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VOLUME III.
SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO, FEBRUARY 4, 1854.
NUMBER 34
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: Santa fc iDcckln ajctte
TEEMS... .' '
WEEKLY- $2 50 a yoar, payable invariably in
advance-, singlo copies 12 1-2 cents. Advertise
ments, $1 01) per square of ten lines for the first
luertion, anil buds, tor every subsequent insertion.
, ! ' .P EOS PECTUS
OF THE
8A'TA FE WEEKLY GAZETTE.
The Santa Ft Weekly Cazkttk, an English
ami Spanish newspaper, is published cverySatiirday,
n the cily of Sania Fe, Territory of Now Mexico,
In politics it will aim to lie a sound democratic
Journal but in addiliun, it will be devoted to
General Literature, and Hie current news of t he
day, and no pains will be spired to fill its columns
with interesting ma'ler. P.ivt iciil -r attention will
be paid to such information as will he useful and
important lo 1 lie people (if the Territory, to a
development of ihe agricultural, niiueial and oilier
resources of Hie country. I'll" latest news from
the t'nilcd Wales will always be found In lis
columns, together with the must interesting items
from other parts of the world. To the native
population of the Territory, such a paper will lie
invaluable, ns it will be, in a groat measure, the
only channel through which they will lie aide to
obtain inl'nrnulion from oilier parts of the tmon.
To the people of the Slates, this paper cannot
fail to be of deep interest, and will give I hem Ihe
only correct account of this far off and growing
Territory, they can possibly obtain and we shall
be careful always to have the latest news for our
distant renders. New Mexico, k-reUifwic, has
been almost an unknown land, but if our friends
in the fetales will subscribo for the 'Ga.i.ttk,"
they will soon become us well acquainted with it,
us any other portion of our eountiy. This is the
opening of New Year, and there could not be a
better lime to subscribe. Terms only $2 i0 per
annum j and advertising and job work done at the
lowest possible price.
W. W. II. DAVIS,
Eü.'or.
Sania Fe, N. M., Jan. 2, 1S34.
LEGAL NOTICE.
W. W. II. DAVIS,
(district attor.vly op Tat: cn'ited states for
NEW MEXICO,)
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOK AT LAW,
SANTA I'll, NEW MEXICO,
yyiLL practice in all the courts of Ihe Terri-
Oflicein the same room occupied by the Secre
tary of the Territory.
RfTEREXCrS.
Hon. C. dishing. Alt. den. U. S.
Hon. Geo. M. Dallas, Philada.
JI.ui. K. lirodhead, U. S. Senate."
Hon. Simon C-onoron, l'eima.
Gen. It. Patterson, Philada.
Col. Thomas J. Whipple, New Yorlt.
Haddock, Reed Co., Piulada.
James, Kent & Santcc, "
Wood, Bacon & Co., '
IWOXTEZl'.MA HALL.
THE undersigned desires to inform her friends
and the public, that she has now,' moved her
establishment to the building on the plaza known
as the Montezuma Hall, where she. will always
keep on hand the best kind of liquors and beer.
Attached to the Hall is a fine stable always well
supplied with forage.
' CAROLINE STEIN.
' Santa Fe, Jan. 7, 1811. 3m
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NOTICE.
WE WOULD most respectfully inform our
friends and the public, that we h.ve taken
the house if the late Jno Patten in Albuquerque,
and completely titled Ihe same as a Hotel. Our
friends will always find us on hand No pains sh.dl
be spared to render all who may give us a call
comfortable and well provided for. Attached to
Ihe house are corrals and stables. At all limes we
shall have n abundance of forage. Our tables and
bar will be well filled with the best the country
affords.
Terms cash.
BlUNFOliD k JEANNERET.
Santa Fe, Oct. 15, ISM. tl
SOITIIERN MAIL.
WINTER ARRANGEMENT.
THE southern mail via F.I Paso to San Antonio,
Texas, leaves Santa Fo on the loth of each
month, arrives at El Paso in from six to o iji h t days,
and reaches San Antonio on the 14lh of the next
month. Returning, leaves San Antonio on (he loth
of the same, arrives at El Paso in from 14 to 18
days, and reaches Santa Fe on the 14th of the next
month, making the Irip through in from 23 to 'i
days, winter and summer. The Contractor lias
spared no expense in placing upon this route spring
carriages the best adapted for the convenience as
well as comfort of passengers Persona going to,
or coining from the. States will find this a very
pleasant roule, particularly during the winter
mouths, as it is entirely free from the intense cold
and heavy snows that so frequently obstruct tho
eastern mail roule to Independence.
RATES OF FARE.
$125 00 through ."rom Santa Fe to San Antonio.
30 0(1 trim Santa Fe to El P-.so.
Passengers allowed 4Ulbs baggage.
II UN It Y SIvILT.MAN.,
N.B Passengers not required lo stand guard.
Santa Fe, Oct. 7, 1853 If
mllE undersignci begs leave to inform his friends
X and the public generally, that he is prepared
to do nil kinds of cabinet and carpenter's work on
Ihe most icasonable terms. Shop, two doors abovo
the store of Jesus Loya.
Santa fe, May 7, 1863 y JAMES H. CLtiT.
COMMISSIONER- OF DEEDS,
Pennsylvania,
Connecticut,
New Hampshire.
Junta Fe, Jan. 1, 1862 tf.
OFFICE OF COM. OF SOB.
ALBUliOKnQUt:, N. M.
JAN. 14, 18a4,
SEALED PROPOSALS will be received at
Ibis office till 12 o'c.ociV, M., on Wednesday,
the 15th day of M-rch, 1854, for furnishing Hour
and salt to the United States Troops at the points
and in the quantities mentioned as follows i
Near El Paso 100,01)0 pounds of flour
170 bushels of salt.
At Fort Fillmoro 160,0110 pounds of flour
17a bushels of salt,
11 Fori Thorn.Saula Barbara 80,000 pounds of flour
100 bushels of salt
" Peralta 120,000 pounds of flour
" Albuquerque 250,000 pounds of flour
liuO bushels of -all.
" Fort Union MJ.OUÚ pounds of flour
The flour and salt must be of supciline qaalilv,
and deliveied in strung collcui "unlling" double
s..eks of lot) piMiud, ea"li.
1'inpu-als ioe muted tor llie whole amount, for
that required a! several ponds, or for dial reqniiod
i'.t any p .rliculai point
The contract or con'.r rU lo be made for one
year, and the tailhi'ul I'uililmciit Iheieof to be
guaiu'died by ivvo n-sp n.-inle seeunhej, whose
iiiiies mutt lie eniered in the pmpvsals
One tourlli of the amount nqwreJ at each point
must be deliw-red quaricily, commencing on the
1st day of August, I8.il.
The principal commissary st tinned in New
.Mexico, will reserve the light of "increasing'' or
'diminishing" the amount U lie delivered al eaeli
and every I I, -it; one llitnt," by giving t:x
mouths' notice to that eli'ect,
The niidéis'gncd reserves the right otiejecting
all bids that he considers unreasonable.
ISAAC lit) WEN,
Capt. A. V. S.
Jan. !3.1Si 1-7133
United St.des District Court for the First Judicial
District of the Territory of New Mexico, and
county of Sania Fe.
September term A. D, 1853.
Charles II. Men itt 1
vs
Stephen Oldham and Asiinnpsit in
Uenjainin J. Thompson, attach,
surviving partners of llie late
linn of i-'lournoy, Oldham & Co. J
This day came the said plaintill by his attorney,
and it appealing to the satisfaction of Ihe court
that neither of the said defendants are residents of
the Territory of New Mexico, but reside beyond
the limits thereof, so that the ordinary process ot
law cannot he executed upon them, II is therefore
ordered that they the sai J defendants enter their ap
pearance hereto on or before the first day of the
next term of this court lo be begun ami held at the
court house in the city of Santa Fe, on the third
.Monday of March A. D. 1854, and plead, enswer
or demur to plaintitt's petition, or judgment will be
rendered against them. It is further ordered that
publication be made of this order according to
law.
I, Lewis D. Sheel3, clerk oí tho district court
for the first judicial district of tho Territory of
New Mexico, certify that the foregoing is a true
copy of the order made in this cause.
In testimony whereof I hereto set
my hand and the seal of said court,
this 23d day of January, 1S54.
L. D. SHEETS, CI!;.
NOTICE.
NOTICE is hereby given, that I.John W. Gum,
of the county of Montgomery and State of
jVissoni i, will apply for a duplicate of bounty land
warrant No. 6it,7'J J, for 100 acres in lieu of origi
nal in my name, which has beeu lost or miscarried,
so that I have not received it. Said warrant is
sued under the act of February lllli, 1817, and
directed lo me al Santa Fe, New Mexico,
JOriN W. Gt'RN.
Jan. 28 1S51.-CI.33
PROPOSALS FOR C'ARRIG THE
MAILS.
PROPOSALS for carrying the Mails of Ihe
United States, from Ihe 1st day of July, 1854,
to Ihe 1st day of July, 1858, in the Male of Cali
fnmia, and in the Territories of Oregon, Utah, and
New Mexico, will he received at the Contract
Oliiee of tle Post Office Department, in Ihe City
of Washington, until 0 A. M. oí the 3d April.
1851, (to be decided by Ihe 23d of April, 1851,)
on the routes and in the times herein specified,
viz !
IN NEW MEXICO.
12000 From Santa Fe, by Albuqiiercpie, Socorro,
Duña Ana, Fort Fillmore, Frontero (Tex
as), El Paso, San Elizai-io, Magolliinsvillc,
and Leona, lo San Antonio, 1)11) miles ami
back, once a month.
Leave Santa Fc on the 1st of each month j
Arrive in San Anlonio in 25 days.
Leave San Antonio on tho 1st of each
month i
Arrive at Smta Fo in 25 days.
Bills lo carry twico a mouth are invited
also bids to make the trip in 20 days.
12001 From Santa Fe, by' La Canada, lo Fernando
dc Taos, 70 miles and back, twico a month.
Liave Santa Fe on the 1st and 15th of each
month, at 8 A. M
Arrive at Fernando do Taos by the 3d and
17th at 12 M
Leave Fernando de Taos on Ihe 12(n and
28th of each month at 8 A. M
Arrive at Santa Fe by the 14th and 30th at
12 M.
Bids for weekly trips are invited.
12002 From DonanJ, by Fort Belkiap, to Gaines
ville in Texas, anil hack, once in two
weeks.
Bidders lo state dislonce end schedule of
errivals and departures.
Bids for weekly trips are invited.
FORM FOR A BID.
Whin no change com irecitcmcn li cotiremilafed
by Ihe bíldar,
"I (or we, as the rnse may be) hero write Die
name or names in full of here tate Ihe residence
or residences hereby propose lo carry the mail on
route No. , from lo , is often as
the Postmaster General's advertisement for pro
posáis for Ihe same, dated October 13, 1853, r.
quires, ill' the time stated in the schedules con
tained in said adrertisment, and by the following
mode of conveyance, to wit : here state how it is
to be conveyed,J for the annual sura of hen
write out Ihe sum in words at full length.
Dated. fSigned.
Form of a Guaranty.
The undersigned undertake that, if the forego
ing bid for carrying the mail on route No. be
accepted by the Postmaster General, Ihe bidder
shall, prior to the 1st day of July next, enter into
the required obligation to perform the service pro
posed, with good and sufficient sureties.
Dated . . f Signed by two guarautors.
Form of Certificate. .
Tho undersigned (postmaster, judge, or a clerk
of a court of record, as the case may be)' certifies
that he is well acquainted with the above guaran
tors and their properly, and that they jre men of
properly and able to make good their guaranty.
Dated "igued.j
INSTRUCTIONS.
riímifii? con Uioiu lo be iucorporriiiil irt the con
ttactt lo the extent the Department may deem
jtroner.
1. Seven minutes re allowed to each inter
mediate office, when not otherwise specified, fur
atoning Hie mails.
i. On routes where the mode of conveyance
ii.l in if s of i. the special agents of the Department,
also post office blanks, mail bags, locks and keys,
are lo be conveyed wilhout extra charge,
3. No pay w'ill be made for trips not performed ;
and for eech of such omissions nol satisfactorily
eve!, uneil Hurí times the pay of the trip may be
deducted. Fur arrivals so far behind time as to
break connexion with depending iMils, and wA
sultieiently excused, one-fourth uf llie compensa
tion for the trip is sulijoi t to forfeiture. Deduc
tion may alio be entered for agrade of perform
ance inferior to that spc 'ilied ill llie contract. For
repeated delinquencies of Ihe kind herein specified
enlarged penalties, proportioned to the nature
thereof and the importance of the ina.i, may be
made. '
1. For leaving behind or tnrowing off the mails
or any portion of lliem for the admission of pas
sengers, or for being concerned ill selting up or
running an expre.-s conveying commercial intelli
gence ahead of the mail, a quarter's pay may be
deducted.
5. Fines will be imposed unless the delinquency
be promptly and satisfactorily explained by cer
tifícales of postmasters or llie aludavits of other
creditable persons, for fading to arrive in contract
time for neglecting to take the mail from, or de
liver it into a post oliiee ( for suliering il (cither
owing lo the nnsuitableness of the place or manner
of carrying it) lo be injured, destroyed, robbed or
lost and for refusing, alter demand, to convey the
mail as frequently as the contractor runs or is con
cerned in running a coach or steamboat on a
route.
0. Tho Postmaster general mty annv.l the con
tract for repeated failures to run ogieer.bly lo
contract ; for disobeying the post office laws, or
Ihe inslsuctions of tho Department for refusing lo
discharge a carrier when required by Ihu Depart
ment to do o for assigning the contract wilhout
the assent of Ine Postmaster General for tunning
an express as aforesaid or for transporting per
sons or packages conveying mailable matter out of
the mail.
7, The Postmaster gencial may order an in
crease of service on a route by allowing therefor a
pro rata increase on the contract pay. lie may
also order an increase of pav for the additional
slock or carriers if any. The contractor may,
however, in the rase of increase of speed, relin
quish the contract by giving prompt notice to the
Department lliat ho prefers doing so to carrying
the order into eli'ect. The Postmaster General
may also curtail or dis'ontinue the service at pro
rata ilccrcaso of pay, if he allow one month's
extra compensation on the amount dispensed with,
whenever in his opinion the public interests do not
requiro the same, or in case lie desires to supercede
it by a different grade of transportation. Ho may
ulso change the times of arrival and departure
(provided he does not curtail the running time)
without increasing the my.
8. Payments will be made for llie service
through drafts on postmasters, or otherwise after
the expiration of each quarter say in February,
May, August and November.
0, The distances me given according to the
best information) but no increased pay will be
allowed should they be greater than advertised, if
Ihe points lo be supplied be correctly stated.
10. The Postmaster General is prohibited by
law from knowingly making a contract for the
transportation of the mails with any person who
shall have entered into, or proposed to enter into
any combination to prevent the making of any
bid for a mail contract by anv other person or
persons, or who shall have made any agreement,
or shall have given or performed, or promised to
give or perforin any consideration whatever, or to
do or not to do any thing whatever, in order to in
duce any other person or persons not to bid for a
mail contract. Particular attention is called to tho
28th section of (he act of 1830, prohibiting combi
nations to prevent bidding.
11. A bid received after lime, viz. 9 a. u. of
the 3d April 1854, or wilhout the guaranty re
quired by law, or Hut combines several routes in
one sum of compensation, cannot bo considered in
competition with a regular proposal reasonable in
amount.
12. A bidder may ofTer, where the transporta
tion called lor by the advertisement is difficult or
impracticable nl certain seasons, lo substitute an
inferior mode of conveyance, or lo intermit ser
vice a specified number of days, weeks or months.
He may propose to omit an inaccessible office, or
one not on the stage or railroad, or at a steamboat
landing, as Ihe cose may be or he may oiler to
subsliiule an inferior mode of supply in such
cases. He may propose different limes of arrival
and departure, provided no more running time is
asked, and no mail connexiun prejudiced. He may
ask additional running time for tne trip during
a specified number of days in seasons of very bad
roads ; but beyond these changes a proposal for
service differing from that called for by Ihe ad
vertisement will not be considered in competition
wilh a regular bid reasonable in amount Where
a bid contains any such alterations, their disadvan
tages will be estimated in comparing it with other
proposals.
13. There should lie but one roule bid for in a
proposal.
14. The roule, the service, the yearly pay, the
name and resilience of the bidder j and those of
each member of a firm, where a company oilers,
should be distinctly stated, also the mode of con
veyance if u higher mode than horseback be in
tended, 15. The bid should be sent under seal, address
ed lo the second assistant Pastmaster General, su
perscribed "Mail proposals in the Stole of."
It should be guarantied and the infliciency of the
guarantors certified (see forms) end should be dis
patched in time to be received by or before 9 A. si.
of the 3d April 1854. i
IS, The contracts are to be executed and re
turned to the Denartment bv or before the 1st of
July 1854.
17. Under llie act of March 3. 1845, the routes
are to be let to the lowest bids tendering sufficient
guaranties, without other reference to the mode
of transportation than may be necessary for the
due celerity, certainty and security of such trans
portation. When the lowest bid proposes a mode
of conveyance inadequate to Ihe due celerity, cor
tainty and security of the mails, it will not be ac
cepted. 18. When the bid does not specify a mode of
conveyance, also when it proposes to carry 'ac
cording to the advertisement,' but without such
specification, it will be considered as a proposal
for horseback service.
19. Since the passage of the act of March 3,
1845, a new description of bid has been received.
II does not specify a mode ot conveyance, but en
gages to to take the entire mail each tilp with
celerity, certainty and security, usine llie terms of
tho law. These bids are styled, from the manner
in which they are designated on the books of Ihe
Department, 'slur bills.' The experience of the
Deportment enables it to lay down the following
rules, v i
When the mail on the routo is not so large ns
to require two-horses conch conveynnoc, star
bid, if tho lowest, will alwnye he preferred to
the specific bid.
When the mails are of such size and weight
ns to render it necessary, in reference t,o them
nlnne, to próvido two- horso conoli oonvoynnco,
the specific hid, though tho highest, for conoh
service, if ndiudgnd to ho entirely sufficient for
the routo, will be preferred to the slur bid, in
cuso the di(Forpnrji) is not such ns to interfere
with the policy of the law of 1845, which looks
io (i reduction in tho cost of transportation.
Exceptions, however, inuy lo allowed whore
tho star hid is mado by the owner of tho stock
now used on the routo' iu the perfoniiuiico tí
conch service,
On routos of the highest class, where four
horse conch or steamboat trunoportntion is re
quired by the size mid imporfanco of tho mails,
nnd tho specific bid is adjudged sufficient for
the route, the preference for the specifio hid
will he if necessary, curried to n greutes oxtout
of difference llina on tho inferior couch routes.
20. A modiiiontion of a hid, in any of its es
sential terms, is tantamount to il new bid, and
cannot bo roooivod, so ns to intorforo with re
gular competition, after tho last hour set for
roceiving lids.
20. Postmasters are to lo careful not to cer
tify tho sullioicney of guarantors or sureties
without knowing that they nro persons of suffi
cient responsibility; undull bidders, guarantors
and sureties nro distinctly notified that on nfni
uro to enter into or to 'perform the contracts
for tho service proposed for in the nocepted
lids, their legal Jiulilities will be cuforccd n
gainst tiieui.
22. Tho 'contractors will bo substantially in
the forms heretofore used in this Department,
except in the respects particularly mentioned
in theso instructions; and on steamboat routes
the contractors will lo required to deliver tho
mails into the post offices at the ends of the
routes nnd into all the immediate post offices.
23. Present eontrnotors ond persons known
at the Department must, oritiaüy without others,
procure gnnrontors and certifientcs of their su
fficiency substantially in tho forms above pros
cribed. Tho certificates of sufficiency must ho
signed by a, post master, or a judge, or clerk of
a, court ef record.
JAMFS CAMPBELL,
Post Master General,
Post Omen DEPAimuxT, October 13, 1853.
ootlü wl2w
B . W. TODD.
I have removed from the "Noland House," lo
the "Nebraska House," in Independence, Missouri.
The Nebraska House is a large new building, and
has recently been much improved by alterations
and additions. Having taken this house for a term
of years, i intend to make every effort to promots
the convenience and comfort of travellers. The
patronage of my friends and the travelling public
is respectfully solicited.
B. W. TODD.
January 1st 1853 ly.
Caro Lee.
After twenty years wandering in foroign lands,
I returned to the home of my childhood a
stranger! Mine had been a lito of adventure;
now upon the topmost vorgo of fortune ivhcels,
anon, toiling and sweating beneath the tuss of
n oruel task-master a cliainod slave, I had bo
come wearied of life, sick of an exislenco which
brought with it nothing but misery (for, at best,
my life was a miserable nne,) nnd, upon the im
pulso of the moment, while trending the gaily
lined walks of a rich southern city, 1 determin
ed to visit once more that little spot on the
earth which 1 once gloried in calling my home.
Who can paint tho pilgrim's feelings ns, after
a twenty years' absence, ho again visits the sce
nes and spjts where, in childhood, ho spont, in
sweotdst linppiuess, tho long sunny days, and
gamboled away tho choicest hours'of his exis
tence ? What pen onn picture the emotions of
that throbbing heart us it Bears the cherished
goal, nround which overy recollection, dear to
momory, clings as the ivy'elings around tho for
est oak? Who can describe tho feelings upon
beholding nguin those snmo old hillsl thoso
broad, green meadows; tho samo clear, babbling
brook, and verdant plains ? Tonguo nor pen
can paint tho thrilling emotions of the lono
wnndcror as he thus returns, as the prodigal, to
his father's home. Yes, I determined to visit
again my early home: As I entered tho little
villugo a fooling of deep tnelnncholly camoover
mon sad foreboding of fianje-solenm change;
and, this sad ides seining my mind, this rough,
stout heart of mine wept litter, litter tears of
sorrow. I am not ashumcd to own that I wept,
though many, many years had fled since my eyes
wero inoistiiedwitli tears. Who would not havo
wept ? Thoso whom I knew and loved were no
longer numbered with the living, or hut a very
few nt most, their onco cherished forms now si
lently reposed in peace beneath tho groen sod of
yonder graveyard. The wido, shady streets,
which once echoed the merry laugh of myself
and companions, now seemed, to tne, deserted,
though seon9 of busy men and eaily ntiireJ
women still thronged ihem as of yore. None
of these I knew, uud 1 was a stranger.
It was a June evening a beautiful, briglttj
frngrant June eveuing, when I luid down my lit
tlo pack in the village inn. The birds were on
rolling forth their happy vesper eonits; theouw
boy's merry whistle echoed among th pine-clad
hills and verdant plains; the herds and Hooks
were grazing in the green meadows, when 1
wended my solitary way to thstvillngi cemetery.
When 1 left my home, years neo,-but it few
mounds were scattered here nnd there over tho
beautiful retreat of the dead; but a few motni
inents reared their snowy crests uUivo tho fo
liago of the shrubbery that survonndei them.
But what it chungo I " This spacious yunrwim
now nil Oiled up with the narrow lunue of thosu
who wore once filled with life and iiniuiulion.
I did nut wander far before 1 came to tee grave
of one whom I had tenderly Lived in youth.
A plain marble slab, with nu Appropriate ins
cription, marked the retting pluee- uf the onco
beautiful maiden. It was too much for me;uiy
soul could boar to go no fai lher. That maiden
was once my playmate; she was my companion
in nil my ch'ildlsl'i sports, and 1 Itieed her. ILic
image had ever been present wilh ine in all my
wnnderitigj; her idolised form. Ivr face, mdiunt
with sweetness, had been ever distinctly remem
bered, nnd to gaze upon them ouoo more wa
the mason of my returning to my home tigain.
Nothing nut this desire a wlnsh that had ever
haunted mo could have induced mo to return
to that spot where no friends now remained to
welcome the wanderer back. Fool thatwus for
ever returning !
I iiniuedintely repaired lo tho inn, nnd there,
from the iips of an nged gentleman, learned the
sad history of her whom I had so long nnd ten
derly loved. The story ran in this wise;
N.ovcly mid beautiful was that sainted maid
en, George, and many were those who bowed
tho kneu of ndoration'beforu her queenly form.
She eclipsed iu beauty uud grucc ail other maid
ens, "As the sun rising doth obscure stnr,"
nnd she was tenderly beloved by nil. Nona
could help loving her, for she was i friend to
everybody; her presviico dispelled the cures nnd
gloom from t lie hovol of want, ns the morning
mists Illy ImÍovo ths rising sun; she stood by
Ihe sick couch nnd and Ihe bed uf death, cheer
ing and animating the sufferers with hope snd
resignation; in short, George, she was our good
nngel, and moro worshipped ly the poor villi
gos Hum tho God who made us, but upon all
sho smiled n smile of friendship, nnd nothing
more she accepted untie. Tims was (.'mo l.ce,
nud thus passed the plensnut days uf hor youth,
"When she was alont seventeen years of egc,
her fallar, n wonllhy merchant in our tiling,
took into lis serviee, ns clerk, a young man, a
fovv years Cavo's senior, of very j lon'sing ml
dress, and rcmarkablo personal beauty. Henry
Leland possessed overy charm to win'the conh
denco nnd lovn of a young nuil roi, filling miúoVn.
lío had spent several years in the city, in which
time his manners had received n polish and
grace very pleasing to those who look for a fair
exterior hcoro looking the real mm it, if not,
which is to lo found Lenenlh. Henry had not
been long in tho employ of .Mr. I.ee, when ho he
came acquainted with his Icnutil'iil daughter,
Caro, and a desiro nt their llrst meeting, it wu
may lelievo his own words, cntorod his breast
to win tho fair jewel.
"Mr, Lee, was a business man in tho strictest
senso ef tho word, and paid much more atten
tion to his day-looks nnd legers than to the nf
fairs of his family. He was n sociable old fid
low, and ns perfectly confiding to those in In
employ, as to those who stood upon a level with
him; thus his clerks and laborers were ns often
invited to his house, nnd ns politely treated,
when there; as the man of millions. Henry was.
not slow to accept the invitation of Mr! Lee,
nor was he backward in improving tho freedom
thus grunted him. With h'.s handsome person
nnd oily tongue, hit bewitching smile and groe,
ccfnl bearing, he was not long in making a a
vorable im pr ossion upon the tender soul o t t'r.
Every art sjf which ho was master was practised
by him to win the esteem nnd lovo of the pure
hearted girl, and nt Inst he was succssful. Thi
tender eord was touched, the well-spring of her
affections ho found; he possessed the key to fu
ture wealth and happiness.
"I need not to go through, George, with alt
the particulars of their days uf wooing; of Ihe
oposition of Cnro's mother to their union; tho
interruptions iu love's passage, nud all this, for
it would bo, to you, uninteresting. Suffice it t
say that they loved each oilier tenderly nuJ well.
Mr. Lee thought Henry a very paragon of per
fection, and he gave lili consent readily and wil
lingly to tho union. All obstacles were now re
moved from between them nnd perfect hIKi,
nnd the young nnd hopeful lovers wero happy.
Now nil wns bustle in the house nf Mr. Lee
cooks und dross-makers, nnd servant girls wero
as busy ns their respective duties ns tnnugh eneh
nnd all were to be married too, nnd everything
progressed finely. Mr. Lee gave to Henry' a few
weeks in which to make due preparations for
his part in tho inleresting peifonnnucc. Jt was.
duly improved by him, and nil went as merry
as marriage bells. The day nt length nrrived,
and Henry Leland and Caro Lee wero made "one
flesh." That night the rich mansion of Air. Lee
resounded to sweet music, to gay laughter nnd.
happy merry-making. It was a bright nnd ja
yous scene, nnd many wore the silent prayers
sent up to tho throue of grace for the futuro
happiness of the beautiful bride.
A splendid house was purchased for theyoung
couple that's is the house yonder, George, biJ
in thoso stately olms and Henry became llio:
junior partner, in tho firm of '-Loo & Leland,.
merchants." Let us pass over just one short,
year, George, and again take up our story. In
that mansion there tho one to which I linio just
pointed, is heard the auotioueer's hnmmor an I
liis rapid call of "who bids higher.".. He is
selling the rich furniture that once Mongo I to
his numerous creditors. A few minths after tho
daughter's marriage Mr. Lee booaii.o a bankrupt,
having engaged iu the ruinous speculation of
land, in whieh so many lost their all. Poverty
ho could not endure, nnd in less thau one short
month from tho day of his failure he-was carri
ed to that bourne from whence no travellers re
turns. But few weeks had elapsed, nnd Mrs.
Leo. who had for many years eniojded but fee
ble health, followed bir'bustau;l to the grave