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HV S. A. ATKINSON, IT THREE IMII.LARS l*hR ANNUM, srr.n'Ti-yin advance. Office, Proud st., over J. II. Huggins. KITKSOF ADTGRTISIXG. , j T ,rili •nmu will lielnvrteit at One Dollar and Kiftr C*M« |»r Square of 12 line*, (or the first, nnd 8«r<air-fire Cents for each subsequent Insertion, rsrinr tiina under one month. For a longer period lihsral contracts vlll be made. business Directory. i.amak conn. a. fi. krwin. howell conn 1 COBB. ERWIN & COBB, A ttorneys at law, Athena, Georgia. Offlce la the Dcapree betiding. D. 0. CANDLER, A TTORNEY AT LAW ■aTX. Honur, Bank* County. <ia. Will practice la «ounlU« of Rank*, Jackson, Hall, llaber- akaui and Franklin. JUSTIN W. KIDKN, A TTORNEY AT L\.»n L A W, .and Notary PuMic, Athens, Ga. Will pra«- lica in t ha Western circuit; will give particular attention to the collection of claims, and will act as agent for the purchase and sale of real estate and pay taxes on wild lands. janl.Mf J. N. MKKLTGN, C. IV. SfilDEI.L, PITTMAN & HINTON, A T T O RN E Y S A T L A W , Jefferson, Jackson county, Ga. SAMUEL P. THURMOND, A T T O R N E Y A T L A W , -s- A. Athens, Ga. Office on Broad street, over Herr, A Hon*. Store. Will give special attention to eases in Bankruptcy. Also, to the collection of atil claims entrusted to his care. J. J. A 1. C. ALKX.tMIKR. D ealers in hardware, Irou Steel, Nails, Carriage Material, Mining tnp)«m<*nu,;,ic., Whitehall st., Atltiiti. M.VAN ESTES, A TTORNEY AT LAW, -lX Homer, Dank)* County, (ia. J. K. MTLFSKKY, T O R N E Y A T L A W . CarnesTille, Franklin countv, (ia. Office aa.rl, oecujiicd by J. F. Langston, Esq. ia-'l GROVERABAKER SEWING MACHINES! ! FRONOFM KD T1IE HINT IN INK, 13Y ALL WIIO HAVE TRIED .1.3 them. These machines, with r.ll the IMPROVEMENTS AND ATTACHMENTS, 4c*7 he had, at manuftctuit r s prices, freight te-Ked, at the 11 ANN EU OFFICE. NOTICE OF CHANGE OF SCHEDULE Georgia" r aTlroa i >. A Superintendent** Office, t Georgia and Kanin .V a RaNmnd, - August.!, G JaniMrv 20, JS71. ) |.v AM) AFTKU SUNDAY, January 2.M, 1871, the l*ua*onger Trains will run as follow*.: o run a 1 >ny Piissengcr Traill, Daily, Sunday Excepted. 6 30 p. m. 5 40 p. u. Train. 8 30 p. m. ... 10 15 p. m. Irsre Augusta a Leave Atlantan! Artive at Atlanta at. Arrive al Augusta at Night l\menrj( Leave Augusta at. .’... Leave Atlanta at Arrive at Atlania at Arrive at Augu-daal 7 30 a. in. Herzrlia Passenger Train. Leave Augusta at ...4 15 p. in. Leave Be riel ia at 7 3ft a. ni. Arrive at Augusta 1) 25a. m. Arrive at Bcrzclia ~.6 00n. m. Doth Day and Night Passenger Trains will make ■rloae connections at Augusta and Atlanta witli Vassenger Trains of connecting r aids. Passengers from Atlanta, Athens, Washington, and stations on Georgia Hail road, hv taking the Down Day Passenger Train will make close connec tion at Camik with the M icon Passenger Train, and roach Mac n the same Gay at 7 4ft p. m Palace Sleeping (’arsonall Night Trains. Schedule on Macon & Augusta Railroad. To title Effect Jan. i'.i. 1871. lift ween Augusta anti Mar on—Day Pas senger Train Daily, Sunday Excepted. 1-rave Augusta at ...12 ftOnoon. Lear# Macon at •’» 0»a. m. Arrive at Macon at. 7 4‘> p. m. Arrive at A:*gu«ta at 1 45 p. m. The day Passenger Train arriving at Macon at 7 40 p. m., makes close connections witn Trait.s of connecting Hoads at Macon. Passengers leaving Macon at f» n. m., will make clove con motions at (’.tmak with Ui> Dav Passenger Train for Atlanta, Athens, Washington, nnd all points on <ie.>r*i't R ii’rutd. and . • ntn At lanta with S. K. JOHNSON, SnpL Send your Old Furniture to WOOD’S REPAIR SHOP, Next to theEpiscojral Church,and have it way 132 m MADE titlOD AS NEW. Carriage, Buggy & Wagon tl ITFIUAL. A LARGE LOT direct from the manufactory, and will \mj sold ns low ns can be bought anywhere in the State, freight added. __ SUMMEY & NEWTON. Good Blacking Brushes, AT $1 50 PER DOZEN. AT TUB NEW DRUG STORE. E. S. ENGLAND & CO., ^JUE NOW RECEIVING THEIR NEW* FALL STOCK! .^elected with care by one of the firm, in New 5 «>rk, to which they invite the attention of their customers aud thep’ublic. They have a good assort ment of STAPLE&FANCI D0Y8GCDS ,iu »iiiHlli», HIKIMI IRR. IKIHKIillV, IIATM. CAPM, It WOT <4, Auil in ... . , Mil OK., _ • r ' rr ) dung in the way of family andPlanlata Supplies, SHARP & FLOYD, Successors to George Sharp, Jr., -AND A t.lanta, Ga. W E OFFER a large variety of FINE WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY, SILVER WARE, SPECTACLES, FANCY GOODS, FINE BRONZES, AND STATUARY. WE HAVE A FULL CORPS OF WbUw&S jtgWYKB ManuCacturemany Fine Goods ImSJtHZ? ’ ,h ' ,p ’. ond * ro p™pa««l tu F1M, (\v 0IilX.lt' for k<km.« or work promptly. »«-All Roods enxraved free uf rh'argr. n c make a specialty or PREMIUMS FOR EAIRSI to Kive ■"'? information on a,, plication. \\ «» guarantee the 1 LA RGEST ASSORTEM N T the FINEST GOODS THE LOWEST PRICKS," AN DTHE BEST WORK. Call and see us. SH ARP & FLOYD, Whitehall Street, Atlanta. May 25-1 y A Loan from The Dead. T*T ( VVER 100 PAGES—printed in two V-3.colors, on superb Tinted Paper. Four Hun- dred Kinrwuti n *.r rlo irrs i’l and Vegetables —with descriptions, and Two Colored Plates. Directions and plans for nuking Walks, Lawns, Gardens, Ac. The handsomest and Best Floral Guide in the world—all for TEN CENTS, to tnose who think of buying seeds—Not a quarter the coat. 220,00ft sold for 1871. Address dec l-5t JAMES VifS. Rochester, X.Y. NORTH sir GRAND- jt ^ ORGIA othei' ompartments of the carriage I notice were lighted, but this one was dark ; frat didn’t affect me. I didn’t good many years ago, the regi- " ant ' * read, .s i took EXHIBITION!! FOR THE Fanners, Mechanics and Houseicivet of l cer> * " ,e cos f of much subsequent \ Al./Ji Y* .rt . I I 1 tV * 1 llll (I* (fO tk ik ., J ment to which I then belonged was wax quartered at Aldershot. After a long absence from England, spent on a parching rock In the middle of the Red sea, bleak and dreary Aldershot seem ed a very paradise. It was delightful ly near London, too; leave was easily to be obtained, and a great part of my spare time, and more than all my spare money, was spent by me in the me tropolis—spent, I am sorry to say, in riotous living and much disorder Still, had it only been that, I shoql possibly, like many of rny brother a box of es and proceeded to light a pa«n, and weariness, and pinching, j have passed through my cycle of dissi pation, and settled down at last; but, ; i» addition to my youthful aberrations, plaresufluuimportance,! tatve determined to bare ] I had a fatal predilection for games of North-East Georgia. Open a. eery Otty / f|JHK SE ASON for Fairs is at hand anti being u: JL willing that Athens should he Behind other A C iiimcrcial Exposition, .It My Old Stand, No. 7, Broad St. To make the display attractive, I have visited the Northern markets, and brought out many ST O VKX.TZS! 8 T Embracing a very handsome display in seasonable Jay 0. GAILEY, J-XVITES ATTENTION TO II1S i* t«i« FALL STD OK WS V* be L. V, SySy tAJ 8J5 ta E 10 „ CHIMNEYS AND PURE KEROSENE OIL I Call and examine hfo stock betore purchtsin" sejit 15-tf. 1 * *“ \v v . wood; DEALER IX ALL KINDS OF furniture. LT<URXITURi: IlEUAIRliD, IT- -I- bulMornl nil.) - .riiinlu.il, „l,o :i Urjje variotv iu wood cutting and t isk’s Meialie Burial lanes always on hand. \Xar. r.Kiins on Clayton .'t.. next to Eidumiial Chnrch - Sep96m. WILLIAM WOOD. CA SSfLZ, 2 A JJAJl.S, designe Pt, f ooi Ingravcr and Printer, S. W. Corner Fovrtii and Walni t Strelts Cincinnati, Ohio. I.ork Box 226, Sixty.Fire Kind frizi' Jtidain Awarded l TIIK GREAT Snutlierii I’iano MANUFACTORY. skill and chance, I was the best whist player in the regiment, a id could hold my owu with the crack players of the clubs ; and bad I stuck to whist, which, in my belief, never ruined any man who had a head upon bis shoulders, I could have made a decent income out of my skill; but An unusual assortment of j my moderate winnings at whist were is ® G IB Esl9 | swallowed up, and much more lost be- vrrio/y a r "oioAfoD'" 1 and an une ' luclK ' 1 1 sit,c . a t unlimited loo, blind hookey, Pm* TTn mP -mt l T- irrn ’ hazard, and other kindred games. To A. D1 XL03JIG mm 1 ill D1; j crown a ll, I took to backing horses, In fact,ii,e i-tabii,iu-rcof ,re known «•>.., an d lost at that, I need hardly say.— A long run of evil luck beset me; I o j had lost all my available funds, bad j mortgaged my commission to the ut- j most penny I could raise upon it, and : found myself, at the end of the Epsom ! week, fevered and parched in body ; in I soul wretched and despairing. I had come to the'end of my tether; I was i * Pliinti'r’fiStore,” ome the f; complete J be its U rite be ubjunrters for farm suji- 1 ck .•'.n l fair dealing can make •of this Grand Exhibits GLASSW'A RE, ihca-i of anything siitut well worth the a»tent ^ v~y ill alw he a n ofllouv oiuplete ?am:ly groceries Keepers. | s.-ortinent of \ t 1 ♦; I reguia ! PR 6r.i'lt-, mi ! »!-••!• Miiiply of 15000 FI. ’ al'.oiition |. H it, MliAK, !Yr the a: *lat WM. KNABE & GO., m a n r r a n r it k rs n r IJHAAD.NQl AltF t lMtlGIIT Piano Fortes. Itzalf imorc, tlnr) land. r JHIESE INSTRUMENTS hav »nof bttil L»r.- a large supply o 12.-. an lass; c: may always be fount]. As all these attractive and useful goods are to be sold at my old customers and the public: utnl examine them. If they have the iligliest Market Price will alw unytliing to s vs"lie paid foi J. II. HUGGINS, sept 15 .SLii of *• Planter’s Store,” Athens. THE SOUTH, A WEEKLY EIGHT PAGE PAPER, Published in the City of New York, run s:i a yk a it. TARDREW & C’o!,21 PARK ROW. Drvoted to tiic material interests ofthc S*«uthern States, an l lairing u.r the develope i ent of all the wonderful rc*»*urces Lv eueoura^ing immigra tion and giving full aud reliable information con cerning every part of t lie South. The 'outft a* met the cordial approval and sup port of the Southern State Governments, Immigra tion Bureaus, A ricultural Seeielies, and leading eitirons g nerallv. 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Send for a copy, erms—*2 per annum. Address Norman J. Col- aa, Publisher, St. Louis. Mo dee 20It Lamps ami LampFixtures, ’ regularly done up; life had nothing hut evil in store for me. On the fol lowing week I should l>c posted as a de faulter on the turf; I should leave the army in disgrace, and such tidings would kill my old widowed, mother. It was Sunday night; I had been to London, trying to raise money, but uselessly ; the Jews closed their fists to me. I only wanted a hundred pounds to pay my Derby losses; this achieved, 1 could sell out and retire without open disgrace ; but I couldn’t raise it. One man offered me fifty {rounds for mv hill of two hundred and fifty {rounds at three months, but I wasn’t quite so mad as to take that; I might as well smash for a hundred as fifty. My last sovereign was changed in paying nrv hotel bill on that Sunday night. I had a return ticket to Alder- shott in my pocket, and a few shillings besides ; nothing else in the world in the way of available assets. I think if I had been possessed of a five-pound note I should have gone down to Liv erpool, nnd taken a steerage passage to America. It was the limited extent of my means which made me resolve to go back to quarters at Aldershott, and appear on parade the next day. The clock in the coffee-room where I was sitting showed half pastil as the hour of the night; the waiter only was in the room arranging his spoons and napkins in the buffet, yawning surreptitiously every now and then, quite indiflerent to the problems which were agitating me—Waterloo bridge or Aldershott? I must make up my mind quickly; another five minutes and it would be too late for the one ; the other was open. “ Waiter, a handsom!’’ I shouted till of a sudden, in a tone which made the man jump. At that time there was a train which left—not Waterloo, but some station a little distance down the line; it might have been Vauxhall, or possibly Nine Elms, I scarcely remember which— the station at midnight. It. was pop ularly known among us as the cold- meat train. Its passengers were dead bodies for the Working cemetery.— The railway company, ever solicitous to accomodate the public and turn an honest penny, had, for the convenience of the camp, affixed to this train one first-class carriage. After leaving the dead bodies at Working, the carriage was run on to Famborpugh, whence you could walk to the camp, if you had not been prudent enough to order a fly to meet you. The hotel servant who ushered me to the cab got a handsome gratuity for his pains. It was my leave-taking of the world of pleasure, and I was too To make it es^et tally valuable t" every business man and linii>.di.ff<l iu the South vve have dcjmrt- nwMitseach week, civins* full reviews of tlie markets and qu'ntlons of stocks and produce, and also mat ters (>| i:.iciest to every housekeeper. Every S ut'iern m in should give it his support. Every other nnti that wants to know anything about the South would find it worth the suhscrii*- tion prh e. It is an unsurpassed medium for advertising all description* of Southern proper! v for sale or ex- change. or for inviting labor or capital iu any de- J. 0. HARD1E. Dealer in Groceries iV Provisions, College Avenue, Athens, Ga. r PHE BEST SUGAR, COFFEE, 1. Lard, Soda, Flour, Meal, Pickles, Oysters, Nuts, Oranges, Apples, Crackers, Cheese, Ac., r.l- wavs on hand. Al-o fresh couutry Bu*ter. Eggs, Potatoes, Ac. jan 1 Dn BLACKSMITH1NG. Attention, the Whole! 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Address MUNN & CO., Publishers of the Scientific American 37 Park Bov, Nkw York. rpHE UNDERSIGNED still con- _1_ tinu r * the above business at his old stand, the BRICK SHOP, on Prince Avenue, where all danse* of work in his liuc will be faithlully cxeeu- j Particular ait tition given to horsr-shoaiag. Tkosc in want of tue genuine HiSSPrfiU PLOW, wliich is now po popular, will do well to call and liuv from the old mtp liiatself* His superior ssai xaea/ jss-g a*ss will also be kept on hand. Thankful for past patronage, he respectfully ao- Udu • C0U,inu * uc \V. , S. S HEMPHILL. dec 29 tf Public Laws, 1871. T3UBLIC LAWS passed by the I General Assembly of the State of Georgia, at the session of 1871. With an Appendix, cou- SSNj ^.’VURKFS BOOKSTORE. !! insolvent to ho careful about little mat ter.!. The tab sped tno quickly to the station ; but the clock at the hotel had been slow; as we passed under the rail way arch a premonitory shriek from the engine overhead warned me that the train was ou the point of starting. I stopped the cab at the bridge, and ran quickly up a narrow flight of steps which led directly’ on to the end of the platform—known only to the initiated; the train was moving on, bat I had just time, despite warning shouts of guard and porters, to open the door of the last carriage and jump in. The glow of the match lit up the if the carriage. 1 saw in the corv mg, dark object, quite black, jiwith some little metalic gleam It was a coffiD, reared up at ier side of the carriage; a ing placed behind it, against which it leaned. As I looked stead fastly at the coffin it appeared sudden ly* to glow with a faint radiance. Ev- nat^nd very plate upon it gleam rrrtffsu<-^ < ', mysterious Bah! it was the moon. Wehadj the clouds of London behind us, and the great, round moon, rising out of river mists, cast her glorious beams right athwart us, but I turned away from her in disgust. What was the beauty of the night to me—a ruined spendthrift—the scorn and laughing stock of the world ! The biack’coffin on the other side was a more congenial companion to me. I lit another match, and read the inscription on the plate: “William Hiathcote, died 25th Slay, 18—, aged 25 veais.” The hair on my head rose in a mass; my heart ceased to beat. My own name, my own age, and the very date of the day tluit was now just born ! It chimed in, too, did this inscrip tion, so mysteriously with that impulse I had felt the whole day—a turning to self-destruction, as a means of escape from all the degradations of life. I would accept the omen. I carried with me—a practice I had acquired in the east—a small American revolver, which fittied into my waistcoat pocket. It would kill at twenty paces, aud would give me my mittimus easily enough. I drew it out, ..n.l placed it against my forehead; then it struck me that the hall, after passing through my head, might pass also through the partition dividing the compartment, and strike some one in the next car riage. I turned, therefore, my hack to the window, and again placed the muzzle of the pistol to my forehead. Again I withdrew it. There was no burry. The train did not stop till it reached Working. I could not possi bly be disturbed. I wanted a signal; the whistle of the engine, as the driver sighted the red lamps of Woking, should he the signal of my departure from the world. “ Yes,” I said aloud, turning upon myself, as it were, in a sort of frenzy ; “ yes! the moment the whistle sounds, William Heathcote, you shall die.” I have said that the rising moon was shining brightly into the carriage, full upon the coffin, and ujmn its mys terious inscription. I don’t think I re ally believed that this coffin had any tangible existence. It might be but the product of my own fevered brain, hut none the less on that account was it a veritable warning of tnv doom. Looking up, however, to see if it had indeed disappeared, I saw no longer the coffin-lid, but a white shrouded fig ure, a pallid, corpse-like face, the eyes of which, in the moonbeams, shone upon me with a sepulchral gleam. For the moment I thought that I had indeed passed into the land of shadows; that I was a disembodied spirit, looking upon my own mortal remains; and the thought that I had ceased to be an individuality, and had become the mere shadow of a thought, strueksuchachillof terrorand horror to my soul, that every other impulse of it was lost in an eager effort to resume my individual existence. I came to myself with a deep gasp, digging my finger nails into tny palms. Ah, the joy of that momeut, after the torture of the struggle back to life!— Life, rugged, miserable it might be, but stDl dear life, how precious it scent ed; how unfathomably deep, below the utmost wretchedness of being, was the dread abyss of non-existence!— Shadows! I defied them. “ Come forth, old mole!” I shouted to my double in the coffin. He came forth. As I live, he stepped out of the coffin, seated himself opposite to me, and laid a finger on my arm—laid a finger on my arm, end leaned for ward to speak into my ear, “ Mercy, mercy 1” shrieked the fig ure iu a voice that pierced the roar of the train, then thundering over a bridge. See!” cried the figure, slip ping a {taper into my hands; “ keep it, keep it; only don’t betray me.” Whew-w went the whistle of the en gine, shrieking, as it seemed, close into my car. I turned my head for a mo ment ; the moon had just passed into a cloud; the figure had vanished ; the coffin still stood in the corner, dark and grim. The train slackened, stop ped. “Jem,” said a voice—that of the guard—“ there’s a body in that middle first-class coach ; there’s some parties coming to meet it with au ’earse.” “All right, Jack,” said another voiee; “ they’ve come to fetch him.-r- Bear a hand here, will .you ? Oh^ Lord ! ’ shouted the man, as he saiv me sitting in the corner, “Oh, I beg f or( {. your pardon, sir. I hope you am’t been annoyed, sir? Jack, what did you mean by putting the gent into this compartment ?” “I didn’t,” growled Jack; “he must a got in by hisself.” “ All right,” I said, getting out and stretching myself on the platform. I’ll get into the next carriage. No bodies there, are there ?” “ D’ye call me nobody ?” said Pat Reilly, looking out of the window’.— “Jump in, Billy, me tfhoy! IVe cleared out the rest of the ye’ll introduce a little fresh i the concern.” What a contrast to the scene I had quitted was the cheerful lighted car- riage, with its occupants, all brother officers of mine, smoking, chaffing, and playing loo on a rug stretched over their knees! Surely the whole of the previous scene had been a dream, or could it have been au incipient attack of D. 'I.? not brought on by drink, in deed, for I was not given to that, hut by irregular habits and stress of mind. It wasn’t till I had reached my own hut at Aldershott that I thought of the had been paid over again by the par- ishonors he had defrauded. So I found oiit the old man at Bod- He was living with a daughter, in abject poverty, and I repaid to him the hundred pounds with compound interest. To him I seemed a celestial visitant. The cold meat train is now a thing of the past, I believe. A luggage train carries belated officers back to camp; but, to this day, I confess that I always prefer to pass Woking in broad day light, and that I carfeully look inside the carriage before I enter it, for I desire no more loans from tbo dead. Short sewedahoesw- Seventeen summers’ speeding storms, “ Speak! Sophiu, spenk! stt spense speculates sorrow.” "Seek -ire, Pnm, seek sire." So Sam sought s’re Sprigg.s Spriggs said “ sartain.” Our Juvenile “ HAnfc-Ton.” The suggestions contained in the subjoined article, which we clip front tho columns of our worthy contempo rary the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Daily Times, should be pondered by parents, guar dians, t.ml instructors whether in tfur pulpit or the school-room. We trust that the press of the country will take up the thought, and send it into eve “nook the conic) ’(fai.dlrn I.’'—[“Ed, ‘•““We find. One of the New York. , a descrij tion ■ itiormn chil js party lu.- v spreading sunshine successively, saw ^ ^ tl,fi tl,at , . , heard of sueh reunions before from eye-witnesses of some very sad exhibi tions of the kind, we should at (mo- have pronounced to be a gross exag- Shoes sewetk soled j f ™ t!o, \ a,,d » "™1 "*P~- superfiuelv. ” Simou’s.sprv, sedulous ' toUe . ^ The hour * spouse, Sallyport, sewed shirts, stitch- j ? P °"' t<Hl J-W.Ie oree we.c trom 8 to 11 i\ m. f i Iip guests nun- Simon’s small shabby shop still stand ing staunch, saw Simon’s self-same sign still swinging, silently specifying : “ Simon Short, Smithficld’s sole sur viving shoemaker. paper which the ghost had given mo, aud which, in my delirium, I had iru- agined I had thrust into my -waistcoat pocket. Here was a test at all events; if there was a real paper, bearing signs of its ghostly origin, then I was still sane, and the apparition I had witnes sed was not a delusion oftlie brain. In the comor of my waistcoat pocket was a crumpled piece of flimsy paper ; I unfolded it, and found it a Bank of England note for a hundred pounds. From that hour I was an altered man. I paid ntv gambling debts; confessed all tny embarrassments to my friends, who lifted me out of the mire; never touched a card or a die ; studied fir the staff college; passed a good examination ; went to Sand hurst, came out with high honors, and, having a little influcucc at headquart ers, got to appointment us commis sioner, watched the operations of tho American war of secession, on Gen. ’s staff. It was at the close of a bloody but decisive battle, or series of battles, which resulted in the retreat of the South, that I visited the field-hospitals at the rear of the Federal army in search ofa friend who had been wound ed during the day. The doctors and attendants were all too busy to pay any attention to my wants, and 1 walk ed down the long rows of hastily-im provised couches, trying to recognize my friend. Scraps of paper* on which the names of the patients had been hastily scrawl ed, were pinned to the coverings, and I started as I read on one “ William Heathcote”—my own name. The mail appeared to be sinking front exhaust ion, but he brighteneo up when he heard the tones of a friendly voice. I knelt down beside him, and asked if I could do anything for him. He nodded his head. “ You’re En glish” lie whispered. “ Yes, I am.” “So am I. If you should be in the neighborhood of Bedford, and should be able to hear of an old man of the name of Heatchcote, a retired draper, will you tell him his son died in a cred itable way ? I was a disagracc to him, sir, when I was alive; but when I am dead perhaps he will think kindly of me again. I’ll tell you my story, sir. I was a rogue—I was, sir. I was an undertaker, but I was a collector of taxes, too; and I entered into a con spiracy to defrund thegovernment. It came out; but I had warning in time. I shammed dead, and got away in one of my own coffins with all the swag. They wasn’t very keen after me; I dont’t know why; but just at the last moment I thought they’d have me.— A detective followed nte right to Wok ing ; but I squared him with a hun dred pounds note, and got clear away to America by tho Southampton packet. It never pros{)ored me. that money; and I got lower, till I ’listed as a sol dier ; and here I am ! I’m getting tired, sir. Don’t forget Bedford—Heathcote, retired draper.” I passed on in wonder and astonish ment ; and, if I must confess, a little disappointment and disenchanted. I was no special cure, then, of an overuling Providence, as I had fondly deemed myself. My wonderful warning and deliverance was a mere affair of chance and accident. As I passed the man’s couch again he lay ou it stiff, aud stark, and dead. On my return to Englnad, I made in quiry of the officials of the revenue de partment, and found that there really had beeu a fraud of tho kind iu ques tion ; that the collector implicated in it had died suddenly—by suicide, it was thought As to the defalcations, the defaulters sureties had paid a part— one of them, his father, having been sold up in consequence—and the rest ed sheets, stuifed sofas, sturdy sons—Seth, Samuel, Saul, Shadrack, Silas—sold sundries. Sober Seth sold sugar starch, spice ; simple Sam sold saddles, stirrups, screws; sagacious Stephen sold silks, satins, shawls; skeptical Saul sold silver, salvers,silver spoons; selfish Shadrack sold shoestrings, soaps, saws, Simon’s six ., , Stephen' j ,>erei about one hundrod - The young ’ : hostess of the occasion was a miss who counted some ten summers, but who, the reporter tells ns, displayed as much ease and self-png. c-sinn in receiv ing her guests as any matron could as sume. As for tho dresses, the display was perfectly stunning. Silks ofev- sksites ; slack Silas sold' Sally Short’s hue shimmered in the gas-light- stuffed sofas. Some seven summers since, Simon’s second son, Samuel, saw Sophia So- phrouia Spriggs somewhere. Sweet, sensible, smart, Sophia Sophronia Spriggs. Sam soon showed strange symptoms. Sam seldom stayed stor ing saddles. Sam sighed sorrowfully, sought Sophia Sophrenia’s society, sung serenades silly. Simon stormed, scolded severely, said Sain seemed so silly singing such shameful senseless songs. “StrangeSam should slight such spleudid summer sales!” said Simon. “ Strutting spendthrift, settuer- edbraiued simpleton ?” “ Softly, softly, sire,” said Sally.— Sam’s smittem ; Sams’s spied sweet heart. ” “ Sentimental school-boy !” snarled Simon. “Smitten! Stop such stuff!” Simon sent Sally’s snuff-box spinn ing. seizing Sally’s scissors, smashed Sally’s spectacles, scattering several spools. “ Sneaking scoundrel! Sum’s shocking stillness shall surcease!” Scowling, Simon stopped speaking, starting swiftly shopward. Sally sigh, ed sadly. Sum atoning Sain, she spoke sweet sympathy. “ Sam,” said she, “ sire seetn’s .singu larly snappy ; so, sonny, stop strolling sttcats smoking segars, spending specie super flously, stop sprucingso, stop sink ing serenades, stop short! Sell saddles, sonny; sell saddles sensibly; see So phia Sophronia Spriggs soon; she’s sprigntly, she’s staple, so solicit, sure ; secure Sophia spced’Jy, Sam.” “ So soon, so soon ?” said Sam, stand ing stock still. “ So soon !” said Sally, smiling; “ specially, since she shows such spirit.” So Sam, somewhat scared, saunter ing slowly, shaking stupendously, sol iloquizes : “Sophia Sophronia Spriggs, Short —Sophia .Sophriona Short, Samuel Short’s spouse—sounds spleudid ! Sup pose she should say—she shunt.” Soon Sam spied Sophia starching shirts, singing softly ; seeing Sam, she stopped starching; saluted Sam smil ingly. Sam stammered shockingly. “ Spl-spl-splendid summer season, Sophia.” “ Somewhat sultry,” suggested So phia. “ Sirt-sartain Sophia,” said Sam; (silence seventeen seconds.) “ Selling saddles still Sam ?” “ Sur-sar-sartain,” said Sant, start ing suddenly, “ season’s somewhat so porific,” said Sam, stealthly stanching steaming sweat, shaking sensibly Sartain,” said Sophia, smiling significantly, “ sip some sweet sherbet Sam,” (silence sixty seconds.) “ Sire shot sixty sheldrakes, Satur day,” said Sophia. “ Sixty ? sho!” said Sam, (silence seventy seconds.) “ See sister Susan’s sunflowers,” said Sophia sociably scattering 6uch stiff silence. Sophia’s sprightly, sauciness stimu lated Sant strangely, so Sant suddenly spoke sentimentally “ Sophia, Susan’s sunflowers seems saying; “Samuel Short, Sophia Sophronia Sprigg, stroll serenely, seek some sequestered spotj some sylvan shade; sparkling spring shall sing soul-soothing strains; sweet songsters shall silence secret sighing, superangelic sylphs shall—” Sophia snickered, so Sam stopped. “ Sophia,” said Sam, solemely. “ Sam,” said Sophia. “ Sophia, stop smiling. Sam Short’s sincere. Sam’s seeking some sweet spouse, Sophia.” Hair was seen in every style of fasion- able arrangement—frizzed, puffed, powdered, and adorned with flowers.— Enamel was wanting, but powder, pri*- fusely used, did duty for it. Nor was there any iacktif jewelry. We quote : “ One little gitT about ten years of age, in addition to the powdered hair and the dazzling costume she sported,, wore a pai* of diamond ear-rings, a gold chain, and a locket studded with diamonds. Upon each arm was a bracelet of elaborate workmanship, which she held up for display, exclaim ing, as she did so, to her admirers .* ■ “ There’s no sham about these: tliev’re the real thing”—which her auditors were quite willing to believe. Another little girl of seven summers was array ed in a rose-colored silk, $7 jx-r yard point applique flowers, n galaxv of diamonds, and otiier expens"jewel ry ; a gold belt, the buckle of which was studded with diamonds; a gold band encircled the head, and front a pendant on the forehead sparkled a sol- itair of great value. Her mother was heard to exclaim exultingly that the price of lie*- child’s outfit for that even ing was $5,000.” “ Music, dancing and charades oc cupied the evening; tne supper was nlf that the greatest epicure could desire; and at midnight the party broke up. all the little fashionables being, of course, ‘highly delighted’ with the par ty. How the little hostess felt, our chronicler fails to tell. “ It is not pos-ible to conceive of a sadder sight than is presented in a dis play like this. The affair lias its gro tesque features—intensely grotesque; but in every well-regulated mind the- sentiment which it is most powerfully calculated to awaken is one of n mourn ful cast. Parties of the kind here de scribed are a positive cruelty to the poorchildren. Nature pr.'te-ta against them as an outrage; society should brand them as a nuisance. What tua these little ones, when they do hap]>cii to pass the terrible ordeal so its to ar rive at manhood and womanhood, lie expected to come to after such a train ing i \\ hat sort of men aud women can we look for from these bc-powder* ed and bo-diamonded Ma ionettes in silks, and lilliputiau Dundrearys?— Everybody, except the foolish parents who, to gratify their own aheurd vani ty a* much ns anything else, bedeck these urchins as a sacrifice to the mod ern Moloch, knows what it will end in ! We go in for u reform that shall aim at breaking up juvenile dissipation, aud restoring the good old orthodox doctrine - f ‘ early' to l»ed aud early to rise in the case of the tender-aged folks. “ When we think of these things, is it longer any* wonder that modern so ciety produces Josic Mansfields and Jim Fisks A lady in Paris recently gave a con cert at her house. “ Do you'like Ros sini? said she to one of her male guests. “ Rossini—indeed I do; he is my favorite composer." “ Are vou familiar with his “Barber,” (ofSev- ille)? “ Oh, dear, no,” was the reply; “ I always shave myself.” A lad arrested for theft, when Liken before tho magistrate and asked what his occupation was, frankly answered: Stealing/’ “ \ our candor astonishes me,” said the judge. “ I thought it would,” replied the lad, “ seeing how many big ones there are in the same business as is ashamed to own it.” Oil and truth will get uppermost at the last.