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' , j Li bural deduction, b" special contract, to large adver- MVmrt advertisemenlli will be el.arl 2--. per cent. iiilher than the rejfiilaij rate. OiUTUAHY Nri i-,)rtiibr;ieini; more than the ordinary announcement of death, and obituary i-wtry, tin cents a Si'Kf lAL NoVlfM-tt fifty per cent, in addition to regu- " '"niWKi'JW Snru-KH ix Kkadiso C:jtuMSti-Ten cents i'mt line forfflrst inwrtioti, and nil cents p;rline for every iiilneriuent insi'rtion. No Husim-ss Notices inserted for lei than one dollar first insertion, and fifty cents each .ntneiiuent insertion. - ; " ' ; Notk ks is Ixm ai. C,i'!is Twenty cents p-r lure. No larM'r "r Advertisement discontinuel until arrear ; wire paid, nYilcwt at the option of the publisher. .Ton PnlXTlS'i. We are prepared to do all kinds of Job I'riiitiiiK in the neate.t style, on short notice, at reason jiile terms. Our Printing 'Material is all new and of the 1 it t t vles. We Halter ourselves that we have as j'i iliti.-K fiir doing Job Work as any other OUii'e in the .- ate. . . ; ' . K LIZA15 ET II CITY DIIiECTOItV. PKOFKSSIONAL. t., y - r L. COBB, attorney and couns'.llor at law. Main t ' opposiU! "'arolin"lan":oIiice. ylnl-ly fi HANDY A lllNl- attorneys at Iw, otK j si reev, soiun Blue. T V. M. KHIUNlillAl'S, attorney and counsellor , at law, next duor to old Bank. . vlni-iy A MIX L. BALL, attoraiey and counsellor at law.olliw east side-Iioail street, three doors irom .uu.n. n iiii-i 1) ) u w t:- Pixil. . , ii bvs clan ami surgeon, at ins re sidence, south Mam st. - -Tiui-ij li L. K. S.Vl NDEIts. pwysicuin mid surgeon, ..tain strwt. opixisitc Ilaptisll nurcii. wui-iy TR. JSE1'II COMMANDED fliee Koail street, near 17 L-ather Hill residence, Ehriiighaus .-.t. vlul-ly DM. 11. K. SPEED," physician, office over (ireen .tt Feariiig'stor,ior. Boatland Ehriiighaus sts. vlnl-K DH 11. H Mt'INTOSII, phvsieiau, olfiee Boad' street, formerly old Post Olftce. . vlul-ly MILLINERY'. M Its. SAUA1I LABOYTEAUX, milliner, southwest corner Boad aud Main sts. .vlul-ly. 'T7 CLOCKS WATCIIES, &c. ' rpiIOMAS M- COOK, watches, clocks, Ac, &c, Bond st., X. east mile near .viaiu. . vlnl-ly iKUGS, CHEMICALS, &v. JNO. Q. ETIIERIDt IE, drugs, chemicals, jKiints, oils, Ac, nortlnast corn .r I load and Fearing sts. vlnl-ly m'kkciiants and gkocehs. t A. COHN, dry goisls, cloflyng, millinery gissl.s, S-- X . "W, slioes, hats, Jlc, uoau st,,.easi sine. 111--1 j IA'1 AND Ll'MHEH CO. OF N: C., dtah r in real J estate, luintier, shingles and general merchandise, Water streef, south of Main. vlnD-ly T'ENY'ON 4 VAUOHAK, dry good.-,, Ac.,. Road street, J one Uoor soutn ol k nuren. . t . v In 1-1 y f I1KEN' A FEARIXC. dry giHids, groceries, .boots Vjf Uliovi, Ac., corner Boad and Ehrinhaus ijts. Tlul-ly CI WEISEL, ladies' dress goixls, clothing, hats, boots ri i mnl shoes, corner .uain aim ater sts. vnn-iy M O. ALLEN, dealer -hi drv good, groceries, shoss, hats, Ac., cornuf Itoad and Lawrence st.-i. vlnl-ly )( C. GREEN, hardware and. general assortment o J, g"0u"i northeast comer ltoad anu t nurcn sis. v ini-i y ' S4 tii:iPwKIT. dealer-in dry iroods, sliix-s, groceries, . . Ac Road st..' west side, near Maiu. vlnl-ly 1) It. BRADFORD.. wholesale and retail grocer, Xo. 35 Itoad street. ' vlnl-ly TM. STEGEIt. baker, confi'Ctionery. groceries, Ac. Itoad St., oiiposite eol. -Martin s omce. vini-iy JN( W of Eli rihghau St.. vlnl-ly AV T Cl OVEltltY, agt. litpior dealer and grocer, N at t 1 1 ' 1 ' : , St., opposite .uai Kev iiou.e. "-) I'l IOTOG R A PI I E R. A. Itutt's old stand. X vlnl-ly HOTELS. PENXSVLVANIA HOUSE, Jos G. Russell, proprietor. Boarding and lodging. Main St., westof.Hoad. n'2-ly I-ENI)LET()N HOTEL." T. D.I'eLdleton.pro'r, Waterst I u)osrte Clark's Agricultural Warehouse. " vlnl-ly LIVERY STABLES. A. li. JOXES.liverv t:.l.les. old stamLMain street. . . vlnl-ly r B. BUOT11 EltS, Livery Stables, east side Road st. Jm soutn onjnurcu. , . vlnl-ly MISCELLANW)U. r B. CULPEPPER, t'nited'Strftes Coniniissioiier for -il l. J ascpiotauk Co. Office at old State Bank P.uild- ing. vln'.'-lv tori Tit CAIJOLIXA' MANUFACTURING, LO AN . AND TRUST HX'S. BAN KING. HOUSE, one (Ivor cast of the oftlcu of the " Nort-h Carolinian.' vlnl-lv f C ALLEN, general ; agent Dismal Swamp Steam xransportation t o., oltica at Company s wliarl. llv GEO. M. SCOTT, life, fire and marine insurance agent, southeast corner Main and Elliott sts. vlnl-ly T VES T.. SMITHSOKi nrawtleal house nainter. itoad Jst., near Main. I . t - ... I vlnl-ly G F.O. W. BELL, nun ami lock smith. Road street, two doors south Of Main, i , vim-ly"; H. CLARK, Aericiiltural Depot, dealer irrogjicul- . tural iiuplements, Water st. vlnl-ly B. PERSSI boot and Slioemak ;r, Road strrt t, near Canal Bridee. f vlul-ly t- O. O. F. Achoree Lodge I. O. O. F., meets at their . Hall over Mr. J. Q. Etheridge's Drug Ston, every Friday evening in Summer, at 7V4 amf iir Winter, ut (. OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. , i ELIZABETH CITY. Charter election on the first Monday of January. iieetnigof the Board ot commissioners, atternoon ot tlie li rst Monday of each month.. Mayor--George AV. C-obb. l uuiuiisaioners tl; Is. Coleman, Allen Dustier, jos. i.om luander. 3. B. ; Robinson: Jesse R. Brown. Treasurer Chas. (Juirkin. Attorney, C W Grandy, Jr. Clerk M.B. i uipepper. Collector J . H. jmsicell. . Coistaoicr-j. ii. MisKen. Auctioneer ALJonesi Post Office-4W. A: Price. Postmaster. CuiRciiKH.--lfirst M E Church, Rev W.P Wright, Pas 'or. Suridny ervice at 11 o'cloek, a. in., and H p. in. S.SchoiM at 9 -6'clock,a. m. Christ Church (Episcopal), Rev J V Murphy, Rector. Sunday serviceJt at 11 o'- .iock, a..su., anu 4 p. m. Sundav .School at 9 o clock, a. m. iml 3 p. m. Baptist Church. Rev R R OverLy, Pastor, Sunday services at half-past 7 o'clock, p. in , and on the fourth. Sunday of each month at ;11 o'clock, a. lu. Sunday. School at 9 a. in.; Prayer Meeting oil Sundav mornings (except Tourth Sunday), afU'r : school. Ziou A M E I hurch, lieT W H Pitts, Pastor. .Sunday services at 11 o' alock, a. m., and at 3 and 8 p. m. Sundav School at 9 a. m. Loixies. Samaritan, No 1, K. of J. Meets every Tues- lay evening. 1 A Commander, V C- Achoree, No M, I O of 0 F. Meets every Friday eyenine.- Brothera and Smtens of Love and Charitr. Meets alternate Tuos day night. Grand United Order of O..F, Meet; al iriuaw xiiuTauay nignis. j FIRST COXGRFisiOXAl! DISTRICT. f luternal Revenue, Wm Barrow, Jackson : Asseor ol' Tnti-rt-nal RpvTlK4 H iram 1" : ;i'..i.:..i .uciiiwsi i vuiiHiuss, i. i. i n rj n ft t I itV" f "i iwt.tr ;i '""li y T ilIUII yiOII. BEAUFORT COUNTY. - Sheriff. S T Carrow ; Clerk Sunerior Cuiirt : !T iv:.t l'y;.Treasiirer, J F Randolph ; Coroner, J R Cherrv agister of Uceils, Richard tiranger; Surveyor Jtobt "T Shields: Commissioners, Sani'l Windlev. 'T li m,...i.t Henry Hodges, J'ephus Peeii; Stancil AVaturs. Senator J B Respass; lU'prewentative, Hiram E Stilb.y. ' SfPEHKiB Coi BT Sixth Monday after the third Mon day in September aud iebruary. County seat. Wash- .BERTIE COUNTY. - Biieritt, Lewis Bond ; Clerk Superior Court, W P Gur- iey ; J reasurer, A R Thompson ; Coroner, J G Mitchell ; Register of lleeds, lv L Simmons ; Survevor, .1 J Rhode mmissionerH, W j Cherrv. Wm P ili'tchell, F W.Bell. Itenj F JLing, Augustus Robbin-Senator, J W Beasley, ;Coleraine; Reprewntativ, J 1) Bobbins. - Superior (Xii rt First" Monday inMarch and Oeto-' vuunij si-ai, n lnusor. : . , CAMI)EN COUNTY. Sheriff, Abner Ayftlott ; T;ierk Superior Court, P Ci - . , i reasurer, jos t; r ererjee ; Coroner, Jos S derlin: ReistiTof riu.Liu' t im,,.imii. c. . Commissioners, M R Gregory, R II Berry. Jas Ferel(ee ann J Pearce. one vacancy RAnmaan-tatin. viu. rebee. ; ". ."-r - , lL7!f'?.,OB Cot'Rj Twelfth Mondajr after the first Mon day in March aud October. County P!.t C.m.i..n rir - ' 1 tllOWAN COUNTY fiklnSf: t yIe" C Britnkley ; Cerk Superior Cour. V K sionr t v i 1, , Jas- j v.nesnire ; uimmis- BhUrJ K Jin d'6' 11 H HobbfeR G Mitc'hell, Cha, H -i.l: J"? -'preintative, W A Moore. U i2ehnwfIX,,.h Mondy r the first Monday ,nd October. Couuty seat, Edenton. CUIjlilTUCK .county; Sheriff, T F Baxter : ChVrk Superior Court, J B Lee; Treasurer. Wm Snowden ; Coroner, J A Mathias ; Ri gister of Ie-ds, Wiler Mathixs; Surveyor, M S Fereliee; Commis sioners, H E Baxter, C B Caon, T Sanderlin, J 1 Wooil house, J B Etheridge. Bflpreaentative, T C Humphrien. St fKKioB Vitbt 14th Monday after the first Monday lu March and October., County seat, Currituck C. H. , (JATES COUNTY. .SheriiT, B F Wilk-y ; Clerk Siip-riof Court, It B (I Cow per; Treasurer, Lsissiter Iiiddick ; Coroner, II llotler; K'--isU-r of lceu, John li Walton ; Surveyor, A Smith; Commissioners. Joseph Smith, llavid Parker. .Mills II Eure, 1 A Morgan, A li Ilountre.-Iifpresentative, Jno tjatlin. Sl-1-kkiob Coi-rt Fourth Monday after tlie first Mon day in March and October. ; County"seatviatesvi!le. - HALIFAX COUNTY". ' Sheriff, .tno A I'.eid ; Clerk Superior Court, John T tlrecory ; Treasurer, K T Clarke ; Coroner, II 4i Howers ; 5ii,-ter of Deeds, John N Brown ; Surveyor, A L Pierce; Commissioners, B A Lavender, Charles' 11 Webb, pLiljert L Howard. Andrew Jackson. Thou Hledue. nator. H , EpiK-s ; It-jprestutatives, J II lii-nfrow, y T J Uaye, Ivy IlU'llllS. . ' .- SirpEKlou CfRT Twelfth Monday after flic second Monday in August and February. County seat, Halifax. HEKTFOliD COUNTY. Sheriff, Isaac Pipkin; Clerk Superior Court, Starkly S Harrell; Treasurer, Jordan J Horton ; (.Vironer, (ieorne'W Wyuii; i&giHter'of Deeds, James M Trader; Surveyor, t ; Comnii.-,iniicr.-, KS Parker, S J liollo- nion, TV D Newsome, Wm ltei 1, ' John W Harrell.- Seiiator, J W BeasU'jColeraiiie (B.:rtie); ilepresentative, EliKba T Suiptis. ' - ? ' Sui'Kmoii Oil'kt Third Monday in March aiid ct ber. County seat, WiiUon, ; IIYDK. COUNTY. Sheritl', Israel B Watson ; Clerk Superior C'ourjt, Samuel H Sadler; Treasurer, John M Mann ; Coroner, Jolm Bate man ; lU'ister of Deeds, Thoinu M Jones ; Surveyor, (i W Swindell ; (Vuiimissioiii rs, Win " S Carter, .Lames C Mc Cloiid, John J Fullord, K ilt P Wahab, (leorgeL Fulcher. Senator, J It Kespas-s, Washington (Beau !ort; Ilepre sentative, Tiliuan Farrow. , . Sii-KRKjit Ci.jlItT i-oiuth iloiiiLay after the third Monday in September ami I-Vbruary. Cftuntv seat, Swan Ouarter. . . MAIiTIX COUNTY. Sheritl', II B Sulisbury Clerk Superior Court. .Tosei.h M Siterson; Tpmirt. Joiiri Walfw; t'oroiiei . Meriek (irav : 'Itegister of ljt'i ds, Wm t ' Euorn ; Surveyor, .las E Moore j Commissioners, Wm W Moore. AC Wentx, II J Misllin Jas A liardlson, T A Bay. Senator, F (V Martindalc' Jaimsville ; Ilepresentative, Xi fniith. M l-KRioit Coi RT Second Monday after the third Mon day in September am Februarys County seat, WiHiams- tON. . . NORTH AMFf OX, COUNTY. Sheriff, Henry T Grant ; Clerk Smierior 'Court. K Tt tldoin ; Treasurer, .las W Copehrtul ; Coroner, William A Parker; Itegister of Deeds. Wm THb'ixton : Surveyor. II . Copelaiid ; Coiiiniissioners, 10dimindJ,icob.-, Jas W New- s.uii, vv m Harrow, t.eo 1 llollainoii, L ixBovce. SemUor, Win Barrow; Iti-presentatives, li 0 ParkelO T Iteynolds. Si'fKuion Covkt FourteenitiMnday afhir tlm'seeomt Monjlay in August and February. County seiH, Jackson. PASQUOTANK COUNTY. Sheriff. Juo L Wood : Clerk Suiierior Court.' William E Vaiighau ; Treasurer, W G Pool ; Coro-.i'-r, ; ltegis- t'T'of Deeit.Cliiiii-kin ; Stirvr-yj.r.W H Weatiierly ;Slan di id Keeper, A L Joites ; i 'oniuii-'oioni rs, Gro-lPool, C w llollowell, (i V- Hell, W A Price, 1- Sanders. ltep reseiitative, 'lV'A Sikes. , ' i . St i'ERlOK ("ori!T Tenth Mondav after the -lirst Mon day in iarch and October. County seat, Eliubtth City. PEKQULMANS COUNTY. - .' Sheritf, Henry White: Clerk Suneridr Court. Edward C Albertson ; Treasurer, .losiah .Nicholson; B'.gisier.of Deeds, h W Speight ; Surveyor, T E Wiiislo ; Commis sioners, Jos It Parker, limotliy-Morgan, Elijah l ecle, Alfred Newby, Miles Overman. Ilepresentative, Jeplha. line. - . - Srt-Kltiott CofKT Eighth Monday after the first Moifr day in March and October. County ScHit, Hertford. 'TYIUIELL COUNTY. Sneri If, Bartlett .1. Joins ; Clerk"' Superior Court, Eli S-pruj.ll ; Treasurer, Daniel E Lee; Coroner, Samuel Nor man Uegister ol Deeds, i iios vv Jvniglit ; surveyor, V m ii Nelson ; Ciuiimis.-ioners, Jos'ahoon, B F Sykes, JaineH Briekhouse, Cluis Met'leese, Iilward Mann. Senator, F (r Martindale, Jamesville (Martin); Representative, T J Jarvis. - Sri'Kitiou CoruT First Mondav in September and February. Couniy sear, Columbia.-' ' V WASHINGTON COUNTY Sheriff, J M Bateman ; Clerk Suiierior Court, J A Mvl- son ; 1 reasurvr, lA-vi Jactson, jj-. ; t.oroi"r, llieophilirs Ash ; Itegister of Deeds, John Carroll ; Surveyor, II F Plielps ; t'ominissioners, K S tioelet, J B Chesson, jun., M Jacksou, .VM Phelps, G Wr J.ones. Senator, FMjiKhi dale, Jauiesville (Maftin) ; Ilepresentative, J J Kea SrwiitluR tot'RT llurd Monday in Septeinlier and February. County seat, Plymouth. . FIRST .SENATORIAL DISTRICT. I T'ue cruinties of Camden, Chowan, Currituck;, Gate's, Pasfiuotank and Permiiinaus. Senators J W Etheridge, Hoanoke Island ; E A White, Belvidere. . OOVERNMENT OF NORTH CAROLINA. WILLIAM W. 1I0LDF.N, of Wake, Governoi Inaugu rated 4tb ot July, i.ieeteu tor lor years lrom 1st 'January, 1861). . . W. It. Richardson, Private Secretary to'tiie Governor, C. W. Horner, Clerk' Executive Department. Ton It. CAi.mvKLL, of Burke, Lieutenant tiovernor; I'leet- ted for four years -from 1st January, 1SIVJ. speaker of Senate ex officio, Hkxry J. Menn.inukk, .of Craven,: Secretary of .State : elected lor tour years trom 1st Januarv, lsii1.).- Davii: A. Jenkins, of Gaston, Treasurer ; eh cted for four years from 1st January. !S(i9. : D." W. Pain, Chief Clerk Treasury Department. A. D. Jenkins, teller. Henderson- Adams, of Davidson, Auditor; elected for tour years irom 1st jannary, lsoy. , S. S. Asulev, d New Hanover,.Su)eriutuiidOiit of Public Instruction; ekefed lor four years from 1st January, lMiil. . x C. L. Harris, jif Kutliei ford, Superintende-iit of .PnUlic Works ; ejected for four year. from 1st January, lsf.ll. AiiikeW. Fisher, of Hlad n, Adjutant General ; appoinrcd W. C. Kerr, of Mecklenburg, State Geologist. bv tlie tiovernor. II. D. Coley, State Librarian; appointed by Supreme Court and Governor. Ciias. fM. Farms, of Wake, Keeper of the Capitol ; ap- poiuuevKOV io v.i inn iim vooiieo. . . ' OOVKRNOlt S COUNCII.. Henry J. Menninger, Secretary of Slate Henderson Adams, Auditor ; David A, Jenkins, Treasurer : S. S. Ash ley, Cebern L. ILtriis, ex-offkio. . , . The Goverftor, Lieutenant Governor, Seen Jarv of State. STATE BOA til) 'OK EDUCATION. Treasurer, Auditor, Superintendent of Public Works, Su perintendent ot puolie liwtruetion and Attorney Gene r.l. constitute the State Hoard of Education. The tiovernor is President, and the Suoeriiiteinieiit of Public Instruction Secrctary of the Board. Tlie Hoard ot Judication elect tlie trustees of tlie l ui- versitv. 'lie 1 rustee lor eacli County m the Stale : term of otliee of Trustee eight years. - SUFP.EME COUET. The Supreme Court consists of a Chief Just ice and four Associate Justices. There are two terms of the Court held at llaleigh in-each year, commencing on the first MiHidav in January, and the first Mondav in June, and- continuing as long as the public interests may xequirv: OkfiCkks. j;. M. Pearson, ot 1 adkm, Chiet Justice: Edwin G. licado.of Person; Wm. li. Rodman, of JJoaulbrt ; R. P. Dick, of Guilford; Thus. Settle, of Rockingham, Asso ciate Justices. Salary of each, 'S2,5(W. iewis .1'. GUIs, of Wake, Attorney General. '8anndF. PliiUips, of Wnk-e. Renorter : salary, exclusive of lees. Still i. W.J1. B:igley, of Wake, Clerk ; salary W. D. A. ) leker, of W ake, Mafshal. v". .. GEKEltAJ'ASSEMBLY. 1 .- .' The' General Assenibtv coinmef$$sHs ivmiual session on the third Monday in XovcmKsr in eaefi year, and is ......... ..I c.twX: onioosed of fiftySenator.? and one hundred juid twenty ReoresentaUveX biennially chosen, bv -ballot, on the first l'hursdav iuAugust. SUPERIOR COURTS. Tlrtre are twelve Judicial Districts and twelve .Tud r.-s. Eyery Judtre Of a Superior Court niust reside in his l'is- tri'ct. Judges-fuav exchange IHstricts with-the consent of the Governor. At least two Courts sliiill be held in each county Vnnually, to continue for two weeks, unless i ne ousiness is sooner disposed ol. ji ..Ks itieeteu ny tlie peoole. . Term ot einee ei !it yearsi Salary S2,500L 1st District, Charles C. Pool; id District 'Edmund V.. Jones-: 3.1 Distrirt. ('harles R Thomas; 4th District, Daniel L. Russell, Jr. ;5th District,' Kaipu jr. rvuxtou ; utn instrtct, Samuel W . Watts; 7tl District,-Albion W. Tourgeev 8th District, John M. Cloud : 9th District. George W. IvOtran : loth District. An derson Mitchell filth District, James L. Henry ; Rifh District.-Jtiley 11. Cannon. Solicitors Elected hv the people, term ol oinca four veassl. 1st District. J. W. Albertson: 2d District. Joseph J.Martin ; 3d District, John V. Sherard ; 4th Dis trict, juiui A. mciiurusou ; uiu rosiiici, ieni locivav ; -Gth District, William R. Cox; 7th District, .1. R. Bulla 8th District, A. 11. Joyce; Utli lUstnct, W. I. . Ifynum 10th District, v. r. Caldwell; lltu District, lrgu s. Lusk ; 12th District, R. JM, Henry. UNITED STATES COURTS. .Tudire Circuit and District Courts, George W Brooks Elizalicth Citv; vlerk ot t irctut Court, .N J Kiudiek, Ra leigh; U S Attorney, D H Starbuck, Salem ; U S Marshal, S T Carrow, Washington. The Terms of the Circuit 'Court are as follows: lit Monday in June, aud last Monday in November, at Kaleigh. The Terms of the District Court are as follows : Third Monday in April .ami October, at Atclltoui; A Jxniu, L icrit. r ounn .uuimuv iii-prii auu October.,at New Bern : Chas Hibbard, Clerk. First Mon day" after the fourth Monday .in April aud October, ;it Wilmington ; W m Larkius, Clerk. gOOK AND JOB PELNTIiSG. TJI E "'N O II T II .C A ROLINJ A N " PEINTINO .OFFICE is prepared to do all'kinds'of work, such as-' -BOOKS, - PAMPHLETS, CATALOGUES, r PROGRAMMES; ' , ' - - CARDS, LETTER HEADS, BILLHEADS, CIRCULARS, LABELS, ; . . POSTERS, And .every other description .of Letter-Pres's - - Printing," PL A I N A X ) FA X CY, ALL EXECUTED WITU NEATXESS) XNd DISPATCH. COURT BLANKS, - FOR LAWYERS, MAGISTRATES, 'CONSTABLES, ; CLERKS, Ac, '.'I y of the .most approved Forms, on excellent Pa-, per, will be, printed to order, and forvvartlcd Uy Mail or Express to any Post Office in the State. TERMS VERY LIBERA! AddresH, v v P. JJOIIN, ; ' Elizabetli City, N. G. ELIZABETH From a Garret. BY KllOAR FAWCKTT. Four stories high, in a garret-rooui, AH day I it by a table olil, " And toil at the oddest of cheniic The turning of ink iiho f?o!d.' ' Whatever die btwy world will read We struggle to furnish, my (juill and I: Who talks of glory'!, The favored-few: ' man must dine or a man mut die! Most hright were niy dreams in the halcyon days When Hope made merry with youth;, most fair ' The witherlesji liiurel-i no hand, -no. law, Riit my own should jraher and .wear. They are dead requieseaid those brilliant ' dreams': A ' , 1 tan -think of them (hir.nY, -with "not a igh. Let glory be won by' the favored lew: . A man must dine or a man niu.si die! . . i Very grand are the- thoughts that now aad then Like statelv damen, throur-h mv rirrct-door Seem to gliile v. ith a rustle ol' sUken robes .On the caqet!cs,'diiHty floor; Unhidden ,tJiey come and unheeded tiiey go: The leisure to ihtttor-ihem iiare not i. .They inay. keep, thtfi.r charms for the favored few: - ' A man mustjlinc or a man mtist die! The honors that 'lveiihcr were sought n;u- found: Does it jiroiit my life to-regret lliem? I iif-inc: Though never to. seek be never to gain, To gain not i.s never to4rj?E " . Success i.s'the vaAjal of discontent; And the liroiuIcsT cf trlumplil; defeat Htand.-' nigh: 'T is. the safest of mottoes for all lianian toil, That a man-must din6 or a man must die! '.'Three Thrcsirfs. I , ; What would lie iW. Mattie , watched him i a secret "trcnible. Of vjit'. was lie thinking ns lie swung in tlie hammock? She had Utken tip her position, and she would stand by it. But supposing he should do something final and desper ate? "-What was it ail about? Nothing! a tritle in the-Legining. MtUtie was --onie-times unreasonable, and taken upon, her self to be jealous. , "You are your own master," -she had said to him. "You can xlo its-you like. If you actually prefer Jli.-s Grierson I have nothijig more to say-r-only, you can not wear her colors and mine, you know." 'Wear Her colors!" said Tom. "I was civil to the girl. What would you have me do? Conduct myself like a Hottentot to every woman but you." This was precisely, I tin afraid, what it'duld have suited flattie; but - of course she answered, briskly. - ' . "Conduct yourself; as you choose! I am not 'dictating ttvyou. ' I only, propose to regulate my behavior by yours." "I think you arc trying to. .make me anary." ' "Not at all." "But what.havc I done? is it because I played a game of croquet with her when she asked me." . "She asked you! But I dare say; she is bold enough." . "-"She is a very nice- girl;" and Tom's eyes began to, sparkle. bhe has'ime taste. Mic at Inures you. "As I do Iter." "Oh. verv well! I have no wish to interiere, retorted -Mattie, oravely ;oree- back u tear or two; and iust at tins most unsatisfactory stage somebody in terrupted them, and Tom walked away not a little amry. He. vowed to diimsef that Mattie was a fool, and he would iiev- cr have believed it of her, at the same time he was inclined to humor -her in a ulkv war. He would take his horses rnd drive over tlie country for a day or two. Mattie could hardly be jealous of that, and wlieii ne ca,me hack she might be civil. But where there is gunpowder the spark is sure to fall. At any --other time he would have met old. Mrs. Simp son, but. then and there, Mattie looking on from the piazza, lie encountered Miss Grierson going to croquet. ' -,- iilsss Grierson , was a "coquette, ana sr.e hated Mattie. Q uick a thought she hand ed him her mallet. I am so glad to meet! you, Mr. Mus- groy. l was iooKing ior a cnampion to light ihy battles, idna and Major n lis have challenged me, and declare they will beat me and any partner I may find out of -the field. You will help me, won't you? I have wagered Edna a box of (doves on it." . ' As Tom said, what could a man do? lie would rather not, have gone with ' her under Mattie's very eyes, and lie (Jid de termine to treat her with polite indiffer ence But Miss. Grierson made t tie most of her opportunities, and alter all Tom was not the. man to - bear too heavy a hand on -the cjirb. "Wrkn she poised her little arched foot on the bail was he not to admire!.' When she Ifuighcd at him with inerrv malice, and followed him about the field with playful taunts, and teased and badgered him at every stroke, mak ing all the time the'prettiestlittle picture herself, his grim look 'softened in .spite of himself, and how could he help it? Where one pretty girl frowns the next who smiles looks so much tlie sweeter,' vou know. - .i- , rp 1 1 ' . l i . riii. ur, ax, icasr, iom iiiongnt so, liiese are the arifiiments from his side of the question, you understands Mattie's view was difierejif When he shouldered Miss Grierson 's mallet she took it as a defianee, and was strongly tempted to go away and cry; Vu't-pride'told her to stay and look on, and pride proved an unwise counsel lor. Every pretty art in Grierson was a fresh stab Every gesture of Tom's a a fresh proclamation that he cared noth ing about her. He . had never looked better in Mattie's eyes, but she told her self that "this was the end." She did not really believe .that' 'it was, the end. Somewhere lurked a belief that Tom would humble himself and make-his peaee. But she was careful not to put this belief in words, and only to say to herself over and over that all was done between them; and when Tom came in, very nearly restored to .good humor, and" began to pull ovfT her spools, she took them away from him and ose . at once. -' ' , "I told you," she said, -in a iovr, steady voice, "that you could notjvvcar Ixith cot ors, but must, choose. .-1 .understand that you have chosen, and LVwitlidraw my claims." And with that) .she slipped a certain ring from her finger and dropped it into his hand. ' . For a moment Tom sat looking from the ring-to Iver, in a sort of stupid sur prise, arid Mattie's heart beat high. Now would be seen how much he loved her; and I suspect something like triumph. showed, after all, in, her face, pale and quivering as it was, for .'his smouldering wrath suddenly blazed. He rose "also, and with' a look in his eyes that she had never seen before. - ' "It shall be exactly as you please," he said. "I disdain to justify myself. But T iSYC.," if, at any time, you should repent of your present injustice, you will fmdme, as you have always done, at your command." Then he made her a low bow and walk ed away, leaving her very much as if the earthjiad suddenly swallowed every one who belonged to her. Miss . Grierson called to him, but he passed her without answer, and flung himself mtd the ham mock swinging between the two maples; and Mattie stood looking, after iiim, as we found her at the begining of our sto ry. What would he do? Should she go to him? Xo, never! It was he who of fered the offence. Meantime, if she eould but have known it, these were ; precious moments, for as Tom- lay sulkily swing ing to and fro a cheery voice hailed him. "Good by, Tom; I .sun off ; in an hour." "OrT!" said Tom, and then, struck bya sudden thought, "How will you get oft'f' "Why, in the sta?;etto be sure. You. YITTTlir "Vr -N 111 ! 1 1 T t-. Ull. i: U.. J ML) K must b! dreaming to ask- such" a que-ieeii2llie,a pet partner , last winter, tion "Antiour, you say?" and Tom came out, on his feet. 'T will go with you.' W oodford's jolly face put on a look, of surprise. ; "A re you sure you are serious? IIpw about Miss" ..'..' f "Never mind that," cut in Tom, sharp ly. "They, are all alike. Give me. a' boat, and the girls may take care of them selves. I Jiave had enough of them." And with that he marched off to pack his trunk. When Mattie came down to dinner she fount an empty chair beside her. , v "Mr. Musgrove and Mr.. Woodford are both gone, deal;," said Miss Grierson. "They left regards for you." "And the spiteful little coquette was half consoled for the loss of their two best men by Mat tie's look of blank dismay. Poor Mattie! the blue in her sky had turned gray in deed.' . Now, one would hardly have supposed that these threads, snapped short at Shorespoint, could have altered in any the pattern of Kate BIodL'Ctt's life at Fern Cliffe. ' It was Kittie's first 'season. The world'vras ail before her, to be tried a world in which, as she knew-by dint of niuch reading, were numberless.' good -looking young men, I'eady to fall inv16ve and to pursue, through no matter what difficulties, damsels like well say Kitty Blodget. Happy Kitty! only seventeen, lver trunks full of fresh toilets, and no doubts or fears assailing her. She came so airily through the halls, she was so. fresh and sparkling, she looked at every-' tiling -with such pleased eye?, she was so self conscious, that even Turn, louiiffinar on the 'piazza,, looked after Iter with something like interest, and asked Wood ford to introduce him. Woodford caught eargerly at the re quest. In his present humor Tom was a nuisance. For the first day or so he had been iii rather extravagant spirits, buoy ed by the eonsiousnCss that he had assert ed htfrTights like a man; but reaction had set in, and Tom was ' so surly that Woodford felt he should not be sorry to make Miss Blodgett bear-leader, and took Tom up at once. Kitty, dear little thing! saw them com ing, and knew they were coming to her. She did her best to look unconscious, like the other girls; but -that required -practice to be well done,, and Kitty ' failed. utterly. S'.ie blushed before 'they reach ed her, and was very nervous on being introduced; and because of her nervous ness her tongue run all the faster. "Did he like Fern, Cliffe? She did. And the hotel? It was Rplewlhi! Slie liked trav-o eling; that is, she liked " traveling now. Lia.rt summer she traveietl with her gov- erncss; and 3liss f rowse was always say ing. "You must not do this, it is not proper.' - Kitty pursed up ; licr mouth "at the "proper," and' gave herself a little jerk, a la Frowse, and Tom, to his astonish ment, fount! himself laughing. ' This fresh little girl amused him. Every thing else had fretted him. The next morning found him waiting to take her into breakfast, and she allowed him to see that she had expected him. He mo nopolized her on the same principle- that he would have tried for the monopoly of anything else that pleased him, and with out thinking very much about it; and she was quite satisfied. He was the best looking-mail at Fern: Cliffe, . His natu ral casy-eomposure, weighed - by his con stant regret, became an indiference that ,excited her respect. She thought' he was superior to herseli, because he only smil ed at what stirred her. Above all, the dear little soul had 'discovered that Tom had his religious doubts. Need'; I say more? Is it not already '-known . the ar dor with which young 'ladies .take ur missionarv work" when the convert to be made is a irood ; looking young man When she lirst ti inched on - this subject iom was mciiuei erect.. .1 !.. i-w i.-,..i ,,,i to ui i vac i ..i-iivi incv "To tell the truth," he said, carelessly, "I doubt if I know very much about such things. hv shoiild 1? "Whv! oh!" Words failed the- little preacher before such enormous confes sions. "Why "because it is wicked; you know, not to care;" and-catching jusf then the shadow 01, a smile on i i.om"i lace as he lay on tne ground looking up at her, her brown eyes orimmeu -with tear "I don't know how-to argue," slie said, simply, "but I am so sorrv. ; I would give a great deal to make you good;'ind here the little mouth began to'quiver in sym pathy with the eyes, , making Tomyow, in secret, that hewas a brute. And if this pretty, innueent little creature chose to interest herself in him. well, why not? Was there anv thing better for.him now.? "And If I were alw'ays. near you," he said softly, I might be a . better jnams And then the foolish little heart thrill ed with a sudden, hope. What. if she could convert him?. And the; two were at once on a more familiar and friendly foot ing jhan they could have reached, in a. month ot flirtation. So the days slipyed into weeks,the weeks into a menth. A year was rolled up m that-month for Mattie Now that-she had lost him she found how much-Tom had to do with her life. . Under this tree they had quarrelled. Near' those rocks he had told her "that no other woman could have said such things and been forgiven," and forgiven her. Over eV ery walk was written remember! The very, empty chair beside her caused her. a throb or pain, .lie had sat there. Al her songs he used to slug them with her. She sang them now with Charlie Grier son. In fact, she flirted with that mis smided voungman. and then, when he presumed, sent him over without remorse She was quite determined "to make ho sio-n; but all the time she failed in health and in looks, and when her elder, sister Mrs. Hesperia,came down shetoundMat tie in rather a pitiable case. . ; Mrs. Hesperia was emphatically a DAY, OCTOBER 14, 18(H). man of fact. Finding , something wrong with her faroritesister slie asked no questions, but used heXeyes and ears. Of course it did not ueed quite half a day to d'iscover that Miss . Grierson hated Mat tie. She could nerer leave hX alone. . "You could hardly believe, Mrs. Peri, how Mattie has flirted," said Missner sonn the piazza, "Now you' needSuot look at me, dear. You know you' diti though I admit you have behaved much better lately. Indeed, we have all been dull xjnough since. Mr. Musgrove went away. He was our nicest young man. YYe used to call him the Inimitable; slilyj you know." ' . Mattie cast a quick glance at her sister.- She felt that she winced and blush ed under the Griereon's stab; but Hespe ria, wisest of woman, understood rfothing. Noiie so blind as those who will not see. She remembered that Mr. Musgrove had The hotel books told her when he had gone away, and while she was waiting for further revelations somebody wrote her a letter from Fern Cliffe, and that Tom Musgrove was . stopping at Fern Cliffe. "He. is at , aux. petits wins with a pretty little Miss' Blodgett,1' wrote the fairgpssip, "but. in a melancholy way. It is the common belief '.here that" your sis ter Mattie threw him over. If "she did, I wonder at her. . ie is the best yoyiig man I have seen this seasoii." And now-Mrs. Hesperia had the whole story. ... ' That was a. cool season; and in August they had fires at Shorespoint. So one evening found .the two sisters sitting in twilight before a flicker 'of flame on the hearth -while the rain beat outside. ' "What a weary world!" murmured Mattie dolefully, wondering w here Tom was now. - ; , ; --."What weary people,, rather;" answer ed Hesperia, lightly. "Depend, on it, Mattie, half our weariness is of our own seeking and buying. I have just had a letter front .Maria Hunter, bewailing her self. You remember she quarrelled with her fiance, Arthur Slade; and now they are both miserable, because both are too proud to make advance's.''" "And quite right!" cut in Mattie. "I "mean she is right. It is the man's plce to make them." . "Are you sure-of that? returned Hes peria, .quietly, "Sujipose it is the woman who is in the wrong? But "granting it, for the sake'of argument, do you really think worth while to pay oyer the whole happiness of a life to make good some theory about :i man . and woman's place? jlariti knows that Artnur loves her. One word from her would end it all. If she. refuses to speak that word, is it not be- ause she loves her pride better than her ove? -If so, let her go. There will be no heart break in the case. But if it were my case," if-I thought a man worth ovmg, and believed that he loved me, I should not be turned out of a Paradise so easily. Nothing should stand between us not even my own self love: llMattie started, and looked curiously,. at her sister, for Hesperia had spoken with rather remarkable energy. But Hesperia went on in her ordinary man ner. v 'I was reminded of Maria's case by tret tuvjr a letter irom ; her. about which I wished to consult vou.' She is at a place called - Fern Cliffe, and is anxious that we should join" her. What do vou It seems to me dull' 'enough here." Again Ms. ttio looked hard at her sis - ter, buthe could read nothing- in that artless woman's face. Three days later they were aKFem Cliffe. Mattie's pride ebelled sorely. The move looked so much like following Tom. But Hespe ria's words; rang inher ears: "Nothing hould stand between, us not even my own self lore. Are there brain telegraphs, more subtle than those Worked by electricity? All that day Tom's thoughts hack been busy with Mattie. Kittv was prettwand fresh, but lie was a little tired of being listened to and admired. Mattie kept liimbii hi.s mettle. With her, he must prove" him self what she. wished him to be. Kitty and he were hot betrothed, spite of the gossips of i ern Clihe, but tuey ,were close on it. He knew all the few possibilities of her child's nature, and what answer she would" give if ho should ask herj but how . could he ask, her, when " it made him catch his Jjreath only to think of the romance that lie and Mattie had liyed together? Something of this"sort he was thinking, Kitty on one arm, her pink and white shawl on tlje other, as they came up from tle beach, when he caught a glimpse frorii the piazza that ma'de him start. A daintv little -iigure, marked by a certain saucy self, assertion int every gesture; a mass of blonde hair, a brilliant face, not altogether regular in feature, nor with set color, but a face that bloom ed like a pink tinged leaf; and a peculiar, 1 - t i 1 Tl . . . 'i j.: ' 1 N cusuint, .aeiiucraie intonation a luue dash of affectation about it (but such d pretty affectation!) as she stood talking with a very handsome woman, also : a stranger; in brief, Mattie and Mrs. Hes peria. ' - There was just one course for Tom. He seated Kitty, went up to the tjvo ladies, and took off his hat. The. muclcs about his mouth did -quiver a little, and Mattie did turn pale, but both acquitted them selves very well. You could hardly have said that they were pledged to each other, much less that each was on the rack. Tom was introduced to Mrs. Hesperia, S and then he went back to Kitty. "Your new friend is not pretty," re marked Kitty, unskillfully; "or is she. an "old friend?" "Pretty! No! She is beautiful," re torted Tom, dryly;-aud then Kitty felt that she hated the new comers, and she went past them with rather a showy, un consciousness, and Avith an air of having absolute possession of Tom. j "What an underbred personf ' sa id Mat tie, looking after the little figure, and as if in ech.o of her thoughts. "That will be a match," said Maria Hunter's voice close in her ear. "I never sawsuch a flirtation. - They are hardly a moment apart." "And I came to Fern Cliffe!" thought Mattie, bitterly, darting in spite of her self a look of full reproach at Hesperia, who, on her sideif it had been lady-like, would have been pleased to box the un conscious mischeif maker's ears. The quiver in Tom's face had told her a most convicting story, but it would be useless to repeat it. Mattie now had the bit be tween her teeth, and her only endeavery as Hesperia foresaw, was to prove her self indifferent. She could not even be persuaded to treat " Tom civilly. He asked her To drive. She was engaged. "To-morrow, fhjen." "That is promised too." . Thgahe turned her back on him to pinjH5ouquet in Mr, Duncan's button hole: and a very pretty picture it was; 'or she had the smallest hands, and could make the most bewitching face of any girl in Fern, Cliffe; but Tom was turning away, with somethiug like an "oath, when he met Ilesperia's friendly eyes and some irresistible impulse made him go up to her with "I beg pardon, but did Mattie I mean did Miss Mattie receive a letter from me just before you came -to Fern Cliffe. . . i . Then Mrs. Hesperia was triumphant, rv. :.!.. m-i . i . .i . xnvj i mgui e iuuii look, oui a leuer to mo Postmaster at Shorespoint, and a day or two after Mattie found a note on her ta ble, bearing aduoble postmark, and en dorsed as "forwarded from Shorespoint." Something iii the hand writing made Mat tie start and chahge color. It was ouly a copy of some verses from the "Lover's Quarrel:", .. " "Woman, and will yon east, i For a word, quite ott'at last, j , -s ' Me, your own, your you-- I - 1 Since, as Truth is true, Iwas you, all the happy at -Me do you leave aghast, , With the memories we amassed? . -' 'Love, if you knew the light ! - That your soid casts in my sight " Howl look to you T-Vr tlie pure and true, ' And the beauteous and the-ri.uhl l'ear with a moment's spile, , When a uier mote threatens the white." And at the foot of the page,, "Remember your promise."' . - 4 But then, months before, Tom and Mat tie had read those lines together, and been forced by them into a sudden seri ousness. .,--"'' ' . r "What if we should quarrel?" he asked. "But we cannot," she answered lightly. "But we may," he persisted. "You are j teasing and capricious. We are both ob stinate. Let us make a compact. If sueff atime should come, I will send you these Verses. If I send them, promise you will come to me. Not to forgive me, only to come to me." And Mattie? had promised, premising,of course, that it was absurd; but she had promised. She would never have made5 the first advance but her promise. It, is astonishing what an iron shackle a promise is in some cases. Really, you see, she had no free '-will in the "matter. And so Tonytanding gloomily and alone at a little window, felt a hand on his arm, and turning quickly, saw Mattie holding out a letter half shy, half haughty. "It only came to-night," she said, "and you see I kept my promise." Tom's arms were around her in a mo ment. ' : V "Thank God!" he 'said huskily. "I was going away to-morrow. Your . indif ference drove me mad, my darling." V "But I was not indifferent," whisper- Wl Mattie; "and I am very sorry, Tom. I befieve,-! was quite wrong, after all." T&e two were more in love and happi er, than ever. "Nothing is quite so sweet as Love's young dream, except, perhaps, Lovers young quarrel. IiXwas' not to be marred even by Miss Grierson's charita ble comment that "It would be, strange if Mattieliad not caught Mr. Musgr.ove, When she went after him ! with J'her sister to help her." , ! - J- ' i And Kitty Kitty was hard hit, no doubt, but in 'the merciful ordering of events she had been endowed with an ex- ieellentj appetite atfd a perfect digestion and nobody. can actually pine on a series of.irood dinners. Nobody without a re- liabK dyspepsia- is capable of a three volume romance.. v--And, -after all, these little affairs are to s&Jielle, what measles and whooping cough ate to one's child hood. So, by degrees, Kitty rallied, and is, I hear, the reigning belha at t he Sea- shore House this tt .. ii.- x. tj- . siuiuiier- imijjvi -f Food for tlie 'ISefleclivo Origiiml and Selected. - XO. IX. BY F. S. PROCTOR. What -a vast advance in"geography, froni the days of Strabo and Ptolemy, to xour time. Geography -now - is not a sim ple description of nature; it seeks to de veiope more than the declaration of ex ternaknature. It in fact runs into geol ogy, which unfolds the causes of the present aspect of things, and shows the physical configuration of tlie earth, has been an clement in man's advance, and has moulded his mental and moral na ture,, even as his physical. ,, Physical geography,' in modern times has owed its greatest, share, to Baron Humbolt. ' He has beeiKcallcd its father. To his persistent research . and writings it is mainly indebted for the rank j.t now holds in the sciences. : ' ' His mind is a vast storehouse of all others had known or done, bothin an-. cient and - modern .times, lie unfolded the meaning of the relations which he found to subsist between the different por-' tionsHff the organic kiudoms and mkn, to use his own words, "the persuasron ' of the existence of an harmonious system of Heed laws which was long the object df a vague mtnations grauuany -acqutreu toe certainty of a rational truth," and man, as our immortal Schiller has said, "amid ceaseless change, seeksxtne unchanging nolo." .- ' ; His mind in its breadtliNand depth, grasped universal knowledge, both in its l-esults and details. He shdwed thesmiple, grand and harmonious plan of creation, wherein, as he says: "There i that unl in diversity, and of connection, resem blance and order, "among created things most dissimilar in their forms,. one fair harmonious.whole." His writings have been called a revela tion and that he did for science what the great apostle to the Gentiles did for re ligion. He showed clearly the great sys tem of fixed laws which govern alike, the animal,' vegetable and physical kingdoms of the universe. : . ' -His last work the "Cosmos" almost superhuman in its breadth of details, broad generalizations and vast accumula tions of experimental facts, astonishes us te conceive such as the labors of one man. His . chapter on the action and forces of' physical and moral laws", on the progress of our race, as caused by the configuration of the Mediterranean ,sea, is a grand tribute to science. His all-perfect description of the Milky "Way, in the heavens, is a masterpiece of stellar literature, and to one who has read it, the Milky , Way appears to him under al most new and most imposing aspects. The Jife and works of Carl Ritter should not be forgotten in tins branch of studv. If he m less lofty in his aspir ings" and led a more jsecluded life, his great work .will always remain a monu ment of research and labor. ' Physical geography , in its 'present as pects, is rather ies.s a science than a group of sciences Dienuea ay mutuui seriee. while it records new relationuo animate and inanimate nature oil our globe, it at the same time denctes the many con ditions of terrestrial objects and phenom ena with those belonging to the planeta ry space. " . v....' How few of the many millions who in habit the globe have any clear concep tion of the vast- phenomena; in the op erations of our globe. How few even of the reading class, can truly-conceive of tlie whole globe itself loose and swing ing as it were in -space at every instant eliam its place in the lieavens, yet bound and tied bv gravitation to the sun. Revolving every twenty-four hours on its own axis at the rate"of twenty-five thou sand miles an hour, moving at tlie same time in its annual orbit around the sun', sixty-eigliX thousand times each hour. Besides all this oj.tr earth partakes in that mighty movement of the solar system, to which astronomers, as. yet, see no present limit of time or space, nor any explana tion of the forces, certain and va.t though they be, which maintain this mysterious secular change. ' Those " who have made .these things a study and to whom these facts are famil iar have'some difficulty in -bringing their minds to comproh.r iid these comph x ..mo tions in space acted by forces which we can define- onlv in tiicir cii'ccis, though prtirt'd to pervade the universe of worlds. It is now believed that our carfh. tin sun, and all his planets, ttic ali moving twenty-five millions of miles a day, aud revolves in its orbit around the star Anti gone, near the North Polar star,, whit h never changes. Thus our earth ' has a daily rotation on its axis, aevolyes in its orbit around the sun, agaii revolves with the sun and other planets aroandthe North star, and this last involution with the sun takes three millions of ' years. Thus the sun takes three millions of our years to make only one solar yearj or one revolution in his orbit, one of Thus it appears nothing is stationary and fixed except the North star, in tin heavens, and all pi sent -'known and visi ble worlds, suns, and stars, revolve around the North star. What a subject for hu man conception and contemplation! Mow J:ieoI Stritwn tint n Wile. . Many of our readers .will undoubtedly romember Jacob Strawii who lived in Jacksonville, Illinois, about twenty-five or thirty years ago. Jacob 'died one of the, wealthiest men in the State of -which, he had been a resident. He was a hog and cattle dealer, and has been known to have in his possession as high as-thirty thou sand head of each at one time. Well, Jaeoo lived to be thirty years of age, ami up to(that time never had occasion to unite himself to one' of Eve's fair daugh ters. He was a, practical sort of a" ..man, aiid never dreamed that such a thing as marriage was possible while a person was possessed even of moderate 'means. I lo w ever, 'at that age, he was rich,-.'and .one day the. conviction very naturally forced itself on his mind, that he slum Id procure some one of the opposite sex to enjoy hu nches with bun. Thirty years ago, in the section of country in which Mr. Straw n lived,, girls were not so plentiful as they are at pres ent. 'In-fact, it may 1k said- they, were "like angels! visits, tew and far between.'" But those who did reside-.near .Jackson ville, were as beautiful. as the. longest. day in summer Is lengthy. Now lie it known, Jacob was not a partrician. Dt'inoonu-y, was with him a sacred principle, and iiof-with-standingthe cireumslar.ee that he was immensely wealthy, -and that the greater number of families residing near him were poor, so far as his .feelings went, or even as his actions, never did he luako'a manifestation of egotism or self-pride.' , :Outside of Jacksonville, a coujile of miles perhaps, there lived (piiji; a. rcsjiect able family. This fajiilyeiii pis yed a servant girl. The maturity which the lapse of eighteen years produces, was ap parent in her face -and form. Like the great majority of country girls, she look ed as though she was oyer gazing upon roses, and those roses were reflecting their lMauty in her checks. v ,- Graceful and neat in the extreme, nnd possessing a very fair share of 'intelligence, this servant girl was a match ior wliom- soever might take her unto hinir-elf. cob saw this flower, .and de-tiTmliicd" to jiossA-'s it. To transplant it into his own house, to have it to .-comfort, and ehi-r him, Was the grand 'object to-wlih-l 10 directed his thoughts. He. loved with out ever having spoken to the idol of his day-thoughts and- dreams. Romance was something of which Jacob .had prob ably never heard, and so. making .love with hi;!', was like buying n steer ;amere matter 1,1 l)un;es. . )ne day lie roue up to the rfv--idcr.ee o.i the lair inuid, aligJit- ed from h's horse, af;d knock-cd with tliw butj end of his whip. The hi.dy of. the hoifee answered Iiis.surnmons,a:id immedi ately upon her' making' her appearance, Jacob asked for the servant girl. .The. secant girl came. SaiU Jacob:- -"Lwant a wife, and have liieked you out lis the most proper person for that po- ition that I can possibly nnd. I ve nev er spoken to you before, but '-then that makes no diiiereuce. 111. give you one week to consider on it."- fS f The 'drl blushed awl was dumbfounded. Jacob mounted his lni and rode away. The girl inquired into.Xr. Strawn s char acter and standing, and was advised bv those with whom she lived, to accept the offer of his hand. - Punctually, a week after, Jacob rode ujKto the door, knocked again with his whipvand asked : aio or ves: , Blushing! v, -aiid while tears chased each other dow n her rosy cheeks, the girl answered, in alow tone, quite distinctly. "Yes." "Well," "f.tys Jacob, "let's see; this is Monday: we'll get married the day after to-morrow, Wednesday Here's some money to buy a wedding outfit," and lie threw he r a purse containing,; 'thousand dollars. ,- .' . - . x . .Tlie couple did get married on ..Wed nesday, and no happier pair, during their life time, was to be met with in the. State of Illinois. ' 1 Nothing on earth can smile buthr.man beings. Gems may flash reflect ctl light, but what is a , diamond ihtsh compared pith an eye-Hash and. mirth-flash? A face that cannot smile is like a bud that cannot blossom, and dries up on the stalk. Laughter is day and sobriety is night. and a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both and is more bewitch ing than either. r In the church-yard at Nettlebed, Oxford shire, is the following epitaph: ' Hera lies the body of Nicholas Round, Who was lost in the sea, and never was found .V Hack woods Ad venture.' A Virginia banker,-who wits chairman of a noted infubl club, was! once -traveling through 'Kentucky, having bank bills to the amount of about I JilOOVlien he came to a lonely tbre.-t wlUrtT mur derers and robber. were said to I frequent, he was soon lost, thinugh .akii.-g.tlio wrotH road. .'"''. ;,;'"' 'J -.-"! "rhe-'tbtrkness of the night eante over 1 lijm and how to cscaiv from tlui Umivt- ' ening danger he. knew .not; I njiis alarm he suddenly csnicd in the lUstaiicc. a dim light, and urging his hor onwanl, he nt length fame to a wretched cabin. He knocked, and the door wai opened bv si woman, who"Said that Iter-husband was out-hunting, but would soh return. Thtc ' gentleman pnt upliiA hor-e atid: niteted the cabin.but wiih feeiings .'tlhat an be hot-' terinuigiiiidthainiesenbeih llerehe was, with a huge sum of money, and pefhaps' in the iiouse utone of the 'robbers whose naiui- was a terror :o the country. V lii asliort time the maniof 'the hotiso returned, lie had on a deerskin shirt, a bear skin cap, nuu h fatigued, -and in no , talkative mood. All this' boded -the infi del no fond, lie felt for IsiuTs in . his pockets and pi;o-. tin oi sv) a. to be readv to r l!lt;'1i! ' u. an i: -!l;!l':.' r to i (ire tO-.liv.l lilLl ile li'.'i -1, sit by iii.- Hre aii nip 'of, l. n7r ! Woill'd i-.e i'nau ui'gt tan tlie no. re tor nu'.i infidel was i-.i;;r,-fit i. nr ' 1 ;.e more the l! ;W a.-suil that fhi was his last night-: upon--earth. but lie determined l.i'scll his4ife iis dear lv as he could.. His infidel firim-niles gave iuia no comfort. His fear . . i 1 into a.!ronv,- hat whs t,i iiu i1iih ' ---'At lenglh ' tlie i baevoiidsiiian arose, reaehed to the wooden iU'ielf, tuok down, all tild book ainj said :', !' v "Well, stranger,; if you won't go to bed,' I w ilk but it is jay habit to read a chaiHer of the IIolv Scriptures before I go t'V lit u. - - - - What a ehange'these words produced. Alarm was-at once removed from the skep tic's mi-nd. Tiioiigli ayow.ihg himself-an--infidel.Jie now had confidence in the lti-; b.le. He felt lluit a man w ho ki pt an old Bible in his - house, ami bent his knees in pravcr, was no.roblicr or murderer. lie listened to, the prayer of the good: nuui, at once dismised his fhirsnnVl laid dowiy in his rude cabin and slept; as ealmly as lie did under Ins iatlu r s roof. - l'roni thnt tiiue he eoaseJl to revile the good old Bible., He" became a sincere christian, and often related t!ie..-s!cry of his eventful journey, to prdvY-.the folly of iiifidelil v. !'."" ol' I?rv3ich 'ot" ! V.I t'St". r A ( -uriotis ease i . i i f lu'eai'h ol promise idi'd in i'Liverpook A. nas u.-i oceii deei gentleman named- Thompson, having; wooed a . oung lady named Fleming,' with appropriate order lor the space of. a y(tir, sujdenly shocked anil 'wounded her sensibilities, by abandoning the style of gpliin,g f; i;'-'"v ;t w !iieh he . Imd wens--toiii'cd her. in Ins . eorivsptjiidcnec; and in- vit-ing her attention to : comijionjilaee practical .considerations oi' hons keeping, , and o.tjier. re:disl to details (j-,' iheir future ; life. Sigh? and smiles, and Cupid's darts gave place in his epistolary;oagi's lo.lable- ' 'uapkins, bed-iim n, silvei Myai if ami ant i maca.v.irs. Tiie cuiiumI :or ti(; plainlsff,: dilated oVerthv dcft-ndiiuj V phiases with an uie in tmsiasm oi r-( -gcant l .u.Ui nver . M r. Pirkv. i-k's fain. mis 1isj)at(di about -'ehojis and tomato salicc." WJiy, " It was a--ked, 't.i inlciitiOii. if not. in so manv w d be" liihii n !u v mind , wii'ii anti-niacnssa-iv w io Hue w;i o ing -.oidv for ntiini'Ol!;" Am W II V iou;d lie presume to m-AK !ns cnga '" . , i , men: because , !.e . b ri: m ! i h gto.-s ami worldly, dniiH.'Sii" tiiu stii.j,.-? The j:rvf galta nt.lv :jceed.-7i toSthis yirw of '(he .af i'air, and awarded damages' in the sum of tl,.")i)H. Pendiirg- the'juit tin defch--daiit courted and- espoused!' an other la'd'f.- w ho hold more views ' Hipon .O SJIOJ' Cl ri 1 le iiiiiii;ui'c,.vc may ;supposv', ..were in harmony wtll his own. . ' ' " i j. ' " 1 Nu'JiniifHl .Soke, A voung jti:i ii s -stei! :;t dinner, t!: oilier (Kir, sa d 10 Li Wile 'Eikii, if you nt: luri: i;; a onu:i(iriiti at" lor you : where j i : tmv: would devil siiould lose hss.ai!, : he go to get another! onV?7 ' ' A ii; r son;e tinre ...-enf jo 'U-siiig, in.' gave it up. '- oil, sail d' !:c, "wl iei they re-tai l.a'd spirits. Ki'.gcr to get it oii',-htd-v frb'ink 'with : i.istcn ;o a uit, .uariou, l luivo sueir- a ni'ri-.-o-iiundrum.! -Joe just told Wie it. 1 know, vou can't guipf it. If 'thel devii houid lose his tail, w here .would Ucgoto get al. otluer one?" . - j Her friend Marioii havhjg gtvt-ir she said:: - - ' ; . "Where tlcy scil ljipior fiy tlie glass:" "" Marion 'coirfrhYt see the- j.oint of the JOKe. j It is a little rcii urk mi-icii goou an 'aiiveriisemcni i:r a i .i jive pnner - lo .s a iiitiin. Wc hear oft en f'l mer-f' cuaius who nnvc received (Ui-fs and . found u.Homers solely thiough'ihj nub- eletlul licity thyrecuive- from licdr "car'ds" in . the pa pei s. A-man v, l,o (loos not adver- tise. is a comparative strainer to the luisi-m..-s world. '"' . .j '- ' ' ." 1 1' ti man i.s goin? to buy goods, he con sults the i-ewspapers tr. find" who kcejis the best., stock, and It is tjic- true way to do. The very best men-limits, -those who-.' keep tlie. most Complete "stocks and sell , at the .lowest iigiiri-s ndyertisc 'I.h the Noirni C'a I'oi.iM.VXi This i.s no imagin- ; ary idea, but r. fact, a good' business man . alwavs ailVcrti.-'es, ; 1 j - . ' Kcrnpiana. . Who can '.iniaginc; a - greater luhiji of cart'dy h'iisr,- reduced to it(. finer, thing, than kissing the "only; womivn oil earth in thegarden of Kdon? t . , "Excuse me, madanrbut I would like to ask why you look at me so savagely "Oh I beg parden, sir! I took you for my husband." : 1 The lol rowing ..typographical, err shows' the vas? importaiiccof -tlic comina. -At a banquet tins toast wsis given W-nutu--w ithmit her man, -"Is a -'bnitp. . A tomb.-.tone in Maine, -creciul to the miniory of a wife, bears the inscription "Tears can not restore her; therefore I weep."- ; y '.X. "I don t admire ladies !. cutis, as tn husband said when his wife boxed? his- ears. - . - v- ( 9 - - X - 1 i Love is better tl;,aii a pair of spectacles .to make every tiling- seem greater wfrich is seen through it. . ! .' - - . 7; ' 'IV V- X I'. e ,. ". -- - - - V ' -:V-