Georgia Historic Newspapers

    IVEWS &. PLAfITTERS’ GAZETTE.
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D. C. COTTINd, editor.
No. 23.—NEW SERIES.]
NEWS & PLANTERS’ SAZETTE.
terms:
Published weekly at Three Dollars per annum
if paid at the time of subscribing; or Three
Dollars arul Fifty Cents, if not paid till the expi
ration of six months.
No paper to be discontinued, unless at the
option of the Editor, without the settlement of
all arrearages.
IT Letters, on business, must be postpaid, to
insure attention. No communication shah he
published, unless we are made acquainted with
the name of the author.
LAW NOTICE.
HP HE Subscriber offers his Professional servi- 1
ces to his fellow-citizens of the Northern
Circuit. Office in Mr. Barnett’s new building,
Northwest corner of the Public Square—front i
room, first floor.
JAMES M. SMYTIIE.
Washington, Wilkes county, Ga., )
December 22, 1842. \ 17
ICOTTING & BUTLER,
ATTORN IES,
ILX AVE taken an OFFICE in the rear of
A-A Willis &. Hester’s Store.
January, 1843. 28
The Subscriber ,
WISHING to close business, offers at Kedu
* * ced I’r.ces, Ins present STOCK, consisi
iug in part, of the following :
ffiFl Ladies’ Kid and Calf walking
11 r't'oes, just received.
*** 1 -All and Seal do. do.
hi hirer.'s Shoes, of various kinds
Boy’s Ciui and Iv.j-. sewed and peg’d. Shoes,
Men’s Siioes, sewed and peg’d. a variety,
Women’s sewed and peg’d. Kips,
Women’s fine Leather Bootees,
Gentlemen’s fine Calf Boots,
Coarse Brogans, men’s and boys, best quality,
Do. do extra size,
Men’s Leather Slippers,
Men’s Cali and Seal Pumps.
ALSO,
Ladies’ Kid Buskin Ties, and a case of Gentie
ry.en’s sewed Shoes, soon to arrive
\!so, Factory Ozuabtirgs, at 9 cents’ per yard,
rnd woolen Linseys, nearly a yard wide, at 28 to
10 cents, which article was sent invoiced at 45
tents, and cannot be bought at the Factory now
it much less than 40 cts. by the quantity.
O’ Persons wishing any of the above articles,
vill do well to call at the SHOE STORE of
A. L. LEWIS.
N. B.—Persons indebted on account will please
all and settle at the earliest possible date.
January 12, 1843. A. L. L.
Removal.
’IIIIE Subscriber informs the public that he
JL has removed from Tyrone to Crawtord
ulle, where he has permanently located himself,
md will carry on the business of manufacturing
COTTON-GINS, and will deliver Gins to any
iart of Georgia or South Carolina, to order.—
’ersons wishing any correspondence with the
Subscriber, will please direct to Crawfordville,
L'aliaferro county, Ga., where all orders in my
ine of business will be thankfully received and
livill be promptly attended to by the Subscriber.
1 return my thanks to Old Wilkes for her pat-
Jronage, and yet hope not to be forgotten by her,
Believing as I do that I can do as well by the
■Planters in furnishing them with Cotton-Gins as
Itiiv man in the Southern States.
B ‘ S. R. CRENSHAW.
I January 5,1843. 19
1 mw&ms
I Tailoring Establishment
|| Removed over H. S. Belcher’s Store.
lI'IMIE Subscriber begs leave to inform the pub- i
I lie and his former customers, that in conse-
Ifquence of the present Hard Times, he will make
Ijup Work in a Superior Style of Fashion, at a
I reduced price for Cash. Cotton, Hog-meat,
|| Lard, Meal, Flour, or Irish Potatoes. Persons
u wishing to patronize a TAILOR that is willing
| to comply with the Times, can do so by applying
I to the Subscriber.
I WILLIAM F. SOIIAN.
October 13, 1842. 7
Caution.
ALL persons are hereby notified and forwaru
ed not to trade for two Promissory Notes
given by myself to Cornelius Galloway, one for
One Hundred an Seventy-three Dollars payable
the Ist of January next, and the other for Fifty
two Dollars, payable the Ist of J une next, and
both dated the 3d of January, 1843, as 1 am de
termined not to pay them unless compelled by
law. FRANCIS C. ARMSTRONG.
January 20th, 1843. 3t 22
ALL persons indebted to the Estate of Mary
Hughes, deceased, late of Wilkes county,
are hereby notified to make immediate payment
to the undersigned, and those having demands a
-Jnst the same will present them in terms of the
laW. BARNARD H. HUGHES, Adm’r.
January 5,1843. 6t 19
JVotice.
ALL persons having demands against the Es
tate of Larkin Clark, late of Elbert county,
deceased, will present them as the law requires;
and those indebted to Baid estate will please make
immediate payment to
ROBERT McMILLAN, Executor.
Elberton, January 4,1843. 20
ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE.
WILL be sold on the first Tuesday in March
next, at the Court-House in Murray
county, within the legal sale hours, agreeable to
an order of the Inferior Court of Elbert county,
when sitting for Ordinary purposes; one lot of
Land containing one hundred and sixty Acres,
known by number one hundred and sixty (100)
in the eighth District, third Section, formerly
Cherokee, but now Murray county —sold as a
part of the “Lands belonging to the Estate of
Richard Rice, deceased ; sold subject to the
widow’s dower. Terms will be made known on
the daof sale, this 3d January, 1843.
S. WARREN, Adm’r.
January 5, 1843. m2m 19
I DRY GOODS
Cheap for Cash.
lias on hand and is now opening, a large
assortment of
Staple and Fancy
Dry Goods,
Which he will sell very low for CASH.
AMONG WHICH ARF. :
I Black, blue, invisible-green, mulberry,
drab and mix’d Broadcloths
1 Black and blue plain Cassimeres
Do. do. figured do.
Fancy, diamond and diagonel do.
Black, blue, mix’d, and drab Sattinets
Kentucky Jeans, Kersevs and Linseys
Red, white, green and yellow Flannels
Plain and diamond Beaver Cloths, for O
vercoats
Pilot Cloth. Tweeds and Cable Cassimeres
French and English Merinoes
Plain and figured Muslin de Laines
Plain and twilled Alpaca’s
A large assortment of French, English and
American Calicoes
Plain black Chally. fine article
Plain, figured ami watered black Silks
Chine, plaid and egured fancy Silks
Black and white Saiins, for Dresses
Do. do. for Vestings
Black silk Velvets, lor do.
A large assortiiient of Winter Shawls
Irish Linens and Scotch Ginghams
Silk, cotton and worsted Hosiery.
also,
A General Assortment of
Huts, Bools, Shops, and Saddlery,
1 lardware and Cutlery,
Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils,
Glass, Queensware,
and nearly every article usually kept in a
Dry Good Store, which he is determined to
sell low , believing a “ nimble six-pence is
better than a slow shilling.”
(Hr People from the country would do
well to cal! and examine for themselves.
Washington, Ga., Nov. 1842. 13
JVotice.
,3. The Subscriber wishes to dispose
of his Village Property at Lincoln
-Bl|ilepE ton > consisting of three settlements
u the village, with Offices on each
suitame lor Professional Gentlemen—with Tim
bered Lands adjacent to the Village, connected
with each. On one of the Lots is a Store-house
well fixed, Blacksmith’s and Wood-shop com
plete—all of which will be sold on accommoda
ting terms, and prices, in accordance to the
times. PETER LAMAR
Lincolnton, Nov. 3, 1842. 3m 10
Tost,
ON Wednesday the 11th instant, between
Washington and Mrs. Wellborn’s, 0 miles
below Raysville, by way of Griffin’s Mills, a
small vest Pocket Book, containing one hundred
and twenty-three dollars—one SIOO bill, one I
ten, and one five, on the State Bank ; one five
on the Brunswick Bank ; one dollar Georgia Rail
Road, and one two dollar bill South Carolina, in
two pieces, two Railroad receipts for five bales
Cotton each, and a receipt from Mosely & Elling
ton for one hide, and some other papers not re
collected. Any person finding the same and de
livering it to me, shall receive as a reward the
twenty-three dollars.
W. F. BAKER.
IT The Augusta Chronicle will please give |
the above three insertions in the weekly paper, !
ami forward their account to this office.
Washington, January 19,1843. 21
S3O Reward.
Tost.,
On the 24th day of December 1842, between
my house and Lincolnton, Lincoln County, a
common size leather pocket-book tied with a
blue string, and containing about three hundred
and twenty dollars in Bank Bills on different
Banks, and one dollar and fifty’ cents in silver;
also the following Notes and Receipts, viz :
One note on Cash Willingham, for six hun
dred and fifty five dollars fifty cents ; one on Pe
ter Lamar, for one hundred dollars, one on Tlios.
J. Murray', for S4O, one on Benjamin Samuels,
for $32, one on Watson, for S2OO, two fi. fas. one
against Tiltnan Alvey, the other against William
Reynolds, amounts not recollected.
Two due bills on B. B. Moore, for sls each.—
Three notes on Tiirnan A Ivey, one for $75 one
for SBOO the other amount not recollected. One
on Thomas Tillery, for $6, one receipt on Rob
ert F. Curry tor $220, one receipt on Jas. Lamp
kin for $339, one receipt for four bales cotton in
Augusta at Green & Andrews warehouse, left
there in Dee. 1842. Also many other notes and
receipts, the names and amounts not recollected.
All persons are warned against “trading for the
above named notes and receipts.
Any person finding tho Pocset Book and con
tents, and delivering’ the same to Isaac Willing
ham at his residence three miles from Lincolnton
on the Petersburg Ru m, or to Miles M. Camp
bell at Lincolnton, shail be entitled to the above
reward of thirty dollars.
ISAAC WILLINGHAM.
Lincolnton Jan 4,1843. 19
Yj'OUR months alter date application will be
made to the Honorable the Interior Court of
Wilkes county, while sitting for Ordinary pur
poses, for leave to sell two-thirds oi a certain
Tract of Land lying in the counties of Warren
and Taliaferro, situated on the waters of Beaver
dam Creek, belonging to the minors of Joseph
W. Lucket*, late of Wilkes county, deceased—
to-wit: Patrick 11. Luckett an ‘R< Seri E. I.uck
ett. HUGH WARD, Guardian.
January 5,1843. ni4m 19
ssMsimutk
EXECUTED AT THIS
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WASHINGTON, (WILKIIS COUNTY, GA,,) FEBRUARY 2, 1813.
SELLING AT COST.
I f I iHE Subscriber is now closing off his Stock
j J- ol Goods at COST ! Persons who wish
to avail themselves of an opportunity such as
this, had best call very soon, as the Stock is be
coming daily diminished. He has si ill a gener
al assortment of
Domestic and Fancy Dry Goods. Shoes, &-c.
H. S. BELCHER.
January 26,1848. it 22
mWwmET
ON Thursday evening the 12th instant, about
twilight, some Rogue entered my dwelling
house ami carried therefrom a Trunk containing
Seventy-five or six Dollars in cash, and the Pro
missory Notes described as follows: one on
Edward li. Brewer, payable to Bud C. Wall, or
bearer, tor one hundred and seventeen dollars
and ninety-three cents, due 25th instant; one on
John Downer, tor eighty-six dollars and eighty
six cents, al.-o payable to Bud C. Wall, or hear
er, due Ist instant; one on Madison Hudson,
for seventy-five dollars, payable to myself or
bearer, due one day afterdate, and dated 4th or
sth of November last; one on Wade Speed, for
two hundred and eighty-six dollars and three
cents, due one day after date, (the date not re
collected,) credited 11th Dec. 1841, for one hun
dred dollars, also for twenty-two dollars twelve
and a half cents, sometime in February, 1842;
-wo on Arthur Jones, both due 25th Dec. 1842,
(dates not recollected,) (lie one for ten dollars
eighty-seven and a hall cents, and the other for
twelve dollars fifty-six and a fourth cents ; one
on David Bell, for seven dollars and some cents,
due 25tn Dec 1842; one on Nicholas Burton,
tor seventeen dollars and ninety-three cents,
payable to Roneri L. Edwards, or bearer, (date
not recollected,) due one day afterdate, and one
°n Nathan Binder, lor six dollars and fifty cents,
dated Ib'.li June, 1842. 1 hereby caution all per
sons against trading lor any of the Notes above
described, and the makers thereof against pay
ing them to any person but myself.
RICHARD W. SNELLINGS,
Flat-woods, Elbert county, Ga.
January 19,1843. 22*
In Oglethorpe Superior Court.
October Term, 1842.
Winifred Taylor, J
vs. ‘ } LIBEL FOR DIVORCE.
William 11. Taylor, j
IT appearing to the Court, from the return of
the Sheriff of said County, that William H.
Taylor, defendant, in tho above stated ease, lias
not been served, not being in the county, and re
sides out of the State. It is therefore Ordered,
that the said William be served by publication,
and that a copy of this Rule be published once a
month for four months previous to the next Term
of this Court, in one of the public Gazette’s of
this State.
GEORGIA, ) I certify that the above
Oglethorpe county. ( and foregoing, is a true copy
from the minutes of the Superior Court, this 18th
October, 1842.
GEORGE 11. LESTER, Clerk.
Novembers. ni4m 10
Lincoln Superior Court,
October Term, 1842.
Rebecca Fleetwood, i Libel for Divorce,
vs. > In Lincoln Sup’r. Court,
John Fleetwood. } returnable April Term.
TT appearing to the Court, that the defendant
in the above stated label for Divorce, has not
been served, and has removed out of the county
of Lincoln, and to parts unknown. It is there
fore Ordered, that said defendant do appear at the
next Term of this Court and answer to said Li
bel, or in default thereof that the Court will pro
ceed as to justice shall appertain. It is further
Ordered, that a copy of this Rule be served upon
the defendant by publishing flie same once a
month for four months in the Washington News
and Planters’ Gazette.
True extract from the Minutes,
HENRY MURRAY, Clerk.
December 15,1842. m4m 16
Georgiti, Elbert county.
Superior Court, September Term, 1842.
William Pulliam, Admin-”
istrator of
Jacob Higginbotham, De
ceased,
vs. IN EQUITY.
James Higginbotham,
Jacob Higginbotham,
John Higginbotham,
William Higginbotham,
Francis Higginbotham,
Riley Higginbotham,
Joseph Higginbotham,
Benjamin Higginbotham,
Elizabeth Higginbotham,
William Maxwell and
Jane his wife, and
Stephen Rowrey and
Hannah his wife.
Evidence Having been submitted to the
Court that three of the Defendants, to-wit: Jo
seph Higginbotham, James Higginbotham and
Jacob Higginbotham, had renounced all further
claims upon the estate of their deceased father,
in consideration of advancements made to them
by their fattier in his life-time. It is Ordered by
the Court, that the said three Distributees fur
nish testimony on or before the first day of the
next Term ol this Court, to rebut said proof, at
which tune a final distribution of the Assets will
be made in terms of the Interlocutory Decree
aiieady rendered. It is Ordered, that a copy of
tiiis Rule be published monthly, until the next
Court.
True copy from the Minutes of said Court, this
26th day of September, 1842.
IRA CHRISTIAN, Cierk.
October 6. m6m 6
ITIOUR months after date application will be
made to the Honorable the Inferior Court
ot’ Elbert county, when sitting as a Court of Or
dinary, for leave to sell a part of the Negroes
belonging to the Estate of Middleton C. Upshaw,
deceased.
THOMAS J. HEARD, Adm’r.
December 6, 1842. m4m 15
ITtOOR months after date, application will be
A made to the Honorable the Inferior Court
of Elbert county, when sitting as a Court of Or
dinary, for leave to sell all the Lands and Ne
groes belonging to the Estate of Zachariah Bow
man, deceased, late of Elbert county.
JEREMIAH S. WARREN, Adm’r.
January 5,1843. m4in 19
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING.
to rr Uam r c ti 0.
From Graham's Magazine, for February,
1843.
BORN TO LOVE PIGS AND CHICK
ENS.
HY N. V. WILMS.
The guests at the Astor House were look
ing mournfully out of the drawing-room
windows, on a certain rainy day of an Oc
tober passed over to history. No shopping
—no visiting! The morning must be pas”
sed in doors. And it was some consolation
to those who were in town for a few days to
see the world, that their time was not quite
lost, for the assemblage in tho large draw
ing-room was numerous and gay. Ave
ry dressy’ affair is the drawing-room of the
Astor, and as full of eyes as a peacock’s
tail—(which, by tho way, is also a very
dressy affair.) Strangers who wish to see
and be seen (and especially “be seen”) on
rainy days, as well as on sunny days, in
their visits to New York, should, as the
phrase goes, “patronize” the Astor. As if
there were any patronage in getting the
worth of your money !
Hell—the people in the drawing-room
looked a little out of the windows, and a
great deal at each other. Unfortunately,
it is only among angels and unbred per
sons that introductions can be dispensed
with, and as the guests of that day at the
Astor House were mostly strangers to each
other, conversation was very fitful and
guarded, and any movement whatever, ex
tremely conspicuous. There were four
very silent ladies on the sofa, two very si
lent ladies in each of the windows, silent
ladies on the ottomans, silent ladies in the
chairs at the corners, and one silent lady,
very highly dressed, sitting on the music
stool, with her back to the piano. There
was here and there a gentleman in the room
weather-bound and silent ; but we have on
ly to do with one of these, and with the last j
mentioned much embellished young ladv.
“Well, I can’t sit on this sofa chair all j
day, Cousin Meg!” said the gentleman.
‘ ’Sh ! call me Margaret, if you must
speak so loud,’ said the lady. ‘And what
would you do out of doors this rainy day?
I’m sure it’s very pleasant here.”
‘Not for me. I’d rather be thrashing in
the barn. But there must be some ‘rainy
weather work’ in the city as well as the
country. There’s some fun. I know, that’s
kept for a wet day, as we keep corn-shel
ling and grinding the tools.”
‘Dear me!’
‘Well—what now?’
‘Oh, nothing! but I do wish you wouldn’t
bring the stable with you to the Astor
House.’
The gentleman slightly elevated his eye
brows, and took a leaf of music from the
piano, and commenced diligently reading
the mystic dots and lines. We have ten
minutes to spare before the entrance of an
other person upon the scene, and we will
make use of the silence to conjure up for
you, in our magic mirror, the semblance of
the two whose familiar dialogue we have
just jotted down.
Miss Margaret Pifflit was a young lady
who had a large share of what the French
call la be.aute du diable —youth and fresh
ness. (Though why the devil should have
the credit of what never belonged to him, it
takes a Frenchman, perhaps, to explain.)
To look at, she was certainly a human be
ing in very high perfection. Her cheeks
were like two sound apples ; her waist was
as round as a stove-pipe ; her shoulders
had two dimples just at the hack, that look
ed asifthey defied punching to make them
any deeper; her eyes looked as if they were
just made, they were so bright and new ;
her voice sounded like “C sharp” in anew
piano; and her teeth were 1 ike a fresh break
in a cocoa-nut. She was inexorably, una
batedly, desperately healthy. This fact,
and the difficulty of uniting all the fashions
of all the magazines in one dress, were her
two principal afflictions in this world of
care. She had an ideal moddle, to which
she aspired with constant longings—a mod
del resembling in figure the high-born crea
ture whr.se never varied face is seen in all
the plates of the fashions, yet, if possible,
paler and more disdainful. If Miss Pifflit
could but have bent her short wrist with
the curve invariably given to the well
gloved extremities of that mysterious and
nameless beauty ; if she could but have sat
with her back to her friends, and thrown
her head languisliingly over her shoulder
without dislocating her neck ; if she could
but have protruded from the flounce of her
dress a foot more like a mincing little mus
cle-shell, and less like a jolly fat clam ; in
brief, ifshe could have drawn out her fi
gure like the enviable joints of a spy-glass,
whittled off more taperly her four extremi
ties, sold all her uproarious and indomita
ble roses for a pot of carmine, and compel
led the publishers of the magazines to re
frain from the distracting multiplicity of
their monthly fashions—with these little
changes in her allotment, Miss Pifflit would
have realized all her maiden aspirations
up to the present hour.
A glimpse will give you an idea of the
gentleman in question. He was not much,
more than he looked to be—a compact, ath
letic young man of twenty-one, with clear,
hoDest blue eyes, brown face, where it was
not shaded by the rim of his hat, curling
brown hair, and an expression of fearless
qualities, dashed just now by a tinge of rus
tic bashfulness. His dress was” a little
more expensive and gayer than was neces
sary, and he wore his clothes in a way
which betrayed that he would be more at
1 home in his shirt sleeves. His hands were
j r °ugh, and his attitude that ofa man who
| was accustomed to fling himself down on
I the nearest bench, or swing his legs from the
| top rail ofa fence, or the box of a wagon.
jWe speak with caution of his rusticity,
however, for he had a printed card, “Mr.
Ephraim Bracely,” and he was a subscri
ber to the “Spirit of the Times.” We shall
find time to say a thing or two about him
as we get on.
‘Eph. Bracely and ‘Meg’ Pifflit were
‘engaged.’ With the young lady it was, as
the French say, faule de mieux, for her
beauideal (or, in plain English, her idea!
beau) was a tall, pale young gentleman,
with white gloves, in a vapid consumption.
She ami Eph, were second eon-..us, hot
j over, and as she wa-an orphan,-and ban
lived since childhood with his tail- iF
I moreover, had inherited the Pitili. (hr,,,.
| which adjoined that of the Bracely’ , mi,
j moreover, had been told to “kiss heo little,
j husband, and love him always” by the ilv
-1 ing breath of her mother, and (moreover
j third) had been “let be” his sweetheart by
| the unanimous consent of the neighborhood,
why, it seemed one of those matches made
I ip heaven, and not intended to be traves
tied on earth. It was understood that they
were to be married as soon as the young
man’s savings should enable him to pull
down the old Pilllit house and build a cot
tage, and, with a fair season, that might be
done in another year. Meantime, Eph.
was a loyal keeper of his troth, though ne
ver having had the trouble to win the youne*
lady, he was not fully aware of the neces
sity of courtship, whether or no ; and was
besides, somewhat unsusceptible of the
charms of moonlight, after a hard day’s
work athayingor harvesting. The neigh
bors thought it proof enough of his love that
he never “went sparking” elsewhere, and
as he would rather talk of his gun or his
fishing-rod, his horse or his crop, pigs, poli
tics, or anything else, than love and matri
mony, his companions took his engagement
with his cousin to he a subject upon which
he felt too deeply to banter, and they neither I
invaded his domain by attentions to Ids
sweetheart, nor suggested thought by allu
sions to her. It was in (lie progress of this
even tenor of engagement, that some law
business had called old fanner Bracely to
New York, and the voting couple had man
aged to accompany him And of course,
nothing would do ior Miss Pifflit but “the
Astor.”
And now, perhaps, the reader is ready to
be told whose carriage is at Vesey street
door, and who sends up a dripping servant
to inquire for Miss Pifflit.
It is allotted to the destiny of every couri j
trygirl to have one fashionable female friend j
in the city—somebody to correspond with, !
somebody to quote, somebody to write her I
the particulars of the last elopement, some- j
body to send her patterns of collars, and the I
rise and fall of tournures, and such other |
things as are not entered into by the month- j
iy magazines. How these apparently un- j
like acquaintances are formed, is as much j
a mystery as the eternal youth of postboys,
and the eternal duiation of donkeys. Far j
be it from me to pry irreverently into these
pokerish corners of the machinery of the 1
world. Igo no further than the fact, that
Miss Julia Hampson was an acquaintance
of Miss Pifflit’s.
Everybody knows “Hampson A Cos.”
Miss Hampson was a good deal what the
Fates had trid to make her. fi she had not
been admirably well dressed, it would have
been by violent opposition to tho united zeal
and talent of dressmakers and milliners.—
These important viceregents of the Hand
that reserves to itself the dressing of the
butterfly and lily, make distinctions in the
exeicise of their vocation. Wo be to an
unloveable v-oman, if she be not endowed
with insn■ supreme. She buy all the
stuffs o* France, and all the colors of the
rainbow, but she will never get from those
keen judges of fitness the loving hint, the j
admiring and selective persuasion, with
which they delight to influence the embel
lishment of sweetness and loveliness.—
They who talk of “anything’s looking well
on a pretty woman,” have not reflected on
the lesser providence of dressmakers and
milliners. Woman is never mercenary
hut in monstrous exceptions, and no trades
woman of the fashions will sell taste or
counsel ; and, in the superior style of all
charming women, you see, not the influence
of manners upon dress, but the affectionate
tribute of these dispensers of elegance to
the qualities they admire. Let him who
doubts, go shopping with his dressy old aunt
to-day, and to-morrow with his dear little
cousin.
Miss Hampson, to whom the supplies of
elegance come as naturally as bread and
butter, and occasioned as little speculation
as to the whence or how, was as uncon
sciously elegant, of course, as a well dres
sed lily. She was abstractedly a very
beautiful girl, though in a very delicate and
unconspicuous style ; and by dint of abso
lute fitness in dressing, the merit of her
beauty, by common observers at least,
would be half given to her fashionable air
and unexceptionable toilette. The damsel
and her choice array, indeed, seemed the
harmonious work of thesamemuker. How
much was nature’s gift, and how much was
bought in Broadway,’ was probably never
duly understood by even her most discrim
inating admirer.
But we have kept Miss Hampson too
long upon the stairs.
‘The two young la’dies met with a kiss,
in which (to the surprize of those who had
previously observed Miss Pifflit) there was
no smack of the latest fashion.
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j ‘My dear Julia!’
‘My dear Margerine!’ (This was a ro
mantic variation of Meg’s, which she had
Ibrccd upon her intimate friends at the point
of the bayonet.)
Eph. twitched, remindingly, the jupom
of his cousin, and she introduced him w ith
the formula which she had found in one of
Miss Austen’s novels.
‘Oh, hut tli ere was a mock respectful
ness in that deep curtsy,’ thought Eph. (and
| so there was—for so Miss an
i irresistible cure from the inflated cerefrto
niousness of the introduction.)
Eph. made a bou r as cold and stiff as a
frozen horse-blanket. And if he could have
< commanded the blood in his face it would
*•"” n as dignified and resentful as the
i < |i . ; •of Rod Jacket—hut that rustic
to Ids hair, was like a mask drop.
I his features.
■ i Idul country.boy,” thought Miss
j r'i.eip.s:,,, as she Icokrd compassionately
, upon his rod-hot forehead, arid forthwith
i dismissed him entirely from her thoughts.
With a consciousness that he had better
leave the room, and wnlkoff'his mortifica
tion under an umbrella, Eph. took his sent
and silently listened to the conversation of
tlie young ladies. Miss llampson had
come to pass the morning with her friend,
and she took ofl’her bonnet, and showered
down upon her dazzling neck a profusion
of the most adorable brown ringlets. Spite
of his angry humiliation, the young farmer
felt a thrill run through his veins as the
heavy curls fell indolently about her
shoulders. He had never before looked
upon a woman with emotion. lie hated
her—oil, yes! for she had given him a look
thatcould never be forgiven—but, for some
body, she must he the angel of the world.
Eph. would have given all his sheep and
horses, cows, crops and hay-stacks, to have
seen the man she would fancy to be her e
qual. He could not give even a guess at
the height ofthat conscious superiority from
which she individually looked down upon
him ; it would have satisfied a thirst which
almost made him scream, to measure him
self by a man with whom she could be fa
miliar. Where was his inferiority? What
was it? Why had he been blind to it till
now? Was there no surgeon’s knife, no
caustic, that could carve out, or cut away,
burn or scarify, the vulgarities she looked
upon so i ontemptuously? But the devil
take her superciliousness, nevertheless!
It was a bitter morning to Eph. Bracely,
but still it went like a dream. The hotel
parlor was no longer a stupid place. His
cousin Meg had gained a consequence in
his eyes, for she was the object of caress
ironi this superior creature—she was the
link which kept her within his observation.
He was too full of other feelings just now
todo more than acknowledge the superior
itv of this girl to his cousin. He felt it in
his after thoughts, and his destiny then, for
the first time, seemed crossed and inade
quate to his wishes.
*******
(We hereby draw upon your imagina
tion for six months, courteous reader.—
Please allow the feller to show you into the
middle of the following July.)
CHAPTER 11.
Bracely farm, ten o'clock of a glorious
summer morning—Miss Pitflit extended up
on a sofa in despair. But let us go back a
little.
A week before, a letter had been re
ceive ‘ front Miss Hampson, who,’to the de
light and surprise ofher friend Margerine,
had taken the whim to pa e a month with
her. She was at Rock a way, and was sick
and tited of waltzing and the sea. Had far
mer Bracely a spare corner for a poor girl ?
But Miss Pifflit’s “sober second thought”
was utter consternation. llow to lodge fit
ly the elegant Julia Hampson? No French
beds in the house, no boudoir, no ottomans,
no pastilles, no bathes, no Psyche to dress
by. W'liat vulgar wretches they would
seem to her. What insupportable horrors
she would feel at the dreadful inelegance
of the farm. Meg was pale with horror
and dismay as she went into the details of
anticipation.
Something must be done, however. A
sleepless night of reflection and contrivance
sufficed to give some shape to the capabili
ties of the case, and by daylight the next
illuming the whole house was in commo
ti<>:, Meg had fortunately a large bump
of constructiveness, very much enlarged
y habitual dilemmas of toilette. A bou
doir must be constructed. Farmer Brace
ly slept in the dried-apple room, on the low
er floor, and he was no sooner out cf his hoc
than his bag and baggage were tumbled up
stairs, his gun and Sundy whip taken down
from their nails, and the floor scoured, and
the ceiling whitewashed. Eph. was by
this time returned from ‘he village with all
the chintz that could be bought, and a paper
of tacks, and some new straw carpeting ;
and by ten o’clock that night the four walls
of the apartment were covered with the
gaily flowered material, the carpet was
nailed down, and old Farmer Bracely
thought it a mighty nice cool-looking place.
Eph. was a bit of a carpenter, and he soon
knocked together some boxes, which, when
covered with chintz, and stuffed vi:h wool,
looked very much like ottomans; and with
a handsome cloth on the r, nd table, gera
niums in the windows, am a chintz curtain
to subdue the light, it was not far from a
very charming boudoir, and Meg began to
breathe more freely.
But Eph. had heard this news with the
blood hot in his temples. Was that proud
woman coming to look again upon him with
contempt, and here, too, where the rustic!*
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