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MU \T-OK \
TOO MUcFtO WEAK.
. was in ar,.m”on -, nothin* talked -
grapes were (tour. .V <& gw*, metropolis, now
whir ve nr- writing, it vu tbe ft lmisation of on#
e woman, the beautiful Mra. Da
bly o*-*
i) oTcourtbiif £look in their livee, and
*>rde that ehe laid hereof ou f for admiration, aijd
ww a conmound of vanity and danger; and the
they* n °oM ’ gM oSt*™ ria ->l! ’went tearing in the
W A etyiiii u ti 14r between a break and
a daniy-for- •/.-■•* t * - • ‘ ; -L men iu it, especially
K<-'< nt 5 T‘-o’ He v. • held the reins, Captain
round th* • r.‘ of Argyle piv Captain Stanley
*v ■-.- • 1 absorbed to avoid it, and the two came in
contact. > .
nodC'abtain .Stanley g. vtuio angry explosion. He
“I* that th* way-you generally drive in London 7”
”’*!iall amort for it. I'll
have him before the magb rate at Marlborough
“I>on’t ca.i rn* an a \vineg.-i. then. It waa your
‘’i did °gotV'to hh r way.*’
“At any rate you didn’t get out of it, which
amounts to the name L/mg. lak if that ia your
“What if it in ?”
“It’s a careieas one. Ihe next time you offer me
a eat,Stanly, I eVil ropoee to take tbe reiwi/’
“I th- ight 1 carriage before us,” ex
tone, tor .. oegiutiing to recover bisgood
humor.—“i i..- meoblivkms ot everythiag else,
W nche
Wno is ‘he;- C’ demanded Lord WiLcheater.
“The love.heel woman, Winchester! I can tell
you you have got a treat in.btore, you’ll aay it when
theoaptai/, tui’-Jing < imoukache, “without adai
ly Right f .t e V
The vn . He knew, of old, Captain
Stanley u ~ . to go into heroics over “an
• Mrs. .St anked he, indifferently, by
“Oh”
“1./ dove! here comes! She has turned
. i.i j t rnin Tt • vrt.t , <• i; .vtge aui£ dark livery.
I knew*! saw it. im’th.--
j ike car*’ of your h-*r.-.e, ’ interrupted Lord
Winchester . “ther.-'n another cab *
An opHii barouche wn appr* rdiing. Que lady
••xquisite toilette, nud then, the point lace parasol
.Mhig removed, of a, exquisite face. A young
harly ent, deli<- uc n’nturee ; c’heekr* of a rich darn
;;*k , brown, glossy faiur • and i oft dark eyes of ex
“There’s a picture for you! ‘ nmtmured the on
would—to a spill it it lik* and . “and the face ia nothing
to w * n yon < unuto tu’.k to her. Site hasfldnf half
London wild.’’
<MI went hi*J hat, for theb.-ighf eyes were smiling,
and the fair head bow gto him Hut off went
Lord Winchester’* ;ih.,forß brightor Minile and a
more familiar rerttigmt ion - which t“ • iced to have in
it Homewhat of surjn t ;;ree*-d Ji n.
“Halloa, VViiu.ii*-.ter! 1 aay, tiial’s too Lad!”
cried Laplnm Stanh y. when they 1. m pitted. “You
know her!”
‘iietoie 1 knew y-.u . She - Selina Dairymple.
“Selina; yes, that i~ he Chiistia; name ; I saw
it one day on her handkerchief. Where watt the
puli of your making such a mystery over it 7 Why
couldn’t you way UiM you knew’ her
“1 made no mM-ry, my good fellow. I did not
know it was S Sina Ibilrympb* you were speaking
of. Who has she married What’s her name ?’’
“Married ! tier name What d'ye mean ?”
■l thought v< it.aid si eww married.’’
What is the matter with you?” cried Captain
Stanley, locking at H - v rt- eunl. “You call her
Stduia Dalrymple, nud then n-k who sh* had inar
ned, and what her name in. Do you suppose she
In-are name. n ,id her husband another f That’s
not Kr.glish fashion.*’
What i his name?” impertably continued tbe
V • Dairy, ph . V. and :.o-i!d i! b ?”
“She hurt never mu *>d Oscar Dalrymple ! M ex
( h.iitied Lord Winch. r, in a roue-.d tone. “Has
“Her husband is Hi** only Dalrymple I know’ of
in the land ot the living. A cold, dry, wizen faced
man. You are given to mystifying to day, Winches
ter.”
“Not at all. Sh* wa- Mbs Dalrymple. llow was
I to know she boro the same name now V’
Mis Dalrymple was she ! Some relation to
him ?”
“A cousin, three or four times removed. Soho,
(Dear Dalrymple: It’s better to be born lucky
than rich. Moat-Grange and its fairest tlower! You
did not baigain for that, owe upon a time.”
“How did you know her ?”
“Oh. I have oft *ol rfe-n her. They are neighbors
of my Uncle Cleveland’s. Where are the Ddlryin
pl.** living in town ? ’
“May Fair. Only part of a house. They are not
Mrs. Dalrymple's carriage had continued its
course. It wad now on its way to her dressmaker's,
Madame Damcreau. An -m unions custom— elunlele
•he always said—hid Mad. Damercau. Thorough
ly well e.-tablit-lied wua Madame. Her house was
handsome; its rooms a mixture of Parisian taste
and Kiiglioh comb 11 with ttieir w-ir- t-pile carpets,
.eh ciiiuHon furniture. 1 riiliant mirrors, and orna
nn utal objects of port ehi.u, ail delicate landscape
painting and gold. Surely rooms, so
elaborate in their t; ii g up, were not needful to the
house of an liner and un uiaker ? Needful or
not, they were there. There was a spacious tbow
room, and a longing-room, and a trying on room,
end an ante-room, with a handsome hall and aetair
e;ilight vague snatei.es, through a paiuted window,
n a paved oourt, and siirubs and plants. Madame
i>amereHU v l iM.ir.n’ing, in her liue, as Mrs.
Dalrymple was in hers Ask the ladies who were
forover paying her v-siN. ami They would tell you
that, once withrn tli- ten- hos the fascinations of her
self and her shown ms, there th< y were contented
ly fixed ; there was no getting away, and there was
no trying to. M..daiue’s expenses were great, and
she had t athered her n>t \ rstty well; somebody
I aid lor it. \N ben madam* s nest should be sufli
cit ntly feathered—or w hat .-he would consider so
il was her intention to return to la belle France —
/ays ckert f —and quit Kngland ami its natives—
it bar bare* !—for ever hl\ ery thought of mad&me
had reference to this enchanting finale ; not a dress
did site make, a bonne! cell,a mantle improvise, but
the “ sticking on” (very strong where she could,)
bore the desirable end in view. There had been a
Monsieur Damereau, ouoe upon a time. He had
something to do with the theatres, but not in the
way of acting. But he grew too fluid English
pmttM and of tingering umdame's profits. Madame
inveigled him into a journey to Paris with her , let
him have bin tiinga little while, and one fatal morning
the poor deluded man awoke to find that he and his
mfe were two she had obtained a separation from
him “ih rorpst? J bun*” Madame returned to
KngUuut the same day. ami what bcoame of hiui
ehe neither knew n^o.red.
\W have men': <! a mar..* ’ *t wa l riding over
the gay world at this period, chiefly over tlfe male
portion ot t the admiration ot Dalrymple’e
win- we unid i\rw oi:- s U- another, which ex
eiiirtively toucht- i the ten \’e. A love for drees. A
wild, rampant, not-to-be oont lied within-any limit
love for extraNngant dress No fever yet known
Haa like unto it. ami Mad un Damereau blessed it
heartily, ami petted, and nursed it, and prayed—
£ood Catholic tfaa: she was! - that it would never
abate Few had fallen into this last mania as had
Mrs. IbUrymple. llrd up iu tits country, in sim
plicity and comparative seclusion. and its
attractions had burst upon her with irresistible pow
er, da. her judgment, and ta&mo captive her
tense. Tbe priori tor dr. is so con
lagious, rivalry so lite iu the human heart—seized
nrn hold upon ter • uv.etinnjc sik • m.other passion
had formerly seized upon aud destroyed her unfor
tunate brother. Fverybody must have a pursuit, a
daily passion—if it tuny be so expr* ssed; and if they
douothaveu. they are vapid an. indifferent, and
pursuit may be rthy.or it may be unworthy ;we
don’t touch upon tt .a* now, but it roust l*esome
ihiuj;. Selina Dahymple found herein the new ruafc
find in it ’ Not
“ 11 ‘ ‘ r ” vain
Hei carriage stopptd of Madauu*
.M-u,-,. Hi*’ #to|,pta*, drew
•side tor it, and Mr# Drirympis <to#,-ended. Rather
U” v, • ; ’" r , <Mh;jH* UV silk.
While is, .- Uini be.-rare ihs?. The Dstuereau
I.MQU4U 1 :>re open me door for her. and she went
up to Hie -how A lady in plain attire, but
: I.* i e ■-i 1 :• ot-ort rich ;Lian the silk
■mteri.'i!. V . ‘.I he” .y. ad of costly
tr... townoin flows? tthk
tag, aad oame forward, bowim; eueU bows a* only
a Vreik ii won.tuj >\e It was Madame
Dsiuere.i A, s ■ -g woman, with a fair
isasr
Mrs l>auv i.q !e >vv. eiy knew. She would walk
round first aim c ee. Was there anything ireeh ’
huger* i very white they were. ,sjC b . e some valu
p.v*d caielt through the in or to tbe next room.
**y m*# waa beat upon u kin* it on. * Don't
the *’ue in exprt <dve use with ail the Madame Dam
French aud Kngiist^a^wt
I’^’weu:barrets £
e, n- a said for -
1 r../;. - . - 7- :
trom i’ans u * .norim - - 8 ’ ‘ :es arr.ved
“What are they ?” cried .S~ -.ua with Wthies*
them '■ re -vi, l -fy
that up, aud doc t U s’,-eutiS Madauie'll*?
mgap the White* of her eyes-“wu cirri d.’nne. it
Selina s ev. -s: ,-v ■i, Si iix'UKi.: Li-reels to*
e.-pee-io. j rote#- - <■■■; ■■■• Damereau . etabtufcmeat—
as many another had before, and would
Kain.
“is it silk '• she iu.;sired.
N /
• i ana with her ladyship ioamoatout. Madauie
Dalreemp, if jou are e. : too hurried, if you can
wa-t till some of a*, qoue. the cu, ,-s*stall be
brought ,u; 1 wUrnot -Lew •• white they are here.
“I ani is i O hurry, replied Mr#. DalrmpS*. “1
have bi t been he., .j two day#. #o shad give iny-
Ae Mrs !>ft!ryn.pl*did, to jr*ip < e<J^Jy f (
, ir/iieawcre present. wb"m she knew, so wey ,it
eraiianie 7 cre ,[ y* r . Dame- I
werratuo loa- <u„pnrbt,’ and fl
, „■, oo lectioß of Amot ,„ | f
o'hOTwhoc*™ i‘ ** "• VteVßUnd, Selina . I ,
old ° u< jj f . Q ]y u t tere j tielica, rj , t
,J...“ere a'ii’n> round, and leaking at the BttK.k 1
“ i aye d a-ai J . some on etands ranged round
tfcerootn eotr.‘ > on a ‘arge table in the middle,
ran? bonoetr, dreaeee, bodiea. petticoate, mantle*, 1
el.ever. collars, flowncre, jackets, ribbons, and Ban- I
grie- Tbe ladier moved from one sight to another,
Minewbat after the manner that oauntry milkmaide, <
admitted to the wonders of a waxwork caravan, 1
travel (“lowly through the sawdust, and cast their
enraptured gaze aloft. „ , .
41 What ir beautiful ?” asked Mrs. Cleveland. i
“Tna* mantles” . ~ . ...
“Which mantle 1 That old dowdy black eila
thing’ I meant these sleeve*. See, there’s acollar i
interrupted one of the assistants, i
“we never had anything more beauti al m the
‘v~assaL2*s4 l ■*
W lt an, rto ask ’ she said, u> a low tone.
“twelve guineas.’
!.Ob— wss P Madame CUv land. Fif
teen guineas” ... . JA ,
I *-y arc fifteen guinea.*, ma am said the young
nerion. returning. ”Aud dirt cheap.”
1 inquired what description of iace it wa*,” aaid
Hn. Dairy mple. “Not the price.”
It Venice point, ma’am. Real Venice point.
•I think I must have them,” cried Mrs. Dalrym
ple. Are they not tempting V
Not to me,” laughed Mrs. Cleve and. “I have
too many little pairs of live arms to provide for ; to
give that price for a pair of sleeve*.”
“Only fifteen guineas,” remonstrated Selma.
“An'd that included the collar. I will take these
feleevea,” she added to tbe young woman.
“Thank you, ma’am. ’
“ Those are pretty, that muaiin pair.”
“ Very pre: •y, ma'am, for morning. Will you al
low me to put these up with the other* ?”
“ i don’t mind. Yes. J saw Lord Winchester
i.irt now,’ iSeiina resumed to Mrs. Cleveland. 44 I
did not know be had returned.”
Only since a day or two, I believe. My husband
doee not ——”
4 ‘ Ob, what a love of a bonnet!’ unceremonious
ly interrupted Mrs. Dairymple, as her eye fell on a
go&samer article, all white lace and beauty, with
something green sparkling and shining in it.
‘ Ah,” said maaame, coming forward, 44 ce cha
peon, ms rend truUckaque sou qruje le row.”
• l'’ ‘irqnoi ?” demanded Selina, who was not
qul •* ire of her French, but liked to plunge into a
word of it now and then.
“ parct que je ne xais pa dame, jeune et belle.—
Atnije ne peatue que te regarder de lotn- Man
madameent Vune ct raure.”
be'.ina blushed and smiled ; and fixed her eye* on
the bonnet.
It is a charming bonnet,” obeerved Mrs. Cleve
land. “What ia the price ?”
“ Thirteen guineas, ma'am ’
“ Thirteen gtrineae ! Mrs. Cleveland pursed up
her mouth. Such bonnets were not for her.
“ It ishigh,” observed Selina.
“High! Mesdames have surely not regarded it
closely,” interposed Madame Damereau. “These
are emeralds. Look well, wi a ckert- Madame Dal
reernp. Emeralds. It is the very cheapest bonnet
—for its reai value —that I have ehown this season.”
“ 1 think I will try it on,” cried Selina.
Madame was not backward to follow the thought.
In a twinkling, the bonnet was on Mrs. Dalrymple'e
head, and herself at the glass. Twitching the bor
der and the flowers, twitching her own ha'ur, she at
length turned round with a radiant face, blushing
it. j , conscious beauty, as she spoke to Mrs. Cleve
land.
“ Is it not a sweet bonnet ?”
“It you do not take it, it will be a eiu against
yourselves,” interposed the bonnet's present owner.
“ You never looked so well in all your life, Madame
Dalreemp. Yous face does 3et oft the bonnet as no
body else'a would. I said so.”
‘ l will take it,’ decided Selina. “ did you
say it was ? Fifteen guineas ?”
“ Thirteen, madame, only thirteen. Abuth ’ but it is
cheap!”
Mrs. Cleveland bought the mantle Selina had de
signated as dowdy, and a bonnet equally so. Selina
. told her they were.
“ My dear, they are quiet, and will w< ar. I expect
you afford t wenty to my one : so you can have them
brilliant and fragile.”
“ Look at this handkerchief!” uttered Selina. “I
really think it matches the sleeves and collar I have
bought Yes it does. I must have that.”
“ That’s a dear handkerchief, I kuow,” cried Mrs.
Cleveland. ‘ What ia it, Madame Damereau ?”
“ That—oh, but that’s rerkrreke, that is,” said ina
dame, in a rapture. “ Nine guineas. Ah !”
* S/md it home with the collar and things,” said
; Mrs Dalrymple.
| “J am going,” resumed Mrs. Cleveland. “ I have
bought all I earns to buy , and it is of no use staying
I here to be tempted, unless one has a long purse.”
“ The truth is, one forgets whether the purse is
long or H.horfc in the midst of these enchanting tilings,”
observed Selina.
“ 1 fear it is sometimes the case,” was Mrs. Cleve
land's reply. “ Are you coming, my dear ?”
“Not yet,” answered Selina.
When Mrs. Cleveland and some others had de
parted, madame had the catsse brought out: that is
to say, its contents. The caisse was taken lor
granted , the articles only appeared. The chief one,
the laev dress, new from Paris,and secluded till that
moment from covetous eyes, was of a species of face
that madame called Point d y Anglelcrrc. Madame
I >amereau shook it out of its folds with tender solici
tude, and displayed its temptations before Mrs.
Dalrymple’* enthralled eyes. Madame did not
speak : she let the dress do its own work : her face
spoke e*oquently enough. Selina was sitting on one
of the low crimson velvet ottomans, her parasol
tracing unconscious figures on the carpet, and her
own elegant td!k and ess spread out around her.
“ Oh dear!” ebe ejaculated, withdrawing her en
raptured gaze. “ But I fear it is very dear.”
• Never let madame talk about that,” said the
Frenchwoman. “It is high ; but —look at it. One
-u Id not pick up such a dross as that in the ken
nel.”
“ How I should like it!”
The moment we took this dress out of the
cai- >*, I said to Jdiss Atkinson, who was help'ng
me, 4 That must be for Madame Dalreemp ; there
is no otlu-r lady who can do it justice.’ Madame,”
she quickly added, as if an idea had just occurred
to her, —“ faery this lobe, fine et over a deli
cate pink gltu e or a maize ! ’
“ Or over white,” puggested Selina.
“ < >r over white ; Madame Dalreemp’s taste is al
ways correct. It would be a dress fit for a duchess,
too olt gant for many of them. Ma bonne dame , ne
ia laixsrz pas runs ccftapper, je vous en prie.”
Madauie called for some silks of different colors,
and the lace was d.splayed upon them successively.
Selina went into a tit of ecstasy when the peach
blossom color was underneath.
44 1 must have it! What is the price ?”
“Just one hundred guineas, neither more nor
less; and to anybody but Madame Dalreemp I
should say a hundred and twenty. But I know,
when once she appears in this before the world, I
shall have order upon order. It will be, 4 Where
did you get that dress, ma chore Madame Dal
l eemp V and madame will answer, T got it atDam
• reau’s ;’ and then they will come Hocking to me
I can afford to let Madame Dalreemp have her
things cheap.”
*• 1 don’t know what to .say,” hesitated Selina. —
“ A hundred guineas ! it is very high. That last
lace one I bought, three weeks ago, was only sixty/
“ What was that lace one compared with this ?’
was madame’s indignant rejoinder. “ That was no
thing but common guipure. Look at what the ef*
tect of this will be! Ah, madame, if you do not
take it I shall not sleep; I shall be vexed to my
heart Milady Grey did come to me yesterday for
a lace dress : I told milady I should have one in a
week’s time ; I did not care for her to see it first,
for si*? is shorter, and she does not Bet off the things
well. 1 know she would give me one hundred and
twenty for this, and glad to get it.”
This was the climax. Lady Grey, a young and
pretty woman, dressed as extravagantly as did Mrs.
Dalrymple, and there was a hidden rivalry between
the two. Madame Damereau scented it, and was
not backward in playing each oft* as a decoy-duck
to the other.
‘ .If Ido take it,” said Selina, “I must have a
slip of that pe ch glace to wear under it.”
“ Andi banning it will look,” observed madame.
“But could 1 have them home by to-morrow night
for Lady Burnham s party ?”
“ Certainly madame can.”
“ V ery well then,” concluded Selina. “ Or—
stop : would white look better under it, after all ?
I have ever so many white glace slips.”
Madame’s opinion was that no color, ever seen in
the earth or in the air, could, or would, look as well
as the peach. Milady Grey could not wear peach ;
she was too dark.
“ Yes, I'll decide upon the peach-blossom,’ con
cluded Selma. “ But that’s not a good silk, is it 7”
“ Si. Mai si. Vest de la soiemite.”
“ And that is all, I think, for to-day.”
• What head dress will Madame Dalreemp wear
with this to morrow night ?”
” Ah! that's well thought of. It t must be either
white or peach.
“Or mixed. Cherchex la boite , numero deiut,”
quietly added madame to an attendant.
Box, number two, was brought. And madame
disentangled from its coutents ot tlowere a beautiful
wreath of peach blossom and white, with crystal
iz *d leaves. “ They came in only to-day,” she said.
Which was true.
” The very thing,” cried Selina, in admiration.
Send that with the bonnet aud sleevee to-day.”
“ Madame must wear amethysts with this toi
lette, suggest Damereau.
*’ Amethysts ! I have none.”
Tt is a great pity, that. They w’ould look su
perb. ‘
l was admiring a set of amethysts the other
day,, thought Selina, as she went down tocher car
i iage. ‘T wish I could have them. I wonder
whether they were very out-of-the-way in poiut of
cost ? 11l drive there, and ascertain. 1 have had
a good many things there tliat Oscar does not know
ot.”
She entered her carriage, ordering it to the jewel
!er’s, and with her pretty face reposing amidst its
lace and its tlowere, and her point-lace parasol eha
diug i:. Mrs. Dalrymple, satisfied and happy, bowed
right and fft to the numerous admiring faces who
met and bowed to her.
That same eveuing Madame Damereau, having
dined and taken her coffee, proceeded to her usual
usiness with her cashier. Mrs Coopr r. A reduced
gentlewoman, who had tried the trade of governess
till she was heart-sick, and thankfully left it for her
present situation, where she had less to do and fifty
guineas a year. Miss Atkinson and Miss Wells, the
two show-room assistants, came in. It was not ne
cessary to give Mrs. Cooper a summary of the day ‘s
sale, that s;.e aught enter the different articles
They arrived, in due course, at the account of Mrs.
Dairymple.
Dress of i’lsa/ d’ Angleterre*’ cried Maueme Da
j mereau. ”One hundred gtmieas.”
V\ hich dress is it she has bought ?” inquired Mrs.
( Voper. looking up from her writii g. She had
| 1- ar u to take an interest m the sales ana the custo
mers.
j “The one the baroness ordered for her daughter,
and then would not have it when it came,” expiaiu
i 1 and madame. “I sent ft to the Countess of Oak-ton-
I ne last night, when the baroness refused it, but it
seems she did not keep it. She was in, yesterday
■ morning, ask.ug about a iace dress, but she never
: knows her own uiiud two hours together, that Mi-
I ady < iak-tonne.'*
1: -a very nice dree?-.*’ remarked Mrs. Cooper.
“itls a beauty.” added Miss Atkinson. “And
! Lady Oak*.on need not have cried it down.*
i *’ Did she cry it down quickly asked madame.
[ *• Sao sa*d it was as dear as file's hot.*
“Par /<;-• r * uttered madame, with a flashing
i face. 44 Did she say that ?”
“ Yes. ma'am. $o Roberts told me when he
brought it back.”
“ She’s the most insolent customer we have, that
• :.*<€? Oak-tonne “ exploded madame. “And pays
ti e worst. The robe would have been cheap at the
price I asked her.”
“ What price was that ?’’ enquired Mrs. Coeper.
■ Mrs. Dairymple, lace robe, one hundred guin
eas.” read Mrs’. Cooper. 44 What else “
“ Making. ‘
“It’s not made yet, is it ?
“ Oh, put it down at a round sum,” commanded
madame. “ Making, two guineas. Peach glace
slip comes next,”
Peach glace slip.” wiote Mrs. Cooper. “ The
price if you please.”
“ Put It down in round figures too. Ten guineas.
She did not ask.”
. “ I sold her those morning sleeves, with the lit tie
u interposed Miss Wefls- “ There was no price
menu*,Led. ma am.”
What w*t* they marked ? asked madame.
“ PnftS? 0 S* 4 Spence.”
k inxr r guinea, Mrs. Cooper. Ma
m-nc—*hp let's see, no Uningortrim
**,, i ’ • . W Lite pom‘lace bon
-1 y for that! coii “ -wta * **
“***• ‘c&'am ; aod to* handkerchief
■s:*ev,oah r andhandkerchitf of Venice Doint
RSCSSfi
tor tjist, qaotb madame
‘!.e bju tt.i f M niore toan a ttoueand pound* in
toe la*t six I suppose you are sure of h r
Mauau.e Damereau ’ She is anew customer till.
season
I wish 1 was as sure of getting to Paris neat
year,” responded m&dame. ‘‘Her husband hae not c
long come into toe estate. Their money’* all right. (
These young bride* will dree* and have their t
fling, and let them, say I. Theee Dalreemp# ute *
friend# of the Cliv-lano*, which is unite sufficient
paiie-port. You can go on now to Madame toliv- i
land. Mji Cooper : one black maatie, Bilk and lee , ‘
three pounds ten shilling!, and one fancy e av i
bonnet, bine trirainge, three guineas.
“Is that all for Mra. Cleveland ? I
Madatne shrugged her shoulder*. l hat * ail 1
would no: give thank you for toe custom of Madame
Cliv-land . tout toey are well connected.
“There was Mr*. Dalrymple'* wreath,” interrupt- i
ed Miss Atkinson, referring to a pencil list in her
“Yes, I forgot,” answered madame. “What were
tooee wreaths invoiced to us at, Miss Well* 1 This
ie the first sold.” *’
“Twenty-nine and sixpence each, ma am.”
“Peach-and white crystallised wreath, Mrs. Coop
er, if you please. Forty nine shilling*. ‘
“Forty nine shilling*, oonciaden. Mrs. Cooper,
making the entry. “La that all theater “Mrs. Dal
rymple ?”
That waß all. And a pretty good ‘Jall’ -too
Bu‘ Selina Dalrymple did not seem to think so. I
tell you toe mania was upon her.
One bright morning, about a fortnight afterward,
when the sun was shining brilliantly and toe tk’.es
were blue, and the street# warm and dusty, she sat
in the breakfast-room with her husband. The late
meal wa# over, and Selina was drumming her pretty
foot on the floor, and not looking the essence of
good humor. She wore a richly embroidered white
dress with pink ribbons. Her delicate features and
her damask cheeks were softened by a white lace—
something—it was certainly not a cap. Mr. Dal
rymple a eye# had rarely rested on a fairer woman,
and his heart knew it too well.
“Selina, 1 aaked you last night whether you in
tended to go to Lady Burnham a breakfaat, at that
rural villa of theira. Os course if you go I will ac
company you, but otherwise I have aomebusmeaa 1
should I'ke to attend to on Thursday
“I can t go,” answered Selina. “I have nothing
to wear.” ‘
“Nothing to wear !”
“Nothing on earth.”
“How can you say so V’
“I did not think of ordering a suitable toilette lor
it, and wa# at Damereau’s about it yesterday. Bat
after what you eaid last night——
Selina stopped, pouted, and looked half inclined
tU “£?y dear, what do you mean ! what did I say ?
Only that you seemed to me never to appear in the
same dress, whether at home or out; and I begged
you to remember that our income was limited. You
know, though it ia nominally two thousand a year,
out of that ”
“You said I changed my dresses four tin es a
day, Oscar,” she interrupted, cutting short his ar
gument.
“Well. Don’t yous”
“But everybody else dpes. Some, five times. You
would not like me to come down in the morning,
1 and go to bed at night in the same dress, would
you?
1 “I suppose not. It’s of up use asking me about
dress, Selina. I scarcely know one gown from ano
ther. But it does strike me that you have a most
extraordinary number of new tiungs. Go out or
come in when I will, there's sure to be the milliner’s
> porter and basket at the door.”
“Would you have me‘ look an object ?’
“You never do look an object.” .
! “Os course I don’t. I guard against it. Id give
i tl, e world to go to this fete at the Burnhams. Lvery
• soul will be there but me.”
r “And why not you, if your heart is set upon it
’ j think all such affairs a stupid bore , but that’s
nothing.”
“Would you wish me to go there in a petticoat ?
! “No, I sunpose not. I teH you lam no judge of
ladies’ dress'. I don’t think I Bhould know a petti
-1 coat from a gown. Those are gowns, are they not,
> hanging in rows round the walls in the rooms above,
-and covered up with sheets and tablecloths. ’
“Sheets and tablecloths! Oscar!”
“My dear, toey look like it.”
t ‘Well —if they are gowns—there’s not one I can
wear.” .
9 “they are all new recently,” said Mr. Dalrymp'e
• “What’s the matter with them ?”
“ There’s not one I can wear,” persisted his wife.
1 “It can’t be the color, for I’m sure there’s a gown
of every shade of every color under the sum. \Vhat
B is it?”
“What is it!” repeated Mrs. Dalrymple, in quite
a contemptuous tone, for she had no patience with
such ignorance. “You ought to kuow what it is.”
“My dear, I really don’t. If you wish me to know
you most tell me.”
“1 hni- morn them once,” angrily answered Mrs.
Dalrympit. “And some twice, and some three
times. Aud one Oscar,” she broke off, “you re
member that lovely one, a sky blue,Bhot with white,
a disposition 2”
“What is ‘a disposition ?’ ” interrupted he.
“Oh—a silk, flounced, and the flounces have some
design upon them, enboßsed or raisod, sometimes of
a different color. That one dress 1 have worn live
times. I have, Oscar; five times!”
“I wear my coats fifty times five,” said Mr. Dal
rymple.
“The idea of my being seen at Lady Burnham’s
iu a dress I have worn before!” ul tered Selina, pass
ing by h>s remark with the scorn it deserved. “No!
I’d rather go in a petticoat, of the two evils, and
hide my head for ever afterward.”
Mr. Dalrymple was puzzled. “Why could you
not be seen there or anywhere else, in a dress you
have worn before?”
“Why couldn't I!” exclaimed Mra. Dalrymple,
in a tone of suppressed exasperation.
“Selina, I only ask to know.”
“Because nobody else ever does.”
“Then wliat becomes of all the new gowns !” in
quired the wondering man.
“For goodness'Bake don’t keep on calling them
them ‘gowns.’ ”
“Dresses, then; what becomes of them ?”
“Oh—they do tor the country. And under robes,
glace slips, and that, we can wear again here, ever
so many times, because they are not seen, only the
color showing through ; or the little piece in front,
if the upper dress is left flyißg, and that can be al
tered to lork different by means of trimming.”
She might as well have talked to him in madaine's
French, which was a sealed language to Oscar Dal
rymple, for all the Bense he could make of the
speech. He locked perplexed; and she cross.
“You do not understand me.”
“That Ido not; Selina.”
“Itia not to be expected. A husband who can,
and pushes his nose into his wife's toilette, is only
fit for a man-milliner. lam not saying this at you,
Oscar ; lam saying you don't. We never worry
our headß to interfere between you and your tailors,
and pry into the shape and make of your waistcoats
and buttons and things, and we do not expect to
have it done by us.
“Selina, let your grievance come to an end. I do
not like to hear this tone ■, it smatters of reproach to
ward me.”
* Then you must retract what you said last night.”
“My dear, 1 said notftlng to hurt jrvu. I did not
mean to do so.” *
“ It waa as if you wanted me never to have an
other new dress again/’
44 Nay, Selina, you must have what new dresses
you Want, with a due regard to the smallneßs of our
income. You must not overlook that.”
“ Don’t be foolish, Oscar ;do you fear Ia n go
ing to ruin you ? What’s the cost of a few dresses.
I must have one for this morning’s fete.”
“ My dear, have what you like ; you are the best
judge. Only bear In mind what I have said—of
course I can trust you to do that.”
It never entered Lha long head of Oscar Dalrym
pie that his wife could go beyond a little imprudence
in the matter. He had as much idea of the expense
attendant upon an extravagant toilette as the man
in the moon, and he did not seek to inform himself.
Long-headed, cold aud cautious as he was ; never,
but upon one subject, had he been warm in his
whole life ; and that was his love for Selina, when
she was Miss Dalrymple. To say that he had loved
her passionately, all the more passionately because
it had been hidden, would not be saying enough :
upon that one point he was a simpleton : his love
fooled him to it. Unexpectedly he succeeded to the
family estate, and then he spoke , and Selina, after
some vacillation, married him. He was not yet dis
enchanted ; and he never glanced at the possibility
that his wife could bring on real embarrassment
through extravagance.
“ My dear, have what you like : you are the best
judge.”
The words were as the sweetest music in her ears.
She sprang up, bumming a scrap of a song.
“ You dear, good Oscar! 1 knew you were nev
er going to be an old griftin. I think I must have
that lovely green and white gauze. It was the most
magnificent drees. I was divided between that and
a leinon-colored damask. I’ll have the gauze , and
gauze dresses cost nothing.”
44 Nothing ?”
“Next to nothing. Ofi, Oscar, there’s another
thing. My presentation. I have gone on, and on,
waiting for Lady Dalrymple to come to town, and
now’ there are only two drawing-rooms more. Mrs.
Cleveland goes to the next, and will preseut me.—
Shall she ?”
“If you must be presented at all. I don’t see
any good in it, for my part. Your mother never
waa presented ; and you only occupy the place she
did, Selina.”
“You are a Goth !” exclaimed Mrs. Dalrymple. —
“I declare it is quite disrespectful to her Majesty,
to say you see no good in a drawing.room ! It’s aB
bad as treason.”
‘‘Not quite,” answered Oscar, in his dry way.—
“I have little doubt her Majesty is glaa enough
when a drawing-room day is over. She would not
miss you.”
“I shall tell Mrs. Cleveland I go with her to the
next,” said Selina, disposing of the matter. “Aud
order my court-dress to-day.”
She flew up stairs. If was early yet to appear at
Madame Damereau’s ; custom hau regulated a later
hour. What cared Mra.J3 airy mple for custom, just
then ? What does any lady, young and vain, care
for it, W'hen a tete-dress and a court-dress are wait
ing to be decided on ? She would go, and have
madame’s ear all to herself, before others came to
share it.
She pulud aside the “sheets aud tablecloths,”
and glanced underneath. It was a goodly stock of
dresses ; but yet not all the stock , for the lace, and
muslin, aud flimsy gauze, aud delicate white, and
delicate pearl, and delicate pink, and delicate other
shades, were reposing in drawers, out of sight be
tween folds of tissue paper. Barege and balzarine,
satin, plain and figured; velvet; silk, plain, damask
flowered, shot, corded, and glace ; robes a disposi
tion, aud robes not; two flounced robes, and three
flounced. andfour-ftounced, and double-skirted, and
open; so many that the eye looked to their colors
for relief. Beautiful colors: green, blue, pink, 1 lac,
purple, grey, pearl, stone, violet, brown, amber,
lemon; not a dress of every color, but a dress of
every shade of every color. And yet—new, and
rich, ana elegant as they were, Mrs. Dalrymple
could uot go to the fete without anew one ’
“I want a thousand things,” cried Selina, when
she reached Madame Damereau’s. “Have you
sold the green-and-white gauze dress ?”
No, was madame s auswer, she had kept it on
purpose for Madame Dalreemp. Milady Oak tonne
had come in yesterday afternoon late, and wanted
it. but she had told Milady it was sold.
Selina took it all in. The fact was. m&dame had
tried to persuade Milady O&kton into it, but Milady
was proof ag&iust the price. It was only seventeen
guineas, ana that included the fringe and trimmings.
Selina had told her husband that gauze dresses coet
nothing ! She was too eager to ask the price now.
“I shall go in it to the breakfast on Thursday.—
What mantle can I wear ?”
A momentous question. Mrs. Dalrymple and
Mad&me Damereau ran over tbe mantles, scarfs,
shawls, &.C., possessed by the former, as many as
she could recollect, and came to the conclusion that
there was not one that would “go with it.”
“I have a lace mautie,”eaid madame —“ah ! but
it is recherche !—a real Brussels. If there is one
dress in my house that it ought to go with, it is that
green and-white.”
She brought it forward and exhibited it upon the
dress. Very beautiful, of that there was no doubt
It was probably a beautitul price also.
‘•Twenty-five guineas.”
“Oh my goodness—twenty five guineas ‘” cried
Selina. “But I’ll take it A breakfast fete doee
not come every day.”
For a wonder- —for a wonder—Selina had exhibi
ted her white lace bonnet with the emeralds but
twice, and came to the conclusion that that “would
do. Not that she hesitated at buying another,
but that it was so suitable to the green and white
dreas.
“And dow for my court Oh, stop ; I think I
must have anew parasol. My point-lace one is soil
ed, and I cough: it in my bracelet the other day and,
tore it a little. You haa a beautiful point-lace para
sol here yesterday. Let me see it!”
“ The one you were looking at yesterday will not
do,” cried madame. 44 It is lined with blue; Ma
d&me Dalreemp knows that blue can never go with
the green dree*. I have got one parasol—ah, but
it is the beauty ! —a point dace,’ lined with white. I
will get’L It does surpass the other.”
It did surpass the other, and in price ako. Selina
chose it. It was twenty guineas.
“ And now about my court drees. lam going to
the next drawing room. It must be all white, of
course.”
“Je cron lien que out. answered m&dame. “As
if a bride with taste would be presented in any
thing else!”
At this juncture who should come in but Mrs.
Citveland.
“ Tour oourt-dress need not roet you rery ranch,
sbe said to Selina. “ and it is Dearly toe end of the
season. White a lea expensive than anything
else. For abost fifteen pounds yon may have one
of elegant simplicity always toe beet for a preeen
Damereau turned up her*noee, and Se
lina turned her* down, both in oontempt of toe ad
vice White Bilk was fixed upon not very expen
rive in itself, but before it* appurtenanoes were
ompleted, it* train, and it* trimming*, and its lace, i 1
reai Mechlin) and it# ribbons, and it* fripperies, I I
ini its head-dress, and its tiiwers, and it* feather*.
t had amounted to not pounds, but ecore*. ‘
Mm Dalrymple went to the breakfast, and she
md her attire were lovely amidst the lovely. She 1
rent to the drawing room, presented by the Hon
irable Mr- Cleveland, and the admiration and en
ry she excited were great. Very satisfactory to
ler, no doubt; very gratifying to her heart, xvnieh
was jost then topsy-turvy with vanity. And so it
went on to the end of the season, and her pleasura
ble course was never checked; it was a dazzling
sareer of dress, vanity and admiration.
When they were preparing to return to the
Grange, and her maid waa driven wild with per
plexity as to the etowing away of *o extensive a
wardrobe, and oonje.turmg that the carriage down
of it would alone come to “ something,” it occurred
to Selina, ae Ehe sat watching, that the original coet
would also come to “ something.’* Some hundreds,
she feared, now she came to see the whole collec
tion in a mass.
“Os course I shan't let him see it,” she bolßo
quised, alluding to her husband. “ I’ll get the bill
from madame before I leave; and then there Li be
do (ear of its coming to him at toe Grange.
Mrs. Dairymple asked for toe bill, and madame,
under protest that there was no hurry in the world,
promised to Bend it in.
Selina was sitting in toe drawing-room by twi
light when it was delivered to her, enclosed in a
large thick envelope, with an red seal
She opened it somewhat eagerly. “ What makes
it such a bulk?” she es canned to herself. ” Oh,
Bhe has detailed toe things. I did not care about
that.” It waa written in a business-like, but ele
gant hand, that of Mrs. Cooper: dates, details, all
were there. But Selina could not see clearly in
the evening gloom, and she struck a match and
lighted the wax taper on her writing-tablp, anxious
to look at the sum total.
“ 94f.” she soliloquised, glancing at the bottomof
toe first page. “It must be a deal more than that;
what does madame mean ? Paha”’ Sbe found she
was only looking at one item : tbe V enice point
lace for the deooration of a dress.
She held the taper to the bottom of toe second
page. “ ‘Moire antique robe, lace, trimmings, and
sapphire buttons, 120/.’ Psha!” again exclaimed
Selina.
With a rapid movement ehe turned the aoeount
over to the end, and gazed at the sum total; gazed
at it, stared at it, and recoiled from it. Three thou
sand and odd pounds, odd shillings, and no pence
What the odd pounds were, whether one, or wheth
er nirfte hundred and ninety-nine, she did not catch,
in that moment of terror; the first grand sum ot
three thousand absorbed her eyes and her faculties
And there floated over her a confused consciousness
of other bills to come in; one from the jeweller #,
one for shawls, one for expensively trimmed linen.
There was one shawl, real India—but she dared not
think of that. “ Have I been mad ?” she groaned.
It would be thought so. For she knew that if her
husband settled all these, he would be for years a
beggar on the face of the earth.
At that moment she heard his step, coming in
from the dining room, and turned sick. She crushed
the bill and the envelope, both of stiff satin paper,
in her right hand, and thrust them, in her terror,
down the neck of her drees. Then she blew out the
taper, and turned, with a burning brow and fever
ed frame, to the window again, aud stood there look
ing out, but seeing nothing.
Oscar came up and put his arm round her, asking
whether it was not time to have lights.
“Yes. Presently.”
“What in the world have you got here?” cried
he. “A ball ?”
She pushed the “ball” higher up, and, shaking,
murmured something about “some paper.”
“What is the matter with you, Selina ? You are
trembling.”
“The night air, perhaps,” she managed to au
swer, in a tone that strove for calmness, “t feel
chilly.”
Yet it was a hot nfght. Mr. Dalrymple imme
diately began to close the window. He was a
minute or two over it, for one of the cords was
rough and did not go well. When he turned round
again, his wife was gone ; ehe had glided silently
from the room.
Up the stairs and into her chamber she had flown,
aud then down upon the carpet, in her remorse and
agony, her hot brow prostrate on the floor.
“Disgrace and ruin!” she wailed forth; “what
will become of me ? Ruin, ruin, inevitable ruin ‘
nothing but disgrace and ruin! ’
A NIGHT OF TUMULT.
Things were almost coming to a revolt; never
were poor tenant-farmers so f ground dowu and op
pressed as those on the estate of Moat Grange.—
Kents were raised, fines imposed, expenses, prop
erly falling on landlords, refused to be paid or al
lowed for Mr. Dalrymple, the preseut owner, was
ruling with a hand of iron, hard and cruel.
As to the Grange, itself the dwelling mansion, it
was the dreariest of the dreary. When Oscar Dal
rymple, through the extravagance of his wife, had
been rendered liable tor heav?Tlebts, he had sold
off the better portion of the furniture, retained two
or three rooms as habitable for himself, wife and
one servant, and closed the shutters of the rest.—-
There they lived, a life of peduriousness ; aud Seli
na, Mrs. Dalrymple, would sometimes unlock the
doors of the once familiar rooms, ’and pace alone
about their dusty Uooi b, in anger and remorse al
most uncontrollable. Anger against her husband,
who need not have proceeded to this extreme pass,
aud remorse for her own follv, which had led to it.
Three years went by, and things grew worse;
more wretched in doors, more oppression out. One
day Mr. Lee came up to the Grange, a respectable
farmer, who had rented all his life, and his lather
before him, under the Dalrymplea.
“Sir,” began Farmer Lie, without any circumlo
cution, when he was admitted to the pretence of his
landlord, “1 am come up about that paper which
has been sent to me from Jones, your lawyer. It’s
a notice that next Michaelmas, when my lease will
expire, the rent is to be raised.”
“Well?’’ said Mr. Dalrymple.
“A pound an acre.”
“Well J”
• “A pound an acre” repeated Farmer Lee, with
increased emphasis, as if he thought he was not
heard. “Jones must have made a mistake; you
never could have told him that, sir. My daughters
think he wrote it when he was drunk; for every
body knows that he has fits of drinking.”
“They are the instructions I gave him, Mr. Lee.”
“To raise my rent a pound a aore!” echoed the
farmer, forgetting his grammar iu his excitement.
“Exactly. The farm will bear it.”
“No it won’t bear it, sir, and I won’t pay it.”
“I am sorry for that, Mr. Lee, because it leaves
only one alternative.
“And what’s that ?” asked Mr. Lee.
“To substitute in its place a notice to quit.”
“To quit! to quit tbe farm! for me to quit my
farm!” leiterated Mr Lee, in his astonishment.—
“Why, it has been my home all my life, sir, and it
was my father’s afore me. I was born in that
f mi, Ml. Dalijinplo, joare and yoore boloro you
ever came into the world, and I mean to die in it.”
Mr. Dalrymple did not acquiesce or objeot in
words. He only looked at him his impaeeive
face, and cold, colorless eye.
“It’s my labor,sir, that has made it what it is,”
continued the farmer. “When my poor old father
died, it was not half the farm it is now. Early and
late have I been at my post, working, myself, and
seeing that my men worked. I have spared neither
labor nor money to bring it to its presen fine con
dition ; you can’t deny, Mr. Dalrymple, that it’s the
best worked and most flourishing land on the es
tate.”
“My good sir, Ido not deny it. I say as you do,
that it is too flourishing to remain atits present low
rent.”
“The rent is not low, sir; the rent’s a fair rent,
fair for master and fair for tenant. Ask any im
partial person, ask Mr. Cleveland, or ask Jones,
and they’ll say as I do. You don’t seem to take
into account sir, that my mosey haa brought it to
what it is, and that I have not yet had a return for
my money spent. If you raise the rent twenty shil
lings an acre, the money may just as well have been
chucked into the dirt.”
“I can make no alteration in my decisionsaid
Mr. Dalrymple. “I have these complaints from
day to day ; nothing else but complaint. The land
on my estate has considerably increased in value,
yet those who reap the benefit object to pay a higher
rent. I had two of you here yesterday, Watkins
and Bumford.”
“They hare spent money upon their farms too,
they have, and the land hasn’t answered to it bad.
Good farmers are Watkins and Bumford,” nodded
the speaker, approvingly, “but they have not spent
half what I have. You see, sir, we never looked
for Mr. Dalrymple’e dying young, and ’ ’
“Are you speaking of Charles Dalrymple 1” in
terrupted the owner of Moat-Grange.
No, poor fellow, I don’t mean Mr. Charles, I
mean his father. Squire Dalrymple did die young,
sir, so to say; you can’t call a man under fifty old.
Well, be was a good landlord, and we were not
afraid to lavish money on our farms, because we
knew we should be allowed to reap its fruits our
selves. That’B how it was, sir.”
“Mr. Dalrymple’s rule is past and gone ; he waa
always indifferent to his own interests Had he
been more alive to them, his death would not have
left his family in the helpless condition that it did.”
“You mean Mr. Charles's death and your succes
sion sir,” boldly returned the farmer, though its
tone lost none of its respect. “When Squire Dal
rymple diedaqjl Mr. Charles succeeded, the family
still lived on in comfort at the Grange here, as they
had done before. And as they would have done af
ter, had he lived, generous young fellow.”
“A squandering young profligate I” scornfully re
torted Oscar Dalrymple.
“Well he's j;one, poor sohl, and it will answer no
end to speak for or against him, but he waa a favor
rite on every road throughout the estate. And his
death brought you to ru e over us, aud 1 am sorry
to have to say, sir, that your rule's a very hard
one.”
“It will not be made easier,” curtly rejoined Mr.
Dalrymple. “I told Bumford aid Watkins so yes
terday. The terms proposed to you by Jones you
must accept, or leav e the farm.’ ’
The farmer took out his pocket-book: a huge
leather affair, which could never be got in or out
without damage to the pocket's entrance.
“Then I have got a bit of a document here, sir,
which I needn’t have shown, if you would have lis
tened to reason without it. Somewhat better than
six years ago sir,” he proceeded to explain, “when
I we* hesitating about laying out so much money
upon tbe farm, knowing that my lease had entered
on its last seven years, I put the question, right off
hand to the squire, if I continued to lay out money
on my land, and to build stab Les and else, as I wish
ed to do, should I have the lease renewed on the
same terms ? And that’s what lie wrote me in reply.
His end followed soon upon it.”
Usoar Dalrymple took tbe note, yellow with ly
ing by, from the farmer, and cast his eyes over it:
“Dkar Lex—Put what money you like upon the
farm, for 1 hereby pass yon my word that at the
expiration of the present lease, a fresh one shall be
granted you on the same terms.
“Truly yours,
“K. Dalrymple.”
“He thought of me and of this promise on his
death-bed, the squire did,” resumed the farmer,
“vnd charged his son to fulfil it. Mr. Charles told
me so himself, and that it should be all right.”
“Charles and bis father are gone,” repeated Os
car Dalrymple, tossing back the letter with a ges
ture of contempt at Farmer Lee’s simplicity.
“That paper is not worth a farthing, ’
“Not m law; I am aware of that, sir; but I
thought you and need only to look at it to act upon it
The squire was almost like a father to you, Mr
Dalrymple, and I never supposed but you would
wish to oarry out his wishes. I have felt as secure,
having that document by me, as if it it was a fresh
lease.”
Mr. Dairymple rose. “I will not detain you
longer, Mr. Lee ; your lime is valuable. ’
“And what s my answer, sir ?”
“That you pay the additional rent demanded, or
give up the farm.”
Farmer Lee was a quiet man, little given to
burets of anger, but he could not controlsome harsh
epithets directed to Uscar Dalrymple, as he walked
toward his own iand. In taming sharply out of a
field, he came upon two ladies, one young and very
nicedooking, the other getting in years, of thin,
white features and grey hair.
“Law. ma am,” cried he, touching his hat to the
eider. “I'm glad to see yon out again. ’
■ Ay,” she said, “I have had a long bout of it, the
longest illness I ever had in my life. lam getting
better, but slowly; and this fine Spring day temp
ted me forth.”
“And what is it that has been the matter ?’’ ask
ed the former. “We never could learn the rights of
it. Old Keuben told my daughter Judith that it
was as much weakness as anything.”
“Reuben was right,” eaid Mr*. Dairymple
“Weakness and grief, that has been chiefly the
matter with me. Try as I will, Mr. Lee, I cannot
overget my poor son's dreadful death. I have been
ailing ever since, though it never told seriously
upon my health till this last winter. And I have a
great deal of trouble in many ways.”
“Trouble, ma am, there s nothing bnt trouble for
all of us,” spoke the farmer.
“You don’t remember me, Mr. Lee,” cried the
young lady.
“Weil, ye- 1 1 do. mi* . I remember your face. I
think I had nsed to see you with poor Master Charles
and the young ladies.”
“1 am Isabel Lynn, you remember, now,”*he said,
holding out her hand.
“Ay, I do,” answered he, heartily shaking it.—
“And if what we used to think wu true, we should
have Lad you among us for good, had Master
Charle* lived.”
She turned away her faoe. blushing deeply, almoet
6o tear*, with her anhappy remembrance*.
“And a lucky thing if it had been you and Mas
ter Charles to reign at the Grange, instead of what
is now. I don’t mean any disrepect toMinSeUna, 1
ma'am,” he added to Mrs. Dalrymple, “you are not !
afraid I do: but her husband is a hard master.” . !
“You need not tell me he is, ’ returned Mrs. Dal
rymple, her eye kindling. “I know h too well.”
“A good many of onr leases are out th's year, and
he is raising us all— rai-in ;us shamefully. Mine a
pound an acre.”
“A pound an acre !” echoed Mrs. Dalrymple.
“Not a shiliiug i#... ma'am. Jones sent me the
notice yesterday, so I just put on ray Sunday coat
this morning an-J have been up to the Grange, aud
all the answer I have got is, that I may pay it or
leave the farm. I showed him. that letter of your
husband's, ma'am, promising to renew the lease to
me on the same terms to justify my laying out mo
ney on the land and homesteads. It was just as if I
had shown him a bit of waste paper. ”
“Unjust 1” murmured Mrs. Dairymple.
“It's worse than unjust, ma'am, it's robbery. I
laid out my hard savings under that specific pro
mise, and I might just as well have chucked toe
money naked into the earth. There’s nothing bnt
oppression going on from one end of the farm to
the other.”
• And I fear that nothing else must be looked for
from him.” sighed Mrs. Dalrymple. “I wish he
had never become my son-in-law. Selina is bis
wi e, and the disgrace of these doings seems to re
flect on us.”
“It was a hard day that took Mr. Charles from us.
Miss Lynn. I hope you won’t forget to come and
see us, while you are here; my daughters would
feel hurt.”
“Oh, I shaii often come,” she replied. “I am
going to stay all the Summer with Mrs. Dalrymple,
if she will nave me. Remember me to them.’’
They parted. At a distance, having stopped
when his mistress stopped, whom he hsd been fol
lowing, stood old Reuben, a most attached servant,
who had served three venerations of toe family.—
When Charles Dalrymple died—or, t© designate
events correctly, when Charles Dalrymple commit
ted suicide—Reuben bad returned to the service of
his mother, Mrs. Dalrymple. But, with her so i,
Mrs Dalrymple had lost her means, and she told
Keuben that she could not afford to keep a man
servant, hardly a maid, but Reuben replied that be
had saved more than enough money to keep him
sell, and should live with Mrs. Dalrymple without
pay, and wait upon her —he shouldn’t leave her to
toe mercies ot a dirty maid-of-all-work And so he
had done.
The farmer stopped to greet Reuben, aud the
two expatiated for some minutes, to their heart’s
content, not in t .vorof Oscar Dairymple.
“Would you believe that he wanted to charge
Mrs. Dalrymple rent for that poor house we are in 1
It s a fact, bnt don't you mention it again.”
“Impossible,” said the fanner. “On her own es
tate—at least what was hers for years!”
“He did, and he gpf# it. Others manage it for
her, for she couldn’t afford to pay it. He is a bad
man. Ah! if my poor young master had not been
so rash ! He would have come into the Dalrymple
estates, Mr. Lee.”
“What, Mr. Charles would ?”
“As true as we are here,” said Reuben. “The
heir, Sir Charles's only sou, is dead, and my poor
Mr. Charles was the next heir. Though I dare say
he never gave it a thought in life, that toe title and
estates would ever drop to him.”
“Why, he’d have come to be a baronet then, if he
had lived?”
“A baronet wilh a large rent-roll. Sir Charles
Dalrymple is in very bad health, and cannot last
long.”
“Does it come to that grasp all ?” breathlessly ut
tered the farmer, jerking his head in the direction
of the Grange.
-‘No: more's the blessing,” returned Reuben.—
, “Moat-Grange was entailed on him, but Dalrym
ple’s not. At Sir Charles's death the title lapse#
i uow, aud I’m sure I don’t know who’ll get toe
money,except, that it won't be Oscar Dalrymple;
he’s no favorite there. I hope Sir Charles will re
-1 member my poor mistress.”
“If folks'tell true,” said the farmer, “it ia Sir
Charles who has helped her ever since our Master
i Charles died.”
i Ruebeh made no reply, lie did not choose to as
l siet the gossip of the neighborhood.
t “And to think that Muster Charles Bbould have
made away with himself through a bit of temporary
, embarrassment, when if he had stood it out and
1 battled with the storm, he would have succeeded to
Dalrymple!” uttered the amazed farmer, as he said
t good day to Kueben.
to be continued ]
COMMERCIAL.
Foreign Market*.
Extracts of Letters received, by the Indian.
LIVERPOOL, March Cotton —The market was
quite buoyant, at tbe opening o’ the week, with an ad
vance on all qualities of J to id., but the America’s ad
vices, which reached ua cn Tuesday, checked the up
ward movement, and the market closed yesterday quiet
but steady. Salej for the three days 28,000 bales, of
which 3,000 were taken by speculators, ami 10)0 for ex
port. •
The advices from Manchester were more favorable,
and the market was firmer. The sales, however, wefe
unimportant, in consequence of holders demanding an
advance, which buyers were not willing to concede,
Breadstuff* —There i as been a decline on - all sorts of
Breadstutts, and the market closed with a tendency still
downward. Richardson, Spence Ar Cos., say the weath
er, which has been very favorable for crops, has caused
great dullness in the market. Flour las declined fid.—
Western Canal is quoted 21s. (i t ‘S'22s.; Philadelphia,
and Baltimore 2-‘s. a Zis., Ohio, via Northern ports, 2S&
255.; do. via New’ Orleans, 2fiw27s. Wheat is very dull
and has declined l®2d. Red is quoted Gs.'d>6s. 2d.;
White 7?. 7s. fid.
LIVERPOOL, Wednesday, March 24, 2 P. M.—Sales
of Cotton to day 7000 bales, the market closing with a
declining tendency.
Breadstuffs weak in prices, w ith but little enquiry.
Provisions generally unchanged.
LONDON, March 24, noon.—Consols 96J'0>97i for mo
ney, and 97J for account.
SAVANNAH, April 9.— Cotton —The week under re
view opened irregular and depreased, from the unfavor
able accounts brought by the Persia. Buyers and Sellers
could not agree and the sales were restricted to 2CC
bales, upon a basis of lljc. for Good Middlings. Buy
ers would Lave taken freely at Ic. lower, but holders
would not submit. The irregularity continued during
Saturday, though the sales were a little bi tter, footing
75t bales without ary change in prices. Monday only
318 bales changed hands at old prices. On Tuesday the
Indian was announced with four days later news from
Liverpool, and, contrary to expectation, brought au ad
vance of id.; this stiffened our market and enabled hold
ers to establish an advance of Jc. at which 889 bales
were sold. On Wednesday a very brisk demand sprung
up and holders advanced their rates another ic., buyers
taking freely and in large lots; the sales footed 2,331
bales.
But littloavas done on Thursday ; the enquiry was
light and the sales footed only 701 bales. The market
closes firm at tbe following quotations :
The sales of the week foot 5,211 bales, at the follow
ing particulars : 1 at 91, 7 at 9s; 8 at 10; 3G at 10}; 93 at
104; .3 at 103; 53 at 11; 106 at ll}, 82 at lit; 41 at 113;
314 at 114; 389 at Ilf; 831 at 11}; 82 at 11 13-16, 298 at
111; 45 at 11 15-16; 1,788 at 12; 351 at 12}; 73 at 12 3-16;
57 at 12}; and 550 bales p. n. t.
Rice. —The market for Rice is quiet but firm, ranging
from 3 3-16^3}c.
Fiuur — With a light supply and good demand prices
are somewhat stiller. Largo invoices are at hand and
in a short time the stock will be heavy. W i e -quote Su
perfine in sacks $2.75, in bbls. $5.75; Extra ss.7s'S'sfi ;
Family $6
Corn —The stock of Corn is light and the demand
good; prices have alvanced to 80c. bushel in bulk
from wharf, and 85'0?90c. from store.
Hay —We have to report an arrival of Eastern, which
sold fiom wharf at $1.05. A cargo of Northern sold to
arrive at 80c.
Oats —We continue our last week’s quotations of 60c.
bushel.
Rope—We hear of sales of 250 coils Northern and
Western at Bd9c,
Salt —We hear of no sales; cargoes are held at 60c.
Molasses —A cargo from Cardenas is on the market,
and also a cargo from Havana, are held at 25&26c., ac
cording to quantity. Bales of 100 bbte. Syrup were
made at auction at 28c.
Bacon —The favorable reports from other markets
have elevated the views of holders and caused au ad
vance of 4c We quote Shoulders-83@9c.; Ribbed Sides
104@llc. *Of Clear Sides there are very few, and hold
ers are asking 11-4 cents for them; Shoulders are not in
so goed demand as Bides.
Freights —Cotton to Liverpool is dull at id. To New
York by steamer and sail vessel 5-16. To Boston ic.,
and to Baltimore and Philadelphia §c.
Exchange —The transactions iu Exchange continues
heavy. The rate has been gradually improving all the
week and the market closes firm. Time draffs on the
North are offered freely, but, as we noted iu our last re
port, acceptors stipulate for long time and such drafts
are uot in favor while short time bills, say for 30 days
and under, are taken freely at interest off', aud in some
cases evr non a little better terms. The banks continue
to furnish sight checks on Northern- cities at } per cent,
premium. Out door sight funds are getting more plenty
and while holders are firm in their prices they seem to
be rather more anxious to sell and the prospect is favor
able for lower rates.
CHARLESTON, April 6.— Cotton— The first day of
the current week passed off rather quietly, although the
rales were made on the basis of previous quotations, but
the demand revived on Saturday, and the day closed
upon a firm market. Buyers wevo also out in goodly
numbers on Monday, but there was a stringency in the
terms demanded by sellers, that did not meet their
views,.and the operations were by no means as heavy
as they were on the prece Jng business day. The form
er class of dealers, however, yielding to circumstances
they were unable tc control, operated with some degree
of freedom during Tuesday and Wednesday, at gradu
ally advancing rates, and at the close of business on the
latter day, the above grades were valued at 12®12}c.
Buyers operated largely on Thursday, and the market
closed at a further advance. We submit the subjoined
quotations as indicating the state of the market at the
close of the week, viz : Low to Strict Middl ng 114'®1J4;
Good Middling 12} w 12} ; and Middling Fair 12i®12.}c.
The receipts since our last foot up 7930 bales, and the
sales in the same time 14,258 bales. Among the sales
qfyesterday were some sto bales at 121 c The sales
may be classed as follows: 59 bales at 9} ; 158 at 94 ;
459 at 9} ; 419 at 10 ; 7at It} ,42 at 10} ; 37 at Jog; 134
ftp ; 9 at 10§ ; 268 at 10} ; 864 at 11 ; 170 at 11} ; 761 at
11} ; .135 at 11} ; 1603 at 11! ; 669 at llg ; 1341 at 11} ;
109 at 11 13-16 ; 928 at 111 ; 13 at 11 15-lfi ; 500 at 12 ;
1214 at 12} ; 1294 at 12} ; 455 at 12g, and 500 bales at
124 cents.
Rict —The Rice market exhibited no change when we
closed our inquiries yesterday. The receipts, which
comprise 3834 tierces, have nearly all r een sold at s3}
to $4, the bulk, however, brought within the range of
s3} a/34 per hundred.
Corn —The receipts since our last comprise 6200 bush
els, which together with some 10,000 bushes held over
from the previous week, have been sold wi bin the mar
gin of the quotations given in our report of the 2d iust.,
viz: per bushel, if we except one cargo which
brought a fancy price.
Oats —There have been no arrivals this week. The
last sales were at 38 and 39c.
Hay.— The arrivals since our last comprise some 700
bales North River, which, together with G 0 bales from
store, have been sold at 75 and 80c—400 bales bringing
the latter price.
Jtacon. —There has been a moderately fair demand for
Bacon since our last. The tran.-saLtion-s, however, have
been chiefiy at lode, for Sides, 8} and B}c. for Shoulders,
and 13 and 14c. for llams.
Lard. —The comparatively heavy transactions of the
previous fortnight hava prettjrwU cleared the market
Flour. —The market has been depressed. The trans
actions have bee a conli<ed altogether to purchases t<
supply the Lome trade, aud embrace the superfine, and
extra fine grades. There is nothing doing in the lower
grades. The rec eipts since our last comprise 2634 bar
rels. only 230 of whi< h have been taken for export
Salt. —There have been no arrivals since onr last. The
demand, which has been vwy limited, has been supplied
from shipboard at 60c. P sack.
Sugars. —The tren*actions since cur last comprise
about 150 hhds. Louisiana at 7„ to Sc., and 217 hhds.
new crop Muscovado, of tkir quality, were sold yester
day at auction, as follow*, viz: hhds. at 6 9-16; 49
hhds. at fij, and the balance within the range of 6} a 61c,
principally at.the latter price. The receipts of the w eek
comprise 584 hhd>. Louisiana, which we learn will not
be offered at present; 256 40. do., the bulk of which is
intended for the interior, and 100 do. do. which will be
offered in this market There ha also been received
183 hhds. Muscovado, which had not been sold when we
closed our report.
Coffee —The market ha* been very much neglected
since our last, and indeed so limited have been the
transactions that the market may be said to have been
brought to a stand, and our quotations, viz : 11® 12c. for
Rio, are nominal at pre>ent.
Molasses —The receipts since onr la3t comprise 339
bW- New Orleans, 200<pf which were received from a
Northern port We have no wholesale transaction to
report. The retail demand is being supplied at 42e ¥
gallon Some 169 hhds 30 tierces and 4 bbLs Cuba
have also come to hand, aodbeen divided out in parcels
at 25c. some of which has beeo sold at 24 and 27c.
Bagging and Rope— These articles continue to be
very much neglected In the latter w e have no trans
action to report. A few bales of Gunny Cloth were
sold at 13c.
Stocks —A few transfers have been made ia Firemen’s
since the opening of the books, at par. Nothing has
been done in the Stocks of other insurance Companies,
and the transactions in Stocks generally have been on a
very limited scale.
Exchanges —We have to record a further decided im
provement in onr rates for Exchange The market,
which opened at 107 or 10?: for Sterling Bills, closed yes
terday firmly at 108}-& 1094. We quote Francs 5 20 'a
5224. Sigiit Exchange on Northern points is at 4 V
cent, premium.
Freight * —The rates to Liverpool are unsettled.—
While British vessels are offering freely to take Cotton
at |d. Consignees and Captains American, vessels
are asking 1332d Se* islands have been shipping at
9-16 and rd. The vessels loading for Havre make slow
progress at 4c. for square and lie. tor round bales and
Sea Islands. The New York rates are 5-l Sc. for Cotton
in steamers, and 25c. in sailing vessels.
COLUMBUS, April 9 C tton— Jhe transactions in
Cotton yesterday were upon a basis of Wednesday’s
price*. Buyers demand©4 a concession in prices which
factors refused, in consequence we report sales of about
323 bales at from lOj to n|e for extremes.
MONTGOMERY, April 7 —Cotton —Our market to
day has been very i prices have stiffened up.
Large sales have been effected at 11} for Middling, 114
for Strict Middling, and iHc. for Good Middling.
MACON. April 7— Cotton —The market is dull at 9 a
114 c. Very little Cotton offering, and speculators not
disposed to buy.
TO *BEKT,
T 1 HE WHARF and DOCK recently t*ccupied by
Messrs. R. A. Alien Ac Cos., well known as the old
est and most eligible etand for the Lumber business.
Possession given Ist January next. Apply to either of
the undersigned. JOHN SC UDDER,
Executor of Amos Sc adder,
B. Ac J LACHLISON.
dec* ALEX A. SMETS
NEW SPRING
Beg to call the attention of the Public to their
Os EAV AND ELEGANT
ffc if M£L ffi *? fN f* W
DRY GOODS!
Which they are now receiving, purchased on such favorable terms as to
warrant them in assuring their friends and customers that
they can save them at least from
FIFTEEN TO TWENTY-FIVE PER CENT!
ON ALL FINE AND IMPORTED GOODS.
The question may naturally arise, how is it possible for them to do so ?
Iu answer to this, they wish it to be distinctly remembered
that tlieir’s is the
ONLY HOUSE IN GEORGIA
That keeps an experienced Purchaser, all days in the year, in the. Northern
Markets, with the cash in hand to pick up BARGAINS, wherever
they arc offered. When this fact is remembered, it will
be easily perceived that they buy Goods from
FIFTEEN to TWENTY-FIVE
and in many cases
FIFTY PER CENT. LESS,
Than the same class of Goods can he bought for when the Northern Markets
are crowded with Southern and Western Merchants,
laying in their six months’ supplies.
THEIR’S IS STRICTLY A CASH HOUSE
They buy and sell for CASH ; and to save the feelings of all on this subject
who might feel hurt on a refusal .to open accounts with them,
They distinctly state that they Open Accounts with no one,
NOT EVEN IF THEY WERE WORTH A MILLION
They beg to refer to a few of the leading articles in the different departments of
their Stock.
I \ Til El It lilt ESS GOO IIS DEPARTMENT
WILL ID: FOUND ALL THAT IS NOVEL AND RICH IN
Rich Chintz Chene Bayadere SILKS;
Rich Chintz Rayc D’Aquille SILKS; •
Rich Moire Antique Black and Colored SILKS ;
Bischoff’s Celebrated Black SILKS, in great variety ;
Marcellaine and Florence SILKS, all colors ;
Grenadine Crape D’Paris and Sewing Silk ROBES;
Challie, Barege D’Laine, and Barege ROBES;
PRINTED LAWNS;
PRINTED BRILLIANTS ;
CHALLIES ; BAREGE DELAINES ;
BAREGES; CRAPE MARETZE;
CRAPE D’PARIS; CANTON CLOTH;
BOMBAZINE ; ALPACA, &c.;
500 pieces French MUSLINS, Hue, warranted last colors, 10c. per yard ;
1 pieces fine Figured BAREtiE, for twelve and a half cents per yard.
AMONG OUR
MANTILLAS AN D SHAWLS
WILL BE FOUND THE CHEAPEST STELLA SHAWLS AND SCARFS EVER
BROUGHT TO THIS MARKET.
A line Stella SHAWL for Two Dollars, good value for Five ;
Fine Black and Colored Silk MANTILLAS, from One Dollar and Fifty Cents to
Ten Dollars.
IN OUR EMBROIDERY AND HOSIERY DEPARTMENT
•WTXYLi BE EOTTISriD
Ladies’ HOSE, in Cotton, Silk and Linen ;•
Misses’ HOSE, in Cotton, Silk and Linen ;
Gents. HALF HOSE, in Cotton, Silk and Linen ;
Ladies’ GLOVES, in Kid, Silk, Linen, and Silk Mitts ;
5,000 Embroidered BANDS, in Jaconet, Swiss and Mull;
5,000 Embroidered COLLARS and SETTS, in Jaconet, Swiss and Mull;
EDGINGS and INSERTINGS, in great variety ;
Embroidered Linen Cambric HANDKERCHIEFS, in great variety;
• ALSO,
English Thread, Gimpurc and Honiton LACES, just received from Auction, and
selling for half the Importer’s cost.
WHIT E GOODS.
Embroidered Muslin and Lace CURTAINS ;
Embroidered MUSLIN, for Ladies’ Dresses ;
Plain Jaconet and Swiss MUSLINS ;
Nainsook, Mull and Book MUSLINS ;
Printed Brilliant© and French Cambric MANTILLAS, SHAWLS,
SCARFS, &c., in great variety, and very cheap.
DOMESTICS.
5 cases Brown SIITRTTNGS,Oj- cents;
5 cases White SHIRTINGS, 6J cents;
* 1000 pieces CALICOES, fast colors, 6.{- cents ;
All the Favorite Brands of
AMERICAN CALICOES & SHIRTINGS,
_A_T LOW PRICES.
A VERY HANDSOME LOT OF
GrIMGrHAMS,
IN BLACK AND COLORED
2,000 COUNTERPANES, from $1.25 to $lO each ;
5 cases 1 1-4 SHEETING, best quality, BLj cents ;
5 cases BED TICKING ; Apron CHECKS ; Furniture PRINTS, Ac.
LINENS.
Best Irish Linen DAMASK, 50 cents to $1.50 ;
Rest Irish Linen NAPKINS and DOYLIES, $1 to $4.50 ;
Best Irish Linen TABLE CLOTHS ;
Best Irish LINEN, for Shirt Fronts, 25 cents to $1.50 ;
Plain and-Fancy LINENS, for Gentlemen and Boys’Wear, from 18f to 75
cents per yard.
S U N I) U IKS.
RIBBONS —LUTES, Satin and Velvet; Furniture and Dress FRINGES ;
PARASOLS; HOOP SKIRTS ; FANS; HAIRBRUSHES;
COMBS ; FANCY SOAPS, &c.
To all of which they most respectfully invite the attention of the public.
GRAY k TURLEY.
Augusta, Ga., April 10th, 1858.
PLUMB & JLEITXUC,
DRUGGISTS AND APOTHECARIES, AUGUSTA, GA.
WE WOULD RESPECTFULLY INVITE ATTENTION TO OUR STOCK OF CHOICE
UNADULTERATED DRUGS, CHEMICALS, MEDICINES,
AND ALL OTHER ARTICLES IN OUR LINE.
WE FEEL ASSURED THAT NO HOUSE IN THE SOUTH CAN OFFER A STOCK SUPERIOR TO OURS
IN GENUINENESS AND PI HITi ,
All officinal preparations being made in strict accordance with the formularies of the United States
Pharmacopoeia. Our Stock of
DENTAL AND SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS,
Is full, and we have unequalled arrangements in procuring additional supplies at the shortest notice.
A CHOICE SELECTION OF
Garden, Grass, and Field Seeds,
MAY ALWAYS BE FOUND IN OUR STOCK, TOGETHER WITH A FULL SUPPLY OF
PAINTS, OILS, GLASS, PUTTY, Ac., Ac.
mh3 PLUMB & LEITNER, near Post Office Corner.
BOOTS, SHOTS, AX.
CONLEY, - FORCE k CO.,
AUGUSTA, GA„
OPPOSITE INSURANCE BANK,!
DEALERS IN
BOOTS, SHOES. TRUCES,
CARPETBAGS, VALISES, LEATHER,
LASTS, SHOE PEGS, SHOE FINDINGS,
TANNER’S TOOLS, &c.
WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS.
HAYILANJ), CHICHESTER & CO.,
{LATE HA VILASD, RISLEY, <f- C 0.,)
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA,
TWO DOORS ABOVE THE GLOBE HOTEL, BROAD STREET,
DEALERS IN
Drugs Medicines Paints Oils Glass Patent Medicines Garden Seed,
Rosentlale Cement, Calcined Plaster Paris Ac.
MERCHANTS, PHYSICIANS AND DEALERS GENERALLY, XV'HO PRIDE THEMSELVES
ON DEALING IN
MEDICINES OK FIRST UUA LIT Y,
feb‘JO-dtw*-w’-ifn MAY RELY UPON BEING SUITED.
PUBLIC SALES.
I> ICHIUOND SHKRIKI
Ll at the Lower M arket Hon
on the first Inrsday JLNs. • ‘*'•
legal hours ot sale, the following '<•• ‘i Ipr ... |
to wit: 1 fine carpel, J warefo’ c, 1• • < rv>% u. •
mirrors, 2 safes, 1 clock, 1 h*t rftch, I pair cit0:,.. 1
pair mahogany card tabfo*. 4 p> tatv p; .10 -
’ case, 1 wardrobe, 1 marble-top Unreal'. 1 ctr. v • 1 ,
| ble-top waahstand, 1. French heist.t.-’ “th. ‘-u. t. i
mahogany wardrobe, l marble-t>:> b it. ai. i. J
large bed tead&nd beddng, I rocku ‘ • • “•‘- i
2 carpets, 2 window pbades, 4 .low post bedstead h- .
bedding, 1 wsshstand. t>” -i and pitcher. ; v:i • .
extension dining table, H cane sen a chair.-, f 1 : 1 -j !
other&rtieleaofhousehoidandfcitcbcnfu-mtiirc : r •J |
on as the property of I • *•
two mortgage fi. fas. issued fr m the Inferior ( trr
Richmond county in favor <M Robe. i i.ve- v
William A. McConnell. The abovb property u\
in said mortgage fi. fa. and levied o:i this LL > . .
March, 1856. A PAeKI <t,l> ‘ .
March 31, 1658. ,
RICUMOND SliKKli i# Vld .-Wiin
at the lower Maiket ii I Augusta,
on the first Tuesday iu JUNK, ucxtv. it:. .iK 1- i
hours of sale, the following tl .scv iu i prt . \./. : ;.
uegro man slave named D-amoud, abott t’.nrtv-tyv ■
yearsold; levied ou as the property - John A ‘
to satisfy ati ta. on foreclosure of mort t* e ted r
the Interior Court of Richmond County, u.a ..
A. R id vs. John A. Moore.
April 7, 1886. . G. A. PARKER, D
lOSTi’ONun
Richmond shkki itv ylu..- r . t
ou the first *Tues ,
the legal hours of sale, a.;
’
a negro woman aged about 4J, a > .h<
aged about 19 year. : Levied or..^
Almaud, to satisfy sundry h. us ; u . • > • •
tice’s Court of the 120th district— ... • - .
ington E Archer vs. said Almand, a • ‘ u
James 11. Alford vs. k. and Almaud, and * • ‘ n
D. La.ler.it dt vs, said A! ..ar. i. *©>}
and returned to me by a- unty constab e.
April 7, 1858. Cl. A P
POSTPONED
ll< II.nONDSIIHItIKF’i vl.: ‘.‘-I
XV at the Lower Markei llou.n“in . *
ou the first Tuesday in MAY ncxi, wiu.iii • 1 ■
hours of sale, the following He. r bed p. *pe. \ \ ;
all that tract or pare.
inthecounty of Richmond, and Jsisto of
fifteen miles rra the city of Augusta, c n* ru.
forty two acrei, more or 1- - . • 1 ’
lands of A. MoKtnzic on t w
the east, by lauds of Walter S. N .-tt : Levh .i
property of Walter S. N :
the hou-uable the Snpe (
favor of Alexander K. Law ou v W;..nr>. N>t !’ •
perty pointed out bjr defendan and
day of February,* 1858.
April 7,1858. . Rt
PO TPO N Ll)
OICHMONO hliKKIi i ‘
XV sold, at the Lower Mai .* 1 . mii . . |
Augusta, on the first A u- day n MAY u . I
the legal hours of sale, the fol w iu: U ,cr; i . a j
to-wit: Two negro slaves, Mary da
Jane ; levied ou as the proper :y of U. L. Ah; .cl. t. j
satisfy a fi, fa. on foreclosure of
the Inferior Court of Richmond county •”. u.or o. I
Ker.iah Walton vs. £.-L. Almand.
April 7, 1858. CL A. PARKER, D. rs. J
(AITY **HEKI KF'S S.\ 1. K.-On Ho; ti. T
J in MAY next, will be sold, at the Lower ‘ : irkot
House in the city of August within the leg., io. .
sale, a Negro Mauuamed Pat. about 40 yiur- H’ : L
vled ou as the property of Lew i- El/c; ;o satisfy *ft a
fa issued from the Court of Cdmmou ii a- t f t Ci.y
of Augusta, in favor of the JlcchLuice’ ! • ami a -sign
ed to Beftjaniin 11. Warren \ s. Lew = - * •
April 3, 11*58. i
C'IITY SllhKll’l ’S .SALE.—WiII be pr!! ou
J TUESDAY, the.l3th instant, within t ol* hours
of sale, by order of the houorable the City (hurt of Au
guita, at the store lately <c< Upied by Jdhn Dwy< r, in
the lower teuemeut of the Bridge Bunk BifibUng, in the
city of Augusta, the contents of a Retail i . t u:
sisting of bottles of Brandy. .Schnapps, -i.-.
Oil, Sardines, Blacking, Black and Vuoe: ’t eas, I’eppu.
Tack*, Salsoratus, Looking C’:.. •i iSli> w i :.~e i
Jewelry, S.-p.,. , l <
Baskets, Tw ii.e, Rope, Wau i Pa is, \Ya. l. lubs, ila
ket>, SiiUn,tinons,lttgiof BAtndy, B f, < ;
Wine, Whiikey. Qkts •Ca . he. t Levied on a• y .
property of John Dwyer, to sa i -fy an ertAciiuH nf r.
turned to.tbe last term of the City v’ourtof Augt> . , i .
favor of John. A. Russ, Jr , v>.im lw y<
Aprtl.G, 1858. ISAAC LKVV. Jblu r iTC. A.
CIITY
J in MAY next, will be sold
House iu the city of Augusta, within the leg.i : a
of sale, all that h)t or pareal of Land, w I
incuts theroou, situate in the city of Augusta, c ntamtni
a front of eighty feet, more <>r !
extending back to Walker -t.c t, oue lurwn • au-:
feet deep, and bounded north'•> , south by
Walker street, east by Lincoln rc i m.-d w : by n !
of Chwlee HaH,.ae agent or trustee, and k
Nos. tliirty-nii>e and fofty, in a. Qian ml e by Will
Phillips : Levied ou as the pro t cn> >: ! toaasß -
to satisfy an execution in fa\or % of the < t’ Counc
Augusta v. James Hr. unuu, tor City : .
March* 7.1858. ISAAC LEVY, City^Slierifi.
KI( IMIOM) BHEIU t
at the Lower Market lU>iuciis the city id 4u..
. on the first Tuesday in. MAY u*xi, witluni
hours of sale,he following d*L;eribed property, V
—All that lotor parceioi Ijand, situelc lyin;; a
in the county of Richmond and State of Do rgla . ‘> i,
five miles front the city of Au< •
one tenth acres, and turroUnded by land* of C < nii-.g,
Uaruion, and Mrs. Thomas : I
of James BateUffe deedased to latiafy a
from the honorable Inferior Court of >uid con-.ty i;t i
es Elias O, Tinsley vs. James RatcUfre, prin ipal a
• Wm. Qlendiniugas security. .•: !> s n
ot February, 1858. ROBERT WKH. : Nn > :id <
April 4, 1858. *
ADMINISTRATOR’S h* iLK.-Vna. r a ordei
of the Ordinary of Taliaferro county. wi ; l Gq. soul
in Crawtordville on the first Tuesday iu.d AY n .n
undivided half interest in a Slur. House and L-d, sic
tediu the village of Raytown, belougingto th
F. T. Moore, decca-ed. Sold forth© purpose Oi
iug titles.
March 21, 1858. JAS. W. MOORE, Adm’r.
CIIJKKVHN HDHi tUti, }
I —Will be sold beforo the C> urt !. ms du<i . y! .
nia, in said county, on the first T uesday in AIAY ue.\’
within the legal hours of sale, the following pf p itj t
wit: four Moles and one sorrel Horse. Levied
the property of-George R. Wood war 11
mortgage ti la in favor of I>. Jam* - Ddlou.
Feb. 28, 1858. BKNJ. F. BGDTT, BheriflF.
, CiCKBvM BH^al^
fore the Court hou-c d< i iu t’ *• v:.; ■
vania, Sc reven county, on thf n MaV
next, within the legal hours of sale, the
I perty, to wit: One Town La iu the \ lie
uia. N<*. 14 : Levied upon a* ti
Roberfr, to satisfy one Inferior Court li fa. in l
Henry It. Roberts. Property pointed out by pb-latii. ‘.
attorney.
Also, at the same time and place, o Loan 1 ,r •
Levied upon as the property of William f- . .*., •’
ceased, to satisfy one Inferior Court fi. fa. ud two Jua
tice’s Court fi. fas. iu favor of Berrien i. Lo i t v.-.
Henry F. Mills, administrator of WYlliam M i JSr., de
ceased. . BENJ. F. SCOTi', hordi.
March 31, 1658/
DM I NJ.STH.vn
. of the Ordinary of Burke county, will be sold in
Waynesboro, on tha first Tuesrlay in MAY n<: t i\ negro
woman, Easter, about 21 or 22 years o u, and l.er t\M>
children—Zoa, about 3 years old, and the other 14 to 18
months old, belonging to lue estate of Janie., li. Er,: ton
deceased, and sold for the bonelit of the heirs :oh! ■■ ■ di
tors of the same. Terms, one-half cash, the oh shall
due the Ist of October next, with interest from d:G
J. B. JONE>, Adm’r.
March 3, 1858
l ('> UARDIAN’S *ALE.—By virtueYi anoi-’a-rT"”
\jr tained from the Court of Ordinary o m-nd
county, will be sold on the fi t Tu- day in Jl \ v .
at the Lower Market House iu the city of Au ;n
tween the usual hours ot sale, one Negro llyy, n .it
Alfred, aged about 23 years. Sold as the prej-arty ot
William It. McKay, minor.
Terms cash. J AMES WATKINS, Guard n.
March 27, 1858..
DM I INI .ST RATO It’S tit
order from the Honorable the Court of Ordinary
of Lincoln County, will be-sold on i! lii -t Tuo laj
MAY uext, before the Cohrt-Uouso dot.r in said (lounty,
between the usual hours of a'e, tlic following prop, riy,
towit: Dm* hundred andnineteen acres l 1. i
or less, it being the undivided inb . s in t'n- ♦
of Mary Farrar, late of said County, dee’d, on *i-c w :■
ters of Little River, adjoining lanes of John IV.-1, Ia
vina L -nden and others, sold for the hem wt of ti h u
and creditors of said deceased. T rms’oD ti e yof
sale.. HAYWOOD ROBERTS, Exu- 1 tor
March 25, 1858.
HA hE.— Will he sold at
. the Market House in the town of Louisville, Jr fi'.
non county, on the first Tuesday in MAY ncxj.wpt .; <
usual hours of sale, a tract of Land belon \.j r.,
estate of Paul Fitzsimmons,* deceased, c:>nti .iug One.
Hundred,and Nicety-Five Acres, more neje .ad
lands of Eli McCrone, B. >S. OarsweD, It. i>. Gn g.u y,
and others, and known as Lot No. 11, in a survey made
by H. B. Todd,ou the 26th November, 1815. s.!d b*.
permission of the Court of Ordinary for tl l encHt ui
the heirs of said estate.
GEO. W. CRAWFORD,
WILLIAM J EVE,
March 4,1858. Surviving Administrators.
The Liver Invigorator,
. PREPARED BY DR. SANFORD,
IS a groat scientific medical discovery, n: and i <<yi \
working cures, almost too gre .t to believe. Tl cut
as if by magic, even the first dose giving benefit, a:
seldom more than one bottls is required to cure any ki-ai
Liver Complaint, fron the wor i Jaundice <>r Dv
aia to acommou headache, all of which are the rc utto
a diseased Live*
The Liver is one of the principal regulators .1 the
human body, and when i; av
the powers of the system ere f ;!ly develop <i. The
stomach is almost entirely r ~/‘ depend u it on the ho ilthy
action of the Liver for the proper perform-. , <•. <,i •
functions when the stom W acb is at i'a.dt, • l . •••
are at fault, and the wh >le r system suffers in, const
queuce of one organ—the C”* 1 Liter ha
do its duty. For the diseas . esof that organ, one- ..f the
proprietors has made it his .•study, in a prr - - :■■■•<•[
nv re than twenty years, ito find, ornermm-dy here
with to counteract the many derangement- to
which it is liable.
To prove that the. re mefyl . f
person troubled With Complaint n a;,
ofitsforms, h&sbuttotry a h >tt!e, and conviction is
certain. _ l,
A compound has been fO formed by d r ; solving gun. h
and extracting that part W ui,, i ‘ •<
tive virtues of the modi p—O-ine. These ifa..: . nov
all morbid or had ma.ter. from the- y i <(l .i.-jpiy.
iug in thtir place a healthy bile, Invigofat ir.
the stomach, causing food r to well, pmsfyin;’
the bio ..d, giving tone and L health to the who.'a me .-hi
nery removing the causes s os the disea--** ? . j<■r, ,
ing a radical cure without ri any of ti e dvsagrceable
after effects, felt by using Cal mud or -Mi i.-.al l*<
son that is usually resor ‘ted to.
One dose after eating ia suftc ent to r
stomach and prevent the food from t ising and sow
ing
Only one dose taken before re?Trieg prevents
nightmare.
Only one dose taken atP"i nigl t I-l , the bowe
gently, and cures c-stive l nr
One dose tax en after each mrai will e. ’* .
fyOnedoseol'twotea - spom. fiC r
lieve Sick Headache.
One bottle taken for fe -J male on Irmtk.n remove
the cause of the disease,and maki a pmf t cure
Only one do3 immedi 1 1 &s£ly relieve•> Cholic,wh:it
Onedoseoftca repeated is a sure ‘ ure for’Can)
era Morbus, and a prerf ventlve of Ci-o
One dose taken often willpreventthe rocnrrenct
of Bilious Attacks while r it relieve afl painful feel
feeli.igs. n
BP* Only ene bottle i -needed to throw out of tLt j
system the effects of modi - ne after a long ieknc.v.
One bottle taken for Jaundice removes i.i
yellowness or unnatural ” color from the
One dose taken a short /N time before eating giv.
vigor to the appetite and \J makes ooduve ; . 1
One dose often repeated r ure. CL. ...* \>\
in its worst forms, while UJ .‘Jammer and bowel con
plaints yield almost to the iii >t dose.
One or two doses careshf worms
while for worms in dUliSLJren
eror speedier remedy in the w orld, as it nr -r Va s
There is no nth* ,e state* : <y
are plain, sober facts, that we - £..i y <•. , ~
to prove, whileallwhou.se are rising’ the:r unan
imons testimony in its favor.
We take infinite pleasure in recommending ti. . tiu. .
cine as a preventive for Fever and Ague, L’hiii l ever.
and all Fevers of a Bilious typ*
uinty, and thousand* are willing to testify to its w : I
derfril virtues.
Among the hundreds of Liver Remedies now offered T
to the public, there an-none we can ..o LUrhiv r:
meudasDß. SANFORD'S INVIGOKAT , .
rally known now throughout the Urn on. This j.: e-.ara j
tion ‘• truly a Liver* Invigorator, producing t:.; m . ’ •
happy results on all who use 1t Almo-.t annum
certificates have given to the great virtue of this
medicine by those of the highest standing 19 society,
and we know it to be the best prej>aration now before
the public.— Hudson County Dauocrat.
PRICE ONE DOLLAR PER BOTTLE.
HANFORD A: CO.,
Proprietors, 345 Broadway, New York
PLUMB <L LEITNER and W. 11. TUTT, Agents’ In
Augusta. Sold by Druggists general y.
mh 10’58-d t w&w 1 y
LEATHER MACHINE BELTING
AND FACTORY FINDINGS.
PATENT Riveted, Stretched and Com. ted Leather
BELTING, single and double, ail widths 1 to 24
inches, curried and stretched by otuvelvea ’ Uuaii'y
guarantied. A large stock always on hand
ALSO,
Rubber Belting and Steam Packing Coh>. Rivet 1
and Burra, At . Waohera, King Travelers, Rod. r Bris.m. i
es, Roller Cloth, Strip per Cards, Pick erl Lag Sere*j
Lag weather, and a variety off actory Finding T>. i
sale on accommodating terms, by
„ „ SIIEIiMAN, JESSUP CO.,
No. 34l Broad street, 2d door above BAnk of Augu ta.
l*o 1 -dtw 6l * 4tb
SOUTHBRN FRUIT TREES.
FRUITLAND NURSERY,
Anputta, CJa.
FIIHK subscriber offer* for-ale *t> a;
JL of Southern FRUIT and ORNAMENTAL ’I RE:.3,
const ling in part ot Apples, -Pears, Peac -*>, im.-, I
Nectarines, Aprieota. Strawberry It a v. •*. rVap. |
Figs,JtorterFvergre<an. e ., Ornamental Snrjibu, *. , a;• !
Anew Descriptive Catalogue of Fruit and Cm*.*
taJ Trees, otttn with hints on Prop, r . Cuuute a,uL Man
agement. wUI be sent to ail applicants by n ail, friy .of
postage. Address D REDMOND, Augusta, La.
Catalogued furnished, and orders re.-, .. *- i, by
j. 11. Service and Win Haines, Broad-street, Augusta,
novia-dtwirwtf
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TUcaearc therefore to rife and adni<eii h nil and megu
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Gi ; Ate\>f g eor(iia, riciimoni> j3oiYntY^
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} FOSTER BLODUHT, Jii M Qidiiy ,-y.
I OTATE OF GBOlitilA, RICHMOND *i v -
k> Whereas, Jesse Johnson, alinltbd,■
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I Letters of Dismiss ion:
I gu!ar,thY.kV.nircda:e, : : i ‘ a.7 . 1
j LmterV ahoiiddnot V |.f‘gn^i’ ( a|.* U!i ‘ *'* y I,aV "‘’
Augusta, this 2d Novemrbcr, 1857.
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November 3,1857.
(State of geor ha, r chmond 001 •vi
O Whereas Sarah S. Ad-mis aold Jo .Liie It M iJi v
Adminiiitrators of the e tale of John ftj. Ada;:; Uu- of
gtilar the kindred mih creditor of sunl dc oased to Inl
and apponrnt my office on or befie- the iii m i.n.'n irE
Ocioher next, to show cause, it any f.. v |. av .- u*| tui
letters should be granted.
Given under my bAml and official signature a* office u
Augusta, this sth April, 18. V.
•FO.STtilt BLODGET J, < ~u x
April li, 1858.
•TWO MOJN'TiI.S'NO’I ins
gix-r V- MAYS aftrr „ wiH !„•
a Nej:ro Man named Yorick, belorigiilg to the e uiiP* ..
Floyd.CivGkett J. T. HAUMi-Ai hz’r
March 5, JBSB.
TWO MHA TIfH.-i.vdiit-appiicaliuu will hi w*,
X to the Court of Ordinary ot Mein .
leave to r.:il the Real Ex.-ato belonging to the ■ tate of
John H. Hpenccr, deceased
i
-I’WO MONTHXaftar J
i to the (Jourt. of Ordlar ry ■■ ■ .lo <0 „ B r, f, ■
M
■i'hon,a, Ayres late o! athloounty, Oct S l. . ■
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M;;rch3, 185". JAMK.i’j J tx ' r ’
: f W O .fit? STI tSfcft. - date apt ~~~u wiilho ir^Tie
Lo ilsa A. Collins deuea^J 6 t 0 tUf ‘ Chtato ° f
ZACHAIUAH J. RODGERS, AdiA
XTOTICE.—AII persons indebted to the .estate ot
/
‘VTOTiCE©—AII persons indebted to Uie stai.- o
James FTemmrr, late of Jeffcron county, de
them in terius prescribed by law.
EDWARD H. 11. HUNTER, Ex’r
March 4,1*58.
VALUABLE LANDS FOR SALE.
f|HIE subocr l - >ffer- for sale the PLANTATION
along the Uta*.e and Telagrapb read 4 miles, well known
as that belonging to the estate of Kgjab Bryan, deceased
gZ *%£&*
cribs,’l3 iood sfeedTanJ tr.)ucd Ne.ro
V houses with atone ch nincys and all other improvement*
for the convenience of a m oil Settled f4im ; on the fitter
an ail, neat Dwelling and soltab erouthhtiiigs, new Gin
i’tw object in sell ng is to remove to lands owned bt
the estate in Louisian*. jCooie ahd see Jor yofcrself of
address II Q. BRYAN, Kx r,
mh24-Wttt Greenwood, Fia.
WANTED, .
at utir Hacrburg, u.,uth u.ujVnn
I I ME.—aoo bbla. fresh Tbomastou 1.1. MK, for a*!a
I 4 low lip |Dovl4 d*wtf | ESTiiK i r.bAEK.