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IRVi.Mrs LIFE OF V.AM!I.\GT0.M
WASHINGTON’S LOVE AFFAIRS.
In one of these manuscript memorials
of his practical studies and excercises, we
have come upon some documents singu
larly in contrast with all that it e have just
cited and with his apparently unromantic
character. In a word, there are evidences
in liis own hand-writing that, before he
was fifteen years of age, he had conceived
a passion for some unknown beauty, so
serious as to disturb his otherwise well-
regulated mind and to make him really un
happy. Why this juvenile attachment
was a source of unhappiness, we have no
positive means of ascertaining. Perhaps
the object of it may have considered him a
mere school-boy and treated bim as such;
or his own shyness may have been in his
way, and his “rules for behaviour and con
versation,” may as yet have sat awkwardly
on him and rendered him formal and un
gainly when he most sought to please.—
Even in later years lie was apt to be silent
and embarrassed in female society. “He
was a very bashful young man,” said an
old lady whom he used to visit when
they were both in their nonage. “I used
often to wish that he would talk more.’
Whatever may have been the reason,
this early attachment seems to have been
a source of poignant discomfort to him. It
clung to him after he took a final leave of
school in the autumn of 1747, and went to
reside with his brother Lawrence, at Mount
Vernon. Here he continued Ids mathema
tical studies and his practice in surveying,
disturbed at times by recurrences of his
unlucky passion. Though by no means
of a poetical temperament, the waste pages
of his journal betray several attempts to
pour forth liis amorous sorrows in verse.
Tliev are mere, common place rhymes,
such as lovers at his age are apt to write,
in which lie bewails liis “poor restless heart,
wounded by Cupid’s dart,” and “bleeding
for one who remains pitiless of his griefs
and woes.”
The tenor of some of liis verses
induces us to believe that l»e never
told liis love; but as we have already
surmised, was prevented by liis bashful
ness.
“Ah, ivo is me, that I should love and conceal.
Long have I wished, and never dare reveal.”
It is difficult to reconcile one’s self to
the idea of the cool and sedate Washing
ton, the great champion of American liber
ty, a woe-worn lover in his youthful days,
‘sighing like a furnace’ and inditing plain
tive verses about tlie groves of Mount Ver
non. We. are glad of an opportunity,
however, of penetrating to bis native feel
ings, and finding that under the steady
decorum and reserve be bad a heart of
flesh, throbbing with the warm impulses of
human nature.
The merits of Washington were known
and appreciated by the Fairfax family.—
Though not quite sixteen years of age, he
no longer seemed a boy, nor was he treat
ed as such. Tall, athletic and manly for
his years, his early self-training and the
code of conduct lie had devised, gave a
gravity, and decision to his conduct; liis
frankness and modesty inspired cordial
regard, and the melancholy of which he
speaks may have produced a softnessin his
manner calculated to win favor in ladies’
eyes. According to his own account, the
female society by which lie was surround
ed had a soothing effect on that melan
choly. The charms of Miss Carey, the
sister of the bride, seem even to have caus
ed a slight fluttering in liis bosom; which,
however, was constantly rebuked by the
rememberanee of his former passion—so
at least we judge from letters to his youth
ful confidants, rough drafts of which are
still to be seen in his tell-tale journal.
To one whom he addresses as his dear
friend Robin, he writes: “My residence
is at present at his lordship’s, where I might,
was my heart disengaged, pass my time
very pleasantly, as there’s a very agree
able young lady lives in- tbs same house
(Col. George Fairfax’s wife’s sister); but
as that’s only adding fuel to fire, it makes
me the more uneasy, for by often and un
avoidably being in company with her,
revives my former passion for your
Lowland Beauty; whereas, was I to
live more retired from young women, I
might in some measure alleviate my
sorrows by burying that chaste and
troublesome passion in the grave of obli
vion,” &c.
Similar avowals he makes to another of
his vonng correspondents, whom he styles
“Dear friend John,” as also to a female
confidant, styled “Dear Sally,” to whom
he acknowledges that the company of the
“very agreeable young lady, sister-in-law
of Col. George Fairfax,” in agreat measure
cheers his sorrow and dejectncss. The
object of his early passion is not positively
known. Tradition states that the “low
land beauty” was a Miss Grimes, ofAVest-
moreland, afterwards Mrs. Lee, and moth
er of General Henryl.ee, who figured in
revolutionary history as “Light Horse
Harrv,” and was always a favorite with
Washington, probably from the recol
lections of liis early tenderness for tlie
mother
Whatever may have been the soothing
effect of the female society by which lie
was surrounded at Bel voir, the youth found
a more effectual remedy for his love-melan
choly in the company of Lord Fairfax.—
his lordship wasa staunch fox-hunter in Vir
ginia requiring bold and skillful horseman
ship. He found Washington as bold as
himself in the saddle, and as eager to fol
low the hounds. He forthwith took him
into peculiar favor, made him liis hunting
companion, and it was probably under tlie
tuition of this hard-riding old nobleman
that the youth imbibed the fondness tor
the chase for which he was afterwards re
marked.
*##•**
Tradition gives verv different motives
from those of business for bis two sojonms
in tlie latter city. He found there an early
friend and schoolmate, Beverly Robbin-
son, son of John Robhiusou, Speaker of
the Virginia House of Burgesses. He
was living happily and prosperously with
a young and wealthy bride, having married
one of tlie nieces and heiresses of Mr. Adol
phus 1’hilipse, a rich landholder, whose
manor-house is still to be seen on the banks
of the Hudson. At the hquseof Mr Bev
erly Robbinson, where Wahsington was an
honored guest, he met Miss Mary Philipse,
sister and co-heires^ of Mrs. Robbinson a
young lady whose personal attractions
are said to have rivalled her reputed
wealth.
W e have already given an instance of
Washington’s early sensibility to female
charms. A life, however of constant activ
ity and care, passed for the most part in
the wilderness and on the frontiers, far
from female society—had left little mood
or leisure for the indulgence of the tender
sentiment, but made him more sensible in
the present brief interval of gay and social
life, to the attractions of an elegant woman,
brought up in the polite circle of New
York.
That he was an open admirer of Miss
Philipse is a historical fact; that he sought
her hand, but was refused, is traditional
and not very probable. His military rank,
liis early laurels and distinguished presence
were all calculated to find favor in female
eyes; but liis sojourn in New York was
brief. He may have been diffident in urg
ing bis suit with a lady accustomed to the
homage of society and surrounded by ad
mirers. The most probable version of
the story is that he was called away by his
public duties before lie had made, sufficient
approaches in his siege of the lady’s
heart to warrant a summons to surrend-
AVashington was now ordered by Sir
John St. Clair, the quartermaster-general
of the forces under General Forbes, to
repair to Williamsburg, and lay the state
of the case before the council. He set off
promptly on horseback, attended by Bish
op, the well trained military servant who
had served tlie late General Braddock.—
It proved an eventful journey, though not
in a military point of view. In crossing a
ferry of the Pamunkey, a branch of York
river, lie fell in company with a Mr.
Chambcrlayne, who lived in tlie neighbor
hood, and who, in the spirit of Virginian
hospitality, claimed him as a guest. It
Was with difficulty Washington could be
prevailed on to halt for dinner, so im
patient was he to arrive at Williamsburg
and accomplish bis mission.
Among the guests at Mr. Chamber-
layne’s was a young and blooming widow,
Airs. Martha Custis, daughter of Air. John
Dandrige; both patrician names in the
province. Her husband, John Park Custis,
had been dead about three years, leaving
her with two young children and a large
fortune. She is represented as being
rather below the middle size, but extremely
well shaped, with an agreeable counten
ance, dark hazel eyes and hair, and those
frank, engageing manners, so captivating
in southern women. We are pot informed
whether Washington had met with her be-
fori—probably not during her widowhood,
as during that time lie had been almost
continually on the frontier. We have
shown that, with all liis gravity and re
serve, he was quickly susceptible to female
charms; and they may have had a greater
efiect upon him when thus casually en
countered in fleeting moments snatched
from the cares and perplexities and rude
scenes of frontier warfare. At any rate
his heart appears to have been taken hv
surprise.
The dinner, which in those days was
earlier than at present, seemed all too
short. The afternoon passed away like a
dream. Bishop was punctual to tlie orders
he received on halting; the horses pawed
at the door, but for once Washington loi
tered in the path of duty. The horses
were countermanded and it was not until
the next morning that lie was again in the
saddle, spurring for Williamsburg. Hap
pily the White House, the residence of Mrs.
Curtis, was in New Kent county, at no
great distance from that city, so that he
had opportunities of visiting her in the in
tervals of business.
His time for courtship, however, was
brief. Alilitary duties called liim almost
immediately to Winchester; but he feared,
should lie leave the matter in suspense, some
more enterprising rival might supplant him
during liis absence, as in the case of Aliss
Philipse at New York, lie improved,
tlierefore, his brief opportunity to the
utmost. The blooming widow had many
suitors, but Washington was graced with
that renown so ennobling in the eyes of
women. In a word, before, they separated,
they had mutually plighted their faith and
the marriage was to take place as soon as
the campaign against Fort Duquesne was
at an end.
A Short Letter on Extravagance.
“A LITTLE llOI'SE WELL FILLED.”
Our houses are too large, and too costly.
We have, usually, one or two rooms that
are merely for show; a parlor, perhaps
two, with folding doors between, that are
only open for company, that are two nice
for children to play in, too large to be
warmed readily in winter, in short like a
dandy, too nice for anything useful. And
then, often, there is a part of the house
unfinished, a large attic which might ac
commodate a whole family, occupied now
by a few old boxes of white beans, and a
few bunches of catnipand pennyroyal, and
some broken chairs and a cradle. This
upper story was probably put on because
you wanted a house as large as your neigh
bor’s. Now a house should, in some meas
ure, fit a family, as a suit of clothes should
fit an individual. Although it is not,
perhaps, always safe to count your child
ren before they are born, and tlierefore the
capacity of your house must often be by
estimation, yet everywhere are houses
going ufb wi tli the perfect understanding
that a considerable part of the room is to
be useless, either kept for an annual par-
tv, or to remain unfinished. If we who
who plan and build such houses, would
reflect upon it fairly, we should see that
no rational man would entertain fonts any
more respect for living in a house which
we do not fill, than for wearing a suit of
clothes made for a person of twice our
size. Let us have “a little house well
filled,” with no spare room except a cham
ber for our friends, and no lumber room
of a garret, for ghosts and rats and mice
to inhabit. The thousand dollars which
even careful men generally expend in
buildiirg “ a house to live in,” merely to
conform to fashion, or on architectural
whim, costs the poor wife and children
many a lecture upon penny economy,
which might otherwise have been spared.
And when you have built or purchased a
house too large for your wants, the evil
has but commenced. Your large and nu
merous rooms require large numerous car
pets, and curinins and sofas, and other
adornings. But tliis is not all, nor the
worst of it. The house and the furniture
must be taken off, swept and dusted daily,
and scrubbed and scoured Spring and Fall,
when house cleaning tune comes round.
You must either pay or help to do all this,
or what is perhaps more common, allow
additional burdens to fall on your wife,
who has already a ceaseless round of cares.
A sensitive or even a just man should see
that, in this land, where servants are an
expensive luxury, at best, his wife have
comfort and leisure, and a selfish man may
soon learn that he cannot lead a peaceful
and happy life with a woman who is over
run with hard work and family cares. AYe
think if our reader liimselt is not open to
censure in the particulars named, he may
find plenty of his neighbors to whom our
remarks will apply.
And then, again, we are extravagant in
our household furniture. The ladies must
come in for a share of our lecture on this
topic. The furniture of a house is mainly
for use and comfort. Carpets and sofas
and chairs and tables are chiefly designed
to promote warmth and ‘quiet and physical
enjoyment in some way. A carpeted floor
is warmer in winter, and the children
make less disturbance on it than bare
boards; and, besides, they require much
less labor to keep them in nice order. Let
comfort then be regarded, principally in
selecting furniture.
But a nice perception of the fitness of
things which is good taste—the faculty of
producing harmony between the occupants
of the house and the house itself, and be
tween the house and the furniture and
surroundings—this is what you do not buy
at the upholsterers, this is beyond price,
and a matter, madam, in which it is your
province to excel. Let the furniture, say,
as plain as things can speak, this house is
for the comfort of those who live inside of
it and not for mem callers and strangers.
This carpet is no; too good for the child
ren to roll on, this armchair will not be
soiled by being occupied, and the bright
sun-liglit may visit the inmates in the
morning, bringing health and cheerfulness,
without fear that it will fade the brilliant
colors of the silk and velvet. If when
your house is built, and furnished, you
have money to spare for articles of mere
taste and luxury, the world is full
of books and pictures, and a thous
and other things, which will afford to
a refined and cnltivated mind far more
rational enjoyment than a whole ware
house of gilded mahogany.
On the whole, we think the ambition
which is common among all classes, to
live in large houses, elegantly furnished,
is leading us daily into embarrassments
and discomforts, which as a thoughtful and
rational people, we ought not longer to suf
fer.
“Save in Something Else.”
BY ELLEN ASHTON.
“Mutton-chops, again for dinner,” said
the well-fed looking Alr.aFinley. “Real-
lv, mv dear, it’s too bad, when you know
that, if there’s any thing I detest, it is mut
ton-chops.”
“I wasn’t aware James.” answered the
wife, a care-worn woman, apologetically,
“that you disliked mutton-chops so very
much. I know, indeed, yon preferred
beefsteak; but then beef is so high, espe
cially sirloin-steaks.”
‘Well, well, never mind for to-day,”
replied Air. Finley, crossly, helping him
self to a chop. “But don’t for mercy’s
sake, give me any more of this stuff', meat
I will not call it, sirloin-steaks I must
have. You can easily save it in something
else.”
Save it in something else ! “But liow,”
asked the wife of herself “was tliis to be
done ?” Her weekly allowance was al
ready as small as it could he, considering
how many mouths she. had to feed, and
that she was compelled to disburse more
or less of it continually for “sundries,
that’s nothing at all,” as Air. Finley said.
Now it was omnibus hire; now it was a
new broom; now it was for mending a new
pan; and now it was for a dozen of new
tumblers, or cups, or plates, or pie-dishes.
Sometimes it was even for cigars, her hus
band saying, as he left the house, “yon
must give me half a dollar, Anne, to buy
cigars as 1 go down town; for I find I
havn’t a bit of small change, and I can’t
do without my afternoon smoke.”
The next day, there was a juicy sirloin-
steak for dinner, but only one kind of po
tatoes.
“AATiy, how is this ? How is this ? No
sweet potatoes to-day, when I like, as
you know, iny dear, roasted sweet pota
toes, particularly with steak.”
“I thought I would save the extra mon
ey for the steak in that way,” timidly an
swered the wife.
“Good gracious no! I’d rather do with
out anything else,” tartly replied the hus
band. “Positively, my whole dinner’s
spoilt; and such a luscious steak too.—
H ow could you be so absurd ?”
The tears came into the wife’s eyes.—
But she knew that her husband hated
what he called “a scene,” and so she chok
ed down her emotion. There were few
words spoken during the meal, for Air.
lAnley was out of temper, and his wife did
not dare trust herself to talk, least she
should break down.
The third day, the steak was excellent
and the sweet potatoes browned “to a
turn.” Air. Finley was in capital humor,
as be always was over good eating, until
the dessert came in, which consisted of a
plain rice-pudding. At sight of this the
gloom gathered oil his brow.
“Poor man’s pudding, I declare. Real
ly, Anne one. would think, from the fare
you provide, that I was a bankrupt.”
“Indeed, Janies, I do try to please
you,” said the wife, bursting into tears.—
“But I can’t afford to give you everything
provisions are so high; and I thought
you’d rather have this cheap pudding, than
do without your steak or sweet potatoes.”
“Pshaw ! Don’t cry,” hastily replied
Air. Finley. “To be sure I’d rather do
without a good pudding than not have the
others,” he continued, more placably.—
“But there’s really no necessity of it, my
dear for, in so large a household as ours,
there are plenty of things off which the
price of a good pudding might he saved.”
No more was said on the subject that
day. But, a few mornings after, Air. Fin
ley, on tasting liis coffee, said, suddenly
putting down his cup.
“What’s the matter with your coffee,
my dear? Really, that grocer has cheat
ed you. AVhy,” tasting it again, “this
stuff is Laguyra, and not Java at all.”
“It is not the grocer’s fault, Airs. Fin
ley mustered courage to say. “I knew it
was Laguyra when I bought it. Our ex
penses are so high, my dear, that we must
save in something: and I thought it would
be felt least, perhaps in the coffee.”
“The very last thing to save in,” an
grily said Air. Finley pushing away his
coffee. “I’d rather drink cold water than
this strong, coarse Laguyra.” And cold
water lie did drink, though his wife, almost
ready to cry, offered to have some tea
made.
AHs. Finley is still endeavoring to “save
in something else,” for her husband will
not deny himself in anything, and forgets
to increase her allowance. Her last expe-
priment was to forego a new spring bon
net. But her husband, on seeing her
come down dressed for church on a sun
shiny AIay morning, with her last year’s
on, grew very angry, declaring that “there
was no need to make herself look like a
fright, he wasn’t a broken merchant. But,
when one of the children told why the
old bonnet was worn, he made no offer to
increase his wife’s stipend, but only grum
bled, sulkily, that she “might have saved
it in something else.”
AATen I see a well fed, dogmatic hus
band, who has a care-worn wife,,! think of
the sirloin-steak, the pudding, and the
bonnet, and wonder if poor Airs. Finley is
the only woman who, to gratify a selfish
husband, is made the victim of saving “IX
SOMETHING ELSE.”
Economy in Feeding Horses and Mules.
AVlien corn sells at a dollar and a quar
ter a bushel a planter has a pretty strong
inducement to study economy in feeding
this grain to his horses and mules. The
writer has recently been experimenting a
little in the way of testing the relative val
ue of boiled and dry corn for the nourish
ment of a working horse. The result is a
gain Ly boiling varying from 20 to 25 per
cent. AVe bad rather feed four bushels of
soaked and partly cooked corn than five
bushels of the grain dry, particularly where
one has very little hay or straw, blades,
or other “roughness,” to give with the
corn.
It is well worth while to heat water
boiling hot, and pour it over cut feed and
ground grain to facilitate the extraction of
their alimentary properties in the stomachs
of working animals. It is not enough to
fill the digestive apparatus with coarse for
age, or the seeds of cereals, if we would se
cure ihe best attainable results for the
food consumed. It must be so prepared
as to yield up its life-sustaining virtues in
a speedy and perfect manner. As a gen
eral thing, grain fed to horses is quite im
perfectly digested, so much so, indeed,
that not a few hogs and cows in and near
villages and cities, subsist mainly on the
droppings of horses that travel the streets.
Over GO percent, of corn is starch, which
is insoluble in cold water, and not very
soluble in juices of the stomach. By boil
ing or baking, starch is transformed into a
kind of gum which dissolves readily in wa
ter, and is easy of digestion. If grain
keeps up to anything like its present mar
ket price it will soon he as common to
bake bread for horses as for men. Unlike
the ox, the horse lias a small single stom
ach; and there is not one argument in fa
vor of cooking food for persons that does
not apply to its equal preparation for hor
ses. .Scotch farmers have been some
years in the practice of baking bread for
their plough teams when hard at work.—
It is soon eaten, agrees well with the
stomach, and gives a fatigued animal the
maximum of time to lie down on a good
bed and rest. This kind of feed, designed
to make good blood, and a plenty of it,
does not supercede the necessity of cut
hay, fodder, or straw, whose hulk is impor
tant for the due expansion and vigorous
action of tlie digestive organs.
Our practice is to boil corn some three
or four hours, and salt it about as much as
for liominv or bread. It swells to twice
its original volume, which is no inconsid
erable advantage. Horses fed mostly on
green rye, barley, corn, clover, or lucerne,
do best when a part of the water in sueh
succulent plants is dried out before they
are eaten. Even cows giving milk like
half cured new hay better than perfectly
green grass. A young corn plant two feet
or so in height, has about 90 parts of wa
ter in 100 of its stein and leaves. This
fact does not prevent its being nutritive at
that early stage of its growth, for it has
very litttle wood, or woody fibre, which
is indigestible. Dry matured plants yield
their nutrient elements sparingly to hor
ses. as compared with oxen and other ru
minants.
Com alone is too heavy feed for both
horses and oxen, and among the thousand
and one inventions for crushing and grind
ing corn in the ear, we doubt whether
there is anything equal to the “Little Gi
ant Corn and Cob Mills.” advertised by
Messrs. Carmichael and Bean, in the pa
ges of this journal. • Large experience in
feeding corn and cob meal has demonstra
ted its economical value. The cobs do
not yield any notable amount of positive
sustenance; but they serve to render all
nutritive elements in the corn available
for tlie support of animal life; and where
fodder is scarce as it now is, crushed cobs,
if sound and not weathered, mix admira
bly with pure meal.
To work poor mules, oxen, and horses,
or waste their expensive food, is bad econ
omy; and one way to keep teams poor is
to use dull, worthless ploughs and har
rows, which require man and beast to go
three times over a field to effect a degree
of tillage, which, with really good imple
ments, might have been better done at one
ploughing or harrowing. Every step in
agriculture ought to tell; hut it can not,
with had tools, and badly kept working
cattle and servants.—Southern Cultivator.
Affection.—AVe sometimes meet with
men who seem to think that any indul
gence in an affectionate feeling is weak
ness. They will return from a journey
and treat their families with a distant dig-
nit v, and move among their children with
the* cold and lofty splendor of an iceberg,
surrounded by its broken fragments. There
is hardly a more unnatural sight on earth,
than one of those families without a heart.
A father had better extinguish a boy’s
eyes, than take away his heart. AA T ho
that has experienced the joys of friendship,
and values sympathy and affection, would
not rather lose all that is beautiful in na
ture’s scenery, than be robbed of the hid
den treasures of the heart ?
Marryins our Dressmaker.
BV VIRGINIA F. TOWNSEND.
‘But the wa v is so long, Miss Scott,’earn
estly pleaded the pretty little dressmaker,
‘and you know I would not have remained so
late., but you were so desirious that your
blue dress should be finished this evening.
If you’ll let Tom accompany me, we will
walk very fast, and we can go and return in
twenty minutes.’
‘But Tom must he here, to wait on the
door, for I am expecting a gentleman who
is not used to being announced by female
waiters. You can stay all night if you
like,’ said the young lady, with an impa
tient shyness, for they were standing in
the hall, and the night air came coldly
through the half opened door.
‘But my mother is ill, Aliss Scott, and
she would be distracted if I did not return
to-night. Indeed, she will be worrying
now about my absence.
‘AVell, I don’t see as I can help it,
Aliss AVilard. Tom must he here, that's
certain, and you’ll have to run fast. Noth
ing will hurt yon, I guess. Don’t forget
to come to-morrow; I’m in a hurry, and
you must excuse me,’ and the young lady
turned away and swept gracefully into the
parlor.
‘AVhat shall I do 1 I’m such a coward,
too,’ murmured the poor little dress-maker,
as she stood on the broad step of the ele
gant mansion, and gazed wistfully up the
long street.
‘Will you permit me to wait upon you
home, Aliss ?’ The young girl started with
a half-suppressed shriek, and fastened her
frightened eyes on the speaker. There was
somewhat in his countenance as he came
out from the shadow of the portico, and
the lamplight dropped on his face, which
irresistibly won her confidence. Still she
hesitated, and lie answer ed the doubt which
he read in her blue eyes.
‘I accidentally overheard your conver
sation with Aliss Scott; and,’ he added with
a smile, ‘as I came so near being the inno
cent cause of your going home alone, it is
but fair that I should accompany you
now.”
The little dressmaker hesitated no lon-
‘AA’hy, mamma, how conld you! You
will certainly catch your death standing
in the. night air.’
‘But I was so anxious, my child, that I
couldn’t stay in my room. AVhat has kept
you so late ? I have suffered so much,
fearing something had befallen you.’
‘Aliss Scott had a dress she wanted me
to finish, mamma; and this gentleman was
kind enough to accompany me home. I
couldn’t come before.’
‘God will reward you, sir, for yonr kind
ness,’ said tlie old woman, as she lifted her
grateful face to the young man, but the
next moment it sank down, and had not
liis arm saved her, she would have fallen
to the floor. Her long watch at the front
door had proved too much, and she had
fainted.
‘Do not be alarmed, Aliss,’ said the
young man, in soothing tones, to the terri
fied daughter, as he bore her mother into
the plain, but neatly furnished chamber.
‘Your mother has only fainted, and will
revive soon. I must leave her in your
care, while I go fora physician.’ She did
not answer, hut the grateful glance, break
ing thro’ the tears which filled her blue
eyes, was far more eloquent than any
words.
‘Alarried to our dressmaker ? AVhat an
outiage upon society ! It’s perfectly scan
dalous!’ vehemently ejaculated Aliss Ara
bella Scott, as slie flung, with an angry
gesture, the morning paper across the
room. ‘If it isn’t provoking, and he such
a catch, too, for the wealthiest and highest
born in tlie city. And, of course, he’ll el
evate her at once to his position, and we
shall fie obliged to fecognize her; and she
won’t forget old times either. I wish now
I’d let Tom go home with her that night.
The creature! I wonder where he first
met her! Dress-making, I’ll warrant,
somewhere. It’s so exasperating, and
there’s no help for it, either. It’s just like
a man to do so. I don’t believe there’s one
out of ten, who has either pride or good
taste.’
And, thank Heaven, Aliss Arabella Scott,
that they are just so few who possess these
qualities in you estimation. Thank Heav
en ! that, most men do prefer nobleness of
soul, and truth of heart and gentleness of
character to such women as ye are. Nay
I will not thus dishonor the name. Aliser
able creatures that ye are ! incarnations of
pride, and folly, and affectation, not unto
such shall be given that greatest, that
purest, that noblest of appellations—wo
man.—Arthur's tiome Gazette.
Always Take Your Wife Along.—On
that famous “Burlington Excursion,” as on
all other excursions, the advantages pos
sessed by those who “had their wives
along,” was hourly demonstrated. But
most completely on the Mississippi steam
boat was it illustrated that a wife is not
only a helpmate, but a help meat and a
help sleep. The good packet Ben Camp
bell had only state-rooms enough for the
ladies; that is, of course, for the ladies and
their husbands. AVe know a couple of
gentlemen who had early secured a state
room, hoping during the day to get a re
freshing snooze, having for the two pro
ceeding nights been driven from comforta
ble quarters by the married ladies. One
of these gentlemen, upon going to liis room,
found his baggage on the wrong side of the
door, and in liis engaged birth one of the
“lords of creation.” Complaint to the
clerk only brought answer that of course
tlie ladies must have the rooms. By this
means, the men “with wives along” had
refreshing naps, but temporary widowers
and bachelors napped it on the luggage.
At dinner, however, it was supposed all
the men would have an equal chance. 1 lie
ladies filled the first table, and as there
were more than enough to fill a second, th<j
chances for a dinner became a matter of
interest. The despair of those who had
neither wives nor sweethearts along, can
be imagined, when, as one after another of
the ladies finished dinner, she beckoned to
this husband or that beau, who quietly took
the vacant seat. So, when the ladies were
done eating, the chairs were already filled
for the second table, with those who “had
their wives along.” That demonstration
of the comforts of matrimony sank deeper
than the heart—it went to the stomach.—
Newark Advertiser.
An Agricultural Party.—Charles B.
Calvert, Esq., one of the leading planters
of Maryland, publishes a communication
in the Marlborough Gazette, suggesting the
formation of an agricultural party. He
very pointedly says:
“The agricultural class is the great con
servative party of this conntry, and, as a
body, is more deeply interested in the per
petuity of onr glorious Union than all oth
ers,‘because tli‘ey are compelled to defend
their own fireside and pay for the defence
of those of all other classes.”
Air. Calvert also refers to some resolu
tions offered by himself and adopted at a
late meeting of the United States Agricul
tural Society, in AVashington, to the effect
that:
“A convention, to be composed of dele
gates from each State of the Union, he
earnestly recommended, in order that an
agricultural platform may be established,
which will meet the views of and be sus
tained by the whole body of agriculturalist
as a profession.”
The proposition of Air, Calvert for the
formation of an agricultnral party will not,
it is likely, be received with unanimity,
even among agriculturalists. It would be
too exclusive for a country of such diversi
fied interests as ours—-though it is the hon
est and sturdy yeomen element of the nation
certainly o» which we may more surely re
ly for ever “holding fast to that which is
good.”—Baltimore Sun.
Beef Cattlefrom Texas in the New York
Market.—The Albany Knickerbocker of
the 10th inst. says, that on the 8th a drove
of 215 cattle arrived in that city from Tex
as, being the first cattle from that State
that ever passed through Albany. They
left Texas some four months ago, and were
driven to the Alississippi, up the Alississip-
S i to Illinois, where they spent some fifty
ays in recruiting. From Illinois they
went down the Lake to Buffalo to Albany
by the Central Railroad. By the time
they reached the Hudson they had tramp
ed about 2200 miles. They were in fine
condition (says the Knickerbocker) and ex
hibited a shape that speaks well for the
cattle breeders of the South.
Owing to the absence of winters, and the
superabundance of pasture. Texas must
and will become the greatest cattle State
in the Confederacy. At the present time
good oxen can be purchased in the vicini
ty of Austin for $30 a head,
The price of ‘prime’ bullock in Albany
at the time of the arrival of these Texas
cattle was from SI00 to $225.
The Bloom of age.—A good woman
never grows old. Years may pass over
her head, but if benevolence and virtue
dwell in her heart, slie is as cheerful as
when the spring of life first opened to her
view. AVlien we look upon a good woman,
we never think of her age; she looks as
charming as when the rose of youth first
bloomed on her check. That rose has not
faded yet; it will never fade. In her
neighborhood she is the friend and bene
factor. AA"ho does not respect and love
the woman who has passed her days in
acts of kindness and mercy? AVe repeat,
such a woman cannot grow old. She will
always be fresh and buoyant in spirits,
and active in humble deeds of mercy and
benevolence. If the young lady desires
to retain the bloom and beauty of youth,
let her not yield to the sway of fashion
and folly; let her love truth and virtue,
and to the close of life she will retain
those feelings which now make life appear
a garden of sweets—ever fresh and ever
Adcice to Young Housekeepers.—AVe do
not know the origin of the following advice
to young housekeepers; but it is excellent:
“Be satisfied to commence on a small
scale. It is too common for young house
keepers to begin where their mothers
ended. Buy all that is necessary to work
skillfully with; adorn your house with all
that will render it comfortable. Do not
look at richer homes, and covet their
costly furniture. If secret dissatisfaction
is ready to spring up, go a step farther,
and visit the homes of the poor and suffer
ing, behold dark, cheerless apartments, in
sufficient clothing, and absence of all the
comforts and refinements of social life, and
then return to your own with a joyful
spirit. You will then be prepared to meet
your husband with a grateful heart, and be
ready to appreciate the toil and self-denial
which he has endured in the business
world: to surround you with the delights of
home: and you will he ready to co-operate
cheerfully with him in so arranging yonr
expenses, that his mind will not be constant
ly harassed with fears lest his family ex
penditures may encroach upon public pay
ments. Be independent; a young house
keeper never needed greater moral courage
than she does now to resist the arrogance
of fashion. Do not let the A’s and B’s
decide what you must have, neither let
them hold tlie strings of your purse. Yon
know best what you can and ought to afford;
then decide, with a strict integrity, accord
ing to your means. Let not the censure
or the approval of the world ever tempt
you to buy what you hardly think you
can afford. It matters but little what
people think, provided that you are true to
yourself and family.”
Criminals Arrested.—Two men were
yesterday arrested, at the sixty mile sta
tion. on the Central Railroad, id the act
of obstructing the track with a bar of road-
iron, just previous to the time when the
down train was due at that point. The
overseer at that station succeeded in se
curing both the criminals, and sent them
to this city in irons by the same train they
intended to destroy. They have been
committed to jail to await legal proceed
ings in the premises. Otts reporter did
not learn the name of cither party,
nor the reasons which instigated them
to the perpetration of so heinous a
crime.
Since writing the foregoing, we learn
the name of one of the men to be Joseph
Lee. the principal offender. Both will be
examined to-morrow morning, before Jus
tice Connell.—Sac. Journal, 9th inst.
Busted Up!—AVe learn that a Know-
Nothing council in Autauga county
went by the board a few days ago. At its
last meeting the members had a hot dis
cussion on the question of dissolving, and
it was finally carried by a almost unani
mous vpje. Thereupon the book was
bro.ugfct’out, and each member invited to
comeforward and expunge his name from
the roll—when an amusing scramble took
place to get to the “foul record’ first, some
not waiting for a pen, but dipping their
finders in the ink to draw tlie black line
over their autographs! A pious, good old
Democrat, who was of the party, in detail
ing the circumstance to onr informant,
said he now breathed freer—that he had
never felt like an American freeman since
he had been inveigled into the concern—-
that a know-Nothmg council was an unlit
5 lace for anybody, and especially for a
effersonian Democrat.—Montgomery Ad
vertiser.