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I . L " i ii 1 I 'HE IREDELL EXPRESS, j rtlUSHED WEEKLY, TERMS OF ADVERTISING. 6ae Dollar a square for the first week, and Twenty-five Cents for every week thereafter Sixteen lines or less will make a square. Deductions made in favor of standing mat ter as. follows,: ' 3 mos. 6 mos. 1 YIVR. One square, . . $3.50 . . $5.50 . . $8.00 Two squares,. . . 7.00 . . 10.00 . . 14.00 Three squares, . 10.00 , . 15.00 . . 20.00 When directions are not given how often to insert aa Advertisement, it will be publish ed until ordered out. E, It. DRAJta BY TV. P. DRAKE. EUGENE B. DRAKE & SON, Editors and Proprietors. - A. Family !N"ewspaperTev6ted to Politics, Agriculture, Manufaetiires, Commerce, and ZMisoellarieous Reading V PERMS OF THE PAPER. Vol. 1 1. $2 a Year, in Advance. Statesville, N. C, Friday, November 18, 1859. No. THE I octrg. Ella May. V.Y 'OOt.I I.KAF. Reclining ifi a pensive mood, In a li.st'miri"; attitude, SitMweot Ella May ! . Sirhiiir with the gentle wind. Emblem 4fia distressed minJ, SiL'liiiri'i alLthe day. - f'heekt ofi.rfy damask hue-Eve- of djeei) anil melting blue i'urheajJ .fair, Cherry lijle so poutingly Sav. "vnufjhleed not look at mdy Raven hair." put she loop so sad to-day. Doc.-- niv ten tie Ella May. That T isenrro know whv, But I feel (lid like to know What dof? Heave her bosom so, I And In her secret.- pry. Rut as slie .-jits o musi'nrlv, And trazof iptp varuncy I lart hot thus di-tnrh The thought that in her fantv swell. That in herjbosom's recess dwell And jitjer not a word. Rut soft ! (there's heard upon the hreozie, That softly ltnurmurs through; the trees, A rnntnliv voice. , ow C Tile i And neistlifd if Nnv (juielflj (lies that look dstrcst, doseJy to hia hrett.-t, i i wo raea keirts rejoice. X- T HI . . X-mv I win softlv steal nwav. Add leave! rriy happy Ella May; f. I'll nit le rude. J.cave to themselves this hapfv pair, Si tree frcjml worldly grief and rare, 1 11 nut' intrude. ; Train to Plaris. I hitM ir true. whKtf'or Wall: ItH-l it wlifii 1 rtoir.v in.Jl : I'h'i'i ueviT tu ba'r Invol ui all. IM'ttcr t . hnvnflnvcil mill t.wt Tl'.NNY'OV. I It was (lristmas eve Tj remember it well a pjreary day as oyer Decern-Iber.bronglit'ja?,- Our part ojf the coun try is not a cheerful one injwinter : it us in the nOHth, and high, uh, and not iinuoh sheltbred ; the snow falls earlv and lies 1 1 la. th .t L I 1 ' 1 m 1 1 I I 1 I L ; I t t i 1 ! 1 II III I t" . - , wind and bills in a fwintrV 1 ait Tiweeps over the wild, hopel .6-, iiitiless wavl that peo hde w ho ai not used to it fnd it very jfjiard to kcHi up their spmfl against ; it, can't and sit ihhd even liivvho am used" M iifFord to hi pdle those day looking qui jof the window fjn the. driv ing rain, amd thei cloudy hils, and the Iqdashy potflis that arc- not more mud jjly than thijlow, dull sky. If ever I vdo. 1 rrct thihking over (hivp gone by, itud the hiiie' thi-v vi vricil :vith them' imd the present, so drearily different i jo that I used to think it would be; of. the futufe tluit looks, when I am in ihis'mobd, baid 1 think about it, very ,;niuehlike tlyc prospect I see out doors - i as dull, a$. indistinct, as hopeless. ' Uftn-uvn T tniict r-nnio hiick in mv Christmas U e. and keen on straight to mv story; V T was a'h.ne for the fir.Jt time of - - " 7 1 1 3 mv life, at that Period of! the year, My brother, with whomi I jhad lived, pad been obliged some weeks previ ously to go to Paris on business. He va' iigcnt fo Lord Somqrleigb, on whose estate we lived, and who resid ed much fthMoad. It was a cruel dis- appontmenk)both to Frank and that he ci ml dlj not be at home for Christ mas, and 1 am afraid I did not bear it as patiently as 1 might have done ; for I was then but quite a girl, and Vrank, who hvas a good rqany years older, had spoiled me, as a, father is apb to spoil an only child, jso that it was a rare, tiling to me to have my kvisKes crossed. I had got through the morning pret f Well, fon there was alwarrs plenty to do in imr little household, and I Jiad many resources in tlise way of looks, urawiiig and music;) but when he evening! came on, there arrived, cover nt the aarKness, sucn a . '1 l 1 T 1 1 legion of blp-devils, that Iicould not nustcirdncous. i : Midnight fimm up agonist' them. K the wind, j l"'1- dirieking, ajnd howling andj Availing!! This time I was not alone in my ear- and the rattling of doorsi and win- j riage. There were three persons be . dows, and tlie huish of the slept against j sides myself : a husband and wife, who ihe iindow r Then there would come had 'evidently had a quarrel on the iii uraugms iliac, despite cae glowing fire, blew (dlilly between myj shoulders And about njy ankles, and caused the in draughts curtains to wave in a way that itmade me teel vcryj uncomfortable indeed to look.ltnnn kmrl tvnfcf nf -ill T.indn Frank's pit better, whom I lad got in to keep me company, became troubled i:... . i i i ii .. - n in her imnd, and Av.onld sit for a feAv minutes looking gloomilv into the fire, with her damp nose twitching till it gave out a s Avhine, and then she would walk to the door, ami snuff un der it, and look hack at me and lie down with a, flap, and get up again and walk to and fro restlessly, and lis- 1 L. :. i ,i iKu, uim cuu come now anqi men to utter a low groAvl : all of which demon- " - - . - ' ' v ' . ' , . I 1 l ' 1 fill My 11 VI V. ILl UU Simmons on j her part 0 added to my , j . r. mind to call inn .Tnno from the bitch on Wnn fi,t.!T i i-t:'n -iij...i,: -T ' t - - - - - - - - .... .. y'V" -ui'-mii x ini.-n jui uati ft. i us, lu whom she was to be married the dav Aqs after Xcw Year's Day, had come in to see her, and I Avas unwilling to dis turb their t&tz-a-tete, which oaou Bessy, our other servant: respected! bv oin" up to Uid Patore her usual time. , - Suddenly iLinda's vague Uneasiness U - .1 1 s 1 A . stssumm a imore i lo-nitini finvn-i tmtinA ivJul-fliT n fCim ,.-:n.lni. -t ifT1 " ..w. i-i in , ciiv 01-11161-. .L...1 I.,,,.. C I ? p-v., 0HUUK1.1, n.uu H1I.-1I uiuai, qur vu uiio li violent ; nf Xil ZZ echoed hv Hero nnd Xrn. Mi.tsi.lp 1 . " ..)i..v.i naoilllululUHB tunc. JUIC Bm ""'"") A good deal startled, I opened the door, and stood by it, ready for all i emergencies, for I must tell you it was j a rare thing indeed for any stranger j to be about there at that time in the evening, and the dogs never barked at any but strangers. Then there came a violent peal at the door-bell. I stood on the landing and listened over the canisters, while Bill Hawkins, fol lowed by Jane, went to the front door 'Doan t ee open it, Bill,' she whis- I pored loudly, 'until 'ee knows who it ! be. 'Bother, lass,' was all Bjll's rejoin-1 der, as he drew back the bolt and turn-1 ed the key. j 'A telegraphic message for Miss j Grey,' I heard a strange voice utter, My heart smote me- it could only be) from Frank and I ran down and met j ; Bill on the stairs, took the paper from i him, and rushed back to the light to 1 mad it. I cYour brother is very ill,' it said ; J i 'wp' ln?u not in dnno-pr bnt would ad'" , ..-IV w L l 17...3.J I J I L, lu jv. V 11.7 I nil. Ill I y ' . . ' . coming IU J 1 1 1 I 1 1 I 1 ' II 1VI1U U VII 0 v.; 7 ' unr vu nwnf Hi rections about trains, steamboats, &c. Of course, there was but one thing to be done. Jane and I hurried a few clothes into a trunk, Bill engaged to have the dog-cart at the door before five o'clock in the morning, and, hard ly stopping to undress, I threw myself into bed, and after Mossing about through some weary hours of unspeak able suffering and anxietv, I fell a- nocr warned by Jane, came to cnll me. At any other time, the thought of taking such a journey alone, and a great part of It at night, in itself, would have been sufficient to fill me with the extremcst anxietv, n-ottosav alarm. I had never traveled by my self in my life I had never crossed the sea ; but now my mind was so fill ed with a foreboding terror and anxi ety about my dearest dear Frank, that I hardly thought of these things. I might-have taken Bessy, but. I knew that once away from home, she was an unhelpful little body, and besides I was so utterly ignorant of the proba ble rmoimt of my traveling expense-1, that I was afraid, perhaps, with two of us, mv money might run short, and then what should I do ! Before the clock struckfive we Avere off Bill Kawkins and I in the dog cart, meeting tlfe .cutting wintry wind as it swept across the woltiv It was good twelve miles to the rail way station, and though old Jack put his best foot foremost, what with the hills the heaviness of the roads, it 'took us well on. to two hours to get I there, j However, I was in time for j the train, that was all I cared about, I and soon was whirled off miles and 1 miles away from the fartherest bit of I country that my longest rides or drive s ha,b made mG acquainted with. rher, indeed, I began to feel 'a hon lorn creature,' and as I had the -11. in T - 1 1 earriage all to mysell. I indulged truly indulifedna the word under some circumstances in a hearty fit of cry ing. In due time we reached London. - At the station we met old Mr. L Lord Somerleigh's lawyer, and a sort friends because we have been in more or less close contact with them all our lives of Frank's. He told me it was feared Frank's illness was small-pox. 'A bad case V I asked. He shook his head he could not say.; he was afraid so, because deliri um had set in almost immediately. It was1 the physician who had written to him and sent me the telegraphic mes sage. Mr. L gave me the passport he had secured for me, took me some where I don't know where to eat something which I couldn't eat ; saw me back to the railway station, and i again was in the train on my way to way iu iuu siunuu, anu hiw ivci- up small bickerings most of the journey. , The man I should say had begun the battle ; he was fat, red, and of a gen j erally choleric and appoplectic aspect; hnf the woninn must haVfi lieen a rare one to perpetuate such differences. She 1 was lean and sallow, with a hard oiack i xi. . ...n. i.L.1 eve, and a snt oi cue mouiu mai wan downf at the corners, and a determined! wmibl-be victim look and manner, un- speakably hard to be borne Avith. Op posite to me, in the corner, sat a young i man of about five-and-tAventy, fair, and curly-haired, Avith a clear, kindly blue eve and a face as pleasant to look up- I - r on as you ever saw. T nm frpo to onnfoss that Avhen was able to collect mv thoughts and -r -""""i. " - n o on nhnnr mo T horl o vnmin satisfac-i . ' ' . V. - V 'V . k. Ill k. 11(111 UI T U.L, V ' : i i. iiou in nav UllT U1U1 OIlDOSlte tu mc, 111- stead of one of those others T innnoQe T lnol-pd vew drearv and Avoebe?one. for occasionally I acci dentally encountered my neighbor's - . ii i. . ' n onnioiinfavoct Tf Wu bit . uivjuii L "11 1 1 1 1 l"tt luicitou " - terlv cold and I was not as well pro . - ,i.,j t v. 1 -,,-itn n - vanc U.i'J. 1 !: 1. T 1 J 4 1, .C1tt UUCU lib 1 IIHIIUL llilYC UCCU uu tiii - ' ' . . . - . i n 11UU UCVVl "ft'J the chill of my early rei'ov'pven trom nir enm 01 mv caiiv V?X !fL Z JZi?J ! T ciu-n-irvj.-i lm- n-itAnl enenlrinor. he unstrapped a railway wrapper he had' placed beside him, and quite simply j and naturally, not only insisted on . lending it to me. but helped to envel- op me in it, with as much skill as care. 'Are you going to cross over this evening?' he asked. 'Yes.' 'And on to Paris ?' 'Yes,' I said again ; and somehow, Dover, I had by the time we-got to told him the object of my journey, and 1 various details thereanent. j I suppose it was very foolish, and! that some people would have been much scandalized ;but I felt it a com- fort to speak to anybody that looked and spoke kindly, and I was barely nineteen, and so unused to the world's ways! He was going to Paris, too, and he asked me, as if it were a favor, to let him look after me, and see to niv lug-1 gacre. and eret me through the Custom j.07 r-j - House, and all the rest of it. j '1 Have sisters of my own,' he said, I should think, about vour age. ; ' ' 3' a. i j . & 1 1 . 1 woulu do tor her. We had a rapid passage, and. hap pily I was not a bit sick ; and was a ble to stav on deck all the time. My new friend would not hear of taking his wrapper ; but finding me a sheltered corner to sit in, he rolled me up in it from head to foot, and came every few minutes to see how I was getting on. It was quite dark by the time we Tit 1 landed. lie helped me through every 1 (iitricuity : insisted on getting me some dinner at Calais, and in due time we started by the night train for Paris. We had a carriage all to ourselves. 'Von are tired to death,' my friend might I not call him my friend ? -aid ; 'put up your feet and let me cover you up so; and now lie back in the corner and go to sleep.' I did as he bade me quite passive ly, all but the going to sleep I couldn't manage that all at once. The thought of, and the fear for Frank, lulled du ring a little space, camebackupon me and tormented me without ceasing: and though I shut my mind against them, they haunted me and kept mo long waking. 1 IT 1 . ' 1 . . ' All this time my friend read quietly by the light of the lamp, and I could see him now and then glance at me to know if I was asleep, and I pretended to be. as a child does wlhen its mother has bidden it slumber. At List, fairly worn out, to sleep I went in earnest, I don't know for how long it seemed a groat while and then woke up out of a terrible dream, composed of all sorts of horrors sick ness, death, tossing on weary waves, torn by mad rushing trains, never, never arriving at my destination all the circumstances of my mission arwl journey jumbled up intoa tangled maze of impossible terrors. I, caught myself, when I woke, still sobbing and gasping, and there, bend ing towards me, full of pity and anxi ety, was the 'kindly face of yesterday, for it was now in the first hours of the morning, and the kindly voice came soothingly on my ear. I started up, considerably ashamed of myself. 'I beg your pardon !' I exclaimed, rubbing my eyes ; 'I'm afraid I have disturbed you.' 'Oh, no ; I can seldom sleep when I'm traveling. I'm afraid you're not rested, you have slept so uneasily try to compose yourself again.' 'Xo, I've done with sleep now : I'd rather wake any time than have such horrible dreams again. Dear, dear ! n-liAn ,1 ttah Viiv,lr TtTi oil. nil ri 'Not for some hours yet. What shall we do to lighten the time for you? n,U n-,, ? TTn... HUC 1 UU VUU BUail ECb I inc. VVUIU 1 uu 1 mil, uu uu Liiiun. . ni.iv is a very amusing book.' I tried to read; but in vain ; the dim light, the tremulous movement, the fatigue, and the anxiety, all made it a labor instead of a relief to me. Mv neighbor quietly, and without viipii k i ir i i ii i iv lilt-? ii if ik. it: i i v 1 i. Aw kMAb Af hand c '1 see that won't do Tell me, where 1 is your brother staying in Paris?' 'In the Kue de Martignon : do vou 'Oh, well; lam going very near there myself. But you must let me ww iiiicic iii mh isi . . take you to your brother's first ";y f " . ln. nover. . . 'Youhavebeen vaccinated, of course: ; Dm nave you uecn liticiy ; yuu. childhood V 'No.' It is a great risk,' he said, deliber ately. 'I wish you could be A-accina-ted first.' 'Ah. hut that's impossible ! I'm I not least afraid ; and 7 - 1 , that s tne uest : pi esen acion At any rate. Avhat will oe Avill, you know. c, iini. . 5 "" rz ' 'Vn,i oro a hMvn Uf.rlA ai v ! vou , . , - j j are not atraid either lor your life i . ; your pretty lace . 1 I drew up a little ; somehow I did - not like that last word it seemed what shall I say ? out of place, not -oAro.f u-ith f. vo ret hia mnnnor TTft-saw I was annoved. .and within - tr p " - 1 the next five minutes contrived by ! 11 . 1 1 ! it t , , . I - vmee nnn ook- ano manner to anoio rrltrn -tiri V nil f l nf" ttflll PTPI1SO Vd . g,'"" " " " " " ! We talked on till, as we drew near huu you must let me uo lor vQii wiiatiauze mv position, to ieoi tnat 1 wTas : . iuucu un uu. no nin m.n r - o tpS. rWnnfthentWrnaaftnraf,ntlInassitoverinsUence. I " r- O. in at a station Avhere wo stopped. One of these, a smart but dirty young man, j took a place next my friend, and near- ly opposite to me, and after staring at j me for some time, said aloud to his companions: sitting-room, aumo ana speecniess witn t quarters ot a mile trom the cegtage emphatic wave of her dear old green lElle est jolie, V Angiaise.' ('Tho i terror and despair, I found my friend where Frank and I had lived sirtemy fan, 'They do everything that is fash- English girl is pretty !J) j still there. , I childhood, and Which Lord Someeigh ' ionable imperfectly; their singing, My friend colored up furiously. i From that time all became dim and allowed me to rt&nain in, till th'eriod and drawing, and dancing, andlangua 1 Monsieur j mademoiselle je ' est '. obseure td me, fo'r the same night I.'' of my marriage should arrive: ajlJthb ' ges, -amount to nothing. Thiey were paf gourde, et, de plus, eue comprend dc jrancais. (oir, the young lady is not deaf, French.') and she understands 'Pardon, monsieur-r-ie ri avais , aucune intention d' offhiser modem' J j oiselle pardon !' ('I beg your par- ! don, sir ; I had no intention of offend- ling the young lady. ) t ! And thereanent my dirty neighbor , withdrew himself from observation by ; pulling his traveling-cap over his eyes and feigning to court slumber, while his companions talked apart to each i other and laughed, annarentlv much - - i 7 f I j amused at his discomfiture. At last we reached Paris, and then, ' for thefirst time. I began auite to re-, 'Ol ! . fi. . 1 t 1 about to see hrank, to know to what end my voyage had served, to learn whether I was to rejoice or tremble ; and so overpowering was the sensa- tion that I skivered from head to foot, and could hardly answer the brief questions my friend put to me. 'Poor child !' he said, 'try to com pose yourself ; I'll put you into a fiacre, and you keep there quiet till I come to you. Give me your keys ; I'll go and see to your luggage.' There I sat by myself, I can't say how long not' long, I daresay, but it seemed a weary time to me feeling about as miserable as I had ever felt in my previous life. Siice then I have had a larger experience of terri ble hours, but that was the first very dark one to which my memory now goes back. Bnt it brightened with the return of the welcome face and voice. -that came on me as those of one long known and trusted. He directed the coachman where to go, and then stepped in beside me. 'JhanK you, you are mi l very, very what good !' was alb I could .say should I have done without you ?' He smiled upon me he had a beau tiful smile. ' 'I only wish I could do more for you be of real comfort and help to Voi. I'romise me ow thing,' he said, turning to me suddenly, with earnest eyes and voice shall not be our i i 'promise that this door, and tenderly taking his disen-la-t meeting that gaged hand, conducted Jyim to my you will let me sec you again !' ' 'I promise.' "Your hand upon it !' I laid my hand in his, without the least mistrust, and he held it for a moment, pressed, and then resigned it. 1 'May I call to-morrow ? next day?' i 'Next day, please1 I shall be so oc cupied to-morrow.' 'So it shall be.' We -spoke no more until the fin-re clattered up to the number indicated in the Rue de -Martignon. My friend jumped out and rang the bell. 'Who am I to ask for?' he said, coming back to the coach-door. 'Mr. Grey.' With a sharp click the little door in the middle of the porte-cochere o pened as of itself, and my friend step ed through it and disappeared, des pite my cry after him to let me out. I had called to the coachman to re lease me, when he returned, with a face that made me shiver. 'Well? tell me !' 'Your brother is very ill ; prepare yourself to find him so.' I 'Not dead ! Oh, my God! not dead?' j Xrt YU VAnll- mVO me VOll V tVTC i.u, iiv, ivuni , til , j ... v t ; I will help you up stairs.! I had need of it to climb those weary fnnr flights nn whie.h he snnnorted me. p f - - ri j At the door we met Dr. R . I 'I thought it right to send for you, I Miss Grey,' he said, 'but I cannot let you see your brother at this moment ; the risk Avorn out as you must oe, and coming from the outer air ; would J ho i rr rrrofit hon PC hp Tint ffin- k r . luj t vi-,"i.v k v - w v it i. : scious wouia noi recognize you. 4T con .,m ' I lh Trm cf ' . . .-. . A. ill titOL OVL- 111111 11 J- ill it U l Avhat have I come all this weary way i for elser And who can tell how long 41. riuau v...v i further speech, and then my friend I spoke gently but firmly: I Come in and sit down ior a mo . . , me-nt. He took me into the little rortm nointcd out bv Dr. R - sittmg--; there n-pi-p Pranl-'s books, hi-, writ no-.case a dozen little memorials of him plac ed me on a sola and took a seat beside mej, drying mv eyes wun nis own handkerchief ; "it was perfumed with ceiaam scent ne always useu, tne ouor iv ni acuuuu ouu,; uuu. u a.. 1 . . . y , . ' . . .1., . " l of which I cannot smelJ now without thev sav'an agony of recollection ony and sooth ing; the violence of my emotion. 'Wait just a few minutes,' he said. ; j ; " " 1 r wKmi 1 hpenne ea rner, -whi e 1 snak or to the doctor, lou snail see your ' brother as soon as possible.' other as soon as possible.' The two conversed apart for a lit ! tlel and then Dr. R retired I Hie is gone to see if there be any Ciiane in vjur muiuri, vuu um au- mit you as saon as he is able. 'T 1 X 1 "I . Jn about a quarter of an hour Dr 1 Ui E nil r. -in fA h iin h r r m - iw-s icu ina. iuwm. i mi n-mla iirp vain tn evrps4 mv . . . ! V. l 1 ! impression of the sight before me, and 7 I " .. T . ; I cannot say now long i remuineu by the senseless figure, which bore no shadow of resemblance to my darling Frank to any human creature ; ,bt i when Dr. R - led me back to'the was attacked with the symptoms ot tlie disease, and ttou knows how 1 struj ' filed through it. Bv the time I was I . ""f.', j- ini. "o uvn'i oii'i laid in his foreign grave, and I was utterly alone in the world, 'Lord Somerleigh has sent to inquire for you many times,' Dr. R said. when I was able to attend to anything. 'and to know what he can do to assist you ; he begs you will be frank, and ' say whatever you desire. He is in! great trouble himself: Mr. lorke has ' taken the disease. T feared it was only too probable he might.' 1 v Mr. lorke r planation. -I looked up for ex-' 'He would come constantlv to the :t if nuue imu me louring iislmi you Avere ill : so was continually newing the chances of infection.' re- Mr. Yorke Lord Somerleigh's son I my friend it all flashed -across me at once ! He, too, then, was to be terrible one.- . m . and drink, so injurious often to the dragged into this horrible fate, and j Wind, thunde, and ligjhtninand jhjealth of the people. An inves'tiga that through me, a stranger, whose sheets of rain, kept me neamlv allhnigh't 1 tion was had recently by a select corn- existence a month nco was unknown to him ! ! Dr. B attended him also, ami I had daily reports of him, for which ' I waited with a sickening anxiety, the j mal nature of which T oeuhl not lnn conceal irom myself. Alter an anx- ious and dangerous struggle, however, the disease took a favorable turn, and he was declared on the road to recov- 'Lord Somerleigh came himself and j tain streams crosjsed the road, aniiwas took me to his house, as soon as f spanned by an old stone bridge. (tAs I could be moved. He was a widower, j neared it, looking up through thepat butjhad two daughters, both living ing rain. I stood aghast tle Ci-ntre with him. Thev were very, very kind j tbe bridge was one !' On either side to me God bless them then, and j the piers of thienfined arch gape$!'air(I have been ever since. "To-morrow you shall see Cecil, if you will,' Lady Helena, the elder-, said to me. 'It is a great comfort to him to know you are in the house, poor, darling boy !' She ended with a heavy sigh. Next day. as I was lying on the sofa in her boudoir, Cecil Yorke was led in with a deep green shale over his eyes; Ladv Helena met him at the couch, placed a chair for him, and in j silence she and her sister left the room. For some moments neither of us spoke. so intense was our agitation. At last he said : 'Give me your hand let me feel you. I held it out to him he v stretched hisnot in the direction of mine but blowing in my face, he could nodis vaguely, gropingly. I saw the truth ! tingmsh my words, and I doubte4ven in an instant hoVas blind ! j if he recognised my voice, for hej3tifl Yes, -utterly, hopelessly blind. Cut advanced with; a ioubtful, puzzleair. off, in tlie prime and pride'of his youth, j Again I screamed to him to sjogh-to his strenrrth. his beauty, from all that i stop for God's sake ! and aga.ihe might make the future bright and de-sirable-4 from- life's best hopes, gifts, enjoyments. 'I had hoped,' he said, 'to have ask ed the possession of this little hand ' ' ' once that is over now 'Wh-tr nvfiv?' T arrtifnln.d to sav 'Have thev not told you do you not see what I have become ? Nev er, never more shall I see the light of heaven, or the litrht of mv life vour sweet face ; do not he angry with me now,' he added, with a faint smile, 'for calling it so.' 'And is that all that separates us ?' iAttr - ! es ; is there no other reason - no other consideration or obstacle ? i Is It because that through me you have ' - . - i, , j lost your sight, you give mc up j 'Entirely solely !-' 'Then I swear, oh. how joyfully ! to be yours as long as Ave borh shall live Hush, lMove you, ten thousand times better than I should have lo-ed vou , ri i , hliu ii u.jovit VW'. i ioi i c trnn nr utaIi nnnnormi h n nn"T ' I .Tto without you wouiu De a uurinen mtoi - -I tii i .1 .. i.l -i-i i 1 ii'i ? i r l vww " - - 7 erah e to he home. VV nat I 1 . iriCTlQ- less, homeless, J may say, probably de - , privea oi any good iooks mat may once . i J 7 - myself too proud, too blest in being allowed to give my life the one object - 1 ot rendering yours as enaurapie as u t i i ii i i may oe maae : xo, u you reoci uil. all hope, all .joy, are-taken from my Mv fate mm your hands. : lie could not throw me on ; nis ia 1 - ther, whatever might have been his leeiings under oiner circuiuscanws, a ' that existed, (Cecil Avas, moreover, on . uau uu uojixu.m that in a year myaariuig winners - recent death made me demand that m terval we should be married. . . .-- ir t:t t , lw.,r. r, . ' i it i i- i .UCilUnllllc, X 13 iu iciui ll uuiiic . , ,, soon as mv iiuauu mmuiu uc tnitueiy w.n..Cu, .,. -- spend much of the time ot his proba- - tion at Hollylands, hts father s estate. to which mv dearest Frank had been agent. 1 one can think of bv hours together, but that can never more be described .'. 1 wonts , tti L The memories oX dead happinesses, I 1 4-1.. mnmnriac rT diio 1 1 T-rin(i9 uw.c..uu,. . The spring and summer and autumn is 'equal to nine women is a uioy.es-; . : . ppItA.. be renortd that passed away, no matter now to tell how. sen tial piece of toily futnrtureaud citv he had had i&t one There are passages in one s life, that the knowledge of the use of it is a iiost mm , , nc L An1ll 0.t be invoked! by the heart, but lt!Dy 1 the tongue. "There is something wful in speaking of the dead aloud. Hollvland House wns barely l&ree-" a. W I f , 1 road between them was so plafti and straight, that that after traversing it-foauv , times, Cecil learined to find his iv to me i.uhu;iiiii(;. ivs . In summer, I did not mindliii com- fng so, but as winter drew: on'jw'ith storms and wild weather, I felt nfvous about it. But lie oirly laughed. ; j 'The blind maignet finds its mfy to , the pole in all weathers,' he wout an-,to: swei r ' . , : j biro of cfcrtotfci Again, -TUe undrew wu and in Christmas week we wereffo he 'ried; Lord Smerloigh was esi' g man over purposely to he present amthe ceremony, and Cecil s -sisters torainy.Ne.rfs independent at fourteen, and nev-T bridesmaids, J ' 1 er went in debt.' The winter hail set in very storiiilv. ! : , w. . . ' and heavy rains, had swollen thh-ilV Adulteration of Drink. bridesmaids, streams into torrents, and floodelT.the Ibw lands in mar v places. - Thef aght - that ushered in Cristmas eves Has a wakinc : and T resolved that ori.- .ihol hour arrive that could, at the eariest, bring Cecil to me, I would go ;my wa.y to mcoi biml and prevent thjfpos-. sibility of his coming alone. Tome, hill-reaired and hardy, wfcii er was nothing ; and before mimfay, despite wind and! rain, I sallied tforth in the direction of Hollyland TIfe'.s About half-way between it aivi mv nnn riT r 11 a nrrrnct v-i,n between them resiled and roarevj the water, raging against the obstacle it self had formed in the mass of crum bled stone-work that encumber its bed. f 'Oh, well tjial I have come' I thought. 'Probably Cecil knowfjj not of this, and here will I take pay pan d till I see him." f. Near an hour t waited there, fediel tering myself as best I might bfaind the parapet of the bridge, still locking through the blinding rain and fo?f to wards the path by which he musR ad vance. '. jjjL At last I saw Kim, and springing up, and drawing as ntearto the edge c? the chasm as I could "with safety, I s'but ed a warning to Him. He pause . for a moment; but Iicould see that, from the roar of the water, and the ind i pi . .i e paused and listened, then, "throwing myself on my hands and knees, I cowl ed to the very vibrating verge of the gulf, heedless of lihe stones and rth that crumbled ddwn a few inohefbe fore me, and exerting all the forir. e of kmv lungs in on supreme effor.s, I brieked out once more my warring. This time he recognised mv voice-3trat oh ! to what purpose ! to shoumy me. which the wind, tha prevented t bis distinguishing; my words, ' brought mc to spring forward with outstretch; ed hands, and O Father of Merries ! to disappear amiong tlie fmmingvwa- TT , . , i n i v i i . His .iteiess nody was round Pore j night, miles below he brokeh brge i and was buried the day after that fxed. for our marriage I have often wondered that hii fa- titer and sisters did not hate me-fhat they could bear to look upon me iyteV all that I had jbebn the means, ever innocently, of bringing on But thev kneAV Avhat I felt. sow- up- . f 7 1 poco t tot rrrni t cnrTii nn liv ir cr j.trn. ; v ox-"v w,r"UIv W.L r vi n'r r i o r o.i io m iff t y 't r r r n Am . . y p : Ll " '-" l 1 " '.T '" mciu .ji- Thov litave heen very, frv 1 give good to me tjodioteg tnem : mjt-- i -iTWi. ., ii i aa'.u i...i, cia ,i wen, i ii. in iv yw, v,au ii );-t; i t- t fc.7 . us "ve or ever . r j " . . . , W r fiewine-Machiue and Piano. t 1 j d w iiiE 'ixiaviu iuu aiiu a. a. cviiu . -.a - , . j T t , .t We are very much pleased aftne j practical good sense of the pnncirglof . -r .one of our most.fashionable boarding- - : schools tor young, ladies instruction - hi i- Sk- for young ladies instruction on the sewing-macfcine being one the 1 -nrancnes rcgusariy caugni, iikwic ri.. ll"v"rv. '-""wr - upon by the c iui cji juung "unfnv t l'l..l i. t L .1 li fi is uiveiy co uecopie a wiie uuuu vrnvo - it in her power o teach the use ofothre sewincr-maehino tmher servant or s;"km- ; n x 3 :c -V. k i...i.i" fiwl u3 sui'B. CVUIl II SUV llJilil il'H "H".T la- c , , .... mv. j i , , ri j . c . ( useiut as sne ma r may uw vmu yVJ "1 VT, use ot her tamilv lo a. young te, jn a rural neighbdrho particuly, where a skillful seamstress' cannf at- - ' : , ways be had, thesewing-machme luich 5i valuable part even of a- 'fashio blc m education. Let lis add, as corr )or- . ' f . T ative of the aboep- an extract froiktbe i.t ii i jj 't t e s .lately published biography of gwiy nV 1 nnriTi XTk - 6 f. 'In a tete-a-te& conversation with Mrs. Hall, on thesubjectof some young ladies who had been suddenly bereft of fortune. Ladv Morgan said, with an educated to marry, and had there been time they might have gone off wttA- and hereafter from husbands. They camKJi yarn intir unii saumcj v not even know how to dress themselves. I desire to give every girl, no matter her rank, a trade a profession, if tho word pleases you better: cultivate what is necessarv in the position she inborn cultivate all things in moderation, jbutMf thing to perfection, no matter (what it is, for which she has a falent ; drawing, music, embroidery, house- keeping even ygiye her a staff to lay hold of. let her feel this will carry me through life without dependence. I The Parliament of Great Britain takes considerable pains to protect the public against the adulteration of food mittfw rf that hodv. and thn renort has just been made and published : ' Dr. Normandy, who was examined as to the adulterations of beer, said that the publican who sells it adulter- th-lates it with common salt to increase thirst, and with sulphate of iron, cocn lus indicus, sulphate of ammonia, and extract of gentian. Coculus indicus is used to produce intoxication ; but is more injurious than the intoxicating effects of alcohol in thfe beer. There is. a difference of fifty -per cent, of al- cohol in the beer after it comes into the publican's hands. Out of fifty samples of draught porter and stout examined, only one-third oi thmwere' tlie produce of malt and hops alone. The 'mildness,' 'bri&kness' and 'dis guised acidif y,' even of the better sam ples, might be traced to the adultera tion with roots, sugar or like saccha rine matter, liquorice, roasted quassia and stinking finings. Nicotine, alum, copperas, acetate of potash, and vine gar, are all used to flavor and color the beer. Jtfany of these substances are of a poisonous nature. They are sold usually by tbe druggists to publi cans. In gin, sub-carbonate of potash and alum are used, and also sujplvftric acid and oil of almonds, to produce Avhat is termed 'beading,' or bubbling when poured into the glass. The "fin ings' are made of fins and fisla skins, and frequently the rats get into the tubs, and arc poured out with the fin ings, in a decomposed condition, into the beer barrels. This is the stuff which Englishmen drink, and is very much like the drink which is furnished in this Country ; the latter, however, being more adulterated that even tho English article, because there is not the same care taken to expose the practice of adulteration. The physiciians of this country attribute .the difficulty they now have with mania-a-portu cases to the villainously adulterated com pounds which are now sold under one name or another as spiritous ditinks. ... ; I Poor Places to Live At. -There is a place in Maine so rocky that when the 'Down Easters plant corn, they look for crevices in the rocks, and ! shoot the grass with a musket ; they can't raise ducks there no how, for the stones are so thick that the ducks can't get their bills between them to pick up the grasshoppers, and the only way that the sheep, can get at the sprigs of grass is by grinding their noses on a grindstone. But that ain't a eircumstanice to a place on the Eastern shore ; there the land is so poor that it takes tiwo kil- deas to sav -Kiiuea: ana on aeifaraav you can see the grasshoppers, climb up a mullen stalk,. and look with bears in their eyes oer a fifty acre fiel4 ; and the bumble bees have to go down on t i. ii 'i i i j .ii a ' their krtees to get at the grass;; all the 1 rr.AjrtiiiliinG n i n . t QturroTinn o n 1 1 Tna r"1""' "KU" "" i" "" e - . tiirKev-Duzzaras nave to em terrace. j o 1 Knt tliorA ia a rnnnhr in viirmma , dch can heat that-there theiland is SA cf:iA tw Ln tb wind !J nt tb - - - - - u . northwest, they have to tie the cWd 1 northwest, they have to tie the children , t. ti i- t t it 'i nil t v 111 u 111 1 rum r . 1 1 1 1 rw i n w tti mm - mm m j - rfi Z . , Rfift 1 j i .1 , x -1 it t I 1 aim wncu cue uogs uaiK nioy uavu , , ... t CT . - that .fc tvelye of (hetatQ , , a shaJoW an when tne a i hpof thev have to-hold him un toi knock ri But, oh ! there is a region jin Jer- paith'Moae Draper where thev u , . w . . . . k V m ti m - v -v -' , I " " " v n j MM li fl v pg c' ' because it was announced ! that a iresu urauc m grass nau sprouiea m c. l. u.j. . e l l J Li. J w .t: i. I.fiL. , rm. cue simcueiii pare oi tne councy. men' ,v'. the nat ves once murdered a travel er . thesake agingerbread cake, was rumorJd fo have ia hia i , . , t pocket, and there, ' , ftf mpet- too, they turned a out of meeting, because, after a Whatever Midas touched turned in- to gold. In these days, toucb a man it t t .,, , with gold and lie will turn to any- lV,U ' ' if - X --r''-- . UU 1 LVOV. . K' Li 11 i C UVUV ' 'WW tm mm - . - Z X
Iredell Express (Statesville, N.C.)
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