Indiana American, Volume 17, Number 39, Brookville, Franklin County, 21 September 1849 — Page 1

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OCR COUNTRY-OVR COUNTRY'S INTERESTS-AND OUR COUNTRY'S FRIENDS. BY C.RCLAUKSOX. DKOOKVLLE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, SEPT. 21 1S4J. VOL. XVII XO. 39.

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Frora Godey'a Lady's Hook. the ii iso it i r vow.

by miss cuzt nrrcY. "'T nuirmared not in festive halls, Where mirth is liht around; It echoed not from stately walls, Rk-nt aith the n.aitr's sonml. Twa f-hrd not forTh in bowel or dell, Amid iheop'ninr. flowers. The woodland had no tale to tell Of these long vanished hours. 'Tin littered oVr a dyinir bed, Asked by a dyin prayer The voice of the aVpar'.injr shed A prtly n!esimr 'here. An earnest swul was flitting fast Vhtn those deep times were said The linc'riiir. tones her lips that passed, Thrilled hollow or the dead. Twilight was darkening; into night, the first faint star of evening gleamed from the far blue heavens, and the blush and repose of nature seemed too holy to be broken by the strife of

yet how painfully did tlie qu

only child who is free to remain with us. You shadow arose slowly, and gradually assumed must live here I cannot think of permitting the waving outline of a human form wrapped you to return to that lonely home of yours." : In the garments of the tomb. It approached "It is lonely," replied Ellen; "and I fear the spot on which ahe stood, and the features of that after breaking through my usual habits, I ' Henry Sinclair, wearing a look of a sad reproach, shall find it difficult and wearisome to resume were distinctly visible to her as the shade glided them. Yet, my dear father, if I consent to re- . between herself and her newly wedded lord, maiu. there isone request I must make." With faint cry she would have fallen had " hat is that, my daughter? Are we not not Peyton turned and sprang forward in time ever mindful of your wishes?" to receive her senseless form in his arms. "Ah, yes, dear father, more mindful than 1 1 Long, long was it before she recovered from deserve. But" and her voice sank to a low, her death-like swoon. She then related what agitated whisper "there must bo no looking she had seen, and clung to the belief in the reforward to a second marriage for me no at- ality of the spectral visitation with such tenacitempt to alter my views on that subject. I have tv, that reasoning and soothinir failed m rlm

made a vow to the dead, and that must be held , Before another day had dawned, she was ravin? cfrwl : U- J..l:; , . . . .

u mo ueimum oi a orain lever, and in one week

BIOGRAPHICAL.

Mr. Calhoun on hi Plantation.

The farm is a model farm. It consists of about 1000 acres, 450 of which are in cultivation. After an hour had been spent in passin?

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"". ,0"""ners nave nal me pleasure ot ; "e.u, w, reiurueu ui-,s , -

seeing Mr. Calhoun at home. On his planta- I buildings, cotton press, barns, granaries, &c, 1 ! . ' r

. and surround- surprised. His whole heart and sou 1 seem- I ",e "'anu n w "

Correspondence of the H alii mo re Patriot. Washington, Sept. 5, 1549.

That there are bodies of men in the United

lion, iu the bosom of his family

ed by scenes familiar to him for so manv

years,

ed absorbed in the farm. Had I not known doubt. Whether they ail entertain the same ul- j

Very l,ntc from California. Hrsival of the Empire City at N. Y. LargeReceipt of Gold Riot at San Francisco Great Excitemeut Mines stil! productive.&c. New York, Sept. 13th.

The steamer Empire City arrived, tn.il,.

he is the same, and yet he is in some respects a wi,h whom I was conversing, I should have terior views, rn capturing or procuring the free- , with news from San Francisco to the 2d of Au different person from the Senator at the Capi- him down in my mind as the most thorough dom of ,hat cho,ce t f Nal . , I t j;he b , 200.000 worth of Eold Th tol. He is more at his ease, more sociable and S0,n2 practical farmer I had ever met with. ... , . , ,, , . . ,, , r ,., . ( ' " 6 ,

sacred

"What:" exclaimed her father, "was Sinclair ungenerous enough to exact from you a promise not to marry again? young aud unexperienced as you were, too!" "Ah! no, father wrong him not. He was too kiud, too uoble. lie asked no promise I made it voluntarily; and as the words left my lips his spirit departed. Oh no, my father, never ask me to break that vow it "is a hallowed

human passions;

t of that evonincr scene; contrast with the nas- ' one.

cl.inai orief of ihst vounir heart, monrnimr i en, mv carting, let it be as you wish. 1 are nroducino-results n ATnrmnn. nA tiiu

ever its hrst sorrow. tnau preier Keeping you with us; but at the : lies quite as inexplicable to sober reason as the

from her ill-omened marriage, she was laid beside him whose spirit she believed had summonher to join him. The incidents on which the foregoing pages are founded, are literally true. That the supernatural visitation was the offsnrinp of an over-

wrougnt imagination and superstitious mind, a at once. He rose as I approached to where he real case of monomania, there can be little j was seated, surrounded by a group of gentledoubt. The Vagaries of an excited imairinatinn men. hia nein-hKnr. r,A 1 T ... 1,,..,

my letter of introduction he asked me to a seat.

We returned to the mansion about dark which remains to be unfolded, or U left open to steamer California, from San Francisco, had ar-

Soon after, tea was served te the family, on the I conjecture. Many have supposed tlie move- j rived at Panama, with $700,000 in gold, piazza. Afterward we adjourned to the urawiug j nient t0 be peculiarly a Southern one, with a ! A riot took place at San Francisco, between a

party of armed Americans and some Chilians

ted for the night, and I retired to bed. j Union. Olhers have supposed it to be a moveThe next day I arose at daybreak, and found j nient of ambitious and reckless spirits, whose that Mr. Calhoun was up before me, and had . great and aU-absorbing aim is plunder. But, rode on to the plantation. He was absent about , ., . . v , , , . ,, an hour. When he returned breakfast was wh,le ,n York'a few da "P0-1 was t0,J served in the dining room. After breakfast he i b an intelligent Englishman (who declared that

familiar, and far happier

His residence is a few miles from Pendleton, an old town in Pikens couuty, about 250 miles from Charleston. I reached Pendleton at mid day, and no sooner had I landed from the mail stage than I made inquiry of the landlord of the hotel in regard to the distance to Fort Hill. He replied "Yonder is Mr. Calhoun himself." My eyes followed the direction to which his finger pointed, and I saw, seated under the shade of a larpe tree, that

stately head, whose features if once seen are ' retired to his library, and left me to amuse my- he knew all about it) of another object to be

scarcely ever forgotten, and I had seen Mr. Cal

houn before in the Senate, and recoguized him

Ellen Sinclair was a newly wedded bride. same time, if you shou'd ever meet with one ; catastrophe of "The Broken Vow."

She was but seventeen; the youngest daughter ; You can love, and who is worthy of you, it 'ill of her father's house, and the spoiled pet of the ; he very silly to suffer a few words uttered wnen whole family, her life had passed as one long you were scarcely conscious of their meaning bright day of sunshine and flowers. She had 10 prevent you from making the home of an been wooed by one she had known from child- honorable man happy. Why, child yoa are hood, and with the consent of their mutual ; ouly nineteen. Do you suppose the death of friends they were united. j one person, however dear, can chill your feelThe day after their marriage the bridal pair ings into ice at that age?" left her father's house for the residence of Mr. "I must, then, in sincerity of soul pray to be Sinclair, in one cf the interior counties of Vir- delivered from temptation," said the young wigiaia. A few happy weeks passed, when Sin- 1 dow, witha faint smile, "for I shall never marcbir proposed to his bride to visit a gorge in the i ry again." mountains, from which the rising sun frequent- As time passed on, Mrs. Sinclair conld not ly presents the singular spectacle of the loom-J help acknowledging that she was far happier in? of the mountain the same nheuomenon than in the mountain solitude. Her spirits were

which is witnessed in the Straits of Messina, 'no longer wearied, she no longer felt that life and known by the more poetic name of Fata burthen she wonld gladly lay down. She Morgana, or the castles of the fairy Morgana. J needed excitement of society, aud the social and Ei'en was delighted Kith the proposed excur- j highly cultivated neighboihood in which her slou, and searched every book in the house j father's residence was situated, afforded every which afforded any information on the subject, facility for its enjoyment. This excursion, which promised so much' The third year of her widowhood was drawpleasure, ended in despair and death. They : to a close, when she received an invitation reached the desired spot in safety. The morn- j 10 the marriage of a faverite cousin, who would ins was favorable to their wit-hes: the ascendinc i 'ake no refusal. Ellen replied that if the bride

vapors caught the rays of the rising sun, and i would excuse her sombre dress and pensive face, j

formed themselves into the most fantastic scenes.

Ellen was so much absorbed iu this wonderful

and magnificent spectacle, that she forgot the j 'to that world she was 60 peculiarly fitted to

she would attend; and the concession was hail

ed as an omen of future success in drawing her

caution Sinclair had given her at the moment of

mounting her spirited steed, lie turned from her side an instant to speak to the servant who followed them; the movement startled her horse; the rein was lying loose on his ueck, and feeling himself free from a guiding hand, he dashed off at full speed. Sinclair and the servant both followed, but were unable to overtake her. Fortunately she met a gentleman who succeeded in stopping her perilous career. Sinclair checked his horse too suddenly, that he might express his thanks to her preserver. The animal reared, and threw him with great violence. He was conveyed home in a senseless state, and surgical assistance hastily summoned, but the force of the fall had inflicted some internal injury which bafiled the skill of the physician. It was beside his bed in that calm twilight, that the youug wife knelt with scarce a hue of life upon her features. "Oh, Ellen, my beloved, calm yourself this ' sorrow unmans me," murmured the dying man, passing his hands caressingly over the head which was bowed upon his p. How. A deep suffocated sob was tha only reply to his w ores. "It is hard to die," he continued, "when 1 was looking forward to years of such trauquil happiness with you my sweet Ellen; but ?tis the will of Heaven, my best beloved, and we must submit." "Oh, Henry, my own Heury, you must go down to the cold, cold grave, where I can see

you no more never more hear the tones of

your dear voice. Oh, it will break my heart!"

was the almost inarticulate reply

"My poor Ellen, this is a hard trial for you, but you are too youn: to rrieve always. The

thought is torture to me, but even you may love again may wed another!" and his voice was nearly stifled with painful emotions. "Never, never! Oh, Heury, how can you harrow my soul at this awful moment with such a supposition ? Wed another! Give the wreck of my buiied affections to another! Oh no, no! the thought would kill me." I "I doubt not you think so now, love; but time works strange changes in this world ot ours. We know not what we insy do. I wish to exact no promise from you. The thought is ! bitterly painful, 1 do not wish that the reproach cf a broken promise should mar your peace of mind." "Henry, hear me," s.tid Ellen, in a solemn tone. "Should I ever so far torget my faith to your ashes as to lend my ear to the language of love, my heart to the voice of affection for another, may your form on my bridal evening come to me and reproach me for my faithlessness." A bright smile passed over the face of the dying man. He murmured "Repeat those words again, my Ellen they take from death its sting in Heaven you will be all mv own. Forgive myself, dearest; but I

have so loved you, I cannot thine that another shall win " His voice ceased to articulate, and again the deep tones of the young mourner thrilled tho air with the repetition of these awful words.

As they passed her lips, she fe!t the hand that clasped hers relax its grap a faint fluttering

consciousness seemed to hover a moment on ins

features, and in another instant they wore the

calm and passionless repose of death

acorn

There was a motive for these efforts of which Ellen little dreamed. She regularly attended the church near her father's residence, and her mother had several times called her attention to a remarkably handsome man who sat in a pew nearly opposite to them; but she had not remarked that his eyes frequeutly wandered from his prayer book to her own fair face. His height and the turn of his head had reminded her of Sinclair, but there the resemblance ceased. The broad brow, finely chiselled features, and clear dark eye of the stranger, were all unlike the youthful bloom of him who had won her young affections. She frequently heard Mr. Feyton

spoken of as a man of distinguished endowments, who had spent several years in the south

Berne in n Singe Coach. Two yong officers of the British army, travelling on the Prussian frontier, in a stagecoach.

! encountered an English lady, accompanied by

ner two caugniers, wno waa cross and interfering, and wholly nnacquainted with any language but her mother tongne. One of the officers conceived the idea of annovinz the old lad v.

and accordingly determined to pass himself off to her for a foreigner, and to talk to her daughter in French. With his accustomed gallantry he entered iuto conversation with Miss Mary Bull. He

saw her name on the fly-leaf of her pocket edition of Childe Harold ; and, to her astonishment, and after a fair allowance for coquetry on her part, at length explained to her the mystery. Miss Mary Bull flirted and laughed more than was quite becoming, which tended to increase Mrs. Bull's ill-humor. Words are scarcely bad enough for foreigners ; she regularly fumed again. Presently they entered one of the tuunels,

which commence almost immediately on leaving this station, and come quick in succession between it and Aix-la-Chapelle. "Cromwell wa in one of his old humors, and full of fun. A thought struck him ; he would pay off the old lady for her ill-breeding; and he imparted his plan to Filagree. Shortly they were whisked into a tunnel, and all was darkness. Smeck ! smack ! from Cromwell, and ditto, ditto from the Muffin, as he faithfully imitated loud kissing. It was pitch dark, and the old lady was fit to be tied ! " " Giris, what are you about ? " Smack ! smack ! again. " Charlotte ! Mary girls ! "

Smack ! smack ! (a titter from both young ladies.) "Gentlemen ! my daughters '. do you hear ?

OACRK :

When he had read the letter he introduced me to his neighbors, and then kiudly invited me to return with him to his resilience and spend two or three days. It is needless to say that I at once accepted his invitation, so cordially given, and in the course of an hour I was seated by his side in his carriage, and on the way to Fort Hill. Soon after leaving Pendleton th carriage entered a forest, in which we continued until we reached the gale, which opened into the grounds

in tne immediate vicinity of the mansiou. This

is so concealed that von hardly notice it, until

are within a very short distance of the 'dl

Here that particular light which warns the

travr ler hv rila'.v tl,nt Ha ...ct A

of Europe with an only and beloved sister, for I emerge into light, appeared, and all was silence.

me uenem oi wnose neaiin tne journey nan f lashing into light, both the young

been vainly undertaken. These circumstances had nearly passed from her mind when she was

introduced to him at the wedding as the intimate friend of the groom.

1 eyton had fallen in love with her from his

casual view of her at church, and the eulogi-

urns of his friend's affianced bride, who looked

on Mrs. Sinclair as a "bright particular star," i had deepened the impressiou. Thecircumstan-

young ladies looked

as innocent as if nothing had happened, ("and

nothing had happened ;) Filagree looked at his boots, and our hero scanned mamma, as if he had never seen her until that moment. Ma,

herself, lookeo daggers.

Whisk and they are into another tunnel like a shot.

Smack ! smack ! again.

" Gentlemen ! girls ! such conduct ! " (roars

sen as i pleased, ins habits are very regular,; gained by the prop8Srd descent upon Cuoa. He and I presume they are the same one dav as an- j , , . . . , ,, .... . ,' . other, when at home. He risesat4 orSo'clock; 8lated ,1,at the Abolitionists of Great Britain exercises on horseback, or iu a long walk over ' 'ere at the bottom of the movement that the

the far.n for an hour; he then returns and j Abolition Association in London, called the writes until breakfast, which is about S o'clock. -Exeter Hall Parliament," which has a capital Dinner is then served. , .... , . ,, , :,, After dinner, he converses until toward sun-j of m0Te lllaa ten "!'"' of i"s, and wields set, when he goes on the farm and remains un-1 mighty power over the Kingdom of Great ti! dark. After tea he spends the eveninj in ! Britain, aod elsewhere, has fnmkli-.I lnrtr

conversation with his famil or friends. On

yon

white pillars of the north and east fronts of his

house. 1 he door yard is filled with trees and shrubbery oaks that have stood there at least two hundred years, locusts, elms, willows, wild orango, and fig trees innumerable, the latter load

ed with fruit; attached is a very large garden,

hiled with fruits, flowers, plants and vegetables of every description; and not far distant are large apple and peach orchards. The mansion itself is a plain, unpretending looking building, relieved by wide piazzas, and on each side ros of columns. As I said before, the oak trees standing close to the house are very old, large aud lofty, and their immense tops are of great service, not only in presenting an impenetrable shade, but in protecting it in a thunder storm. We reached Fort Hill about two o'clock r. m. It was nearly the dinner hour. I was introduc

ed to his family, which at that time consisted of

Mrs. Calhoun, his youngest daughter, and the three youngest eons. Mr. Calhoun has sever, children the eldest, Andrew, is a planter in Alabama; the next, Patrick, is a captain in the army, and stationed near Mew Orleans; the eldest daughter is in K.urope, the wife of our Charge at Belgium. Mrs. Calhoun is just such a wife as a man like Mr. Calhoun should have sensible, domestic, and industrious. She governs her household iu a style that no Roman

matron in the old tunes ever surpassed. Corne

nday he generally rides to the village, it be-I ' iug the great mail day; meets those with whom thls country to forward the expedition iu queshe has business, converses with his friends and tiou and that the aim of this Associatiou is to neighbors, and returns home in time for dinner. ' riJ Cuba of its slavery, and, by the aid of the The mail reaches his house every day about 1 ' .... ..... ., , . , , . .. . ti,. c i. i i ; waves there, maive it a free island: so that if it r. m. Ihe newspaners, of which a large nuin- j ber are sent to him, are laid upon the table in i should be afterwards anuexed to the United

the hall, to be read by anv one. who takes a States, it would be as a free State, on the, Re-

ancy to them. He is very hospitable: has x,,,r'a linihn l...W

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uuniiirrawiiu coiiw to see nun, ana iir is , , . ... . always glad to see those who come, friends or j 1 e,ve "s vr,ou o Ule ,1,a,ler as h Kave lt strangers. He is as much of a curiosity to pen-' to me. The public can have it for w hat it is pie outside of a circle of five miles, as he would worth. At all events, time has developed the be were he to go to New York. Very few in ! foreCast wi,jom aml patriotism of President this State, I fancy, have seen him. He keeps a i , , , . very largo number of horses, which are at the j Taylor s proclamation on the subject, the sneers service of his visitors. of the Ule Folk otlicial organ, that ihe President Nota death has occurred on the place in four was thereby taking sides with Monarchy, to the years, and 1 shall judge that it was the heallhi- ,C0I1Ir.try notwithstanding est location in them at work also in the field. , . , e , , , The slaves are certainly as happy and contented 1 lrv,s y" "l'y " remar of tne Bosas it is possible for them to be. They love their ton Traveller, respecting the reception which

master and he is kind to them. On fcunriay Mr. Rives will meet with at P,

they go to church or do as they please. They have their holidays. There seem to be as much aristocracy among the negroes of Mr. Calhoun as among while folks. The marriage of his young male or female slaves with a slave on another plantation, creates as much excitement as a marriage in Astor Place would do. The matter requires a great deal of arrangement and proper settlement. These matches are general

ly made up between parties residing ou ditler- ialil,e it ,ilat a Treaty had been effected, in

cut, uiautauvin. I i l u - f t i I . i

A very intelligent house servant of Mr. Cal-; w li,B -runieu. o. r rai.ee ..au Mipu.a.eo

cesof her marriage threw a romantic interest 0f laughter from the young ladies.)

around her history, and when he looked on the

youthful brow with a shade of ptacid pensiveness that seemed to breathe a hallowed charm over her beauty, he felt that she was the only

Smack ! smack

' Charlottee ! Mary ! " (renewed laughter.) " I'll stop the coach ! Guard ! Mary ! Charlot

te : trentlemen '

houn was married (the second night I was at t0 Pav 23,003,000 francs for French spoliations his house) to a female slave on an adjoining upen American commerce. Our Government

plantation. The marriage ceremony was per-. published the despatche to satisfy the American

it ;t. r 'i..:.. I ii..in..i t people in the matter. They were satisfied. But

' lVL'll.lla VI 1IIUII IU tlwll' k 1 lovr; lit V4 VU

Iia, the daughter at home, is a most affectionate ' lh fiddles and the happy songs of the negroes, the Opposition to Louis 1 hilippe in the Cham-

companion for the mother. Of the three sons on thetr way to and from the wedding, from ber of Deputies got hold of Mr. Rives' letter,

who were at home I must make some mention. th's f d a I the neighboring plantations, until and tri(jJ harJ tQ niake some ca ;tal out of it

tfuiiu is a inn siciau, auu was uiarnru suuruv at- j x " j " - , , i i f ter I left to the daughter of a near neighbor; : by the oldest negro who was a sort of author- Tlle alt'It P"ved a deeded failure. Mr. James, the next is a calm quiet thinking young ' izpd, or rather recognized parson of the Metho- Rives' conduct was pronounced honorable and

man of 20. and in manv resnecta strouHv re- 1 di8t order. Mr. Calhoun has some very old

sembles his father. Willie is the vouugest of "laves on his plantation. One old negress that

all Mr. Calhoun's children, about 18 years of I sw Menemin Calhoun, (by the way, all the age, and the pet of all. The two last named ! negroes on his estate are called by his nam in are students in tha South Carolina College, and ; the neighborhood," is over 113 years old. She

at home during the vacatiou. 1 nas 63 living descendants on his plantation, w ho

Every thing that is to be had in the South is care oi me oia oame. ner nusnana uvea

to a very oui age; nis name was i uiyaore. lioiu

were hroiight from Africa, and have lived with the Calhouns for a century. The negroes on

whose property was entirely destroyed. This proceeding caused great excitement. Theodore Saunders aud Samuel Roberts were convicted, of riotous conduct and sentenced to ten years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The Mormon Mining Associatiou seU their, shares at $500 each. On the American and Feather rivers, rich deposites of gold h ive been discovered. It was reported and credited that one .nan unassisted,, gathered CG000 worth of gold in one week.. The average amount gathered daily ty each, persou was one ounce.

The Sacrametito Valley was unusually heahv

thy, though the weather waa excessively warm, the Thermometer at mid-day, ranging as high, as 145 deg. in the shade.

Provisions were plenty at tha mines. Town.

property at San Francisco, which sold threo. mouths ago for $100 now bring $10,000 to $15,-. 000.

Upwards cf 3000 passengers arrived atSaa,

Francisco during the month of July.

Ttar Irend of n Kumc. The only Postoff.ee iu Ohio named "Weller," has bsen changed by the no-party Adminiatra-. lion to Ccawi.t. So hostile are' they to any-, thing squiuling at Democracy, that it won't, even allow a Post-office to bear the name of a. Democrat. A Post-ofiice in Michigan, has been, discontinued for the reason, it is said, that ita, name smacked too strongly of Democracy. Democratic Hartford Times. From the Independence Expotitor. -lre.n Jinn train California Afcnadaaic. of tloltl Authentic Account!! We are permitted to make the following extract from a letter from onr o'.d friend, Michael, T. McCIellan, how iu California with his family, to Geu. Samuel D. Lucas, of this city, received on Wednesday last. Mr. McCIellan ia well known in this community where he formerly resided for a number of years as a gear, tleman of the strictest veracity, aad every citi-. zen will readily acknowledge that there is notH-. ing set down in this extract, but what can be relied on with the utmost implicit coufideacs. The letter is dated June 2J, lik "I send you in a packuge, four newspapers for yourself and neighbors, and my f.iends of Independence. The gold of California is no doubt inexhaustible. The mines continue to be still richer and richer .

was iu the United States. I have not the remo- ule average yield is lrom one ounce (16 dollars) test idea there is any party or f.ction in France 1U0 dollars per day. Myself and family, en-

that will now think of bringing up that old J excelleul liealu- V e expect to leave Calt

ans, ou account

of the letter w hich he wrote home when he was

formerly Minister at the Court of St. Cloud, and

that you did not entirely discountenance the

Traveller's supposition. Some weeks ago, the National Intelligencer put that whole matter in

in us true ngnt uelore tlie public. .Mr. Kives

did write a letter to his Government, conratu

justifiable, on all sides, in France, the same aa it

woman he had ever known before whom his I Smack ! smack ! ! smack ! !! heart could bow with the homage of affection. The convoy merged into "daylight, and was

'"" oi-eaiv i iuvc 10 one wiiu sun wore stoppea at tne station. Lafe in the Armv.

the deepest mourning who never joined in the

mirth ot the light-hearted? lt would seem almost like sacrilege to breathe into her ear the wild passion that filled his heart, yet its very hopelessness appeared to add to its fervor. But ere long new hope dawued on him. Ellen was surrounded by the gay and the joyous of her own age. Her disposition was naturally

raised or found on Mr. Calhoun's estate, and on ,

is table. He is a very spare eater, and his .

temperance is so wen Known mat i neea not allude to it.

After dinner we went out on the north piaz

za; there is not another such view in the world as is to be seen at Fort Hill, from the front door. There is a range of mountains both the Alle

ghany and liiue Kidge which extend from the

From the Herald and Journal. Jlj Childhood's Ilomr. When I think of my childhood, The bright golden hours, When I roamed through the wild-wood, 'Mid sweet-scented flowers.

I fain would revisit that dearly loved spot,

west to the north, Where they are lost IU the cea a rnmmimiratinn from the Richmond R.

istance, which can be distinctly seen, with j ... . , , .... ... ,r . , , . . ...

buoyant; her spirits rose; the chord she had be- j The home of my childhood, my dear native cot.

nt iv7i ar CI cuairiirUf llfl till IIItTU IU II IC

sixty milesdisUnt; and the scope of your eye, marriages were advocated, and presents the oth-' correctly, his design was to remain in England,

in the instant, embraces mountains in the four er side or the picture, as follows: 'after arriving in Liverpool, some live or six States of North Carolina, Georgia, Tonnesseej "Says'W. W. Y.' AU know, or should know weeks, before going over to Paris.

j . ' .ii - i the opinion of the good and wise Franklipou! and changing appearance with changing seas- i ' I

Ellen Sinclair buried herself in the seclusion

of her own abode- A calm and gentle melan

choly succeeded the first violence of her grief, but she betrayed no desire to miugle with the

world. Clad in the deepest mourning, she was no where but at church; and those who looked

upon her felt deep sympathy for one so young and so bitterly bereaved. Vainly had her own parents sought to draw her from her solitude Two years passed, and after many fruitless efforts they at length succeeded in obtaining a promise of a visit from her at the annual re-un-lon of their family at Christmas, for that season is still held as a festival in many parts of Vir

ginia.

touch of joy. When the bonds of grief were

once severed, the re-action was complete. She

still reverenced the memory of her first love.

and if her heart had whispered that she could ever be faithless to his ashes, she would have shuddered with superstitious horror at the tho't. The possibility of breaking that solemn prom- ' ie had never occurred to her but time teaches many strange lessons. Teyton lingered in the neighborhood, a constant visitor at Wycombe, but his attentions were not sufficiently marked to attract the observation of others. Her own family were too desirousof the match to hazard the final success of the lover by alluding in any manner to his passion for her. Peyton won his own way slowly but surely. The fair widow began unconsciously to regret

the vow which had ascended to Heaven wilh

the spirit of her dead husband. At length he

spoke of love, aad she listened with trembling

awe to tlie outpouring of a spirit which was too noble to b trifled with, aud too highly appreciated without a pang. lie drew from her quivering lips the history of her vow and divested of every feeling of superstition himself, he could not conceive that a few words, uttered in a moment of excited and agonized feeling, should stand between him and

his hopes of happiness. He did not understand

When I think of my playmates, The bright boys and girls, With their blue laughing eyes And their lich golden curls, I long to behold their sweet faces once more. To live with and love them as I did before. The voice of the Linnet That sung in the grove, Had sweet music in it, Of friendship and love. Then let me return to that bower again, Aud listen once more to her dulcimer strain. When I think of the mountains. The valleys and hills. The bright sparkling fountains. The sweet flowing rills, I long to return to the home of my youth

The vale of contentment, the cottage of truth,

When I think of the danger Through which I have past, Since I've been a ranger, Since I saw it last. I fain would retire from this bickering strife, And pass in seclusion my remnant of life. The O ! to revisit That cottage I sigh ; My forefathers loved it.

1 hen why should not I ?

the impressible and imaginative temperament of ( There, blithe as the birds, and as happy as they.

the heiug who listened to his reasoning, willing, : My life would pass sweetly and swiftly away

nay, anxious to be convinced against the evidence of her own feelings. Her parents agreed with the lover in his views

of the case and, urged on all sides, her own j heart a traitor, Ellen yielded to their wishes.and

betrothed herself to Peyton.

As the day appointed for her marriage drew near, the words of her vow appeared to be ever ringing in her ears. With a restless and fearful spirit, she saw the hour approach which w-as to witness her second espousal. Preparations were made for a splendid bridal.

All the members of her family assembled be- I

Ellen was once more beneath the roof of her neath the parental roof, and everv effort was :

father, and many and painful were the emotions; made to divert her mind from dwelling on the which struggled in her bosom when she looked fantasy that possessed it. around and remembered that the last time she. The appointed evening arrived, and the cerestood beside her native hearth, she was a gay I mony which made her the bride of another was

ana nappy Dride. performed, beveral hours passed in dance and Those who looked on her could not avoid re- song. It was near midnight when Ellen fouud marking the change which two years had ' herself standing on tha portico in the bright wrought in her appearance. The girl just bud-! moonlight with Peyton beside her. The gay ding inf maturity had expanded into the beau-j throng within were still dancing; and the tiful ana self-possessed woman, with a quiet ; sound !of merry voices mingled with, the bursts grace of manner, and an air of pensive reserve: of music that swept'by on the dewy and frawhich was extremely captivating. j grant air. Ellen started as Peyton spoke beside Her parents were worldly-minded people, who her, and for the first time for several hours, the could not bear that their daughter should pass i recollection of her fatal vow intruded on her her life in solitude to which she had doomed ' mind. herself. They surrounded her with agreeable ' "What a glorious night," she remarked; "I company, sought to amuse her mind aad draw ' never saw the moon shine with greater splenit from the contemplation of the terrible calam- inr."

ity which had destroyed her dawnintr hones r.f "Mar it be a hnnnv omen to us. mv fair El- : Surtouts

happiness, and thev' aiiccee..! sufficient! v tn ln" r.nlie.' Pevtou: and. as he spoke, he turn-I Over &acks

implant in her mind a distaste to the idea of re- ed to a white rose bush which had wreathed , Under Sacks,

turning to her late abode. ! itself around one of the pillars of the portico. Week after week passed nntil months were and culled several of its half blewn flowers, numbered, and she began to think it her duty to While he was thus employed, Ellen was garemain with her parents. She was their youn- ' zing abstractedly on the fantastic shadows made gest child, and the only one without ties which by the trees in the yard. Suddenly she grasped severed them in a measure from the parental the railing for support, and looked with eyes roof. I fasciuated with terror on a white shade which

"Ellen, my darling," said her father, when seemed to rise from an open spaca on which the j she spoke of returning home, "you will not moon's radiance was poured without obstruc-. 2giin forsake us? Wc are ulJ, and yoa arc the tion from the surrounding shrubbery. Tho

Then assist me, ye powers la heaven above ; To pass my last hours In the valley I love.

And there in contentment, no more will I roam

Till death shall assist me to gain my i ast home,

1 hree tvivers, Mass. A. S.

in astir in connection with Mr. Rives' new mission, unless prompted to it by the newspapers on this side of the Atlantic.

In the conclusion of your remarks, you sug

this place pay as much respect to the old negress ' wd tlial Mr. Kives , . have arjadv arrived as if she was a queen. ; r . . . , - in 1 uris, aud that we shall consequently soon

An Argument mzaint I'arly Inrringr.

A writer in the National Intelligencer noti-

tops and peaks coming up iuto the sky, forty or .

I hear of the style of his reception, lt was my

fortune to be one of those who took leave of .

him on board the steamship iu which he left

New York for Liverpool, a few minutes before the ship left the wharf, and, if I understood him

foruia for Old Jackson next February, or March, and our prospects are fair to leave with a clear capital of Fifty Thousand Dollars! This will seem strange to you, General; but, sir, you can, form no definite idea of the quantity of gold in, this country. The old settlers, and every body else, are going to the States, so soon as they muke a sufficiency to live independently on i Some who came here poor, have left, to my certain kuowledge, with One Hundred and, Twenty Thousand Dollars la gold dust, which, is worlh here 10 dollars per ounce. Please, write to me, and send papers.. Yours, in haste, M. T. McCLELLAN. Geu. S. D. Lucas."

me opinion ui me goou auu wise r raiiRn i uu ( j nna w asinnglon, on my return, alter a'

ons and changing atmosphere storm and sun-1 tl119 subject, w ho was a warm advocate in its short visit to New York, decidedly dull, but

shine are a glorious sight. 1 can only give favor. rerhaps t rankhu was philosophically healthy. In the political circles, there is but j

you a iaint luea ana an impeneci sKeicn oi me ; r;ent i l,i8 opinion, but facts go to prove that little "noise and confusion."

scenery its wildness and softness mountain , . ,, . . . . . 1 ha vena iitocI ip u 1 1 it ..-n. n r. I- rt r inctanr. crn ..-.... I. . H . .. I 1 U .

and valley forest and cultivated held which , ' "

surround him. , tleinen 'all know or should know, that the rhil- removals, to speak of, are expected to be made, '

The view to the southward of his hous is ve- dren of very young parents are generally defi- jn ihe Executive Department, during the pres-!

ry beautiful, extending over hill and dale; the,., -..: t,,T,h nf l,n,l and mi.i.l. and com- 1 i. :r .u i i.

j monly die young. 'All know, or shoul. know, the meeting of Congress. TOTOMAC. ; that Franklin was the fifteenth child of his fa- j ther. and the eichth of his mother: and more ' Arrrt of nn Arurrirnn C ilizrn in Irrlnnd.

' sive generations on his mother's side, from

whom, more than Ins father, he inherited his Belfast and oilier places.

eminent taienis. ir.i. rox. anu uure. were iproiiur uucn cuumniwiu, auu u iuuuuui.miu u.nr ascension, l lie man a mi niKMirr

ses are built ot stone, aud joined together like I each ,1e youn3t chilj of tileir r.s.(ective fam- l" speech or Tatric li-nry, much exc. lenient generally pore, and the dealer in liquor by the barracks, with gardens attached, aud a large; r I v l I h ' prevailed among his hearers. lieu he came to glass is generally mean, but the dealor of 'ilher

Seneca river passes through his plantation, aud

lorms the principal branch ot the bavannah river, by which the produce of his plantation is sent to Hamburg, opposite Augusta. His house

itself stands 1000 feet above the level of the sea and about 200 feet above the Seneca river. Iu sight of the house ami office is the negro quar

ter, on a hill 100 feet above the valley, and one-

eighth of a mile from the mansion. The liou-

CT The Widow Waggles, from Virginia, who.

j with a ha'f a dozen "niggers" settled in a Mis-

jSourian village, undertakes to regulate society.

am:, in l.er instructions iu Uie St Louis ReveUle, to those she had selected as the "first class," she says: "No woman kia be kounted a lady aa works.

I in her own kitchin, a cookin' meat: but. if she.

chooses to show her cullemlerv nrnnKitiea bv

Mr. Charles Whitney, of the United Slates, cooking cakes, and sich uic thinn aha kin Ha

' has been travelling through Great Britain dnliv- it: but no real Uv vill,r Uii rck;ni,

ering lectures on American Oratory in Dublin, ' clothes. No farmers, mechanics, or retail deal-

In Uubliu his lectures ers can be admitted to the circle cept by paiticm, and on iutro iucing u:r ascension. The man what raises grain is

1 here are, perhaps, sev- i j h. . . . j uie w.orig y e WIST tigiit: An appeal to arms uv the wholesa e is cronilemun r.nmmnn pl

enty or eighty negroes on and about the place. , ond marriage; so also was Lord Bacon, whose and to the God of Hosts is all that is left for d.ers are vagabonds, but officers is tha chivalrous The largest part of his negroes are in Alabama, fatrierwa sfiftv.and his mother thirty-two years !" Hie noted Juror ou Duffy's trial, Mr. sons of the land. Planters what own niggers is

'"r- vaniuuu uwm a iaic" uiauiai.uii, . - .. .. , Judge Storv's mother was ami exciaime: i iu u. m ursi iamiues, merchant come next, aud than which is under the management ol his sou An- , ' ' . man's opinion," which had the effect of raising perfeshional aud Iirarv rhararijni mm ,n

drew, (alluded to as his eldest son,) who has the , forty-four at his birth; Benjamin est was the the entire assembly en masse, whose cheering Tulk as little as possible to these last kind."

reputation ef being one of the best cotton plan-t tenth child of his parents; end Dr. Doddridge shook the walls of Ihe Rotuuda. I ters in Alabama. I - ih inr.ntieth rhil,l hv n fil,r nH ia. '. In cousequence of this Mr. Whitney was ar-, 13" The youna ladies in some Darts of New

Directly south of the mansion, distant, per-i - rv-,h that ih vi,nret rl.il rested as he was leaving Belfast for the Giant's Jersey are said to be so tender hearted, that haps.twenty steps, is his study. It stands alone , luer- is a provero mat tne oungesi cini Cawwav. We find his story told as follows in when a poor fellow is distressed for want oia a plain, white building, with but one room, a dren are the smartest. And why? evidently ti,e Boston Pilot: wife, they place themselves in hi way that bo piazza, and four pillars, and one door, or en- j because the parents are mature in mind and "1 was accompanied by Mrs Whitney, and may have a chance to make one of them aa oftrance. In it is hW. library, not Urge, but choice; boJ d C0Ilseauen., y transmit a higher order Just were entering the stagecoach, a fer. and most of the books are iu some way con- t ' . . well dressed traveller rode up aud said to me, i nected with the great study of his life -the , of mentality to their offspring. Doe the intel- ,sr , waM, m rival to you.'. jaa.! A bnd Wume. Union and her interests. He is not a reader. ligent farmer experts healthy and luxuriant swered, "certainly, sir." We passed into an jjr. t;0Ug, teiis a story of a tavets keeper His book is nature and practical experience. ; crpp when i,e wjtj, dwarfish green-corn or upper room of the Inn, where he drew out of by Ihe name of A. S. .Camp. The painter in Tha Ira. nf llua Kn iA t n r Iia a 1 --a . Wasssnai lift. V.:.. .. f ...u-t a.... I o-. 'i .4 oW'sti ttint :

",C"J S '-"'- -vM- , r:IM. nn.,.? AnH .ht-xnl htini.nn.nni. .ib"".''"' """""" "i

. ' r , return with me to Dublin."

duiuu am f ii ui u ci. irr itr.x: auu i imhuivii rr u.-tr iu : I rt M ,a- nn tliinrr i

propagate 'the human form divine' as potatoes said it was something wors than that "it was' Fatal Affray in Ijtnrrarrbari

and ca bager Orant that early marriages j" ,'an(i yon must coto Dublin" Not to' . A colored man named Amos Carlisle, residing

v u u in uuiiuie in uuii ui iiib ivc ntiu ti a acu iifw

low- Do They Live,

We almost wonder that the spirit of Hood

does not sing out in behalf of the tailors of Bos

tou, as it sang in behalf of the poor London

seampstresses, for we fear the seams of the

cheep garments they make are all too full of the

sweat of the brows of the poor journeymen

In vindicating their position, and to show the

justice of their demand, the Tailors' Society has published the bill of prices they ask, and also the prices paid when they struck, and it appears almost incredible that men can live, support their families, and educate their chil

dren at such ruinous wages, from their statement we make the following extract : Length of

1'rices paid Frices when we asked struck. now.

derhis immediate control when he is at home.

No one enters it but him, unless he is there. Toward sunset Mr. Calhoun gave me an invitation to walk over his farm. We descended to the valley, by the negro quarter. Here Mr. Calhoun slopped a few moments, making in

quiries in regard to some who were sick; among ; w hich is

mem, seated under a cnerry tree, was an ageu remedy worse

.... .... .. uv IIie name OI A. e. mp. -i ne painter ia IsaM, "you must ,,aiullI1R i,is 6ie!l )eft out the points, so that it I rejoined; "why, feuii TaVern kept by a SCAAir. ii Dublin." He, ' '

lie saiu, " ana you must go to uumiu. itui iu mke thia rase of sinanlar outrage, aud onores-

liow almost unavoidable,' is not the eion too on. I inform you, that I was

than the disease if it be the compelled to go to Dublin Castle, (Mrs. hit-

means of brineing into existence a race of punv. "X t" was trenii.iing, la.ni.ng.aoc anon

... . ..... - , ... in tears, and this, too, when she is escientl

ll.-IOIIIICU tlillU.eil, C liiajoi.tj v'l wnum m.w wc-

Dress &. Frock Coats. . . $1:75,32:00 $3:00

Cloth

Coarse Pilot or Flushing sacks Pantaloons . .

2:50.33:00 1 :?5i22:00 75(31:00

7531:00 17(3 75

3:00 2:00

time it will

take to make. 3.,' days.

working 12 hours per

day.

31.2 days

do

negro man, who was, as he informed me, the

oldest on the place, and enjoyed some particular privileges. He was allowed to cultivate

some four or five acres of land for cotton and fore they arrive at maturity ? But the evil does CXamiiied. The Secretary consulted with Lord

other things; the proceeds of which became his . not end here. Those who do live, transmit their Clarendon in another room, and in ahoutan

property, and sometimes produced $30 to 5il a lnushroom conbtitutlon lo their off-pring, aild ' hour returned. I then had my choice either to season. This is a privilege, however, that Mr. i , be remanded to Newgale prison, (a vilo loalli-

Calhoun allows his slaves, and all have a patch , us mc1 effectually are me iniquities oi me ,some wl,ere two Am-ricans were confined containing more or less acres of cotton. These fathers visited upon the children. " ' lasi summer) or give bonds to leave Ireland at

patches are near the negro quarter, for their

convenience. 1 he negroes cultivate the cotton ,

at their leisure. Mr. Calhoun has it ploughed

for them by his horses and they hoe it in their I spare time. These darkies are as shrewd in :

getting the highest price for a little as white

planters, and are as perfectly conversant with ; the fluctuations ia the cotton market in LU'er-j pool and New York as a cottou broker. Mr. Calbsun has no drivers. He has an overseer,

Mr. Fredericks, who superintends his planting:

interest a very intelligent aud faithlul man

iu l.Hwrencebnrg, received a Mow ou the head

in a fight a few days since, which resulted in his death. The Journal of thai place gives the following account of the affair:

It appears that Carlisle wan ia lirjuor.and when

2:00 According to agreement.

do. do.

ty A contempory suggests that the spot in California where Mrs. Karnham's youug lady

adventurers settle should We called buK-CAico

The i:ninntiMition Voir in Kentucky. The official returns show the whole number of votes polled for Emancipation candidates in twenty-eight counties to have been 10,39-1. On this, the Louisville Courier remarks as follows: "And yet, notwithstanding so large and re

spectable a vote iu less thau one-third of the

Leaving the quarter, we p.ssed down to a mnnties of the State, manv of the nerpetualists

mill, at the foot of the hill on which the negro ; )ewith he coolneS8 imaginable, that lmanA.a kmlt la aAi-vt (rid mi l tBDaa nafiaad Hit A "

a large field of Indian corn, and I assure you I emancipationism is dead ! As we look at it, the

once: I gave the required o uus, anu am now here in Manchester. Bait. Sun.

do not exaggerate when 1 say mat 1 never sawsuch a splendid agricultural sight in my life. The field is in the low ground or bottom aud covers 120 acres. From this we passed into a cotton field, which is as large or larger, covering 120 acres, and extending over hill aud flat, high and low ground. It was the first time I had ever seen cotton ' growing, and it was a novel sight to tne.

emancipationists achieved wonders during the

recent canvass, and they will yet show the pro-

slavery men that their cause is progressive as

well as just aud holy. From what we hear, it is the determination of the friends of emancipation to lose no time in organizing thoroughly throughout the whole State."

All my private letters and papers were minutely "y oer s&sp J -. 11 ..... - nn 1 1 i(Th street. Ker.oml i no, hj nut Wut..u

got into a difficulty with a barber named Granville. As soon as he commenced quarreling with him. Mat, as tlie murderer is called, took the matter into his own hands, and told Carlisle that if he repeated a certain epitheton Granville he would knock him down. Carlisle did not reprat it, but went out of the ho use and sat down in the window. Mat followed him and told him to leave, when, Carlisle not obeying, be stepped back a step or two, and struck him on the side of the head with a brick bat. For a few miautes after he was struck, he appeared to be Dot much hurt, but after awhile he become insensible, aad so remained until a few moments boforo he died, which was about 2'J hoars from tha lime ho was struck. This affiiir is to be regretted, as bo intention was ever felt, we think, for any such serious remit. Moody was raised here from a boy, and was very wt 11 liked. Carlisle has been living in this city for many years, and was generally

I considered a very industrious hard working man.

mougn ramer quarrelsome at limes, when in liquor. There had been, we anderstaaH, a gradgo between the parties for some time. The victim leaves a widow, who is a very intelligent woman. She bought him out of slavery, ia Virginia, for the sum of $600. The murderer baa escaped to parts unknown, aad a reward of $100 is offered for his arrest.

Oh! drnr, I didn't know 'twas yon! Old Birch, who taught the village school, Wedded a mate of bomespuu habit; He was as stubborn as a mule, And she as playful as a rabbit. Poor Kate had scarce become a wife, Before her husband sought lo make her The pink of country polished life, And prim and formal as a quakcr. One day her tutor went abroad, And simple Kitty sadly missed him;

When he returned, behind her lord She slowly stole and fondly kissed him! The husband's anger rose! and red And white his face alternate grew! "Less freedom, ma'am!"-Kate sighed aud 4aiJ "Oh dear! I didai kuow 'twas you!"