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THE INDEPENDENT. s wenmt. tovbmbkh *. im.i. FIVE HEATHEN HODS. * a o. ■ami**. chaptbb l. Cupid. Tin' flight of time is so steady, so rapid without commotion, that few of u are aware of its gains ii|wm m until some sudden turn in the road of life brink's to our gaze h flngerjmst marked with a figure higher than we hml anticipated, or n mile stone showing the near approach of that three score and ten terminus toward whi h we are all unconsciously drifting This is especially true of those whose little world of life lus been compassed by narrow limits, where the changes have all taken place under their immediate vision or knowledge. Seeing our friends daily, as they grow up, atnl then down the hill of life, with ns, we mark no change in them. Occasionally some r ‘trospeetive thought may lead us through the dark vista of by gone years, and we are astonished that so much time has flown since an occurrence which S emed bnt’as v sterility. Even the growth f our children, seen daily, milker but little impression ii|mn us; lint an ab sence from home a few months often pro duces marked and permanent changes in physical spiKaraliecH, My friend Thomas Chittenden's ludi crous blunder is an illustration of this cu rious fact in mental philosophy. On the outskirts of the little village of Prescott, iu one of the New England States, there lived, in 181 H, a thriving farmer named Belcher, whose daughter. Kitty, was the pride of the village. She was the ar ku >w!ed red hauler in matteiH of fashion, nd the <s)nrt of last resort in all questing af fecting feminine interests where an umpire was necessary. The old gentleman could trace liia lineage through the ranks of the patriot lines of the men of '7O, and back to Plymouth Kook. Further in the darkness lie would not prolie, for, as he said it, ,- l disown any relative, yea. t nhomiimte any one connected with that wholesale plun der which gave to William the Conqueror the power to ni ike a nation of slaves of u conquered people." A coat of arms was to him the emblem of ignorance and crime—**a devil's bait iu human hands to trap uguileless soul." lleleher was puri tanic. Kitty, who was his only daughter, was almost the picture of her mother; and when she had passed that uncomfortable nge between youth and maturity; when the great problem of life appears to be wlmt to do with the hands and w ' "re to put the feet; when one is neither gill nor woman, bov or mull. Kitty lleleher and her mother were often mistaken for each other. This peculiarity <>f hereditary rosom-! blnneo is ever ail tiulieution of purity of nice, and is markedly, visible among the Gothic branch of the Caucasiari -a branch to which the Pilgrims largely belonged. It is of North (tcrmiiu origin. I have seen whole ship loads of emigrants landed at Staten Ihliittd, who but for their pecu liar dress, might have been taken for branches from many u Massachusetts or Connecticut family tree. Hard working Tom Chittenden, Hie village blacksmith of T’resei t‘. held among the male mem'ters of its little society much the same position Kitty enjoyed among tin girls, amt he looked upon her as his by a sort of right of precedent. He had rivals of course .What village belle t seven teen year* him Only tin* admirer ? There were among the "first nine 1 " on the girl’s side several who would gladly have Ins n blacksmith's wives had fate so ordained it, for in Prescott in those days to lie a mechanic was not. to he degraded in the eyes of “onr host society,” and, when the bell of the village meeting house proclaim-at at sundown ou Saturday night the worldly labors of the week were ended and the laml’s day commenced, the grime of the Rhop uud the leathern apron gave place to that virtue which is next akin to godliness, and a "bettermost"Huit. Tom was as fine n specimen of the true man as (lie county afforded, and. when the little choir gather ed cheerfully in that high gallery where ■B organ or even abuse viol would have been n desecration, and the full base of the stilldy blacksmith resounded clear and loud as tin- ring of his own anvil in hnrtno nv with the rich sojdiranos, first among, which ranked Kitty Belcher's, the tender vocal chords seenmd landing their youth-! ful souls ut once to heaven and to love. Baritones and tenors laid striven w ith him for the |s-session of that one fond heart. Paul Wilson had from childhood been the constant companion and friend of the village belle. Their father's farms joined, and their mothers were as loving as sisters. In their school days they had climbed to gether “the steep where fame’s proud tem ple shim's afar,” mid, in the long, cold winter, many were the days when Kittv had sat upon Paul’s little home-made sled, holding both their dinners in the fold s of lier madder-red cloak, while In' drew lo r Ut school over the erinkiug, frozen snow. In the long summer vacation, after the winter and the school master had departed, they had many rambles together. When the dogwood pat on its spring suit, and tlm woods were filled with delicately tinted blossoms, they had sought the lonelv depths of the valleys and climbed the hill sides, startling the timid hare or tile whir ring partridge with their clieerv laughter, as they wove tiny Ismqitots am) w reaths of dowers mid leaves, and gathered the scar let fruits of the wintergmm uud partridge berry. They hud fished together in tin 1 floor mountain brooks, mid from many a dark hole beneath tin' high arched roots of the giant birches that spumed the little streams they had d■•coved the wary trout, and. extemporizing a string with a forked twig of the black alder, had Uirnetheui in triumph to the home of the little maiden. A* Kitty grew oll*r, she oamc to look upon lor chilli lover us a brother. An only child. she felt she wan given a the future guardian and companion for her parents, and. w hile her gentle disposition endeared her to all. her deepest, dearest Jove was for them. Paul, when lutrod iced to the reader, had just returned 1. an his third year of preparatory studies, alid was destined for the ministry. The vacation was fast waning, and hut a few weeks more would elapse before he must again betake himself to his books and his midnight toil. He knew from the jwst, from the expressed intent of the girl he loved, that she was resolved upon a life of single blessedness; "but she is young." thought he, "and when X am a graduate the honors of my last commencement will rejoice lay Kitty, and when 1 am a sue eensful expounder of the faith I can then easily win a hand whore the heart is now nearly won. But tay secret till then shall lie my own." On -e when tin little choir rehearsed “Montgomery," with its musical scrub race, where one after another of the four parts alternately runs, balks, walks and canters, until the last quarter, when all come to the pole together, and these line* rang through file meeting house: "So pilgrims mi the scorching sand beneath a burning sky. Long for a cooling stream at hand, Act they must drink or di-.' Paul, who curried the tenor manfully, felt that he was that pilgrim -the se< r bing sands of u few more years of toil and wait ing were between him and the is>tding stream of her love, where he must drink or die. As he walked home that Saturday night with the blgck-eyed contra-altowhile the Isise and hist soprano took another direction, I firmly Isdievethere was a slight tinge in his heart of that green-eyed mon ster who delights in making the human kind uncomfortable, CHACTBII 11. Mammon, Sutter had repaired ids dara. “The shining tiling that fools admired and called a god,” hail set men eru'/.y from Maine to Mexico, and everywhere prospective for tunes loomed up before hopeful youth and mature manhood, until entire neighbor hoods were threatened with depopulation. Over the prairie sens the emigrant ship w ent sailing on and on, the inmates suffering bent and sometimes hunger, fearful of the savage who felt tint his rights were being wrestl'd from him, and in his red-handed vengeance he wrecked many a vessel, mur dered many a crew. Untold sufferings and unheard-of indignities heaped upon these pioneers of the West, the advance guard of that great civilization that to-day looks down upon and listens to the roar of the mighty Pacific. Yet on they went, ever increasing in numbers, ever hopeful, ever in the umiii triumphant. Were tiny not descendants of the men and the morta rs who came more than three thousand miles in a frail bark to enjoy freedom of con science in an unbroken wilderness? And would they be worthy descendants of that daring handful of brave souls if. under the isiwvrful incentive which actuated tin in, they ilid not press on to the modern Opliir? Till) epidemic rage fearfully. Unlike the cholera, the gold fever spread laterally from the great thouronghfnres to the mean est hamlet ou every cross road. Company after company was fin nasi in the cities. Smaller towns organized associations on u mutual and relief basis. Capitalist* guar anteed food and fuel, anil clothing, and cure to the families of the emigrants, who were to repay the advance with a hand some interest out of the immense earnings which were almost certain to leap into tile lap of flic adventurer who presented him self at the diggiugs and demanded of the soil his portion of the gold. The picture was most fancifully drawn, with sharpest hues and brightest colors, and castles in the air,with hope for s foundation, loomed up in tin' bright day-dreams of the infat uated through all the land. Alas! how few of them were realized. Hut it is ever thus when any of the great problem*of a nation’s existence are to be wrought out; individual destiny is ever delusive. Prescott was afflicted, A public meeting was called, and volunteers responded nobly for the impending conflict. Old men pledged the means, and voting men filled the ranks. The question became potent, “Who can we keep at home?” rather than “Who will go?” Chittend'l! volinm e and, and his ski-1 arid know ledge rendered lain a valuable man for the party. Paul was on his last year; lint, his des tiny was fixed, or he, too, would have been with them. “But,” thought lie, “once 1 am ordained, when Kitty becomes Mrs. Wilson, who knows lmt that we may yet visit them in their far-off Western homes?” During Paul’s absence Chittenden had been unceasing in Ins attentions at the Belcher farm-house, and laid practiced nil those little winning ways which have hern the resort of wooers since the first flirtation in the garden of Kdcn. Ho hud pressed his atilt gently,re;xprctfidly eunn st ly, until,despite here eoushiut. refusal, hope being Cither of the thought, Chitten den deemed himaelt the sole proprietor of the heart of Kitty Belcher. Monday had been fixed upon for the de parture of that little band whose going would sunder many a teinfer heartstring, open m iuy a well-spring of sorrow tint w ould close no more until the aching heart hail ceased to lieat. Here were twenty-two young men, brot li d's and sous and lovers, going with the rising sun of Monday morning, going where none of them limi ever been to a land they had hardly know n hut in dreams m the tWe of a w rj and unscrupulous foe, many of them never hi return. To die, w ivlaid by the skulking savage in the waving grass or train-fixed by the silent arrow at some river ford, to lie scalped by some loathsome, cowardly bruve, mid con tribute tints unwillingly to his trophies won upon the field of carnage; to die of u raging fever, where no water could be obtained; to moan of home and friends, in the wild delimni of thirst, and feel that those friends are neglectful; to die of hunger w hile plenty crowns the hoard and tills the garnet of that far-off home - these were the thought-pictures of many a silver lmired-diime and nimble-fingered maiden who busily plied the little wheel or swung the heavy beam of the hand-looni, mentally painting anticipated horrors, while the muscles labored on more substantial fabrics which were to tie part of the outfit of the little hand. Tim meeting hoa.se on that last sad Snu day was tilled with mourners. The It -verend Father in I.ricl who tilled the ancient pulp.t, crowned with its old style sounding-board,lmd perlormed the rites of uinriiuge mid baptism, and blessed and broke bread among that people contin uously from the first sermon he ever preaehi'd to the present time, tie was bowed with years, and the weight of many cares were up.m him and he telt that the morrow would sunder the little family he called his o*ine w.th a deathly wrenching blow. He InuJlly knew whither to oiler consolation, or where there was most need of encouraging words. On that early spring morning the sun was bright, hut a shadow was over the heart of all lhoseott. The fnnerai of the beloved minister could hardly have cast the village into a darker gloom. The story of David and Absalom was the good man's theme, and it was continued as far us‘’Min t. -untidy and to conclude," Iveforc tlie rambling discourse was ended. By request, the choir sang that terribly doleful minor, which perhaps yon have heard Father Kemp's Old Folks render, "David's I, mi illation. " and as a make weight "China” was thrown in- l don’t mean broken cups and plates, as shoes are sometimes tlmwn alter newly married couples for luck, lint that ancient M. melody, to these cheering words: "Why <1 we mourn tlemrtintt frieutU, Or ttlutkv at death* nlsnos t Ti# but tlu* voht that Jm hcihlh To call thorn to his anus.” The off. -ct of the whole service was ex tremely dampening to the spirit and pock et handkerchiefs of tlie congregation, and, as the female porfiou passed out in ad vance of the males, lltev poured forth like an army of Amazons with banners of truce, save now and then one, w hose "be ing addicted to a habit of snuff” required the thnirishing of a yellow or red bun dium. As Saturday's sundown bell closed the week and ended its weary (oil, so Sunday night’s sett ng sun closed the holy day, and released the w eary ones w ho had b. en curbed and restrained for twenty-four hours from indulging in anything like, a lia.ur.d tt-jvv of T.. 1 spirits The week daylalsusas w 11 as play so mm need. Washing tubs.lsuirils amt pounding barrels game forth from their hiding places in dark entries and damp cellars, and pre pared to go ou duty by "sun up" on the morrow. A special dispensation had, how ever, issued as by general consent on this occasion, and for the first time iu the memory of the oldest inhabitant, save whi none of the three great holidays, In dependence Way, Thanksgiving, or New Years, fell on ,Monday, the maud weekly preparations was disregarded. The lust nail was driven, the earnest wringing of honest, hands was over, tin* last farewell hid been spoken, and the Prescott boy* were gone. ciiAi*n:K ni. Hnrculttn. We pass over that portion of the route from Prescott to the Mississippi. At St. I amis they exchanged sealed envelopes with the postmaster. Cheering words from the hoys were given for news, and loving thoughts from their old homesteads: from friends now doubly dear, for home sickness had crept in a little “round the edges like,” as one of the pioneers ex pressed it. All in all, however, they hail borne up noliiy for youths who had seen more life in the past, few weeks than in all their previous existence. Their mail was quite extensive. Then.* were small, white letters, addressed iu tiny, pinched, but neat chirogruphy; a kind of 803 pen manship, with an “Esq.” as modest and as twisty as the tendril of a grape-vine reaching for a foothold whereby to steady itself. There were some w ith the address running from corner to corner of the en velope, like a ladder resting against a roof, and threatening to fall wit.; the feast pro vocation. Letters with a species of lace collar pattern worked ou the hack of the : envelope, and on “L. 8.” in its Centre, something like the seal a notary places after your name when you have signed a legal document, and meant the same. L. 8., place of the seal; a seal oil a love-letter nr- pshaw, you've nuule them so yourself a hundred time* at least. I don't know - can't say to a certainty, that I should relish one of that kind now, alter it had been rumbled in a stage-coach boot, kicked round the dirty bins of a distributing office or two, shuffled and crumpled in the dust of a baggugc-cur, and handled by a dozen dirty-fisted post-nlHee el. iks well, 1 don’t know; perhaps forty years ago, as far from her wtio was then Miss Smith, I might have felt very differently; but just now I prefer mine fresh, from the factory. Kisses licit have traveled so far are apt to be a litil" dry and somewhat dusty. The outsides of the letters Bore marks of handling, but the contents were pure. The little incident* of country life that go to make up the day, the year, the century, w ere there in ail their dull monotony. And there were mother’s good advice, and sis ter's loving sorrow, and father's good will and manly counsel. There were hearts, and darts, and flows rs, and birds, uml all that sort of Kt. Valentine sugar-plains . this was their mail. Hopes and promises, ; wishes and fears. Yes, Chittenden received his quota with the rest. Kadi had letters, and to mime extent exchanged items of interest. Home addressed in a broad, nervous style, the letters n little rickety in construction, would hear to have most of their contents read aloud. Envelopes with a plain ad dress, without flourish or Esq., were in nv reticent, mid revealed tiuir cnnti tits less generally, while their quiet pi rtlsal by the owners, whose names they bore, incited the reader to a damp condition, and symp toms of a cold in the head; lmt for deep down sighs and long breath, steady gazing into vacancy, and biting of the trembling lips,, tile little fit'e-htttid Jette** tank then’ ail. The littie billets, with Wiiting-muster curls and grape-vine twists, and “tw iddle unis” woven in mid around the letters, as if the face of the envclitpc was a bed of lettuce in which a name had come up nicely, hut the bed badly needed weeding, Out of all such envelopes there cnine lmt very little for the general good. Chitten den had one of that style, on the seal of w hich was a monogram he laid seen be fore -for he eat the die that made it. Niff 0110 sentence did he ever reveal of all that was contained in that loving epistle until, in extenuation of his mysterious conduct, years after. The journey from Ht. Louis West was in those days a vast undertaking. As the last spires ilianppeured from view, they felt that they were severing the connecting link that bound them to the homes of childhood, and were fairly afloat beyoud the reach of civilization, in any extremity which tnight overtake them. Wearily, day after day, week after week, for months they plodded on, each night one day nearer their new Home, one day farther from the tried loves of former years. They endured many hardships; they manfully fought their ltgut with hunger and thirst, uud the elements and brutal humanity, and some fell sick, and some were lost, lmt the majority of them safely weathered the storm and landed where all was new and w ild and straufja to them, in that fabled land they had sought so long. And then lmt a littie time elapsed until the disposition to rove, to change in the hope of better prospects, separated and broke up the original band, until there were scarcely more than two together. CHurrEt! IV. Neptune. Chittenden laid found a congenial spirit and friend in a young mail from an ad joining county to that iu which Prescott was, and they two had formed a compact ; that, let others of tli party do as they might, they would m the tuture stand by eaeai otlii r. Ou umvit.g, the company hail located near Butter’s Milt, hut they imd scattered. None were now left hut Chittenden and his friend Blackwell, and they, becoming tired, sold out their little claims, w ent to Salt Francisco and engag ed passage for China, with the intent of going to Japan to the entire navigable globe, in short. t’iiey wrote detailed let ters home ; paid toeir last itnlabiedness by drafts ; were square w ith the world, and started on tin ir 1 mg', long journey. One night while they were sitting on deck, but a tow days out, Cuitiendeu lost his tudnuce and fell into the ocean. Plunks were thrown after him, and the vessel, which was beating, hove to. Boats were lowered and every effort made to save him, but all was of no avail. The fruitless attempt was alsindoned at day light. and the vessel again took her course Itetore a ten knot breeze, which had sprung au during the after-watches of the night. Blackwell felt that he had parted man his best friend on earth. Meantime Chittenden, in the darkness and confusion which ensued after the uo eideut, was unable to make Ins where abouts known. The breeze and current together wer constantly bearing him away from the vessel, mid he was nearly exhausted when one of the planks drifted to him, and he barely managed to get and keep hold of it. Iu tho morning, when the first streak of red like a narrow trim tiling ribbon lit up the eastern sky, be lay upon his pluuk, sort' and weary, with half a mind to loose his hold and go down forever. He was heart sick. The vessel ; was nearly hull down, and he could bare !ly distinguish that she was making sail. The sun rose clear and bright, and its rays poured down until ho seemed stiffing with the heated fumes of an iron furnace. But oh ! the pangs of that terrible thirst! His system of course ulmorVd some water, but liis mouth became parched ami swol len. The sun was everywhere; there was no shade on that broad expanse of ocean, and tlie [johshed sea sent bock a flood of reflected light and heat that dazed and scalded until that scorching sun went down in the burning ocean. Hunger, too, oppr. ssed him, and the disposition to sleep was almost unbearable. He feared to close his eyes for an instant, lest in an unguarded tnonieiit lie might slip from lira plunk and la- unable to reuch it again. He prayed for rain and night, that he might wet his fevered, bloated tongue, or at least iie free from the sun's red-hot glare ; and when night curne it was even more lonely tlian day. During tile second night a fish, either to escape from some enemy in the water, or frightened by the curious floating ob ject above it. made a leap as if to go over iiim. and dropped into tin- bosom of his jacket. This lie ate greedily enough, and years afterward lie told me he could not forget flow sweet and pleasant that cold, raw fish was to his scorched, hungry sys tem. The third night he watched, but no fish came, and hunger, terrible consuming hunger, set in. The sun, too, had lies ted his brain, and rendered him delirious. All pain was gone, mid he was ogee more at home, with friends. He sung again as in former times, by the side of her lie loved, and was happy. Tucu the stars became sparks from the fire iu his own little shop, but another was beating out the cluiiu links that were to bind him in a place of torment forever, and the sea’s phosphorescent glimmer betrayed the ex istence of a lake of tire into which he had lieen thrust, from whence there was no possibility of the least relief ; where the tortures would be increased indefinitely ; the mind gave way entirely, and all was a blank, from which he was awakened by a sudden blow from a drifting log against which his frail siqqairt struck, Daylight rapidly apprtsiching, he was discovered ami rescued by the liutives of one of the small, unfrequented Polynesian inlands, to which he hud drifted, where, after a long period of sicknem: he at last recovered, and made the best of the poor society into which lie was thus thrown. His life in the island was a repetition of that of Melville, Toby (Ircen and others who have been east away, or have willing ly jumped out of the frying-pan of a whale c quant's tyranny into one of these islands as the least of two evils, and there vagu ! Is aided a miserable, Hinder i life for a few short years, until death or all accidental visit iroin some seinvy-aeimrged or thirsty vessel lias relieved and returned them to the civilized world. For three long years Chittenden sighed for Home and led tile dale* fur nieate life of a Boiith sea islander. He swaui in the surf and slept away the miiiuy hours in tnc darkest forest shade, and lived upon a gem rons nature that furnished an aimu i dual table for the asking. An occasional display of the skill ami ingenuity which I were part of his trade kept uiui in good ! social standing with the natives and made him a tuvorite with the rude, nude royal !ty of tint island. Tueii, after three sad l years of exile, three long years of waiting and watching and piayiug, relief came, ami, regretted !• his uncivilized lint ■ friendly companions, he shipped on board a British whaler outward bound—which j accidentally "made the island-."-—and was ! a way lor lurcc more years before he could ' return home ; for, with no money, the | captain utterly refused to take him from ; toe island except us a sailor for the cruise. CHAl'TffB v. Blackwell had mourned Chittenden as dead and communicated a detailed account of the uuiortuuate occurrence to hi* fiieud.- ut Prescott. It was a sad and dn ary day at the Bel cher residence when the sorrowful Missive arrived. Paul laid just graduated with the highest liouois mid received his license as | a minister of the gospel. He Inal preached mi occasional sermon uud accepted a mi - stuff to ludiit as his regular ti Id of labor. On that sad afternoon he was sitting by the side of her who had been the guiding-star and companion of his youth, and the past ! years bait been freely uud fully canvassed: The delicate tie which he lieiieved to exist : between Kitty and Chittenden forbade his mentioning his own feelings, and ite was in doubt whether he would be right in | possibly sacrificing one so young uud : lovely iu a lr off, inhospitable clime. M il' ll the letter containing the terrible news was handed to Kitty, her emotions overcame her, and but for the timely aid of friends she would have fallen to the lloor. Sue was conveyed to her room, and her recovery was long delayed. 1 puss over the interim of ..ukucss. Suffice i to say she eventually recovered, and that umoug her many friends there was noue more attentive than Paul Wilson. In due course of time Kitty was married. That same good, btfiveu-dowu mull who had baptized both he groom and the bride join '-.l their hands in holy matrimony, and Paul wended his lonely way to the mission station at Bombay us much of a bachelor as ever. I have sometimes been struck with the curious ehuntn'l of the love plot in an opera or a play. The gruff bass is uncustomed to win during the first act. In the second they usually run neck and neck, hut before the culminating point of the play is reached the tenor gets him convicted of some terrible crime or circumvents him stiutcgie.U’y * id comes in on the home stretch with fTviiig colors, after poor bass has either i! ovn the track or broken down. It is sometimes so in every-d.. v life. Chittumlen, having pane tlirongli all tlu; routiue of island life uuil Is'ionie a sailor, sat upon tin' liatoliway ami fell—no, not into the sea—into a reverie. “Here am 1,” thought lie, “drowned iu Prescott -they have it all long ago- -a vagabond iu the Pacific—that they must not know—and now shipped as a hunter of blubber in the iee tloes of the North Polar ocean. Bite for whom l would give the world, if I had one to give, has either forgotten her Thomas and married someone else, or will, long before I can return. I shall not trust particulars to mails. Let her think I am drowned till I can see how the land lies, when 1 get home,” and then he did what a sailor off’ watch always does when puzzled with mental labor—went below and tumbled in. Too much of a man to desert his ship, or too well w atched and hampered to es cape, he remained on the Siam until her voyage was euded, was paid off, discharged, and sailed for home. Iu New Orleans he acehl. •**tally met with an old Prescott friend, from whom lie learned that Kitty had married a minister, name forgotten or not known; “didn’t remember or care much about it a-.yiiow, at tne tim ; mid couldn't say if it was Wilson or Webster— married to a W.. sure.” To him Chitten den related the story of his life, after ex acting the most solemn promise of sscrcey. Subsequently the two wandered together to Central America, and from thence to nearly every point ou the navigable globe, '.ml. after twelve years more of this sort of romantic life, Chittenden hid adieu to his friend ut New Orleans ami ascended tiie Mississippi on his way back to the home of hi* childhood. Kcgistering his name at the Burnet House, iu Cincinnati, where lie arrived on Saturday evening, his attention was riveted by Beard'* immense nd life-like painting of “The Last Man,” *hkb hung upon the wall of the office, and could not resist the comparison between himself and the de spondent mortal in the painting. The litter helplessness and hopelessness of the situation—the perfect despair of the hus band, whose drowned wife’s body is just floating from Ids reuch, the rising waters with their moaning notes of certain and rapid doom, licking and foaming like, a beast of prey at the foot of the rock where sit* despair iu human form, resigned to fate; the last hope on earth gone, brooding over the unalterable destiny which so cer tainly awaits and so rapidly approaches him. Such is the picture. His perfect abstraction had attracted the attention of the grnuts of the hotel, but he saw it not. The picture to him was a reproduction of his own experience, so lifelike and perfect that he was transfixed to the spot and lost to the surroundings. He gu/.e 1 upon t .e pic up• a- iu a g'.a.is. where he saw reproduced the sufferings of those terrible hours in the Pacific ocean. As he turned, with an expression of in tense mental agony depicted upon his ns b trm il count nance, lie was accosted by a gentleman in black, evidently of the minis terial profession, who had mistaken the cause of the intense commotion tile picture hml produced iu Chittenden’s mind. Tills gentleman was no other than the Rev. Paul Wilson, and a few moments conver sation revealed the faet that they were known to each other. “Wlmt a miracle do I behold !" ex claimed the lb vernal Paul; “the dead an risen, indeed. Come,” he continued, "you must go at once to mv wife. Kitty will lie delighted to nee you,” and he hur ried him, without delay, to the lady’s room, and ushered him into her presence witli “My denr Kitty, here is poor, lost Chit teieleii ! Mr. Cmitteudcn, my" “My dear girl,” exclaimed Tom, “1 claim the promise iu your last letter.” and with a Ihmiwl, rather than a step, lie seized her ala mt the waist before she was aware of his intent, and a* he afterward expressed it lo me, “imrpooucd her with a dozen kisses despite of iter flurry.” The reverend gentleman stood aghast. An intense excitement followed the sad - den demonstration; then came, in their order, apology and explanation. "The same features, (lie same name,” said Chit tenden— "tmt hang me if I hadn’t forgot myself; Kitty Belcher, why she must be old enough—” "Just old enough to la' my mother, sir,” remarked the lady, laughing; “and I see my family features have deceived you. But we will excuse the rudeness for the compliment to her who is m xt in my heart lo mv good Poll." * * * * There are those still living iu Cincin nati who W( H reiueui'iHT tin- Rev. Mr. Wilson’s sermon on the following morning. How lie worked up his hearers to a pitch of the most intense excitement by Ids nar ration of the fact 1 have used in this story, and the thrill which pervaded the congregation when, on closing his Bible s.l p liming to Chittenden, who sat be -ide the minister's wife, tie exclaimed, "There is death, indeed, swallowed up iu victory 1” MIS< 'EI. LA X EO VS. G2EECH & NSWSQII, DEALERS IN I) II Y G 0 0 I) S, Col i*< 1 EH, Uijnors, Flour, Uiicon, etc., QITTMAN, GA. mavlO-tf SALE AND LIV2RY STABLE Quitinnn, Ga. mm UNDUiWIGNED KEEP OS EAS’D SADDLE HORSES, HARNESSHORSES, RUGGIES, CAItKIAGES, Elct., etc., etc., For the Accommodation if the Public. THEY ALSO KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND A GOOD SUPPLY OF HORSES m MULES For Stile, SELECTED BY OXE OF THE FIRM, And Always Purchased on Such Terns as to Enable Them to Sell at the LOWEST PRICES. PERSONS DESIRING TO PURCHASE SADDLE OR HARNESS HORSES Can be 3i pplied upon Short Notice. If not on hand, if a description of the stock ; wanted is left at the blablu the order will be hilen , ia a few days. CECIL & THRASHER. rar.yTT-tf QUITMAU FACTORY! QUITMAN FACTORY! o MANUFACTURER OF COTTON AND WGOL. o- OFFER TO TIIE rUDLIC OCR YARNS, WHICH WE ARE MANUFACTUING, OF THE I* KS T <1 UgV LIT Y, EITHER BY WHOLESALE OR IN SMALL QUANTITIES, TO SUIT THE CONVENIENCE OF PURCHASERS, Out- Orttinburgs are Equal ii Quality' TO ANY MANUFACTURED AT THE NORTH, AND WILL BE SOLD IN LARGE OR SMALL LOTS TO SUIT rt-f.aU.SERS. Will also Fill Orders for HEAVY SHEETINGS, Either 3-4 or 4-4 Wide. —O With oar Improved t effing Machine we are prepared to Card Wool in the Best Style. \Yc veils al-o Spin Wool cither on S5 ait>. sr ftr Spec ail t ext tract* rut) he made w ith the President- Cotton nought either for Cash or taken in exchange for Yanis o;' Osnabiirf*. PRICES. Wool Cttrclfng per pound. , IG ct~. DR. HENRY BRIGGS, P' t- *i- f 'ihe Uiiistian lihlp.y. v ATLANTA, C,\. jj-tnAN OF L... BUli-a; I) h MINATION. i ,fcv. D. BHAVFR, L). I)., Editor. AUKOCiATE EDITOR*: Rev. D. E. BUTLER. Dr. J. 8. LAWTON. COBLERPOMnNO EDITORS. Rev. 8. HENDKIiBON, I>, I)., - Alpixe, Ala. Rev. E. B TEAGUE, I>. I)., - - Gelma, Ala. Kev. T. B. JONES, II D. t - Nashvilije, Ten*. Steadfastly devoted to the Tenets and great in teieataof tile Bapliat lieiioiii.ation, thiai ajiT. widen for neatly a half century, has been the or gan and favorile of the Baptist* of Georgia, and fr the past seven year*, bearii g the name inti mate rtAatiou to the brotheihood of .Alabama and portion* of Tennessee, South Carolina, Florida and Mississippi™wili, in tin future, merit, by the excellency of its chat actt r, their kightst appre ciation. The reader will hud that, besides the huge quantity of Moral and Religious Truth w ith which it i* freighted weekly, a chaste selection of miHcellaneou* leading, and a complete wim mary of reliahh i,.teliigei ce—both domtrstic and foreigi*.—will render them independent of other paper*. Correctly printed Market Reports of the principal cities will make the pajK-r invaluable to ail classes of our people. A* an advertising me dium, possessing, as it does, a constituency or over 250,(XW n teJUgent sulwtantial Chiistiai. t-eiv ple—it is unequalled by any other public*!mw in tht; South. THE Index clubs with all the leadu.g pa JH.T s and perioilkal* in the United States, The interests of the friends remitting us will he care fully protected. Price in advance. $2 50 a rear; to Ministers, 12. JAH. P. HARRISON A CO., Proprietor*. To whom all communications must he addressed. Send for apoci.utm copie*, circulars, etc. In connection with The Index we have per haps the largest and most complete- Book am Ji,L Piiiiting office in the South—known a* The Franklin Sttam Printing House, at which cverv style of Book, Mercantile, Legal and Railway Printing i* executed. In excellency of manner, promptness and cheapness, we defy competition. Our Blank Book Man ufactory is likewise well appointed. Orders solicited for every’ grade of w\rk in this department. County orotnds will find it to their interests to consult us ns to Legal Form Book* Records, Minutes, Blanks, etc. Book*, News vrs, Hheet Music and Pernniicalß, Inmnd and rehouitd to order. Remember to make vonr orders on the Franklin Hteani Plintinp Yloii*©. JAH. P. HARRISON & CO., No*. 27 A 2U South-Broad Street, Atlanta, Ga. CITY HOTEL, QUITMAN, GEORGIA. The Proprietor Oflets , V isitorx l NSCHPASSED INDI CEMENTS. ROCKS LARGE, WELL FURNISHED, —AN D - VENTILATED. TABLE SUPPLIED WITH THE REST THE HA RKETAFFORDS. Polite and Obliging Servants. HOUSE SITUATED CONVENIENT TO Till Eeput and tie Bastnes- Portion of .I*. 1 o’z- D. U. McNEAL, Proprietor. najf ' f . A FAMILY ARTICLE. Aged* make 112 aO per day, ?75 per week. AN NEW SEWING MACHINE Put' t , ONLY FIVE DOLLARS WitL the New Patent BUTTON l>OLl; WOItKLIt. Patented June 27th, iB7l. AWARDLD IHE llKhi lBOillM AT THE AMKBH AN INB i 111 1 £ AND MARYLAND INhl HI TE FAIRS, 1871. A most wonderful and elegantly constructed Skwino Machine for Family Work. Conipkte iu ail it* l’ait*, Use* the Btiaight, F.yt ]’(it 'tii A>r ; dtp, Self liiKEAPii-o, diiect uj light Posniv* : MoTlu.v. Nt w Tel sion, 8< li i ted and Cloth Guidtr. | Opeiare* by V\ hei.l anu on a Table. Light hnn ’ ht/ g. Hmooth and lidhieit ss, likt: all gtn,d high - priced machine*. Hes Check to pr* ■ .t --the whet Itn ing turned the wrong way. I *e* the thread direct from the spool. Make* the Ei-artio Lock Stitch, (linest ai.u stft i gest stitch known); firm, durable. cio*e aid ia,- ut. Will do ail kii and of work,jr.c atidW!H’. fr.<n. CAttßfcjo to heavy Cloth or Leather, and uses all description* of thread. 1 hi* Machine is heavily coNBThCCTKD to give it STHKNGTH; ail the parts of each Ma chine bei.ig runde alike by tnaeftit>ery, ai.d heaii tiiully finished and ornamented. It i very easy to leant. JLy iiL Smooth aid Silent in oj erstion. Reliable at fc l- times, and a Pkactical, Sctebtioc, ill! iiAMCAJ. 1 yvn st!>.>,5t!>.>, at (ireaUy Imbued trice. A Good, Cheap, Faii.iiy b* wing Machine at last. The first and only success in pnducing a valua- Me, substantial aiid reliable low-priced Sewing Mai bine. Its extreme low price reaches all con ditions. Its simplicity and strength adapts it to aii capacities, while its many merits make it a universal favorite wherever used, and creates a rapid demand. II 18 AI.I. IT IS RFC OMMENDED. I can diet rfuily and ctn.intently recommend it* use to those wLu are wa.-tu.g a rearly good bew ing Machine, at a lev uric*. Mku. H. B. JAMESON, i tttlo) e. Will county, 111. Price of each Machine. “Ulass A.” “One," 'warranted ftu live years by special certificate,) w ith all the torture* atid rrtruth u<g complete he ioLgu.g to it, including Self 1 hhkading No dle, packed in a strong woouen box, ai.d delivercu to any part of the country, by t xji < free of fur ther clrsrgea, on recept of prit e, only Five I ol laus. Haft delivery guaranteed. With each Ma chine we will send, on receipt of 11 extra, the new patent BUTTON HOLE WORKER, One of the most important and m ful invention* of the age. So simple and certain, that a child : can work the finest button hide with regularity and ease. Strong and beautiful. SpecialTeiimh, and Extra inducement* to Mal* a: and Female Agents. Store Keepers, he., who will i establish agencies through the country and keep our New Machines on Exhibition and Sale . County Riohts given to smart age: ts fbf.e. Agent’s complete outfit furbished withoui any ex tra csiajuik. Kamjles ,t tetri’ y, dcsciiptive cir cuiairi containing 7*#, Testmioniais, Eugr&v ings, Ac,. Ac., sent fi.ee. We also supply AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS. Latest Patents am* Impr. vtments for the Farm a; and Carden, Mowers, Reapers. Cultivators, Feed Cutters, Harrows, Farm Mid*, l’lanters, Harvest ers, Thresh r* acd all articles needed for Farm work. Ib.if Seed* in large variety. All Money sent ir. Post Oilict jh in y Ordei s, Bank Drafts, tr bv Express, v.ill he at our risk, and are perfectly secure. Safe delivery ot ail our good* guaran teed. “Ar old and rc*p*"Bible firm that t best good* at tin lovvesi price, and can rel * • 1 1 <t by oni reader*.’ —Fanners Journal, Fee jo A. Sot Responsible ter P.tg istcrea Letters. Addled Oio>ei’.s JERL3IE B. nn)> ux Ai i O. Corner Greei.wkh and Cortlandt Streets, N.V. st ptUT-Om NEW STOCK. rsun; undersigned having purchaked 1 in pciaua ia the Eagt.ru Cities, a large aaii well a snorted stork of CKiie.al Mercltandisf, is in w prepared to oiler peculiar inducements to ais customers and tlie public generally. His stock embraces a complete vara ty of Dry Goods, lii ady Nlade Clotuing, Hats, ceps, boots and Shnc-p, Hunl" are, Tirwrre, Cic-cki rv and Glass ware, All kinds of V'oodware and A COUTnETE AUSOKTHE-Tr OF FAMILY GKOCKRIES, all of wliieli lie offers ou the most rcnsonabln terms. D. U. CIiEEOH. scpieaim