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"character is as important to states as it is to individuals; and the glory of the state is the common property of its citizens."-
H. It. 'HOIjMES, Editor and Proprietor.
FAYETTEVILLE, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1839.
VOI.. 1. KO. 30.
. TERMS. ,
H2 50 per annum, if paid in advance ; 63 if paid at
the end of six months; or 3 50 at the expiration
of the year. Advertisements inserted at the rate
of sixty cents per square, for the first, and thirty
cents for each subsequent insertion.
ttyLctters on business connected with this estab
lishment, must be addressed H. L. Holmes, Edi
tor of the North-Carolinian, and in all cases post-
paia.
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H Hhds. Prime Porto Rico Sugar,
5 rrtg. N. O. ' do.
50 OasUs )'nA ThoniBticnLim
30 HhJs. Molasses,
5 Barrels N. O. do.
20 Boxes Bar Soap,
1 00 Sacks Blown Salt,
20 Boxes Fayettcville Mould Candles,
10 Boxes Smoked Herrings,
For Sale by GEO. McNEILL.
June! 5. 16tf.
i IS
VALUABLE PROPERTY FOR SALE.
THE plantation on the Cape Fear River, re
cenlly owned ami cultivated by John M. Dob
bin, Doc'dt better known as the "NorthinMton Ferry
plantation". Embracing in all about 2200 acres
much of it in a high state of cultivation, ami well
funccd, the balance well tiinberod with Oak, Hicko
ry and Pine. It has on it two comfortable dwel
ling Houses and other convenient outbuildings,
tine water, streams on wliicli-ore now standing a
mill and Gin House. The Ferry is also included
and being on the best road to Chapel Hill and
Hillsborough, .with but little attention might be
profitable property. Distance from Fayctteville
about 32 miles. Capital sites for Cotton Factories.
The plantation is susceptible of a division into two
or three parts, which would be made to suit pur
chasers. If the above property cannot be sold at
private sale before the ensuing Fall it will then on
further notice be disposed of at public sale. Per
sons residing in the low country and others desi
rous of purchasing a healthy situation and valua
ble plantation would do well to examine it. For
further particulars apply to,
JAMES C. DOBBIN, Exr.
July 6. IS39. 19 tf.
Favetteville Female
MR. BAILEY respectfully skives notice that, in
order to meet the increasing patronage of this
School, and advance its interests, he has associated
with himself in copartnership, Mr. Gustavus Spkx-c-kk,
who, with his lady, will commence their labors
at the opening of the next Academic year, Oct. 15.
Mr. S. is an experie nced Teacher, and has had charge,
for the ppst vear, of the Female Seminary at Char
lotte, in this State.
Mrs. Spencer will take the special charge of the
Elementary Department, in a roo;n entirely ppcarate
fi o n the irneral School Room.
Seven rooms in the commodious buil-.iing hitherto
occupied, will he devoted to the use of the School,
and the classes divided according to their ages, and
scpirated as much as possible from each other.
The convnodiou? arrangements for Boardinir will
be coniinu-d a? l:'.t year, and Mr. Beach will bo
prepared to tnko 10 or 12 young Toadies in the Semi
nary Buildings, where th-v will have the benefit of
cootaiit intercourse: with all the Teachers.
Mi-ssrs. Bailey and Spencer will seek to furnish
nblc instruction in every department, and considera
ble expence has been incurred to increase the ad
vantages of the Pupils in this School.
The Academic year will commence on the 15th of
October and cloie on the 18th of July following.
The year is divided into two Sessions of twenty
weeks each. Parents and iruardians are reminded
that it is very important to Pupils that they should
enter early, and begin with their respective Classes.
Every week they delay, they lose ineffhettico weeks.
TEU3IS-In Advance:
Elementary Departmcut or 2d Class, 8 per Session,
First Class, IG do
French Language. 10 do
Drawing and Painting, 10 do
Music on Piano Forte, 25 do
Music on Guitar, 25 do
Use of Piano, 3 do
Incidentals and Stationary, 1 do
July 13, 1833. 20-tf
PIANO FORTES.
An -Airf-rier is appointed in
Favettevillc tor the sale of the
most approved New York
Piano Fortes. They will be
sold at the lowest JNew York
prices, with expense of trans
portation, and warranted. If not satisfactorv. thev
may be returned. They may be packed for safe
transportation to any part ot the State. They may
be seen at the Female Seminary, where purchasers
PARLOR ORGAN.
The Parlor Orffan, or Seraphine. which has hnon
used and generally admired at the Seminary for the
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Pti winter, is now ouereu lor sale at cost.
June 8. 15tf,
ENTERTAINMENT.
j Hp HE SUBSCRIBER, having been satisfactorily
JL engaged for more than three vears n t tendi n t
Board i 11 r TTmie
eels encouraged to say to the public, that her
-iHOUSE and S TABLES are well furnished for the
jjjrrcepuon ana accommodation ol those who may be
J -"VM . - .IUI.
All the STAnTTS grriun ( anrl ,1 . .
House, where seats are secured, and no exertions
.Spared tO .wive .ORnpral Kntiafjif inn tn
. T) - - r- . jancustTB.
i Mv residence ii nn thr -ro-ni. r z
,ltie lot formerly occupied by Mrs. Barge, convenient
cue inaiiv;i, aiju jteor me orate liank.
, Mrs. E. SMITH.
Fayctteville, August 24, 1839. 26-tf
C?The Raleigh Register, Wilmington Adver
win insert the above 3 months, and forward their ac-
LAFAYETTE HOTEL.
Fayctteville, Xorth Carolina.
THIS ESTABLISHMENT will be open after
the 1st of August, under the management
and direction of the Subsrciber. The House has
been thoroughly repaired, and will, in a few days,
be well furnished; and every cfibrt will be made to
render it worthy of patronage.
EDWARD YARBROUGH.
vlugust 3, 1839. 23-tf
ItFThe Augusta Chronicle (weekly,) Raleigh
Register and Standard, AVihningfon Advertiser,
Greensborough Patriot, Salisbury Watchman, and
Cheraw Gazette will insert the above three mouths
and forward their accounts to the subscriber.
E. Y.
REMOVED.
TThR Tliomas J. Jordan has re-
jjLjJ moved to Liberty Point, on thu north side of
Person street, a lew doors above Mr. John M.Stcd
man's store. " mar 9 2tf
Valuable Land for Sale
TIE subscriber intending to remove to the
Soilt.il AVest. nlKirs tor snle. hi tr:n:t il" hind
lying on the East side of the Cape Fear River, nine
miles above Fayctteville, containing
400 acres,
50 of which is under good fence, and in a good state
of cultivation, and inferior in point of quality, to
none on Cape Fear River. The buildings are a
good frame dwelling, and all necessary out houses.
Persons wishing to purchase, are requested to call
and examine the premises. JOSHUA JONES.
Col. Alexander Llliott, J
Thomas Ashe, Sru
F. C. Armstrong.
August 31, 1839. 27-tf
'rference.1.
TRUST SALE.
IN conformity to the provisions contained in a
Deed of Trust, made by WILLIAM S. LAT
TA to me, I will expose at public sale, on Tuesday
the 12th day of November next, at the Market
House, in the Town of Fayctteville:
3 Negroes.
10 to 14 head of Horses and Mules.
30 head of Cattle.
60 head of Hogs.
1 Sulkey, Burgv & Harness.
2 Waggons Sc. Gear.
Also
ALL the FURNITURE belon-mg to the said W.
S. Latta, now in his possession.
TERMS liberal, and made known on the day ot
sale. H. BRANSON.
Trustee.
S. W. Tilling ii a st,
.laclioneer.
August 2Sth, 1S33. 27-tds
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FOR SALE,
A Valuable Tract of IiANT.
mil IE subscriber wishes to sell tint vnli,al.l --,.t
IL of land on which he now resides, containing
562 Acres,
with a comfortable Dwelling House, and ail the ne
cessary out houses, on the road from Fayctteville to
Greensboro' 42 miles from Fayettcville, and 1 1-2
from Tyson's Bridge; with about 150 acres of clear
ed land, the balance well timbered, and nearly all
adapted to the cultureof Corn, Cotton, Oats, Wheat,
Tobacco, &c. Some first rate meadow land, which
might bo made valuable in the production of hav,
as any quantity of that article can be sold for- cash
on the road.
Persons wishing to purchase a valuable and heal
thy residence, would do well to exnmine the chove
land, as it wilt be sold on accommodating terms. For
further particulars apply to tho subscriber, or John
R. Martin in Fayetteville.
JOSEPH M. BUCHANAN.
Moore county, Sept. 7, 1833. 28 tf.
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA.
Sampson Courtly. j
Courtof Pleas and duarter Sessions, Ausust
Term-, 1839.
Theresa Carr, "I
vs. - I Petition for Dower.
The Heirs at Law, of Jona
Carr, deceased.
IT appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that
Harry Carr, Alfred Turner, & wife Ann, reside
bevond the limits of this State; It istherefore order
ed, that publication be made for six successive weeks,
notityinir said non residents, personally to be,md
appear before the Justices of the Court of Picas and
duarter Sessions, at the Court to bo holden for the
said County, at the Court House in Clinton, on the
third Monday in November next, the and there to
showcause, if any they have, why the praj'er of Petit ion
should not be granted, otherwise, it will be taken
pro confesso, and heard exparte, as to them.
Witness, Thos. I. Faison, Clerk, of said Court et
office, the 3rd Monday of Ausust, A. D. 1839.
THOMAS I. FAISON, Clerk.
August 17, 1839. 27 6t.
VALU ABJL.E LANDS
FOR SALE.
THE Subscriber wishing to change his business,
offers for sale all his LANDS, containing 4000
acres, lying in the Counties of Cumberland and
Bladen, viz: 1000 acres where he now lives, in Cum
herland Co. on Harrison's Creek, on the East side
of Cape Fear, 13 miles below Fayetteville, on which
issituated a good SAW and GRIST MILL, with a
quantity of srood Timber; a large pond and good
stream. The up land is good with a small farm on
it; the mill-pond is as fertile and well adapted to the
growth of Rice, as any in our State; on a part of
said pond, there now is Rice growing.
ALSO
several other small tracts in said county. In Bladen
County, on Indian Creek, 1700 acres, a good portion
of it good pine land as well timbered as any in
the Stac; on the swamp part of this tract, is a great
deal of good Juniper; this tract of land is a most ex
cellent situution and good water, on which is a first
rate mill site, and a small farm. Several othr
smaller tracts of land in said county, well timbered.
Any person wishing to purchase such land, won d
o well to call and view the premises, and judge for
themselves, as a bargain maybe had.
September 14, 1 S3. 20-tf
DIVISION ORDERS.
THE several Regiments composing
the second Division of North Caroli
na Militia, will assemble at the usu
al places of Regimental muster in
their respective counties for Review
and Inspection, as follows:
Tho 2ndor Sampson Regiment on
Saturday October 26th; the 41st or
Bladen Regiment on Tuesday Oct.
29th; the 8oth or Columbus Regi
ment on Alonday Oct. 30th; the 42nd
or Robeson Lower Regiment on
Thursday Oct. 31st; the 43rd or Ro
beson Upper Regiment on Friday
T' ...... I , i .1 f 1 , ' 1 ,
. iiuicuiuw isi; liii: ru or menmonu
2nd Regiment on Saturday November 2nd; the53rd
or Anson Lower Regiment on Monday November
1th; the 54th or Anson JJppcr Regiment on Tues
day November 5th; the 51st or Richmond 1st Re
giment on Thursday November 7th; the 44th or
Moore Regiment, on Saturday Nov. 9th; the 34th or
Cumberland Upper Regiment on Monday Novem
ber 1 1th; the 33rd or Cumberland Lower "Regiment
on Wednesday November 13th.
ECTThe Review will be made at 12 o'clock, and
the Inspection immediately afterwards.
Bv order of
Maj. Ges. McKAY.
JOTIN McRAE,
. Division Inspector.
Head Quarters,
Ehzabethtown, Sept. 7, 1839. 28 6t.
NOTICE.
THE Subscriber hav.ng at September Term, of
Cumberland Countv Court, qualified as Execu
tor to the last Will and Testament, of HENRY W.
AYER, deceased; hereby ogives notice to all persons
indebted to the estate of said deceased, to make im
mediate payment; And all persons having claims
airainst the said estate, are required to present them
within the time prescribed by law, duly attested, or
this notice will be plead in bar of a recovery.
iirlJN It X JNlcL.fc.AJN, Kxecvlor,
of IIEX-RY W. .'IYER, dec' J.
Further Notice.
THE Subscriber will sell at public Auction no
Monday the 23rd of September next, the per
sonal property, belonging to the estate of Henry W.
Aver, dee'd.; consisting of Household & Kitchen fur
niture, Horse, Carryall, Cart, Carpenter's Tools, Pa
tent Balances, Rifle Gun, Pistols, &c- &c.
Also
A Brigadier General's Uniform and Equipments,
complete. The Negroes belonging to said estate,
will also be hired at the same time, until the 1st
day of January next.
HENRY McLEAN, Executor
tf Henry W. -Iyer, deceased.
September, 2nd, 1839. 28-3t
NOTICE.
mTHEREAS, Malcom Monroe and Robert
V W Monroe, ot the County of Cumberland, and
State of North Carolina, have obtained letters of
Administration, on all and singular, the croods and
chatties, rights and credits, M'ithm the State of
North Carolina, of Lauchlin McKay, dee'd., late of
the State ot Mississippi, which appointment, hath
since been affirmed by the Superior Court, we do
therefore hereby give notice thereof, to all whom it may
concern: Callins upon all persons who may be in
debted to the estate of the said Lauchlin McKay, to
come forward and make payment; and desiring all
havinir claims aeainstthe same, to present them in
due time, otherwise, the Act of Assembly, under
which this notice is given, will be plead in bar of
their recovery.
SlALCOM MONROE,)
ROBERT MONROE, Mnts ts
September 3, 1839. 28-3t
VALUABLE LAND
FOR SALE.
F1HE subscriber having purchased Land on the
U West side of Cape Fear Kiver, adjoining Ins
residence, offers for sale his Plantation lying on the
East side, containing 255 acres, about 125 acres of
which are cleared, & the balance wood Land. Said
Plantation is capable of producing 2,000 bushels of
corn in the season. i.e Lana is as gooa as any
on the River, and but three or four acres of it is
subject to inundation, and that only in the highest
freshets. 1
Said Plantation lies about two miles above the
Clarendon Bridge. adioininr the Lands ot v m. S
Latta, (formerly owned by Judge Toomer,) and
Sampson Boon, and was lormeny Known as ue
"Stawnll Place." -
ICF'To a person disposed to embark .in the
brick-making business, this Plantation aflbrds a
strong inducement, as a Kiln is already erected,
and there is no better clay in this neighborhood
than can be found on this Plantation. For further
particulars apply to ,
. H.B.BEATTY.
Fayetteville, Sept. 7, 1839. 28-4t-
Just Received and for Sale,
- Casks of Water Lime, for building
M-P Cisterns, or darning water in any way; it
will cement stone or brick together, and make a
wall entirely water-tight, and the water cannot act
on it in any way, after it is kept ofT six hours. I
have also 12 casks of ROMAN CEMENT, fresh,
and in snod order; five tons CALCINED PLAS
TER of PARIS, superior in quality to any that I
have ever seen in this market." Also, 12 casks of
Piaster, for Manuring Land; 150 bbls. Thomaston
Lime, LATHS. NAILS and HAIR, for Plastering:.
For all. or any of the" above named articles call
on the subscriber, 3 doors South of the Market
House, where all the above articles, and tools to put
them on with, can be bought low tor cash.
JOHN E. PATTERSON.
Fayettcville, September 10th, 1839. 29-lt
The North Carolina Standard will insert the
above four weeks, and forward the account to
J. E. P.
NEW STAdfE LINE,
From Fayetteville to Warsaw
T
HE cheapest and most expeditious and com
fortable route North and South from Fayette'
e,is THE NEW 'STAGE 1UN IS the subscribers
estaolisncu in January last,
. b fro i n Fayetteville, intersecting
the Wilmington and Raleigh
Rail Road at Waisaw Depot,
VII i
arrivui!! in tunc for the Cars both North and South.
This line has one day's advantage over any other
line between r ayctleville and Augusta, da. Jras-
sengers only have the fatigue of 49 miles staging,
and loss ol one nurul's sleep, from f ayetteville (via.
Wilmington and Charleston) to Augusta, in forty
hours.
Going North by this line, passengers will find
less staging than on any other Route now in opera
tion; and in a few months, the Wilmington and Ra
leigh Rail Road will be completed, and there will
only be 49 miles staging from Fayettcville to New
York.
Passengers by this line can have their choice at
Wcldon, N. C. to go bv Washington City, or to
Portsmouth and take the Bay Boats for Baltimore.
On this line the stages leave Fayetteville Sundays,
Tusdays and Thursdays, for Warsaw Depot, Leave
Warsaw Depot for Fayetteville, on Mondays, Wed
nesdays and Fridays.
The subscribers having prepared themselves,
passengers will find on the regular stage davs, two
stages, if necessary; and will run an EXTRA
STAGE at all times when necessary. No pains
will be spared on this line to give the public satis
faction. BAKER & BLOCKER,
Fayettcville, Sept. 14, 1S39. 2tf Proprietors.
FOP ESHTo
A FTER 1st Nov. 1839, my BRICK HOUSE
-lBl and LOT, at West end of lower brick row,
Haymount, now in complete repair, house, kitchen
and stable. LOUIS D. HENRY.
September 13th, 1339. 23-tf
MISCELLANEOUS.
FHEIE subscriber has about three thousandof
JL these trees FOR SALE, the price of which for
the present, will be one dollar and fifty cents per
hundred for buds, arid twenty cents for roots. On
sales of SI 00 and over, the roots will not be charg
ed. Many of the trees are now eight feet high from
the bud.
I. WET MORE.
I have 1000 small trees average 'bight 3 feet,
which I will sell at 50 cents each.
I. W.
Fayettcville Sept. 7, 1839. ' :- 28 tf-
STORY OF THE IRISH PEASAN
TRY. BY MRS. S. C. HALL.
"Mind not high things: but condescend to
men of low estate." St. Paul.
"It's only a Drop.'
It was a cold winter's night, and though the
cottage where Jidlen and Michael, the two
surviving children of old Ben Murphy, lived,
was always neat and comfortable, still there
was a cloud over the brow of both brother and
sister, as they sat before the cheerful fire; it
had obviously been spread not by anger, but
bv sorrow, x he silence had continued long,
though it was not bitter. At last Michael
drew away from his sister's eyes the checked
apron she bad applied to them, and taking her
hand affectionatelv within his own, said, It
isn't for my own sake, Ellen, though the Lord
knows I shall be lonesome enough the Ions
winter nights and the lonn summer days with
out your wise saving, and your sweet song,
and your merry laugh, that 1 can so wefl re
member ay, since the time when our poor
mother used to scat us on the new rick, and
then, in the innocent pride of her heart, call
our father to look at us, and preach to us
against being conceited, at the very time she
was making us proud as peacocks, by calling
us her blossoms of beauty, and her heart's
blood, and her king and queen.'
'God and the blessed virgin make her bed
in heaven now and forever more, amen,' said
Ellen, at the same time drawing out her
beads, aud repeating an ave with inconceiva
ble rapidity. 'Ah, Alike,' she added, 'that teas
the mother and the father too, full of grace
and godliness.'
'True for ye, Ellen; but that's not what
I'm after now, as you well know, you blush
ing little rogue of the world, and sorra
word I'll say against it in the end, though it's
lonesome I'll be on my own hearth-stones
with no one to keep me company but the oul
black cat, that can't see, let alone hear, the
cravthurl'
Now,' said Ellen, w iping her eyes, and
smiling her own bright smile, 'lave off; ye're
just hUe all the men, purtending to one thing,
when ye mane another; there's a dale of desate
about them all every one of them and so
mv mother often said. Now, you'd better
have done, or maybe I'll say something that
will brinr. if not the color to your brown
' -
cheek, a dale more warmth to yer warm heart,
than would be convauient just by the men
tion of one Mary Mary! what a purty name
Mary it is, isn't it: it's a common name,
too, and yet you like it none the worse for
that. Do you mind the ouki rhyme:
'Mary, Mary, quite contrary.'
Well, I'm not going to say she is contrary
I'm sure she's any thing but thai to you, any
way, brother; can't you sit still, and don't be
pulling the hairs out of Pusheen cat's tail, it
isn't many there's in it; and I'd thank you
not to unravel the beautiful English stocking
I'm knitting; leave off your tricks, or I'll make
common talk of it, I will, and be more than
even with you, my fine fellow! Indeed, poor
ould Pusheen,' she continued, addressing the
cat with great gravity, 'never heed what he
says to you: he has no notion to make you
either head or tail to the house, not he; he
won't let you be without a misthress to give
you yer sup of milk, or yer bit of sop. He
won't let you be lonesome, my poor puss; he'a
glad enough to swop an Ellen for a Mary, so
he is; but that's a sacret, avoorneen; don't tell
it to any oue.'
Auy thing for your happiness,' replied the
brother, somewhat sulkily; 'but your bachelor
has a worse fault than ever I had, notwith
standing all thft lecturing you kept on to me;
he has turned for the drop, Ellen; you know
he has.' - j
'How spitefully you said that!' replied El
len; 'and it isn't generous to spake of it when
he's not here to defend himself.'
You'll not let a word go against him,' said
Michael.
'No,' she said, I will never let ill be spok
en of an absent friend. I know he has a turn
for the drop, but I'll cure him.'
'After he's married,' observed Michael, not
very good-nature"dly.
'IN o,' she answered, 'before. I think a
girl's chance of happiness is not worth much
who trusts to after marriage reformation. I
won't. Didn't I reform you, Mike, of the
shockin' habit, you had of putting every thing
off to the last? and after reforming a brother.
who knows what I may do with a lovet! Do
you think that Larry's heart is harder than
yours Mike? , Look what fine vegetables we
have in our garden now, all - planted by your
own hands when you come home from work
. planted during the very time which you used
to spend iu leaning against the door cheek, or
smoking your pipe, or sleeping over the fire;
look at the money you got lrom the Agricul
tural Society.'
' 1 hat's yours, Ellen,' said the generous-
hearted Mike; 'I'll never touch a penny of it;
but for you I never should have had it; I'll
never touch it.'
'You never shall,' she answered; 'I've laid
it every penny out, so that when the young
bride comes home, she'll have such a house of
comforts as are not to be found in the parish
white table-cloths for Sunday, a little store
of tea and sugar, soap, candles, starch, every
thing good, and plenty of it.'
'My own dear, generous sister,' exclaimed
the young man.'
'I shall ever be your sister,' she replied,
'and her's too. She's a aood colleen, and
worthy my own Mike, and that's more than I
would say to 'ere another in the parish. I
was'nt in earnest when I said you'd be glad to
get rid of me; so put the pouch, every Lit of it
on yer handsome - face. And hush! whist?
will ye! there's the sound of Larry's foot
steps in the bawn hand me the needles,
Mike.' She braided back her hair with both
hands, arranged the red ribbon, that confined
its luxuriance, in the little glass that hung up
on a nail on the dresser, and, after compos
ing her arch laughing features into an ex
pression of great graviyt, sat down, and appli
ed nerselt witn singular industry to take up
the stitches her brother had dropped, and put
on a look of right maidenly astonishment
when the door opened, and Larry's good hu
moured face entered with the salutation of
'God save all here!' He popped his head in
first, and, after gazing round, presented his
goodly person to their view; and a pleasant
view it was, for he was ot genuine Irish bear
ing and beauty frank, and manly, and lear
less-looking. Ellen, the wicked one, looked
up, with well-feigned astonishment, and ex
claimed, 'Oh, Larry, is it you, aud who would
have thought of seeing you this blessed night!
ye're lucky jutt in time for a bit of sup
per alter your walk across the moor. 1 can
not think what in the world makes you walk
over that moor so often; you'll get wet feet,
and yer mother 'ill be forced to nurse you. Of
all the walks in the country, the walk across
the moor's the dreariest, and yet ye're always
going it! I wonder ye had'nt belter sense;
ye're not such a chicken now.'
'Well,' interrupted Mike, 'it's the women
that bates the world for desaving-. Sure she
heard yer step when nobody else could; its
echo struck on her heart, Larry let her deny
it; she'll make a shove off if she can; she'll
twist you, and twirl you, and turn you about,
so that you won't know whether it's on your
head or your heels ye're standing. She'll
tos&icatc yer brains in no time, and be as
composed herself as a dove on her nest in a
storm. But ask her, Larry, the straitlbrward
question whether she heard you or not. She'll
tell no lie she never does.'
Ellen shook her head at her brother and
laughed. And immediately after the happy
trio sat down to a cheerful supper.
Larry was a good tradesman, bly the and
'well to do' in the world; and had it not been
for the one great fault an inclination to take
the ''least taste in life more" when he had al
ready taken quite enough there could not
have been found a better match for good, ex
cellent Ellen Murphy, in the whole kingdom
of Ireland. AVhen supper was finished, the
everlasting whiskey bottle was produced, and
EHen resumed her knitting. After a time,
Larry pressed his suit to Michael for the in
dustious hand of his sister, thinking, doubt
less, with the natural self-conceit of all man
kind, that he was perfectly secure with Ellen;
but though Ellen loved, like all my fair coun
trywomen, well, she loved, I am sorry to say,
unlike the generality of my fair countrywo
men, wisely, and reminded her iover that she
had seen him intoxicated at the last fair of
Rathcoolin.
'Dear Ellen!' he exclaimed, 'it was only a
drop,' the least taste in life that overcame me.
It overtook me unknownst, quite against my
will.'
'Who poured it down your throat, Larry?'
'Who poured it down my throat, is it? w hy
myself, to be sure; but are you going to put
me to a three months' penance for that?'
'Larry, will you listen to me, and remem
ber that the man I marry must be converted
before we stand before the priest. I have no
faith whatever in conversions after'
'Oh, Ellen!' interrupted her lover.
'It's no use oh Elleuing me,' she answer
ed quickly; 'I've made my resolution, and I'll
stick to it,'
'She's as obstinate as ten women,' said her
brother. 'There's no use in attempting to
contradict her; she always has had her own
way.'
'It'3 very cruel of you, EHen, not to listen
to reason. I tell you a tablespoonful will of
ten upset me.'
'If you know that, Larry, why do you lake
the tablespoonful?'
Larry could not reply to this question. He
could only plead that the drop got the better of
him, and the temptation, and the overcoming-
ness ot the thing, and it was very hard to be at
him so about a trifle.
'I can never think a thing a trifle,' she ob
served, 'that makes you so unlike yourself; I
should wish to resp&ct you always, Larry, and
in my Heart, 1 believe no woman ever could
respect a drunkard. I don't want to make
you angry; tod lorbid you should ever be
one, and I know you are not one yet; but sin
grows mighty strong upon us without our
knowledge. And no matter what indulgence
leads lo bad; we've a right to think any thing
that does lead to it sinful iu the prospect, if not
at tne present.'
'iou d have made a fine priest, Ellen,' snid
the young man, determined if he could not
reason, to laugh her out of her resolve.
'1 don't think,' she replied, archly, 'if I was
a priest, that either of you would have liked to
come to me to confession.' "
'But, Ellen, dear EHen, sure it's not in
positive downright earnest you are; you can't
think of putting me off on account of that un
lucky drop, the least taste in life I took at the
fair. - You could not find it in your heart,-
Speak for me, Michael, sper.k for me. But
I see it's joking you are. Why, Lent '11 be
on us in no time, and then we must wait till
Easter it's easy talking.'
'Larry,' interrupted Ellen, 'do not you talk
yourseii into a passion; it win do no gooa;
none in the world. I am sure you love me,
aud I confess before' my brother, it will be
the delight of my heart to return that love, and
make myself worthy of you, if you will only
break yourself of that one habit, w hich you
qualify to your own undoing, by fancying, be
cause the least taste in life makes you what
you ought not to be, that you may still take
it' .
I'll take an oath against the whiskey, if
that will plase ye, till Christmas.'
'And when Christmas comes, get twice aa
tipsey as ever, with joy to think yer oath is
out no!'
'I'ltsware any thing you plase.'
'I don't want you to sware at all; there is
no use in a man taking an oath he is anxious
to have a chance of breaking. I want your
reason to be convinced.'
My darling Ellen, all the reason I ever
had in my life is convinced.'
Prove it by abstaining from taking even a
drop, even the least drop in life, if that drop
can make you ashamed to look your poor El
len iu the face.'
'I'll give it up altogether.'
'l nope you win, one of these days, from a
conviction that it is really bad in every way;
but net from cowardice, t:ot because you don't
trust yourself.'
'Ellen, I'm sure ye've some English blood
in yer veins, ye're such a reasoner. Irish
women don't often throw a boy off because of
a drop; if they did, it's not many marriage
dues his Reverence would have, winter or
summer.' -
'Listen to ms, Larry, and believe, that
though I spake this way, I regard ycu truly;
and if I did not, I'd not take the trouble to
tell you my mind.'
'Like Mike Brady's wife, who, whenever
she thrashed him, cried over the blows, and
said they were all for his good,' observed her
brother si ily.
'Noneseuse! listen to me, I say, and I'll
tell you why I am so resolute. It's many a
long day since, going to school, T used to
meet Michael minds her too, I'm sure an
old bent woman; they used to call her the
Wicked of Ballaghtou. Stacy was, as I have
said, very old entirely, w ithered and white
headed, bent nearly double with age, and she
used to be ever and always muddling about
the streams and ditches, gathering herbs and
plants, the girls said to work charms with; and
at first they used to waU h, rtlher far off, and.
if they thought they had a good chance of es
caping her tongue and the stones she flung at
them, they'd call her an ill name or two, and
sometimes, old as she was, she'd make a
spring at them side-ways like a crab, and
howl, and hoot, aud scream, and then they'd
be off like a flock of pigeons from a hawk,
and she'd goon disturbing the green-coated
waters with her crooked stick, and muttering
words which none, if they heard, could un
derstand. Stacy had been a well-raised wo
man, and knew a dale more than any of us;
when not tormented by the children, she va3
mighty well spoken, and the gentry thought a
dale about her more than she did about them,
for she'd say thf-e was'nt one in the country
fit to tie her shoe, and tell them so, too, if
they'd call her any thing but Lady Stacy,
which the rale gentry of the place all humor
ed her in; but the upstarts, who think every
civil word to an inferior is a pulling down of
their own dignity, would turn up their noses
as they passed her, and maybe she did'nt bless
them for it.
One day Mike had gone home before me,
and, coming down the back bohreen, who
should I see moving along but Lady Stacy;
and on she came, muttering and mumbling
to herself, till she got near me, and as she did,
I heard Master Nixon (the dog man's)
hound in full cry, and seen him at her heels,
and he over the hedge encouraging the baste
to fear her to pieces., The dog soon was up
with her, and then she kept him off as well as
s4ic could with her ciutch, cursing the entire
time, and I was very frightened, but I darted
to her side, aud, with a waltle I pulled out of
the hedge, did my best 3 keep him off her.
'Master Nixon cursed at me with all bis
heart, but I was't to be turned off that way. .
Stacy herself laid about with her staff, but the
ugly brute would have finished her, only fo
. Tax-gatherers were so called some time aaofe '
Ireland, because they collected the duty on dogs.
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