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‘NORWALK, CONN., TUESDAY, DECEMBER n, 1860.
VOLUME XLIII--NUMBER 50.
NORWALK GA 'ETTE.
OFFICE IN GAZETTE BUILDING.
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iii-slums DIRETORY.
, NORWALK HOTEL,
if“, ,, . (LATELY 'rnE ALLIS tween)
“'5 '» _DWIN PECK, PROPRIETOR,
W l LEASE of this well-known and popu-
' ‘ lar House having beenpurcliascd of
. Mr, Allis, will be continued, as heretofore, as
,1 afilst class provincial Hotel. No pains ta-
. "Hip-o; expense will be spared to render
ihi ‘n all respect-3a quiet and genteel, as it
~ ,is aicautiful rural retreat. Permanent and
. Litre lent guests accommodawd upon reason-
ahl terms.
A good Livery Stable connected with
th Hotel.
DENTISTRY.
‘ i312. A. HILL,
Sitcoms]. say MECHANICAL
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pfiice over the Store of C. J. Gruman,
NORWALK, CONN.
’ taut-Is a. nannoun,
: sunOICAL AND' MECHANICAL
I’ép‘fiia N '1- 1: s 5r.
mficcht Residence, East Avenue, Net-walk,
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. 31 I Arehitecture.
l’ stimuli: M. s-ronrn,
.," , Alicnrrscr, ,
, rWill furnish Plans, Specifications, Detail
Li‘Drawings,‘ and superintend the erection of
,,. public and private buildings. Office in Mar.-
“ hle Block, Chapel-st, New Haven, Ct. lib?
w .___jn’a1u‘nnr. sun-n,
ZEN "Ella and 'suavsroii,
Office al Cliichcster’s Store,
. . Norwalk, Conn.
_ , “i EO‘." F. BELDEN, Norwulk, COiin.,Man-
(J “ft turcr of 'l‘iii, Copper, and Sheet.
Iron W re; and dealer in Stoves, Ranges,
Furnace , Cutlery, Brittannia, \Voodcn and
. Willow are, Crockery; and a full assort-
meat of i-Iouse Keeping articles generally.
VV BISSELL, Auctioneer, will give
I articular attention to sales by Auc-
tion, of _ eal Estate, Persoiial Property and
. Househ Furniture :, termsfll‘ow.
’Iiiijiortc ; WholCSa‘le and retail dealers in
~HA'I WLIE, IRON,
Steel Cu cry, Guns, Agricultural Imple-
ils, Paints, Window Glass, &c.
o... . 'nooirwoon,
t‘ashi‘onllilo Draper & Tailor,
-' ‘ » and
5;». ,GENT EMEN’S FURNISHING
‘ E ,PORIUM 2
No. 3 Skiddrs Block, Main-st., Norwalk,-Ct.
uflonnman,
. Vestings, and Tailor’s
Triniiliiugs, by the Yard, Piece
or, Package. Sbeetings,
Fliirtiugs, Jeans, &c.
Atltlie lowest possible prices.
I ' W Nonwmm, CONN.
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.33. ally Emerson. a 00.,
.I 1 . .Wliq sale and Retail Dealers in
Grooeri s, Flour, Feed, &o.,
:1, 14 andg 16 Main-st, Norwalk, Conn.
w- i, '
%::.r.il.'n..,n A s u, -
Wholesale and- Retail Dealer in
.- 3 '1' 0 v E S ,
,, , and Manufacturer of
5",“:
, Tiu,Shoot Iron,& Copper Ware,
' Ha: constantly. Oil hand alarge assort-
W meat of general House Keeping
[Monitor-e, at South Non-walk,
-‘ ' Conn.
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term (NSUR’ANCB comrauv,
Of“ Hartford,
Incorporated in 1819, Charter Perpetual.
, Gaels Capital ‘ $1,000,000
g; insure Wagninst loss and damage by Fire,
I" on 'l‘eru‘u adapted to the hazard,and
, ,consiiteut with the laws of
" "" compensation. '
5‘“ W} x ‘ ‘ R. 00W, .8. Solo .
WW 53%?an 1?th Norwalhgifile vicinity.
In
I, “3.5 ripiiig, fitting, dtc.
"‘ W+fil§WINfl MACHINES REPAIRED.
’l‘liE subscriber is prepared to attend all
. . calls in the gas-fitting line, and will also
,( be_in readiness to repair Sewing or other Mu-
clinies. Charges reasonable and work thor-
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orii ’ "“1 pmmliWH‘EOWBORE CLOVER.
a Hardware and cutlery.
.7: . .
31;, Mechanic‘s Tools, Fanning Utensils, Guns,
'v',,,;, . Pistols. ll'Ql sleight: inflow“ '
w . titans, ~' lWWW ( . 1'9". I
Io,- my. C. slump, lg _, .' l
. , .. _ {ml Ill‘c ”doubta‘ntly‘ ’rcclélvihg“(lirecl§
. trim. the 'indnufactiirci‘s,‘ a 'lhl‘gé'SllPP‘)’ "f
~ 3 .lil’élgll nudDmnbstié'Goods, under the above
11ml}!lllltmm,\\'lli(:li makes their assortment
. arttclcs suited to this market, ‘equal to any
he State, and ‘ivhi‘ch ‘tvill behold ‘cith‘er
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five in store
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unmovlii W
V W‘HE office of C. F. Mocller‘s Dyeing Es-
tablishment has been
R E M 0
from Mr. John F. Bennett‘s, to Buniing’s
Bakery, Main-'31., where he will be glad to
see all his old customers as well as many
1' If} 1)
new ones as will favor llllll with a call.
Smith Norwalk, Chas. R. Bennett; Winni-
pauk, Jos. C. Randlc.
Gotta Percha «to India Rubber
W CEMENT ROOFING.
‘HIS article has been thoroughly tested by
builders, Architects, and others, and the
experience ofycars has proved it to be the
cheapest and most durable roofing in use.
We call attention to the following facts :
lst—It is fire and water proof. .
2d—From its great elasticity it is not inju-
riously affected by extremes of heat. and cold.
3d—-It is adapted to all kinds of Roofs,
whether steep or flat, and is not in want of
constant repairs, as is the case with metal and
other roofs.
4th—Tiic cost is only about One—Half that
of Tin, and it is twice as durable.
It is readily applied to Old Shingle Roofs,
without removing the shingles, which is a
great desideratnm to parties who do not. wish
to risk having their ceilings and furniture ril-
incd, while repairs are being made.
Leaky Till and Metal Roofs are readily re-
paired with Gutta Perclia Cement, and
prevented from further corrosion and leaking
thereby insuring a perfectly water-tight roof
for many years.
Specimens of the Roofing can be seen by
calling on the subscriber, at South N orwalk.
All orders by letter will receive prompt at-
tention. D. F. HUNT, South Norwulk.
INSURANCE.
THE subscriber having taken the agency
_ of the New England Fire and llfari‘no I12-
sm‘ance 00. of Hartford, is prepared to insure
all kinds of property against loss or damage
by fire, on as accommodating terms as any
other Company. ,,
The New England Fire and Marine Insu—
rance Company has been recently established
with a paid in capital of $200,000 and has a
surplus of $6,295.00.
JOSEPH W. HUBBELL,
Agent for N orwalk and vicinity.
N orwalk, Feb. lst, 1850. tf5
E. WQ‘U’IN'I'ARD 6t SONS,
Cabinet Makers -,-
At their Old Established Ware Booms,
East Side the Bridge,
OPPOSITE PHOi'NIX EL 0 011".
AV E now on hand the largest and best
assortment of Cabinet II‘urniture,Ch_alrs,
Looking Glasses, Mattresses, ctc., ever Offered
for sale in this place, which we have just pur-
chased for cash, at extremely low prices, and
intend to sell accordingly.
We also keep constantly on hand, Ready
Mule Ooflins of all sizes and descriptions, from
the most costly Rosewood to the plainesf ever
used.
From our long experience iii the Underta-
king Business, wc are confident. we can give
perfect satisfaction to all who may need our
services. 37
_ Groceries Cheaper than ever
FOR CASH!
’l‘HE subscriber would inform the public,
. generally, that he still continues to sell
the bestoi‘ Groceries, Provisions, etc, at his
old stand, No. 4 Skiddy‘s Block, as cheap as
the cheapest. He offers great inducements
to cash buyers, as he has as large an assort-
ment of groceries of the best. qualities as can
be found at any store in the country. He
would invite the special attention of all to his
stock of .
COFFEES, TEAS AND SUGARS, _
which are of the very best quality, and Will
be sold cheap. The public are invited to call
and examine and judge for themselves.
- _ A. MOREHOUSE.
Geal. _ Coal.
HE subscribers having taken the old es
tablished COAL YARD of Mallory &'
Curtis, are now prepared to furnish their
friends and the public in general, with-Coal
of the
BEST QUALITY,
and of various kinds, on as favorable terms
as can be had elsewhere. Coal delivered if
desired. Terms Cash.
- LEONARD & STREET.
SOUTH NORW’ALK
ladies and Gents’
Boot w Shoe Store.
r ‘HE subscriber, having taken the business
and stand of Stevens do Tristram, is pre-
pared'to supply every article _to_ be found in a
first class Boot and Shoe Establishment, for la-
dies, gentlcmcn, or children’s wear.
Our goods are manufactured expressly for
our own sales, and warrant all work sold by
us. Always on hand, or made to order at
short notice,
Gents’ Patent Leather Boots, Shoes, di-c. ;
Ladz'es’ Gaiters, «£11, (£6. ; Children‘s-
Gal'ters, and Shoes, die, die, tf‘L'.
Rubber goods ; a large stock kept constantly
on hand. Repairing done neatly and CTJJEdl-
ently. HARVEY STEVENS. _
South Norwalk (No. 3, Ely’s Block), April
7, 1860
PU‘BNITURI!
HE subscriber is now prepared to offer to
the public, at his Old stand, as good an
assortment of
Cabinet Furniture
as can be found in Fairfield County, and at
lower prices, FOR CASH, than the same
qualit of goods can be Obtained at any other
hstah ishuient.
The stock consists in part of
Marble Top, Extension, Dining, Card, and
Quartette Tables; Bookcases, Bureaus,
Sofas, Tcte-a-tete Lounges; Mali0g_
any and Cane seat Chairs ; Gilt
and Mahogany Frame Look-
ing Glasses, 8.70., &c.
COFFIN WAREROOJIS;
where may be found a full assortment of Cof-
fins, which will finished in the best poasible
manner, and at short notice. . ,
’ W A hearse will be furnished when de—
sired. A. [{ENOUD.
Westport, May lst, 1858.
“HOME AGAIN 1.“
Returned. to Norwalk.
VrHE subscriber takes ilcasurc lll llQl-llll’lllg
the public in genera, , and his (lid. (illstillll'
era in pa'rliculur, that he has re- iuivllalsed his
former business, and is as real y as over in
serve them in every department of SADDLE
AND HARNESS MAKING.
Thankful for the liberal patronage hereto-
fore extended him while a resident of Nor-
walk—he hopes by renewed efforts to please
——l.o merit a continuance ofthc same.
Remember our motto, Better than the best,
and cheaper than the cheapest: at. the old stand
—eust end of Connecticut Hotel.
33 STEPHEN SWAN};
Essay Glands. ‘59-
fliie ngsortiiient of Fancy GOOI s, Pocket
Clitlcrfi'n'i‘i‘d if new hit Of 'Rodgcr‘s sen:
s‘or.., just réccived and i'varrantcd to be a first
rate article. Clocks Of‘all ki‘n'ds. 'Wc have
ditto the agency of Merrill's Oriental anad'c‘,
sbtiiething ncw,4and'nbed‘s only, to be tried to‘
is up l‘ébiat'e‘d: ' ‘A JAC SQWN .— BEG
. LlAlIr'C. STREET,
ALWH WIL‘COXSON.
Shawls ever offered. C. J. GRUMAN.
. THE Larges Stock of Woolen Long
Pure Domestic Wines.
Vl‘HE subscriber has always on hand, of
his own manufacture, Grape and Cur-
rant Wiiics, from 3 to 5 years Old, price $1.50
per gallon. Also, Cider Vinegar—J4 cts. per
gallon, all are warranted pure, and equal to
any in market.
Address, C. S. MIDDLEBROOK,
Box 422 Bridgeport.
W Refer to L. P. Allis or the ‘ditor of
Gazette. 23
A. JACKSON 6!. BRO.
TOULD respectfully announce to the
public and their Old customers, that
they have recently made extensive additions
to their stock of goods. “’0 are now prepar-
ed to offer an assortment not to be surpassed
iii Fairficld County, in quality or price. \Vc
would call particular attention toour stock of
Watches, which is larger than ever before.—
VVc have a fine lot of Ladies’ Swiss \Vatchcs,
in gold cases, at prices varying from $20 to
$7 5, which we can recommend as bein cor-
rect time keepers. Also, Gentlcnicii’s Vi alch—
es, in silver and gold cases, at any price. from
$5 to $100. Vile buy of the best importers in
New York, and altogether for cash, so that
our facilities for selling cheap could not. be
rcatcr. Our stock of Jewelry, Silver and
lated Wares was never better than at pres-
ent. and comprises all of the latest styles that
are manufactured. A. JACKSON & BRO.
Wagon and Carriage
BUILDING AND REPAIRING,
N New Canaan, at the old stand of the
subscriber. Every description of Wagons
made to order, and ten per cent. cheaper than
any other shop in the cotuity. All kinds of
Farm produce, and Oak, Ash, aiid Hickory
Plank taken in exchange for work.
tf29 E. L. ARNOLD.
Mr. J'. Hessian,
Profos‘sorof Music
Is now prepared to re-
new his course of instruc-
tion to all those who may desire his services.
Instructions given on the Piano Forte, Organ
or Mclodcon. WW
Pianos tuned and repaired. All orders left
at his residence, Main-st, and store of A. H.
Camp, No. 17 Main-st, Norwalk, will be
promptly attended to. 1y32
1101156: 8:. Sign Painting,
GILDING, GLAZING, «to. do,
SOUTH NORW’ALK.
HE subscriber will execute all orders in
Plain or Ornamental Painting in the
most satisfactory manner, and at reasonable
prices.
Also, For Sulc,.liis present residence (with
his business if desired), coniprising a house
nearly new, with garden, trees, slirubbery,
&c., and a shop thereon. Terms easy. Ap—
ply on the premises, Opposite Quiiitard &
Smith’s Carriage Factory, to
GEORGE HODGES.
May Tilt, 1860. 1y19
J. N.LO0KWO0D& 00,
West Side of the Bridge,
LY NES’ N EW B LOCK,
KEEP constantly on hand, a large and
varied assortment of Ladies’, Gents‘,and
Children‘s
GAITERS, BOOTS, SHOES, &c.,
all made under our own personal supervis-
ion, Of' the best material, and iii the most
workmanlike-manner. Our assortment of
Ladics’ Gaiters undoubtedly comprises—both
in extent and quality—u finer assortment than
can be found at any similarestablishment iii
the County. In Gent‘s Boots, Gaiters, Shoes,
etc., we have a larger and better assortment,
we are confident, than was ever before offer-
ed iii Norwalk. We are prepared to manu-
facture, to measure any article 2'22 0117' [Mutual
at the shortest notice. .
Misses‘ and Children‘s Shoes, Rubbers, etc.,
in endless variety. A fine article of Slippers
for Gents’ wear.
REPAIRING—in all its branches—done
neatly, quickly, and cheaply.
House Painting,
GLAZING, GRAINING, GILDING, ETC-
0. C. BROTHE'E'rON
8 prepared to execute all orders in the
above line of business with neatness and
dispatch. All orders for
PAPER HANGING,
will be executed in the best manner, by an
esperz'emed workman.
Orders left at the Store ofE’. Va. Chirhester,
or at the subscriber‘s residence, on Mer—
win Street, will meet with prompt attention.
' C. C. BROTHERTON.
General Blacksmithiug.
CARRIAGE MAKING d? REPAIRNG ;
And Horse Shooi'ng Exchange.
THE subscribers have made arrangements
for carrying on a general Blacksniitliing,
Carriage Making and Repairing; and also,
for the Shocing of Horses, in which depart-
merit, we have the services of a man thor-
oughly competent and experienced, whom
we will warrant not to be surpassed in this
line Of'liis vocation. A share of the public
patronage is respectfully solicited. .
E. M. MERRITT d7 CO.
G. W. MEIinrr'r.
E. M. MEnItIT'r.
“rater—st, Norwalk, Conn.
Whitney’s
Photographic and Fine Art
GALLERY,
NORWALK, CONN.
LATE E. B. TIIOMPssN’s. E T. Whitne
would inform the citizens of Norwalk
that he has established himself in the Gazette
Building, and will furnish them with Photo-
graps, Ambrotypes, and all kinds of Pictures
taken by the sun, from Miniatures, to life
size; colored or plain; in the hi, hest style
of the art. E. T. WH TNEY
-D. B. Woonnunv, Operator “29
Great Bargains
in
Good Goods 2
Y a fresh arrival from New York, we
have received the best assortment of
general Dry Goods, ever seen in Westport—
l‘ess Goods of every description, Merinoes,
plain and printed Cashmeres, All Wool De
Laincs, Valencias, Mohairs, &c,, the. We
would call special uitnmlilll l-il (lul‘ “10‘3th
Plaid-v, one «uric quarter fwd-.7013“: at. only
Til??? IIIlIl siximnc‘e, and nineteenth in. pro.-
llOl‘hnu, ‘ ‘ '
Bleached and Unbleached Shootings and
Giulio". Flannel-‘1. Pied. Blue, and Grey Ml
Flmilicls. Sacque Flanucls plain and fig-mud.
Dalton. and Linc-Ii Table Cloths by the piece
tli' .Y‘l: AlamNapkins, Towels, Wool Stand
and Table covers.
Fall and Winter Shawls and Cloaks, very
cheap. We cannot enumerate all, but will
be glad to show everything to all who may
favor us with a call.
Ready Made Clothing and Clothing lnade
to order, from the newest styles of goods,and
warranted lobe. cheaper and fit better than
can he found in the county. C‘lflll‘ng cut
gee Utopian, Tainan ravines y Mr.
. 93mg, vi. (so or you '3- experience has no-
IéII flotilla A. 33.9,- f SPANG a only.
The Sunny South;
R, TuE SouTirENEn'A'r Home: 1;: "by-a,-
, ,.- cin‘g five y'cuIS’-e‘xpei,'i‘ lice ot‘aiioil'Wlp, in,
Govcrnl‘cssiu the and, of t .e agar an .t is.
Collvllsby‘l- ll- halftime- at a 1c of "
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K’S.
" ”arouse“ Stoves.
GOOD assortment of Parlor and Cook
Stove constantly on hand and will be
sold at the lowest possible prices. Also
Russia and Common Iron Pi , Sheet Zinc,
«to. GEO. .
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“noting... sleet:
Backward, turn backward, oh Time, in your flight,
Make me a child again, just for to-night !
Mother, comeback from the ccholess shore,
Take me again to your heart as of yore—
Kiss from my forehead the furrows of care,
Smooth the few silver threads out of my hair——
Over my slumbers your loving watch keep—
Rock me to sleep, mother—rock me to sleep !
Backward, flow backward, oh tide of years ;
I am so weary of foils and of tears—
Toil without recompense—tears all in vain—
Takc them and give me my childhood again i
I have grown weary of dust and decay,
Weary of flinging my soul-wealth away—
Weary of sowing for others to reap ;
Rock me to sleep, mother—rock me to sleep !
Tired of the hollow, the base, the untrue,
Mother, oh mother, my heart calls for you 1
Many a summer the grass has grown green,
Blossomed and faded—our faces between-
Yet with strong yearning and passionate pain,
Long I to-night for your presence again ;
Come from the silence so long and so deep—
Rock me to sleep, mother—rock me to sleep 1
Over my heart in days that are flown,
No love like mother-love ever was shown—
No other worship abides and endures,
Faithful, unselfish, and patient, like yours ;
None like a mother can charm away pain,
From the sick soul and the world-weary braiii ;
Slumber‘s soft calm o‘er my heavy lids creep—
Rock me to sleep, mother—rock me to sleep 1
Come, let your brown hair,just lighted with gold
Fall on your shoulders again as of old-—
Let it fall over my forehead to-night,
Shading my faint eyes away from the light—
For with its sunny edged shadows once more,
Hap’ly will throng the sweet visions of yore,
Lovingly softly, its bright billows sweep—
Rock me to sleep, mother—rock me to sleep !
Mother, dear mother 1 the years have been long
Since then, and unto my soul it. shall seem,
Womanhood’s years have been but a dream;
Claspcd to your arms in} loving embrace,
. With your light lashes just sweeping my face,
Never hereafter, to wake or to weep,
Rock me to sleep, mother—rock me to sleep!
.-....
Over the River.
Over the river they beckon to me—
Loved ones who’ve crossed to the other side :
The gleam of their snowy robes I see,
But their voices are lost in the dashing tide.
There’s one with ringlcts of sunny gold,
And eyes the reflection of heaven’s own bluc ;
lie crossed in the twilight gray and cold,
And the pale mist bid from mortal view,
We saw not the angel that met him there,
The gate of ilie city we could not see ;
Over the river, over the river,
My brother stands waiting for me!
Uver the river the boatman pale
Carried another—the household pct ;
Her brown curls waved in the gentle gale—
Darling Minnie ! I see her yet!
She crossed on her bosom her dinipled hands,
And fearlessly entered the phantom bark,
We watched it glide from the silver sands,
And all our sunshine grew strangely dark.
We know she is safe on the further side, -
Where all the ransoined and angels be ;
Over the river, the mystic river,
My childhood’s idol is waiting for me.
For none ref urn from those quiet shores,
Who cross with the boatman cold and pale ;
We hear the dip of the goldeifiiars,
And catch the glimpse of the phantom sail,
And lo! they have passed from our yearning hearts,
Who cross the stream and are gone for aye ;
We may not sander the veil apart
That hides from our vision the gates of day.
We only know that their barks no more
May sail with us o’er life’s stormy sea—
Yet somewhere, I know, on that unseen shore,
They watch and beckon, and wait for me!
And I sit and think when the sunset’s gold .
.Is flashing river, and hill and shore,
I shall one day stand by the water cold,
And list for the sound of the boatmau’s oar.
I shall watch for a gleam of the flapping sail!
I shall bear the boat as it gains the strand,
I shall pass from sight with tho boatman pale,
To the better shores of the spirit-lan d.
I shall know the loved who have gone before,
And joyfully sweet will the meeting be,
When over the river, the peaceful river,
The angel of Death shall carry me.
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WHENCE CAME Tnanxsorerd—Frank
Taylor of the Chicago Journal, gives us the
following pertinent and brief history of this
Old-time Holiday:
“Two hundred and thirty-fbur years ago,
young Edward Winslow, who married the
mother of New England‘s first born son, was
writing a letter to his dear old home. After
the harvest had been gathered, (wrote Wins-
low that sterling man, Gov. William Bradford
dispatched a company for game that they
might have luxuries for a feast, and rejoice
together after the fruits of their labors were
garnered, “So,” as the record runs, “they
got their game, and they cooked it, and they
feasted Massasoit and ninety of his Indians,
and they thanked God with all their hearts
for the good world and the good things in it
_ And so they kept their thanksgiving.” A
quarter of a century elapsed then Gov. Bfad-
ford declared that since that day, no man
man wanted food. Such is the soon-told
story of the day—a sunny thought, t-lirobbed
out by some Pilgrim heart, and sparking
down the gray Novembcrs of all time to
come.“
.<. p. o—_
VEnr Genome—A iradesnian was wait-
ed upon in his shop by a superbly attired fe-
male, whom he politely addressed, and dc
sired to know what commands she wished to
honor him with. The lady, after lifling the
veil, which hid aunt unhandsonie. face, inti-
mated, in a style corresponding with her
dress, that hearing there was a. vacancy in
the gentleman’s service, she desired to be en-
gaged by him as a housemaid.
The gentleman stated that his “better half”
was at her residence in the suburbs. The
fallowiun dininguc ensued :‘
Servant. girl (in a querulous and disafl‘ect-
ed tone)——“Then you reside in the country—-
that would be so inconvenient."
Gentleman—“But then we could remove
to town.
Servant girl—“And the washing I am giv-
on to understand, is done at home, whichI
don‘t. much like." ‘
Gentlenian—“ But. then we could give it
out."
Servant girl—“And are there any children?"
Gentleman—“Twelve."
Servant girl (in. great excitmenl and half
inclined to, faint),—“T\lee children i"
Goodman—Shut then, to oblige you, we
could 011';in ll few of them." ,
The lady servant turned upon her heel,
and swept away from the premieres with the
air of Cleopatra.
—-—-—-—*~<.>so——-—
——-The Georgia Senate has rejected the hill
calling a convention of the southern states.—
This is. viewed as an indication of the inten-
tion of Georgia to secede separately.
“tr, a so
l owrcaun roan? A FARM.
BY BAYARD TAYLOR.
In the first place it runs in the blood. If
there is any law I believe in it is that of the
hereditary transmission of traits, qualities,
capacities and passions. My father is a far-
mer, my grandfather was, and his father be-
fore him, and his and his again, to the sev-
enth ancestor, who came over in one of
William Penn’s vessels, and immediately set
about reducing the superfluous sylvanism
of flint Apostle’s Byleam'a, If I could brush
away the clouds which hang about this por-
tion of the geaeaological trec,I have no doubt
but that I should find its trunk striking
through cottages or country ha lls for some
centuries further; and that “Roger,” (ob.
1614,) the son Of Thomas, the son of “Roger”
who wore the judicial ermine upon his escut-
cheon, had his favorite country-house in the
neighborhood of London.
The child that has tumbled into the newly
plowed forrow never forgets the smell of
fresh earth, He thrives upon it just as the
butcher’s boy thrives upon the smell of blood,
but a. healthier apple red comes into his
cheeks, and his growing muscle is subdued
in more innocent pastimes. Almost my first
recollection is that of a swamp, into which I
went bare~legged at morning and out of
which 'I came, when driven by
hunger, with long stockings of black mud,
and a mask of the same. If the child was
missed from the house, the first thing that
suggested itself was to climb upon a mound
which overlooked the swamp. Somewhere
among the tufts of the rashes and bladed
leaves of the columns, a litte brown ball was
to be seen moving, now dipping out of sight
now rising again, like a bit of drift on the
rippling green. It was my head, The treas-
ures I there collected were black terrapins,
with orange spots; baby frogs, the size of a
chestnut, flirusli's eggs, and stems of purple
phlox.
I cannot say that my boyish experience of
farm work was altogether attractive. I had
a constitutional horror of dirty hands, and
my first employment—picking stones and
weeding corn-—wcre rather a. torture to this
superfine taste. But almost every field had
its walnut tree, and many of the last year's
nuts retained their flavor in the spring;
melons were planted among the corn, and
the meadow which lay between never ex-
hausted its store of wonders. Besides, there
Were eggs to hide at Easter; cherries and
strawberries in May; fruits all Summer,
fishing by torchlight; lobelia and sumac to
be gathered, dried, and sold for pocket-mon-
ey; and in the fall, chestnuts, pcrsimmons,
wild-grapes, cider and the grand “butcher-
ing" after frost came—so that all the pleas-
ures I knew Fieldthpse incidental to a far-
mer's life. The books I read were furnish-
ed by tlie village librarv, and the task of
helping to “fodder" on the dark winter eve~
nings was lightened by the anticipation of
sitting down to Gibbon’s Rome or Thaddeus
of Warsaw, afterwards. To be sure, I some-
times envicd the storekceper‘s boy, whom I
had once seen shovelling sugar out of a hogs-
head, and who now and then steadily dipped
his hand into the raisin box, but it is not in
the nature of any child to be perfectly satis-
fied with his lot.
Alife of three years in a small country
town effectually cured me of all such folly.—
Wlien I returned to the homestead as a
youth, I first felt the delight and the refresh-
ment of labor in the open air. I was then
able to take the plow-handle, and I still re-
wcre pronounced even and well-turned.—
Although it was already decided that I
should not make farming the business of my
life, I thrust into my plans a slender wedge
of hope that I might one day own a bit of
ground for the luxury of having, it not the
the profit of cultivating it. The aroma of
the sweet soil had tinctured my blood; the
black mud of the swamp still stuck to my
feet. /
It happened tliit, adjoining my father's
property, there was an old farm, which was
fast relapsing into a state of nature. Thirty
or forty years had passed sincethe plow had
touched any part of it. The owner, who
lived upon another estate at a little distance
had always declined to sell, perhaps for the
reason that no one could be found to offer an
encouraging price. Left thus to herself, Na-
ture played all sorts of wild and picturesque
pranks with the property. Two heaps of
stones were all,tliat marked the site of the
house and burn; half a dozen ragged plum
and peach hovered about the outskirts of the
vanished garden, the melancholy survivors
of all its bloom and fruitage; and a. mixture
of tall sedge grass, sumacs and blackberry
bushes covered the field. The hawthorn
hedges which lined the lane had disappeared
but some clumps of privet still held their
ground,and the wild grdpe and scarlet-herded
cclustus clambered all over the tall sassafras
and tulip trees. ‘
Along the road which boundfiliis farm on
the east, stood a magnificent grove Of oaks.
more than a hundred feet in' height. _ Stand-
ing too close to admit of lateral boughs near
the earth, their trunks rose like a crowded
colonade clear against the sky, and ,the sun-
set, bumiii g through, took more gorgeous
hues Of orange and angry crimson—-
Knowing that if the farm were sold, those
glorious trees would belhe first to fall, and
that the sunset would thereby for me lose
half its splendor, I gradually came to con-
template them with the interest which an
uncertain, suspended fate inspires. At. the
foot of the oaks, on the border of the fields
there was an old, gnarled mother-pine, sur-
rounded by' her brood of young ones, who,
always springing up in the same direction,
from the fact that the seeds were scattered
by the nor’west winds, seemed to be running
down off the slope, as iffull-fledged and cos
get to make their way into the world. The
old pine had an awful interest to me as a boy.
More than once huge black snakes had been
seen imaging from its bouglis, and the farm—
hands would tell mysterious stories of an old
mother-serpent, as long as a fence rail and
as swift as a horse. In fact, my brother and
I, on our way to the peach treees—wliich still
produced some bitter flavored fruit—had
more than once seen snakes in our path. 011
a certain occasion, as ,my memory runs, I
chased the snake while he ran away. His
story is, that he chased it and I ran—and the
question remains unsettled to this day.
,In another wood of: chestnuts, beyond the
field, the finest yellow violets were to be
member the pride I felt when my furrows
the beech trees. Sometimes we extended
our rambles to the end of the farm, and look-
ed down into the secluded dells beyond the
ridge which it covered; such glimpses were
like tlic,discovcry of unknown lands. How
far off the people lived! How strange it
must be to dwell continually down in that
hollow, with no other house in Sight ! But
when I build a house, I thought, I shall
build it up on the ridge, with a high steeple,
from the top of which I can see far and wide.
That deserted farm was to me like the Ejux-
ria of Hartley Coleridge, but my day dreams
were far less ambitious than his. If I had
known then what I learned long afterwards,
that a tradition of buried treasure still lingers
about the garden, I should no doubt have
dug up millions in my imagination, roofed
my house with gold, and made the steeple
thereof five hundred feet high.
At last came the launch into the world—a
slide, a plunge, a shudder, and the ship rides
the waves. Absence, occupation, travel,
substituted realities for dreams, and the farm
if not forgotten, became a very subordinate
object in the catalogue of things to be at-
tained. WheneverI visited the homestead
however, I saw the sunset through its gra-
ting of forest, and remembered the fate that
still hung suspended over the trees. Fifty
years of neglect had given the place a bad
name among the farmers, while nature, as if
delighted to recovei" possession, had gone
on adorning it in her own wild and match-
less way. I looked on the spot with an iii-
structcd eye, and sighed, as I counted up my
scanty earnings at the reflection fnat yeais
must elapse before I could venture to think
of possessing it. My wish, nevertheless, was
heard and remembered.
In July, 1853, I was on the Island Of Loo-
Clioo. Returning to the flag-ship of the
squadron one evening, after a. long tramp
over the hills to the south of Naps-Kiting, in
a successful search for the ruins of the ancient
fortress of Tima-Gusku, I was funimoncd by
the officer of the deck to receive a package
which lisd been sent on board from one of
the other vessels. Letters from home, after
an interval of six months without news ! I
immediately asked permission to burn a lump
on the orlop-dcck, and read until midnight,
forgetting the tramp of the sentry and the
sound of the sleepers in their hammocks
around me. Opening letter after letter, and
devouring, piece by piece, the banquet of
news they contained the most startling as
well as the most important communication
was—the Old farm was mine! Its former
owner had died, the property was sold, and
had been purchased in my name. I went on
deck. The mid-watch had just relieved the
first; the night was pitch dark, only now and
then a. wave burst into a flash of witch fire.
But, as I looked westward over the stern-rail,
I saw the giant oaks, rising black against the
crimson sunset, and knew that they were
waiting for inc—that I should surely see
them again.
I approached home, after an absence of
nearly two years and a half. It was Christ-
mas Evc—a clear, sharp winter night. The
earth was hard frozen ; the sun was down, a
quarter-moon shone overhead, and the keen
nor’west wind blew in my face. I had
known no winter for three years, and the
brancing stimulus of the cold was almost as
novel as it was refreshing. Presently I re-
cognized the boundaries of my properly—yes
I actually possessed a portion of the earth’s
surface! After all, I thought, possession—at
least so far as Nature is concerned—means
simply protection. This moonlit wilderness
is not more'beautiful to my eyes than it was
before; but I have the right, secured by legal
documents, to preserve its beauty. I need
not implore the woodman to spare those
trees; I’ll spare them myself. This is the
only difference in my relation to the property.
Solng as any portion of the landscape,wliicli
pleases me, is not disturbed, I possess it,
quite as much as this.
During these reflections, I had reached the
foot of the ridge. A giant tulip-tree, the lion-
ey of whose blossoms I had many a time pil-
fered in boyhood, crowned the slope, drop-
ping its long bouglis as if weary of stretching
them in welcome. Behind it stood the oaks,
side by sidc,far along the road. AsI reached
the first tree the wind, wliicliliad failed, grad—
ually swelled, humming through the bare
branches until a deep organ bass filled the
wood. It was a hoarse, ybt ingratefulcliorus
of welcome—iiiarticulate, yet intelligible.—
“Welcomc, welcome home!” went booming
through the trees, “welcome, our master and
preserverl—Sce, with all the voice we can
catch from the winds, we utter our joy 1 For
now there is an end to fear and suspense; he
who kows us and loves us spreads over us
the shelter of his care. Long shall we flour-
ish on the hill; long shall our grateful shad-
ows cover his path. We shall hail his coming
afar; our topmost bouglis will spy him across
the valleys, and whisper it'to the fraternal
woods. We are old; we never change; we
shall never cease to remember and welcome
our master !"
So the trees were first to recognize me.—
Listening to their deep, voice which I would
not have exchanged for the dry rattle Of a
hundred league-long forest of tropical palms,)
I was conscious of a new sensation, which
nothing but actual sight of my own property
could have suggested. I felt like a tired
swimmer when he firsttouclies ground—‘—like
a rudderless ship, drifting at the will of the
storm, when her bower takes firm hold—like
uwingcd seed when, after floating from bush
to bush, and from field to field, it drops at
last upon a handful of mellow soil and strikes
root. My life had now a point tl‘appm', and
standing upon these acres of real estate, it
seemed an easier thing to move the world.—
A million in bank stock or railroad bonds
could not have given me the same positive
tangible sense of property.
When I walked ever my fields (yes—actu-
ally my fields!) the next day, this sensation
returned in an almost ridiculous excess.—
“You will of course cut down that ugly old
tree,” said some one. It impressed me very
much as if I had been told: “That chapterin
your book is inferior to Others—tear it out !”
or, “Your little finger is crooked; have it
amputated 2"
Why even the sedge-grass and sumacs—
how beautiful they were! Could I ever
make up my mind to destroy them? As. for
the cedars hawthorn, and privet, the tangled
masses of climbing smilax—no by the bones
of Belshazzar, they shall stand! “This field
will not be worth much for gain.” Well—-
what if it isn’t ? “Everything is wild and neg-
lected—it wants clearing, sadly.” very-
nothing like it! So ran the course of remark
and counter-remark. I did not suffer my
equanimity to be disturbed; was I not sole
owner, appellator, and disposer of all? Nor
did the trees appear tobc sensible of the least
four. They leaned their heads against one
another in a sort of happy complacent calm,
as if whispering: “Its all right: let us enjoy
the sunshine: he’ll take care of us !”
Yes, one cannot properly be considered as
a member of the Brotherhood of Man, an in-
habitant of the Earth, until he posesscsa por-
tion of her surface. As the sailors say, he
stag/she don’t actually lz're. The Affrarinns,
Conimunionists, Socialistic Levelers,and such
of all kinds are replenished from the ranks
ofnon-owners of real estate. Banks break;
stocks and serips of all kinds go up and down
on the financial sec-saw; but a fee simple on
solid earth is THERE! You see it, you feel it,
you walk over it. Itis yours, and your chil-
dren's, and their progciiy’s (unless mortgaged
and sold through foreclosure) until the
Millenium.
And this is how I came to buy a farm, 1:. 'r.
Independent.
.‘05.
Shakspeare on the Late Elections and
the Last Campaign.
One of the happiest hits of the Republican
demonstration at Toledo, Ohio, recently—if
not of the campaign—was the list of Shak-
speurian citation read at the Wigwam by Mr.
11. L. Hosmer. \Ve copy those having more
than a local interest:
Fellow Citizens : Shakspcnre, who .was the
wisest man since Solomon, saw_tliesc times,
and has foreshadowedthem in his wonderful
plays. It is fitting that llllllc exuberance of
our enthusiasm we draw upon him for the
language of jubilation; for, what else did he.
mean than just such an event- as this, when
he said.
We have the heart‘s blood of the
House of Lancaster :4
Who else than Buchanan was intended by
the demand.
James of Lancaster, resign thy crown!
’l‘hon has deceived me—
The Devil take thee! ,
Life and all old Luiicaster has spent in iniquity
And,
More behold the pale ashes of the House of Lan-
caster!
Aiid then inimitable Sir John Falstaff, in
the fullness of heart, exclaims,
Buck! Back! I would I could wash myself of the
Buck!
And of the Douglas, what, than this mo-
ment, did the great bard point to, when he
exclaimed,
Douglas is discomfited!
——0r when he made Douglas say,
I am the Douglas, fatal to all those
That wear those colors on them.
Again:
Mother! molher.’ mother! Oh, my dear mother!
DO I see you?
Our Hannibal was doubtless intended, in
those lines put in the mouth of his enemies:
Hannibal drives back our troops.
And conquers as he lists.
. And who do you suppose was meantin the
inquiry:
Where’s Jeans, the butcher of Ashley ‘?
He meant our Wide-Awakcs when he
promised that
They should awake endeavor for defense.
Thunder shall not so awake beds of eels
As we our opponents.
And our illumination of this eveniugin the
phrase:
We make the town bright with our rejoicing fires,
. What do you suppose he intended by say-
ing :
No mournfui Bell shall toll ‘3
—And,
Breckinridge shall lose his head.
—And,
Edward ’8 sun is clouded:
God take our Edward to his mercy.
Edward shall rest. in ood old Abraham’s bosom.
Rebellion in this laiit shall lose its sway,
Meeting the check of such another day,
When he said,
Fifteen thousand poll,
he meant Indiana. But he continues:
York is our prop to lean upon.
—So that we soon shall be able to say,
Now is the winter of our discontent.‘ _
Made glorious summer by this sun of (Now) York.
Heard you from Pittsburgh? The Demo-
crats say, with the old bard:
Our enemies have beat us to the pi/ :
—And,
Somerset with Oxford fled to Lincoln.
There’s fennel for you and Columbiuox.
Let but Dauphin and the rest be true.
——And then.
Uarsllle will seal your doom.
Didn’t he mean “food C01lllly,\\'llCll be. ex-
claimed:
0 ll’ooddivinc!
and Defiance iii the expression:
(ii-cat Douglas with our sharp [IQ/[mm :
and Henry, in
The devil lake Henry :
and William, in
Good ll’illlams, God rest you ;
and the Reserve, in the expression
But that Reserve
‘13 all ours, to the smallest scrapie;
and the Alleghanics,whcrc he said,‘
Our sons will higher, and take the mountains in;
and the Plains of Indiana, by saying,
And we’ll lead forth our soldiers on the Plains;
and Douglas in Fort Wayne when he said,
It appears by this small light ofdistinction,
That he is on the "'1th ,' but yet in courtesy,
ln‘all reason, we must stay the time.
Was he not talking of our Homestead Bill
when he said
It has become the fashion for thee to give away thy
am .
I‘ll undertake to land them.
—And of our Rivers and Harbors, when he
says,
Where shall our vesselsliarbor ?
But though so denied t'iiir lingbor,
I’ll have it for our pleiiteous rivers :
And we’ll command the empire of the sea.
—and our Tariff, when he says: ‘
There‘s form and cercnionious duty for you,
I do perceive here a divided duly ,'
And will do‘t tho‘ it kill me.
-—-il.ll(l Of 0111‘ opponents 0110
he says,
We will turn the tide of fearful faction,
And raze them and their family;
And we’ll do our uttermost, and fail not. then
To be men of good government:
And Lincoln. shall have his iianlc of good,
By his government.
Was not Kansas before him when he said,
Each new mom new widows howl, _
New orphans cry, new sorrows strike Iieavpn on
the face.
-——And the Dred Scott casein the expression,
It has five Justices’ hands to it,
And authorities more than my pack will hold,
And though authority be a stubborn bear,
Yet he is often led by the nose with gold.
He had the South in his eye, when he said.
Men of continual dissoliition— ‘
I‘ll none ofit;
and Popular Sovereignty in the expressions:
Your unknown sovereignty-—
Your subjects loathe such sovereignty—
You deprive your sovereignty of reason—
It rages upon our territories.
How he hit off the Republicans just elect-
ed in Pennsylvania:
You shall have a Morris for a May-day,
Welcome Lord Aubrey De Vere.
—And then ofDnvis,
An’ I might see you there, Dory,-
And of Hickman,
He teaches them to Hick:
And of Grow,
Thou shall. make a saving contract Grow:
And of Halo,
Let Heaven engender Hail.
What army did he make 01d Falstaff refer
to when he said:
There's but a shirt and a half in all my regiment,
and all, when
it I
I’ll not march tliro’Conveutry with them, tlint’sllat. and settle down, I’ll tell you all about In ‘
was he picturing but one who could sustain
the hero of Popular Sovereignty, when he
said :
I have served your worship truly,vs_ir, for this eight
years, and, in cannot once or tw1ce in a quarter bear
out a knave against an honest man, I have but. very
little credit with your worshi . The knave is mine
honest friend, sir; therefore, beseech your worship
let him be countenanced.
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From the N. Y. Evening Post.
A Reckoning With the Administration.
Lovr: TURNED T0 HATE—COLONEL FORNEY
AFTER PRESIDENT BUCHANAN.
A broadside of the Philadelphia Press is
devoted to the demolition of President Bu-
chanan, or rather the, remains of that func-
tionary. Colonel Forney, laying aside his
old love of 1856, digs up all the Presidential
history of Mr. Buchanan, for the purpose, as
he says, Of “conclusively establishing the fact
that the grievous evils now afflicting the
country are the result Of the conduct Of the
President and his Cabinet, aided and encour—
aged, not by the Southern people, but by the
Southern disunionists, who, having induced
him to surrender the basis, and the subsc-
qucnt resistance Of it by the North, the pre-
text, of the movement which now looks to
the sevcrzlnce of the ties that bind these hap-
py States together.”
The following are extracts from the Colon
ncl’s six-column manifesto:
“James Buchanan broke clown theDemocral-
z'c part as the first step toward Dz’mm’on. He
could have nationalized all parties if he had
been true to himself and to the pledges of
the Democracy in 1856. There was, in fact,
an almost universal readiness, outside of the
mere leaders of the opposition, on the 4th of
March, 1857, to acquiesce in his construction
of the Kansas-Nebraska bill. His inaugural
address, like his letter Ofucccptaiice, received
the approval of all conservative men. The
South itself could not complain of his fidelity
to this construction, because the platform of
the Democratic National Convention, held at
iiiicinnati in 1856, came from the South, and
was laid down in advance of the nomination
for Presidency, construed by SoutheinDem,
ocrutic leaders to mean precisely what Judge
Douglas to~day declares it to mean, and what
James Buchanan declared it to mean in
1850-57. ,
We ask the Southern people, who are now
being addressed by rank disunionists, by men
who for long years have been seeking causes
to break up the foundations of public peace,
and to rend into fragments the only free gov-
ernment on the. face of the earth—will these
people, our brethren, our kindred, united to
us by interests, by history, and by the tics of
consanguinity, look over the record, and
ponder upon the facts we shall present
them? They will see that the trouble under
which they and we are now sufl‘ering, began
with the disunionists in their midst; with
those who threatened to secede if Mr. Bil-
chaiian did not desert and rebuke Governor
Walker for his resistance to the frauds in
Kansas, and for the subsequent Opposition of
that statesman, Judge Douglas, and others,
to the Lcconipton Constitution, and the Bug
lish bill; Condor compels us to add, that
when the President took the false and fatal
step of throwing behind him his pledges, and
Oppcning the batteries of his administration
upon such faithful public servants as ,Walkcr
and Stanton, the Southern politicians follow-
ed in thewakc of the disunionists intlie sup-
port of the President. This induced the
wide-spread belief that the entire Southern
community had been committed to the en-
dorsement of those wrongs and persecutions.
The country was thus sectionalizéd and the
Republicans obtained control of the free
States. '
it’- .‘I- a":
The second session of the
Thirty-fifth Congress opened with new out-
rages on the part of the . Administration and
its supporters upon the North and the South.
Mr. Buchanan repeated and gloried in his Le
coniptcn policy in his annual message, and
orders were sent for and wide to strike down
every man who did not lend sustenance to
that memorable and never-tO-be-forgottcii
document. When Judge Douglas took his
seat in the Senate, crowned with the laurels
of victory, it was to find himself degraded
from his position as Chairman of the Com-
mittee on Territories—the only reason being
that he continued to stand firm by the prin-
ciples of Congressional non-intervention
with slavery in the Territories of the United
States. Broderick, Haskin, Schwartz, Hick-
man and their compatriOts, together with the
entire Republican party in both branches Of
Congress, were liauglitily excluded from the
social circles of the heads of the federal gov-
ernment; and so far was this ostracism ex-
tended that they received little or no Official
recognition from the administration itself—
Tlie Post Office, which had previously been
used to their disadvantage, became, in the
hands of the President and his Cabinet, :1
combined system of proscription; in fact, a
means Of injury instead of convenience;
while from every Custom House in the free
states all men were removed who dared to
sanction the course of J udgc Douglas and his
friends. Even Mr. Breckinridgc fell under
the displeasure of his chief, because he had
written a cold letter, which he could not re-
fuse, preferring Judge Douglas to the Repub-
licans in Illinois.
Col. Foriicy concludes as follows:
“The election Of Abraham Lincoln was not
an unexpected result; and those who now
demand disunion because of his triumplumay
lay the flattering auction to their souls that
they contributed mainly to produce it. But.
if disunion shall come—if this great Republi-
can experiment shall faiil—if‘ruin shall settle
down upon the face of the land—if the citi-
zens of divided and discordant states shall
shed each other’s blood—the fault will not
be with those brave and gallant men who
have adhered to the only basis upon which
a national party in this country can ever ex-
ist. It will be with those who sowed the
seed, and who now mourn over their har-
vest.” W
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PUNCII ON THE PRINCE—Punch portr. ys
the Prince of Wales after his return home in
the principal cartoon of the last received
number. The royal youth has become
Americanized, and now sits before the grate
with his legs resting on the mantel-piece, a‘
cigar in his mouth, and ti knife and a piece
of woodin his hand, while a box of fra-
grant Havanas is on a table near by. A
sherry cobbler, with its characteti‘stic straws,
is on the mantel-piece. -' The-young" prince
wears his hat tipped over on one side; sports
a goatce, and looks like “one: of _ 31:9”,th
In the background stands], -, ' _‘ imbert,
choking with the tobaccosmoke, hiid gazing
on his son with an expression Oi'amazement
not uniningled with fear. His royal high-
ness,‘ senior, “N ow, sir-rec, if you’ll liquor up
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