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N tfW II W.I l l r I -1 hi f H t1 Sail 11 . leVi 111 . I Lit ftl . 11 I M j ill Ki i ; 1 l .i :u k- a.- H PI HI I : t - UNION, THE CONSTITUTION AND THE LAWS-TIIK GUARDIANS OF OUR LIBERTY. Vol. XXXVII.. ; '. HILLSBOROUGH, N. C; WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1857. No. 1914. , it 1 una a.. y . a ma, i h . .... l- - ,J l NEW FALL GOODS,: A VARIETY of C'boap Full Goode now eomint in. , . , JAMES WiSDU. . September 10. -(10 Clover and Lucerne.' THRESH rSKED, juat roccived. Now i the lime U ... JAMK3 WEBB. Feptcmbor 1(J. , " ,,. , ( . . 06 " JUST AT HAND' CHUtTrNOS,i.7-B,onJ4-4. ; .. " ' Cotton Oaniiburga and Jcana. , "' ' Korarye, Bonnet Curd. ' ... llriiw HpriiiKt for PUirtt, 4c, Lc ALSO-An aaaoiiuwut of t.l(il i:i(ii;t. - , JAMES w nun. September ''"'.'.' 05 WRAPPING PAPKlt, ' 1JIIOM Ike Kaliigh fjer mill, on hand, ami fur die by - JAMES WfiUU, Agent. Fcb.-aaiy 85. 7f CASH FOR" WHEAT. WISH to but all Wheat for ilo. I will fur w.'.i Im.ii end pay euh or trade. 1 must hive ii.iv 1 l.ii all account now du, out uf the present wbralcnip. Send in your Wheat am! pay oil". I cannot credit nny i : 'JAMES 'WEBB. July S9. . U'J Guano!. Gimno! ! ! ' 1 fill ALL bave a bpply if pur 'Peruvian Guano in tiiaa far Toruip., and v. ill al.o have a tim'ly In deal, at biweet taeh pi ice. JAMES WEBB. July I. 95 Change in Business. jtl V term beieatur will be cajti, barter, end credit '" to those who will pay once a year. The time d.invnd ab'trier credit tbau heretofore. , , , JAMES WEBB. .' rebruaiy 19. ' , , . IKON IKON! ' ,. I AM nnw rereiiinK all iic at KiDga Vaunlain Iron, hi b i will avll at tow priest ly the tun to Mer ili.uia aulatbt'r.,vr lr retail. , juMEsvnr.n, Ajont . UJ. V. liAliKAUD, Octo!T 14. . w Eibb Depository. It. JAMES V'EU b bwa apvoini,! 3nt of A' the American lliV.c S.iriity, anJ will kiip on ,in3 a jikhI aftmiit of Bi'.iIksiiJ Tet unrnta, to be ,:,twl of to lima ha w:il It the SiKicly'e Usual luw pficea, fir caih. ' AusuS. CO CiiLiCsa Susar Cano Seed- A if new ready la retelve orders fir tbr frnoine ar Ik!, whirh 1 .bjll hat in a Irm fl.ra. ' " JAMES WEBB. rrbruiif 1. Vft 1 : New Spring Goccs. PtlE I4r5.it and U-t .Iik'. I rer bad. wliirb wrre booiht wp.n ll tMl Irrrrta, early ta ,a l!ie eraaou, ' f jiCaioctioia. ! I fuia Hi. rl.e-fiml.lii in 1'l't a' . -i.t'i .....l- ....' tt..mn i'ft si..l Tn!m!ri Ciinr!!!. fti'tA 111, It innrf, I'lil. Ilill... &C t S..VM) yard. IVdwhed t'ottoa Cloth, Jrena, Ac. S.JOO ytd fciearbJ I'uHona, frtretirif a. Ac. S.1O0 Chureed and Mrlped Cotton Cloth, Ae l.Oi HI yarde Ci.w.d Jtmn.. Coll ona.lre.C berk. Ital ian cUsS. Ui.p iTEte liiWd Mohair, and otbrr g wda lur boye and nwn'a wrar. .'0 yarda l.in.n Uilla, Ac, white anil rcbird. B.ltKI yartla CatKO. 1,30I yarda Colrtrrd an.l UUck fJitnthama, IMitO yarda Lawns, tiinghaia Lawn, OrjiiiMiir.,Ja coiM.tr, UriibanK oVc SitO pair. filvr. 570 il 11 n Spool TbreaJ, Sixt jro-a llutixna. Sua paire l.adia.'. Miiawa anJ rbiMrrn'e '.). beauiitbl ahipe aud fnub. iittlu ltig('urrnd(iMl, M r.x-aa ai! Kid Itux'.in.; Cor.tie-a U-f.; WVIt. and !""ijipfri Pt.iin. IJ and Concrrw t;.(iirn ; Vrlvrt Wipperaj Cbiblren'a C!orrd and Plain, Itarh.l Toird and llutt w II wle. Ab" Hninaed and KmI r,-k. Manllrat Lara and Wrounht Panda t N.uwine: Enginija and I.HHitmiS Piintfd aud ri rctd i.'uliara and lland.t Suk an I Uathcr Uflta; Dummei Corari H. wHb, fadua and Km;rca Skirtaj tiraM "l.rtl.; Cof lfd Cambrlr; BiiUiatita, and oil.er gooda for mak iue Hirta. 1itHJ yar.la Ui!.l.ina of all kind.. B.tMK) Pa, Uw, Lauuira and Java CufiVet Eitrarl of .J." . 1 r. 4 noil Pw. Co.Ti Btigara, and Crubr.J arid rwd-r. l ii'; ll 'O. fyp; peat'iieen and liinrk Ti-ai fine Malrira Wino and IVnrb Pian.!y, fur umlM'inal irft I alto Cooking V mr. r de and 1'pper leather, Ac. 4Vc. E:r,:)V-TiAii: i:i.oti.. Uatint mada thia na branch of rry Mnrr. I am n.w m-iin4 a gnoJ a.a.rtnwnt of iiin "i mer ClMlbtpg. whrrb I will aell a .iw a. any oibir I. ..ue in the pi ire. coii-i.liiie in p.rl of lliefolbming li-lit'a l"ame t'ot., M irwi!!i T itita., Piowti l.lii'W data, l.inon lt, White l.iwn Conta.'Motia Ani'i Vrate, Check. Linen 'aH, White Marwilb'a Vrata, " (irjw Limn Coal, CofJ Mwar'.Hea Vt, Chwkfd Marai'illca ?'k KiRnrrd Ve-M. t p.,,,, It. .r.J anil White whirl, III wl and ColM A I- !"bt na-m ant I otura, n.eraC.wa. IW.ta.Htork.nn Tie., - Iliapd'SteCraia. ; SX kit and Cdnrrd l inen Faiirt CaMinirre 1'anla.j and M!k Prrk't Hi.1 lllai k Caaaimera Pant..! kwhirsf. .. Ae., Ac i m:,t nf Clolhine. r an other kind of ttomla. would 4 well t rail and look at my alork be-j April I. Turnip Sec tie Ju 13. Fn'sit Garden SctJ. . t Jit nnrKivirn, a r-.ii i f or.Vn pf.d; aim Rfhiiina Chinrac 8u;' '"''" Hd,frfe,U. cheap ty J,MES WEB It. Marrh 1 1. ...... i i9 IXHfSB A titnin t'BtM' or r.nnrA. Al IH.rHI - Mai-a' lmwrd Ph,M bat of Mme, A I at i.irf rr. ieJ. I ant ! feailf t1 Wlw nMrra fit tit Pl.n.h .I cd" Lime, fro llnwe who wi.li l it on r un in tin ainlnif. -va ui na v iiur, ieir t who .i m; ltt asnV f ftn nop, and In my foiitriih' "' "!'.' !'' JMI WEBB. I Vinegar, Vinegar, Vinegar. JUST KECEIVnU AT T1II5 miVO 8TORE UWB BAKRCJ, BE8T VAW.K VlNEKAU. JAMES F.CAIN.- , Bopltmbcr 30. , , . ., , jt , , ., eg FOIl 4 OI GIIM A.B COLDS. r EMoN mm dkop8, ' '.'; " Vanilla (Jurn Liropa, ' . i, ; ..- 1 Oiunge Uuo) Urupa. , , . . . Roue Uum Dropa, ' AIo Cunipuunil Syrup Tolu, juat received at the October 14. DUUG STORE. . . 10 DRUGS, MKDICINES, &c. WIHTAK'H UA1.SAM f)r WILD CHERRY, ' Wood' Hair rloialia, '. . v ' . .... liuvlUwI'a (.Vi nun Uiilcra, . , , , l.yun'a Kalbuiiirn. x ' ,' - Itavl.'ePain Killer,' Mcalum'a Eliiir )puni, ' 1 . Jliuwii Wiiiduw ftojp, . ; . t 1 . Kitrurl VaiiilU, Two (ijll.m. Eell Culugne, lllue Ink, in atanda, . l.i-tter Puperand Evvlupra, Vuitiim Caida, t . , , . Lily hile, rxtra fine, I'mi-ry, .oe. 1,3 atiiM, 1 ' Ply Hume, and many other ai tic lea in the Drug line, juat received and for aula ay JAMES F. CAIN. August SQ. 03 PAINTS ! PA1 NTS! ! PAINTS ! ! ! I fiO'i -M-WHlrK7INC,inuil, i.t-aJ, in oil, juat iccived at the DKl'G STOIIE. Angnat t6 DRUG STORE. IR. CAIN will keep couataully vo band complete ariiucnt 01 Drugs, Medicines, Oils, Painta, Vrnilie,DjeStuH. IVilumtrj, Stationery, Gnat unit Garden SmU, Aromatic, Vinegar, Pure Liquors, &.c. &c. and all other artirlra'n bii line of Lu-inea, and with the arterial dcsn of kivping only gvnuint articltt. He bojH.-., by clna.) attfiitiim and 10 lerle prirea,lo uirrit aud icctive tUe aUonage of the public Nokiu!. r II. 61 KL.WiHtlNU UXTKACTK. Orange, Ix-uion, Vcuiila, I'eacb, Celery Patrlry, &c, Jora3!oaia.e DRUG STOKE. Nem!r 12. , , C5 FOR COUGHS. COLDS. 1c. I1AKTB l.-.lmd M.m, Jucuh Pat, tin- Oropa, "- Lorenpa,biffle'Cuugb Urop.,tutn Umpa, flaw ej with fujar, htrawuerry, Pine Afide. &e. For aale at tbe bllVU SfORE. Tor Sale, PINE Chew ing 'IViareo, ' SinnkHi TkI-si eo, - SnuflT, and a large lot of Sr-gnre, atil.e DRUG STORE. Xovcut!ir 1 1. M Soaps. tY"''r,' Rrrtn Ca-lile X.iap, Tlrown Windaor ' foap, Tuiprntiue Poap, Fan-jr fiiap.. a Urge farieiy. at list DKl'G STORE. ovcm!-r 1 1. B RUSHES. ir.ir Tirufbea, Toith Untidira, Nail Ttriuhea, Pleh Pitjb. Pail.t Cro.l.ra, Mioc Diutbca, fxing Bnt.he., for wa.hm.; window., Pur aale at the ORVG STOIIE. Noremher tl. nt Ju.st Received at tie Drug Store, 4) "1 hi. tjuiniue, l6.Cbinoidine. 4 d .a. r. i-l.t in'. C.-J Li- er flit, rl.a. fvbirftHin. II .in.. & Co.'aC. I.lver Oil. 6 d l. N.. II. M i 5 dxa. Palmirf a Th-maand Klowcra,( jrnuine,) I g'o Aj.r'a Pill, I gr..a It ir.tottp. Candy Vermifn;e. Abiv, a fre.h a pplv of M, Week Pepper, Race (linger, AIU'ice,Muinrg,lied P pper.Mnnard sed, A'-Ae. J.S. F. CAIN. Direaiber 10. CS I.r RiU'EIVi.D 21 rnna IVa.li. I.r.nap. AT TUB IJULU ftluliP,. Ueeem!er 10. 6S- .lust Ropcired nt tlio Dru btorc, IlillU PLRMMi FLt'lU, V A R.MmMKs tt bite, Coaib, J tpan.Cup), Ac, M'l.liM till.. I ru b b .1 (HX Marrh !. M GRA.vS SKKUS. . OliCII.Mill (iUVSJS, s ILrda (iraan, l.ucrrw. fl.rf. - Timothy, kuiluily Blue t!ra, juat rereiveu and for aale at the DKL'G STORE. 0:i Augtot ' turnip Seed. I AUl.V PLAT UlTt II, . M T''I. v. . f Lf Nnrt'lk, Cab's Hj br'nl, lln'i ISa.'i, j'f t nvi-Ivei! it llio DKio rroiiE. AintM 19. M Arthur's CVlcbratcl Patent Air-Tight, pvlf-Soitlin:: Cum anil .J.ir. ' Itu: pRE!i",iiviNti nir.mr kkiitsi.toma . I I(L1 A,. I'.iiiaU at Ilia I.e. -"HT.V - I, '"i'"i " J"t Dui u bioiii:. .Line , -; , "( May your rich aoil, . ,: , , , . Cxuberant, naturea's bettctbleaainga pour ' ; . O'er every Wud." , , ' - s ' PREPARATION OF SOIL. In the cultivation ojf tlie gar jell, as of the fiirm, the fii t tiling in. to select tle locality for a particular crop,' or for a pcrmaneut object, a that of a garden, for Instance, and to prepare tlie noil. f . ' AtWr alj f!ie tlivisioiis of still that have been made, lliey may for all practical pur. iioscs be reduced to three, mmhj, clayey and loumy, iti tlie (li st of .which suml prcduuiiu; ate, and in tlte becoud clay, while in tlie third suntl and clay are happily blended in about those proportions which render them desirable to the cultivator. A loamy soil is to be preferred for garden ing purposes. Chposc jiuch a loamy soil, if you have it on your farm, and in a "location Suitable for tlie garden. l!ut remember that the garden is a part of the homestead ; it is to be beautiful as well as profitable ; its ele gancies and luxuries arc to be on hand and not afar o!T; it is to adorn your dwelling, as your dwelling is to adorn it; is to be the rendezvous for many a social enjoyment, earlier in the morning than you go to the broad field, and later in the evening than you return from its weary labors. , If, then, your buildings are already erect ed, or even if tlie ground for them is chosen, you have r.o great range for the choice of a " garden Mint." If the soil, where as a matter of taste and convenience you want to meet your wife and children and friends, anions flowers and fruits and esculents, is not a feasible loam with a porous subsoil, one that will both slatul the drouth and diink in excessive rains so readily as not to keep the surface long flooded, you must make i e it sucii. The expense will be considerable, but it w ill pay, and you can:;ot enjoy the pleasures and profits without. An expense may be neccuary which might we'd alarm you, i"f it were to be applied to your whole farm, lint what is it for an acre, or half an acre? 'Nothing compared with j the sabtnntial benefits promised, to say nothing of the exquisite plcu-urf. If the soil is so exceedingly refractory that it can not be mailt deep and mellow ami rich, with- j out a very great expense, ft might be welt to content yourself with a smaller gnrdtti than you would otherwise cultivatf, thongh as a ...i. .1.. , i.. " r country are too small, and should be enlarged j I,.L, d;-.;..!.l,.! ir.!. .,l.,; .; ett. it ittc niecnanicori the professional Mum has but the sixteenth of; ... .1 1 . 1 ...... .... 1,1 advise him to make the most of it. But why bihijui lliii 1111: .1.11111.1, lia 1.1111.1 viiuhii, ,. . i . , r. . i ... s .w .h . 1 t.t .... . 1. r .. 1 . 1... .....k inwiK m utriiciuua .uric .ui a uuiui'il "i u : , , .' i,,. ... v. : .t ihat the garden l.rmluces, tnerc is scarcelv an . . ' . '.. . item which he cannot dispose of advanta ireouslv. if he have a surplus, either bvsale, jor by giving it away, or ff.ding it to stock.- An acre is erhaps better than inure, because if the enclosure is too Urge, it may fail of getting cultivated so well cs to be oriiamen t;I and highly prHluetive ; and half an acre is certainly "better than less, because the 1-erson who but half appreciates the erono- noniieal and nruamental v alue of a garden, cannot do all he would desire on less ground. An arrt, with fruit borders occupying one half, and leaving an oblong or square half arrc for the garden proper, would be to our mind, and that whether the farm of which it '. were a part were thirty acres or three hun dred, :. If your soil is a medium loam, and has a porous subsoil, you have nothing to do in the way of pre paring the soil but to plough ttn or fifteen inches deep, harrow, grade, plough ajain, and work in agiin a plenty of tsri(l barn manure, so incorporating it w ith the soil that itshs.ll pervade every inch, and you are ready to set your trees and make your garden. ; But suppose it to be a stiff insTeau in a medium mam, a lew ionn oi nd in addition to th? manure will effect the reci'ii-die amendment.' Or if it is a lijrhf. sandy loam, then a few JnnJs of il.ty will make it just what vou want. An l the cost in either rase w ill lir.rdly be worth naming. If Instead of being a loam, a liille too still" or rather too light, it is a sr.ndy soil, (hen clay in addition to manure is all you want to "make it just w hat yon would" have it. The more saii'dy the mora clay will be re qaireii. Or if your soil is tho'stiiTrst cI.it, Mid enough with m inn re will mrke it its good a loam r.s you can desire. W here clay is used as an amendment, it should nltvnys be exposed to the frosts of. winter before ploughing in, ond should be .thoroughly iu cotjii.rati.il with the soil; and even when sand is Used the soil should be ploughed more than oui e, harrowed many times, and the uew ingredient evenly mixed. Ami where aud or clay, as one or the other may bo required, cannot be, obtained within a reasonable distance, swamp mud, long out ami well warmed in the sun, anil washed with rains, w ill go far towards producing the same amend meats will really produce, only Icm perm.wntiy, byilli the t -fleet if clay on sand, and of uid on lay, rendering a com pact soil lighter, and a light soil mure cnr pact., Tim dia'cieiue is, that (hi applica tion would need to be repented every few yt art, whereas the amendment of a soil by applying il oppo.'ite, is a permaueot amend ment. . )'' The above ia all on the supposition that It the Mi'iNt'vl i pO!i'l, ttih (hit water pHHie, downward freely,' neither floods the surface, nor stops and becomes stagnant one, two, nor even three feet below, , If (thcre is any doubt about this, dig holes, like post holes, one, two, three and t!iree-apd a-half , feet deep, and if water stands more ihan a very few minutes in them after even the hardest shower, that ground requires draining, in order to be fit for a garden. You then nave to preface your other amendments, whatever may be required, by under-drainins. Of course, you would not have an open drain in your garden or anywhere near your house. A tidy farmer will hardly have them any where. ' Go to work then, and lay down the. undcr-drains. For a garden where you expect to do a good deal ol w ork, and would dec;n it bad economy to rendor your labor less satisfactory by any defect in the soil, the drains should be near each other. In some cases one .'very deep drain running through the center,' and side drains falling in from opposite directions, not quite as deepi and near to each other, would be ad visable. But we all know that " water runs down hill," and the owner cjin decide win re to lay his drains belter than sombody a thousand miles otf. . We will only add, that the autumn is the best time to prepare the ground for a garden. Winter even need not be lost, in case of large amounts of heavy earth to be drawn fronr a distance. How we wish that one million of farms in our land, now showing only a little, stingy, miserable apology for a garden, not the most beautiful nor always the most productive spoil on these farms, could show next spring, as the snow leaves them, grounds already prepared for gardens beautiful enough and fruitful enough to tempt the angels to come dow n and walk in them in the cool of the morning aud evening. .,' Reader, we arc not talking about the gar den. It is only about preparing the ground. Do this, and next spring you can set your trees, begin your flower beds, plant your seeds, and all that you do w ill prosper. We w ill tell you how to proceed as best we can. Have a good garden, you who have land. We have none are doomed to look on brick and mortar and down on nebble stones. Hut you, who have land, should have a proud jrar 'rn. lou r.iav be proud :t it. It it is a si.t to be be proud of a good garden we. don't it is we'll act the priest and give believe you absolution.'. Have garden that any one couid lie proud 01, ami not sin, ami 11 the angels do not visit vou there, vour wives and daughters and tin ir female friends w ill, and with a little aid of the imagination, you can think the angils were helping you. Prepare the plot before winter. Pf.i'Pkr. Pepper is an almost universal condiment. Black pepper irritates and in flames the coating of the stomach; red pep- Per flora not 1 11 excites, out. mien not irri , ..... . : consequently it shr.,.1.1 be used instead mc P? VP". 11 was known iu itie .! , -. . , r. ""'n,'""u "?'' "se ' rrotn lime iniinrniTiriai, ns 11 tunrcia ini r . : 1 ....... 1 liaLiuriiLC vtiiiwi. Hiitriiiis uic kiii; u.c ... vegetable food. Persons in health do not v, r 1 r . . .1 need anv pepper in their food. Dut tothi use . , , . . . l .'.mi of weak and languid stomachs, it is munlold , ,., , , . . mnrn lipaltlitiil In ikr rawi.ne r.ir-mret inoals than any form of wine, brandy, or beer tli!t ran be named, because it stimulates without the reaction of sleepiness or debility. , Longevity. The Pacific Sentinel ssys that an Indian named Pedro died at P.inta Cruz on the Tib of Srptember ajed 130 vears. In 1731, when th mission there was founded, Pedro was an old man, as is known to many people now residing at smiiU cruz. 'JkelJ MR?. I.0F1Y AND I. Mra. Iwlly krrpa a carriage, bo tin I ( . Khe ha,dpple grcya to draw it, None have I ; She's no prouder with her ci.ichman 1 ban am I, With my bliie-ercd, laujbing baby,' TrunJling by. I hide ita face lent ahe eboiild era The clicrub boy and envy me. Her fiue buaband baa while Ciller., Mine baa nut; He coulJ give hi, bride a palace, Mine, a rot; Kcr'a cornea home beneath tbe at;ir!ibl, Xc'er earn. br ; Mine rnmea in the puipb' lilig'it, Kiaara in ', A nit nty that lie who liirnt !if-'a .m!r W.U lkIJ bit Ijvi J oma in IIu. haiids. Mi. I.'jfU lu hrr jpwrla, 8o have I j ' . Hlie wejra here Uon hrr b.0in, luaiilc, 1 1 RSie will Irav her' at Dvalh portal, Uy and bye; . . . i . I i ' I .lull bear my trruura with Bie , ' When 1 die. I . : For I lova, and .he baa gold. . ; h . , . ISb counts bar Wialtb, mine can't be told. haa llioee who luve her aLition, , . . JJuiU' bavo have 1 1 .. ... .. ' . But I've one t.u In art keaul me, .. t. Clad am It .. - ... '(.. ., CoJ will wu.b it in bia bilainw, . . ... , Dj and bye, , t . t i is ' ; r And the diibvenee ikCje 'I'aixt Mr. Li flv'j wrnbll an t mini'. - G 110 WING COLD. ' BV T. 8. ARTHUR. .. There was an ardor about the young lover that showed how deeply his heart was inter estedjand his betrothed might almost be said to live only in his presence. He flew to her side, like, steel to the magnet, when evening set him free from business; aud she awaited his certain coining with a trembling joy that pet vailed her whole being. The days were long that kept them apart; but lightning footed the hours ot evening. How eagerly they looked forward to that blessed time, when they would hear the words spoken that were to make them one, aud the time name at last, though withslow-pacingsteps. Hand in hand, and heart beating to heart, they en tered a new path of life, carps ted with flowers, and moved onward with springing feet, that took their measure to love's delicious music. Sw iftly passed the first season of their new existence. It was the warm, fragrant blossoming ppring time, and the sunshine filled the air with vernal warmth. " Shall we ever grow cold to cadi other?" said the young mini, leaning towards his bride, and speaking iu a tone of peculiar tender ness. This was occasioned by the presence, in a small company, ol a matried couple, not two years wedded", who were known to have lost much of love's young ardor. Their indiU'cr euce was so apparent, as to have become a subject of remark with their friends and ac quaintances. . " Never, Leonard, never 1" w as almost tre mulously whispered back. " That is imnos sihle! Those who truly love, love on fur- ever.'' . . " Aud with us it is true," said the husband. "Trui'varin, eternal love." And each believed it was so.. Let us fol low them a little W ityin their life journey. Leonard Williams was a young, ambitious merchant, who was trying, unwisely, to do a large business on a small capital; and Leon ard Williams and his wife were a young couple who thought rather more of making an appearance in the social win id than was con sistent with their means aud prospects. He had too large a store and too many goods in it; and they lived in too large a house, with too much furniture in it. A tranquil spirit is not possible under such circumstances. Overwearying menial labor and absorbing care must attend them. It has ever been so it was so with Leonard Wil liams. Even before the waning of the first year, his brow began to w ear a shadow, aud his eve to have an abitcnt caprcsaiim. TUora was a fainting warmth in his msnner towards his bride that chilled her heart at times, as if cold airs had blown upon it suddenly. She was too young, inexperienced, and too igno rant of the world to comprehend the causes that are at work, undermining, daily, the foundation of their happiness. She only felt that her husband was changing, the warmth was dimiuiahiug, and tlie cloud and the shad ow coming in the place of sunshine. Daily and weekly and monthly the change went on he gettins more and more absorbed in business, and she finding a certain poor compensation for heart-weanneas in dress, gay company, pleasure, and lasiuonuuie dis sipation. The coldness of feeling, as well as ol exterior, was mutual. A few years lun ger, and all the little tender courtesies that marked their intercourse, when alone, Uileu utterly. Williams would meet his wife, on his daily return from business, without a clianuiiic countenance or tender word ; and she met him at eteuiuz. and parted with him on etch succeeding morning, with au air of indifference that iced over the surface of his feelinjrs. And so the years went on ; he struggling and striving with, the world in Die arena oi business; and ahe, trrinz to luid in the on substantial, gilded exterior of things, that iili'iiiuro she laileu tm xtuct liom the real. How like mould on rich garment, or rust upon burnished steel, did indiflcrence creep over tbe pleasant surface ol their lives, dim ming tlie mutual attraction. Williams had energy of character, and mind that found new strength in di.liculty. A man cf feebler intellect, less hope, and less suggestion, start ing wronf, as he did, w ould have been driven to the wall in a few years. But Williams discovered his error in time to prepare him self fur the impending consequence. At the close of five years limn the day of his mar riage, he resolutely looked his affair in the face, and saw that, instead of bring worth many thousands ol dollars, he was jtiitt on the urge of bankruptcy. It took him two years to get safely past the dangers that beset hi way. Uue cause ol bis trouble lay in tlie ex tuvsgance of his style of living. It rather startled hiinfci iiuil, on examining his ow n private account, that twenty thousand dollars had been drawn lor personal expenses. One hull ol that sum, added to hi capital, would have made all safe. . This will never do," he said to himself. " We are living to- extravagantly. There mut be a change." But what would his faahiouable wife say to this ? Would she be willing to give up "her fashionable home, and retire from her gay position? A feeling of discouragement came over Inm as these questions arose in his mind. " "Slid mutt give it ap ahe must retire," he said to himself with some wsrmth. But he did not wish to make known the fact of his deep embarrassment l for he had in con fidence in her power to endure reverses. If she sunk down in weak distress, the burdens he had to bear would be so much the heavier; and they were quite heavy enough already. After viewing the matter on all sides, and pondering it deeply, Williams came to the conclusion that the only economical change likely to meet hi wife's approval, was a change from their own home to a fashionable bnardlni limine. A clnao ralrnlnlinn aalleRn.l him, that, to do so, would lessen their annual expenses about one thousand dollars. " An- ..!, a- . .. ui, ue sain to ner onn evening, breaking through his cold, abstracted silence, " we are living at too easily a rate." Mrs. Williams turned her eyes upon Ids face with the manner of one who had bend unpleasant words, but did not fully compre hend tlicirnteaninj. " It would cost us leas ta board; and you ould be freed from household cares." hn added. 'Don't think nt ir T.onnaiil w,a h,. prompt reply, spoken in very decided tones. a a . s . --1 caiiiioi ue inuuceu to give up my elegant home. As to household cares, I am not troub led by them." . " It is a question of economy," said Wil Hams. " If that is all. thn nuealinn mil aa wll sleep," replied his wife, almost indifferently; r.. : ....... i. . it - . mi ii inm quuu aa iiiutii to uve in a nrst class hotel or boarding house us in your own hniiiH." Williams had no more to say. A deep sigh fluttered on his lips ; hi ga.e drew itself from the counternance of his w ile, and fell to the floor; his head sunk low upon his bosom, and thought went from his home, to wander among the seething breakers towards which his vessel was driving, hoping to find some narrow passage through which he might steer iu safety to a smooth haven. He felt colder towards his wife after that ; and she was con sciuus of the coldness, without imagining the cause. . No change in the style or cost of living took place. That heavy burden he had to carry, in ad lition to his ether heavy burden j; and it required all his strength. During the two years that elapsed before his feet were en firm ground again, he appear ed to have lost all interest in his home, his wife or his children. Mrs. Williams frequent ly said, lightly, speakiuj to her friends or acquaintances, that she had no husband now ; Mr. Williams had united himself to business in a second marriage. If she spoke thus in his presence, he would part his lips in a forced smile, or, perhaps, say, jocosely, that she had better have him before the courts for bigamy. Fashion, show, pleasure, filled op ill the time of Mrs. Williams which was not devoted to maternal duties and household cares; and business was the Moloch at which Mr. WiN , liams sacrificed all social and home affections. At forty, with a family of interesting chil dren springing tip around them, they were but coldly tolerant of caVh other. Never having seen, train the beginning of her mar. ried life, any good reason for economy or self-denial, Mrs. Williams had failed to practice these virtues, but had suffered the opp osite vices of extravagance and self-indulgence to grow rankly as offensive weeds. Her demands upon her husband's purse had, therefore, at ways been large, and they steadi ly increased, until he was learning to hold tlie strings more tightly, anJ to question and object whenever ahe made what he thought large requisitions. Thus, alienations were constantly engendered ; aud, at times, there w as strife, between them. Roughness on his part, and petulance on hers, often came in to help the work of estrangement. Twenty years of a false life twenty years in which two married partners, wann, and loving at the first, went on steadily growing cold toward each other through the interposi tion of sordid and worldly thing twenty years of a home intercourse but rarely bright ened by love's warm sunshine breaking through the leaden clouds of care and folly what a sad heart-history is here! And is it not the history of thousands of over-earnest business men, and their thoughtless, ensym pathi.ing wives, who seek outside of hearts and homes what they ran never find that tranquility of soul after which all aspire, but to which so few attain? Alas, that it is so! Ah, that we coul J write, from henceforth, better record of Leonard Williams and his wife! That we could tell you, how, growing at last weary of their vain existence, they turned back, athirst for the pure waters whose sweetness had once refreshed them, finding again the fountain of cteraal youth 1 Dut it was not so. Habits of thought and feeling were hardened into that second nature which is rarely broken up. If, occasionally, the restless heart returned along its life jour nry, seeking for some of the lost flower ami vanished fragrance, their sweetness wis per ceived only as the dim delight of a dream ; not real enough to Inspire an effort to leek restoration. And so they moved on in the coldness of twilight. Age found him a nor did, irritable, utiiappy mart and she a ner vous, restless, vain, Ji. appointed woman. There are such, reader, all around you. Rut keep your heart warm. Do not suffer it to grow cold toward your wile or husband. Shut uu( the vain things of the world. The home -loves are vaimest, the hoinr-lights brightest; and thy wiil jtrow wanner and brighter with years, if vou l-ed litem with the pure oil ofunselti.h affections. MoRAtirv or Cmi-itoii SyrnrxTs. Prof. Pierre, of Harvard College, has been re reiitly canvavdng the fcts now accumulated in the triennial catalogues of that institution, concerning the duration of life of its gradu ates, and the results of hi research are valu able. He find that the probable duration of life after graduating, taking twenty-one as the average age of graduates, i over forty-two years; or two-and-a-half years more than the probable duration of life in o:her persons at the same age. A college, eduction is then favorable to long lite. Another result is, that the students who dis finguish themselves as scholars, have lived longer than those whose standing was low. llabiu of diligent study wontd seem then to favor health and life. f if I 1 i l; rebrtiry i
The Durham Recorder (Durham, N.C.)
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Nov. 11, 1857, edition 1
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