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UNION, THE CONSTITUTION AND TIIE LAWS r-TIIE GUARDIANS OF OUR LIBERTY. Vol. XXXVII. HILLSBOROUGH, N. C, WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 1858. No. 1047. 1 Spring Trade,-1858. . .. .. , HAMILTON & GRAHAM, Importer! and Jobber, riLI, exhibit on and after the First of March, FULL and WEIX-SELECTED Block of Foreign and Domestic Dry'Goods, which will b disposed of it the lowest prices. Mer chants from I he South nd West ire Invited to call and examine t the old stand of Paul & M'llwaine, No. CO Sycamore Street, Peteisbuig, Vs. " f" Strict attention given to orders. February 23. t S7 ISmo BACON! BACON! A I. A HO B lot ef Ham. Sides, bbouldors and Jowls all well smoked and dried, Also, Herrings in bairela, And story variety of Spring and Summer GOODS, to be sold ery low for Cash. - JAMES WEBB. Apiil I J. . 35 To Mule Raisers. MY Jack Simon Pure, will stsnd the ensuing season, and include the Fall season, at his stable, erven miles north of Hillsborough. I do not intend to send him any where slw Price for insurance live dollars esch, the money due when the fart is ascertained, or (bo property chsngrd. All possible care will be taken to prevent accidents, but ao responsibility for any thai rosy happen. DESCRIPTION 8'mo Pure will be six years old in June; is a sure Ibsl-getler, and is sire la some aa good coke a any other Jerk. He is very near fourteen hands high, and of eicrllenl form. I have the certifi cate of John A. Vines, the gentleman of whom I obtained the Jack, who says he is frost as Arte a family of Jarke aa any in lb eastern rt of the Slate. His dsn) was the largest Jenny I P ver saw, and es Mark as a crow. TV KB Jl. RAY, March It, 81-p CAROLINA BLACK HAWK, rpiIB Season commenced the lOih of efarch, and A will end ibel&tbof June. , Teim $:)(), if paid in the season, , $33, if not paid within the sessnn, $40, if paid within the srsson, whh privl g of has'ng the mare served the next sesson, if she prove not to be in toal. One dollar to the groom. CAIN &STRUDWICK. Merch II. 31 2m New Fall and Winter Goods. rtlllE euhecribers are now receiving from New York - an entire stock of New Ooude; embracing a general variety of all kinds of goads aeuaJly kept in this mar ket, consisting of . Frlat, Alpaca, English and French Ilerlaoet, Shawl, llankerlblef a ad nonnefii. Cloths, Cassime es and Vegtings, Hardware, Glass and (jurensware, booth Asn shoes, GROCERIES, . and atanv other eiticJes not necessary to mention, whirb have been bought in New York very low, en- firelr far cash: all of which will I altered to cash hover or punelail dealers at small profits We say lo one and all. reme and are es, we will lake great pleasure in shewing our goods if wo do not sell. I?" All kinds of Country Produca taken in ex ebasie Good. W. V. T. J. STRAYIIORNV October II. W HOICE CALF SKINS, Shea Thread and 8lioe Neils, by J. C. TURREN TIXE & SON. December 2. 17 BAGS ! RAGS!! BAGS!!! UAU4 WANTED. by i. C. TL'KRENTINE & SON'. November 38. 17 READV-MADE CLOTHING. AVINU made this a di'tinrt branch of trade, wa II devote particular attention la h, and kerning a large stock of all kinds of Over Costa, Business Coats, Black Prork Coals, Vetts and Pauls, wa ara enabled gene rally to fit and please those who fsvnr aa with a rail. Wa shall keep our stock renewed fiu line la time. Call and eismiae it. 1. C. TURKKNTIXK & SON. October SI. II (1RIIUI.II E Expressly far Skirls, KmhroiJried j J Kkiri; also. Brass and Whalebone Hoops, andj Plastic Belts, by J.C. TURRENTINKii SON. September I. OS TOW CLOTH! IOW CLOTH WANTED, hv J. V. TUKUKNTINK Si SON. HeptemW IS. -- India Rubber Goods. IJLIIHKK IWKftMlNU COM II. KuMief Tine t'omh., Kubhrr Packet Comlrt, Kubber Konnd Cnrnhe, RuWr Hide Combe, lluUher Puff Comb, HuMwr Halt Pint. AUo, Bonnet Combs, a new and atcellent aitirle, at J. C. TURKEN TINE RON'S, duly la. 91 7KST I'OWDKR", . Hull's r.arilla. heal, Hshneidam Mchnapps, t;g.Mnes ssMirted, at J. tj. TURKENTINE fc SON'S. July l. - NOTICE. I f A VIXll at the Ista term nf Orange Cnnnly Caort, a a analifinl as Kiwutorsof the last will and taste tnent of William Cain, dor-smsed, notira in hereby mi.mn la all aarsons awina said rstala la Come forward and nwka payment, and tboaa having claims again H mn.ia tM.ni lb. same. Itrouerl authenticated, within the tlnwjpmeribed bf lsw,el this notira will be pics, ed ill bat thereof. This 4th Dwemlief, atf7. JAMBS K. VMS, ) .... -rnm, It flf IIH'L'I t I. ft a viirii t. Vji i.i' i.i.k. l Decemlier I Imi ' A Change in Business IHE DRUG 8TURE, formerly owned hy Dr. JA8. - F, CAIN, will hereafter he continued by J. U. WEBB ic CO., who hone by strict attention to busi ness, and moderate prices, to merit a liberal share of too public patronange, January 27. ' ' i DRUG STORE T C. WEBB & CO., will keep constantly on hand, a complete assortment of Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils, Oje StulTs, Varnishes, Perlumery, Stationery, Grass and Garden Seeds, Aromatic!, Vineear, Pure l.iouors. &c. &c. and all other articles In their line of business, and with the special design of keeping only genuine artielet. They hope, hy elusa attention and moderate prices, to merit and receive the patronage of the public. January . J4 Vinegar.' Vinegar! JUST RECEIVED AT THE DRUG STORE )R HARRRI. HPS? I'ini'R vmrnm J. C. WEBB & CO. -January 87. t4 Just Received at thejprug (Store, 2 JHIZEN PAPERS CORN STARCH IS dozen bottles Ink, assorted. I dozen Bell Cologne, quarts and pints, I doxen Helmbold's Eitract Duchu, I gross Burdott's Worm Candy, 3 lbs. Urge Sponge, 6 doien Prof. Wood's flair Restorative. 3 doien fine Salad Oil, 72 lbs. Durkee's Potash, fur 8uapi, I b"i Pearl Starch, 1 doien Batcbelor's Hair Dye, 2 doiea Bateman's Drops, I doien Marcssssr Oil, I dovn Mitchell's Eye Reive, t gross 8teel Pens, assorted. January 20. 23 TOBACCO AND CIGARS. O BOXES riHiB CHEWING TOBACCO, " 3,1 000 Extra Fin Cigare, just received and fur sale at the PRL'Ci STOKE. January 20, 23 BARRELS FOR SALE. A LOT of Barren) and Iron-Bound Cake just te ceived and for sale at the DRUG STOKE. December 23. 20 Cheap Cookinj Wines and J5ranJv. t A LAG A WINK. i'A SWEET WINER. FRENCH BRANDY, for aala at the DRUG STORE. December 23. 20 For Coughs and Colds. LEMON GL'M DROPS, Vanilla Oom Drops, 1 Oiaaga (Sum Drops. . Rnao (inn lM-OOS- ' - Abo Compound Syrup Tolu, just received at the ,)RJO SX0RE I LAVOltlM. i:XTKAJT. Orange, I.eraon, Venilla, Teach, Celery Parsley, Vc. l or sale at lha DRUG STORK. Pocket Knives. LOT of extra Cne Packet Knives, just rereived and br sale at tha DRUG STORK. A GRASS SEEDS. K('HARD GRASS, Herds Grass, Lucerne, Clover. Tioioih, ' Kentucky Blue Grsss, Jnst reared srs for sale at tba 1)R'UG ST0RK December It. I Notice to Smith and Farmcw. 'nil E ,.-rrib.r, .. h. agent of the kin,'. Moan- A tsin Iron Company, will snpnir all orders for a ton ornp.ard.rf Iron.,, cent, pe, rund. rw.A. Th. money must iwmi n paid on delivery, or ina ' .... ii ' charge will be T eent.t and in no ease will I sell leea than a ton for ka than I cent. r. n. ruffix. I October M. .. 10- Marcb 11. Fire and Life Insurance, 14 your Property in.ured f I. your Lite insured T I. your Metro insured I If not, e II upon the subscriber, who is Agent for the I Urceaaberuugll Companies. JIIUMAS 1,11 1. January (. tl ftw FOH SALK, 4 LOT in ihe town of Graham, immnlistrly in fro a at of the Court llaaa, an Mouth ttlreet, lying be Iween the store houses ef M'Leaa dk Hanner aad A I bright k Diian. Tcrmele snii lha purrhsser. THOMAS UKUII. Janaart J. tl HOUSE mid LOT for Salo. t oner for aala, en accommodating term., that deairalda Hona and lt on Qnmn Mtteel, naw occupied by air Washington. J 111) .MAS WLKU. October 80. l A CARD. n A VIXO located la Chapel Ilill.respectfully after, hi profeeaionalserviee. la lhacilitensof lha lawn and surrounding country. Haean prodwa satisfactory torfimonislaol bis skill in the profession. . Jlisofficsisal llr.Mnera'a. Whenrwioesled.fami. lies will b waited aa at their residence, C'bargesrca sonshle. T7 llr.lt. will beta Hillsborough lh fourth week n'esrh month. alo Hnpsriot I'imiI wrrk,end of tenet fiiliHit extra harael il relocated. Alt'ial : " May your rich soil, Exuberant, naturea'abotter blessings pour O'er every land," THE FILD PEA. A ftrmanenee at a Fertilizer, and 0 Preparatory Crop for Tubaeeo. The corn field pea has not, as a general tiling, succeeded Above tide-water as a preparation fur the wheat crop; and instance have oc curred, ax in our own experience, where the wheat crop waa very seriously curtailed by pea lallow. uther cases, also, are known in which it has failed to reproduce its own seed, though the vine has been most luxuri ant. Still it mar be made to serve a valuable purpose in that region. One such at least, we think, is its application to the land the rear preceding a tobacco crop. We have not heretofore recommended this, because some said it would not show its improvement be yond the year it was seeded ; and others, that itougm.uy an means m ue tauoweu in its green or succulent state, or its value would be lost. The following experiment assures us to the contrary. Last Spring we fallowed up and put in oats all that we could ol a particular held that had been the rear before in corn. Hut a protracted rain made it impossible to sow or fallow the whole until it would have been too late. All the land fallowed was not got in : and a strip in a wet white flat, thus excluded from oats, was at the proper time -only it was too early sowed down in peas ; so that the strip ol peas grew between oats on the one hand, anil uncultivated land of the same quality on the other. This Spring the whole was tallowed and again sowed in oats, and now presents this appearance I The strip on which the peas grew is a very fine crop j the oat-stubble shows a very good crop ; and the land that rested a very ordinary crop, From this experiment, which finds abundant analogy in other green manure crops, and is supported by theory, two results may be in frrred: 1st. That peas need not be fallowed until the year after their w row lit. 2nd. That their fertilization will certainly last until that time. TUe.e deductions are all that we need to assure ua of the practicability of pea-lallow to precede tobacco; and tl it can be applied to that purpose it will be very valuable. The difficulty with most people now is to obtain sufficient putrescent manure for their tobac co; and a great deal of useless labor is en countered in hauling stalks and wheat-straw into a pen, treading them and saturating mem with voidings of cattle, and hauling them out . again. In many cases mis quantity ot coarse B ... r . a ...... manute is still lurtlier increased br hauling i litter from the woods. It takes in that way as much labor to manure the land as it does to cultivate an ordinary crop on the same area. In fact, where the land lies at the barn-door, and is distant from it at its larthest point only six hundred yards, it will take the teams and han.lst.fa farm longer to haul and deposit. ... 1 """" without spreading, ten wagon toad Isol manure ... .... . U . - ... ..I ... ok I.....U, I. . I ml ., . i. ? i t- .fur. .... wun two or mrecMiiirse iiinuciis. ania wt . . .... .. . r.w - '- " '"" ; - " tobacco than the straw would hae been I and neither answer, a. well ... condition of s-etable matter more nearly apprnichinz nu - .. . . mue. iow tin. may oe attained iy sowing peas and plowing them down at such times m the Fall.Winter, or Spring, as may be con- .... . 1 . " . en ent. The shade ol the growing peas t. itse II fertiliiinz. and the vine. 6eem to rot a. soon a. warm weather commences. A very light dressing oCstsble or farm-pen manure, r of guano, if stable manure be not at hand. will lurnish the tobacco wittt everything else it want.. Peas may not be desirable where all the land of a farm is sufficiently charged with vegetable matter; but very few farms present this condition. On nearly all are spots of hind which it i. very desirable to improve, in many cases too remote from the curtilage to admit of economical manuring in the usual way. On such places, pea., on a very light cover of straw, or woods litter, .owed down by the middle of June, will, in a decent sea son, give a growth which a good November or December ploughing will convert into a fine tobacco tilth j and eery planter knows that his land once op to that point, except in certain very peculiar soils, it is hi. own fault if it i. not thenceforth rapidly improved. On such place, the land may be ploughed and sowed in peas in let time than it would take to manure it and the, manure may be more beneficiallv annlied to other tobacco: or a a top-dressinz lo crass or clover land. It is possible that in many case, the land thus i which were drawing logs to build his cabin; treated with pea. would at once rrodt.ee st'the Secretary of State splitting wood, and the good tobacco a. the lots, especially if aided by guano, a by an mean, it snmiid oe. in mg the wail ol weir nut wun muu. i ester other cases the planter must look to the im- Ida? I saw one United State Commissioner, nrovement of hi land a a part of the profit Stripped to the buff and riding on horseback, Irnm the crop, frequently an incident not to -piloting a wagon through a ford across the be despised. I South Platte.which he had discovered by wad Finally, we would ay to those who doubt jing, while the other Commissioner, having ac the speedy cure of gall in this way, that wejeomplishcd the passage, sat opon a corn sack would be glad to show them, (on some .pot on tne opposite bank, mending a rent in hi. of our own, on hill from which all the soil pantaloon. Theie picture may convince had become abraded, the happy effect of one I you that the civil offices, at least, in connec tpplicalion or rotten straw and one sowing of j tinn with th Utah expedition, are not aine-pi-an. Southtrn I'UnUr. jcures. L'.ii 0r Fat it. Instead ol slimline in ny j Vice sl'ms even in our pleasures ; but vir- i fear of a generous consumption of ripe fiuits,; we regard them as positively conducive to health. The very maladies commonly as sumed to have their origin in the free use of apples, peaches, cherries, melons, and wild berries, have been quite as prevalent, if nut equally destructive, in seasons ot scarcity There are so many errors entertained of the bad eltects of Irutts, that it is quite time a counteracting impression should be protnul gated, having its foundation in common sense, and based on the common observation of the intelligent. We haveuo patience in reading me endless rules to be observed in tins par ticular department of physical comfort. No one, we imagine, ever lived longer or freer from the paroxysms of disease, by discarding the delicious fruit of the land in which he finds a home. On the contrary they are nec essary to the preservation of health, and are therefore caused to make their appearance at the very time when the condition of the body, operated upon by the deteriorating causes not always understood, requires their grate ful, renovating influence. HIVING BEES. If not already known to your readers, the following recent incident may be uselul : I threw open my blinds a few days since and raised iny window, to inhale the pure air and take a "morning look at the gay flow er that were in lull blossom under the win dows, when I heard a most unusual humming of bees ; not seeing any on the flowers, I look ed into the air, and just over my head they were in agitated commotion preparatory t swarming from the hive ol a neighbor. On a fine locust, near the tront door, they were soori settled, but before any effort could be made to hive them, they commenced flying, and all returned to the old hive. Next day they came out again, and a man who knew something of bees was sent for to hive them. He called fur a long wollen stocking, and drew it on the end of the pole, and placed it where the bees seemed thickest near a tree, as if they had selected it as a place where to light. He held it a few moments, and the stocking was very anon covered completely with the whole swarm. A (able had been spread with a white cloth and a hive all ready. He laid his pole or rather stocking ot bees upon the table, and then put the hive over while lie carefully drew out the pole. In an hour or two the bees were all in the hive, and placed in the bee house and in a short time more, they were at work furnishing their new home. While ther were upon the table, titer " clean ed house" and dislodged every particle of dust and old matter adhering to their new abode. In two days more another swarm came out uf the old hive, anil in the same manner the son and females ol the lamily secured iu tuts simple and easy way, another one swarm The ladies told me, as I watched their move ments, they could now do it any time alone. C or. r oritur I Journal. A Sauix Horse. The argumenti may be 1 ur Ere" ll,e "" re.." ; , , 7. .L 1 '1.1a .liiinh . an. I tik Ua lain. Ih.n thiiSA nf "7 "--- - -. middle size. They are clumsy, and cannot fill themselves so quick. Overgrown animals of all descriptions are less useful in most kind of business, and such questions, we suggest to the lovers of ovemrown animals, as the following: The . " . r .. . I- .1, 'fS"1 "7 c,as "re ""n.iua. grow,,.. 'I'K.m l.v piiuii .Knu. nan! marlr suit If I costs more to keep them in that position. "CJ V " ' than it would were the more on a level with - . ) lhai, nnia. to be for- i gotte(1 hj rimers. Large cows are not the b . - . . J-"""' - h". 1 , ' -"" - t- - - - that fiffi.fi lu.et smlliroB hona nr. nut the i - o- - " ,0 UJ eSS; . ; , fcitremw are to be avoided, w e want well- I iVta-enaajl sa as isn s. I at aa i It a tltean at ttH at m IS Waft "--. -; - Odd a. it mar seem to the f '"""'. theorist, short leagged animal almost inva riably prove to be better traveler, than any. Short legged soldier, are better on a march, and the officer. My they endure hardship longer than those of I'inger limb. In choosing a horse, take rare by all mean that his hind legs are short. II they are long and split apart like a pair of dividers, never inquire the price of the horse-dealer, liurses that are snug-built are not always fast travel er. It is no easy matter to select a horse that is perfect in all point. Snug and tough horses are not fast on the mad. The latet trotter are not always mad for very hard service. A PicTcait to ri Sicks to be Appreciated. lloldinj office in Utah is no joke, and not ver dignified, if this passage from the cor renpondence of the Tribune is as true a it i. graphic! f have een the Governor of the Territory walking gravely op the road toward his tents, carrying a piece of stove funnel under each arm 1 1 have seen the Chief Justicecutting the turf for a chimney, and punching the oxen United States Attorney and Marshal plaster- tuie consoles even in ottr pain. LIVE BRAVELY. The world is half darkened with croases Whose burdens are weighing them down ; They croak of their stars and ill-usage, And grope in the ditch for a ctown. Why tslk to the wind of thy fortune, Or clutch at distinction and gold ! If thou canst not reach high on the ladder, 1 hou ranst steady its base by thy bold. For the flower, though hid in the corner, Will aa faultlessly finish its bloom, Will reach for a sparkle of aunahine, That the clouds have not dared to consume. And would'at thou be less than a flower, With thought, and a brain, and a hand t Why wait for the dribbles of fortune, When there's something that these may command ! There is food to be won from the furrow, And forests that wait to be hewn ; There is marble untouch'd by the chisel Days that break on the forehead of June. Wilt we let the plow rust in the furrow, Unbuildcd a home or a ball I Nor bid the atones waka from their silence Nor fret, as if fretting were all ! Co, Irarn of the blossom and ant-bill ; There's something thy labor must give ; Light the beacon that pierces the tempest, Strike the clog from thy fioting, and live. Live not trait with thy face in the dross heap, In the track of the brainless and proud ; Lilt the cerements away from thy manhood, Thou 'rt robbing the dead of s shroud. There's words and there's pens lo he wielded, And thoughts that must die if unsaid ; Would'at thou saunter and pine away roses, Or sepulchre dreams that are dead t No, drag r.ot thy hope to the pyre, Dreams dead from the ashes may rise ; Look not down upon earth for its shadow There is sunlight for thee in the skies. From Arthur's Home Magazine. OTHER PEOPLE'S EYES. Our parlor carpet is beginning to look real shabby," said Mrs. Cartwright. " I de clare! If I don't feel right down ashamed ot it, every time a visitor, who is any body, calls in to see me." A new one will cost M The husband of Mrs. Cartwright, a good natured. complaisant .man. who was never better pleased than when he could please his wife, paused to let her finish the sentence, which she did promptly, by saying, "Only forty dollars. I've counted it all up. It will take thirty-six yards. I taw a beautiful piece at Martin's just the thing at one dollar a vrd. Bindinz and other little matters, won't go beyond three or four dollars, and I can make it myoelf, you know." Cnly forty dollars : Mr. Cartwright glanced down at the carpet which had de corated the floor of their little pnrlor for nearly five yean. It had a pteaant look in his eyes, for it was associated with many pleasant memories. Only firty dollars, for a new one? If the cost were only five, in stead of f'Uty, the inclination to banish this old friend to an out-of-the-way chamber would have been no stronger in the mind of Mr. Cartwright. Rut forty dollas was an item in the calculation, and to Mr. Cartwright a serious one. Every year he was finding it harder to meet the gradual increasing de mand upon his purse ; for there was a stradi- y progressive enlargement of his family, and year alter year, the cost of living advanced, lie was thinking ol this when his wife aid : " Vou know, Henry, t!nt cousin Slly Gray is coming here on a visit week after next. Now, 1 do want to put the very btt face on to things while she i here. We were married at the same time, and I hear that her husband i getting rich. I lerl a little pride about the matter, and don't want Iter to think that we're growing worse olT than when we began life, and can t afford to re place this shabby old carpet lor a new one." No further argument waa needed. Mr. Cartwright had sixty dolUrs in one of the bureau draw, a lact well known to hi wile. And it wa also known to her that it was the accumulation of very careful livings, design ed, wheu the sum reached one hundred dol lars, to a cancel a loin made by a Iriend, at a time when sickness and death in the Lntuly had run up their yearly expenses beyond the year' income. Very desirous wa Mr. Cartwright t pay lf tiiis loan, and he had felt lighter in the heart a the aggregate of aving came nearer and nearer to the um required lor that purpose. ilut he had no firmness to oppose hi wife in anything. Iter wishes, in this instance, a in many others he unwisely made a law. The argument about Cousin Sally Cray was irresistible. No more than his wife did he wish to look poor in Iter eyes; and , for the sake of her eye, a new carpet wa bought, and the old onenot by any means a worn and faded a the lanzuae of his wife indicated sent op stairs, to do-second hand j dutv in the sp-ir bed room. Nut within the limit of forty dollar wi th expense cmtfinrd. A more costly pat tern than rnuld be obtained lor one dollar a yard tempted the eye of Mr. Cartwright and abstracted Irnm ncr nusomu saving j itotn sal down in the p.irlor.and both remain the lum of over fifty dollar. Matt and rugs led silent. Mr. Cartwright thought of the to go with the carpet were imlispensihle, to J mean appearance everything in tint "bct give the parlor the right effect in the eye of room" would have in the eye of coasin Sjlly, couiin Sally Gray, and the purchase of thete' and Mr. Cartwright thought of his debt In absorbed the remainder nf Mr. Cartwright' ' hi friend, and of that friend's anger and ati carefully hoarded ixty dollar. 'enation. Both felt more uncomfortable than Unfortunately lor the comfortable condition J the v bad for a long tinif. ;of Mi. Cartwright" mind, the new rsrprtl the next da 0Jin Silly arrived. with its flaunting colors, put wholly out of countenance the cane-seat chairs and modest pier tabic, and gave to the dull paper on the wall a duller aspect. Before, she had scarce ly noticed the hangings on the Venetian bliniU ; now, it seemed as if they had lost their freshness in a day; ami the places where they were broken, and had been sew fd again, were singularly apparent, every time her eyes rested upon them. " These blinds do look dreadful !' she said to hrr husband, on the day after the carpet went down. " Can you remember what they cost." " Eight dollars," replied Mr. Cartwright. "So ninth?" The wile sighed as she spoke. " Yes, that was the price. I remember it veiy well." "I wonder what new liansinzs would : cost?" Mrs. Cartwright's manner grew sud denly more cheerful, as the suggestion of a cheaper way to improve the windows camo into her thoughts. 'Not much, I presume," answered her husband. " Don't you think we had better have it done!" " Yes," was the complaisant remark. " Will you stop at the blind makers, as you go to the store, and tell him to send up for them to-day ? It must be attended to at once, you know, lor cousin Sally will be here on next Wednesday. nt. ". ...... 1 1 .s ii.. i.tf i .... mi. iwrigui, cuneu at iiic uiiiiu ma ker's as requested, and the blind maker pro. mised to send for the blinds. From thence he continued to the store in which he was employed, there he lound a note on his desk liorn the friend to whom he was indebt ed for the one hundred dollars. Dear Cartwright," so the note ran "If it is possible for vou to let me have the one hundred dollars I loaned you, its return to morrow will be a particular favor, as I have a large payment to make, an J have been dis appointed in the receipt of a sum of money confidently expected." A very sudden change nf feeling did Mr. Cartwright experience. He had, in a de gree, partaken of his wife's pleasures in ob serving the improved appearance of their little parlor; but this pleasure was now suc ceeded by a sense of painful regret and mor- nncation it was nearly two hours before Mr. Cartwright returned an answer to his friend's note. Most of that time had been spent in vain efforts to discover some way out of the difficulty in which he found him self plared. He would have asked an ad vance of one hundred dollars on his salary, but he did not deem that a prudent step, ' and for two reasons. One was, the known 1 character pf his employers: ami rhs nthrri involved in the question of how he was to work out this advance. At last in sadness and humiliation, he wrote a brief reply, regret ting his inability to replace the loan now, but promising to do it in a very short time. Not very long after this answer was sent, there came another note from his Iriend, written in evident haste, and under the influence of an gry leelings. It was m these words: I enclose your due-bill, which I. Tester- day, thought good for its face. But, a. it is worthless, I send it back. The man who buys new carpets ami new furniture, instead of paying his honest debts, can be no friend of mine. I am sorry to have been mistaken in Henry Cartwright." Twice did the unhappy man read thi. cut ting letter; then folding it up slowly, he con cealed it intone of his pockets. Nothing wa said about it to his wife, whose wordy admi ration of the new carpet, at morning, noon, and at night, for the next two or three days, was a continual reproof of hi weakness for having yielded to her wishes in a matter where calm judgment and a principle of right, should have prevailed. Rut .he could not help noticing that he was lets cheerful ; and once or twice he spoke to her in such a way that she thought poaitivrly ill natured. Some thing wa wrong with h'iin ; but what that something was, site did nut for an instant imagine. At lat the day arrived for cousin Sally Gray' vi.it. Unfortunately the Venetian blinds were still at the blind maker', where they were likely to remain for a week Ion ger, as it wa discovered, on the previous afternoon, that he had never touched them since they came into- his shop. With, out them the little pirlor had a terrible bare look; the trong tight coming in, and con trasting, harshly, the new, gaudy carpet, with the old, worn and faded furniture. Mr. Cartwright fairly cried with vetation. " W must have something for the win dows, Henry," said he, as she stoo l discon solate in the parlor after tea. " It will never do in the world to let cousin Sally find at in hi trim." " Cousin Salty will find a welcome in our hearts," replied her husband, in a sober voice, " and that, I am sure, will be more gratelul t her than new carpet ami win dowbIilld.w The way which this wa spoken rather sur. prised Mt. Cartwright, and she felt j Jt a little rebuked. Don't you think," said she, after a few moments of silence on both side, "that wt might aXird to buy a few yard of lace, t put up to the windows, just for decency' saker' No," answered the husband, firmly. We have afforded too much already." Hi manner seemed to sir, Cartrigltt j aim nt ill-natured. It hurt her very much.
The Durham Recorder (Durham, N.C.)
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July 7, 1858, edition 1
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