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in W. S. .JONES. I ,iit>> >lO.l, &, BLt\ Tift EL. TERMS, &o I HE WEEKLY * Published crerj HUliif-iday, AT TWO DOLLARS PER A-uTTUX m advance k not i*aid within three months Thkek Dui.uk> M ill. > ritiaMy, be frbarjfc'l. I'O CLUBS or INOi . iDCAL« sending us Tei Dollar*. SIX copiee f .ne paper trjL' be sent ferone year, Unix fumie. i r the paper u the rate of six utpies ran ten dollars, or a fr< e op* to ell who may pro,-ure u* El»« mb . a*'ti forward u> tile money IV Tbepa .~r w ; n „ p J.or-e p,. -out at ti:.x rate UtilieSi Ibi Tn 0 „, LA „, la p ßl d«frbWy ,n advanee. Nor will par.. .i. Club be .. reived. Tk- *kaU .« »’«’ T'TB CHROniCLB & SENTIWIcjI, OAJI.Y AND Tttl-WEKKLY, Are a..., pub u hed at thi- fio.t-, and mailed to eoi «aril.eu at the iVllowtog rat**, namely: Daily -PAI-LK, it «~nt by nwl, S«w Dom.ab. t a..n !.■ , m i,.i vaii. e an'l Eioht llolUM it Mbyro. ut be delayed tH.ee MoSTlts. Till VVELitLY PAPER Ko'Jfc Doulab* in *d v . Hud b ivk Ouu.*ki if payment be delayed THKIiC MoNT iff). Term* of A overt fate*. The. Weekl*.—lv venty-five c'-nta per «quar» TBS 1857! .>Ol TJIKIi.V CtLTIVATOR, * tOVIHI.V J4M UNAL, v .tku to the iii'ih.vtmKf or ijr, -V H"T'„ •liun. Stock BrrMtlng, hr, /<■■> lirr'riu farm gr.mimy, Are. 1 ua.rated w.’h Numerous Elegant Engraving* „St ibJI.I.AK A >*..\K IN ADVANCE, j, ,!.;]. 1,1.1. j> AM, u REDMOND Enl I OKA f.., if o OII th Voluitin will ooinmence in January, 1857. ; .ir.CfMivATr. a .;,r’7rr,rr«M.ufthlrty-twop«vee, /. ' , Z ‘,o'um.ul !£?*,.* t'.atn. !U than toy ‘/Ctrl 1,1 v A I’.CA ItLB Vi'kiu'in'ab^CONTKlHU i IONS f~V'. H r -■ O me - '..ry ■ etiun of the South TERMS: Os* Oort, i -nr 81 j v!sCon£6,l year #»> "iXV:'.': ranii'wlll he . - -yahlmred t«. and In . , «...W.II u,paper he », i,t m !<•»* die money ac ll,e order Tt.l Bit... . ell specie-paying i }l . ~a;. AM nun icy rcini; ,f, 4 by uia.il, ,ft «t*KiVp,r,.i Will »►*• »» ttif r.-i. the C-Uhsbern Advertisement? i r r :: ’r.V' ,'!:!£!■' v. > dollar; V , 1 \y VI A. JOVIS, AuKlletn, fill. *,*f * w,|| i,ef,„ ..-I with the paper el Club raub ntootifil D cOA D £ MY , F<r* mill n i‘ft of li" UHirer tily of Virginia. s. I ROY BROCK A M > P r lnelD*la \y ...n, oi (HIHY TI.ItLLS, jvtine.ipaie. |>lf r \ nl S!i?»SlON of tUm Academy, form . • tliod iti f ' i Mr. P. 11. UOMDLOU.wIII outbid l-» oJ i;i' iI- M i i,< i . t i.i-itiuiiou include* the langlish Lan /' . .Lfiftiid L ’-raiun- Aud all ilio elementary Mubjects ii. !o. Kiio.' tb.-. <•! * * iI.H Ancient Itai.Kua.cn ; ILo .Modern I** ll u-iln . tiorman. Freneb, bpauiah, Italian nt ii u.t ,ii , i nits Anglo Saxon form ; anil tho pure a.dl uiix<- tnihr ; .utic ', including Civil Engineering. Iv'ciiirct* wi i 1-0(1 i. eredonthe subjecU of Oherula- Uy, Natural. Pl.iio »pb> aud Astronomy. ‘j i;** course Yvilt be iiign'd to lu insli a thorough pre- I.urauou f.ii the University of Virginia. 'I |,„ vrill con’u. two ternia of five monthu . I.xpenses for each terra, for board *nd tuition In all the departtortitfl, including everything except llghta, $125, 1 j ,i ni'n<!;u» com. nuig more particular Information ad ir i «;i*!-*-r of the principals, at Ci.arlotte>ivUle,Va HKFKRfcNCKt The Faculty of the University of Virginia Prof A l> Hache. HuperiiiteiHlent United .State* Coast U, hi i j Maury, Supr-ilnttucb-nt National Obaer- V< ‘lin'Kxc.-ilcu’.-v Henry A. W Kichmond, Vft col JclTcf .on Itandolph. C . csville, Va. 11* J hn'bii Ilarimur, E q , Va. J Ha i ,ili Tucker, fix* W inchester, Va. lion J. M. Mason, United statoa Senate. ii lilt ’ { , ,a I ?5 V' , ‘ ilti Henry Hull, Kaq., A then Ga i » > .r.inte. s ( P.iilege. Columbia. Je2-W^tu DHOPSY CURED. fplir edi.'-da i(*d pros. •cs to cure D ot»*y of every I .1 .-ip*.on He iia. ben UOA .ful in the treat m-lit oft) .« d.Hca (forth rtv y«n.s He ran bo ««en , is, „,:,y rt.ei.t . ■ south of Union Point, or audreKßcd by icilor io that ■ til- o The inedicmo can be sent aoy wlier.-i-y li abroad, with direct ;ona for taking it- or I will att i'd porx,,.idly, if requested, and paid lor my tiouluc 1 will buy Nogroi s afflicted with Dropsy, or eur. tie an the owner may prefer. I have never Lr v„ a.ro. . return when cured by u.y remedy, batn.laotory referenuea given, If desired MILES (I BHOOMB. IToi.-nP • n*, fin . lolv « ILAWTATION FOR SALE. *|' lIT. fote rt-biueue’e of Autieraon Ingram, in Wilkin -1 lua comity, containing Three Thousand A* r* «. tho part mi«ov feie-r. ami about one half cleared ih« above pltt <• Iri about o.' mil- from Macon. 17 from Iro stem, and SU from tho Central Railroad. It is woli wat I.‘d HQ I timbered . has a good Dwelling, Negro H uses, tirl ;t Mill, tUu House and all necessary out buddings For fitrtherpariii ulars, address or call on the •übt • ‘.her at Otithbeit, Raudoinh county, Ga. iylHe-.-m WILLIAM INGRAM. NOTICE THIS. SI’IIJ an acrlber. having detei oined to move Wont, ft offers f*.i s-i.e on -of the most desirable PA»MS In Southwestern Oeergla. teutmuingthree lots or squares. - mi. ,i tx nr lea north ■» Oglethorpe, in Macon county, n< »1 a licntihy as any !■ ration in Georgia. There are fic.n hundred and thirty acres of cleared 1 .and—33o acre n cl. m-i-i w ith n the last tom ycais—ail ot a Uglit gray < ,».• i adapted to the production ot cotton All of tho land! as level as could be desired; well watered, a d g. (w\ * nier. wuh all lmprovementa necetaary lei a rtr- 1 rate I arm—Gin House, Gin, Gear and Screw, ail of the ho t materials, aud aa well ». » do and aj iaugod uu ran tie Stock, Farming Utensil*, aud provision* enough for the place, w dl be furnished t . the purehn er, if desired, .it fa r price*. A cash purchaser can get a great bargain. All es the above named arti les and place will be offeiod on lib* r»i tonus, and if not sold before tho tint Tuesday In November next will be offered at public *aie In tho town of ( tg othorpe lalaootT riny HOUSE and LOT In said town for sale, and t t:. uk It one of tho most plcasautly situated for a reslden e in the town. Call and see. j\9w2m" WII.I4AM ELLIS. UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE. fIMIF \ DICAL OF.I'AMTMENT open* NOV EM I hEli Ile j-’ree Preliminary Uonrso OUTOBBR t>, lrfo7 App vto (‘AtiLF. EVE, Dean. Tin: tbil.LF <IA IT 7>EFAR I MENT, Western M‘ .t ry Institute, cmuieucs w-v ses»ion. SEPTUM in It cmuprls> n a c »mpl t« t la si al Course, an El- id Fou so in Engineering, ui Scientific and Agri cull., d I .iit tluH an a t r-p raiory School Tui-ion, Hoc d-ng. \v i-.h ng. Fuel SIOO per term, of *2O weeks Modern 1 ,ngu, K * -• »*tc . act. $lO per term. La. 1 j ear lb. r. were 3b •: ndeuta ui thu two Depart DU-uts Ajp’vto D. R JOHNSON, Bup» rlnt•-ndent. N.>-tie 1 «». r» nn .-h 11. l-;>7 av 4 w'h* V/OODLAW H FOR SALE I 1 HE cr l or. defrirousof mov . We*t, off# s for 1 sa c. WtHm.awu fo.tmerU thgiv* d neo of the Hon Min 11. i .axvf .i.l, dr.. ted lying tithe Athaus B.arch ot thu Georgia Kadroa.l, in v . w * f the Lea i gt. u De pot—a. p-ree coo anting **ool acre* of Land, with a hand O.uc K. Mdeuce a .1 ail , tv. vary out building— nil m go«>d repu \l>o, a vorv -i* c releciion of Fiiii - • all tte • »p .in lhere is n fair proportion . ! it i '«»! siIKU ON Ql iTeR. ALABAMA PLANTATION Ft R SALE. r |'UL u to Dgued otiers tm ,bo .is valuable PLAN I. I Ft ION Butuned in 'he county of Macon, U miles froi#Mon:gt m ry and Wot Point Railroad 7 mile ft.. keg on Fhoupee eieok, containing I6OU acuv ot L uni -7t .' >q which min a tine st t. of cultiva tion These lan is a n well w atered. and finely timbered; lieal.hy, m,; produces F. ito.i and Corn equal to any I.;; ds ir.H s.-c;..*n t»a the pretni'O-* ises is a l*ige i'Wellugilv wiihg**>d v» tU and Screw, and all ne •<• ->ir> >■ . ;* * For further particulars, inquire #of U U AH viSTitON i, No*a>Uiga, a a., or the under ligi.t 'i ou the pt. .v PETER DHIsKILL FOR SALE, id!’ * t , d. . ng detiiroua of leaving the State, -a infers 4 »: private Kale, all his REAL ESTATE in the u\iu ot Warrauton, Warren county, Ga., consisting o* a Dwelling llou&c, and Lot of about five acreso« %ui AUo. his Garriag* Sht.p ana Tools, Machine. umbi-i, dall his stock, together with all hi* finished an i unfinished work. cj- iom fifteen t,» twenty thousand dollars worth ot ark tueas \ be disposed of, at good prices. thi^ Pci ou> n iahiuK »o purchase, are r-.tspectfully invitee i* -M-ssDtu will be given at any time, to suit the pm •baser GEORGE L. BOSUER m _____ otter u i Kaie u.v entrre River PLANTATION . or 30 allies >H*iuh of Goluiubus. Ga, iu Barboui e> V.ty, Ala. lying on the Chattahoochee river, contain ng 244)0 acics. i-\k) in « tin** st&ie of cultivation ana go *>i n-iM A good Water t»m and Ferry across th* Chattahoochee river The above will be for sale at an> i.jit until *old avid is>*ses-non given. 'Terms *o suit pur •hascrx i.»auY!-?fl M \TTUEVV AVKHKTT FOR SALE, 4 I‘LA NT A TION couiaimug 1300 acres Land, well j\ timbered; 200 acres cleared,%nd produces the bast s -,4 Di:-.no < ouaodProv s-onstf ail kinds. A good tw ; irv Dwe ; ng, contamiagseven rooms, with four firep.a. « and 40 teet Putzta Kltcln n, Sm )ke Hous» two-ft.uy Cotton Horn-* G’n Ilouss, and other buildings, are iu ui. preiuMr, with a Well of good water ; e fin* rang-* or H and Cattle Fish F-ud Oysters convenient Iu 1» ! »*e a’.mu ianco. A more healthy, pleasant ioca||pr ■> »t t. be i* mu! iu S >uthem Ge>u:gia. Further par tlcuiars can be ohiaintd by application to the gubeerber at >ava. s ; . V. WOOLLEY, CObBMAN HOUbE BY LANIER A LADY. EROZTILLK, T*Vl». rr HR undersigned having taken charge of ltd* largi X And commodious Houee, solicit ac< fur.: shed in theai*.«st thorough and m dern style, with $ view tc cenveirence and comfort. It is situated in tht heart of the city, convenient to all the business, and oi the priucipai xtreet An omnibus is always in readme*. k> >•* .> • \ ! a- angi-r.- to and from the Depot* ou the arr* vii»- iepanurt'»f the cai> The Stage for Montrai* Springs arrives* and d.*par*s daily. Tco ia‘de wii: be «nppl : «d witJb the i»e*t tbe marke affords, aad na pains Will be spared to render gnesb •omt .rtal > HAMPSON LANIER, J r - v ‘ tfl JOHN >:ADY R- BT*Kli n WM P FRANCISCO BEARDEN A FRANCISCO, ■jßOm i i: %\p t OM HIS**ION MERCHANTS J M-*u aa . w.il»(*:i ou Commission Bacon. Lard. Flour com. Gnu, Feathers, aad Tennessee Produce general, y Pen»>* t shipping to as can rely upon prompt returns Mer. ... !.-• ‘<■ ot Knox le . Morgan A Co. i° ~*£<• u r > -V’ : ;* Cou U*tro:i r. Nashville F«uSf *u C Ja. k> 'ir F eus Merchant* of East Tenue»>e gt-nerallv wtsftbw land. “ IB 1 I*l» sell one half, or all cf mv Interest !n Texa- L Ni). GO 000 acres) Tlese Ltnch# lie onth»- Rio Frio and the Perdena-e - y are located iu the be-1 part of the Stat. for Stock racing, and the arger part ot them are said V be as r.ch a« lav Land .r. Texas. Tbe tt e> are per*e*.t A. U SHEPHERD. 4e?*-wSt* Oolnmhn*. U> AUGUSTA HOUSE FURNISHING DEPOT, f I 'll U undersigned are now receiving unusually heavy 1 *u, poeu of Fresh Goods, to which they Invite tin attention of the rade and Our stixik o BIOVE* GRATES, RANGES. Tin. WooU and Willov wAKI S. is now verj c<imj4.ete, Uigcther with our u*u* variety of FURNISH ING GCxoDb, aad «nail Ware- Call and MM* for yourseivea S. S. JONHS A CO., «P >o *2lO Broad-street CHEAP bbiatew No. lpickled HER RING, for tale very low by j«w*w danizl h. wilcox. Weekly Chronicle & Sentinel. £brorark ft Jstntincl. U \ r \ NCLIEIX. If Tan aCTMoROF “THU RED COURT FARM.” I A power ful sen sation waa created one day in the viflatfe of Ebary by n report tiiat somebody bad t& ktu tbe long auinnabitea with the it one bal •Muy aiidi*reen verandah, which was? situated in tbe qei'tre of tbe atreet. Who coo’d have Lired it ? tbe whole village were ikkir.g, one of another. Those couains of the Smiths jT the people whe had come on a visit to tbe bali. tnd profess* dtel ke Ebary so well ? No. none of ’bese; it was a stranger from London, quit* uo known to everybody, for there soon appeared a •hiuiug tine plate on the newly varnished oak door bearing in large, to-be read-at-a great-distance off !eiten», “Mr. Gervase Castonel. Consulting Sur Eburj- was id an ecstasy. A fashionable doctor v«s what the place waited alx>v*e all things ; as to A'inninton, he was not Ling but an apothecary, old now. and stupid. Only thive days before (so the ;ale went round the whist tables,) when he was call ♦id in to Mrs Megor Acre, an elderly dow ager, he bad •he insolence U tell her he could do her little good ; hat if she would eat less and wa k more, she would iot want, & doctor. They Sad put up with Winn in o*n, especially when he had his young and agreeable partner, a gentleman of fortune and position, who bud joined him some time before. Hut this gentle* man's wife had fallen into ili health, which had caused him to quit Ebary and seek a warmer cli mate. Mr Gervase Castonel arrived, and book “ion of his residence. Youaii know how fond we are apt to be of fresh faces, but you cannot know (iow rapturously fond Ebury at once grew of his And yet, to a diapassi nate observer r it waa not a ore posse sing face ; it was silent, pale, and unfath omable, with a grey, impenetrable eye that dufliked t • look at you, and daik hair. They tried to guess his age; some sai I five and tw-enty,<«ome thirty; it :s li.oMt probable he was near the latter, a small-made man of middle height. I* H»r Mr. Winointon! he had attended Ebury and the county round for forty years, waiting unos jcntatioufily on his two legs aud never, unless the distance was really beyond them, using a horse or carriage, and then it was borrowed or hired. But be had to witness the debut of Mr. Castonel, in a stylish cab, with a tiger behind it; both of the new er! London importation ; Mr. Castonei’s arms being emblazoned on the cab, and Mr. Castonei’s taste on the boy’s dress. lie n*-ver stirred a professional yard without this cab; did a patient the next door call him in, the cab took him there. Generally tbe boy would be hoisted up, holding on by the back s + raps, aMer the approved manner of tigers ; some times, when it was Mr. Castonel's pleasure not to drive himself, be sat by his master’s side end took « reins. Mr. Castonel had a habit of sitting very back in his cab, nqd the lad also, so that w hen its head was up they were invisible ; and in t.iis way the cab would go dashing at a fierce rate up and down the street. Until Ebury became familiar with this peculiarity, it was the cause of no end ofter ror; rhe pedestrians believing that the spirited horse, without a guide, was making for their unfortunate bodies. Two of these horses were possessed by Mr Castonel, tine, valuable animals, and one or the other was always to be seen, with the cab behind him. Bure never did a stranger fall into so exten »*ive a practice (to judge by appearances) as did Mr G*-rva*e Castonel. The first patient he was summoned to was Mrs. Major Acre It may be observed that a family in Eoury wrote a note of invitation to Mrs. Major Acre, and omitted the “Mtgor." She at once re turned the letter, with an invitation that Mrs. Major Acre declined acquaintance with them; so we will take <*are not to fall under a similar calamity. Mr. Castonel was called in to Mrs. Major Acre, and she was charmed with him. He sympathised so feelingly with her ailments; but assured her that in a little time, under his treatment, she would not have a symptom left. That horrid Wirininton,she imparted to him, had told her she wanted nothing but walking and fasting. Oh, as to Winninton, Mr. Castonel rejoined, with a contemptuous curl of his wire draw'n, impenetrable lips, what could be expec led an of apothecary ? lie (Castonel) hoped soon to leave uo patients to the mercy of him. And this was repeated by Mrs. Major Acre wherever she wont; and Him took care to go everywhere to laud the praises of the consulting surgeon ; so that peo ple almost longed for a tender fit of illness, that they might put themselves under th© bland and sos tenng care of Mr. Castonel. Time goes ou with us all, and it did with Ebury. lii six months not a single patient remained with Mr. Winuiutou, all had flown to Mr. Gervase Cas tonal; for that gentleman, insoiteof his flaring zinc plate, proved to be a general practitioner. YVe must except one or two intimate friends of Mr. Win nintou’s; and wo must except the poor, those who could not pay. Mr. Castonel had made an osten tatious announcement that lie should give advice, grat is from nine to ten o’clock ou Tuesdays and Fri days, but the few poor who accepted the invitation found him so repellant and imsympathizing, that they were thankful to return to kind old Mr. YVin ninten who had not only attended them without charge at their own homes, but had dine much to ward supplying tho'r bodily wants. Mr. Wiuninton had been neglectful ot gain ; perhaps his having no family rendered him so. He had never married, he and his sister having always lived together ; but just before her death., a niece, Caroline Hall, th**n left, nn orphan, came home to them. To describe his affection for this girl would be impossible ; it may be questioned if Caroline returned it as it de served— but when is the Jove of the aged for th© young ever repaid iu kind 1 The pleasure and de lights of visiting tilled her heart, aud her uncle’s home and society were only regarded as things to bo escaped from. Was he yet awake to this f There wan s<»tpething worse for him to awake to, by-and by, soyi'-tiii&g that as yet he suspeoted not. He whs much changed ; had been changing ever since the es.ablishuient in Ebury of Mr. Castonel; his face had acquired a grey cast like his hair, his mer ry tongue was hushed, and people said he looked as it his heart was croaking. It is hard to bear ingrati tude ; ingratitude from those with whom we have lived for sixty years It was not for the value of the practice ; no. no; he had that which would last him his life, and leave something behind him ; but it was the unkindness that was telling upon Mr. Wiuninton, the desertion of him for a stranger, one in reality less skilled than he was. Frauois Chnvasse stood in her mother’s drawing foora, and with her the daughter of the Rector of Ebury, the Revet end Christopher Lecester. Ellen Leicester had come in after dinner to spend the af ternoon; for Ebury, though it called itself nn aris tocratic place, usually dined in the middle of the day. They were both lovely girls, about nineteen, though unlike in feature as in disposition. They were called th**beauties of Ebury. Caroline Hall got classed with them also, but it arose from her constantly associating with them, not from her good lo'iks. She was two or three years older, had a sallow face with dark hair, and lively, pleasant, dark eyes. An absurd story had gone abroad, but died away agalu; that Mr. Castonel, upon being nuked which »t the three was most to his taste, re plied that only two of them were, but he’d marry the three, for all that. The two young ladies were talking eagerly, for Mrs. Major Acre had just paid them a visit, ai d disclosed a piece of intelligence which completely astounded her hearers—that Mies Hall was about to be married to Mr. Castonel. “It is impossible that it can be true,’’ Mrs. Cha vasse aud hei daughter had exclaimed in the same quick, positive, eager tone, for they were the coun terpart of each other in manner. Old Winninton hates Mr. Castonel like poison.” “I know he does. And 1 was told it was for tiiat very reason Mr. Castonel is bent upon having her,” said Mrs. Mqjor, “that ho may mortify the old and take from him the only treasure he ban left—Caroline. ’ “Oh that s a i Bbury gossip,” decided Mrs. Cba v.'isse. “A well established man like Mr. Castonel will take care to marry according to his fancy, not to gratify a pique. Mr. Winuiutou will never give his consent.' “He has given it,” answered the major's widow. “Caroline's will is law there. 1 wish she may find it so in her new homo.” “ Well,” added Mia. dubiously. “I don’t know that Mr. Castonel is altogether the man I should choose togive a daughter to. Such curious things .are said of him—about that mysterious per son, you know.” “ Grapes are sour!” thought Mrs. Major Acre to herself. *‘ And now I have told you the news, 1 mUHtgo/’shs said, rising. “ Good by to you all. My compliments at the parsonage, my dear Miss Ellen.” Mrs ChavA&s© went out with the ’ady, aud it hap pened that immediately afterward Caroline Hall entered. Etk'ii and Frances regarded her with a curiosity they had never yet manifested, and Fran cos spoke miDulsively. “How sly you were over it, Caroline! Now, don’t goto deny it, or you'll put me in a temper. Wo know all about it, just as much as yourself. If j you chose to keep it from others, you might have told Ellen and me.” “ How could l tell you what I did not know my self?” “ Nay Caroline, you must have known it,” in texqn sed the sweet geutle voice of Ellen Leicester. “ 1 did not know I was going to be married. You might have seen there was”—she hesitated, and blushed— ‘* an attachment between myself and Mr. Castonel, if your eyes had been open.” *• I declare I never saw anything that could cause me to thi. k he was attached to you,” abruptly ut tered Miss Chavassc, looking at her. “ Nor I,” repeated Ellen Leicester. Aud the young ladies spoke truly. “ l may have *eeu you talking together iu even ing society, perhaps gone tbe length of a little dash of flirtation,” said Miss Chavasse. ** Tiiat all depends upon the disposition,” returned Miss Hall. “ You may ; but Ellen Leicester never will.” *• Ellen dare not, ’ laughed dances. *• She would draw dowu the old walls of the parsonage about her ♦*ars if she committed so heinous a sin. But I must return to what 1 said, Caroline Hall, that was un friendly not to IM us know it.” “ The piWxle is, how you know it now,” observed Caroliue. * The interview, when Mr. Castonel asked my uncle for me, only took place last night, and l have not spoken of it to any one.” * Oh. news travels fast enough iu Ebury,” answer «d Frances, carelessly. If I were to cut my finger now. every house would known it before to night. Mr Winninton may have mentioned it.” “I am quite sure that it has not passed his lips.” “Theii the report must have come from Mr Costo uel : exclaimed Frances. How very strange!” * My uncle i - not well to day,” added Miss Hall, ‘and i;as seeu no one. He has got a gre-at fire made up in the drawing room, aud is stewing aimsel: eioc-e to it. The rooms as hot os an oven “A tire, this weather ’ repeated Frances. "What s tbe matter w*:h him I “Nothing particular that 1 know of. He sits and dghs, and never speaks. He only spoke once between reakfast and dinner . and tnat was to ask me it 1 elt Mr. Castonel was a man calculated to make ue happy. Os eourae he is.” "Caorline,” whispered Miss Leicester, “do you ;ot fear it is your marriage that is preying on his -pints?” ~ , “I know it is. He wornd not consent for a long vhiie. The interview was anything but agreeable, ie and Mr. Castonel were together at first, and nen I was called in. At last he gave it. Bat be fees not like Air. Castonel. I suppose from his hav ng taken his practice from him. ’ ■*A very good reason too, said Miss Chavasse ° “ob[ I don't know,’ carelessly returned Caroline. It is all luck iuthis world. If people perswt in *end ng for Gervase, he can't refuse to go. My uncle is >ld now. . Eden Leicester looked up, reproach seated In her leep blue eyes. But Caroline Hall resumed. “It is more than dislike that he has taken to Mr "aetonel; it is prejudice. He cried like a child after. G«rvase was gone, saying he would rather I bad •uoeen any one eleae in the world, he had rather I : ept single for life, than marry Mr. Castonel. And duff say* she heard him sobbing and groaning ou ns pillow all night long.” “Aud oh Caroline.” exclaimed Ellen Leicester, u a shocked, hushed tone, “can you think of marry og him now 1" My uncle has consented,” aaid Caroline evasive y v * Aes \ but in what way ? If you have any spark f dutiiul testing, you ** ill now prove your grati ude to your unde for all his love and care of you.” “ Prove it, how 1 ’ “By giving up Mr. Castonel.'’ Caroline HoL turned and looked at her, then spoke impressively “It is easy to talk, Ellen Leicester, ( but when the time comes for you to love, and should s* be nn&seeptable to your parents, you will then understand how impossible w what you of me. That calamity may come.” “ Never,<>'was the almost scornful reply to Mir« Leicester. “My father and mother* wishes will ever be first with me.” “ I tell you you know nothing about it,” replied Caroline. 4 Remember my words hei ©after. 44 Do not be cavil about whet you will never agree upon, interrupted Mi.*? Chavasse. When i<! the wedding to be, Caroline ?” “ I suppose almost immediately. So Mr. Gasto uel wishe-.” “He is not eogieat a favorite in the place as he was when he first came. People also say that he is a general admirer. So take care. Caroline 44 1 know few people with whom he is Dot a favo rite,” retorted Caroliue, warmly. ‘ My uncle if one; Mi. Leicester, I believe, is another. Are there any more ?” “ You need not take me up so eharply.” laughed Frances. “ I only repeated wuat I Lave heard fake your things off, Caroline, and remain to tea.” Caroline Hall hesitated. “My une’e is so lonely. Still," abe added, after a pause, “ I can do him no good, and as to trying to raise his spirits it’s a hope less taek. Y'es, I will stay, Frances.” She was glad to accept any excuse to get away from the home she had so little inclination for, utter ly regardless of the lonely hoara of the poor old inau. Frances, careless and pleased, hastened to help her off with her things. But Ellen Lt-icester, more considerate, painfully reproached her in her heart of hearts. Mr. Castonel found his way that evening to the house ot Mr. Chavasse. Boon after he came, Mis. Chavasse, who wan in her garden, saw the rector pass. She went to the gate, aud leaned over it to nhofce hands with him. “Have you heard tbe news !” she asked, being one who was every ready to retail gosnip. ‘“Caroline Hall ingoing to be married.” •‘lndeedhe answered, in an accent of surprise “I have been r "uch at Mr. Winninton’s lately, and have heard nothing of it.” “She marries Mr. Castonel.” There was a pause. The clergyman seemed as if unable to comprehend the word ‘ Mrs. Chavasae. I hope you are under a mistake,” he said at last. “I think you are.” “No; it was all settled yesterday with old Win ninton. Caroline told me so herself; she and Mr. Castonel are both here now.” “I am grieved to hear it! Mr. Castonel is not the man I would give a child lO.” “That’s just what I said. Will you walk in ?” “Not now. I will call for Ellen by-and-by.” “Not before nine,” said Mrs. Chavasse. There we e those in Ebury who had called Mr. Castonel an attractive man. but I think it would have puzzled them to tell in what his attractions lay. He was by no means good looking ; though perhaps not what could be called plain ; one peculiarity of his, was, that he hated music; and in society he was silent, rather than otherwise. Yet he generally found favor with the ladies ; they are pretty cer tain to like one who has the reputation of being a general admirer. Had a stranger, that evening, been present in the drawing-room of Mrs Cha vasse,he would not have suspected Mr. Castonel was on the point of marriage with Miss Hall, for hi* gallant attentions to Frances Chavasse and Ellen Leicester, his evident admiration for both, were in consistently apparent —especially considering the presence of Caroline. What she thought, it is im possible to say. She left early, and Mr. Castonel attended her as far as her home. Mr. Leicester had taken his way to the house of Mr. Wiuninton. The surgeon was cowering over the fire, as Caroline had described. He shook bauds with Mr. Leicester without, rising, and pointed in silence to a chair. He looked very ill; scarcely able to speak. “I have heard some tidings about Caroline,” be gan the rector. Mr. Winuington groaned. “Oh, my friend, my pastor,” he said, “I have need of strong consolation under this affliction.” “You disapprove, no doubt, of Mr. Castonel ?” “Disapprove!” he repeated, roused to energy ; “believe me, J would rather Caroline went before ine, than leave her the wife of Gervase Castonel.” “Then, why have you consented ?” ‘“I had no help for it,” he sadly uttered. “They were before me, in this room, both of them, aud they told me they only cared for each other. Mr. Casto nel informed me that if I refused my consent it was of little consequence, for he should take her without it. She is infatuated with him ; and how and where they can have met so frequently, as it appears they have done, is a wonder to me. Oh, he is of mean, dishonorable spirit! And I have my doubts about his liking her —liking her, even.” “Then, why should he seek to marry her?” cried the rector, in surprise. “I know not. I have been thinking about it all night and all day, and can come to no conclusion, save one,” he added, dropping his voice, “which is firm upon me, and will not leave me ; the con viction tnat he will not treat her well. Would you,” he asked suddenly looking up, “would you give him Ellen ?” “No,” most emphatically replied Mr. Leicester. “1 believe him to be a bad, immoral man. My call ing takes me continually among the poor, and I can tell you Mr. Castonel is much more warmly wel comed by the daughters than the parents. But nothing tangible has hitherto been brought against him. He is a deep man.” 44 His covert behavior as to Caroliue proves his depth. What about that strange person who fol lowed him to Ebury, and took, the little lodge ? You know what I mean.” “I can learn nothing of her,” answered Mr. Lei cester. “She lives ou, there, with that female at tendant. I called once, aud she told me she must beg to decline my visits, as she wished to live in strict retirement. 1 suppose I should not have seen her at ali, but the other person was out, and she came to the door. ' “ I met her once,” said Mr. Winninton. “ She is very handsome.” * Too handsome aud too young to be living in so mysterious away,” remarked tbe rector, signifi cantly. 44 She Las evidently been reared as a gen tlewoman • her accent and manner are perfectly la dy-like and refined. Did you mention her to Mr. Castonel ?” “ I did. Ai d be answered in an indifferent, haughty manner that the lady was a connection of his own family, who, chose, for reasons of her own, good and upright, though they were kept secret, to pass her days just now in retirement. lie added, that her character was unimpeachable, and no one, to him, should dare to impugn it. What could I an swer T” “ Very true. And it may be as he says: though the circumstances wear so suspicious an appear anoe.” “Oh. that he had never come to Ebury!” ex claimed the surgeon, clasping his hands with emo tion. “ Not for the injury he has done to me pro fessionally: aud I believe striven to do, for there was room for us both: I have forgiven him this with all my heart., as it becomes a Christian, near the grave, to do. But my conviction tells me he is a bad man, a mysterious man—yes, my friend, I re peat it, a mysterious man—l feel him to be so, though it is an assertion I cannot explain ; and I feel that he will assure Caroline’s misery instead of happiness.” “ Still, unless he is attached to her, I do not see why he should wed her,” repeated the rector. “She has no fortune to tempt his cupidity.” “ Nor do I see It,” replied Mr. Winninton “ But It is so.” Mr. Leicester sat there an hour, and then pro ceeded to visit some cottages. On his return, lie cut across the fields, a near way, tor he found it was getting dusk, and close upon the time he in tended to call for Ellen. Ashe passed the corner of Beech Wood, a retired spot just there, near to the pretty, but very small lodge originally built for a gamekeeper, who should he suddenly encounter but its present inmate, the lady he and Mr. Winninton haa been speaking of. Her arm was within Mr. Castonel’s, and she was talking rapidly in a tone, as it seemed, of remonstrance. The gentlemen bow ed as they passed each other—both coldly—and had Mr. Leicester turned to scan the doctor’s face, he would have seen on it a sneer of malignant triumph. “1 never saw a case more open to suspicion in my life,” muttered the clergyman to himself. “And he just come from the presence of his wife that is to be!” 111. * “Come, Hannah, look alive," cried Mrs. Muff, some two mouths subsequent to the above details ; “wash those decanters first; there’s one short, but I’ll see to that. Now you need not tnuch the knives ; Jem will clean them all iu the morning, Do as I bid you, aud then get out aud dust the best china.” “There’s the door bell," said Hannah. 4 Go aud answer it, aud dont be an hour over it. I dare say it’s the man with the potted meats. — Tell him the rolls must be here iu the morning by ten o’clock.” A most valuable person was Mrs. Muff in her vo cation, aud highly respected throughout Ebury. An upright, portly, kindly looking woman, of four or five End fifty, with an auburn “front,” whose curls were always scrupulously smooth. She had for many years held the important situation of housekeeper at the Hall; but changes had occurred there, as they do in many places. On the death of Mrs. Winninton’* sister, she had accepted the post of housekeeper to him, and had been there ever since. Hannah, a damsel of twenty, being uuder her. “Well, was it the boker ?” she demanded, as Hannah returned to the kitchen. “No, ma’am. It was auother wedding present for Mi*s Caroline, with Mrs. Major Acre’s compliments. I took it up to her ; she’s in the drawing-room with Mr. Castonel.” “Ah!” groaned the housekeeper. “Look at the dust ou these glasses, Hannah. I thought you said you had wiped them." “And what harm, ma'am either?" returned Han nah, who undeislood very well the nature of the greau. She’ll be his wife to-morrow.’ ‘•Whosaid there w*as harm ?” shortly retorted Mrs. Muff*. “Only—my poor master! —he is so lonely, and it is the last evening she'll be here. Wbsre are you ruuning off to, now ? I told you to finish the decanters.” “Master called out for some coal as I passed the nailor,’ answered Hannah. “The puzzle to me is, bow he can bear a fire, this sultry August weather.” “Ah, child, you’ll come to the end ot a good xrany puzzles before you arrive at iny years. Master’s old aud chilly, and breaking up as fast as he can break. 11l take the coal in myself.” Mr. Wrinninton did not lookup as the housekeep er put the coal on But afterward, when she was busy at tbe sideboard, he called out in a sudden, quick toue—“Mrs. Muff." “Sir ?” she answered. 4 ‘ What are you doing there ?” “1 am changing the sherry wine, sir, into the odd decani er. We want this one to put ready wriththe others." “For the show to morrow ?“ he went on. “To be sure, sir. For nothing else." “ Ay, Muff, put everything in order,” he con tinued “ Don't let it be said that I opposed any of their wishes , an old mau like I am, whom they be glad to see out of the world. And you ueea not irouble yourself to put things up afterward, they wili be wanted agaiu.” “ For what purpose, sir ?" she inquired. “ For the funeral.” Mrs. Muff, as she said afterward, was struck all of a heap. Aud Mr. YY'inninton resumed: “ Affer a wedding comes a burying. She is be ginning the cares of Lite, and I am giving them up tor ever. And something tells me she will have her share of them. I shall not be here to stand by her, Muff, so you must. ’ The housekeeper trembled as she heard. He had a queer look on his face that she did not like. “I'll do what I can, sir,” she said. ‘'But when Miss Caroline has left here, that will be but little." “ You cango where she goes, Muff.” “ Perhaps not, sir.” "Perhaps yes. You will promise to do so if you can—it any possible way is open? Promise me,” he added, eagerly and feverishly. “ W eii, sir, she answered, to humor him, “ if it shall be agreeable to all parties, yes, I will.” “ Aud yon will shield her from him, as far as you can ? “ “Yes, repeated the housekeeper, most imperfect ly understanding what Caroline was to be shielded trom. “Now, Mrs. Muff,’ he concluded in a solemn tone, “that’s a death bargain. Remember it.” “You dont seem well, sir," was Mrs. Muff a re joinder. “Shall I call Miss Caroline to you ?” “No,” he sadly answered. • “Let her be. She was in the drawing room with Mr. Castonel, as has been stated ; laughing, talking, joking, un mindful of her fond uncle, who was dying under neath. Her dress was a cool muslin, very pretty, with its open sleeves, her d ark hair was worn in bands, ana her dark eyes were animated. She began showing him some of the preeen te she had received that day, and supped a bracelet on her arm to dis play it. “That s an elegant bracelet,' observed Mr. Casto nel. “Who is it from." “Ellen Leicester. 1 * AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 1 £ 18.>7. ■ 4 Oh," he hastily rejoined, * I heard it said to day hat she is not going to church with you —that tbe *arw*n a starch will not let her.” “It is true,” said Caroline. “I did not tell you of it ;*rva*e. because l thought it mignt annoy you, rs it had done me.” Annoy me! O dear no. Let me hear what his objections were ; what he said.” 4 I only gathered the substance of them from Mrs. Leicester. You know my uncle does not approve »t our union, though ne did give his consent. So. oil he* score, I believe Mr. Leicester declined to allow Ellen to be one of my bridesmaids—that be would iot directly sauctiou what he was pleased to call an undutifu! measure.” “I wonder he condescends to marry us.’ remark ed Mr. Cartel, with that peculiar sneer, cunning md malignant, on his fa~e, which even Caroline disliked to see. • 111 at he couid not refuse. It .a in his line of duty. Ellen is so vexed. We three had always promised -acj other that the two left would, be bridesmaids o whichever was married first, I, Ellen, and Fran ces Chavasse." Mr. Castonel laughed astrsnge, ring', .g !. -gl ,as f something amustd him much , and Caroline k >k -fd at him in surprise. The wedding day dawned; not too promisingly. In the first place, the nue, brilliant weather had sud denly changed, and tbe day rose pouring wet. In the second, Mr. Winninton, who, however, had never intended to go to church with them, wa? too ill to rise. Miss Chavasse was bridesmaid, and by lalf poet ten, Gervase Castonel and Caroline Hall had been united for better for worse, until death lid them part. Next came the breakfast, the Reverend Mr. Leicester, who had officiated, do dining to go and partake of it, and then the bride and bridegroom started off in a carriage-and-four to spend a short honeymoon. Before they returned, Mr. Winninton was dead. I\ r . Again, reader, six months have elapsed, for time, as I told you, slipped on at Ebury, as fast as it does at other places. No medical opponent had started, so Mr. Castonel had the professional swing of th i whole place, and was getting on it at railway speed. We are now in the cold drizzly month of February, and it is a drizzling, dirty wretched day. Iu the bright kitchen, however, of Mr. Castonel, little signs are seen of the outside weather. The fire bums clear and the kettl© sings on it: the equare of carpet, nev er put down till the cooking wh9 over, extends ifself before the hearth, and good Mre Muff is presiding over all, her feet ou a warm footstool, and her spec tacles on nose, for she has drawn the stand bet'oie her on which rests her Bible. Presently a visitor came in. a figure clothed in travelling attire, limp and moist, introduced by the tiger, Johu, who had encountered it at the door, as he was going out on an errand for his master. “My goodness me, Hannah ! it's never you ?” ‘•Yes, ma’am, it is,” was Hannah’s reply, with a very low obeisance to Mrs. Muff. “And why did you not come yesterday, as was agreed upon ?” ‘*lt rained eo hard with us, mother said I had bet ter wait; but as to-day turned out little better, I came through it. She'd have paid for a inside place, ma'am but the coach was full, eo I caine out side.” “Well, get off your wet things, and we’ll have a cup of tea," said Mrs. Muff, rising and setting the tea-things. “Mother sends her duty to you, ma’am,” said Hannah, as she eat down to the tea table, after obey ing directions, “and bade me say she was k'udly ob liged to you for thinking of me, aud getting me a place under you again.” “Ah ! we little thought, some months back, that we should ever be serving Mr. Castonel.” “Nothing was ever further from my thoughts, ma’am” “I wished to come and live with Miss Caroline; I had my own reasons for it,” resumed Mrs. Muff; “and as luck had it, she had a breeze with the maids here, alter she came home, and gave them both warning. I fancy they had done as they liked too long, under Mr. Castonel, to put up with the control of a mistress, and Miss Caroline, if put out, can be pretty sharp and hasty. However, they were leav ing, and I heard of it, and came after the place Miss Caroline—dear! I mean Mrs. Castonel — thought I ought to look out for a superior one to hers, but said she should be too glad to take me if I did not think so. So, here I came, and here I have been, and when a week ago, the girl under me misbehave.! herself, I thought of you and spoke to mistress, bo we sent for you. Now you know how it has all happened, Hannah.” “Yes ma’am, and thank you. Is Miss Caroline well ?” Mrs. Castonel,” interrupted the housekeeper.— “Did you not hear me correct myself? She is get ting better.” ‘‘Has she been ill?” returned Haunah. “I'll ■ I believe you. It was a near touch, Hannah, whether she live or died.” “What has been the matter, ma'am V “A inis—— Never you mind what,” said the old lady, arresting her speech before the omnious word popped out, “she been ill, but is getting better, and that’s enough. I’ll step up, and ask if she wants anything.*’ llannah cast her eyes round the kitchen ; it look ed a very comfortable one, and she thought she should be happy enough in her new abode. Eve ythtng was bright and clean to a fault, betokening two plain facts, the presiding genius of Mrs. Muff, am! plenty of work for Hannah, who knew she should have to keep things as she found them. “Mrs. Castonel will have some tea presently, not ju.-t yet” said Mrs Muff, returning. “How ill she does look ! Her face has no more color in it than a corpse. It put me in mind of my dream." “Have you had a bad dream lately, ma’am *" in quired Haunah. For there was not a more invete rate dreamer, or interpreter of dreams, than Mrs. Muff, and nothing loth was she to find a listener for them. “Indeed I have,” she answered, “and a dream that 1 don’t like. It was just three nights ago. 1 had gone to bed, dead asleep, having been up part of several back nights with my mistress, and I undressed in no time, and was asleep as quick.— All on a sudden, tor I remembered no evert that seemed to lead to it, I thought 1 saw my old m-.s “The squire ?” interrupted Hannah. “Not the squire; what put him in your head? Mr. Winninton I thought I saw him standing at the foot of the bed, and after looking at me fixedly, as if to draw my attention, he turned his head slow ly toward the door. I heard the stairs creaking as if somebody was coming up, step by step, and we both kept our eyes on the door, waiting in expecta tion. It began to move ou its hinges, very slowly, and I wuß struck with honor, tor who should appeal' at it but ’* ‘‘Ah A a a ah!” shrieked Haunah, whose feelings being previously wrought up to shrieking pitch, re ceived their climax, for at that very moment a loud noise was heard outside the kitchen door, which waa only pushed to, not closed. “What a simpleton you be !” wiathfully exclaim ed Mrs. Muff’, who however, had edged her own chair into close contact with Hannah’s. “I dare say it is only master in his laboratory.” After the lapse of a few reassuring 82Conds,Mis. Muff, who, moved toward the door, looked out, and then went toward a small room contiguous to it. “Ilia as I thought,” she said, coming back and closing the door; “it ismasteriu his laboratory. But now that’s an odd thing," she added, musingly. “What is odd, ma’am?" “Why, how master could have come down and gone in there without my hearing him. I left him sitting with mistress. Perhaps she has dozed off, she does sometimes at dusk, and he crept down softly, for fear of disturbing he.” “But what was the noise /" asked Hannah, breath lessly. “Law, child ! d’ye fear it was a ghost ? It was only Mr. Castonel let fall one of the little drawers, and it went down with a clatter. And that’s auother odd thiDg, now I come to think of it, for I always believed that top drawer to be a dummy drawer. It has no lock and no knob, like the others ’, “What is a dummy drawer ?” repeated Hannah “A false drawer, child, one that won’t open. John thinks so too, for last Saturday, when he was clean ing the laboratory, I went in for some string to tie up the beef olives I was making for dinner. He was on the steps, stretching up his duster to that very drawer, and he called out, ‘This here drawer is just like your head, Madame Muff.’ ” ‘“How eo V asked I. “ ‘Cause he has got nothing in the inside of him,’ said he, in his impudent way, and rueed off the steps into the garden, fearing I should box his ears. But it is this very drawer master has now let fall, and there were two or three little papers and phials, I saw, scattered on the floor. I was stepping in, asking if I could help him to pick them up, but he looked at me as black as thunder, and roared out, ‘No. Go away and mind your own business.’ Didn’t you her him?” “I heard a man’s voice,” replied Hannah ; “I did not know it was Mr. Castonel’s. But about the dream, ma’am; you did not finish it.” “True, and it’s worth finishing, answered the housekeeper, settling herself in her chair. 4 * Where was I ? Oh —I thought at the foot ot the bed stood Mr. Winninton, and when the footsteps came close, and the door opened—slowly, Hannah, and we watching in suspense all tbe time —who should it be but Mr. aud Mrs. Castonel. She was iu her grave clothes, a flannel dress and cap, edged with white quilled ribbon, and she looked, for all the world, as she looks this night. He had got hold of her hand, and he handed her in, r inainiDg Himself at the doer, and my old master bent forward tuid took her by the other hand. Mr. Winninton looked at me, aa much as to say. Do you see this 7 and then they both turned and gazed after Mr. Castonel. I heard his footsteps descending the stairs, and upon look ing again at the foot of the bed, they were both gone. I woke up in a dreadful fright, and could not get to sleep again for two hours." “It’s a mercy it wasn’t me that dreamt it,” ob served Haunah. “I should have rose the house, screeching.” “It was a nasty dream,” added Mrs. Muff, “and if mistress had not been out of sli danger, and getting better as fast as she can get, i should say it beto kened—something not over pleasant.” She was interrupted by Mrs. Castonel’s bell. It was for a cup of tea, and Mrs. Muff took it up. As she passed the laboratory, she saw that Mr. Casto nel was iu it still. Mrs. 'Castonel was seated in an arm-chair by her bedroom fire. “Then you have not been asleep, ma’am ?” ob served Mrs. Muff, perceivirg that her mistress had the candles lighted and was reading. “No, I have not felt sleepy this evening. Let Hannah come up when I ring next. 1 should like to see her.” Scarcely had Mrs. Muff regained the kitchen, when the bell rang again, so she sent up Hannah. “Ah, Hannah, how d ye do?” said Mrs. Castonel. “I am nicely, thank you, miss—ma’am, ’ answer ed Hannah, who did not stand in half the awe of “Miss Caroline” that she did of tbe formidable Mr?. Muff. “I am sorry to find you are not well, ma’am." “I have been ill, but I am much better. So much better that I should have gone dowu etairs to-day, had it not been so damp and chilly.” Hannah never took her eyes off Mrs. Caatoue! as she spoke; she was thinking Low very much she j was changed; apart from her palenet* and aspect oi ] ill health. II r eyes appeared darker, and therr j was a look of care in them. She wore a cap, and her dark hair was nearly hidden under it “Now, Hannah," she &aid, “1 hope you have made up your mind to do your work wed, and help Mrs. Muff all that you can. There is a deal more work to do here than there was at my uncle’s.” “Yes, ma’am,” answered Hannah. “Especially in running up and down stain* vou must save Mrs. Muff ; your legs are younger than hers. Let me see that you do, and then I shall be pleased with you." “I’ll try,” repeated Hannah. “Shall I take your cup for more tea, ma’am T” I should like some," was Mrs. Castonel’* reply, ‘‘but I don't know that I may have it. This morn ing Mr. Castonel said it whs bad for me, and made me nervous, and would not let me drink a second cup." Hannah stood waiting, not knowing whether to take the cup or not. “Is Mr. Castonel in his study ?” “If you please, ma’am, which place is T" “Tbe front room on the left hand open ing opposite to the dining parlor,” Cas tonel. , “I don’t think it is there then, ' replied Hannon. “He is in the little room where the bottles are to the kitchen. I forget, ma’am, what M r ®- Moil called it.” , “Oh, is he ? Set this door open, Hann&h. The girl obeyed, and Mrs. Castonel called to him. He beard her. and came immediately to the foot of ihe stairs. “Wnat is it?” be asked. ‘‘May I have another cup ot tea ? ’ 4 ._ He ran up stair* and entered the room. Have you taken your tea already T*’ he said, in ac accent of surprise and displeasure “I toftd you to wait till •even o clock.” I was so thirsty. Do say I may have another ■ cun. Gervase. lam sure it will not bur me." “Bring up half a cup,” said to tbe servant, ; “and some more bread and butter. If you drink. Caroline, you must eat.” Haunah went down stairs. She procured what ; was wanted, and wo? carrying it from the kitchen ! again, when >lr. Ca tob*-l came out of the laboratory j to which, it appeared* be Lad returned, i “Give it me,” he saitfko Hannah. « I will take it j myself to your mis're».” | So he proceeded up stairs with tbe little waiter \ and Hannah re turned to the kitchen. “How much she's altered !” was her exclamation, as she closed the door. “What did she say to you?” questioned Mrs. Muff. W ell, ma’am, sb* briefly told me to be attentive and save your legs,” -returned Hannah. “I nev-r knew Miss Caroline so thoQghtful before. I thought it was not in her.” “And that has surprised me, that jßhe should evince so much lately,” assented Mr?. Huff " Thoughtfulness do«_s not come to the young sud denly. It’s a thing that only comes with vears—or sorrow.” “Sorrow! ’ ecnoedHaunah. “Mi^Careliuecan’t have any sorrow." —Dot that I knew of,” somewhat dubiously, responded the housekeeper. “Is Mr. Castonel fond of her? Does he make her a good husband/” asked Hannah, full of wo man ? curk-sity ou such points. “ W hat should hinder him ?” testily retorted Mrs. Muff. “ Has that—that strange lady left the place ?” was Hannah’s next question. '“She tiiat, people said, had something to do with Mr. Castonel ” " What to do with him?” was the sharp demand. “ \V as hi? cousin, ma’am, or sister-iu-law, or some relation of that s-trt,” explained Haunah, with a lace detnuie enough to disarm the auger of the fas tidious Mrs. Muff’. “I believe she ha? not left,” was tho stiff response; “ I know nothing about her.” “Do you suppose Misa Caroline does?” added Hannah. « “Os course she does, particulars ” returned Mrs. Muff, with a •peculiar stfiff. which she invaria bly gave when forcing her tongue to au untruth. “Bur it’s not your busiuess, so you may just put ft out of your head, and never say any more about it. And you may begin and wash up the tea things John don’t deserve any tea for not coming iu,aud I have a great mind to make him go without. lie ia al ways stopping in the street to play.” Hannah was rising to obey, when the bedroom bell rang most violently, and Mr. Castonel was heard bursting out of the room, and calling lofidly for assistance. “ Whatever can be the matter?” was the terri fied exclamation of Mrs. Muff. 44 Mistress has nev er dropped asleep, and fallen off her obair into the fire! Follow me up stairs, girl. And that lazy ti ger playing truant!” Not for mauy a year had the house keeper flown up stairs so quick. Hannah followed more slowly, from a vague consciousness of bread of what she might see ; the dream she had shuddered at, being before her mind in vivid colors. Mrs. Castonel was iu convulsions. About the same hour, or a little later, Mr. Lei cester returned to hisjiome, having been absent since morning. “ Wei!,” he cheerily said, as he took his seat by the fire, “ have you any news ? A whole day from the parish seems a long absence to me.” I think not,” answered Mrs Leicester, “ except that I went to see Caroline Castonel to-day, and she is getting on nicely.” “I am glad to hear it. Is she quite out of dan ger?” “ Completely so.” “ She told mamma she should be at church on Sunday,” added Ellen. “ Yes, but I told her that would be imprudent,” returned Mrs. Leicester. “ However, she will soon be well now.” At that moment the church bell rang out with its three times two, denoting the recent departure ot a soul. The church, situated at the end of the village street, was immediately opposite the par sonage, the main road dividing them. The sound struck upon their ears loud and full ; very solemnly in the stillness of the winter’s night. Consternation fell upon all. No nue wa? ill in the village, a least ill enough lor death. Could a sister—for they knew, by the strokes, that it was not a male—have been called away suddenly. “ The passing bell!” uttered the rector, rising from liis seat in agitation. “ And 1 have been ab sent! Have I been summoned out ?” he hurriedly asked of Mrs. Leicester. “No; I assure you, no. Not any one has been for you. Neither have we heard speak of any illness.” Mr. Leicester touched the bell rope at his elbow. A maid servant answered it Benjamin was at tending to his horse. “Step over,” said the rector, “and inquire who is dead ?” She departed. A couple of minute.? at the most would see her back again. They all had risen from their seats, and stood iu an expectiug, almost rever ent attitude. The bell was striding out last strokes now. The girl returned, looking terrified. “It is the passing bell, sir, for Mrs. Castonel.” The morning was cold and misty, and the Rever end Mr. Leicester felt a strange chill aud lowness of spirits, for which he could not account, when he stepped into the chariot that was to convey him to Mr. Castonel’s. “Mrs. Chavasse and Frances came into the par sonage—ostensibly for the purpose of inviting Ellen to spend the following day with them ; in reality to see the funeral. They had not long to wait. The undertaker came first in his hatband and scarf, and then the black chariot containing the Reverend Mr. Leicester. Before tbe hearse walk ed six carriers, and the mourning coach came last. It was a plain, respectable funeral. It drew up at the churchyard gate, iu full view of the parsonage windows, all of which had their blinds closely drawn, out of respect for the dead. But they managed to peep at it behind the blinds. The rector stepped out first, and stood waiting at the church door in hia officiating dress, hi? book open in his hands. There was ?ome little delay in getting the burden from the hearse, but at length the carriers had it on their shoulders, and bore it up the path with measured, even steps, themselves being nearly hidden by the pall. Mr. Cast* nel fol lowed, his handkerchief to his face, lie betrayed at that moment no outward sign of emotion, but his face could not have been exceeded in whiteness by that of hi? dead wife. “Ob !” said Ellen, shivering, and turning from the light, as she burst into tears, “what a dreadful sequel it is to the day when he last got out of a carriage at that churchyard gate, and ?he was with hirn in her gay happiness I Poor Mr. Castonel, how he must need consulate m !” “It s nothing of a funeral, after all,” said Mrs. Chavasse, discontentedly; “no pall hearers, no mutes, nor anything. I wonder he did not have some! The Faculty op Feigning Death. —There are cases on record of persons who could spontaneous ly fall iu a death-trance. Monti, in a letter to Hal ler, mentions several. A priest by the name of Cfelius Rhodaginus had the same faculty. But tbe most celebrated instance is that of Col. Towushend, mentioned in the surgical works of Gooch, by whom and by Dr. Cheyne and Dr. Beynard, and by Mr Shrine, an apothecary, the performance of Colonel Townehend was seen and attested. They had long attended him, for he was an habitual invalid ; and he had often invited them to witness the phenome na of his dying and Coming to life again, but they had hitherto refused, for fear of the consequences to himself. Accordingly, in their presence, Colonel Towushend laid himself down on liis back, and Dr. Cheyne undertook to observe the pulse. Dr. Bey nard laid h e hand on his heart, and Mr. Shrine had a looking-glass to hold to his mouth. Alter a few seconds, pulse, breathing, and the action of the heart were no longer to be observed. Each of the witnesses satisfied himself ot the entire cessation of these phenomena. When the death-trance Lad last ed half an hour, the doctors began to fear that t heir patient had pushed the experiment too far, and was dead in earnest, and they were preparing to leave the house, when a slight movement of thevbody at tracted their attention. They renewed their routine of observation, when the pulse and sensible motion of the heart gradually returned, and breathing aud consciousness. The sequel of the tale is strange — Col. Townshend, on recovering, sent for his attor ney, made his wili, and died, for good and all, six b“urs afterwards.— rhantamnala , by R. R. Mad den. The Great American. — The Giant of the World — MUe§ Darden. —Some weeks ago we gave a few fauts in regard to the weight and dimensiODS of this extraordinary mau, and promised our read ers, through the courtesy of a friend in Henderson county, further items of interest. The friend we referred to was the Rev. John Brooks, whose va racity, we believe, has never been questioned by any one. He writes as follows . Air. Darden was born in North Carolina, in the year 1798, aud departed this iife at his residence in Henderson county, Tennessee, on the tiJd day of January, 1857, n the 59th year of his age. He joined the Baptist Church in early life, and shortly after emigrated lo Teunesse , where he con nectea himself with what is called the Christ&iu Church, but had not been a member of any church for years past, but was moral Mia fond of conversing on religious subjects He was an obliging and kind neighbor, and fond of company. About fifteen yeare ago he joined the order of Masons. lie was twice married. His children are very large, but probably none or them will ever be more than half the weight of their father. II- was quite active aud lively, and labored until about lour years Hgo, when he became so fleshy that ii • was compelled to stay at home, or to be hauled a! tout in a two horse wagon. Iu 1819, he made a contract with a tailor to fur nish him a suit of clothes for $50 —the cloth was to cost five dollars per yard. Upon measurement, it took twelve yards of cloth. So ihe tailor lost ten dollars aud the making. The tailor states that three men, each weighing over 200 pounds, put tbe coat on, buttoned it around them, and walked across the square at Lexington. Iu 1850, it took 13$ yards of flax cloth, yard wide, to make him a coat. It took sixteen yarns cf cambric tor his shroud; 24 yards oi black velvet to cover the sides and lid of his coffin; 125 feet of plank to moke fais coffin. His coffin was eight fe*t ioug. Across the breast 32 inches. “ head, 18 “ “ foot, 14 “ Its depth 35 _ “ He weighed in 1845, 871 pounds. His height was 7 feet 6 inches. His weight, when he died, as nearly as could be ascertained, was a fraction over 1,000 pounds.— Jackson (Tenn.) Whig. How Strangers Live in Rio Janeiro. —The Hotel dos Estrangeiroe is a large house kept on the French plan ; the Hotel Johnson is where English men “most do congregate," and where one can find mere comfort ritual any other establishment for the accommodation of the public in the city. B*»tii are surrounded by verdure, whether we consider the neighboring garden?, or tbe adjacent hills, whose r-ides are covered with luxuriantly foliagiki trees aud clambering vines.*- The stranger at R. 6 de Janeiro is usually sur prised at the scarcity of inns and boarding* houses There are several French and 1 alian hotels with apartments te let; and these are chiefly supported by the numerous foreigners constancy arriving and temporarily residing in the place. But among the native population,- an d intended for Brazilian pa trocage, there are only eight or ten inns in a city of three hundred thousand inhabitants, and scarcely Hny of these exceed the dimensions of a private house. It is almost inconceivable now the numer ous visiters to this great emporium can find neces sary accommodations. It may safely be presumed that they could not, without a heavy draught upon the hospitalities of the inhabitants, with whom, in many instances, a letter of introduction secures a home. Iu the lack of such a reeoYt, the sojourner rents a room, and, by the aid of his servant and n few articles of furniture, soon manages to live, with more or less frequent resorts to some caza de paste, or restaurant. Most of the members of the National Assembly keep up domestic establishments during their sojourn in .he capital. A? a conaequen •« of this lack of hotels and boarding houses, some of the commercial firms maintain a tabia for the conve nience of their clerks aud guests. This was once much more common ; but since 1850, probably tbe greater portion of those formerly thus accommoda ted, club together, rent a house in Bolafoga, Parta Granae or on the banta Th.-resa, and keep up an establishment of their own. Green llair. —Tne Bulletin Tberapeutique con tains the curious case of a worker in metals who has wrought in copper only five months, and whose hair, which was lately white, has now turned to a decided green. Chemical analysis has proved that his hair contains a considerable' quantity of acetate of and it is to this siroumstanee that it •worca efcaega of soior. EUROPE AN INTELLIGENCE. BY THE SUROPA. Front the London Times , July 16. The Mutiny in India —The danger of the crisis in the North-Western Provinces of India seems at length to be appreciated by the Queen s Govern ment. It haa beeu resolved to act with vigor, and that resolution will no doubt be fortified by the in telligence which for some time to come we shall re ceive by eacn successive mail. We would commu nicate in a few words the genera! nature of the pre cautions already taken. A steam squadron is to be sent to India. As the exigencies of the service have already absorbed the number of seamen actually voted, it is intended to apply to Parliament for au additiou*U vote ot 2,000 seamen, an application which wiil, no doubt, at once receive the sanctum of the Legislature. We should gladly hear that this squadron, or a portion of it. was to be used for the conveyance of troops. The advantage of a steam squadron in the Indian Seas is, cf course, un deniable, but it must not be forgotten that the pres ence of one European legiment in Upper India would outweigh that of a steam frigate m the Bay of Bengal. The primary value of these steamships for this emergency is as transports. They cannot bring their guns to bear upon the mutineers as the scene of their operations. One fact, however, we may speak of with certaiuty. A considerable force of artillery is to be despatched by the most rapid con veyance at haad; and in this arm, as it appears from the reports forwarded home, the Bengal estab lishment is. unfortunately, deficient. With regard to the regiments actually ordered to the scene of hostilities—independently of the regiments which have been moved from the other Presidencies aud from the Persian Gulf upon the dis'urbed districts— the force which had been appropriated to the Chi uese operations, has been intercepted at Point de Galle by summons from Canning, and this measure has received the entire approval j nd confirmation of the authorities at home. In order to fill up the vacuum m the China service caused by the with drawal of these troops, it is proposed to despatch a battalion of Marines to Hong Kong with tne least possible delay. Let there not exist any self-deception as to the real nature of the contest upon which we have just entered. The result is certain success if we do but i use the moans at our disposal with judgment aud energy ; but it would be difficult to exaggerate the imp:>r Lance of the crisis. So much of India remains British India as is under the control or the awe i of British troops, but not a square league more.— * Let us a. least act upon this conviction as the safest r earnest of a speedy success. For a long time past ii has been whispered among men who had expe rience ot Indian affairs that sooner or later luaia would revolt from our rule, and perhaps be lost to , us loreyer. The first part of the prophecy is fulfill ed or in course of tulfillment. It rests with our selves to avert the latter and more formidable evil. The Alleged Revival of the Slave Trade.— Iu the House of Lords on ihe 17th, the subject of , the intended transportation of negroes from Africa to the French collides by the imperial government , was taken up, when the following proceedings took place: “Lord Brougham described the circumstances uuder which 10,000 free negroes had recently been transported from Africa to the Fl ench colonies, and said he apprehended very serious consequences from this measure aud the revival of the slave trade At the same time, he had no intention whatever of insinuating anything against the jusiice or honor of [ the French Emperor ; and lie was sure it was only necessary to call the attention of the French gov ernment to the subject, to induce them to abandon the policy which appeared to have been adopted.” In the course of his speech the noble Lord said : “ But it was unnecessary to advert to further in stances iu order to demonstrate to their lordships that exaggerated statements and a complete per , version of facts were not confined to the advocacy of the plau of free emigration. They dated from a , period even further back than 1788. The plan of free emigration had an ominous resemblance to the original scheme by which it had been sought to bring about a stale of things by which the cruelty which had been inflicted upon the native Indian tribes in America might be obviated, aud their places supplied by the importation of negroes from Africa. That scheme, which he might term the union of short-sighted benevolence with far sighted | self-interest, it was which had first produced the monstrosity the African slave trade. Iu accordance with that plan, a license to take out 4,000 negroes from Africa had been obtained—a license which had afterwards been annually renewed. “ The terms proposed to be offered to those ne groes wete 9s. a mouth, and it wits said that negroes having been purchased and liberated on the Afri can coast, would immediately have their minds opened as to the nature of au indenture of appren ticeship, and would immediately enter into such in dentures and go on board ship to be conveyed to the West Indie?, at wages of 9s. a month. Now, the negro nature was completely misunderstood by those who advocated such a scheme. The negroes were naturally simple utiuded aud innocent, but they possessed almost—as did the ancient Egyp tianu —an absolu e horror of the sea. That feeling had always been rooted in their nature, even before the commencem mt of the slave trade, and it had gathered additional strength from that infernal traf tic and the middle passage connected with it. To propose, therefore, to free negroes to emigrate from Africa and cross the ocean, was one of the wildest schemes which ever a perverted imagination had invented’.’ Having appealed in powerful language to the House to do all in their power to discountenance the slave trade iu every shape, Lord Brougham concluded by moving an address to her Majesty, which stated that, even if the system, adopted by the French Government were not iliegal, it had a direct tendency to promote the slave trade; and that her Majesty had, therefore, been requested to use her endeavors to discountenance all measures which tended, directly or indirectly, to promote a revival of the slave trade in any shape. The Earl of Clarendon said the noble and learned lord had correctly stated the opinion of Government upon this subject; and he had but done justice to the Emperor of the Fr«-nch and the French Govern ment when he said they were incapable of giving any encouragement, directly or indirectly, to the . lave trade. The opinion of his noble and learned friend would receive the most n spectful attention of government. He Loped Ike House would agree to the address, because it would strengthen the hands of the govern ment, though they needed no stimulant,for the sub ject had been a matter of constant and confidential communication between the two government*, aud that no effort should be wanted to prevent the re establishment of the slave trade The noble earl then detailed wuat bad been done, aud said that if it turned out that the slave trade was revised, the go vernment would not hesitate to use the power vest ed in them to stop it. Lord Harrow by said : —“To show the light iu which this system was likely to be viewed by the native chiefs in Africa, he would take the liberty of reading the copy of a very curious letter eent by the King of Calabai iu answer to a British merchant who had written to his Majesty to know whether any of his people would engage themselves as free laborers. The letter was as follow* : “Old Calabar, June 5, 1850. “Dear Sir:—l Received your kind letter by the magistrate, through Captain Todd, and by your wish I now write to say wk be glad for supply you with slaves. I have spoken with King Archibury, and all Calabar gentleman be very glad to do the sain. Regard to free emigration we man no will go for himself. We shall buv them alsam we do that time slave trade bin. We be very gla i for them mau to come back again to Calabar; but I fear that time they go for West Indies he no will com back her. We have all agreed to charges four boxes o; brass an i copper rod for man, woman and children—but ?!mll noi be able to supply the quan tity you mention. I Link we shall be able to get 400 or 500 for cue vessel, and to load her in tbree or four months, for wocauuot get them all ready to wait for the ship. iShe will have to com and take them on board as they com We have no place on shore to keep them. The ship will have to pay con vey to me aud Archibury, but no other gentlemen —say 10,000 coppers for each town in cloth, or any other article of trad. I shall be very glad if the term I mention will suit you, for we shall not be able to do it a less price, and man to be paid for with roads I shall be very glad when you write me again to mark arrangements with your captain what inn the ship must come, hoping you are quite well, beleeve ine to be, “My dear sir, your humble servant, “Eto Honesty Kin«.” This letter showed that the system would be but another form otthe slave trade, aud that the so-call ed free laborers w f ould be bought and sold. No doubt tho horrors of the middle passage could be prevented by the proper regulation of the vessels employed in conveying the negroes ; and after the laborer arrived iu a colony in which slavery had been abolished he would no longer be the victim of op pression. Yet, ou the coast of Africa the effect of the plan would be to revive the gambling spirit engendered by the slave trade, together with all the atrocities connected with the capture ol slave in the interior, while the course of peaceful commerce and agriculture now extending rapidly over the shore of Africa, would be entirely arrested. Lord Brougham briefly replied, quoting the favo rite organ ot the slave party in the Carolines, to show that the slaveholders in America regarded the example proposed to beset by England and France in the matter of the exportation of “free negroes trom Alrica as au encouragement aud a justification for them to procure as many slaves as they chose for the Southern States. The enforcement of any cou rract for wages wou'd be entirely within the jurisdic tion ot the slave State in which the negro was locat ed j and it was easy to see what would become of the “freedom” of the Africa emigrant m the event of any legal dispute arising. The address was then agreed to. From the London Times, July 18. Mr. Marcy’s Letter.- When the Convention of Paris was transmitted to Washington, Mr. Marcy, tfith au amiable candor, declared his intention of considering it with a view to the inteiestsof the United States in the contingency of a war with England. The Americans have as much to lose at sea as ourselves, but they have comparatively in significant navy. It was therefore natural that they should wish to diminish captures; but they were iikely to suffer a disadvantage by allowing ships of war a monopoly of plunder. The Secretary us state was perfectly justified in looking to the interests of hie coiuftry, although he used an untenable argu ment when be assumed that private enterpr se would make up for the deficient strength of the na tional marine. It is well known that privateers never fight, but that it cannot be denied that in a war with England they might be a formidable wrap o i iu the hands of tbe United States. Mr. Marcy offered to su jscribe three out of the four articles ot the European Convention, but the parties to the Treaty of Paris had agreed to make the concession to any port conditional on the acceptance of the whole. As an alternative, he made a bold and compre hensive proposal. The American Government un dertook to renounce the use of Letters cf Marque on condition shat the property of belligerents at sea should be wholly exempt from capture, and, it the offer was made m good faith, it is to be regretted that England did not at once close with the sugges tion. Lord Palmerston in imated in his Manchester speech an inclination to acquiesce in the priject, but it was necessary to consult Lke Powers which Lad signed the treaty of Paris, and it was thought - desirable to examine the various results which might from such a revolution in Maritime Law. Be* lore a decision could be formed the Cabinet at Washington became alarmed at the possibility that tts offer would be accepted. Mr. Buchanan and Gen. Cass have intimated their die inclination to ioiiow up the discussion, nor is there any reason to hope that so desirable an object wili soon become a; tain able. In the meantime the laws of war be tween England ana America are whol y unaffected by the Convention ol Paris. The maratime weapon which is really indispensa ble to England is the light of blockade. Mr. Marcy * plan would have relieved traders from the neces sity of procuring convoys, while it would have en abled the Eugtitih fleets to close the prin.ipal po’uj ot the enemy, and in this manner the mtntmun . of efficiency m the navy would have been combined with the minimum of loss to commerce. The tid ings of the proposed bargain were, as experience has since proved, much too good to be true. If, nowever, the Government has not obtained every thing wmch might have been wished, it has done the country solid service in procuring the abolition of European privateering. Highly Interesting from Italy.—The advices by tne last steamer include several interesting items in relation to the affairs of Italy. A Havre paper of the 14th says ; “We learn from the Italian prints that Miss White, , who was incarcerated after the Geonese insurrec tion, occupies a chamber adjoining the apartment* of the Governor of the Prison. The revolutionary heroine appears so be a prey to the liveliest enthu siasm. Oue singular circumstance will suffice to give an idea of the political enthusiasm which ani mates this romantic womau. “ When the carbineeer came to arrest her, she threw herself upon a portrait of Mazzini and kiss ed it with intense and pious fervor. It was rumor **d that she had declared that she was married to the oid eh es of youug Italy ; she is engaged, on the contrary, to a poor young man, whose nama is not even known. As for Mazzini, he is her gud, not her husband. Ihe passion with which he inspire? her i? not love, but a religious respect. One does not love a prophet, buteerveshim humbly and de votes one’s self to his gl<»ry. “ Certainly Miss White has given proof of an ac tive seal. By moans of subscriptions she obtained in the *i> gle city of Geneva a sufficient sum for the purchase of ten thousand muskets.” “ The events which have recently taken place in Italy, ’ the Courier says, “must necessarily have their consequences iu the European Cabinet.”— Therefore, we cannot be astonished to learu that the Austrian Cabinet is about to deinaud of Prussia that that government should address a note to England praying her to exercise an active surveillance over •if J, eeß wilu have sought an asylum iu ihe Brit ish Island?—that is to say, to modify the English regulations relative to foreigners. , h wnofc yet known how Prussia will reply to this demand, but it is certain there is in preparation a united assault upon Lord Palmerston by the Italian powers to obtain the expulsion ot Mazzini and his contrerees trom England. Vienna correspondence says upon this subject : The lute events iu Italy cannot pass without punishment. Ihe diplomacy of the Italiau States, including Austria, will find sufficient cause for re clamation, and we shall see in a few weeks a con stituted coalition ot Powers against the pertuber ators of the peaoe aud tranquility of the Italian Pe musula. The result will probably be, that the great Reyototionary Dictator of Italy and hi? partisans will be forced to emigrate to America. If ali Eu rope rise against the disturbers of European peace, Eugland, it is to be hoped, may at last be persuaded to withdraw her protection from the anarchists of our time.” t Statement of Mrs. Marble—Mrs. Marble | who, with others, was recently made a prisoner by i a party of Sioux ludians, had an interview with the i Commissioner of Indian Affairs ou Tuesday. The * Union says: t I Q her application for indemnity' for properly de t stroyed by the Indians, she states that on the 13,h of March last, a parly of Sioux Indians, numbering i about seventy, of whom thirty were warriors, be , longing to Ink pa-du tail’s band, in amity with the United Sta es, came to her residence, ou the west side of Spirit Lake, killed her husbauff, and destroy ed and carried away property a mourning in the ag gregate to $2,229, of which S7OO was gold coin. As s ter having murdered her husband and buried his body in the snow, they claimed as their prisoners Mr?. Noble, Miss Gardner, Mrs Thatcer, and her self, and compelled them to bear heavy burdens, and plod their weary way with their feet entirely i naked through snow to the depth of two, three and i four feet, occasionally crossing rivers when they l were forced to wade where ofteutime the water i would nearly immerse their persi ns, and compel them to ward off the drifting ice with their feeble f hands to keep it from bruising their shivering bodies, f 1 11 this maimer they were driven before the savages r for the space of ten weeks, during which time the squaws were allowed to abuse them in the most ! cruel manner, striking them with clubs, axes, &c., anu their sufferings were of such a character that language is inadequate to the task of a truthful des cription. i After suffering these hardships and privations, she was rescued by a party of friendly Lac Qui r Parle Indians, to whom agent Flandreau paid sl, i 000 for her ransom. Some two weeks before her f release, Mrs. Thatcher was thrown into the Big Si . oux river. Upon attempting to get out rifle ball? , were fired into her body until she expired. Her - husband, prior to his murder, held a pre-emption , claim of 160 acres of land, on which he had settled; and Mrs. Marble believes that she is entitled to ap t propriate remuneration to the amount, of S2OO in , lieu of this claim, which she was forced to abandon. [ She adds that she has not recovered any portion o I the property which she has specified, and haa rot . herself, nor through others, sought to claim revenge l on these Indians. She, therefore, claims indemnify [ under the 17th section of the intercourse act of June 30th, 1834, and prays the department to reta n a sufficient amount from the annuities which may be due to this tribe of Indi-ns, to satisfy her claim, as she is ia indigent circumstances. If this cannot be i done, then she petition? the department to present her case for the favorable consideration of tne next Congress. Tragedy on Staten Island. —A startling trage dy took place on Staten Island last Tuesday morn ing, t l e particulars of which are given by the N- Y. Herald, as follows : Mias Emma Brewly, residing in Brooklyn, and a Mr. John G. Souler, of New York, have beeu on intimate terms for the past two years, against the wishes ol the young lady’s parents, who repeatedly forbade her lover their house ; but ho persisted, little dreaming that his acts would subsequently call hie loved one to tLe final judgment seat. From statement of the father, it appears that the lady had a rejected lover, who, exasperated at the conduct of his successful rival, determined to either end his own life or theirs. With this deter mination, ou Tuesday morniug about 11 o’clock, lie repaired to Staten Island, where he learned that the lover? were sojourning, for the purpose of ascertain ing the lady’s true state of feeling for him ; but judge of his ieslousy aud surprise, when, oil reach ing Fort Washington, he discovered his fair Juliet reposing in the sweet sleep of innocence in her lover’s arms. Driven to fury by this sight, lie drew a pistol for tbe purpose of ending bis life, when the snapping of the trigger awoke Mr. Souler, who, per ceiving his purpose, struck the pistol from the youug man’s hand, who still infunateu, hurriedly picked it up aud fired at the sleeping form before him, the ball entering her heart and causing instant death. The murderer immediately escaped, before Mr. ►Souler, who wa* awe-stricken at the act, could give an alarm. Several persons on hearing the report of the pißtol, hastened to the spot, and after conveying the lifeless body of the female into the fort, started in pursuit of the murderer, who, unfortunately, eluded his pursuers by jumping on tho boat which was just starting from the dock, and escaped to New York. Chinesi Infxrnal Machines. —Trie following account show* how great the perils to which the British fleet at Canton are exposed from the ma chinations of the Chinese : On Sunday, the 3d of May, at 4 A. M., it being a daik, rainy morning, a tremendous explosion took place exactly ahead of the Acorn, and so close a* to shake the ship all over; immediately afterwards fragments of a very large infernal machine floated past und many pieces were • aught by the spars that are rigged out all aroud the ship as a protection against fire rafts. The pinnace and cutter were sent ahead, and discovered at the distance of half a mile a strong bamboo rope, attached to a pile driven into the bed of the river. This rope was found t# lead from the pile under water to the Acorn’s cable, to which it was attached some feet under water. — This must have beeu done by a diver during the night, as the anchor had been weighed the day be fore. Ihe machine which had contained the powder was attached to rings, by which mears it would slide easily along the rope fastened to the cable.— From each bank wa? a line also fastened to the ma chine to guide it. The banks of the river being nigh would entirely conceal tbe men employed to guide it. Part of a tine triggerliue was also found i leading to the nearest bank of the river. The ma i chine had evidently been floated down along the i bamboo rope, and guided by the lines directed ahead of the Acorn, and had the tiring been delayed one minute it must have exploded immediately un i der the bows and destroyed the vessel. Most for tunately, however, the guard boat, which had re i turned to the ship for a fresh crew, had just shoved off and was pulling in the direction of the exact i point of the bank behind which was the man, gui i ding the machine. He must have thought himself discovered, aud pulled the trigger an instant too , soon. From two pieces of the fragments of the whole length and breadth it was found that the ma chine had been a strong wooden tank rendered water-proof, aud capable of containing more than 2,000 lbs. of powder. i W ool. —From the most reliable information which i can be procured from persons who traveled through i the wool growing district* of the State, the dealers i are satisfied that the aggregate clip of this year will exceed that of 1856, by three millions of pounds A large part if not all of the wool has now passed r from the farmer to the merchants, and a considera ble portion into the hands of the buyers for Ihe New York market and Eastern manufactories The i prices paid for the greater portion of the wool crop range from forty to fifty cents, and in some of the best districts fifty-five to rixty cents have been paid. We are informed that oue buyer in this city ha? hi store in Licking county, over two hundred thousand * pounds, which cost over fifty cents per pound. The s amount of cash distributed in the State for wool this year will exceed six millions of dollars. The State \ has become the leading woolgrowing one in the i Union. Besides the increase in the number of fleeces, the sheariug occurred a month later this year than la?t, and the increase of the growth of wool during th s time affords an increase of eight per cent, to the clip. Buyers are confident that the supply of wool in the country will fall short of the demand, and the pries cannot recede. This seems probable, as the territory in which woof is raised, haa been of late years narrowed to the Western States, with which the Eastern could not compete; while theconsump r tion haa increaaed, tbe Eaatern States have aban , doned the competition, and left Onio to furnish the best wools now grown. The counties of Stark, Wayne, Holmes, Licking, Franklin, and others in i the centre of the State, are now aa famous for their fine wool, aa they formerly were for their great crops of wheat. — Cleveland Plain Dealer , July 24. * An Indian Adventure —The following incident waa narrated to Lieutenant Beckwith, of the Pacific Railroad Expedition, by a Delaware Indian guide, aa they were traversing a mountain pasa which was marked by numerous gullies and ravines : He was traversing this pass at midnight, accom panied by his squaw only, both mounted on the same horse, and the night so dark that he could neither see the outlines of the hills nor the ground at hie horses feet, when he heard a sound,(which he imitated) so slight as to be scarcely perceptible to an Indian's ear, of an arrow carried in the baud, strikmg once only with a slight tick, against a bow. Stopping, he could hear nothing, but instantly die mounted—bis pquaw leaning down upon the boree, that she might by no posaibilty De seen—and placed his ear to the ground, when he heard the same sou o | reputed, but a few feet distant, aod was therefore ! satisfied that however imminent the danger, he Lao i not yet been seen or beard, for no Indian would mak*3 such a noise at night in approaching his foe ; he, therefore, instantly arose ana took his horse bj the bridle ©lose to.his mouth, to lessen the chance? J of hisimo veil, g or whining, and one hundred and . seventy of his deadliest enemies, the Sioux on a [ war party, filed past him within arm’s reach, while he remained unobserved. Fashionable Call and all they Said.— “H »w do you do, my dear 2” ‘ Putty well, thank you.” (They kite.] “How have you been this age 7” “Putty well. How have you been t” “Very well, thank you.” “Pleasant to-day.” “ Yes, very bright—but w# had a shower yes terday.” J “Are your people well T” “Quite well, thank you ; how are your* V' “V ery well, I'm obliged to you.' “Have you seen Mary B. lately !” “No, but I’ve seen .Susan C.” “You don’t say so ! Is she well I” “Very well, I believe.” {Rising ] ,l Must you go 7” “Yes, indeed ; I have seven calls to make. “Do call again 600 n.” „ 5n “Thank you ; but you don’t call oit me once in an “'oh, you «hould not •>: I'm I'm very good." . ■ “Good bye.” AceiDiKT.— We learn that on yesterday tbe derrick Med in conetrncting the iraproventente at the’reatwrvoir tell, killing two of the workmen and wounding a third. We were unable to leara the names <d the unfortunate Tiatime.— Kmtkmlle Ban. VOL. LXX.—NEW SERIES VOL. XXI. NO. 32 The Letter of Thamna W. Tho man. It was with feelings of irrepressible inortiticatiou and grave surprise, mingled with indignation, that we read the letter of Thomas W. Thomas, of Elbert, which appeared in tbe Constitutionalist of th* ‘>3d in t. Where the writer could have gleaned the idea that such bitter exasperation and malignant opposition as 1 e has fulminated against President Buchanan, would be pleasing to the ears of Georgia Democrats, we cannot tell, unless it be in the fierce uprisings of his own heart. He will have to come down from the high horse he has mounted so un ceremoniously, or travel alone upon his up-hill journey. The. entire letter is penetrated with a vein of sar casm and invective, and seems to have beeu con ceived in a captious, acrimonious, a d snarly spirit. Facts which have transpiied since the adjournment of the Convention, going to mollify the asperities of Gov. Walker’s conduct—the rapid change which is coming over public opinion, since time and circum stance* have favored a dispassionate abd accurate survey of Kansas affairs ; the lack of official ex pressions of sentiment upon the subject, from the Democracy of other Southern States, equally or more interested thau ourselves, when such demon ?tratine resolutions would not have been wanting, had such been deemed necessary by them ; these] aud many additional reason? which must naturally have presented themselves to the mind of any can did enquirer after truth, seem not, for an Instant, to havedeterr 2d the author of this explosive commu nication from deliberately penuing his reckless statements, interspersed with tha most daring and insulting denunciations. It would require us to oopy tbe letter entire, in order to give our readers au adequate idea of the bitterness and malignancy which pervade it; but we have not room for that. After freely bestowing upon Walker the epithets “ satrap ,” and some less significant—after pouring out the vial ot his w r ath upon the Washington Union, accusing the editor of wielding a “venal pen”—of telling “/A.e truth when the truth will do, and inventing when the necessity of the case demands it** —after representing the President as a dictatorial “mas ter,” meting out rewards aud punishments, and seeking to ride rough shod over the Democracy— after alligning our worthy and conservative Chief Executive with abolitionists and traitors, as if he occupied their line of policy, and sympathised with 1 heir movements and designs—after thus and much more insulting the mau whose triumphaut election to the h'ghest office within the gift ot the people was preceded by a national contest unequaled in political bitterness and uncompromising hate of De mocratic principles—the tnan who carried the glo rious flag of our party, inscribed with its cherished doctrines, upon his broad shoulders, to victory through a storm of obliquy and ferocious hostility— the man who has appointed a Southerner to be Gov ernor of Kansas, ana a Southerner to be hi? Sccie tary—the man who is the first President'that ha? planted himself boldly and unmistakably upon the , Southern view of our rights in the territories, and ( who has a majority of Southern men in his Cabi net—of him, ot James Buchanan, the patriot and statesman, Judge Thomas thus uses his vindictive , pen^ “lie (meaning the editor of the Washington Union) is a lit and proper o gan for Mr. Buchanan, if he retains Walker- in that oase his organ in worthy of him and he is worthy of his organ In that event, history, ‘with her pen of iron and her tablets of brass,’ though not condescending to men tion the organ, will write down the master in the same list with ARNOLD !” Is this double-distilled bitterness of approbrium called for ? No!—no!—we will not believe it. It is the gangreuous expectoration of a deep seated viudictiveneee—nothing more, nothing less. Origi ns ting in ingratitude, it has found its vent in ingra titude. For who is this Judge Thomas, that lie should thus take the initiative in abusing and mis representing President Buchanan f Not more than two years ago he took shelter in the Democratic party, in company with many noble-hearted Whigs, against the hurricane of Kuow-Nothingism that was sweepiug over the country. Now, like the serpent which the generous husbandman warmed into life at his fire-side, he turns to sting the bosom that nf foroed him hospitality and protection. But does he suppose that any body who stops to think will se riously believe his charges I —or that any feeling besides iudignation will be awakened by his treaoh ery ? Shall a man who scarcely has his political >-yes open—the unfledged politician of a few short years—revile with impunity the statesman who has grown gray in the service of his party and of his country ? No!—the only, Arnold in this case, who has basely betrayed the interests committed to his keeping, is Judge Thomas himself ; and, could lie hear the bitter execrations which arise spontaneous ly from every honest Demoorat’s heart, at the read ing of his letter, be would cower before the whirl wind of indignation his own conduct has aroused.— But here is another extract: “Soon he (President Buchanan) must take his place in the history of tins country —au honest mm who dared to do his duty, or one who tread erouriy deserted and violated the great principle on which lie was elected, and sold himself to the Abolition foes In had jurt defeated ’’ And why re those fierce denounoiations heaped upon the head of President Buchanan ? What has he done that he should be called “ traitor and enrolled with “ Arnold V' Simply this?—he ha* i ot recalled Robert J. Walker from the Governor ship ot Kansas, at the instance of the third resolut on passed by the late Convention of 24th of June—a resolution that now mee s with the hearty disappr ». bation of many of the very men who, under the exciting circumstances of the occasion, and led away by confiding too trustingly in the judgment of others, united in the affirmative vote. This unceremonious haste in pronouncing James Buchanan a traitor and an Arnold , must, it seems to us, have motives which lie deeper than the surface of Judge Thomas’ leltei. Can it be poss ble that he is simply the cat's paw in the hands of designing politicians—that he is p aying second fiddle to other parties who prescribe the tune —that ho is a mere tool of scheming opera tors behind the scenes, the puppet before the curtain, bowing and grimacing as the wires are pulled in 'he rear ? Can this theory ot the letter be correct ? If so, then is the puppet worthy of its managers, and the managers worthy of their puppet. — Rome Southerner. From the Savannah Republican. Col. Ganlden and h!« Democratic Frlends. Hitherto the opponents of Col. Gauldeu and the Ifolmesville Convention have had f be newspaper field pretty much to themselves; and they have not allowed their opportunities to pass unimproved, as the columns of the Georgian and News will abun dantly testify. The scene, however, seems to be shifting, and the Colonel aod his men getting fairly in the field. Col. Long opened a responsive can nouade in the Georgian of Saturday, and yesterday the Chief himself lets off a regular broadside of can ister and round s ot, through tho columns of the News—so loud a report, indeed, that one woluo suppose he had exhausted his locker. We woufu be unfaithful to the times did we fail of presenting at least a synopsis of the Col. s manifesto. It will amuse our Amerii au friends, and no doubt be in finitely diverting to the friends of Col. Seward. Col. Gaulden opens, by a special tender, of his compliments to our neighbor of the Georgian, to whom he reads a lecture on “vanity and weakness,’ and would ridicule the idea of the Georgian’s set ting up as “the arbiter to restrain the party,” when it was yet but “two days old." He tells our neigh bor he is independent of his support, and says i “I believe that my name has a higher and holier place that It can ever have at the head of the col umns of the Georgian, to wit s in the hearts and con tidenoe of my fellow citiiens of the first Congres sional District -a confidence which, if we mistake not the signs of the times, will roll up such a major ity for me, on the first Monday iu October next, that the defeat which you received at Armory Mall, sig nal as it was, will be but a gentle symptom.” The Colouel then ‘ pitenes into," fore and aft, the various newspaper correspondents who have been writing against Ifim, whom he affectionately char acterizes as “cowurdly conspirators and “midnight assassins.” Their communications, he »ay are “tU Bues of willful lies and slanders from beginning to end.” Three gentlemen from Liberty his own coun ty, come in For a specially pointed and particular notice. In reply to all of them he save i “They bark most beautifully now, but the barking will be turned into lugubrious howls about the first Monday in October. They will be visited by the scorn of an indignant people. What, sir, has it 0 »me to this, that thirty odd freemen of the State of Georgia, representing thirteen counties of the dis trict, cannot peaceably assemble in Convention and peaceably nominate a oanaidate for Congress, with out bringing down on them, and their candidate, the anathemas of these gentry ? Are we freemen, or are we the slaves of this faction? What crime have we committed, I iu accepting, or this Conven tion in nominating me 7 Is the Democratic party a free and independent body of citizens, or does it live, breathe, and have its existence in and through Col. Seward and a clique or faction?” “Had Col. S. been nominated, all would have been as smooth aamai riage bells ; not a word would have been said ; but because he was not nominated, I mid the Convention are denounced throughout the length and breadth of the land. Col. Seward has been au independent candidate since December last, atid again declared himself an independent candidate at the Holinesville Convention ; this is all r ght, but as soon as I am nominated, the ire of i his faction is excited to the utmost degree. Oh ! how ang.y they are. The principal reason assigned a, that the Convention did not represent a majority of the District. Let us see how this will tell with the history of Col. Seward. In 1863 Col. Seward was nominated by six counties. They now say ht was recommended, but this is a distinction without a difference ; when a man is recommended by a Convention, lie is nominated and when li is noun natad he is recommended. He was very g'.ad to get it, as I will show hereaitor. C 1. S ward, I say, war nominated by six counties only, and was elected uot a word was then said, but all was right will those who are now so loudly denouncing the Holinesville Convention. Now permit me to ask if six counties were so potent when Col. Seward war nominated in 1853, why are thirteen counties so en tirely insufficient in 1857, when CoL Gauldeu ir nominated ? Will these knights of the quill and as sarsiua of the dark answer 7” After reviewing their articles separately, he throws down the gaunilet as follows, to all who may con sider themselves offended by the matter or manner of hie strictures : “ But I cannot follow these cowardly assassins in their dirty windings and twisti gs; but in taking i ave of them I wou.d remark that if any or all oi ihem feel that they are aggrieved by anything said in this communication, ibat if they will come out of heir hiding holes, any call that they may make on me for satisfaction, shall be promp ly attended to I will respond to tuem all on the same day or on consecutive days ; and as there are ago many ol them, and I would not like to lose much time with -o dirty a pack, I hope they will all call together, and at once, as I would like to dispose of them be fore the 25th of August, as at that time I expect to take the stump, to expose to the people the vile tricks ot them and their aiders and abettors.” Tne nominee then strikes for what he seems to consider higher game, and pnys h's respects to Col. reward, his opponent, upon whom he calls fo* the redemption of his bond, as follows : “I proceed now to a graver and more important branch of tbs subject. I assert, htldiDg myself responsible fur the truth of what I say to Col. .Sew ard and the country, that Col b. met me at the Con verities in 1853, at ilolmesville; that he made the most earnest appeals to me to retire from the con test, and let him have the race that time; that be did not desire to run but once, and that if I wouu do so that he would at the next canvass, or any time after that, if I desired to run, be oat ot ttt*' way and give ne his support. I beß, . tA^i_ rkf . ( time about comply ng, and Col. Bawardl that outside and independent ot any y . f j he could make, (fradtude “'“Xvei luldTave ad but with tb, the nomination of ““ j retired and told mi view to harmomae tte under>tMdiß j friends to Domwftew h a V e in my possession the relation in Col. S.'s handwntmg, which tendered that Convention, and which was pass bv them, a copy of which will be found below ” After producing a formidable array of certifi cates from certain gentlemen of Appling, Camdeu and Liberty, to the contract between himself and Col. Sewafdat the Holmesville Convention in 1853. he publishes the resolutions of Col. Seward, as follows: * "Resolved, by this Convention. That we tender to Col Win. B, Gaulden our hign appreciation of his generouK.desire to harmonize coufLo ing feel b gs and produce harmony amongst friends strug gling for a oomtnon cause. • ‘•That his inclination to heal q fficulties, manifest ed by the withdrawal of his name trvm among those trorn whom a candidate might be selected, Tor the Ist Congressional District, speaks much in his favor and should endear him to his party, and he will doubtless receive the warm oommendation <0 mu friends throughout the Difftriek” iln view of the certificates and the abov *■ resolu tions, he continues and concludes as follows. “ Here is proof strong as Holy Writ, and I won'4 ns 'k the independent voters of the District how C' 1. Reward can continue a moment in the field opposi d 1 to me. In conclusion, 1 would say to this small* f: j ot knights of the quill, who have been so industri ously assailing me before and since ray nomiuition, that if it is their object to frighten me from my pro priety, to drive me from the field by bullying i f abuse, they are sadly mistaken iu their man. I a;i neither to be frightened from the even tenor of m/ way by paper bu'lets of the brain, nor by bullets * t a more tangible character. I have been nominate 1 by as fail, free, honest and respectable a conven tion as ever assembled iu the Distriot, and I hav i no doubt that it was a much larger and more conn • ties represented than any Dem ocratic Convention that has ever assembled in tbe District. I have ac cepted the nomination I give my banner to th » breeze; it shall there float, and proudly float, until the first Monday in October next. I appeal from the decision of all cliques and factions. I spurt* their authority as I abhor their dictation. “ I appeal to the independent voters of the District to aid me in throwing on the chaius which faction and cliques have woven astound us, and which would deliver over the Democratic party into the hands of one man and a few of his satellites, lor ever.” Home “ Souiher»ler ,, —Tlio Third Resolution.* The Editor of the Southerner (which is regarded as >h** home organ of Judge Lumpkin, the over boat d Democratic candidate for Governor) has been bottling h :* wrath tor some time over the third reso lution of the Democratic Convention. In his last issue, however, he is determined to come out with bis st utunents, and tell the whole truth, “ without fear, f»vo»- »r affection ” Not having the fear of Ylr. Jv»e Brown and nisS ‘Uthern Rights supporters before his eyes lie deliberately delivers himself as follows :— Sav. Rep 44 The time has come when we can no longer iu justice Hold our peace. Silence now ceases to be a virtue ; to speak out becomes a duty. 44 Plaiuly, then, we distinctly see and understand that this movement agaiust Governor Walker, of Kansas, is not a movement generally based upon patriotic feelings, or a oevotiou to principle. It is as the delegate utiguardedly said iu the couvei ti n, aplau 4 to roll the administration of Buchanan out of power on the Cobb of Georgia.’ If the Presi dent will permit the lenders of this crusade to re construct the Cabinet for hi'r } Waker need not be recalled. The Senators and others who recom mended and end. r.ed him so highly for theiespon sible position of Secretary of Slate, will stand ready to smooth down the ruffled feathers of their wrath, and become his earnest anol .gis’s. The notes of alarm— the trumpet tonesot warning, will me away into a buz of approb itiou, and the scowl that wrin - les the blows of so many angry politicians and exasperated editors, will smooth down into the most complacent and winning ot smiles “We think the action of the Convention in pass iug the third resoiuti >u was hasty and inconside rate. The delegate were ill-prepared to consider the question iu its propor light. Tue Inaugural Ad dress of Governor Walker i.a I been made public at Lecompi* u only on the precedingX27th ot May. Be tween this ate and its first publication some little time elajsei Even then the production fell into but few hands. Its great length precluded its ap pearing in the uewspapets geueially. The Consti tutionalist itself did not commeuoe publishing the address until the 15th of July, three weeks utter the assembling of the Convention, and then only through repeated solicitatious, and with an apology based on the ex. i eme length of the production, tor not having done so previously. was under sttoh circumstauces that t ie delegates cuiuo toget her.— Very few of them had lead tue Inaugural; fewer had read it carefully aud w th sufficient understand ing to pas-* resolutions denouncing its sentiments.— The meagre extracts of the Constitutionalist, and comments thereon, were about all the data which the mass of delegates had to go ou in funning an opinion The whole fact is, they saw knowu lead ers of the party, in whom they had been accustomed to confide, whole judgments they thought might, be trusted, and who seemed to have examined the question thoroughly, uniting ou the resolution of censure and recail; aud, believing these men would not wantonly carry them astray , they voted with them, presuming the tacts to be precisely as repre sented Were the delegates assembled again, how ever, to-day as then , the third resolution would bo in a hopeless minority —in a resurrect iois less condition. We speak of that which we do know." « H n * * * We say, therefore, that, under existing ciroutn stances we shall sustain the administration even if it does uot recall Gov. Walker ; uud the gieat. mass ol* the Democratic and patriotic voters of Georgia will also sustain him ” Law or Banka —The New York Courier reports the following cases, which are ot interest to business men : There ate new phases in banking occurring al most daily', and requiring great watchfulness on the part of tellers and other bank officers A case oc curred a few weeks since among two up town banks which is somewhat novel. Bank A discounted a note for one of their customers, purporting to be made by a merchant, a customer ot bank B, where it was made payable. At its maturity the note was Bent to bank B tor payment, and was duly certified by the paying teller, and then paid in the exchanges. A t'-r the lapse of three weeks or a month, the note being charged to the customer’s account it was dis covered that the m&ker’s name was a forgery.— Bank A was called upon to refund the money there for ; but declined ou the ground that bank B in certifying and paying the note, assumed its validity or genuineness, hi d thus guaranteed the signature r.f t heir own customer. This is iu accordance with recent deoisiona of the English and American Courts, whereby a bank paying a torged check of one of their own custom ers, guarantees its genuineness. In the present ca.-e bank B has recourse upon the endorsers of the note iu question, but not upon b mk A, and if the endorsers are men of straw, the loos fallß upon the former. Another highly important oaee haa been decided by the Supreme C'o..rt of this State viz ; Where iho holder of a promissory note sent it when due to the bank at which it was payable, and flie bank erro neously supposing the maker to be in funds, credit ed the holder with the amount, on discovering its mistake next day. corrected it, and served the en dorsers with notice of non-payment.. It wan hold t y the Supremo Court of New York in an action on the note i gainst the endorsers, that, it had not been paid, atid that due step-i had been taken to charge them, ho mk to render them liable. Here the note is puyubb- at a p irticul »r place, a personal **eniaud is not essential It is the business - f the maker to furnish funds at the place, ready to uke up the p»per on the day it tails due ; and if the holder, or any one for him, is there wiih it, so hat h»- may be iu a situation cud ready to receive ;ne money and give up th- not*, it is sufficient. Sad Accidknt. — On Sunday morning last, as the 4 o’clock iu< ruing tram from this place to Macon, reached the crossing ot a small stream ab rnt 7 miles helow the depot, the track gave way, precipitating the locomotive, tender uud baggage car into the water and mud below, killing the fireman, Mr Jack son Bryant of this place, and so severely injuring Mr. Patrick Sullivan, temporary baggage master, shat he died during his transportation to town. Mr. George Smith, the engineer of the train also had one leg and arm broken ; and it is something re markable how he escaped thus lightly, as he whs found on the body of Mr. Bryant, who was not only killed outright, but bo scalded hy the hot water, that he had the appearance of having been par boiled The passenger ear was not thrown from the track, and therefore no one else was injured. As hood ns the occurrence was known in town, the H'liiroad Company despatched another locomo tive and ear, with o.»mpetent surgeons and oilier aid to the help of the wounded and t i<e relief of the de tained. They returned to the city during the morn ing, and energetic measures were immediately adopted to put the road in sound repair. An extra train left Macon, Sunday morning at 7 o’clock, reaching this place at 4 p. m. This terrible accident—one of the worst that has ever happened on the Muscogee road —was caused by the heavy washing rains that have daily fallen for two weeks past; the Southwestern road near Macon has likewise been so washed that trains were delayed for two days the past week, but no accident had occurred. The regular train oame through yes terday morning ou'y a little behind its usual tune— so that uninterrupted communications from this city eastward is once more establish^ d.—Columbus En quirer, 4th last. Louis Napolkon un ihe U .iied States.— -In a work once written by L uis Nspoleon. before his accession to power, he said, in a chapter, “ On Governments in General i" “ I speak it with regret, I oan see but two Gov ernments at this day, which fulfil the mission that Providence has confided to them; they are the two colossi at the end of the world ; one at the extremity of the old world, the other at the extremity of the new. Whilst our old European oentre is as a volcano, consuming itself in its crater, the two na tions of the East and the West march, without hesi tation, towards perfection; the one under the will of a single individual, the other under liberty. “ Providence has confided to the United States of North America the task of peopling and civilizing that immense territory which stretches from the Atlantic to the South Sea, and from the North Pole to t.e Equator. The Government, which is only a simple administration, has only hitherto been called upon to put in practice the old adage, Lotssez Jinre t Lais*ez paster, in order to form that irresistible in stinct which pushes the people of America to the West." The only other government in the world which, in the writer's opinion, fulfilled its mission, was Hus da, to the imperial dynast' of which, he said, was .•wing all the vast prog less, which in a century and a halt has reached that empire from barbaiism. Such were the opinions which Louis Napoleon held of the United States *md Russia before he at tained his present position. It would be an instruc tive lesson to have another chapter “on Govern neuts in general," and the United States and Rus sia in particular, from the Emperor of France.— Rich. Dii. Coal Trade of Great Britain. —The coal trade of Great Britain is bwcoiniug quite an im or ant branch of the industrial movements of that kingdom. The total quantity of coal shipped from porta in England, Ireland and Scotland to other porta in the United Kingdom was 8.882,037 tone, besides 37,226 tons of oind*-rs and 189,843 t» ns of culm. A new article of fuel appears in the British parlianaenta-y ret urns, called “patent fuel" much used in steam navigation, «.f wlnoh there were ex ported coast-wise iu i 856 86 335 tons The grand total of coal, cinder , and culm ♦Xfi»*ro , d in the coast ini' trade of the United Kingdom in 1856 wae 9,110,- 076 tons, against 8.853.142 t< us in 1855 In the foreign expor’ trade he total quantities of coa s, cinders, and culm exported to an including British commies, amounted to 0,879 ,<79 rons, exclusive of 69.462 tons -f “ par.ent fu«-1, and the declared valu- thereof was sl4 133,910, besides $213 24'; the value of* pmtent »«al ’ i. h „ nnanntv <>i coal exported in 1855 was 4,976,- 902t0n; ao.ointi.mil) value to sl2-231,705. The f-.llowiui statnf-ent will show the countries to which c al alone waa exported in 1856 : O uutrltes. Ton*. Egypt 75,2*9 A g ria 26,578 Aden 54,2x9 Ka t Indl p 128 594 I Au* raiia 33 949 I Cbina ... .33,Mi8 I Brush N Ameiica..93,s2l I British West Indies.. 94 336 i 'Jlher West'ladles.. 124 530 [ Luned States 230.938 i B aZ.i 87,10 i I Chili 57,556 <"**. mm fcfce.r-«i tin Towui.i.. ..45i 7*J I Hjia d.'u. ai | France > 5 <5 | Spai&ana Island*..s 7 i L&ly *4 , 7u ( M ots let ,60i : Turkey 235,41* | Daring the year the United States exported to .oretgn countries, cruefly to Canada, Cuba and New Granada, only 136,.;94 ton*, at a value of $077,420. Tne quantity ot coal imported into the United States trorn me British North American possessions in was 843 tons, at a value oi $4978, being an average oi $4 64 per ton.— Wa*k . Union. The Vatican —The word *‘ Vatican ’ is often used, out there are many who do not understand its its import. The term refers to a collection ot build ings on one of the seven hills oi Rome, which cov ers a space of twelve hundred feet iu leuglh, and about one thousand iu breadth. It is built on the spot once occupied by the garden of the cruel Nero. It owes its origin to the Bishcp of Koine win in the early pa:t oi the sixth cenluiy, erected an humble residence its site. About the year 1000, Pope Eugeni us' rebuilt it ou a mugniaoeut scale. Innocent 11, a few years after warns, gave it up as a lodging to Feter 11, Kt.-g oi Auagoii.— In 1605, Clement V, at the instigation oi tne King of France, removed the Fapal 8«a from Rome to Avignon, when the Vatican remained iar " "K --ditkmof obscurity for many yearn, j/ repository of multitudinous treasures of# My