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VOLUME 11,
sjje I'riniit nf Cjie /nttiihj,
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JOHN POOLE, ~
PAINT AND OIL STORE,
No. 11 Whitaker Street,
Keeps constantly for sale White Lend, Pare Nos.
1 and 2 English. Ground Paints: Black, Yellow,
Brown, Chrome Green, Paris Green, and Prussian
Blue; Dry Venetian Red, Spanish Brown, Lamp
black, \ eliow Ochre, Red Leal, Litharge, Paris
and Chrome Green, Prussian Blue, Chrome Yel
low, Umber, Terra de Senna, Drop Black, and a
variety of fancy colors; Linseed Oil, Sperm do,
Neat.sfoot do, and Spirits <# Turpentine ; White
Wash Brushes, Paint, Varnish, Graining and Ar
tists Brushes; Window and Picture Glass nf all
qualities; Copal, Japan, Light and Dark Coach
Varnish; Mixed Paints of all kinds; Paper Hang
ings, Fire Board Prints and Borders.
The above articles will be sold on reasonable
terms.
Pi? 3 House, Sign and Ship Painting done in a
workmanlike manner, and at reasonable prices,
oct 19 ly
G-. BUTLER,
MASTER BUILDER,
DEALER IN WHITE PINE LUMBER,
York Street, Oglethorpe Square.
N. B.—He is prepared to put in Iron fronts
in Stores, &c. ly oct 19
T. R. CLARKE,
FASHIONABLE BOOT MAKER ,
Next door to corner Bull and Broughton-sts.
oct 10 ly
A. PONCE,
Importer and Manufacturer of Scgars,
No. 13 Whitaker Street,
Keeps on hand a well selected stock of impoited
Scgars; also Manufactured Tobacco, Snuff", Pipes,
and all other articles usually kept in his line of
bu siness, which he offers on the most reasonable ,
terms. ly oct 19
SAM L. L. SFEIS3EGGER,
TUNER 4- REPAIRER PIANO FORTES,
#!IAY I.NG been engaged in the above busi
ness for the last 33 years, Mr S. trusts that
special references are unnecessarv.
Orders left with Mr H. S. B .gardus, Bull-st.,
Messrs F. Zogbaum Sz Cos., or Messrs I. W. Mor
re|l vfc Cos., will l>e attended to with promptness
and fidelity. lm oct 12
W. A. J. WYLLY,
CABINET MAKER % UNDERTAKER,
Corner of Broughton and Bull Streets,
Under the Lyceum Hall.
Coffins of all kinds made of the be.-t materials, and
furnished at the shortest notice.
Also, new and second hand Furniture bought
and sold, and repaired with dispatch.
oct 12 2m
N. ELLS,
FASHIONABLE BOOT MAKER,
No. 149 Brou diton-st., near the corner of Bull-st.
oct 12 ts
J. S. SOLOMONS
IV ILL contract to execute Plastering, of all kinds
and styles, at the shortest notice.
Residence, President Street, next door to Mr B.
Sniders. 2m oct 12
BOOK AND JOB PRINTING.
GEO. N. NICHOLS,
Owens’ Building, opposite the Pulaski House,)
savannah, ga.
I* prepared to execute all work in his line, with
neatness and despatch, and in a style
not to be surpassed.
Prices ns reasonable as any other establishment
in the city. ly sept 28
JOHN F. SHEEN,
FASHIONABLE TAILOR ,
Over J. M. Haywood’s Il tir Dressing Saloon,
OPPOSITE THE PULASKI HOUSE.
Cutting, Mending and Cleaning done with neatness
°nd despatch. Work made up as cheap as at any
other establishment in the city. sept 21
J. DE MARTIN,
dealer in
Fruits, Wines, Liquors, Scgars,
PICKLES, PRESERVES and GARDEN SEEDS.
—: also: —
APPLES, ONIONS POTATOES,
IV hen in season, received fresh by every vessel.
—: also: —
Oysters pul up to order in from 1 to 10 gallon kegs.
Corner of Bay and W bitaker Streets,
JOHN OLIVER,
HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTER,
GILDER, GLAZIER, &c.,
No. 121 Broughton Street, a fete doors cast of
Whitaker Street, Savannah, Ga.
S3P All kinds of Paints—Paint Oil, Turpentine,
Varnish, Glass, Putty, &c., for sale. julv 20
EDWARD G. WILSON,
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE,
Conveyancer, Collector, Accountant jj* Copyist,
Office under J. M. Haywood’s.
mP"Return Day, Wednesday, November 27th.
JOHN MALLERY,
DRAPER AND TAILOR.,
No. 5-5 Bay-st. joining the City Hotel.
Invites the attention to his Stock of New and
Seasonable Goods, now opening, consisting of
choice READY MADE CLOTHING and FUR
NISHING GOODS, comprising every article
°f Gentlemen’s apparel.
Also, B full supply of CLOTHS, CASSIMERES
*nd VESTINGS, of various shades and qualities
which will be made to order in the most ap
proved style, by competent and experienced
urkmen, warranted to give entire satisfaction,
at Prices to suit the times oct 18
—All z iti'rabtrr, Inniff anil It), t|f inns nf fapnmrt, d)iiit /fllmiisjiip, 3Bnsnimj milt flje liras of flit Jjntj.
McARTHOF. & MORSE,
Manufacturers and Dealers in
PLAIN, JAPANNED & BLOCK TIN WARE,
HOLLOW & ENAMELLED WARE,
STOVES AND COOKING RANGES,
Lead 1 iru, Sheet Lead. Copper and Zinc,
STORE, 13 BARNARD STREET.
All kinds of Copper, Tin and Sheet Iron Work,
done in the best manner, at the shortest notice.
21 i yr
ALLEN & BALL,
FACTORS & COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
No. 112 BAY STREET,
SAVANNAH, GA.
J. M. BALL & CO.,
Commission 1 1* cliau ts,
MACON, GEORGIA.
ROBERT A. ALLEN, JAMES 91. BALL,
sept 20 jy
JONES & PAPOT,
Shipwrights, Spar Makers,
AND CAULKERS.
Yard opposite R.& J. Lachlison’s Foundry.
R. H. DARBY,
JSC ISLj lETSL.
Corner Broughton and Whitaker Streets,
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
R. H. D. is prepared to execute all orders for
Making or Cutting on reasonable terms,
mar 9 ly
J. S. STURTEVANT,
MASTER BUILDER,
Corner Montgomery and Liberty Sts.
All orders in his line will be promptly attended
to, and faithfully executed. ly june 1
JOHN V. TARVER,
FACTOR 4- COMMISSION MERCHANT
EXCHANGE WHARF, SAVANNAH, GA.
RABUN & FULTON,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
Ao. 207 Bay Street, Savannah, Ga.
J. W. RABUN, R. L. FULTON, I. P. WHITEHEAD.
LANIER HOUSE,
BY LANIER & SON,
June 22 Macon, Georgia.
J. HASBROUCK & CO.,
W holesalc anil Retail Dealers in
CHINA, GLASS AND EARTHENWARE,
sept 21 BROUGHTON STREET, SAVANNAH.
S. Y. LEVY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Office, No. 185 Bay-Street.
E. T. SHEFTALL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
may 25 Dublin, Georgia.
MEDICAL NOTICE.
DOCTOR MOREL. Office No. 157 Brough
ton Street. ts mar 23
FRANCIS WAVER,
IMPORTING & COMMISSION MERCHANT,
No 107 Bay Street, Savannah, Geo.
PHILIP KEAN,
DRAPER AND TAILOR,
AND dealer in
READY MADE CLOTHING.
Peniield’s Range, No. 98 Bryan Street,
Store formerly occupied ly J. Southwell & Cos
G. W HEDRICK,
HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTER,
Gilder, Glitzier, Grair.er & Paper Hanger.
No. 12 Barnard Street, South of the Market,
IS always ready to execute all orders in his line
with dispatch, and at the lowest prices.” All
kinds of mixed Paints, Glass and Putty kept
lor sale. ]yr Dec 22
J. T. JONES,
MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IN
Double & Single Guns, Hilles, &c.,
West Side of Monument Square.
SAMUEL S. MTTJ.ER,
MANUFACTURER OF
CARRIAGES AND WAGONS,
DEALER IN HUBS, SI’OKES, FELLOES, &c.
No. 140 Broughton St., Savannah.
A SHORT,
MASTER BUILDER,
Will t ike contracts for Building and Work in
Masonry of every description. Cornet of South
Broad and Whitaker streets. may 26
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER.
The subscriber is prepared to execute with
neatness and despatch all work in the übove line.
142 Broughton St. Two Doors West of I. W.
MORRELL’S Furniture Store,
june 1 ly I. SOLOMONS, Agent.
CLOTHING,
PIERSON & HE IDT offer for sale CLOTHING,
Wholesale and Retail, at New York prices, No.
10 Whitaker Street. apl 26
DR. J. DENNIS,
BOTANIC DRUGGIST
Next door above L. C. Warren & Cos,
Augusta, Ga.
Keeps constantly on hand a choice assortment,
selected from the best establishments in the United
States, consisting of Emetics, Cathartics, Diapho
retics, Diuretics, Expectorants, Emmenagosru.es,
Stimulants, Tonics, Astringents, Nervines, Alka
lies, Alteratives, Rubefacients, and Compounds
for family use. Composition Powder, No. Six,
Lobelia in its various preparations, &c., also
Medical Books. may 4
ALFRED HAYWOOD,
CORNER BRYAN AND BARNARD STREETS,
Market Square, Savannah,
Dealer in Choice FRUITS, CANDIES. NUTS,
GRANGES, LEMONS, APPLES, AND I’O
IAiOES, Wholesale and Retail.
First quality Thunderbolt Oysters, Fish, Szc..
Newark refined Champaigne Cider, and Albany
Cream Ale, by the bbl.
.Orders from the Country, accompanied
by the cash or City reference, punctually attended
to aug 9
GAS PIPES AND FIXTURES.
STRATTON &. DOBSON,
Having received an -assortment of Chandeliers,
Pendants, Brackets and Portable Gris Burners,
respectfully invite the citizens of Savannah to
call at their store, No. 72 St. Julian street, and
examine the same 4t june 1
G. M. GRIFFEN, -
HAY ING purchased the stock in trade of
M. Eastman, would solicits the con-
patronage of all the friend of the
establishment. All customers shall be pleased
with goods and satisfiad with prices.
GEO. M. GRIFFEN.
H. YY atches and Chrometers will receive
the personal attention of Mr. G., as usual,
sept 2!
f'idccfcii ‘poitnj.
I rom Arthur’s Home Gazette.
DON’T FRET.
lias a neighbor injured you ?
Don’t fret—
\ r ou will come off the best ;
I le’s the most to answer for,
Never minihit. let it rest.
Don’t fret.
Has a horiil lie been told ?
Don’t fret—
It will run itself to death,
If you let it quite ulone,
It will die for want of breath ;
Don’t fret.
Are yonr enemies at work 1
Don’t fret—
They can’t injure you a wtiit;
If they find von, heed them not,
They will soon he glad to quit;
Don’t fret.
Is adversity your lot ?
Don’t fret,
1 ortune s wheel keeps turning round ;
Every spoke will reach the top,
YV hich, 1 ike you, is going down ;
Don’t fret.
THE WIFE.
She clings to him with woman’s love,
Like ivy to the oak ;
While o’er his head, with crushing force,
Barth’s chilling tempest broke,
YY lien the world looked cold on him,
And blight hung o’er his name,
She smothed his cares with woman’s love,
And bade him rise again.
When care had frown’d o’er his bright face,
And clouded his young hours,
She wove among his crown of thorns,
A wreath of love’s own flowers.
And never did that wreath decav,
Or one bright flower wither :
lor woman’s tears e’er nourished them,
That they might bloom forever.
’Tis ever thus with woman’s love.
True till life’s storms are passed,
And, like the vine around the tree,
It braves them till the last.
THE SICKNESS AND HEALTH OF
THE PEOPLE OF BLEABURN.
IN THREE PARTS CHAP. Y 7 III.
The spectacle of carrying the
Good Lady up to the broYv was
more terrifying to the people of
Bleaburn than any of the funerals
they had seen creeping along by the
same path—more even than the
passage of the laden cart, Yvith the
pall over it, on the morning of the
opening of the new buryinggrouuds.
The people of Bleaburn extremely
ignorant, were naturally extremely
superstitious. It was not only the
very ignorant Yvho Yvere supersti
tious. The fever itself was never
supposed to he more catching than
a mood of superstition ; and so it
now appeared in Bleaburn. For
many weeks past the Good Lady
had been regarded as a sort of talis
man in the people’s possession.—
She breathed out such cheerfulness
Yvherever she turned her face, that
it seemed as if the place could not
go quite to destruction while she
was in it. Some who would not
have admitted to themselves that
they held such an impression, were
yet infected with the common dis
may, as well as with the sorrow of
parting with her. If Mary had had
the least idea of the probable effect
of her departure, she Yvould have
been less admired by the Kirby’s for
her docility—for site would certain
ly have insisted on staying where
she was.
“ I declare I don’t know Yvhat to
do,” the doctor confessed in confi
dence to the clergyman. “Every
patient I have is drooping, and the
people in the street look like crea
tures under doom. The comet was
had enough; and before Yve have
well done it, here is a panic which
is ten times worse.”
“ I tried to lend a hand to help
you against the comet,” replied Mr.
Kirby. “ I think I may be of some
use again now. Shall I tell them it
is a clear case of idolatry ? ”
“ Why, it is in fact so, Mr. Kirby ;
but yet, I shrink from appealing to
cast the slightest disrespect on her.”
“Os course; of course. The
thing I Yvant to slioyv them is Yvhat
she Yvould think— hoYv shocked she
would be if she knew the state of
mind she left behind.”
“ Ah ! if you can do that! ”
“I will see about it. Noyv tell
me how yvc are going on.”
Ihe Doctor replied by a look,
which made Mr. Kirby shake his
head. Neither of them liked to say
in words how awful was the state of
things.
“ It is such weather you see,”
said the Doctor. “ Damp and dis
agreeable as it is, this December is
as warm as September.”
“ Five and twenty sorts of Aoyv
ers out in my garden,” observed
Mr. Kirby. “ I set the boys to
count them yesterday. We shall
have as many as them on Christmas
day. A thing unheard of ”
“ There will be no Christmas
kept tiiis year, surely,” said the
Doctor.
“I don’t know that. My wife
and I were talking it over yester
day. We think * * Well,
my hoy,” to a little fellow who
stood pulling his forelock, “ what
have you to say to me ? lam wan
ted at home, am 1 l Is Mrs. Kirby
there ? ”
SAVANNAH, GA., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, ISSO.
The Doctor heard him say to
himself, “ Thank God! ” when
they sajv the lady coming out of
a cottage near. The Doctor had
long suspected that the clergyman
and his wife were as sensible of
one another’s danger, as the most
timid person in Bleaburn was of
his own ; and iioyv he was sure of
it. Henceforth, he understood that
they were never easy out of one
another’s sight ; and that when the
clergyman was sent for from the
houses he Yvas passing, his first idea
always was that his wife was taken
ill. Yvas so. They were not
people of sentiment. They had
settled their case with readiness and
decision, when it first presented it
self to them ; and they never looked
back. But it did not foiloYv that
they did not feel. They agreed,*
with the smallest possible delay,
that they ought to succeed to the
charge of Bleaburn on Air. Finch’s
death ; that they ought to place
their boys at school, and their two
girls Yviih their aunt, till Bleaburn
should he healthy again ; and that
they must stand or fall by the duty
they had undertaken. As for sep
arating, that Yvas an idea mentioned
only to be dismissed. They now
nodded across the little street, as
Mrs. Kirby proceeded on her round
of visits, and her husband went
home, to see who wanted him there.
In the corner of the little porch
was a man silting, crouching and
coYvering as if in bodily pain. Mr.
Kirby Yvent up to him, stooped
down to see his face (hut it Yvas
covered with his hands,) and at last
ventured to remove his hat. Then
the man looked up. It was a square,
hard face, which from its make
would have seemed immovable;
hut it Yvas anything hut that now.—
It is a strange sight, the working of
emotion in a countenance usually
as hard as marble !
“ Neale ! ” exclaimed Mr. Kirby 7,
“ Somebody ill at the farm, I am
afraid.”
“ Not yet sir ; not yet Mr. Kirby.
But Lord save us! we know noth
ing of how soon it may he so.”
“ Exactly so ; that has been the
case of every man, woman, and
child, hour by hour since Adam
fell.”
‘‘Yes, Sir, hut the present time
is somewhat different from that. I
came, Sir, to say * * I came,
Mr. Kirby, because I can get no
peace or rest, day or night; for
thoughts Sir ; for thoughts.”
Mr. Kirbv glanced round him.—
“Come in,” said he, “Come into
my study.”
Neale followed him in ; hut in
stead of silting down, he walked
straight to the window, and seemed
to he looking into the garden. Mr.
Kirby, who had been on foot all the
morning, sat down and waited, sha
ving away at a pen meanwhile.
“ On Sunday, Sir,” said Neale,
at last, in a whispering kind of
voice, “you read that I have kept
hack the hire of the labourers that
reaped down my fields, and that
their cry has entered into the ears
of the Lord.”
“ That you kept hack the hire of
the labourer?” exclaimed Mr. Kir
by, quickly turning in his seat so as
to face his visitor. He laid his
hand on the pocket bible on the ta
ble, opened at the Epistle of James,
and, with his finger on the line,
walked to the window with it.
“ Yes, Sir, that is it,” said Neale.
“I would return the hire I kept
back —(I can’t exactly say by fraud,
for it was from hardness) —I Yvould
pay it all willingly now; hut the
men are dead. The fever has left
hut a feYv of them.”
“ I see,” said Mr. Kirby, “I see
hoYv it is. You think the fever is
dogging your heels, because the
cries of your labourers have en
tered into the cars of the Lord. —
You Yvant to buy off* the complaints
of the dead, and the anger of God,
by spending now on the living.—
You are afraid of dying ; and you
Yvould rather part with your money,
dearly as you love it, than die ;
and so you are planning to bribe
God to let you live.”
“Is not that rather hard, Sir? ”
“ Hard ?—ls it true ? that is the
question.”
When they came to look closely
into the matter, it was clear enough.
Neale, driven from his accustomed
methods and employments, and
from his profits, anti all his outward
reliances, was adrift and panic
stricken. When the Good Lady
was carried out of the hollow, the
last security seemed gone, and the
place appeared to he delivered over
to God’s wrath ; his share of which,
his conscience showed him to be
pointed out in the Yvords of scrip
ture which had so impressed his
mind, and which were ringing in
his ears, as he said, day and night.
“As for the Good Lady,” said
Mr. Kirby, “ 1 am sure 1 hope sue
will never hear how some of ihe
people here regard her, after all
she has done for them. If anv
thing could bow her spirit, it would
be that.” Seeing Neale stare in
surprise, he went on. “ One would
think she was a kind of witch or
sorceress ; that there was some sort
of magic about her ; instead of her
being a sensible, kind-hearted, fear
less woman, who knows how to
nurse, and is not afraid to do it
when it is most wanted.”
“ Don’t you think then, Sir, that
God sent her to us ? ”
“ Certainly ; as he sent the Doc
tor, and my wife and me ; as he
sends people to each other whenev
er they meet, lam sure you never
heard the Good Lady say that she
was specially sent.”
“ She was so humble—so natural
Sir—she was not likely’’ to say such
a thing.”
“ Very true ; and she is too wise
to think it. No—there is nothing
to be frightened about in her going
away. She could have done no
good here, while unable to walk or
sit up ; and she will recover better
where she has gone. If she recov
ers, as l expect she will, she will
come and see us ; and I shall think
that as good luck as you can do;
not because she carries luck about
with her, but because there is noth
ing we so much want as her exam
ple of courage, and sense and cheer
fulness.”
“To he sure” said Neale, in a
meditative way, “ she could not
keep the people from dying.”
“No indeed,” observed Mr. Kir
by ; “ you and some others took
care that she should not.”
In reply to the man’s stare of
amazement, Mr. Kirby asked—
“ Are not you the proprietor of
several of the cottages in Blea
burn ? ”
“Yes; I have seven altogether.”
“ I know them well—too well.
Neale, your conacience accuses you
about the hire of your labourers ;
but you have done worse things
than oppress them about wages.—
Part of the mischief you may be
unaware of; but 1 know you are not
of all. I know that Widow Slaney
speaks to you, year by year, about
repairing that wretched place she
lives in. Have you done it yet?—
Not you !—I need not have asked ;
and yet you screw that poor wo
man for her rent till she cannot
sleep at night for thinking of it. —
You know in your heart that what
she says is true —that if her son
was alive—(and it was partly your
hardness that sent him to the wars,
and to his terrible fate) —”
“ Stop Sir ! I cannot bear it! ”
exclaimed Neale. “ Sir you should
not hear so hard on me. I have a
son that met another bad’ fate at
the wars ; and you know it, Mr.
Kirby.”
“To be sure I do. And how do
you treat him ? You drove him
away by harshness; and now you
say he shall not come back, because
you cannot be troubled with a crip
ple at home.”
“Not now Sir. I say no such
thing now. When I said that, 1
was in a bad mood. I mean to be
kind to him now ; and I have told
him so—that is, I have said so to
the girl he is attached to.”
“ You have ? You have really
seen her, and shown respect to the
young people ? ”
“ I have Sir.”
“ Well, that is so far good. —
That is some foundation laid for a
better future.”
“ I should be thankful Sir, to
make up for the past.”
“ Ah ! ” said Mr. Kirby, shaking
his head ; “that is what can never
be done. The people, as you say,
are dead ; the misery is suffered ;
the mischief is done, and cannot be
undone. It is a lie, and a very fa
tal one, to say that past sins may be
atoned for.”
“O, Mr. Kirby ! don’t say that! ”
“ I must say it, because it is true.
\ou said yonrselt that you cannot
make it up to chose you have in
jured, because the men are dead.
What is that you are saying? that
you wish the fever had taken you ;
and you could go now and shoot
yourself ? Before you dare to say
such things, you should look at the
other half of the case. Is not the
futuregreater than the past, because
we have power over it ? And is
there not a good text somewhere
about forgetting the things that are
behind, and pressing forwards to
those that are before.?”
“O, Sir! if I could forget the
past! ”
“Well, you see you have scrip
ture warrant for trying. But then
the pressing forwards to belter
things must go with it. If you for
get the past, and go on the same as
ever, you might as well be in hell
at once. Then, I don’t know that
your shooting yourself would do
much harm to anybody.”
“ But Sir, I am willing to do all
lean. lam willing to spend all I
have. I am, indeed.”
“ Well, spend away money,
time, thought, kindness—till you
can fairly say that you have done
by everybody as you would be done
by 7! It will be time enough then to
think what next. And, first, about
these cottages of yours. If no more
people are to die in them, murdered
by filth and damp, you have no time
to lose. You must not sit here talk
ing remorse, and planning fine
deeds, but you must set the work
going this very day. Come ! let
us go and see.”
Farmer Nettle walked rather fee
bly through the hall; so Mr. Kirby
called him into the parlour, and j
gave him a glassof wine. Still, as
they went down the street, one man
observed to another, that Neale
looked ten years older in a day. He
looked round him, however, with
some signs of returning spirits, when
he saw the. boys at their street
cleaning, and observed, that here
abouts things looked wholesome
enough.
“ Mere outside scouring,” said
Mr. Kirby, “Better than dirt, as
far as it goes ; unless, indeed, it
makes us satisfied to have whited
sepulchres for dwellings. Come
and see the uncleanliness within.”
Mr. Kirby did not spare him.—
He took him through all the seven
cottages, for which he had extorted
extravagant rents, without fulfilling
any conditions on his own part. —
He showed him every* bit of bro
ken roof, of damp wall, of soaked
floor. He showed him ever}’ heap
of filth, every puddle of nastiness
caused by there being no drains, or
other means of removal of refuse.
He advised him to make a note of
every repair needed ; and, when he
saw that Neale’s hand shook so that
he could not write, took the pencil
from his hand, and did it himself.—
Two of the seven cottages he con
demned utterly ; and Neale eagerly
agreed to pull them down, and re
build them with every improvement
requisite to health. To the others
he would supply what was wanting,
and especially drainage. They
stood in such a cluster that it was
practicable to drain them all into a
gully of the rock which, by being
covered over, by a little building
up at one end, and a little blasting ;
at one side, might be made into a !
considerable tank, which was to be
closed by a tight-fitting, and very
heavy slab at top. Mr. Kirby con
ceded so much to the worldly spirit
of the man he had to deal with, as
to point out that the manure thus I
saved would so fertilise his fields as !
soon to repay the cost of this batch
of drainage. Neale did not care
for this at the moment. He was
too sore at heart at the spectacle of
these cottages and their inmates—
too much shaken by remorse and
fear—for any idea of profit anti
loss ; but Mr. Kirbv thought it as
well to point out the fact, as it might
help to animate the hard man to
proceed in a good work, when his
present melting mood should be
passing away.
“ Well ; 1 think this is all we can
do to-day,” said Mr. Kirby, as the} 7
issued from the seventh cottage. —
“ The worst of it is, the workmen
from O will not come—l am
afraid no builder will come, even to
make an estimate,till we be declared
free of fever. But there is a good
deal thatyourown people can do.”
“ They can knock on a few slates
before dark, Sir ; and those win
dows can be mended to-day. 1
trust, Mr. Kirby, you will give me
encouragement; and not be harder
than vou can help.”
“ Why, Neale ; the thing is this.
You do not hold your doom from
my hand ; and you ought not to
hang upon my words. You come
to me to tell me what you feel, and
to ask what I think. All I can do
is to be honest with y ou, and (as in
deed I am) sorry for you. Time
must do the rest. If you are now
acting well from fear of the fever
only, time will show you how worth
less is the eflbrl ; for you will break
off as soon as the fright has passed
away. If you really mean to do
justly 7 and love mercy’, through good
and bad fortune, time will prove
you there, too; and then you will
see whether I am hard, or whether
we are to be friends. This is my
view of the matter.”
Neale touched his hat, and was
slowly going away, when Mr. Kirby
followed him, to say one thing more.
“ It may throw light to yourself,
on your own state of mind, to tel!
you that it is quite a usual one j
among people who have deeply
sinned, when anything happens to j
terrify them. Histories of earth-
quakes and plagues tell of people’
thinking and feeling as you do to’
day. 1 dare say you think nobody
ever felt the same before ; but y r ou
are not the only one in Bleaburn.’’
“Indeed, Sir! ” exclaimed Neale,
exceedingly struck.
“ Far from it. A person who has
often robbed y 7 our poulirv-vard, arid
laken your duck eggs, thought that
I was preaching at him, last Sun
day ; though I knew nothing about
it. He wished to make reparation ;
and he asked me if 1 thought you
would forgive him. Do you reallv
wish to know my answer ? I told
him I thought you would not ; but
that he must confess and make rep
aration, nevertheless.”
“ You thought I should not for
give him ? ”
“ 1 did ; and I think so now, thus
far. You would say 7 and believe
that you forgave him; but, at odd
times, for years to come, you would
show him that vou had not forgotten
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it, and remind bun that you had a
hold over him. If not —If Ido you
injustice in this, 1 should—”
“ You do not, Sir. I am afraid
what you say is very true.”
Well, just think it over before
he comes to you. This is the only
confession made to me which it con
cerns you to hear ; but I assure you
I believe there is not an evil doer in
Bleaburn that is not sick at heart as
you are ; and for the same reason.
We all have our pains anti troubles ;
and y r ours may turn out a great
blessing to you —or a curse, accor
ding as you persevere or give way.”
Neale said to himself as lie went
home, that Mr. Kirby had surely
been very hard. If a man hanged
for murder was filled with hope and
triumph, and certainty of glory,
there must be some more speedy
comfort for him than the pastor had
held out. Yet, in bis inmost heart,
he felt that Mr. Kirby was right ;
and he could not for the life of him
keep away from him. He managed
to meet him every day 7 . He could
seldom get a word said about the
state of his mind; for Mr. Kirby
did not approve of people's talking
of their feelings—anil especially of
those connected with conscience;
but in the deeds which issued from
conscientious feelings, he found cor
dial assistance given. And Farmer
Neale sometimes fancied that he
could see the time—far as Jt was
ahead —when Mr. Kirby and he
might be, as the pastor bad himself
said—friends.
The amount of confession and
remorse opened out to the pastor
was indeed striking, and more af
fecting to him than he chose to show
to anybody but his wife ; and not
even to her did be tell many of the
facts. The mushroom resolutions’
spawned in the heal of panic were
offensive and discouraging to him ;
but there were better cases than
these. A man who had taken into
wrath with a neighbour about a
gate, and had kept so for years, and
refused to go to church lest be
should see him there, now discov
ered that life is too short for strife,
and too precarious to bcAvastcd in
painful quarrels. A little girl whis
pered to Mr. Kirby that she had ta
ken a turnip in his field without
leave, and got permission to weed
the great flower-bed without pay, to
make up for it. Simpson and Sallv
asked him to marry them ; and for
poor Sally’s sake, he was right glad
to do it. They were straightfor
ward enough in their declaration of
their reasons. Simpson thought no
body siite was worth a halfpenny
now, and be did not wish to be ta
ken in his sins; while Sally said it
would be worse still if the innocent
baby was taken for its parents’ sin.
I hey had to hear the publication of
banns, at a lime when other people
were thinking of anything but mar
riage ; and, when the now disused
church was unlocked to admit them
to the altar—-just themselves and
the clerk—it was very dreary ; but
they immediately after felt the sa
fer and better for it. Sally thought
the Good Lady would have gone to
church with her, if she had been
here ; arid she wished she could
let her know that Simpson had ful
filled his promise at last, Other
people besides Sally wished they
could let the Good Lady know how
they were going on ; how frost came
at last, in January, and stopped
the fever; how families who had
lived crowded together, now spread
themselves into the empty houses ;
and how there was so much room
that the worst cottages were left
uninhabited, or were already in
course of demolition, to make airy
spaces, or a fiord sites for better
dwellings; and how it was now
certain that above two thirds of the
people of Bleaburn had perished in
the lever, or by decline, after it.—-
But they did not think of getting
anybody that could write to tell all
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