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THE MONTANA POST.
-o W- TILTON, ft; CO., E_itori t_ Proprietors'. .._r.-n * _- _ _
> *y Country, May the Al Wayt Be right, But My Country, Eight o r Wrong, ^ T_MS:--$7. 50 Per Tsar im Adra ass
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V0L- *' VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA TERRITORY, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1864. NO. 17,
Hjfltttana lost!
D. W. Tilton, ^ Co., ] w.
a. W. Tu.tc^. B_n. R. Dtrrii. j |JW^
I IHt I 1!T^ P-OraiXTOKI. j JZJ
.fftcfl aLt tne City Book Store, Corner j or w^ of Wallace and Jackson Streets). | best t
TERMS; -r~E Oes sopr, one yesr, .... |r.50 \L* Oeo eopr. til months, - 4.00 1 Ms
'Oes eopV, three months, .... 2.50 t rims
i peirii
^1 ^ ^^ ! give
Rate* off Advertlelnar. ; s*s^''
- ^ cards, (At* lines or lest,) one year $20 00
^^ ^ ^ ^ ^ six months, ii 00 j ^V ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ three month* 10 00 rns saanrs r.?.^ Ttir, (ten lines or less) 40 00 j
Sal square six months ^ ^ ^ ^ 25 00 II A
0e^ squsrs. three month* ^^ ss a Is 00 i
Qaarter solemn, one Tear, (0 00 JJ
'^ ^ six montas 45 00
^ ^ three * 10 00
^_^ tolnntn, .one. year, 00 00
- ^ six ^months, CT) 00 ^ ^ three months 4i 00
Oas solemn, one rear. 140 00 j
- ^ six months' 100 00 1 ^ ^ three months, 76 00 j J Regular advertiser* will be allowed te change i
cwarterly without additional charge. ( )
111 bussinrse communications should be addressed
tt D. W. TILTOK 4 Co., Virginia City, M. T.
Job Printing of every description executed in a i
Saseriur manner and st reasonable rates.
IA
orril'llL DIRECTORT. B Territorial Offfleera.
aernawex, BTDHEY EDOERTON, Baaaaek City ; PM
^ac-ETXRT. H. P. FORSEY: NB
aaisr Jrsrsca, 11. L. HOSMER. v
AsaaxTB Jlsticx, AMI GIDDINOft. Y
L. B. WILLISTOtf,
Attt. QasnrtUL, E. B. N'EALY. Virginia Cltyj ^aa-._ai.. C. J. BUCR.
^y-RTGToa tis.vxRai.. M. BOYD. . *
Acniroa, JOHN R. LOTT. 1 *^
Taxasi-Rxx, JOHN* J. HULL. ^^, Votaxt Pcbuc, JOHN S. ATC'IHSO*.
Asssssox, T. C. EVERTS. *
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^oaaty Offffleore off Madteon Connty. j
Oeuntv Co_iro_rieeer*. Jana* Fxaeus,
^ SatursU, W. ^rawi_rr, p.
- ^ Frid. K. Root. rA ^Probate Judge, Taot. C. Jo.ins. Off
SBieriff, Nbil Howie.
Treasurer, RonxnT N*. IIiu..
Recorder, P.. M ^ 1U^*__K. Assistant Assessor 1st District, JtanT Coox.
ETan lei aal Officer* of Virginia City.
Pelice Jadge and Bx-Offieio Mayor, G. G. Bissau j
_arnbers of Council, E. K. Woodslst, om,
^* * Sam. Schwab,
- ^ Jaxxs GiBSoaa
^ *^ N. Foao.
Marshal. Jrnar X^ia. 4
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i Ja^
^lnaonte.
Ths retreasr eoinniaaieations of Virginia City . ^ _e-^;t. C. D.. A. F. A A. M., are held on tbe 2d I gj, tan itb ^ifiturdaTS in each month.
P. S. PFOUTS, W. M. .
Ai_x. Datis, Sect'y.
Ctaurcli.
Presehing ererr Sabbath br Ree. A. M. TonBWT,
at 11 A. M. st theCwurt House. Sabbath School I at 2 P. M. All are invited to attsnd.
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BfJSlUVSt CARDS. j-
I
Tf. F. Sanders. J ^^7 Cook, j
SANDERS t COOK.
A TTORNBTS at Law, Virginia City, Monteaa | ?
i.V. Territory. 1
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VT7l7 McilATH.'] [W. Y. Lovxix.
FIcMATH _ I.OVELL, Attora?vs at Law, VirginiaCity, M. T., will promp- i Uy stteiid to all professional business entrusted to iksir ears. 1-3^ _____ ' ~~
w. J. McConnicV. W. Y. Pemberton. H. Burns. |
?-eCormick. Pemberton ^ Burns.
itiera^r at Law, Virginia City, Montana Territo- rr. Office in Content's Comer up stairs. 1-fltn? |
W. M. gTirroRD. R. B. 1'AaRorr. L. W. Boaioa. j Csl. Iowa. Cos, I
^TtrtORO, PARROTT eV BORTON, I _I
Attoraevs at Law, Office ou Idaho street, opposite j vie eourt nouse, Virginia City, Montana Territory. !
_ 2-3m . ' as
J B. JI DGli, ij?
Boot t Shoe maker. Virginia City, Montana Ter- j - >^tory. Tbe best of eustom work always on hand. S
**vs me a trisl? l-*m_ ^
TOsiRPH CRCW1T,
Trent h BeAer. Xevad* City, Montana Territory, . bi wo tilil s^.t to bis numerous customers that be is al- j k wavs on band to stuff the mouths of the hungry.^ , *
-ivs him a cell. _.___ ': Z
J?r.. U. H. CBJtTIN, t j
I'nTiicitn and flurgeon/formerly assistant in the C Uosp'iui du midi io Paris, and attached totheNew Tork Uospitai, New York^ recently from Bebuque, _ low*, office in Virginia City, oppoat- tae hay y
'tales, main street. \-tm ? i
Si T. Bl TLElv, I ,
O. '
i'ractieal Watchmaker and Jewslsr. Particular . attootion psid to repairing all classes of watches. _ A-v p^rt of any watch can be made new at thu ee- j( Ssb'b.hiaent, and wairantetl to give satisfaction.^ ; c Cell and examine specieaea* of Jewelry soaae from ^
^ks?tialiTr told? 1->T i k
pALffORNIA HOTEL, I _
Ntvada City, Montana Ttrritory. j J
^U>C15 BEL ANGER, PwrmwTOE. ! _
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Tfcii hotel it situated on Main street, and in the Vest part of the Citv. The, table supplied with the ^ ^est Ibe market affords, sad the saloon f nrauhed ] atih the best liquors,
Rooms and beds cap be bad at res_onable prices. ^ styjej for board ^-derate. * i
A CERTTFICATB OF TBN SHARES OF THE ; ^ i-. consolidated Silve- Star Cosopsny. The owner , I^y provining property and paying for tb_advertue- ajent can huve the seas* st the City Ronk Store.
Virginin City. fc-L
JJT ECU AN ICAL BAKERY,
tuvtrstr^^t, VirginiaCity, M. T. Kendle k \ ^ vir^^r,t. propriftors. Keep on hand all kinds of I Wf*.|, rakee and pi^e, wkien era going oft like '*iet ^*ees. ' at cheep retes, I ^^^
Li BVSlfttSS CARDS.
!JDAH0 HOTEL, ?
{ Wallace ttreet, Vieginia City, M. T. J. M. Cssifflsr fellow c
i. j proprietor. The proprietor announces to hit old a far in e
friends and tne pablic generally, that he is now yonder.
I prepared to accommodate boarders by the meal, day ^they've
r ( or week at low ratet. His table famished with th* 2,1?
I best th* market affords. 1-ly 11 Wlin
. - ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ we wer
IJ?KWISAMALE, onhors
10 I Manufaetarers of Jewelry, Jackson street, Vir- tbinlt w
,0 | ginia City, M. T. Strict attention given tc re- CQPt 63
_ ; peiring all classes of watches, and warranted to vritb ln
- \ give satisfaction. Keep constantly onhandaUrgt here st^ I assortment of J*w*try. Every thing in our lint Jolly 1
)Q ; made to order at low rates. l_3m then, tl
wlHAIR DRESSING ROOM. on lh^ )0 ! and fa
Hair Dyeing and Cutting Done in their m GOOD STYLE. sq^ir^
TOM. WHITK, PropUeter. ale anc
DO woll-e(
H\ Wm, DECKER. bad^o
oo i ary wa
00 1 Surgeon Dentist. \ drink i
c* j jrbFFTCE IN POST OFTICB BUILDIN-. PA- to be I ^ * tisnts visited at thsir residence whendefired. used t^
^* I tf^ 3 brcadt
^|~ROATH ^fe CO~
_ | A MERICAN WATCHB6 JUST RECEIVED^DI j ever J
^ I 1 \ rectfrom the manufactories. | larj* 1 Every description of Jewelry mxnuieetared from voce,
tbe Native Gold. Call, Bxamint Specimens, ^Ja agh and then jndge. . '
;y; Sign of the MAMMOTH WATCH in tho
NEVADA CITY, Montana Territory. Ter be
Virginia City, Bept. 1 0, 1864. J*Jj ) ^ 6_q ? s7
1 ~ Wm. DECK EE. Eadt INTELLIGENCE O FFICE.
Steal rusts and lUinlng Agency, the h'c
I All bmtinte* promptly attended to. Ofllss in ba a
; Poef OOee Beilding lees ti
! 4 ^ tf ? at a d
PAINTER AND SIGN WRITER, house
Offffleoon C.T.rtr..t,Vlr^t^. City. JJJJJJ
^^ taid,
LIME AND BRICK. ta?
^v ^ its
tT* HENRY BAIER. *nd
^~ Alse Plae Baildiog, sad all kisds of bri.sk work taou^ one to order. whftt sun, i
Wm. C HUM A S E R 0 . ^I*
A TTORNEY AT LAW, VIRGINIA CITY, MON- .
mm A tana Territory. Office, corner of WalUee and ^P~'
Jackson streeU, at J. A. Ming's Store. ^ay e
i 4 ir dross
Sty ^ in im
,Jd! Shaving and Hair Dreiiing Saloon, her, i
'fnibl
MUSTACHE AND HAIR COLORING. ing b
I sen
,^( I Sontn Side at Wallace Street, Vn. City a_j .
^01 i LYONS .WHITE. Propriitort.
readi
'Z1' ^ pock
,ok JOHN S. ATCHISON, ^ J?J
NOTARY PUBILC. ?
*^ ! REVENUE STAMPS AND BLANKS , I c
FOR SALE AT ! waa^
^ i carp.
tu- . A_I._N * MILLARD'S BARE. | and I
j vour
mp- j VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA TERRITORY. j abou d to ^ 4 ^ tf I blue
^ | PEOPLE'S MARKET- ?
ri Wallace St, Next Door to Weary'^ ; rito- New Bank' 1 old ?
m MEATS. VEGETABLES, O AME, 1?,
^ Ac, Ac, A*. j chai ^^, j STEWART A BALL. j blac Col. 4 tf ' t'c(?
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^rJ- ! Idaho stre.t, Virginia City, M. T. James Gen- thr0 ' nail, proprietor. Keeps constantly on hand all j m09, j kind* of tht bett lumber, which will be sold at low , ? ?
; rates. j ^
Iu. \ gTAJE BAKERY AND SALOON, | tOW
| ?Nevada City, M. T. Patrick Ryan, proprietor.- { lad
All person, wuhing good br.ad ar. '^^^^*^* ^ ! Lol call . Pric^ low. Also, SOW fumubal with the P^ , tare, best e^ drinks. Her. is the pl^^. to get aa i ho ;nnt , best is *-- I loaf, a sak. or pi*, a-d -eotaeanag t* w^h U , 7.- 1 dawa.^ j
^jpTANTER'S HOUSE \ml
. ih. Corner of Idaho and Jackw>n Sto., Tir- 1 u s.w | ginU City, HonWna Territory- , H.t
W W*. ^ JOHN A. SHOOT J-
iFermerly of tbe Planter's Hons*, Uanxibal Mo.) han PROPRIETORS. tool mUE \BOYE NAMED HOUSE, FORMERLY ^ cular i 1 conducted by Wiu. Sloan, Esq.. having been the, eU^,^ : enlarced and r*-fitted is now open with rrery facil- br0 u itv far the accommodation of Gues_ and Boarders. f , ^D^ Comfortable rooms and beds are provided and the fr001 atbT. is carefully furnish*! with the best the mar- |
kst and seasons afford. ' . , . ^ \n
! '^.sngers for tbe early Stag* Coaches can obtain _oe
1 roedlodlings here and be wakened at tbe proper whi
- C TL patroaage of the public u re?tfnlly y
^* aali^t*d Wm. A Jao. A. SUWI, ,
soliqteo. PEormxToas. ^s
i tor. ! ^ ^- abc
I fTcTco-sblu, M. D. S. L. F. Waan, 31. D. wai
n th* Drt. CORlffltl.- As WAHID). j she
us b ed PHYSICIANS ^ SUROE0NS.|t^^
nc*s ' (Succ***ors to) I SO
Dr.. BROOKE A OLlfE. no! ! ! Offic. an Ja^k.on Str.et, below WalUe*. Virginia j ? THE ' City, Monteaa IWritory. ______! j yUi
err; i ^ii-/ scojt mm* uousE.\ *
Bt^rt ' Idnlt. Btreote Op.a.U. Beeorderf
Offffleo. ?0
! Willgiv.Bc4_*s*dLodg^g*t|14 00p.rw*?
dis k \ Any one whe wanU US ^-'iffi** ? ttds of bed., nsalS aad l.qn.ra, lei tbn?eaB -J MJ?
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Tne Price off a Kiac. talk in
v* hen 1 was a boy ^ a tall strapping young expres
r fellow of seventeen or eighteen-lfather was iD som i a farmer, and owned that piece of greund Hett
^ yonder. It was a fine farm then, though beard
r they'fe cut a railway through it and spoiled i_ tboi
it with their improvements. In those days her sn
- we were content to travel by the stage or talxviu; on horseback ; and I must confess I don't COuld
. think were gained much by the change ex- f9ftr \, ^. copt explosions, though you may'nt a?ree Rn_i 0
o with me there ^ youngsters never do. Just whero
^ here stood old Wilber Trabb's tarern- the about '^ Jolly Farmer. Tavern was no disgrace anxioi
then, though you'd insult a hotel keeper to jUBt tl call it one now. Tbey hadn't much steady ttn_ 8] company there; but the folk stopped marry r_ on the way up by the stage, and drovers But I and farmers on the way to market took 0f dm their meals there. Of winter evenings the j too, tl Squire, and the Doctor, and even the Par- had'bi son, used to come over and taste old Trabb's come' ale and bare a chat with him. lie was a up al _ well-educated, light-hearted old man, who t WQen bad fought when young in tbe Revolution- the g j ary war; and though past seventy could with 1 l drink and laugh with fellows young enough the d^ A- to be bis grandsons. Such stories as he the lo d. used to tell of bis own bravery and hair- arm, breadth escapes would make your hair ID0W. ~ st.ind on end with borror. We youngsters ^ not never doubted a word of them then, what- dared Dj ever we may do now at times. With his the p j large bulky figure and red face, and loud were im vo ce, be was the straaeest contrast to his ; both o^, daugbterMehitable ^ Hetty every one called j ^Q her. She was like some slender white lily I angn H in those days, and her voice like some sif- ! dear^ y. ver bell and just as musical ^ a shy little j _'ve \ soul just come home from school, and ready | have to cry with fright at having to take her ( to di
^ place as mistress ; for you see her mother to lik had been dead years and years. The tomb- to hi
Tf stone in the church-yard was just as old as an^4 1 ' Hetty, and she w;ts the only woman about be ft 7* the house. Sh i_ In a little while she grew used to it, and apea less timid ; and then from looking at her all i at a distance 1 came to Bpeaking to her. ^ arm ~^ Tho first time was at the great gate that [ dre opened upon the road at the back of the iong R. hous*. It was heavy and hard to open, and then seeing her little hands busy with it I went ed Q r* across and set it back for her; and she Old
laid, ^ Thank you^ you're very kind to matt
take so much trouble.^ as II
^ No trouble at all, Miss Hetty,^ I said : ^ ] ^ its a pleasure.^ And then she blushed, raav and I felt the blood rush into my face, and or_. though I don't Buppoae she noticed it; for C0Uj what wnii work _J the open air, and the 8hoii
^ sun, and sheepisbness, I about as red tim^ as I well could be all the tima in J?Oic days. ^ Al
After that we bowed, and smile-, and | Hett S spoke when we met; and al last one Sun- i _^v^ day evening I mustered up resolution, and | that dressed myself in my best, and put a rose enVj
^ in my button-hole, and took a boquet for Ai Mb her, and went across the fields to Wilber my ,
Trabb's. Two or thrca times 1 felt like go- i n
ing back, or running away somewhere ; but witc
I screwed my courage to tbe sticking point, 0f r
and got te the door. I'm not sure, though, had
that I'd have made up my mind to go in, if thin
*' she hadu't b?en sitting there on tho porch But
reading her prayer-book. She put it in her She
pocket, and looked up and smiled. for
^ How do vou do, Mr. Maffit ? ^ she said. and
** I'm glad to see you. Walk in.^ And She
she took me into tbe^ little parlor, and hand- ajr8
ed me a chair. do 1
KS ; I can remember that room just as if it alip I was vesterdav. There was a homo-made her I carpet, red and yellow stripes, on the iioor; to \ and a mahogany tea-tabie you could see tior j vour face in between the windows ; and all 0nl i about the room was wainscoted and painted but I blue about as high as your waist. Abovo and
j that was whitewashed. The mantle-piece fuli
was higher than your head, and had pjated j tall I candlesticks and a tea-caddy on it ; and on hov J* j the walls were two paper profiles: one lle old Wilber, and the other of his wife, cat par
* ! at a fair when they were sweet-hearts The me ] chairs bad rush bottoms und were painted her I black, and there were groen window-papers tha i tied up with tasseis at the wiudows. Hetty to ] wore a white dress and a check apom, and ( i had a string of coral beads about her little dai
G^n- throat. I remember it all like a picture^ ao^ *U j most of all her protty eyes, looking down ; lau
1 ! at the strips in the carpet. I * ^ it's a nice evening, Miss Hetty,^ I said, | y0i
to say something, as I ought. j 1
^ Very, she answered. ^ I'm always * _r-^ ! glad of a bright Sunday. Rain keeps the ^r^ h th. ! Peopb from church, and it makes it dull yo oaest j besides.^ . '
sV it m 1 saw you in church tbu morning, 1 ' said. t* ^~ ^ I 8aw veu too,^ replied Hetty, and then { ' _ E ' there was silence. She plaited her aporn . sic ' ! string, and I stared at her. ) no
?lr- l uXaee you've plenty of flowers, Miss j m, r- ^ Hottv,^ I said ; ^ but mother has such good lit XT' ! luck ^with her carnations, 1 thought I'd bring | he ^ vou a few, if you'd accept them ; and 1 1 *e! M^-) handed her my nosegay. She smiled and ly took them.
IRLY '^ They're beautiful,^ she said. I'll put (a ;b*en t?6m ? *ater;^ and she went out and av facil- brought in a polished beer-glass half full
of water and ^set them in it ; and having sa something to do with her hands and eyes j an i grew less bashful. Aud we talked about wi >btain i tlowers and seeds and gardening for a good w^
^f^ ' while. to tfnlly when the moon was up we went out on to 1 the porch and sat there. And she told me j ed
1 about ber city school, and a teacher who
M. D. I was verv kind to her, and of her ioy that gc ! she could be so useful to her father, and gc v a I that he was so fond of her. to \ ^ For vou see,^ sno said, I'd been away i so long *l knew nothing about home, and ir not much even about pa.^ U ^ I'm sure,^ said I, * the loss was his, lj jSP^ 1 and if j ou were my daughter I'd not send _ ! vou to school away from me ou^ i day. V E. And tasn 1 was so conscious that I'd made n a silly speech that 1 said ^ goodnight,^ in T ier?B quite a short way, and wished the earth a would open and swallow me. ti week. That was aiv first visit to Hetty, but not a I .lean tb , t> pret*ty i0ou 1 went up to see ber a everv Sunday night, and waited en her to i d *^ I ?.t?SSo'' 5 bad |H so that I could I
talk in my natural voiee ^ the first night it time, a was only a queer husky growl ^ and could though >g express my own ideas, such as they were, apolog iS in something like comprehensible language, the tru id Hetty had read more than I had ever ^ Tied ;h beard of. She was well-educated for a girl gentles id ia those days, and she made me wonder at strove f 8 her smartness when she was not afraid of Prince1 or talking. She wrote a pretty hand, too, and But] >'t could sing the sweetest ballad. My only e'd she ^^ fear was that I was too homely, and rough, time I ee and countrified to suit her. Father knew of thu ^t where 1 went Sunday nights, and laughed up stai be about my going sparking ; but mother was than it ce anxious. She thought that Hetty was not Whe to just the girl for a farmer's wife, I fancy, taking lj and she had made up her mind that I should Hetty '. ed marry my far away cousin Ann Dotting, the af irs But I took my own way, and grew fonder ting w ok of dear little Hetty every day. I hoped, i by and he too, that Bhe liked me better. At last there Bat ^r* had been an apple-paring at neighbor Wei- It was b's come's ; dancing and games had kept us j must 1 * I up all night, so that it was almost dawn ; thougl ho when I saw Hatty home. How peaceful then ir ,n^ the green fields were in the gray twilight, to go 1 ^Id with the stars iust fading out of sight, and cousin gh the dew, like diamonds, on every spear ef It w he the long grass ! I had offered Hetty my dark lr^ arm, and th* dear little hand lay like a only si a>r snow-flake on the black cloth. Something with t ers ^ not myself, I'm sure, for I'd not have by pre at- dared to ^ make mc stoop my head and kiss alone. his the pretty fingers, and the next minute we staid i were standing face te face quite still, with and d his | both her bands in mine. Then led ^ Oh, Hetty ! ^ I said, ^ please don't be J Rno, i Ubf angry ; but I love you so ^ you are so very broug sii- i dear to mei Ever since that first evening j ed, at ttle j I've felt that if you should say I might not I di *dj have that little band to keep f should want 1 mind her j to die. I don't know what there is in me j over i her to like ; but, Hetty, for Heaven's sake try jjext i Vh to like me enough to be my wife. The best , girls. I and handsomest fellow in the world couldn't j voice) out be fonder of you than I am.^ | silenc
She wouldn't look up. She wouldn't ^^_> and speak. I tried to see her face, and it was princ her an wet with tears. Rut when I put my ^ I % ^ arm about her she did not seem angry, and ^ I ;hat I drew her to my heart, and held her there ^ \ the long enough to kiss her twenty times ; and ^^y t^d then we walked over the fields, and I thank- in^^ rent ed God for giving me so great a treasure, were she Old Wilber Trabb was not opposed to the *^| 1 to match; but when I talked to him about it ^ , as Hetty bade mc, he said, tt Bu
tid : u if {he girl has set her heart upon it she qUite ?cd, mar marry you, but 1 can't spare her yet, chilh ace, and you are both young enough to wait a are *, for couple of years ^; so it was settled that we at th^ the should be marriod two years from that tcmp red time on my Hetty's nineteenth birthday. tt j ays. ^ All the better,^ said the old folks, and must and Hetty was content; but I felt anxious to if lun- j h?ve her all my own. She was so lovely j hat ^fcd that I ,'*acied every man in th* world must gujd rose envy me. witel for As for my doing as I did. I'd have staked ,he ^ iber my soul, and that's prt 'ty heavy stake, that how !go- 1 never could have done 't. I was be- Toic^ but witched, I think, cr Satan took possession ^ ^ >^'t, of me. But this is how it happened, We sajj ogh> had been engaged a year^ Hetty aud I^ 1 . moo) n, if think, when a pretty southern girl crime to j 0Ter orch Butler to live. Butler was the next village, dena i her She had an opportunity of making a show, \00k for ber father owned plenty of darkeys, an(j laid. and gave her nil the money she wanted, j tn^, And She dressed elegantly, and gave herself faini and- ajr8> and wondered how any woman could jj, do housework. A great black woman with kn0, if it slipshod shoes came with her to wait on fl nade her ; and she never poured out the water mtl* loor; to wash her own hands. She put silly no- l(T 1 *ee tions into many a girl's head, but Hetty -?j, id all only laughed at her. ^ Why I nover knew, it is inted butshc took a notion to me ^ she glanced carec bovo and smiled^ she wasn't troubled with bash- XI piece fulness ; and after a while I found myself terw Sated | talking to her a great deal, and thinking witt id on how very pretty she was. Once or twice a bi ; one netty was silent anil a little pale after the Bhoi cut parties and husking-frolics where we had A The met Miss Princely ; but I never thought of whe intsd her being jealous, for 1 loved her better bef^ apers than any other living thing, and it seemed 1 Hetty to me she must know it. mar , and One day, or rather evening, I had been Kti,. little dancing with this Southern girl, and was was ure ^ j about to leave her when she gave a little j thei down ; laugh and said, thir ^ I thought you had staid quite as long as ed t said, ! you dared.^ wsr j ^ ** What do you mean ? ^ I asked. it i
Iways ^Oh we all know whoie apron-ftring yot^ mot a the are tied to ! ^ she replied. ^ I only wonder qUf dull you dare leave her sido at all.^ j hea
^ 1 daro do anything I choose,^ said I. ma g,^ 1 1 ^ No.^ she laughed, ^ you daren't dance \ j the next three dances with me.^ fon
1 then I ^ But I will,^ said I ; and sat down be- ins aporn ! side hsr. I saw her eyes glitter, and I did j hes
j not dare to look towards Hetty. Soon the | I Miss j music struck up, and we danced together, tell i good Hotty had another partner. I envied him cai bring | her little white hand, but I could bring my- a p and 1 ! ^olf to be laughed at, and I danced not on- but d and ly three but four times with Miss Princely, for ^Yoa're braver than 1 thought,^ she ha^
11 put said, when ws were through. ^ Now run my t and awav and be forgiven.^ bat if full My heart gave a strange little leap as she em laving said those words, but I answered by a laugh lin, i eyes i and kept close to her all supper-time. Peo- Yo about were talking about it, I knew, for all were thi i good well aware that Hetty and I were engaged j K_
to each other ; but that girl's sneer seemed i 8tc ut on to have made a fool of me, and I determin- | gi^. ^Id me ed to show her that I was my awn master. | Coi ST who When 1 left her at last, she said : 44 1 am j thi y that going away the day after to-morrow for J ph :r, and good. If you dare come over and see me | tht to-morrow evening ^ ^ | th
i away 44 I'll be there,^ I said, and then 1 went i De ^j. and in search of Hetty. She was not there. ^ *t^ Dr. Bray and his wife had gone home ear- wi as his, ly, and she had gone with them in their gig. 8i; >t send * I did not stay long after that. 1 wi
day.^ j The best part of that night I pasted walk- j 1 made ing up and down before ber wioduw. ^ j ht,^ in There was a light within, and every new *^ e earth and then a little shadow crossed the cur- j
tain* If I cuuld have seen her then all ; ^ but not would have been right, but it was tuo late, ! see her end I went home just in time to change my , tc her to ; dress and be called to breakfast. ! n
I could I Tbe day wss a lonr on*-- It a as a busy . 1
it time, and I couldn't leave my work ; but 1 1 and it ild thought of Hetty all the while. What were. re, apology could Imake? I aould only tell her j there ^ re. the truth, and how meanly that sounded. \ bands er 44 Tied to her apron-string,^ and she the j not alt ;irl gentlest thing that ever lived, who never lovely 1 at strove to rule me. I almost hated Miss which of Princely for that speech now. there, 1
nd But Hetty was so good and sweet-temper- 1 than oi lly e'd she must forgive mc. It was the first ** Ms ah, time I had offended, and I mad* short work | this. ew of the mush and milk at supper, and was j maks y ted up stairs and dressed and off in less time you bbi ras than it takes to tell it. ^^ Pa
lot When I reached the House, old Trabb was . marrv. .'}^ , taking supper by himself. 44 Looking for ^ A* > aid Hetty ?^ he asked. 44 She's off spending ^And ng. the afternoon somewhere ; took her knit- times. Jer ting work and said she'd be out late. >it would ed, by and take a bite. gether. ere But I was too restless, and hurt besides, i him.^ el- It was one of my regular evenings, and Hetty ^I us j must have known I would be there. I Jehn v wn i thought her very cruel and unkind ; and old m^ iul then in a spirit of pique I made up rny mind ^Ic ;ht, to go to Butler and see Miss Princely at hsr life an md cousin's. 44 Di
' *f It was a three mile's walk, and w_s qnite ing m my dark when I got there. Th*y lived in the never ea only street of Butler, arow of white houses, audit ing with their gardens joining, just separated out lc aye by pretty little hedges. Miss Princely wac ^Tl ^^^ alone. 44 So glad to see you,^ she said. 44I the oh we staid at home on purpose;^ and she smiled, 44 Ai vith and dimpled, and looked prettier than ev ~r. upon!
Then she played to me, for they had a pi- The t be j ano, and afterward the colored woman before rery j brought in coffee and cakes and cold chick- M H ^^>- ed, and we had a little supper. I *aid
;not I didn't forget Hetty, but I made up my fell fa rant ' mind to enjoy that evening, and the supper An me over we walked up and down in the garden. I said try ] Sext door, with tha hedge between us, some *^ H best i girl8 were chatting, but their laughs and after i dn't | voices were the only sounds that broke the and a | silence. Can ]
dn't *^ I'm going away to-morrow,^ said Miss of an^ was Princely, after a little while. man i
; ray ^ I am very sorry to hear it,'* said I. you, 1 and a I don't believe vou,^ she said pouting, i crippl her* tt why not ? ^ my lo
and ^^ You'd not care if all the world were go- j ment *n?* ing,^ she said. 44 If you were to hear I I w urc' were dead to-morrow, you'd never grieve.^ look i ^the ^Indeed I should.^ white it it tt oh, you men !^ she said coquettishly. palmi
^ But do you know my poor little bones tshe qUite long to be home again I It's growing J Jei> chilly here as autumn advances. My hands ut a are qUite chapped, and my lips, just look *J lt w^ at them.^ She pursed them up in a very that tempting way and I bent forward. 1 h
day- ^ I can't see,^ 1 said. 4; It's too dark, I [*m^ nnd mu(,t tell by the sense of touch.^ bl*^d is to it's strange how such a bashful fellow as 'vely j had beea could have grown so saucy on a mU8t sudden ; but I told you before I was be- ftnd 1 witched. 1 bad kissed her as I spoke, and WQat aked she gave me a little soft slap, and said, 44 0, Jj > that how dare vou ? ^ in any thing but an angry * be- voice. 1 r
jsion st They're very soft for chapped lips,^ I time, ?e said ; and just then turning, I saw in the feet I I ^ 1 moonlight a pale, frightened face looking the s ue to j 0Ter ?he hedge which divided the two gar- jacet lage. dena. There for a moment stood Hetty snow how, hooking at us both. The next I saw it sink, Lake tey^^ and he?ard some one cry, 44 Why, what is ient^ Dted. j tha matter with Hetty ? I think she has dy.) !r'^lf | fainted.^ ^ :ould uow much she heard I never knew, but I i Wlttl know she saw me kiss that girl. Sudt lit on The next day a farm-hand brought me a Tl irater ?tle parcel and a note from Hetty : resp ! 'wo- ^ i Mnd you back your presents,^ she wrote. ^I roon Hetty _jsn vou cowid return all the love I have given yon. most mew, It is over now, but I am ashamed of ever having al a ^.need cared for one so treacherous and fickle. ^ gRZC bash- Those cold words only. Five hours af- the l lyself terwards I had left homo'and was far away, in tl ?king with only a few dollars in my pocket and the twice a bundle of clothes on a stick over my | grey ^r the shoulder. basi b had A vessel was about to sail for England I Up t :ht of when I reached New York, and 1 shipped and better before the mast.
seined I went half ronnd the world, and went to
many a land. 1 never forgot Hetty, and 1 a been knew I never could be happy again ; but I die_ d was was most like myself in a storm, or when i little | there was any danger that excited me. One g00
j thing thev thought odd in me ^ I never dar- ong as ed to loot at or speak to a woman when we
went ashore : pretty or uily, young or old, ^fl it was all the same. At last I wrote to rim ^gj/ott mother, but not often, and I never asked a Par onder question about Hetty. I didn't care to is t^ j hear what I supposed^ I should,|thatsh* had j 8Ub >d I. married some one else. | ami
dance When my mother died, father was not j be j fond of writing, and I sent him presents I 0f I n be- instead of letters, and had no chance of I 8hi]
1 I did | hearing. prii on the j I'll not make my long story longer by and ;eth*r. telling of mv adventures at sea, or how we adi d him came, aftertl was first mate, to fall in with ] Ma; ^g tny- a pirate on the high seas. We b*at him ; I 0f tot on- but I was wounded, and tbey took me up i whi incely. for dead. 1 lived, however ; and though I alg, ,^ she had lost a leg, and had a great scar across >w run my cheek, seemed likely to live. I came ! if t
back to America, and my heart being soft- ia i as she euc>l by a long illncsB, i longed to ge home ma i laugh and see my good old father ; so from New the . Peo- York I travelled to my native place. I was t* 8
11 were thirty-six years old oa the day when I aw ngaged | limped through Butler, where the stage ^di teemed j stopped, and saw the garden in which I had ^^ r .ermin- j given Miss Princely that kiss which had ant master. | cost me, so much. My heart was so fall 44 1 am ! that 1 could have wept. Butler and our ' ow for i place had grown sueh near neighbors that :0\ see me | that they were almost one. Only two or
I three green fields lay between them. A aa 1 went i new street had beea built, and tbe tavern , qU bore.^ | *tood on that. It was altered, and had | wl me ear- j wings and another story, bat there wua * i ar leir gig. j sign ^ The Town Hotel, W. Trabb* A boy a;
i was lounging at tbe deer. I th
id walk- 1 ^^ Is old Mr. Trabb living y et V ^ I asked* j si idow.^ ] ^ Yea, Sir*^ sain tbe bey ; _r_ he's ri*-t | tb >ry new \ smart, thongh tbey say be'* over nineiy.^ oi he cur- j ^ He'H not remember mo,^ I thought. ^ j hi then alt [ ^ I'll go in and see him.^ | h
.uo late, I I knew tb* way to the parlor, and I went , mgo my > toward it. Tbe hail was oil-elothed and j tl ' painted, and when. I looked into the room I n a busy . 1 hardly knsw it. Its walls aer* papered, t!
I j and it was furnished as modern parlors t ] were. But I did know the form that stooti r ] there ^ the slight, fair woman, with her
^ bands of golden hair^ Hetty ^ older, bat ^ I not altered ^ the sweet girl changed to ^ r lovely woman. She bsnt over the chair is s which her old father sat, and, standing
there, I heard him speak, bis tones thinner
- ; than of yore and with a quaver in them. t ^ My dear, I wi*b you'd think twice of it j this. I'm sure John Westbrook would s | make you a good husband. I'd lik* to see e j you -tarried before I die.^
^4 Papa,^ she answered, ^ I'm too old to s I marrv. I'm thirty-five.^
* 44 A mere child yet,^ said the old man, ^ g 44 And you might have been married twenty j- times. I don't Want to lose you ; but John it would take the business, and we'd live to^ gether. Make up your mind to marry
>. i him.^
T 44 1 can't papa; indeed I can't marry I Jehn Westbrook. I must live and die an
d old maid.^
d 44 1 can't see why you should throw your ir life away,^ said the old man.
44 Dear papa,^ she said, *4 it is not wast- t^ ing my life to spend it with yon. I have to never loved any one but poor Arthur Maffit, s, and it would b* very wrong to marry with- ^d out love. He has.all I ever had to give.** a 44 The sea cannot give up its dead,^ said 'I the old man.
1, 44 Amen! ^she said, and bent hsr head r. upon his shoulder and wept aloud. i- Then I crossed the threshold and stood ^n before them.
s> 44 Hetty, I am not worthy of your tears,^ I said. And with a cry, she turnod and >y fell fainting in my arms. er An hour after we sat alone together, and
n' I said to her :
^^ >4 Hetty, I have no right, altered as I am id after so many years, to come between you ue and a bettor man. But I am very sel fish.
Can you forget the bitterly-repented folly as of an hour enough to forgive and bless a man who loves you, and has always loved you, better than h s life ? Will yon be a ^g- 1 crippled sailor's wife, Hetty, or must I take mv lonely way again, and bear my punish- ;o- j ment till I die ? ^
r I 1 waited for my answer, not daring to W look at her until she put her little milk- white woman's hand in my brown, rough ly. palms and left it there.
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0_- I du consider muskeetert
Tbe moste pesky ov all God't creetun.
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I hav finally ketched it. 1 hav bin like a I lam, led sudden to the slauter, and bad mi ' blood sucked out ov me, as though it waa a8 only sweet sider, and belonged tu tome- n a body else. I am a man ov peace, but, low and behold ! there ain't a piece in me but >nd what iz bit and puckered and tore. 'O, When m_k eaters whisper in ynre ear rTy The devil's angels are hovering near.
I retired to rest last night at the usual ' I time, on the left side ov me, and about 2 the feet adjacent wax the side ov thebous, on ing the south side ov mc, and about 2 feet ad- ar- jacent is my wife. I drn'pt tu sleep as a tty snow fluke duz on the buzzuni or a silvery nk, Lake. (I have a faint idee that this last ; is sentence, for luvlaness, can't be beat,han- Qas dy.) I dreamed a gcod sixed hot dream.
It felt like tbe breath ov a Kanada Tbusell it I Around mi bed a triing tu whissell.
Suddenly I awoke. e a The room was full ov yells and screams responsiv. I dashed wildly across the s^J room. I lit a lite. I harked one of mv rou. most reliable harks. Awl wuz still ^ still ^^g as a crow's nest, iu the dead ov winter. I i gazed a gaze, az tho' I was triing tu thred af- the rong end of a kanibrick neathM. Awa 'ay, in tbe distance, solitara, alone, clus up tu and the ceiling, chawing hiz cud, sot a l'ttle my [ grey cuss. 1 dipped a coarse towel into a basin ov water and wrung it out. 1 krept and I up under the little grey cuss ^ i tuk aim, ped and fired,
And hit the spot it to Where the littlo grey cess had sot;
Jd J Awl wuz still agin. I onlighted the ken- ut * die ^ and sought mi couch. rhen i a]apt agin, only as the vartuous sleep !
^ne | Soonly, alas ! teo soonly .' a
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old, With the title of L'Echo Nuptial, a mat- e to rimonial paper is soon to be established iu id a Paris. The exclusive object of the journal
- to is to promote the connubial habits of it* bad j subscribers ; and every day several col-
I ums of ^Proposals^ and 44 Wants^ will not j be published, with the love correspondence :ents I of those who desire to carry oa their court- e of j ship through the columns of a publio i print. We suppose, instead of financial t by and commercial articles, they will present ^ we a daily review of tho 44 Wifo and Husband with | Market,^ announcing the various shades iiim ; I of complexion in favor at that time, and >e up j what color of hair and eyes is preferable ; 'gh I also, whether short, stumpv females ara :ross likely to range 44 higher on 'Change,^ and same ! if the supply of gentlemen of high stature soft- is fully *' up to the demand,^ or if tho io me market is overstocked with them, making New the prospect better for thus* who sell I was ts short,^ Of eourse those in the market ian I i awaiting customers will be classified by the stage j editor under the terms of 44 tall,^ 44 short,^ I had t. middling,^ * light,^ ^ dark,^ ^stumpy,^ had and 44 square-sboaldered.^
5 fall
i our The Scientific Amtriccn givts the tat*
that lowing recipe for an mat trap : ro or 44 Procure a large sponge, wash it well R> A and press it dry, whTeh will leave tbe cells avern , quite open ; then spriukle over it same flue i had | white sugar, and place it where the ante f_| a | are troublesome. They will soon collect A boy j af on the sponge and take up Vbeir abode in j the cells. It is only necessary to dip tbe saked* j sponge in scalding water, which will wash i right | them out dead by tan* af thousand*. Pat siY.^ I on more sugar, and set the trap for a n?w gin ^ | haul. This process will soua ul^ar tho
| bouse of every ant.^ I went , [A capital idea. If tbe originator of d and j thi* thing bad patented it be would na\* room I made a fortune of it. It is th^ ^ litue pwd, thiugs ^ that pay.^ Ei>s.
