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s;s»MB®T®s»ira®ss:
MRS. T. J. HOLTOM,
ED CT-IB.-H ANO PROPRIETRESS.
j ness with a mote untiring assiduity. But
well? Grace! Gface I flow dan you with heavenly brighthe^ And as ^ e:ii ^0^7 Tj4tY
■for all bis faith in things coming out right, speak so? If I were worth a million of after year made white his head, aud duller J - "•- -
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I they never did come out right ; at least Lot dollars, and she the wife of that abandoned/the lustre of bis eyes, hopes, aud fruitions
jin the sence- ha bad expected. Just as unprincipled Hayward, could my' fishes and sweet experiences were born in his soul
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W ANTING.
The hearth «s swept—t if fire is bright,
7 ho kettle births lor tea ;
The cloth is spread—the lamps life light,
everything pointed to success, and like the
milk maid inthe fable, Mr Ringstrom began
to build bis airy castles, seme false step;
-some wreck of a neighbor with whom bis
. affairs were involved ; or some more widely
j reaching disaster in trade, would scatter bis
golden dreams.
Then would follow a period of deep suf-
, faring ; and his mind wou^d sit in darkness,
but not despair. a
“It will all come out right in the end "
He never lost faith in this sentiment, even
in the gloomiest Lour.
Ihree tunas bad Mr. Riugatrom toiled
up the difficult bill of trade, gaining a
height that made hfm the envied of many
observers ; three times bad his feet slipped ;
and three times had he found himself jy
ing, stunned aud bruised at the bottom,
with scarcely strength^ enough to stand,
much less to try the hard-ascent. His third
■ fail was at a time when he was sixty.
Again, aud tor the lust time, Adam Ring-
strom sat down, in darkness, amid the ruins
of earthly hope; butouly lor a time.- Like
I Job, be had no comforters among his
friends; even bis wife was rather an upbrai-
dur of bis patience, taun a »ustaiuer aud
ease her heart ache? No! And so I say, and the peace.of God that passeth
thank Ged for the misfortune that made/dci^tandiug was l*id upon it.
her a happy wife! Look at Aiioe Grand.-
and Flora Carter. A fate like theirs was
And now I wait for thee.
C»nie home lov
The warm chair to the fireside drawn,
Come home love, home, his dep . lend eye
As if thy welcome step was nigh ;
He crows exu^ingly.
In vain—he finds the welcome V
And turns his glance on mine.
So earnefily. that yet again
That glance is so like thine.
Thy task is done.
Line these will
Alia, along the crisp walks last
That well-known step doth come,
The bolt isarawn—the gate is past,
The bibj is wild with joy at last,
A thousand welcomes home.
COMING CUT MIGHT.
BY T B. ARTHUR.
all un
“I am sorry to find you thus, in your
man ; I have known her these thirty
boys to become what they are. But he
was little at home—gave them spending
money — hoped nis wife would keep them
: right—and now iu his old age be is troub
led with and ashamed of them all. But
j thL trouble is light compared with hefs —
i lie is hardened aud reckless. But she is
in store for our child, when trouble gather stance.
ed like a cloud around as, and hid her from
ths destroyer's eyes.”
We see the baud of Providence in the
1,'.’ said a former busines acqudin
alluding to bis poverty.
It is ail right," was the smiling
and I think, among ail Hr
H^rA I b o -y e d w j t h borrow, and so are the girls,
I know,
 pieus-
ant and agreeable, always kind to the poor
and needy ; I never knew any one to Ie
"All right, my friend, aud I .redid uor that'^,. deor ti ; at for ^^ree
events of our lives only after the events thin finger upward,
He,'' and he raised bis
•knows best. If I
have passed, and we view them in relation j cou iu have had my own. way, I would have
to other events. Happy is be whoc^n have
faith that all is right; all for the best ; even
while the draknese is around him, aud ths
cop of sorrow st bis lips.
Iu this last misfortune that wrecked
again the eartly hopes of Mr. Ringstrom
was a ministration of God not so apparent
as in the previous ca-’es, because involving
more that waa higher, or interior. Taeie
was, as we have said, the stuff in him 01
which angelic life is made, and it had to
Come out clear from grosser substances.—■
To this end he must pass through the fire
Pau:’rotiuded myself wito -ea.ihiy 'rfCoC.i.—
Bat He saw what I see now, that my heart
would have rested in them as the greatest
good, letting go my bold on the more sub
stantial things of heaven ; aud just iu the I
degree chat 1 aad done so, just in the de J
g?ee chat I had turned myself away from
.-piiituai good, to eat the chaff of nature,
would I have been unhappy. Once, 1 cail -
ed my failures and losses misfortunes ; now
from the hand of God. It is ail right, sir.
All right, so fur as I am concerned ; and
“ And this is what you cail coming out
- ht !'’ she said, billet iy, when hei mind
befallen them.
touch, oi sauness iu bis wise w inch be couid
not hide.
I m provoked at you !'’ she re
Good
hereiolore ;
ba.:
misfortunes,
ana I will believe in nothing
id now" said the old man, bis
“IT will all come out right in the eud.”
This was Adam Ring-trom's word of con
solation, spoken to himself, in every trou
ble; his sheet anchor in^very storm.
Faith must have been a very strong
ment of his nature, for-things never
seem to come out right with him.
always experiencing some trial, ;
He
again. What had he looked
the morning of life? What
tolling for I On what had
hopes of happiness ?
buffering, misfortune, trial
meut, and sorrow,
extinguish a love
on whiou bis mind
tain foundation
for ward to in
bad he been
he rented bid
disappoint-
had not yet sufficed Co
of dierC worldly tilings,
still rested lor happm.^,-
mHforLuue was
Lake Ha place 60, lie W at OUl fl
place amuug m u, aud sought a 1
position. Years, aud Luing neaMb,
bis fallen fortunes.
The ruin was bopek* s.
for he hud no strength to bund again.
Alter another decade of years, til.ing up
the number to three score and
see how it is witn Mr Ring-arc
Coming out right. He is an old
was moodily erL-ocue^s.
jeDiit d. ; small, we!
“ Let me refresh your memory sud my
own. It will be o; use to ua born. Twtfl-
saw any good
were reduced from comparative luxury to
want.
a wild boy 0i mne-
ten, let us
i, if all in
man uow,
ibis plain little house, witn its
kept garden, is his Home. How
different from the elegant tu
dwelt iu ten years ago! A
teen, aud in great danger, vve were P'’ e ’ ;
paring him for college, but be did not give |
his uHud to study, being fonder ci pleasure;
and gay companions than of bwoks. bud j
deniy reduced to poverty, we had to change :
our views iu regard to him. Tue college
idea had to be abandoned ; aud, of neeusbl-
tv. Frank was placed in a store where fie
-I
euuiu earn sumetuing toward his support. ;
You grieved yourself sick over his blasted'
hopes,
him.
But it has turned
right for
He showed a d.iLreut aharacter at
w rods dis-
taut stands the splendid residence of a re
tired Merchant, whose days are also falling
into the ‘Sere and yellow leaf.’ The one
has been crowned with so cesses ; the other
with misfortunes. Whatever the hand of
one was laid upon, had turned to gold;
whatever the otuers’s hand was laid upon,
had turned to dross. Auo now, in their old
age, as in the earlier period of their lives,
they stand near together, but as different
in character as in external condition.
For ail bis successes, nothing has come
out right with the rich old man.
ren have not taken hoaoraule
ele
did
was
sorrow, or
once : Decame industrious, thoughtful earn-
est, and affectionate toward us, aud grew
up to be a useful and good man. I tear,
Grace that, but for what we regarded, at
the time, as a great Calamity, our soil would
have been lost. 1 have always seen the
baud of a good Providence iu that Utsiruc-
tiou of my worldly hopes.
misfortune. But no oue heard a murmur
against Providence from his lips. Aud yet
Adam Ringstrom was not a manof low sensi
bility. Da the contrary , he suffered acutely
in his troubles and disappointments; and
the marks of the suffering were visible in
his still, abstracted eyes, and sober mouth
In repose, bis face did not take on a serene
expression. You saw in itahe signs of in
ward pain—of pain only ; 1 ot oi discontent.
When he spoke, however, it lighted up
beautifully. This suddep lighting up oi
his features, as it sunshine had fallen over
them, always gave you a pleasant impres
sion of the man, aud made you forget the
look of pain that touched your sympathies
a little while before.
The wife of Adam Pungstrom had none of
his faith in ultimate results. It things fail
ed to come out right to-day, sho had uo
hope in to morrrow.
So, Adam had the burdens of disappoint
Blent, and trouble to boar without a helper;
nay, she who might have been a helper,
only gave the burdens additional weight.
Mrs Ringstrom was a very ambitious wo
man; and her husband was not without love
of the world, and a desire to stand side
by side^witb the foremost. He started iu
“ len years . laiuf, anti misturtuue came
again. Good j'Tiuue, 1 have, sometimes,
tailed it; lor it saved our darling Ellen
irom a late worse than death. We were
thought to be rich ; aud as Ellen was beau
tiful, sue possessed double atiractions.
You know bow yduug Hayward won her
heart, and hew wild aud bitter were our
leal's, when we found that we could uot break
ihS cuarm he bad turowii around ner. Like
a lamb to the slaughter, we saw her moving
toward the alter of sacrifice, and we had
uo pewer to bold her back. But, help caiue,
ere it was too laic; came under the sha
dows cf misfortune, an angel Hi disguise.—
filches took unto thuuiseives wings and flew
away. From tue higu places to wmcu we
I had arisen, suddenly were we cast uo>»u
How quickly aid Uid mends icseue VVe
went buck into ubsuiuy, au^iew could find
us out. Cue tie ver d
ward. Pour Ellen!
Lb Ada a sad eZper
life with a determination to accumulate pro-
party, and no map
in/it Sho is acapital housekeeper—eve
rythibg is always in apple pie order. She
is always at home uot one of your ‘street
y-.ru spinning lofk' ; a^i I don’t believe
she ever opposed her husband, or .-poke an
angry wo. G to him in her Ine."
Such was the description given by M —-,
of bis neighbor Mrs. U.
She is a very remarkable parsonage,
certainly, was the reply : and must be iu-
valuable in your social eirelc.
. “ One would think so,” said he, and yet,
with all the virtues oi widen 1 have spoken,
and to winch I may add ,oue more—^bb
is d “ pious woman "— she has raised a
very worthless family of bays. Sira has
I bless the Wisdom that made my path, r our goi j s doing business iu the world—the
anu the Hand that led me safely along i^ , eldest is fated to die a drunkard—prab.a-
rough places and difficult ascents.'’
Not so clear-seeing, not so submissive to
fur ifiey are purer and better than he."
Such conversations are daily falling on
our ears as we journey to aud fro on our
mission. We have jotted this oue down as
suggestive. May dot peace and quiet be
puichased at too fearful a cost? We can
think of many such gentle housewives—
women who gain the world’s approval for
their .shrill king -from all responsibility.
Beuci Aiuhe Vila one fierce battle, than
to win quiet aud gain the reputation of a
good wife and housekeeper at go fearful a
cast.
Mrs. C is a type of a large ol«is« of wo-
mrn, r he have force enough to battle dust
on mantles aud stains on shirt collars, but
would be wholly incompetent to the task of
Oieanslag cho life or purifying the soul of a
beloved Child.
“ Train up a child in the way be should
^0 and when he is old he will not depart
Turn it." Let no oue suppose we do not
hold the fathers responsible. We do; but
we say let every mother know and feel she
is strong for her duty before she dares to
a-suimj it, and if the father fails, let her
uss her ’mother's love aud in spite of all ©b-
sUeles—save her child.
i bly will not live a year. The second, is
the Divine Will was .Mrs. Ringstram. Yet,
even-her dim eyes were growing clearer,;
aud sue couid sec, as earth lights grew fee-
spiritual perception, cbat., 5 her husband’s
steady faith had not been mocked.
one of the most reckless speculators in the
country—be drinks, and smukas, and swears;
his word is not worth the breath that gives
sound; he cheats any body he can; (took
bi^sbrewdiiess from bis fattier, they say ;)
aud will cheat his own mother, aud his fam
ily. every chance he !-ets. The third edu-
fallen
neighbor s
friendship,
cail more of
r trouble had
nore wretched
family I have never seen. There is no mu
tual aff eu-'u ; no sympathy, even, one for
graced'his. profusion ana been silenced.--
Aud the fourth’, is a common look—does
not know enough co earn ins own bread. ’
*■ Ail this is somewhat strange, bow do
you account for it."
“'i'llat is just what I want you to do :
Yankee Revenge —The Yankees in one
ef their plundering raids in Mississippi,
vi-iicd cho premises which were occupied
by President A. B Longstreet, now of the
bourn Carolina College, while connected
with the University at Oxford, Miss. These
prowling missionaries and evangelists of
“ the best Government the world ever saw,”
as they ouli it, stole and carried off many
books, papers, &« , belonging to- Dr. Loag-
street, including many manuscripts. Not
satisfied, a Yankee officer cook from the
wall the likeness of Dr. Longstreet’s neph
ew, Gen. James Longstreet, the hero of
many battles, and also the likeness of the
you ufiTm r is fhe motuerT influence, that : Hon h Q (j Lamar, son in-law of Dr.
no luAiag
His child
.ices in >0
ciety, as useful, intelligent men and woman.
They are discontented idlers, aud wasting
spendthrifts; and, iu consequence
of this,
>d her face brigh
and more richly
lays the
fami = y.
foundation of character for th
Mow,
Lougstruet, late a member of Congress, aud
ar present executing an official trust i»
“bu. t am sure it -
home. He knows
ail come out ngu'
plainer eveiy day ’
ab-wcred her fiu^baud, ’
.1 not be a happier -
I knew it would
the right grows
Mrs Rtugsuom did no;,by look, or word
to this sentiment ;
tiny clearer also, and she was begiuuiug to
see beyond the veil of time iutoihat world,
where, for the rich iu that faith which is
made vital by good deeds, there are man
sions whose splendor uo earthly palace can
approach.
BarnUM —Barnum is still afloat at bis
Museum, and offers great attractions, as
there is constant .-true between them and
their father, who, as he grows older, grows
jess patient with everything uot iu accord
ance with his views aud feelings. Having
no employment, alter long years ot a busy,
active life, and uo taste for reading or ait,
bis mind beats ail about restlessly all
the while, hurting itself against the narrow
walls of the prison he has been building,
for it since manhood, and from which it,
cannot get free. Ail day he moves about
with a restless manner, aud a Ji-contented
i face ; or sits for long periods in moody si-
' ieuce ; and half t he night he sighs on a
I sleepless pillow. Life is a burden. He
Lakes no interest iu anything or anybody
' out of his own narrow circle; and iu this
1 there is not a single agieeabie aspect.
: What compensation doe^he find iu bis lux
ieuce ioi her; uut ou, now oles^a 1 mi 11
stripped tue false exterior hum tue uue she
loved, and she turned hom the man with a
shudder of repulsion:
“How is it with Ellen, now? Have we
not cause to bless the calamity that saved
her ! Has it not all come out ngut?”
“ I never couid see that she had done so
very well,'’ was the moody answer of
Kiugstrom. “Her husband is
likely always to remain poor/’
“ But she is rich in the love
P^L
of a
darned hiiu»olf So ba.i-1 geed was ; tied end happy. Net
Mrs.
and
uricas home,
ted grounds
and its ample, richly cuuiva
The starving mind will not.
draw healthy nutrition from the^e ; uay, it
turns from
If this i-
sum in alien
then i> life
them iu loathing.
ot a mans life in this world
inde. d a failure. But there 1-
charitable, home living peaceable ant
houe'L- -:-he has three daughters, just a
puod u • siu u ; wfiife t he so 11s are l^riugtBg turning them to her, the officer showed his
her ^rey hairs with sorrow co the grave. 1 fi rii ( a i nature by knocking his fist oa she
....... «'„« ^ * 1 '""”Tptiocograph features of Gen. Longstreet,
.Europe A lady wuo was iu charge of the
; house claimed theae pictures, and on ro ¬
bis word
pretty hard customer
If he bud lived
a woman of Sny gri6, there would
with
have
bceu a fulls in the family, all the year
-wasn't a hard man either. Bui
; ureakiug the glass, and thereby showing
dis hatred of tue original—-the only mods
of revenge within his power.
then— be. well, to sum it all up-be was
a iyi auical fellow where be dared to be, and
pretty decent where be was afraid to be
any onwrwise. Swore iu the bar room and
in ihe parlor, ii mere was nobody there but
his wile — but would be civil in good com
pany. Always drank some, and chewed
tobacco aud smoked. A capital fellow to
make money, aud very liberal in spending
it, aud al way.-j ?liy if you’d let him have
Ah ! you have told the whole story
pleasant and agreeable woman, who
went from home; who gave her whoi
to be r housekeeping; was 30 pious and
Recapture of New Orleans.—The
Memphis Appeal thinks the recapture of
the uowuirouueu city of New Orleans from
its Yankee persecutors is not only possible,
out probable, at an early day. It argues
that tie Capture of the Queen of the West
and Indianola has placed the means of so
great an aubievem *.uc iu our power. Should
/tile last named boat be saved from tfrerik
and repaired, we shall have a force suffi
cient tu go iu pursuit of the Essex, winch
is, we believe, tho only iron-clad boat the
Yankees nave below Port Hudson. With
; this vessel in our possession, the remainder
will be seen by the following extract from an( | w h o never offended her husband; was
Poiueas' announcement;
“ Little Minuie Warner, the empress of
beauty, sister of the late Mi^ Lavina War
Dvr, now Mrs. General Tom Thumb, though
not half her size—a mere speck of buman-
a coining out ri^ut in a aiffjrent and higher
scuse ; and it was in
that Adam Riugstt’om
simply a household drudge, taking upon
the social relation oi the' home, as far
the bushand and boys were concerned ;
no grit, as you say, and the sons who
will be on exhibition at all hours, and ap
pear iu songs aud dances, in company witn
Commodore Nutt—the‘$30,UUU uutt, The
inherited the strong earnest
tue father probably ove-cam
two making by far the smallest pair of hu
man beings ever seen—-smaller even than
General 1'orn Thumb aud wife. Also, the
great roaring Sea Lion, Bear Samp-on,
Great Aquana, Mousier Shakes, Happy
Family, ^ ax Figures, etc."
Murdehing Women.— We learn
the exchanged prisoners w 1*0 arnved
on Friday from Ne -v Orleans, that on
departure from that city, large namo
them.
this gentle
jo-1 the enemy's fleet, ail Wooden craft, £9-
“ ' getuer with New Orleans, would fall 6&
easy prey to prowess of our arms.
Luu project is a glorious one, and WO
must comess it looks entirely reasonable.—
In Heaven s name, push it forward 60 &13
early consummation ! We have evidently
the Yankees at a disadvantage, and th#
brilliancy .of tue achievement will render
LIAT horse marines of the West immortal.
mother in their infancy. No doubt this
most pains taking bou.>eKeepur preferred
leather boys should play upon the street,
to ihuir littering eer carpet; aud would
have quieiiy seen them .--moke a k bale cigar
in the
dro
up her auiboniy
rather than hava atteibp
.led ihe nusbuud by setting
Ills uradice. She
from
their handkerchiefs and
T. Davis and the -Southern
Confederacy. For-tbis the whole military
ujioa^he crowd,
Hnowu co have
been killed.— /icksburg
thought a" do a tnuusand other mothers
tuaf boys are boys,” and it is no use to
.cuj.i. ;>nything further with them, than
. i .t'v tuul-. »> ou^c »’• \ic Viivi'i aud by
ep their garments Clean and whole. A hat
jv are, and what an earnest loving moth-
The Marquis of Hartington was, a fe^
sights since, compelled to remove a series*
siun badge, which he had placed on his eoat
at a private ball in New York. The Naw
York As says 1
Tins young gentleman U the third broth
er of the house of Cavendish, who has
been feted and made mack of by our uiti-
sms. Since bis last Visit to New York he
er who tell the re-pouHuiiity of the char
acter of her children resting upon her,
would have made*of them, is the question.
tie touelca into D.xie, aud taking the aris
tocratic view of the question, sow wears the
rebel colors
He:
the
' in the om's ion — in not op
A Yankee Claiming a Southern Es
tate.— L'iie last flag of trace brought up
Til- of her n^baiid —in not say- to Htty Point oue Levy, a reputed nephew
iz- n. must be as pure as my giris — they must
, ; not go forth into the towdy ism of ihe street ;
home must be to them the best place.
A darkey having been to California, thus i will oppose this drinking, tui- cue wing,
of nil lutroduotiou to Suu Kraucisco this smoku-g, this swearing. 1 will teach
a loving Christian -pint, my boys of Commodore Levy, United States Navy,
whose mission was to ciaim the Moutieello
As soeD as doy lauded on de
land, and !
different sence
come our tight.
He did bo gain ease aud competence loi
his declining year-, but somettbug better:
the privilege (some would say utce-suy, lot
so it seemed, looking from me outside) of
being usefully employed as a means ot pro .
viding for the body ’s needs.
Iu tins rm
soon as dey waded to de shore, dey didu il
see any gold, butdey loani seen a large
supply of uutfiu to eat, dat dar goms crack-
ploymeut, whicu did not tax him to weari
ness bis mind round a resting place, to which
it couid return and quietly repose for a sea
sou, aud then lilt itself again, and pass
into
sun,
true J tranquil regions, where light from a
done 1 net ©f this werld, filled all ths crystal air
just, industrious and good.
God has given
it is my duty to mould them iut.o
a^e. I win do 1L
ids, and
ills im-
estate, once owned by the Commodore, but
sequestrated by the Confederate States, as
toe property of an alien enemy. Commit-
siouH^Uuld hearing of bis mission, refus
ed to al ow Levy to land, aud he will pro
bably go back with a Confederate flea 1a
his ear. -Richmond Examiner,
‘Uh, pipa, Ductor Measles had
baiil Amu to pill mother s bui tooth out.
SUCH
■ ke>, i ee him cry first with his pincers,
Coen ue put ids u ju n rite close to mother s
and puth-U it out with his Luutu 1’
A rich reward in money and fame await-
the inventor who discovers a new -ouie-
aud modeofsupp yiug^paper. Cannot som
ingenious cihzhis estauivu a pap^r mill io
toe ute of corn shucks or ot ter materia.
t that san ba fou^ to swaudanca f
Now this is tue way in all probability
this good woman reasoned witn regard to
her girls—lor as you say sue has made
them acceptable members of society.
•■ First rate, wern t tarae better girls in
coAU," and now since you speak of it, I
used to say —that Mr. U — might
bring up tue boys as Ue lilted aud sue
wouidu t meddle. But the girls belonged
toner, as they being queay at home with
ner are very much like her* only i ihiuk
..ney have inherited a little more ot char
acter than fell to tier lot. ’
inis mother did probobly the best she
anew. Tu© fata** «v©«‘ ^ “^ ^^^ ^ #
The Prophecy of Douglas.—Stephes
Aruord Douglas, in a conversation which
was held i^ 1856, with a gentleman who
lately reported the facts to the Atlanta In-
teUigaacer } expressed confidently the aon-
viciion that the Union would be dissolved,
and chat after a horrible war, three aepa-
rate leagues or Confederacies would be
form d out ot‘it. He also predicted with
eqiai confidence that he would be Preii*
Cent before this catastrophe.
‘ Mus’o and drawing taught here,’ as the
man said when he was pulling a wheelbar
row through the streets without any oil on