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. "'" - Ml ii ' . i mi it i 'II - -Him inn'H -r ' 1 i i iniTi irrnT-iln"- in T " ' innmiiiiiiMnmiwmui wi-. . - n.i 71 :nrr J A m. . v Jfc. .ev r 1 k Z' I 'Jit fi Liti. , ! at n'ui! In.; ."i.' jui ;CLARKSyiLLEENN;,-SATURDAY OCTOBER -4 -1873.: ,.n) it .t WHOLE NO.-2,!S2. mi - r . . . I - - ' ' .i . . ?-. .-. i;..-f.-t Hit.lJ t ,. ,i - . 4T r ? : V A I v". I i .iiii BYERS keeps a complete ! :- -stock of Drugs, Patent Med ' ! :i ' icines, Paints, Notions, Blank .li Books and Stationery, and is ' , prepared to sell low at retail (f.; or wholesale. W. M. TURN LEV. ' W. J. ELY W. D.MEIII WETHER, Jr. 1 TURNLEY, ELY & CO. AND General Commission Merchants, ' TiKK-rsoor WlBEBOrSI, rLIUKSTILLE. - - - TENS. IftTMcei Hide Tcc la Store. w h. aaenred the service of Col.W F. Young, the well-known auetioner. bo vlil tell Mi 01 our iuuiixu iui u. We have erected a lied In New Provt Ho,. nnnoulu the store of Hwn. McDan' t lei Barbae, where we will receive tobacco " Mddnr it loour warehouse freeof charge rJt those Dersons who do nut wIhIi to haul It to Clarkvllle. Memtrm. MrDanlel Har be will receive, wettcb and receipt for To naceo UeUvered at our unfed In New Provl dence. tct 1 71 -tf. Captain Jack Captursd! Owing to the Breaking cf a Worth less Bridle. . If be bad par- Jmllii' make he C could have oia denauee to tieu. ltavls and the dynasty at Wa.li i..tfiiii I have a splcn dld stock of Had d lea, Brld lea, Harness, aaimr . , , , f , . , Whlpn, Kicof any kind d wired at price which defy eompetition. Nothing but the . i l ....... I ii t nnn hilt t tl nM(t DCMIUEUTII.! t x I workmen employed. Ho come along and ct the worth of your money. When you want anything In the above line, be sure to call on in. i. josliiv, Haddle and Harnens Maker, Juuel4.73-ly. ClarkBVllle.Teun. W. A. QDAKLKH. W. M. DAXIE1. U. M. QUAB.LE8. (JuailBs, Daniel & Quarles, Attorneys at Law, CLARKSVILLE, TENN. WIU practice In the Court of Montgom ery and adjoining couuuea. April 'it, W72-I BlZ-U MONO B. LX'BTOX. THAS. W. TTLKR. t. LURTOH & TYLER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, CLASKSTILLE, TESS. Will practice In the court of Montgom ery and adjoining countle June 15,T2-tf. JAMES W. RICE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, CLARKSVILLE, TEXN. Wilt attend the court of Montgomery, Htewartand Houuton eountlca, ulnoaon Ktrawberry Alley. Jan. , IHTHy ; BARKER & COURTS, WUOLENALE GKOfEBS " QUOR DEALERS. Franklin St., Sign of ugar Hogshead, jan lS.7J-lf. .... fcltH-D ASBBItSOW. K. 8. BRIHG1IUMT. ASDEKSOX & BEIXG1IURST, UIALEBS IN COJL, EAT, GBAD7, BSAN, ETC., FRANKLIN STREET. CLARKSVILLE, TENN. lkro 33. l(Cl-ly National Hotel. CLARKSVILLE, TEXN. T. D. SCOTT, - Proprietor. Till houe I complete In all It appoint mvulx, and the table iiupplied with the beat the market alTordH, atreaaonable rate. Jau. 't-t' S. OPPEXHEIMEU, DKALKB IN Jlldei, Fan, Wool, lilnseng, and all kiidi or Hrtal, rUic Squarr, CLARKSVILLE. I am no candidate for office, but will pay ranh for all article 111 my line. Come nlong with them. Sept. 2X. ISTi-tC The finest selection of im ported Colognes, Handker chief Extract, Hair Oils, Toilet Soaps, Combs and Brushes of all kinds for sale by OWEX & MOOllE. To orn Friexds. Having gone to great exense to give our reader a lar ger auJ bettor jwper, wo would ur gently request all indebted to us, by uote or aceor t, to conic up, without delay, and nuikc iyuient. We need the uiouey, and hope this modest ap jieal will not ass unheeded. Neblett & Grant. Fine Cigars, also choice Arirginia Smoking and Chew in0' Tobacco for sale bv OWEX & MOORE. Uow Providence Saving Institution . . WeofTrr forsale lonlsvllle City SeTen Per Cent. Bonds, Due in 1903, AT DO TEXTS AMI ACCRUED INTEREST. The llonilH will be delivered In any .ftioounl deklred. In either Ixiul.vllle or .Nrw York, or at Clurksvlllo, Ti'iiu. epl.-w. J; J. CRUSIfflAII i , . n '...,-. Is now making large addi tions to his stock, and offers inducements to the Trade, WHOLESALE A!!D RETAIL EXTRA GOLDEN SYRUP, to keg, half barrel and barrel. IEV ORLEAKS MOLASSES. Crnahed, Powdered and Granulated STJOA.H New Orleans, Clarified and Brown NEW CAROLINA RICE. FLINT HOMIW Y TAPIOCA. oysters: PICKLES. n. ! 2 . VOMESTEillIRE SACCL GELATINE. Burnett's Flavoring Extracts. DRIED BEEF. BEEF TONGUES. PEACHES. BLACKBERRIES. TOMATOES. COLMAJi'S MUSTARD. PURE CREAM TARTAR. TIKE BI-CARB. SODA. Pure Spleen, oTnll ktnls Hor&ford'i Brrtd rrrparatloi. rURE CATAWBA WINE Pure Cider Vinegar. Oltl HourMnith Wliilcy. . Old Teach and Apple Brandy. Old French Dranily. 300 Bus. Clover &"?ed. TIMOTHY SEED. Orchard and Herds Grass Seeds. blue oiim.ss m:r. With all other (ood to mukc a complete axsurtiueut. . , J. J. CRU8MAN, Klrst and Franklin Street. Jan.VTJ-tf. WALTER IIcCOIlB L Co ' in.. ', .ii i u; irt 3 .1- .Jinwi .'. .W ri ..-.riJil ! j !!:.!! t -1., i -, l WHOLESALE .-!lt KA1 i-!i;s( II TA1101 Franklin Street, , -i Clarksville, ! Tenn;, :t I ; i i:-j Are daily adding new 1 sup plies to their large ; and ', well assorted stock of Staple and Fancy; .0 i'-1 which they sell as low as they can be bought anywhere in the South or West. V They invite -es- pecial ; :j attention to )i their very trire Stock of the Best Brands of Robertson Coun ty Whisky, Old Brandy and Pure Wines. We are SOLE AGENTS, N THIS MARKET, FOR DRAUGHAN'S CELEBRATED Robertson County Whiskey particularly suited to those who want a pure article for medicinal or oth er purposes. fc 'J! Groceries Orders promptly attended to and satisfaction guaranteed. Walter, HcComb& Co. March S3, 1873-tf MONEY SAVED! '-'.) i-.i - at ' BT BUYING YOUa'. r BOOTS, SHOES, o.'i Tf;l l-'il,. I'. 11') . HATSCAPS; I... 'I 'io -in ii Ocnt'sPiirnisIiingGcsds ;i!f . (. 1 .J..d:l J !'.: t-.l am.! I, ii. ii'. i 'iin vv-: i'J- V-aL- .Williamo U t: . 'A i - i- ..K 1 I! T .i.i , ..j i REAL .. . BARGAINS! i !i,l!vi l! U. now being offered to make room for oar laiiaiocK. neaxecaitandprioe onr goods. i .1-.:..: ; - V. L. WTLLIAM8 J very ftespecuuny, - - U. i a Franklin St. juiy 12, 1875-tr . . . ,, ,( W: k. POLLOCK.1 ' ; SAM'L 'jO'aifSON. POLLOCK & JOHNSON, 1:1' GENERAL INSURANCE (1 : i .1 -dl ,:i 1 1 AlfD ' lit-jii; :.! .1. ;.!!.:, Rr? i T "Pcvn a m-n isin-vrmrt iiflb LoiAlij AuLJN Id, (Office TJp Btalrs) . 11 .-; i-i J.'- d- ; ' COR2IER FBAXKLIV AXD riBSTSTS., ' CLARKSVILLE, TENNESSEE i'i i i ,:i 1 . Fire and Marine Insurance. The heat Da (OeaDfMLire InmiruiM in th ITnitnl sapeat The OLD AND RELIABLE, aw m " ' . ' visw orlJ auizs ins. COsi ao new-fangled, untried, or experimental company, but one time tried and tested and ever found worthy. Undoubted in- aeiunuyaune Y - LOWEST KX0W9 KATKS f OXSISTENT WITH SECIBITT. . Ba not deceived and misled. The best I the cneapeat. if yon wish to Insure your life, choose a eompany of age, exjerienee aud anility, ana you will select the "Old Rella- oie" mew tnrt i.i Will give our attention to the hnvinir. ' nruniivgi rem estate. J. J. HAMLETT Uannfacturei and Dealar In ' STOVlTilffA HOUSE-FUOISHIG ' GOODS, ETC Franklin Street Dorrls' old stand, Clarksvllle, Tenn. Every description of Tinware mad up in good style. K00FIX6 and CITTEEIC promptly ii .. attended to. Special Agent for Wallace's Patent Orate . And Tilton'a Steam Washer j or Womu'g Friend. auAU kind of repairing donei' : ', ', , . . r- i j i i; VSTR. P. DORRIS will tuperintend the workroom. 1 Anj. 9, 7$-tf .,. mmm- . .. ' poachers: ghosts, boggles; he's not par SETTLE & SON Aff'ts ticular.if hegctshis monc Stifl, if -- 1 . . And Dealers in n 4 "D J ' n 11 1 lOUlltry rr0flriC6 benerally J . j FBAHTUST HALL BUILDING, . CLARKSVILLE, TENN. .w VA, 1 - Wo keep every variety of . ; FAMILY. SUPPLIES, which w. offer at the lowest market rate. WANTED, i Country Produce of all kinds. Poultry, I Eggx, Butter, etc. for which we will ex- nanie uroeenea or pay cnxii. t r I;" SETTLE 4 SON. Jan. 25, 7S-tt . COAL ! ' COAL ! " WeoredellreringSt Bernard Coal, with. id tne limit of tn olty, for 1 cent per buxhel. Piusburg Coal, for 80 eeuu er . P- RAeEY A BBO. 8ep.2, 1871-tf KE CBEAM AND SODA WATER -AT n -r.'i We bare opened onr Ice Cream Saloon forthesaou. and are prepared to furnuth any quantity that may be devired. We have on hand a large and varied as- Boruueuioi . CONFECTIOXERIES, ' ; FIREWOr!kS; ; : MASKS, ? ' DOLLS, TOYS, and everything In onr line tbat can be desired. Call aud eaaiuine oar stock. , 1 , i : ; " . ,i.(i si if ,ltHf it? .. .-.!.'-' - -;,&a i- i LIGOB & ELY'S BAKERY lslnfullopwUio. raeh Yuaat Broad, aud every variety of Cakes, rrwtlj from tba oven everyday. All orders prom ptlyflUad. LIGOPJ iS ELY, - il i.'. SSFraakMa Street, V. ClarkiiiTllie,'Tonueiisco. May 17, 73-tf. AKIS AT THE BOOB. .;. ylU . ' ! We were tahdln; In the door-way KylHUe wife audi. v , ,'r Tbe golden uun upon her hair Fell down so silently, m f A. small white hand npon my arm, . , i What could I aiik for more, -....U, ' 'Than the kindly glace of loving eyes, :r-i- A ke kissed meat the door. : I know ahe loves with all her heart The one who stands beside! .1. i .And the yearn have Iweu so Joyous (i .1; hineo nrsi i caiieu Her urldul We've had so much of happine Siixre we met in years before u',;. Bnt the happier liuw of all wan ..lj . When he kissed me at the door. i'.l M.l wno care ror wealth of land or gold ; Ol lame, or iuatchieti power I - ' Itdoe not give the hHpiiuoii - ,., Of just one little honr, - ' t , With one wh love me as her life . She saysHhe " love nie more" . Audi thought she did thin morning - . I Vhenhe kissed meat the door. . At times it aeem that all the world,;- With all It wealth and gold, ;; I very mall and poor indeed, 1.1 Com uareU with what I hold! 1 Bat when the clouds hang grin and l ... dark, -. ... , ,. X only think the mora ' ' Of " one " who wait my coming step' ': To kiss me at the door, s.i ' '.I . If nue lives till age shall scatter , "' Thefrost npon her head, -;!'. .-1 know she'll love me Juki the same , As the morning when we were wed ; , But If the angels call her, , A ad she goes to heaven before, , , I shall know her when 1 meet her :i. t For ahe Jl me at the door. ... ' K A5TLE FEERT. . I: was a yourger'man by five and tweaty years when the stranee inci dents occurred tbat form the subject of this story, .twenty-five years ago and yet not so far away in the past to one who has lived a bachelor's life, and has few landmarks to look back upon. Whether my fault or another's matters not 1 The courting days, if ever I had any, are a-misty retrospect, ana me shadows that belong to them I will not trouble now. Twenty-five years ago I was travel ing for my health's sake in the north of England. I had been recommended change ; too much study, or too much trouble, no matter which, had brought me low, and absence from my duties . ml ? . was imperative. . j.ne journey was one of the most miserable I had ever uq- spirits were worse, and I was without a companion in one ot tue dreariest parts of England. I had started on my tour without giving notice to the few friends I possessed in these times of my intentions. I felt that I should be bad comranv for anv one whose kindness might have prompted him to join tue, auu J. ncui uu iuy aiuuo, walking my thirty miles a day, as dis mal a figure in an autumn landscape as it is possible for my listeners to imag ine. .' .', .': The night that begins my story was a cold and dark night in the middle of October a ,cold, . windy night, with few stars shininz out, and no moon due till the earlv morninc. I had walk i eel I ed five-and-twenty miles that day, and ha ree more aciom'ii befre had thre the little reached. There was an ugly pass by a dark hill-side to travel, and a ferry over Nantle Iliver to be made before the day's journey was ended, and I could escape the cutting northeast wind and showers of dead leaves it rained upon me and whirled before me on my road. When the N antic stream was reached at last, and there was no sign of ferry- boat or lerry-man, . X oegan to wisn that I had finished my days s tramp at the inn I had left behind two hours ago. xney naa toia me mere it wouia be a long and tedious journey, and I shrugged my shoulders at their proph ecy, and marched off manfully. I was seeking " a long and tedious journey" fatigue and exhaustion were good friends to me, for they helped me to sleepand forgetfulness. Still I thought regretfully of the homely inn I had left behind, of the great wood fire burning on the hearth, and the bronz ed, good-tempered face of the landlord as be said, " It was ower late for trav elers not well up iu the roads," when I was standing at the water s edge shouting, " Ferry, ho !" and obtaining no response, save a faint " Ferry, ho !" from the distant hills, that, caught up my words and mocked me. Once be fore in my life I had traveled the same road and erossed the Nantle Ferry ; I knew I was not mistaken in the place, though my late host had assured mc that Wisford, the ferry-man, was al ways at his post till the hope of a pen ny was entirely lost to him. " He's as miserly as he's cunning. you must ' know, was tne oDserva tion made to me at an early hour of that night. " I've known him as late as midnight at the ferry, hankering after customers that never come. " It pleases the old man to turn a penny when honest folks be sleeping. Some say be carries over nueer company at times I iurri n nf h a AKflffV fLl tint UUU IC 11 l IA1 im uu wa u MW on t'other side of the river as joyfully as if you had brought a fortune to him."- ' ' The host had prophesied but . ill. however, for here I was, shouting at .1 i.Ll J :a I. .V. me water b euge, wnu juy uuijco oi iuc ferryman's appearance growing fainter every instant I was debating how to proceed, after the echoes roused Dy my last call bad died away; looking with no little ' dissatisfaction tp the lone backward road, and with Utai ta fording or swimming to the opposite side, and running on cold and wet to Nantle, when a liarsh whisper in my ear wade roe start, and set my heart for a moment boating rapidly. " Do you think to wake the dead. air? ' ' -- . ' I had always had some pride m my self-possession; but it was shaken then, 1 contcssed, with some little mor tification to myself. Still, a moment afterward, I was outwardly calm and composed, and stood on the river bank, quietly regarding my questioner. A woman, whose age was difficult to de termine at that place at so late an hour a poor woman, probably, with a sljawl of slight material drawn tightly round ber, a shapeless nonppi stock anyways on her bead, and one locjf of hair straggling from beneath in a mani acal manner that suggested the first witch "Macbeth." A yard or two from her was a great furze-bush, be hind which she had probably been sleeping or hiding when my voice arous ed her. She could not have been walk ing lately, of"I should have beard her fbotrVIUnthe loose, stony road I had recently traversed ; and J had ug fuitbj. in supernatural appearances. - ; "No." I said, in answer to her in? qulry j " but J hope to Wke the ferry man, my good wouiau, Dpiof p cmcn cold standing here." " I don't think the man's alive that will ferry yo across tfce riyerto-night." " Do you think the boatman's uoud, then?" ' Yes. with a strong shuddur, that I could detect in the darkness. "May I ask if you have any reason for that supposition?" . i "I have teen waiting here an hour for biw,an4 bebas made no sign a long hour, and the river whispering such awful things!". '. I glanced toward the woman again. She was standing with her hands clasp ed, looking down at the dark water. The wildness of tha woman's manner prepared me for any danger, steeled ray nerves to resist also her eccentricity, and made we ready to spring at her, should she meditate a leap toward the river from the bank on which she stood. ' . " '' ' "Do you believe in calls?f sh asked, after B moment's silence, ' " Well, Vf tyth i Ratlin, npw I $ gcttjpg hoarse. It was' uphill worV to strire fori light turn to the dialogue ; but the wo man's manner was melodramatic, aud of melodramatic peopla J have ever had a horror. "I mean 'calls from the dying to some one loved, or near, or dear-cajls in the last moment perhaps ! , l ou are a scholar; and may have read of them." ' ' I inay have read of some peculiar coincidences ot the Kind that might be put down to a call by any one of a su perstitious turn of mind. What of it?" Nothing," said the woman, mood- ; ".If the ferry man has been calling, niy good woman, 1 think, it must have been iu tho flesh.-while you were doz mghere, for there is a light in the window of the hnt yonder, and I take ntor &sim that 1 am heard. i .r" Thank God, thenl"; said tha wo man, lookmz ia the direction indicated. where, surely enoueh. a faint lieht had suddenly appeared, -i - . ci Is that the usual si-rnal to late travelers i 1 inquired. . ! " I believe so : I am a stranger here." was the answer, in a changed, almost sullen, tone of voice. ' ,;, -. That is the ferrv man's hnt serosa the river I it n!i'.l:v. Most likelv " ' , . ' . .( ' ' I doubted her ignorance, though I kept silent on the point, and intruded no further conversation on tny strange companion, who stood watching the distant light with great intentness. I was interested in that light also, for it augured a safe transit to Nantle, and I had nearly riven ud the hone of it. I called once more, and while -the hills were muttering tny words the light was moved a little to the left as if alon? a window sin. . . . , -. Good news.' The ferryman is wak ing up. -- 1 do notice was tacen ot this assur tion ; my strange companion evinced no satisfaction at the prospect of a fair end to her journey. I was sjieculating as to tne object ot that visit, and won dering it any superstitious reeling had really brought her at bo late an hour on the same road as myself, when the distant dip of oars in the water asswr ed me that the ferryman wasstill in the flesh, and had an eye to business. Pleas ed at this promised termination to my adventure. 1 lighted my cwar. and stood smoking it on the bank, while the dark outline of the boat eta dually become more evident -: I a few mo ments the ferry man was a couple of boats length Ironi our side of the riv er, at which distance he ceased rowing, and stood up in the boat with a lantern in his hand How many are there of von on the Lank ? Come more into the lieht." "Two," I answered, stepping for ward as directed. J The woman did not move, but he turned tho lantern full on her, and she seemed to flinch a lit tle. - . " Both strangers." he said in a some what suspicious tone. " Do you know any one in .Nantle r The woman gave a name that appear- ed to satisfy the suspicious ferryman, j whose cross-questioning was becoming! trying to my self-possession. Ilowev-1 er, there was no help for it but civili ty, if I wished to be ferried to Nantle that night, therefore I briefly respond ed that I was a tourist, and making for "Lion Inn." - " The ' Lion's full," replied the man; " there are people about the railway. You'll get no aiccomiuodatiou to-night" ' " A seat ly tho fire will be sufficient for me. It's only seven miles to Bcrksham." " I have just left there. Bring your boat nearer, my good man : it s cold work standing here." , , "Maybe, maybe; but it's an unco time of night to cross the ferry wak ing honest men out of their first sleep. There's moighty talk of queer custo- ers about, though I'm a poor man that it would na be profitable to harm. " Will you ferry me across, or not? I demanded, losinar patience. ' " To be sure. You're a gentleman, who'll make it worth my while. I know. I'm very old and poor, and my nerves won't get over, this shake up for a month. Jsow then sir !". The boat shot toward the bank, and the keel grated against the pebbly bot tom of the river. As the woman step ped into tho boat, he held "the latern toward her again, and tried to peer into her face as she passed to a seat in the tern, the tattered fringe ot her shawl hid her face from view, as she kept one large, ungloved hand pressed tight ly to her forehead. " Tired, mayhap?" he asked, ' " Tired to death !" was the reply. "Death's an ugly word at such a time as this in such a place, too," grumbled the ferryman, as though the observation had been au insult direct ed to himself. "Why at such a time or in such a place?' I said, as I followed the woman into the boat, and felt the glare of the lantern on my lace again. "Don't ask me it's a hard story, and I woant dwell on it," was the re ply. , "It's a story that's no business of your's, sir." , , ' "Possibly not." ' '. . . "They will tell it to you at the 'Lion' for a mug of ale. You'll know, then, why Jacob W isford don't care for such a tale. Wough ! how 'ate and cold for an old man to be abroad 1 gentle folks should make it worth bis while. I'm seventy-seven come November next."" ... Having obliged me with this very significant hint the old man relasped into bilence, and rowed us slowly across the river, keeping his small, keen eyes upon me and the woman, as though sfilj distrustful of bis company. When we were lauded on t(je other side, and the woman had thrust something into his hand, aud hurried away down a narrow lane, at the side of the, hut from which he had signaled us a lew moments since, he said: , ' , . n ho be she, sir may 1 ask; "I don't know. I found herwaiti titiug at the ferry. "No friend of yours, then?" 'Oh nor - "She's a sight more liberal than I expected from the look of her," said he, stopping and critically inspecting the sixpence in his hand. , "She feeU for the poor, whose lot is hardly cast. Ah ! mayhap she's got a father herself. The Lord be yood to you, sir you're very koind," Tculd gee fbe fcld man's yt siiar. le at thg sight of the half-crown winch I had tendered bam, and the blessing that rewarded my liberality came freely from his heart. , , "Ileal gentlefolks know how to be have to us hard workers. God bless you, sir, for remembering old Wisford. Straight down the laue to the ,'Lion,' sir-the ouly inn in, the, placg, and that, pfcocfc Ml!" - He gave Father a malicious chuckle at til is, which he attempted to smother by a sigh and a shake of the head oyer the strange faces that wepe making Nantle anything but what it used to be. ,i ""There'll be a good fire, thopth,'' 6aid ho, rubbing tne hand over. the other, and shivering; and that's more than I oould offer you, or afford, at this old house of moine. Cold it be at this time of year. You don't hap pen to have," he added, wistfully re garding my cigar, "a bit of tobacco or the epd of a eipar about you, for a pqor fellow who loikea hia pjp in noights like this?", . : v . ; - J tcudered him a oigar from my ease, aad receiving another hearty Messina; in ruturn, acpomiianied by the extra attention of showiug me a little beat a track across the green to the lane by the assistance of his lantern. "You live there all alone?" I asked, pointing to the hut at the water's edge-. . : .. . : ' -, ."Yes, lonely quarters they be, eir; but there's no soul to harm me, lor there's nothing to be got by it." , , i "Vo family f -; o no', nothing 1 W'"V darter, grandchild, gone dead, sir, years agone. Good-night to your .. honor. . Do you see the track?"' , . .; '-AUrit Qooa-u;' .:, Ilp ccljopd iny good D!Slt ag4tn, and before I had gone many steps down the lane l could hear sundry -bolLsietag shot, within tha hut, and . the rattle rattle of a heavy chain drawn across thedoor. 11 --; J -."A careful old gentleman,'? I solilo- quizea. as jl made toe best ot my , w.-yr to the "Lion . Ina" at Nantle. ,The "Lion Inn" was the first house In the village, and not more than -300 yards from the wretched domicile- of Jacob Wisibrd. It was a small inn enoughs but it looked a grutefal , shelter , from the dark, lowering uight, as I turnod thA curve of the laue,' and saw the bright red1 firo shining through the upper panes oi a, window only half masked by the low, wooden shutter before if The host of the "Lion.1' a thin, lank'-haircd, long man, responded to my summons at tho door, " l-; "i ortuaLsavs I ain't to have no sleep to-night," said he, admitting rue; there never was such, times at JNantle. Good evening to you sir. I fear there's little-space at your aervic.' Some genu are down here surveying and meas nog about, and haven t kKuiucb room. No matter.' 4'Au arm-chair and my traveling cloak will serve on an einer geney.. i ,.,r. .. ; :- ,- " ou're very kind, sir ; but it nee4'nt be so bad as that c ve & spare room up stairs wect and clean,' at any rate..: . A sight of the spare room shown mc by the host's flaring candle,- put me so much in mind of the coma ot a stout uncle of mine, whose funeral I had attended a few months before, that x beat a hasty retreat down stairs, sav ng that I would prefer the fireside and the arm-chair. "You'll have comnanv there, sir- male and female.-' There is mvself. who is sitting up to-night for a gent ho 18 expected late,, and there s a poor woman, who came in a minute or two before yourself, that I hadn't the heart to turn away, though it's blessed little I shall get by her. J This- way, sir. ' , i t. !..,.- ... , Into the tar-tarlor. or tan-room, or whatever else the host of the "Lion" might choose to designate it, I follow ed inv Kuide: It? was a ' trianmlar- shaped room, with a sanded floor and three dark-stained tables on one of which rested the head and outstretch ed arms of the woman who had cross ed the ferry with me, The bonnet she had worn was lying at her feet,, aud her hair it had been raven black once, but was now thickly sown with gray hung tangled and disordered over her outspread arms. It was the wreck of a woman a wtccic, perhaps, ot all that had been good, and lovinx. and tender. in the maidenhood of years ago. , Dead beat, said the landlord, scn- tentiously. . , ; i?:i sm i roor woman r Xo you know her?. "Never saw her afore. Working her , way to Pendlehant, she tells me, '"Indeed!" 1 ir 1 composed myself in the arm ehair before the fire, and the landlord took a seat opposite nie, and smoked hU pipe, and loosed reflectively at the flames. Although I was tired, and had made up my mind to sleep, fate was against me tbat night. Little chance incidents occurred that set uiy eyes staring widely just as they were becoming heavy and 1 was losing con sciousness ot outward thinza. The 1 landlord had a strong, hollow cough that burst out unexpectedly at times: the woman at the table by the window was restless, and moved once or twice in her sleep ; the coals were small in the grate, and would tumble suddenly through the bars to the hearth; , and the American clock ovef the mantel piece struck 1 like a death-knell. I gave up the attempt to sleep at last, and regarded, my landlord opposite. who still trooked his pipe composedly. When my host was perfectly assured of my wakefulness he said : : - , Did you cross antle.. Ferry to night, sir f ;.t "Yes, after some trouble to rouse the ferryman." ' ' ' : 1 Ah I he s a queer one. ob3crved my host ''I'd lay a wager he was watching you through his night-glasa long betore he made up his mind to ferry you across. Few more care fa 1 people in the world than old Jacob, I take it , It struck me that he was a little suspicious. lie suspects evervthme and every body, sir. He don't believe in any thiug. He's what you lamed Deonle call a skjptic. When he comes to the 'Lion.' sir, he drives me wild with his doubts of a fair pint of beer, or his right change out of it And he likes his screws of bacter rather larger than anybody else's." 1 he way ot the world, friend, . Well, its an uncomfortable wav. and aggravating : the more so to mc because 1 knew him twenty years ago, aud he warn"! the miserly old hunks he is at present. There warn't once a better man than Jacob Wisford this side of the Nantle." ... .. "May I ask what misfortune chantred his character so much ? I had met with misfortune mvself. and wad interested in a fellow-sufferer, 1 was courions t know what had changed the old man's life aud charac ter, and whether some lesson might be taught me on my own dark way. A hard, misfortune., certainly. Twenty years ago he was a widower, with an only darter a darter very beautiful, and much looked upon and liked. It's a story old as the billi sir she wept wrong." .... Poor mil - i, . ''Tempted out of her station, sir, by some artist-gentleman, who took it into his head to sketch hereabout at that time, and who met and spoke with her. and wound round her heart like a sar- Knt the Lord forgive . the ivahan ! e went away,-sir, to make arranjro menta for his marriage with Jenny Wisibrd, she supposed, and time went on, and the old man woke suddenly to the knowledge of the . shame his daughter had brought upon his head and hers. Ho was a good old man and bore it well. It warn't the sight of his darter's little baby that turned, hint hard as iron. . Jie grW to love t(jit baby air, aud to hope in his dar ter's repentance, and brought her to Nantle Church every Sunday arteriioon, to look them down who sneered at her and thought themselves so precious good- Well, sir, there was worse to come Wliat'a that?" ' . The landlord of the Lion and mvself both turned and looked toward 'the table wh,crg the wouiau slept ; but the figure was motionless, and in the same despairing attitude. The woman hai moved again ia her slenp-wtMat was all. ' ' . . ..:..-, ' "The worst was, sir, that there came a letter to the girl one day, from Lon don, that seemed to change her all a once, aqd make her hard and retklca. For tww day no one could make her out, she was so wild and strange; and then one night sir," sinking hid voice to a whisper, "jut such a night as this, she got up when her father was asleep, stole out with ner euna iu tne aar npss. ferried herself across tho river. sent the bot adriitt and drowned her , i . ii nanynoy. I was looking toward tne woman at this moment and could not refrain from a sligit,start at tho sudden mnu, nor in which a decply-lined, awfully white face was raised from the bent arms, and then as suddenly buried again, whon it met mv own turned in that direction. In that face, and in that brief movement, was concentra ted her whole story and I faneied, in the horror and fear delineated there on. I eould read the secret that had brorjjht her to tha river bank, a Xfo$ whilp agii., '. '. 1 ; , ' ; ' -$nd the woman has not been heard of since?''... , .. . :,i ..,- . : ; . "No, air. , There waa a . matter of fifty pounds offered for ber apprcheQ sion, but the has never been, heard vf, hlr-r jha better tw ail parties, terhap8 The old man gave up after that new trouble, sir; when he lost faith in his darter, bo lot faith id everything un der the, sua.- lie gave-up going , to church, to talk with the villagers, and teok to loving money instead of his child, like an old miser a he's- kert lor niguon twentyyears, growing worse with every day-, Well," ha added. philosophically aa he knocked -the ashes ont of his pipo against tho top bar of the erate, "such a trial as that might turn yon er me at rauch,v. sir who can tell I , , .-. , J it ;f tJi li. "The old man lives entirely aloue at the ferry house" 'Yes, sir, and pewde do My he's scraped together a tidy lot of inoncW by diut, of starving; aud bereing and i - ' i . v i- '.mi i . terrying, ana mat wncu ne uiea ll uue lound hidden about the house .in hearw i ':- " "Is he hot afraid of thieve ?" . . iineves iu janue, eir ! X never heard of such a thine ' r So this was the storv that the old man had declined to tell I knew how why he did not care to relate the same him self. , And it told iu moral,, too the old moral to the old, old story that one false stcn from right may be lean ing into a gulf from the " depths - of whic h there i do rescue. '" t could not sleep after its narration I was pain fully wide awake, and the- least noise jarred upon my nerves and made me restless. The woman at the table was a basilisk from which eould not dis tract my gaze. I felt , that she had been" a eager listener, and that the alone of all the world might poibly be able to add further details. This fancy took so- strong a hold wpon me that I bogaa to grow noxious for a sight of hr white face again-for ! a chance of studying it in search of that lost beauty that' had been her utter ruinj Was it speculative romance, or a strange coincidence? Had I, indeed, been a witness at the ferry to the silent meeting between those whom crime had parted twentyyears ago?. Twenty yearal nd the woman had gray hair now, and the lace of a ha? crime had-J changed her more than time, if she were Jennie isford. I remember that night setting in wet, the heavy drops 1-eItiBg against the window-giasa, and the 'wind sud denly rising and whirling wildly round the house.. ! remember listening to the ram and the sighing of the wind till the American clock struck two. . . . ... . then three, and the fare burned hollo and eollapsed., and the landlord! fell asleep with his pipe in his mouth, and his arms folded, bravo fashion, on his chest. Suddenly I ' was' roused to mv feet and the pipe frightened from the land iora up into me jcnuer, py an excla mation lrom the woman, who had so long retained her sleeping posture. A cant, stop herei 1 shall go mad it 1 ftop here I .- sue nau raiseu ner ncau irom the table, on which she had smitten her Dl 11- , 1 1 large hand passionately. :- ' Halloo here! what's alt thia noise about!" exclaimed the landlord. "Unlock your, door and let me be going on my way. ' I have many miles to travel betore sunrise "Don't you hear the rain lass?"'-said the landlord. . "I'm a tramp and rough, weather does not lrighten me. 1 ve roughed it many yearsnow, and I'm not afraid of eatth ing cold and dying of it No such luck for one sick of life as I am.", i "But you have had no rest," I sug gested; there is a small room up stairs, and I am sure our landlord will allow me to defray." ' . "I want no man's charity," said the woman, rudely, as she snatched her bonnet from the floor. "Unbar the door, and let me out into the night. Don't yon hear: I must be gone? ' "Oh 1 1 don' t wish to keep you against your will, said the landlord, becom ing warm in his turn : ','only, as you've had shelter here for hours, called for nothing, and been asked for nothing, I would ha tried and kept a civl tongue.. This way, inarm.". ,r ..; "You mu.n't mind nie," said the1 woman, in a milder tone; IVeseen trouble, and - m ' hasty-1 ike! Thank you for your kindness, though I wish to Day for it." t. ..... , .. She began fumbling in fhe pocket of her tattered gown as she topc to her feet but the landlord told her to keep her money he wanted none of it, and he had no charge to make for house room. . . ., , ml . . 7 i " "Are you going far T' . I ventured to inquire. ."Back to London, I've walked from London every step, on the faith of a fool's dream but then I'm a mad fool, and a whim leads me anywhere. But oh ! that dream !" with a shiver ; "It was like a call to be pre pareda warning that there was one ch nee left me even yet . Hut I am mail stark mad!" ! "To start forth in the rain like this right you be," obfcrved the landlord. The woman made no answer, bnt followed the landlord to the door, which was unbarred and open for her egress. Without bidding either of us good-niht, the stepped across tie threshold, drew her shawl round hor, and stood for a moment as if doubtful of her way. The landlord had cot closed the door, and I was looking over his shoulder at the strange wom an who had ventured ' forth in such rough weather, wheu the clear, sharp report of a pistol rang suddenly through the air.' As the landlord caught me by the arm.' and gave vent to an ex clamation of surprise, tho woman flung up her arms, and came, with a wild scream, back upon us. "The dream ! the dream ? Oh t my God, it's true at last and ho is ranr dcrcdl I saw it alia week ago; hia white hair dabbled with blood, and h lying on his face on the Wet grus-i out side. Oh ! is there no one hore to help mcir she ci"ietf, wringing her lianas. I was about to assert that at present there waa little reason for bur excite ment, when there vu wailed faintly from the distance a word that blanched all checks, and paralyzed vts fur a mo ment with its awfuj meaning "Murder!"- v.; ' ' . . " -,. .An. islant and the woman was run ning.dnwa the lane bareheaded, her bonnet in the roadway, and the land lord had seized a stick and hnt from the fiessaguv exclaiming: "There's mischief abroad to-night I. Will you fultaw, sir?" , I ran into the room, fur uivh.it and then the kpdtord of the "Lion" and J were hastening down the lane after the woman, w lumped swiftly fa bvi'ore iw, and whom there, was t. overtaking. As we hi'ificd inward tho ferry, voices ol' r..i-.iili, nu'.tkpnivl in the vilhtire aounilcd in the rear; and a dog, break- iaz froiu.iU I:cp til to coach-yard. eamo bounding to our side. I have k ! : vl tho distance was not far to the ferry -house ; tha bend ol the lane brought it once more t: view a dark blut near llic water's cdjie, scarcely distinguishable from the darkness of the night' As we beared it a picrcina scream Jrom tho woman unee mnro echoed in our msi aad, reaching the Ei-o a; s(,,we eould uistiiiguisii ner euding over a prostrate form lying on .a !. its ficc on the grass before tho furry-honsc.j-' 1 ; ' '- ' " "Mardoredl" rwped the landlord. "This U etrane ud awful uight, to bo rciuJiubertd by us both." ' -"Ayr A light ? a ' light ! on't : stand prating there!" cried the woman. "He is not dead ! I thank my God he is not dead !" ' ' ' ' ' ;"' , Tliev Unu'lord ran: into tho ferry, house, and I stooicd over the QUttiieJ man and fell for UU,i sirs of life aheet h; heart. . iuuioihiut in my Mijirter aparcd to suggest my profes sion to the woman.' '' ' -o'Y'on are a doctor?'' ahe asked ca. gerly.l; t (lvr .-. ,. . i 1 - ' "Y.'iUU live, sir? 'Do you! think there is a hope for hint even now ?' ' "It is initHuwible to say at present.". The landlord had a Mint and t-Uel.i cud was busy insi lc the hut, slnviug ii . ) . ; ,.(T to obtain a spark from them, when one villager, then : anotnern, arrived in breathless haste. . When the ferry man's lantern was casting . a sickly gleam on the wounded father, and the daughter bending1 over him, the num ber of those awakened from their first sleep had increased to eight three of them shivering, . anxious, inquisitive, sympathetic women, ready to offer as sistance, or get wet throneh, or specu late upon the motives of the crime, as circumstances might oceur. ; .' Jacob Wisford was laid upon his bed in the ftrrv-house at last ; an old lamp, half filled with oil, was discov ered on the. mantle-piece, and lighted ; the men and women came into the room, increased as if by magic, filled the little hut, glared over each other's shoulder's in the door-war. The rob bers had been . busy., and old Jacob Wisford had evidently fought hard before receiving his death-blow. The table and chairs were Overturned. a sideboard in one a corner hadv been cleared of its freight cf glassand crockery, and the fragments strewn about the floor; the contents of an old chest cf drawers had been erupted. and every hole and corner had evident ly been ransacked in the search tor the little hoard accumulated by many yenrs of miserly thrift, but sti J of honest labor. "-, ' ' . ' . One glance at the old man a face, by the light of the oil-lamp held above it, told of the vanity of human hones. . and of the fleeting nature of human life. "A few more minutes and the world wonld close with tho ferryman, and all be over. There was no need to break the news to her crouching at the bedside, and clutching at the old man's band, as if her grasp could stay his fleeting- soul: a child might read the story imprinted on that face. He will die f . ahe muxmireu, look ing up at me. . , ;. , , I nodded my head. 1 "And never know that I am here at last Oh I my God, if he wonld only speak once more. ; . i ,.-. -i "The money V It was the answer to her prayer so quickly and suddenly answered, with the eye distended and the disengaged hand grasping ao wildly at the air, that more than one stepped back and changed color. The woman sprang to her feet and bent her face close to the murdered man's. ' ,, "Fatherl": : . ..No answer. ; "Father, it is Jenny come back. Will you say one word to her? Will yon make aome sign ? Your own Jen ny!" - : ';. : i "The money 1 They have taken it all!" , ' , "Do yon know them T7 I asked. Tha old man appeared to understand me lor he shook his head, and sighed. I re pea ted my question and he shook his head again. ' "Ask him, sir, for mercy's sake I if he remembers his daughter Jenny Bhe who broke his heart?" - At her request I put the question. and received for answer the old reply : he money ! Money had been next his heart for twenty years; in hui dying hour, he seemed to love that beat on all the earth, and to find it hardest to part with at last But the woman made one last heart-rending appeal, and as the word "father" escaped her lips a third time, the dying man'a eyes lighted up as with new life, and he. made one movement with his hand, as if to push ner from him. ; 'Hack!'' "No, No ! " shrieked the woman. Not now; not in the last awful mo ment we are ever to meet on earth or a . in heaven not now ! 1 have come hundreds of miles to see yon once again, to ask yonr mercy, to tell you I am not so bad: 1 never was so wholly and unnaturally bad. I didn't kill the child ; it fell from my arms crossing the ferry, and the black water swept it away. It was my bitterest enrse to lose it, Heaven hear a guilty woman witness. Yon believe it, you will belie,-" - : She stopped, and her arms fell heav ily, rigidly to her aide.; . Jacob. Wisford was dead to all belief forever-. Had he died with the knowledge of his daughter's innocence of that one aw ful crime with which tho world, had charged her ? or had he passed 'from lite to death in ignorance? bod knows: He had died peacefully, at least, and with a calm smile on his face that re minded those wh had known him in better times of the Jacob Wisford of old days before his daughter stole away from him. Did it matter whether, in that life, suddenly ended, he knew a'.l? In the lite beyond, do not all the mysteries of our past humanity vanish away, and all the doubts and cruel mistrusts roll back from the real ? - This is my story, ladies and gentle men. I have little more to say. The assassins of Jacob Wisford were traced and comfortably hanged. The money, a matter of some hundred and twenty pounds, was harder to discover than the thieves, and passed away no one knows whither no one ever knows where all the money vauishea! and the daughter, Jenny, broke upsuddcrr ry beneath the shock of that strange night, and was bnried in Nantle ehu r-h-yard with the ferryman. N. W. Kob lnson. Wb make the followina; extract from a speech delivered by Li. II. Hill at the Jonesboro (Ua.) Fair : , In these five words lie the Sampson locks of your future power.. Make your own fertilizers by resting,' crop- Iiing, grassing. ' and manuring your ands Thus you become independent of the guano merchants. lUiite your own provisions. Thus you become in dependent of the provision merchants. I Your cheapest ami safest line of trans portation runs fromyonr owu he I Us and Ran pens to your own barns and meat houses! With no debts for your sup plies, you 'will need no accommoda tion credits at two per cent per month ? Tko-s you become independent of brokers and lien merchants. . You can then sell your own cotton to your own chosen buyers, for your own price. anl and will get your own money. None of those things ean a cotton planter do wno planU on n credit and LerTow money to buy his provisions., , . A correspondent of tho Somcrville Falcoln is writipg np "Karly Times in Fayette county, ' and says ;' , ' Our first County CourU were espe cially careful to avoid' burdening the early settlers with heavy taxes, as the following list for the year lt25, will show : On each 1XJ acres of land Ji cents, white pollJ black poll 31, re tail store fwur wheel pleasure car riage fl, two wheel carriage tl. I should have thought the last two it.Mns were entirely superfluous, aa there v ere but one or two public roads and no bridges in the county, but I find that one gentleman, Mr. Robert Cotton, paid tho rax of two dollars for a four wheel carriage. The number of white polls in the county in 1&5, was 5'.', Llavk KH), and the whole county tax did not exceed $7ua" ; . , BkLOW. we republish an net passed by tho Legislature of 1X73, entitled an act for the protection of farmers and stock raiser, which reads ; . '. ' Section 1. Be it enacted by the Gen eral Assembly of the State of Tennes see, That an act passed January 2Tth 18X, entitled an act for the protection of farnioT and ?tnek raisers, be amend ed aa ti read : "That any person kecp iu3 a atallion," jack, bull, or boar for tbli use, shall have a lien on the offspring of the same until the seasou is paid for ; provided such lien is en forced iu five months from the birth ol aneh otbpring. The lien to be en forced aa. the landlord's lieu, is do enforced,''