatness in i their domestic affairs, declaring that "young j women who neglect theif^ toilette, nnd manij fest little concern about their npparrel, indi| cafe in this very particular a disregard of I order, a mind but little adapted to the j details of housekeeping, a deficiency of I tn!?te ninl of the qualifications that inspire i love. The girl of eighteen who deairo* not I to ]>l?nsy will be a slut nnU a shrew nl tweuI five." " I Those Voting girls who Imagine that they, I a<t <tnnn its llicv Iiiivh iic.liii'VMl tl ; can throw off nil care about tlieir dress, i keeping their show garments only for comj pony, and pitching on their untidy persons any east-oil" duds in their own home, make a great mistake?the one great mistake ol j their live*. They need not marvel why it u their husbands prefer the society they meet | at clubs, or the sOeietv of otlicr women, it may be, to tlreir own. They need not wonder nt tlieir husbands late hours or unsteady habits. No man, however much lie may love the carefully dressed girl he courted, will tolerate after marriage a slattern one, who keeps ail her tine clothes and fin? smiles for others. A well known authoi tclU his fair readers with emphatic unction that "it is one of- the moral duties of ever] married woman always to appear well dress ed in the presence of her husband." To bo well dressed need not imply an ex pensive dress. A simple, neatly-fitted rob of muslin or calico, if tastefully itlsda urn tastefully elected aa to hnrinony of color . shows the purity apd true refinement of tin ' wearer's mind more effect UHlly than tlx > the most elaborately expensive attire tha i the ingenuity of rDodera iuilliuorv can do I * , ? < - The suitability to occmion rof i aUo what should be studied. A stannic ' . !???* ? coospiouou* drew can U VOfn Vit i unpanity^io wy^sw p!aoe?, Md hy ror ; ' 4" ' * I A Romance ofR at Life?A Touching , Story. i The editor of the Chicago Time*, hnving | hewi on the North si<le of that city to aee a | friend, was recently prevented from reach. > ing his home, in consequence of a steam . j tug having passed up the river with a small . fleet of vessels in tow, one of which had . I beon cast off and hauled in just West of the | ; bridge, leaving the "draw"still open. While . | waiting lie witnessed the following scene: i | l tie vessel we liave mentioned was inoor[ j ed or made fast outride of several canal . | boats ; and as we atood looking at the men I | upon Iter, one of tliein approached a fe male, who had been couched upon deck, j and addressing her, pointed to the shore, . I then to the bridge and then down toward [> I the thronged and busy streets of living, : moving, headlong Chicago. She arose ' picked up a small bundle, from which she , | drew forth a coin which she tendered to 1 the hardy sailor. lie refused it, whatever ' it was, and lending her a hand, helped her j j from the vessel to the dock up to the bridge. lJy this time a large crowd of per- : ! sons thronged the North end of where the | , ' i.i I? -.e ? ? ? , uiki^o ?uuiu it 11 ner? aiwjiys a uriuge ; am] in contemplating the new fares, and tlio I representatives of the various classes there j assembled we had almost forgotten the in- ! ' cidentwe have related. Our attention was | I called from the vain endeavor to discover | ; some cessation of tugs going up and down, | and brigs and schooners pulling in and out i by hearing a most audible sob fiom Rome j one near us. It was not a sob of child1 hood,caused by some sudden change of g;?y- ] i ety to grief ; it was the sob of Romo ina| tnred breast,filled with a sense of loneliness , ' and dispair. It reached other ears than i ;our*- . i i A lady dressed in a manner which bo- ; j ; spoke a wealth that, could gratify taste and i ( j elegance, and who like ourselves, was de-| , ! tained at that place, stood near, accompa- ! uied by three children. who!<fe desire to get i t j at the extreme eilgo of ihe platform, she | , uiincuuy repressed. \\ illi a woman'* ten- i j j demons lier heart recognized the stifled j : I ebullition of sorrow, and approsiching the | ( | person from whom it came, who was none j j i other than the other woman we hud just. ! j i seer, land from the vessel, she quietly, and ; ( I in that soft sweet voice of woman which , j none can resist, inquired if she stood in I f i need, or was she ill or was her sorrow such ! j . that she could not be relieved. A portion j : of the railing near us was vacant, and to- I J wards that and almost at our side these ! two women came to converse. The stran- j i ger was a fair, huudsoine girl, of about f j seventeen years, neatly btiFcoarsely dress- f edt-wilb-?4irtC3not only well worn but hea- , ! vu nnrl nnstiitrtil nu mimlt ^ - - J J IIIIIVU IVI IIUI nvrA in IUI I the season. The poor girl, in honest simj plicity, and witli an earnestness which dis pair alonec an impart, related her history ; uninterrupted by a single observation from her companion, but often accompanied by : j the tears of both. We have not space for | ! it at length, bnt we will give it, changing | its order just enough to enable us to state it ' i briefly. j Sho Said alie was born in Boston ; b1i<\ I had no brother or sister now : she remem- j j bercd that she had a sister, the oldest whose | ! name was Lizzie; that sister years ago against her father's will had married, audi ; with her husband having been banished j ' from her father's sight, had gone otf and had ] I not been beard of since?no doubt dead. | J At the time of her sister's marriage her pa- j j rents were wealthy. The pride which drove | , ! away Lizzie had brought silent regret, and < ; after a while came melancholy complain- | | ing<? by the mother's singing for tl?? . em| brace of her first -born. These soon led to I anger and crimination at home, and disbi' pation by the father abroad. Losses cnine i u|Min them, and nl last, gathering the few remaining good* they left the proud city of their birth, nnd settled five years ago upon the land purchased of the Government in | Wisconsin. Her brother*, some older and j some younger than herself, one by one j I drooped and died ; and soon tue mother, ', I calling in agony upon lier long exiled ! | | daughter joined lier l?oy* in a happier clime. ] ! ?None were now luft but the father and j , ! this poor girl, lie too was humbled and j , < xtricken by the slow but certain; disease < i which lights up the chevk and fires the | , j eye with the brilliancy of health, evsn ; , j when its victim is on tho confines of ctcr- ' i nify. ! | j He would wit and tell to his surviving , j child the acts of winning love and sacrific- : -: ing devotion whifh hail made his Lizzie j , j the very object of his life. He would talk ! | of lior sweet smiles happy disposition, un- ' ! til memory wotildjead U> the hour when he j j bid her to depart,'Will not let him see her 1 face again. Ilia decline was rapid, and his lono child mw the flowers which tin warmth of Spring had called from the toil 1 of her mother's grave disturbed, uprooted ' and thrown aside, that his ashes might 5 mingle with those of - the mother of (he children. j At his death he charged her to pay off, ^ as far as she might be able, the debts incurred to procure the- necessaries of life. The land, which from want <?foclture, had not * increased in value, was sold ami left her * but a few dollars: These she expended in I rearing spmq boards to. .mark the spot . -t. . .u- 1...1 v., ? ?*iraw ?no iinu-ovcii uunvufviro mici piiwi 9 or her beloved kindred. She heard of B Chicago. 8he lia-l heard that in tbk city 1 there were offices where strangers . wishing ' employioeot ooutd And work.?She bad on foot travelled many mikt, until *be s reached Milwaukee, tbAtee by the ii ~" * ' , n dressed la<ly turned her face toward* tlic ! river that her tears at suuli a crowded ami j unusual place might not he observed. She i requested lis to take her two hoys? j George nnd Willie slie called tliem?by ; the hand,nnd keep them from danger, and i then putting her hand around tlie.neck of the poor wandering orphan stranger said : " You are my own sinler. J am Lizzie" i nesc two lyings,children of llie ume I parents how different liave been their paths, I anil liow deep their sufferings ? Wo have j seen them together in "Lizzie's" carriage i driving along Lako street. They are doubtless as happy as their bereavements relieved only by the consciousness of duty faithfully performed, can permit, lluwhile the sufferings of the father and mother maybe faintly known from the dory of the daughter, what must have ' i been the mental agony of that other , | daughter unkindly banished from her , mother's side, and driven out into the!, world without a father's blessing ? What ' ( must have been her grief when her letters I < written from a prosperous city, from her ' | liotisn of linr iv<?-itil.i, nn.l 1.S...I I - t ? _ ? .....j <iIIU nnill IIUSItaiKI | < telling thorn of licr siiw.ess and the birth, | j her children, were unnoticed and an- |, : we red ? Slie iiiu.it have f?It indeed \ ( hnt the hearts of that father and mother,;] ter Risters and brothers must have been ) Imrdened against her. We will say no ! , Tiore. That seene will live in our memo- : , y while we can remember the holy love ! , jfa father, mother and kindred. | f Lola Monte* Giving the Caoacka a piece ; ' ol Her Mind. ro TUB ElUTOU OF THE MOKTREAt. VTITNK68 I j Sm: A gentleman of that city lias just j >ut into iny band* a c?>py of ymir paper, in which yon make an unprovoked attack , , >11 me, ntul recommend respectable people , lot to hear my lectures. j I Now, sir, in tlic notice which I am about , ^ o take of you, do lint suppose that I am , noved by any idea that what you say will ' nHuencc people of real respectablity and j , ntclligonoe. 'i'he public, press must bave . 11 ready informed vcu that it is precisely j rom that class that my lectures receive the , largest patronage. l?ut a feeling of justice | , o inyseu compels me to ask you what, notive any fair minded man can have for me in tlie pursuit of an lionora- , de and blameless calling ? ( Is it not, sir, from the depravity of your I j iwn bad nature that thia attack has sprung? , mi I not earning my bread as respectably is you are yours?-and 1 rejoice in knowing , hat in the midst of all tlie malice and j alsehood which have been heaped upon ue, I have never yet, to iny knowledge, teen thus assailed bv any inan who was ' limself of a faultless life. My assailant lave been from the ranks of men like * rotintclf, who have no visible means of ' jetting a character but by ahouting at the op of their voices against vice; men who, ' laving worn themselves out in the service i >f sin, set up to be especial enemies of sin- j 1 lers. Mtf mnlinnr nf lif<? ta mnurolu ?" ' ! ' # ?j ? - "1 "'j >roininently before the public, and scandal tself does not dare to say that it is not norally blameless. Of course, I cannot hero enter into any lefenro of my past career ; but there are Kindreds of honorable men on this side of lie A Untitle who know that, until circum- j . itiinees threw me into I lie stormy arena of jolitics, there was far l?*s? of evil report at- i ' ached to my naine than to that of almost wy other lady of my profession in Europe. Hie causes which iiijVcrwards led to the vilification of my name throughout the world ire beginning-to be partially understood, ind with devout reliance of the justice of jod, I am patiently waiting for the rest to ?m?. Tliat my life ha? Iwvn without er- ' ors I do not deny ; but that I ever deserv;d the abitBe which Midi an you would lieap upon me I do deny, and history will j [>ne day vindicate my right to pay this 1 }f tnvhclf. ' J Sir, if you have a wife, n *ister or n moth* < sr, I trust that tliov are of u blameless life, " but cannot be more no than the one which ] r am li\'ing; and may the day l?c far off when some wicked and bad hearted man ihall do by them an you wnuid do by ma ' , Sir, 3*011 profess to l>e a Christian, but how f will you appear !>efore that Ucing wfio hn< ] *aid "Judge not that ye be not jmlged." , j How will you meet Him who has said "Let ; } liiin who is without sin cast the first stone." j ( I'ractice upon the precept of the "Master," i . and you will nevermore throw stones at ine or any other human lieiiig. If you can find and fault with my present , life you are welcome to do so; if you can . show that my lectures are undeserving of the patronage which they have, almost , without exception received from the most , re*j>eciablo and^tlie most intelligent portion of the community, you are welcome to do that also; but you are not welcome to do what. no gentleman ever will do?assail a lady who i? honestly endeavoring to make iIia iwvct ]?/> r|i? f.jin of nnnnrtunifies and abilities as God lia<J given Iter. Sir, I pily you, and I forgive you ; and it is with the hope that 1 may be the means I of making a letter mannered and a better 1 principled mnti of you that I address y?u this note. , Loi.a Montex Montcral, Auguat 27, 18u7. . Rkfi.kctiono o* M arm ao k?The leadiug fcataft*. in character of a good woman are.mildnea?, complaisance and equanimity of lumper. Tl?e man, if ?!? be a worthy *nd provident husband, \$ iujmttfsod in ? memory isloaded, and: lib body nfmmn Ht raturw ftom the boatfeoTth* liiihiiMiiiitiii ; 'I * ry of man is the wife who clothes her face with smiles, who uses gentle expression, and who rHnfco her lap soft to receive and hush his cares to rest. There is not in' nature so fascinating an objeet as the faithful tender and affectionate wife. Inttrutlng Reltc. We firtd in the last number of the Culpeper Observer the subjoin nceonnt of the recent discov???v of an ancient relic in I the shape of a manuscipt letter addressed | to Gen. Washington by a citizen of Fauquier county, Va., in the year 1781: Letter to General Washington. * Elk lii'K Fauquier Co., Va., ) January 20, 1<81. f Dkak Sin: Gen Arnold, with 1,800 men in now encamped three miles west of this ?pot. They continue to exercise the most unlicard of cruelty, indiscriminately, on men, women and children, nnd wanton destruction of every kind of property. All eyes are turn id to you for vengeance. It was only venterlay that Sallie Metcalf was shot from her liorse by a British sentinel whilst she was ?ndevoring to make her escape. She is :he wife ofCapt. Metcalf, with whom you ire well acquainted. I will help you with .wonty mounted men most of them good narksmen, and, if no objection is made, noy would prefer to l>c near you and bring" with them their own rifles, in (lie use of which they will prove effectual. Tho bear?r, Jack llrown, G feet 0 in his stockings [hough above the nvernge, is not a very unfair sample of the remaining nineteen, who anxiously await your reply to this ten:ler of services, and hope you will accept the mine in the manner they desire. I would suggest that you retain Jack, ?nd in his place send back Tim Weeden with your reply. For other information I eferyou to Jack. I would trust injT life in lis keeping. With the highest regard, your rerv uninoie servant, IIouack Kandali.. Gen. Geo. Washington, Philadelphia. A few weeks since, says the Observer, in ( pairing a mantle-piece at Mount Vernon, ui ol.I letter was foun<l.of which the aliove s a true copy. It ha*.l fallen through a ere *ioe and made a lodgment, where, without he knowledge of any one, it has remained mdisturbed for more than seventy yesrs. What is most remarkable in connection villi this letter is that the writer it atill rlive, nnd still reside* in Fauquier! On >eing shown tlivs letter lie recognized it. It was read to him by JameH Jt-ffries. "Yes," laid he, "I remember well. Sally Metcalf ecovered from the shot nnd, with her lnis)and, she afterwards moved out to Kentucky. Her Ron was afterwards Governor of v??ntuckv. Tliev movod out with Col. L'mn Marshall, in 1793. Col. Marshall vn* colonel of the Virginia artillery of the hird regiment, and fought at the battle of llrandywine. Capt. John Chilton was unler him and was killed in that battle. Laayette had just l>een promoted ; was then ibout 21, and was wounded at the same iine. Col. Tom Marshall was the father if John, afterwards appointed Chief Justisce >f the United States. He died about the rear 1802 or '3. We have seen his grave >t Washington, Mason county, Kentucky, i!?out five miles from Mavsvilh?.n As Mr. MTries came to that portion of the letter in elation to "Jack lirown, Kandall was trought to tear*. He exclaimed," My God ! >oor Jack lirown ; I was the cause of jhjs l?*atb, just to p;ratifi Tim Weeden's wife who I)ad ndt seen hjr husband for two k'eara," Mr. Jeffries remarked,"You did it ill for the l?est in n good cause, and it ihould not disturb you. it shows the goodless of your heart." "Yes," said he, "those ire preeisclv the words of Gen. Washingion to mc about eighteen months afterwards." Randall has never received a pension for lis services, of which he always speaks n a light manner. If notentitled to one, m at least deserves the gratitude of his :ountrvmen. The original letter may be teen at the office of the County Court of Fauquier. Anecdotic of Lord Jbffiieys.-?I was unused by a story I heard at the time, of i simple-minded country parson whose parish lay upon the Frith of Clyde, and so became gradually overspread with fashionible villas, to which families from Ediuburg itid Glasgow resorted in summer and auluin. This worthy man persisted in exercising the same spiritual jurisdiction over these new coiners, which he had been wont to exercise over his rustic parishioners be fore their nrival. And in particular, in his pastoral visitation, he insisted on examining the holy and gentleman of tire house in the "ShorterCatechism," ill the prcsenee^of their children and servant*. It happend, one autum, that the Lord Jeffreys, after the rising of the court of sessions, came to spend the long vacation in the parish off.?Some time lifter his arrival, tbe minister intimated from the pulpit that upon a certain day he would uhold a diet of catechising^ in tbe district which included the dwelling of the eminent judge. Trne to this time b? appeared at Lord Jeffrey*' house and reques ted that the entire efttHblirfhiiieot roigm o? collected. Tliis wm reaJily June; for almost nil Seotli clergymen; though tbo CKtechUing proceM Una become obsolete, till VUit ???!? Itonso once a year, and collect the family to li*ten to a /d?5?icte Icdare. but * ' *?? ??>?lt\n w|l>n what WM W>ru ?vp r. * tit* in tire hflltwfflff being anetnled in the I drawing room th? worthy minister siid in ' ' ' ' ' " ; '"'I ' ' . - J*-.-:", t -'J " - -.11 -'r \ r A Story oi the *KftH^elo?Vr&r4(|tt* The Count Cerfaut do X? ? inttliou^li by positipri jin^] fortune thpowrt the highest circles of Parisian ?aciJty>, from* the entrance into life, cscliftvyouV All its follies. The Count bad seri6us%laste9, Was ?. fond ofstudy, and, above all,-of niusfc, , . which he had cultivated ej^eotally. vile has both a' sciedliffc a'nd ait _ari-rt<$otfi!tffc' musician.-' ^ < In pursuit of this rtt, iLoG.Gourtt* liau gone to Italy, Tflerd lie rfesidaij-"'/^ ifotpe Jean. On ltisfc(urn,/?s w(W observed*.'*? e utterly clanged iff .chaftiiatjkf*., AtnaJig, otlier things, orosie, which had beep. ^ljp' ruling passion, wa^now.^ithis aversioflb The sound of the human voice, espacrhSily h'ad an influence over Ujrri \vhicli'^appeared almost to produce madness. _ ^ Mysterious rumors were circulalOd With' regard to tlio adVetitffres Italy which' bad produced this cbangyj but, tOf did tlio Count Oerfaui conf^le thb reiil cause. 10mCount Geifaut lmtt received a 'profound passion in Italy for a yoting prima donna, Gina Ostravi, a creature of beauty ancl genius, whose fume was destined 10' ox coed1 that of all her predecessors, aTthbu'ghjfir yet confined to Venice, Verona and Padua.* Gerfaut loved her Junius as much 8a loved herself; and when lie naked'--; her la become Iiis wife, he never intended that site should quit tffe stagp. , Gfap/ljpWver,1 By some strange onprice, felt offeudwl tfiiat. her lover should desire her still lo'..eohtinue on the Btage ; 6he tfiought he loved* tar -Jjen,ius better than. herself ; ahtf so she njjfrried?not Gcrfaut?stmt'Tbe l^rince of f'jrr. and taking possession of her pulazzo,- h!m the stage forever. But Gtnn ftnd 'loved Gerfant. She strove lo Oleic ?von troin herself the feelings that would arise in lier heart, and not desiring to linger on the pjtst, she ^egan ^ith renewed enthusiasm to take lo -iier jirt^sod expressed in music what she <hft6cf *-j4q't whisper to herself. All her grander ed on her, the Prir\ce became liat?fuU .id her?slip lo?ge4,,sh.e pmud-for a w^d 'fiton/ Gerfaut., But hot Parity he lia<J * never even designed to brofltlie .ijacog. . A t length *tlio I VinrT'i" ?rio*flKi j^l health gave Way, liar ?Jttjjusihsi n^r r ^ took the characteristics oP.a iBonotttaTYfrt and beyond all dou\)t tire Pnno^: wi^ ^Os:?ne. To the great Parian pliy^leiftair was thfi Princpss ?'nt mid Iftr nrimA' wrt for tlie first timu echoed 'ji?, tb? Paosiat* world. . . . % "tp, Quiet, gentle, silent, the Princess, patiied by a companion cbofeeir foJc thnt pfarr pose, was soon* at the Boia de^oujogn^ at the Opora, at the Italians?UeantifuT.r'vbut so pale that as slie listened , in wr^fcl^eoa%sy to the music,it was impossible' to", believe her other than a statue. Tbo "4roj|ps8 soon attracted the morbid CuViotfity of the Parisian world. . Gerfaut heard her name. FotvUie '^fyst time since his return from Italy h'Q entered the Opera Ilouse. There lie bebeld li?P? a pale, beautiful vision of the woman'- ft had so adored. Their eyes mfltJJcbeo n deep blush overspread the H&jV ders ol the Princess, Gerfaut tf6riiW away without a vroru orj?Bij|!i. *& He sought the phytfician whe*was;tte'l!ffect tlus wonderous ctfre.- WhA ?ave her^ 'Nothing liut n rctfiro1 ^6c^tbA emotions oftho stage. There Atone4 coul^f the pent-up passions End veqf. , Gorfaut, culm ^atid firm, sought "**he Prince ; life told him hg>v he -^ha^, lQ^ved Gina?^Tte told hiin how they had Wp#Wteti ?lia told him that she must bo sJPtod : though lie awore'to hhjvt&j^ho woirfd- SNQ??** er see her moro. * >*'> "SfiW her," said* the ?' trust you.-but on a.pablic cess de P never can k uNor shall see." 1 * '-W.H In the old Ancestral hotel, of. tlja Funbourg St. yerittnWGferfin? fcel to Vvoj^c; he arranged^ thcatre,h'? COJP - * pany, an orchestra,.apd ihen^-fpF. Wftth&uC a publican artist's triumph could nW die conjjjHjta? lie invited nil the? elite of - (JHtf fashionable and musical world. . ; Ginlietto and Romeo? rrfct-fjisllinl's, -bA Zingnrdli's tender music, \VbHhy of spcare's poem?was tfie opera the- J^hn- / * com was ever singing. This was U#e ' opera chosen. She was pressed. Afc 'the first dmuns of t!he orchestra an eve bright oned, life seenietfc infused -jo the sGa^fB { she comprehend&l where ?slie - w*f 4 applause which greeted her as slie tnnmf seemed to givo her strength : she * as mortal never sane l>efort.v * toned will duspair ftudlove. ; ; At last cnnVe tfjo last scert'e. laid in tlie tontb. 'Stealthily comes RoWsh : to see her once ngnig; tbo tomb is ;?p?nfcd, and Romeo clasp's liia nriiiBaround;Ke*. With rt *Wri<?hL fcvstotf Jtaliet fall* lieaVrty wick tdtob. vjElAPrince and tfio guosta r^MMn* to the stage, birt too Sate ;.Gina ^nnrff " She had nev?^ moved rwjr tt:~l ^ndort