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VOL. 10, NO. 21. Mr. Nagpore's Niece. BY EDMUND YATES. 'You'll have to co!' said the doctor. Hut think of ttrRss jolly room I said I But think of your jolly good health!' said the doctor. 'Doctor.' said I, 'a slang expression, however appropriate to uie, sounds awful when coming from your Iipn! Then you think it is positively necessar? 4l have not the least, doubt of it, said the doe'or. If you do not entirely change your coerse of life, give up late honra, and dancing parties, go early to bed, and sleep in country air for the next three months. I will not answer for your life. 1 was a bachelor in those days, one-and twenty years of age, and with an iron constitution, which had pulled me through a sharp illness; brough on by indulgence in those very performances against the conlinuance of which our old family physician, Dr. Hunter, had so gravely warned tue I was in the Tin Tax office in those days, arid although the men in the Tin Tax office were not then the great swells they are now, there were very many eligible men among them, and invitations to dances in the Uaker street and Bloonisbury districts were rife. There were theatres to go to then, where eoruthiog else was to be seen besides neat ankles, and something else was to be heard besides melan choly jukes and ribald songs, and one had a dit'Mioo, or s-uj po.-ed one had, which ettabied one to eat chops and steaks, and drink stout and whisky and water at abnormal hours of the night. So the result with me was, that all this dancins and tl.eatre-going, and supper-eating, culminated in an attack of gastric fever, and instructions from Ir. Hunter for me o leave the cosy chambers which I inhabited in latuonl Building, (Jray's Inn, and to look for apartments in the suburbs. I found them in llampstead, on the other eide of the Heath, iu a broad lane leading out of the tlrndon Uoad My landlord was a market gardener, a cherry-rcd-faced giant, who went away in the middle of the night with au enormous cjrt filled with vegetable and fruit to Cove nt Garden, and whom I used to meet as I went on t tie top of the omnibus to business, nodding drowsily on the shafts d bis botoe-rcturning. emp'y wagon, the butt of su'-h laminae ns only omnibus dtivers can use. My bed room overlook ed the srir ico, an I it n df iu-t n tiui wake up tvtrly in the morning, throw the window open, andinhrtle the scent of the fl.mcrs, and the veaetab'es, and the fresh cut crass in the tistant fields. It. was no n.blc for me to get up erlj, as I used to j . . I . . . 1 ....... . . -1 ... I. .......... iMi to red at ton o Mook everv evening. tid in f.ct was doing nothing. 1 call doing nothing looking out uf my sitting rom window while I smoked just one pile, and amused myself by wttchiug the pM.ple in the garden opposite. It was a lariie garden oelor.gtrg to luro lions one of those ted bricked Kliz iabethati houses thtt jou Bud still stand ing in th iNor'hern suburbs 1 usd to see its owner and a oung lady walking round and round the prass plo, he a tall, poti'pons o'd u.an, s-tiutting along with his chin htVh in the air, and surveying the grounds with an u'ltuis'ak ible air of proprietorship, she walking quietly by his side, pensive, silent and obviously bored. She must have been a very pretty girl, though I did not think very much about her in those days my heart, or what I called my heart, being occupied by another object. But I remember now that she had a pretty rounded figure, deep, earnest brown eyes, an impertinent sumb nose, and a most kissable bud of a mouth. I ascertained fro my landlord that she was the niece of the ponipou old gentleman. He was a vidower, and bad taken this child of his dead sister to be his housekeeper. My Landlord spoke with becoming respect of Mr. Nagpore, for such be told n.e was the pompou old gentleman's name. He was one of the great men of the neighborhood, churchwarden, and chairman of the Local Board, the most intimate friend of the rector, and the leading authority in all parochial matters. He was nn attorney in very excellent prac'ice, in Westminister, and was considered in the neighborhood to be worth a great deal of money, though he had the character of being very covetous and grasping Dark whispers were current, to the t fleet that Miss Marehmont, his niece, was actually kept uncommonly short in the matter of provisons; and one ; could judge for one's self that but little money was spent upon her wardrobe; not that she ever looked anything but a perfect lady, in her tight fitting serge dress, with its neat little linen colar and cuffs, but her well-made gloves and shoes were old and worn, and there was an absence of those littie trifling ornaments and gim crackeries always to be seen on a woman who has any money spend. Not that, from what I could make out,!

Miss Varcbmont had no money of her j be'ong and the age in which we Wve. I do own; on the contrary, if the reports of the 00( jsh to siv anything personally harsh neighbors were to be believed, she was lo you, Mr. Bulteel; but whatever little the heiress ti a very pretty little um ofjmonPy niy niece may have is legally liamoney, but this sum was not to be bers ! hje ,0" my vote, and that power I should l- 1. - ! . . .. . .1. - 1. . 1

until ner uocie s ueatti, or ner own mairiage; and, in the latter esse, Mr Nag pore had the power of alienating his niece s legacy into another channel, provided be did not approve of her choice When I had beard all these little particulars, I becitue quite interested in the Nagpore household, and inquired of my landlord whether there was no chance of Miss Marchmont's marrying. He replied that he had only heard of one suitor, and that this one was more of the old gentleman's selection than the young lady's. I saw the gentleman in question, a few days afterward, walking in the garden with Mr Nagpore and his niece, and I did not wpnder that Miss Marehmont failed to he struck with him. Ha was a short, thick-set man, of swarthy omplexioo, with a thick black beard, email, bright, beady black sjea, and coarse eeoeual lips. A physiognomist would hare

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tn.-.ae no mistake as rewards his nationali ty; for th ough he ctl'ed himself Ellison, which is a sufficiently Christian nme, there was Jew stamped on every feature a plainly as though it had been written on hi forehead. He was a diamond mer chant in the city, and specimens of his e.tio cravat, and on his stubby, thick, Lt. ti,... ...A. awkward fingers. There was such an un pleasant empressmeot, besides, in his bearing toward Miss Marchmont, as he walked by her eide, that I, although with out any particular feeling for the girl, longed to kick him. She walked round the garden between her uncle and his wares glistened in the midst of his guest, apparently as pensive and silent and bored as usual; but when she stood on the steps; and Mr. Ellison, from his mail phaeton, made her a bow, which he evidently meant to be particularly killing, her eyes beamed with an expression of indignation and contempt, which did not augur well for that gentleman's chances of success It was about two evenings after the Ellison episode that, as I was sitting at mywindow, I heard the tramp of a horse's feet, and looking down the lane. I perceived a man slowly riding toward me, whom I recognized at once as Piers Bailee!, ho was the greatest swell in theTin Tax office a man who used to ride his hack in the Park, had been presented to Court, went into excellent society, and, it wa9 currently reported among us, had spoken to a Duchness. I was not in his sef; indeed, when we met, either in the ofhoe or out of it, he was in the habit of acknowledging my presence by one of the most freezing nods I was therefore considerably astonished when I saw him leisurely riding up the I oae, and wondered what could induced him to take the trouble to call upon me I had begun to wonder too soon. As soon as Piers Bulteel and his horse appeared in sight, I saw Mi.-s Marehmont slip out of & little side door in the wall, about fifty yatds from the main entrance, and turn down a little narrow lane a mere bridle-path leading into the fields. Piers Bulteel rode past tuy window with out looking up, evidently unconscious of j my proximity, turned his norse s bead down the iittle bridle path, and in a few moments I saw him dismounted and, with the reins hanging over his arm, walking by Miss Marchmont'a side, and evidently talking earnestly to her. In about hii hour's time, I saw Miss Marchunnt com stealing back to the side-door alone, aod in a few minu'es afterward the nobtc Piers, lounging leisurely on horsebuk. c.mie out of the bridle-path and turned down the lane. As he passed mv window he looked up, and saw me sitting i ,. . i, i there smoking my pipe. He was" taken aback that, ho scarcely knew what to do, and he gave me oue of his short insolent nods, and rode by; but when he had gone a little distance, he turned bis horse's t bead and redo up under the window, ad dressed me in the most winsome manner he had a wonderful winning manner when he chose and asked me what on earth brought me into these part. I went down to the door, sent one of my landlord's boys to ho'd Bulteel's horse, and brought that great don up into my room, where he condescended to have some bra ml v and soda water, aod to make himself very agreeable, notwithstanding that the conversation was instantly diverted by his looking over the wall at Miss Marehmont and her uncle, who having woke from his after dinner nap, was walking in the garden with his.niece. It would be tedious and quite unnecessary to describe how Piers Bulteel and I became intimate Iriends, how he took me into his confidence as regards the love affair then existing between him and Miss Mtrchmont, bow he perpetually used my rooms for observation purposes a system of telegraphy as to the movements of her uncle, and the possibility of her getting out being arranged between them and bow I might have been in the post office instead of the Tin Tax so large was the number of letters which I conveyed between the lovers. Time went on. and at last matters arri ved at such a pitch that Piers thought it: best to seek an interview with Mr. Nagpore, represent the state of affairs, and ask- the old gentleman's consent to hi-i union with Miss Marehmont. He was a good actor, was Bulteel, and his dramatic description of his interview with Mr Nagpore was one of the be-t things which he did. The old gentleman was futious: inveighed most bitterly against Bulteel's want ofmoney, and against the friolous, society-loving life which he led. I fancy. I can see Piers Bulteel now, rolling a towel round his neck, to imitate the old gentleman's stiff cravat, and "admirably representing his pomposity of manner as he addressed him: 'I sir, am a moral man a man brought up in very different opinions from those entertained by men i of the present day. whose lives, I consider nr disgraceful to the country to which we undoubtedly exercise, 'f 1 ih" tJ" fortune .was to be squandered among r class of person . who swallow up the P'JP" erty of the prodigal son and she together with her husband would then look: to roe for sustenance. It was in vain that Bulteel assured Mr. Nagpore that he was doing him a grievous wrong by those suppositions, that his life had merely been the ordinary life of a young man of the day, and that he had been in no way exceptionally vicious. These remarks had only added fuel to Mr. Nagpore's wrath, who declared that the life he himself led was a protest against such lives as those commonly indulged in, and that for his niece's husband he required a man 'without any out side tinsel or glitter'-and here Bulteel wed to imitate him again 'but a man of f roperty honestly acquired, & man of virtue and respectability words, ir the meaning of whioh, it see ma to me,

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is scarcely even understood now-a-days ' So Mr. Nagpore not merely refused hia ! . Tu. 1 a Ta Ty 1 . 1 niece n Kane iu riera uuucei, uut oruerea that gentleman forthwith to give up prosecuting his suit; aod in order to prevent his having any immediate chance of so doing, cent away Miss Marehmont to stay with some distant relatives of hers, who were living in Kent. Mr Nagpore was. he said, going away to Leeds on some j business which would occupy him a week, and be wanted to be certatn that during his absence his niece would be out of Mr. Bulteel's reach. From my window at the market-gar dener's lodging, I saw Miss Marchmout packed off, iu company with an old lady who came up to town to fetch her, and the next day I saw Mr. Nagpore start away in a cab witu a remarkably smart new portmanteau and looking less grim and more radiant than I had ever seen him before. Piers Bulteel took this matter much more to heart than I had thought it possible He was earnestly and truly attached to Ellen Marehmont, and lost all his pluck and spirits when be saw himself thus, as it were, indfiuitely separated from her. 1 used all my eudeavors to rouse him, but without success. At last, on the third day alter the household at tiatnpstead had been broken up, Piers was so low that I iusisted on his having an immediate change. 'Pray look here, said I, this won't do at all If you don't cheer up, you will have a fit of illness; we must put that off, at all events, until there is someoue with a legitimate right to nurse you. We will go and have a spin on the river, cut this place after luncheon; take the two o'clock train to Maiden ville, and have some diuder at old Blauchard's.' 'Who is old Blanchara? A friend of your?' 'Weil yes, I replied; lle keeps a wou dertul river 6ide pubic 1 beg his pardou, hotel between Maiden ville aud Windsor; great place of resort for Etou boys, and anybody who wants a good aud quit dinner. That same good au quiet dinner we will have, aod wheo 1 bring you back at uight. I will guarantee your beiu fifty per ceot better Or we might sleep there, for the matter of that- though old LiUochard is so well known, tuacliis rooms are generally full.' No sooner said than done. We caught the two o'clock traiu, got into one of Bond's boats at Maidenville Bridge, and puiied dowu to Blanc-hard's, intending just to go ashore, order diuuer, aud noish our row. But when we got on the lawn, old Blanchard came out to meet us, and he is by far too important a tuau to be dismissed in hurry. So we had to listeu to all his talk, of what sort of a season he had had, aud what number of distinguished visitors called far the, most part by their Christian or nick names had patronized hitu. 'House is -full' ho said; 'Poss Seymour and Mrs. Poss, Charley Tankerville, Fox Farquhar, Mjsiop aud Pourtcr Peyton. 'I suppose the Seymours have got the two little rooms on the ground floor?' said I. Xo' they have not,' said Blaachard; Mrs. Poss wanted them very much, but they were taken. A loviog young pair came down here early this very day.' Is she pretty?' asked Piers mechanio ally. Poor fellow, he had scarcely spoken since we started. 'Well that is a matter of taste, said old Blanchard. 'there is a good deal of her, there is no denying that; but you will be able to judge for yourselves, they have been out for a row with Sam, the waterman, and here they are just coming back to dinner I looked back as he spoke toward the landing place, and turning quickley round, said to Mr. Piers Bulteel, My boy you shall marry Miss Marehmont yet.' How?' said he, striving to look over my shoulder. 'Leave that to me, said I, facing him about, and purposely ubitruoting his view. Now Blanchard, hand us that bitter ale; t will give you the ord?r about diuner in a few minutes." As we were drinking the ale I made an excuse to Piers, left him in the br talk ing to old Blaachard. and slipped away. I knew the way to the two little rooms ou the ground floor two well to .require any guide so I scuttled down the passage, turned to my left, aod opened the door on the right, and was iu the sitting room in an instaut. There were two persons seated at the tabic engaged tu discussing some spring soup; one of them was Mr. Nagpore, of Hatnpstead, the other w is a lady with very large black eyes, ana a great deal of swarthy flowing hair, a remarkable profile, and a complexion like the back of a looking glass. I looked hard at her, and my theatrical experience stood me instead I recognized Miss Belle Mortimer, of one of the Theatres Royal. The moment Mr. Nagpore set eves og me his face fell. What do you want?' said he. A moment's conversation with you, Mr. Nagpore,' 1 replied. First shot fired. A bull's eye to me. I saw him winch as t . 'You are mistaken,' he said hurriedly, j k, am not the ' ou take me t0 bV; I perh.P it will be botir ir we speak to- , V I r 'It is most essential,' I replied. 'My love you will retire for a few moments?' said Mt. Nagpore to the lady, pointing to the door of the little room; this gentleman and I have business' together.' Miss Bello Mortimer rose, looking very furious, and swept from tbe room. I remembered the last occasion on which I had met ber, when we had a very pleasant walU together at Weippart'a. and was much amused. No sooner had the door oloosed after her than Mr. ifagport turned fiercely up00 me. 'I demand, sir, to know the meaning of this espoinage! You think I do not know you, but I recognized your

face perfectly, You have had lodgings at Tatham's. the market gardener, immediatea - ky opposite my bouse for the last few months. You are, I presume, a detective, or some one in the employ of a private inquiry office. Be frank and tell what is your object. To induce you to give your consent to my friend Piers Bulteel'a marriage with your niece,' 1 replied 'l have no such power or position as you have ascribed to me.' But I think I am strong enough to bring about what I want.' Mr. Nagpore looked at me keenly. And the means which you could use for that purpose are ' 'Merely the explanation to the clients of Mr. Nagpore, of Westminster, and the friends of Mr Nagpore, of Hempstead, of the manner in which that esteemed gentleman passes some of bis leisure time ' Mr. Nagpore's cheek grew scarlet. 'Do you mean to say, he exclaimed, 'that you dare to trade on such a pretence as that? Don't think that I am weak enough to be ensnared in such a pit-fall. That lady who has just left the room is my ward, the daughter of one of myoldest friends, who, dying, entrusted her to ray guardianship. Do you hear, sir?' 'Perf otly, Mr. Nagpore, and I am delighted to hear what you say; there will be now no difficulty of bringing iu a few' common friends?' Who may thoy be?' Oh, only the rector and chuch wardens of St. Asaph's llampstead, who have come down here with the school children, to give them a treat of fresh air on the river, for a few hours. The excursion was arranged after you stated for Leeds, and I have come on in advance to prepare the feast of te and buns for the children, in the garden of this hotel. ' 'The rector of St. Asaph's, and the church wardens, and the children come down herel Good heaveos, I am lcstl' cried Mr. Nagpore. 'Not at ail,' I replied; 'they will only be too delighted to find that you have not gone to L?eds, that you are here to help them in the harmless gayety, and to make the acquaintance of so charming a lady as your ward. Miss Miss, shall we say Mortimer?' A:l the blood forsook Mr. Nagpore's cheeks as I snid these last words, and he advanced toward tno with outstretched trembling bands. 'You are tho master of the position,' said he, 'and you know perfectly well that the expose with which you threaten me would be my social ruin. You sti'l hold to the terms you originally proposed?' 'I do, and you will be very foolish if vou do not agree to them. My friend Pierce BtiUeel is a good fellow in every sense of the word, a man of family and honor, and devotedly attached to your niece 'But T have half promised Ellison. Let Ellison slide. Miss Marchmont's fortune will be shared by a gentleman instead of a speculative snob, who has a certatn amount of mnney now, but might lose it at any time, and her fortune with it. Now, itulteel does not know the difference between par and eighth, and is as likely. to be seen in Sevan Dials as in Ca pel Court. What do you say do you consent?' 'I suppose I must.' 'Of course you must, and in writing, pleasel You must be quick, for I bear, by the tapping of Miss Mortimer's heels, that she is anxious to get back to the spring soup. By tbe way, to be at all ofli cial, it is essential to have two witnesse;; I will be one, 6hall the other be Miss Mortimer? 'Not for world?. Hero is the waiter, he will do, won't he?' Perfectly. Now, good-byl I forgot to tell you that Piers Bulteel is outside, but he has not seen you; 1 pledge my honor that, if you keep your terms of the contract, he shall know nothing of Misa Mortimer." And he never did. Ho has been married for ten years loving bis wife and bis children, that rarest of specimens, a happy husband and fath er As for mo. he always looks upon me as bis best friend and benefactor. But though be has often asked me to reveal my secret, to this hour he is ignorant of the spell which I exercised to obtain for hira possession of the hand of Mr. Nagpore's niece. f lloutledge's Christmas Annual. A Curiouc Story. Thare is a s'on current ia tbe newspapers, that, just before tbe first shot was fired in the present European war, the Empress Eugenie called into her roqm an old lortuneteller, and asked her to predict the retult of the war. The answer tat: 'In les than two months tbe Emperor will be in the heart of Germany, and his quarters will be in tbe casile of a banished German prince, which formerly .saw tbe splendor of a Napoleon!" In what seuse the Empress look this prediction .we are not told; lha old ha,? wai paid well, and her words look now somewhat prophetic, ihjugh she appears to have understood history enough 19 know that almon everywhere in Germany the Emperor would come upon the traces of his uncle, and the careful wording of her prophecy makes it applicable no les to the present Napoleonic downfall than it would have been had Ibe French legions goue on their way victorious to Berlin. A Western editor advertised that he would take 'a good dog in payment for a year's subscription.' Tho next day twentythree dogs were taken to his ofHoe and two days afterward, a score or more of farmers, living at distances of from eight to twenty miles, appeared to subscribe for tho paper, tendering dogs in payment- And, to cap the climax, the fcayor of the city has notified him that a taxofl must be paid on every dog owned in the place. Warning to bald heads Do&ih loves a ahininj mark.

WHOLE NO. 4S8. Swedenborg Concerning the L.ife Hereafter. From the New Jerusalem Messenger. His peculiar views of the life hereafter have probably attracted more attention than any of hia other doctrines. Some persons consider Swedenborgaina as an other sect of Spiritualists. This is a mistake; for they regard it as specially disorderly and injurious to seek intercourse with departed spirits. This intercourse, they say, was permitted to Swdenborg for a special purpose and even he declared that, though his eyes were opened to behold the spiritual world, still he received nothing pertaining to the doctrines of the Church from any spirit or angel, but only from the Lord, while reading the Word. Swedenborg held that man has a natural body and also a spiri tual body is substantial, although spiritu al, and the eternal dwelling place of the soul. When we die, resurrection takes place, not ages hence. But this spiritual body. While min's natural life continues, his spiritual senses are ordinarily closed; hut for special purposes, angels and spirits have appeared to men. as in the case of the disciple John at Patroos. as Swedenborg claims in his own case Al though our eyes are holden that we may not behold spiritual beings, we are nevertheless living in the midst of them. We attract about us spirits resembling ourselves By good and pure dispositions we attract to m pure and good spirits, who help us to become better; by evil dioposiona we attract evil spirits or devils, who tempt us and make us more and more wicked. This we cannot see till death. When the spiritual body is raised, in other words, when a man enters the other world after death he does not perceive any difference in his body, and at fiast does not know that he has died. He enjoys every external and internal sense that he enjoyed here, he sees as befor, he hears and speaks, he also smells and tastes, and, when he is touched, he feels the touch as before, he also longs, desires, thinks, reflects, loves, and wills, as before, i In a word when a man passes from one life info the other, it is as if passed from one place into another and Le carries with him all things which he possessed in himself as a man; so that, after death he cannot be said to have lost anything of himself except his mortal body. But still the difference between th9 life of man in the spiritual world and his life in the natural world is great. In that life, space and time are mere states of mind. When two persons have similar affections, they are near together. Spiritual consanguinity can alone produce companionship there. At death, no man enters heaven or hell at once, but remains in tbe intermediate state. There the angels try to draw him out of the evils he has acquired on earth. If interior goodness and truth predominates in his soul, he is gradually regenerated. If interior evil and falsehood predominate the soul comes under the influeoca of evil angels and beoomes worse and worse, with constantly accelerating speed. In this state, thoso who have been friends and acquaintances in the life of the body meet and recognize each other, but those who pass from this intermediate state into heaven or hell see each other no more, unless they are of a similar disposition or lore. Manuring the Orchard. There ia scarcely any bearing orchard in which the soil ia so rich that it does not require manure of one kind or another, and tbe beet lime for applying it ia in tbe Fall, when the young wood is ripe. If a fertiliser ia applied in Summer, the trees may continue lo iocrease the growth of wood until nipped by fica', and the unripa ehoote will not e'and tbe rigor of Winter. A dressing pf manure, late in the Fail, will be a protection to tlm roots from the damage caused by alternate freezings and tbawings in Winter and early Spring. The principal ingredient iu ibe bark, woud, foliage, and fruit ot the aoip le, pear peach plutub ai.d cherry ate sulphuric and carbonic acid, pianh oda, and lime, and in order lo make orchard productive, nia-nure cctanmg ihi mgied.ents should be supplied annually, i'iaster, cusbed bones, limn, common salt, wood ashes, woolen rag, old leather, and barn-yard traoure, wni supply nearly ail ibe tiered. ruls necessary 'fur buildmg up wood, f-jiiaga, and fruit. A Singular arithmetical Fact. Any number ot figuies you may wish to multiply by 5, will give the same result if divided by 2 a much quicker operation; but you must remember to annex a cypher to the answer when there is no remainder, and when there is a remainder, whatever it may be, annex a 5 to the answer. Multiply 464 by 5. and the answer will be 2.320. divide the same by 2, and you will have 232; and as there is no remainder you add a cypher. Now take 359 multiply by 6, and your answer is 1 795; on dividing this by 2 there is 179 and a remainder, you therefore place 5 at tbe end of the line, and the result is again 1,795. Thoreau drd not approva of newspapprs. He ued to say, 'Read not the times; read the eternities.' Misled by his poetizing, be probably forgot that time and eternity ate virtually the same thing, and that the best vtay to prepare for the one was to keep pace with the other. If von would enter the future life in telligently, read good newspapers which ap propriately reflect the present. Martha, my dear,' said a loving husband to his spouse, who was Beveral years bis junior, 'what do you say to moving to the - ... v , i - , . , ... . , tar W est r' 'KJa. 1 am aengniea witn ine idea! You recollect when Mr. Morgan moved out thora he was a3 poor as we are, and in three years he died, leaving his widow worth a hundred thousand dollars.' A tail of misery A cocktail. Bowethiag aboot women Flouaee.

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