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BY W. A. LEE AND IIDGII WILSON. ABBEVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY MOUSING, JULY 22, 1859. VOLUME VII.?NO. 12.
POETRY.
From t/ie Home Journal.
A HOME IK THE HIGHLANDS.
t.. I long for a home in the highland*.
In otic of those look-sheltered nooks,
O'erlooking both river anil Elands,
And margined l?v elear flowing brooks:
With mountains |>ile<l U|> in the distance,
Whose changes ne'er weary the eye ;
Thb glory that day gives exii>tcnco
Increasing till night veils the sky.
Wherfi fields of a various tillniro
And valley and liill?!*Iopc compote
With cattlc nnJ wooiIh, and a village,
To render tlio landscape complete :
Where spring comes with voices of gladness,
And eummer'witli fruitage is crowned ;
Where nuitimn ne'e' deeperiB to sadness,
And winters a holiday round.
An eltn-shndcd house?not a new one?
With wings mid broad giilleriea, too,
From whence, 1?y the side of my true one.
To gaze on tlie frtr-renghing view;
Or watch the light sail-drooping shallop,
As lazily shoreward ehe swings.
Till the breeze sets her off on a gallop,
Aud swift by the low point she springs.
One room, with buy windows projecting
Well <>!il on nn everirreen lawn,
Willi vine-covered lattice projecting
The wren's homestead, voeol at dawo;
An alcove of volumes well chosen,
A picture hung up here and there,
Some bronzes at most half a dozen,
An old leather cushioned arm-chair?
Where to go. if kind Heaven vouchsafe me
Fit powers of body nn<l mind.
And no troubling fancies thnll chafe me,
To toil for the pooil of innnkind ;
How lovingly there I'd betake me,
To labors thut time wouM disclose,
"Where none should dinturb or awake mo
If I chanced to give way to repose!
Sometimes I would seek to entangle
The trout in liis hidden retreat:
Or. quitting the stream and the angle,
On n steed ever steady and fleet.
Indulge in a nerve bracing canter
Away to the glen's sounding hall;
?i.? # ? ? ?
w. aH,v .! buv vmii^lll Oliuur HUUUber
Alone by the dim waterfall.
With children o'er gravelled walks bounding,
Tlu-ir little forms like birds in th?~air,
Erempt from all symptoms eon founding,
For henlth munt he native horn thero?
My cirle would develope I he features
Tlu-ir Maker designed that they should,
And crow tip bright, spirited creatures,
"With freshness and beauty endued.
My sons should go down to the city,
Where nil the young men needs must go, i
To learn from the standing committee
Where best thev their hrHins could bestow :
But home they should come semi-weekly,
And oft*uer. too, if the views
Of railroad men ran not ohliauelv.
If ouly to bring me the news.
A neighbor of temper pacific?
I'd wmit one to whom I might lend
A new book or pamphlet, prolific
Of doctrines we both could defend;
Or r?*sip with, when of n morning
W? leaned on the low garden wall,
Drawn thither without warning.
And heeding no clock chimes at all.
A spirit. like this near my d .veiling,
Tlie programme would happily fill.
And leave me no want worth tlie telling
Unreached hy an everyday will:
Yes, thiie 1M improve tlie fair seres
Up river, n? long a* I could,
.Rej-'iointr that TimeV rnthtees wrecker*
Had left me so mneh real good.
Composition during sleep.?Condorcet
is said to have attained the cniir.luRion of
some of his most ahstru*e unfinished calculation*
in his dream*. Franklin mak?*s a
similar admission fowerninsj some of his
- ?-s- '
r.. nii 11*11 in ins wHuintr moments
sorely puzzled him. Sir J. Ilerschel
is said to have composed the following lines i
in a dream :?
"Throw thyself on thy God, nor mock him
with feeble denial;
Sure of hi* love, and oh ! sure of his mercy
at last.;
Bitter nnd deep though the draught, yet drain
thoo the cup of thy trial,
And in it* healing effect?, smile at the bitterness
past."
OoBtlie says, >n his "Memoir* "?"Tho
jccts which had occupied my attention during
the day oft re: ppeared ut night in connected
dream*. On awakening, a new com- '
(P'wition or a portion of one I had already
commenced, presented itself ,to my mind. ,
In the morning, I wm accustomed to record
tny ideas-on paper." Coh? ridge composed
bis poem of (be "Abyssinnian Maid" during
dream. Something analogous to. this is
what Lord Cock barn say* io his "Life of
Lord Jeffrey :"?wHe ( Lord J??ffrfcy ) had n
fancy that though he went to bed with hie
haad staffed with the names, date*, and oth?r
details of warioos causes, they were *11 io
order in-the morning; which be accounted
for by saying thar, daring sleep,* 'they all
eryitalixed around their proper centre*! n
^ t ^ i
A respectable butcher of Stafford fEnir-'
- >
land ). having lo?t teraral bffltar*, vtim at ? ,
Iom to account for the way in wbiob &ay.
bad bteo dfcpotod of* - A few daya ago, i
howeret, bU wife bnppening to gojptoibc
wrranlVbad-room. notiood a dn*a banging
up, prsaentiog more than tboo*d tna*y ?p- '
poar^nce of fulncM abort tba akirt, and, <
opon examining il, ?ba fouod 4b# mkaiog ?
ptabioT?U?rbooj*. ' |i
From the San Frnncixco (Cat.) Golden Era.
THE OLD CABTMAN.
BY BLl'NDEKUUbS.
I have a good rtiiml to tell a little story.
That it is brief, may be wen at a glance
that it in true, I most emphatically avow.
If the reader despWe it because of the 6rst
or tho editors of the Era reject it for the
reason of the last, then will I eschew truth
in the future, and devote myself to the elaboration
of lies into chapters, and the purest '
fictions into volumes of seventeen hundred j
pages each.
With this understanding I proceed at
once to remark, l lint five years ago, or thereabouts,
Jfiiin AinsK'V?or 'Pap Ainsl?*y,' as
lie whs familiarly called?was the owner of
a handcart, and earned a living by convey- j
ing miscellaneous parcels from one section
of the city to another, and receiving, therefor
the reasonable remuneration of fifty cents
per load. To designate the occupation, in
tho nrimiMt lanfTiiurrn nnn?!I.U l.~ ? - -
, "> nm ?
handcartinan, and when not emplnycd,
could always be found during working
hours at the corncr of Montgomery and
California streets. His hair and long, heard
were quite gray and his limbs feeble; and
if he could iove ns heavy a load
through pand or up the Meep grade
above h? * e stalwart Teuton on the
opposite corner, thereby losing many a job
and many a dollar, all the light loads in the
neighborhood fell to his lot, and kindheart
e<l men not unfreqiiently went a square or
two tnit of their way to give an easy job to
Pap Ainsley.'
Four years ago last September, (T rerollect
the month, for I had ft note of four
thousand dollars to pay, and was compelled
to do some pretty sharpy financiering to
meet it.) having two or three dozen volumes j
of books to transfer to my lodgings I gave |
Pap Ainsley' a task of transportation. Ar- I
riving at my room just as he had deposited !
the lift armful on my table, and observing
that the old man looked considerably fatigued
after climbing three flights of stairs
two or three times, I invited him to take a j
glass of brandy?a bottle of which I usually
kept in my room, for medicinal and soporific
purposes. Although grateful for the invitation,
he politely declined. I urged, but
be was inflexible. I was astonished. 4Do
you never drink V 'Very seldom,' ho renlifrl
(lritnninif intn ? - ?' ?- ? '
t ri""r? *"'v' ' "I ??1 V rfUliesl j
and wiping tlie prespiration from his forehead.
'Well, if you drink at all,' I insisted*
ynu will not find in tlie twelve months as
fair an excuse for indulging, for you appear
fatigued and feareeW able to stand.* 'To be
frank,' paid thd old man, *1 do not drink
now. I have not tasted intoxicating liquor
for fifteen years?pi nee 'Sinee when?"
I inquire!, thoughtlessly, observing his hesitation.
The oil man tol.] me. Sixteen years
ago lie was a well-today farmer near Syracuse,
New York. lie had hut one ?
a daughter. While attending a boarding
school in that city, ^ti^jgirl, then alnjut sixteen
years of age?ftjrlitiBil an nltac.lnneul for
a yom.j* physician*.'^I'quaititiiig her father
with the circuinfitAnce, he flatly refused
I.;. ' - -
..... vuBciib iu uer union with a man had
never Reen, arid removing her from Pchoul
lie dinpnt?*bed a note to tlie young gallant
with tli? somewhat pointed information,
that liis presence in I lie neighborhood of
the Aiiwdey farm would not meet with favor, i
The reader of course surmise* the result, for
as such a proceeding could and can have
hut one result. In lew than a month there
tvna nn rPt??. * 1 *
? .... inu iHiuer lonciea ins
double barrelled ehot-giin, and swore vengeance,
but failing to find the fugitives, lie
t??ok to the bottle. His goo'd wife imjilored
him not to give way to dinpair, hut '
lie drank the deeper, and accused her of en- !
couraging the elopement. In three month* <
the wife died, and at the expiration of a year,
when the young couple returned to Syra- '
cuse from Connecticut, where they had remained
with the parents of the husband. 1
they learned that the old man, after the 1
death of hit wife, of whi?h they had of
course been, apprised, had sold hi* farm, i
squandered the proceeds and waa almost
destitute. Learning of their at rival*. Aim*. (
ley drank himself into a franzv. ??<! mm.
reeding to the hotel where they were Atop- (
ping, attacked the bunltami, wounded hiin
in the arm with a^pifttol shot, and then attempted
the life of lit* daughter, who hap- j
pily escaped uninjured through the interposition
of penton* brought to the spot by the
report,of the pi?tot. Ainnley wan arretted '
tried and acquitted on the plea of insanity. '
fhe daughter and her hu*hart4.'returned to
Connecticut,aiucewhiebtimeti?|^her had 4
pot helfd from Ihtro. He wm tenl tortfce j
tunalie a*y)um, from wbieb he waa dkmi*- '
aed after rerti?jninR ?ii montfet. It) 1851 4
he qfune to CalUbroit. Re lwd followed *
mining fat two yearm, but finding bia 1
ktrmgih uneqairi' to -tbe pu?ait; returned >}
to tbie eky, purohe?ed ?- band-crt aand ^
lllaSilsKsi,
that I had been so inquwilivo, and expressed
to the sufferer tho sympathy I really
felt for him. After that, I ?eldom passed
tho corner without looking for 'Pup Ainsley,'
and never saw him but to think of the
pad story ho had told me.
One chilly, drizzling dnv, in the December
following, a gentleman having purchased
a small marble-lop table at an auction
room opposite, offered to the old man
tho job of conveying it to bis residence on
Stockton street. Not wishing to accompany
the carrier, he had selected the fare,
probably giving the best assurance of the
,.ur..r..i ..t .1... ~?i
iui wi IIIC j/Ull llcl^C.
Furnished will* the uuinber of the house,
the olil cart man, after a pretty trying struggle
with the steep ascent of California
sheet, reached his destination and deposited
the table in the hall. Lingering a moment
tlie lailv di'l not seem to surmise the
reason, until lie politely informed her that
her husband (for such he took him to In-)
iiad probably neglerteil to settle for tho cartago.
'Very well I will ; pay you,' said the
lady stepping into an adjoining room. Sb?
...i.? .t.-. -i-~ - > -
E<U<IK<I, mm aiming IIIUL Ml?2 IIHU DO Slliail
coin in the house, handed tho old man a
twenty dollar piece. lie could not make
the change. 'Never mind?I will call tomorrow,'
haid he turning to eo. 'No, no !'
replied the lady,' glancing pityingly at his
white locks and trembling limbs ; 'I will (
not pern>it you to put yourself to so much
trouble;' and she handed the coin to Bridget,
with instructions to sec if she could get
it changed at one of the storc3 or markets
in (ho neighborhood.
'Step into tlie parlor until the girl re
turns; the air is chilly, ami you must be
cold,' continued the lady, kindly, 'Come,'
bhe added, as she looked at his rough attire
and hesitated; 'there is a good fire in
the grate, and no one there save the children.'
?T? i'? ? ?i:-J ??-- i 1
.v ? OUIIICIIIIOI. VilllllJT, IUJ>HL-U IIIU Olll
man, following her into the parlor, and taking
a seat near the fire. 'Perhaps 1 may
find some silver in tlie house,' paid the lady
leaving the room, 'for I fear Bridget will
not succeed in getting the twenty changed.'
'Come here, little one,' said the old man,
holding out his hands coaxingly to the
younger of the Iwo children?a girl about
nix years of age. 'Come?1 love little children,'
and the child who had been watching
him with curiosity from behind the
large arm-chair, hesitatingly approached.
What is your .name dear,' inquired the
caritnun.
'Maria,' lispnd the little one.
'Maria lie repeated, while the great tears
gathered in his eyes; 'I once had a little
Sjirl mined Maria, and you look very much
like she did.'
'Did you?' inquired the child, with interest,
'and was her name Maria Eastman,
too V
'Merciful God !' exclaimed the old man.
starting from his chair, and Hytrin dropping
into it with iirn head bowed up?>n hi* breast.
Thin cannot he? and yet why not?' 1I?caught
the ehild in hi* arms wiih an eagernet-;1
that frightened her, ami gazincf into
her faeo until he found conviction there suddenly
arose to leave the houst^ 'I cannot
meet her without Ihj*raying myself, and 1
ilarc not tell her I am that drunken father
who once attempted to take her life, and
perhaps left hel* hushand a cripple,* he
groaned, as he hurried towards the door.
The little ones were liewildured. 'Y..n ar?
*# ,
not going!* saM the inothor, nt tlmt moment
re-appearing, ami discovering the qM
man in the act of pawing into the linll.
lie stopped and partly turned hi? face,
but *eeme<l to lark -the resolution to Ho
iiiify t eUe. 'lie said he had a little Maria
r>nc-e, that looked jiis-t like me, mother,'
shouted the child, her eyes sparkling with
delight.
'fl?e lcnepA of the old carlmnn trembled,
nnd he ItoHiwI ngninsl the door for support
The hidy sprang lowarda Slim, and tnking
liini by the atro, attenipted.Lo conduct him
lo a chair. Mr . ::
'No nof he ^xcfaimcd, cot till yon tell
me I ?ra forgiven 1*
'Forgiven K?For what ?' cried the mother
in alarm.
'IvKiognize in me your wretched father,
*nd I need notlell youV be faltered.
'My poor-father P the erie#, throwing her
?rn? nround hia oecL ; 'all it forgiven?all
forgotten 1* '* ^
All vhu forgiven and the ho?band, wftfp
tie returned late in ihoafternopn, wasjmansely
let* rejoiced than hia good-wife at ihe
Jboovfery. Whether or not Bridget tue,i?ed?ci
in ehanging tkedo^j^ eagle; I naver^
earned; Wtt ttye i ?io know?it took tbe]
EmhimI AmtWtil ( two month* to onrwrrl
he fcaotii}& fthiah rtw domeHle tftmn of
iht tmilf had tM %befo?4*ee dcringrher
ibNOM. 'Pup Aiqaloy, utill keeps bis cart;
'nT,i * r,
?UhU. I pcvpadT mtd pn heck yard of
fib.r&Mtmaa^ooo day, last week, and dispute
man dragging the fiitfbfito
rehieie round the encloettfe, with his &tr
jrioddhfldren piled promiacudwijr iahs> it
#
, From the Salisbury Watchman.
: A DAY ON A RICE PLANTATION?THE CULTURE
OF RICE.
To many of your reader, doubtless, tlie
i mode of planting and cultivating this
! great article of food is 11s much unknown
as if it were only grown in the East Indies.
All, however, are acquainted with iu excellent
qualities as a nourishing diet.
The plantation which I visited was that I
! of Col T. 1). Meare*, of Brunswick. The
j l?road. Hat piece of ground of many acres !
! extends far alons the adjacent creek*. The j
j land is divided into "ta-k*," I')' ditches !
i through in every direction, though mostly I
j crossing each other at tieht ancles. No j
j piows are nse?i, the whole work being done j
j with a short hoe nn.l a loner narraow one. j
: When a Pet of hands are put on one of these ,
j ta-ks they must smooths it off, make the ;
| little trench rows, sow the seed and rover ;
' if, all in the same day. The tasks are re- !
idly given to only one, as' for instance, it is j
the work of one to smoothe so mueli \
ground, of another to trench after him. and j
anruher to cover it. The numbers of these j
tasks make a field; this field is not fenced j
in, but is surronnded bv a larn-e ditch nn.l I
7 "
! enbankment. These are designated as No.
1,2. 3, and contain 10, 15 or 20 acres.
!
j There is no fencing: the great body of land
| ?containing a number of fields?surround
?d by a large canal.
j Uaving given von a faint idea of bow
j tbe land lays, we will see bow it is cnlliva|
ted. In the fall, after the rice is cut, as
' soon as perfectly dry the stubblo is burned
I off. Sometimes the weather will not allow
! this, then it remains and is chopped under
! in the winter. In December, the whole
i _ *
! land intended for cultivation is gone over
I with tbe hoe, breaking clods, &c. In ]
| March, the planting season begins, and from J
j that time onward is the rush. As soon as
I a field is planted, it it is covered with wai
ter, and so remains until the rice is pretty
j well grown. The water is then let off, and
j soon after the fiield is gone over with the
j hoe to chop out grass and work the rice.
! This is doiin lwinn
i The irrigation is managed so that wlfen one :
| 0 " ?
! field is under water, another may be dry. i
| Several hands are constantly employed in
| elearirg out ditches, slopping leaks io em- |
| baukments, &c.
i Every kind of bird is a lover of rice, j
i and an enemy to the interests of rice plant- :
; <>rs, but the one mo?t dreaded is the rice-bird. I
j It is a small bird, of darkish brown color, j
i with a sharp stout bill with which it grasps |
j the stidk <>f lire. Mid squeeze* the milk from j
! it as affect ually as if done with a pair of j
| nippers. Tlio oi?lv means of getting rid of ;
; tliein is hy powder and shot ; and though j
| thousands upon thousands are killed, they j
; still appear hs thifk as at first. During the ;
1 season of killing, hogs and dogs upon the j
j plimtHtion all got fat. Tin* negroes* are pro- j
viil?*d with c?"S and stwnd upon the hank*
and shoot froin morning until night. When
a flock of these birds come down near a
rice field, they swoop with noise like thunder,
am] the beautiful green rice stalks fall
! before tliein as dues the rice before tlie
i roper's ho<>p. Left, to themselves, hut a
| few hour* would siifll -e to clef\j) the field,
i hut a half dozen muskets scare them oft' for I
i I
a time. Hut few who do not live in that. I
j section have any idea of tlie immense dam- i
I jige they do to the rire planters; and I suppose
there is no mean* of correct calculation,
n? they never fail#, appear, thoucli I
more numerous some years than others.
Mr. Mt-ares informed mo that la*l vear he
consumed 35 keg* of powder in shooting
thein, and I lint one year ho had use*! as
much as 50 kegs. The shut waa in proportion.
Of^ lafe years an extensive trade had
erown up in the rie.e straw. The'scarcity
of liny, and the inferiori'y of tho article
brought from the North, induced Mr.
Mearea some years ago to try cured
rice straw, to put up with clover with Rait
and water. It succeeded well, and for that
which he Rent to marfcet he found a .renly
Rale. Oti|er planters adopt it, and die r'ce
straw.is now very generally used as a food
for horse*. &&. Though by no mean* equal
to the hay which you have, and is generally
everywhere in the Went, yet it is far superior
to the Northern aj>ology for hay, whWf
has for ao long been ao article of (bod
the-Cape Fear region. - v.
The plantatior>.|jf Col. Meares Is one of
the oldest on the river, there are field* i* it
which have been planted regularly for forty
years and atill produces luxuriantly. The
maeliiaery for clearing the rice is of the
he*t pattern. The rice aa it is told by the
planter* 1h the hu*k. pawe* through the riue
mK .and it is exposed for t?le id tierces
as w# .ose it npoo Vie uble. . . .
* . * > i + + m\ i % /
Wh? ioim or)# waa lamenting FooteV
unlock? fete in . being kicked in Dubllti, Johneon
said be ?ti glad of H. 'He H rt*r1
lllg in th* workS,* added he; *Wben ft was
in Englnnd, no $ne thought Jt -vftirtM wHif*
fuo.
THE DYING GIRL.
Open the window," 8aid the dying girl,"
that I may feel tlm wind on my for head for
the last, time forever?rai?e mo up, that I j
may look upon the sun once more before I |
die." As she requested, I planted* my nrn. ,
under her head, and raised it from the
pillow. How beautiful was her pale fare
lying there so helplessly, with her large
bright eves turned up to tie sun like a
worshipper, the black hair sweeping over
her arm to the pillow, ami the g<?Men light
lying upon her thin features, itnhuirisr them
as it welo with gloty and vitality, till iIm
whole form seemed consumed in a bright
essence, burning intensely within, ladiating
without. Ilcr eyes grew brighter ;ts she
gazed, ami she seemed refreshed with the.
soft wind stirring about her. "Flow brightly
and quietly ."she whispered,"does he eo
to his rest, melting away tint by tint from
ilie sight!" Turning her head wearily
awav, sho sank to the pillow, murmuring" I
O. tnat my departuro may be like that?
may I sink to my death cahnly and painlessly'
by leaving behini ma the bright
reflections of a brief existence."
For a few moments she languidly closed
her eyes and remained; then opening them
again, she gazed in my face and said?
"Death, death?if this is it, it is neither
sail niir tmitifiil?? " *
, ? ... v.nijf iioinc 10 ;
meet parents, sisters, friends' in n glorious
world, a region of spirits, bright, high, how
?" here her voire again died away in a soft
murmuring sound. She gathered strength h
moment and continued,
"My brother' lie is in a strange land, how
will ho grieve when he hears that I hid
j dead?tell him that I prayed for him, that
I shall meet him in tho eternal world of
glory, where we shall Iiv? for ever and ever
1 ?when I am gone, give him one of these
?and she attempted to raise her slender
hand to the. hair lying in a mass upon the
pillow. But the almost transparent fingers
wandered for a moment in the nir, and then
! fell feebly over the bedside.?Her lips
j moved again. "Tt is all fading, floating,"
' she said;"how crlorious 11?? nntr^lo 11<!
1 above me, smiling, beckoning, with wings
| so beautiful?newer tlioy hover, settling
! on my pillow?softly, softly, tliey?"A
1 heavenly smile broke upon her face, her
| voice grew fainter, then stopped like a tone I
i of smothered music. The feature* settled,
a shiver ran over Iier frame' nnd all was
i
over. Her spirit bad gone to congregate
with angels in happiness. I laid mv hand
on that forehead?it was growing fearful
cold. My heart cramped; tlio strength of
mv manhood gave way; I sunk to my knee*
and wept bitterly.
Again I stood besido her, when her
friend* had done their office of love. Outstretched
in her shroud of pure white she'
lay, her stiffened haiiiU confined over her
bo om with a knot of white ribbon, nnd the
dark lashes lying, so like sleep, on her
marble cheek*. That sinilo was there, like
starlight on a heavy crusted snow?it was
buried with her.
Ah she requeued, I tools n long curl front
her beau?that lieiui on which I had so
often tossed flowers in childish pjav. I
stood gazing on the corpse till a strange
mysterious feeling of another world crept
i over me?I felt h? if a dark spirit was
overshadowing me. Awe-struck, I held up
1 the ringlet and gazed upon it. No touch
of death was there. Bright and beautiful
as ever, it streamed from my hand. I
looked till it (teemed to grotf tdive in mv
gr;tsp. Again Ii{prned to the death and i
the wandering of my soul ceased. I knelt
down and prayed fervently that my death
bed might bo like hers.
I endowed the hair in a purse Louisa had
worked during her illneiw, and gave it to.
I.AH I. ? I- - -C. ' -?
?ci iiiuuici, tvuu hiit;rwj?niH raixou I lie
whiVS kIhW over her grave,'"with the inscription
of "My Sinter."# * -% ' - > r
Certificate.?Dr. Q. R. Philander
Doestirfc*, thua> recommends some wonderful
Patent Medicine to .ilie public: ^
To show that "no familj^ebontd be without
it," we will. inform the reader that it xufi
only fe&i Saturday.lhat our youngost boyfm
three-year old, fell Into a seventy-foot well,
nnd aceidenlly hrokaffis^ull. both trm*,
left leg, snapped hia DwSf-boor^emoli?hfd
both lung*, eradicated his dnge*tnts ftppnrnt
UP, besides injuring liim^lfrgenebitty.^IIb f
laid At the bottom of the well w\^e||^r
dilapidated con.iiiion, an houQwwyi $
nine minute** beforehe ?v diw-ororedrjJwB
immediately Applied Delink*' Foqr4Sp^BC
Power Bubam to the curbstone,. rtroSF r
tbr?e fourths of * jiffy, our.-ibrifc-yeSr/Wl.
was playing hop-hootch fyr th?f &?*k *yfrd. :
safe and round, bttglaa having a-??w jacket \
and ft fine cro)# 6f*fu*oriant wMdntw," for *
whioh 1?lW dor flUle ionf will probably norer
fi*#l. words to ?|pr?w hi* gratitude to,th?
^ny?Bod Poctor. "Alway? keep tUU ift*
nrfimbkt BsUam on band, in oaae of aool>
dent*.*' "Ohutwnl ' Beware of ooanter~ .<
W&rAo^ikc. <
Th? M'neotr J
baa fobUDg,.ao<J *m vllnde that, be ?
baa slipfm) out of very plefteaot eiroJa, t
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From Bent!*}/'i ( Loudon ) Mitctllany. j
OF OLD MA1D8.
About the time that Miss Brome was t>e- j
gotiating with some London publishers for \
the production of "Poems by Currer, Ellis, i
and Acton Bell"?the unknown names j
(1846)?we find in a letter of hers to Miss !
V^TooW, her old schoolmistress at Roe llwul, i
an expression of her pleasure at knowing, |
in Miss Wooler's own instance, t at "a lone j
woman" ran be happy, as well as cherished
wives and proud mothers. "I am glad of
that. 1 speculate much on the existence of
unmarried and never-to-be married women
now-a-6ays; and I have already got to the j
point of considering tlmt there is no njpre !
respectable character on this' earth than an i
unmarried woman, who makes her own i
. i
way through life, quietly, persevoringly, j
. t ?
nuuuuii ?ii|i|iurL 01 nusoann or nrotuer; ;
and who, having attained the nge of forty- ;
five or upwards, retains in her possession a ;
well regulated mind, a disposition to enjoy j
simple pleasures, and fortitude to suppoit i
inevitable pains, sympathy with the suffer- j
ingsof others, and willingness to relieve want j
as far as her means extend." We liave al- j
ready seen the impersonation she eventual
ly sketched of such a character in one of
the old maids in ' Sliirly." But that same
story contains ample evidence of the atrugw
gles and searcliings of heart which this
vexed question cost the still unmated writer.
Caroline Ilelstone is made to pine,
with blank missgivings anil obstinate ques- i
tioning.*, as she calculates her chances of
becoming an old maid?and asks herself.
What was I created for,I wonder? Where
is my place in the world ? Ah, she sees
presently, that is the question which most
old mnids are puzzled to solve; other people
folve it for them by saying : "Your place
is to do good to others, to be helpful when j
help is wanted." That is right in some
measure, she reflects, and a very convenient
doctrine for the people who hold it; but
she perceives that certain sets of human
beings are very sipt to maintain that other
sets should give up their lives to them and
their services to them and their service, and
then they requite them by praise ?they
call them devoted and virtuous. -(I* this
enough ! Is it to live? Is there not n terrible
hollowness, mockery, want, craving. I
in that existence which is given away to
others, for want of something of your own
to bestow iton? I suspect there is." And
Inter, we are told aliat Caroline felt with
pain that the !ife(we have seen what that
was)which made Miss Ainley happy could
not make her happy; pure and active as it
was, in her heart she deemed it deeply
dreary because it was so loveless?to her
ideas.'fio forlorn. And still lut<-r. n rtia.it.: i
, ..
ailiun ensues on ilia Booia! status of single
women in England, and the author's l>eiief
that th*y should have more to do?butler
chances of intereatint; and profitable ovcii- !
piition than they "possess, now. She coin- |
plains, for example, that while the brothers I
in curtain household* she names are in hu*i*
neasorin professions, their sister* have no
fartuiy employment but stitching and Hewing;
no earthly pleasure, hut 8n unprofitable
visiting; and no hope, in nil tlreir life to
y-ome/of anything better. "This stagnant
htateof things makes tliein decline in health;
they am never well ; and their mjpds and
viewa shrink to wondrous narrowneM."
The great wish, she continues?the sole
aim of every one of them is toll? 'married, l
but the majority will never marry?they I
will die as they now live. They wjiein?,!
they plot, they dre*a to ensnare 11unhands, i
Tli? ge'iileinen turn them into ridicule; i
lhey don't want thom ; they holfl th.em v^ry J
cheap ; they say "the matrimonial market
is overstock**!." And then anon cottyjrs this
apostrophe?'"Men of England ! look at your
poor girls, many of them fading^iround
you, dropping off jp cot.sumption or decline;
or, what Is worse, degenerating to
sour'old roaidi*?envious backbiting, wretell
A/1. KlkOttllBA KI!u U a */v ?!?*" * * - -I'-* '
V--J ?<r UBPiiitlV IllOIII .f Ul | WUM
is worst of all, reduced to strive, !>y s?*areely
modest coquetry and dellhsing artifice* to
gain that position and consideration by marriage
which tS celibacy is d*ttied.w Currer
Bell at {east spoke .$ftt<*fc*ki?w, and teatifiad
that which a^had seen.n
. A good ^ ^ ?f * doctor ii\ a
towanot* hutfffivd miles from Vermont.
Tha d^Uor kept missing his wood, and &t
A*was expected, it proved to '!>
a ^6teP?igbbor, who soodWp- ]
culHng out all the <try
ffoo4? atarfM off with an arm ml. -The
IpctoK liastiJy gatk^ied op an artrtful of
|P*en wood 'ani* fctldwed^trndgwtf'a* fat
.. fc', Lt'j.l ii' D^a** l W>
Kb na couia, una jon ms tug, ittim thnsw
jo*^l**ritrth?'tb* doctor
axoWmiog, u Tie re, you must burn green
*oo?pi?t of- the time, MC4p?l) * 1? and
departed, l?aTiiig flwthipf to bit *?n re V?r
pt#fc1t,
r*m*ric?d Co hto w|& thai i?b?rl^f iiim^
bar/oofr.?"-Who jfw tbajr T* *b?
aQ -*> ? ? r-"' ^,n/ ???V I Itfltti
Dt^UdlyOO^ ^P? j
'ocir ?-m3 Im. -Jm h. lb. *???.,*. j
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DTJTiEa OF A LAP i IK WER HOUSEHOLD.
Without regular ty, n?? house* be mannyeil
with any degree of economy or comfort.
No mistress or head of a household, therefore
should ttunt her domestic* with th?
care of the store-rooms, closets, and kitchen,
without keeping a careful supervision
over each of tliein herself. Th*H>e-t hour
for inspection, in regard to these matters,
is immdiately after breakfast. Ail the materials
or stores, a* well .'?? the necessary diree.tions,
may then !* given out. She
should hNo see. for hers-'f, that everything
Js made the best. ti?e ??f ' "hose to wlioin
slie entrusts the cu'inary o, rations Jtn'l
that nothing is left to tl e chun-vs of disorder
anil w?ste. No I? ?1 \ shotti-J ^ regard
herself, above t'. '.H routine of skilful
house-care ; for, however nceomplished sho
may be, her domestic duties ?r? of the first
importance. Thus, in regard to the simple
matter alone of the dinner-table-its appointments,
and tlio mode ? '" c-t ducting on such
:m occasion?the influence of faithful attention
to duty, on tlie part of the female
head of tlie household afTs-i'-^. is fit once
evident. Everything should not only bo
in its proper place, hut have a place by itself.
Clean table iiiu-n should only be given
out after the soiled ha* been returned to
its appropriate plac e. Glass should be kept
in a closet in the dining room, and ??r.lv that
number of glasses given out that may bo
wanted. Everything beinfe thus nt hand,
and the utino>t carefulness enforced, much
trouble, and in the course of n year, considerable
loss, will bo avoided. Punctuality
in the management of all home affairs
is also indispensable. The meals should always,
unless unavoidable casual'ies intervene,
be ready at the accustomed ami expected
hour. If the mistress iR punctual,
the domestics will also be so; and thus the
mind of the baseband will not be ruffl'd,
and there will be no confusion and no :.wl;ering's
but harmony, and a cheerful appre
ciation of every meal, followed by genial
relaxations anil pleasant conversation.
These are not triflrs, however, they may appear
6o to some. If the insolvent*}* of thousands
could be traced to its source, it
would be found to have commenced with
the non-performance of these household
duties by the wife?or the female head of
affairs?for "without order there is 110 economy."
The following extract from Wellington's
Dairy will show the circumnpetion of President
Washington in receiving grangers :
"Information being given by Mr. Van
IWkel (the Dutch Minister) that Mr. Cazenove,
just arrived from Holland,* and of a
principal mercantile house there, hail letter*
for me which he wished to deliver with his
own hands and requesting; to konw when
he might he presented for that purpose, it
was thought before this should be donn
it might be proper to know whether
they were ot a public nature, and whether
lie whs ?nlii>cf in h ptd.iut diameter. If so ?
the" to let them come to mo through the
Secretary of State ; if nor. then for him to
send them, that tlig purport might he
known l?efore ho was introduced, which
' miiftit lu. 1i-"""* ?i- ' '
....ft... m. >ivurr, %?ner? lie IlUglit
l>e received ami treated agreeably to the
ronwqupnc? lio might nppear to derivn
from tlie testimonial ot tiie lettern. It
Iming conceived that etiquette of this sort
is weniial with >dE foreigner* to give respent
to the Chief Mv?r*trj?te nnd lhe dignity
of the GovmowotiI, \v1iii-h would 1*; lessened
if- pvi-v person who <*onUl procure a letter
bf introduction should l>c presented otherwise
than at levi-c hours in ? formal nunne,,M
* - ?
Gossip i# the bane <>t' social life?always '
indicating a little inind, having affinity i
with petty concern*: often a malicious
.mind, deliffhtin<? in tia-liwinnr ,%i!
f f- O ? inference
for truth, risking the violation of it
for the pleasure of telling stories, which \?av
be false, often are known to he so ; great
lack of honor, a sneaking disposition, saving
behind th? ^m-k of another what would
nol/be ?aid before his face; presumptive
want of power to talk on nobler suhjecs?
tit least, the lark of interest in them. Male
.gossips are wettt than femnle. Women
go&tip chiefly about domestic life, love,
marriage, flirtations, servants,^-ntertainroets
?and a world of mischief they dothere-^-of
heart-burnings, hdtrFsinking*, and l^artbrgdHnga??f
Broken ties and1 alienated affrctions.
But men gossip, ton. Oh, V)nt
keen, biting, withering. * Hiring gowipfnga
they have?half untrue, wholly needless;
full o&thvy, hatred andall^nuharitaWendfe.
No keenness or culture of tha
thai doea not ei^raoa culture" of h<?nlft-?
on weakb, no raomlity;*aml not even *>reli>
gion, that doe* aot embrace the preterm,
tion of tbe pbjatoal wltm from deterioration,
and it cultivated to the highelt perfection,
will ?e? laat long. No nation or people
will etrer pr?*enre -ihe weight pf fofloenoeto
which tbagr. wet* natural^ entitled,
amoof otb?r?, wi?Wt*Jatify*f* of
opmeptai tbe Only ramble foupdftion of
pnoUoMa and raHabiHty of character. AH
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