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POETICAL.
The River Time.
; Oh, a wonderful stream is the River Time!
And it flows through the realm of Tears;
! With a faultless rhythm and a musical
rhyme,
1 With a and a surge sub- j
lime,
I As it bends with the ocean of years,
j How the winters are drifting like flakes of !
snow!
And the summer like buds between ;
| And the ears and the sheaves, how they
come and go,
j On the River’s breast with its ebb and flow,
I As they glide in shadow and sheen.
There s a magic isle up the River Time, j
Where the softest of airs are playing;
There’s a cloudless sky and a tropical clime,
And a voice as sweet as a vesper chime.
And the Junes with the roses are staying:
And the name of that isle is the “Long
s Ago,”
j And we bury onr treasures thero;
There are brows of beauty and bosoms of
snow,
| They arc heaps of dust, but we loved
them so,
Tnere are trinkets aud tresses of hair.
There are fragments of songs that nobody
sings,
And a part of an infant’s prayer;
There’s a harp unswept and a lute with
out strings,
There are broken vows and pieces of rings,
And the garments that she used to wear.
Thero are hands that are waved when that
fairy shore
By the mirage is lifted in air,
And sometimes we hear, through the
turbulent war,
Sweet voices we’ve heard in the days gone
before.
When the wind down the River is fair.
0, remembered for aye bo that blessed isle
All the duyof life iill night;
And when evening comes with its beautiful
smile,
And our eyes are closed to slumber awhile,
May that greenwood of soul bo in sight.!
SELECT MTSt ELI.A X F,
soldT
“It is too bad !” said Clara Morton,
“How happy wo should bo if father
would give his consent ; but he still de
clares that I shall marry nobody but
Lewis Harding—merely because he is
rich.”
“Which would never influenco you,
dear Clara,” returned Will Jordan.
“You are right. I would not marry
Lewis Harding, if all his houses aud
lands would turn into pure gold.”
“ But you’d marry me with no house
at all ?”
“I would l” and Clara blushed.
Jt was a summer day, and the lovers
were walking in a shady wood. Their
rambles had brought them to the hanks
! of a little brook, and here they sat down
to rest on the trunk of a fallen tree.
“Well, dear Clara,” said Will Jordan,
“I see no reason for further delay.
Your father has already threatened to
compel you to marry Lewis Harding,
and you constantly inour his displeasure
|by refusing. Now, were you once my
wife, he would know that his plans nev
er could 1)0 carried out, and so cease to
persecute you. He may never be recon
ciled to us, but wo will bo all to each
other, and can get along without his
friendship—although I would much rath
er have his esteem than not. Now, I'll
tell 3011 what I propose.”
“What?” asked Clara, faintly.
“There is but one way—don’t start—
wo must elope.”
Clara w’as silent.
“And this very night,” Will added.
“Oil, so soon?”
“Yes, delays are dangerous. The
sooner yon are relieved from your pres
ent unpleasant situation the better.
Lewis Harding calls daily, you say, and
thrusts himself into your society, while
you endure him rather than your father’s
anger. Let us put an end to it.”
“I believe you are right.”
“Then you will go with mo to-night?”
“Yes,”
“Good !” he said kissing her. “Abu
matter of form, I will make all arranga
| ments for OUT marriage, and will be at
the edge of the woc:l in rear of your
father’s house, at exactly eight o’clock
this evening, and will have a buggy not
far off. Asa signal, I will imitate tho
cry of a whip-poor-will, which I can do
with great exactness. On hearing that,
you como out at tlio rear door, run
across tho lawn and join me. Then,very
quietly—without ever speaking—we will
hurry away to our conveyance.
They supposed that only the innocent
little birds heard this very oofidential di
alogue, and there was no fear that they
would reveal the plot. Alas ! how the
lovers must have trembled had they
caught a glimps of the angry face that
frowned upon them from behind a great
tree a few. yards distant.
An hour later, old Jacob Mortoa enter
-1 ed the village, which was only a half
mile distant, and walked into the real es
tate office of Lewis Harding, finding that
gentleman in.
“What do you think ?” he exclaimed, !
excitedly.
‘‘l dout know. What has happened ?”
asked Harding.
“Why, they’ve met again—had a con
; fab in the wood.”
“Ah ! How did you find it out ?’
“I was there.”
I Harding turned pale.
] “What! you don’t mean—”
“Without their knowledge,” explained
Mr. Morton. “I stood behind a large I
tree and heard them—will youbelive it?— :
planed a deliberate elopement. Oh, the •
audacity of—”
“An elopement! When?”
“This very evening.”
“What ! And did yon—”
“I felt like rushing forth and striking j
him, but a better plan occurred to me. 1
Let the elopement go on, but you be the ,
party instead of Jordan.” (Here Mr. I
Morton detailed minutely the plan of tho j
lovers as he overheard it.) “Now, you I
go to the appointed place in the edge of j
the wood, and there conceal yourself. 1
Go a little ahead of time. Then lie will I
come and give the signal at tho proper I
time. It will take her about two miu- j
utes to reach the place, because she will
move slowly in order to make no noise.
Meantimo there shall he another person
in the lawn—whom I shall bribe for the
purpose—who will step oqt and join him
before Clara lias time to get out of tho
house ; and he thinking it is my daughter
will hasten away with her. Soon after,
Clara will join you, thinking that you ar e j
Jordan. Then take her to whero you
have a buggy waiting, and drivo to the
church, which you can to-day arrange
to have open and lighted up. She will
not discover her mistake till she is stand
ing at the altar by your side. I will be
there, and I believe she will marry you
without a word. ”
“Capital ! capital ! my dear father-in.
law—for I think I may now safely call
you so. What a denr, shrewd father-in
law it is !” said Harding, foppishly.
Mr. Morton placed his index linger by
tlio side of liis nose and looked very know
iugafter which ho bade his intended son
in-law a glorious good-afternoon and left.
On reaching home’ he asked where
(•era was.
“Out walking yet, sir,” replied the
servant girl Mary Malone.
“Well, Mary,” said he, I want you to
do mo a great favor, and if you succeed I
will make you a present of a twenty-dol
larbill.”
He then confided to her that he had
overheard Clara and Will Jordan plan
ning an elopement, gave the details, re
vealed his plan for check-muting them,
and informed her of the part ho wished
her to play.
“Very well, sir : I’ll do it,” said Ma
ry-
“ Thank you ; and you shall have your
money to-morrow.”
Mary went about her work, muttering
to herself :
“Twenty dollars ! Pooh ! I would’nt
betray Clara for twenty hundred. I’ll
tell her every word, you hard-hearted old
sinner, if I lose my place by it. ”
Ten minutes later, Clara returned,
aud promptly she told her tho whole
story.
“Oh, dear! that will defeat us for the
present,” said Clara.
"No, it will only assist you,” replied
Mary.
“How ?”
“I will tell you.”
And Mary lowered her voice, lest the
very wall should hear, and told what her
plan was,
“Oh, Mary, you dear girl I” Clara
exclaimed, “You’ll lose your place by
it, but you shall have a better one.”
Mary’s plan—whatever it was—seemed
to please Clara, and as the afternoon
wore away, five persons waited anxiosly
for eight o’clock.
The shadows of night were gathering,
when a male figure crept ulong the edge
of the wood, and eronehed among some
bushes opposite the rear of Mr. Morton’s
house, muttering:
“She’s getting ready. She little im
| agines she is going to elope with L. H.,
Esq. Ha I ha! The old buffer and I are
just six too many for William Jordan,
and Clara Harding that is to be.”
About the sumo time, a sly old man
quietly seated himself by a back window
of the lower floor, and watched.
“It’s working nicely,” ho muttered, as
a female figure glided across the lawn
and hid in the shrubbery near the wood.
About this time female figure—num
ber two, let us call her—took a seat at a
window of Clara Morton’s room, and
gazed anxiosly towards the gloomy wood.
Finally, another male figure—number
two—appeared at the edge of tho wood,
where a gate led into the lawn, and tho
cry of a whip-poor-will was heard upon j
the stillness of the night. Instantly fe
male figure number one passed quietly
out tlirogh the gate, seizing the am of
male figure number two, and hurried
away into tho gloom.
“ Good !” chuckled the sly old man at
tho window.
“Good !” said male figure number one,
who lurked in the bushes.
A quarter of a minute—a half—three
quarters—a minute—two—three—four. |
“Why doesn’t she come?”
“Why doesn’t she como ?” also mut- i
tered the sly old man at the lower win- j
dow. “Oh, there she goes, at last!.
Probably forgot something. Nervous, ■
no doubt. Now for the village 1”
A female figure—number two—emerg
ed from the rear door of the building,
stepped out a few paces into tho lawn,
looked around nervously, then walked
stealthily toward the wood.
At the gate she met male figure num
ber one, who bad now come forth from
TERMS--TWO DOLLARS IN ADVANCE.
his place offconcealment, and they hurri
ed through The wood toward a lane not
far off. A buggy was waiting there, and
they got in and drove toward the village.
They stopped at the church and went
in. The interior was lighted up, and a
score or more of people sat in the front
pew's. The newly arrived pair walked
straight up the aisle and stood in front
qf the altar. A moment later the sly old
man came in and complacently took a
seat.
The lady was closely veiled, and her
male companion—who, of course, was Mr.
Harding—kept his own face somewhat
averted, as if from bashfulness,
“She may say the word that makes
her my wife before she discovers that I
am not Jordan,” he muttered ; and he
trembled a little.
The minister proceeded with hia usual
solemnity, and was just uttering the
words 'Tf any man can show just cause
why they may not be joined,” etc., when
the sly old man started'from his seat and
Tolled :
“Look here ! What’s all this? That
isn’t my daughter 1”
“What !” exclaimed Harding,
Everybody started.
“Why you haven’t got her, yon blun
dering donkey!” exclaimed the plain
spoken old man. "There she is ! ”
And he pointed excitedly to a pew at
the right of tho altar, where, lo I Will
Jordan and Clara sat calmly.
“Why—why,” stammered Harding,
addressing his companion, “What does
this mean ? Who are you ?”
She removed her veil, and stood re
vealed—Mary Malone,
“How’s this ? demanded Mr. Morton,
no longer sly.
“Don’t know,” replied Mary. “Guess
we must have got mixed up somehow.”
“Then the mistake shall be corrected 1”
said Mr. Morton, angrily. “Clara, stop
right up and marry Mr. Harding ! Do
you hear ?”
“Mr, Morton,” interposed the minis
ter, “that cannot be. She has just been
married to Mr. Jordan.”
The recently sly old man had taken a
step towards Clara, as though he would
have dragged her to the altar ; but he
soon paused, feeling very much like ut
tering a few imprecations ; but remem
bering where he was, he summoned his
reason and better nature to his aid, and
said :
“Sold !”
“Sold !” repeated Harding, with an ac
cent of dispair.
“Sold 1” echoed Mary Malone rogue
ishly.
“Sold !” reiterated Will Jordan and
bride.
“Sold 1” rang through the holy edi
fice, accompanied by n loud and merry
laugh; and even the minister, before
he knew it, found himself smiling, and
muttering the word, “sold !”
Old Jacob Morton, though obstinate
and self-willed, was not a vindictive
man, and realizing that what was done
could not be undone, and that it could
do no good to rave and howl, he walked
over to Will and Clara, and shook hands
with them, saying:
“Yes—sold ! Now I’ll freely forgive
both of you, and all concerned—’’here
ho glanced at Mary Malone—”if you
will tell me how it was done.”
“I’ll tell you then,” said Clara, “for I
know you will keep your word. Mary
divulged to me what you and Mr. Hard
ing had put up on Will and mo, and sug
gested a plan to baffle you. Instead of
going out into the lawn to personate me
and deceive Will, she remained in my
room, while J went forth and personated
her to deceive you. I therefore joined
Will as soon as I heard the whip-poor
will, aud we left. Mary then came down
and eloped with Mr. Harding.”
“Such perfidy 1 I—well, promised Ito
forgive all, and I’ll do it 1”
“Well, I wouldn’t, if I were you 1”
said Lewis Harding; and pale with
anger and disappointment he strode from
the Church. “It’s an outrage !”
“Sue him for breach of promise 1”
were the words that followed him as he
went out into the dreary night.
It was Mary Malone who spoke them.
Supremacy op the English Lan
guage.—The English tongue is fast be
coming the language of the world. In
Siam the king has just established two
English schools for the education of the
sons of his nobles. These future Asiatic
aristocrats are to bo able to read the lit
erature of the people of England and the
United States. French may remain the
language of tho courts, but the commer
cial tongue of the world is undoubtedly
the English and the knowledge of it is
spreading with every fresh port in Asia
aud Africa open to commerce, and with
the advent of every English speaking
traveler or settler in Japan, China and
Egypt. In Japan it has already been
adopted as the official language, and a
century hence the people of that country
will be able to read and appreciate the
works of English authors as well as
if they had been boru in England or
America.
A farmer wrote to the editor of the
Rutland Herald for advice about an un
manageable bull, and he was told if the
bull was a wild bull he had better leave
it alone, put a few things in a valise and
go West.
Love and Titles.
About the time of the marriage of
Miss Patterson to Jerome Bonaparte,
there was another brilliant nuptial in
cident in Baltimore. This was the mar
riage of the lovely Marianne Caton to
young Robert Patterson, the brother of
Miss Patterson. This lady—whether
hying or dead now we are not informed
—losing her husband, afterward became
the second Marchioness of Wellesley,
the brother of the Duke of Wellington,
and Governor General of ludia.
About the time of their marriage, Dan
iel Clark, the first Representative in
Congress from the State of Louisiana,
being in Washington, became acquainted
with the Catons, and fell desperately in
love with the younger sister, MissLquisa.
In regard to the progress and stains of
this affair we treftd on tender ground,
inasmuch as it relates to one of the most
mysterious of incidents in that remarka
ble lawsuit, which is still lingering in
our courts, known as the great Gaines
case. It is affirmed, with some color of
probability, that Miss Louisa Caton was
very favorably inclined to Clark, and
encouraged his addresses, and that his
final visit to Louisiana had in view the
arrangement of his affairs, so as to re
turn to Baltimore and resume and con.
summate his matrimonial aspirations.
And the theory of Mrs. Gaines, in her
suits rests upon the charitable hypothesis
that Clark was so bewildered by the
charms of Miss Caton, and the ambition
to effect a brilliant alliance with her,
that he renounced and destroyed the evi
dence of his secret marriage to Zulime
Carriere, the mother of Mrs. Gaines, and
the widow of one DeGrange.
But Clark failed in his aspirations and
schemes. Miss Louisa’s admiration and
regard for him could not endure so long
an absence, and a distance whioh, in
those days, required thirty day3 to
“annihilate,’’and suddenly to the supreme
chagrin and disgust of Clark she gave
him his “conge, ” and hastened to Eng
land to join her sister Marianne and her
deal - friend, Mrs. Jerome Bonaparte.—
There, with their wealth, their high
social position, distinguished connec
tions, great beauty, grace and elegance,
these ladles attracted much attention
and were received on intimate terms by
the highest circles of Brittish society.
It was not long before the lovely Louisa
Caton had a long train of admirers and
solicitors for her hand. She dilly-dal
lied with them until at last, her choice
fell upon a distinguished and very weal
thy Sir Felin Bathurst Harvey,
with whom she lived happily for many
years, and at his death was left a widow,
fair, fat and forty.
But her widowhood was not of a very
long duration, for in 1828 her hand was
sought by the Duke of Leeds, ten or fif
teen yews her junior, to whom she was
married, and thereby elevated to one of
the highest positions in the peerage, as
the Dutchess of the Godolphin d’Archy
Leeds, with a number of-
a vast estate, and innumerable armorial
bearings, crosses, and all that.
The old Carroll longevity, however,
triumphed over all, even in this connec
tion, for the Duke of Leeds, dying in
1849, Louisa Caton became again a
widow, but without children, and she is
now a dowager duchess passing most of
her time at her favorite of most other
seats, St. Leonard, ,911 the sea. At this
place was signed last summer a power of
attorney to her lawyer in Philadelphia,
in regard to the administration of her
large estate in Maryland, Virginia and
Pennsylvania, which was shown to us on
a Northern visit. The signainre was a
bold and strong one, as that which her
father attached to the Declaration of In
dependence, and she lacks five years of
the ago which that venerable patriot at
tained, who was the last survivor of all
the signers of that memorable proclama
tion, and died at the age of ninety-six.—
New Orleans Herald.
A New Move of toe Granges. —The
farmers in their move against high
freights, are entering more into detail
and taking practical and economical
measures in matters pertaining to the
farming interests. The Indianapolis
Journal learns of Granges in that State
which have leagued together and made
arrangements to obtain plows at $25,
which heretofore cost them $33. Os
course whole aie quantities can be bought
at wholsale prices, and the farmers can
thus serve themselves very handsomely.
In Virginia the price of McCormick’s
reaper and mower, which has heretofore
been S2OO, has been put down to $l5O,
and his other machines in like propor
tion. This reduction has doubtless been
brought about by the same influence.
The Idaho Statesman thus slanders
an Oregon minister : “Near the close of
the day at a camp-meeting in Oregon, a
short time ago, the local preacher said:
I hope all the congregation will be here
by 10 o’clock, lor precisely at that hour
we will pass to the creek, where I shall
baptize four adults and six adulteresses.”
The saddest case on record is that of
the want of a Bible at the inauguration
of a Missouri Governor. The ceremony
was detained until a messenger was sent
over to tho Penitentiary to procure a
copy.
Advertisiug Itatea.
One square, first insertion. 1 00
Each subsequent insertion 75
One square three JO 00
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A City of the Dead,
Near Nashville, some four miles to
the west, on a gentle southern slope
in an old field of forty or fifty
acres, that has been in cultivation
for the last half century, there may be
seen innumerable contiguous graves,
completely boxed in slabs of stone, the
capping of which being about a foot
below the surface, is oftentimes exposed
by the furrows of the plow in preparing
the soil. '
On digging and removing the cap
stone, the remains of much decayed
human skeletons are invariably found in
a heap, with the skull on top, as though
the dead had thus been entombed in sit
ting posture; but the dimensions of only a
foot and a half in depth, between the
foundation stone and the cap, would
seem to indicate that the dead must have
been kept above ground until the softer
ports mouldered away, and then the
bones alone interred in this singular
manner, or that the body had undergone
some kind of cremation. The box-like
structure of these endurable receptacles
is neat, and put together with much skill.
Our oldest citizens say that the In
dians who inhabited the country imme
diately preceding the white man had bo
knowledge or traditions of the people
buried here ; and the very great number
of graves to be found thus cotiguous,
probably exceeding a hundred thousand,
evidently indicates a very densely popu
lated country at the time.
Works of art, suoh as vessels for hold
ing water curiously made of orthis shell
baked by fires, and ornamented with
many striking designs that are bold and
show a cultivated taste are frequently
found in these box-like tombs. Some of
these may now be seen on exhibition,
among other curiosities, in our great
State Exposition.
In nntural history, as taught by geo
logical investigations, there appears to
have been a comparatively enlightened
period of mankind long anterior to any
account obtained from written history,
and many signs of this age are visible in
this State. May not this great necrop
olis, or ancient city of the dead, be one
of them ? — Commercial Reporter.
The Signers,
The Signers of the Declaration of In
dependence were all natives of the
American Boil with the exception of
eight. Sixteen of them were from the
Eastern or New England colonies, four
teen from the Middle, and eighteen from
the'Southern colonies. One was a na
tive of Maine, nine were natives of
Massachusetts, two of Rhode Island,
four of Connecticut, three of New Jersey,
five of Pensylvania, two of Delaware,
five of Maryland, nine of Virginia, and
four of South Carolina. Two were bora
in England, three in Ireland, two in Scot
land, and one was bom in Wales.
Twenty-seven of the Signers had been
regularly graduated in colleges, or about
one half. Twenty others had received
an academic education, and the remain
der had each been taught at a plain
school or at home. Os the fifty-six Sign
ers twenty-five had studied the institu
tions of Great Britain while sojourning
in that country. All had something to
loose if the struggle should result in
failure to them were very wealthy, and,
with few exceptions, all of them were
blessed with a competence.
Thirty-four of the signers were lawyers,,
thirteen were planters and farmers, nine
were merchants, five were physicians,
two were machanics, one a mason, and
one a surveyor. The youngest member
of Congress when the Declaration was
signed (Rutledge) was twenty-seven years
of age ; the oldest one (Dr. Franklin)
was seventy. Forty-two of the fifty-six
were between thirty and fifty years of
age ; the average age of all was forty
three years and ten months.
Not one of the signers ever fell from
the high estate to which that great act
had elevated him. It has been well said
that “the annals of the world can present
no political body the lives of whose mem
bers, minutely traced exhibit so much
of the zeal of the patriot dignified and
chastened by the virtues of the man.”
A Drunken Brute Beats his Wots
to Death. —New York, August I.—ls
sidoro Konkle, of Crawford, New Jersey,
got drunk while holding a wake over the
body of his newly born infant, and bru
tally beat his wife, who was lying sick
in bed, from the effects of which she
died. Konkle was arrested.
It is a fixed fact that certain propensi
ties run in families, like red hair. A
man who was hanged in Ohio for murder
six years ago, left six sons, and every
one of those children is now a medical
practitioner. It’s of no use trying to
suppress these strong hereditary in
stincts.
Obliging waiter—“ Sausages ; O yes,
sir. I con reccommend the sausages.
I kjjow the man who makes ’em !” Pat
ron—“ H’m it would have been better if
you had known the pig 1”
Sylvester Brown of Ashtabula, 0.,
when adjudged not guilty of the murder
of his wife, rose up and said : “Gentle
men I think I oan stand the soda-water
on this!”