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GUMIIAIIY OF NEWS '
.For the Yeek ending IHov. 18.
Foueiunv
Alxlel Ka.ler". the fanning Ava"' .Chief, is
Madrid telegram says the Insurgent forts
:it Cjii tau'ena have opened a heavy fire both upon
tli..' lanl an.l naval forces of the (Soverumout; dis
. atoli ft uii Cartagena sajs fht insurgent fleet is
mkiii.4 jiri'pamtions to leave the harbor; the ves
sel hope to get out without discovery by tho Gov
ernment squadron; it is reported that another buttle
La taken pjct between C artiste and Republican,
aiia rftt'iiltini; in a grVnt victory for the former;
the KrpubtioHiiR are Biiid to. have lemt 1 ,300 n-.Mi
had tho Cftrlists 200. The Comruitte of the Lon
don Stock Kxchajijra have adopted a resolution
that four Bhillhipi, British currency, per dollar,
Ainericr.n, t-hall bp t! rate of exchange after tint
Urd of I fcvember. The Comitiiltee on Prolongation
hau adopted the proposal of M. Ca.4itr.ir Keeueir,
that the iaw prolonging tii javeri of President
MrM:tliii for live years Wyotid the ditratioti of the
jivKL-:.t Ass.-'uTily !ieoonit a )art of the Coi:stitifiou
after cooHiitutioual tiiil.s are voted upon. The
hhootintr of erew and HassensrerH' of the cteani-
-Mhi Vi riji nl u- is commented tion at Tentli by the
I.oinlon tiioniitig jounjals, all of which expr'.s? tlie
hop- tJjat th executions will Imj avene.1 by the
(overuui!i,ii of the United htateti.-intelliuvtice hat?
rec-ived iii London that a fkuiiri prev;u!s iu
Jii-n!iiud, cni:at:d by a failure of the fisheries; in
(m village uliUw, liiU peoplv have wtfu-vrtl to death.
On the 7th "ui!t. the captain and thirty-six of the
crew of the steamer Virginius were executed ist
Haiitiairo de Cuba, and on tlie next day tw.-!ve
more of the Cuban volui. teens on the rewsel wcit
sliot; atnotiir the latter wss Francliic Aharo. A
diriat'h froiu Santhiofo de Cuba, Rnnouncinir the
exeeiition' of t'attt. J'ry and fjie scr- v of tlie Vir
iuiiiHi and twelve more ("uban patriots, says that
l'raucliie Alfaro was amonir the latter ntimlar unl
oiiV-i.vd the Spanish authorities: one million dollars
if;ii.-r would spare bis life: the Spaniards s;y Alfaro
caine to assume the 1 'residency of Xhi': so-called
Cuban Ke'p-ublie; several pase::jri rs, loth men and
women,' by sti-amer City of Now York from New
York XoveiU'lwr t'.i, were arrested by the anthor
itles on laiuiino; on. the. 1 1th at Havana; it is report
ed they are accused. of complicity with Insurgent.
OMF.STir. 1
In tli.; billiard tournament at CJiicairo. ("iarnier
beat I5essitijx-r !." ittiiiin's 4iKf to :340; I ial v beat
Slossons 4(H) to -i)7; in th'. 12th inning Daly made
f: point-:. The Supreme Council 'of the Sover
eiirn Consistorv of Masons of :J:?d d.rrec of the
North jurisdiction of tlie United States, met at
.('h'h-Miro on the 1 ,'th inst.; h numlr of mahles
from all p:-irts of the -eomitry were jnsent. The
Atiti-Cliinese t'oiiveiit'ion tnrt at .nu Francisco on
tlie 1-tli, ami elected J. Jl. :uii rsiueiii; u
Committee on I'la'torm and Ri-soluti)n was ap
poitited and chavjied with tlie duty of drattili'ir an
uddrvsA to the people of the United States ou the
subj't't of Chinese immigration. The western
biiinvd train, on ti;e Memphis and Louisville rail-,
road, was tint racked on Wednesday, the 12th inst.p
HO iniieu west 'of MMnplu., ami thirty passenurers
bruised and hnria'd, but none fatally: an iron bar
w.-v placed. 'across the track. The Ohio Falls Car
Co. upaiiyV, statement shows one million of assets
aud halfa million of liabilities: their creditors have
granted an extension of time and the .works will
rpsun;e business in a few days," employing 700
men. "I!y an oj.der from the Navy Department,
all sailors on board the United Slati-s receiving
ship Sabine at Portsmouth, A. It., were tins morn
ing dispatched to New York for service on the C
S. vessels in Cuba waters. There was a irencral
'"fall of snow north on iVediiesday. 12th. The im
mediate cause of the death of the widow of ( ren.
luibe.r! K. Lee was pan-lysis. It took place at 12
o'clock' on AYe hiesdav niiiht of last week. Her
three sons aii'd a daughter were present, and her
passion-away was jieacelul ami ralni as became
Jn r hie. The Secretary of War has ordered Kort
.leii'ei s'i'i, 1'la., to be ,ut in repair, and the garri
son will he strentrtheiied.
HT3 VIE v OF TE SI AUKETS
For the.Wpek eadinj Nov. 18,1873.
Lrvr.in'init., Nov. 12. (Nitttna ste.'nlier Ut-
lands bh r!eans Sid. Sales of 1 12,000 bales.
'Speculation anil export 2,000 bale.
Tallow
,)s. f,d
SelU'is demand 1-1( advance on arrivals.'
LlVKlil'Ooi,, Nov. 1)5. Fplands, on basis d
guml oiidinary, "shipped December and January,
S ;-h)d. HreadstulU (puet.
Nov 1 1. Noon, Cotton firm; uplands 7: or
leans SJ; sales 12,000 hales; speculation ami ex
port 2,000. ' - "
. Ni;w Yokk'Xov. 12. Gold 107f ,1(71. Gov
eminent bom s ntt e. noinir aim Iiomni.U. Cotton
linn at llT4i t ents. Southern Hour unchanged
.Wheat l'?2 cents hiirher. hut verv quiet winter
"re.l ttistcrn SI Corn 1 cent hitrbei- and in
active export demRi.d vellow western (iOj-ff 61
cents. Fork quiet and unchanged. ,Rnval Store;
mipt. lrrpiihts firm. -4
Not. n -l-fiold lSJTalOP. Cotton ptcRdr at
141 151 cents. " Porfthern flour i a shad firmer
common to fair extra lo? 85. Wheat is a
, cent higher, with a fair'demaud winter red wept
ern $1 45. Corn l-gJ'i cnts higher tmd an good de
niand prime vrslern mixed aHont CH02i cent
Pork lower new ijli 75. Naval Stores quiet
Freights tirm. I
Nov. 14. Citton quiet and nominal; uplands
irt; Orleans lo-$. I- lour a shade tinner; common
to fair extra $45 25'SS7 00: uwui to extra ?b ly
SO So; good to choice $7 05$10 50. WTheat 3 4
Corn '.V;4 cents higher, goial demand; prime west
em mixed afloat 01r2. Pork lower, new mess
$14 75. Navals quiet, Freihtsfirm. Gold active,
excited on war rumors at JiJi. Goveiumeuts
Wilmington, Nov. 12. Spirits Turpentine 35
finite Tiinrti.f t i i i . I .r t ; - - j "V
1 at 2.35 per bhl.; market steady. -Crude Turpen
tine. YpIIow Din 9. AT V;: a to TT 1 -rr-
' j. ... , i l li i 1141U '
'market quiet and steady. Tar $2 per bhl; market
'stpitdv. f!otton 121 ft a
" - T " uiui an fitttu t
Nov. 13. Spirits Turpentine 36 cte.; market
firm. Rosin, So. 2 at 2.30; market steady at 2.25
for Strained. Crude Turpentine, Yellow Dip 2.G5,
IT 1 1 WO. -. 1 . ... . . 1 1 m , 1 ,
iiam l.ou, iiiai.i.ct luistrtrieu. i.ar per R0(.;
marKei Pteaay. ioiiou LZf.
Nov. 14. Cotton firm; middlings lSi-SL
Home Circle.
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THE PIKE'S PEXAXCE.
. Where tbey came from no one knew.
Among tlie fanners near the Bend there was
ample ability to conduct researches beset
by far more difficulties than that of the ori
gin of the Pikes; but a charge of buckshot
which a good-natured Yankee received one
evening, soon after putting questions to a
venerable Pikej exerted a great depressing
influence upon the spirit of investigation.
They were not blood-thirsty, these Pikes;
but they had good' reason to suspect all in
quirers of being at least deputy sheriffs,
if hot w orse, and a Pike's hatred of officers
of the law is equalled in intensity only by
us hatred of manual labor.
But while there was doubt as to the
fatherland of the little colony of Pikes at
Jagger's Bend, their every neighbor would
willingly make affidavit as to the cause of
their locating and their remaining at the
Bend. When humanitarians and optimists
argued that it was because the "water was
good and convenient, that tho Bend itself
aught enough unit-wood, and that the
dirt would yield a little gold when manipu-
ated by placer and pan, all farmers and
stock owners would freely admit the vali
dity of these reasons: but the admission
was made with a countenance whose indig
nation and sorrow indicated that the great
er causes were yet unnamed. With eyes
peaking emotions which words could not
express, they would point to sections of
wheat fields minus their grain-bearing
heads: to hides and hoofs of cattle un-
slaughtered by themselves; to mothers of
promising calves, whose tender bleatings
answered riot the maternal call; to the places
which had once known hue horses, but had
Kieh untenanted since certain Pikes, had
gone across the mountains for game. They
would accuse no man wrongfully; but in a
country where aH f;irmers had wheat and
cattle and horses, and where prowling In
dians aud Mexicans were not, how could
these disappear-inces occur?
Dur to people owning no property in the
neighborhood to tourists and artists the
Jike settlement at the Bend was as interest-
ng and ugly as a Skyo terrier. ,The arch
itecture of the village was of original ftyle,
and no duplicate existed. Of tlfe half doz
en residences, one was composed exclusive-
y pf sod, another of bark, yet another of
ndes, roofed with' a wagon-cover, and plas
tered on the outside with mud; he fourth
was of. slabs, nicely split from logs which
ir.d armed into the Lend; the filth was oj
lide. stretched over a .frame, strictly fj-othic
Votu foundation to ridgepole; while the
sixth, burrowed 'into the hillside, displayed
only the barrel which formed its chimney.
A more aristocratic community did not
exist on the Pacific coast. Visit the Pikes?
when you would, you. cloiild never see any 3
one working. 01 churches, school-houses,
stores, and other plebeian institutions, there
were none, and no Pike bemoaned himself
by eiite.riiir a trade of soilinr his hands by
lo-rieulture. .
Ytt unto thic peaceful, contented neigh-'
Kirhood there found .his way a visitor who
uid been everywhere in the world without'
nee being made welcome. He came to
the house built of slabs, and threatened the
wife of Sam Trotwine, owner of the house;
uul bam, alter sunning himself uneasily
for a day or two, -mounted a pony and rode
off for a doctor to drive the intruder away.
When he returned he found all the men
in the camp seated on a log in frout of his
own door, and then he knew he must pre-
narc for the worst only one of the great
nfluences of the' world could force every
Pike froiu his own door at exactly .the same
tune. 1 here they sat, yellow-iaceu, beard
ed, long-backed and bent, .each looking
ike the other, ami ail like bam, and, as he
lismouulcd, they looked at him.
''How is she? said bam, tying his horse
uid the doctor's, while the latter went in.
"Well," said the oldest man, with deli
beration, '"toe winimm s all thar, if that s
my sign, '
Each man on. the log inclined his head
slightly but positively to the left, thus
manifesting belief that Sam had been cor
rectly and sufficiently answered. Samuel
himself seemed to retrard his information
4n about .the same manner.
Suddenly the -raw hide which formed the
door of Sam's house was pushed aside, and
a woman came out and called Sam, and he
disappeared lrom his log. - . .
As he entered his hut all the women lut
ed sorrowful faces and retired; no one even
lingered, for the 'ike had not the common
human interest in other people's business
he lacks that, as .well as certain virtues.
of civilization. .
Sam dropped by the bedside and was
human; his heart was in the right place,
aud, though heavily intrenched by years of
laziness and whiskey and tobacco, it could
be brought to the iront and it came now.
The dying woman cast her eyes appeal-
uigly at the eurgeou, and that worthy step
ped outside the door. Then the yellow-
faced woman said :
''Sam, doctor says I ain't got muchtime
left."
"Mary,' said Sam, "I wish ter God I
could die fur ver. 1 he children
''It's them I want to talk about, Sam,"
replied his wife. "An' I wish they could
die. with me, rather'n hev .'era live ez I've
hed to. Not that you ain't been a kind
husband to me, for yon hev, V henever 1
wanted meat vev got it somehow; an' when
yev been ugly drunk yev kept away from
the house. But I'm dvin', Sam, and it's
cos you've killed me. 1
"&ood God, 'Mary!" cried the astonishe
Sam, jumping up; "yu're crazy .here,
doctor.
"Doctor can't do no good, Sam; keep
still and listen, ef yer love me like yer once
said yer did; fur I hevn't got much breath
-a s. til
leit, gaspea tue woman.
"Mary," said the aggrieved man; "I
swow to God I dunno what yer MYitr' at."
"It s jest this, barn, replied the woman,
"Yer tuk me, tellin' me yed love me an'
honor me, an' pertectnie.' You mean to
say now yer done itf I'm a-dyin', Sam -
1 hain t ffot no favors to ask of nobody,
an' I'm telling the truth, not knowin' what
wordTl be mv last."
"Then tell a feller where the killin'
came in, Mary, for heaven's sake," said the
unhappy bam.
"It s come in all along", Sam, said the
woman. "1 here is women in the btates,
so I've heard, that marries Jur a home an'
read an' butter, but vbu promised more n
that, Sam. An' I've waited, an' it ain't
cornel An' there's somethin' in- me that's
all starved and cut to pieces. An' it's your
ault, bam. I tuk yer fur better or lux
wuss an' I've never grumlded."
"1 know ver haJnt, Mary,77 whispered the
conscience stricken Pike. 1 "An' I know
what ver mean. Ef God'll only let yer be
fur a few years, I'll see ef the thing can't
e helped. Don t cuss me Mary I ve
never knowed how I've been, a-goin'. I
wish there was something I cenld do 'lore
yon go, to pay yer all I owe yer. I'd go
ack on everything that makes life worth
levin'."
"Pay it to the children, Sam," said the
sick woman, raising herself in her miser
able led. "I'll fonriye vou everything if
you'll do the rijriit thiiiff for them. Do
lo ever3'thing !" said the woman, ; throw-
ug up her arms and falling backward. Her
msband's arms caught her; his lips brought
to her wan faco a smile, which the grim
visitor who an instant later stole her breath,
pityingly left in full possession of the right-
ul inheritance from which it had ucen so
ong excluded.
Sam knelt for a moment with his face
beside his wife what he said or did the
Lord only knew, but the doctor, who was
of a speculative mind, afterwards said that
when Sam appeared at the door he showed
the first Pike face in which he had ever
seen any signs of a soul.
Sato went tp the sod house, where lived
the oldest woman in the camp, and briefly
inuounced the death, the end of his wife.
Then, after some consultation with the old
woman, Sam rode to town on one of his
rses, leadirig another, lie came back
with hut one horse and a large bundle, and
soon the women were making for Mrs. Tro
twine her last earthly role, and the first
new one she had worn for years. The next
lav a wagon I brought a coffin 'and a. minis
ter, and the whole camp silently and respect
full followed Mrs. Trotwine to a home
with! which she could -find no fault.
fur three days all the male Pikes m the
camp sat ou the log iu front of Sam's door
md expressed their sympathy, as did three
riends of Job -that is, they held their
peace. Ivat on the iourtu1 their tongues
were unloosed. ; As a conversationalist the
Pike is not a success, but" Sam' actions
were so unusual and utterly unheard of that
it seemed as if even the stones must have
wondered ana communed among themselves.
"I never heard of ! such a thing," said
Brown Buck; "he's gone an' bought new
clothes for each of tiie four young 'uns."
"Yes," said the patriarch of. the camp,
"an' this mornin', when 1 went down to the
bank to soak my hea"d, 'cos last night's li-
juor didn't agree with it, Iseed bam with
ill his young 'uns an they .."avus awashin'
their faces an' hands Avith. -soap. They'll
ketch their death and be on the hill with
tlieir1 mother 'fore long, if he don't look
out. if Somelfody ort to reason Ayith him."
fl1 won't do no good," sighed Limping
JimJ "He's lost his head, an' reason just
goes into one ear an' out at t'other ear.
When be was 6crapiu' around tms front
door t'other day, an' I asked him what he
wuz a-layin' the ground all bare and de-
solute fur, he said he was done keeping
pig-pen. Now, everybody but him knows
he never had a pig. His head s gotie, just
mark mv words."
On the morning of the fourth day, Sam's
friends had just secured a full attendance
on the log, and Avere at work upon their
first pipes, when they Ayere startled by see
ing Sam harness his horse in the wagon
uid put ail (lis cuimien nno il.
"Whar ye1 bound fur, Sam?" asked the
patriarch.
Sani blushed as near as a 1 ike could,
but answered with only a little hesitation :
"(Join' to take em to seuool to Maxfield
-goin' to do it.ev'ry day;"
The incumbents of the log were too
nearly' paralysed 'to remonstrate, but after
a few moments of silence the patriarch re
marked, in tones' ot feeling, vet decision;
"He s hed a tdmrh time ol it. but he s no
business to ruin (the settlement, I'm au old
man myself and I need peace of mind, so
I'm going to pack up mv traps and mosey
When the folks at Maxfield knows Avhat
he's doin', they'll make hiim a constable or
a justice, an 1 m-itoo mucu or a man to live
nii'h anv sich.
1 ;Aud next day the patriarcjh wheeled his
family and property to pairts unknown.
A few days later Jim Merrick, a brisk
i." -i e it... -1
lanner a lew nines irom me xeuu, sioouin
front of his own house, and shaded hiseyps
in- solemn wonder. It couldn't be he'd
never heard of such a thing afore yet it
vras there was no doubt of it there was
a Pike, riding right tow ards him, in open
daylight. He could swear that Pikd 'had
often visited him that is, his wheat-field
and corral after dark, but a daylight visit
from a Pikie was unusual as a social call of
a Samaritan upon a JeAV. And when Sam
-for it was he- approached Merrick and
made-Iris business i known, the farmer was
more astonished and confused than he had
ever been in his life before. Sam wanted
to know for how much money Merrick Avould
plough and plant a hundred and sixty acres
of wheat for him, and whether he would
take Sam's horsea fine animal brought
from the States, and for which Sam could
show a bill of saleas security for the am
ount until he could harvest and sell his
crop. Merrick so well understood the Pike
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20,1873.
nature that he made a very liberal offer,
and afterward said he would have paid
handsomely for the chance.
A few days later and the remaining Pikes
at the Bend experienced the greatest scare
that ever visited their souls. A brisk man
came into the Bend with a tripod on his
shoulder and a wire chain and some wire
pins, and a queer machine under his arm;
and before dark the Pikes understood that
Sam had deliberately constituted himself a
renegade by entering a quarter section of
land. Next mornins? tAvo more residences
were empty, and the remaining fathers of
the hamlet adorned not Sam's log, but
Avandered about with faces vacant of all ex
pression, save the agony of the patriot Ay ho
sees his home invaded by corrupting influ
ences too powerful for him to resist.
y. hen Merrick tsent up a plough-gang
andeight horses, and the tender green of
Sam's quarter-section was rapidly changed
to a dull-brown color, which is odious unto
the eye of the Pike. Day by day the brown
spot grew larger, and one morning Sam a
rose to find all his neighbors departed, hav
ing wreaked their -engeance upon him by
taking aA aAr his dogs. And in his delight
at their disappearance Sam freely forga'e
them all.
Regularly the children Avere carried to
J.nd from school, and'even to Sunday-school.
Ptegularly every evening Sam visited the
graAre on the hillside, and came back to
lie by the hour watching the sleeping dar
lings. Little bAr little farmers began to
realize that their property was undisturbed.
Little by little Sam's wheat grew and wax
ed golden, and then there came a day Avhen
a man from 'Frisco came and changed it
into a heavier gold more gold than Sam
had ever seen before. And the farmers be
gan to step in to see Sam, and their child
ren came to see his, and kind women were
unusually kind to the orphans; and, as day
by day Sam took his solitary Avalk on the
1M1-1 ,1 1 1- . ....
nmsKie, tue loau on ins heart grew lighter,
until he ceased to fear the day when he,
too, should lie there.
The Poaver of Praise. We need not
turn the pages of history to learn the poav-
er of praise in stimulating men and women
to the highest exercise of their faculties,
for Ave see it exemplified every day in the
commonest walks of life. Idle terms of
compliment soon fall meaningless upon the
customed ear, but there lives not one,
however gifted, to whom the Avords of a
genuine and hearty appreciation are not
more precious than "apples of gold in pic
tures of silArer." jothmg rewards the poet
like thessurance that the chords he strikes
vibrate lesponsively in other hearts; nothing
gives truer inspiration to the artist than
the hope that those who We nature, even
as he doti, may recognize the truthfulness
of his interpretations of her various moods;
nothing rewards the writer so richly as to
know th'ii his utterances are at nee the
reflection and strike the key note of a
thousaud souls. We all of us in our secret
souls love to hear ourselves commended.
but on the other hand there is nothing more
detestable than any attempt at "fishing fjr
the compliment," for which one may hunger
in "silence.
Praise makes stupid people bright, hom
ely ones comely, the clumsy graceful, the
diffident self-possessed. It need not be
given in words; tones are often sufficient.
CA-en glances of gestures Avill convey ample
measuring to sensitive souls. Try a few
words of genuine approval or compliment
upon the most stupid person of Tour ac
quaintance, you can always find some point
in every one's character worthy of praise,
and note the effect; it will surprise you if
the experiment is new to you; try it on a
woman who knows she is plain and unat
tractive, and mark how her eyes will bright
en, her cheek flush, ami her face light un
With something akin to beauty. Try it on
the man avIio lays out your walks or hoes
your corn, aud see what a consciousness it
will aAvaken within him. There is that in
all of us that responds quickly to the Aroice
ol eulogy and longs for it.
The Coliseum. Emilio Castelar
writes that the Coliseum has all the char
acteristic s of ltoman architecture. It can
be better learned in this great example,
left miraculously by past ages, than in the
pages of VitniA'ious, probably altered and
interpolated by the learned of the Renais
sance period. Look at this mortar, thatJ
seems hardened as granite is hardened by !
the iiTegular internal movements of the
planet! Look at the cellar and - vaults,
,contriTa-nces unknoAvu among the Greeks,
admirably constructed in this land of
strength and empire ! ; Behold the arches
which the Hellenic Ayorld neArer erected,
and that look like the triumphal gates by
Avhich history entered with a new life and
a new spirit! See Iioav .the Roman has
placed a plinth to support the Doric pillar
Avhich the Greek rooted in tho bosom of
the earth as the trunk of a tree. Contem
plate those three orders, always separated
in Greek architecture and united hero in an
ascending' scale; first, the most simple and
severe, the Doric, at the base; then the
lightest and most elegant, tho Ionic, in tho
centre; and, lastly, tho most florid and
ornate, the Corinthian, crowning the whole
as the diadem and capital of the monu
ment! The spirit of a constructive people
is visible in the whole building. The
Roman has united the three orders in his
erections, as he has united the Greek gods
in the Pantheon, and his stylo is the great
epilogue of antique genius. Rome took
from Greece her metaphysics and her reli
gion, from the Sabines their women, from
Spa;n her swords, from the East her arches,
apd from Etfuria her bows. Thus it may
be said that Greece is the flower and Rome
the fruit of ancient history. Monuments
bike the Coliseum are, in fact, but the
mighty bones of the immense organism
which compose tne internal oity.
Go doAvn tho ladder when thou marriest
a wife; go np vhen thou choosest a friend
SPORTING U SCOTLAND.
The beginning of the shooting season
makes a great many men happy, and a
good many envious. It is not every en
thusiastic sportsman who can spare his
hundreds or his thousands to rent a range
of barren mountains, who can afford to kill
his oAvn venison at the price of fifty guin
eas the etag, or to lay in his grouse at a
couple of guineas the brace. :' Highland
cousinships go a far shorter way than they
once did in helping relations more or .less
remote to a Aveek or two of shooting upon
other men's ground. In the good old
times, if you had the luck to count kindred
with a Highland laird, you were; sure to
find his doors standing hospitably open,
eA'en ifyou chanced to time your unan
nounced Arisit somewhere in the .second
week of August. Noav there are very few
native-bora mountaineers who afford them
selves the luxury of keeping their best
shooting in their own hands. They make
it a matter of nice calculation how few a
cres will supply them with amusement Or
their tables Ayith game; they ha veto rough
it themselves on short commons of sport;
and so long as the sport is good, and while
their birds are sitting,, they close their
doors against promiscuous visitors. It is
almost Avorse, perhaps, in the establish
ments of thoso wealthy southern strangers,
who go north to recoup themselves the
fabulous rents they pay. They are unem
barrassed by the inconvenient traditions of
old Highland hospitality, and, onjthe oth
er hand, thoy are often seriousiy hampered
in the narrow accommodation of their con
fined shooting boxes. Thev arrange their
snug little parties long beforehand on
principles that are at once exclusive and
mercenary; their guests are generally the
proprietors of Avell stocked Southern pheas
ant covers, or at any rate they are friends
who can repay their civilities in one shape
or another. The result is that many keen
but penniless sportsmen, who have been
buoying themselves up through the sum
mer on .sanguine anticipations, find their
hopes suddenly collapse in tho beginning
of August. They are left out of the game
altogether, when up to the last; moment
they had been counting upon ,a pleasant
expedition and plenty of sport. They
must resign themselves to read reports of
the heavy bags that are being tilled by
others, and must listen in fancy to the rat
tle of their acquaintances' breechloaders.
let one thing or auother often attracts
them still to the North fondness for the
scenery' as well as for the sport, - and the
seduction of the cheery associations of their
more fortunate years. If they yield to the
attraction, in place ot sensibly seeking a
total chanrre of scene and thought else-
Avhere if they Avander northwards through
scenery that reminds them of familiar
haunts, on the forlorn hope of somei unfore
seen bit of good fortune befalling them
they are only preparing a season of Avretch
edness for themselves. . Thev fancy they
can keep 'their cheerfulness alive on the
memory ot the vanished past, and enjoy
the country they used to love apart from
the sport that once gaAe it its charms.
Each day of their autumn holidays brings
them a fresh reminder of their error. What
can blunt the keenest appetite rnor effect
ually, or interfere more objectionably Avith
the soundest digestion than the sight of
the sportsmen Avho hare appropriated the
best ol the guest chambers in the inn
where aou Ikia'o taken up your night quar
ters, as they return weary and heavy laden
from a long aud successful day on the
hills? How can you appreciate tjie grand
est of Highland scenery from the seat
where you fidget on tho coach rojf, if yon
must look away to the magnificent moun
tains OA'er the iolly parties of men and
dogswhoare volutuously quartering the
heaferTh tho foreground. daturiviy He
view.
: Dixxer Etiquette at tue Persian
Court. There are some funnvi customs
obserA'ed at tho Persian Court, When the
celebrated Futteh Ali Shah dined he first
seated himself and tasted the dishes; then
on a giAren signal his A iA-es came in and
stood around the room. At the same time
the princes, his sons and daughters were
summoned, and stood around the table
Ayithout a word. At a given signal from
the Shah they squatted. When 'a superior
dines Avith an inferior in Persia the latter
brings the first dish- himself: Itjmust be
carried horizontally at arm's length, aud
placed precisely in tho right place. On the
Shah entering the throne-room and seating
himself, an official roars out: "He has pass
ed," and all presently Iioav by stopping and
placing the hands upon the knees. Ihe
page of state then walks backward from
the Shah, and pacing down the assembly,
gives handfuls of silver coin fronV a gold
salver. A prayer is then recited by a mulo,
and the affair winds up with an ode spoken
by the poet laureate, lue bhdh w ears all
the jewels. "i '
Absent-Minded People. Sir Isaac
Newton wanted his servant to carry out a
stove that was getting too hot. A fellow
stole his dinner before his eyes, and ho
afterward thought he had eaten it "because
he saw the dishes empty. A Scotch Pro
fessor walked into the middle of: a horse
pond while pondering on final causes. Ben
Franklin punched down the fire Avith the
finger of a young lady sitting by; his side,
and severely bnrnod the lily whito poker.
A gentleman in Troy received a letter in
the dark, used the letter to light j a lamp,
and looked about for it to read. Pere
Graty, one day in Paris, thinking ho had
left his Avatch at hometook itj out of -his
pocket to see if he had time to 'go back
after it. Neander, the church historian,
used to go to his lectures in his night-cap
and night-gown, and sometimes Avalked in
the gutter. But alL those cases do not
equal the man who - takes a paper , year
after year and always forgets to pftv'forit.
A Lost Note. An extraordinary affair
happened about the year 1740. One of the
directors, a very rich man, had occasion for
.30,000 of the Bank of England, which
he was to pay as the price of an estate he
had just bought. To facilitate the matter:
he carried the sum with him to the bank,
and obtained for it a bank note. On his
return home ho was suddenly called out
upon particular business; he threw the note
carelessly on the chimney-piece, hut when he
came btick a few minutes afterward to look
it up, it was nowhere to be found. No one
had entered the room; he could not, there
fore, suspect any person. At last, after
much ineffectual search, he Avas. persuaded
that it had fallen from the clumney-picce into
the fire. The director Avent to acquaint his
colleagues Avith the misfortuno that had
happened to him; and as he was known to
be a perfectly honorable man he was read
ily believed. It was only about twenty
four hours from the time that ho had do
posited the money; they thought, therefore,(
that it would be hard to refuse his request
for a second bill. He received it upon" giv
ing an obligation to restore the first bill, if
it should ever be found, or to pay tho money
himself, if it should bo presented by any
stranger.
About thirty years after (the director
having been found dead, and his heirs in
possession of ms fortune), an unknown per
son presented tho lost bill at tho bank, and
demanded payment. It Avas in vain that
they mentioned to this person tho transac
tion by Avhich that bill was annulled; he
would not listen to it. . He maintained that
it came to him from abroad, and insisted
upon immediate payment. The note was
payable to bearer, and the c30,000 were
paid hiin. The heirs of the director would
not listen to any demands of restitution, and
tho bank was obliged to sustain the loss.
It was discovered afterward that an archit
ect, having purchased the director's house,
and taking it down, m ordor to build an
other upon the same spot, had found the
note in a crevice of tho chimney, and made
his discovery an engine for robbing -the
bank. -
' A Horrible Trade. Opium smoking
is stealing away tho physical and moral
life in China, and tho horrible sin of forcing
the trade upon the Chineso Government,
even at the cannon's mouth, lies at the door
of the great English nation a Christian
nation Avhoso missionanes aro laboring m
every open port of China to bring this
heathen people to a knowledge of Ohrist s
trutti. According to tho last quarterly re
port, the revenue from opium alone nearly
equals that derived from all other imported
articles; and this enormous amount of pois-f
on is nearly all produced and brought into
the empire by British subjects and on Brit
ish ships. All careful observers can see
that heathen China is being sIoavIv but
surely dragged down to tho depths of
wretchedness by this rapidly increasing
evil, and all the world know that, to a very
large extent, the responsibility rests Avith
Christian England. No traveler in China
can fail to bo profoundly stirred by this
subject, or to realize tho solemn duty of all
Christian nations to strengthen the feeble
hands of tho Government against this ter
rible sin.
He' Lost His Money nT'IxDORsrxcr.
When I became twentv-one, my father be
gan occasionally to divide around among
his children a nice little sum in cash, al
waArs accompanying the gift with the as
surance that if Aye ever indorsed for others,
or In any Avay became responsible for short
comings, it Avas the last money wo should
eATer get from him. This condition duriug
his lifo Avas of great valtio to me, and since
then I havo been accustomed to view the
invitation of my friend to indorse for him
in its true light, and my refusal rarely fails
to bo properly received. My neighbor is
in active business, and I am only a fanner
out of debt, with a httlo at interest, bring
ing up and educating a family of children.
Ho -comes to mo, holding out a note for mo
to sign, saving :
"I Avish you would just A-rito your name
on tho back of this; I need tho money very
much; it Avill bo an accommodation to me,
and yon will only havo to Avrito your name."
My ansAver is :
"My friend, do yon really understand
what my position Avould bo before the
world and the law, u l were to ao tnisi l
should instantly proclaim that front a state
of complete independence, and without the
slightest reason for a similar , favor from
you, and for no consideration Avhatevcr ex
cept friendship, 1 had agreed to take upon
myself the risk of your business, Avith the
difference against me that if vou lose I
lose, and if you gain I do not. I share
in vour losses and not in your profit. Now,
if this is true, ought I not first to ask tho
consent of my Avifef Her interest in tho
risk is' the same as mine; her judgment is
as good, arid her friendship for yoii is the
same. But not only this; I should affirm
liefore the public that vou aro responsible,
when I really know nothing of your cir
cumstances, and in so far help you to de
ceive others. I give you a false credit. In
short, I should do that i which no honest
man, true to himself and to hia family, can
do and be blameless.
Jqhx Smith. In Latiri he is Joannes
Smithiia? the Italians smooth him off into
Giovanni Smith; the Spaniards render him
as Juan Sraithns; the Dutchman adopts
him as Hans Schmidt; the French flatten
him out into Jean Smeet; the Russian barks
and sneezes Ivan bmittowiski; when John
o-ets into the tea-trado in Canton he be
comes Jovan Shimmit; but if ho clambers
about Mt. Hecla, Icelanders say ho is Jon
ne Sniithson; if he trades among the Tus-
caroras he becomes Tom Qua Smittia: if
he wanders among the Welsh mountains
they talk of Jihon Schmidd; when he goes
to Mexico, he is booked as Jantli F'Smitti;
if he minrlcs anions? Greek ruins he is
-- CJ
turned into Ion Smiktod; and in Turkey-
he is utterly disguised as Voe belt.
CSTO. 1G.
Caroline von Beethoven, a irranddano-h-
ter of the immortal composer. havin? been
discovered recently in great destitution at
v renna, me oaaest Kind ot provision nas
been made for her future maintenance by
order of the Emperor of Germany, namelv.
by the setting apart of five per cent, at the
opera in Jerun, on the performance of
JbJdelio.
The art of being happy lies in tho pow
er of extracting happiness from very com
mon things. If we pitch pur expectations
high, if we are arrogant in our pretensions,
if Ave will not bo happy except when our
self-love is gratified, our pride stimulated,
our vanity fed, or a fierce excitement kin
dled, then, Ave shall have but little satisfac
tion in, -this life. 1
i . . ' ; ' .
When WilkieCollins was about to eten
in front of the Curtain at Syracuse, he said
to Mr. Hanchett, who was to introduco
him, "Don't introduce me as the greatest
living novelist. I have been introduced
so a number of times, and I d rather bo,
simply tMr. Collins. You know everybody
is the greatest living .something."
Oh, the anguish of tho thought that we
can never atono to our dead for the stinted
affection wo gave them; for the light ans
Ayer wo returned to their plaints or their
pleadings; for the little reverence we show- -
ed to that sacred human soul that lived so
close to ua, and was the divinest thing God
had given us to know.
Correspondence.
For the North Carolina Gazette.
; i "RETEREXCE THISELF
Messrs. Editors: I don't know if U
do not owe your many readers an humble "
apology for not having given the names of
the editors of the North Carolina InteUi-
gencer and FayettemUe Advertiser before -
w. Messrs. Kay & Black appear to
havo been editors, owners and publishers.
It was published weekly, on Saturdays,
and read thus: "Two and a half dollars
per annum payable half yearly in advance."
On tho ICth Nov. 18051 find a lengthy
article on the subject of European affairs,
quoted from the Richmond Enquirer. - I
find more papers quoted from called Gag'
ette than any other name,, showing ; that
Gazette was a very popular title for journ
als at that time. Quotations from thoii-tio-nal
Intelligencer j&ro very frequent. Ono
article from said papet congratulates the '
people of the United States on tho great
progress the Indians were .making at that
timein Agriculture, in the Arts, and
in the most important branches of useful
knowledge."
An articlo copied from tho Post Boy I
reproduce hero with the request that you
publish in fulL What a sensible, what a
moral and good man the author must havo
been. There are but" feAv such men to be
found. He commences by quoting that
short but pithy sentence from Sterne, Rev
erence thyself.'
"In this short sentence," says tho Post
Boy, "is contained tho essence of morality.
I know of ho action, either good or bad,
but is implicitly enforced,' or forbidden in
it. There is no man or yoman that in ev
ery situation of lifo reverences himself or
herself but must necessarily be good. I. .
They must do honor to themselves and to
the highest ornament of society. I would
ask my fair country Avomen, Avhen they as
semble round their tables, and accept every
idle tale they hoar, "though big Avith de
struction of some one's reputation or hap-:
piness, if they reverence themselves T
I would ask tho gambler, when he leaved
his home, his wifo and children, arid pass
es the night Avith knaves and sharpers, if
ho roA'ercnces himself? ;
! I would ask tho drunkard, when ho
nightly boozes in some bar-room' over a
mug of flip; when ho constantly lifts to his
month that cup "whoso every ingredient is
a deA'il," if ho reverences himself f
I would ask tho jwunderet from sweet
and holy wedlock's bed, when ho spends
his money, his strength and his' constituti
on on strange women, if he reverences him
self? , .
I would ask the maiden just blooming
into life, Avhon she hears with patience the
coarse jest, or the insidious entendre, if,
she reverences herself? -
1 wonld ask tho lawyer, when, with art
ful cunning and low deceit, ho cajoles his
client iuto a hopeless law-suit,- if ho rever
ences himself?
I Avould ask' tho christian, when, forsa
king the heavenly precepts of his master;
forgetting charity and Ignoring mercy,, ho
hoars and tells tales of slander, or dooms
to perdition his mistaken neighbor, if he
reverences himself? ;
I Avould ask the husband, who1, instead
of cherishing with fondest care tho wifo of
his bosom, with unkindness, inoroseness and
severity, annihilates the sweet concord of
domestic love, if ho reverences himself?
I would ask the wife, whose duty it is
to soften and ameliorate the cares of her
partner; to smooth tho rougher passions7 of
his breast; to make his home the seat of
cheerfuinoss and peace; and who, instead
of doing this, by domestic cavils, by home
made thunder and wilful negligence, drives
affection and peace from his bosom and his
fire-side, if she reverences herself!
I wonld ask the parents of a young and
Ieautiful proeny Avho, instead of taking
them by the hand, and loading tliem with
constant care and solicitudo in 1 the plain,
ways of virtue, religion and science,1 turn
them carelessly over to 'four-dollar shool--masters
and fifty-cent school-dames, - to lie
taught everything but that which is right,
virtuous, or profitable if then they reArer
ence themselves?" '
My quotation is longthy, but I hope I
am" excused on the score of the good ad
vice it inculcates.
"Delta.